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London, England, 1842-06-29 00:00:00

PERIODICALS FOR JULY.

I.
-ED LACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
No. CCCXXI.
('oNTE NTS I. Cicero.—lf. Exhibitions; Royal Academy.
—III. Caleb Stukely. Part S.—IV. Dr. Jami,i.on's Scottish
Dictionary.— V. Lines Upon Le ters. By B. Simmons.—
VI. Pas ages in the Career of El Empecinado. Part 3., The
Re.rayal. VII. The World of London. Part 13.
VIII. Afghanistan acid Ind:a.—lX. A Record of the Pyra-
mids.—X. Modern Grecce.—Xl. Homer's Hymns.

THE ENVIRONS of LONDON.
By JOHN FISHER MURRAY. With numerous
Illu-t-ations from Original Des:gns, by distirgaished Artists.
Parr II 1., price 2s. 6d., containing Hampton Court, Straw-
ber. y Hill, &c.

HT.
TB THE FAR M -
By HENRY STEPHENS. Part VII., price 45..
containing Draining, Stubble, Leaground, Trench aad Sub-
Ploughing, &c. Illustrated%with Engravings oa Steel, and
21 Woodcuts.

1111) rtOFESSOR JOIINSTON'S LECTURES
on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY and GEO-
LOGY. No. XX., price 6d.
William Blaakwoud and Sons, 45, George-street, Edin-
burgh; and 2;17,-Pall-Alall, London.

The following Periodical Works, fit!. JULY, 1842, will be pub
lished by CHARLES KNIGHT and CO. :
KNIGHT'S LIBRARY EDITION of SHAKS-
PERE, Vol. IV.—Containing, A Winter's Tale, The
Tempest, King John, and King Richard 11., with Critical
and Explanatory Notices and Illustrations, decoy Bvo. ,price 10s•
The PICTORIAL EDITION of SHAKSPERE, Part
XL V.; super-royal Bvo., price 2s. 6d.
The PICTORIAL HISTORY of ENGLAND, during the
Reign of George 111., Part XIX., super-royal Bvo., price 2s.
A Re-issue of the Four Volumes eliding with e-,e Reign of
George 11., in quarter volumes, Part XI., price ss.
LONDON, Part XVI., price Is. 6d. Published also in
Weekly Numbers, price 4d.
The PENNY MAGAZINE, Part XVIII. (New Series),
price 6d.
The PENNY CYCLOP2EDIA, Part CXIII., price ls. 6d.
Dan; Re-issue in half volumes, Vol! XXII., Parts I. and
II , price 3s. each, in stiff wrappers.
KNIGHT'S STORE of KNOWLEDGE.—The IMPE.
RIAL PARLIAMENT, small ISmo., price 4d. ; or in
cloth, Bd. Also,
LANE'S MODERN EGYPTIANS.
Forming a Companion to " Wilkinson Ancient Egyptians."
In 2 vols. demy Bvo., price IL Bs., illustrated by numerous
Wood-cuts.
AN ACCOUNT of the MANNERS and CUSTOMS of
the MODERN EGYPTIANS, written in Egypt, daring the
years 1833, 34, and 35, partly from Notes made during a
former visit to that country in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 23.
By EDWARD WILLIAM LASE. A new Edition, with
great additions and improvements, printed to match " Wilkin-
soir's Ancient Egyptians," and forming, with that work, a
complete History of that remarkable People, their Manners
and Customs, and their Past and Present Condition.
The PICTORIAL HISTORY of ENGLAND, during the
Reign of George 111. Vol. 11., cloth, 20s.
'I he PENNY CYCLOIVEDIA, Vol. XXIII., cloth,7a. 6d.
22, Ludgate-street, June 20, 1842.

EARTHQUAKE at ST. I»+MIN 60.
A private letter from Cape Hayti (St. Domingo), dated the
14th of May. 1842, giving a description of the earthquake, has
just been received, and is particularly interesting from being
written from the very spot where the calamity occurred, whereas
the intelligence already received has come from Port-au-
Prince, which is quite in another tart of the island. On
Saturday, the 7th of May, at about half-past five in the after-
noon, the city, according to this letter, was laid in ruins, and
it is supposed that half the inhabitants were at once destroyed.
Shoek after shock had followed up to the date of the letter, and
at the very moment while it was being written one of the
severest had been felt, which lasted nearly a minute, instead of
a few seconds, being accompanied by a frightful subterraneous
noise, which is generally the forerunner of a shock. Fort
Dauphin had experienced the same fate, with the addi-
tional calamity of the ponde: magazine having blown up;
Gonaives had been destroyed, but only one life lost ;
and Port de Paix, according to a report at the Cape, was
annihilated. The writer of the letter describes himself as
being in the upper part of his house at the time the
calamity occurred, and as having been dug from the
ruins, comparatively unhurt, half an hour afterwards. The
lallen walls had completely blocked up every street in the city,
anti to pass along the ruins was a difficult and painful task.
E.rry house having fallen, the several inhabitants were so
much occupied, each with his own affairs, that mutual assist-
ance was impossible. On the first days the misery of the in-
habitants was much increased by the people from the plains
ru•hing among the ruins for the purposes of plunder, and even
murder. Some awful cruelties were perpetrated. In one in•
stance, a woman had been found among the ruins with her
limbs broken, and these wretches, instead of assisting her,
tare off her necklace and the jewels from her ears. At the
date of the letter the marauders were quarrelling and mur-
dering one another, and the arrival of several companies of
the National Guard promised a stop to all such calamities as
di,: not proceed from merely natural causes. Famine anti pes-
tdence were regarded with the greatest apprehension, par-
ti -ularly the latter, which might be occasioned by the number
of unburied carcases. There is a singular fact recorded in this
lever, which is, that not one foreigner lost his life, excepting.
a Frenchman from Cub; who sought a refuge from his cre-
ditors.

AIiMY AND NAVY.—Th 6 July Number of Colburn's
United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal,
contains, among other interesting papers—Naval Improve-
ments in the 18th century—British arms as they were and as
they are, compared with the opinions of Foreigners—Military
Law—Admirals Mathews and Lestock —Scenes in America,
from a Tyro's Note Book—A Day in Calabria: a Military
Reminiscence, by an Old Soldier—Encounter with Bush Ran-
ger. in Van Dieman's Land, by an Officer —ln Portafter Action,
a sketch of Old Times—The Transport in other Days, by a
late General Officer—Memoir of the late Sir N. Nicolay—
Nelson Vindicated from Vanity in his last moments, by Ca:
W. 11. Smyth, R.N.—Belgian Notions of the Battle of Watei -
loo— Vindication of General Elphir.stone—Affairs of India,
with the whole of the Dispatches—Personal Narrative of a
Native Havildar—Examinations at Addiscombe—with the Dis-
tribution of the Navy and Army, and all the Null and Mili-
tary intelligence of the month, &c.
On the 17th of the last month a young man, named
Combez, of Saint Arnaud, in the Nord, was bitten by a little
dog supposed to be mad, and which was killed. No evil symp-
toms appeared until the 15th inst., when he became indilioscd,
and the medical men who were called in immediately recognised
The indications of hydrophobia. The patient showed no dispo-
sition to violence, hut remained in a nervous frenetic state till
Sunday last, when he expired in dreadful convulsions.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—During thz:
Yi ilent storm of Tuesday se'nnhtht, some agricultural labour-
e 'employed to carry home hay from a field at East liarnham,
eunaiet o m thatove._
the
drove the team from the spot at Which they were standing,
w'nero no rain had fallen, but when they reached the hay, the
shower fell so heavily, or, rather, in such torrents,
water rose about them, anal they were b
Sc lisbury Herald.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The endeavour to be all things to all men
is apt to end, as Sir Robert Peel may possibly find, in
being nothing to anybody. A Minister who clearly shows
that he sets no more value on the principles and inte-
rests of his own party than of his opponents, may flatter
himself with winning the loose fish of those opponents
—but must lose his party. Now, where can a .atinister
hope for a permanent majority T—in his own party, or
in the party opposite to his own ?—or in some party yet
in embryo, which is to be neither the one nor the other?
At every critical epoch, when the question has been
between progress and no progress in the particular
direction in which progress has been especially Emmet
for, Sir Robert Peel's tactic has been to declare. in
the first instance, fur no progress, at the same time
that he has always taken very good care never to pledge
himself, under other circumstances, with sufficient
securities, or on points of detail, to resist the partkaalar
measure in question, if it should hereafter suit him to
promote it. Any one who will turn back to Mr.
Peel's earlier statements of his views (about the year
1812, for instance) on the Catholic question, will find that
he took care to disclaim pledging himself against the
future concession of Emancipation. There was something
less than his usual caution, in 1827, in making that
question his pretext for secession from Canning's side.
On the whole, however, both as regarded that question
—the repeal of the Tes'. Act, the reform of the Criminal
Laws, and Reform in Parliament—we find him playing
the same game. Always taking advantage of the sur-
prise and struggles of alarmed prejudice, or threatened
interests, and, so soon as their efforts have placed him in
power—ready to renounce those prejudices, and sur-
render those interests, as a sacrifice to *pinion.
Sir Robert Peel has played the same game with re-
gard to the tariff, compromise and bribery. &e. He
had taken advantage of the panic at the Whig budget,
and the election practices of his friends, to seat himself
in power, with a commanding majority at his back.
This accomplished, he sees no farther occasion for the
ladders he climbed by. Down they go, therefore, to
accommodate public opinion with materials fbr a bon-
fire. There are many good people who see no particular
harm in this species of statesmanship, and who are us
well content to take progressive measures from Peel as
as from his predecessors. We shall not attempt to argue
iv th this sor: of paitical optimists by insisting on the
dishonesty of these tactics for gaining and keeping power.
It may be thought that
" the pleasure is as groat
Of being cheated, as to cheat;"
And if the Tory party, after all their reasons for dis-
trusting Peel, chose to be cheated by him, that the
üblic have nothing but cause for congratulation in the
enerul result. It seldom, however, happens that such
t genius as Sir Robert cheats only one party. Those
who chuckle must at the Tory disappointment are, in
sonic degree, duped themselves.
STANDAIII).—In the House of Lords, last night,
Lord Denman introduced a Bill enabling all persons
who might object to taking oaths in Courts of Justice
to substitute an affirmation. The Bill was opposed by
the Bishop of London, the Earl of Wicklow, the
Earl of Galloway, and Lord Abinger, who testified
crow his own experience that Quakers are the moat
unmanageable and unsatisfactory witnesses; Lord
Campbell supported the Bill, and Lord Brougham
defended the Quakers, who he said were persons re-
in:ld:able for their respect for truth. The Bill was, by
leave, withdrawn. The effect of Lord I),n:flan's
measure would be to put an end to oaths in Courts
Justice. Every consciendons man will decline an unne-
cessary oath, and others are sure ut to be slow in
imitating their example ; but an oath would become
strictlyunnecessury if a witness was at liberty to substitute
an affirmation. At present all who are not misled by tot
erroneous reading of the Scriptures feel that society is
entitled to their evidence tinder the highest s.inctiou,
which is an appeal to the Almighty ; and respecting
society as an institution of that Divine Being, they have
no scruple in submitting to its command. But let the
State say that it will be content with less than the
highest sanction, and it will he a plain profanation to
resort to oaths. As to Lord Brougham's di fence of
the Quakers, we admit its validity so fir as words are
concerned, but we deny that in the truth of things Quakers
are more remarkable for veracity than other persons.
We do not say that they regard truth less Between
cautiousness in the use of words,' however, and the spirit
of truth there is a wide differeuce ; and, putting Quakers
out of question, we do not find generally that Inc men
must guarded in their language are by any means the
most ingenuous ; indeed, excessive rigour on the point
is !or the mist part a sign of a disingenuous person, told
it generally characterises that class of ‘• fencers" whom
judges find i: least pleasant to deal with, and jurors
most difficult to believe.

GREEN WICH HOSPITAL.
PAINTED HALL AND CHAPEL.
We have the satis:action to inform our 'readers
that Sir Robert Stopford, the Governor, has abtendwl
to the recommendation of the Select Committee on
National Monuments, of 1841, of which Mr. Hume
was Chairman, to admit the public
.free on two days
in the week. The following is an extract from tl‘e
Report of the Committee :

The attention of your Committee has been d:-
reefed to the Painted Hall and Chapel at Greenwich
Hospital, which are exhibited on week-days from
seven in the morning to sunset, and on Sunday after-
noons after one o'clock, to the public, on the payment of
3d. by each person for admission to each place. The
Painted Hall, decorated by Sir J. Thornhill, contains
a collection of paintings consisting of representations
of naval actions, and portraits of Admirals and
naval men, some sculpture, and other objects inte-
resting to the public, and chiefly to persons in the
naval service. Soldiers have been admitted to see
the Hall free of charge for many years ; and, since
the Committee began their inquiry, the Lieutenant-
Governor, by order dated 7th May, 1841, has directed
that seamen shall ah>o in future be admitted free of
charge—a measure which your Committee highly ap-
ps of. The behavicu: of the visitors is praised by
the attendants.

" The annual number of visitors to the Painted
Hail is on an average about 100,000,. and produces
1,3001. a-year. The money received for admission of
visitors is applied to the general funds of the Hos-
pital. Considering that all the pictures contained in
the Painted Hall are the free gift of individuals,
foreign us well as British, and that they contri-
bute to illuEtrate the naval histo:y of filo country,
and to perpetuate the memory of those distinguished
officers who have been thought worthy of t place in
this collection, your Committee strongly recommend
that, for the gratification and instruction of the people,
the Painted Hall should be opened to the public for
some-hours every day, free of charge, in the same
manner as the National Gallery and -Hampton Court
Palace, under such regulations as may be requisite.
" As-it appears from the evidence, that the admis-
sion of the public to the apartments, galleries, and
gardens at Hampton Court, and also to the Painted
Hall at Greenwich, on Sunday afternoon, is not
attended with any inconvenience or impropriety,
the evidence of several witnesses tends to show that
much advantage would be derived from similar op-
portunities being afforded, under proper regulations,
at the British Museum and the National Gallery,
with beneficial results."

Sir Robert Stopford has given orders that the
Painted Hall and Chapel shall be open, free of charge,
on Mondays and Fridays, from ten to seven o'clock in
summer, and from ten to three in winter ; and we
trust the public will show by their conduct a just
value of the boon thus given them, which will place
Greenwich Hospital on the same liberal footing as the
National Gallery and Hampton Court are now placed.
We view the conduct of Sir Robert Stopford as
honourable to him as a gentleman and a sailor,
and we trust his example will be followed by those
wl:o have charge of public buildings and collections
of the works of art that would be invaluable to the
mass of the people, as a means of education and ac-
quiring a knowledge of the fine arts, which tend to
soften the ruder manners o the ignorant.
The Select Committee also recommended cheap
catalogues of the pictures, &c. in the public collec-
tions, and we have had sent us copies of a Catalogue
of the National Gallery, ( ontainining a list of all the
Pictures in that collection at ld. and 3d. each, wliieh
are sold at the door of the Gallery, and at 66, Old
Bailey, where they are print d, instead of 6d.- an 1 Is.
at which the official Catalogues were sold. Th.! en-
terprising individual who prints these we trust will
me ;t with encouragement from the public, an 1 we
hope to see him prepare Catalogues of the Pain.ings
in Cxleenwich Hall at the same prices.

HAMBURG MARKETS.
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Yesterday afternoon Mr. Higgs held an inquest at
Vie George the Fourth, Gilbert's-passage, Clare-market, ,ar
'lo' body "of James Serj ant, sged 38, an attorney's clerk.
From the evidence of docaated's wife, it appeared that on Suu-
da, morn,; g
la.,t, between four and five o clock, he was seizad,
wit 1.4 in bed, w ith a fit of vouching. He arose, and home-.
dia!ely afterwards blond, st first liquid, but afterwards clot-
ted, gushed from his mouth to the extent of a wash-band
basin lull. A surgeon was sent for, but in the meantime -
decasse t ex, iced. Ile was subject to asthma. Mr. John
assittant to Mr. G. A. Walker, surgeon, Drur-
a•tended directly he was called. He found him dead,
awl believed that death was the result of rupture of tbe,p
m nary artery. Verdict —" Natural deith, through the
Lure of a blood vessel."

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