The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-01 00:00:00

t he regis• nies ; and affairs of y ellgage. pposite to of a mar• enly rolled and killed week, and r 475 ha d 7S passed )NIA. ia steam' Boston on ached the he Unit ed h came t ° the Cale' don cop' an" Pall 1 'kith the wsitiou of ken thst said, that ~,ident 0' said to be COMln er t-litaio, ised some e Unit ed s into tbe 10, in O nd of an• n a native .u . to con' 'dr in the is for. se• trder, and jrnlal the BO' Solicitor der the comma. ° titutioor itest P :;anada arty uston ow' the Or in the 1r !come 1 with t he I leave t ° ,ken of tie Govern. ,Is of W3r it 0" reverlti4 ,t all Iv° ity 1 011 . 1 •mer i. s ti N;vas ve," Paris, ( the I°'4 ast le, P bleW e no o p itlef, bt 66 brO li g 10 11 , 1;.eee ; preb e ' to ooca sl° „ es w e g ,f the n ;eV nty - e - 00 killed of P'' r rr lowe) e h please.of tiff°/ cA :fe, a e d -111P 1 ' ••i.Vll° 1 1)e ....- , e .. ha` o'or- COURT CIRCULAR. WRibsoß, TIIIMISDAY.—IIiS Royal HighnessFrince Albertta left th e C ast l e t hi s morn i ng , at t N yenty-five peueittb,.eistrbe nine o' c lock, for Slough, en route, by L.,ndon. ills _Royal Highness re turrActi toe th e C,,scle_ at half-pas,two o'clock: Earl of Ellenborough left the Castle. - this morning T he Queefi and Prince Albert walked in the after .ttP, f,r some time, in the Slopes and grounds ad -1 1 Ing the Castl e . Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Ve Princess Royal were taken out on ponies to - day. Pri nce i nce Alfred and the Princess Alice were taken an ai ring in the pleasure-grounds, Sir Rob ert an d Lady S a l e too k t h e i r d e parture f the Castle to-day. 4 ` Ir. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson ar wed ypsterday, f rom a t o ur. p: r he Earl o f Li ve rpool and the Ric,ht Hon. Sir R. walked o u t f or some time this afternoon. T he royal dinner party at the ca,tle this evening teluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, I , a dY Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw,,and G. E. Anson. ..liheer band of th e R oya l H ors e Guards were in at tendance at th e C as tl e d ur i ng di nne r. Majesty's private band afterwards attended. Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel half- Bouverie,arrived at Buckingham Palace at Pga'di-dZ a n i ine o'clock yesterday morning, from. the i ngtivo terminus of the Great Western Railway. te e s Highness went to insct the new - stimtner , u n Yie in the garden, and afterwards . proceeded, at a 1 r ,t( -I *-past ten o'clock; to Somerset-house. for'pn:y.rince left the office of the Duchy of Cornwall ste . Paddington, taking his departure for the Slough on his return to Windsor Castle. phiii lB Serene Highness P:ince Ernest of Hesse . Lond on e tahl left Witl e y C our t, Worcestershire, the of her M aj esty the Queen DoWage.r, for n yesterday, arriving in town at seven o clock l ast evening , Rer n p a . a r t i °3'al Highness the Duchess of Gloucester to o l, t in g ci g u esterday in a carriage. the V e nezuelan Minister, transacted "tine's at the Foreign-office yesterday. Lord Wharticliffe, Lord President of the Council, is 44 1Tig at his seat, Belmont Castle, N.B. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the '-'olanial-once for the Governor of New South Wales. th e enry Wyse tr an sacted business yesterday at orein-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial . Cot e from Sir C. Metcalfe, Governor-General of a t ' a cla ; from Si r W. Colebrooke, Governor of New of ti xin wi e„k ; and from Viscount Falkland, Governor ova scotia. BADLERS' WELLS THEATRE. th e ~eatrel 'inY of the City Madam was produced at this . 1, on Wednesday, with the most brilliant success. - .2 Ve bills a nnounce i t as Massinger's play of the City title Q 477 1; but we are almost inclined to demur to this for the play has been so altered in the course of s al-a P t ation that w e d ou bt w h e ther, if Massinger were „ be r ecalled to life, and taken to Sadler's Wells, he `'noi!d be ena bl ed to g recc nise his own production.a -8 character o f th e Astrologer ' is altogether omitted, it t s " thus the key to the character of Lady Frugal therefore lost. She is waward, capricious, tyran- Z ie ,al y haughty, and va i n , and she forces her daughters uecorne the came, because the Astrologer has fore told for all the mos t brilli a nt destiny, and she ll bas implicit f a ith i n hi s pre di c ti ons , an d de s pises her , t sband, as bigotry only c an d es pis e , for his want of j' t h• The daughters are reduced to mere walking its; and one o f th em , M ary , i s ma d e a ' pat t ern o f ' 41 4:1-13,sarted ness —th e sentimental heroine of the N.7ho calls her uncle " Good Master' Luke" hde .<in his dependanttears state, and b r iy gs tears ' - ' 4 `t ) lll4 eS:'ek,hy'her kirldAess, This kindness is made t o d use .9,t , ill the .denottenients. An, the LA 'scene, untothe about to,_titra his.brother',.s„wire and C'hildren street to starve, when he sees , Mary—th e *remembrance of her "good master Luke" rapes back, anon his mind : he p a uses, and in ag0nt4044,, u gs her to his bosom—recals her mother aftelo:siklet;" repents of his cruelty, and when his broiztiV r eriteri," kneels at hi s feet, and entreats his forgiveness. - This sc ro e a n ricy e a , b t i omake u se o f th e s t age ph ras eology goes re well, and, z assin acted as it was last night—Phelps and Miss Cooper were very effective—but it is not ..!icter of Luke. ger' Na more, it is contrary to .the .cha- f The Luke of Massinger is -one o f ‘ ira ne most original characters in the whole" ran t ! o o gh? i , n glish drama. It would not have been unwor hy ,f ,4.-speare himself. He is the ..e„seeker—the embodiment of what the Frenchrimpersonationoofa, ti sas -4n le. Inheriting an ample fortune, he is ic d e Overt. r nfligate, extravagant, cious ; 'reduce o p oo .;; ; • 7 _,I be is humble, obsequions; time-serving, '` e w•--a dependent on his brother's bonnty, yet ti o o nnh i g at schemes of robbery. Love of approba devnpfB al sn, as a phrenologist would say, remarkably Drofl: ° P e d in Luke. During the whole course of his vers ity h e i s i gate career h e seems t o h ave been most popular 'with his d e b auched companions. In h i s d ays of a d humble with L a dy Frugal, !be and although tr eats him w ith t h e grea t es t tyranny, yet we doubt wheth er Luke is not, i n cons equence of tendering an any other person himself useful to her, less il l-treate d Y her ban with whom she comes Con tact: with Si r M aur i c e Lacy, heis th 4 repentant inner full of moral sayings and the pleade r f or mercy for other men ; with his ' brother's Pander Prent ices he is th e i r t u t o r in dishonesty, their of l in debauchery. He understands the_ nature t those by wh om h e i s surrouncied, and by minister ! gto their failings becomes the favomite of all. He becomes at once possessed of his brother's imme nse ', w ealth. Th ose very men who had been by him b egged off, w hil e t h ey were debtors to his brother, are by him arrested and thrown into hen he be e() gao w mes the credit or . Si r John Frugal, while eon' lis,oenoting, at the instance of Luke, to ve them , on ger time, desires that it may not be' men illasetde on 'Change, as he should be laughed at. dete • water having succeeded to his brother's position, he revokes mined he will not be lauhed at, and therefore , evokes that grant of furthestme which his brother -,44Q made at his • b at v . instance. He has learned, prudence, . s ittue, by th - lversity, and thus exhibits himself as Os rer and solitary flebauchee. He does , not turn tiad h c , (4 ,,, h er's wife and children into the street to starve, t a k done so " the world would have tallced,' and th e w e Is one of th ose w h o wou ld f a i n s t a nd W e ll w ith I..ad v 7 l d ; but he would also fain be rec , enge . d on en anee ga, a n d get rid of the expense -s'ru erk,le ay a nd that of h er d aug hters ; and theifOie he , . Znrl rau — th n -n rs by promises of a brilliant asl:agc.e a Vrince to induce her and her daughters go 'lll arc A cola with certain Indians, having previously be s aeri el with the Indians that they shall Th es „ e on the instant of thew arrival. T r i end ' Indian' are his brother and his' brother's about s disguise, and thus the denouement is brought f ere lo the origii i. al. This is certainly a very dtf ui,ot character to the Luke of last evening ; the fr ou : t () , t : Massinge r wou ld never h av e been d r i ve n „,'"s purp ose b y a " goo d mas t er L u k e ." Th e 'clever Y -1-riadem, as a c t e d a t th e S a dl e r's W ells, is a• very su stain e d d a very effective play ; the interest is- well .ci tu , and it deserves to have a long run; but the khel /1 / a dam of Massinger has yet to be. revived. _ Invv ys Luke was an impersonation full of energy and wan'o' very effective throughout, but occasionally solilo g repose; for instance, he gave the beautiful TIY, descriptive of the treasure he had inherited, like a man who had besn robbed of his 'us than one who had just come into possession of th em little 1 • be a If he would in this scene ess ever tie the audience would be better able to a . ge ppreciate the beauty of the language, and the, 'exquisit e rythm of - Niassinger, who in this soliloquy ?a- 8 given us one of the most magnificent descriptions l w o . the wh o l e range of English poetry, in comparison ith which even " Hof Ri hes ' must be Spencers House e admitted to be inferior. In the last scene he was admirable. Every sneer told with withering effect, :n.,cl the tr ans i t i on from hate to tenderness on the sight t Mary, was given with a power which belongs to none but an artist of the highest order. He was called for at the conclusion, and loudly and deservedly aPPlauded. George Bennett, as Sir John Frugal, Wag very effective ; it was the most evenly acted character of the night. There were none Of those brilliant flashes by which the Luke of Phelps was d istinguished, but it was perfectly sustained through out—it was faultless. Mrs. Warner was most :amusingly viragoish as Lady Frugal, and the other characters were well sustained. The house was crowded. PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER FOR ONE ITUNDRED l'on tios.--Wednesday the fight between Paddy Gill and 'George Holden (of Birmingham) came off, in the pre nonce of a great assemblage of the Birmingham and- London pugilistic fancy, and, from the well-known merits m the men, and the heavy stakes pending the result, much interest was created,laid n ln bettin g , 5 t o 4 wa s GiiL ~4 t . ring having been formed, the combatants, With their seconriJ, entered, and immediately *commenced the contest, both 4:lisplaying great science_ and hard hitting. When th e coute.st had occ u pi e d t hi rty m i nutes, - it was quite apparent the battle was in the hands of Gill, *but Holden continued to fight with great courage, and ultimately, Gill came off the winner. Viscount Canterbury, the Bishop of Carlisle, and the members of the Rutland family, have ball piacod in mourning by the tlemise of the Rev. Thomas Manners Sutton, who expired on Sunday last, at the Rectory, Ivrerham, Notts, in his 55th He was grandton of Lord George Manners Sutton, grTaL of of Rutl an d . He was subdean of Linc oln,,-,:^a the Duke pre viously a Canon of that cathedral establishment, rector of Averham, jTHE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—As this: day of, avcnile rejoicing and prank-playing is near at hand, it shoula be rillnembereil that the Act 3 Geo. IV., c. 126, makes it illegal to light a bonfire or discharge fireworks within a diannee of eighty feet from the centre of a turnpike -road. _ I; pPO/tTING • INTELLIGENCE. '!NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. —BETTING UP TO TEN O'CLOCK. - NURSERY , STAKES (FIRST CLASS). 3,t4h1-APP-149se of Cashmere 14 to 1 agst Crim Con. Utj .• DEI siig@ o tTorth's 11 to_ agst Alarm 16 to 1 agst Ledger 20 n 0 1 aget Cobweb c 25 to I"aglf Rebecca c—t 28 to "1 - agst Brother to E.O. 33 to' l'agat Pantasa 40 to 1 agst Young Eclipse BY. 40 to 1 agst A,nti-Repealer 40 to 1 agst Lycurgus 40 to 1 agst Collier 1,000 to 15 agst Miss Whip colt—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Idas—t 1,000 to 15 agst Sister to Laundress colt OAKS. - . 12 to agst-Refraction—taken. ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. D.l. Plate.—Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs, 9st 101b—Wine sour, 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Aristotle, 5 yrs, Bst 41b—Revoca ben, 5 yrs, 7st 71b —Mickey Free, 3 yrs, 7st 71b am noe-aware,, aged, 7st 21b—Glossy, 4 yrs, 7st—Anonyme, 4 yrs, Gat—Algernon, 3 yrs, 6st—Croton Oil, 3 yrs, sst 131 b— Well-a-day filly, 3 yrs, sst. D.M. Handicap for two yrs olds.—Gamelass filly, Bst 71b—Crim Con, Bst 41b—Carissina, BSt 41b—CarAc tacus, ist' 7 lb—Pastille filly, 7st 21b. sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, winner to be sold for 250, &c. A.F.—Priscilla Tomboy, 5 yrs—Pine Apple, 4 'yrs—Mania, 4 yrs—Walpole, 3 yrs—Barricade, 3 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, winner to be sold for 80, &c.—Sevens'• the-main, 3 yrs—Mainstay, 2 yrs— Teresa, 3 yrs—f by Mortises; dam by Sultan, 2 yrs— Hedgehog, 2 yrs—St. Domingo, 2 yrs—Jessie Hammo nd, 2 yrs—f by Slane, out of Mary Ann. 2 yrs—Dr. Hill, 2 yts—Landlord, 2 yrs—Wild Roe, 2 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two yrs olds. T.Y.C. Winner to,be sold for 150, &c.—Full Sail—f by Hornsea, dim by Sultan—and Glee. (RECEIVE)) LAST NIGHT.) NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. TUESDAY NIGHT, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—The following match was not decided when our express left : Mr. Shelley's Prince of Wales, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (Nat), beat Lord Exeter's Pergularia, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Mann). 100, h ft. T.Y.C.-7 to 4 agst the Prince, who made all the running, and won in a canter, by three lengths. Match (Friday).-6 to 4on Oakley agst Naworth. THE RATAN AFFAIR. The report of the Committee has been laid before a general meeting of the Club, and will be published officially next week. We understand that Rogers and Braham • will be warned off the Heath, and that the former will be prohibited from riding at Newmarket, or any other place undor the control of the Stewards of the Jockey Club. The parties supposed to have been implicated by the evidence of Rogers and his confederate, are, we hear, exonerated from all dishonesty of pur pose ; but the Committee express their disapprobation of the practice of gentlemen receiving and executing commissions for jockies, and others intrusted with the charge of race-horses. It is not the intention of the Club to publish the evidence. The match between Alice Hawthorn and Foig-a ballagh will not be run ; Mr. Irwin receives 150 forfeit. The follmiing matches are made for Saturday : Mr. Irwin's Foig-a ballagh, 3 yrs, Bst, agst Lord G: Bentinck's Naworth, aged, 6st 31b. D.I. 200, h ft. Mn Irwin's Mickey Free, 3 yrs, Bst, agst Lord George Bentinck's All-round my-hat, 3 yrs, 7st Mb. Ab.M. 200, h ft. Several other matches are on the tapis. THURSDAY'S RACES. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old, 7st 41b; four yrs, Bst 41b ; five yrs and upwards, Bst 1116. A.F. Mares and geldings allowed 3 lbs. Winner to be sold for 250 L, &c. (5 Subs.) Mr. Ramsbottom's Pine - Apple , 4 y rs (Bell) 1 Mr. Booth's Priscilla Tomboy, 5 yrs 2 Mr. Gregory's Barricade, 3 yrs 4 Mr. Payne's Walpole, 3 yrs 6 to 4 agst Walpole, and 2 to 1 agst Pine-Apple. Pine- Apple made steady running all the way, and won easy by a length. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for 2 yrs old, 7st ; and 3 yrs, Bat 1216; fillies andlgoldings allowed 21b; winner to be sold for 80 sovs. T.Y.C.. 11 Subs. Lord Maidstone's f You-don't-Say-so, 2 yrs (Ablale) 1 Col. Peel's f by Slane, out of Mary Ann, 2 yrs The following also started, but were not placed : L Exeter's Dr. Hill, 3 yrs—Mr. Dawson's Teresa, 3 yrs--Mr.Francis's Seven's-the-Main, 3 yrs—Mr. Law's Mainstay, 2 yrs—Mr. Rogers's §t. Domingo, 2 yrs—Mr. - ,lsvards's Hedgehog, 2 yrs—Mr. Hesseltine's Jessiend :,...k.asninond, 2 tyrs—Mr. Gurney's Landlord, 2 yrs—a nook's Wild Roe. Betting-7 to 4 agst Jessie Hammond, 4to 1 agst Mary Ann filly, 6 to 1 agst You-don't-say-so, 6 to 1 agst Hedgehog, and 7 to 1 agst St. Domingo. Four or five false starts, in two of which Jessie Ham mond overpowered her rider, and ran nearly half the distance. At the final start Hedgehog jumped off with a lead of four or five lengths, and with You-don't-say-so, Colonel Peel's filly, and Dr. Hill in her wake, made strong running into the cords; it was then taken from her by You dont-say-so, who went on with it unchal lenged to the end, and won easy by a le n g th ; Jessie Harnrnond lost start, but reached the first ruck at the finish, and made a dead heat for third with St. Domingo, both well up; Hedgehog was a capital fifth. Handicap Sweepstakes of' 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for two yrs old. D.M. Mr. Dawson's Crim Con, Bst 41b (Lye) 1 Mr. Bristow's Carissima, B st 41 b Mr. Newton's f by Jerry, out of Pastille, 7st 21b 3 Lord Chesterfield's f by Hornsea, out of Game-lass, Bst 7lb Mr. Deakin's Caractacus, 7st 71b 6 to 4 agst Crim Con, 5 to 2 agst Game Lass filly, and sto 1 agst Pastille filly. The lot ran in a cluster for about half-way, when the Pastille filly took the lead, followed by Game Lass filly and Crim Con, Carissima lying off. In this order they came to the cords, where Crim Con went up, and after a tolerable race, won by a length. Carissima came at the last, and beat the Pas tille filly for second by a head. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two year old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. T. Y. C. Winner to be sold for 1501., &c. (3 Subs.) Mr. Edwards' Full Sail walked over. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. Ab.M. (8 Subs.) 5t02 on Old England. The favourite made all the running, followed by Prologue, Plaudit lying off, until within a quarter of a mile from home ; the run in was very close, Old England winning by a neck, and Plaudit beating Prologue for second by a head. Match, 200. R.M., T.T.C.—Lord G. Bentinck's All round-rap-Hat, Bst 316, received forfeit from Lord Glas gow's Sister to Give-him-a-Name, 7st 51b. Match, 206, h ft. T.Y.C.—Lord Stradbroke's Evenus, Bst 51b, received forfeit from Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Romford's Cob.Ast 51b. Match, 200. T.Y.C,=s-Dulce of Bedford's Oakley, 9st 61b (Robinson), beat Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, ist 51b (Nat). -5 to 4on Oakley. Won by a length, easy. Match, 200, h ft. D .l.—Mr. Osbaldeston s Sorella, 10t 711 i, (Owner), beat Sir J. Hawley'a Venus , list 31b (Nat.) -6 to son Venus. Won in a canter by six lengths. The D.I. Plate was not run when our parcel was for warded, • RUNNING REIN AND CRENOLINE. The following was posted in the betting rooms this morning ; " The Two Year Old Plate in October, 1843, has been awarded to Crenoltne 411 persons who backed her are entitled to receive, and those who betted against her are bound to pay. STRAI)I3,ROKE. " EXETER. • " GEORGE BYNG." SALE OF Tilt LATE DUKE OF GBAFTON'S YEARLINGS AND FOALS. fl• Y DARLINGS. Colt by Montreal, dam by Doctor Syntax. Colt by-Caesar, out of Dublin, in the Derby, 1846 275 Colt by Royal Oak, out of Rhodope, ditto 290 Filly by Montreal, out of Problem Filly by Montreal, out of Balance, in the Oaks, 1846 71 Filly by the Commodore, or Montreal Tontine 3B Fitly by Montreal, dam by Blacklock, in Oaks, 1846 51 VOALS. B c by Redshank, out of Balance 7l Br cby Redshank, dam by Dr. Syntax Problem 44 Be by Redshank, out of Currency Oh c by Redshank, out of Dublin B4 Ch f by Redshank, out of Rodope Ch f by Redshank, out of Nameless B f by Redshank, out of Oxygen Br f by Redshank, out of Delhi B f by Redshank, out of Problem Br f by Redshank, darn by Blacklock 5l Messrs: T#ttersall's also sold the following Blood ... Stock : Yearling colt by Elis, out of Sprig 25 Crenoline, 3 yrs 22 Energy, covered by Erymus and Euclid 33 B f by Erymus, out of Earring 9O Br f by the Saddler, out of Mayfly 9O B a by Erymus, out of Redtape Marquise, 4 yrs REDUCTION OF RAILWAY FARES. To-morrow (Friday) the new Act of Parliament for the regulation of the fares on railways will come into operation. The inspectors appointed by the Goverment have been for some time past. busily engaged in visiting the different railway termini, for the purpose of inspecting the new third-class carriages, which have been constructed ac cording to the Act of Parliament. Those on the Brighton and Dover Railway were inspected last week ; they are close carriages in the form of large boxes, they are twenty-six feet long by ten broad, and capable of holding about forty passengers. There is an opening ell each side, which can be closed up against the weather. The rate of travelling in those carriages will be a penny er mile, therefore the fare to Bri g hton will be 4s. 3d. The fare for the third-class will be at the same rate on rill the railways. Punr,Tc PARKS AND WALX5,.....-We have already no ticed the handsome co ntributions of M: Philips ark , ltki.. M.P., and of Sir George Philips, and we have now the pleasure to record the subscription of the clerks, salesmen, warehousemen and porters, in the ware house of the firm of which our excellent representa tive is a member—Messrs. J. and ii. Philips and Co., Church-street. Including all classes of empiayeee, YoUths, porters, &c., we find that ninety individuals in this estabilshmept kir:, contributed the very large and liberal amount of 2211 2s. n 4,4 of the fund for public i p ;:cO a tn r 4 k ti. : i.b l ellt : i V ovne e s regard this as one Of tie IPuq r e ,T t rk a b le in point a tin; yeted_.: doubt, ethtowards is th b i y s n i o tini m i e r a a n 7 s ea r e:i recorded, so it willi C a :l vir4 i t i_l h o e .i largest in amount—yet 1 7 i7e of worthy f ollowers in no'spirit of envious rivalry, lint ratior iR that gene rous and benevolent impulse of honourable eduliition, in Which it is not only allowable but commendable to L "provoke to Ispyp' K a Kuod. works,"—Manchester „. -Guardian, TB!: S U-N; LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1 184 r. MAGAZINE DAY. written truly, that 'the child is father of the man.' ration at Eton, because his feats were admired by the BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. Young Wellesley seems to have been liked in his gene whole school, and very few could dare to be his com- Miss E izabeth Barrett's recently published volume o n ur w i h te ie o h j h e e ct l or pastime.. of poems—which we noticed a few weeks since in The Sun—forms the subject of a judicious and elo- Paunrsmulits o in fa m f a a n v y a . peril h ous and ersevering endeavour in quent criticism in the present Number of this and was the one apportioned P " The room i periodical. The Reviewer justly remarks :—" If the s d ep to t 13 :1 s s e t l i f ll sfohrowan consider poetess poetess does not always command our unqualified able time. In this room Wellesley,? Leith, and myself, approbation, we are at all times disposed to bend in passed many hours in reading Byron, and Scott, and reverence befosT . ,the deep r hearte4,and higtily-accom- Moore, and other leading authors, and in talking of plished woman—a woman whos e -=powers -apirear io Wellington, and his connexion with it. The tingeboardn us to extend over a wider and profounder range of house in which this room may be seen is situated _ke a pt in my time by excellent people of the name of thought and feeling than ever before fell within the upper end of Eton (furthest from Windsor), and was r e n ve e ) au andthe large brick house (now coloured, intellectual compass of any of the softer sex." This is high praise, but it is not undeserved. Indeed, we 11 a superior man, both believe) the Rev. Charlesimmediately yotl beyond what was occupied by will go even further, and say that in Miss Barren's acquirements t s utor,ah? poems there are frequent evidences of a truer and in thee ly deeper sensibility than has ever yet been exhibited by disposition. Perhaps the house would h n e t st o h f ,, mind indicated any female writer in the language. In all she writes, now by a large elm whichadjoined • it by the end next to she writes evidently from the heart. There is no the street, and which, doubtless, is still growing there, was straining after effect—no hunting about for startling while generations of men, like its leaves, have fallen or novel imagery. She contents herself for the most away. If the internal arrangement of this house be still part with the simplest and most obvious forms of ex- the same, the visitor to Wellington's room must turn pression ; never writes for mere writing's sake, but short to the right after alright havn ascended the litte dark comes to a halt the instant she has fully expressed stairs, and then turning to angle again, the door and exhausted the feeling of the -moment. As we found th d e to le h l e t left-hand will take him into it, and it will be admire Mrs. Hemans for the exquisite polish of her antT with a win a d t o h w er io l o a h rge room, fitted for three beds, looking out at the front of the house. language, and Miss Landon for her force and bril- Here the Woodhouses and myself lodged ; and just op liancy, so we admire Miss Barrett for the depth and polite the door, and across the passags is a small one purity and sacredness of her feeling. Her poem of bedded room, which was occupied by my friend Carew, "Bertha in the Lane" is, of its kind , t he truest to the now Sir Walter Palk Care w of thfair human heart of any in the language, and we defy any one to read it without being deeply moved by its impassioned sensibility. Alluding to this lady's itni tations occasionally of the classical writers, the Re viewer says, " The purity of their diction, and nothing else, has been their passport to immortality." Surely this is a most unjust dictum ! Is there nothing we admire in the Medea of Euripides, or the (E iipus Coloneus of Sophocles, but the purity of their dic tion ? Does the Reviewer forget the incomparable tenderness of sentiment shown in the closing scenes of the one; or the majestic sublimity that charac terises the whole description of the passing away of the aged (Edipus from earth in presence of his daughters, amid the gloom of that mysterious grove where the awful voice of destiny alone breaks on the awful stillness of the hour ? Again, do we admire nothing in the gay, convivial, worldly Horace—the fanciful and luxuriant Ovid—or the subtle, metaphy sical Lucretius, but the " purity of their diction ?" It is not by their style alone that authors gain immor tality, but by their thoughts and sentiment ; and it is for their excellence in these respects, as well as for the graces of their language, that we still pay willing homage to the genius of the great writers of antiquity. " The O'Connell Case" is an account, evidently drawn up by a lawyer, of the reversal of the verdict in the Lich State Trials delivered by the House of Lords. It is rather late in the day to discuss such a question, hut it is impartially and skilfully canvassed. "My College Sketch " is a lively sketch, the dialogue por tions of which possesses ease and spirit. The " Tomb less Man" is an impressive poem, in which Delta essays a higher flight than he has yet ventured to undertake. We quote from " Marston, or the Me moirs of a Statesman," a vigorous description of the first attack on Valenciennes by the allied armies in the revolutionary year 1793 : " But in the interval, important changes were made in the formation of the columns. The French lines had been found of unexpected strength, and the Guards were pushed forward to head a grand division placed under command of General Ferrari. The British were, of course, under the immediate orders of an officer of their own, and a more gallant one never led troops under fire. I now, for the first time, saw the general who was after wards destined to sweep the French out of Egypt, and inflict the first real blow on the military supremacy of France under Napoleon. General Abercromby was then in the full vigour of life ; a strongly formed, manly figure, a quiet but keen eye, and a countenance of re markable steadiness and thought, all gave the indications of a mind firm in all the contingencies of war. Exactly at noon, the fog drew up as suddenly as it had de scended, and we had a full view of the enemy's army. No foreign force ever exhibits so showy and soldierly an appearance as the British. The blue of the French and Prussians look black, and the white of the Austrian looks faded and feeble, compared with the scarlet. As I cast my glance along our lines, they looked like trails of flame. The French were drawn up in columns in front of their camp, which, by the most extraordinary exer tion, they had covered during the night with numerous batteries, and fortified with a circle of powerful re doubts ; the guns of the fortress defended their flank and rear, and their position was evidently of the most formid able kind. But all view was lost, from the moment when the head of our brigade advanced. Every gun that could be brought to bear upon us opened at once, and all was enveloped in smoke. For a full hour we could see no thing but the effect of the grape -shot on oar own ranks as we poured on, and hear nothing but the roar of the batteries. But at length shouts began to arise in distant parts of the field, and we felt that the division which had been appointed to assault the rear of the camp was making progress. Walmoden, commanding a brigade under Ferrari, now galloped up, to ascertain whether our men were ready to assault the entrenchments. ' The British troops are always ready,' was Abercromby's ex pressive, and somewhat indignant, answer. In the in stant of our rushing forward, an aide-de-camp rode up, to acquaint the general that the column under the Duke of York had already stormed three redoubts. Gentle men,' said Abercromby, turning to the colonels round him, we must try to save our friends further trouble— forward !' Within a quarter of an hour we were within the enemy's lines, every battery was stormed or turned, and the French were in confusion. Some hurried to wards the fortress, which now began to fire ; a large body fled into the open country, and fell into the hands of his Royal Highness ; and some, seizing the boats on the river, dropped down with the stream. All was victory : yet this was to be my day of ill luck. In pur suing the enemy towards the fortress, a battalion, which had attempted to cover the retreat, broke at the moment when my company were on the point of charging them. This was too tempting a chance to be resisted ; we rushed on, taking prisoners at every step, until we ac tually came within sight of the gate by which the fugi tives were making their escape into town. But we were in a trap, and soon felt that we were discovered, by a heavy discharge of musketry from the rampart. We had now only to return on our steps, and I had just given the word, when the firing was renewed from a bastion, round which we were hurrying in the twilight. I felt a sudden shock, like that of electricity, which struck me down ; I made a struggle to rise on my feet, but my strength wholly failed me, and I lost all recollection. " On my restoration to my senses, in a few hours after, I found that I had been carried into the town, and placed in the military hospital. My first impulse was, to examine whether any of my brave fellows had shared my misfortune ; but all round me were French, wounded in the engagement of the day. My next source of congratulation was, that I had no limb broken. The shot had struck me in the temple, and glanced off with out entering ; but I had lost much blood, had been trampled, and felt a degree of exhaustion, which gave the nearest conception to actual death." NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. We are glad to meet with Miss Eliza Cook again, who contributes to the Number before us a little poem, entitled " My Old Straw Hat," in which occur a succession of pleasing, picturesque, and familiar images. " Scenes in Society" are laid in fashionable life at the West-end, and refer to the particulars of a murder, by the agency of poison, which was perpe trated on his wife by a young roue, Jack Grandison, who was anxious to have the full and uncontrolled possession of her fortune. The " First Meet of the Season" is a tale of a humorous caste, by a writer who has frequently contributed to the pages of this Maga zine, under the homely signature of "Peter Priggins." The humour, though broad, is by no means of supe rior excellence, and reminds us, as with a difference, of Theodore Hook. In the " Talleyrand Papers" there is some twaddle about the celebrated necklace affair which, it may be remembered, created such a prodigious ferment in France, a few years previously , to the breaking out of the first revolution. Talley rand's account of this affair amounts to little or no- thing, and leaves it just as great a mystery as ever. The " Outcast" is a strange story, by the Medical Student, of a young man, handsome, accomplished, and well-born, whose life is yet uniformly rendered mi4erable from the circumstance of his being a leper, and his nervous anxiety to keep this visitation a se cret from the whole world. The scene wherein the fatal discovery is at length made, is worked up with considerable skill and spirit. In " Social Piracy" there are some sketches of society in the middle grades of life. The " Robertses on their Travels" lags terri bly in places, as if the author, Mrs. Trollope, was chiefly desirous to furnish a certain amount of matter for the Magazine without regard to its quality. We quote Miss Cook's " Old Straw Hat," to which we have already alluded : Farewell, old friend, we part at last, Fruits, flowers, and summer, all are past, And when the beech-leaves bid adieu, My old straw hat must vanish too. We've been together many an hour, In grassy dell and garden bower, And plait and ribbon, scorch'd and torn, Proclaim how well thou halt been worn. We've had a time, gay, bright, and long, So let me sing a grateful song, And if one bay-leaf falls to me, I'll stick it firm and fast in thee, My old straw hat. Thy flapping shade and flying strings, Are worth a thousand close-tied things. I love thy easy fitting crown, Thrust lightly back or slouching down ; I cannot brook a muffled ear, When lark and blackbird whistle near ; And dearly like to meet and seek The fresh wind with unguarded cheek. Toss'd in a tree thou'lt bear no harm, Flung on the sod thou'lt loose no charm ; Like many a real friend on earth, Rough usage only proves thy worth, My old straw hat. The world will gaze on those who wear Rich snowy pearls in raven hair, And diamonds flash bravely out, In chesnut tresses wreathed about ; The golden bands may twine and twirl, Like shining snakes through each fair curl, And soft down with imperial grace, May bend o'er Beauty's blushing face ; But much I doubt if brows that bear The jewell'd clasp and plumage rare, Or temples bound with crescent wreath, Are half so cool as mine beneath My old straw hat. Minerva's helmet ! what of that ? Thou'rt quite as good, my old straw hat ; For I can think and muse and dream, With poring brain and busy scheme. I can inform my craving soul, How wild bees work and planets roll, And be all silent, grave and grim, Beneath the shelter of thy brim. The cap of Liberty forsooth Thou art the thing to me in truth, For slavish fashion ne'er can break Into the green paths where I take My old straw hat. My old straw hat, my conscience tells Thou hest been hung with Folly's bells, Yet Folly rings a pleasant chime, If the rogue will but " mind his time," And not come jingling on the way When sober minstrels ought to play. For oft when hearts and eyes are light, Old Wisdom should keep out of sight. But now the rustic bench is left, The tree of every leaf bereft, And merry voices, all are still, That welcomed to the well-known hill My old straw hat. Farewell, old friend, thy work is done, The misty clouds shut out the sun ; The grapes are pluck'd, the hops are off, The woods are stark, and I must doff My old straw hat—but "bide a wee,'' Fair skies we've seen, but we may see Skies full as fair as those of yore. And then we'll wander forth once more. Farewell, till drooping harebells blow, And violets stud the warm hedge-row — Farewell, till daisies deck the plain, Farewell, till spring days come again— My old straw hat. I BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. In Mr. Murray's present chapter of the " Physio logy of London Life" there occurs the following re mark, which we quote for its strict caustic truth : The delapidated habitations of the rich, abandoned by their advance in the comforts and decencies of life, degenerate into abodes of the poor. There is no such thing thought of, with all our thinking, as providing the poor with habitations fitted to their wants and means, unless they become chargeable to us as pau pers; humble industry may hide its head where it can ; so long as it is in working order we take no heed of it ; but the moment it is demoralised or de pauperised, we have the most elegant model prisons to correct it, and the most beautiful union work houses to lock it p in." The " klouse , Terrain" is Art • in4reitintf ricedunt of -hlainitifer'Sl ad-. venture in Paris, with two-thieves - Who broke into the chamber where he was sleeping, and attempted to murder him. Luckily their attempt was frustrated, and the painter escaped with a few alight wounds. The " Gaol Chaplain" contains a clever story, illus. trative of the crime of incendiarism, and the suffer ings in which it originates. The " Private Secre tary" is an interesting sketch of character by a writer who signs himself Albany Poyntz. The " Gates of Death" is an impressive narrative, by Bayle St. John, in which the horrors of the battle-field are de scribed with singular force and truthfulness. The " Fortunes of the " Seattevgood gamily" is some what prosy this month. From an articid on ff Eton Scenes and Eton Men," we subjoin a brief sketch of the Duke of Wellington when an Eton Boy . " The first and noblest character of the present age to be mentioned in connexion with Eton scones and - liton men, must be the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was an Eton boy, and if tradition may be credited, a daring and adventurous one, Ile seems to have been a lad not given to much study and painful research into books, Nature having already placed an original stamp upon him, and presented him with the highly-favoured signet of her own right hand. lle who is now familiarly called o t e n r g s the Iron DAP,' might well have been, in the earli er stages of life yclept the Iron Boy, Tnstapces of the v, w ,h a e s n ; a a r ll e th on e r g e o co od rd u a r n g d om a a m s Duke's hardiness, or rather, of young Wellesley's hardi ntheessm (as is r t e l l7ted s , im th p a ly t and thrifty tradesmen of Windsor and Eton had retired to rest, young Wellesley on the commence- mint of a cold winter's night would be proceeding up old icy Father Thames, in a lonely slsiff, to the vicinity of Maidenhead-bridge, and there, wrapt in single blank e t, and watching with single gun, he would be ready by day-break to get a shot at the wild ducks, or other wild fowl, which were qe.gllst9lned to congregate under shelter of the eyots, and other harbours of ?eft -7 on the Thames. " Every one to his taste,' a fashionably dandy will exelaiin ; but young Wellesley was no man of fashion, and his tastes Were all of the daring and z rand. When we consider the stratagem necessary ta - 'school like Eton to achieve what Wellesley did ; perhaps the speeini - $ ;Iw:quah a small window, and traversing froseri ro - of•iit 10-1-se i i e ;,;staining clandestinely the gun, and the skiff, and araintinitiOnrwitkeoneypH pi his blank e t, an d t h e nee df u l prog ; and then the (lA culty of an undiscovered return, loaded with booty. iJe,t js yhi!l; of these things, and then acknowledge in the very'biiy f'somean • • a ng von o shc o o the Fonder ful and unexa m pl e d called' oftihe Etirepbah Duke. The poet Wordsworth, another Wellington in his way, has expected, exists between the emancipated convicts, and their families and descendants (although sometimes these are the richest men in the colony) and the free emigrants and settlers. You may often see,' says Mrs. Meredith, a man of immense property, whose wife and daughters dress in the extreme of fashion and finery, rolling home in his gay carriage from his daily avocations with face, hands, and apparel as dirty and slovenly as any common mechanic. And the son of a similar character has been seen with a dozen costly rings on his coarse fingers, and chains, and shirt-pins glistening with gems, buying yet more expensive jewellery, yet without sock or stock ing to his feet, the shoes to which his spurs were at tached leaving a debatable ground between them and his trousers! Spurs and shoes are, I imagine, a fashion peculiar to this stamp of exquisites, but among them very popular.' " The market in Sydney is well supplied, and the dis play of fruit is very beautiful. This includes the pro duce of hot climates, especially all descriptions of melons. The large green water-melon, rose-coloured ithin, is a very favourite fruit, grows to an enormous size, and may be seen, piled up like huge cannon-balls, at all the fruit-shop doors, being universally admired in this hot, thirsty climate.' Mrs. Meredith, however, thought it insipid; and notices, as an improved method of eating this crisp, cool, and refreshing fruit, the mix ing a bottle of Madeira, or sherry, with its cold, watery pulp ! We recommend this new kind of sherry cob bler' to the Reform Club. " Excellent fish is to be procured at Sydney; and Mrs. Meredith had hero the good taste to prefer such to the preserved salmon and cod from England, which are alone served at a Sydney dinner-tkble. Rock-oysters and tray-fish are also abundant and good. " The dust is one main source of annoyance at Syd ney. Unless after heavy rain, it is always dusty. One would suppose the phrase of Down with the dust !' must have originated in the colony; but this Mrs. Mere dith does not mention. Flies are another nuisance; they swarm in every room, in tens of thousands, and blacken the breakfast or dinner table as soon as the viands ap pear. But worse than these, are the musquitoes, whose bite, Mrs. Meredith, on two different occasions, describes as being mountainous,' and their attacks so persevering, as to be always more or less successful. These fierce as sailants are also aided in their nocturnal invasions by still worse, and thrice disgusting creatures;' to say no thing of flew, which seem to pervade the colony in one universal swarm.' _ " The Cumberland hunt have a tolerable pack of hound?, and the destructive native dog, or dingo, serves them for a fox; and this is often a bagged dog ! " There are several rival and mutually abusive papers published in Sydney, where there is, also, a public li brary; but literature appears to be at discount; for the gentlemen,' says Mrs. Meredith, are to busy, or find a cigar more agreeable than a book; and the ladies, to quote the remark of a witty (?) friend, ' pay more at tention to the adorning of their heads without, than within.' " " The Revelatio ns AINS WO RTH' S MAGAZINE. The present p or ti on of Mr. Ai nswor th's new tale, of London , " commences with a sketch of the w e ll-k nown R o okery in St. Giles's, which is full of vigour, and minute to a degree in point of detail. I n a dingy cell in the very heart of this notorious spot—which, by the bye, has no longer an existence—a brace of foot-pads and a dog-fancier are represented as indulging in a carouse, and dis cussing between whiles the numerous pecuniary ad vantages by which the honourable profession of dog stealing is recomme n d e d. Th e di a l ogue th a t t a k es place between these _congenial spirits is in the low flash style of their calling—of which we have had enough, and more than enough, in our modern fictitious literature—but we cannot compliment Mr. Ai n F t w o rth*n the , success with which he has acquitted himself. The conversations of his ruffians want truthfulness, and that inimitable ease which Dickens knows so well how to impart to such subjects. " A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla" is in Mr. Leigh Hunt's liveliest and most graceful manner, and f u rnishes us with some delightful gossip about bees, and the way in which they conduct the affairs of their commonwealth. in the morning," says our essayist, " the bee has probably been at the break fast- table in the shape of honey ; in the evening she _is the wa xen taper ; in the summer-noon, a voice in .the g a rd en o r the window ; in the winter, a nd at all other times, we meet with her in books. She talks Greek to us in 0 0 enciep ap4 Theocritus; Virgil's very best Latin, in is 'Georgics ; and besides all her charming asso ciations with the poets in general, one of the Eliza bethan men has made a whole play out of her—a play in which the whole dramatis persong are bees l" jn the above passage a common-place is invested almost with novelty . by the graceful fashion in which it is turned, 1 , s 'Outer Wanderings " describes the results of some archeological researches made by Mr. Francis Ainsworth, among the more unfrequented districts of Asia Minor. Doomed to Disappointment" is a chatty little essay, in which occur one or two of such home truths as occasionally delight and surprise us in the quaint pages of ohl ATTlttOgne—the rflpied gossips, the most welcome of egotists. The " Country Curate " is an entertaining tale from the pen of Mr. pha r les Qllier. ;In the ,clitor's tale of" St, japes'N" which is fast drawing towards a close, we find an ae., ccunt of the final quarrel between Queen Anne and the puphesg of Mailboroggh t whose Characters have been sustained throughout the narrative with very commendable consistency. The sketch entitled "New South Wales " gives us an opportunity of quoting the subjoined description of its capital, Sydney:— t! Geovge:sLreet, it OPPeaN is OP Voll7mali a gya, ney, and up and down its s h ot, dusty, glaring, weary length, go the fair wives and daughters of the citizens, enjoying their daily airing.' Long strings of carriages fro 115?. scien traversing it, or waiting near the fashion able einpoilunai,''that'heidg *the - tarn in 'which Austrit- Han shopkeepers especially delight. No 'lady 'in Sydney (your grocers, and butchers' wives included) be lizves in the possibility of walking ; but the turn dito Motley 4rt appeorq4eo, a, p atp zilgeil wanting in well-appointed eqpipaVsj lire fre quently innocent of hammercloths; and the horses are generally undersized, and terribly out of proporuon with the Carriage behind 41,:strotO hnC of denu might . trcation ? tts , naturally be tion of razor-grinding. He was old, and, if his habili- ES THERE ONE LAW FOR THE meats and general appearance offered any evidence of RICH AND ANOTHER FOR THE POOR ? his means and resources, poverty stricken in the extreme. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. A darned, tattered, and faded soldier's coat, bereft of its Sui,—The following cases were reported in The Sun skirt, and which now, in its cm-tailed state came under of Saturday last—bath prisoners were described as the denomination of a spenser, hung upon his shoulders, moving in the same class of life : a-id seemed as . - nuch disposed to drop from them as to THAMES POLICE-OFFICE, 'UNION-lIALL POLICE- OFFICF., remain in its doubtful position. His legs were barely ocr. 25, 1844. OCT. 25, 1844. protected from the glance of the passer-by in a pair of (Before Mr. lallantine.) (Betbre Mr. Traill.) trousers frayed almost to the knees, and his feet were Donald Wilkinson was Edward Faithful was scarcely capable of forming a union with the soleless and charged with assaulting, I chargt d with assaulting, dilapidated shoes in which their owner shuffled on his with intent, &c., Sarah An- with intent, , Alice Sarah way. A worn and greasy foraging-cap placed jauntily derson, aged 14 (a servant i Nott, aged 17 (daughter of on one side of his head, almost as devoid of hair as the of all-work), committed for a retired tradesman), corn back of his brown and bony hands, completed his unpre- trial, but admitted to bail, witted for trial, but admitted possessing costume ; but notwithstanding its lack of at- himself in security for 40/., ito bail, himself in security tractions, there was an air about the wearer which gave and two other parties for i for 504, and two other par note that he had seen far better days, and afforded more 20/. each.—Total amount of ties for 2501. each.—Total than a probability that he had known how battles were bail, 801. amount of bail, 1,0001. lost and won. His features were hard and contracted, Your police report does not give a satisfactory state and his gray eye-brows sprouted in thick wiry bristles mew, to account for the apparent discrepancy in the over a pair of as bright and twinkling eyes as ever glis- amount of bail required in the two cases. Will you be toned in human sockets. Deeply marked and wrinkled kind enough to favour your readers with a solution of were his cheeks ; but from his iron frame, still well-knit that which, at present, appears to be, Sir, with thews and sinews, it would seem that hardship and Ilfracombe, Oct. 28, 1844. AN ENIGMA ? suffering had more to do with the stamps than the sap consuming band of time. " Quickly he turned the wheel of his machine, and the sparks flew as he held against the stone a pair of rusty and blunt scissors which he was endeavouring to whet to a keen edge. Now and then he stopped the bur-r-r of his work to examine the efFacts of his progress in the task, and after trying the edge of the instrument of the sensitive and fleshy part of his dexter thumb, he renewed his labour. " In the gleam of sunshine streaming on a patch of rank grass, some three or four yards from the itinerant sharpener of a diversity of domestic tools, a bobbed-tail, wiry Scotch terrier squatted. It must be confessed, in the graphic language of an eminent dealer in the canine race, that he looked " a varmint." More refined diction would not convey an apt description of this constant com panion of the razor-grinder. Short, crisp, and staring was each hackle upon his body, which in colour com bined the hue of a grimy brown and an undecided black, not dissimilar to a❑ impenetrable London fog. His ears had been clipped to a sharp point, and the ornament to his rear docked to the only joint remaining. His front legs were unproportionably less in length than his hind ones, and were so immeasurably bandy, that more than once a cat, or some such object of attack, had slipped between them, in doubling from his evil intentions of committing grievous bodily harm. And what was the creature gifted with life that he would not attack? From a bull to a butterfly he was ever ready to tilt, and, in deed, run a-muck at everything that he might meet. To growl and snap at the fleeing legs—although slow in flight withal—of an old woman, as he trudged through a village, gave him special gratification ; 'and as he re turned to the side of his master, who conceived a secret pleasure at this delinquency, equal to the apparent one of his favourite, the last remains of his tail would wag with a demonstration of delight inadmissible of doubt. Then to set a group of children squalling, or to fix his fangs in the ear of a truant pig, was unsurpassable diversion; and whenever these legitimate objects of his pleasures were wanting, he consoled himself with the less exciting oc cupation of barking at vacancy with a power of incre dible magniture. In truth, the intervals were few and far between When this unexampled dog was not using his best engetivours to render himself as superlative a nuisance tis his many accomplishments rendered him capable Accounts from Kensington Palace announce the death of the Hon". Miss Wynyard, who, it will be recol lected, was for many years bedchamber woman and con stant companion of her late Royal Highness Princess Augusta. The deceased, who was in her 71 st year , was third daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Wynyard. She was deservedly esteemed by the whole of the Royal Family, and apartments were allotted to her in Ken sington Palace shortly after the death of the Princess Augusta. The Lord Chancellor has appointed eleven velock on Saturday morning next, to signify her Majesty's ap probation of the Lord Mayor elect; afterwards the. Lord Chancellor will give to the Judges, Sc , the usual first day of term breakfast. Each ceremony will take place at his Lordship's residence in George-street. THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.I4EASES.—A corre spondent informs us that Lord Weston lets about 50 acres at Kelvedon, in F,lsex, worth, to farm, 255. to 395. per acre, at 41. to 5/. per acre, in half acres or acres. A piece at Dedham-heath is let to poor people at 4/. per acre, worth 12:;. Lord Stanley (says our correspondent) recommends long leases. His Canada Corn Bill, last year, brought in 25,000 barrels of flour and 20,000 bushels of wheat : this year about 400,000 barrels of flour and 300,000 bushels of wheat; and I think the quan tity will be doubled for some years to come. Much will be smuggled, and lower the prices, it at this time only paying Z9;toi per barrel ; while he and his Tory friends tell the farmers they are protected with a duty of 20s. per quarter. Who would take a lease with the present prospects ? ON THE OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.— And the Royal Exchange was opened. The Queen was feasted in all queenly glory. The cons of Commerce— that is, the elder sons—did all that in their pockets lay to honour and be honoured. Her Majesty looked around her, and saw hundreds of men with the revenues of princes, and all paid by trade. She saw, as we have slid, the elder sons of Commerce in the triumph, and flush, and fulness of their wealth. There they were, in that magnificent temple reared to their greatness. What a glorious gathering ! how full and complete the satis faction ! Nothing—no tittle—was wanting to the na- tional triumph. Yes—we think—one thine. It may be thought sullen, carping in us to suggest a fault. We can nut help it. Even though Laurie deem us cynical, it shall out. The elder sons of Commerce ! And where, we ask, were the younger ones ; they, the brethren doomed, with treble toil, to a starveling patri mony? Why was there not a deputation—a chosen few, just one small table full—from the sons of labour—yea, and from the daughters too? Some score or so of the toilsome hands, without whom England's Royal Exchange would be of no more account than a Temple of the Winds ? Surely it could not have marred the glory of the picture, but rather—properly disposed— have blended, an harmonious whole, to have had a few— just a few—of those whose sweat is, after all, the only gold of your prince merchant. It would have been pleasinte b to see this ; to mark the touching acknowledg ment of plethoric wealth to toiling poverty. It was, doultless, a goodly sight to the Queen to behold the mer ' chants, each the owner of a navy. Would her eye have frowned had she also seen—as a representative of his class—one drudging ship-porter, only one, with his equals in labour, at the lowest table ? We think such a group would have added finish to the picture; but the Com mittee had, doubtless, better judgment. Yet, would such a homely party have had a use; for, like skeletons at an. Egyptian revel, it might have mutely preached to mer chant princes one common humanity. However ; at the opening of the next New Exchange—yes, in the year 2844—a1l this may perhaps be altered.—Punch. Westminster-bridge is again opened to the public. The acclivity of the carriage-way has been reduced in the centre, and the hollows filled up both on the Middle sex and Surrey ends, particularly the latter, previously so dangerous, and it now assumes a gradual inclination, almost as level as Waterloo-bridge ; while a similar ope ration has been performed on the footway, and which, being now much higher than the real, the foot passen gers are protected from danger by strong wooden posts, through the top of which passes a continuous line of long iron bars, all danger from falling into the road being thereby prevented. Mr. Richard Radcliffe, many years Town-clerl of Liverpoel, died on Friday night at Leamington. DREADFUL DEATII OF A CHILD BY FlRE.—Late last evening Mr. Higgs held an inquest tte St. George's Hospital, on the body of Abraham al‘lionald, aged five years and a half, whose parent, a widow, resides at No. 12, James-street, Kensington. It appeared by the evidence of a man named Welker that, on Tuesday evening, a little after seven, he was passing through the above street, when he saw a burning mass rolling on the pavement, and directly after a child's moans proceeded from it. He went to it, and found it to be deceased with all his clothes on tire, and nearly burned off. With assistenee he extinguished the fire, and the child having been first seen by Dr. Merriman, of Kensington-square, it was removed to that hospital, in which it died in a few hours. The mother of deceased said she had only left her room to fetch some beer, and thought the accident was caused by the child endeavouring to take some pota toes from a saucepan on the fire. Verdict, " Accidental ' death." FARTIIINGS AND HALF^FARTHINGS.---It was men tioned in this paper some months ago, that a coinage of half-farthings was in preparation ; and we may now state that a specimen of this new issue from the Mint has found its way to this quarter. On Saturday last, the treasurer of a yearly society in town received three packets from an absent member, one containing four penny-pieces, another farthings alone, and the third half-farthings, the last being all new and beau tiful as when issued from the Mint—the whole being in payment of his dues. The eccentric remit tance excited no small merriment amongst the mem bers. Although it was done perhaps in jest, it recalls serious considerations. For a long time past farthings have been in dissuetude in Dundee, for no other purpose, apparently, than to saddle purchasers of provisions and other articles with a serious tax. In all other places this useful coin is a legal tender, but our shopkeepers, very knowingly for themselves, hale abo lished them altogether. The consequences are obvious— their gain in the course of a single year is immense ; for a poor man who lays out Is. for his day's provisions loses about 2d. by buying in small quantities. In illustration of this, a purchaser of a quartern loaf pays aid e for a half quartern ho pays 331—a farthing going into the baker's pocket. Salt butter is 9d. per lb, but be who buys a ilb. is charged 24d., or at the rate of 10d. per lb. Snuff was Iformerly lid. per half ounce, it is now lid. to ac commodate the retailer. If this inquiry were further pursued, it would be found, that on many articles is the farthing exacted. It is really the business of the public to look into this matter, and no longer submit to be gulled. Now that half-farthings are issued, let these as STRIKE AMONG THE FACTORY well as farthings be put into circulation, and let the HAND-LOOM WEAVERS. working man have the full benefit of his hard-won earn- We regret to find, that in consequence of a dis- ings. In England half-farthings are now current, and in all the towns in Scotland, we believe, except Dundee, pute betwixt the hand-loom factory weavers and their farthings are so. Why should the retailers of this town employers, in this city, not fewer than 700 of the be thus allowed to defraud the lieges ?—Dundee former are, at this moment, going idle. Qf the Advertiser, nature of the quarrel which has arisen betwixt the T ilt SCOTT MONUMENT.—On Saturday this splen mastera and the workmen we know nothing, beyond did monument of genius was completed by the placing what was stated at a meeting of the latter, held In of its topmost stone on the structure. On its being Nelson-street Chapel on Friday evening, Mr. Ito- fairly placed in its position, the workmen greeted it with bertson, who was on this occasion called to the chair, three hearty cheers, and the Union flag was displayed explained that the weavers had addressed a circular to from it daring the remainder of the day. In the course their employers, craving an advance of ninepence on of the afternoon a number of the Committee, and other the piece of 60 yards. This circular, he observed, not citizens, went to the top, hoisted up through the main being satisfactorily answered, a second was s e r v ed scaffolding by the steam engine. A bottle of brandy was also draw n up, and the fires glass dedieated to this chef upon the masters, in which it was stated, that if th e d'txuvre of architecture—" The Monument to Sir Walter advance was not agreed to, those who r e fused would, Sctt.' The building is now 200 feet from the level or on Monday,, the 7th current, " hazard the loss of their princes -street, and about 3 feet above the spire of St. workmen." Two firms, viz., those of Messrs. Gilmour Andrew's Church. It has been entirely built by six and Kerr, and Messrs. David M'Michael and Co., ad- masons, four of whom have been employed upon it from vaned 6d. on the piece of sixty yards, but the others first to last. The joiner work of the main scaffolding, did not follow their example. The workmen of Mr. which has been much admired, was put up under the King, not finding their wishei complied with, struck direction of Mr. Lhind, the contractor, by one man. work; when certain other manufacturers gave no- There has not been the slightest accident during the whole progress of the building ; and in the courseof be a tire, that unless Mr. King's men returned, they would, on the following day, turn out all their hands. few dad's a iconsiderableThere part l o u f e itilletosbctestdroolndeing. will however. In consequence of this intimation a meeting of the operatives was held, when it was resolved that as Mr. taken n- e the monument onumenet is l still mp m letely out of the hands of the builders. In connexion with this subject, we may King's men had left off work without the advice or de which contains the mention that the vessel at Lei request of the general body, " they left them at marble block for the Scott statue, was on Saturday liberty to return to their employment as soon as they brought up to Mr. Maxton'.: yard,—Edinburgh Ad - pleased." This resolution was not considered satin- 7:eraser. factory to the masters, and five firma turned out all DANGE ROUS 13 .ITF _ FROM A HAT. — On WedneWaV their weavers, to the tit inher of 700. m ornin g , about three o'clock, the family of Mr. Reelerici, proprietor of an ale and stout, house, at th.e corner of In this state a matters, the public meeting of the th wet ls• bridge-road and Union-street, were much fact pxy weavers to which we have referred, and at stloicti alarmed owing to one of his children and himself being which the above statement was made, was held on severe ly bitten during the night by a rat. The c hild, a Friday evening, when resolutions were carried to the little girl about three years old, was lying in a cot ad effect, that the dismissal of the men for not exercising joining b ee father's bed. The latter heard the child a power over Mr. King's men which they did not scream several times in the night, and exclaim " Don't." possess, was shameless, tyrannical, and cruel ; that The latter being uneasy for so me tim e - was - -taken into the factory weavers, being miserably underpaid, were her father's bed, where she also kept on crying for some entitled to an advance; that the general body of the time. About three o'clock Mr. Roderick was awoke by weavers were Ur a. unconcerned in the strike of Mr, King's something biting his fore-fi nger on hi s right hand, in , • dreadful and had no control over them; and that, ' asmanner. He immediately got up, and having men, - procured found the bed clothes covered with ployment were willing to return to their work, if blood, w which was flowing from one of the child's earl., permitted (leaving King's men to be guided by their i f, which was dreadfully bitten, as was also his own finger. own judgment), they were not blameable for being On searching the bed an immense rat was discovered, idle, bnt ware compelled to be so by the will of menu- which after some trouble was destroyed. Both the factoring capitalists; and they consequently eleexued wcamds on the child's car and Mr. lioderiels's finger are it a duty to make immediate application to th e autho-in a very painful s t a t e . 1 hies of the city for e - ,:i4ployra9rit, .T nE E XCIIANGiE BELLS, --'l l :,k smallest (or highest 1 1 4 air; )ye V§oluOong were carried I toned) bell in 1 4 Innlr.' of the Royal Exchange is B unanitnolialy qlasgow. Argus of Monday. .. .. , at, and not Ffi t - •td by mistake on Monday. .. a., so Fin c 1 ' rk actual compass is from E flat, third space in the --.777see e -se e zee.-=,mA -e A ---- A 1:0 . V'. off \Y : 'WA AW 01,u•—• i bass, to B flat, on the third line in the treble stave, ' "ifq. 'l . sa4sUClai IR I)." ' _,LABL—A few days I comprising twelve notes of the diatonic scale, in the toyton-1.-- - ...., employment of Mr. J. Holden, I key of E flat, with A natural and 1) flat in addition, as -..e mill, received, without- solicitation, an ad- accidental or casual . notes, 1 vane of Bd. per 1,000 hanks.—Manchester Guardian. ruble of playing tunes irender the so as to in the keys of E, B or A flat. DUBLIN. , UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The first article, in the present Number of this Magazine is headed " Twaddling Tourists in Ireland," and is severe—and hot altogether unjustly so—on divers and sundry volumes of trash that have lately been published on the subject of the sister country. The absurdities, and gross misrepresentations, arising from ignorance, of a recent German traveller, who strolled through,lreland in the Repeal year, are spe cially held up to ridicule, and never was ridicule better applied than in this particular case. " Etruria" is a critical notice, accompanied by numerous extracts, of Mrs. Hamilton's clever antiquarian work on this subject. The " National System of Education" is a skilfully reasoned essay, though in places it evinces somewhat too much of a party bias. Some of the writer's suggestions are well worthy the consideration of Government. " Major Lynch's Journal of a Residence among the Ghilzies in 1839" contains some graphic sketches of character and scenery. " Glimpses in the Mountains" is a wild, desultory article, but by no means devoid of fancy. We sub - join one of the poems with which it is interspersed : Coward heart and failing limb, Drowsy sluggard of the earth, Where the sun and stars arc dim— Come where Hope and Love have birth ! Like the embers from the earth, Like the blossoms from the tree, Plenty there decays to dearth, Death from Life is hunting thee. Here are Fancy's purpled hills, Here Ambition's towers of gold. Earthly fountain never fills Streams like those our vallies hold, Down in every mountain fold They go apparelled from the sun— Faltering heart awake, be bold, And the heritage is won. When the dew of boyhood's dawn At the kindling morn of Youth, Rose in glorious dreamings gone, Here they settled into truth ; Never Time's devouring tooth Gnaws the bud or fruitage here ; Here, enchanted, gentlest Ruth Holds her urn without a tear. There thou art a silly slave, Shepherd Conscience pens thee in, From the cradle to the grave, Trembling for the old wolf, Sin. Hero thy golden years begin, Wolf and flock together play; No more frets the shepherd's din, Nor his angry dogs all day. Wealth shall trouble thee no more; House, or raiment, food, or drink. Wish—and ere the wish is o'er, Teems around the fountain's brink Fruit of boughs that never shrink From the cold calamity. Labour here is but to think, And the God-like hand is free. Would'st thou utter noble thought— It is uttered ere it rise, By no wasting watching brought; O'er the blushing earth it lies, Like the rosy dawning skies; Genius stirs the trembling grass, Weeps from out the violet's eyes, Fills the breezes as they pass. Here the heart can find its brother, As the blossom finds the dew, And another and another, Like the flowers that spring anew; And the free life passes through, Like the wind-sigh through the tree. Dream of Love, and is it true; When thou wak'st, embracing thee. When the heart would utter love On that frustrate earth below, The stumbling tongue in vain would move, As deep as love it cannot go. Here to and fro thy life doth flow, Breathing the immortal hours; And the thoughts, unspoken, grow On the leaves and on the flowers. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Fraser is less amusing this month than usual. The Number opens with a "Fine Day at Stratford-upon- Avon," wherein the writer gives an account of his departure from London on a pilgrimage to the birth place of our greatest dramatist. The article is some what of the heaviest, being chiefly taken up with dull antiquarian details respecting Shakspeare, &c. The " Smiths" is a passable story, and refers to sundry passages in the lives of a family of that name who dwelt at Brompton. It might have been curtailed with advantage. " Prichard's Natural History of Man" is a notice of a very able work recently pub lished, in the course of which the Reviewer makes a striking extract from one of Mr. Hope's latest pro du:tions describing the physical and mental pecu liarities of a race of dwarfs who reside in some of the islands of Polynesia, and bear the closest possible ap proximation to the baboon. " Military Tableaux" is a spirited description of the achievements of the Prussian Brandenburgh Hussars in the tremendous campaigns of 1813 and 1814. In the essay headed " Hints on the Modern Governess System,'.' we meet with some serviceable practical suggestions respecting the education which the majority of females in the middle classes receive now-a-days. " Scotland and England" is a review of Mr. Kohl's recent volumes of travels in these countries, and corrects some mistakes into which the German tourist has fallen respecting Edinburgh. Our readers may perhaps be pleased with the following pleasing little poem on the subject of the " Opening of the Royal Exchange :" " In the heart of the City, When Mammon lay still In the Sleep of Night's silence, (llush'd Word and hush'd Will!) When the garner'd gold rested Untouch'd and unturn'd, And in hard chests of iron Man's wealth lay inurn'd! " When London had pass'd all His crowds to the West, And the Spirit of Commerce Grew dull in its rest; When the haunts of the merchant No sharp echoes woke; From the heart of the City The flame-tempest broke. " It rose on its grar.d wings In strength and in ire, Up, up to the red sky, The beautiful fire! It screamed and it crackled In column and flake, Till up-leaped the great city Alive and awake! " In the temple of Dives The flame-monarch stood With bright eyes of saffron And red limbs of blood; And as the walls crumbled Beneath his great tread, The millions came round him And shriek'd as he spread! " Too grand and too awful, Too vast in dismay, In the arms of the flame-king The gold temple lay; As swift and as sure Was his wreck, as the wave, Till the reeking red Mammon Lay hot in his grave! " Old London! grand London! Low, low in the dust Thy proud Commerce watcheth Her pride and her lust! Thy tryst place of lucre Hath shrunk from the eye, And blacken'd or bleaching Its dead embers lie! " What, ho! for a Phoenix To come with new flame, Up, up from those ashes To beauty and fame!— To stand on that dark spot In glory and pride, And call back the City Again to its Bride! " They bring the sharp chisel, They hue the white stone, They make the crane rattle, They oil the black hone; They rear the high scaffold, They climb, and they run: Lo! again a grand temple Mounts up to the sun; " The Temple of Dives Once more hath its priests; They will deck it with trophies, And crown it with feasts! To-day a grand pageant Will honour their band When the king-merchants crowd round The Queen of the Land! " Come Queen and come Consort In pomp and in pride,— Come nobles Old London Now weds his new Bride Fair plentiful Commerce (Gold strewed on her way), In his grand palace temple Of riches to-day " In wealth and in honour, In pride and in state, In envy and wonder, They watch and they wait. Now the pageant is ended The million may roam, And royal Old Mammon Again hip lime I" TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Tait's political article is very brief and meagre this month, which is pot to be wondered at, when we con sider the present aspect of affairs. In whatever di rection we turn our eyes, all is dull, lifeless apathy. Ireland—an unusual thing with her —scarcely gives a stir to convince us that she exists ; and in tngland, Chartism, Radicalism, Whiggism, and all other isms and schisms are as dull and tranquil as the grave. In the dearth of subjects more congenial to his taste;, our Utilitarian friend Tait alludes to c' Young England," which he does in a spirit highly creditable to his sense of justice. "We cannot," he says, "in view of some of the recent proceedings of this party, refuse them credit fora sympathy with the people, and a mental independence which must, ere long, produce something very much better than WI ; yet 4ppared in theirVarliamintary votes and speeches. Their late visits to the seats of democracy and manufactures can scarcely be interpreted as a pledge to go on withhold ing the working man's franchise and taxing 11 . 4 tread," This is certainly a logical 4e,p4fi4r. from the opinions hithertoreainiained by - Young England. "A Teacher's Journal" is interesting chiefly from the apparent truth and reality of its descriptions. In the criticism entitled " Recent Poetry,". justice is done to 'the Cx qui:site pyocinction'g .of ' Miss ' liLirrkt—the most thoughtful female writer of the da y . lye,, _find in the present chap ters of Mr. Mills's novel, Our Hearth and Homestead," the following portrait of a try r^,;or- t .rinder and iiis doll, whiCh wears the 1 c,oup .! . . 1 appearance of having been drawn direct from life - :- 7 - " In a green lane, flanked by two high and sloping banks, on which the nrickly br;u', 4 l..:, and s'ioo,)us'n flourished, with many a Rower horn tip' bloom uh,§egn ; a Ulan Was indititrlotil envied lA' N u va iii e a„,„„.