"Raymond led her to a chair, and seated himself at her side; he possessed that ease which a certain experience in love-matters gives every man: it is only the precipitate violence of our love and our desires which render us 'stupides' at the side of a woman. The man who possesses some experience on this point is more desirous to please than to love; and De Ramiere profited largely by his former studies in the conversation which he addressed to Indiana.

be taken from the various histories which "Walking in the middle of the gay scenes
the book contains; certainly, every story in that surrounded him, he chanced to espy the
the collection, whether it speak of Morgan, two other companions of his voyage in the
the fierce buccaneer; the fair Moll Cut-purse, Dorset packet, to whom he only made a
the fashionable Claude Du Vall, or the bold slight bow of recognition; and in less than
Turpin, affords ample matter for those a quarter of an hour afterwards he saw the
dramatists who are not occupied in adapting duke of Leinster engaged deeply in conver-
French moralities for English audiences.sation with two ladies and a knight of the
"Is there so much difference, then, between Bath, who it afterwards turned out was
Alexander and the robber?" is the con- Sir William Draper; and near these he
clusion of a certain story in Evenings at placed himself, quitting for a short time the
Home, which we all of us have read and company to which he belonged. While he
admired. The life of Alexander has inspired was stationed there, an opportunity, which
many moral and instructive historians, and he considered a fair one, offered itself of
why not the memory of Barrington?
making a good booty, and he availed himself
of it: he picked the duke's pocket of above
eighty pounds, Sir William's of five-and-thirty
guineas, and one of the ladies of her watch,
with all which he got off undiscovered by the
parties, and joined the captain and his party
as if nothing had happened out of the ordi-
nary and common routine of affairs, in such
places of public recreation as Ranelagh."

a

The life of that eccentric and unfortunate gentleman is not particularly remarkable for the adventures which befel him; but is curious, as exhibiting the noble perseverance with which he pursued his occupation, the resolute fidelity with which, after years of "You know, ladies, that in general a suffering and oppression, he returned to the man who talks well of love does not feel it duties and pursuits he loved so much; and very strongly; and yet Raymond was an ex- the honest piety with which he closed a long ception to the rule—he felt the passion with and arduous life in the discharge of an office warmth, and expressed it with art, only it which a grateful country had imposed upon was not his passion which rendered him elo- him, in a land where he lived honored and quent, but his eloquence that made him pas-respected, and died hopeful and resigned. sionate. As soon as he felt an inclination The real name of Mr. Barrington appears for a woman, Raymond became eloquent in to have been Waldron. At the age of sixorder to win her, and loving, in winning her. teen he decamped from school, having in There were many women who could resist fit of anger stabbed a schoolfellow; and him and his passionate improvisations, but afterwards, in a fit of absence, carried off the Raymond had committed what are called schoolmaster's watch and twelve guineas in follies (folies) for love; he had carried off money. a young person of high family; he had com- He then joined a company of strolling promised women of rank; he had shewn to players, among whom he acquired those a whole ball-room or theatre the disorder of distinguished and gentlemanly manners his heart, and the violence of his passions. which a study of our best authors cannot A man who can do all this without fear of fail to impart; but Ireland speedily became ridicule or depreciation, is above everything; too contracted a sphere for a man of his he may risk all, and hope all. Thus it hap-vaulting ambition" accordingly, he made pened that the ladies most experienced in resisting, yielded at length to the consideration that Raymond loved madly when he did love; and in the world, a man who loves madly is a very rare phenomenon that women by no means disdain."

friends with a certain captain, and travelled
with him to London, professing to be a
student of the Middle Temple, where many
an honest fellow has studied besides.

Barrington here shewed very properly his low opinion of rank and aristocracy, and deservedly robbed those who had robbed the poor before. It was a noble debut for an Irish gentleman thus to fasten on "A belted knight,

A marquis, duke, and a' that,"

and so heated his imagination, that he determined on one of the greatest exploits recorded in history.

"On his forming a connexion with Lowe, which was but a short time previous to that evening of the month of January which was observed as the anniversary of the queen's birthday, it was resolved on between them, that, habited as a clergyman, he should repair to court, and there endeavour, not only to pick the pockets of some of the company, but, what was a bolder and a much more novel attempt, to cut off the diamond orders of some of the knights of the Garter, Bath, and Thistle, who on such days usually wear the collars of their respective orders over their coats. In this enterprize he suctions that could have been formed by either ceeded beyond the most sanguine expectahis new accomplice, Lowe, or himself; for he found means to deprive a nobleman of his diamond order, and also contrived to get away from the palace without suspicion. This being an article of too much value to dispose of in England, it is reported that it

"But the expensive manner in which he lived with Mr. Hn, and those to whose In this last passage is a whole history of acquaintance that gentleman introduced him, French society-a complete Art of Love, all of them gay, sprightly young fellows, who which puts poor simple Ovid to shame: had money at command, in less than a month and then the language, the marvellous lan- reduced the funds which Barrington had guage! which expresses often in a single brought with him from Ireland to about word that which it would take a heavy Eug-twenty guineas, which to him, who had been lishman a page to explain, and an age to now for some years accustomed to live like comprehend. a man of affluent fortune, seemed to afford a was sold to a Dutchman, or rather to a Dutch very inconsiderable resource: he therefore Lives and Exploits of English Highway-resolutely determined to procure a supply of twice a year for the sole object of buying Jew, who came over from Holland once or men, Pirates, and Robbers. By C. White- money by some means or other. One evenhead, Esq. London: 1834. Bull and ing, while he was deliberating with himself jewels that had been stolen; and, though a on the choice of expedients to recruit his stranger, he is generally reported to have THESE are two of the most entertaining finances, he was interrupted in his medita-than could have been gotten from the regiven a much higher price for such articles volumes which we have had the pleasure of tions on the subject by the arrival of a party ceivers in town." perusing this year; and, although we confess of his friends with the captain, who prowe have not been impressed by those noble posed to accompany them to Ranelagh, where moral sentiments which Mr. Whitehead they had agreed to meet some of their acconsiders must infallibly result from the quaintance, and to spend the evening. Their reading of his book, it is no less pleasant proposal was without much hesitation acon that account; and will be read greedily, ceded to by Barrington, and they without no doubt, by every literary gentleman from further loss of time ordered coaches to set Pall Mall to the Old Bailey. them down at that celebrated place of amusement.

Churton.

We expect that at least a dozen plays will

He then robbed Prince Orloff of his snuffbox, was discovered, and carried before the famous Sir John Fielding. Misfortunes now fell thick upon him: he was convicted, and sentenced to the hulks; where a gentleman, being affected by

"the dejected and squalid appearance of Barrington, made a most successful use of

"He continued in the situation in which the governor had placed him till his death; and performed the duties of his office with an unwearied assiduity, which at last superinduced a general decay of nature, of which he died, in the year 1811."

his influence with government to obtain
Barrington's release, upon the condition that
he should leave the kingdom. To this, as
Barrington gladly assented, he generously
supplied him with a sum of money to defray
the expense of his removal to Ireland, where,
it is understood, this unharpy offender al-
ways persisted in stating that he had friends
and relatives of credit and character. In
London he did not think proper to stay
longer than was needful to procure neces-memoirs.
saries for his journey; he therefore took the

Chester coach, and in the course of a week
was enabled to reach the Irish capital, where
his fame having arrived before, he was look-
ed upon with such an eye of suspicion, that
he was very shortly apprehended for picking
the pocket of an Irish nobleman of a gold
watch and his money at one of the theatres,
and was soon afterwards committed to the
new gaol to be tried upon the charge, but
was acquitted for want of evidence.

"Though he was acquitted on this occasion, he was perfectly convinced that the Irish capital would be too warm to retain him ;"

This is a delightful and affecting picture of the manner in which a good man closes his life, and cannot fail to produce the moral effect anticipated by the compiler of these

We shall now present the reader with a narrative of a lighter description, being part of the adventures of Tom Dorbel.

This robber was bred a glover; but, before he had served one half of his time, ran off from his master, and coming to London, soon became acquainted with men of dispositions similar to his own. About the age of seventeen Tom ventured to appear upon the highway, but was outwitted in his first

attempt.

"Meeting a Welshman, he demanded Taffy's money, or he would take his life. The Welshman said, 'Hur has no money of hur own, but has threescore pounds of hur master's money; but, Cot's blood! hur must not give her master's money-what would hur master then say for hur doing so?' Tom

which is an ingenious and elegant way of
saying, too hot to hold him; but we need
not follow him through his career: we shall
only quote the close of it, which Mr. White-replied, You must not put me off with your

head thus commemorates:

such an expression, he said, May it please your lordship, it is a very hard thing for a man to die wrongfully; but one may see how hard-mouthed some people are, by the witnesses swearing that this gentleman now at the bar robbed them on the highway at such a time, when indeed, my lord, I was the person that committed that robbery.'

"Accordingly, Tom was taken into custody, and the young gentleman liberated. He was brought to trial at the following assizes; and being asked, whether he was guilty or not? he pleaded Not guilty! Not guilty?' replied the judge,' why, did not you at the last assizes, when I was here, own yourself guilty of such a robbery ?' 'I don't know,' said Tom, how far I was guilty then, but upon my word I am not guilty now; therefore, if any person can accuse me of committing such a robbery, I desire they may prove the same.' No witness appearing, he was acquitted."

As he deserved to be; though we grieve to say that he was hanged at last,

Barnadiston; a Tale of the Seventeenth Century. London: 1833. Saunders and Otley.

HERE is another romance, much of the same order as "The Dark Lady of Doona," of which we have spoken already. Plenty of fine words and fighting, with villains, priests, and assassinations numberless. “The Barnadiston" is a young gentleman of agreeable person and ancient family, who leaves his paternal castle, as many a hero of romance has done before him, to figure at the court of James the First, and Charles, and to take a hand in the balls and brawls of that picturesque and adventurous time.

The hero, and the villain, who bears the euphonious title of Lord Adrian de Walden, attend Prince Charles in his Spanish expedition, as has been the lot of a great many heroes, in a great many other novels, and are there present at bull-fights, and battles of all sorts.

cant; for money I want, and mouey I will "During the voyage to Port Jackson have, let it be whose it will, or expect to be Barrington rendered an essential service in shot through the head.' The Welshman quelling a mutiny in the vessel. Upon this then delivered the money, saying, 'What hur occasion the captain evinced his gratitude gives you is none of hur own; and that hur for the services he had performed; and, when master may not think hur has spent hur they reached the Cape, at the recommenda- money, hur requests you to be so kind as to tion of the former, he received a hundred shoot some holes through hur coat-lappets, dollars reward for his zeal and activity. that hur master may see hur was robbed. "On their arrival at Port Jackson, Bar-So, suspending his coat upon a tree, Tom rington having been recommended to the fired his pistol through it, Taffy exclaiming governor, was placed in the first instance at 'Cots splatter a-nails! this is a pretty pounce; Tamgabbe as a subordinate, and was soon pray give hur another pounce for hur money!' advanced to be a principal watchman, in Tom fired another shot through his coat. which situation he acquitted himself as a By St. Davy, this is a better pounce than the useful and active officer, insomuch that the other? pray give hur one pounce more !'-'I governor determined to withdraw him from have never another pounce left,' cried Tom. the convicts; and at the same time that he Why then,' replied the Welshman, hur has received his instrument of emancipation, he one pounce left for hur, and if hur will not Lord Adrian, in the course of their travels, was presented with a grant of thirty acres of give hur hur money again, hur will pounce conceives a violent hatred for his young land at Paramatta. He was subsequently hur through hur body. Dorbel very reluc-friend, endeavours to assassinate him, and appointed superintendent of the convicts; tantly but quietly returned the money, and fails, as does every other assassin who makes and, although not permitted to return to was thankful that he was allowed to depart. an attempt on the life of a hero in the first England, was invested with all the immuniThe squire of Bar"But this narrow escape did not deter volume of a romance. ties of a freeman, a settler, and a civil officer, Dorbel, and he continued his villanies for nadiston prevents the base deed, and chaland had the satisfaction to know that his the space of five years. It happened, how-lenges Lord Adrian to mortal combat. diligence and activity were not only without ever, that a gentleman's son was taken for "What?" says the indignant nobleman, suspicion, but were fully appreciated. robbing on the highway, and, as he had been" means this mummery, Master Conyers? "It was here that Barrington resolved to formerly pardoned, he now despaired of obrevise the notes he had taken during the taining mercy a second time. Tom undervoyage, and of describing more fully the took, for the sum of five hundred pounds, to -places they had touched at. He has accord-bring him off. The one half was paid in ingly produced a very useful and instructive .work.

hand, and the other half was to be paid immediately the deliverance was effected. When "In addition to this performance, he the young gentleman came upon his trial he compiled a complete history of the country was found guilty; but, just as the judge was itself, from its first discovery, comprehend-about to pass sentence, Tom cried out, Oh! ing an account of its original inhabitants, what a sad thing it is to shed innocent blood! their customs and manners, accompanied Oh! what a sad thing it is to shed innocent with an historical detail of the proceedings blood! And, continuing to reiterate the of the colony from its foundation to his own expression, he was apprehended, and the time. judge interrogating him what he meant by

"It is more honourable mummery, my lord,' said Wilfred, than you are wont to use to gratify your revenge; the midnight dagger is more to your taste than the defying sword. Know you not this signet of your page, Palikar, who would have died by my hand, but that I knew him to be but the weapon of the true assassin, Lord Adrian de Walden? Defend yourself, my lord, in fair combat-a better fate than you deserve from the sword of the foster-brother and esquire of the gallant Barnadiston.'

"We fight not, sir esquire,' said De Walden, proudly, with persons of low de

gree; it is the belted spur and knightly glance which can alone demand our sword: we leave the punishment of churls to baser churls. Stand aside, Master Conyers, and let me have no more of this foolery.'

"You are pleased, my lord, to insult my birth; but you must learn that the sense of justice can nerve the peasant's arm to reverse the absurd decrees of heraldic honour, and to vindicate the rights of mankind, in despite

of all vain distinctions. Lord de Walden is

fancied ourselves at the Surrey Theatre, lis- | young lord of the castle, surrounded with a
tening to the fierce defiance of Mr. Dibdin few faithful followers, made head bravely
Pitt, or applauding the heroic reply of Mr. against an increasing force of determined
Osbaldiston.
enemies, led on by the fierce and implacable
De Walden. The greater part of the follow-
ers of Albert, slain or unhorsed their
leaders, with old Anthony Conyers, and
about fifty troopers, fought with desperate
valour, hemmed-in by circling steel.
home-charge, and we force a way at the
"Courage, my men !' cried Albert; 'one

In leaving Spain, after his quarrel with
De Walden, the hero falls in with a storm,
of whose rising and calming is given the fol-
lowing poluphloisboian description.

increasing fury of the gale, and after squaring
Nought remained but to scud before the

not a coward; but he passeth not forth from the yards, and putting the helm a-midship, point of our swords.'

hence without the brand thereof, and the infamy of a disgraceful insult, if he shall persist in a refusal to fight the avenger of blood, to expiate for the attempted murder of the Lord Barnadiston. I am cool, my lord

firm, and most determined. I have every indubitable proof; therefore, either fight, or

the little bark darted off, bounding above

shattered bark beneath the wide valley of

every moment threatened to engulph the

"But the contest was too unequal: over

you shall be proclaimed a murderer, a mid- waters; but as the day dawned, when the followers, who awaited the event of the con

the mountain-waves like the screaming sea-powered, and forced into a narrow space, the mew tipping the waters with rapid wing; Barnadiston struck for life; and he must the howling of the storm moaned above the have sunk under a hundred blows, had not broad dashing of the pursuing billows, which De Walden restrained the fury of his men, two chiefs engaged amidst the roar of their and, spurring his horse full on Albert, the hours threw abroad the portals of heaven for flict. Both were equally skilful in the use the fiery steeds who drew the golden chariot of the sun, the gleam of his glory burst forth fire harmlessly, as though in mimic play; of their weapons, and their swords struck swarthy face of De Walden at the name of upon the effulgent ocean, and the winds, but each were eager for a closer strife, and, lowed on the waves.' softened by his rays, were gradually pil-springing from their steeds, they planted

night assassin, through the lands of merry England, and a craven coward withal.'

"The angry spot lowered over the dark

coward, and with a sudden energy drawing his sword, he aimed a deadly blow, with a furious gesture, full at the unguarded breast

“Albert beheld the calming of the mighty

animosity. Their breathing thickened, and foot to foot, and fought with deadliest

of Wilfred, who was alone saved by his ocean, whose unseen and resistless power for a moment they rested on their swords,

whose fickle bosom the urchin boy hath

hath scattered the pride of navies, and on

from his ruddy lip, fathomless and vast, where
safely floated, laughing away the saucy brine
Levathian gamboleth, and where the light
nautilus spreadeth its fairy sails-whereon

the early Phoenician first launched the adven

youthful agility; but the onset of the irri-
tated young lord was so rapid and resolute,
that it required all the skill and coolness of
Conyers to parry it. Both the combatants
were equally expert in the use of their
weapons; but De Walden, by his quick and
unexpected attack, had obtained the advan-
tage of ground, by compelling Conyers to the vain dominion of man over the wondrous
turous bark, and in proud triumph asserted
retreat too close to the branches of trees element, till the silent oblivion of the
hehind him, which greatly impeded the free
use of his limbs. Wilfred was, by conseglory, of folly, or of falsehood, taught the
watery tomb, which will bear no epitaph of
quence, confined to act on the defensive, in a
cramped position, against the fierce and
scientific attack of his powerful adversary.
The eyes of De Walden flashed fire at the
apparent disadvantage under which he could

down in adoration, and to admire with awe
pride and superstition of nations to bow
the glories and the terrors of the boundless
waters- the sublime image of eternity. A

only to fight again with more renewed energy.

The blood streamed from each without any of the Barnadiston, faithless to its master's decided advantage to either, till the brand hand, broke short, and De Walden, stepping with a savage look of triumphant malignity. backward, surveyed his disarmed adversary his whole soul in the revengeful blow, De Raising his sword on high, and concentrating Walden struck home; but Albert, parrying wrist of his deadly enemy, and, clutching a the thrust with his left arm, grasped the throat of Adrian de Walden, who fell fordagger from his girdle, buried it deep in the ward on his knee. Hurling away his sword with a furious gesture, and clenching his

perceive his foe to labour, and a gleam of dull, dead calm followed the subsiding of the hand in fierce defiance, he rolled on the green

hellish triumph played across his beautiful brow, as he saw Conyers more than commonly inconvenienced by the impending boughs, which interfered with his exertions; and fancying him at one moment inextricably entangled by a waving branch, he lounged with a fell cry at the heart of Conyers, who suddenly sunk to the ground, while the blade of De Walden passed above him through the impassive air; and then springing like a mountain cat, Conyers impelled his sword like lightning through the arm of the infuriate noble: down dropped the useless limb, while the sword, strongly grasped in the nervous hand, fell with its point at the feet of Conyers, as though in the act of salute.

"Well, my lord,' said Wilfred, in that calm manner so peculiar to him, "fallen art thou into my power, and your fearful life is in my hand: what should prevent me from ridding the world of a dangerous noble, who scruples not to arm the assassin against his friend, the Barnadiston ?'"

The attempt of the squire is praiseworthy, but ineffectual. Who ever killed a villain in the first volume? The dialogue is, however, stately and sonorous. In reading it, we

tempest, until again the night-breeze, wafting
old Spaniard, bore the vessel, tottering under
the aromatic odours from the shores of the
a heavy press of sail, to the island of the
sage and free.'”

sward, speechless, and in the death-agony, that moment an exulting shout arose of A at the feet of the despised Barnadiston. At

Barnadiston! a Barnadiston !' And the morions of the Barnadiston, with the heronAbout the third volume, Lord Adrian de plume and crest, glanced over the hedge-rows Walden, and his Moorish page, Palikar, be of the close with five hundred troopers, adcome puritans: the Barnadiston sticks, how-vancing in gallop swift, led on by the pallidever, by the king, and we are sorry to say, featured Wilfred, uttering forth the war-cry falls nobly on the field, at page 265, vol. 3. of the Barnadiston, and coming down with His death, however, is glorious, and his thundering charge on the victorious Parliavictory over De Walden complete. The mentarians, who broke and fled without author thus narrates it. further resistance."

"Mad with success, the followers of Albert turned on the pursuit of the flying fanatics; and De Walden, taking advantage of the moment, rallied his men, pointed out the weak force of their enemies, and led them on to an easy victory. The broad glare of day showed the complete destruction of the once lordly castle of Barnadiston-the massive blackened walls defied the rage of the element, but the roof, and the whole of the interior, had been burnt to the ground; and the falling-in of the immense rafters had broken down the walls in many places-all laid bare to the winter tempest; while the

Is there anything in the annals of history or of the Coburg Theatre more terrible than this combat? Our hearts leapt for joy when we read of the five hundred morions coming in gallop swift from behind the hedge! But, alas !—

"The page had been commanded by his lord to leave Albert Barnadiston to his own hand; but, when he saw his master sink, mortally wounded, at the foot of Albert, who stooped down generously to aid his expiring foe, Palikar sprung forward with the bound of a tiger, and buried his dagger deep into the side of the Barnadiston; the boy struck

no other blow, nor moved from the spot, but remained motionless, with his arms crossed, gazing on the countenance of the once haughty De Walden. The shout of triumph, the charge of the horsemen of Barnadiston, he did not heed, but calmly awaiting the approach of Wilfred, who rushed forward to revenge his lord, Palikar flung himself on the point of Wilfred's sword, and fell without a groan upon the body of his much-loved lord.

"My hour is come, Wilfred,' said Albert to his faithful squire, who supported his fainting master on his knee, endeavouring to stop the fast-flowing blood which streamed from his side. It is as it should be; the castle and its lord should fall together. Yon heap of smoking ruins have blazed forth far and wide, the mighty funeral pile of the Barnadistons, and the last of a long honoured race dieth a warrior's death in the moment of victory. Bear me to the court of the castle; I would die in the sight of those I love, and my soul would be soothed by the prayers of Gaspardo.'"

Thus they both perish, like the two cats in the beautiful fiction of the poet, leaving nothing behind them but-their tales!

England and America. Two Vols.

London: 1833. R. Bentley.

THIS is a work written with much clearness, and compiled with much care, and intended

to illustrate the social state and political economy of England and America.

we must speak of them as human beings, it
is not harsh to say, that they appeared to
have crossed the Atlantic for the purpose of
cutting each other's throats without restraint
from any law.

"Such was the deplorable state of this
colony when a circumstance occurred, which,
though accidental, and apparently trifling, |
has proved one of the most important events
in the history of America. A Dutch ship,
laden with slaves, made its appearance in
James's river. Want of provisions had in-
duced the captain to put in there, and he was
therefore ready to dispose of his living cargo
for a trifle. These slaves were bought; and
this was the beginning of slavery in the
United States.

"The slaves were set to work, some in raising food, some in cultivating tobacco. For the first time in this colony there was combination of labour and division of employments. Tobacco, although denounced by King James as a vile and nauseous weed, was already prized in Europe; and the soil and climate of Virginia were peculiarly suited to its growth. Those settlers, therefore, who by obtaining slaves were enabled to employ inany hands constantly in one work, in preparing the ground for tobacco-plants, in watering the plants, in preventing the growth of weeds, and in gathering, drying, and packing the leaves, now raised a commodity exchangeable in the markets of Europe. In this way they obtained various supplies, which they could not have obtained in any other way. In this way also they found the means of purchasing more slaves. As the number of slaves increased, the cultivation of tobacco was extended; some roads were made, and solid houses were built. In the course of a few years, the face of the colony was changed, and the tobacco planters of Virginia became noted for their prosperity.

"Turning to the United States, we find that the abolition of the African slave trade has led to a striking improvement in the condition of slaves. The increase of white population in America did not increase the proportion of free labourers to capitalists, and did not therefore diminish the value of slaves. On the contrary, as every freeman could readily obtain land of his own, with that increase of whites, of freemeu, persons wanting labourers bore a greater proportion to labourers, and the demand for slaves increased accordingly. As every one, not being a slave, could obtain for a trifle more good land than he could possibly cultivate, all capitalists felt the want of combined labour. All those whites, consequently, who settled in the slave states, became anxious to procure slaves. The African trade being abolished, those who wanted slaves could obtain them only from those Americans who already possessed them. This great demand for slaves, great in proportion to the increase of whites in the slave states, and to the increased demand in the other states for the produce of combined labour, led to the establishment of a new trade in America-the trade of breeding slaves for sale. The extent and importance of that trade may be estimated by reference to one or two facts. The black population of the slave states has increased much more rapidly than the white population of those states; and the slave population has increased at a somewhat greater rate than the free population of the whole Union. There are two millions of slaves, aud if we reckon the average value of a slave at 601., the capital invested in slavery is 120,000,000l. Taking the yearly increase of slaves in the United States to be at least 60,000, and the average value of a slave to be 601., the produce in money obtained by the breeders of slaves, merely for breeding, is 3,600,000l. per annum. These statements will suffice, without further explanation, to show that the abolition of the African slave trade has worked a great improvement in the condition of American slaves."

We have not as yet had time sufficient to follow the author's argument, or examine attentively his statements; next week we hope to give a more detailed account of the work, and must content ourselves for the present with the following extracts from a very interesting chapter on slavery in America, which is intended to be both a history of the practice, and an apology for it. "The frightful condition, both physical "The colony was on the point of being and moral, of the settlers, up to the time abandoned, when five hundred emigrants, when they obtained slaves, was almost a bar most of them of the labouring class, arrived to the emigration of women. It is supposed from England. He who is accustomed only that the proportion of males to females who to what takes place in densely peopled emigrated to this colony during the first countries, may imagine that this influx of thirty years of its existence, was above labourers into a society, whose only want twenty to one. While the colony was in a was the want of labourers, must have pro- state of misery and disorganization, none of duced the most happy results. But this was the settlers could have desired, nor could not the case: the evil cause existed still, and any of them have easily procured, wives to produced the same evil effect. The great share their misfortunes. But when they plenty of land led nearly all the newly ar- had acquired the means of comfort and orrived emigrants to become isolated settlers; der, they naturally longed to be husbands there were more colonists for a time, but and fathers. As that longing was created not one was in a better condition, or had a by the combined and constant labour of "Let us now turn for a moment to those better prospect, in consequence of an in- slaves, so was it gratified. The settlers of-new countries in which the people have had crease of numbers. At length, the whole fered to the captains of English ships two superabundance of good land without slavery. body of settlers, dispersed, and prevented hundred and fifty pounds of prime tobacco from helping each other, were unable to for each young woman of pure health and raise enough food for their subsistence. good temper whom the latter should bring Their bright hopes frustrated, general disap- from Eugland, harmless, and bearing a cerpointment produced discontent, selfishness, tificate of honest manuers from the clergy-selected." and a reckless disregard of all social ties. man of her parish. At that time, as at The founders of Virginia were not more re-present, England abounded in young women, "The most remarkable instance, perhaps, markable for their great disasters than for beautiful, gentle, and virtuous, but without of such a society, having at its disposal an their atrocious crimes. They are described the least prospect of happiness in marriage. unlimited quantity of good land, is the Spaas resembling hungry wild beasts; and if The English captains, therefore, easily ful-nish colony of Buenos Ayres. The vast plain

Not a single one of these societies has greatly prospered: many have perished entirely, and some remain in a deplorable condition. From these last, two striking examples may be

It being thus proved that steam and railroads enable a man to know countries, though never seen, the importance of an accurate knowledge of the "French Genders" is at once established; and Mr. Benner's work seems excellently calculated to illustrate this great principle.

WEEKLY CHRONICLE.

MONDAY, Dec. 16.

It freshens! there springs up a smart stirring breeze,

And they tack and make way to the beautiful West.

Just so 'tis in life--we make sail by degreesJack's harbour is heaven-his Maker's bebest.

Hurrah, &c.

Here's a health to our navy, hearts of oak→ nothing less,

And may heaven long prosper and crown
his endeavours,

The king, beloved by his people, God bless
Him-grant him life, peace, glory ever.
Hurrah, &c."

which lies between the South Atlantic and the mountains of Chili contains hardly any sterile land. Nearly the whole of it consists of the most fertile soil, which, though in a state of nature, exhibits vegetation more luxuriant than could be produced in the greater part of Europe by the most skilful cultivation. This land is naturally fit for cultivation; since throughout the pampas there are no dense forests like those which once covered Pennsylvania, nor any swamps We have received a polite note from one of like those which still remain on the shores the most distinguished poets of the age, the of the Gulph of Mexico. On a district ex-author of the "Songs of the Loire," who tending one hundred and eighty miles from complains bitterly of the manner in which the coast, nature produces the richest crops we have treated him and his poems. of nothing but thistles and clover, and on “Critics," says he, "are a race of men another district, extending four hundred and for whom I ever entertained the most hearty fifty miles further to the west, nothing but contempt; they are utterly incapable of a profusion of grass without a weed. The original ideas, and are jealous of originality climate of the whole plain resembles that of in others. In this review you have invidiItaly, with this difference in its favour, that ously selected the worst portion of the songs, it is not rendered unwholesome by malaria. (a never-failing maxim with your craft,) and This, then, was the finest situation in the held them up to public scorn; I can account self and of this journal; the one is about as We have here given his opinion of himworld in which to take advantage of abun- for this in no other way than from the natu-just as the other. Can we in common fairdance of good land. The Spaniards, who ral malignity of your critical spirit. There ness be asked for anything more? If we got possession of these fertile plains, emi- are 'songs in this book which are exceedingly might give advice to this misguided man, it grated from one of the civilized European beautiful, (though I say it,) and would not would be, that he should buy up the remainstates. Yet, according to the best informa-soil the laurels of the first poets of the day!ing copies of his book,-that he should no tion that can be obtained of a society now Why not have selected these? Had you more fancy himself like Lord Byron,-and more than half barbarous, this colony never done this, it would have been fair and manly; that he should leave off that horrid habit of prospered. Capital has never obtained high as it is, you only merit my unmeasured abuse, which some day may occasion him profits, nor labour high wages." very serious annoyance and discomfort.

Brief Remarks on Small Farms, and Cottagers' Spade Husbandry; addressed to Landlords, and to the whole of the Agricultural Community. To which are added, by way of Appendix, Two Letters, connected with the same Subject, and written by the same Author, originally published in a Provincial Paper. Bedford: 1833. Webb.

scorn."

Whatever objection may be raised to the author's poetry, there is no doubt that his Prose style is very forcible and fluent, and that his reasoning is perfectly just.

It is clearly proved that we have been judging him by what he calls his worst speciguilty of great meanness and malignity in judged him by his very best. Now we asmens, whereas we ought in justice to have sure him that our extracts are taken from by no means the worst part of his book, and THE long title of this little pamphlet ex-shall do him the justice he asks, by quoting plains sufficiently its intention; and to the what he especially points out as his brightest many interested in the subject we recommend effort: it, as containing much sensible information,The bright union-flag of old England is

and much valuable advice.

A Peep into Alfred Crowquill's Folio.
No. II. London: E. Wilson.

ALFRED CROWQUILL is only inferior to
George Cruikshank: this second number of
his Folio is as full of drollery as the first
was, and, in saying so, we give it no small
praise.

flying,

And gladly her sea-boys escape from the

land;
They think not of battle, they talk not of
dying,

But bravely obey their loved captain's
command.

Hurrah for the flag of the free!
Hurrah, &c.

Look, look at the grandeur of war-ships at

sea!

At their glorious position-our maritime

power

The French Genders. By W. Benner, B.A. Remember, bold Britons are none other but
Paris and London.

"EDUCATION," says Mr. Benner, "being the
steam-engine and rail-road of the mind, en-
ables a man to know distant objects or
countries, though never seen, better than the
ignorant traveller, whose body is borne
along, while his mind remains in the back-
ground. A knowledge of languages, com-
bined with the power of steam, can alone
truly approximate the furthest extremities of
the world."

This is the song especially pointed out by the author; and we appeal to a humane public, and ask whether it is not infinitely worse than any one of those we quoted a fortnight ago? This is the song in which the author has been told that "he very much resembles a noble poet lately deceased!"

WEDNESDAY.-"Heaven sends meat," says the proverb," and the devil cooks." A writer in Fraser's Magazine, believing in this principle, has, it appears, impugned who has written to the Times the following the character of Lord Grey's French cook, angry letter.

"Sir: In your paper of Saturday I read with surprise, in your attempted exposé of household servants, your assertion that at the house of a certain great political earl the French cook ordered from a man in the neighbourhood seven sacks of charcoal, who

took the bill for that number of sacks, when

the cook desired him to make out a fresh

bill for eight sacks, and to charge such a price as would enable him (the charcoalman) to allow the cook 1s. profit on each, besides the one overcharged. Your statement further goes on to say, 'This fact the charcoal-man is ready and willing to attest, as he has already mentioned the circumstance to several persons.' I beg to state, that since I have had the honor of serving his lordship in the capacity of cook, no higher price than 4s. 6d. per sack has ever been paid or charged and I should consider myself unworthy of by me for charcoal for the use of his lordship, holding a place in his lordship's household, were I to be guilty of the peculation you mention.

"The charcoal-man is ready and willing to attest on oath that no such circumstance as the one respecting the seven sacks of charcoal has ever taken place, and that the whole of the paragraph relating to the French cook is a falsehood.

"Being a foreigner, and unacquainted with the customs of England, and, by your