The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-10 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

have ,preparel addresses to be presented to his
Excellency, and to-morrow a public meeting is to
be held of the citizens of Kingston, headed by his
Honor the Mayor, also to prepare an address.
"An abortive attempt was made last
to get up a demonstration in favor of Sr Charles

It was indeed a

Grey, our present Governor
exhibition, and had.been very generally ridiculed
A more unpopular Governor than Sir Charles never
cursed -a country with his administration._ He has
been here lonf

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-r than his fall term. He is an outand cannot go to England, -I- believe
Where will be his destination I do not kriON
think Ile Will' take a privat
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An ,impOrtant public meeting was held iu
Kingston on the 9th, having for its object the con-
sideration of the means best calculated .for the
development of the mineral resources' of the•coun-
try. The Mayor, Philip Laurence, Esq., presided.
The' chairman prOceeded to state the object of the
meeting, which was, in accordance with the pur-
pose for which the meeting had been convened, to

form a mining association for the mutual protection
of those who might engage in so beneficial a

In the.proceedings of the Barbadoes Legisla-
re, as reported in the Liberal, 'we find it stated

that a communication from the Governor Zvi

ceiNied, covering a circular despatch from the 'Se
cretary of State for the Colonies, recommendin
the:adoption of the post-office money order
in that i

THAOKERAY 'S NEW SERIAL.*

• . (SECOND NOTICE.)
HERE we must go back a little in the chain of
incidents for the benefit of the reader. After
Mademoiselle de Blois had, at the urgent solicitation
of the Chevalier, her father, yielded up possession
of herself to the aristocrat of fallen fortunes, who,
at the time, scraped up some sort of a livelihood by
" fiddling" in London, Thomas, despairing and re-
sentful, embarks for India, to try his fortune on
the field of glory ! Poor fellow ! how it must have
made him subside into his military boots, to find
himself outdone in his amour by the poor, old
French fiddler ! He, a son of Mars ! not to be
perthitted to marry his dear "Leonore off-hand, at
the little Catholic chapel at Woolwich, and then to
" go out to India together, and be happy ever after !"
What a blissful dream :from which there was, like
as in many other cases, a sorrowful awakening He
goes to India, however, alone—and, as young
gentlemen too often do, grows out of his fury and
despair, and forgets his fiancee, from whom, he
had sworn; that nothing but death should part him.
From India he frequently corresponds with his
father, always directing his letters to the city, for
his name was never :so . much as mentioned at
Clapham, in consequence .of his stepmother's
resentment: These letters comforted the dear old
man so, that in return he forwards his son " liberal
private remittances," until he has need for no more.
At last the poor soul goes to..his -rest, and the "Her-
mitage" loses its chic fest prop, while the churchyard
at Clapham obtains -a .tena2t. Young Thomas was
so loved by his father:that, had it not been for the
resentment of his stepmother, he would have been
left a fortune. At least, such was the old man's
desire, had not the terror of his wife, 'Sophia
Alethea, been so much before his eyes.

Meanwhile, Thomas obtains high military
dignity in India, and marries a pretty widow, one
Emma Honeyman, relict of the late detestable
Captain Casey. He soon becomes a father, and
gets his boy christened Clive Newcome, His wife,
poor thing ! does not long partake of connubial
blessedness, but goes

" From sunshine to the sunless land,"

and Clive is left to the sole charge of the Lieut.-
Colonel, who at once consigns him to a kind aunt,
Martha Honeyman,• • Here is the letter she sends
to India upon receipt of her little nephew :
" With the most heartfelt joy, my dear Major, 1 take up
my pen to announce to you the happy arrival of the Ram
Chunder, and the dearest and handsomest little boy, who, I
am sure, ever came from India. Little Clive is in perfect
health. He speaks English wonderfully well. He cried
when he parted from Mr. Sneid, the supercargo, Who most
kindly brought him from Southampton in a post chaise, but
these tears in childhood, are of very brief duration. The
voyage, Mr. Sneid states, was most favorable, occupying only
four months and eleven days. How different from that
more lengthened and dangerous passage of eight months,
and almost perpetual sickness, in which my poor dear sister
Emma went to Bengal, to become the wife of the best of
husbands, and the mother of the dearest of little boys, and to
enjoy these inestimable blessings for so brief an interval !
She has quitted this wicked and wretched world, for one
where all is peace. The misery and ill-treatment which she
endured from Captain Casey, her first odious husband, were,
I am sure, amply repaid, my dear Colonel, by your subsequent
affection. If the 'most sumptuous dress which, London or
even Paris, could 'supply, jewellery the most costly, and ele-
gant lace, and everything lovely and fashionable could con-
tent a woman, these, I am sure, during the last four years
of her life, the poor
.girl had. Of what avail are they when
this scene of vanity is closed.

" You may be sure that the most liberal sum which
you have placed to my credit with the Messrs. Hobson and
Co. shall be faithfully expended on my dear little charge.
Mrs. Newcome can scarcely be called his grandmamma, I sup-
pose ; and I dare say her methodistical ladyship will not
care to see the daughters and grandson of a Clergyman of
the Church of England ! My brother Charles took leave to
wait upon her when he presented your last most generous
bill at the bank. She received him most rudely, and said a
fool and his money are soon parted ; and when Charles said,
Madam, I am the brother of the late Mrs. Major Newcome,'
' Sir,' says she, ' I judge nobody : but from all accounts,
you are the brother of a very vain, idle, thoughtless, extra-
vagant woman ; and Thomas Newsome was as foolish about
his wife as about his money.' Of course, unless Mrs. N.
writes to invite dear Clive, I shall not think of sending him
to Clapham.

" Itis such hot weather that I cannot wear the beautiful
shawl you have sent me, and shall keep it in lavender till
next winter ! My brother who thanks you for your continu-
ous bounty, will write next month, and report progress as
to his dear pupil. Clive will add a postscript of Ins own,
and I am, my dear Major, with a thousand thanks for your
kindness to me, your grateful and affectionate,
" MARTHA. LLONEYMAN."
•
Here follows the postscript :

" In a round hand and on lines ruled with pencil :
" Dearest Papa iam very well i hope you are Very Well.
Mr. Sneed brought me in a postchaise i like Mr. Sneed very
much. i like Aunt Martha i like Hannah. There are no
ships here i am your affectionate son Clive Newcome." '
Clevey'a aunt has an unfortunate and importu-
nate brother, a Clergyman of the Anglican Church,
who is ever and always neck-deep in difficulties
andlbrimful of speculations ; quite an Esthetic in
his way. He has written poems, sermons, and
literary refuse of every sort. At all events he is
now determined to succeed in life. The elegant and
commodious chapel, known as Lady Whittlesea's
Denmark-street, Mayfair, being for sale, he deter-
mines upon venturing his all' upon it ; and hence
writes to the Colonel to send him the needful, in
order to complete his plans. The letter is very
racy—and quite as suggestive. The reader will
thank us for transcribing at least a portion of it
"MY DEAR COLONEL,—Did I not know the generosity
of your heart, and the bountiful means which Heaven has
put at your disposal in order to gratify that noble dis-
position ; were I not certain that the small sum I required,
will permanently place me beyond the reach of the difficulties
of life, and will infallibly be repaid before six months are
over, believe me I never would have ventured upon that
bold step which our friendship (carried on epistolarily as it
has been), our relationship, and your admirable disposition,
have induced me to venture to take.

" That elegant and commodious chapel, known as Lady
Whittlesea's, Denmark-street, May Fair, being for sale, I
have determined on venturing my all in its acquisition, and
in laying, as I hope, the foundation of a competence for my-
self and excellent sister. What is a lodging-house at
Brighton but an uncertain maintenance ? The mariner on
the sea before those cliffs is no more sure of wind and wave,
or of fish to his laborious net, than the Brighton house-

owner (bred in affluence, she may have been, and used to un-
remitting plenty) to the support of the casual traveller who
visit the eity.ti: On one day they come in shoals, it is true,
but where arc they on the next ? For many months my
poor sister's first floor was a desert, until occupied by your
noble little boy, my nephew and pupil. Clive is everything
that a father's, an uncle's (who loves him as a father), a
pastor's, a teacher's affections could desire. He is not one
of those premature geniuses whose much vaunted infantine
talents disappear along with adolescence ; he is not, I
frankly own, more advanced in his classical and mathemati-
cal studies than some children even younger than himself,
but he has acquired the rudiments of health ; he has laid in
a store of honesty and good humour, which are not less
likely to advance him in life than mere science and language,
than the as in prcesenti,.or the pons asinorum.

" But I forgot, in thinking of my dear little friend and
pupil, that the subject of this letter—namely, the acquisition
of the proprietary chapel to which I have alluded, and the
hopes, nay, certainty of a fortune, if aught below is certain,
which that acquisition hold out. What is a curacy but a
synonym of starvation ? If we accuse the Eremites of old
of wasting their lives in unprofitable wildernesses, what shall
we say to many a hermit_ of Protestant; and, so-called civi-

vilised times, who hides his head in a solitude in Yorkshire,
and buries his probably fine talents in a Lincolnshire fen ?
Have I genius ? Am I blessed with gifts of eloquence to
thrill and soothe, to arouse the sluggish, to terrify the sin-
ful,
to cheer and convince the timid, to lead the bhnd.grop-
ing in darkness, and to trample the audacious sceptic m the
dust ? My own conscience, besides a hundred testimonials
from places of popular, most popular worship, from revered
prelates, from distinguished clergy, toll me I have these
gifts. A voice within me cries, Go forth, Charles Honey-
man, fight the -good fight;; wipe the tears of the repentant
sinners ; sing of hope to the agonized criminal; whisper
courage, brother,. courage, at the ghastly death-bed, and m
strike down the fidel with the lance of evidence and the
shield of reason !' .. In a pecuniary point of view I am con-
fident, nay the calculations may be established as irresistibly
as an algebraic equation, that I can realise, as incumbent of
Lady Whittlesea's chapel, the sum of not less than one thou-
sand pounds per annum. Such a sum, with economy (and
without it what sum were sufficient ?) will enable me to pro-
vide amply for my wants, to discharge my obligations to
you, to my sister, and some other creditors, very, very un-
like you, and to place Miss Honeyman in a home more
worthy of her than that which she now occupies, only to
vacate it at the beck of every passing stranger.
Then, after stating the disapprobation of his
sister, and requesting that young Clive might be
transferred from her petticoat government to that
of his own, with the accustomed palaver in such
cases made and provided, he assures the Colonel
that every regard shall be paid to the studies, the
conduct, and even the highest welfare of the young

* The Newcomes ; Memoirs of a most Respectable
Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. Illustrated
by Richard Doyle. No. I. London ; Bradbury and Evans.