The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-26 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 21.—The company of artillery of
the first ban of the Civic Guard of Mon', which was to
set out on the 19th f,r Antwerp, was disbanded on the
16th by the Minister of War.
The Emancipation, containing the news of the rupture
of the Conference in case of the non-ratification of the
treaty on the 31st of this month, says, that it is the inten-
tion of France and England to form a new union of their
Plenipotentiaries and the Plenipotentiary of Belgium.
GHENT, MARCH 20.—The French General Marulas
arrived here yesterday.
It :1 said that several Officers of tl e 12th Regiment
are on the pint of giving up their commissions on ac-
count of the insubordination of the sold:ers.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 22.—1 f we are well inforty el, it
was not till the 20th that the re&gr.ation of M. de
Brouckere was accepted by the King, after a Court of
\linisters.

Count Vilain XIV. acting as President of the Senate,
in the absence of Baron de Stassart, conv..ked a meeting
of the Senators both yesterday and the day before, but
these gentlemen did not appear in sufficient numbers to do
any business.
The Chamber of Representatives, in its sittings of tl.e
20th and 21st, continued the discussion of the Budget.
In the latter Slain:, M. de Monk nary, Ministtr of
Foreign Affairs, speaking of the Budget for his dep rtmen-,
concluded with a view of the situation of Bel,:ium with
respect to other Powers. We are on the point, said he, of
enjoying the benefits of peace ; every modification previous
tr, the ratification of the Treaty of the Conference is im-
possible; our Ambassador has been instructed not to con-
sent to any modification ; the Treaty forms an engagement
between France, Engl ind, and Belgium ; there must be a
change of dynasty before the independen,:e of Belgium
could be called in question; even an unfortunate war with
Holland would make no change in the Treaty, the ac-
ceptance of which by Holland, France and England have
guaranteed. Belgium was able to consent to prorogations,
because it did not desire to see a general war renexed.
We are now, Gentlemen, at the last. It would be a viola-
tion of the law of nations, and of the faith solemnly
pledged, if France and England did not cause the Treaty
to be executed."
This speech was ordered to be printed.
_ _

M. Osy asked why the treaty about the fortresses was
not ratified on the 15th ? When it will be ratified? and
if it is true that it is to be on the3lst?

M. Meulenare—l have said all I ana allowed to say,
under present circumstances ; however, I will answer,
that what has been said about the fortresses is true. I
hope that on the 31st I shall have mere important com-
munications to make.

Ablee de Haerne—The Minister has spoken of previous
modifications. I should suppose from this there would be
new negotiations after the ratification, which would be
only conditional.

Meulenare—l cannot immediately answer such im-
portant questions. I meant to say there could be no mo-
dification before the ratification of the treaty, but I cannot
affirm that there will be none afterwards fur the interest of
Belgium and Holland ; and if any should be proposed,
they will be laid before you, when you may either a,lopt or
reject them, as you shall judge best.
WARSAW, MARCEL 6.—lt is just known here that the
greater part of the Russian troops will leave the kingdom.
The first division will set out on the Ist of April, and by
the Ist of May will have left Poland, except a small corps.
As these troops will not remain upon the frontier, but are
to be distributed in the interior of Russia, this measure is
equivalent to a reduction of the Russian army.
Tire alarming reports of the vast projects of Russia to
assume a dictatorial authority in Europe and Asia, appear
now to be mere fables. Russia, on the contrary, desires
peace, et the benefits of which she has so much need,
after •nch expensive wars.—Frankfort Papers,March 18.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France of Saturday.)

The disorders which broke out at Naples appear to have
been totslly uncmnected with politics, and we find that
they are altogether referable to a quarrel which took place
between some Sicilian and Neapolitan soldiers.
Letters from Naples give the following statement :

" The days of Sunday and Monday passed in tranquillity,
and his Majesty rode on the torso. But on Flesh Tues-
day some soldiers of the garrison having indulged in wine,
engaged in a violent dispute with those of the Sicilian re-
giment.. The result was terrific. Ten were killed, and
many were wounded on both sides. Yesterday the regi-
ments of the Guard were ordered to distant places, and
the Sicilian regiments now in Naples will likewise be sent
away. Perfect tranquillity is now re-established in the
capital. His Majesty is greatly mortified at these events.
The Semaphore of Marseilles contains the following pa-
ragraph :
" We learn by the arrival of the steam boat Henry IV
from Naples. which left that place on the 10th, that on
the 6th a quarrel broke out between a regiment of the
Royal Guard and the soldiers of a Sicilian regiment.
Eighteen persons were slain on both sides. This quarrel
was totally unconnected with politics.
Several journals have erroneously stated that the Grand
Duke of Tuscany was very ill. According to the latest in-
telligence, the Grand Duke, notwithstanding hie great soli-
citude for the Grand Duchess, whose indisposition has ex-
cited the liveliest concern, has enjoyed the best health. His
Royal Highness shows himself in public daily, and he fre-
quently goes from Pisa to Florence, and in fact allows no
su.pension of hi+ usual application to state affairs.
The Due de Treviso set out yesterday for Russia.

The Countess of Las-Cases died last night at Passy.

Intelligence Nom Grenoble, which has reached us to-
day, assures us that tranquillity is still maintained iu that
city.

(From t}:e National of Frid ,y.)

The Government daily expects an answer from the Con-
ference of London to the ultimatum of the King of Hol-
land. It is already known that the arrangement of the
affairs of Belgium en these bases is next to impossible.
With the exception of the Perier Ministry, and the unfor-
tunate Behzians, who have been so shamefully kept in sus-
pense during eighteen months by the Conference, all the
worl I appears to have become perfectly indifferent to what
mly he the final arrangement of the affairs of Belgium.
In the mid,t of the great movement which agitates Eu-
rope, it is likely that the protocols of London are destined
fall into oblivion.

(From L4l France Nouvelle of Friday)

The Chamber of Peers has agreed to the project of law
relative to Charles X. and his family. No discussion took
place. After the report of the Due de Broglie, the delibe-
rations and scrutiny took place, and a large majority
agreed to the amendments proposed by the other Chamber.
Thus has ended a debate, which was looked upon by fac-
tious persons as containing the elements of further colli-
sions between the great powers of the State.
The trial of those implicated in the affair of the towers
of Notre Dame concluded on Wednesday. They were all
acquitted except three—Considere and Deganne, who were
sentenced to five years' imprisonment each, and Brand to
two years. The prisoners left the Court, crying " Vive la
Liberte !"—" Vive la Republique 1"—" Vive Napoleon
tcond !"

The JJessager des Chambres says " We have been as-
sured, that after a long deliberation yesterday (Wednesday)
in the Council. it was decided that an order should be im-
mediately despatched for the 35th regiment to re-inter
Crenoble. This is serious intelligence, but it comes to us
from such a source that we do not believe that it can be
contradicted."
The Co ash' utionnel says, " We have received the most
authentic information that the Emperor of Russia, who,
it whom seem, arrogates to himself the right of protecting
,I 1 absolute Governments, displayed the most violent dis-
satisfaction on receiving the account of the landing of the
French at Ancona. It is even said that in the first mo-
ments of irritation, he declared not only that he would op-
pose the ratification of the Protocols, but would enter
into no treaty whatever to which the French Gsvcrnmen:
was a party."
Bright scarlet hats of the ordinary form app. ir to be
destined to replace—on the heads of those young gentlemen
who find notoriety snore easily attained by the exterior than
the interior furniture of their craniums—the oil-skin hats,
which have been placed under a sentence of reprobation.
Three young men, covered with this dashing coiffure,
were seen promenading on Wednesday in the gardens of
the Luxembourg.

Letters from Germany contradict the report of the death
of the Countess Plater. Ever since the fib of Warsaw, she
has been residing at Dresden, occupi,i in endeavouring to
collect some of the remnants of her property, and will it is
said, ultimately retire to France.

CHAMBER OF PEERS.—SITTING or MAncit 22.
The Bill relative to the exclusion of the families of
Charles X. and Napoleon, as re-amended by the Chamber
of Deputies, was adopted, without discussion, by a ma-
jority of 80 against 30.
(From the Moniteur of March 23.)
" WAR-OFFICE.
"THE MINISTER OF WAR TO THE ARMY.
" Public order was disturbed at Grenoble on the 11 th,
12th, and 13th instant. The 35rh regiment of the line,
which was ordered to restore it, perfectly fulfilled its duty.
Its cunduct was ouch as might he expected front the g.od
putt and the excellent discipline which distinguishes all

the regiments of the army. The King has ordered that
testimonies of his satisfaction should be addressed to the
11615th. His Majesty has not approved the withdrawing of
Lthat reeiment from Grenoble. Lieutenant- General Hiroo
belort, Commander-in-Chief of the 7th Military Division.
has received orders to make it return to the city, along
with the other troops that are sent thither. No kind of
agreement relative to the 35th regiment had been, or could
have been, made between pretended Deputies from Gre-
noble and the superior Military Authorities; it formally
disavows it. The favourers of anarchy, who excited the
riots of the 11th, 12th, and 13th of March, pursued by
justice, will answer before it for their conduct and their
criminal projects. The Royal tribunal of Grenoble has
taken up the investigation of this affair ; it will avenge
the law and society for the outrages which have been
committed against them. Worthy of the confidence of
the King, the army has proved that it will never cease to
deserve it by its discipline, and its strict performance of ail
the duties which are imposed upon it. It will always be
ready to contest the enemies which may menace the inde-
pendence of the country. and the factions, who may at-
tempt to overturn the laws, or to disturb public tranquillity.
" Soldiers !—Ever since the day on which the national
standard was restored to you, you have not ceased to
honour it by your devotedness, your courage and your dis-
cipline. You have surrounded the Throne and the insti-
tutions of July with a rampart, at the foot of which
parties have expired.
" Soldiers !—The King and France thank you.
" The Minister of War.
" Marshal Duke of DALMATIA.
" Paris, March 22, 1832."
(From the Messager des Chambres of Saturday.)

PARIS, MARCH 22.—We learn by letters from Avignon
that the Minister of War, on the urgent application made
to him, has finally revoked the order for the departure of
the Poles. The Noble refugees will not leave Avignon.
This news has been received with as touch gratitude by
the citizens as by the Poles. We are assured that Lieu-
tenant-general Hulot, who commanded the Seventh Mili-
tary D•vision (of which Lyons is the chief city, and the
department of the Isere one of the subdivisions), had just
been deprived of his functions.
Letters from the Hague say that Count Orloff has re••
ceived dispatches from his Government 'evoking his
powers.

This resolution is said to have been taken by the Em-
peror Nicholas on the news of the landing of the French
at Ancona.
It is said that in the first moment of irritation his Ma-
jesty declared that he would not give any approbation to
the Protocol, and that he would not even enter into any
diplomatic stipulation in which the French Government
should be concerned. We must wait for the confirmation
of these reports, which would account for the recent and
more serious difficulties raised by King William against the
ratification of the twenty-four Articles.
(From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.)

The AugsburgA Gazette of the 20th inst. -contains
the following extract from a commercid letter from Bo-
logna, dated March 13 :—" The Austrians have not
more than 6,000 men in the legations. The public
opinion of the provinces already evacuated by the Papal
troops, boldly declares itself against the Government of
Rome. It is in vain for the Papal authorities to have
recourse to violence, none of the Pope's edicts have as yet
been executed. Whilst the gaining of the public opinion
should have been the only aim of a weak Government,
the Roman Camarillo preferred the directly opposite
course, without considering the insufficiency of its re-
sources ; and in order to raise the discontent of the people
to the highest pitch, has prohibited the circulation of all
foreign papers, and broken all communication with Italy."
It also contains the following, dated Frontiers of Italy,
March 14 :—" We learn by letters from Trieste of
the 11 th inst., that intelligence was received on that
day of the arrival of a small English squadron,
consisting of a :frigate, two cutters, and a brig in the
port of Ancona. It is asserted that the French expedi-
tion has been undertaken in conjunction with England,
and the united forces are to continue in possession of An-
cona, until the Pope shall have consented to the conces-
sions proposed fer the legations. Preparations are ma-
king in Tyrol for the reception of strong corps of troops.
Several regiments now stationed in Gallicia, Moravi t, and
Bohemia, have received orders to march for the Tyrol.
As immediately alter the landing of the French at Ancona,
several divisions of the Austrian troops in the Tyrol, Vo
ralberg, and Stiria, made a movement towards Italy.
and, as since that time, there is great activity and move-
ment among the artillery train, many reports of war are
naturally current here. It is certain that the political re-
lations have become much more complicated by the occu-
pation of Ancona, and their solution will be a difficult
task. Fur the last eight days no letters have been received
ftom Rome or the southern parts of Italy." The same
paper brings intelligence from Vuenns to March 15. Me-
talliques Five per Cents. were 86 3-16 ; ditto Four per
Cent.. 75 5 6.

The Duke of 'Treviso, Ambassador from Fran:e to
Russia, set out on Thursday, for St. Petersburgh.
Lieut.-Gen. Hulot, Commander of the 7th military di
vision, which comprises Grenoble, has written a letter to
the Colonel of the 35th regiment, expressing his satisfac-
tion at the exemplary steadiness, forbearance, and good
conduct displa)ed by the soldiers of that regiment, under
the trying circumstances in which they were placed during
the Lite disturbance,.

The Messuyer des Chambres says :—" It is reported
that Gi n. Hu'ot, the Commander of the 7th military divi-
sion, of which Lyons is the head-quarters, and the de-
p irtment of here one of else sub-divisions, has been dis-
missed from his command, and placed in disponibilite.
This news, however, requires confirmation."
We learn from Grenoble that the Messrs. Masseur and
M. Bastide arrived there on the 21st, by a party of gen
darmerie, and were committed to prison. On the 22d the
35th regt. re-entered the town, without the slightest dis-
turbance being attempted, or the least sign of disap-
probation being mani:ested. General Delort reviewed
that regiment together with the troops composing
the bri.tade of General d'Uzer, all of whom ma
nifested the best dispositions. Orders have been given
to disband the National Guard of Grenoble. The ac-
counts received from the surrounding departments state
that general tranquillity prevailed.

Extract of a letter from Vienna, dated March 14 :
" A grand diplomatic dinner was given by the French
Ambassador on the occasion of the arrival and presentation
of the British Ambassador. This eagerness shown by
Marshal Maison to be the first to receive Sir Frederick
Lamb has given rise to observations. It appears to the
politicians, who always endeavour to attribute important
causes to simple occurrences, that this is a con,•equence of
the close intimacy which subsists between the Cabinets of
London and Paris. The whole of the Diplomatic Corps,
with Prince Metternich and several other Austrian Minis-
ters, were present at the dinner."

We have reason to believe that the intelligence of an
insurrection in Rhenish Bavaria is entirely false.
On Thursday the President of the Chamber of Peers
had an audience of the King. Yesterday his Majesty
transacted business successively with the Minister of War,
the Minister for Foreign affairs, and the Pres:dent of the
Council, who were afterwards received by the Duke of
Orleans. The Prince de Castelcicald, Ambassador of
Naples, the Countess de Boyne, and the Lady of Marshal
Gerard had the honour of being received by the Queen.
(From the French Papers of Saturday.)
On the 15th inst., twogens d'armes that were escorting
about fifteen guns to Ancenis, were stabbed and robbed of
their arms, by a party of from twenty to twenty-five Car-
lists that were fling in ambush for them on the road.
The chouans were pursued and overtaken; three of them
were killed and the guns were recovered. In the con-
flict, two of the gens d'armes were wounded. The pur-
suit was assisted by a party of the 32d regiment and the
National Guard, with the inhabitants in general evinced
their anxiery to destroy the chouans.
The Countess de Bolderu, a lady separated from her

husband, an ex-peer of France, was arrested at the chateau,
near Auray, on the 17th inst., upon a charge of aiding
the hands of chouans. It is alledged that she has been
guilty of circulating meda's and money stamped with the
effigy of Henry V.
Transports with 250 troops for Guadeloupe, and 350
for Martinique, were on the eve of sailing from the pert
of Brest.

Sir Hudson Lowe arrived from Ceylon on Bth Sept. at
Port-Lewis, in the Mauritius. The populace evinced a
feeling against him that obliged him to accept the protec-
tion of the gens-d'armes. The Ist batallion of 17th Light
Infantry arrived at Bourbon-Vendee on 13th Mach, awl
Gov,,rntnent are adopting more vigorous measures to sup-
press the faction of the carlists, and to destroy the bands
of chouans.

The Sentinelle de Bayonne of 20th March cont 'ins an
account from Cadiz of the execution of Pablo Palacios,
cmdemned by the mi:itary commission of Cadiz for the
assassination in October last of the governor of that city.
The culprit was executed on 9th inst., and his right hand
is now exhibited in an iron cage outside of one of the gates
of Cadiz.

SWISS CONFEDERATION.-DIE r. -NEUF-
CHATEL.

In con•equenee of the famous decision taken by the
Csnron of Neufchatel to separate itself from the Swigs
Confrclerat;on, the Deputies of that Canton were about
, leave teat assembly, when, on the exiirtss and urgent

solicitation of the President, they were prevailed on to
suspend their departure, and consented that one of their
deputation should immediately let out for Neufchatel, in
older to refer to the Government the contents of the pro.
tocol of that day'. meeting. The deputation remained at
Lucerne, and on Wednesday, the 14th, M. de Chambrier,
first deputy, arrived at Neufchatel to communicate that
determination to the Government. M. Junad remains at
Lucerne to represent the deputation. —Gazette Vaudain
of March 19.

GRENOBLE.-General Hulot, with the consent of the
Pretect, had withdrawn the 35th re .iment from Gr,noble.
The troops marched Out with military honours. M. Casimir
Perrier has censured this acquiescence of the Prefect, and
the Minister of War has ordered the regiment to return
to Grenoble. The Temps censures this prooceeding, and
aibserves that " there is every where, in public opinion, a
vague want of change higher than that of a Ministry."
BERLIN, MARCH 13.—Prussia is now on all sides re-
duced to the peabe establishment, and all measures of pre-
vention, as well against cholera as against revolution, have
ceased.

We have here, peace having been happily maintained,
directed our aim principally to giving all that degree of ac-
tivity to the state of peace which it is capable of admit-
ting. We are intent on the plans and preparations of a
Poly technical School on a large scale, the establishment of
which was commanded some time since by the King. The
Minister Von Altenstein, under whose administration
public instruction in Prussia had never attained so high a
degree of perfection, will by this great work, crown the
celebrity of his high merit. The schools fur trades are
also to be increased in number by new foundations and by
enlargement. In Silesia it is intended to make the first
essay in Prussia of an iron-rail way, and when the ex-
ample is once set, the line of more general introduction
will not be very far distant, as our General-Post-
master, Von Nagler, endowed with a very enterpris-
ing mind, will doubtless send the mail on them.

CHAMBER OF PEERS.—SITTING OF MARSH 23.
Count Davilhers brought up a Report recommending
the adoption of the B:11 for authorising the City of Paris
to contract a Loan of 40,000,000 fr. Ordered to he taken
into consideration after the Bill for re-establishing the Law
of Divorce.

The Chamber then resumed the discussion of the Bill
for regulating the position of Officers in the Army.
Articles 23 to 33 inclusive were successively adop ed
without giving rise to any discussion of the slightest ge-
neral interest, and the ensemble of the Bill was pissed by
a majority of iu against 23.
Twenty-three Bills of private and local interest were
then adopted.

The remaining Articles of the Bill for reforming the
Penal Code were adopted, and the ensemble of the Bill
was carried by a majority of 76 again-t 11. —Adjourned.
FRENCH FUNDS, MARCH 23.—Five per Cents. 6f 40c Cc 50c
45c 54)c 45c 35c 40e ; Three per Cents, (9f 55c 60c 50c 41c 50e ;
Bank Actions, 1660 f; Rents de Naples, SOf 10c 30c 25c 20c 30c ;
Rente de l'Etat Roman, 7914 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 791 ; Rente
Perßetuelle d'Espagne, 3554% 4 % • Certif Provisoires de l'Emp.
Beige. 78,77% ; Exchange on London, One month, Paper,
5155 c; Money, 251 50c—Two months, Paper, 25140 c; Money,
23f 40c.

FRENCH FUNDS, MARCH 9.4.—Five per Cents. 96f. 45c. 50c. 60c.
50c. 55c. 60c. 65c. 66c. 65c. 961. 60c. 50c. ; Three per Cents. 69f.
b.ic. 60c 6.5 c. 70c. 65c. 70c. 65c. 60c. 65c. 69f. 60c. ; !lento de
Naples, 80f. 80f. 10c. 80f. 801. 10c. 80f. ; Rente de Roman, 79!4 ;
Royal Spanish Loan 80%, 80 801,8 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne,
55% % %; Belgian Certificate 77% % —Cours Authentique

LITERATURE.

FRANCIS THE FIRST, A TRAGEDY.

LoNDo.v, 1832.

This drama, like most works of young authors
who possess the golden ore, but have not yet learned
how to dig for it, is modelled on the imitative.
Plot, character, every thing, in short, except
the language, and, here and there, the
thought, is the offspring rather of recollection
than invention. Still, not-withstanding these
obvious drawbacks, it is as full of pron►i,e as the
spring. It is better than any thing Lord Byron
ever sketched at seventeen, and equal, with one
or two exceptions, to the best of our modern
dramas. When Miss Kemble has learned to
think for herself, and rely on her own invention—
that rarest of intellectual faculties—she will, no
doubt, produce something worthy of the high
name she bears. Meantime, we accept her
Francis the First rather as an earnest of what
she intends to do, than of what she has yet done.
She has shown that she possesses both feeling
and fancy, a cultivated mind, and a quick,
thouizh very—very immature, conception of cha-
racter ; she has yet to show that she can do
without the assistance of others, and set up
claims to celebrity on her own account. The lead-
ing blemish in her present tragedy is its utter
want of originality. True originality does not,
as Miss Kemble would seem to conjecture, lie
in inventing and heaping up together extravagant
incidents—else who more original than a high-
flown, startling melo-dramatist ?—but in creating
new matter for thought and feeling ; in sounding,
boldly and searchingly, the depths of one's own
heart ; in multiplying the sources of sympathy.
\Vhoever excites a new emotion, whoever strikes
a chord in the world's great soul, he is the true
original. It is in this sense that we style
Shakspeare—for all his plots and the ground-
work of the majority of his characters are bor-
rowed—a creator ;in this sense also we give
Wordsworth, and Scott, and Hazlitt, among the
moderns, credit for the same high attribute. To
invent is, after all, nothing more than to look
into one's self; to draw from one's own heart
materials for the world's sympathy. We would
have allowed Miss Kemble to borrow the
foundation of her characters, but then we would
have desired to have seen the superstructure
raised by herself. This is in no one instance
the case with Francis the First. The Monk
Gonzales, the Queen Mother, and the chi-
valrous Bourbon, are the mere offsprings of ac-
tive memory. Zanga has furnished the first,
Lady Macbeth the second, Faulconbridge the
third. Miss Kemble has supplied few, if any, (ex-
cept in the solitary instance oldie Queen Mother)
additional touches of her own ; but this less from
sterility of invention, than from that nervous ap-
prehension of trusting to her own resources,
which is the besetting sin of all young writers.
The Queen Mother is decidedly the best of her
imitations, and Margaret, who appears but sel-
dom on the scene, the most like nature.

The plot of the drama is bustling, compli-
cated, and as much hurried in some parts as it
is lagging in others. In one scene it bowls on
like a chariot : in another it makes a dead halt.
In a word, it is deficient in continuity and sim-
plicity. In the play, as published, these defects
stand broadly out in the foreground. The plot
is, to all intents and purposes, at an end in the
fourth act, yet a fresh interest is attempted to be
excited in the fifth—an attempt which we need
not say, mars the harmony, and perspicuity, and
unity of the whole. Were there any fresh de-
velopment of character in this appendix act, we
might pardon the excrescence ; but there is none :
Bourbon puts forth no new traits of thought or
feeling ; Francis remains in state quo; and as
sufficiently
e catastrophe, it has been already quite
fulfilled without it. The loss of the
battle of Pavia, by King Francis, is surely no
aggravation of punishment to a man who de-
clares that in the death of his mistress he has
lost more than wealth—station—or even honour
itself could supply !
We are the minuter in our strictures, because

we feel convinced that Miss Kemble's talent cam
afford them. Her faults, as we observed before,
are only those of an imperfectly developed mind,
which experience will be sure to correct. If

she has imitated, it has been the choicest
models, and this alone is a redeeming quality.
She has evidently an ambition to pourtray and
anatomize character of the most impassioned
and intellectual order, and we have rarely known
an instance of such ambition, properly directed,
that has not found its level. We proceed to
make a few extracts from the play, which strike
us as possessing superior merit. The address
of the Duke of Alencon to Margaret is penned in
a very graceful complimentary spirit, and reminds
us of Beaumont and Fletcher's similar felicities :

" Madam, your words are sharp ; and came they not
From lips, where soft sweet smiles have made their home,
They would indeed be terrible, but now
We even bless reproachful oracles
That breathe from such a shrine."

The following is neatly expressed, and deve-
lopes a faculty of reflection highly creditable to
young seventeen, or even maturer three and
twenty :

" In sober truth then, in philosophy,
Since thus your Grace commands, I do believe
That at our feet the tide of time flows on
In strong and rapid course; nor is one current
Of rippling eddy liker to the rest,
Than is one age unto itf predecessor ;
Men still are men, the stream is still a stream,
Through every change of changeful tide and time;
And 'tis, I fear, only our partial eye
That lends a brighter sunbeam to the wave
On which we launched our own adventurous bark."
This is a fine trait of character
GONZALES.

" You tremble, Madam.
" QUEEN.

" Do I so Indeed ?
I thank thee for that word, it bath revived me
I'm very well ; I do not tremble now ;
By Heaven, I never heard that word before,
It hath a wondrous virtue."

Every one who has seen abroad, more espe-
cially in a Spanish convent, the dull, stealthy,
peculiar step of a monk to morning or evening
vespers, will at once recognize the striking accu-
racy of this description :

" The noiseless sandal of slow-gaited priesthood."

The following is very gracefully and poetically
expressed, more especially the two last lines:—

MARGARET.
" He is returned : he will be there' and yet
Though meeting, after long eventful absence,—
We shall not in our meeting be half blest :
A dizzy, whirling throng will be around us,
'Mid whose loud jar the still small voice of love,
Whose accents breathe their soft enchantment best
In whisper'd sighs, or but half-whisper'd words,
Will die unheard Oh that we thus should meet
But, then, there is love's eye to flash his thought
Into a language, whose rich eloquence
Beggars all voice ; our eyes at least may meet,
And change, like messengers, the loving freight
That either heart sends forth."
Alargaret's description of her mother is full o'
character :

She is a fearful spirit,
And stands so proudly over all her sex,
She surely ne'er bath known what 'tis to love."

There is also much character in the Duke of
Alencon's vivid sketch of King Francis. It is as
true to history as to nature.