THE TAILons. — It - hts been usual for the journeymen tailors to strike

for double wages on the occasion of a general mourning. On the pre- sent, a feeble effort was made to continue the old custom ; but the heart of the bold flints failed them, and fearful, if they stood out, that the dungs might seize the opportunity of striking a blow against their com- monwealth, they reluctantly gave way. The march of intellect hurries on in its progress the fractions as well as the integers of humanity, and even tailors must yield to its resistless force. TEE THRONE OF GREECE—It appears that Prince Leopold may At on the throne of Greece notwithstane;ug all that has passed. The Paris

papers say, that that importaut piece of furniture, which the Prince had ordered of a French upholsterer, is now on its way to Havre, to be em- barked for England.

BETTER SmAti.Fisit rittN NON E.—The foundation stone of the " New Eastern Dock" was laid on Monday. As the whole of our own Princes

had something. else to do, and even Prince Leopold had an engagement

for that day, the Committee, that the public nt;_cht not he altogether disap- pointed, contrived to procure the services of an Egyptian Prit we, a gentle-

man named &dim Aga, who presided on the occasion. Li is Highness's

performance is said to have attracted a very large company ; con- sidering- the numbers that flocked on that day to the other end of the town, speaks not a little for its merit.

ENGLISH IN PORT U G AL.—Private letters state, that on every part of Portugal the English are exposed to insult and outrage. The house occupied by the lady of the late .1latthew Bailey, Esq., was recently broken into, on some pretence or other, by a party of nten under the orders Of the authorities. Mrs. Bailey represented her case to Mr. :Mackenzie, t h u. etntSIII; but he could give her no redress. Three or four vessels were latch- detained at Figueira; and, when the officer was asked his reasons ficr doing so, the only answer was, that the English were all a set of rascals. We are, in fart, receiving Intr reward from Dom Migi tel. If we had assisted hint, we should have had the protec- tion of his officers ; if we had ttssisted the Constltutionali.qs, we should have had the sytnpathy of his subjects. We have as,isted neither, and gained the hatred and contempt of hoth.

DON PEDRO AND D IS WORT II BROTHER.—There is one condi- '0011 Adliell it SCUMS Pedro considers as itelispensable to the recognition of his hrother—Miguel must marry Maria da Gloria! Such are the decrees Of great Melt. We think the poor 1 i hI, who is said to be very amiable, almost as unfortunate in a father as she is in /nook.

ALturnse Juniv.s.--Trial by jury has been introduced into Malta ; for everywhere it seems the aim of Erglishmen, to thrust upon all they can the forms or that justice who,e sot:stmt.(' they are so chary of that they can hardly be prevailed on to take it to thenlves. Tim cause which introduced it was finely caleulated to impose .at the 31altc,,e a sub- lime idea of its manifold benefits. The rommissioners were the Chief Justice and two others ; and they and I be goodly twelve nivIt marshalled to try a terrible fellow, named Joseph Vella, fol stectc cc front the king --six iron bolts value six shillings ! lie was convicted by an English form of trial, and condemned, by a Maltese h,w, to lewd labour in chains for life! We are told that the moNt enlight,uccel of the Nlaltese express high satisfaction at the establishment of this mode of c ; the most en- lightened there, as everywhere else, meaniog, of course, those who bor- row their lights from their masters.

PRESS IN BOTANY BAy.—The .S'ydney Monitor of the -20th February appeared in mourning, with the million of a coffin, on wIlich is is " Howit," awl a notice to readers, that leading articles are to he hence. forth omitted, in consequence of the Gicvernment ediet of the Nth J ary. Governor Darling and Mr. 3iacleay are, it is said, coming home. The encounters of Attorney-Generals and newspapers sv,:n to end dif- ferently in London and Sydney. There, the first law-officer of the Crown stays the press ; here, the press stays the first law.mileor. Poor Sir James Scarlett survived his t";!tid caoymter wuli the :11oinilly Jour- nal but a very few weeks ; and, braieed and disembowelled as he is, it is quite evident that nothing- but soldering him up and laying him to rest on the bench will enable his friends to keep him nutelt looser.

ltnvoi.trrueg r s BOLitt"l'A.—Ill our het mutd,or we notieed the report from the Jamaica papers. that Bolivar had been. appointed President of Colombia for life : it is stated in the Nte.e York papers, of the i3 iii :Mav, that a revolution had broken Mrtli at Begun'. of which t 17rdaneta was the head ; acid that Bolivar land been compelled in consequenee to ily to Magdalena. Arismendi, in a proclamatien dated C;iraceas, 25th April. speAs or a victory ; but whetlaT this means ;t vioory bv ciucis we do not know. The liu,ion Centinel says—" The d.uvufal of Bolivar is at haler' 1%-e opine that the Yankees, who are uncommonly anxious for his downfill, will soon have to say, in the words of the old slog—

When he fell, he still got up again, tinci so will he yet."

SwAN 11IVE12.—A letter from this colony, dated January 39th, com. plains greatly of the want of land ! The x-vriter says Ice would not ad- vise auy one to go out until it were ascertaieed whether there he any land to be got on the Canning and Murray rivers. All this while_ the united settlers have not cultivated a dozen of acres out of eight or ten millions ; nor will they, in all probability, cultivate the whole for these couple of hundred years to come.

'GOOD NEWS Fon T IIE PI OTH. ERS.—SIICIl is the demand for musical instruction at Bolen Town, that a master had refused an engngement of 2001. per alumni, with house and board for himself acid Ids family, to. teach only six hours a day.

MEI:Am—Papers of the 6th May tell of a victory gained by General Bravo over Colonel Alvarez. The names in these struggles sometimes sound strongly in our ears. Bravo's despatelt speaks of the loss by the Government party of a certain Lieutenant Montezuma ! It is proper to add, that by Alvarez' account Bravo's was the vanquished, net the victorious party. SI NGAPORE.—Letters, of February the 15th, mention the occurrence of a dreadful fire at this settlement. One hundred and forty houses fell a prey to the flames ; and the loss to individuals is estimated at nearly half a million. This unexpected calamity has, of course, occasioned very severe distress.

Mo sr o MA NIA.—A ccording to a new psychological theory of the French, when a person commits a crime or an offence, without prospect of profit, and unexcited by revenge or anger, he is operated on by monomania. A woman feels for a long time a strong inclination to cut off a child's head,

and at length accomplishes her bloody purpose :. she is a monomaniac, because she did not sell it to the doctors, or make mock-turtle of it, and because she had no ill-will against the murdered infant. In the same way, and by a similar process of reasoning, we have monomaniac pick- pockets, monomaniac burglars, monomaniac incendiaries, all of them irresistibly impelled to appropriate pocket-handkerchiefs, break open doors, and burn houses or hay-stacks, as the case may he We have no objection to the designation given to these slaves of fate ; but we depre- cate the very dangerous error of supposing, that because a man is strongly impelled to perpetrate a crime, the dread of punishment can have no operation upon his mind and his hand, even where his understanding is disordered. In England, we do not ask whether a robber or a murderer Ice mad, but if he be so mad as not to know that robbery and murder are forbidden acts. If he can discern what is permitted from what is for-

bidden,—or, as it is commonly expressed, if he know right from wrong, we hang him or banish him, as his deeds deserve, without scruple. Cer- vantes tells a laughable story, in his preface to Don Quixote, to show

how far imbecile persons are amenable to discipline. An idiot that wandered through the streets of Madrid, had a favourite trick cf carrying

a large stone on his shoulder, which he let fall on every sleeping dog that he chanced to pass—and in that city sleeping dogs are very numerous— to the death of some, the fracture of the limbs of others, and the griev- ous injury of all. One day it happened that he let fall his stone on the

dog of a butcher ; which, setting up a long and melancholy howl, its master, a hot and passionate fellow, sprung up to see what was the mat- ter with his finir-footed favourite. No sooner had he got his eye on the

stone-earrier, whose tricks he was well aware of, than he seized hold of him, and heat him so unmercifully, as to leave the least possible remains of life in his carcass ; exclaiming between every blow that he laid on- " To break my dog's leg, you rascal ! and he a spaniel too !" The poor idiot crawled home, and for some three months he was unable to quit the house. After that time, he again came forth, with his stone on his shoulder as usual. The first dog he came to, he stopped, and eyeing it very wistfully, asked, in a low tone,--" Are you a spaniel ?" and this Ile repeated to every dog he saw. But he never let fall the stone again, for fear of such another drubbing as he had gotten on account of his former adventure with a spaniel. When the French motaphysicians speak of the fires in Normandy as lighted by menomaniac incendiaries, we would advise them to apply Cervantes' story to the ease of these gentry—to hang; the first madman that burns a barn, and see if the excanple do not check the burning of edifices in general.

THE KEMELES IN EDINBURGH.—Miss Fanny Kemble has played the characters of Isabella, Mrs, Beverley, Juliet, Lady Townley, and Portia, since our last brief notice of her; and, having now seen her several times, truth wrings from us an opinion, which we deliver with great pain. The public have unquestionably been disappointed. In our own breast, she has never excited a particle of emotion, nor, in so far as we could judge by their unmoved countenances, and the dilatory faintness of their applause, was she, in general, more successful with her other hearers. There was not—there could not be—the slightest symp- tom of weariness or disapprobation ; but neither was there any ap- proach to that fervour of feeling which a great tragic performer never fails to produce, and the absentee of which stamps the performer to be not great. All that the boldest eulogist has ventured to say is, that Miss Kemble is an actress of much promise ; that she plays wonderfully well considering her inexperience and youth ; and that when her voice is strengthened, and her person filled up, and her talents ripened ; in a word, when time shall produce fruits, which are now hardly seen in the bud, she may titen be what she now is not—site may then become a great actress. We have seen Miss Kemble once in comedy. She played Lady Townley on Saturday. Here we have a very different tale to tell. Her comedy we think positively excellent. There is here no need for looking forward to the " coming event." All was pure, elegant, piquant, and natural. And here the quick and lively applause of the audience put the seal of genuine and unqualified admiration upon the performance. There was more of the genuine irrepressible tone of pleasure exhibited, than all the other civil demonstrations of the previous week had-afforded.

her tragedy, so completely did she fall behind her father, that her Mrs. Rowley, for instance, was hardly noticed amidst the deep absorption occasioned by the heart-striking power of the husband.—And now, though we are writing about the daughter, let its say what he deserves of the father. Mr. Kemble's depth of passion, ,c-hen the passion isoibifae domestic sort, is unequalled in our recollection, stretching far backward

as that now dohave es. We h seen the Gamester when John Ken

was the Beverley, John Palmer the Stokely, Mrs. Siddons the Game- ster's suffering wife, and Charles Kemble the Lemon. Those were brave times ! but we are safe to say, that not one of these parts, not ex- cepting Mrs. Siddons's own, was portrayed with more harrowing effect than was that of Beverley by Charles Kemble on Thursday. In the last, or dying scene, Mr. Kemble looked so like his sister, that we forgot him in thinking of her ! Our recollections of " glorious John," tell us that he fell far behind Charles in this part.—But, to return from this digression, Miss Kernble's Lady Townly we think first-rate. Here, her l'ace, being seen in the expression of the light feelings and fancies suited to it, looked absolutely beautiful; and her figure showed its capacity of elegant and graceful display, being freed from the necessity of being ma. jestic and overpowering. Nothing, we think, could easily surpass the ease, the archness, the careless and unconscious superiority, of the finished lady of fashion. The finest specimen of this sort we ever saw, was Miss Farren, who was in that line of her art what Mrs. Siddons was in the more exalted department. Will Miss Kemble approach to her ? We think it more than pessible—probable. This, we think, is the pro- vince in which, only, she is likely to become highly distinguished.— Edinburgh Weekly Journal.