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Twenty'-six chapters complete the whole narrative of the life and death of dear old Sir Roger de Coverley, and these twenty six chapters are here given in their entirety with every desirable iniormation about their authorship., PoisrratUS adV;iiera u, little s tattier lii tbe went of his novel, insomuch that the mere romance readers, those who read atone for the interest discover able in a fictitious narrative, will exult in the charms of this sequel to the " Caxtons." Leonardhaving re solved to seek his fottunes in the metropolis, has traiged sturdily up to town, taking teeter his care, 0 0 the way, that litdt' daughter of po,,r I.)gbv, ,A1:0 ad been left at the country tavern utiles° ected on e death of her father, the old sol.lier. lannedia.tely afore the entrance of the wayfarers into London they eme upon en eccentric Angier, fishing for one diabo ical perch iu the treacherous stream the Brent, al luded to by the latter as the "Daiiiah of his exist enee." Arrived in town with his hob- charge, Leonard meets accidentally with Frank H,2ledean, n ow an officer in the Guards, aed Randal Leslie, now a subordinate in the Foreign-office under Audley Egerton. The three young men are Bri e, e_ e , uy a shower to take shelter under an archwa y one to some livery stables—an incident reminding m of that capital farce at the Lyceum , in which 4 " Charles Mathews is so delight t u ll y humorous, An Appeal to the Public. In the next ch a p ter we are tre ated to a charming dialogue between Audl e y E gerton and Harley L'Estrauge, the latter be in g one °f the most exquisite and masterly creations of Sir ue wer Lytton. Harley likens the li fe of Audle y to storma in a saucer, and Audley returns the compli ment by saying that Harley's life is as surely the e sa ucer without the storm. The following scrap ex cerpted from their conversation is delicious in its quaint and quiet humour : "Do you lviow," says Harley, in reply to his friend's unexpected badinage, " that's very well said, Audley; I did not think you bad so much liveliness of repartee. it is insipid, it is shallow. No launching Argosiea in the saucer. Audley, I have the oddest fancy—. "That of course," said Audley drily; " you never have 411 Y other. What is the new one?" BARLEY (with great gravity)—"Do you believe in Mesmerism?" AUDLEY—" Certainly not." Eferte,Ey—" If it were in the power of an animal mag uolsteit to get me out ot my own skin into somebody That's my fancy! lam so tired of myself—so tired'! I have run through all my ideas—know every one of them by heart; when some pretentious impostor of an • idea perks itself up and says, 'Look at me, I'am a u°Weequaintance'—l just give it a nod and say, Not at all, you have only gob a new coat on; you are the same old wret c h that has bored me these last twenty Ceara; get away.' But if one could be in a new skin! if I could be for halt-ac -hour your tall porter, or one ot Your eminent matter-of-fact wen, I should then really travel W()tir into a new world. Every man's brain must be a in itself, eh? If I could but make a parochial settlement even in yours, Audley—run over all your th r eughts and sensations. Upon my life, I'll go and talk hat French mesmeriser about it." paper about mesmerism, there is a glorious en that same subject in the course of the current number of Blackwood. We have devoured e very Word of it, including the editorial note at the en d , and find it all admirable. To ourselves it ap pears little short of conclusive, and we would gladly e . the m eans o f di rec t ing th e attention of thousands subject to it as a most rational argument upon a tl rtlect scarcely anywhere understood. The article ellestion is simply but significantly entitled What is Mesmerism ?" Taking the recently pub lished recollections of Count Pimodan as a theme, p r oduce of the contributors to Maga has contrived to vedune a very readable account ot the "Campaigning o r p an Austri an Aide de Camp," the narrative being Z e course coloured throughout by the 'Tory views of e s ,.inagszin e . " Th e P e aceful Lieutenant and his b, t he a paper reading very much like an effusion The account auth or o f " Th e G r een Hand," is cocclud , d. vinc.eeji a dsra c eid c n. ount of the storm at sea in it is powerfully dperieersitirtb Madame Pfeiffer, by a work lately Vienna, has given a fruitful subject for to one of Blackzvood's most intelligent re vel:Ts. His contribution is headed " Wanderings :riliereitnhg the World," and will be interesting to all those t er " revel in the vicissitudes encountered by the en traveller. Delta's " Lament of Salim is a already in any respect worthy of one who has Pattie Y . contributed so many graceful pieces to our eatt " h ° literature. The closing article in the July so mb er is of a political character, and has as a very d eaci ru heading these two words. " Downward Ten the rn ee ." Among the advertisements accompanying of .e a ge 2 hie, we may be permitted to mention one re e T t e ut cursorily, seeing that it relates to one of the to il i P°Pular and distinguished of all the contributors of « I CAl cood. Every one who admires the genius everyep Thousand a Year" (and who does no t ?), of th, o ne who has cherished a gra teful recollection 6 enSibility revealed in the '‘ Diary of a Late asi t ",, e _ ,la il" (and who has not ?), will look with curi er„a'ur the e Lily and the Bee," a romance of the thr i ll Palace, by Samuel Warren, announced as on e ve of publication. THE NEW MONTHLY. graceful tribute to the memory of the Right Richard Lalor Sheil" leads off the July num ber of the New Monthly—a circumstance not the less gratifying seeing that the deceased orator was one of the most remarkable ameng.the many celebrated con tributors to this periodical. Immediately after this biographic sketch, which is from the pen of Cyrus iledding, we find, by a rather bungling contrivance, another abusive fiction relating to the religion of which I r. Sheil was a member up to the moment of his demise. It is from the hand of the contributor wh o has already disgraced the pages of the IVew Monthly by Pandering thus grossly to the bigotry and into lerance of his countrymen. From this article we life with sa ti s f ac tion to a charming criticism on the nfe and writings of poor " Hartley Coleridge." As specimen of his humorous skill in versification we h ave the capital lines addressed by him "To the lagpie," beginning— " What shall we say of thee, pert, perking Mag, Whose every motion seems to fish for praise, Whose whole existence is a game at brag? Art thou a stranger quite to poet's lays, With black and white thy pretty self adorning, Like a blithe widow in her second mourning?" agnete of Holme Vale," the next contribution, is a .7anslation by M rs . Bu s hby, from the Danish of Jens t i ' l aggesen. " London Shopping, Curriage- hiring, " i n& &C.," will be found a very agreeable, and what is better still, a very useful paper, by all the lady readers of the New Monthly. Nicholas Michell atilt plods onward in the track of his heroine, " Hester Somerset:' entitled The jumble of eccentricities of thought " Hodge- Podge," is rather a spasmodic at tempt at wit, than wit in reality. "Further Revela tions. of the Revolution of February" have been S uggested by books recently given to the world t y MM. Sauzet, Lu c i e n de la Hodde, Mired „ ' k ali, and Elias Regnault. Thereupon follows a ' l leoinct account of the War in K,firiand, and this, with a chapter on " The Overland Route snd California," some pleasant notes anent the O pera;' and a continuation of Mr. Jolly Green's story about " All the World and his Wife," cum Pletes the current number of the New Monthly rather agreeably. THE ECLECTIC. " Descarte s " i s ce l e b ra t e d in the opening piper of the _Eclectic, somewhat too briefly, i t is tr ue, but still cleverly, and with a judicious a ppreciation on the Part of the reviewer of his historical position and phi losophical claims. Pulsky's " Tales and Traditions of Hungary" are next criticised, and in a manner, it Must be admitted singularly genial and deli g htful. , Daniel D e F oe , one of the b r i g htest names in English literature, a name dear to ever y true English h ear t as that of the author of " Robin aoll Crusoe," is, a ft er thi,, w e ighed in the balanc e by the E c l ec ti c , an d pot found wanting. " Firma mental Archi tec t ure " i s ano th e r fine paper, both in , 1 sublime subject and in its admirable treatment. Literary article relating to " Gillies's Memoirs of a ti Veteran," and an ingenious comment on &puleius," make up the rest of the number deserving of any notice, the close of the periodical being filled tip with literary notices of a very brief and miscella 4ealls character. FRAS ER. .Fraser this month opens with a laudatory review of ti/ Fran c i s Palgrave's " History of Normandy and °gland," i n which we find much curious information ',elating to th e lif e an d ti mes o f Ch a rlemagne. Under t he title "A Jungle Recollection," by Capt. Hard • a rgain, we have a spirited narrative of a tiger hunt I n India, an d i n a r ev i ew o f cer tain "Little Books ‘ 91113 Large Aims," the writer administers a well ented castigation to the whole race of pub lishers, bocksellers, and circulating library keepers, ljho f or their own pecuniary advantage force authors ,expand th e ir works into the regular orthodox three Volumes, without regard to anything but quantity. ti•on. G. S. Smythe, M.P., contributes a "his toric 6 fancy," the " Rhine of the Franks," and " A "mon-place Man" makes some amusing " lations; , Colonel Cornelius O'Donoghue continues his amusing narrative of a scramble among the Pyrenees. We have also an interesting biography °f Poulailler, the celebrated French robber, whose romantic atrocities surpassed even those of Cartouche h imself; a n d t h e magaz i ne conc l u d es w ith an elabo rate,, .review o f th e recen tly published Memoirs of Williavv Wordsworth. Taken as a whole, this is a very excellent number of Fraser. TR - No. I TY. POETICAL LITERATURE of the PAST RALF-CENTURY. By D. 111. Muir. Black wood and Sons. Delta has been associated so long and so favourably with the brilliant epoch here celebrated that his ap pearance in his present character as critic is scarcely less agreeable than that which be has uninterruptedly oc cupied as contemporary. Hei ce It is that we wel come the beautiful volume lying before us with a most genuine and earnest cordiality. From his prefatory remarks it becomes apparent that the work just pub lished by the Messrs. Blackwood originated in cer tain lectures delivered during the past session before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. The fact might have been safely conjectured without any such announcement, from the synopsis prefixed to:.the va rious portions of the composition, partaking less of the nature of an ordinary index than of a singularly attractive and comprehensive syllabus. Besides which the circumstance is yet more brilliantly emblazoned on the pages by the popular and genial spirit diffused over the whole effusicn. Delta adventures upon the inquiry here marked out for inves tigation with a scrupulous attention to ex actitude, together with a most delicate appre ciation of the really true and beautiful, as well as a strangely eclectic perceptivity in regard to the mist multiform and manifold excellences. All this, though requisite in the reviewer, is nothing less than noble and magnanimous in the competitor. No petty jealousies, no despicable prejudices, no shallow or egotistical predilections are visible on the part of Mr. Moir in his treatment of the subject selected for the display of his powers as a critic, but, on the contrary, there are everywhere manifest throughout a generous enthusiasm for the merits of writers whom he consi ders not in the narrow aspect of rivals, but in a large• minded and large-hearted mood as his brethren and associates. We like this. It is befitting his position in letters and consonant with every phase of his repu tation. It cannot fail, moreover, to endear him to the reader, while it elicits our very warm est expres sions of admiration. Introducing his disquisition by a sketch of the state of poetical literature as it was in this country at the commencement of the nineteenth century, Delta comments very judiciously on the long mastery maintained by the school of Pope and Dryden, a mastery which was ultimately modified by Thomson, Cowper, Burns, and Goldsmith. The evanescent successes achieved shortly afterwards by Hayley, Darwin, and the Della Cruscans are shown to have evidenced in a remark able manner the fact that literary tastes are influenced by social transformations. Reference is then, of course, made to the tendencies of the supernatural school under the conduct of its undisputed chieftain, Matthew Gregory Lewis, and illustrations are given of its fantastic peculiarities and my sterious characteristics. After an allusion to the pensive muse of Kirke White and to the religious enthusiasm of James Grahame, come some capital definitions of the merit to be dis covered in the satirical and humorous poetry of Canning. Frere, Gifford, Mathias, and George Col man the Younger. Sue joined to these are charming sketches of Leyden and Bloomfield, with remarks on the female writers of_ the period, Charlotte Smith, Amelia Opie, Mrs. Hunter (not the Mrs. Leo Hunter of "Pickwick," hut the authoress of the death song of the " Cherokee"), Mrs. Grant, and Mrs. Tighe" the gifted celebr ant of "Psyche." Various poets and translators of the same generation, in most instances long since forgotten, arc recalled to p.ipular remem brance, in order that a general estimate of their merits rosy be given by the poet- lecturer. A ie arm eulo gium upon the homely pathos of Crabbe is indulged in immediately afterwards, especial regard being bed to his unquestionable title to originality. Commen dations are next pronounced on the elegant and ar tistic effusions of Lisle Bowles, and yet more so on those of the veteran Samuel Rogers. Hereupon we arrive at a consideration of the peculiarities of the lake school cultivated by Lloyd, Lamb, and Lovell, but led by such powerful minds as those of the inde fatigable Southey, the indolent and dreaming Cole ridge, and the severe but sometimes puling Words worth. Under this same comprehensive survey we find ludicious commentaries on the productions of Walter Savage Landor, James Hogg and Allan Cunningham. Ballad poetry introduces us to the re vival of the romantic school, as was evidenced most especially in the advent of Sir Walter Scott. The classical elegance of Camphfill, the ori ental splendour of Professor Wilson, and the humanising suavity of James Montgomery are next particularised. Then, likewise, we rejoice to arrive with our author at the perio4 rendered memorable by the succession of Lord Byron to the poetical supre macy. Having celebrated with due emphasis the remarkable energies of that splendid and transcendent genius, Mr. Moir directs the attention of his hearers, or we should now more properly call them his read ers, to the "Palestine" of Bishop Heber, the " Samar" of Dean Milman, and the "Sebastian" of Or. Croly, toge ther with supplementary allusions to the Icelandic translations of the Honourable W. Herbert, to the "Austin Fair" of William Tennant, to the " Whistlecraft" of Frere, the "Ingoldsby Le gend?' of Barham, and the " Rejected Addresses" of James and Horace Smith, not forgetting the improvisatorial, powers of Theodore Hook, the mingled wit and passion of Thomas Hood, and the exquisite skill of Moore in amatory compositions. Another phase of the poetic mind is then delineated, that gorgeous phase which was at first indicated by Leigh Hunt, but rapidly perfected by its illustrious masters John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Thereupon Procter obtains his deserved share of at tention, under his more celebrated pseudonym of Barry Cornwall. The criticism then extends suc cessively to Robert Pollok, to Thomas Aird, to William Kennedy, Ebenezer Elliott, and William Motherwell. Under the significant designation of Female Constellations, we next come upon a de lightful catalogue of names, such as those of Joanna Baillie, Felicia Hemans, Caroline Bowles, Maria Jewsbury, Mary Howitt, Car oline Norton, Harriet Drury, Camilla Toulmie, Lady Flora Hastin g s, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, cursory reference being subsequently made to the verses of Professor R. C. Trench, Thomas Pringle, John Clare, Bernard Barton, Alaric A. Watts, T. K. Hervey, Charles Wolfe , Jane Taylor, and Thomas Haynes Bayley. Comprised in the final lecture, also, we en counter passages of very trenchant criticism on the poetic effusions of Lockhart, on the Roman Lays of Macaulay and the Scottish Lays of Aytoun, with minor commentaries on Mrs. Stuart Monteith, Mrs. Ogilvy, Rev. John Moultrie, Mrs. Downing, and Miss Agnes Strickland. The observations on Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton we cannot but regard as the least effective and meritorious portion of the volume, the preference given in it to his translations of Schil ler being particularly ungraceful when it is remem bered by what firm that work of his was published. Finally the book closes with particular reference to the last poetic school, which is here designated not inaptly the Metaphysic Romantic. Alfred Tenny son is naturally recognised at once as its leader, Robert Browning as its high priest, and the " Festus" of Philip James Bailey as its crowning exaggeration. Delta takes occasion at this stage of his inquiry into the state of recent poetry to protest against mysti cism and on.curity as its supreme and pervading blemishes. Together with the names of their contemporaries he blends allusions to those of Charles Mackay, of John Sterling, of Henry Taylor, and of Richard (not Robert , a s he calls him) Monckton Milnes, not forgetting an inci dental mention of the dramatists' Meturin, Sheridan Knowles, Westland Marston, White, Horne, Samuel Browne, Lovell Beddoes, William Smith, and Thomas Noon Talfourd. Besides these, moreover, we find enumerated the names of our young aspirants in the realms of poesy—Burbidge, Cassels, Clough, West wood, Bennet, Paton, and Allingham, to which we would add Meredith, those e r o e f iSydneyth, of Henry of George Inglis, of Charles Kingsley, of Denis Macarthy, and of Viscount Maidstone. Altogether, the work before is r is ev e i n e t w it e l r e s d , to and fr la n r m ge tn s h e a publicr e o aaptp large aorbgaet an nn extensionfrom of the au• thor's already wide-spread popularity. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A TRAINING MAST, AT THE LEEDS PAUPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.—This SChOOl, built by the Leeds Poor-law Guardians, was opened for the educating and training of orphan children; but since its establishment the want of harmonious co-operation amongst the othcers has been a source of constant trouble to the guardians. Irregularities, from some cause or othe o r, d have of continued, and on Monday evening the Bar Guardians assembled at the establishme nt to investigate them. The first thing which occurred on the board assem bling was the presentation of a letter of resignation from Mr. Alfred Leggett, the second training master of the school. Some of the guardians expressed their surprise at this, and having heard some rumours of misconduct on the part of Mr. Leggett, they determined to investigate them.• The result was the most satisfactory proof that the second master bad been guilty of the most grossly immoral conduct, and that be had cor , upted the mind of one of the pauper children, a girl of 15 years of age. It came out in the course of the investigation that he had taken her with him to various places of resort in the neighbourhood of Leeds, and R TRAVELLER'S LIBRARY. had had frequent interviews with her. At first Mr. Leggett denied the truth of the most grave part of the charges, but Messrs. Longmans and Co. A. Te a f ter wards, through the chaplain, made a full coefeskion of print of the literary ortion of the work , his guilt. The guardia e, after hearing all the circurn aecentl • Y brought out in a more expensive form, I stances ot arche case, determined not to accept the resignation w w ith •ii him r• tra,rons, under the editorship of Mr. i. • •' • l of the py impl.cated, but to applv to the Poor-law Board ' the , HenryYWill, has been here given to to order his dismissal forthwith; and in the meantime Bus • in public by these distinguished and enterpris- pended him from office, ordering him to leave the establish in As a specimen number of 13 publishers. ment the same night. entitled _ ,evi periodical, this fourth instalment is reall BLGIbTRATION OF ASSURANCES BlLL.—This Bill, Y : which was brought from the House of Lords 26th June last, °Leg to every commendation, giving us, as it does, i has been printed, by order a the Rouse of Commons. SUN, LONDON, TINE ARTS, 01; By George Crukshunk. Numerous as nave been the representations of the interior and exterior of the Crystal Palace, scarcely one of them has hitherto proved really satisfactory. There have been woodcuts, and steel engravings, and engravings on copper and in mezzotinto—works of all sizes, and t,,ken from every imaginable point of view, the 'productions in some instances of unrois telreable taien . , and in others of unmistakeable mediocrity. Yet, varied as these endeavours have been, we have found them, with little more than one or two exceptions, unde serving of any very high commendation. The exqui►itely coloured plates produced from the draw ings of Mr. Nash, drawings made in obedience to a royal command, and now in her Majesty's po?session, must, of course, be particularised as those which have mainly extorted our tulogium. Yet something was. still left to be accomplished after even the most successful of those adventurous attempts at an ac curate delineation of one of the most memorable, as it was also one of the most beautiful, incidents in the reign of our beloved Sovereign. There was wanting an engraving which, in addition to the merits of architectufal detail and of artistic execution, should preserve about it in every particular a life-like verisimilitude. Such an engraving is the one here published by-Dav;d Bogue, from the illimitable and glorious George Cruikshank. Altogether, to speak briefly and emphatically of the merits of the picture before us, we may say with the strictest truth that in it we see the Ist of May daguerreotyped. The view is taken from the south-west gallery at the moment when the Archbishop of Canter bury is invoking the Divine blessing upon the objects of the Great Exhibition. Under the pendant canopy, Standing by the tbrone, upon the elevated dais erected in the northern division of the transept, are the Queen, the Prince, and the two eldest of the royal children. Immediately on the left of her Majesty is the Primate of all England, and further back, among a crowd of courtiers, may be dis tinguished the Prime Minister, the Marquis of Anglesey, and the Duke of Wellington. Pourtraying with the utmost minuteness every feature in that most gorgeous pageant, the heralds in their ta bards, the line of gentlemen-at-arms, the ladies in waiting; the beef-eaters in the background, and the vast and compact body of spectators, the artist has nevertheless at the same time imparted to the spec tacle an air of ease in the flowing outlines of the whole, such as might scarcely be expected in a work so microscopically elaborated. When coloured the engraving cannot but be an exquisite transcript from that brilliant and superb original which, among its varied hues, .gave the green of the elm boughs, the scarlet of the drapery, the blue and amber of the iron-work edifice, added to the chequered tints of the costumes worn by the different beholders. Conspicuous among the latter may be recognised several of the representatives of the various nations of Christendom; pencilled off with that humorous ap preciation of character for which George Cruikshank has been so long and agreeably remarkable. The re doubtable Mandarin, known among our sight-seers as the Commander of the Chinese Junk, is readily per ceived near the Crystal Fountain, and other notabi lities may be detected almost as easily by a little re search among the motley groups depicted. As a memento of the inauguration of this unprecedented exposition of art and industry, the plate here submitted to our criticism must be regarded as really inesti , triable in every particular. It will be gratefully wel comed by every individual interested in the under taking, from the illustrious originator himself down to Ihe most obscure visitor of the Crystal Palace, en dearing yet more to the popular heart the old familiar name of George Cruikshank. THE ART JOURNAL. Added to the attractions of the Art Journal the sub scribers to this popular periodical find those of the Illustrated Catalogue. As illustrations to the former mthety of the publication there are engravings in the current number of Hart's " Jewish Synagogue" and of Bonnington's " Columns of St. Mark, Venice," and of Stothard's sketch of ":Intemperance," all of them taken from the well. known originals preserved among the Vernon Collection. Further wood- cut specimens of Albert Durer are likewise given among the varied pictorial embellishments—such, for in stance, as the " Great Horse," as the " Knight and Lady," or as the " Virgin and Child." An extraor dinary variety of engravings illustrative of the con tents of the Exhibition are mingled with the letter press portion orthe catalogue. MODERN CRUELTIES-FLY PAPERS. Mr. Kidd has just taken up the cudgels, in a spirit of true humanity, on behalf of that troublesome and an noying race of summer visitors—flies. Not that he de precates their destruction, quite the contrary; but he proves to a demonstration how cruelly they are " t0r :411%d," Wore they are killed by those fearful engines of horror—fly papers! Mr. Kidd thus writes in the Gardeners' Chronicle, of June 21, on this new invention of refined barbarity; and no one who has ever witnessed the " action" of it, can disprove one syllable of the statement:— " FLY PAPERS.—Your correspondent 'Curiosus' has, in his zeal to protect the poor inventor of the fly papers,' not only o'erstepped the modesty of nature,' in attempting to prove too much, but he has put an inter pretation on my remarks perfectly unwarrantable. So far from giving the poor inventor e,n ignoble character,' I volunteered the charitable belief that he was ignorant' of the ; atrocious barbarities he was the author of, and hinted that if he were enlightened or made wise' on the nature of the tortures he had invented, it would only add to his own. As these sentiments were dropped en passant, and savoured strongly of common humanity only, I am at a loss, and so must your general readers be, to imagine why' Curiosue' should feel so anxious to endeavour to reclaim the reputation of this fellow creature, and set him right in the scale of creation.' Had I gone out of my way to injure him (I know him not, even ,by name), or indulged in any personality, it would have been another thing. Curiosus' will please to bear in mind, that I do on every possible occasion examine the mute vegetable kingdom,' and that I am quite alive to the glutinous excretions' he speaks of. I have often admired the wisdom of nature in their crea tion. These, however, let me kindly remark, do not at all bear upon the question at issue. If winged insects are secured, by the by, under such circumstances, they are speedily released by birds, spiders, and a variety of other animals; it being a wise law of nature so to destroy superfluities, and to send one animal to prey upon another. Let us cousiisr this point settled. I will now, sa the hot season is at hand, put in a word for the poor flies; and be the means, let me hope, of sparing some millions of them unnecessary torture. Killed let them be, by all mews ; but not first put to the rack.' Hearken all ye who patronise these fly-papers! Hear how they are made. The two compounds are, common resin and sweet oil; heated, amalgamated, and spread upon sheets of old newspapers. Thus are they menu factured.' Now for their attractive' qualities. Wherever flies abound, there it has been deemed advisable to spread out these papers, one, two, three, or more. A little sifted loaf-sugar lightly sprinkled on them completes the charm.' Let us note the result. In an instant some luckless fly descends, in search of a treat. He realizes it by finding either a leg or a wing fixed as in a vice. Escape is impossible. Tee more he struggles the worse the consequences. Here he must live, here he must fast, nere he must linger, here he must ' stick' and groan, till starvation and insect endurance can hold out no longer. sometimes the poor flies are glued down by their hinder extremities, thus allowing freedom to their head and trent legs, which, being elevated, give free play to their respiratory organs, and prolong lite—to be further tor tured by want of food. Every person possessing only common feelings of humanity, and who may be halting between two opinions, must feel greatly interested in put ting my assertions to the proof. Let such carefully observe (whilst his thoughtless neighbour is spreading the snare), she almost supernatural endeavours of the poor• flies, when inveigled by these diabolical papers, to extricate their feet from the rivets; and note how, in the vain ifort, they tear out in their final agonies each several limb from its socket—their rids-shapen forms being elevated, after death, to thrice their natural height! The distinctly audible vibrations of their wings in their last dying pang,, as they lie one glued to the other in countless numbers, complete this picture of newly-in rented horrors (unfit even for Madame Tussaud's Chaos ber')—a picture, alas! but too faithfully painted. These are simple facts,' which, by a few moments of close ob servation, anybody may verify, by gazing on a well-filled sheet of flies.' I have used the word groan' with ree ference to their agonies; and if any of your readers have ever chanced to listen to the horribly' peculiar sounds produced by the motion of the prisoners' quivering wings, either by day or by night (the latter especially), one moment's reflection will make them grateful that Curiosus' should have unwittingly drawn forth this ex position from his obliged collaborateur in the field of Nature, WILLIAM KIDD. " New-road, Hammersmith, June 19." 'ER NEW YORK AND GALWAY.—The Galway voyage is abandoned. The steam-ship North America was sold yes terday for 200,000 dolls., to run between Realeio and San Francisco, in connexion with Commodore Vanderbilt's Nicaragua line. She was to have left for Galway al:out the same hour that her sale was effected. The negotiation that resulted in her detention was effected while her passengers were on board and her steam was up, ready for departure. Captain R. J.. Vandewater, the agent, who sold her, imme diately engaged rcoms for her passengers on the steamer Pacific, of the Collins' line, which sails on Saturday for Liverpool. The North America will be dispatched for the Pacific in two or three days.—New York Paper. NOTICE TO VOTERS FOR THE RETURN OF MEM BEDS AND K.NIGIITS OF THE SHIRK TO PARLIAMENT.—No person will be entitled to have his name inserted in the list of voters for the cities of London and Westminster, and the metropolitan boroughs of the Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, Blarylebene, Lambeth, S , uthwari , , Greenwich, and also for the counties of ➢liddlesex, &c., unless he pays upon or before the 'Loth inst. all poor rates and assessed taxes due previously to the sth of January last. tc T HE PorE HE LEADS A HAPPY LlFE."—This line of the old song was touchingly illustrated at a late revel —the festival of dedication —by the clergy of St. Barnabas; illustrated by the following items :—" The gross weight of the meat was upwards of .1,0001b5., and there were one hundred gallons of ale, and port and sherry in abundance." Out of compliment to the Pope, the beef was, no doubt, bull beef,--Punch THURSDAY PARLIAMENT ARV DIVISIONS. (From he Votes i ~f e Li mas o f c om mons ) ' WEDNESDAY, JULY 2. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause 3 (Appointment of Inspectors) : - Amendment pro posed, in page 2, line 35, after the word " being," to insert the word " cractising:"-- Question put, " That the word practising' be there inserted." 'I he Committee divided:— . -- IiIAJ ORIT Y-A YES, 51. Archdall, Captain Fortescue, Chichester Macnaghten, Sir E. Bailey, Joseph Fuller, A. E. 31`Cullagh, W. T. Beresiord. William Gallwey, Sir W. P. Napier Joseph Booth, Sir R. G. Goold, Wnydham O'Brien, Sir Lucius Brown, W. Grace, 0 D. J. O'Brien, Sir T. Sunbury, William Grattan, Henry O'Connor, Feargus Carew, W. H. P. Grogan, Edward Patten, J. W. Chichester, Lord J. Haliew ell. E. G. lower, Dr. Clive, 11. B. Hamilton, G. A. Prime, Richard Cobden, Richard Hamilton, Lord C. Sct bell, Captain Corbally, 31. E. Harris, Richard Scully, Francis Corry, H. Hayes, Sir E. Spooner, R. Davies, D. A. Ileald, James Vesey, Thomas Denison, Edmund Herbert, 11. A. Waimsley, Sir Y. Devereux, J. T. Hodgson, W. N. Young, Sir John Duncan, George Jones, Captain • TELLY.II43. Duncuit, John Keating, Robert Naas, Lord Dunne, Colonel Lacy, H. C. Whiteside, James MINORITY-NOES, 44. Abdy, Sir T. N. llastie, Alexander Pilkington, James Armstrong, Sir A. Headlam, T. E. Rawdon, Colonel Bell, Jacob Heathcote, Sir G. J. Seymour, H. D. Birch, sir Thomas Heyworth, L. Somerville, Sir Vr. Clements, Charles Hindley, Charles Sullivan, Michael Cowan, Charles Hobhouse, T. B. Tennent, R. J. Davie, Sir Henry Kershaw, James Thicknesse, It. A. Divett, E. Labouchere, Henry Thompson, Colonel Elliot, J. E. Lewis, G. C. Thornely, T. Evans, William Mackinnon, W. Watkins, Colonel Fergus, John Morris, David Wawn, J. T. Fortescue, J. W. Murphy, F. S. Williams, W. Freestun, Colonel Norreys, Sir D. Grey, Sir G. Nugent, Sir Percy TELLUS. Grosvenor, Lord R. Philips, Sir G. R. Bouverie, E. P. Hallyburton,Lord Pigott, Francis HatchelL John Again he says that poetry is " the bright precipitate of truth," and that the poet's mission is to sort out many glorious likenesses in the world, and string them into music—the poet's pens being The true divining rod Which trembles tow'rds the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms." Poetry begins where matter of fact ends. It is fact and feeling idealized and unrolled in beauty and power. Shelley says of it, that it " lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." Keats says it is " a drainless shower of light 'Tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm ; And that the great end of poetry is That it should be a friend To soothe the cares and lift the thoughts of man." Its language is musical, and assumes the measure of verse. But as poetry is ideal, and depends not on its clothing for its power, verse is not indispensable to it. Jeremy Taylor's writings contain passages of the noblest poetry, conveyed in grand and solemn prose. Bunyan's tine and truly poetical allegory is not written in verse. Some of Milton's grandest imagery is contained in his prose writings. Carlyle is a great poet, though despising the artifice of verse. Ossian s poetry is not couched in verse, and yet Napoleon held him (whoever be was) to be the greatest of poets. Nor was Napoleon himself with out poetry. Pointing to the Pyramids he said to his army, " Forty centuries look down upon us." Surely that was no mean stroke of poetry—one which his nephew of the tame eagle gives no hopes of equalling. But true poetry may assume many other forms besides the spoken. In painting it reaches great heights: witness the grandeur of Martin's conceptions, nor are Denby and Turner far behind him. Even Landseer has treated animal subjects with the true feeling of poetry, witness " The Slain Fallow Deer," exhibited by him at the Royal Academy some two years ago, " The Dead Dam" lies on the snow, which is died with its trickling blood, while the fawn, after long pattering round its mother, vaiely tries to suck the ineffectual teat. Bailey and Calder Marshall are poets in sculpture; they embody a poetic idea in the marble, which lives enduringly, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Meyerbeer are great poets in music, and perhaps greater and sublimer than all is Handel. Poetry is a gre at enuobler of life; it is purify ing, refining, and elevating. Many cau say of it w hat Coleridge did—" Poetry has been to me its own exceed ing great reward. It has soothed my afflictions, it has Another Amendment proposed, in line 30, to leave out the multiplied and refined my enjoyments, it has endeared words " Number and :" - Question put, That the words solitude; and it has given tee the habit of wishing to proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and Committee divided : surrounds me." MAJORITY—AYES, 57. Armstrong, Sir A. Fortescue, J. W. Nugent, Sir Percy Baring, Sir F. Freestun, Colonel Paget, Lord Clarence Bellew, kc. French, F. Parker, John Birch, Sir T. Glyn, G. C. Patten, W. Carter, J. B. Grace, o. D. Pendarves, E. W. Cayley, E. S. Greene, Thomas Peto, Samuel Clay, James Grenfell, Charles W. Rawdon, Colonel Clements, C. S. Grey, Sir George Reynolds, John Conolly, Thomas Grey, Ralph Wm. Rich, Henry Corbally, M. E. Harris, Richard Somerville, Sir W. Craig, Sir W. G. Hatchell, John Sotheron, T. H. S. Crowder, R. B. Hawes, D. Tennent, .J. Dawson, T. V. 'Lindley Charles Ihicknesse, R. A. Dundas, Admiral Howard, Lord E. Thompson, Colonel Dundas, Sir D. Howard, Sir R. Watkins, Colonel Elliot, J. E. Jones, Captain Wood, Sir Charles Fergus, John Keating, Robert Young, Sir John Ferguson, Sir R. Meagher, Thomas TELLERS. Fitzpatrick, J. W. Matheson, Colonel Hayter, W. G. Fortescue, Chichester Moncreiff, James Lewis, G. C. Clause 6 (Guardians of Unions to divide them into Dis pensary Districts) : Amendment proposed, in page 3, line 18, after the word •` necessary," to insert the words " subject to an .Appeal in Council as hereinafter provided :"—Question put, "'That those words be there inserted." The Committee divided : MINORITY-NOES, 44. Anstey, T. C. Fuller, A. E. Napier, Joseph Archdall, Captain Galway, Viscount O'Brien Si Lucius Barron, Sir H. Goold, Wyndham O'Connor, Feargus Beresford, William Grattan, Henry Renton, J. C. Booth, Sir R. G. Grogan, E. Scully, Francis Buck, L. W. Gwyn, Bowel' Spooner, Richard Banbury, W. Hallowell, E. G. Stafford, Augustus Burrell, Sir C. Hamilton, Geo. A. Sullivan, Michael Chichester, Lord J. Hamilton, J. H. Taylor, Thomas E. Child, :with Hamilton, Lord C. Verner, Sir W. Clive, H. B. Hayes, Sir E. Vesey, Hon. T. Cocks, T. S. Hill, Lord E. Whiteside, James Corry, Henry Lindsay,LColonel Duckworth, Sir J. Macaghten, Sir E. Duncuft, John Maxwell, J. P. Dunne, Colonel Mailings, J. R. TELLERS. Herbert, H. A. Naas, Lord COURT CIRCULAR. _ Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, accom• panied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, with their Royal Highnesses the Due de Brabant, the Comte de Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, visited the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations at twenty-five minutes past nine o'clock yester day morning. The royal suite conaisted of the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Comtesse de Montanclos, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Colonel de Moerkerke, and Count Albert de Briey. The royal party _ and suite lett the Exhibition at a quarter past ten o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester visited his Majesty the King of the Belgians yesterday. The Countess do Neuilly, the Duke de Nemours, and the Prince and Princess de Joinville, paid a visit to his Majesty the King of the Belgians yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke de Nemours after wards visited her Roy al Highness the Duchess of Kent, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and the Prin cesses Helena and Louisa took an airing yesterday fore noon in an open carriage and four. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham Palace. The company included his Majesty the King 01 the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess et Kent, his Royal Highness the Due de Brabante, his Royal Highness the Count de Flandres, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, his Serene Highness the Prince of Loewenstein, the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, the Earl of Liverpool, Lady Bloomfield, the Right Hon. Sir Charles ai.d Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Colonel de Moerkerke, Baron Wan eenheim, Count Albert de Briey, and Sir Robert Carswell. Lord Charles Fitzroy has relieved General Wemyss in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugb Seymour has relieved Colonel Bouverie in !he duties of Equerry in Waiting to his atuyal Highness Prince Albert. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiniegen visited and took leave 'of the members of the Royal Family yesterday, at their respective residences, on his return to the Continent. A deputation of Irish Members, on the subject of the New Land Clauses Bill, had an interview' with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Sir L. O'Brien, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. S. Crawford, Mr. F. Scully, Mr. M. E. Corbally, Mr. H. Herbert, Lord C. Hamilton, Mr. T. Vesey, Mr. Clements, Colonel Dunne, Sir E. M'Naughten, Captain Jones, Sir T. O'Brien, Mr. Grogan, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Goold, Sir Edward Hayes, Sir John Young, Mr. Napier, and Mr. J. Dl•Cullagh. The deputation was accompanied by Sir M. Barrington, Bart., Mr. Jeffers, and Mr. Tyrrell. The Rev. Mr. Murray had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY. The last exhibition for the present season of the plants, flowers, and fruits ex hibited for the prizes awarded by this society took place yesterday, in the grounds at the Regent's-park, beneath the tents erected by Mr. B. Edgington, of the Borough. The specimens were of the first class of excellence, and showed the great progress made in the science of horticulture. The company assembled, which was more than usually nume rous, included almost all the rank and fashion of the metro polis,tesides many foreign visitors of distinction. The fol lowing is a list of the principal prizes awarded by the judges for the best specimens exhibited :—Extra Gold—To Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing-park, for 30 stove and greenhouse plants; to Mr. Mylam, gardener to Mr. S. Rucker, Wandsworth, for 2o exotic orchids. Large Gold—Mr. Cole, gardener to Mr. H. Colyer, of Dartford, Kent, for 30 stove and greenhouse plants. Medium Gold— Mr. Smith, gardener to Mr. Quilter, Norwood, for 15 Cape heaths; Messrs. Fraser, nurserymen, Lea-bridge-road, Es sex, fur 20. stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. Taylor, gardener to Mr. J. Coster, Streatham, for 20 stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. Franklin, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing park, for 25 exotic orchids ; Messrs. Rollison, nurserymen, Tooting, fcr 20 exotic orchids; Mr. Blake on, gardener to Mr., Schroder, Stratford-green, for 15 orchids. Gold Medal—Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, for 20 stove and green house plants ; Mr. Speed, Edmont t on, for 10 stove and green house pants ; Mr. Cole, g ardener o Mr. H. Colyer, Dartford, for 15 Cape heaths; Mr. Black, Clewer Manor, Windsor, for 12 pelargoniums ; Mr. Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough, for 12 pelargoniums. GLASGOW, JUNE 28.—Cotton—The market has been dull all the week; transactions have taken place only on a limited scale , and prices of middling American were from k s d. to Md. lower. The better qualities maintain pretty nearly 4iner rates. The stock in Glasgow at pre sent amounts to 33,000 bales. At the same period last year the amount was 35,000 bales. The demand for goods and yarns has been lighter this week, and prices are a shade easier. As summer has now set iu in earnest, it is expected that the home trade in light fabrics will receive a healthy impulse. Pig Iron—The market for pig iron continues almost at a standstill, shipments much mailer, but rather more inquiry for warrants. Thep rice of No. 1, may be quoted at 395. 6d., and Galtsherne at 418. DEATH OF 111 R. DYCE SOMBRE. The lovers of the marvellous .and the lovers of the scandalous will regret to learn the death, which took place on Tuesday evening, at his apartments in Davies street, of Mr. Dyce Sombre, a gentleman whose strange career in Europe, with his not less marvellous antece dents in the East, have furnished so many a piquant subject of conversation and conjecture. Ho appeared in this country, we think, about a dozen years ago, bring ing with him a reputation, not ill-tounded, of almost fa bulous wealth, and said to be—although of European blood by the father's side—thoroughly an Oriental in education, customs of life, and manners of thought. His arrival attracted much notice. He became one of the feted lions of the season, and ultimately married, in 1840, Mary Anne, daughter of the Earl St. Vincent. A. separation soon took place, and the legal proceedings consequent upon this ill-starred marriage—followed by those adopted for the purpose of establishing Mr. Dyce Sombre's lunacy—were lug matters of public talk and universal notoriety. Into either branch of the multitu dinous details in question this is certainly not the time to enter ; suffice it to say that the deceased gentle man, even laying aside his alleged lunacy, was not—whatever were his feelings and opinions, and whatever were his actions—fairly amenable to the standard of European judgment. Born and educated—or rather not educated—in a state of false and depraved Oriental semi-civilization, into which entered, in no in considerable degree, the worst vices of the Western world, Mr. Sombre was unhappily induced to change the moral and physical atmosphere in which he had been brobght up for a new sphere, to which he had neither the mental vigour nor the mental flexibility to adapt himself. A man of stronger mind might proba bly have worked himself clear of the barbarisms and pollutions with which he had been surrounded. Mr. Sombre, however, was not so gifted, and his life in Eng land was such as to afford abundant matter for the gra tification of the strongest appetite for the raciest species of gossip. His attempt to enter public life was seconded by the worthy and enlightened electors of Sudbury, who sent him to Parliament, from whence, however, he was speedily ejected on petition—the borough being soon afterwards, mainly in consequence of proceedings at that election, disfranchised. For the last few years Mr. Sombre has resided on the Continent, to escape the effects of the decision of the Court of Chancery in his case—a decision which he had come over to petition against when he was seized with his fatal illness. The deceased was understood to be the son of a Ger man adventurer in India, of the name of Summer, who espoused the late Benin Oomroo. All manner of wild and scandalous stories are afloat as to the life of this woman and the death of her husband. It seems not to be quite certain whether Mr. Dyce Sombre was the real or only the adopted child; but, be that as it may, upon the death of his father, the Begum transferred her ma ternal affections, such as they were, to the son of the German, who was educated, it is said, by a Protestant clergyman, although the old lady herself by turns pro fessed herself a Catholic and a Mahometan—having actually built a cathedral and a mosque, with the inten tion of having two strings to her bow. After her demise Mr. Dyce Sombre came to Europe, and first made him self remarkable, in Italy, by the extraordinary black marble monument which he caused to be executed and sent to India in memory of his benefactress. His subse quent lite in England has already been noticed. In consequence of his death in a state of lunacy his money in the funds, railway shares, and other property, of the annual value of 11,0001., will become divisible between Captain Troup and General Soldroli, the husbands of his two sisters, who are next cf kin. An additional sum, producing 4,0001. a year, will also fall to their families on the death of Mrs. Dyce Sombre.—Chronicle. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Yesterday by the police returns 49,399 people entered the building, and the receipts amounted to 2,3631. 18s. Every day the assemblage wears a more countryfied aspect, and is more popular in its character, so that the tailing off in the attendance is less easy to account for. Until now the weather might have been pointed to as the cause, but the decline is so steady that even this Ex planation ceases to be satisfactory. Perhaps, after all, the multitude have found out that there are limits to the numbers which the Crystal Palace can accommodate with comfort, so as to see properly its varied wonders. 'F.he presence of charity children still continues to form an agreeable feature of each day's incidents. Yester• day the girls of St. Olave's school were enabled to go there by the liherelity of Mr. ex-Sheriff Filcher, and the trustees of the Broad-street Ward School also treated their scholars to an inspection of the interior. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, and their respective suites, visited the Exhibition yesterday morning, at their usual early hour. They first inspected the Zollverein compartment, the most attractive fea tures of which were pointed out to them by M. von Viebahn. Thence they passed into the division of Northern Germany, and thence again into that of Russia, where they were received by M. Kamensky and M. Nottheck. The illustrious party were attended during their stay by Mr. Cole. Not the slightest incon venience or crowding arose from the admission of the public before their departure. PORTSMOUTH, W E DNESDAY.--Major-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge inspected the 'l2th Lancers at Winchester, prior to their embarcation at this port in hired freight-ships for the Cape. His Royal High ness afterwards honoured the Major-General commanding the South-Western District (Lord F. Fitzearence) by ac companying him to Portsmouth, and inspecting the 7th Fusi leers, 48th, and 95th Regiments, separately in drill order on Southsea- common, which troops his Royal Highness will re view on the same ground to-morrow morning. This evening the Duke dined at the Government-house, where the follow i. g guests were invited to meet him:--Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of Portsmouth ; Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8., Superintendent of the Dock yard ; Colonel Menzies, K. H., Commandant of Royal Ma , rives; Colonel Gibsone, Commandant of Royal Marine Artillery ; Lord Dufferin ; Colonel Sir J o hn Mark Frederick Smith, K. 11., Commandant of Royal Engineers; Sir George Wombwell, Bart. ; Colonel Campbell, 95th Regiment; Lieu tenant-Colonels Yea, of the 7th Fusiliers ; Ilaultain, of the Royal Artillery; the lion. A. Dalzell, of the 48th Regiment; Captain 11. D. Chads, C.D., of her Majesty's ship Excellent; Captain Lord E. Russell, of , her Majesty's ship Vengeance; the staff of the Lieu!enant-Governor, the Hon. W. Mouck, Acting Brigade-Major; Paymaster Gilley, of the 7th ; the Hon. Mr. Russell, and other guests. EAST INDIA. HOUSE.—The warrants for the divi dends on East India Stock will be payable on Monday next, the 7th inst. (under the 11th section of the Act 3d and 4th of Iliaam IV., cap. 85), and the transfer-books for the said I stock will be opened on Tuesday, the 15th inst. MINORITY-AYES, 58. Anstey, Thomas Grace, 0. D. O'Brien, Sir Lucius Archdall, Captain Grattan, Henry O'Connor, F earguS Barrow, W. H. Grogan, Edward Packe, C. W. Beresford, William Hallewell, E. G. Power, Dr. Booth, Sir R. G. Hamilton, J. H. Renton, John C. Buck, Lewis W. Hamilton, Lord C. Reynolds, John Banbury, William Hayes, Sir E. Scobell, Captain Burrell, Sir, C . Heald, James Scully, Francis Carew, W. P. Hill, Lord E. Somerset, Captain Chichester, Lord J. Jones, Captain Sotheron, T. H. S. Christy, Samuel Lacy, Henry C. Spooner, Richard Clive, H. B. Lawless, Cecil Sullivan, Michael Corbally, M. E. Lindsay, Colonel Verner, Sir W. Corry, 11. L. Lockhart, W. Vesey, Thomas Duncuft, John Macnaghten, Sir E. Wakley, Thomas Dunne, Colonel M'Cullagh, W. T. Whitesid e, James Fellowes, Edward Mahon, O'Gorman French, F. Masterman, John Fuller, A. E. Mußings, J. It. Gallwey. Sir W. Naas, Lord Goold, Wyndham Napier, Joseph TELLX7III. Herbert, H. A. Hamilton, G. A. MAJORITY—NOES, 7a, Armstrong, Sir A. Fergus, John Norreys, Sir D. Baring, Sir F. T. Ferguson, Sir R. Paget, Lord C. Beckett, W. Fortescue. Chichester Parker, John Bell, Jacob Fortescue, J. W. Patten, J. W. Bellew, R. M. Freestun , Colonel Pendarves, Edward Berkeley, H. F. Greene, Thomas Pilkington, James Birch, Sir T. Grenfell, Charles W. Rawdon, Colonel Brotherton, Joseph Grey, Sir G. Rich, Henry Buxton, Sir E. Grey, R. W. Robartes, T. J. Cayley, E. S. Harmer, Sir John Seymour, Lord Clay, James Harris, Richard Smith, Vernon Clay, Sir W. Batchell, John Somerville, Sir W. Clements, Charles Hawes, Benj. Tennent, R. J. Craig, Sir W.G. Headlam, Thomas Thicknesse, Ralph Davie, Sir H Heathcote, Sir G. J. Thompson, Colonel Dawson, T. V. Heyworth, L. Watkins, Colonel Duff, George S. Hindley, C. Wawn, J. T. Duff, James Hobhouse, T. B. Wilson, James Duncan, George Howard, Lord E. Wood, Sir Charleti Dundas, Admiral Kershaw, James Yorke, E. T. Dundas, Sir David Lewis, G. C. Ellis, John Littleton, E. R. TELLIB.B. Elliot, John M atheson, Alex. Hayter, W. G. Evans, John Monsen, William Bouverie, E. P. Evans, William Morris, David EVENING, JULY 3, 1851. WHAT IS POETRY ? (Fr,m Eliza Cook's Journal.) A very short questiun may r% quire a verY long answer to do justice to the subject which it opens up. What is religion? What is truth? What is poetry? To answer either of these queries satisfactory would require, act a brief note only, nor au article, nor a year's articles; but it would demand a life-time of articles, and even at the end of that life-time it were just possible that we might fail in answering c'early and satisfactorily either of these questions. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Jeffrey, El liott, and Southey, with many other great minds, have occupied themselves with the solution of the questicn " What is poetry?" We do not know that they h ave succeeded. Perhaps poetry, like many other subtle chirp, eludes definition. Who can define life—the com mon daily life we carry about with us. We live, and that is all we know of the cause of life. Poetry is—we feel it—how shall we define it? It is not a form but an essence: it is not a substance, but a spirit—the spirit of beauty. Its utterance is the utterance of passionate and intense truth. Elliott says it is " philosophy in its es sence—the spirit of that ' bright consummate flower' whose root is in our bosoms," Leigh Hunt says it is a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its impressions by the imagination, in order that it may enjoy and impart the feelings of their truth in its utmost conviction and affluence. In a word, it is imaginative passion ; and " he who has thought, feeling, expression, imagination, action, character, and con tinuity, all in the largest amount and highest degree, is the greatest poet." Philip James Bally, in that grand poem of his, " Festas," says— Poets are all who love—who feel great truths, And tell them ; and the truth of truths is love." THE CHIFFONNIEI?S OF PARIS. The fraternal association of rag-gatherers (chiffon niers) gave a grand banquet in Paris on Saturday last. It took place at a public-house called the Pot Tricolore, near the Barriere de Fontainebleau, which is frequented by the rag-gathering fraternity. In this house there are three rooms, each of which i s specially devoted to the use of different classes of rag-gatherers: one, the least dirty, is called the " Chamber of Peers," and is occupied by the first class—that is, those who possess a basket in a good state and a crook ornamented with copper ; the second, called the " Chamber of Deputies," belonging to the second class, is much less comfortable, and those who attend it have baskets and crooks—not of the first-rate quality; the third room is in a dilapidated condition, and is frequented by the lowest order of gatherers, who have no basket or crook, and who place what they find in the streets in a piece of sackcloth; they call themselves the '` Reunion des Vrais Prol6 taires." The name of each room is written in chalk above the door, and generally such strict etiquette is observed among the rag-gatherers that no one goes into the apartment not occupied by his own class. At Saturday's banquet, however, all distinctions of rank were set aside, and delegates of each class united fraternally. The president was the oldest rag gatherer of Paris; his age is 88, and he is called the Em peror. The banquet consisted of a sort of ella podrida, which the master of the establishment pompously called a gibelotte, though of what animal it was mainly composed it was impossible to say. It was served up in huge earthen dishes, and before it was allowed to bo touched payment was demanded and obtained. The other articles were also paid for as soon as they were brought in, and a deposit was exacted as security for the plater, knives, and forks. The wine, or what did duty as such, was contained in an earthen pot called the Petit Pero Noir, and was filled from a gigantic vessel named Le Moricaud. The dinner was concluded by each guest taking a small glass of brandy. Business was then pro ceeded to. It consisted in the reading and adoption of the statutes of the association, followed by the drink ing of numerous toasts to the president, to the prospe rity of rag-gathering, to the union of rag-gatherers, &c. A collection, amounting to 6f. 75c,, was raised for sick members of the fraternity. The guests then dispersed, but several of them remained at the counter until they had consumed in brandy the amount deposited as secu rity for the crockery, knives, and spoons. A most DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT SILVER COIN. ....• interesting circumstance in the nature of treasure"- Jac iesonostr. oc curred a few days ago on the domain cf the 4 trove I able Viscount Maynard, in the parish of Ra I t fer. Four occupied by Mr. labourers employed in stubbing down an oldth:tiff clay bank, near Rendysh-wood, on Bendysh-hall fabremr 'of British silver W. S. Hustler, dislodged a large nuin n coin, which in all probability bad bed concealed there p box , 'fever confined , _ ,. in a u n - y - , II? pieces, tow in number, wards of 200 years ; the bag, or having mouldered into dust. are all in most excellent preservatio.n., and consist of many the rei us of specimens of half-crownsandslrulllizinagbseuolf James l g ., and 1 Edward VI., Philip and Mary, n 44, thereby causing the Charles 1., but none later the war l6 ' supposition that during the civil some royalist officer or paymaster, being hard pressed, was obliged to other army hide then), and never returned to regai n th e cas h ; an d this , idea is greatly strengthened by the sharp state of almost all t h e i n sciptioni , as it is well kn own t h at Ch ar l es I. ca ll e d into active operation the services of his Mint whenever and wherever his resources were ex h auste d . Th e we i g ht o f th e The whole are now in the possession of the Noble vi s count, who, with his wonted benevolence and continual care for the welfare cf the poor, has generously directed, as he has dune in other instances of finding old money, that the entire original current value shall be divided amongst the honest labourers who made the discovery.--Chelmsford Chronicle. FASHIONS FOR JULY. ! BRITISH ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCE (From Le Follet.) , 11IENT of SCIENCE. One of the bast methods ot informing our readers of Irnwicie, Wenet spev.—The annual meeting of the actual "modes" is to cite come ensembles de toilettes this association ceennienced here this morning. This worn by ladies whose good taste and elegance are in- 'is the 21st andiversary, and upon no occasion disputable. We shall, therefore, at once proceed to . since its birth in 1830 up to its maturity, or " be describe a visiting dress :—The robe is of pearl ' coming of age," i n 1851, h ave any o f i ts meet i ngs gray taffetas shot with pink; plain skirt; body ; , been attended with so much interest as the present. 1 open to the waist, with revers edged with narrow pink i The attendance of the illustrious Prince who is and grey braids placed alternately. The same trim earning for himself an imperishable name as the pro ming ornaments the cuffs, which turn back towards the motet and patron of the arts and sciences, and to elbow, and are very loose. The body is fini<bed with a basquine, and is edged with a deep fringe - de. whom the country is inde bted for the present extra scending half-way down the skirt ; this fringe, ordinary opportunity of witnessing their practical which is a mixture of pink and grey silk, has a development in the palace of wonders in Hyde-park, wide heading en re,ille guipure, forming festoons, the expectation that many of the numerous distin terminating with long tassels. The bonnet which ae• guished literary and scientific foreigners now in companies this toilette is of bands of whalebone separa- England will be present at this meeting — these, togas ted by open straw, trimmed with bows of white Vier with the fact that there is a strong and in ribbon edged with fancy straw; small moss-roses and creasing ' feeling pervading all classes of the commu sprigs of straws are intermixed with the ribbon and, .- nit . ). in unison with the objects of the association, will also ornament the inside. An immense Cleantilly•lsee shawl accompanies this toilette. Another was of dark- account for the more than usual interest attending green and white glace taffetas; the flounce, deeply tool - this meetin g . loped were edged with an emroidered wreath in white The objects of the British Association are to give silk. An echarpe mantelet of Brussels point, lined with a stronger impulse and more systematic direction to dark green cape, the lace trimming reaching from scientific inquiry, to promote the intercourse of the waist haft-way down the skirt. Open-work straw those who cultivate science in different parts of the bonnet imitating lace, lined with pink crape, and British empire with one another and with foreign trimmed on either side with a branch of pink haw- philosophers, to obtain more general attention to ob thorn, united by light wreaths of leaves, which pass all ; iects of science, and the removal of any disadvantages round the crown. The cur tain an d broad strings were of a public kind which impede its progress. Every made of pink and white taffetas ribbon. The inside of the bonnet was ornamented with bunch es of-hawthorn,necessary arrangement to promote the comfort and We must mention another toilette of a more sedate convenience of the members of the association and character. The dress is of violet-coloured taffetas strangers visiting Ipswich has been adopted by the d'ltalie, with three scolloped flounces, embroidered with local committee. The various institutions and other black and violet silks, each flounce separated by three establishments, and everything worthy the notice narrow ones of black lace. Black lace mantille. Black of the curious, have been thrown open for gratuitous tulle bonnet edged with straw; a ruche of nar row blac k inspection. blonde, embroidered with straw round the front; a f The following are some of the members and others bouquet of black feathers mixed with light chains 0 who have signified their intention of being present, straw rings, falling very low, is placed at each ear: most of whom have already arrived :—The Duke of bouquets of straw flowers with long narrow leaves of Argyll, black velvet inside. The strings of black taffetas ribbon • 11 , Lord Sheffield, Lord Monteagle, Lord En ruskille_,n embroidered with straw. Lord Rosso, Lord Rendlesham, Lord A. Paget, Lord Morning bonnets of coarse straw have open edges; Londesborough, Lord Stradbroke, the of 0 Bishop Hon. xford . , Sir Charles Lemon, Lord Wrot they are lined with taffetas of the same colour as the Sir E. Cast, Sir W. Jardine, Sir trimming. Plaid ribbons are used, and the greater mul- tesleY, tiplicity of colours the more I, la mode. The bows are W. F. Middleton, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir H. De large, and form several coques, separated in the middle La L'eche, Sir J. IV. Hooker, Sir J. Boileau, by a torsade of ribbon; small flowers and leaves are per- Lord Abercorn, Honourable Colonel Grey, Colonel mitted as ornaments for the inside of negligee bonnets. Seymour, Mr. W. Cubitt, Captain Smith, We have noticed a fancy bonnet, composed of chains Captain Brooke, Professor Faraday, Professor of straw rings looped in each other. A pink taffetas Playfair, Professor Henslow, Dr. Bateman, Rev. W. ribbon is passed through the rings at the edge, forming R. Holmes, Professor Phillips, Dr. R. Bell, Rev. Dr. small curls both inside and outside. The bonnet is lined Whewell Professor Airy, Sir R. Murchison, Dr. with pink taffetas. A simle branch of ivy crosses the Roger, ' head, and mixes with the c p opes of pink ribbon at the Mr. W. B. Byng, F.R.A.S. Mr. R. Hunter, ears. The same trimming inside. F.R.S., Mr. R. Roberts, Mr. L. Buchan, Mr. F. E Feathers are much employed for rice, straw, and open Cottam, F.R.A.S., Mr. G. W. Ormerod, M.A., Rev. whalebone bonnets, and have been brought to great per- J. C. Ebden, M.A.,F.R.A.5., Colonel Sabine, RA., faction this season both as to shades and form. We have Mr. C. W. Dilke, r. W. R. Grove, F.R.S., Mr. some beautiful bonnets of white tulle worked in small Algernon Peckover, Mr. Joseph Hone, Dr. Lee, spots with straw, so fine that they appear like gold spots; Professor Owen, Mr. IV. J. M. Rankine, F .R.S.E., a triple row of straw-coloured ribbon is slightly drawn Rev. W. Airy, Mr. round the edge. A bouquet of marabouts ornaments oneW. D. Sault, F.G.S., C. Fox Bunbury, F.G.S , &c. aide; the ends have small lilies of the valley in straw, Among the foreign visitors are—His Excellency looking like drops of rain. Lillies and ribbons inside. A charming bonnet, the front formed of boulonnees Chevalier Bunsen, his Excellency M. Van de Wey er, of pink crape separated by ribbon , drawn like a ruche C. Bonaparte, Prince de Canino, Dr. Carl Bischoff , across the crown; bouillonnees of crape edged with nar- Si g nor Bartolomeo Cinci, M. Dumas, M. D'Abaddie, i row ribbon, forming a small funchon, the ends of which Dr. Ha mel, Colonel Mari, Professor Wartmann, Dr. are fastened on each side under tufts of small field Nordenskiold, Professor Scharling, Signor Osculati, flowers, mixed with coques of ribbon and straw. A Professor Elton, D.D., United States, Professor double curtain of crape edged with three narrow ribbons Shaf heutb, Dr. Beckie, Dr. J. B. Vrig, Mr. Whit matching the edge of the bonnet. The strings of broad nu, Messrs. Pierre end Plato Tchitchicheff, M. Van pink taffetas ribbon, with a lace edge. Gallen, Professor Johnson, United States, &c. Thin tarlataiee dresses have deeply cut flounces, The present officers of the association are— trimmed round with three narrow gauze ribbons, drawn president—Mr. George Biddle Airy, M.A F R S at one edge. Ribbon-placed ea echelle, very closely to- Astronomer Royal. gather, on the body. The short sleeves are entirely Vice-Presidents—The Right Hon. Lord Ren covered with ribbon.. Many head-dresses for young ladies are composed of hem M.P., the _Lord Bishop of Norwicb, dles . , a single ribbon placed under the bandesux, and, passing the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S, behind, are fastened with a bow and long ends. Rev: Professor Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., Sir John Many dresses have their trimming printed in the ma- Boileau, Bart., F.R.S., Sir William F. F. Middleton, terial. Redingotes of plain or chine silk have a broad Bart., Mr. John Chevalier Cobbold, M.P., Mr. satin stripe down the front, of the dominant shade of the Thomas Burch Western. dress. Upon the dresses with flounces these stripes are General i Secretaries—Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine, graduated in width, resembling narrow ribbons. Vice-President and Treasurer, R S., Woolwich; J. We have seen a redingote of brown and pink taffetas Forbes Ro3 le, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Materia in this style; a broad stripe of brown satin runs be - tween two narrow tucks; the botton a the sleeve MedicA and 7 Therapeutics in King's College, London. Assistait General Secretary—Mr. John Phillips, matches; ribbon-bows aro placed down the front, fixed with an amethyst butterfly mounted in _gold. F.R.S., York. The body is very open; half pagodas sleeves, disco- General Treasurer—Mr. John Taylor, F.R.S., 6, vering the collerette Medicis, and sleeves of Valen- Queen-street-place, Upper Thames-street, London. ciennes. A robe of green and brown chine, strewed Secretaries—Mr. Charles May, F.R.S.; Mr. Dill.. with bouquets of roses, with three flounces, each edged wyn Sims, Mr. George Arthur Biddell, Mr. George with three stripes of shaded green. The body I Louis Ransome, F.L.S., F.Z.S. XV., the front trimmed with an echelle of ribbon of the Treasurer—Mr. John Biddle Alexander. same shades of green; between each a narrow flounce of English lace imitating the guimpe, which is of lace. The The Rev. S. J. Rigaud, M.A., was elected as an additional secretary at the meeting of the general bottom of the sleeves are trimmed with green satin ribbon, separated by English lace. committee this afternoon. We must mention also some beautiful robes of plain The business of the day commenced by the meeting grenadine, of different shades of gray; the flounces of the Council, at 10 o'clock, and of the general cora edged with three or four rows of gray satin, The same mittee at 1 o'clock, for the election of sectional kind of stripes are round the sleeves and body. officers, the allocation of the various sections, and the We have observed some robes of this style, called dispatch of business usually brought before these bayed ares, having stripes of divers colours upon grena- bodies. The first general meeting is to be held. at 8 dines, and white mousseline de soie. o'clock this evening in the Corn Exchange, when the Bonnets of whalebone are very fashionable: some are ex-President, Sir David Brewster, K. 11., will open of black and white, trimmed on the side with bunches the business of the association, and resign the chair of dark roses. The broad strings and the curtains are to the President elect, Mr. Geor g e Biddell Airy, of black and pink, or white and pink ribbon. Th©y are M.A., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal, who will then lined with pink tulle, the cap of tulle, and rosebuds. Another bonnet of white whalebone trimmed with deliver an address on the objects and proceedings of narrow ribbons forming banging-foliage; on each aide the association. broad strings of ribbon to match. The sections are— Place of meeting. The mantelet echarpe is decidedly the fashion. They A. Mathematics and . physics Town-hall Council-chamber are made in black taffetas trimmed with deep magnificent B. Chemistry, &c Old Assembly-rooms lace, and enriched with ribbons or embroidery. C. Geology Temperance-hall D. Natural history Young ladies wear the same make of mantelet in pink or green taffetas, trimmed with a double row of Brussels E. Geography and ethnology Mechanics'lnstitute (Theatre) F. Statistics or Aleneon lace. Some, more simple, are in taffetas of G. Mechanical science .. all colours, trimmed with a deep plain tulle of the same . The different sections will assemble for the read colour as the silk. Upon this tulle are placed narrow ing and discussion of reports and other communica velvets in rows of threes. A broad velvet, which forms the head to this trimming, is placed upon the silk all tions to-morrow, July 3 ; Friday, July 4; Monday, round the mantelet. Sometimes, in place of the velvet, July 7 ; and Tuesday, July 8, at eleven A.M. a bouillonne of tulle separated by three or four rows of each day. Saturday, July 5, being an excursion narrow velvets. We must notice one, of white taffetas, day, the sections will meet or not on that day, Ro the mantelet itself being embroidered with silk en sou- cording to the decisions of their respective commit tache; the tulle which trims it has nine rows of passe- tees. To-morrow evening the Corn Exchange will menterie in place of the velvets. This mantelet is fas- be thrown open for promenade and conversation. On tened with magnificent buttons. Independent of all the fancy mantelets, scarfs, and Friday evening Professor Owen will deliver a die shawls of black lace, embroidered muslin mantelets, each course on the distinction between plants and animals , have become indispensable accessories to summertheir changes of form. On Monday evening the and s toilettes. President, Mr. G. B. Airy, will deliver a discourse on Wedding dresses merit particular notice for their the total solar eclipse of July 28, 1851. splendour. The greatest novelty is the skirt, with al- His Royal Highness Prince Albert is expected to ternate flounces of embroidered muslin and Brussels lace. arrive here about a quarter to eleven o'clock to-mor- A cannezout of lace, with a deep lace from the waist, row morning by special train. meeting the first flounce on the skirt. Another, less splendid, has the front breadth embroi dered apron-fashion; the rest of the skirt is embroidered in three rows imitating flat flounces. The body is high, embroidered over the cheat and sleeves; a narrow lace is fulled in round the throat. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Yesterday's rehearsal of the new opera, by M. Thalberg, appeared to produce on all who were pre sent the impression which we ventured yesterday to record as our own in regard to the musical character of the work to be brought out to-night. A musician who has deservedly acquired the hghest reputation, not only with the world at large, but in circles be yond the influence of mere popular applause, was felt to have thrown his full strength into his task— " The first essay of arms untried before." The artists engaged buckled to their duty with that energy which is only called up when real music— as distinct a thing as possible from the result of musical cleverness—is in question, and went through the rehearsal with an earnestness and a precision which foreshadow well the " event" of to-night. We are disinclined to say more in anticipation of what it will, we trust, be our pleasant duty to say to-morrow ; but we may be allowed to make the agreeable announcement that Madlle. Cruvelli (whose honourable exertions to do justice to M. Thalberg had incapacitated her from appearing in Mon- day's concert) has recovered her powers, and re hearsed the arduous part of Florinda w i t h all her natural vigour. There are some adm irable "situations" in the drama, which M. Scribe has furnished, and we much mistake if Cruvelh's acting, as the outraged daughter of Count Julian, and the victim of Roderic, the " Last of the Goths," w and ofill not Fidelio surpass her noble personations of Norma, upon which the habitues are so enthusiastic. The young vocalist is now fairly fitted with an origi nal part, and we do not fear to prophesy that s h e will make it her own.—/Iforning Paper. FRNCB PLAYS. ST. JAMES'S. Adrienne Lecourreur was again characterperf or o m f e A d d a r t ie t n e e S i t s . James's last evening. The the most perfect o f Mademoiselle Rac h el's impersona f polfaytheitniseolfderien h th e e roineo a modern play, and most the t ion 3 perfect of its sort. B e autiful e xceedingly sar casms eveni vg of the ' character was o her impersonation t were her great predecessor, l her as Her intensely delivery of the impas sioned agony hear trending. Le classic tragedies was magnificent, erencdithaetiton sni concluding fT° scene was replete with exquisite h g e re u e: e e d was wit h pathos. At the conclusion she was called on, and the most enthusiastic applause. The well and fashionably att'nded. Dur Mow GAMMON OF BACON.—After the lapse of 100 years this gammon of bacon has been claimed by a couple in good circumstances, as farmers, at Felsted, Essex, named Hurrah, but, failing to obtain it from the lord of the manor, the inhabitants of Dunmow have procured one by subscription, which will be presented to them, instead of the lord's, on their taking the usual oaths, at Broombills, near Dunmow, on Wednesday, the 16th of July. The couple will drive on to the ground (escorted by a band of music) in their own carriage and horses. A large number of persona are expected to congregate to witness the ceremony. A Roman Catholic priest has been tried at New York, and cast in 1,600 dolls. damages, for seduction. The affair caused great scandal among all religious denominations. 'The Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, as amended by the Committee, and on consideration of the Bill as amended, has been printed by order of the House of Commons. The Rev. Hinton C. Smith, minister of T r i n ity Church, Plymouth, has siged his intention to resign his incumbency on account ot his health. The Rev. W. Norval, late incumbent of St. James, Bermondsey, has been presented to the rectory of Ickleford, Herts, vacated by the Dogen Brown. Patron, Ralph Lindsay, Esq., F.S.A. ~;..~ ~,,.~ ,_~.. 'ri IC° -dal , 10d ; IL, 2. [over, load• 100 load• rites. 1 85; load* age le de' L to 11, 3e the colts, The GUT. HT. •"'~; . -. s- n, a V