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London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

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L ITER A TURE
BLEAK HOUSE. No. VI. By Charles
Dickens.
According to our opinion, the happiest instalment
of Bleak House yet published is the current one for
August—although it contains no individual incident
comparable in pathos to the exquisite simplicity of the
scene with little Charley. But debarred from further
communion with Charley, we are still privileged to
encounter Mrs. Badger, who talks of her first and
second "as if they were parts of a charade "—and
INp Ir.Skirnpole objecting in the qui, test strains
lteinable to the p-rson in possession sweeping his
furniture
ADiture off in such a highly " indelicate manner"—
steetir. Boy thorn° inveighing with the lungs of a
or against the most profligate coachman, who
therefore to minutes behind time, and ought
Bolcre to be incontinently put to death. Lawrence
delTet. orne's country residence, near Chesney Weld, is
geoseituslY painted—every leaf, and marrow, and
as ]early in the garden being visible almost
cher -ar'Y as reality to " the very shadows of the
rY trees and apple trees heavy with fruit!" The
trifling terY about Esther Summerson is rendered in a
degree less enigmatical than before. From in-
cidents occurring between the heroine and Mr.
j_
ce in his temporary " growlery," and subse-
InshtlY with Lady Dedlock in the little church in the
tin
and afterwards in one of the lodges at Chesney
v old during a thunderstorm, beautifully described, it
Would seem more plainly than ever that the proud
37 of fashion knows more of Esther's origin than
!night by the generality be conjectured. Thinking
of this, the mind of the more 6bservant reader reverts
with a sort of shudder to the body of the poor squalid
°PiUm-eating law writer " Nemo," buried away
alncog the rats in the " consecrated ground " of one
of the London graveyards. The last chapter in the
number, (ch. xis.) entitled " Moving on," is perhaps
the most cleverly written of any yet comprised
'n the narrative—a chapter that Dickens
alone could have indited. It opens with the descrip-
tion of our inns of law during the broiling weather
of the long vacation. Here is a little sketch as true
to the life as a calotype
" There is only one Judge in town. Even he only
comes twice a week to sit in chambers. If the country
folks of those assize towns on his circuit could only see
him now! No lull-bottomed wig, no red petticoats, no
r
no javelin-men, ne white wands. Merely a close-
susvcd gentleman in white trousers and a white hat,
With sea-bronze en the judicial countenance, and a strip
of bark peeled by the solar rays from the judicial nose.
wbo calls in at the shell-fish shop as ha comes along, and
drinks iced ginger-beer!"
Then what can be more accurate than the following
,account of the dog-days in the vicinity of Chancery.
lane eee.
• "It is the hottest long vacation known for many
Years. All the young clerks are madly in love, and,
according to their various degrees, pine for bliss with
the beloved object, at Margate, R4msgate, or Gravesend.
All the middle-aged clerks think their families too large.
ail the unowned dogs who stray into the inns of court,
and pant about staircases and other dry places, seeking
'lister, give short howls of aggravation. All the blind
men's dogs in the streets draw their masters against
rnps, or trip them over buckets. A shop with a sun-
lead, and a watered pavement, and a howl of goldand
ve
, silr fish in the window, is a sanctuary. Temple-bar
gets se hat, that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fleet-
' street, what a heater is in an urn, and keeps them eim-
meting all night."
Chadband, the gentleman in the " Ministry"
who from calling himself "vessel" (figuratively
SPeak,ing), is erroneously supposed by some to he en-
ganaagueed,
and iaca
navigation—" a large yellow man with a fat
general appearance of having a good deal
of train- oil in his system",--the Rev. Ale. Chadband,
Who regards Providence as a creditor who sometimes
consents to a composition—is a companion picture to
the Rev. Mr. Stiggins, famous in the days of Pick-
' wick. His " retiring into private life until he invests a
little capital of supper in the oil trade"—is (in more
senses than one) a rich idea. Poor Jo re-appears,
being the unfortuna a wight who is ordered to " move
" (according to the intimation conveyed in the
Mere heading of the chapter) by one of the more assi-
duous policemen. His account of the fate of the so-
vereign given to him by Lady Dedlock is sufficiently
• characteristic. A couple of half-crowns have been
'':Shaken out of his rags by the policeman, whereupon,
plays Jo—
They're wot's left, Mr. Sangshy,' says Jo, out of
sov'ring as wos give me by a lady in a wale as sad she
wog ts servant and
as come to my crossin one night and
asked to be showd this 'ere ouse and the ousel wot him
as you giv the writin to died at, and the berrin ground
wet ho '8 berrid in. She ses to me she ses " are you the
boy at the Inkwhich?" she ses. I ses" yes" I ses. She
!asset: me she sea °' can you show me all them places?"
" yes I can" I sea. And she sea to me do it,"
allhddlydur,i it 'and she giv me a sov'ring and hocked it.
with 'der‘.. had much of the sov'ring neither,' S3'. Jo,
Toce.autYlonte,ars, fur I had to psy five bob, down in
changewhile:ny s afore they'd square it fur to giv
at
otrtifelnh a young man he thieved another five
and the landlord end another boy he thieved ninepence
on it."' e stood drains round with a lot mo:e
Poor fell
inso• ow ! There is a melancholy truth in all this,
much
that when Jo exclaims, " 0 my eye ! where
Can 'I move to ?" in answer to the mandate of the
:Pl.cetrian, we are almost tempted to agree with the
.1:10 two
Tor Mr. Snegsby's objection. " Well ! really
e, you know,—really that does seem a ques-
s_l•e u tab
Where, you know ?" What falls from the lips
poor Jo about the lady that gave him the Bove-
, reign is likely to develope the plot of the story, falling
as it does in the hearing not only of Mr. and Mrs.
s
nagsh!i, but also of the disconsolate—and inquisitive
--Mr. Guppy. The drollest passages in the number
are Luster's mistakes in the announcement, and sub-
sequently her intimation of the cabman's message--
spectrally—as that of "one tbouiing seven hunderd
and eighty-two." The moat unaccountable circum.
stance in the narrative is that of Hortense walking
shoeless through the wet grass.

CLAIRVOYANCE AND PRACTICAL NIES-
' ..4iERISIIL By James Eidaile, M.D. Bippolyttor
Bailliere.

As u remarkable illustration of that " feline tena-
city to life" facetiou3ly attributed to mesmerism and
mesmeristF, by the author, in the very opening sen-
tence of his preface, his own volume may be accepted
in testimony. It is, without question, one of the most
curious and, in some respects, one of the most extra-
ordinary works ever written upon clairvoyance. Every
Page ia.orowded with startling reflections, and every
chapter with astounding incidents, facts (so called)
being therein as " plentiful as blackberries." Dr.
Esdaile, formerly Presidency surgeon at Calcutta, has
already appeared Et 3 a writer upon this enthralling sub-
ject—his " Mesmerism in India" having first directed
to his ability the attention of the rest of his profession.
nis present work is for several reasons much more
'worthy of consideration than its predecessor. The
motto upon the title-
page is capital—the words of
Cardinal de Retz—" On se trempe,ylus souvent par
%ea nAiances, quo par se confiances. And certainly
the writer acts throughout boldly enough upon the
deductions from that thought—he i 3 credulous upon
all matters tending to back up his argument, and na-
turally enough we will allow in several instances,
from the astonishing nature of some among the
number of his revelations. His volume is somewhat
gracefully dedicated to the present Governor-General
of India, the Most Noble the Marquis of Dalhousie.
Altogether the book is of such a nature that we can
have but little doubt as to its favourable reception,
not only in tlae mother country, but in her depen-
dency of Ilinelostan.

MEMOIRS OF THOMAS IIOLCROFT.
Longman and Company.
A timely reprint of these very singular memoirs of
a man of strong natural powers, written by himself,
contributes a recent addition to the cheap and in-
teresting serial of the Traveller's Library. Already
. that . extraordinary series of pubiications has ovi-
, deuced its claim upon the gratitude of the reading
public by a succession of brilliant, and many cf them
masterly compositions. Among , these are comprised
Some of the finest of those superb essays of Macaulay,
'which first achieved-for him fame in literature. Then,
tnereover there are " Laing's Travels in Norw3y,,"
azul Wills'a .collation of " Sir Roger de Coverley, '
and Kinglake's splendid " Lo hen," and
T ". Hue's
ravels
in Tartar and " liolerofr's Memoirs."
The last-mentioned reprint now lying before us fur
consideration cannot fail now-,-days, any more than
it •.
os_i ty of
did on its original app:arane?, to fascinate the cu-
riosity even the most careless and indifferent
reader, by recounting the vicissitudes
rawa of lettersputation, psssed through
by a
rising from obscurity to a re-

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Th._ - ENE ttaL and
11 i it Ji vi•llS ACT-5
6 W. /V.. c. 50, and the Statutes and Cases re •
lating thereto, brought down to the Present Time,
1852, with Introduction' Notes, and Index. By
Alfred A. Fry, EBq., Barrister •at Low. Charles
_Knight, publisher (by authority) to the Poor•law
Board. 165.2.
.. This is a very useful manual for all surveyors,
assessors, and others concerned in the adrainatrition
• of,,the important.. department to which the work is
directed, viz.. Ow G:meral Highways of the Kingdom.
The ohject of the learned author has been to bring up
to the present time (tie r fees to an Act pl.sed the
28th of May last, and a 801 thrown out only a lew
weeks ago), the statutes
and judicial authorities re-
ferring to the governing Act, the 5 and 6 W. Iv., c. 50.
In illustrating this one Act, the index shows in that,
that in addition to a considerable ntim ber of decided
eßses, Mr. Fry his been cor"pent d to refer to wore
• than twenty five widitional statutes, which directly or
indirectly hear cn the important IF;i(l.ing Act. This
Wolk is one, of a most useful s,rieF, published by Mr.
Charles Knight—acting in finis rt apt-ct as publisher
b 9 authority to the Poor..4,vir Board aid the General
Board of Health--Aie 01,
int o the scr4,.s being to
uTike"the several important statutes on these, subjects
of a practical and popular character, thoroughly in-
telligible and accessible
to the WOOS

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in their operation. The whole sr,,ries if; pvcies of
c,difteatiou, auoi we can raeotnrnend .Mr. Fry's work
h-f07:3 us, just pubished, to an honest and able
edition of one of the important statutes of the series.

SPORTIN G NOTES.
CCI,XXVII.
THE BRIGHTON MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--The list of sport to-morrow contains seven
races, six of which have obtained strong entries. The
first item on the card is the Licsneed Victuallers' Plate
but 'as this i 3 a handicap,
aotflelso s"6" overtheweig.htsdtohe riot appear
pear until to night, it is im-
possible for me to te lent thu winner.
The Marine Plate of 100 soya., for all ages, three quar-
ters of a mile, has en entry of forty-six, and sixteen will,
in all probability, be found at the post. Their names it
i 3 out of my power to give, and therefore I sh:-.11 jump to
conclusion by stating,- as my opinion, that KILMENEY
will be the winner, as hie 515 s penalty, considering -that
he is handicapped at fist 10Ib, cannot damage his chance
in this instance.. Humphrey may possibly be his com-
panion at the finish.
The Grand Stand Plate of 100 SOW., added to a Han-
dicap SwepstAes of 10 sow. each, over the mile and: o.
quarter, out of twenty-two nominations may not unlikely
have eight or nine runners; and if the winner is not to
ho found in Iscima, Stamford, or Coral, I am at a loss
where to look for it. The first-named of this trio is my
particular choice.

The Brighton Cup of 200 toys. in specie, added to a
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. etch, over the Old Course, not
cidite two miles, will probably be contested by Shara-
vogue, Pan, and some three or four others; but as Chief
Justice and Clincher aro very dcbious starters I see
t,thine, to deprive Pan and Sharavogue of the first and
second places.
The First Brighton Triennial Stakes of 10 sous. each,
with 100 added, will have a small field, but the compo-
nent par?s of it are not thoroughly known to me: Fever-
sham, Gossip, Sc. Benedict, Oasis, and Sylphiiie are,
however, at home in their stables. The starting of
Sittinghource seems somewhat doubtful; and I need
look no further for a winner then to Catherine
Hayes, Stella and Bridget occupying the second and
third places.
RATAPLAN, I believe, will walk over for the 100 Sovs.
SWeepstakes.
The Sussex Plate of 60 soya,, added to a Sweepstakes
of 3 soya. each, for all ages, half a mile, will bring the
day's sport to a conclusion. This race not improbably
will be won by BIICSHOUND or RAGE.—I am, Sr.l &e.
Aug. 4. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON RACES.
BRIGHTON, TUESDAY EVENING, SIX O'CLCCK.—Tbe
following horses have arrived :—Apnrodits, Catalpa,
Faux-pas, Thornhill, Follow. meslads, c' by Venison out
of Passion, f by Hetman Platoff out of Infidelity, Pan-
rernime, Knavery, Miss Hayes, Irene, Sagacity, Puritan,
Tremble, Little Savage, Flounce, False Alarm, Janina,
Hambletonian, f by Kremlin cut of Gaiety, Simon the
Cellarer, Grasshopper, f by Touchstone out of Kitty of
Coleraine, Waterfall. Montague, Cockcrow, Musician,
Sharer;;Hesse
4;it:
pu rhgi,e
gßr ea! E
et
w,Harpsichord,t,Cornelius,
Proudfoot,
Phlegethon,
Surprise, Tonic, Heroine, Young England, Christiana,
Timid Fawn. Mountain Flower, Lady m Waiting, Hand-
some Doe, Ethelbert, Firebolt, Amber Witch, balopian,
Prevention, Cock Pheasant, Bridget, c by Theon out of
Louisa, Miss Emma, Shropshire Lass, The Pearl, Cotton
Latly, Merlin, Euckhound, Ischia, Stamford, Rallsr,
Bullfinch, Prestige, Flora M'lvor, The Heriot, Vesta,
Sweetmeat filly, Stele, Abdallab, Flytrap, Knight of the
Thistle, Margaret of Anjou, Leybourne, Miss, Talbot,
Lady Isabel, Convulsion, Hothorpe, Plumstead, Slesping
Partner, The Moor, Kilmeny. Yellow Boy, t by Touch-
stone out cf Cuckoo, Blood Roysl, Billy Bar, Prince
Rupert, Bushranger, Coral, Catherine Hayes, Snarry,
Humphrey.
A great deal of rain has fallen in the eourso of the
afternoon, greatly to the improvement of the condition
of the course, which previously seas very hard. There
is every prospect of is brilliant meeting.
BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
LATEST BE I'TING ON THE BRIGHTON STAKES.
7 to I'S apt Phlegra
6 to 1 agst Ischia
7 to 1 agst Montague
6 to 1 agat Lord Waterford's lot
RIPON RACES.—MONDAY.
The Two years old Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, with
20 added, cogs, Bst 51b; fillies, Bst 21b, &c. T.Y.C.
Mr. R. Chilton's Audubon, Bst 51) ......
Mr. Gill's Shamrock, 7st 131 b ............ ((cif.arOmsb,rznhet))
Mr. Osborne's Miss Agnes, Bst 21b (Metcalfe) 3
Batting—Even on Se ainrock, and 5 to 4 agst Audubon.
W'on in a canter by a length.
The City Members' Plate of 501, for three years old,
7st 21b; four, Sat 31b; five, Bst 10Ih; six and aeed,
9st 21b; mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Heats,
two miles.
Mr. John asborne's Proctor, 4 yrs (J. Osborne) 1 1
Mr. Eissseltin.-2's The Setter, 4 yrs ...(Longstaff) 7 2
Mr. Goodein's La Gezza Ladra, 6 yrs (Holmes) 4 3
Mr. Muirland's Ammonia, 3 yrs ......... (Chilman) 3 4
Mr. Roynard's Black. eyed Susan, 3 yes ...(Lye) 6 5
Mr. Hutchinson's fby Trueboy, 4 yrs (G. Oates) 5 6
Mr. Fryer's Jack Leeming, 4 yrs ...(Cartwright) 2 dr
Two well-contested heats; the first won by a neck,
and the sscond by half a neck.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
GREAT YORKSHIRE STAUES.—OtE3r.3 to take 5 to 2
about Songstress.
ST. LEGER.-3 to 1 apt Songstress (t), 7 to 2 agst
Stockweli (r), 4 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke (t). 15 to 1
agat King or Trumps (t), 33 to 1 agst Trousseau (t), 10
to 1 agst Lord Zsitanci's two (O.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
MANCHESTER AUTUMN MEETING, 1852. '
THURSDAY.
Handicap for the Champagne Stakes.
Larnbtou, Bst 71b—Kitty Darling, Bst 71b—St. An-
drew, Sat 71b—b cby Freeman, dam by the Saddler,
Sat 41b—A.udubou, Sat 41b—b1 cby Simeon], out of
Verbena, Bst 31b—Baloon, Bst 11b—Exact, Bst Ilb—
Game Tommy, 7st 131b—Ethelbert, 7st 111 b
Mrs.
John, 7$ Slb—Shamrock, 74 51b—Dressmaker, 7st.
The Wilton Handicap of 5 says. each.
Russborough, 5 yrs, 8$ 71b—Chief Jastice, 5 years,
Bst 31b—Black Doctor, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Doubt, 6 yrs,
7st 81b—Sir Charles, 5 yrs, 7$ 81b—Triekstress, 4
yrs, 7$ 41b—Neasbam, 4 yrs 7st 41b—Haricot,
5 yrs, 7st 4th—John o'Berwick, 5 yrs, ist 21b—
Gholab Stngb, 4 yrs, 7$ 21b—Alp, 6 yrs, 74 21b
—Unity, 4 ;yrs, Est 1 Ilh—The Proctor, 4yrs, ,6st 111 b
Littiei George, 5 yrs, Est 101b—Lough Bawri, 4 yrs,
6.2 t 101n—The Drag, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Holywell, 3 yrs,
6st 101b-3utterfly, 3 yrs, Est 716—Msrry Bird, 3 yrs,
bat 51b—Red Lion, 5 yrs, Est 31b—e1aok Learning, 4 yrs,
68t 31b—Fancy Girl, 3 yrs, 6$ 11b—Conmore, 3 yrs,
Est lib—Banshee, 3 yrs, sst 111b—Fancy Free, 3 yrs,
sst 11.15-I,?rry Wheat, 3 yrs, .5$ 1 Ilb—b c by Mei-
bourns, out of La Femme Sage, 3 yra, 5$ 1016— Cleave_
land, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Hachette, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Happy
Jre, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Ethelwulf, 3 yrs, sst 61b—b fby
Leftmost, out of Jrmima, 3 yrs, sst fib—Little Davy,
3 yrs, 5$ 61e—Bilbury, 3 yrs, 4$ 1215--Barbata, 3 yrs,
4st 81b.
The Autumn Welter Handicap of 10 Sovs. each, h ft.
Oabaideston, 5 yrs, Ilst 81b—Shropshire Witch, aged,
Ilst Sib—Alp, 6 yrs, llst 41b—John of Berwick, 5 yrs,
list 41b—Longinus, 5 yrs, list 416—Caurire, 6 yrs,
10st 131b—Warwick, 5 yrs, 10st 9th—Bravo, 4 yr 5,10.4
—Henrietta, 3 yrs, gat 41b.
FRIDAY.
The Chesterfield Handicap.
The Prime Minister,• 4 yrs, SA 71b—Russboroughs 5
yrs, Bst 51b—Osbuldeeton, 5 yrs, Bst—Grief. 6 yrs, 7st
13113—Sir Charles, 5 yrs, 7st 10:13—The Italian, 5 yrs,
7st 71b—Trickstress, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Gholab Singh, 4
yrs, 7st 31b-1--Young England,
5 yrs, 7st 216—Proctor,
4 yrs, Est 10.13—Unity, 4 yrs, 6$ 131b—Canrire, G yrs,
Est 1216—Lough Bswn, 4 yrs, 642 nits—Warwick, 5 yrs,
Est 121b—The Little Fawn, 4 yrs, bet elb—Timid Fawn,
4 yrs,
bat6at 9
91
ibbittated 916—Butterfly, 3 yrs, Est 9111—Lady Agnes,
3 y 1.3,
Gat 71b—Prestige, 4 yrs,
Est 51b—Deceitful, 4 yrs, est 51b—Red Lion, 3 yrs, Cat
6it 31b—The Puritan, 3 yrs, GA—.
sTieb—eSeu°rnul°
Surveyor,
3 yIl
re, 3yrs, Gat—Maid of Lincoln, 3 yrs. Sat
131 b Paddy Bird, 3 yrs, 5$ 131b—Kitefiyer, 3 yrs, sst
1) yrs, sst 101b—Rsehetia, 3 yrs, sst
910—Ibi, 3 yrs, ssl 91b-
-sst Bkb—b f by Lanercost, out of
Littls
1(0 bb----IlilnoiheirLsot're,ll;
Davie, 3 yrs, 3
yrs, bat
I 3
Jenairna, 3 yss, est 81b—Etbslwolf, 3 yrs, sst 81b—
LLPP7 Joe, 3.r3, 53t
Bib—:loyal George, 3 yrs, sst
51b—Euphosy,3 yrs, bat 5 ib—Bilberr37l " yra, ss. 21b—
Barbata, 3 yrs, 4$ 131e—Aeviete, 3 yrs, 4st 1316.

Her Majesty and his illy,
ti Highness Prince .
and the
accompluiA by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Kent, the C"ItT
eIIOtCSBUORNAE:TtiSADAibY;rt,
Prince of Wake, Prince Alfred,
Princess Royal, their Serene HigPrincess Adelaide of
finesses the Princess
Hobenlohe, Prince Charles anti
Hohonlohe, and attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen
iu Waiting, embarked at half-past five o'clock Yever-
day, in the Fairy, and cruised round the steam squadrcn
lyiz;g at :;pithead. The royal yacht returned to its
moorings off Osborne-pier at twenty minuted before
eight o'clock.
Messrs. Sainton, Cooper, Hill, and Piatti, the Quartett
Association, had the honour of performing, a selection of
music yesterday evening, after dinner, before her Mn-
jesty and the Rojas .

ughenaen Manor, Bucks.
y
The Chancellor of the
i.Exch( quorr.nd Mrs. Disraeli
ielD6 ti°f;:tches yosterda. for h
were sent off to the Gcivern of
m Gibraltar
veNterd
frriu the Colonial-cfficF,. or
were
itiso icbt to the Gor3rnor of the Gold coast't.es

Societyl ° n aY
werme out
PrATIn IN THE SERPFINTINE.-0, 1‘
big, when the boats of the Royal Humane
"orn_.
on the Serpentine, two bodies were discovered, in which life
was quite extinct. The first was that of a
h,,, u
Young man
named James Webb, who was found by Griffit
society's men, near the bridge on
the south side', °bllet of the
was seen by his employer, Mr. Banvy, of Knightsbr. 1 as
he n ge en
Saturday evening, it is not known whether his d
-estb wa
aceidern al while bathing or not. The other is a lest doutnfui
case, for as the man had all his clothes on, there is no doubt
it was an act of suicide. His dress was similar to that of an
engineer or mason. He had DO money in bis possession
wtien searched, but a paper was, discovered in his pocket, on
Which„,, was written, "4, Auckland-terrece, Lavender-road."
:;enether this was in his own writing, and en hnimation of
Colchester
tituequa:.t be had perpetrated, so that his friends might become
the district with it, is a matter of surmise• but the coroner of
In strict has had information sent to him of both cases.
. Majesty in the
I the mcahwthe
bile bodies are lying in the R° se and Crown
atorkrae3e'-itlroanzurrt,_l-it
Ion-yard, to -
pßovEc be ssen by the relatives.
he.-TIONIsT LoYALTY.—At 11 dinner given at
at Sofn, was pr
week of tae borough election, the health of
- -,olear
oardoinyspiagoisii,di
inverted
rutes
du usual
i, s
glwhenass ,ar farmercf
a sin g residing
CI jut?. .
/pm.. 3', on the ground that the Queen was
ich Express.