The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

CENTRAL CITY TERMINUS.

(Bear.) It was well known that Bolbormbill
riidnner-street had been the opprobrium of the city
be owe. It was said to be • disgrace now to the corpora-
de% mid new to the potentness ; bat it was certainly a
elleprass to 'embody ; and in future, if it continued, the
agree, would be divided among thews now composing the
Inet*D. ("Wear," end a laugh.) He proposed to raise
ulna Wiese& me to • level of 17 feet innehes. lie was
gadded 'bat Mk set be done by saw ow or the other,
kr the pulses ei watt bag bear isayalsest state. (11ear.)
(Hr. Pawns flan weeeseded to paint wat ea se large
nape which wen streteleal es the walls of the Teem the
muse of the teepee* railway). Ha than urged that the
great railway should he mode to sp ak what their
intention, were w7M regard to it. One of his great objects
was the Mae up of the Fleet Valley, by moans of • sub-
mittals an
~d•sseepprrrr surface. It would scarcely be believed
that ba street and larriegdometreet a mar of
ba di placed for this gigantic scheme.
Ergo' ilentlina ded to deseribe the position of the
terabits at betel" width was the outlet for so
many linty, and the Mlle ben which now came ever
London-bridge; sad stated that the area of that station
bole a very small proportion to that intended to be occu-
pied by his station. Ile then alluded to the small outlet
which was afforded for the traffic of the Blackwell,
with its tributary line, which connected the Loudon sod
North Western to the Lonion Docks, sod stated that
the Great Western also proposed to hare a similar cir-
' ninon, hoe skirting the whole of the metropolis. A com-
, parison with them stations showed that in the site selected
' there was ample roam for his central terminus. It was said
that if there was one central tensions, although you might
' relieve the City generally of • large amount of teethe, yet
that the particular locality would be subjected to an
creased inconvenience. Ito met this by saying that it was
not intended to c sleet the central traMc of the City and
the west-end in the City, the west-end portion to be after-
' wards sent to its destination ; but the object was to bring
' only those who hail business in the City. The evil was,
that oat- stations caused an neres tie of t rsae in the City. From
the Brighton station, an average of 10,000 persons walked
into the City who would come in vehicles, if the terminus
hail been placed, as had been proposed, either at the Brick-
' layers Arms, or the Oval, at Kennington, and the streets
would have been so much the more encumbered. There
was no reason that persona going from Paddington or Bus-
. tea-mums should come into the City; but, on the ether
hand, persons coming into the City on wines by the pro-
' posed line would save both time and money. The London
' and North Western and Great Western might rely on it
that if the Great Northern or Eastern Counties agreed to
come into Farringdon-street, they would run away with
their traffic. (Hear, hear.) The Great Western line was
unfinished until they had an outlet for Buie traffic in the
City. With regard, nest, to the amount of cost. He had
heard it said that the plan would cost 15 millions, or at
least 10 millions. Now land from the site of the
Fleet Valley along Victoria street to the Great Nor-
' therm Terminus was required and would no doubt
I cost a large sum, probably larger than was ever required by
• similar undertaking, sod if it was not to he returned by
any other means than by • railway, that would not pay;
and, moreover, unless the London aced North Western, and
the Urea; Western, and the Eastern Counties, concurred in
' the plan, and coutributml to it, the line could not be made
with profit. He (Mr. Pearson), however, affirmed that the
ground could be cleared, and the line male with four double
lines, equal to the accommodation of all the railways north
of the Thames, betimes a domestic lino unencumbered with
other traffic. for a share capital of two millions. But he
5 would not recommend any independent company to put
thissum down to accommodate the London_ and North

Intro meeting was held yesterday the
the Lon-
, , for the :peeve, of enabling the eitiseas of
nitre,
*then interested in railway accommodation
It• " If their opinion on Mr. Charles-Peanon's project;
of"'nioneetiog laeriegdon-street with the provincial and
mitten railways, both in action and emtemplation
b, Thaell" by means of • great truth line with
,a▪
te t
Jo a gic pair of capable obef nasiataining II frequent
asap intentiesaanicatioa tweets the city and the
"--. .-barbs. The inertias was • very crowded one. Sir
„, prig, MT., was in the chair, and among the gen.
,"- sent Mr. W. William', M.P., Mr. Sheriff Croll,
j.1:111 a pet
r. Themes liakin, Mr. Delete, de.
)iThe Cumulus! briefly opened the proneeditge of the
eal,re ming his conviction that the project, in relation
t,-,,,k,„h they had met, was fully entitled to coeaideretion,
out great advantages, both 44 regarded the con-
vi (neat tragic of the city and the bettering the condition of
tt, ns of many of the working classes, who were
huddled and crashed together in the district to
le:a•
:lithe plan was intruded to apply.
Mr. C• VLAILSUN then came f.trward and wee rewired
• gnat smitten. Ile read a letter which tistimallidi
e..no Itothechild's regret that his absence ea the Contiama
vented his being present at the meeting. lie thou able
Zr:,e,l the mettles in a speech of nearly three hours. Ile
suileatedinmeelf trots a charge at petulance which bad has
betodht adattedliiol,(l)4lloo.l On the wording of the advertise..
latnt ion,. ning the meeting, in which he had stated that if
did not sue.ced in getting hie project adopted, he would
chop up the in ,del, end endeavour to forget his scheme.
All lie meant was, that soles. the scheme was that day pat
em a looting of realisation, it would be put en end to for
rue and he could assure them he had brought no chopper
with him. (Laughter.) Ile thought, after the preliminary
meetings which had been held at the London Collie-house,
that it would now be only necessary to raise the standard,
and numbers would Lock to it, and curl the plan into entr-
ee:rm. Ho should divide his address into emend head", as
the. tint, he would describe the relating evils; ',condi',
Ow causes of those weds ; thirdly, he would state the
proposed remedies for these evils; Numbly, the amount of
vet neceeeary ; fifthly, the erotic and lose he anticipated;
and sixthly, who were to undertake the project, and the
talent of their reopened/Ultimo. Firstly, then, as to the ex-
-otiag evils. li,, would not dwell on tire overcrowding of
the streets of the City, to which every outo's intention must
have been drawn. In the leading thoroughfares, such ea
Fleet•strecti hlolboru, Newinte-street, Cheapside, Leaden-
hall-street, Fenchurcla-street, and the interacting aud in-
ten:wince streets, ouch as Uraceeherchestrcet, King Wile
ti.ou•street, Bridge-street, and Moorgate-street, the number
of vehicleo daily pulsing had, in the last ten years, doubled,
trebled, quadrupled, end, in some instances. quintupled.
There were now 12,000 omnibus journeys daily into the
Cite. while the amber of tabu, light eerie, hucksters' and
INC:Ve1111 had trebled in the last ten pearl. Whet, then,
was nut be anticipated if the laws of increase went on in
th: sum ratio ? The next evil was the overcrowding
et the dwellings of the humbler classes In the bye-
yews of the City which were not overcrowded with
ethnics. • gnat number of the inhabitants of the
humbler districts (not of the vicious classes), but porters,
ATOMS, mechanics, and clerks of the humbler kind.,
wet. obliged to live huddlcd and crushed together, and in
close prusimity to the moat degraded classes. Many persons
of respectability had lived fur 10 or 20 years in those
whose duties required them to be in the City, and
who had not money to ride, or leisure to walk, from the
suburbs. Minh had been said in sanitary reports of the
evils ar.sieg Isom the overcrowding of the dwellings of the
poor; but it appeared from the decennial censures, that,
whih, the number of lumen elsewhere had increased,
in proportion to the population in the City the population
had inCnabed enormously out of proportion to the number
of dwellings. The great improvements made by the corpo-
ration tad rooted out the tumble dwellings, and forted
their tuhabitants to take shares of those of their poorer
brethren. It was a fact, that since 1811 while the number
of bosses bad decreased by 1,300 the population bad U-
ncle,' by 4.000, and it had had a proportionate effect on
vi:elity. Next, with regard to the comes of those evils.
The metropolis of London stood on a site of 20 square
mace, and contained a population of about 2,361,000, and
this enermous number had increased in the last 10 years in
a ratio for exceeding the previous decennial periods. The
site of the City was about one square mile and it contained
3 sleeping population of 120,400. The ay, as avoided its
boundaries, remained stationary, while the population la-
ma.," is and around it. Three of the most impeatigt
bridges communicating with Kent and Surrey were in the
City, and the people who came from those districts were
engin to enter London through the City In making their
way to the outlying districts, while &up means of convey-
ance by omnibus and railway, and OW greet change in the
debits of the people of the preeMtes and the neigh-
bourhood of London as regiw locomotion, all tended
to augment the overcrowding of the City. The great ado
mince in the prosperity of this sssatry had tended to
attract population to the City. The City was is point of
Lc; the property of the metropolis; Ike metropolis was the
property of Eugland, and Eagleiall was the property of the
civilised word. The City weasel wealthy on its account,l
but on account of its containing vast establishments which
generated wealth, such as the lisak—the Post ed:an—the
Eschange—the totaled ILevners-eillee—the lediarbesee,
de , met which mere& the sumetene etteodense of perms
woo E,red ie the subsets and reminess. If the City wee
to be prosperiny belllties refgnaw Me Moe
it oust be reinteinef. Coe* it he espersith=4l2
rem establishments as had been eared wadi be render
an the City unless their fresrastees had isellities al sr.
rasuiestioa Why were awe 12,000 dolly anadhesjeer-
nevi into the City ? It could hardly be he Me WNW IC its
fruntine—(laaghter)—bat it was bade red brieser
which would leave the City =awe seek krilles ere
secured. It each facilities of intsesernmenierine tree
swaged, Lad in the City read be woe& thew
sots emu, nay, it was new sang at the Rh
of 30,0001., 100,0e01., 200mit. auses.,_ 101 l
acre. (Serration.) gestienrn hod rid lira=
told lead in Vernhill at the tees of 419091. is sou net
with the property ea it, bet mods dogma ilea wen
the market value, and be bad had is SOW Ils revue diss
umlaut from a brisker, who withal to dear ert *veil s
sum in buildings far ether 'nit tees slertege ef gig
41 feet, sad was bought fee the meth* ehd net lie a
tiros rear. (Cheers.) Utbeee ore whirs errs, with
security for mac, these we
Doom peopearty I. the City
rah( not easusand. Them yore epee near where they
thee were, sites sow esee by searatale dwellings,
whisk sight benne pre Winn rerisse, end 'trete
right be meth egad In Wools Onneer eteert. The as..
air word be bright to per on the reit of Loden by
de etiokieg up of rearrftellen bored a metro prat es
the removal of trade had Ind en ether towns, sack se Wu-
with, which had folks ire decoy by the rearral of the
perm statism; foe the great Mediations whisk it now
sustained would be neserwel. The Inland *crease Ogles
we, about to be reemwed, and he had been told by weer
essaected with it that it wee import* he he eislolo to
stn on in the city ; and this woe bet the sorreseement.
hew.) Noe wee the retail trade alone aireelad
bat the highest order et emosereo was involved. Then
with regard to the proposed remedies. If the steers wow
overcrowded with trainer our. red railwaymen. the
(obvious remedy was to din/nisi\ them. If the theesegiw
Wes were erred is ansoormes of the position of mirk"
they must be removed. How was his (Mr. Peeneses) rip
way to arm is tinting this object t Now, if there woe
140011entaibus jeerer imamysisi daily, say 144,000; our
rag that the railway brought msad earned oat lON
Crthen raid be • peopertionere relief in the Err
:saw= end ear ; sod with regard to the masher
the niways.psweedt them new awns of comesuelem
lir end as It regarded Newer, market. It
writ hare the of "eaislsg the siege of Nowa-
street," mad ristarreng "the tenures, " fer. reeerly,
there was now • Irmo there frees mrhiag MB
(Hem hew.) par deeding as the oderrieges whisk
would her the rereval of end
ether melee= songediess, whisk be otheled by
means eil the wiry sal the that would
be elheded . Mr. Pew-
ees reseeded to • drerigien Bihar ay
was adored by die Cersandatere of
arid which, it stated, was to ream of You of many from
Firtingdon.street to Bettlwbeidge, sad sommeafmtfag
with such of the northers lines se word erre Meer
Mats stamens and pay trial the thee west es to soy thee
he did not propose this erlway es • soketiree he the
other groat railway stations Ist as eraziliney Asa
(deer, bear.) If the who* of the Iris of theme knee
was drawn to or spot • georse evil would be erred ins
now existed nor wee them any spat solidently leap he
the reception of ash heft ex IMO the anent wide
enough to distribute it. It wee set punish to get di of
all the railway weep= is the Meres bet still amen
might be dose. The reeds mid lights geode right ho
collected at his terminus Are distribotaen her the needier
lines, and much right he der to pet so 4114 to the
blocking up of Greeherstrest, whisk red le be riled
Piet fort-strat—(" heer," end • Ist)-Ait the wen-
houses of Piddled, end Char* ad enneed saw
pieta blockade them. It woe news that
this terminus should be the central dread ell mothers
lines. list the Lein sad North 1141114.111 Ilaydon-
sqaue a ger rose kr &reasoned the 111111111‘ SUM
of the same opinion as repelled .1 ennyressili bat they were
ratan rens they weld get them Are thetpPore, although wort es eerie* Meese h their
smaller pareels, as Olr. Peereeend rerinne nail he for
those of the lariat Aram..
./10 thed=r9dsli da-
scribe the railway ken a row beton • Me said he
took faZirreth mbar wee 96 feet wide at its new
rowed wed Beeper to Meg op its width to Kies*
ens. the geese weedi be emsnere either es
a asset iingerement se • leileleefellipeha24but if
wen both rind the drier* wee obeen)-1*
the bunko wee divided. If the gamed ors bought at •
large prise • doodle rise was imputed le it. Then
would be two whew I • enabsorlese he the midway rid •
reper.sorfset for a oimiage-wayt Oa NM then word be
two sites fur buildings, sad two puieltm would be or
mired. It would be a ghlelfe se
by it there would be Wiley vt a 7
at the backs of wareisemme whisk wand he
erected along the lime—ehne relding elm*
ip=
age. This would be en warrens err& kr geode
be carried at Id. per ton per wile, indend et the
Mr. Pearson then proceeded to urge thee imp ealwo %hilt
iweleable property in the city. lied ha the het 40 yeas
increased 129 per cent., while ut other rite of the metre-
polo it had decreased, sad that was re resent of the in-
ereibe of trade sad Male is the Org, nerd by its keel
advantage' ; sad if that was est plum* there mast he
a retromessios in the value of that proper. If that pro-
perty wee in the hoer of NM pmpiletsd he word est
hesitate to speed • milieu to preens It; sad if it our 114
the hands of trey why should Wry sot mite for the tare

Western, the Great Western, and the Eastern Counties, If 1
they wanted the 1112., they must contribute to it. He had
been in communication with these companies eight months
agonsad so answer had been received from them, except
(rem the Beaten Counties, which declined to come into the
Osa. Mr. Pearson then proceeded to state that
he had acceded for the present to the view of
the corporation of London to keep the terminus to
the north of Holborn-bridge, and therefore it was probable
that the domestic line might be made without reference to '
these companiee. He had, however, had a full communi. '
cation with the Great Northern Company, and that com-
pany bad rose to the conclusion that this plan if carried
out would be of immense importance, sad • resolution had
boos cease to by the board of directors that when • com-
pany was formed for this purpose competent to negotiate,
the Great Northern would be prepared to negotiate on a
fair and liberal basis. (Loud cheep.) If the Great Northern
determined to join him, he would have the others at his
feet—(cheers)—and although they would be in his power—
although they should pay for it—they should not be ex-
cleded—(lwar, hear)—although the Great Northern should
have the best place ; and if that company had the City
end& they might go on to Manchester it they liked. (Host,
hear.) Mr. Higgins and Mr. Bunning, the architects, dif-
fered with him, and thought the line ought not to come
south of the Holbora valley, and they said the cost would
not exceed 1.600,000/. In all street improvements
two-thirds was lost, but here the capacity of the ground was
doubled, for It was covered twice, and such largo returns
would seems from the property as to justify the opinion
expressed by an eminent man, who said that it would ulti-
mately jay annually more than the whole cost. (Hear,
hear.) What he now proposed was to appoint a committee
for an ezainination of the question. In order to effect the
object in view, pediment must be asked to give peculiar
powers to &company, excepting them from the usual pro-
vision en airing them to sell their surplus land in fin
The time was come when railway companies should
sinelieved from this obligation. He estimated the cost of
the line frees the north side of Holborn at one millioa.
With regard, nest, to what it would pay he only calcu-
lated on 12,000 persons coming in and gong out of the City
daily; as assuredly small estimate. The charge would be
Id. a mile for tint, esti id. for the mooed clam pas-
men. Ono third would be annual. one third
and one third casual passengers. He took
hese' the daily pusesgere one th:rd, and from
the annual one- suppose the line worked
as far as Potter' Bar, where the Great Northern
woo walla( to come. On that brio, supposing
the slum eirilel to be ern million, there winhi be • set
whet 7i per east. from within a year sad *Mite eater-
ies i• the usholohlat ; and it was • Werke te
it weeld_iihehrg Su execute. name 1/111111 tidy to:rmirZ-
VerdreeemeM et the laud required. whisk was a great
tsp. He thright he had sew mode eat &prima jam
woe la favour et his pies. (Load chime.) Then, with
=Lne he purrs who were is eadietaira the project.
homit 'Ma it was dire. He papeied that it
druid be 'ended est by am et middle sleeks. by active
and mews* mom He pseperd that ell arras bold be
paid into he ark is the mow of the throe assimmelal
Erebus he Me Oily_ He was seedy to the pies.
end a_beeks of rehearse he et ith
ems WiredHe leopard that. it the peeredes et the
hose =plat impaired to enable them to p. *paella-
asset was set missilbed by the 7th el J , dot every
sherdrike shoull have his departs whirr de-
dudes. (Obsems) He wee popeyed le umbertale what
M hell brow he sue sesiihst et the result.
Hasa. the egires end Yr.
iheesek the WON MN l art eery hems
es he Ise bed bees meisured end (Hear. hese.)
Met he seer Wald wet est • eimmiree be sprinted to
=allhe issapery end be was happy to wig that
wise set werrames editirot peetiles. she
wee.
•eaildrtrule, by sieving twens==le
Se Orli
m 1. That media iMe_gessrel principle of
rimier. mil, wider* Mid et drain. was of
that it would be • meows et mime le the pubis.
and=as canalest. it the maks& espied welt be
sad a return et a reressable rereseratha weld
be drew"

L 'that • mumbles be appointed tondo the telpielte
stops le dbit the eldest la view, ea the dieing wader-
that Ea minim of the eetaadelee se eabosaibet
&eatl. liable be tso pert el the agesonsa mad Out..
eae should be aspieped alibis. • willies voineakies diet
Mr. Pewees theodd pay tha damn isanial asides the
mishits tam ese ring bare peabunten ; that the ape-
dubs pW V the use elleastate; eel diet if three-hestla
of the 'vital be net eabtielbed by Vie Met Jemmy. nay
radea.hno,Ve assails, be Mem& le bin without &law
" _

V. Puma, slid lot all booked Ow lie pert sad
Mem meioses/A enrsoor woo, that air Ow Ho ha 4
been doe TOM 42111111111111114 tha 1111111116111111111 eh.wld sir.
to him ow his haft ploosoL (Loot diem )
The reolotitas won Ow rliew.b spool M, wad a
amebae of eagebtod to oft so a osomililso, with
power to ooM to dote owoise. Aarestbe amuse were
these of Ur J. Deka, /LP., Mr. Baikal Qom* LP., Mr.
W.Waliano. M.P., Kr. Sheriff Cron. Mr. Weespor, MI P.,
Mr. lily. the esetreder Pm the new hewer of pediment ;
Mr. Hallett, Mr. Wane, Mr. Melia., Mr. Deputy Pon-
tine, ett.
With a vote al thanks to the Chairman the protoodiap
terminated.

Au Siormarzes CRUEL?—This partisalar
Hs have inhisreatly a peat plaintive l• *a of
Stymied didlealthe overwams; mu sty, u I tan lip lesema
lbw Eves of • kmpa arabesttper them are szmakralymigiabe-
lOW and eel. and, farther, ere • smuggle ..tieddilleatimoted. farther MOO, beams es he he form
of ataidemiel 'Mug, or any Mad of ghee or disability in
se very eselwas in their own sphere. I will =sekk
parades of mise. Take the ale of •
direly oebody supple= m young NW.
her in the ph who falls IMO lift Or Met
lar grime tbe-beby
ow wpm, would be at all diverted by meth an
meartmen of the stage. Nor b the deems wookema is
the= who le transported hernia bpsarast pumas
by • ht with which ha me • mat pmllemaa
eat of • two-pair of stairs whed.w, be be dambnPrighalj
seepiels• that he would be is the least ....thermal by
mob a rgoeeels is any street in Leaden, Per* er Now
York. It always appears to me that the secret of Me OM
joyment Um is the temporary superiority to the 41111111111115
Mari sad mkshaaem of udt ; in Nola. eataillso.
tread whim he realy meat with Maly mid mental onf•
fed% hem. owl weft. Mama how* a may roast
tart of pastry willow he hoot bum being doss to anyone
_tbs women of Maser in a wt.:rains bobs to bromeUy
betworewe, he be se prase at all. Kash Ws the.
Medea I era w•derstand the mother with • moy vulnerable
baby at Um. mod g
eerejnoLgusiobi the limulateable_ baby..
Ile Mese, se is the itt/ I mg
_emilseolami Ike
muss elm eiweptheble to El of asosibbi la Me lamb.
le be meth/ to the blephrl, baying aa Mahn
al the radial_ posimege la qpnegis. wbo pm
Ye the ape! • bll. or upside lowa. end who. Ile
lime it hr greaot reatallei ems the
Luzammon skill end dasterily, somemerel %M-
-ee *bees to which be mod Ms eimminSemee aro sir
espeed.—Dichwe's"HowerAard Words.. •

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1852.

LITERATUBR

form, and the remarks which he makes he having
to tell his own story and to speak Mr. Thaekeray's
censures, too. On the whole, however, it is surpris-
ing how well Eemond's personality is preserved,
how seldom Mr. Thaekeray's Abe looks unmistake-
ably out from beneath the Colonel's head-garb; and
there is great art in the management, as there is
abundant nature and genius in the whole substance
of the book.
We subjoin a few extracts :

77es History of Ussery Esmond, Esq., • Colossi is the Srreiee
gt Her Asgiesty Qualm Anse. AVrittes by Himself. By
W. Y. Take AAAAA . Smith and Elder.

The curiosity with which this new book of Mr.
Thackeray's has been expected has derived an addi-
tional stimulus from the fact, that for him to write a
historical novel was a dangerous experiment. His
reputation had been so completely derived from
pictures of the most modern life, that it was natural
to think of him with uneasiness and uncertainty in
any other ago of the world. It seemed as if we
should scarcely recognise the creator of Becky Sharp
and the satirist of " Snobs" in a wig or Queen
Anne's time. And, truly, this was natural enough:
historical novels are in very indifferent odour, in
this country, just at present. To make a desert
island interesting you must have a Robinson Croon;
and was Mr. Thackeray such ? This was the ques-
tion implied in these doubts, and to this question our
criticism must now return an answer.

lIIALIMING von 81A172 1101.
Oak any one, who has palmed through ibis world and
wallies' the nature of men and women there, doubt what
had Wiles her ? I have men, to be lure, some people
easel 61111 with then late old age the %meal bloom of
their pleated love, and I :know that Mr. Thomas Parr
lived to be a hundred sad sixty years old. But, for all
that, threesoore and ten is the age of iron, and tow get
bored it; and 'tie certain that a nun who amiss for
maw haw your. as my lord did, madden hie part of
the sentract at end when the women ceases to fulfil here,
and his love does sot survive her beauty. I know 'tie
often otherwise, I say; and out think (as most men in their
own experience may) of many • house, when i lighted in
early years, the sainted lamp of low bath never been extin-
guished; but so, there is Mr. Parr, and so there is the great
giant at !be fair that is eight feet high--exceptions to men
—and that poor lamp whereof I speak that lights at first
the nuptial chamber is extinguished by a hundred winds
and draughts down the chimney, or sputters out for want
of feeding. And then—and then it is Chloe In the dark,
stark awake, and Strophe's snoring unheeding; or rice
verso, 'tie poor Strophes that has married a heartleea jilt
and awoke out of that absurd vision of conjugal felicity,
which was to last tor ever, and is over like any other dream.
One and other hen made his bed, sad to must lie in it, until
that final day, when life ends, end they sleep separate.

An eminent writer remarked, many years ago,
that the painting of historical scenes in modern fiction
had begun to acquire a "sign-post chsracter." The
epigram was acute. Sir Walter Scott having, one
may say, exhausted the flower of his intellect iu this
department, came at last to be an imitator of him-
self. Ile had acquired, in the course of that study
and practice, such an acquaintance with past periods,
that ho was able at any time to bring up the forms
of them—whether or not his genius retained suds
vitality as to be able to gift them with life. The
helmets and feathers—the brands and the hawks—
made their app, stance in his pages long after he had
ceased to invest their bearers with the reality of
humanity. This was the misfortune of this great
man. But it was the fault of his imitators ; who
deluged Europe with mimicry of forms which he had
mum ;lowa, alive, iu beautiful activity ; who built
" curiosity shops" of literature along the thorough-
fares of life:—men who stupidly tried to rival the
manna that bad fallen from heaven by manna which
came from the chemist's shop.
Various faults of different kinds have beset the
writers of historical fiction. The most obvious one
was that of the men to whom we have been more
particularly alluding. They were never able to do
more than bring in the furniture—like the most or-
dinary supernumeraries at the play. They could
tolerably manage this department ; they were curious
in old jewels, and tasteful in oak carvings; good,
perhaps, in everything but that which was the es-
sence of the whole. Of course, this skill admitted
of every difference of degree. Many extremely
clever and successful productions must be classed
amongst those to which we are alluding. We may
parttculariae, however, the besetting tault of the
best of them. This was—that they aimed at making
move and act in their works the men and scenes of
former ages, not as human men and human scenes—
bat rather as the conventional men and scenes that
history had handed down to us. Such • writer
hearing that Pope was bitter and malignant,
awls Pope, in his novel, bitter and malir
maid, whenever ho appeared made Dryden
talk, as if he was always talking of Tonna
end Shadwell, and introduced every hero ia
a particular attitude. Thin was as absurd es the
conduct of the gentleman in the "Critic" who makes
Burleigh perpetually nod. Pascal's remark might
have taught such bunglers that even Aristotle and
Plato were, for the most part, good ordinary mortals
like their neighbours. They should have known—
weld have known, had they felt deeply enough—:
that the way to picture a man truly is to get at the
heart of the expression of his life, not to potter about
mere external signs of it here and there. Bat they
were truly sign-painters, and had any of them takes,
foe instance, the Prince of Denmark's story in hand,
wo should have had, instead of Ophelia's lover and Ho-
ratio's friend, end the adviser of the players, and the
converser with the gravedigger—a solemn, stupid,
young gentleman in black, always excellently dressed
tor the part, and breathing commonplace and murder
only.
Now, writers such as these, having made historical
novels intolerable, Mr. Thaekeray had a difficult
part to play. And we may say at once of his book,
that he has done excellently in a certain particular.
His book is of Queen Anne's time—but the main in-
terest in it is not that it deals of Queen Anne's time.
As a popular lecturer on the writers of that period, a
great temptation was open to him, which a small
author would have found it impossible to resist. To
have brought in all the beet known names of the
period, all through, and to have made everything
tem on them—to have made Addison dull till he had
=and Steele dull when deaddrunk—to have
in Marlborough taking bribes, and
Beliegtwohe always quoting Cicero to have
made the reader, live half at " Button's," and the
other half among beauties with patches—here
was what the actors call " Winces !" What's
—the interest of " Esmond" is in the male a
purely human interest; the hurt of the tale hes
been the first object of oonsideratoa. The author has
borne in mind that though the easliew kook is of
high importance (and it balmy paperved with smart
that is delicate, and subtle, and steels ever yea, gra-
dually)—that the matter of the highest imprianse
is the genial and real life of the lanes. Hia pp r.
manages wear wigs, but—you do net ems away beet
them, remembering that, as the chief het. Tea Mara
• great deal about Queen Anne's time, but you meat
people there as interesting and real to
_you as these
to "Paideseis" and " Vanity Fair." They On de.
metre, sack as the world always has in every ep—.
moirizirs this particaler sus, for the time.
of Mr. Theists leeks will understood!
is tibia we tell them to aged their Wilda ia
Erweal, the hero; their Mika PeedennisAs
p. 4 Lady Cestlewood—sad a very wooptioisi
ma of the other side et ilmniebe nature in lase
daughter &atria. illmo shay is mop than any-
thing airs= city The hire emus under Mul-
bri is wounded at Ilsolisim ; he drinks
with Steele, and writes ac=;,:n he sees Addams
actually at work on the a i" he is trained
by a Jesuit, and heights a due But after all—the
pleasure inspired by fling made a spectator of these
stirring adventures is sot the main pleasure to be
derived from the book. That, the iambi
will find to ease from the interest of
human warmth in it—of hum= sharacter—from the
development sad dimby of shmeelor. the
of the boo
is that Ansa Wimp lit
as well as to Adam% time ; and that sae limb itin
bitterest in the pellanagea as If &Um* *Ws
easestare. The ailed u if you seddeely
acme bete that'll time u into a chamber—but the
bib! Iraa see things by is that of the warm dogteeth'
fin Moan there. It is by that light that you ere
the hem of the painted old ladies, and the jolly
ISM of Attire, and the great lords, and the brave
soldiers. The mere historical part is rightly made
subservient to the other. And we must modes the
ingenuity with which the two ere made to serve
each other—so that the story of the Esesosid family
is made to be a vital part of the story of the Mar
dom. This is particularly well mitm in the
whole important section where the Priftadu is
introduced (the " Old Pretender" of coarse), whisk
can pus for nothing else than profound and exqui-
site portraiture.
As the story is delivered in the auto-biographical
form, the style partites of the greater gravity and
formality, of those Make dings. At lint, the effect
of this is stiff mad nesesy I me that the first volume
of this book is mph the dullest, as if the author
were rather heavy ia his irgit is a sew atmosphere.
But he warms—the plot develops—the sense of
reality and sees you discover that the
book is as se any previous book of the
Whet's. and, "Ms, more absolutely real than
any historical slam Scott's early ones.
There are more ansmieg scenes in " Pen-
dennis and " Vanity Fair i" for how life-
like are ear assbingsadss sugared with anybody
whatever 1 Tot, if 1110116111( is lost in this way,
eastetideff is alekpiesi. Ti g: is to the serious
of asset le Mr. litetbstay's --and nowhere,
aecertliegly, have we mint w Wier specimens d
his more serious sad aemtat pia. His style has
ellein Arneson and fipity, and bet aim
tia better saywhere. We -pike pooh**. to
anything in the treatment of the historical part—
except that we wish Swift bad had a better chases
gives him this he bow. Mr. Ileatharey cannot
moan to imply that that peat man's meal appar-
ent' is asse paps is quite worthy of his historical
piass After all, Swift might of course have des
and said what he is here portrayed dein and ay.'
lug, but why select just the worstofse partible ?
us
Letremark, too, that an in is peresplibil
sometimes between the notion of d, whist me

anvics.
And who does not know how ruthlessly women will
tyrannise when they are let to domineer ? And who does
not know how useless advice is ? I could give good counsel
to my descendants, but I know they'll follow their own
way, fur all their grandfather's sermon. A man gets his
owu experience about women, and will tako nobody's hear-
'my ; nor, indeed, is the young fellow wortlha dg that would.
lu I that am in love with any mistress, not my old grand-
mother that counsels me; 'Us I that bate fixed the value
of the thing I would have, and know the prise I would pay
for it. It may be worthless to you, but tie all my life to
me. Had Esmond possessed the Great Mogul's crown and
ell his diamonds, or all the Doke of Marlborough's money,
or all the ingots sunk at Vigo he would have given
them all for tills woman. A 'fool he was, if you will;
but so is a sovereign a fool that will give half &principality
for a little crystal as big as a pigeon's egg, and called a
diamond. Bo is a wealthy nobleman a fool that will face
danger or death, and spend half his life, and all his tran-
quillity, caballing for a blue riband. So is a Dutch mer-
chant a fool that heth been known to pay ten thousand
clowns for a tulip. There's some particular prise we all of
as value, and that every man of spirit will venture his life
fut. With this it may be to achieve • great reputation for
lemming ; with that to be a man of fashion, and the admi-
ration of the town ; with another to consummate a great
work of art or poetry, and go to immortality that way
and with another for a certain time of his life the sole object
and aim is a woman.

_
LOVE'. ZTIRNITY.
Who, in the course of his life, bath not been on be-
witched, and worshipped some idol or another? Years
after this passion bath been dead and buried, along with •
thousand other worldly cares and ambitions, he who felt it
met recall it out of its grave, and admire, almost u fondly
se he did in his youth, that lovely queenly creature. I in-
lobe that beautiful spirit from the shades, and love her
mill ; or rather, I should say, such a put is always present
to a man; such &passion once felt forms • put of his whole
being, and cannot be separated from it; it becomes •
portion of the man of to-day, just as any great faith or con-
viction, the discovery of poetry, the awakening of religion,
ever afterward indolence him; just as the wound I had at
Blenheim, and of which I wear the scar, bath become part
of my frame, and influenced my whole body--nay, spirit
subsequently, though 'twas got and healed forty years ago.
Putino and forgetting! What bifida' heart can do thus ?
Our great thoughts, our groat afertiosa, the truths of our
life, leave us. Sorely, they easaat separate from our
eonlciousness ; shall follow it vWlhsmeneva. that shall gp ;
end are of their satin divine sod imametal