No. 1720. THE EXAMINER. SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1841. THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. upon, in, and abide, by them. Every one conversant If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, it would be to tell him is face. If he resolves to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth, let him proclaim war with mankind à la mode le pays de Pole neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men, they fall upon nim with the iron hands of the law; if he tells their virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks him with slander. But if he regards truth, let im expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless; and this is the course I take myself.-DE FOE. THE GOVERNMENT-THE TARIFF- with the progress and difficulties of our commercial But is there any doubt of the justice and expe- That they should take who have the power, The variations of the duties, too, would exhibit a long series of the struggles of ignorance and selfishness to secure exclusive and particular advantages at the expense of the community; and a history of them would as plainly show their failure as the fallacy of the principles relied upon. Are we, then, to infer from this remark, that The present Tariff is made up partly of duties There is no trade, for instance, in whose behalf nothing is determined upon, nothing is to be done imposed for the protection of particular interests, such fantastic varieties of legislation can be shown in connexion with those two most important sub- and partly of duties for the purpose of revenue. as the woollen trade. None which has through so ject-the East Indian Trade and the Duties on So much of the Tariff directly intended for the long a period, or so frequently, been the victim of Imports? The one brought under the consideration benefit of particular interests or individuals, is, in legislative nursing, and none which has grown to of the House by no less influential a body than the fact, an additional tax on the community; and maturity in such utter scorn of its protectors. From East India Company; in behalf not only of the whatever that amounts to, which the protected class the statute of Henry VIII, when to uphold the city great body of merchants trading with the East receives, that same amount has to be paid over again of York it was enacted that "none shall make Indies, but in behalf of the people of India, and both by the public: "coverlets in Yorkshire but inhabitants of the city made the subject of an inquiry before Select Com- "I have always," says the same authority, "considered" of York," to the days of that prince of financiers, mittees, with the consent of the Government. Is that the increase of price, in consequence of protection, Lord Bexley, who in 1819 imposed a duty of 6d. amounted to a tax. If I am made to pay Is. 6d. by law for nothing to be done spontaneously, deliberately, for an article which, in the absence of that law, I could buy for per lb. on the importation of such an article as wool, the removal of grievances, and the redress of injus-a shilling, I consider the sixpence a tax; and I pay it with the wool and woollen trade have been pet children tice, so clearly, so unanswerably developed, in the regret, because it does not go to the revenue of the country, of the legislature. The growers of wool and manuevidence taken before these committees: subjects and therefore I do not in return share the benefit of that facturers of wool alike sought aid from Acts of ParI must be taxed not new, nor involving new principles, and the payment as a contribution to the revenue. liament. The Acts of Parliament have all been a second time for the State." whole bearings of which have now been formally, Is this manifest injustice to be continued? What, proved useless to the grower of wool; and the maand for months in the possession of those depart though the endeavour to place the public taxation nufacturer only found them so many obstacles in his ments, whose duty it is especially to watch over the interests of our trade at home and our trade with upon a just foundation may be laborious and even way. They have been of late years all repealed. unsuccessful, yet there can be no doubt that it is Has the import of foreign wool ruined the home our Indian territories. Notwithstanding, we repeat, the appointment of Efforts in behalf of a policy founded in honesty and attests the contrary. Has the trade decayed and the duty of a Government to try to accomplish it. grower? The silence of the "farmers' 'friends" committees, in which every sinister and class in-backed by the interests of the whole people, could withered, now that it is more freely exposed to the terest was jealously guarded and fortified; not-not long be without success. keen air of competition? Mr Porter's tables bear withstanding the clear record of facts, which none It is not to be believed that even a "Con- ample proof to the contrary, and show how groundcould be found to controvert, though many at- servative Democracy" would long consent to pay less was the cry for protection in this branch of tempted in vain to shake; notwithstanding all this, trade. and a failing revenue, and an increased and in a large proportion of their hard earnings for the But there is a very curious and a somewhat comsole benefit of their Conservative Lords and creasing taxation; yet the consideration of mea. Musters; and as little, we hope, is it to be anti-plicated case of the results of protection in the evisures calculated to raise the one, and more equitably cipated that when "Protection" shall appear in dence printed by the Committee. It not only shows to distribute the latter, are to be postponed, in its own hideous shape before the public, as it is the direct private interest studied by the provisions order to coquet with the public for “ pressure from fast appearing, as of the Tariff, but, as might be expected, the rise of a scheme only for relieving par a without!" Year after year is to be allowed to pass ticular interests from their share of the general corrupt interest. In this case, however, the corrupt away in official nothingness, and two important de"taxation, by raising arbitrarily the price of the interest, or this interest within an interest had been partments are to be allowed to dream away their article which they make, and therefore only a so well "protected" and nursed by law, as to become official existence with but an easy promise to do« violent manner of shifting their share of the bur-strong enough to refuse to adopt a measure proposed something when sufficiently pressed. "Yet a little « den to other shoulders;" as little, we hope, is it by the Government for the benefit of the general more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more to be anticipated, that any large body of English interests of that particular trade itself! 44 แ folding of the hands to sleep-So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want "as an armed man!" gentlemen will continue to "wring from the hard The manufacturing and most stirring portion of Duties say that "I can remember," says Mr J. D. Hume, "if I might he allowed to state the fact, that some 15 years ago, by the from him, that a drawback should be given upon foreign direction of Mr Haskisson, I proposed to the shipowners, as timber used in the building of ships, in the same manner as the duty is given back on timber for the building of churches, reys might be made of the ships before their frames were and it was presumed that with that example before us, surentirely closed up, and the amount ascertained; but it was objected to by the shipowners of that day. It was offered them as free as the offer could be made by a Minister, that How contemptuously does the Globe treat those "principles of our mixed constitution," which, but a day before, it was ready to die in the protection and defence of, against Radicals and Chartists. Or are we to understand that agitation is to be a con. stantly operating principle of our Government; that "They find on the part of those who are connected with no measure, even for the amendment of our com- some of the most important of our manufactures, a conviction, this boon should be granted to them; but they objected mercial code, is to be propounded, which is not the and a growing conviction, that the protective system is not, to it, because they said it would lead to the building of much spawn of "pressure from without?" Why, the on the whole, beneficial to the protected manufactures them-cheaper ships afterwards, and that that would be an injury complaint we made against the Committee of the selves. Several witnesses have expressed the utmost wil to the shipowners with their present shipping!" House of Commons on East India Produce in a tariffs, and disclaim any benefit resulting from that proteclingness to surrender any protection they have from the The question then having been started whether a former article, on account of the absence of any tion: and your Committee, in investigating the subject as to Tariff is to be maintained for the protection of parReport, is more than justified. There would appear the amount of duties levied on the plea of protection to British ticular interests, to the injury of the public genenow to have been no need of any laborious digest manufactures, have to report that the amount does not exceed rally, is it to be the understood policy of the Goof evidence, any balancing of interests, any nice half a million sterling; and some of the manufacturers, who discrimination:none. The President of the Board are quite willing they should be abolished, for the purpose of allow dissatisfaction to ferment and injustice to are supposed to be most interested in retaining those duties, vernment to postpone all answer to it sine die? To of Control and his two Secretaries had only to lay introducing a more liberal system into our commercial rankle in men's minds, till discontent becomes so on the table of the Committee, in answer to the policy." general as to be dangerous; and then to do that complaints of our merchants, a Report in one word, There is nothing surprising in this. The only without, which might have been done with, deli-Agitate! source of wonder is, that such a business-like na- beration; to make that a thankless act of necessity This singular intimation, however, to the mer-tion as this should so long have gone on quietly which might have engendered both gratitude and chants of England, to give up the hope of in-under such an unequal distribution of the public respect? ducing the Government to act from conviction and burdens. Because, though the manufacturers of The Tariff, however, may be considered a source from a sense of justice, unless backed by "pressure the country are protected only to the extent of half of revenue only, and adapted to promote, as it ought, from without," for objects such as those sought for a million, the dealers in agricultural produce of the utmost freedom of trade. The duty might be through the Committees to which we have referred, every kind are far larger recipients of the national regulated so as to defeat the smuggler, and to enis only, in other words, saying that there is no inten- bounty. courage the maximum consumption of every article, tion to do anything! Why, then, were these in"The enormous extent of taxation so levied cannot fail to and prohibitory duties abolished altogether. quiries undertaken at all? awaken the attention of the House. On the articles of food Upon these principles the present Secretary to It was not thus that Mr, afterwards Lord, Wal-alone, it is averred, according to the testimony laid before the the Board of Trade, Mr McGregor, prepared a Tariff, lace acted when he introduced the Warehousing Committee, that the amount taken from the toned by exceeds and formally brought it under the notice of the ComAct. Nor was this the timid course of Mr Huskis- verament. And the witnesses concur in the opinion that the mittee. According to it (and a most important and on when he amended the Navigation Act; nor sacrifices of the community are not confined to the loss of striking document it is), the revenue might be inwhen he reduced the Silk Duties. These en revenue, but that they are accompanied by injurious effects creased, not by additional taxation, but by a dimi lightened men, strong in the conviction of the truth upon wages and capital; they diminish greatly the productiv nution of taxation, from 22,962,6001, the revenne and justice of their principles, determined to actReport. on imports in 1889, to 28,850,0251., or by upwards of six millions sterling per annum! Mr McGregor now the news of his defeat would create disappoint- pension had under such circumstances been retained, its possessor could scarcely have ventured, in days like these, to canvas the constituency of Canterbury. We have shown that Mr O'Connell's two explanations of the loss of Carlow are contradictory ;' he now presents a tertium quid— Strangford received for many years two pensions of 3332 and ment. Right or wrong, the first steps of the 2664., one of which, reverting on her death to Lord Strangford's son, the present candidate for Canterbury, he has re "You estimate the produce of your new tariff at upwards League in Walsall were unprosperous; this is all we linquished." of 28,500,000l.; is not that estimate founded in some degree need now say of them; but never was an untoward This relinquishment Mr Smythe gracefully anon conjecture ?---No; I look at the increased consumption movement more rapidly retrieved. Exertions, ad-nounced in the intimation that he owed nothing to that must inevitably arise by the alteration I propose in the sugar duties, by the alteration in the timber duties, by the mirably directed and indefatigably kept up, have "the Crown; what the Crown had conferred he removal of prohibitions, and by the alterations in the corn characterized the conductors of the good cause,« had given back to the Crown." Let the relinlaw and provision duties. I have made very moderate calcu- from the moment of Mr Lyttelton's retirement. lations, according to consumption and according to population. From lukewarmness, the electors have leaped into quishment tell for what it is worth; only, if the "Is not your estimate partly founded upon the expects- enthusiasm. The instant they perceived that it was tion that there will be an increased consumption of certain articles in consequence of their being sold cheaper?-Cer- not a mere contest (though even that should be no tainly; but I have taken as the basis what I have known indifferent struggle) between a Whig and a Tory, practically to take place in making something like similar but a distinct, single, and recognized Corn Law changes in other countries, particularly in Austria. battle-a fight upon the broad ground of plenty or "What effect would that proposed tariff have upon the famine to the poor, fair dealing or foul monopoly to internal industry of this country?-My belief is, that if you adopted this tariff you would not only give full employment the rich-all who are liberal-minded in the constito every healthy individual among the labouring classes, tuency, and can call their votes and souls their own, but that you would, in a great measure, except among the became excited to a full sense of the glory that "I have now to reply to the Examiner. It has attempted I explained here, in answer to sick and disabled, destroy the call for the poor rates altoge- might be won, and of the shame that might be suf- have a triumph over me. ther, especially if you fixed the duty on wheat at 4s. instead an article in the Examiner, how it was impossible that the of 88. per quarter, and reduced the duties on other kinds of fered. The struggle is looked upon by those who Repeal agitation could have injured the Liberal interest in grain and flour and meal in the same proportion. we trust are destined to be the victors, as a sort of Carlow, so as to have caused the defeat of the Liberal party "Would there not be some branches of British manufac- Shannon and Chesapeake affair. There is no lack there. I said that we offered them our best assistance, and ture which would be materially interfered with by foreign of lookers-on and encouragers. The people of that they refused it. The Examiner, in reply to this statemanufacture if your tariff were adopted ?I do not believe Wolverhampton, those too of Liverpool and many assistance that, therefore, it was right when it said the ment, said, that if we were Whigs, they would not refuse our there would; and even if there were, it would be the cheapest purchase in the world to pension off all those who other places, are by animated addresses participat-Repealers lost Carlow; for if they were not Repealers, the would actually be injured, such as the always protected, but ing in the contest, for they feel that its success Whigs would accept their assistance. I said, in reply to certainly the most wretched of all manufacturers that I have must be theirs. A triumph in Walsall, under dis- that, if we remained Whigs, Carlow would be equally lost; ever seen, the Spitalfields silk weavers. for if all Ireland were Whigs, there is nothing in Whiggery advantageous circumstances, would indeed be sufficiently exciting or rewarding to induce the people to The adversaries of monopoly make sacrifices for them. (Hear.) The Repealers, thereeverywhere felt. would derive incalculable courage from it; while fore, did not injure Carlow; for if we were Whigs, and not we should see its sordid supporters (the image is Repealers, Carlow would be equally lost. (Hear)." appropriate) "Do you think that the alteration you propose in the duties on agricultural produce imported from abroad would interfere materially with British agriculture? No, I do not at all. "When I made out this, I allowed one-fourth less per individual of bread to the population of this country than to France." Shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads," to Why, three years ago, when the Repeal question slumbered, Carlow was quite safe, and Whiggery then was pretty much what Whiggery is now, if This labour of Mr McGregor's is one of the highest in shame as well as sorrow. Whiggery be the name which Mr O'Connell is service to the public, and none are more deeply in- Whatever the result may be, the electors of Wal-pleased to give to Liberal opinions not embracing terested in seeing it worked out into practical opera-sall have been nobly supported from without. Any the Repeal crotchet. Whiggery," if that is to be tion than the labouring classes of this country. weakness within, any wavering, though of but a few, the word, was exciting enough for the people of The most open market, and the freest exchange would deprive the whole constituency of the honour Ireland at the last general election; and what has of the produce of labour, for the supply of the wants that may be theirs. This wavering cannot be exhi- happened to deprive it of its popularity? There of the labourer, are the surest means to obtain bited among the Wesleyans in that town. No, not has been but one new fact to account for the change, abundance. Prohibitions and Protections only de- amongst them. They know what Mr Gladstone's if change there be, as Mr O'Connell alleges,-the fraud him of the opportunity of fairly exchanging connexions are; and they know, too, that to counthe produce of his labour for that of others, whilst, tenance that particular specimen of his party, is as we have shown, they derange a just distribution directly to encourage the Bread-tax, and indirectly of the public burdens. Mutual supply, in the largest to patronize Slavery. sense, not restricted by tariffs and territorial limitations, is, in fact, the clear law of nature. The law little interest, and of exceeding amusement. If we look to Canterbury, there is a scene of no the impracticable, and, while it is hunting shadows, The we cannot wonder at its sometimes letting substanof man is a cruel interference. We hope and believe transformation of the Tories there outstrips every tial advantages escape it, through lack of zeal or of that the growing intelligence of the people will ren- pantomimic display of the season. They have union. If there be two parties in a country, one of Repeal agitation. To this solution every explanation which Mr der them more and more impatient under it. They must either make mouths or lick Anything much more degrading than the cheers by which they adopted Mr Smythe's insinuation that the Bradshaw speech, first reported in a Tory paper, was a fabrication by the Liberals, has not recently been witnessed. There is nothing half so sickening as to see how gentlemen will creep into THE GLOBE AND THE EXAMINER. (From the Globe of Tuesday the 12th instant.) We have allowed a day to pass since the Examiner's On a calm consider fall; cheer us when we recover; but let us pass such holes, except to see how they will creep out approach to personal reference which escaped us; and on,-for God's sake, let us pass on." THE CONTESTS AT WALSALL AND last reply to us, because we were not willing to go on with rejoinders in the same tone. ation, however, we feel ourselves in the wrong in any we say so without being called upon. Our contemporary again. Consistent slander is more respectable than affirms that he never asked a favour of any government. such recantation. We quote from the very silly and We did not say he had: however, we said more than we very arrogant speech of Mr Smythe, a specimen of now would justify. We should make the amende with the altered style of impertinence in which it now more satisfaction, had our contemporary been more suits these Tories to address themselves to Royalty. measured in his terms. "If he looked," he said, "upon one more gentle than Anne, more courageous than Elizabeth, more graceful and winning than Mary Stuart, more earnest and constant in her attachment than Mary Tudor, a Queen with all those Queens' virtues, and none of their defects, she ought to be popular. (General applause.) He felt it was what she ought to be, and if she were not so, it was the fault of her FRANCE AND GERMANY. (From our own Correspondent.) The fortifications of Paris are still the order of the day, and will probably be voted by the Chamber. They have tried the serpent's tongue-they are M. Thiers and the war party, and the Liberals, now trying the basilisk's eye. Happily the Queen have waived their objections both to the works knows them; and we hope, were it otherwise, that being slow, or to their being arrayed in such a she would not the less instinctively despise the im- manuer as to be used against the Parisians in insurpertinence of such flattery. Yet this coarsest of rection. There is one journal in the empire that opposes the Corn Laws and supports the advocate of them. The union of the Corn Law opponents is denounced as impertinence in the paper that, though of late years with a scanty measure of grace, has encouraged their efforts; and the punishment of their presumption is anticipated in the triumphant return weak Government.' of the representative of their antagonists at Walsall. Is it necessary to mention the name of this journal ? The Times, notwithstanding, can launch nothing more destructive at the Liberal candidate in that borough, than a sneer at his name. He is guilty of clap-traps is quoted in the Times with approbation. time, on any conditions, and we are satisfied." Such "rejoicing in the widely-distributed name of Smith " Mr Smythe has not much reason to thank that being the conduct of the opposition, Marshal and, we may add, of participating in the widely-dis-journal for its support. A complimentary allusion Soult has carte blanche, and the Marshal does not tributed hostility to the Corn Laws. But it is the to "the public services of his father, Lord Strang-disguise his purpose. The vulnerable part of Paris, look, not the sound of the name, that is disliked;" ford, and his own disinterested surrender of his he says, lies between the Seine at St Denis and the for the more picturesque version, Smythe, is in the "pension from the Crown," has produced an ex- Seine at Charenton, where it is joined by the same article held up to admiration. This, however, posure little calculated to advance his schemes. The Marne. He will fortify the two spots, and connect happens to be the name of the Tory candidate in Globe having quoted from the Times of 1828 such them by an inner wall, itself protected by forts. Canterbury. He rejoices in the slightly-distributed expressions as the followingSuch forts must necessarily command Paris, if name of Smythe. As the popularity of Smith is to "The more than diplomatic freedom which his Lordship French soldiers could ever be got to act against the obscurity of Smythe, so is the popularity attached takes with matters of fact, makes him the jest of all diplo the great mass of their fellow-citizens. Marshal to the respective causes of the candidates. There matists, while otherwise his manners and conduct beget to Soult wished to execute this part of the works is a suspicious and characteristic evasiveness about wards him in Courts a distaste even greater than the disre- immediately, and the rest by degrees, at the rate the one; we prefer the direct and familiar explicit-spect of statesmen”— of about a million sterling expense in the year, to last for ten years. Works to last for ten years are ness of the other. We are willing to accept the refers to the refusal of the Court of King's Bench wide diffusion of the name of the Walsall champion to grant a criminal information against a journal that not so menacing to Europe as if executed in a THE TEN-GUN BRIGS, OR coffins. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Falmouth, 7th January, 1841. is quite Napoleonien, and undoubtedly wise for him, a more humane plan in covering his capital by the Algerine - Lieut. Wemyss Hearty Redpole Let what will be done in the way of fortification, pacific ideas are gaining ground. Austria is much mollified, has abated of her fears, and will abate of her armaments, and the dispatches of M. Bourqueney, after his visit to Broadlands, are said to be much more satisfactory, and much more promising of conditions likely to lead to an accord, no longer Ariel between four, but between five Powers of Europe. But whilst courts, and rulers, and influential per- Recruit sonages are thus coming to amity and understanding, and the better writers even of the press abating of their wonted sharpness of tone, the light books Calypso of literature are only beginning to skirmish and open fire. Briseis Ships' Lieut. Figg Lieut. Peyton - Lieut. Church - Lieut. Downey - Capt. Hewett How and when Lost, &c. Foundered off Isle of France in the winter of 1823, with officers and crew all lost. - Foundered off the Dardanelles, 10th March, 1826. Crew saved. THE HON. G. BERKELEY AND THE TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. -- Sailed for Halifax, 12th Dec. 1833; lost, with all the crew, Supposed to have foundered in number. On the occasion of Napoleon's funeral the Thais French poets ventured a small flight, and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne, &c., indited Pindarics against the "perfidious Albion." Hugo's ode was the most poor and most lame that ever fell from him. Delavigne's was, as usual, prose, with a little Fairy point and a great deal of rhyme. Bartholemy's bit of venom was the best. But the coup de grace for old England was yet to come, in the shape of a vaudeville, from the pen of the romancier, M. Confiance Leon Gozlan. M. Gozlan represented a. King and a Queen, "once upon a time," the Queen being Queen Regnant, and the King being King but as her spouse. This kind of matrimonial alliance is represented as most unnatural by M. Gozlan, al- Magpie schooner 3 Lieut. Smith though he be the vaudevilist of certainly the most hen-pecked nation under the sun. After all, there is very little harm in this. The Queen of England, like her grandsire, George the Third, must expect to pay her tribute to caricature; Redwing and if none be more witty or more malignant than this, she may very well compound with it. But the French have magnified the farce to themselves, by Acorn reporting that the Ambassador interfered to prevent the piece. And here was M. Gozlan straight elevated into a political personage, on a par with Mehemet Ali Contest himself, persecuted by the representatives of foreign Powers. Lord Granville, of course, never heard of M. Gozlan, or his piece. The mighty secret, and the mightier prohibition, lay between the author's pen and the censor's scissars. But the story and the hubbub cannot but give a fortnight's immortality to this French Aristophanes. seen. very small a gnat that it would be a curious question of how large a camel he is capable.-I am, sir, your obedient AN ENGLISH LADY. servant, THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Night and Morning. By the author of Rienzi, The The life of every man, great or humble, happy or miserable, has its Night and its Morning. meanest creature that crawls the earth, provided the soul of a man is not altogether extinguished in him, is still seen groping towards some light out of When and how Lost, whatever darkness may surround him. The external &c. Foundered off Ire-and the internal play their parts with him as with land, with all the grander people; he has his five-act tragedy to work crew. Winter of 1822. out as much as the prince and potentate theirs; the -Foundered same main difference being, that whereas their last catastime, with all the trophe is too often Night, his has a better chance --Foundered off Cu- of being Morning. Whatever is most significant, ba, Oct. 1826. Crew indeed, in all the various phases of life, is set before the imagination in these two words-the strength which may be educed from suffering, the wisdom which can flow from error, the good which even evil tends to. It follows, that to discriminate rightly this night and morning in the career of a man, whoever he may be, is to detect the secret best worth knowing about him. So we will learn what he has of his own, and what of the world's; how much there is in him that is essential and enduring, how much merely transient and accidental. The novelist proposes a high design, who would paint this lesson, in all its light and shade, on the canvass of a compact and well-knit story, true to nature and direct in the expression of it. 20 Capt. T. Wil---Foundered off Cape 18 Capt. Claver- 18 Capt. Gordon 12 Lieut. Hag- and crew all lost. The above is a tolerably correct list, but think there are others fof which I have not kept account; if my memory serves me, more than one of the Ten-gun Brigs have been lost in white squalls in the Mediterranean. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. T. S. B. 30 Upper York street, Seymour place, WM. CHRISTIE. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Such is the design of the book before us, though some parts of the treatment may be excepted to, as interfering with the excellence of that design. That The critics, too, are determined to take up and it is a book of extraordinary interest no one will carry on the war that politicians are abandoning. question. We found it quite impossible to lay it Mdlle Rachel, the clever little French tragedian, down when we had once taken it up. That it is a has been playing Marie Stuart. Jules Janin wrote book which vindicates the genius of the writer and a criticism thereon, in which he accused Schiller called, a great extent of "Floor;" this circumstance gives as little doubt; for some characters in it, and the will add even greatly to his reputation, we have and Shakspeare of barbarism, and Lebrun's piece of the vessel a greater buoyancy than any other class possesses, a similar fault in imitating them. He called Eliza- consequently a brig is (by all nautical men that I have heard greater part of the writing, are in decided advance beth and Mary two fish-women, &c. The German give an opinion upon the matter) considered the safest vessel of what he has yet done. Yet it must be projournals are very wroth at this, and even the Augs- the public with the reason why the brig of war is (in contrast and this because the purpose is not so steadily kept to stand a rough sea. Will your nautical correspondent favour nounced inferior to Ernest Maltravers as a whole, burg Gazette fires its three and four columns at the to the mercantile brig) the most insecure class of vessels in in view. Portions of it are of a much higher drift, unfairness, absurdity, &c., of the French. Anti- the navy, which it is acknowledged to be, so much so that Gallicanism makes immense progress beyond the the seamen call them "spit-boxes:" some error in their there is throughout it a much larger amount of taRhine, and it alone indeed forms the theme and the construction there must be, either in shape or in the scantling lent, but the level is not so evenly maintained. The life of that host of literary journals, in which alone being less than is necessary for the weight of armament and sudden in-pouring of romance upon the natural curstores they have to carry. I think the information would the German can treat great social or national ques- be acceptable to many, from the interest excited by the rent of a natural and common-life tale, carries away tions. Menzel's school quite predominates, whilst untimely loss of the Fairy.-I am, sir, your obedient servant with it some sympathies that refuse to return, and the chiefs of the Gallican, or revolutionary school, and old subscriber, vexes others with a shade of doubt as to their entire are, the old dying off, the young forswearing such and perfect truthfulness. The hero never quite reallies and such principles. Börne is no more, and covers his position after he has been connected with Rotteck, the last of German politicians who worthe man of crime who figures in the second volume, shipped Lafayette, descended to the grave in the and in whom the limits between good and evil are last days of November. As to Heyne, he has given scarcely marked throughout with sufficient clearness no signs of life for some time. Sir,-It is believed that several of the persons, through and precision. Upon these points there should be Whilst such is the movement of the German whose neglect or misconduct the recent railway accidents no possible doubt, for they imply the extreme danger mind, the German Governments are busily engaged of the Companies. If not, I submit to the Directors that observed by one of the modern novelists of France, have been occasioned, were not dismissed from the service of suggesting a false sympathy with crime. It is well in the great work of uniting the country. They are the public have a right to expect this protection, feeble as running railroads through every province and part it is, against the recurrence of such calamities; and that it Dans tous les cas, c'est une grande faute à un auof it, Augsburg and Munich are united by one should in all cases be inflexibly and instantly adopted. teur de donner un principe généreux à des actions already. Frankfort will be speedily united with An employer is legally justified in doing so, even to a yearly detestables. Any tendency to a moral miscarriage Heidelberg and Basle. Berlin will be joined to wages (Spain v. Arnott, 2 Starkle's Reports, 250). Freservant, and without paying any portion of his current of that kind will be the more severely judged in a Cologne by a railroad, and, through Cologne, will deric, King of Prussia, went further. Observing that his book of the power and genius of this, where the be joined with Ostend. Plans and companies for soldiers' hats were frequently blown off during parade; he high standard by which it is tested and condemned, uniting North and South Germany, Nuremberg and gave notice that in future they should be punished for it. is already set up by the writer himself. the Danube, with the Saxon and Prussian railroad. His generals remonstrated, and said that the men could not The story opens with great beauty. The sociable, Frederic persisted-the effect, which he exare in progress; so that Germany in a few years will pected, followed; and he afterwards asked his generals careless, agreeable, half-starved parson, in the little rival England in facility of communication. Mea-how they accounted for the phenomenon, that the wind had Welsh village, by whom that private marriage is sures are taking, too, for the removal of those inter- much less power over soldiers' hats than it formerly had. But celebrated on which the whole web of the after national duties which still remained between North we may find a precedent in our own country. The Commis- interest is woven, moves before us in a series of and South, and survived the general regulations of invariably dismiss every officer in waiting, through whose The simple-hearted, cheerful man—having laughed sioners of Customs, when smuggling has been detected, exquisite touches worthy of the hand of Goldsmith. vigilance it might have been prevented. This may some. times appear hard; but were it not done, can any one doubt and run through all his little fortune when at college, we doubt that if Railroad Directors were to adopt a similar into the not uncomfortable enjoyment of an income that smuggling would be much more common? As little can and subsided, by the help of a happy disposition, rule, accidents would be less frequent. These worthy gen- somewhat less than he had once given to his groomclemen have probably been influenced by what is called humanity towards their careless servants they may called is preaching, angling, and doing good in his careless, given them a reproof; and had in return a promise of slovenly way, upon the humble living aforesaid the Tariff Union. FAILURES IN PARIS.-By a return of the failures which occurred in Paris during the year 1840, it appears they were 826 in number, and amounted to 49,595,000f. amount is merely ideal. The assets are set down at 32,886,000f., but this last prevent it. will!' A short passage will illustrate the object the writer seems to have had in view, in depicting this man of crime. "He was, in fact, the incarnation of that great spirit which the laws of the world raise up against the world, and by which the world's injustice, on a large scale, is awfully chastised; on a small scale, merely nibbled at and harassed, as the rat that gnaws the hoof of the elephant:-The spirit which, on a vast theatre, rises up, gigantic and sublime, in the heroes of war and revolution-in Mirabeaus, Marats, Napoleons; on a minor stage, it shows itself in demagogues, fanatical philosophers, and mob-writers; and on the forbidden boards, before whose reeking lamps outcasts sit, at once audience and actors, it never produced a knave more dignity, than William Gawtrey.” consummate in his part, or carrying it off with more buskined when an old associate of his college career suddenly | penetrated the retreat in which up to his uncle's M.'s suggestion)—that he has had the measles, cowpock, appears in the primitive little place to ask Caleb death he lived with the devoted wife who sacrificed and hooping-cough, which please let me know. If he behave well, which, at his age, we can easily break him into, he is Price to marry him privately to a girl of low birth, to his love even the purity of her name. He now settled for life. So now you have got rid of two mouths to whom he dares not publicly marry for the fear of tells the brother of the marriage, and the brother, feed, and have nobody to think of but yourself, which must offending a rich uncle. Caleb consents. His friend affecting to believe him, secretly thinks the avowal a be a great comfort." stays out the needful time of residence in the village, mere decent regard for appearances. Philip refers The reintroduction of these Mortons is well mais joined by the girl, married, and leaves poor Caleb to proofs in his possession which will clear up Ca- naged, and we were struck by the happy art, with -an altered man. therine's fame; the sleek Robert smiles incredulous which, at apparently careless intervals, some inci"Have you ever, my gentle reader, buried yourself for assent, and rankles with increased hate against the dent or person is suddenly introduced on the scene, some time quietly in the lazy ease of a dull country life? mother and her "bastards." The public celebration by which the existence of those needful proofs of have you ever become gradually accustomed to its monotony, of the marriage is fixed for an early day: on the the marriage on which the grand interest hangs, and inured to its solitude; and, just at the time when you morrow, Philip intimates he will ride over to the is never once permitted to droop in the mind of the have half-forgotten the great world-that mare magnum that frets and roars in the distance-have you ever received in nearest lawyer to talk over his wedding and his will reader. your calm retreat some visitor, full of the busy and excited at once; for the hale, thoughtless, active man, hav- We have not yet mentioned the master characters life which you imagined yourself contented to relinquish? ing had no thought of death, and hitherto little to in this novel. These are Lord Lilburne, and his natural If so, have you not perceived;-that in proportion as his leave, has not yet made a will. That morrow comes, granddaughter Fanny; the latter sprung from the presence and communication either revived old memories, or brought before you new pictures of the bright tumult of but it is a brief one; it leaves him no time for either daughter of the woman, by whose seduction Lilburne that existence of which your guest made a part, you will or wedding; it closes on his sudden death. had driven William Gawtry, her affianced lover and began to compare him curiously with yourself; you began He is thrown from a favourite horse as he forces it his own old college associate, into the ways of crime. to feel that what before was to rest, is now to rot; that to an unwilling leap. Robert's sallow cheek grows Gawtry plunges deeper and deeper into guilt, which your years are gliding from you unenjoyed and wasted; that the contrast between the animal life of passionate civili-bright as he mutters to himself— he has made no he consummates at last by a double murder and his zation and the vegetable torpor of motionless seclusion is own destruction. Lilburne remains in the safer one that, if you are still young, it tasks your philosophy to All this, with the affecting scenes which follow it, paths of mere vice, only adding to the villany of his bear, feeling all the while that the torpor may be yours to is told in the best style of natural and pathetic nar- youth the bloodless craft of the veteran knave; and your grave? And when your guest has left you, when you rative. It is impossible to imagine anything more while the wretched Gawtry, who dates from him are again alone, is the solitude the same as it was before?" truly interesting, or produced by simpler means. his infamy and crime, is yielding his miserable life So fares it with good Caleb, who had been sud- The change which at once falls on poor Philip as some compensation for the laws he has outraged, denly borne back by the buoyant spirits of his old Beaufort's family, is of course the basis of the after the accomplished Lilburne, flattered, courted, great, friend into the social parties, the merry suppers, adventures of the novel. The different action of and still protected by the laws he has been careful the riotous, thoughtless times of boyhood. the change on the children of the two brothers is to respect, moves through lines of bowing parasites "And Caleb was not a bookman-not a scholar; he had finely suggested. The Night is as little a real Night to an illustrious epitaph and a marble tomb. The no resources in himself, no occupation but his indolent and to the one, as the Morning is a veritable Morning to contrast has its lesson, though that which is written ill-paid duties. The emotions, therefore, of the Active Man were easily aroused within him. But if this comparison be- the other. The deterioration of Robert Beaufort's in the fate of William Gawtry should be read with tween his past and present life rendered him restless and good-hearted son by his sudden wealth, the ener- care, and not without some protest against parts of disturbed, how much more deeply and lastingly was he af-vating habits, the early death, are worked out with its treatment here. The double murder in the fected by a contrast between his own future and that of his admirable truth and force. The early struggles of forger's den, for example (a scene of prodigious friend! not in those points where he could never hope his cousin Philip, the hero of the book, are also power in itself), is an incident of confessed and inexequality, wealth, and station-the conventional distinctions to which, after all, a man of ordinary sense must sooner or given with very striking effect; and it is not till he cusable crime, and yet it is an aim in the after later reconcile himself but in that one respect wherein all, has followed his mother to her sad and premature progress of the story (an aim which is surely very high and low, pretend to the same rights, rights which a grave, that we observe a certain inconsistency in the questionable) to keep sympathy alive for the murman of moderate warmth of feeling can never willingly re-treatment of his character and the management of derer. nounce, viz. a partner in a lot, however obscure; a kind face by a hearth, no matter how mean it be! And his happier his fortunes, which interferes with the greatness and friend, like all men full of life, was full of himself-full of his simplicity of the general design. His very first action love, of his future, of the blessings of home, and wife, and after his mother's funeral is not in accordance with children. Then, too, the young bride seemed so fair, so that deep affection which characterises other parts confiding, and so tender; so formed to grace the noblest, or of his conduct. IIe burns his father's love-letters to cheer the humblest home! And both were so happy, so all in all each to each other, as they left that barren thres- to her, which he had found carefully treasured up hold! And the priest felt all this as, melancholy and among the things she left, and he gives away her envious, he turned from the door in that November day, to clothes to a servant. Now for the wardrobes of the find himself thoroughly alone. He now began seriously to rich, the four winds may claim them, and not one muse upon those fancied blessings which men wearied with celibacy see springing, heavenward, behind the altar. A generous impulse of the heart be scattered or wasted few weeks afterwards a notable change was visible in the in the division; but it is different with those of the good man's exterior. He became more careful of his dress, poor. There is an inexpressible sacredness in the he shaved every morning, he purchased a crop-eared Welsh scantiest vestment then; in the consciousness of cob; and it was soon known in the neighbourhood, that the its presence the wearer might almost seem to live only journey the cob was ever condemned to take was to the house of a certain squire, who, amidst a family of all ages, to us again. It is to be here observed, at the And now for the man of vice. He is a man of inboasted two very pretty marriageable daughters. That was same time, that the author may have had a settled tellect. Vice requires greater intellect than crime. the second holyday-time of poor Caleb the love-romance of purpose in throwing out traits of this kind here, He has ventured in politics, but found that kind of his life; it soon closed. On learning the amount of the for there is, throughout all that follows of the cha-fame not worth a head-ache, and gone back to his pastor's stipend, the squire refused to receive his addresses; racter, less of amiability than of wayward and ill-old system of pleasure. And every one believed and, shortly after, the girl to whom he had attached himself made what the world calls a happy match. And perhaps it regulated impulse; but the result is not altogether that he could have done what he liked, had he only was one, for I never heard that she regretted the forsaken agreeable, and tends to transfer the interest which lover. Perhaps Caleb was not one of those whose place in a Philip claims from us at first, to the account of woman's heart is never to be supplied. The lady married, other and inferior agents in the book. Before we laughed at the world to its face,-and that was, after all, the "Yet he had done nothing, he had read but little, he the world went round as before, the brook danced as merrily through the village, the poor worked the week-days, and the pass to these, it will suffice to remark, that after main secret of his ascendancy over those who were drawn urchins gambolled round the grave-stones on the Sabbath, much vicissitude and many alternating shades of into his circle. That contempt of the world placed the world and the curate's heart was broken. He languished gra- night and morning, the good fame of Catherine at his feet. His sardonic and polished indifference, his produally and silently away. The villagers observed that he Beaufort is established, and her children restored to fessed code that there was no life worth caring for but his had lost his old good-humoured smile, that he did not stop their inheritance. own life, his exemption from all cant, prejudice, and disguise, every Saturday evening at the carrier's gate to ask if there the frigid lubricity with which he glided out of the grasp of were any news stirring in the town which the carrier weekly Among the happiest sketches of the book are the Conventional, whenever it so pleased him, without shockvisited; that he did not come to borrow the stray news those of Mr Roger Morton-poor Catherine's bro-ing the Decorums whose sense is in their ear, and who are papers that now and then found their way into the village; ther-and his vulgar wife. Bound by the promise not roused by the deed but by the noise,—all this had in it that, as he sauntered along the brook-side, his clothes hung to Philip not to avow the marriage, her supposed vulgar; for little minds give importance to the man who the marrow and essence of a system triumphant with the loose on his limbs, and that he no longer whistled as he disgrace has separated her from her own family, and gives importance to nothing. Lord Lilburne's authority, not went;' alas, he was no longer in want of thought! By when hard necessity in her day of trial obliges her in matters of taste alone, but in those which the world calls degrees, the walks themselves were suspended; the parson was no longer visible; a stranger performed his duties." to make an appeal to Roger's benevolence, it is too judgment and common sense, was regarded as an oracle. He The object for which this marriage was privately late to make him believe the assurances of her un-cared not a straw for the ordinary baubles that attract his celebrated, is attained by Philip Beaufort. The sullied name. It may be unsuliled, but the proof of order; he had refused both a step in the peerage and the garter, and this was often quoted in his honour. But you second chapter of the book opens, after a lapse the pudding is in the eating with him, and he has no only try a man's virtue when you offer him something that of some years, with his inheritance of the fortune, faith in a thing for which there is nothing to show. he covets. The earldom and the garter were to Lord Lilwhich, but for the concealment of his union with Yet Mr Morton, who is a substantial and very honest burne no more tempting inducements than a doll or a skipCatherine Morton, must have passed to his younger tradesman in a country town, is quite ready to do ping-rope; had you offered him an infallible cure for the brother. This younger brother is drawn with mas- whatever is right and proper, provided he may do it out, or an antidote against old age, you might have hired him, as your lackey, on your own terms. Lord Lilburne's terly ease and completeness. He is a thoroughly in his own vulgar way. He writes to tell his poor next heir was the son of his only brother, a person entirely reputable, plausible, respectable man; a man of ap-sister, therefore, in answer to her application, that dependant on his uncle. Lord Lilburne allowed him 1,000%. pearances. The contrast of person in the brothers he will take her eldest son off her hands at once and a-year, and kept him always abroad in a diplomatic situation. well marks the difference of character. apprentice him to a stationer in the neighbourhood; He looked upon his successor as a man who wanted power, but not inclination, to become his assassin. ... An"Philip Beaufort was about five-and-forty, tall, robust, and he sends her ten pounds, with an intimation other way by which this man had acquired reputation for nay, of great strength of frame and limb; with a counte- that when that is out, he will see what more he can ability was this, he never pretended to any branch of knownance extremely winning, not only from the comeliness of do. But one or two brief extracts from this letter ledge of which he was ignorant, any more than to any virtue its features, but its frankness, manliness, and good-nature. will paint to a nicety both Mr and Mrs Roger in which he was deficient. Honesty itself was never more His was the bronzed, rich complexion, the inclination free from quackery or deception than was this embodied and toward embonpoint, the athletic girth of chest, which denote walking VICE. If the world chose to esteem him, he did redundant health, and mirthful temper, and sanguine blood. "You cannot expect that I should ask you to my house. not buy its opinion by imposture. No man ever saw Lord Robert, who had lived the life of cities, was a year younger My wife, you know, is a very religious woman-what is Lilburne's name in a public subscription, whether for a new than his brother; nearly as tail, but pale, meagre, stooping, called evangelical; but that's neither here nor there: I deal church, or a Bible society, or a distressed family,—no man and with a care-worn, anxious, hungry look, which mane with all people, churchm n and dissenters-even Jews, ever heard of his doing one generous, benevolent, or kindly the smile that hang upon his lips seem hollow and artificial. aad don't trouble my head much about differences in opinion. action,-no man was ever startled by one philosophical, His dress, though plain, was neat and studied; his manner, I dare say there are many ways to heaven; as I said, the pious, or amiable sentiment from those mocking lips. Yet, bland and plausible; his voice, sweet and low: there was other day, to Mr.Thwaites, our member. But it is right to in spite of all this, John Lord Lilburne was not only that about him which, if it did not win liking, tended to say my wife will not hear of your coming here; and, indeed, teemed but liked by the world, and sat up in the chair of its excite respect a certain decorum, a nameless propriety of it might do harm to my business, for there are several Rhadamanthuses. In a word, he seemed to Vaudemont, and appearance and bearing, that approached a little to for- elderly single gentlewomen, who buy flannel for the poor at he was so in reality, a brilliant example of the might of Cir mality: his every movement, slow and measured, was that my shop, and they are very particular; as they ought to be, cumstance-an instance of what may be done in the way of of one who paced in the circle that fences round the habits indeed: for morals are very strict in this county, and par-reputation and influence by a rich, well-born man, to whom and usages of the world." ticularly in this town, where we certainly do pay very high the will a kingdom is. Al They are together in Philip's house on the day church-rates. As to the little chap, I'll take him would have made his little of genius, and Lord Lilburne notorious and his deficiencies after his inheritance of his uncle's fortune. Philip at once. You say he is a pretty boy; and a pretty boy is glaring; a little of heart, and his habits would have led him has two children, on whose birth a stain had of share with my own young folks; and Mrs Morton will take lead and the stone that, like the lean poet in a gale of wind, always a help in a linen-draper's shop. He shall share and into countless follies and discreditable scrapes. It was the course been affixed, by such of the world as had care of his washing and morals. I conclude-(this is Mrs he carried about him, that preserved his equilibrium, ne Morton. stuck to it. the world which presented, to every detection of his want rascal and the other a great man.' Let us hear himself, however, in a lecture on his own character to his confidential valet. matter which way the breeze blew. But all his qualities, which circumstance being duly noted, there is | In the ceremonies at the opening of the Derby Arbopositive or negative, would have availed him nothing without little more to say. The chatty and disjointed style retum, the account of which is judiciously appended to that position which enabled him to take his ease in that inn; of Mr Priggins tells best in a magazine, but he is the catalogue of its contents and description of its arrange intrinsic nobleness, the irreproachable respectability of a too cheerful and observant to be a stupid compa- ment, there is anything but coldness manifest. On the high name, a splendid mansion, and a rent-roll without a nicn anywhere. There is no story in the book, contrary, the gratitude of the people of Derby-their aw Vaudemont drew comparisons between Lilburne and but plenty of whim and amusement; and for all tentions, are truly affecting and heart-cheering. Here enthusiastic appreciation of the kind donor's spirit and inGawtrey, and he comprehended at last, why one was a low readers who like to laugh, and who can bear to see are the joiners, the printers, the brushmakers, the ribandto the ludicrous exaggerations incident to great societies, in procession with banners and music, united to a writer laughing too-that is, who do not object weavers, and all the odd fellows in all manner of animal spirits we confidently "Now, the difference between vice and crime is this: these college experiences of the rattling, quiz-children's comfort, and that of their children's children! recommend hail with delight this accession to their own and their Vice is what parsons write sermons against,-Crime is what we make laws against. I never committed a crime in all my zical, whimsical, and very shrewd, Oxford scout Here are upwards of eight or nine thousand people, life, at an age between fifty and sixty I am not going to assembled with the utmost gaiety in the garden newly begin. Vices are safe things; I may have my vices like He has one great advantage in this elevation from made and filled with choice and beautiful shrubs, maniother men: but crimes are dangerous things-illegal things his magazine corner into general society. He is festing what Mr Loudon calls almost miraculous care and -things to be carefully aloided. Look you' (and here the illustrated by the clever and facile Phiz with twelve attention, and showing, according to the same testimony, speaker, fixing his puzzled listener with his eye, broke into a grin of sublime mockery), let me suppose you to be the designs of broad and effective humour. This comic to them!" Here also are many other evidences of pleaa population worthy of the noble gift that has been made World-that cringing valet of valets the WORLD! I should artist has hit off some of the less learned pecu-sant times at Derby, both for the young and old, that it liarities of Oxford capitally well, and can afford to cheers the heart to dwell upon! be reminded that college men do not generally sit over their wine with their caps on. I hundred young daughters, that's vice, your servant, Mr and bedmaker. say to you this," My dear World, you and I understand each other well, we are made for each other, I never come in your way, nor you in mine. If I get drunk every day in my own room, that's vice, you can't touch me; if take an extra glass for the first time in my life, and knock Mr Hook's duties of editorship do not seem to down the watchman, that's a crime which, if I am rich, costs have been very severe. They are comprised in an me one pound--perhaps five pounds; if I am poor, sends me advertisement of sixteen lines, in which he remarks to the tread-mill. If I break the hearts of five hundred old that when he saw the first paper of Mr Priggins, fathers, by buying with gold or flattery the embraces of five he was satisfied that he would be duly appreciated, flowers, that skirt so ornamentally and cheerfully our World! If one termagant wench scratches my face, makes and that now he sees them all, he is sure that the a noise, and goes brazen-faced to the Old Bailey to swear to writer will not upon a future occasion discredit the her shame, why, that's crime, and my friend, Mr World, reputation he has in the present instance so justly, pulls a hemp-rope out of his pocket." Now, do you under- &c., &c., &c., &c. All of which is gratifying and And therefore this Lord Lilburne had his illustri- extremely editorial, and no doubt it is a matter ous epitaph and his marble tomb. His contrast with fatory puff, to say nothing of the profit on of great pride with Mr Priggins to get this preRobert Beaufort is one of the triumphs of the author, and at the last, in the chapter which winds up the various fortunes of the tale, he is simply referred stand?"" to thus. both sides. The Second Funeral of Napoleon, and the Chro- "Crime is punished from without. If Vice is punished more after Philip's hint.... are not a failure, it is an absence of agreement We are glad, too, that in carrying out the plan of the pleasure ground at Derby, the founder called in the aid of one who could enter with so much spirit into his designs, and complete them with so much judgment-like Mr Loudona name irrepressibly associated in our minds with the pleasant villas, the neat gardens, the bright shrubs have been grouped at Mr Loudon's suggestion, dusky towns. In the Derby Arboretum the trees and according to their orders and families, thus attracting attention to their character and history, while no injury is done to the picturesque, and in walking through the grounds the most heedless observer must find science inthe catalogue before us in his hand. We conceive from sensibly interwoven with pleasure, especially if he have the plan that the walks also and seats are judiciously disposed, with a view to general effect and the heightening of enjoyment from the perception of taste. The ground houses in Hyde Park gardens, into small plots and interis not cut up, for instance, like the spaces before the new sections, giving a patchy and undignified appearance, where it was evidently desirable to give and preserve an open and somewhat majestic character, such as we find in the gardens and grounds of Hampton Court-a characwhich is all that a flat surface admits of, and which the ter derived from broad walks and bold continued lines, Dutch, from familiarity with such surface, know best how "But, if no thunderbolt falls on Lord Lilburne's head-if sant companion for the promenade through such an arboto appreciate. The catalogue itself must be a very pleahe is fated still to eat, and drink, and die on his bed, he may retum. Even the perusal of it by the winter's fire shames yet taste the ashes of the Dead Sea fruit which his hands have culled. He is grown old. His infirmities increase the unskilled in botany, the listless occupant of this bright upon him; his sole resources of pleasure-the senses-are domain of earth, which the Creator has filled with herbs, dried up. For him there is no longer savour in the viands, or sparkle in the wine,-man delights him not, nor woman "pleasant to the sight and good for food," by calling his neither. He is alone with Old Age, and in sight of Death." attention to the many beauties of structure, form, and Fanny is of the school of Alice, but neither a copy colour, inviting his notice and offering amusement in the nor a repetition of that delightful character. She is red cap, turning his solemn brown face about, and looking somehow have brought from Paradise, and to love which "Look there! there is the Turkish ambassador, in his trees and leaves and flowers, the seeds of which Adam must supposed to be an idiot, but the unsettled wandering preternaturally wise. The Deputies walk in in a body. is as it were to enter Paradise again. Here we find many of her mind is the struggle of unconscious genius Guizot is not there; he passed by just now, in full ministerial a delightful bit of information connected with familiar with dreary and untoward circumstance. Extreme costume. Presently, little Thiers saunters back. What a shrubs that endear them more closely to our esteem, like subtlety of observation is visible through the whole clear, broad, sharp-eyed face the fellow has, with his grey friends narrowly escaped from danger. Thus the comhair cut down so demure! A servant passes, pushing mon laurel was nearly lost for several years, but in 1629 of this fine picture; originality and truth are in every through the crowd a shabby wheel chair. It has just brought found its way to England, and was preserved in the garpart of it. One short scene in a village churchyard old Monçey, the Governor of the Invalides, the honest old den of James Cole, at Highgate, a great lover of all rarities, will show the relation into which she is thrown in man who defended Paris so stoutly in 1814. He has been who preserved it during the winter by covering it with a the latter scenes of the book, and the kind of inte- very ill, and is worn down almost by infirmities; but in his blanket. From the plant so preserved all the millions illness he was perpetually asking—Doctor, shall I live till the 15th? Give me till then, and I die contented.' One in British gardens, Mr Loudon tells us, have descended. can't help believing that the old man's wish is honest, how. From the remembrance of the superstition connected with ever one may doubt the piety of another illustrious marshal the mountain ash or rowan tree, Mr Loudon advocates who once carried a candle before Charles X, in a procession, the correction of a passage in Macbeth, commonly printed and has been this morning to Neuilly to kneel and pray at "Aroint thee! witch!" into "A rown tree, witch!" the foot of Napoleon's coffin. He might have said his prayers We have also pithy and pleasant notices of the familiar at home, to be sure; but don't let us ask too much; that household friends, the jasmine, the periwinkle, the heakind of reserve is not a Frenchman's characteristic." ther, and more lengthened and dignified descriptions, as becomes them, of the oak, the elm, the birch, and other grave patricians of the forest. In short, the Derby Arboretum, in its design, plan, and accompaniments, seems the fitting model of a pleasure ground, and we trust it will serve as such for other towns, whose agremens, thus innocent, thus admirable, will recal and justify the epithet of 'merry England." We hope, too, it is true, as newspapers have intimated, that the Duke of Norfolk has acres for similar purposes to the town of Sheffield. seconded the good precedent by a similar grant of fifty rest awakened in her fate. on. "There was a crowd already assembled, and Vaudemont and Fanny paused; and, leaning over the little gate, looked "Why are these people here, and why does the bell ring so merrily:' "There is to be a wedding, Fanny.' "I have heard of a wedding very often,' said Fanny, with a pretty look of puzzlement and doubt, but I don't know exactly what it means. Will you tell me?—and the bells, too?' We have room for one glimpse at a little batch of mourners: The Chronicle of the Drum is a serious ballad of considerable power, and no inconsiderable length, "Yes, Fanny, those bells toll but three times for man! in which a French soldier is supposed to recount, The first time, when he comes into the world; the last time, in the experiences of his grandfather, his father, and when he leaves it; the time between, when he takes to his himself, the various wars in which France has beat side a partner in all the sorrows-in all the joys that yet remain to him; and who, even when the last bell announces or been beaten, since the days of Turenne and his death to this earth, may yet, for ever and for ever, be his Marlborough to those of Napoleon and Wellington. partner in that world to come-that heaven, where they Through this ballad there flows an under-current of who are as innocent as you, Fanny, may hope to live and manly satire, but we miss the ordinary impartiality to love each other in a land where there are no graves!' "And this bell?' of Mr Titmarsh, and find a most John Bullish Franco-mania in its stead. So descendeth even a Titmarsh from the elevation of a wise indifferenceso tumbleth, like common men, into the clutches of a prevailing epidemic. "Tolls for that partnership-for the wedding!" "I think I understand you; and they who are to be wed are happy!' "Happy, Fanny, if they love, and their love continue. Oh! conceive the happiness to know some one person dearer to you than your own self-some one breast into which you The Derby Arboretum; containing a Catalogue of the 66 THEATRICAL EXAMINER. The Haymarket closed its regular season on Friday can pour every thought, every grief, every joy! One person, night. It opened on Saturday for the acting manawho, if all the rest of the world were to calumniate or forsake ger's benefit, and, by the Lord Chamberlain's peryou, would never wrong you by a harsh thought or an unjust Loudon, F.L.S. Longman and Co. 1840. mission, resumes on Monday for an after season of word,-who would cling to you the closer in sickness, in poTerty, in care, who would sacrifice all things to you, and for We can scarcely conceive any purer source of grati- two months. In other words, this theatre is to be whom you would sacrifice all-from whom, except by death, fication to a benevolent man than that of being able to open all the year round. Change of seasons it is night nor day, can you ever be divided-whose smile is ever survey from his own window, or to picture through the not to know. It is to have one perpetual season. at your hearth-who has no tears while you are well and eye of his mind, a spot of ground tastefully disposed and Its doors are never to shut-till the proprietor is happy, and your love the same. Fanny, such is marriage, if ornamented, and filled with groups of happy people, to tired of keeping them open. All of which we they who marry have hearts and souls to feel that there is whose health and happiness he may be said to have con- rejoice at, because we look upon it as an irrecoverable no bond on earth so tender and so sublime. There is an secrated the beauties of his creation. Such may be the blow to one of the absurdest things in the worldopposite picture;-I will not draw that!-And as it is, felicity of Mr Joseph Strutt, of Derby, of whose generous a monopoly, which, if both the great theatres were Fanny, you cannot understand me!" rain upon the grass below;-he did not see them!" of his townsfolk the pamphlet before us furnishes a record We had marked other extracts, but must find munificent mode of its manifestation. Rare indeed it must be in the as delightful as it is rare. other opportunities of using them. What we have We understand that only a few copies of this pamphlet already given are in themselves a sufficient proof have been printed, chiefly for the use of those who are to that Night and Morning will richly add to the enjoy the Arboretum. We are glad, however, to see and well-earned reputation of Sir Edward Bulwer. notice it, because it enables us to enter fully into all the pleasant feelings which accompanied the original presenEdited by tation of the noble gift. "He turned away and Fanny's tears were falling like and enlightened regard for the welfare and improvement bear-gardens or concert-rooms to-morrow, would cry Robbery at the bare proposal of a third theatre, for neither bears nor concerts, but simply for the performance of Shakspeare. Money is still the attraction at the Haymarket. At Covent Garden the Christmas folks still flock to the pantomime, which shows in a remarkable manner the force of old habits. They look grave at the dreary entertainment, it is true, but they go away with the happy consciousness of having done their duty. It is the most gratifying proof that has yet fallen in our way of the thorough vitality of these good old holiday customs. |