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London, England, 1828-05-22 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1828.

NEW ARGYLL TABLE LAMP.

AGreat improvement upon the common
Table Lamp is now offered for Sale by SAMUEL
PARKER, 12, Argyll-place, Regent-street, Bronzist to
his Majesty, and Inventor of the Sinumbra and other
Lamps, for which a Patent has been secured. The
principal difference is caused by the Light being below
instead of above the Oil, by which means the Light falls
unobstructed on the table. The unsightly apparatus for
the Oil and Wick is concealed within a frosted Glass Urn
fixed on the top of the pillar, and is taken away to trim
the Lamp, se that the trouble and risk of carrying about
the whole stand is divided. The Trimming is very easily
managed, and much less cleaning is required than in the
common Lamp. Its other advantages are, that no Oil can
possibly overflow upon the table, that there is no danger
of oiling the fingers when the light is regulated, that ope-
ration being effected by turning a glass above the light in-
stead of touching the part near the Wick ; and last (but
not least) that it is not dearer than the ordinary London-
made Table Lamp, its advantages being produced by change
in construction, not by any expensive additions to the
material.

I SMETHURST, 138, NEW BOND-
," • STREET, SOLICITS the NOBILITY, GENTRY,
&c., to view his NEW PATENT WELLINGTON
TABLE LAMP, for Drawing, Dining, and Sitting Rooms,
Libraries, &c., superior to any ever offered to the Public
for its brilliancy of light, which is diffused ALL OVER
THE ROOM, AND WITHOUT SHADE, very simple
to trim, and not liable to be out of repair. The wick never
wants raising during the night ; it gives the light of eight
wax candles, is handsome in its appearance, and can be
made of various forms, to correspond with the most elegant
apartments. A lamp is kept burning in his Show-rooms
for inspection. COMPARE AND JUDGE—IT CAN-
NOT BE PURCHASED AT ANY OTHER HOUSE
IN TOWN. THE PATENTEE HAS OBTAINED
SIX PATENTS FROM HIS MAJESTY FOR IM-
PROVEMENTS IN LAMPS. He also imports his own
Sperm Oil, and bells a:, the lowest price for ready money.
.1. S. manufactures his own Patent Lamps, AND LETS
THEM OUT ON HIRE FOR BALLS, ROUTS, &c.
Please to observe 128, New Bond-street, THE NINTH
HOUSE FROM GROSVENOR-STREET.

The largest stock of Patent Lamps in town may be seen
for every purpose where light is required.

EMIGRATION.
This day was published, price 25.,
QUBSTANCE of a SPEECH delivered by
K 7 Colonel TORRENS, in the House of Commons,
February 16th, 1827, on the Motion of the Right Honour-
able Robert Wilmot Horton for the Re-appointment of
a Select Committee on Emigration from the United
Kingdom.

CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE.

(By the Author of WAvsatev.)
We always thought that the author of Waverley
misapplied his talents when he betook himself to
the writing of history ; and as far as we could judge
by the specimen which he gave, it was clear that
he was not qualified for the task. We rejoice;
therefore, that he has returned to his own proper
line, namely, descriptions of life and manners in
which he stands pre-eminent over every other
writer. This is the true field in which his wonder-
ful genius delights to range; it is here that his
fancy kindles, and that he brings forth for the em-
bellishment of his subject the whole accumulated
treasures of his mind; all that has grown tip in
that congenial soil from long and patient medi-
tation, as well as from accurate observation. Human
life and character, varied as they are by manners and
by the state of society, seem to have been deeply
studied by the author of Waverley. His descrip-
tions evince a deep insight into the human heart, and
into all the secret and complicated springs of human
action; and while we admire the vivacity of his
comic sketches, and the lightness and felicity with
which he pourtrays the follies and the vanities of
mankind, we are equally struck with his powerful
representation of those deep-working passions which
chequer life with so many tragic scenes. Nor does
the author of Waverley confine himself to the
mere task, arduous and splendid though it be,
of sketching the manners which lie under his own
observations. His genius bursts beyond those con-
fines. Having exhausted all the varied scenes of
life which are before him, he takes his daring flight
into the regions of imagination, and, from the bound-
less stores of his invention, he conjures up new
creations, replete with brilliancy and life. New
scenes and manners rise up, as it were, by enchant-
ment under his magic touch. This was quite a new
and an original attempt. All our most approved
novelists were well content if they could sketch
manners and characters which they saw before them.
They never ventured beyond the precincts of their
own limited experience. It was reserved for the
Author of Waverley to ascend into the higher
regions of the imagination—to launch into the wide
ocean of general history—to transport us back
to distant ages—to exorcise, and to bring before us
the grim spirits of ancient days—the Saxon, the
Norman, and the Dane—and to give by his vivid
pictures, whether descriptive or dramatic, all the
force of reality to those splendid illusions.
The work now published is an admirable speci-
men of our author's power in recalling the image of
departed times. It is not so much distinguished for
scenes of deep and tragic interest, or even for those
of a romantic or poetical character; its excellence
lies in the accurate delineation► of ancient manners.
The period of the story is the reign of Robert 111.
of Scotland; the scene is laid Rear Perth. It is
well known that Scotland was at this time dis-
tinguished by all the license and disorder of
the feudal times, and the object of the writer is to
give a lively delineation, not altogether of the wars
and disorders which then distracted the country,
but of the habits and manners which prevailed in
civil or domestic life; and of the great scenes in
which peaceful burghers and citizens were occasionally
called in to mingle in those rude times; the work
accordingly abounds in historical pictures of those
ancient scenes, executed with all that force and dis-
crimination for which this great writer is remarkable;
and rivalling occasionally, by the exactness and minute
finish of the details, the efforts of the pencil. The
vigour with which the figures are designed, and the
skill with which they are combined into one harmoni-
ous whole, cannot be excelled. The assemblage in the
Town-hall of Perth of the armed citizens, with the
Knight of Kinfauns presiding over their warlike delibe-
rations, is an admirable subject, and the exhibition of
it in this interesting work is altogether graphic.—
The castle of Falkland, and the tragedy acted with-
in its walls, also affords admirable scope to the
author's descriptive powers. It is in the descrip-
tions, it must be confessed, that the great merit of
the work consists. The story wants action and in-
cident ; it occasionally stagnates for want of bustle,
though it is frequently enlivened by the dramatic
scenes, which, though they do not much help on
to the main issue, are yet interesting, as they
unfold character and manners. The leading cha-
racters also stand out with all the force and dis-
tinctness of individual portraits. The smith, com-
bining the most chivalrous valour with the ut-
most gentleness and romantic generosity of charac-
ter, is quite a new creature, he is well sustained, and
is a most striking and appropriate specimen of the
age in which he lived. The Fair Maid of Perth is
also well drawn, and strongly discriminated; and
her father the glover, who is more home-spun, is
quite a Scottish character. The court scenes are
well delineated. The gentle, honest, but inconstant
character of the King is finely contrasted with
the subtle Albany his brother, by whom he is ruled.
The light-hearted Rothsay is represented with good
effect ; and the termination of his story is wrought
up to a powerful strain of interest. The black
hearted Sir J. Ramony, and his associates Bon
Thron and others, form another and less pleasing
group. But they naturally belong to that rude age.
The Glee-Maiden is a pleasing and graceful charac-
ter, and happily relieves some of the darker shades
of the story. In short, though this work may not
be equal in romantic interest to some of its prede-
cessors, though its merits may be of a less dazzling
character, yet as a memorial of by-gone times and
manners, it is a great effort, which bears the stamp
of its author, and of that fervid imagination which
distinguishes all his productions.

BURGLARY.—On Tuesday night, the house
of Mr. J. PAYNE COMER, 23, Hunter-street, Bruns-
wick-square, was entered by thieves, and all the lower
floors completely ransacked. They came over three or four
walls, and entered at the wash.house by the usual means--
a stock and bit, and a jemmy ; and having forced the ccl-
laret, they found there a number of keys, with which they
open the door of the cellar before they found the
opened many drawers and closets. They appear to have
broken to have regaled themselves, as they emptied two
bottles of port wine, and decamped with some claret and
sherry, They possessed themselves of every thing portable,
silver articles, even to the servants' thimbles;
keys, and
besuPectflo3rittYunately the principal part of the plate was in one
of the bed-rooms, which they did not venture to enter.
They even made off with cut-glass saltcellars; and the
bundles they carried away mast have been pretty large, as
they included two table-cloths, a Leghorn bonnet, three
body coats, one great coat, and several waistcoats and pairs
of shoes. It is presumed, from several circumstances,
that the thieves were well-informed as to the arrangements
of the family, and they seem to hare partaken of the pre-
vailing taste for old plays, as they took several from the
b,)ok-shelves of the study ; they exercised a degree of se-
lection in this respect, and made off with a few pieces of
considerable rarity. As this circnrostance may possibly
lead to their detection, we subjoin the titles of some of the
stolen plays :--
Marlow's Faustus 1616
Dekkot's Gentle Craft. l6lB
Day's Fair Maid of Bristol 1605
Middleton's Phoenix 1607
Haywood's Fair Maid of the Exchange 1607
The thieves apparently amused themselves in the study for
some time, and among other things made away with and
destroyed, were a few MS. copies of old plays, with notes,
&c, intended for re-publication. The name ".1. PAYNE
COLLIER" was on nearly all the title pages of the printed
books stolen.

COMPARATIVE COMFORTS.

We extract the following interesting letter from
the Morning Itertdd ; it will be read with singular
feelings by the frequenteri; of Covent Garden market,
and the Ultra-landlords 0' the country
TO THE EDITOR OF TIDES MORNING HERALD,
MEURICE S fortzt, rAras, MAY it.

Sta,—Having seen lw the London papers that green
JIM sell fat ilit'ce guineas a quart in Covent Garden
Market, t am iitcluced to make a few observations, fur the
information of your readers, relative td the price of vege-
tables in Paris, compared with those of London. Xa
ten days ago, 2s. Gd. for a quart of green peas ; they noW
sell for ls. 6d. a full quart ; they are in great abundance at
every table where the price of the dinner is 2s. 6d. per
head. We can purchase here as ninth eaparagus, of the
finest quality, for 2s. 6d. (enough for six pet-tons), as would
cost 18s. in Covent-garden ; there is also a great abundance
of French beans, at ail equally moderate price, and very fine
strawberries for Is. Bd. a pottle. I landed at Dieppe from
Brighton on Sunday morning, the 4th instant; and it being
the first time in my life that I ever set font on any other
than that of British {O-wand, ybit may easily conceive that
Was not a little surprised to see the whole of the shops
open, a very large fish-market, and every one earpltlyrd
the same as on what We tall in England a working day.
Red mullet ad. each ; and a John Dory (Sib.) for 3s. 4d.
We started at 10 o'clock (having found excellent accom-
modation at Taylor's English Hotel) in the diligence fot
Rouen--a distance of forty miles—which we accomplished
in four hours, to my great astonishment, some part of the
way being drawn by trine Norman homes, apparently as
powerful as Barclay and Perkins's dray hotter/ Ina as ac-
tive as our best hacks. I was particularly interested, as a
farmer, in travelling through Normandy, the whole of
which is beautifully cultivated—in fact, there was not an
acre within sight of the road but was cultivated ; and—
what will be thought more extraordinary by the English
farmer—not an acre without a crop on it, or in the pro •
gress of being sown : this can only be accounted for from
the absence of tithes. The whole of the way to Paris we
travelled between a double avenue of beautiful apple trees,
in full blossom. I can confidently affirm that I have seen
more slovenly farming in one parish in England than I saw
in travelling 140 miles in France. I find the labourers in
towns get abost 2s. aday for their labour; and all agricul-
tural labourers get ss. a week, and all their board and
lodging ; thus they are placed in a similar situation to that
of the very best farming labourers in England before
the war to put down liberty in France, and to prevent a re-
form in the Parliament of England. I have been in France
twelve days, remaining in Dieppe, Rouen, St. Germain's,
and Paris ; in this time I have only seen oars drunken per-
son. In all the towns and cities trade appears to be in a
prosperous state. There are more shops slint op in one
street in London, than there is in Paris, Rouen, St. Ger-
main's, and Dieppe; and such is the difficulty to obtain a
shop in a good situation in Paris, that 400/. a year is
asked for a single room of eighteen feet square, without
an inch of outlet.

I have only time to say that Paris is a delightful place,
the best hotels being about the same price as those of Lon-
don.—l am, Sir, your's, respectfully, 11. HUNT.

SCOTTISH PEERAGE.

A Bill has just been brought into the House of
Lords, entitled " An Act to alter and amend the
Laws relating to the Representation of the Scottish
Peerage; to enable Peers of Scotland, not Repre-
sentative Peers, to sit in the House of Commons;
and to declare the eldest Sons of Scottish Peers
eligible in future to sit in the House of Commons
for any County or Burgh in Scotland, and to vote
at any Election therein for a Repre!entative in the
Commons House of Parliament."

After the preamble,: it contains clauses for
enacting—
That the Sixteen Peers who shall be elected for
Scotland, at the next Assembly held for that pur-
pose, shall be entitled to sit and vote for life.
That, in case any of the Sixteen Peers become
Peers of the Realm, the vacancy shall be declared
by Proclamation.
That, in case of the death of any of the Sixteen
Peers, the vacancy to be forthwith filled up.
That Peers of Scotland have writ of summons.
That so much of recited Acts as are inconsistent
with the present be repealed.

That Peers of Scotland not elected as Represent-
atives, or Toting for such, may sit in the House of
Commons; but during that time shall not be enti-
tled to the privilege of Peerage.
That, upon summoning the next new Parliament,
the eldest sons of Scotch Peers to be eligible as
Commoners.

The Whitsuntide recess will be longer than
usual, and longer than was at first expected. As the 29th
of May (" Royal Oak day") falls on Thursday, it is in-
tended, instead of adjourning till Wednesday, to adjourn
from Friday (to-morrow) till Friday, May 30. Mr.
PEEL will move such-adjournment.

According to the present arrangement, the
Weymouth Regatta will take place this year on the ISth of
August, in compliment to the birth-day of her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of CLARENCE.—Exeter Alfred.

The sum advanced last year to the Govern-
ment by the Bank of England was 21,000,0001. but ben
millions of the twenty-one was on account of Dead Weight.
The average amount of the public money in
the hands of the Bank of England last year was 4,000,0001.

The sum charged last year by the Bank of
England, for the management of the Debt was 260,000/.
The total sum paid last year in the city of Lon-
don for the measuring of coals was 4,8001.

The sum that was in the Treasury on the sth
of January last amounted to 352,0004 _ _

The Horticultural Breakfast will take place
on the 21st of June. The Tyrolese singers are expected
to be engaged, and several military bands.—" No Song,
no Breakfast."

RESIGNATION I—A sealed bottle was picked
up at Lymington, on the coast of Dorset, on Tuesday last,
with the following memorandum enclosed ;—the ship
Lady Jane Grey, from New York to Portsmouth, ou the
14th April, lat. 50. long. I. struck on a rock, all hands ex-
pecting to go down.._Exeter Alfred.
Notwithstanding the prodigious size of the
whale, such is its muscular power, that it is enabled to
move at each a rate as would, if continued, carry it round
the world in a fortnight._{We should like to have this
whale at Waterloo Bridge to send over Express to Dublin
with the Result of the Catholic Question in the House of
Lords—it would run round the " Emerald Isle" in five
minutes—very like a whale!)
At a Meeting of the Members of the New
Library, at Lincoln, last week, it was considered advisable
to erect a building as soon as a proper site could be found
for the purpose, and it is in contemplation also to attach a
room suitable for any useful occasion : this institution
being acceptable to apprentices and ethers wishing to im-
prove themselves by judicious reading, deserves the encou-
ragement of every friend to the rising generation.—Bost"
Gazette.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 19.—T0-day we had a
short supply of Beef, which was in very good demand,
without any alteration in price. The supply of Mutton
was good, and met ready sale at our last quotation.—
Beef 51d. to sid., and Mutton 61d. to lid. per lb.
EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, MAX 19.
A very good lambing season, and very little less. The
clovers and all other grass-seeds are an abundant crop,
affording more pasturage than many farmers have stock
for. The losses they have sustained in the last two years,
pressing so severely upon them, that they have been obliged
to sell their cattle to make up the deficiency in the price of
torn, SIC. &c. A large quantity of wheat growing, the
appearance rather weak, and colour bad, especially on the
barley comes up well, iu some few
„places
prase,l wor
andthe colderstoare o
sowing
a is;
glvlas only finished last week; oats, beans,
fair
prospect; fine weather for prepar-
ing the ground for turnip and rape ; for the last week we
have bad some.some piercing cold winds from the East
coast, attended with frosts, but hops it has not injured the
fruit trees, which have blossomed beautifully.