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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

The following summary of the character of this eminent
man is from his life by Maxwell, and is very succinct and
masterly :—" One duty yet remains to be discharged ; and
the professional character of him whose military command,
commencing at Assaye, and concluding at Waterloo, embra-
cing such opposite services and scenes, shall be briefly and
impartially considered.
"The time, however, has yet to come when that character
shall be correctly estimated. When party prejudices have
died away—petty jealousies subsided—the grave received its
honoured tenant—and in Ossian's words, ' the gray stone
rests upon the chief',—then, and not till then, will public
opinion be dispassionately exercised, and justice awarded to
the greatest man whom England has produced.
" In a double view Wellington's character is to be examined;
for two epochs of a long life were devoted, and almost ex-
clusively, to very opposite pursuits—war and politics. The
history of one epoch we have completed ; and as the memoirs
of the second are reserved for a future duty, we will simply
content ourselves with observing, that as a politician, many
have been abler, but none honester than the Duke of Wel-
lington.
" The intrinsic value of a soldier's character must not be
tested by merely what he has done, but by the circumstances
under which his exploits have been achieved. What was the
opening of Wellington's Peninsular career? He debarked
with an army, not 10,000 strong, to operate against an able
General, commanding five and twenty thousand disposable
soldiers, and at a period immediately subsequent to disas-
trous campaigns in which the qualities of British soldiers had
been unjustly depreciated, while those of their opponents ac-
quired, by admirable discipline and consequent success, a re-
putation amounting to invincibility.
" That delusion Wellington's first victories dispelled. Was
he then cordially supported by his allies, and liberally sus-
hied by his friends ? No : abroad and at home, he was
ssed by the suspicions of one party, and paralysed by the
m conduct of the other; and, while an object of deadly
jealousy to the imbeciles with whom he was obliged to act,
whose errors he was forced to remedy, whose madness he
was expected to control, the keenest shaft reached him from
that country to which he should have looked confidently for
support; and in England, while goaded out of doors by the
rabid outpourings of unwashed demagogues, within the walls
of St. Stephen's he was exposed to the baser attacks of dis-
honest statesmen, who, to attain an uuworthy end, would
have blasted the hopes of Britain, and left Europe at the
mercy of a man whose ambition the extent of a world could
not satisfy.

" As a great commander, the amount of Wellington's re-
putation depends upon a simple question :—Was he the first
or second of his age ;
" That he was less vast in his designs, less daring in exe-
cution, neither so rapid nor so original a commander as Na-
poleon, must be admitted, and being later in the field of
glory, it is to be presumed that he learned something of the
art from that greatest of all masters ; yet something besides
the difference of genius must be allowed for the difference of
situation ; Napoleon was never, even in his first campaign or
Italy, so harassed by the French, as Wellington was by the

VARIETIES

A SPANISH PROVERB.—Benefits are written on sand; in-
juries are engraved on steel.

THE WHIGS AND TILE NEW POOR LAW.-1 well re-
member how I was laughed at, when, some six or seven years
ago, I forewarned the whigs " that the New Poor Law
would be their ruin." They have, since then, been driven
from office by a majority of ONE. That vote was Walter's,
who was returned for Nottingham, because of his steady and
unflinching opposition to the new poor law. On that point,
there can be "no mistake." And as surely as the whigs
were driven from office by the power of the Anti-New Poor
Law principle, so will the Dictator himself, strong as he
fancies that he is, so will he fall, being overcome by the
same power. May the time never arrive when any man or
any party shall be able to triumph over the British consti-
t papers. •
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PORTRAIT OF FEARGOS O'CONNOR, BY ONE WHO
KNOWS HlNt.—The designing demagogue will soon make
himself apparent. Ile generally talks loudly about himself.
He is his own trumpeter ; a chronicler of his own patriotism.
Before the crowd he plays the sycophant ; flatters their pre-
judices—and, with a mouthful of vague generalities, endea-
vours to win their cheers. He praises men, in the hope that
they may be pliable enough to worship at his shrine, and
when he finds they are not made of blending material, he
whispers against them, or he openly assails them. He lies
without remorse. He would sacrifice father or uncle to
assist his purpose. Like the glass man, he strives to
make the people believe that everybody is about to tumble
up against him and break him. He is an inventor of plots
against his own sacred authority ; a sort of Louis Phillippe,
who gets up " assassinations " in order to invest himself
with the air of a martyr. A man who talks at random ; a
seer, or political prophet, who discovers things that never
happen. One who takes credit before the public for deeds
of liberality, and wonders " why othersdo not clothe same,"
and in private violates his word and honour to the parties
the world believes him to have served. A maker of pro-
mises by wholesale. A fellow big with importance, a fair
and palpable mixture of knavery and folly.—Vide Henry
Vincent's Speech on the late Chartist Conference.

THE BRINGS.—The present partners of the house of
Baring Brothers, are Thomas Baring, the youngest son of
Lord Ashburton ; Francis Baring (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer) ; Captain Mildinay, a baronet of small fortune,
Lord Ashburton 's son-in-law ; and Joshua Bates, a Yankee,
from Boston, whose beginning was as super-cargo of a mer-
chant vessel. The first of the Barings that came into notice
was the father of the present Alexander Baring, now Lord
Ashburton. He was the son of a German toy shop-keeper,
in Exeter, in England. The foundation of Baring's fortune,
was made as contractor to the British government in their
vain attempt to hold America in chains, and which tacked
two hundred millions to the national debt in England. The
Barings managed to keep on terms with both belligerents.
The present lord was then the traveller of the house, and

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TUESDAY, JULY 12.—Wind W.N.W. moderate

AuntyEn.—Evergreen, from St. John, N.H,—Agenora, Giffney,
from Mobile—Eli Whitney, Harding, from Savannah—Salvatore,
Crace, from Genoa—and Sir Thomas Mansell, from Guernsey.

Lame, from Sydney, at Lima
Apparition, Machun, hence at Laguira
Helen, Mullin, hence at Vera Cruz
Mary, Scott, sailed from Demerara for this port Ist June
Pakenham, Warren, sailed from Vera Cruz for Laguna 21st May
Zante, Henry, sailed from Tarragona for Tampico 2nd June
Prince Albert, Scott, from St. Petersburg for this port, off Wick

WEDNESDAY, JeLY 13.—Wind S.W. moderate

Aaviveo.—Mary, Hawkins, from Demerara- Frances de Pan,
Forbes, from :Mobile—Shenandoah, West, from Philadelphia—
Cosmo, Outerbridge, from New York—Cruickston Castle, M'Mil-
lan, from Savannah—John Brooks, Lockhart, and Elizabeth.
Robinson, from Lagulra—Camerton, Coxon, from Rio de la Bache
—Clio, Masson, and Minerva, Barker, from Alexandria—Alchy-
mist, Scollay, from Naples—Anna, , and Onrust, Huisman,
from Nantz—Egedius, , Ostend—Gustav, , from Wol-
gast.

Superb, Houston, hence at Jamaica
Ringdove, Candlish, hence at Trinidad
Martha, Rodgers, and Liverpool Packet, Macao, hence at Trieste
Thorp, Pocklington, hence at Bremen
Adler, Vanselow, hence at Danzic
Catharina, Roberts, hence at Hamburg
Grace & Jane, Finlay, hence at Pillan
Dankbarr, Classen, hence off ditto
Olga, Rontledgo ; Isabella, Baird, and Lady Scott, M`Ferran,
hence at St. Petersbnrg
Theodor, Reintrock ; Eleonore, Hewley ; Harry, Klein, and
Carl, Wurtenbnrg, hence at Swinemunde
Jonge Hendrick, Plukker, hence at the Texel
Maria, Krohn, hence hence at Wolgast
Jane May, May, hence for Naples, at St. Mawe's
Queen of the Ocean, from Mobile to this port, was spbken gth
June, in lat. 24, long. 84
Greenock, Fleck, from Mobile for Quebec, was spoken 15th ult.
in lat. 35, long. 71
Avon, hence for St. John, N.B. was spoken 30th June, in iat. 50,
long. 10

THURSDAY, JULY 14.—Wind W.S.W. moderate

AftlivEn.—Georgiana, Toole, and Edward Perkins, Ingersoll,
from New Orleans—Fortitude, Libly, from Mobile—Emerald,
Laughton, from St. John, N.B.—Lowther, Hunter, from Palermo
—David, Ilberdina. from Bayone—lsabella Dick, Walker, from
Stettin—Lydia, Frances, from Jersey—and Rigby, Rigby, from
Dublin.