The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-26 00:00:00

lota their families, which cause more t fr•start demand 'in each of the Packing datk in the west in MR :-Missonri, highly satisfactory rate, and occasionally pausing to allow ! world in itself, ever growing, and each day offering height et persecution and imposture. Vagrants.by t tropolis, and it will be found in this work more tech also the militant, and a C ' IWI, yerb f tare. use of 70,395; Tenu.,oce, 42,975 ; Kentucky, 215,121; Illinois, some new and great feature. There has, however, the title of ancestry, beggars who have known no ideally awl practically treated than in any vet at *tt bill .. In hstall ofllT."themselves the relaxation of breaking a few heads in favour "Inn ot late been a particular deficiency of suitable guide- other vocation fro:n childhood, the swarms of men- tempted tlw popular use. Critical descriptions ao morta tots., the ~.,:e ot farms, awl the emigration of ruined 114,675 ' total hogs. ' killi ' d 1 ositin.). The 1;o are allowed humour ' s •ized them -it wl•4 set this morn lit when they books, that edited by John Ilritton having become dicants who have lived on the charity of the poor company the illustrations, and tlvain•lt we do no fanners, must tiec, airily be of frequent um:smite% Bat to run in the woods ' sad • feet - 1 on the bug. &v., were full 'of their merits . a.v.l their goof luck, ' that the If the • • • prse of Limber tall very much at any period, they till fise Of sia weeks before killin • time 'Bth or 10th tabies were sielica!y turn-I up in th.•ln : antiquated, and the production of a new one being Irish population, will he attracted here, and we shall always concur with the spirit or application of the mast become ni ...e frequent ; or, if a merchant Who holds Noventlter`, and are then turn.sl $. into 1 / 4 the Indian PA', le arc .•: isle coos v.( st wise mein, an enterprise requiring considerable capital, and, in be called upon to defend ourselves from what will remarks. they etnanate from a man of originality mmy or these mortgage, himself fails, a conintou tutu will corn ileitis to fatten them and harden their thsh. las borlillit, a.t.e,:e iies leas ! E ordinary times, much risk. The occasion of the be laid as the patent proofs of our uncharitable- and talent, and the spectator has the imineement involve all. Bothof th •• . ssc • tail: have at once befallen the They are usually from eleven to eighteen months old The goddess, like some others of her sex, tired of g rsnt- World's Fair, ' however, gives an opportunity, of ness and neglect. 1 given to him to exercise his thought, and arrive at lumbering fanners on the Mitantachi, and much distress when they arc killed, and the longer they have been in the lag favours and of hearing herself alternately louden and ; has been the result. ' earn-field the better is th , , porls. The packing 1111 , 17W54 of abitstsl for her complai,ailee, set to work to phty her favour- which several e m inent publishers have availed them- : In most instances Mr. Weale's book puts our case an independent judgment. If sometimes we have With the ruin of this trade, which never was °hi" has gradually been concentrating itself at Cincinatti, hes such a trick, that, from th it dav to this they have hal selves, to produce works calculated to meet the re- in its true light, and enables the stranger to see the :thought the description scanty or ineomplete, otherwise 111411 preearions in view, it becom • where in the winter of 1817 awl 181,t, about 42,000 hogs reason to he among the most virulent of her discarded quirements of several classes of the public. While metropolis such as it is, and not simply through the 1 yet we confess we prefer a mode of treatment ' - -"` un- were snit', killed, and ps CAA. The bloat is colleted insuitor.. we pin in the present, the result may be that for medium of half-formed impressions. The mode of ! which makes us feel that our areltitectural portant to inquire whether this pmvincc offers any tanks and with the hair, hoof ,, ' mil other ot is sold to n sea deserted them ' new hand-book will be produced, and illustration adopted particularly . favours this plat- • monuments arc not merely to be gazed at. but subs prospect whatever to men of industry and moderatethe . 1; u. late of potash manteturers. The ' carcase is Co ' ;nmissioireni wercn . t down to report on the matter ; " man y . 3"1.8 11° suffer in the future fur our luxurituice of tical tendency of the book. Although there are a miffed to the rigid test of criticism. The more this capital i' Tn this Mr. Johnson replies, by adducing, curedeither into barrelled pork or into bacon and hams, philosophers were railed in to account for it ; engineers to ' we Tay. 1 as the unanimous declaration of the owners of land and the grease rendered into lard of various qualities.' remedy it. There were works and plans, 8 w h., ;; „ ma ,. ; , production . great number of engravings, them are very few views spirit is evoked among the public the better will it in New Brunswiek, that "In every port of the pro- Some establishments, cure the hams, and after cutting up humiliations • a very picturesque prises:dun through the . Mr. Weale, the engineering and architectural pub- of buildings,. on which the editors of such small be for architecture, which will then assume a vitality %ince, those alto, for a series of yeilrA, had confined theu resatioofs.the careasT.stts, am t it in lars i t n q - at . s n ir t t u •r s a r zr:s- strects, with ilights_aud banner-, but all in h d vin. I rk: " ' fisher, has brought forward the work now before us, works sometimes waste a considerable sum of motley among no. and our areltitectural undertakinirs prove their attention to farming alone, fiad all, without ex- the re swhole to er t a Y ira7, ' ltones a u nd sg al u rand draw off the facet was surl inexorable, s in spilt of o t t it t lt;d rt a .a s so s i v iin in :t and e i,eutanneeeep,i,tui a . which, though conceived with the glacial design of —for waste it is, when an illustration in a page of a truly worthy of the pre-eminence and *„..eilius of the serving the men of science, abroad and at home, who larger size is much more effective. The engravings country. ception, done well." That primpoitv, therefore, may . The residue is either thrown away or carted off for manure. in st y tite evert of du i :tsars and conciliafo . ry new ribbons of attend the new settler, or return to the older farmers One cstahli-tam disposes iu this way of 30,000 hogs. Of his spouse. , arc among his customers, will doubtless meet with no here given include a number of plans, sections, and The enumeration of galleries of art, as well private of the province, it is necessary only that tlw • ti the lard the finest is exported. Much ait is sent to the The bride of the sea, then, was deserted, and worst of all, ' less appreciation from the public. With the ordinary , details of construction. Of the outside of a building as public, is another instance of the exemplification 3 ' co " lie It aaunah, where it is WWII instead of Witter. About thirty her faithless lord had borne away with him her dowry and understandino.of ' a guide-book it does not comply, for the reader rarely needs a delineation,—he can of re-- - . ..s . of which now the metropolis has such their attention to the burin , - their fitros - 4 .. . , • • .• .• _ .• --• of all her litY or e ` for himself, but the mt..- - and interior - -• boast. Dismissing in a few lines the tcgiftoll to • -.a1e.% e farms. The following information may be useful us well as inte resting ; it relates to the cam.", PKII Es, ..?.I %Ors 05 THE RIVER. there in at present many forms to Ise divined of un the MiramirLi ititer, tor which w.p.m.. who know some thing of the silviculture are eagerly de.ired from the old (mintrs, 1 insert the •rerage prlluce, price, Anil weight per hieliel of the eultitatel iu the factoriel ere engaged in the manufacture of lard, oil, and au:urine, which is done hp emupressing the lard at a low temperature. The stearine is manufactured on the spot, of which f,,600 pounds are manufactured every day on nn average of the whole year. The lard oil is partly sold as such, hut in the eastern state• is used to adulterate alumna cetti oil, and in France to lower the price of oiiee oil. It is said that in this latter country, from Cci to 70 per cent. of lard oil i. often mixed with the olive 141 without detection. paraphernalia. The sea wns gone, that source .... wealth and power. The high cowl of the ocean pad through another gate, aud the town fell rapidly to decay— as rapidly us only the very prosperous can fall. Since then inexorable centuries have rolledaway. If, at the present day, accident or idle curiosity or an incitation from a maiden aunt (Mr business can banny he the motive), should lead any one to Iltnehurch, he will find it an old, red brick town, with a quaint and somewhat outlandish it says very little of the British Museum or L. the National Gallery,and it does not contain even a list of coffee-houses or hotels, but it more especiall y con tains what the usual guide-books do not, and what everybody so much wants, a practical description of, those establishments and institutions which are not so much within everybody's ken, and of which no _ . sold - - doors. \V- - see it . but the constructim, arrangements can seldom be embraced at one view, and somethnes are absolutely concealed, or are ex cluded front public inspection. In the case of St. Paul's, the existence of an external and internal dome is calculated to embarrass the spectator in arriving at an accurate idea of the structure and the mode in w•hichthearchitecturnleft ctsarearrivedathut „omi t are represented, and a sufficient indication is given of the development of some of the most remarkable features of the national character in its great centre. The press of London engages the attention of the stranger, from whatever quarter, as an extraordinary manifestation of that combination of intellectual, itecuniarv, and mechanical appliances, for which the English race are so remarkable. In deline ating the constitution of the City, the views of Pulgrave are applied, and the institutions and observances of the citizens illustrated in their origin from our English forefathers, or the concep tion of the middle ages. Much as he may be engaged by our architectural monuments, nothing is so in teresting to the stranger as the working of our con stitutional system, whether shown in the operations of the central government at \\ hitehall. or the petty communities of the city wards and precincts ; and he `will here find a guide to that great hook of consti tutional experience before which the writings of Plato. or even of Bentham, sink into insigniticanee. That man must be dull indeed who can h'avc this city without learning. front its merits and imperfee tions. how much more important to the welfare of a community is the spirit and working rather than the form of its institutions. Let hint who eon try to do better; but let him liar, without the stability of ages to help him, to do worse. Mr. As he passes through its silent streets his attention will be I drawn away from the occupation of listening to his own , • footsteps to wonder at the quaint old gables awl intricate chimneys, which twist themselves upwards iu every get- . tesque variety of form. Presently he will heel himself watching the little dark stream which steals along under the walls of the houses, tracing the damp mildew which creeps up the walls, and wondering to what extent the people within are embarrassed in their :Mal, ' or how many years the old ladies who must inhabit all those roums with the drawn blinds and the cats in the wiudow-sill, have been bed-ridden. At length, with a sense of relief, like a man who has emerged from a well, he finds himself at the outskirts of the town, and he strolls along a high terraced walk which makes its entire circuit. As he wanders on, lie will come every now and then to the ruined fragments of embrasures anti thinking toners, whose reeesses in old days were the terror of the enemy, and are now furnished with rough benches, who,• carved and harked seats bespeak them the chosen haunt of all the humble lovers of the district. From the top of these ramparts on one side is ObtAilleil view of the old dingy roots of the town among which rise the massive towers of its ancient churches; on the other side one may look down into the deep sloping recesses of what was once the moat, lung since dried up, and grass grown; but from the bottom of whichstill springs a teem iug crop of sedgy weeds. Beyond this hy.: the open country. It is a low' flat plain which the plough has wooed in vain. Dyked and ditched with the most persevering assiduity—it affords a brown rank grass, on which meagre herd. and a few wandering colt. /11411.1ge to pick up u seamy livelihood. In addition to this, it yields to the town, in sole compensation for the waters of which it one formal the bed, Sonic inotilh•rent salt pans, and an abundant annual supply of rheumatic liver, undague. Through the centre of this plain wanders the ghost of the told river—a turbid muddy stream, dozing between soft crumbling banks. It rep o se is seldom disturbed, except by some one of the lumbering harews, w WM, at long in tervals, still find their way up to the old wharf, bearing a chance freight of coals or straw. lin the other bide of this , alt marsh, at the distance of four miles from the town, the sea breaks us gently and peaceably on the new margin, which it has made fuer itself, as if it hadeummitted no treason to its pour fading favour ite., whose roofs rise in the distance. As to the inhabitants of this doomed locality. The good folks of Muchurch have, like most other people, their peculiarities, and like most other people, they derive them, in a great Me:l.'lllr, from the character of the place which thee inhabit. Like all other idlers they are an uneommouly busy set. A casual teassenger through the town, as he lam'. along its melancholy streets, would scarcely credit that within those gloomy walls there rings an incessant clamour of controversy —religious, political and social—and that the breasts of the law sleepy passengers, who turn to gaze listlessly utter him until he he lust at the distant corner, arc full of deep and eager pondering, on the Wilds, of their neighbours and the early editi 4444 Set yesterday's newspaper,. 01' a different kind is the following lively and iwr haps philosophical sketch of lilt, RACE of Lilt. Some young hopeful leave» his village for reasons of his own. lie wants to set' the world, or to make use of it. Per haps lie has a taste for the colonies or uas heart' of twflen, and lie lone To 'steal 10 the he ilisose starithel, I. However, MI lac goes with a well lined kit and his mo ther's blessing. %Vett, there is an end of him. For a time he shears sheep, clears the hush, and smokes k' - • k k• 'k, with the natives, or pricking up his long ears, follows that mena ml sheep-skin, the drum, smears himself with white clay, sticks a feather frmn a bird's tail in his hut, and 141116t1e1l himself ready to cut throats at two many shillings per diem. Poor little village:—miserable, dull, and tire -- try little village !—where time dribbles on drop by afro,. Unchang ing, dreamy villege—who could exist there ? At rare intervals the postman's horn sou n d.—for the very postman must have u horn, it is so weary, that lung, lonely walk, with the lag to the post-tow - 11. The adventurer has written house. lie wiahes something to be done at Cox and Cut; or thinks that, with a little assistance, he could take up a government allotment. This gum on tior mine time. At last he has ruts SO hard his worldly race, that he is out of breath. Ile pauses, and the first haat is user. He comes home to the village, and limb, to his surprise, that a factory and a pour rate have sprung up in his nti- WOW. Where is that green wooded valley, and the little silent stream with the glancing fishes, of his boyhood ? '1 kings are elbmgiug. The stone is in motion. The birds , must build their nests elsewhere—the wood has gone where is it ? It has sold itself to some stout ship, and like the young adventurer himself, is away in distant climes, a stout plank on the merehatit's honest deck—or it be a labour-polished tool in the workimia's hued—or under the disguise of char coal, is ministering to the subtle arts of The stream too now sweeps aleng, deep, swift, and strong. The very water has begun to take life in earnest. On it flows silently into a dark abyss of wheels, pernorming its appointed task,--out it rushes again, chafing and thane lug oil the other side, leaping along to make up the delay, for it has mother task entrusted to it—anonner net-work laid by enterprise to catch it, half a mile down, and then another and another. Men have found it out, and are • taxing its energies. Those eold-blooded, moping, solitary fish of old do not like the change. It does nut agree with their humour— things were well us they were—let the world stand still. Why do people want to he moviug " What nest'?" says young hopeful, as he returns tot the end of the second he in his career. Why, neat it weins that they hue found out anew route, and that he Cornell across the world in six weeks; or he dis covers that they no lunges sail by parallels, but upon the great circle. What next : Why, next he arrives at his village—this time iu a few hours by the railroad. What next? Whs., next they tie las letter round the neck of a carrier flash of lightning, and before he has finished wonder ing, he is told that this is on the point of being superseded by something still more wonderful. And when he arrives at his village he finds it a town, with a town's energies. As a specimen of the author's more sentimental moods we may extract a passage where are discussed the relative courage of' letrcll or HEROINES. A woman is never too young or boo old—too exalted or too lowly to become a heroine—a heroine according to that heroism which is appropriate to her—not the monota hero ism which carries a knife iu its garter—which is the attri bute of good title to Aft National and other public galleries. of which cheap catalogues are published at the doors, the writer gives, in full detail, the ltaffaelles, the Itubenses, the Marillos, which are the pride of the Stattiod, Bridge water, Hertford, Hope, and other great ;pilleries. Under the head of the " Press, Charities, Education, and the Corporation of Loudon," . moral institutions The mixture is more opt to deposit atearine than the pure oil, and such an appearance may lead to its detection. The less fine oil, and the fate extracted from diseased unbinds, is toed in the manufacture of soap. Besides soft and fancy IMNAVO, there are made at Cincinnati about 100,0Offihs. of soap annually, and of the f t employed about Sf per cent. ix pork grease. Lastly, the bristles Hire rise to a separate business, employing a hundred hands, and the hoofs are gaelted down fur glue. The most stable products of the 420,000 how, palled at Cincinnati may be thus summed up: —Pork, 29,1110,0001hx.; bacon, 21,0011,00011 o.; lard (No. I), 13,11(1,1100; lard oil, 1,000,000 gallons; strarine candles, 11,87.5,0001A5. ; bar soap, (i,200,1100; ranee and wok soaps, 17,309,00 1 0, ; prussiate of potash, 50,00011b5, I Mr. Johnson has not attempted vivid descriptions, I either of nature or society, iu these volume; nor are striking incidents of travel to be looked for in his istges. lie has, however, thoroughly sueceeded in ' accumulating an immense mass of valuable pmetiml h information, which he has placed before the public with a methodical simplicity which greatly enhances I its Nv ort h. per hustle, o. ..... _ _ally cultic, „. crops c be county of Northomrlancl, which embraces most of the good land on the NI iminiehi and its tributary waters: AT rage pooirea Aversee poet Average oeiget per srre. per liu• hon. per l' , ll , /1. Whoa 17 c 5. Cal. 62 lbs. bail. y 32 r, 3 44 Oats 3 . 2 2 I 38 Buckwheat i 0 3 0 43 Moixe 50 4 ti CM 'Miasmic 200 I 10 l'asraips 330 I 4 Ilay 2 tons The average prier of t Maw is :0 1 .il. per pound, and of butter, 941. The ateratte pain + paidfor warieultural labour are, in summer, from :or. to ,Gs.. a month, or by the whole year 27f. 10+. rurrency. in addition to hoard, washing and lodging. Day-labourers receive from one half to three ' quarters of a dollar, with provisions. The whole ..f the chapters on New Brunswick should be ressel by those who have any thoughts about einigrition, the more so as less is known of this province thou perhaps of any other ;ran of our empire iwitteltsl by Angbi-Saxtois. The naturalist may be lobo - need t hut the New Brunswick pigs have honied to open and relish the ovsters of the must, mill to fntiutint the sea-shore tuid contrive to feed upon them. We will take le-ace of New Brunswick with a glance at another queer fiat. THE 1.1,r - TrbtElt. Notices are stork upon the inns, or are printed in the newspaper., or are spread in the form of handbills, such as • two I suet with to-day : ° Mr. II uneilircys intends to hoc- 'i tort in the , village during the curomt week, on clic- tricity and the di saris. telt graph." •• Mr. Dow' lids to; lecture on physiology .31111 anatomy durin4 the present week: we hop. our friends will give hint full houses during his stay cowing them." That these vratoli.rers receive amouragi no at nut only here but on the other side of the border, is 1,110W1.1 by an aniu.ing eircunistairri• ri latial to Me by a fellow-traveller, when on my woy throned' Viable, from itingor to Boston : ••• When on his way to Boston on • occasion with his friend, they iiiii. .1 at Is hots -I where they siaw opposite to then, at a table two New Englanders, whom they hail Lot '4411 paliiiing in Donnie. "V% ell,' says his friend to 11.111, of them, • when did you quit your peddling in fitorgisi i' The quistionsol mad.• no reply, lint, soadowing his dinner expeditiously, as a New E/Ill1:111111-1. can, lo• went art of the noon, oil wait ing for my friend and his companion, %wonted them with s hour heaven's mho, say 'oohing about the pedillimr. We have Masi up to Maine. :mil us our wares we:ar out we took to the lecturing. It is out a bail trade : wt hate made bit. ti. 1.11 lillliar. ll 'lay sin., %I' 11l gas.. I the astronomy, and he choo the Islarenology, We have Men Mooring in Ban gor, and hove prioniod to go bark. We had an invitation t o g., down to nueicsport, but we 'word of lilttle people there who km w quite .1. mud" as uursehros, so oe di tinted. New you won't say . a nt thing about the peddling.'" I.ike till idler English travellers in .‘inerini, Mr. Johnoon was for some time puzzltil by the new meanings which l e s found up:trio:el to fl liar words. The word town is an instants. of this change, being now used in the sense of township. A county is divicksl into so litany towns, and in each town so many villsnost. of even u city may spring up. Thus a town in Western New York may be a square of land without a house or inhabitant upon it ; and in wow planes a street is merely it emu' through a par tially chianti township. Then all maudlin's of houses are canto" either village's sir cities. Where places are inivirponititl they become corporate nil- Inge% : stied if the inhabitunts astiire to beetrille citi zens. they make infinitive with the legislature, and get themselves separuted from the town, and their t 'ty raissll to tlw dignity of a city. lei a township. a villitm• siwings up, which naturally as sumes the saint' name. In the town of Pompey, or ewsur, the villages of l'usurry or Cassar spring up. Then a *wood village , a llurtL a fourth. a filth. and these areal! culled reqwetitely l'aup.'c East.Peempey West. North. and Smith; anti., finally. at the cross roads which letul to these scverul t illuges. utiollts-r ewitiosi up, which heressies Pompey l'uur Ciarllerylltd nil these art• the titan of l'ompev. A fact isicutionsol by Nis . . Johnson. rev acting the old tienhe ssee country. that fur rained wheat re gion of America. may serve to *haw our agrieul turists that t h e it present postilion is neither peculiar nor utinutorid. Ilc istatto dud the average produce of the whole state of New Yoe. Wt: wheat, 14 Meshed.; Imelcv, In litudo•lo ; polo, _hi, mid Indian cont. 2a bushels per acre. So low awe the averages of this highly lauded district. ' lie fainters. of Sew York are exposed to the nauptitition of their more wcatern brethren. a still netwercompetition than that of which our British farmers arc ciauplaiiiiiii , . and it is doubtful whether they can struggle wi th them its the ritioing of what. In the following titissage the author sums up his opinions upon a question of great moineut to the consumer and producer of wheat in this country — WHAT se ee1.11 . 3 or w HEAT MAT NC tAloirrEli Ewes riiitall AllEttleA. Bat with all the lonic and natural eapability of the fine wistern region of New York. tMr empire state an a whole slot-. not sit present, at-cording to the best iiiformation 1 tare been able to iilit ,in, produce wheat enougis ti,r thell111•UMI.- timl of it+ own iishald'aitto. In roUnil nualliers, the popu lation of the state of N.•sr York is about three millious, while the produce of wheat ill b 1111111,16 is about LI millions, or at the rat: of tire millions to each inhabitant. If, aceortl lag tour liagli•11 ealeUlatiiiiis ciAht imperial bushels a head are type, scary to support 11111' people, the New York ' people, though they may consume a large qu-uitity of Indian I corns ems haw hut little surplus left oat of tire bushels a ' head. My impassion therefore is that our British farmers have little to tear from the competitiou of all that part of North America llIlie:11 lit, Ilellls, n the Atlantic and the St. I.awramce. from Newfoundland uu the east as! far 'riot a+ the head of Like Outario. The Falitto. .1 Noes/. By the .Author of " Denton 11111." whole of this region, as to wheat-growing, is 3 vats. Newby. mow or has in sympathy with the English farmer, shoots In the present day, when accomplishments of a glia,l s4tstSust the %igneous competition of the new north- , not bid, order rt ae the. possession of large classes, wester' states. 11" heat is alnamly more emstly to raise thou :• '• - surprising that many clever and grace iu forma ye-m, even in the least exhausted portion of it is this I north-east region. while the nortlowesteni states, until the ful works of fiction are pro:enroll to the public. The rise or growth of a consuming population amount them.elves, classic student writes stories of Roman heroines; the or till the Invhnesis of the virgin soils is rubbed off, rut political student exercises his imagination upon • afford to export supplies of w heat at 3 Merely nominal price. I fiction, in Which the money laws arc discussed, the', vbe Ada %Irmo stout and talc, Of course, in the progress of time, wino mom skill', laws of property illustrated. the foundations of social i A. Jaws i flroasiand Tarfantr 31.11. and knowlislge shall hays basil applied to the soil, 1 , order reconstructed alter his own ]articular modeL ' and 'which, like the first of these amiable creatures. don s pre. ,' o b r ehr ik a c ille c ons.. „,. .l:;t u ,ntl , loads on troops against the enemy— the wheat-prothwitot powers of this region will . In the work before us we find a phase of our a, .1 irto the i. 'ow t'ountries, frowns terrible at her enemies and, as the old song goes— beeome greatly increased. But by that time a larger " soot social condition illustrated. It would be too home tiopulation also will have arisen to consume it,l wide a question to enter into the discussion which , waTon teen in Mew. ocecoio they can rival us even h e re. while the very introduction o f more generous and , the author appears to open up ; but, without acccd . s This is not a woman's appropriate heroism; though on artificial Bon of vulturewill add to the cost of ing to his vanous propositions. we may fairly declare f or : i he men of Thermoplie they can show the women production on the whole, Hence. the British con- his fiction to be a lively. graceful, and vigorous per- of saatintuen; for the hand which Stavo'a thrust into the owner will have little to expeet. and the farmer formanee. One or two extracts will suffice to iglus- fire becaiow it had failed to wisassinate the invading mo within:: to fear, from supplies of this region. trate the writer ' s style. here is the opening pas- narch of his country, they can bring the arm which Mar -I're:weeding to the state of Ohio. our traveller ! sage, which is picturesque : gueriw Dough's thrust through the staple of the door at reached tint:lnn - ti. The following is a description I THE VILLAUE OF DENCIIVIKII. ' Some Abbey to keep out the assassins of her king. of what he justly calls one of the greenest wonders , the inhabitants of a certain borough town named ' For even act of this sort which we can adduce, they can De l M o chuech, she had acted in this way and had ;Oven . motive of the deed is with theca n m arr ore c thanPara ' for the cap us with 0 parallel—with a del in runtl economy in which this new world abounds:, most substantial and especial cause to add their voic th es v to nf noble, and will always Tile iliin ettor OF Ottio, . the grand chorus of reproach. turn the wale in their favour. 1 This state, one of the must prosperous in the Union, and j Deachurch professes itself a Plate of highantiquitv, in Even of ry those virago heroines , Juan's heart was need ' containing EOM.. populatiou of nearly two millions, possesses . proof of whichwhich it eau adduce. in evident , a. . 1 - orman chinch, by religion, and the arm of that lair •' slash e r," Many Am much wheat land, and raises large breadths of this grain, 1 a Saxon rampart, and the ruin of an old Boman castle, a ll rec. braced by the minor religion of the sex—love. yet both its ....a and climate adapt it more generally to the 1 more or less apocryphal and mere or less fondly relied in by But Monies thew they have another heroism which is all their own—a heroism which is horn of love and n•areil fa I growth of Indian torn. The latter grain may hi; considered its inhabitants. Like a hardy child it had survived the trial—which lives and loves and hoix•s on, when the plca the staple o f t h e ~,,,t,e . 11, yield of Indian corn in! rough doings of those earls- epochs, and favoured by its sures of life are at an end—when there is nothing which Ohio is 411 bushels per acre, whilst in New York it is ' situation, had continued to . ilourish on, until iu the days of should reawnably expire—a heroism which seeks not the 23 bushels per acre. 'thus rich ill Indian corn, an earl the the Tudor kings it was a plan of no little consideration. ran ,tapers kite " its worthy doe, and when hope itself istion arose how to dispow of the surplus growth. Until ' At this latter period the sea rolled oft to within a mile of brilliant sucritiee of a moment's enthusiasm but finds its the famine year:sof 1547 and ISIS, the quantity of this grain its fortified walls, and a broad and deep river bore Teasels of which was exported from the whole United States waseneed-; the largest burden then used up to the very margin of its sphereof exertion in the enduring trials of that unuspiring dottydottysmall. From 18'10 to lati it averaged only about - busy whereto. It had, on certain great occasions, fitted out msaiyrdom of daily and hourly life—with noue to applaud 80,000 quarters a Tear ; but from 100.000 quarters In 1843: and given harbour to whole armaments, while at dl seasons .-111111 C even to witness—without expectation of release, and it roar to 23E1,000 quarters in 1846, and to 2.1.2.3,000 l. in 1817, i innumerable trading vesse were passing between it and without even hope of &predation or acknowledgments I after which it fell to half a million in 184 S, and has mace I the remotest porta of the trading globe. ! This is a woman's harden. i continues' to decline . A home "mist was therefore sought i It may be easily imagined that under such a state of things In conclusion, we may fairly recommend " Valetta" for, andthe distilling of whiskey and the fattening of bogs it had it politics, its liberties, its immunities, charters, bur- to the readers of light, vivacious, and elegant fiction. are the means of cousumption which have been found most I "ewe, royal prognoses, and all the rest of those good things it, v I rosily available and most generally profiuble. The extent i vebieh the afosessid lady Fortune to freely bestows on those y inn r oo .out . CI • *i I _, y Exhibited is Mil . Edited by to which the picking business, as the Later is called, is car- 1 who can wrest theta from her hands. 1 Jugs siasts, Landon. raid an, and the states In which the two eunditioas—the i It was at this period, when the good burghers of Ben- Notwithstanding the many makable books which heulty of growing ludian corn and producing abundant . cbureh were malting as none others could work s building b se b ee • awnss—eo-cust most causatively, will be seen by the fel- ' ships, and fighting ships, as none others Son 'Mild or fight ve n written on London, there is no complete lewnig table, which represents the number of hogs killed them ; while they were getting together crown pieces at a work, nor is this to be wondered at, for London is a Lettcrs to ✓oAn Rnll. Esq. By Sir }:iiwAitri',writ Vernon, gam Chapman ana Hall. If Sir Edward Lytton were to Write a pamphlet in Iheour of the Maisanolan religion, or the Physics of EpieuriusZor any scheme ever belioed in by any botly; it meet with readers. Of course, it would be gruceful, lively, and scholarly; it would delight thousands—how many it would convert is quite another matter. Dozens of inferior men would be more likely to make emeverts on such a subject as the corn laws, than the poetic novelist now address ing us about them. In England we don't guide our step, by the light of lire-Hies—we prefer gas! icuow that the altove feeling will prevail pretty generally among men of business when they hear that Sir Edward has come out as a protectionist. There is no help fur it, however; Sir Edward has a right to be listened to on a commercial matter— although he is a man of genius and a scholar. Here he is, bewailing over the lost protection with classi cal melancholy. Protection is dead ; the singer mourns the vanished one. And we are not the less to regard the mourner because she is un Antigone. (Inc duty in this department of our journal is to view his pamphlet under its literary aspect. The style is easy, agreeable, winning—less ornate than might have been expected (should we say feared), for he has obvitrutly wished to harangue ltull in a plausible basilic*, manner. However, we have frag ments of latinity rather thickly scattered at first, where he shows that England has revert:ed her policy on many oecasions, preparatory to the suggestion that she should do SO again. And a neat summary of the mutual contradictions of free-traders leads up to this gay epigram : then, we have the most contradictory disloctions frmn the same premises. Fallacies there must be some where, hut t h ey are not here those of the protect' Here, it is one corn law repealer who answer. ;mother. It is the old story of Munchateam; the tiger jumps down the jaws of the crocodile; the crocodile is strangled by the tiger. What and who odour remains safe, challenging oar convic tions, insisting on our Munchawwn • It is interesting and amusing to observe how men of letters, when they write on polities. assume the tone of—Burke. Nit . I hsnieli played ut Burke, long ago, in his pamphlets. Sir Edward applies to poli tical economy that strong ftsAing of dislike to mere theoretical Ash-action in government which Burke applied to the French government-manufacturers of his day. lie thinks that its principles have been too sternly applied by num, "as if they were describ ing lifelas things and not dealing with human beings." (I'. 29). The following illustration of his, remark is quite like Burke in sentiment ; its (Aim.* sioll is gayer, more lively—more like the author of time Caxtons7 and " England and the English." cheap descriptions are e__- at the , c vireo' than, indeed, if any book is so well calculated as this I by means of a section attic domes, and of the plan of to give a foreigner a true idea of the resources the building,St.Paurs is more thoroughly exemplified of London in that point of view under which theythe book before prey than in larger elevations, which' most impress him. The Parisian or tle. B ueh l eohlese I are insignificant ince of the cathedral itself, brings with him u standard of memory by • this f i n ds . 0 ' to which the' engravings are only a guide. The plans meusure our museums and our galleries, but this fai t ls of Woolwich and Deptford dockyards, of the Bank of him when he contemplates our great public establish- England, and other establishments,. are the more ; ments, the maniffistations of a vast social organisa- gr wholeat s g tion ; and he is more struck with the labours of a ' ''' inte riors' and, indeed, it is stated Mr. ]Peale f• 1 as access fur the public is denied to the ; w i th Smeaton, Watt, Rennie, Brunel, or Stephenson, than with the treasures of Phidias, Itafflielle, IttIIKIIS, and to prevent him out his d • I pub was threatened _i legal proceedings in one case, from carrying Flaxman. To the provincial, the American, and the fishing a plan, the reason of state assigned being colonial visitor, the work is likely to prove emu!lie that his plan would enable revulutionur.v: conspirators. acceptable, because it is of a particularly practical to understand the arrangements of the interior. This character. To those, however, who really wish to I how-timehi' 1 threat was not persevered in, aud.inekedgeneralle,as , understand the metropolis in the coming s the book evtdenees, the heads of public esta is - `we would recommend "Weald's London .Exhibited," ments have liberally given their moistener in further " Knight's London," and " Cunningham s I land- antic of the design. Thus. in many COWS. details I book," as embracing most of the materials requisite aax'gre.cn . of internal arrangements and administra for a satisfactory exit iii i l union. To wander about tion which never m burre the public eye, and of ow u London, guide-brink in hand, is a most unsatisfactory which few are reerensant. The development of the systems of illustration and' way of seeing it ; the spectator, like a student of anatomy ignorant of the rudiments, who loses explanation marked out is particularly interesting half Ins first course of lectures. mis-spends in connection with our new and improved public insti his time fur want of knowing what he sees relations. The statesman. economist, or, aultainistrator, and what to see. A careful preliminary pc. who wishes to curry hack to his own sphere an emu rutted of the works we have referred to willf lay a rate idea of establishments in which he frels the , good ground-work for the study of the moral and T he re est interest, has here the guide that he wants.' physical organization of the metropolis, and suhse- 'LI h i ouses, lunatic asylums, and prisons, enable the dans and operative details of the baths and vas quent reference to the authorities will impress on his mind during his whole life the true value of the %sued visitor fully to wide rstand the efficiency of the pictures he has seen. In these books he will have c mechanical apparatus of administratiun. the working not only a valuable accession to his library, but, as it n were, the means of reference to the notes and coin- limits of which is under his inspection, or within the Haire of his leisure. ments stored up in his own m The club-houses form an unique feature of Loud on, ind; for the sight of . have th e o a sirtunity of fully inspecting London in 15.51 will be one of those things to be talked and fen can. I I them, while most Will have thew curiosity excited of for years and by generations hereafter to spr ing up. London will, it is true, be seen in its giani by institutions which are at once the manifestations vastness, and with all its resources more openly di.- of our luxury. our economy in the practice of luxury, played, but it will likewise be the theatre of a and of our power of combination and association. marked epoch in the world's history-- for good, cer- In this instance the editor has departed from his tainly—for evil as it may be used. usual course, und, besides the plan, gives an elevation to the same scale of each leading club-house. The The influx of kinsmen and friends, of public and private guests, will lay an unprecedented tax on the descriptions, which are known to be from the pen of one of the must eminent architectural critics in Lem hospitality of the metropolitan population ; denumds will be made on our time and attention in satisfying don, who has already written on the sulaject.eomplete the explanation, so that within a few pages we have the inquiries dour visitors, and many will find that, though born in London, they know little of its este!). nll that is requisite to an intimate acquaintance with the club palazzi of Pull-mall mid St. .13111(1:S. Of lishments and unangements; although, each, if be xerc i did but remember it, has, in the means of introdue- lute wars thew buildings have e • (ion to static institution little thought of, the oppor- able influence on the architecture of the metropolis, more particularly by the cultivation of the Italian tunity of rendering a great favour to his guest. St. Paul s and %Vest alabaster nattily will have seen. the palace styles ; and under the direction of Barry and Sydney of Westminster they may yet wait to see completed; Smirke ' the spirit of Palladia. Scamozzi. and Sum but each, according to his particular bent, has some sovino, has ffieon observatories is another example ofn revived in England. special objet of inquiry, in which he w The article ants to curry successful and practical treatment. If lunatic asy information to his home. A surgeon may have the tunas and prisons cannot be laid open to indiscri estne of a brewery or distillery, which he will more eagerly examin than the museum of Ids hospital ; minut e und vulgar gaze, still less can the observatory; and, therefore, a good and available description is a warehousmaan may have access to an observatory, an essential service. Though it is evident the-article or to a rare colhetion of orchideous plaints, most ditti- is written by a man of science, chiefly for and scien cult to be examined; a tradesman may obtain an ti world, yet, from its very copiousness and clear introduction to a prison, workhouse, or other public ness taf description. it affords the best popular guide institution, which is a greater object to thee foreign on the subject. NVe are particularly pleased, Ik.V.IUSC visitor than all the Egyptian treasures which Salt it sets forth in a clear light our exertions n the and Belzoni have accumulated in the Museum. In cause of faience. and shows to the foreigner a u UR deed there is hardly a warehouse or shop in London exampled profusion of material and pen,onal re which is not to most people at greater curiosit y than sources in this single department of physical science. our national collections. There are many residents Our national observatory does not invite visitors, and of the metropolis who will therefore, this year, resort the position even of the observatories maintained by to a guide-book of London as a means of knowing its individual Inimiticettee is scarcely even k a lowll. NVIio of resources and their own resource's of entertainment, the countless visitors to the Botanical and Zoological who never Le-litre thought of referring to such a gardens in the Regent's-park is aware that he passes work, or studying the town they live in. To a great near one of the most famonsobservatories in the world, class of the population, likewise, the book before us where, through the liberal provision of Mr.G.liishop, will be acceptable, because it is the only one in which I and the devoted exertion of Mr. I lind. no less than; the subjects of interest to them an. treated. Indeed, three new planets, amid a number of comets have " ]Veal's London Exhibited" contains inure new and leen discovered ? In this villa of the Inner-circle useful matter than any work of the kind us yet be-- Were first discovered Iris, Flora, and Victoria, and' fury the public. it is the scene of constant triumphs in the field of The plan, as we have already intimated, is to pro- mientitic researches. We need scarcely add that duce a special work, suitable to men of science and i ts astr onomers have received honours from every practical men, in whatever particular branch they government except that of England. In a hidden may be bah:rotted ; and, thereffire, giving that nook of Kensington is the observatory of Sir James general view of iuterest to all in the mutual eon- I South, whose laboars towards the catalogue of disco neetion mid relation of science and art. In effecting ! verieshuve acquired for hima Emmen!' reputation. or such a design, Mr. Weak- has evidently gone to a such men, and of such establishments we may feel great expense., and, although some impenections and' justly proud, but without such an introduction as deficiencies may be' noticed incident to a first attempt,' that HOW afforded to us we' should neither be ac it must be allowed he has achieved a large measure ' quainted with them nor able to point them of suen , s. There is very little either of compilation Ito our scientific friende front abroad. In other cases or of reprint, but most of the departments are treated th e handbags themselves are the chief feature, but originally ; and, although we cannot always concur here, although the plans use given as usual, the with the views of the writers, it is evident that a • chief subjects of the drawings are the instruments, large amount of labour has been bestowed on the ! the construction and working of which are fully ex composition. In ninny portions of the work we par- ; planned; so that within a short compass we have ticularly notice that great care is taken to give. a. an exemplification of the triumph of English inge clear explanation to foreigners, of institutions which : amity in a branch of mechanic-A wheree are so familiar to USULS to make the detail appear almost labours of I )(Aland, Troughton, and S. ths superfluous. In order. nevertheless, to make a work hav e given us a European reputation. It is of this kind truly useful, the author must write, not `. well enough known that the government's share metalling to his own knowledge and views, but those in scientific labours is something like its libe of the persons whom he addresses. When we- say rality towards their votaries; and, although the " a jury," for instance, we think we have spoken Royal Observatory vindicates successfully its rank clearly enough, but a jury is a far different thing in . among the great institutions of the world, yet the Scotland and France to what it is in England. So,too a burthen of exertion is borne by numerous societies an hospital is one thing on the Continent, and another and individual's. An illustration of this is mentioned here; and a Frenchman might ignorantly make a very • in Mr. ]]'sale's volume, in connection with the obser invidious comparison between the hospitals of Parts cations, since 15(404, diurnally published in the /May and London; whereas the latter are specially ffir cases News and the Etioress. The author states : indeed, of accident and disease, and the union workhouse's and that this record, now so indispensable to the their infirmaries, which embrace other functions of landed proprietor, the agriculturist, the merchant, the Parisian institutions, give in the result a much' the seaman, the sportsman, the traveller, was first greater extension to the hospital system of planned by " the spirited proprietors of the Daily London. Our own familiarity with the subject , News, who, in 1948, endeavoured, under great digit causes us to neglet offering explanations of the coo- culties, to supply their readers with these accounts of cooky of which we are unaware, and many a fo- the simultaneous state of the weather throughout the reigner takes back to the Continent a fixed idea of . country." It may be interesting to state the mode of our inferiority, where, most commonly, we have a working as here explained : .• At 9 a.m. on every right to the superiority. The brief explanations in day, excepting Sunday, the elements are noted by this book of our system of education are calculated to the railway station-masters, and entered into a form vindicate us from reproaches to which we have been provided for the purpose by the proprietors of the unjustly exposed; und the information given as to holly News. This is forwarded to Loudon by the our poor-law system affords a satisfactory answer to . first train, and the accounts from the diffireut rail the common charge of the woeful misery of London. , ways are collected after midnight by a messenger li•ith the mendicant classes France, Rolland, and from the office of the Daily News, edited, and imme- Flanders have found themselves unable to cope, and ; diately printed and published." it cannot fairly be laid against us that we have ' Of a work so large and so novel it is difficult to among us many well-trained professional mendicant give space for a sufficient examination of each arti actors who simulate di s tress, such as it reall y . dote cle, when in several instances the single articles not exist in the metropolis. Nor can we be justly contain matter enough tbr a single volume on the I charged with the presence of the Irish horde, uuy subject. We must therefore be brief in our more than Frame with its Bretons, or the cities of reference to the work, which, though a large one, is I New York and Philadelphia with their St. Giles's. a very cheap one, useful not only bar its immediate It is no fault of our iustitutions that strangers among purpose of a guide during the Exhibition, but form us give way to filth, begging, and idleness, when we, tag a permanent addition to the library, and a con ; maintain so many in work or by charity, to the pre- stoat work of reference on many subjects of which judice of our own population. A fallen, a debased, a there ism popularexposition. Reference is facilitated proletarian p o p u l ation , must b e f oun d i n ever y large , ' byavery copious index, which,for the useof strangers, commuuity, so l o ng as human nature is imperfect ; - contains likewise the address and indiration of all the but London, possessing such a population—larger I, public buildings, institutions, and leading streets; so than the collected populations of many of the greatest that those places which are either not mentioned in the cities of E uro p e —cannot justly be charged with ' body of the work, or briefly only, will be found in moral neglect, with want of' charity, or with , the Index and Directory. This Appendix likewise l an undue proportion of the exceptional classes. The ; affords the opportunity of classifying and systematis- Great Show will, however, draw more of such to a I lag the work• and the long enumerations under some scene which offers to them particular attractions; and I heads, as galleries, museums, libraries, will justly amidst the time proof of the benevolence of I surprise the stranger, and even many residents, with our forefathers, and the many examples of rho active i regard to rho abundance of our intelleettpd resource's. philanthropky of the present day, London, in all its I It was naturally to be expected that a work ema glory, will embrace a picture of misery exceeding ' natin from the architectural publisher should give what is to be seen in the world, because carried to a considerable attention to the architecture of the me These distinctions would be perlisily clear to all persons, if they would only regard political economy no they do any other imcstigation of art or science. First, with regard to the abstract truth of its principles, and next, to the pru dence of applying them in each special instants.. Suppose that I write a treatise on architecture, wherein I geometrically establish the Met that the Parthenon is a most tw autiful building. If my neighbour, Squire Hawthorn, who lice in au out fashioned irrgular. country house, as unlike the Parthenon as a hour tin be, runs to me out of breath, transported to enthusiasm by nay admirable treatise. "My dear sir. I have read your work; you have proved to my satisfaction that nu building on earth is so perfect as the Parthenon. Pray, would y.lll advise me to pull down Ilawthornball, and build a country house exactly on the model of which yuu have so lucidly given the geometrical d.-sign ? Shall I turn Hawthorn-hall into a Parthenon What's your advice?" should answer, ogler I had a sinister interest to answer otherwise, lam not the proper person of whom to ask that advice ; whether it is for your interest to pull down your very irregular old house,—whether, if you did, you would be us comfortable in a Parthenon; (11110111WeTer beautiful that edifice, Mid that it could be adapted to the wants of your family and the dill:Tine: of your climate,— I whether you could even live in it, without catching your death of sold,—are all considerations with which I had nothing to do wilt u 1 wrote lay treatise. My object was but to explain the trite principles of architeeture, and establish Cie excellence of the Parthenon upon geometrical principles ! " Squire Hawthorn would have no right to blame our fur having written my treatise and disturbed his mind ; but he. would he a monstrous great fool if he turned his old hall into a Parthtlloll! Sir Edward limits his demand to a moderate fixed dote—a demand quite, we believe, consistent as re gards his own political career. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1851. PCPLICATIONS RECEIVED. A Litt! , Earnest Book on a Gecaf Old Subject. Rte W. Wii.ssiN. Horton and Co. The subject of Mr. Wilson's work is poetry, and he is anxious to present his concep tions of the poetic life, in its relations to society, nature, art, and religion. His motto, perhaps. gives u fair idea of the sentiment under which his task ha.. IblIcolletilJr111Cd: If thought and feeling be but true, lie earnest and sincere, Good only can be Wrist to view, Good fruits alone appear. This little volume will be read with pleasure for itscheer ful and often beautiful scutiulevt, expressed wit! t ntfeetation or effort. It is dedicated, by permission. to Edward Bulwer Lytton, is illustrated by Alfred Crow quill, and contains, besides the titan text, a dozen original poems. To-Morrow: the Results and Tendeneies of National Exhi bitiosts ; declared front strict historic parallels, dereloriag unitinon hoe qf peculiar inkiest at the present time. Ry llistoria. Saunders and Otley. This is a clumsy attempt to pervert the testimony of history against the character of the Great Exhibitiun. Nu weight of learn ing could give dignity to coneeptions essentially moan and paltry; but this writer's history is as false as his arguments are weak. Ills pages may, nevertheless. give a pretext to those who wrongly allege the tendency of a study of the past to narrow the unjust and unlit it for the reception of generous ideas. The writer has selected the very weakest of the objections made to the Exhibition, and streeeeded in bringing together more pedantry, per venseness, and pretensions than we have ever own crammed into one pamphlet. .4 Nom! and Beliyiums Gaith to the Great Exhibition. A. pamphlet which by no means fangs its title. FINE A R TS. FLAX:VAN GALLERY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. Yesterday was opened to private view the new Flaxman dallery of Sculpture, at the dower -street University. On the death of "'taxman, the works in his studio heroine the property of his executrix, s i s t e r in-law, and adoptisl daughter, Miss M. liennuin. who generously bequeathed them to their present posses stirs; and to those who have witnesses' their f u sser grimy appearance and degi.aded position, their pre sent metamorphose is sufficient guarantee that the confidence was not misfit:weal or ill-timed. With the exception of a few monuments of pad fame scattered here and there in remote nooks, whether of St. Paul's or Wt. stininster Abbey, there has been little wherewithal may be formed even a partied idea of his sculptural merits. While his re putation ILI a draughtsman and ar originator of out line imagery is European, few even at home have had a fair quince of estimating his genius in the higher grades of his art. The first specimen of his abilities which meets the eye at the entrance of the hall is a group reprsunt lug Ilerculrs and I lehe ;" in elsiecang this subject, Flaxman merely aimed at solving a sculptural pursle, which has defied the ill VeStiglit 110118 of .1 toille ' s most subtle antiquarians. On the fitmous " Torso " of the Belvidere. which is generally known to be a men; trunk, ' , taxman has with laudable ingenuity, hut little tact, stuck the head and limbs of (he Far nese Hercules, whose rounded a n d bulky forms have not the remotest etinnexion with the beautiful undu lations of the original Torso. The French have, We believe, lately attempted to re-moth-I in the same fashion the Venus of Milo, with no greater success. We like to think of Flaxmaa as the intelligent in terpreter of the old poets, of the life which his genius infused into the placid forms of the Etruscan vases, as the fanciful ornamentist of Wedgwood's pottery ; we had vet to make acquaintance with him in the higher walks of his art. . An inspection of the works now for the first time collected together will make it clear that, despite of his great imaginative power, and with all his masterly command of the chisel, he never thoroughly CIIHUIVI-• pated himself from fiat-surfuee work; his bas-reliefs leek us if they with difficulty consented to emerge from their grounds, in the attitudes even one meets it, constant recurter.fn the . forms and simple combi nation of lines consecrated ancient vases. Latterly, however, he evidently . strove to Z'Ulatleiptte himself from the rule of antique designers. fhe lifc-sixe group of " St. Michael overcoming Satan " Chows that lie would have achieved great things had he begun earlier; yet even here we find admirable mo delling skill struggling with conventional decorum. • The angel, whose hair assumes the shape of a radiant coronet, whose limbs display perfect symmetry, and an anatomical knowledge worthy of Ituonarnoti, toccata rather struggling with bashinlness than with the demon crouching at his feet. The unfinished parts, such as the shaggy head and scaly tail of the demon, reveal those last strokes of the chisel, which prove that the arm which wielded it was powerless before its time; the same interest is attached to the works of Michael Angelo in the Lorenzo chapel in Florence. But this mark may be further traced in the minor productions centered round this figure. Thev are as it were beautiful sculptural sketches ; either the hand scummed ocaively able to keep pace with the fancy, or Haman reserved the higher finish for the ultimate rendering in marble. It is too evident, however, that in clay Flaxman seldom if ever gave his mind full scope. bound by the nature of his subjects to immortalise the virtues of the departed, or his NOl7oWiug relations; and a lengthened funeral ora tion, however admirable; in composition, becomes, tedious by frequent reitcmtion ; in this respett alone MI we demur to the general classification adopted by Mr. Cockerell; even the introduction of the celebrated Shield of Achilles" would be a welcome diversion in the scene by its picture of that epoch of fabulous cheerfulness and mirth. The Golden Age as well being, perhaps, the work in which Flaxman's pe culiar ereallenees are made prominent. However, it: refiects.ou the university.to be able to collect sobirge-t. a nniabereui 140 speeimena together.. Mr. Cave Thomas has, it Is said, offered his ser vices, in order to fill up some compartments in fresco, after the Flan= designs.