The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-07 00:00:00

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The , n wag in covenaet upon an indenture, dated 29 li ';11117, 1841, made between Thomas George Peiteolt-, " e " ,T l ' of "hien the defendants were e xtreutore, 14 ,.." ,'" I:tair.t el, and by which the ley;; try i t !' etLett ter the p, cupiary consideration of 55. t ` -'fir several th i annuities or . 31, each, three for i -e ' l6 of the plaintiff, and one for the lite of the " l atl himself ; and these annuities were to be charged gti lands tit the counties - of Monmouth, Brecon, Gloucee te r, and Hereford. The defeedants were sued for eleven hall And i set ~''- ' 4 3 . Payments of these annuities; and the defence (111-13 ia, that the indenture had been fraudulently ":"li culli t'ivele male for the purpose of splitting and . tig the interest in divers houses and land ieeu Phillpot the elder and Philpott th ,, e , )ortinger, in order to increase the number ef vo t t o . r the t ile ' election of Members of Parliament not made ehre'lld counties, and that the indenture was thee e "" ti t file, or for any valuable consideration, _and . - .) p a or interest passed b • it beneficially to the Plsititiff. The Learned Counsel now coet-nd,d that this * li. ks v il answer to the action. The question turned upon lig: eottsfruction to be plane t ] on the 7th and Bth to },, re 11l , chap. 2s, which regulated the election of le: I , f " ',l Parliament, and the 10th Anne, c. 23, which . fr t‘ e s „,‘_ ll , t nifd, " Au Act for more elf ctually preventing the " e 'ut conveyances in, order to multiply votes fur jest I , l ",tion of Knights of the Shire. The sub eeeticl"er4l • P revi ously 10, en brouht under from :the atton e t the Court by e appeals fnd!,!tion 3 of the barristers, and the Cour_t_w 3s a i s . de. feel a that vvhere there was some pecuniary . co p4 4 ,: i1 1 i abd a sale, the interest granted was entitled to and t hou h gh the avowed object was to multiply votes; Rayt at the right to vote existed, and was not take Rtj, L b Y the. provisions of the statutes mentioned. That Nee I"" decision in the case of " Alexander, eppellant, v. le27lllll'', respondent," reported in 2,1 2 B. Reports, P. pebriiveileititotiihto) Learned Counsel coot .nded that though the of , ~ . the L^gielature was to discourage the practice . g votes, that was to be accomplished by d i e vend i e lg th e vendor of the property made over to the trea t :: e nd by subjecting him to a penalty; but who,t thee e fi;e i asined M the possession of the vendee, Ttl e r, P ° ll ld not be deprived of his right to vote. `-'I4IIIT granted a rule. L A (Si , -. 1 4 ,, L , COURT. —(THIS DAY.) Q UEE N S in Banco, before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) )11r, 14 t' SO UTH•EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. t he iss a ` l 9 ° _ ° .ctus applied to the Court for a ru a lehisifor acti ng 4t uvtcr!l mandamus directed to the justice of Kent, it euire sitd . lugham Special Sessions, in that county, It%ii w Ing illein to try an appeal crate the South•E!stern . k iriatC r Y , - e ere e PttuY against a poor-rate of the parish of Ju te i - ''. me Lie of Thanet, made on the 1 motion ditch: ' 49 . The affidavits filed in support of the te wes made aerlhese facts: —In October, 1848, a poor-rate reap t he li e et ' the company in respect of three miles re sp ,, et i ugete li ne, on an assessment of 1,5001, and in re e f 500/ ° l t 3 e . l ie Mile of the Deal branch on an assessment Ile eo l ei ug in each case at the rate of 5001. per i that i t 'Noy appealed against this rate, on the ground t he "," "teessive but it was ultimately agreed with do Pariah aUthoritie; that the appeal should be abahn limns ° 4 ll the Understanding that the rateable value of the and that line should be reduced from 500/.t02,00/. per ra figur es ~°f the Deal branch from 5001. to 1001., at which *hi g h 'ne rating was to stand until a case was decided .h Suse o:a6 pending in the Queen's Bench, and whic Sotre - e7 e f . a similar excess of rating of that part of the .h cf w Warn, Railway which passes through the pans tiler B e e ttrs The point to be settled by the case was, the er the company were to be assessed according to teeitsa earnings per mile of the entire line, as the lieeß,ses contended they ought, or only according to the t hi ked fr Mile of each section of the railway as i !leett I rough each particular parish. The case has I tl re l . gui e lli-Y t lt u r g i u t. ed but as et the Court has given no N otwithstanding the agreement early rt9slellas Prevenbehind' the parish in question made a liew d th e rat ll'ent th hack of the company, and . raise br esch e to the original figure ; but no sooner did this Parly th ° ,,,l s g°d faith come to the knowledge of the corn ea tha n tile d appealed again against the rate, but the e s tae top took an objection that the appeal eler etti ? late, which the Court of Quarter Sessio t %e ar , e ie Roth sides then agreed a second time tha bdesisrolitelailns.houlabe adjourned from time to time till the qt.,' ad. he 1 vest Bear case could be known, and se the dee.?ernments accordingly did take place; but after R e p e als l'iOn et ' this Court, in a Lancashire case, that e, tio must be made at the first sessions after the pub to ti m e of a rate, the legal advisers of the parish went and f rl l e etions, in violation of all previous arrangements, Ptt itY, r ll e l l the magistrates, without hearing the corn too hteJ)pluss the appeal on the ground that it came a ppeal t*, It was to compel the magistrates to hear this i_p.natthe present mandamus was required. oralleattou granted. of t:r._Court afterwards sat at Nipi Prins, and disposed 'trill undefended causes. -,, .. COURT. —(THIS TtIi:oWCIETIEB.--:-.CANNAN AND ANOTHER V. P h A e C s K a E m rt e 'sllNEitl'FFs'------- DAY.) note. Defendant an action by the same plaintiff on t note. 4 4 n i e tadant Pleaded that he did not make the l ign e " nattled Jackson proved that defendant e the note The defend es to how ethfeaan;itooeannAeistotiraineatey cross-examined the witness t i th .t e . o b uou_ks paid iw b h u i t ch th h e e w w it a n s es s s ec h r a e d ta n r3 o , Iliehsa.gdh notice had e eeen y se o rved on plaintiff's attorney. . I :e d ,l ei re that vv eeri the money was paid he deducted 15s. oft.the tint'e months' interest, but admitted that in default 'feeler, instalment they could have claimed all. Z e e enda e y 4 onthoLt„ndeu tha a t tto t r h n e ey m t t h e e re n st addressed the jury, was paid for tw ll e t iv e t lPir '1 : at id that the action could not be brought t rayall:itlen of that time, although the note was Th e t _seven dries after filet date. . jury till l reuh e l ' r ued UNDER-SHERIFF said the at themselves withthe law which the a -sated, t t otily pi e e n tl he might be right or wrong, for mhaedree thethe este -1 1 - r e Was whether or not the defendant they hT - -4 .; t P ab r iT: s h y e t h h o e se rules. t o go to these loan societies Itertii,tilerY asked whether they were bound to give a Te e t rur the full amount.. %eat b ut b Elt SHERIFF said there was no plea of pay twit t h e ' Pl4ißtiff* gave credit for 21. He had said he . - , I thd t the Payments ought to be indorsed on the bill `. I`6, —tl aly in the society's books. Ni sh - Jur) , gave a verdict for the balance, and de - Steese:t's attorney slid he should apply to the Court T hi eA,N.NAN AND ANOTHER V. BERGERY. diet wasas an a c ti on against a second party, and a ver. given for plaintiff. 0° W-STREET. —(THIS DAY.) 0, ilticlin flowell alias Reynolds , aged 30 years, w! seire ee , , , t . re t ::,"' °eters, Alr. Hall with stealing a metal inkstand Sir $e niineral department of the British Museum.. tu. tieel,tstileory Ellis, the principal librarian of!leio e s e tt be- I laif o f t i:P ( ' l l the, bench?' to watch the proceedings e trustew. .1 . 0 kureluePh Sholver, an attendant engaged at the British be - 13', said—Yesterday shortly before four o'clock, was stand ing near the door in the grand central saloon, in to have soneethin bulky vtlebhseenryt heibserved the prisoner approaching him, He The pri public 311 had l iaited the institution for the last four for bein his coat pocket. days, and witness had occasion to speak to him TL ere ing In Places where the public were not admitted. o r. lied been several robe in the institution lat- J e lY. The prisoner passed on to 8 the new gallery, when ! suddenly placed loeltets were of an inkstand, and at noticed the impres pressedia bands behind him, and his coat Witness then noti th poke to another atteandP itnes s a O ri r t ti 3 O a n nd of to it ld in h watch h im is te poeket. st ably, until until he obtained the assistance of a con -14.1.,. The prisoner was elose to them, and must have the : o.what be said, fir he instantly turned round, nolle.(1,, his inkstand from his pocket, and asked the attendant it Lieri te Te was Linger& Th e name of Li ngeri e was t i upon the inkstand, but the witness could not ac the , tu i4 the name being upon it. The inkstand bore The of the institution. pt,it;_Prisoner said he could not put the inkstand in . hie . ateed:', 48 they were too shallow. He found the Tie I/4 '041 ) 11 : d Hayes , the second attendant, was the first r. MALL met to give it to. It e, committed the prisoner for trial. had been • 43 after f felony. u Was eusto wards ascertained that the prisoner (19 Previously on a charge e 111:e4Ittit rs — THIS DAY.) 1 . .ita ttee 1 1 11 "' -STREET--( d m an, was breens•—eCheries ici a respectably-dress! kiobe l c LY A SECRETARY OF I FREDIABONS' *4'l" befor e sa h e . r. Binghamfor valuable jewels and Sil ver 4 10g stolen a quantity of _ n.a re-examination, charged eeuie Ltrtieles from the box of the Prince of Wales Ma- St. Jatee,,:.der'e, held at the Thatched-house Tavern , Ist,. street, tehderci9rasse, 'solicitor, who at s tyler of the 'br the prosecution, said the prisoner wa No. 13, Harley-street, ThetchPerdinice of Wales Freemasons ' Lodge , held at the act es -noose Tavern. The duties of tyler were to be._ a sort of door-keeper, and to take charge of the ~A,,eB containing the property of this and other lodges.en last information he, Mr. Crosse, received, he went thert.llsy week to the Thatched-house Tavern, andof "lea Lund that the box belonging to the Prince f sihee.3ige had been broken open, and a silver square, sted . 'vel, and other articles belonging to the craft an ther f ISer e row. b e re g!aut Bewley, 20 D,:stated that from information le , Ir l ed, he went on Thursday morning last to N t. o e . pri,_ srshall-street, Golden-square, where he found s h_ . pegs, in bed. On telling him the nature of his bui ahe,,the Prisoner requested him not to make any noise . t re at lt; he owned he had done wrong, but he was in 4,,diffieulties et the time. Witness asked him if be s aid the stolen jewellery in the house. The prisoner . eate r had the tickets, and delivered up several dupli tipe?' witness. The prisoner's wife gave witness some sverl and collars belonging to the Lodge. Witness te e i t t e ' tin the prisoner had dressed himself, and then ~ ‘ , 4 him to the station-house. eeerr' It'adon, the magistrate cf Hammersmith Police acid '' i "" is a member of the Prince of Wales Lodge, ce ß P 3 scu the Court on the part of his brethren of tf. e .e . tilts, • ' no raid it was not the wish of the members . t largest c teata— wet;),no of the l I• -' , • 1 0 institutions in the le e , , to proceed Is' this case to the extreme point the a pro torttif4'43wed them, and he wished, if it met the p the Pt of the Court, that the case should be taken under far t':wobrokers' Act, instead of sending thepri c son th e e r er t.. tut. The prisoner although a member of v-nt William Cututt, .f a s tik t lai e , W , 4 _ B ( , not a . member of the Prince , i q , 4.l: , u Nv l g as e, th b e ut_ a p itrging to ` fore, 3 ili_clnoo, therefore sh ' ou i ld . wish to lay the property a G M iud of se t r he " le;dge, and he, Mr. m Cubitt and others. . _ and 444 pi, consented to this proposition. AboutuPon the pawnbrokers to produce the property. _ triots nineteen Pawnbrokers produced jewels to the hY th in °f n ear 00/., which had been pledged with them e prisoner Th li ' • " 41111 1 who did not attempt to delay the T E SUN, charge, was mulcted in the full penalty and vaue of the proptlty pledged, t , Fxwunling to about 6501. COMMON COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) At eleven o'clock this morninv, a very large number of the members of the Court of Common Council met at the Guildhall. _ . I3efore any business (excepting the reading of the minutes) had been transacted, JOHN WOOD, E , q., gave notice of the following mo tion:—" That this Court take into consideration the propriety of presenting an address to her Majesty on the recent proceedings of the Pope of Rome with regard to this country, and expressive of the loyalty and at tachmerA of the Corporation to her Maj,sty's authority and goverurre , nt."—(The notice was received with re iterated cheers ) Mr. BLAKE then called the attention of the Court to a letter which this morning appeared in the 7 inics from the Premier, Lord John Rues 11, to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Dui ham. lie (MO. Blake) thought that the country was indebted to his Lord ship for that letter, rendered incalculably valuable from its ernana:ing from such a quarter at such an opportune period.—(Loud cheers.) lie consi der«l its tone to he both cohle diguitied, while the assurance , it held out would tend in no small degree to ratisty the public mind and to allay apprehensions which some parties had of late taken so much pains to excite throughout the kingdom. lie proposed a vote of thanks from the Court to Lord John Russell for the stand he had made at the present crisit„ Mr. F. BENNOCH seconded the motion, and in doing so he thought it right to add that he considered the ad dress shout' be prepared forthwith. He would suggest, for the purpose, thnt the standing orders be suspended. Agreed to by acclatna!ion. Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR supported the motion. He remembered that the archives of the City contained do• cements which showed that on former occasions the Corporation of the city of Landon had acted in a aim Par way to that now proposed. In the reign of George 11. the Corporation had resisted the attempted innovations of the Catholics with signal success.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Taylor) also approved of the conduct of Sir Peter Laurie, who had always warned the Court of Puseyite errors and Roman Catholic encroachments. Mr. BLAKE having moved that a committee be ap pointed to draw up a motion, conveying the thanks of Court to the Noble Premier for this timely expression of his feelings on the subject of the Pope of Rome's au thority, which was curried, when the gentlemen com posing it retired into the Alderman's ante-room to con sider the same. Upon their return, Mr. BLAKE proposed, and Sir P. LAURIE seconded the address to Lord John Russell, which was couched in terms of gratitude to his Lordship for the noble stand he has made in the matter. The reading of the address was accompanied by loud cheering. Sir PETER LAURIE, on seconding the motion as to the presentation of the address, said, that he never was more delighted than he was upon that occasion, in rising to second the proposition. He rejoiced in Lord John Russell's letter, and to the following paragraph he would cull the especial attention of the Court:— " There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggro scion of a foreign Sovereign. " Clergymen of our own Church, who have subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledge in explicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the most forward in leading their flicks step by step to the very verge of the precipice.' The honour paid to the saints, the claim of infallibility for the Church, the superstitious use of the sign of the cross, the muttering of the Liturgy, so as to disguise the language in which it is written, the recommendation of auricular confession, and the administration of penance and abso lution,—alli these things are pointed out by clergymen of the Church of England as worthy of adoption, and are now openly reprehended by the Bishop of London in his charge to the clergy or his diocese. Tnese were noble sentiments, worthy of the Premier of this country at this critical period, and of one of the representatives of that great nod important city. The motion was then put and carried nem. (Its. It was then ordered that the address should be im mediately presented to his Lordship, and that a copy of it should be advertised in all the public journals. The Court adjourned shortly after two o'clock. AGES OF EXISTING NEWSPAPERS. We find by an examination of Thomas's Newspaper List, that the oldest existing paper in Great Britain is the Edinburgh Gazette, which was established in the year 1600. The Caledonian Mercury, established . in 1660, stands next in point of antiq uit y ; the Edtn bu,gh Evening Courant, of which the first number ap peared in 1690, being some thirty years younger, and yet sufficiently old to be venerable. T he oldest existing paper in England is the Stamford Mercury, which was established in 1695. The first paper now in ex istence, in the United Kingdom, which appeared in the last century, was Berrows' Worcester Journal, first published in 1709. Two years afterwards, in 1711, the IVewcastle Courant was first issued, and in the same year appeared the lint number of the Dublin Gazette. In 1717, the Kentih Gazette, and 1718 the Leeds Mercury first commenced their career of in formation. I:etween 1720 and 1730 inclusive, the fol lowing papers were first ushered into existence :—The Northampton Mercury and Salisbury Journal in 1720; the Gloucester Journal in 1722; the Reading Mercury in 1723; the Nor wich Mercury, and the Dublin Evening Post in 1725 ; and the Chelmsford Chronicle in 1730. Eetween 1730 and 1740 the following papers appeared—St. Jantes's Chronicle and the Chester Courant in 1731; the Derby Mercury iu 1732; the Sherborne Mercury in 1736; the Belfast News Letter in 1737; and the Hereford Journal 1739. Between 1740 and 1750, the journals addrd to the stock were the following:—The Birmingham Gazette and Nottingham Journal in 1741; the Bath Journal in 1742; the Edinburgh Wealy Journal in 1744; Vie Bristol Journal (Felix Farley's); the Sussex Advertiser and the Sligo Journal, in 1745 ; Saunders' News Letter (Dublin) in 1746; the Aberdeen Journal, in 1747 ; and the Cambridge Chronicle, 1741. Be tween 1750 and 1760, only tour of the papers now published made their appearance. These were, the Oxford Journal 1753 ; the Leeds Intehigencer 1757 ; the Liverpool imes 1756 ; and the Bath Chronicle 1756. Between 1760 and 1770, the following ap peered :—The Norfolk Chronicle 1761; the Exeter Flying Post and the Dublin Freeman's Journal 1763; Lloyd's List, the Sherburne Journal, the Newcastle Chronicle, and Edinburgh Advertiser in 1764; Gore's Liver pool Advertiser in 1765 ; the Limerick Chro nicle in 1766; and the Bristol Gazette, and Kilkenny Journal in 1767. Between 1770 and 1780, the following new candidates came into the field:—The Morning Chronicle in 1770 ; the Morning Post, the Shrewsbury Chronicle, the Hampshire Chronicle, and the Londonderry Journal in 1772 ; the Racing Calendar, the Chester Chronicle, and the Bristol Mirror in 1773 ; the Cumberland Pacquet and the Kerry Evening Post in 1774; and Prince's London Price Current, and the Clare Journal in 1779. Between 1780 and 1790, the following journals were born: —The Morning Herald 1781; the Bury and Nor wich Post 1782; the Maidstone Journal 1786; the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, the Evening Mail (London) and the Gazette de Guernsey 1789; and the Kent Herald, the York Herald, and the Bristol Mer cury 1790. The following appeared between 1790 and 1800:—The Glasgow Courier 1791; The Sun the County Herald (London), the County Chronicle (London), and the Bath Herald 1792; the Morning Advertiser, the Commercial Daily List, the Hull Advertiser, the Worcester Herald, and the Doncaster Gazette 1794; the Kelso Mail 1797 ; the imes, the Observer, the Daily Packet List, and the Cal lisle.lournal 1798; the Hampshire Telegraph, and the Greened , : Ad vertiser 1799; and the Essex Herald and Oxford Herald in 1800. We have only brought our statement down to The close of the last century. Since then, between three and four hundred papers have been commenced in the United Kingdom, all of which are now in existence. IMPROVEMENT OF " LORD :MAYOR'S SHONV."— Mr. Godwin's letter to the Lord Mayor elect, sketching the history of the show, and suggesting the desirability of ren dering it more worthy of the time and country than has ] lately been the case, was referred to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs' Committee for conducting the entertainment, and we may now state that it has been determined in consequence to attempt to make the present pageant one of more than usual interest. We trust that taste and good judgment will 1,3 called in to guide the endeavour. We have received a number of letters from men with knowledge on the subject, a ll concurringin the suggestion. From one we learn that the cost of the day, including the dinner, has lately been 2,4251., so that something satisfactory might surely be ex pected. Of this the City contributed 2004 the Lord Mayor 1,1121., and the Sheriffs a like sum between them. The item of charge for the men in armour was 1101. 103. The cost of the banners, barges belonging to the companies, trap pines f or horses, Sz.c., did not come into this sum. One city antiquary writes, that the principal knight, and his retinue (should) represent the City standard-bearer. "Robert Fitz waiter held Baynard's Castle, to him and his heirs, on the tenure of being the City standard-bearer and leader of the civic forces in time of war?"l'he recent Volks-fest at Mu nich, afforded a proof of what artistical taste can do in similar cases, without large expenditure; the inhabitants of Au sent a model of their church , wi th its stained glass windows; the joiners a model house; a pavilion of Byzantine form, drawn by richly caparisoned horse s, contained the bust , of King Louis ; the porcelain works a fforded a collection of hoe forms, and the car of the sculptors and artists were charmingly ar ranged.—Builder. THE POISONINGS IN LINCOLNSIIIIM—SUrgeOII Clegg, of Boston, writes a letter, referring to a case of lb or 16 farmers' labourers, who were seized with symptoms of poisoninz by arsenic after drinking ale supplied to them by their master. Mr. Clegg states that the circumstance was purely accidental. "An arsenic solution," he says, .‘ ‘ was used in dressing certain kinds of seed , and, L y an acciee . whh contained the supplied some portion of the poison gained access to the p itcLer pplied'to the labourers as th eir mornin g 's allowance." DEATH or A Rion AllsEß.—Die(l last week, at Kentish. town, a miser of the name of Shel don. He had formerly carried on the business of a breeches maker, but or the last twenty years had retired, and lived by the contributio ns o f t h e neighbours , or any one who would assist him. Il e was so penurious in his habits as to deny himself a coat, a n d se ld om wore a h at, an d would pick '93 pikes of bread out of the road and eat them. The room Hi which he lived had not been cleaned or twenty years. He died suddenly, at the age of 85, leaving a fortune of upwards of 15,0001. TO THE CHAIRMAN AND COURT OF DIREC TORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. Genth>men,—A letter appeared in the Times of the 28th June, stating that the widow and son of the late Raja of Sattara, with their numerous retinue', were starving at Benares, and that not one rupee had been paid in relief of their necessities since the Reja's decease in October, 1847. In the last return (No. 669, sth August, 1850), you have made to an order of the House of Commons, is a letter to the Directors, dated Fort William, 6th April, 1850, and signed " Dalhousie, J. H. Littler, F. Currie, J. Lovvi," that is to say, by the Governor- General and Council of India, which contains the fol lowing passages Par. 7. " The Government of India has always advocated the grant of an ample stipend to the adopted son of the ex-Raja. Par. 13. " But we do not f-el ourselves justified in making these grants, unless both the Ranee and the boy at Benares renounce all right to the Raj of Sattara ; or, at all events, unless the use of the desig nation and all marks of sovereignty are abandoned by both of thew." In the letter above mentioned, of the 23,1 May, your Court was apprised " That Ballajee Punt Nattoo, the pensioned traitor and conspirator, had suddenly ap peared at Benares from Bombay, in the very height of the widow's distress, and was secretly tampering with her near relatives and servants, with the design of stifling her complaints, and aweing her into silence and submission" to the wishes of Marquis Dalhousie and his Council. The relative whose instrumentality was employed was the Ranee's own father, who was dispatched from the Court of Nagpore, where he had been residing for many years, fur the express purpose, there can now be no doubt, of securing the success of the scheme. It has succeeded ; the last Indian Mail, it appears, brought a dispatch, stating that the Ranee, worn out by three years' want and incessant threats and persecu tion, has at length been starved into compliance; that she has been starved into signing and dispatching to the Most Noble Marquis Dalhousie a document, pre pared and dictated to her by the Brahmin, in which, as the Governor-General exacted, " both the Ranee and the boy at Benares renounce all right to the Raj of Sattara, and abandon the use of the designation and all marks of sovereignty." It is to be hoped that the Most Noble Marquis slept tranquilly in his bed in Koonawur, when he at last clutched this precious docu ment thus obtained from the captive widow and orphan child. You also, gentlemen, must be congratulated on its obtainment. Surely it merits, like other great In dian victories, to be celebrated by a banquet given at the expense of the natives of India, at which the Directors may toast " the eminent success" of the Most Noble Marquis, and wash their own pure hands in rose water I Suffer me here to suggest a fitting use for this paper—let it be duly framed and glazed, and shown in the largest letters to the assem bled civilized world in 1851, as one of your valued contributions to the " Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations." Let me at the same time ask the civilized world, which will be as sembled to behold the trcphies of an empire, " upon which," it is vauntingly told, " the sun never sets," whether the French people, when they extinguished the sovereignty of the Bourbons, stopped the dower of the Duchess of Orleans until she had renounced in writing her son's hereditary title of " Comte de Paris," and the use of the arms of France ? Let me ask if the French people first confiscated all the private pro perty of the late King of the French, after pledging them selves five times in writing to respect it,* and next made it a condition with his sons, not of the restoration of that property, but of their not being left to die of hunger, that they should renounce their family titles ? And yet this is what the magnanimous British people, as represented in India by the East India Company, have deliberately done to the widow and son of the Raja of Sattara. Marquis Dalhousie says (par. 4), "The boy wrote in the character of Raja"—(an offence clearly beyond the pale of pardon in the eyes of this Most Noble Marquis). Par. 7. " The Government of India has always' advocated the grant of an ample stipend to the adopted son of the ex-Raja, and is still of opinion that he should be liberally treated as well as the Ranee. Such is evidently the wish of your Honourable Court, which we infer from your having lately directed us to make payments to which these persons had forfeited all fair claim. Par. 8. " But we apprehend that you cannot wish this Government to confer a pension on the adopted boy at Benares, at the time that by persisting in de signating himself Raja of Sattara he is virtually dis puting the right of the East India Company to terri tory qf which it has assumed possession. Nor do we suppose it can be your wish that we should increase the pension of the Ranee, while she if recognising and maintaining these sovereign rights in the adopted son" (by signing his name to a receipt for 800 rupees!) Think of an Englishman penning such a sentence as this ! But what is this "liberal treatment," which the world is now so ostentatiously told it was the anxious wish of the Directors and of the Governor-General should be bestowed upon the Ranee and her son ? Before the Ranee left Sattara, a captive with her late husband the Raja in September, 1839, the sum which your own Resident, Colonel Ovans, certainly no friend to her or her family, thought it but decent should be settled upon her in the nature of pin- mony, as the Raja's second wife, altogether distinct from the monthly allowance of 7,700 rupees made to the Raja, was 800 rupees (801.) a month. This sum she re ceived for her own private use up to the Raja's death in October, 1847. At his decease the whole of his allowance was at once stopped, and all his retinue, amounting to 1,000 or 1,200 persons who had accom panied him from Sattara, were cast for subsistence upon the Ranee, who was informed, that her pin money of 800 rupees would be continued to her as a pension, provided she renounced all the rights of her adopted son. The " liberal allowance" to be granted jointly to the Ranee and her son during her life has been since increased to 2,400 rupees a month, equivalent to 2,8801. a year. Let us examine this magnificent liberality. In your return of the sth of August is given part of a minute, dated 18th April, 1849, by the Governor of Bombay, in which he states that the "gross rent roll of the Sattara territories is estimated at between 39 and 40 hies of rupees (390,0001. to 400,000/. a year), of which," with the necessary annual remis sions, little more than 14+ lacs (142,5000 have been collected." This " liberal allowance," when truly stated in your account with the family of the deposed Raja, stands, therefore, thus . Present net annual revenues of the Setters State taken and annexed by the E. I. Company •• ••• ••• 4142,500 (Prospective value 390,0001. a year.) Value of private property left at Sattara by the Baja as per inventory taken at the time, about Rs. 30 lacs., 300,0001.; annua l interest thereon at ten per cent. for eleven years... 33,000 Total annual income appropriated by the E. I. Company ... ••• ... £175,500 DEDUCT " Liberal allowance" proposed for the Ranee and her son during pleasure by the Di rectors •.• •.• ••• ••• ••• 2,880 Balance of revenue appropriated by them by the annexation of Sattara... £172,620 The "liberal allowance," therefore, amounts to your offering to the Ranee and child 2,8001. a year, for themselves and all those dependent for bread upon them, still detaining them prisoners, while you take to yourselves in territory and property 172,6201. a year, with a prospective increase of between 400,0001. and 500,0001. a year ; of their right to all which your Governor-General and Council exact a peremptory written surrender from the Ranee and child as a condition of their receiving even the 2,880/. a year during pleasure. These facts and figures furnished by yourselves and your Indian Government, coupled with the last crowning act of the latter, speak for themselves ; and render one word of comment superfluous. They will convince every man who reads them what the real ob ject of your conduct throughout has been ; first, in in entering the Palace of the ex-Raja the dead of night, seizing him while sleeping in his bed, and de posing and exiling him without trial ; next, in con fiscating all his private property in the face of five public written pledges to respect it ; third, in appro priating all his dominions on the pretext that he left no male heir, while you yourselves make prisoner of the heir, and forcibly detain his person at Benares ; fourth, in starving that lawful heir and adopted son, and the Raja's widow, whom also you hold captive, into a written renunciation of their right to those dominions, of which you nevertheless proclaim to the world you have assumed " lawful possession ;" fifth, in keep ing that helpless lady an d c hild prisoners at Benares, pending the pleasure of the Bombay Government. " As anticipated," writes to you Lord Dalhousie, "the Government of B o mbay strongly objected to either one or the oth e r being allowed to return at this time ! " (par. 6)—and the chivalrous Governor- General of India, at the bead of 300,000 bayonets ready to do his every bidding, acquiesces in the guilty fears of these guilty men ! It is a man who, in the fawning parlance of his country, is styled a " Nobleman," who males this war upon a woman and child whom he has in his power. He does so eleven years after she has been forcibly taken from Sattara and kept captive at Benares, while ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE AT CHELSEA HOSPITAL. On Tuesday morning an in - pensionerOf6Telsea Hospital at tempted to destroy himself by Cutting his throat with a razor. He lost much blood, and lies in a precarious state. LONDON, THURSD A Y EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1850. the innocent child has never been at Sattara at all ! How truly lawful he and you feel at heart your " possession" of Sattara to be, let his and your con duct proclaim, let your own countrymen pronounce ; but after permitting such conduct by you in India, let not your countrymen venture to talk of the French in Algeria, the Russians in Poland, the Turks in Syria, or Abbas Pacha in Egypt. A NATIVE OF INDIA. November, 1850. * Sir J. R. Carnac, Gov. of Bombay to Lieut.-Col. Ovans, Resident at Sattara, 30th Aug. 1839. Par. Pe. No. 569-1843--par. 8, page 469. " You will inform him (the Raja) that an annual allowance will be assigned from the Sattara revenues for the support of himself and his family—further, that all property belonging to him born tide private, and not appertaining to the state will, on his peace able submission, not be interfered with." Col. Ovans to Secretary of the Governor of Bombay, sth September, 1839. Par. Pa. p. 471, par. 6. " I communicated to his Highness the substance of the Bth par. of my instructions (as abave), and after giving him every assurance that his cumPrt, 6-c., would be scrupulously attended to." Captain T. D. Carpenter, Superintendent of the ex- Wija of Sattara, to T. H. Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India, Benares, 15th Nov. Par Pd. Aug., 1834; p. 47, No. 622, par. 8. " The ex-Raja of Saltara has in his possession three letters signed by Colonel Ovans, the Resident ut Sattara, and dated sth, Glh, and 13th Sept., 1839, respectively, to the effect that his private property would be surrendered to him." The Times, August 13, 1850: " HOUSE OF COMMONS. " Sir John Cam Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control, in answer to a question put to him by Joseph Hume, E+q•, M.P., relative to the detention of the Raja's private property, stated—' No guarantee had been given with regard to the private property of the ex-Raja.'" LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. TO THE RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. My dear Lord,—l agree with you in considering " the late aggression of the Pope upon our Protes tanism " as " insolent and insidious," and I there fore feel as indignant as you can do upon the subject. I not only promoted to the utmost of my power the claims of the Roman Catholics to all civil rights, but I thought it right, and even desirable, that the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholics should be the means of giving instruction to the numerous Irish immigrants in London and elsewhere, who without such help would have been left in heathen Ignorance. This might have been done, however, without any such innovation as that which we have now seen. It is impossible to confound the recent measures of the Pope with the division of Scotland into dioceses by the Episcopal Church, or the arrangement of dis tricts in England by the Wesleyan Conference. There is an assumption of power in all the docu ments which have come from Rome—a pretension to supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to sole and undivided sway, which is inconsistent with the Queen's supremacy, with the rights of our bishops and clergy, and with the spiritual independence of the nation, as asserted even in Roman Catholic times. I confess, however, that my alarm is not equal to my indignation. Even if it shall appear that the ministers and ser vents of the Pope in this countr y have not trans gressed the law, I feel persuaded that we are str ong e nough to repel any outward at tacks. The libert y of Protestantism o o f a n y has successfulbee n atenjoyedtem attempt too liompose a foreign yoke upon our minds and consci ences. No forei g n l i on mp g toallw prince or potentate will be permitted to fasten his fetters upon a nation which has so long and so nobly vindicated its right to freedom of opinion, civil, poli tical, and religious. Upon this subject, then, I will only say that the present state of the law shall be carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting any proceedings with reference to the recent assumptions of power delibe rately considered. There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign Sove reign. Clergymen of our own Church, who have subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledged in ex plicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the most forward in leading their flocks, " step by step, to the very verge of the precipice." "Toe honour paid to saints, the claim of infallibility for the Church, the superstitious use of the sign of the cross, the muttering of the Liturgy so as to disguise the lan guage in which it is written, the recommendation of auricular confession, and the administration of penance and absolution—all these things are pointed out by clergymen of the Church of England as worthy of adoption, and are now openly reprehended by the Bishop of London in his charge to the clergy of his diocese. What, then, is the danger to be apprehended from a foreign Prince of no great power, compared to the danger within the gates from the unworthy sons of the Church of England herself ? I have little hope that the propounders and framers of these innovations will desist from their insidious course. But I rely with confidence on the people of England, and I will not bate a jot of heart or hope so long as the glorious principles and the immortal mar tyrs of the Reformation shall be held in reverence by the great mass of a nation which looks with contempt on the mummeries of superstition, and with scorn on the laborious endeavours which are now making to confine the intellect and enslave the soul. I remain, with great respect, &c., Downing-street, Nov. 4. J. RUSSELL. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF TILE ARCTIC STEAM -SHIP. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MOUNING. The above splendid ship, commanded by Captain Luce (which forms the third of what is generally termed the Collins line) has just arrived in our river, after a passage of ten days. The Arctic left New York on the 27th ult. Her news is, therefore, four day s l ater t h an that brought by the Europa, and, both as regards commerce and and unimportant. politics, is uninteresting INCREASE OF BUSINESS AT THE STAMP"OFFICE.- In consequence of the great increase of Lbusiness at the S tamp - o ffice since the new St amp A c t c ame iiato operation, the Commissioners have been obliged to make an addition to the number of employis sible the complying with the numerous orders sent under the new Act. Although the stain ers are eroPloYed daily, from tight o'clock A.M. till nearly nine P o'clock r.m. (except , so as to facilitate 0 Much a pos. Sunday), they have great difficulty in satisfying only a portion of the demands, as the orders from Liverpool, Bir mingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, York, Carlisle, Dum fries, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and 'other large cities in the Indeed, it is United Kingdom, Kingdom, are so extensive and u rgent that; they ars sent off by the morning mails, and during the day to the different localities. Michaelmas Term, which com eyriipnt io t n h s d e i e m d sp,o mortgages,r t an t es t a isb menced on the 2d inst., had given a great deal of extra d de u s t leases,menticte.for stamps of every derful when the number of stamps required daily for the newspapers in London and every large town of the empire, besides Post-office stamps, is considered how they . can get through the business they do ten satisfy the public demand. CHEAP GAS, AND WHY NOT CHEAP WATER ? Now that we stand a tolerable chance of getting cheap gas, we think a stir ought to be made to get us cheap water also. The New City Gas Company, by mono its pipes into the ground, has put out the pipes of the old polists, and we do not see why the water companies should not be subjected to the same sort of competition. Light and cleanliness be ing both necessary for the preservation of health, we would ask why economy should not visit our cisterns as well as our gas-meters? If we were consulted as to what would be a fair price for the water at p resent laid on, we should sa y that it ought, at all events, to be "as cheap as dirt," which is the article it bears the closest resemblance to. The only advantage to be gained by the present water supply is the chance of a fish occasionally being included in our bargain with the company; but as the fish cannot notify his arrival he often dies in the cistern before his visit is known, and we see nothing of him till his bones, forcing their way through the tap, come up to us unexpectedly in the toast-and-water, or the tea-urn. —Punch. Yesterday afternoon we had the pleasure to attend at the fourth exhibition of the large Boston Organ, recently constructed by Messrs. Gray and. Daviscn, of the New-road. The talented organist, Mr. G. Cooper, more than sustained the reputation which by former performances he had ac quired; loud and repeated plaudits were bestowed upon him by the crowded and respectable audience. Amidst the excellence it is quite unnecessary to mark any one part with superior approbation. The following programme was se lected with great taste and judgment :—Part I. Largetto, Second Symphony bf.Kalliwoda ; Offertorium " Quod in Orbe," Hummell ; first and second movements of a Manu script Sonata, J. S. Bach • Songs, Schubert ; Chorus, Fixed in his everlasting seat," 'Handel. Part 11. Movement from Fantasia, A. Hesse; Adagio, Kalliwoda ; Grand Pr e l u d e an d Fuge, J. S. Bach; Recit ative and Air, " 0, ruddier than . the cherry," Handel ; Chorus, " He rebuked the Red Sea," Han del. The above were performed by Mr. Cooper at his former performance. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir John Grey, K.C. 8., was appointe d Commander-in-Chief of the Coni .: pany's forces cis the•nombay establishment. MAGAZINES, &:c —(CON TIN UED.) DAVID COPPERFIELD. Nos. XIX. and XX. By (-Tzarles Dickens. Gratitude is our predominant feeling in regard to the author of this exquisite home story. Gratitude for those seeds of a pure and beautiful morality which he has sown broadcast in our hearts from the lavish hand of his oth e r se lf—D av id C o pp e rfi e ld. Oa clos ing the last pages we find this sentiment welling up within us to the subordination of every other. Eves our admiration at the genius displayed more or less throughout the whole of the au t o biography becomes merged , into this one abs or bi ng sense o f gratitude. To speak less earnestly than this would be to violate some of the truest and noblest emotions we have ever experieucs d. So far from assuming any appearance of enthusiasm in writing as we do, were we to write otherwise we should be guilty of an affectation. Our whole nature has la en so stirred during the perusal of the narrative, that it is impossible for us to dismiss the work with any more modulated tones of farewell. The creatures which the novelist has here summoned into existence are to us no mere imaginative abstractions,but beings upon whom we have come to look eau pon our most intimate and familiar favourites. Old companions, sometimes dear and cherished friends, associated in our minds with all the incidents of that romantic history which is to us as actually realised at heart as our own lives, or as the lives of those around us—we cannot treat them as the ordinary creations of the novelist, and let them so depart from us with only words of formal approbation. Generally speaking this has ever been with ourselves in some measure the effect produced by all the higher masterpieces in this lovely department of literature. Like old Ebenezer Scrooge,we have believed so intensely in the world of Story, that we should scarcely have felt surprise at times if we had seen passing by outside our windows Ali Baba leading his mule, laden with faggots, by the bridle, or Sinbad the Sailor with his girdle filled with precious stones from the Valley of Diamonds, or poor Robinson Crusoe with his parrot on his shoulder, and Friday coming after him with his gun through the boughs of the plantation. With the charactersdrawn by Charles Dickens this intimacy is to us in many respects even more the case than with those of even the most illustrious of his predecessors. Whether it is that he has some new and astonishing faculty for de picting imaginary beings with an air of uncommon verisimilitude, or whether he infuses into them, as it were, some of the warm blood beating in his own good heart—however this be—we know, from a thou sand strange and brilliant recollections, that they are invested for us with a certain marvellous vitality. Whereas with most other writers of fiction, a fanciful personage, however brightly or vividly pourtrayed, is, after its fashion, like a figure in a painting, to be seen only from one point of view, with Dickens the creatures with which he has peopled the works of his imagination are, in a manner, like the forms wrought by the hand of a sculptor—to be walked round and seen from all directions. Added to the body and substances of these forms, however, there are also many of the subtler attributes of humanity, together with the charms of colouring and intelligence —colouring, too, be it observed, the most life-like, and intelligence the most individualized. So extraordinary, moreover, is the power thus exercised, that even the most eccentric emanations of our author's fancy are animated to the full as much with this sem blance of existence as the most homely and probable of his characters. Insomuch, that after reading, for example, his exquisite story of the " Old Curiosity Shop" we seem to know as well as if we had been ac quainted with him for years that unnatural and fero cious little abortion, Quilp—quite as well, indeed, in every respect as the facetious Richard Swiveller, as good Mrs. Nubbles the washerwoman, as poor Kit himself, as the villanous attorney of Bevis Marks, as the self-willed pony Whisker, even as " sly little Barbara," or as the angel of that dream of trials and vicissitudes, poor angelic Nell. Another remarkable capacity displayed already very frequently by Charles Dickens is that of rendering the bad as real and veritable as the pure and excellent each one conveying his own moral as unostentatiously as some actual event of life, and yet as inevitably as a parable. It is thus that, in " Nicholas Nickleby," the same master-hand has drawn, with equal vigour and veracity, the despicable rascality of Squeers, the avarice of Gride, and the loquacity of Mrs. Nickleby, while its more genial efforts, in the same production, have proved not a jot less worthy of admiration. Among the latter none can easily forget the good-na ture of Newman Noggs, in spite:of his red nose and his affection for the bottle, any more than they can lose a recollection of warm-hearted old Tim Linkin water, or of his glorious employers—those avadevats of humanity—the brothers Cherryble. " Martin Chuz zlewit," if possible, yet more strikingly revealed the scope of this admirable versatility in the genius of Dickens, seeing that such a lovely and love able character as that of dear old Tom ['inch came before us, in that fiction, cheek-by jowl with that unconscionable rogue Seth Pecksniff. Surprising, nevertheless, as are the qualities already particularized as conspicuous in the intellect of our great novelist, they are as nothing when compared with one not yet specified—we mean his intimate blending of the pathetic and the humorous. Were we called upon to decide as to which of these facul ties—the faculty of commanding our tears or our laughter—preponderated the one above the other, we should be fairly puzzled as to the preference. A genius which can create with equal facility the fat, old, gin-drinking, whet zy, nurse of the hospitals, who " sicks and monthlies" in turn, likes "the bottle on the chimbley-piece" to soothe her nerves when so " dispoged," and bewails, in her own peculiar dialect, the sorrows encountered by herself and Betsy Prig in "this Pilgian's Prejis of a mortal Wale"—a genius which can create with equal facility Mrs. Gamp and little Paul Dombey, must surely be acknowledged to possess a strange and admirable mastery over all the variable chords of our nature, provoking at plea sure our appreciation of the comic, and melting us at will into sympathy with fictitious suffering.. These are some among the many rare gifts united in the heart and intellect of Charles Dickens. These he has now employed with the most brilliant success in the happiest of all his inimitable fictions, the personal his tory of David Copperfield. T rea sured favourites as his previous writings are and ever will be with ourselves, associated es some of them are with our dearest and sweetest recollections, the best amongst them all must yield the palm to his last work, for his last work is his master-piece. In David Copperfield its author has vindicated yet more indubitably tha n ever his right to his immense and enviable popularity. Through his latest fiction he has peopled our home with " household words" more veritably than through the medium of his weekly miscellany.. The characters crowded together in the tale he has tus , t told are to us hen ce f or th as " old familiar faces: ' and formost amo ng th em th e auto biographer himself, the most charming of all the heroes in the books of Dick ens . I n d e li nea ti n g the individual character of David Copperfield the author has adventured upon a labour (to him a labour of love) more daring in its way than that, to our recollection, ever before attempted by novelist — he has described the growth of a mind and the formation of a temperament literally from the first moment of consciousness up to the meridian of ripened manhood, a psychological achievement worthy of the profoundest admiration. Every secret phase in this character we become familiar with through the con fessional of autobiography, so that our sympathy for the hero follows him vigilantly along all the varia tions of his fortune. Long before the close of the narrative he has grown from a kind of petted curiosity into the reader's intimate companion : so that we could call him by turns (but all times lovingly) by each of his many nicknames — " Broo ks, of Sheffield" with , Air. Murdstone, " Daisy" with Ste erforth, " Trot' with Aunt Betsey, " Mas'r Davy" with Ham, " Doady" with Dora, and " Trotwood" with Agnes. Linked with him in our affectionate interest come the better angels of his history. Associated with him, also, we can even look with half-forgiveness on the evil beings met with in his many vicissitudes. The solemnity of a great retribution, nobly and even wonderfully described, shields from unmeasured con demnation even the head of the chief offender, Steerforth. For his despicable servant Littimer, and for the yet more repulsive Uriah Heep, we thatentertam feelings of somewhat diminished loathing, now. we find them incarcerated in one of the model prisons, preparatory to their final transportation. The chapter in which we are introduced to them as Numbers Twenty- Seven and Twenty-Eight is a masterly .and crushing satire on that preposterous system confine ment,ofisolitary against which the author bas already_ . . elsewhere battled with the trenchant weapon of his ire ny. Several of the minor personages of the story, although at the outset objects either of contempt or suspicion,. are reclaimed to our regard, and . , in . one or two . in stances, drawn even within the limits of a loving ad miration. The m anner in which . these changes are accomplished affords new evidence of the . . consummate skill of the novelist. livery . one familiar with the pages of David Copperfield will remember how these alternations of o pinion are developed ; how Mi ss m ow . cher, in defiance of her apparently dangerous " vola tility," comes forth like thrice refined gold out of the furnace of temptation ; h o w Mrs. GuTam idge, ,, forsaking her long habit of D a n% with his reminiscences of " the " worriting old 'on," proves the very stay and comfort of the \Vanderer ; how Martha becomes purified by her woma n's nature even in the midst of her unwomanly abandonment; and, above all, how Emily herself passes from the mother country with a redeeming sorrow at her heart, and shrinks for ever with a p en itential sense of resignation into the solitudes of Australia. With out possessing any very peculiar appetite fur ven geance, we must acknowledge, nevertheless, that we should marvellously have rejoiced to hear that some vial of poetic justice had been poured out on the head of Rosa Bartle instead of leaving her in turns to chide and console Mrs. Steerforth in her cottage at Highgate ; we should not have experienced much regret at learning that Mr. Jack Maldon bad lost his Patent Place ; neither should we have been over whelmed with sorrow if we had learnt that some ter• rible punishment had fallen upon the two cruel hearted Murdstores. It would seem, however, from the pervading gentleness of the closing instalment of David Copperfield, that the author looked back alto gether too lovingly upon the beings be had within its compass summoned from the ideal world into exis tence, to treat the worst amongst them otherwise than with an all-forgiving tenderness. Mr. 'Wilkins Micawber, no longer looking out for "something to turn up" in order to relieve himself from his "pecu niary liabilities," has flourished so well in his colonial residence that he can mix punch to his heart's content, and write letters by the quire or ream, while the partner of his bosom may entertain the natives with her memories of her papa and her mamma, or asto nish them with her thin singing of "Little Lain." Annie, still exulting in the restoration of confidence between herself and her husband, sees dear old Doctor strong advancing slowly as a tor toise in his Dictionary, but still, although as yet no farther than the letter 1), believing confidently in its ultimate completion. Among the dead who are passed away, the heart reverts to each with a subdued but still surviving sympathy. Mr. Spenlow himself is not forgotten, with his well-starched neckcloth, compelling him to bow like Punch. Mr. Barkis seems even in the grave to remind us he was " willin' " when "it being low water he went out with the tide 1" Clara still lives for us as the pretty widow of Blunderstone Rookery, and, whatever Mr. Dickens may say to the contrary, we are persuaded that her dear old servant Peggotty has to this moment " cheeks and arms so hard and red," that, like David, we may yet " wonder why the birds don't peck her in preference to apples." As to whether Julia Mills is unhappy in her wealthy alliance with the Indian Nabob, or as to whether Dr. Mell is potent at Port Middlebay, and Mr. Creakle as a magistrate in Pentonville, we confess ourselves to be, comparatively speaking, indifferent. But in other and dearer characters described in David Copperfield our interest remains bound up for ever as cordially as well can be imagined. Our hearts glow within us at the prosperity of dear old Traddles, who has pros. pered at the bar beyond the expectation of the Gray's Inn Waiter, and who (better than all this) has married Sophie, " the dearest girl in the world," the daughter of the poor Dorsetshire clergyman. Earnest too are our rejoicings at all the joys of Mr. Dick in his kite and his Memorial, and fully do we coincide with him in thinking Aunt Betsey Trotwood to be " the most extraordinary woman in the word." To us there is no more thoroughly delightful character among the many charming creations of the genius of Dickens than that of good Aunt Betsey Trotwood. But our disposition to ex patiate on these and other equally bewitching features of the work must cease ; the brief memo rial of our gratitude towards the writer of this exquisite and touching tale must draw to its conclusion. We have spoken (each in turn) of the various creatures of the story who have influenced for good or ill the character of its hero, David Copperfield ; but hitherto, it may be seen, we have refrained from alluding to the guardian angels of his destiny—to Dora and to Agnes. The omission was intentional. We would not by a single syllable mar for our readers the beauty and the sweetness of all that is here written of them both in this exquisite history of their husband, David Copperfield. The memory of the " child wife" has been sanctified, as it were, by the recollection of our tears ; and the thought of Agnes, too, possesses for us somewhat of a sacred character. Closing the volume, therefore, with the sound of that last eloquent and solemn sentence ringing in our ears—" 0 Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed ; so may I, when realities are melting from me like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing up wards !"—we would blend a heart's Godspeed with the utterance of our Farewell. From the brief but ear nest preface to this last and sweetest of the home stories of Charles DickenN we perceive that he him self, not less than his readers, looks eagerly forward to the time when, as of old, he shall put forth each month his " two green leaves." How cordially we sympathise with in this anticipation he himse tribute we have here offered to his masterpiece, David Copper field. HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Vol. I. Conducted by Charles Dickens. A weekly journal, published under the direction of the most popular writer of the age, was certain from the first moment of its announcement to secure for itself a wide and permanent circulation. That cordial support it has received from its very numerous sub scribers during the last seven months uninterruptedly, or rather we believe we should say increasingly, from the first morning of its appearance. Nor can we be surprised at the immense patronage accorded to Household Words, when we remember that its originator has the happiness to be regarded by thou sands and thousands of his fellow-creatures with an earnest and affectionate admiration. His rare and splendid genius has long secured to him self personally the regard of innumerable readers, who have found their appreciation of his great powers warmed into a sentiment of friendship. This, in all likelihood, is attributeable to the genial tone of his incomparable effusions, and to that gen tleness of feeling arising out of the depth and sweet ness of his sensibilities. Whatever the immediate reason may, or may not be, it is most certain that between Cftarles Dickens and his readers there exists a more intimate relation than exists in reference to any one of his contemporaries. Out of this well recognized communion of sympathies has come forth the instant popularity of the present cheap and excellent periodical—a popularity accorded to it at the outset purely in homage to the celebrity of its originator. More than this, however, must now be acknowledged in allusion to Household Words, a weekly journal of vigorously esta blished reputation. A first volume of no mean dimensions having been completed, we may consider ourselves justified in forming some estimate of the general merits and pervading character of the publi cation. A judgment upon the organ in its present stage of advancement can no longer be viewed as one pronounced ex pede Herculena. By this time, at any rate, we can recognise the proportions of our new contemporary, and comprehend, in some measure at least, its proposed tendency and disposition. Upon both we can speak in terms of altogether unqualified approbation—upon the tendency as calculated to be eminently instructive and beneficial, upon the dis position as one singularly cheerful and exhilarating. Throughout the whole of the papers there can be readily detected a wholesome leaven—the leaven of the genius of Dickens, a genius always prone to inculcate the loftiest truths under the most attrac tive garb imaginable. A new style of composition in one respect has been contrived in the pages of Household Words, a style so vivid, so graphic, so in tensely, and yet so truthfully coloured , so judici ously, and yet picturesquely descriptive, that within the compass of a brief essay the intricacies of a huge and complicated establishment are most lucidly re duced to comprehension, and the details of a chemical or mechanical process of manufacture given with the happiest attention to their sequence and relationship. Instances of this kind might be adduced from this single volume capable of suggesting materials for a dozed different periodicals. Take for example the masterly account given of the postal system in the paper entitled " Valentine's Day at the Post-office," a paper which formed the hint upon which Sir Francis B. Head penned his more elaborate article for the Quarterly ;, Take again, the chapter headed " P e t Prisoners, which Mr. Dickens has very re cently worked out yet more brilliantly in the closing number of David Copyrfield. Then, in like manner, " The Fire Brigade of London" fur nishes at once the most practical exposition of the ' working of that remarkable corp of public servants and the most astonishingly accurate description of a fire in the metropolis that we can anywhere call to our recollection. Similar in manner, but yet more ad mirable in its completeness, is the narrative given of the greatest of our astronomical observatories, in an inimitable contribution entitled " The Planet Watchers of Greenwich." Now we are introduced with the same sense of all-embracing reality into the " Pauper Palace," now again we enter the precincts of a" Paper Mill," everywhere charmed with the style of the writer, and everywhere deriving from his slightest syllable some grain of good and useful knowledge. Mingled with these delightful papers are humorous effusions, such as the band of " Boz" alone in all the world could produce—such matchless passages of satire and wit as ! those presumed to come directly from the " Raven of the Happy Family." Besides which we obtain from Mr. Dickens himself some of his own personal expe riences, as in the instance of the " Begging Letter impostor." Simple and entertaining stories, such as " Lizzie Leigh," or " Little Mary ;" surprising ec centricities like the " Visit to Skitsland" ; scientific articles rendered comprehensible to the most unscien tific, articles to wit such as the one on the "Chemistry of a Candle," make up, with miscellaneous contribu tions of the most varied kind, the bulk of the whole publication. Sprinkled among these prose portions of Household Words are poetical fragments, in some instances worthy of being classified under that phrase of Shakspere ; an assertion which may in some degree be credited when we observe that gossip has affixed one sonnet on Mr. Justice Talfourd, and when we remark that in one or two other cases we have fancied we could detect the exquisite tones of the voice of -Tennyson. With such materials for the contents, we cannot be surprised that Household Words has main tained the popularity originally accorded to it purely .for the sake of Charles Dickens, and looking ba ck upon what has already been accomplisheO, we 1 every confidence in its sustaining its reputation. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE. The paper on the military tribes of Central Asia, which appears in the United Service for the present month, treats of matters of the very highest political importance. The writer, who is evieently well acquainted with his subject, exposes the intrigues of Russia, followed up now perseveringly for more than a century, to obtain, by force or fraud, dominion over the military tribes of Central Asia, for the purpose of opening for herself a route to India, the Sovereigns of Russia looking to Calcutta for a repayment of these advances. At the present 'day Asia swarms with Russian emissaries—they were in AffghanLitan and in Sinde, exciting the people to destroy the British, they are in the Punjaub and in India. The military tribes of Central Asia abhor the Russians, and by extending our frontier to the Hindoo Koosh we should come in immediate contact with those tribes who are disposed to be friends and allies of the British. Already have we advanced our frontier to the Khyber Pass, our safety requires that we should have the command of that pass and of Affghanistan ; we have twice conquered that country, and but for faults the most glaring should have held it. The Punjaub and Sinde are now oars, and we therefore have that which we had not at the time of Elphiostone's disastrous retreat from Caubul, a basis for our military operations in Affghanistan, and the means of keeping open our communications; and while our possession of Caubul, K4ndahar, and Herat would open to us the markets of Central Asia, we should obtain recruits for our Indian army from the hardy military tribes whieh inhabit that vast region, and whose hatred of R uss i a i s in tense. Such is the policy advocated by the writer of this paper, a policy well worthy the consideration of those to whom are confided the future desti n i es o f our Indian empire. The opening paper of the United Service recommends the institution of a British Le gion of Honour, and we certainly concur in the re commendation ; we would have no distinction in the order. Those wbo had won it, whether privates or officers, should be alike decorated with the simple iron cross as recommended by this writer, and we would add, that every member of the legion should ipso facto be enfranchised, and entitled to vote in Parliamentary elections in any borough or county in which he might chance to reside, on merely register ing himself, without being subjected to the operation of the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act, as other voters are. There are several professional papers of a high order of merit in the United Service Magazine for November. THE GENTLEMAN'S. Sylvanus Urban takes the Edinburgh reviewer to task for his recent defence of M. Panizzi's method of cataloguing the British Museum Library, and, after having read both articles, we cannot but admit that Sylvanus hath the best of the argument, and has put both M. Panizzi and his defender completely hors de combat. The interesting diary of the Earl of Egmont is continued, and in the present instalment we have a report of the debate in the House of Com mons, on the 31st January, 1728.9, on the motion for continuing the same number of land forces as the pre vious year, and which soon became a debate on the whole of the Ministerial policy, foreign and domestic, in which the Pulteneys (Daniel and William), the Walpoles (Sir Robert and Horace), " down-right Shippen," as Pope calls him, and all the Parliamentary celebrities of the day, took part. We rise from the perusal of this debate with a much higher opinion of the abilities of Sir Robert Walpole as a debater, a logician, and a statesman than we had previously entertained. We have also in this number some original letters of Bishop Bedell, an interesting Biography of Andre Chenier, and several communications on antiquarian matters. The number is illustrated by a portrait of the late Mr. Thomas Dod, the most learned print collector that ever lived, of whom we have a copious biography, and by views of Clare Castle, St. Julian's, Norwich, and other examples of Gothic architecture. THE NAUTICAL. In the Nautical Magazine for November there is to be found, in addition to much useful information on nautical sukjects generally, the most full and accurate account that has yet appeared of the proceedings of the recent Arctic expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. It is illustrated by a lithographic chart of Barrow Strait, Prince Regent's Inlet, &c. TAI T'S. TaiCs opens with a very interesting article, " Notes of a Traveller." occasioned by Mr. Laing's " Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People, in 1848 and 1849." The principal subject of this article is the somewhat complicated question of the law of primogeniture, versus territo rial division. The ill effects of peasant proprietor ship, and the minute division of land, when carried to an extreme, are contrasted with the gooi results of the system, in a prima facie view. From a table of figures, given in the course of these observations, it is shown that in England forty per cent. of the revenue is raised by Customs duties ; in Prussia, twenty per cent.; and in France, twelve. Equally worthy of consideration is the concluding article of Tait's, " Colds and Cold Water." In a smart and lively strain the writer laments the depressing influence of cold, bewailing the many great works and noble actions prevented or marred by the evil agency of "a cold ;" as the best preservative against which " cold water" is commended, a simple, in expensive, and easily attainable remedy. An interest ing story, " Sinners and Sufferers," commences in this number. THE CATHOLIC. After an interesting chapter on the " Religion er. Byron," in which the justice of Sir Walter Scott's remark about the great poet—" I thought he would end by becoming a Catholic"—is argued by the con tributor, we have a continuation of •' Martha Baliol's Diary," and the completion of the " Recollections of Bishop Baines." In the last-mentioned article we find the subjoined statement, one which will be read with curiosity by the almost numberless admirers of the author of the "Irish Melodies :"- -" One assurance which Dr. Baines gives me at this time must be interesting to very many. We were speak ing of Tom Moore, the poet, whotn all the world may not know to have been born and bred a Catholic; but some of whose publications all the world unfortunately does know to be inconsistent with the dictates of religion: Oh, he is a good boy now; exclaimed the Bishop in reply to some observation of mine; he is a good boy now: I have been with him, and he is all right'—giving me to understand that he bad fulfilled his religious du ties by confession and holy communion. This assurance may be a comfort to many who lament over his present sad bereavement and inability to atone for the past." The " Verses for the Month" are taken from a vo lume of Church hymns, rendered into English by Mr. Beste. The foreign correspondence in this num ber of the Catholic Magazine and Register will be found more than usually attractive, containing a great variety of documents relating to the late appointment of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. The People's Journal abounds in agreeable tales and interesting sketches. In the present number are two criticisms by Parson Frank on George Prince Regent James and William Makepeace Tbackeray. The latter is an able and earnest eutogium ; but we cannot quite coincide with the opening remarks of the former article, where, among other things, we find one of the greatest writers of our day spoken of as " the Pelham Baronet." One of the most inter esting contributions to this number consists of two chapters of " 'Wanderings and Ponderings," bearing the initials "E.L. B. They record a " Flight through the Factories of Manchester," and are filled with useful pieces of information, enlivened with amusing remarks. A visit to an umbrella factory affords a happy specimen of these two characteristics: —" Everybody has heard and many know from ex perience that at Manchester it is always raining ; but few perhaps are aware that the balance of compen sation is tolerably well preserved by Manchester making umbrellas for the rest of the world. We paid a visit to one of these factories, where upwards of five hundred bands are constantly employed making umbrellas for other hands to hold. From this esta blishment an umbrella has been turned gut complete every minute for the last ten years." On considering this fact, and remembering that there are several other factories in Manchester alone, no wonder the writer adds—" We may begin to associate another marvel with the celebrated problem of the pins, and wonder what becomes of all the old umbrellas." We are also informed that "a periodical fluctuation go verns the statistics of the umbrella market to an ex tent that would puzzle a political economist to ac count for. For one series of years the rage is for the round knobs, and then fur the next the hook han dles are alone considered saleable. The regular re currence of these two periods and their unvarying duration form, of course, the most singular part of the subject, as there is no palpable reason for,this alterna tion of choice." The observant traveller wag grati- fled with the apparent comfort of the operatives em ployed in this manufacture. On hearing that many of them bad savings in the bank—an unusual cir cumstance among people of their class—he remarks that " possibly the suggestive nature of tbeir employ ment may have thus advantageously led them to pro vide. against' a rainy day.'" A MAN BuuNED io DEATH. --011 Thursday last Mr. Ilerford, borough coroner, held an inquest at the Royal Infirmary on the body of a . man named Samuel Siddall, 22 years of age, a warp-sizer, living at Blac . kley. It appeared that about a mouth ago the deceased's noes.ister was stitching b an dages on his knees. and having asors to cut the thread with, she put a lighted candle to it to burn it. This set the band a g es, which bad been steeped in turpentine, on fire, and the deceased was soon enveloped in flames. He jumped out of bed, and ran into another room, where the names were extinguished by his father. He was much burned about the legs and was taken to the Infirmary, where he died yesterday week from the effects of the injuries. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental deatb."—litanchester Guardian..