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without any project of reform being put forward even as
" looming in the distance."—(Hear, hear.)
Lord CRANVVOB ru Silitnirreewjloyhiicheehodp
would not consent to withdraw the Bill.—(" Hear, hear,"
froms t. eproposed
oopr do 8
eWd otdoedbeoauls ew. )i t h
was not the Noble Lord's intention. Although the mea-
sure hoped tshh ecundoubtedly
Lord
a very small matter, it was nevertheless an acknow-
ledged abuse, acknowledged to be so by six Right Rev.
Prelates who were upon the Commission; and the re-
moval of it. so far from interfering with the great reform
contemplated by Government to be made hereafter, would,
in his (Lord Cranwortll%,) opinion, clear the way for and
facilitate the passing of such a measure.—(Hear, hear.)
But he had a further reason why he thought the 13111
should pass now, and it was that the arguments of the
Bishop of Oxford went to the assertion of the doctrine
that there ought to be ecclesiastical jurisdiction over lay-
men. Now, at a period like the present, when so much
was said respecting the " encroachments" of ecclesiasti-
cal jurisdiction upon the civil rights of the country, he
felt that he should be guilty of a neglect of his duty if
he did not rise and enter his protest against the doctrine
theoa
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no: words
then,of the
if
forß ignhot
which
Reverend inevitably
Prelate.
the Bill.—(Cheers.)
flowed
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other, he trusted his Noble Friend would persevere with
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading ...
Against it

... 45
... 80
... -35

Majority ..„
The Bill was therefore lost.
On the motion of the Ea! of DESART, the Passen
gers' Act Amendment Bill was read a second time.
ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COPYHOLDS BILL.
The House having gone into Committee on this Bill,
Lord LYNDHURST rose and drew attention to the
circumstance that when the Bill was read a second time
by their Lordships, and his Noble and Learned Friend
on the woolsack proposed to refer it to a Select Commit-
tee, his Noble and Learned Friend opposite (Lord
Campbell) expressed a doubt of the good faith with
which that motion was made, and declared that his
Noble and Learned Friend's object was to get rid of the
Bill altogether. Now, as the Bill was originally framed,
there could be no doubt that, if passed in that shape, its
operation would have been most injurious alike to the
lords and tenants of copyholds But by taking the course
which the Lord Chancellor did, and referring the mea-
sure to a Select Committee, its blemishes had been re-
moved, and it was likely to prove a much more useful
and valuable measure than it would oth rwise have been.
As a member of the Committee ho (Lord Lyndhurst)
wished to bear his testimony to these facts, and to thank
his Noble and Learned Friend for the course he had
adopted.—(Hear.)
Lord CAMPBELL said that if, when the Bill was
read a second time, he had thought there was a bond fide
intention to pass it in the present session of Parlia-
ment, he should not for one moment have doubted that
the proper course was to refer it to a Select Committee of
their Lordships' House. He had always applauded that
mode of proceeding in this House, particularly in refe-
rence to Bills which ware directed to effect alterations in
the law. It was the course which he himself had uni-

formly pursued; and he repeated, that if he had ima-
gined, when the second reading of the Bill was moved,
that it was the intention of his Noble and Learned
Friend that it should pass daring the present session, ha
should not have objected to the proposal to refer it to
a Select Committee. Let him remind their Lordships,
hOwever, that on that occasion his Noble and Learned
Friend said that the measure was wrong both in its prin-
ciple and its details.—(Hear, hear.) He rejoiced that
the Bill had been referred to a Select Committee, and no
doubt it now came before their Lordships in a greatly
improved abape.—(Hear.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR had hoped that his
Noble and Learned Friend would have withdrawn the
censure wthhaict,hinhephreapdetahinogughtet prreofeprer tthe
passßillto a upon him—
namely,select
Committee, he professed one thing and meant another.
Now, he (the Lord Chancellor) considered that it was
his duty, at all times, to tell their Lordships what were
the real and sincere opinions he entertained upon any
eawhetherbefore the
thoseH opinionsouse, and
were that
be wassnr not e
popular or unpopular.--(Hear, hear.) On the second
whichfirst t o might
ascertain come
reading of this Bill, his Noble and Learned Friend
said that ho did not object to its being referred to
a Select Committee ; but what he objectod to was,
that the motion for so referring it was made indi-
rectly for the purpose of defeating the measure. That
his Noble and Learned Friend repeated over and over
again. Now, heibegged to say that he had never changed
his opinion with regard to this measure. He looked
upon it simply as a choice of evils. Public opinion had
called for a remedy for an evil which no one denied;
and be contended that Parliament could not pass a mea-
sure upon the subject without inflicting considerable
injury upon a large class of persons. He was prepared,
however, so far as it lap in his power, to render this as
good a measure as it could be made, and to lessen the
evils which were inevitable under any circumstances:
but take what care they might in passing this measure
they would not be able to prevent a great mass of abso-
lute evil and distress falling upon a great number of
persons. The members of the Committee had but one
object in view, and that was to make the Bill as perfect
as possible. In the endeavour to accomplish that ob-
ject, they had adopted several additional clauses, and
made alterations in almost every one of the original
provisions; and they had been most anxious to protect,
as far as they could, the poorer class of copyhold te-
nants.—(Hear.)
The Earl of STRADBROKE said it would have been
perfectly impossible to pass the Bill in the shape in
which it originally came from the House of Commou,;
and he was confident that, in proposing that it should
be referred to a Select Committee, it was never the in-
tention of the Lord Chancellor to throw out the Bill.
Lord BE AUMON T bore his testimony to the pains
taken by the Noble and Learned Lards to make the Bill
of a practicable shape. A more difficult question to
deal with it was scarcely possible to imagine; but be
believed the Committee had completely succeeded, and
that the Bill was now in a state to do the least harm
and the most good of any Bill that could be framed.
Lord CRANII7ORTH said from the first moment the
Committee met until the last, when the Bill assumed the
shape in which it was now presented to their Lordships,
there had been the most unremitting and impartial en-
deavours on the part of the members to do justice be-
tween the parties whose interests were affected that he
had ever seen in the whole course of his life; and, not-
withstanding he thought he saw sometimes an almost
ridiculous sensitiveness respecting the rights of the
tenants, he believed that the interests on both aides had
been as fairly arranged as possible.—(Hear, hear.)
The Bill was then passed through Committee.
On the motion of Lord CRANWORTH, the Trus-
tees' Act Extension Bill was read a second time.
LUNATICS BILL.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the second
reading of this Bill. The Noble Earl said that a late
event had drawn public attention to the necessity of a
measure of this kind—that necessity had increased ten-
fold since the last session. The Bill was founded
mainly upon the report of the Commissioners of Lunacy,
who were appointed to inquire into the subject in 1848.
Several instances had occurred recently of dangerous
lunatics roaming about the country, who could not be
taken charge of in consequence of the defect in the law,
unless they had committed some overt act of outrage.
The Bill before the House merely provided that if any
person of this description was observed going about, any
person would have the power to go before a magistrate,
and having made a deposition upon oath of the danger-
ous character of the individual, the magistrate was re-
quired to order him to be brought before him, and then
to have the alleged lunatic submitted to the examination
of two medical men, who were to report upon his case.
If they reported him to be sane, the person would of
course be discharged from custody, but if they reported
him to be insane, the m igistrate was thereupon re-

quired to order hire to Co transmitted to a lunatic
asylum.
The Duke of RICHMOND wished to know what pro-
vision the Noble Earl made for the expenses attending
the maintenance of these lunatics?

The LORD CHANCELLOR agreed fully to the prin-
ciple of the Bill, but as it was one of the greatest import-
ance he would ask the Noble Earl to postpone the second
reading of it until the next session, which would uld be soon,
and when they would have ample time to consider it in
all its details. The measure, in its present shape, was
open to some objections, which, if ample time were al-
lowed for its consideration, could be removed without
detriment to its principle.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY consented to adopt the
suggestion of the Noble and Learned Lord.
The Bill was accordingly withdrawn.
SUITORS IN CHANCERY RELIEF BILL.
Toe LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the second
reading of this Bill, said it was framed upon the report
of the Commission appointed to inquire into the sub-
ject. The measure had come up from the other House,
and he believed that the general principle of it was ad-
t might be truly called a Bill for the re-
liefin Chancery. Although they would
a great amount of the burden that had
icorhsine d to them, ho was, however, sorry to say
mhb eiitthrt
eeeolrdfi
hitherto
ovest
ed suitors
that the compensation which it would be necessary to
give for the abolished offices would exhaust a great
portion of the money that would be saved by the pro-
posed regulations. It must, therefore, be a considerable
time before the suitors could have the full benefit of
that relief which the Bill was calculated to give them.
The measure proposed to abolish fees and copy money,
and, M lieu thereof, to substitute stamps. It would
place upon the Consolidated Fund the salaries of the
Chancery judges, amounting altogether to 28,0001. It
would abolish a considerable number of offices, and re-
duce the salaries of those which it would be necessary to
A great saving of the public money would
e'ffected. There was an important proviso in the
Bill, under which the poor man who had become a lu-
tic would be treated differently to the rich man who
na
had become a lunatic. The expense to the former would
be considerably less than that to which the latter would
be subject. Such expense would be regulated by a per-
centagepon the property of the individual. He hoped
n
that no impediments would be thrown in the way of
Bill, but that it would be allowed to pass without
the
amendment.
thus
stinbue e
Lord LYNDHURST said he fully agreed in the prin-
-66, of the measure, but in Committee he intended to
mover two or three amendments, to prevent any injustice
being done to the parties under the Bill.
Lord CRA.NWORTH said that the Bill proposed to
give compensation to certain clerks, who had been trans-
ferred from the Court of Exchequer to the Court of
Chancery, such compensation to be calculated only for
the time they have been in Chancery. He suggested
that the compensation should be calculated from the
period the had bee in
ass Court of Exchequer.
The Bill y was then read econd time.
MILITIA BILL.

Their Lordships then went into Committee upon the
militia Bill, when clauses up to 5 were agreed to.
Pak® ItICIDIOND Paid tho as he Ivo u9l

present on a former occasion when the Bill was dis-
cussed, he wished to make one remark in answer to the
observation of the Noble Marquis opposite, that 56 days'
training would not make efficient soldiers. If the Noble
Marquis meant that it would not make them es efficient
as the Guards or soldiers of the line, he agreed with him,
but he should feel ashamed of any regiment if after .56
days' drill they were not fit for fighting behind stone
walls at Portsmouth. The Bill permitted colonels to en-
list not merely raw recruits, hut men who hal served,
and there were many in the country who had been in
the army for four or five years, and who would no doubt
gladly enlist into the militia. He was glad to fiad that
officers who had been in the army and in the India ser-
vice were to be permitted to be captains and majors of
militia. There could be no doubt that recruits would
more willingly follow such leaders than they would coun-
try gentlemen. To a certain extent the present Bill woule,
answer. It was a step in the right direction, though it
did not go so far as he could wish. If he had to face
the Chasseurs do Vincennes in Sussex, he would cer-
t_ a iunal y prefer being at the head of a regiment of the
would give
of the line, for he felt pretty sure that they ,
give as good an account of them as our Infautry
did of the Chasseurs
In whatever way of the Imperial Guard at Waterloo.
he hoped they
the patronage of the militia was be-
stowed,Lieutenant. He had would give none of it to. Lords.us
for the office of the received about seventy applications
fantry regiment, an adjatant_ of the Sussex Light In-
vacant at present. office which was unfortunately
Viscount HARDINGE, in
said that the drilling would be answer to a Noble Lord,
re
the line, who would return to the
enaged by sergeants of
line after the drilling
of the militia was over.
In case any
e: of
these sergeants
every facility would be given them b theregiment,
Horse Guards
thought, however, that after the militia wer;quired. He
it would be a great discouragement to th e embodied,
sergeants were always to be selected from ethenle' if
the
therefore, after the militia were drilled and e line, and,
m!)odi,
the appointment of sergeants would rest
with the
colonels.
The clause (6) as amended was then agreed to.
Clauses up to 25 were agreed to, with verbal amend-
merits.
On clause 26,

The Marquis of SALISBURY proposed an amend-
ment to the cffect that the Queen should be empowered
to keep the militia in the field for training and drill for
a period not exceeding fifty-six days, and not less than
three days, each year.
Viscount HA.RDINGE (in reply, as we supposed, to
some remarks of the Earl of Stradbroke) said, that in
early life he had been engaged in training Portuguese
soldiers, and thirty days were found sufficient to fit a
recruit for the ranks. He had consulted with a friend
of his, now a commanding officer in the Guards, and
who had served during the whole of last war, and his
statement was, that after thirty-five days' drill recruits
were sent into the ranks. At present, during peace,
recruits were drilled sixty.five days; but the reason of
that was that there was time to spare, and because it
was not thought right to the recruit to place him upon
responsible and important guards before he was tho-
roughly disciplined. A recruit might be perfectly well
trained for infantry purposes in thirty-five days.
A NOBLE LORD having, as we understood, suggested
a more extended drill than that provided for in the Bill,
The Earl of DERBY remarked that other considera-
tions were involved in the clause than the comparative
efficiency of the recruits. There was the amount of the
expense, and the pressure on the population, to be con-
sidered; and as the House of Commons had agreed to
the clause, after having maturely considered those points,
he was inclined to agree to it as it stood, with reference
to the period of twenty-one days.
The clause was then agreed to.
The remaining clauses of the Bill were then agreed
to without alteration, after which the House resumed.
The General Board of Health Bill was read a third
time, and passed.
The Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bill went through
Committee.
The Scutch Mills for Flax (Ireland) Bill went through
Committee.

:PENINSULAR AND WATERLOO
LIEUTENANTS.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
200 officers, lieutenants of the Peninsular and Waterloo
campaigns, the greater number of whom were wounded
and suffering severely. They were on the retired list, and
did not wish to put the country. to any additional ex-
pense; but certainly their services entitled them to the
boon which they now sought, which was that they should
be gatetted to the rank of brevet captains.
The petition was ordered to lie on the table; and their
Lordships then adjourned.

LITERATURE.

THE LIFE OF MARIE DE iii DICIS. By
_ __

Miss Pardoe. 3 Vols. Colburn.

Miss Pardoe has already distinguished— herself by
her lively delineation of men and manners, by her
descriptive pictures of "cities," and her vivid por-
traits of individuals. Having some time back given
us an account of " Louis XIV. and the Court of
France during the Seventeeth Century," she has now
selected for ber theme the court of the same country
during the preceding reigns, and for her heroine the
Queen of Henry IV., and the mother of Louis XIII.
Than the life of Marie of Medicis few fitter inflects
for a biography could have been selected.
" All the existing records of European royalty," ob-
serves the authoress in laPr preface, "do not, probably,
comprise the annals of a life of greater vicissitude than
that which has been chosen as the subject of the present
work. We find numerous examples in history of queens
who have suffered exile, imprisonment, and death, but
we believe that the unfortunate Marie de Medicis is the

only authenticated instance of a total abandonment on

the part alike of her family and friends, which terminated
almost in starvation. Certain it is that after having
occupied the throne of France, presided over its councils,
and given birth to the ancestor of a long lino of princes,
she was ultimately indebted to the sympathy and at-
tachment of a foreign artist (Rubens), of whom she had
once been the zealous patron, for a roof under which to
terminate her miserable existence!"
Hence the very interesting and varied character of
this work may be surmised. In the first volume we
obtain a glimpse of the court of Henri of Navarre, a
glimpse which throws no agreeable light upon the
character of that Monarch in his domestic life. After
his separation from the unworthy Marguerite of Va-
lois, and after the death of his favourite, Gabrielle, we
find the Monarch yielding to the representations of
his wisest of counsellors and truest of friends, Sully,
and consenting to espouse the Florentine Princess.
Welcomed with the most magnificent festivities by
the nation over which she was to reign, and naturally
indulging in her own heart many dreams of happi-
ness, Marie de Medicis entered France. Henri has-
tened to meet her on her way, and received her with
affection ; nevertheless, even at that time and for years
afterwards, Madame de Verneuil retained her empire
over the heart of the Monarch, and divided
with the Queen the homage of the court. If the,
at times, indignant and austere deportment of
Marie embittered the happiness of her wedded
life, there is, according to Miss Pardoe's showing,
no cause for astonishment and little room for repre-
hension. Surrounded by her Italian friends, who
felt themselves wronged in the wrongs of their mis-
tress, and who lost no opportunity of aggravating
her wounded feelings, by expatiating upon her indig-
ties, Marie of Medicis was certainly placed in s most
cruel and trying position. The embarrassments of
Sully, the would-be peace-maker between the King
and Queen in their many disagreements, were of a
most perplexing nature, but to the last he retained
his power with the King, who often heard from his
lips censures and counsels such as are seldom ad-
dressed to royalty. The character of Henry of Na-
varre, notwithstanding his very reprehensible con-
duct in his domestic relations, is in many respects
most fascinating, and the narrative of his deatb, and
especially of its preliminary presentiments, as here re-
corded, is singularly affecting. The Queen had just
been crowned prior to assuming the dignity of re-
gent during the King's absence at the seat of war.
Public rejoicings celebrated the ceremony, but in
the midst of it all the Monarch was sad, and spoke of
death to his familiar companions, who, remonstrating
with him, reminded him of the many blessings which
he possessed. "True," replied Henry, " but I must
resign them all." A few hours afterwards the knife
of Revillac verifi, d those words, plunged France into
grief for a monarch who, with all his faults, was the
darling of his people, and placing a crown upon the
infant brow of Louis XIII., elevated Marie de Me-
dicis to the perilous position of regent. A. compli-
cated web of intrigues for place and power
of plots and counter-plots, of rivalries s
heartburnings and enmities occupies the
greaatr'ecir
part, if not the whole, of the remaining
volumes. Unhappy as a wife, unhappy asa sovereign, Marie de Medicis was most
unhappy
as a mother, which circumstance inducesto
be-
lieve her not entirely faultless. To hold captive
the
heart of a King accustomed to adulation,
have been in the power of the Florentine
might not Princess,
whose marriage had necessarily been
state policy, and not of affection, Ivh.l a Matter of
to preserve
untroubled rule amid such element 1 e
surrounded her path as regent, would
powers of a Napoleon ; but to wi haveof discord as
tasked the
preserve the confidence of her own the affection and
one might reasonably imagine a Boas was a task,
city of any woman havin ' Within
the cilpa:
Thus, while we sym g La mother's heart'
in her fall, the bitternessPatuise with Mariewas
doubled by the fact that a son's of whigeh blow,
we cannot but think that a more judioious_eigh
hand dealt
xtercise of
maternal affection during
his
early days lau
the position of his Louis XIII., and
..
mother The "
arrieliotrhastevde
young King appears, h •
amiable, and the spirit however to.
a._n early ma-
nifested itself. on of insubordivinhteino
the Regent
dihsPaevseitiebleeenf utnhe-
(having some hours onehim for some
previously orderedoccasion,
neglect of duty to severe punishment)
entered the undergo f,ar,
cr making the cus-
tomaryobeisanePresence of the l'lnr,
prefer, e demanded
by etiquette, " I should
offended Sovereign,
Madame," said the
~ Full of ann.
" fewer floggings and fewer courtesies.
dotes of
--
all kinds, grave and gay, lively and severe,
these
volumes will
to be attractive to the " general
readers," who read be entertained as well as
to be informed. A "I" ble LuanUscript mew*, i

LIVES OF THE PRINCESSES OF ENG-
LAND. By Mrs. Everett Green. Vol. IV.
Colburn.
The fourth volume of these interesting memoirs
will be welcomed by all the readers of the previous
biographies. The authoress apologises for the long
delay in its publication, which has been partly occa-
sioned by the necessity for personal examination of the
Scottish records bearing upon the life of Margaret
Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry the Seventh. The
long and troubled reign of this Queen occupies the
greatest part of the present volume. Though she
does not appear to very great advantage in the
stormy records of plots and factions, the authoress
defends her by asserting that the position in which
she was placed gave full scope to her faults, while her
virtues bad no opportunity for display. There are
tlso the lives of Anne, fifth daughter of Edward the
Fourth, and Catherine and Bridget, her sisters. The
work will be concluded in one, or at most two vo-
lumes, which will comprise memoirs of the Queen of
Bohemia and the daughters of Charles the First. The
8:er:et:I:ill form a great acquisition to all interested in
the details of history, especially as they afford such
complete information on subjects so important, though
England. known, as the lives of the Princesses of

1 THE REBELS
„.,---4-..9 OF GLENFAU. A Romance
of the zit"
This book has Century. 3 Vols. Shoberl..
lines—" Fierce w for its motto the following graphic
severe, by fairy wars and faithful loves, and truths
fulfil its promise, fo:°z'l
of all conflicts a natioint dressed ;" and truly does it
armed against ,fellow-citizens dlaronicles the most dreadful
hand, certainly the recordenost: While, on the other
spirit he
principal characters is as fro
overshadowed by danger as anugpt
against itself, citizens
the attachment of the
with sorrow and as
descaribed.
or any tale of the days of yoYre.eg?d of old romance,
narrative re-
lates to the revolutionary
the close of the last centu of
Ireland at
ry, and the
life by
stirring time is very ably
chief person in the plot, he, who The
his energy, vigour by his intellect, andgirovep it
his influence, was an old baron, the LordlaSci;,:}l7,
who, being a Catholic, had endured the
and cruel treatment on all sides, was betrayed b arch
son, driven away from his ancestral halls and forced
to fly to the continent. Toe hero was his grandfather,
who returned with his relative in disguise at the com-
mencement of the story, and was then introduced un-
der a fictitious name to the family of Amy, the fair
heroine. Gerald found his position very trying.
Honour forbade him from proposing to her
to leave a home of affluence to follow
the fortunes of a proscribed wanderer, while on the
other hand, all the feelings of his nature and the
spirit of his race were aroused to indignation at the
thought of relinquishing her to some petty suitor, un-
mindful of her worth and regardless of her supe-
riority. He exclaimed to himself, in the bitterness
of his thoughts, some carpet knight of the saloons
who has never seen fire will step in between us, and
carry off her who should realize the glory of a poet-
soldier's home. But melancholy reflections like these
had no foundations, for Amy could judge for herself,
and discriminate merit, though under a veil, and distin-
guish talent even through poverty. Meanwhile the
stern summons of war soon sounded its trumpet
in the ears of the young enthusiast, and compelled
him to relinquish the smiles of love for the frowns
of fate, the dreams of fancy for the saddest of truth's
realities. The scenes in which the conspirators held
their assemblies, and carry on their plans, are very
powerfully sketched, particularly the one at the close
of the second volume, when they are arranging the
final coup. Altogether, there is great originality in
many parts of the work, the difficult plan proposed
in its construction is well carried out, the characters,
from the high officials of Government to the lowly
smith, and mill-owner, admirably delineated, and
from the whole the reader may gain a fair
insight into the " days that are o'er." The genera-
tion that is past affords many a theme for the
scholar, the sage, and the poet ; but it is .to be
questioned if any page of its annals iss more entitled
to consideration than the one which records the his-
tory of Ireland. Misfortune, mystery, and misma-
nagement are found there ; hence it is not to be won •
dered at the novelist is successful when fixing
on, as a theatre for the acts of rebellion and ty-
ranny, as an arena for the display of life's most high-
wrought passions, the country, which the poet has
immortalised as the " island of sorrow" which a dis-
tinguished Minister declared to be " his difficulty."
" t I know not how to commence. Could you conceive
a youth wayward and restless, though bred in a cloister's
retirement, loved and taught by one deeply learned in
a hatever is beautiful in the literature, or valuable in the
lore of times new or old? Could you conceive this youth
taught by such a friend for kindred love at first drinking
in, with greedy ear, the lessons of his gifted teacher's mind,
then, as years advanced, in dreary reverie, endeavouring
to figure forth the heroes of whom he read, the fair
beings they had loved to give a local habitation to, the
bright creations of the poet's teeming mind, anon
awaking from these visions of boyish fancy, and
as the oral recital of the deeds of his kin-
dred, long bygone, mingled in his daily con-
verse with news of the great whirlwind which
shakes the nations, wishing vaguely to do as his
fathers had done before him—to buckle on a sword and
cut his way to future? Could you, then, imagine this
aspirant cast with all his young ambition into the
troubled waters of the great revolution, buffetting with
little guidance the waves and difficulties opposing him
—now avoiding the allurements of pleasure and dissipa-
lion, now, is spite of many struggles, yielding for a
space to their influence; at last becoming a soldier, first
indeed in theory, and atterwards, perhaps, somewhat in
that I
practice, where the gentle waters of Adda ran red with
the blood of the brave who fell at Lodi?'
" The old man gazed with enthusiastic delight on the
4 _outraged
wide prospect!
a , Oh, Heaven!' he cried at last, ' I thank thee
thus once more behold this dear, dear scene of hiohi's
soil_
where, a 3 dreaming youth, as loving man, e, 133 es hers
father I dread the wrath of heaven. Here en
oh, boy, fertile as Arcadia, yuur fathers trod us lords—
look round you and behold the strongholds of your
warrior sires! Behold 'heir castles and their parks—
See Ti here old religion
all lost for sake of old fidelity,
fostered by their wealth, their devotion
h
flourished, yielding to men fait , their Lve long
To the rich a living 9 hope and charity.
the poor
of God's
pleasure upon earth !—to
and kindred seeepathy
far plains of the new(aka° poor benevolence
called this scene. How oftwwoldorld has fancy fancily
firrees
when the bivouac slept, wated
in '
hen by the fading h
" ' Oh Gerald,' he
embers same fancied outli ave
I traced in thf ~) g
how often in the
proudly
round him, ' it is A land
primeval hills lie 9 Once
more gazdintfat nature
to fight fora,
loves and man destrlend
of these
saidne of this beauteous view 1
Here in the
rimless, on her
plains and in her a !and mechanical
mineral treasuresit
power prefuse, and wanting
arehafetrbnumeau industry and
encouragement to evoke
m In her children exists
every noble trait, if , - ti• • depression and fostered
ignorance _ Lncivi !zing
..
perverted them
not to evil.

UN
THE S •
TO THE EDITOR 0-
p-•
Sun
lent its aid to
The
SlR,—There was a time
cum et the abuses of the
nlavrilnYe-
our favour, calling the
are not altPred, I propose, Trusting your Opinions
attention of the First LordbooYff irwhheicAhdmthirealetnyetloosseodmizolf
the many naval grievanches;
Junior officers of the navy
couee:ve, paramount.
a The
Wren of considerable scientific
are men of tair edues-°-,
knowledge; the men
were; but great discontent exists.
are now well- behaved and reasonable
beings— not what the,' a lope for an alleviation, and
Sir, yours, ikc.,
Tthorotuhgehpyreosus
raelodnriteessef I:in,
.ckilP OF THE OLD BLOCK.
London, June 16.

GRACE THE DI7HE OF NORTIIIINBERLAND.
TO HIS Dake,—ln. ad dressing your Grace through
My Lad a
public journal, I feel no apology neces-
coefglect shown by your predecessors to naval
remains with you to remedy. The Articles
present what they were when you were
last afioat Read over that sanguinary code, and con-
sider if
,jurisprudenceolrewYul.aedirsitil2rt
they are suited to the times or people of the
clear day. I maintain the law is not clear to ,or
or accurately defined as it should be.all The
is that the awful brutality of the first and
13 o ns e cli o
g eanncy;
general terminaticn of the maritime code defeats its ob-
ject by torturous severity, and offenders escape the mis-
called justice of a naval court-martial. The sentences
of naval courts•martial are not looked on by the service
or the public, as are those of civil courts, with respect
and resignation. The sentences of the former are some-
times those of expediency, often of ignorance, and fre-
quently caprice. The law is bad, and the judges and
administrators otten ignorant of their power—justice is
consequently an accident, and a rare one.

We hope your Grace will amend the sanguinary and
disgraceful code, more suitable to the chain-gangs of
Norfolk Island than to be the pivot of discipline of the
British navy.
The public gives your Grace the Credit of undertak-
kg the onerous cffice you hold for the benefit, not of
yourself or your friends, but the service of the country.
You can do nothing more
acceptable to the navy than
striking at the root of all evil—bad laws and injustice.
am, my Lord Duke,
Your Graces I most obedient and humble servant,
June 16. A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited ber
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge Mterd" /1"

b 2 r a M. de
.Rambure, _____
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an
be dchamber under Henri
EV., Louigentlem s
of the
XM, and
.
Lt Buis XIV., a manuscript of many thousand pa Ffe, written for the benefit of the author's rela-
tiv es, and the publication of which was strictly for-
ha lden lest it might injure any member of the family,
ha s been entrusted to Miss Pardoe by its pre pea-
se: .sor, in the belief, that after the lapse of sotnanny
ye ars its publicity cannot be detrimental to the inte-
re sfs of any one living. Prom this manuscript Miss
P aidoe has gleaned many anecdotes and pieces of in..
f ormation, hitherto urpublished, a fact which neces-
sarily increases the value of her work. Portraits of
Marie de Medicis, of Louis XIII., and of Cardinal
.Richelieu, adorn these volumes, which also contain
hicsimilies of autograph letters of the Queen, of the
King, of Richelieu, and of Marshal Schoenberg.

W.EATllfill.—;42i.T2l OFFICE, Jun 18.
TIIEEMOITET7-2, IN TILE SHAME.
63 --highest since noon yesterday.
49 ...lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day, at ncon.

BAROMPSZIC, '29.66.
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breeze—rain.
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ery.
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morning at nine
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CM Intl DA
LONDON FUT-) 1-7 JUNE 18, 1852

The Coming Elections cast their shadows before—
and the possessors of the franchise are, generally
speaking, already on the tiptoe of expectation for the
moment when the appeal to the country will be made
by her MAJESTY'S Government. Yesterday, more-
over, the progress 'of business in both Houses was
such as to afford some reasonable prospect of the
termination of a session even now sufficiently pro-
tracted. 110 less than seventy Bills—having passed
theougli the requisite stages in the Lords and Com-
mons—received last evening the Royal Assent, and
were thus transformed into substantial enact-
ments- 13 the Upper House, likewise, the
Passengers Act:Aenendaleet Bill was read a second
time, the Copyhold. Enfranchisement Bill passed
through Committee, es also
was the case with the
Militia, Bill, with the Turnpike Trusts Bill, and with
the Scotch Mills for Flax (Ireland) Bill,
while a second readine.
was accorded to
the Trustees' Act Extension Bill, and to
the Suitors in Chancery Relief Bill, the General
Board of Health Bill being read a third time and
passed. Yet more remarkable was
.the amount of
business " get through" last evening lathe Commons.

Several Bills coming under the designation of pri

vate business were read a third time and passed.
Afterwards came the public business, and a glance at
the Parliamentary report will testify that some degree
of activity was displayed by the Cabinet in dissipating
the languor of debate and pressing a variety
of questions
to a conclusion. Considerable discussion took place du-
ring the consideration of the Metropolis Water
Supply Bill, a variety of clauses in which were agreed
to without any necessity for a division. Subsequently
tine Metropolis Burials Bill was read a second time,
rind ordered to be committed at noon on Monday.
The Metropolis Sewers Bill was passed through
Committee. A second reading was granted to the
Consolidated Fund Bill and the Militia Pay Bill,
while the New Zealand Bill, after a rather sharp die.
cussion upon one portion of which the House di-
vided, was read a third time and passed. A variety,
of miscellaneous measures, some of them of no tri-
vial importance, were forwarded with rather unusual
rapidity ; and altogether the
activity displayed was
such as to
yield fair promise of the speedy arrival ,
of the dissolution.

Everything considered, the above summary of the
more noticeable business transacted yesterday within
the wails of the Legislature must be regarded, we
assume, as in the highest degree satisfactory. The
House of Commons especially appears to have at
length awakened from its lethargy, and to be alive to
the necessity for some more strenuous exertions in
the way of carrying on the labours of the Le-
gislature. Occasionally, too, and this more
frequently than had of late been observable,
the Peers have evinced more energy in the
discharge of their duties as senators. Sometimes
even the public have been amused by witnessing
some new illustration of the justice of the facetious
remark made, if we recollect rightly, some five or
six years age, by the present CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER :—" Divisions in the House of Lords
are nowadays so thinly scattered, that when one oc-
curs the Peers cackle as if they had laid an egg—
they are quite proud of the proof of their still pro-
creative powers." It will be found, moreover, from
the very commencement of these comments upon
yesterday's Parliamentary proceedings, that the
SOVEREIGN simultaneously evinces a solicitude
to forward, as far as is practicable, the business
of the session, so as to prepare the way for the long-
delayed advent of the dissolution. Matters, in trutb,
could not under any circumstances have continued
much longer in that state of stagnation which was
becoming every successive day more and more unen-
durable. The summer has already become so far de-
veloped that we are even now within a few hours of
the longest day. Autumn must, therefore, be within
view before the general election can by possibility
terminate. Fortunately, there is every pros-
pect of a harvest more plentiful than any
the country has enjoyed for many seasons.
The barley crop has even in several parts had
to be thinned. With a dry March, an unusally
late spring, and not merely a showery but a soaking
June, the grain promises such abundant returns that
the bone will be taken out of the argument of the
Protectionists. As a mere party contrivance, there-
fore, the delay of the elections until the summer shall
be getting into " the sere and yellow leaf "—when
the corn would be ripening and the result of the
harvest matter of very easy calculation—would be
singularly injudicious. Such we do not, how-

ever, conceive to be the intention of the
present Government. Ministers can discover no
possible advantage to themselves in delaying
much longer that appeal to the country upon the con-
sequence of which their possession of power is de-
pendent. Rather the reverse. They must necessarily
have a larger chance of success by submitting their
policy to the judgment of the various constituencies,
before the danger of any serious competition between
native and foreign agriculture shall be demonstrated
by the crops to be impossible. For their own interest,

therefore, it will be advisable for the Cabinet to go to
the country almost immediately. From a speedy
dissolution, nevertheless, we have every expectation
of witnessing results, in all respects, satisfac-

tory both to Free-traders and to Reformers.
Whatever probability of success from the elections
the Government may have would be diminished by
protracting the existence of the present Parliament.
That is all we imply by insisting that self-interest
alone should conduct the PaimE MINISTER at once to
the momentous ordeal of the dissolution. Our con-
fidence in the triumph of Liberalism over mere
Toryism remains, under all circumstances, unshaken.
We have heard, indeed, from the lips of the First
Lord of the Treasury himself an acknowledgment of
the exceeding improbability, even in his sanguine
mind, of a working majority in favour of the prin-
ciples of Protection. About the indestructibility of
the Free-trade system, indeed, there is no longer en-
tertained any doubt whatsoever. Neither, in a com•
mon-sense view of the age, can any uncertainty be
felt by the discerning as to the utter futility of any
attempt to retard the course of our chief measures of
social and political improvement. Tee impetus im-
parted of late years to reform has rendered its future
progress irresistible. A Cabinet might as well at-
tempt to stop the diurnal motion of the earth 'round
its axis, or to slacken its annual motion round the
sun, as to dream for an instant of preventing, or of
even impeding in any perceptible manner, the onward
movement of civilization.

When the Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill was re

ferred to a Select Committee of the House of Lords,
a torrent of reproach and obloquy was discharged
upon the devoted head of the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Notwithstanding his express declaration to the con-
trary, it was assumed that he was hostile to the prin-
ciple of the measure, and that his object was to put it
"on the shelf " for the present session. From that
assumption it followed, by an easy train of reasoning,
that " he was true to his antecedents," ‘i the oppo-
neat of all legal reform," " the impeder of progress,"
&c. In vain did the Noble and Learned Lord de-
clare that it was impossible to overrate the incon-
veniences resulting from the copyhold system, and
that " it was expedient to remedy the evils, so far as
it could be done without trenching too much on the
rights of property." In vain did he declare "that he
did not make the suggestion with any view to the
Bill not being passed this session," that "he had no
such object, but would go into a Committee with the
determination to give the measure his best attention,
and to render his honest assistance in carrying it into
effect." It was still taken for granted that there was
no prospect of the Bill being carried previous to the
dissolution, but that it was deliberately and de-
signedly rejected, the LORD CHANCELLOR having
been " more true to his past notoriety than to his
present fame."

Last night's proceedings, however, proved that we
were fully justified in saying that we gave full
credit to the assertion of the Noble 'and
Learned Lord. The measure was returned to
the House in a greatly improved shape,
many serious defects had been removed, and Lord
ST. LEONARD'S was highly complimented by Lord
LvNnuutisT and several other Peers on his unceasing
exertions for the improvement of the measure. The
necessity of the reference was admitted on every
side. Those who had most strongly objected to the
select
Committee now acknowledged that " the Bill
had been
greatly improved," ad bore testimony
endeavours
of the Committee,, g,
to do justice to both lords and
tenants. It
might, then, have been supposed that
those who had
erroneously censured the LORD
coAricaLLort Would have withdrawn the charge,
and acknowledged the mistake into which
they bad
. We find a morningt-
fallen. Such, however, is not the
case., Contemporary, in:a leading
article this deb speaking of Lord ST. LEONARD'S as
"changedhis
credit fur so efficient a rniod upon this measure, and
having
'al
y net a sufficient apology '
censure. Tv,
for an unmerited
pe-
nitence:'givin g himTahl 1 i 13 oi
snocuerrtaaind
'---5 mistake should be
candidly acknowledged as the only adequate atone-
ment fur the injury previously iolioted.
We may now congratulate the country on the vir-
tual passing of this insporititiluotnalyndbematters
tory, and improvements in
valuable
Henceforward herioto
the
way
ofbuilding or.
will
prohibitedby a knowledge of the draining will not be practically c a lly
that
the
of the soil will derive the lion's share
of the profit, by insisting upon two years' improved
value of tie lands, in the shape of an arbitrary fine
on death or aliwation, The success attending this

measure will encourage the hope that others of even
greater and more general interest may receive the
legislative sanction during the present and the en-
suing session, and legal reformers will have
cause to rejoice at the happy termination of their
long-continued efforts.

We should also congratulate our fellow•labourers
in the cause on the progress made in the Suitors in
Chancery Relief Bill, which last night was read a
second time, the LORD CHANCELLOR suggesting, " in
order not to throw any impediment in the way of its
being carried, that it should pass without any amend-
ments." This does not look like the conduct of an
opponent of all reform, or of one anxious to retard
any species of amelioration.

It is much to be regretted that the advanced period
lof the session prevented the Lunatics' Bill, the
second reading whereof was last night moved by the
Earl of SHAFTESBURY, from receiving the attentive
consideration which its vast importance so eminently
merited. We have frequently pointed out
the deficiencies of the existing law, which
dues not afford adequate protection, either
to the community or to individuals. The present
measure only deals with the first part of the subject,
and does not, therefore, meet the exigencies of the
case. It provides for the safe custody of persons
who, although manifestly incompetent to take care of
themselves, are still permitted to wander about
without protection, until they commit some crimes or
outrage. The probability of such an event may be
well known to the police ; it may be notorious that
the life of every passer-by is endangered, and yet no
steps can be taken until some degree of violence has
taken place, which is necessary to confer jurisdiction
on the conservators of the public peace. The
present Bill, which provides that where there
are no relatives of a person apparently
insane, or where the relatives neglect or refuse to
adopt the necessary steps, the police may bring the
party before a magistrate, who should cause him to
be examined by two medical men, and if they pro-
nounced him insane, to make an order for his trans-
mission to the county lunatic asylum, or if that should
be full, to some other place of lunatic reception
duly licensed and registered. If it were rendered
essential that every alleged lunatic should, previously
to his admission into any private asylum, be exa-
mined before a magistrate, and the certificate of
disinterested medical practitioners, appointed by the
magistrate, obtained, it would prevent many cases of
grievous oppression, when persons of sound mind
have been incarcerated on the report of two so-
called skilful persons. As the measure cannot
pass this year, we trust that a Select Com-
mittee may be appointed at the commencement
of next session, to take the entire law of lunacy
into their consideration, and to report on the
alterations that may be required. The LORD
CHANCELLOR has shown himself a faithful
guardian of those who were placed under the
jurisdiction of his Court when in Ireland. We
trust that he will consider the subject worthy of
his best consideration.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
GERMAN PLAYS.

The house was crowded to suffocation last evening, in
consequence of the great anxiety to see Hamlet in a
German dress, the text being Schlegel's marvellous
translation. The piece played full four hours, yet
there are several abbreviations in the speeches, and
indeed the entire funeral scene is omitted; but on the
other hand, the scene in which the King delivers his
conscience-stricken soliloquy, and in which, while striv-
ing to pray, Hamlet is almost tempted to kill him, is
given entire. Herr Emil Devrient's delineation of the
Prince of Denmark is unquestionably very fine, but
not superior to what we have seen on our own boards
in more instances than one. And if any curious reader
should ask, is it equal to Mr. Charles Kean's? we un-
hesitatingly answer, No! It lacks the passion and the
polish of that unrivalled performance. The play-scene
was flat, but the second ghost-scene, the farewell to
Ophelia, and especially, the instructions to the
players, could not be surpassed. His elocution
was faultless, and attitudes elaborately artistical.
Herr Devrient was recalled at the end of each act. The
Polonius of Herr Limbach was a rational performance
which we would strongly recommend for imitation to
our own artists. We have never seen Horatio made
so much of as by Herr Wisthaler. The swelling speech
of the first player, singular to say, drew down the house;
hut Herr Noetel's delivery of it was admirable. As
Ophelia, Franlein Schafer was not very effective, re-
sulting in some 'measure from her reciting, and not
singing, the snatches of ballad in the mad scene. The
Queen was quietly sustained by Fran Flindt. The other
parts were respectably filled, great care and attention, not
perhaps altogether unalloyed with ponderosity, being a
prevailing characteristic from high to low. With respect
to the stage business it is worth noticing (as has not
esclped the shrewd obscrvation of a morning critic) that,
whenever in the principal scenes Hamlet appears on our
stage to the right, the Germans place him to the left, and
that the death of Polonius is better managed than with
us. Hamlet does not run off the stage to kill him, but the
arras is in the centre of the scene, and on its being
drawn aside the body of the slain chamberlain is dis-
covered. The audience on the whole seemed greatly
pleased, and the tragedy may well be repeated before
Herr Emil Devrient's departure from London.

HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.
Madame Verdavainni's concert yesterday was at-
tended by a very full and fashionable company. The
talented and accomplished pianist was supported by
Madame Clara Novello, Miss Ursula Barclay, Miss Las.
celles, Madame Lemaire, and Messrs. Frank Bodda,
Blagroves, Ap Thomas, Severn, &c,, who were
severally much applauded. Warm approbation
was elicited by the bencficiare in her per-
formance of Thalberg's grand fantasia (Don Pas •
quale) which was given with great delicacy and effect.

ODD LINES FOR " ODD FELLOWS."
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
They tell us a story—perhaps you all know it—
Of a father, three sons, and a bundle of sticks;
But it carries a moral of vise to the poet,
And still of more use to Toms, Harrys, and Dicks.

With your leave I'll relate it—and thus I may state it :
An old man was dying who wished to bequeath
His most precious advice to the boys who stood round him,
To hear what a father's last whisper would breathe.

"See that faggot of sticks," said the sire," in yon corner,
With a withe twined about it to keep it together;—
Now each of you take it, and see who can break it,
But mind that not one of you take off the tether."

The boys in their turn tried their hardest and strongest,
But no, not a twig of the faggot would crack;
And at hist when the stoutest had bent it the longest,
They gave up the trial and carried it back.

"Stay, stay," cried the father, " now take off the binding,
And see if your might be expended in vain"—
They tried, and the father spoke louder on finding
That the sticks, one by one, were all broken in twain.

"Now remember, my boys, be this lesson implanted
In each of your hearts when I've passed from your sight,
'Tis firm Moral Unity only is wanted
To maintain Human Peace and preserve Human Right."

Now methinks this old story has Gospel-like meaning,
That we in " Oddfellowship" honestly speak,
For with Unity's band we may laugh at the hand
That would break us in bits as the single and weak.

'Tis a great, 'tis a good, 'tie a glorious thing
When sweet Charity, Heaven's prime minister, comes,
And with eloquent voice and soft cherishing wing,
Takes that beldame, Old Poverty, out of our homes.

But a greater and better is proud Independence,
That asks not for bread with the chance of a stone,
That can laugh at the hag, and defy her to lag
Near the door that it locks with a key of its own.

Self-Help is the secret that makes man and woman
Most worthy of Heaven—most noble on earth;
And would that this truest of pride were more common,
And that rank were bestowed by our life—not our birth.
Bat remember self-helping is not the best done
By consulting the prompting 3 of selfish desire;
The will and the wishes of dear "Number one,"
Often reign in our breast with Vesuvian fire.

For the man and the woman who reason aright,
Who as children of God would be sister and brother,
Must be willing to widen Humanity's light,
And while helping themselves learn to help one another•

'Tis atoms that build up tho granite-pile mountain,
The wide and dense forest is fashioned of leaves,
'Tis drops, only drops, form Niagara's fountain,
'Tis barleycorns fill up the world-feeding sheaves.
And the links of "Oddtallowship," forged of pure metal,
Are able to stretch out a chain of rare power,
For "Oddfellowship" roots up Necessity's nettle,
And plants in its place Comfort's odorous flower.

,h your hearts, with your brains, then, up, up, and be
stirring !

For remember each sister, remember each brother,
That Oddfellowship's motto—the blest and unerring—
Is, " we help ourselves most when we help one another."

Enza Cook.

To Charles Hardwick, Eq.

The annual drills and inspection of the lion. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms have been held in the garden of St.
James's Palace, under the command of the Captain Lieute-
nant Sir James Tyler; the Standard Bearer, Major Harmer;
and Mr. Joseph Skip Lloyd, Clerk of the Cheque and Adju-
tant, attended. The sub-officers of the corps, Lieutenant-
Colonel P. P. Nevill and Major J. IL Cooke, were also
present.