The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

NEW WORK byy O. A. i BECKETT et JOHN LEECH.
Now pnl4VLed, nem One MOW, No. V. of
THE

COMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND.
BY GILBERT ABBOTT
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moss iv JOHN LW.
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Ilke COMIC lIIKTORY of ENGLAND sill compere from Twelve
to Twenty Parts, and will appear regularly with the monthly maga-
. ewe mull its completion.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
" The public is deeply indebted to the erudite author of this new
Pictorial Ilistory of Eng and. Having formerly translated Blackstone
into a style that may be read without a yawn, be has in the opening
number of his History done the mine good service for the still drier
diasertations with which Archaeological journals, and the Arcineologi-
cal Societies are laboriously stuffed."—idly News.
" That indefatigable wit and humouriet, Hillatgati= bag
that
oommetveed a new labour of drollery. Having
grave and learned personage, Blackatone, Into the merriest mad wag
on earth, he news take Hume, Lingard, Rapin, Tardtun and thecae?
very venerable high priests of Clio in band, and by the Same C4lOllllO
genius converts them into the tneassatert painters, gni must gm
terque virtu in creation. He is ably assisted in his work try the
'Milian Lee* who ghee a Ism a* assisted
miry isslabsin
Of 1 Beckett's brain 'lto Lan of Julinglanse o
boeilirhls
steamer, and there surveya the invincible tenth legion whipping the
Sandwich Flats in the moat orthodox manner. To do our aneer4on
every justice, they en re, according to G. A. I Beckett and his inter-
preter Leech, as fine a set of engages m ever dined off their enemies
without either salt or mustard. This Mater; of England will, doubt-
less, be a much greater favourite with toting England' than the
fables which go by that name, composed by Hume, Goldsmith, and the
rest."--Morning Post.
We predict for this work almost unexampled popularity. in it
historic truth and wit of fine polish and CM"' flow are Mended without
apparent effort. Instruction and amusement walk arm-in-arm,
laughing, moralising, teaching—the pleasantest of modern peripate-
ilea. As the author soya, 'There is not the smallest intention to
sacrifice fidelity to fun, the design being to show that the utile et doh
are not inseparable. Mr. a Beckett, as far as the first part of his
charming history goes, has fulfilled his design, and proved that there
is an end to the once favourite fallacy that food for the mind requires
the uninviting flavour of phyaic."Phe book is copiously and cleverly
illustrated by John Leech. Should the stuxeedin7 monthly parts
equal the first, the author will have tly fixed his place in the
first rank of our wittiest writers,"— dl's Life in London.
" There were not wanting many grave persons who considered a
Comic Blackatone' a species of sacrilege ; what then shall be said of
a ' Comic History of England ?, We are almost inclined our. elves to
shake our beads at the incorrigible jester, but, not being able to make
up a serious face, he hes the laugh of us, and escapes castigation.
The first part of the work is now before us—thirty-two pages of fun,
graphic snd literary, Leech being the artist who participates in the
sport, fairly dividing the applause."—Weekly Chronicle.
"This is one of the happiest efforts of Mr. I Beckett's pea. It Is
most amusing aerial, and promises to become a general favourite. It
is effectively illustrated by Leech."—Obeerver.
" A jocular narrative of the grave events of English history, in
which facts are eared for as well as fun, and dates are not disregarded
for drolleries. Mr. Leech's burlesque illuatrations are in the spirit of
this facetious history, but more outrageously absurd ; and both text
and cuts arc laughable."—Spectator.
"No. 3is as comic as were the two previous ambers. It in one of
the happiest of Mr. I Ilsok's ham clinking, and when completed is
sure terdm
become a popular volume. —Observer.
" We are not sure that the exhibition of a series of historical inci-
dents, in the grotesque style, may not des much to strip many royal
and legislative infamies of that robe of rolemnity in which historians
have dresses' them, thereby mishaeling and imposing upon public
sentiment."—Nonconformiat.
"If Mr. 3PFarlane makes us think It is the province of Mr.
I Beckett to make us laugh over the history of England, there are
ridiculous points enough in ell histories for so whimsical a gentile to
extract laughter from, and Mr. h Beckett makes the meet of them 111
this instance. But there is a purpose under his jokes; he always
makes his readers laugh in the right place."—Atlas.
" Merrily does Mr. it Ileckcit in the present number rattle throegh
the History of England from the days of Ethelred to those of William
the Conqueror; but albeit, merrily, not the less truthfully. The
illustrative wood-euts are langhter-moving exec dinghy."—"rat.
" If Mr. I Beckett and his graphic coadjutor proceed as they have
begun, the 'Comic Illatcry oi England' will be as permanently valuable
as it is irresistibly humorous."—Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.
" If laighter la good for health, we only know that it Beckett's Ills-
tort of Englund progresses in a ~Lyle tomake us Engish the healthiest
people on the face of the earth."—Hood's Magazine.
London: Published at the Punch Office, 85. Fleet-street; J. Mac-
&ashen, Dublin; J. Menzies, Edinburgh; J. 31'Leod. Glasgow.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o'Clock.

•- _
The Count de Montemolin, or as his adherents de-
signate him, His Majesty Charles Luis King de jure
of Spain, has arrived in town, accompanied by
General Don Juan Montenegro, and his private
secretary, Don Romualdo Mon. The Count has been
travelling under the strictest incognito. The Marquis
di Villa Franca, Duke di Medina Sidonia, has been
some days in London.

When the Penguin, arrived at Falmouth with the
Brazils mail, left Rio, the crops were reported to give
promise of an average. yield, and the transactions in I
produce were to a fair extent. The shipments of
coffee during the month of September amounted to
some 160,000 bags, of which about 60,000 were to
the United States, and the remainder to Europe. This
article had again declined fully 50 rein, but in sugar
there had been an advance on previous prices. The
rate of exchange was 274 to 28, at which about
36,0001. had been done upon London. Freights were
478. to 555. 6d. per ton. By the Penguin, there are
advices from the River Plate, to the 16th of Septem-
ber :—Hostilities had re-commenced, and Riveira was
about to leave to continue operations in the field.
From Buenos Ayres we learn that Dr. M'Kenna and
Mr. Tenker, both medical men, and the latter an
American citizen, had been apprehended for not wear-
ing the red ribbon, the symbol of the Roses party.
Nothing had been heard in Buenos Ayres from
Corrientes, and a letter of the 15th says, that people
again begin to call Urquiza a traitor.

From the monthly return by the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Customs, shooing the quantities of
corn, gram, meal, and flour imported into the United
Kingdom in the month ended the sth Nov., 1846, the
quantities upon which duties have been paid for home
consumption during the same month, and the quan-
tities remaining in warehouse at the close thereof,
published in last night's Gazette, we collect that there
have been imported from foreign countries, of corn
and grain, about 39,386 qr. of wheat, 49,653 qr. bar-
ley, 60,044 qr. oats, 179 qr. rye, 22,096 qr. peas,
11,125 qr. beans, 21,988 qr. Indian corn, and 773 qr.
into Ireland on account of government, 3,756 qt.. back
wheat ; and from British possessions out of Europe
4,734 qr. wheat, 13 qr. oats, and 118 qr. peas.
Dunng the same period, there have been im-
ported from foreign countries, of flour and
meal, about 49,099 cwt. wheat, 735 cwt. barley,
7 cwt. oats, 3 cwt. rye, 3,062 cwt. Indian, and 3 cwt.
buck wheat; and from British possessions out of
Europe, 82,827 cwt. wheat, 1,025 cwt. oats. The
quantities of corn and grain charged with duty, for
home consumption, have been, from foreign countries
about 12,748 qr. wheat, 59,595 qr. barley, 50,189
qr. oats, 179 qr. rye, 23,270 qr. peas, 22,260 qr.
beans, 23,311 qr. Indian corn, 4,213 qr. buck wheat ;
and from British possessions out of Europe, 4,637 qr.
wheat, 13 qr. oats, 118 qr. peas • also from foreign
countries, of flour and meal, aboutlB,o94 cwt. wheat,
734 cwt. barley, 7 cwt. oats, 3 cwt. rye, 3,651
cwt. Indian, 3 cwt. buck wheat, and from British
possessions, 80,340 cwt. wheat, and 1,025 cwt. oats.
The quantities of corn and grain remaining in
warehouse on sth November were about, from foreign
countries, 112,412 qrs. wheat, 15,895 qrs. barley,
52,621 qrs. oats, 57 qrs. rye, 9,519 qrs. peas, 47,816
qrs. hellos, 3,278 qrs. Indian corn ; and from British
possessions, 2,577 qrs. wheat, 526 qrs. peas. Also,
from foreign countries, of flour and meal, about
250,724 cwt. wheat, 12cwt. oats, 543 cwt. Indian ; and
from British possessions, 7,260 cwt. wheat, 2 cwt. oats.

A numerous meeting was held at Wakefield on the
evening of the 23d inst. for the purpose of petitioning
parliament in favour of the "Ten Hours Bill." The
first resolution adopte.,4 on this occasion affirmed, that
a reduction in the hourg of factory labour is a growing
necessity, from the great increase and high perfection
of machinery, the use of which should be toll lessen and
not augment human lab At; whereas the ong hours
during which persons are now-engaged are injurious to
the personal and pecuniary Niterests of the parties
employed. The second resolution, while declaring the
inferiority of the present Factories' 'Regulations Acts to
those originally proposed by Lord Agihley and the late
Mr. Sadler, admitted that even these measures had
proved, in some respects, advantageous, by securing a
greater equalisation of labour throughout the factories,
the prevention of night work, and pros-Ming some
opportunities for the instruction and r.ecreAtion of
children. The last resolution was a petition to par-
liament embodying and enforcing the previous ma

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