The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J ACTUARY 9, 1849.

,jI.N. ...rid. 7th, _it-O.A,
Cogormicii, Ragusa; Jessie, Cop ii, Newfuumila,l(l, for
London; i.kthlone (steamer), Dublin, and profteded fcr
Lc:ld n, aft,,,r receiving on freight about 25,0001. in
C.
rouTsmourn, JAN. B.—The Frientli.7, from Guerns y,
for this port, was Rssisted in by a pilot tot, having bceo
dismasted in a squall from the eastward on the sth inst.
oil We Easkets, The 'Eric°. from Shields, teas spoken
9th ult. 42 N., lon. 37 W., with loss a jib-boora;
foretop gallant.mast, boats, and a great part of her Lul-
wurks by the Presicut at Cowes.
SWANSEA, JAN. B. A schooner sank last night off the
harbour, a portion of her being visible.
ITAnwicn, JAN. B.—The brig reported ye3terday as
making for this port in a disabled condition, proved to
be the Jane and Ann, Baker, of Sunderland; she has
been assisted in with considerable damage, having been
, in contact.

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LIVERPOOL, JAN. B.—Wind S.E. to S.—Arrd. Ad-
mittance, Hart icon, Guayaquil. Sid. 7th, Partonetea,
Itio ,Imeiro. Bth, Thomas Moore, Bombay• ' I. 0.,
Trinidad; Diamond, St. Thomas; Europe, Phitackiphia.
OFF COWES, JAN. B.—American Eagle, New Yoik
for London; Augusta Daunberg, ditto, for Gothenburg;
President, Wolter, Havannah, tor Antwerp. Put back
7th, Brougham, Wills, for the South Seas, leaky.
DEAL, JAN. B.—Wind S. to S. by E.—Arrd. Amyri-
can Eagle. Chadwick, New York. Arrd. from the river,
Thames, Iltdley, Wc.st Indies.

RE-OPENING OF THE NEW IS-
LINGTON CATTLE MARKET—(THIS DAY.)
. This market—after having been closed for a number
of years—was re-opened to-day for the sale of live stock.
Every accommodation was provided fur the reception of
the stock, as well as for the convenience of the graziers
by the promoters. Wc have to observe, however, that
the strong opposition manifested by certain parties to
the re• establishment of the market, prevented the exhi-
bition of anything like an average supply of stock. This
will be quite apparent, when we observe that there were
only 47 beasts, 120 sheep, 3 large and 10 small pigs on
sale. Yesterday', a large number of beasts and sheep were
turned out of Smithfield unsold, and which were placed in
the lairage of this market; but nearly the whole of them
were taken away before tcn o'clock, evidently for the
Furposo of preventing anything like a show here this
morning. There was a large attendance of visitors,
amongst which were very few buyers; hence, we have to
report a very dull trade, and prices must he considered
almost nominal. Outside the market was erected an
immense booth, in which was roasted a whole ox, for
the purpose of distribution.

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MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COLCTZIAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation continuos
to evince firmness, and the sales amount to 610:Aids, at
prices fully confirming the advance of 6,1 to is since
this day week. The public sales have comprised 1,430
bags Mauritius, 5,900 bags Bengal, 4,174 bags, and 78
cases Madras. , The Mauritius sold with spirit at full
prices, very fine yellow realising 41s to 445, and mid
brown to good yellow 33s to 39s Gil. Bengal
mostly sold at very full rates, got,d and fine
grainy (Dacca) et 41s to 445, good to fine white Benares
40s 6d to 43s 6d, low white 36s Gd to 38s; the Khaur be-
ing withdraw at 29s to 30s; Madras only partly sold at
prices barely supporting the previous advance; bright_
yellow brought 33s Gd to 375, and low to fine bright
brown 28s 6d to 31s 6d. Privately 70 cases low brown
Bahia have been sold for refining at 36s to 36s 6d. The
quantity of British Plantation landed in the port of Lon-
don from Ist Jan. to 30th Dec. was 94,984 hhds, 15,646
tierces tlgainst 102,067 hhds, and 14,005 tierces to the
same time in 1847. The stock has considerably increased.
COlTEE.—Privately 1,000 bags Padang, and 1,000
bags good ordinary Rio have been sold, the former at
275, and tho latter at 26s Gd, which prices were not
previously obtainable. The stock of Britioli Plantation
in London on the 30th ult. was 188 casks and 174 bar-
rels, and bags larger than in the correspondnig period
of 1847.

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COTTON.—The demand was good.
Run.—The stock in London on the 30th tilt. was
27,564 puns 5,663 hhds, against 18,464 puns 4,702 hhds
in December, 1847. The deliveries for home consump-
tion fell off last year.
SALTPETRE.—There was an active demand, and
1,800 bags at auction sold at 25s 6d to 27s fur 171 to 2
per cent refraction, being rather dearer.
TALLOW.-I'. Y. C. is 42s per cwt on the rpot, and
town 455.
TEA.—The market is firm and the deliveries are good.

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111 Z LAACAStiIi4E iT/TCLIES ; A Romance of
Pendle Format. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. 3 Vols.
Mr. Ainsworth may be styled the Salvator Rosa of
novelists. Ho delights in the thrilling—the terrible—
the gloomy—the wildly romantic. In gorgeous
depth of colouring, in vivid reality of portraiture, in
enthralling interest, Mr. Ainsworth's romances are
almost unrivalled. To this latter peculiarity, namely,
the fascination which they exercise over the reader's
attention, their great popularity is m;,inly due. vlany
persons, however, who have recognized Mr. Ains-
worth's great power in this particular have, for that
very reason, taken occasion to censure him in that he
has availed himself of this talent for exciting interest
to invest with fictitious attractions the exploits of
thieves and highwaymen. No such objection can at-
tach to the " Lancashire Witches." The start-
ling events of the narrative=interesting as they
are in a romantic point of view—are
doubly valuable as types of the struggle between the
principles of good and evil continually carried on in
the human heart. Dark and terrible as are some of
the scenes here portrayed, they only make the beauty
and holiness of virtue more conspicuous and more
attractive, and the narrative, after exciting a powerful
and undiminished interest throughout its whole
course, concludes in that rarely successful, but, when
successful, most exquisite manner, which, like the
darkness of twilight, is sad without-being cheerless,
and sorrowful without being gloomy. The last scenes,
which relate to Alizon and Richard Assheton, and
the penitence of the once powerful " Witch," are de-
scribed with most beautiful pathos. Let it not be
supposed, however, that the whole romance is
tinged with melancholy. On the contrary,
it abounds with festive scenes and rustic
sports. The visit of James I. to Hoghton
'lowers has been very happily introduced, and the
description of the various festivities designed for the
monarch's entertainment serve in an agreeable man-
lier to illustrate the customs of the period. At a
banquet at Hoghton Towers, it is said that King
James, gratified with the flavour of a loin of beef;
conferre upon it the honour of knighthood or ba-
ronetcy, which the Sir-loin has conserved to this day.
Mr. Ainsworth has not forgotton to chronicle the
incident, and has detailed the ceremony of
knighthood in a very amusing way. Otter
hunting and other sports are also incidentally
described, and with much animation. The
picturesque scenery of Pendle Forest has found in
Mr. Ainsworth an artist capable of doing full justice
to its beauties ; the forest scenes are portrayed
con (more. The first volume of the "Lancashire
Witches " opens with an introductory history which
we are almost disposed to consider superior to the
romance which follows. ,This episode relates to
Abbot Paslew, the last abbot of Whalley, who
had raised the standard of rebellion on King Henry'si

ordering the general suppression of monasteries.
The portrait of this zealous soldier-priest is admirable.
His indomitable resolution, his self-denying adherence

to principle, will elicit the sympathy and sdmiration
of all who read this chronicle of the closing scenes
of his career. The incident which connects the in-
troduction with •the romance is as follows :—ln the
neighbourhood of Whalley Abbey lived a reputed
wizard and witch, and the abbot, conscientiously
opposed to all adherents of Satan, had refused
the rite of baptism to their infant child un-
less the mother renounced her evil life. This
was refused, perhaps, on the plea of her being
no witch, yet the priest's blessing for the child
was particularly demanded. When Paslew was taken
prisoner by King Henry's soldiers, and condemned to
die, the wizard offered him his life at the price of
baptizing his child. But conscience was stronger than
the love of life in the breast of the resolute abbot—he
would have no dealings with Satan's subjects. On
his way to the place of execution, the abbot is
arrested by Demdike (the wizard) and his wife. The
mother holds up her child and implores him to bless
it even then. Like the abbot in " The Lord
of the Isles," Paslew speaks in a voice of pro-
phecy, but with this difference—the guest of Ronald
was desired to pronounce a curse, and on the con-
trary he spoke a blessing—" I bless thee I and thou
shalt be blest!" But Paslew being besought to
bless, utters a prophetic malediction :

" Listen to me, wicked woman!' exclaimed the
Abbot, as if filled with a prophetic spirit: Thy child's
life shall bo long—beyond the ordinary term of women
—but it shall be a life of woe and ill. Children
shall she have, and children's children, but they
will be a race doomed and accursed a brood
of adders that the world shall flee from and
crush. A thing accursed, and shunned by her fellows,
shall thy daughter be—evil reputed and evil doing. No
hand to help her, no lip to bless her—life a burden, and
death—long, long in coming—finding her in a dismal
dungeon ! Depart from me, and trouble me no more.' "
"The curse," adds the legend, " Was fulfilled to the
letter : that child and her offspring became THE
LANCASHIRE WITCHES." So ends the introduction,
skilfully contrived so as to heighten the reader's in-
terest in the narrative which follows it.

THE ISLAND Cif SARDINIA. By J. Warre
Tyndale, MA. 3 Vole.
At first sight it appears a matter of surprise that
an account of the comparatively insignificant island of
Sardinia should fill three tolerably sized volumes,
but on a further investigation of these volumes we
find that the island of . Sardinia has furnished mate-
rialS for one of the most interesting and most delight-
ful books of travel that has appeared for a very con-
siderable period. Generally speaking, the interest of
any work increases in proportion as that interest is
concentrated. Biography is in most cases more fas-
cinating than history—a faithful narrative of the for-
tunes of a few individuals is infinitely more attractive
than a superficial summary of the events of many
centuries. It is for a similar reason, perhaps, that
this highly-finished picture of Sardinia and the Sardes
is so peculiarly :excellent, both as a work
of information and of entertainment. The in-
troductory chapter gives an account of the
House of Savoy—in many respects a chapter of the
romance of history. Some of the Royal characters,
more especially Vittorio Amadeo 11., who "in haste"
abdicated the throne in favour of his son and then re-
pented his abdication "at leisure," and Carlo Ema-
nuele 111., a pattern of frugality and etiquette, who
would not suffer his Prime Minister to indulge in the
extravagance of keeping a carriage, and who refused
to let the Princesses, his daughters, sit down to sup-
per with him unless they appeared in Court costume,
are very happily portrayed. The history concludes
With the accession of the Prince of Carignana, Carlo
Alberto, the present king. The whole work, we are
told, was written before the late revolutions, and
"the observations on the state of the island are left
unaltered, so as to present a picture of its condition
previous to the recent changes and policy of Carlo
Alberto." This circumstance considerably enhances
its value. The title-page promises "pictures of the
manners and customs of the Sardinians, and notes on
the antiquities and modern objects of interest in the'
island," which promise is amply redeemed in tke body
of the work. Sardinia abounds in objects of interest,
both ancient and modern, and Mr. Tyndale has
evinced great skill and discrimination in his arrange-
ment and exhibition of his valuable materials. As
examples of the very various attractions of these
volumes, we may cite the chapters on "The Noraghes
and Sepoltures de is Gigantes"—the marvellous
architectural curiosities of Sardinia, and the very
vivid description of the tunny fishing. This very
extraordinary mode of fishing is minutely detailed,
and further exemplified by pictorial illustrations,
one of which gives a wonderfully exact re-
presentation of a madraga, a complicated
kind of snare into which the tunny are decoyed
previous to the grand battue. The price of a
madraga, we are told, varies from 1,8001. to 2,0001.
The value and number of the fish caught is very con-
siderable. The whole business of decoying, killing,
and preparing them for export is very accurately
described. With pictures of this description, with
scenes of personal life, travelling adventures and anec-
dotes, with descriptions of various Sardinian towns,
with accounts of the trade, agriculture, laws, museums,
literature, &c., of the island, and innumerable other
interesting matters, Mr. Tyndale has filled up the
remainder of this very delightful work. It is written
in a very animated and agreeable style, and is adorne'd,
with innumerable small engravings illustrative of the
text,
.besides three large ones representing Cagliari,
Sassari, and the Autro di Netturio, which form the
frontispieces to the three volumes. It contains,
moreover, a very beautiful map of the island of
Sardinia.

THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part XVIII.

Bath, the most beautiful city in England, is
the spot delineated in the Part for January of
this delightful publication. Both in pictorial and
literary merit, Mr. Knight's description orthe locality
is admirable. Foremost, of course, among the em-
bellishments is a portrait of Beau Nash, the Prince
(rather than the Master) of the Ceremonies. Among
the other celebrities of the place, Beckford the
epicurean, renowned as the decorator of Fonthill
Abbey, and as the author of the gorgeous romance
of " Vathek," occupies a conspicuous posi-
tion. 'We have, be sure of that, a sketch-
of the Lansdowne Tower, in which he
used to seclude himself at his orisons—those orisons
which, with a religion of his own, he addressed most
probably 'to the God of voluptuousness., And, im-
mediately confronting this monument of luxury, on
the hill opposite the one adokned with the Lans•
downeTower and LansdowneCrescent—situated above
Widcombe, and below Combe Downe, is portrayed
by pen, not by pencil, the noble and palatial mansion
of Ralph Allen, Esq., the bquire Allworthy of Field-
ing, and since transformed into a Roman Catholic
College (Prior Park), the students from which
matriculate at the London University. The other
illustrations, such as the Abbey, the Victoria Column,
the Crescent, Ptilteney Bridge, St. Stephen's Church,
&c., are faithful and characteristic.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING TILE

THIRTY YEARS' PEACE.

Part IV.

The historian of the important interval between
1815 and 1845 has, with the close of the present in-
stalment, reached the beginning of the year 1828 and
the commencement of the Duke of Wellington's Ad-
ministration. Ills narrative is still remarkable
for its amplitude and perspicuity. The part
before us is adorned with an excellent
map of the Turkish empire, the kingdom
of Greece, and our insular possessions of Kerigo,,
St. Mauro, Zante, Kafalonia, Ithaca, and Corfu. The
publication is one of singular importance, as referring
to the secession of Sir Robert (then Mr.) Peel from
the Government of Canning. The writer makes this
emphatic and conclusive statement :—" Private letters
of Mr. Canning's are in existence which declare
that Mr. Peel was the only seceding member of the
Government who behaved well to him at this time."
(p. 437.) Was Lord George Bentinck (the private
secretary of Mr. Canning) ignorant of the existence
of these letters when he brought his charges against
Sir Robert in 1847—accusing that stateiman almost
of the assassination of his relative ? For the sake of
the character of the deceased leader of the Opposition,
we hope he was ignorant of the existence of such do-
cuments. Though were his ignorance on this point
proved, we should, nevertheless, marvel !

CLEMENT LORIMER. Part 111. By Angus

B. Reach.

In this part we find the vindictive Benosa following
up the scheme which he had artfully concocted for
the destruction, soul and body, of the unfortunate
Clement Lorimer, and in order to accomplish this
object he has purchased the assistance of Sir Har-
rowby Trumps, to whom he assigns all the debts
due by Clement, making him Clement's sole creditor
on condition that he shall "follow him up." The spirits
by whom Clement is surrounded are not, however,
all evil. He has a guardian angel in the person
of Marion Eske, the young American girl whose
life he had saved from the wreck on the
Goodwin Sands, and who proves to be the
great granddaughter of Louisa Vanderstein, supposed
to have been drowned by order of Benosa in 1710,
but whose life was preserved by Jin Karl, the mate
of the St. Nicholas, and who afterwards, to escape
from the danger which threatened her, assumed a
different name on her arrival in America, where she
was married to her betrothed. Marion Eske and her
friends General and Mrs. Pomeroy are living in
Cecil-street, and when Clement Lorimer is without
a home it is in Cecil-street that he finds refuge.
" The landlady of the lodging-house in Cecil-street,
in which were installed General and Mrs. Pomeroy,
U. S., was a pale, pinched-in looking little woman, hay-
Sing a perfect mania for scouring and scrubbing; and a
remarkable talent, amounting to genius, for scolding.
Her name, as it appeared in fat letters upon the brass
door- plate, was Ginnum. Now there was occasionally
seen slipping about the house, in a meek and stealthy
manner, and with the air of a man who merely existed
on suffrance, a dirty little person, with a stubbly chin,
no outward appearance of linen, and altogether im-
pregnated with a mouldy flavour. For a long time none
of the lodgers could make out who the mouldy little
man was, and many guesses were made, and theories,
constructed, as to his identity. At length one ingenious
individual hit upon the happy scheme of asking the
mouldy man himself. The reply was at once startling
and characteristic.
" Sir,' said the mouldy man with great meekness,
I am Mrs. Ginnum's husband!'
He was so known ever afterwards. Nobody thought
of calling him Mr. Ginnum, or oven plain Ginnum: he
was always • Mrs. Ginnum's husband.'
" What the particular duties fulfilled by Mrs. Gin-
num's husband were, it would be difficult to specify.
He was sometimes absent from the house, as though he
were attending to some regular calling. At other times
he haunted the lower regions of the establishment.
Glimpses were caught of him in the passages, and his
dirty face was occasionally seen looking up from
the front area. Where be took his meals, and where
he slept, were mysteries more deep than the authorship
of Junius,' or the identity of the ',Man with the Iron
Mask.' The only piece of legitimate duty he ever ap-
peared to perform was sitting up at night to let the late
lodgers in. On these occasions he gave loose to his
conversational powers, so far as saying very meekly,
Good night, sir!' as he delivered the flat-candlestick
to the retiring guest. The other characteristics of the
mouldy little man were, that he was always shabby, and
occasionally not sober."
The " Mouldy Little Man" is one of the most per-
fect sketches with which Mr. Angus Reach has as
yet favoured the public.

THE POTTLETON LEGACY. Part T. By

Albert Smith.

" The Pottleton Legacy" improves as it progresses.
It is superior in point of construction to any work
that Albert Smith has yet composed, and while it
abounds in those exquisitely ludicrous yet at the
same time faithful sketches of the " eccentrics" of
society (witness the " two nice children" in the open-
ing chapter of this part—witness the dinner in the
Beauchamp tower, and the character of Mr. Wynd-
ham Flitter passim—witness the rich scene of the
Rev. Mr. Page taking his dancing lesson) ; it also
contains some of the most beautiful specimens of
description, or, rather, of word-painting, that we have
ever met with. The following snow scene is worthy
the pencil of a Berghni.
" We have returned to Pottleton again—and the snow
is on the ground; those who only knew our village in its
leafy summer dress would be puzzled to find out their
favourite nooks and corners amongst the skeleton trees.
But it is still charming for all that. The air is so vivid
and exhilarating, that your lungs cannot drink in a suf-
ficiency of it at each inspiration ; and the bright clear
sunlight is thrown back in sparkling diamonds, with
dazzling purity, from the snow that crunches beneath
each step. It is as tranquil as in summer ; indeed, the
repose is that of death rather than sleep, broken only by
the sharp ringing echoes of an occasional gun, or the
whirring chatter of a stone, sent swiftly sliding across
the ice by the ruddy urchin, anxious to know if the mill-
tail will bear. The river would freeze if it could; but
the floods have driven it on too turbulently. Where the
pollards, that its stream has undermined until they
tumbled into it, have collected the reeds and dead leaves
into their harbour, there is a pellicle of ice, rimy and
white, within an inch of where the water washes it: and
some of the drooping sprays of the bramble-bushes,
that bent so gracefully over its quivering lily-spangled
surface in summer, are tipped with long crystal-looking
pendants that would have been elsewise fog drops; but
it holds out no promise of skating. Yet it is freezing
hard, for the place that was broken in the pond, to let
the cattle drink, and get the ice for the Court ice-house,
is already glazed over. Still it is a degree of cold that
no one feels inclined to quarrel with. Indeed, the only
points in the landscape that one might wish to find
fault with, are where the southern eaves are dripping in
tha sun, and making a dark unseemly gutter on the
white t auseway below.
" The road is spotted with birds—poor little fellows,
hardly driven to pick up a livelihood, for the hedge-
rows are even too frost-bound for them to scrape out for
the pungent roots that would nourish them; and the hips
and haws have all bean carried away—so have the seeds
about the Grange, that were too high for the inmates to
collect. When they settle on the great tree before the
inn, they bring down such a shower of crisp flakes of
snow, that they are frightened into a departure forthwith,
and fly back to the pollards, where they know of decayed
knot. holes and hollowed limbs. Some very old birds—
plump as pincushions—have lived in Baker's barn ever
since the frosp began; but this is evidently a secret.
" There is something very solemn about the old grey
Norman church, in its canopy of snow, which also hangs
upon the lych-gate, and covers the grave-yard, until
the tomb-stones are merged in the same hue. You can
now imagine that those who lie beneath it are locked
in a dead and awful sleep—far more so than in summer,
when the daisies and the primroses looked upwards from
the graves towards heaven, or the gentle cowslips bent
their fragrant heads towards the earth, as if in mourning.
In the corner there is a heap of black mould, thrown
up since the snow fell ; but it will be filled in again
before night, and these who have been long separated
—one, perhaps, tailing and struggling on whilst the
other slept tranquilly—will meet again."

pent," and the conclusion at which he ultimately and
deliberately arrives is as follows :
"To ourselves the evidence appears irresistible that
a certain marine animal of enormous size doe:, exist, and
that it diars essentially from any living animal described
in our systematic works.' To this animal mariners have
given the very appropriate name of sea serpent, from its
inhabiting the sea, and from its supposed resemblance to
a serpent. It is fifty or sixty feet in length—perhaps
seventy feet—but we may gather from the multitude of
s,atements that fifty or sixty is a perfectly safe estimate;
it is long in proportion to its bulk, its neck and tail
being of much less circumference than its body; the
junction of the tail and body is marked by a rapid dimi-
nution in size; it has a sharp-pointed snout, flat-topped
head, powerful teeth, very 'large eyes, and blow
holes, like the Cetacea, from which it spouts water;
it has two very large and powerful flappers, or paddles,
with which it makes its way when on the surface of the
water; it has a dorsal, or cervical crest fin or mane; its
skin is smooth."

A wood•engraving, similar to the one which has
already appeared in the Illustrated London News,
pourtrays the aspect and dimensions of this extraor-
dinary monster of the deep. In a rapid allusion to
the historical and political works lately produced by
Macaulay, Thiers, Lamartine, and Caussidiere,
under the heading, " Lessons of Revolutions," it is
justly remarked that " M. de Lamartine establishes
by his Trois Moir aux Pouvoir a claim to the re-
spect of statesmen." To these contributions we have
here appended a brief but touching " Obituary."
Among the dead is mentioned very prominently the
youthful writer of the two beautifulessays to which we
have ourselvesinore than once referred, Charles Thomas
Fisher, who is accurately described as having " died
almost at the commencement of his career, alike to
fortune and td fame unknown.'" To the gentleness
of his nature, to the clearness of his intellect, and to the
goodness of his heart, we can ourselves have the me-
lancholy satisfaction of bearing attestation, and, in so
doing we would, if possible, enforce the subjoined
appeal of the Westminster Review, which, speaking of
the untimely death of Charles Thomas Fisher, thus
remarks upon the position of his relict :

" If in the circle we now address, there are some who
have personally known what the strife is of education
with straitened means, and have risen above it, or
who can picture that strife to themselves in their imagi-
nation, and who at this season of general festivity, would
remember the widow in her affliction,' we shall rejoice
to be made the channel of a deserved sympathy."

After this comes a well-merited eulogiutn upon the
late lamented and gifted Charles Buller. Of whom
saith Thomas Carlyle—" Very gentle, too, though full
of fire; simple, brave, graceful. This man was true
to his friends. Be his memory dear and honourable
to us, as that of one so worthy ought. What in him
was true and valiant, endures for evermore beyond
all memory on record. His light airy brilliancy has
suddenly become solemn, fixed in the earnest stillness of
eternity." Well may the Westminster Review, which
has been so often illumed by the light cast from his
" very beautiful soul" upon its pages, utter its last adieus
in no feeble language—" Farewell, Charles Buller !
Farewell !" Among the foreign publications noticed
towards the close of the present number of the double
Quarterly is the posthumous" Memoir of Chauteau-
briand." In reviewing this book the writer adminis-
ters a galling flagellation to M. Jules Janin, whom
he suspects to have written the flashy introduction.
There are besides the usual correspondence and mis-
cellaneous criticisms.

CHEAP EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF
DICKENS and BUL WER.

Competition in literature has been productive of
nothing more beautiful than the cheap editions of
the writings of our two celebrated novelists—Charles
Dickens and Bulwer Lytton. For the enterprise
evinced in their publication we are indebted to the
eminent house of Messrs. Chapman and Hall—a
house distinguished as having first discerned the ,
genius of Boz, and ushered into the world of letters
that phenomenon of wit and gentleness. We wel-
come cordially a double series, which cannot fail to
elevate the tastes of the multitude, by placing within
the reach of mechanics and artizans the master-
pieces of two illustrious intellects. To appreciate
the importance of the adventure undertaken by
Messrs. Chapman and Hall in the issuing of these
little volumes at a price so reasonable, and in a form
so compact, we should bear in mind the position in
which the authors of " Pickwick " and "Rienzi"
stand in regard to their contemporaries. We are
bold to say, that Dickens and BulWer are to the
literary age of Victoria, what Godwin and Mac-
kenzie were to that of George 111., what Fielding
and Smollett were to that of George J., what Ad-
dison and Swift were to that of Anne, what (in
comedy) Farquhar and Wycherley were to that of
Charles 11., and what (in pastoral and dramatic
poetry) Spenser and Shakspere were to that of Eliza-
beth. Had any one spoken thus of the writer of the
" Man of Feeling" during his lifetime, the dictum would,
undoubtedly, have been laughed to scorn by many a
dissentient. And the same kind of panegyric would
have been similarly treated if pronounced upon " St.
Leon," or upon " Amelia," or " Sir Launcelot
Greaves," or the " Italian Pilgrimage," or " Mar-
tinus Scribblerus " or the " Recruiting Officer," or
the " Plain Dealer," or " Colin Clout," or the
"Lover's Complaint." Yet it is well sometimes if the
opinion of posterity can be anticipated. It is well if
a judicious meed of praise can be pronounced before
an author's bones are mouldering in the grave—if the
language of gratitude and admiration can be made
audible before the heart is still that that language
might tend to gladden. To do this, however, re-
quires some daring, because of the jealousies which
are always unhappily contemporaneous with success.
Without hesitation, nevertheless, we speak thus of
Dickens and Bulwer, believing the correctness of our
assertion from the fulness of our heart, and from the
unimpassioned recesses of our judgment. Formerly
works such as these under consideration would have
been so costly as to find purchasers only among the
wealthier classes. Three volumes octavo, at a
price varying from twenty-seven to thirty-
two shillings, would have confined " Martin
Chuzzlewit" or " Night and Morning" to the boudoir
of the lady or to the library shelves of the squire.
A.t the present rate of publication these fictions may
wile away the evenings of our labouring population,
the price of a volume being three or four shillings,
and the size not too bulky for the coat-pocket. In
this form we have " Pelham" and " Pickwick,"
" Nicholas Nickleby" and " Rienzi," the " Old
Curiosity Shop" and " Paul Clifford." The re-
mainder of the series will appear in due succession.
Thus will continue to be multiplied the fabrications
of these choice intellects—conveying each day to new
hearts the fruition arising from their creations. For
there is a bewitching truthfulness in the reflection of
Lord Byron—

" The beings of the mind are not of clay;
Essentially immortal, they create
And multiply in us a brighter ray
And more beloved existence : that which Fate
Prohibits to dull life, in this our state
Of mortal bondage, by these spirits supplied
First exiles, then replaces what we hate;
Watering the heart whose earlyflowers have died
And with a fresher growth replenishing the void."
Such beneficent and creative " beings of the mind"
abound in the writings of Mr. Dickens and of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton, and for this reason, if for
none other, it is a felicitous notion that of extending
the field of their popularity. We greet the effort
with our warmest approbation, and congratulate the
workers in our crowded haunts of commerce upon the
fabrication of the keys which are thus offered them to
admit them into the realms of fairyland.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART JOURNAL.

Extraordinary as have hitherto been the merit and
the enterprise, of this remarkable publication, they
are absolutely as nothing when contrasted with those
revealed in its number for this first of January.
Without any shadow of a question the Art Journal
is the most splendid illustrated periodical, and the
cheapest, that has ever appeared. To give any ade-
quate conception of the excellence of the magazine,
it would be necessary to transfer the engravings as well
as the letter-press to our columns. We can only say
that for half-a-crown the subscribers have received
for the January of 1849, four admirable engrav-
ings and a profusion of wood-cuts—engravings
worthy of the art of Strange, and woodcuts worthy
of the art of Orrin Smith. While among the literary
contributors are numbered—Mr. R. N. Wornum,
Dr. W. Cooke Taylor, Messrs. Burnet, Fairholt,
Hunt, &c., together with Mrs. S. C. Hall—who is,
as the saying goes, a host in herself. Among other
advantagesresulting to the public from the munificence
of Mr. Vernon must now be recorded this singular
improvement and extension of the Art Journal, for
the present development of enterprise in the publica-
tion, appears to have been suggested by the determi •
nation to lay before the mass of the people
engraved representations of the different pictures con-
tained in the gallery of paintings presented by that
gentleman to the British nation. As an appropriate
introduction to this important series of engravings,
we have, in the shape of a frontispiece to the Januar♦
number of the Art Journal, a copy of Pickersgill;S
portrait of Robert Vernon, Esq., or, as he should long
since have been rightly termed, Sir Robert Vernon,
Bart. The plate is simply but expressively

DEDIC ATED
TO

THE BRITISH PEOPLE ;
and we doubt not but that the British people will
prize this graphic delineation of one of their distin-
guished benefactors. We observe that a testimonial
in honour of Mr. Vernon has been
set on
foot by Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi
nent
subscriptions being received by
those emi
publishers for the purpose of raising a sum,
the inte-
rest of which is to be expended in the purchase of an
re eusai
this
annual medal, to be called the Vernon Medal, and to
be awarded to meritorious students by tchoeitilt:
of the Royal Academy. We cordially

graceful testimonial to the attention of the multitude.
Highland Music," by Edwin Landseer ; the
" Wooden Bridge," by Calcott, most exquisitt-A:i,;,
engraved by J. C. Bentley; the "Ino and Bacchus,"
of Roffe, a lovely specimen of female symmetry, are
the suhjects of the other engravings. Besides a
number of other woodcuts, there is a capital sketch
of Sir Martin Archer Shee, the venerable
and accomplished President of the Royal Academy,
and another (equally characteristic) of Etty ; an
emixllished pilgrimage to the shrine of Chatterton;
and a variety of the daintiest designs from manufac-
tures—the most graceful amongst which are tha
designs for a hand-bell, for the hand-pull of a carriage-
gate bell, for a grotesque door. scraper, and for a
cornice of intermeshed convolvoluses. Altogether the
Art Journal is as beautiful and valuable as it is un •

COURT CIRCULAR.
WIND SOR, MONDAY.
The inclemency of the weather prevented her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness and the younger
branches of the Royal Family from taking their usual
early walks this morning.
The Prince, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson, the
Hon. Colonel Phipps, and the Hon. Captain Gordon,
went out shooting in Windsor Forest.
No addition to the Royal dinner party this day is
expected.
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in
the Castle on Saturday evening, and performed the
following pieces :
Overture, "Les Diamans de la Couronne " Auber.
Double Quartett, No. 3 :—Andante con
Variazioni. Scherzo Allegro. Finale,
Allegro molto. First Quartett, two
violins, viola, and violoncello ; Messrs.
Sainton, Cusins, Hill, and H. Chipp.
Second Quartett, two violins, viola,
and violoncello ; Messrs. Day, Betts,
Nickel, and H. P. hardy.. Sphor.
Selection, " Schauspieldirektor" .. Mozart.

Mr. George Moffatt had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. Mr. Samuel Martin, M.P.,
had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon.
Baronet at the Home-office.

The Earl of Carlisle arrived in town yesterday
evening from his seat, Castle Howard, Yorkshire.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Colonies.

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-oilice for the Governors of Ceylon and
Hong-Kong.
The Lord Chancellor will sit in the Court at Lin-
coln's Inn, on Thursday next, the first day of Hilary
term. The Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., will not
assemble at his Lordship's residence on that day.