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London, England, 1849-09-29 00:00:00

LON.DON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1849

LITERATURE.
THE BRITISH. QU4RTERLY. No. XIX.
To oar thinking, the last number of the British
Qaarterly i 3, without ode..exeeption, the most attract-
ive and intelligent that has,yet appeared. Besies a
very graceful article on the " 2Estlietics of GOthio
Architecture;" a very clever essay on "Religion and
Ethnology ;" an excellent r'view of the "Poetry of
brgEndary Art;' and a half-biographical, hl'l-his-
torical criticism relating- to "Milton and the
Commonwealth ; " there is a controversial paper
on " Philosophy and Religion," referring to
Mesrs. Merrell, Newman, and Fronde; a corn-
prison between the epiitolary • writings of '4 Ches-
terfield, Jtinius, and Cowperr.together with au intelli-
gent contrast of the various "Historians of the French
Revolution,"Mignt, Thiers, .Michelet, Blanc,
Carlyle, and Lmartine. In addition to all these
interesting contributions there are three others not
yet particularizl, being estimates of the writings
and capacities of three of the most conspicuous un'n
of our generation—Thomas Carlyle:, Benjamin
Disraeli, and Douglas Jerrold—the Wit. the Legis-
lator, and the Tt•iihker. Of Mr. Carlyle it is said
very justly, that in his genius may be recog-
nised "a more remarkable conabLiation both of
the . stronger and weaker elements of our
age than in any other man among us." Of Mr.
Disraeli the Itzviewer can find nothing whatever to
assert but what is most depreciatory, whether in po
litics or letters. The entire paper is couched in
terms of the most uudi'guised ridicule—and this too
in reference to the " Revolutionary Epick," to the
tragedy of "Count Alarcos," and to those nine novels,
" Alroy," " Contarini Fleming," " Henrietta
Temple," " Venetia," " Vivian Grey," the " Young
Duke," " Coningsby," " Sybil," and " Tancred."
The conclusion at which the writer arrives is that
Benjamin Disraeli is not a genius, but only the
Prospectus cf a Genius. We shall not trouble our-
selves by entering into such a discussion. Douglas
Jerrold, on the contrary, is pronounced to be one of
the most sterling and brilliant of our humorous
writers. And we are satisfied that no one will deny
him to be witty, after reading the following speci-
mens of his style :
" The ostrich is libelled for his gluttony. Believe
what is said of him, and you would not trust him
even in the royal stables, lest he should devour the very
shoes from the feet of the horses. • Why, the ostrich
ought to be taken as the one emblem of temperarice.
He lives and flourishes on the desert, his choicest food a
little spikey'ahrub,. with a few stones--for how rarely
can he tint iion, how few the white days in which the
poor ostrich can, in Arabia Pettma, have the irikury of a
teripenny nail—to season, -as with salt, his vegetable
diet.—Story of Feather, p. 3.
" We know the common story runs that nature has
peculiar visages for poets, philosophers, statesmen, war-
riors, and so forth: we do not believe it: we have teen a
slack-wire dancer with the face of a great pious bard,
an usurer with the legendary features of a Socrates, a
passer of bad money very like a Chancellor of•the Ex-
chequer, and a carcase-butcher at Whittchapel so re-
sembling Napoleon, that Prince Talleyrand, suddenly
beholding him, burst into tears at the similitude.—Cakes
and Ale, vol. i., pp. 269, 270.
" Yet, for all this, Jericho was ordinarily a dull,
matter-of-fact man. Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and
he would ask the number of the steps.—A Man made of
Money, p. 8.

" At that hour when sparrows look down reproach-
fully from their eaves at the flashed man trying the
street-door,— p. 12.
"'Pon my life, you are so good, you'd pour rose-
water over a toad. p. 113.
" I'll till you what, Jenny, the noblest sight on earth
is a man talking reason, and his wife sittin' at the fire-
side Hatt niug to him.—./bid., p. 114.
" Commentators—the woi thy folks that too often
write on books, as men with diamonds write on glass,
obscuring light with scratches.—lbid., p. 195.
" Esrth is here (in Australia) so kind, that just
tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.'—
Ibid., p. 212.

'" Rt,bert, my dear,' said Jenny, with the deferential
air of a scholar ; ' Robert, what did Mr. Carraways
mean when he said he hated dog—dogmatism ?' Topps
was puzzled. " Robert, my dear, Jenny urged, what—
what in the world is dogmatism?' Now it was the
weakness of Topps never to confess ignorance of any-
thing soerer to his wire. ' A man should never do it,'
Topps had been known in convivial season to declare; ' it
makes 'em conceited.' Whereupon Topps prepared him-
self, as was his wont, to make solemn, satisfying answer.
Dicing off his hat, and smoothing the wrinkles of his
brow, Topps said—'llumphl what is dogmatism? Why
it is this—of course. Dogmatism is puppy-ism come to
its full growth.'—ibid., p. 252.
I declare, Mr. Goldtbumb, it seems you have read
everything." Why, ma'am, after working thirty years
as a trunk-maker, 'twould be to my shame it' I didn't
Know something of the literature of my country.'—Time
Works Wonders."

We close the British Quarterly, after making these
excerpts, in the height of good humour.

THE? PARLOUR LIBRARY.
Among thu. fictions reprinted in this excellent end
popular serial, must be noticed the Irish tale of
" Father O'Connell," and the French story of " An-
drew the Savo3 ard." Both of them are admirable
specimens of two very (Efferent species of romance.
Another volume contains a series of most enthralling
"Tales of tLe First French Revolution," collected by
the gifted author of "Emilia Wyndham."

THE RAILWAY LIBRARY.
A periodical of somewhat similar character with the
foregoing has been recently commenced, entitled the
" Railway Library," and among the most interesting
of the reprints for a single shilling, complete, are the
works of Miss Austin and of 'Mr. Cooper. The
" Pilot," wits " Sense and Sensibility," are the spe-
cimens now lying upon our table. Considering the
merit of the works, and the cheapness with which
they are here reproduced, they cannot fail to com-
mand a large circulation.

ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO BIOLOGY;
or, The Voltaic Mechanism of Man; of Electro-
Pathology, especially of the Nervous System; and
of Electro Therapeutics. By Alfred Smee,
_FR S, Surgeon to the Bank of England, 6-c. 6-c.
It has been the opinion of scientific men for sunny
years past that life and electricity were identical, and
although when first propounded the opinion, like all
new opinions, was scoffed at, and then denounced
as tending to infidelity, yet from the time of the
experiments of Dr. Wilson Philip, from which it
appeared that the process of digestion was carried on
in the stomach of a recently killed rabbit by placing
.the nerve which went to the stomach into contact with
a galvanic battery, this opinion has been gradually
gaining ground. No experiments, however, had
been undertaken to test the accuracy of this opinion
until Mr. Alfred Smee, to vs Isom electrical science
has long been under deep obligations, de-
voted his attention to the investigation of
this most interesting and Important subject. The
results of his observations and experiments he has
given to the world in the work now under review,
which sets the question at rest. Mr. Smee proves
that not the brain and nerves merely, but the whole
mechanism of man is essentially voltaic, that life is
the supremacy of electrical over chemical action in
the human system, that when electrical action loses
its supremacy disease ensues, that when it ceases
death is the immediate consequence. He satisfactorily
shows that life and all vital phenomena are merely
so many modifications of electricity. Mr. Alfred
Smee has conferred a great benefit upon the cause of
true science by the publication of this excellent
work.

MITCHELL'S SHILLING VOLUME.
Yet another shilling serial has been commenced by
another enterprising publisher. Volume One of this
new adventure is an agreeable tale of truth, called
" Charlotte Temple," by Mrs. Rowton. The spe-
culation of Metsrs. Mitchell is deserving of en-
couragement.

TINTS FROM AN AMATEUR'S PALETTE.
A pleasant little volume, dedicated to Charles
Dickens, and evidently conceived throughout under
his genial inspiration. Some of the sketches are
really very felicitous, as for example the one descrip-
tive of mail coach travelling. None of the Amateur's
Tints are neutral tints—half of them are sad-coloured,
the other moiety gay and hilarious. Taken from his
palette as they have been witheluch a skilful hand,
we doubt not they will be found satisfactory to the
palates of the generality.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—On Monday next this
house will open for the season with Mrs. Nisbett and
Miss Jane Mordaunt .in the . Lew Chase. The rest of
the week will be occupied by comedies, in which Mrs.
Nisbett plays some of her best characters. On the fol-
lowing Monday Mr. Macready will appear, and act on
alternate nights, the intervala being filled by Mrs. Nis-
bett. Mr. Macready will be succeeded by lir. and Mrs.
Kean, with whom Mrs. Warner, who will appear with
Mr. Macready, will remain. Afterwards llr. Macready
will return, and complete the round of his characters,
prior to his final retirement from the stage, which will,
we believe, take place next rummer. Several new
plays, serious and comic, will, it is said, be produced at
the Hay mat kc t in the course of the approaching season.
Lord and Lady Brougham have been receiving
a successien of visitors at Brougham Hull this month;
amongst the guests have be en the Marquis of Douro,
Lord Wharneare, Mr. and Mrs. Towneley, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Duke and Duchess
of &anion and Lady Henrietta Somerset, Emil and
Countess of Glengsll and Lady Margaret Butler, Colonel
and Miss Danner, Captain Moore, Lord and Lady Wm.
Powlett, lion. Edward Stanley, Mr. Howard, &c.
DAY OF FASTING AND HUMILIATION AT WINDSOR
AND ETON.—At Windsor, on Wednesday last, all secular
basiucss was entirely suspended, and the whale of tho
shops closed during the day, agreeably to the reeem.
mendation of the bishop of the dioce:.e, supported by the
mayor, and the vicar and clergy, in order that the day
might be observed as one " of solemn fasting and humi-
liation, in consicifuence of the grievous disease with which
it has pleased Almighty God to afflict many portions of
this land." It is most gratifying to be enabled to state
that the cholera has been extremely mild itt its effects in
the neighle.trhoods of Windsor and Eton.

CHOLERA AND DIARRHUA.
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RETURN OF CASES, SEur. 27.
THE METROPOLIS.
SUPERfIiTENDING REGISTRAR'S_ DISTRICT.
Doathg.
• Cholera. Dlarrh

WEST DISTRICTS.

Kensington
Chelsea... •••• ••• ••• -
St. George, Hanover-square ...
Westminster ... ••• •••
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
... ---
St. James, Westminster ...
NORTH DISTRICTS.
ATarylelme ... ... ••• ....'. *2
Hampstead ...
•• ••• --- 0
St. Pancras ... ••• ••• -- 2
Islington
••• ••• ••• ---- 2
Hackney ••• ••• ••• --
CENTRAL DISTRICTS.
St. Giles
••• •••
Strand ...
••• --
Holt). I'll Union
----
Clct kenwell •••
.........
Sr. Luk.?
••• ••• •••
East Lonckn. ...•
•••
WesL London ...• ••• --
City of London ... ...
EAST LISTILICTe.
Whoredi:eh ••• ••• •••
Ite;,hrial-grePa-
-
•
Whi techapel .. .
••• • •
St. Gc•urge-in- the-Last
Stepney
Poplar ...

2 0

2 0
0

80 [MI D]bTRIcTS.
St. Saviour, Southwark
St. Claire
Bermondsey
St. George, Southwark
Newington ...
Lambeth
Wandsworth
Camterwell
notherhithe
Greenwich
Lewisham

To t al

1 0
0 2
0

1
0

THE SEWERS CO NiMISSION.
Of late, v..bilst pestilence Las been abroad—wiieu
all general considerations ought to have merged in
the perfOrmance of immediato and important duties ot'
alloviltion, we believe that many members of the
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers have been greatly
annoyed at the intrusion of angry personal questions
and disputes, which they hale made large socrithes
to avoid. We believe that the facts out of which
these opprobrious scenes have arisen are as follow :
On the formation of the', Consolidated Metropolitan
Comm ion of Sewers, several gentlemen were in-
cluded who had been members of the superseded
commis:ions, but who were understood to be favour-
able to tree new measures ree,nan7.-nded by the Sani-
tary Commis:,i-)ners, as essential to the improvement
of the metropolis. It turned out, however, in no great
length of time, that these gentlemen considered the
change to be merely one of men, and not the entire
change contemplated of works, as well as of the
modes of working, that they had been formerly ac-
customed to. Some of than cem,idered it as a waste
of the ratepayers' money and a misapplication of the
ofricors' time to institute such operations as the
gauging of sewers to ascertain the flow of water,
and determine accurately the sizes of the new works
for its complete removal. Others declared the applica-
tion of sewer water as manure, and the trial works for
its disposal, to be matters foreign to the business efa
swers commission. The Metropolitan Sanitary Com-
missioners had strongly urged the drainage of the
suburban maribes, and. the extension of facilities to
' private land drainage as a means of removing damp
and insalubrity, as well as of preparing the land ft. r
the reception of manures, which otherwise must be
piled up in putrid laystalls, or cause the pollution of
the river. Some of these commissioners were put
upon committees under the consolidated commission
of 1847, and the earlier courts of that commission
were engrossed with the re-discussion of schemes and
principles of works, which although fully expounded
and supported by adequate evidence in published re-
ports, were neither admitted nor understood by these
gentlemen. On the issue of the second consolidated
commission under the new Sewers Act, a division of
labour was introduced, and one very large depart-
ment was handed over (at least as far as regarded the
preparation of matter for the decision of the court) to
a committee of works, consisting of engineers and
others possessing special qualifications for that de-
partment. Not to stultify the committee by includ-
ing members who had been concerned in the approval
of works totally the reverse of what had now to be
constructed, the names of these members of previous
commissions were omitted. But one consequence of
this omission was the constant raising of ques-
tions as to the legality of transacting any portion of
the business of the commission in committees, al-
though expressly sanctioned by the new Act. , To
setisfy the complainants, the matter was referred to
the law officers of the Crown, v,ho gave their opinion
in accordance with the plain words of the statute ;
but notwithstanding this, the time of the courts con-
tinued to be occupied by the dissentient members
whom nothing could apparently reconcile to a proce-
dure that excluded them from a full share in all the
discussions relaing to the works of the commission.
They insisted upon every matter, however technical,
and every detail, however trifling, being debated in
open court; and this not being allowed, they quar-
relled with almost every thing that had been prepared
apart from them. The time of the court was occu-
pied by the setting forth of their qualifications to
carry out works which they had no part in originating,
and were not inclined to agree to. Very great delays
in the operations of the commission—operations of life
and death—were incurred by this unfortunate state
of things, which it was at one time hoped would have
been terminated by the resignation of one or two of
the commissioners—gentlemen in the highest degree
respectable, and of the most sincere good intentions,
and in many respects men of ability, whose misfor-
tune it is that they cannot in this instance see the
peculiarities of an altered state of things. As Har-
vey declared that he could never get a man above
eixty years of age to admit the doctrine of the cir-
culation of the blood, so these gentlemen could not
be brought to see the necessity of an entire change
of the liquid circulation of this great metropolis.
Besides these personal bickerings on the part of the
old commissioners, there were several of the old
officers, who were considered to fall short, and did not
gain entire confidence in the performance of their
new duties. The appointment of Mr. Henry Austin,
as the consulting engineer, and of several new officers,
opened additional mines of jealousy, which had of late
broken out publicly. No pains have been spared to
excite external agitation in aid of the internal oppo-
sition. The local boards who had charge of gully
shoots, and whose paving is likely to be interfered
with, have been incited against the commission. The
chief point of opposition recently raised was actually
an extensive cleansing operation, the flushing of the
sewers, which had of late been carried on to a con-
siderable extent. On this operation was charged the
infection of the air. The operation of flushing, it
may be briefly stated, is effected by penning back the
sewer water, with the addition of such other water as
can be obtained, to add to the force of the operation.
The decomposing matter which had even accumuleteei
in the sewer is then stirred up beneath the water, so
that no smell escapes; the floodgate is opened, and the
whole discharged.
It was stated in one of the sewers courts the other
day, that the operation, instead of occasioning an
emission of effluvia, carries down with it air from the
street. The parties who complained were asked to
point out the times when they could aver that there
had been, instead of a dimunition, an increase of offen-
sive effluvia, because, if there had been much increase,
the operation had been very improperly conducted,
and the parties employed would be held responsible
for it; but the complainants failed to make good a
single instance. The following extracts from a re-
port, presented to the court .by Assistant- Surveyor
Lovick, displays the nature of the opposition raised :
' Believing that it would be satisfactory to the com-
missioners, as a test of the efficacy of these operations, I
have collected the opinions of between 800 and 900 of
the inhabitants, including many medical man, in the
Surrey and Kent district, who speak very decidedly of
the benefits experienced by them from the late more
frequent flushing of the sewers, many very favourably
contrasting their present condition under this commission
with their condition under the old commission. Some
have stated that the increased cleansing is equivalent to
the increased sewers' rate, and they have expressed their
gratitude for the comparative freedom from small and
annoyance resulting from the works of this commission.
(See Appendix A. and C.)
" To the individual opinions which I have appended to
this report I beg to draw the attention of the come
missioncrs.
" Your chief surveyors, Messrs. Roe and Phillips,
appended to their report on flushing in August. 1848, a
list of the opinions of upwards of 1,000 persons, medical
men, and others, very expressive of satisfaction with the
operation of this system. These, as they appear very
pertinent to the subject, I also append; and as I believe
them to express, as well as those before alluded to, the
public opinion on this matter; and as the expressions of
the opinions of a few appear to have been mistaken for a
public expression, and the necessary results of natural
for artificial cremes. (See Appendix A. and B.)
"At an adjourned inquest held on the 14th ult., on a
death which bad occarred in Staple-street, Borough, and
se hick was stated to have been caused by the open ditch
in the vicinity, upon which, at the coroner's (Mr. Payne)
request, I attended the clerk to the board of guardians,
amongst other very strong expressions of opinion, stated
that they had never experienced smells before the new
commission interfered with them; that the new com-
mission had done everything wrong ; that everything
they touched had gone wrong; that they were all right
unc'er the old commission, but that they were now an-
noyed by nuisances which they never felt before.
" He fetched two witnesses from Staple-street, who
resided on the banks of the open ditch, who proved, in
answer to questions which I tut to them, that the
ditch was greatly improved since this commission had
taken to it, and kept much better than it ever was before;
that they were greatly benefited by the flushing, ' the
ditch being much sweeter and cleaner after it;' and that
they did not experience ' near so bad smells from it' as
those to which they were accustomed under the old com-
mission; and that they greatly preferred the frequent
cleansing of the ditch, and seemed much surprised at
being asked the question, as they had been benefited in
proportion to the frequent cleansing.
" This ditch had been cleansed at more frequent inter-
vals during the two months prior to the inquest, and the
coroner, in summing up, laid great and particular stress
upon this fact as saving the commissioners from the
charge of neglect.

"And th3coroner and jury, upon my explaining to
them that this was the only practical remedy, pending
permanent works which the circumstances of the case
would not warrant, agreed that the commissioners bad,
to the extent of their power, afforded relief to this
locality.

" I adduce this as an example of the kind of statements
made, and which, coming, uncontradictcd, from the re-
presentative of a local body, would no doubt have been
mistaken for an c xpression of the opinion of a district;
and of the statements of the inhabitants, supposed, in
this case, adverse witnesses, who most unt quivocally
express that which may, from the circumstances, be
taken to be the, public opinion. Mr. Grant, the assistant-
surveyor, in his report on the evils complained of in
Blackfriars-road and neighbourhood, thus corrects the
erroneous views of a gentleman, who was loud in his
complaints of the works of the c,mmission in this lo-
cality, when it appeared that these had not for many
months been in operation :
" In describing the cause of the unhealthy condition
of this neighbourhood it would be improper to omit re-
ferk ace to two which ce ere eupposed by a gentleman
who has interested himself in this matter to ho the
ehief,sind into which I inquired. These were, first, the
flushing of the sewers, end secondly, the substitution of
450 feet of 9-inch pipe for a wide and offensive ditch in
Boundary-row.
In reference to the first alleged cause, the foreman
of flushers stated to me that the sewers in Blackfriars-
road and Charlotte-street have not been flushed for some
months, simply because the men cannot remain in the
sewers. There is a cross wall built about three feet high,
at the upper end of the sewer in Blackftiars-road, which
turns the water down the Westnaiubter-road and Water-

COMMISSION UNDER THE CHURCLI DISCIPLINE
ACT.—On Tuesday morning the coramistion instituted
by the Bishop of Exeter to inquire into the allegations
against the Rey. Charles Rookes, rector of N)met Row-
land, in this county, was opened in the Chapter-home.
The commissioners were the Worshipful George
Martin, Chancellor of tha Diocese (President); the
Venerable John More Stevens, Archdeacon of Exeter;
the Venerable John Bartholowew, Archdeacon of
Barnstaple; the Worshipful E. C. Harington, Chancellor
of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Exeter; and
the Rev. James John Rowe, rector of St. Mary Arches,
Exeter. The rev. defendant was charged with offences
"against the laws ecclesiastical, and other irregularities
and excesses within the diocese, whereby he had brought
great scandal on the Church," Sc. The. Court, on the
application of the rev. defendant, as we presume, was
closed against the press and the public, so that we are
not able to 'jive any report of
,the proceedings. The
Rev. C. C. ltookes has determined to conduct his own
case.—Ezeter Flying Post.
ST. JOHN'S, BETHNAL GREEN.—The parishioners
of Bethnal-green, aided by the friends of Church endow-
ment, having now raised the sum of 1,0901. towards the
permanent augmentation of the above benefice, the Bishop
of London has liberally appropriated the annual sum of
150/. to the same purpose out of the revenues of St.
Catherine Cali man (of which his Lordsf.ip is the
patron), on condition that 337 of the pew-sittings be
declared free. There are thus secured in this church,
1,137 seats for the poor free and unappropriated for ever.
Plans have been drawn by Mr. E. N. Clifton, archifect,
for a parsonage-house, to be shortly orccted upon
Bethuahgreen, adjoining the church. In the list of
subscribers to the above fund appear the names of the
Queen Dowager, the Bishop or London, the Earl of
liarroa by, Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. William Cotton, Mr.
11. Merceron, Mr. R. Hanbury, Sir E. N. Buxton, &c.
WEYMOUTH.—MELANCHOLY DEATH.—With regret
we record the death of Mr. Thomas nether, son of Mr.
Hellier, maltster, &c., of Cerne, an articled assistapt of
Mr. A. Sansom, surgeon, of this town. This i- nitskrtu-
nate youth, who was 18 years of age, was found 'dead in
his bed early on the morning of Tuesday week. A note
in his own handwriting was found on the table to the
effect that he had swallowed several drachma Of strych-
nine and laudanum, a quantity more than sufficient to
cause instant dissolution. An inquest was held in the
course of the morning, before J. Wallis, Etq., coroner,
when the verdict found was—" Temporary insanity."—
Sherborne Journal.

A CCIDENT.— On Saturday, John M'lntosh, weaver,
Newtyle, was sent on a message from that place to Dun-
dee, and having indulged rather freely in liquor, he, at a
late hour at night, in passing the quarry at Logie Spout
(after visiting a sister who resided in the Blackness-
road), fell over it, a height of about 40 feet. He lay
there in a state of insensibility until Sunday forenoon,
when he was accidentally discovered by some persona
passing. He was then conveyed to the Royal Infirmary.
where it was found that he had sustained a lacerat. d
wound on the scalp, with fracture of the bone and de-
pression, with a skin wound on the knee. We are glad
to learn that the patient is doing well.—Dundee Courier.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE{ IN HIGH LlFE{.—The
marriage of the lion. C. Neville, second son of Lord
Braybrooke, and the Hon. Florence Maude, second
daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden,
is to be solemised in the course of next month. A large
family circle will meet in town to attend the nuptial
ceremony.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—A boy is years of age,
named William Ballantine, was about to take a message
to his father, a journeyman in the employ of Mr. Guth-
rie, tailor, in Bond street, when, upon opening the door
of the workshop, an iron pillar, which stood in a leaning
position against the wall, fell suddenly forward, dashing
the poor boy to the ground with fearful violence, falling
upon his head, and inflicting injuries of a deadly charac-
ter. The lad was conveyed in a senseless state to the
house of Mr. Love, surgeon, in Brook-street, when that
gentleman, ascertaining the great amount of injury done,
advised the immediate removal of the sufferer to the Mid-
dlesex Hospital. Upon an examination of the boy's
wound by Mr. Gilbertson, house-surgeon, the whole of
the left side of the head was found to be denuded of its
scalp, with a fracture of the skull, extending over por-
tions of the frontal, parietal, temporaral, and occipital
bones, or the whole of the left side of the head, from
front to back. The poor little fellow has remained
R holly insensib!e front the time ho received the blow,
which is likely to terminate fatally.
NEWARK.—Wednesday was the cheese market,
which is generally considered the largest market during
the year, and the day being remarkably fine, brought a
very large attendance of most respectable people. There
was a great deal of cheese shown, but the sale was not
anything like so rapid as on former years; iudee I,
cheese seemed a drug, and many dairies would have to
be taken home. Prices were lower than last year; new
milk cheese, first quality, from 535. to 583. per cwt.; two
meals, 403. to 445. per cwt. There was a large quantity of
stock of all descriptions, sheep, beasts, pigs, and horse};
prices were low, but a good deal of business was trap s-
acted. Beef from ss. 6d. to 6s. per stone; mutton, 4id.
to sd. per lb.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.