The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1851 4ro ... 1,547 ... ... 232 ... 29
1850 272 ... 7:i7 ...
~. 142 ... -_..
1849.... 259 ... 604 ... ... 195 ...
1848... 526 ... 777
... ... 92
The imports of foreign stock into the United King-
dom during the first two months of 1850, 1851, and
1852, were thus:— -_--_,

1850. 1851. 1852.
Oxen
Cows
Calves
Sheep ....... 3,375
Lambs 1 11
Pigs
The general condition of the stock imported this year
has not exhibited huy signs of improvement; but we un.
derstand that numbers of very superior Beasts, Sheep,
and Calves will be forwarded frcm Holland within the
next three cr four months. The heavy losses sustained
by the Pigs hitherto shipped to this market will, no
doubt, tend to check shipments in future. Our market,
to-day, exhibited but moderate supplies of foreign stock,
in, for the most part, middling condition. From our
own grazing districts, the receipts of Beasts fresh up
this morning were much smaller than those reported on
Monday last; nevertheless, they were extensive, the time
of year considered, and in full average
condition. Tho attendance of both tow„
and country butchers being small, and
gate and Leadenhall extensively supplied, the Beef
trade was in a very inactive state, at last week's decline
in the quotations. The extreme value of the best Scots
was as 4d per 81bs, and a total clearance was not effected.
The Bullock arrivals from Norfolk, Sira, Essex, and
Cambridgeshire, amounted to 2,160 Short-horns and
Seots; from other parts of England 700 Herefords,
Runts, Devons, &c., and from Scotland 500 horned and
polled Scots, mostly per railway. Notwithstanding that
the numbers of Sheep were on the deciease, the demand
for that description of stock was inactive, though some-
what firmer than OR this day se'unight. In the curren-
cies of each breed no change took place; but we must
observe that the top figure for Downs in the wool was
4s 2d, out of the wool 3s 6d per 81bs. At leas: two-
thirds of the Sheep were shorn. From the Isle of
Wight 80 Lambs came to hand, and which sold at from
4s 8d to 5s per 8%8. Prime Down qualities reaFzed
from 5s 6d to 6s par Btbs, with a moderate inquiry.
Prime small Calves sold at late rates. All other kinds
of Veal were very slow in sale, yet we cannot call them
lower. The Pork trade was very dull, at prices barely
equal to those of Monday last.
Per Ma. to slat the offal.
. a. d.
Inferior Beasts... .. 2 d
2to 2 4
second quality .... 2 6 210
Prime large Oxen.. 3 0 3 2
Prime Scots •• •••• 3 2 3 4
Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 8
Prime small ditto .. 310 4 2
Stickling Calves •
.-19 0 25 0
Lambs ........ 4 8 6 e

s. d. to s. d
Enferior Sheep • . . 2 6 2 8
Second qual. Sheep 210 3 4
Coarse-woolledditte3 6 3 8
Southdown Wether 310 4 2
Ditte out of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large Hogs • • 2 6 3 6
Small Porters 3 8 310
Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0

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TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. f Sheep. I Calves. I Pim
2,•.68 I , 22,631 178 I 410
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
lo7lads. I Sheep. I Calvos. I P
c.a.
3 740 140 14
A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of
Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market,
on Monday, April 7, 1851, and this day, Monday, April .5,
1852.

Per Sibs., to sink the dials.
April 7, 1851. Apr. 5,1852.
Coarse and inferior Beasts s. d. s. d. s. d. 2 6to 2 8 2 d. s. 2
to 2 4
Second quality ditto ... ... 210 30 2 6 210
Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 6 3 0 3 2
Prime Scots, is c. ... 3 6 3 8 3 2 3 4
Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... 3 6 3 8 2 6 2 8
Second quality ditto ... 310 4 22 10 3 4
Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 4 4 4 6 3 6 3 8
Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 4 6 4 83 10 4 2
Lambs._
... 5 0 6 014 8 6 0
Large coarse Calves ... 3 4 3 8 3 0 3 8
Prime small ditto ...
..• ... 310 4 03 10 4 2
Large Hogs .. 3 0 3E 2 6 3 6
Small Porkers ... ... 3 8 4 0 3 8 310
Beasts ... 4,110 3,368
Sheep and Lambs .. ... 23,110 22,630
Calves ... ▪ ... 130 178
Pigs . •
. . 460 410
SUPPLIES ON SALE, • APRIL 8, 1850. _Beasts, 3,795 ;
Sheep and Lambs, 23,950; Calves, 111; Pigs, 250.
APRIL 9, , 1849. Bea.sts, 2,728; Sheep and Lambs, 18,390;
Calves, 103 ; Pigs, 200.
NEIVGATZ ADTD LEILDEZTIELLE.T.
The supplies of each kind of Meat on sale in these
markets being unusually large for the time of year, and
in excellent condition, the general demand is heavy, on
the following terms.—

At per stone by the Carcase.
3. d. to 3. d. II
Beef, Inferior...—. 110 2 2 StEntton,inferior .. d. .
middling 4 2 6
•• •• 2 4 2 6 raiddling— 8 3 0
2
primelarge .. 2 6 2 8 prinae •• 3 2 3 4
prime small 210 3 0 1 Pork, large.... •• 2 4 210
Veil • • ....... ..• .. 5 0 4 0 small •• •• •• •• 3 0 3 8
Lamb, 4s 6d to 5s 6d.

BOROUGH AND SPITZ.LIPIELDS.
Daring last week very large supplies of Potatoes came
fresh to hand, coastwise and by railway, in excellent
condition. The imports were 66 tons from Nantes, and
a few barrels from Ireland. Tho demand continues
heavy, and late rates are with difficulty supported.
Per . Per
rorksh. Regents. 60s to Ton
80s Kentish Red Kid. —s to
Ton.
Ditto Shaws —8 to s Cambridge
Lincoln. and Wis- Kent Regents-- 6Us to 75s
beach ......... 50s to 65s Essex Regents 6os to 75s
Scotch Regents.. 60s to 70s, Essex Shaws —8 to —a
Perth Cups .... 60s to 64 Kent Shaws
Forfarahire ditto. 558 to 60silient & Essx. Mid. —s to —s Common Whites. —s to —s;French sos
Neweastle & Ber- iDutch Whites.., —a
—8 to to
—a
wick Regents.. —s to
—a Chats
DOROUGR HOP NIARZEET.
There is a moderate business doing in the best quell.
ties of new Hops, at fully last week's prices. In all
other kinds very little is passing. Since our last report
6 bales have arrived from Dunkirk. Sussex Pockets,
Si 12s to 6163 per cwt; Weald of Kents, 616 s to 71; Mid
and East Kent, 61 108 to 121; Yearlings, 3/ 10s to 5/ 10s;
Old olds, 112 s to 211 Os. •

AN AUTHOR.

THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD ALINES.
We have received letters and papers from Sydney
down to the 18th of December. The following is an
extract from a letter received by this arrival:—
" The precious metal arrives in daily increasing quan-
tities, and the estimated export has risen from 1,000,0001.
to 3,000,0004 per annum. Thero is no end to the gold;
and, as far as I have been able to ascertain from personal
communication with diggers of various degree, the
labour is by no means so tremendous as some would
make it out.

`• Commercial affairs are going on easily. The har-
vest is magnificent. Wages are not extravagantly high,
and I do not see any prospect of famine for some time
to come.

" I du not venture to prognosticate the probable state
of the markets. 'We are completely in the dark. I
have it, however, from good authority, that in the early
part of the year the probable heavy shipments of goods
on speculation will have the effect of creating a glut;
and it would be well it' a large degree of caution were
exercised in making consignments<
" The Vimiera brought us the first return wave' of
the gold news from you; and we are looking out with in-
tense curiosity for the rst Times' leader on the subject
of our great discovery."
In reference to the Victoria Gold Fields, the Sydney
Morning .Herald, of December 18th, says :
We sieve received, by the Emma, Melbourne papers
to the 10th instant. The Melbourne Morning Herald of
that date says—' Letters were received in town yester-
day from the Police Magistrate at Gipps Land, stating
that the whole dividing range between Sydney and Vic-
toria, and known as the Snowy Mountains, for 200
miles in extent, is one vast gold field. There was up-
wards of a ton and a half of gold in Mr. Commissioner
Powlett's tent, waiting for the escort, up to Saturday
last, and it is expected that to-day's escort from the
Mount will not be able to bring down one half the
quantity offered. It is intended to increase the military
force here to 100 men.'"

OOL.
No change can be noticW ed in the general features con-
nected with this market. The supplies of Wool are
small, yet the demand is heavy, at late rates. Last
week's imports were 128 bales from Seville, 51 from
Callao, 2 from Leghorn, 38 from liamburgb, 11 from
the Cape, 49 from Madras, and 54 from Canstantinople.
TAX.LOVir.
Notwithstanding that the delivery last week was
only 1,198 casks, and that, consequently, only a limited
business is doing, prices are fully supported. To-day,
P.Y.C. on the spo; is quoted at 3536 d to 35s 9d per
owl. For forward delivery next to nothing is passing.
Town Tallow, 35s per cwt. net cash; rough fat, 2s
Per Blbs,

1848. 1849. . 1850. 1851. I 1842.
Stock this day ••, • • 6,565 28,049 30,558 6,281 I 42,882
Plies of Y. C. •• .. 39s 6d
t033657590dd 40a 0d jo
t0353555%1i
I tos2ss2st t 039
Delivery last week .. 1,161 890 1,623 1,296 1,198
Ditto from June 1.... 90795 87,766 83,180 04,083 94,724
Arrivals last week -. 1,378 1470 73 1,'269 275
Ditto from June 1 ... 88,181 108,282 88,267 91,845 101,072
Price of Town .• •... 54s Od 41s 65 , 383 Od 41s 6d 388 Od
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CRIMINA T. r, an. TT 1711171 //T.!, rCi -w, .

CAPITAL C 01V V' C lONS.
'he Spring Assiz2s haEe beeu attended with a more
,hen usual number of capital convictions. W. Kalabergo
at Oxford, Anthony Turner at Derby, and Eliza Pin-
kard at Northampton have already suffered the extreme
penalty of the law. Sarah French, for poisoning her
husband, is left for execution on • Saturday at Lewes.
There were no less than three capital convictions for
murder at Bury St. Edmunds. W. Rollinson for
poisoning is no less than eighty-three years old.
There has been no application on his behalf,
and the Secretary of State does not interfere with
the law taking its course unless in the case of applica-
tion and grounds for interference. W. Baldry for
poisoning his wife was convicted, but Lord Campbell has
put off his execution until the Bth of May—the last day
of term—in order to take the opinion of the judges on
a point of law raised in his favour. The third is John
Micklcburgb, the farmer, who stabbed his female ser-
vant at a fair in a fit of jealousy. Although not de-
clared irresponsible for his acts, there is still enough
ground for inquiry into his general eccentricity, which,
coupled with the heat and suddenness of the act, has
caused inquiries to he instituted into his state of mind.
The case of John Keane, convicted at Kingston, for
throwing the child of his wife down a deep well at
Albury, is very peculiar. The case made in his
favour is, that he was convicted upon evidence which
iwteisitioaninly admissible because his wife (who was aequilited
of the crime) was joined with him in the indictment.
Abel Ovens and his paramour, Eliza Dower, were
convicted at Monmouthshire for the murder of their il-
raettreihild. It is likely that the woman may ob-
eve, as not having actually committed the
eanai posed to be under the influence of the man.
acreit,
grieve
ensd •,Taup
at Win Ayers, who had received a fortnight's
w re-
sparedhich h°4"in:erthe:
lie,vaerrey respiteci.Their,unsatisfactory
e vliivdeesn cwe will
lpobne
Wiii.irrieted. The commuted punishment,
—Sunday Paper. be subjected, is not yet settled.
APPOINTMENTS,
William Patrick
Talbot, brother of Earl Zlbot
to Lord Derby, in the plealuceci-oaT capepleoeineitetdhperilivaetee. seEcdrewtaarryd
eating in that capacity to the
conjunction with
Wilbraham, and is now
Treasury. Mr. Horatio Hamend, „C.: Stronge, of the
Premier, in
Malmesbury at the Foreign-office, is it=lB writer to Lord
Consul at Granville, in the place or rr.litiel her Majesty's
ceased. Mr. Bridges Taylor, of the Forei,ZuL:cbull,
ssP
de-
pointed precis writer in the place of Mr,lianionrce, i -
Paper.
WALWOETII LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC T
yr
TioN.—A second drawing-room entertainment will be 11sT
eq,./jer,7
on Wednesday evening next, at the Institution, by
J.
L. Toole. It will be, no doubt, as well attended as the for-
rner one, which gave unqualified satisfaction to the audience.
The programme is attractive, and capitally selected.
a notification to that
effect having been received from the Secretary of State by
crimi-
nals Eyres and Kemish are reprieved,
Tan ROMSEY IlluanEE.—The condemned
the Winchester Gaol authorities on Thursday morning.
The respite is a general one, viz., during her
Majesty's
pleasure.

INIINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD CO UR T.
The April sessions of the Central Criminal Court
were opened this morning by the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor. Air Alderman XOOl3, the Recorder, the Sheriffs
and trioe •
The ealv.Sheriffs, and other civic functionaries.
The
Racoendar contains a list of 145 prisoners for trial.
said, as the IlibEit, in hie address to the grand jury,
hawal between, the last and the pre-
forsent sessions
trial were rtthrt? longer than usual, the prisoners
rtet,a excess of the ordinary number;
but he was happy
numerous y, that though the cases in the
calendar were
investigationnd would occupy, a consider-
mthaserse was not
able time in
murder, and that the grea; one charge of
comparatively, of a very serious 0 the cases were not,
only two cases to which he
tzharacter. There were
make special reference. The fireotught it
necessary to
manslaughter against a yowl involved a charge of
indicted for having caused gthelnac• Ile was
woman; and it undoubtedly a—
ppeared tfleath of a
positions that he bad struck her a
_r_om the de-
The question for the jury to decide was v
Whtitttaent blow.
death. She died shortly
after the blow she
caused her
on examination afterwards it was found given,. but
was liable
to death from very slight causes in was
f
disease, and that the state of her health contributed eto the fatal result, yet by the law there was sufficient
evidence to support an indictment if the violence eon,_
milted, though not of itself sufficient to cause
death, accelerated death, and was the proximate
cause of it. The next case was a charge of
misdemeanour against a young woman for concealing
the birth of her child. In order to establish that charge
they must be satisfied that something was done by her
for the purpose of burying or otherwise disposing of the
dead body of the child in order to conceal its birth.
It. appeared from the depositions that she was delivered
to know
circumstances which rendered her hardly able to
ot!' what passel If the child was merely left with-
out._ assistance at the time, owing to her want of know-
ledge, or to her not - '
giving information, that would not
be sufficient t
then remittedo make out thecharge. The Recorder
the ' '
j ury to the discharge of their duties
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_______________
"11-11thL.ESE X SESSIONS.
(Before (THIS DAY.)
After a short recaathe ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
sittings this morni4 the
Court resumed its ordinary
Quarter Sessions were ogee Crkenwell, when the April
named in the calendar r" There are 7220 risoners
large upon bail, esidos several wh are at
William 1114 Gowan, a res
43, being convicted of embezPzelei ttble-looking man, aged
two shillings and three shillinges:' the several sums of
and on account of his master and reetee*lved by him for
Whittome, of No. 4, Liverp4 cyer, Air. James
was sentenced to nine months' in3prisoti-izroetad bookseller,
5

.ARLBRO'-STREET—(THis nay.)
OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCESseh
Lawrence, a well-dressed young man, residicg at No. 14_
Buckingham-street, Fitzroy-square, was placed at the 3
bar charged with having been concerned with
h
ther, not in custody, in obtaining from Mr. Johnis bra©
Clot,
Bad-
Clot, watchmaker, Greek-street, Soho, six gold watches,
value 501., by false and fraudulent pretences. Air.
Fisher, from the office of Mr. Dod, solicitor to the
London Association for the Protection of Trade,
John-street, Oxford-street, appeared for the prosecution.
Tho prosecutor stated that on the 20th of March last
the prisoner, who said his name was Lawrence, called at
his house acd said he wanted some watches to show to a
Customer. Witness asked him where he was to send
them. The defeuclut NW to $9, 14, Bedford-street, CO'

DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL C. J. C. DAVIDCON,
BENGAL ARMY.—Lieut.-Colonel Davidson, who had served
many years iu India, and SiIICO 1841 had been on the retired

list Of the B3ngal establishment, died Mon the 31st ultimo.
Lieut.-Colonel Davidson had received the Company's silver
medal for his services at the siege and storm of 13hurtpore in
1826.

DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL PENNING, 3D MA-
bans CAVALRY.—Lieut.-Colonel Penning, commanding the
h Feb. last.
3,1
6t Madras Light Cavalry Regiment, died at Bellary on the
1
On Wednesday night Richard Butler, a collier,
liv
waing at Ince, was killed by an explosion of foul air, whilst
he s '
at work at the bottom of a pit, called the Davey Pit,
forming Part of the Haigh Colliery, belonging to the Earl of
fOrd and Baletirreil..-Nancliater Guardian.,

The yearly comparison of the weekly imports is as i vent-garden. Knowing that a Mr. Lawrence, a dealer in
under:--
1 watches, resided there, and that he was a highly repeet-
lable tradesman, witness sent a dozen gold watches .by
1 his clerk for inspection. Six of the watches were Le-
turned, but witness had not seen the othnrs sieve,
William Owen, clerk to the prosecutor, said--eOn the
20th of March he was sent to 14, Bedford-street, Co
vent-garden, with 12 watches, and saw the prisoner'
there in the passage. Witness told him he had brought
the watches from Mr. Baddelet, when he said," Oh, its
all right," and held out his bend for them. Witness
said he had brought 12 for him to select from, and he
believed he (defendant) only wanted four. The pri-
cisouuirecrd, rebpulitedif he
he did not know what the customer re-
(witness) would come with him toliii brother he would know what would suit the party. , Wit-
in-ss then aceempunied the prisoner to the corner ef
s
Re"dei's-eourt, where he saw a person, whom the pri-
the enor said was* his brother, and to whom be told
nature of his errand. ' The prisoner's brother ,
sa'd, "It is no use going byck agein, come
into my auctioneer's, end I will look at the
watches." They thee went into the counting-house, and
the prisoner's brother selected, by the advice of the pri-
soner, six gold watches, and said ho would call upon
Mr. Baddelke either that evening or the following Mon-
day morning. Neither of there called, and on the 22d
of the same month he called at Bedford-street to;inquire
about the v./etches, but got no answer.
Coffee, 31 E, raid in conseqtence of information he
received he went yesterday afternocn to No. 14, Buck-
ingham-street, Fitzroy-square, where he had ascer-
tained the prisoner and his brother were lodg-
ing. On going upstairs into the first-floor room
he saw the prisoner, and at once told him
the nature of his errand, and took him
1 into custody. On their way to the station, the prisoner
said witness was labouring under a mistake. Witness
subsequently went and searched the prisoner's apart-
ment, and found twelve duplicates referring to gold
watches and plate. One of the watches was pledged on
the 20th of March for 41. 10s., and another on the 22d
for a similar amount, and two ethers on the 22d for 111.
These watches had been identified by the prosecutor as
his property.
Mr. Wolff having addressed the court for the prisoner,
the latter was remanded till Thursday next.

HE BOOKSELLING QUESTION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
SiF,—Srmewhat more than a year since I published a
work of which the advertised price is 12s. I have now
before me an account up to Christmas last, wherein
I find myself credited a with the copies sold at
the rate of Bs. 6d. each. The trade custom of
giving 25 for the f. rice of 24 reduces this to some-
what less than Bs. 2d, Further, my publisher deducts
ten per cent. commission for all sales he makes in
my behalf; so that ultimately the net sum per copy
payable to me becomes 7s. 4d. Out of this 7s. 4d. per
copy I have to pay for the composition, printing, paper,
and binding; for the advertising, which threatens to
reach 50/.; and for the 30 odd copies sent to the na•
tional libraries, newspapers, and reviews. The result is
that, though of its kind the book has been a very suc-
cessful one, my account up to Christmas last shows a.
balance of 80/. against me. Possibly in eighteen
months hence the work will have paid its expenses, and
I am even not without hope that it will leave me some
104 in pocket as a reward for my two years' toil.
Should it do so, however, I shall be unusually fortu-
nate; for my publisher tells me that the great majority
of works having, like mine, a philosophical character,
entail loss,
Now, with all their skill in mystification, the Book-
sellers' Association will find it difficult to show that out
of a selling price of Its. the proportion set aside to pay
for printing, raper, binding, advertising', gratuitous
copies, and author, should be 7s. 40., while 45. Bd. may
reasonably be charged for conveyance to the reader. In
these days of chesp carriage 60 per cent. for cost of
production, and 40 per cent, for porterage, is a some-
what anomalous division.
Mr. Murray says it is in great measure an authors'
question. Ile is right, and authors win prove much
less intelligent than I take them to be if they do not
see how immensely their own interests, as well as
those of the public, would be served by a diminution of
these exorbitant trade profits. Let any one refer to
" Porter's Progress of the Nation," and there note
the many cases in which a small reduction of price
has been followed by a great increase of consumption,
and he cannot avoid the inference that a2O per cent,
decrease in the vendor's charge for a book would cause
a much more than proportionate increase in its sale;
and as this decrease would be in the cost of agency, and
not in the author's price, the extra sale would be so
much clear profit to him. Books that now entail loss.
would pay their expenses, and books that now, only pay
their expenses would bring somethingelike a reasonable
remuneration.
Should the publishers and booksellers persist in their
restrictive pclicy, which is injurious, not only to authors
and the public, but, I believe, in the long run, even to
themselves, I think that as a matter of business authors
will be justified in decining to publish with any who
belong to the combination.--I am, &e.,

THE MAGAZINES, &c.
BLACKWOOD.

After. a, .perusal of the first article in the April
number of Blackwood—an impassioned eulogium on
the Noble Earl, at present, the leader of her Majesty's
Government—we turn, as to a more than ever agree-
able relaxation, to the latest instalment of the "nova'
of Sir Bulwer Lytton, the alter ego of Pisistratus.
No less than fifteen chapters—and some of them
lengthy end elaborated—aid this month in the deve-
lopment of the narrative, and wonderfully developed
it is ! Bringing one to the very brink of a cluster
of crises—Poor Audley Egerton ruined and trem-
bling, we fear, on the verge of a sudden death—
Frank Hazeldean, betrothed to Beatrice, after having
paid off her debts (and his own) by a post obit to
Baron Levy on the Casino—Count di Peschiera on the
track of the daughter of Dr. Riccabocca—Leonard
and Helen, Violante and Harley L'Estrange playing
more than ever at " cross purposes" with each other
in the depths of their 'pure but bewildered affections
—and Randal Leslie, " the type of perverted intel-
lect," "that pale face all intellect, and that spare form
all nerve," on the eve of either the most complete and
dezzling success, or of the most painfully and dis-
astrously ignominious exposure of his machinations,
In recounting his story the poet-novelist corn•
mimes, at stray intervals, rare intervals, renderir
these charming from their abrupt insulation, with ins
renders—as in that moment when he explains to them
and to'himself the mysterious difficulty of thinking.
In the united qualities of ease and mellowness of
"style"—this his most recent, and in other respects
his most comprehensive, work (both as to intricacy
of plot, and diversity of character) may perhaps
be regarded as the masterpiece among his
prose compositions. After a criticism on "American
.INlititary Reconnoissances" we have the commencement
of what—judging from the first delightful portion—
promises to be a glorious aeries of papers, hight " Our
London Commissioner." From its beginning to its
conclusion the article is sparkling with the most
genial humour—at times merging into hilarity almost
boisterous. The writer, whoever he may be, sets out
in a mood of the wildest animal spirits, for which we
unaffectedly proffer, him our acknowledgements,
seeing that in the perusal we have found his merri-
ment contagious. During this present month of
April we can conscientiously recommend this contri-
bution as a " very likely" antidote for a fit of the
mmgrims. The defence of the stage, as demoralizing
in its tendencies, does honour to the pages of dear old
Maga, and nothing can be more pleasantly extrava-
gant than the burlesque apostrophe to the murderers,
swindlers, forgers, and footpads recognised among the
audience in the little theatre in the Haymarket. We
shall rejoice to meet once more the jovial visage of
the Blackwood Commissioner. Besides a deserved
encomium on "The Mother's Legacy to her Unborn
Child," the magazine of magazines contains a couple
of political articles not before particularized, one re-
lating to, the "Commercial Disasters of 1851," and
the other to " The Appeal to the Country."

A.INSWOR7'H.
Grimly attractive as ever—after the fashion
of the '" Corsican Brothers"—" The Lancashire
Witches" advances in the plot by those two
chapters respectively entitled " The Phantom
Monk" and "One o'Clock." Another collection of
" Sbakspereana" constitutes the next contribution,
and the magazine is further adorned with a continu-
ation of " Tbe Confederates." In lieu of his custom-
ary chapter of" Hester Somerton," Nicholas Michell
favours us with Sonia trite verses on "Napoleon Bo-
naparte.", Some very elegant and charming stanzas
by E. B. M. K,, entitled " Songs of the Flower
Spirits" lend a seasonable grace to the pages of Ains-
worth, sprinkling over them in turns—snowdrops
crocuses—violets,primroHs— bluebells cowslips
We sballbope to find an early opportunity for quoting.
tiles& stanzas ouraelves. Ellis Yore has a contribu-
tion called- " The Snow King," Joseph Anthony has
sonic " Rough Notes from hi:; Diary," and we are
presented, besides other amusing articles, with the
Chronicles of Baron von Gobble," by Bentham Fon-
blauque.

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.
The chief articles in the present number are " Life
in St. l'etersburgh," an interesting account of sport-
ing, adventures on the Cape frontier, and " The
Guardsman's last Campaign." There are also " Re.
collections of Services in Spain and Portugal,': and
" Ten Days' Kangarooing," besides other sketches.

BLEAK 110 USE, No. 11. By Charles Dickens.
Guided by the charming and loveable Esther
Summerson, we have at length veritably reached
Bleak house, situated near St. Albans, and from the
first the main object of our destination. Bafore
effecting this Hegira, however, from the town resi-
dence of Mrs. Jellyby, the reader is made acquainted
with a few more of the discomforts resulting from
her want of hausewifery—the poor children tumbling
about all day "notching memoranda of their acci-
dents in their legs, which were perfect little calendars
of distress," and Peepy straying off to Newgate-
market, whence he is brought back ultimately by a
policeman. Before leaving London, moreover,
Esther, Ade, and Richard, accompanied early in the
morning by Caddy before she gets once more into
"a state of ink," are introduced by the Little Old
Lady (a real sketch from the life as every frequenter
of the Court of Chancery well knows) into her
apartment—a garret over the old rag and bone store-
shop of Drool[, otherwise known as the Lord Chan-
cellor. With his horrid fiend of a cat the said
lirook starts out of the canvass like a dirty effigy of
Dr. Dee, or .a sort of a Friar Buegay turned into a
tatteraemalion—even to the last glimpse of him, when
they saw hini "standing at bis shop-door, in his
spectacles, looking- after us, with his cat upon his
shoulder and her tail sticking up on one side of his
hairy cap, like a tall feather." Bleak House proves
to be an old-fashioned mansion, with a host, who, con-
sidering all his good qualities, is, in another sense, "a
host in himself'—the hero of the plum-cake, cousin
John, otherwise Me. Jarndyce. Another character,
sketched off with a masterly baud, is Harold Skim-
pole—whose arrest for debt is one of the most
amusing incidents in -the number, presenting to
him the delightful alternative of gaol or—
Coavinses ! What was the least meritorious
portion of the first number of Bleak Rouse is the
most admirable in the second, namely, the chapter
(and here we drop again from the " autobiogra-
phical") relating to the Dedlocks. The subjoined
passages are altogether too admirable in their truth-
fulness to nature not to be transcribed as demonstrat-
ing anew the keen perception of the humorous in
our indomparable " Bee " He writes:—
" There may be some motions of fancy among the
lower animals at Chesney %Vold. The horses in the
stables—the long .stables in a barren, red-brick court-
yard, where there is a great bell in a turret, and a clock
with a large face, which the pigeons who live near it,
and who love, to perch upon its shoulders, seem to be
always consulting—they may contemplate some mental
pictures of fine weather, on occasions, and may be
better artists at thcm than the grooms. The old roan,
so famous for cross-country work, turning his large eye-
ball to the grated window near his rack, may remember
the fresh leaves that glisten there at other times, and
the scents that stream in, and may have a fine run with
the hounds, while tho human helper, clearing out the
next stall, never stirs beyond his pitchfork and birch-
broom. The grey, whose place is opposite the door, and
who, with en impatient rattle of his halter, pricks his
ears and turns his head so wistfully when it is opened,
and to whom the opener says, Woa grey, then, steady!
Noabody wants you to-clay!' may know it quite as well
as the man. The whole seemingly monotonous and un-
companionable half-dcz2n, stabled together, may pass
the long wet 'hours, when the door is shut, in livelier
communication than is held in the servants' hall, or at
the Dedlock Arnas;—or may even beguile the time by
improving (perhaps corrupting) the pony in the loose-
box in the corner.
" So, the. mastiff, - dozing in his kennel, in the court-
yard, with his large head on his paws, may think of the
hot sunshine, when the shadows of the stable-buildings
tire his patience out by changing, and leave him, at one
time of the day, no broader refuge than the shadow of
his own house, where he sits on end, panting-and growl-
ing short, and very much wanting something to worry,
besides himself and his chain. So, now, half-waking
and all-winking, he easy recal the house full of company,
the coach-houses full of vehicles' the stables full of
horses, and the outbuildings full of attendants upon
horses, until he is undecided about the present, and
comes forth to see how it is. Then, with that impatient
shake of himself, he may growl, in the spirit, Raie,
rain, rain! Nothing but rain—and no family here!' as
he goes in again, and lies down with a gloomy yawn.
" So with the dogs in the kennel-buildings across the
park, who have their restless fits, and whose doleful
voices, when the wind has been very obstinate, have
even made it known in the house itself: up stairs, down
stairs, and in my lady's chamber. They may hunt the
whole countrY-side, while the rain-drops are pattering
.trrittevya
round their inactivity. So the rabbits with their self-
betraying tails, frizking in and out of holes at roots of
trees,f may be lively with ideas of the breezy days when
ir
tee
ears are blown about or of thos
interest when there are sweet•, e seasons of
young plants to gnaw.
ahseeu
in the poultry-yard, always troubled with a
g
cent of
(probably Christmas), may be reminis-
ummer-moraing wrongfully taken from
wh-ihme'rewthhehanerne.hes
goose, whomsatyoogpasbtlpaoarilst
wasgoat ibnto the lane emong the felled trees,
ground. the
en 11 de
and barley. The discontented
underf the old gateway, twenty
,viihwe only knew it, a waddling
feet high,
preference for Weather n the gateway casts its
bfea.nacylitottlheear-t
" Be this as it may, there., is not
mach
echoing place, a long May, and
little noise in that old
usually leads off to
ghosts end
mystery.
to Watt
A ghost story told
...and Rosa by the house-
he
keeper old Mrs. It
shadowan y wing
odds r orminnogrnt at
teg,
ouneewell Our accjuaintance of
the last number, Mr. Guppy—clerk to henge—being
Chesney
away on "an out" from town, goes over the house
at
startled evidently by the rsemblance
lock. Unimportant thopgh the visit of air. Guppy
s'bsnlaenYc We
tOld Esathnedr is
of the portrait of Lady Ded-