The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

e , . , . . ' I 1 . i i 1 • 11' ... .. f i. i 1.1 .1 . 1 • i , ! •, , . ' I'' ,i ••• .. i ~. . ,1 • 1 ~ i 1,, 1 'i ' 1 111 : 1 ' li ' 1 1. " ! I • . 1 1 , ' i li ' l 1 , 1 „ I l • , I I i i . i l I i 1 1 1 r j I li 1 1 1 I i 1 1 1 I , I , 1 I '.' 11! , ••• i i ' 1,1 1 II 1 11 i; 1 1 i ''' i ' s i • I i i i I I • l i ; . I t 1 1 1 i 1 I 1 ; 1 1 i I I ' i t i 1 i 1 1 I i I. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2e, '1846, the provisions of an act passed in the last session of paella dent, to facilitate the erection of Baths and Wash-houses fir the people,. This memorial has been signed by up wards of 360 persons, including several of the clergy and giber ministers of religion, many of the most eminent INSiliisH men, some of the most opulent mortised' of the benestsit, a long list of the principal tradesmen, and not a few • Wießing classes. At a meeting of the town-council, gla Weineaia , G. W. &lull, B presented the memorial ami the praycr of it. Nut a single member of the said a word to disparage the importance of each a tam rte. The only matter on which there seemed to be any slillidates of opinion was respecting the best means of doing shall which all present appeared to thine most desirable in itself. A committee, there'ore, was appointed to take the maid into consideration, to examine plans, to consider the eagnews, die., and to present a report at a future wean; of the genisslL We hope that the labours of the committee will how Is the production of such a report as will prove the attire peneilcability of the measure, and that at no distant period the workiut classes and the poor of Plymouth will enjoy similar facilities for personal c lea nliness, health, and comfort with those which are already enjoyed in some other towns. A Niel SPICIIIEN OF OFFICIAL CARILIISSNRSS CAMS under notice at Exeter on Wednesday. Some ingenious personage, connected with the London Post Ofilce ' put a packet of stsathiug ink in one of the letter ba g s seat to that town. The'consequence was that it burst upon the journey, and many of the addresses were so completely obliterated, that it became impossible to deliver the letters, and they will ham th be sent back to London, to the great incon venience of the parties to whom they belonged. WILTSHIRE TH2 PARKINS Of DAIINTSEY, a parish lying within a ring fence, undertook to keep the resident cottager. employed on plan arranged by Mr Engelbsch, the agent, an intelligent and accomplished gentleman. No compulsion was used to en force that arrangement, but it was represented that the farmers would derive benefit from the reduction of poor rates, better productiveness of the land, better security for person and property. The experiment has been tried for a year, with so much success that the farmers have agreed to continue it for a year more. When the arrangement was made, the rate of wages was raised from 7s. to Ba. a week ; but then, steadily employed throughout the year, the men have taken no advantage of thu it employers to extort ex erbiteat wages at the brief times of pressure. DOlthErBllllth. CONTAINS AND PEASANTRY —A house at Dean stands in the Athos driest, the home of a farm labourer. Their day roma Ma ens flair and two benches, and a small table, but it ls • flegmeghly comfortless room. The birds fly in and eat through boles in the door, and a candle win scareely bens. rib( to the strong draughts that blow upon It. There smelbse room overhead, the sleeping-room of the family. It sonteig two beds; in one there sleep the labourer and kis wiA mad their two youngest children ; in the other bed, width Is 6 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 6 inches, there sleep has unmarried dice, 20 years old, end his four sons, aged 18, 161, 8, and 6 , besides his daughter, aged 13. The males sleep with their heads at one end of the bed, the females with *sin at the other. The room has two windows, but neither of OHM has any glass in it ; the largest is perms neatly blacked up with part of a sack ,• the cooly window that *pews is just one foot square ; at night this is stuffed up with a pie se of a auk, and in summer the place is declared to he " like a store." The room is ten feet five inches by eleven feet Aar inches, not reckoning a small recess in one owner, eeeupied by the steep stairs ; the height of the.osifi ng averages five feet seven inches. This labourer, with his family, has lived in that house for these nine years, and his four youngest children have been born there. A eery few yards off I found a woman with her father and her four children—a daughter of 14, and sons of 16, 5, and 3 years old—all sleeping in the same room every night, in a cottage which they rent of a farmer, who, I believe holds it with hi farm. The woman has lived there for eleven years. No attempt is made to separate the beds by curtains. She told me before her children, and with great nonchalance, that eke; separated from her husband, end that her eldest child was not his, but was the result of a " misfortune " be fore she married. I have asked in a quarter where the fact would be known, whether there are many illegitimate chil dren born in this district about Cranborne, and the answer was, "Why, they swarm like hem."— Times. POST-OPTICI ALTERATIONS AT CHELTINRAII.—OR and after the 31st but. the London night mail, and that to Glou cester, Hereford, South Wales, &c., will be dispatched from the Cheltenham Peet-ofSoe at 9.65 p.m., or 45 minutes earlier than at present. In consequence of this alteration, letters must be posted at nine o cluck, or 46 minutes earlier than at present. At the branch receiving-houses, on and after the lame date, all letters for this dispatch must be posted before 3.26 p.m., instead 0f9.10 p.m. as at present.—Chel fathom Chronicle. TEMPIRANCII HALL AT CIRENCESTER. Tuesday and Wedaesday bet were occupied by the friends of the tempe rance cause, in the borough end neighbourhood of Ciren ceder, for the formal opening of • new Temperance-hail, which has been erected by Christopher Bowly, Esq., and presented by him, to trustees, for the use and enjoyment of the public. alt11.19(11TIVIITRP Moms diantozo.- 7 --EiliTverton a person named Cross had, last week, been out shooting. On his return be ne glected to draw the charge from his gun, which he placed near the clock. His son, a boy, took up the gun and snapped it, when unfortunately it went off, and, the whole of the con tents were lodged in the mother's head, who fell dead on the spot, leaving several motherless children. The anguish of the father on hearing of the accident cannot be described. How often are such warnings to be repeated against careless ness with fire-arms ? Here is another. On Saturday last, a man named Hancock was cleaning the barrel of a pistol, the charge of which he had omitted to withdraw. Whilst hold ing at with the muzzle pointed towards his person, it went off, and the contents were lodged in his body, excepting the ball which passed through him, causing immediate death. He has left a widow and seven children. CAMBEIDOEnHIRE. THE PROCTORS AND THEIR DUTIES.—The quietude of the town was much disturbed on Wednesday night, by the Proctors being engaged in their duties of clearing the streets. Near Christ's College, a girl was taken into custody ; she, however, stoutly resisted, and loudly screamed; a mob soon collected, and a melancholy exhibition followed, the crowd taking part with the girl, who was ultimately allowed to proceed to her lodgings, followed across Christ's Pieces by the Proctor. the Rev. Mr. Brume% and a few adults and children. The next affair was more serious. Two girls were taken in Sidney-street by the Proctors. Their screams, we 'are told, soon brought a lame crowd around them, which soon amounted to at least 500 persons. It would be impossible to describe the scene that ensued. There seemed to be a general feeling against the Proctors, Mr. Brumell and Mr. Saunders, as we understood, and many were the allu sions to the late Spinning-house affair. A struggle ensued between the girls "and the bull-does ;" the populace, in clutling • great number of gownsmen present, taking part with the former. Ultimately the police interfered, but not before the prisoners were rescued. Nearly all the students took part with the townspeople. In the melee the clothes of the girls were completely torn ; they were dragged into the Woolplek yard by the townspeople, and the Proctors eventually compelled to retreat, and were hooted to their several colleges by the populace and gownsmen. A truly melancholy spectacle, the like of which wo hope never again to witness.—Essex tilandard. SUFFOLK. A CORN-Ct rrINO CTITAT.—A man calling himself "Dr. S. Wolff, chiropodist, pupil of the celebrated F. R. La Oranche," who displayed certificates from several physicians in Derby, Nottingham, and Birmingham, was lately committed to Becalm Gaol, charged with obtaining money under false pretences. It would appear his plan was, to open each corn, and to pretend to take from it small horny substances, which he described as being thrown out from the bone. From one patient he pretended to extract, in about an hour, from only four apparent corns, no less than twenty-five of these small substances, which he called corns, for which he made a charge of 61. 51., and received 61. He was equally successful in other cases. Dr. Wake, a medical practitioner in Bccclee, and a borough magistrate, having conceived a suspicion of imposture, watched his proceedings narrowly, and soon be came convinced that the small horny substances he exhibited were never taken from a human subject, but that, by dex terous management, " Dr. Wolff," while pretending to ex tract corns, only produced those he had brought ready pre pared with him, which it was surmised he had manufactured out of the parings of horses' hoofs. The " chiropedist" will be tried at the next sessions. LITERATURE. Chriailat VOIUMEBMICILINS,TITMAILRII,TOrLXINII,SOANE. "The Fairy Riny,"Bnaoza's " Lenora," Christmas used to be a time for solid enjoyments, and was considered to be not worthily eelebz ated, except with chine and pudding and ale. It was a physical revel for all classes, in which all joined in worship ping the idol of good cheer, a jolly corpulent image— the very apotheosis of fat. Even the lighter amuse ments of the time were substantial and coarse. A aa/atation was a blow, a gift a box, a pastime a romp. On the stage, the drama gave way to the pantomime. And a book, to claim attention at such a period, must have been so rude and coarse a thing, that even Grub street despaired of it, its tenants feasting whilst they could, and adjourning poetry and prose. The portly chine has now long since disappeared, or lingers for mere show in butchers' windows—for butchers now-a-days have windows. The pudding is compressed into the shape and size of a pine-apple or strawberry. The ale is single X, or may be, very sour ordinaire. Fat survives for holly boughs to be stuck in, but the very hind refuses any longer to digest it. He has grown unused to the thing. Two bands meet as fish-slices might, were they given to salutation. Christmas boxes are boxes of bonbons, blind-man's-buff is a heresy, and children's games so proper, that old and young scorn them. Poor panto mime has lost its spirit, without having bequeathed it back to tragedy; and Christmas is anything but what it used to be. But if there be no longer " cakes and ale," we at least have books, pretty stories, and pretty pictures, an intellectual and tasteful feast for mind and eye, revels for the drawing-room and the study, if not for the refectory. The geniuses of art and letters turn cooks for the season, and each comes with his costly viands, inspiring such a glcrious appetite, and so daz zling by the splendid dishes and costumes in which they are served, that certainly never was Christmas ban quet half so superb as the library table at Christmas. Let us p er f o rm like office of taster at this banquet, not of carver, contrary to the usual habit of critics, who seem to come is general with unusually ferocious intentions to the Maury feast, and who seem then given to cut up and mangle, as if they never were allowed a carving-knife to wield on any other day. Our head dish is Dickens' Battle of Life. There arc none of the works of this author, which he seems to have undertaken so completely con amore as his Christmas volumes, none on which he has spent more energy, or lavished more art. Nor do we won der that he should have been first stricken by the idea, and fascinated by the plan. The genius of Dickens revels so peculiarly, so much at home, in domesticity, and in the scenes which it animates and over which it presides, that if ever a people built a temple to Home, Boz should certainly be the high priest. Christmas being the great fete of that divinity, the great ceremonial day edits devotion, no wonder that he should seize upon both as atime and a theme. And yetamidst the beautiful forms which his fancy conjured, the vivid picture of life which his pencil gave, and the dramatic interest thrown into his humblest scenes, Dickens, in his Christmas tales, resolved to mingle something higher. Good moral leseons, in deed, he always taught- But here he aimed, on one or two occassiona, to insinuate a more important lesson, exposing covertly, ingeniously, charitably, and mildly, those prejudices which made classes hate each other, severing the sympathies of high and low. Such efforts however noble, such aims however liberal, were received on the part of those critics considered to represent liberal ideas with execra tions of rancour and shouts of derision. The man of imagination usurping the part of public moralist, the writer of refined intellect extending his notions amongst the vulgar herd of every-day politicians, was considered a novelty to be repressed, an outrage to be avenged. And although the great mass of the public , high sod low, the galleries and boxes of society, ap plauded, the critics and the pit clamoured and vitu perated in no ordinary degree. This uproarious malevolence seems to have had its effect on the sensitive nature of the poet—for a poet the writer is in the best sense of the term. In his present tale he shrinks from political allusion, eschews the expounding of any elevated truth, and resigns himself to the task of fascinating and amusing, and affecting the public with vivid pictures of ;humble, middle, retired, and inconsequential life. s All is 1 beautiful scenic or sentimental description, character and incident, story and dialogue. It is the " Vicar of Wakefield" over again, in freshness and innocence, in quiet humour and exuberant feeling. There is even a little Goldsmithian awkwardness and precipitation in bringing about the denouement of the tale, and a completely Goldsmithian unconsciousness of any busier world or mightier machinery existing or going through its evolutions outside the little circle that envelops and contains the tale. One cannot say that the title is well chosen, or that the "battle" is st all " germain" to the matter of the story. It bespeaks big intention to illustrate the doctrines of the Universal Peace Society, and to brand the soldier trade as the vilest. On proceeding, however, we find the author's arrows shot at his old target of the attorney class, and that the doers of battles escape without even a lecture. It is, as we said. The sensitive and delicately-wrought spirit of the imaginative writer first, and perhaps far back proposed to itself, a public and a philan thropic mission ; but on closer scrutiny, perceiving what a coarse, an ingrate, and a vulgar strife it would become necessary to engage in, it shook its aerial wings, and turned in disgust away from the Battle of Life. " Mrs. Perlcine's Ball" is the next Christmas volume that attracts our attention. We must say, that it is scarcely fair. It is notacaricature of society, nor a picture, nor a set of portraits, bat a veritable daguerreotype. It is just as if•the author introduced an instrument of the Icind in the shape of a crushed hat, and then carried off the host's locale and the guests' physiognomy. There is not one of us that, in reading the book, must not recollect the very ball, and the very house, and the very people. The Per kinsesare our commonacquaintance,—their guests are all well-known types of the ball-going species. And the volume should thus make one of the naturalist's library, from its fidelity and truth in describing rare and curious specimens of human nature. We should strongly recommend that, on the first erection of a national monument, of the pedestal to the Welling ton statue, for example, if it ever find place or pedestal whereon to rest its four feet, that a copy of Mrs. Per kins's ball be deposited in the foundation, in some such coppnbox as that said to contain the lost books of Livy, found the other day in Taffyland. Were Mrs. Perkins so deposited, in order to come to light some five hundred years hence, history would certainly possess one of the truest records and pictures of the costume, the genuine physiognomies, and the wisdom of their ball-going ancestors, that could be imagined. We have not space for analysis of Mies Toulmine's very pretty tale, in which the imaginative powers of her sex in competing with its more robust brother hood are fully supported. Indeed we wonder there are not more female champions in the field. Were we to descend from the Christmas food of the grown to the variety of literary sweetmeats for children, we should wind a long yarn. We see It. Doyle at work in the pages of Mr. Murray's juvenile publications; Maclise's original pencil in that beau tiful edition of Burger's Lenora, and first-rate artists as well as intellects catering to children's amusement in many a nursery tale. We are really glad to see old Christmas make a demand upon the contents of the brain-pan, as well as on that of the sugar-pan. to ornament their council-room ; and he pointed, moreover, several 'pictures on his own account. Van Mender Lids I that he died in 1529, of a disease called the English malady, leaving a large property to the poor. Now there is nothing so improbable in these two stories, as to render future writers doubtful of their details, and prevent them from making use of them; the more so ao the same artist is mentioned by other historians, though with a variation of dates. But lately, certain documents were found at Brussels,. by Winters, the archivist of that town, which establish the fact clearly that the artist, called by Van Minder, Roger of Bruges, bore the family name of Van der Weyden, and that the two Rogers existed only in the brain of the old writer, they being in fact one and the same person. The additional particulars brought to light by Mr. Winters, relative to Roger of Bruges, corre spond exactly with the dwells given of Van der We) den, by Van Mender, and it appears in addition, that, Roger had a son whose name was Goawin Van der Weyden, also a painter, but much inferior to his Either. Evidently Van Minder mixed up and compounded the information he had received, and made two painters oat of one ; giving to the first, thz christian name, with that of the town in which he resided for Rome time, and to the second, the family sur name. To both. he allotted a fair share of the details of the life of the " original Roger." In order, however, to make his version pleuoible, he is guilty of another mistake; for he actually makes Van der Weyden live nearly • century after Roger, and states that he died in 1529. The original Roger Van der Weyden died at Brussels in 1464, and was buried, accuding to the old manuscript, or parish register, published by Mr. Winters, "in the church of St. Gudule, in company with his wife, near the altar of St. Catharine, where they both slept under a blue stone." Mr. Michiela very aptly observes at the conclusion of one of his chapters: " If the darkness which covers this subject is ever to be lighted up, the archives of Bruises are the point from which this light must issue. For the last six hundred years, documents have been amused in this necropolis. There lie all the mminiscences of the community ; there are inscribed the epitaphs of its departed glory. Let but a man penetrote amongst them, armed with the magic wand of patriotism brilliant visions will appear to him, and he will seem escorted by the ghosts of his fathers. The attention of Europe would be excited by it." There is no doubt that were these documents searched, much valuable information would be obtained, and we sincerely hope permission will be given, at no distant period, for doing so. In the meanwhile we must remain under the conviction that Van Minder is not so implicity to be trusted as he has been hitherto, and that his facts are not to be taken as conclusive, in opposition to other authors, even though the latter may seem to possess less means of informa tion. Though note painter himself, Mr. Michiels is enthu siastic in his subject ; he handles it with fervour, different in this from the cold and formal style in which it has been treated hitherto. lie begins by tracing the regeneration of set in Flanders, in consequence of the rising power and wealth of the to wns of Flanders, Bruges, Ghent, and others. The art, previous to Van Eyck, was in a state of infancy. In Italy Giotto and Cimabue had begun the regeneration, and Cologne was already the cradle of a better class of painters under the tuition of Wilhelm. Front the latter place it spread into Flanders, and though the fact is not stated, it is highly probable thaeHerbert Van Eyck was bught first by one of the Cologne painters. John Van Eyck invented oil painting, and it was then that the &se arts, with that master at their head, became the great feature of the period, sup ported by the Duke of Burgundy, the clergy, and the rich citizens of Bruges. The argument. advanced by many writers to combat the opinion that oil painting was really the invention of Van Eyck, are, by the author, summarily disposed of. And there is no doubt, that previous to Van Eyck, oil painting did exist; it would be foolish to attempt to deny it. Are we not told that Giotto painted in oil ? So hedg. , But not with the necessary medium to ensure the painting's drying, which was invented by Van Eyck. Painting with linseed oil was well known, but unfortunately for that method, the great inconvenience attending it was, that it never dried, or at least took such time to do so, that it was sufficient to dis gust painters from using it. Rave wrote at length to prove the invention of oil-painting before Van Eyck, hut he only proved what every one knew before ; i. e., that the only oil used was linseed oil, °teens lini, as Theophilus says, and he is Ruspe's chief authority. Leaving aside this question, however, we find the school of Van Eyck flourishing, his fame spread over Holland, Spain, and Italy, and rich citizens following the prevailing fashion of the times, building chapels and adorning them with the choicest pa intings . The chief of Van Eyck's early produc tions, the Mystic Lamb of the ApOCelypee' is still in exist ence, and the greater portion of is in St. Rayon, at Ghent, where it was first executed. The Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, was his generous patron, and sent him on one occasion on a mission to Por tugal, to paint the portrait of hi* future wife, Isabella. The duke also honoured the artist by the office of valet de chambre, no doubt a gentle employ. Descamps construes it as privy councillor, the correctness of which may be doubted. More solid proofs of ducal favour appear In large sums given " pour certain. services seem " performed for his sovereign. He seems to hare been as indispensable to the potentate of Burgundy, as at a later period Rubens was to Philip the Fourth of Spain, who entrusted that great painter with divers delicate negotiations. Talents such as these were not lightly thought of then, when personal intercourse with princes was more than a distinction. The regard and re spect of the great thus concentrated on the arta, no wonder if emulation rose and produced its natural effect in creating a school with such a master as Van Eyck to direct it. Other towns imitated the example of Bruges, and coun tries were as much stirred with rivalry as individual artists. lournay, Arras, Douai, Valenciennes, Louvain, Yp res, Haarlem, and Leyden, all had their painters. We find in • cotemporary manuscript, published by M. Oachard, a list made out by Fasttre Hollet, steward to Charles the Bold, containing upwards of a hundred names of painters from all these towns, who had been summoned to attend for the purpose of adorning the palace en the occasion of that duke's marriage in 1468. Of these hundred, one alone is known at the present day—Hugh Van der Goes, who received " Sept !tyres sept sous, pour die fours et demi gu' it a mere dquatorze sous par four." Other artists besides Van dr. Goes, but whose names are not in this list, pass successively under review ; they are all, however, infenor to Van Eyck, with the exception of Roger Vander Weyden, and Hemling, or hinging. The genius of the school of Bruges may be summed up in these three names—Van Eyck, Roger Vander Weyden, and Mewling. Van Eyck is the painter of realities ; the slow, but sure, copyist of nature, whose very faults he imitates. The model, without indeed the expression, is transferred by him to the canvass. Organic defects, wrinkles, and pimples all re appear, and the care bestowed upon the smallest orna ment is really miraculous. All, however, is plain surface, and the supreme lights, such as appear in the sparkling of diamonds, are not embossed, as it were, to give more effect. This is the acme of finish. Roger Vender Weyden combines, with the firmness of his muter* outlines, more delicate hues; his shadows have, perhaps, too much flesh in them, but his flesh lights are white without seeming pale. His compositions are in gene ral more graceful than these of his master. With him art is less conventional, lees Byzantine ; and the (general effect is more studied than the details, which are carried out, how ever, with considerable minuteness. Memling carries the qualities of Roger to a still greater perfection, and "nis love of the beautiful has a hippy effect on his pr oductions, in which you rarely see the Flemish type in all its uglinees. The folds of his drapery are more natural, and the general tendency of the school—length without breadth in the figures—is less visible in him than in his masters. The school of Bruges, as a whole, uever, however, reaches the ideal, like their brethren of Italy and the Rhine. They are constantly fettered by too close atten tient* nature as it is in vulgar life, and their aspirations to the sublime often end in the ridiculous. Thus we see, in many instances, the Virgin like a bouncing maid-servant, and the apostles like ploughmen. These defects are less visible in Vander Weyden and Memling than in the rest of the school, because their taste has been probably more refined by their stay in Italy. _ _ _ Memling was born at Bruges, and followed his muter, Vander Weyden, to Rome; and here we may mention one of Descamp'a gratuitous assertions, when he says, " Van Munden was wrong when he stated that Hans Memmelinck was born at Bruges. John Memmelinck is the real name of this artist, who was a native of Demme." Where he lrrnt that he was a native of Demme, is impossible to ascertain, as the fact is not corroborated by any author. But the foci of his having been received at a later period of his life in the hospital of St. John, is sufficient to show that he was of Bruges ; for by the order of foundation of that hospital, the monks were forbidden to receive any but natives of that town, or the neighbouring village of Maldeghem. Mr. Michiels adopts the name of Hemling, " because," says he, " it is the pleasantest to pronounce, and the moat significant, meaning in the Germanic languages something celestial." He says, and we do not agree with him, that the argu ments on both sides of the question are equal; but the truth probably is, that he was unwilling to enter into a controversy. But his adoption of the name of Hemling obliges hint to enter into another, which he might have avoided, and that is the controversy which has lately arisen as to whether that painter wail a German or a Belgian, founded upon the pedigree of certain Hemling's which bad lately been found, and the last of the members of which, Hans Hcmling by name, was born at Constance, in Swit zerland. Johanna Sehopenhauer and Nagler contend that he is a German ; but, whether German or Belgian, he was a subject of the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bo'd, under whose protection he was, and whose fortunes he followed. not, as Descamps tells us, " enter the army as a com mon soldier from libertinism, and being reduced to the utmost misery in the hospital of St. John, at Bruges, open his eyes to the irregularities of his conduct, and, as soon as his health permitted him, set to work and paint for his liveli hood." When Charles the Bold undertook his ill-fated expe dition against the Swiss, his household accompanied him, and amongst the r.st Hemling. We find that painter re turning from the battle of Nancy, where Charles lost his life. It was after his escape from that bloody field of battle that he entered Bruges, pale, haggard, and faint with hunger and lips of blood; he was taken in by the monks of the hospital of St. John, who tended him till he recovered. He then took to his easel, and it was not till he had done so, that he was recognised ea Memling, whose name in connexion with art was no doubt already known. After paying his debt of gratitude to the kiwi monks by painting fur them the reli quary of St. Ursula, lie lett the munast.ry, and lived in af fluence, in diver; towns, while he bad been invited to adorn convent wall, and churches with his paintings. It was in the hospital of St. John that the bones of St. Ursula and the ten martyred virgins were kept, and the fable of the 11,000 virgins of Cologne, is attempted to be rendered palpable to John Bull, visiting the church of St. Ursula, by the light of a number of skeletons, which were dug up in an old ceme tery of Cologne in the 13th century. After Ilemiing commences the decline of the school of Binges. The fall of this town as a commercial city took place some time after the duce of the last Duke Curls*. rhe merchants, alarmed by the constant recurrence of bates tine warfare, emigrated with their wealth and their goods and chattels to Antwerp, the rival of Bruges in the trae of Spain and the Baltic. With the departure of trade d took place that of wealth and influence, and the school of the fine arts following after that which fed it, deserted the place of its birth for the more preeperous nursery of Antwerp. flame Je whichrnmeoschLada:odwEnngeuglbhrechtedtinuparthe ebucththieef city y k o er f of Fl thane den. The former seemed to invite a change in the existing state of things, and the author of fiery and hellish subjects, though a man of talent, was scarcely the meet follower of the religious painters of Bruges. The circumstances attending the rise and fall of the school of Druges are sufficient to show that wealth, peace, and free dom are the three great requisites which must unite to form a school of art. Examples of this are not wanting. The Florentine and Roman schools, teetered and brought to perfection under the mild rule of absolute and cultivated princes, still owed their originality and spirit to that freedom of will and of effort which pervaded the Italian cities so re cently. This spirit survived municipal freedom for a time, whilst a cessation from civil war allowed its full development. In Germany the arts, commencing at Cologne, and spreading through the free and rich cities of ma st e rs , rg, and Augsburg, gave birth to a long list o of whom we need only mention Diirer, Holioein, and Lucas Cranach. The Thirty Years' War came, end the fine arts were no longer thought of. The school of Antwerp flourished till 1650, when the rivalry of Amsterdam threw Antwerp into the shade as an emporium of trade. It cannot but be re marked, that the arts have in general, if not always, sprung up in towns or small states, where the energies of society were concentrated, and all the intellect of the popu lation was gathered and developed in a confined spot. In France and England, where wealth, power, patronage, and intellect, were necessarily scattered and divided between the capital, the country, the universities, and the trading towns, it was much more difficult to produce that last-born of in tellectual civilization, a school of art. It is only now, when great clientele::: more and more resemble great towns, and when the facilities of inter-communication and of the press render every one the hearer and the neighbour, and the inti. mate of the other, that we see artistical ambition starting up to grasp at the palm which the generosity and taste of the state and of the rich offer. Horace Wtdpole may have thought that Engl a nd i ppos sessed a national school ; but in his account of painters n England he only proves the very contrary. Under Henry the Eighth, Holbein and Hocenhout shared the favours of that monarch ; but relieous quarrels soon effaced the traces they had left. To religious quarrels succeeded political ones. Then Charles patzooised Reuben' and Vandyck, as Henry did Holbein; but that hapless king bar furnished England with pictures not artists. To return to Mr.' Michiela' book, not the least in teresting part of it is that in which he gives an account of the vicissitudes which have befallen some of the pictures of the old Flemish masters. Many of the works of Van Eyck were destroyed by the Iconoclasts. That paint er's chef d'reuvre, the altar-piece of the mystic lamb, has had curious adventures. In 1641, we quote Mr. Michiels, " the roof of the nave of St. Rayon took fire, and the picture was taken down in the short space of time of one hour. When it was afterwards restored to its original position, crowds continued to assemble before it on oertaiu solemn occasions. This custom still existed in 1785, when the Emperor Joseph 11. visited it. The figures of Adam and Eve, which formed part of the picture, shocked the poten tate. He considered their partial nudity indecent ; and the man who had read and praised Voltaire's " Pucelle," blamed the chaste ingenuity of the old artists ; he was astonished that such a picture should be exhibited. His foolish remarks were taken as orders, and the shutters closed over the pic tures. At a later period the French commissaries carried off the panels forming the middle of the piece. The wings were concealed in their absence. Mr. Denon, director of the Paris museum, demanded them in vain"; he even offered picture' of Ruben, in exchange for them. On the fall of Buonaparte they were returned to Belgium ; they were exhibited for a few weeks in the museum of Ghent, and then returned to their original position . The wings, how ever, were never restored, and it was afterwards found were deposited in a cellar. During the absence of the bishop of the diocese, affairs were administered by a vicar ; and a picture-dealer, called Nieuwenhays, took the opportunity of endeavouring to get possession of them. He paid a visit to the canons of the cathedral, assured them that the pictures on the shutters were of no value, that they bore no relation to the principal painting, and that shutters were now out of fashion. He offered to give them 6,000 francs for them. The fools believed him and accepted the offer. He got a receipt and carried off his booty. On the following day, M. Louis de Bast, the patient and laborious investigator, was made acquainted with the affair. He immediately pro ceeded to inform the authorities, and a search was made in the house of Nieuwenhays, but he had been too sharp for them. The pannels were not to be found. He was brought before a court of justice, but without result. In the mean time he sold his booty for 100,000 francs to an Englishman named Solly, who lived at Berlin. Mr. Sully subsequently sold his whole collection to the Ring cf Prussia for 500,000 thalers, the shutters of the Mystic Lamb alone procuring him 400,000 francs. Another of Van Eyck's pictures had a curious destiny. It represents a couple united by Fidelity. It fell into the hands of a barber in Ghent, who received a situation of 100 florins friaum exchange for it, given to him by the Princess . sister of Charles V. It was found at Brussels after the battle of Waterloo by Major-General Hay, and it is now in the National Gallery in London. The Reliquary of St. Ursula, by Hemling, was well nigh lost for Belgium in 1794. The French commissaries came to the hospital to carry off its finest ornament. "La chasse, la chtlase ' demanded they. The nuns, however, did not understand the French language, and the name of this chef d'cruvre in Flemish is La Ryre. They said they did not possess the article they wanted. Their accent, their coun tenances, convinced the delegates of the republic that they were sincere, and they retired. _fine arts. THE PAINTERS OF BRUGES. (Lea Peintrea Brugeois, par Alfred Michiels. Brunelle, 1846.)—This little book is one of the most acceptable to the lovers of art that has appeared of late Tears. It is a history of the painters of Bruges, from Van Lyck to Engelbrechstz, and contains, besides information derived from known sources, valuable particulars, the result of recent researches into the old manuscripts of the period. Such a history had long been wanting in Belgium, as it still is in England. Why Belgium should have remained so long without one, is incomprehen sible, being the source from which all information on the sub ject must be drawn. But where there is no national litera ture, as in the case of Belgium, it is always difficult to fled an author capable or willing to undertake such an arduous task. The only author, of Belgian origin, who has written lives of the Flemish painters is Descamps, whose works teem with faults and omissions, and who. notwithstanding his as sumption of superior information, is but a bad copyist of the Dutch writers. Diderot, when he heard of Descamps' intention of publishing his work, addressed him thus : " I hear," he said, " that you have taken to literature ; may you be more successful in it than you have been in the arts. This wish was never realised, and the book is so dull, that it is quite impossible to read it. But it is not our intention here to enter into the merits or demerits of this author, whose facts are in many instances the offspring of his imagi nation. Suffice it to sAy, that Descamps abridged the Dutch authors without judgment, and rendered a pleasant subject dull and unprofitable. England, as regards the Flemish painters, is no better off; Chronological accounts and dictionaries abound ; but even the hest of them, that of Allan Cunningham, was necessa rily much indebted to Descamps. The Dutch writers, Van Mender, lioubreken, Van Goo], and Campo Weyermsn ; the Italians, Facies, Vaeari, and the Chronicler Opmeer, all contain valuable information. Some of them treat of the same periods, and others of differ ent ones ' • but they do not form a series. Of late, indeed, detached lives have appeared in Belgium, in the Messager des Arts et dos Sciences; and many . new facts have been ascertained by indefatigable search into old manuscripts. But here again the series is broken : no continuous link eon ' netts either the progress of the art or the efforts of succes ' sive painters with each other ; and no complete history is given. It is this defect that Mr. Michiels undertook to re medy in the present volume. He informs us in his preface, that it is but an extract of &larger work not yet completed, which comprises the school of Bruges, and he adds, that he is induced to publish it in italwesent form, on account of its I being a distinct history of a distinct period in Flemish art, • more likely to be useful to amateurs and visitors in Belgium than his larger and more expensive work. , Mr. Michiels has been enabled, by the new lights lately thrown on the infancy of Flemish art, to clear up obscure ' passages in the old writers, to elicit the truth fr in their con. tradictory at.d confuseil accounts, and even to show, in one material instance, how completely Van Mender, the oldest , and most trusted authority, had fallen into Error. Van Mender wrote principally from memory ; the facts which he mentions being, at the time he wrote, still in the • recollection of the old generation, and it must have been neglect on his part when he made blunders. One of these, ha — particular, deserves to be mentioned. Amongst the painters of wh•‘m he gives an account is Roger of eruges Of him he says that he was born in Bruges, the town from which he tcs.k his surname. He became a pupil of Van ' Eyck, and the favourite of that painter. Not satisfied, • however, with remaining constantly in Begium, he went to • Rome, where he painted several pictures; and sifter staying there several years, he returned to Flanders, where he died. The time and place of his death are alike unknown. This is a summary of the account he gives of Roger of Bruges. • Now, in another part of his book, he speaks of a painter, called Van der Weyden, and of him be says that he was born • at Brussels, where he early became celebrated aa a painter. He was employed by the town council of his native place CLERICAL. Tax ORDINATION or resAammuist or Or TOLE was held on Sun day last, at Bishopetborpe, when the following gentlemen were ad. mitted into WI orders:—Reasons : J. C. Simpson, 8.A., Wore., Oaf.; F. iinngg.~ BA. Clare hall, Cam. ;J. P. Harris, BA., Brasenoile, Oxf. ; 3. R PevlsWn, 8.A., St. John's, Cam.; E. Ellis, a literate person. Priests : Rev. D . Cotes , 8.A., St. Catherine Hall, Cam.; Rev. G. &elf, BA., Lincoln, Oaf.; Rev. W. G. Gibson, 8 . A., Wore ., Oaf.; Rev. F. Lamotte , 8.A., Chr. Ch., Oxf.; Rev. M. Hathawa_ 8.A., Trin., Cam.; Rev. W. Wray, M.A., Mag., Oaf. ; Rev. J. S. lint, Gonville and Coles; Rev. J. Darnborough, 8.A., Lincoln, Oaf.; Rev. G. Head, BA., Trinity, Cam.; Rev. T. Woolley, 8.A., Trinity Dub.; Rev. J. J. Miller, RA., Trin., Cam.; Rev. It. H. Deane, 8.A., Ten., Dub.; Bev. J. Peel, 8.A., Teta., Dub. Toe 011DIPIATION OF Tea HIBHOP OP BATA AND ViKLIJS was held in the Cathedral Church of Wells, on Sunday last, when the following gentlemen were admitted into holy orders :—Doseens : W. Bullock, 8.A., St. Mary Ilan, Ox!. ; W. H. Fissile, 8.A., Trinity, Oaf.; L. R. Hamilton, B A., Christ Ch., OxL ; D. Robertson, RA., Christ Ch., Oaf.; A. C. Smith, 8.A., Christ Ch., Oxf. ; N. J. Spicer, 8.A., Christ Ch., Oaf.; T. A. Strong, M.A., Exeter, Oaf. ; R. Bartholomew, M.A., Exeter (by letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Exeter); W. 8. Evans, 8.A., Trinity, Cam. (by letters dimiseory from the Lord Bishop of Exeter) ; W. L. Manley, 8.A., Christ's, Cam. (by letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Exeter) ;S. Neville, B. M Cam. (by letters dimiseory from the Lord Bishop of Salisbury) ; W. agd Stow, 8.A., St. Peter's, Cam. (by Letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Salle. bury).—Priests: Rev. 11..1. Baumgartner, 8.A., Gamine and Calus Rev. It. M. Chamney, 8.A., St. Peter's, Cam. ; lice. N. S. Edgell, 8.A., Oriel, Oaf.; Rev. It. Fisher, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin; Rev. J. Hawker, M.A., Raid ; Rev. J. W. Neat, 8.A., Corpus Christi, Cam. ; Rev. W. M. Dyne, S.C.L., St. Mary Hall, ,OxL (by letter dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Salisbury). The Gazelle of last night gives notice that after the list of January the whole of the deanery of Bridgnorth shall be included In and form part of the diocese of Hereford, and of the archdeaconry of Salop in the same diocese, and that the whole clergy and others within the limits of the raid deanery shall be under and subject to the jurisoic lion and authority of the Bishop of Hereford, and the archdeacon of the same ascluleacoury of Salop, for the time being. NAVAL. SITILEANICIN, Du. 25.—The Apollo. troopship, Capt. Radcliffe, came up to the fore on Sunday, and saluted the flag of the Comman der-in.ChloL She was taken into dock on Tuesday to be refitted for two years' more service. The Cyclops, ateam-frigate, Copt. lapidge, arrived on Monday, and being in want of eonaiderable repairs will be paid off here, and afterwards refitted for re.cominission. The Ter rible, Capt. Ramsay, has not yet left for Woolwich, where it was said she was to be docked. It is probable that In the event of her being continued in commission she well refit at Chatham. MILITARY. - - - SWORD COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM, Dec. 24.—Immediately after the court had assembled this morning, Lieut. Grant commenced reading his defence. He did not mean, he said, in his general pica of not guilty, to deny the facts ; bat he submitted that tie had nut acted contrary to military discipline, and quoted the Hue of Lieut.-CoL Hogg, of the 55th Regiment of Foot, in 1819, atTlyznouth, as • cumin point. He dwelt mach upon the testimony of Lieut. Chad., to show that at the time Capt. Bull, the actual offender, was in command. He mewed the court he had been influeed#d in what he had done by tediums of a desire to do good; and he trusted the court would not fix him with wilful disobedience of lawful orders. He then called upon the • Deputy Judge Advocate, the Ilon.Capttiordou, to produce the comes ' pombonoe with the AGLOW Town Major at the Cape. After which Amistant-Surgeon Jackson was recalled by the court to speak to what transpired on the poop of the Mary Anne on the morning of the loth of July, relative to the prisoner's hesitating to obey 31ajor Shadfortu's orders. This witness's testimony finished the proceedings, and the I court broke up. The sentence of course cannot be known until con firmed by her Majesty. Joke GEORGE YAI.P.T, major in the 4th Light Dragoons, will, it is expected, shortly succeed to the licutenant-colonticy of the corps. Major-General Lambert, whose appointment to the command in Jamaica was anticipated in this paper so, e weeks since, will proceval early in the year to the place of his destination. The 74th Foot have moved train Glasgow to Paisley. The barracks at Athlone, Ireland, ate being considerably enlarged, and there will shortly be accommo dation in the town fur a detachment of cavalry. SPORTING. NEWMARKET CILtVEN MEETING, 1947. Evriues ma Tile Nawmaitarr HAnnicar.—Tom Tulloch, 4 yrs; Devil-aseeare, 3 yrs ,• Verulam out of Verge:nit 4 yrs ; Brocardo, I 4 Lady Wildiur, yrs ; Yree Lame, 4 yrs ; Comme taut, 3 yro ; ihTlErankle, 4 yrs; Queen Mary (late Twysom a), 3 yrs • Wood Pigeon, 5 yrs; Cocoa Nut, 6 yrs; SC Demetri, 4 . yns ; Hydrangea, 4 yrs; Princess Royal, 5 yrs; Alarm, 5 yrs; Ueralduie, 4 yrs ; Polka, 4 yrs •, Mirmille, 3 yrs; Discontent, 3 yrs; Humdrum, 4 yrs; Bit Nibble, 3 yrs ; Sir Atartin, 3 yro • Phillip, aged; Crueler, 3 yrs; Ennui, 4 pa ; Laura e., 4 yrs ; ItCmoree, 5 yrs; Fantastic, 4 yrs; (Anipanile, 5 yrs; Queen Anne, 4 yrs; Sorrel, 3 yrs; Patina, • 3 yrs; Mount Callan, 4 )re; Collingwood, 4 yrs ; Spring. brook, 3 yrs; Retraction, 5 yrs; Sting, 4 yrs; Projectile, 3 yrs; I Conan More, 3 yrs; Dideet, 5 yrs; Satyr, 6 yrs; 14 mews, 4 ))Ts ; Braviosimo, 4 yrs; Butte, toi, 4 yrs; Emmeline, 4 yra • Chamois, 4 yrs; Sagacity, 3 yrs; Kesheng, 3 yrs; Due an Durrae, 5 pro ; nowlagh, 4 yro; Wolfdog, S yns; linvaragh, 4 yrs : Watchdog, yrs ; Queen of Tyne, aged ; Banana, 4 yrs; Comet, 4 yrs ; L am b, '4 yrs • Farthing (Rattle, 4 yrs; Ilyeerutrad, 3 yrs; Arthur, 5 vest; Venial I, ‘ 4 y rs; Shereton ; Muwerina; Meanee, 3 yrs ; Counsellor, aged: 'ampyre, 3 yrs; Doleful, 5 yrs; Mendicant, 4 yrs ; Pyrrhus the Fire., 4 yrs ; Bcot Bower, 6 yea ; CAM TR Obscure, 4 yrs; Sweet meat, 5 yrs • Footstool, 4 yrs ; Scarlet Runner, 5 yrs ; Glory, 4 yrs; Euclid cult, 3 yea. The entries are complete up to the close in town, and anti, poat-time at Nemo whet ou Thutaday night. It ia not likely that there will be any additions. POLICE-- TutlespAy. WESTMINSTER.-1117FMNIaM.—George Ilumplinys and William Downey were on Thunday morning chanted with defrauding Air. Franks, the proprietor of Storey's-gate Hotel, creating a great di.turbanet at his house, and assault ing the police. The detendantii, in company with another wan, wen: into the tap of the hotel on Wednesday evening, and having been supplied with some liquor refused to pay for it. They assaulted the landlord and vigorously resisted the police when summoned to take them into culeody. When confined in a cell they kicked at the door with so much violence as to frighten the neighbourhood, and to pre vent that their shoes were Wien off.—The police said one of them had been recently liberated after undergoing two years' imprisonment for uttering counterfeit coin. They were part of a gang of fellows called moochers." Mr. Burrell com mitted them for one month each to hard labour, and ordered them to find bail for their good behaviour fur six months. THAMES. Creasoz AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. —As the magistrate was about to leave the Thames police court on Thursday, the man named Nott , who was time time since unjustly convicted of a felony, and sentenced to a long imprisonment, on the false testimony of a Mary Ann Evans, and whose sentence was remitted, applied to the magistrate to procure for him 31. or 41. which be alleged had been transmitted to a clergyman for his use, and unjustly withheld from him. The magistrate said he could afford him no assistance, having no control over private funds. Ile ordered Mr. Nutt to receive 59. from the poor-box, saying, he trusted it was not his inten!ion to render his unjust imprisonment a ground on which to trade for the remainder FRIDAY. MONEY MARKET. To-day being a close holiday at all the public offices, and at the Stock and Royal Exchanges as well, there is no thing to report. BANK OF klND.—Acnouirr for the Week ending Dee. is. MU/ DIPAILTIIINT. £28,413,000 Government Debt. £11,015,100 Other becurinee 2,984,9uu Gold Coin and Bullion 11,2,489,943,510 Bullion 490 AC28,443,000 RANKING DIONISTERNT. PrOprheCOTlOCipilll £14,539,000 Government Securities Rant Public, Deposits Weight Annuity).- L 12,807,417 dull., Exchequer, Other Securities 13,90 4,294 84•Ingt asap, Com- Is De ".l"." et, sat D e lv. N .L taL u). 9,647,743 Nolen aand BaTer CC" 8'874'9 4 :6424: Other Depoeits 7,615,703 7 Day & other Bills— 869,143 £38,325,769 £38,325,769 Dec. 24, 1848. M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. RAILWAYS. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE AlltOsPE Eta C ParacieLe.—We learn from the Western Tines that Toe engines at Exeter were fully tested on Saturday last, the steam being got up, and Mr. Brunel coming down on purpose. Everything short of an actual working of the line has been done :o move the power and efficiency of the machinery; and we underot and that the results are perfectly satisfactory. Complaints have been made against the Croy don railway, and a statement of the failure of the new sealing compo sition for the valve. Last summer the great heat melted the old competition; and a new one was deviant, which worked exceed ingly well till the late frost, when contending statements were made as to its quality; but it appears that the trains were detained through its mot acting. It does not follow that bemuse the experi ment at Croydon has been expensive and mu disfactory, that there fore the principle is bad. The South Devon will have had the ecnelit of the experience and failures of the Croydon line ; and though the reports from Croydon do not justify the sanguine anticipations of im mediate success on the South Devon, we shall wait till the whole ma chinery comes into action, before we pronounce upon the principle. The atmospheric is considered to be a question of detail, and not of principle. It may be, perhaps, that the right mute is not yet die covered; and not that the soundness of the principle is shaken by these failures. We are anxious to see the South Devon in operation, because the machinery is much more powerful than that of the Croy don; and we may therefore anticipate u closer approximation to mac cessthan could have been reasonably expecte d in the first practical ex periment in so important an invention." lesWlell AND BURY Sr. Et:MUM:i . e.—This line was opened for passenger trains on Wednesday. A oorreepondent re marks : " The distance from London to Bury by road is 71 miles, by rail, via Ipswich, 93 miles. The inhabitantsof Bury were in hopes that they would not be charged by the circuitous route of the line, but by the road distance. The following scale of farm issued by the Eastern Union Company shows, however, that such has not been done : from London to Bury, lst class, 18s.; 2nd class, 12s. ; 3rd class, 7s. With a view of comparing the circuitous with the direct fares I may men tion that the Eastern Counties Company charge fora distance of 71 miles on the Cambridge line at the rate of Ist class, 14s. ; 2nd class, les. ; 3rd clam, Is , I Id. The singularity of the fame on the Bury line is, that the same amount is charged for going 81 miles from the me tropolis as the whole distance, 91." MIDLAND.--Christmas visitors have been afforded an opportunity of taking a cheap trip to any place adjoining this railway, day tickets, issued on Thursday, the 21th inst., being available till Monday, the 28th. Rwanda BRANCH.—There have been a great many dit ferent proposals for the direction to be taken by this branch. Four principal routes have been surveyed—hat, the direction of Charleville ; 2ndly, that of Dorman; 3rdly, that of Epernay ; and lastly, that of Ciry. Both the Epernay and the Ciry plan lead towards Ausnay but beyond that there are three different suggestions to arrive at Rheims ; Ist, the line by Ludes; 2ndly, that by Sermiers ; and irdly, by Billy la-Montagne, the latter line being recently surveyed between the two former. These several plans have been submitted to the examination of a commission of the council general of ponael-ebassseea which, after mature deliberation, has given the preference to the direction of Epernay, with the variants of hilly-laMontagne, demanding, at the same time, that on parting from Avenay there shall be a bifurkation from the branch to join with the trunk line towards the west at Epernay, and towards the east at Plevot. It is thought that the conclusion arrived at is the only one which would reconcile conflicting interests. It will provide railway communication between Rheims, Epernay, and Ai, and will satisfy not only the rela tions of Rheims end Ardennes with Paris, Rouen, and Havre, but also those of Rheims and the northern provinces with Alsatia, Lorraine, Burgundy, and the south. The government is occupied with the question, and not until it has pronounced its decision, will the erste engineers be entrusted with the details, and proceed to the adjudica tion of the works to be executed at the charge of the public treasury. JUDDISE AND TOURNAY.—The works of art and em bankments upon the first section of thin line, that is, from Jurbise to Manes, have proceeded with such rapidity, that ,hould the directors determine, it may be opened for public traffic before the close of neat spring. _ _ - - RAILWAY COLLISION IN BELGII`M.—A few days ago a serious accident occurred on the line between Deyree and Courtray. The goods train from Lille being much behind time, an engine was sent to see what delayed it. Unfortunately, the signals were not per ceived, and the engine ran furiously against the Lille train, which was drawn by two engines, and the taree engines were much damaged, one of them being completely crushed. Two of the guards were pitched off, but happily fell on a heap of snow. and escaped with only a few bruises. But for the snow they must have met with certain death. Nearly all the trains in Belgium have been impeded by the snow. BUsINESS OF TILE ENSUING WEEK- -(From Railway Chronicle.) Memnon.-Aberdeen, Dee. 30, Aberdeen; Dundee and Arbroath, Dec. SO, Dundee; Great North of Scotland, Dec. 31, Aberdeen. CONTKACI..-Ambergate, Nottingham and Eastern Junction-12,000 tom of malleable iron rails, 169,000 Memel fir sleepers, and 3,900 tons of cast-irin chairs, Dec. 28; Shrewsbury sad Birmingham (Shiffnal contract)-Execution of works, Dec. 29. Ihnorsre.-Direct Bombay and Madras-First half-year's interest, now payable at the offices of the company, 58, Fenchurch-street ; Great Northern (London and York extension skares)-One year's interest, on and after Jan. 1 ; Italian and Austrian-Half-year's interest at 4 per cent. per annum on shares upon which 41. has been paid, six months' Interest on 31. per share, and two months' interest on Dl. per share, on and alter Jan. 1. ; London and Blackwell-34 per cent. an the new shares, Jan. 1. CALLA. - Aberdeen -5/. due; Amiens and Boulogne-21. ; Caledonian: M. on Clydesdale Junction guaranteed shares, and 51. on 601. shares, due; Dieppe and Feearnp 2/. due; Edinburgh and Northern-21. 10s. on the 151. stock, Dec. 28; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Oirliale-21. 10s. due; Liverpool and Bury-3f. 16a. on minima mated 101. shares, Jaa. 1 ; London and Blackwall-11. on the new shares, Jan. 1 ; Lowestoft Railway and Harbour-21. due; Lynn and Fly, 51., Jan. 1 ; Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway and Canal-41. on the fifth shares, January I; Manchester and Leeds-51. on the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction stock, fall. she: es, December 19-101. on the quarter or 251. shares, Jan. 1 ; Midland-21. on the .501. shares, and 3f. 14s. 6d. on the 97/. 514. shares, Jan. 5- Extension lines, 6/. on the new 40!. shares, Jan. 5-Eyewash Valley Line, 5/., Jan. 1 ; Northern and Eastern-51., Jan. I ; Paris and Lyons-31., Dec. 2c, 30; Preston and Wyre Railway, Harbour and Dock -2f. on the 12/. lets. shires, due; Scottish Central - 21. 10s., due ; Sheffield,' Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester-21. 10s. on the eight (lie quarter) shares, due; York and North Midhunl-101. on 50/., and Si. on 251., Leeds and Selby Shares, Jan. 2. D, coma airrcasan.-Irish North Midland-10s. per share, every Tuesday and Thursday ,• Tounlay, Jurbiae, Linden, and Hassell -55. 4d. per share, on and after Jau. 1. StuNATURZ or PAnliAMLN . rwnr CoNrawci..-Derbpdaire, Stafford shire and Worcesterahire Junction, and Direct East and West Junc tion : Now lie forsignature at the offices of the enmpany. Tiultirkk Buns, CLUSED.-llublin and Belfast Junction (Naves Branch)-brow. Dec. 31 till Jan. 14 ; Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monk lands Junction: Till Jan. 15--Great Southern and We-tern (1)- From Dee. 31 till Feb. 1. TRAYFIG fur sun Tit Knanl ending between Dec. 17 and Dee. 20,1816 ,nsd. ufrom the ILtsrwt, Pown.:44) I 1646. 11811. A• brat* sad Twfar Chesser 4 Bo kralwaa Dublin 4 Drogheda Dublla 4 Kollle.w Dundee 4 Arbroat h _ Durham tALederLasi East Laacaablre Rasura Cooed. Piston Cann ..... E•linburgh 4 Clause's, Glasgow, Po 61. ityrl Gl. gow, Paid. 4 Oni. O. !•outlwa 4 Wawa Londan. Blights., 4e. L. , ndon 4 S. Weston Manchester 4 Leeds MidlAnd Newcastle 4 Berwick Newcastle 4 Cat Hate Norfolk North British Freston 4 \\'Yre Sheftn•ld 4 Ilaaelsester South Devuet Soutit-Eastern Taff Vale Ulster ....... .. at 1 York mad Newctlee ; I I Tort asd N. Mullaad 1 1848. 6,0 u/ 1,074 Corral Wester; LunAan .l~lllaekw+V ._ • The Secretary of ci whence of Ml* tine barb core tem meek, the troll December 19. I,liil 17,3601 I7,Wi se — ,sn2l '34,741 443 .1t 4341 30 316 18 11, 7.104 11,131 leeward. Informs us that In conte sted Mumma ble by the snow for several lase be published for the week valise COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. SVGAR.=Tioi Acre PC= or SLVAIL, the produce of the British hissergions in America, computed hom the returns made in the week ending the 22nd day of D. cemb•r, 1846, is 325. 21d. per cwt. Sugar, the produce of the Mauritius, is lls. lid. per cwt. Sugar, the pngluce of the East Indies, is per cwt. The average price of the three foregoing drieriptions of Sugar,jointly, le 325. Ilicl.per cwt. irKINONDWIXE, Dec. N.—Owing to the advanced seieem of the year, there wan a dun attendance of buyers at market, and the transactions were comparatively limited. The return of frost and snowy weather, coupled with the cost of the raw material, operate; to keep up the rates. WORsTED isTILYFS, Sc.—Basoromi, DEC. 21.—The attendance of merchants at market to-day, though rather limited, was fully as large as usual at the close of the year, and those present seemed more disposed to buy than the manufarturers were to sell, at the rates which have lately prevailid, the opinion that generally prevailed being that preen had seen their lowest point, and a hat with the turn of the year an improvement might be caliectisl. Then. Was, is consequeu.c, ia. creased activity in the yarn market, and oT rs were made for de livery In the neat and sacceeding in:mtlx, but they were regarded with great iiityness by the spinners, and were only accepted at im proved rates. The wool market win eery firm, most descriptions being held for advanced rates, and from this cause, coupled with the period of the year, the taircharcra were tether ILO. EALY AND Lace TiLAbrA.—The warp lace branch Is to a great ex tent in abeyance, but we believe the m.Jvicer of s els et laCl`, both from the warp and bobbin net machines, is not wholly Abandollid. The great drawback upon the lace manufacturer is the incr , ased coat of the machinery, which, from all we can hear, is likcly to be greater sooner than less, as several attempts are m a king to ineream the quantity of bobbin thread that the carriages now carry. Should this be suc,:rsiv. ful, a thorough revolution in the present Lice machinery Wit take place throughout Europe; and the machines now removing to Lyons and Tarrant from the north of Vramai will become compa ratively useless. We bare heard of no alto, ation or retrogradable action in the wrought cotton hose branch, it is, if anything, improv ing ; but, we regret to say not in the liner qualities. The cotton glove nadc Li slowly arnmaing. The silk glove branch, however, keeps, it an thing, getting worse as silk will not bear cutting with the same impunity as cotton. We were half astounded to learn that a most saillen and estenslee order has cn ived fur plain silk stock ings, and that the house to whom it was given had some to comp eel Win extent toierrated ; sti r ll it roluced c one a kii i h w h —Nottinylsams Jn rust.elk Tits LACE. TRAM—The foreign trade is slick, the rivers being partly closed up in the north of guns* by th. home businena 11, as usual at Uri. time of th e oto l . o‘ f preparation and inquiry than actual r e d mr, m ers, A , e „7 ,1 11, are a ppearing in the market, and good s are going oy quantities. Priors of the finer kinds of plain bob ne t L a r 4 Wil tained : these for coarser ghilli es are gradually law 11 4, tingAaers 14,1 w MANCEACTCRIA—The introduction of the new muslin lace has caused the machirie.ownere and y0ur n5 .„...... Oct makers of this town to arouse their dormant cherish the hope that a great change for the better wit r, their affairs. In this belief we fully coincide, as se hateZ i. ! of opinion that the bobbin-net machine will prove a tuns to the weaver's loam, t certainly will exce: it in sm. ; ..1 1 4 manufacture it produces is every respect stronger ~ed b itin th Nuffirtgharn iteosesty. • from Ms LONDON GAZ I TTS of Friday Dee BANEBUPTS. • • J. Aironrwa, Llantrissant, Glanwrituedtire, voter. Ln Jan. 8 at 115, K Feb. 5 at 11, at Bristol Ct. &e a ., p , " 11 11r Son, Bristol; off. Millar, Bristol. *Orton, Luicadtire millwright, Jan. & t at Manche-ter Cl. Sole., , South.so., Gr e j a .t itit, Manchester; of. assig., Putt, Manchester. 11. I.ltavi.rnv, Itedditeh Solo., , Wurce‘t.Motteraiu & ishire, b hn L A. „ 12, at Birmingham Cl. II olt wait., Whitmore. Birmingham. Bj. Caao, Dilton, Wiltshire, (miller, Jan. 13 at 121, g p at 1. p. 1. at Ilasingindlot. Sole., Fennell o. Co, Ifseford.rce II Miller Frame • of. awog., fall, Coleinansg.-I m ild . • T. & et' , yele,ster, bookselkr. Jon. 15 & Feb. 12 at 12, at :tf o ham Ct. al, Bewley, Nottingham; olf. rum., Blithig e 7 4. Witham K. E wer . Liverpool, agricultural implement maker, Jan 29 at 11, at Liverpool Ct. Sots., I tolme & to., New-ion, g g tak ': Liverpool ; of. *sing., Bird, Liverpool. W. A. EL,ON, 11 , 4broOk ploll9 . hi re, ntrgtok u 1 1i 2 . , r.B e ir. t ing eisk ingh ; h ag a iutIl buti - to i nii..l l:ls vicwaikuf .,:rt u v rer tuan :jj: ll l3 Freeman * Hicks, Northaropttm ; snag., t;r..em, Awa ttnh ..l A. im..nsa, Alton, Hampshire, brewer, Jan. 5 at I, a peks 12, at amine:tall-at Sol., Dter & Co., Ely-pi., ; Pennell, at Ilirmbighitm Ct. SoL, Harding, BO utingnam ; ofi. 12, at Birmingilam Ct. Sots., smith, Birmingham, & *e e l ; c at ... Pea ty et., Linoahes-inn; off. ss.ig., Valoy, Birmingham. T. Heine Birmingham, boot seller, Jan. ti & Feb. 3 at 11, it ar. miogham Sul., &0111111.1.111, Birmingham ; olf. wi g , Lb w; Birmingham. W. JONES & 0. CLAY, UVerpOOL, boiler makers, Jan B g ha t a 12, at Liverpool Ct. So'ao , Smith & Co., Bedford.row, * nash ; Liverpool ; off. Lode., Cazenove, Liverpool. P. J. LorritEr Bread-tic-hill, City, druggist. JIM 9 a t it A Feb. sat 12, at itutinghalLst- Bois Badgrdie, 513 191.14; et Q t." Whitmore, Basinghall.st. M. OM. Naso Bristol, victualler, Jam 8 at 125, ?di. a le 12, at Bristol et. Bola, Treherne & White, Bargelga.th, Bucklersbury, & Sabine. Bristol; off. &wig., Aeraman, brisag — ' W. °swot, Liverpool, boot maker Jan. 12 x 29* 11, at Li tt& pool Ct. Sols., Vincent, Temple, Liverfoal; d. Morgan, Liverpool. 0. Hossirra, Tym 7 Coed, Carnarronshire, cattle desk?, auk Feb. 9at 11, at Liverpool Ct. Sole., Edwards a Peale, New ai m yard; Williams & Edwards, Denbigh; & Dodge, Liven e d, mug, Morgan, Liverpool. G. Roogas, Gloucester, ironmonger Jan. 8 & Feb. Sat I, at Bfi aa t Ct. Sot, Willis, Gloucester; off. asuig., Iluttos, Bristol. 11. Witzmous ' Wationl, Hertfordshire, cabinet make, Jan. 71g 14, & Feb. Sat 12, at BaSingh4lAt. Sol., Strut% Buckingttig e t , Strand; of. sang., Bell, Coleman-et-build. W. L WOOD, Gracechurch.st., City, Ironmonger, JAL 5 a Peki at 11, at BasinghaliaL Sol., lienuerson, Monsell.si, taxman*. fields; off. wig., Belcher, Mourgate.st. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. W. Browns, Klidormirtarr, Worm I. 31.tber, &wiper Chelloe, tenbtre, baler. talk! of beer. J. Manner, tlellbsgagl ten, Worcester- J. %%A.A. &WW4w. Irvin% awe, maluter. innkeeper. DECLARATIONS OpDIVIDENDS. —-• • - • G. Atkins, Liverp 01, brewer—hid div. of 6d., D. 24, &my ise, sequent Thursday, a. Chzents c's, Liverpool. J. Boulton, Aahton-under- Lyre, corner—let div. of so,* D it. 29, & any subsequent Dies&iy, at Hobson's, Itanebsiter. J. Breakenridge, Liverpool, tailor —l4 dir. of Am. Jam 6, a subsequent Wednesday, at Mor,ran's, Liverpool. R. C. Capleton, Cheltenham, tea dealer div. of k 64., DL 2J, & any subsequent Wednesday, at Miller's, BristoL H. Cook, Oainaborouak, Lincolnshire, surgeon—lst die. 0 / Dec. 20, & any subsequent Wednesday, at liynaston's, Hall. It. L. Dawson & P. Vance, Liverpool, merchants—lnd do..ddi Jan. 6, & any subsequent Widneslay, at Morgua's, Liveipwl. M. Goodale, Rutland-ter., Holloway, hulder—let dir. any Wednes day, at Whitsoure'a, Basinghallast. C. Harwar, Lincoln's-inn, paper merchant—y 6 tit d 6s. 90., Da. 29, & every following Tu Tuesday, at Holnes% cheater. S. Mead &W. Mod, Liverpool, iron merchants-2M die. el*, Jan. 6, & any subsequent Wednesday, at Morgan's, Limpid. M. W. Osborne, Coventry grocer—bit. div. of 4a, Dee. la, Wig subsequent Wednesday, at Bittleston's, Birmingham. J. Parton, Birmingham, draper—final di.. 0; 3d , Dee. M, teem alternate Wednesday, at Bittleston's, Birmingham. A. Reed & J. Powell, Totteutiaru-cL-rd., iroumengere—la dlr. d 2s. 21.2., any Wednesday, at Whitmore's, Basinghall-at. R. Tebay, Winchester, plumber—a di.. of 31d., on acoxial d s former div. of 2a. 70., any Wednesday, at 'Whitmore's, lLsingkelia, W. Warburton. Newea.stle.upon.Tyne, grocer—lit dic. d7a, la 1, & any subsequent Saturday, at Baker's, Newcaetle-upon-Tyne, W. Watts, Dontagter, millwright-Ist div. of 6s. tat, Jan. l, iq subsequent Friday, at liplaston's, Leeds. DIVIDENDS.—Jan. 15. F. Jones, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, a cart'—Jan. 18. R. A. F. Koigsoote,Sandgate. Kent, merchsat—Js 18. E. Leman, Chureh.row, New ington, whartinger—Jaa. IL & Shute, Credilon, Devonshire, woollen manufacturer—Jan W . 1. Twiddle, Liverpool, soap manufacturer—Jan. 22. W. Taylor, Beals head, Yorkshire, wool merchant—Jan. 20. J. Potter & W. Nati, Manchester, cali co printers—Jan. 19. B. Crompton, M. Price, kl, Crampton, Shricley, Cheshire, briur makers—Jun. 19. C IL G.ll‘ North Shields, ship broker—Jan. 21. W. Thompson & J. ildlia, les. castle-upon. Tyne, merchants—Jan. 15. J. itawson, Spalding, Ila colnahlre, tailor—Jan. 22. W. Barker, Lancaster, cotton spumer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—.I. }lsrael & W. B. Raley, Ratcliff-highway—E. H. Jones & W. J. Fryer, Carahal, City— F. Boardman, W. T. Naylor, J. T. Naylor, J. E. Naylor, W. Armstrong, IL P. Dairy, J. O. Owen, & J. P. Jame., I arouses— A. Wentzell & C. Cownden, Lambeth—W. Hughes & J. etimissa, Manchester—R. } reer & W. Field, Itugeley, starfurdsture—s. /tithe. don & J. J. Carr, Billiter-st., City—J. Murray & H. Sharpe, Patellar ter-row, City—C. 11. Beaumont &H. learman, Chula-it, Hants. garden—S. Crowder &G. Crowder, Sun-nt., COT—l. B. Sprat L. Sparks, & T. Cooper, Norwich, so tar as regarti. T. toupee —A. 1. Edgar la H. Amey, Liverpool—J. Morris, J. Hall, Si W. k:. Mime, Bedford, Lancmhire—E. Hudson & S. Crouch, Harbin, ilettfordshin —G. Garton & W. Wright, Shetßeld—T. Wolfe at J. Purlrs, Sawa mesa, Russell-sq.—R. W. Lloyd & C. Wallin, Liverpool—X.6nm ough & J. J. liolbuid, Manchester—lt. Ferris, W. Score, at N.Carp. pelf, Bristol—W. Sutcliffe & W. Psas, Greertacres-moor, Law:whirr T. Tarsey &T. Mitigate, London—J. ratiema of W. A. Turner, Star. et, City—L. Allen &I. Isaacs, lloundsditch. City—J. Hannan & l. H. Beckett, Aston, Warwicbslarc—J. IL Withiugtori at F. 11. Nes. match, Manchester—J. Buchanan & J. Howie. Glasgow. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, DM 24.—Arrived: 3tary %S Valtiztaimi Rajah Rama Emerdale, Calcutta; British Queen, Antigua; Sari Trott:ruin, Gong Kong and Whampos Euphrates, Bombay and Hatg Kong; Cambyses, Trinidad. Off the Port:—The Luke of Welkagtall, Calcutta; Grace, Savannah; Invermore, Plana. Spoken : Ulan (Portuguese brig !, prize H .N.S. Hydra, bound to St. lieleaNOtt-tid Promo', and reported that a schooner had been taken at them:must. R. Bean, 9th Nov., lat. 2.3 N., tong 31 W., by the ilennett.i. [Advertisement.)—Dn. IJE DASSEL, OP VAN DIE MEW/ LAND, AND Voter OWAT'A Pars.—Extract of a letter from lobs Knight, Eaq., dated Launccaton, March 1, 1•45 Prolessor Hobo. way —Dear Sir, I am authorised by Dr. De Dame', of this oulony, to Inform you that, having witnessed here, in serer: inatances, [heeds. ordinary effect of your pith., he, in consequence, is induced to my that you may make use of his name as attesting their efficacy. (Silted) JOHN KNIOUT, CUM Villa, late proprietor of the Launcegtem Adam tiger... These pills act upon the foundation of the eyetem, Muscling the most deep-rooted coinplaints, even when every other 'reamed has failed. Sold at Professor llollowav's katitgiahment, 244, great and by all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the eivilad world. BIRTHS. BAKER.—Dee. 14, at Hoe.hteeet, Plymouth, the wife of Lieut. C. H. BAN, R.N., Commuter ,•IH.M. Revenue Simonet Vukan t a a son. Cl.altH.—Hoe, 17, at LArgaotegher, Mk/her:L, the n de of J. J. Clark, 1.44.. of a *ea. _ CLIFFORD.—Dec. 21, at Cape) street, Dubata, Mrs. Clifferd, of her email COL6B.—Dee. 13, at Whepton Beauchamp, the wife of the Rev. I. Strata Wm, of a doubter. HAWKE/L.—Dec. 17, at lkwastle, the wde of C. C. Hawker, Rm., of 0 daughter. MOUSER.—Dee. 21, at Market Drayton, the wife of Captain Horner, Lard the ssm regiessett, of d itezhter. LENT.—llee. Zl, at 3, Raton• place, West, tti; wire of T. F. Kent, kip„ of • PAYNEr—Dee. 11, at Lattereaton, the %Ire or Kr. F. A. rayue, of Race.la Cottage, of aeon. T01114.711ec, I I, at SWIM Plymouth, the wife or Mr. It. ToM, of ■ &twister. TUJLNER.—Dee. 2*, at Biel. 11, Thorrertnn. Ilrs. J. Turner, ofa saa. MAUHIAG 131.AILP.—OILDEA.—Dee. 21, a tit Mort's. Dublon, by the in H. Verschoyle, Mak, Esq., second son of the at Capt. N. teak, of Newborow, to Anne, seeund dan2ltter of Ole late A. Haden, of rwl Royal, and Cloyscorotaels, Mayo. HILL—TIWIIItsON.—Des. 2J, at St. Gllees, Cataberwt.ll, by 1k Res. G. T 'Townsend, M.A.,blr, W. 11. Hal, to Mary, only dlarinier of , . Tharp ,of Oilliugham. ILEMP—GILLAIID.—Dec 23, at Plymouth, by the Rev. J. Hstamed. / 1 J. Kemp, of 1114 e, to Caroline Elisabeth ti Wood, forarrlfor dm WWI Muer, but lately residint ra Plymouth. LI M DEN—AFELECK.—Dm. 13, at Alresford. Colchester. by t O e Rev. J. R. eloythles, the Heron de Lotden, Attache to the Legator toga Me Carnet W urtentbure, to Fanny. danchter of the hie Cul. Al&gli. MODKEY—REDI Ski LuN.—Dee. 13, at St. Morro, Doblu, ry Or R." Mooney, the Rev. P. M., may. of 044 Leighlin, tSarlaw, to Aam Esue relict of J. Itedlington, Esq., New Grove. tialway. KEALE-BRWELL.—Dee. 23, at the British Etutowy, Brawn. W llr lire. W. Drury, Lieut.. Fol. E. St. John Neale. her Prreanir Kb*/ *i.e-Consul at Alexandre. to, in Syria, to Addank. Y.hho. 4 "."" the late H. !Jewell, Esq., of the Hoo. East ladl.o t %nations *. Matta. od /tutee. W001)-11ANKP.Y.—Dec. 22, at Bath, by the )lee. n stoltry, 12 1 H. H. A. Wood, Esq., of t h e hominy Hide C qrs. y•mnaml ww J. 8 Wood, D.C.L . Lieutenant of the Tow,-r, aid :Ate ,4 the as Horner. tO Catharinoolaughter of the late IL. Seeley. Eon, of Prow *Ow Meat, and of Greco-park-buildings. 14th. DEATHS. BARLOW.—Dee. 20, Mr. N. Ratio*, surgeon, of Stlaokm sm. BIGOS.—Dec. IC, Mr. J. Biggs, of lion.. av, 7.;. /41000.—Dee. 11, Sarah, the wife of Mr. J. is • f Itoltmor• CANN.—Ded 18, at Mount Radford, Rebecca, relict of the 1., 4.11 at, LW, Of Frldge-hatme. aged 00. CLARKE.—Dee. 17, at Maryville-houst. Ilawlhunt. J. 1' Cl.4e, the bkh4lt am of the Lae J. P. Clirke,Eny . aged I lit COFFI N.—Dee. 19. at att.Arbytt•street, Ply mouth, XI!. , the win of 1.1 CoMn. Esq., aged SO. COLLINN.--Dce. 20, at Higbee Portland•plac... 0:. , 1o, Via Harriet r Collins, aged 19. D'AGUIL&R.—Dee. 22, at 2, South-stead, Pillsbury, Mo L2011)40 .4 ' aged 63. DeNl.—Dee. V, at Sofro Walden, Mrs. Ilannib..l Donn, tr... Yte d Ware, aged 81 ELWELL.—Dee. la. at St. Anbyn.strect, Plymmith, T. 1.10,11, Eel lino of Liu and Elwell, government contractor, n,te.l 12. GAGE.—INV. 24, at Ethel-pi ice, J. Oat., Esq.. 70. A LL.—Dee. 23, at Som..rion•eourt, norm set, Anne, relict of J. 11,1 M. formerly of the 113ok of England, aped sr). j 57. HARRIs.—Dee. 23, at I. Great Winekeeterwtret P. Mrs. Hanel', ne r d HOLLINOWORTH.—Lke.II. at Tarloel-nnli. 51.1101 1 * woad son of J. 11011Ineworth, Emi., sped 33. Xl3lo.—Dee. 24,1 King, Erg., of 2s, Chester•street. Indaravesq•W T I,loT.—Nov. 30, at Kwebtelot, 11r. F. List. MARTI:C.—Doc. It, the wife of V. Martin. Ear., of Esmond , 0 . 10.031K23.—Dee. le, at Luttgliere*, Cecilia, the watt of the 111 f. 0 . /mite. TULMFORD.—wDee. 11, at Lyme Resat. Mr. A. l'ulsteri, sea, aged C. K'AIINETT,—Dee, 21, Mo. &anat. at Upper Clatowsh aged 7 8 . SEAIIROOK.-13,. 10,01 Degewhaot, Mr. w di. SO• WERMEANT.-13ee. le, at Or. 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