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proceeded to the Tine street police station, and gave in.
formation of the robbery.
The prisoner was taken into custody on Saturday
afternoon.

Sergeant Gray, 10 C, said in consequence of informa-
tion he had received, he went to No. 4, aarset,treet,
where he saw the prisoner Brown. Witness informed
Ii m that he was a police-officer, and must take him into
custody for robbing his mistress of a quantity of silver
Plate. The prisoner replied that it was so, that he did
not intend to steal the plate, and that he had only bor•
rowed it with the intention of returning it by Monday,
(this day), when he should have surrendered hims,li up.
The prisoner added that he had written a letter to Mr.
alansfield, acknowledging his crime, and begging forgive-
ness. Witness then took him to the stationaind on searching
Lint found 11. 144. in gold and silver, but no duplicates.
Westmoreland, 27 C, said he apprehended the pr sorer
Jones on Saturday night at the Marquis of Granby
tithlic-house in South Audley-street. He asked the
Prisoner if he was acquainted with the prisoner Brown,
and whether he had pledged any articles of plate for
him. He said he had not, but he had pledged articles
of wearing appar.l for him. Witness then said he
roust take him (prisoner) to a pawnbroker's at Knight's.
bridge. The prisoner then admitted that he had
Pledged plate for Brown once, and that he had re
ceived the plate from the prisoner Brown at Mrs.
Mansfield's residence. Witness then conveyed him to
the station.
Mr. Layton Vincent, pawnbroker, IS, Queen's
28 hßrompton, produced a silver teapot, pledged on the
of April by the prisoner Brown. Witness had
other articles pledged by the prisoner, which he would
Produce on a tuture day. He also produced some silver
Spoons, which were pledged on the 7th of January bj
the prisoner Jones, who represented himself to be in the
service of the other prisoner, Witness did nct suspect
the truth of this assertion, as the prisoner Brown used to
drive about in a stylish dog-cart, accompanied by the
Prisoner Jones who was dressed in livery.
Samuel 011iff, assistant to Messrs. Grant, pawnbroker,
108, Knightsbridge, Troduced two silver spoons pledged
by
the prisoner Brown on the 12th of January. He had
Several other articles of plate which he would produce
on the next examination.
Mr. Mansfield identified the whole of the plate pro-
'aced as being the property of his mother.
The prisoners were then remanded until Monday next.
II

EL/OT WARBURTON'S NEW

W 0 II K.

MEMOIRS OF PRINCE R UPERT AND
THE CAVALIERS ; including their Private
Correspondence, now first published, from the Ori•
ginal Manuscripts. By EliotWarburton, Author
of " The Crescent and the Cross." 3 Vols.
To publish a work commemorative of the adher-
ents of King Charles the First, at a moment
when liberalism, merging, in many instances,
into extreme democracy, reigns paramount,
appears, at first sight, almost an act of auda-
city. On consideration, however, we find the
adventure of Mr. Eliot Warburton singularly well-
timed. It is because the principles of democracy are
triumphant that we can so well afford to consider the
history of the Cavaliers. On the eve of a battle the
most generous fueman will be anxious to underrate
the strength and taleAs of his opponents, but after
the victory it is otherwise. After the victory, con-
scious of our dearly bought security, we may, with-
out scruple, extol the courage and bear witness to the
virtues of the fallen. The free people of England, the
inheritors of the dearly-purchased fruits of the
civil war—

" The sons of sires that baffled
Crowned and sceptred tyranny ;
That defied the chain and scaffold
For their birthright,"
and gloriously obtained it, can now regard with sym-
path( tic admiration the daring and disinterested
devotion of the loyal Cavaliers. Eyes are now sad-
dened with sympathy for the sorrows of King
Charles which, two hundred years back, would
have sparkled with indignation against the tyrant.
Hearts now throb with exultant admiration
at the records of Rupert's chivalrous gallantry
and incredible triumphs, which two centuries since
would have throbbed stoutly beneath the buff-doublet
of the Roundhead, and stirred up their owners to resist
to the death the foreign prince and the abettors of
tyranny. Therefore it is we look upon these volumes
as being equally well-timed in their appearance as they
are interesting in their contents. Mr. Eliot Warburton
himself participates largely in those double seeti-
ments to which we have just referred. As the bio-
grapher of the Cavaliers, his sympathies (could it be
otherwise ?) are largely enlisted in favour of his heroic
heroes individually. Nevertheless, he is no advocate of
oppression. He deplores the acts, while he exculpates
the actors. The portrait of King Charles, for example,
drawn by his courteous and tender, hut, nevertheless,
truthful band, is perhaps as faithful a representation
of the character of that unfortunate monarch viewed
in the most favourable light as is the picture of Van-
dyke of his outer man. The following passage de-
scribes the feelings of very many among us with
regard to our early impression of King Charles, it
also affords a striking evidence of Mr. Warburton's
loyal prepossessions and liberal convictions (it was,with
"reluctance," be it observed, that he relinquished his
loyal belief). As the King rode towards Nottingham,
preparatory to raising his standard, it is said. that
his countenance was very melancholy ; and here Mr.
Warburton eloquently exclaims—
" Well might he be very melancholy;' well might
the shedow of his soul's mistortene be dark upon that
brow—that lofty brow, so familiar to our memory! How
many of us can recollect our childish sympathy for the
first time touched by the power of art, as we gazed upon
the portrait of that mournful face: the innocent boyish
enthusiasm that kindled within us as we heard from
loyal lips of the wrongs and sufferings for which so many
of our fathers died. It was only in after years, when re-
luctantly forced to abandon the once literal creed of hings
can do no wrong,' that we detected other characteristics
besides those of nobleness and truth in the martyr monarch
of Vandyke and the Cavaliers. Yet even then, when
better read in the dark facts and darker calumnies that
history reveals, we trace in those sad features the cha-
racters of weakness rather than of wickedness; the un-
erring signs of a vacillating mind are visible; and that
high-arched brow and uncertain lip, the dlicate soft
hand that drops by his side with all the helpless grace
of a girl, the very attitude in which he stands—all be-
speak a spirit ill-calculated to encounter the storms of
a state. It is not only after misfortune amid disappoint-
ment had done their work, that these characteristics be-
come visible in the portraits of Charles. From the very
first, even when he sat to Velasquez during his romantic
visit t 3 romantic Spain, buoyed up by lusty youth and
a bridegroom's hope—even then his portrait wears a sad,
doomed look, as if he felt already destined to expiate
the crimes and follies of his tyrant ancestors."
Mr. Warburton's narrative is necessarily one-sided,
not in an invidious sense, not with regard to the
manner of its expression, but to the matter of its
details. It does not profess to be a history of the
civil war, it is a history of the doings and sufferings
of the dauntless Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers.
"We must now bid adieu to politics," says the
author to his reader at the commencement of the
second volume ; "for good or ill, lilte Sir Edmund
Varney, we are enlisted with the Cavaliers, and must
take the consequences. Henceforward, like the com-
batants, we shall be too much occupied in the field to
think of abstractions. The king's banner is dis-
played, the trumpets are sounding to the standard,
and we have only to march forward with our Cava-
liers." A dangerous but most attractive invitation.
We accept it, and we do march forward; but how-
ever much, for the time, carried away by tha infectious
ardour of the gallant body we ate accompanying, we run
little risk of being induced to enlist under the royal ban-
ner ; for, thanks to Mr. Warburton's first volume, the
most ignorant student of history is already " fore-
warned" and consequently " forearmed." We might
almost imagine that our author, aware of the fatal
faseinatioe of his theme, had conscientiously resolved
to give a warning to the unwary, and place the bane
and antidote alongside. It is only in the
second volume, he it remembered, that he exclaims
" \\'e must hid adieu to politics—we are enlisted
with the Cavliers !" In the first volume he has given
a " summary of everts preceding the war," in which
with a masterly hand he exhibits those errors and
faults on the part of Charles, which occasioned and
excused the rebellion of the people. " Charles 1.,"
says Mr. Warburton, " was heartily welcomed to the
throne by the people of England. Had he understood
their true position and his own he might have been
indeed the noblest King in Christendom." Charles
was, however, far from possessing that all-important
knowledge. His ideas were retrogressive, his people's
progressive. From the very first the King and his
Parliament were at variance, but as yet
the King had, apparently, the upper hand.
During the after portion of this history we
often have occasion to lament the misfortunes of
Charles, but while so lamenting we must not forget
what is recorded in the commencement of the first
volume. We must not forget, when disposed to
censure the severity of the Parliament, how in the
beginning of his reign the King had continually
exercised his prerogative by dissolving the Parliament
almost as soon as it was elected, and at one time had
refused to call a Parliament for " eleven long years."
During these years "the King ruled at will," we
quote Mr. Warburton, "as despotically as any
sovereign in Europe." The country was at peace,
" but the repose was only such as ensues when
mortification has supervened upon some deadly
wound ; the disease that inwardly consumed the nation
was fast increasing under the hectic mask of health.
The stern Parliamentary physicians watched its pro-
gress patiently from afar or from prison, biding their
time. . . Men did not know at first that they were
enslaved, no more than Charles knew that he was
become a despot. . . The endurance of the men of
England was daily put to a more trying teat ; every
successful invasion of their rights was taken as a
proof that they would bear still more. Cruel expe-
dients to raise revenues were put in practice ; odious
monopolies invaded the comfort of every man's fire-
side, and there was no redress or any prospect thereof."
We find in a foot-note the following quaint quota-
tion from Sir John Culpepper, upon the universality
of taxes These, like the frogs of Egypt,
have gotten possession of our dwellings, and
we have scarcely a room free from them ; they
sip in our cup, they dip in our dish, they sit by our
fire; we find them in our dye-vat, washing-bowl,
pa ov,nw.tirldyl e r;ni
ont
tgh
byb
aotxe.
have
us I
ah
nepryiknes.hd” areu sAfwtr
ni ttinhh
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and
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eleven years it was found necessary to summon " the
great paymaster, a Parliament (we again quote Eliot
Warburton), for every extra-parliamentary source
had been drained dry. They met (on the 13th of
April, 1640) ; the King asked for money, the Com-
mons for redress; neither party attained its desires.
The SHORT PARLIAMENT was dissolved on the sth of
May." On the 3d of November the LONG PARLIA-
MENT first assembled. Here Charles " encountered
more awful than ever confronted him on
atall
circuit
arrayreu i battlefield.
of Pytn and Hampden had been riding
all England to collect and to distribute
statistics of the people's wrongs; St. John and Holles
had digested and arrayed a record of thesewrongs ;
Fiennes and Vane had dilated on them. Falkland,
II) de, Rudyard, Seldel,n,,RwOLresall—sotitihaetre
vspl,nearddingratplige
people's wrongs
id the real rights of the op-
through all England, at
We have gis
the sound."
pressor were for a time ove.7n.
ones as an evidence of
`these aqnutol t esti! teentes,e datit d"
the liberality of Mr.
we might give !witty simwirlarh
tirlpanegyrics on the Cava-
liers,ithstanding his occasional
urton's sentiments, not-
cause. In spite of the
and his (at times) seemingmantiiandtve yattaching
chapters of this work are, to 0.0
to the exploits of the Cavaliers,ror tthheinliiinntgro,dhuncrtodrlyy
less attractive. This portion is
superior to the rest. It is written ronfplestya•nled,
winithpoainsti
g (
energetic eloquence that renders. it most, effective and
most emphatic. The Kin 's ill-time visit to the
Parliament House to demand the arrest of the " five"
stile tubers is an admirable specimen of Mr. Warbur-
ton's felicitous and highly picturesque style
By such advice the doomed King committed the
crowning error of his whole disastrous reign. He pro-
cot ded suddenly to the House of ,Commons, at.ended
by four hundred cavaliers and servants.' The tramp
of armed men was for the first time iu that

always revered and now awful assembly; and the royal
voice was heard above their clamour ' commanding, on
their lives, his cagier followers to stand back.' And the
King entered. Ile took off his hat and bowed in respect
to the senate, whose honour he so outraged, and then
he advanced to the Speaks chair. The Elector Pala-
tine alone'accom. pilled him through the numbers who
had risen, and stood uncovered to receive his Majesty.
Thei solemn eilerce with which he was received con-
fused the irresolute and wavering King; the Speaker
left the chair for him; but he sload hesitating on the
step, as he looked round for the five who had so long set
his power at defiance, His glance encountered a sight
to make a firmer spirit quail; the representatives of
England and its wrongs stood there; made strong
through the King's former weakness, stronger than ever
now! His present accusers, his future judges, with quiet
and stern observance noted down every act end word of
their invader and their future victim. It was a trying
ordeal: a Crome ell might have braved it, as afterwards
he did, with unflinching hardihood; but Charles was
unequal to the task. Suddenly his false position became
apparent to hire; he faltered in his demand for his
enemies' arrest, and then broke down into the exclama-
tion, The birds are flown!' A few hurried words, de-
siring that the accused Members might be sent to him,'
was all he added, and then he left the House as ab-
ruptly as he had entered. Sounds of Privilege!
followed him as he passed from the House; and
Caval'er shouts of ' For a King! for a King,' received
him in the street."
It is now time, however, that we withdraw our
gaze from the calm sad countenance of Charles to con-
template his impetuous and gallant nephew—the os-
tensible hero of this book :
" There is a loud fame of Prince Rupert in our civil
wars," says Mr. Warburton, " yet singularly little of his
private history is known. He seems to start into exist-
ence when the royal standard of England is set up; he
advances that fatal banner through its terrible career
with supernatural but ill-starred bravery; arid when it
is finally struck down at Naseby, he vanishes at the
same time from our view. Yet even during that memo-
rable strife, there is a rumour, rather than a knowledge
of him; mothers hush their infants with the terror of
his name, leaguring armies retire at the first challenge
of bis trumpets, the stern energy of the Puritans gives
way before his resistless charge; Roundhead hatred and
Royalist recrimination accuse him as the evil genius of
the war. Yet, whence he came, or whither he went, few
have inquired or can tell.
" The few glimpses by which he is afterwards viewed
arc equally singular and varied. We find him a veteran
in' arms and renown while yet a boy; a prisoner for
years before he attains to manhood; leader of the Cava-
liers from the first hour that he meets them; conqueror
in every battle, though defeated; maintaining the war on
sea when it has been crushed upon the land; buccaneer-
ing in the name of loyalty on the Spanish main; honest
amid corruption, philosophic among triflers in the Court
of Restoration; laying aside his impetuosity, but not his
gallantry, as admiral of our fleets; returning thence to
the chemist's laboratory and the painter's study; and,
finally, dying in peace and honour, here in old England,
beloved by all the gentlemen of the county,' and ' gene-
rally lamented; having maintained such good temper and
such happy neutrality in the present unhappy divisions,
that he was honoured and respected by men of the most
varying interests.'
" Can this bo the person whom we have hitherto
known, only to neglect or to condemn? Surely there
must have been some heroic nature in this man which
prejudice alone has darkened or denied: some prejudice
more fatal to his fame than the hatred or the obloquy of
his contemporaries. Let the generous and candid reader
but take the facts of Prince Rupere's life as they are
here imperfectly arranged; let him grant to them such
credence as their authorities may seem to deserve and
such interest as their romantic character may claim;
and surely he will admit that the chief of the Cavaliers
deserves a higher place in story than he has hitherto ob-

tallied."'
Such is the romantic hero, whose eventful fortunes
we are now invited to follow. Prince Rupert seemed
fitted by nature to be the leader of the Cavaliers. He
was an impersonation of that chivalry and heroism to
which they were devoted, and with which they were
filled—" frank, haughty, rash,";and irresistible, he rode
to war, "no vizor on his helm." His exploits, like
those of the French Paladin Murat, whom in daunt-
less gallantry he much resembled, seemed to revive
again the days of Charlemegne, and the marvels of
the Round Table. While yet in early youth, before
his visit to England, he made his stern apprentice-
ship in war, and that same reckless daring which
proved so fatal to the Royal cause on Edgehill, made
the young hero a prisoner in the Castle of Lintz be-
fore he had attained the age of twenty. Here he
remained imprisoned three years, " his spirit pining
like that of a caged eagle." We quote the following
passage, referring to an incident of this captivity as
a contrast to the more serious matters which we have
just been considering, and as a specimen of that
singular gracefulness of style and sentiment which
occasionally gives such a charming fascination to the
writings of Eliot Warburton :
" Among the few recreations permitted to the Prince
wee an occasional dinner with the governor, and iree
access to his gardens It was destined that his impri-
sonment, as well as his chivalric career, should lack no
thing of the requirements of romance. Strange as it
may read in thee mater-of-fact pages, Count Kuffstein6
had a daughter, an only, cherished child, who lived in
his stern old castle, like the delicate Dryad of some
gnarled tri e. She was one of the brightest beauties of
her ago,' and rarely gifted, .no lease excellir'g in the
chorines of her mindo than of her fair° bodye,' The
imagination of the reader will easily supply what the
faithful historian is not permitted to record. How the
heroism, the misfortunes, and the noble person of her
royal captive, touched her imagination: how the impe-
tuous young Prince, whose thoughts had ever fed on
tales of lose and glory, passed his time in that grim
castle, hitherto without an object save to watch time and
the old Danube rolling by: how this fair girl dawned
upon his gloomy life, charged by her father to cheer
her royal prisoner, and, if it might be, to win his soul
over to the ancient faith. Does the reader pity him—or
even her? Though soon to be forsaken, she never was
forgotten in all the wild vicissitudes of his dangerous
and reckless career ; and to woman's foolish heart even
this is something. And for him—how often, whin
wearied of the doomed yet charmed life ho bore, must
his thoughts have flown back to that fair girl : back,
from the hushed ambush, or raging battle-field, or stormy
seas, to those quiet and innocent days, when he listened
to her loving controversy, as they stood by the antique
battlements, with the old Danube rolling by!
" We are not writing romance, but actual biography,
gleaned painfully out from crabbed old manuscripts,
through which her character still shines fair and purely.
For those quaint old letters tell me that thenceforward
hee never named her without admiracon, and ex-
pressinge a devotion to serve her with his lyfe ; and it
requires nothing more to tell me that her honour had
been guarded by his own.
"Nevertheless, with war resounding all around him,
with so many prizes to be fought for, and so much glory
to be won, Mdlle. de Kuffstein must have sometimes
found it a hard task to cheer her captive in his cage.
How his young spirit must have chafed as he saw
glimpses of the war roll by and vanish far away. And
to loose himself from this captivity, this living grave, he
had but one word to utter; he had but to follow the ex-
ample of the chivalrous Henry of Navarre, to profess
himself a proselyte, and to be free. His Royal uncle, his
imperial enemy, his lady-love, his worldly interest, were
all in favour of the change; his own conviction, his own
brave and manly heart alone against it. Be this remems
bered when his many errors are recounted!"
When released from his imprisonment, the young
Prince joined his uncle, Charles 1.. in England
(Prince Rupert was the son of King Charles'
sister, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia). He
arrived at a very opportune moment. The
King was at Nottingham, prepared for the first time
to raise the STANDARD and proclaim war. Rupert's
presence "at the little court of Nottingham," says
Mr. Warburton, "infused new life and confidence
among the drooping followers of the King. Charles,
harassed by timorous and conflicting counsels, found
relief in the prompt, vigorous, and decisive character
of his nephew. Prince Rupert not only then, but
throughout the war, was most useful to that
cause by infusing the confidence that he felt,
and by a soldier-like simplicity of purpose more
difficult to balk or to cope with than all the wiles of
Machievelli." Decision was a quality much required
in the vacillating councils of Charles. Had Prince
Rupert been' half as prudent as he was brave, and
halt' 8.5 skilful in carrying out as he was in achieving
a victory, the cause of the Royalists would indeed
have been strengthed by his advent. Charles reposed
unbounded confidence in his nephew. Rupert
received orders " from no one but the King," and the
King almost invariably allowed him to take his own
course. We have said that the first volume of this
work, where it relates to the political history of the
time, is better written and more interesting than the
succeeding portions, but we are inclined to contradict
this assertion when we turn again to the opening of the
second volume, where we " march forward with the
Cavaliers." Eliot Warburton paints these martial
scenes con amore. " Those only who have witnessed
it," he exclaims, " can judge of the excitement of an
army's first march, before disaster has withered one
of its high hopes, or death has severed one link of the
soldier's genial brotherhood. There is something
mysterious in the stirring and irresistible appeal that
trumpets and banners make to the heart through ear
and eye. The very war-horse feels the spell of that
fierce music; myriads of gallant hearts have shed
their blood to save that silken rag ; whole troops have
flung away their lives that the symbol of their honour
might still float in triumph over the bloody remnant
of their forces." The Cavalier army presented
a gallant appearance on the eve of the
battle of Edgehill, but unfortunately for their cruse,
the jealous rivalry and the scrupulous etiquette of
the Court, too much predominated in the royal camp.
"The jealousies and enmities, inseparable from such
volunteer and independent corps, began to exhibit
themselves. Prince Rupert himself, I fear," says
his biographer, " had not sufficient tact to accommo-
date himself to his peculiar position ; he was im-
patient of the military neglect and courtier conven-
tionalities of his noble associates. He was somewhat
jealous, too, of his ovsliauthorhiteyl.d,
‘, as usual"l3eforet dividedhebatt
battle
of Edgehill a council was
into two parties."
Lord Lindsay, the General-in-
Chief, favoured " the cautious and steady tactics of
" Ru
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the .4ouwf(T
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rapid.' tactics

Swede (Gustavus) ; he scorned the Roundhead forces,
and their leader too; he insisted on the expediency of the
most simple and dashing movements, with such an
unpractised but high-nettled army as the King's."
Rupert prevailed, and certainly had it been followed
up with prudence, his plan would, in all likelihood,
have been successful. When he comes to describe
the King addressing his army on the morning of the
battle, Eliot Warburton very appropriately intro-
duces Macaulay's spirited lines in the "Battle of the
League "
" The King has come to marshal us," Sse-
" I do not know," he observes, in a parenthesis,
" whether Mr. Macaulay will pardon my application
of these noble lines of his, but most of my readers
will." Appropriate as the lines are, most certainly
Alacaulay would not have applied them to King
Charles—
" Ile looked upon the traitors and his glance was stern
and high," &c.
Macaulay, as we all know, is a zealous
advocate of the Parliament ; he considers
the execution of Charles perfectly justifiable
—ride an essay in the Edinburgh Review
written when, as Mr. Warburton justly defines it,
" he was an advocate, and not as now a judge, in the
court of history." Throughout these volumes the
annalist and eulogist of the Cavaliers seems to be
carrying on a good-humoured controversy with his
illustrious brother author. lle continually quotes in
his foot-notes passages from the above-mentioned
essay, and the recently published history (Macaulay's
history was not published until the first volume and
part of the second volume of "Prince Rupert " had
passed through the press). There is nothing in Eliot
Warburton's book that we like so well as his frank
and generous admiration of Mr. Macaulay, so con-
stantly and heartily expressed. The jealousy of au-
thors is proverbial, and all true lovers of literature
will, we are confident, like ourselves, rejoice in this
noble exception to a too general rule. But these
reflections have led us far from Edgehill. We will
let Eliot Warburton himself describe the grand and
terrible opening scene in which Rupert's dashing
valour, and, alas! his reckless impetuosity, were evi-
denced in so remarkable a manner :
" There is no sound that ever rent the air so terrible
as the deep silence of suspense
before the battle-word is
given; it is the moment when the soul sinks under the
awe of something that thrills deeper than any fear.
During that dread pause many a fervent prayer was
offered up by the true hearts that abounded in both
armies, but none was more simple and sincere than Sir
Jacob Astley's, uttered manfully aloud—' Oh, Lord!
thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget
thee, do not thou forget me!' then rising, he exclaimed,
March on boys!'
" The Parliamentary army began the fight by three
shots from their. guns upon the right; the King's artil-
lery instantly replied. Then the whole line advanced;
as the Cavaliers approached, a horseman darted from the
enemy's column and rode up to Prince Rupert, flinging
from him the orange badge he bore. It was a lieutenant
in Sir Faithful Fortescue's troop, to announce the defec-
tion of his commander with all bis men, and that the
signal would be the firing of a pistol in the ground. The
Prince, already on the move, observed the signal and
ferebore to assail the deserters, but Killigrew and Byron
slew several of them before they discovered their pur-
pose. Rupert now led on the royal horse, commanding
them to use their swords alone, and charge!' Before
the word was fairly uttered, that brilliant cavalry was
on the spur; away in one wild sweep of magnificent con-
fusion the proud chivalry of England dashed; in generous
rivalry each seeking to strike the first home-stroke for
God and for the King!' What could abide that thun-
dering charge, all spur, no rein, every heart within that
armour flashing was on,fire, every voice a shout of triumph,
every plume bent forward to the charger's mane! The
Roundheads seemed swept away by the very wind of that
wild charge. No sword was crossed, no saddle emptied,
no trooper waited to abide the shock; they fled with
frantic fear, but fell fast uader the sabres of their pur-
suers. The cavalry galloped furiously until they reached
such shelter as the town could give them; nor did their
infantry fare better.
" The Cavaliers, meanwhile, seemed as if carried
away by the torrent of the fugitives; they had encoun-
teredandthey thought the battle won;
no opposition,
its prizes were before them
with spoil, and magezines full of the arms so sought for
and desired, choked up
the narrow streets, and were
: Roundhead waggons laden
they fled, until II d 's
Stratford, amp en
the flying enemy as madly
as
chocked and turned
brigade, coming up from
soon plundered by the troopers, whilst others pursued
backward the pursuit.
" Meanwhile the royal left wing was equally broken
for Wilmot, who found
goons had cleared the way.
so rapidly had Ru-
scarcely an enemy to oppose P
broken the spirits of the Round-
headand routed by success. Sir Arthur Aston's stout
pen's impetuous impetuous charge
If d
left lost all control over itse ,
riot, so also the
the field in pursuit of Meldrum's flying
spread over
.-
Nor did the contagion sop er ,
t h e Sir John
troopers.
horse. As the right wing of the Cavaliers had run
d forward their eager horse to share in the pursuit.
and the King's infantry was left exposed and unpro•
Byron and Lord Digby, who commanded the reserve,
tected. .
" And now the fortunes of the day seemed wholly
changed; the royal cavalry was
_all scattered as if de
feated, and for the most part wandering beyond the
enema ; the artillery harness was cut away and rend: red
useless; the Royal Guards in total rout, and only a few
battalions under ltuthven and Astley still showing au
unbroken front. The whole field of fight was so be-
wilderingly confuted that none knew where to seek his
officer or troop, and many were slain or made prisoners
by those whom they mistook for their own men."
" When Prince Rupert returned with such troops as
he could rally from the chase, he found a great alteration
in the field; his Majesty, with only a few noblemen
about him, and the hope of so glorious a day quite
vanished.' The Prince vainly attempted to gather his
broken troops again, for one last charge, which would
probably have been final for that war. But it was impos-
sible to get together effective men enough even to at-
tempt it. Evening was set in; the few horses that
could be mustered were exhausted by want of food, and
their long and furious chase. Wilmot's, indeed, on the
far left were comparatively fresh, and Lord Falkland,
whose blood was now up, and whose oft repeated cry of
• Peace, peace, peace,' was forgotten, conjured the Com-
missary to charge Sir William Balfour's dragoons, who
alone remained unbroken, and protected their exhausted
infantry. Wilmot made a most unsoldierlike reply—
' My Lord, we have got the day, let us live to en-
joy the fruit thereof.' The King thought, and with
better reason, that he had lost it; and what is
stranger still. Lord Essex also thought himself defeated;
so much so, that in one of the last attacks made by
Ruthven and Astley's brigade, he took his stand in the
front of his pikernen, resolved to take no quarter, and to
die. For him, indeed, there would have been no alterna-
tive, if defeated.
" In this doubt of all sides,' says Lord Clarendon,
who was an anxious spectator of the battle, Night, the
common friend to wearied and dismayed armies, parted
them; and in dismal anxiety and doubt the Cavaliers
and their King prepared to bivouack on the fiercely-
contested and undecided field."
Such was the battle of Edgehill, " one of the
bloodiest fights on record ; scarcely thirty thousand
men were engaged, and of that uumber nearly six
thousand were buried on the field." Both
sides suffered grievously. " raor uterque fuit,
victus uterQue fuit, is the truthful and candid
verdict of Sir Richard Bulstrode,
,who bravely
fought the battle he describes.' But we
have followed the Cavaliers far enough on their ad-
venturous march. 'We have quoted sufficiently from
Mr. Warburton's eloquent narrative to corroborate
our assertion that it is as attractive in manner as it
is romantic in material. And yet we have not ana-
lyzed one-half of the three volumes. The history of
Rupert is as various in character as it is startling.
Not only does his adventurous career display the
prowess of the soldier ; we meet with him again on
the blue waters, bearing the name of an admiral,
and following the course of a buccaneer. The
perils and glories of his sea exploits form
another very interesting episode in this work.
We have, however, dwelt so long upon the first
portion that we must content ourselves with
this brief reference to the marvellous chapter entitled
" Rupert at Sea." Yet another vicissitude, another
and a more marvellous transformation !
ROupnerste a
hasor
on land, in the Court or the camp,
hitherto appeared the same, " etait toujours moldat,"
a the
sS
lrPhilipmetamorphosis
Warwi
Warwick
appearssaid o
in
of
him
hicnire now, however,
and incredible, We behold
him a philosopher and an artist. In 1656, long after
King Charles's stormy life was over, we find his sol-
dier-nephew thus occupied :
" In the first leisure of his manhood, his mind re-
verted with a sense of luxury to the philosophical pur-
suits in which even his youth had taken pleasure. He
now found new sources of unexhausted interest in the
forge, the laboratory, and the painter's studio.
" It was during this lull in the stormy life of Rupert,
tthinatto.h e
so discoveredlong
a goor
a s improvedl637, whenupon i
his art of merso-
mured in the
Castle of Lintz, he had exercised his
active genius in
some etchings that still remain, and bear that date. He
now returned, in his voluntary retirement, to the objects
ii
that had then charmed his enforced leisure. His varied
biography
busied with it for so many years. The plumed helmet,
the cuirass, end gallant war-horse are laid aside; the
namepresents
was
hiddenno more
from
strikingo
ni theworld that bad been period than this,
*%hen his
good sword that so often hewed his fearless way through
fiercest danger hangs idly on the wall; the
stout ship
that so long atemnu d the storm, and explored
strange seas, lies rotting on the banks of Loire. Tho
beauties of Paris are forgotten, calumny itself is silent.
The young philosopher, royal, warlike, and renowned,
has retired from the world, and adopted the student's
bravely ascetic life; the same energies that once led
ltgions along the battle-field, and fleets across the
ocean, are now devoted to the discoveries of science and
the creations of art.
" Among the former, the Prince turned
-his first atten-
tion to those that related to his own profession—of arms.
He laboured heartily at his own forge, and applied him-
self to the practical as well as the theoretical details of
science. The writer of his funeral ode, which is quoted
from in the first chapter of this work, describes him as
forging the thunderbolts of war, his hands so well
could throw.' The transactions of the Royal Society
record his mode of fabricating a gunpowder of ten times
the ordinary strength at that time used; likewise a mode
of blowing up rocks in mines, or under water, ' an in-
strument to cast platforms into perspective, an hydraulic
engine, a mode of making hail-shot, an improvement in

the naval quadrant. Amongst his mechanical labours
are also to be reckoned his improvements in the h cks
of fire-arms, and his guns for discharging several bullets
very rapidly. Amongst his chemical discoveries
were the composition now caned Prince's metal, rind
mode of rendering black lead fusible, and re-changing it
into its original state. Perhaps to him is also to be at-
tributed the toy that bears his name as Rupert's drop;
that curious bubble of glass which has long amused
children, and puzzled philosophers.' "
After the Restoration Rupert visited England, and
still continued these favourite pursuits. " Often," we
are told, "would Charles and his silken favourite lounge
into the workshop of the Prince,where girt with an apron
and begrimed with soot, the hero cf a hundred
fights was wielding his hammer as if the anvil was
a Roundhead." After this we again find him on the
sea, sharing with Albemarle the command of the
British fleet in those sea fights, one of which Dryden
has commemorated in a poem, concluding with the
truthful exclamation—

" They sure fought well
Whom Rupert led and who were British born."

It is hardly necessary after what we have said to com-
mend this very interesting work to the attention of
our readers. It contains a multitude of original letters,
and a diary and other memoranda of Prince Rupert's.
It is, moreover, adorned with engraved portraits of
Rupert, Falkland, and other celebrated characters of
that time, but these pictorial embellishments are but a
secondary consideration by the side of Eliot \Varbur•
ton's effective pen and ink portraits and picturesque
narrative.

GENERAL THE HON. SIR ED-
WARD PAGET, G.C.8., GOVERNOR OF
CHELSEA HOSPITAL.
This gallant officer and veteran warrior, whose death
we recorded last week, was the fourth son of the late
Earl of Uxbridge, and was born on 3d November, 1775,
and was consequently in the 74th year of his age. He
eommenced his military career at the age of 17, being
appointed Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant in the Ist Life
Guards on the 23d March, 1792, Captain in the 54th
Foot the Ist December, 1792, and Major the 14th No-
vember, 1793. Ile accompanied this regiment to Ostend,
under the orders of Sir Charles Grey, and subsequently
off Cherbourg and the French Coast under those of Lord
Moira. The 30th April, 1794, he obtained a Lieute-
nant-Colonelcy in the 28th Foot, and in June, 1794, he
embarked with Lord Moira, and landed at Ostend. He
served the campaigns in Flanders and Holland,
and was present at the sortie from Mirraquen,
and the action of Gueldermalson. In March, 1795, he
returned with his regiment to Ireland, and in June fol-
lowing, embarked and sailed in the expedition for
Quiberon, but was recalled. In September, 1795, be
sailed for the West Indies, under the orders of Sir Ralph
Abercromby, but was twice driven back; and finally, in
January, 1796, landed at Portsmouth. In July, 1796,
he went to Gibraltar, and from this period to the end
of 1801 he was stationed in the Mediterranean. He was
present in the naval action off Cape St. Vincent on the
14th February, 1797. The Ist January, 1798, he re-
ceived the rank of colonel, and was appointed aide-de-
camp to George lIL He was at the capture of Minorca
in 1798, under Sir Charles Stuart. Served the
campaign in Egypt under Sir Ralph Aber-
cromby. and Lord Hutchinson, the 28th Regiment
being in the reserve, which was commanded by the late
Sir John Moore. He was in the actions of the Bth, 13th,
and 21st of March, and in the latter was severely
wounded; also present at the investment of Cairo and
Alexandria, and a hostage with the French army at
Cairo till their embarkation at Aboukir. In October,
1801, he was appointed Brigadier-General of the staff
in Ireland, and stationed at Fermoy. The 2d of July,
1805, he was removed to the staff in England, and sta.
timed at Brabourne Lees. The Ist of January, 1805,
he received the rank of Major-General. From April to
October, 1805, he commanded a brigade of infantry at
Eastbourne, and in the latter month embarked with it,
under the orders of General Don, landed at Cux
haven, and advanced to Bremen. He returned with
the army to England in February, 1806. In June fol-
lowing, he was appointed to the staff of the army in the
Mediterranean, and was placed by the late General
Fox on the command of the reserve of the army in
Sicily. In January, 1808, he returned to England from
Sicily, with a part of the army under Sir John Moore,
and on the 23d February received the Colonelcy of the
80th Foot. In April, 1808, he accompanied Sir John
Moore to Sweden, and was appointed by that officer to
the reserve of his army. In June he returned with the
army to England, and was immediately sent to Portugal.
%Vas appointed by Sir Hugh Dalrymple to the command
of the advanced corps of his army. He served the cam-
paign in Spain under Sir John Moore, and commanded
the reserve of that officer's army, and was at
the battle of Corunna on the 16th of Jan., 1809. He
was next appointed to the staff of the army
in the peninsula under Sir Arthur Wellesley,
with the local rank of Lieut.-General, and commanded
Ole left wing of the army. He conducted the advance
from Coimbra to Oporto. Oa the 12th May, 1809, he
lost his right arm and returned to England. Lord Wel-
lington, in his dispatch, observed, in allusion to this
accident :—" In Lieut.-General Paget I have lost the
assistance of a friend who had been most useful to me
in the few days which had elapsed since he had joined
the army. lie had rendered a most important service
at the moment he received his wound, in the taking up
the position which the troops afterwards maintained,
and in bearing the first brunt of the enemy's attack." His
Lordship also remarked in a private letter, dated Oporto,
May 13,1809, upon the same subject:—"l cannot express
thmrhoauesyc•
principal
rue
tienhtinceoiid:ta-,:m..louppferethcdh,
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maitrthi.mlei.oloss
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nhini
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From the 80th Foot, he was removed the 26th of
December, 1815, to the Colonelcy of the 28th Foot,
and on the 31st or October, 1818, was appointed Captain
of Cowes Castle, in the Isle of Wight.
In 1821, Captain Paget was appointed Governor of
Ceylon, and in 1822, Commander-in-Chief of 11. M.
Forces in India. In 1824, he quelled the formidable
mutiny at Barrackpore, which had threatened the most
serious results to the ranks of the Hon. E LC .'s service.
Sir Edward planned and completed the whole of the
operations connected with the Burmese war, but being
succeeded in his command in 1825, he received none of
the prize money which was subsequently awarded 1
In 1826 he was appointed Governor of the Royal Mili-
tary College at Sandhurst, and finally, in 1837, Governor
of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, by King William IV.
Sir Edward received a medal for the battle of Corunna,
and was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath,
and of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword.
He was also a member of the Consolidated Board of
General Officers.
The opinion Sir John Moore had of this officer may
be collected from his dying words. In the act of expiring
he observed to Colonel Paul Anderson—" Is Paget
iu
the room ;" and being answered in the negative, he said
—" Remember me to him—remember me to him. It a
General Paget I mean. lie's a fine fellow."
East Cowes Park, on Saturday afternoon, and
placed on board the Queen, SoUthampton and Isle of
toTdhgee,body was removed from his residence, Oakfield
Wight steam-packer, to be forwarded by the South.
Western Railway (six o'clock train) to the Waterloo
Station, from whence it was taken to Chelsea Hospital,
where it reposed under the charge of the veterans. The
funeral took place this morning at Chelsea with military
honours, the corpse being deposited among the heroes
in that establishment.
The late Sir Edward was twice married; first to the
Hon. Frances Begot, 22d of May, 1801, who died in
childbed May, 1806; and secondly, on the 22d February,
1815, to Lady Harriet Legge, fourth daughter of George,
third Earl of Dartmouth. By the former he had one
son, the Rev. Francis Edward Paget, Rector of Elford,
Staffordshire; and by the latter, who still survives, he
had three sons, Major Henry William Paget, Captain
Patrick Paget, Grenadier Guards, and Edward Heneage
Paget, and five daughters, the eldest of whom is the
present Marchioness of Ormonde.

GREAT FIRE AT ROTTERDAM.—THREE HUN-
DRED THOUSAND POUNDS WORTH OF PROPERTY DE-
STROICED.-On Saturday information was received at the
principal fire offices in town of a very devastating con-
flagration having occurred at Rotterdam, by which pro-
perty valued at upwards of 300,0001. bad been destroyed.
It appear that the flames broke out on Saturday morning
in the sugar refinery of Messrs. Tromp, Sairmondt, and
Co., situated in that part of the town called the Leaven-
haven, near to the river side, and nearly opposite the
shore where the Sea Gull (Hull and Rotterdam steamer)
lies. The fire, in the space of a few minutes, assumed
a fearful aspect ; for, on the sugar becoming ignited, it
ran out like liquid fire from the various windows and
other outlets, whence it extended to about thirty other
warehouses, offices, and dwellings, including the house
and warehouse of Ringrose. The flames could not be
extinguished until Suncay at midnight. It is said that
Rotterdam was never visited by such a calamity in the
shape of fire before. The total loss in merchandise, &c.,
is estimated at about 3,600,000 f. or 300,000/. A great
proportion of the property uninsured.
FALSE ALARM or FIRE.—On Thursday evening,
between nine and eleven o'clock, considerable confu-
sion occurred in consequence of a report having been
raised that an extensive conflagration was raging in
Regent-street, which, however, fortunately proved to be
untrue, but not till the principal fire engines in the me-
tropolis had hastened towards the supposed scene of dis-
aster. The alarm was occasioned by an experimental
trial of the apparatus and devices to be used at the gene-
ral illumination in honour of Her Majesty's birthday,
by the Messrs. Nicoll, paletOt makers to the Prince,
and as the premises of this firm extend ever four of the
largest houses in Regent street, the blaze of light was
most intense. Sufficient notice ought certainly to have
been given of the intention :of lighting up upon the oc-
casion in question.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.--The North American
mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain /tyrie, departed from
the Mersey this afternoon for Halifax and New York,
ork,
carrying out the usual mails, a. fair conipleatTenht of pas-
sengers, and about 2,0001. specie on. freigh.t. estea.ml -
ship Cambria, Captain Shannon, wit? the inward mat s,
, moforSnc.
ianrgb,o rsot
ruugchk,
leave Boston on the 9th Halifax on the
MAY 18.—The John G!ey, from Girgenti,
SHIELDS,
in entering the harbour !his mornis, struck on the
&c., will be due here on Monday (this day).
l inSshte.. would.
fMorid
on the Middle Ground, but got off with assistance and
gusto. The
sea Athsilas
proceeded.
OFF CORK, MAY 18.7-Limena, Le Messurier, Porto
Rico for Liverpool; Libra,
.Moir, ditto; Lockwood,
LdloenGdorno,unind,parnodceeredmina
Erriegtoe, New Orleans for Liverpool.

TO THE SECRETARY OF TILE
METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 16th, enormous dull de-
bate on " articles of food for cattle, sheep, or pigs,"
and the agreements between landlords and tenants
thereanent. When such a cognate subject gets before
the House, there is no wonder that Affirmation, Mar-
riage, and Parliamentary Oaths Bills fly, tossed by
adverse winds into the limbo of futurity.
On the 17th, a petition was presented from " John
Sparke and others," complaining of the conduct of a
well-known Member connected with Railway Com-
panies, "praying for inquiry, and that he may be ex•
pelled from being a Member of the House."
It might have been as well if John Sparke and
others had for decency left a gap between the inquiry
and punishment demanded, to contain the possible event
of the inquiry's not ending in the precise manner
John Sparke and others have assigned.
The petition was read by the clerk, and then the
Member petitioned against rose in his place. It is
not likely that within the compass of a speech by the
party incriminated, there should be included what
should determine the opinion of the House or the
public, either in one direction or the o'her. But one
point which could not fail to impress itself on view of
the proceeding, was that inasmuch as there exists an
apparatus of considerable complexity, and what ought
therefore to be considerable efficiency, for the redress-
ing of all pecuniary wrongs, some decision of the law
courts ought to have been produced, before Parliament
was called upon by John Sparke and others to exer-
cise a summary jurisdiction instead. Parliament is
bound to exercise discreet vigilance for the preserva-
tion of its own reputation ; but it is not bound to set
up a sentimental standard of purity extending to
cases which the law of the country has not touched,
and in which the privileges of the House are
not distinctly concerned. If a Member should use
reproachful speeches or gestures to the Speaker
or to the House, the House might justly take pro-
ceedings thereon, though no verdict or damages could
be obtained by common process of law. But the
House would hardly think of proceeding against a
Member for having incurred debts, until some com-
mon process of law had fixed the fact of their ex-
istence.
Another point, put forward to a certain extent by
the incriminated Member himself, but of which he
did not appear to be conscious of the whole force and
efficacy, is that great allowance must be made for the
acts of individuals under circumstances of danger and
difficulty, grasping at the prospect of deliverance
through what will be met by no disapprobation in the
event of ultimate success. Many a man under the appre-
hension of being obliged to retire from business, has
not taken precisely the same view of the case and his
duties thereupon, as will be taken by his creditors in
cold blood afterwards, who may regret that he tried
the chance of what a further tempting of fortune
might produce. But nobody ever dreamt of insti-
tuting rigid proceedings upon a difference of judg-
ment of this nature.
Every man who was ever able to exercise a pros-
pective judgment upon railway matters at all, must
have at all times felt a conviction that the facts would
,be, that at a certain period there would be twice as
many railways as were wanted, and these at a certnia
subsequent period would be only half. There was
therefore sure to be the strongest inducement for
railway managers, at the first of these periods, to
stretch a point for the chance of rubbing on into the
other. And within certain limits, it is difficult to
deny, that this might fall within the duty of an able
and conscientious railway director. Put the case,
that the concern in general by an operation of this
kind had thumped over the sands without any serious
detriment, and beaten into deep water on the other
side. What appellation would the proprietors have
had for their leader and guide, but " The Pilot that
weather'd the storm ?"
This reasoning may not be conclusive ; neither is
it meant that anything should be concluded, except
that the House was right in not giving itself airs of
outraged virtue, and in maintaining a countenance
of kindness towards the incriminated Member rather
than the contrary.
Ancther petition from railway proprietors com-
plained of the conduct of two other Members con-
nected with railways, and prayed for inquiry. Both
petitions were ordered to " lie on the table."
On Friday, by a remarkable coincidence, motion
was made and carried without division, for issuing a
new writ in the else of a Member " adjudged guilty
of high treason." So in the other case, proceedings
ought to have waited till somebody was " adjudged
guilty."
In the latter part of the evening, an extraordinary
scene was exhibited, to such as were there to see.
On going into Committee on the Parliamentary Oaths
Bill, a Catholic Member moved the exclusion of the
reporters. It would be unfair to infer that his object
was connected with the Bill in hand; because he
stated that he did it in return for the reporters' not
having reported the whole of his speeches ;—a curious
principle if carried out by every Member in the
House. This, however, did not hinder an ultra-
-1 Protestant leader from broadly throwing out the
I imputation of desiring secresy, on those who took the
different side from himself.
As an instance of the effect of one hour's exclusion
of the public, it was impossible to avoid perceiving
how much the tone and conduct of the debate were
iifluer.ced by the fact. A leader of the Church
Monopoly Marty, with an air of confident benevolence
recalling the traditions of the 'Wolf in Red Riding-
hood, descanted on the desirableness of uniformity
and singleness in the matter of oaths, and coolly pro
posed that the oath so bitterly complained of by the
Catholics as intended to involve theta in a declaration
of allegiance to a Church they disapprove, should be
extended to the Protestant Dissenters of the realm.
Pathetically did he urge the impossibility that Dis-
senters who had no scruple in swearing allegiance to
the Queen, could have any more in swearing alle-
giance to the Church, which everybody knew
was part and parcel of the state as much
as the Queen ; and confidently did he
look forward to the agreeable sense of
harmonious equality which would arise from the Dis-
senters putting their necks into the same noose with
the Catholics. And the amusing thing was—as Pepys
would have said—to see how quietly the Dissenters
did take it, and how long they were before they. com-
prehended the nature of the bed preparing for them.
Substantial pillars of the Dissenting interest were
seen settling themselves in their seats, and smiling
assent to the blessings of uniformity. At last some
of the more active spirits began to fidget, and to look
in each other's faces like Massaniello's friends upon
the stage, in the way of saying " Are we going to
stand this ?" And so by degrees the opposition
began to collect, and men to find out that all was not
gospel which came from the High Church side. At
this moment Lord John Russell rose, and in the
most cool, able, and masterly manner, turned over all
the accidents and concomitants of the proposal, as
completely as it would have been done in a conclave
of Dissenters after a six weeks' sitting. But the Dis-
senters had an escape. It was certainly not their own
arm, nor voice either, that saved them. With the
smallest connivance or lack of will on the part of the
I Government, they might have been turned over into
the abyss of praying to be saddled with swearing al-
legiance to the Church as by law established. And a
pretty abyss it would have been. The first man who
ever mentioned Church-rates, would have been put
down with cries of perjury. There probably never
was an instance, in which a cool political effrontery
of proposal, advanced so far with•so little opposition.
Upon the Minister's pronunciamento, men's eyes
were opened, and the High Church proposal met with
no quarter afterwards, being finally withdrawn with-
out putting to the vote. The Member for Northamp-
ton (Mr. Vernon Smith) in the course of the debate,
put forward what everybody in his heart knows to
be the true point to move on if it were possible to
come there; which is, that everybody should take
the same oath or declaration, and that this should be
confined to a declaration of allegiance to the existing
occupant of the crown. A notice was finally placed
upon the table, for inviting the attention of the
House to the reconsideration of the Standing Order
by which strangers are excluded on the motion of a
single Member ; out of which it is scarcely possible
that some good effect should not arise.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, May 21, 1849.

ErsoM RACES.—On these festive occasions
_the
exposure to the air, dust, andsunareloikielhyeatoutpyr,odauecde
prejudicial consequences to the .
claims
more than usual care will be required formtoheegir protects to
We feel warranted in asserting that a
female hi'veliness which will then be
ecalled in requisition,
rs. Rowland 'lid
the unparalleled prep!trations_
of Mss
be in universal rt qtnsition. To preserve the tresses of
beauty from the injurious ffects-
of dap or tan evhe den efilee
-
ments of dust, no invention yet achieved c b
named in comparison with their unrivalled Macassar
Oil; as a like protectionm and ornament of the skin their
,
Kalydor is similarly riowned protecting it from, th
baneful effects of the scorching rays of the sun aid
heated particles of dust, and imparting a delightful awl
refreshing coolness; while their Odonto is no le.s famed
as a preserver and beautifier of those important objects
of our frame—the teeth and gums.
DIE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY.—Accord-
ing to a previous order, the Honourable Artillery Com-
pany held a field muster on Saturday to commemorate
the birthday of her Majesty the Queen. The Regiment
formed in battalion on the Artillery- ground, in front of
the Armory-house, under command of ex-Li(utenant-
Colonel the Hon.ilenry Fitzroy, M.P. About two hun-
dred men, rank and file, were under arms at roll call.
The battalion saluted, marched in slow and quick time,
and went through several other manceuvres. The Artil-
lery division of the Regiment, under command of Cap-
tain Parker, then took up a position on the right flank
of the battalion, with two of their field-pieces, and fired
a double royal salute. The Regiment then re-formed
in battalion, and left the ground in companies. There
was a large attendance of spectators, the majority being
ladies.