The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-15 00:00:00

LITERATURE

MICHA UD'S LIFE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE
Translated by .ilons . V. L. Chemery. Hamilton
Adams, and Company.
Agitated as the public mind has lately been both
in France and England by the confiscation of the
Orleans' property, it becomes a matter of peculiar in-
terest to refer to the pages of the brilliant volume in
which the history of Louis Philippe has been penned
by the master-hand of Michaud, the editor and
one of the authors of the celebrated Bio-
graphic Universelle. Thanks to the industry of
Mons. Chemery, the reading public of these islands
have been furnished in the book here submitted to our
criticism with a very careful and in many respects a
very admirable translation. Perhaps no more en-
thralling narrative could be adventured upon than the
account of Louis Philippe and his fortunes, the ac-
count of an extraordinary man and his extraordinary
vicissitudes. That our estimate of the character of
that remarkable personage, as a sovereign, is very far
indeed from being flattering or even complimentary,
we conceive must long since have been to the majo-
rity of our readers sufficiently apparent. Consider-
ing him, therefore, in his political capacity, our views
may be at once pronounced identical with those ex-
pressed in the work of M. Michaud. Nevertheles,
when we observe the energies of that gifted and ex-
perienced writer directed in every instance to the de-
lineation of a sinister mind, of a corrupt heart, of an
evil nature, and of a despicable temperament, when
we find this gloomy and fantastic caricature put for-
ward by him as the accurate resemblance of the late
ex-King of the French in his private as
well as his public: capacity, in his domes-
tic as well as . his despotic movements,
in his aspect as a man as well as a monarch—we
shrink from a coincidence of opinions which could
not but affect us very speedily with sentiments not
dissimilar from those inspired by emotions of re-
morse. Even the devil, they say, is not so black as
he is painted. Admirable as the portraits of Rem-
brandt are as works of art in themselves, they can-
not but be regarded in those sombre shadows and
irridescent lights as to a very considerable extent
most unnatural. Reality but seldom, at least, has
such a very strongly defined chiar 'oscuro. As a
father and a husband we believe Louis Philippe to
have been no less entitled to admiration than he was
during the flower of his manhood, when struggling
through innumerable miseries, an exile from the
land of his ancestors, and a wanderer over the
face of Christendom. Such, however, appears not to
have been the estimate formed of his character by his
present distingUished biographer. Imbued as the
mind of the latter is with his predilections in favour
of the elder branch of the House of Bourbon, he na-
turally enough, under the circumstances, regards the
son of the infamous Egalite through an atmosphere of
unconquerable prejudice. Already the animosity
cherished by M. Michaud against the House of Or-
leans had been conspicuously rendered apparent by
his memoir of the Regent, given in the thirty-second
volume of the Biographie Universelle. Another his-
torical fragment from the seine pen—relating, in the
same wonderful publication, to the father of Louis
Philippe, the ever-execrable Egalite—had revealed
how profound was his hatred, or rather, we
should say, his loathing for that wretched
man, who hatched in his villanous court
at the Palais Royale "all those plots which over-
turned the throne and led to the scaffold the most
virtuous of those sixty kings who have reigned over
France"—the meek and martyred Louis XVI. Pre-
cisely a similar spirit is apparent throughout the
whole of the present volume as was manifested in
those remarkable and powerfully-written memorials.
Having alluded to the uncertainty of Louis Philippe's
parentage—an uncertainty which fixed upon him
the inuendo of bastardy—M. Michaud insists upon
the evil necessarily resulting from his education
having been intrusted to Madame de G-enlis, " a hypo-
critical woman of infamous character," who, he adds
was notorious at the time for being his father's con-
cubine, The biographer insists in addition to this
that Louis Philippe was still further corrupted in his
youth by being initiated into all the basest
plots of that vilest epoch of the Revo-
lution—enjoying, moreover, the intimate friend-
ship of the most odious conspirators. His nar-
rative from that period advances in interest with

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every successive chapter—recounting as it does the
association of the fortunes of the young Prince with
those of General Dumouriez, through the stormy
battles of Valmy and Jemappes, until their simul-
taneous flight from the armies of the Revolution. Sub-
sequently to that notorious act of desertion, it proves,
to the discredit of the ex-Monarch, that ho repeatedly
endeavoured to obtain military employment from the
enemies of his country, not only feeling no horror
whatever at being the pensioner of the foes of France,
but seeking eagerly to be enlisted among the forces
employed against his fellow-countrymen in Sweden,
in Sicily, in Spain, but more especially in the
latter instance, when the English were ad-
vancing triumphantly across the Peninsula under the
banners of Lord Wellington. The most interesting
periods in the life of the Duke of Orleans here men-
tioned are of,course, his return to Paris in 1814, his
elevation to the throne iu 1830, and his ignominons
abdication and flight in 1848, when royalty gave
place to that renovated Republic, which has since been
happily consolidated under the segis of the glorious
name of Napoleon. As appendices we have papers
respectively on " The Conspiracies of 1816," and on
"The Assassination of the Duke de Bourbon, Prince
de Conde"—the writer insisting, in the latter case, that
suicide was at once morally and physically impossible.
The labours of editor and translator in reference to
this enthralling work of M. Michaud have, as the
title-page indicates, devolved upon Monsieur
V. L. Chemery, 8.L., of the University of Paris,
and Professor of Modern Languages, Marlbo-
rough College—a gentleman whose capabi-
lities in both respects, as editor of a new
edition, and as translator into the English
language, have been alike here conspicuously mani-
fested. Hisindustry in compiling the volume under
consideration will be
gratefully remembered by those
numerous readers who cannot fail to be interested in
the examination of a career like that of Louis Phi-
lippe, a career fraught with changes not often paral-
leled in their diversity, a history variously coloured
with shame and with splendour, with the most
pathetic alternations of fortune and the most romantic
vicissitudes.

THE BRITISH MUS.EUM. No. I.
Another weekly periodical ! And one, too, of a
somewhat novel and therefore acceptible character.
Apart from one or two original compositions, prose
and poetical, the principal portion consists of extracts
of either a valuable or entertaining kind—extracts
from standard authorities or popular works of a mis-
cellaneous description—yielding either, as the case
may suggest, information or amusement. Its con-
tents are distributed under a variety of headings,
ranging respectively over the departments of art,
science, and literature. The peculiarities of the new
periodical may be best conjectured from the headings
of the several departments, as Anecdotes, the Useful,
Odds and Ends, " Nolions" and " Fixins," Incidents
of Travel, Incidents of Character, Chit Chat, and
besides a large number of others, a Panopticon of
Science, including Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology,
Electricity, Meteorology, Mineralogy, Phrenology,
and Electro-Biology.

WHO'S TO WIN THE DERBY? By the

Wizard of the North. Vickers.
Under this quaint title a pamphlet has just made
its appearance, containing some extraordinary disclo-
sures about the turf, and professing to give a solution
of the Derby problem. It deals first with the odds,
and if the author's statements are true, but slight reli-
ance should be placed upon the Derby betting at this
period of the year. He says, "it is of essential import-
ance, that the returns of the odds should be made
with accuracy, as well as checked by a strict and vigi•
lant impartiality, as indeed they are in the majority
of cases. Of late years, however, the amount of busi-
ness transacted at Tattersall's has very materially
fallen off; et one time there was no other medium
but Tattersall's through which money could be in-
vested on horse racing, but since the abolition of
' Derby Sweeps,' Lists,' as they are termed, have
sprung up not only in every part of the metropolis,
but also in most of our large provincial towns,
such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds,
York, and Hull, where the public money is put on to
an almost fabulous extent. Parties who formerly
sent their commissions to the ' Corner,' now prefer
to lay out their money with some of the great list
proprietors but nevertheless the returns from Tatter-
sail's are still recognised as the onl authority for re•
gulating betting transactions upon yracing
we therefore wish in undertaking
"ups and downs "
to draw attention the onset of our
to
theob I te
concludes with
tend to e to the, views which these events,
returnsand
goes on
to encourage." The pamphlet then
in favour o
e the odds for the last fifty years,
‘, what the writer calls the
and the first chapterin
chapter introduces usNoble.". The second
a recommen-
dationtold that " of all the abuses that degrade the
Press, the practice of indiscriminately admitting
advertisements into its columnsriminately admitting tip
The ruin and misery which itihsatshe most pernicious.
occasioned is be-
yond calculation:' The subsequent
part
ter, which is written in a strong, energetic
of the chap
style, en
deavours to prove this ; and certainly the_
author,l
seems to 119, has performed the task well
of the tipsters generally._" An old proverb i
e $
s uit:" tells
that ' a little learning is a dangerous thing; th. '
but a
little success in betting is not only dangerous, but
too often leads to destruction, and many a tip sub-
scriber knows this , to his cost. We happen to
have seen something of
.the romancing fraternity,
and without making a single
exception, we unhesi-
tatingly denounce them as but one degree remo, red
from begging-letter impostors. They are no less in-
deed than hangers-on at love List Houses or dis-

carded cab-drivers or flash men upon town, and none
of them have more means of obtaining racing informa-
tion than the ignoramuses upon whom they live
and fatten." If they are supported after this exposure
those who are thus warned against speculating in
horse-racing, deserve to lose their money, say we.
The third chapter deals with " The Prophets," whom
the author appears disposed to rather compliment than
to censure ; but he makes one exception, and that
one is no less than the great Yates, who, according
to the Wizard, is "a wiry and obscure writer, fond
of long-windedand tortuously entangled sentences, re-
lieved now and then by involutions of thought, that
forcibly recal the two lines of Pope :
Such laboured nothings in so strange a style,
Amaze the unlearned—and make the learned smile.'"
After tracing the opinion of the prophets upon the
forthcoming Derby, as disclosed in their published
effusions, the pamphlet proceeds to give " a solution of
the problem;' and here we must be allowed to take
leave of this racy production, for it would neither
suit the author's purpose nor our own to wade
through his premises and conclusions. Suffice it to
say, that the subject is judiciously, though smartly,
handled, and since the brochure is replete with useful
and interesting information,
we strongly recommend
it to the perusal of the sporting world, whose name,
now-a-days, is Legion.

DRUR -LANE THEATRE.
The Sicilian Bride promises to be established as one
of the most favourite operas ever produced in this
rent
& Reeves,
Mr.
Whitworth,
country. A certain degree of heaviness, by which it
was, in some measure, marred on its first representation,
now ceases to exist. Judicious curtailments and
g
night, and Balfe's beautiful music, with theo admirable
Mr. Drayton, Miss Chrichton, and Miss Isaacs, cannot
fail to attract a series of equally full and fashionable
audiences as have attended each representation of the
iihin
exertionsgs
r.
sina
Sicilian Bride. Saturday
vocalte
n were
o f pleasurably
m

ASSOCIATION.
TifEBRADFORD
TO THE SECRETARY OF
(CONTINUED D WEDNESDAYS.)
REFOON MONDAYSRM ASSOACNI
Sir,—On Friday the 12th the House of Commons
es
assembled, with an understanding that nothing con-
nectedwould be brought
forward till Monday. An Electric Telegraph Bill, in
with the Ministerial changes
which there are signs of the commerce of Bradford
reading by the
largebeing
mianj teerri et
ys t eedf ,21w0 etnot
6t
clo . a second
You will see in all the newspapers detailed accounts
of what passed at the meeting at Lord John Russell's
on Thursday. You will readily collect, that the
trial of dis-
pmoesei
ttiiennge
andsetve
fde e
lrather
mt he
ne g pfrui;pnodsse 0 f a
I than of deter-
mining any distinct line o f action to be immediately
assumed. The representatives of the League were evi-
dently conciliatory and mild, as befitted their position.
The representatives of what. take to themselves the
title of the party of Parliamentary Reform,
were
impracticable and repulsive, in a. way which suggests
that they have something lodging in their minds,
invite,
which it would !r-, hazardous to say the public sill
treat with respect when it appears. Iwo propositions
rithoetyßnan
broad-
bottomed administration; on which. subject they in-
vited to irreverent mirth by the delicacy with which
gadlieshp,rominent. One, that they. demand a
they substituted a "broad" administration, which is
Cobbett's descriptions of verbal affectations.
and only reminds the hearers of some of
t
all trouble in that direction is only thrown
he other, that Free Trade is in no danger, and, in-
ference,byAnd
is that if any good is practically wrought in the Way
away. The conclusion to which they strongly
of Parliamentary Reform, it will be neither with
them, nor without them, but in spite of them.
A common friend who had possessed the ear of the
meeting, might have improved the occasion to the
1 offering a salutary counsel to each and every of the
parties severally present by their representatives.
T o the Free Traders he might have said, that before
independent men and politicians will take an active
part with them again, there must be security given
that the thing shall not end in the lame and impotent
way it did before; and the reasonable pledges for this,
are that the Free Traders shall announce their resolu-
tion to carry the success which shall ultimately attend
them, to the reasonable length of doing away with
what goes by the name of the " one•sh illing duty,'
and further, so far at least as in them lies,. place the
representative of their cause in the office of President
of the Board of Trade when the time comes. When
a man has eaten a certain quantity of the public salt,
he ceases to belong to himself, and is bound to be
at all calls. There might once have been a delicacy
about Placing an extreme man in office. But after
what has taken place, it is only a proper assurance to
the public, that victory is not to be made a shuttle-
cock.

I believe was mentioned in a former letter, a friend
not unknown in the Anti-Corn-law contest, and On this subject of the "one-shilling duty," which
pro-
fessional in the immediate line concerned, has pointed
out some facts which had escaped my innocence. He
has demonstrated to me, that when this duty of ls. per
quarter fell upon Oats which during a large part of
last year ranged at about 15a. a quarter, it was not a
duty of 21 per cent. but of more than 7 per cent.;
and in the cases of Barley, Rye, Peas, and Beans,
if they are taken as ranging between 21s. and
318. a quarter, it was from 5 to 3 and one third per
cent. If it is imperatively necessary to know the quan-
tities of grain imported, surely it might be done
otherwise than by this " shilling duty. No man
would pay a shilling on going through a turnpike, on
the pretence that it was desirable to possess statistical
information on the number of passers through,
when
a simple tell-tale would do as well. Is it worth pay-
ing 2,3, 4,5, 6, and 7 per cent on every quarter of
grain that comes into the country, for the sake of
knowing, that there was a quarter of grain t Why
not put a tax of from 2 to 7 per cent. on grain in
the shear, " merely for information" ?
To the friends of Parliamentary Reform, the sup-
posed friend might have pointed out, how closely the
circumstances of the new contest connect other
interests with the question of Parliamen-
tary Reform. For instance, the grotesque
absurdity of the trick of unequal Electoral
Divisions, never stood out in such strong relief, as now
that a Prime Minister has said there shall be no Corn-
law, unless his men voting by
hundreds beat your men
voting by thousands. The question never was in such
a position before ; it is like the flea, or baser compa-
nion, lodged between two pieces of
glass for a micro-
scope ; we never had such a chance to see the sucker
and the claws, and the wonderful
peristaltic motion
by which the blood of those who find it, is assimilated
to the substance of the devourer.
To the statesman who formed the centre of the
meeting, he might have recalled the example of the
great Corsican,
who when he assembled a council of
war, heard everybody, and then steered his way
through conflicting opinions with the certainty of
being supported by the mass.
The responsibility of
doing, in such circumstances is great ; but the re-
sponsibility of not doing, is at least equal. Nothing
is plainer than that, without the 'machine will
not move. It is a problem to be solved, bow and by
what road, an individual promoted to the exercise of
such a duty shall out of the nettle discord pluck the
flower safety.
I sin, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN eat
--41) REFORMER.
Blackheath, 15th March, 1852.

burglary was perpetrated in the cou
BURGLARY AT MR. AzDn •
It MAN CARTER'S.—A
shop of Mr. Alderman Carter, ehror"
and jeweller, at the corner of es:el:meter and watchmaker
street, when property to theof Friday night at the
rtill and Bishopsgate-
pounds was carried off. It appeali amountt;i of several hundred
tamed through the back of the shop, Wheret an entry was ob-
leading to a printing-office. A slight w there is a passage
only division, and it would seem that booden partition is the
bit an entrance was effected. The thieZ:emeans of a centre-
ters of rings, brooches, and other articles osfa:wept the coun-
jewellery abstracted is estimated at betweenewelery. The
No watches were removed. A reward of 400/. and 500/.
100/. has been
offered for the apprehension of the burglars,
ATTEMPT OF THE MURDERER li
ESCAPE FROM PRISON.—The Italian, 'Caleb AllEaGo TO
convicted at the last assizes of the wilful ranrclaerrg
o, who was
a jeweller, at Banbury, and is now awaiting execution,°f his uncle,
a most determined attempt on Friday "no made
from Oxford Castle, the prison in which rag to escape
Since his condemnation he has been permitted Is confined.
yard belonging to the prison, accompanied b to walk in a
was taking his usual airing on Friday morning,aguard. He
the attendant was looking another way, he made and while
leap; and succeeded in scaling the wall like a e a desperate
top of the wall some stout iron railings ar i'cat. ,At the
contrived to run along the wall, and succeedeed) L!'eed. but he
some distance to the top of another wall, which in springing
to be the boundary of the prison, but in this he!ie imagined
was mis
taken, for there was still another beyond, and, from the con-
further.struction of the building, he was -unable to
His movements were soon perceived,
any
alarum bell being rung, several of the turnkeys w.' and, the
diately on the look out. The prisoner, findia eiri! imme-
i impossible, waited patiently till a ladder Was setgfo la escape
descend. He was then conveyed to his cell,
and r him to
manacled. This is the second attempt made b___aETcurely
to escape. On a previous occasion he jumped 'Yfrot la
a hig for bergh
o
window, and broke his leg. Hisiexecution is fixed eight
o'clock on Monday'morning next.
MARRIAGE IN. HIGH LIFE. --Upon the 10th inst
at Gort Church, by the Hon, and Rev. William O'Grady,
uncle to the bride, C. M ' R —onteith Hamilton, Es q., Captain in
the 92d Highlanders, eldest son of J.. G. Hamilton, Est, , of
Glasgow, to the lion. Maria Corinna Terker, ,
daughter' of
Viscount and Viscountess Gort. The bride was attired in a
rich white brochee silk, with a veil and polka of Limerick
lace, and crowned with a wreath of orange flowers and
honeysuckle. She was attended by six bridesmaids, dressed
in white tarlatan, with bonnets to match, ornamented with
jasmine, and' each wore over her dress a rose-coloured par-
dessus. The church was densely crowded, and the appear-
ance of this lovely group attracted universal admiration.
After the ceremony the company adjourned, amidst the
heartfelt congratulations of a happy tenantry, to Loughcooter
Castle, where a sumptuous repast was provided, and where
they were welcomed by a large family party. At five o'clock
the happy pair left in their travelling chariot for Fortfergus,
where they will pass the honeymoon-
The Duchess de Leuchtenberg, daughter of the
Emperor of Russia, was safely delivered on the 11 instant
of a son, who received the name of George.

COMFORT versus MUDDLE.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
We English folks love Comfort dearly. The word
Comfort is said to be peculiarly English; and untrans-
latable, in its full weaning, into any foreign language.
It might almost be said of many families—they worship
Comfort. That it is their Household god, is not saying
too much.
Comfort is closely identified with the idea of Hame.
At least, we English never dissociate the one notion
from the other. Abroad, the people can contrive to live
out.of doors. They find pleasure in public gardens or
casinos, listening to music and sipping coffee. In
warmer climes they sun themselves in the streets. Half
their life is in public. The genial air woos them forth,
and keeps them out of doors. They enter their houses
merely to eat and sleep. They scarcely can be said to
live there.
How different it is with us! The raw air without,
during,so many months in the year, drives us within
doors. Hence we cultivate all manner of home plea-
sures. Hence the host of delightful associations which
rise up in the mind at the very mention of the word.
Hence our household god—Comfort.
We are not satisfied merely with a home. It must be
comfortable. The most wretched are indeed those who
have no homes—the homeless! But not less wretched
are those whose homes are without comfort—those of
whom Charles Lamb once said—" the homes of the very
poor are no homes." And why not? Because they are
without comfort. It is Comfort, then, that is the very
soul of the home—its essential principle—its vital
element.
Comfort does not mean merely warmth, good furni-

ture, and good eating and drinking. It means some-
thing far more than this. It includes cleanliness, pure
[ air, order, frugality—in a word, housethrift and domestic
government. Comfort is the soil in which' the human
being grows—not only physically, but morally also. It
lies, indeed, at the root of many virtues.
Do not think that wealth is necessary for comfort.
Luxury requires wealth, bat not comfort. A poor
man's home, moderately supplied with the necessaries of
life, presided over by a cleanly, frugal housewife, may
contain all the elements of comfortable living. Of
course, there must be a sufficiency of the temporal
means to supply these necessaries, without leaving any
" aching void" to be filled up. But our conviction is, that
comfortlessness is caused, in the great majority of cases,
not so much by the absence of the sufficient means, as
by the want of the requisite knowledge of housethrift
and domestic management. And this is a matter which
women should look to.
Comfort, it must be admitted, is in a great measure a
relative term. What is comfort to one man -would be
deemed wretchedness by another accustomed to nicer
habits of living. Even the commonest mechanic of this
day would consider it misery to have to live after the
style of nobles a few centuries back; to sleep on straw beds,
and live in rooms littered with rashes; without glazed win-
dows to their apartments, and these lit up in the even-
ings by a pine torch, the wind careering through the
dreary. chamber. In respect of the elements of sub-
stantial comfort, there can be no question that the'Eng-
lish people have made extraordinary progress during
the last few centuries.
See the working man's cottage now—what it is, or
what it ought to be. All tight and snug, dry and clean;
the floor swept and sanded; a bright fire blazing in the
chimeey; a clean, warm bed to lie in; books on the shelf,
and flowers in the window; a home of contentment,
taste, and comfort. That is what every house, even the
poorest man's, ought to be.
But that is not all. Where there is comfort there is
contentment and absence of fidget. Comfort depends as
much on persons as on " things." And it is out of the
character and temper of those who govern households,
that the feeling of comfort arises, much more than out
of handsome furniture, warm rooms, or any sort of
home luxuries and conveniences.
Comfortable people are kindlyte►pered. That may
be set down as an invariable condition of comfort.
There must be peace, mutual forbearance, mutual help,
and a disposition to make the best of everything.
" Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a
stalled ox and hatred therewith."

---
Comfortable people are persons of sound common
sense, discretion, prudence, and economy. They have a
natural affinity for honesty and justice, goodness, and
truth. They do not run into debt, for that is a species
of dishonesty. They live within their means, and lay
by something for a rainy day. They provide for the
things of their own household, yet they are not wanting
either in a proper hospitality, and benevolence on fitting
occasions. And what they do in the latter direction is
done without ostentation or loud talking.
Comfortable people do everything in order. They
are systematic, steady, sober, industrious.. You will
never find them in a bustle of tidying-up. As they do
everything at the right time, so nothing is done in a
hurry, or " slobbered over." . Take, for instance, the
Quakers—as a class the most comfortable in England;
really an embodiment of the highest ideas of domestic
comfort. Soma think they are even too ,comfortable;
and that their prim ways do not at all accord with the
notions of old George Fox, and his " hull of leather."
But we live in other times, and have different notions;
and Quakers must " progress" like other people.
Comfortable .people dress comfortable. They adapt
themselves to the season, neither shivering in winter,
nor perspiring in summer, in their efforts to toil after a
" fashionable appearance." You will find they', expend
more on warm stockings than on gold rings; and
prefer healthy, good bedding to gaudy window-curtains.
They do not so much care about dressing " youthful," as
to dress comfortably. Their chairs aro solid, not gim-
crack. They will bear sitting upon, though they may
not be ornamental. They do not sport " bright
pokers." Their pokers are meant for use, to stir up tho
fire; and you may see how bright the blaze is. Every-
thing they have is convenient, snug, comfortable, and
you have pleasure in feeling yourself in the midst of
them. •

' Bet look for amoment on the other side of the pic-
ture. What is the state of the muddlers—the discom-
fortable? You know of such—everybedy knows more
or less of them.
Have you never entered a house in a muddle? Where
the smell of washing is constant? Where the sitting-
room is in a heap of litter with " things" mending,
getting-up, or taking to pieces? Where dirty children
41re running about, falling and equalling alternately, at
all hours of the day? Where there is petting and dand-
ling one moment, ancl scolding and beating the next?
Where nothtng is clean, nothing mended, nothing ready,
nothing done? And in the midst of all, there is the un-
tidy, worn-out, distressed housewife herself, bitter
against servants, wroth against children, -astonished at
husband's complaints, not pleased at untimely visitors
(who, by the" way, are always untimely at such houses),
and in a constant pucker from morn till night, because
things don't go right, because things won't go right.
414ad.the oddest thing of all in such houses is, that the
more work the more dirt, the bigger the washings the
greater the stock of dirty clothes, the more etrainings at
comfort the less comfort there is.

A curious feature of the House of Muddle is, that
there inanimate, and elsewhere motionless, objects, be-
dtime endowed with the most wonderful powers of loco-
motion ; and an agency, or power, or person, called
" Nobody," whose very existence is denied in better-
regulated houses, seems to become invested with almost
supernatural powers of evil. A chair-leg has " got
broken," or a dish has "fallen down'and been smashed,
or the table has " got scratched," or a dress has " got
tore." It is always " Nobody" that did it; or, if not,
then the " things" have fallen, or broken, or torn, or
scratched themselves,—altogother of their own accord,
and out of sheer spite and mischief.
A clever writer on this subject has recently produced
a book entitled " Home Truths for. Home Peace," which
ought to be read and pondered by every housewife. It
is full of golden truths, set off by a rich and pregnant
humour. Here is her description of the peculiar cha-
racteristics of the households of Muddle,".which we have
above noted :—Cups, so long as there have been Cups,
have slipped out of the maid's hands; and this, not when
she has let them go, but whilst holing them asttight as
ever she could. Glasses, &c., are constantly falling off
the edges of dressers and of *tables, although_ declared
by competent judges to have been far removed from such
a dangerous position, so that they have evidently moved
back again for the purpose of dashing themselves into
a thousand shivers. Other articles of fragile materials,
but less daring resolutions vary the monotony of their
existence, and assert their right to tender consideration,
by • getting' such chips, cracks., and contusions, as no
rational person could aver venture to inflict. Nor are
the harder and less sensitive portions of our household
furniture innocent of similar offences; the locks, which,
us fixtures, are secure from injury by falling, will never-
theless 'get hampered,' stools 'come unlegged,' nails work
themselves out,' paint, varnish, &a, 'rub off,' the best-
made chairs will dislocate their arms, the strongest
tables break or distort their legs; whilst other objects,
too cowardly for pelf-infliotions, but equally perverse in
spirit, will choose the very moment when their presence
would be most desirable to 'get lost ;' that is to say,_ to
bide in some out-of-the-way corner, to which no living
soul has ever had access, and in which consequently no
member of the family would ever think °Clinking. . •
In the same spirit,. useless, lumbering' articles, always
kept at the very top of the house, will get don any
number of stairs, or flights of stairs, in order to seek
out low company in the kitchen, or to endanger
_the life
or limb of every inmate of the dwelling, by placing
themselves, with unblushing effrontery in a passage.
Keys will shake off their rings, and get out of one's
very pockets to crawl beneath thd bearthrtig or leap into
•the dust-bin. Pitchers, notoriously dry whenever you
had approached them to obtain,' only a drop of water,'
will find out the nearest pump, and there get filled too
full'—rather than lose en opportunity of watering the
bed-room floors, as if mustard andnress salads were to
epring up from the carpets. ' Cruets, salt-cellars, and
decanters mock the housewife, who is continually
chargigh
re-
plenishing them,' by as perseveringlY
contents; while shirts and other garments, ' put away on
Saturday night without a single stitch or fastening
want-
ing,' and naturally expected to be fit for wear on Sunday
morning, will actually get up again in the dead silence of
the night, and proceed to distant drawers and v•ard-
robes, that they may enjoy. the malignant satisfaetiun of
Pulling off each others' ,etringe and but.tons . That .such
are the common contrivances and perversities Of Which
most thing's are found guilty, under a dome-Aic anarchy,
is asserted by all the miscalled heads'of these comfort-
less establishments!"
Visit the House of Muddle, and you find ite character
written outside—,on the door-step, on the
on the windows--through which you may dl e,
et discern
muddle that reigns
something of the within. Knock
or ring, or knock and ring—it is some time before your
can is answered, and then, not until after sundry shuf-
now near, now remote—the
flogs and whisperings--
noise of rushing up and then down
sta.irs---.the hasty
oening
and shutting of drawers, where things to be
•Pput by" are suddenly shoved, until m
atlast, perhaps, a
maid fresh from " the wash," Or from_ the work of grate-
cleaning, with the brush in her hand, or the draggled-

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looking mistress herself, stands before you. You enter,
stumble over th broom or a dust-pan, surrounded by ;
clump of dusters, Of course you are told, "We are so ;
busy with the cleaning," or " the wash," or something
else. But it always was so, at whatever time you called
at that house.
We need not proceed much further with the House of
Muddle. Its rooms are comfortless, even though the
furniture be good. The spirit of order is absent, and
the spirit of cleanliness is absent with it. Domestic
confusion pervades the parlour, the kitchen, and the
sleeping-chamber; and when these are coi.nbified in one,
as in the houses of the poor, the case is still worse.
The " head" of the house has the look of a eare-worn
drudge. A visit there gives you not an atom of plea-
sure, but only seems to throw thinks into worse confu-
sion, from the desperate, but unavailing attempts made
to put them in order. Of course, where there are child-
ren matters are worse; but, as an Irish lady once ob-
served-Lthere was no denying that the meddle where
there were young children was much worse; but yet, as
far us she could perceive, a muddle where there were no
children was never any better!
We must conclude by giving the genealogies of the
two heroines of our brief sketch—Comfort and Muddle.
Comfort is the daughter of Order, and has descended
in a right line from Wisdom. She is closely allied to
Carefulness, Thrift, Honeity, and Religion. Shp has
been educated by Good Sense, Benevolence, Observation,
and Experience; and she is the mother of Cleanliness,
Economy, Provident Forethought, Virtue, Prosperity,
add Domestic Happiness.
On the other band, Muddle belongs to the ancient and
dishonourable family of Chaos;
she is The child of In-
difference and
Want of Principle; has been educated
alternately by Dawdling, Hurry, Stupidity, Obstinacy,
and Extravagance; is secretly united to Self-Conceit;
and is the parent of Procrastination, Falsehood, Dirt,
Waste, Disorder, Distraction, and Desolation.
It would not be easy to detail in all its bone the
misery which is caused by the early neglect of orderly
habits on the part of young women. -It is a source, not
only of frightful unhadpiness in families, but of great
public vice; for after all, the world is made up of those
whose characters have been formed for good or evil by
the early training and example of mothers. This is a
subject, indeed, of great impertance, which those who
have the education of children committed to them ought
never to lose sight of.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CLXXXVII.
THE WARWICK SPRING MEETING, &c.

TO• THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The present week by its excess of sport fairly
inaugurates the season of 1852; all the meetings that
have preceded that of Warwick having been of the hy-
brid kind. The flat races and steeplechases of the pre-
sent week are fairly divided, two days for each. Besides
the sport at Warwick, Charlbury puts forth a small
bill of fare for decision to-morrow; the principal event
being the Snowball Stakes, which the Screw, or Tough
Tom will win, with The Parson's Daughter, and the Re-
jected handy.
The good people of St. Ives considering their essay at
steeplechasing in December last, when Outcast won, a
successful effort, have determined on trying another
day's amusement on Wednesday. The principal event
is a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya, each, with 20
added, over about four mile 3 of good hunting country.
Atalanta, Chapelgorie, and Advance will, in my opinion,
be the foremost horses in the race; and if Advance does
not win, one of the other two I think will.

On the 18th, we have the Grand Military Steeple-
chases at Leamington, and on the following day War-
wick and Leamington Grand Annuals, which I shall
defer commenting on until to-morrow or the next day.
Also, on Friday, the Weatherby Steeplechases are
announced to come off. The Handicap Steeplechase of
10 sovs, each, h ft, will be run at half-past two, and con-
tested by the majority of the acceptances; among whom
the names of the following well-known hunters appear:
—Wild Hero, Blue Bonnet, Barrister, Heroine, Sailor,
Screw, Falcon, and Susannah. There seems to be no-
thing at the weight (10at 21b) likely to touch Barrister,
whom I select ea the winner. Should he, however, be
destined to be beaten, the Screw or Susannah will pro-
bably be the animals to do it. Falcon will run very for-
ward. The Farmers' Stakes, out of about a dozen run-
ners, will fall to the lot of the Queen of the Wiske, A. V.,
or Sailor.

Having glanced at the cross-country sport set down on
the list for this week at the little meetings, I shall turn
my attention to to-morrow's bill of fare at Warwick,
where the sport, I understand, is to commence at half-
past one, with the Trial Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 50
added, the mile course. In the hurry of the moment,
when much pressed by time last Friday, I stated
that the Trial, and one or two other stakes
that have been entered for some time, had
not then closed ; to rectify this blunder I
shall now touch upon those that I missed on that occa-
sion. For the last three or four years the favourite or
favourites have not in any one instance turned up the
trump card: this year I think will be an exception
to the rule. As far as an imperfect account will allow
me to judge, this stake Rill be contested by the follow-
ing:—The Prime Minister, My Fancy, Koh-i-noor,
Aphrodite, Black Audrey, Olessus, and perhaps Maria
Day colt and Le Juif. PRIME MINISTER, over a course
that but little exceeds his own fancy distance, ought to
bo perfectly at home; and as he is in tolerable fettle, I
shall take my Derby fancy of last year to pull my judg-
ment through. Should fate, however, have a slip in
store for him, to Aphrodite or My Fancy, whom I should
otherwise place second and third, I must look for first
and second. The Woodcote Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5
ft, five furlongs, will probably have a field consisting of
the following:—Huff, Start, Filly by Epirus, Hannah,
Filly by Oakley, Molasses, and perhaps Whalebone and
Youthful-days, about which last-named two I kridw
nothing. If Colonel Wyndham's filly was not runningi
oomparatively with the majority of her competitors, at a
disadvantage of Sibs, I should say his start on the turf
with her would be very likely to realize her dam's name
and surprise the ring; as it is' I am given to understand
that the fillies by Epirus and Oakley may possibly be
anything but bad specs.
Since dotting down my remarks last week on ;the
Willoughby handicap I have been informed that, in all
probability, Selina will be sent instead of Clothworker;
in which case I shall take Mr. Parr's animal and Agis,
to occupy the first and second places.
The Free Handicap will be contested by Miss Julia,
Ribaldry, Grief, Woodlark, the Reaper, First Fruits,
Robert, Iracundus, and perhaps another. The race must
of necessity be between Ribaldry, Grief, First Fruits,
and Iracanaus; and if GRIEF does not win, I shall look
to the couple of four years old for the winner.
The Five Says. Stakes brings to-morrow's sport to a
conclusion.

For the last day or two a retrograde movement has
been gradually taking place with respect to Cariboo for
the Northamptonshire Stakes; he has fallen from 6• to
15 to 1, and but little doing about him. This is not
owing to any supposed illness or accident on the part
of the horse, who is doing atreng work, but to the
serious indisposition of Mr. Greville, who, however, has
happily not, as was reported on Saturday, yet reached
`hat final bourne from which there is no return.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

March 15,1852,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING ON SATURDAY.
WARWICK TWO YRS OLD STAKES.
2 to 1 as Catherine Hayes—taken freely
WARWICK HANDICAP.
5 to 1 agst Ethelwolf—t 10 to 1 agst Selina—t
G to 1 agst Cnteus—taken 1
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
8 to 1 agst Chief Justice—taken
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
20 to 1 offered agst Hesse Hamburg
CHESTER CUP.
18 to 1 agst High Sheriff 40 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg
20 to 1 agst Scarecrow , I taken
40 to '1 agst Neasham—t 50 to 1 agst Unity—taken

CLOUDS AND THEIR SILVER LININGS.

-----
By E. E. M.S.
(From the British Museum.)
Dead leaves, but yesterday, along the lane
Were rustling drearily, or sodden'd lay
In drifted heaps around; as if in pain,
The earth's old face grew furrowed with decay.
The orchard boughs with brittle moss were wrapped,
The ruby berries withered on the thorn,
With clogging snows the village roofs were capped,
The mill-wheels fast in ice were pester-morn.
But since the magic of soft show'rs to-day,
What vernal glimpses feast our dazzled eyes!
As through the perils that beset his way,
The Indian, wond'ring, hailed Potosi's prize.'
A beam of sunlight, and the wheel is free!
A gentle show 'r has smoothed earth's rugged face;
Among the dead leaves, violet blooms we e
Beneath the brittle moss bright bud&
The snows have nurtured on the cottage srSooefs t:race
Green tints to glad us with the news of Spring;
The gloom that hid yon sky's Cerulean woof,
Bore heating rains non its sable wing.
Await ye, then, World-weary ones! albeit
A wintry dearth, each
The mine may lie at your ray of
Success may blosso
nparcoiomuissefesehrouds,
m in the very clouds!

* The Spanish discovery of the nes of Potosi. An
Indian pursuing a deer, to save himselfm i
from sliPping overa
rock, seized a bush with his hand; the violence of the
wrench loosened the earth round the root, and a piece of
silver attracted his eye.

THE 1-2
-.ECENT ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.—The
Marquis of Londonderry, having come to a right frame of
In:ud, has agreed to present the Rev. Mr. Law, who recently
eloped with his daughter, Lady Adelaide Vane, to a living
of about 600/. per annum.—Carlisle Journal.
FAMILY LIICLNESSES.—TO trace a family likint'ts
for a century is not at all uncommon. Any one who knows
the face of the present Duke of Manchester will see a strong
likeness to his great ancestor, through six generations, the
Earl of Manchester of the Commonwealth, as engraved in
Lodge's Portraits. The following instance is more remark-
able:- Elizabeth Hervey was Abbess of Elstow in 1501.
From her brother Thomas is descended, in a direct line, the
will the present Marquis of. Bristol. if any oneportrait
of Lord Bristol, in Mr. Gage Rukewodt's Aingoe Hrodred,
by the side of the sepulchral brass of the
uates, they cannot but
Abbess ef-Elstow,
figured intl) e
Fisher's Bedjordsl • • Antiq • •
be struck by the strong likeness between the two faces.
This is valuable evidence on the disputed point whether_por-
traits were attempted in sepulchral brasses.—From Notes

The mortal remains of the late Lady Margaret
Milbank will be removed to-day from Eaton-Place,
in-
terment in the family vault of the Milbank familYr at Thorpe
Penne, Yorkshire. for