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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS.

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The traffic receipts of railways ill the 'United Kingdom
amounted for the week ending the Ist of November, on
10,499 miles to £559,960, and for the corresponding week
of last year, on 10,186 miles, to £541,980, showing an in-
crease of 313 miles, and of £17,980 in the receipts. The
gross receipts on the following 14 railways amounted in the
aggregate, on 7,221 miles, to £446,604; and for the corre-
sponding week of 1861, on 7,006 miles, to £427,513, show-
ing an increase of 215 miles, and of £19,091 in the receipts.
The increase on the Caledonian amounted to £503 ; on the
Great Eastern to £611; on the Great Northern to £4,156 ,
on the Great Western to £5,023; on the London and North
Western to £6,245; on the London, Brighton, and South
Coast to £1,610 ; on the London and South-Western to
£2,096 ; on the Midland to £875 ; on the North British to
£32; on the North-Eastern to £246; and on the South-
Eastern to £1,911 ; total, £22,810. But from this must be
deducted £452, the decrease on the Great Southern and
Western ;12,126 on the Lancashire and Yorkshire ; £1,141
oh the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolnshire ; together,
£3,719, leaving the increase, its above, £19,091. The goods
and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to £234,667,
and for the corresponding week of 1861 to £236,445, show-
ing a decrease of £1,788, The receipts for passengers, par-
cels, &c., amounted to £211,947, against £191,068, showing
an increase of £20,879. The traffic receipts on 64 other
lines amounted, on 3,279 miles, to £113,356, and for the
corresponding week of last year, on 3,180 miles, to £114,467,
showing an increase of 99 miles, and a decrease of £l,lll
in the receipts. The increase in the passenger traffic of
the past week, as compared with the corresponding period
of 1861, arises chick, from the International Exhibition
and excursion traffic ; and the decrease in the goods traffic
frotn depression in trade. The total receipts of the past
week show a decrease of £6O as compared with those of the
preceding week, ending the 26th of October.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1862. 1861.

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne • • . . 22 22
Bristol and Exeter.... . l2l/ 107
Calettonlait
Chekerranittl:& Workington Bl 81
ODA and Bandon . 20 20
Cork, Blackrock, &Passage... ei
Cork and Y0Ugha1....... ... .. 321 27
Cornwall. , • 531 53}
Deeside .. 17 17
Dublin & 4elfai3tilunction.... 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 4Bl 481
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31
Edinburgh and Glasgow l69} 169}
Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30
Furness. &c 5O 5)
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330 330
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
Gt. Northtt. & Westn. (Irel.) 561 451
9t. Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329
Great Western 992 964}
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 731 731
Irish North-Western 145 130
Irish South-Eastern 2561 25}
Lancashire & Yorkshire 395 395}
Limerick and Ennis... 24 2
Limerick and Foynes 26 284
Llanelly 4 4
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall s} 51
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2414 2411
London, Chatham, & Dover 72} n
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend 42} 42}
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9} 9}
Maryport and Carlisle
Mid (incl. N.-Western) 630 6141
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind 1921 1921
Monkland 724 721
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal— 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car B94}
North London 9
North Staffordshire 248
()sweaty and Newton... 42
Rhymney l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 132
Shropshire Union 29}
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon 5l
South-Eastern 3706
Stockton and Darlington _ 183
Taff Vale 5l
Ulster 5l
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 2s}
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W.HartlepoolHarbr&RaiL _ 39
W'haven,Cleator&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35

1862. 1861.
A A

4-022 2,043

647 '652
1,459 1,675
6,191 6,171
16,040 15,537
235 238
375 391
198 211

287 216
1,230 1,170

262 -124
1,557 1,769
1,700 1,947
2,223 2,712
1,008 1,072
7,638 8,204

259 '267
2,777 2,991
7,654 8,320
31,204 30,593
31,888 29,730
1,578 1,775
453 310
8,094 8,546
59,402 54,469
1,285 884
1,946 1.921
219 349
32,800 34,926
210 179
154 176
433 478
90,9 f 5 84,720
1,812 1,408
21,610 19,513
20,520 18,910
3,917 1,803
1,263 1,229
14,922 16,063
1,068 1,116
1,125 1,120
41,246 40,871
4,384 4,055
1,384 1,505
2,379 2,492

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11,074 11,042
42,431 42,185
3,055 2,783
7,969 7,595
1,011 784
905 859
2,04 1,9 1
3,718 3,833
5,02 u 4,918
990 945

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306
161

343 -
3,331 3,176
22,318 20,107

4,375 5,146
1,837 1,965

169 '149
1,659 1,R52

381 387
1,728 1,,85

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3,287 4,796
386 423
712 687
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Betting-2 to lon Loiterer, 3to 1 agst Captain Crow, '
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Mr. J. Dawson's The Village Belle, Est 131 b
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Mr. Saxon's Wave Est 31b - (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. J. Osborne's Fanfreluche, bat 101 b...... (Whiteley) 3
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The Village Belle made all the running, and won easily
by two lengths, a length separated the second and third,
and a similar distance divided the third and fourth.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

This Board held their weekly meeting yesterday;
Mr. J. Thwaites presiding.

The cash statement submitted by the Finance Commit-
tee showed that the cash balance, in the hands of the trea-
surer on the Ist of November amounted to £123,356 75.;
the Government securities to £73,989 188. 3d.; the cheques
ordered, but not presented, to £22,640 168.

cost of about £9,900, of which £1,400 was done in the last
month. In connexion with the Effra sewer works at
Brixton, Mr. Webster has completed about 3,370 feet of
6-feet barrel sewer, at a cost of about £5,850. Messrs. Aird
and Son have made a commencement with the Bermondsey
branch sewer at Jamaica level, and they have -completed
their preliminary preparations for carrying on the works at
China-hall-gate and Griffin-street, Deptford. the South-
wark-street subway and sewer are nearly completed between
High-street and Great Guildford-street, being a length of
about 1,500 feet. The cost up to the present time is about
£22,50)."
After the transaction of the routine business the Board
adjourned.

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.
The following report was read from the engineer of the
Board :

" Thames Embankment (South Side), from London-bridge
to near Vauxhall-bridge.,
"Engineer's Department, Spring-gardens,
Nov. 6, 1862.

" Gentlemen,—ln my preliminary report upon the
Thames Embankment of the 15th ult., I suggested for your
consideration the principle upon which an embankment
might be advantageously constructed on the south side of
the river between London and Westminster bridges, and
the oxtlay thereof defrayed at a moderate cost to the public
I now submit, pursuant to your instructions, a plan show-
ing the line of such embankment as I recommend. It
would form a continuation of the line of the new embank-
ment in front of Mr. Alderman Humphrey's wharf at Lon-
don-bridge, commencing on the west side of St. Mary
Overy's Dock, and continued in a curved line to the south
abutment of Southwark•bridge, and thence to the south
abutment of Blackfriars- bridge. Up to this point the em-
bankment would not encroach upon the river further than
is required to convert the present irregular line of frontagg
into a regular line, and to reface the present wharves.
" It is moreover proposed to cut off a small portion of the
wharf wall which now projects into the river beyond the
abutment of Southwark-bridge, and therefore the narrowest
gorge of the stream, and so far to widen the river at this
pinching point. From Blackfriars-bridge the line of the pro-
posed embankment gradually extends into the river as the
river widens, until it reaches the first pier of Waterloo-
bridge and the new Charing-cross Railway bridge, from
whence it passes, in a line nearly parallel with the present
foreshore of the river, to the south embankment of West-
minster-bridge.
_ _

"The present docks would all be thus maintained and
lengthened, and about 13 acres of land would be added to
the wharves. The river is at the same time so wide opposite
the localities where the embankment extends into it that
there is, if desirabie, abundance of room for the storage of
timber upon the fore-shore, as at present, and the value of
the land reclaimed ought to refund a considerable portion
of the cost of reclaiming it. In my preliminary report I
estimated the cost of this work at £250,000, but as it
will be prudent to provide for deeper foundations than I at
that time anticipated, and allowing for contingencies, I
now estimate it at £350,000.
"The embankment recommended by the Royal Com-
missioners between Westminster and Chelsea bridges is
estimated to-oost'X1;100,000, inclusive of compensatiOns.
Probably the most useful part of this scheme consists in the
formation of a roadway from Westminster-bridge and the
Palace New-road to a point near Vauxhall station, whence
six or seven important lines of thoroughfare diverge in
different directions.

"To accomplish this object, I propose to construct a
roadway similar to that recommended by the Royal
Commissioners up to Lambeth-bridge, but not extend-
ing quite so far into the river, and to form a junction
with that bridge at its southern abutment. This line
would form a better approach to the bridge, and would not
interfere with its construction, as the line recommended by
the Royal Commissieners must necessarily do. 1 propose to
terminate the embankment a little above the bridge, and to
cut off the projecting point of land, dnd thus widen the
river at its narrowest gorge opposite Millbank Penitentiary,
Thence I propose to continue the roadway in nearly a straight
line to the point near to Vauxhall station, at which the
roads above referred to converge. The embankment and
roadway above this point are of less importance, and might
for the present, with less public inconvenience, be post-
poned. Those premises above Vauxhall-bridge which arc
now subjected to flooding at high tides can be secured
against this by raising their wharf walls three or four feet
higher, at a very small cost to the owners thereof. The
estimated cost of the works above Westminster-bridge
herein recommended is £250 000 which, added to the cost
of the embankment from London-bridge to Westminster-
bridge (viz., £350,000), makes a total of £600,000 for works,
and leaves a margin of £600,000 upon the estimate of the
Royal Commissioners (viz., £1,100,000) to cover compensa-
tions-1n amount which, without having gone into the
matter in detail, I believe will be found to be ample for the
purpose.

" I have appended to this report a table showing what
the width of the river will be at various points between
London and Vauxhall bridges after the embankments have
been completed.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your
most obedient servant,

" Mr. B AZALGETTE,
"To the Metropolitan Board of Works." Engineer.
It was ordered that this report should be printed, and the
engineer was directed to prepare plans showing the present
state of the banks of the river and what they would be if his
plan were carried out.
The board then proceeded to consider the question of ap-
plying to Parliament for powers to make a new street from
Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion-house, and after some
discussion the following resolution was adopted, on the mo-
tion of Deputy HARRISON :
" That the solicitor be directed to servo the necessary no-

tices for a bill empowering the board to make a new street
from Blackfriars -bridge to the Mansion-house, and also for
continuing the emliankment of the Thames from Blackfriars-
bridge to Southwark-bridge, and for the formation of a
street from that point to the Mansion-house."
THE MAIN DRAINAGE.

The following report of the engineer on the progress I
of the main drainage works was read and ordered to
be printed :—" The progress of the main drainage during
the past month has been satisfactory. Messrs. Brassey and
Co. have now completed in connection with the middle-
level sewer about 7 miles 1,072 ft. of sewers, varying in size
from 4ft. Gin. by 3ft. to 12ft. by 9ft. Gin., at an estimated
cost of £lBO,OOO, £l5 000 of which was done in the last
month. Under Mr. Furness's contract for the northern
outfall sewer the ironwork over the Tilbury and North
Woolwich Railways, and the waterworks river has been
completed, and the other bridges are in rapid course of con-
struction. The brickwork of the sewers on the embankment
and substructure is being pushed forward, about 8,000 feet
having been constructed during the past month, mad the
earth embankment over the same is being made up. The
formation of the new line of the Stratford road is approach-
ing completion. The special work of construction into the
river Thames is fast progressing, about 11,000 cube yards of
excavation having been got out, and a cofferdam is being
constructed along the foreshore of the river. The total
value of the work done under the contract is about £155,000,
being about £27,000 more than at the date of my last report.
At the southern outfall works, Crossness, Mr. Webster is
proceeding rapidly with the excavations and concrete foun-
dations. His pumping-engines are fixed and other preli-
minary works executed. The total value of work done
under the contract up to the present time is about £23,000.
Messrs. Aird and son, under their contract for the Deptfurd
pumping station, have now completed the river wall and
barge bed, and have executed various other works of detail,
at a total cost of about £91,000, of which £l,OOO is due to
the past month. Messrs. Slaughter and Co. are getting in
the sewage pumps and other works. On the southern
high level sewer Messrs. Lee and Bowles have executed
during the past month works to the value of about £4,000.
The total length of sewers constructed under the contract
is about 91 miles, and the estimated cost is £lBB,OOO.
About 700 feet of sewer still remain to be executed tc
complete the contract. Mr. Pearson has completed
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THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine.

The writer of " CaxtonianaTh treats this month,
with his usual ability, first, of "-The Organ of
Weight," meaning thereby the faculty possessed hy-
men in different degrees " of weighing the relative,
consequences of things • immediately placed before
them-;" and secondly, of " The Sympathetic Tem-
perament," by which he understands " a readiness
of sympathy which comes from the impressionability
of the physical system—a vibration of the nerves
reacting on no chord of duty, and awakening no
response in a generous impulse of the heart. And
as examples of this he cites the ruthless . tyrant,
Alexander Pheiceus, who *-ept at stage trn;zedy ;
and Nero, who exclaimed whe►► called upon to sign
a death-warrant,." Would to Heaven that I had not
learned to write 1" This part of " Salem Chapel" is
chiefly taken up with the squabble of Vincent with
his congregation. Clough's Poems are reviewed.
The fictions of M. Tbiers respecting Waterloo are
exposed. The writer of " The Crisis of the Ameri-
can War" recommends an intervention of the Great
Powers. David Wingate contributes a poem, and
the paper called "The Scot in France", will be
specially interesting to those north of the Tweed..

The trial of this vessel, which took place yester- I
day on the Thames, was attended with an unusual
degree of interest, in a public and official sense,
from the fact that the peculiar form of the vessel's
construction and the disposition of her propelling
steam power, if successful on trial, combined the
requisites re quired for our smaller ships of war, such
as corvettessmallr craft eof th
as g
the
onyeFieis of six
Chanticleers andßgiunnasldsondcllaessss:
and
inasmuch as she was the representative of a class of
ship capable of carrying a heavy armament of guns,
with a large engine power, at a light draught of
water, possessing at the same time a power of
manoeuvring in a small space such as could not,
under any circumstances, be possessed by a vessel
with the ordinary single screw. So important, in
fact, was the result of the Flora's trial considered
by the Admiralty that their inspector of machinery
afloat, Mr, John Dinnen, was present officially to
report the result for the information of the Board.
The Flora is an iron vessel of 400 tons, 160 feet in
length, 221 feet in breadth, and 151 feet in
depth, having two independent engines and
screws with a collective nominal horse-power
engine of 120 horses, the screws working under
each quarter, and consequently before the rudder, in
lieu of the present system of one screw astern and
abaft the radder. The diameter of the cylinders is
26 inches, with a stroke of 21 inches. Each screw
has a diameter of 7 feet, with a pitch of 141 feet.
The boilers comprise two tubular, working at 301 b.
prheisssuhri
high-pressure
pnrdesosnuereboiler
high pressure,
isinteudwedortkotbneg
used
producing 'this
producing a steam blast in the chimney, and to dry
the steam (by admixture) from the two common
boilers. The vessel is schooner-rigged, and with-
out yards or any extra weight aloft, and, for her
size, has a very handsome appearance on the water,
giving promise of being a real steam clipper—a
promise which her performances under steam dur-
ing the day fully confirmed, for, if her tonnage and
horse-power are fairly considered, there can be no
doubt the Flora is the fastest screw steamship
afloat. Her builders are Messrs. Dudgeon, of Mill-
wall (both of hull and engines), and the success of
the ship yesterday is a fitting tribute to an enter-
prising mercantile firm. The ship left Gravesend
at noon, with a large party on board ; including
Mr. J. Dinnen, Admiralty surveying engineer ;
Mr. Robinson, surveyor to the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company; Mr. Bayley,
of Lloyd's; Captain Gyerling, of the Swedish Royal
Navy; Captains Selwyn and Symonds, R.N., and a
large number of other officers and gentlemen inte-
rested in screw propulsion.
There is nothing new in the idea of the use of
two screws in the propulsion of ships, as our old
floating iron-cased batteries are each fitted in the
same way, but are worked by one motion from the
engines. A small vessel in the Clyde works two
screws also, with two rudders, the idea, as acknow-
ledged by the adaptor, having been taken from the
model exhibited in the Exhibition of 1851 by Mr.
A. Sturdee, the present master shipwright's as-
sistant at Portsmouth dockyard. The Flora, how-.
ever, is the first vessel that has been fitted with two
screws and engines working separately and inde-
pendently of each other; and herein lies the value
of the principle in a military point of view, as
giving a ship a means of rapidly revolving under
steam and changing her position to any required

point.
The weather was fine, considering the season of

Fraser's Magazine.
Few great men have afforded ampler scope for
controversy than Lord Bacon, and the writer of the
article called " Letters and Life of Bacon" passes in
review the works that have recently appeared re-
specting him, and endeavours to sift the true from
thefalse. In " Physicians and Surgeons of a Bygone
Generation," we hare a readable paper on some de-
funct medical notabilitiee, and the following advice of
Abernethy to the writer is worth noting :—" Take
as little medicine as possible; and if you have re-
course to any, let it be of the simplest. The more
medicine you take, the more you will re-
quire ; trust, if you have no organic dis-
ease, to the vie 2nedicatrix nature." Then
follows a biographical sketch of the French savant,
Ernest Itenan. Frances Power Cobb asks." What
shall we do with our old maids ? " and endeavours
also to reply. There is a pair devoted to " The
International Exhibition," and one on the American
question. The tales of " A First Friendship," and
" Adrian " are continued, and several poetical pieces
appear.

Colburn's United Service Magazine.
An important article, styled "The Battle of
Waterloo, by M. Thiers. Observations by an Eye-
witness," is the first that strikes the attention in
this number. " Many accounts," says the writer,
" from the pens of civilians of high talent, and great
command of language, are beautiful romances, but
are not true descriptions. M. Thiers' history of
the Battle of Waterloo comes under this category."
The paper which follows is the concluding critique
of Mr. Cobden's pamphlet on " The Three Panics,"
and the impression it leaves is that the member for
Rochdale would do well in future to confine him-
self to topics within his grasp. The continuation
of the " Reminiscences of Southern Africa " is use-
ful, as conveying an idea of the prospects of that
colony, and the following statement deserves atten-
tion :—" Before we went to the Cape we had been
informed officially that any quantity of land might
be had in the colony at 2s. an acre, and as the field
officers were to have land to the value of £3OO, the
captains £2OO, and the subalterns £l5O worth of
land each, this was supposed to be 3,000 acres for a
field officer, 2,000 for a captain, and 1,500 for a sub-
altern. Even to this day, it is published in the
Cape of Good Hope Almanack, by authority, that
the upset price of land in the colony is 2s. per
acre,' notwithstanding which the Government sur-
veyor told me himself, that not an acre would be
given by the Government under LI." "Lobscouse"
is, as usual, interesting ; the writer, on this occa-
sion, being enthusiastic in praise of Tahiti and its
inhabitants. " Pen Sketches in Ceylon" will also
repay perusal.

the year ; the atmosphere sufficiently clear to carry
out the proposed experiments, with the wind at
N.E , on leaving Gravesend somewhat light, but as
the mouth of the river was reached freshing until
it reached a force of between 4 5. The run from
the Nole to the Mouse Light was made in 31
minutes 40 seconds, the tide being high water,
slack on passing the Nore. This gave the ship a
speed of 14.16 knots, an exceedingly favourable re-
sult: The ship's head was then brought round, an d
her course laid for the Nore, on reaching which
preparations were made for making the important
tests of the day—the capabilities of the skip in
answering her helm and engines in making circles.
The first experiment was made with both engines,
going ahead at full speed, and the helm hard over,
when the first circle was made in 3 min. 14 sec.,
the second in 3 min. 13 sec., and the third in 3min.
16 sec., the diameter of the circles being about
three lengths of the ship, and lessening each time.
In the second experiment one engine and screw
worked ahead, with the other going astern, and
one circle was made in 3 min. 39 sec., and another
in 3 min. 49 sec. In making these circles the ac-
tion of the ship's hull was extraordinary, the central
part being stationary, and both ends moving round
equally ; the circle was made on a pivot from the
ship's midship section.
The vessel was then put in a straight course,
stopped, and from a state of rest the engines were
started, one ahead and the other astern, the circle
being completed in 3 min. 55 sec., and the diame-
ter of the circle being, as before, within the ship's
length. The vacuum throughout the trials was
steady at 25 inches.

Colburn's New Monthly Magazine.
Servia is the theme of tne first paper in this
number, a sketch being given of its history and
an emphatic condemnation of the Turkish rule re-
corded. That rough and ready soldier and accom-
plished writer of the time of Henry the Fourth,
Agrippa D'Aubign&, is the subject now chosen by
" Sir Nathaniel." We find, too, an account of the
discovery of the Island of Madeira, which to many,
we suspect, will be novel. In the reign of Edward
111., the fair daughter of a Bristol citizen was run
off with by an adventurer named Machin, who
commanded a privateer ; a terrible storm arose, znd
the vessel was driven near an uninhabited island,
on which Machin, his bride, and a few sailors landed;
but in the night the ship, with the remainder of
the crew, was driven off by the renewal of the
storm, and stranded on the coast of Morocco. On
this island the lady, having given birth to a son„
died, and AL:whin soon followed her. The sailors
then put off on a raft with the child, and were
picked up by a Spanish ship, which was soon after
taken by the Moors, and the crew made captive.
The island was then colonized by the Moors, and
ultimately fell into the hands of the Fortuguese.
" The Shadow of Ashlydyat," " Granville de Vigne,"
and " Claudine," are still in progress.

Bentley's Miscellany.

This number commences with the second part of
The Adventures of Alderman Jones, in Switzer-.
land," and ends with the concluding chapters of
4, The Lord Mayor of London." A new tale by
Air. Ainsworth is announced for next month
under the title of " Cardinal Pole; or, the Days of
Philip and Mary." Monkshood, in " Table Talk,"
discusses the deportment of ladies when at meals.
In " Switzerland at Three Shillings a Day," the
tourist, who studies economy, may find some use-
ful hints. " Modern Marriages, ala Mode," is in
its third part, and "A Supper at Alexander
Dumas's, at Brussels," is readable.

Dublin University Magazine.
In "The Meditrval Pulpit : its Gravities and
Gaieties," we find some curious specimens of the
style of exhortation adopted by spiritual teachers
in what some still fondly consider as " The good
old times." Thus" would our readers know why
the penitent thief passed straight through to Para-
dise without goingthrough Purgatory ? A medixval
preacher shall tell. This thief hindered his
brother brigand from plundering the fugitives
when on their road to Egypt, and on that occa-
sion he said to our Lord, Remember the good
turn I have done you to-day !' which led to our
Lord's assurance on the cross, To-day shalt thou
be with me in paradise." This instalment of
Sterne's biography troats of his " schoolboy and
collegian" days. The account of " Two Irish
Actors, Barry and Mossop" is interesting. " Milci-
rington, the Barrister" is now finished, and " The
House in the Churchs ard'' is in its hundred and
sixth chapter.

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