TALES OF THE HALL. It is stated in the Chronicle that this Mr Benja-Plunkett to retire should have suppressed the ex- preference to the cheaper commodity of other counmin Bond Cabbell's benefactions are not at his own pressions of complaint and resentment which have tries, do expend a portion of their unjust gains to cost, but defrayed by some trust-fund. We know not very decorously followed his resignation. not whether this allegation be true or not; but supposing that the subscriptions have been from his own pocket, we yet cannot entertain any respect for a man who blazons his charity. We must always suspect that the charity which proclaims itself is wanting in the true spirit of charity, and that it is but the cloak for some interested purpose, In this list of Mr Benjamin Bond Cabbell's subscriptions, for example, we see but so many counters confirmed her. for the electioneering game. Lord Mountcashell has addressed a letter to the Times, in which he vouches for the truth of the tale told by him at Exeter Hall about the lady tre panned into a house of an infamous description, and her encountering there the clergyman who had assist in relieving the misery they create. The Scottish proprietors have made up their minds to resist any attempt to diminish the amount of their spoil by the restoration of a similar portion to the plundered. The difference between the New English Poor Law and the Poor Law of Scotland may be clearly and emphatically stated thus: spreading the amount of the Poor-rates in each country over the whole number of the inhabitants, the amount that is paid by each human being in England is The morality of his Lordship's letter is not a just five times as much as that paid by each human Every one who proposes to himself to humbug little curious. Nothing can be gentler than his being in Scotland. The sum annually expended on the world in any way makes a point of appearing blame of the clergyman, his Lordship contenting the poor of Scotland is 150,0007.; if the expendias a subscriber to public charities. This is so well himself with saying that he should never have put ture were on the same scale with that of the New understood, that in works of fiction the hypocrite his foot within the walls of the house, but that in Poor Law in England, it would reach 800,000Z.! is invariably made notorious for his public benefac- other respects he acted a praiseworthy and honour- It is only within the past eighteen months that tions, which make an essential part of his stock in able part. Why, if we are to believe the story, the sufferings of the poor of Scotland have been trade for imposture. The crafty and designing per- which we do not, we must believe that the clergy-made a subject of public discussion, and what has form the actions of the virtuous that they may pass man was in the infamous house for the purpose of been the result? Two associations have been for the virtuous; but the difference between the the ruin of the innocent; but his victim happening formed, one of which, in correspondence with the two is soon observable in this-that the virtuous to be a person who knew him, how could he dare magistrates and inhabitants of the towns, calls for are content with the satisfaction belonging to their persist in his villany without subjecting himself to a revision of the system, for the purpose of bringgood deeds, and the hypocrites make a parade of exposure and punishment? There was nothing ing it more nearly on a level with that of England; them, to turn them to the account for which they praiseworthy, then, in his abandoning his wicked while the other, consisting of the landed proprietors were always intended. intentions,-it was but the course of common pru- the bread-taxers-is constituted for the purpose This Mr Benjamin Bond Cabbell, the Tooke of dence. But how happened it that the young lady of resisting any attempt at amendment. Nay, if it Marylebone, who makes such profession of his cha- understood so well the sort of place into which she is fair to judge from the documents which this rity, is charged by a correspondent of the Chronicle had been inveigled? The people of the place of latter body has issued, the landed proprietors go with having been a party to the intimidation of an infamy would not have alarmed her, or put her on still further-they are in a state of great alarm lest honest tradesman. The man of exceeding charity her guard, by apprising her of the character of they may have already incurred grievous sin in has, it seems, no aversion to oppression. their den; and the clergyman, when he saw in her submitting to any provision being made for the But if this Mr Cabbell were as charitable as he one who knew him, would scarcely have betrayed poor, however small. As an illustration of the would make the world believe him to be, the queshimself by making her acquainted with the pur- serious character of their misgivings, one quotation tion for the electors of Marylebone would still be, pose for which he was there. He might have de- from a document issued along with their report whether charity was the only qualification they vised a hundred pretexts for taking her away with- will suffice: there is only one objection to it, that had to require in a representative? A legislator out telling her the shameful truth. it might have given a clearer exposition of the whose vote may ameliorate the condition of society, Again we repeat, that we do not believe a syl- benefits of starvation, and might have put the theand prevent or diminish want, is to be preferred to lable of the story-Lord Mountcashell has been ological deduction in so distinct a shape as to have one whose only merit is the relief of distress within duped. Such atrocities do happen, but not with enabled the people of England to decide whether his narrow sphere. If the House of Commons such circumstances as are imagined in this most they have or have not been committing a great were filled with these Cabbells, or Gabbles, how improbable tale. But let us hear Lord Mount-national sin in providing for their poor. But here miserably would their tens or hundreds in charities cashell :is the passage: atone for the want and misery they would produce "No blame of any kind could be attributed to the friend "True, the Scriptures enjoin, and emphatically enforce, by damaging commerce and industry to the extent of the young lady, and the clergyman, though he ought never the duty of charity-though, as has just been shown, not to of annual millions. For one whom they relieved tion, acted on the occasion a praiseworthy and honourable deserving poor, is it possible to found on these Scriptural to have put a foot within the walls of a house of the descrip- all the indigent indiscriminately. But, even as regards the by their pitiful doles, they would beggar thousands. part. When referring to the facts, I had no intention what-injunctions of charity as either commanding or recognizing a Of Mr Benjamin Bond Cabbell's co-candidate, ever of casting any odium on the clergy of our church; my legal provision for the poor by compulsory assessment ? | InSir J. Hamilton, we know nothing. How is it that simple object being to prove the necessity of public exertion deed it is manifest, both from the nature and the effects of his charities also are not advertised? If he has to put down these iniquitous establishments for the ruin of an assessment, that it is scarcely consistent with the Word not prepared himself like his colleague with public metropolis. The names of the parties will never be divulged, offerings-not to contributions levied and extracted by the youth and innocence, which are daily increasing in this of God, which clearly refers only to voluntary or spontaneous benefactions, can he not publish a list of the pennies and the young lady would not only be guilty of a base breach arm of law." and twopences he has given at such and such times of promise, but be wanting in a proper sense of gratitude, if Now some people will say that this is fanaticism, to beggars. How it is that Sir J. Hamilton is to ever she told the name of her protector. The occurrence is and others will say it is cruelty lurking under come in under the skirt of Mr Cabbell's benefac-not more surprising than another that has come to my know hypocrisy; but it is in reality neither so much of tions we do not understand, unless upon an exten-circumstances. But when such adventures happen, for pru- the one, or of the other, as of shrewd selfish policy. ledge, which took place at Almack's under nearly similar sion of the maxim, that charity covers a multitude dential reasons every exertion is made to hush them up. I In Scotland a parochial settlement is created by a of sins. color now ask, ought such practices in a civilized and a Christian residence of three years; and as there is in the country to be tolerated, and is no exertion to be made to towns a public opinion which will not admit of people being starved to death, the bread-taxers think it better to let the poor who are born and than to support them out of the produce of the brought up on their estates resort to the towns, Amongst the sins to be covered by Mr Benjamin Bond Cabbell's advertised charities are profane inVocations and very foul abuse. At a meeting at Paddington, this charitable gentleman was heard to use this decent language "If you fear God and value your immortal souls, send me and Sir James Hamilton to Parliament. The Whigs and Radicals are a contemptible crew-they are impertinent fel lows, and I hate them as I hate the lowest depths of hell." Mr Cabbell's partisans denied that these words were used by him, but Mr Cross, of Praed street, and other gentlemen, have vouched to the Editor of the Chronicle for the correctness of the report. Bhí LORD PLUNKETT'S RETIREMENT. stem the torrent of vice ?” But Lord Mountcashell is the very man who will is for hushing up "the adventure," as he styles it, make no exertion to stem the torrent of vice. He though exposure is the only punishment which can bread-tax. repress such immoralities. He proclaims, too, his If it were merely in as far as it is a burden thrown knowledge of another case, "an adventure"-to use off the shoulders of the country gentlemen upon his word at Almack's, but which he does not those of the citizens, the present Poor Law of Scotvouchsafe to publish. Perhaps he reserves it for the next year's meeting at Exeter Hall, to stimulate subscriptions, which seems a purpose nearer to his heart than the ends of moral justice. land is a system which the town constituencies should call upon their new representatives to assist in amending-it is a matter of policy that they should do so, independently of the claims of mercy "I on no account regret that the story I related has at- and justice. When we consider the extent to which tracted public attention, as it may serve to induce many to the New English Poor Law has been used as a come forward and support with their talents and their purses political engine, it is wonderful that in Parliament those societies which are engaged in protecting the morals At the age of nearly eighty Lord Plunkett has of our people. With respect to myself, I am willing to incur the total inefficiency of the Scottish system has been induced to retire from the Chancellorship of the blame of the wicked and the lukewarm, if I can at any been so completely overlooked. Only one member Ireland, and Sir John Campbell has been appointed time promote the cause of religion and morality." for Scotland, and he an Englishman, Mr Edward in his place, with an understanding that he is not Lord Mountcashell has done nothing to promote Ellice, jun., has entered on the subject. He atto have a pension. This arrangement has caused the cause of religion and morality by telling this tempted to turn the inquiries of the Highland Emia great explosion of wrath. Lord Plunkett is very story. He has thrown out a charge which may gration Committee in that direction, as a means of angry, the Irish Bar was very angry, and the Irish be supposed to apply to a hundred innocent clergy-explaining the origin of the destitution complained press was very abusive, and railed against the men. He has, as the Times very correctly states, of, but was to a great extent baffled by the perseintrusion of "foreigners," appropriating to its published just so much of the story as is scan- vering opposition of other members for Scotland. uses the language for which it has not more vehe" dalous, and suppressed just what it might be We trust, both for the sake of humanity, and of mently than justly censured Lord Lyndhurst. "most useful to the public to know." the preservation of Scotland from the disorganizing The storm was loud, but it is quickly blowing In all such cases the suppression of the wrong-effects of national destitution, that the town conover. The denounced job turns out to be no job, doer's name is undue indulgence to the guilty, and stituencies will send some representatives to Paras Sir John Campbell will not take a pension; and cruel injustice to all of his class upon whom suspi-liament who will look to this matter. as for the appointment of an English lawyer to the cion may fall. Irish Bar, the same thing has been done before without the same offence. All must admit that, on the score of legal qualification, Sir John Campbell is unexceptionable. Our only surprise is that he should have wished for the office.ne CORN LAWS AND POOR LAWS IN The principle that starvation on a large scale is As for Lord Plunkett, nothing shall provoke us to a good thing is brought to a far more abstract perspeak of him in other terms than those of respect. fection by the landed proprietors of Scotland than We have occasionally questioned the fitness of his by those of England. The latter, while they insist steps when in power, but the respect which tem-that their own costly bread shall be purchased in pered our strictures then is felt with greater force by us now. PARTY HONOUR.-A letter addressed to a Liberal Peer was mis-delivered to a Tory Peer, opened, read, and sent to the nobleman for whom it was intended. Within a few hours the contents, which related to an election, were known at the Carlton Club, and the exact words of the letter were quoted. The accident of opening a mis-delivered letter and reading it might occur to any one, but the A writer in the Standard observes:-" Has not Lord sentiment of honour has, up to the time of this Mountcashell permitted his simplicity to be imposed upon by occurrence, forbidden the tongue to reveal what the We shall allow ourselves but one observation. the pious fraud of some anile fabulist, or rather resuscitator eye has not been privileged to peruse. Have the Lord Plunkett explains, that when he was requested of fables? The story to which the noble lord gives the extremities of electioneering necessities altered this to retire, gratitude to the person making the re-sanction of his respectable name is a fiction of, I doubt not, rule, and is honour an impediment renounced in quest compelled him to comply, though he felt at least a century old. I am sure that I read it sixty years this contest? If such things can be done by one insulted by the application. Now surely the same believe, however, in Charles Johnson's Adventures of ago, though at this moment I cannot positively say where-I nobleman towards another, heaven help the poor strong sense of gratitude which compelled Lord Guinea."" noters who have to do with men of so unscrupulous a party. It is hard to suppose at what men would stop who think it allowable to publish the contents of a private letter, which by an accident has fallen into their hands. THE TORY CANDIDATES FOR THE CITY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) Queen of the office of guardian, should she marry again, since the royal property would then be transferred to the offspring of her private marriage. Christina is precisely She has married again, and has a family in this case. bly experience a financial crisis, deeply wounding to her credit and prosperity. Hence there prevails a considerable anxiety, and a sincere wish, that Mehemet may at once accept the new offers made to him. M. Guizot sincerely wishes it, and the Should the debate run high, these motives will be alleged. French Consul at Alexandria, are as imperative and old commission. But the clause that is to regulate the instructions sent to Count Rohan Chabot, the The tariff question has also been brought to a close, by the vote of the reforms and diminutions recommended by the pressing as can be. Austria, too, and Prince Met-importation of the two important articles of cotton and We are sorry to see merchants and gentlemen of the sta- ternich, who are both of them as timid and Gallican corn, is adjourned till the next meeting of the Cortes, tion to which the Tory candidates for the city of London in 1841; as they were valiant and Gallophage in which will be in some months. The Ministry will then belong, degrading themselves to the common trickery of poli- 1840, has used her utmost influence in Constanti-be obliged to bring it forward. tical adventurers. It would far better become them, and accord with the respect due to the constituency, to speak nople to render favourable the new condition to be out their principles plainly, and abide the issue of an honest offered to Mehemet. These conditions are indeed appeal to the judgment of the electors. The practices, how-as favourable as he could require, except, perhaps, ever, to which they descend, show their own opinion of the as far as regards the amount of tribute. And Auscause in which they are embarked. On Monday Mr Lyall tria has obtained, that the sum demanded shall not told the electors of the ward of Farringdon-Within, that he THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Music and Manners in France and Germany. By was, and "had been throughout his whole life, an advocate be peremptory, but that the Turkish Envoy shall member of the House of Commons, voted against the policy Turkey resembles a sick individual, around CONTINENTAL POLITICS. (From our own Correspondent.) FRANCE AND THE LEVANT. France and England have been mutually waging for the last year a financial war, one effect of which has been to increase tenfold the difficulties of government in both countries. SPAIN. The installation of Espartero as Regent has Some of its effects raised up against him and against his Government in England are too clearly and too recently before a host of enemies, which he seems fully prepared the public to need recapitulation. In France the and determined to resist firmly, but calmly. The Finance Minister has quite as hard a task. Not- Pope, the French, the Carlists, and the Eastern Powers, withstanding the enormous increase of expenditure, the Moderates at home, the manufacturer of Catalonia, there is no new tax that he durst invent. For even and the financiers of Madrid, all unite to attack Espar. his straining of the old, so as to wring the last tero's Government. The French have refused to pay the penny legally from the tax-payer, is raising a storm Spanish Carlists any longer, and of course can no longer In the provinces, far louder than the mock-storms confine them. Cabrera, therefore, has announced his of war, which the press alone excited through the intention of trying once more the fortune of war. This One of Mr Chorley's few direct remarks of this nature, we are happy to quote: "While exciting our energies for the diffusion of Music, as a desirable and attainable household guest, we shall la make it a thing of daily love and custom, and not of show. bour in vain till something is done towards rendering it independent of all cumber, and formality, and expense; to We have better voices than the Germans, and a fair musical organization; but the scientific training of patient study is not less wanting among us, than the social support of a easily; and by detaching it from an exclusive association system of manners which shall give room to the art to move with paid and public exhibitions, deliver it from the undistinguishing ban under which Intellect and Morality have so unfairly placed it." This is a subject to which attention has been of late directed, as our readers are no doubt aware, by the Privy Council of Education. We hear on all hands the best account of the progress of what is called Wilhelm's method of singing at sight, and in large classes, as it is at present taught and conducted by Mr Hullah. Mr Chorley, who bears testimony to the skill and competence of that gentleman, has some notice of what he observed in Paris, concerning the system and its effects: "I have heard charity children, at a tender age, singing difficult musical compositions at sight, with a certainty and clearness beyond the reach of the generality of the English profession, and totally at variance with the slightest idea of operatives of Paris, when their day's work was over, throng empiricism. I have seen, also, the pale, greasy, grimy ing together eagerly, in bodies of one or two hundred, not only to receive instruction in an art which was to amuse them as innocently, at least, as the Sunday dance, on the strength of which France so long set itself forth as an their capacities for learning elicited, and that in a manner Arcadia of gaiety-but also to lay up self-respect by having which brought them on a neutral ground with those clothed with purple and fine linen. It is surely no light service done to humanity, when the great classes of society, without displacement, are taught that they have not only senses, but spirits, in common,' The service of that kind is not light indeed-and less so to art itself. Its greatest success, in all its elevated forms, has still waited upon its directly influencing the whole habits of a people. It is not till the critical admiration of a few gives way to the enthusiasm of the mass, that art can ever hope to reach towards its highest development. Mr Chorley's critical remarks are for the most part good and thoroughly sound, though it is easy to detect the personal influences that have now and then been at work with him. We all recollect the friendly opinion, the return 'in kind,' of honest Carmine. "Let me tell you, sir, he that took my Susannah for a Guido gave no mighty proofs of his ignorance, Mr Puff." So might the good Madame over the market, both he and the capitalists, who of the successful general to the first office in the State was traveller. We must also regret the importance Mr are to engage in it, waiting for the solution of the certainly the best way of defying Carlism. The Moderates are in excitement, on account of the efforts of Government Eastern question and the re-entrance of France to make Arguelles guardian of the private property of into the Concert European. Were this to be fur- the Queen, as Espartero wields her political power as ther obstructed, and Eastern and European affairs Regent. The Constitution declares that these two offices become again embarrassed, France would inevita- shall not centre in the same person. It also deprives the our Chorley suffers himself to give to the Dudevant style of criticism, which seems to us full of all kinds of meaning except the meaning of the matter criticised. So of the nonsense that is talked about Janin, who should never aspire beyond the de . ness of hope long deferred, and effort unrequited. He was LEIPSIC. 191 scription of a farce or a ballet, in which he is so short, either M. Calamatta's striking half-length portrait is greatly at home. With M. Berlioz, as exhibited in a lie, or there sate George Sand. There was the rich black these volumes, we sympathize as little; and can hair, parted on the forehead just as M. Calamatta drew it; and there were the Sybilline forehead, and the eyes, melan only deplore that some of the highest interests of choly in their sweetness, and sublime in their depth, and musical art should have fallen into keeping of this the gross Satyr-like lips and heavy jaw-the latter a little nature. Mr Chorley laughs at 'M.'s' criticism on the grosser and heavier than the artist has shown them. Scherzo of Queen Mab in the Romeo and Juliet "I noticed neither the air nor the features of any of the Symphony. "We could fancy we hear the dew-gentlemen by whom the Eidolon was accompanied. It (for what other gender shall one dare affix?) was talking at its drops falling into the urns of the flowers... The ease: in a low voice, tuned to that feminine pitch which toad shakes its silver bell; the spider with its long separated it from the other male voices of the box. By hard paws runs along the mullein leaves; the lazy elves listening, there are few instruments in an orchestra-few unstring their necklaces of pearl which they throw tones in a crowd-which cannot thus be followed by an acute into the crystal lake-the fall tracing sonorous mouth and lips-or I have watched, with a view of disand practised organ. Feminine, too, was the motion of the circles which spread wider and wider." Wild tinguishing the accents of the sexes, for some twenty years enough, no doubt. But how much more composed in vain. Feminine, too, the occupation; for I became pre- "The town in itself (or personal liking has prejudiced me) or discreet is this criticism on Mendelssohn's over-sently aware that, whatever the tongue might be about, the has a quaint, cheerful, and friendly appearance. Within ture to the Midsummer Dream? "I saw Cobweb, eyes and the hands were carrying on a telegraphic commu- the walls, high richly decorated houses and old churches Peaseblossom, Moth, and Mustardseed, keeping up before mine. A glance-and I had also recognised him. set. Without, where the ramparts were, is an irregular nication with the person who occupied the stalle immediately seem almost toppling over each other, so thickly are they a ceaseless gambol among the violets, or frolicking I had owed, indeed, too much of my past evening's pleasure pleasure-ground, spreading out in some places to such a in their new flower-liveries round their queen, Ti- to his grace and gentlemanly bearing, as the hero of the respectable amplitude as to secure privacy for the walker. tania; I watched the elfin heralds stealing noise-love-story of Le Domino Noir,' to have forgotten the fea- Beyond this belt is another ring, made up of houses, some lessly hither and thither through the dimmer tures of M. Couderc. The Appearance was talking to him, of them set in gardens, richly dressed and full of flowers; thickets, and then, of a sudden, sharply winding whether by way of encouragement, defiance, or mere sport, distinguished musicians could find. The town is rich in both. I have said, as busily as eyes and hands could talk; and, the prettiest, most inviting residences which kind hearts and their woodbine horns to bid tiny guests to the the end was, that from a packet of bon-bons, worn in its There I found that cheerful, simple, unselfish, and intelligent revel; with such ancient, quaint hairy heads peep- pocket, it twisted up half-a-dozen in the corner of its Vert-artistic life which many have been used to imagine as uniing from between the under boughs of the trees, as vert,' or some other such waste leaf of paper, and launched versally German. Leipsic has no court to stiffen its social gleam out of the distant corners of some of Retzch's them at that particularly meritorious singer and clever actor. circles into formality, or to hinder its presiding spirits from designs." And this last criticism is Mr Chorley's that I saw, ten minutes afterwards, glide past me in the sity to stir its intelligences, a press busy and enterprising, It was a woman's arm that threw them. It was a woman taking free way on the other hand, it possesses a Univernarrow and stifling lobby, with a hat pushed over her eyes, and a recurrence of those gatherings which bring a repreIt is yet the effect of even these points of ques- with the slim waist, and the loose pantaloons." sentative of every class of society in Europe together." tionable taste to which we have adverted, to iden- That remark of Mr Chorley's in this curious tify the writer more completely with the things of extract, to the effect that he has been for some questionable taste he speaks of. Perhaps they make twenty years watching to distinguish the accents the vividness of his portraiture of Paris, its of the sexes, is one of the things that occasionally critics, and musicians. It is a most uncomfortable vex the reader of his volumes. His own peculiar picture, we cannot help saying. Such an eloquent affairs, the condition of body as well as mind in talk about faith, in supply of the obvious want of which he finds himself, are to him of course always faith, could not readily be matched elsewhere. interesting; they are so to every man; and for Such contradictions, incongruities, irreconcilable that very reason every man should keep them as elements; such comfortless recommendations to much as possible to himself. up comfort, such noisy arguments for quiet. It is We turn to a passage of very nice criticism on method of setting forth the art, not the art, has been the matter most considered. It is the worst kind of vanity. Mozart had a conceit about his hands and feet, but none about Don Juan. That was too grand a thing to be vain about. Mr Chorley has given several elaborate and very interesting accounts of late achievements in music, and his personal sketches of artists have much that is novel and striking. The book will be highly attractive in these respects. We read the notices of Nourrit and Duprez with a strong sense of the truth and power that are in them. The same may be said of the description of Meyerbeer's two operas, and the travelling sketches of society in Germany are in general very happily done. "There is an individuality thrown into the part of the This brief allusion to the character of an audi- And it was precisely because this is so (as we A FRENCH AUDIENCE. a laced in his neat uniform, and every hair of his moustache "The first evening in any French theatre is not a thing trimmed and trained to an agony of perfection, squeezed up to be forgotten, unless the visitor be singularly splenetic against a dirty, savage, half-naked student ;-half-naked, I and slow to move. If he be permitted to enter, there is may say, without exaggeration, when I remember one figure, comfortable seat for him, to be gained without his exposing with his long, wild hair half way down his back, and his himself to the gymnastics of an English pit. Without his velveteen coat, which, confined at the waist with one soli- being disturbed by the shrieks of an English gallery, he will tary button, made it evident, beyond the possibility of mis- be strack by an understanding of and sympathy with the take, that neither waistcoat nor shirt was underneath.” stage, on the part of the audience;-by its universal vivaTo this we shall append another piece of con- city and cheerfulness, and settled purpose to be amused. It trast; grateful to Mr Chorley for noticing it. A is questionable whether the most indefatigable croaker could strangers' book" is kept on the Brocken, where hunt out, in all the theatres, great and small, of Paris, on their fullest holiday evening, one single solitary figure of Mr Chorley passed one of the nights of his Three national growth to match our indigenous stout gentleman Days in the Harz Country. The little remark he dragged from his fireside by his hearty wife and his girls,' makes about the English and German signatures and grumbling so often as he feels the cushion hard, or the in this book, also tells a great deal about manners do you? Catch me at a play-house again in a hurry." Nor bench narrow, or the air hot,So you call this pleasure, is there any of that odd confusion of ideas as to place, person, and performance, so amusingly manifested at such of our theatres as are frequented for fashion's sake." -or the want of them A PARISIAN GAMING HOUSE. "Enough high-flown German enthusiasm there was, no field. We will now give the reader a glimpse of Mr Chorley's glimpse at the celebrated Madame Dudevant, commonly called George Sand. We have nepie PRINCESS MARIE OF ORLEANS. heard it doubted whether this lady ever appeared in a masculine garb out of her books, but this is decisive evidence: go "It chanced that Edgar Quinet, the high-toned but visionary author of the Ahasuerus,' was paying a visit one day to a lady of the royal household. At that time, says the raconteur, he was more depressed in spirits than usual, "The figure was a man's its habiliments, at least in the being on the eve of publishing his Prometheus,' and suffrock-coat, loose and faced with velvet, which covered its fering under those misgivings which all nonconformists like bust. In place of cravat, however, there was a dubious himself have felt when about to present a new work to the oking shawl or silk hanakerahief; and the throat and chin world, and which, though often merely arising from physical which rose thand om had never been visited by razor. In exhaustion, are as after misconstrued to mean a conscious Many more as agreeable extracts occur to us, but we cannot quote them. The reader will do well to look into the volumes. If he is a Fanatico he will enjoy them all the more, but they have pleasant reading, though here and there a somewhat too professional tone, for the most ignorant lover of the art. The History of a Flirt. Related by Herself. Second Edition. Three vols. Colburn. lication. It seemed to marshal the way into that The title of this book repelled us at its first publowest depth of emptiness which calls itself A novel of fashionable life. We have heard favourable opinions of it since then; the appearance of a second edition was a new inducement to read it; and we have now to repair the injustice of having neglected a book of very rare merit. Such we have found it to be, and praise, though brief, must not be stinted. The great poet, describing his Beatrice, has given us the motto of the Flirt: Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes All matter else seems weak: she cannot love, Even such, tamed to common life, is our new Her position, and some of her sufferings, remind us of poor Miss Milner in the charming Simple Story. Miss Partington might at first have been suggested by Miss Woodley, as Lord Elford by Lord Elmwood. But there is nothing of ordinary imitation in the book; and if we admit it to be inferior to Mrs Inchbald in the art of pathetic narrative, and the finer subtleties of passion, we are disposed to claim for it, on the score of vivid distinctness of common-life character, unstudied ease and naturalness of incident, and singularly unpretending and unobtrusive moral, a place not very far removed from the delightful writings of Miss Austin. Strength and steadiness of hand, is at once apparent. The design is revealed in the first few pages, and sustained throughout the whole, with unabated freshness of spirit. We find ourselves among natural, common-life people; face to face with the world of every day. It is not that there is any great originality in the book; but there is truth, and excellent keeping. A MOZ Our least favourite characters are Captain Thelwal and Doctor Drinkwater. The gout of the worthy doctor tries one's own patience more than his poor silly wife's, and the sentiment and heartfor the effects they bring about. lessness of Thelwal seem a little too transparent Nor are we very sure that Sir James Langham himself is not the slightest possible bore. We like his wife, on the other hand, very much; Captain Bates is a piece of character after Hogarth; Mrs Fortescue gives us a strong interest; and the slighter persons, whom, as in life, we see once or twice and never again, are done inimitably well. The Flirt herself, Louisa Vansittart, is of course the object of the author's greatest concern; and some of the subtlest and best knowledge of a woman's heart, is disclosed in the nice anatomy of hers. Lord Elford is always quiet and effective; every temptation to make too much of him is steadily resisted. This is good art in itself. But the masterpiece of the writer is Turner Ellis. This we hold to be quite as good as Miss Austin. Poor Turner Ellis is an old man, commonplace enough at first sight; a dry little old man, unattractive in appearance and a little quizzible. We cannot but suppose, when he is first introduced, that he is introduced to be laughed at; as the story proceeds, by the most natural and consummate art, he becomes the object of our deepest sympathies. We have found out that in that poor unpromising old man, lie hidden some of the deepest and rarest delicacies of our nature. was execrable, all its noble music execrably done, He is living with his elderly maiden sister, in a state of the meanest as well as happiest quiet, when Louisa Vansittart falls in his way, and for fun's sake makes a conquest of him. His goodness and kindness of heart interest her a little more deeply as the affair proceeds, but they do not restrain her from jilting him in the end. Nothing can excel the truth and beauty with which the whole of this part of the story is imagined. What excuses may The performance has been shortened since the exist for her, do not pass without suggestion; what first night, and is now played in four acts instead misery falls on him, is given with a deep discern- of five. In this shortening, some of the noblest ment of the truth as it lies between both, and with music of the opera has been sacrificed; and all its that effect of quiet unobtrusive tragedy which be- continuity and intention, as a work of art, remorselongs to first-rate power. He never recovers the lessly destroyed. We think it right, therefore, to peace she has broken; yet is its place more richly warn the reader against expecting to find anything supplied by the patient sacrifice and self-denial she like a true Robert the Devil at Drury Lane. forces on his tender nature. He pines away and But we repeat that it is yet made richly worth dies; even upon his death-bed, her bright trium-seeing, by the genius of Herr Staudigl. phant face gilding the withered features of the blighted old man. The letter to his "dear young lady," in which he leaves her a fortune, and which exerts such an influence on her, bringing immediate misery and ultimate happiness, is a beautiful piece of pathos. Beautiful, too, is the reason that his poor old maiden sister gives, when, unable to survive him long, she also leaves her fortune to Louisa Vansittart. "I never liked Miss Vansittart much, but she is welcome to it; for if she does not have it, I know no more than the dead who to bequeath it to; and my brother, he was very partial to her." There are some curious faults of style and language in the book, which would seem to argue an inexperienced writer. Volition, for example, is always used in the sense, not belonging to it, of motion. But we trust the opportunities will be very many, of avoiding the recurrence of faults like these. We shall look anxiously for the next appearance of the author of the History of a Flirt. THEATRICAL EXAMINER. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE AND DRURY LANE. Roberto Devereux, the new opera produced on Thursday night at her Majesty's Theatre, is another flimsy product of the prolific Donizetti. It has the assistance of a tolerably interesting story, sug gested by the inexhaustible subject of the death of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Essex, and a greater advantage in the magnificent talents of Rubini and Grisi, seen and heard at their best. It was soon evident how much they liked their parts. It is probable that this circumstance will give the opera a run, which the intrinsic quality of the music would certainly not have deserved, and still less obtained. The thing is a novelty, moreover, and the reasonable attraction of novelty of any kind should be fairly granted to an audience, who for upwards of five years have seen the talents of the five greatest singers of Europe, continuously starving on about four operas. We should not omit to add that what Tamburini had to do, he did as finely as possible; and that Taglioni was announced to have arrived in town, though fatigue delayed her appearance till another night. of the artist. It The Lyceum has written, they say, to Rubini and During the performance of the gun trick, by the At the The band of the Surrey gardens is announced to perform to this country and the rest of Europe a continuance of the blessings of peace. We now tender to your Majesty an act to apply certain sums of money for the service of the session of parliament, to which, in all humility, we pray 1841, and to appropriate the supplies granted in this your Majesty's gracious assent." year The Lord Chancellor then presented the speech to her Majesty, who intimated that the royal assent was to be first given to some bills. His lordship seemed amused at this correction in the forms of proceedingThe royal assent having been given, in the usual form, to the following bills the appropriation bill, the militia pay bill, the bills of ex change bill, the punishment of death bill, the bribery at elec tions bill, the controverted elections trial bill, the highway rates bill, the loan societies bill, and mad-houses (Scotland) bill, the Blackburn market bill, the Bourne drainage bill, and some other private bills the Lord Chancellor presented the speech, which her Majesty read with her usual clear and distinct enunciation. "My Lords and Gentlemen, affairs, I have come to the determination of proroguing par "On a full consideration of the present state of publie liament, with a view to its immediate dissolution. "The paramount importance of the trade and industry of the country, and my anxiety that the exigencies of the public service should be provided for in the manner least burthensome to the community, have induced me to resort to the means which the constitution has entrusted to me, of ascertaining the sense of my people upon matters which so deeply concern their welfare. "I entertain the hope that the progress of public business may be facilitated, and that divisions injurious to the course of steady policy and useful legislation may be removed by the authority of a new parliament, which I shall direct to be summoned without delay. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, less vidranit the sums necessary for the civil and military establishments. "I thank you for the readiness with which you have voted "My Lords and Gentlemen, "In the exercise of my prerogative, I can have no other object than that of securing the rights and promoting the interests of my subjects; and I rely on the co-operation of my parliament, and the loyal zeal of my people, for support in the adoption of such measures as are necessary to main!ain that high station among the nations of the world which it has pleased Divine Providence to assign to this country." As soon as her Majesty had concluded, the Lord Chancellor announced the prorogation. Her Majesty and attendants then quitted the house. HOUSE OF COMMONS. After the presentation of a vast number of petitio petitions, chiefly against the corn laws, the bills of exchange bill and the loan societies bill were passed, and Mr WAKLEY brought forward a motion for all papers and correspondence between Lord Melbourne and Mr Warner, respecting the invention of a new and most destructive military projectile, the extraordinary powers of which have on several occasions been described. The hon. member went at some length into the description of the conduct which had been pursued towards The French Academy distributes the Monthyon prizes Mr Warner by the parties to whom the decision upon the for virtuous actions. A prize of 3,000f. was voted to M. merits of the invention had been confided, and the number Messard, an actor attached to the theatre of the Porte St of Martin. Amongst the numerous acts of charity stated by the Academy, it appeared that in the year 1825 an actor died at the age of 78, leaving a wife and daughter loaded with debt; M. Moëssard paid his debts, and took the widow and daughter to his house, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. The royal assent was given by commission to no less trifling accidents which by their perpetual recurrence had delayed until this time the settlement of the question. He thought that much blame was due to the Lords of the Admiralty for their neglect of so vitally important a discovery; but if the government would take the subject into consideration next session he would withdraw his present motion.-Lord J. RUSSELL was only very imperfectly acquainted with the matter; but he had always understood that the negotiations had been broken off in consequence of a difficulty in communicating the means by which the explosion was to be achieved. He thought, however, that some explanation of the apparent neglect with which Mr Warner had been treated ought to be given, and that further measures should be adopted for testing the usefulness of the invention.-Lord INGESTRIE complained of the neglect with which the Board of Admiralty had treated a subject of such vast national importance as this extraordinary invention.Mr WAKLEY briefly replied, expressing himself only in a measure satisfied with Lord J. Russell's promise of inquiry; and after a few words from Lord INGESTRIE and Colonel ANSON, the motion was withdrawn. bydl The lords' amendments upon several bills were then us« sented to, and her Majesty's answer to the address relating to the Danish claims having been read, the house adjourned. Tuesday, June 22. The militia pay bill and the appropriation bill were passed without any remark; but upon Lord Normanby's motion for the third reading of the criminal justice bill, Lord WILTON proposed that the borough of Manchester should be exempted from its operation, because it awarded no compensation for the loss he would sustain to the gentleman who had for many years acted in a highly creditable manner as clerk to The great attraction of the opera of Robert the the magistrates. The LORD CHANCELLOR opposed the amendment, which was, however, supported by the Duke of Devil at Drury Lane, is Herr Staudigl's perform-Wellington, Lord Brougham, and Lord Lyndhurst.-Lord sentation of petitions chiefly against the corn laws, the The house met at half-past one o'clock. After the preance of Bertram. This, which is a part of but NORMANBY objected to the principle of the amendment, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod appeared, and informed indifferent merit in the music, is elevated to a rank and thought, moreover, that as it would in effect alter a incomparably before any other, by the genius money clause, it would, if agreed to, be an interference with the Speaker that her Majesty commanded the immediate We doubt in what Herr the privileges of the other house. This objection was, how-attendance of the hon. house at the bar of the House of Staudigl Lords. The Speaker, accompanied by the members present, ever, promptly quashed by Lord Lyndhurst, and upon a excels the most, his singing or his acting. It is division the amendment was carried by a majority of 34. returned at half-past two, when he read her Majesty's speech to the members present, after which the house broke certain that little interest can be taken in any ore Their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned. else, while he is on the stage; and it is less needful, Juoda adala for he fills every part of it. His manner indeed closely watched, would be an index to all that is going on there, so perfect and masterly is his attention to the scene. Nor can we recollect to have observed such tragic art in any singer, as Herr Staudigl manifested in Bertram's last desperate effort to get possession of the soul of Robert. We predict a great career in England for this best of the Germans, if he cares to cultivate the impression he has made. Our contemporaries speak of his exquisite comic acting in Belmont and Constance, on the night succeeding Bertram. Tuesday, June 22. up. FOREIGN NEWS. 46 FRANCE. The bill authorizing the Government to expend 501,320,400 frames (20,000,000l. British) on extraordinary works was passed by the Chamber of Peers on Monday by a majority of 96 to 23.A law has just passed the Chambers, subjecting all the expenses voted by the colonial Legislatures to the sanction of the Chambers at home. This will prevent the colonial Legislatures from paying French deputies, as delegates, to support their interests. Her Majesty prorogued parliament in person. The political circumstances connected with the present prorogation had their effect in bringing together an assemblage without as well as within the walls of parliament, more numerous than we have ever seen collected by the attraction of this periodical pageant. The reception of her Majesty was most enthusiastic. From the moment the royal carriage passed through the gates of Buckingham palace, until its arrival at the House of Lords, the enthusiasm of the immense multitude that crowded every spot from which a glimpse of the procession could be had, was unabated. Within the House of Lords the assemblage of peeresses and strangers was even greater, we believe, than upon the occasion of the opening of the first parliament under the present reign. His style is a severe test to judge his fellow- The effect upon her Majesty's entrance, when the whole performers by. Madame Heinefetter will not bear assembly in their varied and gorgeous attires rose, was exceedingly striking. The Speaker and the members of it, far less Madame Schodel. In the first there the House of Commons having been summoned to the bar must be always much to admire, in the last we by the Usher of the Black Rod, the SPEAKER then adcould see little but constant feebleness, made pain- dressed her Majesty as follows:"Most gracious Sovereign, we, your Majesty's faithful fully evident by a constant effort at intensity commons, approach your Majesty with sentiments of unMuch Ado about Nothing has been rarely played feigned devotion and loyalty. It has been our most anxious so well. Herr Tichatschek, in whom the advan- desire, in granting the supplies for the present year, to place tages of a handsome person are counterbalanced at the disposal of your Majesty the means by which the by the most awkward gait imaginable, sometimes naval and military establishments of the country might be The Chamber of Deputies adopted a motion having for fails to arrive at, and certainly never passes, the placed in a state of complete efficiency, and we entertain its object to declare all Spaniards and foreigners having strong conviction that, by thus enabling your Majesty to received letters of naturalization qualified to fill offices and equably pleasing. His great air in the first act maintain the honour of the crown and protect the just rights obtain honorary decorations, without being obliged to pro was very poorly given. and interests of the people, we have adopted a course which, duce titles of nobility. under the favour of Divine Providence, will ensure both The opera was not well got up. The diablerie A petition from 300 of the most eminent merchants in Paris has been presented to the Chamber of Peers against the treaty of commerce lately concluded between France and Holland. The petition sets forth, among other facts, that the execution of this treaty would be disastrous to the interests of the seaports and to the trade of Paris, and concludes by praying that the ratification of the treaty be postponed until the ensuing session. SPAIN. The widow of General Mina had not gone to Madrid SCOTLAND. The number of counties to be contested in Scotland is six-Kirkcudbrightshire, Renfrewshire, Stirlingshire, Wigtonshire, Banffshire, and Lanarkshire. We wish we could add Ayrshire, Dumbartonshire, and Argyleshire. The latter are still without Liberal candidates, although in some of them, we believe, the Reform interest is sufficiently strong to warrant a contest. With regard to the burghs, it is understood that there will be contests in the following places :-Ayr, Dumfries, Elgin, Falkirk, Greenock, Haddington, Kilmarnock, Perth, Stirling, Wick, and Wigton. Of these Dumfries and Stirling will attract comparatively little interest, as the struggle is to be between Liberals. Leaving them, therefore, out of the list, there are, of counties and burghs in Scotland, 15 seats to be contested. "In all human affairs the great secret is to know when to that declaration? Why, in a month or two after that of Trade. Mr Maule is succeeded by Lord Seymour, make a bargain, for depend upon it that they who overstay election, the voice which Yorkshire had expressed through who has been transferred from the Secretaryship of the their market are sure to be the sufferers by the delay; and, her numerous constituencies was confirmed, and the mono- Board of Control, in which post he is succeeded by Mr if the farmers of England if the landowners of England, poly of parliamentary representation was at an end. I heard C. Buller.-Captain D. Dundas, Clerk of the Ordnance, acting upon their absurd prejudices, choosing erroneously to another nonopoly condemned in this place the monopoly is to be appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and reject what we propose, a fixed duty of 8s. per quarter-if of traffic in human flesh, and within a very short time afte they, thinking that fixed duty of 8s. per quarter is a bad bar-wards the traffic of men was abolished from the soil of is to be succeeded in his office at the Ordnance by Colonel gain, and they succeed in preventing it being adopted, I England; and as it fared with the monopoly of parliamentary Anson.-The vacancy in the number of Treasury Lords venture to foretel them what will happen. There will arise representation and of the traffic in human flesh, so I con- will be filled up by the Hon. W. Cowper, now one of the in the manufacturing districts a feeling which the agricultu- fidently augur it is doomed the same fate will await the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital; Mr Bannerman, rists will not be able to control. That feeling will carry its monopoly in corn, in commerce, and in trade. (Cheers.) I M.P. for Aberdeen, is named as Mr Cowper's successor way through parliament, and, instead of getting the fixed cannot doubt of any other result, when I look, and when I at Greenwich.-Mr J. Lefevre, one of the Poor-law Comduty of 8s. per quarter, the result will probably be either a appeal to the moving and breathing masses before me. missioners, is named as Mr Le Marchant's successor at much lower duty, or the abrogation of any duty whatever. I (Hear, hear.)” the Board of Trade. The vacant post of Governor of advise the farmers to remember what passed not many years Bombay is not yet filled up.-Lord Plunket has at length ago in reference to the question of parliamentary reform." resigned the Lord Chancellorship of Ireland. Sir John Mr C. Ross has given up his canvass. The two sitting Campbell, the Attorney-General, is his successor. Sir members will therefore be returned unopposed. John was gazetted on Tuesday as a peer under the title TOTNES.-The Hon. Edward Petre, brother of Lord of Baron Campbell. The appointment has occasioned a Petre, has taken the field as the second Liberal candidate. loud outcry. The Chronicle observes- We announced Lord Seymour has also issued an address to the electors. the appointment of Sir John Campbell to the Irish seals, Mr J. G. Teed has also addressed the electors on the and the fact that such high judicial office had been conTory interest, and while he condemns liberal men and ferred and accepted on the condition that the usual penliberal measures in the approved Tory strain, he is as sion is not to attach to it on his resignation or removal.' ambiguous as Sir R. Peel about what should be done Notwithstanding the truth and notoriety of the renunciainstead. tion of the statutory pension, the Standard denounces the appointment as a rank job to pension a new Lord Chancellor of Ireland; and the Times repeats the calumnythat the Whigs have promoted Sir John Campbell to a high legal office, which they know he must vacate at their dismissal, with a retiring pension of 4,000l. a year.” ”— In Dublin objections are made to the appointment of Sir John Campbell, not from anything personal to the learned gentleman, but on the ground that he is not a member of the Irish bar. A complete misapprehension exists with respect to the case of Lord Plunket, when appointed by Mr Canning Master of the Rolls in England in the year 1827. It is supposed that the English bar met and came to a resolution againt practising before him, whereby h's appointment was recalled. Now the bar never met, nor, as a body, came to any resolution or expressed any opinion upon the subject. A few individuals blamed the appointment, and their murmurs coming to the ears of Mr Plunket he shrunk back, and declined to take his scat at the Rolls. Lord Plunket, addressing the bar on his retirement, observed— TYNEMOUTH.-Mr Chapman has no chance, and the sooner he relinquishes the contest the better. This is well known to his principal supporters, who, by their extraordinary efforts for the last two days, show that the game is up, that the Liberal candidate has left them far behind. WALLINGFORD.-After all, it is to be feared that Mr Blackstone will be allowed to resume his seat for this borough without a successful contest. The farmers are almost to a man firm in upholding the bread tax; notwithstanding their infatuation, however, there are Liberal voters enough in the town to carry the election, but the majority of them are Dissenters, who, either from supineness, timidity, or disunion, have now deserted the advocate for civil and religious liberty, whom they before promised to support. WALSALL. Mr Scott, who has come forward to oppose Gladstone, appears to be the right man for the people. He expresses himself with confidence: "There were in that borough a large majority of men who had signed a petition for a repeal of the corn laws; and how could those men turn round upon themselves and their families, and return a man to parliament who was the decided enemy of all those improvements they deemed necessary? It was impossible they could do so; if they did it would be the result of influence which could not be misunderstood throughout the country, and which would reflect eternal disgrace upon them. (Cheers.) He believed they were willing, heartily willing, to redeem the past error. He knew he had a large majority of the electors concurring in opinion with him, and that he had the non-electors to a man with him; and he had nothing to fear. They had the lawyers against them, and a few other interested gentlemen; but the people were his, and he would stand by them. (A voice: Will you stand it out?") Mr Scott: I will positively poll the last man. I am tied to you for life. I will open the borough. They will find me an awkward customer. Here I am determined on winning. (Cheers.)" WORCESTER.-Sir Thomas Wilde arrived here on Monday morning. At nine he addressed the electors from the balcony, and soon after he presented himself there were nearly 4,000 persons collected. His reception was most cordial, the only interruption offered arising from a small knot of Tories, hired for the purpose. After a brief address, he proceeded on his canvass, and the result has been very favourable, though the majority of the electors are strongly in favour of two Liberal candidates. An address was issued by Robert Hardy, Esq, as a second Liberal. If both parties unite there is no doubt both he and Sir Thomas will be returned. Bailey and his friends are in the field; and now Hardy's address is out, there is a strong talk of a second Tory. Sir Thomas, the new Attorney-General, seems to be secure of his election. The following passage of his speech deserves notice. The learned gentleman answered some questions relative to his prosecution of the Chartists, and concluded by saying, in reference to the prosecution of Mr F. O'Connor"I have not prosecuted for political offences, and I never will (tremendous applause)—but I will never shrink from prosecuting the man who advises another to act with violence towards his neighbour. (Renewed cheering.) If I mare to shrink from this duty I should not be fit for a public man-I should not be fit for a barrister, much less a public officer. I will never hesitate to do that which is necessary for the preservation of the public honesty and the public peace. (Great cheering.) I assure the kind gentleman who has done me the honour to ask these questions, that if he will point out to me the best of the cases, I will, in four-andtwenty hours, engage to prove to him that the absence of prosecution would have been to exonerate the guilty party and to place others in his stead. (Cheers.) I say I will defend to the utmost of my poor abilities the man who is charged for merely uttering political sentiments-him I will defend to the utmost of my power. (Renewing cheering.)" WYCOMBE. We have been misinformed as to the contest here. The two Liberal candidates are Mr Dashwood and Mr Bernal, son of the Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons, in opposition to the two Tory nominees. There is every reason to believe they will be returned, their canvass being very satisfactory, though in opposition to the influence of the Lord Lieutenant of the YORKSHIRE (WEST RIDING.) In the Cloth hall an immense multitude was assembled, which may be safely estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000 persons; the majority in favour of the Liberal candidates was overwhelming. We should think the supporters of free trade were three times as numerous as the supporters of the Tories, though the latter had been collected together with infinite pains. Lords Morpeth and Milton were cheered through Why," said Lord Morpeth, "why, the very echoes which still linger in this place are charged with the death that in 1830 I heard war proclaimed against the monopoly thall of monopolies. (Cheers.) It is from this very place of representation. (Hear, hean). What was the result of county. out their excellent addresses. AYR BURGHS.-The Tories have at length induced Mr Stirling, jun., of Keir, to enter upon the hopeless task of ousting Lord James Stuart. DUMFRIES BURGHS.-Mr Ewart considers himself so safe that he has rejected a very flattering invitation from the committee of Dissenters in Edinburgh to allow himself to be brought forward at the meeting of Liberal electors to be held there on Monday, for the purpose of fixing on a candidate. EDINBURGH CITY-A meeting of the electors on the Liberal canvassing books is to be held on Monday, for the purpose of fixing on a candidate. Mr William Gibson Craig, member for the county in the last parliament, has been recommended by the aggregate committee on the Liberal interest; and as Mr Ewart, whom it was in tended to bring forward on the occasion, has declined to be nominated, Mr Gibson Craig will, it is believed, walk the course; at all events, there is no possibility of dis union. "Efforts had been made to induce him to tender his resignation, but deeming such a step on his part unnecessary and unwarrantable, he had declined to comply. However, an application had been subsequently made for the same ELGIN BURGHS.-Sir Andrew Hay has now fair pos-object, and from a quarter where he owed such deep obligasession of the field, and has received numerous promises tions, that he felt himself coerced at once to give way; but with the circumstances which had led to his resignation he of support. had had no connection whatever, directly or indirectly. With the proceeding he had no connection-he strongly disapproved of it, and he did not feel himself in any manner responsible for its consequences." GREENOCK.-A farcical opposition to Mr Wallace is threatened, on the part of Sir Thomas Cochrane. The game played at Ipswich will not do in Greenock. KILMARNOCK BURGHS.-The reception given to Mr Johnston has been all that his most ardent friends could desire. The enthusiasm of the people, even in the Toryridden borough of Port-Glasgow, has struck terror into the ranks of the monopolists. RENFREWSHIRE.The progress of Mr Patrick Maxwell Stewart through this county has been a continued scene of triumph. IRELAND. BELFAST.-Mr Dunbar, one of the Tory members, has retired. Mr Emerson Tennent is likely to follow the example of his colleague. The Tories in the borough are in confusion and despair. THE LONG PARLIAMENT.-The late House of Commons has existed longer than any which has been elected during the last fifteen years; that which was summoned in December, 1826, having only existed about three years and a half. The one just expired may, therefore, not un aptly be termed the "Long Parliament." CITY CANVASS.-To show how completely all party politics are sunk in this great contest, a worthy Conservative merchant of long standing said, "Yes, sir, I shall vote for all four free trade men! I would not take 5001. a year for my share of the advantage which will result from the passing of these measures.' THE FATHER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.-At a commercial reform meeting in Chelsea, Mr Byng apCARLOW. By the time Mr O'Connell and friends peared, and spoke with all the energy of a young man. It reached Newtown, the place of meeting, the numbers was said of him by Sir J. S. Lillie, that he had not been which accompanied them amounted, without exaggeration, favourable heretofore to the liberal measures now advocated to upwards of forty thousand men. Mr O'Connell was by the Government, but his opinions had undergone a received with the most enthusiastic applause, and at the change, and he now was ready to admit that the necessiconclusion of his address 28 freeholders, who had voted ties of the times rendered a change in our present commerfor Kavanagh and Bruen, rushed forward and begged par-cial policy imperative, and he was ready to make any sacridon for their former offences against God and their coun- fice for the good of the people.-Mr Byng put the question try, and declared that if they were to suffer a thousand of profit and loss in a striking light:deaths they would never vote for the Orange faction again. The speech of Mr O'Connell acted like a spell upon his hearers, for after the freeholders had gone up to him and declared their determination not to vote again for the Orange faction, the wives, daughters, and sisters of upwards of 100 freemen, who are shut up in Borris house, took off their shoes and stockings on the fields and ran in a body across the country, amidst the loud cheers of the immense assembly, to the place where those poor men are confined, to demand their instant release. Before their arrival at Borris their friends were removed to another part of the country, and all search for them during the last night was ineffectual. The Liberals are confident of success. TIPPERARY.-Mr Sheil retires. POLITICAL. "There would necessarily be more ships employed from the additional quantity of corn that would be imported into the country; but it was said the shipping would be injured. That was an argument which he could not understand. How could our shipping be injured, when the freights would be increased two or three fold? (Cheers and laughter.) Our bread was now 9d. a loaf. It ought never to have been above 7d. By that difference in price, they every one lost the value of a pot of beer. Then there was sugar; he had never been accustomed to pay more than 7d. a pound for the best sugar, and of late it had been 93d. There was another pot of beer gone. (Cheers and laughter.) Many of the greatest of our landowners were not afraid to try the experiment, and many of those who were especially conversant with farming. They could afford to have less rent, because everything else would be cheap in proportion. He had no feeling but what was best for his fellow creatures, and he never could. (Cheers.) The landowners would find it add much to their real happiness to concur in these measures; for the purest happiness would always be enjoyed by the men who were conscious they were doing justice to all. They would experience from the gratitude of the people more real enjoyment than they could find from any addition of property. (The venerable gentleman resumed his seat amidst every demonstration of respect and affection.)" himself. THE PROCLAMATION.-The proclamation for dissolving Parliament and calling another was issued on Tuesday. The metropolitan elections will immediately take place. The election for the City of London will nomination; and the poll will take place on the following towel has publicly contradicted an assertion that the late commence on Monday, that being the day fixed for the THE LATE ELECTION AT ST ALBAN'S.-Lord Lisday, Tuesday. Our readers will scarcely need to be re-election was gained by "an expenditure of Treasury minded that for city or borough elections one day only is gold," the whole expenses having been defrayed by allowed for the poll. MINISTERIAL CHANGES.-The following additional STANLEY AND THE CATHOLICS.-A paragraph in changes have been announced.-Sir G. Grey is to have the Globe having recommended every Roman Catholic "to the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster committed to him, inquire, what hope have I in Stanley, who called me a with a seat in the Cabinet; who is succeeded as Judge perjured Papist ?" his Lordship, writing, "begs to be inAdvocate by Mr Sheil, late Vice President of the Board formed where, and on what occasion, you assert me to have of Trade The Hon. E. J. Stanley, Joint Secretary of made use of the above, or any similar expression."-We the Treasury, has been appointed Paymaster-General of subjoin the Globe's reply: Whether Lord Stanley ever the Forces in the place of Sir H. Parnell, who, it is re-used the expression perjured Papist,' we cannot say; and ported, retires from parliament as well as from office. we have not at our elbow the writer of the few words ad-The Hon. Fox Maule has been transferred from the dressed, to electors, which furnish his Lordship with matter Home Department to the Vice Presidency at the Board for complaint or question. But the substance of imputa |