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_._-- f is fast t that meet t, an 6 ce to ny, as sees of is fot r that ere he s, the ith a Cape and s B shot Rijay) orally )odies, Akin& three party aising sofa ut fol coulJ THE SI Y, N, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 2 1846. T..17...r MAGAZINES. • _BLACK I,l' ODD roue in silk stockings meditating suicide, and mouthing blas phemy on an Alpine rock; a brilliant and popular wit and poet, setting Spinoza to music, and satirising the princi palities and powers of heaven as bitterly as he had done the bards and reviewers of earth. Into those giddy and terrible heights where Milton had entered a permitted guest in vilege of virtue; where Goethe had walked in like a pas sionless and . prying cherub, forgetting to worship in his ab sorbing desire to know; and on which Shelley was wrecked and stranded in the storm of his fanatical unbelief; Byron is upborne by the presumption and the despair of his mental misery." Such articles as this one upon Bulwer are very appro priately introduced into the pages of Tait, since the principle characteristic of that magazine is that of elaborate and dispassionate criticism. The creilit which it has already acquired in this respect is fully sus tained in the present number by the notices of Prince Labanoff's " Lettters of Mary Stuart," Ulrici's volume upon " Shaltspere's Dramatic Art," Murdoch's " Tour in France and Italy,"' and particularly by Thomas De Guincey's sound analysis of the " Miscellaneous Works of Mackintosh." We should recommend the son of Sir James Mackintosh to revise his editorial notes after the blunders and the " sins of omission" which De Quincey has therein exposed. A great responsibility is always assumed by any man who undertakes the editing of a bygone author, especi ally if that author has acquired for himself," reputation so solid as that of Mackintosh ; and it becomes the bounden duty of such an editor to fulfil the responsibili ties of his self-imposed offices with the utmost care end the most scrupulous exactitude. Indeed anything like an editorial slur, anything indicative of slovenliness in the supervision of works like those, is excessively repre hensible. Ht nce we are inclined to think that a fresh edition of these miscellaneous writings is necessary for the reputation of Mr. Robert Mackintosh, if not for the reputation of his celebrated father. The paper, such as it is, written by De Quircey, will not be attractive to the general magazine reader, but to the contemplative and to the lover of bibliographic curiosities it will prove —to em ploy a somewhat cant and conventional phrase—" nuts." The little rpoem addressed "To the Clouds," might possible appear more worthy of insertion, did it not recall, by the very association of its title, the dainty lines of Shelley—and, by them, sink into insignificance. In the "Literary Register," there are some agreeable quotations ; and, what with the continuation of " Truth and Falsehood, a Romance," Tait is not unworthy o `,his summer season. ! "We, , ,do not value the Corn - law - one jot in comp ar i s o n with th state of feeling which it, repeal has occasioned. In ' deed, it is our honest conviction, provided gentlemen ex ercise common prudence, and farmers exert themselves, and labour be not stinted, that Great Britain and Ireland in a very few years, raise more than corn enough for the con sumption of its own inhabitants; and that the home-grower will be able to heat the foreigner out of the field, and be him self a gainer all the while, on account of the preference which Will always be given to the very superior article which he raises." It has tecoma quite a necessity in msgazine writing to ,flavour the Ktera tore of such periodicals with com pilations of historicA romance. For one thing, it im parts a semblance o solidity to what might otherwise appear the mere fri ppory of Folcroft, and infuses both brilliancy?, and interest into a slumber which might otherwise elicit the etigina of immeasurable dullness. Among the melodramatic class of these publications, the court debaucheries of Charles 11. furnish a dainty sup ply of materiels to be dished fp into " A revel at Sedg ley's Lodgings," or " A walk in the Mall with Nelly ; ' with others of a morn morbid appetite the "Reign of Terror " is the Most popular epoch ; while those of a fastidious delicacy situate their plots in the purlieus of. the Palais Royal, - during the reign of the Grande Monarque. There are, however, three themes which present attractions to all descriptions of magazines, and which, but for their being altogether exhaustless, would have long since become frittered away into the veriest commonplace ; those themes are, to employ the lan guage of Count Montholon, " a single thing, a single event, and a single man—the thing is Waterloo ; the event, the fall of the Empire ; and the man, Napoleon." History will become wholly distasteful! when these mighty and momentous facts—than which none are more mighty or more momentous in the entire range of history—fail to arouse the attention and to kindle the imaginations of men. Blackwood, in the present num ber, adds another chapter to the commentaries which have already been written, and will still continue to be written, again and again, upon these three extraor dinary topics. By a rather anomalous clash of words, the paper is entitled "The Last Recollections of Napo leon," and every one who is familiar with the political creed and the literary antipathies of our Edinburgh contemporary cannot remain in doubt for a single in stant as to the sentiments which are inculcated in the contribution. They are thoroughly anti-Napoleon. They are built up on a succession of fallacies which have not even the merit of being specious; every alter nate sentence is a sophism, but such a sophism as John Willet himself would have penetrated in a second. The writer undoubtedly is not so facetiously . outré in his hatred for the Emperor as Colonel Mitcl - ell ; indeed he concedes so much as to acknowledge that " it is perfectly childish to question the talents of Napoleon," though in good sooth "it needs no ghost to tell us that." But while thus grudgingly eulogising his " antipathy," he discloses the real prejudices of his heart in the sentence, " that the character of Napoleon was a singular compound of the highest intellectual powers with the lowest moral quali ties r A very "singular compound," without question ! "The highest intellectual powers with the lowest moral qualities." Why, that is literally a description of the archfiend himself; and surely it is not indicative of the coolness of dispassionate criticism, to compare an historical character with the attributes of the devil ! To our thinking such a proceed ing is the very quintessence of bigotry. But taking the sentence in its literal acceptation, it is altogether a meta physical paradox, for the most illustrious analysers of the human intellect, men who have anatomised the phases of the mind, and familiarised themselves with the emotico s of the heart, coincide in declaring it to be in compatible with ethics, and to be averse to all experience, to suppose the possibility of a man wholly and essentially depraved. The utter villain is a creature to be encoun tered in novels and melodramas, but never in real life ; for even those who are almost denitnised in nature, re tain some lurking place (however gloomy) for the sym pathies and tenderness with which they are still linked with humanity. In either case, therefore, the senten tious expression with which this contributor to Blackwood sets out, is clearly an exaggeration. That is the premise of the entire article ; and the premise being thus exaggerated, the inferences are, by necessity, nothing but one mar velous distortion. Among other things, the writer de clares that Napoleon was selfish and Lartless. Now history assures us, that never was man so worshipped as was this man. Colonel Muiron was shot dead at Arcola in defending his life ; Savory wept in the bit terest anguish, because not permitted to share his exile at St. Helena. On the return from Elba, the love of a whole nation preserved his life better than a Phyi ric phalanx. His wives entertained towards him the sin cerest affection : his household submitted voluntarily for six years to the most cruel caprices, and the moat irksome privations of banishment, rather than be se parated from the great man whom they loved so well. Heartless, forsooth ! Then, as to his selfishness— what pomps, and pensions, and dignities did he not shower upon his satellites, only to be repaid by ingrati tude in the days of his tribulation. Many times did he re turn the crowns of Austria and Prussia to their conquered monarchs; and, at one period he permitted Alexander to return to Russia in freedom when captured by the grand army:—was this selfishness? So far was Charles James Fox from deeming Napoleon selfish or heartless that he declared " be believed him to be the best as he was certain he was the greatest of men!" Now we would more readily bow to the judgment of Charles James Fox than to those of the anonymous Blackwood con tributor, MM. Chateaubriand, Bourrience, Mitchell, and the Duc d'Otranto, all put together. But we neither pin our opinions down to the dictation of Fox or any other personage: the scroll of history has been written and unrolled, let those, who will, read . We might, with the least possible effort, disclose the flimsiness of all those fallacies which we have already remarked as the principle constituents of this article, but that we con e,eive such efforts to be little better than killing summer flies, which must inevitably die away when the cool ness of the wintry future has passed over them. Agreeing with an elegant writer in the Cyclopmdia, Brittanica (a Professor of Edinburgh too !) that "no one has been (like Napoleon) the object of such unspar ing abuse, such bitter detraction, such inveterate and unrelenting rancour," we agree with him also in the conviction that neither envy, nor malice, nor hatred, nor slander can ultimately succeed in depriving him of his just fame." Believing this we can afford to pass over such relics of the Georgean prejudices in silence, and to leave the justification of the Emperor Napoleon to time and the reason of posterity—satisfied that while his memory will be one of unparalleled greatness, it will be no less a memory of eminent and beautiful goodness. " Marlborough's Dispatches," " Rogues in Outline," and "Elinor Travis" are continued, the latter with some what of improvement. The tale of " The Americans and the Aborigines" is brought in this number to a conclusion, and, though it may bear the appearance of a rather questionable compliment, we consider the last part to be decidedly . the most ac ceptable. Colonel Lord Howden's description of" The Death of Zumalacarragui" is a literary curiosity, and will be perused with the utmost interest ; the disserta tion upon " Peru" conveys a remarkable bulk of useful information. By far the most agreeable contribution, to ourselves, however, is that headed "New Scottish Plays and Poems," which is brimming over with the music and the pot sy of the " Land o' Cakes"—the land of mountain and of tarn"—" the land of Ossian and of Burns"—or by whatever other title of beauty you may please to affix upon Scotland. It is a critical essay, well worthy of the taste and the nationality of Blackwood. His crime, in their eyes, is, that be has broken up the Monopolist party. " Sir Robert Peel," says this writer, " was more than the Minister of the Crown. He was the avowed hCad of that party," &c., and the inference to be drawn from all this is, that in the estimation of the Tory party the duty of allegiance to the party over rides the duty of allegiance to the Sovereign. By break ing up a party so thoroughly selfish and so completely anti-national as this, which would fain ride rough-shod over both Sovereign and people, Sir Robert Peel bas conferred a benefit on his country scarcely in ferior to that which he has conferred on it by adopting the principles of free trade as the groundwork of his commercial policy ; and that the party is completely broken up vie have the unwilling confession of this writer:— " And, now, last of all, is there strength enough in the Pro tectionist party,to justify an attempt on their ow•n parts to assume the Government? Without hesitation we answer that there is not." The literary contents of the prrsent number are of a high order. 'There is an excellent review of Mr. Mackin non's work on Civilization. An interesting resume of the contents of Captain Stokes's recently published account of the voyage of the Beagle along the coasts of New Holland, and graphic sketches of the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham, the Earl of Radnor, Mr. Villiers, and Mr. Bright among the contemporary orators, besides several other papers. REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ERS ON METROPOLITAN TERMINI. May it please your Majesty—We, the Commissioners appointed by letters patent, under your Majesty's privy seal, bearing date the 2d day of April, in the 9th year of your Majesty's reign, to investigate and report upon the various railway projects of which the termini are proposed to be established within or in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis, beg leave duti:ully to submit to your Majesty, that we have called before us such persons as we have judged to he, by reason of their situa tion, knowledge, and experience, most competent to afford us correct information en the above-mentioned subject, and that we hove required the production of such books, documents, papers, and returns, as have appeared to us calculated to assist our researches. We have further to submit. that in obedience to your Majesty's commands, signified to us through one of your Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, we have directed our attention to such portions of the several railways, either now before Parliament, or projected, as come within the following limits: that is to say, the Edge ware-road, from Oxford-street to the intersection of the New-road; the New-road and the City-road, to Fins bury-square; Bishopwate-street, London-bridge, High street, Borough, Blackman-street, the Borough-road, Lambeth-road, Vauxhall-road, Vauxhall- bridge, Vaux hall-bridge-road, Grosvenor-place, and Park-lane. And that we have especially considered whether the extension of railways into the centre of the metropolis is calculated to afford such additional convenience or benefit to the public as will compensate for the sacrifice of property, the interruption of important thoroughfares, and the interference with plans of improvement already suggested. We now humbly beg leave to lay before your Majesty this our report. We commenced our inquiry by collecting such docu mentary information, in the form of bills, prospectuses, and plans, as would place us in possession of the general features of the various schemes, whether before Parlia ment or not, by which it is proposed to bring the line or terminus of any railway within or near to the limits prescribed in our instructions. The following list shows the number and designation of all such projects as have come to our knowledge :- 1. An Extension of the Eastern Counties Railway to Finsbury-square. 2. An Extension of the Eastern Counties Railway to Fore-street. 3. The Tottenham and Farringdon-street Terminus. 4. The London and Birmingham Terminus at Farring don street. 5. The Direct London and Manchester Line, and the London and Manchester Extension to the City. 6. The North London Junction Railway. 7. The Regent's Canal Railway. S. The Direct Northern Railway Terminus in Hol born. 9. The Extension of the London and Birmingham to the East and West India Docks. 10. The Central Terminus in Farringdon-street. 11. The Great Western, Brentford, and Central Junc tion Terminus Railway. 12, The Thames Embankment Central Terminus. 13. The London Railway. 14. The London Connecting Railway and Railway Transit Line. 15. The National Junction Railway and City of London Terminus Company. 16. The North Kent Railway. 17. South Eastern Extension to Waterloo-bridge. ls. The South-Western Extension from the York-road to London-bridge. 19. The West-End and Southern Counties Railway. The list divides itself into two heads, viz., the lines which approach London from the south side of the Thames, and those which approach it from the north. The first point, therefore, which presented itself for our decision was whether the same considerations apply equally to the admission of these two classes within the limits named to us; that is, whether the convenience or benefit which the public would derive from such admis sion bears in each case the same, or nearly the same pro portion to the injury which would be sustained from the sacrifice of property, the interruption of thoroughfares, and the interference with future improvements° It is our opinion that this is not the case—and for the following reasons:- 1. Setting aside, for the present, the question whether any railway should be permitted to cross the Thames within the metropolis, the termini which would offer the greatest convenience, both to passengers and goods con veyed by the southern railways, may be described to be Waterloo, or Hungerford-bridge, for the West of Lon don: and London-bridge for the City. The immediate vicinities of these points are attainable by railways from the south, with much less disturbance of h ouse p ro p er ty than would be caused by bringing the northern railways to points of comparatively equal convenience on the north side of the Thames. 2. The property to be disturbed is less valuable, and consequently the cost of furnishing the accommodation to the public would, on this account also, be proportion. ably smaller. 3. The thoroughfares to be crossed on the south side of the river are less important, and much fewer than those on the north. 4. We have no evidence of any plans of street improve ments having been suggested on the south side which would be interfered with by the projected lines of railway. The only contemplated improvement which could in any way be affected thereby, is the opening of a new and commodious thoroughfare from the Waterloo-road to the Borough ; and we have reason for believing that this might be facilitated by the formation of a railway. This case is not so on the north. 5. The ordinary traffic of the streets on the south side is not so great as on the north ; it is less concen trated, and it runs through wider and more convenient channels ; so that the additional traffic created by rail way termini could be more easily accommodated. 6. Those of the public who would be benefited by the close approach of the southern railways to the city and to the west-end of London are more in number than those who would derive advantage from bringing the Northern railways into the centre of the metropolis ; in asmuch as those parts of Surrey and Kent which are within a short distance of London, are generally more thickly inhabited by persons having occupations in Lon don, and are more frequented for occasional relaxation than the corresponding parts of Essex, Middlesex, and Hertfordshire. 7. The Legislature has already sanctioned the form ation of a line from the Nine Elms to the York-road, near Waterloo-bridge, and the construction of a termi• nits at the latter point. These are the grounds upon which we draw a distinc tion between the smaller portion of the district described in our instructions, which lies on the Surrey side of the Thames, and in the larger and more important division of it which is situated on the Middlesex side of the river; and a careful consideration of them induces us to look upon the close approach of the southern railways to the eastern and western bridges of the metropolis in a more favourable light than that in which we view the pro posed extension of northern lines into the City, or other thickly inhabited districts of London. We will now, in obedience to your Majesty's com mands, submit our opinion upon that question which we are enjoined by our instructions as our especial duty to consider, viz., whether the extension of railways into the centre of the metropolis is calculated to afford such ad ditional convenience or benefit to the public as will com pensate for the sacrifice of property, the interruption of important thoroughfares, and the interference with plans of improvements already suggested ? 1. AS TO THE CONVENIENCE AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. We are of opinion that, as regards passengers, the demand for that further accommodation which would be given to them by extending the present lines towards the centre of the metropolis, and the advantage which would be derived from such accommodation, have been much exaggerated. It is no doubt true, that for persons proceeding to cr from the city, the terminus of the Great Western, at Paddington, is inconvenient ; and the same must be ad mitted of the Eastern Counties terminus at Shoreditch, in regard to passengers to or from the west end of Lon don. And if these lines were to be laid dawn afresh, it would perhaps be a benefit to the public at large, that they should enter Loudon at points respectively east and west of their present stations. We are led to this con clusion by the opinion which we find to pr; ail gene rally, and to be entertained by all those who are most competent to form a judgment 9,n the subject, that the station of the Birmingham Railway in Euston-square, is, on the whole, situated conveniently for the great macs of passengers. This opinion being supported by the fact that the distribntion of passengers froth the various stations in London may be estimated to take place in the propor tion of nine to the west, and four to the east of a line drawn north and south through Temple Bar.* And although it does not follo7 firct-ia this tna.t the ex tension of the G:eat Viresiiern, Or eVeh Of the Eastern Counties line, in' the direction of Euston-square (even Were'such'projeots before us), would deserve encorlragp ment, we feel that it fully justifies tzs in recommending that if those Jives soul, seek to come fnAlier east and THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. There is a dash of Harry Lorrequer in this number of his quondam-magazine; it is by an anonymous but fa miliar contributor, and is the commencement of a series of " Sketches of Burschen Life." It is quite impossible not to participate in the exhilarating spirit flowing through these chapters; they are redolent of goof humour, and, while they initiate us into the mysteries of the student's life in the German universities, they put us on good terms with both students and universities. Slicing an odd nose off in a duel, or lopping away a casual ear in the like description of amusement, are un doubtedly drawbacks to such a condition of society in the nineteenth century ; but, making this somewhat ex orbitant allowance for the excitement of youthful blood, we are prepared to esteem henceforth every Bursch who ever perambulates the streets of Manheim, be he a frog, a camel, a fox, or a bemossed head—for such are the eccentric titles of the German universitymen tall} ing with the freshman, the sophister, and the senior of our English universitymen ! Garnished with their chore caps and their meerschaums, and followed by their trusty poodles, we would not unwillingly claim ac quaintance with any one of these students!; for, as this writer assures us, and as we can likewise avouch, they are about as intellectual and cordial a race of fellows as can be found anywhere on the face of the earth. There is a brotherly character about their friends ship for each other which cannot fail to enhance them in the eyes of every gregarious mortal. We commend the procession of "farewell" at Heidel berg to the perusal of all Cantabs and Oxonians—it is a pleasant and moving picture. The paper upon " Bell's Life of Canning " is a somewhat slovenly piece of criti cism; nor can we fully comprehend the consistency of the writer who declares that he "boldly impugns" Sir Robert's policy in one sentence, and in another remon strates with Lord George Bentinck, for seeking " to baffle a Government upon a measure in which they are clearly right." Either he alludes in one instance to the free-trade policy and in the other to the Coercion Bill, — and, if so, makes a sad bungle in the expression of his ideas—or the contradiction of opinion is attributable to the compositor,—and, if so, it betrays a strange care lessness in the correction of the proofs : or the whole error springs from the vascillating or conf u s e d notio ns of the writer,—and, if so, is an egregious specimen of his incompetency to express any decisive opinion upon matters of such moment. Among the quotations from the satirical fragments of Canning, we rejoice to en• counter, yet once again, that inimitable travestie of. Robert Southey's Sapphics, in which " the friend of humanity " responds to the appeal for sixpence from the " knifegrinder," in that memorable outbreak of indig nation— " I give thee sixpence! I will see the damn'd first— Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, Spiritless outcast 1" " The Drama in connexion with the Fine Arts" is a capital dissertation on the lamentation about the decay of dramatic art. But, in the very eulogiums which it lavishes upon some amongst those who still grace the histrionic profession, we think the writer entirely sub verts his own proposition, that this decay is traceable to the deficiency of good actors and actresses. During the palmiest days of Siddons, and Kemble, and Kean, the old playgoers were wont to shrug their shoulders in deprecation of such performance with a " Ha! you should have seen Garrick!" Precisely in the same manner, Macready and Phelps, and Miss Faucit and Vandenhoff, are contemned by a cry of " Ah! 'you should have seen Miss O'Neill!" or what not. The decay is traceable rather to the extreme fas tidiousness of the age than to any exceeding paucity of histrionic talent. Steven's " Memoirs of George Heriot" are agreeably reviewed, and the cursory glance thus taken of the ever-memorable " jingling Geordie" of Scott will be relished by the readers of the magazine. " The Ideal of Imitative Art" is likewise worthy of praise, as an elegant group of gossiping remarks about painting ; while " The Stepson" forms a very in teresting story, though a sOry rather suited for a winter's evening and the ingle-nook, than for the sultry days of July. Among the " continued" ar ticles we fray mention Carleton's powerful tale of the "Irish Famine," and the picturesque "serial about " Irish Rivers." We cannot possibly see the humour of the pasquinade upon the martyr of the cellar, and hovrevermuch Mr. William Smith O'Brien urty have laid himself open to ridicule by his recent episode upon Parliamentary business, we think he might have been spared the punishment of suggesting a bad joke. But for the importunate demands upon our space, we should be tempted to extract the mystic and exquisite verses entitled " The Wine Spilled ;" they form a dainty decoration to the Dublin University. See Table No. Z in Appendix to Evidence. ; wes, they shout Ibe resriLtA-d to a 111‘, , ;o v,hieli would keep them outside the circle, or belt, d 3 : gibed in our in structions. For the same reasons, as well es for ot;..r.rs which will appear hereafter, we hav,o no hesitatirn in r-,.. , :mmeneing that the same rule should be strictly applir i t a ll n ew railways of which the schemes have come under con sideration. We have stated that the advantages to the put lic o` such accommodation as would be afforded to them by bringing the railway stations further into the City appear to us exaggerated. It must be observed, how ever, that traffic-tables, the usual data by which the d^- tumid for railway accommodation, and the convenience which it will bestow Upon the public, are estiamted, have throughout our investigation baen very imperfectly fur nished to us. We do not mention this as a mner of reproach to the promoters of the schemes which have been brought under our consideration, for it is ma , dfestly impssible to calculste the direction and extent of the traffic which takes place to and from the different parts of London and its suburbs, with the accuracy which is expected in dealing with ordinary lines of railway but because the want of such evidence has clmpelled us to found our conclusions rather upon the judgment of persons of experience, and upon our own observation, than upon numerical returns. It is by those passengers who constitute tl.e short traffic on lines entering London, and who ara in the daily habit of using a metropolitan railway, that the ad vantage of carrying the line as far as possible into the town, would be most sensibly felt. But we have it in evidence that the average distance travelled by passengers who ar rive at the Euston-square station is not less than 64 miles. To passengers moving over this length of ground, avid. it may be assumed, using the railway less frequently, the saving of a mile or two, whether estimated in time or money, is of comparatively little irn7,ortance. And although it is likely that in the case of other lines which may hereafter enter London from the north, this average will be lower ; inasmuch as they may pass Cm rough dis tricts more frequented by persons having occucations in the metropolis than any which are traversed by the Birmingham Railway ; we are nevertheless of oz-inion, that the probable demand for the better accommoLlation of short traffic on those lines, would not justify such an expenditure on the part of the companies, or such a sa crifice of property, as must result from carrying the lines through the thickly inhabited parts o!. the metro - BUS if these railway companies should deem it neces sary to offer to their passengers the means of convey ance to more parts of the metropolis than one, we are of opinion that this might be effected with greater advan tage to all parties by branches skirting the town, and terminating at points without the line described in our instructions, than by penetrating within it. If the convenience of passengers does not 41 for the prolongation of railways into the heart of the metropo lis, still less does it require the establishment of any cne central terminus, at which the railways from different parts of the country should unite. We believe that the number of passengers who desire to pass through Lon - don, without quitting the railway, and to \shorn princi pally such an arrangement would be an advantage, is so small as to be scarcely appreciable. We are contiOent that it is not such as to justify the Legislature in sanc tioning the establishment of a terminus which would re ceive the traffic of many lines, and be conducted under divided management. Of the inconvenience, confusion, and danger of such an arrangement, we have the stron ges t and most authoritative ev idnce. As regards merchandise, the railways which are of most importance as channels for its conveyance into the commercial parts of London and of its suburbs, are undoubtedly those which connect the metrow - dis with the north and north-west of England. Anil's-kr , . we are not called upon to consider the speed, so much as the uniform and uninterrupted nature of the conveyance and the diminution of expense. It is our opinion supported by the evidence of expe rienced and very intelligent witnesses, that s 9 far as an easy, unbroken, and economical communication between the northern railways and the docks, or the east of Lon don generally, is concerned, the object can a more con veniently and surely attained by a line which should pass outside the metropolis on the north, at sa._.ll a dis tance as to avoid interference with populous districts and thronged thoroughfares, and so connect the goods stations of the various railways from west to east with each other, terminating at some convenient point on the Thames or within the docks. Such a railway, it is true, would not bring the merchandise of the north and west so near to the warehouses in the City, as the prolonga tion of some of the northern lines to Faringdon-street, Aldersgate-street, Fore-street, &c. ; but without antici pating the objections which we shall shortly have to make to these projects, it is sufficient to observe that the execution of any. or even all of them, must still leave the communication with many of the warehousing districts of London very incomplete ; and that, therefore, re course must still be had to conveyance by cart through some of the most crowded thoroughfares. To facilitate the transfer of goods, not only between the northern railways and the commercial parts of Lon don, but between the northern and southern railways respectively, and thereby to make the communication between all parts of the country complete, it would be necessary that the line which we have su.rgested should cross the river to the west of the metropolis, to connect itself with the South-Western, South-Eastern, and any other lines that may approach the town on that side. The course which it should take has not come specifi cally under our consideration, inasmuch as it would cer tainly lie beyond the li m it s l a id d own i n our instructions; but we have no hesitation in saying that such a line might be constructed, answering all the commercial and more important purposes of a central terminus, without being liable to the obj ec ti ons w hi c h ar i se to this latter scheme. We have upon this head the valuable testimony of your Majesty's Quartermaster-General, and o: the In spector-General of Fortifications, that whilst it is of the utmost importance, with a view to the national de , once, to establish an unbroken connexion between the rarways of the north, south, and west, a circuitous communica• tion for this purpose round London would, for military purposes, be preferable to one which should necessitate the conveyance of your Majesty's troops or stores through a populous part of the metropolis. inst., when CA.lonel Richardson, with 274 of the 7th Dra goon.., reached this, having heard that we were hemmed IA un er: !y B!dt . , Pato has openly declared hi:itself our enemy, te • war c;y ' havhig issued trom his kraal, and so I think 'Are h 'll'e wa, rn k before us, as at this present moment a'iunt. 500 are wi; bin oue mile of Fort Peddie.- fight ing ti:“ Fi IlgOeS of this settlement; the bugles are blow ing ,:nd turning out, &c. The Kaffirs are very daring." Another hand From *dal! list to the 27th we were kept constantly on the alert—war cries on all side;—but nothing done. We lost our position at Sand Drift, and which caused such a panic here, although the strongest post on the frontier. garrisoned by 200 nn n, yet officers and all moved their baggage for security into the infantry barracks. Stock (Eno's son) re mains steady, but his men, there can be little doubt, have joined the enemy, but not in any great numbers. Umkie also, with a few, remains steady. .Seyola, Nonibi, and Pato, are the only chiefs who have openly mustered a war party. Umhala is still quiet, but there is good reason to believe that he is as deep in the plot as any of the rest. There are still those who are willing to believe that Pato is quiet, and has committed no overt act against the colony, and this in the face of his driving in the Fingoes from Sand Drift, and.of his people in great numbers being in the colony, and returning with large fields of colonial cattle. Such nonsense is quite sickening, and if Pato should be again acknowledged as a chief it will be a great error, May Ist.—Pato's people have attacked the Fingoes cicse to this, and the parties are now engaged. "An instance of what may be done, if the Kaffirs are dealt with properly, kas been reported to us as follows: — Some 20 or :;1.1 Kallirs being seen on the Konap Heights, Mr. It. Aylitt; of Leo Fontein, sent out a party of 12 Hottentots, who creeping stealthily towards the spot tired a volley into them, when such as were able instantly fled, panic struck, leaving 12 guns, several assagais, and many other things in the hands of the attacking party. Three of the enemy are said to have been shot dead.' We are intornied, also. that a most resolute resistance was made a few nights since to au attack by the enemy in a position taken by some Dutch farmers on the Konap, under J. Nei. The Kaffirs were in great force, but were repulsed with the loss of 16 of their number, who are said to have been shot eea.i. POSTSCRIPT-SATURDAY MORNING. Last night the Fingoe picquet again surprised a party of Kaffirs, said to be about 12 in number, all mounted, passing along the flat at the head of Colonel Somerset's kloof. These Kaffirs did no' approach sufficiently near for the picquet to do execution, and had they not fired when they did, the enemy would have escaped. Several long shots were exchanged, the result being that the Fingoes captured one horse, with bags full of reins, halters, clothing, &c., also sk pass, purporting to be signed by the Diplomatic Agent, dated February 15, but in what year does not appear. This pass appears to be a forged document. Received a report that last night the re sidence of Mr. Corbitt, above the Mill River, had been fired by the enemy. The premises had been abandoned, but they contained mod of their furniture, oats, hay, &c., which, to gether with the buildings, was reduced to ashes. The enemy then proceeded to the residence of Mr. Wilmott, where a party of farmers are assembled ' • but finding them on the alert, and the place well defended, they moved off in another direction, without firing a shot. The great body of Kaffirs appear to have struck cif towards the Bushman's River Poort. a favourite haunt of theirs—the paths leading to that point being. it is said, covered with the spoor. or toot markt., of the enemy. It is understood that Colonel Somerset will detach a strong body of his division to the point of danger. The detachment Qf the Cape Corps, under Ensign Salis, which proceeded to the station of the Field Cornet Lombard, returned 19 town this morning, reporting chat they had not fallen in with the enemy, and who would appear to have moved across the Zuurlserg towards the ravines of the Bush man's River, es before stated. The Kaffirs avoid meetingour mounted men in open day. MARTIAL LAW. By a prochim..tion dated " Head Quarters, Fort Beaufort, 23d," his Excellency warns all persons, under pain of death, against furnishing ammunition, intelligence, &c., to the enemy. He also offers a free pardon to deserters who shall return to their duty within ten days after the 27th April. From Cl4n William, the most distant of the western dis tricts, the Burgher force hasalready marched for the frontier. The c, , ntingen:s from all the othes districts, except the Cape district, are also in motion. THE LATE Mit. B. R. HAYDON. Tuesday a meeting of gentlemen took place at the cham bers of Slr. Sergeant Talfourd, in Sergeants' Inn, to devise some means of providing for the widow and daughter of the late Mr. Haydon, the melancholy circumstances of whose de cease are still tre,h in the recollection of our readers. Among the gentlemen present were, Lord Morpeth, Sir J. C. Hob house, M.P., Dr. Bowring, M.P., Mr. W. Hamilton, Count D'Orsay, the Rev. Dr. Croly. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. Jerdan. Lord Morpeth was called upon to preside, and his Lord ship, in common with every gentleman who took part in, the proceedings, expreSSed his deep concern at the deplorable death of Mr. Haydon, and his sympathy with that unfortu nate gentleman's widow and daughter, who, in consequence of the embarra,sed state of Mr. Haydon's affairs; are left in a state of utter destitution. Several resolutions were proposed and adopted, the first embodying an expression of deep regret at Mr. Haydon's death, which had been caused by distraction of mind conse quent on his pecuniary embarrassments. The second and third resolutions were in the following terms : "That without presuming to offer any judgment as to the place which Mr. Haydon will ultimately fill in the annals of his art, or aoy opinion on the controversies in which he was sometimes engaged, this meeting feels that the efforts of his genius, and the circumstances of misfor tune which obstructed them, justify an expression of public sympathy with his widow and daughter. That such ex pression would be most fitly conveyed by securing a perma nent provision to his widow and daughter, left wholly desti tute by his death ; and that a public subscription be opened for that purpose." Mr. Sergeant Talfourd read a letter he had received from Sir Robert Peel, expressing his regret that the pressure of public business would prevent him from attending the meet ing, and stating that the Queen had been pleased to grant Mrs. Haydon a pension from the Civil List of 501. a year. The Right Hon. Baronet requested, that in the event of a subscription being determined upon, his name might be put down for 10&. as a contribution from his private purse. It was stated that Lady Peel had assigned a pension of 251. a year to Mrs. Havdon out of a fund over which, from her position, she has control ; and that Sir R. Pe e l, having found that a son of Mr. I:Laydon, who held a situation in the Cus toms, was of sufficient slaniting to receive promotion, imme diately gave him a step in rank. The prompt generosity evinced Sir R. Peel in promoting the welfare of his un fortunate family was warmly eulogised; and the following resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That the thanks of this meeting be respectful& tendered to the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, for his prompt and considerate attention to the applwation made to him for assistance by the deceased Mr. (ton. alai for his munificent acts of kindaess towards his family." Lord Morpeth, Sir J. C. Hobtiouse, Mr. Sergeant laitourd, and Mr. W. Hamilton, were appointed trustees of the subscription. A committee was formed to carry the re solutinps into effect, and a vote of thanks having been given to the Noble Clisirman, the proceedings terminated. The subscription- announced at the meeting (including Sir R. Peel's contribution of NW.) amounted to upwards of 4001. It was sated by several gentlemen well acquainted with the po4ti,on of Mr. Haydon's family, that the peculiar circum stances of the ease rendered prompt exertion on their behalf most •essentia!; anti a confident hope was expressed that the differences which bad existed between Mr. Haydon and many of his i rofeasional contemporaries would not prevent them from aiding to alleviate the distress of the widow and daughter of a talented and able, though an eccentric and unfortgqate ACCIOENT ON THE 1311.It1HTON RAILWAY.—TWQ TAVES LOST. BAWAI)Iii:=, TUESDAY EVENING.—An accident of a most lamentable deecription occurred on Monday evening, on the London and Brighten Railway, at the Balcombe station, situate about a mile and a half on the . Brighton side of the 'acombe tunnel, by which two persons, one a female pas senger and the other the station-clerk, lost their lives. 'rile station, it should ha e.tated, is of the worst construc tion, and oilers but trifling security, or even accommodation, to the public. It is what is termed a good second-class station but all it comprises is a kind of sentry - box en the lett of the up line, just sufficient to shelter the station-clerk, his desk, &c. It is approached by a deep flight of steps from the main road, which passes over the railway; there is no platform or railway to prevent persons wandering on the line, while the pathway is so exceedingly narrow that it is diffi cult to keep a steady footing on the passing of trains. Pas sengers travefling by the down trains are compelled to walk across both lines of rail:: t.o the opposite side, and to this dangerous system may the aczklein in some measure be attributed. It appears that at about ten minutes before three o'clock, among the passengers who came to the station and booked themselves for the halfepast two o'clock train from Brighton for Loudon, were Mr. Arthur Murphy, who holds the situa tion of a store-keeper in the ordnance department in the Royal Arienal at Woolwich, and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Murphy. One of the clerks had in the morning got leave to go to Brighton on business, consequently the only person to perform all the duties of the station was the station o eli.ck one from Bri e , , nt clerk, t) l a man named Shaw. g.reaetsestaprieecwautsieocnoli:ll:lbledeifiboereadthaeptetdhiirntypansi:it:ugtetshepapsat passen gers _liThceomch:swnutp:vocro.nius.eeqxupenresti3s,trtahine there is no clock at th e a ta : t ?„ r , d n in g gerd over the rails. sengers, or even a notice board, Ig e to appearances, however, the guidance of the pas tug them as to crossing the line. After taking the tickets Mrs. Morph at most stations, caution. Y proceeded to cross the the direction of the shed on the g y .• in s e t:4 a : d a at the same tricinent the down express was hea r d proaellit at usual velocity. He looked out of hi s door . way and saw that she had apparently slipped or fallen on the down tin 3of the rails. Seeing her imminent danger he rushed out, caught hold of her, and made a desperate ety.:rt to throw the urifortunate lady off the line, when at the same in;, , tant the engine struck them both to the ground, and the wh o l e pf t h e tra i n passed over thorn, Ittilkg them instantaneou s ly. A more appalling sight was e#:.ltri,.!elyeve .. witnessed. The wheels h a d p a . bca l completely over the lie 44, Shaw, thereby rendering the least recognition of his fratura. ialpossible. The head of Mrs. Murphy was sadly mutilat• d, it pearly cut in half; and to add to the gLo; king cata'trophe, she far advanced in pregnancy. The 4iitro.ings Murphy, on disoevering the dreadful fate el ills wife, as may be easily conceived, were of the most hea:treraiiiig character. He was the first to raise the tntttlj i; .4y the line, and they were afterwards con veyed in a rieig:944ing public-tiouse. attributed to the engine driver • of L, }t t . t .r i a le m i . "* H t lattlt can tie i tl ia e neerous position of the unhappy persons, and used every ,nexus in his power to stop the eng; , i e k ilt.rtil4; ar the • steam and applying vigorously 0 0 1,in-elks, but the sate of the train, as it does not stop at B,ke ei ptai, Qeitirely prffente , i him effecting his purpose. Mrs uns i ihr, it appears, ha,f beeti stopping at the neigh yin„ge e4,1- ; ger c i. the' benefit of her health, arid ° rats bur iT g asbaud Lid come desiqi only the day before to eanoin. piny sea ea her return home. Toe statiOn clerk bed been in the service et fat company since the opening of the raiie way, god was igre,itiy t ;,4;.t. : elned. He was 41 years of age, inariLst, net no family, The bodies cl the deceased slow aye* ').:e county coroner's inquest. To LIEUT.-COLONEL JOHNSTONE COMMANDING "Graham's Town, May 1, 1846. " Sir—l beg leave,in compliance with your order, to hand you a report of duties performed by the Fingoe and J3echuana picquets, commencing from the 21st of April to the end of the same month. " KaffirApril 21st—No. 1 picquet ehot a neaßound Bill, who told the guard ha was M ocomo 's man y ; heard several parties of Katlirs on the flat, and tired 15 rounds at the sante. " 22d— Anot her Kaffir found near Cawood's farm, to have been shot by picquets ae recediog evening. " 234—N0 2, If 1 t s . . '- 1 A Kittia wh .supposed ecutrana p.equet, attacite. a party of i!l , :t i l , ci_ii . ;.'s and o th e same evening had succeoiled in taking Mr. smite civic, to the number of 121 head, c ' o " u l t r i , g the !alter person's herd, anti a II .t etttot, befo-e they e . B - cal'e. The PUAltret , 4 reel:jam - oil ihe whole of the ' 24th—. No. 4, rewirt havi •••.: cattle.. and s e tw o Kaffi r> , w - ,,,,,, tiro ,,,A,A in tae oceill''l very quick tiring duria- the '' s--en seve(..ll fires, tcd hear. " - 25th—No 5 • ' eight. • , picque,! - xir;al at 30 Katt s—wounr . ted two, and broug'lt. their tssagais. " 260.—Ne. 3, picquet repo r t ' , ./1 , ;/ - or lleard very quick firin.r. all night towards Mr. ogilVic's '.,', , r'it . .. " 2 8h—No. 1, Bechuana a. td lacquet, ati.:Ated a party of and., kalhre, a,l e.iptureil five oxeii qiilen from C. Maynard, Esq., !2 , u , r horses belonging to the thieves. capturcn two horses, six fowls, one dip ; sup hr wounded. oiie Kaffir wounded. _ a " :- 9 th.—.No. 1, brought in two h orses l e ft in bug* IT li. ffirs, on th e Fl at above Col. Somerset's. "30th.—No. 1, found an ox which the Kaffirs abandoned on their app each ; ten spies returned from direction of Degelly farm —report haring , een two fires. MAY I.—N o . •3 picquet, report all quiet du r ing the night ; No. 4 piequet was fi red. at bk three men pr o ceeding to Cawood's farm with four others. Three spies returned from Bowie Bush, who saw a great number of fire- wlje 4 w ere , I - ."'" ... r ' lit up about 11 o'clock and put out just hiA re ', ( 1 - lioht.—L l l s !ACKNET THEOLOGICAL *SOCIETY.-00 Toeiniay the u .a y ~. bave, &c., " JAS. THACKWRAY." I Ao rlu4 zg:•,:!•ig mis held at the chapel, Flolywell Alount, 12 o'CLtneK, NooL—An ex -Press .. 1 "t enure in flem, F ort , 1 St i e,-e•iiid.:, p. ;,..,: i tti, Esq., in the chair. Tile seminary was Peddl e , b roug ht i n b y . e i ght or ten th.,r o , In kitlaru., Orir'' 1 iollUtkti 111 th e yea* i4l:o..tlitice which time 150 students had intelligence ttiat - Pato, having jollied ike conf.derat'eci clii ' &4.4 1 gona forth as nnoiite7=s ; t utnlogi, oast year two had c2ni- against th e c o l ony , h a d ~e at a p ar t o f his warriors into the pletea their stnli'.s. and one ti. 6iit4e4 ::.;e seminary . . The_ colony, and that he had atm) Attacked the Fiugoe settiew ea t 7 I expul dii or e was 1,519/., which sum erceeatiiid t i,,,; i•c,ce!9ts . by the _engagement th en raging when the express left the post. )IA il ,sultuions to promote the success of the . institatrn * * Received communications fr. - ion this Paint, the sub' were af1'"'1•44."14 the meeting separated. Stance of which is contained in the foliowin i 4 extracts : p ito v i' D z‘ k i . 'B, cwitprif py 144.NcEns.—Tuesday even " FORT PEDDIk, k'part, 30. 1 ino, the second anniversary 0.::,;t1F4 ,f' the members and , " Since the date of my last, nothin of any Co, —ye 1 friends of the above institution Cooit_place a l t . thefirc?mlannS Ira% taken place. The body of Kaffir g s which we l r 'eci wib i' 1 7 1 , ,ner- Sir Charles Shalterl• -, y, Half', presjil4l! ` ,a/a.,. V . / .. ,P., two miles of Fort Peddie (Whon I. oast dibp mostinfluential members of tiny wrote to you e ), ha l ve . . 9n- - i11:4 7 f . , -4 .,. ~‘•• I`,l. Celtariw, the Messrs.Oseaf ant! . 4 .Iqe . . ? ersed. and enter e d the colony; a,nd N., - ;:: . ;kern !iept in Ue Br rn, Mr...(..r.tr:.:, r.nd other profession. s sc painful suspense until yesterday , not hasz:l4 received 1 A Lib fiptiop cf ,W 6/. 148. was added to the . .... ,f.t,.. 'MY ainV4 from the troops or Graham's Wolvii since /4 gpt4 hinds. ... •,,•• • TAII'S. With extreme pleasure we observe an accession of talent to this able periodical, in the person of Mr. George Gilfillan, as a contributor. What he has commenced in his eloquent volume of " Literary Portraits," he appears determined to complete here—namely, a gallery of those personages who have during the present century adorned the literature of Great Britain by their writings. And we are glad to observe, in the first paper of his second series, a very remarkable improvement in the style of composition. What was previously extravagant in brilliancy is now modulated to something approaching to rhetorical correctness ; what was an exorbitant elongation of paragraphs, heaped one upon the other for the expression of a single idea, is now reduced to a brevity more consonant with the object—namely, the utterance of that single idea. Still Mr. Gilfillan must guard himself from falling into an extreme of condensation when he is thus endeavouring to correct this tendency to copiousness. Despite the sneers of certain frigid critics, he must, if he would not utterly ruin his genius, avoid cramping his powers by a too strict subjection to the rules and formalities of composi tion. We would the more particularly urge this upon him, as in his writings we recognise the impetuosity of an enthusiastic thinker. Mr. Gilfillan throws his thoughts upon paper with a nerve and earnestness which we would not see abated one jot, even though it were at the risk of encountering the blemishes of pre cipitation. Originality and depth of sentiment, and spontaneousness of diction may be frittered away byla too great anxiety to produce sentences peculiar for ele gance, or arguments of a precise sequence, and a prim ap propriateness. We say thus much because we believe Mr. Gilfillan to have received his credentials as an author rather from nature than from the book shelf ; his mind is animated rather by an in nate vigour than by reflections from the dilectus or schoolings from the dorninie. " Sir Edward Bulwer Lv tton" is the first contemporary writer considered in this new series, and forms an admirable opening paper to Tait for July. It is to be hoped that Dickens, and Carleton, and Marryat, and the rest of that fraternity, will be anatomised by the same cunning hand. Full justice is done to Bulwer as an essentially u..ique ro raancer. He is shown to be no copyist of others, but to have formed for himself a class of novel writings, and (what is still more) a class of readers. But we conceive the critic rather exa7:•Yrates when he observes that Sir Edward's " stile is vicious from excess of vi, ue, weak from repletion of strength ; that every word is a' point, every clause a beauty, the close of every sentence a climax," The analogy drawn be twe( n the characters of Byron and Bulwer is eccentric enough and Plutarchian enough; and the eccen tricity of it is eveeillly visible in the concluding remark that while Byron, by way of doing penance, threw his jaded system into the Greek war, Bulwer has with better result leaped into a tub of cold water !" Cordially do ee coincide with Gilfillan in regarding " Zanoni" as in all respects the masterpiece of Btdwer Lytton ; the memory of that beautiful book clings to us like a vision, the like pf which is never seen but once—a vision of the mysterious, the solumn, and thepathetic. As a specimen of the novelty with which Mr. Grilfillan invests oven themes kindled a thousand times bef,re, and us an ex ample also of the briLiant mannerisms of his style, we tifa,iscribe a few observations about Byron. After Perusing il4em, the - reader will acknowledge that, as ReheFt Hall - said about doh l i on, ofinti 4 n ship most on the anglas of a thong it. " Byron's mind, in itself essentially unspeculative, was forced upwards upon those rugged and clanderopa trap, s of thought, where he has gathered the rarest of his beauties, by intimacy . with Shelley, by envious emulation of his Lake ~on'tettil~o -srand, above all, by the pale hand of his mi sery, Unlielllng Whim le - .:ightp and depths in his nature and genius, which lverd 'previouslY 'tinktiowu an 4 unauspe,a:!4, and beckonbg him onward through theiegrini and shadowy region„ He grew, at once, and equally, in 'guilt,' misery, 'arid nTwet.' .41,4 inticeier, too, on domains, where sonic other 6 4 11 ,4 0 A their cal and permanent dwelling, his appearance Vas e 4vti, as a dandy discussing the great questions of natural' and inoral obil; FRASER. Fraser has an article this month on the state of parties, which is valuable, as showing that the Protec tionist Tories are still the same bigotted, prejudiced, un reasoning set of men that they were fifty years since. Like the Bourbons of the elder branch, " they have learned nothing, they have forgotten nothing." Speaking of the glorious free-trade measures of Sir R. Peer, which (forgetting the memorable declaration of the Right Hon. Baronet, that the corn-laws were not merely impolitic but unjust) he endeavours to sneer at mere fiscal arrangements ; ho says : " We begin by expressing our unqualified regret that any consideration whatever should have induced Sir Robert Peel, on a mere question of fiscal arrangement, to break up the beat and strongest Government that has sat at the helm of affairs for a quarter of a century. Had the trade of the country been depressed, or the public revenue fallen away— had there been threatenings of foreign war, which only a change of policy could avert—had there been poverty, want of employment, discontent and incipient agitation at home— some excuse might have been found for his proceeding, though even then it would have been perilous. But that he 'should have chosen a season of unexampled prosperity to try such an experiment, does, indeed, strike us as being an act to which, on the score of absolute political madness, we can discover ne parallel. Granting that he was right in the prin ciple of his measure, the time which he chose for pushing it forward would have placed him in the wrosig." Now this is the true old Tory dcctrine—listen not to reason, grant not that which is "right in principle," because it is right—but knowingly maintain the profit able wrong until it is wrested from you by physical force, or until all the world plainly perceive that you have yielded that to threats which you would not yield to reason ; for that is the meaning of finding fault with Sir Robert Peel for not waiting until "discontent and incipient agitation had afforded him some excuse for his proceeding "—as if any excuse were needed for doing justice. Can a party honestly maintaining such doc trines as these (and that they are honestly maintained by them, we verily believe) be safely entrust e d w ith following passage the gist of th e argument of Sir R. Peel, derived from the failure of the potato cro p, i s In n e t a n d e m inistration of the affairs of a mighty empire? either misunderstood or misrepresented : " The ostensible ground of the Minister's change of policy was the failure of the potato crop, and an anticipated famine in Ireland. Was it candid in him to urge such a reason for the abandonment of opinions and principles which he had held throughout the whole course of his previous life, and to which the party which brought him into power was pledged? Surely not; and , wit h all p ossible desire to avoid saying harsh things, we must be p ermitte d to add, that he hi mse lf knows that it was no t. The G o vernment did not wait, it could not wait, for the p ass i n g of its corn-bill or the ac ceptance of its reform ed tariff, ere it provided against the risk of destitution in Ireland. Long befo re P ar li ament met, or the Times had said a word on the subject of the Cabinet discussions, abundant supplies of Indian corn were poured in from America to Ireland." Sir Robert Peel did not put forward the failure of the potato crop, and the anticipated famine in Ireland, as the ostensible ground of his change of policy; what he said was, that be might have proposed a partial suspension of the corn-laws, to enable him to provide against that famine (in fact the pouring in the abundant supplies of Indian meal Was a partial suspension of the operation of those laws), but that if he had done so, the whole question of the policy of those laws would have to be re-considered when their re-enactment should be proposed—thatin the faceof such a failtlre it would h The 71e TRIPPSBNe to {{;e enact them- 2 - rid that therefore it was bettO r to consider the question at once, with a v iew to its fin a l settlement. failure of the potatoe crop was put forwat.d as a Tea t s= for tto iinmecitate eoiisid4ration of Cu e question, not as a reason for the abandonment of principles and opinions pre viously maintained. They w ere a b an d one d b ecause they were found untenable , and because the experiment of th e tariff hh had a d deraonstrated th at t h ose free trade doe tribespreviously be uclmittbd to lie ccii leiki it i tt e ctionist hatred to Sir R. Profitable 'in practice. r T e he e truein "t i ereaso noiY, peeks here undisgniapl set fOr,t4. rt 1, - ,c4 that ti ! ey 44 f De la of We w o e f l:6 t .11 2. AS TO TII E SACRIFICE OF 'PROPERTY. The actual demolition of houses, and other premises, and the occupation by railways of ground now used for other purposes, may, for the most part, be estimated, and compensated to the owners by money ; and although cases will undoubtedly arise, in which the injury sus tained, being less direct, cannot be so estimated, or re dressed, these would be for the special consideration of the Legislature, whenever the project may be brought before it. But with respect to the general effect produced upon property in and near London by the passage of a rail. way through it, we are of opinion, that although in most cases an injurious one, it is not necessarily and in variably so. If the property is situated on the outskirts of the town, and is not already crowded with buildings ; if the ap proaches to it are well preserved ; and, especially-, if the railway is carried through it in a cutting or tunnel, and not on a viaduct, we are of opinion, from the evidence and examples which have been brought before us, that its value, even for dwel. ling.houses, is not universally deteriorated. On the other hand, we are not disposed to attach any weight to the assumption which we have found to be a com mon one, that districts thickly inhabited by a popula tion of the lowest class, and where vice an l destitution prevail, are sensibly improved by the passage of a rail way through them. Where a large extent of such ground is occupied by a station, approaches, or works of a rail way, we believe that ultimate benefit is the result, both to those who are removed and to the neighbourhood, though at the cost to the former of much immediate hardship. But we see no reason to think that the mere passing of a railway through such a district he.:: any good effect. It does not open the streets to any new traffic, nor does it lead to the improvement of dwellings on either side of the line ; and where the improvements which such districts most require, viz , the formation of new streets, with better built houses, beer ventilation, and better drainage are in contemplation, or are likely to be effected, it tends, in most cases, to obstruct rather than to facilitate them. We have not considered it necessary to determine whether the expense which will be incurred by the com panies in carrying their lines far into the town li kel y to be compensated to them by increased profits, although we see great reason for doubting it. The only case in which it would appear that any con clusion upon this head might be drawn .row experience is that of the Blackwall Railway, the, extension of which from the terminus in the Minoiias to Fencturch-street, a distance of only 415 yards, was effected at a cost of 250,0001. It has been stated to us by Mr. Wightman, the superintendent of the company, that this extension has increased the traffic on the line by one-half ; but we are of opinion that other circumstances have operated considerably towards producing this result, and there fore that this example cannot be applied to the greater part, if to any, of the lines brought before us. The Blackway Railway is a line of short traffic only, . and has to encounter f orm id a bl e oppos i t i on from the steam-boats, which bring thei r p assenge rs to tlandm.g places at many convenient poi n ts w ithin he metropolis ; and, under these circumstances, is quite possible th at a very slight promulgation of their line to war d s the centre of the city, may, though purchased a t t h e cost above named, have enabled the company to make head le against competition, and so justify them in igmaiderin the expenditure a profitable one. S uc h an exam g furnishes no groin* for oAssuming that the p rom oterspof long lines nut exposed to a similar competition, would derive any benefit from advancing their stations, even to a far smaller cost, within the outskirts of the metropolis. 3. AS TO THE INTERRUPTION OV IbITORTANT THO- itouo m:AuEs The difficulties and objections . which arise on this head to the eatalishment of termini within the metro polis are so fully admitted by the companies who pro pose to execute such plans, that there is scarcely one amongst the schen:tea which we have had before us of which the promoters have not expressed their intention to combine, more or less with their own works, and at their own expense, the improvement of existing, or the formation of new thoroughfares for the benefit of the It is well known that the thoroughfares of London, in which the pressure and inconvenience of a too great ae• cumulation of traffic is most felt, are those that run east and west; and that the wants 'jibe community are already very ill-supplied by the few continuous lines of streets which in that direction. It is impossible to pacs, 41oug . the line of Th ames•stroet, of the Strand, Fleet -street, Watling-street, and Eastcheap, or through parts of Holborn, Skipner-street, Cheapside, and the Poultry, withont being aware, that if the number of vehi;th.,4 which throng these thoroughfares were at any bout' of the day to be suddenly, increased, even though very slightly, the current of traffic through those chan nels would be s,ubjeet to, checks and inter would tpake th,e . na a,ltogeither us. l : _.ass Tuptions, which m persons to who, o 4 twd cwiAtutv nc " wansit are an object, avoided all the difficulty, we will note say danger, ef breaking. down stone walls ' * Informed by the same opportunity that Sir An drie_s S ock ein en-ar's residence Mr. P. Norten's, a- Blaieewi -, Mr Painter's, Mr. Nielli t e, Many of them fine., been flied aid ceneam dbf tee h lee.; teeareyere. addition to the number of pt aseey, I.ne lois sheee, beerdiful flue -wooled tneriaea b-en iirmetise Men a n d h orses are getting completely worn out, and unless help is received very epeedil'r the consequences must be still more d e pl ora b le. Colonel Somerset brings information that Lieut.- Colonel Richardson had moved downwards to Fort Peddie, there to watch and act upon the Congo tribes, who were known to have joined the confedeiacy against the colony * * * Received an account of a very gallant defence made by a small party assembled at the farm of Mr. J. J. Smith, in the Winterberg. The Kaffirs made their night attack with their usual determination and subtilty, but were steadily met by the gallant little party—keeping up an incessant fire of yollies from three guns at a time, until pie enemy at len g th sheered ot withuut his expected booty. Mr. Smith's sons distingui s h e d themselves by great intre pidity. Fi ne genial wean er. Average of th; thermometer 58 deg. in th e Shade. • Tituftsn.ty.—lleceived to-day an account of a most gallant glair at Salem, with a strong body of the enemy, who at tempted, in daylight, to capture the cattle of the inhabitants of that village. The bravery and determination of the young men, who attacked and defeated the enemy, is deserving of the highest commendation. The following details of the spirited affair at Salem have been handed to ue " On Wednesday, the 20th inst., the Salem cattle were out grazing on the fiat, near Dr. Livingstone's, in number be tureen 2,000 and 3,000, when about eleven o'clock they were attacked by about 300 Kaffirs, who came upon them in three bodies, shouting and making the most horrid noise. Before the cattle guard cculd collect the ca• tie together, the enemy were in the midst of them, and then they opened a severe fire on the mounted patrol, who came to the relief. The Kaffirs got off with about 1,000 head, but were immediately pursued by the patrol and the Fingoes, who were speedily reinforced fiom Salem. Th e patro l came up to t h e enemy i n a f e w mi nutes, who turned and fired upon them, and then went on re loading their g uns as t h ey procee d e d. Three hundred head were retaken on the Salem side of the Kareiga, but th l e o K we atfi e r r s , got through the ever w ith the rest. Thee , eere 1 still pursued—the patrol and the Fingoes rushingof theafter Ka themfirs through a very narrow pass, although numbers were in the bush on both side'. On reaching the high ground on the opeosite side the marauders showed themselves in groat numbers, but being hotly pursued ran into the bush. The patrol then retook the whole of the cattle in the enemy's possession, not far from Keulder'a; and in addition to their own, a number supposed to have been taken from Farmerfield the previtUs night. The whole of the cattle were brought through the bust in triumph, and on returning home to Sa lem in the evaeitg the Fiugoes sang a war song, and seemed itt a traneeort uf deli ht. In the atirey r.ne of the Fingoes was but or; the side of the enemy several must have %lien, as the Kaffirs• were seen dragging away the bodies. rile bravery of tide party, which did not consist of more than twenty mounted men, and about thirty Forgoes and others on t.ot, is beyond all praise. Mr. El. Gardiner, the Fietd-Commandant, Sir. J. Gardiner, Mr. Wedderburn, and Mr. Seatilin, acted with the greatest courage and tertitude. F. Short being pursued by one of the erns, turned and shot him in the bead, his gun being charged with buck shot. A ball grazed the hat of Mr. Scardin, when he in stantieebrottelet down the man who ha.l fired it, and his body was observed to be dragged int o t h e b ush. The patrol state that the Firtgoes conducted themselves in the most deter mined manner. One man knocked a Kaffir from his horse whicie he was riding, and captured hie horse, and took the Kaffir's 'kaross. The Kaffirs, though numerous,were ex ceeding-I'y e,ewardly, an d seemed to have very little tlemanage xnent in using their guns. " Farmerfield was attacked on „TuesdD. night, and about 400 head of cat tl e ta k en. Many of the liaffirs came within gun shot of the chapel, and shot at the people who were de fending themselves there. Whencopy will assistance come?" dent Justice of t h e Peace• the Official Report of the Resi " Sir, I hare to intortriyou th n a e t m , finding it impracticable to go or e send to tow n , as the havinge ‘v been eery along theKari ega, and heavy firing eenlea n r i cl i gu e r r in u g the night in the direction of Farmerfield, I went there, and was informed that twodesperate attacks had been made, and that not Ti thstanuing the inhabitants behaved very bravely, the enemy being so numerous, succeeded in getting off with 500 head of cattle. While bearing these particulars, messen gers came from l'2 l .alem to say that the Kaffirs, in number about 300, we re attac ki ng our party, who had arge crthe cattle. I immediately returned, and proceeded with a few friends to the farm of Dr. Livingstone. On arriving there, we perceived a herd of cattle, about a mile and a half on the other side of the river, in possession of the Kaffirs, and our party, consisting of 11 Europeans, 3 Hottentots, and 35 Fingoes, a short distance from them. Our friends soon commenced the attack, and after a sharp struggle, succeeded in getting possession of the whole of the cattle, the enemy following them down the road and through the Kariega, firinc, sharply all the time. I have often heard that the looker-on sees more of the game than the players. Being in that situation, I could not help wishing that some military man had been there to have seen the gallant and steady man ner in whi c h our f r ie n d s advanced in three parties agents ' our enem y , man y to one in the affair, in which all conducted themselves so well, it is alnu.st unfair to mention names; yet I cannot omit to mention those of Messrs. H. Gardiner, T. Scanlin, G. Wedderburn, and T. Berrington. They fol lowed on this side, and kept firing until the party got clear of the bush. Our party escaped with no other loss than one brave Fingoe, who was mortally wounded, and was obliged to be left, he being unable to sit on a horse. We and the inhabitants of Farmerfield are now placed in very critical circumstances. We have very little ammunition, and we cannot send a sufficient number of men to. insure its safe arrival. I most earnestly request that you will without delay bring before Colonel Johnstone, Of his Excellency the Governor, our perilous situation, that a good supply of am munition, &c., may be sent here, or we shall not only lose our cattle, but our lives will be destroyed. We are able and willing to defend ourselves, but cannot without the means. "I should be obliged if you will get his Excellency to ap point Mr. H. Gardiner Provisional Field Commandant. lie has shown sotiud judgment and-great bravery. (Signed) " W. H. Al Arrinws, J.P." The following is the report of this affair made by Mr. Gar diner, the leader of this gallant little party : "The cattle were feeding on the main between Salem and Dr. ;Livingstone's farm, about a mile from Kariega ridge, when suddenly the liaffirs wore on than iu there divisions. About - iit4u cu.hed iii .uatlutigt the cattle, gut up as close as Liz. v could fir the guard under cover °Cc, etc tle, and o a terrific fire.'Tice guard b,ing stea k th en retreated, t he ffihe KeerS aeivieg off I,odb head. They w ere immediately pursued by the little party, who sou recaptured GOO head. The rest, the choice of our flock, they drove into a deep kloof on the opposite side of the Karege. Our party then being reinforced free') Salem, foil mind them. Here the Katlire had every advantage. They had lodged the cattle safer, as they tl:ought, in the bush, woicli they surrounded on all sides, with a deterinibation to light tor t4O - 11. Our little. party, determined nut to he daunted, advanced I,l,___non them, l and recaptured all the ca ttl e , an d one horse. We Unfortunately lost one Fingoe in the affair, but we have reason to believe that many Kaffirs were shot; several were seen to fall. I melee say that the whole of the party acted with great courage. Robi.pson' , , Mr. Mr. Andrea'-•, r.n,l •.verul o her - (Signet's) "H. GARDINER." Some intelligence was brought t. l .iis da3 by a Fingoe, who got through the bush with difficulty 11: , :ing the night, from the position on the Fish River, under the .29mmand of the Field Cornet Jury Lombard. This Fingoe state that the position is surrounded by Kaffirs, that many cattle have been taken, and that unless sucour be promptly afforded, the camp would either be carried or must be abandoned. The messenger also stated, that on his way through the bush he overheard the Kstfirs speak of their designs, one of which is said to be an attack upon Graham's Town. A party of Hot tentots set out to reinforce this position, and also a detach ment of C. M. Rifles under Lieut. Salts. * • A party of CO Cradock Burghtrs arrived to-day in torn, having on their way' down-left det , chtnents at Fort Brown, and other inter mediate posts. * * Received information that the large farm house called Carel's Rust, the residence of Mr. C. F. Pohl, on the old Rix -road, had been fired by the Kaffire, and also the dwelling of the wieow Heley, at Salem Hills, on the Bathurst -road, nine mil es south of town, besides many other buildings, which, in th e a b sence of fuller information than we possess, we abstain from specifying. FRIDAY. —This morning some Fingoe spies came in, who had been sent out the previous night, stating that the Kaflirs were in great force. in the bushy rav i nes border ing resolved by Colonel Somerset to move with a strong force in that direction. This force mustered on the marker. place at ten, A.M. It consisted of 150 men of the C. M. R. under Major Armstrong, a detachment of the 7th Dragoon Guards, under Cornet Bunbury, and parties of the Cradock and Al bany Burghers, under their respective Field Commandants. Two r light field pieces, under Captain Brown and Lieutenant (.4 gory, Were attached to this force, making,altogether a force of about 300 mounted men At h f.pa st teno'clock this force moved from the a . k t plac a e l , the Hottentot heering as they riflemen c (tem% ' b e ) -- srds the drift, taking to Weesls Hill—itw beingt intended, to take the road leading take up the old position of Majorbaze ard's Post, Y which Salem, Far so celebrated in Kaffi: warfare; and b ' . ee, and some Other interme merfield, Bathurst, Port Fran diate stations, would be equally protected. • * 9. ~ The Fingoe picquets have this week fully maintained that high character which they had before earn -d for themselves by their activity, courage, and vigilance. This will be seen by the following report made by _their commanding officer, Ti r.James-T h a c k w r a y (one of Uoionel. Inab , S "'Ts of guides) : In S t But although, as we have stat ti, the panics who propose to bring their lines its neighbourhood have shown themsel% this, we have not found that the enlargernen fares and general accommodation which the public is in any cas e commensurate w i t h venience which might be expected to resa execution of their scheme. We must ,therefure, express our decided opinion, that unle? Om Existing main line of streets are enlarged and impr3ved to a degree far beyond the intention, and perhaps beyord the means, of any of the railway,com oanies or projectors with whom we have had communi cation, the legislature would not be justified in sane ti,,ning the extension of any railway into the neighbour hood of those streets. And here we would observe, that the enlargements and improvements which would be required, are not merely the providing open spaces and areas immediately around the station for the reception of the carriages and other vehicles which may arrive at or depart from it, hut a widening, more or less extended, according to circumstances, of those channels through which traffic must approach the railway, and which, if overcrowded now, mast become more so in proportion as the site of a . the steticn is found to suit the convenience of the travelling public. What we have said of the main thoroughfares running eest and west applies, though generally in a less degree, to many many other important lines of street traffic upon or in \ the immediate neighbourhood of which it has been pro posed-to place the terminus of a railway—Gray's Inn lane, for instance, and Queen-street, Cheapside.. That the enlargennent,ooke grelt theitoughfaires-tO the extent which we haVe suggested, and which we are convinced would he found indispensable if railway should be permitted to approach them, can be purchased only at a vast expense, is obvious. How much of that expense it might be just that the constructors of the railway should bear, and how much should be borne by the district to be benefited, or by the public, can only be determined upon a careful consideration of each par ticular scheme. But if hereafter anything should lead to the admission of railways, or railway termini, within that portion of the district submitted to our investigation which lies north of the Thames, and if any company, or number of companies, should be willing to undertake wholly, or partially, the execution of such street im provemen:s as we have adverted to, we are of opinion that it will be to the advantage of all parties, that these should be planned and prescribed to the companies, and finally carried out under the authority of some depart ment of your Majesty's Government, in conjunction with the Corporation of the City of London, or with the local authorities of the district in which the works are to take place. We give this as our opinion, because we consider that the merit of the street improvements of London, in regard as well to their utility and beauty as to the econo my and convenience with which they can be carried out, must greatly depend upon their being executed with one intention, and as part of one well-considered scheme, and because we see no security for thiF, if they are left to originate with different railway companies, according as these may spring up, and without any other supervi sion than that supplied by Parliamentary committees. The foregoing observations and suggestions are di rected to the consequences which would result from bringing the termini of railways, and the consequent increase of traffic, into the vicinity of any of the princi pal lines of streets. The interference caused by a railway crossing a thoroughfare in its passage to a distant point, is, as regards the traffic of the thoroughfare comparatively unimportant—assuming of course that there can be no question of crossing any street or road in the metropolis on a level; and, whether effected by a viaduct or a deep cutting, it need not, we conceive, if properly constructed, prove any serious inconvenience to ordinary traffic ; though, of these two methods, the latter would be the less objectionable, inasmuch as it would not require that any part of the rai:wa.y should be occupied by piers or supports. We must not dismiss this part of the subject without noticing that which forms a part of the several projects betore us, viz.—the carrying a railway across the river within the metropolis. We are of opinion that there are strong reasons for discouraging such a scheme. An in crease in the number of bridges already existing cannot take place without creating a new obstruction to the na vigation of the river, and therefore should not be per mitted except upon grounds of paramount necessity. To withdraw from ordinary traffic, and to appropriate to the purposes of a railway any of the existing bridges, would be an inconvenience and injury to the public ; and no plan which has been brought betore us for adopting any of the bridges to both purposes is free from serious prac tical objections 4. AS TO INTERFERENCE WITH PLANS OF IMPROVE- MENT ALREADY SUGGESTED. Judging by what has already occurred, we are bound to state that if railways are admitted within the limits prescribed to us on the north bank of the river, such in terference must be expected to take place to a consider able extent, From the evidence of Mr. Pennethorne, it will be seen that the only two railways which as yet have been permitted to eater or approach those limits have proved a serious impediment to the execution of improvements, the advantage of which to the eastern portion of the metropolis is unquestionable. The Blackwall Railway havin4,r, by its passage across White Lion-street, greatly interfered with the formation of the new street from the London Docks to the Commercial-road ; and the Eastern Counties Railway having by the low level of its viaduct put a stop to the extension of the same new street northwards, at the hack of Spitalfields Church, as well as to the improvement of Brick-lane. That similar eases will occur again, if railways are - allowed further to penetrate the town, and to approach the northern bank of the river, cannot be doubted.. A. glance at the map which accompanies the evide-nee an nexed to our report, is sufficient to show that, lines en tering London from the north cannot be br's - night down to Holborn, Farringdon-street, or Alaersgate-street, without intersecting any future thoroughfare, east and west, which may be opeucd to the north of Holborn, and the want of which, as an accommodation to the traffic of the metropolis, is sensibly felt. lallways mi g ht ta k e i n Whether the course 'which passing through the town, ':eould be fatal to the future carrying out of that or of a n y ot h er i mprovement, would at present depend mai.dy upon the pleasure and conve nience of the resprAtive companies. But this is a state of things which, if the Legislature should deem it right to sanction the extension of railways into the heart of the metropolis, cannot, we humbly submit, in safety continue ; and the course which we would suggest as best calculated to check the inconvenience, the confu sion, and the collision of interests, public and private, which will otherwise ensue, would be the same with that which we have already described in treating of the in terruption of thoroughtares—namely, that the lines to be adopted by railways in entering the metropolis, thee elevation at which and the point to which they should be carried, and the degree and manner in which they should be required to adapt themselves to works of public im provement, should be laid down and prescribed to them by your Majesty's Government, aided, whenever it may seem right, by local authorities, and sanctioned by the wisdom of Parliament. Having thus given our general opinion upon those points to which, by your Majesty's commands, our con sideration was directed, we will now proceed to examine, seriatim, the several projects which have been brought before us, The schemes submitted to us for establishing railway termini north of the Thames, and either within or near the limits to which our attention has been especially called, are as follow, viz.— ]. AN EXTENSION OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAXLWAY TOWARDS FINSBURY-SQUARE. It is proposed to effect this by carrying the line across the City-road .to a terminus which would occupy the entire space of the .Artillery-ground, or to an area bounded by Castle-street on the north, by Paul's-street on the east, by Providence-row on the south, and by the City-road on the west ; or, thirdly, Finsbury-square itself: There can be no question that the present terminus at ShoreditchWest end passenger, is but not only t ve i r t y iinconvenient remoteto thfreom the general points at which the great commercial business is transacted in the City. We are of opinion, however, that the traveller would gain very little by a prolongation of the Eastern Counties Railway either to the Artillery Ground or to any other spot in that immediate neigh bourhood ; and since, as a general principle, we have arrived at the conclusion that some great and positive advantage would alone warrant such an interference with private property, and with the public thoroughfares, as the project now under consideration would require ; and as the extension in question would present an obstacle to an important improvement which is in contemplation by the formation of a street between Spitalfields and Shoreditch, and for which a Bill is DOW before Parliament, we are decidedly of opinion that we cannot recommend this project for adoption. 2. AN EXTENSION OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES P.kILWAT TO FORE-STREET. According to this scheme, a line would branck,off from the main trunk line at Bearbinder's-lane ; Alter which, taking a course to the noAh-west, through Globe town, it would cross tte Bethnal-green-1.4d, touching the southern end of 'ale Union Poor-house, and being carried over the Regent's-canal, at Cambridge heath,' would take a westerly course beyond Hugger-. stone and lioxton, and crossing Shepperton-street, would proceed in a south-westerly direction, till. it re crossed the cand at a point a little to the eastward of Vineent-pltu;e ; thence it would be carried in nearly a straight line to the terminus proposed to be formed in space bounded by Fore-street, Milton-otreet, Rope maker's-street, and Moorfields. The branch above described is identical with the oaaern portion of the North London Junction Railway, and its length from the Regent's Canal at Islington to Bearbinder's-lane is 3* miles. The City terminus, which it is proposed to establish in Fore-street, would be common to the eastern counties traffic, as well as to that of the western lines wbich are proposed to be brought into connexion with the North London Junction Railway. From Islington to Fure street, a distance of le mile, the line would be on a viaduct. Ira the preposition to establish a railway terminus in Fore-street we do not discover any circumstance to make it an exception to our geneal objections against railway termini within the heart of the City. The pro posed branch to the Eastern Counties Line will be con sidered under the head of the North London Junction. 3. THE TOTTENHAM AND FARRINGDON..STREET TERMINUS. Proceeding from Tottenham, the lino would pass to the east of the Islington cattle-market. Carving a little to the westward in crossing Shepperton-street, it would thence run in a straight direction to Vincent-pace, and passing under the City-road, at right anglers, it would take a line to the angle formed by the intersection of Skinner -street and St. John-street, whence it woun d be carried in a curve to the north - wes: angle.of W est Swithficid to a space proposed for tho Sorlainwir and therc'o ,genb e 04,0„iigh, --_---, " ra- has reral tho mote !tour t de- pops, may had f the vend affair ;(,) in con most read aith•• ; Int• tency heck, a the ser of 3. It April. ast. e en fed in tee of onists ift:— sday) from eon >f the tstone ter tc red in 1, wilt rough lies 01 t, and hrosvit tantlf D yes. t have e con" Dirt' . oug ht be ja raL be e 0 iv" Or i v \\ Y\