The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-06 00:00:00

THE SUN,

Dick Swivelle. His roaring voicP, his interne
superlatives, his boihterous laughter, his grey
heart, his go, gi humour, and
hairs, his young
his canary, all :win upon ono immediately. A
tt rrible dragonness of a Mrs. P.irdiggle (with her five
restrained boys) is introduced in like manner, and
sweeps us away in spite of ourselves, into a visit to
the hovel of an abandoned briekmaker. Ada and
Esther are of the party who are thus characteristically
addressed by the lord and master of the hovel, the
brickmaker

I wants a end of these liberties took with nay place.
I wants a end of being drawed like a badgfir: Now
you're a going to poll-pry and (location according to
custom—l know what you're a going tl be up to. Well!
You haven't got no occasion to be up to it. save
you the trouble. Is my daughter a washin? Yes, she
is a washin. L'ok et the water. Smell it! That's wot
we drinks. How do you like it, and what do
you
s, thinkii is ir
of
agit:;,_itins,steadl An% my place dirty?
nod n lyre lly dirty, i
nuOrally onwholesome•, five dirtt s
'y•
and onrrhAeorne children, as is all dead in-
fants, and sti much the better ter them, and for us be-
sides. Have I read the little book wot you loft? No,
I an't read the little hook wot you left. There 'at, tie
body here as knows hlw to read it; and if there wos, it
woulii'llt be suitable to me. It's a book fit for a bahby,
and I'm not u bv,by. -If you was to lenvo me a dolt, 1
Bnsmkrnt nuns it. How have I been conducting, of my-
self? Why, I've been drunk for throe days; and I'd u
been drunk four, if I'd a had the money. Don't I never
mean for to go to church? No, I don't never mean for
to go to church. I shouldn't be (x
And how did my IFtle
the beadle's too gar.-feel for me.
giv' her; and if- she
pected there, if I did;
gat that black eyi ? Why, I
says I did'nt, she's a Lie!"
Before Ma and Esther leave the room, but after
Mrs. Pardiggle -and her children have departed, Ole
poor child, in the arms of the brickmaker's wife, dies.
cried Ada,
rsinky lour,ingon theh her
little r kneesttle h
thin*
:i
it." here'.(l.oEollthei r !
o Esther,
The suffering, quiet, pretty little thing! lam so sorry
for it. lam so sorry for the mother. I never saw a
sight so pitiful as this before! 0 baby, baby!' "
While they are still there, a poor woman, calling out
"Jenny ! Jenny !" hurries in and falls upon the
neck of the bereaved mother.
" She had no kind of grace about her, but the grace
of sympathy; but when she condoled with the wo-
man, and her own tears foil, she wanted no beauty.
I say condoled, but her only words were Jenny!
Jenny !' All th© rest was in the tone in which she said
them. .

"I thought it very touching to see these two women,
coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what
they could be to one another; to see how they felt for
one another; how the heart of each to each was soft-
ened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best
side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the
poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to them-
t•elves and God."

Our friend Harold Skimpole appears for a moment
in this number, but in that moment utters thoughts
anent the Bee that we should have liked to have re-
ferred to the.consideration of Dr. Watts. It is at
breakfast, and he is eating honey when he thus dis-
courses :

" He had no objection to honey, he said (and I should
think he had not, for he seemed to like it), but he pro-
tested against the overweening assumptions of Bees.
He didn't at all see why the busy Bee stiould he proposed
as a model to him; he supposed trio Bee liked to make
honey, or he wouldn't do it—nobody netted him. It was
not necessary for the Bee to make such a merit of his
tastes. If every confectioner went buzzing about the
world, banging against everything that came in his
way, and egotistically calliog upon everybody to take:
notice that he was going to his work and must not be
interrupted, the world would be quite an insupportable
place. Tnen, after ill, it was a ridiculoua position to be
smoked out of your fortune wish brimstone, as a,cin as
you had made it. You would have a very mean opinion
of a Manchester man, if he spun cotton for no other
purpose. He must say he thought a Drone the embodi-
ment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. The Drone said,
unaffectedly, Y.O will excuse me; I really cannot at-
tend to the shop! I find myself in a world -in which
there-is so much to see, and so short a time to see it in,
that I must take the liberty of looking about me, and
begging to be provided for by somebody who doesn't
want to look about him; This appeared to Mr. Skirn-
pole to be the Drone philosophy, and he thought it a
very good philosophy—always supposing the Drone to
be willing to be on good terms with the Bee: which, so
far as be knew, the easy fellow always was, if the con-
sequential creature would only let him, and not be so
conceited abut his honey."
EEsther obtains some delightful nick-
sucahYas Old Woman, Cobweb, Mother n
Byrn thees
vi
Hub-
bard, and Dame Durden. And, by the way, again,
this same Dame Darden has a love passage in the
ninth chapter—Mr. Guppy formally filing a declara-
tion, or in other words popping the question. The
scene is described with infinite humour. After Guppy
has departed, of course rejected—saith Esther :
" I sat there for another hour or more, finishing my
books and payments, and getting through plenty of bu-
siness. Then, I arranged my desk, and put everything
away, and was so composed end cheerful that I thought
I had quite dismissed this unexpected incident. But,
when 1 went up-stairs to my room, I surprised myself by
beginuiug to laugh about it, and then surprised myselt
still more by beginning to cry about it. In short, I was
in a flutter for a little while; and felt as if an old chord
had been more coarsely touched than it ever had been
since the days of the dear old doll, long buried in the

garden." -
The closing chapter of the number has reference to
Mr. Snagsby, law stationer, of Cook's-court,
Cursitor-street, who is described as emerging
from tea, "greasy, warm, herbacious, and chewing ;
to Mrs. Snagsby, wife of the aforesaid, whose sharp
nose is said to have been " like a sharp autumn even-
ing, inclining to be frosty towards the end," to Guster
(" by some supposed to have been christened Au-
gusta"), their poor slatternly servant girl, who "has
fits," and who regards with such admiration " the little
drawing• room up stairs always kept, as one may say,
with its hair in papers and its pinnafore on." Besides
these, we are introduced again to Mr. Tulkinghorn,
the solicitor of Lincoln's Inn-fields, whom we accom•
pany to Krook's rag and bottle shop, and up to the
mysterious second-floor lodger, " The Law Writer,
strongly suspected by us and by others, we opine, to
be one of the family of the Jarndyces. So ends the
number on the threshold of his apartment.

FINE ARTS.

THE HOLY FAMILY.

Painted by Murillo ;

engraved by Bridoux. 111‘Lean.
A superb hue engraving of this celebrated master.
pi-ce has very recently been issued from the esta.
blishment of Mr. Thomas M'Lean of the Haymarket.
Of late years the graver has been so generally super-
seded by the mczz dioto-rubber, and the etching•
needle, that we regard with very peculiar satisfaction
its employment in the highest department of
what may be called , in a twofold sense
the "imitative art." par excellence. More particu-
larly are we rejoiced to witness the appearance of a
line engraving with anything like superior preten-
sions about it, when the artist has selected for
representation some more than usually remarkable
original. Precisely thus is it with reference to the
magnificent production before us, in which the mas-
ter-skill of A. Bridoux has admirably interpreted the
master-genius of Murillo. It is now many years
since the " Holy Fa.nily," painted by Murillo some-
where about 1660 ((lamely, in the forty-seventh
year of his ege, and twenty-five years before his
demise), came to be regarded as amongst the noblest
evidences of hi: powers by the people of this country.
Produced originally at Cadiz for the Marquis of
Pedroso, the picture was valued according to Cean
B-ranudez at 800 pesos of 15 reels or 600, crowns,
being ultimately bought for the E..glish
nation in 1837, together with Rubella'
" Brazen Serpent, " for the sum of 7,350/.,
and deposited in the National Gallery by order of the
Government. Every one who has visited that melan-
choly repository of the artistic treasures of Great
Britai❑ must have paused before that, if before no
other picture in the collection, in admiration. It is
numbered, indeed, with the masterpieces of the
wholetii. gallery, with the "Sr. John," also by Mu-
of Guido, with the
teaching Cupid,"
the " Ecce Homo" and the " Mercury
Leonardo da Vi
Cupid," of Correggie " with the "Susannah
and the Elders," and the '
"Christ"Lotanandd
thhies
nDoacutgohrst,lrso,"f
the more conspicuo del
zarus" of Sebastiani, and with the "Raising of Ls
To expatiate on
the heauties of this " Holy Family"
serenee
Child, the lovely
of Murillo— celestialfeatures
countenance of the Divine
the Blessed Virgin, the" and
maternal tenderness of
and meditative aspect
of St. Joseph—the
matchless grouping, the pathos,
peculiarities of
colouring, the
glo.rioteas, the solemnity,
and all the other
the composition would be worse than superfluous,
ehfemßat,rido
stuhperfluous, and
transferredwe are would be even out of place here
en-
abled to remark that they are all of t
to the engraving by the skilful band
with one exception, of course—that of Colouring.um Thell'
plate, which is 23 inches high by 20i- wide, does
inconsiderable
portion of credit will be reflected upon the establish,-
signal honour to Mr. Bridoux, while no
merit of Mr. M‘Lean by the issue of every successive
impression.
_-.............rairmem.•••••

k steam-packet, Captain
; The Brunswick
NESDAY, MAY ..--
port
last
Thursday, :oily the Penin-
Harvey, which left this
steamer Sul, an, C4pt. Brookes,
SOUTHA.MPTON V. PLYMOUTH.—PLYMOUTH, WED-
sular and Oriental Company's .
hound with the mails for
—say, five or six miles an hour—
in the Needles Passage,
Docks the day,
the Mediterranean. She left Southampton
about twenty-
six :\
before at 2 30 P.M., and had thus accomplished
from
in a thick fog, going at half speed
miles in sixteen made the en-
she would have crowed the Channel and haves
threading the
mince to the Bay of Biscay, while she wa
a and the
difficult navigation of the Southampton water
hours. had she sailed
Needles Passage. On Sunday morning, the f-'d
Plymouth
half-past ten o'clock, the Peninsular and Oriental Cinosittapnat.llYr a'ats.
steamer Madrid, Captain Weet-s, from Spain, was seen by 1
fisherman. to the southward of the Eddystone, within two'
hours' sail of Plymouth. She arrived at Southampton on
Monday night, and her mails reached London on Tuesday
forenoon. Had the Madrid come into Plymouth, her litters
would have reached the metropolis on Monday—more than
twenty-fout hiturg earlier theta 1:7 the coterie 44°Pte4;

LONDON,

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

- ------.----
(From the Votes ail frocee,lings of the House of Commons)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5.,
TENANT RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL. -
. .
Order read, for resuming. the further proceeding on
Amendment proposed to Question, " That the 13111 he
now - read a second time," .nd which Amendment
waTto leasi-e :out the word "now," and at the end of the
Question to add the words" upon this day six months :"
Question again proposed, " That the word ' now' stand part
of the Question.' Further proceeding resumed; Question
put. Tue House divVed :
MINOItITY—AYES, 57.
Adair, R. A. Heard, J. I. O'Brien, John
Armstrong, Sir A. Henry, Alexander O'Brien, Sir T.
Barron Sir H.
Higgins, George O'Connell, M. J.
Bass, Al. T. Howard, P. 11. O'Flaherty, Anthony
Bellew; B. H.,•.. Howard, Sir R. Perfect, Robert,
Blake, M. J.-: Keating, Robert Power, 3T:cholas
Keogh, William Rawdon, Colonel
Bright, 'John
Kershaw,4arncis Reynolds. Joint
Burke, Sir T. J.
F;titkr, P. 5. • • Lawless, Cecil Sadlcir, John
Castlereagh, Vise. 11PCullagh, W. T. Scrope, G. P.
Cobden, Richard Magan, W. 11. Scully, Francis
Cogan, W. 11. Maher, N. ScullY, Vincent.
Corbally, M. E. 3lcagh v-.... Thomas Sullivan, Michael
DeVereUX, .1. T. Mahon, ON ;orman Telma*, R. J.
Fox, Richard M. 31i1 4-.-aO. Robert. Thompson, Colonel
French, F. .
,Illon3eil, William Waliley, T.
Gould, Wyndham Dloore, C. 11. Walmsley, Sir I.
Grace. ID 1). J. Murphy, F. S. TELLEn9
Crawford, W. S.
Grattan, Henry Norreys, Sir 1).
Greene, John Nugent, sir Percy Roche, E. B.

MAJORIT Y -NOES, 167.

Adderley, C; Ft•. Duncan," George
•
Anson, ViS:COUIIt Duncombe, A.
Ark wright, G. Dunne, Colonel
Bailey, Craw-hay Du Pre, C. G.
Bailey, Joseph East. Sir J.
Baillie, H. J. Edwards, 11.
Baldock, E. H. Egerton, Sir P.
Baukes, G. Egorton, W. T.
Barrington, Lord - Farnham, E.
Barrow, W. 11. Farrer, James
-Bennet, Philip Feliowes, E.
Beresthrd,William Ferguson, Sir R.
Bernard, yleount Floyer, John
Blair, Stephen - Forbes, Wm.
Blandterd, Marquis Fordyce, A. D.
BOnham-Carter, J. . Forester, G. C.
Booth, Sir R. G. Forster, M.
Bowles, Admiral Fox, S. L.
Brenaridge, Richard Freestun, Colonel
Bridges, Sir B. Freshlleld, J. W.
Brisco, M. Fuller, A. E.
Brooke, Sir A. Galway, Viscount
Brotherton, 3, • Gilpin, Colonel
Bruce; Lord E. Gore, W. R. 0.
Bruce, C. L. Goulburn, Henry
Buck, L. W. Granger, T. C.
Bunbury, William Greenall, Gilbert
Burghley, Lord Gwyn, Howel
Burrell, Sir C. Halford, Sir 11.
Carew, W. H. Pole Hamilton,' Geo. A.
Caulfeild; J. M. Hamilton, J. 11.
Caylcy, E. S. • Hamilton, Lord C.
Chichester, Lord J. Hardinge, C. S.
Child, Smith. • Hastie, Alexander
Christopher'. R. ' • Hayes, Sir E.
Clements, Charles ,Headlain, Thomas
Clerk Sir CT; Ileneage, G. 11.
Clive, R. H. Henley, J. W.
Clive, Henry B. ' 111.1dyard, T. B.T.
Cobbold, J. C. Hill, Lord E.
,Coehraue, A. D. Hope, Sir J.
Cocks,'T. S. Hotham, Lord
Codrington, Sir W. Hughes, W. B.
Collins, Thomas Home, Joseph
Colvile, C. R. Johnstone, Sir J.
Conolly, Thomas Jolliffe, Sir W. H.
Corry, H. --, Jones, Captain
Cotton, W. H. Kelly, Sir F.
Darner, Colonel Knox, Colonel
Davii, Sir H. " Knox, W. S.
Davies, D. A. S. Langton, W. H.
Denison, Edmund Leonard, T. B.
Dod, J. W. Lennox, Lord A.
Dodd, G. Lennox, Lord H. G.
Drumlanrig,ViscOuNt Leslie, C P.
Druthmond, Henry Long, W.
Drummond, Home . Lowther, Colonel

Lowther, Henry
Macnaghten, Sir E.
Mandeville, Viscount
Banners, Lord C.
Manner=, Lord J.
March, Earl of
Morgan, 0.
Naas, Lord
Napier, Joseph
Ne,ld, Joseph
Newport, Visct.
Noel, G. J.
O'itrien, Sir Lucius
Packe, C. W.
Pakington, Sir John
Palmer, Robert
Patten, J. W.
Pennant, Colonel
Philips, Sir G. R.
Pilkingtou, James
Pugh, David
Pusey, P.
Ricardo, Osman
Richards, Richard
Rushout, Captain
Sandars, George
Seymer, IL K. .
Smyth, John George
Smollett, A.
Somerville, Sir W.
Stafford, Augustus
Stanley, Edward
Stuart, H.
Stuart, J.
Start, Henry G.
Tennent, Sir J.
Thesiger, Sir F.
Thicknesse, It. A.
Thornely, ThomaS
Trollope, Sir J.
Tyler, Sir G.
Tyrell, Sir J. T.
Verner, Sir W.
Vesey, lion. T.
Villiers, Viscount
Vyse, H. R. H.
Walpole, S. H
Wa'sh, Sir J. B.
Welby, G. E.
Whiteside, James
Worcester, Marquis
Wynn, li. W.
Yorke, E. T.

TELLERS.
Bateson, T.
Mackenzie, W. F.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.
WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAlLWAY.—Yesterday,
after a psetracted incsiry, and opposition on the part of
the Great Western Railway and other interests, the
Committee, consisting of Mr. Childers, Colonel Peel, and
others, passed the prteamble of this Bill, promoted by the
London and North-Western Railway, for making a line
from Worcester to Hereford, with branches to the city of
Worcester, to"Malvern, and to Ledbury. The Bill also
elites powers to enter into working arrangements with
the Midland and Ignition and North-Western Com•
pales, to whem it will give Heeezet to andicommunication
with tbe districts of Sewn Wales. The estimated cost
of the line is 220,000/. Evidence was adduced on the
part of the Commissioners of the Severn Navigation
to show that the proposed fixed bridge below Worcester,
tarrying the railway across the Severn, would
annihilate the navigation at the time of high tides, and that
it would be necessary to have a swing or draw bridge,
The promoters of the railway proposed a fixed bridge
of a specific bright and span, and tbat vessels at the time
of high tides should lay up at Worcester. Ultimately
clauses were introduced, leaving the matter to the juris-
diction of the Admiralty. The Parliansentary and
other expenses of prosecuting the Bill for this line are
said to amount to between 40,0001. and 50,000/.
LOND ,N AND Nowell-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The
Committee, in reporting the preamble of this company's
two Bills, state that the object of the first is to effect ar-
rangements with regard to capital, and for enlargement
of the stations at Wolverton and Kilburn; and of the
second, for new lines near Oxford, to connect with the
Buckinghamshire railways, and the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, and to effect arrangements between
the latter company and the London and North-
Western. The Committee report that the financial
object of the company is to enable them to convert,
by degrees, their existing debt into irredeemable
stock, bearing annual interest not exceeding three
and a half per cent, such new or debenture stock to have
priority of interest or dividend over all existing prefe-
rence shares or stock of the company; but inasmuch as
the debenture stock will only be created instead of
mortgages or debetures bearing on an average a far
higher rate of interest, which interest has now a priority
over' all preference shares or stock of the company, the
Committee did not deem the creation of the debenture
stock to be a " granting of preference or priority"
within the meaning of the 128th standing order, or an
alteration of the terms of any existing preference or
priority, "thin the meaning of .the 129:h standing
order. The Committee amended the Bill by declaring
the expediency of creating a debenture " stock," with
an interest not exceeding 3i per cent., instead of an in-
terest positively of 3i per cent.
miGREAT Ig
RAlLWAY.—lesterday the Com-
mittee
of the Kennett and Avon Canal, for making
thisVEs TEa
company's Bill, for the purchase and
i
arrungements with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weyouh,
and for additional works at Didcot, passed the m preamble.

FRE E•Tiblag PROTECTIONISTSinis•
Tto orey remedy proposed by the present Adm
traiina_ lies simply in maintaining the existing commer-
cial p..licy of the country. Our friends of the. Protection
press, if they would be true to their own colours, must
prepare to furbish up
some of their best samples of in
vective against the Derby "traitor" and the "renegade"
of Buckinghamshire. In what respect doss the reluc-
tant adhesion of the present First Minister to the doc-
trines of Free Trade differ from their recognition by
that great statesman who, to his country's loss, was
except in so far that he has
snatched away from us,
been more slow to discern the policy which this country
could not but pursue if it would maintain its rank in
the scale of nations? What kind of pledge did the
'ate Sir Robert Peel give to the great Conservative
par y in 184'2 which can for a moment be compared
se an the pledges given by Lord Derby as chief spokes-
man and recogniz,,d leader of the Protection party since
1846 ? It Sir Robert Peel was a traitor, what is Lord
Derby ? L tit not. however, be for a moment supposed
that we a i‘li the Quintilians and Ciceros of monopoly
to turn. their pens against the leaders of the present
Administration. Fer the sake of decency let them
at lest leave off calling of bard names, and recognize
results which any but to blind man can perceive. If there
he any " treason," or any such heavy matter in Lord
Derby's present position, it is that he had not the man-
linens to act, as Sir Robert Peel did at a far more mo-
mentous time. No than can make a great speech in
more efficient. style than the present Premier when he
fairly sets about it. Why does he shriek from the odium
of acknowledging_his mistake, and admitting in the face
of the country and of his own followers that he was mis-
taken?" Oh! but the elections, are coming cn ewe must not
alienette the votes of our own partisans. We must not
-completely destroy the shaken faith of the agricultural
constitutinci,el" It would appear to any unprejudiced
observer as though poor Sir Robert had risked far more
than this, and had exposed himself to a storm of vitu-
peration which would not reach Lord Derby's head. It
is, however, of the Protection writers and the Protection
press that we are speaking at the present moment. Why
do not they, even at the twelfth hour, make a tardy at-
tempt to escape from the mud through which they have
been too long dragged by every blockhead who on any
hustings or atarey Protectionist meeting throughout the
country has stood up to odd his little quantum of non-
sense to the literature of Protection?:
It had been our intention to speak of the last shifts and
chanes.ofotvheerePomrootsecotsioenvownriattertsiciebulatsat
moment.feeling W
of
com-
punctionbtriumph over men to whose position so much ridicule is
attached? Rather let us entreat the public to look the
other way, than imitate the example which themselves
had set. We will not too curiously remark upon their
cunning arguments for proving that there is a substan-
tial difference between the fiscal policy of the late and
the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Disraeli
may have eulogised the success of the Free-trade policy
and maintained it in his present budget. That is nothing.
He haanot adopted the formsl terms of Sir Charles Wood's
motion, nor, as far as we aro aware, borrowed the Right
Hon. Gentleman's hat—that is everything. Bo it so.
t the
yvi l
willlbi tee
hoa
writing e
`.have
g turned
is as absolute a certainty as anything can be which is
l
predicated of human beings, and not the wisest of their
_irilobert Peel, the professional discoverers of mares'-
species—that ere six months are out the calumniators of
Sir
vx a
en eci elf
ermno otm h
n Free-tradegt ere s
ewr r
hrr e
of theirn
articles,
grievance
ways.and
Theys s,
nests,
iee
ateribtog the salvation of h • t pn. country to the very men
who "fifty() opposed this policy from the fire!. Content
with the testilt, let
ndusn
lot be over curious about the
process. Let us avoid needlessly
even of needlessly wounding the 'elf love
those who areTimes. least entitled to such reserve.--

ReMOVAL 017-------THEI R;IGISTRAR:GENERAL'S OFFICE
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siplirtaidtcleaid)r:giwsthitth in the cities
lit having been found expedient to vacate the present oftieores;
, ii,, some, set-place, in favour of the Board of Inland Revenue.
It is understood that the department of the Registrar-Ge-
' 1 the London Uniyenity,
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