smothered groans from the Bastiles, the galleys, the chains and the race. The whole extent of his power was to endeavour to amuse, and dungeons, of the atrociously-restored despotism of the mother- he cared nothing about the liberty of the human race. Some timid reformers were afraid of the extent of the suffrage; but look to the country! The official statement of the Quarter's Revenue is calculated to been more limited-had it been left to a few of the Professors, instead of University of Glasgow, where there was universal suffrage; and had it confirm the expectations of those who relied on an augmentation of the this popular method, these great men would never have been chosen. Treasury receipt, in consequence of the partial repeal of some of our (Applause).—Mr. DOUGLAS, in his speech, gave the apostate poets a wellimpolitic Taxes. The improvement is not relative-that is to say, merited dressing. In proposing the health of the Scottish Laureate of the revenue has not merely been reduced by less than the amount Liberty, the Author of the Pleasures of Hope,"-" how unlike (he exyielded by the imposts repealed:-it is absolute; there is a larger claimed) some artificial and sycophantic verse-mongers and doggrel payment to Government from lowered taxes. The Minister was story-tellers, who instinctively sing the praises of tyranny, and fatten on mistaken therefore in his calculation of the loss of income to arise the solid comforts of subserviency-(much laughter) who kiss the from his last year's repeals; and it is now evident, that he might, miry feet of the golden-headed image of power-who turn away from years ago, have done at once all that he has taken years to do gra-stream of the golden-sanded Pactolus! This sordid school of poetry (he Helicon, and in the prone posture of inferior natures, lap the muddy dually or rather, a great deal more. If there are ten separate added) may be puffed into a temporary fashion, which soon passes away; taxes, each so absurdly heavy as to defeat the merely financial object, like some African mountain torrent, showy, noisy, and shallow, it as well as to oppress the subject, the sooner they are all reduced the speedily sinks into the sand, and is lost." better; it does not need ten years to modify them. The lowering of one excessive duty, with an expectation of either benefiting, or at least of not injuring the revenue, does not interfere in the slightest degree with the reduction of another of a similar kind. There is no reason why we should not have cheap coffee and cheap wines at the same time-why smuggling in spirits and in tobacco should not be annihilated at one blow. It may be said, that the late reductions were so many distinct experiments, which it would have been impradent to hazard all at once. Not so, however, after the striking sucsess of Mr. ROBINSON's first attempts on the sound principle. All that he has done since, has been to extend the operation of an admitted rule, the safety of which was proved by his own immediate experience. The increased productiveness of the revenue is most rentarkable in the Excise; a fact which furnishes further proof of the extreme ignorance with which taxation upon commodities was screwed up, by PITT, ROSE, and VANSITTART, to an extent as baneful to the revenue itself as to the comfort and prosperity of the people.

It is surely not too late in the Session for the Finance Minister, with this opportune evidence of the practical results of the relaxation of the turing screw, to apply the same wholesome relief to other crying fiscal enormities, which he has hitherto left untouched. There are the duties on tea, tobacco, sugar, &c. (not forgetting the newspaper taxes) which impoverish both the People and the Exchequer, for the sole benefit of the Smuggler. More than all, however, there is the hideous BREAD-TAX, to the tremendous consequences of which public attention begins to be again turned. We are delighted to see the excellent Resolutions of the Common Council on the subject, and to observe that meetings are about to be held in the principal places in the Kingdom for the same purpose. If the Farmers themselves, who are deeply interested in the repeal of the Corn Laws, would express similar opinions, the Landlords must give way, and surrender their real or supposed advantage (for it is by no means certain) for the admitted good of all the other classes of the community.

We are sorry to state, the latest intelligence from Demerara gives a rumour of a great public defaulter in that colony. We have received his name, and the public situation he held at Georgetown, but we forbear giving the particulars until they are confirmed by further arrivals.

Globe and Traveller.

A Meeting took place in the Vestry-room of Spitalfields Church on Wednesday, to take into consideration the Claims of the Roman Catholies, and to prepare a Petition against them. The intentions of the Intolerants were defeated, and the assembly broke up without coming to any Resolution.

E ECTION OF MR. BROUGHAM AS LORD RECTOR OF THE GLASGOW

DINNER TO MR. Brougham.—On Tuesday, a public dinner was given at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, to celebrate the Election of Mr. Brougham to the Office of Lord Rector of the Glasgow University. It was on a scale of magnitude never surpassed in that city; and after dinner, between 8 and 900 persons contrived to squeeze themselves into the grand room, in order to catch some of the good things that they knew would fall from the Orator's table, and they were not disappointed: the Chairman, Mr. COCKBURN (the celebrated Scotch Advocate) made an admirable speech, in the course of which he pointed out the high and various merits of Mr. Brougham, the history of whose mental progress, he said, "exhibited one of the noblest and most cheering spectacles which a free country could present in her proudest annals-the spectacle of a young man going forth into public life, supported by his principles and talents alone, and triumphing in their independent success. So advancing, too, without the advantages of a great private fortune, or hereditary issues, but merely by innate worth-by a sagacious selection of his objects, and the abilities with which he pursued and enforced them, ac quiring in this pure and gratifying way an influence over his countrymen, greater, far greater, than was ever obtained on any previous occasion, merely by the single aid of the intellectual resources of a single man."When the applause which followed this speech had subsided, Mr. BROUGHAM returned thanks, in an address embracing a variety of topics, which were dwelt upon and illustrated in his happiest manner. He noticed with infinite' spirit and eloquence the Mock Trial of the late bohappy Queen-the disastrous times of the late Ministers--the present imand tortured and insulted Ireland-the baffled Despot of Spain, the proved prospects for half-represented England, unrepresented Scotland, Tyrant and Scourge of Italy and Austria, and the accomplished Despot who filled the Calmuc throne, and he dilated with peculiar satisfaction upon the benefits which must arise to the people from the improved system of education.-The "Prince of Critics and of Men," Mr. JEFFREY, followed in a short but able speech, in which he paid some high compliments to Sir James Mackintosh as well as to Mr. Brougham.-Among others who spoke was Mr. GIBSON, of Craig, who alluded to Mr. Brough ham as having been pronounced the Leader of the Opposition by the unanimous voice of the nation.-[There was one observation that fell from this distinguished man, which, considering the glorious example afforded by North America, as well as by some of the ancient Republics, had better, we think, have been spared :-" A Whig (said Mr. B.) was not a Republican, because the consummation of all Republics was Military Despotism." We believe that the conduct of Kings in general, whether limitted or otherwise, is such as disposes men more and more to agree in the opinion uttered at this dinner by Mr. JOHN CUNNINGHAME, who maintained" that the United States ought to be held up to all other countries as a model how a well-ordered Government can be conducted."]

MONUMENT TO THE LATE MAJOR CARTWRIGHT.-The subscription from Sheffield towards Major Cartwright's Monument amounts at present to 621. 17s. which sum was paid into Ransom's on Thursday fast. Mr. Canning, of Foxcote, has also remitted 201. from that district of the

county of Warwick. It has been suggested that a plain bronze statue,
public respect to the memory of this excellent man.
placed in Burton-crescent, would be the most appropriate tribute of

There was a very fine performance yesterday on the Apollonicon by Mr. Purkis. The audience was the largest we remember-certainly as many as 600 persons were present.

UNIVERSITY-At the election of a Lord Rector for the University of Glasgow in November last, the votes were equally divided between Mr. Brougham and Sir Walter Scott. The decision therefore devolved upon the preceding Lord Rector, and in virtue of his office, Sir James Macinfosh, on the 4th inst. attended a meeting of the Comitia at Glasgow, when, after passing a high eulogy on the talents and conduct of Mr. SHERIDAN AND JOHN PALMER.-Palmer had been attempting to set up Brougham, he gave his casting vote in favour of that eminent statesman a rival theatre at the East end of the town. After various unsuccessful and advocate. A public dinner was subsequently given to Sir James, struggles to gain his point, he was struck with penitence, and returned at which, however, owing to indisposition, he could not attend ; and to serve under his old masters. Palmer was the original Joseph Surface.though he entered the room in the evening, he was obliged soon to “The return of Palmer (says Mr. Boaden, in his Memoirs of Kemble) was retire. The company, however, gave him "honour dae," for which his a subject of infinite importance, in a theatrical point of view, both to Son, in a very becoming manner, returned thanks,-and informed the himself and Sheridan. The meeting between these men of address was assembly, that the illness which afflicted his father had been acquired in therefore expected to produce something remarkable. Palmer made that country (India) to which some years ago he had been sent in a sort quite a scene of it. After bis profound bow, he approached the Author of honourable exile, because he was a man not formed to bow down and of the School for Scandal with an air of penitent humility; his head deworship the golden calf. (Reiterated cheers.)-During the evening, clined, the whites of his eyes turned upwards, his hands clasped together, several spirited speeches were delivered by the Chairman (Mr. Max- and his whole air exactly that of Joseph Surface before Sir Peter Teasle. well), Professor Mylne, Lord Glenorchy, Mr. Maclaren, and Mr. Dou-He began thus: My dear Mr. Sheridan, if you could but know what I glas. Mr. MACLAREN expressed his sorrow that the students were so divided between such men as Mr. Brougham and the Great Unknown, as they called him. (Applause.) What (he asked) had the friends of eivil and religious liberty to do with this Great Unknown? (Laughter). He never wrote a single line to ameliorate the condition of the human

feel at this moment-HERE-(laying one hand upon his heart)-Sheridan with inimitable readiness stopped him: Why, Jack, you forget I wrote it!-Palmer, in telling the story himself, added, that the Manager's wit cost him something; for, said he, ' I made him add three pounds per week to the salary I had before my desertion.""

ye corner house that is to be built.-Pray, my dear & very good friends,
think a little of this matter, & if you can make us happy by suiting all our
convenienees-we shall make his shop, as old Jacob Tonson's was for-
merly, ye rendezvous for the first people in England. I have a little sel-,
fishness in this request-I never go to coffee-houses, seldom to taverns,
& should constantly (if this scheme-takes place) be at Becket's at one at
noon, & 6 at night; as ye monkey us'd to be punctual in Piccadilly.
"When you left me on Saturday, whether I had exerted my spirits
too much, or gave too great a loose to my love of drinking with those I
like, I know not; but I was attack'd terribly with a fit of ye stone, & had
it all yesterday morning, until I was relieved from torture, to ye great
joy of my wife & family. I was 4 hours upon ye rack, and now as free
from pain as ever I was. I am weak wh my disorder; but I could eat
turtle, & laugh with you again to-day, as if nothing had ail'd me-'tis a
curs'd disorder, & that you may never have that curse, make yr peace
wth heav'n by an act of righteousness, & bestow that corner blessing (L
have mentioned) upon Becket & his family-this is ye pray'r & petition
"of yr

"affectionate

"and devoted

“ D. GARRICK.” "Mr. Becket had the corner blessing' conferred upon him. He removed into the house from another part of the Strand, and remained tenant to the Adelphi,' until he retired into Pall-mall."

CITY-A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, when the Report of the Committee appointed to watch the Equitable Loan Bill was ordered to be printed.-Mr. WAITHMAN made some remarks, in which he strongly and justly reprobated the proceedings of the House of Commons Committee on this Bill,-a Committee, it seems, consisting of 20 Members of the Honourable House, eleven of which are Directors of the Loan Company! Mr. W. said, that much mischief resulted from so many Members of the Legislature being personally interested in the various schemes afloat; and it seemed to him that the Representatives of the People had lost sight of everything but their own interests.-[Not Representatives of the People, Mr. Waithman; Representatives of Borough-Proprietors, the Treasury, Peers, &c. No friend to liberty should ever term such a body the Representatives of the People: it is a more pernicious untruth than that of calling certain Monarchs" most religious and gracious."]-Mr. W. added, that what had formerly fallen from him had been misrepresented: he was not an enemy to public Companies which were projected for useful public purposes, and had sufficient capital to carry their intentions into effect; but he considered them as nuisances when they were formed to do that which could be sufficiently well done by private industry and capital. He was aware that many persons of bigh character were connected with such Companies; but he believed that a great many of those individuals had been drawn in to lend the sanction of their names to projects which had been falsely represented to them as likely to be beneficial to the public. It was impossible to entertain a doubt that the projectors of many of the Companies were actuated by the most sordid and interested motives.-[No doubt; but are not single dealers so actuated also? Mr. W. seems to forget, that men have a right to unite for a lawful purpose, and that if single traders would supply the public with good articles at a fair price, such Companies could not stand against them. Traders in general do not, it is clear, believe that" honesty is the best policy;" and hence the a call for these Companies.]-At this Court, Mr. FAVELL proposed several Resolutions in favour of a free trade in town, on which to ground a Petition to Parliament for an alteration in the Corn Laws. He made various pertinent remarks on the present mistaken and mischievous system, in which he was joined by Messrs. RoUTH, THOMPSON, WOOD, OLDHAM, WAITHMAN, and SLADE; and the Resolutions were carried with only one opposing haud in the whole Court, that of Mr. S. DIXON. COLONIAL OPPRESSION.-Mr. Burnett, a colonist of some consequence at the Cape of Good Hope, has arrived in England, under a sentence of five years banishment from that colony, and is endeavouring to obtain redress from Ministers for the treatment to which he has been subjected. Having a suit at issue involving property to the amount of 60,000 dollars, in which Mr. Burnett was plaintiff, and one Robert Hart (manager of an estate belonging to the Governor, called Somerset farm) defendant, some occurrences took place which led him to impugn the grounds on which certain decisions to that Court were made. Mr. Burnett, therefore, addressed a memorial to the Governor, in which he charged two of the members of that Court with a violation of justice, in their capacity of Commissioners of Circuit. Mr. Burnett gave no publicity to this memorial; but merely forwarded it to the Governor with a view of obtaining redress in the only quarter where he could with propriety look for it. He was, however, found guilty, and subjected to the severe sentence

before-mentioned.-Times.

HONE'S "EVERY DAY BOOK."

Of all the cheap original publications (says the Globe and Traveller) with which the present day abounds, the Every Day Book is, to our taste, the most meritorious. It is difficult to describe the contents of the Every Day Book, without doing injustice to its comprehensiveness of subject. The ground-work is a history of every day in the year. Under the head of the daily date we find the derivation of the day's name, an account of the saint who patronizes it, the festivals or sports belonging to it, or to the season, a floral directory, &c. Then there is a chronology, including very delightful little biographies of eminent or interesting persons, who died on the day treated of; a division which Mr. Hone frequently enriches with anecdotes and particulars either unpublished or very little known. The miscellanies are truly miscellaneous; and the editor displays great tact in the selection. We must not forget the woodts, which are well worthy of Mr. Hone's reputation as a getter-up of those embellishments.

THEATRICAL EXAMINER.

DRURY-LANE.

THE Easter novelty at this house, on Monday evening, consisted in musical piece of two acts, founded on the humourous story of Abon Hassan; or, the Sleeper Awakened, in the Arabian Nights. It would be an absolute affront to our readers to suppose them unac◄ quainted with the fact, that this Abon Hassan was a pleasant spend thrift, who contributed by his whimsicalities to the good humour and entertainment of that pink of Caliphs, the adventure-loving Haroun Alraschid. Can we ever forget how the quizzing Commander of the Faithful transformed him, the said Abon Hassan, into a Soves reign, by a process similar to that by which Shakespear turns Christopher Sly into a Lord; and finally, marries him by way of recompence to a beautiful Slave? Is it necessary to recal to mind? the improvidence of the thoughless Hassan, his abject distress in consequence, and the plan laid by him and his adroit spouse to extract further bounty from the Caliph and his august Zobeide, by feigned stories of each others death? From what brain, that has ever received in the season of childhood, rising into adolescence a due impression of the ever-memorable wager between the Haroun and Zobeide, as to which of the two humourists died first, will the issue ever be erased? The Garden of Pleasures of the Caliph, "impawned,' as young Osric says, against the Palace of Paintings of his Sultanathe very stakes bespeak eternal recollection! Such being the case, we have only to observe, that the author of the new piece has dramatised the latter adventure only of the eccentric Abon Hassan. Although somewhat languidly got together, especially in the first act, it is by no means undiverting; added to which fact, Mr. T. COOKE has appropriated to it an Overture and some of the beautiful, if not highly characteristic music, of the celebrated WEBER. Mr. HORN and Miss GRADDON assumed the characters of Abon Hassan and his sympathetic wife, and executed the airs, &c. assigned to them with great spirit; their execution being admirably seconded by some eminently beautiful accompaniments. Miss GRADDON, in particular, executed with great taste an air commencing " The bird whose song of The humour of the piece was principally assigned to gladness." HARLEY, BROWN, and Mrs. HARLOWE, the first of whom personated a faithful and inventive Slave of Abon Hassan, with the elasticity o peculiarly his own. His assumption of madness to avoid explanation of the double death (neither incident nor character are to be found in the original tale) was ludicrously diverting. BROWN enacted Mesrour, the Chamberlain-a happy change of denomination from the original; and Mrs. HARLOWE the garrulous Old Nurse; and both did what they could for very meagre dialogue and indifferent humour; -a remark which may equally apply, to BEDFORD's Caliph, which character is wretchedly, and, as we think, mistakingly burlesqued by the author. Upon the whole, however, the piece is amusing, and we were particularly glad to perceive that Miss GRADDON's acting was improved, even into animation, in the dead-alive scene. The manner in which she starts up from her assumed state of death, when she hears that the Caliph intends to send Abon Hassan sir wives in lieu of her, exhibited great naivete. To conclude, this piece, although occa sionally heavy, much excells holiday introductions in general; not to

In a recent Number is a very charming letter of Garrick's, never before published.—“ Garrick (says Mr. Hone) resided in one of the houses of the Adelphi until his death, and was a friend of the Adams (the architects) who indeed were intimate with most of the eminent men in art and literature. Before the Adelphi was finished, the late Mr. Thomas Becket, the bookseller, desired the corner house of Adam-street, then building as a spacious avenue by the Adams, to their terrace and the adjacent thorough-fares. Garrick, anxious to secure the commanding corner for his friend Becket, wrote a warm-hearted letter in his behalf to Messrs. Adams. The letter has never been published, and being in the possession of the editor of the Every-Day Book, he inserts a copy of it, with a correct fac-simile of the commencement and conclusion. This hasty unstudied note, warm from the feelings, is testimony of Garrick's zeal for a friend's success, and of his qualifications as a solicitor to pro-mention the music of WEBER, which, if not in the frappant stylè mote it: there is in it

—a grace beyond the reach of art.

"MY DEAR ADELPHI, "Hampton, Monday 8. "I forgot to speak to you last Saturday about our friend Becket.-We ball all break our hearts if he is not bookseller to ye Adelphi, & has not

which has produced him so much popularity, is still very attractive. Abon Hassan, which we forgot to say, is enlivened by a divertisement in which Mr. and Mrs. NOBLE appear to great advantage, is attributed to Mr. DIMOND.

FINE ARTS.

SUFFOLK STREET EXHIBITION.

Q.

COVENT-GARDEN. with great good humour. We cannot augur a long life to this proA new Opera was produced at this house on Friday evening, in-duction, but excision may do something for it. The House was titled The Hebrew Family, or, a Traveller's Adventure, the plot of immensely crowded, and the ayes had it, although rather languidly. which is not very describable, but we will endeavour to compass it. It seems that one Francis Forrester, Esq. (JONES), a lively Englishman of fortune, takes it into his head to visit Spain, and not only so, but to assist a fellow-countryman to run away with a nun from a convent in Valencia. The lovers escape, but the friend is taken, and finally condemned by the Inquisition to the stake. The piece opens at the Mr. LINTON's advance has been so rapid within the last three years, moment the criminal is on his way to execution, when a mob that it approximates him with the first Landscape Painters of the day are seen endeavouring to force the Jew Issachar (FAWCETT) to be a and in a style that is pure, that is, which takes Nature for its model, and witness of the execution, in simple Christian_spite because he was a does not play fantastic tricks with colour or composition, to cheat the Hebrew, and his brother had been executed in the same manner. eye of the many into applause. His last year's picture had a certain They are however finally persuaded to retire, and after a clap of thun harshness, which is not seen in this, and he has made a successful step der and a shriek, the people rush from the place of execution in terror: into the epic of his Art in 88, Delos, where natural and architectural a violent storm had arisen, the principal scaffolding had given way, bay, in which Trojan ships are as snugly secured as birds in a nest, grandeur are very unassumingly but agreeably mixed, round a sheltered and dispersed the procession, during which confusion, the prisoner Mr. LINTON is one of the freest of all our Landscape Painters from the had escaped. The next scene discovers the fugitive in his sun-benito, vice of mannerism. His execution is neither overwrought nor neglected, in the house of the very Governor of Valencia who had condemned and his colouring is as masterly, a counterbalance to the eye as a fine him. He had made his way, it seems, into his garden, without know- musical counterpart is to the ear. In 122, we are happily led by his ing to whom it belonged, and now stands in the presence of his muse through a portion of "nature's pride," "the enchanted Vale and daughter, Donna Alzonda (Mrs. CHATTERLEY) who, moved by com- wondrous Lake of Keswick." It is worth going to this Exhibition, if it passion, allows him to enter for temporary concealment into her bed- is only to peep through and over the sheep-browsing, under-wooded hills, chamber. This pleasant asylum, however, he quits when it grows upon the sky-reflecting lake, its margin-skirting town of Keswick and dark, and makes his way over a wall into the garden and house of surrounding hills. The large masses (which are well subdivided) add to Issachar the Jew, when he is struck with the melodious voice the rustic scenery a nobleness that makes the composition a link between of his daughter Miriam (Miss TREE) and after a short conceal-colour mellowed by some warm tints is auxiliary.-There is grandeur common and dignified nature, and to which the simplicity of the grey ment behind a screen, appears before the Jew and his daughter, who in his composition, light, &c. of 332, Chalk Cliffs. humanely agree to hide him in a subterranean recess, until notice of his situation can be made known to the English Ambassador; in which business Issachar makes much use of his youthful and interesting Jewish nephew, Reuben (Miss H. CAWSE). The result is, that Forrester, who contrives in the mean time to gain the heart of the fair Jewess, is, by the aid of the humane Donna Alzonda, to make his way in Spanish attire through the Governor's house, and effect his escape to the Ambassador. He accordingly repairs at midnight to the garden of the latter, attended by Reuben; but unfortunately he has been preceded by two assassins (T. P. COOKE and EVANS) the sons of an executed bandit, who in revenge are seeking to enter the house, to assassinate the Governor. By mistake, Leonella, the waiting maid (Mrs. GIBBS) delivers the key, which is to admit Forrester, to one of the ruffians, and on his approach they seize him (the boy Reuben escaping), and oblige him to accompany them in their enterprise. The catastrophe may be anticipated the cowardly old Governor (FARREN) is saved by the intervention of Forrester, and the succour "With a hot impulse seiz'd in every nerve," brought by the youthful Jew; and all is about to terminate in his sitions have the praise of reminding us of the Old Masters, in such subFired with the spirit of a Bucephalus. Mr. STANFIELD's broad compo permitted escape, when a bluff Dominican Father Sereno (BARTLEY)jects as 141, Clearing a Wreck, and 180, Fishermen; not as imitations, who had penetrated into the whole intrigue from beginning to end, but congenialities. appears and claims the prisoner by the highest of all authorities. It seems, however, that this worthy priest is actuated only by the magnanimous motive of showing that mercy and humanity may belong to all sects-(here is conciliation for you, John Bull!)-and pronounces the full pardon of Forrester, who declares his everlasting love to Miriam, and the piece concludes with the announced departure of the Hebrew Family and the Englishman for happy England. There is a slight episode formed by the loves of Donna Alzonda and a certain Don Cesario (SINCLAIR), the main incident of which is jealousy, produced by the concealment of Forrester, somewhat in the manner of The Wonder.

Mr. HOFLAND's View of Spoleto is a beautiful example of contrast and breadth of light. His Grecian Landscape, Moonlight, 129, has no originality of composition, but is elegant, and the lunar orb,

"Over the rippling waters, the white sail,

"And marble columns, sheds her mellow light." Nature has been successfully consulted in that "mellow light." It is spread softly around her on the moist air, till it is lost in the grey and of gravity. With this there is a parity of praise in the daylight of 184, blue profundity of shade, lighting it partially up like a smile on the face An overshot Mill.

Mr. HOFLAND's pupil, R. H. NOBLE, is among our quickly advancing Landscape Painters, and his Harrow from Hampstead Heath has extraordinary force.-Mr. CARTWRIGHT, too, has much deserving praise in 120, The Mole-head at Santa Maura, but it is a sickly sun-set.—Mr. F. C. TURNER's Steed, 132, is well lighted. He tosses his head, and And looks as "On the aerial summit takes th' exciting gale,"

Mr. GLOVER'S Ullswater, 33, is, we conceive, his best large landscape; but his praise still grows less as his canvass becomes large, for he there gets into some wooliness, and his ochres and siennas do not very pleasantly amalgamate with his greys. His forte is gleamy sunshine. That Forest, 186, has more than his wonted power.. on 245, Borrowdale, has been mistaken for reality. His Scene in Epping

also a graphic shock, from its blackness and slovenliness.-Mr. J. WARD Mr. SIMPSON has gone back this season. 85, The Electric Shock, is improves. His London, from Waterloo Bridge, is well composed, has the cool shadows of early morning, and the amber of its rising sun.-2, Study of Effect, a head, is an effective study by Mr. LANCE, the painter of the extraordinary still-life, 204, Christmas Cheer, which has converted our minds into a recollective larder, for it is impossible to forget its noble sirloin, turkey, &c.-Mr. ROBERTS's Notre Dame, 14, &c. want perhaps softness of air. The Rev. T. JUDKIN's Residence of Lord Byron at a little more light, but have a very attractive sweetness of colour and Athens pleases from its light and colour, as well as from the circumstance of the residence of such a distinguished man.-A broad pencil, well composed objects, and clear colour, are seen in Mr. STANLEY'S View of Bristol, 241.-We have never observed Miss GOULDSMITH to such advantage as in 25, View near Hampton Court.-It is surprising that where there is so much good painting in other respects, such an absence of feeling for light should prevail in Mr. B. BARKER'S works. Even his sun-set, in 170, is chilling. It is rather " twilight grey.”

R. H.

We cannot speak very highly of the dramatic concoction of this piece, which is rendered tedious by too much explanatory dialogue; a fault which always indicates a defective development. Much in this way may be curtailed, as also in the disgusting character of the Governor given to FARREN. Issachar and Miriam are evidently the Issucher and Rebecca of Ivanhoe; and in one scene Miss TREE beautifully filled up the small glimpse of kindred situation, in declining the proffered love of Forrester. Issachar is merely an heroic Hebrew, without exhibiting any of the diversity of object which renders his namesake so characteristic in the romance. It gave FAWCETT little opportunity. A Miss H. CAWSE, a very interesting young lady, made her debut in the character of Reuben, and sang a lightsome and effective ballad of Whittaker's with highly promising refinement of taste and execution. Her voice is very good, and her manner most prepossessing; we do not often witness a more promising first appearance. The music of the first act is by CIANCHETTINI; the remainder COMMON DOCTRINE OF CONTAGION.-We do not speak without weighis selections from SHIELD, WHITTAKER, WATSON, and VIOTTI. ing the import of the words we use, when we affirm, that in the whole Those assigned to SINCLAIR and Miss TREE, if not novel, excited range of physical and moral agencies, there is not one capable of proadmiration by their execution. The characters given to JONES and ducing in human beings, feelings and actions of such gross selfishness, Mrs. CHATTERLEY were too grave for them. The pert waiting belief of the common doctrine of Contagion.-Westminster Review, just and therefore capable of rendering human beings so utterly base, as the woman of Mrs. GIBBS is well known; and BARTLEY looked a well-published-a number which contains seine admirable articles on imporfed Dominican to the life, and his conciliatory politics were received tant topics such as the Corn Laws, Prison Discipline, Contagion, &c.

(To be continued.)

NEWSPAPER CHAT.

MR. KEAN. The audience of our theatre are not remarkable for approving of public indecencies; and the announcement of Mr. Kean's engagement was received, the other night, in the manner that might have been expected. Between the play and farce, Mr. Murray, the manager, presented himself to intimate the advent of his hero, but had no sooner delivered the message than it excited a pretty general expession of disgust and indignation, mingled, to be sure, with some applauses from one part of the house. When silence could be obtained, a gentleman from the boxes addressed the manager, and said that he should withdraw his pationage from the theatre, that no part of his family should ever again be seen within its walls, and that he should be able to exert some influence th dissuading a large circle of friends from supporting a place of amusedent in which there was so little regard for morality. Mr. Murray said, Mr. Kean was engaged before the notoriety of a certain event.-Edinburgh Star. Sr. ANDREWS.-A Scurvy trick was played off on Saturday last. The street-lamp attached to the Chief Magistrate's house, which, as Provosts' lamps usually are, was more handsome than any other in the city, was removed, and in its place a Vase of another kind substituted! The trick excited a little indignation and much laughter. Some thought it more harmless than the usual recreation, lamp-breaking; while others, believing that it had been perpetrated in derogation of magisterial dignity, received it as a political squib of the most dangerous tendency. Morning dawned on the upstart Reservoir, whose white, round, and polished sides, glanced proudly in the sunbears; and the day was advanced before it was dislodged from its "bad eminence." Verily, St. Andrews is losing all the character for decorum, and all the reverence for authority, for which it used to be famous.-Edinburgh Times.

REGULATIONS AT WINDSOR.-A Morning Paper says" It is honourable to the King, and we are happy to record, on the best authority, a part of the economy of his Majesty's establishment. The bills of the tradespeople are all regularly discharged every month. In this particular, however, he cannot be more punctual or correct than his predecessor, but in another part of his economy he certainly shows to greater advantage. His Majesty never sits down to dinner, knowing or seeing. what has been provided, but says, bring me this or that, according to his fancy, and it is always found prepared. A prodigious variety and superfluity is, of course, ready dressed, and the poor of the neighbourhood, have, next day, the benefit of it. The following morning, about noon any poor person may, on application, carry off a fair portion of the frag ments. The gathering is large, and numbers daily support themselves and families on "the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table." In the old King's time the same custom obtained, that is, as to the parting with the broken victuals, but under different circumstances, for the attendants were allowed to make a perquisite of them. The present mode is not only more charitable, but more becoming the residence and character of a King."

The Bill to relieve the Hebrews in the State of Maryland from the constitutional disqualification to hold offices, has passed both houses: we have therefore reason to expect, that at next session, this feature of intolerance will be erased from the constitution of our state.-Baltimore Paper, 28th February.

the New York Legislature, was one from the Seneca Indians, stating that HUNGRY PRIESTS. Among the petitions on the 16th ult. presented to they are much troubled with hungry Priests, who preach to them docFRENCH AND ENGLISH MORALITY." All the letters from London won't work-that the habits of the women are becoming worse, by their trines they do, not understand nor believe-that they are lazy, and speak of the astonishing run which the Memoirs of Miss Harriette Wil-being among them, and that the men drink more whiskey-that they son have had. This run, and Mr. Martin's absurd attack upon Magendie make them bad friends and neighbours, &c.; and praying that they may in Parliament, have afforded us great diversion at your expense. People be prohibited from residing among them.-Philadelphia Paper. of education here have no hatred of the English; but we do love to laugh at you. The men whom Harriette Wilson has denounced would in this country have been very merry at their own misfortune, and, in the bottom of their hearts, would have been extremely well pleased at being exhibited in such situations as those of the handsome Lord Ponsonby, or of the Marquis of Lorne, who at 40 years of age carries off from his rival a beautiful girl of 18. Except in the article of the money, many of our most celebrated women resemble Harriette Wilson, in living had 40 lovers; and were not the whit the less admired and sought after up to the time of their death. We should regard it as intensely ridiculous to inquire whether this or that man amused himself in the society of Harriette Wilson. I must confess to you, that the immense importance you attach to the details of private life, and the consequent voracious appetite you evince for them, expose you to infinite ridicule and contempt in every country but your own. Who are right? You or the rest of the world? I really can't decide. Before you let loose upon me a torrent of virtuous indignation, remember that we are very exact in observing all Your Crim. Con, Actions, by far the most amusing part of your papers. Recollect, moreover, that we bave here your Bishop of Clogher, and twenty other men of High Rank of the same kind!"-Letters from Paris by Grimm's Grandson, in the London Magazine.

INFAMY.-The following circumstance is related in reference to the demirep, to whose Memoirs the bad taste of the town has given a tempcrary, but vicious popularity. From her acquaintance with a branch of a Noble Family, certain letters had come into her hands, which the members of it were naturally anxious should not obtain publicity; to obviate which a negociation was opened; and the letters returned, upon payment of a considerable sum of money. No sooner was this done, returned, copies were still in existence, and of these a second market was however, than the parties were told, that though the originals were thus doubly purchased, their contents are not unsparingly given in the After all, though the suppression of the letters themselves was work.-Morning Herald.

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A duel was fought on Wednesday morning on Wimbledon-common, between a Mr. F-r-n and Lieutent C-1-y. Two shots were exchanged, and no mischief was done. The friends of each interfered, and no further animosity took place.

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We understand that a suit of a very peculiar and delicate nature will shortly make its appearance in one of our Courts of Law. The individual who seeks redress in this instance is of no less rank than a Peer of the Sister Kingdom; and the offending party is a Mr. injury, forming the foundation of this action, is said to have been inficted at Milan, as well as other places on the Continent. The Noble Peer and his Lady had lived separate for some years. The gentlemens of the law have been busily employed for some time iu collecting the necessary evidence, and there is reason to believe the details of this affair will shortly be disclosed in the Court of King's Bench.-Chronicle.

OFFICIAL LIBERALITY.-A poor man named Kirevan, on the occasion of a shipwreck on the coast of Ireland, instead of joining the barbarous wreckers who were assembled for purposes of plunder, repeatedly venfured his life by swimming to the wreck, in order to save the lives of the anfortunate crew. He succeeded in rescuing eleven individuals from death, three of whom were Officers.-We learn from the evidence of Mr. Shiel before the Committee on Irish Affairs, that the only remuneration bestowed on this fine fellow was 301. It appears that Gen. Doyle put it to his election, whether he would receive this sum or take the promise of promotion to some small official place. Kirevan chose the money, of which he was greatly in need, having recently been in prison for a debt of six pounds. When application was made at the Castle in favour of Kirevan, his friend Mr. M'Dougall was asked by some one (not however Mr. Peel) whether Kirevan was a Protestant?-Mr. M'Dougall admirably answered," that Kirevan did not ask whether the eleven perons whom he saved were Protestants, at the time he was plunging into the sea!" The ancient Romans (unenlightened Pagans) would have eagerly crowned and maintained for life a citizen who had saved the life of one of his fellows-modern Irish Statesmen (enlightened Christians) tardily bestow thirty pounds upon a generous fellow who repeatedly-Such a "glorious" specimen of flummery and falsehood, we hardly tasks his life and rescues from death eleven of his countrymen!

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.-There were 81 places of worship in New York, in 1823, which city contains about 130,000 souls. This fact proves that religion will flourish at least as well without an Established Church as with one; and as one sect is not peculiarly favoured by the State, the rest are not made jealous and quarrelsome. Thus one great cause of domestic discord does not exist among the citizens of America; and as each person pays only the teacher of the sect to which he is attached, he likewise relieved from the burthen and pain of contributing to the pread of doctrines that he deems at least erroneous.

HOAX.-The account of the LION FIGHT, in our last, copied from a Morning Paper, turns out to be one of those wretched jokes called a "Hoax."--If the Newspapers were to do their duty, and publish the names of the parties who thus sport with truth, and frequently with humanity, there would soon be an end to this pitiful practice, which certainly tends to bring the press into "public contempt" if not into ** Latred,”

NOTION OF A GLORIOUS BEING." I cannot close the subject without expressing the full conviction of my understanding and my heart, that a more Glorious Being than the Consort of George Third never existed! I have lived to see a miserable delusion withdraw some part of the affection of the multitude for a time; but she was in truth the Idol of the People, and they paid to her that sort of homage, as if in her person they were reverencing the form of VIRTUE herself."-Boaden's Memoirs of Kemble.-Now, good reader, figure to yourself a little, plain, parsimonious, petticoat-hoarding, snuff-taking, narrow-minded woman from Mecklenburgh Strelitz, without any one single thing to distinguish her from the common herd, except that of being Queen of England, and you will have before you Mr. Boaden's notion of a " Glorious Being," the "Idol," as he ludicrously asserts, of the People of England," and the very form of VIRTUE itself!

ever before witnessed.-But it won't do, Mr. Boaden, depend upon itthis rivalry of the Morning Post and Humbug Hook is exhibited a little too late; and though you pour out your whole cargo of incense, you will neither sweeten the memory of deceased Royalty, nor cultivate the favour of living Royalty.-The form of VIRTUE indeed! Why, what has the heavenly Goddess done to this bad Play-maker, that she should thus be degradingly likened to one of Earth's least gracious works?

VAIN MEN.-Dr. Parr and Lord Erskine are said to have been the vainest men of their times. At a dinner some years since, Dr. Parr, in ecstacies with the conversational powers of Lord Erskine, called out to him, though his junior, "My Lord, I mean to write your epitaph." Dr. Parr," replied the Noble Lawyer, "it is a temptation to commit suicide." The lines of Swift are not impertinent :

"Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That Vanity's the food of fools;
Yet, now and then your men of wit,

Will condescend to take a bit.—London Magazine.