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LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1853.

AW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
Fleet-street, London, December 30, 1852.
Notce is hereby given, that a GENERAL MEETING. of the
PROPRIETORS of the LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY will
be held at the Society's Office, Fleet•street, Loiricn, on Wednesday,
the 2d day of February next, at Twelve o'clock • at noon precisely,.
pursuant to the provisions of the Society's deed of settlement, for
the purpose of receivin the ,uffitors' annual report of the accounts
of the Society up to 31st December, 1852 ; to elect two Directors in
the room of John Forster, Esq., and the Hen: the }ice-Chancellor
Sir James Parker, both deceased ; and for general purposes.
The Director to be chosen in the 2001T1 of John Forster, Esq.,
deceased, will remain in office until the 24th of June, 1853, and the
Director to be chosen in the room of the lion. the. Vice-Chancellor
Sir James Parker, deceased, will remain in office with the 24th June,
1854.

LITERATEiBE.

HARRISON AINSWOITH'S NEW-STORY.
The rata of Bacon; or, the Custom: Ditnthow. A
Tale of English Home. By W. Harrisoti Aingworth.
Chapman and Hall:
Harrison Ainsworth redirivus I Yes ; and. restored
to

admirers under the happiest auspices—by the com-
mencement, with the new year, of a good old English
tale founded upon a good old Englislicustoin—a custom
none the lesA entitled to . our credence because simply
traditional inns character. weii;onic the romancist

By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWSES, Actuary

a cordiality enhanced by his prolonged silence—a
silence only broken recently for au interval by his tan-
talising chapters about "Mervyn Clitheroe." The close of
that autobiography we count upon obtaining ultimately;
but meanwhile we are now enabled to solace ourselves
for its interruption by the new seilial which, in his capa-
city as editor, Mr. Ainsworth has. just adventured upon
in the pages of the New Monthly Maycine. It has
been the good fortune of our author to hit upon—or.
rather we should say it has been wonderfully to the
credit of his judgment that he has selected—some of the
most admirable subjects for fiction ever chosen by a con-
tributor to our national literature. The very titles of
some of his most popular works axe-sufficiently indica-
tive of this themselves. What, fora- instance, could be
happier as a selection than that f#nous one of The
Tower of London?. Aided by the magic pencil of
Cruikshank, Harrison •Ainsworth is that well-.known
narrative—perhaps in some • respect 4 the most daring
he has ever attempted—revealed ' every nook and
crevice of the quaint old Tower's of , Julius, displaying
them to us in their threefold character as Fortress, as
Prison, as
.Valace,:.repcoklirg,fla9,...Lh- theorms of a
i;:a,niShed generation, and investing ungeon, and stair-
case, and turret, aitd corridore, nay, even pillar, and
porch, and lattice with an atmosphere of romance, while

UNITED KING-DONT LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
• Established by Act of parliament in 1834.
No. 8, Waterloo Place, Pall. Mall, London.
The distinctive leatures of the Company embrace, among%
others:
Tables of Premiums formed on the lowest scale compatible with
security, and constructed to meet the various wants of assurers,
and every risk to which protection by assurance can be extended.
One-half the Life Premium for the first Five years may remain on
credit.

Loans granted on approved Personal Security.
Assured not restricted in their limits of travel, as in most other
Companies, but may proceed from one part of Europe to another in
decked vessels, without License, and to British North America, and
many parts of the United States, without extra premium, by merely
giving the ordinary notice to the Office in London of the intended
visit.
Whole-world Policies granted at slightly increased rates of
Premium, thus rendering a Policy in money transactions a real
security.
Prospectuses, and every information, may be obtained upon appli-
cation to the Resident Director,

NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE.
THE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY, •

18, New Zrldge-street, Blackfrian, London.
CAPITAL—ONE lIIINDEED TiIOIISAND FOUNDS.

DIRECTORS.
•
R. Tallowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury.
G. Noel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club.
George Ccode, Eeq., Fortland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St.

he called forth from the dull stones and mortar some of
the most remarkable and interesting of their great his-
torical associations. What again could be more felicitous
than the notion of repeopling from the Past, in like
manner, the gorgeous fane and verdant haunts of Windsor
Castle ?—an idea further developed afterwards in regard
to the town dwelling of our monarchs—St. James's.
Victor Hugo had celebrated in this way the Cathedral
of Paris in his masterly fiction of " Notre Dame "
aud Harrison Ainsworth did the same by the
Cathedral of London, in his Old St. Paul's—en-
hancing the interest of the story, by recounting in it the
horrors of that Plague and Fire which successively
devastated this metropolis in the seventeenth century.
Happier still was our author's choice of a subject in
Guy Fawkes and happiest of all to our mind, that
of Crichton the Admirable ! In this manner, upon
various occasions before now, he has continued to create
a soul under the ribs of death, by reviving some dim old
legend, or doubtfully remembered story, in the pictu-
resque guise of a living arid attractive romance. Alfred
Tennyson has done the same once or twice in verse—as
in the instance of " The Sleeping Beauty ;" or, better
still, in that of the " Lady Godiva." It is with the
like skilfulness of selection that Mr- Ainsworth has
taken now as the theme of his new domestic tale of

naives, Jersey.
Stephen Cracknall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting•hill, and 11,
yew-square, bin
George Knox, Esq., 15,. Connaught-square„./lyde-park, and Tor

Lodge, StaffordAbire.
Alexander Maclean, Esq;, Harrow=on•the-llill.
David C. Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-,square.
William Prinsep, Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park-
place West.
R ,bert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.
Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour street West, Connaught-square.
Major Sperling, 14, St. James's-square.

.iIIDITOILS.

F. J. Bicg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical,
Legal, and General Life Office.
William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers.

BANKERS

Sir Charles Price, Marryat, an-irt7o.-,-3-,-King William-street, London.

PHYSICIANS.

•
Dr. Lewis, Finsbury-place.
Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square.

SURGEONS.
H. T. Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour street, Portman-square.
Michael Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens.

CONSULTING ACTUARY.
Francis G. P. Nelson, Eiq., F.L.S.

INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES.
F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL.
William Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-Inn.

life in England. " The Flitch of Bacon ; or, the Custom
of Dunmow." The origin of this old legendary form
he has himself described thus delightfully :

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe.
RESIDENT SECRETARY.
Charles W. Bevan, Esq.

THE OLD INN AT DIINMOW.

The public Is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the
Deposit System of Assurance, which is based upon tables calculated
by, and is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson,
Esq., F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company.
Comparative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged
twenty next birthday, on the OBDINAET and on the DEPOSIT system
ofAssurances.

" And now a few words more in reference to the old inn.
Many years ago, it had been the most important habita-
tion in the place: in fact, the hall. Neglected by its owner,
Sir Walter Fitzwalter, an eccentric personage about whom
strange tales were told, though none to the effect that he
had much chance of gaining the Flitch, for indeed he se-
parated from his lady who died in despair, it was said,
soon after that unfortunate event; then altogether aban-
doned by him • and in the end sold, and for an old song,
for like most deserted houses it was supposed to be haunted
and no one would inhabit it. Half of the mansion was
next pulled down, including the haunted wing, and the
residue being converted into an inn, passed through several
hands, and was at length taken by Jonas Nettlebed im-
mediately after his first marriage. But the precautionary
measures above detailed had not been entirely effectual in
getting rid of the ghost. It only appeared to have changed
its quarters. There was still one chamber left ; and the
best in the house, unluckily; in which whoever slept was
sure to be scared by some unaccountable noise or preter-
natural appearance. With this exceptilm the inn was
quiet and comfortable enough, and the general accommo-
dation excellent. Good ale, clean sheets, civil host and
buxom hostess : what more could any reasonable traveller
lesire? Let us walk up and look at the old house. • As-
_fedly, it is picturesque, and rich enough in elaborate
architectural detail to please you. What a fine facade it
presents !' high roof, quaint gables, twisted chimneys, and
bay-windows, still full of stained glass. And what a,large
and hospitable porch ! Note those noble elm-trees grow-
ing near it. To an arm of one of the largest of them is
Au.Apensled Jonas- ~Nettlebed 'A gaud But for
re
e, and the circular bench embracing I& .e, sting'
watering-trough for horses, and some other matters, you
.:1d never have taken the house for an inn. Now let us
enter. The promise without is not belied by what wo find
within. Here is a spacious and lofty room, capable of
accommodating any number of guest ; and here no doubt
the old Fitzwalters a hospitable race, save the last of the
line—must often have feasted their friends, and held their
Christmas revels. Is it much changed since their time?
We think not. Witness that high, carved mantelpiece,
amongst the ornament of which you may discern their
many-quartered shield : and you may also find their ar-
morial bearings in the blushing panes of the bay-windows.
The wainscots are of oak as in clays of yore ; and that
ponderous table of the same dark material, and that mas-
sive carved sideboard, can never have left their places.
They must have belonged to some Fitzwalter in the days
of :good Queen Bess, when the hall was built, and when
that fine oak staircase was reared, which you see leading to
the railed gallery above. Many a light foot has tripped
down those polished steps ; many a heavy boot clanked up
them. Rich silks have rustled in the gallery above ; fair
faces have looked down upon the gallants below, when
beards were wagging at the board, and the damsels' names
were on then- lover's lips as they raised the cup to them.
Many a swift couranto has been danced upon the floor :
many a song has echoed from the vaulted roof : many a
Yule log has crackled upon the hearth ; many a sport and
pastime has boon hold round it. All are gone now. No
wonder there is a ghost in the house. It must mourn over
past splendours—over the buried joys of other days."
The scene opens, of course, at once in the, locality
thus oddly invested with popular celebrity. And here
it is that our romancist gives us this capital descrip•
tion of •

ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM.

The sum the ordinary
do]
The sum the Life Offices would give
t>, ordinary Life him if he were unable for
et Offices would to pay, or if he omitted an(
At the llis give him for to pay his current ne)
end of policy the surrender annual premium of res
:64 Annual thirty at that or sale 8/. Cs. 3d. after he has hai
r, premium years when age, of his policy, paid into their coffers
at to assure the party in case after thirty 249/.75.6d., and which me
500/.* is fifty of years'payments they have had the use me
years did, death amounting to of at compound get
hewillhave will be 249/. 7s. Gd. interest,t or in its
- paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death be
the office. had the benefit one hour after such SW
of at compound omission or inability
interest. to pay. • na'
qu
little more da
20 dl. 6s. 3d. 249/.75.6d. 5001. than 801. NOTHING. bu
perhaps 901. de
ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. Su'
art
Ifunableto pay, or not Pr
desirous of paying or ba
omitting tOpay,thel'o all
-
licy would still remain in
of its- rtru. value, Au
5221.2a.7d.tilideath, if
tb
20 years after, no fur-
titer payment beingre- "'
qui red. If however the w'
party,trom any cause, en
wished to cancel the w.
Policy, he could not ac
onlydraw out all behas tL
put in, viz , 2251., but ill
20 7/. 103 0,1 225/. 522/.257d 2871. 2s. 9d. a certain bonus 01'621.
23. 9d. in the bargain, u!
which is more NV
than one-fourth of the at
whole ot his payments, Im
or he could either draw
out a part, 201. or 50/.,
diminishing the Policy Ti
only by the assured PC
value of the sum so
• drawn out at the a•ge Tl
when withdrawn. See of
pagess and7in detailed
paMphlet, by tb
F. G. I'. Neison, Esq. tb
do
_ * The rates hare selected are those adopted by the English and
c.,

Cambrian Office, and advertised in its distil
rates of premium, and professedly for the lowe
In most offices, particularly the older ones,

Inc ire features as low
er and .mldd' lug classes.
such as the Scottish

Equitable and tbe Globe, these rates would be much higher. In the
former of 101. Is. 6d., with 10 shillings per cent, entrance fee, would
be the rate to insure 500/. at 20 years of age. In the latter 8k 13s 4d.,

to insure the same sum. The higher the rate the more in favour of
the DEPOSIT system. . .

t Money laid out at compund interest DOUBLES ITSELF every four-
teen years.
On comparison of these two tables it will he seen that a person
under the novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow-
ing advantages, viz., Ist. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure
a larger sum in case of death than under the ordinary system.
2ndly. In the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive
in this Company, by the above example, which applies to all ages,
TURES times as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event
of inability or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property,
of the same value as it was, though he cease his current payments
for any number of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets
nothing. 4thly. Should he require to increase or decrease the
amount of his policy he can do so at pleasure. Ile can, at any time,
by giving a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from 1/ up to the
whole amount of his previous payments and with interest. After he
has withdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three
years, or any time afterwards. raise his policy to a greater or even'
is former amount ; and by this system he, can at all times regulate
his annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the
bargain of having a fund to fly to in .case of necessity, the same as
in, a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets inte-
rest for his money, and in case of death his fandlyreeeive more than
the amount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do no
such thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment
he ceases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any
fund to iy to for aid, all his hard-earned savings become forfeited to
the society, and his misfortunes serve to benefit: the pockets of his
more fortunate co-assurers.
Such a system is too equitable and. too striking to be overlooked
and DEPOSIT assurance is the only*stemof assurance which can be
universally recognized and adopted when the principles are impar-
tially canvassed, and its palpable.henetits become widely diffused. It
confers greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate
of interest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the
hands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in
case of death. thus combining the
ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF

THE FLITCH OF BACON.

"An old custom this delivery of the flitch; so old that
the date of its institution is lost. Thus much only is
known about it. The earliest claim on record was made
in the seventh year of the reign of Edwardmtho Fourth, and
the guerdon of rare conjugal love and truth was bestowed
upon Steven Samuel and his wife by the good Prior of the
Convent of Our Lady at Dunmow. Twice again in monkish
times was'the prize won—at long intervals, indeed, for the
second application occurred in the reign of Henry the
Sixth, and the third at the commencement of the Eighth
Harry's rule. But the good old custom was continued long
after the dissolution of the monasteries ; in fact, it could
not be dispensed with, being part of the manorial tenure.
Part of the venerable fabric, which had once sheltered the
old Augustine canons and their superior, was still stand-
ing, where those, who had lived and loved as few love and
live, had come, in days gone by, to make their claim, and
hold themselves up as a bright example to their fellows ;
the very stones beneath the porch were left—sharp-pointed
flints they were, and little worn—on which throe proud
and happy couples had knelt to verify their faith, and re-
ceive the priestly benediction and reward ; the ancient and
curiously-imbed. oak chair was still preserved in which
those worthy folk had sat together, and thus placed had
been borne upon men's shoulders, round the precincts of
the sacred edifice, to the sound rebec, psaltery, and lute,
and amidst joyous shouting from admiring crowds ; the
flitch of bacon being carried before them on a lofty pole.
All these forms and ceremonies were yet observed, or ready
to be observed, save that the Lord of the Manor, together
with the steward and other officers, were substituted for
the Prior and his white-robed brethren. But alack ! and
well-a-day. Wedded love and faith would seem a fable.
Only two more claimants came in two centuries. It was
now in the middle of the third—that is to say, in 1750—
and none had yet offered—though a flitch of bacon was
regularly salted and dried, and proclamation constantly
made at the Court Baron that it was ready for delivery—
secundum, jorrnam donettionis—to any applicants, on due
fulfilment of the conditions annexed to the gift."
Having in this way rendered his readers familiar at
once with the Inn and the Custom of Dunmow, Mr.
Ainsworth loses no time in introducing the principal per-
sonages destined to figure in the narrative. Besides the
garrulous and uxorious old landlord, Jonas Nettlebed,
the acquainted with Carroty Dick,
the
blllyeggY,p y hambermaid, with
of all, with Rose Woodbine, the
Dr and Mr. Roper, the crabbed ;
but
rmolsoottls,et ther mysterious,agarnede
heroine, and Frank Woodbine, the hero--doubtless the
future and successful claimants of the Dunmow
Flitch of Bacon. It is in this fashion that
the new story opens a story which, we trust,
may shed fresh lustre on the New Monthly, and impart
new popularity to the already popular name of Harrison
Ainsworth.

AN ASSURANCE COMPANY.
In case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT
system are still more striking.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY
LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH.
To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to
5,0001. on every known principle thereof.
Lives in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been
rejected by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti-
cular disease.
Loans from 501. and upwards granted on every kind of security,
real or personal, on the most equitable terms to the berrower
Annuities of every description granted on very favourable terms.
Non-forfeiture of a Policy —ln case of inability to pay the currant
premiums, the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair
market value, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte-
rest corresponding in amount to the whole of the previous payments
which have been made.
Detailed prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De-
posit system, and any further information may be obtained on appli-
cation to the Agents in the country, or to
CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary.

N.B.—Agents wan tedin all parts of the World-

CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL.—The annual statement
of the operations of this hospital mentions that in the
course of the last year 16,286 indigent sick persons were
admitted on the books for relief, at a cost of 2,5531. 4s.
; of these, 1,282 were in-patients, and 15,204 were
out-patients (many of whom were visited at their own
homes, and the greater part were restored to the bless-
ings of health and to their occupations for the support
of their families). These, with the cases reported in
former annual statements, make a total of 221,144 sick
and needy individuals who have partaken of the advan-
tages of the institution from its commencement, in 1818,
to the 31st December, 1852. The committee thankfully
acknowledge the very kind contributions to the hospital
during the past year, and also the liberal donations to the
fund for the completion of the building, and the fitting up
of four additional wards for children and the younger class
of patients. Upwards of two-thirds of the amount required
for this important purpose have now been raised, and the
committee hope for such further assistance as may enable
them to accomplish the object of their solicitude during
the present year. They will then have the satisfaction
of providing fifty additional beds, and the hospital will
be enabled to receive 400 or 500 more in-patients an-
nually than heretofore. In their last statement, the
committee furnished a detail of the cases of accident and
the
sudden injuries which had been brought to the hospital
in the preceding year. These cases have, during the last
e4roe4w
to require to be immediately admitted in-patients. Of
w
yaseatr, amounted to 2,428, of which 324 were so dangerous
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during
which period, viz.,hospital
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from the year 1818 to 'the close of
relief to 36 420 t cost
, patients a a
t- of 6,H.61, es, Bid.

The Bouquet. A Monthly Periodical.
A charming little publication, with a title at once
graceful and suggestive. It blooms in the boudoirs of
Mayfair, and in the drawing-rooms of Belgravia, having
been culled at intervals of every four or five weeks in
Marylebone-gardens, by Bluebell and Mignionette. In
other words, the Bouquet is a dainty little magazine, con-
sisting of prose and poetic contributions from a number
of young ladies, who are accustomed to meet in the gar-
dens of Park-crescent, not only for the purpose of social
recreation, but for that also, it would seem of intellectual
improvement. It is a happy thought most happily real-
ised. There is no alloy of vanity in it either—for each
of the fair contributors to the Bouquet (and hence its
title) conceals her identity under the name of some plant
or blossom—the only clue to the authorship being that
the initial letters in the names of bud and writer in each
instance are identical. Mother Bunch, by right, ought to
have been the editor—but, instead of that, we find the
who must, eone would fancy, alarm the
post occupied by a noli m tangere sort of personage,
nmaolureeityimTorhoisutsle'aspirants, by telling them on the title-
' page of every number that—Nento me immune lascessit
Happily, if the Bouquet is arranged (and admirably ar-
ranged, it is raider those auspices) by Thistle, it is origi-
•

pally culled by Bluebell and Mignionette. It includes
every variety of colour in style, and perfume in sentiment
—deriving its charms from all quarters of the favoured
pkrterre—froiii the evening primrose to the hyssop, from
the pansy to the squirting cucumber ! Altogether it is de-
cidedly, distinctly, unmistakeably (and we say this, re-
member, advisedly)—the most admirable illustration we
have yet seen of—the Language of Flowers.

The _Duke's Funeral. A Poem. 'By Sir Francis Hast-
ings Doyle, Dart. Clark, Becton, and Co.
Another of those elegiac strains, sounding like the
pibroch of patriotism over the grave of the brave old
Wellington—another and another yet succeeds like the
phantom kings before the gaze of the Thane of Glamis.
By this time the public generally may not unnaturally
be supposed to be tolerably well satiated with effusions
upon this particular subject, and of this particular cha-
racter. As admirers of anything at all approaching to
poetic excellence; we should be disposed to regret the
circumstance, if we believed for one moment (which we
don't) that any read'r of the poem before us would be
thereby disposed to regard with apathy its merits as a
composition. Nothing can be simpler in aim—nothing
can be more true, more genuine, more unaffected in sen-
timent, than these very graceful verses, by Sir Francis
Doyle, in commemoration of the old Duke's funeral.
The opening has an originality in it that is really exqui-
site :

" Child, with fresh cheek upon thy velvet palm,
0 bright-haired child, that sleep is sweet and calm—
Through all those youthful pulses breathing balm ;
But yet I say, Arise !
. Thc unexhausted night hangs damp—
Black yet round each unwaning lamp;
Against the echoing casement-pane,
Driving•raw cold and plangent rain,
The wind of Autumn sighs.
Yet from that flower-like rest, through all, '
Rough gales that blow, chill showers that fall,
I say again, Arise!"
The tenderness of this is very beautiful. There is a
pathos. in the idea of the rousing of the young child at
that dead hour of the morning to witness the funeral
pageantries of the memorable warrior lamented by Eng-
land. The incident is, to the author's mind, a symbol
too—and a symbol, the meaning of which is clear, and
the meaning is this—
" Through thee, from booming gun and muffled drum,
A voice must pass to all the years that come !
It is to thee, and such as thee,
That England, great as yet, and free, •
Commits a solemn trust ;
To print, as in a living book,
On youth's keen brain, each word, each look,
And mark how o'er the nation's friend,
By all poor honours earth can lend,
Our stricken country seeks relief
From passionate and noble grief."

It would not be difficult to discover reason, by the
way, for cavil at certain flaws in the poem as a work of
art. We might question the nice taste of such a Cock-
neyism in the way of rhyme as the following :

" From fathomless abysses still renewing
Sea after sea to overwhelm and ritin."
We might object to the distressing sibilation of the
line—

" Through seas of blood upheld, through earthquakes bore
His country safe to peace's golden shore."
But these minute blemishes—and there are but few of them
—we forgive for the grace, and the sweetness, and the
feeling, and the beauty of the composition. The follow-
ing passage has a crowning charm in it :
" Child, suns must rise and set, the earth
Through years and cycles onward roam -
And ever, past the gates of Death and Birth,
Life's ocean-tide exhaustless foam.
We soon must leave thee—soon wilt thou be sitting
Serenely under silvery hair ;
Whilst bright curls glance, and fairy forms are flitting
Around thy venerable chair.
Then wilt thou tell them, Years and years ago,
(I took it as a thing of course),
An old man used to pass me, stooping low,
White-headed, on his horse."
The Duke ! Yes ; and slight though tho sketch is, it
is perfect. The effusion does credit to Sir Francis Doyle
—alike to his intellect and his sensibility.

Watlim's London Directory. 1853.
An enormous undertaking has here been adventured
upon in the form of a comprehensive guide to all ad-
dresses in the British metropolis. "Watkins's London
Directory" purports, and with reason, to be both
general and commercial. It comprises, moreover, a
guide through the " Environs," very copious, and to a
considerable extent very accurate in its character. As
a frontispiece to the volume, there is a magnificent map
of the Capital of England, prepared and printed ex-
pressly for this publication by Deere—a map extending
"-solat in its delineation ---of the,- suburbs as ta include-
Willesden, Wormwood Scrubbs, Barnes Common,

Putney Park, Clapham Common, East Dulwich, Lewis-
ham, Greenwich Park, Bromley Marsh, Stratford, Low-
Leyton, Stoke Newington, and Cricklewood. Alto-
gether the work appears to us very skilfully arranged,
and that surely is about the foremost desideratum in a
metropolitan directory. The principal ,divisions
-are, as they ought to be, large and well-assorted.
A " Street Key " follows immediately after the
" General Alphabetical Directory " after which

come the " Scientific Directory" and the " Pro-
fessional Directory." In a mercantile point of view, one

of the prominent features of the coi4ilation is that
which is defined upon the title-page as the " Classifica-
tion of Trades." Thereupon we have the " Court
Guide," followed by the "Legal Directory." The guide
to " All the Public Offices " includes, of course, every

one of the various offices of the Government. Besides

the foregoing divisions, there are four others of some im-
portance : there is a "List of Bankers," there is a
" Parliamentary Companion," there is a considerable
store of " Postal Information," and there is a division—
and a very valuable division too—relating to " Convey-
ance." Add6d to all this, we have towards the end, the
" Environs," as already intimated, in the shape of a
succinct and orderly supplement. The comprehensive-
ness of the work is sufficiently well pointed out by its
originators in the remark prefixed to its 2,102 pages, to
the effect that it extends " on the north to Camden Town,
south to Camberwell, east to the East India Docks,
and west to Bayswater"—this, of course, being exclusive
of the supplementary guide to the environs. As testi-

monies tliat every re„Yard has been had to the typo-
graphy, as well as to the topography, it is only neces-
sary to observe that the printing of the volume has been
confided to the firm of Spottiswoodes and Shaw, and the
publishing to that of Longman, Brown, Green, and

Longmans. Altogether, the proprietor, F. W. Watkins,
tells us on his title page—for we need scarcely say that
we have not ventured to count for ourselves—that the
Directory comprises no less than 142,000 names and ad-
dresses. These names and addresses, we learn from the
preface, are thus distributed :-92,000 under the Alpha-
betical Directory, 122,000 under .the Street Key, 1,000
professions and trades under the Professional and Trades
Directory, 30,000 of the nobility and gentry under the
Court Directory, and so on through th rest of the clas-
sified divisions, with 15,000 names and addresses for the
environs—making the sum total of 142,000 as already
intimated. A violent controversy has for some time
past, we may observe, been carried on between the respec-
tive proprietors, as to the relative merits of Watkins's
Directory and of Kelly's Post-Office Directory. The
former has claimed, by the way, a sup eriorityover the latter
in regard to accuracy, as well, we-believe, as in reference
to the possession in his work of something like 20,000 or
30,000 names additional. For ourselves, we shrink from
any participation in squabbles of this character. Coin-
ciding with good Mistress Malaprop that " comparisons
are oderous," we should have been disposed to preserve
silence as to the respective value of the two publications.
But seeing the claim already referred to, we conceive
that the claimant has thereby driven us to an alternative.
Satisfied upon this point, and reviewing the two works
dispassionately, we give the preference distinctly, de-
cidedly, and unquestionably, to " Kelly's Post-Office
London Directory." That work we conceive to be alto-
gether unrivalled among works of that description. We
regard the volume before us, namely " Watkins's Di-
rectory," as in itself really very wonderful, and as only
inferior (but then decidedly inferior) when brought into
comparison with its still more wonderful contemporary.
Everything considered, however, and setting " Kelly's
Post-Office London Directory" altogether on one side,
" Watkins's Directory" appears to us peculiarly meri-
torious, and indicative of an astonishing combination of
enterprise, industry, and perseverance.

THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS' PROPERTY.—The sale o:

the beautiful articles which belonged to the late Duke of
Orleans, was brought to a conclusion on Friday. The
objects then sold consisted principally of silks of the
richest description, which had been ordered for the pur-
pose of being used in fitting up the private apartments
of the prince, but which his sudden death left unem-
_ _ _

_ -
FATAL TERMINATION OF THE LATE CASE OF
ployed. They sold for prices certainly far below their
CRUELTY
value, but still high enough to realise, in the aggregate, AT THE GREENWICH UNION.—The late atrocious
burning at the Greenwich Union-house hastermciansaetencif
a considerable sum. The four curtains and four per- burning
fatally, the child Gaywood is now no
Sundaymore—death hay-
tiejres, of figured silk, brought 28,000 fr. The beautiful
farcical last. The
piece of brocatelle, which had excited so much admiration jog put an end to its sufferings 0
passieedtythesecnotemnraceonef.
on the day when it was on view, fetched 17,000 f. The public
will very naturally ask, is fourteen days' imprisonment
five portsercs of tapestry, representing subjects a /a
Sergeant at the late session of the Central Criminal
Boucher, were knocked down, the first for 3,250 fr. ; the
Court, to atone for the depriving this child of life ? The
next pair for 2,390 fr. ; and the large one for 2,005 fr•
We ay mention, was liberated from
The whole amount of the day's sale was was 69,286 fr. ;.. mirk Oldham,
Newgate on the 15th ins
and that of tl►e several days collectively upwards or
wards made her appearance
t-, and a very few hours •dt^r-
800,000fr.- .
at the Greenwich. Union in
RECTORY Or ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT.—The a disgraceful state of intoxication, and, claiming admis-
Bishop of London has given notice to the authorities of sion, said thatd a
.gentleman had given her a glass of
' The child,eil
the parish of St. Andrew Undcrshaft, Leadenhall-street, wine thus r ering her in the condition she was then
the rectory of which lately became vacant by the death in.
we may add, was an orphan, its wi-
of the Rev. William Antrobus, 8.D., that ho has dowel mother having, at the recent visitation, been
suspended the tithes, &c., with a view to the apporiio
ment of some of them to the augmentation of neighhour-
n- taken off wilt the cholera, and, previous to the injuries
inflicted, was one of the healthiest and liveliest in thec.
ing and poorer parishes. It was stated in the parish,
yesterday, that so soon as these arrangements are corny-. house. The question now remains to be decided
.whar.
pleted, his lordship will present his son, the Re they the inhuman monster can or cannot be again
her
Blomfield, now rector of St. Alphege, London-wall, to if not of wilful
the valuable living of St. Andrew. Te recto raigned, seeing that death has since resulted from
) , conduct, and made to answer a charge,
Alphege, which will thus become vacant is anomaly.
, is worth about • to law of England an
• t 40Q1. a-year, and is in the gift of the bishop. escape, then indeed is the
rY of St. I murder, at least of manslaughter. If she is altogether
—.Kentisit, Mercury.