The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

tolerably gold, both as to number and quality; but the tee , ipts of Beasts from our own grazing districts re sev eralhundreds less than were those reported on Mon daY last. As the dead markets were rather scantily sup- Plied, and as butchers iu general had very little stock on hand, the Beef trade ruled sorne;ilat active, at an ad vance in the quotations of Monday last of 2d per Blbs., . 1141 a good clearance was effected prior to the close of 1 2te market. The top figure for the best !Scuts (allielt 'reed came to hand in excellent fmudition), was 3s 1041 Per 81ba. From Norfolk, Suffolk. Essex, and Cam bridgeshire, we received 2 000 Short Scots, - "rtlss & e . From other parts of Eng land ~ 4 ° o Herefords, Devona, Short horns, &c.; a .„ l3 d • from Scotland 650 Horned and Polled Sco ts. s heep was a considerable falling off in the arrivals of '''eep from nearly the whole of our leading count ies ; the total supply of that description of stock being much smaller than at the correshooding period of several pre /I°W years; hence the demand for all breeds was brisk, at an improvement in the currencies of quite 21 per Bl bs, r primest Old Downs realized 4s psr 81bs with out difficulty. With Lambs we were tolerably well, but tot to say heavily supplied. The trade ruled steady at fully last e,,,elt's prices, viz., 4s to 5s per 81bs. The ar ttlals from the Isle of Wigtst were confined to 180 head. Although the stipply of Calves was extensive, the trade tas steady at full currencies. The p rimest q ualities of Veal sold at 45 per Blbs. We hada moderate inquiry ior v Pigs at late rates. Per Ms. to sink the offal. s. d. to a. d. S. d. to s. d Liferke Beasts.., •. 2 8 210 Inferior Sheep •• 210 3 0 teeond 2 0 3 2 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 Lritne !arge ' l j .hcen.. 3 4 3 6 Cmrse-woolledditte3 6 310 V i tae Scots ......3 8 310 southdown Wether 310 4 0 ~.'erge coarse Calves 210 3 6 Oitto autof the wool I) 0 Vll:ne small ditto 3 8 4 0 Large Hogs ...... 2 6 3 4 'T tle 'kliig Calves ..19 0 23 0 small eoritera •• • 3 6 3 8 .4raba 4 0 5 0 Quarter old Pigs •• 16 0 19 0 TOTAL ti urrLy AT MA ItiC KT. Beasts. i Sheep.l Calves. i ri vs . 3 , 990 1 24,6 I 0 450 1 455 FOREIGN' SUPPLY. Beasts I Sheep. I Calves. 1 Pi g s. 4/4 I 1,650 2.38 _ & Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, June 16, ISM, and this day, Monday, June 14, 16,52. Per 81bs., to sink the offals. June 16, 1851. June 14,1852 s. d. s. d s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... 2 4to 2 6 2 Bto 2 10 Second quality ditto ... ... 2 8 210 3 0 3 2 prime large Oxen ........3 0 32 3 4 3 6 ;,..rinie Scots, I , C. ... 3 4 3 6 3 8 310 Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... 2 8 21°2 10 3 0 S econd quality ditto ... ... 3 0 3 2 3 2 3 4 rime coarse-woolled ditto ... 3 4 3 6 3 6 310 P rince V Southdown ditto ...... 3 8 31 03 10 4 0 4 4 5 4 4 0 5 0 rge coarse.ealv-L.........3 0 3 6 210 3 6 Large small ditt0.........3 8 4 0 3 8 4 0 Ho 2 8 3 4 2 6 3 4 'wall Porkers * :** •• ••• •• ... 3 6 3 8 3 6 3 8 Beasts ... ••• 3,778 3,990 Sheep and Lambs .. ... 29,680 24,610 Calves 328 350 Pigs .. • • 427 455 SUPPLIES ON SALE, JUNE 17, 1850.—Beasts, 3,601; e lleep and Lambs, 31,780 ; Calves, 338 ; Pigs , 315. JUNE 18, 1849--Beasts, 3,114; Sheep and La mbs, 29,000 ; valves, 282 ; Pigs. 230. ISMTVGATS AND 2.I3ADENIZALL , For the time of year the supplies on offer in these markets are tolerably extensive; nevertheless the gene -1;1,11 demand is steady, and prices are well supp orted. D uring last week nearly 4,000 carcasses of country killed Lamb reached us. At per stone by the Carcase. d. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. 14 _e f• Inferior.—•• 2 2 2 4 Mattonvinferlor .. 2 6 2 8 Middling .... 2 6 2 8 --- middling •. 210 3 2 PriMelarge .. 210 3 0 -- prime ••.. 3 4 3 6 v.., PriMe small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large •• .• .... 2 6 3 0 '",•••• .......... 3 8 310 small .• ••••• • 8 2 3 6 _ _ _ _ Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 103. BOROUGH AND SPITILLPIELDS. NO imp orts of New Potatoes have yet token place fr om,.. the Continent; but largo supplies are expected to wards the close of the month. The arrivals of old tlthlities continue seasonably good, but their condition is ZierY t week; inferior but other k . Real ly inds com fine pa mand very ti rcels are very rattle attention. ite as dear as . r a ark R egen ts, per ton, 85i to 115 s; Scotch ditto, 8 5 s to 95 a; Essex and Kent, 703 to 85 s; Cambridge and Wis k "fteh• 70s to 85s. 802.017G8 SOP EVLIUMET. We have a slightly increased demand fur most kinds of lgoo ot • last year's growth, as w ell as fin e yearli n g s. prices, however, we have no i m p rovement to notice. Ge nerally. speaking the plantati on accounts are somewhat f ourable. Sussex Pockets , 51 12s to 61 6s ; Weald of 4 "", 61 to 71 sa; Mid and Eas t Kent, 71 to 121 10 Ye arlings, 31 10s to 51 lOs; Old O lds, 11 23 to 21 lOs Per cwt. WOOL Last week's imports of Wool into London were only ° WEB from the Cape, 114 from Ilamburgh, 275 from 0 4,ezandria, and 81 from Ireland. The q uantity on t i e t in the private contract market is limited; yet the e ttlatid for all kinds is in a slugg ish state. Several parcels of Eng g lish have been taken for shi p ment to e lgium. _ _ _ ow. Par market has becowe somewhat active for the time tt,lear, and prices are from 91 to is 3d per cwt higher tit ? On Monday last. P.Y.C. on the spot is now selling three 38$ 3d to 38s 6cl, and for delivery during the last Di 'ee months 394 6d per cwt. Town Tallow, the Rip e. of which is good, is quoted at 378 per cwt net cash. i)' 121 z 11 Fat 24 Id. per 81os. The Russians sill hold Z2OO casks of our stock. kick this day • • wee of Y. C. •• • • i,selivery last week •• itto from Juno 1— • • ‘,..rrivals last week • ultto from Ju ne 1. I 'll% of Town 1848 1849. 1850. 8,5'0 45s 6d to 46s Od I,s 47 3,951 1,811 4,96 i 47s Od 1801. 23,290 24,870 385 6d 368 9d to 35s Od to 37s Od 1,035 1,583 2,336 20b8 497 155 1,784 395 6d 3g,715 37 , al to 3713 6d 832 1,976 1,327 39,531 to 38s6d 1,267 1,•97 24 809 38s Od 33s Cd 398 Gd OUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The Lordships sat this m ornin g to hear a pp eals. e Peers p resen t were the Lord Chancellor a nd Lord reugham. GIBSON V. FORBES. • Thl appeal from the Court of Session of Scotland, I ch was opened on Friday , was 'p roceeded with this morning. R i o The q u estion in th e case was whether the man ia n and glebes of a minister of t he p arish in Scotland I liable to assessment for the poors'-ratcs. r. ANDERSON was heard this mo rnin g on behalf of th 6 appellants. JUDICIAL _COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat this horning. Th ero were p resen t—Lord Cranworth, Sir Edward. Ryan, Sir J. Patteson, Sir J. K. Bruce, and ~z; Lushington. • QUANE V. QUANE. This- was an appeal from the Court of Chancery of the Isle of Man, against a decision confirming an aa eient custom of the island, by which a child born before the marriage of his parents is entitled to succeed to the Property of his father, just Us if ho had been born in Wedlock. The Privy Caunoil, after hearing the appellants, ga,to judgment, dismissing t he a pp eal, and confirming . "tejudgment of the Court below. CRIMINAL COURT --(THIS DA OLD CO U The June sessions of the Central C riminri Court w e, opened this morning before the R i g ht Hon. the L O"rd Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Sir Georg e Carrel, t ,%ilisr Sir R. Carden, and Wire, and the S heriffs, at tended by their respective deputies. The first edition of the calendar contains the names 1 ,`„ , 109 prisoners, 27 of whom are from London , 54 f rom u:ddlesex, 2 from Essex, 12 from Kent, and 14 from Surrey. There are nine cases of burglary,',eight of cutting °od wounding , three of forgery, one of manslaughter , t hree of murder, and two of rape. The grand jury laving been sworn and empannelled, The RECORDER said, upon looking over the calendar, he was happy. to find thar, although there was an .unusual Otnount,,ot business likely to be brought before them, Yet there was none that was likely to present any legal difficulty. There were three offences of the serious cha teeter of murder, but whether the offenders received theh provocation beforehand as to reduce the crime to that o f manslaughter must be left for the decision of the °Gun below. There was no other ease calling for O bservation, and, thanking them for their attendance, ii (1111 Y remained for him to dismiss them to their duties. The jury then retired. M IDDLE:SEXDASY.ESSIONS. THIS ) thi The June general ( 4.es!ion for Middlesex ccmrnencrd Th e morni ng at the Sessions H ouse , Clerkeowell-green. t s e calendar contains the names of 58 prisoners for f 55 ot whom are charg ed with the commission ot el fin eittnies m a y, 16, pleaded Guilty to an indictment th e t ,,,t i ng him with stealing a tilver snuff box, value als , ) sentenced of Aaron Hendricks, from his person. i 4 titenced to seven years' transportation. . 21, "Las Lee, 27, Eliza Boriell, 19, and Ellza, Lewis, W a Zere indicted for highway robh ry on Mr. Jotio th e ...bourne, a mercantile clerk, at half-past eleven, on night of the 3d April, in White Lion-street, I ngton. Th e • p rie _ Jury Acquitted Lee, and found the two female T he Guilty. je i Colin sen tenced them to six months' imprison mentn the. House of Correction with hard labour. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST Trio —Week RAILWAY. o. m e —Week ending Jane 12, 1852 ... £9,232 11 9 -.ue—Week ending June 14, 1851* 11,6 0 15 5 of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 215,137 910 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 Week 218,11 0 1 Total number of Passengers— Week ending June 12, 1852 ... 62,299 ••• • • £7,184 15 6 2,047 16 3 Pagiaangers ... ''. Goods ... ••- Total ... • £9,232 11 9 Total miles open, 1852, 173% ; ditto, 1851, 173%. Whit sun tide. London Terminus, June 14, 1852. b Mr. John G eorge Pninimore, Q C' , has been elected 3' the councilrepresenting all the Inn s of Court to the chair ConstitutionalOf , Law an d Le 'our Inns of C our t. Legal Hi s tory, founded by t h e . APPROACHING MARRI AGE S IN IliGli LIFE. — We li,e it lieve that the nuptials o f th e Viscount N ewark, son of I M.inverp, with the beautiful and accomplished .11eaughter of the Duke and Duchess de coigny, will be so fte marriage 1 pitlized in the course of the e; ,suing ape' k ' ' Z. the Hon. Aubrey Spring Rice, son o f Lord Monteagle, ii i ll Anna Maria, daughter of the late Sir Henry St. John 4 t t r 'aYp of Dogmersfield Park, B ar t., will also be c elebrated ° %AIM of the miming week. THE 817-14-ic LONDON, JUNE . 14, ADDISCOMBE MILITARY COLLEGE. Oa Saturday the chairman i.tud a ire t,o3y of the directors of the Hon. Ea ,t India C.ailLany, prOCP( dt.d to Addiacombe to receive the usaal nth-yearly repoit of th 3 plogrosi of the Etudews. AratnlgA the distinguished visitors were Prince Ed ward of Saxe Weimar. the Marquis of Normanhy, the M%tquis Caintl.en, the Earl of Cariie3le, Lard Fimdarence, Lord Gough, Lord Montesglc, Lord De Roq, Lord Ashburton, VoicounG Canniti, L ird Eiohir.- stone, Lord Mahon, M.P., the Hoy. Vernon Smith. M.P.; Richard Cobden, Esq., MP.; T„.Baring;, E,q., MX.; H. J. Willie, Ezq., M.P.; C. L. Bruce, Esq., and a large number of unfitary officers of both fy-rvices. The advanced students exhibited their attainments in the course of an exticainlfion in the chapel r:1 the institu tion, and in the usual engineering feats of the Coldstream• and the Baud mooei house. . The following g ,, ntlemen were then brought forward for leaving the college in the first clays:—Fur Engineers Ar , nut. is. , ,lntf.,.tt, Lang H. F. Hancock, B. W. Humphrey, J. R. Monckton, C. S. Thomason , G . P. de- Pahz:o!ux Falconnet, J. M. Campbell, J. G. T. Griffith. For Artillery—Messrs. J. H. Bryce, T. N. Hoiberton , H. E. Harrington, R. A. Smith, 0. Sturges, J. R. Pear `", SalweY, W. B. Cumberland, F. C. Trevor, T. 1.1. Planer, C. Hunter, D. J. M•Grigor, B. L. Gordoa. For Infantry—Messrs. H. G. Speng, G. S. Pope, C. E. Len nox, G. A. Bishop, H. P. Lyeaght, D. G. M.fial:ing, St. Maur, Wyr.ch, B. G. Jcbb, C. Jameson, T. Dougal, Charles F. Middleton, A. Gant. The fol lowing prizes were then s.warded:—First Class — A. M. Lang, the first prize in mathematics. tir:t in fortification, military surveying, first tani, and the gold Pollock meds). Toe cheiirrna: , in presenting the L'oilock medal, had great pleasure to awarding to Mr. L rug a memorial struck by the Inhabi tants of Calcutta in honour of the citstmononed scrvices of General Sir G. Pollock , in 1848, and trusted that its possession might prove the forerunner of a snoila: great and brilliant crireer. Mr. H. F. Hancock, second prize in mathematics ; a , c:nd in fortification, military draw ing, and civil thawing, Ms. E. W. liutripney, wsiza in French, and first priz- for general god cf.,nduct (u. splendid artillery sword). The chairman said he had great pleasure in pr. seating that sword as a reward for his ex:mplary cot dace, wuich he hoped he would long wear with credit to himself and honour to his country. Mr C. S. Thomason, second prize for good c'.ndust. Mr. H. E. Harrington, prize in Lain, and second prize in Hindustani. Second Class—Mr. S. T. Trevor, prize in mathematics, and prize in chemistry. Mr. G. Newmarch, prizes in military surveying, French, and Hindustani, and th.rd prize for general good conduct. Mr. T. Beckley, prize in torritication. Mr. H. D. Jack.- son ,prize in civil drawing. Mr. J Beatty, prize in military drawing, Mr. W. D. Sewell, prize in .Latin. Third Class —Mr. M. Elliot, fourth prize for general good conduct. • After the reception of' the report, the chairman of the company, Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., addressed the students upon the responsibility of the course opening before them. The greater part of the company then ad j nrned to the house of the lieutenant-governor, where a samptuous luncheon was provided, and the proceedings of the day terminated. FATAL JUVENILE RENCONTRE.—On Saturday, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Union, Union-street. Kingsland.road, on view of the body of Thomas Edward Holme, aged 10 years. Last W hit-Monday deceased gave some offence to a little girl of the name of Murton, which was resented by her brother, who was younger than the de ceased. The latter flung a stone at Morton, which cut his shin bone, and caused the blood to flow. He went to strike deceased, who laid himself on the ground. Morton, to make it a fair fight, also laid himself down, and they fought in that position about five minutes. On being defeated, deceased took up a stone to fling at Morton, upon which a man named Cooper interfered. Deceased called him some bad name, when Cooper said he would give him in custody of a police man, and took him in his arms for that . purpose. As be was going along they both fell , dece ased being und ermost. When he got home he complained of a severe pain in the left side of his head, and also of his left leg being hurt. On the Monday following he was attended by Mr. Burchell, sur geon, and soon alter he became delirious. He died on Wed nesday. Verdict-- hat the death of the deceased may have been accelerated by a tall." CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. —A. shabbily dre'sed man is goir g about the City, levying c ntributions upon merchants and others, under the pretence that he is a clerk who was ruined by the stoppage of one of the principal firms in the period of commercial distress, 1847. It appears that the re presentations he has made, and through w hich he has ob tained several sums of money out of commiseration fa- his unfortunate situation, have, from inquiries since set on foot, proved to be wholly without foundation. lIIGHBURY BARN.—A grand musical festival will take place in the large assembly-rooms, on the evening of Thursday, the 17th inst., in aid o f she fund now forming to assist Miss Hinckesemann, who has been incapacitated, by accident, from following her profession, and thereby de prived of her only means of support. A most powerful array of talent is engaged in the vocal department—Madlle. Eugene Garcia, Mrs. Alexander Newton, Miss Poole, Miss Messent, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mr. Tedder, ear. Weiss, Mr. Frazer, and several popular singers; and the instrumenta lists are composed of such celebreties as Denunck, llarper, Chatterton, Richardson, &c. Such a powerful attraction cannot fail to ensure a full attendance. FIRE IN BISHOPSGATE- STILE. T.—Shortly before one o'clock this morning the habitants of Bishopsgate and Finsbury were aroused by the cry of " Fire." In the course of a few minutes a body of flame shot forth, and as cended so high as to be perceived not merely in the City districts, but also on the Surrey side of the Thames. The light having been followed by the police, they found that the outbreak had taken place in one of the ancient buildings in; 2, Swan-yard, near the church, Bishopsgate-street. The owner of the property was a Mr. Lenzburg, a wood and ivory turner, and when the discovery was made the resi dents were in their beds. Having been aroused they found the flames progrea , ing so furiously that they had great diffi cu ty in fighting their way out of the premises. The Royal Society's fire escape promptly attended, followed in rapid succession by the brigade engines from Jeffrey-square, Whitecross-street, Watling-street, and Farringdon-street et tions, and that of the West of England office from the Waterloo-road station. An excellent supply of water having been procured the engines were put into operation, and the firemen, under the direction of Mr. Fogo, the brigade foremim, worked in an admirable manner, and by two o'clock thy succeeded in getting the fire extinguished, but not until great damage was done—the roof and upper floors being entirely consumed. Fortunately the sufferer was insured. The fire originated from a very simple cause—viz., placing a lighted candle teo near the window, the curtain of which was drifted by the current of air against the candle. ME. O'CosNoß.—On Friday a gentleman paid Mr. O'Connor a visit, and ascertained that considerable diffi culty had been experienced in inducing the eccentric patient to take the pills and the composing draught prescribed for him. As all remonstrances addressed to his reason had failed, the officials were at last compelled to appeal to his stomach. In his case such an appeal appears to have been peculiarly effective. During his confinement he has evinced considerable relish for the enjoyalent of good cheer, and on Friday he had ordered a plentiful supply of beef steaks and new potatoes to be provided for breakfast. His orders were complied with, and Mr. O'Connor had just sat down to enjoy the tempting fare, when his heartless attendant conveyed the astounding information " that he must not taste the food until he bad taken the physic!" It was in vain that he pro tested against this stern sentence; the officers were inexorable. At last the famished Feargus proposed a compromise. " Well," said he, " I'll take half the composing draught if you give me half the beefstake, and I'll take half the pills if you give me half the potatoes." 'The officials wisely closed the bargain, and this ingenious system affords every prospect of satisfactory results.—Sunday Paper. THE C.NDITIoN OE. THE %VEST INDIA COLONIES. — At a meeting of West India proprietors, held on Friday, at the offices 01 Messrs Shackleton, Wright, and Hunter, Liver pool, resolutions were passed at'ributing the present de pressed condition of those colonies to the unequal competi tion of their limited free labourers with the continued slave labour of Cuba and Brazils; and urging the importance of the British colonies being encouraged and assisted by the introduction, on liberal terms, of additional free labourers, and by the application of sound social laws in regulating their employment. It was contended, too, that it was not less important for the accomplishment of the necessary arrangements that the unequal competition should not be in erased by the continued reduction of the differential duty. Copies of the resolution have been transmitted to their re spective candidates. MELANCHOLY DEATH..--.Mr. George Thompson, the extensive iron and coal master, met his death on Friday under most melancholy circumstances upon his estate at Illinera, near Wrexham. The unfortunate gentleman, who was in his 83d year, was riding- across the Minera branch of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, when a train came up, and the buffers of the engine struck the pony, which, with his rider, was thrown to a considerable distance. Deceased was so seriously injured that he never recovered conscious ness, but died in about six hours. He was much beloved by his workmen, and his loss is deeply lamented. JENNY LIND IN LIVERPOOL.—Since their arrival by the Atlantic, M. Otto Goldschmidt and Madame Gold schmidt have, while in Liverpool, been the guests of Mr. Bali, the Swedish and Norwegian Consul. " The Nightin gale" speedily recove r ed f rom the effects of her voyage. and is now in remarkably good health and spirits. On Friday she and her husband visited Manchester, for the purpose of seeing some of her friends. They will remain the guests of Mr. Bald a few days longer, when they will proceed to Lon don, with the view Of making an early journey to the conti nent. Her presence in Liverpool no sooner became known than she was overwhelmed by offers of engagements, to all of which she returned a decided refusal, stating that she is anxious for repose from her professional toil. Among those who have shown themselves most desirous of securing Madame Goldschmidt's unrivalled services are the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, the committee of the Sailors' Home, the Birmingham Festival committee, the Marquis of Clanri carde, and a number of noblemen and gentlemen interested in of Her Majesty's Theatre London, besid es persons. Before Jenny Lind met with Ott o Goldschmid t, a bad been established some years as a t i t; t n h u. e r o p e. r srt o o s u p as e n r do i tY hecompos composer of considerable reputation in New plan" ..kork. rf fir, MILITIA EvTIMATML — Ott Saturday was printed in a Parliamentary document a report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to prepare the Militia Estimates for the year ending the 31st of March, 1853. The estimate of the charge of the disem bodipd militia of Great Britain and Ireland from the Ist of April, 1852. to the 31st of March, 1853, both days in- E 4'lll elusive, i s :,.8•;,715/.-365,51U for Great Britain, and %, , 2001. for Ireland. The sum provided in 1851-52 was and after The cost of raising and training 50,000 men for commis sioned officers, and 1,, , Td Wales in the current year is thus made up : )rbounties and • able ovable on enrolment training, 1 00 co, .pay , of officers, non-comm.is and exercise, and other contingent e x 31. priv , ate ' s . , when assembled for training officers and men, 74,20 63 %; , clothing for non-commissiond and training the 39,700/. of disembodied allowance, for disembodied allowance s of of as retired allowances and out ( i ) i i 365,5151. as the charge fir En ending the 31st of March next. moved on Monday night. ; beer money, Marching non-commie militia, 31,465/. ; making, for raising Viscount gnd Viscountess permanent staff, 7,000/. subalterns, and other sums Wales in the year The new estimates will be sPalmerston at dinner on Saturday the Co . intess of Vis count and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord ,4:: : an l d 'here is a charge of Englund l oaers of militia; making and Lady Norreys, entertained and Shaftesbury, Lord Elphinstune, Hon. NV . Ashley, R oy . Norman Macdonald, and Mr. wilitpn. ' S uliv " , Ur- I DOU.C4AS JERROLD, Popular—in_ the more genial acceptation of the worcl—Douglas Jerrold is not, although his writings h a ve acquired for him a rather extended and diversi fied reputation. The reason of this is sufficiently parent.ap- His sarcasm has overlaid his philanthropy. But then, =again, his wit has redeemed his sarcasm. In the display of- his abilities as a satirist we cannot but think, however a that Douglas Jerrold has inad vertently, but still Ilene the less effectually, acted as his own traducer. By a perpetual play of irony throughout his compositions, he has almost invariably extarted applause, if he has not always succeeded in winning admiration. The cynical chord in his nature has been to him what the one string was to Page nini. He has made it laugh and sing; he has told stories with it ; he has compelled it to talk in dia logue ; he has rendered it at pleasure, tragical, or gay, or pathetic, or grotesque—all like Pagauini. people have wondered so long at the miraculous skill of his performances on that one chord that they forget his adroitness upon all others, they forget the genius, the artistic genius, he has so often displayed otherwise, they forget that his hind has, before now, strung, with the subtle aud'delicate touch of a master, the golden lyre of their heart-strings--calling forth, with the (-alien breath of passion, the exquisitely responsive music of their vibrations. Jerrold has accom plished this noblest of all successes in author ship. Humeurist though he is, satirist though he is—he nate occasionally, in his capacity as a dramatist, achieved the triumph attributed to the comsdien Mundell in his more serious moments—he has made the pulse of a whole house beat like that of one man. Remembering this, and remembering still more, that the abilities of Douglas Jerrold have without namely an exception, even when apparently the most sinister and the most acrimonious, been directed with a generous and beneficent intention, we would commend him as one speaking to the crowd with a voice not only shrewd and searching, but harmonious also, and persuasive, incul cating, with a strange and variable eloquence, truths quaint, and solemn, and tender, and fantastic, and beautiful.. According to his own suggestion he may be likened to the hedgehogs of Plutarch, which, after shaking the autumnal vines, roll themselves in geniously to and fro among the fallen fruit, collecting the grapes on their prickles and creeping off like a " walking duster" to yield their young, even from their own bristling ugliness, a saccharine and delicious nourishment. The illustration is, decidedly, more complimentary to his writings than to himself, and even supposing the, public, to accept it as altogether applicable, we doubt whether they would be induced, like Capstick, to • christen their favourite— Velvet. His istyle is flavoured so frequently with bitterness that its intermittent sweetness, and raciness, and mellowness are not very generally appreciated. Bitterness, we repeat it, is the pervad ing quality, but a bitterness wholesome in its appli cation—the tonic of our light literature. Conspicuous among the influential writers of the a ge, Douglas Jerrold has attained this position of intellectual eminence by a career of more than usual industry, and of more than customary perseverance. During a considerable time at the outset of that career be had to struggle earnestly for every separate rung of the ladder of Fortune : that ladder which we well remember him to have since likened sardonically i n a parenthesis to the celestial ladder of Jacob in the wilderness : that ladder which affords the climber immediately above you such delightful facilities to t r ample upon your fingers! Jerrold the novelist, and 0 wen tha anatomist, appear to have both narrowly escaped .the oblivion of a sea life, in which they m ight neither possibly have risen above the level of pro fessional mediocrity. Science, by this abrupt change in the destiny of one reefer, has developed the genius of a profound and illustrious philosopher : while, in the instance of the other boy-midshipman, a new and original mind was evoked for the advance ment of our national literature. Sheerness was the birthplace of Jerrold, and hence, possibly, his selection of Black-Eyed Susan as the subject of one of his earlier dramatic pieces, not long after his arrival in the metropolis. His theatrical tastes must, likewise, in some measure be attributed to the recollections of childhood, acquired in the esta blishment of his father as a manager. Born in 1805—the year remarkable 9 moreover, for the birth,:of,.. Bulwer Lytton, and Benjamin Disraeli, and other distintinguished contemporaries—Dou glas Jerrold has already, before tha maturity of mid le life has expires, revealed capacities as a man of letters, such as command for him the regard of his generation. Possibly, also, those capacities may secure to his name from posterity, a reasonably pro tracted remembrance. As a dramatist his labours have been, perhaps, the most assiduous. Besides the produo tion already particularized, he brought once more on the stage the comely form and romantic story of Nell Gwynne, making the gods and gi oundliegs roar at the irresistible ridiculousness of Keeley as Orange Moil. The most brilliant achievement of this period, however, was the domestic drama in two acts, in which he painted The Rent Day no less vividly, a nd no less truthfully, to n ature than David Wilkie, re vealing for the' first time that mastery over the emotional faculties, , the continued advancement of which. he has since then repeatedly demonstrated Here it was, according to a pleasant anecdote, that upon the first night of its performance, there met behind the scenes of that London playhouse in the characters respectively of scene painter and dramatist, both, even then, somewhat celebrated, two young adventurers who had, on the occasion of their-former meeting, been midshipmen in the Royal Navy—Stanfield and Jerrold. Adven turers we call them, not in the vulgar meaning of a phrase which has degenerated almost to the paltry significance of an accusation, hut in its ancient and superb importance, na mely, as a word applicable to Columbus when he went in sea rch of the gold•run ning rivers of Cathay, or to Raleigh when he crossed the same waters of the Atlantic in quest of the no less visionary city of the precious metals, with pantiles of silver and columns of porphyry, the gorgeous and al luring Dorado. Scarcely less gorgeous or less alluring than even Cathay or Dorado, must have been the dreams conjured up in the imagination of those creators in art—the author and the painter—alike adventurers in ambition—alike enabled now to re joice in the rapture of realization. A variety of farces and minor pi eces for the stage m i g ht, we be- Hive, in additioh t o th e foregoing, be enumerate the result of Dougla s J e rrold's energetic a pp lication at this, not least, int e r e sting portion of h is career in . ted as literature ; but the most popular of all those subordi nate productions, at any rate in the minor theatres even of now-a-days, are those already men tioned. Later on, and when encouraged by prac tice, our dramatist brought out his comedy of The Schoolfellow, and another domestic drama (a few seasons back represented before her Majesty and the Court at Windsor Castle) well-known as The Housekeeper. Besides a humorous piece, in three acts, produced last year, and entitled Retired from Business, he has contributed four successful comedies to our dramatic literature—The Catspaw, a designa tion of itself sufficiently suggestive to render its satirical purpose apparent; The Prisoner of War, representing society as it appeared at the commence ment of the present century during the supremacy of Napoleon ; The Bubbles of a Day, and a work no less brilliantly characterised by the wit and vivacity of its dialogue, Time works Wonders. By the two last mentioned, more . probably than by any other of his compositions, the author's reputation may be per petuated. It ass by industry elsewhere than behind the scenes of a theatre that Douglas Jerrold rose into intellectual eminence among his contemporaries. A series of grotesque sketches, originally issued in " Blackwood's Magi ziue," were subsequently collected for separate publication. The essayist gave way to the romancer. The copyist became the creator. The chrysalis of the mere periodical contributor developed to the butterfly celebrity of the recognised novelist—a change scarcely leis remarkable of its kind than would be a removal on quarter.drty from Grub-street to May-fair. In this manner the anonymous papers inserted in Mega were acknowledged in their aggregate capa city-as those-seven luckless champions of misfortune the Men of Character. Considerable ingenuity was displayed throughout those narratives, both in regard to the plot and in reference to the discrimination between the various personages introduced. In the longest of all, for example, the history of John Apple-john, written supplementarily to those pub lished in the Magazine, comprised a diversity of vi cissitudes sufficient almost to have constituted an episode to. " Gil Bi as ," that most wonderful master pitce whi c h, f or i nc id ent , is a veritable encyclopaedia. I t It was in this amusing c 0 Ili m emt e delineationd theofj that ovi a i creature of nocturnal eccentricities then eccidente, the unfort una t e "man who meant well," that the 'writer then setting the town by the ears, theiMaster of Misrule the gay Marquess of N Faewm who have r s e e ad the moving re c or l: i tt tcorforcl. of, his ' claities ca n lose recollection (and of the contretemps by whi c h the soulbody) of Adam Buff are agonized, wh a t thou in the truest sense a philosopher. But gla he was inthen—he was as a philosopher " without a shirt" —and Democritus could scarcely have preserved his hilarity under simi lar circumstances without the aid of his laundress. Mathew gear, the gentleman who " saw'his way," reminds one instinctively of the " Vert, Vert," ~f Grisset, in relation to that scurrilous old dowager of a pa rrot who celebrated every matrimonial tiff with the ejaculation " Hooked again, by !" J o b Pippins, the " man who couldn't help it," unlike his associate Buff, has just a shirt too many, considering its delicate texture and its still more delicate c on - Nis invalid co u rt s hip of Agnes C s' a g a u d e r s a - i the nacratnt when his very iden _ tit y seemed merged Like that of Rip Van I Winkle in " somebody else," imp ar t s a ludicrous fas cination to the story, that con ti nues un abated until I its termination. Jack Runnymede, the " man of many thanks," impersonates the folly of that home bred enthusiasm which is too frequently engendered by loyalty and stupieity in the brains of your pig headed politician. It contains a wholesome lesson, a lesson not less wholesome than that inculcated by the memoir of! Barnaby Palms, the sycophant of syco pbants, who " felt his way " so adroitly that he lost a bag of gold for a rotten egg, and tumbled down stairs in the dark on the night of his marriage. Christopher Snub, considered by his neigh bours as infallibly " born to be hanged,' introduces us in the course of his unme rited sufferings, to the maritime scenes rendered familiar by the pen of Smollett and which Jerrold was enabled to delineate afresh from his own personal recollections. As the closing chapter in these annals of calamity came the cu r i ous old story o f Creso Quettrino, the " man wh o di e d rich, " making the reader acquainted with th a t " stone o f i n f am y" at Padua which more readily re li eved the " squa tter" from his creditors than the court of bankruptc y, and which consequently, whil e i t i mmeasurably surpasse d the blarney stone in sophi s t ry, reduced the philoso pher's stone to a mere pebbl e b y comparison . Rescued from the anony mous in one quar t er by ' the republication of hi s contributions to Blackwoo d, Douglas Jerrold in 1843 b egan to extend hi s influ ence as a public write r , b ut more espec i a lly with " Punch," the " Charivari" ne a sarcastic humourist, b y his connex i on of London. Through its pages he commanded at once a numerous audience, which his wit contributed scaecely less than the pic torial fun of Leech to increase very rapidly and very considerably. Punch's Letters to his Son, replete with pungent sarcasm and sparkling with facetious ness, revealed in a new light those powers as an ob servaut and uncompromising satirist, which were yet further developed by Punch' s complete Letter Writer. Besides these sly and laughter-moving serials, he wrote also, in the sam e periodical, his charming Story of a Feather, i n wh i c h no dding through the dusty mazes of life in London, saturated with tears and shaken by laughter, the plume of an ostrich recounts, of course with its quill-end, its autobiography. Simple as the story is in its character, it comprises within i ts compass a l l imaginable phases of society from Shadrach Jacobs the Jew dealer-in-stores, to Mr. InglewOod the cler gyman ; from Jack Lipscomb the sailor, to Mr ' Lintley the apothecary ; from Mr. Flamingo the Court feather merchant, to Mr. Julius Curlwell the valet of my Lord Huntingtopp er — nam y from the squalid Jessy to the beautiful Countess Blushrose. Among the more eccentric passages of the fiction, its readers can scarcely by possibility forget the antic dote about the pineapples at the desert of Flamingo, or the quaintly told " story of a sc ar l et -heeled shoe, ' any more than they can lose a remembrance of that incomparable sequence of equivoques in which the prin cipal personage engaged is Mrs. Gaptooth, the horrible old bawd, almost as dreadful a creation as the Mother Mandrake of Farquhar. Subordinate though several of the other characters are, they are occasionally Pencilled with a few touches of really admirable cleverness such as Mrs. Crumpet th e lodginghouse keeper, and Cliekly Abram the highwayman ; or as grotesque little Monsieur Spanneu an d honest Luke Knuckle; or, again, Es Traply the . surly turnkey of Newgate and the good, simple minded Mi sses Pea chick, a sort of Sisters Cheeryble, bearin g a f a mily resemblance likewise to the Misses Spenlow, the little birdlike aunts of the Crst love of David Copperfield. " Best beautiful" of all, however, among g the more loveable characters in the narrative is poor dear Patty Butler the feather dresser --whose very name to us was endeared, as it were, by the recollections of childhood, associated, as it is, with that little nursery tale which almost equalled to our mind the charms of "The White Chicken," the story of "Patty Primrose," stitched i n a yellow cover and adorned with gaudily coloured illustrations. The purity, the sweetness, and the long •suffering equa nimity of Patty Butler invest at times with a bewitching interest the motley chapters of the narra tive—a narrative in which the grotesque and the solemn are occasionally blended in a species of extra vagance, as at the awful but ridiculous death-bed of Cramp the Cardmaker. More successful than the series of papers just particularized, more Successful indeed than any other among the many popular contribu tions to " Punch," perhaps in some respects she happiest effort of his very peculiar powers e s a satirical humorist, Ilfrs. Caudle's Curtain Lec tures appears to give the seal to our author's repute ';on. It was, in the popular term, "a hit," and a bit too most decided and uequeationahle. A n d no wonder, for the suffering s of Job Caudle, in that horrid but expressive phrase which is our abomination, came home iu married life, it is to be feared, in too ,r.auy iniatuno,a, to "ou r business and bosoms." Thirty-six lectures were enough in all conscience to show the genius of Mrs. Caudl e If we might say, in reference to "that sainted creature," that "angel now in heaven," three dozen fr o m the domestic cat were surely adequate for the simple pur poses of illustration. Within those thirty7six solemn prelect ions from the bed-clothes how much has been recorded, from the fi rst p ecc adillos of Caudle , when he began "quarrelling w i t h th e doormat" to frighten his wife on his return from a carouse, to his flagrant profligacy in retard to the consumption of whisky and tobacco: from is; tna timid intercession for the servant girl to his full-blown flirtation w ith Miss Prettyman.. " There wa s h a . time, you " exclaims Mrs. Caudle in her third lectur e were as re gular at your fireside as the "when kettle." One sighs with her for the lost time of their Arcadian honeymoon — in Bloomsbury. It required a genius like that of Mrs. Caudle to make as much as sb e did of incidents like the loan of the family u mbrella, the smashing of a of piece of crockery, the appearanc e black beetles in the front parlour, or the s uggestion of an autum nal trip to M y for the Margate. Her rapacity ex p a nsion of of the trivial into the important remains unparalleled by any one except Caleb She could 1 3alder s t on e. expatiate, for example, over a new bonnet until it became scarcely less momentous than the helmet of Cassandra ; and this with as much fluency of imagina tion as might have been r e reve aled by the steward. Revenswood when panegyri. ' sour wine `ing a pint of in a broken pitcher until it b - ecerhe invested with the dignity of the choicest vintage of To uay• Humo rous as the Curtain Lectur es are eor q the most part, one of them closes with a gush of exquisite feeling , true to nature, and therefore irresistible in its abrupt pathos. Allusion ma de, of c ourse, to the unexpected discovery that "Brother Tom" is the friend (h nandle has rescued from the sponging-house. Repeated eases have been made by Jerrold since the clo se of those redoubtable papers, to produce another aortas i n n Punch" that might achieve a compa n i on hitherto, popularity however, unsuccessfully, " IVII. Bill's B a by" after giving fair promise of dege n erat in into a . crying nuisance" was abandoned as n n r erna g turely as is found ling, while "Miss Beninable's Tea and Toast" exP e ' -.L rienced a no less summary : re s e ction. Notwithstand ing these occasional failures, n ---- 'nglas Jerrold is never " greater," generally . speaking, than in " mach " there, as with. Mr. Briggs in A ugust, his foot is on his native heath, and his na me is Aacgregor. Yet, apart from _ "Punch," jerrold has displayed very remarkable powers both as a humorist and as a satirist—his Chro n ic l es of eionernook revealing under a more gen i a l apect the swe etness of his quaint but sometimes sardonic philosoph e. J The nettle, be. des the stinging leaves, produces laden blossoms with honey and fragrance. It o u t in these same Chronicles that the world out ~ some eta- count of the Hermit of Bellyful ,timed . jevial saintship illustrating with si, " - the record of his --se Jerrold and the pencil ,, of K enny pen ti of pleasantllluminated pages of the ne c . eadows the conducting that periodical for somegazin After months, our author adventured upn anooler publication Called after himself, and „ ._ ncPretendinglY entitled a " Shilling Migazin e ,, editing its miscelleneous contents e , i he brow Besides bY the cnara e t o • • ht B out itf g Oil its pages, accompanied St. Gil ri sttc etchings of Leech, his story of es and s t . j s— incorapArabiy his mast , atne. in many respects erpiece. Pre art viously lie bad, for the mosth P' C ulled the efflo rescence as he now reapecht a.harvest of hi s i . ft. agriculturist in the Geor gi a ma g i " tion—like the . , judici ow ~ lv plucking the flowers in toe vernal se a son and the fruits in the autumnal- - Primus vere rosem, rper e ponia. i.. iarly from the B It ..is more particu , . P Keg of this fiction that Jerrold mayvindicate • himself from the charge of having p itted class a ga i nst . as criminal a n d Cl ass, by representing the rich t. the poor as to the impression virtuous. According° many, such of his writings is really the tendency ht to regard Dece e that Labour through them is taught Apparel as Depravity—every alte rnate . Page ~ shining as with t e is that we Transf iguration reg ar d 9 1 Indigence. nereJerrold as it consequences of a racil y suffering from the grievous , Like Dickens b misapprehension.e e can discover and virtue in the rookeries. But beauty un der rags, cannot warm unlike Dickens, he with a and colour perpetually genius as his pictures of God, sunshine Master as genial as theo • s andcranks„ the quip of the he is of ill racist occasionally indulging satirist, he cannot ~.pd_rig. him i at Some gild ed self in the luxury of girding the couch of iniquity —sprinkling Pis" over foot of Dives,LazarugH while strewing blossoms et f his philosophy, shoe the distorted estimate 0 eh Of the in ' • of that estimate we take n St. s , ecuracy and injustice - to be sufficientl Giles and St. James" illustra tive—commendingthose who, aecnrcli it to himself wouldng to tb e . conjectures of our author cry . aloes I n might be d ro aloes ! even when his pepi fi nnl myrrh they would and frankinscence. True,l d loveable, n although Becky represented as gentle aD Lamb and S a poor barmaid at the “ Star " while Crossbone would carry a black heart as well as a gold-headed malacca inGihiis3 the slum Jinhe ro h , f e r c i Inoet;es: than a 7 ! d l o a hn y io - s halt' physician--but brother little S go a , i n i t t m ues t , to e aint Jam:ts ef i the mpathies c pails, re while their in ras c alityy or from his infancy, and offspring though he e e x t r metro_ othe v f ery a u lt u l t a s t e tc t hio t n h c e , s3 • 'reattiheer'swrsiste; a b d it , velvet fromenPaeta ?Penrsto and eulogising the pauper. surely looks somewhat unlike maligning the This The ;acousatoioeer indeed, results from nothing more than the u ; distortion of a merit into a demerit—Jerrold being ever as ready to censure evil among patricians as he is eager to declare himself the foe to whatever is in famous among the dregs of the population. Beautiful testimonies of his love for the labouring ranks of society are Bright Jem and his hetterehalf, kind hearted MrS. Aniseed. Rising a little higher in the scale, comes Capstick the Muffin-maker—great in Seven Dials when he saith " Cry muffins and be happy ! "—greater when retired, like a Christianized Diogenes, to The Tub—greatest of all when astound ing his faithful squire by his benevolent eccentricities as the Member for the borough of Liquoiish. Cap stick—by far the happiest among the creations of Jerrold—affords an admirable illustration of his own character in literature. His heart rugged as a cocoa nut, but brimming with the milk of human kindness! Crabbed in speech but gentle in the senti ments he utters and inculcates ! Cynical in manner, but every veiu throbbing with benevolence! Most precious of all diamonds in the rough—a surly, large landed philanthropist ! There is a subtle reference to the real softness and apparent roughness of the nature of Capstick in his congenial pet—Velvet the Hedge hog. Among the minor personages introluced into the story must not be overlooked Mrs. Simmer who carries charity to the verge of dotage, any more than Mr. Folder whose profound homage for position de generates into sycophancy. About the drollest pas sage in the narrative is that recounting the court ship of Kitty Muggs, of wheee affection for Caesar Gum, the African footman, it is,so delight fully remarked " that love turned ebony into ivory." When speaking of the negro as " an objectionable blackness, a human blot, an ignominious stain," we cannot but think that the novelist had unconsciously floating in his remembrance that exquisite sentence in Elia, where, in his essay in Praise of Chimney Siveepers, he designates the little climbing-boys— " dim specks, poor blots, innocent blacknesses." As unconsciously has been transferred from " St. Giles and Sr. James" to "Bleak House" the name (inimit able for a lawyer) of Mr. Tangle, of Red Lion-square —wiliest and worldliest of attorneys. Tangle's dream about the chest of gold, with every coin a cherub— like a swarm of bees filling the chamber with a humming sound—is a thing to be read once and never forgotten. Pulpit-orator has seldom preached a nobler homily against mammon-worship--no, not even the godly Doctor Gilead himself, with his bins of choice Madeira, and his pond-full of carp, and his library consisting of volumes "bound in truly pas toral vellum," and written by departed ecclesiastics— "'the Eloquent Dumb, the Great Forgotten, the Il lustrious Dim, the Folio Furniture!" Whateverchapters in the novel relate to the melodramatic murder in Cow Meadow, we should regard as alto gether unendurable but that they are introductory to the household ofEbenezer Snipeton at the Dovesnest. There it is that we first become acquainted with his wife the heroine of the tale Clarissa. Although the termination of the story is alniost as confused as the close of "Hamlet," the plot of the narrative, regarded as a whole, displays an in disputable advance upon its predecessors. Several of the. incidents are described with an irresistible appre ciation of the humorous, such, for example, as that o f the election, presided over by those implacable rivals, Flay and Rasp, the barber-politicians. Here, more especially, perhaps, than in any other of his productions, Jerrold has administered those bitter , but wholesome truths which, although occasionally gt. lded with wit, are more frequently pungent with the • acrid flavour peculiar to those anodynes of morality. Unpalatable they may be, as any bolus recommended by "the faculty," the true medicine of the intellect, the inenne tor-ewe—but it is impossible to deny the benefit of their distribution through the most widely disseminating channels of the 84e, through the columns of "Punch," or the scrcely less popular page s of the novelist. If for nothing else they would be entitled to our admi ration as diametrically opposed to the most perni ciims maxims of the time, those of the materialists, and the inammon-worshippers—the lucri bonus odor a re qualibet—all those principles of speculation which are in fact no principles at all, and which John Lew might have plagiarised from Vespasian. Added to the works already enumerated, Douglas Jerrold has contributed at intervals to his own megezines, as well as to other periodicals, a variety of papers which have sometimes, in the serial form, extended into substantial volumes on their subsequent republication; such volumes as the en la-Ikea:tau called Cakes and rile, or the eccentric and hull-diabolic phantasy known as The titan made of Money. Minor contrinutions like The Sick Giant and the Doctor Mewl, recounting the histories of Zan end Bckkuk, have served to illustrate the versatility of his style, if they have tended but indifferently to enhance his reputation. Twice in his career he h as adventured upon the somewhat difficult path of journalism, once in conducting a weekly organ called after himself, but subsequently amalgamated with the organ of the former Member for Sheffield, and again by undertaking within the last few weeks the editor ship of "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" —a cheap periodical of rather extensive circulation. It was in the former of these two publicetions, namely, in "Douglas Jerrold's 'Weekly Newspaper," that he issued in instalments a collection of quaint and cunning sarcasms on the events of the week, bight 7he Barber's Chair—a chair presided over alternately, one might fancy, by Rasp, the barber-politician of .Liquorish, and Jasmin, the barber-poet of Languedoc. A little volume some time ago was dedicated, we remember, to Douglas Jerrold, as " to the greatest wit of his age," and the dedication, ultra -eulo gistic though it might appear, was not, after all, in reality, so very extravagant. Without regarding him in this respect as pre-eminent above all his con temporaries indiscriminately, we would nevertheless undertake to illustrate very copiously from his writings, his claim to the title of a wit, and of a wit too of the highest distinction. For exquisite grace and aptitude of expression, the curiosa felicitas verborum, he possesses an abounding faculty—painting a whole portrait in a few syllables, as wherashe describes Tom Blast as "sucking the stalk of a primrose that shone forth in strong relief from his black whiskers," or where be makes Bright Jem call a garden "a beauti- NI book writ by God," wherein " every flower and every leaf's a letter." Everything, moreover, seems tci his peculiar genius to be suggestive of some thought capable of being " bodied forth" in a brilliant saying. Barrenness or fruitfulness, it is alike to him—he can eiclaim, when meditating over the wilderness, "bow few the white days in which the poor ostrich can in Arabia Petrm have the luxury of a tenpenny nail"— and brooding over the foison of the Australian soil can as vividly indicate the excess of its fertility by averring that "you have only to tickle it with aboe and it laughs into harvests." Democritus, is not, however, his favourite philosopher always : he can weep when he lists (and when the occasion bid him) with Hera clitus. At these moments his ideas are only sur passed in their loveliness by their exquisi t e and touching solemnity. How grand and beautiful, for example, is that ejaculation in the work we have c,illed his masterpiece, when musing over a skull, as Hamlet mused over the skull of Yorick, he writes (eh. xvii.), "-the cheekbones look still puckered with a smile, as though contracted, when it flung aside the mask of life a l d er n caught a glimpse of the on e, s of the man who could think coming glory •of thus nobly, and not the satirist with the pen of iron aid vitriol, the ink of that Henry Mayhew must have s ken when i m printing on the flyleaf on his "London Oa _ he Loon Poor" the words of affectionate Lebour and t ,k h s no boo is nediceted to Douglas friendship— T ely the author Jerrold whom, 'knowing most intimat , has: learnt to love and honour most profoundly. p erson s strangere, though we tire, to him, it wou ld b e es impassible not to recognise through sen timents like these tokens of a gentle heart under that g littering eh-in-mail of wit and acerbity, as it w oul d e to doubt his individual perception of the humorous, if on ly from his facetious impersonation of Mr. 'Comedy for LIY Softhead, in Sir Bulwer Lytton 's for the Guild of Literature. Nevertheless, a consi siderable portion of the community fills to appre ciete those more amiable and least obtrusive charac teristics of his style not deteCting the latent sw eetness in the prevailing acidity of t h at good o ld English Hippocras. The se, were the y to p ass hi m un knowingly in the streets of our capital—streets trodden from age to age by the thronging genius of Bee-land —would fail as entirely to perceive the energy lurking in that feeble rather than athletic frame; to discover the grotesque and Puck-like spirit looking, through those keen light eyes ; and, last of all, to discern the inexhaustible vivacity hidden under that apparently serene and even sedate demeanour. It is thus that Jerrold is, as yet, but half appreciated. Meanwhile he himself regards with a more observant glance, and a more penetrant perc e ptivity the motley crowd of the population. His tpa cities stand hiin in greater stead than the wand °;leced at the disposal of Dun Cleopints Perm de Zambulo. His pen, more effectually than the crutch of hoittiodeus, can strip off the roof -tops of the city, and, what is yet farther, probe the wounds and lay bare the hearts of the citizens. WEPT. DEPLMTURE OF THE NIAGARA.-011 Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Leith, commander, left the blersey for H a lif ax an d Boston, With the mails for the United states and the British provinces, upwards of fifty passengers A nd a moderate freight. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINTJED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir s ,—On Wednesday *he 9th of June, the, County Elections Polls Bill was carried to an apparently set:mess fel issue, by considerable mejorities in Committee. There is dissension in the camp of the County Members on the Conservative side. Many of them struggle hard for the preservation of the ancient ways; whits others yield to the temptation of reduced ,expenses and shorter contests. , One part of the Conservative defence .was sonaevehat characteristic. How; it 'was asked, was a ' n ag of property who had the right of voting in seven places, to exercise his rights unless the dance was given. hav ing two dayhim of sto chusw out of, for each. A curious contrast with the cora laint'.of the public that only ab out ono ne ' ma n in seven has the right of voting at all; and a nl° --in ng to demonstration of an inecinality repreeented by 7 time s 7, On Thursday c or 49 to 1. the establishment charge for considerable debate on the . t Hong Kong is at liong Kong. The truth is that p ure puce of " Auglo-Saxouism; meaning by thaat, term the plea set up, of a resembling that of the sea-ki ngs o f old, that "they should tak e w h o have ing furnisb,d an d paid fothe power," the power be from the enjoyment of the r f r b y somebody far removed case the well-meaning and ;: o ats, being in the present Hong Kong, from the beginn• nest People of Englan& egg laid for the chance of hatching "owecil y It was intended and provided for war with China. gain urposeof making gain by impositions of Sycee silver onp not for the prosecution of honourable comth echei,nteos -‘;‘'. h d its very existence is in the highest degree mer the same kind of thing as if a foreign poeer°l3pPrZfseea4s.inlgt to wish to trade with Eleglised, were .to, seizing upon Sheerness. The two object s ar e o g in : ih he' distinct and hostile. The place for the trZls visibly merchants is at Canton ; and because it is so, the e B 4, of operations is shifted to the place which suits the trati e t of war-steamers and t gunpowder. We are everywhere the slaves of the dealers ~ in war. It is for them the. gains of honest commerce or colonization are destroy e d and given up e the process substituted being, to levy new, millions of taxes at home, and turn them over into the hands of those who here the luck to be the recipients. We hear of the money power, and,- the labour power ; but there is another power, which is the robber power, ' to which Englishmen are the born thralls and voluntary victims. As the Frenchman will sacrifice life, liberty, and law, for the sake of a lion d'Alger: at Paris, so the Englishman is ready to give the subsistence of his wife and children to anybody who promises to " shed blood enough" in return. Any man who opposes, is "condemned to everlasting redemption" as pertaining to Exeter Hall. The plan is not to make commerce, it is to hinder com merce, for the preferable chances of war and prize-money. The pirate interest runs away with the merchant. The chances of honourable commerce are at Canton; the chances of fire and pillage at Hong Kong, and for this troops are sent to perish in what has been averred to be the most unhealthy station on the face of the earth. Our Legislature is a sponge, to suck up honey from the working bees, and squeeze it into the pockets of the fight ing caste. And what is worst of 'all, is that the people would have it so. " We," "Our," is the constant popular response to every scheme of sea or land piracy. I wonder whether the thieves and harlots of the metropolis would be allowed to say " We," " Oar," with the same coolness. But so it will be, till stopped by collision with the stronger and more wicked, who is already in the hurizos, end who has himself a " skeleton in a closet," which ho thinks upOn with dread. On the same evening considerable debate arose on a sum of 4,3321., proposed to be granted for rebuilding the chapel, &c. to the British Embassy at Constanti nople. it appeared on examination that the sums ex pended within a few years on the residence of that Ambassador amounted to 87,0001. The Government boldly advanced the proposition, that the amount of what bad been spent in past years had no concern with the question whether money was wanted no iv. But pillows would appear to have given good counsel; for on the following day the Chancellor of the Exchequer an nounced in his blandest manner, that the Government would take time to think upon the question of the charge. Mr. Horsman's success in carrying a vote for a Select Committee on the institution to Frome Vicarage, appears likely to be jeopardized. The Tractarians opposition is rallying, and throwing all kinds of delays and impedi ments in the way. On Friday the Improvement of the, Jurisdiction of Equity Bill (from the Lords) was considered in Com mittee. Lis impossible to deny the symptoms of a de sire to "improve" As one which may be appreciated by the lay mind, may be noted the direct ion that "Bills of Complaint and Claims" are to be prUnted instead of engrossed, and copies given to each of the concerned. With such a march of intellect, it would, not be wonder ful if by and-by Petitions to the Homo of Cornmors should be permitted to be printed; though at present such a proposal would be es atagge ring, as to an ancient Post-office clerk was the notion of allowing a bank-note to be sent by post from Bradford to London without eherging two elevenpences. The Masters in Chancery ere lucky; Feu, to be dis charged from duty with full pay for 14fee It is presum able it was in consideration of their bare; men advanced in years, and who bad given up practice which it is im possible they should now recerr, on a p assurance that their office was for - life. I believe my h cad was pointed in the directiod of the Noes, when Icc add see no one of the same way of thinking, and them concluded I const be wrong. At the same time 'l iim not certain, that- if it were to come over again, reLlonid not make the minority 'll to 89, Orr this en observation may be made for the benefit of minorities, which'it is strange at this age of the world should he wanted:. And that is, that a minority, especially when a very &omit one, ought as quickly as possible on division. to proceed in a body towards the door which will most clistieguish them from the stream that is voting for the eon trary. Instead of whlch, they stand talking to the Telk rs, as if they wanted to see how many of the hesitating wou ld j oin their opponents in the belief that nubgly was going the other way. I am, Sir, yours eery sinc!avely, AN OLD IitEIfORMER. Blackheath, June 14,1852. COURT CULC U LA.R. The Queen and Prince.Akbert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal , Pritice Alfr ed, th e P r i ncesses Alice,Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, left Windsor Castle 'at one o'clock on Saturday.afternoon for London., The Royal Suite consisted cf the Countess of Pesart, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Araelila Murray, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Crofton, Colonel the Hon., C. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Major-General .15ackley, Colonel Bouverie, and the Master of the Household. Her Majesty, and the august party went to the station of the London and South-Western Railway, where a Guard of Honour of the Coldstream Guards was on duty. A special train conveyed the Royal party to the Nine Elms station. The Queen and Prince, and the Rrlal suite, entered six of her Majesty's carriages, and proceeded, escorted by a party of the 13th Light Dra goons, to Buckingham Palace, where they arrived at two o'clock. ; . Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received at the Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber lain, the Master of th e ' H orse, - the Vice-Chamberlain, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel WyLde. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by -the Conn .tess of Desart, Hon, Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Croftcin, Major-Gerieral Barkley; and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the performance of the German Play, at the St. James's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with their presence. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the garden of Buokinglria Palace, and the Royal Family tuok their usu al ex Her Majesty, his Royal Highue e ss Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal attended divine Service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace yesterday morning. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting and the domestic household were also present, The HOD. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Her RoYal Highness the Duchess of, Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, en Saturday afternoon, from, Frogmore. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of. Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Lord J ames M urray, honoured her . Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. . . ~.i. Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Dovvning-street, The Ministers pre sent were the Eail of Derby, the L-zd Chancellor, the 1 Earl of Lonsdate, the Marq u i s o f Salisbury, Mr. Sec tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Paki r g e ton, the Chancellor of th e E xchequer, the Duke Northumberland, the Right Ilen, J. W. Henley , th e E °l of' Hardwicke, the Ri g ht Hon. C. Terries, LadBl:)i l t r d John Manners. The Council eat two hou s The Hon. Henry - Roberts, from Jamaic a, had an inter view with Sir John Ps.kington, at the Colonialsoed—: Sattr:d. v. on .., A deputation from the northern-ports on th of Ramagate • Harbour, had an interview with t ( lia Su ß b i i g e h a t t Ron. J. W. He'aley-and-LOrd Colchester on the Board of -I.irado. The-deptleation §ttturday at connoted of Mr. George Hudson, M.P., Mr. Vivian, 11. p. ~, Mr. Ord, m.P., Mr. Grainger, M.P., Mr, Farrar, ALP Mr. Liddell., M.P., Mr. Hutt, ti.p , atr. Grey, M.P., mouth, Mr. Robert Brown, and s the M a y or o f Tyne.- Mr.. Charles . Parkes. Lord Ete.rners had an interview with Mr, Secretary Walpole on Saturday at the H Mr. Burle and Mr. Ra • 43:11 " ffic° - i n ' ass on Saturday' at the rail ' mum transacted bas in r d of waY ckpartment of, the P °a " - Trade. '' Lieutenant -Colonel Pereeval had an interview with Mr. Secret ar y W a l pole on Saturday. Mr. John Black wood had also an interview with the Sight Lion. Se cretary. Mr. Forbes Campbell h Hon. J. W. Trade oe S aturday. had an interview with t he Ri g U Dispatches Henley at the Board of Tr S were recei ved air the w° - 0 lesial-ollice on Saturday from the lonian Island Lord Higll C° received from the Islands. DIE D to' p . ro a l t o Governor of Van Die a me — n e 'A e j e. a - nd• The Duke yesterday i -n the eii° giz,.Trst. J a mes's. The prayers were read by the ReD—r-jCV. Chapel'Wel ton - attended the early se rv ice preached by the e ' s ley, and the ssrmon was ''' • ' Lt o k. At the daily service Rev. Dr. 0 theme'r Hook. the sermon was preached by AisToT explosion, cawed Exmosios AT ABEEDA.RE.--Another by the neglect of the men oc exr'on, caused entirely urred at the Lietty Sheakine colliery at noon on Friday, . (/ Y Which three men nearly lost their lives. These men went Wasan old working with a naked candle ; and as the annex-b necessarily charged with. an accumulation of gas, plosio n was inevitable. Thf 3 poor fellows were removed as they,possible, and every attention was 13id to them, but they are so seriously hurt that little hope is entertained of their recovery. , on ST. JAMES'S THEAT RE. Schiller's play of Kabale uad Liebe was-repeated s- repeat e d Saturday night, and receiv e d with, it p oss ibl e, greatgr applatise than on the first night of its repreEientittion: indiyidual members of the Oernas t e actors have now taken their respective positions in the estimation of the public, and as a corps pull..admirably together. Herr Kuhnlias proved hithself an actor of great Merit, end a worthy colleague of Emil Devrient. A repetition of thii play L announced. Toe Queen and l Pr,kuce Albert honoured the performance with their presence. on Satur.. tiny. -llandetds.annonneed for Thursday ; and Faust for Tuesday, the 22d. Devrier.3 . appear to-morrow in a play written expressly ior - bim-by -the Princess Amelia of Savoy, entitled Der Mapratserbt, stud on Saturday Gatlotti will be pert ormed. l i Y CEUM THE ATHE. A one act piece was IforadaoadatNitua9.,aPtirday entitled Very Suspicious, which turntaba - . the prathibititm of a widow marrying a second time under torfeitinat of her property. Lady Emily is the you= and arming widow of an East Indian, who, doting upon herll3 as lett her his whole fortune,- eii th e not 'attogetherupleasing condition, that it is all la:revert_ to his natural heirs if she should again enter the bonds of matrimony. Colonel Eskely has been somewhat marked in his admiration, and his conduct probably led to this harsh clause in the deceased nabob's will. He has followed Lady Emily to England, and even pays "h - Er - a7 . 1151 -- a - t "her country villa. This seems -to the Buglaites a ' who are the heirs ex pectant, " very suspicious," and' Lady , Nightie takes herself and Sir Barnabas down- unexpectedly , to the villa to reconnoitre. Thus - stand matters when the little drama commencetaln Lady Emily's drawing-room. It is very soon pare. p aw s that a secret marriage has taken . place, and Lady Bugbite's e6phatio pointing out these symptoms mutes much of the comady of - the piece. Lady Emily is very amiable, but the Colonel, though high bred, is extremely iil2 patient and exacting. The pet alant Colonel is further l ' aer ' 6 e 4 : l by the arrival of Mr.-Augustus Sharpe,- a ': , Porting attorney, who imagines himself a n enormous lad y ki ller, and having the management of Lad y Emil y 's property, ep ee - 6 tna„es on t he infi her h a n d, and avoid ingt he-hatbful clause imposing the . f orrei , u a _ posaibility .4stf himself obtain. however, by e re of affairs, of .. her propertyV l ady Bu quite gbite on the true state Enlightened, aid the exuesu The Colonel and Lady of a for feiturealters his tactics, astd a seeks to little Mis s % hi a3 in the even t renewing the manneraY nailed and Tierra!, but are reco , to read a clines on neouch. The sets will become a desirable match. poem o f she c i l i their courtship, the Colonel is to theiady whilst she re has fled; and the marriem ing this incontrovertible proof fall fast asleep, and Lady Bu , however, of poetry even lovers,b_ one after the other, tyineonelusion, so l ir ' Emily fairly confesses it, an d t he entering, and witness. tiTatrimony, the Lady however, would not be a satisfactor y wealth. This, Augustus Sharpe rushes in, declaring examine, he amongst the papers he has come down g t that, s earc hing has found a second will, that leaves Lad y E mily perfect liberty, and awards the Bugbites a ha ndso m m u i a lY . le a g t ,eoy , so that Miss Bugbite is still a desirable ac are thus satisfied. Miss Laura Keene was pl easin g All the lady; Mr. Belton gentlemanly as the hvaenryilatamsien, selfish, Colonel; Mrs. Frank Matthews g bu a t s amusing as the authoritative wife; and Mr. Basil Bak er teristic as a baronet in top boots and hunti ng ao r r t - . boisterou3 enough out of doors, but very submissive to his strong-minded wife in the drawing-room: Mi ss Grove, as a chattering lady's maid, also obtained ap plause, and Mr. Butler was smart in a part somewh a t anomalous in such society. The author was said to be Mr. Palgrave Simpson. The piece was perfeczly sue cessful. • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Her Royni Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lord and Lady James Murray and Lady Fanny Howard, honoured the perform ances at her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Satur day evening. Amongst the noble and distinguished indi viduals also visiting the theatre on this occasion were the following :—Bis Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Mar chioness of Douro, and the Marchioness of Salisbury, the Duchess of Beaufort, Lady Somerset and party, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Titch field, the Marquis of Donegal, his Excellency the American Minister, the First Secretary of the American Legation, Mrs. and Miss Abbott Lawrence and party, the Right Hon. the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Conntess-of Meknes bury, the Secretary for the Colonies and Lady Pakington, the Earl of Aboyne, Lord Ward and party; the %•ViscountEx mouth, the Countess of Harrington and Lady Blanche St. Maur Stanhope, the Earl of Wiltonand'party, &c., &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the performance of the Royal Italian Opera with his presence on Saturday evening: The Queen's box was occupied by the Countess Dowager Grey, Lady Caroline Barrington, and Miss Barrington and party. The Duchess ot Sutherland and the Earl Grosvenor and Lady Constance Grosvenor occupied the Duke of Bedford's box. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely and party were in Miss Burdett Coutts's box. Among the faihionable com pany present in the theatre we remarked his Grace the Duke .of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Fitsalan Howard, the Dnke and Duchess de Mellon., his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, the Marquis of Northampton, the Marchese Brancaleoni and Madlle. Brancaleoni, the Earl of Cardigan, the'Earl of Dur ham, the Countess of Minto and Ladies Harriet and Char lotte Elliott and Viscountess Melgund, the Rail of Sand wich, the Earl Besborough, the Count and Countess de Mo rel/a; Viscount Sydney, ViSCOMILES3 Dungarvon, 'Viscount Exmouth, Viscountess Villiers and Lady Peel and Miss Peel, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Morgan and party, the Lord Chief Justice and Lady Jervis, &c., &c. GERMAN PLATT, ST. JAAIEs'S TnEATRE.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Desert, the Hon. Miss Stanley,,the Hon. Miss Kerr, Lord Crofton, General Buckley, and Colonel Bonverie, honoured the Garman plays with - their presence on Saturday evening. • TUN GUANO QUESTION.—A deputation of gentle men interested in this subject, and consisting bf members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and the High land Agricultural Society, had an interview with Lord Derby yesterday in Downing-street. The deputation, which was very numerously attended, was introduced by his Grace the Duke of Richmond, and the speakers included the Duke of Buccleuch, Captain Bulwer, Mr. Hudson, of Castleacre, &c. In addition to these addresses some memorials were presented, the object being to represent to the Government the importance of taking every possible - means to reduce the price of guano, as well as to call attention to the claini made by the Peruvian Government to the newly-diecovered Lob os Islands. His Lordship, in reply, stated that the islands re ferred to, it was now ascertained, were indisputably under the Peruvian dominion, while negotiations had for a con siderable period been carried on with a view to a re.. 31,11EranixiaillTTrt;N:t:—A re duction in the cost at which guano was shipped to this country. So far, however, little had come of these proceedings, and his Lordship feared h e same the f e r n r t e i e li t t s i n other could hold out but faint hopes to fh„, --,_ m emo _ sympathised rialists. Still, for his own part, he entirely with them, and they might rest assured that, if anything could be done, it should ; and, to further this Purpose l structions should be given our cruisers to look out for 0' ha islands which might contain deposits of the description. Previous to the deputation 'withdrawing m in i : - Fisher Hobbs stated to his Lordship that, in cone.. ' • not receiving a reply until the mo rn i ng of --- Pence of answer a person can be su ffi [ c A i D era v t .s t a im v e s h E a m d z n ig o T t .3 blen T a ß ll ß ow ß ed o : on behalf of the London Farmers' Club. °II 4 "Plitation invented, verY small valuable, newly pocket glass, the size of a walnut, b which •Pellni waist. '" seen and knownli miles distant ; the y v and ships are clearlyseen at 12 to 14 miles ; sthweery on the Race-course, at the Opera-h. are every invaluable purpose °uses ; country scenery Gentlemen, Gamekeepers, and T for shooting, deer stalking, dilly, opposite the York -hotel. , 39 , Albemarle-street, Pica - Y aell tinc", to Sportsmen, S. and B. Solomons, O pticians Qurists.Te be had at Messrs. ordinary powers, that Sit important invention in Tel Telescopes —A new and most will show distinctly, some, it inches, with an extra eye piece, Double Stars. With Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's the same Telescope, ' Ring , a nd the Possessing such extra ounces, can be seen a other kind for the weighine only "'distant, and an object from 16 person's countenances mi l e s three to 20 miles. They supersede every sizes, with waistcoatincreasing and Race course glasses, with Solomons, 0 powers accordingly. Opera Opticians to 16 miles an object can be dearly seen from 14 wonderful Rowers; Messrs. S. and B. pocket, and are of lunger and all Spectacle L 1 . 33 1 have invented laced before imper enses immediately they a re P • • .stantinvaluable preserving feet vision, every and distinct, the most object appears clear . . . aged defective sight becomes - bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, original state. The Invisible Or ganic Vibrator, and alr kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief ' of extreme deafness.--39, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, op posite the York Hotel. .. .. . [ADV BILTIS E M . ENT.) Ballo way's P il ls an admi '— Table R .. 4 Bilious Complaints and Indigestion.—The enleey for . in the cure of bile, indigestion, efficacy of these invaluable Pills flatulen c y, s i c k headache, ne rvousn ess, and debilitated e tabl hed in ast every st part of the consti tutions, is so thoroug h ly d pre- is eminent l as mo the fine medicine world, that they now ' tan t e n ts, and may be taken by persons ever known for these comp climate. They invigorate' the body, of all ages, and facultiesin se I. tee mind, increase the appetite, and strengthen the T h ose who killer from disease brought on purify the blood. o lotions may rely on these pills flying by sedentary sedentary 'a-certain restoration to good health.--Sold by diate relief, ane nd at professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, all Druggists a Strand, Lead"' , , , RoaTICULTUNAL ZOCIETY.—On-Saturday tee 'ins second te f o r the season took place 'in the gardens of the fi,,._,_w c_ .i k, and from e number of. titian; issued, society at terue be assumedthat, had the weather bean nearly 0 000, it may ' favourable, one of the most numerous attendances of more ever witnessed would have been the malt. As it coinnen y , and . ~ appearance of r ver notwithstanding the heavy hove , the s kv and the actual coldness of the air, upwards of 5,000 iiitOrS were assembled, and enjoyed. as well as they could, the beauty of the show and the pleasure of the ri.union of and fashion. The fruits, plants, and flowers were of rank t h e very firs t order of excellence. The pitcher flowers, N e penthes, orchids, and ferns, displayed beneath the -tents ol'7l‘lr. B. Edgington, of Southwark, were the gems of the exhibition, and around them the company crowded during the day, rendering the avenues at times almost impassable. The appearance of the gardens was more than ordinarily beautiful; the turf never looked more green, or the trees more full of foliage. The rhododendrons w ere , moreover, in finer blossom than in any former year. In a word, everything was in the finest order, and displayed triumphs of horticulture. Aniong the company w ere t h e Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the Duchess'of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Countess of Derby, the Countess of St, Germans, Lord and Lady Brid • port, the Earl of Ilchester, Lord Walsingham, Lord A. Fitz clarence, the Bishop of. Winchester, the Earl of Leicester, the Earl of Bradford, Lady Murchison, Sir W. and Lady Middleton, Sir C. Lemon, Sir P. Pole, Sir G. Staunton, Sir H. Lambert, Dr. Lyon Playf air, Mr. Childers, M.P., 3:c• The music, which was performed by the bands of the let Life Guards, the Grenadier Guards, and the Coldstream Guards, under the direction of Mr. Waddell, was, as usua l, well selected and well executed. The gold medals, which were more than usually numerous, were awarded to the fol lowing candidates for various q.. eciraens: -Mr. May, Mr. Cole, Mr. Taylor, M r. Green, Ilir.P C ars on, Mr. Blake, Mr. Franklin, Mr. Willi ams, M essrs. Veitch, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Terry. A vast number Of silver medals and certificates were also adjudged, Surgeon Thomas Nelson, M.D. (1849), serving in ' the Cypet sloop on the west coast of Alice station, is appointed to the Penelope flag-ship, on thaoltatign. ,m,