The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

' THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCE 8, I:85.1.

LITERATURE. land what is not, and the true application of scientific
evidence in patent cases. On these subjects, Mr.
Spence, who is the author of a well-known prnetimil.
Patentable Inrritimu Srirolik Eriderier. By Wit- work on the specification, has expressed himself very •
LIAM SPENt E, An,or. 1114. . E.- author of A Treatise
on the Specification," &c. London: Stevens and N ,rton. clearly, and, as we think, with a result very useful'
to all those who may have occasion to refer to the
After a lull of some years the rights of inventors works.
are aguin attracting attention in this country; we The points treated of are purely technical, and
may say- in this country emphatically, if we atomic, cannot be said to bo of public interest, for which
bemuse in the United States, France, and ether reason we cannot dilate upon them, but we may refer
civilisedeountries.theyhavelongsineebeenaseertained to Mr. Spence's book tbr a delineation of a system of
and acknowledged; in thin country, Itussia, and we abuse which discredits our courts, and will be readily
believe Turkey, they depend for their acknowlolg- •, recognised by the reader. Unflinchingly exposing a
mint upon the arbitrary will or enactments of the scandal, of which the patent agent is often enough
government. The excitement of the Exhibition, the . the indignant spectator, Mr. Spence goes on to re-
prominence given to industry, may fur a time gain murk :
attention for the claims of English inventors, but ' The discovery is often made by the judge in proceeding
tow,vedutphettecurpence, that the scientific witnesses have
With experience before us we may reasonably fear
that no efficient relief will be given, and that the I:,ag perpiesin.l4. that
question will be either indefinitely adjourned, or in- the direct answer to the questions pat to such witnesses has
adequately met. That enterprise: has prospered in admitted statement, which did not exclude error. The
this country has been not in virtue of our Levis- witnesses in such cases gave answen to the questions that
were true considered affirmatively, but they contained no
tarpon, but in despite of it. in the some denial of
tiered
error:t..a
to so
r,,u n
that the
hs
the
twitnesses' being re-
way that our trade has thriven in despite of pro- apeeneveray quo nd which they could
toetiun, bounties, and fiscal restrictions; our cotton attest, mere their testimony accordingly, but did no more:
prints, paper. ghost, beer, carriages, and other menu- hence the discrepancy eluded to.
factures, in despite of the excise; so has capital been It is secretly to be expectcsl that scientific witnesses Are
likely to lead counsel in such. a manner as to suggest the
succesefully applied, although cramped hy bad cur to elicit -
rency regulations and inadequate laws of awewiution. me7mtp tree" isneisetnetmr.e'nni; oaftsirt !rtno ire!
ttilatnitTet
Thus, too, has invention been excited, and our eosin- common injunction to onlinmy witnesses to give direct an-
try advuneed to the supremacy of mechanic art, in 'Wen to the questions of counsel can he readily and per-
defiance of all the discouragement that defective and Pluzingly complied with liy beientilic witnesses, who, from
f.n.au:;.istkpivati
jete the —itn
dishonest legisles6m and udministrutiun of the law
proof "*a:-I:t'theh':WoirtasecoV;ihde de-
•ll7
create. If we have carried the steam•engine eiamining counsel, should be be all weak on thetsciecntinO
and the locomotive to perfection, and the iron mann- points raised at the trill.
facture to it, greatest height, we must not forget that It will hence appear that apparent misstatements on
the part of scientific witnesses are not always real ; at any
Watt's first patent became waste paper, and that a
;stew., as teotiavolve actsroVelsebood committed by them :
powerful combination of the fornish proprietors,
et. mit is very likely to prdu.ce ex-
conducted by their creature, Ilorublower, involved ~„7,„t ran, .17,,TIcort:this is not to be justified in any
bins in the meshes of a natty litigation. The early &zees.
patents of Treyithick and Stephenson for the Iciest- The oliservations that bare been made apply equally to
motive never brought them the patent fees; and witnesses called on behalf of plaintiff+ and of defendants
neither of these gnat men wan able to take out a --"kno'fwilr:Lutt`tVear,nt nal kind °f .I:iactes.ts ; it is well"
another
r"..ttze s
deckantdi.% mast
patent in his own name, but was obliged adapted for the plaintiff, and an".“t
, in
surrender a considerable portion of his property R patent cause. 't he man skilled in the power of expanding
to n capitalist, to enable him to raise the little narrow points suits the plaintiff, mil he who can multiply
fortune of the patent fees. 'Hie idea of exacting Plausible objections to the invention as a substantive tiling
sorts
rotlic.:lteifoildtahnet.twlk,:o7,:lictsita,te!of things which fosters
from a poor working man like George Stephenson
three or four hunted pounds fur is patent, man- intrigesereise has a tendency to Zilis'rt'ietiute‘Yatentuaarttko4rilYs calledcieie
stream. Accordingly he got no patent fur the of giving evidence for a plain disclosure of facts.
safety lamp, and would have received no public
rewind bud it not been for the liberality of the coal- .
owners in raising a liullecription fur him. The history
of the iron trade likewise eitlbrds its comment on the
patent lime. The penalty imputed upon Neilson for I
the invention of the hot-blast was law costs to the
extent of scores of thensands, and although he ulti-
mutely succeeded, the ordeal was a perilous one.
Oran, in the umiliention of anthracite to blunting,
was met with nu less persecution. For the dee
covery of the Neckband iron-stone, which leas like-
wise ken the means of keeping thousands of nun in
employment, Itishert Musket could lint take out
a jeattot, and has received no reward from
the legislature. lkath, who by the improve-
ment of oar steel has liberated us from de-
pendenee on the Swedes, and given a new im-
ptus to the cutlery manufactuns of Sheffield, is
subject to the actandomed trentment, and is now
Going through his comr in the courts of law. .
We have enumerated only a few seises, but in several
of these, and we may name Watt, Neale" Crane,
and Ileuth, the inventors art- allowed to be set at
detianee by combinations of the very men whom
they have benefited, and who, by forming a coin-
mon purse, are enabled for year to carry on a costly
litigation in the Cluowery and common law courts.
the (curt of Scission, mid the house of Lords. All
that Watt asked fur his nimmetnetion was one-third
of the fuel he 'saved by his inventions; Neilson asked
the like; Heath, If. per ton, when he nslueed the
price by 2111. These benefactors asked only a por-
tion of the saving which they effected; but the mine-
owners, the iruninunters, aud the steel manufacturers
after a time grudged even that pittance; and, after
asserting first that the respective inventions were
impracticable and worthless, afterwards, when they
pirated them, set up that they were not original, or
that the patents were void on technical grounds.
If a pitent is unprofitable the inventor is mulcted
of several hundred pounds by the government ; it
profitable, then he is, by the machinery of the law,
stripped of Isis profits by pirutes. In a country
priding itself on its high position in the industrial
wale, mid bonding of its common Renee, such a state
of attiiirs wiles monstrous ; but it is warmly less
Anima. that the patentee is made to contribute to
the official pay of the Attorneys and Solicitors
General of Englund and Irehend and of the Lord Ad-
vocate of Snalund and their clerks, of the clerks of
the privy wetland Nig,net, and of a host of chaffwaxes,
sinecurists, fee„ end is further mulcted fur the fee
fund mead consolidated fund, the total taxation of
pateutees being not kse than 100,901. yearly. For
this, be. it nmembered, the putentee gets no benefit
at all, fur such title 116 he gets is only a title to liti-
gation. In maturing his invention and plasm-
ing his specification the government render hum
nu assistann, and inflict oil him expense-. The
English patentee eanuot even refer to an index of
patents, while. the American patentee, who pays
shillings where ours pays pounds, has his contribu-
tiuns laid out fur his advantuge. The American,
government provide out of the patent fund an index
of laments, u ventral record office, u museumll of
models and drawings, a library, and the Desistance of
competent scientific exaniiners of specifications.
The yearly report of the American Commissioner of
Patents is one of the most valuable docutuents
publieheel in the United States. It forme a yearly
reeunl of the prugnss of every depurtinent of agn-
culture, mining, and imenufactures, and it liberally
supplied not only to Anieriesit tiewepapers, institu-
tions, and libraries, but oleo to those in Europe, and
to the most eminent scientific men.

Alseken Dunsestic rook sr,. By a Lady A New Edition,
with illustrative ruts. Murray.
At this peritl, when the approach of the great
glomeration of all nations is suggestive of alarming
onslaughts upon our own natiuual customs, which
are already being knocked down one by one, like MO
many skittles, u new edition of an old-established
favourite book about English cookery is peculiarly
seasonable. Of the multitude of changes which we
are to experience in the course of this eventful year,
the gastronomical science will certainly have its share.
Ate for French cookery, that is nothing new. Who
among Englishmen iu the present day has not, under
the influence of something good or something bod—
ed curiosity, dulness, debt, or dissipation, been
Induced to pay a visit to Paris ? Or if any exist who
cannot be included in this category, who has not dined
with the elegant Very, or, at any rate, with the
bawdy and economic Bertolini? or, amongst those
who have higher aspirations, who has not tried the
magnificent Gunter, Iron, whom—by paying a little
fortune for it —one may get as good a dinner as can
be obtained at the Tress Freres, or anywhere else
wider the sun.
French cookery, then, is not the subject of our
alarm. It is the cookery of "all nations" that we
have to dread ut the impending crisis ; for, if all
nations come among us and create a demand, it would
be very unlike the nineteenth century nut to furnish
• supply. Now, moat of our readers must be
aware that there exists a nation (one of
the Orinoco tribes, we believe) who, having
with the rest of him= nature, sprung from earth,
make a point of eating their minima parent in the
attractive form of clay, which they bake iu little
halls, as boys make marbles. This peculiarity is
shared more or less by several nations, and surely
this popular habit will be cutitled to some gratifica-
tion ut our hands. Then there are some African tribes
who fast on gum ; others upon ants, which is so popu-
lar a dish that it,, absence might laid to the must dis-
awtruus results. Bees have their votaries in Ceylon, and
spiders in New Caledonia. How are these to be pre-
Med in sufficient number. To the locusts and crickets
of eastern nations, allusion need scarcely be made;
suet centipedes, lizards, and serpents arc also well
known to be extensively eaten an food. There is a
species of moth, found, we believe, in New South
Wrales, that is also a favourite viand among the na-
tives, but it is doubtful whether even free trade will
induce merchants to undertake the task of importing
it. The grasshoppers and silkworms, so popular
among the natives of Madagascar, will also be found
difficult to supply. The birthiests, dogs, slugs, and
snails for the Chinese, may, perhaps, be easier to ac-
complish.
However, we nerd go no deeper into these specu-
lations. M. Soyer has annouuced a " Symposium of
all nations," at Gore-house, and it may be antici-
pated that he will provide fur these little difficulties.
Ile has certainly au onerous and delicate task to per-
form. and we wish him all the success he deserves.
While admitting the excellencies of French cook-
aud evincing a toleration worthy of for the
gastronomical idursyneracits of the eternal " all na-
tions," we have yet one word to say on behalf of the
cruelly condemned cuisine of our own country. The
I French, to be sure, raise the science to a dignity that
it can never attain in England. It is not probable
that an English cliff ever shot himself through
remorse at a professional failure; and the
story of the Parisian fluorine! who (s em-
milted suicide on account of the outrage offered
to the delicacy of an ortolan (that modest little bird,
us he said, has ing been stripped of its feathers, and
then served up sons papier) can have no parallel in
this our colder elimo. Much, however, may be said
in favour of our national cuisine, if we take into con-
sideration the tastes and temperament of the people,
and the climate in which they live. The higher
classes in all countries lose to a great extent their
notional characteristics. Two ambassadors from two
different European courts meet in the same draw-
ing room, talk the sante language, wear the
same costunue, and even in manner and deport-
ment may easily be mistaken for countrymen.
lint take two peasants or shopkeepers of the
same respective nations, and the incongruity is
absurd on the face of it. It is on the same princi-
ple that French cookery, though familiar us a house-
hold word to the upper classes here, is not making its
way among the great mass of the population, notwith-
standing that it is sufficiently simple and sufficiently
economical to be practised, and paid for, by all. Nur
should this be a mutter of regret, for it is certain
that if their instincts do not lead them to cultivate
an elaborate coisia.., it was never intented by nature
fur their subsistence. For our part we arc quite
content to be within reach of a French hotel
whenever the humour seizes us, and mean-
time to give: all honour to our own dear
indigestable dinners, which we confess we can
enjoy at most places ranging from ]fond-street to
the Strand—from the fashionable to the frugal—from
Long's to Short's.
There has been a great deal said of late in favour
at volumes, on the French cuisine; but, after all, we
may heartily and safely commend to English house-
wivery this new edition of an English cookery book.
It tells plainly what plain folks wish to know, and
points out how an excellent dinner may be best se-
cured without loss of time, cash, or patience.

We have nothing to boast of in the organisation of
our patent ,paem, we have c,erything to be ashamed
of, and whatever may be our suiwrionty in industrial
pursuits. we may feel in the competition which free
trade has caused throughout the world, and the
triumph of which in to to be inaugurated in the
Great Exhibition of this year, a new era has begun
fur which we cannot be too well prepared, by remov-
ing every restriction on the skill of our imventors
and the energies of our capitalists. Among such
measures. patent law reform, however inconsiderible
it may be, is not the least valuable. The mighty
revolution in which we arc now actors, owes its
origin and its progress to humble inventor'. Watt,
in his workshop at Glasgow, laid the foundation fur ,
the new cities of Lancashire and Lanarkshire, with
all their vast results. Trecithick and Steplwnson,
in rude machines for hauling coals, showed the germ
of the railway system which creases Europe from
Caleb", we mar almost say from Aberdeen, to 'frieste,
and soon will from Bordeaux to St. Petersburg;
which cream-. the States from Maine to Louisi-
ana, and will, ore long, from New York to
Ban Francisco. Fulton and Bell launched on the
Hudson and the ('lyde the rude models of the giant
racers which have brought New York as near to
London as the capital of lorkshire was in the time of
our great-grandfathers. In the study and in the lec-
ture-room, in theoretical disquisitions and toy models,
began those inventions which, in the hands of Cooke,
Win atstune. Morse, and Bain, have promised us the
mean, of making our words overcome space, and
almost compete with time. Perhaps .at this hour
some poor student or humble mechanic is maturing
inventions which shall produce a greater and more
permanent influence on the destinies of man than
the sword of Wellington or Napoleon, the compact of
emperors, the combinations of statesmen, or the vic-
tory of popular violence, can effect.
From this contemplation, it is a sudden fall to the
living world of chaffwaxes, attorneys clerks, and
ebaneery cormorant., but it is one which must be
made, and the public who will, in the coming summer,
boast to foreigners of Watt, Trevithiek, Arkwright,
and Stephenson, gloat over our public works, and re-
commend a visit to the tubular bridge over the Menai,
the hydraulic pile bridge over the Shannon, or
the Skcrrron lighthouse, had better say the least
they can about patent law to our American cousins
and French friends, and all they can to our own
members of parliament. The system, we may rest
assured, is rotten in every part, not merely in its
scat oppression of tho inventor, but throughout its'
administration. In the work before us we hart ono
dour regularly-trained and intelligent patent agents,
albeit eschewing the eubjeet of patent reform, de-
voting himself in this day to the diminution from u
sham of decisions the principle of what is patentable

At length Mr.. Sandboys, who two or three times had
for the farces they enact: we are impressed with a
just herself from falling almost flat on her mare whilo
sense of their actual existence in the present, so that
the dilapidated chair, begat to be fairly tired
the impossibility or improbability of the contingen- out; and Cursty, who had sat on the top of the beer-barrel
cies and mishaps which befall them strikes the render till his legs were nearly cut through with the sharp edge of
more as untruth than as farcical force. Let two the hoop, round that it was impossiale to continue his slum-
quotations illustrate this jarring of the real with the hers in oes inconveuieut a posture, so he took his fat and
dozing little wifu in his S, and standing once more on
unreal : the trestle,, fairly lifted her into the hammock ; after which,
THE BUTTEENIERE PHILOSOPHER.
..,. seizing the chain that hung from the iron plate in th' pave-
Mr. Sandboys prided lameelf on bring a " bit of a palm-
meet above, he with one desperate bound swung himself by
sopher." Ilia great weakness consisted in his imaginm
her side into the hammock.
strength of mind. In his college days at St. Bees he . In a few minutes they were both foot locked in slumber ;
I been charmed with the classic chronicles of Grecian sten-
fi.....orwimohienarelnet.. tiandboys,
but Cursty's repose was destined to be of short duration •
cism and Roman fortitude, and ever since had Iseen entice-
shaking him violently, roused him
vouriug to talk himself, out of all feeling and affection, into
, the hero. To his great self-satisfaction, he now believed he m'''
" lap wathee i-up will:tee! the be summet barites I
could bear any stroke of fate, however severe or unexpected, a
-crawling over my face, Cursty. Ah, these baleen beds ! ;
without so much as a wink of his " mind's eye," and he Well be heath yeeten up, alcyvc, if thee stops here, i
flattered himself that he lied arrived at that much-to-be-de; cunt „„
sired rtate of insensibility which would enable him, like Ani so saying, she gave her lord and master so stout a I
lluttennere Brutus, totand his own son Jobby over to the
thrust in his hack, that drove his weight to the edge of the
Carlisle hangman with no more compunction-as he de-
hammack, and again brought him rapidly to the floor.
lighted to tell that young gentleman, much to his horror-
Mrs. Sandboye, in her, fright, soon followed her hus- 1
than he would take one of his " lean sheep" to Lanthwaite-
baud ; and then nothing would satisfy her but she must
green fair. have the whole of the bedding and clothes turned out on
And yet, truth to say, the heart of the heroic Mr. Sand- the ground, aid minutely examined by the light of the
boys was as soft as new bread, though he would have had
rushlight.
the world believe it was as hard and dry as sea biscuit.
But Mr. Sandbar., already deprived of the half of his
If Cursty had any mettle at all in his constitution it wase
night's rest, was in no way fit for the perflormance desired
that particular kind of " fusible alloy" which melts at th
by his wife ; and, in order to satisfy her guldens, he proposed
least warmth, and loses all consistency immediately it gets
that the mattress alone should be replaced in the haiumock,
into hot water. and then she need have no fear.
verse
No metahuman nature physieian has eve
f r yeties ex
itphas lained wh l
taley poor per.
Mrs. Sondboys was herself in no humour to hold out
&away. anc a speciant for
against so apparently rational a proposal ; and, having con-
doing something the very opposite to that in whiah it hap-
canted to the compromise, there began the same series of
pens to excel. Doubtlessly, if cite truth could be known,.
arduous and almost perilous struggles to ensconce their
we should find Sir John Herschel secretly regarding. him;
two !eaves once inure in the interior of the hammoek.
self as a small astronomer, but taking great pride in la
After !several heavy tumbles on both sides, Met breaking
imitation of frying sausages; and Faraday thinking little
f the rusty iron chain which served to hold down the circular
of his discoveries in diamagnetism, but thaterina himself
trap in the puvement above, the worthy couple did Oft be
he could palm a pea better than
aloehmbgger in
mately manage to succeed again in their courageous under-
tae kingdom. l'rofesaor Owen, fur we know, may
taking ; and then, fairly exhausted with their labours, they
despise himself as a comparative anatomist, but think Lir
closed their eyes just u the blue light of day was showing
front meanly of his abilities as a player on the bones, and
through the riaricv of the coal-cellar door.
Archbishop Whately, in his own eves, shine Iva in 'ogle
Ts-
than in the mixture of a lobster laid, of he Cumberland couple had continued their root
id, or the brewing
turbed some few hours, when Mrs. taandboys was atoundined
whiskey punch.
bio, hearing the circular iron trap moved above her head.
Even so was it with Mr. Cursty Sandboys! Naturally
S o woke her husband with a violent shake, telling him, as
kind-hearted, and weak almost to an extreme, he conceited
soon as she could make him understand, that she was sure
himself that he was firm and inmenrcablo., amid the atones
friends
of life, as a human lighthouse,
or as light-hearted and lively
*wine of her
nuke a eleacent through the pavement into the bubterra-
in the midst of all his " nt-and-dnwna- as
the nean hed-chamber.
celebrated old buoy at the Nona Sighing he coveted more
Mr. Sandboys was no sooner got to comprehend the rinse
than decision of character, and yet no mom wits inurt. untie-
of her alarm, than he saw the end of the chain lifted up,
aided. Theoretically he was steel, but practically he wait
onarease-hanlened with a surface of philosophy. and the trap removed front the pavement above them.
Instinctively the couple rose up in their bed, and leant
There is not one stroke of the caricaturist in the their heads forward to ascertain the precise nature of the
above description : it is a careful bit of observation impending danger. Suddenly they were startle•l by a gruff
and investigation, picturesquely written down ; but voice from above, shouting " Bee-slow," and immediat.ly
a
if it were possible or even hur, to detail the mar- there descended through the round hole at the top of the
venous misfortunes and blunders which are made to cellar a shower of large and small coals, the noise of which
completely drowned their cries, and beneath which they
stand upon the road of the Sandboys, the utl,,,e
'-y Con- wore lamest buried alive.
trust already alluded to must strike every u • rver. Beare they could extricate themselves from the black
Passing over the pocket-picking, the false directions, mass, that nearly filled their hammock, a serwrondoehswieerwootf
and other calamities by means of which this un- :W,anlis:orEge liascpotßePdo down
.re
i. uponthen
frewi i I
the k!t.hen that the
happy family is drugged to remote corners of the oe:,1,01
der
alas
al!adj
tx. t to shoot observing
half ton she had ordered
country-to Manchester, and finally to London---a '''
.e.: the previous evening to be delivered early that morning
picture of the probable or improbable state of London into Mr. and Mrs. Sandboy's hammock,
that worthy couple
lodgings throughout the ensuing summer, is gro- assuredly must have perished in the dusty, grimy ae
loudly
tesquely drawn—the Saridboys figuring as the mu- Mrs. Fokesell rushed into the area, crud_ out
teal group of sufferers: the man to hold back the third sack, which he hail Just
!mawd over the hole on his shoulder, previnue to discharging
• LODGING FOR EXHIBITION VISITORS. '. Its Contents on the bodies of the unhappy Sendboys, and
Arrived at the reeeidence of the lady indicated by the gen- tearing open the door, delivered the blackened and the
Semen who superintended the supply of provisions to the bruised couple from the perils of their wretched situation.
inmates of the Bull and Mouth, Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys
I were asked to stop into the passage (the lady apologising fur This is d b 11which, • farce,
un ou tei y a Beetle tu a
the parlours being both till!), and there Mrs. Fokesell, would be loudly welcomed; and it is fairly notice-
whose husband, she was happy to say, was at sea, informed able as a specimen of genial humour, but compared
them, to their great horror, that she had only one hammock with the description of the actors who figure in it, it
left unoccupied; and if the lady and gentleman thought ~. hardly
artistic. .
Comedy characters are insipid in
they could make shift in that until such time as they meld :a
ascot with anything better, why it was at their service for nurlesque. As an instance of well-coloureil and well-
eye shillings a night. 'the young lady and the remelt. see- totted description, stands the following account of
vent, Mrs. Fokesell might perhaps accommodate in her bed,
MANCHESTEII DESERTED.
and if the footman wouldn't mind lying on the kaife-
board and the young gentlemen thought he could pass the The black smoke no longer streamed from the tall-Thiin-
night comfortably on the top of the grand piano, why she neys of its factories-the sky above was no longer swarthy,
would do everything in her power to make them comfortable. as if grimed with the coolles.s labour of the town, but clear,
Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys said that, under the circu ammatances, without a
I a cloud. Not a cart, nor a Vile, nor to railway
they must consent to avail themaelves of whatever they broke the •
waggon, nor a lurry, stillness of the streets, and
could get ; whereupon the landlady politely informed them the tramp of the policeman on his rounds was alone to he
that, it they would follow her down stairs, she would show .
heard. The mills were all hushed-the fires were out-the
them the only apartment she had to share. engines were motionless-nut a whorl whirred-nut loom
a
But, as she was shout to descend, a loud single knock was clacked-nut a cop twirled, within them. The workers,
Sung and old, had all gone to take their share in Bag-
given at the street-door, and, bagging their indulgence for
lands holiday. To walk through the work-room that a
a minute, she returned to the passage, to ascertain the
little while ago had trembled and clattered with the stir of
businees of the new-comer. On answering the knock, she
their many machines, impressed the mind with the came
that it was merely the mat-merchant, who wished to
sense of desolation as a theatre seen by daylight. The mice,
be informed when she would like to have in "them there
startled ut the strange eound of a footstep, scampered from
coals as she ordered."
--,- out the heaps of cotton that lay upon the floor, and spiders
' Mrs. Fokewll hastily told the man, that if they wane l had already begun to spin their webs in the unused ebonies
delivered the first thing in the morning, there wouldn't be of the looms. At night, the many windows of the mills and
a bit of fine to " bile the dozen pate of shaviug-water as was warehouses no longer shimmered, like gold, with the lights
wanted by eight o'clock for her lodgers."
On cleating the door, and rejoining Mr. and Mrs.Saudouys, rays shining on them front without. Thudoors of the huge
who still stood on the top of the kitchen stairs, Mrs. Fake- warehouses were all closed, and the steps grown green from
sell led the way to the basement, and, opening the kitchen ham disuse. Not a cab stood in frontof theinfirmary-not a
door, stepped across the area. Stopping in front of one of vehicle loitered beside the pavement in Market-street.
the two doors that led to what the landlady was pleased to In the morning, not a factory bell was to be heard ; nor a
dignify by the Miele of is humble apartment on the beet, "bus" to be seen bringing from the suburbs its crowds of
went floor, she unfastened the padlock, and revealed the merchants piled on the roof and packed on the splash-
interior of a cellar, from the arched roof of which was slung a board in front of the coachman. Not a milkman dragged
sailor's hammock, while on the floor was spread a =ail through the ',Mete his huge tin can suspended un wheels;
square of dingy carpet. In one corner, on the top of a beer nor was a scavenger, with his long, loose, blue woollen shirt
oarre
Against the whitewashed wall hung a small sixpenny shav- On Saturday night, the thoroughfares clattered not
ing-glass ; while, immediately beneath it, there was placed the tread of the thousands of heavy-booted operatives Oil
a dilapidated chair. the pavement ; not a grocer's shop was brilliant with thu
Mrs. Sandbuys, who until that moment had never set ground-glass globe. of its many lump.; not a linendraper's
eyes on that peculiar kind of naval contrivance for our window was stuck over with loins telling of another " Tre-
Limning u night's rest muter ditficulties, could not refrain meudous failure" or "awful ouie.rifie.e."
from expressing her firm conviction that it was utterly
In Smithfield, there sons neither light nor sound. The
inapsasible for any woman of her sine to deposit herself 0.0... y
i crockery and glittering glass no longer was strewn
safely in the interior of that thing, which people were a
upon the ground, and no impatient dealer was there jingo
pleased to calla bed,
ling his cups and tumblers, and rattling his basins to bring
Mrs. Fookesell, however, imaged to assure her that she had the customers to his stand. The covered sheds, spread with
pawed many -many very pleasant eights in that very hain- bright-coloured handkerchiefs and muslin, and hung with
muck, and with the aid of the trestle which she had placed long streamers of lace, had all disappeared ; the long ne-
on the floor, and an assisting hand from her husband, she row alleys of old-clothee stalls, docked with washed-out
was sure the holy would he able to manage very well.
gowns and brown stays, and yellow petticoat and limp
Mr. Sandboys himself was anything hot pleased with honnebe were gone; the old-boot stalls, bright with the
the arrangements of the proporea dormitory, and, secretly highly-polished shoe, were nowhere visible ; nor the
in his own mind, lie was inquiring of himself how, who black hardware, nor the white wicker-baskets, nor
he had lent the said assisting hand to his better half, and tle dangling hairy brooms nor the glass case's glittering
safely lodged her within the depths of the euspentled with showy jellery. The !moth-like rook-shops were shut
hammock, he himself was ever to join her there, fur whoa up, and not a boy was to be seen within them enjoying his
he wanted to know, was there to perform the same kind cheap basin of steaming soup or plate of smoking pie ; and
office for him ? the sheets of tripe, like bundles or shammy leather, and the
However, even if they had to take the bed down, and cow-heels, white and saddened, like wwoherwomen's hands,
Weld it on the carpet, it would, thought Mr. Sandboys, he had disappeared from the stalls.
fox preferable t. none at all, so he toll Mrs. Fookesen that In Victoria Market the oranges were no longer to be seen
be and his good lady would avail themselves of the &nom- piled up in pyramid., and glittering like balls of geld
natation. at least for that mo• night. against their white-papered shelves. Not a sound of musk
" It's all I have, ma'am." and the landlady ; " I have was to be heard in any of the harmonic taverns. The piano
just let the last tent on the tiles to a foreign nobleman, and of " The lien and Chickens" was hushed. The fiddle end
seven shillings a night is what I has from him. I assure violoncello sounded not in "The Cotton Tree." At Ben
you it's a fart, Mil'ion. There is not a foot in is respectable lameas the lights were all out, and the galleries empty-not
house that ie not worth it+ length in sovereigns, ma'am. a seriously-comic song, nor comically-serious ditty disturbed
Why' if you'll believe me, ma am, there's my acetate.* the silence of the " Saloon."
neighbour, she put a feather bed into her warm bath, and The shutters of the Exchange., ton, were closed-none oat
lot it off to a young East lnjun at a guinea a week, for a at the tables or stood at the desks scanning the papers. At
month certain.
Milner's, the patent iron sate that, laden with gold, load
Mr. Sandboys, exhausted with his journey, made no more stood the attack of twenty desperate rabbets, was hidden
ado, lout cloa d the bargain with Mre. Foto:sell ; and, haring for a time by the shutters. Barton the stationer fuel eloped
partaken of some fried chops, by way of supper, in the to London with his love. Nathaniel Gould
nail his brother
kitchen, he and his beluvea Agee! withdrew to the privacy from London had both retnrued to the nietropolis to see the
of the cellar which was to constitute their bed-chamber fur Exhibition, and his mother. Binyons and Hunter had
the niald, given over desiccating their coffee, and had gone' to air them-
After a brief consultation, it wee agreed that, to prevent salve's instead, in the metropolis. At Crowther al Hotel, the
all chance of taking cold in so damp a dormitory, [boy
snotty barmaid was too longer to be seen, for " The Angel"
should retin• to rest in their clothes; and Mrs. Saadi:our.
d retired to Loudon. At the Commercial Dining Rooms,
having disangagest herself of her hood and cloak, prepared Bell's joints had reseed to be hot from twelve till three, for
to make the perilous went.
he, like the rest, had gone., legs all, and shoulders and to
By the aid of her Cursty's haul she mounted the little the threat Exhibition ; while Mrs. Ja. Stewart, (" professed
trestle of the beer-barrel, which she previously placed im- cook,") no longer recommended those gentlemen who
mediately under the hammock. and then, tumuli; her back wanted a relish to try her chops. Mrs. Later, having ,ex-
jump, the suspended had she managed, with a slight hawed "her winter supply of fancy shirts, braces, cravats,
jump, to seat herself on the extreme edge of the sacking.
Eke. " hid availed herself of the opportunity of seeing the
Her figure, however, being rather corpulent, the weight - .
Exhibition to provide herself with a summer stock. Mr.
of her whole body no soon r rested on one side of the aihe ~
Albert, the dentist, of George-street, whose "artificial
oscillating couch, than the whole apparatus slid from under '-
teeth, he assures US, are such perfect imitations of nature,
her, and she was suddenly plunged down on to the corner that it is confidently predicted they will speedily supersede
of the temporary toilettabk. Fortunately for the good eeery. ou,„ and," had started fur the metropolis, leavg
lady, the top of the artificial wash-hand-stand consisted of a bin incorrodible teeth behind him; and J. Casper, the
board merely laid across the head ot a borrel ; so that im- tailor, of Market-street, having "invented a cloth with two
mediately she touched the rieketty arrangement, the board, distinct faces, which may be worn on either side, and suit-
basin, and pitcher were all tilted forward, and the entire able for trowsers," as well as coats and vests, had turned
contents of the water-jug emptied full into her face, as she his coat like the very best "double-faced," and' gone up in a
fell to the ground. pair of his own patent paloons, with the intention of using
What with the crash of the crockery, the splashing of the 1 the out for week d_ ya .s, and the insides for Sundays.
water, and the bumping of poor dear Dirs. Sandboys on the I At the City Mourning Establishment, the young ladies of
carpet, Cursty was almost paralysed with fright. Ile was , the shop had given over sorrowina fur the deceased friends
afrotid even to raise his darling Aggy from the ground, for 1 of their customers, and, eubstitutusg lively pink glaces for
he felt that something serious must have happened to hem their sombre benalmaines,haeleuddenly changedlike lobsters,
But Mrs. Sandbox.. luckily was sound in her bones, I from black to red, and gone up with the chief mourner of
though severely bruised in her fifth ; and ae Cursty helped o a
1• the establishment," determined to have a few weeks'
her up from the floor, she shook the water from her hair, pleasure, like the rest of the world; while Beddoc, of the
and
ht than make he would rather sleep o
tern the carpet al opposition depot for grief, had, "in consequence of the mild-
-1 nia another attempt to en that nasty, del neon of the season" (coupled with its general healthiness),
nag fops swinging, unsteady thing of a bed. " not only reduced all his stock of the previous winter's weeds
Mr. Sandboys used all the endearing arts of which he and weepers, but finding the mortality much below the
WM master to induce the partner of his bosom to make • usual average, had put up the black shutters of his shop,
lael : or. the Adrentaires of Mr, and Mrs. Sandboys and second attempt, hut his etreaties were in vain ; for Mee. I
; and affixed a hatehment, with the motto of .. Resurgent"
Family, who mine lip tolondon to enjoy theinselres, and Sandboys, whose body still tingled with the failure of her , over his door, as a notice that he would turn up again
to see Me Great Exhibition. By HENRY Maymaw and previous eesay, was in no way inclined to listen to his , shortly. .
Osumi eItEIKSHANII. Part Y. Bogue. solicitations. I Not a shop but had some announcement pasted on the
Mr. Sandboys and his family, who were last month But the persevering Curtsy pleaded so bard that at past , ehutters. In the principal thoroughfares chickens scratched
left on the point of departure from Iluttermere, are he got her to consent, that pros.ided he would get into at the uaremoved dust, while the crowing of rival cocks
hammock himself, and would lift her into it after him, she' sounded shrill ' the a. t t t Corpulent old duk
in a la S ree s._
inthe now presented in the novel situation of travellers for
I srould*nt mind obliging him in that way-for she could see ,
the first time to London. The alarmist statistics of no oth„ plan by which she was ever to be safely deposited the
waddled aloisg the kerb-stones to bathe themselves
; gutter. In Market-street, the grass was already begin-
the crowded state of London in May next, the co-p l within it. sling to sprout between the stones. The cata, left
bablc prices of lodgings, and the terrible variety of i Accordingly, Mr. &nether., when, after a few naautaaaa" to take care of themselves, wandered about. as .
visitors with whom Londoners will be honoured or 1 fal .
but harmless endeavours, he had manage to get me , eans
sa French .
wait for the birds,
bod fai 1 into the sailor's bed, l t over the side ' plgit and lay in
• hero taken up, and used as the ground.. entire
pestered, art.y
.r y. _ __ _ .. _ . _ But, that, no longer scared by the noise, now began nu
iin order to assist his better-half to join him within it. and twitter loudly in every thoroughfare. In the People's
work for some very httmourous, if improbable scenes. !on his putting out his arms to liftthe lady up to the required parks, pigs roamed among the flowers, while gun ass&
Though in his analysis of his characters Mr. Mayhew , height, the delusive, bendable bedstead turned inside out, donkeys nibbled at the grass.
labours to present to his reader creatures of ordinary . and shot him, mattress, blankets, and counterpane, together
flesh and; blood, still when he begins to move has with his Aggy, plump on the ground. The illustrafion of Manchester deserted and Lon-
of The fall shook Mr. Sandboys almost as much as when the don crammed, is one of those masterly concentrations
puppets, he sets to work with the relish, the love
Ma had laid on his back in tbe bsook, and It was long of a thousand pictures which George Cruickshank
L;
the grotesque, and the undoubted comic power whichfore li• could bring himself even to propose to his wife to alone can accomplish. A column might be filled with
have distinguished his former works, both dramatic make auother attempt to enter the wretched wobbling.
i; a description of it. Altogether, this second number
and seriaL mut his characters arc not farcical enough swingy substitute for the substantial security of a four-post