The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-03 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. 132.
_Longman, London, 1837.
We began the perusal of the elaborate notice of
" Ilabon's Life and Works," Is hich is very properly
placed first in this Number, under a persuasion that it
was from the pen of Lord Brougham ; but we had not
proCeeded far, before we found reason to change our
opinion, satisfied that though his Lordship would have
treated the subject in an equally learned spirit, and
thrown quite as much vigour, and affluence of idea into
it, he would not have exhibited such an incessant
and dazzling play of fancy, such grace and variety of
style, and such prodigality of illustration drawn from
purely imaginative literature, as adorn every page
of the essay. We strongly suspect Mr. Macauley to be
the author of this gem ; for in manner it strikingly re-
sembles his celebrated articles on "Milton" and " Mac-
ehiavelli ;" and in matter, shows the same subtle power
of analysis, and dramatic tact in bringing out the nicer
points of character. He places Bacon before us in all his

strength and all his weakness; as the philosopher, lofty
in thought ; as the statesman, mean in action ; here, in
advance of his age ; there, crawling timidly behind it ;
ennobling humanity by his writings as much as he
debased it by his deeds ; and proving, throughout a
busy public life, that Pope did him no more than
justice, when he called him "the wisest, brightest,
meanest of mankind." In speaking incidentally of
the mother of this extraordinary man, and of the pro-
bability of her being" a lady of highly cultivated mind,
after the fashion of her age," the Reviewer inclines to
the opinion that a knowledge of the " sermones
utriusque lingu" was very generally diffused through-
out the community during the reigns of Henry the
Eighth and Edward the Sixth ; and that " without a
knowledge of one of the ancient languages, no person
could then have any clear notion of what was passing
in the political, the literary, or the religious world,"
because " the Latin was in the sixteenth century
and more than all, than the French was in the
eighteenth." The Reviewer here overrates the circu-
lation of the languages of Greece and Rome, which
were only beginning to be generally studied in the
earlier portion of the reign of Henry the Eighth, be-
fore which period a knowledge of them was for the
most part restricted to the priesthood. It was the visit
of Erasmus to England, combined with the indefatiga-
ble exertions of Dean Colet, that first brought them
into fashion among us ; but it was at a much later
date that they became generally diffused—not indeed
till towards the close of the sixteenth century. The
Reviewer's sketch of the old scholastic philosophy,
of which Bacon was the first to show the ab-
surdity, as dwelling upon words when it should have
been at work upon things, is admirably executed ; and
not less so, is his analysis of the prominent features of
the new system which liberated the manacled hands of
knowledge, and laughed to scorn the strict, cold, useless
logic of the Aristotelian school. Of the man who
achieved this great philosophical Reform, we are told
that when. a child, " his health was very delicate, and
to this circumstance may be partly attributed that gra-
vity of carriage, and that love of sedentary pursuits,
uhielt distinguished him from other boys. Every body
knows how much his premature readiness of wit and
sobriety of deportment' amused the Queen ; and how
she used to call him her young Lord Keeper. While
still a mere boy he stole away from his play-fellows to
a eault in St. James's fields, for the purpose of inves-
tigating the cause of a singular echo which he had
he
there. It is certain that, at only twelve, he
e busied himself with very
ingenious speculations on
the art of legerdemain-_aj sol
eet which, as Professor
Duguld Stewart has most justly observed, merits much
More attention from philosophers than it has ever re-
;med.. But these are trifles." We must here differ
from the Revievver. Nothing is trifling that refers to
the growth of such a mind as Bacon's. Every charac-
teristic trait is of value, for, as Wordsworth has justly
observed, " the child's the father of the man," and in
the boy's attempts to investigate the cause of the echo,
We may recognize the germ of the philosopher's habit
of rigid And fearless enquiry. In early life, even after
be had become distinguished as a writer, Bacon was
much depressed in his pecuniary circumstances, which
may accouilt for his subsequent love of money, shown
in his taking bribes as a Judge, and perpetrating
other acts of•meanness, which, as a statesman and
a lawyer, 'have attached an indelible stigma to his
name. The Reviewer touches on these points briefly,
'kit in a stern spirit of impartiality. When, how-
ever, droppir Bacon the wordling, he conies to con-
sider Bacon the philosopher, he writes in a far more
pleasurable .spirit, as though he entered heart and soul
into his subject. The subjoined extract will furnish a
very favourable sample of his manner :
" The poetical faculty was powerful in Bacon's mind ;
but not, like his wit, so powerful as occasionally to usurp
the Place of his reason, and to tyrannize over the whole
11150. No imagination was ever at once so strong and
so thoroughly saibjugated. It never stirred but at a Big-
flail from good sense. It stopped at the first check
4
Obgood sense. Yet though disciplined to such
edience, it gave noble proofs of its vigour. In truth,
ach of Bacon's life was passed in a visionary world,—
4m.idstthings as strange as any that are described in the
z").a,blan Tales,' or in those romances in which the curate
an'iri.arber of Don Quixotte's village performed so cruel
PEtlse ° da-fe,—amidst buildings more sumptuous than the
Aladdin,—fountains more wonderful than the
the hi water of Parizade—conveyances more rapid than
the 11),?ngryph of Ruggiero—arms more formidable than
b 1, an ce of Astolfo—remedies more efficacious than the
them Fierabras. Yet in his magnificent day-dreams
6 was nothing wild—nothing but what sober reason
i'lletianeil. He knew that all the secrets feigned by poets
° have been written in the books of enchanters, are
Worthless when compared with the mighty secrets which
Ilre really -written in the book of nature, and which, with
?role and piitience, will be read there. He knew that all
tile wonder,: wrought by all the talismans in fable were
trifles when 'compared with the wonders which might rea-
lonubly be ezpected from the philosophy of fruit ; and,
that if his words sank deep into the minds of men, they
would produce effects such as superstition had never as-
cribed to the incantations of Merlin and Michael Scot. It
was here that he loved to let his imagination loose. He
loved to picture to himself the world as it would be when
his philosophy should, in his own noble phrase, have en-
larged the bounds of human empire.' One of the most re-
'lnarkable circumstances in the history of Bacon's mind, is
:the order in which its powers expanded themselves. With
:him the _fruit came first and remained till the last : the
jblossoms did not appear till late. In general, the de-
_Te,l(rtlement of the fancy is to the developoment of the
Satent --,,vbat the growth of the girl is to the growth
4) ' a boy. The fancy attains at an earlier period to the
PePrettion of its beauty, its power, and its fruitfulness ;
4nd• as it is first to ripen, it is also first to fade. It has
the;
lost something of its bloom and freshness before
491. P terrier faculties have reached maturity ; and is corn-
ennti y withered and barren while those faculties still retain
._14,t1 teir energy. It rarely happens that the fancy and the
Jt(i/cigi nest grow together. It happens still more rarely that
Lite , judgment grows faster than the fancy. This seems,
vtvi :ver, to have been the case with Bacon. His boyhood
,vouth appear to have been singularly sedate. His
Itard.'e scheme of philosophical reform is said by some
1% otters to have been planned before he was fifteen ; and
o undoubtedly planned while he was still young. He
erved vigilantly, meditated as deeply, and judged as
tperately, when he gave his first work to the world as at
4 1! close of his long career. But in eloquence, in sweet-
ti: it and variety of expression, and in richness of illustra-
-3,4 his later writings are far superior to those of his
res, th• In this respect the history of his mind bears some
,niblance to the history of the mind of Burke."
t,cv We consider this essay on Bacon as by far the best
) 't.has appeared for many years in the " Edinburgh
• evlew." It is full of animation and brilliancy, and
Peg right
staff , to the heart of its subject. " Browning's
OT,,
tr finds
%at The the same fault with this popular tragedy
1
Sun found some two or three months since.
he Reviewer
a 4 Id being
charges it with affectation, obscurity,
441 .ntary •; penned in a style perversely bald and frag-
but states, at the same time? that it has many

redeeming merits. The notice of Bulwer's "-Rise
and Fall of Athens" is agreeably written, but
does not soar above the ordinary average of pe-
r riodical criticism. " Newspaper Literature" con-
, tains many pertinent suggestions ; though we must
object to the spirit of the Reviewer's complaint, that
the daily Journals are in a state of " complete depend-
: ante upon the contemporary public." Why should
this be urged as a fault against them ? To whom
should newspapers appeal—with whom should they
sympathize—whose wants and wishes should they
make known—by whom should they be held in re-
, gard—but the public ? Surely they should not re-
present the interests of a mere faction, in opposition to
the more momentous ones of the community ! The
Press is, and should ever be, the interpreter between
the people and the Government, and all things consi-
dered, it fulfils the office of dragoman with singular
moderation and fidelity. The Reviewer goes on to
assert that " the proper season for discussing, to most
advantage, the Extension of the Suffrage—Triennial
Parliaments—or even Ballot—has not yet arrived."
He is in error. It has arrived, as the events of the
next Session will show. The question of the Ballot,
in particular, if not now ripe for settlement, will never
be ripe. " The Reform of Criminal Law" is a
shrewdly reasoned article, founded on the report of the
Criminal Law Commission. In the " State of Par-
ties," the Reviewer draws an admirable, though some-
what unflattering, sketch of Sir Robert Peel. He
gives him credit for a limited share of political saga-
city ; but is of opinion that he possesses none of the
qualities that should characterize a lofty statesman.
We cordially agree with _this assertion. Decision, bold-
ness, and foresight, are the most essential qualifica-
tions for any one who aspires to sway the destinies of
a kingdom. But of these Sir Robert is nearly, if
not altogether, destitute. He is a safe leader enough
in peaceable tines ; but an age of transition, like the
present, throws him off his balance. He cannot com-
prehend, or sympathise with it, so goes blundering
about in the dark, feeling his way from post to pillar,
and from pillar back to post, without making the slight-
est satisfactory progress. He is a fine sample of the
day-after-the-fair Minister, granting everything just a
day too late. When a concession has lost half its va-
lue and all its grace, then, and not till then, he makes
it. So he acted with the Test and Corporation Acts
—With Catholic Emancipation—with Criminal Law
Reform—in short, with every useful measure with
which he ever tampered. It requires a hurricane to
rouse him to exertion. When the wind is whistling
about his cars ; when Swing is blazing up nightly in
half the counties of England ; and the great manufac-
turing towns are meeting, two hundred thousand
strong, on Newhall Hill, while Ireland is all earth-
quake from one end to the other ;—then this perplexed,
vacillating Tory leader begins to think that it is time
to look into matters, with the view of applying a re-
medy, which should have been applied years before.
But even then—although the signs of the times are be-
come so palpable,that he who runs may read—Sir Robert
goes about his task in such an equivocal, hesitating
spirit, as in the instance of his jesuitical Tamworth
Manifesto, that there is no making out whether he is,
or is not, a Reformer. The secret of all this undue
reserve is, that he is still—and we fear ever will be—in
the stringent trammels of Toryism, and dare not shake
them off, were occasion ever so favourable. Party
hangs like a millstone about his neck, cramping his
movements, enfeebling his energies, and preventing him
from looking erect about him. When Sinbad was half
throttled by the Old Man of the Sea, he boldly shook
off the incubus ; and so must Sir Robert Peel act, if he
desire to stand high in the estimation of the present
age, and to be gratefully remembered by posterity.
We have no space to notice the articles on " Church
Rates," and the late " Crisis in the American Trade,"
so must content ourselves with the observation that
they will repay the labour of an attentive perusal.
Altogether, the Number is an excellent one.

Captains Younghusband and Kyrner, and Mr.
Thomas Moors, waited on G. R. Robinson, Esq., on Monday,
to present a gold snuff-box voted to that gentleman by the
excluded officers of the East India Company's maritime ser-
vice. The box was of beautiful workmanship and had the
following inscription :—" This box is presented to G. R.
Robinson, Esq., M.P., by the excluded East India maritime
officers, as a token of their respect and gratitude for bis able
and unwearied exertions in their behalf, in and out of Par-
liament."

Lord William Russell, Minister Plenipotentiary from
the Court of Great Britain, arrived at Berlin on the 24th ult.,
coming from Dresden.
SINGULAR FIRE AT STOPRIIEAD.-011 Satur-
day last, afire took place in the magnificent grounds of Sir Ri-
chard Colt Hoare, Bart., Wiltshire, which entirely consumed
The Temple of the Sun. A swarm of bees had settled on the
top and fire was employed to dislodge them, but having been
incautiously applied, it terminated as above, and the molten
lead on the roof ran into the pond below.

A Correspondent informs us, that a Reverend Gen-
tleman who played a conspicuous part in the Lockington tithe
case when Jeremiah Dodsworth was imprisoned, was very ac-
tively engaged in canvassing the East Riding electors on behalf
of the Tory candidates on Sunday evening !—Hull Observer.

WHISFCERANDOS.—A curious instance of the erring
simplicity of a countryman is reported in the Lincoln Gazette.
After this perhaps the gallant Colonel Sibthorp will shave
somewhat more extensively. An honest countryman, return-
ing from Lincoln last week, was accosted by an acquaintance
on the road, with " Well, John, have ye seen anything o'the
election ?" " Noa, I ha'nt," was the reply, " but I soed a lot
of fellers hugging a huge baboon in a chair, dressed just for all
the world like a man. I'd rather ha' seen it than a 'lection,
ony day ! I !

On. Wednesday last, an inquest was held at Hard-
wieke, on the body of Benjamin Ridgley, who died on the
25th ult. from the effects of an overdose of laudanum, which
it appeared from the evidence the deceased was in the habit of
taking as a narcotic. Vardict, " Accidental death, from igno-
rantly taking a quantity of laudanum insufficient to cause
death."—Cambridge Chronicle.

Tuesday morning, about half-past ten o'clock, the
house No. 127, Hoxton Old-town, it, the occupation of Mr.
Liquorice, boot and shoemaker, fell down with a tremendous
crash, to the alarm and terror of the inhabitants in the imme-
diate vicinity. The house was attached to a corner one on
one side, which had been pulled down within the last few days,
while on the other side is the old-established public-house,
called the Green Man. Just before it fell, in consequence of
Mr. Liquorice hearing some rubbish tumbling upon the floor
over his head. he went out to speak to the labourers who were
employed in shoring up the house. Ile had just remarked to
them " to take care, or they would bring the house about his
oars," when the foundation gave way, and the whole building
was in a minute level with the ground. The exclamations of
the men and the noise of the falling materials soon collected a
crowd, among whom it was reported that several persons were
buried in the rujns. Mr. Liquorice was observed in the
greatest distress, as he stated that his wife was in the house.
Fortunately, however, that proved not to be the case, as she
had only stepped out a minute before her husband, and site
quickly eased his mind. Information was sent to the station-
house of the N division in Robert-street,. Hoxton Newtown,
from whence Inspector Tong sent Sergeant Dubois with a
body of police, who immediately took measures to keep off the
crowd. Not the slightest injury
,was sustained' by any one.
Two horses, each of which was harnessed to a cart, ran away,
but were stopped without having caused an accident. The
house, with that at the corner, formed part of the ancient build-
ings of the Old-town, and were condemned. A few weeks
ago, some large premises, a few houses off, which were latterly
used as a receptacle to farm poor people, and which, a few
centuries ago, were built for a nobleman's mansion, were
pulled down.
On Saturday night no less than eight prisoners
effected their escape from the gaol of St. Alban's, Herts. On
Wednesday night two prisoners, named Thomas Saunders and
Thomas Williams, escaped from the House of Correction at
Littledean, Gloucestershire. Saunders, a young man, 28
years of age, a native of Somersetshire, and in the habit of
travellin: with a low-sized woman, who carried a basket of
tapes, &c.; had been committed on the 21st of June for utter-
ing counterfeit coin, and Williams for uttering a forged 10/.
bank-note. They were both to be tried at the next assizes,
but disappeared on the night abovementioned ; some of their
companions having apparently scaled the outer walls by means
of ladders, and released them from their cells. The keepers
of both the prisons have caused notices to be circulated among
the police, describing the fugitives, and offering rewards for
the recapture of any of them.

ANOTHER PARR.—In the obituary of Barrow's
Worcester Journal of Thursday last we find the following
notice :—" At Dunston, near Chesterfield, Mr. R Sarman,
aged one hundred and sixty years old and eight months ! He
was blind twenty-six years of his life. llis relatives in the
same house are of the respective ages of eighty-three, eighty,
tiizty-nine, and sixty.

THE QUEEN.

Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at the nes%
Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Am.
bassador, the Neapolitan Minister and Countess Ludolf,
Count Mandesloh, the Wurtemburg Minister, Prince Arm-
,
sparg, Count Charles and Countess Pozzo di Borg(); Baron
Taubenheim, Chamberlain and Equerry to the King of
Wurtemburg, the Marchioness of. Salisbury, the Countess
of Charlemont, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord Gardner
and Colonel Buckley.
Sir Edward Cromwell Desbrowe, G.C.H., her Ma-
jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the King of the Netherlands, had an audience of the
Queen yesterday, at the New Palace, in St. James's Park.
Her Majesty gave audiences yesterday to Viscount Mel-
bourne and Viscount Palmerston. _ _ _

The Duchess of Northumberland Lad an audience o
the Queen yesterday.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
DEPARTURES.

Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple, Bart., on a tour ; Lady
Hamlyn Williams for Carmarthnn ; Mrs. Bothell for Sussex ;
Lady William Gordon for Sussex ; Lord Ebrington for De-
vonshire ; Mr. Wm. Beckford, for Bath ; Lady Lucy Pusey
for Sussex; the Hon. Col. Howard for Ashbridge Castle,
Sussex ; Mrs. Radcliffe on a tour ; Viscount and Lady Eliza-
beth Clements for Long Ditton, Kingston ; Mr. Richard
Benyon de Beauvoir en a tour; Mr. J. 'and Mr. W. Mar-
shall for York; Lady Anne Montagu Scott for county of Sus-
sex; Lieut.-General Sir la. Gordon on a tour; Viscount and
Viscountess Maynard and Miss Jervis for county of Essex ; the
Countess of Radnor and Lady Jane Bouvrie for Longford
Castle ' • Mr. Robert Gordon for Cirencester, in Gloucester-
shire ; Lord Western for Felix Hall, Kelvedon, Essex ; Lord
and Lady Ruthven, from Thomas's Hotel, for Scotland; Sir
George Talbot and Miss Talbot, from ditto, for Scotland; Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie and family, from ditto, for the
island of Ceylon ; Monsieur and Madams Moriana, and
family, from ditto, for Paris ; Sir Henry and Lady Pynn,
from Mould's Hotel, on a tour to the Continent ; Mr. and
Mrs. Hawkins, from Nerot's Hotel, for Dundee ; Sir F.
Hankey, from ditto, for Chapel-street, Park-lane.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday, from the Grange.
Lord Duncan has left Southampton for the family
seat, Lundie Castle, Forfarshire.

Lord William Bentinck has arrived at Vernon-house,
Park-place, from Glasgow.

Lord Macdonald has left Mivart's Hotel, accompa-
nied by Captain Davidson, for his seat in Scotland.

The Earl of Craven, Lady Caroline Turner, Lord
A. Conyngham, the Hon. Mrs. Cochrane, and upwards of
eighty passengers, took their departure for Antwerp this
morning, in the General Steam Navtgation Company's splendid
and powerful steam-ship Soho.
The Earl of Moray has arrived at Malvern Wells,
from his seat in Yorkshire, where the Noble Earl has sojourned
since the demise of his Countess, some months since, at Chel-
tenham.

Prince Esterhazy, Prince Nicholas, and Count
Maurice, left Chandos House yesterday, on a visit to the Duke
of Richmond, at Goodwood Park, Sussex.

The Earl and Countess of Dundonald and family
have left Paris on a tour. The report is untrue that his Lord-
ship intends to build a steam vessel on a new principle. There
are at this time in the West India Docks the hulls of two
steam vessels, built by Lord Cochrane upon a new principle,
fast mouldering to decay.

Sir John earn Hobhouse has, within the last day
or two, been haranguing the electors and operatives of Brad-
ford and Trowbridge, in favour of Mr. Methuen. It was ex-
pected that the Hon. Bart. would propose Mr. Mthuen, on
the day of nomination ; but after due consideration, he has de-
dined the honour.—Devizes Gazette.

Do vE ts, AUG. 2.—Arrived the IVatertvitch steamer,
from Boulogne, having on board Mons. Martin, the Ministre
de Commerce, and Mons. Le Grand, Directeur-General des
Ponts and Chaussees in France. It is said their Excellencies
are come to inspect some of our new railways, and to make
some commercial arrangements with our Government.
The Earl of Lonsdale has arrived at his seat, Low-
ther Hall, from Whitehaven. where his Lordship usually en-
tertains the Judges and leading members of the bar on the
northern circuit.

The Duke of Devonshire and several members of
the Cavendish family will commence grouse shooting in the
neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey, about the 15th. The game
is most abundant at Bolton, in consequence of its being so
strictly preserved by the Duke's special orders.
Lord Dinorben and Lord and Lady Gardner left
Bute House, yesterday, for Goodwood.
The Earl and Countess of Grosvenor and family
left Grosvenor-sluare yesterday, for their seat, Motcombe-park,
Dorsetshire.

The lessee of the English Opera House has en-
gaged a new principal tenor singer (Mr. Allen), who is to
make his debut in Elvino, in La Soiznambula.

Cheltenham is filling fast, and the fashionable arri-
vals within the last few days numerous beyond all precedent.
The late balls at the Rotunda have been very well attended,
and the promenades are assuming a crowded appearance.
The second anniversary dinner of the Third, or
Scots Fusileer Guards, consisting of officers who have served
in that regiment, took place on Tuesday evening, at the Cla-
rendon Hotel ; Lard Berkeley Drummond in the Chair.
There were also present Lord Ebrington, Hon. Colonel Mon-
tagu, Colonel Hornby, Captain Robinson, Colonel Colville,
Colonel Standen, Captain Seymour Davies, Capt. Seymour,
Mr. Digby Murray, Colonel Dixon, Mr. Boyce, Col: Howell,
and General Grosvenor.

The Bishop of London has taken Beacon-lodge,
near Christchurch, as a residence for his family during the
bathing season.
Baron Bulow, tl e Prussian minister, Count Bjornst-
jerna, the Swedish minister, and Mr. Stevenson, the American
minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Strathmore, Mr. Capreal, and Mr. Saunders,
had interviews with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

A despatch from the Vice-Consul at Naples, dated
July 15, says—" It is an ascertained fact that Caltanisella,
Mazars, and another canton of the interior, have cut off all
eommunicltion with Palermo, decline obeying any requisition
of the central authority, and fire upon any one who presents
himself upon their territory. The anxiety of the minister may
be judged from the fact that he concentrates all the troops of
which he can dispose in this direction. Three frigates and
seven vessels of inferior force are resdy to start at a moment's
notice. The Calabrians are also about to recommer.ce the
disorders of the past year.
RICHMOND THEATRE.—ThiS pretty little esta-
blishment has been taken by Miss Desborougb, and under
judicious management is likely to have a successful season.
Mr. Meadows, of Drury-lane, is " starring" it there with
great applause, and we perceive takes his benefit on Friday,
when he will have the able support of Cooper, Bartley, &c. in
Turning the Tables, a Rowland for an Oliver, and other peices.
Mr. Meadows, from his gentlemanly conduct, as well as from
his talents, as an actor, merits a full house, and will no doubt
have one. _ _ _

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Proceedings have been instituted by Lady Sykes in
the Ecclesiastical Court fo.• restitution of conjugal rights.
At Messina the dread entertained of the cholera is
so great that the inhabitants shut themselves up in their houses
with provisions for several months, in order to avoid all contact
with their neighbours. Public and private business is com-
pletely suspended.
The Journal de Frankfort, a Russian paper, af-
firms that a conference with all the other Ministers of the
Northern Powers will be held with Prince Metternich at Top.
Ms very shortly, upon the subject of the quadruple treaty, by
which England and France engaged themselves to support the
Queen of Spain.
. _ _

It was after having received despatches by estafette
from Berlin, that King Ernest Augustus appointed a special
Commission to examine how far the new fundamental law of
the kingdom binds the successor of William IV., and to sub-
mit to him the result of its inquiries. It was the private Mi-
nister of the Cabinet, de Schele, who was named to point
out for the King's choice the members of the Commission, and
M. de Schele was himself appointed to preside over it. He
is now preparing the project of the Royal motion, which is to
be submitted to the States at their next meeting. The im-
portant point however, nevertheless, is to ascertain whether
the convocation of the Chambers should take place according
to, the terms of the Constitution of 1819, or that of 1833.
The choice o( the first; towards which his Majesty is per-
sonally inclined, would be equivalent to a formal refusal to re-
cognise the existing Constitution ; and all that has been done
during the four years which have just elapsed, would run the
risk of being considered as not having taken place.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary meet-
ing was held yesterday afternoon, Dr. Henderson, V. P., i*
the chair. Dr. Lindley read the copy of an address, which
had been delivered to her Majesty from the Council by the
Duke of Devonshire, requesting her Royal patronage,
which
was accorded. A paper was read on a simple and effective
mode of killing the red spider, green fly, thrip and scale with-
out injury to the plants. It merely consisted in putting the
pots or plants into a frame well closed, and then laurel leaves
well bruised between them, when in the course of one hour the
whole of the spiders and flies would be destroyed by the °lour,
which was that of prussic acid; whilst thrip and scale would
be destroyed in about eight hours, the night time being most
favourable for the experiment. For a house 20 feet by 12 the
quantity of two bushels of leaves would be amply sufficient.
The most interesting part of the cJilection in the room was
several orchideous plants, amongst which was that rare and
remarkable one cattleya orispa in high cultivation, from Mr.
Paxton, with several specimens of Stanhopea insignia. Amongst
the fruit from the gardens were two melons, grown over
water, into which the roots descended, a plan by which it was
found that this fruit would arrive at earlier, if not at better,
maturity. The prizes awarded were—the large silver medal
to Mr. Paxton for cattleya crisp, knightian medals to Mr.
Lawrence for a collection of heaths, and Mr. Redding for on-
cidium carthaginense, and banksian medals to Mr. Hooker for
roses, Mr. Pratt for Stanhopea insignia, and Mr. Hogg for
piccotees and carnations. The register kept at the gardens
from July 18 to August 1 gave the barometer highest July
24, 30,117 in., lowest, July 29, 29,923 ; thermometer, highest,
July 27, 85 deg. f. ; lowest, July 30, 40 deg. ; and quantity of
ruin inches,

G IN TELLIGEN CE.

LATEST BETTING A T MANCHESTER.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
4 to 1 agst Cardinal Puff—offered
9 to 1 agst Epirus
10 to 1 agst Slashing Harry_laken
10 to 1 agst Mahometan—taken
10 to 1 agst The Doctor
12 to 1 agst llenriade
14 to 1 agst Mango
Id to 1 agst Abraham Newland—offered
20 to 1 agst Cartoon
20 to 1 agst Robin Hood colt—take 25 to 1
20 to I agst Blakey Topping—take 25 to 1