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quarter from Monday, but old Beans are not plentiful, and they main-
tain the quotations of this day week. New Beans are dull, and may be
quoted 1s. and 2s. per quarter cheaper. Boiling and Grey Pease are also
looking down. Flour is very heavy sale.
Wheat, red (new)

Ditto old

CURRENT PRICES OF GRAIN.

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Wheat, white (new)

Ditto old

Barley .....
Rye

Beans, small

Tick ditto....

54s. 70s.

54s. 66s. Pease, White..
Boilers
Maple....
Grey
Oats, Feed..

56s. 74s.

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60s. 78s.

336. 46s.

35s.40s.

43s 45s.

Poland

Potatoe

...

36s. 39s. Flour, per Sack.....

46s. 50s. 52.56s, 40s. 41s.

38s. 40s.

20s. 24s.

21s. 27s.

23s. 27s.

55s. 70s.

Aggregate Average Prices of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain.

Wheat per Quarter, 63s. 6d.-Barley, 40s. 3d.-Oats, 23s. 4d.-Rye, 38s. 4d.-Beans, 40s. 7d.-Pease, 47s. 7d. SMITHFIELD, JAN. 10.

Countrymen as had large capitals vested in the trade. About ten years ago, works were erected in the town of Ayr, which cost upwards of 20,000l. and in Prestonpans, Bo'ness, Kirk aidy, Dysalt, Leven, St. David's, &c. the same manufacture has been carried on pretty extensively. At Ayr they made about nine tons per day, which, under the old law, and reckoning one day with another, yielded to Government a duty of nearly 40,000l. per annum-a fact which will go far to convince the reader, that even in the grateful task of reducing taxes, there is no such thing as good unmixed with evil. In curing pilchards, marine salt was deemed indispensable, and now that the trade is fairly knocked in the head, a substitute must be found in the bay salt of Portugal-a commodity which is still saddled with a very heavy duty. But for all the purposes of the table and the kitchen, stove salt is universally preferred; and the reader will perhaps stare when we tell him that in two years this very indispensable article has fallen 34s. the cwt. Previous to January, 1823, the price was scarcely ever under 19s. the bushel, but after tomorrow, it will bring little more than 18d. In the coarser kinds, the reduction has been pretty nearly in the same proportion, and our careful housewives have, doubtless, reason to land the minister who enabled them to purchase a cwt. of salt on the same terms as a stone of meal.-Dumfries Courier. We have it from good authority that Government has resolved upon another expedition to Africa, to explore the course of the Niger. Captain Laing, who was at Sierra Leone under Sir C. M'Carthy, who was killed by the Ashantees, is to be at the head of it, with a handsome salary. It is understood that he is to have two Secretaries and 16 men. black servant is to receive from Government 50l. per annum whilst on the expedition, 500l. in cash on his return, and 1001. per annum for life. This very liberal arrangement emanates from Government. Captain Laing being considered the most fit man to conduct such an undertaking, was applied THE FATAL DOWRY, by MASSINGER; altered and adapted

His

to, but declined making his own terms, leaving it entirely to his employers. He also leaves his reward, in case of his safe return, to their consideration.-Scotsman.

&c. are 5s. per stone, and the inferior 4s. and 4s. 6d.
In the price of Beef there is not much to notice, the best Scots Runts,
In Mutton, the
finest Wethers and Downs are 5s. 4d. per stone, and the coarser 4s. 4d, and
4s. 10d. The Veal trade has searcely altered, and Pork is very firm at
5s. and 6s. per stone.
To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs.

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HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY.

2,491 | Pigs 18,920 Calves

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PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW.

£35 to £55 | Straw...

Clover £45 £6 6

(From Saturday's London Gazette)

118

130

.£1 16 to £2 2

do hereby certify, that no Return whatever hath been made to me of any
Sugars Bought or Sold during the Week ending the 5th day of January,
1825.
By Authority of Parliament,
THOMAS NETtleship,

Grocer's Hall,
January 8, 1825. ⚫

Clerk of the Grocer's Company.

Just published, price 3s.

for representation as now performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane.
Published by Thomas Dolby, 17, Catherine-street, Strand.
ANSWER TO THE NEW TRIAL OF THE WITNESSES.
Just published, 8vo. stitched,

LETTERS to the EDITOR of the "NEW TRIAL of the
that Work.

WITNESSES; or, the Resurrection of Jesus Considered," &c. in Answer to
By an OXFORD LAYMAN.
Printed for John and H. L. Hunt, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden.

Just published, in Svo. and foolscap,

THE OLD LEAVEN.-A paragraph appeared in this paper (the Stamford News) early last summer, stating that a Clergyman in the neighbourhood of Boston had summoned a poor man before the magistrates, to account for the unpardonable crime of suffering praying and preaching in his house, but the alleged delinquent having taken the precaution of legally ceasing his house, his reverence took nothing by his motion. The zealous son of the church threatened to expel the poor fellow from his home, and this threat he has now put in execution. A correspondent says, "Last Thursday being the cay appointed by the corporation of Boston for re-letting this boase with some others, the occupiers repaired to the place appointed for that purpose, but the clerk informed him, that complaints had been made against him for suffering meetings to be holden in his dwelling, so that he should not let him the ace except he would promise to desist from such practices. This he refused to do, and the consequence is, that next Ladyday he must turn out, turn out.'"-Thus has a poor man een refused re-taking his cottage because he held religious eetings in it. Toleration! toleration! oh, there is a won-sumption. They almost instantly quiet the most distressing Coughs; and, by terfal degree of toleration."

THE TWO CONCLUDING VOLUMES of the WORKS of the
last

Right Hon. LORD BYRON; containing all the Pieces published since the
Collection, and printed uniform with both the octavo and foolscap Editions.
N.B. Double Title-pages are printed in both sizes, so that these two volumes
will complete all the Editions of the "Works" previously issued.
Printed for John and H. L. Hunt, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden.

The Dublin Evening Mail states, that the bills preferred against Sir Harcourt Lees, by the Attorney-General, were at up to the Commission Grand Jury on Wednesday, at twelve o'clock, and returned ignored at two. The ne Paper adds, "Mr. Plunkett has nothing to expect from Dublin Grand Juries."

PATENT CORN MILLS.-The extraordinary usefulness and
simplicity of the PATENT CORN MILL, manufactured by the LONDON
MILL COMPANY, renders it the most necessary and valuable Machine for
private Families, Farmers, Emigrants, &c. ever invented.--Their FLOUR
DRESSING MACHINES are also on the most improved principle; prices, for
ready money only, are as follows:-
Small Mill
£6 6 0 to £10 10 0
21 0 0 to 52 0 Q

Large ditto

Dressing Machines 5 5 0 to 10 10 0 and upwards. till such time as their Warehouse, 100, Cheapside, is rebuilt.—The Public are Orders (post paid) to be addressed to the Manufactory, No. 11, Jewin-crescent, cautioned against spurious imitations.

FOR COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, &c.—The BALSAMIC

LOZENGES, prepared from the most healing Balsams and approved Expectorants, form an elegant and efficacious remedy; possessing the singular property of healing and strengthening the lungs, and rendering them capable of resisting the fatal effects of Colds, which, if neglected, often produce Congently stimulating and moistening the throat, prevent any attack of hoarseness. Their use tends greatly to strengthen and render the Voice clear and flexible,

and to protect its organs from the effects of exertion. They are, therefore,
particularly recommended to gentlemen who are in the habit of public speak-
ing, and vocal performers, who will derive from them much assistance.-Sold
in boxes, at Is. 1d. and 2s. 9d. by Butler, Chemist, 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's
Savory and Co. 136, New Bond-street; 220, Regent-street; and by the principal
Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Of whom may be had,
the PECTORAL ELIXIŘ, recommended in obstinate Colds, and Asthmatic
Affections.
*.* Be careful to ask for Butler's Balsamic Lozenges, and Pectoral Elixir.

FISTULAS, PILES, STRICTURES, &c.-Mr.VAN BUTCHELL,

THE LONDON MARKETS. Surgeon for the Cure of these Diseases, without Cutting, Caustic, or ConCORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JAN. 10. finement, in the most dangerous cases (on the safe and never failing principles Our arrivals last week were considerable, among which was a large of his Father, the late eminent MARTIN VAN BUTCHELL, exemplified in a long antity of Flour. This morning there are again good supplies of all practice) offers his professional aid to those who may be thus afflicted, with the of corn. The Wheat trade is extremely dull this morning, and fullest confidence of speedily restoring the Patient to health by his peculiarly successful and expeditious method of eradicating these disorders, even where have declined 2s. per quarter for the best grain, while the inferior the usual mode of treatment has failed of remedy or alleviation. Consulted till 3, and 4, lower,, In Barley there is a decline of 2s. and 3s. perOne daily, at his residence, No. 48, South-street, Grosvenor-square.

Saturday, January 16.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPerseded.

J. Simpson, Kingston-upon-Hull, oil-merchan.
T. Hudson, Whitehaven, mercer.

BANKRUPTS.

J. Slade, Mavagissey, Cornwall, mercer. Solicitor, Mr. Coode, Veru-
lam-buildings, Gray's Inn.
J. Jones, Hillingdon, Middlesex, linen-draper. Solicitor, Mr. Hurst,
Milk-street, Cheapside.

W. Phillipson, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, drysalter. Solicitors,
Messrs. Oliverson and Denby, Frederick's-place.

J. Palmer, Commercial-road, Lambeth, tailor. Solicitors, Messrs. Cook
and Hunter, Clement's Inn, New Chambers.

P. Bowen, Bungay, linen-draper. Solicitor, Mr. Tanner, New Basing

hall-street.

M. and J. Whyte, Great East-cheap, wholesale perfumers. Solicitor,
Mr. Springall, Gray's Inn-square.

J. P. Campbell, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, grocer. Solicitor, Mr. Bous-
field, Chatham-place, Blackfriars.

G. V. Leonard, Taunton, linen-draper. Solicitors, Messrs. Poole and Co.
Gray's Inn-square.

deration, and as establishing the existing titles to national property, beyond all possibility of question, the intended measure will be more serviceable to the Liberals than to the Ultras. It may happen, indeed, that the dread of Emigrant influence and resumption tends to keep up an active body of Opposition, in which case the argument tells the other way. The most likely source of the general dissatisfaction, however, is the connexion of this restitution with the proposed reduction of the rentes, which is generally unpalatable. It is thought that, in both the Chambers, the divisions will run close on both these projects; but the Minister seems to understand his ground. These are great points for him; for if they be carried, the distribution of so many millions, no matter on what principle, will necessarily increase his influence and establish his power.

We have given larger space this week than usual to the debates of the Catholic Association, because they contain passages of true eloquence and convincing argument. We particularly point attention to the powerful use which Mr. O'CONNELL made, in his speech, of the late glorious Proclamation of the King of Hanover, respecting cold-hearted, uncharitable persons, who criticise every hasty word or act of an oppressed and insulted people, without the slightest allow

J. Lander, Strand, hardwareman. Solicitor, Mr. Bromley, Copthall-religious freedom; to the admirable appeal of Mr. SHIEL to those court, Throgmorton-street.

W. Brandon, Sen. Camberwell, hoop-bender. Solicitors, Messrs. Arundell and Miller, Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

ance for an irritation which it would be base and unnatural not to

W. Taylor, Hog-lane Wharf, Woolwich, coal-merchant. Solicitor, Mr.feel; and to the excellent reasoning of Mr. BRIC, in showing that the

Harris, Norfolk-street, Strand.

S. Barnard, Sidney-place, Camberwell, jeweller. Solicitor, Mr. Richard-
son, Walbrook.

T. Truman, Waterloo-terrace, print-seller. Solicitor, Mr. Price, St.
John's-square.

W. Jones, Bermondsey-street, Southwark, fellmonger. Solicitor, Mr.
Tadhunter, Bermondsey-street.

Westminster-road.

H. Giles, London-road, butcher. Solicitor, Mr. Chester, Melina-place,
W. Hughes, Tewkesbury, glass-dealer. Solicitors, Messrs. Holme and
Co. New Inn.

hopes, the fears, and the interests, of the Association, equally directed them to peaceful and legal means of redress.

We have sufficiently expressed our regret at the appeal of the Association to law against the Courier. It would be unfair, however, not to allow, that the spirit of the proceeding is somewhat bettered by the offer to abandon it, if the Treasury journalist will simply state, that his Irish information respecting Maynooth College was inaccurate. But it is evident that the Courier has availed itself of the sensation excited by the fact of the prosecution, to drop all discussion respecting the alleged libel, and the public and minute contradiction it THE FUNDS.-The price of Consols continues to exhibit little variation received in a late speech of Mr. O'CONNELL. In this circumstance beyond what the mere common course of transaction may account for. alone, we think, the Catholic leaders may see the impolicy of their The reaction in the Mining Shares which was exhibited this week, is a call upon the odious libel law. Had they contented themselves with commencement of the reaction which it was easy to foretell from the first the signal and complete exposure they were enabled to make of the would be inevitable. The falls indeed have not yet corresponded with falsehoods and malice of the Courier, public attention would have the leaps in the other direction; but it will be seen that they are by no been fixed on that topic, and the ministerial tool must either have means trifling. This delusion, like many preceding ones, will rapidly been put on his defence before the tribunal of Public Opinion, or find its level. In consequence of these variations, much default was ex-must, by a guilty silence, have allowed himself to be publicly branded pected at the settling on Friday, but little or none has been made public. as a liar and a slanderer. As it is, a striking and most useful exhibiThe Foreign Market in other respects has been very calm. tion of the foul and calumnious spirit of corruption has been thrown in the shade by the agitation of other questions arising out of the prosecution; and the ill-advised appeal of the Catholics to a bad law, instead of to Reason and Opinion, has excited a prejudice against themselves, and sympathy with their cunning and malignant adver

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Buenos Ayres Bonds, 941

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Consols for Account 95 947

SECURITIES.

Greek Bonds for Acc. 56
Mexican Bonds, 80 1
Ditto for Acc. 8082 1
Peruvian Bonds, 834

Ditto Acc. 83 84
Prussian Bonds, 100
Prussian Bonds, 1822, 994 7
Russian Bonds, 1822, 96
French Rentes, 103f.
Exchange, 25f.

The PRESS IN INDIA, and other Communications, in our next.
The INDEX, &c. for last year's EXAMINER, are now ready.

THE EXAMINER.

LONDON, JAN. 16, 1825.

Latest

sary.

Letters have been received from Corfu of the 14th ult. confirming the accounts of the unfortunate dissentions between the Government and the Military Chieftains. There had been blood shed at Tripolitza; and Colocotroni, whose son had been killed, had made an appeal to the Primates of the Morea, urging them to declare against the Executive: which calamity was apprehended from these events. Meanwhile the Greeks continued masters at sea, and no less than eleven Turkish vessels had been brought in to Nauplia by the Greek Admiral Miaulis

A report has been widely spread, and from high authority, that the Government has it in contemplation entirely to withdraw the present Corn Laws; and that the measure will be brought forward early in the next Session. It has created a great sensation in the City and on the Corn Market.-Globe and Traveller-Saturday.

The account of the reception of Lafayette by the American Congress, will delight the admirers of patriotism, and the friends of liberal princiTHERE is little in the way of Foreign News that calls for particular ples. That generous, constant, and noble-minded patriot, may boast of remark, unless we except the conflict of party and opinion in France, having received more fervent, universal, and unqualified testimonies of on the subject of the intended remuneration of the Emigrants. Strange than any public character within the whole range of history. His preattachment and gratitude, than any man in modern times-we believe, to say, this grant is equally opposed by those for whom it is intended, sence has equally filled the smallest village, and the most populous city, and by the far greater body (out of the Chambers) who deem it too with a feeling of enthusiasm which has merged all distinctions of rank, great a recompense for the forfeitures, incurred by the somewhat pu- party, sect, and profession, in its overwhelming tide. Had he been a sillanimous loyalty of running away. An addition to the debt of forty volunteer in the cause of despotism, how many despots would have been millions sterling to close what are called the wounds of the Revolu- eager to recompense him with orders, and crosses, and diamonds. But tion, the latter cannot be brought to relish; while the former reject who would barter their trumpery ribbons and gewgaws, and all their the proffered boon, as wholly inadequate to their positive losses and meretricious honours passing as they often do through the most polluted negative merits. We are half inclined to think, that in a ministerial hands-and lavished as they are upon the most worthless of mankind— sense, this union of opposition from contrary causes justifies the mea-heartfelt, enlightened, and grateful homage of a whole people? Look at who would barter such poor distinctions for one day's enjoyment of the sure, in order to break an existing bond of party on both sides. What this, ye Holy Allies! Here are allurements to honest fame; here are may be the political motives of the Liberals, independently of a gene-rewards to tempt generous spirits to peril life and fortune in the cause of ral objection to enrich their opponents, we cannot say; but to us it freedom and mankind, far surpassing all you can bestow.—Scotsman. appears, that both as terminating the claims of an influential and raSPANISH AND ITALIAN REFUGEES.-We have received, for these Exiles, acious party, and breaking up one of its strongest motives to confe- half a sovereign, from “ a few friends at Holloway.”

On Thursday week, Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning went through the forms of receiving the freedom of Bristol, of being complimented, and of re-complimenting and this process was, perhaps, enlivened by less of novelty than usually springs up on such occasions. Lord Liverpool goes his usual train," as the French speak, "par, nec supra, negotiis.' He is an honest sound hackney, that usually gets to the end of his stage without a serious stumble. Mr. Canning rarely goes the plain jog-trot pace: his genius and the buoyancy of his spirits impel him to make prances and curvettings on the road. In these, he sometimes trips, but usually recovers himself with great vivacity. In one of his addresses on the late occasion, the Right Honourable Gentleman speaks with just pride and exultation of that liberal system of policy which has been adopted in this country with respect to foreign commerce. We pray for the extension of this system. Open ports make abundant hearths! Mr. Canning says, with truth, "The world is a field for the exertions of mana field which yields the surest and best reward to his labour." Let all the markets then of the world, he will also say, be equally open to the produce of this common-field land-the earth. Oblige not the cultivators of any portion to consume that which they grow themselves; for otherwise, they will hereafter grow less, and the universal mass of population will suffer. Let the grain circulate freely from and to foreign countries, as local scarcity or abundance require. "But," in that case, "much land in England would go out of cultivation." Be it so: land converted from arable to pasture does not perish: it is laid up in store—it enriches itself by repose; and on its being broken up anew, repays the cultivator by its abundance, for the rest which it has been suffered to enjoy. In the mean time the labourers apply themselves to manufactures and more productive objects of industry; population increases in consequence of the cheapness of necessaries, and above all, of the first necessary of life; and navigation prospers. Open ports, therefore, and unrestricted commerce! But without an unrestricted commerce in grain, the removal of all other restrictions will prove inefficacious and nugatory. All these deductions and inferences, we say, follow from Mr. Canning's simile; according to which the world is but one common-field.-Times.

GENERAL MINA.-General Mina has given to the world, with his own sanction and in his own name, a publication which he calls "A Short Extract from his Life." This little work, embracing only 107 pages, is printed both in its original Castilian and in an English version; so that those who are desirous of acquiring the language of Spain, may learn at the same time, in an easy lesson, the surprising exploits of one of its most distinguished sons. The profits arising from the sale of this little book are destined, we understand, to increase the subscription now raising for the suffering countrymen of the Author. Thus will the military history of this celebrated Officer tend to ennoble the exile, and to relieve the distress of those whom, for want of other arms like his own, he could not secure in their national rights, or defend on their native soil. Zealous to applaud so noble a disinterestedness, and to concur in so sacred an object, we willingly refrain from making those quotations to which we should otherwise be tempted, feeling that in transferring to our pages passages that might be read in the original, we should, perhaps, be gratifying curiosity by the commission of a kind of sacrilege. Instead, therefore, of extracting from the interesting narrative before us, an account of the exploits of this modern Cid, we request our readers to go to the work itself; and we assure them beforehand, that in purchasing and perusing it, they will at once gratify their thirst for information, and indulge their feelings of charity-amuse their minds, and improve their hearts.Times.

The issue of the case of Duncan v. the Proprietors of the Morning Advertiser, is one of the strongest possible proofs of the general sense of the advantage of Police Reports. The defendants had not Justified; the Judge declared that a verdict must pass for the plantiff; yet, among a Special Jury of twelve London Merchants, there was not one man who hesitated at all in finding a verdict for the Newspaper Proprietors. A Morning Paper says, Lynn continues in a very composed state of mind, and his time is principally engaged in reading religious books. When Mangan's mysterious disappearance became the topic of conversation, he has observed," Poor fellow, I wish he was found;" but in the most solemn manner he denies any participation in his disappearance.The prisoner is daily visited by the Rev. Mr. Ashfield, and men sit up with him every night.

NEWSPAPER CHAT.

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CAUSE AND EFFECT.-In the New Times of Tuesday, Dr. Slop gravely attributes the late shocking instance of English cannibalism in Van Dieman's Land, to the blasphemies of Carlile! The ingenious L.L.D. observes however (which is necessary) that the cannibals do appear to have been "stimulated by extreme hunger"-but then they were strangers to religious sentiments." On a like principle the Spanish heroes of "the Faith" would doubtless attribute the atrocities to the fact of the perpetrators not being good Catholics, and the Mufti at Constantinople to their not being impressed with the sacred truth, that "there is one God, and Mahomet is his Prophet." This kind of modesty extends to national as well as to religious feeling. "It was," says the Chronicle, "a subject of congratulation with many of our countrymen, and with a certain M. Chenevix in particular, when noticing the account of the wreck of the Alceste frigate, that the actors on that appalling occasion were only Frenchmen. We suppose the French will also congratulate themselves on the Van Dieman's Land Cannibals being only English. Nations are generally very ready to pay these sorts of compliments to each other."

DEMOCRACY VINDICATED.-It is the fashion (I am sorry to say) of courtly writers who hate the popular part of our institutions, to treat those of Athens, merely because they are popular, with unsparing and unallowing disparagement. For the imperfection of modern governments, it is often a very just and applicable apology, that all human institutions are naturally imperfect, and that no wise man will scan them by the standard of abstract perfection. Were you to apply to writers of the above consideration, in behalf of any fine old Gothic abuse, wearing a noble and imposing air of aristocratic or chivalrous descent, there would be no end to their munificent liberality. But claim the same candid allowance for the smallest excess of the plebeian power, then the case is totally altered. No, their charity has nothing to do with low-born imperfections. Their candour "dances only to the genteelest of all tunes." Vulgar democracy is to be guaged in their hands by the rule of perfection, and its measures scanned by the laws of Utopian prosody. They therefore visit the errors of Athenian republicanism with a reprobation as intense as if that political system had ever produced a tithe of the calamities and horrors inflicted on mankind by the absolute governments which those slaves in their hearts adore.-LECTURES ON POETRY, by T. CAMPBELL.-New Monthly Magazine.

VAMPIRES.-Calmet, Benedictine Priest of St. Vannes, has printed and reprinted the history of Vampires, with the approbation of the Sorbonne! Those Vampires were corpses who went out of their graves at night to suck the blood of the living, either at their throats or stomachs, after which they returned to their cemeteries. The persons so sucked waned, grew pale, and fell into consumptions; while the sucking corpses grew fat, got rosy, and enjoyed an excellent appetite. It was in Poland, Hungary, Silesia, and Austria, that the dead made this good cheer. We never heard speak of Vampires in London, nor even at Paris. I confess, that in both these cities there were stock-jobbers, brokers, and men of business, who sucked the blood of the people in broad daylight; but they were not dead, though corrupted. These true suckers lived not in cemeteries, but in very agreeable palaces. You will find stories of Vampires in the Jewish Letters of d'Argens, whom the Jesuit authors of the Journal of Trevoux have accused of believing nothing. It should be observed how thanked God and the Virgin for having at last converted this poor d'Arthey triumph in the history of the Vampire of Hungary-how they gens, the Chamberlain of a King who did not believe in Vampires! "Behold!" said they," this famous unbeliever, who dared to throw doubts on the appearance of the angel to the Holy Virgin; on the star which conducted the Magi; on the cure of the possessed; on the immersion of 2000 swine into a lake; on the eclipse of the sun at the full moon; on the resurrection of the dead, who walked in Jerusalem ;-his heart is softened-his mind is enlightened—he believes in Vampires!"-VOLTAIRE

FRENCH POLITICAL GOSSIP.-The Civil List for the present year receives an increase of six millions, for defraying the funeral expenses of the late King, and for the coronation of the present. These two heads of expense have already become the subject of much criticism. It appeared at first sight very indecorous that a King should be buried at the public expense in a country where that privilege is only granted to persons whom I shall abstain from describing, that I may avoid an offensive comparison. In vindication of this expense, the learned M. de Corbiere has, it is said, quoted the example of I know not what Roman Consul, who was buried at the expense of the republic; but this Consul had not a Civil List of 50 millions; besides, Louis XVIII. was not a Consul, and we are not Romans.-The expense for the Coronation encounters still more objection. That ceremony adds nothing whatever to the authority of a King-more particularly of a legitimate King. It is prescribed by no law; and the reign of Louis XVIII. has shown that a King may do very well without it. It will, then, be merely a grand spectacle. But, fond as the Parisians are of such exhibitions, they apprehend that this show will prove too dear. They are already compelled to pay 300,000 francs annually for the support of the Grand Opera. Now, they cannot help remarking, that six millions would pay the expenses of the Opera for 20 years to come, or even for perpetuity, if that sum were laid out at interest. One-third of the communes of France are destitute of schools; and were the income of the capital, which must be expended in this single exhibition, employed in establishing schools, 300 might be founded, each-Philosophical Dictionary. of which would teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, to 500 children. Thus, 150,000 children, who are now left without education, might ancally receive instructions in morality and religion, for the same sum which will be uselessly thrown away in the space of two or three hours, by the pretended restorers of religion and morality. It is true, however, Lat so long as the people may have their eyes employed about a vain spectacle, they will not think of M. de Villele and his projects.-Private Letter from Paris.

Died, on Friday, the 14th inst. at an advanced age, Arnaud Fichat,

BON MOT.-The present Sir Wm. Garrow, when at the Bar, was endeavouring, by the examination of an old woman, to prove the tender of a debt before the action was brought, which would have been fatal to the plaintiff. The old lady, however, was too wary, and nothing satisfactory could be elicited from her. The present Master Jekyl (then also at the Bar) observed this wordy war, and taking up a slip of paper, wrote upon it, and handed it to Garrow, who immediately sat down laughing immoderately at the lines on the paper, which were these:

"Garrow, forbear; that tough old jade
Will never prove a tender made."

RELIGIOUS EQUALITY—A Royal Proclamation has just just been issued DELICATE BRIBERY.-The French Minister Villele neglects no means, in Hanover, distinctly repeating the provision of the German Confede-great or small, to gain the favour of the Deputies. While France had only fation of 1815 in the following terms "The several professors of the a plebeian Chamber, there was given to each Deputy a silver medal, Christian faith enjoy a perfect equality of civil and political rights in the worth about 5 or 6 francs, for the purpose of making him known on his kingdom, and in conformity with the said article, the notion of a predo-entering the Chamber. This year M. de Villele has caused gold medals minant and of a merely tolerated Church is entirely abolished."-How! to be struck, worth 320 or 330 francs each. He has thus distributed about is this a people living without Test and Corporation Acts? What a bar- 150,000 francs among his friends, without offending the delicacy of any of barous, unchristian, stupid, quiet, charitable community it must be them. Leeds Mercury!

FRENCH MODE OF ENCOURAGING HISTORICAL PAINTING.-M. Gros, who painted the dome of St. Genevieve, has since been created a Baron by his Sovereign for that work: on visiting the scene of his labours, instead of the covenanted price, (2,000:) the Minister of the Interior has doubled the sum, and given 4,000%. for the work. Such is the French-now mark the ENGLISH MODE OF ENCOURAGING HISTORICAL PAINTING-Mr. Barry, who painted the great room at the Adelphi, was struck from the list of Royal Academians, and obliged to support himself during this work by working for Engravers, after he returned exhausted to his house-Mr. West left his family his three last great works, unpurchased by the Governmeut, and died embarrassed.—Mr. Fuzeli escaped from want into the Professorship of the Royal Academy.-Mr Procter, who gained both prizes for Sculpture and Painting, was starved to death in an obsure lodging in Clare-market:-and Mr. Haydon, after devoting 20 years to History, and having his works applauded by thousands, lost all his Plaisters, Prints, and books of Art, was thrown into the King's Bench, and has taken to Portrait Painting to get his bread! And all this happens in a country, where there are Academies and Institutions to nourish young students, in the highest branches, founded for that purpose; while France does not let her efforts for the art end with her Academies, but as soon as young men give evidence that they have benefited by the instruction obtained in their Academies, they receive honours, and if they ask 2,000/. for a work, are not accused of conceit, but get 4,000l.

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life was despaired of. He was said to be out of danger on Tuesday night. Mr. Macready has been so alarmingly ill, that on Monday evening bis His attack was bilious, and to a degree so violent, that his physicians give of the new tragedy is thus unfortunately stopped. His health has susno hope of his returning to his professional duties for six weeks. The run tained so great a shock, that the physicians have recommended him to go down to Devonshire by very easy stages, in order to renovate it.-Daily Paper.

of Landor's Conversations, the Reviewer says he believes this Mr. Landor CONVENIENT MEMORY OF A TORY REVIEWER.-In the Quarterly Review is the person who wrote some strange verses entitled Gebir many years ago. But if he has even a faint recollection of Gebir, how did he relong after Gebir appeared, reviewed with high praise in the Quarterly member to forget" the Count Julian of the same Mr. Landor, which was,

Revsew!

SINGULAR BURLESQUE BY GOETHE.-Goethe has written a political satire, which Bierey has set to music, and the title of this singular joint production is-Damagogisch Gedicht Von Goethe, fur eine Singstimme und vier Frösche, mit Piano-forte Von Bierey, Breslace,-i,e. Demagogical Poem of Goethe for Vox humana and four frogs, etc.-The words are extremely ludicrous, and coming from Goethe, are, as a matter of course, quite original. His Excellency had better be more careful of the four great members of the Holy Alliance.—Harmonicon for January.

BROWN'S PNEUMATIC ENGINE.-At the Edinburgh School of Arts, on UNPAID MAGISTRACY.-It appears, from recent disclosures in the Scotch Wednesday week, Dr. Fyfe took an opportunity of describing Brown's courts of law, as well as from Parliamentary Reports, that the practice of gas vacuum engine. The object of this engine is to obtain power by illicit distillation is carried on to a frightful extent in the Highlands, and means of a vacuum created during the combustion of inflammable gas; that it is so much encouraged by the local justices, as to baffle the efforts for which purpose a gas burner is lighted within the cylinder, and allowed of the Excise officers to suppress it. The demoralization which has to consume the internal air, part of which being condensed into water, resulted from this practice, was described in strong language by the Lord while another part is thrown off by the sudden combustion, the valve in- Advocate in the Court of Exchequer the other day. He declared that stantly closes, and produces the vacuum. Dr. Fyfe gave a decided opinion"in districts where the population was formerly mild, sober, and inoffenin favour of this new discovery. It is considered as one of the grandest sive, the prevalence of illicit distillation has rendered them daring, combinations of chemical and mechanical science ever introduced to profligate, and full of insubordination; drunkenness, perjury, and the public notice. Several persons had condemned the engine as useless, but violent resistance of all legal authority everywhere prevailed." The those individuals seemed to be unacquainted with the principle upon which Learned Gentleman explicitly attributed this state of things to the conduct the vacuum was produced. They argued and made their calculations of the magistracy, but for which the mischief would have been abated by upon the theory, that combustion is effected in a close vessel; while the the very great reduction of the duty on spirits, which the Parliament had, whole principle of the engine is, that the combustion is carried on in an made for the purpose. Yet this very Lord Advocate, when asked to give In point of economy, other writers have fallen into error by the names of a particular set of magisterial delinquents, declined, because estimating the expense much too high. By actual experiment, it had been "he did not wish to hurt their feelings!" And the Lord Chief Baronascertained, that during the consumption of one foot of gas, 300 gallons Sir Samuel Sheppard-tenderly remarked of the culprits, that "they of water would be raised to the height of about 20 feet-the cost of which appeared to have acted under a degree of delusion perfectly unaccountmust be trifling, compared to that of maintaining a steam engine. In able." [The fact is admitted, that the illicit distillation raises the price the engine already constructed by Mr. Brown, the mercury gage stood at of barley, and very much increases the landlord's rents-hence the from 24 to 26 inches-thus giving a pressure of from 12 to 13lbs. to the "delusion"]-Sir Samuel proceeded to descant gravely on the superiority square inch, while the common steam engine had not more than 7 or 8lbs. which Great Britain possesses over other countries in having an Unpaid Twenty thousand pounds had already been given for the patent for Scot-Magistracy! How opportune a compliment! "Oh the father! how he land, and nine thousand pounds for the right of applying this discovery holds his countenance!" Who will say, after this (says the Morning to the propelling of private carriages and carts in England. The patent Chronicle) that the strictures which foreigners pass on the judicial system had also been sold for the West Indies; and it is a remarkable fact, that of this country are too severe ? Respect the feelings of a knot of MagisMr. Brown is the only individual, not a citizen of the United States, in trates, leagued to set the law at defiance, in order to put money in their whose favour the American Government had ever granted a patent. own pockets! We may add, that to talk of the said Magistrates being [Should this new invention answer, it will completely supersede the steam-unpaid, just after such an exposure, seems almost too much even for the engine, and will be especially useful in propelling vehicles on railways, gravity of a judge. Such things, however, are explained by the maxim which it will of course traverse without leaving behind it a column of of a profound thinker, that "gravity is the essence of imposture." smoke.]-Leeds Mercury.

The New Monthly Magazine commences the New Year with more than usual spirit. In the first place, Mr. Campbell has resumed his Lectures on Poetry, and in an animated sketch of the political and social character of ancient Greece, as preparatory to a critical examination of the produc tion of her fruitful Muses, has admirably defended Athens and the kindred Grecian democracies from the interested and partial censure of Mitford, and of that discreditable school, whose business it is systematically to de cry all popular Government, both ancient and modern, to the perversion equally of past history and of existing matter of fact. To this able article is to be added another, entitled, "The Family of the Honeycombs," which is so pregnant with social information, graceful humour, and spirited vivacity, Dick Steele himself might be supposed risen from the dead. The present article consists of a sketch of the members of that ancient and mercurial race, from the days of Edward to the present time, in which the descent of the spirit of gentility, coxcombry, and gallantry, which forms its leading distinction, is exquisitely preserved, and occasionally varied with diversified contrast and illustration. The present paper is to usher in a transcript from the family papers of that characteristic generation, which, if it retain the raciness of the Memoir, will form a most welcome diversion in the pending fierce war between the periodicals, which creates a monthly call for additional variety and effort, that actually resembles the greediness of the child-devouring goul, in Caliph Vathek, whose eternal cry was "More, More!”

SPRING GUNS.-A man who sets spring guns in his grounds, arrogates to himself a power beyond the law he deals out a punishment warranted only in self-defence against a murderer or a highwayman, to those who may violate the strict rights of property with very innocent intentions, as well as to those who seek to steal game, and who, even for that offence, could only be legally punished by fine and imprisonment. Whether you enter preserves for the purpose of destroying pheasants, gathering a few nuts, or culling a few flowers, it matters not to the barbarous owner: he has planted his spring guns to inflict upon you infinitely more bodily injury than the law would adjudge, had you been proved to have come there with the criminal intent. In a case tried some years ago in the country, the plaintiff had been made a cripple for life by the discharge of one of the infernal machines set by the defendant in a wood which the plaintiff had entered to gather nuts. The Jury awarded only fifty pounds damages, although the Judge recommended liberal compensation, and although many high legal authorities have declared, that persons resorting to such measures for the protection of their property in unenclosed woods or plantations, and thereby causing death, are liable to an indictment for murder. The defendant was nevertheless dissatisfied, applied to the Court of King's Bench, and procured a nonsuit to be entered; which very a-propos occasion Chief Justice Abbott selected to remark, that "it became a question whether repeated and increasing transgression did not call for the adoption of stronger measures for the protection of property than those at present provided by law!"

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EARLY RISING-To rise early is so truly the one thing needful above all-to all who are candidates for either of those capital prizes-Health, Wealth, or Wisdom, that it is the only sure foundation for securing any chance of obtaining either of them.

"He that would thrive Must rise by Five;'He that has thriven May lie till Seven."

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Instances may be found (but very seldom) of persons who have sat up late becoming wealthy, but they have paid for it the unwise price of their health. You cannot remember one solitary example of a sluggard having ever obtained one of these blessing of life. Shake off dull sloth, and early rise."-There is no time spent so stupidly as that which inconsiderate people pass in a morning between sleeping and waking. He who is awake may be at work or at play; he who is asleep is receiving the refreshment necessary to fit him for action; but the hours spent in dozing and slumbering are wasted, without either pleasure or profit.-The sooner you leave your bed, the seldomer you will be confined to it. When old people have been examined in order to ascertain the cause of their longevity; they have uniformly agreed in one thing only, that they all went to bed and all rose early." CONSECRATED GROUND-The following queries were addressed to the Bishop of Gloucester, in 1783, by a gentleman who was present when his lordship consecrated a spot of ground, as an addition to the church-yard of the parish of S———————, Query 1. What special virtue or blessing does that spot of ground, which your lordship has consecrated, possess at present, which it did not before? Has the consecration increased or diminished its putrifying quality?-2. Do worms observe a difference between the bodies which are interred in unconsecrated ground, while they are feeding on them?-3. Has your lordship communicated any portion of sanctity to the various tribes of insects which inhabit this spot? And should I meet any of them in my garden in their winged state, am I to treat them as consecrated by your lordship?-4. Will your prayer and benediction contribute to ameliorate and render more glorious the state of the bodies buried in the holy ground, on the morning of the resurrection ?5. How deep has the virtue of your blessing reached? a few feet, or yards? or quite to the antipodes? As to the length and breadth, your hallowed feet have marked them out.-6. Whether from the gospel of Christ, or the canons of popery, does your lordship derive the custom of consecrating churchyards?-7. Is there not a near affinity between the consecrating churchyards in England, and that of bells in popish countries?-And why should not the latter superstition be retained as well as the former?8. How comes this work to be the province of a bishop rather than a presbyter of the Church of England; the latter consecrate the bread and wine in the sacrament, and why not the dirt in a churchyard?-9. What reason can you assign why the bodies of men should have holy ground to dwell in when dead, rather than when alive, since "a living dog is better than a dead lion ?"-10. Why ought not the houses of saints, the alebenches of drunkards, the brothels of harlots, be consecrated as well, since they all, without any discrimination, when dead, lie in the same consecrated ground?-11. What gospel precept would the minister of the parish have violated, if, after the ground had been legally conveyed, to answer the purpose intended, he had buried any corpse therein, without putting the parish to many pounds expense, by having it consecrated by your lordship or can you, or any of your court, assign any other reason for the celebration of this ceremony, than what Demetrius the silversmith, who made shrines for the great goddess Diana, did for those of his own occupation-"Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.”

"THAT'S HIS OWN."

[A pleasant version of an old joke, from a little volume just published, entitled "Conrad and other Poems, by R. A. Templeman."]

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To pass a tedious winter's morn away,
Grim to a gospel warehouse went one day;

— appear'd, high mounted on his chair;

He named his text, and then he quoted Blair,

Nor gave he Blair the credit (cheating elf),

But modestly he took it to himself.

Grim mark'd it, and with scrutinizing air

He eyed the preacher, and exclaim'd, "that's Blair,”

Not yet abash'd, the minister went on,

Quoted again; says Grim, "that's Tillotson;"

The preacher redden'd, hemm'd, but mustering strength,
He brought another passage out at length;
"Cooper!" said Grim; the man of God no longer

Could hold his passions, which, being held, grew stronger;
He boil'd with rage; then, with an angry air,
"Sexton," said he, "turn out that fellow there;"
Said Grim (retaining gravity of tone,

And an unalter'd visage), "That's his own."

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and proprietors of the Morning Advertiser, for libels. The case arose out of the same transaction, and the articles complained of related to the proceedings at Bow-street. The first article was headed " A scene of depravity," and proceeded to give a statement of a charge said to have been preferred against a party residing in one of the inns of Court, for indecently assaulting a girl of tender age in the presence of another girl, a cousin of his own, at his chambers. The reporter went on to allege, that the party so accused denied the principal part of the charge, but admitted that he had been imprudent, and alleged, by way of excuse, that he was elevated by wine. He also stated, that Mr. Halls was engaged for several hours in investigating these transactions, to which he applied the term "scandalous," and added, that the case was postponed. In this case there were no special pleas; but the defendant relied on the general issue,"not guilty,"

After the Plaintiff''s case had been very ably stated by the ATTORNEYGENERAL, and as ably replied to by Mr. BROUGHAM ———

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The CHIEF JUSTICE Summed up. He said the action was for a libel to which the defendants had pleaded the general issue, and in that case the Jury were bound to take such a plea as allowing the truth of the libel, for the law expressly allowed the plea of justification in such cases. His Lordship took the opportunity of observing, that if the decision already pronounced by the Court of King's Bench was wrong, he was very glad that it was likely to be taken into the House of Lords; for it was always a satisfaction to a Judge to know that he should have an opportunity of revising his opinion. It had been strongly insisted by the Learned Gentleman, that the verdict must go for the defendant; but as the fact of the publication was clearly proved, he was decidedly of opinion that their verdict must be given for the plaintiff: the amount of damages, of course, rested entirely with the Jury; but he wished them particularly to bear in mind, that they had by their verdict to meet the injury done to the plaintiff by the publication of the Report. The Jury then turned round in their box, and after a consultation of about three minutes, returned a verdict for the Defendants!

OLD BAILEY.

RAPE-On Friday, Cornelius Wood was tried on the charge of having violated the person of Mary Eyre, in the fields near Holloway. This case we have already fully detailed in our Police reports. The prisoner is a young man, not stout, and apparently about 20 years of age; Mary Eyre is a thickset woman about 26; but it appeared that he struck her down several times before he succeeded in accomplishing his brutal purpose. The evidence was satisfactory, and though the Prisoner persisted in asserting his innocence, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, after a deliberation of an hour and a half.-During the greater part of his trial, the prisoner was evidently unmoved by his situation. If there was any feeling which one might say was predominant in his mind, it would be that of a careless indifference as to what was sworn against him. The only time when he appeared to be impressed with becoming feeling, was when his mother and sister appeared in the box as witnesses in his behalf. When the verdict was made known outside the Court, the unhappy parent and sister burst into loud lamentations. It was impossible to witness the sceno without being deeply affected at their distress.

Mary Edgington, a woman of most respectable appearance, was indicted for child stealing.-It will be seen, in our Police Report, that this female was charged with decoying a poor Irish woman into the Sun public-house, and making off with her child. But it now appearing that the witnesses had said that the prisoner was not the guilty person, though they appeared to swear that she was so, Mr. Alley admitted that the charge could not be supported upon such evidence, and the prisoner was Acquitted.-A loud burst of applause, from the friends of Mrs. Edgington, was immediately heard throughout the Court, when the verdict was pronounced.

SURREY SESSIONS.

The Quarter Sessions for Surrey were held on Tuesday at Newington, when J. SCRIVEN, Esq. was elected Chairman, in the room of the late Mr, Harrison.

EDUCATION OF PRISONERS.

Some conversation arose respecting a greater allowance of time to the prisoners, particularly the younger ones, in order that they might receive the benefit of education. Mr. TROTTER thought the experiment should be made as far as it was practicable.-Mr. HOLME SUMNER admitted that nothing could exceed the value of education when conducted with moral and religions principles, but he disliked this hurried plan of education, of mere reading and writing, which, carried on in a loose manner, would only give greater facilities to offenders to commit forgery and other crimes. Keeping prisoners at work, he thought, a far more preferable plan than giving them this hurried sort of education.—Mr. DRUMMOMD differed toto cælo from the Honourable Member, and thought that even the knowledge of mere reading and writing was calculated to do good rather than harm. (Hear, hear!) He thought that to flog a man into better morals was a notion both bad and utterly bopeless. (Hear.)—Mr. BRISCOE thought it was universally admitted, that ignorance was the parent of crime; and he reminded the Hon. Gentleman of the observation of their late Chairman, who stated in the House of Lords, that it harrowed up his very soul to have so often to try boys of nine or ten years of age, whose profligacy arose from their total want of education. (Hear, Mr. H.

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