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!arm 24, 1857. finished drawing shows the different aspects pre sented by genuine and spurious goods. In a general introductiai be considers the whole question of the best means of preventing adulteration. He would make it punishable in every case, though the adul teration should not in itself be either fraudulent or burtful. He recommends the appointment of inspec tors and analysts for every district in the kingdom, and suggests the punishment to which fraudulent traders should be subjected, one of his proposals being, that the convicted adulterator should be com pelled to exhibit for a time a placard in his window stating the nature of his offence. Dr. Hassell has in this, as in his previous publications, ably exposed :tile impositions practised on the public, and made out .s strong case for the interference of the Legislature to protect the public from the dishonest practices )knows as "tricks of trade." lQ<ttibird edition of Macilwain's " Memoirs of Aber nethy" ic . B) gives the whole work in a single volume, together with some important additions selected ;from Abernethy's papers, and a lithograph tram a ,drawing, showing his attitude when lecturing. The book now takes rank among established biographies. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.-JA %. BOOKS. The Rural Parsonage, and Olher Poems. A Clergyman Hall and Virtue Landmarks qf the History of Greece. Rey. James Woutledgehite. R Ditto I.rhe Ladder of Life. •aditiuns and Superstitions of the New Zealanders. Longmans The Legend of the Traseteria, Jeer. Illaitrated by teastave Dori. Adder and Co. .astrology as it is—not as it hae keen Represented. Ilailliere lßerinuds ; a Colony, a Fortress, • 44 a Prison. By a Field Officer. Longinans Era, and Otker Poems. Caroline Gaud Moxon Niobe. Beanie Samms Turner. Sarnders and Orley The Little IJ - vrld of London. Charles Mitobv Smith. Virtue sn3 Hall Saunders and Orley rgo Baadi. Speranza. PAMTTILETS. The Gates f the East. Ward and Lock—A Review of the Divorce Bill of 15.56. J. W. Parker—Mural Controrrrpp. .Groombridge—Road Reform. Blackwooda—Plutus. Bos ‘wlrth—Comnson Things. Sampson Low. PERIODICALS. The Rural Alinanack.—.lrish Quarterly Review. Simpkin eakd Marshall—The Post Magazine. Pateman—British Ji'urbiau. Partridge and Co. XUStC. --- Hanle: Messiah. Novello--Mosares Reviisat Mass. :Novelle. MAPS. Atkis of Universal History. Gitlin and Co.—Map of London. :Stanford. Vie grams. SURREY THEATRE. Mn. F. PsThrers's " new and original" play, A Bird in the fiend is worth Two in the Bush, seems likely to enjoy a continued success, so admirably is it cal • culated to suit the tastes and capacity of the audience to which it is presented. There is no complexity of . plot, no refinemeat of wit, no . delicacy of sentiment :to puzzle the honest simple folk over the water. '.The characters are all old stage properties, familiar /friends whose faces we recognise at once as soon as use see them, and whose time-honoured jokes and inevitable traditional sentiment we tolerate for the sake of 4 -aulu lang Fyne." There is no mistake about them ; the I"illains are villains, unredeemed by even a touch of honesty—black all over, like the Othello of Mr. £rummles'a enthusiastic friend; and the virtuous <personages are as supernaturally excellent as they are miserable and ill-used. There is the wealthy, crowhetty uncle with two nephews, the good nephew and the bad nephew, the latter having naturally "done" the former by falsehood and treachery out of his rightful %heritage. The wife of the one is, as a matter of .course, a rustic personification of all the cardinal virtues in russet ; of the other, a fashionable lady with :an army of servants, nerves, poodles, carriages, and no heart. Then there is a rough major, an old Snead .of the rich uncle, who believes in the good ;poor nephew, and don't believe in the bad. rich nephew, and says so, and a faithful old servant who dollows the major's lead. A comic attorney (well played by Mr. Widdieornbe), who holds securities for the fast nephew, and arts skeleton to the fashionable establishment, completes the circle. The plot is extremely simple; at the instigation of the major, Int old friend consents to die for a short time, and, disguised as his own steward, to %certain by personal observation the true characters of his two nephews. Tile contrast between then is sufficiently stnking. Virtue limps in, dusty and footsore, in fustian, with an empty parse, and a mouth full of moral claptrap ; hay • ing " first turned aside to shed a tear over the grave of the relative so dearly loved !" Vice conies on, pre ceded by a crowd of lackeys and waiting-maids, blustering and swaggering after the most approved (8) Memoirs of John Abernethy. lard Editivn. Loudoa: ILatcbard. THE PRESS. models of "fashion and quality." The false steward draws his own conclusions, the will is read, the bad nephew is preparing to turn the good nephew and his patient wife out of doors, and the attorney is con gratulating himself on his bargain (he has taken the old house and estate in exchange for the new landlord's bills), when justice makes her appearance, in the shape of the resuscitated uncle, in his fami liar wig and usual stockings, and sets everything to rights; the fashionable lady and her husband retire, raked by a furious fire of morality. Virtue is re warded, the comic attorney confesses himself an ass, and the curtain descends on a touching family tableau. As for the acting, there is really little demanding special criticism. The characters being all formed on traditional models, the actors naturally fall into established grooves in their delineation. Mr. Widdicombe's lawyer is amusing enough, but full of exaggeration, while the severe uncle, the bluff major, and that miserable couple, the virtuous nephew and his exemplary wire, are severe, bluff, and miserably virtuous, exactly in the manner and to that degree which the exigencies of their position in the piece demand. SACRED HARMONIC SoclETY.—Mendelssohn's music to Athalie and Rossini's Stabat Mater were produced by this Scciety ou Friday evening for the first time this season ; the solo parts in the former being sung by Miss Dolby, Madame Clara :Covello, and Miss Sherrington, the recitative being declaimed by Mr. Phelps; while in the latter, Mr. Sims Reeves and Signor Belletti gave their assistance. The choruses in Athalie were generally cor:ectly and effectively performed : the beautiful tub°, " Hearts feel that love thee," was encored unanimously and repeated. The famous Priests' March was magnificently rendered by the orchestra. Mr. Sims Reeves gave the fine solo, " Cujus animam," in the Stabat Mater, with true pathos ; and the great chorus, " In fiammatus," was rendered with astounding grandeur. Signor Belletti's " Pro Peccatis," though somewhat hard, was a conscientious interpretation ; and the favourite quartet, " Qqatido Corpus," was sung with such exquisite truth and feeling that it only just escaped an encore. Mr. Costa was, however, inexorable. The next concerts of the society are fixed fGr Friday, January 30 (Elijah), and Friday, February 6 (Atha lie and Stabat Mater). Madame Clara Novello appears at these performances for the last times pre vious to her departure for the Continent. Obituarl. HIS GRACE TILL DUKE OF RCTLAND, K.G., died at half-past three o'clock on Tuesday, at Belvoir Castle, near Granthan, in his seventy-ninth year. The immediate cause of his death was an attack of bron chitis, supervening on a gradual decay. John Henry Manners, fifth Duke and fourteenth Earl of Rutland, Senior Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieu tenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Leicester, and Colonel of the Leicestershire Militia, High Steward of Cambridge, Recorder of Scar borough and Grantham, a trustee of the British Museum, and one of the Council of King's College, London, was born on the 4th of January, 1778. He was tiara eldest and last surviving son of Charles, fourth Duke (son of the celebrated Marquis of Granby), who died suddenly in 1787, at the ago of thirty-four, from an internal attack, while holding the important post of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by the Lady Mary Isabella Somerset, youngest daughter of Charles, fourth Duke of Beaufort, who died in 1831, long after she had outlived her reputation as the most beautiful woman of her day. The late duke succeeded to tke princely title and estates of his father when be was under ten years of age, and consequently held his dukedom for the unprecedented period of all but seventy years. At the usual age his grace entered Trinity College, Cambridge, then under Dr. Postlethwaite, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1707. At the time of his decease be must have been nearly the senior member of that college, with the exception of Lord Lyndhurst, who graduated there some three years before him, Having come to his title at so early an age, his grace was never able to hold a seat in the House of Commons. In 1799, however, he took his seat in the Upper House, and naturally gave his support to the then existing Ministry of Mr. Pitt, who. it may here be remarked, owed to the recommendation of the father his first introduction to public life as member fur Lord Lonsdale's pocket borough of Appleby. The duke, however, though, on one occasion, we believe, be moved or seconded the Address in the House of Lords, never took an active or prominent part in the proceedings of that assembly, but contented himself with giving to the Ministries of Pitt, Addington, Percewal, and Liverpool, as afterwards to Wellington, Peel, and Lord Derby, a steady, but silent support. During the greater portion of his time his brothers, the late Lords Charles and Robert Manners, repre sented the Tory interest in the counties of Leicester end Catnbridge, in which lies the greater part of the 91 property of the house of Rutland. As a magistrate, country gentleman, friend, neighbour, and parent it is not too much to say that his grace was equally honoured and beloved. As a proof of the affectionate regard in which he was held by his tenantry we may mention that so lately as Christmas, 1855, the tenants on the Belvoir estates presented him with his portrait, which they had painted by subscription by . Grant. He took great p r id e i n hi s cor p s o f Leicestershire Yeomanry ; and at Christmas and other seasons of the year, and especially on his own birthday, he rejoiced in keeping open house in "princely style," and in entertaining not only les family and friends, but the leading inhabitants of the county and his own poorer dependants. He also subscribed largely to the maintenance of the Leicester. shire hunt, though for some years he had been unable to follow the amusements of the chase. It should be added that his grace was regarded with high esteem by the poet Crabbe, who owed to his father his earliest preferments ; and who mentions him with much re spect in the prefaces prefixed to his poetical work. The deceased duke is succeeded in the family honours and vast landed estates by his eldest son, the 'Marquis of Granby. M.P. (now Duke of Rutland ), who way born in May, 1815. He was first returned to the House of Commons for Stamford in 1837, which borough he uninterruptedly sat for until July, 1852. when he was elected for North Leicestershire, on the retirement of his uncle, the late General Lord Charles Manners. By his accession to the House of Lords a vacancy occurs in the representation of that division of the county. By the lamented demise of the venerated duke the families of the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, the Countess of Carlisle, the Countess of Scarborough, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, Mr. B. Coch rane, M.P., Mrs. Cochrane, and many others of rank, are placed in mourning. REAR ADMIRAL STEVENSON died last week at Leith. This officer entered the navy in 1783 as a first-class volunteer. He served first on the coast of North America until 1789, and next in the Channel and West Indies, from 1790 until 1792. In 1797 he was nominated acting lieutenant of the Victorious, 74, and assisted at the blockade of Mangalore. He re turned to England in 1803; obtained in 1804 an ap pointment in the Sea Fencibles at Dundee ; acquired the rank of commander in 1806 ; and from the re. ceipt of his post commission, bearing date 1812, was employed (with the exception of an interval of two months in the summer of 1808) on various parts of the Baltic, Mediterranean, and home stations, He made prize of two privateers, and accompanied the expeditions to Copenhagen and Walcheren. He at. tained his present rank in 1846. DR. TATHAM, Master of St. John's College, Cam bridge, died on Monday night at twelve o'clock in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His decease was ex pected by his friends, as he had been gradually declining for several months, and for the last three weeks he was confined to his bed. He was the twelfth Wrangler of his year, and graduated 8.A., 1800; M.A., 1803; 8.D., 1811; D.D , 1839. In 1809 he was elected Public Orator, and discharged the duties of that office with great ability till the year 1836, when be resigned. He was elected master of his college on the death of Dr. Wood, in the year 1839. THE COENTESi of CARHAIMTON died on the 18tb inst., at Sillwood place, Brighton, in the eighty-flreit year or her age. Her ladyship was the daughter a John Morgan, Esq., and in 1798 became the second wife of the B.ght Hon. .john Luttrell, third and last Earl of Carhatupton, but was left a widow on the decease of that nobleman in 18:29, who died without leaving male issue, when the peerage consequently expired. gabal and litarg ICntriligtnot THE following circular from the Horse Guards in reference to a new description of firearm with which the regiments of cavalry• are to be supplied has been forwarded to all the commanding officers of those corps ; Horse Guards,Jan. A. The General Commsnrling•in•Chief has been pleased to command that the circular memorandmn of the lith of April last shall be made applicable to the cavalry as well as the infantry, and to approve the general re-marking of the arms and accoutrements of the army in conformity there. to, excepting, however, the smooth-bore arms in possession of the cavalry, which will eventually be superseded by breech-loading carbines and rifled pistols. The above arrahgements have been made in concurrence with the Se cretary of State for War, who has approved the cost thereof being borne as a charge against the public. G. A. WETHERALL. Adjutant-General. THE Secretary of State for War has decided on completing the Field Equipment Corps of the Royal Engineers to its proper strength, and making it as effective as possible. THE OPERATIONS OF THE NEW COASTGUARD SER VICE commenced on Monday, when Commodore E'len hoisted his broad pennant on board her Ms-