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4fsn fl e e ting the gpncril appearance cf the crop, both here ` On the continent, are very favourable. Th© 1 10:izOILT4r' UOP DICa.7VSET. a lt ° tmtation accounts being very favourable, the , ti;e3. Pl alvaneed to 180,000/. NotNithstanding th d of B a p s on off,r is very moderate, the general 3p heavy-,and prices are not supported. Mid irtot.ist Kent i oekets: Bito 1 0 1; Wed of Kent ditto, d• 7 " Sussex ''t 5/ 5. to 6/ 6s ; Yearlings, 1 / 1 5 to t° 41 ; Old Hops, 11 to 31. per cat. Th e • WOOL. I mports of Wool into London, last week, were a2lextensive, viz., 2,000 bales from Hobart Town; 12 d ditto from Port Beaufort; 15 from Constantinople; 12d iro n' liamburgh; 6.500 from Sydney, 765 from Ade fro" el 143 from the Cape; 124 from Aloxandria; 169 'lagarlore; 14 from Odessa; and 233 bags from tili, 4 , n n• The public sales will not be brought to a close `"° end of the present wet k. Those held since our thereport have been well attended by buyers, mid nearly ibo l/hola of the Wool off red hag changed hands, at ill j i lt th e °Piling prices. British Wool is in fair . request n. t' Private contract market; but all other kinds are gieeted, TALLOW. 1 , 41 th • s from St. Peter,burgh, dated the 29th ult., 11 t-e h uo a. about 8,000 ea,ks of Tallow had changed Si ", at 109 to 110 rouble:=, with a steady market. price our last report t h e d eman d h as ru l e d h eav y, and op ' 8 hiv e given way ;Inite 31 per cwt. To- dly P.Y.G. th e j'e spot i s se lli ng at 36: 9d, an d f or d e li very during aS t al three months 37s 61 61 per cwt. Town Ta:low, per cwt ' net ca 4 -0, Rough fat 2: Pr 81bs. 1846. St et NB day ••• • ' . 9,87dt ?ri ce et . r • C. .... I to42sosood ,Nbil'ivery last Week 609 ultt o f ro A In June 1.. • • 2.914 ,tl,'lla last Week . 146 ir !Ito fro, June 1 ... 1,899 Nee Of Town .•.. • • 43s Od /40t- 1847. 1848 1 1850. 7,833 7.649 23,626 25,084 495 Od 44s Gd 385 3d to 365 8d to 49s lid to 415 34 38s Gd to Os Od 669 i r 1,151 765 824 4,316 7,581 3,469 5,110 80 227 1,=77 1,937 4,010 6,543 3,622 4,570 sls Od 46s 6d 39s 6d i 38s Od (Situ EN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) - Ng at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.) atsHARRIS V. HEWITT. OW N W as a running-down case. The plaintiff was the th a fishing smack called the Providence, and Sigccdant owns ' another fishing smack called the Jett re, betweenen which the cullision which was the sub itof h touk place. Sorgeant Sbee was counsel for the plaintiff, d f i r * Watson Q C and Mr. Brown represented the e klant ' • '' Th e • act ion Was brought to obtain compensation in 400/ ales for the loss of the Providence, valued at ahout e4lhich Lunclered in consequence, as was alleged, of tlieu6ion. with the Spitfire, aid of the negligence of itat-velvalta of th e detends,nt. Oa the 4th Nevetnb. - 3r of otli e ;? the two s hip s i n q iest i on , w ith a number of ~ktot ti ; 8114 ;g -smack s , were i n th e vi c i n ity of Winterton t`forf 1 1 : 11 t he North Sea, about fifty miles from the ? apin e° a s r, and the Spitfire was returning fcom deli tedaner cargo on board a carrier cutter called the 0 4 b and the Pro v id ence was a b out to d e li ver h er cargo deneaard the latter vessel, when the Spitfire and Provi Provaicrtne into collision, and the result was that the tit Y lest Provide me with a c argo o f fi s h, was sunk and en both great amount of conflicting evidence was given on ektiseVes as t o which of the vessels was i n fault, and the otbe th r e accident, each party imputing the blame to Th e ~ • "a s e Was proceeding when our report left. gli trn )(Cll EQ UER.—(THIS DAY.) k i gs in B anco after Term, before the LORD CHIEF --It ° l 4 and Barons ALDERSON, ROLFE, and PLATT.) THE GORHAM CASE. thehe T A , DECISION. ert—RD CH/EF BARON delivered the judgment of k it -urt in this case. After stating the facts involved tek ' end reviewing the various proceedings . which had 4 11 P l ace in the Court of Arches, the JudicialCone feefer, a Privy Council, the Courts of Queen's Bench e tie r , '?intaen Pleas, he proceeded two ay, that th n e in q nisi sh e , W oleh they had to decide was ether the r 4 1 , 4 4 1 4 or should not be made absolute, and that question Courted two points—first, whether the case before the Ra t . Was a case which touched the Crown, and if it t to e h,eu why, and iu that event there was Queen in ,_ esnot that an appeal to t he tt u se u e lleil Was good; and, secondly, whether Ra se lot app ea l from the Court of the Archbishop t trter t t° the Queen. Upon the first point the Court en troye.:ied considerable doubt, whether the matter . in con % Y touched the Crown or not; le r „ were but it was not ne- II of ror the Court to decide that point, for they i. the itel k :`, ?Pinion that by the 25th of Henry VII ti t 4 ' m all c f rom the Archbisho's Court was to j e ,,, , eas es . %pettimid C ommittee of the Privy Council. That , t!f i s e o s e hiehr had be the result of the most eminent authorities Lordship then toti ew (l been cited at the bar. % Ile l e- 111°80 authorities, and said they as for.al! agreed that 4 41 . 1 1 s fr om the decisions of the Archbishop w 1, 4/ 01, 111y oti t t ° tee lle King in Chancery, and now to the Judicial ef the Privy Council. In the present case, tharterece, that was rather a matter of curious speculation th an eas e ()arp' Practical importance, for in either view of aere e!,°o Proceedings before the Judicial Committee it fetthe-e" f oUndee, and in either view there could , m be no Ida arleal!..Peal. Probably, if they were compelled to de - .op - uestion, they would come to the same conclu : to a u the ot her Ceurts of Westminster, that there wa-, bek i t e4l , the Upper House of Convocation. The bat lII—, nowever beforethem was, not whether there R ep the ever, ot the 28th of VIII. c. 19, atotiehilltpeoal to the Convocation in . some stagy es o f f. e c e a c s e es . Visti e j `Lie Queen, but whether in all mannero andl leashes kin ache there vvas an appeal to the Archbishop S hrl le g in chancery. The Court thought ther e was, kitt at there wt , s now an appetl to the Jud i cia l eities• Their jui t was founded on what th ey eta etetoiebe_e_the true construction leii of the statutes, and on At" 1 eminent authorities which it had been incorrectly fus e, , fle a l l's a contrar y conclus i on. On the whole, there dotibt‘co his T; .. . enter t aining, as we dc', no erthhip) do ep: °tl ,agedquestion before us, and as we l t::: the ® et concurring and a a ss farwd e her courts of Westminster-hall, hat think with every judge of all the courts, we and tip e „'" 11 We should be justified in creating delay Ns: i.,1.4 sanctioning further proceedings with t e Otis ;„ - e • °Acing the opi i of the House of Lords, and Rule, is that the rule be discharged with coats. The, accordingly, discharged. 114 slap no n e ou ncemen was received with cheers and 1 ands, which aroused the indignation of Mr. ltia,i eelderson, who observed that either apauding or 0f• le W a s equally offentive and disgracefuin courts Of the t ees and that he should give directions tot he officers so fat rurt to take into custody any person who should ea r f orget himselfas to beagain guilty of such ab cond T I , tier. t,lle;creesu.‘rt was crowded in every part, and among „sir a i t ., "It we noticed Mr. Gorbarr;the Bishop of the L " I ' , fled several other clergymen connected with tdeblished Church. ch l , ______________ anNAL COURT._(THIS DAY.) Th e j , OLD COURT. be n , d titY session s of the Central Criminal Court were e .4. cem this morning before the Lord Mayor, t oth er sr, the Common Sergeant, and Aldermen &re tell, Marshall, Hunter, and Duke. Mr. Sheriff Law ti ve d e (I", Mr. Sheriff Nichol, a tended by their respec the kites, were also in attendance. f 1 ,,, first edition of the calendar contains the names retiraprisoners, distributed thus-24 from London, 88 liti,,teilliddlesex, 2 from Essex, 5 from Kent, and 11 front T he T .. Grand Jury having been sworn and empannelled, 10ei,," Learned RECORDER charged them to the lol ketw7 The short interval which had elapsed for the the late and the present sessions, would account t ee IlUmber of crimes being less than on ordinary Of 1.,„43. pri s oners l endr, in fact, contains the names i ofien,u3 ; they were charged with severe to th!., the great majority of them having reference tikev,, felonious acquisition of property. At the same okfttris cif: vs e f o a le tV t) e c r e e 28 cases more immediately relating to , such as cutting and wounding, 6 charges hf tk l aughter, and 12 cases of misdemeanour, most Ise."col attended with seine degree of violence. There th: one case of rape, and seven cases of robbery from e tit eri°u ' ac c o mpanied by violence. The most inter eaoselt ease of as sau l t, and the one calling forth the indi gnation, wa s t h at reof a ng her Majesty, which he person charged with shou have to advert thi re after, when he should call the ld attention to the e Of the most wholesome statute recently passed for tt e; ratite immediate protection of the person of her ea4aSty from violence and insult. With regard to the lik e s ° I cutting and wounding, they were not all of the V4tde°43Plexion, some of them being of a more aggra that tb eh artteter than others. He lamented to observe ter; ''') frequent use of the knife was becoming a tne-r°6ol„subject for consideration . in this country. For. req.." re prehensible, but still more manly mode of L ot one , , k e an insult was by having resource to the fist., Dtove; il e a PPilY in the present day, upon the slightest altd C ea s ro Parties were base enough to resort to h t a n d e g k i n v i e f n e IllettC,l'et dangerous wounds upon those who brought him to oho•-Lence. These general observations . er,e case . to which he had already slightly . alluded, pain eZd which he could not refer to without feeling 410:igestion, more especially as the charge was made *biej t a Person in a better condition of life than that as %fel:lege ordinarily led to the commission of such of Ittel n ' The charge against the party was that Ils F_ roet the carriage of the Queen, he extended IltltOrto into the carriage, and with a riding the ing the e er , ( l . cane which he held in his hand struck Of he r l ue tld of her Majesty, as well as disarranged part i t the t u i res a , nee __, , wely the bonnet which her Majesty wore Vree i et ra c• It appears that no personal harm or injury toe rise to but still the indignation which the insult these 1,,,,,,e 10 Was not the less painful, nor was the offence aatl he ii,l°Plete ; and if the facts were established,. Would had cot the slightest doubt that they would, it ths que li sa t en be t he duty of the grand jury to investigate wicked acc.as to whether so strangeand.perversely eyed th e 'marked from any want of sanity, but to te 3 caste for further enquiry elsewhere. The question the the sanity or insanity of the accused :was one which tll were n ot called upon to try • they had only to deal offe tee lu, simpl e fat attending' the committal of the te t hiet etld blC3 h 9o the Legislature bad provided a dis freevtatuareltpnayrate mode for deciding this matter. They ' in th led to assume that there must be some Petty who, witehoUnntderstanding or the state of mind of a Nraiting this feeli a°Y Provocation, could be guilty of the Sovereign Rai mast of attachment and loyalty towards Ittel • ' W atch i • et, Partlettlarly wh en u this country knew no limits, 1„/ against the S tever a°ch an insult was directed not the pr o._ esen ce of he:igenhldbut against an amiable lady "44 attention to the term s r "a• He would now call ibt., 1461 remedy was apnli t,c l the statute by which a ba'oPpily instances 1 3 a -- to Cities of this nature. '''' ,l llll, we re , ue , a ocCUrred where parties who, vs fit tile teQpiallt reiponsible for flair acts, hat, from a love of notoriety, or some other cause, ye aurcd to discharge loaded fire-arms at her M grealy to her alarm, and causing much anxi, tv in the mind of the public, from ignote.neo of the precise intention of such parties; and, then fore, a new remedy was sought for to meet such abominable cases. It was thought that as the offence was infamous, the punish ment for such outrages ought to be the same; aud, ac cordingly. by the sth and 6iti Vic, chap. 51, sec. 2. it was enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act, all parties who should be convicted of having fired or presented arms at her Majesty, or of having struck or struck at her Majesty with any weapon or stick, not with the intention of doing personal injury, but only to alarm her MAjesty, and outrage public feeling, should be liable to be transported beyond the sets fir seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding three years, and during such pe riod to be publnly or privately whipped as often, and in such manner and form, as the Court should order, but not exceeding twice. This Act, however, did not abrogeve or interf,re with the law of high trea son, and any party who should be ,guilty of such an offence, with intent to destroy the life of her Majesty, would be still liable to be arraigned as of old. He bad read the whole of the modern Act, because too much pub'teity could not be given to its wholesome provisions for pretecting her Majesty, not only from violence, but from that alarm to which no one of manly mind could wish or desire her Majesty to be exposed. He had alrt ady told them that they had nothing whatever to do with the sanity or insanity of the accused—that was a separate question, which the law provided should be tried by a special jury, to be em pannelled for the purpose, who would have the power of c,rivi.;!iog the prisoner, or of acquitting him on the ground of insanity, or of his having been irresponsible for the act at the time he committed it ; and then he would be retie to be detained in custody during the pleasure of the Crown. He had entered into these details, because it would naturally strike a person that a party who not only moved in, comparatively speaking, an elevated sphere of life, but had actually held a commission in her Majesty's service, would hardly be guilty of such au abominable, so dastardly an offence, while in his right senses; and his excuse for occupying their time a few minutes longer than he otherwise should have dons, was his anxiety to point out to them that they had nothing whatever to do with that part of the question. Having made these few gene ral remarks upon the state of the calendar, and called their asp cial attention to this particular case, it now only remained for him to dismiss them to their duties, which he was glad to tell them were not likely to be very heavy. The grand jury then retired, and having shortly after wards returned true bills in some minor cases, petty juries were called, and the trials proceeded with. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) The ad,Vurned sessions for the county of Surrey commenced this morning, at the Court-house, Newing ton-causeway, before Thomas Puckle, Dq., and a full bench of magistrates. The Calender contained the names of only 30 prisoners. Henry Thom, 24, and John Field, 19, two labourers, were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of Richard Colebrook, at Chertsey, and stealing there m twenty-nine sovereigns and other money, his pro perty. Field pleaded guilty, and without the least hesitation the jury found his companion guilty. The Court sentenced them to ten years' transpor tation. As soon as sentence was passed, Thom turned round upon his companion in a furious manner, and would have killed him had not an officer been behind him. He was forced away and taken to the cells with great difficulty. The prosecutor here interceded fir Field, who he knew to be the dupe of the other, when the Court called him back and reduced his sentence to twelve months, at Guildford. THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL. IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH. Before the fatal accident which befell the universally deplored Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Baronet had not been in his usual health. Fur a week or two he had looked unusually pale and languid; but on the occasion of his speech in the debate on the foreign policy of the Government, delivered on the morning of the fatal in jury he looked well and vigorous; his address was ad mired by the whole House, acd he exhibited no defi ciency of mental power or spirit. It has been rumoured that Sir Robert fell from his horse in an epileptic seizure, and that in his convul,ive clutchings of the rein, his horse stumbled, and fell upon him. But there is, we are assured, on the best authority, no truth whatever in this story of an epileptic fit. Nothing of the kind was observed by those persons who were near him at the moment of the accident, nor did any of the subsequent symptoms point in the least degree to such an occur rence. The fall was accidental, and the subsequent in sensibility was doubtless caused by the shock of the injury. It is of importance, we should observe, that we hare the best authority for stating that Sir Robert Peel never in his life had a symptom which indicated any affection of the brain. _ _ _ As soon as surgical aid was procured, it was found that there was a comminuted fracture of tho left cla vicle, with considerable spoiling from the first, which, together with the excruciating pain of the whole shoul der, rk ndered a minute examinatitm extremely difficult. A swelling as large as the hand might cover, subse quently formed below the fractured clavicle, which pul sated t...) the t..uch sy Deb ronouf ly with the action of the heart. lYhe, examined carefully by the eye, it was found that the movement of this tumour corresponded with the contraction of the auricle, and was, in some re spects, sirei'ar to the pulsations ob,ervi d in the veins of the neck in very thin person', and in certain forms of venous regurgitation. It was evident, from these signs, that some vein beneath the clavicle, probably the sub clavian, had been wounded by the broken bone at the time of the fall ; and that the subclavicular swelling consiAed of blood effused from the wounded vessel. It was also evident, that the swelling was in this way, c innected wi;h the heart, foaming what might be called, a diffused fa'se venous aneurism. This was all that could he ascertained t ositively. Sir Robert Peel was well known to be of a gouty habit, and he was at all times extremely sensitive to physical pain. His sufferings during the whole of his brief illness were of the most agonising kind. This might have arisen from the lace ration of some nerves converging beneath the collar bone, to form the axillary plexus—a complication which, as is well known, sometimes occurs from severe frac tures in this situation. After death, one or two of the ribs on the left side were found to be fractured, which had not been detected during life. The injuries we have referred to would have been sufficient to cause death in such a subject; but there may possibly have been fur ther injury, or disease, resulting from the accident, within the chest. This, however, was, as we have said, extremely difficult to make out. From consideration to the feelings and the express wishes of Lady Peel and her children, no examination of the body has taken place, so that what we have stated is probably the sum of all that will ever be known of the cause of the death of this illustrious statesman; but upon the authenticity of what we have now placed before our readers may rely most implicitly. t•iir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Caesar Hawkins, Dr. Seymour, Mr. St aw, and Dr. Foucart, were in attendance upon Sir Robert until his death. The latter gentleman is a Scotch physician, resident in Glasgow, who happened to be passing when the accident occurred. He was one of the first to raise Sir Robert from the ground, and accompanied him in Mrs. Lucas's carriage home, where he continued in constant attend ance, with the full concurrence and sanction of Sir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Caesar Haw kins.—Lancet. ARRIVAL OF HIS REMAINS AT DRAYTON MANOR. TAMWORTH, SATURDAY EVENING.--It would be difficult to give any idea of the gloom which pervades this place and the surrounding neighbourhood. Every one speaks and !eels as if be had lost, in the death of Sir Robert Ptel, a personal friend. The intelligence of his demise created a profound sensation in Tamworth, but the I:elieg of sorrow at the sad event has, if possible, been greatly deepened since the ar rival of his remains. It was sought to keep concealed from the inhabitants the time when the body would arrive at the station, in order that there might be no manifestation of public feeling on the occasion. With the same object in view it was ar ranged by the friends of the late Right Hon. Gentleman in London, that the remains should not reach Tamworth till the hour of midnight. The fact, however, got whis pered in the course of yesterday that the coffin contain ing his body would arrive about twelve at night; many hundreds of the inhabitants, being determined on taking every opportunity of showing their respect for the emory of th e d ecease d, p rocee d e d as ear ly as ten o'clock to the station to await the arrival of the train, where they sated they would remain till daylight if ne cessary, rather than not be present when it reached Tamworth. On the hearse containing the coffin being taken out of the "a took carri age , off their hate, while many were aff e cted even to the congregated multitude tears. Th ey also accompanied the procession to the town of Tamworth , and 93 Dray ton Manor, a any of them wen t a ll th e wa y t o distance, of two-mil es an d a h a lf. Th e deceased remains of the i!r reached hi s c o un t r y re sid e n ce ,i about one o'clo c k . Frederick P ee l, hi s SOD and Ma carriage r. Lawrence Peel, hia' brother, accompanied the hearse . At the funeral on Tgueess,claz,_ morning there will be twelve mourning carria engaged for the occasion. a llardinge, Sir James Lor h d ieh have already been Graham, and Mr. Goulburn, are Theontuthose who are sure to be present at the funeral. Sir r k ß e of o Welling ton has been invited by the family of that h h is er f t e to be also present, but the impression here is will not allow him to accept an invitation which ) would otherwise have done with a melancholy plea s ure. be Though it is the wish of the family there should 1e its few followers as possible of the funeral train, it is under stood here that not only will all the inhabitants of Tam worth be present to render their last tribute of respect to the remains of the deceased, but that thousands of persons will come to witness the funeral ceremony from all parts of the country for many miles around. In the meantime the blinds in private houses are drawn, and the shops partially closed throughout the whole place. The town of Tamworth has consequently a very sombre aspect. As a stranger walks through its streets and lanes, he can hardly divest his mind of the idea that there are th.s remains of a departed relative or friend in every house. As a further token of respect for the memory of the deceased .statesman, the inhabitants will all go into mourning, as if they had each lost a personal friend. The churches and chapel., too, are all to be hung in black cloth, while funeral sermons be preached from all the pulpits of the place. It baa just been stated that a telegraphic dispatch has i t beau received anuoulichag the arrival of Mr. (now Sir Robert) Peel at Dover, in which case he may be ex pected here te-morrow. It is supposed that ho will sue ce-ii his late tether in ihe representation of this borough. Last night the inhabitants met in the Town•hall, to a.tree to an address of c ndoleuce to the family of the deeea.ed. The place, as might be expected, was crowded. The grief which pervaded every mind was viAble in evt ry eount , tnance, as well as expressed in the tone and manner of the speakers. The mayor having called the mewing, presided over it, Among those pre sent were Sir Charles Clarke, Bart., General A'Court, and the Rev. Mr. Barslon, vicar of the parish. The latter reverend gentleman read the letter of condolence to the family of their late representative, the adop tion of which was moved ,by Sir Charles Clarke. It is unnecessary to say that it was unanimously adopted by the meeting. I have just learned that it has been proposed by some of the most influential men in Birmingham that on the day of Sir Robert Peel's funeral all the church bells should to tollf d, all the shops shut, and business be en tirely suspended, as a mark of respect for the memory of the iliustriuus deceased. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 11 Matrintonio Segretto was repeated on Saturday with the same powerful cast as on Thursday, and the chef dceuvre of Ciiparosa was received with that rap turous applause which its perfirmance by such accom plished artistes as Sontag, Frezzultni, Parodi, the La blaches (Here et fils), and Calzolari never fai!it to elicit. The Puritan?: is to be performed to morrow, with Gardoni as Arturo, Madame Frez z Aid as Eiviro, and Lablache as Giorgio; it will be f,llowed by a divertissement, in which the black prima ch nna, who has driven Madrid and Paris wild by hrr astonishing execution of Cuban melodies, will appear for the first time in Englaed. The Queen's box was on Saturday evening occupied by the Hon. Mrs. Cust, Miss Cust, the Hun. Flora Macdonald, Captain Macdonald and party. Amongst the company were the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis _and Marchioness of Douro, and Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Cleve laud and Lady Augusta Paulo r, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds and Miss Elizabeth Lane Fox, the Prince Troubetskoi, the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow, the Viscountess Combermere, Madlle. Olga de Lechner and party, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van der Weyer, the American Minister and Mrs. and Miss Abbot Lawrence, the Swedish Minister, the Mar quis of Donegal, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Worces ter, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl and Countess Malmesbury, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl Compton, the Earl Gifford, the Earl of Cardigan, the Baron Vidal, the Earl and Countess of Eglinton, the Earl Mount charlrs, the Earl Bruce, the Earl of Munster, the Viscount Dupplin, the Count de Berke, the Viscount Ranelagb, the Viscount Clifdeo, Lord and Lady Francis Gordon, the Viscount Enfield, the Baroness (Dowager) de Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, the Baron Adolphe do Roths• child, &c. • LITERAT URE. THE SOLITARY, and OTHER POEMS. By Charles Whitehead. In dedicating h's volume of verses to the Lord Francis L2veson Gower, Mr. Whitehead has evinced a laudable discrimination, seeing th - it among all his contemporaries scarcely any is more peculiarly quali fied by the due admixture of taste and scholarship to es timate the value of any such literary performance. With many inequalities, the style ofour author is on the whole agreeable and satisfactory ; and the tendency of his muse to the mournful by way of preference to the gay, might be conjectured scarcely less from the selection of subject indicated by the title of his principal poem, than the quotation from Lord Bacon affixed as a motto to his title-page :—" Yet, even if you listen to D prid's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols." 0 her tokens of this predilection may be observed also among the themes of his miscellaneous productions, in the " Dirge of Ophelia," for example, or in the "Riddle of Life," or in the lines commemorative of the " Death of Chatterton." In the last-mentioned he has had to compete, and that not altogether unsuccessfully, with the comparisons provoked by the famous ode of Coleridge. The first production in the volume, "The Solitary," is penned in the meat gorgeous, but also the most artificial of all stanzas, the Spenserien. Among the more prominent expressions scattered through the poem, some are very fine and others very fantastic. What, for instance, but sheer absurdity can be detected in that line (p. s) `' The moon glides o'er the heaven with printless tread t" On the contrary, the phrase is very nobly introduced where the writer calls Chaos (p. 8.) —" Time's yes terday." As a fair specimen of Mr. Whitehead's powers of scenic painting, we may transcribe the following (p. 12): " Laid at the foot of some old tree, whose boughs Leafladen, bent, their soften'd shadows wed • In the clear water, on whose surface ploughs His venturous way the midge, with trailing thread: The dusky-spotted moth, his wings half-spread, Goes flagging drowsily across the mere, The Druid tett() slumbers overhead; A shrunk leaf wavers down untimely sere; No sound that silence hears but the rapt senses hear." While the first poem in the volume is thus exclu sively contemplative, " The Story of Jasper Brooke," in a different metre, wanders off directly afterwards, and rather delightfully into the narrative. Besides these, the readers of Mr. Whitehead will be variously entertained by_the " Ode to a River," (p. 153), reminding one of Coleridge's famous scheme of a poem, called " The Brook," a singular chimera in rhyme entitled " Ippolito," and a play, in three acts, containing some of the best things in the volume, called " The Cavalier." The book altogether is in teresting as the rhythmical effusion of Charles White head, the romantic biographer of Richard Savage. CAPTAIN SWORD and CAPTAIN PEN. A Poem. By Leigh Hunt. Our allusion to the present republication is pro voked principally by our estimate of the Arbitration Movement. A third edition of any satire so popular as this satire upon war and warriors is, by no means, reason for surprise;' our only amazement being that the honours of such a reprint were not long since accorded to one of the most humane, and not the least infelicitous of the poetical productions of Leigh Hunt. Upon Leigh Hunt we can never cease to look as upon one of the most genial and delightful writers in the whole range of our literature. His " Story of Rimini" has long since gained him a genuine repute among our modern poets, as his "Feast of the Poets" had already done among our satirists. It was natural, therefore, that " Captain Sword and Captain Pen" should at once have been welcomed by a multitude who regarded his name as one fraught with the pleasantest associations— especially seeing that, with all our hubbub about Wa terloo, and our illuminations about the Peninsula, we English are not infatuated worshippers of military glory or entirely deafened by the voice of fame to the gentler dictates of humanity. Hence this poetic satire was certain to acquire instant popu larity, celebrating as it did the peaceful triumphs of journalism over the warlike conquests of generalship. Toe work itself, in its details and in its completeness, has now for several years been familiar to the popula tion ; consequently any critical analysis of its peculiarities would be merely idle and supe rerogatory. Neither so idle or so supererogatory , however, is the very simple remark that these agitators of arbitration are very sad and blun dering plagiarists—taking to themselves a vast amount of credit for carrying out upon a wrong scheme altogether an idea broached many summers back by the poetic and sagacious hand of Leigh Hunt. To him is due the praise monopolised by these political adventurers who, like the Knight of La Mancha, are mistaking Quixotism for Chivalry. Leigh Hunt, with the intuitive keenness of a poet, recognised how it was that war might best be done away with—not by preposterous schemes„ for the premature disband ment of armies, but by exciting a horror against the atrocities 'sf - bittle, and by tearing the mask of pomp from the hideous front of carnage. It was from his judicious recognition of this necessity that Mr. Hunt penned this vigorous fiction of death and glory, where japtain Sword gains his last victory, while " Sneereth the trumpet and stampeth the drum" As a wholesome corrective to a merely f4ntastic and bootless agitation, we are gratified to welcome the third edition of a powerful and persuasive satire. Translated HERMAN AND DOROTHEA. from the German of Goethe. A charming version of this very , exquisite poem is here before us—the German hexatneters being dex terously and melodiously rendered by the translator into English hexameters. Anything further than an incidental comment on the faithfulness with which this masterpiece of the genius of Goethe has been" done" into our mother tongue, were a preposterous deprecia tion of the popularity acquired in this country by the great poet of Germany. " Herman and Dorothea," dedicated in nine books to the nine muses—the first book to Calliope, the second to Terpsichore, and so on to Thalia, Euterpe, Polyhymnia Clio, Erato, Melpomene, and Urania, presents to the imagination one of the loveliest pictures of domestic life, and h ou sehold aff.iction, and pastoral courtship, ever painted by the hand of a great master. Who that has once read it, can ever forget mine host of the Golden Lion, or his thrifty house wife, or the selfish surgeon, or the good natured pastor? Who can ever lose a recollection of Herman himself, or of his glorious Dorothea ? The scene between Herman and his mother under the pear tree (no wonder Goethe could never read it for g pr a o r e d e e s n si s o u n rr o o f un fu d g in it g ive th e e xi l t e a s ‘Ler t n h — e e t n h w eeping o—the description of the v in e yard and the ceouuncteo r un a t t o la f st th o e f the long-talked-of Dorothea in person—her approach at night, with Herman, to the house where his family are waiting for him—their preliminary contention and ultimate reconcilement are all sketched with the warm and glowing colours belonging only to the very highest order of ge nius. How felicitously the translator has caught the spirit of the original may be perceived from the manner in which he has rendered that celebrated passage opening book the seventh : "As the wandering traveller, shortly before the sun's setting, Gazes upon the full orb, too soon from his sight disap pearing, Until his eye the bright image retains and constantly sees it, Or in the gloom of the thicket, or on the face of the mountain, Dancing before him and glancing and waving in glorious colours; So, to the fancy of Herman, the magical form of the Maiden Sweetly appeared, and it seeni'd the pith of the corn .field to follow. • Bat from the startling dream he aw o k e, and unto the village Slowly wended his footsteps; yet did his wandering fancy, Once more picture the Maiden standing in beauty be fore him. Steadfastly gazed he upon be r• ,—this time it vas no illusion, It was herself, and she had in her hand a large and a small crock; Holding each by the handle, she busily went to the fountain." Here too is the famous description of her appearance as given by Herman in book the fifth:-. " Reality will you be able to single her out from all others, For 'tw4re a difficult task to find one like her in figure. Yet of her neat attire I'll point out something to guide you:-- nattily laced, a red stomacher sets off her well rounded figure, And a black boddice close fitting, within which rises in small plaits, her fair round throat Linen of purest whiteness , adorning. Free and bright is her bead, and the shape a delicate oval; Manifold braids of her hair are twined round the bod kins of silver; Ample and blue are her skirts from the stomacher gracefully falling, Playing around her footsteps, and shapely ancles dis closing." Earnestly do we hope that the translator may be in • duced to carry out the intentiou hinted at, at the close of his very interesting and intelligent " Intro duction," namely, that of submitting to the pub lic a similar version cf . Voss's " Luise"---a work which, as is well known, orig inall y su ggested the idea of " Herman and D.rothea " to Crbethe—that idea having been perfected in its p resent for m under the encouraging gaze of Schi ller. To the anonymous translator of this very delicious poem the English public are as much indebted for their introduction to Dorothea, as they were already to Mr. Carlyle for their acquaintance with the . angelie Migwo4 the .nbre Aurelia, the beautiful sprightly Philina, the soy Amazon, the bewitchin d Countess, and that most loveable but capricious of the female creations of Goethe, the actress MRI ianna. ONE HUNDRED SONNETS. By Henry Fra rah Lott. The genuine affection, for poetry which is evidenced by the mere publication of this little volume, of itself propitiates us strongly in its favour. Some of the fragments contained in it may perhaps be recog nized as having already appeared in our columns ; and hence we cannot but have some interest in the sonnets, although personally, in every way, total strangers to the sonnetteer. Mr. Lott must, one would opine, be fully qualified to appreciate the renown of Petrarcb, seeing that he has dedicated his powers solely to that peculiar form of reflective and erotic poetry in the cultivation of which the bard of Laura acquired his literary immor tality. Yet it must not be imagined by any means that the author of these one hundred sonnets is an imitator in all things. In his manner be has followed Petrarch, but whatever his thoughts are, they are his own, and sometimes fine thoughts they are too, and truly poetic. Nor has he blundered in selecting the sonnet as the mode in which those ideas should be conveyed • for assuredly the sonnet cannot be regarded as a sty le of ccenposition inappropriate to the language, seeing that the English tongue has been adorned by the sonnets of Milton, and, in our own time, by those of Wordsworth. As a token of the revival of a poetic taste among the masses, we hail the appearance of these sonnets by Henry Frank Lott, even though they number up one hundred. POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED. By W. G. T. Barter. We take Mr. Barter to be a sort of poetic wag— fond of perpetrating literary . eccentricities. Other wise never should we have seen this volume of metri cal effusions, preceded by a pert little preface, avow ing in its first line that "Poetry is a drug, and a Preface a bore." Among the translated pieces we find the first book of Homer's Iliad—so bald, so lean, so literal, that .such a translator would infallibly have tingled under the birch rather than the bays in the " good old times " of scholastic flaggellation. Among the original compositions we observe one entitled "Aberrations of Genius," and should be disposed to attribute the pre sent book to one of those same aberrations, but that we cannot in any one of these leaves detect the smallest modicum of that same genius. The subject of the first poem in the volume is a sort of scrambling ode "To a Cricket ;" it only serves to remind us, however, that we are anything but as merry as a cricket by the time we arrive at the conclusion. THE SITN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, . JULY 8, 1850. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. - Ressini's Otello was produced here last evening, with Tamberlik as Otello, Ronconi lago, Zelger Elmiro ' and Madame Grisi Desdemona. The p art of Desdemona has always bent a great part in the repertoire of Grisi, and albeit she scarcely looks " the gentle lady married to the Moor" whom Shakespere drew, yet she is an admirable operatic Desdemona, seeing that the Desdemona of Rossini is by no means " a gentle lady," but en impassioned Venetian, who can very well take her own part when occasion re quires. Grisi was in excellent voice on Saturday; she sung the music deliciously, and made all her old points with unerring precision—a compliment, by the-bye, which cannot be paid to the audience, who unaccounta bly neglected to encore the gem of the opera—the Willow Song. The Otello of Tamberlik was very fine; his "make up" was admirable, his acting most impassioned, and his singing superb; he is the most manly Otello on the stage. Ronconi was excellent as Iago; his duet with raraberlik, in the second act, was the very perfection of dramatic singing. Zelger, as Elmiro, although not equal to Lablache, was very effective. Maralti was a pains-taking Roderigo; and Mademoiselle Cotti an excellent Emilia. The choruses were ad mirably given, and the orchestra all that could be de sire d. The principal artistes were frequently called on during the course of the performance. The Queen's box was occupied by Lady George Lennox and the Hon. Miss Lennox, and Mrs. Locks and party. Amongst the com pany we remarked his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Countess Reventlow, Countess Hilda Reventlow, and Count Christian Reventlow, the Duke de Rigrano, the Marquis of Winchester, the Marquis of Douro, M P • • I the Marchioness of Westmeath and Lady Frederick Bentinck, the Marchesa Broncaleone and Mademoiselle dronealeone, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Bess borough, the Earl of Durham, the Earl of Gifford, the Earl of Pomfret, the Earl and Countess Fiegall and the Ladies Plunkett, Viscount Ex mouth and the Viscountess Maidstone and Lady Adelaide Paget and Miss Paget, Viscount Newport, M.P., Viscount Mandeville, Viscount Dungannon, Lord Saltoun, Lady Dinorbon and Miss Wallis, Lady Ashley, Lord Cranstoun, Lord Colville, Lady Rose Lovell and Captain Lovell, &c , James and Lady Anne Mackenzie, Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P., Lady Hunt and party, Lady l)ufferin and Miss Doyle, Lady Caroline Masse arid Miss Masse, Lord and Lady Poltimore, Lord Archibald St. Maur, Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss Vernon, Lady Ei z sbeth Bulteel and Miss Bulteel and Lady Rach.-1 Russell, Hon. Theobald Dillon, Sir George and Lady Army - cage and party, Lady de Bathe and party, Sir Francis and Lady Lawley, Sir John Yarde Buller. M.P. and Lady Buller and Miss Buller, Sir William Moles worth, M.P., and Lady Molesworth, Sir George and Lady Carroll and Miss Carroll, Sir Henry Webb, Co lonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, &c. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER —The %bole of the affair connected with the Bermondsey murder has been set tled by the Treasury. It may be recollected that, shortly after the execution of the Mannino, all the property found on the convicts and in Scotland, and the railway shares, were delivered over to the Crown, to be disposed of. That portion belonging to the murdered man was paid to his relatives, and the remainder, which was clearly established to be the property of Manning and his wife, was retained until some settlement could be made respecting the expenses of their defence. Mr. Binns, the solicitor for Manning, and Mr. So lomons, the solicitor for his wife, received instructions some time ago to send in their respective accounts, and last week letters were sent to them, requesting their attendance at the Treasury. On Saturday those gentlemen hai an interview with alr. Mettle, and received payment of their accounts, but much reduced in amount. The French Rentes have been iii,,osed of, and the other property has been handed over to Manning's relatives. ROYAL COLLEGE or PHYSICIANS.—The following gentlemen have been elected Fellows:—Dr. Basham, Dr. Peacock, Dr. Herbert Davies, Dr. G. J ohnson, Dr. Acland (Oxford), and Dr. Ormerod. The censors chosen for the year are—Dr. Mayo, Dr. Barker, Dr. Barlow, and Dr. Jeaf freson. Letters, dated May 10, from her Majesty's troop ship Apollo, Commander Rawstorne, at the Cape of Good Hope, state that she left Hong-Kong with the 95th Regi ment, about 800 rank and file, on the Ist of March, and ar rived at Simon's Bay on the Bth of May. During the passage great sickness prevailed among the troops, caused in the first _place by their protracted residence abroad. The whole ship for a long period was quite like an hospital, as many as 100. and sometimes 150, being sick at a time of dysentery, of which forty soldiers died. Only one of the officers had been ill, and he recovered. On arrival at the Cape all the sick were sent to the hospital, and the rest of the troops were landed at the dockyard ; six men who were very ill when landed died ashore, and more will probably die betore reaching England. However, only four or five fresh cases occurred after arrival, and the weather was very fine. No mention is made of any sickness amongst the crew. The senior medical officer at the Cape has been on board and in spected the Apollo; she was to be cleaned and purified, pro visions got on board, and everything ready to receive the troops by the 26th of May ; but the medical officer thought they ought not to go before the Ist of June, so as to give the men time to recover previous to embarkation. All the sick will be left behind, and this will in some measure prevent overcrowding. The Apollo, it is supposed, will be paid off on arrival home. She has not sufficient height between decks, and is otherwise ill-adapted for the conveyance of troops, of which fact there has been very fatal evidence since she left England. —Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette. POISONING IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.--The inquest upon the body of Thomas Harris, the hatter of Coalpit-heath, about nine miles from Bristol, and who, it was alleged, died of poison administered by his wife, was brought to a con elusion by a verdict of wilful murder having been returaedl against the wife (who is about 60 years of age), and she has been, co mmitted for trial. It appeared from the evidenee a d duce d that the deceased, who was 62 years :of age, was both a respectable and indastrious man, and had accumu lated some savings; but he did not live happily with his wife, who was suspected of having formed an improper inti macy with a man named Curtis, a shoemaker, who occa sionally visited at the house. About the middle of April Harris was taken ill, complaining of pain and soreness in the stomach, with vomiting. He gradually got worse, and died on the 29th. Upon the day of his death Curtis was at the house, and in less than three weeks after was married to the widow. The p ubli c m ind becoming excited upon the subject , t he bod y was exhu med , and the viscera, &c., conveyed to Mr. erapath, the analytical chemist, who discovered arsenic in considerable quantities, in the liver, and in the stomach and intestines. It was proved that during his illness all the food, Sze., taken by him was prepared by his wife (the prisoner), and that she had been frequently heard to say that she wished he was dead. It was also proved that the prisoner had purchased half an ounce of arsenic at a shop at Frampton Cotterell, about ten weeks since, stating that she wanted it to poison a black eat; and it was also shown that abe had no black cat. The Co ron-r summed up the evidence, the prisoner having declined making any statement, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against her. The prisons-, who was dressed very respectably, and who appeared to take very little notice of the proceedings, was then committed for• trial at the Gloucester Assizes. BPITANNIA BRIDGE —The 24th or 25th of this mouth is the clay appointed for the floating off the fourth and last e i r t o i n i e t r u a b i l e w , a w y c br i h, dg ) e r h acrosse n r c e e i d, ts, m no co exer tions being spared to expedite the work. The third tube has attained its elevation, and will forthwith take its place alongside.the tube on duty.—Chester CHEATING THE POOR —At a meeting of the board of guardians of the Portsea union (Hants), on Wednesday last, the subject of the bread delivered to the poor was made the subject of discussion; in consequence of complaints as to its being under weight. It appeared that the bread was supplied by four different contractors, amounting to 1,490 loaves per week, and on being weighed by the authorities, it was found that out of 160 loaves supplied by one contractor, only 8 were of full weight, some being from sto 12 ounces short. Of the whole quantity of 1,490 loaves, there was an average deficiency of 2 1 4 ounces on each loaf. The result of this exposure has been that the relieving officer is, for the future, to weigh the bread on receiving it, and to be held re sponsible for its being full weight. THE MYSTERY OF TIME. Fancy a small duodecimo pamphlet stitched up in a fly cover of crimson paper, consisting altogether of sixty-eight pager, and purporting to be a poem un der the above appalling title, in four cantos ! Fancy , all this in blank verse, very blank verse indeed, be ginning with a conjunction, ending with a sudden " pull up," split into divisions with little clusters of asterisks, and preceded by the subjoined announce ment :—" Notice to the reader ! The reader is re quested to observe, that wherever asterisks occur an indefinite period of time is supposed to have elapsed." Fancy all this, and you may have some idea of the " Mystery of Time. We know very well that not only did Milton write a poem on " Paradise Lost," but that Blackmore wrote one also on the " Creation ;" and we remember, too, that Dr. Johnson preferred the " Creation "to " Paradise Lost." That was going far enough in all conscience ; yet we wonder if any Johnson of our generation will prefer the author of the " Mystery of Time" to Blackmore! VERITAS. A Poem. Whoever may have written this anonymous poem has poetic feeling, what though he is guilty through out it of many unpoetic extravagances. " Veritas" is dedicated to Thomas Carlyle, and to Thomas Car lyle it will have come commended quite as much by its eccentricities as by its excellences. Of the better powers of our author let as at once,in all truthfulness, afford a good and golden specimen. Here is his gra*- phic and sententious delineation of the woman of his affections— " He said—the maid I love is she whose mind Is gentle, prudent, and sincerely kind, — Whose life is always constancy and love, — Whose modest eye is never prone to rove, — Whose equal conscience is serenely right,— Whose breast is free of jealoury and spite,— Whose thoughts are not too much of the ideal, — Whose feeling., though acute, are always real, — Whose judgment in advance is of her years,— Whose genuine sense in every act appears,— Whose cautious tongue from slandering is free, — Whose soul despises all iniquity,— Whose fsce is lighted with a graceful smile, — Whose conduct is incapable of guile,— Whose rtady laugh is not the laugh of folly,— Whose mancer is untouched by melancholy,— Whose chiefest joy is in her neighbour's weal,— Whose tender heart reciprocal c,n fed,— Whose hopes are always longing for the best, — Whose wishes are but simple in request,— Who knows herself—a knowledge too uncommon! And ne'er forgets the character of Woman." Hear him again descanting more briefly, but not less eulogistically upon the delights of domesticity : Home, all endearing haven to the 3oring I Thy accent melts like honey on the tongue — The weary exile wandering far away Through tears looks back; the schoolboy at his play Reckons his dearest joys at Christmas times, When by his friends his village belfry chimes; — The youthful mariner, afar at sea , Looks to his ship, but always thinks of thee; — The distant lover, gazing on the skies, Hopes that the moon is seen by brighter eyes!" Elsewhere his phrases are equally worthy of commen dation, as where he apostrophizes poesy (p. 45) as the " sweet manna of the mind," or where he ex claims (p. 57) " Friendship we long have reckon'd second love, A sort of hallow'd feeling from above." Others of his expressions are rather wire -drawn, and verging too much upon the grotesque. In one place, he calls truth very admirably (p. 65), "the power of reason in its prime," while in another he speaks of it most outrageously as (p. 66), " the backbone of the human race." That is one of the absurdities of the volume. Now fur more of them. Slang phrases and vulgarisms are never thought too mean for poetry by the writer of " Veritas :" and thus we find him complaining at one instant, (p. 74) " How many hopeful specs in life give way," &c. and at another protesting that (p. 43) — "Poor artifice and etiquette but school Into obedience every verdant fool." Then his rhymes ! Hear them " Perhaps to pawn a watch, perhaps a coat— If more than one the wretched man has got. You only cast your pearls t) the swine, Aid do the act perhaps at the wrong time. Tbis man was fl ►tler'd daily by his friends — Ile liked it, but to likings there's nc. end. • The walls were wood, the dwelling quite compact, With luxury of window front and back." As to his metre, our author must have some odd notions, as also in his mode of pronunciation. For instance, " world" must be to him as it is to Mr. Peggotty, 'a dissyllable, wurreld, in order to make the second line -in- the following completely correct (p. 50) : "Even from the Transatlantic side they come To set the Wiser world in a hum." Yet, with all these blemishes and extravagances, " Veritas," as we have already intimated and even shown, is not without its beauties. To ourselves there is something. very graceful in the thought Struck out by the author, where he is describing him self at the time when he (p. 39) - " Wrote sonnets, too, on lovely woman's eyes— Warm from the heart, and free of all disguise, With thoughts, mysterious in their varied strains, As frozen dreams upon Me windoin panes t" Speaking of the vernal season; he describes it (p. 65) as the time— " When birds begin to sing; When woods are yellow with the buds of spring." Of jealousy, especially in its evidence towards all would-be poets, he says (pp 92, 93), with mu c h of his own veritas :— " But be it understood, there is a thing Callel envy, with a hidden; hideous sting; Always desirous to bring others down To a dull level equal to its own. And poets get enough of this to quaff— The scorner's censure and the idiot's laugh;— The secret whisperings of lesser men, Who loathe the effusions of a friendly pen. Thus jealousy, fiend of the eye-ball queen, Sister of fear, and demigod of spleen! Sean in the lover's trembling form to swell, And in the warrior's savage breast to dwell— 'Turning to trustless meanings—loads with blame Those most who with it have an equal fame, — R-proves, finds faults, and while it calls you friend! Would laugh with silent joy to see your end." Alluding to the assertion that the age of poetry is gone by, his vindication is altogether too good to be passed over unnoticed. " What ! " he exclaims (pP. 91 , 98 ) — " Did Alexander—Philip's conquering son— Leave no campaigns for great Napoleon? Did Homer write what Virgil since has done? Did Virgil pen what Sbakspere's tame has won?— Or Shakspere pen what Byron, Cowper, Young, Have strewn among creation, nobly sung? Did MiLon live of old? is Moore yet dead? Or waves the grass o'er Wordsworth's aged head?" To the last inquiry the answer is, unhappily, by this time in the affirmative. The argument is good ; but we very much fear, with all its merits, whether the illustration will be found in " Veritas." ANONYMOUS POEMS. Forty years have been consumed in the composition of-this rolaoae, which uevertheleps; after. all ) ckeiliot I extend beyond sixty pages, and presents altogether a remarkable illustration of Sheridan's sarcasm about " a rivulet of rhyme running through a meadow of ( margin." Several of the pages contain no more than l four lines--the entire moiety of a capacious leaf being dedicated to an epigram. As to the period occupied by the anonymous bard in the travails of metrical composition, we learn its exact duration from a state ment very explicitly given to that effect in the pre face. IVe complain not of the paucity of verses— heaven forfend we should be afflicted with more of a comparable mediocrity. There are enough of them and to spare, few though they are numerically. But what excites our sur prise in reference to them is the length of time ab sorbed in their production and its hardy acknowledg ment. To us it appears like the antithesis to Byron's propitiatory note to the " Hours of Idleness," inform ing the critics that they were the effusions of a "minor." Several of the fragments from Camoens and Petrarch aro ingenious—some of them felicitous. But what shall we say of the "Fragments intended for a copy of verses to be spoken at Oxford in 1814, after the visit of the Allied Sovereigns," for example ? In one part of it we have— "He flies—a refuge Elba's rocks aff,rd, And the Weak isle receives her f lun lord." Then come a number of asterisks ; then— '• A narrow speck amid the dreary main"— Then more asterisks. Why, after thirty-six years, preserve that fragment? Why print it, and correct the proof-sheet of it, and publish it ? To be brief, the author of " Anonymous Poems" is a scholar, but not a poet. THE MINISTRY OF THE BEAUTIFUL. By H.. 1. Slack, F.G.S. " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" is an opinion which has received an unanimous assent, but the chief value of beauty and of joy is their powerful efficacy in producing and promoting good, and this beautiful ministry of the beautiful is the theme of Mr. Slack's little work. "The Ministry of the Beautiful, as endeavoured to be set forth in the following pages," he tells us, " consists chiefly in its omnipresent power of stimulating the fancy and the heart to join the intellect in adoration of the good and true." This most truthful and beautiful definition is enoughof itself to predispose all who read it to turn with interest to the work itself, from the perusal of which they cannot fail to derive pleasure. In two respects, however, we are somewhat dissatis fied with the manner in which Mr. Slack has set forth his very delightful subject -matter. He has adopted the form of a dialogue between two persons of the names of Edith and Lyulpk, but these individuals are introduced to us without being invested with any in dividual interest whatsoever ; and, again, the style of their discourse is at times deficient in that simplicity which renders conversation so charm ing. These two drawbacks we mention frankly, because we so greatly sympathise with Mr. Slack's sentiments and with his enthusiasm for his subject. The volume is rich in beautiful pictures and beautiful thoughts. Turning over the pages at random we read:— Life should be measured by time wisely employed, and not by periods unprofitably spent. He is the oldest who has thought and felt the deepest and the the most. . . What efforts should not woman make to preserve in maturity the sim plicity of the child. When that is lost, the sunlight of her being is sadly over-clouded, if not wholly gone. . . . The human soul should receive from all directions, and harmoniously weave together the filaments of truth which float like gossomer-threads throughout the universe. . . . Those who love most know most. To the true worshipper, nature ex hibits beauty and sublimity, while to the irreverent is barrenness and vacuity. . . . In proportion as a man develops beauty within, does he find it without," &c., &c. POPULAR HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. By Adam White. VOICES FROM THE WOODLANDS. By Mary Roberts. The - publications of Messrs. Reeve and Benham are, in their peculiar style, unequalled. Again and again have we had occasion to commend the excellent and very attractive manner in which works of science or natural history are issued from their establishment. The two works above mentioned are interior to none of their predecessors in external advantages. Two thick square volumes, handsomely bound, beau tifully printed, and embellished with from ten to twenty brilliantly-coloured lithographs. The history of Mammalia is by Mr. Adam White, of the zool.gical department of the British Museum. It comprises a familiar account of the classification and habits of the most numerous and important divi sion of the animal kingdom. For the young espe cially this volume, with its brilliant pictures and in. teresting anecdotes, will be an invaluable acquisition. " Voices from the Woodlands," similar in character is totally dissimilar in style. By a graceful kind of ;poetic licence, the authoress has literally put " tongues in trees." The dwellers of the - wbOdiands, from the stately oak to the modest lic hen, have here found a voice, and, in simple but most attractive language, have indivi dually recorded their _natural peculiarities and their family associations. In this sultry season it is quite refreshing to turn over the pages of this volume, em bellished'as it is With a pictorial abundance of verdant foliage. • ' • MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.) BENTLEY. The "Ladder of Gold" is the chef d'aurre of Robert Bell ; whether we regard it as a novel of manners or as a novel of character it is equally great; the manners of this our day are portrayed with a Watteau-like taste and fidelity, while the cha racters are accurate studies of human nature. In the present instalment the sacrifice is completed ; the stern, cold-hearted Rawlings has forced Margaret to become the wife of Lord Charles Eton. He has now ascended the ladder of gold, and the perilous descent, we imagine, is about to commence ; the railway panic looms gloomily in the distance ; we are at the beginning of the end. Mr. Bell, as usual, embraces every opportunity of inculcating the neces sity for practising that virtue which is the very foundution of Christianity itself—charity. At the commencement of Chapter VI. he says— " People who show au eagerness to condemn the con , duct of others in situations in which they were never placed themselves, are apt to lay the flattering unction to their souls that they would have acted differently in similar circumstances. We are all wise and judicious and self-possessed after the event. And very virtuous are we who are out of the reach of temptation, and un scathed by the sore trials of the world. This is the virtue which looks out from its draperies and carpets upon the bleak wintry lanthcape, anti hugs itself upon its honest comforts; the virtue of the coward who, secure from danger, boasts of his courage; of the shrew who, after an unlovely and unsolicited youth, casts her scorn upon the blight of pcur beset and suffering beauty; of the rich man, to whom w ant is an allegory, and who, when he denounces the famishing wretch that has stolen a loaf, is quite confident that he would rather starve than do such a thing himself. Alas! for all our self rel,ance, none of us know what we should do till we are trit d. If our virtues were to be measured by the loud ness of our protests ag a i ns t th e v i ces , w h at an ange li c world it would be! But virtue is not the negation of evil, it is the practice of good; and the most practical, and saving, an d sweetest c f all the virtues is charity! " The author o f " R em i n i scences o f a G aol C hap l a i n " 'gives us an interesting account of a visit to Bishops thorpe during the reign of the courtly but kind hearted Archbishop Harcourt, and an equally amus ing sketch of high doings in society, of an altogether opposite complexion, is an account of a " Dignity Ball at the Seychelles." The " Inedited Letters of Cele brated Persons" this mouth consist of the first instal ment of Mrs. Piozzi's correspondence with Lysons immediately after her marriage, during her tour on the continent. These letters represent both Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi in a most amiable light, while the be haviour of Johnson appears to have been not only overbearing and tyrannical, but intensely selfish. An article on La Tempesta does full justice to "an opera which combines a wider field of artistic combi nation than has ever before been embraced in a single production." After going into-a detailed criticism of the opera, in which honour due is paid to the " elo quent pantomime," the " graceful and expressive action," and the " floating steps" of Carlotta Grisi as Ariel, to the Caliban of Lablache, " the supreme monster of all earth's dire chimeras," who " when he gets drunk among th e sa il ors " f ee l s hi s " h uman i ty dilating in its passions under the influence of that fierce excitement, and rises to the climax of his savagery, _beyond which it is impossible to conceive any impersonation more grand and perf e ct," to the liquid, clear, and fluent melody, and felicitously per fect singing of Madame Sontag as Miranda, and to the spirit and gusto of Mademoiselle Parodi as Ste phan°, the writer thus concludes:— " To the enterprise and liberality of Mr. Lumley we ~re indebted for a lyrical drama which marks an im portant cra in the history of the Italian Opera in this country. Instead of exclusively relying upon the repertoires e'f the Continent, we have here originated a great prod uct i on upon our own stage ; and i t will be a lasting reproach to the amateurs and patrons of high art In England if our spirited entrepreneur be not cheered onward in rte arduous course he has so auspiciously Commenced, and encouraged to persevere in the same ambitious direction." There are two illustrations to the present number of Bentley, the first is to "The Ladder of Gold," the second is a portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Alfred Crow quill. DAVID COPP.ERFIELD.—Nos. XIV. and XV. By Charles Dickens. Within these two latest instalments of the auto biography of " David Copperfield," the narrative has become surprisingly developed. David has not only obtained the sanction of the Misses Spenlow to his suit r but through the instrumentality of Traddles has greatly propitiated the favour of those ladies in his behalf. It is true that much difficulty has been_ perieuceci brvoloy tictue - wsutug of time atone. ments, in consequence of Traddles's hair standing so much in the way. Those who may find any diffi culty in comprehending how this can possibly be the case, we refer to the original history of our hero's dilemma, where it will befound that, besides imparting surprised and rather " hearth- broomy" expression to the countenance of Mr. Thomas Traddles, of the Inner Temple, the locks of Mr. Thomas Traddles have materially interfered with his own personal fortunes. Not, however, to pause unnecessarily upon mere details, we may observe briefly but significantly, before coming to the consideration of the July num ber, that David and Dora are happily united in wed lock, in the presence of Mr. Dick, and Aunt Betsy, and Peggotty, and Traddles, and Agnes, and the dearest girl in the world—one of seven. The com mencement of the number just published recounts the progress of " Our Housekeeping" —especially detail ing the miseries experienced in regard to servants. Parragon is chiefly remarkable for having as " fol lower" a "cousin in the Life Guards, with such long legs that he looked like the afternoon shadow of somebody else I" Another handmaid deserves par ticular commemoration, for inasmuch as though "one of the most amiable of women," she "generally made a point of falling either up or down the kitchen stairs with the tray, and almost always plunged into the parlour as into a bath with the tea- things." The quarrel between the bride and bridegroom almost im mediately after the honeymoon is beautifully told, and yet more beautiful in its naturalness is the reconciliation. Aunt Betsy living next door to them is all gentleness in her behaviour to Little Blossom. As instances of Dora's economy in her mode of housekeeping, the incidents regarding the purchase of a salmon and oysters are humorously illustrative. We have a suspicion that little Dora will die prema turely, the mere expression of the "child wife' being a sort of confirmation of this melancholy conjecture. The manner in which Mr. Dick " fulfils my aunt's prediction" in reconciling Dr. and Mrs. Strong with each other is told with extraordinary power, the broadest humour and the most touching pathos being blent together in the descrip tion. We know not whether to laugh most at the stupidity of the Old Soldier, or at the interjec tional sarcasms of Aunt Betsy, or at Mr. Dick being fortunately prevented, "by a hug and a sounding kiss from the latter, from standing on one leg as an appro priate expression of delight." The eloquent appeal of Annie, and the silent response of the dear old Doctor are alike touching and beautiful. The last chapter in the July instalment, headed "Intelligence," affords us some information of poor Emily, and of Steerforth, through the revelations made one evening at High gate to David Copperfield, indirectly by Rosa Dartle. and directly by Littimer. It is not less, we believe, from the probability of a double marriage, than from the circumstance of David Copperfield beginning life as a shorthand reporter, and rising afterwards into celebrity as a novelist, that the rumour has sprung into existence that this work—the most noble and exquisite of all the effusions of his genius—is the revelation by Charles Dickens of his own personal experiences ; and that altogether in its character it is more of an actual than of a fictitious autobiography. ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL. If, according to the adage, " variety is charming," then, indeed, _Eliza Cook's Journal must be among the most charming of periodicals. Subjects of serious and of trifling interest mutually add to each others attraction by their judicious combination. In turn ing over the pages of the monthly part just published, this happy characteristic is immediately apparent. Now we ponder over some thoughful " Words on Railways ; now we are thrilled with horror at a tale of :the "Hungarian Revolution ;" now, in some delightful chapters of "Mrs. Dumple's Cooking School," Silverpen indirectly teaches the close rela tion of domestic and political economy. " Daguerre and his Successors," a " Biographic Sketch of Mali bran ;" Savings Banks, " " The Advance of the Working Classes," and other equally instructive essays, are contrasted with a variety of pleasing and beautiful sketches, such as " Margaret's Wedding Ri ng " a n d "Aunt Lizzy." The " Lessons for Little Ones" contain stories adapted for youthful reader., and the "Diamond Dust" is as miscellaneous and as valuble as ever. Eliza Cook's Journal is always rich in poetical contributions, conspicuous among which are, of course, the compositions of the editress. Of these the most beautiful is entitled " The Philosopher's Stone." After comparing the delusive hopes which, in sucession, &light and disappoint us in childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, to the futile search of the lloicrucean, the poem concludes with the fol lowing truthful " moral " " Oh, what folly it seems to be striving to gain Heaven's alchemy-secret with efforts so vain ; Why struggle for bloom of celestial birth, While neglecting the flowers beside us on earth ? Let u, keep a 'good Conscience'—this talisman seems To come nighest the charm of our chemical dreams, 'Tis the ray most direct from the Infinite Throne, And the only enduring Philosopher's Stone.'" The following sweet verses are rendered most attrae. tive by their simplicity of style, and by the evidence furnished by every line that they aro the genuine aspirations of a mother's heart:— " TO MY INFANT DAUGEITEn. "1 ~s ze on thy tiny face, my May, 'With many sad doubts and fears, And I fain %oat lift the voii, my May, That covers thy future years. "But whatever thy God sees fit, my May, To inflict of grief and care, Bo sure that thy mother's heart, my May, In each and all will share. " I covet not wealth for thee, my May, Nor beauty, so highly prized: n e known the owners of both, my May, Unloved, and oft despised. " But I pray for thy portion to be, my May, The tender and loving heart, 'I hat early thou'lt learn to choose, my May, The wiser, the better part.' " And ever may'st thou possess, my May, So much of peace, hope, and love, Ay shall make thee a heaven on earth, my May, And fit thee for that above. M. E. H. W." CRICKET. MARYLEBONE CLUB 'MTH CHESTER v. PRESENT ETONIANS. This is one of the trial matches to which the Etoniana are subjected by the M. C. C. in anticipation of the public schools' contests, which commence in the first week in August. A perusal of the score will show that at the con clusion of the proceedings the difference between the con tending parties was no more than five runs, by that amount the M. C. C. were hailed the victors. The final score was thus : MA ILYLEBON Z. First Innings. Second Innings Earl ofLeicester, b Thackeray 7 b Thackeray 0 Lord Lyttelcon, s Coltman, b Thackeray 0 b Thackeray 2 Hon. IL Grimston, b Thack eray W. NichoLon, c Bathurst, b Trimlett . ..... 3 b Trimlett lO Chester, b Thackeray .. ....... . 9 c Bathurst, b Thackeray 7 R. Kynaston, Esq., run out .. 21 not out ... •• ....... Lord Burghley, b Thackeray 1 b Thackeray . ..... F. Micklethwaite, Esq , b Thackeray... ..... . Capt. Wynne, Ibw, b Prest 2 b Thackeray Sir F. Bathurst, b Thackeray 15 b Thackeray 4 A. Baillie, EN., not out ...... 0 b Thackeray Byes 3,:l bl, wide 9 - _l3 Byes 3, Ib2, w 13 IS 3 c Coltman, b Prest..... 1 Total Total TIIE ETONIANS. First Innings. Second Inningi. T. Reay, Esq., calla b Chester 10 eKynaston, b Bathurst 2 H. Drake, Eaq., b Bathurst.. 8 b Chester ........ ... l 9 C.Thackeray,Esq.,b Bathurst 0 c Burghley, b Chester 29 1•. Bathurst, Esq., c Chester, b Bathurst"... ....... ..: 0 s Nicholson, b Bathurst 2 C. L. Norman, Esq., b Bathurst 11 b Chester ........ 9 W. Prest, Esq., c and b Chester 3 b Bathurst 2 A. Coleridge, Esq., b Bathurst 2 b Chester....... ...... F. Coltman, Esq., b Bathurst 0 c Grimstor, b Chester 8 H. Moody, Esq , b Chester ... 5 b Chester A. Alderson, Esq., c Leicester, b Chester 2 b Bathurst. l4 T. Trimlett, Esq., not out 0 net out Byes ........... 0 Leg byes 4, wide 1 5 Total . Marylebone thus won by five runs. Total ...... ..... —lOO DESPERATE LEAP FROM BLACKPRIARS BRIDGE.— On Saturday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a respectable married female, named Margaret Thompson, whose husband and family reside at No. 22, New -cut, Lam beth, made a desperate attempt at self-destruction by leaping off the centre arch of Blackfriars•bridge. The unfortunate woman, who was dressed in the first style of fashion, and wore a gold chain and watch round her neck, was observed by the workmen on the bridge to walk hurriedly past, mut tering something to herself. She then mounted one of the seats, and deliberately jumped over the parapet into the river. An alarm was given, and several boatmen put off, who suc ceeded in rescuing her. She was in a very exhausted state, and eventually recovered. It has been discovered that she was induced to commit the rash act owing to a suspicion of - her husband's fidelity. TUE ARMY.—The let battalion Rifle Brigade are under orders to return home from the Cape of Good Hope, and we understand that the Northumberland has been en gaged for their conveyance to this country. They are not to be relieved by any regiment from hence, as their with drawal from their present station is included in the general arrangements of the Colonial Secretary for the reduction of the force in the several colonies. MR. BUNN'S ENTERTAINMENT.— Mr. Bunn bas appeared on the boards of the Plymouth Theatre with the utmost success, his Monologue having been received through out with perfect enthusiasm. The boxes were thronged with the military, and numerous families of distinction in the town and neighbourhood, who were equally instructed and gratified. Mr. Bunn has gone on to Exeter. STAG FIGHT.—A few days ago two fine stage in the park at Wolley, near Beverley, the seat of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., engaged in fierce combat, and as soon as blood began to appear upon one of them a number of other stags, which were standing round at a short distance watch hag the tight, rushed, as is their practice, upon the wounded stag, and killed him instantly, piercing him in every part with their sharp horns. —Leeds Intelligtncer. Mr. Corbuuld, the artist, has received the com mands of her Majesty to paint a large pi c t ur e of.-the grand coronation scene ,in the opera of Le Prophlte, Its resonated aft t45 . #05 7 41 1t4448 Opera, Cove4t-gardell•