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taking violent measures. On the 15th, at eight
7. e. the club formally demanded that General
Skrzvnecki should be ordered to Warsaw. Here-
upon they proceeded to the castle, where the 200
national guards scarcely offered any resistance.
The seven prisoners of state there were found
murdered in their rooms, and their bodies thrown
into the gutter, or hung up at the lamp posts. The
r:oters then proceeded to the houses of several
persons already acquitted, and to the house of
Correction, at which not only the agents of the
but also debtors and cheats were con-
late police,
tined ; many of them were put to death, and their
bodies hung up without much ceremony. In this
way 35 persons lost their lives during the first night;
3,31n,7 them were Generals Jankowski, Bukowski,
Ilurtiz Salacki, and Benthowski ; the Russian
Chamberlain Fenshawe ; a Russian lady of the
name of Bazanow ; the Councillor of State Ilene-
iseiwicz. who had been acquitted ; Major Petri-
kowski, and several police agents. Lesorl, a con-
fectioner, who had been acquitted, was saved
,%ith much difficulty by General Krukowiecki.—
Yesterday about noon a Russian captain of cavalry,
who had been wounded and taken prisoner, was
torn from the waggon as it entered the city and
crselly murdered. In the afternoon Rawecki, the
curator of the schools, was hung at a lamp-post.
During the night, General Krukowiecki was ap-
p inted governor of the city. His first measure was
o
to send for military reinforcements, so that a repeti- '
tion of these horrors is scarcely to be expected. The
French and Austrian Consuls had already demand-
ed their passports, the government being no longer
In a condition to afford them protection. To-day,
however, in compliance with a wish intimated to
them, they have determined not to set off as yet.
To-day the Government hitherto existing has been
dissolved, and General Krukowiecki has been
placed at the head of the new Government,
with very extended powers. During the hours of
terror he displayed much energy and personal bra-
very. He has already had the President and ten
ii embers of the Club arrested. By virtue of the
powers placed in his hands, he has appointed Ge-
neral l'rondzynski to the chief command in the
army, who is said to have already accepted the ap-
pointment.
BLON IF, AUG. 17.—0 n the news that General
Rudiger had passed the Vistula, the Russian
army broke up front Lowicz on the 15th, and,
without having met with any resistance from the
enemy, advanced on the 16th to Blonie, sixteen
English miles from Warsaw. The courage of the
insurgents seems to be greatly sunk, as is proved
by all the concurrent accounts, and by the nume-
rous deserters ; these, in larger or smaller parties,
come daily to the Russian camp, and are sent to
their homes. The head-quarters of the Field-
Marshal are at this moment in Blonie, though the
greater part of the troops have already advanced
nearer to Warsaw : it is probable the head-quar-
ters will follow to-morrow. The crisis is at hand;
all must soon be decided.

HEAD-QUARTERS, NADARETW, Ave. 18.—
A long bulletin details the proceedings of the
Russian army on its advance from Lowicz. The
Poles retreated without fighting, only there was a
slight skirmish at Szymanow, where the bridges
were broken down. Szymanow was partly burnt.
The enemy every where retreated, and having
gained an advance, were not seen the next day,
the 16th, till near Blonie. He abandoned the
left bank of the Utrata hardly firing a shot,
but proceeded to burn the bridge, and seemed
disposed to dispute the passage, but at the
approach of the Cossacks they retired, and did
not hinder the Russians from the stopping the fire,
and restoring the bridge. Many stragglers very
quietly suffered themselves to be taken prisoners on
the right bank. The whole army encamped in the
evening round the head-quarters at Blonie. On
the 17th, in the afternoon, Count Vitt, with fifty
squadrons, 900 Cossacks, and five batteries of
horse artillery, proceeded to reconnoitre towards
Warsaw. The enemy bad sent two battalions of
the 3d regiment of infantry, the Kalish regiment of
horse, and two cannon, to the village of 13roniczo.
This force was commanded by Colonel Gallois.
The Russians having sent a large detachment in
the Tear of the Poles, cut off their retreat to War-
saw. Only a few of their cavalry escaped, but not
a man of the infantry returned to Warsaw. Seve-
ral hundreds were killed, and Colonel Gallois, with
five staff, and 29 other officers and 1322 men, were
made prisoners. The two guns were taken. To-day
the main body advanced to Nadarzyn, the vanguard
to Roszyn, seven (English) miles from Warsaw. A
brigade of hussars remain in Blonie. General Ger-
stenweig, with another brigade of light cavalry, is
near Piasceznow, whence he communicates with
the corps of General Rudiger, which is advancing
from Radom. The bridge over which this corps
pn,ed the Vistula at Josefou, will be brought to
Pclaway, and thus the old line of operation be re-
stored to the army. No certain information can be
non, whether there are sufficient magazines of
provisions in Warsaw to hold out for a time, with-
out fresh supplies. Deserters and fugitives affirm
that embarrassment and great dearness already are
felt ; it is certain that the harvest of the neigh-
bouring country has not been conveyed to Warsaw,
for the fields and barns are not cleared.—Prussian
State Gazette, Aug. 26.

The Sydney papers give the Revenue. In this
day's Gazette is published the abstract of the reve-
nue of the colony. The total amount of the ordi-
nary revenue of 1830, exhibits an increase on that
of 1829, amounting to 5,0951. 18s. 2id.
The chief item, under the head of revenue, is
duties on spirits. It is satisfactory to perceive that
there has been a large increase, nearly threefold,
n duties paid on spirits distilled in the colonies.
The tobacco imported is peculiarly cheering.
In 1829, the dories on foreign Tobacco were 11855 4 9
In 183 u
••• 2,808 9 7
••• •••

A 5 046 14 4

Another gladdening fact, the importation of
goods of foreign produce was last year 300 per
rent• less than in 1829. With regard to the ex-
penditure of this year there will be found a saving,
as compared with the previous year, of nearly
£13,000.
in*, the total amount of Expenditure £103,565 15 74
18:10, 92,799 14 74
L

£12,790 0 I I
Montreal Papers to the sth August, Quebec to
the 3d, and New South Wales to the 27th April,
lave been received. The former papers do not
contain any information worth giving.

THE EVENING STAR.
LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30.
.._........_
Oxt O'CLOCK. TRIO MT.—Thermometer, 74. 8..
rometer, 30.10. Wind W. Weather, cloudy.

'' Thu Paper will be regularly forwarded
by Post, on transmitting Orders to the Office,
Temple Bar, London, or to any of the usual
Newsmen.

The intelligence received last night by the
Hamburgh mail, via Prussia, from Poland, baffles
our anticipations in regard to the probable or pos-
sible result. The late return to Warsaw of the
heroic corps of Mammas t from the Neimen,
consisting itself of determined partisans, and ac-
companied by others from the insurrectionary pro-
vinces, all in a state of excitement, and calling for vi-
gourin the government,have produced an ultra-revo-
lution in Warsaw. It resembles, in some of its
features, the explosion whick took place in Paris,
in September, 1792, when the Prussians had ad-
vanced to Chalons, and when the Parisians and
Marselloise suspected that treason paralized their
means of defence. The same feeling appears to have
seized the Warsovians, on hearing of some advan •
tages gained by the Russians on the Werke.
Treachery became the cry of the patriotic clubs ;
and former traitors, then in prison, have been
unhappily sacrificed in the fury of popular ven-
geance.

We all remember the difficulty which the au-
thorities experienced in conveying JAW' ow s tt t, and
his confederates, to prison, after the detection
of their conspiracy by SK It NEcK I ; and after
Jankowski had paralized a division of the Polish
army, in a combined movement against Re-
DIGER, who, in consequence of this treason,
was enabled almost to destroy another of the Polish
divisions. To punish these treasons the law ap-
peared to the peol.le to be slow and un-
certain ; and we have to record the much-to-be-
lamented fact, that under the excitement of the
patriotic clubs, the mob broke into the prisons,
seized on the alleged conspirators, and in a sum-
mary way put the whole of them to death. All the
particulars yet known, reach us through the sus•
picious channel of the Berlin Gazette ; which is
doubtless correct as to the main facts, but gives
such a colour to them, as may be expected from
avowed enemies of the Polish nation.

It is, however, admitted, that after this tragedy,
the governorship of Warsaw was assigned to Gen.
Krukowiecki, who has appointed Gen. Proudzinski
to the chief command of the army. The names
of these Generals have not yet transpired in the
history of recent Polish affairs; but it may be pre-
sumed that they have the confidence of the patriots,
and that Proudzinski is an officer of talent, since
it appears that the popular favourites, Dembinski,
Romarino, and Chrasanowski, continue to act
under him.

Of these discords, the Russian General appears
to have taken advantage, by pushing onward from
Lowitz to Blonie and Nadarsyn, nearer the Vis.
tula—both about the same distance from Warsaw,
as Windsor from London. The Russians in the
meantime claim • second advantage over a Polish
division, under Colonel GA LLOIS. Of the opera-
tions and positions of the Poles, we have, by these
Berlin Journals, no accounts.
The circumstances altogether create intensa
anxiety in all the friends of the Poles, who, in
truth, are the English nation of every party.
We had less hopes even than at present,
when Diebitech, with his unshaken host, marched
into the suburbs of Praga ; but valour and
patriotism then proved an overmatch for the mer
cenaries of despotism, however well trained in the
trade of slaughter. Nothing in the present position
of the parties, is in fact more discouraging ; for
the Russians are disheartened by an unpromising
and inglorious service, and by disease, which daily
thine their ranks.

We think it probable that the late long rest at
Lowitz, has had for its object the success of certain
intrigues and treasons in Warsaw ; and the explo-
sion of these has probably accelerated the move-
ments of the Russian General, in the hope of
saving his friends. The arrival of Dembinski was
mal-apropos : time alone will satisfy publie im-
patience.

M. Perier has met the wishes of the people of
France, by proposing to put an end to heredi-
tary Legislators ; but his plan tends to add enor-
mously and unconstitutionally to the power and
influence of the throne. It doubtless is an absur-
dity to attempt to transmit the wisdom of le-
gislation, from father to son ; but to obviate
this difficulty, it appears to be monstrous
to create a set of Court dependents, as an indepen-
dent House of Legislation, by the uncontrolled and
unlimited nomination of the Sovereign. Yet such is
the plan of M. PERIIR. If there be some chances
of folly in hereditary legislators, there is always an
equal chance of independence of the Court. We
expected that when this Upper House in France
ceased to be hereditary, a co-ordinate power of fil-
ling up numbers would be given to the King and
to the Chamber of Deputies ; and concluded that
something like the plan of the American Senate
would have been adopted. A House of Peers no-
minated by the King is, in truth, no better than
a Privy Council, or a Cabinet of Ministers;
neither of whom could be tolerated by common
sense, as a third branch of the Legislature, enjoy-
ing a veto in the formation of the laws. It is, how-
ever, not expected that the plan of Paula will

he carried ; and, judging of the Chamber of De-
puties, by the names of the Chairmen of the Com-
mittees, given in anothei column, it would appear
that an order of men have an ascendancy, who will
treat the scheme with merited contempt.
In the House of Loris last night, Lord London-
derry sought again to put Ministers in the wrong,
in regard to the affairs of Belgium, by moving for
an account of the sums expended by this country
in the construction of the frontier • fortresses—a
question about which, the pablic, from very dif-
ferent motives, would be all alive.
Earl Grey remonstrated on these ill-timed
motions ; and the Duke of Wellington treated the
interference of France, and the proposed stay of
the French troops, as a very grave subject ; but the
motion was agreed to, and it will b.) amusing to
see the accounts.

The Bishop of London afterwards renewed
his attacks on the beer•shops, and insisted that
they ought to be closed at 7 o'clock on Sunday
evenings. He was specially hurt at being
charged with hypocricy and canting.
Other petitions were presented by Lord Holland,
one from Mt. Benbow, and by the Lord Chancellor,
and Marquis of Lansdowne. Lord Melbourne pro-
posed a clause forclosing them sooner in the country
than in town. The Lord Chancellor then took an
extensive view of the whole subject, and as he pre-
ferred beer-houses, which sold only beer, to public
houses, which sold beer and spirits; he there-
fore, advised that both kinds should be subject to
the same regulations.

Lord Wynford quoted the power of the magis-
trates in licensed public-houses, as the reason for
making the difference ; but the Lord Chancellor
saw none.

In the House of Commons, Col. Evans moved
for the printing of Deacles' petition, which was
opposed by Lord Althorp, and the motion with-
drawn.

Lord Stanley presented a petition from Liver-
pool, that the writ might be issued, which was
opposed by Mr. Benett, and supported by Mr.
Wilke, Mr. Ewart, Mr. O'Connell, &c.
Mr. O'Connell presented a petition from Staf-
ford against a prosecution under the Game Laws,
carried on by an attorney, who, contrary to law,
filled at the same time the office of Under Sheriff.
He then presented another petition against an
assessment for church-building, which led to a long
conversation, on the abuses of that system.
In the Committee of Supply a desultory con-
versation arose in which Mr. O'Connell, Mr.
Rice, Mr. Hume, and Mr. Goulburn took part,
chiefly relative to the minor grants to Ireland—
some of which were strongly objected to, but
passed without a division.

The main business of the evening, Mr. Sad-
ler's motion for the establishment of poor laws
in Ireland, then came forward. He pressed the
subject with his usual great eloquence, and by
the citation of an immense number of powerful au-
thorities, superadding a great variety of statistical
details, in confirmation of his arguments. It was a
speech which admits of no satisfactory abridgement,
and we hope soon to see it printed separately, under
the superintendence of its able and amiable author.

Mr. Strickland gave Mr. Sadler's arguments
qualified praise; and Colonel Torrens adduced a
variety of deductions from political economy, in
opposition to the principle.
Mr. Robinson supported Mr. Sadler's proposition
with his usual good feeling and intelligence.—
Lord Altborp objected, because Mr. Sadler had not
detailed a plan, and moved the previous question,
which Mr. Western seconded.

Mr. Veyland justified Mr. Sadler's proposition,
and Mr. Shell made a most eloquent speech, in
which he enlarged affectingly on the miseries of the
Irish population, maintaining that a system of Poor
Laws was indispensable.
Mr. Stanley objected, because Mr. Sadler 's
was a general proposition. Mr. Leader sup-
ported the principle of poor laws with much energy,
and Lord Morpeth thought a system of Poor
Laws for Ireland was necessary. Mr. Rice said that
Poor Laws in Ireland would produce a mass of evil.
Several other members spoke, and Mr. J. Smith
urged the adoption of the resolution ; and finally,
in explanation, Lord Althorp stated that he did not
negative the proposition, but he was not prepa-ed
to acquiesce at that time. On a division, there ap-
peared only (34 fur the previous question, and 52
for Mr. Sadler's resolltion.

Our Deal Letter mentions the expected arrira!
of the Talavera and Wellesley of 74 guns, and
the march and embarkation of the 89th Regiment,
the reported object being the occupation of
Antwerp.

To-morrow the Kt NO Comcs. from Windsor to
St. James's Palace, where his MaJesTy will hold
a Levee, and afterwards a Privy Council.
Mr. Alexander Dawson, M. P. for Louth, died
at half.pa-t one o'clock on Sunday morning at his lodgings
in Downing-street. He took an active part in the debate on
the grant to Ireland on Wednesday week. He has posi-
tively been a victim to the excitement and fatigue of the Re-
form Bill.
Government are in treaty for several houses in
James.street, to pull down, adjoining Buckingham-gate, to
make a more commodious entrance into fit. Jamea's-park
front Pimlico. The new lodge is nearly completed adjoin-
ing the new Palace, and the baildingof the other new lodge,
that is to be erected at the end of George-street, is to com-
mence immediately.
Several Treasury Minutes have been published
relative to the superannuation allowances of official persons
in the several public departments. The Lords of the Trea-
sury have directed their attention to procure a record of the
exertions of all public serums, and the meat °tenet:dance
given by them, in order to afford a cornet judgment upon
all smelt claims. With this view several vgulations have
been adopted. the general result of which will be to now
diligence and fidelity.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 82
opened at 81 to 82, at which price they a-e at
present.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols have remained very steady the whole of
the morning, with little doing; they hare been
fluctuating from 82 down to 81i, and are at pre-
sent 32. In the Foreign Market, Brazil bonds
have improved about per cent.
THREE O'CLOCK.
_ _ _

Bank Stork, 109. Throe per Cent. led.-112Ii
Thee per Cent. Consols. 82 li 2. Three and a Halt fxr
Cent. 1818. 903 11. Three and a Half per Cent. Red.
110! 901. Three and a Half ref Cent. Nor, MI/ I.
Four per Cent. 1828. 1001. Long Annuities. .1:111.
1880, 171. Annuities, Oet. 1859, .—; do. Jan. 186,),
HI 13-18. India Stock. 199; do. Bonds, 23 1 2 Freni•
South Sea Stock, —. £lOOO Exchequer Hills. 19 12:
.0500 do. 10 13; £lOO and £2OO do. 10 lA. Advertised,
10 11. Consols for Account. 82 1; 2.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—Consols 81 1 j.

Report says we are going to garrison Antwerp.
The French Papers state, that the 20,000 men,
which are to return from Belgium, are to form an
entrenched camp before Arms, on the side of
Cambria.

Our private letters from Lisbon, by the mail this
morning, bring accounts that the French Admiral
has sent from the Tagus the Portuguese ships of
war, of various sizes, to the number of eight ships.
This took place on the 13th August, and on the
following illy, the whole of the French squadron
were to depart, with the exception of a large
frigate and a corvette, for Brest and Toulon. It
was feared, on the departure of the French, that
Don Miguel would rene•v his imprisonments and
cruelties.

DEAL, Aun . 29, 1831.--The Talavera and
Wellesley, of 74 guns, are hourly expected to arrive in:the
Downs: they are to receive on board the 89th Regiment,
now at Canterbury ; and the troops are expected to march
for Ramsgate as soon as the arrival of the ships are made
known, and then to embark on board the Pluto steam.
vessel, to be conveyed to their respective ships. Their tier.
tinstion is not known.—The Itypomenes, Dutch sloop.ot
war, which arrived yesterday from a cruize oil Ostend, ►till
remains.

FA LMOUTIII, AUG. 27.—Wind W.N.W. Ar-
rived the Belkk Castle, Bremner, from Riga, for Melford,
to perform quarantine, put In in consequence of being short
of water. Sailed his Alaje•ty's packet Sandwich, Schuyler,
for 1.6b0n, with mails, &c.

SUNDAY, Aug. 28, Wind West.—Arrived,
Majesty's packtt Magnet, Purteus, from Lisboa ; sailed
14th inst. with mails, on which day the French Admiral
sailed with the squadron front the Tagus, and the seven
Portuguese ships of war ip possession as prizes; they passed
the whole of the forts without a single shot being fired ;
they were destined for Brest. Independent of that, there is
nothing whatever new ; things a e just the same in the city as
our last advice* furnished us with an account of.—
Sailed,—the &Belt Castle, Bremner, for Milford.
The Goldfinch packet, Lieut. Walker,6 r.m. is
now coming in from Rio and Buenos Ayres with mails.

TATT EISA LL'S Y ESTE DA Y. --- A full at-
tendance, and a tolerable share of desultory betting. Until
late in the afternoon it was difficult to say which had the
call, Mrrcus, Tbe Saddler, or Liverpool; but about half.
past five a few engagements on the former pre him the ad-
vantage. Riddleswonh was backed to a small amount.—
The odds left off thus; Guy Stakes ( Warwick.)-5 to 4on
InenbasatDelight (taken)— 6to 5 apt Incubus—and 5
sia to 4 Delight about five expected to start.—
ST. Lama —ll to I art Marcus (taken freely)--0 to 1
apt The Sadler-9 to I agat Liverpool (taken)-10 to 1
apt Chorister-11 to 1 apt Creole—l 2 to I apt Citeassian
—l4 to 1 apt Sir John (taken)-16 to 1 apt Brother to
Terrace (taken)-25 to 1 apt Rubini-20 to I apt Rid.
dksworth-25 to 1 apt Delight (taken)—Z3 to 1 against
Colwick (taken)-35 to 1 apt Incubus-35 to 1 apt Lady
Rlizabeth-30 to I apt Joan of Are-40 to I apt Bras de
Far (taken)-1500 to 25 apt ninon (taken)-000 to 4CO
on Delight apt Joan of Arc (taken) —3OO to 200 on Rubinl
apt Joan of Arc (taken.)
E 011.411 RACES.—The meeting commences this
day—a notice was sent to Tattersall's, announcing that the
clerk of the course bad been commanded to prepare a stand
fur his Malesty.
The Cygnet brings an account of several daring
attempts to set fire to the city of Kingoon, in Jamaica; in
consequence of which the Mayor had issued a proclamation
offering a reward of 1,0001. to any one who would give in.
formation which might lead to the detection and conviction
of the incendiaries. The small pox was raging to an
alarming extent at Jamaica, and great mortality had pre.
veiled in consequence.
REFORM BEACONS.—These in the Highlands
of Scotland are taking place of the ancient fiery cross. A
number of individuals resident in the vicinity of Ben Lawyers,
desirous of testifying their approbation of the proposed mea-
sures of reform, and in anticipation of a favourable result,
have resolved on erecting a bonfire on the summit of that
lofty mountain, which, among various combusibles, will
I consist of a whole barrel of tar.

We learn from Horsham, that the atrocious
culprit. John Holloway, horrified by the recollection of his
own itaquitles, is now in a state of raving madues.
Letters front Cairo, of the 28th of May, state,
that a great expedition was in preparation there, supposed to
be destined against St. John of Acre.
Emigration continues very great from Rotter-
dam for the United Staten of Amities; within the 1,,t
month between 400 and 500 persons, principally Herniae',
have

The best possible health continues in Stang-ate
Creek, from whence many vessels have ea led.
Mr. Mason, the new lessee of the King's Thea-
tre, we understand, appointed Janes A. Wade, K.q.
the Musical Director.

Early on !nit Sattirda:.• morning, an incendiary
fire wa. discovered on the premises of Mr. Bellingham, at
Gardrier.s.reet, Lewes, when a large barn, tilled with bar.
ley, tw luAges, a pig. and a chickm•house together with
the p matey, wi h other pmpaty, to a considerable amount,
tell a sacrifice.

A i the Traveller Birmingham Coach was pro-
ceeding on its j .urney from Bristol to Iliratinahm on Sa.
tanlay laud, the b.ick gave way t.nd precipitated three of
the passengers, two gentlenie t and a lady, to the ground ;
one of the genii:men, about :10 year. of axe. died in a few
hunts after the accident. Tue inner was injured, hut he
1111 A able to ;matte his journey ; lady now litl in a
danArrous mate at the inn at Whitntin•ter.

I lobart Town papers to the 20th of April hare
id.o been received. Mr. ll•almati, the celebrated blind
itraveller, who had been staying there for some time, sailed
on the 19th April, on board the lied !tura, tut Sjdney.
Pri 411 RUSTS. A co. 28.—The iiiiiux of company
yesterday was prodigious. Abut thirteen hundred persons
came down by the stcani-raekera • the Magnet tisd 31co on
hoard, including the Lord and Lady 3lNyotess and a party.
The soh' quantity of stone t inploved in the Struc-
ture of London-bridge is stated to have bean 120,009 tons.

It is said to be in contempiation of Go. veroment
to take all turnpike truces in the kingdom under their own
bands.

Andrew Str4han, Eq. the King's !Hinter, who
died In New-stnet, last Tiluncisy, has, it is rtisorital, left
700,0001. in kende*, 3110 0001. ot stitch is I rased to tite
second son of Sir J'An l'Aul, the banker, who is to take
Mr. Strohm'. name.

On Sunday afternoon, a fatal accident occurred
oat the river, off Padgett. Five persons in a:pleasure-
boat, were resuming from Gras.:Rend to
whan they ateeso eftd a brisk gale of wind, and before they
had that M use the sail, which was made fast, the boat was
Yaws scent on one side, and the whole patty immersed in
the IMINIMIN. They clan for nearly two minutes to the mast,
bet belbee any bola remelted them, their frail book seat
down with throe of the party still clinging to the mast.,
Their MIDIS lit Mr. Isaac Fader, 36, foreman to Mr. Gut.l
Um, the bon brander, Lower tilladwtll; itlr. John
jablor, eslitnaker, and Mr. Craig, a tuarket-gardener, at
Charlton. .

LITERATURE.
FRAZM-7117-tUAZINE.

Often do we differ with this Magazine on its politics;
sometimes hesitate in admitting its dicta u sound in literary
tote; but Dever can we attribute to it tameness, common.
place, or want of originality s on the contrary, we consider
it to be about the first, for its literary merit, of its order of
publication. Many extracts in this number are excellent.
" The Political &ate of Europe " stirs up many serious re-
flections, if we cannot always accord with all it states. The
critique on the " Novels of the Season" is a smart speci.
men of flagellation, which will not be soon forgotten by
some of the authors alluded to. Indeed it is, on sevetal oc-
casions, we think, too severe for the offence. We cannot
enumerate all the striking articles, but we shall say a word
or two with reference to one ; that on the plagiarisms or
imitations of Thomas 3loore. We confess ourselves admi-
rers or that poet, and do not think the fterary merit of an
author much diminished by finding that he has gathered in
the course of his reading a few hints which his genius has
worked into his own web ; but we have long known that
Moore has not always owned the literary debts which he
incurred. In addition to the instances pointed out in this
number of Frazer, the following has occurred to us as an
instance of the kind. In his beautiful National Melodies
we find the following little song called—

NETS AND CAGES.
Come listen to my story,
While your needle's task you ply,
At what sing some maids will smile,
While some, perhaps, may sigh.
Tao' Love's the theme, and Wisdom blames,
Such lurid songs as ours,
Yet Truth sometimes, like Eastern daines,
Can sp:ak her thoughts by towers.
Young Chloe, h:nt on catching Loves,
Such nets had leaned to frame,
That none in all our vales and groves
E'er caught so much small game.
While gen.le Sue, less given to roam,
When Chloe's nets were taking •
These flights of birds, sat still at horn.,
One small neat love-age making.
Much Chloe laugh's! at Susan's task,
But mark how things wtnt on;
These light-caught lov.ni, 'ere you could ask
Their name and age,. were gone, 1
So weak poor Cilia:4 nets were wove,
That tho' she charm'] into them
New game each hour, the youngest Love
Was able to break through them.
Meanwhile ytung Sue, whose cage was wrought
Of bars too strong to sever,
One Love with golden pinions caught,
And cited him there for ever.
Instructing thereby all coquets,
Whate'er their looks of ages,
That though 'Us pleasant weaving nets,
'Tie wiser to make cars.
Thus, maidens, thus do I beguile •
The task your fingers ply ;
May all who hear, like Susan, smile,
Ah ! not like aloe, sigh.

Can any one doubt that the above originated in the fol-
lowing old French song; and if the idea be borrowed,
should it not be acknowledged ? It is but fair to admi:,
that the English version is by far the best.
DEUX Bergeres, pour faire usage
Dc l'amusement des beaux joun,
Alloient chimer dans he bongo
Les oiseaux qu'on appelle Amours.
Doris, dune course rapitle
Osa, sans crainte, en approcher ;
Met d'un pas kit et timide.
DAM tin bunion fat se cache[.

Da filets l'uoe etsvironni
Vostok enlever tout remain •
L'autre dans los relax plus bornit
N'avoit qu' lane cage 11a amine.
aspris de 00, &Tyres
Tout le peuple sill repaid's,
Vola sur les branches legato
Du ploy qu'on avolt tendu.
Donis en sit approebor
Aucun d'cuz ne as hazards
Dans as cage. Egli, plus habae.
En prit un seal et Is garda.
ROTHSAY CASTLE STEAM - PAC K ET.

The Rothsay Castle was well known on the
Clyde for many years, where she voyaged between
Glasgow and Greenock and the Isle of Bute, at
the mouth of the river, an easy and safe navigation
for which she was constructed, and not for coast-
ing voyages. She was purchased at a low price,
and employed in conveying passengers between
Liverpool and Beaumaris. We believe that the
vessel had rota very good reputation in Liverpool,
and that it was owing to a doubt of her sea wor-
thiness that the proportion of Liverpool pecyle
to strangers on board when the catastrophe occur-
red was so small. She had, however, been re-
cently repaired at a considerable expense, end the
persons by whom the repairs were made have te,i-
tified their belief that they had made her stronger
than she was when first built. This may be true,
land yet the vessel may have been unfit for coast-
ing voyages, as she was built for a river navigation.
She was commanded by Lieutenant Atkinson,
gentleman having the reputation of being a good
seaman, but whose obstinacy on this occasion
seems to have contributed to the loss of the
vessel.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE ROTHSAT,
From the .11tmelas!er Times.
the afflicting details we are enabled to add
the following statement by Mr. Whittaker, of Bury,
who escaped the calamity u hich betel so many of
his friends:

Mr. Whittaker stntcs,th;it a great number of the
passengers were on board by ten o'clock in the
forenoon, the hour at which the vessel was atlvei-
t:sed to sail, but they were detained till 11 o'clock,
in order to get a carriage on baud belonging toMr.
Foster of London, who was a passenger. Mr.
ferry, a steward of the Earl of Derby, a ho, with
the whole of his family and a female servant were
also passengers, complained of the delay to the
Captain, and threatened to publish the circum-
stance in the newspapers. To this the captain made
no reply. In obedience at length to the C 0111111111146
of the captain, the men attempted to raise the an-
chor, but being unable to do so a passenger assisted
them, the captain se eariug at his men all the whiie.
Nothing to create any Marna transpired till they
neared the Floating Lights, when the spray began
to sp/aFh over the vessel. Many of the passengers
became sick and ill, and the countenances of others
gloomy, as if they anticipated some imminent dan-
ger. Mr. Terry, in particular, pressed his anx-
iety and tears fur their safety, occasiAted by the
violent pitching and robing of the vessel, and the
roughness of the sea. The engine was working
Iwithout the vessel making any sensible progress.
The captain left the deck and rent down to dinner •
about two o'clock, and, notwithstanding the perilous
state of the vessel, and the earnest complaints and
remonstrances of the now alarmed passengers re.
mined below more than two hours ; and whala be.
at length came upon the deck, be appeared to have