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tolerably good, both as to Lumber and quality; but the receipts of Beasts from our own greziog districts wi , re several hundred; less than were those reported on Mon day last. As the dead markets were rather senntily-sup plied, and as butchers in general had very little stock on hand, the Beef trade rulQd somew hat active, at an a(l -vanee in the quotations of Monday last of 23 per 81bt., and a good clearance was effected prior to the close of the market. The top figure for the bent boots (which breed came to hand in excellent conditio❑), was 3s 103 per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire, we received 2,000 Scots, Short horns, &c. From other parts of • E❑gland 700 Herefords, Runts, Devon°, Short-horns, &c.; and from Scotland 650 Horned a❑d Polled Scots. There was a considerable falling cff in the arrivals of Sheep from newly the whole of our leading counties; the total supply of that description. of stock being much smaller than at the corresponding period of several pre vious years; hence the demand for all breeds was brisk, at an improvement in the currencies of quite 21 per 81be. The primest Old Downs realized 4s p-•r Sibs with out difficulty. With Lambs we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily supplied. The trade ruled steady at fully last week's prices, viz., 4s to 55 per 81bs. The ar rivals from the Isle of Wight were co❑fined to 180 head. Although the supply of Calves was extensive, the trade was steady at full currencies• The primest qualities of Veal sold at 45 per 8165. We had a moderate inquiry for Piga at late raies. For Slbs. to Oaths offal. e. a. to s. tl. s. d. to s. d Weldor &taste"... 2 8 2)0 to Shoo" .• .2 10 3 0 Second quality 2 0 3 2 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 8 4 Prime large, Oxeya•• 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolledditto3 6 310 Paine Scots •• •• 3 8 310 cauthdown n'ether 310 4 0 Large Coarse Calves 210 3 6 Ditto outer the wool C 0 0 Prune small ditto .. 3 8 4 0 Large Hogs • • 2 6 3 4 Suckling Calves —l9 0 23 0 -zmall Porkers 3 6 3 8 Lambs .• •• •• .... 4 0 5 0 Quarter old Pigs .46 0 19 0 TOTAL , lUPPLY Nits. Beasts. Sho't• 3,990 I 24,610 350 I 455 FOREIGN sin-PLY. Beasts I Sheep. I Calves. pigs. 428 1 1,650 238 A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, June 16, 1851, and this day, Monday, June 14, 1652. Per Sibs., to sink the offals. June 16, 1851. June 14,1852 a. 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 3 2 3 4 3 6 Prime Scots, aC. ... 3 4 3 6 3 8 310 Coarse and inferior Sheep.— 2 8 2102 10 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 2 3 2 3 4 Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 3 4 3 6 3 6 310 Prime Southdown ditto ... 3 8 3103 10 4 0 ... 4 4 b 4 4 0 5 0 Large coarse Calves ... 3 0 3 62 10 3 6 Prime small ditto ... 3 8 4 0 3 8 4 0 Large Hogs 2 8 3 4 2 6 3 4 Small 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; Sheep and Lambs, 31,780 ; Calves, 338 ; Pigs, 515. JUNE 18, 1849.—Beasts, 3,114; Sheep and Lambs, 29,000; Calves, 282 ; Pigs, 230. NEVITGATIEI 11ND 210121.11EBTICALL: For the time of year the supplies on offer in these markets are tolerably extensive; nevertheless the gene ral demand is steady, and prices are well supported. During last week nearly 4,000 carcasses of country killed Lamb reached u 3. At per stone by the Carcase. eep,, inferior._ 3 2 . d 2. to a. d. 2 4 Mutton, inferior •. I. d. to 8. e. 26 2 8 210 3 2 34 3 6 26 3 0 32 3 6 " - --neTclagg .... 2 6 2 8 ----• middling • • "--- prlrnelarge .. 210 3 0 -- prime .... Z" - - prime email .• 3 2 3 4 Pork. large .• ••• • • • v 4 ve• • ............ 3 8 310 ' - 5ma11........ Lamb, as 10d to 4s 10d. 3301/OUG3I/ SPXTZIELPIELTIS. No imports of New Potatoes have yet taken place from the Continent; but large supplies are expected to- Wards the close of the month. The arrivals of old qualities continue seasonably good, but their condition is :very inferior. Really fine parcels are quite as tear as last week; but olher kinds cunmand very Mae attkntion. York Regents, per ton, 85s to 115 s; Scotch ditto, 853 to 958 ; Essex and Kent, 70s to 856; Cambridge and Wi6- peach, 700 to 85s. MOROMOIN EtOr We have asiightly increased domand fur most kinds of Bops of last year's growth, as well as fine yearlings. In prices, however, we have no improvement to notice. Generally speaking the plantation accounts are somewhat ti`rourable, Sussex Pockets, 51 12s to 6l 6s; Weald of eAnt, 61 to 71 ss; Mid and East Kent, 71 to 121 10s; yearlings, 31 10s to 51 10s; Old Olds, 1/ 2s to 21 10s Per Cwt. WOOL. Last week's imports of Wool into London were only 158 bales from the Cape, 114 from Hamturgh, 275 from Alexandria, and 81 from Ireland. The quantity on offer in the private contract market is limited ; yet the A uemand for all kinds is in a sluggish state. Several Parcels of English have been taken for shipment to Belgium. TALLOW. • Our market has become somewhat active for the time of year, an d p r ices are from 9d to is 3 d per c wt hi g ber than on Monday last. P.Y.C. on the spot is now selling at from 38s 3d to 38s 61 and for delivery during the last th ree months 39s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow, the sup ply which is good, is quoted at 37s per cwt net cash. Sough Fat 2s ld. per 81bs. The Russians still hold 2 _5,00Q mks of our stock. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 4 , Stook this day ••• • • • *Price of Y. C. •• • • ..s.belivery last week • • " 1 fte from June 1— • • Arrivals last week rdtto from June 1 ..• Price of Town •• ••!. •_ 8,510 45s GC to 46s Od 1,897 3,951 1,821 4,968 475 Oct 23,290 24,870 383 6d Ns 9d 10 38s Od to 37s Od 1,035 1,583 1 2,333 2,538 497 155 I 1,784 395 6d ) 385 Od 35,745 37, 3d to 37s 6d 832 1,976 1,327 33s Od 18;2. 39,531 398 3i to 38s6d 1,267 1,597 24 809 39s 6d 4101 U.SE fOF LORDS.--(THIS DAY.) ~,.Their Lordships eat this morning to hear appe als. Peers p resa nt wore the Lord Chancellor and Lord Zroughm. GIBSON V. FORBES. This appeal from the Court of Session of Scotland, Which was o p en ed on Friday, was proceeded with thi s .morning. T he ques tion in the case was ivbether the man - Pon and glebes of a minister of the parish i n Scotland as liable to assessment for the poors'-rates. Air. ANDERSON was heard this mo r n in g on behalf of 4, _ .appellants. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL—(TBIS DAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Est this Morning. Thera were present—Lord Cranworth, Sir Edward Ryan, Sir J. Patteson, Sir J. K. Bruce, and Dr. Lushly gten. - . QUANE v. QUANE. This, was an appeal from the Coutl, of Chancery of the Isle of Man, against a deekion• confirming an an cient custom of the island, by which a child' born before th e rflarrisge of his parents is entitled to succeed to the Property of his father, jast as if he had been born in Wedlock. The Privy Council, after hearing the appellants, gave judgment, dismissing the appeal, and confirming the judgment of the Court below. CRIMINAL Co URT —(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. • The June sessions of the Central Criminal Court .7Pre opened this morning before the Right Hon. the Ad • otd Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Sir George Carrel, •Challis,- Sir R. Carden, and Wtre,, and the Sheriffs, at tended by their respective deputies. The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 109 prisoners, 27 of wbom.aro from London, 54 from Middlesex, 2 from Essex, 12 from Kent, and 14 from surrey. There are nine cases of burglary,:eight of cutting 'And wounding, three of forgery, one of manslaughter, three of murder, and two of rape. The grand jury having been sworn and empannelled, The RECoRDER said, upon looking over the calendar, he was happy. to find that, although there was an unusual amount of business likely to be brought before them, Yet there was none that was likely to prescnt any legal difficulty. There were.three offences of the serious cha - teeter of murder, but whether the off,,ndera received such provocation beforehand as to reduce the crime to that of manslaughter must be left tor.the. decision of the Court below. There was no other case calling for • Observation, and, thanking them for their attendance, it only remained for him to dismiss them to their duties. • The jury then retired. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) 11 „The June gen eral session for Middlesex commenced morning at the Sessio ns House, Clerkenwell-gretn. ti ll() c a l en d ar contains the n ames of 58 p r - risoners for ' ll, 5 5 of whom are charged with the commission of te ci mes May, 16, pleaded Guilty to an indictment thrgirig him with stealingu silver snuff box, value 315., ereperty of Aaron Hendricks, from his person. plteuced to seven years' transportation. 21 , "Inas Lee, 27, Eliza Boriell,• 19, and Eliza Lewis, AV, w h ere indicted for highway robbery on Mr. Juan .bourne, a mercantile clerk, at half-past eleven, on the lught,of the 3d April, in White Lion-street, IS-. 5 non.. The.- Jury Acquitted Lee, and found the two femal® prisoners Th e Court sentenced them to six months' imprison meat In the House of C.rreciion with hard labour. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST Tram . RAIL WAY. Tr e e - 7z eek ending Rule 12, 1852 Tot,oe_7week ending June 14, 1851 ' £ 9,232 11 9 11,6 0 15 5 ot th e half-year, to this date, 1185521 21 21543117 0 9 10 1 Total ;of the half-year, to this date, 1851 TOtal number of Passengers—Week ending J u ne 12, 18 52 62,299 ••• •• £7,184 15 G ... 2,047 16 3 P_atutehgers Goode Tot a l Total ... £9,232 11 9 miles open, 1852, 1731 ; ditto, 18,:)1, 173%. London W hit sun tide. % ,011 . Terminus, June 14, 1852. __.-.••=1.1.•••••15113M ----------_ _______ b Mr ' John George pbilli m ore, Q.C., has been el ected 3 ' the council representing all the Inns of Court to the chair of Constitutional Law and Le gal History, founded by the l our Inns of C our t. i. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN Ilion LIFE.—We u el,,ieve that the nupti a l s of the Viscount N e wark, son of - "• 41 *1 M diver?, with the beautiful and accomplished d aughter of the Duke and Duchess de Coigny, will be . so lemnized in the course of the ensuing week' Toe marriage of the Hon. Aubrey Spring rjtkAnna Maria, daughter of the late Sir Henry St. John . P l ildmay,of Dogmersfield Rice , son of Lord Monteagle, Park, B ar t,, will also be celebrated 114 . the course Of the ensuing week. THE IMPERIAL PARLJAIVIEN (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS, The SPEAKER took the Crif!ir Twel49 O'clock. NEW MEM BEI-1. • Lord MANDEYILLE took /110 cis and his seat for Huntingdonshire. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to, th© following Bills were considered end agreed to:— Eastern Counties Railway. E Loc h d lb o u n rg an h d a N tld or G tl l l7W "w eete tai i l: ni l t w a l il y ;ay (NO. 2 ) , ;' Londonderry Bridge (No. .1). Londonderry Bridge (No. 2). • Tyne Improvement. NEW RIVER COMPANY 'BILL. Oa the moti proceeding tanner with the third reading of this Bill to improve the sup p ly . of water to the metropolis. Col. DUNNE objected to the Bill on the c ground that tho works which it authorised would injure the Ordnance works on the Rivt r Lea. Bze. He must therefore with"- hold the consent of the Crown to it, unless tire, promoters woula allow certain clauses to bc introduced for securing to Ordnance works a huffittient supply of water. The Company had already broken the law in 'abstracting water from the Ri ver Lea, and they had no. right to this Bill except upon the terms that he proposed. He moved that the Government clauses be brought up. Mr. WILSON PATTEN said the standing orders had not been complied with in respect to these clauses, and as the 68th clause of the Bill would accomplish the very object of th‘,se proposed by the Government, ho could see no necessity for agreeing to the EaUttnn of the Hon. and Gallant Member,-,-(Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY said, as the law advisers 'of - the Ord nance did not consider that the 68th clause secured the right of the Crown, he must withhold the Queen's assent. • Lord SEYMOUR said this was a very important Bill it proposed to furnish the metropolis with a good supply of water, but if the clams of the Ordnance were con ceded, and no wattl. could be abstracted from the River Lea above their works, the Bill would , bccome an useless meature. Mr. CoWPER opposed the Bill unless the promoters consented to grant compensation to those parties who at present enjoyed the benefit of the water in the river. After a brief discussion, the motion for bringing up the clauses was withdrawn, and the Bill was passed. The Tees Conservancy Bill, end the Torquay Extra- Mural Cemetery Bill were read a third time and passed. RAMSGATE HARBOUR BILL. - On the motion for considering. the report of this Bill, Mr. G. HUDSON moved that this Bill be taken into consideration this day three months. Mr. HENLEY said that the Bill was certainly not a satisfactory Bill, and the Government would have nothing to do with it either one way or the other. Sir G. PECHELL was astonished to hear this deter mination of the Government. He certainly thought these tolls ought to be abolished. Sir F. BAKING said that it was impossible for this harbour to be maintained without these toils, and he should, therefore, support this Bill. Mr. HUME was the more astonished to hear what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman than he had been at hearing the President of. the Beard of Trade. This Bill was opposed to the sound principles on which our commercial marine ought to be supported, and he therefore called on the House to reject it. Mr. MASTERMAN defended the Bill. After a few words from Mr. B. Dennison, Mr. Grogan, and Mr. ileadlam, who opposed the Bill, Mr. STAFFORD said that the Government haVing followed the laborious investigation which had been in stituted by the late Government, bad arrived at the con clesion that the passing toll was not so necessa ry 'as was considered by the Right Hon. Gentleman oppo site. Whatever might be the fee of this Bill the Go vernment did not consider themselves precluded from re-opening the subject at any time. They considered that the subject required to be dealt with by a bold and comprehensive measure, and in a future session they were not indisposed to introduce such a measure. (LEFT SITTING.) HIGHBURY BARN.-A grand musical festival will take pl ace in the large assembly-roo ms , on t h e even i ng of Thursday, the 17th inst., iu aid of the fund now forming t , ) assist Miss Ilinckessmann, 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, Mr. Weiss, Mr. Frazer, and several popular singers; and theinstrumenta lists are composed of such celebreties as Denunck, Harper, Chatterton, Richardson, &c. Such a powerful attraction cannot fail to ensure a full attendance. • FIRE IN BISHOPSGATE-STREl4.—Shortly before one o'clock this morning the inhabitants of Bishopegats and Finsbury were aroused by the cry of " Fire." In the course of a few minutess a body of flame shot forth, and ascended 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 progressing so furiously that they had great diffi culty 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 stations, 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 foreman, worked in an admirable manner, and by two o'clock they 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 too near the window, the curtain of which was drifted by the current of air against the candle. AIR.. O'CoNNoR.—On Friday a gentleman paid Mr. O'Connor a visit, and ascertained that considerable diffi culty bad 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 bad 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 . enjoyment of good cheer, atid 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 had taken the physic I" 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. EMIGRATION OF GOVERNMENT CLERKS.—Several of the clerks employed in the different departments of So merset House, seeing no likelihood of promotion or additional pay, have formed themselves into a party to memorialise her Majesty's Treasury for retiring allowances, having all agreed to proceed the first opportunity to the gold diggings of South Australia. THE CONDITION OP THE WEST INDIA COLONIES,— At a meeting of West India proprietors, held on Friday, at the offices ot Messrs Shackleton, Wright, and Hunter, Liver pool, resolutions were passed attributing 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..---MT. George Thompson, the extensive iron and coal master, met his death on Friday wider most .melancholy circumstances upon his estate at Miners, near Wrexham. , The unfortunate gentleman, who was in his 83d year, was ridin4 across the Minera branch of the Shrewebury 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 LIVESPOOL. — Since their arrival by the Atlantic, M. Otto Goldschmidt and Madame Geld schmidt have, while in Liierpool, been the guests of Mr. Ball, the Swedish and Norwegian Consul. - "The Nightin gale" speedilyrecovered from 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 *mice 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' deiirons 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 aud gentlemen interested in the prosperity of Her Majesty's Theatre, London, besides numerous other persons. Before Jenny Lind met with Otto Goldschmtdt, he had been established some years as. a pianist and composer of considerable rerutation in New York. A EsTIMATES.—On Saturday w as tark document a report from the Commons appointed t Select Comm' he House of o the Militia s printed in a .t l t ' e a e rli o a f rn Et prepare timates for the year ending the Slit The estimate of the charge of the disetn. 'reat Britain and Ireland from the Ist ' f March, 1853, both days in of April, 1852, to the 3 1 st ' 3 715/ 365,515/. for Great Britain, and a elusive, is sum provided in 1851-5 2 was obl°foidMiteeaddrentittBi3o.f (.3r 21,2001. for Irel training 50,000 men for 103,700/. The cost of raising and year is thus made up : England and Wales in the current on enrolment ' arges payable aud. The non-commis sioned officers, and privates, assembled commissioned and exercise, 74,2004 • clothing for non- training officers and men, c , beer money, marchult, for raising for, and other contingent expen . ses 31,465/. ; Making , and training the militia, 269 , 4151., There is a motley, 39,7901. of disembodied allowance of permanent stacifil,a7r,goeoolf for disembodied allowances of subalterns, as retired allowances and outpensioners of mil i t i a; making 365,5151. as the charge fcr En g l and and Wales i n the year ending the 3 1 st of !)larch next. The new est i ma tes will be moved on Monday night. , and other sums ViQcount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner on Saturday the Co:intess of Shaftesbury, Vis count and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Norreys, Hon. WW. Ashley, R ev , H. Sulivan, Mr. Lord anElpliancsdtounnaeid, and Mr.. Swinton. SUN, LONDON, MONDAY DOUGLAS JERROLD, Popular—in the more genial acceatetion of the _Nviird—Douglas Jerrold is not, although his writinge h a ve4equired'for . him a rather extended end diversi fied reputation. The reason of this is sufficiently ap parent. His sarcasm has overlaid his philanthropy. But then, 'again, his wit has redeemed his sarcasm. In the display of his abilities a 9 a satirist we cannot but think, however, that Douglas Jerrold has inad vertently, brit, sill none the less effectually, acted- as his owe traducer. By a perpetual play of 'achy e 7 ebtoa r iahout hii compositions , he has almost invari a bly ' extorted applause, if he bas not always succeeded in winning admiratiOn. The cynical chord in his nature has beep to him what the one string was to Pega nioi. He haslnade it laugh and sing; he has told stories with it ;lie has compelled it to talk in dia logue ; he has Tend e red it at pleasure, tragical, or gay, or pathetic, or:grotesque—all like Paganini. .People have 'wondered so long at the miraculous skill of his performances„ou that one chOrd that they forget his adroitness upi3ti all Others, they forget the genius, the artietic gen*, he has so often displayed otherwise, they target that his band has, before now, strung, with the subtle and delicate touch of a master, the golden lyre of their heart-strings----calling forth, with the iii!ian breath of passion, the exquisitely responsive music :.cif their vibratione. Jerrold has accom plished tl.is noblest of all successes in author ship. Hureouriet though he is, satirist though he isee e hetae occasioaally, in his capacity as a dramatist, 'achieved the triumph attributed to the comedien Mupden in " his more serious moments—he has exiade the., pulse of a whole house beat like that of onexian. Remembering this, and remembering still more, that 'the abilities of Douglas Jerrold have without scarcely an exception, even when apparently the mostsinister-:: and:the most acrimonious, been directed with ta generous and beneficent intention, we would commend hits as one speeking to the crowd with a voice not only shrewd and searching, but harmonious also, and persuasive, incul cating, with a strange and veriable eloquence, truThs qaainr, 'and 'solemn, and tender, and fantastic, and beautifuL According to his own suggestion he may be likeped to the hedgehogs of Plutarch, which, after. shaking the autoannal sines, roll themselves in geniotiely tei and fro among the fallen fruit, collecting the grapes het :their prickles and creeping off like a " walking chieter" to yield their young, even from thait own bristling ugliness, a saccharine and delicious nourishment. The illustration is, decidedly, more complimenterr to his writings than to himself, and evervsitpposing : the public to accept it as altogether applicable, we doubt whether they would be induced, like Capstick, to christen their favourite— Velvet. His style 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 pervade ing quality, but a bitterness wholesome in its appli cation—the tonic of our light literature. ConspieuOus among the influential writers of the age, 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 he bad to struggle earnestly for every separate runeaof the ladder of Fortune : that ladder which we well remember him to have since likened sardonically in a parencheeis to the celestial ladder of Jacob in the wilderpessa that ladder which affords the climber mmediately above you such delightful facilities to trample upon yohr fingers!' Jerrold the novelist, and e O se ri a -e p n ed tlie a the na h ro h ca liir is li t :h a p or pe ear seash l a if v e e , both w h n i a e r h r otwh they might neither possibly have risen above the level of pro reefer,S c i e n c has e , h d y e this v eo p a e b d r u t p h t e cge i f n e s s t h i o e n dl destiny i o o c f r ; i o t re of a profound and illustrious philosopher: while, in the instance of the other boy-midshipman, a new and original mind was evoked for the advancer lade -k-JEeyrreciold,s,zsaanndashetnhcees,uphlesositbolyf, one meat :of oar „national lit erature . Sh eerness was dramatic pi • eces, not long after hissotelectionhis t a he l p6a i lfra: n l Bee the h e metropolis. His theatrical tastes must, likewise, in some measure be attributed , to the recollections of childhood, acquired in the etta blishcoeet of his father as a manager. Bern in 1805—the year remarkable, moreover, for the birth of Bulwer Lytton, and Benjamin Disraeli, and. other distiutioguished contemporaries—Dou glas Jerrold has already, b e f ore the maturity of m iddle life has expired, revealed capacities as a man of lettert, such as command for him the regard of hie 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 produc tion already particularized, he brought once more on the stage the comely form and romantic story of Nell Gwynne, making the gods and groundlings roar at the irresistible ridiculousness of Keeley as Orange Moll. The most brilliant achievement of this period, however, wrs the domestic drama in two acts, in which he painted The Rent Day no less vividly, and no lets truthfully, to nature than David Wilkie, re 'Vealing for the first time that mastery over the emotional factilties, the continued advancement' of which he has since then repeatedly demonstrated. Here it was, according to a pleasant anecdote, therethat uponmet behindth the first nisgehetnesof of i that London performance, 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 midshipmeri in the Royal :Navy—Stanfield and Jerrold. Adven turers vie_ pall them, not in the vulgar meaning' of a phrffse which has degenerated almost to the paltry significance of an accusation, but in its ancient and superb importance, namely, as a word applicable to Columbus when he went in search of the gold-run ning rivers cif 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 imaginat ion 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 pieces for the stage might, we be lieve, in addition to the foregoing, be enumerated as the result of Douglas Jerrold's energetic application at this, not least, interesting portion - of his career in literature; but the most popular of all those subordi nate productions, at any rate in the minor theatres even of now-a-days, a re 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 nets, produced last year, and entitled Retired from Business, he has contributed four successful comedies to our dramatic literature—The Catspau , , 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 cf Napoleon ; 'l'he Bubbles of a Day, and a work no less brilliantly characterised by the wit and vivacity of its di a l o gue ' 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 sketehest, originally issued in " Blackwood's Magazine," were subsequently collected for separate publication. 'The essayist gave way to the romancer. The copyist became the creatcr. The chrysalis of the mere periodieat contributor developed to the butterfly celebrity of ehe recognised novelist—a change scarcely less rematkable of its kind than would be a removal on quarter e dety 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 aid in reference to the discrimination e i d 'A e a- n i t n s, between the various personages introduced. In the longest of all, :for example, the history of John Applejoh, written supplementarily to those pub lished in the Magetine, comprised a diversity of vi cissitudes; sufficient almost to have constituted an episod e GifThas," that most wonderful master hthisettlosirntgundietlein piece whioh, for incident, is a veritable encycloeseiht. It s delineation of who that owell," that the viritereenthmernoratcd the jovial freaks and noctlirmil eccentricitiea then. setting the town by the ears, the rid se havebeing the gay Marquess of Waterord. F ew who record of. his calamities can lose a recollection of the contretemps by w hi ch the soul of Adam 'Buff are a gon i ze d, what though ( g a h nd body) he was in the truest sent a philosopher. Butetuh then—he was a philwoptier " without a shirt" —and Democritus could scarcely have preserved hi s hilarity under simi lar circumstances without the aid o f his laundress. Mathew Clear,, the gentleman who " s aw his way," reminds one instinctively of the " Vert, Vert," elf G-risset, in relation to that scurrilous old dowager of a parrot 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, - _ his just a shirt too many, considering its delicate texture and its still mote delicate con sequences.; His invalid courtship of Agnes Caady at, the moment when his very iden. EVENING, JUNE 14 ti:y seemed merged like that of Rip Van Winkle in " sorasbodv else," imports a ludicrous l fits. c;nation to the etory, th at cont i nues unahatce until' its termination. J ac k R unnyme d e, the "man or seats thanks," imp ersonates the folly o f th a t home bred enthusiasm whi c h i s too frequen tly engenderre d by loyalty and stupidity in the brains of your pig headed politician. It contains a wholesome lesson, a lesson not; less wholesome then that inculcated by the memoir of Bernaby P a l ms, the sy csphant of syco paants, who " felt' hi s way " so adro i t l y t h a t h e l os t a bag of gold for a rotten egg, an d tum bl e d d ow n stairs in tile dark on the nigiat of his ma rria g e. Chriatopher Snub, considered by his neigh- , - bours 33 infaut , ety " b orn to be hanged, introduces us in the course of his name sited sufferings, to the mariti m e scenes rendered was enabled to deli neate afresh from his own familiar by the p en o f Smollett, and which Jerrold personal recollections. A s t h e closing chapter in t h ese anna l s of calamity came the cuticula old story of Creso Quettrino, the " loan wh o died rich," making the reader acquainted with . that "stone of infamy" at Padua which more rea dil y relieved the " squa tt er ' , from his creditors th an the court of bankruptcy , an d which consequently, w hi le it immeasura b ly surpasse d the blarney aton e i n sophistry, reduced the philoso pher's stone to a m ere pebble by comparison. Rescued from th e anonymous in one quarter by the republication o f hi s contributions to Bl ac k woo d, Douglas Jerrold in 184 3 began to extend h i s influ ence as a public wr i ter, but more espec i e ll Y as a sarceatic humourist, by his connexion wit h " Punch," the " Charivari" of London. Through its peges he commanded at once a numerous audience, which his wit contrib uted scarcely less than t h e pic torial fun of Leech t o i ncrease very rapidly an d very considerably. Punch's Letters to his Son, replete with pungent sarcasm and sparkling with facetious ness,th revealed in a ne w li ght as an ob servant and uncompromi s i ng satirist, w hich were yet further developed by P unch's Complete L e tt er Writer. Besides these s l y a and laugam ter-oving serials, he wrote also, i n the same p e riodical, his charming Story of a • Feather i n which nodding with teen and shaken by l aughter, the plume of an those powers through the dusty mazes of lif e in London, sa t ur ated ostrich recounts, of oourse With its quii i. en e, i ts autobiography. Simple as th e story i s in itis, character, it comprises wi t h in its compass a " , imaginable phases rof society -ro m Shadrach Jacob s the Jew dealer-in-stores, to Mr- I ng l ewoo d the cler gymaa; from Jack Li p sco mb the sailor, to Alla Mr. Lintley the apothecary ; f rom seer. Flamingo the Court feather merchant, t o M r. Julius Curiwell thet g valet of my Lord Huntin oPPer—nay, from the squalid Jesse to the beautif u l Countess Blushrose. Among the more eccentric p assages of the fiction, its readers can scarcely by possibility fOrget the anent dote about the pineapples at the desert of Flamingo ! , or - the quaintly told " story of a scarlet-heeled shoe,' any more than they can lose a remembrance of that incomparable sequence of equi voques in which the prim cilia at personage engaged is Mr s . —"Ptooth, the horrible old bawd, almost as dreadful a creation as the Mother Mandrake of several Farquhar. Sub or di nate though of the other characters ar e , t h ey are occasionallyrea Pencilled with a few touch es of • 11 a dmirable cleverness such as Mrs. Cru mpet the lod y ginghouse keeper, and Clickly Abram the highwayman; or as grotesque little Monsieur Spanneu and honest Luke Knuckle; or, neje, as Treply the surly turnkey o f New gate and the good, simple minded Misses Pea chick, a sort of Sisters Cheeryble, b ear i ng a f a mily resemblance likewise to the Misses Speel ow , th e little birdlike aunts of the first love of D avid Copperfield. Best beautiful" of all, g however, amen _ the more loveable characters in the narrative i s p oo r dear Patty Butler the feather dresser--whoae very name to us was endeared, as it were, by the recollections of childhood, aseociated, as it n illn a illustrations.. yellow is, with that little nursery tale whi c h almost equalled 'r i i t at hi r gaudilyose,stitched coloured i Ur our mind the charms o f "Th e W hite Chicken," the storyove a o n f d " Patty e adorned w The purity, th e sweetne - s , an d th e long-suffering equa nimity o f Pa tty B ut l er i nvest at times with a bewitching i n t eres t th e mo tl e y c h apters of the narra tive--a narrative in which the gr otesque and the solemn a re occas i ona ll y bl en d e d i n a species of extra vagance, as at the awful but ridiculous deathabed 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 " Ptinch," perhaps in s ome .res pects the happiest effort of his very peculiar powers as a satirical humorist, Mrs. Candle's Curtain Lec tures appears to give the seal to our author's reputa tion. It was, in the popular term, " a bit," an d a hit too most decided and unquestionable. And no wonder, for the sufferings of Job Caudle, in that horrid but expressive phrase which is our abomination, came home in married life, it is to be feared, in too many instances, to "our business and bosoms." Thirty-six lectures were enough in all conscience to show the genius of Mrs. Caudle Ir we might say, in reference to "that sainted creature," that "angel now in heaven," three dozen from the domestic cat were surely adequate for the simple Pur poses of illustration. Within those thirty-six solemn prelections from the bed-clotheu how much has been recorded, from the first p ecc adillos of Caudle, when he began "quarrelling. with the doormat" to frighten his wife on his retur n from a carouse, to his flagrant profligacy in reg ar d m ption of to the consu whisky and tobacco : from his timid intercession for the servant girl to his full-blown flirtation with Miss Prettyman. "'there was a time," exclaims Mrs. Caudle in her third lectur e " when you were as re gular at your fireside as the kettle." One sighs with her for the lost time of their Arcadian honeymoon — in Bloomsbury. It required a geniu3 like that of Mrs . Caudle to make as much as she did of incidents like the loan of the family u mbrella, the smashing of a. piece of crockery, the a , PPearance of black beetle s in the front parlour, or tne suggestion,of an a utumnal trip to Margate. Her caPacit for the expansion of of the trivial into the important remains unparalleled by any one except Caleb She could Lalderstone. expatiate, for example, over a new bonnet until it became scarcely less momento us than the helmet of Cassandra; and this with as much fluency of imagina tion as might have been revealed by the steward of Ravenswood when panegyrising a pint of sour wi ne in a broken pitcher u n til it became invested with the dignity of the choicest vintag e .of ToquaY• ' iltual°- rous as the Curtain Lecturesare for the most part, one of them closes with ,e usn , a es of exquisite feeling , true to nature, and therefore irresistible in ins abrupt pathos. Allusion made, of is here course, to the unexpected A: aiseovery. that "Brother Tom" is the friend n aaudle has rescued from the sponging -house. pe s , — od essays have been made by Jerrold since the plow of those redoubtable papers, to produce another series in `Punch" that might achieve a comp an i on hitherto, " however, unsuccessfully. popularity — tie B . ' ib s Baby" after giving fair promise of d egeueh . t a " crying nuisance" was abandoned g rg in o a- Prematurely as a found: ling, while tt Miss Beninable's Tea and T oa st" expe rienced ano less summary ,-, e . re eeotion. Not withstancla log these occasional failures, ea Nsglas Jerrold is never " greater," generally BPeaki n than in " Poach his Yet, as with Mr. Brigg s in Ag ogust, his foot is on native heath, and his n -'me is , - Macgregor. Yet, ap a rt from "Patten," Jerrold has displayed very remarkable powers both aa a humorist and RS . a satirist—his Chron i cles of Cio i v r2 , oo k , revealing under a more geniali "Pecet!,he sw eetness of his quaint but sometimes sardonic ao t t uaohy. sides the stinging leaves, p ee , The nettle , be • tauces blossoms laden with honey and fragrance. i t wa _ . these sa m e Chronicles that the world 0t4 7 in 0 act count of the Hermit of Bellyf ul e oad some of t -- --the record l3 jovial saintship illustrating witeh the e o f Dougles Jerrold and the pencil of x entia pear d , s the pleasant pages of the "Illumina ted A T Al P • v tatageze. a o " .c‘ After me. conducting that periodical for etue . author .• adventured uponmonths, our anothert bliCation called after himself, and publication , . entitled a " Shilling Magazin e. v, aolaretendingly editing its miscellaneous contents h ' aobroughtßesides its pages, accompaniedby out in et etchings of Leech, his story of St. G i les and ~.. in many respects incomparably to aat James.-- ...3 inaStOrpiece. Pre viously he had, for the most part, eup _ , zou the ffi e e 0- rescence as he nolv reaped t e harvest of h is ~ n, i ina tion—like the agriculturist in the Georgia, jugdici ously plucking the flawers inthe vernal season and the. fruits in the autumnal— against tease, by h " Primus vere rniamt atquo fult ninno earp e ' re It is more particularly from th © pages Po f ma thi ." .s fiction that Jerrold may vindicate hi mself fr o o the charge of baying pitted class representing the rich as criminal and virtuous. According to the impression 0 - f ; 13 _O i f y o ) or as y is really the tendency of his writin gs , 1 ., 4 such Jerrold as through them is taught to regard D ecea ;" s 4 t Labour y alternate can discover the disguise of ,Depravity7ever " 'PParel as shining as with the reflex of the Trans Indigence. Here page uguration of regard Jerrold , it is he grievous beauty under rags, and virtue in the rookeries. But misapprehension. Like . Dickens,. unlike Dickens, he cannot. with and colour his Pictures perpetually w i t a tb e c master as genial as the sunshine of God. Master as be is of all the "quips and. cranks" of the satirist, he cannot nsist occasionally indulgi ng him self in the luxury of girding at someh gilded iniquity —sprinkling poison over the cou f c f T , °- - -'iyes, while strewing blossoms at the foot o Lazarus. the distorted estimate of his philosophy, Hence Of the in accuracy and injustice of that estimate we take " St. Giles and St. James" to he sufficientl y illustra- ttire=-commending it to tho se who , accordi ng to tbe ' conjectures of our author himself w ould cry a l oes l aloes ! even when his pen might be dropping myrrh and frankiu3cence. True, they would find Becky represent e d as gentle and loveable , althou, frh a poor barmaid at the ~Lamb and Star," while Crossbene would carry a black heart 88 well as a gold•headed malacca in his chariot I fair physician—hut Saint Giles no as a May less that his t half brother little Jingo, it m 'b e eear' e ss e i• no s credit by their rascality to W3t tee slums of 'th ts, polls, while in behalf, of &lint James, me from his infancy, and oftpring thou I c4(1.i4 v6lvet be of a MarchiOness, the writ?: he haPPe''s to the vary outset the reader's syraPaetbailetts fpc.l surely looks, somewhat Unlike • maligniape ilnd eulogising the pauper. The isd attnea li t ( h indeed, results from nothing more, distortion Of a merit into a demerit—Jerrold bele: ever as ready to censure evil among patricians as ;;;;',' is eager to declare himself the foe to whatever is in famous among the dregs of the population. I3earnifei testimonies of his love for the labouring ranks of society are Bright Jem and his better-half, kind hearted Mrs. Aniseed. Rising a little higher in the scale, comes Cepstick the Muffin-maker—greet in Seven Dials when he saith " Cry reaffins and be happy ! "—greater when retired, like a Cieristianiee t l Diogenes, to The Tub—greatest of ell when estound ing his feithful squire by his benevolent eccentricities es the Member for the borough of Liquorish. Cape' stick—by far the happiest among the creations of Jerrold—affords an admirable illustration of his own character in literature. His heart rugged a a cocoa nut, but brimming with 'the 'milk of human kindness! Crabbed in speech but - gentle in the send- , ments be utters and inculcates Cynical in manner, but every vein throbbing with benevolence ! Moil; precious of all diamonds in the rough--e surly, large handed 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 introduced into the story must not be overlooked Mrs. Simmer who cirries charity to 'the verge of dotage, any more than . Mr. Folder whose profound homage for popition de generates into sycophancy. About the drollest pas sage in the narrative is•that recounting the court ship of Kitty Muggs, of whose affection for Caesar Gum, the Aerican footman, it is so delightdelight fully remarked " that love turned ebony into ivor.y."' When speaking of the negro as " au objectionable blackness, a human blot, an ignominious stain," we ~ cannot but think•that the novelist had unconsciously floating in his remembrance that exnuisits sentence in Elia, where, in his eaeay in Praise of Chimney Sweepers, he designates the little climbing-boys— " dim specks, poor blots, innocent blecknesses.' As unconsciously has been transferred from " St. Giles and St. 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 !" Whatever chapters 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 ofEbenersr Snipeton at the Dovesnest. There it is that we first become acquainted evith his wife the heroine of the tale Clarissa. Although the termination of the story is almost 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 of the election, presided over by those implacable rivals, Flay and Rasp, the barber-politicians; Here, more especially, perhaps, than in any other of hie productions, Jerrold has administered those bitter but wholesome truths which, although occasionally gilded 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 a the intellect, the APinsne larpewv—but it is impossible to deny the benefit of their distribution through the most widely disseminating channels of the age, through the columns of "Punch,' or the scarcely less popular pages of the novelist. 'for nothing else they would be entitled to our admi ration as diametrically opposed to the most perni cious maxims of the time, those of the waterialiqts„ and the mammon-worshippers—the lucri bonus odor ex re qualibet—all those principles of speculation which are in fact no principles at all, and which John Law might have plegiarised from Vespasian. Added .to the works alr ea dy enumerated, Dou g l as Jerrold has contributed at intervals to his oven magazines, 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 sea the en miscellany called Cakes and Ale, or the eccentric and half-diabolic phantasy known as The Man made of Money. Minor contributions like The Sick Giant and the Doctor Dwarf, recounting the histories of Zim and Bakkuk, have served to illustrate the versatility of his style, if they have tended but indifferently to enhance his reputation. Twice in his career he has 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 publications, 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, high The Barber's Chair—a chair presided over alternately, one might fancy, by R asp , the barber-politician of Liciaorieb, 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 himt 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 ver b orum , he possesses an abounding faculty — painti ng a w h o l e portrait in a few syllables, as where he describes Tom 131att as "sucking the stalk of a primrose that shone forth in strong relief from his black whiskers," or where he makes Bright Jem call a garden "a beauti ful book writ by God," wherein "every flower and every leaf's a latter." Everything, moreover, seems to 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 exclaim, when meditating ever the wilderness, " how few the white days in which the poor ostrich can in Arabia Petite 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 a hoe and itlatighs into harvests." Democritus, is not, how , ver, his favourite philosopher always : lie 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 exquisite and touching solemnity. How grand and beautiful, for example, is that ejaculation _ in the work we have called - his masterpiece, when musing over a skull, es Hamlet mused over the skull of Yorick, he writes (ch. xvii.), " the cheekbones look still puckered with a, smile, as though contracted, when it flung aside the Mask of live and caught a glimpse of the on coming glory ! It was of the man who co uld thi n k " thus nobly, and not of the satirist with the pen of iron and the ink of vitriol, that Henry 'Mayhew must have spoken when imprinting on the flyleaf'ou bis " London Labour and the London:Poor" tile words of affectionate book is dedicated to Douglas friendship-7-4' This Jerrold whom, 'mewing meet intimately, the author has leartit to love• and honour most profoundly." Personelly total strangers, though .we are, to him, it wo uld be as impossible 'not to recognise thrcugh sen tittents like these tokens of a gentle heart under that g li t t e riog chain - mail of wit and acerbity, as it would to: dou bt his ind ividual perception of the humorous, if y f ro m bis facetious impersonation of Mr. Shadowly Softhead,.in Sir Balwer 'Lytton's Comedy for the Guild of Literature. Nevertheless, a consi siderable portion of the community fads to appre ciate those more amiable and least obtrusive charac teristics of his style not detecting the latent swe etness in the prevailing acidity of that good old English Hippocras. These, were they to pass him unknowingly in the streets of our , capital—streets trod len from age to age by the thronging genius of ksOgland—would fail as entirely to perceive the ener gy lurking -in that feeble rather than athletic f ra me ;to discover the grotesque and Puck-like spirit looking through those keen light eyes ; and, l as t of all, to discern the inexhaustible vivacity bid d en under that apparently serene and even sedate butstedate demean our. It is thus that ,Jerrold is, as yet, half appreciated. Meanwhile he himself regards with a more observant glance, and a more penetrant seree ptivity the motley crowd of the population. Hi s capacities r stand. him in greater stead th an th e wand p l a ced at the disposal of Don Cleophas Peran de z n obulo. His pen, more effectually than the crutch of A s modeus, can strip off the roof -tops of the city , a nd, what is yet farther, probe the wounds an d l ay bare the hearts of the citizens. KfV7. DEPARTURE OF THE NIAGARA. _On Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, the British and North American Roy ill Mail steam-ship Niagara, Leith, commander, left the ith s ey for Halifax and Boston, with the mails for the United gates and the British provinces, upwards of fifty passengers an d a moderate freight. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. 7----- ; - TO-7--- - (CONTINUED ON ,140.01 RATS AND WEDNESDAYS.) . Sio,—On Wednesday: the p. ; of June; the County E:eettone Polls Bill svaelec i artea.tb.o. apparently success 'ful• issue, by conehi‘aralete rostoritica in Cummater. I' the Conservative side.: -Many of them it ruge l e lard There is distension in the tra.te ß pi; the County Liernaers for the preservation of the . ancient Wayi ; w hir o others yield to the temptation of reduced expenses ari d shorter ! contests. One part of the Conservative O e f ence was:. [ 4:v3 somewhat Characteristic. How, .it was asked, was a 'man of property who had the right of voting in seven :Places, to exercise his rights unless the chance rens given abuse out of, for ea c h,. A •hiul cf having two days to curious contrast with the . complaint of the public that.' only about: one Lean in seven has the right of voting at 41; a n d ameantino; to demonetrs:ion of an inequality represenz nd Is 7 7 times 7, Or 49 to 1. Oki Th„„ , . 1 the Th"O tenth is that ,ntlp h t :: , iztzvis ent at Honajiong. , ,, .. . Of . tn., ~ 71137_ considerable debate on the charge.. for g ' lB 4 Pare piece . or '" Angto-baxonism, m e"illC by that the fr u i tern the w ee • Ns u p, of a claim in furnished furnished and e t e 7,To the power," the power ih . : j els b e uTi li le ti t t a: f ie tb e seea kings of old, that " tilit7; frona the csajoa luen (:, t '" f or by semebodY far rumor iCo:tbe Purpose or malting. COSe the: weaare een i e Hoeg'liatig, fsom. al! 1 1 ) 11 : 1- ' egg Id 3 for au; ehance ' t ,l in f i 'g, was avowedly a TePg : 11„e3 i t ee .p ift e ! p ir e o th t e E p u r e es ta en d t . It .aos intencled toadlere e te e e l l " teh ill• a war With ChM& , not for - the prosecutlbn of honouretrl Bain by izappsitiops,of Sycee silv on the Chinese, and degree oppneed. It is its very e%istenee iS in the ki!ghest dee"r4a'cert.' to which; the same kind. Of thing ns'if a foreigat wiela,to trade v.ith - England, Were ra t. PrGreesln g' to seizkng npon Sheernees. Ala two objects bgill bY dietirt end ' hot:tile'. The place `for the trad are e i s iw y ee . 'mere ante itoat Canton ; end because it is so thee "t °f of operations, is shifted to the place which snits i the e o . " ef'veaa-ateamers and gunpowder. We are everywa d3 this elstves'of the dealers in war. It is - flit. them as: ,gettii Grbonest dOnThserea or celoniz a ti on are destroyed 'watt giveraup; the pi iceas suhetitutedfi ne eing, to levy w nittliotth Of taxes at home, and turn them over: into the hands of, these eieh have the lack to be the recipients. Ni k ti hear of the ;honey power, and the labour power ; ' but there is another power, which is the robber power, to which Englishmen are the born thralls and veluntary victims. As the Frenchman will taerifice life, liberty, and law, for the sake of a lion d'Alger at Paris. so the Eneishman is ready to give the aseasieteree of his wife and chileireu 1,0 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. Oar 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 horizon, and who has himself a " skeleton in a closet," which he thinks upon with dread. On the same evening considerable debate arose on a 1 sum of 4,3321., proposed to be grunted for rebuilding the chard, Sze. 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 87,000/.• The Government boldly advanced the propesitioe, visas the amount of what bad been spent in past years had no • concern with the question whether money was wanted now. Bat 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 . succeas in carrying h vote for a Select Committee on the institution to Frome Vicarage, appears likely to be jeonard•z?d. The Tractartan opposition is rallying, and' throwing all kinds of delays ared impedi ments-in the way. On krirte.y the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity Bill (from the Lords) woes considered in Com mote°. It is impossible to deny the symptoms 4.:f a de sire to "improve." Ai one which may be appreciated by the lay mind, may be noted the direction that "Bills of Complaint and Claims" are to be printed instead of engrossed, and copies given to each of ibo concerned. With such a march of intellect, it would not be wonder ful if by-and-by Petitions to the House of Commons should be permitted to be printed; though at present tuk a proposal would he ca staggering. 113 to an ancient Post-office clerk W:O4 t h e not i on o f allowing a bank-note to he sent by poit•from Bradford to London without charging two elevenpenees. The Masters in Caaneery are lucky men, to be dis e chaeged from duty with full pay for life. It is presum able it was in consideration of their being men advanced in years, and who had given up practice which it is im possible they thould now recover, on an assurance that their office was for life. I believe my bead was pointed in the direction of the Noes, when I could see no one of the same way of think - leg-and thence oossola3.l_l. must be wrong. At the same time I am not certain, that if it were to come over again, I should not make the minority 11 to 89. Oa this an observation may be made for the benefit of minorities, which it is strange ut this age of the world should be wanted. Aud that is, that a ininoeity, especially when a very small one, ought as quickly as possible on division, to proceed an a body towards the door which will most distinguish them from the stream that is voting for the contrary. Instead of which, they stand talking to the Tellers, as if they waited to see how many of the hesitating would join their opponents in the belief that nobody was goi ng the other way. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REZORMER. Blackheath, Juno 14, 1852. • COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, tne Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louiss, and Pri uce Arthur, left Windsor Castle at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon for London. _ _ . The Royal suite consisted cf the Countess of Desert, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Amelia Murray, Ron. Lucy • ligrr, Lord Crofton, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Mejer-General Buckley, C o ld ne l Bouverie. end 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 Royal suite, entered six of her Majesty's carriages, cud 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 ,the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Wylde. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun tess of. Desert, Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Crofton, Majot-General Buckley, 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 A lbert tn ace walked Palace, and d e a s n terd th " morning in the garden of Buckingae Royal Family took their usual exerc i s e. Her Majesty, Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, . his "al Highness Prince andth A e l P be r r i t, Princes the Royal attended divine service inertnihengrvTahtee ladies l an o d f Buckingham Palace yesterday in gentlemen in waiting and the domestic household wore also present. Tile Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Coupor, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, en Saturday afternoon, from Frogrnore. Her Royal Highness the Duchess oV Kent. attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Lord James 'Murray, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing street. The Ministers pr e . sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lard Chancellor, th e Earl of Lonedale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Seer e . tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbary, Sir John uP,:kiL Lord ton, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the D ke n — Northumberland, the Right Hon: J. W. Henley, thue Ea rl o f of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. J. C. Hurries, a nd nter. JoThaheMHaonnn.erns.enrTyhßeoeboeurtnsc,iflreoamt jtwaomabiocuarsh.ad an i view with Sir John Pekin ton at the ColOnialsoffi te , en Sa A tardsy. deputation from the northern ports on the subjest VT with the Right of Ramsgste Harbour, had an interne" Hon. J. W. Henley. and Lord Colchester on Saturday at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. George Hudson, M.P., Mr. Vivian, ma) , Mr. Ord, M.P., Mr. Grainger, M.P., Mr. Farrar, m. t p h . Mr. Liddell, M.P., Mr. Hutt, Iv.p , ;Mr. Grey, M.P., month, Mr. Robert Brown, and M . Lord Bement had .an intervi e Mayor of Tyne' Charles Parkes. j departure ratillsa oft Walpole on Saturday at the 11 0 "? Mr. Berle and Mr. Harri s 111"Mee ' Saturday at the railwa— r. With Mr. Secretary' Lieutenant-Colonel Perceval on erview Trade. encllT.'cllcish Mr. Secretary Walpole on Saturday. had an inter"' Mt John Black wood had also an int ' with the Big Mr. '"° cretary. Mr. Forbes Campbell h ad an intervie w with • the Right Hon. J. W. Henl e y at on Saturday, SaDtuirsdPaaytchfersom the_ received the Board of Tra d e werer, , „j a i-Office on at the t., lonian Islands. Lord' High Commissioner of the from the litsnatches were also re ceived Governor of Van ly' The Duke of Wellington L ' a t ri e d n . tf ea the tphree ascehreindo,baywtahse yesterday in the Chapel R o y a ) , James s. The prayers ington a u , st. were read by the Rev. Bo- ' ' ley and the se rmon was early service Dr. - W e sley , ' the dial service the Rev. Dr. Hoo k . Rev. Dr. Book- at Preached by ANOTHER, - ABERDAIIH.A.Oother h:rthe neglect of the men explosion, caused caused entiraL rin y colliery at noon on Friday, curred at the Lietty 1 .4 which three men nearly into their lives. These men went EXPLOSION into an old working eallY l o n s aked candle; and as the spot with With an accumulation of gas, an ex plosionwas necessarily charged T The poor fellows were removed as was mevitab and every attention was paid to them, but 8 C" as possible, they are so unmet," h e. art that little hope is entertained of their recovery. 1852. z f ,l- o . elter ST. JAMES'S THEALTIZE. Schiller's play of Kabalc wid Liple wazi 1 . e d ca Slttirday night, and rioeived xTith, applause than on the first night of its repreAetsien. The individual members of the German v,ctois" have now iakcn their respective p 1.,3 eatirnution of the public, and as n corps pull admirably trg,tter. ['err Kuhn ht.s proved hircs-lt au actor agree tner and a worthy colleague of Emil Devrient. A relittitiou of this Fist? is announced. Tine Quern and :E'dnee Altert hououred the performance with zhcir presence on satur. day. ilanilet is anneuneed for TI-urvl - ny; bid Faust for Tuesday, the 221. Di vriezit will appeqi. to-worrow in a play written ez.pressly for 1- ,im Ey the Amelia of Sitvoy. enti!lect _Der MajoratsErbe, y.nzi to ;; s t ar c hy Emilia .Gallotti will be pertcraied. - CELIM A - one act piece . was - produo. dct Swurday entitled Very ,Suvicious, which turns on tto prabibition of a• widow - marrying a second time tinder forfeiture ef her prepertv. --. Lady Emily is the young and 'charming widow of an East Indian, who, doling upan her, has lett her his whole fortune, on the nut *Little-ft:kr pigasing coriaition, that it is all to revert 'to his natural Mirs if she ehiald again enter the bonds of mettimotiy, Colonel :-ElSely has been soinowhat insrked in his admiration, and his conthics prebbbly tad to this baysh clause in the deceased nabob's 19: 1 1;: Be has follore e .i Lady Emily to 'England; uLd even pays her a visit at Int• country villa. This Seem::-to the • Bugbites. it'llb sire the bars ex raLeant, " very suspicious," and Lady Bt.:Oita ' takes herself. and Sir Barnabas down unexpectedly to- the -sills.. to reconneitre. Thus stand matters .' Mien`the little drama . commonces in . Lildiv Emily's t drawing-room. It is very soon 'l•Kre,- , ptke that a • seek marriage has taken piaci", o.nd•Lady Bugbite's emphatic pointing out 'these isymptcnis cauc.s much of thu eutnidy of the piece. Lady Emily is very -amiable, - but the Colonel, though high bred, is extremely im patient and exacting. The, petulant Colonel is further incensed by the arrival et Mr. Augustus Sharpe, a ' fporting attorney, who . imagines himself an enormous of affiiir 9 s •re of propert>, ossibility of himself obtain speculates on the p lady killer, and toying the management of Lady Emily's t L g 4r h 2 d , d, and avoiding the hateful clause imposing t— forfeitu re her however, The Colonel aid the 9 ' he foiture little Miss by Lady . Bug • Frirerty. ' Enlightened, . , _ in'e on the true state alters his tactics, and seeks to expo2ura -in the event of a for -9 as match. quarrel, but are reconciled, and renewing the raan n ad y and i3 l ugbite will become a desirable to resd a poem of Ti °l fall fast asleep, and Ladtieiti elley's to the lady whilst she re clines on a couch• The ch ing this incontrovertible u arm, however, of poetry even their courtship, the Colonel is has fled; and the mar Emily fairly confesses i l Z l.°°f °f lovers, one after the other, their anticipated accession and gbite cotering;and witness however, would not be a satistf.: tofmoravfetriitmedony, wealth.the soLTamhdiyrs: the Bugbites rejoice in amongstug u s t Augustus s t h S e h a papersr d ring that, searching the Bugbites a hanYdEmilY at has found a second will, that leaves ad to peru h s e he h s jn e , on3 d e , c c !s r - . conclusion , examine, he gsetinlltleamadnelsyirgasbithe hvaasn'etaleasniiel,gbAualtsl liberty, and awards perfect m ß r u . g ß bi c t i e to i n s B°M e legacy, so are thus satisfied. Miss Laura lieeneetteuriSpitie". t t h il e at l3 ll :l:: selfish, Colonel; Mrs. Frank Matthews as the authoritative wife; and Mr. Basil B el Z amusin g a -er a musi ng teristic as a baronet in ton boots and bawl' - . hunting coat boisterous enough out of doors, but very eubtnissivn to his strong-minded wife in the drarzing-room, -,Miss Grove, as a chattering lady's maid, also obtained ap plause, and Mr. Butler was smart in a part somewhat anomalous in such society. The author was said to be Mr. Palgrave Bimpspn.. ; The piece was periectly suc cessful. HER MAJESTY'S THPATRE..-.ller Royal 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 eve ning. Amongst the noble and distinguished 'indi viduals also visiting the theatre on this occasion were the following:—His 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 }list Secretary of the American Legation, Mrs. and Miss Abbott Lawrence and party, the Right Hon, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Countess of Malmes bury, the Secretary for the Colonies and Lady Pakington, the Earl of Aboyne, Lord Ward and p arty, the Viscount'Ex month, the Countess of Harrington and Lady Blanche St. Maur Stanhope, the Earl of Wilton and party, &c . , &c. ~ ROYAL ITALIAN OPE/14.4-11iS Royal ntignness 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, mid Miss Barrington and party. The Duchess of Sutherland and the Earl Grosvenor and Lady Gramme Grosvenor occupied the Duke of Bedlbrd's box. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely and party were in Miss Burdett Coutts's box. Among, the fashionable corn panv present in the theatre we remarked his Grace the Duke .of Baaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, the Duke and Duchess de liielfort, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer his Excellency the Swedish and Nor weg i an Mi nister, the Marquis of Northampton, .the Marchesa Bran ca l eon i and Madlle. Brancaleoni, the Earl of Cardigan, the E ar l o f Dur ham, the Countess of Minto and Ladies Harriet and Char lotte Elliott and Viscountess Melgund, the Earl of Sand wich, the Earl Besborollgh the Count and Countess de Mo rello, Viscount - t 4 ydriey, Viscountess 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 PLAYC, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE._.. tier Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Desert, the Hon. bliss Stanley, the lion. Miss Kerr, Lord Croftoa, General Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the German plays with their presence on Saturday evening. • . ' • Tio GUANO QUESTION.—A. deputation of gentle men interested in this subject, and consisting of members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, an d th e 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 Castleaere, ic. In addition to these addresses 'some memorials were Oresentedi the object being to ,represent to the Gover n m ent the importance of taking every possible means to reduce the price of.guano, as well as to call attention to . the claim made by the Peruvian Government to the' newly-discovered Lobos Lordship, in reply, stated that the islands re- Islands. . • His memo. ferred to, it _ was now ascertained, were indisputably under the Peruvian dominion, while negotiations. had for a eon _ h h o e pe t s air t e o ly styhme pathised sideiable period been carried on with a, view to a re _ duction in the .cost at which guano w as Alined to this • country. 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They invigorate the body, of all ages, and in facultiesv of the mind, increase the appetite, and strengthen the Th o se who suffer from disease brought do purify the Wad. l i ons may rely on these pills giving imme , by sedentary oca s u r ecta i n restoration to•good health.—Sold by diate relief, ape d at professor Holloway's Establishment, 244 t all Druggists," Strand, London. TIJRAL SOCIETT. LI o sTICUL , Saturday the —Ol ME secon,.. f - season took pla ce i n t h e gar d ens o f th e A I*, t e l er the ci n gw i c k, and from the number of tickets issued, society 8 030 , it may be assumed that, had the weather been nearly la ura ble, one of the m os t numerous attendances -Of more favo ever witnessed would have been the result. As .it company andnotwithstandingthe heavy appearance of ... h o wever, w " . " d the actual coldness of the air, upwards of 5,000 the sky an could, - were assembled, and enjoyed. as well asthey visitors of the show and the pleasure of the re union of the beauty d fashion. The fits, lants, and flowers were of rank an _ rd f The pitcher flowers, the very first o er 0 excellence . penthes, orchids, and ferns, displayed beneath the tent s of Mr. 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 i mpassa bl e .. The appearance of the gardens was more than ordinarily beautiful ; the turf never looked more gr ee h, or the trees more full of foliage. The rhododendrons were, moreover, in .finer blossom than in any former ye ar . In a word, everything was in the finest order, and displayed triumphs of horticulture. Among the company were the 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 Walsingharo, Lord A. Fitz clarenne, the nishop of Winchester the Earl of Lei ces t e r, the Earl of Bradford, Lady Murchison Sir W. and Lady Middleton, Sir C. Lemon, Sir P. Pole, S ir G. Staunton, Sir H. Lambert, Dr. Lyon PlaYf air, Mr. Childers, MT.., S ''' The music, which was p erformed by the bands of tne fat Life Guards, the Grenadier Guards,. and 'the , Coldstream Guards, under the direction of Mr. Waddell, was, as usual, d. The gold medals, well selected and W e ll execute which were more than usually numerous , p we r e awarded to the fol lowing candidates f or various sec imens: -Mr. May, Mr. cola, Mr. Tayl or , M r. Green, Mr. Carson, Mr. Blake, Mr. Franklin, Mr. 'Williams, Messrs. V'eitch, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Terry. A vast number of silver medals and certificates were also adjudged. Burgeon Thomas Nelson, rit.D. (1849), serving in the Cygnet s l oop on the webt c oast of Alice station, is appointed to th e P ene lope fin -Ehip, on that station.