Star.
London, England, 1830-09-06 00:00:00

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

The favourable opinion which we thought it our duty to express
of the New Series of The Latie'r Magazine is fully confirmed by
the September number, which we have just perused. A more judi-
ciously combined Miscellany does not, in our judgment, issue from
the periodical press of this country. In looking for faults, however,
we have found one: the proprietors have disavowed the political te-
nets of that department of the Magazine called the " Monthly
Chronicle," and we think they might, with propriety, have extended
their disavowal to the review of the poetical volume called " The
Garland," in which we think there is a most unjustifiable attack on
the Italian and Spanish refugee', whom the author kindly designates
" Italian bandits and Spanish felons." We are not surprised that
such • coarse libeller should not do justice to the elegant volume of
true poetry which he had attempted to review. The other articles
of the review are extremely amusing, and we shall make a selection
lof an interesting anecdote from the " Literary Recollections" of the
Rev. Richard Warner:—

" Once, and only once (for her opportunities of recreation were but
few,) I remember to have seen at a fete chanspeere a beautifid young
female, the real incidents of whose singular story were as far removed
from the occurrences of every-day life, as the adventures of the heroine
in any of the less extravagant novels of modern days. Her name was
Nancy Here. She resided in Lymington; mingling, occasionally, in
private parties ; but very rarely appeared in any of an indhai-
minate kind. Her home was with a Mr. and Mrs. Hackman, who lived
In the best house in the town, and had adopted Miss Here as
their daughter. nnder the following circumstances : Mr. Hackman, an
eccentric, lively, and improvident character, had originally, as I have
understood, been bred to, and followed the profession of, the law ; but
before long, I recollect him, having married a widow lady, with a con-
siderable life estate, had settled as an independent gentleman at Ly.
mington. No contrast could be more marked than the difference in
the character and habits of the husband and wife : he, hospitable, con-
vivial, full of frolic and fun, a keen sportsman, and a bon viva* —.
she, an hypochondriecal valetudinarian, shunning society, confining
herself in agreat measure to her home, and rarely extending ber ex-
cursions beyond the limits of the garden, which lay at the back of
her residence. I know not, for a certainty, whether this dissimilarity
of character weakened the conjugal affection of the parties, or disturbed
their domestic tranquillity. The probability, however, is, that Mr. and
Mrs. Hackman jogged on as gaily as the generality of husbands and
wives are accustomed to do ; since he was infinitely good-humoured
and complying, and she indulged in every wish, and uncontradieted in
every whim. Her garden, in which alone she found particular plea.
sure, stood in need, as is usual in the spring season, of an active weeder;
and John the footman was despatched to the poor-house, to select a
little pauper-girl, qualified for the performance of this necessary la-
bour. He executed his commission in a trice; brought back a dimi-
nutive female of eight or nine years of age; pointed out the humble
task in which she was to employ herself, and left her to her work. The
child, alone amid the flowers, began to warble her native wood.notea
wild,' in tones of more than common sweetness. Mrs. Hackman's

chaniber.window had been thrown up; she heard the little weeder's
solitary song ; was struck with the rich melody of her voice and in.
quired from whom it proceeded ? Nancy Bere, from the poor-horse
was the answer. By 3lrs. Hackman's order, the songstress was imme-
diately brought to the lady's apartment, who became so pleased, at
this first interview, with her naivete, intelligence, and apparently
amiable disposition, that she determined to remove the warbling Nancy
from the workhouse, and attach her to her own kitchen establishment.
The little maiden, however, was too good and attractive to be permitted
to remain long in the subordinate condition of scullion's deputy. Mrs.
Hackman soon preferred her to the office of lady's maid •
to qualify her the better for this attendance on her person, had hoer
carefully instructed in all the elementary branches of education. The Intl.
mate intercourse that now subsisted between the patroness and her
protegee quickly ripened into the warmest affection on the one part,
and the most grateful attachment on the other. Nancy Bere was at-
tractively:lovely ; and still more irresistible, from an uncommon sweet.
ness of temper, and gentleness of disposition, and feminine softness of
character; and Mrs. Hackman, whose regard for her daily increased,
proposed, at length, to her complying husband, that they should adopt
the pauper orphan as their own daughter. From the moment of the
execution of this plan, every possible attention was paid to the edu-
cation of Miss Bere ; and I presume, with the best success, as I have
always understood that she became a highly-accomplished young lady.
Her humility and modesty, however, never forsook her ; and her ex-
altation in Mr. Hackman's family seemed only to strengthen her grati-
tude to her partial and generous benefactress. It could not be thought
that such a flower' as the adopted beauty
6 Was born to blush unsean,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air ;

or that, however retired her life might be, Miss Bete would re.
main long the beloved protegee of Mr. and Mrs Hackman, with.
out being remarked, admitted, and solicited to change het name. Very
shortly, indeed, after her assuming this character, such an event oe.
curved ; though without, at that time, producing any propitious result.
A clergyman of respectable appearance, bad taken lodginp in Lyming-
ton for the purposes of autumnal bathing, and amusing himself with a
little waidge.shooting. The hospitable Mr. Hackman, ever attracted
towards a bmther.sportsman, by a sort of magnetic influence called
upon the stranger, shot with him, and invited him to his house. The
invitations were repeated, and accepted, as often as the shooting-days
recurred; nor had many taken place are their natural effect on a young,
unmarried clerk was produced. He became deeply enamoured of Miss
Bere, and offered •her his hand. She, for aught I know, might have
been nothing loath' to change the condition of a recluse foe the more
active character of a clergyman's wife; but as the gentleman had no
possession save his living, and as Mr. Hackman could not out of *life.
estate, supply Miss Bere with a fortune, it was judged prudent, under
these pecuniary disabilities, that she should decline the honour of the
alliance. A year elapsed without the parties having met; and it was
generally imagined that Lethe had kindly administered an obli-
vious potion to both; and, with the aid of absence, had obliterated
from their minds the remembrance of each other. But such was
not the case. At the ensuing partridge season, the gentleman returned
to Lymington; and, with the title of ' very reverend' prefixed to his
name (for he had obtained a deanery In the interval,) once more repeated
his solicitations and his offers. These (as there was no obstacle to the
marriage) were accepted. The amiable pair were united, and lived for
years sincerely attached to each other—respected, esteemed, and beloved
by all around them. The death of the husband dissolved, at length,
the happy connexion. His lady survived her loss for some time; and
a few years ago, the little warbling pauper, Nancy Bere, of Lymington
workhouse, quitted this temporal being, the universally lamented widow
of the Right Rev. Thomas Thurloe, alatine Bishop of Durham."

Lord Marcus Hill is expected to leave town very shortly,
on a diplomatic mission to the Continent. The Hague and
St. Petersburgh are both named as his Lordship's places of
destination.

Yesterday afternoon the Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Burg-
hersh left town, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness
of Salisbury, at Hatfield House.
The Cabinet messengers were in full activity yesterday in
exchanging despatches between the several Cabinet Mi
maters.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Saturday last, at Derry-
grad) Church, by the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Water-
ford and Lismore, Matthew Villiers Sankey, Esq. of Coolmore, in the
county of Tipperary, to Anne, second daughter of the late Samuel
Perry, Esq. of Woodrooffe, and niece to the Earl of Charleville and
Lord Dunally. The company, consisting of about twenty personages
of distinction, partook of a splendid dejeuM at Woodrooffe House.
A Paris Paper states, that the hunting expenses of the
ex.King'of France, including the salaries of the Master of the Hounds,
and the huntsmen, grooms, &c. were 695,957 francs per annum. Thus,
during the reign of Charles X. which lasted five years, the country paid
3,500,000 francs (140,00014 merely for the pleasures of the chase.
ELECTION WIT.—On the conclusion of the Borough
contest for Stamford, an adult public immersion of several unbaptised
Anabaptists took plate in the River. On every plunge the populace, in
the interest of the losing but popular candidate, exclaimed, "A plumper
for Tennyson !"

Some sensation has been produced at Leeds, and on the
route of the troops, by the sudden departure, on Thursday, of a detach-
ment of the 10th Royal Hussars from the Leeds barracks for Burnley,
in Lancashire. We do not find in the Lancashire newspapers any cir.
cumstanca to account for the assembling of troops in that county, nor
does our private information throw any light on the subject.—Lserls
Mercury.

FIT;ZEAL OF THOMAS LETT, ESQ.—The funeral of
this worthy Magistrate, and highly-respectable gentleman, took place
on Saturday. At half-past twelve o'clock the procession left the house
of the deceased, in the Commercial-road, Lambeth, in the following
order :-..liearse and six hones, followed by five mourning coaches and
four, with the relatives of the deceased, and twelve carriages sod pair.
At St. John's Church, Waterloo-road, the cavalcade was met by the
boys and girls of the Charity Schools, and a numerous assemblage of
the friends of the deceased. In this manner the procession moved down
the Waterloo-mad, through Oakley-street, to St. Mary's Lambeth,
where the body was interred in the family vault.
NAVAL r110?dOTIONS.-111 looking at the late promo-
dons we see the names of Thomas Best,W.Cuppage, and C. Drinkwater,
who have barely served more than two pies as commanders promoted
over the beads of men, one of whom Individually has seen more service
is ors month than the above three young gentlemen put together have
seen since they entered his Majesty's service; and, after so much as
we have beard of his Majesty's sense of justice and determination
to merit and long inning', let us ask how consent was given
to rag:. promotions over the heeds of men who fought the battles of
their country, and wen wounded in its defence, before these comparative
iboys sowed his Malsoty's gawks P