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.-/ ►4, #1 •1 ii ll/r [ jo ‘ 0 ior vii ! tilde ° 101 agro ti l, to p 0- n 0 4 0- 04 , 1 , 11 011 # 01 : 0 1 .0 sectil,ro 011‘11 ►0 4 oi) fr °° o' , f slllo'.o 1 . o p 11° MAGAZINE DAY. EL-IC:K[l,oo,o's' MAGAZINE. There i s no mistaking the fine " Roman band " that appears in every page of the criticism on Dry den in this Number. As it is announced under the title of " North's Specimens of the British Critics," Ise presume we shall have a regular series of articles_ on this prolific subject, and we care not how many of t hem we have, should th e succeeding ones hate only raet e half t point, emphasis, and di scr i m i nat i on, that cha ri se the present specimen. There is no man of f the day better qualified by his high appreciation o "glo- Ths poetic in all its phases to play the critic on Sous John Drydea ' as his contemporaries loved to call him. True, the poet of King Charles's day was snore remarkable for the vigour of his reasoning Powers than the wildness and fervour of his imagine- like Pope, he professed to "stoop to truth and f loor alise his song, " while the Professor, 'who is " o Imagination all compact," has dwelt from his youth ridcards i n f a i ry land, haunted by such visions of the an d wonderf u l as no English poet has seen since Penner. Still, though fancy predominates over . the pure understanding in the poems of Professor Wilson, Pone lniwteneet A i h s etter feel the force of Dryden's various simple and straightforward powers of rgum eat, which however, are by no means wanting in subtilt _ _y mi l e' en'occasion demands, as in his "Hind rodw fp,n.ther," . the‘ incomparable . ease and majestic , Wits. of MS versification, the fertility of his illustra- 14:13, which in the striking poem of "Theodore and 1 2 r ,ia" in make the reader's blood tl-eeze in ' e ms. Por some years it has been the fashion to Faderste the school 'of Dryden and Pope. .That ,2 0 1 Was certainly not the highest in English g t „r'; atill it was a noble one, and we hope that as b t ' s u i t t : t s or 'Wilson has led the way, others will n iti t a to turn their attention to these undeservedly al'eteee,ted members of the British classics. The 31, 05 - fe l e r of London" is from the pen of Mr. Thomas sn ae ":"e• It contains one or two striking historical is r at i i i )° ,, e l such as that to Wallace, but, as a whole, it d th e Cy such in the turn of its thought And Au flow of its rhythm. " Spain as pectin Is furnishes nf, i , Spi t i n l° . t he curious particulars respg the state . ahe auth or the overthrow of the Carlist faction. SOuthern to assures us that in some of the large t award s E °/e ns a growing shyness is being evinced der at, vo,nglish travellers, which we do not at all won Itonseanse that we bear in ' mind the immense deal of t 41 14 1 11 " It certain recent tourists have scribbled k l vhe ' 11 1? that country. There is not a blockhead aL ge s t it oti board a steamer,. and leaves England for fertl y I°ls ' 41 . 1 Y a few weeks, but thinks himself Per e npalified to discuss the social and political 4'lle's,the Peninsula. From an article entitled ateusi 'overland Passage " we quote the following 4.lalantigdrlescription of the passage of the desert near in:-.. 4 Atl e Itsah a of Ph they reached the gulf of Suez, with the blue 1111% 1%10 t he gul f '4l,n,s h was i in the distanc e , an d cont i nued running un 8 4 one hundred and sixty miles long. kille atit4 canl e hi sight. Here all is dreary : deser t t. s s t'kal e idon_a_l,ll,ts forra the whole landscape. Arabbo t a ho . el? er. 6 iZ t and conveyed the passengers from 1 all s were i own looked dismal; its walls was and forti• crowded lisiekiy.look.n decay ; the landing place . . na. a 1 1 ,i a te ' s a:d th e ins creatures, the evident victims of ornament of the place was a large % L oeb ee • 4,8'1 tomb. This condition of things was not 'tote' of7,,,Prc'ted when the Party found themselves in the species 4riessyS• Hill and Co. whe t th .frightful insect, made war against sleep ; and Mosquitoes, and every lee , e eir re i gn had .. _ and the travellers i e ro Ptch or fli,. P. as 'ed away,. er s k „, e , s continued their persecution. The tree , 'tt on ce f .'" It 104 barin in aing their she ei rl4ll Suez to Alexandria; ' nd it is described as AI Se r triode to , a 4;heAOU ° L i the SeVeriVe Onlypassage-mones 4,2. ttnere, Th to Cairo, k a h nd ar t e he s n ur t e ak t e o Oi l; , r otiveytFi . c es w i .• It o '". ully ae . 0 A , ab drivers and carriers seem to • P ilch i,„ quireu those arts of extortion, which . `° be fenutia.neh abundance wherever English money l'• fi nery ,e,e,TheY cheat, and lie, and cajole, with extra. 14thi s nee '14143 ; and the majority of the passengers ~_l 3' on tiseaB"l seem to have been detained unnecessa `4o fir st r catd, and treated badly at the station-houses. attd th e Part of the desert is rather rocky than sandy. til e roa d seem pieces to when to have been formed chiefly by tae we andtravellers. of °f stone .. _rock, which sorely trie f d t *oils aD ; Oa. flesh i '! u nd r e dlt o fi is caresses eovere d o and rat , ., h with a t g i e r n e c w e ' •que th e h t ;' ne is soon eaten by the wolves camels e p lle i o n .. 'N s saki wer e „ lei *, bleach in the sun. Little troop s t Be rnet . .• from time to time, sometimes on camels_ e teeth lutes 'lts hi , ot; horses. They were armed to th to Nike s nit as n tsods it a ll e 3 ' d Party of e g p n a e_s, ; :nd look e d ferocious enough . pacific traveller s tremble fur their de tkra ed Al e i lltt els• But they were the patrols . of Mo ih• data the ' a nd guardians of the goods which in other 4e th e t steYtiZusid haye delighted to plunder. Ther.e builtare 11 'net rot : o n this road through the desert, all 1 1 . 4! ) ; RAI: °F woder, the Paella Of these, four are eller - ; hilt four are houses . fur the reception of Nie s d e Th e euinr-- The station N o 6 thoug h vt.. 8 aD tti4 Y are generally from twelve to sixteen min tel e ' the ennst , .' • wl, t o ths oies of an Englishhotel, . e hOiesher; .01,d.travellers o thedesert. by no mean flt consists of al 'e sal, , %Kithen and servants' room, with a large _ qv (. 04 ~,_. v , 444 cePtt°cour9t"T the whole end, and completii.g te sti . with (lir • Three sides of the saloon were fure em se With divans: There was a long table in the lli ta ° ' the several chairs, and a glass window at each Neil' and the„alt But this was unluckily the season o int o iceili o ,, J were the torment of the travellers ; table, c ss,o tlf ,i . is o s e, a t n li d floors swarmed with them. They flew tide:2' 4 s w „: Ys, and the mouth. Thousands of th P rh —e albo bu • i d biting every se i t e l ess 1 , zzing roum an ke nd . it es bi _ ei e tiast was no sooner laid on the . ta . ble nnui,,, ,_, Kened With flies. beds were hiving, heater ~a ble ant e No The , 1 1 42 It is the la 4, the halfway-liouse, was rat,her, has • vuw o f e'e largest of them all, and na atalalaPße co bed-re osos, and two public saloons. It ~ W 4°44 for n,rt-yard, in which were turkeys, sheep, e ,„ tae Use of travellers." 1 4 -gust passnie on to notice the next article, entitled tee has e "1° •" Th* • _ rest nis subject, although in some de la°. ' ancl year is still of more than ordinary in -I,oese tnns_er glad_ to see it handled in the corn terieuti of u.,"e,in which it is now presented to us. m tel ;', i s fi re , -1- wnshend's book, of which this is a Saved of '' to present Us with, to him, well le 0 :You n ull )._ rd then to suggest explanations, th et gort, to st'ist grounds, of these " wonderful facts." l ei tl le las es o w us that miracles are not miracles, ht that sh e . ,of nature are but imperfectly known, end 'a Is much • I lki e • e rsto o d_ s„,.in heaven tied in earth not . th i tln g nh 4 e are glad to see that there is it 4, ael ene e r e a n air of' something more definite in s, b ee _ ~ or I veuatever term apply to it; "e°P ) .ll/it 'g more t• • We may • of elll Ite hed d i • angible, and there is more . _ t nti ons t , an in the vague and unphilosophical tr euiy d iv iiat t kl, ' ° Pt our r have lately isLued from the press et hi In sehic, eaders to read the following ex tseirtl4 self :es, " a !Tian beome s a tn 9 stneriser in spite ne s , the eve.. te s 's h o "nsttnas of itgdit... us e with ,_ the year 1842, we dined aa t l t e O•e".'er•nse tty "Part s: of eight (numeric perfection_ deV9!ne/57 , according to the ingenious author of est„,,Ltlsioes b • n the the Mackay's book on popu -411;4 if the being on the d r ' 17ts, , tote „ author had awing -room table, some one 61 (l oese., (1 ' the Part treated of mesmerism. Upon 'eel tae-party Y who had recently returned from kiel ise : ileeeous 2 1 no had lived a studious life, and of a * Wile i t rats ranaPeratnent—said he had lately wit beije ( Ils e au ehe exhibition and would undertake to teti:',l44 nne present.' Upon this, two or three 14 4 11 lin g n „ re d as patient and he co' mmeneed ex tld will had V n a lady Or •fi P tears old, tie ame rash nty . v y b ,%t ta N 4, butrnately fro m . childhood, clever, ;%esere ridicoioer i maginativ e . To make the 4 ,Y es,,,,??elti u ,„ „,, n, h! Knelt on both knees, and com silia ad y amtialindd keeping a mteciunß We'ty's,ses with both hands slowly before her evel,iLtit h iro 2 wnenever she took her eyes off, to look perfectly grave face when N i l l . e ndur ed fowls laughing unreservedly. After iittediiierf!onlelefs:reith, etill'ersoME three minutes, the lady's eyes 1'0)1 forwards, and was only pre- Ole n , B e shoo _ .411 i re b.._ 8 y bring caueht by the mes- PI Per 4r to het. 4er, and in rathe r a rough manner, ~ to eer`nsel e d a.enses; then susniei me lest she had )7 4 1 hTteettlfe; heeeresivi_ing him, questioned her seriously ti _itts ir. 4 _. ,h 4t it was ueP were feigned or real. She as- Ahtt,.4lstible, ciii not simulated, that the sensation too k eit __ ierent from that of ordinary steep. tie ale p art ". unpleasant • but that the only dis e Zan d 1 wa s the %c eo uis e s h ac e i s s ar e d that s_ bein g ; roused. Upon this the hot ha fie believertr nothing of mesmerisine, ‘llkiotetielve "tentPted the was anything in it, he e l4 to e ' and ha e i oke. Another lady pre atii she h •isme the og a' family, was new most II: lukt P b efor e experiment repeated upon her. She 4ttisd thitte4H, satanciti: an experienced mesmeriser, /4 4,, iii): c t4 iteCi l t ia d re re_e , r e :IY as giv sti l l Wittuyerodulo us, and . he- to an imaginative at,f %or s ; Renti,,,, a lu., d coneklerable persuasion to N il ifit it, th"PPriments"l„Who had before operated to try ilse.csarie 4 t he h ad ; "e Pretested that he k new within e I:,, i ltie _ o _ . state L s nee see n a person said to be in the . .t ‘3,.11 hi ; pt that if he succeeded again in in. kitiilll‘-:bretisiy:TiteoW not he at all how to awake the pa s q s Atil s i i 3 ; the ee,„dtg,ll, was instructed in the mini t s t_ aikii re esio Y itetl patient who hadpreviously t oe ta re), h„ with exhi b • c , c ee ' e at o we e il " with the ""ns. After sotne further t ir it ,as m i ll p r , Sent, hepecromission of the lady's hie , - itltiit:he pa was was in thi, eap,amtirliced agein the same ik. iris, ha the former patient the only differen c e e Sitting instead of' kneel less 4 vlb, 0,.-;- cnstantly. I s er k e ? and a e s °t kept constantly. bursting into fits of apoilogising telling him that lea:1 t, 4, ace was ire a l Yt 4 t ll , l s b it „t. t"4l:3,lakashed, othese7stiwblee're tOoof tmheucohthteerrreilieersdoutos lirliNferigileal and laP a constant running fire of com- Of v tlee. I _ ~, serious, ~ ,,i ge lath 1„ r or upon the mesmeriser and com et eei ti er assu , o,e minutes, the fits of laugh eilstest ept t neu a rather unnatu.ral c.haracter. at e iii .dtsioep,, need herself I lots ti Into ...an n , and . tolaugh in spite of the Ql,e t . i t .'t ti l , state of gha l in a minute or two more r lh IP' which fixed, the f st Y catalepsy, the eyes wide hYstand_ eb was convulsetures all rigid (except the isZe, std 447% tOW m uch 1 ), and pale as a corpse. tfltitoeto4ih4revetnielideffnireirer?c(isnefsrf:gh tened, interfered, and srhe After some time, water A min to herself, and ap -41).1,11 ttA,,, ..:_.............___Ln tote into ss d at how sPeo,A,7„., !t o4 darts r of ti zi LI I NAG42/ N , E. t tl t t t)1 ~, ,,, 0 lil e o l l , ti Ileqle Pnss.iP,lng collect; ion of amusing Nrte x1415.4au a° .1-11Plornatic Doi ngs," seems pit:that i i h , , an, (I.linted with the political on dits 1 for h g eland 44114 ding to the changes recently in tzetsy eveer,..tof the Court at Windsor says ese ilivite.!l representative of foreign Powers 4 nee iu the year to the royaa . --,- table. Years now elapse without certain esteemed clip i° ni:itists from friendly nAtioils receiving Vi;it honour; and we have had, but a few weeks since, the example of the representative of a great foreign Power leaving this country, after a residence of thirty years, without obtaining audience of leave. The re cently introduced rules of etiquette at Windsor have been a source of astonishment to all civilised Europe, were it only on account of the exclusion of all men of literature and science." But though we fear it is too true that literary and scientific men are too often excluded from the courtly circles of Windsor, dwarfs and aboriginal Indians, and such like curiosities, have not been slow to find a welcome there. " A New Chapter in the History of Napoleon Bonaparte" is a plain, straightforward account of the writer's attempt ,to connive at the French Emperor's escape at Rochefort; matters were all but brought to a satis factory termination, when Napoleon, to the astonish. went of all his friends in that town, announced his intention to be guided by the counsels of General Savary, and embark for England in the Bellerophon. The impress of truth is, we think, visibly stamped on this narrative, which we would willingly subjoin, were it not too long for the purposes of quotation. Miss Cook is one of the most cheerful and buoyant ver sifiers of the day, but we know not that she has yet produced anything more touching, and, at the same time, natural, than the following " Forest Thought:"— The fine old oak hath passed away, its noble stem bath shrunk, Till roving footsteps speeding on, leap o'er the sapless trunk ; Its glory hath departed, and the wrestler with the storm Is crumbled, till it yields no home to keep the squirrel warm ; But bright green moss is clothing it, all soft, and sweet, and fresh, As true as when it first entwined the sapling in its mesh, It leaveth not the ruin spot, but beautiful to see, It yearneth still the closer to the old gray tree. I know this heart must wither, and become as dead a thing; It will not heed the winter• cloud, nor feel the sun cf spring ; In low decaying solitude, this form ere long shall fade, And moulder 'neath the grave-sod, like the tree in forest glade. Oh ! let me hope that some kind thoughts will turn toward my name, And glowing breasts that love me tow, will love me still the same. Let gentle Memory fill the home where once I used to be, And cling to me like green moss to the old gray tree. "A Discourse of Puppies" contains some good points, but there is an air of pedantry about it, and a con• stant attempt at saying smart things, which are some times very far-fetched. "The Wolf and the Lamh" is a story from the pen of the indefatigable author of " Peter Priggins," whose genius would show to greater advantage if he would trust more to his own resources, and less avowedly imitate the style of Theodore Hook. From an article entitled "Two "Military Executions in Spain," we quote the follow• ing affecting passage : At another execution that I witnessed, a charac teristic incident occurred. It was in Navarre, at a reriod of the war when the system of reprisals was carried to great length by both parties. The Carlists had beet: committing some atrocities, murdering prisoners, or something of that kind, and by way of retaliation, twenty out of a number of prisoners whom the Queen's troops had recently made, were to be shot. The victims had to be chosen by lot, and fbr this purpose they were brought out of their place Of confinement. A wretched-looking set they certainly were. Although they had not b,-en very long prisoners, the st•ite of squalid misery into which they had sunk was really pitiable. They were of all ages, from lads of sixteen to men of sixty, or who, at east, looked as old as that, being perhaps prematurely aged by the life of privations they had led, and by the sufferings of their captivity. There was no lack, how ever, of fine, stalwart fellows, with bronzed faces. mus cular forms, bushy beards, and hair hanging in long curls over their necks ; models of Spanish mountaineers, whose iron frames enabled them to bear up against all hardships. The varieties of dross were strange and striking enough. The poor devils had none of them too much clothing, and what they had was, for the most part, worn and tattered. Here might he seen a man with a full, Aress coat, the facings soiled and greasy. a strand or two of an old tarnished epaulette dangling from his shoulder, hempen sandals, and a pair of linen trousers, formerly white, completing his costume. This was an officer, but many were not even so well off as that. Jackets with a sleeve or the collar tern off were abundant, shirts by no means numerous, and shoes very rare. There was one old fellow amongst them who at tracted my notice particularly, H e was j us t th e sort of man one sees in pictures of Napoleon's vielle garde, with soldier legibly written on every one of his features, and in every movement of his upright, midtary figure ; his hands and face weather beaten to the colour of maho gany ; his gaze stern and fixed ; his thick iron-gray moustache covering his mouth, and the points descend ing almost on his breast. He had evidently made a sort of attempt to furbish himself up for his melancholy pa rade. His old uniform jacket had had the dust knocked out of it, and was buttoned close up to the chin, as well as the intermittent buttons would allow ; his forage-cap, or rather what remained of it, was placed on his head with a certain air of smartness, and his tattered shoes were fastened with bits of twine. Pipe-clay and blacking had of course not been at his command." TAIT'S MAGAZINE. A tale of " Celts and Saxons," by Mrs. Johnstone, 'creases in interest, and creates a desire for the con- tinuation promised in the next Number. The re view of Sergeant Talfourd's " Vacation Rambles" is treated with the characteristic fairness of this Maga zine ; they appreciate his graphic descriptions, and have been felicitous in their selection of extracts, which convey a vivid impression of the work as a whole. Notwithstanding Walpole, both as a letter writer and historian is such a hackneyed theme, the present notice of his " Memoirs of George III." will find readers whose attention will be pretty sure to be awakened by it. In " The Letters from Naples," by Madame Wolfensberger, we find the following sur prising, but half revolting, account of the lower classes in Naples : " Throughout the whole population of Naples there is a language of signs, which, in many instances, renders words unnecessary ; and when understood andC put in practice by a stranger, frequently saves him from serious impositions, by at once convincing these people that he is aware of their tricks ; for it is quite certain, that in whatever way he may have dealings with them, their first attempt will be to cheat or deceive him, if there is anything to be gained by deception. To a bystander, it is truly amusing to observe the expressive looks and ges tures of these poor creatures, without shoes or stockings, and not half covered with their filthy garments, discours ing with a fluency, ease, and grace, which the finest actor would be rejoiced to attain. By nature they are gay and jocose ; and we often observed the fathers, when there boats are drawn on shore, nursing their little chil dren with the tenderest care. But misery, and the pressure of continued want, blunt the edge of the best affections ; and we were told by a native of the city, scarcely a degree above this claas, that if a poor man was reduced to the necessity of being taken to an hos pital, even in a dying state, none of his children or rela tives troubled themselves to make any further inquiries concerning him. When I expressed my surprise and horror at such heartless conduct, he cooly replied, Ah, the rich are no better here ; what can you expect of the poor ?—they have enough to do to think of themselves.' " DOUGLAS JERROLD'S MAGAZINE. The story of " St. Giles and St. James" is con tinued, but not exactly with so much interest as that with which it opened. The fact that the children of the poor and destitute are not brought up, but dragged up, as Lamb has it, is too well known to admit of a doubt, and scarcely requires illustration. Some of Douglas Jerrold's descriptions of character in this Number are fully worthy of him. Here is one of a new acquaintance he is about to introduce as to—it is that of Mr. Capstick, the muffin-maker:— " One of the seven airiest and finest streets that com pose the Seven Dials—for we care Rat to name the exact spot—boasted the advent of a tradesman, who employed the whole vigour of his mind, and he himself thought net meanly of it, on the manufacture of muffins. At the time of our present chapter, Mr Capstick had only lived a twelvemonth under the protection of St. Giles ; paying the Saint due parish rates for such advantage. Where Mr. Capstick came from nobody knew. It was plain he was one of those people who now and then drop from the sky into a neighbourhood, for no other end than to adorn and dignify it. At least, it was plain that Mr. Capstick thought as much ; and he was not a man to disguise his thoughts when they at all tended to his self-glorification. True it was, muffins had been known in St. Giles's, ere Mr. Capstick lighted his oven there. But what muffins ! how, too, were they made—where vended ? Why, as Mr. Capstick would observe, they were made as if they were bad halfpence—and they were quite as hard to chew—in guilt and darkness. Nobody knew what they were eating. Now, all the world might see him make Ms muffins. Indeed, he would feel obliged to the world if it would take that trouble. To be sure, he was throwing his muffins to swine—but he couldn't help that. It wasn't his nature to do anything that wasn't fir4-rate : he knew he was a loser by it ; all men who did so were ; nevertheless, a man who was a true man would go on ruining himself for the world, though he might hate the world all the time he was doing it. Nevertheless, his muffins was open to the universe. There was no mystery in him, none at all. And then he would say, glowing at times with a strange eloquence, What a glorious thing it would be for the world if every man made his muffin—whatever that muffin might be—in the open light of Heaven ; and not in a cupboard, a hole, a corner I It was making muffins in secret, and in darkness, that made three parts of the misery of mankind.' When people heard Mr. Capstick discourse after this fashion, they would confidentially declare to one another that it was plain he was born above his business ; he was a broken down gentle man ; perhaps come of a Jacobite family, and made muffins to hide his disgrace. True it was, there was a pompous ness, a swagger, an affected contempt of the people with whom he turned the penny, that gave some warranty for these opinions. Nevertheless, Mr. Capstick, with all his consequence, all his misan thropy,—and ha wore his hatred of mankind as he would have worn a diamond ring, as a thing at once to put in the best light and to be very proud of—.a as a great favourite. The cellars of St. Giles's echoed his praises. He was, in his way, a great benefactor to his poorest neighbours. You see, Mary Ann,' he woul3 say to his wife, whet a blessing there is in corn. When muffi ns are too stale to sell, they:re always good enough to give away.' And these remainder mans he would THE SUN, LGNDON, SATURDAY MORNING, PEIBRUARY 1 frequently bestow upon the veriest needy, accompinied j with phrases that ;pAc,.) his co . lt.c.rpt of human nature, I his particular nature included." The story proceeds to show how inevitable crime is under the system of training to which young St. Giles is submitted ; by imperceptible degrees fate drags him on from evil to evil, until at last he is the robber of young St. James. We will conclude the notice of this story by an amusing extract, which may please our readers : " We cannot say—and in truth it is a ticklish question to ask of those who are best qualified to give an answer, if there really be not a comfort in substantial ugliness : in ugliness that, unchanged, will last a man his life ; a good granite face in which there shall be no wear and tear. A man so appoigted, is saved many alarms, many spasms of pride. Time cannot wound his vanity through his features ; he eats, drinks, and is merry, in despite of mirrors. No acquaintance starts at sudden alteration, hinting in such surprise, decay and the final tomb. He grows older, with no former intimates—churchyard voices !—crying, How you're altered !' How many a man might have been a truer husband, a better father, firmer friend, more valuable citizen, had he, when arrived at legal maturity, cut off—say, an inch of his nose. This inch—only an inch !—would have destroyed the vanity of the very handsomest face ; and so, driven the thoughts of a man from a vulgar looking-glass, a piece of shop chrystal—and more, from the fatal mirrors carried in the heads of women to reflect, heaven knows how many coxcombs who choose to stare into them—to the glass of his own mind. With only such petty sacrifice, he might have been a philosopher. Thus considered, how many a cox comb may be within an inch of a sage ! True, there was an ago when wise men—at least a few of them— glorified in selt-tnutilation, casting sanguinary offerings to the bird of wisdom. But this was in the freshness and youth of the world ; in the sweet innocence of early time. But the world grows of l ; and, like a faded, I,:shionable beauty, the older it grows the more it lays on the paint." There is a little poem of some interest, which we will insert for the entertainment of our readers : . THE DRUM. Yonder is a little drum Hanging on the wall, Duty wreaths and tatter'd flags Round about it fall. A Shepherd youth on Cheviot's hills Watch'd the sheep, whose skin A cunning workman wrought and gave Tae little drum its din. 0 pleasant are fair Cheviot's bills With velvet verdure spread, And pleasant 'tis amid its heath To make your summer bed. And sweet and clear are Cheviot's rills That trickle to its vales, And balmily its tiny flowers Breathe on the passing gales. And thus bath felt the Shepherd boy Whilst tending of his fold, Nor thought there was in all the world A spot like Cheviot's weld. And so it was for many a day, But change with Time will come, And he—(alas ! for him the day I) He heard the little drum. " Follow," said the drummer-boy, " Would you live in story ; " For ho who strikes a foetuan down, " Wins a wreath of glory !" " Rub- a-dub and rub-a-dub," The drummer beats away— The Shepherd let kis bleating flock On Cheviot wildly stray. On Egypt's arid waste of sand The Shepherd now is lying, Around him many a parching tongue For water 's faintly crying. O that he were on Cheviot's hills • With velvet verdure spread, Or lying 'mid the blooreiug heath, Where oft he'd made his bed. Or could he drink of those sweet rills That trickle to the vales, Or breathe once more the balminess Of Cheviot's mountain gales. At length upon his wearied eyes The mists of slumber come, And he is in his home again— Till waken'd by the drum. " Take arms I Take arms," his leader cries, The hated foeman's nigh;" Guns loudly roar—steel clanks on steel And thousands fall to die. The Shepherd's blood makes red the sand, " Oh ! water—give me some ! " My voice might reach a friendly ear, "But for that little drum !" 'Mid moaning men—'mid dying men, The drummer kept his way, And many a one, by " glory' lured, . Did curse the drum that day. " Rub-a-dub and rub-a-dub," The drummer beat aloud— The Shepherd died, and ere the morn, The hot sand was his shroud. And this is glory ? Yes ; and still Will man the tempter follow, Nor learn that glory, like its drum, Is but a sound and hollow. THE THEATRES. SADLERS' WELLS. A new five act play, from the pen of Mr. T. J. Serle, was produced at this theatre on Thursday, with the most complete success. It is entitled the Priest's Daughter, and the scene is, laid in the middle ages, just at the period when the celibacy of the clergy was introduced. The heroine, Madeleine (Mrs. Warner), is the daughter of a married priest, whose marriage has been rendered null by the edict enforcing the ce libacy of the clergy, while at the same time the issue of such marriages are condemned to serfdom. This takes place during her infancy, and the priest, to save her from such a dreadful doom, conceals his relation ship to her, and she is brought up by a peasant wo man, Sybilla (Mrs. Marston), the priest watching over her as her confessor. Count Robert de Velery (Marston), whose serf she would be, according to the provisions of the edict, sees and loves her. He protects her from the violence of the soldiery, and wins the maiden's affections. Luitprand (Mr. J. Webster), the son of Sybilla, also loves her, but his suit is Scorned. The disputes between himself and his mother on the subject of the treatment of the beautiful maiden by the latter was full of comic hu - moor. Madeleine is unhappily in the cottage of Sybilla, and escapes to the castle of Count Robert, who receives her with open arms, but has no inten tion of marrying her. The priest-father appears and warns her of her danger. The acting of Phelps in this part of the drama was exceedingly fine. He delineated beautifully theheartfelt agony of the father, rendered ten thousand times more acute from the necessity there was to suppress the visible demonstra tion of it under the guise of the righteous indignation of the passionless priest. He urges the peasants to attack the castle and deliver Madeleine. They refuse, alleging that Madeleine is not a peasant's wife, and there is no reason which calls for their interference. The priest, accompanied by Luitprand, obtains ad mission into the Castle, and insists on Madeleine's in stantly marrying her peasant lover. She refuses; at length the priest tells her that he is her father, and, in obedience to a parent's command, she consents to wed Luitprand. The ceremony is interrupted by the arrival of the Count, who is indignant at the sup posed falseness of Madeleine. The attack of the vassals on the Castle calls him away, and during his absence, the priest, who is left alone in the banquetting hall with Madeleine, puts poison in the Count's drink ing cup, notwithstanding all the efforts and persua sions of Madeleine to prevent him. The Count returns victorious, and threatens to hang all his prisoners unless Madeleine will consent to his purpose. The Count is about to drink, when the priest rushes forward, and renews his supplications to him, to in duce him to desist from his purpose with regard to Madeleine. The Count is inexorable—the priest leaves him. He has lifted the goblet to his mouth, when Madeleine rushes forward and dashes it from his hand, declaring it is poisoned. The Count, struck by the generosity of her conduct, determines to wed her, and the priest, who has himself swallowed the poison, joins their hands as he is in the agonies of death. The parts of the Priest and Madeleine were admirably sustained by Phelps and Mrs. Warner, who were called for at the conclusion of the piece, and much applauded. A call was then made for the author, and Mr. Serle appeared and briefly addressed the audience, stating, that he should consider that night as the proudest of his existence, if this play should turn out to be only the commencement of a series of similar productions at that theatre. He was loudly cheered, and the piece was announced for repetition amidst tumults of applause. STRANGE, IF TRUE.--A circumstance the most extraordinary that ever fell under our notice occurred:in the lower part of Exeter on :Sunday last. A person, living in Sherman's-court, having occasion to draw some soft water from the cock, was surprised to find it of a reddish brown chlour, and still more surprised, on tasting it, to find it like good beer ! and. beer it was beyond all doub., though evidently it had been very lately brewed. He could not conceal his good luck, the news of which soon spread throughout the neighbourhood. Other cocks were tried, with the same result, and the police have now in their possession the particulars of seven different houses, the tenants of which, paying for soft water, mo-4 unexpectedly obtained general home.brewed. There must have been a considerable quantity of it, too, for the drawing and drinking coral! ued on Sunday and part of Monday, and the denizens of the quarter made the most of the chance, by getting gloriously drunk. How to account for it is, at present, not so easy, but it seems quite clear that some brewer in the neighbour hood must have suffered, and that the b , er must have been .drawn off by the pipes which were only designed to bring the water in. At present no brewer can be found who will cfnaress to having 1( st any beer at all. Perhaps the same pipes that emi-tl( d his vats of their contents have by this time fill d them again with the pure fluid of the reservoir.— Wes of England Con servative. , • RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER. BRISTOL, THURSDAY EVENING.—A special general meeting of the Shareholders of this Company was held this afternoon, at the White Lion Hotel, Bristol. for the purpose of taking into consideration the union of the Birmingham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester Railways, and to empower the Directors to take shares in the proposed Plymouth and Fahnouth Railway. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that at the meeting of the Birmingham and Gloucester, held the day before, the resolutions approving of the amal gamation of the two Companies had been passed unani mously. The SECRETARY then read the report, which stated that the proposed amalgamation had been adopted from a conviction that isolated Companies, in comparison with allied bodies, would seldom be in a position to negotiate on equal terms with their more powerful neighbours. It, therefore, behoved the smaller Com panies to form a timely union with their natural allies, always provided they could do so on fair terms. The present position of the capital of the Company was as follows:—The entire capital expenditure is expected to be about 700,000 L Seren thousand five hundred and thirty-nine shares have been created, on which 241,1701. has been paid, and the further sum of 165,000 L has been raised on debentures, which exhausts the Parliamentary power of issuing such securities, and the remainder (raised on loan notes) must be met, as these notes fall due, by the payment of calls on the existing shares, and by the calls on new shares, to be created. The proprietors also exercise the power, when they see fit, of substituting share capital for their deben tures, and of thus covering their whole expenditure by money paid upon shares. After a number of modes of uniting the two Companies had been discussed, and at tempted, it was considered by both the boards that no method would be so simple and satistisfactory as that the amounts to be raised on the shares or stock of each Company should be determined, and that the relative amount being fixed, the separate interests of the two Companies should forthwith be merged into those of one united Company. The report then went on to propose the method lately pursued by several Com panies of issuing stock in lieu of shares, and con cluded by recommending the proprietors to unite in conjunction with the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon, in promoting the proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth. The CHAIRMAN then said, that in addition to the amalgamation of the Company with the Bit., mingham and Gloucester, the Directors thought it would be highly advantageous to promote the forma tion of the Plymouth line. They had seen the decision of the Board of Trade in favour of that line and there fore there could be but littl e d ou bt o f i ts being carried into effect. He then proposed the first resolution, which proposed to empower the Directors to subscribe 500 shares of 501. each towards the Plymouth and Fal mouth line. Mr. 11. 0. WILLS seconded the resolution. Mr. SOMERS HAuroup wished to know what advan tages the Bristol and Gloucester Company was likely to derive from a subscription of 250,0001. to the Plymouth and Falmouth Railway, as proposed by the resolution? The CHAIRMAN said the Directors could not at present define what would be the profits, as that remained to be seen ; but if they wanted a precedent they might look to the South Devon Railway, to which they had subscribed, and which he was sure no one now regretted, as the shares were at a fair premium. The Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter Companies had both subscribed to the undertaking. Mr. SHAPLAND was certain that it would be highly advantageous to join in the formation of the Plymouth and Falmouth Railway, as it would be the completing link from the north to Falmouth; and as Falmouth would no doubt be the packet station, it would be of the greatest advantage to them to connect the north with it. The South Devon Company had subscribed 100,000 L towards it. The Birmingham and Gloucester Company , agreed in the view the Directors had taken as to a sub scription for 500 shares. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to Mr. Aiken, explained that the Directors were satisfied, both with regard to the cost of the construction per mile, and to the increase of traffic on the proposed line, and that it would be very remune rative when Fahneuth became the packet station. The resolution then passed unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the second resolution, having reference to the amalgamation of the two Com panies, which was seconded by Mr. JosE. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to the Bey. Mr. Taylor, who wished to know if they were to participate in tht exten sion of the Birmingham and Gloucester line to Wolver hampton? said certainly as to the traffic, but not as to the capital stock. A PROPRIETOR maintained that the terms of the amal gamation were most favourable to the Birmingham and Gloucester Company, which had not been paying a divi dend of 3 per cent. The CHAIRMAN replied, that the Birmingham and Gloucester proprietors at their meeting had contended that the Bristol and Gloucester Company had the best part of the bargain. A long discussion ensued as to the subject of the wide and narrow guage, and it was stated that in all proba bility the railway from Birmingham to Gloucester would be altered from the narrow to the wide guage, to make it uniform with the Great Western and the Bristol and Gloucester, Bristol and Exeter, and so on to Falmouth, and probably to the Land's-end, all of which were con structed on the principle of the wide guage. It was also stated that the contemplated South Wales line was to be on the wide guage system. The resolution then passed unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the third resolution, which was seconded by Mr. HILL, and carried unani mously, to the effect that the Shareholders be allowed one month from this day to exercise the option of ac cepting or rejecting the new stock, and that any stock not accepted be allotted as the Directors may determine. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCES TER, AND BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER.—The fol lowing are the heads of the agreement entered into be tween the Directors for the amalgamation of these two lines, which have long laboured under various disad vantages, particularly in the goods- and passenger de partment, owing to the want of uniformity in the ma nagement, and a consentaneous working of the traffic. As a remedial measure, the ratification of the treaty will be read with interest:—" 1. That the Bristol and Glou cester and the Birmingham and Gloucester shall be united into one company, under the title of The Bristol and Birmingham Railway Company,' and that an Act of Parliament shall be applied for at the earliest possible period to carry into effect such union, and to grant the necessary powers in connection therewith 2. That until the proposed Act is obtained, the affairs of the united Company shall be administered by a Biard of Ma nagement, to be selected by the respective Boards from among themselves, such Board to consist of fifteen members, seven of whom shall be chosen from the Bristol and Gloucester Board, and the other seven from the Birmingham and Gloucester Board, but the chair man shall be appoint e d b y t h e mem b ers chosen b y th e Birmingham and Gloucester Board. 3. That after the passing of the Act a Board shall be elected by the Pro prietors of the united Company, at a period to be named in the Act, and that such Board shall consist of a number not exceeding fourteen. 4. That the stock of the united Company shall consist of 1,800,0001., of which the sum of 1,142,1251. will belong to the Shareholders of the Birmingham and Gloucester Company, and the sum of 657,875/. shall be allotted (subject to the following con ditions) to the Shareholders ~ f the Bristol trill Gloucester Railway Company. 5. That each Shareholder of the latter Compan:t shall have the option (such option to be declared within one month a.ter notice given, and not later than the 31st July, 1845) of taking his propor tion of such allotment • and in case he decline to do so, he shall have 501. stock in the United Company given him in exchange for each share he may possess in the Bristol and Gloucester Company, and shall receive divi dends on the whole of such stock, and shall pay interest at 41 per cent. on such part of it as shall remain unpaid. 6. That the Bristol and Gloucester Shareholders who shall accept the above-mentioned allotment shall not be called upon to pay any portion of their unpaid capital until the Ist of January. 1847, when they shad pay one tenth of snch unpaid capital every six mouths until the whole is paid up ; but they shall have the option of pay ing the whole or any part thereof, not less than one -tenth of the whole, at any earlier:period (a. periods. 7. That any stock that may be declined by the Bristol and Gloucester shareholderssholl be divided among any other shareholders in that Company who may he will , ng to accept the same, provided such Shareholders shall have paid, or at the time of taking such stock shall pay, not less than 20 per cent. thereon. 8. That in case the Shareholders of the Bristol and Gloucester Company shall not accept sto c k Bu7nsiless the Board appointed , the portion unappro ptoritahteed fullaha shall l a mn not t u nt be o created , under the Act shall think fit to do so for joint purposes, 9. That all dividends shall be made on the entire stock, whether paid or not, and that four -and-a-half per cent. per annum shall be charged to the holders of stock on all sums not paid up. 10. That all assets, liabilities, contracts, and agreements of each Company, shall be taken by the united Company. 11. That from the Ist day of January instant, until the passing of the Act, the revenue shall belong to the united Company, and shall be divided on the stock which Shall be created previous to the dividend being declared. 12. That whether the Act of Parliament be obtained or not, the foregoing agreement shall be considered as binding from the Ist day of January instant. 13. That the present agreement shall form the basis of the Act of Parliament ; and if any doubt or difference of opinion shall arise between the solicitors as to the true interpretation hereof, or as to the manner of carrying out the same in the provisions of the said Bill, the same shall be sulaßitted to some bar rister, to be agreed upon between them, whose decision shall be final. ' GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER.—The op en i ng o f thi s line, now definitively fixed, w i ll form an imp ortan t li n k in the chain of railway communication between the metro polis and the south-eastern coast. It ha s b een constructed at the instance of the Proprietors of the Thames and Medway Canal, who, conceiving that the days of canal transit were numbered, resolved on converting, at a com paratively small cost, their property into a rail wa y a l ong the banks of the canal, retaining at the same t i me t h e latter for traffic in goods. The line has been cons t ruc t e d by Mr. Rastrick, th e engineer, within the sp ace o f l ess than twelve months. It is now, we und erstand, consoli dated, and in good working order. The fares have bean fixed at ls. fur the first, and Bd. for the s econ d- c l ass, be tween Gravesend and Rochester, including fare by steamer between Rochester and Chatham. principal bankers, merchants, and MEMORIAL TO THE memorial of the BOARD FROM LIVERPOOL.—A .affected by the amal• trades men, is now in course of signature . at Liverpool, ad• dressed to the Board of Trvie, in behalf of the general g in a t tn er a e t s i t o s n o o f f t the town line s an i d ll p i o t r s t, yi. :isin.ty, which Companies they complain now possess the. entire monopoly of rail way traffic in and out of . Liver . pool. The memorialists state, that great inconvenience is acknowledged to have been experienced by there being only one termi,no at Liverpool, and that most insufficient, and one railway ontlet from it, emerging by moans of a tunnel of one mile and a quarter in length. They have reason to ap prehend from the recent meetings, that a general amal gamation is contemplated of the Liverpool and Manches ter, Grand Junction, North Union, Preston and Lan caster, and Lancaster and Carlisle, and the memorialists consider it to be their duty to submit their belief that the interests of Liverpool, and the numerous travellers ar riving at and embarking from its port, and passing through the town, require the most direct railway com munication that can be provided. Separate lines and independent termini, they conceive, must insure to Li verpool a great stream of traffic, north and south, and give a guarantee against detention fr nn accidental cir cumstances and trains conveying traffic to other destina tions ; and they trust that the Board of Trade will not sanction any amalgamation or railway scheme which does not secure to Liverpool, either north or south, direct lines of communication, separate entrances, and distinct termini. NEWCASTLE AND BERWICIL—HUDSON'S LINE.-At the annual dinner of the Newcastle Chamber of Com merce, on Monday last, Mr. llodgson Hinde, M.P., adverted to the proposed Newcastle and Berwick (Hudson's) line, and congratulated the inhabitants of Newcastle on the decision of the Board of Trade in its favour. He hoped the day was not far distant when Newcastle would enjoy the full facilities of railway com munication, and have their mails accelerated to the utmost—that they would have railways spreading their net works on all sides—and that sound schemes would receive the Government support. The recent decision of the Board of Trade formed materials for congratula tion. They had acted, he believed, on the principle of giving preference to the old lines, where they could be conveniently extended so as to afford the same amount of advantage as the formation of actually new lines. The true principle on which the Board of Trade had grounded their decision, was the taking into consideration not the mere exten sion of a line, but the gradients of it, and thus measuring the distance, not merely by miles, but by hours. He believed that the remaining decisions of the Board would be satisfactory, not only to the public, but to parties locally interested. The President, in pro posing the health of Mr. Hudson, the Chairman o f th e Midland Railways, passed a lengt henedf eulogy on the enterprise and success of that gentleman in his promo tion of railway communication in the north. Mr. Hud son, in returning thanks, observed that the praise be stowed upon him by the President was as much due to the Messrs. Stephenson, the engineers, as to himself; they having been associated with him in all his labours. During the whole period of his connexion with railways he had never forgotten the great principle of railway management, viz., that of conducting the undertakings, not only for the benefit of the Shareholders, but of the public. He hoped the time that had been referred to for opening the line between Newcastle and Berwick would be realised,'and that the opening would not be deferred, should Parliament grant the Bill. He trusted that on the 18th of June, 18%6, the members of the Chamber of Commerce would dine with the Directors of the New castle and Berwick Railway to celebrate the opening of the line. An advertisement would be issued in a few days to show that they were prepared to undertake some risk, and which would almost be tantamount to anticipating that the decision of Parliament would be in accordance with that of the Board of Trade. The statement that had gone abroad, to the effect that there was a likeli hood of the non-fulfilment of the project, was erroneous. The Directors would, with the most judicious care—with an anxiety to make the work as magnificent and beauti ful as possible, worthy alike of Newcastle and the name of Stephenson—proceed in the accomplishment of their purpose. He had always maintained that, so long as a railway wa; remunerative, it would be well manag.ll, and that, so long as it was well managed, it would be remunerative ; but let it became unproductive, and the Shareholders became careless as to the management, the Directors got disgusted, and the railway became a public nuisance. IRELAND. DunuN, JAN. 29.—The following additional details of this calamitous occurrence are supplied by two local journals received this morning ; " On Sunday evening, at eight o'clock, Limerick was horror-stricken, by one of the mast tragical events that ever fell to the lot of a journalist to record. In a small lane at the end of Change•lane, in the Abbey, parish of St. Mary's, a public wake was held on the remains of a young married woman, named Jordan, who died after her first confinement. The crowd was unusually great, and every portion of an old, rotten, ricketty tenement was filled to witness this idle ceremony. The corpse was laid out on the upper story, which was crowded ; midile story was likewise filled to overflowing, and the ground floor was similarly circumstanced. In a second tho topmost story gave way, and, horrible to tell, the people, falling on the persons below, the second floor gave way, and the entire came down with an awful crash on those occupying the ground fl oor . Thi s all occurred in a s econ d of time ; and, of course, the people were unprepared for such a catastrophe. Ten persons were killed on the spot, and sixteen badly wounded. The arms and legs of several were broken, whilst others were considerably bruised and mu tilated. The first outcry was to bring the bodies of the dead and dying to Barrington's Hospital ; and perhaps more dismal or woeful scenes never occurred than took place in the streets. Husbands shouting for their wives —fathers and mothers looking for their children —every one, a member of whose family was out, apprehensive that his or her child, or relative, was among the killed. The police, under Mr. Williams, were promptly on the spot, and rendered every assistance. In less than half an hour the ruins of the wretched and fatal tenement were completely cleared out, and the bodies removed to Barrington's Hospital. The clergymen of St. Mary's, the Rev. John Brehm, P.P., the Messrs. Egan and Mackey, the Rev. James Quinn, P.P., St. John's ; the Rev. Messrs. William Bourke and Ryan, were in imme diate attendance, and administered the last rites of reli gion to the poor sufferers. An inquest was held on the bodies, and a verdict according to the melancholy circum stances returned." The Limerick Reporter gives the followidg additional particulars :—" Ten were killed in all—namely, Mary, wife of Cornelius Murphy, a bailiff ; Catherine, wife of Michael Haneen, labourer, Garryowen; Catherine Mad den (unman ied), Garryower. ; Mary Molony (unmar ried), Mary -street ; Jane Boland (unmarried), of the Abbey ; Bridget Rourke (widow), and her daughter Margaret (unmarried), Garryowen ; James Enright, a youth, son of Jamcs Enright, and James Lynch, Garry owen, labourer. Three of the unfortunate women were far advanced in pregnancy. There were only two men present, and one of them escaped, while the other (Lynch) was killed, in the effort to save his wife, who is dangerously bruised. Of the wounded we have ascer tained the following names :—George Mason, Alicia Grady, Margaret Grady, Margaret Halman, Margaret Jordar, Catherine Barlow, Mary Hayes, Eliza Jordan, Catherine Jordan, Ellen Fitzgerald, Bridget Kennedy, Mary Barlow, Margaret Lee, Henry Enright, and Ra chael Lynch. Two of the wounded girls could not be in duced even by the Catholic clergy to take wine which the doctors prescribed as absolutely necessary, and when they were informed they would die if they persisted in their determination, they replied that they would rather die than taste it." TIE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX.— Thursday the sale of the fourth portion of the library of the late Duke of Sussex was commenced, at Messrs. Evans's. The number of the lots in this portion is 2,648, consisting of near 7,000 volumes, principally of the Greek classics, and comprising many rare first editions. The sale will last eleven days. POVERTY REWARDED.—The Hampshire Telegraph boasts a paragraph which we have read with a delicious thrill of the heart-strings. One Ann Abraham, aged upwards of ninety, has received at the West of England Agricultural Meeting, as the reward of fifty years' faithful servitude, the sum of 2/.—yes, forty shillings— a very handsome recompense, though certainly not at the rate of twelve-pence a year. She has, moreover, re ceived—" A handsome testimonial from the Society, bearing the signature of the Marquis of Lansdowne, and which, being framed and glazed, now forms an elegant decoration to her cottage." Ann Abraham has not touched the forty shillings. No ; she has left the money "to provide for her burial, without burdening the parish." Really, there is a fine spirit of economy ani mating these rewarding societies. For instance, the poor man will keep cut of the workhouse—will starve with a fine heroism for fifty years, so that at the end of the half century he may obtain the rewarding forty shillings. He obtain it ? No ; his corpse obtains it, for he does not touch the money, leaving it that it may save his remains from the obloquy of parish deals. By such sweet:bribes, (not forgetting the "handsome tes timonial, framed and glazed,") the poor are not only tempted to starve through life, but to bury themselves when starving has done its worst. How must the father of hypocrisy have chuckled and rubbed his iniquitous hands, as he read the " handsome testimonial" made by pharisaical benevolence to aged penury !—Punch. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident occurred on Friday last, on the departure of the night mail train up, at the Wellington-station, to the night porter, whilst in the act of connecting two trucks to one of the railway carriages. The trucks were on another part of the line, and as the train was returning to take up the trucks, the man, standing in a position to link them together, was crushed between the two, and the lamp projecting behind came in contact with his arm and forced it into his side, breaking in his ribs, forcing his lungs out of place, and causing instantaneous death. The man has left a wife with three young children.— Western Luminary. DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Thursday, before Mr. Carttar, at the Lady of the Village, Charles-street, Deptford, on the body of Frances Hamp ton, who committed suicide by drowning herself in a pond of stagnant water near to her dwelling. The de ceased, since the death of her mother, has acted as housekeeper to her father, who has a large family, and who allowed her 245. per week to keep house ; but, in consequence of her being very much behind hand with the landlord and some of the tradesmen in the neigh bourhood, which she feared would come to her father's ears, she had of late become much dejected, and had ex pressed to some of her neighbours that she was deter mined "to put an end to it." Having been always of a cheerful disposition, no notice was taken of the matter. On Saturday night last, about eleven o'clock, after hay • ing been to market, she again went out, as her family thought, to some neighbour's house, but not having re turnedwhen a tn on a th n e nh fo m ll ed following morning her they body in became th ga larmed, epond. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased was found drowned, but there was no evidence to prove ley whAt means she got into the water . ' ! THE MELLOW WlNE.—Wine, either in bottle or w )od, will mellow much quic k e r w hen only covered with pieces of bladder well secured, than with corks or bungs. The bladder allows the watery particles to escape, but impervious to alcohol.—Medical Times. 1845. SPIRIT of th.. 3 PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLuBE.—In that splendid gallery of illustrious contemporary portraits, which Sir Robert Peel, it seems, is getting up at Tamworth, Sir Robert himself appears destined to walk - as the La4t (official) Man. When he treads the polished an d s li ppery fl oor, am i dst the shades of victims and martyrs of Peel policy, the bulk of Buck ingham will seem to lower on the betrayer ef law-fenced agriculture ; and the smoot h er i mage of Gladstone will confront him, as the false fleeting perjured son of the Church. In our opinion, Mr. Gladstone consults well for his reputation by quitting office; and we would not wil lingly say a word to detract from an individual reputation which we consider honourable. We do not think Mr. Gladstone span of very great intellectual clearness or decision—qualities in which time may improve him— habits of official sophistry certainly would not. But his readiness of talent, and range of accomplishments, are unquestionable —as is his loss to the present Ministry. lo himself temporary retirement at least from prominent public action appears to us a very clear and decided gain. He was in one of those false posi tions, in which he must have sacrificed either success or principle ; and it is impossible not to applaud him tor adhering in conduct to sentiments which reason has not as yet taught him to relinquish. Certainly we be . - lieve such sentiments cannot hold power in these times ; but a man who, like Mr. Gladstone, attache& positive value to any institutions—however these , may require improvement—is not now to be every day met with ; and certainly we think such men. are wanted to plead the cause c f permanence. while—changes are in progress. That Mr. Gladstone's Church views mislead him poli tically, is indeed our opinion. We have good authority for believing that it is those views, as regards Ire hied, which he considers compromised by the actual and prospective course of the Ministry he has quitted. In leaving office he th( refore acts as becomes the represen tative of opinions, vvi.ich he acquired distinction origi nally by advocating, and which he still advocates in writing with distinction. We would have those prins ciples represented by all means, with whatever force and effect they may. Time will loosen the hold of all that is rationally untenable, whether in institutions, or in the minds of those educated in their bosom ; but we have no objection to hear the highest claims able men can advance for them ; and we should feel sincere con cern in seeing such men forsake ev en p re j u di ce f or ambition. Ine the meanwhile, these splits about Irish Churchmanship are a curious spectacle; and still more si gular is the spectacle of a Ministry which loses Gladstone on their account, and keeps Stanley and Graham. Can none remember, yes we know all must, when the mere whiff and wind of that fell sword which threatened to retrench surplus temporalities, if shown to be such, struck both these scrupulous statesmen—con science-struck them out of the first Melbourne Ministry. .Can none remember when the party now in power op posed an equal municipal system for Ireland—because, forsooth, popular municipalities might indirecty endanger an unpopular Church 1 So sensitively averse were they from permitting the levelling of the most distant civil out works of that establishment. And now Mr. Gladstone's retirement tells us that their measures threaten the body of the place! The Post puts a somewhat important practical question for the Last Man of the Peel era. " How does the Premier expect to get on in the House of Commons? Is he to take all the important speaking on the Ministe rial side to himself ? His chief assistants were Mr. Gladstone, Lord Stanley, and Sir J. Graham. The first retires, the second is gone to the House of Lords—the third, indeed, remains, and a very clever speaker he is in Opposition, where the object is to wound, but a very dan gerous assistant on the Ministerial bench. Besides, he is an extremely unpopular man, and almost everything he says is received with more or less of prejudice. Urn less, then, the Premier take all the important speaking to himself, what is to be done ? Say that Sir Robert is a match for Lord John and Lord Polinersten, will he think it safe to turn over Lord Howick, and Sir George Grey, and Mr. Macaulay, and Mr. C. Wood. and Mr. Vernon Smith, and the rest, to the replying abilities of Mr. Herbert and Lord Lincoln ?" STANDARD.—At the bottom of the sixth column of the fourth page of this day's Times, interposed between the quotations of the Spanish and the Prussian Stock Ex changes, respectively, we find the following para graph : " MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS.—We are informed that we were premature in announcing yesterday Mr. Cardwell's accession to the office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Cardwell will, however, take office under the present Administration." This is the way in which the Times retracts on Friday a misstatement, published with all possible pre tension and display, in its first leading article of the day before. Why is our Contemporary so bashful when it has to tell the truth?—modesty is not usually its fault. The fact, we believe to be, that beyond Sir Thomas Fremantle's appointment nothing is settled, though there is too much reason to fear that Mr. Gladstone may retire from the Administration, but certainly not from the Conservative party. Should Mr. Glad stone retire, the step will be altogether from his own choice, and it will be an occasion of deep regret to all his colleagues. We have seen in some of the journals various motives assigned for the Right Hon. Gentle man's withdrawal from office, but not one of them, we believe, even approaches to the truth. At the risk of passing for uninformed, we shall be at present silent ; because we will not let go the hope that the able and eloquent Vice-President of the Board of Trade may be prevailed upon to continue to give his services to the country. In speaking of Sir Thomas Fremantle's appointment, we cannot forego the pleasure of print ing the following tribute from the Morning Chro nicle, as honourable to the writer as to its object:— " We must not omit this occasion of expressing our ap proval of the choice of Sir Thomas Fremantle as Secretary for Ireland. While Sir R. Peel is limited to selection from the Tory party, he can find no one whose good sense, libe rality, and courtesy more fit him for the post. We shall, indeed, be disappointed if Sir Thomas Fremantle should prove unworthy of our favourable auguries." The Herald truly says that the promotion of Sir Thomas " is admitted by all to be an appointment, than which none better could be made," and the testimony of the Morning Chronicle supports the statement. Sir Thomas is a man of . great ability, in whatever department his duty calls him to, and, besides this, he is one of those made to be loved and respected by all who come within his sphere. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, J. SO. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. CARTER. The particulars of this case were stated is our paper of yesterday. The defendant has pleaded guilty to two indictments, charging him with having, under colour of his office as an Excise officer in Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire, extorted and obtained by false pretences divers small sums of money from several humble persons there, upon the ground that they required licenses in circumstances where they were not required by law. The indictment also charged the defendant with having forged and fabricated licenses, which he gave to the par ties in exchange for the money. Ile had been brought up for judgmi , nt yesterday, but the case was then ad journed until this morning, when The SOLICITOR-GENERAL prayed the sentence of tho Court upon him. Mr. Justice PA.TTESON then addressed the prisoner, and dwelt upon the serious nature of the crime which he had committed, in extorting money from several poor persons under colour of his office, and proceeding further to the perpetration of forgery, for which he was liable in law to the punishment of transportation. The Court, however, did not think it necessary to inflict this extreme penalty, and should only sentence the prisoner to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. As the indictment consisted of nine counts, but only of four distinct offences—some of the offences being charged in different forms in different counts—the judg ment of the Court was delivered in respect of each count, it being in each case expressed that the 18 months to which the defendant was sentenced upon each count were all to commence upon the same day. IN THE MATTER OF CARUS WILSON. Mr:'KELLT showed cause against the rule obtained by the Solicitor-General for setting aside the writ of habeas corpus which had been granted in this case by Mr. Baron Rolfe. The Learned Counsel observed, that although various objections had been originally made to the writ, he should now only argue the question how far the Learned Baron had the power to issue the present writ under the seal of the Court of Queen's Bench, and make it returnable in this Court. After the argument which had taken place upon the other rule, he should now take fur granted as universally conceded that this and erery other court in Westminster-hall had the power to issue writs of habeas corpus into the island of Jersey; neither should he enter into any discusston at present upon Ow merits of the case which had been brought forward upon affidavits which the applicant had ao op portunity to answer. If the Court thought that these matters should be discussed upon the present occasion, he (Mr. Kelly) hoped that their Lordships would oblige the Royal Court of Jersey to state them upon the return, in order that they might be traversed by Mr. Wilson, and that an opportunity might be afforded for delibe rately examining the state of the facts. Lord DENMAN here, addressing the Solicitor-General, inquired whether he was now in a condition to under take that Mr. Wilson's prison doors would be thrown open, and that he would be allowed to walk out ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that, in answer to his Lordship's question, he could only say, as he had said before, that if his rule were allowed to be made absolute he firmly believed that no obstacle would be placed in the way of Mr. Wilson's release. Lord DEN3tAii said that he had hoped that since the case had been last before the Court, th ral would have been toantherisede give Court dertaking upon the subject.ue Solicitor-Gene- If th r t a I n v e expressr e informed that Mr. Wilson was at liberty to depart from his prison the Court would then consider itself to bo at liberty to depart from the should consider this course mere desirable th ca a s n e' e a n nd entering; upon Wilson roust remain ingaol, upon a long discus s i on, until the decision of which 3 gaol, for the pu . rposeo nt fraising the question of th e lega lity of his imprisonment. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the Royal Court of .Jersey had offered to admit Mr. Wilson to bail, but that he rejected the offer. Mr. KELLY . said that it was plain that the Royal Court of Jersey were tamperir.g with a subject of such im mense importance as the liberty of the lubject. If the Royal Court really intended to restore Mr. Wilson to his liberty, they ought to have at once thrown open his prison doors. The SouciToß-GENERAL said that they could not do so until the wri!, Ivtg quashed. Mr. .1;:-czur scud that he shout:; not give any consent to such a procei ding, but go on at once to the objections which were made to the writ. Lord DENMAN observed that the objection to the writ was, that it was void upon the face of it. Mr. I‘ELLY understood such to be the objection, and 119 slum d confine himself altogether to th,A point. The Leatuea counsel thou proceeded to support the validity of the writ under two general heads : first, that the Cour* itsf if would have the power to issue the ‘‘rit, and that as the statue of Victoria had placed each of the individual judges upon the same footing as any of the Courts themselves with regard to all matters which might be done by any of those Courts, and that as Mr. BarOn Rolfe had the power to issue the writ out of this Court, he could only have done it, as he had done, wirier the seal of this Court, awl not under that of the Court to which the Learned Baron himself belonged. The other general head of argument was of a preliminary charac ter ; and under this head the Learned Counsel observed, that, as the writ whi c h h a d i ssue d was in contormity to the order of the Learned Baron, the writ itself could not be quashed as long as the order subsisted. Supposing, therefore, thet the Learned Baron did not poseess the power which he had actually exercised, the only proper course of proceeding was not to apply to the Court for rule to quash the writ quia iteprovide emanavit, but for a rule to set aside the 7 ortle'r for want of jurisdiction in the Learned Baron bY•whom it was made. Mr. PIACOCff followed upon the same side, and in re ference to the position which had been so often asserted, that the island of Jersey was not bound by English Acts of Parliament, unless particularly mentioned, he stated that the island of Jersey was not named in the present Regency Act any more than in the preceding Act, which had constituted the Prince of Wales Regent during the life of George 111. If the principle contended for were therefore to be established without qualification, it must follow that neither the former Regent had, nor could any future Regent have, under the present Act, any power by assenting to an Act of Parliament to bind Jersey, even though named in the particular Act, as it had not been named in the statute which created the Regency itself. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (with whom were Mr. Wortley and Mr. J. W. Smith) contended, that although Mr. Baron Rolfe even possessed the power to issue the habeas corpus itself, yet he had no power to take pos session of the seal of this Court and use it at his own discretion, in a case, moreover, where the Learned Baron himself could do justice to the party in his own Court, and where there was therefore no necessity for stretching the words of the statute of Victoria to give a power which was not required. The Learned Gentle man contended further that the writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum did not issue into Jersey at all. But the ar guments upon both sides upon this point, as well as in deed upon every other, consisted of a reproduction of some part of the discussion which took place upon the former occasion. After a short consultation between the members of the Court, Lord DENMAN said that it was possible that they should be obliged to dispose of this case upon the ground of the technical objection to the writ—a ground upon which a case of such a nature ought hardly to be dis posed of. They wculd, however, mention it again to morrow. TUE QUEEN U. BARNARD GREGORY. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD appeared in this case upon the part of the Duke of Brunswick, to make an applica tion in respect of a rule pending upon the subject. Mr. ettownEit, who appeared for the defendant, said that the brief which had been formerly held by Mr. Baron Platt had been so recently delivered to him (Mr. Crowder) that he had not time to prepare for the discus sion of the case. The COURT thought it better that the rule should be enlarged. JANUARY 31. IN THE MATTER OF CHAS. CARUS WILSON.--JUDGMENT. Lord iiENMAN, in delivering the judgment of the Court in this case, said that it was now admitted on all sides that a writ of habeas corpus would run into the island of Jersey, and whatever inconvenience might arise from it, the Court would not decline to exercise ita right in behalf o f any person who might require it. The priecipal question, therefore, in this case, depended on the peculiar circumstances attending it. The first ques tion was, had the Learned Baron (Baron Rolfe) power to issue the writ, and that he had such power they were convinced by the arguments in this case. Another ques tion was whether, as the affidavits appeared to be entitled in the Exchequer, a Baron of that Court had the power of issuing the writ and making it returnable into the Court of Queen's Bench. It appeared that at the time the ail, plicatifn was made to the Learned Baron it was desired that the writ should be made returnable into the Court of Exchequer, but the Learned Baron thought it better to make it returnable inio the Court of Queen's Bench, and this Court were of opinion that the Learned Baron had a discre', ion as to the Court where the writ would be media returnable. But then it was said that a deception had been practised on the Learned Baron when the applica tion was made, inasmuch as it was not stated to hint that the person on whose behalf the application was made was imprisoned for a contempt of the Royal Court of Jersey; which fact, if it had come to his knowledge, would have prevented him from granting the writ, or at all events that he would have only granted a rule nisi. If the Court were satisfied that a fraud had been practised it might induce them to quash the writ, but there was not sufficient before them to induce them to come to the con clusion that a fraud was intended. Mr. Wilson was an English lawyer, and he might have thought that a war rant for his committal was necessary and that the warrant. if there was any, was refused to be shown to him. They had then to consider whether the writ was to be set aside, because the circumstances of the case were not laid before the Learned Baron, which might have prevented him from granting the writ. The Court did not intimate any opinion that a previous inquiry would be wrong where there was reasonable ground for supposing that the party had been impri soned under the sentence of the Court. On the con-. trary, if they thought: such a course would be desirable, because the Judko would then see whether there ought only to be a rule • nisi, but this was an application to quash a writ which had actually gone forth, and they knew from the Masters of the Court that the practice was to have a return made to the writ, end that was the most convenient course—the most just to the party applying, and most in conformity with the great object which the Constitution had in view, in allowing this writ. They did not think, therefore, that they would be justified it% setting aside the writ, and the consequence was, that the rule must be made absolute, and a return made to the writ.—The return was then ordered to be made within ten days. 'VAN SANDON U. TURNER. The plaintiff in this case had been committed by the order of Sir G. Rose, one of the judges of the Court of Review, for publishing in the face of the Court and else where a scandalous handbill. The case was lately argued before the Court upon a special demurrer. The objec tions taken were, that it did not appear that Sir G. Rose was a Judge of the Court of Review, when he ordered the arrest of the plaintiff, and that a single Judge could not cause any person to be arrested by his own individual warrant for the offence stated. Lord DEsmAN now pronounced the judgment of th• Court, and gave judgment for the plaintiff on both points. BAIL COURT, Jan. 31. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAZIS.) Nothing of the least general interest came before the Court during the course of the morning. ARCHES COCJR7; Jan. Sl. (Before Sir lIERBIIIIT JENNER FUST.) FAULUNER U. LITCLIFIELD AND OTHERS. In this case the Learned Judge pronounced his deci sion this morning. It was an appeal from the decision of the Chancellor of the diocese of Ely. The case has been several times before the public. The dispute related to the erection of a stone altar and credence table in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, at Cambridge. The altar had been erected by the churchwardens and parishionrs, aided by the Cambridge Camden Society, without the consent of the incumbent. On this account the latter opposed the issuing of the faculty by the Chancellor of the diocese ; but that Rev. Gentleman, assisted by an assessor from Doctors' Commons, decreed in its favour. Against that decision an appeal was brought to this Court, and the case was argued at length in the last term. The Learned JUDGE commenced by referring to the pleadings iu the cause, which he read at considerable length. Restated, in his preliminary remarks, that he had received several lett ers u p on t h e su bj ect ; some o f t h ese containing references, intended to assist him in obtain ing information bearing upon this question, and for such letters he felt obliged ; but other letters which had been forwarded to him pointed out what would be the result of any decision to which ho might come ; and these he could not but regard as an improper interfer ence with the high functions which he was called upon to discharge. He then proceeded to quote the opinions of various Roman Catholic writers. for the purpose of showing what in their view constituted an altar. It was essential that is should be of stone and immoveable ; and that was given as the description of the altar in question. Now, it wag advisable t- see what changes were made in this respect at the period cf the Reformation, and to trace what had been the impression in reference to it from that time down to the present. Th ere was in tho early part of that reign an expres s in junction, or rather exhortation, issued to the church.. wardens, by royal authority, to set up a table, and no longer the altar formerly used,. and the pu r p ose o f this exhortation was to remove ancient superstitions f rom t h e minds of the people. Bishop Ridley, in his visitation, issued injunctions to the same effect. Th ese i n j unctions ' were at first confined to the diocese of London and were not to be considered as having effect in any other. But it appeared that an order of council was issued on the same subject ; and on the 19th of Novem ber, 1530, letters were sent to eyery . bishop enjoining him to pluck down the altars in his diocese. . The order that , the and specific,. especially charg ingin council was very strong fotrhe avoidingdioee,allofaltsatrrstfeinancdh,creohnetesntai:da throughoutchapels should beand, some instead e, of them, a table should takenbe set down,un part of the chancel, which in every such church convenient part should serve fur the administration of the blessed com munion.p There were also sent to every bishop the con siderations on which that order had been founded. In the year 1550, a general order was given for the removal of all altars, and the setting up of a table as more proper; from which time tabl es were use d th roug h out t h e ki ngdom in the administration of the sacrament. Now such were the alterations which took place in the short reign of Edward. the Sixth, and they were importa n t, as b e i ng t h e f oun d &- tion of all subsequent proceedings. At this period a moveable table of wood was substituted for the altar previously used. In the reign of Mary things were restored to the state in which they had been in the latter years of the reign of Edward the Sixth. Altars were again erected, and cont.nued to be used in the administra tion of the sacrament. As soon as Elizabeth i suc ccet,ded to the throne, one of the first and most imports ant acts of her reign was the repeal of those Acts or Philip and Mary which had repealed the former Acts of Edward the Sixth ; and the mode of administering i bad been in the time of Edward the Sixth, The groun d : the sacraments of the Chu rch was restored to what it