The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-10 00:00:00

NORTIECIIIIERLAND-110USk:.

The Duke of Northumberland has followed the
example set by other noblemen at this season, and opened
his two mansions, N•irthuntherland house and Sinn-house,
availed themselves of the privilege thus extended. To all
tNoonthit public.
ipumberl.nd-honse yssterday ; and many persons
The public were admithal (by ticket) to
• Londoners whose wont it is to pass and repass Charing-
cross, Notthumberland-house, with its imposing front and
rampant lion, ha, always been a great mystery, which the
nom:vaulty never hoped to p.netrate, as loin.; something
too awfully and austerely grand for the familiarity implied
in a visit. We recommend curiosity to gratify itself with
all espellition. The town house of the Northumberland
family certainly does not present so many. points of
attract' as others of the great metropohtsto man-
sions of the nobility. Neither, in respect to architco-
! lure, art, or upholstery, is it one of the modern
model.. But it is exactly the palace which a great English
nobleman, not running after tip, last fashions, might be
careens' to inhabit, and though nut claiming to be a
...ight," it is a place which all persons of taste will desire
to be acquainted with. In point of antiquity, the locale is
very interesting. On this site has been the London residence
' of the Percies (for ages they were the must fashionable of the
I answer:Ley, for they were the most west) since the Penis,
were first famous. The house, it appears, has been rebuilt
half a dozen different tunes; and, now, its "latest im-
provemeots " are u howl-ed years old. The oldest portion
of the present building is the portal towards the Strand;
but even of this, urcording to Peter Cunningham,
there is a growl deal that is new. The date, 1719,
on the faeaile, as it at present stands, as we learn
f the present authority, refers to the most recent
reparation, which commenced in that year. When the
stranger 'passes the demi-feudal outer walls, he finds him-
self in a quadrangle which is the court-yard of u handsome,
comparatively modern building. That portion exhibited to
the public consists of the reception-rooms —a suite on the din-
ing-room floor, and a second suite on the drawing-room.
Hoar. The costly, beautiful, and elegant furniture—the
rahincts, mosaics, embroideries, and hangings—the whole
✓ billed to give an impression of graceful and complete
comfort—will attract attent• . But it is to the paintings
the visitor will refer fur the reasons which have suggested
the course taken by the noble and acromplished owner in
inviting the public to an invasion of his ;males. The col-
lection is of a value enhancisl by the fact that very few have
suspected it to exist. It cannot, undoubtedly, compete,
in Claudes, with the Gravenor gallery, or in Raphael',
with the Bridgewater gallery. It is exceedingly limited as
to the number of its treasures, and it comprises hardly a
single picture out of the Dalian and Flemish schools. Mrs.
innefno lass never taken any notice of it in 11,r " private
galleries," and Wangen has only one or two lines about it.
It is, nevertheless, well worth seeing, if only for one or two
cheja-d'irricre. The drawing-ruoin suite of rooms is prin-
cipally filled with portraits, some of them by eminent
masters, the majority of these being of the forgotten heroes
and heroines of the fa y. g the minority is a mar-
vellous portrait of Napol am—marked, as by Phillips.
Delaroche never put on canvass so impressive a
face—it is the " Child of Destiny," unmistakeable
in the likens., delineated with wonderful power. Tho
lower rooms are well filled with excellent subjects. Hero
will be found conspicuous the "Curnaro Family" of Titian.
one of the most celebrated of his ipaintingn by description-,
and perhaps one of the least accurately known in Europe.
This is the same picture which Evelyn saw in l6's, and
which he mentions as "The Venetian Senators." There
are one or two other works by the same punster, all suffering
from cleanings. There :are also pictur, by 'Cohens, Van-
dyke, Snyders, Salvator Rosa, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Do-
menichi ~,,, Tintoretto, Emmett., Cuyp, others of Its% emi-
nence, but most of them of great eminence. Waagen
(quoted by Cunningham) says: "Among the other pic-
tures, mime of which are much damaged, the following
are the most deserving of notice: St. Sebastian,
bound on the ground, in the air two angels ; a clear, well-
• d
no, with
a
three :Ilwdl-ei bull-figure
n•
dfmb•
h}do:uriftGn. iritatue—ii:l;ter vste is
wSi 131 picture
• rio;:fifil• egiblitueCiu:bt"imuldrn2iles7,7bwi I:ylar sYi:k Fransinf;:as;;
fox
Snyderr. A genuine, but ordinary Holy Family, by J.
Jordan.; a pretty girl with a candle, before which she
bolds her 11111111 s, by U. Sehalken, of remarkable clearness
and good impasto." The largest room shown is the ball-
room—built by the lute duke. This is superbly fitted up
and adorned. In the centre is placed an ominous vase,
pee-
,entcd to the late duke by Charles Dix. Around the roomare
full-sins' copies of -on' eelelirated paintings, which may be
pronounced ns probably the next best things to the original.
One of these is a copy of Raphael's " School of Athens," dono
by mcngs; in 1775; it is a very beautiful work. The others
are:—the "Bacchus and Ariadne " of Aninhal Carmel;
I copied by Constanyi ; the " Marriage Feast of Cupid and
Psyche" of Raphael, copied by Pompeio Batumi; the
"Aurora " of Guido, copied by Massuccio; and the "Pre-
' aeutation of Cupid and Psyche," after Raphael, by llama,
There are numerous other objects entitled to examination;
and what we have thus briefly stated will evidence that the
l)uke of Northumberland, in his courtesy, has proferrtsl a
general gratification to minim-ruts in art.

I BANQUET TO ME FoHEWN COMM isqIONERS.—At ft
meeting of the council of chairmen of the Metropolitan
Col ttttt presidall over by their noble president, it was
unanimously resalved to invite the Foreign Comousaionens
to an entertaiiim eat. The levitation will be extended to
the foreign ambassadors and ministers, and the principal
members of the Royal Commission Executive. The ban-
quet is to he on a scale of great splendonr, and is intended
to maintain our national character for hospitality.
TIIE GREAT TOPIC, OE LITERARY Gossip just now
is the new Guild ref Literofore nod id, started with such
enthusiasm and personal sacrifice by gentlemen who have
drawn out a well-considered plan for the improvement of
the condition of authors. In general the reimpose of the
press has been hearty. The Mors has distinguished itself
by an insolent and ungenerous owes both at the proposed
Guild, and at the gentlemen who have undertaken to write
and net Ns it. bitkrence of opinion on such a subject may
well exist ; hut there is nothing to warrant sarcasm. Those
who support the Guild w do so by voluntary gifts. No
one will be forced to pay towards it. Why then impede
the action of a charitable design, even should it not corn-
pas all that can be emasived ? Some misconception pre-
vails respecting the possible pod such a Guild may effect.
To hope that it will foster anal develop art is to close our
eyes against all experience. .tcademies and guilds arc good
for professional men ; they hurt rather than en-
courage genius. LOT Tommie yoi coil de resprif
commie goatee will never swerve from their conven-
tional route to recognise the eccentricity of the orbit of
genius. This is true; but those who raise an objection
upon it against the new guild, fiarget that genius is a thing
excessiaely rare and exceptional, to be reached by no insti-
tution, and should, therefore, he left out of consideration
in the discussion of the guild. Besides the small excel?.
tiunal class of artists in the true Senn: of the word, there is
at present a fourth estate of literary men, comprising talent
anal industry of infinite gradations, men who are inces-
santly employed in developing, applying, modifying, popu-
larising the &cowries of science, the conclusions of plulo-
sophy, and the gathered information of research ; men who
thus to a large extent may be considered as the workers of
progress; the engines of civilisation. Of this clam.
many are improvident because their work is pre-
carious, many because they are errant and reck-
less by temperament, but many more because they
have no practicable means of being provident. How worse
than useless—how ruinous it is for a man of letters to in-
sure his life, when he is nut certain from six months to six
months that lie can pay the premiums, and than, perhaps,
after years of saving, lose all because he is not ready with
one premium. One of the objects of the Guild is to make
men insure their lives—to give them an inducement to this
in the shape of a claim upon the Guild fur membership.
But, unless the insurance Alas. adopts some very different
system, the inducement will not he strong enough to out-
, weigh the obvious disadvantages. With men who can
command the sum naiuisite to pay the premium, in-
sumnee is an imperative duty ; with men who never
know how lung they can command such a sum, it
is perilous. Some scheme, therefore, to meet this
difficulty—some assurance to the mat of letters
that the amounts paid by him would not bo lost in
the event of his being unable to euntinue—seems
to us indispensable to the full realisation of the
project Meanwhile, it is idle to say that because
the Guild will not, cannot provide for the illustrious impro-
vident, that, therefore, it is useless. If it provide for a
few deserving men whom age or ill-health have rendered
unfit for the struggle with want—if it assist in the prose-
cation of some " work of noble note" which no publisher
could pay for, but which a nein might accomplish as an
associate—then, although it will leave England miserably
behind France and Germany as respects the treatment
of literary men' it will, at least, do worthy work, and jus-
tify the hopes of its charitable fuunders. There is nothing
more impedes progress in every department than the
spirit of small objection. Men set themselves against a
positive good, because they foresee that all the good they
conceive will not be accomplished, or because there are
with the good some attendant evils of minor character.—
. Offer thew men the sun and they refuse it, because it will
nut warm them during the night!—Thu Leader.
WurrtntLL, Nl.tr B.—The Quinn has been
pleased to constitute and appoint the ltight Hon. Robert
Montgomery Lord Belhaven to be her Majesty's High
Commissioner to the General Assembly of th., Church of
Scotland.—Gazette.

LITERATURE.

i movem itts of the time as he did; he would have
Le•n more liberal often in his treatment of others,
I than these volumes showed him to have been. Ills
, egotism is certainly the best explanation, and the one
I most honourable to him, of what he (and Coleridge
likewise) was much reproached for--his change
of opinion on the great French revolution ques-
tion. Isolated, meditative as he was, how could
he endure the agonising strife of moving in-
tellectually with such a movement? \o; he
required peace and rest—in them he felt
he was most holy. Ile found them in old
• English orthodoxy ; he lived with nature mid
iin grand contemplation—a good and pure spirit. His
'action on England has been an influence on home.
! Ile is the poet of the Penatm His readers are
among the tn...nithtful, the tender, and the pure.
I That he narrowed s.unewhat we can see; that others
`leaf higher, more self-sacrificing Eves in his time we
thelieve. We think of him as a great tame eagle
dwelling. at the house door to teach the children
whin flying meant, and to remind them of heaven by
the flutter of his wings. Keble's elegant inscription
describes him well—ad sanrtiw•n would be an excel-
lent motto for him. And he certainly was the
greatest and best conservative (in the high sense of
' I the word) who has lived since Dr. Johnson.

Memoirs of William Wordsworth. By Citnivromirn
11.D.,C,1n0u of Wo.ttoinster. Mouri.

Pr. Wordsworth is known to the public as an ,
accomplished scholar and divine, but the volumes
before us will not do much for his reputation. In a
word. they ure dull. The strain is monotonous and
pondecam The reflection and sentiment are
Word,a,,ithian, and necconpanv the narrative like
the (Irma, of a bagpiper. And. alter all, the reve-
roue for the poet is soinewh it overdone—it actually
gets ludicrous at times. He should have remem-
bered that Wordsworth was human, and given a
dash of life to his story of a life. Besides, we all
respect the poet heartily, without need of all this
solemnity. It was right enough for the pious :Enema
to shoulder his parent when he had to carry him
out of a burning town, but to have carried the old
gent), man about over the heads of old people on{
°Mimi ts isetisions would have made mankind at large
roar lo :utile. One more objection and we have dune
with fund[-finding —we think the doctor, in
commenting on the treatment of the poet by critics
(for the mo-t part bud). might have made thank-
ful mention of Professor Wilson. The vigorous and
kindly critic surely fought well fur Wordsworth
many a time, alien the mob sneered ; he long con-
secrated to his genius many pages of his most fresh,
lively-. and vigorous pros:s.
This book must be described certainly as a highly
useful sine. It is excellent as a companion to the
study of Wordswortles Poems—fixing the dates of
many of them, giving their !wale, giving little facts
about them. It helps you to understand the
Word.sworthian coequogotty. It is a sort of guide-
book to Parnassus; a biography it can scarcely pre-
tend to he, but in the absence of one it is a valuable
aid to readers.

Notes on the Constrertion of Sherds)lds. By Jo nx
Br, KIN M.A. London, Mil.
This pamphlet, of which the contents were crigin-
ally intended by Mr. Ruskin to form part of the
appendix to "The Stones of Venice," has created a
considerable sensation, by its bold and novel proposi-
tions, as well as from the fact of its emanating from
the pen of one who, by the thousands who know him
only. by fame, and not from a careful perusal of his
writings, has been regarded exclusively in the light
of a critic on painting and architecture. Mr. Ituskin
tells us that the sentiments contained by his
pamphlet, though hastily written, have been
well considered. Their principal drift is to
repudiate the notion of the possibility of a
separation Isitween church and btUte ; and, as his
remarks are calculated to stir up a spirit of
inquiry that may lead to good results, though hot,
I perhaps, altogether to such us were t hereby intended ;
and since the proposals made by Mr. Ruskin, us he
sari, are " altogether new," most of our readers will
Ile interested in a short account of the chief points
insisted upon by him, which we give fur their in-
trinsic interest, as the views of Mr. Ruskin, without
expressing any opinion of our own upon their merits.
At the outset, Mr. Ruskin seeks to establish u clear
definition of the word "charm." lle tells us that it
occurs in the New Testament a ne hundred and four-
teen times; and that in all these cases it bears "one
and the Name grand sense," that of an assembly or
coupegation of men ; but under four modifications—
I. lilt! elect, including the. faithful of all ages. burn
ur unborn; 2. Professing believers, including false
brethren ; 3. Professed believers, living in u certain
city, place, or house—this is the most frequent sense
in which the word occurs; and .1. Any assembly of
men. Notwithstanding the undoubted meaning of
the word " church" whenever it occurs, except in two
eases only, where, if these had been the only times
it was used, its meaning might have been equivocal,
Mr. Ituskin complains that there is at present no
general understanding of its significance, and that,
though little harm is dune by saying u man "is
going into the church," as if the clergy alone con-
stituted the church, yet much may arise from the
same meaning being given to the word where Christ
says. •• Tell it to t:e church." Wherefore, stns
Mr. Ruskin,
" Let it be declared plainly Ly all men, when they
begin to state their opinions on mutters ecclesiastical,
that they will use the word • church' in one sense or
the other ; that they will accept the sense in which
it is used by the apostles, or that they deny this
sense, and propose a new definition of their own."
Having established what he considers to Le the
scriptural meaning of the word, Mr. Ruskin proceeds
to CSallli Ile six points:
I. 11'h at are the distinctive characters of the in-
' visible church? llere he says all definitions are
ambiguous, even the article of the English church in
its first clause. " The visible church is a congrega-
tion of faithful men." "As if it had been possible,
except for God, to see faith! or to know u faithful
man by sight! . . . Nevertheliss, there arc
certain signs by which Christ's sheep may be guessed
at. Not by their being in any definite fold—fur
many are lust sheep ut times; but by their meek
her and a great multitude are indeed sheep
who, on the far mountain side, in their peacefulness,
we take for stones. To themselves, the hest proof of
their being sheep is to find themselves on Christ's
shoulders, and between them are certain sympathies
(expresses! in the Apostles' Creed by the term • onn-
mullion of saints'), by which they may in a sort
recognise each other, and so become very visible to
each other for mutual comfort."

The poet's external history is very easily summed
up. lie was bunt at Cuekermouth, on the 7th
April, 1770. In 1757 he went to St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge. lie travelled in France and Gt•r-
amity, staved some time in Somemetshire, married,
and settled for life in Westmoreland. In 1798 he
published his "Lyrical Ballads," in conjunction
with Coleridge. bin 180 he published Ids " Poemsll
in Two Noluituw." How simple the story on the!
surface of that life—what a world of thought tics
below it
Wordsworth was one of the earliest intellects of
the re-action -the firsli mental awakening iu Eu-
rope at the chose of the lust century. The century
had been rotting slowly out in intellectual degrada-
tion. The tone of society was heartless, frivolous,
and mean ; Ise-try MJS a kind of thing which
ranked with old china and new fans. It was an age
of witlingN and fops. By and by, however, Caine the
French Revolution ; came Bunts, presently cante
Scott, and Byron, and Shelley. It was truly like
the awakt ling of a mall in as new world. Scutt re-
presentee: his healthy manly activity. Byron his
deep sentimental disgust at the false. Shelley his
'pinned longings. Keats his perception of; and
bud-like reselling in, the beauty of nature as a
luxury ; now. philosophic poet was wanted to cont-1
pkte ie choir; and Wordsworth represents our
awakciect!. man's poetic inte•iligence, reasoning, sys-
tematic, and st•ientilic. lle deliberately assumed
pnetry as his vueution; organised his sensibilities'
into a st stein. and resolved to sing that he might
teat It. us take his own definition of his work
and aim, and view him especially us a teacher.
Brow.tht up in a mountainous country, the poet had
been accustomed to the noblest forms of external
nature. and from external Initiat to draw his chief
inspiration. Systematic etch in his love, he observed
with regularity; he honied from every thing—hills,
yaks, trees, mists, mass, and Rowers. He was a kind,
of moral wologer. Ile intensely loved the sweet
acetic Is fore I . but was tt mild). intent on getting
law I moral wisdom front it. All his flowers must
yield homy. Every thing with him was un object
of spiritual use poetry was always subncrvient
to religious teueltMg: his 'flowers were employed in
decorating churches and holy places. Nu monk ever'
laboured mom constantly at dlue ting a missal'
than Wordsworth at 011111111enting the sacred.
The return to nature on the part of what were
called the •• Luke Potts" caused a frightful hub-
bub among critics. •• Peter Bell," and the "Idiot
Boy." wen- standing subjects of ridicule :—the Eilin-
earoh Rcrn ors notice of the ••• Excursion" began
With '• This oral nrs-rr do."' There is an amusing
story in I fr. Wordswoith's book how Michael Sadler,
meeting the poet and not knowing hint at dinner,
somewhere begun as commendation with a kind
of apology fur 'oising him. Byron's lines in
the •• English Bawds" we all have by heart.
But " l'etcr MI" lus lived • and we can ad-
mit now that Wordsworth 's payfulness is a little
heavy mid ludicrous sometimes. Hut look at the de-
licious morality the fresh manly sentiment of these
early ballads, and one wonders that they attained so
littli sitivess. However, like admires like. Reflec-
tion can only by appreciuted by reflection. And in
Wordsworth. retketion predominates. Ile is appre•
elated by individwds as he was IT the nation—lute;
but he holds his place firmly.
Certainly, it is reflection that predominates in his
works. His genius was not dramatic, nor has it
what is called a "spirit-stirring" effect. The
" White )foe of Itylitton," for installer, is a tale, but
it wants movement : has it the stir, the throbbing,
the banner-like napping motion of war ? No. The
doe is as much a human person us one of the drama-
tit pers.im-. But the calm, solemn sanctity' the
churchyard grave IT itself,—the
Guilt which humbly would express
Apc idiot loneliness,—
all that is essentially Wordsworth. In what he has
written there is always something positive to learn.
His writings have the instruction of an orrery with
the charm of the Mavens. What wise novel quota-
tions we owe to him- little sentences cherished in
English homes like household gods. Have we an
ode nobler than that on " Intmortalitv?" a didactic
story equal to •• Resolution and Independence?"
'wetter. holier little 'titres than " We are Seven,"
and the setwca on the lust girl of the •' untrodden
was s ?-
his natutv was that of a kindly hearted man ; he
loved those alto were about him, and was essentially
benevolent. 11r. Wordsworth prints a few lines
from a still unpublished manuscript of his, where he
says of his sister :
Where'er me fisotstcps
bier voice Wall like a hidden bird that sang ;
TN: thought of her was like a Mush of light,
Or an maven companionship—a breath
Or fragrimix independent ash,: wind.

11. What are the distinctive characters of the
visible church? This question, Mr. Ruskin says. is
not so easy to be determined as the first. Sonic
have ingeniously. and plausibly tried to make baptism
a sign of admission into the visible church; but,
.4 absurdly enough—for we know that half the bap-
tised pouf& in the world are very visible rogues,
believing neither in God nor devil—and it is Mat
blasphemy to call these visible Christians." It is
also certain that the Holy Ghost was sometimes
given before baptism. The only rational distinction
is that we praeticully adopt; though a " mawkish
charity" prevents one openly avowing it. It' a man
professes himself to he a believer in God and in Christ,
and we detect him in no glaring violation of the laws
he thereby professes to obey, we conclude that he is a
Christian; and if, on the other hand, we find him
denying Christ in his words and conduct, we assume
that he is not a member of the visible church. Of
this " mawkish charity," Mr. Ruskin says:
" This I hold to be one of the chiik sins of the
church in the present day; for thus wicked 1111:11 are
put to no shame; and better men are encouraged in
their failings or caused to hesitate in their virtues,
by the example of those whom, in false charity, we
thus choose to call Christians. . . . We spend much
time in discoursing about the efficacy of sacraments,
and other such mysteries; but we du not act upon
certain texts which arc very clear and visible. We
know that Christ's people are not thieves—nut liars
—not busy bodies—not dishonest, not cruel—not
avaricious—not wasteful. Let us, then, get ourselves
well clear of thieves, liars, wasteful people, avari-
cious people, cheating people, and people who do
not pay their debts. Let us assure them that they,
at least, du not belong to the visible church; and,
having thus got that church into decent shape
and cohesion, it will be time to think of drawing the
net-stakes closer."

These are lines of fine elegant feeling. They meal
to our memory the exquisite felicity of " The.Daftb-
ails," the gracious playfulness of the series on
" Yarrow." While particularising, it is impossible
to retrain from mentioning his sonnets, perhaps the
works of his most likely to be familiarly read and
remembered. It is pretty generally aamittcd that
they rank with Milton s as the best in our language;
many of them are delightful compendiums of wisdom
in thennielies. For instance, there is more true pa-
thetic lamentation over the sorrows of the time
in the famous one beginning
The world too much with us, late and soon,

Mr. Ruskin then goes on to declare his opinion of
the necessity of revving the law of excommunica-
tion in the case of such black sheep ; but, to establish
the grounds of his opiuioe, he proceeds to investigate
the third and fourth questions:
111. What is the authority of the invisible church?
There is no doubt of the fact that all the members of
the invisible church have, at their deaths, been in pos-
t session of such points of doctrine as arc necessary
Ito salvation ; but it is equally difficult to tell who arc
these members, andto collect their death-bed evidences
in any clear form, and, were such evidence carefully
collected in all known cases, to get at any just pro-
portion of the whole body, from whose evidence to
draw conclusions. Elijah's evidence, for instance,
when he thought he was the sole representative of
the invisible church in Isaiah, had it been sent to us
from him in that character, would have been in
reality but 1-7000th part of the evidence of the invisi-
ble church living on the earth at the time; " that is
Ito say, the seven millionth or trillionth of its col-
lective evidence." The church has been called infal-
lible ; and, if any church is infallible, it is, of course,
the invisible church, or body of Christ ; if, therefore,
we could get rid of its variable opinions, and collect
the whole of its testimony, and separate from our
mass of evidence the essential from the unessential
points therein determined upon, our conclusions
would be assuredly just ; but as insuperable difficul-
ties lie in the way of these proceedin it is of but
little use to discourse of the church'sgs, infallibility
when endeavouring to settle doctrinal or practical
questions.
"There arc fifteen epistles expressly addressed to
the members of the invisible church . . . in which
we find direct injunctions not to be deceived.' So
much for the infallibility of the church. Now one
could put up with Poseyism, which advocates this
doctrine, more patiently, if its fallacies arose from
peculiar temperaments yielding to peoraliar temtta-

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powen,
than in half the Jeremiads of the age: How much
preaching and raving against utilitarian meanness
must be considered idle, compared w it h the concise and
compact beauty of reproach in those fourteen lines!
It is a perfect little sermon—containing wisdom in a
poetic gem—a gem like one of those ecclesiastical
phials of reverent ages, full of tears !
Many people find Wordsworth tedious; and that
all his poems should be read with vivid de-
light is nut to be expected. 'Tis easy to note what
makes this the case—always bearing in mind that he
was essentially a teacher. In the first place, he has
not the self-abandonment of many poets: he does not
sing for the sake of the song, but of the hearer. His
resolution to teach determines the bent of his flow of
soul—colours it with sameness—cramps it within

banks. Latterly this tendency grew stringer. From
teacher, he pas;ted into the place of preacher. The
teacher is open to new lights and impulses; the
preacher works away at the old. One reflects ; the
other repeats. One Is nibre natural, the other more
egotistical. Indeed, Wordsworth wan—not using
the word offensively—very much of an egotist. As
he himself says of another :
His seal was like a star and dwelt apart.

--
But surely the soul is not tied to the fixed lot of •
star. Had 'Wordsworth lived more among mankind
he would not, we think, have written on certain

1 tions. But its bold refusal to read plain English; : who are convicted of faults decidedly denounced in
I its elaborate adjustment of tight bandages over its scripture, until such faults shall be openly confessed
I
I ' t' - 1
own eyes, as wholesome preparations for walking and repented of. He recommends an see colas on
among trap! and pit-falls ; its daring trustfulness in code of laws on the subject, and that there should be
its own clairvoyance all the time, and declarations a trial, and that the jury should be comp:Ned of lay-
that every pit it falls into is a seventh heaven ; and , men, the
him
penalty being refusal of the sacra-
that it is pleasant and profitable to break its legs:— went to imwho is found guilty, for the certain
with all this it is difficult to have patience. One observance of which his name shall be written up
thinks of the highwayman with his eyes shut, in thef inf a publicutr place as long as the punishment is iu
' Arabian Nights,' and wonders whether any kind I some remarks upon the scriptural ex-
scourging would prevail upon the Anglican highway- / urn° pies of such punishment, we find some interest-
men to open first one eve and then the other." ling observations concerning the true position of the
IV. What is the authority of the visible church ? , clergy, in the course of which Mr. ltuskin advises
Mr. Ruskin tells us we must alloy the small weight that many more bishops—some hundreds—should be
of invisible Christians with the large per tentage of appointed, who should thus be enabled to do
undetected anti-Christians which help to form the twe what our present bishops do only in theory, that
an overlook and
visible church, d then proceeds to answer the pies- is, assist the clergy Itt all questions
tion, which he does to this effect : and offices of difficulty. The present bishops, he
"There is no authority iu doctrine. We might as says, might with advantage become archbishops, and
well talk of the authority of a morning cloud ; thorn have general authority to overlook the rest.
is light in it, but the light is not of it. The church • wconic We no to the lust question.
is to be taught and fed, not to teach and tied. VI. What is the connexion between the visible
They arc a flock of sheep, who do little else but tire church and the state? Here Mr. Ruskin observes
themselves—getting perpetually in snows, bramiides, that there are three kinds of civil governors. The
and thickets; like to die there, but for their b i,. first merely executive, individuals who execute laws
herd, who is for ever finding them, and bearing them already established. Secondly, declarative, such
back, with torn fleeces and eyes full of fear." as form laws, but, in doing so; echo the wishes and
thoughts of the people, and. are liable to being
But in matters of discipline the visible church's
deposed, so soon as they shall cease to do so . . . .
authority is very great. l'lle " sheep have power, deposed, third and highest kind is deliberative, "not
however far they may be scattered from their prope;
for the people, but as chosen
fold, of getting together in orderly knots; follownu
to taus representativeke separate counsel for them, and having
each other on trodden sheep-walks, and hohling theirdogs power committed to it to enforce upon them what-
heads all one way when they see strange.'
ever resolution it may ndopt, whether consistent
coining; as well as of casting out of their comistny
: with their will or not. This ttovernment is pro-
any whom they see reason to suspect of not being
rly to be called monarchical; and this, Mr. Ruskin
right sheep, and of being among them for no good. Pe
,sa, Ls: is undoubtedly the best kind of government.
All which things must be done as the time and place
w hat is its best form is a totally different pies-
require, and by common consent. A path may be
good at one time of the day, w hich is bad at another, tion ; but unless it act for the people, and not as rc-
or after a change of wind; and n position that may presentative of thenh it is no government at all." . .
Of these three states of government, the first is at
be good for sudden defence, would be very stiff and
once dismissed, us having no influence in ecclesiastical
awkward for finding in ; and common consent must
matters. 'The second, as the voice of the people, and
often be of such anicsuch a company, on this or that
. particular hill-side, in this or that particular danger; thus, in a certain degree, the voice of the church,
not of all the sheep in the world; and the consent must affect the clergy ; and the third, which stands
to the people in the relationship of a holm. to his
may either he literally common, mid expressed iu
ass will have such authority over them as a hither
embly, or it may be;. to appoint officers over the inn'ilvt
has over the nut:sciences of his children. He
rest, with such and such trusts of the common au- t-
Ecannotn enforce their attendance ut any particular
thority, to be used for the common advantage."
communications, for instance, could not be elketed,date of worship, or their subscription to any parti-
exceptl• . before,
or by means of, officers of some ups creed; but he may undoubtedly procure them
pointed authority, -
(what religious instruction lie mar flunk best, mid
This leads to the fifth question. establish such forms of worship and riles of disci-
pline as may please him iu his own house. But his
V. What is the authority of the clergy over the
children have at the same time the right of 'chasing
visible church? First, it is considered who are the
t clergy ? A certain class of iwople would say, the to comply with such forms, but should not use this
tight without the most positive conviction that the
clergy are of three kinds: Bishops, who overhxik
father is offering them a form of worship and in-
andthe church; priests, who sacrifice for the church;
struetion directly opposed to God's written word.
deacons, who minister to the church; thus as -
Then follows the question, why should not the
stunting that the church is sacrificed for, and that
clew, who stand still more in the relationship of
peoplecannot overlook and minister to her at the
either* to the church, be permitted to govern eiVil
same time, " which," says Mr. Ruskin, elis going officers? Because, Mr. Ruskin answers, we must
• too fast." We, therefore, define the word clergy as
Provide against the chances of getting bud
the "spiritual_ officers of the church." as answering
men into office. A wicked civilian would have little
with St. Paul's general expression of their functiin
interest in overthrowing ecclesiastical authority; it
in Rom. xii. $, and 1 Thiess. v., 12. Mr. Ruskin
desires his readers to prove from the Bible what often assists him, and presents hut little temptation
of their giving no answer, that it is a question which in his cupidity; while the wicked ecclesiastical offi-
should be the offices, and of what kind should be the
eve would gain much by getting the tolitical power
authority of the clergy, and deduces from the hiet
into his own liana', and woul have every
',
temptation to overthrow civilians. T ere is no fear
is ecessary, and, therefore, ridiculous to put.
that the civil officer should underrate the dignity
This he goes on to show, by pointing out that dif-
or shorten the serviceableness of the minister; but
&rent times' and different circumstances require dif-
there is considerable danger that the enthusiasm of
ferent offices. "Robinson Crusoe in his island wants
the minister might diminish the st•rviceablettess of
no bishop, and makes a thunderstorm do for nn
the civilian. Aaron was always :whim to Moses.
Evangelist. The University of Oxford would be ill
Salomon thrusts out :thistle's from being priest, and
off without its bishop, but wants an Evangelist be-
Jehovah administers the funds of the Lord's house, sides ; and that forthwith. The authority which the
though that money was actually the atonement
Vaudois shepherds need, is of Barnabas, the Son of
(.'i insulation; the authority which the city of London limner-, the ransom for souls."
The last few 'rages of this remarkable pamphlet
needs is of James, the Son of Thunder." 'I I I I
are occupied in calling for greater unity between
then rather ask of the Bible what are the ItWeec s•iesPi);ite's-
prottutants. Mr. Ruskin proposes that high and
must likely to mist in the church, and may tiny be
low church, by making mutual concessions, should
best met by ditti•rent men, or in great part by the
come to an agreement among themselves, and
same men, acting in different capacities ? Then tlt
answer stands thus: then listen to such objections as the presbyterians
have to urge against their form of inuyer. These
"The church is built upon the foundation of the objections should be carefully weighed by parties of
apostles and prophets,Chnst himself being the corner- both churches ; some ought to be at ones forestalled,
stone. Well, we cannot have two fienelations, so sash us those relating to the term "priest," and the
we can have no mere apostles or prophets. Them absolution passaws, excepting that in the
with regard to the needs of the church, so built, morning Service, which is harmless. lite
there are rebukes to be given ; scriptures to be ex- jpapijsinal question should then be settled
plained ; waniings enforced; threate gs executed, in ,rnod, those who have been refractory,
and charities administered. And we find that the and have long been making curtsies alternately to
men who is:dimmed these of in the apostolic Christ and anti-Christ, being suffered to go over to
times called themselves, with perfect indifference, the latter if tiny chose. The concluding paragraphs
deacons, bisheips, elders, evangelists, according to we give in Mr. huskin's own words:
the part they were performing at tin time of speak-
" then, when the articles of faith and form of
ing. "St. Paul almost always culls himsella deacon ; worship have been agreed upon between the English
St. Peter calls himself an alder; and Tituothy, gene- and Scottish churches, the written forms and articles
rally understood to be addressed as a bishop, is culled should be carefully translated into the European
a ditaeon in 1 Tim. iv. 6. But there is one thing languages, and offered for acceptance to the 'notes-
which, as officers, or us separate from the flock, they tent churches inn the Continent, with; earliest en-
never call themselves; that is—Priests."
treaties that they would receive them, and the en-
Mr. Ruskin then goes on to show at some length, tertainment of all such objections as they should
that the priest's office has for ever passed away. from reasonably allege, and thus the whole body of pro-
human officers, having been invested
"on Chustin" testants, waited in one gnat fold, would indeed oo in
morning" in the person of Him who is made a high
priest for ever " after the order of Melehisedee." and out and find vasture, and the work appointed
In fur them would be done quickly, and anti-Christ
this point of his argument, Mr. Ruskin calls for the overthrOWll.
removal from our Book of COIIIIIIOII Prayer of the " Impossible: a thousand times impossible :—I hear
term "priest," and certain passages in the "Order-
ing of Priests," and " Visitation of the Siek," which it exclaimed against me. No : not impossible:
Christ does not order impassibilities, and Ile, has
have reference to absolution, and " are," says he-,
ordered us to be at peace- one with another. Nay, it is I
"evidently pure Romanist'', and might as well not
be there, for any practical effect which they have on answered, He came not to send pram, but a sword.'
Yes, verily; he sent a sword upon earth, but not
the laity, and had much better not be Were, ns re-
trards their effect Olt the minds of the clergy. It is, within this thumb ; for to this church he said, ' My
indeed true that Christ promised absolving powers pewce I leave with you.'"
to his apostles. Ile also promised to those who be-
lieved that they should take up serpents, and if they
' touched tiny deadly thing it should not hurt them.
His words were fulfilled literally • but those who
would extend their offices beyond the apostolic times,
must extend both promises, or neither.' This idea of
superior holiness in the clergy, gives rise to many
evils, of which not the least is a feeling of whoa-
-11048 in the laity, which induces a neglect of the duty
which devolves on every member of Christ's
church, and more especially of that of
labouring for the saving of oilers by example
and precept, the only mall difference between the
duties of a clergyman and a layman consisting in the
wider authority given to the'former as a wiser or
better man. In addition to such offices _as the scam-
,

Pitcairn's Isiand and the Islanders. By WALTEU BILODIE.
Whittaker and Co.
It hag sometimes been contended, with a certain'
plausibility, that when an author chooses for any
reason to print his work by subscription, instead of
abiding by the elumees of the market, the general
public, who have neglected to become parties to such
un author's contract, have no claim to intertive with,

any opinion nx to the manner of its fulfilment,
the merits of the work being a matter concerning
the subscribers alone. Whatever soundness then

may be in this claim of subscription works to im-
munity from celibate, it is notorious that it is this
very Class of books which will least bear the test of
examination. Mr. Brodie relieves us, however, from
all scruples in respect of his publication, since, con-1
fident in the strength of a good list of subscribers,
he has advanced from his entrenchments, and, not
content with his guaranteed advantages, challenges
the suffrages of all comers.
The
.public, then should know that the writer's
pretensi xis to be an authority concerning l'iteuirn's
Island and its inhabitants, are based on a casual re-
sidence of eighteen days. Accidental and unexpected
as was the manner of his visit and stay there—he
was left ashore, the vessel from which he landed
having been blown off during the night—the idea of
writing a book must have occurred very naturally
and easily to him, as his diary informs us that before
the vessel was well out of sight he was employed in
" collecting information about the island.' The
original data which he succeeded in obtaining are,
first, a page of " hieroglyphics," being an exact copy
of ducks and drakes, which some grown-up char!,
probably a savage, long since cut in the rock of the
Island; and also a narrative, occupying ten pages,
taken down from the lips of a survivor of the original
immigrants, relating to their quarrels with the
Tahitians. Besides these, we have a list of the
young women and lads who attended a singing
class while Mr. Brodie remained on the island,
discriminating the pitch and quality of their
several voices ; a genealogy of all the inhabitants
past and present; a list of all ships, barques, brigs,
schooners, and cutters, that have touched at the
island for provisions, water, &c., since 1808 ; and a
register of events extending from 1790 to 1869,1
being almost exclusively a record of births, deaths,
and marriages, interspersed with minute de-
tails of the symptoms of various disorders with
which the people have been afflicted. Having given
all these, and compiled a meagre account of the
island, of which more than one elegant des-
cription and history already exist, Mr. Brodie
reprints sixty-two pages of despatches let-
ters, memoranda, and other official documents
obtained from the Admiralty. After this, the reader
will - - agree with the author that he has
. -

ing of tables by deacons, about which therCen n be
no doubt, 311.. Ruskin divides the duties of clergy-
men under two heads. The first teaching, including
doctrine, learning, and comfort ; and the second,
discipline, including reproof and direct administra-
tion of punishment. Concerning teachers, he re-
marks that it is natural and wise that a certain clam

of men should be set apart by the church to make
theology the study of their lives, and as a means of
diffusing the knowledge acquired, that they should
preach to and visit the people. The truths of divinity
can only be well learned as they are joined in practice;
hence it is well that the same man should learn, act,

and teach. " The unity of knowledge and love, both
devoted altogether in the seniee of Christ and his
church, marks the true Christian minister ; who ...

whenever he has existed, has never failed to receive

due and fitting reverence from all men .... If all those
who profess to be such were such indeed, there would
never be question of their authority more." But this
authority extends to no man's conscience. Each
man may, and indeed must, himself, dig for truth;
the Christian minister may point out the field, and the
best implements with which to dig, but he cannot
find the treasure by his own labour, and present it to
another. Valuable as may be the instructions of the
ti ne Christian minister, it behoves the learner to listen
to them with caution, and to judge by his own
conscience and the Bible whether " these things
are so," rather than blindly to follow the instructions
of any one wearing the garb of the office, into whose
hands he may full. In proof of this assertion Mr. Rus-
kin refers to several passages, both in the Old and New
Testaments, in which wisdom is promised to those
who seek it for themselves, and in which the apostles
call upon their hearers to judge them, and whence it
appears that it was the custom in the apostolic times
for the churches to give letters of recommendation to
' such ministers as they thought worthy to teach, and
that St. Paul dispensed with such letters, not on the
grounds of his apostolic commission, but because his
preaching was enough manifested in thaw to whom
he wrote.

It is in speaking more particularly of discipline
that Mr. Ruskin enlarges upon his views concerning
excommunication, which word, as he uses it, means
simply banishment from the Lord's table of those

fertile. soil and line climate of the small island, its
residents already complain of over population. It is
clear, however, even from the present work, that its
resources have not been half brought out. The
inhabitants seem to have found a patron in Mr.
Brodie, who is open to receive contributions har their
aid. Ile further proposes to assist them in the
manlier indicated in the following paragraph :
As the author intends to remit a portion of the profits
arising from the sale of this work to the islanders, who are
very scantily provided with clothing and other necessary
comforts, parties who wish to give a small donation to
this virtuous little community, may, by taking more co-
pies than they require for their own use, send the spare ones
to the islanders themselves through the author. As every
stranger calling at Pitcairn's Island is too glad to procure
some memento of them, a hook containing a full descrip-
tion of these islanders would sell to strangers visiting the
island to greater advantage than imything else; and it
would not only do them much good in a pecuniary point of
I view, but would place their present unfortunate condition
more fully before the public, now more than ever needed.
The italics me the author's.

A considerable portion of the correspondence above
referred to relates to the conduct of a certain Joshua
Hill, who made his appearance in Pitcairies Island
about thirteen years ago, without credentials of any
kind, and in a short time had built a prison, become
a magistrate and a minister, and taken to scolding
and scourging the natives right royally. At length,
called upon to give sonic account of himself and his
pretensions to authority, he drew up the following
carious statement, which we may call

THE ArroMoOnAeliV OF A SNOB.
I am aware that pedantry and egotism become no one,
and myself perhaps less than any. (Pro. xxvii. 2.) But
for certain reasons, the following credentials, as a memo-
ramlUM, I hope will be pardoned on the present occasion—
they are truths.
I observe, in limiter, that I hare visited the four quar-
ters of the globe, and it has ever been my desire to main-
tain, as far as lay in my power. the .Looting of an English
gentleman. I have lived a considerable while in a palace,
and bad my dinner parties with a print,. on my right, and
a general's lady upon lily left. I have had a French cook, a
box at the opera. I have drove my dress carriage (thought
the neatest then in Paris, where I spent five or six years;
as well I have known Calcutta), nod the handsomest lady
(said), Madame It , to grace my carriage. I have
drooe a curriele with 111 V two outriders, and two saddle-
hones, besides a travelling-carriage. A valet, coachman,
Ibutman, groom, and, Upoll extraordinary occasions, my
,na;tre dle4rl. I have (at her request) visited Madame,
Bonaparte, at the Tuilt•nes, St. Cloud, and Nthlmaison.
1 might thus mention many others of now abroad. I have
frequently dined with that remarkable woman, Madame
Carlour3s, afterwanl. the Princess de C—. 1 bare had
the honour of being in company, 1. e., at the same parties,
with both his late Majesty (irorge then Prince Re-
gent, and his present Majesty William IV., then 11.11.11.
Duke of Clarence, as well with their royal brother*. 1 pare
ridden in a royal duke's carriage, with four horses and three
footmen 1111 l re than olive, and have dined at his table, and
drunk the old hock of his late father George 111. I have
visited and diued with some of our tint !amities. and have
Teen visiwal by a duke, and others of the first noblemen.
I have known and dined with (abroad and in England)
Madames Cataliati, Grusaiui, Georges, Ske. And I have given
the arm to Lady Hamilton (of Naples renown\, whom the
hero of the Nile has given his (one) to more than once. I
have dine) with a viceroy-governor (who was a general and
a count), and with admirals, both on board their ships and
on shore. I have entertained governors, generals, captains
(R.N.), on board my ship, more than once. And I have
commanded several ships, mewl went to an at the beginning
of the French Revolution. I have been acquainted with
many military mil nasal officers. I have, since 18n7, my
admittance, from the late President, Sir Joseph Bankeon to
the sittings of the Royal Society. I have occasionally
breakfasted with Sir Joseph, and visited, and even pre-
sented a friend to his evening parties. My admittanc.•
to the Royal Soviety has always admitted me to similar
institutions abroad. I received the dress sword, and nau-
tical instruments, of a noble lord (at has death),
a vice-admiral of the red. I sailed from England
(Portsmouth, May Ist, 1791) to the East Indies and
China, in the largest fleet, possibly, that ever was; it was
under Lord Howe, down the British Chu .1, just rue
month before his great victory. I have visited the Falls of
Niagara and Montmorency, the natural bridge in Virginia,
the great reciprocating fountain in East TVIIIICreite, the
great Temple of Melo:meta at Bombay. I have dined with
a prince, as well us with a princess; and with a count, a
baron, an ambassador, a minister (ordinary and extraor-
dinary), and have travelled with one for some weeks. I
have dined with a eharyt; d'ajlitirr, and lived with consuls,
&c. I hare visited and conversed with lied Jacket," the
'great Indian warrior. I have visited and been visited by a
bishop. I have frequently partook of the delicious Dua-
-1 garian wine (tokey). Prime Easterletey'a ; as also of Prince
Swautzerburgh's old honk, said to hare been 73 years old ;
and I was intimate with the brother-in-law of this last
German nobleman. I have dined with it principal Donal
merchant at Canton. I have wit next to the beautiful
Madame Recumier and Madame Carbanus, at the great
dinner parties. I have written to the prime minister of
England, and have received the (late Earl of Liverpaors)
answer with his thanks, &e. I was at Paris when the allies
were made there. I have visited and loreakfusted with the
; late Warren Hinting., Esq., at his seat in Gloucestershire.
have 113.1 pertlli,e4,lll with a party of friends to hunt over
his gran:eds. Entertained, &c., two or three days at the sport-
ing lodge of an earl, now u marquis. 1 have made a crimson
silk nut fur a certain fashionable marybioness, which she
actually wore at her next great party of five or six hundred
persons. I have danced with the Countess Bertrand, i. e.,
Mademoisselle Fanny Dillon, before she married the mar-
shall. I was at Napoleon's coronation. I have been in-
vited to the lord mayor's, and no the dinner of an alth•rnian
of London ; to time. also of the first merchants and hankers,
as the late Mr. Thelusson (afterwards Lord Rendlesham),
the tionnerly rich Messrs. A. and 11. Goldsmiths, &c. And
at Paris I have had a credit of 1000,018) francs at one time,
on the house of Perregan, Latfitte, etiec., and other bankers
at Paris for considerable smuts. Delment and th. fur
40,000 Dunes, and Meander's, at one
11m0,1100 francs. Latfitte** house at another time for 50,000
francs; again for 12,1)10 franca. I have had a time nearly-
-4,0011i. sterling at the Bank of 1:110,11111. I wmte and pub-
lisloal in the hoodoo Monthly l'att (7th March, 1811), on
inaval power. I have Well the Vestrises, father, won, and
grandson, at once (flit' only time) dance on the stage at the
opera at Paris. I •ve given a passage to many on board
my ship, but never in my the received a farthing as passage-
money from any jx•rson. lam decidedly against the ow- of
ardent spirit (malt liquor may do for those who like it) to-
bacco, &c. And as fur wine, that only at dimmer; it even
then ought to be good, if not the wry best, as the Goole-
me( would have it, when speaking of ('lass-Vaugeat, and
Romance, &c. I have had a tine hand of music on
board my Aire, and my four kinds of wine on lily table.
(I am not sleeping on a "led of rows" now, but in an
humble hut or cabin.) After all, what dues the fore-
going amount to:—vanity of vanities. I will merely
add, that 1 have had a year In the church of Christ, and
that lam a life member of the Bible Society. That 1 am
hooking with the blessed Lord's help to something of far
no, re intrinsic worth and consideration—. the prim of our
high calling "—the life to come. lam now in my sixty-
second year of age, and of course it is high time that I
should look upon this world as nearly to close on me. I
might perhapa say much more, but must stop. I have had
a member of parliament, an East India director, call on me
to ask a favour, which, indeed, no me else could grant. I
have his note thus still. And I have had a beautiful
Egyptian lady write to me (I have her note also still), the
wife of one of Bunaparte's generals. lam now an humble
teacher upon Pitcairn's Isle for the time being.

SUICIDE or A LUNATIC IN liKrucEm lIOSPITAL
—Yesterday, Mr. W. Payne held an inquest in the Board-
room of Bethletn Hospital, respecting the death of Thomas
Ridley, a respeetale.c man of Paddington, a lunatic, and
inmate of the Royal lkthlern Hospital, who committed
suicide by precipitating himself front one of the upper
windows of that institution. Dr. William Wood, resident
medical officer of the hospital, said that he knew the de-
ceased from the time of his admission to the hospital, on
Saturday, the 26th ult. He was in a depreswd state; was
very miserable in his mind, and had attempted to commit
suicide on more than one occasion. He was also labouring
under delusions, the principal of which were, that his wife
was insane, and that her health was destroyed in ecn-
sequence; the real fact being, that his wife wash
in good health, and there was nothing the matter with
her. Ile was not violent, but feeble and childish.
On the Friday following his admittance he wished to do
sonic work, but as lie had been recently admitted he was nut
allowed to do anything but what lie could amuse himself
with in the gallery. lie was less oppressed on the Monday,
and requested of the attendants that he might have some
other employment, which was communicated to witness on
the Tuesday. lie told deceased that he had a painter st
his house employed in cleaning some paint, and asked him
If he could du anything of the kind, and be appeared much
pleased with the offer. Witness ordered the attendant to
take him to his house and give him into the charge of the
painter. Witness saw him occasionally during the day,
when lie appeared to take an interest in his work, and was
eery cheerful. In the evening he said he was better, and
appeared very grateful. On the following morning, there
being nothing for him to do, he sent him into the nursery
with his own children, to amuse himself by rubbing some
pictures. He took him himself among his own children,
and told his little girl to talk to him for the pur-
pose of diverting his mind. Before he went out
lk• gave instructions to the nurse never to lose
eight of him. At dinner time the attendant came and took
him away. As the steward would be from home in the
afternoon, the attendant received orders that he should not
some in again that day, In the afternoon, however, he
expressed • wish to the attendant to go in nsurn, and with-
Loutout hospital he
eh.rgewitnessof's kanopwatileedngte hwehtooo kh.hdinibccinnaginaituh, and left him
man yeah, named Drunker, who was employed in whites
w the place. Having the range of the building, ho
wank his ewe. This person left the room for • short
tif• lo fetch IMO water, to a sink not more than five or
. .

probably
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GAILDEND/G OPERATIONS FOR TILE

ENSUING WEEK.

(hen the /'.wiener's Chronicle.)

PE %NT oremermENT.
Az.tu:ts should be attended to US they go out of
bloom, potted if they require it, and placed in a favourable
situation fur forming their young growths. Many plants,
particularly large ones, which received a liberal shaft last
year, will not have filled their pot. MI full of roots us to
render repotting necessary, and it is better to allow such
to make their growth, mid set their flower buds without
additional pot room. This growth will, of course be a
moderate one, and when this is properly matured, and
the danger of their starting again is paseed, we give them
a slight shift, and place them in a cool house. In the
new soil so supplied, they continue to produce roots
during the rem:nailer of the autumn and winter, but
without making progress in the tow, and the roots being
thus in advance of the head, the plants are prepared to
meet the flowering season with extra vigour; for in the
size and colour of the flowers, Azaleas so treated far our-
pass those which have been treated in the ordinary
way. Though these useful pduets succeed very well in
common peat, to which n small portion of leaf-mould and
sandy loam, with a liberal supply of mud, has been added,
yet those who ran procure Witubleilon peat, at a mode-
rate expense, will find it answer their purpose to do so,
as the high state of perfection to whirls the Azalea
attains in that soil, is ample recompense. Supply alma-
dance of drainage to large specimens, and let the compost
be rough in proportion to the size of the plants to he
shifted. Ilarn-wooded plants, recently putted, should bo
kept rather close till their new roots are in progress; and
in fine afternoons they will be coneiderably benefited by a
gentle syringing. During this season, when the greeter
part of the plants are in active growth, and require more
warmth and moisture, thoee which are in flower should be
kept by themselves, where their blossoms can be preserved
by shading, free iulmission of air, and a drier utmosphere.
As the cooler pits and frames are set ut liberty, they may
i.e made very useful during the summer by filling them
with suitable composts, and turning out young greenhouse
Vents into them, there to make their einunwee growth.
mated in this manner they make much greater pregrese
during a season than when grown in pots. and are with
less difficulty induced to form handsome plant.. Young
Azaleas, camellias, &c., can by this treatment he induced to
make double the I.rrowth, and thus acquire a vigour which
will be maintained for year+, and whirli is no: so easily ob-
tained under any other course of management. The prin-
cipal points requiring attention are, to *mare a good
drainage, to give each plant sufficient epee:, and to elevate
the surface of the soil as near to the glaes es potsible, allow-
ing only sufficient height for the plants themselves, mill a
vigorous summer's growth. The extent to which this plan
is adopted should be regulated by the facilities at co and
for preserving them after they are taken up in the autumn,
and potted, as the frame* wall then be required fur other
purposes.