The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-09 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BEN CI-1.-(THIS DAY.)

THE QUEEN V. THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
This was an appeal from an order of Quarter Sessions,
at the instance of the Baptist Missionary Society, re-
specting the rating of their house in Moorgate-street.
It was an appeal against the payment of sewer and
other 'rates, for which the Quarter SestLions had held
it liable, on the ground that it was a charitable institu-
tion, and ought, in conformity with the Act of Parlia-
ment relating to such institutions, to be free from aoy
such imposts.
The COURT this morning affirmed the decision of the
court below. The institution did not come within the
category of those excepted from the payment of rates.
Decision affirmed.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Dennis Healy, charged with assisting in the escape of
Hickey, who stabbed the recruit M‘Macarthy, in Ox-
ford-street, on Thursday, was again brought up before
Mr. Jardine.

A man named Daniel Cleary, who saw the whole of
the fight, and took bl'Carthy away, and another Irish-
man, who was potman in the public-house where the
row commenced, were examined as to their previous
statements to the police-constable respecting the pri-
soner's having changed his clothes with Hickey; but
they both denied all knowledge of the change, and fur-
ther swore that they did not know of any acquaintance
between Hickey and the prisoner.
The MAGISTRATE was surprised that of so many wit-
nesses who knew the facts he could not find one to tell
the truth in so serious a case; but they should not
obtain their end, and ho would detain the prisoner in
custody.

Policeman E 99, who took Healy into custody, swore
that he saw him go into a public-house in New Oxford-
street, followed by a great crowd of people. He went
into the house in two or three minutes, and seeing the
prisoner in a changed dress, surrounded by a mob of
people, he took him to the station-house, upon the sus-
picion that something unusual was the matter. On the
way he learned that Hickey had stabbed a man, and that
Healy gave him his clothes to facilitate his escape. None
of those who said so came forward.

A sergeant-major of the Bengal Artillery in which
AlCarthy was enlisted, stated that be was still in a
danger,,us state.

The inpector of police hoped to establish the charge
if further time were given, and also to find Hickey.—Tho
prisoner was again remanded.

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of tin same
week in the previous year:—

-O g
Week Last c''4 07. P. Q ,
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. Week. E
ti
o bc,
0 F.
£ £
nne 2 Aberdeen ........ ........... . ..... 700 -
3 Amiens and Boulogne ..••••••••• •• •• 1,090 1,142
;2 Belfast and Ballymena .• •••-•• ' • • ' • • 5 8 389
3 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,175 785
13 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 673 -
May 27 Caledonian__ ......„ ............ 5,489 3,996
J une 2 Chester and Holyhead. •.........., 1,910 764
- Cockermouth and Workington.... .. - -
May 31 Dublin and Drogheda...... .
June 5 Dublin and Kingstown .... - •••• •• • • 1,377 1,424
2 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen .. • .
3 East Ang1ian......., ................ 721 -
2 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ... •••• • • - 4,142 3,430
2 Edinbnrgh and N0rthern............ 2,300 1,485
3 Eastern Counties and North Eastern .. 16,463 14,718
3 East Lancashire .............. ••• • .. 3,016 779
2 Eastern Union ..
2 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .....• 3,126 2,249
2 Glasgow and Greenock....
3 Great Northern and E. L........... 2,153 -
2 Great Southern and Western ........ 3,538 2,193
5 Great Western, &c •••••• • • • .. 23,003 20,551
Kendal and Windermere•••• - - - - - -
3 Lancashire and Yorkshire........ • ... 17,558 9,363
May 27 Lancaster and Car1i51e....... .. 2,299 1,889
June 3 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 221 __
2 Londonderry and Enhiskillen- ...... 140 139
3 London and North Western, &c. 45,226 42,034
3 London and Blackwall .........• .... 1,069 1,202
2 Londcn and Brighton ......... ••- • • 10,213 8,197
3 London and South Western . • ....... 12,381 8,780
2 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,998 2,522
3 Midland, Bristol, and liirminghain •. .. 23,815 19,172
3 Midland Great Western (Irish) .... • • 1,104 1,568
- Monklands .........„ „ - -
- Newcastle and Car1i51e............ - -
3 North British .. ... ....... • ••••• 3,074 2,i S 3
2 Paris and Rouen . .................. 5,351 3,639
2 Rouen and Havre ..... • • ........... 2,134 1,475
3 Scottish Central ....
3 Shrewsbury and Chester • ..... -•• • . 1,195 600
2 South Eastern and Branches .. ••• • • • 10,829 8,838
3 South Devon.. - .... •••-..- - •• •• 1,77 G Li i I
2 Taff Vale ..
Ulster • ••757 740
May 26 Waterford and Limerick.- -•••• • • .. 308 -
27 Whitehaven Junction ............... 243 167
June 3 York and Newcastle . ...... •••• • • • . 12,034 12,034
2 York and North Midland .••••• • • • •• 7,543 8,181

ROYAL ASYLUM OF THE ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.--
Yesterday the annual congregation of the boys educated
in the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society, for the
maintenance, clothing, and education of the children of
those " once in prosperity, orphans or not, of all nations,"
was held in the boys' school-room of the institution, at
Streatham, the Bishop of Norw ch in the chair. Up-
wards of two hundred visitors, chiefly ladies, attended.
Lord Robert Grosvenor, and other influential indivi-
duals, were also present. The Right Rev. Chairman, at
considerable length, addressed the meeting upon the
excellence of the institution, and the blessings of educa-
tion, which he was most happy to see so universally
extending, and which he hoped would be still more sup-
ported by the Government and the country at large,
without reference to sectarian limitation, or any religious
prejudice whatever. Ilia Lordship then proceeded to
dispense the several prizes awarded to those youths who
had been educated in the school, and who, up to the pre-
sent time, had maintained their characters for industry,
honesty, and perseverance in their several callings.
Forty-four of these parties received prizes, each of whom
were most paternally addressed by the R!glit Rev.
Prelate.

Titian HumArirrir.—We have heard of several in-
stances during the week of the most cruel. and hard-
hearted conduct on the part of the Irish this town
towards their own people and relations—instances we
could not credit were we not assured of them by persons
of undoubted veracity. In a h,,use in Mary Ana-street,
a lodging-house keeper turned out to his back 3 and a
niece of his, with whom she lodged, and allowed hPr to
perish in the place. lie very coolly went to the relieving
officer to get the body burled. Another old woman, in
Vachell's,cout t, was put into a coahhole, where she suf-
fered the agonies of cholera without help, until the
surgeon accidentally rescued her. A female, complain•
ing that her husband was ill of cholera, asked relief of a
surgeon in ercckhet blown. She was given some mode.
eine and 3d. to purchase mustard to -poultice her hus-
band's feet. The relieving ( fLer called in a couple of
hours afterwards, and found that the wretch had not
given the medicine to her hu4tand, and had spent the
money before she roached home. Another wife drank
3s. wo-th of brandy, which had been ordered for the
use of h :r husband, after he had died.—The Principality,

LITERATURE.

111ACTIIAIL'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL:

The carr(nt number of 111a;;71arts Journal is
unquestionably the best that has yet come under our
observation. The careful analysis of Macaulay's
Ili,tory is brought to a conclusion ; and the contri-
butions op:,,n with an admirable paper on the " Ca-
lamities of Genius." From this article we quote the
f most. truthful and excellent remarks about
the absurd fable respecting Galileo's imprisonment
in the dungeons of the Inquisition. The scorn with
which this lying fiction is confuted by the Journal
is not the less entitled to consideration seeing that
the organ is Protestant :
" Tlie popular history of the fortunes of Galileo is one
great mass of falsehood, but it serves a purpose, and
will, to the end of time, keep its ground. Whenever
an quack comes forward to bespeak public sympathy
with the morstrositiee of phrenology or mesmerism, he
begins his discourse kith the fabulous tale of Galileo's
dungeon, in order to warn the world against the crime
of persecuting new doctrines. The dungeon has no
phce in authentic history, and all the annoyance that
Galileo received he appears to have owed to his own
temper, which delighted in the excitement of a little
persecution. The restraint placed upon.- him by his
friends and admirers was confinement to palaces and
gardens of his own choosing, with wines of his own se-
lection, and the company and honour of the great. The
doctrine of the motion of the earth was, before his day,
taught by the mild and amiable Copernicus, with the ap-
probation of many of the clergy. But Gatiho did not
seek to disarm, but studiously courted hostility,. Some
accounts bear, that Galileo in his old age was poor, but
this poverty is undoubtedly spoken of comparatively
with the general splendour in which he had lived, as it
is certain that he left property behind him. Most men
of genius would be glad to pass through the world_ with
as little real ground of complaint against it as Galileo
had; it was his own blame that he had any complaint.
In this nineteenth century, should any philosopher pro-
pose a doctrine equally startling to the present as the
doctrine which Galileo proclaimed was to his age, we
would advise him, if he wish to avoid rather more serious
persecution than Galileo endured, to cultivate the
Christian temper and prudence of Copernicus rather
than indulge in the proud combativeness of Galileo."

The lecture upon " Shakspere," by Mr. George
Gilfillan, is like the rest of his compositions, an elo-
quent eccentricity—filled with many absurd and
beautiful ideas. He says of the mighty poet, very
finely, that he is among us " like an unseen ghost,"
exercising an extraordinary power over our thoughts,
language, imaginations, tempers, tastes, and manners.
He calls him in a sudden burst of homage "the
eighth wonder of the world." He exclaims front
.
the fullness of his admiration—" That Shakspere is
the greatest genius the world ever saw is ac-
knowledged now by all sane men,"—and "that
Shakspere is out of all sight and measure the finest
artist that ever constructed a poem or drama, is a
less general and yet a growing belief." Speak-
ing of the dramatic productions of Shaks-
pere, the lecturer says, " Their very faults are
needed to prove them human, otherwise their excel-
lences would have classed them with the divine." Of
other comic writers he says with a ridiculous em'
phasis of derision—" How long they used to .sit
hatching some chosen conceit; and what a cackling
they made when it had chipt the shell." "Why
Bardolph's nose," he exclaims, " eclipses all the dra-
matic characters that have succeeded !" In several
parts there are some very felicitous expressions, 11,
where Gulliver is called " the Day Book of a Fiend
and Timon " the magnificent outbreak of an injured
angel ;" or as where it is said that Shakspere spoke
intermittently of himself in "the escapes of his Sonnets
and the masquerade of his Plays ;" or as, where talking,
of the Elizabethan age, Spenser, Raleigh, Bacon, and
Shakspere are termed "its rich residuum of genius;
again, as where Macbeth is called " not a tragedy but
collection of tragedies," where the Tempest is said " to
rise before us as the New World to the eye of Coltun-
bus," or where in fine Hamlet is grandly called " the
Apocalypse of the writings of Sbakspere." But the
noblest panegyric—one of the noblest panegyrics we
ever remember to have heard pronounced on Sbakg-
pare, and we remember well, we cherish the remem-
brance of all that has been said in his praise by
Schlegel, and Johnson, and Emerson, and Hazlittt
and Mrs. Jameson,—is the remark with which Mt.
Gilfillan closes his lecture—a remark in which he con'
jectures that this earth " may be known in other parts
of the universe as SHARSPERE'S WORLD !" CordiallY,
that is to say from the core of our hearts, we com-
mend the following advice to those who cavil at
Shakspere as an immoral writer ; and let them re'
member that the advice comes from a clergyman;
" Let those," says the Rev. George Gilfillan, le;
those who prate of Shakspere's impurity, first of all
read him candidly ; secondly, read, if they can, Alas:,
singer, or Beaumont and Fletcher ; and thirdly, 11
they have Bowdler's contemptible Family Shakspere
fling it into the fire, and take back the unmutilated
copy to their bookshelves and their bosoms." The
advice is worth taking. Besides the contributions
already mentioned there is an entertaining review Of
Mr. Layard's Discoveries in Nineveh.

THE BRITISII POLITICAL, COMMER-
CIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND HIS-
TORICAL GAZETTEER, Travelling Road-
book, and County Atlas.
We are happy to see the steady progression of this
comprehensive work ; we have before us the 6th part
fully sustaining the excellence of its predecessors. It
contains a well designed and beautifully executed
map of North Wales, its number of county and
borough representatives in the Imperial Parliament,
the population and amount of assessed taxes in each
shire. This number is further embellished with on
exquisite engraving, the joint production of Messrs.
Burrell and Ashley, of the Hanwell Viaduct (Great
Western Railway). The proprietors appear deter-
mined that neither labour, industry, nor expeoe
should be spared in carrying out their useful and
tensive undertaking, and we trust they will receive
public support commensurate with their great exer-
tions. As a specimen of the minute and accurate
information it contains, we present our readers with
a short extract from the account of the ancient and
interesting city of

_
" BANGOR,
Carnervon—a. city and parish in the hundred of Uwell.
gorfoi, Union of Bangor and Btaumaris, North Wales,
247 i miles from London (coach road 245), nine frog"
CarnarTon, North-Western Railway through Chester t°
station, from Derby to station 119 k miles. Money of
ders issued here; London letters delivered seven .A.1}1.;
post closes seven P.M. The city stands at the foot of ,„.11
steep rock, in a narrow and fertile vale, near the mouth:
of the river Ogwen, at the uprer entrance of the Menit`
Straits. It is called Bangor the Great. Its name trans;
lated means either white choir,' or high choir,
to distinguish the city from " Bangor-is-y-ecetl,"
or
Bangortelow-the-wood.' It was formerly defended
by a strong castle, built by Hugh Earl of Chester, in the
time of William Rufus. The cathedral was founded 5,92
early as A.D. 525, by St. Daniel. It was destroyed
an
rebuilt several times during the intestine commottons
of
the Anglo-Saxon dynasty. The members of the ChaPte
are the bishop, dean, archdeacon, treasurer, and two Pre'
bendaries, who have endowments: there are a preceptor'
chancellor, and three canonseloenrksisstusnendowed, two vicaW
c.choral, orgaintiest, lay
town consists
wiptrinchitpbaelly.choorfistoernso,
long narrow street, and its chief architectural ofa:
bellishments are the cathedral, the palace,
deanery, the market-house, and the free-school; there'"
an almshouse and a.dispensary. The Wesleyan and Ca'.
vinistic Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Independents'
and the Roman Catholics, all have chapels here. Some
five•and-thirty years ago it consisted of but 90 or 100
houses, it now contains 1.171 houses; population 11-1
1841, 7,232; probable population in 1849, 8,317; la'
sessed property, 3,2701; poor-rates in 1837, 1,601/.
the neighbourhood is Peurhyn Castle, a superb stilt'.
tore lt is now tire seat of the Hon- IL of
'W
D. Pennant, a eescindunt of Tudor Trevor, 14°1'1a
Hereford and hittington, and oho was about half
-",.
century before the advent of William the CoLqueror t'"'"
founder ut the tribes of the Marches.
" The principal trade of Bangor is the exportation of
large slates from the quarries of Llandegai to part 1%11:
rhyn un a tramway. There is also considerable st"he,
communication Kith Liverpool during nine months °cot,
year. There is a good fishery in the &mita. War it•„
day, Friday. Fairs—April 5, June 25, September
and October 28. Bankers—Williams and Co., draw
Rcbarts, Curtis, and Co.; National Provincial Bank
draw on Joint-Stock Bank. Inns are—Penrhyn Arms'
Castle lintel, Liverpool Arms, and Royal 0ak.'4.0
Our limited space has not allowed us to do Juste
,°
this graphic sketch by giving it in extenso, but 0,
.0
trust sufficient has been given to convey some 1:10111,
of the immense labour and expense attending the COlfx,
lection of information so extensive and varied in reit°
tion to each particular hamlet, town, and city in
kingdom.

THE COLLEGE ATLAS. ed
A handsome volume has recently been publ.s-
"
by Mr. Collins, of Paternoster-row—ccntaining Apt
only twenty-nine beautiful engraved maps of differe„,,,",
countries, and continents, and archipelagoes, but en
prising also an alphabetical index of the latitudes 2111,0
longitudes of no less than 25,000 places. W 13510%0
never seen any work more justly entitled to the" it
of an Atlas for Schools, Colleges, and Families' „v,
gives, moreover, among other masses of informatl-r,
the heights of the mountains, the length of the rive in
and the extent of the waterfalls ; besides which,
each of the maps, " all the railways in operation
in progress are inserted." The whole is produced
a form compact, solid, and durable.

:„or
rand
Tux STRAND UNlON.—Yesterday 1110111,, w, iid
extraordinary meeting of the guardians of the Stra-to
Union was held to take into consideration the proprieilie
of purchasing Mr. Drouett's establishment, known 85 t,,0
pest• house at Tooting. The chairman, Mr. MoselP.„-a
taking the chair, explained the reason of the ince";
being called at such a time. Mr. Hewes then Pr,,
posed, " That the report of a committee that had
be
appointed be adopted, and that 3,500. be offered An
Drouett for his establishment;" which was seconded by
Mr. Wood. A lengthy and animated discussion ensue.t,
and the board divided—for the motion, 14; against 1
8; the 8 being the guardians returned by the Parish
St. Anne's, Soho.

, i

THE OLD LADY OF THE OLD

scHoor,.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
What a treat it is in these days to meet with " an
old lady of the old school "—one who is v.ise enough
to eschew peach-blossom silks and gauze bonnets, and
does not consult the " Book of " when she
requires a new dress. There is something truly re-
spectable in the rich black silk gown, exchanged at
Weddings and christenings for a brown lustre; there
is becoming simplicity in the snowy lace cap, with
the grey hair smoothly banded under the full bor-
dering, and there is an unfathomable charm about
those side appendages called pockets —we do not mean
those shallow modern reservoirs, that are only licensed
to carry a laced bit of cambric and an embroidered
purse—we mean those ample developments of stitched
dimity, some half yard deep, containing unlimited quan-
tity. You will be safe to find a pincushion, a bottle
of smelling salts, a thimble, a piece of sealing 'wax, a
Pocket book, filled with choice recipes and pirticular
records, a penknife, some caraway comfits and
Spanish liquorice, a Chinese puzzle, and an English
apple ; with, not unfrequently, a peg-top, a bag of
Marbles, and a half-dressed doll—these last items
being indicative symptoms of grandchildren. Indeed,
tne old lady is not seen in full character, without she
has a tribe of girls and boys of the second generation
fOowing up round her, who induce the exhibition of
her partialities and prejudices. As for the boys
learning Greek and German, it is all a parcel of non-
sense, and might just as well be done without. She
strongly objects to the girls stooping over framework
and drawing, and is rude enough to stigmatise the
first as " a lot of tru.npery," and honours the last
With some indistinct opinion, not at all calculated to
increase the artist's vanity. She cannot think it
quite right that misses of sixteen should take wine
With gentlemen, and is surprised that Master Tom,
Who was fourteen last birthday, should be advocating
the " elegance of tail coats."
She does not patronize French dishes nor Italian
Music. She enjoys roast beef, and has a juvenile at-
tachment to apple pie, being rather critical as to its
flavour of cloves and lemon-peel.
She insists that " Old Robin Gray," and "Time
has not thinned my flowing Hair," are far superior to
any compositions of \Veber and Rossini. Should
any human Goth venture to sing "Jessie, the Flower
of Dumblane," or "The Bewildered Maid," she will
grow ecstatic, and peer through her spectacles into
the face of the singer with most admiring affection,
expressing a hearty wish that the young people would
practise such things, instead of the fine " fal lals" that
begin with a groan and end with a scream.
" The Old Lady of the Old School" generally has
an especial and peculiar arrangement of working
tools, in the shape of scissors, pins, needles, tapes,
threads, and so forth, with which none dare to inter-
fere, under penalty of her severe displeasure and very
active resistance. She will graciously lend or give
from her stores ; but the article must be asked for,
,!I.ot. taken; and a vulgar snatch at a piece of bob.
bin, or an unceremonious appropriation of her best
scissors, may be productive of considerable
Mental excitement. She is ever obstinately bent
'3ll threading her needle herself, particularly by
candle, light; and when she by chance does allow en.
Other to perform the task for her, it is only on the
3reng:th of her firm conviction, " that the eyes of
the ne:edles in our days are made very differently to
What they used to be."
B.e is a little given to etiquette, and meets stran-
,,era with a viable evidence of having studied the
l'ilauet de 1.1. Cour ;" but if you can once get her
4) dilate on the acting of Mrs. Siddons, or get her
back %o the palmy time of Vauxhall, her formality
dis I
ves wonderfully, under the recital of a crush
d-e„ en lured when she went to see Isabella, and the
.vve,"ght: she felt in listening to Mrs. Bland's ditties,
"clle it poured with rain one summer night.
'3l* cannot be induced to admmire railways, and
strenuously declares, that people never know when to
it'op with their inventions and science. She thinks
verb, strange that the world cannot go fast enough
With„,o respectable stage-coaches and eight-horse wage.
isarls, es it used to do ; and on her son's proposing to
i.
Fir to Brighton by " express train, she indig-
ne
ee""Y and seriously begs him " not to talk null.
The Old Lady of the Old School" frequently ap-
pears as the patroness of a venerable spaniel, or anl-
- •
ringed tabby, whom she protects from the
violfo "I, clutches of her youngest grandson, with uni-
I'm benevolence. The domestics may occasionally
neglect herself, and she pardons the delinquents un-
Tiacerreedlv ; but if they venture to forget " Fop's"
srrier,, or Tibby's" milk, a very decided reminder
,now volunteered. On inquiry, the dog or cat will
often be found to have been the favourite, or gift, of
her. late husband, and the old lady's love for the dumb
thing, is. a tender and natural compliment to the me-
mory of the departed.
In lit erature she prefers Shakspere and Goldsmith.
She hor,.estly declares she cannot understand much of
the poet ry put forth in our time, but that she can
Vrfectl2r comprehend " Othello," and the " Deserted
illage " but then," as she observes, " those writers
Were so simple." She also has a predilection for
" Whittington and his Cat," and " Little Red Riding
liood:' All the juvenile posiessions in this depart,
meat are the gifts of grandmamma, and it is shrewdly
suspected she sometimes has a peep into them entirely
on her own account, without even the excuse of little
Tom's wanting to know what that pretty yellow
book is about.

As regards dancing, she cannot bring herself to
understand " The Lancers" or " First Set," and
looks with something very like contempt on the
Couple walking through " L'Ete ;" but when the
°Pening bars of " Haste to the Wedding" are heard,
and preparations for " down the middle and up again"
are making, then do we see the old lady nodding time
with her head, and betraying certain fidgetty symp-
toms with her feet; and, if it should happen to be
vhristmas-eve, do not be astonished if she suffer
!cure favourite and audacious young friend to pull
ter into the rank, where we find her jigging away
in a fashion that causes one to doubt whether her
frequentAt complaints of rheumatism are quite justified.
curds sbe is very serious, and sits down to a
rubber with impertubable gravity and precision. Even
the darling grandson stands a fair chance of being
ied if he dare to address her while the "odd
pending and, though she be of a most
forgivingaurrable and dispositio, she has been known
Cartto violent animosity for three months toward the
.°f old gentlemen, because he trumped her best
card
th" The Old Lady of the Old School" is generally
loyed
e and respected by the servants. She suppl:es
eh-n 1 with infallible remedies for chapped bands and
dblainc
and then, She manages to bequeath a silk dress now
awhile it is as good as new; and it is strongly
nsPeeted that the smart handkerchief arid fancy
Waistcoat, which the groom wears when he takes a
k with the housemaid, were the gift of " old
mistress"
!,133' dint of worrying and coaxing, her purse is con-
er ably lightened of its contents by the juveniles of
ter family. Edward has seen a splendid riding whip,
which he would fain add to his possessions ; and if
grandmamma would but give him ten shillings, he
could manage it. Little Torn, who has set his heart
and eyes on a monstrous kite, artfully contrives to
lead grandmamma to the toy-shop window, and full,
persuades her that it would be a delightful evening s
employment for her to help him to make a tail to it.
Miss Clara stops short on Ludgate-hill, being in-
spired with " love at first sight," by a sweet work-
box; and, considering she has made a marble bag
and hemmed two handkerchiefs in her lif -time,
the desire for such a necessary appendage is not
to be wondered at. Miss Emily, who has a pet
sPaniel, happens to see a beautiful silver collar, and
divines, with the most extraordinary sagacity, that is
Would just fie' Fido's neck. In short, there is no
end to the demands upon the old lady's generosity ;
but then it is well known she has a handsome inde-
Pendence, and " if she chooses to spend it in such a
Way, what is it to any one ?" It is quite useless for
Papa or mamma to interfere. It is vain to tell her
she spoils the children, for she only smiles a little
sadly, and says, " Never mind ! my race will„ soon
be
run I shall not be here long to spoil them ; and
then who can breathe another word of expostulation
t° `° the Old Lady of the Old School . p,,
Enzx COOK.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The Gellman company
gave Don Giovanni last night in very superior style.
-Lischek was the Giovanni; and he gave a fine manly
rendering of the character, singing the music with great
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energy. The cast included two new singers—rille •
B[iitz,r, as the Donna Anna, and Herr Rauscher, as the
Don Otigvio. The lady is an accomplished vocalist, a ith
% good soprano voice well cultivated. The tenor is of
average merit. Formes gave a new reading of the part
of Leporello—more in the style of the Figaro—but lie
Was eminently successful. Tha general getting up of the
Opera was excellent, and the encores were frequent.
BRoMPTON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTIoN.—Ye3-
terday evening a meeting of the board of manag ment
Was held at the hospital, Captain Lyon in the chair.
The general routine business hiving been disposed of, it
was stated that the committee would be ready for the
receival of tenders for the building of the new chapel on
the 21st inst. This edifice, the gilt of Sir Henry Foulis,
Bart., although strictly harmonizing with the main
building, will be erected with Kentish rag-stone, with
Caen stone dressings. The accommodation tor the patients
and officers of the institution will somewhat exceed 200.
The building of the sacred edifice will be proceeded with
as rapidly as possible.
MORE POISONING FOR BURIAL FEES.--CoAIMITTAL
OP A WIFE FOR THE MURDER OF IlElt HUSBAND.-
11EYFIAM, JUNE 6.—A protracted investigation has Leen
Pending the last five weeks at Hsltwhistle, near this
place, before Mr. Richards, the district c3roner, concern-
lug the alleged murder of William Hornsb who :a
stated to have been poisoned by his wife Christiana
Hornsby. The prcceedings, which throughout have been
conducted with closed doors, terminated yesterd ly. The
jury returned a verdict of " \Vihui murder" against
Christiana Hornsby, who was forthwith committed on
the comer's waxrant for the trig at the ensuing assizes.