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LITERATURE.

actually published the banns in the Old Church, and invited
the wedding guests, he suddenly broke off the connexion,
without 'seignior,' any cause 'whatever for his conduct. This
took place in January Last, and on the 4th or sth of Feb-
miry he married another lady. Verdict for plaintiff
damages 150/.

YORK3ITIRE.
FIRB AT LEEDS.—On Tuesday night, soon after eleven
o'clock, a tire, which at one lima threatened seri .u. 4 conse-
quences, broke out in the mill premises of Messrs. York
and Sheepshanks, known u their new mill, ou the be-,.is of
the River Aire, near the road leading from Leeds to Kirk-
stall and Bradford. It is supposed to have been ocea.ioncd
by the ignition of same inflammable materials in the wool
and teazle drying-room over the boiler-house attached to the
engine. By the prompt attendance and ettic iota working of
the various tire. engines in the town, the flames were confined
to the small building in wh ch they originated. The damage
may perhaps amount !!! shout 5001.

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ANNIVERStRY 111C1.71:iii OF WALWICK,III2.I: As-
SOCIATION.—The anuiversary meeting of this eieueiation for
the promotion of improvement in the breed of 'dock, the en-
couragement of industrious farm-labourers and servat.ts, and
for the other useful purposes of these societies, was held at
Coleshill yesterday. The meetings have been hitherto held
at Warwick, but at n meeting of the members hell at
Coventry, a short time since, it was resolved to hold the anni-
versa7 in the nerthern division of the c 'linty. The 'stock
exhibited was more remarkable for the exc. Hence of its
quality than for quantity; but, uyou the whole, the ,how was
at least upon an average with those of former year!, asal the
awards of the judetss gave general satisfaction. Amongst
the prizes awarded were, one for the best witch
cow, to Mr. Nike, of Maxtoke Castle, and the second,
in the same class, to Mr. 'Thomas timbers, of Wep.
penbury ; for a long-horn cow the first prize was awarded to
Mr. Twyeross. of Canley ; Mr. Dilke also obtained the prize
for a short-horn cow ; sod the premium for the best cow in
milk, of the pure Devon breed, was awarded to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Aylesford; the prise for the hest pair et
heifs-rs was obtained by Mr. Firmer, of Stoneleigh; and the
second by Mr. Dilke; fur the best fed cow, the same having
produced a living calf, the premium was awarded to Mr.
Thomas Oldham, of Leamington. The bulls exhibited were
somewhat inferior in quality, so much so that the first prize
was not awarded, but the second was given to Mr. Barbary,
of Wroxall. The sheep were remarkably hue ; and prizes
were obtained by the Lai of Warwick, the Earl of Ayles-
ford, Thomas timbers, amid other of the leading agri-
culturists o the district. There were several eleughing
matches in the comae of the dove ; the ground was iu good
condition, and the men severally executed their wore well;
the only matter for regret in connection with this, was the
smullneie of the amount awarded to these poor men its the
shape of prizes; too pounds being the higliest sum awarded
to the best plouglintau. The company on the ground was
numerous; :slid included most of the nobl...men and gentle-
men of the district. At three o'clock, the annual meeting
fir the transaction of the Society's btedness was held at the
Swan Hotel, the Earl of Aylesford in tae chair; and amongst
those present were the Earl of Warwick, Lord Brooke, h1.1'.,
Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. Dugdale, M.P.. Mr. C. B. Ad-
derley, M.ll'. Sir Francis J.awley, 13.. rt., Captain Dilke, de.
tic. The statement of accounts shoe out a email balance only
is the lianas of the treasurer ; and the smallness of the prizes
given, showing us it does the limited means of the Associa-
tion, would wcm to indicate that the tenant.farmers take
little interest in the existence of such societies. The show of
agricultural implemen's was not large; the be.,l eolleetion
was that exhibited by Messrs. Proctor and Hyland. of Bit-
miagham ; and a winnowing machine manufactured by Mr.
Choyee, of Siloam, Leicestershire, attracted much attention.
At the time our report was dispatched the Weiler wits about
to take place.
WORCESTERSIII itE.

NAILORS' Srontr.-11 we take any district of the king-
dom, and classify the varying rates of wages of the di:. rout
employments, and inquire into the fluctuation, as his it nave
taken place, we shall find that potion of the sOlf,lllUltil , of
any given loc.ility, which is worst p.iid, is the hot to o:•
r:tin
an advance of wages, and the first compelled to submit ro a
reduction. Such is the case of the tailors—the worst paid o
all artizans in the locality in which they dwell. During
perbals of depres,ion the Tonkin htvariably suffer to an ex-
tent unknown in other trades of the district, and throutli the
late one, which began in IS3O, a reduction amounting to CO
per cent. on the hat of prim by which their work was
reckoned took place. l)'iring the past two years they have
been ,:nidaully reihning the rate of discount, which has been
alit Mot ed some months, and new the men have tent to the
masters a new list ol• prices, and }AVM a fortnight's notice
that they will not work unless the c prices are given. The
notice expires on Saturday next. The new list will advance
the rate of wages from 10 to 20 per cent. Whether the
men will obtain this advance avi ry short time will shear.
We think they will; for though great numbers of stoloie
will now be returning from harvest-work, which will iner. see
he supply of labour, yet the dernin.d for men rt the Ina
works and mines is so great, that should they fail to si,tairt
their demand at once, many of them will be enabled to ob-
tain other employment, and to *rat till their request is ac-
ceded to.— I I 'urcestershire Chrowi• le.

CHRISTIAN BIntIAI7.-Th;ifi;,:iir. Armstrong, incum-
bent of the parish of Wallsend, nceutly refused to erform
the burial service over the body of a child, bee:west it had
hell' baptised by a Wrsloyou mit:ister. The father of the
child latrine t the Bishop of Durham of the eirtunt-tance;
and his lonlihip immediately replied, stating that, " It Mr.
Armstrong has refused Christian burial to a child be, it
bad been baptised by a Dissenting ntinistcr, ho has ae;ed un-
worthy of his railing, and rendered himself liable to punish-
ment in the ecclesiastical courts, if Mr. Giles or any other
Nis!; to prosecute him." A few days ngu, say, t; .Ceti,
castle .Idr:rtiser, a deputation from the hotly parish-
ioners waited on the rev. gentleman, and obtained from liim•
promise that idich an occurrence andl not again Like place.

CHEAP TAILOILISu.—Two men were rest-nay ad I.itt,,d at
night into St. Mary's Workhouse, in Itetding; oud upon
the master going the following morning into the room is
which they slept, they were both found denuded, with
their eh rims Unit lute shreds and render: d wholly tideless.
They were provided, much to thi ir disappointment, with
large sugar hags composed of matting (inite:el of a more
fashionable description of costume), of al ich, with the aid
of packing needles and twine, they manufactured two pair of
trowsers to cover their nakedness ; and in this attire Itt.l
were introduced to the sitting tmmistrate, Mr. Willats, by
Mr. West, the master of the workhouse. They ware orde.edi
to leave the town.

Memoirs of the Reign of Kin, George The SerowL By
Houses WALPOLE, youngest son of Sir Robert ‘Volgole,
Earl of Orford. Edited from the Original MSS. IVida
a Preface and Notes, by the late Lord HOLLAND. 3 vols.
Colburn.
In this pleasing and welcome republication, Mr.
Colburn has, with his usual attention to the public
convenience, stepped forward to supply a demand
likely to be created by the appmrance of Horace
Walpole's Menvdre of the Early Part of the Reign of
George the Third, recently brought out by another
publisher. But why has he done mole. Why,
in reproducing an old work, has ho done every-
thing that was possible to conceal the fact that
it had been printed before, and to give it the
attraction and interest of a new one for the MOO)
unsophisticated. order of readers and purchasers?
Why, to beg'.n with, was the book announced, un-
der the head of " New Works" as the "Completion of
the Walpo'.e Memoirs?" The title-page actually pre-
fixed to ;A the reader has seen. Nobody could guess
from eif:ner title or announcement that the work is the
Mine which was first published, in two volumes
4to, in the year 1822, with the title of Memoires of
the Last l'en Years of the Reign of George the
8 (Tow!, by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford.
IFront the Original MSS. Substantially the same, we
ought rather to say ; for certain other alterations
besides that of the title-page would seem to
have been rendered necessary by the design
of the publication, and have accordingly becu very
quietly made. Thus, where Lord natant:, in Ins
preface, writing twenty-four years ago, observes that
ten years have elapsed since the period fixed by
Walpole for the inspection of the work, and mote
than sixty since the last of the historical events
commemorated in it, we have a foot-note added,
gently intimating, " that some years have elapsed
since this was written." The fact that the
passage had been printed before, is withheld.
'flue reader would naturally infer that, as the
Memoirs were left in manuscript by Walpole, so
the preface had been left for posthumous publication
by Lord Holland; and, although the note is in fact
an interpolation, there is nothing to indicate that it
was not affixed by Lord Holland himself. The ori-
ginal edition of the Memoirs was accompanied by a
number of designs from etchings furnished by Bentley
and Mintz, impressions from which were found bound
up with the manuscript. Tlhe se decorations, certainly
not being very ornamental, ere not reproduced; and
we do not object, therefore, to the omission of the
explanations of them drawn up by Walpole himself,
and of the passage in Lord ilolland's preface which
states that they appear in the printed book : still we
think the fact of the omission should have been
named. We will not quarrel with the substitution):
chapters for the old dates, summaries, and margins..
references—though we think distinct intimation
should have been given of that also ; but we cannot see
why peculiar spellings should not havebeen retained ;
and we regret to see the altered paragraph about the
suppressions which Lord Holland thought proper to
make in committing Walpole's manuscript to the
Here one long sentence is cut out at the
=inning, another shorter one at the end of the
paragraph, and two more from the middle of it.
One of the latter runs thus : " Such liberties would
be still more necessary if the remaining historical
works of Lord Orford were ever to see the light."
It seems to have been feared that if this sentence had
been allowed to stand, the fact that the present pre-
face and the work to which it is prefixed had been
printed before the Memoirs of thl Early Part of
the Reign of George the Third, would have beta

3
ie banns in the Old Church, and invited
he suddenly broke off the connexion,
I cause 'whatever for his conduct. This
y last, and on the 4th or sth of Feb-
another lady. Verdict for plaiutiff
YORK3ITIRE.
—On Tuesday night, soon after eleven
at one time threatened seri .us cease-
• the mill premises of Messrs. York
own as their new mill, on the books of
• the road leading from Leeds to Kirk-
It is supposed to have been ocea.ioncd
tote inflammable matelials in the wool
en over the boiler-house attached to the
opt nttendance and etre ient working of •
cs in the town, the flares were confined
in wh eh they originated. The damage
to strut 5001.
W.IItWICK:sILIRE.
:ITINO Or VII: WALWICK,III9I: As-
itecteary meeting of this aseeelatiou for
roveinent in the -breed of stock, the en-
trious farm-labourers and servant!, and •
urpoces of these societies, was held at
The meetings have been hitherto held
meeting of the members hell at
e since, it was resolved to hold the anni-
ern division of the c 'linty. The stork
rein:irked° for the exc. lknce of its
tity; but, seen the whole, the show woe
age with those of former year!, amid the
• gate general satisfaction. Amongst
1 were, one for the beet mulch
of Maxtoke Castle, and the second, I • ;
to Mr. 'rheum' timber; of Wep. :
horn cow the first prize was awarded to •
iley ; Mr. Dike also obtained the prize
sue the premium for the best cow in
Non breed, was awarded to the Right
reeford; the prise for the best pair of
V Mr. Farmer, of Stoneleigh ; and the
fur the best fed cow, the same having
Alf, the premium was awarded to Mr.
Leamington. The bulls exhibited were
quality, so much so that the first prize
the second was given to Mr. Derisory,
Irep were remarkably fine ; and prizes
Eirl of Warwick, the Earl of Ayles-
s, Eat., and other of the leading agri-
trio.. There were sees nil eleughing
• of the der ; the ground was iu good
ten severally executed their wore well;
-egret in connection with this, was the
mat awarded to these poor men in the
pounds being the highest suet a earded 1:
a. The company on the ground wasdL
ded most of the noblemen and gentle.
At three o'clock, the annual meeting
the Society's hu.iness was held at the
of Aylesfor•d in the chair; and amongst ' I
L. Earl of Warwick, Lord Brooke, Id.P.,
, Mr. Dugdale, M.P., Mr. C. B. Ad-
,iscte Lawley, Bert., Captain Dilke, &c.
if accounts show out a email balance only
°usurer ; and the smallness of the prizes •
floes the limited means of the ASSOCia-
indicate that the tenatit.farmers take
sietence of such societies. The show of
l's was not large; the bel eollee:ion
• Messrs. Proctor and Hyland, of Bit-
mowing machine manufactured by Mr.
eicestershire, attracted much attention.
rt was dispatched the Weiler wits about
• i
A'ORCESTERSIIIItE.
.—lf we take any district of the Ling-
varying rates of wages of the di: -
;rent
11
moire into the fluctuations w alit it lave
had that poetien of the iieeinunit, of
Well is worst p.dd, is the last to .
a, and the first compelled to sui me to a
he case of the ,sailors—the worst paid o t
locality in wt. teh they dwell. During
a the milers ievariably suffer to an ex-
!l' trades of the district, and throutli the
in 15:11), a reiluction amounting to 20
it of prim by which their work was
Ibiring the past two years they have
Sag the rate of discount, which has brew
this, and new the men have sent to the
prices, and OVCII a fortnight's notice
irk unless the e prices are givem The
ardor next. The new list will advent.
mlO to 20 per cent. Whether the
advance a vs ry short time will ahem,
for though great numbers of ma'am
t from harvest-work, which will fine see
yet the dernaed for men re the irea
so great, that should they fail to netate.
ere many of them will be ambled to 'k-
at, and to welt till their request is ace
•shire Chroni,le.
OttEIII'3IIIEItLAND.
tl..—The Rev. Mr. Armstrong, ineum-
NVallsend, recently refugee" to perform
,er the body of a child, beleitiet it had
Vieleyan minister. The tether of the
ishop of Durham of the eireunetsime;
lediatcly replied, stating that, " If Mr.
ed Christian burial to a child his-suss it i
a Dimentiog minister, ho has acted un-
, and rendered himself liable to punieh-
itical courts, if Mr. Odes or any other
dm." A few days ego, say, t; New-
: deputation from the body of parish-
rev. gentleman, and obtained I rum him a
occurrence sh dl not again Like place.
.I.—Two men were recently ail eked at
'a Workhouse, in Reeding; cad upon
ie following morning into the room is
they were both found denuded, with
Au shreds and rendered when,. useless.
, much to their disappointment, with
imposed of matting (instead of a mere
in of costume), of el ich, with the aid
id twine, they manufactured two par of
heir nakeduces ; mil in this attire tky 7
the sitting malistrete, Mr. %Valets, by
rof the workhouse. They were orde.cil
r..ITE.RATURE.
ion of King George The SeeonfL By
youngest ton of Sir Robert eVielpole, • . •
:silted from the Original MSS. With
tea, by the late Lord ROLLAND. 3 vols.
g and welcome republication, Mr.
a his usual attention to the public
pod forward to supply a demand
ted by the appearance of Horace
a of the Early Part of the Reign f!,
recently brought out by another
why has he done more? Why,
n old work, has ho done every-
possible to conceal the fact that
sited before, and to give it the
Lterest of a new one for the mows
)rder of readers and purchasers?
rich, was the book announced, un-
New Works" as the "Completion of
toirs?" The title-page actually pre-
sder has seen. Nobody could guess
r announcement that the work is the
9 first published, in two volumes
822, with the title of Memoirea of 'ti
'ears of the Reign If George the
race It'alpok, Earl of Orford.
d MSS. Substantially the same, we
say ; for certain other alterations
the title-page would seem to
dered necessary by the design
.n, and have accordingly becu very
Thus, where Lord liofland, in Ins
twenty-four years ago, observes that
1
elapsed since the period fixed by
inspection of the work, and mote , •
L the last of the historical events
in it, we have a foot-note added,
g, " that some years have elapsed
written." The fact that the ••
been printed before, is withheld.
add naturally infer that, as the
left in manuscript by Walpole, so
been left for posthumous publication
I; and, although the note is in fact
there is nothing to indicate that it
)y Lord Holland himself. :The ori- 1,
die Memoirs was accompanied by a .
f• rom etchings furnished by Bentley 1' ;
cssions from which were found bound It :
iscript. The se decorations, certainly
I
Thamental, are not reproduced; and
et, therefore, to the omission of the
them drawn up by Walpole himself,
ingpear in the p
Lordilolanted b
d's preface fa7stiiaiiii
weh
pe o
of the omission should have been
1 not quarrel with the substitution a
old dates, summaries, and margin
gh we think distinct intimation
given of that also ; but we cannot see
ellings should not havebeen retained ;
) see the altered paragraph about the
ich Lord Holland thought proper to •IL
tting Walpole's manuscript to the
,e long sentence is cut out at the I S
her shorter one at the end of the ft
two more from the middle of it.
er runs thus : " Such liberties would
eceasary if the remaining. historical
Orford were ever to see the light." I ;
been feared that if this sentence had
stand, the fact that the present pre-
irk to which it is prefixed had been
the Memoirs of (At .Early Part ,1
ieorge the Third, would have been 4.

apparent to every reader. But what is gained by
suppresaing that tact ? Not a single advantage of any
kind. It was hopeless, by the most careful manage-
ment, to pass olf these volumes as a new book; every
attempt of the kind only recoils and does dama:,.re ;
and the reader likely W
I* interested in the publica-
tion, repelled by this want of straightforwardness, is
indisposed to admit the real advantages and supe-
riority of the new edition over the lumbering and
inaccessible quartos? The same want of editorial
judgment, really without assignable reason or
motive, we observe in an entire omission of
the mottoes with which the several divisions
of the memoirs are headed in the original edition
—beginning with the famous one from the Chan-
cellor Oxenstiern, " An nescis, mi fili, quantilla pru-
dentia regitur orhis ? " What would be thought of
a reprint of Guy Manacling or the Antiquary,
with Scott's mottoes abstracted from the heads of
the chapters ?
Let us nevertheless counsel the reader and lover
of Walpole to be thankful for a re-impression, in a
commodious form, which, with such exceptions as
we have noted, we have no reason to think other
than faithful, of perhaps without any exception
the liveliest piece of historical gossip in any language.
It is an illustrious example of what may be made of
any subject by skill of handling. Few periods in the
history of Lhe world are richer in native dulness, than
that of thellast ten years of the reign of George the
Second in England. Until the successes of Pitt s
dashing Wilt. Administration came in the latter part
of it to shake the world, it was a time when our
existence as a nation was almost forgotten by
the rest of mankind, and when scarcely any-
thing happened among us that an ordinary
historical writer would think it worth while to notice,
or would be able to turn to any account if he did
stoop to chronicle it. An interminable confusion of
court and party intrigues and squabbles; a wild, in-
cessant dance of ministerial changes and counter-
changes ; a clamour of parliamentary debate, obstre-
perous and unintermitting as the cawing of a rookery,
and apparently with almost as little issue or purpose,
or, at most, all about matters now passed away for
ever from the eyes and minds of men ;—such are the
chief historical capabilities of the greater portion of
this space of English history. Yet it is mainly
out of this restless, noisy, fluctuating, and
seemingly unprogressive drama, that Walpole
has tilled his animated and entertaining
pages. He says very little about the sea-
fightimr, or land-finding abroad. The contests and
battles he delights to detail, are those waged on the
floor of the House of Commons; his warlike maneuvrvs
are those only of the bloodless war of parties and
fashions. But comparatively insignificant or un-
heroic as his subject may be thought, we defy any
reader to find his book uninteresting. No book, indeed,
ever is so, be the subject what it may, when the
writer himself is interested, and understands what
be writes about.
This is half the secret of Walpole's success. With
tastes and intellectual powers and acquisitions which
gave him the range of many worlds besides that of
politics, he was politician enough perfectly to under-
stand and enjoy, -however little he might care to take
much part in, the game. His birth and social posi-
tion nude him almost necessarily a politician to that
extent. Placed so near the centre of affairs, he could
not fail to acquire an extraordinary familiarity with
the movements, and insight into the construction, of
the mechanism around him. Besides, in England the
world of polities has always formed the principal
region of the world of fashionable life, to which
Walpole was attached by all his connexions, habits,
and sympathies, and in which he almost exclusively
passed his existence. But much also of the spirit of his
narrative is due to its execution. He is not a narrator
in the high style of Herodotus, Livy, or Froissart,
but no man tells an anecdote better, or hits
off more cleverly either a scene or a character from
the real, every-day life, in which he has himself
mingled. His narrative talent is rather that of the
talker, or letter-writer, than anythi ag higher, perhaps ;
but it serves him for such subjects as he has to deal
with in these Memoirs better than if it were of a more
historic or epic character. The matter is not at all
epic, or, in any high sense, historic; and neither,
therefore, should the manner be such. Nothing, we
think, can be happier, or inspired by a truer feeling
of adaptation and propriety, than the general tone
which Walpole takes. The events and transactions he
has to relate or describe, and the questions he has
occasionally to discuss, were almost all in them-
selves of merely temporary importance or interest ;
but they were of temporary interest and importance ;
and, therefore, although not to be written about either
in the high style of history proper, or even with the
earnestness of chronicle, they were yet to be treated
of with a certain degree of fervour and keenness, which
might reflect or transmit something of the feeling
they excited at the moment. Walpole, accordingly,
never affects to be so far above his subject as to take
no interest in it. He lets it be very clearly seen,
throughout, that he takes the liveliest interest in every
part of it ; even while it provokes his sarcasm or his
contempt, he still manifestly finds it exciting. And
hence it is that he never fails to interest his readers.
Any true picture of society in any age is arresting
and valuable. It is a contribution to the history and
Philosophy of human nature. What Walpole has
here painted, is indeed only a section of English social
life ; it is only by a glimpse that we have now and
then into the nether regions of election mobs or gin
riots, that his canvas affords us any intimation of the
existence of the great body of the people. But the
glittering summit of things to which he confines us, is
also a scene of real life ; these courts, and cabinets,
and parliaments, and aristocratic drawing-rooms,
are filled with men and women of like passions
with ourselves; their rivalries and contentions differ'
from those that go on in the wider world below them,
only in some points of outward show or form, often
not even in that. In some respects that narrower
scene has the advantage over every other, for the exhi-
bition of both great passions and little. Besides its
greater elevation and conspicuousness, the individual
figures are seen on such a stage in a stronger light,
and, from the want of crowding, are each more dis-
tinctly brought out. This is not only favourable to
their more effective representation m picture or
report, but it inspires their actual demeanour with
something of a peculiar character : heightening in
general their energy, decision, and self-reliance,
or at the very least compelling them to act, whether
wisely or foolishly, whether resolutely or in mere
desperation, with more animation and vigour. As
for Walpole's pictures of the section of society which
he has undertaken to paint, they have all the truth
which a picture should have. They are not mere
transcriptions, registrations, fac-similes. Like every
other painter worthy of the name, whether using
words or material colours, he has put into his
work as much of his own mind and genius as of the
litemlities of his subject; we see in every paragraph
his own peculiar manner of viewing men and
things, his peculiar passions and prejudices,
likings and dislikings, and all the inseparable
characteristics and concomitants of the man and
his position. Even inconsistencies and contradictions
of feeling and judgment abound. But all this in no-
wise impairs the substantial faithfulness of his de-
lineations. We must allow a writer to express his
prejudices and passions, if we will have him to write
either forcibly or honestly; and without honesty there
can be no faithfulness.

_fine arts.
THE QUEEN'S FIRST COUNCIL. PAINTED ET SIR
DkVIB WILKIE; ENGRAVED BY CHARLES Fox.—We are
glad to see this engraving, so long promised to the sub-
'scribers, fully finished at last. The delay has been fortunate
in two respects,—the engraving has gained in point of finish,
and the publication is better timed than if it had appeared
in any period during the last five years. The Whigs were
in power at the queen's accession to the throne ; the picture
consequently represents them particularly prominent in this
the first act of importance in her reign, and the Whigs are
again in power when the engraving makes its appearance.
The picture will be in the remembrance of many. It was
exhibited at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1838, and
attracted attention from the interesting event it perpetuates,
and the well-earned reputation of its painter. The scene is
laid where it occurred, in the Ceuncil Room of Kensington
Palace, and the persons present are thirty-three in number.
The queen is represented seated at one end of the table, hold-
ing in her hand the address read by her Majesty to the
Council. The Duke of Sussex seated at the side, and in the
foreground of the picture passes a pen to the Duke of Wel-
lington, that his grace may sign the declaration of her Ma-
jesty's rightful accession to the throne. Sir R. Peel stands by
the side of the Duke of Wellington, and Lord J. Russell be-
hind Lord Melbourne. The Duke of Cumberland is seated in
the centre of the table, and the rest of the figures are
grouped with taste sad skill. Some are already dead who
were present on this interesting occasion, the Duke of Sussex
himself, Lord Holland, Lord Grey, and the Speaker of the
House of Commons. Time has done something to incresas
its vain ; and when all who are actors in it have passed

away, another generation will look upon it with still greater
interest than we can do. A picture of the first council of
Queen Elizabeth would excite curiosity in thousands at the
present moment, and more would care to see the great
actors in such a scene than could possibly has e been drawn
together when the event occurred. We have yet to say a
word in favour of the engraving—executed in a mixture of
mezzotint and etching, and happily combined on this occa-
sion, Nor is it too much to say of Mr. Fox's work that it
is better than the picture—ths treatment is good through-
ou ; the likenesses improved; and the figure of the Queen,
somewhat objectionable in the painting, particularly happy
in the engraving.

Zbe Drama.
SADLER'S WELLS.—The active manager of this
theatre has increased his claims upon the lovers of our classic
drama, by placing worthily upon his boards the most attractive,
if it be nt.t the most philosophical, of our great Bard's trage-
dies. Romeo and Juliet " was presented last night fur the
first time to a Sadler's Wells audience, and the cast, scenery,
and general getting up, were of a character quite in keeping
with Mr. Phelps's previous efforts. More, we are persuaded,
need not be said to assure those who'have watched ,this gen-
tleman's progress, that the new effort he has made to assert the
claims of his profession merits their earnest and ardent
support. Of the manner in which the drama was
repreiented it is most gratifying to us to be en-
abled to say that, abating here and there a
Cabe emphasis, or a misreading, the performance was satis-
factory. Romeo was performed by Mr. Creswiek, who in
general plays earnestly, and with same degree of grace ; a little
more discrimination in the scenes where his passions are
roused, combined with somewhat more regard for modu-
lation in his tones, would probably add to the satisfaction
of his hearers. Mr. Ph,lps, us Mcmutio, displayed
that genuine and never-failing good sense which cha-
racterises his readings of the higher class of dramas. His
delivery of the Queen Mab sally was light and airy,
and yet as emphatic and impressive as it it had been
uttered with the gravity of a senator. Of Miss Laura
Addison, who undertook the part of Juliet, it is again
our duty to speak in terms of sincere commendation. It is
a task of great delicacy so to apportion praise as not to
awaken overweening self-satisfaction ; as, on the other hand,
it is difficult to hint at a shortcoming or a fault without de-
pressing unduly the person whose histrionic attempts occa-
sion the critic's remarks. With respect to Miss Addison
it may be obsetved that the proximate sentiment awakened
by her delivery of her first sentences was that of constraint;
but the young actress very speedily shook this off, and rising
in passion and dignity as the action of the drama proceeded,-
she occasionally, and that not sparinely, gave vent to her
feelings in a strain so moving, and with gestures so appropriate
and impassioned, as to rouse the sympathies of her auditors to
a high point, and by winning their sympathies obtained their
well merited applause. A little care and more experience
will, we are convinced, place this lady in the foremost
rank of tragic artists. The tragedy was followed by the
evergreen comediet' • of " Matrimony," one of the most
pleasing productions of the pen of Mr. Kenney, whose
dramatic laurels have not of late had any addition made to
them, to our regret. The house was extremely well at-
tended, and by a class of persons evidently capable of appre-
ciating the high character of their entertainment,

TUE RIVAL. ITALIAN OPERAS.—Sir,—I hare read in
the Observer an article on the Italian Opera, which I may
fairly inky is penned by Mr. Lumley. Now that gentleman
has no greater admirer than myself ; but in discussing the
question of two Italian Opera houses in London, instead of
one, I may be presumed, as an Opera frequenter, and not an
I Opera lessee, to be a somewhat more impartial expositor of
public opinion than Mr. Lumley. The fact, then, I believe
to be, that there is not only room, but a positive de-
mand, fur a wider field of enjoyment in the highest
walk of musical and choregraphic talent in this great
metropolis than we now possess. On this point I speak
feelingly. I am musical myself ; my family is musical; but
it requires more money and more physical endurance than
we pos.,ess' at all to enioy the opera, during the season, as we
could wish. The pith of the question lies in the expense. If
you take a box, it costa you for a bad one, on a good night,
three er four guineas; for a good one, six or eight. To a
man of moderate means, therefore, the good boxes area sealed
letter. The stalls are line places; no denying it; but what do
they cost when " Don Giovanni," or the " Barber," or
" hlatrimonio Segreto" is the temptation ? A guinea and
a half or two guineas each. Bat why are you not contented,
then, with the gallery stalls? For this reason; that,
whereas their nominal price is 55., if you want to go on a
gored night, you must pay for places " far removed from
hoards and lamps," 12s. 6d. each. So a man of common
means and good taste, wishing to unite a tolerably good place
with something approaching to ease and economy, is reduced
to the pit—and alas! to what is the pit reduced? to a dozen
or eighteen benches, for an opera-loving population of two
millions of souls, augmented by an extraneous aggregation
from the provinces and foreign partsof some fifty or a hundred
thousand more ! Thus the Ss. 6d. tickets are on a good night
raised to 109. 6d. ; thus you must stand with lightly-clad
&maks half-an-hour under the portico before the doors open ,•
thus you must run the risk of your " ladies" being squeezed
to death when the rush commences : thus you must struggle,'
and fight, and tear for entrance, and then be reduced to
pulp by the heat. In fine, thus must you purchase your
pleasure at a cost of suffering which renders the opera PlOlO
to me a detestable word. Believe me, sir, we want two
operas instead of one.—A Pirrit E.
P.S.—Provincials may not understand the difference
between Tuesday's, Thursday's, and Saturday's operatic
performances, but you and I do. Let the new company
reform it altogether." Permit me to add that I suppose
you argue as I do, neither the interests of Tweedleduni nor
Tweedledee. but those of the public ; I confess, at the same
time, I don't like the " Protectionist" principle of the out-
and-out supporters of one Italian opera.
PROFESSORSHIPS ew MUSIC.—SIR,—III your excel-
lent report of the doings of the Professors of the University
of Edinburgh, you refer to the Professorship of Music in the
University of Cambridge, as being a sinecure. The professor
at Cambridge has a salary of about 2001., for which he had
to qualify for a regular degree, to play at two chapels twice '
each on Sunday, beside Saints' days, impart a musical educe
tion to ten boys, whose voices break at the age of fifteen, for
which a constant succession of trained boys is required. A
man, such as a professor at Cambridge is required to be,
having also taken the degree of M.A.' being compelled to in-
stil a musical knowledge into the minds of boys at the age of
six years, and requiring two hours a day practice, enjoying
only such a salary, can surely be said to hold no sinecure.
Would that the example of him who provided the fund for
Edinburgh were more generally followed, or that the Uni-
versity itself would take the matter in hand, then should we
not see it disgraced by the fact of an eminent professor being
compelled to resort to private teaching, instead of being en-
gaged in those higher pursuits, for which his education and
talents have qualified him.—AN ADMIRER. or TALENT.—
[Our correspondent confirms our observations as to the musi-
cal chair at Cambridge. We are perfectly acquainted with
the attainments of the present able professor of music in that
University, and know that it is no fault of his that his office
is a sinecure, in so far as its proper duties are concerned,
which the above letter shows to be the case.]

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have constituted a portion of the
parish of Bradford, Yorkshire, a separate district for spiritual pur-
poses, called "Manningham." This new benefice is endowed with an
income of 1001. per annum, payable as soon as an incumbent shall be
licensed. The stipend will be increased to 1301. when any building
shall be licensed for the performance of divine worship ; and will be
still further increased to 1501. as MAXI as an approved of chapel or
church shall be consecrated. J. Hollings, ten., of Manninghain,
having contributed 3,0001. towards the building and endowment of
the church, is to have the patronage of the first two nominations.
Part of the pariah of Doncaster has been constituted a a. partite dis-
trict for spiritual purposes, under the name of " Balbv with Hex-
thorpe." It has been endowed by Mies Elizabeth Goodman Banks
with a stipend of 1501. That lady has the perpetual advowson.
Two new districts have been formed out of the parish of Stockport;
one called "St. Mark Bredbury." The stipend is to be 1001., to be
further increased to 1501. when a church shall be consecrated. The
other "St. Thomas Hyde," with similar endowment.
A new district, to be called " Beaufort," has been formed out of the
parishes of Aberystwith, Badwelty, Llangattock, and LLangunider,
Monmouthshire, similarly endowed. The new district is to be in the
diocese of Llaziciaff; it has hitherto been partly in Ilandaff and partly
in St. David's.

A new district, called "St. Andrew Bordesley," has been formed
out of the parish of Aston, near Birmingham, similarly endowed. The
patronage is vested In the Bishop of Worcester and fire trustees alter-
nately ; the trustees have the right of the first presentation.
A new district, called "Woodside," has been constituted out of the
ehapelry of llonsforth, in the parish of Gourley, and the chapelrics of
I leadingley and Kirk.stal, pariah of Leeds, and the pariah of Addle,
similarly endowed.
A new district, called " St. George Kenwyn," has been erected out
of the parish of Kenwvn, Cornwall, with similar endowment.
Taw BNHOPRIC or Msacurarin.—The act of 1836, to repeal which
such strenuous efforts have recently been made, together with the
order in council of 1838, erects Manchester into a bishopric, which
will consist of the whole county of Lancaehire (at present in the
diocese of Chester), with the exception of the Deanery of hullers and
Cartmael. The new diocese will be in the province of York. By the
order in council before mentioned, the warden and fellows of the Col-
' legiate Church of Manchester are constituted dean and chapter. The
annual income of the new see is lined at 4,3001. Mr. Murray, of
Chancery-lane, has been appointed register for the new diocese. Should
Dr. Bethell, the prercnt Bishop of Bangor, refuse to accept the united
see of Bangor and St. Asaph, a question will arise as to the power of
appointing to Manchester, no provision having been made for such a
contingency, either in the act of 1836 or the order in council of 1838.
Should he, however, acceptthe united see be will have all the patron.
age attached to it placed at his disposal, and will obtain an accession
of income to the amount of 7361. per annum. Ms lordship's present in-
come is 4,461/, and the proposed revenue of the united diocese. is fixed
at 5,2001. In Banger Cathedral there are two prebends, one with
a net yearly income of 139/., and the other of 3861. ; and a senior and
junior vicarage, choral and parochial, of 419/. each. In the year
1833 there were forty benefices in the dioceses of St. Malik, and
sixty-seven in Bangor, in which the Incumbents were non-resident,
of whom twenty-two in St. Asanh and twenty in Bangor resided on
other benefices. Ten in St. Aaaph were non-resident, without licence
or exemption, and six in Bangor. The gross receipt., or average
annual revenues, for the seven years preceding 1836, were—of St.
Asaph, 7,1181. 3s. 10d. ; of Bangor, 3,9791. 13e. 7d., making together
13,097/. 13s. 3d. The payments were 3,1291. 10s. for both sees, leaving
an united net annual revenue of 9,9681. 17s. 3d. After payment of
the income of the united see, It Is estimated that there will be an
available surplus of 4,7631. 17s. 3d. Upon these calculations the order
in council, of December, 1838, directs a fixed annual payment to be
made to the Ecclesiastical Cosamilisioners from the united sees of that
amoant. An erroneous Impreadon means to prevail that the act of
1836, uniting the sees eff Bangor end Bt. Aaaph, was repealed last
region. The fact is not so, the bill having teen withdrawn on account
of the lateness at the salon. The death of Dr. Carey may make the
carrying of such an met haposible, if not unnecessary.