The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-01 00:00:00

UN,

TITHE COMAUSSION.—The Tithe Commissioners'
report for the year 1851, just published, states that 4.no-
t2ioc6esafpopr
apportionments
hi?tasv,chbaev_een
biseseunedreLdeuirving, the year; 54 com-
pulsory awards have also been received, and lOg confirmed;
• ed and 254 confirmed.
In 12,144 tithe
end of the
wished ; 809 d 'streets rent charges have been finally esta-
blished
of tit Les
alteredyear,,
apportionments were mrfie up to the
,or and. '619 confirmed; and 13,160 distinct
rent charges. The commissioners state
that they have
submitted the expediency of to the consideration of the Legis-
laturegranting them additional powers
to deal in a more summary
snmeeadlLair gptense ; for- it is
which theyairnner with certain cases of
tithes in the present tlaanrtet. WiitbitsBti
able
tionate to the benefit obtained.. In
impossible
will prevent delays and
are onlyfinally extinguished before every
it Will be by*the neglect of the
titlespatroestiocstommute such
crolzxupense dispropor,
ars from the
they state
oncerned, if
Base has been
considered. .
l'at, METROPOLITAN POLICE,—n Iptoalp,,,np.
that on January 1 last, the number Force (printed
on Saturday),
the , _.,„ vnel 5,549;
consisting.obteoraoetipersons
belonging
to w'''''
at 600/. a year ; 18 superintendents,MtZ
ing superintendent,.
124 inspectors, with salaries troii 2001.
accounts respecting the Metropolitan
'There were 587 sergeants, ,from 1,9/. 4
to 811. 181. a year.
d 4,819 constables, comprising 1,250.
to 63/. 14s. a year;
50l to ,00/. a year
in the first class at
and 1,174/ in the third class at 44/. 4s
ans4l. 121. a year, 2,349 in the second
class at 49/. Bs. a year,
a ye4r. The sun' balance of 49,957/. I4s. 5d., which
4.2,2391. ss. 4d., leaviog a Tile
fees, Scc, from police
were the receipts, in the
paid for tl,e police last year amounted to
year.
courts were .10,548/. 15s. 8A,..
6/ 2:-. 2d.
Great Exhibition paid the torce 17,42 •
t IN have heeii
The. Commissioners of the
GUARD SHIP FOR TIP, DoWLO.--Or, ~.- •
guns, Cap-
the Hon. M. Stopford, now lying issued by the Admiralty to fit the London, Of 9i)
As • she is c..mpleted she
spects as a sea-going ship. BOOO .as
as uard
in all re-
tainwill proceed to the Downs, to. be there stationed
ship unless required for more active service. ller
there will be to enter . volunteers either for particular
or general service. A guard ship
at, this place 15 extreme.)e-
at Sheerness,
to th
usetul, the enan of war's anchorage lying so close in
Goodwin that the lookout kept on board can discover a ship
on the sands long before the people at Deal, Kingsdown, or
Ramsgate can observe her. Signals are immediately made
by blue lights, rockets, and minute guns, when the lugger'
and foul-weather galleys from the . above-named places put
to sea and give assistance. There has not been a guard
ship stationed there since 1831, but the Seven, Ramifies,
and Talavera, which were in the Downs from i 815 to 'B3l,
rendered essential services to merchant ships of all nation's
that untortunately got on these trecherous sands.

A genial. and delightful paper on Miss Mary Rus-
sell i'ditford, the Celebrated author of " Our Village,"
is the opening contributon to the eveeeet neenbeeO
Blackwood, having beer, suggested by her "
lections." The reviewer evidences, throughout, his ap-
preciation of her very charming style, her gentle
nature, her briliant descriptive powers, her grace, her
benevolence, and her originality. In the course of the
article -the reader will find quoted some elegant verses
from the pen of John_ I3anim, famed as the writer of
the " Tales of the O'Hara Family." Another portion
of " Struggles for Fame and Fortune," the third, will
be welcomed by those who have read the instalments
already published, more particularly as there is per-
ceptible in it a considerable increase of interest, and
in several other respects a very general improvement.
Mr. Coke's recent work on Kafirland has furnished
another critic in Maga with a plea for presentiag us
with some " Sketches from the Cape," at all times
worthy of examination but at the present moment
peculiarly acceptable. 'The nineteenth part of "My
Novel; or Varieties in English Life," reveals anew
the various and remarkable abilities already so
frequently and admirably displayed by Sir Bul•
wer Lytton as a novelist—as, in fact, one
of the most gifted and accomplished writers of fiction
who lies 'ever adorned our native literature. The
" initial chapter" to the tenth book here commenced
is one of the most clever yet published ; and we would
observe, by the way, that these initial chapters are
quite novelties in their way, having been originated
by the author of "The Caxtons"---combining the at-
tractions of thee essay with the fascinations of ro-
mance, enabling the author and the reader to hold, as
it were, at intervals, a friendly gossip together, and
empowering the romancist .to pass judgment at
pleasure. upon his own creation, after the merry man-
ner of Fadladeen. [Alas ! that so very recently
within the present week we should have lost poor Tom
Moore, " the beloved of all circles, the idol of his
own," as Lord Byron called him in that brief but
eloquent tribute to his friendship.] Randal Leslie
even now has the ground trembling under bis feet—
undermined by his own suicidal craft. We are
more than ever in hopes that Lord L'Estrange's ill-
essorted marriage with Helen may never take place,
hu,-. that the gentle "child-angel" may be a comfort
to the toiling ambition of Leonard, while
Harley himself—most beautiful and loveable of
characters may have his dormant energies
awakened by the influence of the genius and
lovelines.s of Violante. Mention is made again
of,p;or Burleye-the noblest of all the creations in the
present -,storyand Vre await with some anxiety his
re -appearance on the sceoe.r. As the type of a class,
Burley is painted with the hand of a master. Expec-
tations of good in Beatrice are awakened in the
mind of the reader, and we can dream of that good
posialyextieridipg itself to the heart and fortunes of
Frank Haeledean. Then again—eAudley Egerton,
the _Minister,' the strong public man, vigorous in
bearing, but •with disease gnawing at his vitals—to
hear of him as we do in the present instalment is to he
filled with dieted and cornpasSion. There is a sweet
and exquisite pathos in the brief scene between
Audleac and Harley L'Estrange. A timely article
suggested by Mr. W. J. Smith's edition of " The
Grenville Papers," and entitled "English Adminis-
irations," tonne the next portion in the March num•
bar of Blackwood—being fraught with especial in-
terest at a juecture when the Gray-Russell Cabinet
has been so suddenly succeeded by the Derby-
Disraeli Government. Mr. Prinsep'a ingenious pro-
duction, issued from the press last season, and having
reference to the religion of Boodh, is selected by
another contributor to Maga as a reason for pre-
senting to the public some disquisitions on "Tibet
and the 'Lamas;" while another writer has taken
Mrs. Moodie's " Roughing it in the Bush," under
criricism,describing, while so doing, rather pleasantly,
"Furest Life in Canada West," with all its peculiar
cbaracteristics. Tee metre rendered popular by Mr.
Teeneson's " Lockeley Hell," has been employed as
a vehicle for the utterance of a "Farewell to the
Rhine," by one penning his adieux at Bonn. After
this comes the closing paper for March. an argument
relating to " Tbe Reform Measures of 1852," with a
" Postscript," expressive of exultation at the recent
hange of her Majesty's Government.

, MR: DICKENS' NEW WORK.
BLEAK HOU Sl'. No. I. By Charles Dickens.
-Rude ure already germinating in the boughs of
March ; but, among all the evidences of the approach
of.apring, none will be more -welcome to the hearts
and hearths of England than the "two green leaves"
put forth in the new serial by " Boz," those two green
leaves to the appearance of which we have been look-
ing forward ever since the close of " David Copper-
field." And the best of it is—we shall have them
renewed now during very nearly twenty mouths to
come. " Bleak House," as all the world knows now,
is the title at it—", a dreary name," according to the
opinion (see page 22) even of the Lord High Chan-
cellor. From all that we can judge by merely a
first instalment of a work of such considerable dimen-
sioei, "Bleak House" threatens to be the last terrible,
and we trust also overwhelmingly successful, blow
directed against the iniquitous court presided over by
that august functionary. The citizens of the United
States not long since gave us a noble example
of what might be, effected in the wag.of reform there.
The evils of the Court of Chancery have, besides this,
been long,- very long, growing more and more noto-
rious—crying out for their own destruction trumpet-
tongued and in a thousand voices both within and
without the walls of Parliament. Beyond all which,
new hopes are kindled. in the bosoms of those who
have fallen into the clutches of this monster grievance
by the elevation to the wohlsack of a legal iteformer
like Sir Edward Sugden—perhaps the most profound
and astute intellect that has ever shed its light
through the gloomy intricacies of his profession. Last,
but not least effectual of all the enemies of the Court
of Chancery, comes Dickens, to whose gentle bat
indebted, ed,ghetitsiuse umtohryoeity has already'
fil been largely
led to -the suppre"ssNioincho
Yorkshire schools, ,and his tale about " Oliver
as f N itchkeleby
atrocious
Twist" having in a great measure conduced to the
amelioration of the sufferings of pauperism. Chapter
the first, "In Chancery," constitutes of itself a
caustic'-satire upon the evil to which its very title
directs ettentiou....e). that Court of Chancery, ex-
.Clatries Mr. Dickens, in a burst of noble and wither-
ing eloquence--" which has its decaying houses and
its blighr.ed lands in every shire ; which has its worn-
oat lunatic in every madhouse, and its dead in every
churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor with his
slipshod heels and threadbare dress, borrowing and
begging through-the round of every man's acquaint-
ance ; which gives to moneyed might the means abun-
dandy of wearying out the right; which so exhausts
finance:, patienee, courage, hope • so overthrows the
brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an
honorable man among its practitioners who would
not give—who does not often give—the warning,
Suffer any wrong that can be done you, rather
than come here ! " It is against this same,
old, wicked greedy, implacable, and insatiate
Court of ChanCery that "Bleak House" is directed in
purpose ; it is upon it that the whole weight of its
Censure through example is destined, we believe, to
fall : and that the influence of the censure thus pro-
nounced will prove triumphant, we are persnaded,
through the whole strength and earnestness of our
belief in the vitality of its author's genius. Fur
many. reasons, therefore, we hail the appearance of
the present fietion'with peculiar and fervent satisfac-
tion. Bleak House, if itself not "in Chancery," has
its principal inmates there—as may be understood by
an inquiry into the great case of Jarndyce and Jarn-
dyce, the case still giving promise of being . ever-
lastingly perpetuated. How long it has already con-
tinued is mentioned by the author with this
droll illustration The little plaintiff or de-
fendant," he . Sam "who was promised & new
rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jat:ndyce
should be settled has grown up, poesessed
hinieelf of a real horse, and trotted away inks the
other world." Two of the wards in Chancery in this
the great case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, are--whenh
the story opens (and we are led to suppose t era to be
teetn, and Richard
t out to be Esther
respectively its hero ancdarhsetrooniene)o—iolietdeaeoC.larera4s.rehvaepns':
however, the real heroine may us.hn
the first per-
ing
Liographer. Chupter
wthriet read of the narra-
Leicester and
e
abruptly to certain " high" peWle, .in
Sst ionel withnit etetrs 6ttnillh'e *tmhhiarondnt ceahrkaeopsf t eaurni: auto.,
themy
LseaCdoyndp,
ed"loclkn,
*Faasithpiclon,upoinntrinodutcheesir uhsoursather
teens by their lawyer, Mr.
mlq have to do with the story we cannot conerc
fleroueb her:ow
saving and excepting that they are in some manner
tiox:i caith that same case of jeentlyce and Jam-
fulkinghorn. What
:(IYet.!, o',apter the third, " A Progrvss,"
guardian eeeeea,
education f E
„ :oiler, a natural chill of soniebod3
n lips the birth (not the pareie age) ,0d
ultimately engaged as the compenion of Ad:, b 3 her
Rouse: Chapter theefo
wmpterious Mr. Jarndyce, who is
the owner, ace,
h. Id by Ada, Esther, presume, occupant of Bleak
gemeßichard with Mit. JP,I-
- recount,, the inteyetiurse
and mock benevolence foirit
ethe nuinbeteehrPejeamre-o those in the
of bar tatnily at home,
l) by, :whose mismana
Tovs‘trangars abroad, are
Philanthropy.
!rdsrlee-s:otts'
ctehileestiitnl
aTalicTtectrs is that
,ttid dwellingorioriginal
af ;Aoltr. sa. ;.h1 ley
cbhy sotirernarkable
p,or, dear.
Caddy, otherwise Miss Jelly by, perpetuallye lit such a
dreadful " state of ink." No wonder, alt
the accounts of the i'reaks of her mamma
the poor child exclaims at last—" wish n after reading
wonder
Africa was
dead I" Little Peepy, one of her brothers,is' an
'ieteresting
scapegrace : and, among the other
peronages introduced may be mentioned,
Mr; Kei;ge, the. solicitor ,• Mr. Guppy, his 'clerk
Mr. Jelly-by) a nonentity; Mr.' Quale, an admirer of