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as a gold•headed malacca in his chariot
I fair physician—hut Saint Giles no
as a May-
less that his t half brother little Jingo, it m 'be eear'essei• nos credit by their rascality to W3t
tee slums of 'th ts,
polls, while in behalf, of &lint James, me
from his infancy, and oftpring thou I c4(1.i4
v6lvet
be of a MarchiOness, the writ?: he
haPPe''s
to
the vary outset the reader's syraPaetbailetts fpc.l
surely looks, somewhat Unlike • maligniape
ilnd eulogising the pauper. The isdattnealit(h
indeed, results from nothing more,
distortion Of a merit into a demerit—Jerrold bele:
ever as ready to censure evil among patricians as ;;;;','
is eager to declare himself the foe to whatever is in-
famous among the dregs of the population. I3earnifei
testimonies of his love for the labouring ranks of
society are Bright Jem and his better-half, kind
hearted Mrs. Aniseed. Rising a little higher in the
scale, comes Cepstick the Muffin-maker—greet in
Seven Dials when he saith " Cry reaffins and be
happy ! "—greater when retired, like a Cieristianieetl
Diogenes, to The Tub—greatest of ell when estound-
ing his feithful squire by his benevolent eccentricities
es the Member for the borough of Liquorish. Cape'
stick—by far the happiest among the creations
of Jerrold—affords an admirable illustration of his
own character in literature. His heart rugged a a
cocoa nut, but brimming with 'the 'milk of human
kindness! Crabbed in speech but -gentle in the send-,
ments be utters and inculcates Cynical in manner,
but every vein throbbing with benevolence ! Moil;
precious of all diamonds in the rough--e surly, large
handed philanthropist ! There is a subtle reference to
the real-softness and apparent roughness of the nature
of Capstick in' his congenial pet—Velvet the Hedge-
hog. Among the minor personages introduced into
the story must not be overlooked Mrs. Simmer who
cirries charity to 'the verge of dotage, any more than.
Mr. Folder whose profound homage for popition de-
generates into sycophancy. About the drollest pas-
sage in the narrative is•that recounting the court-
ship of Kitty Muggs, of whose affection
for Caesar Gum, the Aerican footman, it is so delightdelight-
fully remarked " that love turned ebony into ivor.y."'
When speaking of the negro as " au objectionable
blackness, a human blot, an ignominious stain," we
~cannot but think•that the novelist had unconsciously
floating in his remembrance that exnuisits sentence in
Elia, where, in his eaeay in Praise of Chimney
Sweepers, he designates the little climbing-boys—
" dim specks, poor blots, innocent blecknesses.' As
unconsciously has been transferred from " St. Giles
and St. James" to "Bleak House" the name (inimit-
able for a lawyer) of Mr. Tangle, of Red Lion-square
—wiliest and worldliest of attorneys. Tangle's dream
about the chest of gold, with every coin a cherub—
like a swarm of bees filling the chamber with a'
humming sound—is a thing to be read once and never
forgotten. Pulpit-orator has seldom preached a
nobler homily against mammon-worship—no, not even
the godly. Doctor Gilead himself, with his bins of
choice Madeira, and his pond-full of carp, and his
library consisting of volumes " bound in truly pas-
toral vellum," and written by departed ecclesiastics—
" the Eloquent Dumb, the Great Forgotten, the Il-
lustrious Dim, the Folio Furniture !" Whatever
chapters in the novel relate to the melodramatic
murder in Cow Meadow, we should regard as alto-
gether unendurable but that they are introductory to
the household ofEbenersr Snipeton at the Dovesnest.
There it is that we first become acquainted evith
his wife the heroine of the tale Clarissa.
Although the termination of the story is
almost as confused as the close of "Hamlet," the plot
of the narrative, regarded, as a whole, diSplays an in-
disputable advance upon its predecessors. Several of
the incidents are described with an irresistible appre-
ciation of the humorous, such, for example, as that
of the election, presided over by those implacable
rivals, Flay and Rasp, the barber-politicians; Here,
more especially, perhaps, than in any other of hie
productions, Jerrold has administered those bitter
but wholesome truths which, although occasionally
gilded with wit, are more frequently pungent with the
acrid flavour peculiar to those anodynes of morality.
Unpalatable they may be, as any bolus recommended
by ".the faculty," the true medicine a the
intellect, the APinsne larpewv—but it is impossible
to deny the benefit of their distribution through
the most widely disseminating channels of the
age, through the columns of "Punch,' or the
scarcely less popular pages of the novelist.
'for nothing else they would be entitled to our admi-
ration as diametrically opposed to the most perni-
cious maxims of the time, those of the waterialiqts„
and the mammon-worshippers—the lucri bonus odor
ex re qualibet—all those principles of speculation
which are in fact no principles at all, and which John
Law might have plegiarised from Vespasian.
Added
.to the works already enumerated, Douglas
Jerrold has contributed at intervals to his oven
magazines, as well, as to other periodicals, a variety
of papers which have sometimes, in the serial
form, extended into substantial volumes on their
subsequent republication; such volumes sea the en-
miscellany called Cakes and Ale, or the eccentric and
half-diabolic phantasy known as The Man made of
Money. Minor contributions like The Sick Giant and
the Doctor Dwarf, recounting the histories of Zim
and Bakkuk, have served to illustrate the versatility
of his style, if they have tended but indifferently to
enhance his reputation. Twice in his career he has
adventured upon the somewhat difficult path of
journalism, once in conducting a weekly organ called
after himself, but subsequently amalgamated with the
organ of the 'former Member for Sheffield, and again
by undertaking Within the last feW weeks the editor-
ship of "Lloyd's Weekly' Newspaper" a cheap
periodical of rather extensive circulation. It was
in the former of these two publications, namely,
in "Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper,"
that he issued in instalments a collection of
quaint and cunning sarcasms on the events
of the week, high The Barber's Chair—a chair
presided over alternately, one might fancy, by Rasp,
the barber-politician of Liciaorieb, and Jasmin, the
barber-poet of Languedoc.

A little volume some time ago was dedicated, we
remember, to Douglas Jerrold, as " to the greatest
wit of his age," and the dedication, ultra-eulo•
gistic though it might appear, was not, after all, in
reality, so very . extravagant. Without regarding
himt in this respect as pre-eminent above all his con-
temporaries indiscriminately, we would nevertheless
undertake to illustrate very copiously from his writings,
his claim to the title of a wit, and of a wit too of the
highest distinction. For exquisite grace and
aptitude of expression, the curiosa felicitas verborum,
he possesses an abounding faculty—painting a whole
portrait in a few syllables, as where he describes Tom
131att as "sucking the stalk of a primrose that shone
forth in strong relief from his black whiskers," or
where he makes Bright Jem call a garden "a beauti-
ful book writ by God," wherein "every flower and
every leaf's a latter." Everything, moreover, seems
to his peculiar genius to be suggestive of some thought
capable of being " bodied forth" in a brilliant saying.
Barrenness or fruitfulness, it is alike to him—he can
exclaim, when meditating ever the wilderness, " how
few the white days in which the poor ostrich can in
Arabia Petite have the luxury of a tenpenny nail"—
and brooding over the foison of the Australian soil
can as vividly indicate the excess of its fertility by
averring that " you have only to tickle it with a hoe and
itlatighs into harvests." Democritus, is not, how, ver,
his favourite philosopher always : lie can weep when
he lists (and when the -Occasion bid him)' with Hera-
clitus. At these moments his ideas are only sur-
passed in their loveliness by their exquisite and
touching solemnity. How grand and beautiful, for
example, is that ejaculation_ in the work we have
called-his masterpiece, when musing over a skull, es
Hamlet mused over the skull of Yorick, he writes
(ch. xvii.), " the cheekbones look still puckered with
a, smile, as though contracted, when it flung aside
the Mask of live and caught a glimpse of the on-
coming glory ! It was of the man who could think
"
thus nobly, and not of the satirist with the pen of iron
and the ink of vitriol, that Henry 'Mayhew must have
spoken when imprinting on the flyleaf'ou bis " London
Labour and the London:Poor" tile words of affectionate
book is dedicated to Douglas
friendship-7-4' This
Jerrold whom, 'mewing meet intimately, the author
has leartit to love• and honour most profoundly."
Personelly total strangers, though
.we are, to him, it
would
be as impossible 'not to recognise thrcugh sen-
tittents like these tokens of a gentle heart under that
glitteriog chain-mail of wit and acerbity, as it would
to: doubt
his individual perception of the humorous, if
y
from bis facetious impersonation of Mr.
Shadowly Softhead,.in Sir Balwer 'Lytton's Comedy
for the Guild of Literature. Nevertheless, a consi-
siderable portion of the community fads to appre-
ciate those more amiable and least obtrusive charac-
teristics of his style not detecting the latent
sweetness in the prevailing acidity of that good
old English Hippocras. These, were they to pass him
unknowingly in the streets of our, capital—streets
trod len from age to age by the thronging genius of
ksOgland—would fail as entirely to perceive the
energy lurking -in that feeble rather than athletic
frame ;to discover the grotesque and Puck-like spirit
looking through those keen light eyes ; and,
last of all, to discern the inexhaustible vivacity
bidden under that apparently serene and even sedate
butstedate
demeanour. It is thus that
,Jerrold is, as yet,
half appreciated. Meanwhile he himself regards with
a more observant glance, and a more penetrant
sereeptivity the motley crowd of the population. His
capacitiesr stand. him in greater stead than the wand
placed at the disposal of Don Cleophas Peran de
znobulo. His pen, more effectually than the crutch
of Asmodeus, can strip off the roof-tops of the city,
and, what is yet farther, probe the wounds and lay
bare the hearts of the citizens.
KfV7.

DEPARTURE OF THE NIAGARA. _On Saturday
afternoon, about four o'clock, the British and North American
Roy ill Mail steam-ship Niagara, Leith, commander, left the
ithsey for Halifax and Boston, with the mails for the United
gates and the British provinces, upwards of fifty passengers
and a moderate freight.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.

7-----;-TO-7--- -
(CONTINUED ON ,140.01 RATS AND WEDNESDAYS.) .
Sio,—On Wednesday: the p.; of June; the County
E:eettone Polls Bill svaeleciartea.tb.o. apparently success-
'ful• issue, by conehi‘aralete rostoritica in Cummater.
I' the Conservative side.: -Many of them itrugele lard
There is distension in the tra.teß pi; the County Liernaers
for the preservation of the. ancient Wayi; whiro others
yield to the temptation of reduced expenses arid shorter
! contests. One part of the Conservative Oefence was:.
[4:v3
somewhat Characteristic. How, .it was asked, was a
'man of property who had the right of voting in seven
:Places, to exercise his rights unless the chance rens given
abuse out of, for each,. A
•hiul cf having two days to
curious contrast with the . complaint of the public that.'
only about: one Lean in seven has the right of voting at
41; and ameantino; to demonetrs:ion of an inequality
represenznd Is 7 7 times 7, Or 49 to 1.
Oki Th„„ , .1
the
Th"O tenth is that
,ntlpht::,iztzvis ent at Honajiong. , ,, .. . Of .
tn., ~ 71137_ considerable debate on the charge.. for
g 'lB 4 Pare piece .or '" Angto-baxonism,
me"illC by that
the fr ui
tern the wee •Ns up, of a claim
in furnished furnished and ete7,To the power," the power ih .
:jelsbeuTililetitta:fietb e seea kings of old, that " tilit7;
frona the csajoaluen(:,t'" for by semebodY far rumor
iCo:tbe Purpose or malting.
COSe the: weaareeenie
Hoeg'liatig, fsom. al! 11)11:1-'
egg Id 3 for au; ehance 't,linfi'g, was avowedly a TePg :
11„e3itee.pifte!pire
othteEpureestaendt.
It .aos intencled toadlereeteeell"tehill• a war With ChM& ,
not for-the prosecutlbn of honouretrl
Bain by izappsitiops,of Sycee silv on the Chinese, and
degree oppneed. It is
its very e%istenee iS in the ki!ghest dee"r4a'cert.' to which;
the same kind. Of thing ns'if a foreigat
wiela,to trade v.ith - England, Were rat. PrGreeslng' to
seizkng npon Sheernees. Ala two objects bgill bY
dietirt end ' hot:tile'. The place `for the trad
are eisiwy
ee .
'mere ante itoat Canton ; end because it is so thee "t
°f
of operations, is shifted to the place which snits itheeo. "
ef'veaa-ateamers and gunpowder. We are everywad3
this elstves'of the dealers in war. It is -flit. them as:
,gettii Grbonest dOnThserea or celonization are destroyed 'watt giveraup; the pi iceas suhetitutedfi ne
eing, to levy w
nittliotth Of taxes at home, and turn them over: into the
hands of, these eieh have the lack to be the recipients.
Nikti hear of the ;honey power, and the labour power ; '
but there is another power, which is the robber power,
to which Englishmen are the born thralls and veluntary
victims. As the Frenchman will taerifice life, liberty,
and law, for the sake of a lion d'Alger at Paris. so the
Eneishman is ready to give the aseasieteree of his wife
and chileireu 1,0 anybody who promises to " shed blood
enough" in return. Any man who opposes, is "condemned
to everlasting redemption" as pertaining to Exeter Hall.
The plan is not to make commerce, it is to hinder com-
merce, for the preferable chances of war and prize-money.
The pirate interest runs away with the merchant. The
chances of honourable commerce are at Canton; the
chances of fire and pillage at Hong Kong, and for this
troops are sent to perish in what has been averred to
be the most unhealthy station on the face of the earth.
Oar Legislature is a sponge, to suck up honey from the
working bees, and squeeze it into the pockets of the fight-
ing caste. And what is worst of all, is that the people
would have it so. " We," "Our," is the constant popular
response to every scheme of sea or land piracy. I wonder
whether the thieves and harlots of the metropolis would
be allowed to say " We," " Oar," with the same coolness.
But so it will be, till stopped by collision with the
stronger and more wicked, who is already in the horizon,
and who has himself a " skeleton in a closet," which
he thinks upon with dread.
On the same evening considerable debate arose on a
1 sum of 4,3321., proposed to be grunted for rebuilding
the chard, Sze. to the British Embassy at Constanti-
nople. It appeared on examination that the sums ex-
pended within a few years on the residence of that
Ambassador amounted to 87,000/.• The Government
boldly advanced the propesitioe, visas the amount of what
bad been spent in past years had no • concern with the
question whether money was wanted now. Bat pillows
would appear to have given good counsel; for on the
following day the Chancellor -of the Exchequer an-
nounced in his blandest manner, , that the Government
would take time to think upon the question of the
charge.
, Mr. Horsman's.succeas in carrying h vote for a Select
Committee on the institution to Frome Vicarage, appears
likely to be jeonard•z?d. The Tractartan opposition is
rallying, and' throwing all kinds of delays ared impedi-
ments-in the way.
On krirte.y the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of
Equity Bill (from the Lords) woes considered in Com-
mote°. It is impossible to deny the symptoms 4.:f a de-
sire to "improve." Ai one which may be appreciated
by the lay mind, may be noted the direction that "Bills
of Complaint and Claims" are to be printed instead of
engrossed, and copies given to each of ibo concerned.
With such a march of intellect, it would not be wonder-
ful if by-and-by Petitions to the House of Commons
should be permitted to be printed; though at present
tuk a proposal would he ca staggering. 113 to an
ancient Post-office clerk W:O4 the notion of allowing a
bank-note to he sent by poit•from Bradford to London
without charging two elevenpenees.
The Masters in Caaneery are lucky men, to be dise
chaeged from duty with full pay for life. It is presum-
able it was in consideration of their being men advanced
in years, and who had given up practice which it is im-
possible they thould now recover, on an assurance that
their office was for life. I believe my bead was pointed
in the direction of the Noes, when I could see no one
of the same way of think-leg-and thence oossola3.l_l.
must be wrong. At the same time I am not certain,
that if it were to come over again, I should not make
the minority 11 to 89. Oa this an observation may be
made for the benefit of minorities, which it is strange
ut this age of the world should be wanted. Aud that is,
that a ininoeity, especially when a very small one, ought
as quickly as possible on division, to proceed an a
body towards the door which will most distinguish them
from the stream that is voting for the contrary. Instead
of which, they stand talking to the Tellers, as if they
waited to see how many of the hesitating would join
their opponents in the belief that nobody was going the
other way.

I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REZORMER.
Blackheath, Juno 14, 1852. •

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, tne Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses
Alice, Helena, and Louiss, and Priuce Arthur, left
Windsor Castle at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon
for London. _ _

. The Royal suite consisted cf the Countess of Desert,
Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Amelia Murray, Ron.
Lucy • ligrr, Lord Crofton, Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Major-General
Berkeley Drummond, Mejer-General
Buckley, Coldnel
Bouverie. end the Master•of the Household.

• Her Majesty, and the august party went to the
station of the London and South-Western Railway, where
a Guard of Honour of the Coldstream Guards was on
duty. A special train conveyed the Royal party to the
Nine Elms station. The Queen and Prince, and the
Royal suite, entered six of her Majesty's carriages, cud
proceeded, escorted by a party of the 13th Light Dra-
goons, to Buckingham Palace, where they arrived at two
o'clock.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received
at the Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber-
lain, the Master of ,the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain,
Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Wylde.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun-
tess of. Desert, Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Lucy Kerr,
Lord Crofton, Majot-General Buckley, and Colonel
Bouverie, honoured the performance of the German
Play, at the St. James's Theatre, on Saturday evening,
with their presence.
Her Majesty and • Prince Albert
tn ace
walked
Palace, and deasnterdth"
morning in the garden of Buckingae
Royal Family took their usual exercise.
Her Majesty,
Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, . his
"al Highness Prince
andthAelPberrit, Princes
the
Royal attended divine service inertnihengrvTahtee
ladies
lanodf
Buckingham Palace yesterday in
gentlemen in waiting and the domestic household wore
also present.
Tile Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir
George Coupor, arrived at her residence, Clarence House,
St. James's, en Saturday afternoon, from Frogrnore.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess oV Kent. attended by
Lady Fanny Howard and Lord James 'Murray, honoured
her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday
evening.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing street. The Ministers pre.
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lard Chancellor, the
Earl of Lonedale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Seer e.
tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbary, Sir John
uP,:kiL
Lord
ton, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the D ken—
Northumberland, the Right Hon: J. W. Henley, thue Earl of
of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. J. C. Hurries, and
nter.
JoThaheMHaonnn.erns.enrTyhßeoeboeurtnsc,iflreoamt
jtwaomabiocuarsh.ad
an i
view with Sir John Pekin ton at the ColOnialsoffite, en
SaAtardsy.
deputation from the northern ports on the subjest
VT with the Right
of Ramsgste Harbour, had an interne"
Hon. J. W. Henley. and Lord Colchester on Saturday at
the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr.
George Hudson, M.P., Mr. Vivian, ma) , Mr. Ord, M.P.,
Mr. Grainger, M.P., Mr. Farrar, m.tph.
Mr. Liddell, M.P., Mr. Hutt, Iv.p , ;Mr. Grey, M.P.,
month, Mr. Robert Brown, and M.
Lord Bement had .an intervi e Mayor of Tyne'
Charles Parkes.
j
departure ratillsa oft
Walpole on Saturday at the 110 "?
Mr. Berle and Mr. Harris 111"Mee'
Saturday at the railwa— r.
With Mr. Secretary'
Lieutenant-Colonel Perceval
on
erview
Trade.
encllT.'cllcish
Mr. Secretary Walpole on Saturday.
had an inter"'
Mt John Black-
wood had also an int '
with the Big
Mr. '"°
cretary.
Mr. Forbes Campbell had an interview
with
• the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley at
on Saturday,
SaDtuirsdPaaytchfersom the_ received the Board of Tradewerer, , „jai-Office on
at the t.,
lonian Islands. Lord' High Commissioner of the
from the
litsnatches were also received
Governor of Van ly'
The Duke of Wellington L'atriedn.tf ea the
tphree ascehreindo,baywtahse
yesterday in the Chapel Roy a), James s. The prayers
ingtonau,st.
were read by the Rev. Bo-
' ' ley and the sermon was
early service
Dr. -Wesley, ' the dial service
the Rev. Dr. Hook.
Rev. Dr. Book- at
Preached by

ANOTHER, - ABERDAIIH.A.Oother
h:rthe neglect of the men explosion, caused caused entiraLriny colliery at noon on Friday,
curred at the Lietty
1.4 which three men nearly
into their lives. These men went
EXPLOSION
into an old working eallYlonsaked candle; and as the spot
with With an accumulation of gas, an ex-
plosionwas necessarily charged
T The poor fellows were removed as
was mevitab
and every
attention was paid to them, but
8C" as possible,
they are so unmet," he.art that little hope is entertained of
their recovery.