The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN ING, DECEMBER 3, 1852.

soldiers and on the other with National Guards.
In front of the Arch, down the Champs Elysee3,
the Lancers were ranged ready to lead the proces-
sion, as soon as the Emperor's anivalshould be an-
nounced.

Towards one o'clock the avant guard, composed
of some sqadrons of Dragoons were seen to advance
at a rapid pace, their horses smoking, and without
stopping they dashed right through the triumphal
arch, raising their swords and shouting " Vive
l'Empereur Napoleon III." The effect was some-
thing magical. In a few minutes other squadrons
came up more slowly marching througb until the
Emperor himself appeared, surrounded byministers,
marshais, and magnificently attired host. His
Majesty wore the uniform of a general officer, was
superbly mounted, and looked very well. It is
needless to say that he was loudly cheered by the
army, the National Guards, and the people. After
an exchange of salutations with the generals wait-
ing, he proceeded onward, and as the cavalry
poured through, the Cuirassiers in their steel coats,
and the Carabineers in brass, the effect produced
in the may of military spectacle, was as fine as it
wes uniuue.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.

Assistant-Surgeons.—Henry French (1846) and Tho
mas Wilson (1852), to the Winchester, 50, flag-ship,
East Indies.

Master's Assistant.—C. M. Ross, to the Leander, 50,
Portsmouth.

Carpenter.--Edward W. Vincent, to the Arrogant,
46, screw-frigate, Portsmouth.
Fire Queen, steam-tender, Master Commander Paul,
arrived at Devonport, on Tuesday night, with marine
artillery for the Magicienne and Vulture, steam-frigates.
Avon, steam-tender, Master Commander Veitch, re-
turned from Portsmouth to Devonport on Wednesday
morning.

Magicienne, 14, steam-frigate, Captain Fisher, was
taken into No. 5 Dock on Wednesday morning, to have
her bottom cleaned. She was to come out again yester-
day.
Mr. Thomas Baldock, late store-keeper of the Devon-
port Dockyard, died on Sunday last, at his residence,
No. 5, St. Mary's-terrace, Paddington-green.
The Terrible, 21, steam-frigate, at Woolwich, will not
be completed before February next.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 2.

Her Majesty's steam-vessels Avon, Master Com-
mander A. Veitch, and the Fire Queen, Master Com-
mander Paul, arrived yesterday from Portsmouth.
The Spiteful, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Parker,
went up harbour on Tuesday for the purpose of being
dismantled, and to return stores. Her crew will pro-
bably be paid off on Friday.
The steam-frigate Magicienne, Captain Thos. Fisher,
was placed in dock yesterday to have her copper
examined and repaired,
The Dido, 18, Captain Morshead, was warped to her
sailing moorings on Wednesday.
The Madagascar, 44, was taken out of dock yesterday.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2.

The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw three-decker,
shipped one of the massive iron flooring joists for the
support of her ponderous machinery yesterday. The
other portions are expected daily from the Clyde.
The Leander, 50, Captain King, has been brought
alongside the jetty to-day to be docked.
The Pallas, Russian frigate, 50, has been supplied with
one of Grant's improved cooking and distilling galleys,
and will come out of dock to-morrow.

The Edward hired convict-ship, arrived on Tuesday at
Spithead, to embark convicts for transportaion; 22
were shipped on board her from this depot to-day for
Bermuda.

The Egyptian steam-yacht Kassid Kheir, the property
of Said Pasha, has been at length converted from a
screw steamer into a sailing yacht, and was undocked
yesterday.

The dladiator, 6, paddle-frigate, was docked yester•
day for repairs.

WOOLWICH, DEC. 1.

The Terrible, steam-frigate, has been taken out of dock,
and placed in the basin under the shears for the purpose
of having her boilers put on board. The work required
to be done on board the Terrible will require at least ten
weeks from this time to complete it, and she will not be
out of the hands of the engineer department before the
15th of February next.
The work on board the Cormorant steam-sloop, at
present in the east dock, is discontinued, and she is
ordered to be broken up.
The Cruiser steam-sloop will be ready for trial down
the river on the 11th of the present month, and it is
expected she will be commissioned immediately.
The Imperieuse, 50, recently launched at Deptford,
and to be fitted with a screw propeller and engines of
350-horse power by John Penn and Son, is in so ad-
vanced a state that she will be out of the engineers'
hands on the 23d inst.

The work on the Jackal iron paddle-wheel steam-
vessel, of 150-horse power, and on the Janus paddle-
wheel steam-vessel, of =O-horse power, is suspended for
the present.

The distilling galleys for the Cruiser being completed,
and the galleys for the Brisk steam-sloop nearly ready,
the workmen are under orders to proceed to Portsmouth
when the galleys for the latter are completed.
One of the Marine Artillery serving in the Rosamund
fell overboard from that vessel on• the evening of Sunday
last, and was rescued from a watery grave by one of the
sailors jumping overboard and saving him. The Second
Master of the Rosam and is at present on board the
Waterloo flag-ship at Sheerness, where a court-martial
is being held upon him, for, it is said, neglect of duty
since the arrival of the vessel at this port. Several of
the officers here went to Sheerness yesterday to be pre-
sent at the court-martial.

The Garland, Dover mail steam-packet, having under-
gone a thorough repair, left Woolwich to-day, under
Lieutenant-Commander Wylde, to resume her duties as
a mail-packet on that station.

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The front building of Billingsgate Market, next to
Thames-street, is now drawing towards completion. It
presents five archways towards the street, each archway
being sufficiently broad to admit a large-sized waggon.
On the top of these arch-ways, one story of a warehouse,
intended for depositing dried fish, is now erected. The
walls of the building, like the front facing the river, are
substantially built with granite and brickwork. The
stands or forms for the wholesalesmen and factors hays
not yet made their appearance ; when erected, however,
it is said they are to be regular fixtures, and composed
of marble slabs on top, or thick glass. This idea will
certainly be a decided improvement as regards appear-
ance, and will be much easier washed than boards, as
they are at present.

There still seems to be a great want of system as re-
gards the method of keeping the market properly clean,
which attention ought to be drawn to. Recently
whilst walking by the market, I was attracted by a
noise from the water ailing from the fountain into the
basin that stands in the middle of the market. Think-
ing to see a dozen or mere men busily engaged scrubbing
and washing down the market in a regular ship-shape
way, I turned in to view their operations. The engine
below being industriously at work, the fountain
was playing most beautifully, emptying a large stream
of water into the bas in, which was overflowing ; the
water running out in s treams from the mouths of 12 dol-
phins' heads (fitted round the brim of the basin) had a
very pleasing effect. I was rather disappointed, how-
ever, at seeing such a poor display at what I will term
washing decks. Two men and a lad were all that I saw
going on with the operation of cleansing the market.
One was using a broo.ai sweeping the loose straw and
garbage into a shovel :held by another, whilst the lad
was running about, first to the fountain for a bucket of
water, and then carrying it to some part of the market,
heaving it down without apparent skill how a ship's
decks ought to be washed. Being an old sailor myself,
and knowing that them can be nothing done well on
shipboard unless prop( sr discipline and system is the
order of the day, an idea readily occurred to me that
that was not the way Billingsgate Market ought to
be cleansed out, especially now there are such faci-
lities made for supplying an abundance of water.
All disciplined mariners are aware, when a regu-
lar system is adopted. to wash a ship's decks, the
operation is simple arid effective. When the boat-
swain of a ship turns up all hands to wash decks, his
first order is to "sweep down" the loose particles being
swept away. The next order given is to "wet the decks."
Water is now hove indiscriminately about the decks un-
til they are wet all over. The next order given is to
" scrub the decks." Each man now takes a scrubbing
brush in hand and scrubs the part of deck allotted to
him. Scrubbing finished, the next order given is "wash
down the decks." All hands now stand in a line from
the place where water is to be had and hand the buckets
from one to another, until they reach the party whose
duty it is to heave the water on the deck or on the bul-
warks, or where he sees fit. On board of small vessels
this duty is invariably performed by the mate. On
board of large vessels, either the junior or petty officers
are appointed to slash about the water. Whilst the water
is being hove on deck to wash down, one or two brooms
follow to facilitate the operation. The decks being now
thoroughly washed, the next order is to "swab down
the decks." The operation of swabbing is to dry them
down. On board of men-of-war and well regulated
ships, the whole operation of sweeping, wetting, scrub-
bing, washing down, and swabbing the decks is all per-
formed in about an hour. By establishing a proper
system for washing a ship's decks or a market place, the
operation is done quicker and much more effectually than
if it is not gone regularly- about. The same system that
is adopted to wash a ship's decks ought to be employed
for cleansing out Billingsgate. In fact, even swabbing
out the market ought not to be omitted ; particularly
the lower part of it where it is so level. Pools of water
will always lodge about there unless it be very dry
swept or swabbed up. Another suggestion worthy to
be noticed is, all the paint work about the market within
the height of a man's body, ought to be scrubbed with
warm water and soap at least once a month. Just now
much of the paint work where persons hands and clothes
touch, is about one-eighth of an inch thick with fish
scales—not very agreeable for well-dressed visitors to be
leaning up against. The railings that surround the sky-
light of the subterranean shell fish market already re-
quires, not only scrubbing and washing, but scraping
nd fresh painting.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

No. CCCLVI.

The Steeplechases at Crewe on Wednesday attracted a
larger number of the principal members of the ring than
has been seen at any of the steeplechase gatherings this
season. The fields, in two instances out of three, were
good, but the day did not pass off without one or two
unpleasantries. Frank, the favourite for the Eddleston
Stakes, and, to all appearance, the winner at the time of
his mishap, had his chance disposed of by a fall early in
the race. The Emperor, in the principal steeplechase,
met with so severe an accident that it was found neces-
sary to destroy him on the spot. Abd-el-Kader, an
immense " pot" for the same race, after being kept up
to fever heat in the betting by certain parties, was not
allowed to run, and, consequently, the public were put
in the hole most extensively. It was said by some that
he was to be kept for the Liverpool Grand National ;
while others asserted he was lame, or, at least, not in
proper trim for running. This rumour, however, I have
good reasons for believing not to be authentic. Frank
by his fall, it was afterwards perceived, was lamed pro
tem. Ten came to the post for the Eddleston Stakes, Fal-
con going off with the lead, all the rest well up, and making
the running for some distance, Frank being, as before
stated, put hors de combat early by a fall, his rider,
Treen, receiving a severe bruise on the shoulder. When
half the distance had been compassed, Yorkshireman
took the lead, and, with a batch of four in single file
following him, carried it on to the third fence past the
Nantwich road, where he refused. Jenny Jones imme-
diately supplanted him, and, with Falcon, Gulnare, and
Crabbs in attendance, went on to the finish, Jenny
winning by a glod couple of lengths from Falcon, Gul-
nare a bad third, Crabbs fourth, everything else beaten
off. It is perhaps worthy of remark, that the winner
was the outsider in the betting, and, except by her im-
mediate friends, was not backed, I believe, for anything.
Nine came to the post for the Grand Annual Steeple-
chase ; and as soon as Abd-el-Kader was known to be
out of the fray, the Emperor was invested with the pre-
miership in the odds, and backed to win a considerable
stake. His mishap, however, not only settled his
backers' hopes, but his own existence. I believe the
winner was not backed for a farthing in town, and only
twice upon the course. Clatterbox and the Emperor
were the first two off—the former having a lead of a
couple of lengths—the rest all tolerably well together.
They were soon separated, Clatterbox and several others
having fallen, which gave Widow Machree the lead,
which she maintained for two-thirds of the distance,
Benedict sticking close to her. Soon after passing the
.Nantwich road, where the accident befel the Emperor,
the Screw pulled up, and Janus went down. Little re-
mains to be told. Widow Machree, having nearly fallen,
gave Benedict the lead, which he kept to the end,
winning with great ease by several lengths ; Clatterbox
scrambling into the second place, Johnnie Barrie being
some half-a-dozen lengths in his rear. The rest were all
scattered here, there, and everywhere.
The Hatherton Stakes was a very uninteresting race in
heats; which said heats ought to be abolished, if any-
thing more in steeplechasing than in flat racing. This
race calls for no remark. There is a strong disposition
in town to back Nancy and Muscovite for the Chester
Cup, 50 to 1 being the extreme laying figure about each.
Victim (City).—Victress, I believe, was left in to the
last; but for positive information, apply to Mr. Frail,
clerk of the course, Shrewsbury.
SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

The Exning All-aged Stakes.
Mr. Hill's Hollyoaks beat Mr. Morant's Magic.
Mr. Dobede's Delight beat Mr. Morant's Madame.
Mr. Ding's Redwing beat Lord Stradbroke's Mozart.
Mr. Reid's Glauca beat Mr. Blenkiron's Sportsman.

THURSDAY.
Second Ties for the Puppy Stakes.

Trafalgar beat Malice.

Thyme beat Maud.

The All-aged Stakes.—Second Ties.

Bona Dea beat Rushlight. I Tendresse beat British Tar
The Newmarket Puppy Stakes.—Deciding Course.
Mr. R. Bagge's Tube Rose beat Mr. Dobede's Dove,

and won the stakes.
The Chippenham All-aged Stakes.—Deciding Course.
Mr. Elvey's Steam-engine beat Mr. Dobede's Damson,

and won the stakes.
The Rutland Puppy Stakes.—First Ties.

Mangonel beat Deception. 1 Tomahawk beat Dulcet.
The Exning All-aged Dog Stakes.

Delight beat Redwing. I Glauca beat Holyoake.
The Alhngton-hill Puppy Stakes.
Mr. Dobede's Damietta beat Mr. Fryson's Fairy.
Mr. Minton's Madcap beat Mr. Hill's Harkaway.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
STAG HOUNDS.

Her Majesty's Hon. F. Petre's—Monday, High
Easter ; Thursday, Fleshy Mount, half-past eleven ;
Bath ; Tuesday, Clutton ; Friday, Corsham, half-past
eleven.

number of carriages at a station, what amount of cab ac-
commodation would be sufficient for passengers arriving
by light or heavy trains at all hours of the day. The
commissioners, too, would have the regulations of the
hours during which the cabs should ply for hire, and
they might say, " You shall ply for hire from such an
hour to such an hour ;" and those very hours might be
when no trains came in. The commissioners were to
make such regulations for enforcing order as they deemed
necessary. But how could they go and do this on
the private property of the company, where the public
had no right to go except as customers of the com-
pany ? They had also the power of removing any per-
son who should be loitering on the stand. Surely the
railway company had the power of doing this themselves,
and could exclude any person who was not a passenger
departing from, or arriving at, the terminus. So that,
in fact, the police commissioners would be taking on
themselves the guardianship and the regulation of the
business of the terminus. Of course, this would inter-
fere seriously—supposing the commissioners to interfere
arbitrarily—with the business which the company had
to transact there. He now came to the thirty-third sec-
tion of the act, viz., that declaring that the driver should
not apply elsewhere than at a place appointed by the
police commissioners. He apprehended that the word
" elsewhere" had a limited meaning—that it meant such
places as the commissioners of police would have the
power of authorising stands upon, and that the term was
confined to that meaning-:--that was, any public street,
thoroughfare, or other place of public resort. It had been
suggested-to him that, under such an interpretation as
would _Make the cabs at railways subject to the control
of the police, the Duke of Devonshire could not, without
causing an infringement of the law, call into his court-
yard a number of cabs for the convenience of any guests
who might not have their private carriages with them.
His grace might tell--Mr. Jones or Mr. Thompson to
order fifty cabs to he in waiting at ten o'clock, and re-
main till they iere wanted ; and would any one say
that this could not be done without the interference of
the police )If the Duke of Devonshire could do this on
his own private property, then a railway company had
the power of making regulations for the employment of
any number of cabs they chose for the use of the direc-
tors, officers, or passengers arriving at the terminus, and
of Rowing such cabs to remain on the private pro-
perty of the company till they were required. The
public could not come into the station and hire a cab—
this was not permitted. The advantage of the regula-
tions by which the cabs employed by the company were
governed would be obvious, when he stated, that not
only was great car©. taken in selecting good cabs and
horses, and men of respectable character, but that every
driver was obliged to make a return of the places to
which he took his passengers. He might illustrate the
advantages of this by the statement of a single fact. He
had some time since to defend an action for the London
and North-Western Company, and the principal point
for him to make out was the identification by a cab-
driver of a man he had driven from Euston-square to
Chelsea about twelve months before. The cab-driver
was questioned on the subject, and it was on his evidence
that the case turned. The present regulations of the
railway companies were, as he had stated, of much
benefit to the community ; but if the law was so strin-
gent as not to admit of a liberal construction, such as he
had given it, the companies must bow to the law, how-
ever greatly it might, as it undoubtedly would, operate
to the injury of the public at large.
Mr. Long thought this one of the most important
questions that had ever come before him for his decision.
He had considered the matter fully, in order to arrive at
a just conclusion. It was nothing to him that he had
on the former occasion—when the case was not fully gone
into—decided in a particular way. He was not in any
degree bound by any former decision. He now thought
it desirable to look into the history of the acts, and he
found by the Ist and 2d Wm. IV., c. 22, that the plying
for hire was in reference to any public street or road.
The Ist and 2d Vic., c. 79, enlarged the definition to any
place within the distance often miles from the Post-office,
and by the 6th and 7th Vic., c. 86, the language was ply-
ing for hire in any place within the metropolitan district.
Now, the 33d section, referred to by Mr, Humphreys, if
it were to be construed strictly, would embrace the case
before him. There could not be a doubt of that. The
word "elsewhere," if taken in its widest sense, would
bring the defendant within the penalty for having
unlawfully plyed for hire. They must, however, look at
the object which the Legislature must have had in view
when these restrictions, with reference to plying for hire,
were laid down. After referring, on the subject of hack-
ney-carriage stands, to the Hackney-carriage Act of Ist
and 2d Wm. IV., cap. 22 ; the Ist and 2d Vic., cap.
79 ; the 6th and 7th Vic., cap. 86 ; and the 13th Vic.,
cap. 7, lie said he could not help asking himself what
the Legislature intended by having any hackney-carriage
stands at all ? Certainly, that the public might know
where to find accommodation. Again, a cab stand was
considered a great inconvenience by those who resided in
its immediate neighbourhood, and on the other hand, un-
less stands were appointed, the drivers would go where
they thought proper, and the public would be unable to
find them when they were wanted. As to plying for
hire at a railway station, so far from having any of
the inconvenience just alluded to attached to it, the
thing was a great public convenience. He used the
word convenience, but he might observe, that such a
practice at railway termini was absolutely necessary for
the proper working of the railway system ; and, if the
companies were to be prevented doing this for the accom-
modation and security of their passengers, they would
be obliged to apply to Parliament for power to do so.
If they were not to have under their own control the
supply of cabs for conveying their passengers from the
stations, there would be a scene of confusion hardly to
be described, and the inconvenience suffered by pas-
sengers arriving at a moment when cabs might be at the
station, would be intolerable. But, if such was the
law, he must decide accordingly. But was the law so ?
He must confess that he could not think, looking at the
purposes of the acts, and the clause stating the hackney
carriages should not ply for hire elsewhere than at
a stand appointed by the police commissioners, that
it was the intention of the Legislature to interfere with
private property. He had read with considerable atten-
tion Mr. A'Beckett's decision, and had much respect for
that gentleman's judgment ; but he could not go with
him in this question. He (Mr. Long) thought that great
inconvenience would result if such a decision could be
maintained—inconvenience of such a character, that he
hardly knew what limit could be placed to its applica-
tion. There could be no doubt that a railway terminus
was private property. Railway travelling had now be-
come almost the only mode of transit, and the com-
panies had taken upon themselves the character of
public carriers. They opened the doors of their termini
previous to the starting of a train, and after the tra-
vellers had secured their luggage and taken their depar-
ture, the gates were shut, or the companies had
power to shut them. They could keep their
gates closed at all times, except for the arrival
and departure of passengers, who had no right to
remain on the station longer than was necessary to
see to the proper disposition of their luggage. Therefore
a railway terminus was, to all intents and purposes, pri-
vate property, and any person not using it for the pur-
poses of travel would, by going there without the
permission of the company, be as much trespassing as
if he entered his (Mr. Long's) house without his sanc-
tion. Being private property, it was not inconsistent
with the law (as the reporter understood) that the com-
panies should collect together cabs absolutely necessary
to carry on their business. If the Police Com-
missioners were to appoint a railway station as a
cab-stand, the public would have the right to walk
in and hire the vehicles, and it might be, that at the mo-
ment a train came full of passengers there would not be
one cab in attendance. If a railway company could not
select cabs, and have them under their own control, other
persons could not select them, and have them waiting
upon their private property. The Duke of Devonshire, if
he had a party, could not do so ; it could not be done
at Lord's Cricket-ground, or other places, unless each
driver was specially hired. He could not think that the
Legislature could have contemplated such a thing as this.
If the Legislature had intended anything of this kind they
would have expressed themselves more decidedly than
they had done. It had been said that cab proprietors paid
a large sum of money for their licences to work their
vehicles, and that they ought all to have an equal chance
of success. Yes ; if they all possessed good cabs and good
horses, then let them all be treated alike ; but could any-
thing be more notorious than that there was the widest
possible difference in the appearance and cleanliness of
cabs, and in the behaviour and character of the drivers.
The railway companies selected the best of cabs and the
most respectable drivers, and as far as his own experience
went, he seldom had anything to find fault with, either
as to the cabs or the men driving them. On the whole,
he had no doubt it was a very great good that railway
companies selected cabs of the best sort, and drivers civil
in behaviour, and honest in their conduct. He was of
opinion that the words in the act meant plying for hire
in public places only, and that the Legislature did not in-
tend in any degree that the act should apply to or inter-
fere with private property, which railway stations were.
The summons must be dismissed, as the plying for hire
in this case was not plying for hire within the meaning
of the act of Parliament.

STATISTICS OF THE FRENCH ARMY AND NAVY.—
The French army just now (in November,lBsainr,
1852) consists
gene-onsists
of 6 marshals, 78 lieutenants-general, 152 m
ral ; 539 officers of the general staff, 21,491 gendarmes,
7,793 of whom are foot soldiers,
mounted gendarmes ; 100 regiments wolf ilienfalU3669,Bviaz r.
e:
25 light regiments, each
—75 regiments of the line an
regiment consisting of 3 battalions,hasl2esanicleinb.attNaleixotnnonfm6e
lomnfpBanoioeos
companies, and each company
the Vincennes Rifles in 10 battalions of
totac
p yof 100 men—ma, ,
each,
.There are also three regiments of
Vinceenanches crifieasn. -
in Africa, each regiment of 3 battalions,
Zuavcs, now
and each battalion of 9 companies • and 3 battalions of
Light African Infantry, and 12 fatigue companies. Be-
sides these, there is the Foreign Legion, in two regiments
each, of 2,600 men. The cavalry consists of 2 regiments
of Carabiniers, 10 regiments of Cuirassiers, 16 regiments
of Lancers, 12 of Dragoons, 9 of Hussars, 4 of African
Mounted Rifles, 3 regiments of Spahis, and 1 regiment
of Guides. The artillery consists of 15 regiments, each
of 16 batteries. There are three regiments of Engineers,
each consisting of 2 battalions. The total is—foot,
275,000 ; horse, 60,000 ; artillerymen, 36,000 ; corps of
Engineers, 10,000 men ; and 12,000 of the Foreign
Legion and bands of Africans in the French se] vice.
The French fleet numbers 40 vessels of the line, 50 fri-
gates, 40 corvettes, 50 brigs, and 18 transports—all sail-
ing vessels. Add to this their brilliant and efficient
steam navy of 10 frigates and 20 corvettes of from 320 to
400-horse power, and 70 small steamers. There are
altogether 328 vessels, namely, 226 sailing vessels and
102 steamers—commanded by 2 admirals, 10 vice-ad-
mirals, 20 contre-admirals, 110 captains of vessels of the
line, 230 captains of frigates, 650 first, and 550 second
lieutenants, and 300 cadets, and manned by 27;000
plums, marinos, and sailors,—ZOlner Ztitung.

LITERATURE.

The United Service commences with * series of
anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, some of
which are original and interesting. The bverlasting
discussion of fire-arms and projectiles continues
with unabated vigour. Tile first chapter •of the
" Campaigns of Gustavus Adolphus in Germany,"
by C. E. Watson, 7th Royal Fusiliers, gives promise
of an interesting and useful narrative. A " Memoir
of Abd-el-Kader " contains the history of his early
life, and a brief sketch of his romantic adventures ;
but the description which the writer gives of the
despicable character of the Moors of Algeria, is
somewhat at variance with the devoted attachment
which on every occasion they showed to their
chief.

The Sporting Review is embellished with two
plates, entitled. " The Thorn," and " Mortally
Wounded." The former represents a huntsman in
the act of extracting a thorn from the foot of a hound,
while the remainder of the pack are collected round
him watching the operation. In the latter, a
spaniel is in pursuit of a wounded bird. Besides
the general sporting information of the month, and
the usual light reading and sporting anecdotes, there
is a chapter on " Hunting in Brittany," in
which the race and antiquity of hounds, and how
they were first introduced into France, has been
carefully investigated. It appears, according to
Monumetensis, an ancient writer, that after the
destruction of Troy, i-Eneas, when he fled to Italy,
first introduced hounds into that country, that his
grandson Silvius was accidentally killed by his son
Brutus while in pursuit of a stag, and that Brutus
fled to Brittany, and established himself in that
country. Hence the introduction of hounds into
that province.

The Gentleman's Magazine.—The first article is
entitled " A Hundred Years Ago," and contrasts
the remarkable events which occupied public atten-
tion at that epoch with those now claiming atten-
tion. There is an interesting account of Abd-el-
Kader, translated from the French, which is said
I to be written in a fair and generous spirit, differing
from the usual style of that nation regarding the
exploits of enemies. Some remarks are made on
the letters of Richard Reynolds, which have been
published, with a memoir of his life, by his grand-
daughter. It is truly observed that the spirit
which actuated the writer of these letters is found
wanting in our days. It is observed--" These
letters are simple and sensible when matters of
business are concerned—affectionate, earnest, and
pious when higher themes employ his pen. He
had no brilliancy, and a moderate amount of culti-
vation ; but the true wisdom was with him, the wis-
dom which, if it does not always expect a rich
harvest from the most careful sowing, yet as-
suredly looks for no such result in the absence of
due religious cultivation. More and more do the
generations of men seem to need reminding that
whatever is good and great must be gained by
painstaking, and that the Christians of an earlier
day did not allow their children to take their
chance about instruction, and yet hope well for
their Christianity. Ours is a vague and relaxed
age. We, in this question, too frequently put our
logic in abeyance."

Colburn's New Monthly.--There is a long
article on " Ultramontaneism in France and
England," which is extremely opposed to that
sentiment. " Annie Lee " is a very melan-
choly tale ; indeed it is by the author of " Seven
Years in the Wedded Life of a Roman Catholic." It
describes a young and singularly lovely girl, who
is taken from her peaceful home, in the repose of a
country life, to endure all the toils, the miseries,
and the annoyances of an apprenticeship to a Lon-
don fashionable dressmaker. In an evil hour she
met Captain Stanley, an unprincipled roué, who,
struck by her beauty, formed an acquaintance which
ended in ruin. She is left at last under the aus-
pices of an aunt, but her peace of mind was of
course lost for ever. Painful as the story is, as a
tale of fiction, it is ten times more painful to re-
flect that the reality takes place every day around
us. In " Female Novelists " there is a long ac-
count given of the works of Mrs. Crowe, in
which hardly sufficient merit is accorded to her.
It must be admitted by all that that she is a
writer of great abilities, although they may be
exemplified in a manner that all may not regard
with unrniced admiration. " Young Tom Hall's
Heartaches and Horses" is continued in two
amusing chapters. " The late Earthquake " will be
interesting to many. There are some beautiful
lines by Mrs. Acton Tindal, entitled " The Eve
of All Souls." "According to popular superstition,
the souls of the departed are set free upon earth
on the eve of all souls ; " the second part of the
poem is here given :
THE RISING OF THE CHILDREN.

Light between the clouds was fiowing,
When the little children woke ;
Dewy-eyed from slumber glowing,
Through each dusky aisle they broke.
Up they rose, each little dreamer,
From the graveyard, aisle, and tide,
Lo the busy throng was haunted
By the wild dove's rapturous note.
Lullabies their mothers chaunted,
Down the night winds seemed to float •
Some in serge, and some in satin ;
All earth's Rachels wept for these,
E'en from vesper until matin ;
Bending o'er their burdened knees ;
Arrows of the giant taken
e By the angels in their flight ;
Souls that scarcely stayed to waken
In the bounds of day and night.
He who gives each mind its mission
As it issues from His breast,
Cancelled their unknown commission—
Gathered them in love to rest.

A PROJECT OF A PROPERTY TAX.

TO THE THE SUN.
SIR,--Though it canEDITORnot beOF admitted that there ii
equity in the principle of a graduated scale proportioned
to the income of individuals, yet that, inasmuch, as it
would require a double operation, viz., to tax the pro-
perty where found with reference to possession of pro-
perty elsewhere, would be inquisitorial, and in many
cases impossible, the following scheme is submitted for
consideration :

Ist. That all real and funded property should be sub•
jected to a certain named duty, and that this duty
should be paid by the parties in actual possession ; they
having the right to claim from the real owners on a set-
tlement such sum, or sums, as such party should pay.
2d. That all recipients of income from Government,
or from Church preferment under 2001. a-year, one per
cent. ; and above 2001. a-year, three per cent.
3d. That all recipients of salary, whether from rail-
ways, insurance companies, bankers, merchants, clerks,
and others, under 2001. a-year, one per cent., and above
2001. a-year, three per cent. -
4th. It may be said that it would be unjust not to
tax property engaged in trade, or income derived from
trade, professions, &c. My answer is :—lf a man
spends all his profits or earnings, he pays
taxes
indi-
rectly; and the community benefits by such expenditure.
If he save any portion, then that portion enables himto
enlarge his business, and so benefits the comcommunityor it becomes realised property, and as such contributes
to the state of the following year. 11
could be no objection, and it certainly
would 7 there
have the
be imposed
appearance of fairness, that a tax
should
wever,
not upon the profits or incomes madeini
profes-
sions, &c. ,• but a per tentage which the
engaged in trade,
ca-
pital would amount to if it weretnrtaderee'st of
not
&c. Thus :
g
3,000/. ; this sum would at
say his plant, in fact,
A publican takes a house, and his capital in trade is
150/. a-year-
This 150/, a-year
five per cent.
is engaged in trade. his capital
Again :—A merchant
would, therefore-,ivbee charged with a tax of five per cent.
which at five per cent. would
five per cent., the tax on
is say 20,000/., the interest of which is 1,000/. a year at
be 501.
gaged—a farmer, and every other occupation
A shopkeeper at the same rate on the interest of the
mines, shipping, &c., &c.
i
al
There would be no inspection of private accounts or
ca
the same, ee
n,
books—no investigation into profits in such a system ;
and when we consider the enormous amount of property,
by some estimated at five and even six thousand mil-
lions, there cannot be a doubt but that a very large
revenue upon an equitable principle would be realised,
and no interest would escape paying what is just (to
permit any realised interest to escape is to encourage
immorality), and that trade and general enterprise would
be encouraged without being oppressive to any. one, or
without unduly encouraging speculation ; and though it
would
be unwise in the first instance to reduce taxa-
tion, yet it is confidently anticipated that almost all, if
not all interior taxes, such as the window tax, malt and
paper tax—duties upon life and fire insurances and
charter parties, &c., all of which fall more or less
onerously upon parties who are generally not
com-
petent to bear them, might be done away with upon
experience of the productiveness of this plan proving
they might safely be repealed.
Temple, 1849. THOMAS BANISTER.

UNVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL—The committee
have received notice of a legacy of 50/. Three r Cont.
Consols, bequeathed to this charity by the late Mpers. Alice
Walls, of Paradise-row, Hammersmith.
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