The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY *VINING, DECEMBER 26, 1857.

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Avr9ooll,69lfe AND MBB. -Two coiled:loos of
menesoripes and anteiersia Mews were sold on Wednesday
sad Teen:ley, at the rooms ef Mews. nutlet and Simplon,
Pkwedilly. Among the meet rerearkable sleeks (in the
Weieseday's We) were the Isaswisig, white mil at the
pion amazed to seal :-lot 4. A letter of Balless, 11.4..
Let 81. A Leer of Laihrdia, 11. le. lot 1274. Thirty-two
doessents bad in the memo of Bagnerread do Cowry, 41.
Let 146. A quittsnos of Domed de doemeelia, 4s. Lot
183. Aristotedis Ethics, a Omsk MB., 41. 4.. Lot 191.
Cr.,, a French translation, made for the Villa's family, 7/.
Let 211. L'Art at &Mena de Robot:woe, 91. Lot 218. (Isidore
Coleus., Store Troiana, 61.2a.6d. Lot 264. Oflleinin B.
Virile* illuminated, 121. Its, Lot 271. Pealteriom,
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aimeed,101. 10s. Lot 273. Begistrus maw= Breese,
81. 16e. Lot 273. &mess Epeolw, 101. 16a. Lot 294 A
pees melon of the Conte Deota, GI. le the lleseday's
.Is, chilly of &seraph letter., were the follovrimr-
Let 5. A Letter of James Boswell, whisk sold for 44 lls.
Lot 11. Clara Elisabeth's Ben Manual to a warning lot
melees of 121 snows, &r., 31. Lots 48 to 62. Bis Litton
of Kitty Clive to David Oarriek, sold tor el. 19.. ed.
Let 63. A Later of Edmond Burke to Ostrich, 2L 2s. In
this letter be says, " If his Ilajety's Theatre at Westmin-
ster we. as well edodnistered ea his Theses at
Dewy Lime, we geoid not haws the plane to him
sad oermess el rassoastreace sad pstitioea." Lot 64.

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ease les" au Tomboy, Om collsettan at drawings formed
by dr steamy Weetcombs, am dons earliest English col-
lectors, osseold. The colketisa comprised some fair med-
lars' by the bends of the old masisre, bet evidently collo tad
without that 6111100•11 regard lo as quality of the wort end
its dais d pesservation which womb the teats of the prone
✓am of amedeers. The collection, which, occordlog l the
catalogue, bid remaload intact from the time of Sir Anthony
Wien:mobs to the moms& day, wee sold in lots at same
trout 10e. to a few pomade seek.

CorTILIGHT IX PICTVILX—The committee of the
Society of Art• for coseidering this subject held their Sot
mooing on Thursday last. There were moot Sir Choirs
East P.R.A., the President of the Society of Bitting
Artists, the Prodding of the Society of Painters to Wore"
colors, the Priaidsat of the Fernand Gallery, Dr.
Reberties Stains, C. Wentworth Mike, Roger Fenton,
Wolfer Fled re, George Godwin, 1.R.5., John Leighton,
P.S.A., end Richard Rotors, R.A. It is ondentood that
the wienzaittes are desirous of obtaining particulars of In-
dividual cages s illostrattesa of the Injury .eking Iron the
want of legal protection I. the way of copyright in weeks of
fine art.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
tx run CI?TL SIRVICI.—The Board of Trade—Joist
Stock Campania. Registration Mos : Mr. George Taylor,
assistant-registrar, has bean appointad regisbar, in the room
of Mr Francis Whittnarsh oloommed ; the dike at amistant-
registrar has become micant by the promotion of Mr. George
Taylor, salary 8001. Legal Department The treeaurership
of the county court, Greenwich and Lambeth, has become
vacant by Ilia death of Mr. James Coppock ; salary 7001.
Customs. Me. William F. Meydon has lams appointed
clerk in the London Docks ; Mr. Louis H. Hall has been ap-
pointed a clerk at Oloucestor ; Mr. T. Jones, collector at
Remorse, boo been appointed oollector at Preston, eke Mr.
Underwood, retired ; Mr. J. Poynter, compirolke at Fal-
mouth, has been appointed collector at ltainsgste ; Mr. J.
CHA.son, comptroller at Lynn, has been appointed °comp-
troller at Falmouth ; Mr. F. J. Swan:eau, clerk at Lynn,hae
been appointed comptroller at Lynn ; Mr. Henry C. Sal-
' wood has been promoted from second to Bret class searcher
at Southampton. Inland Revenue Department—Ezciss
branch Mr. John Beaune, supervioor, has been rernomd
from Ballyclare district, Belfast collection, to Hamilton dis-
trict, Linlithgow collection, at his own request. The follow-
ing officers ham neently passed to the rank of 01.11illers
Ayliff, Young, &Wesson, Soutar, Congaed,
Marriott, and Wall —Civil Service Gasettc
NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIuAL.—The accounts of
Gdo Naivel will asbibit a surplus of 43W., but It is mom-
mewled that a prdon of this surplus should be applied to the
primal et delta On OtrOgrt at the meeting of 1854, when
slim woo a nsioisary of 1031.
RETIREMENT OP THE CHAIRMAN OP THE SURREY
Sessiows.—Os Thursday, in cossequencio of she proposed
retirement of Mr. Puck's, who has hew for more than
eighteen yews chairman of tlie Surrey Seesions, Mr. Wily,
the senior Weimer, road an adMss ozpressivo of the reaped
and good wishes of the tar, the beach, end the clerk of the
peace, for which Mr. Purr Munson thanks is a low cordial
words. .

METROPOLITAN FREE lioenTAL, DEPONENT'',
PAW AAA, CrTT.—Th• swage% natobee of patients renewed
daring Um week endow Beturiey, Dec. 111, was :
, mike!, 861 ; total, 989.

LITERATURE.

Northern Trarel Summer and Winter Pictures of
Ilearden, Leyland, and Norway. By BAYARD
Tertok. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Co.
We are not disposed to rank highly travel-
ling for the mere sake of bevelling. With all due
deference to Mr. Tennyson, we submit Ulysses did
an unwise thing after his return from the " ringing
plains of windy Troy," in not stopping at home and
looking after Telemachus. Still less are we dis-
posed to be grateful to travellers who, under such
escumstancee, take the public into their confidence,
and pour out upon the world their oonfused notes
and hasty generalisations. If a thing is worth doing at
all, it is worth doing well. Jones'. forthcoming work
en the Cannibal Islands must be got up hastily, if
last summer he did America, and if next he medi-
tates men and manners in Timbnetoo. We are not
aware of any necessity which compels travellers to
tarn writers ; and of this one thing we are firmly per-
waded, that our best books of travels are the produc-
tions of men who originally travelled for some nobler
wise than those of mere authorship. Xenophon's
Anshan* was an afterthought, so were the Cowmen-
tarieof Julian Osseer.Tosseene down nos own times,
wistt M 06019191111 Mr. Bowser eitelsed
for his Bible in yet certainly Mr. Borrow
could have bed no ids; of authorship until his re-
turn to England ; end at this moment, in spite of the
commercial distress and scarcity everywhere felt,
Mr. Murray is seereely able to supply the demand
for Dr. Livingstone's Researches; yet it is manifest
that the doctor went out to Africa, not to create a
drama with himself for hero—not in any way to
win the world's applause—but to irradiate its dirk
spots with Christian light, and to proclaim to its be-
esghted use the do ins; of the Cross.
Mr. Bayerd Taylor belongs to an altogether dif-
fernat elms of travellers ; bat of his else bail 00111
Of the best Our author is an American, and his
all the losnotive propensities of his race. In Athos
there wee • kw to compel men to take an interest in
public affairs. In America no such statute exists,
and the spare warp which might triumph in the
political arena, and save the country frees the self-
seeking politicians and venal phicemen who disgrace
it in the eyes of Europe, finds a safety-valve in ad-
venture and foreign travel. Mr. Bayard Taylor is,
however, not one of the wealthy tourists who every
summer cross the Atlantic, and are met with in every
first-class hotel between London and St. Petenburg.
He travels to write books of travels. lie gets up aLW
nimbus Mr. BeejaminAllenmightgethimselfsplbr
examination at theCollegeof Surgeons or Apotheosis'
Hall. The work of years is done by him in es assay
months. He stays at Stockholm a week, and in that
time masters enough Swedish to take him through
Sweden without the aid of an interpreter. He
knows the Pyramids as we Bt. Paul's. He is as
familiar with the Eternal City as we with
the Strand. According to his own account
he is as great a linguist as Mithridates or Car-
dinal Menofanti. Ordinary travellers visit Stock-
holm in the summer—he goes there in the middle of
winter. Truly Mr. Taylor is no ordinary man, and
yet he falls into the blanden of travellers far inferior
to himself, and makes the mistake of thinking that
what is personally interesting is generally so. Thu it
matters little to OW general public that his conductor,
Isaac, was better known by his nick -name of Pitka
Isaaki or Son of Daac—or that Anton, who made
" his first journey with us, was invaluable," though
his father had some miegivings on account of his
timidity. Of books of northern travel we have had
enough, and yet Mr. Taylor is eloquent on travelling
by /Unsold, and on the pine forests and solitude of
the north, and the charming simplicity of the in-
habitants. Of course Mr. -Taylor found it cold—
with the thermometer below zero it gsmerally is—
' and be tad to rough it as travellers in remote parts,
rally have; and of nuns the snow at times
of it heavy and thick, and it was a wonder he
and hie companion were not frozen to death.
Of suns when Mr. Taylor got to one place
with an unpronounceable name, he went on to an-
other place with an equally unpronounceable name,
and of course many of the pages occupied with such
details will ,be skipped by reader and reviewer
alike. The real truth is, that it is a mistake for a
man to suppose that by running away from the
centres of errilimation, and hiding among the Lips
and Fins, and living on reindeer, and riding in
sledges, he adds to our information, or even emits
our interst. Amongst such people there can be se
novelties o record, for there is nothing new. Ac-
cording to Mr. Taylor himself, all the picturesque-
ness of such has gone with their paganism. The
monotony of eiviheation may be great, but that of
savage life is greater. It is mind and its develop-
ment that steeps a landscape in eternal beauty, and
gives a nation immortality. We tire of the wilder-
nes and the prairie till we learn that man—not the
savage, but the educated man—with his hope and
fear, and love, has been there. Topographically bow
puny a city is Athens ; in reality, how gigantic is its

s Perhaps the best parts of Mr. Taylor's volume al
the.. which he would esteem the least, or which, at
any rate, gave him the lead trouble. It is well to
know that the Fins have an Oriental aspect—that
Campbell was wrong when he sang
Cold ea the roc k on Tonaeo's hoary brow ;
since there is not a hill in sight ; but we had rather
learn the actual condition of the Swedes and Norwe-
gians ; and if Mr. Taylor could have told us any-
thing of Russian encroachments in Norway, we
should have been glad. Such fact. as Mr. Taylor
has got together will be read with interest, for his
style is pleasant, and he is not a bad companion. We
ere sorry to end the Norwegians degenerating since
Leirres time. Mr. Taylor writes :
Moss I Rust tail en implement truth. There must have
beta seem &Noddies la the beginning for the wide repute-
die eilish the Norwegians have for honed simplicity of
dassetar; Ist the amouisaisk jiven by former travellers ars
tetriderved twain if at present. The pte are
babes on bdtious awl " Should I have a written em-
bed F. I embed of • landlord, In relation to •am with
whom I was making a terrain. "Oh, so," did be, " every
body is honest in Norway ;" and the same MN tried his
best to chest me. Said Braisted, "I mos heard an old
sailor sity,---• when a man has a reputation for honesty, watch
him "—and there is some knowledge of human nude in
the remark. Norway was a freak Said when Laing west
thither; opportunities for imposition were eo ram that the
faculty had not been developed ; he found the people Motet,
end later travellers have been content with echoing his
opinion. "When I first came to the country," said ealrish
grettsaa who for ten years past has spent his summers
there,," I was advised, as I did not understand the currency,
to oar a handful in payment, and let the people take what
was des to them." " Would you do it now I' 1 asked.
"No, indeed," said he, " and the man who then advised me,
a Norwegian merchant, now mys he would not do it either."
An Radish salmon-fisher told me very much the eases thing.
"I believe they are booed in their intercouree with each
other," said be; bat they do not scruple to take advadage
of myelitis, whenever they con." For my own put, I
tart my that la no misery of Europe, except Idly, ham I
experienced so many attempts at impontion. Another
Eagliehman, who ham been farming in Norway for several
years, and who employs about forty labourers, has been
obliged to procure Swedes, on account of the peculation, of
the native hands. I came to Norway with the popular im-
Fmk, coacerning the people, and would not confess my-
self so disagreeably undeceived could I suppose that my own
espedness were ameptional. I found, however, that they
ta with those of other travellers; and the conclusion
toe aspen% to to concealed.
We make one extract more, which will interest
many of oar readers. In Stockholm there resided
Luig, the inventor of what may be termed ana-
tomical statistics. His suoceseor,Professor Nanting,
continues the system. Mr. Taylor and his friend
pat themselves under his care. He says :
Neither of as requited the eyelets as a modkal applies-
elm. I wi.hed to increase the girth of my 11111111 N sarawkiat
diminished by a sedentary life, and Braided mead a sellsty
valve for his surplus stn ngth. However, the pregsseen by
Mat of touch questicreieg, am:entraind that one of as wee
.onetime afflicted with cold feet, and the other with heed-
aches, end thereupon clapped us both upon the sick lid. Oa
mitring the hull, on the hest morning of our mundane., a
=of paper mtin uning the movements prescribed for our
ideal cams was stuck in our homed Oa inspecting
the Ws. we found we had ten reorscande apiece, and no
two el them alike. Whet they were we could only dimly
piss bent such cabalistic terms as :—..Stodganist,"

(Stamped Id. Additiomd.

" Krbalibig," „Stdingirar "gOgeirgefitt." raj=
about eighty hat in length thirty in height, Ws•
with the mod gymnaslic eurciosa. Some
My or sixty hurt. wen presset, part of whom were walk-
ing up and down the middle passage with an air of great
eolemulty, while the others, gathered in various little
Molts on either side, appeared to be undergoing mama&
forms of torture. There was no voluntary exerds. e, if we
erupt an old gentleman in a black velvet coat, who re-
putedly suspended himself by the hands, head downwards,
and who died of apoplexy not long afterwards; every OM
was being eurched upon. Here, a lathy young man, bent
sideways over a spar, was straggling' with • very rod fa,,
to eight himself, whiles stout ossaleer held him dour
there, a °Dryden gentleman, is the heads d firs robust
sesistants, was having his body violently revolved upon the
bus of his blpajobets, as If they wee trying to menu him
from his legs; and yonder spin, ea indirldnal, suspended
by his arms from a cross-bar, had his feat held up and hie
legs stretched apart by another, while a third pounded vigor-
ously with dosed Eats upon his seat of honour. Now and
then • prolonged yell, accompanied with all sore of bar-
kers ranationa, lulled from the throats of the aisembly.
The object of this was at first not clear 03 nu, but I after-
wards discerned that the full use of the lunge was cond.
dared by Liu a very important pan of the exercises. Alto-
gether, It was a pendir some, and not without a marked
grotesque character.
On exhibiting my tnetardrl, or "bID of fare," to the Ant
teacher who happened to be I reasired my drat
movement, which consisted In held with my back
against a post, aide
epirt chest
only. I woe then told to for re before taking
thessoond teomment. It is unnecessary to receplhdate the
venom cerlertions I wee made to perform; soma it to my,
that I fah vary sore after them, which Perham
ceuMeredi • premitheg and that at the end of Damsons
I was taken off the sack lint and put among tbefriakes or
healthy patients, to whom mane and imam Tammints,
port
cargo allotted. This department us =der the
swig el Berea Vegsmehom adorable teacher and
whir surisr el kers with bayonet, a branch of d.-
I Mara art solids In Suedes her the of Weaning.
The drill el ths yams malariaWert surer was one of
the lasitelke dthe kind I rear law. I prorwed so well
mar the llessa's tunles, that at the er sirs -woad month
I won Mr as dish a Igloo& meat, to ran up rages with my
bark, eel_ id • redeem velar sew preview ftsponibilides,
while qelnet had nerered r lack sr • haN Is circum-
ference, the dials Wag ecliti resole.
On other natters Mr. Taylor concurs with the
opinions_ generally expressed. Of Osear he speaks
very highly. With the licentiousness of the inhabi-
tants of Stockholm be is very much shocked ; at the
some time he admits that in the rural districts an
almost Arcadian simplicity reigns.

White Lies. A Story. By QUILLS READ& In 9 vols.
London : TrUbser and Co.
In a very defiant preface Mr. Beide writes :—" A
French theme has been selected, French sources
drawn upon, and French idioms sprinkled on one
principle of art." This is clear from all kinds
oe intoreal evidences, especially from the story. At
the chateau of Beaurepaire live a widowed barons
and two beautiful daughters—Josephine and Leine.
During the fleet French revolution, when " Frans
was preyed on by unclean beasts, half as, half
' tiger " into the neighbourhood of this charming
family comes a youns cities, as the official of the
district, Edouard Riviera. Re manages to fall in
love with heart, Josephine being already provided
with a suitor in the person of Captain Dujardin,
a gallant young officer well born," but believed to
have turned a traitor to the republic. The holly
are genteel, but in difficulties. Edouard does his
best to extricate them, but in vain, for the chateau
is sold to one of the republican generals,
RaynaL When the new purchaser comes to
examine his estate, he thinks it beet to let
the ineumbranees remain, and offers his hand

to Josephine, who marries him, deeming Dujardin
worse than dead. Immediately he is married
Raynal is summoned to join the French army in
Egypt ; and, ss he hastens to Paris on his way
thither, he meets Dujardin returning to Be►ure.
pairs from the Spanish dungeon, where he had been
imprisoned. Arrived there, a terrible explanation
teases, and Dujardin, almost dying, is carried into
the chateau; then comes the news that Raynal was
killed in action, and Josephine and Dujardin marry;
but a few months brings a letter from Raynal,
stating that he is alive and on his way back,
and, tenor-struck, Josephine drives Dujardin from
her presence ; but a child is born to them, and
Raynal coming home suddenly, finds Josephine non•
in it. Laure declares the child is hers, and Raynal
and Riviera resolve to punish the seducer—Dujardin
then serving with the arm/ of the Rhine. Raynal
repairs thither, and taxes Dujartlio—en old comrade
in arms—with his crime, which the latter admits
and promises to retrieve. However, in an assault
he is returned as killed, and Rayual returns and tells
Josephine what he has done. Josephine thereupon
makes a clean breast of it and clears up all mysteries.
Riviera returns to the disconsolate Lame, whom he
had forsaken and wronged. Dujardin is not killed
after all. Reyna procures a divorce, and Josephine
and her betrothed live in more than blies. " But it
wee a near thing, for they had just scraped clear of
life-long misery, and death's cold touch graced them
both as they went." Now, as all the way through
the sorrows of these people were brought on by
those harmless deceptions we term white lies, the
moral is obvious,. _ _

.
" Have you great heroic virtue? No? Remember
Ananias and Sapphire ; they died for a single white
lie—a white lie as common as trade. Have you
great heroic virtues P Yee? Then do not nullify or
defile them by white lies, but gild them bright as the
sun with truth." The idea is artistically worked
out, but on • model so evidently French, that we Sr.
not surprised to find that "simple souls," as Mr.
Heade scornfully calls them, wrote to the publisher,
" This is a French translation." Au rester "White
Lies" is • clever novel—very effective, at times
eloquent and pathetic. Mr. Heade writes with a steel
pen—sharp, glittering, and clear.

Cats. By the Author of " Kr. Me." London Must

sad Blackett.

That the world, as Wordsworth soya, is too much with
us—that leaden custom lies too heavy ton us all—few will
hays the hardihood to deny. It is in vain we struggle to be
trse. Logic has very little to do with life. Smith sad
Brown are two industrious fellow-apprentices. Smith makes

:fortune sad rides is his carriage , Brown loom his, and
with a wife sad numerous family—for the connexion between
profoundness* and peeped= u an admitted fact—sterves in
Clerkenwell. The two cannot meet on the old friendly
footing of equality ; and as the chances en that Miss Smith
Is much better educated than Mks Brown, there
is at once a line of demarcation drawn. Against
this foaling the author of " Cane," in the capital
tale before tu, protests. Of the weakness of this pro-
test he himself seems to have an idea, for the hero►ne,
the tradesman's daughter, who marmite into one of the
county families, is one of those rare combinations of wit, and
beauty, sad breeding, against whose admission Into what is
teemed good many exclusivessea me-Mims in vein. Never-
theless the tele, au a tale, has great merit. It runs as fol-
lows —lsabel yore, a rich tradcsmea's daughter, is educated
et a boarding•echool supported by the neighbouring gentry,
sad forma a friendship with Clara Blanchard, one of her
schoolfellows, et whose house she occasionally stays, and
tame brother she ultimately murk.. This marriage tone
out unhappily, for Percy Blanchard is wild and reckless,
and his wife married Lim for his love for bee, Dot
hers fur him ; and when she softened to him,
found, es many a woman does, that her husband wee lost to
her for ever. The gentleman Isabella should hays married
wee Mr. Long, a very Bsysrcl ; but she haughtily operas him
from her proems. We give the scene, merely premising
for the Medd of timid bachelors that in real life the chasms
would have been certainly the other way—undoubtedly Isa-
bella would bare Demme Mrs. Long. Do not be nervous,
gentlemen. It is seldom tender maidens say no. In the
novel, however, Irbil does. Mr. Long seeks an explanation,
He says
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" Lost time we met, I had the misfortune to enuoy you.
took me bow to avoid doing so again. SODA WIM64
at which I tried to speak, have since then explained thew
ealveo—l—lt is of as use. Look at use less coldly, I wa-
Mist; for, Isobel, the we thing I have done, with the Imes
el my Baton, is to lave you ; the one thing I have ander
vowed, to via yea. I now ask you to overlook muck In my
II podtieu—lo take a Ibr my love. bly past ocoduet needs
Onplasatiou, I may hays mated forgetful, nestigast, at am

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A Pants tN THZ u nem—Owing to the death
ldr. JohnLoa, the patron of the living of Camberwell. the
advoweem, ow of the most velaahle in the church, will
shortly be aired for sale, the tenet°, having directed it to
be disposed of, subject of cosine to the interest oldie present
view., now in his 63rd year. Ths gross annual value of the
vkarage of Camberwell is 2,3371. as. 81. The income le
derived from the following sources. Vicarial tithe* commuted
fora rent charge of 1,1001. per annum, oat of which there is
&rent-charge granted to 64.-Paul'a,Herne-hill, of 461. Oa. 6d.;
rents miring from glebe lands in North-terrace,
rorado., 121. 2e. 6d. ; do., 221. 10s. ; ground-rent of six
houses in 6terling-Plans, 120/. ; do., in Brunswick-square,
1171. ; annual payment by the Bonny Canal Company, 201.;
annual amount of surplice Isse„tuoinding interment fees from
the Camberwell Burial Board, 4001. ; interest on stock stand-
fag in the name of the Acoonstant•Ennend of the Court
of Chancery. 41. Se. 2d.; Easter offerings eetimeted
at 1001.; 9001. in Exchequer Bills and 1271. Or. 7d. in
Cowls standing to the credit of the purchaser of the glebe
lead la the hands of the Accountant-General of the Court
of Chancery, for the purpose of purchming freehold lend
and hereditament", in the parish of Camberwell. sod pro-
ducing 311. per annum. The vicar has sloe a fee of Is. 6d.
per head for common interments, and 6s. for fondly vaults.
The Norwood Cemetery Company also pay hint 12s. for
family vaults, and 6s. for common interment.. Them fees
average annually 601. To these varied sources of income is
to be added the value of the vicangs house, garden, and
offices (the bast of all the metropolitan pariahs.) valued at
160:. prr annum. Th• land-tax to redeemed, and the total
deductions for rates, tame, end tenths, amount to 2131., leav-
ing a net income of 2,1141. Oa. ed., or considerably more than
the allowance of colonel bishops. The rent charge of 1,1091.
per suntan is liable to very with the average price of corn,
and the quantity of market garden ground in the parish ; but
In the course of years, as the building lessee fall in, and the
market gardens are built upon, the revenue will be considera-
bly increased. The time which it must necessarily take to
moan* this enormous property must alone be considerable,
and from the nature of the revenue it is increasing every
ylar.
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DEATH or SIR ALEXANDER DIXIE.—Sir A.
Disis died at his seat at Market Bosworth Park, on Sunday
last, in the 78th year of his age. The deemed baronet
served with distinction at Trafalgar, had assimed at the rep-
tant and destruction of 23 Nail of the line, had been once
shipwrecked. twice imprisoned, and twice wounded in
I tattle. The title and estates will be inherited by hie son
Akamader Beaumont Chtuuttill, M.D., of Sopa.

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time. Id{ do not rot me as you did before: lot me a
jam' =pelf In your eyes. '
ithe woo drag. Those same words on her lips, only
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very gently. .
"1 di my that your explanatioses are uncalled for. Ido
sot desire them. I thank you for the honour you have done e
me," eh* spoke soberly, not mockingly. " But nothing you
have dons require' explanation, for nothing bra placed you in
an unworthy light. Ooze I did you wrong, and I sok your
pardon; but we can only be friends. I oak your pardon for
any wrong 14125 fee any pain I glee you glow—but we
can be onl
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She bad risen and stood ereaty speaking slowly sad me-
chaakally ; there was no shade of radon cheek or lip.
Hs stood and looked at her.
"I cannot tat believe that you amok in earnest. Co.
quetry—merything uncandid is far from your cbanster. I I
could wish yea Yen noble and more loan."
' limolge with the quietmes of despair.
i "
I thank you that you do me the jerk* i
of bellerangailirdi am cealigned in my first impression of
your character —yon are truly a gentleman—yoa -have done •
me gnat honour." lierange woe& et suck a time. "Aide I
I ash you to forgive me what din Idea."
Still he lingered.
" I would not have for pity, what I cannot gain for love,'
he said, " or I should tell you how every calm word of yours
tortures me. I should tell you bow long I have loved pe—
at times how hopelessly, desparies of being able to der yea
• worthy position. Btu now—'
NE bar bored mat te hese 'geld sedffibtfa.i isle.
lief Soler eyes, dam le bar white r.
I Israel I my bat' I lam yea: Oh, lave me!"
ifs cad towards her sal aped pmeionately ; degree ,
brat before her.
There ohs stood with drooped lids, mho dared not meet his ,
epee • then he knelt and looked op et bar. That wee like
W cautehip of days of old. • wild et le aged la Isebr's 1
breast. She knew that to yield wee but to speak three
bud words and be most bleed for lib. "He cannot
afford to mar his prospects, to lower Ids rennin and toe ~
mete by marrying beneath him." Pride could diagram it- •
self es purer love.
"Mr. Long, you pub me. It is vain. I elided many
you. Toe will not fay mare."
"Tom words ore absolute, and shut out hope."
He spoke bitterly, and roes to go ; he had not even touched
her bad in leave takiag. Hs weer tondo the door. • She
did not feel that she could beer this—to part so.
"Do not path our Reginald," • salt doe seemed to
abrade In her ear. babel addled her bed able him.
He did not see the eager gesture of reoaL
"Mr. Loa& at haat, we are bid*" the mid, with r
difficulty.
He tures&
" Not eowLve must be everything or within to each I
ether. Paddy in ewe."
He wort; she did mot hear anything after the shutting of •
the door for • beg time. Not that she tented ; when rame . •
was rowel by a arse on the dim she era atoll rending
where he bed led her. She bad hem ramerhed, had sem her
year, future Iffie—sonlear, dears, dreggiag ea year after
too a palpable gloom and shrasity. i
We have said "Old" is a vela pretest against the
tyranny of balm Nevertbalssa, the thing it deplores is
to be deeply deplored, mad the mown of It in " Caste" is
at any rats legitimate.
ITNIVARSITY INTELLMENCB.
OXFORD, Dsc. 26.
FIRST PUBLIC ERAMINATION.-ii-PaMMEN.—The
following fit, alphabetically arranged, of passmen In the
school of modeauone or flat pablic muniseld was lamed
yesterday evening by the examiners :—John Arid, Pem-
broke College • Walter Baran, Merton College; Walter Ras- '
sett, Clvistaarch; Charles &thus; Christ Church; Alex-
andra Reed; Wulf" Oder ; Wisest; Trinity
College • Ftederick C. Blyth, Oriel • Thos. Bady,
Uoiereltj College; Farad Clark, seeder =,..
Edward .Claytoe, University College; John Clegg,
Ise Hall ; L. A. Cocked, Bradt College ; Aler.-11. Combs,
Unideity Mop; Henry R. Cowdry, Maim College;
James D. Ceet,'Tiral College ; William Dawson, Rester
College; Pedal D.•
New Colt tiillians Dem
woody, WorederCellege • H. Exeter Col-
lege ; William Draper, W;eossrar College ; John M. Bad.
Ruder Cottage; John W. Ivens, Jesus College; Hedy
Everett, Exeter Collage ; Oswald X. Farldea, Christ Owen;
Thomas B. Fergarm, Rados* College ; Livery Fimerateed,
Exeter College; William F. H. Fleteber, T ; P.
P. Fogg, Js College ; Richard Fred
College ; fiddle Freer, Oeiei College ; B. Oohs;
Tarty Colleens; Thomas Christ Chard •,Allea D. . •
takr+ll=l; ik4wrma. Ex""analoirS 4i.1
deremas reed, Ballot i Odor Id'
verily College; Edward V. Flall,_ Meriden College;
Henry Harrison, Worcester College ; Jamie Hearn Exeter
College • Raid Ihnford, St. John's College; Osmond •
Hundej, Baiter College • John O. braes, Christ Church; i
Edward W. Led Otiel balms; Edward Bennet Kading-
1 ton, University College ; John O. llasneday, Corpus Christi
College ; Robert Kiaohd, Carpus Christi College ; Willem
King, Otial Callen.
;ragm Lararreme, Magdalen Col- II
lege • And Lawia, Wadies College; Alfred
lfericamat Meaner Lean Uremia Collie:It,
• mud
College; King-Meade, Pembroke College; Robert
, Mors, Bathol College; Francis A. Morgan, Would 001-1
1 kV Olnon Morgan. Jesus College • lama A. C. Mori-
son Lmft College,
_. John Nichol, College; Wil-
-1 lista F. Nichols, Worcester College; L. Porter, Hu-
i ter College ; Herbert L. Puxley, Brommose College;
I Robert W. Raley Exeter Cofte ; Thomas Soot;
Worceetar College ; Wyndham Shakesper, Exeter College ;
Mebnouth Simonds, St. Edmund Hall; Richard H.
Sagthett, W•dham College; Richard M. South, Trinity •1'
e ,• William Spencer, Magdalen Hall ; Horatio Spar-
e ri:rll,l° del College; George H. Stanton, Magdalen Hall
t John Steel,_Balhol College; Algernon Scricklaid, Market
f College; Walter G. Ttho Worcester College ; William
Tate, Exeter College • Samuel Thomas, Magdalen Hell •
,
_ • John T. Thum, W Collep , Markham J. Thome,
. St. Edmund Hall; William Tidal, Trinity
I J. Trotter, Oriel College; James R. Versa., ad-
e bane ;E. D. Fans-Viet* Made College; J. H. N.
Walked, Mist Church ; W. Weds, University College;
✓ G. F. Wells, Christ Cburebi F. B. Westbrook, Wen:astir ;
W. H. W bear, Wady= ; T. V. Wiekhsm, Christ Chard;
a W. M. Wills; St. John's C. T. Williams, Pembroke;
a L. P. Williston Magdalen Han; P. C. Wodehotus, Exeter;
✓ W. Wordsworth, Radial College.
O Cue= Cucnoi.--Yesterday.Mr. Cecil Edward Fisher
a sad Mr. Vietor Alexander Williamson, from Westminster
Sobool, were admitted students of this moiety. Mr. Robin-
▪ son, who bad also been elected student, wee prevented from
r. berg admitted by tines.
r, Queue's Cougar —The manual custom of serving up
* the " hoer's heed" ce Chrieters-deg in the hall of Queen •
, College was this year observed with all the forms and am-
monia of asoliat time. Oa the greed occasion the usual
DI song was sung by the Fellows, assisted by the choristers of
Magdalen Coll. Tradition whys that this ceremony is
observed to oodesmods the dellversare of a Scholar of
Queen's Caine from the attack of • wild boar, which had
li
at come out of Shedd Forest, and which he overcame by
thrusting a volume of Aristotle doing his throat. The same
ih tradition adds that this event hared near the top et
• Headington•hOl, and that the w , " Aristotle's-walk,"
be
▪ was eo named from this circrometance.
5d 1
ea A PRI/R IN THE CIIURCIL—Owing to the death
0y of Mr. John Long, the patron of the living of Camberwell the
enodeomon, one of the most minable
--:- in theAi...... church,
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