The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-02 00:00:00

THE LONDON MAGAZINE.

A monstrous specimen of bare-faced book-making.
The five first articles are literally taken up with re-
views and extracts from them, so that nearly one-
half the Magazine consists of matter copied out from
other books. And this make-weight lumber is to be
crammed down the throats of the public as original
—to be charged as such ; and we conclude, to be
received gratefully as such ! May be so, but the
.etch-penny will never do; it is a positive insult on
the reader's most ordinary penetiation. The first
Review—to make the most of what we can get—is
of Mr. Wright's account of Cambridge and its
amusements, &c. ; in the course of which the Re-
viewer, speaking incidentally of University dissipa-
tion, takes occasion to fulminate his unqualified ex-
communication against those youngsters who have
been unlucky enough to spend all the money they
could conveniently lay hands OH. Now this is being
righteous overmuch. Many a man, who is now fast
rising, or at least holding a respectable station in
society, has become engulphed in the Charybdis of
Cambridge gaiety, driven his tandem to Newmar-
ket (which the Reviewer looks on with so much
horror, but which, if he had any taste, he would
look on with pride; for a well-driven tandem is
really a pretty sight), betted at Chesterton, shown
off at the Huntingdon Assemblies ; and yet, not-
withstanding these enormities, has become a very
exemplary member of society. If allowances for
youth are any where to be made, they are at Cam-
bridge. We know not how it may be at Oxford;
but at Grants a man is absolutely decoyed into dif-
ficulties. On his first arrival he is surrounded with
tradesmen of every description; and, should a doubt
linger on his mind, it is instrntly dine away with
by the obsequimiscivility of his future dun, Be
is honoured, electrified"—.the tradesman will tell you
—with your custom ; money he' will not think of
for an instant; down go the itetos•to thertutar s
bill; and, long after you have forgotten the circum-
stance (heedless, and flesh it stay be frcan

your optics are delighted by the agreeable refresher
of an account as long as one of Mr. Hume's finance
speeches. The criticism of " Hood's National
Tales" is sad trashy stuff; there are but two ideas
in it, and both wrong ones. The " Living and the
Dead" is not much better ; while " Vivian Grey"
is worse than all. There is, however, one good
article in this month's number, and that is---" Daw's
Reminiscences," which accordingly we recommend,
as a sort of peace-offering, to the notice of our
readers. The following extract may perhaps be
curious; it is called " Value of Sir Walter Scott's
Literary Property."
1. Copyright of published works, estimated at the rate
obtained from Constable and Co. for similar works
St. Ronan's Well £1,300
Redgauntlet 1,300
'Crusaders

£4,600
2. Eventual rights to works sold to Constable and Co.
for which bonds to the extent of 7,8001. are granted, but
for reasons above stated, no value can be rated in this
state.
3. Works in progress. As none of these are com-
pleted, no value put on them at present beyond what is be-
fore stated as due to Ballantyne and Co. for printing works
in progress, and in the value °Messrs. Constable and Co.'s
paper on hand ; but ultimately will be very valuable. See
Appendix as to these works. _ _

In the debtor and creditor account of Constable and Co.
with Ballantyne and Co. the following item occurs on the
credit side :—Sums advanced by Constable and Co. to Sir
Walter Scott, being their two-third shares of sums sti-
pulated to be paid in advance for two works of fiction not
named, and not yet written, as per missives, dated 7th and
20th March, 1823.

N.B. These works being undelivered, it is considered
the author has an undoubted right to retain them, II and
impute the sums paid to account in the general balance
owing to Constable and Co.
In Appendix No. 11., being estimates of funds that may
accrue to Ballantyne and Co. within a year, occur several
curious particulars relative to Woodstock and the Life of
Napoleon Buonaparte.
Produce of new works by Sir W. Scott, at present in the
course of publication :-
1. Woodstock, 3 vols. 9,600 ; shop-price
315.. 6d ....X14,926 10 0

Deduct one-third, to reduce to trade price,
and cover expellees of sale, 4,987 10
Cost ofpaper and printing(same
as Redgauntlet) 2,225 0

Sum to cover contingenciel —l,OOO " 0
'--- 8,212 10 0

Remains 6,750 0 0
Add value of copyright, aftsr first im-
pression

Produce of Woodstock £3,050 0 0

2. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, 5 vole.
8,000 copies, shop price 525. 6d £21,000 0 0
Deduct one-third as above 7,000 0
Ditto for paper, &c 3,706 0
Ditto contingencies 1,200 0

11,906 0 •

9,094 0 0
Add value of copyright after first edition... 2,166 13 4

Produce of Buonaparte's Life £11,260 13 4
3. Literaryy
fip
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dc t obn at: t
bjo t Sy
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pWu iScot
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though in the course of publication,
which may be safely stated
* This price is that given for the subsequent editions after the
first of 10,000.
t It is a condition of these bonds, that if they are not paid,
the copyrights revert to the author; so that, in spite of the
failure of the granters, it is supposed they will be paid.
This alludes to the Life of Napoleon.
II Were the right the other way, it would be a very dif-
ficult matter to enforce it. An author of works of fiction is
tot to be delivered against his will—a legal process to force Sir
Walter Scott to produce a couple of novels, would be the Csesar-
man operation in literature.

. r%7, ;6,IEIIE' INSPECTOR.. - • '
We are much pleased with the •iitiprovernents
made in this amiable and persevering periodical. It
is conducted with great spirit, and wants but age to
ensure it notoriety. " The Dia►y of an M.P.," in
the jarlisaat hluinber, has much truttr-ond vivacity oi,
description to recommend it; so also-have " The
Metaphysics of Fashion," which our limits, how-
ever, prevent us from extracting. The remaining
articles are all, more or less, deserving of attention.

THE GAAI.E BILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn.--•Allow an old spOrtsman, now worn out in the
service, and therefore impartial-, to make a few remarks
upon Lord Wharneliffe's Game Bill.
It is admitted that poaching is an evil, and that the pre-
Sent Game Laws are bad, but his Lordship's Bill will, I
am convinced, prove a remedy for neither. The poacher
has at present two difficulties to encounter ; first, in getting
the game, and next in disposing of it ; and the latter his
Lordship purposes to do away with altogether. A no-
table expedient for prerenting poaching truly ! and just
about as wise as to expect to diminish theft, by licensing
houses for the reception and sale of stolen goods. For be
it remembered, that, let the price of game be what it may,
the poacher will always be able to undersell the fair trader.
I blush to make use of the term, when I see it about to he
applied to the once high spirited nobility and gentry of
England. His Lordship may rest mired, that he never
can put an end to poaching, unless he can first put an end
to thieving; and even if he could, it is very doubtful if the
country would have any reason to rejoice at his success.
In every town, and in every village, there will be some
worthless, idle characters, who will neither work nor
starve; prevent theni from poaching, and they will become
sheep-stealers, footpads, housebreakers. Nothing is more
pernicious than this crude system of legislating, without
attention to consequences, as if human nature could be
altered, and every evil remedied by an Act of Parliament.
And, if his Lordship's Bill will not prevent poaching, I
am at a loss to discover what other good it can accomplish ;
for as to the nonsense about fundholders, and others not
being allowed either to purchase or kill game, it is too
contemptible for refutation. Such persons at present re-
ceive more game in presents than they would ever think of
buying ; and if they wish to kill it themselves, they have
only to be content with a little less interest for their limey,
and convert a certain portion of it into land, and the pri-
viledge is theirs. But it is rather too much for these
grumblers to claim one of the few advantages which real
property affords, while they are unwilling to encounter any
of its disadvantages.
. If Lord Wharncliffe's Bill should pass, it will certainly
annihilate the amusement of most of the smaller fund-
holders, who, I think, have deterved better treatment ; for
as the lands of these minor proprietors now mix with and
intersect each other, it will be impossible for any person
not possessed of a large estate, or having permission over
one, to go out with his dog and his gun, without the risk
of being treated like a felon, and thus more ill blood and
litigation will ensue, than all the game in the island is
worth.

Twenty other objections suggest themselves against this
impolitic Bill; but as I neither like long letters nor long
arguments, I conclude your obedient servant, a T.

TEST AND CORPORATION ACTS.

A meeting of the committee appointed to promote the
signing of congregational petitions against the Corporation
and Test Acts, and consisting of the Ministers and diffe-
rent members of the three Unitarian congregations in Man-
chester, was held in the Cross-street Chapel-rooms, on
Tuesday when the following resolutions were agreed
That it is the inalienable right of every individual to
upon week,
worship Gotl according to the dictates of his conscience,
in ally mapper consistent with the peace and good order of
society.
That it is at once impolitic and unjust in the civil ma-
gistrate to infringe that right, either by direct persecution,
or by the infliction of civil disabilities in consequence of
religious belief.
of trust, the members of
That the Corporation and Test Acts do infringe that
profession of conformity with the Church of England, and
rbiyglsitt, by
stigmatizing, as
other religious denominations.
uaanwaorqthuyalification for civil office, the
That it is expedient that Petitions, founded on the fore-
going resolutions, be presented, during the present session,
to both Houses of Parliament, for- the repeal of the said
Acts.---21lancheeter Gazette.

In the extreme parts of the north of Europe,
even in villages bordering on Lapland, the poorest cottagere
generally possess a mangle ; 'and as the erinstruetion ie 50
simple; it may be wondered that they are nqt more gene-
rally used in our own► country.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. —.
3 per Cent. C0n5......... 32%34%
IN per Cent.
Ditto Red.
4 per Cent- Now SON% 8
Ditto, 1826
Bank Long Ann.
India Stock —
Ditto Bonds 63 pin.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds, 5 percent.
Brazilian Bonds, ex div 64%
Buenos Ayres Bonds.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct.
Colombian Bonds
Ditto, 1824 404)4
Danish, 3 per cent.
Greek Bonds

bitto, 18'26 —
Guatintala —
Mexican Bonds —
Do. 1823, ex div OgYA %

PRICES OF IRISH ?V
Bank Stock 24014 210'
Consols, 3 per cent SIN
Gov. Stock, 31,i per cent SIX
Ditto, New -
4 per Cent.
Goy. Deb. 3% per cent .... -
Royal Canal Stock -
Grand Canal Stock -
City Deb. 4 per cent. --
Ballast Office Deb. 4 p, ct. -

FOREIGN EXCHANGER ON LONDON.
AMSTERDAM, MARCU 21.-12 f. IN—Two months, llf. 95 97%.
HAMSDROU, MARCU 21-37 N.—Two months, 36. 93i.
PETERSIHIRGU, ➢[ARCH O.—Three months, 10.
LElpste, MARCH 19.—Three months, 6. 17N.
BERLIN, MARCH YO.—Three months, 6. 29.

Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due,
O America U U Guernsey & Jersey. •
O Brazil 0 0 Hamburgh 4
O Buenos Ayres
O Donagbadee 0 0 Jamaica
2 Dublin
1 Flanders 1 0 Li►bon 0
O France
O Gottenburgh 2 2 Waterford' U

MGM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning ...17 minutes after O. Evening ...42 minutes after 6.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1827.

The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday;
and the Etoile of Saturday morning, reached us

last night. 1
The Constitutionnel of Friday, which had
prepared its readers to hear that the SULTAN
had refused to accede to the propositions made
by M. de RIBEAUPIERE, contains a private let •
ter from Frankfort, dated the 25th March, stating
that for the preceding twenty-four hours their
exchange had been in the greatest agitation,
caused by various reports brought to the banking
establishments from Vienna, where the public
funds suddenly fell on the -19th—the Metal-
liques one per cent. and the Bank Actions
twenty florins. Two causes for this fall
were assigned, namely, the accession of the
Cabinet of Vienna to the Convention agreed on
at St. Petersburgh, bet Ween. the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON and Count NEssEL RODE, on the 4th
of April, 1826, and the Strong probability of
war between Russia and Turkey. The Etoik
on the other hand ascribes the fall of the Funds
to the report which, prevailed in Vienna .of the
assassination of,the VICEROY of Italy, which- it-
self was a -farsehOod." such a circumstance,
however, could have had but little influence on

public securities.
A.ll the ~Fxessch. Papers are filled with ob-
servations •on the recall of the Duke de VILLA
MOSA and the appointment of M. Uzos
as Charge d'Affaires, who is said to be a man
of moderate political opinions. M. de COR-
DOVA, the late Secretary of the Embassy, has
obtained leave to travel. From hence, and from
the measures which the Spanish Government has
recently taken with respect •to the Portuguese
Rebels, and other circumstances; -it is inferred
that the policy of the Cabinet of. Madrid: has
undergone a considerable change. The Etoile
states that TELLES JORDAO, MONTEALEGRE,
and others of the Portuguese Rebels, have
arrived at Burgos, on their way into France, but
that the Marquis de CHAVES has been allowed
to stop for some days at a town on the other
side of Burgos, on account of ill health.
Extracts of these papers will be found in
another column.

FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, MARCH SO.—Five per Cents.
99f. 35e. ; 3 per Cents. 69f. 93c. Bank Stock, 2,002 f.
50c. Reutes de Naples, 76f. 25c. Royal Spanish Loan, 54i.

We received, last night, Brussels Papers to
the 28th, and the Allgenzeine Zeitung and
Frankfort Papers to the 25th ult. They con-
tain but little worth noticing. The Government
of the Netherlands continues to enlist men for
OT, the French Am-
service in India. The men enter for six years,
and receive a bounty of two ducats.
It is said from Frankfort,the Guards sent him by on the authority of
the Oriental Spectator, of the 16th February,
that
ass a
dCooru,
hasnt G
dismissedu t,E I 14
the Porte, expressing his intention to choose them
himself.

An unsuccessful attempt, by the Greeks, to
relieve Athens, is also mentioned from the
Universal Gazette of Greece.

Hamburgh Papers of the 24th March have
been received this morning, but their contents
possess little interest. The following are ex-