The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-09 00:00:00

de Ville. Having been introduced to the president,' M. Lanquetin, his lordship said he come there to thank the municipal body of Paris, in the name of the citizens of London and of the English people, for the conlial reception which had been extended to himself and the other visitors who h el been in Paris . during the past week, and he hoped that the union of the two countries so auspiciously displayed during the past tieVen days. might prove not only advantage ous to England nod France, but 111 , 0 extend a bene ficial influence over all other nations. The above sentiments were rendered in French by Mr. Catty, the Lord Mayor's secretary, to M. Lanquetin, who responded very gracefully, expressing. the high sa tisfaction which the city of Paris had felt in enter taining his lord-hip, as the representative of the citizens of London. It ha% ing been arranged that the Lord Mayor should leave Paris by the Great Northern Railway by special train at half-past 12 o'clock, a detachment of the mounted municipal guard arrived at the Hotel do Ville at I•_' o'cloA tbr the purpose of attending his his lordship to the station. The Lord Mayor rode in the private carriage of the prefect of the Seine, ac companied by that gentleman. In his progress , through the streets he was cheered by the populace, who expressed their kindly feelings by wishing him a " bon voyage," and other warm-hearted exclamations. The Prefect of Police was ut the station to take leave, and, as an instance of the cah•efc cordiale which prevailed, this officer begged the Lord Mayor to accept, as a parting remembrance,his gold-headed walking-cane—claiming his lordship's in return. The Prefect of the Stine, determined not to be out done by his brother official in the expression of kindly feeling, insisted upon exchanging handker chiefs with the Lord Mayor, and giving his lordship II hearty parting salute in the French manner, im printing a kiss on either cheek. THE RETURN. The mu from Paris to Boulogne was made in five hours. The exchange of baggage here occupied] about half au hour, and Folkestone was reached at nine o'eock. The abominable arrangements of the eustom-honse authorities at this place delayed the departure of the train fully two hours. Once in motion, the journey was admirably performed. and the Lord Mayor alighted at the Mansion-house Won two o'clock. WHAT SHALL DoN E WITH THE CRYSTAL PALACE? To 111 R EDlTint OP TIM zxrur.44. tor s .1s a constant reader of your journal, I beg permission to make a few remarks with respect to that nerznitirent triumph of human ,kill and ingenuity—the Crystal Palace. I hate felt greatly vexed that the people should, by their comparative sikure, tacitly entourage the idea that it must lie detturli,hrd, hit it should bectene a charge upon the nation, and calieciay that they shoall appear to give oar to the matt meat of the Chancellor of the /whisper, who asserted that ;lOW. would be required by the nation to purehase it for a winter garden, as well as • farthes aaitaal rh 11 . 41, to ket, it up. Now, I should like to know w-at is to he done with the brae surplus that a ill ct Mindy remain to the ciiiamissiiincrs aft. r all the expvic...s attendant un tile Exhibition are paid, and why this should not Ito applied to the purchase and re-modelling of the building for some useful purpose. Let it be hit a tomb r garden, if the community so Minn it hut where, sir, would be the difficulty, of mAkinir such a place oaf-supporting Let it be opened as • place of healthful recreation to the middle and lower elat-es, ut a penny or twopence r head—say from Sur Gin the morning wail 10, Rail from bye in the evening until ten or eleven at night; the aristocracy, and those who are willin,t to pay for it, laying the foil enjoyment of it fur the interve l o an, at sixpence per head, all persons being permitted to con tract for month.. • . there any doubt that so vast a p 1 ,re, replete thmughout the guar with all the ens ellantments of a nobleman's pleasure g Is and garden, would daily attr iet its thousand. and become self supportintr ? Tastefully lighted with g-,4, utter business hours at night, it would become even more attractive than by daylight. Another idea has al-n struck me, which has not hem noticed, viz., the great convenience it wool I afford to the whale commercial public of the world to have one great central mom house tor displaying single sriceimcns of every production of the arts 31111 seicnctv, such specimens to be deposited therein not fur absolute sale on the spot, but simply as samplss, trim whirl, traders may see what can be hail, and where they ran best *only tacit wants In such a place would he seen oomph* new and old of the beat of everything, by evorybuoly ; an advantage which now it La impassilac to obtain, and is only partially attainable by travelling about Irma inanufactur, r to ma. 'acturvr, and from one merchant to another at moat loss of time, mid in tbe end perhaps without beina able to kiwi what is wonted. lily opinion is that inventors, manufacturers and merchants, would gladly pay such a trifling ' , tillage rent as would be amply sufficient to maintaiu ouch a depot.-1 ant, Sir, yours obliged, SOLOMON SCIFOLK. TILE CITY OF PART,: has already sent 90 foremen and workuon to Loudon to visit the Exhibition; and about 30 Chambers of Commerce of the chief manufaeturing towns of Fromm, awl 20 Cliambree Consultative., have acceded to the wishes of the government, and presented list. uf first- Tats workmen of all trades, ainsountiole collectiaely to about 110, who are also to be eent to London; to them are to be added 12 foremen of the national manufaetories of Beau. genie ' %sees, and Gobelins, and of the professional schuole of Chaloone. Aix, and Anger.. The (unlit required fur the journey of these men to London and back have hen raised partly by soloseriiitioto. and partly by municipal subsidies, not forgetting the .10,0011 fr. granted for the purpose by the state. In addition to Porta, several large towns hare al ready wut off workmen. Lyons, for example, has scot Si. Etienne, .koniene. and Limoges, from ti to 8 each ; next Mallow Rheims, Roubaix, St. Quentin, Tureoing, Se date, Louvien, Nancy, Strasbourg, Nimes, Avig non, Tou'ouno, Thiere, Gray, Orleans, Name., &c. &WU VA I. OF INIII.tB WITII ARTICLEs non rue GUT SI lIINITIOV. —A party of four Indian chiefs have arrived in the metropolis ries Liverpool by the of amer Africa, from New York. They have brought with them several pat:kat:es, sontainirog articles worked by them selves .11111 tit it t tmilirs, whleli it &poen:. are intended for the Great Kehillitim of the Work, of Industry of All Nations in Hyde Turk, when arrangements arc made fur their reception into the Exhibition for the desired purpose. Ottaltteself AND TUE GREAT EAIIIIIITION—The Guernsey Nor ',take that since the e'rystal Palace has been opened nearly 3,000 penbunx from Guernsey have vi site .l it already. At a moderate computation the Star esti mates that they have spent nearly 11,0001. in England. The population of Guernsey is 25,000. A MANI.V7 AT TIIE INITIBITION.—AbOnt 0 p.m. on Tuesday the visitors of the Crystal Palace were alarmed at Cu extraordinary conduct of a respectably dressed man, who, brandishing a sickle that lie had ss toed, threateuc el some 'mimeo assault on a gentleman near him, and, hut for the immediate assistance of a policeman, would have jumped from the gallery. lie made a desperate resistance, and was so powerful as to he with difficulty restrained and TO- M-Wed into the court adjoining—the superintendent'. office. A board having been carried about, intimating that a medi al man was wanted in the south transept. Dr. Hatleley, of Chelmsford, who happened to he there with his family, stepped forward, rind was conducted to the patient, and at once pronounced that he was suffering from a violent paroxyism of mania, and required to be carefully watched, and restrained from doing any injury to himself' or others. On searching him four sovereigns and a half, with some silver and pence, were found on him, and a small memoran dum book, but as it contained nothing that indicated his name or address, Dr. Itadeley advised that he should be re moved under a proper escort to St. George's Hospital. which was done accordingly, hut where, on visiting him at 7 o'clock Dr. Badeley found him still very violent, and narrowly es caped having his front teeth knocked out by him ; indeed, so strong was hr that it was with difficulty five or six polire• men could control his struggles. Ile appeared, from his memoranda, to have been recently admitted into the com pany of Foresters, and he ejaculated " The Foresters for ever" in the gallery when he was taken. INTERN ECONOMT OF TUE EXIIIDITION.—The number of person.; that are daily in attendance in the body of the building, augrnyntinpt . the stream of its contents, is - .ono considerable. - - - • . , iwiiiii7iiisiiiie --- ' -- ii«ieiii - - more «,...._ ____..,, , public Id are - ISay and Night ..__ Day go by To the endless tune of these. aware. In addition to the legular police force and the sap pers and miners, there are upwards of three hundred per- Or when, as winds and waters keep eons in the pay of the essussionen, and 2,000 exhibitors A hush more dead than any sleep, and exhibitor 'a assistants in daily attendance. With such a Still morns to stiller evenings creep, multitude of people engaged in the interior, and the infinite And Day and Night and Day go by; variety of risks which may arise from carelessness and a Here the silence is most deep. ROYAL YACHT SaII:ADRON.—The present season thousand other causes, the reader may be curious to learn bids fair to outvie all previous attractions since the forma- The chap el - ruins , lamed again lion of the Royal Yacht Club. At the yams of all the what precautions are taken to provide against accidents. Into Nature's wide domain, Like eminent builders on the south-western coast the fittings everything else connected with this great work , they Sow themselves with seed and grain are extremely simple. In the first place, every exhibitor and refitting, of the yachts of the Royal Squadron (more As Day and Night and Day go by; is le ft to take rare of his own goods in the best way especially induced by the expected amval o f the America And hoard June', sun and April's rain. he can ; which, undoubtedly, a ff ords the best guarantee schooner yacht as a competitor for the championship of the for the general security. The most complete pram- Here fresh funeral tears were s h e d ; world) afford extensive and highly beneficial employment tics against fire is organised all over the interior, eon- And now, the graves are also dead ; both to mechanics and blue jackets. The champion yacht simile of sixteen hydrants, several fire-engines, and a And suckers from the ash-tree spread, Alarm has returned to her moorings here, after a short Imp_ supply of fire:buckets and iron reservoirs, all of While Day and Night and Day go by ; cruise as a yawl, to alter her rig to a cutter, with a new wMils can be brought into play at a few unseats' notice. And stars move calmly overhead. mainsail by Eversfield, of Gravesend, and a new bowsprit, The West the neessary labours are over (sad as little as from a smr that has been obtained from Portsmouth Dock- Now, the simplicity and completeness of this poem yard. The honour of accepting the American challenge pea& is done after dark), all lights are pat ant, and the rawstion of dto ho a d i n A, s h e o w, ~,,,,,,, to ti are, if we don't much err, very noticeable. It is so devolves on Mr. Joseph Weld, of Lulworth Castle, in right pillungesn, twenty-four maps swd wawa end Mn firemen, natural and perfect that it seems as if everybody of his championship of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Di, champion yacht, the Alarm, is is tons old messurement. who**, upon the m , n But law is Mt extensive could have written it, if they had once seen that The newspaper reports of the dipper whooner America arealregt is repair, &duds awl eillowd I Xs systematic chapel ! Yet, alas, reviewers knew only too well state her tonnage to be 164 toss and it is expected that t equilly eine* and efeelim. bean, from what the general run of "bards" would have made t h e gran d mete o f the season will be a contest for 5,000 i l g ue rlill er morning till ter _ere f endiestsdlo them purposes, of • , it . And the music has a fan in it which is de- dollan, or I,OOW. starling, between these vessels. The mad lare found amply fient. b e =ga, the only instance on record of a great public wide& hes liti a tful to the ear: the proper music of the place. America will have an opportunity afforded for trying her rate of sailing in the race of yachts of all nations, to take place roctived troops of visite= the a period of them swaths .. y and night and day go by" —yes, to genuine i4Vi i, ej:lL , or Wight Regatta o during the ensuing month. without having been closed up for a Oagb day to he re- sphere moms ; and so beautiful mit that the solemn p a i r ed or refreshed. This latibitien is indaparlent of awed sadness of the place is lightened d e li g htf u lly and .7.. Pre nary !Ile grand match with the Alarm, d to increase the interest so generally felt on such necessities, for which it is pertir duas hode r hesi Isl e s Mem- I, is, gm and i by the recurrence of the simple words, and the per- the coast 101 to the rates of sailing of all the first-class sailing turf, being a self-acting duster and manent effect is not sorrowful. We call this a good yachts.—Nampuiirelnd.7oulent. toot—Fl Maga:int. wit admire the spectacle of a great man lending wonderful energies to a cast and noble work, should raid this " Life of Gacazzi." FINE ARTS. TILE MILANESE SCULPTURE AT TILE EXHIBITION. The Milanese sculptures;;Unt to upwards of halt a hundred specimens, the most part evincing the efforts of a talented school, with no slight alloy of a purely decorative value. Many have relied on one statue to establish their fame ; others, more nu. merous, have made up tbr means by number. Beyond those muelt-belauded groups known as the " veiled statues," the single figure of Ishmael by Struimu, and a few others, it would be difficult to deter mine whether the remainder more properly belong, strictly speaking, to high art or decora tive manufacture. Those who have ventured into this over-crowded compartment on the first days execution of such a task. The manner in which this, has been accomplished reflects great eredit on the spirit and skill of those who at once foresaw its importance, and successfully osercame its obstacles. The illus- , trated catalogue is separately paged, so as to be easily detached front the Art-Anneal, and may sub-, sequentiv be bound in one volume. The de . signs are accompanied by essays on the " Science of the Exhibition," by Mr. Robert Hunt; , on the " Vegetable world," by Professor Forbes. : These are to be followed by an essay from Professor ; Gordon, on the Machinery of the Exhibition.' The last number, that of August, contains the " liar- muny of colours," as exemplified in the different de- , partments of the Exhibition, with less immediate reference to the decorations of the Crystal Palace, l than to the general taste evinced by individuaC arrangements. This analysis was as difficult to carry I 'out as its results were obvious. It is needless to add that Mrs. Merrifield has performed the I 'somewhat invidious task gracefully, and with all • the discrimination which might have been expected by those who have perused her works. We can only take one exception to the essay, which is the implicit reliance placed in the work of Chevreul. I Ills book, which had long lain unread, has in a 1 mysterious manner been taken up of late, and consi- ' dered an oracle on topics of harmony of colours. That his experience at the Gobelins manufactory is of some value cannot be denied ; hut it is question able whether the laws of contrast which apply to ! woven fabrics must in consequence hold good I throughout every branch of decorative art; his 1 theory as well ns his diagrams are somewhat faded. T I The wood engr a vings which have been produced by Messrs. Datziel, Nicholls, and other eminent en- gravers, are printed by hand. They are neatly de- signed, graceful in contour, and not over•labourisl in I execution. They principally serve to bring out into i bolder relief the merits of the originals, though in rarer instances makin,, ,, one alive to errors which arc often unperceived in the originals. There has been no further partiality shown to one nation over the other than that warranted by superiority of manufacture. England, France, Germany, and Belgium scam to I reign paramount; and as the works of each are brought under review, one finds the salient and prevalent tastes of each nation very pleasantly contrasted. In all are to be found a most striking feature,'' namely, the adoption of more natural and truthful designs. It is as evident that festoons, fruits, and flowers, are in the ascendant, as that allegorical and classical patterns are at a discount. Cupids, too, are at a premium, and seem sooner or later destined to become as permanent features in tuniiture as they were formerly in Watteau's pictures. In some do% partments of decorative art—wool carving. for example—there is evidently no slight leaning to re vive former lost style. (Inc might almost fancy thinling Gilibons had carved some of the poultry pieces and fruit-scenes admitted into the present of the week, can with difficulty form an accurate es timate of the value of the worts. A fairer opportu nity was afforded on Saturday, and as the prizes are, it is said, already awarded in the tine arts section, we have no longer any hesitation in disbar awning our minds and consciences. The Milanese sculptors have evidently clung with marked rever ence to the methods of Canova, his manifest pre ference fur feminine form to the masculine ; the latter being a trifle less easily mastered. As was foreseen in Canova's lifetime, the delicate charm of his chisel has blinded his followers to the dangerous njection of the neuters of antiquity, and to the dis advantages accruing from an uncompromising adop tion of nature as the sole guide of the sculptor. Thus, while one pardoned the introduction of curls and ringlets to such a man as Canova, the same for bearance cannot be expected towards ;hose who lack his genius. In the " Veiled Vestal" of Itathel Monti, and all veiled effigies whatever, can only be recognised either an unpardonable ignorance of the first laws of sculpture, or a still more reprehensible desire to substitute fashion and novelty to the avowed purposes of sculpture. If the accurate delineation be commendable in marble, why not has o bonnet, boots and shoes, and all other aceompaniments ? None need despir—evidently that is what the Mi- Linea° are fast coining to; not to mention the yard of ribbon encircling the waist of the " Veiled Vestal ;" the group next to it may be pointed out as a triumph of the new style, the " First Steps," by P. Magni. Every one must allow this composition to be a pretty little picture of Italian motherhood ; but a picture it is, and nothing more. It is a faithful portrait of the well-known and much-admired " Chiaruceia ;" every one that attends exhibitions is perfectly acquainted with even- fuld of her Roman dress. That fact alone speaks volumes; when viewing the statue one thinks of the picture~ that have gone Mitre, and how admirably the texture of the dress, the details of the lave, how the complexion even was rendered. The marble is not a substance that will lend itself to these tricks in which lie the secret power of the painter. Perhaps the only part of the " Veiled Vestal" that can he viewed with entire satisfaction are the hands, which are modelled with exquisite finesse; one is provoked that the head whtch directs the hands to feed the flame they hold should be hidden from view ; no one can conjecture what that head might have been, had it received proper attention. The other works by the same hand scarcely afford the means of solving the mystery. His portraits of "Sisters," represented in the act of fishing, are sue ecasful in every part, with the unfortunate excep tion of the countenances, which are as feeble in design as they are timid in execution. It would be unfair to argue front this that the ar tist, in his " Veiled Vestal," preferred to solve the '.lculty of representing transparent muslin in marble to the more palpable obstacles to be surmounted in giving the inspired expression of the Roman vestal. lie that as it may, the artist has had the merit of carrying his crotchet, getting a surpris ing look of reality at the expense of that which might have been looked fur in a work of loftier aim —u more useful and more graceful disposition of the folds. Signor Demoedto Gandolti has exhibited group, of which the principal figure is veiled. It is entitled " The Bashful Beggar," a subjoc,. if we mis take not, founded on a historical episode of the Vendeatt wars, in which a once wealthy Royal ist mother is driven, a sickly and help less widow, on the Dover coast. The children Allaying at her feet, uncial's( us of misfortune, are as damningly finished as their disconsolate parent is the reverie. The sculptor has placed not only the head, bat the hand also under a linen covering. Its effect is that of a clay figure, with the garb of moist cloth over it, so familiar to those who frequent the sculptor's studio. It would not be difficult to point out the utter heresy of this novel practice, which is sanctioned neither by precedent nor common sense. As every one knows the old masters invariably eschewed the delineation in sculpture of all that is transient, and avoided re presenting features, which tend to perplex the specta tor as to the possibility of their stability. The statue of " Eve after the Fall," also here, is the object of in tense admiration, until the minute combining of the hair is discovered; the fallen fruit has also evidently been entrusted to an assistant chisel. It is with pleasure that the " Ishmael," by Strazza, is timid free limn any sign of these affecta tions. It was formerly, we believe, the custom of the Milanese government to send a few young stu dents, on a moderate stipend, to study ut Rome: this figure was produced there souse five or six years since by Strazza, and sent as a specimen of his abili ties. With the exception of the " Boy extracting Hai thorn from his foot." in the capitol, we know of no statue in which undefined forms of boyhood have been so skilfully seized. The expression of the face, and the anatomy of the limbs, stamp this production as a masterpiece. " Susanna at the Bath," by A. Galli, is pleasing and natural ; the difficult passage of the neck and shoulders might with advantage be refined. A classical bust of the poet Monti attracts notice, both by its size and its truthful characteristics of the man who sang the downfall of Louis XVI. A sort of covert pride seems to lurk in his countenance, as he contemplates the works around him. Amongst the minor works previously alluded to are a host of diminutive infants in cradles, and cupids nestling bird-fashion. Heathen mythology, poetry and romance have alike been tasked by the sculptor, especially in those passages in wh ieh sentiment is the uppermost feeling. The theme of osculation has been varied almost ad rummeata—a theme be it said rendered ever unapproachable by the antique group of ('upid and I'syehc. Neither the maudlin Atala and Chuctas embrace, nor the rugged clasp of Syrinx by Pan can interest anyone uow.a-days. Such feeble sources of inspiration make one rather lament that the name of " Austria" which hangs suspended over the entrance doorway should not be a promising guarantee of a healthier future for Milanese art. But any thought of any improvement being promoted from that quarter is at once silenced by the speci mens of casts forwarded from Viennese, which flank the doorway on both sides. Neither the figure of Itadeuki on the left, nor the candelabrum on the right, are symptomatic of a sound or tasteful school. Neither of these fulfil the twofold qualities of metallic art, which combine the ornamental with the endur able. False and tasteless in design, the rough grain of the metal casting seems fitted to shelter rain and corrosion. THE ART-JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. to get at the ro o ts. Proceed determinedly with the destruction of mildew or en 7 other pest upon your trees, i ur which purpose we find Lpps's milplturutor exceedingly useful. KITCHEN OARI)TtN. .... If our advice relative to the making of new strawberry bell+ very early in the season has been attend s] to, a portion of the old tows may be destroyed. Such grr.und, having been several years almost undisturbed, should be deeply trenched, dinged according to it. requirements, sad planted or sown with some useful winter or spring crop. Tripoli . onions tor future transplanting should now be sown, and endive for a late crop. Continue to make successional sowings of Cos lettuce, and make the first sowing of Ham mersmith cabbage lettuce to transplant into warns lxirtlers for late autumn use. The last sowing of early stone and , s bite globe turnips should be made this week. A. con ' siderable share of intention should now be directed towards securing an adequate supply of a dads and other small matters for winter use. Encourage the growth of the chicory already planted, by hoeing and loosening the soil. The liner the roots, the greater the produce of the leaves when forced in spring. TI[E LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. lIALF-YEAULY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. The half-yearly statement of accounts has been It appears from the "statement of the joint-stock capital" that the total joint-stock capital upon which dividend is payable is 22,467,281/. Of this amount 16,000,1961. is entitled to full dividend; 1,295,3101. (6,476 London and Birmingham 20/. shares, on which 121. have been paid) to full dividend, less 3 per cent. on amount not called • 692,120/. (09,212 Manchester and Birming ham C 101. shares on which ,1/. has been paid) also entitled to full dividend, less 5 per cent. en amount not called; 4,209,6251. (168.385 London and North-Wes tern 25/. shares on which 17/. have been paid) entitled to 4 per rent. upon :omelet called until July, 1812, after which time full dividend • and 270,000'. (20,000 Coventry and Nuneaton 131. 104. ;harem, on which 101. have been paid) entitled to 5 per cent. on the amount called awl half-surplus profits beyond that rate. 'rho general statement of the capital account to the 30th of June shows that 29,291,8141. had been expended, of which 22,198.0171. had lawn expended on the main line and branches, 2,097,5391. on carrying atonc, 251,1183/. on lands and buildings yielding rent, 4,105,5141. on lines open in which the company have an interest, mid 1W11,6901. on linen nut completed in which the campany have an interest. The receipts amounted to 29,105,1761., including 19,276,1561. ee -1 esived on stock and shares, 194,4191. calls paid in advance, and 9,011,1111. by loans on debentures, leas ing a balance iveiinst the company of 186,6381. The amount received on capital account dur i ng the half-year was 187,43.1/.. and ex pended 211,1131., of which 121,636/. was on the mama line and branches, and 71,356/. on carrying stack, 18,11161/. on lines not completed in which the company have an interest, and 53,712/. on linen open in which the company have an in terest- The debenture account shows that 3,139,0211. is borrowed at 5 per cent., 317,900'. at -11 per c. it., 1,824,9901. at 4 per cent., 116,100/. at n per cent. ; 1,111,550/. at 31 per ' cent., and 95,7011/. et 3 per cent. ; together, 9,631,i61/. During the half-year, 1,8.5i,5751. was paid off or trans ferred ; of which, 1,218,575/. seas form'rly bor rowed ut 5 per colt. The amount borrowed or renewed was 1,927,7051., of which 1,010,1)80/. was borrowed at 4 per cent. ; 111,400/. at 31 per cent. ; and 147,225/. at 31 per cent. Of the sum sraised on debentures, 4,871,3801, was for the main line and brunches; and 4,760,17 for lines opened and lines not completed in which the company have an interest. It is stet. .l that interest or dividend un the whole of the 29,291,611/. expended is charged to revenue. The number of miles of railway worked by the company is 8631, and the enrage cost of working stock is stets dto lie 2,130/. per mile. The mileage worked out the 30th of June, 1850, was 7911. On the 31st of December, 1650, 371 wiles addition thereto, were worked, viz. :—Buck inghainsiiire, 18' ; Coventry and Nuneaton, 10; and East and Weat India Dock line, 91 miles. On ths• 31 of June, , 1851, 311 miles were added to the mileage, vie.:—Bucking hamshire. 21 ' • Rugby and Stamford, 131 ; and Rugby and Leamington, 15 miles; making together at the latter date 8631 miles worked by the company. The return of working stock shows that it ennsiated of 563 engines, .562 tenders, 1 state carriage, .151 first-class, mail, and composite carriages, .1149 becond-claas, 315 third class, 21 travelling post-offices and tenders, 259 horse-boxes, 21:1 carriage-trucks, 208 plan& break and parcel vans, 41 parcel carts and trucks, 8,052 wugguns, 203 sheep-vans, 14 trucks, 1,111 crib-rails, 5,150 sheets, and 162 horses. The increase in the number of engine-, during the half-year was 10. in the tenders 9, in the first-claw, mail, and compalite carriages 61, in the second-class carriages toO, in the third class 3 ' in the waggons 667, and in the sheep-vans 71. Tho cost of additions to the working stuck was, in the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1850, 36,28.1'., and for the half-year ending the 30th of June last, 100,6571.: together, 136,913'. ; of which 41,1811. was debited to revenue. On the estimates sanctioned by the proprietors on the 22nd of February, 18111, for the completion of the main line, brioches, &c., amounting to 1,170,11351., the sum of 1,132,031/. hail been expended, leaving 469,728/. unex pended; on the estimates sanctioned on the 10th of .au g ust, 1850, for waggons and shed., amounting to 95,000!., 911,035/. had been expended, leaving 5,218/. unexpended. 01 the estimated assets, amounting to 510,1251. for surplus land and advaitess repayable toy other companies, 160,7811. had been realised, leaving 389,3101. to be realised. Catalogue. As it would be impossible to enumerate even a tithe of the contents of the Illustrated Catalogue, we shall briefly enumerate a few of the contents of the number fur August. The first portion is devoted to the Exhibition essays, printed in close type ; the remaining portion consisting of upwards of fifty pages of designs with explanatory text. Tfle poreelam of SCvres is nume rously exemplified by vases, lamps, tazzas, cup, and j baptismal fonts, alike novel, severe, and tasteful ; their general composition is as correct as their detail is to the purpose. Both the classical and the cirque eento seem to have made way for what may not in aptly be called the early Christian style. This may be iteeminted a novel trait in the ever fluctuating fashion in porcelain manufacture. Messrs. Poussielgueltusand, ecclesiastical orna ment manufacturers, show how far they can compete with Mr. l'ugin, with their salvers, chalices, mon stranees, and ewers; there is little, however, here that will eclipse those lodged in the Waimea Hall. The glass-works of Apslcy Pellatt, and the suite of furniture by Leistler, occupy the next pages, the first as bright as the latter are gloomy; both effects well rendered in the drawings. The porcelain of Ihesden having been previously noticed, that of Copenhagen is brought into view. Then, again, British glass manufactures, statuary, filagree, Beauvais-ware, cloth•patterns, clucks, carpets, and casts, razors, and 'pistols. Already people are looking dimly forward to the time, not far distant, when all the contents of the I Crystal Palace will be dispersed, and possibly the whole may melt away from the sight like vast dis solving views; it is satisfactory to reflect that the appearance of the most valuable objects will remain lung after the reality has disappeared. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June shows that 1,234,3581. had been received, of which 723,862/. was for passenger traffic, and 453,317/. for mer chandise, coal, and live stock. The expenditure amounted 'to 463,397/., including 21,591/. Mr rates and taxes, and 24,0821. fur duty on passenger-traffic, leavity , a balance of 772,961 t, out of which 210,9261. is thslucteefor interest on loans, 1,196/. chief rents, 2,000/. expense, of Peterbomugh station ; 6,601. loss on North Colon guarantee; 1,1001. loss on Preston and Wyre guarantee; 13,339/. un Shropshire iency, and 10,910. estiumt.l dividend to the Stour Valley proprietors; leaving a balance of 520,0931. From this sum is deducted 14,992/. for renewal of rails, works, and stock, leaving 5111,101/. Ti this sum is added 131,2911., the balance front the last account, making to gether a disposable balance of 412,3921., out of which it is proposed to deduct 528,3151. for dividend, leaving 111,0771. to be carried to the next account. The dividend on the con solidated stock of the company, at the rate of 3'. per cent. per annum, will amount to 101,1051., and the dividends on theother shares will amount to 119,101. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR TILE ENSUINU WEEK. Prom the Gardener's Chronicle. 1.1.A.NT DEPARTMI:ST. As in spring, a progressise increase of heat Kul moisture to keep pace with the advancing season, was the course punned, to now an opposite or retrogressive one must be adopted. The healthy state of the plants during their winter or season of rest, depends very =eh on their management during the autumn. They must be gradually hardened by exposing them to an increased circulation of air, and a lower temperature, admitting all the light possi ble. We have frequently urged the necessity of thoroughly watering plants when they need it, in preference to giving a little and often, according to the too common practice. Let it be the rule then only to give water when it is re quired, and then to give plenty. These remarks apply more particularly to hard wooded plants, which, to ripen their growth, require a longer season than those of a more her baceous character, which will continue to grow and flower some time longer. Remember the value of liquid manure for pants which are flowering freely, and others which it is desirable to invigorate to the utmost. We have scarcely a more beao•iful or more elegant plant for conservatory decoration in April and May than the Schizalithus ; for this purpose the seeds should now be sown, and at the same time the diWerent species of Lisianthus for next autumn's and Neapolitan and tree violets should now be lifted, potted in 4or 5-inch pots for winter flowering. As this is a flower which everybody loves, nothing can be more acceptable at that comparatively flowerless season. The following is the r•port of the auditors to the proprie tors of the London and North Wrstern Railway Company : " In presenting to the proprietors their half-yearly re port the auditors have to state that the accounts have un dergone a very searching examination on the part of Mr. ' Coleman, who has maintained a continuous audit, entirely distinct from that carried on by the officers of the company. The debenture account shows an increase of 70,00/1.; this is, however, explained by the fact, that while during the last six months no call has been made, the expenditure upon capital account has been upwards of 240,000/. A favourable change in the rate of the interest will also be observed ; this in some measure may be attributed to the existence of tho reserve fund, which strengthens the position of the company, and enables the directors to negotiate for the renewal of the debentures on the most advantageous terms. The auditors wish to explain, that although there does not appear upon the face of the accounts to be any interest accruing upon the sum forming the reserve fund; yet, by the active employment of the money, the amount of debentures is Nero Goole diminished, and a corresponding reduction in the revenue account, under the head of interest on 103111 L is consequently effected. It will be seen that revenue account is only charged with the loss on the Shropshire Union liability, up to the 31st December last, as the result of the past half-year cannot yet be ascertained ; the auditors are, however, satisfied that this liability is fully met by the dividend due to the company on the Chester and Holyhead preference shares, which in the accounts is only credited up to the Myth June, Iftso. The determination of the proprietors to close the capital account, and to provide out of revenue the additional works and stock required to most the constantly enlarging business of the company, has increased the charge on the works, stock, and estate account to 68,5581., one-tenth part of which, it will be observed, has been debited to the revenue account of the pant halfyear. By this arrangement the actual value of the stock of the company is becoming yearly enhanced at the cost of revenue. Auditors. ABEL PEYTON. lIENEV CSOEFIELD, Euston Station, 7th August, 1851. - - FORUM/ DEPARTMENT. Peach-houses: As soon as the crop is entirely removed, any of the trues which exhibit too gross a tendency in their tops should be partially root-pruned, by forking down, at a safe distance of from two to three feet, according to the age of the tree, and shortening some of the strongest roots. Any tree which is very gross should be carefully undermined, to ascertain if airy roots have descended into the subsoil. If such is found to be the ease, they should of course be cut away; and, to prevent a recurrence of the same,the tree should be lifted out entirely, and the bottom of he border made impervious, by MCAlis of concrete. The trees should be frequently examined, to prevent the establishment of scale, red spider, or other insects. Melons: Keep up a good bottom-heat, or shanking and canket will be a natural con sequence. We aro very careful that the proper temperature is maintained, and by this means disease is prevented amongst the latest crops. Keep the plants sufficiently thin to allow the air to circulate freely amongst the leaves, end ' 1 to act upon the surface of the sod. Thin the weak shoots, and let all the fruits be properly supported upon some hard dry substance, as a tile or smooth piece of board. FLOWER ()ARDEN AND tiRRVIDIERIEd. . -......- The roots of the iris, narcissus, Mlles, and other spring _ _ . . flowering bulbs, with few exceptions, succeed best if not taken up too often; and except for the purpose ofdivitling them to ROYAL ASSENT TO RAILW Btt.t.'.—Thc royal increase the stock, or to plant them in a new situation, they assent has been reported to the following hills :--Shrewsbury had better remain undisturbed. When any are taken up and Chester Railway, Caledonian ltaileuy (Glasgow, Gam. for the above purposes, they should be replanted again as soon kirk and Coatbridge, l'olloc and Guyon, &c., amendment as possible, that they may firmly establish themselves be- and continuation), Waterford and Kilkenny, St. Andrews fore winter, as they remain a very short time in a dormant and Quebec Railway, Companies of Railways Act Repeal state, before they begin to form new roots. These are all Bill. deep-rooting plants, and require that the beds should be deeply trenched. The manure should be placed in the ESSEX PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—On Thursday', a bottom of the trench to encourage the downward progre s s meeting of the executive committee of the Essex Provident of the roots, and thereby render them more independent of Society was held at the clerk's office, Duke-street, Chelms. the watering-pot during the scorching months of June and ford, for the purpose of carrying out the rules passed at the July. The tiger-lily is very ornamental at this season ;it general inviting held at Braintree on the 26th of July last. is very showy, when planted in straight lines, or amongst George. Wood, Esq. in the chair. Thu meeting, which the promiscuous masses of large clumps. In the aid's of lasted two hours, was principally occupied in discussing the the leaves, if the plants are now examined, small bulbs will legality or illegality of the rules passed at the late general be found, which should be carefully collected and planted, meeting, which having been adjourned, it was contended about an inch asunder, in boxes of light soil. Many an- the rules could not be carried out. Messrs . Choat, Wilson, muds and perennials have now ripened their seed, which Young, Martin, flu gas, Stokes, anentding took part in should be gathered immediately in fine dry weather, and the proceedings, and it as subsntly thought desirable spread out in a cool airy shed. that the case should be submitted to the consideration of HARDY rattli OARDILN. Mr. Tidd Pratt. Mr. Martin prsposed, and Mr. Stokes Let the young and advancing shoots of peach and nee- seconded, " That the chairman be requested to write out tarine trees be regularly laid in every ten days or a fort- the state of the case in which they were now supposed to night, taking care not to crowd the foliage, and leaving be, and that the clerk be instructed to apply to the chair a space between the shoots, that the rays of the sun may man of the general meeting for their minutes on the rules reach some portion of the wall. It is impossible that the passed at such meeting." The meeting was then adjourned fruit buds ran be strong and capable of resisting early spring until Friday, August 22.—ChelmsforeleAronicle. frosts, when light and air are excluded from them during THE PEOPLE'S CARRIAGE.—We lately noticed an the summer and autumn. The shoots of pears, plums, and omnibus, equal to its name, which has begun to run cherries, should now be regulated and neatly tied in, both between Glasgow and Paisley with fifty-six passengers— for the sake of the wood ripening better by contact with first, second, and third class. With a handy vehicle of this the wall, and to let the present crop have the benefit of free calibre, combined with the penny system at Liverpool, to exposure to light, without which it must be deficient in enjoy the advantages of which it appears there is now a flavour. Standard fruit-trees and those on trelenes must complete scramble, we would have something like a people's also be gone over, the useless wood shortened, and that ; carriage for suburban traffic whereby the pent - op working required for extending the trees sad filling up empty spaces classes of this great metropolis might daily have a mouthful fled neatly in. Fruit trees having no crop upon them may of fresh air in the country for twopence. As for the town still be root pruned; and if the soil around them is very traffic, with less lumhenome carriates, the experiment at dry it should be well watered, first to prevent check to Liverpool is certain, as the local Times remarks, to lead le the tree, and facilitate the operation of opening the trench the extension of the clusapaYstent•—Th. Listsfd r. The Art-Journal has more than doubled its habi tual size, ever since the opening day of the Paxto. nian Palace, by its monthly instalments of the illus trated catalogue. This catalogue is to be completed in six parts, four of which are already before the public. Objects great and small have been engraved on a common scale; a method, however conducive to uniformity, perhaps not quite fair to subj ects of large, dimensions. This slight discrepancy is, however, amply compensated for by the careful and accurate designs of minor treasures, by the unlimited variety of the designs, and the judicious selection of the most striking features contained in the Crystal Palace. - So unprecedented has been the amount of illus tration devoted to the external and internal views of tho Exhibition, that one cannot but be thankful to the journal which rigorously confines itself to giving pictures of its several contents and its pages to all the arts by turns. The range is sufficiently inviting and extensive, whether one looks at the silver-work, the wood-carving, the glass-staining, metal-casting, book-binding, porcelain painting, or tapestry embellishing. In &ct, the great difficulty must have lain just as much in selection as in the THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1851. LITERATURE. , description, not only because it describes the actual place, but because it gives the moral character with the Poem,. By WIT.T.IAM ALLINOIIAX. Chapman and halt. same exactness. And mere picturesque power alone This volume of poe t ns hus been out f or so m e time; —mere sensuous perceptio n of the beautiful or striking —may belong to very ordinary men ; some hut what are a f e w ramifies more or less in the history twople feel all the more acutely because th. 7 are of a volume o f good poetry . ? We notice Mr. Alliug idind. It is by the thought that we must measure ham now, because he is just beginning to attract rete st the value of all that pretends to address the ldghest attention at the time when new bards usually "cease in man. from troubling, - and their few readers " are at mat.", By this time the reader, we trust, is put in good And we propose to give in the way of extractcertain humour with Mr. Allingham, to say nothing of his niteeimens of his powers which will make our reader: critic. lie secs that Mr. Allingham has the genuine wary thankful for our resoluti o n. In a word, we j ti power, the omens dirinior, as Horace culls it. gate at once that here we have genuine poetry once , r , That is the result of high powers in due harmony. more to set before the public. Poetry is the P ert " - i But there are certain mental qualities which a very I lion of the highest in ev e rythin g that e xists. It se e s go - od poet may be without. l'oets whom we dare healthily into the best an d sweetest of every object. ~..1 , not pretend to speak slightingly of have no wit, nor The first question, accordingly, one asks with regard A there are great poets without to a man professing to write poetry is, is he a genuine! h amour, even. But we find in this volume repeated and whole man ? lf, for instance, he must run off i - - - - - • . - touches of quick glancing dexterity; sharp worldly perception; and a fancy playing gracefully in illustration of thought —nay, touches sometimes of that kind which are opprobriously called " conceits," and a goodly collection of which figures in Johnson's " Life of Cowley." Thus, we have in " Frost in the Holidays"— May the cold weather keep, as is but meet, Our milk of human kindness sweet ! which Addison would have called false wit. The same faculty is more legitimately employed when he I .!lls us, that, in the morning— While thoughts stand luminous and tiara Like statues in the suu. to Ispahan fur beauty, and fly to the middle ages for faith, we deem his vision and susceptibility imper fect. Ile may be very gifted—as an enchanter is gifted •who can work wonders by extraneous, powers, not properly belonging to his moral being-- ! ,end who will be laughed at when his trick is once band out. But the genuine man sees poetry all round him, bounded by the natural horizon wherein his soul is set. Ile lives in that horizon, and not in a fairy ring. He will accordingly- be related both to the high and low—has his sublime side as his humorous one—and what he writes will breathe of his daily life—just us honey tastes of heather or violets, according as you get it in Scotland or Ma deira. Now, what we like primarily in Mr. Ailing ham is a strongly marked individuality in him—the first condition of intellectual honesty. His poems arc all, like his preface, dated "Ballyshannon, ISZ/o;"—that is to say, they smack of the sea, the hills, the Irish life, the wild moun tains and rivers, one way; and in another, of the intel lectual life of the said 1840—its culture, hopes, doubts, andaspirations. First of all, therefore, he is thoroughly original, in the true sense; and if a poem or two re mind you of certain contemporaries in form or man lier, that originality is noways interfered with by it. Every age liars certain predominant forms—for its poems as fur its creeds: the sky is not the less infi nite, because from the shape of the p!anct it always looks concave. Though, by the by, we must remark that in even form nod nrinner fir. Allingham is as original us any of his c ont e nt swaries. But we will start o ff with the very opening poein of all, called TIIE PILOT'S PRETTA DAUGHTER. The harbour lianks, all glittering gay, Laughed in their turn no sad In parting from a fair spring day That langbingly withdr, Great briltled clouds, piled round the sea And hilts. hail left blu • zenith free For last lark earliest 'tar to greet ; When, for the crowning vernal sweet, Along my path I chanced to meet the Pilot's pretty Drightee. Round her gentle, happy fate, Dimple-soft and freshly fair, Danced, with careless oc.an-grace, Leeks of silk-brown hair; Shading her cheeks or waved behind, As lightly li:ew the veering wind, L'nbound imbraid, d, and unhtepAl ; Or when to tie hoe shoe she stooped, Below her chin the half-curls droma4l, And veiled the Pilot's Daughter. Rising, she to.s., d them gaily lock. With gesture soil brief, To fall around ID soft a neck A. wilding-rose's leaf. Iler Sunday frock, of lilac shade ('lbst choicest tint), was neatly made, And not Os, long to hide from view The stout but no-way clumsy dew, And stocking's smuttily-fitting blue. That graced the l'ilot's Daagliter. With look half-timid and half-drol, And then with slightly downeaq ,yes, And blush that outward eddy stole, l'n!iss it were the s Whosi, sonlight shifted on her cheek, She halfdunted when she heard use speak ; But 'twas a brightness all her own, That in her firm light step was shown, And the clear cadence of her tone ; The Pilot's lovely Daughter! Were it my lot, there peeped a wish, 'fu hand a pilot's oar and will, Or haul the dripping moonlight mesh, Spangled with herring scale ; By dying stars, how sweet 'twould be, And dawn-blow freshening the sea, With weary, cheery pull to shore, gals my cottage home once m.,re, And meet: before I reached the door. My darling Pilot's Daughter ! This element beside mx . feet Looks like a tepid tome of gold; One toneh, one tort,', dispels Me heat. Ti,' salt and bitter cold. A fisher's hut, the scene perforce Of 11.11 TOW thoughts and manners coarse, Coarse as the curtains that lic-cm With net-ti.stoons the smoky beans, Would no-way lodge my favourite dream, E'en with my Pilot's Daughter. To the open riches of the earth, Endowing men in their own spite, The '• Poor," by privilege of birth, Stand in the closest right : But not alone the palm grows dull With dory delve and watery pull ; And Labour sends n sleepy class To school, a childish school to Mass : True here will raise, not sink,—alas! How fades my l'ilut's Daughter Raise leer, perhaps ?—Dut eh! I said, 'Twece wiser IA such thoughts alone. Su may thy beauty, simple maid, Be mine, yet all thy own Joined in my free, eontented love With these fair gathering stars above— Before whose stedfast truth it scent. That "Rich" and " Pour" are as the beSSai And shadows on the river streams That swat will sing thee into dreams. So passed the Pilot's Daughter. 'fake this for what it pretends to be, a picture of natural life. How fresh, picturesque, and real it is! How homely, even when it is romantic. The girl is nut made a goddess, nue has she a tincture of the commonness wliich a vulgar mind would inevit- The Life qf Father Garn:gi. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co. ably see in her, in her position. Why, the description' The surprising eloquence which the public has would prove her identity as the genuine daughter of recognised in the orations of' the great Barnabite, ha s the Pilot in any court of law ! :Cote, too, the moral awakened a general curiosity to learn stnnething truth of the poem, the genuineness of the sentiment. As for the lines which we have marked in italics, the particular of his history. This feeling is as just as it is natural, for, astonishing as are the addresses of force, beauty, and aptness of the metaphor they Gavazzi, considered as oratorical displays, yet the embody make it rauk with the highest efforts of the kind we know. true eloquence of the man is in his life and deeds. Our next extract shall be also a piece of natural «e like to sit and hear him—the penetrating, the all-informed--direct the thunders of his oratory description. Before we examine the professed or aga.inst the corruption of the Itomish church, and deliberate reflection of a man, we like to know how he describes—his descriptions will embodywhat was strip the harlot of' those fictitious charms which have led so many astray from the right way ; but we 'best in his reflection, the unconscious, innermost, moral action of his nature. " Ask a man to de- !admire him yet more as he rises superior to the pre scribe something he has seen, and you get a measure judices of early instruction and the force of circuit of what intellect there is in the man," says a cele- stances, to become a man and a citizen, instead of a bated writer. The verses we' quote are without a mere monk and the tool of despotism. We like to title: see him encouraging and marching with the volun- By the shore, a plot of ground teer youth of Rome against the Austrian ; standing Clips a ruined chapel round, and pleading for Italy, when 18,000 Neapolitans, Buttressed with a grassy mound ; recalled be Bombe, were about to abandon the sacred Where Day and Night and Day go by, mew ; arid protesting, amid the menaces of officers And bring no touch of human sound. anti the murmurs of the soldiery, and then journey- Washing of the lonely seas, ing from Padua to Florence, Venice, Milan, Genoa— Shaking of the guardian trees, animating while work was to be done, and comfort- Piping of the salted breeze ; arid lag when the worst was to be suffered. Those who Or, when The old tower shakes his ivy board. But we will now quote one poem inure, which con tains all Mr. Allingham's excellences, and on which we safely stake our judgment : I heard the dogs bark in the moonlight night, And I went to the window to sec the sight; All the dead that ever I knew Going one by one and two by tao. On they passed, and on they passed ; Townsfellows all from first to last; Born in the moonlight of the 'one, And gvenehed ut tier heitry shadom again. Schendmates, marching as when we played At soldiers once, but now more staid ; Those were the strangest sight to me Who were drowned, I knew, in the awful sea. Straight and handsome folk ; bent and weak too ; An I some that I loved, moll gasped to spzal; lo; Same just buried a day or two, And some of whose death I never knew. A long, long crnwd—wherecaeli seemed lonely. And yet of them all there w as o ne, one only, That raised a head or looked my way ; Alia she seemed to linger, hut might nut stay. How loag since I saw that tor pale face ! Ah, mother dear, might I only place Mc Mad on thy breast, a moment to rest, While thy hand on my tearful check were prest ! 00, on, a moriny hridge they moth. AMASS the momnstreoen from shorty to shmie : Young and old, and women and men ; Many lung-forgot, but rimein:iered then. And first there came a bitter laughter ; And a sound of tears the moment alter; Anil then a music so lofty and pay, That every morning, day by day, I strive to recall it if I may. We have again italicised those touches which a casual reader so easily overlooks, but which have great value as evidences of p oetie insight. It is quite superfluous to particularise the eYeelleneeS here; the truth, the tenderness, must be perceptible to everybody. There is a sound in the music of the last stanza that rolls along after the pathos, like the brisk notes after a military funeral. Nothing is more observable here, as elsewhere in the volume, than the simplicity with which the best effects are produced. The poet sets the soul on fire with the most natural gesture just as the sun-god in the poem of Claudian lights the nest of the expiring l'heenix by simply shaking from Ms tresses a single golden hair. Of etm-se, Mr. Allingham has a long poem ; every new poet usually has a morepretentious one than the remainder of his volume. Mr. Allingham has his " Music-Master," a love story, in two parts, contain ing about a hundred and fifty-six, stanzas of "lbws rims. As a mem poetic production it is no better than the other poems in the volume, except iu so fur as it is longer. We mean to say that there are no qualities displayed in it which do not exist in the former Ones. It is full of tine things; hut we do not consider " Claude " and " Milly" as successful instances of impersonating power. Hence it lacks vivid interest us a story—which noway implies that it is not a line poem, how ever. But we think that there is both negative and positive evidence in this volume that Mr. Allingham's strength is in his individuality, as we hinted when we began this criticism. For instance, be gives us here a poem on the " Wandering Jew," of course an object to he contemplated pureiy with the separate Faze of the imagination. Somehow it lacks reality. There are sonic wonderful illustrations of the notion ; but there is not life. There is "wandering" but there is no "Jew," in fact; and beside., there is something about the treatment which recalls Tenny son's " St. Simeon Stylitss.'' Now, Mr. Allingham is, in his way, as much a master in what he writes from himselfasTennvoon. Ills real forte is outpouring, cal, or other. He is fit to teach, directly, as well as to inspire and suggest. lie is antorlithwauns—the pro duct of his own soil in every way. And we confess that one reason we like his volume especially is, that it •sives abundant evidence that he is likely to be an "honest, healthy, direct worker in his time; neither sickly nor dreamy ; nor only a literary paint pot, for painting what is sweet to look upon ; nor apt to be dazzled by the splendour of dead murnho jumhaa ; nor over fond of isms: but intellectually opsiocied and honest---using his faculty, us Bacon says, i• fur the glory of tho Creator, and the relief of Unties estate." Meanwhile, we commend the above volume to all persons who have any appreciation of poetry, as un doubtedly full of the highest promise, and likely to afford them great delight.