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live in harmony together. In each we_ find
something suitable to his years; and if, in the
prime of manhood, he was engaged in schemes
of national aggrandisement, in his declining life
he was better employed in promoting freedom,
peace, and improvement, amongst his fellows.
He was, no doubt, active and conspicuous in Par-
liament ; in the Treasury, of which he was a Lord;
and at Court, where he was a favourite, before
he went to India; but it was only in 1797, when
he was appointed to succeed Lord CORN waLus
in the government of that country, that public
attention became fixed on him. In general, the
splendid success of his green years makes men
admire more his administration in India than
the better points of his riper years; but when
we recollect what CLIVE and HASTINGS, the
clerks of a trading company, had achieved in
India, in opposition to France, before he went
thither, and when we recollect that he was
only the second statesman having a large
body of Royal troops under his orders, who ad-
ministered the affairs of that country, with no
French forces to oppose him; when we recollect
the feeble and disjointed resistance which could
be offered by the native Powers, we cease to be
dazzled by the splendour of his Indian govern-
ment, and prefer his exertions as a statesman at
home, to his conquests in Asia. The effects of
the latter may possibly be transient, and the sort
of meteoric empire we have there founded may
as speedily sink in darkness as it has risen in
splendour; but we are assured that the effects of
his labours to rescue Europe from military ty-
ranny, and to give religious freedom to his na-
tive land, will endure for ever, and be for ever
leading points in the history of civilization.
We are forbidden, both by our limited space
and limited time, from entering into the details
of his conduct, in both dissenting from the
Whigs, who depreciated our military Exertions
in Europe, and in censuring the Tories, who
persisted in making them on a feeble and un-
worthy scale, and in frittering them away on
many objects instead of concentrating the na-
tional energies on one; we must content ourselves
with remarking, that on the great question of
the Peninsular war he took a line for himself,
and contributed, in the first instance, more than
any ether statesman—perhaps more than any
other man, except hisillustrious brother—to bring
that war to a successful issue. Neither can we
enter into his praise-worthy exertions. to form
a broad and comprehensive Administration
after the death of Mr. PERCIVAL, to which
end he was commissioned by the Prince
Regent ; nor can we notice the narrow " per-
sonal animosities" by which the Tory states-
man of the day thwarted his well-meant patriot-
ism. He did not succeed, and one of his bigoted
and worst opponents, Lord LIVERPOOL, took his
place, and prevented all concessions to religious
freedom till they were wrung from the weak-
ness of the Government, to its confusion and dis-
Neither can we dwell on his ad-
ministration of Ireland, which is, we think
foolishly, said not to have been success-
ful, because it was not very brilliant. But
when it is considered how much he was ham-
pered by Orangemen in Ireland and bigots in
the Cabinet, that he governed the country in
peace, and contributed to raise the Catholics to
power and influence, reflect on him much ho-
nour. It is his merit to have set the example,
under much less favourable auspices than Lord
NORMANBY, of a conciliatory policy ; aid to
have laid the foundation of that better system
of governing Ireland, which has ever since been
carried out. We must content ourselves with
merely hinting at these prominent features of
his varied policy, and leave to those who were
better acquainted with him, and have more
leisure, the task of presenting us with a com-
plete view of the long career of this accomplished
statesman.

grace.

We cannot close without remarking that his
extensive public life, connecting him at one end
with the sinking CHATHAM, and at the other
with the rising GLADSTONE, or with PEEL ill the
full blaze of
.his power, comprises almost a
century of events, and designates some very
great changes in the views of statesmen, and the
character of Government. CHATHAM'S policy
lay chiefly in war and aggrandisement, and he
thought little or nothing of that improvement of
the people at home, which now mainly occupies
public men. . The Marquis of WELLESLEY, in
his career in India, followed the principles of
CHATHAM'S policy. He lived to 'learn' better
things ; and if it- be true that lie re-
monstrated against the Affghan war and
praised the withdrawal of the troops, he
had become,- with the progress of events, a con-
vert to the opinion that there is more danger
than profit in extending an empire: The vigour
of his days was passed before the present policy
of attending to domestic improvement came into
vogue, and it is rather the fault of the time at
which lie was born, than of any defect
character, that he was not deeply versed in those
doctrines of political economy which have in
latter times occupied public attention. There
are proofs in his speeches that his practical states.
manship, though enlightened, was not based on
theoretic truth ; and if he was favourable to the
extension of commerce in India, he was not tin
favourable to monopoly at home. IVe have no
recollection that the Noble Marquis ever took
an active part in discussing such important sub-
jects as the taxes on food, the laws for the regu-
lation of the poor, the' education of the people,
the improvement of their health and habitations ;
in fact, all these, with many kindred subjects,
have grown into public importance, marking a
great improvement in the thoughts and views
of statesmen, at a time of his life when it
was probably as impossible for him to acquire
new habits of thought as to become a fleet run-
ner. When he began his career, policy was
founded on some vague and ill-defined principles,
which did not include the well-being of the
people as the primary object; when his career
is closed, policy is based on facts; and the
well-being of the people—though there is much
ignorance of the means by which statesmen can ,
promote it—is professedly the single object they
have inview. The beginning and the end his
career thus designates a great change in the
principles of Government, which he coutri.
bated to bring about, which is, perhaps, more
Worthy of study and elaborate exposition than
even the life of this distinguished man.

LITERATURE.

THE BOOK OF BRITISH BALLADS.
How and Par.gons, London, 1842.

Dr. Percy's " Relics of Ancient English
Poetry," which--notwithstanding the supereili•-
ous sneers of Johnson—produced no slight effect
on the literary tone of the age in which they
appeared, have evidently suggested the idea of
this work, whose editor—Mr. S. C. Hall, a gen-
tleman every way qualified for the task:---pro-
poses to avail himself of the researches of Evans
Ritson, Pinkerton, Scott, Motherwell; and other
poetical antiquaries, so that his collection of Bri.:
tish Ballads will, if ordinary diligence be used,
be the most extensive in the language. - " Each
ballad," he tells us in his Prospectus, " will
be preceded by two pages, giving its history,
and supplying such information concerning! it
as the- Elitor may be enabled to obtain.
Into these pages will be introduced generally the
airs to s; hid' the ballads were sung, and any
jictorial illustrations that may serve to explain
the text." This is a considerable improvement
on. Doctor Percy's plan, and not less judicious is
Mr. Hall's determinatioa to admit into his col-
lection such ballads only as appear most worthy
of preservation, and not to re print those which
have no stronger recommendation than their
rarity. Percy and Ritson, notwithstanding their
tact and judgment, were both reprellensible in
this respect, fur they gave insertion to many
trashy ballads, simply, because they were rare,
when they should have considered that it was
most probable that their rarity was occasioned
by their worthlessness. As regards the pictorial
portion of the present collection, it is • scarcely
possible to praise it in too warm terms, for the
designs, which are remarkable for their excel-
lence and variety, are furnished by some of the
ablest artists of the day, and the engravings from
them display no less signal ability.

PERCIVAL KEEiVE. 3 Vols.
CoThum, London, 1842.

Though not among the best of its author's
(Captain Marrvat's) novels, yet" Percival Keene"
is an entertaining production, and in some of its
more sprightly and spirited scenes will be found
not unworthy of the genius that conceived
" Peter Simple." The hero is the illegitimate
son of the Hon. Captain Delmar, and derives the
name of Keene from his mother, who is married
to a private marine. By her means he obtains
a midshipman's berth on board his father's ship,
who affects an utter ignorance of the young
man's close affinity to him, and keeps him at
a respectful distance. In the course of time,
Percival obtains promotion in the navy, is made
a post-captain, and, ultimately, heir to his aunt,
the Hon. Miss Delmar, when he takes the op-
portunity of marrying Minnie Vandervelt, whom,
several years before, he had rescued, together
with her father, from the clutches of a pirate.
His chequered course of life is detailed, for the
most part, with spirit, but it is in describing his
hero's jocular adventures that the author has
been most successful. His sea scenes, too, are
uniformly good, and the interview between Per-
cival, when lett alone on board a water-logged
prize, and a negro pirate chief, who has taken an
oath never to spare a white man, is full of terse,
dramatic vigour.

WILLIAM LANG SHAWE. 2 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1842.
It would seem almost impossible for an author,
however skilful and practised in his or her calling, to
excite anything like a romantic interest in the for-
tunes of a Manchester cotton-lord, usually not the most
imaginative, chivalrous, or refilled of created beings ; but
Mrs. Stone has contrived to do so in her present tale;
and, despite his close connection with ginghams, cot-
tons, billy-rollers, and over-worked factory girls, we
feel an interest in the fortunes of William Langshawe
and his pretty daughter Edith, which we never felt in
the heroes or heroines, say, of Mr. D'lsraeli's
notwithstanding their undoubted rank and fashion,
and that they lived in the selected quarter of the West-
end, and had a proper contempt for those who were not
so fortunately located. But though Mrs. Stone has
produced a readable story, we do not think the subject
by any means well chosen—(though recent circum-
stances, such as the riots in Lancashire, may, perhaps,
give it a temporary interest)—for it lies too much
among the matter-of-fact common-places of commer-
cial life, and is, consequently, deficient in that stir,
and bustle, and excitement and variety, which consti-
tute the very salt of fiction. We must acknowledge,
nevertheless, that the portrait of William Langshawe
is drawn by one perfectly familiar with the class to
which he belongs, and shows frequent marks of an
observant and discriminating intellect.

SONG OF THE RED INDIAN.
(From the Dispatch.)
Oh ! why should the white man hang on my path,'
Like the hound on the tiger's track ?
Does the flush of my dark cheek waken his wrath ?
Does he covet the bow at my back ?
He has rivers and seas, where the billow and breeze
Bear riches for him alone ;
And the sons of the wood never plunge in the flood
That the white man calls his own.
Then why should he covet the streams where none
But the red-skin dare to swim ?
Oh ! why should he wrong the hunter one
Who never did harm to him ?
The Father above thought fit to give
To the white man corn and wine ;
There are golden fields where he may live,
But the forest wilds are mine.
The eagle has its place of rest,
The wild horse where to dwell,
And the spirit who gave the bird its nest
Made me a home as well.
Then back, go back from the red-skin's track,
For the hunter's eye grows dim
To find that the white man wrongs the one
Who never did harm to him. ELIZA COOK.

CIRCULATING MEDIUM AT
HONG KONG.
The following has been received at Lloyd's :
" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, September 26, 1842.
" Sim,—l am directed by the Lords of the Commit-
tee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for
the inform:than of the Committee at Lloyd's, Copy of
Proclamation issued by her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
in China, on the subject of the circulating medium at
Hong Kong. " I am, &c.,
J. MACGREGOR.

" The Secretary at Lloyd's."
" PROCLAMATION.

" With referunce to the desirable object of prevent
ing disputes and laying down some defined system
regarding the circulating medium in this settlement,
his Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., her Ma-
jesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of
the Trade of British subjects in China, is pleased to
promulgate the following brief rules, which are to be
considered applicable to all common bazaar purchases,
and barter, hire, &c. &c. ; but not to interfere with or
affect what may be termed mercantile transactions :
and are to be in force in the Island of Hong hong
during the gracious pleasure of her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain.

" Ist. The following coins are to be deemed legal
tenders :

" Spanish, Mexican, and other dollars, and their
component parts.
Company's rupees and their component parts.
' Cash,' or the copper coin current in China.
"2d. Dollars of whatever denomination or device,
and whether whole or chopped, are to circulate at par
with reference to each other, always provided that
they be of the proper weight and standard.
" ad. Two and one quarter's Company's rupees
shall be considered equal to one dollar. One rupee
and two annas (or half a quarter) equal to half a dol-
lar, and three quarters of a rupee (or twelve annas)
equal to one quarter of a dollar.

4th. Twelve hundred (1,200) cash (copper coin)
shall be equal to one dollar; six hundred (600) to half
a dollar ; three hundred (300) to a quarter of a dollar;
five hundred and thirty-three ($33) to one Company's
rupee ; two hundred and sixty-six (266) to half a
rupee; one hundred and thirty-three. (133) to one
quarter of a rupee.
"4th. Any other coins, whether British or Foreign,
not enumerated in the preceding rules, are not to be
deemed a legal tender, but they can, of course, be
sold or otherwise bartered in the bazaar, according to
their intrinsic value.

" 6th. Cash (copper coin), at the rate laid down in
the 4th rule, will be sold to any individual requiring
it in sums of not less than fifty dollars, on application
to the Treasurer and Secretary to her Britannic Ma-
jtstv 's Superintendents of trade.—God save the Queen.
"Datedv at Hong Kong, Government House, this
29th day of March, 1842.

(Signed): " HENRY POrfINGER.
"Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c. &c."

THE HARVEST.—Throughout -hole orl 014
southern part of this county and the fertile vale of
land, with a very few exceptions, the harvest
completely over ; the crops in excellent conditioiVitind"
most abundant, from the staff of life through every ihttir
mediate grade down to bramble-berries and mnshroomai
the latter article being so very plentiful that they.are:
now sold in Stockton at threepence per peck ! The hat_
vest may now be said to be concluded in the whole of
this district, and the crops secured in excellent condition.
We had a fine rain on Thursday, which continued dur-
ing the whole of the night, and this (Friday) morning
there are occasional light showers. This has greatly
benefited the green crops, and will enable the farmer to
get his wheat sown at an unprecedentedly early period—
thus holding out a prospect of another favourable harvest.
—Durham Advertiser.

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Boek lll.—Chapters VI., IX., and X.
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" The Hearty Old Buck." By Nimrod.
Descent of the Gosforth Colliery, Newcastle. By J. Barrow.
Story-Tellers and Street Music. By R. B. Peake.
The Ons Thing Needful.
Captain Marryat. Apropos of Pereetal Kefte.
The Tomb of lietiz, the Persian Poet. By W. F. Ainsworth.
Never !" By John A, Heraud.
The Blind Girl. By John Oxenford.
Doctor Crispinus. By Captain Medwin.
To her Raven. By a Witch.
The Garden. By Charles Oilier.
Charley Belvihili,:the Clare.Foxhunter. By Chas. Moutray.
The Franciscan's:Cure. By Charles Hervey.
The Ficture-Hunter By Lamar' Blanchard.
On Seeing the Hair of Three SisterS Cut Off when Children.

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On a Picture. By Allis Costello.
WINDSOR: CASTLE, .
An Historical 11,i:stance,
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Chapters IV. and V.
With an Illustration on Steel, by TONY JOHANNOT,
And Five Woodcuts by W. ALFRED DELAMOTTE.
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In Praise of Porter.
Vision of Charles XIL, by H. R. Addison.
My Irish Client, the Bishop. A True Tale of Gra) 's Inn.
A Campaign with theChristinos iu 1838 and 1839, by Charles
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A Little Talk about Bartlemv Fair, past and present, by
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Striking Incident, by H. R. Adtlison.
The Philosophy of Time, edited and illustrated by Alfred
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The Little Horse ; an EqUestrian Epigram.
The Forged Will. By Capt. Curling.
Richard Savage; a Romance of Real Life. By' Charles
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Sudden Fear.
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in Lancashire ? Had these riots occurred
fifty—or even five and twenty years ago—
there would have been pillage and blood-shed
to a dreadful extent; but, thanks to the huma-
nising progress of that " reading and writing"
which Archdeacon WILBERFORCE holds in such
pious horror, mobs, even when driven to excesses
by squalid destitution, are no longer what they
were in the good old " Church and State" days
of 1780, when, in a paroxysm of orthodoxy,
they set fire to London ; and, some few years
afterwards, under the influence of the same
bigoted feeling, destroyed Dr. PRIESTLEY'S
valuable library at Birmingham, because be en-
tertained but an indifferent opinion of the apos-
tolic integrity and disinterestedness of Mother
Church.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 10th
instant. The Patriota announces, that the Mi-
nister of Finance bad succeeded in negotiating
Treasury bills to the amount of 12,000,000 reals
out of the 15,000,000 assigned as the quota of the
province of Madrid, in the loan of 100,000,000
voted by Congress. Cadiz was tranquil on the
15th. The Globe journal bud not re-appeared
since the late fatal encounter between its editor
and the Political Chief. Another paper, the
Defeusor del Pueblo, had incurred the displea-
sure of the Progresista and Republican parties,
and the authorities fearing for the life of its
editor, M. CAMPE, sent every night a detach-
ment of troops to guard him in his house.

The Five per Cents. were done at 261 for cash,
and 26,1 11-16 13-16 11-16, at 60 days, for a
stun of 21,200,000 reals.

The Paris Papers of Monday have been re-
ceived. They are chiefly occupied with the
American. Tariff and the pamphlet of General
BUGEAUD, which it appears has given great
offence to Marshal SOULT. The Levant Mail,
due on the 21st at Marseilles, did not reach that
place till the 24th, but the letters have not
arrived.

The following intelligence from. Constantinople
is given in the Augsburg Gazette:—
" The post just arrived from Constantinople of the
7th, brings tidings of sanguinary quarrels among the
MaroniteF, and an intervention of the Pacha. More-
over, it announces the formation of a camp of from
20,000 to 25,000 men, at -Alalatia, and the sending of
fresh troops to Erzeroum."
The extracts froin,ibur French Journals show,
in another part of the paper, that they are as
much divided on the American Tariff as on the
Ashburton Treaty.

BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 26.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 118 85... 118 90... 118 80... 118 80
Four.: lOl 35... 101 35 .. 101 35... 101 35
3 per Cents 80 20... 80 20... 80 5... 80 5
Bank of France 3265 ...3265 ...3265 .. 3265
Latlitte Bankl,ooof 1035 ..1035 ...1035 ...1035
Belgian Fives lo4k ... 104 k 104} ... 104 k
1840 losj ... 105 k IC5i ... 105 k
Dutch 2} per Cents s3* ... 53* ... 53k ... 53*
Spanish Passive
New Deferred 91 ... 9K ... 9 ...
Portuguese Fives 294 ...29 ... ... 294
Neapolitan lO7 50... 107 50... 107 50... 107 50
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES,
Versailles, FIB 255 ... 255 ... 255 ... 255
L.B 97 50... 97 50... 97 50... 97 50
Rouen
Orleans. SS2 50... 582 50... 582 50... 582 50
Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 206 .5... 205 ... 206 2.5

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUAR7 ER TO MIME.
The Funds continue in the same inactive state as
they left off yesterday evening, with „scarcely a bar-
gain having been made.. Consols are 92i 92i for
Money, 921- buyers for the Account. New Three-
and-a-Half ,per Cents., ,190/3- I.ooi ; India Stock is
rather better, some having been, sold at 249 ; the
Bonds, 36 premium. Money has been in greater de-
mand, and sales of Exchequer Bills having been made,
but not to any extent, the premium on the New Bills,
which are more current in the market, has declined
to 49 ; that on the Old remaining at 50 52.
A single transaction in Dutch Five per Cents. at
102 is all that has been done in Foreign Securities;
prices, however, are generally firm. Mexican Bonds
are quoted 351.
The Share Market, which opened with some ap-
pearance of improvement, had again become fiat :
London and Birmingham have .been sold at 184 ;
Great Western, 81 811; the New Shares, 584;
Fifths, 7 71; South Eastern, Scrip, 111 1 ; Eastern
Counties, 8i 8i ; CrOydon, 10; Brighton, 348 344;
Manchester and Birmingham, 34-,1 341 ; York and
North Midland New Shares, 36i- 36k.
Portuguese Five per Cents., 354, and Spanish
Three per Cents., 15-, are .the Bonds.. quoted. to-day.
PR ICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto New - to
Ditto Fifths
London anc Brighton
London and Birmingham......... 90 ......184 ..... to
London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 131 ...... 10
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
South Eastern and Dover 5O .....
Ditto Scrip... ..... . .
fork andNJrth Midland 5O ...... -- ...... to --

Ditto New Shares
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 24.
Three per Cent. Consols..
Three and a Half Stock • • -
It would appear that the new American tariff has
caused as much dissatisfaction in France as it has
done here. The articles among us which will be
chiefly affected, are, it is stated, the lower descriptionS
of Birmingham goods, and the letters from that town
represent trade there to be unusually depressed, and
that many workmen have been discharged in conse-
quence of it. Merchants, however, well acquainted
with the working of American laws, consider this to
be too gloomy a view, and hold the opinion
that the rates about to be levied will, in the
course of a short period, be greatly modified, and
that at the instance of the Americans themselves,
who are not yet in a situation to dispense with these
articles. • The French are, however, in a different
position, and so strong is the feeling there on the sub-
ject, that letters have been received directing that
several parcels of goods, which had been sent here on
their way to New York, should be returned, as the
trade is considered to he virtually ended by this new.
measure. If both the above opinions be correct, and
they are far from being incompatible with each other,
it may be concluded, that upon the whole of our
exports to America an improvement will be visible.
INIA?iCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 27.
We have nothing to report that can improve the
general face of this market. Lancaster and Preston,
Three Quarter Shares, 18/ ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 224 to 22 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half
Shares, 301; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47 to 48 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, 181 to 182 ; Ditto Half
Shares, 874 to 88.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of English Grain since Monday were
small, and of Foreign 1V heat considerable. There
was scarcely anything doing in the Wheat trade, and
other Corn met a slow sale at Alonday's prices. The
millers have reduced Flour 2s. per sack.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

There was a very good show of Meat of all descrip-
tions at our market. Beef, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 8d: ; Mut-
ton, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. ; Lamb, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ;
Veal, 3s. to 4s. 4d.; Pork, 2s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. In
Poultry and Game no advance was realised. Hares,
2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d.; Geese, ss. to 6s. 6d.; Grouse, ls. to
ls. 6d. ; Ducks, 2s. to 2s. 6d. • Partridges, ls. to 2s. ;
Chickens, ls. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Pigeons, 9d. to Is.; Rab-
bits, Bd. to Is. each ; Eggs, 4s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per 120