The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-29
WORDSWORTH, TIE POET

Has just been placed on the pension list. lie 10
get 1900 Ii is said that Peels letter communicating
this fact to him. IS quite model OF beautiful ran
guage and delicate feeling The only drawback Is
that the poet really does not any pension. For
the last 80 years he his been Distributor oil stamps Tor
the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, at
an annual salary Of about $1,000 He has been a
saving man, and is worth money He resigned his
place lately, and his son has got IT,
ROBERT soUrHEY
Continues to reside at Kiswick, with his wife (late
Caroline Bowles,) as his nurse lately heard from
her. that his odny health is excellent. HIS mind is
completely broken up and he may be said to pegeiae
rather than lire He is now nearly 10.
CHARLES DICKENS.
On tie 18Th October appeared,Chares Dickenss
american Notes for English circulation !" two vo-
lumes, price one guinea. Ii was delayed until that
day to prevent copy getting over to America by the
Halifax and Boston steamer OF tat date. The Great
Western, however, which sailed on the ed, would
take out copies
The first edition of $500 went off in two days
People were anxious TO know what Dickens would
say OF America, when he had been treated very
wen. The work is consdered-a failure.
Boz writes smartly, but he has scarcely told us
anything about the United States that did not
know before His book is amusing--even from the
extraordinary egotsm that runs through it | think
it out-I'roopes Trollope in many particulars. BY
the way in Mrs rs visit to Italy just out she makes
sort of anende by praising Hiram Powers the scup
tor-Greenough-an Edward Everett.
The American Notes" offered pretty specimen
of book-makDg. Not only is there the spinning of
sentences which the pennya-ner usually adopts (be-
ing paid by quahtiiy,) but have rivulet of type
running through br ad meadow of margin. The
whole contents without one line omitted, might have
been got into hali-crown volume. Will the reprint
Gil half number Of the .Ntic World?
The best part is the account of the back slums Of
New York, and of low Niger life. They remind
of the force Of fidelity of lowf descriptions in
Pickwick, Nickleby, and Master Humphrey,
The party most quzZsd are those in which, follow
ing Harry kembe, he plains Of hotel discomforts.
The remark Of an able critic is Dickens and Lord
Morpeth were in America at the same time, and
venture to say that the noble Lord, the heir of all
the Towards, felt less annoyance at hotel inconve-
nences than the ex-reporter"
Boz brings out his new work Of English life and
manners Immediately. No. l appears on New
Years day. He is now at Bath, on visit to Walter
Savage Lander.
LIrERA URE.
J. b. Macauleys Lays of Ancient Rome" viii
appear next week. J b. Fraser has a new Persian
romance in the press, called Alice Neemzoo
The ANIMALS very Indifferent. The Keepsake
is filled with naEby-pamhy tales and dull poetry, and
indifferent lates, Its best is portrait of the Ouch
ess OF Nemours, cousin TO Queen Victoria. The
Book OF Beauty has only really handsome face,
and that Is OF lady with braids of pearls in her dark
hair The fronIsplece is the Queen and her chill
dren, which makes Victoria a tall dashing dark
haired woman! The Drawing Room Scrap Book,
alter having L. +. L. and Mary Hewitt TO edit it, is
now done by Mr.. Ellis, author of the humbug volumes
called the Women and the Daughters of England.
lis plates, without an exception old engrayings,
many OF them used 50 often that the impressions
weak and faint. The best are the portraits Of the
late Duke OF Orleans and his wife. The Juvenile
Scrap Book also edited by Mrs. Ellis, is one OF the
same kinda hash of old matter. The Furget-me-
Not and friendships Offering are the best ANNALS
Tor this season.
THEATRiCALS
The revival Of King Joha, at Drury Lane and the
success of Mrs. Alfred aw and Miss a. kemble in
an English version Of Chmarosa's opera of II .Nar
monio Seq eto Ga copy OF English Claades inc Mar
rdSe,) are nearly all worth alluding to this week.
Nlacreadys King John was splendid, and the getting
up the peace gorgeoussOme say cost two thousand
pounds.
Mrs. Shaw and the Misses Kemble and Rainsforth
were supported, in the opera, by Signor Giubelei,
and Messrs Letter and Harrison. Mrs. Shaw say
the critics, did FdalmG better than Miss kembe did
carolina. or the gentlemen, LETTER off best
Richard the Third, as written by Shakespeare will
Dc acted at one OF the great theatres.
Malberg IS in England giving provincial concerts
and getting cash and laurels wherever he goes
The Democratic Creed.--A Revenue Tariff; No
Debt; Separation from Banks; Economy; Retrench-
ment; and strict adherence to the Constitution
Aaltmne Republican
The weather at Cincinnati on the 2lst inst, was
very cold, and had frozen up the canal to pre-
vent boats itom running. The thermometer on the
2lst, was down to l6o. Business was consequently