The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-28 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S COURT.

(Frem the Court Circulsr,)

The Queen held a CO,lrtl-o.l,rclay.ati ci sio onPaictet
At half-hart 134.1`e b'ari a the fell'oWin rHt..y Louncillors,
Members 'et tim 4 tiommons, as3cmbled at tlie
Palare the Address to her Mak,Sty frerii
ilanse of Commons, viz. of State for Fo-
reign Affairs, the CltaottliO'i. of the Exchequer, the Prtli-
dent of the Marti of Controul, the President of the Board
ni I.`Taile, the Secretary at Wart the Vire,
the Comptroller of tLa Ilene:het& Viscount Castlereagh,
Lords—Stault:n Wm. Bentiuck, and Morpeth ; lion.
Fletn'y Lowry Corry ; Sirs—James Graham, John Beckett,
Edward Knatchbull, Henry Parnell, and nenry Hardinge;
Messrs. J. C. licrries, S. R Lushington, Edward LOAN
Charlt:s W. Wynn, and Henry Labotiefont,
The Queen was atterolod hy the First Lord of the
Treasury and Cho. t.l.eeretary of State for the Home De-
partment.
Her Majesty returned a gracious answer to the Addrette,.
and the Deputation retired.
The Queen then received all the Ambassadors and Mi-
nisters from Foreign Courts accredited to the late King.
Their Excellencies appeared in their respective uniforms,
those who are members of Orders of Knighthood wearing
their several Ensigns. There were present Prince Ester-
hazy, the Austrian Ambassador ; Count Pozzo di Borgo,
Russian Ambassador ; Count Sebastiani, French Ambas-
sador ; Reshid Bev Ottoman Ambassador, accompanied by
Mr. Salame, her Majesty's Oriental Interpreter; Count
Ludolf,ll, )e Neapolitan Minister; Baron Bulow, the Prus-
sian Minister ; Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister ;
Count Mandesloh, the Wirtomberg Minister ; Mr. Van de
Weyer, the Belgian Minister ; Baron Biome, the Danish
Minister ; M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister ; Baron de
Cetto, the Bavarian Minister ; Mr. Dedel, the Netherland
Minister ; Mr. Galvao, the Brazilian Minister ; Mr. Ste-
venson, the United States Minister ; Chevalier de Aguilar,
the Spanish Minister; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister.
Their Excellencies had their first audiences of the Quen
and were respectively introduced by Viscount Palmerston,
her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the
Ceremonies.

His Excellency the French Ambassador presented his
new credentials to the Queen.
The Earl of Durham, his late Majesty's Ambassador
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Empe-
ror of all the Russias, was Knighted by the Queen with the
Sword of State, and was invested by her Majesty with the
ensigns of Knight Grind Cross of the most Honourable
Military Order of the Bath. Sir William Woods (Claren-
ceaux King of Arms), Deputy Registrar and Secretary
of the Order, and Mr. Martins, Gentleman Usher to the
Sword of State, assisted at the ceremony.
The Queen was attended by the Marchioness of Lans-
downe, Col. Cavendish, Equerry, and the Dean of Here-
ford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, were is waiting.

Her Majesty gave audience yesterday to the Earl o.
Durham.

• Mr. O'Connell and a deputation had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-street.
Sir Wm. Doveton, Sir James Rivett Carnac, Dr. Shan-
non, and Mr. Gruntrce, had interviews with Lord Glenelg
yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
Mr. Scholefield and a deputation had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday.

WINDSOR, Tuesday morning.—Everything re-
mains here in the same state. The hurried visit paid to the
Castle by her Majesty yesterday, and hei sudden departure,
have given rise to a good deal of conversation. The Queen's
carriage was ordered so suddenly, that the servants had not
time to prepare it before the horses were ordered to be put to.
The Queen Dowager's health is far from satisfactory, and
her physicians were of opinion that it would have been advisa-
ble for her to have removed immediately after the decease of
his Majesty ; but she appeared so dreadfully excited that they
feared the addititional excitement that would be occasioned
by the removal might lead to the most serious consequences.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager will, however, leave the
Castle immediately after the funeral.
The Earl of Yarborough has arrived at his seat,
Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight.
The Earl of' Fitzwilliam has returned to Mortimer
House, from a visit to his daughter-in-law, Viscountess Mil-
ton, at Bognor.
Lord and Lady Dunalley arrived late last evening
at Mivart's Hotel, from Ireland, His Lordship has purchased
a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames, a short distance
'from Twickenham.

The Earl and Countess of' Mulgrave and suite ar-
rived on Monday evening at the Clarendon Hotcl,lrom Dub-
lin Castle, where his Excellency's authority is delegated
during his absence to the Commander of the Forces, the Lord
Chancellor, and the Lord Chief Justice. The Noble Lord-
Lieutenant had an audience of her Majesty to deliver up the
seals of office.

The Duke and Duchess of Tuecicugh and family
left Montagu House yesterday, for their delightful villa above
Richmond-bridge. The Earl and Countess of Cawdor, Mr.
and Lady Caroline Lascelles also proceeded from town to
visit their (graces, who have been again placed in mourning
by the decease of the Marquis of Bath, eldest surviving brother
of the Duchess.

The Marquis of Granby has left town to canvass
the electors of Cambridgeshire, for which county the Noble
Marquis has declared himself a candidate, at the approaching
general election.

- The accomplished daughter of the Earl of -Ilehes-
ter, Lady Theresa Strangways, was united last Tuesday to
Mr. Edward Digby, the eldest son of Sir Henry Digby and
Viscountess Andover.

Mr. Mansfield, a gentleman of large property re-
siding near Manchester, was married yesterday morning, at
St. George's Church, Ilanovcr-square, to Miss Rice, eldest
daughter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mori had his second concert at the King's Theatre
yesterday—an overflow in good music, and good attendance.
Most of the favourite pieces of the season were given by the
chief Italian singers. Thalberg, and little Mademoiselle Mi-
lanolo contribute to its instrumental attractions. A quartet
of Czerny for four pidnolortcs, played by Thalherg, Madame
Dulcken, Benedict, and Rosenhain, was the chief novelty of
the entertainment, and was greatly applauded.
COAT, HOLE TAVERN, STRAND.—This old esta-
blished and highly respectable place of public amusement con-
tinues to draw from all quarters. It is crowded every night
by Noblemen and Gentlemen, who, we need hardly say, evince
the highest gratification from the well conducted and unri-
valled convivial meetings. The singing is, as it always
has been, of the first order. The wines and spirits are of the
choicest quality.
Monday, the sth instant, the Rev. Henry North,
Rector of Great Ringstead, Norfolk, stopped at the Castle
Inn, Downham Market, in order to take coach to London next
morning, but found himself tco unwell to travel further ; and,
becoming daily and hourly worse, he ultimately resigned his
breath at the said inn on the Saturday following, in his 5001
year.

THE ENGLISHMAN IN AM ERlCA.—There'S no
richer sight that I know of than to see an Englishman when he
first lands in one of our great cities. He swells out as big as a
balloon, his skin is ready to burst with wind—a regular walk-
ing bag of gas ; and he prances over the pavement like a bear
over hot iron—a great awkward hulk of a feller (for they aint
to be compared to the French in manners), a smirkin at you,
as much as to say, " look here, Jonathan, here's an English.
man ; here's a boy that's got blood as pure as a Norman pirate,
and lots of the blunt of both kinds, a pocket full of one, and a
mouthful of tother ; beant he lovely ?" and then he locks as
fierce as a tiger, as much as to say " say boo to a goose, if you
dare."— The Clochmaker.

An English sailor observing some slaves marched
down to the quay to be freighted to New Orleans slave mar-
ket, said to his companion, " I say, Jim, if the Devil don't
catch them ere fellows as drives them poor creatures along, it's
no use having a Devil, that's all."
Nothing can be more prejudicial to tender consti-
tutions or studious and contemplative persons, than lying long
in bed after one is distinctly awake, or has slept a due and
reasonable time ; it necessarily thickens the juices, enervates
the solids, and weakens the constitution. A free open air is a
kind of cold bath, especially after arising out of a warm bed,
and consequently makes the circulation brisker and more
complete, and braces up the solids,,which lying in bed dis-
solves and soaks in moisture. The erect posture, and the
activity of watching, make the perspiration more plentiful, and
the gross evacuations more readily thrown off. This is evi-
dent from the appetite and hunger those that rise early feel,
beyond that which they get by lying long in bed. Add to all
these the influence of the fresh benign morning air—the re-
treating of all the noxious damps and vapours of the night,
together with the clouds and heaviness that are thrown upon
the brain from sleep ; and, lastly, that cheerfulness and ala-
crity that is felt by the approach or presence of the glorious
luminary the sun, which adds a true force to the heart, and
gives a spur to tho lagging and jaded spirits.—Cheyne on
Health.

We understand that great apprehensions are enter-
tained for the sloop, Vicwly Hill, belonging to this port, which
was freighted with corn from Woodbridge to Goole. It is
now five weeks since she sailed, and she has not since been
heard of. It is supposed she has been run down by atteamer
or some large vessel. The Magdalena, one of the finest
brigs in our river, about which similar fears were entertained
are now reduced to a certainty. On Wednesday last a letter
was received, stating that the stern of her boat had been picked
up off the coast of Rye, in Sussex. She was last heard of on
Christmas-day, when it was expected she would have set sail
from Helvoetsluys for London, to which port she was hound
with a general cargo. It is. supposed she foundered during
the tremendous snow storm of that week. The crew consisted
of five young single men, one married man, J. Carrington,
leaving a wife and four young children, and the captain, Howard
John Leach, son of one of the owners, who was universally re-
spected. We learn she was uninsured, and belonged to Messrs.
Leech and T. and R. Duningham. On Saturday last the
Frankfort, another fine brig, went ashore at Walcot Gap, near
North Walsham ; her crew were saved ; she was laden with
coals and 400 firkins of butter, which have been saved without
damage. Her owner is Captain J. Norman, and we believe
she is insured. We since learn that she has been got off._
Ipswich Journal.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1837.

In the House of Lords almost the entire sitting yes-
terday was consumed by an incidental discussion on the
merits of the new Poor-law. A petition having been pre-
sented from the West Ridine. of York against that Act by
the Earl of STANHOPE, the Noble Lord took occasion to
censure strongly its provisions, and loudly to denounce its
advocates. It will be seen, however, that the violent lan-
guage of Earl STANHOPE and the unmeasured censure
which he heaped upon this wholesome and all but universally
acknowledged beneficial Act of the Legislature, was not unat-
tended with advantage, since it elicited from other Noble
Lords evidence the most conclusive and satisfactory corro-
borative of the fact that the Poor-law Amendment Act
works well wherever it has been brought into operation.
In the House of Commons, the Bolton and Preston Rail-
way Bill was read a third time, and passed.
A Conference was agreed to with the Lords, and after-
wards was held on the subject of, the amendments made by
them on the Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill.

Mr. TENNENT announced that it was not his intention
to proceed with the Bill for dissolving the Agricultural
Bank, which stood for second reading that evening.
The QUEEN'S Answer to the Address was brought up.
Her MAJESTY therein declares that it will be the study of
her life to preserve the liberties, and to maintain the glory
of this great country.
The Forgery Bill—which is calculated, according to the
inquiries made by Lord .1. RUSSELL in the metropolis, to
afford an increased security against forgery—was ordered to
be read a third time on Friday next. A discussion, fol-
lowed by a division, took place on the Clause 2 of the Of-
fences against Person Bill. The clauses were all gone
through, and the Report was ordered to be received this day.

The Earl and Countess of MULGRAVE arrived at
the Clarendon Hotel on Monday evening from Dub-
lin Castle. His Lordship had yesterday the honour
of an audience with her MAJESTY at Kensington
Palace.

We were happy to see his Ecellency in the House
of Lords yesterday afternoon looking in the best health
and spirits. He was cordially welcomed by a great
number of Peers. He did not take his scat, not hav-
ing been in time to take the oaths which must be ad-
ministered before Four o'Clock.

We understand that the Tory candidate for the
Haddington district of boroughs has not-the slightest
chance against Mr. STEUART, the present Liberal
Member ; nor is it likely that the MAITL A NDS, who,
previous to the passing of the Reform Bill, possessed
the entire command of those burghs, would have given
way to an unknown candidate, like Sir J. HEP-
BURN, if there had been any prospect of the
success of a man of their own political opinions. It is
evident he is merely made a cat's-paw of to produce an
expensive contest, without a shadow or prospect of suc-
cess. Meetings have been held in all the boroughs, and
the electors have formed themselves into Committees, to
secure the return of Mr. STEUART ; this has been
unnecessary in North Berwick, where a unanimous
requisition has been signed and forwarded to Mr.
STEUART, caring upon him to stand again.

The Earl of STANHOPE, a noblemen who has been
unfortunately successful in a variety of attempts to
obtain distinction, signalised himself last night among
his compeers by a furious onslaught upon the New
Poor Law. The Noble Earl has, it seems, not been
attending his duties in Parliament for some years—an
important fact, of which, to our shame be it-spoken,
we were till now ignorant—and, as a matter of course,
commenced his—in a certain degree—maiden speech,
by explaining the cause of an absence so calami-
tous to the public interests. His Lordship con-
ceived that sufficient deference was not paid to
his opinions by the House, and therefore he retired
" in disgust" from public life I Such is the reason
assigned for Earl STANHOPE'S withdrawing his emi-
nent talents from the public stock. What has induced
him, then, perhaps the curious may inquire, to resume
his place in the hereditary assembly of legislators at
this moment when Parliament is almost in the pangs
of dissolution ? This very natural question the Noble
Lord has anticipated by declaring with due solemnity,
that " he should not have been induced to return to
that House, had he not been desired to do so by a large
body of his countrymen, whose rights and whose inte-
rests he:vvas anxious to defend." How, indeed, could the
Earl of STANHOPE know, or even surmise, that he
could defend the rights of his countrymen until they
told him so? Such knowledge comes not by intuition :
neither is it the result of study and reflection—it must
be imparted from without. Be that as it may, it is
not our business to discuss the validity of the reason,
thankful as-we are that such a man as Lord STAN-
HOPE has found a plea for resuming those public duties
which few know how to discharge as he does.
The task assigned to the Noble Lord last night was

to present a petition from the inhabitants of the West '
sliding of l'oikshirei and .to ahtiSe th,3 New Poor
Of both these citifies h actinitted
pc4ol-aled
a zeal and heartiness—its not with a cliscreiii36-=-7-iliiidi
qifies the selection pf the Noble Lord as the
mouth=piece of these who cannot themselves rail
iiih All tile tibjectidits Which have heel
a thousand times" made and a diddSaiid
all the misrepresentations which interested maleiidz
lence has circulated, and which no man who is not
alike ignorant of the provisions of the law and of its
actual working, could for a moment give heed to—all
these are raked together and 7;erved up to the House
of Lords, by Earl STANIIOIIEj as if they were things
that had never been heard of before—exactly as if the
Noble Lord and his new Poor-law grievances had
dropt from the clouds together, to astonish and take
captive the minds of men.

It must be particularly gratifying to the friends of
the poor, who are the part of the community most in-
terested in the maintenance of the new law, to find that
the sentiments expressed by the Noble Lord found no
echo in the House of Lords. Not a single voice was
raised in unison with his. Even Lord WYNFORD,
who has from the first been perhaps the most strenu-
ous opponent of the new system, expressed his grati-
fication at the success which, contrary to his expecta-
tion, had attended the measure, although there were
some things in it of which he could not even now ap-
prove. Now we would ask whether it was to be ex-
pected that a measure which professed to apply an
experimental remedy to the greatest and most
complicated evil that ever oppressed a country, was
to start out at once into full and absolute perfection ?
This may be expected by him who believes that MI-
NERVA sprung armed at all points from the head of
JUPITER, but by no more sane person. Yet this fault
of non-perfection, as we may call it, is the great and
only sin of the Poor Law Amendment Act. And
who are they that bring the charge ? Whence come
the complaints against the law, which are so diligently
dinned into the public ear by a small ael scampish
portion of the Press ? Do they come from those dis-
tricts where the new system has been tried ? No ;
it is from those who have only heard a rumour of
the Poor Law, but who have never seen or felt
its operation, that the clamour proceeds. In
every district where a fair trial has been given it,
the most beneficial consequences have resulted. And
when we say this we do not allude to the diminution
in the expense of maintaining the poor—for that is
the least important part of the benefit ; but to the im-
provement in their moral condition which has taken
place—an improvement so marked and decided, that
it would previously have been deemed altogether im-
possible in so short time. This is the testimony borne
to its merits by every man who has taken the trouble
to look with his own eyes into its working, and whose
party feelings do not rise up and choke the truth.
Hear what the Marquis of TAVISTOCK stated last
night in his place on this point. Before the introduction
of the new law into that part of the country in which
the Noble Marquis resides, and exercises the duties of
a magistrate, " poverty was on the increase, and
discontent and agitation keeping pace with it, and
it was absolutely necessary to have night watches
set for the security ".or property. That state
of things no longer existed ; they had had, he
thanked GOD, a very pleasant change—(Cheers)—
and so great was the alteration which the new system
of administering the Poor-law had produced among
all classes, that he could hardly believe himself to be
living among the same people.—( Renewed cheer-
ing.) There was no longer any want of employ-
ment—(Hear, hear)—it gave every one satisfaction,
and night watches . were universally abolished.—
(Cheers.) The labouring poor were well off and con-
tented, and were becoming well disposed towards their
employers, and respectful in their demeanour towards
all their superiors ; at least they did not regard them
as formerly, in the light of enemies and oppressors.
He was in the habit of addressing their Lord-
ships on party questions, but he felt that he
was bound to express his opinions upon this
measure, and in declaring what his opinions were
he was persuaded that he spoke the sentiments
of all classes among his neighbours who had seen
the working of the two systems, and had experienced
the blessings of the change which had been made.
For that change they felt that they were greatly in-
debted to the authors of the measure, and especially
to his Noble and Learned Friend near him (Lord
BROUGHAM) : nor did they forget their obligations
to the Noble and Gallant Duke opposite—(Cheers)—
who, in the truly useful and patriotic manner which
had done him so much honour, had given his testi-
mony in favour of this invaluable and much calum-
niated measure.—(Hear, hear.)"

Advices from Madrid to the 20th inst., received to-
day, announce a rise of 3 per cent. in the funds, in
consequence of Baron DE M EEit's victory at Guisona.
The inhabitants decreed themselves a holydav for the
celebration of the Baron's success.

Dutch and German papers of the latest dates have
been received, from which extracts will be found in
another part of The Sun.

The Paris .Journals of Monday have all been re-
ceived. Their contents are very unimportant. The
Moniteur publishes the following telegraphic commu-
nication from the Spanish frontier, together with the
despatches with appeared in yesterday's Sun :

" NARII&NNE, JUNE 24, FOUR O'CLOCK, A.M.
" PERPIGNAN, Jurra.23 (in the Evening).
" Borges is at Orama, and Ros d'Eroles at Oliana, raising
rations.

" Seven hundred infantry and seventy cavalry, with two
pieces of artillery, commanded by the Christino Brigadier
Osorio, evacuated,Berga in the night, and arrived at Puy-
cerda in the evening of the 22d."

The Sentinelle des Pyrenees states that ZARIATE-
Gm's expedition has re-crossed the Ebro, and is now in
the neighbourhood of Estella. The reception the Carlist
free-bopters met with on the right hand of the river, was
by no means such as they had expected ; and as they
were not in a condition to penetrate into Old Castile,
they returned as quickly as they went to their old
haunts in Navarre. The same journal states that on
the Nth -CABRERA raised the siege of Caspe, having
previously pillaged aid set fire to that part of the- town
of which the insurgents had made themselves masters.
Before the flames had done• much mischief, General
ORAA arrived at the head of his division, and—
by prompt attention—succeeded in extinguishing
them. After the defeat of the Carlists at. Guisona
some of them were driven to take refuge on the French
frontier, when they yielded up their arms, and,were
conveyed into the interior. As a further proof of the
little enthusiasm that is now felt among the Spanish
peasantry respecting the success of Don CARLOS, the
Sentinelle states that sixteen Carlist officers who had
gone into Asturias and Galicia, on a recruiting expedi-
tiofi, returned a few days since to Estella, without
having been able to prevail upon a single individual
to join them I
The French journals are still engaged discussing the
never-ending subject of plots and conspiracies for the
overthrow of the Orleans dynasty. It were wiser
policy on the part of the friends of the Government
to put a stop to the discussion of such surmises by
amending the law for the repression of treasonable
offences.

The Duke de BROGLIE, General ATIIALIN, and
Count FLAIIAUT, were severally spoken of as candi-
dates for the honour of bearing to her Majesty the

`Queen of ENGLAND the congratulations of the King
of the FRENCH on her accession to the Throne of
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LITERATURE.

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

No. LIII.
Hooper, London, 1837.

We are €'lad to see that a more tolerant and en-
lightened spirit of criticism and enquiry is finding its
way into the pages of this Journal, which though
always vigorous and acute, and occasionally eloquent,
was far too much characterized by quaint, crochetty
fancies ; pedantic arrogance, attempting to disguise
itself under the mask of independence ; and a constant
enforcement of the tritest matters of fact, just as
though they were discoveries in ethics, politics, and
jurisprudence, the promulgation of which was abso-
lutely essential to the welfare of society. Hitherto, the
London and Westminster Review has been too much
the organ of a coterie. It now takes—judging at least
from the specimen before us —a wider range, comment-
ing on matters of general, rather than of individual
interest. It can now afford to discover that the works
of Gray are worthy of something more than a brief,
sneering allusion ; that he was a poet, even though he
never happened to hear of Utilitarianism ; and a sound
scholar, albeit he was chiefly devoted to the study of
the tongues of Greece and Rome. In like manner it
can find many redeeming excellencies in the Pickwick
Papers, even though they " prove nothing ;" and
much blended humour, fancy and pathos in the Essays
of Charles Lamb, notwithstanding that no modern
author ever held the doctrines of Political Economy in
greater contempt. This is an auspicious sign, and
proves that the conductors of the London and West-
minster Review have at length discovered that no
Journal devoted to the service of a mere coterie, ever
yet attained a permanent rank in literature.
The first article in the present Number—that on
Gray—is written in a calm, thoughtful, eloquent spirit,
and would do no discredit to the pen of Mr. Bulwer,
of whose manner, in the " Student," it frequently re-
minds us. The cursory remarks on Burns which in-
troduce the criticism, show infinite discrimination,
especially where the Reviewer observes that he " is
one of the most correct poets that the world ever
knew"—" a poet for critics, whose songs, which
seem to gush so spontaneously from the fervid
heart of the writer, would furnish the severest lec-
turer with his happiest illustrations of classical
concinnity and completeness." This is acutely ob-
served, though it will give a serious shock to common-
place, whose favourite notion of the " classical " is
that it is a something cold, and elaborate, arid formal,
that holds nature and feeling at arm's length. Burns
is a classic writer, for precisely the same reason that
Gray, particularly in his Odes, is the reverse ; because
he paints from the life, and draws his golden thoughts
from the overflowing treasury of his own heart ;
whereas the other trusts less to his own impulses, than
to his recollections of preceding writers ; consequently,
despite his scrupulous attention to finish, he is ever
falling into inaccuracies. In his scenic descriptions,
Gray always smells of the lamp ; there is neither
truth nor freshness in his images ; but he had a
melancholy and contemplative temperament, and
when he gives fair play to its suggestions—as
in his " Elegy " and " Ode on Eton College "
there is no poet of the eighteenth century, not even
Collins, that can be put into competition with him.
But he should not have aspired to the Pindaric laurel.
He had none of the " fine phrenzy," the rush and stir
of thought and feeling, that characterize the odes of the
Greek poet ; he was stilted, not sublime, and lashed
himself into fury with a deliberate doggedness of pur-
pose that at times is quite ridiculous. One single image
in Pindar—that, we mean, where speaking in praise
of a certain monarch (Hiero we think it is, but have
not the volume by us to refer to), he describes him as
x,F4-ac
AFrzy aro IraT2%•-•-•
is worth all Gray's Pindarics put together.

We

agree with the Reviewer in his estimate of Gray's prose.
It is indeed delightfully natural, graceful in its hu•
mour, and full of the truest and gentlest touches a

feeling.

The " French Revolution," which is a notice of
Mr. Carlyle's late fantastic rhapsody on this subject,
is an ingenious attempt to explain the unintelligible—
in short, to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
We have no notion of history being written in a spirit
of imagination and sensibility. It is its province to
sift facts ; to come coolly to conclusions drawn from
rational premises ; to enquire—compare—combine ;
and to discuss human character as it pre-
sents itself to the lynx eye of investigation ; not as it
affects the mere fancy. Had Dr. Lingard been like
Carlyle, a dreamy enthusiast, and penned his great
work in the spirit here recommended by the Reviewer,
what a History of England he would have given us !
At least ten more volumes on the same subject would
have been requisite to correct the defects induced by
his heated imagination. To write history, is to under-
take a task of great trust and responsibility, that is to
benefit, or be detrimental to, the intellectual interests
of millions yet unborn ; wherefore we would no more
think of consigning it into the hands of a poet ; than
e would consign to him a fifty pound note in the ex-
pectation of ever having it repaid.
" Concerts and Operas," contains many sound and
pertinent observations, but is not sufficiently definite in
its object. We cannot gather from it whether the Re-
viewer is favourable or otherwise to our modern mu-
sical institutions, with the single exception of the "An-
cient Concerts," which he condemns without mercy.
Alluding cursorily to Bishop, he talks of his " clever
musical pieces," just as if he had never composed any-
thing that required more than ordinary ability ! Now
this is over harsh, for the air " As it fell upon a day,"
in the brilliant variety and grace of its melody, is
fully equal to the best of Rossini's. We grant
that. Bishop is occasionally careless and careless
too in critical places—but surely he is something
better than a mere " clever" composer I Again, the
Reviewer sneers at Arne's " over-praised Artaxerxes ;"
forgetting apparently that in that opera is the delicious
little air " In infancy our hopes and fears," which
breathes throughout the very soul of pathos. The in-
troductory passages of this article are by far the most
discriminating portions of it. " The Peerage and
Baronetage" is the work of a writer of consummate
good sense. It is Radical in its tone, but not wan-
tonly or offensively so. We subjoin the closing
paragraph, which is in a good-humoured vein of
ridicule :

" Drugs and decanters are labelled to let us know the qua-
lities of the liquors within ; men with the qualities of these
four hundred baronets should, as they solicit, have badg es on
the outsides of them, for similar reasons, before they are allowed

t-' circulate in society, and they must brn !ae thenisch es if their--;
ttacts are interpreted—Green Gooseberry, or Mock Cham-
rane."
The " Arts of Antiquity" should have c)ntainedk
more original observation and less extract. In one re''t
mark of the writer we cordially coincide, A " fami-
liarity," says he, " with the purest models of taste is 'I
calculated to make a free and moral people. Vice and
demoralization cannot co-exist with moral and intellec-
tual refinement." The " Pickwick Papers" is a flat-
termb, but by no means undeserved, tribute to the
meritto of one 9f the most sterling humourists of the
day. The notice of " Charles Lamb's Letters" is
I carefully written, both as regards style and thought'
and the remarks on the "New Reign" more tempeta!€
than has usually been the case with the political
diatribes of the London and Westminster Review.

EXCHEQUER COURT-CIHIS DAY•)

CLARK V. GARNIER.
This was an action brought to recover the value and
mate-
rials used in the sinking of a well in Hampshire, where thr
defendant carries on the business of a brewer. He wa'
anxious to obtain a good supply of soft water, for which
purpose he employed the plaintiff, who sunk the well
seventy-three feet, and then bored to the depth of 490 feet,
when he came to the main spring and obtained a plen-
tiful supply. After the plaintiffs counsel had beer
engaged for four hours and a half in proving the work don(
and its sufficiency, the defendant's Counsel put him to tin
proof of every item of the bill of twelve pages of foolscap.
The Learned JUDGE suggested, that if that courso wen
taken he would find it necessary to discharge every other Jury
and devote the whole week to this cause. Juries were never
intended to settle matters of account in such a manner. Wh)
not refer the whole account to a Gentleman of the Bar.
After some consultation between the Counsel on each side
the suggestion.of the Judge was acceeded to, and all matter.
in dispute between the parties were referred.

WARRINGTON V. BOYCE.
This cause was called on, and Mr. PLATT was about to Opel
it to the Jury, but was interrupted by
Lord ABINGER, who said it would be extremely desirable
that an end should be put to such a cause before the charge'
involved in it were made public. He spoke for both parties,
because he saw from the pleadings, that the inquiry, if gone
into, must be a most odious one.
Counsel on both sides agreed in the propriety of the Sig'
gestion ; and after consulting with their clients for half an hour
Mr. PLATT said his client the plaintiff was very desirous 0
having a public inquiry, and of course a public refutation 04
the gross charges which had been thrown upon his character ;
however, in deference to his Lordship, he had consented ti
take a verdict for 405., with costs.
Mr. THESSIGER, for the defendant, said he had all g
been most anxious to put a stop to the litigation between them''
parties. He was instructed by Mr. Boyce to withdraw all im-
putations upon the character of Mr. Warrington, and consent
to the verdict.
A verdict for plaintiff for 403. was then entered, and his
LORDSHIP certified that it was a proper case for a Special Jury.