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London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

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LITERATURE. --------
C.EIRISTABELLE; or, Angel
Vols. Sh.;lB. By
Airs. Robert Cartwright. 3
authcres's remarks
In the preface of this work the rl.
that it is written in the same spirit, end with the same
views, es her former novel of "LPini"
endeavoured to show the effects of As she there
a 11;;antof religious
training on a gifted mind, in th ,
present tale she has
tried to exemplify the benefits of
equal intelligence. It may, per-
hap!, be doubted wnether the life
Christabelle are the best ca lc ula te datnod icmhparreascstetrhoisf
moral on the reader, though
trials that befall the certainly the numerous
unfortunate heroine are sufficient
to overwhelm the best regulated mind. The com-
mencement of the work is descriptive of travels in
the East, being written in a very entertaining
style, and col've:ill-1g the information of travels in the
more hgre,?.able and interesting form of narrative.
0
1 e authoress 11 evidently welt acquainted with the
ancient and modern cities which she describes. The
following is taken from a voyage up the Nile :
No style of art strikes the mind with such deep im-
pressions of surprise and admiration as that of the an-
cient Ezyptians. In the remains of early Indian anti-
quity there is much to surprise, especially in the rock
and Cave temples, but little to admire; beauty has no
Place beside barbarism. In the finished works of the
Greeks, again, there is everythinz to admire; but their
very Prfterion implies so advanced a state of science,
as well as of art, that it rather lessons, or more properly
Overcomes the sensation of wonder at anything which
so gifted a people could undertake. The arts of Egypt,
however, seem to hold a middle place; retaining as they
do much of the grandeur of the earliest works of
civilized man, they excel at the same time in the finish
with which those works have been executed; and they
combine in a way that no other country can exhibit
the sublimity of conception belonging to all the vast
labours of the great Asiatic monarchies with a sense of
beauty in form and of dignity in expression which belong !
to bo'ti the period which preceded and to that which fol- •
lowed them. i

ROBERT BLAKE, ADMIRAL AND GENE-
RAL AT SEA. By Hepworth Dixon. Chapman
and Ball.

The naval history of this country during the
seventeenth century, at which period England, for the
first time, became mistress of the seas, under the rule
of Cromwell, has been passed over to a great extent by
and the volume before us is highly accept-
able as an authenticated book of reference concerning
the 3 wars of the Commonwealth. The character of
lake seems to have been religious in the extreme,
but,. unlike many Puritans, he was conscientious, and
followed his strict rules from a sense of duty, and not
visioned
of "If aggrandisement. He had, too, an ill-pro-
and altogether inefficient fleet to contend
against the most intrepid and skilful admiral that
bolland ever produced. Nut, as in the present time,
ed up to the profession, but, like Cromwell, a
a
ceuntry gentleman, at the age of forty he first became
statesman, and shortly afterwards was appointed
admiral of the fleet, when he effected the first naval
reforms which ever took place in Ragland. Since
the time of the Crusades, when Richard Cour-de-
Lion read the southern powers a lesson of the con-
tempt in which the northern states held their supposed
Impregnable strongholds, an English ship of war had
not entered the Mediterranean waters. Blake's fleet
in the short space of six months humbled the power
of, Italy, and the whole of the African pirates, even to
the Ottoman ports. He was the first sea general
who ever conceived the idea of the possibility of a
ehiP reducing a land battery. The tactics of this
extraordinary man and those of Nelson were the
same,
viz , to undertake and execute what others had
t deemed impracticable, and to insist on the indispu-
-I°lo authority of the British on the seas. Cromwell
Placed unbounded confidence in him, always leaving
to his
discretion the choice of following his sug-
gestions rather than his orders. After his death
Charles
of the most unpopular and disgraceful acts of
k;harles the Second was to desecrate the tomb, and
insult the remains of the most virtuous and self-
devoted admiral that ever trod an English deck.
Although, evidently prepossessed in favour of his
subject Mr. Dixon has given a very fair account of
the life and adventures of Blake, with reference to
divers letters and reports written at the time.

A ,P°LTECHNIC _INSTITUTION.
Lecture Y
of
a very interesting ctaracter has been in
the cinrao of delivery duriz,g the last week upon the ma-
nufacture oft er..dles et is gone by wheni
the loss of the Only needaleppinilythiehehoduasye, sage, is likely to alarm or even trouble us—if a needle
or perhaps y'l-
is wanted, it is at once to be had, and hence we never
trouble ourselves to ascertain how it is made, or where
it comes from. Few arc there who will not be surprised
at the amount of labour required in its production, no
less than sixty-seven separate operations being necessary
to its perfection. The pointing, from its hazardous and
deadly character, excites considerable interest, as also
the means which have been employed to ameliorate the
condition of this unfortunate class of our fellow-creatures.
The machinery used at the Polytechnic to illustrate this
instructivesubject is the invention of Mr. Morrell, of
(curious enough) has introduced all the
Improvements in the making of needles within the last
forty years. Flis last for clearing oat the eyes seems to
have rendered this muitem in parvo perfect.

Tile SWAIN AND HAWKEY AFFAIR.—In conse-
quence of the evidence given during the recent courts-mar.
lal held upon Captain Hawkey ant Lieutenant Swain, of the
Woolwich division of Royal Marines, Captain Hawkey de-
cided upon proceeding against Lieutenant Swain in a civil
action for damages, and it was originally intended that the
case should have come on at Maidstone on Saturday, the
24th instant, on the opening of the summer assizes for the
County of Kent, the notices of action having been served,
Lid a number of witnesses subpoenaed to attend the trial.
Lieutenant Swain, on receiving notice of the action being
commenced against him, immediately adopted measures for
his defence, and retained three of the most eminent counsel
On the Home Circuit, and subpoenaed a large number of
Aitnesses ; but af‘er incurring great expense be received no-
ties on Thursday evening last that the plaintiff had thought
Et to countermand the nutice of trial, and the cause, if it is
intended ever to try it, cannot be brought forward until the
next spring assizes.

_ -
SPOLIATION AT THE CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex-
curEquEft's. - Yesterday notice was issued, offering 51. re-
ward for the discovery of parties who had broken into the
vinery of the Right lion. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., at
Ilughendon House, Buck', and besides stealing and carrying
off a large quantity of ripe grapes and cucumbers, had thrown
open the pit frames and done considerable damage.
B.oIrAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
tor the diploma, were admitted members of the college at a
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 2Gth iust. •
Messrs. Reginald Bayley Walters, Winchester ; Alfred Hed-
ger, South-street, West-square, Southwark wank; T
Quitter
Salop; Alfred Edmund Ga-
Conch; I'olperro, Cornwall; Henry Osborne, Northampton
Thomas Brookes, Wnitchurch,
briel, Collumpton, Devon; Henry Wm..Yrattenton Brydges
New York; Richard HoFking, Marazion,. Cornwall ; Jnie;
I\ in. Duffy, Chili, South America; and Henry Sacheverel
Edward Schroeder, Australia.

VENTILATION OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES.-A plan
which appears to be well adapted for introduction during the
present weather is proposed, of applying to the roofs of rail-
way carriages horizontal tubes with bell mouths, arranged to
catch the air while the train is in motion, and direct it into
the interior, the current of air being divided into streams by
passing through wire gauze screens, and outward currents of
air being produced by deflecting windows, composed of ver-
tical panes of glass, and mounted so as to be capable of being
turned in either direction and accommodated to the motion
of the train.

HARROW ScuooL.—The following gentlemen were
on Saturday elected scholars on the Spencer, Neeld, and
Sayer foundations respectively :—Spencer Scholar—Mr. J.
W. Hozier. Neeld Scholar—Mr. A. M. Curteis. Sayer
Scholar (to Caius College, Cambridge).—Mr. C. H. Monro.
OBSTRUCTIONS AT THE MARBLE ARCII.—POLICE
No•ricE.—The following notice has been issued by the Com-
missioners of Police:—" Regulations to prevent obstructions
in the streets and thoroughfares and Cumberland-gate (the
Marble Aroh), Hyde Park : —Metropolitan stage-carriages
are to keep to the left, or proper aide, according to the direc-
tion in which they are going, and must set down their com-
pany on that side. No metropolitan stage-carriage can be
allowed to cross the street or road to take up or set down
Passengers. No carriage can be allowed to stop in front of
or near to Cumberland-gate, or across the entrance to a
street, or at any place where an obstruction of the thorough-
fare may be caused. All drivers of carriages are to go slowly
or stop when required by the police, to allow pereone on
horseback or walking to cross the street.— RICIIARD MAYNE,
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.—Whitehall, July,
1852.." This notice, which has just been issued by the
Police authorities, has been found to be necessary for the
safety and convenience of the public, in consequence of the
omnibuses and public vehicles generally making Cumberland-
gate a stopping place since the erection of the Marble Arch
on that spot, but more Especially on account of the cheap
omnibuses started on the road making this point the end of
their journey westward, and thereby causing a great deal of
confusion and inconvenience. They will, in future, go a
short distance up the Edgeware-road, and the observance of
thesefor regulations will remedy the inconvenience which has
emus time put been experienced in this respect.
THE OhIICIDE A BAN WE
the body LL.—The inquest on
of John noddingTtwas brought to a conclusion on
Monday, at the Bristol
Mr. J. B. Griudon. Fromoihal infirmary, by the coroner,
e evidence it appeared that the
deceased, who died of tetant% had been stabbed with a
pitchfork ha the groin ant ar on the sth of July last, in
the course, not of an election riot eah first stated, but of a
quarrel between him and George
as e.rnnaings.,wh while hay-
making, about one of the wors).
turned a verdict of " ManslaugheseltlPg* The jury re-
against George
I-lemmings, who is already in Custody at Bairvell.
Law OFFICERS.—In the new NI,-
perform their
i 3 a provision requiring the law °Meer: rius Act there
duties in person 1t is declared that Wheretrt shall be made
he Treasury that
to elepear to the said Commissioners of
412,
joint' the officers mentioned omits to perform the
:shown" ill
Person the said Corntrdisioners, unless it duties'
',oaf
temporar fend
to their satisfaction., that such omission arisseasalfiro-m-
-approve t unavoidable causes, and they shall in writing
one time et -itch emission for a period not exceeding at any
of th'e°hs, shall, as the c Ise may be, require th;
Own use feesdurin due to be received by such officer for his
for and paid over time of such omission, to be accounted
any salary otherwiseforesaid, or shall cease to allow or pay
such omission, due to such oflieer during the time of
A FtAIALE Butt),
noon, an aged feraule —1
TO DEATll.—Yesterday fore-
No. 2, Rose-street, eci,honamed Mary Anderson, residing at
attended to by a %,,,,nan:f aUd who has been invalided and
in her room from the stir some years past, was found dead
ignited. It is sup -"ect% of her bedclothes having
posed that
voured to procure some tea
a
--" Poor creature had endea-
arrival of her assistant, aisae-re e
bed. E • Other refreshment before th
Engineer Fleemin A ero'Vett the lighted match in
soon attended, and thus gfor-tutlen other Crown-street firemen
results. The tltCasied wag '7u atelY prevented more serious
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