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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, 18, 1852.

LORD CARLISLE ON THE POETRY OF GRA Y.

THE LATE EDITOR OF "THE EDINBURGH

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY.

4.

REVIEW."

The noble example which the Right Hon. the Earl of
Carlisle afforded to the peers of England two years ago
at Leeds, when he gave two lectures before tile Me-
chanics' Institute of that town, has been followed by
men of such exalted rank as the Earl of Belfast, the
Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Montagu, and others, and it is
understood that his Grace the Duke of Newcastle will
shortly rank amongst the same class of aristocratic
teachers of the people. The Earl of Carlisle has laid the
mechanics' institutes of Yorkshire under additional ob-
ligations, by delivering at Sheffield, on Tuesday even-
ing,
a lecture on the writings of the poet Gray. The
meeting was in the lecture-hall of the Mechanics' Insti-
tute, and in addition to the members of the institution,
there were present a great many of the principal inha-
bitants of Sheffield axd the neighbourhood.
Amongst the audience we noticed Mr. James Mont-
gomery, the poet ; the Rev. Canon Trevor, the Mayor
(Mr. Matthews), Mr. Alderman Dunn (the President of
the Institution), the Master Cutler (Mr. Hunter), Dr.
Holland. Mr. Fisher, sen., Alderman Pye Smith, Mr.
Henry Jackson, Mr. Henry Newbould, Mr. Gains-
ford, Mr. John Newbould, Mr. Edward Smith, Mr.
J. B. Brown, Mr. Badger (Rotherham), Mr. Alderman
Carr, Mr. Solly, Mr. Bramley, Mr. Leader, jun., Mr.
F. Hoole, &c.
Alderman DUNN, who, as president of the institution
took the chair, having introduced the noble lecturer.
Lord CARLISLE then proceeded to read his lecture, the
subject to which it referred being the poetry of Gray, an
author, he said, who, in point of mere bulk, had proba-
bly written less than any other poet whose works were
comprised in any collection of English poetry, but few
had attempted a greater variety of styles, and these, too
amongst the most difficult and lofty in the whole range of
song. He had written odes which might be divided
into the regular and Pindaric ; he had written elegiac
verses ; he had written Latin heroic, Latin elegiac,
and Latin lyric poetry ; he had written burlesque ' • he
'
had written satire • he had written epitaphs ; he had
written a sonnet ; he had written part of a tragedy ;
and all he had written was not only excellent, but nearly
perfect in its kind. His leading characteristic, and
probably that which interfered mainly with his being a
more prolific writer, was the nicety and purity of his
taste. If he were forced to compare his style and genius
with those of any other writer he believed he should
select Virgil. He would back his own estimate of the
poetical merits of Gray by the weightier authority of Sir
J. Mackintosh, who said, "Of all English poets he was
the most finished artist ; he attained the highest degree
of splendour of which poetical style seems to be capable."
He appeared to have laboured under an hereditary ten-
dency to gout, which closed his illustrious career in his
fifty-fifth year, and which probably' gave to the whole of
his sedentary and eventful life that disposition to a pen-
sive, but not morose, melancholy to which he frequently
alluded in his correspondence, and which has left most
distinct impressions even on his highly-polished and
carefully laboured poetry. It was in that light he was
represented in the following lines, written in a poem of
the last century, " The Pursuits of Literature," by Mr.
Mathias, a distinguished. classical and Italian scholar :
" Go then and view, since closed his cloistered day,
The self-supported, melancholy Gray.
Dark was his morn of life, and bleak the spring,
Without one fost'ring ray from Britain's king :
Grants's dull abbots cast a sidelong glance,
And Levite gownsmen hugged their ignorance :
With his high spirits strove the master bard,
And was his own exceeding great reward."
Though the " dull abbots"" of Cambridge were spoken of
with extreme irreverence by Gray himself, he spent, by
choice, the greater portion of the last twenty-nine years
of his life at that University ; and with reference to the
want of " one fostering ray from Britain's king," in the
first place he not only had the option of becoming poet
laureate, Ibut had received the office of Professor of
Modern History (which he feared he had made a sine-
cure) in the University of Cambridge, if not actually
from George the Third, at least from the Duke of Graf-
ton with the king's conveyed assent. He imagined,
moreover, that Gray, who never was a distressed man,
would have shrunk instinctively from all the common
appearances of patronage, and it should be recollected
that when he travelled with the son of the most power-
ful Prime Minister England ever had, he quarrelled
with him. One of the greatest readers, he was one of
the most sparing of writers, and when he consented
to the publication of his immortal Elegy, he requested it
should be without his name, and expressed an almost
ludicrous degree of horror at the notion of its being pub-
lished with an engraving of his own head prefixed to it.
Lastly, and most conclusively of all, when late in life he
authorised two editions of his works in England and
Scotland, he expressly mentioned that he ws,s to receive
no remuneration for them. The same sensitive and' fas-
tidious delicacy which pruned every expression of his
pen, guarded every action of his life ; and they were told
by his editor and friend, the poet Mason, that he even
assumed an appearance of effeminacy and delicacy to
ward off persons whom he did not wish to please. His
existence, on the whole, was that of a scholar and re

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 17.

The literary world and a wide circle of affectionate
friends have sustained a serious loss by the death of Pro-
fessor Empson, which took place at Hayleybury on Fri-
day last. Few men of our time have discharged educa-
tional duties with greater zeal and conscientiousness.
He considered it a high responsibility to form the minds
and to direct the studies of young men, who might at
some future time be called upon to discharge the duties
of the magistracy and of the bench of justice in India.
To those who have considered, with an admiration not
unmixed with surprise, the questions in moral philoso-
phy, metaphysics, and the elements of general law,
which are answered by the native students at the Ma-
hommedan and Hindoo Colleges at Calcutta, it is fully
apparent that a new race of Asiatics is rapidly growing
up, capable of appreciating the knowledge and capacity
of the Europeans called to administer high civil functions
among them. Any deficiency in the qualifications of the
European civil servants, when compared with natives,
will be a severe blow to a power which peculiarly rests
on opinion. By no other were these truths more fully
recognised than they were by William Empson. Acting
on this conviction, no professor could endeavour more
faithfully than he did to render his lectures efficient for
their true endand object. Going far beyond common-place
and elementary teaching, his lectures opened large his-
torical views, the principles of moral philosophy and of
international law. Paley, Kent, Story, Wheeton, Wild-
man, and Sir William Scott, were his text books as
much as " Blackstone's Commentaries." This was pecu-
liarly important where, as in India, local jurisdictions
exist equal in area to European states, and where com-
plicated and ill-defined rights and systems, different re-
ligious faiths, contrasted ties of sovereignty, protection,
and alliance, render a knowledge of the differing princi-
ples of jurisprudence absolutely necessary as a guide
through an otherwise impenetrable labyrinth. Those
who will take the trouble of looking carefully over Pro-
fessor Empson's Examination Papers will perceive how
well fitted was his system of instruction to convey the
knowledge required for Indian magistrates and judges.
lie.,not only possessed knowledge, but the art of com-
municating it, and an art still rarer—that of obtaining
and exercising influence over the hearts of his pupils.
He showed a genial interest in the students of his class,
which won their confidence and affection. In this he
resembled his distinguished friend and fellow Wykemist,
Dr. Arnold.
An interesting proof of his success will appear from
the following occurrence, which will not be thought
trivial to those who have studied the characters of the
young. The students at the East India College have
been accustomed to celebrate the close of their term and
of their studies by an annual festival ; but on the last
examination, on learning the approaching end of their
friend and instructor—then suffering from ttie rupture
of a blood vessel, of which, in a few days after, he died
—they spontaneously gave up their accustomed festival,
as being inconsistent with their anxiety and grateful
affection for him. And well they might do so. Though
in a most enfeebled state of health, and fully aware of
the risk he ran in the cold College hall, he would not
shrink from his duty as examiner, and within less than
half-an-hour of the close of his functions he was struck
with that fearful attack to which in a few days he fell
a victim. Yet even during this rapid sinking by decay
of bodily strength, he would not neglect the last duty he
could perform to his young friends. He carefully went
through his examination papers, and assigned to each
student his rank and Position. No man ever fell more
truly in the field of duty.
Succeeding to the professiorial chair of Mackintosh,
occupying what had been the home of the gentle Mal-
thus, and having lived in intimate friendship with Lebas,
if he did not possess the metaphysical subtlety and uni-
versality of the first, if he did not leave behind him so
great a work as the justly celebrated Essay on Popula-
tion, if he was not a deep theologian, he surpassed Mack-
intosh in his industry and his enlarged and practical
wisdom, and he equalled Malthus in his love of truth
and courage in asserting it, and Lebas in his deep and
sincere piety.
In addition to his functions of Professor of Law,
William Empson held another office, which is often a
painful pre-eminence. He was editor, as since the year
1823 he had been a contributor, to that leading critical
journal, the Rdinburyh, Review. His genial kindliness
of nature rendered him an indulgent administrator of
those functions to which he was officially sworn in the
verse of Publius Syrus, "Judex damnatur cum nocens
absolvitur." At all times he preferred praise to blame,
and would rather have given a wreath of laurel than
" Luke's iron crown." Those are indifferent observers
who will not admit that refined criticism is not as much
shown in discriminating praise as in severe invective.
Indeed, the former requires greater skill and delicacy,
and appeals to less vulgar elements of success. The
generous feeling which distinguished William Empson
as an editor was shown in his reception of an interesting
and justly economiastic article on Robert Southey, whose
opinions on many points, and on politics more especi-
ally, were so opposite to his own. We may observe, in
passing, that in the case of the Tory poet laureate and
his son, the Rev. Cuthbert Southey, well merited praise
to the one, and the gift of a church living to the other,
came from a Whig Review and from a Whig Lord Chan-
cellor, in acknowledgment of high literary genius ; while
a bitter and discreditable attack appeared in that Quar-
terly Review which had derived its illumination from the
brilliancy of Southey's genius.
William Empson contributed upwards of 60 articles
to the Review between the years 1823 and 1849, on law,
the condition of the poorer classes, negro slavery, do-
mestic politics, poetry, and general literature and bio-
graphy. No questions appeared more congenial to his
nature than those wluch denounced oppression and
tyranny, whether political or ecclesiastical, and those
which, in reviewing the lives of the good and the great,
excited a train of moral feelings. One characteristic of
William Empson's editorship is to be traced equally to
the times in which we live and to his own nature and
opinions. Religious pugnacity appears now on all sides.
Our controversialists enter the lists with strange wea-
pons. Mitres and crosiers, and other offensive instru-
ments and symbols, stolen from medieval armouries, are
flourished by vehement and indignant combatants. The
population which lives between Carfax and Magdalen-
bridge seeks the help of the Romans against the inroad
of what they consider the Saxon barbarians. The assist-
ance of most able fellow-labourers was obtained by
William Empson for this new contest ; and his own
mode of treating questions of this description is beauti-
fully shown in his review of the Life of Arnold, by
Arthur Stanley, contained in the January number of
1845. Throughout this most able series of articles on
religious topics the right of private judgment and the
scriptural foundation of our faith have been well de-
fended ; and the assertion of freedom of conscience and
freedom of inquiry has been made to rest on a founda-
tion of humble belief and of deep and unaffected piety.
Such are among the many claims which William Emp-
son possessed on the esteem and gratitude of his con-
temporaries. In private life he was most happy in his
associations. The friendships which he brought with
him from Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge,
and which were extended in the world, and completed
among his estimable colleagues at Hayleybury, were un-
broken except by death. How he was loved and valued
by those who knew him most intimately is shown in the
family
Cragg by the emphatic
his
delightful letters of Lord Jeffrey. • To his intimacy with
that most captivating man William Empson owed the
happiness in marriage. He
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con unchangeablefriendships. Pope concludes
words—" And he lost no friend." Never was a human
being more entitled to Pope's praise than the subject of
the preceding sketch. He died aged 62 ; and never did
inister
a calm and trusting death afford more conclusive ev
dence of a life pure, useful, and benevolent.— Times.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Fre-
derick Doveton Orme, Esq., now Paid Attaché to her
Majesty's Legation at Frankfort, to be Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at Copenhagen.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Captain the Honourable Edward Alfred Harris, R.N.,
now her Majesty's Consul for Denmark and the Oresound,
to be her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General
in the Republic of Peru.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
James Baker, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Vigo, to
be her Majesty's Consul at Barcelona.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Were Giffard Nicolas, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at
Mobile, to be her Majesty's Consul at Vigo.

CROWN OFFICE.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Dec. 15.
Borough of Lisburn.—Roger Johnson Smyth, of No. 32,
Castle-street, Lisburn, in the county of Antrim, Esq., in
the room of Sir James Emerson Tennent, who has accepted
the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of North-
stead.

Dec. 16.

- - -
Borough of Merthyr Tydvil.—Henry Austin Bruce, Esq.,
in the room of Sir Josiah John Guest, Bart., deceased.

WAR OFFICE, DEC. 17.
2cl Dragoons—Andrew Nugent, Gent. to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Twysden, who retires, Dec. 17.
10th Dragoons—Honourable Matthew Fitz Maurice
Deane, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Webster, promoted,
Dec. 17.
Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards.—Honourable William
Francis Forbes, Page of Honour to her Majesty, to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, Dec. 17.
3d Foot—William James Newton, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Sidebottom, promoted, Dec. 17 ; Wil-
liam Roger Snow, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Coussmaker uromoted, Dec. 18,

- _
6th Foot—Wprt,illiam Charles Frind Burlton Benne,

Gent., t 6 be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bartley, promoted,
Dec. 17.
7th Foot—Lieutenant Bobert Hely Hutchinson Keight-
ley, from the 76th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dixon, ap-
pointed Paymaster, Dec. 17.
22d Foot—Ensign John Holmes Houston Gammell, from
the 76th Foot, to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Parks,
who retires, Dec. 17.
24th Foot—Alfred William Adcock, Gent., to be Ensign
by purchase, vice Burns, promoted, Dec. 17.
25th Foot—Robert Chadwick, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice O'Hea, promoted, Dec. 17.
30th oot—Lachlan Macpherson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Gibson, promoted, Dec, 17.
39th Foot— Thomas Westropp Bennett, Gent., to be En-
sign by purchace, vice Boycott, who retires, Dec. 17.
48th Foot—Richard Eyre, Gent., to be Ensign by pur-
chase, vice Bolton, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards,
Dec. 17.
49th Foot—John Maxwell Macneill, Gent., to be Ensign
by purchase, vice Bond, promoted, Dec. 17.
52d Foot—Lieutenant2 Charles Cornwallis Ross, to be
Captain by purchase, vice Corbet, who retires • Ensign
John Arthur Bayley, to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice
Ross ; Ensign Arthur James Fremantle, from the 70th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bayley, Dec. 17.
55th Foot—Charles George Wingfield, Gent., to be En-
sign by purchase, vice Hume, promoted, Dec. 17.
59th Foot—Robert Staveley Shinkwin, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Thompson, promoted, Dec. 17.
61st Foot—Ensign Robert Richardson Daly to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Kempe, who retires—Charles
John Griffiths, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Daly, Dec. 17.

611 Footibradney Todd Gilpin, Gent., to be Ensign
by purchase, vice Adeane, promoted, Dec. 17.
63d Foot—Adrian Wm. Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign
by purchase, vice Hay, whose appointment has been cancel
led, Dec. 17.?
74th Foot—Robert Frederick Martin, Gent., to be En.
sign, by purchase, vice Yonge, appointed to the 61st Foot,
Dec. 17.

76th Foot—Lieutenant Matthew White, from half-pay
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Keightley, appointed to the 7th Foot, Dec. 17.
79th Foot—Robert Francis Henry Macgregor Skinner,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Scott, promoted,
Dec. 17.

82d Foot—John Frederick Pilkington, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Luard, promoted, Dec. 17.
85th Foot—Captain John William Grey, to be Major,
by purchase, vice Blackburn, who retires ; Lieutenant
George Warde to be Captain, by purchase, vice Grey ; En-
sign John Athorpe, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Warde, Dec. El.

89th 'Foot—Barnes Slyfield Robinson, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Conyers, promoted, Dec. 17.
92nd Foot—Maunsenficham, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Thorold, who retires, Dec. 17.-
Rifle Brigade—Leonard Neill Malcolm, Gent., to be Se-
cond Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tryon, promoted,
Dec. 17.
3d West India Regiment— John Alexander Gordon
Pringle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hnme,
promoted, Dec. 17.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Henry Edward Watson, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blackie, who
retires, Dec. 17; John Codd Conington, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Baker, appointed to
the 10th Light Dragoons, Dec.lB; Simpson Hackett Hobbs,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. by purchase, vice Sillery,
promoted, Dec. 19.
BREVET.—Captain Orfeur Cavenagh, of the 32d Regi-
ment Bengal Native Infantry, to have the rank of Major in
the East Indies, Aug. 10.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—William Collingwood. Howatson.
M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, Dec. 17.
MEMORANDUM.—The commission of Captain William
Ross-King, of the 74th Foot, has been ante-dated to 30th
July, 1852, but not to carry any back pay.

cluse, pursuing varied walks of learning, many of which
he mastered, if not with the massive completeness of a
German student, yet with the refined diligence of an
English gentleman. In addition to his own captivating
art of poetry, he was keenly alive to the excellencies of
music, painting, and architecture ; and, though there
would appear to have been no trace of his ever having
been in love—(laughter)—his heart was open to the
warmest emotions of friendship. Nor is it easy to re-
member a more congenial union of tastes and feelings
than distinguished the too brief intimacy between him
and his accomplished friend, Richard West. His affec-
tion for his mother was tender, constant, and practical,
as proved by the inscription which he placed upon her
tomb—

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 15.
Royal Regiment of Artillery Brevet-Major Ashton
Ashton Shuttleworth to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice H.
Williams, deceased ; Second. Captain Murray Octavius
Nixon, to be Captain, vice Shuttleworth ; First Lieutenant
George Leslie, to be Second Captain, vice Nixon ; Second
Lieutenant Edmund Penrose Bingham Turner, to be First
Lieutenant, vice Leslie, Dec. 7.
MEMORANDUM.—The date of the Promotion of the un-
dermentioned Officers has been altered to Nov. 11, viz. :
Lieutenant Colonel T. A. Shone ; Captain R. H. Crofton ;
Second Captain G. Barstow ; First Lieutenant H. R.
Porter.

"In the same pious confidence,
Beside her Friend and Sister.
Here sleep the Remains of
DOROTHY GRAY,
Widow, the careful tender Mother
Of many children, one of whom alone
Had the misfortune to survive her."

He exhibited a most becoming tone of religion, and ap-
peared to have always spoken with the utmost repug-
nance of Bolingbroke and Voltaire. In one place he
thus pointedly described himself—
"No very great wit, he believed in God."
As a letter writer, he held a middle station between
Horace Walpole and Cowper ; and with respect to his
different notices of scenery, Sir James Mackintosh says,
"I am struck by the recollection of a sort of merit in
Gray, which is not generally observed ; he was the
first discoverer of the beauties of nature in England,
and has marked out the course of every picturesque
journey that can be made in it." His descriptions
of Italy placed the reader in the midst of it, and
every word of them showed that the intention was to
show off the scene, and not the writer. His Latin poetry
was not uniformly out of the reach of even modern
criticism ; they had it for the most part rather in small
fragments, as well as in a great variety of form, but it
was on the whole extremely beautiful. The ode on
"The Spring," his earliest English production, written
in his twenty-sixth year, was as nicely polished and as
carefully finished as almost any of his subsequent com-
positions. In it a hot noon is pourtrayed with much
truth :

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 13.
Brevet Major John Tatton Brown to be Lieutenant
Colonel, vice Tothill, retired on full pay.
Brevet Major Edward Augustus Parker to be Lieutenant
Colonel, vice Whitcomb, retired on full pay.
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Henry Charles
Penrose Dyer to be Captain, vice Brown, promoted ; First
Lieutenant William Barnham Thomas Rider to be Cap-
tain, vice Parker, promoted.
Second Lieutenant George Gill to be First Lieutenant,
vice Dyer ; Second Lieutenant George Brydges to be First
Lieutenant, vice Rider.

F - " Still is the toiling hand of care ;
The panting herds repose;
Yet hark ! how through the peopled air
The busy murmur glows !
The insect youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honeyed spring,
And float amid the liquid noon." (Cheers.)
He did not feel called upon to pause over the next "Ode
on the Death of a favourite Cat, drowned in a Tub of
Gold Fishes." (Laughter.) Having spent six years of
his life as a boy at Eton School, they must excuse him
for exclaiming with filial fervour—
" Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the watery glade,
Where grateful Science still adores
Her Henry's holy shade !" (Cheers.)
He might mention that he felt so strongly the kind of
identification which this brief ode gave to the muse of
Gray with the memory of Eton, that upon a proposal
being lately made that a collection of busts of the prin-
cipal worthies of Eton should be placed in the large
school-room, he requested permission to present a bust
of Gray. It might be stated that of the six last Prime
Ministers of this country, four had been Eton men ; and
not long after the poet had cast his desponding glance
upon the boyish group assembled there, among those
who disported on " the margent green" was Arthur
Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. (Cheers.) The hymn to
Adversity stood next, and amongst his unfinished poems
was found one headed " An Ode on the Pleasures arising
from Vicissitude." He now came to the two great odes
which more particularly represented the varied, though
not irregular structure and fervid tone of that form of
composition not improperly termed Pindaric, and which
signally developed the genuine ore in the poetic vein of
Gray. It was to these and to one written later, and not
unworthy to be associated with them, that they must
mainly refer the expression in the stanza inscribed by
Mason as an epitaph on Gray's monument in Westmin-
ster Abbey :

(From the Scotsman.)
With much pain we make an announcement which
will be received with no' slight nor affected sorrow
through Ali the circles, and they were large and various,
in which the editor of the Edinburgh Review and the
son-in-law of Lord Jeffrey was known. Professor Emp-
son had long been in somewhat delicate health ;
.but
symptoms of serious or immediate danger did not appear
till about a fortnight since, from which period 'he gra-
dually sank till he expired on Friday last. This melan-
choly event took place at his residence at the East India
College, Hayleybury, Hefts,
where Mr. Empson, we
need scarcely mention, acted as Professor of Law, be-
sides carrying on, since the death of Mr. Macvey Napier,
the editorship
of the Edinburgh Review. Mr. Empson
married the only child of Lord Jeffrey, and it was at
Hayleybury that Mrs. Jeffrey's death took place soon
after that of her illustrious husband. Besides his emi-
nent general abilities, Mr. Empson was a man of great
scholarship in his profession and in metaphysics, and
possessed of an exquisite amiability of character.

" No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ;
To Britain let the nations homage pay !
She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains,
A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray."

(Cheers.) " The Progress of Poesy" stood first, and was
chronicled by genuine poesy herself ; though the next of
the Pindaric odes, " The Bard," was far more generally
popular, and familiar to their recollection. The noble
lord gave several extracts from both poems, and entered
into a spirited refutation of Dr. Johnson's harsh criti-
cism upon them. Having spoken in favourable terms of
Gray's unfinished tragedy of Agrippina, he concluded by
referring to "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," of which
Dr. Johnson himself approved—of which General Wolfe
on the night before the capture of Quebec, said, " Well,
gentlemen, I had rather be the author of that poem than
take Quebec ;" and which, at the request of the great
American statesman, Mr. Webster, was read to him
when lying upon his bed of-death.

THE ORLEANS PROPERTY.—The forest of Breteuil,
lately belonging to King Louis Philippe, was sold yes-
terday morning, by auction, for 3,810,000 f., and the fine
forest demesne of St. Dizier was sold during the, day to
a rich capitalist of Rheims. "The demesnes of Arc and
Chateauvilain, belonging to the Prince de Joinville, and
that of Randun, bequeathed by Madame Adelaide to the
Duke de Montpensier, are also, says the Assemblee
Nationale, on the point of being sold. A contract has,
it is said, been already signed for the former with the
company, consisting of landowners, wood-merchants, and
sportsmen, and for the latter with a rich foreigner, who
already has considerable property in France. By these
sales, the Orleans family will have submitted to the obli
gations of the decree of Jan. 22, before the expiration of
the delay granted them for that purpose."—Ga/ignani.

ironmonger, first dividend of 10 d., in the pound, payable
at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday, Dec. 23, and three
subsequent Thursdays.
Augustus Alexander Lackersteen, of 2, Broad-street-
buildings, merchant, first dividend of ls. in the pound,
payable at 18, Aldermanbury, on any Monday.
John Whittaker, of 5, Park-place, Mile-end-road, draper,
first dividend of 3s. 9d. in the pound, payable at 18, Alder-
manbury, on any Monday.
Mackness Branson, of Stratford, Essex, stationer, first
dividend of 3s. 3id. in the pound, payable at 18, Alder-
manbury, on any Monday.
Joseph Mitchell, of Camden-street, Camden-town, car-
penter, first dividend of ls. 9d. in the pound, payable at
18, Aldermanbury, on any Monday.
Henry Med worth, of Wisbeach, St. Peter, Cambridge,
grocer, second dividend of ls. 2d. in the pound, payable at
18, Aldermanbury, on any Monday.
Herbert Ashton and Stewart Spriggs, of Aldermanbury,
warehouseman, first dividend of 6s. in the pound, payable
at 1, Sambrook:court, Basinghall-street, on Saturday, Dec.
18, and three subsequent Saturdays.
Leon J. Nerinckx, of 44, Great Portland-street, laceman,
second dividend of lid. in the pound, payable at 12, Ab-
church-lane, on Saturday, December 18, and 3 subsequent
Saturdays.
James Morison Wilson, of Eton, bookseller, first divi-
dend of 3s. Bd. in the pound, payable at 12, Abchurch-lane,
on Saturday, December 18, and three subsequent Saturdays.
James Bateman, of Southampton-buildings, agent, second
dividend of 2id. in the pound, payable at 12, Abchurch-
lane, on Saturday, December 18, and three subsequent
Saturdays.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

R. Wilson, Cambridge, grocer, Jan. 13, at one—R,
Whittaker, Landport, Hampshire, outfitter, Jan. 10, at
eleven--W. M. Harker; Little oorfields, currier, Jan.
14, at eleven—W. Wellington and R. Butterfield, Brighton,
lacemen, Jan. 11, at one.
In the Country.
R. C. Sharp, Manchester, merchant, Jan. 10, at twelve,
at the Court, Manchester--G. C. Paulin;, Manchester,
merchant, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—
T. Staley, Stockport, grocer, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the
Court, Manchester—A. and E. Newbold, Birmingham,
drapers, Jan. 18, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—
C. H. Canning, Birmingham, draper, Jan. 10, at ten, at
the Court, Birmingham—E. Nicholls, Stourbridge, 'or-
cestershire, licensed victualler, Jan. 15, at ten, at the
Court, Birmingham—W. K. Broadhurst, Fenton, Staf-
fordshire earthenware manufacturer, Jan. 8, at ten, at
the Court, Birmingham—R. Shelton, Wellington, Shrop-
shire, saddler, Jan. 10, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
R. Johnston, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk manufacturer,
certificate of the second class, after three months, from
Dee. 14—M. Holmes, Bilston, Staffordshire, victualler,
certificate of the second class—S. Boyle, Fenton, Stoke-
upon-Trent, china and earthenware manufaoturer, certifi-
cate of the second class, after six months, from Nov. 1.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
James Watling Knights, of Ipswich; and Mary Button,
late of Rushmere, near Ipswich, farmers—Thomas Benja-
min Smith and William Lundie Duncan, of Marsh Gate
Paper Mills, Stratford—Charles Kenworthy and William
Ogden, of Manchester, perchers—Hattil Foll and Francis
Turfrey, of Bristol, brewers—William Taylor and Samuel
Taylor, of Halifax, Yorkshire, slaters—James P. Higgin-
son and Henry Parsons, of Liverpool, merchants—Richard
Hawkins and George Furnis, of New-street, Dorset-square,
New-road, watchmakers—William Knight and Edwin
Knight, of Manchester, lime-dealers—John Charles Stivens,
William Cooper, and Edmund Cooper, of Bristol, makers
and dealers in wines (so far as regards J. C. Stivens)—
John Bennett and Abraham Bennett, of Bradley Mills
and Huddersfield, woollen cloth manufacturers—Robert
Whitaker and Hodgson Lewis, of Halifax, Yorkshire,
wine and spirit merchants—John Gaskell and Thomas
Frederick Taylor, of Wigan, Lancashire, attorneys—
William Hodge Lucas and Rice Mennie, of East Stone-
house, Devonshire, timber merchants—Peter Dodd and
Noah Turner, of Wheelton, Lancashire, gold thread
manufacturers—Henry William. Crowhurst and Charles
Allwork, of Horsleydown, brewers George Chitty
Meader and Charles Frost, of 7, Idol-lane, City, wine and
spirit merchants—Berian Drew, jun., and Amos Langton
Drew, of 91, Blackman-street, Southwark, chemists—Wil-.
Liam Windram and John Windram, of Leicester, bleachers
—Edwin Sparrow and William Alfred Sparrow, of Liver-
pool, metal brokers—lsabel Wetherman and Mary Anne
Wetherman, of Bristol, lace dealers—John Gardner, M.D.,
and George Edward Serocold Pearce Serocold —Michael
Longridge, William Smith Longridge, Robert Berwick
Longridge, Charles John Longridge, Henry Gordon Long-
ridge David Lambe, David Lambe, jun., and Thomas
Stirling Begbie, of Bedlington, Northumberland, engineers
(so far as regards David Lambe and David Lambe, jun.)—
Thomas Tilley and William Tilley, of 83, Watling-street,
City, commission agents—Rudolph Appel and Friedrich
Droege, of 43, Gerrard-street, Soho, anastatic printers—
Jonathan Phillips Williams Griffin and Alexander Saun-
ders, of Plymouth, painters—Edward Challinor, jun.,
George Woolliscroft, and Charles Challinor, jun., of Sandy-
ford and Tunstall, Staffordshire, earthenware manufac-
turers (so far as regards George Wolliscroft)—Elizabeth
Highway Waldron and Thomas Aston Waldron of Bel-
broughton, Worcestershire, scythe manufacturers.