horses at Ascot race-course. cured, no matter how, when, or where. To understand them, a brief preamble will be necessary. You must know, then that, amongst the on dits which are whispered about in this ancient and loyal city, it is said that the wiseacres, who lately sent the Bishop of Chester and the Duke of York each an enormous cheese, weighing 160 pounds, accompanied the offering to the former with a copy of verses, written in letters of gold. by one of our parish-clerks, who was found to be the only person in the city who could string four lines to jingle together. The Bishop has replied at considerable length in doggerels also, and the subject of his communication is of a very singular nature. He informs his Chester friends that the cheese, intended for his brother, the Duke of York, has not reached its destination, having been seized upon, in transitu, for debt, by the same Sheriff's Officer who is said to have seized his Highness's The Bishop proceeds to observe, that, not being particularly partial to Cheshire cheese, aud anxious to console his brother Fred, for his loss, he has made him a present of that sent him by his Chester friends. This is the sum and substance of what I have heard, and I give it you merely as a rumour, to which I attach no credit myself. The lines ascribed to Sternhold appear, indeed, to be genuine, as they bear a very close resemblance to those which that distinguished personage, in copartnership with Mr. Hopkins, has put forth in long and But that a Bishop should write such bald verses as are here ascribed to him, is not so easy to credit. We cannot, certainly, discover in his answer any evidence of the all-accomplished scholar, which his Lordship is said to be; neither do we think that he would have adopted the slang phrase," all gammon," which occurs in the last line but one of the letter ascribed to him. With this preamble I now proceed to the Address and Answer, which are as follow: short meire. Chester. ADDRESS. Yours, &c. This off'ring rare, so rich, so fat, Your Grace can't fail to please, For why-your Lordship, as a RAT,* Must needs be fond of cheese. HIS GRACE'S REPLY. Your cheese has reach'd me safe and sound, Weighing one hundred sixty pound! But pray excuse me-entre nous, For Cheshire cheeses I've no goût. The dairy now I sigh for most, Is Durham-long my favourite toast. By Sheriff's writ, for old scores due. יין. And say (but that you know's all gammon) I bait with sprat to catch a salmon." STERNHOLD. If Sternhold really dubbed his Lordship a rat, in consequence of his having been formerly friendly to the Catholic Claims, we need not wonder at the cavalier tone adopted by his Grace in his reply. POSTSCRIPT. MONDAY, JUNE 27. The Paris papers of Thursday and Friday have arrived. The following are extracts : [From the Courier Francaise of Friday, June 24.] PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. LISBON, JUNE 8. "The influence of the English policy is more and more felt in our councils, and produces in the acts of our Government results advantageous to our commerce and our manufactures. Our Cabinet has just taken the first step to renounce the system of absolute prohibition which kept from our ports a great part of the ships of Europe. A duty of 30 per cent. is established in the room of complete exclusion, in a vast number of articles the consumption of which has become indispensable, and which could not be procured except by snuggling. "Such are silks, ornaments, tissues, worked with gold or silver, laces, false stones, and beads of all colours, cloths and stuffs of all countries, except those of England and Holland. Henceforward competition will be open to all nations, and the consumer will gain by it. These measures, brought into harmony with our new relations with Brazil, cannot fail to raise our commerce from the state of stagnation, or rather of nullity, to which it is reduced. "The preamble of the edict, which introduces a more reasonable system, deserves to be quoted, as it is calculated to show the new spirit which animates the Government: it is as follows: "I, the King, make known to all those who shall see the present edict, that considering the inconveniences which result from retaining laws the enactments of which were salutary when they were adapted to the usages, customs, and circumstances of the times of their publication, but which have become incompatible with the new usages and wants which the course of time has introduced into society, think fit, and order the following to be observed."" "This is assuredly the same doctrine that has lately been asserted in the House of Commons, by Messrs. Canning, Peel, and Huskisson. "The several articles follow:-The 1st recapitulates the prohibitory laws and ordinances: in the 2d are excepted some articles comprised in those laws and ordinances, aniong which are sword-canes, pocket-pistols, and all kinds of spirituous liquors. Article 4th is the most important. The same articles,' it says, which were prohibited, and which are at this moment admissible in the two ports of Lisbon and Oporto, shall pay the duty on import in the ports in which they shall enter, according to the regulations laid down to that effect at present (30 per cent.) or which shall be in force in future. The duties shall be paid according to the estimates made of the price on the day when they were despatched from the Custom-house; or by an auction, which may be made for the greater security and regularity of the payments. "Article 5, extends to the Azores, Madeira, and the Cape Verd Islands, thé regulations laid down for Lisbon and Oporto. Another edict of the same date suppresses the duty on the exportation of salt by Portuguese vessels, and reduces it to 200 reals (rees) per moyo, instead 500. "It is useless to observe, that this edict has been issued immediately after the departure of Sir Charles Stuart for Brazil. Most certainly, before his arrival here, our Cabinet would not have published such doctrines upon commerce, and would not have failed to extend any measure that, it might have thought fit to adopt, to the ports of Brazil which no longer depend on Portugal, as well as to the other colonies which are still in its possession. (From the Etoile, dated Saturday, June 25.) Milan, June 13. "The Emperor of Austria having stayed at Genoa till tle 7th, has passed the Bonde'ta and visited some small towns between that chain and the Po, and is arrived at Pavia. His Majesty is expected here immediately. Prince Metternich, the Marquis of Caraman, M. de Tatischeff, Sir H. 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On several recent occasions, as our readers remember, we have endeavoured to impress upon the English public the rapid and astonishing progress made by these emancipated blacks in knowledge and the arts of industry; we have showed with what discretion and liberality their government is conducted; what extensive means are in operation for the instruction of the community; how flourishing their finances are; how much they have revived agriculture and commerce, notwithstanding the horrible slaughter and devastation caused by their long and ferocious struggle with the French; and the injustice, inconsistency, and impolicy of Great Britain and the United States in refusing to recognize Haïti, while they no longer hesitate to acknowledge the far more recent and less settled independence of the South American Republics. We shall now select a few passages from the Propagateur in support of our own statements First, with respect to the surprising strides which Haïti has inade in civilization, since the expulsion of the French left them a thinned, savage, and destitute population:-"History," says the black republican, with just exultation,—“History can produce no example of a people who, like our own, issuing from the most profound ignorance and the most ignominious servitude, have in so short a time arrived at the highest point of glory, and a knowledge of the arts and sciences, equal to that of nations who date their existence maoy centuries back. In the course of thirty-five years, we have seen our morals improved, our education formed, instruction provided in solid and useful knowledge, and our social institutions attaining gradually that consistency which causes happiness to nations. In the midst of our disasters we never neglected the culture of the earth. The sword in one hand, and the axe in the other, we knew how both to defend our rights and to provide our subsistence. The government has always adopted the most effectual measures to give activity to agricultural labours. New establishments are seen to rise up in all parts of the Republic; young plantations of coffee actually cover vast tracts of land recently abandoned; the greatest activity is observed in the work-shops; and in short everything gives promise that the next crops, if they do not exceed those which a pitiless tyranny extracted from the bosom of our country, will at least equal them. Facts will then prove to the world the falsehood of the assertions made by the upholders of slavery, and will triumphantly show, that the freeman, in the course of a few years, is capable of greater toils, and can effect greater wonders, than the slave in a period of two centuries, with all his sufferings and forced labour." being at war with Spain, England openly protects their appeal toi What a dreary contrast to this heart-cheering picture is presented by the condition of the slaves in our West India islands!-on the one side, forced labour, hatred, ignorance, vice, and discontent; on the other, corrupting tyranny, the vices which that tyranny produces, licentiousness, and perpetual fear of that bloody catastrophe which will come, sooner or later, unless emancipation be conceded before the injured Africans determine to conquer it by fire and slaughter. An amiable and enlightened writer has pointed out a circunstance which may work a peaceful cure for this degrading evil; and at all events we agree with him so far as a conviction goes, founded both on our feelings as human beings, and on the best information we we have been able to obtain--that free labour is cheaper than slave labour:-"Fortunately, the natural bent of circumstances offers a species of euthanasia to the West India colonies, if not too long and 100 obstinately rejected. The capital employed on them has long since made very inadequate returns; and these returns will be much smaller, when the sugars, rum, and coffee, of South America obtain that preference in the European markets, to which their superior cheapness will of course entitle them. South America must under-sell the West India islands; let the capital of the latter be transferred to the former, and let the capitalist rather seek to share the prosperity of a new, than the ruin of an old country. I speak not of a more violent catastrophe; but they who dwell on the edge of a volcano, should at least understand the signs of an approaching eruption."Col. Hall's Colombia. Since we wrote the above, the following news from Haïti has been published in the daily papers :— "Letters from Port-an Prince of the 4th of May state, that a decreo had been passed by the Government, increasing the import duty on English manufactured goods from 7 to 12 per cent, thus depriving the Upon the sore point of England's non-acknowledgment of their English merchants of that preference which had previously been granted liberty, the Haitian journalist expresses himself with sound sense and to them over all other nations. The motive assigned for this decree is moderation: he exposes the inconsistency of our Government by its the indignation of Boyer, the President, at the non-recognition of the own declaration:-"With regard to the recognition of the inde-independence of Haïti, at the time when the recognition of the New American States took place. The amount of English manufactures impendence of colonies which have thrown off the yoke of the mother-ported into Haiti is estimated at nearly a million sterling; but in this country, England lays down the principle, that if it is admitted that amount a very serious diminution is now contemplated, as other European war no longer exists, and that the mass of the people are favourable nations, in consequence of the equalization of duty, are likely to enter to the new order of things, there is no doubt that the right of into successful competition with our merchants.” acknowledgment is positive and absolute.” *** Some years after our revolution, the Spanish colonies imitated our example; and without The Haïtians have not in this measure consulted their own interest, because it is their interest to encourage the best and cheapest manu factured goods-which are the English; but we cannot charge them with illiberality, or be surprised at the indignation they feel at our inconsistent and dastardly treatment of them Confiding in the justice of their cause, the propriety of the step, and the character which Britain has undeservedly obtained for liberal and spirited foreign policy, they calculated on its speedy recognition of their independence, and with anticipative gratitude gave us a commercial preference of considerable value. We have disappointed their reliance on our liberality and true policy-and they feel indignant. We have forfeited the credit they gave us for possessing more justice and good feeling than other nations and they deprive us of the preference afforded us in consequence. English merchants and manufacturers have nothing to complain of against Haïti-it is their own Government which, by its want of honesty and manliness, has provoked this injury, and shown itself the greatest enemy to their interests. LITERARY NOTICES. The Marauder. Two Epistles in verse, on Irish Affairs. THESE airy, humourous, and eccentric effusions of an Hibernian Muse are apparently the spontaneous production of involuntary indignation at the recent decision of the great Irish question of Emancipation, on the part of one who seems to feel its folly still more than its injustice. Addressed to Lord KING and Sir J. NEWPORT, this brace of Epistles expatiates altogether ad libitum upon such persons and topics as, in reference to the line of policy which he decries, the author deems open to a moderate portion of lightsome castigation. In formality and general point, therefore, something may be wanting; but pleasant amends are made for this defect, in the ease and facility of much of the portraiture, which stands something about half-way between spirited etching and caricature. Aware that in these non-descript cases nothing short of extract will convey a due notion either of matter or manner, we will quote a few passages as specimens of both, and save ourselves further trouble. The following lines are pithy : From Cicero we learn that, when walking the street, If hus colleague à sanctified augur did meet, The garb and th' imposture of each holy brother So consciously struck them, they laugh'd at each other, In their College, the burden of all lö Prans Was- Keep up the Patricians, keep down the Plebeians;" For an Augur in Rome is a Bishop in Britain. Don't you think that the Bishop of Exeter daily When they meet in white sleeves and black aprons?—and he At Archbishop Antithesis-Doctor Magee ? While all three treat as mummers those great men of Gath, And Derry, who once tried the summit to climb at, The ensuing insinuation may appear trite, but the fact is still more The Renegade Pedagogue shifted his vote.' Quæ Genus:" Then trust me, that more than by all Secker's lectures Religion will thrive under two such protectors." There is considerable force in the following sketch of the Home Secretary: "In no view corrupt, yet his colleagues must feel, Too glaring the light, and too sombre the shade; Not a gleam of that glow whose reverb'rating lights Such as shake and appal us from Plunkett and Brougham: In argument neat, subdividing, and mincing, He is never offensive, and seldom convincing; And with ore rotundo when projects imparting. Just half-way, I think, between Pitt and Dick Martin," We cannot forbear quoting a simile, which is as correct as it is humourous: "There's a custom in France, which I'll never forgive her, In France geese are tortured-for gourmands and beasts ; The second piece concludes with a passage-may it prove anticipative!-descriptive of a jobation given by the King to the "Viceroy over him," Lord Eldon, in which his Majesty determines to follow his own views of Irish policy. The satire of the poet is in the spirit of the irony of Mr. Brougham, who regards the Chancellor as a fixture under every change. George IV. gives him two hours to consider, and the following is the result: "In the Chancellor's eye the old light seem'd to glimmer; He soon there discover'd the pray'r to the Virgin. Our acquaintance is slight, but good friends we shall be, * As compared with the earlier and leading romances of the Author of Waverley, we regard these volumes as exhibiting a pretty decent The following portraits of a brace of Defenders of the Faith are tumble; but if St. Ronan's Well and Redgauntlet be made the objects very pleasant: Next the gallant Lord Anglesea proffers the sword: Ev'ry man to his trade-take him hot at his word: Thus he stands with his GREAT DUKE" in brotherly league, Of concubinage complicate, decency shamed, Transgress'd, till relation itself is confounded! of comparison, the advantage may possibly be on the side of the lates of the Crusaders. All three, while they palpably evince the effects of "the fall," display, a tolerable share of the faded magnificence of the "archangel ruined." Possibly, after all, the great distinction of this gifted and facile writer, if one he be, consists in his felicitous handling of costume and manners, rather than of character-of the modes of classes, rather than of individuals-of the qualities infused by the prevalent trains of associations in different periods, rather than of such as are more self-formed and internally distinctive. However this may be generally, it is clearly true in these tales, which exhibit little beyond garish pageantry and picturesque costume, touched up with the hand of a master, indeed, but amounting, after all, to mere emblazonment. Both the tales-(there are only two of them)-treat of the times of Henry II. and Cœur de Lion, but the first, called "The Betrothed," can only be connected with the title of the book by a wanted all the patience we could muster. His figure is lamentably. sort of licence, the story, never moving out of our own island, and unsuited for a preux chevalier,-talb and thin, with very high shoulders deriving much of its novelty from the description of a feud in the and a round back, surmounted by a lank face, hid up in a helmet with Welsh Marches, and the predatory naïveté of a Cambrian Prince of a most injudicicus bow of white satin ribbon on the tip of his chin; Powys Land. It dallies with the attention, but excites little interest; he seemed to have been dressed up by his enemies to look as ridimost of the personages resembling the impressions from a set of over-culous and effeminate as they could make him. The tone of the voice worked plates slightly renovated, and aiming at novelty only by a very frequently resembled the well-known strains of Punch when he little transposition of figure and scenery, like the ingenious Myriora- delights his street auditory, and in the upper notes, it often emulated ma of Mr. Clarke. The second tale, called "The Talisman," is more the uocturnal, serenades of the feline race. Some taste, he certaintly ambitious, as it actually transports us to Palestine,, and introduces us has, and an evident knowledge of musical effect, but his powers are to Richard Cœur de Lion and the Associate. Princes, and with still unequal to the due execution of his ideas. It is, quite clear that bad more aspiration, to the gallant Sultan Saladin himself. In the wildness it not been for the furious, support of a large assembly of dirty of the adventures here described, ARIOSTO is scarcely more extrava: | foreigners in the pit, he never would have been heard to the end of the gaut; and in no similar texture from the same band have we wit- opera; and even as it was, there were frequent symptoms of disnessed probability and verisimilitude so utterly neglected. Richard pleasure manifested. His friends would do wisely at once to with himself is the only sketch, as to these points, worth a maravedi, Sala- draw him from the stage, and save his feelings from the pain they din being the mere Sultan of an Arabian Tale. As to heroes and must suffer by exposure to the nightly insults that he will be otherwise heroines, the lovers of both the stories are such pure negatives-such doomed to endure. scanty abstractions, and withal so entirely of the same species-they We cannot close without relieving ourselves by the more agreeable scarcely supply thread or continuity to the narrative. In the last task of complimenting Madame CARADORI and Signora GARCIA for instance, the hero is apparently a poor crusading Scottish knight, but their admirable singing on this occasion; the latter bids fair to arrive in reality the Prince of Scotland; but such a Prince! Oh fie, Sir quite at the summit of her profession; and happily combines, like her WALTER! acquainted, as you must be, with his prototype, the accom- father, beautiful execution with great feeling, which are admirably plished and graceful Zerbino of the Orlando Furioso, why manufac-aided by her promising abilities as an actress, X. ture so miserable a non-entity? Still, however, we have been amused, if not interested, by this story; but even the vulgar are beginning to yawn at melo-drame and procession, turbans and helmets, caftans and coatarmour; and although it may be something to witness a silly personage of sixty-seven lying with his face downwards, in order to be oiled like a rusted smoke-jack, all the rest even of the forthcoming Coronation will most likely fatigue in a week. For our own part, we abjure the Waverly manufacture from this branch of its steam process; and unless we can be led to expect an extension of the creation of Lairds of Bradwardine, Nicol Jarvies, Jeanie Deans, Dandie Dinmonts, Rebeccas, and similar personages, of a quality to give nature and substance to so much dress, decoration, and scene-painting, we shall hear of the stranding of a Leith packet with a Waverley cargo on board—these things regularly happen-with as much sang froid as an Intouched underwriter after a Baltic gale. A somewhat flat piece of humour introduces these Tales, which, if ot a mere freak from the modern school of bamboozle, implies that he Great Unknown is about to write the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. We have no objection, but doubt the requisite qualifications. Few writers are less fitted to deal with facts which resemble fiction, han such as have been long employed in the endeavour to make Ection resemble fact. ૨. THEATRICAL EXAMINER. KING'S-THEATRE. THE long-expected appearance of Signor VELLUTI took place on Thursday last, when the much-talked-of opera of Crociato in gitto (the Crusader in Egypt) was produced for the first time. aving been lauded forth as a capo d'opera, and as having supereded the rage for ROSSIN1 throughout Italy, it was natural to expect mething from the music, but we must acknowledge ourselves cometely disappointed. It is built on the Rossini model, but, like imitions in genera, is without half the beauty of the original. In fact, gnor Maestro GIACOMO MEYERBEER has concocted from various urces what to us appears to be one of the dullest operas ever reprented; certainly not without occasional passages of pleasing elody, but altogether so flimsy, and so deficient in character, that en the enthusiasts who were predetermined to be enchanted, relaxed adually in their zeal as the opera proceeded, and became at last ceedingly suspicious that they had made a mistake. Of course the great interest of the evening was Signor VELLUFI ; d after the absurd ravings of a leading journal, many people anticited a disturbance, but the excessive virulence evidently defeated its ject, and rather inclined the public to support than 10 crush the ger's efforts to please. We were disposed to listen with a different ling, and though not at all vindicating the disgusting practices of ly, saw no reason to visit upon Signor VELLUTI errors not his n, and over which he most probably never had controul. We must wever confess that the performance was very revolting. A hero, a iant crusader, a soldier, a victor, and a lover, venting his emotions a squalling treble, singing of valour and glory as if he were in a sumption, and making love iu a feeble voice, higher than that of mistress of his affection, was more than we could well endure, and PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS.-MR. GOURLAY AND 66. TO R. G. BUTT, ESQ. Spring Gardens, June 28, 1825, "MY DEAR SIR-I intended to express in the House last night, had the case of Mr. Kenrick come on in reasonable time, sentiments to the effect of the following. I take the liberty of addressing them to you, yourself being principally the object of my intended remarks, according making public, by some communication in the House, the sense I enterto my promise, that the Session should not be concluded without my tain of the hardships which you have endured, and of the benefit which ought to accrue to yourself, and to the people at large, from a just consideration of the events which have happened in your most extraordinary case.-I am, my dear Sir, your most obedient and very humble servant, "G. NOEL." "The custom of the House of Commons as to Petitions seems to me not entirely proper, and to be among the things which require regulation in this auspicious time of promised improvement. I wish to see more responsibility attach to Members who present petitions, and the Honse generally more interested in considering its merits, after having admitted a complaint. Any Member now presents a petition, so it be not insolent; but let its interest be ever so great, he is not by usage required, nor is the blouse bound, to take further notice of it. This permitted negligence, though perhaps convenient to individual Members, I am inclined to think unbecoming in the Members themselves, derogatory to the character of the House, and holding out an encouragement to improper and frivolous petitions. There are now petitions from two persons particularly within my notice Mr. Robert Gouriay and Mr. But, both extremely important in my opinion, which are entirely overlooked as well by the persons who presented them as by the House. To the diced to him and to his case, by being myself unconsciously implicated Petition of Mr. Butt I have more especially attended, having been intro.. in a portion of the wrong which has been done him, and for which t have been anxious to atone. Upon a very compulsory acquaintance in the first instance, the year before last, I think him a valuable character, an honest, high-minded mau, and one who has served the public. I pledge myself to enter upon this subject early next Session; and have no doubt, from the good dispositions evinced lately by the Government, that the people of England wilk in the result of this case, find further reason to be satisfied with his Majesty's present Administration.” UNITED PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. COURTS OF LAW BILL-THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Earl GROSVENOR complained that the Courts of Law Bill did not extend to the Lord Chancellar-that it did not fix his salary, and leave his emoluments no longer dependant on the fees and patronage. The Earl of LIVERPOOL answered, that the principle on which the salaries of the Judges bad been fixed, did not make it necessary to extend the measure to the office of Lord Chancellor, as this officer did not derive any part of the sunlument from the sale of the offices is his gift. The LORD CHANCELLOR complained of the calumnies which bad gone forth respecting the emoluments of his office, although the amount of its |