The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-05 00:00:00

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,MEDNESDAY nVENTING, DIZCEMBItIt B,_ 1840,

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The following memorial has been addressed to the
Lord John Russell, First Commissioner of the
Treasury, and the Viscount Palmerston, Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs :
" We, the undersigned, desire to express to your
Lordships, and through your Lordships to the rest of
her Majesty's confidential servants, the deep interest
which we have taken in the contest which has been
recently carried on between the Hungarian nation
and the Emperor of Austria. Not less deep is the
interest which we now take in the final settlement of
the question at issue between them, and in the per-
manent pacification of that great country. Sincerely
attached to the liberties of our own country, the final
establishment of which is due to the successful termi-
nation of struggles analogous to those which have
been made from time to time in Hungary—with
equal sincerity desirous of maintaining the peace of
Europe, we are fully sensible of the great import-
ance that the settlement of the questions at issue
should be effected in a manner and upon terms satisfac-
tory to the Hungarian nation, not only for the sake
of Hungary herself, but because we apprehend that
a settlement unsatisfactory to the country will sow
the seed of renewed discontent, may lead to fresh
local disturbances, and by the local disturbance of so
large an element of the European system, may en-
danger the tranquillity of the whole.
"The objects of the undersigned are, internal liberty
—national independence—European Feace. For the
attainment of these objects we trust the Court of
Vienna will bear in mind that the satisfaction and
contentment of Hungary will afford the greatest
security. Considering, however, the means by which
the authority of the house of Hapsburg has been re-
established, the undersigned are of opinion that the
occasion permits, even if it does not call for, the in-
tervention of Great Britain in counselling the Austrian
Government respecting the exercise of its restored
executive power. With respect to the mode and op •
portunity of interfering, the undersigned offer no
specific opinion, but we hope her Majesty's Govern-
ment will not shrink' from suggesting to that of
Austria, that, since Republican France has abolished
capital punishments for political offences, it will not
be wise to allow a contrast to be drawn, unfavourable
to the clemency of monarchical governments.
" November, 1849.
" FITZWILLIAM. J. D. RAWDON.
NORTHAMPTON. J. WYLD.
ZETLAND. S. C. H. OGLE.
BEAUMONT. C. PEARSON.
KINNAIRD. L. HEYWORTII.
HATHERTON. J. CLAY.
CONYNGHAM. H. A. AGLIONBY.
GOSFORD. THE (YGORMA.N MAIION.
MONTFORD. B. M. WILLCOK.
DUCIE. W. PINNEY.
RADNOR. A. E. COCKBURN.
R. M. MILNES. R. M. Fox.
J. TOWNSHEND. W. S. CRAWFORD.
R. PRICE. A. Hann.
H. VERNEY. W. J. Fox.
T. S. DUNCOMBE. J. T. Wswx.
T. P. THOMPSON. J. PILKINGTON.
T. WALLEY. P. LOVEDEN.
T. SADLEIR. W. HUTT.
P. S. BUTLER. W. EVANS.
W. SCHOLEFIELD. T. SIDNEY.
J. FERGUS. B. HALL.
R. A. SLANEY. P. J. LOCKE KING.
T. E. HEADLAM. J. MACGREGOR.
J. REYNOLDS. W. MARSHALL.
E. K. TENISOW. T. T. HODGES.
M. SULLIVAN. J. WILLIAMS.
T. C. ANSTEY. T. A. MITCHELL.
J. HEYWOOD. C. COWAN.
F. MOWATT. E. N. BUXTON.
G. TIIOSIPBON. DUDLEY C. STUART.
J. O'BRIEN. DE LACY EVANS.
J. KERSHAW. M. POWER.
H. SALWEY. W. EWART.
J. LOCK. R. PERFECT.
W. COLLINS. M. FORSTER.
W. FAGAN. E. H. BuNisußY.
F. P. DUNNE. W. CLAY.
N. M. POWER. G. W. FITZWILLIAM.
T. M'CULLAGH. W. L. FREESTUN.
J. G. MARSHALL. T. MILNER GIBSON."
D. J. NORREYS.

THE FALSE RESPECTABLE.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
" A restlessness in men's minds," says Sir William
Temple, "to be something they are not, and have
something they have not, is the root of all im-
morality." This sentiment, if analyzed, will be
found strictly correct.
One of the most prominent vices of modern society
is, the aiming and struggling to keep up mere ex-
ternal appearances. This is the great social sin of
the age. There is a universal effort at seeming to be
something which we are not. We put on appear-
ances, clothe ourselves in shams, and try to look some-
thing superior to, or at least different from, what we
really are.

"Respectability" is one of our great aims. Now,
respectability, regarded in its true sense, is a proper
and most desirable thing. To be respected, on right
grounds, is an object which every man and woman is
justified in aiming at. To be respectable—literally,
worth looking at again, worth regarding and admiring
—this is all proper enough, and we do not find
fault with it. But what does " respectability"
mean in the modern-social acceptation of the
term? It means, wearing fine clothes, living in fine
houses, " keeping a gig." It looks to the outside, to
sound, show, externals. It listens to the chink of
gold in the pocket, and admires the polish of the
brazen face. Moral worth or goodness forms no part
of it. A man in these days may be perfectly "re-
spectable," and yet altogether despicable.
This false and demoralizing habit arises from the
overweening estimate which we form in this country
of two things well enough in their place—rank and
wealth. We all of us feel as if we belonged to some
rank or caste, out of which we are always struggling
to rise into some other above it. You find this spirit
of caste as' keenly at work among the humblest as
among the highest ranks. The linen-draper looks
down on the huckster, the huckster on the day-
labourer, the day-labourer has some one beneath him
too. Higher up in the scale of wealth and rank it
is the same. The man of acres despises the man of
cotton. How exclusive is Almacks ! not even all
titled men can have an entrée there.
It matters not at what class you begin, or howsoever
low in the scale ; you ;will find that every man has
some class beneath him that he looks down upon.
Among the middle classes this exclusiveness is very
marked. Each circle would think it a degradation
to mix on familiar terms with the members of the
circle beneath it. In small towns and villages, this
feeling assumes its most intense form. Thera you
find distinct coteries or circles, holding aloof from
each other, despising each other, and often pelting
each other with hard words.

And while every one has his or her own exclusive
circle, which all of supposed inferior rank are pre-
cluded from entering, they are at the same time
struggling to pass over the line of social demarcation
which has been drawn by those above them ; they are
eager to overleap it, and thus gain admission into a
circle still more exclusive than their own. There is
a desperate scramble for front places, and many are
the mean shifts employed to gain them. We must
be "respectable," forsooth ! We must possess the
homage of society 1 And for this purpose we must
be rich, or at least seem to be so. Hence the struggles
after style—the efforts made to put on the appear-
ances of wealth—the dash, the glitter, and the show
of middle and upper class life—the aping of aristo-
cratic manners and customs—the gaudy " gentility,"
and " ton ;"—and hence, too, their motley train of
palled and ♦itiated tastes, of shrunken hearts and
stunted intellects, of folly, frivolity, and madness.

THE POOR NEEDLEW OMEN,

"Ho who allows oppression shares the crime."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,— Your generous opposition to the cruel system
which exists in a loudly-professing Christian land,
excites inquiry as to where the blame rests, or amongst i
whom it is to be divided. Shall we apply tto the tribe
of " Moses and Son ?"—(I by no means confine this
allusion to "JeWs," though 1 wish in any such
case the excellent Chief Rabbi would interfere—know-
ing that " Christians" are quite as bad) —or the reck-
less purchasing people, who care not at the price of
what misery they get unjustifiable cheapness ? Or
(livide it equally between them—degrading both—or
shaming them into whatever degree of conscience and
manliness they are capable of?

These consideration's, which are very pregnant, and
on which I may submit some further remarks, I re•
commend to the honest attention of yourself and your
readers.

I am, Sir, yours obediently,
A CAMBRIDGE MAN.

Nov. 28, 1849.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, DEC. 4.—The
general character of the market to-day is that of ex-
treme quiatude, with a tendency downward. This is in
part owing to the non-arrival of the overland mail, now
over due, and partly to the inactivity and decline in the
Liverpool Cotton Market. Buyers hold off, and sellers
are not willing to make those concessions which would
alone enable them to effect sales. The only exceptions
to this statement are in the narrower widths of shirtings
and the finer numbers of yarns, which maintain their
value, and for which there is a fair inquiry; but these
form inconsiderable items of the business here, and do
not invalidate the general characteristics of the market
to-day given above.
GRATIS VOYAGES TO LIVERPOOL.—A few hours
before the Devonshire steamed up to our quay, the old
company charged 7s. 6d. a head for passengers to Liver-
pool; but no sooner was the enemy descried in the dis-
tance than they struck their colours—down the freights
came. First to 2s. 6d.; then to Is.; then to 4d.; next to
2d.; and now, " free gratis for nothing," as the sa3ing
goes. We have steamers going to Liverpool now all
crowded. This time last year wo had but one.-
IVctterford News,

THE WELSH CHURCH.
TO 111 E ED1701: OF 71.1 E SUN.

Sirc,—LlandCwi I3reti, in Ca.erdiganshire, was
the scene of that important synod which suppressed the
Pelagian heresy in the British Church, and at which
the venerable Dubricius resigned his archiepiscopal
charge into the able hands of St. David. Gwynfardd
Brycheiniog, a bard cf the 12th century, sun, the
praises of this place as " the supreme of churches,"
and recorded that on one occasion St. David had
preached there to more than 7,000 persons.
In the 13th century, Bishop Beck transformed
Llanddewi Brefi into a collegiate church, which con•
tinued to answer its intended purpose until the ge-
neral dissolution of monastic establishments. its
tythes then became lay property, the annual stipend
remaining for its incumbent being only 141. a year,
previous to the augmentation of Queen Anne's
Bounty.
In the year 1697 this living was given to a Mr.
Rowlands, and on his death, in 1749, it was added to
the livings of Llangeitho and Nant•cwnlle already
held by his son, the Rev. John Rowlands. The
three euracies were served for many years by
this poor pluralist's brother, the Rev. Daniel Rowlands,
whose licence to Llangeitho and Nant-ewnlle_ , at a
salary of 101. a year, bears date 1735. This Daniel
Rowlands was a man of extraordinary ability, of ir-
resistible elcquence, and almost of apostolic zeal and
piety. He found these parishes a neglected wilder-
ness of ignorance and sin, and with indefatigable
industry and indomitable resolution he prosecuted his
work as a Christian pastor, until he transformed them
into a centre of instruction, and drew thither congre-
gations, which rivalled and surpassed even those of St.
David himself. Mr. Rowland's attachment to the
Church of England was durable as his
_life, and at-
tested on his dying bed; but a prelate who could
survey with indifference the moral destitution of his
diocese, and pass by, unrebuked, the apathy and de-
linquency of other clergymen, thought proper, about
the year 11'63, to manifest his indignation against
the unpardonable offence of itinerating among a scat-
tered population, by depriving Daniel Rowlands of
his licence, thus effectually expelling him from the
Church of England, after he had executed his minis-
terial office for nearly thirty years with unparalleled
efficiency, and brought thousands of.earnest Welshmen
into her communion.. This Episcopal act produced
effects upon the Welsh Church, which can only be
justly estimated by comparing its present state with
that of the Calvinistic, or as they are commonly and
appropriately termed, the Welsh Methodists, most of
whom, but for that deplorable act, might even now be
included within the pale of a popular and prosperous
Church Establishment.

The present condition of the large parish of Llan-
ddewi Brefi, of Llangeitho and of Nant-cwnlle, as
attested by Government authorities, exhibits, after the
progress of nearly a century, the merely local conse-
quences of that great Episcopal error upon the cure of
souls, once held by Mr. Rowlands. In the report of
the Commissioners of Welsh Education, appendix C,
p. 252, a table of the Sunday-schools of Caerdigan-
shire, under the head of Llanddewi Brefi, details the
following particulars :
Established Church Sunday-school, number of scholars,
100.—Calvinistic Methodist Sunday-schools at
Abermeurig Chapel
Bethesda 2B Teachers, 210 Scholars.

Capel Gwnfil
Llwyn Groes
Peniul
Soar

Showing that in that parish the Church has 100
Sunday scholars, and that the six Methodist Chapels
have 152 teachers, and 868 scholars, or, reckoned to-
gether more correctly as mutually teaching and
taught, 1,020 Sunday-school attendants.
As regards the two other parishes served by the
Rev. Daniel Rowlands, it appears from the table
above referred to, that the Church Sunday-school at
Llangeitho contains thirty-five scholars ; and its
Calvinistic Methodist Sunday-school five teachers and
seventy-five scholars'. that there is no Church Sunday-
school at,Nant-cwnlle, and that the Calvinistic Metho-
dist school there contains twenty-three teachers and
110 scholars. The Commissioners' note, at p. 171,
remarks as to this place, that " the school held on
Sunday in the Methodist Chapel is the only school
in the parish at present."
It may be right to observe here that the numbers
of Dissenting schools and scholars given in the Com-
missioners' Reports are generally thought in Wales
to be considerably under stated.
Out of a thousand instances of Episcopal misgo-
vernment, which have tended to degrade and ruin
the Welsh Church, I have thus selected one specimen,
to which no personal feeling can attach, because it
displays that utter want of sympathy with the tastes
and feelings of the people, that stern discouragement
of active piety, and that profound ignorance of human
nature in its Cambrian form, which have ever marked
distinctively, and still continue to mark, the Anglo-
Cambrian prelates of our unfortunate Church, of
which more in my next letter.
I am, Sir, &c.,
GORBONIAN.

ROCHDALE SAVINGS' BANK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—The trustees and the managers of Rochdale
bank for savings appear to have honoured themselves
with their title, and that's all ! If a simple necessary
precaution had been adopted by them the entire con-
sequence which has followed could not have happened.
'Ehe necessary safeguard would have been this :
For a trustee or a manager (both the better) to
have regularly attended on a bank-day and taken
charge of the " manager's journal," (for such there
ought to be). This journal, which contains both
receipts and payments, being cast up at the conclusion
of the day's business, would show the balance to be
paid over to the treasurer ; and it would then be na
cessary that the trustee, or the manager, or both,
should see that the balance was paid into the trea-
surer's hands. No cheque should be drawn but by
a trustee or a manager upon the treasurer.
These necessary precautions having been adopted
and uniformly acted upon, no actuary, or any other
officer, could commit fraud. But it seems that at
Rochdale the actuary had sole control of the bank
affairs; not even a paid clerk as check—and, there-
fore, a wide field was thrown open to him.
Until trustees of savings' banks are made by law
responsible for frauds of this description, depositors
will have no solid assurance that their investments
are safe.

I am, Sir, yours, obediently,
Dec. 4, 1849. A PAID OFFICER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I address you on the subject of the recent
execution, not with the view of keeping up the discus-
sion which Mr. Dickens' letter has originated, but
to suggest to him what I conceive to be a better
method than his own of turning " this dreadful ex-
perience to some account for the general good."
The eloquence of the picture he paints of the scene
is less to be admired than the low opinion he seems to
entertain of his fellow-creatures is to be deplored.
Mr. Dickens is a close observer, and a vivid delineator
of what is called the low life of London ; but if his
observations in other instances had led to no better
result than it has in this, much of it, I am afraid,
must have been thrown away. He finds fault with
the conduct of the mob, and well he may do so.
More or less it has always been disgusting, brutal,
and obscene, but does he imagine the abolition of
public executions will improve either its taste or mo-
rality ? I apprehend,
,Sir, that the beings whom he
deLounces with so much emphasis, as having the
spirits of devils, though wearing the shapes of men,
would still be animated by the same morbid feelings,
the same vile passions that found vent upon this pain-
ful occasion ; but give me leave, Sir, to ask him this
simple question—Upon whom should rest the blame of
all this Mr. Dickens, I am sure, will not dispute
with me that the existence of a state of things which
admits of the vast majority of 30,000 people wit-
nessing the violent death of two human beings, not
only without pity but with absolute pleasure, indi-
cates that there is something wrong somewhere. It
can hardly be the fault of these people themselves,
since their ignorance teaches them no better. The
costermonger who screams with delight at the exag-
gerated and sanguinary incidence of a Victoria
melodrama listens 'with impatience to the elegant
periods of a Haymarket comedy, and sees, without
emotion, a Sadler's Wells' tragedy; but it by no
means follows from this that he is devoid of that
innate faculty which, when properly developed,
enables men to enjoy and appreciate the more elevated
beauties of art. Now, may it not be so with these poor
wretches whose wicked behaviour has provoked the
natural, though warm, indignation of Mr. Dickens ?
The tainted atmosphere in which they live and
breathe renders them as callous to the awful example
of the violent end of a convicted murderer, as it
doubtless places them beyond the reach of the higher
walks of the drama ; and I cannot help thinking that
Mr. Dickens would render his country far more
service by directing his attention and abilities to the
purification of that moral atmosphere, rather than by
uselessly seeking to do away with a grim spectacle,
which, however dangerous and horrible it may be, at
least possesses this advantage, that it serves as a ba-
rometer to test the extent of demoralization prevailing
amongst the lower grades of society. If Mr. Dickens
be really sincere in his wish to purge the metropolis
of elements that are as infamous to our common man-
hood as they are degrading to a nation boasting to
be the most civilized in the world, let him at once
lend the energy of his great mind, and the industry
of his powerful pen, to that small, but determined,
band of philanthropists who are seeking to extend the
moral education of the people, by agitating a removal
of all taxes upon knowledge, whether they be imposed
in the shape of an excised duty on paper, or the duty
on advertisements, or the tax on foreign books, or the
penny stamp on newspapers.
Far be it from me, Sir, to advocate an unlimited

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F continuamcc of the gallows, but .1 believe, with one of
our most exquisite of living poets, that
"The child is father to the man."
And while children are allowed to grow up into men,
ignorant of everything in the nature of moral or re-
ligious discipline, and to pursue, unchecked, the bent
of their own rude instinctive desires, I am constrained
to look upon it as one of those necessary evils which
time zud advanced civilization can alone destroy.
1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT HOWARD.

HEALTH OF LONDON during the WEEK.

(From the Registrar-Generafs—Return.)
In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths
registered in the metropolitan districts were 931.
The return continues to show a considerable decrease
on the weekly average, which is 1,162, as calculated
for increase of population, from the mortality of
former autums ; but it exhibits a slight increase on
the returns of the five weeks immediately preceding ;
(luring the greater part of November the deaths
fluctuated between 837 and 893. The increase is
apparent in deaths caused by diseases of the respira-
tory organs; whooping cough carried off 23 children,
about double the number of the previous week ;
pneumonia 94 persons (of whom 78 were under 15
years of age), being an increase of 12 on the previous
week ; asthma, 21, an increase of 9 ; and phthisis 134,
an increase of 30. The deaths from all epidemic
diseases were 173, whilst the autumnal average is
307. The fatal cases of typhus have declined to 35 ;
those of diarrhoea and dysentery were 20; and only
1 death is returned as caused by cholera, and in this
case the deceased sank under debility, the consequence
of two attacks of the disease which she had suffered
previously. She was a women of 27 years, and died
in the south-west sub-district of the city of London.
A. case is recorded in which the fatal diseases atrophy
and icterus were the result of intemperance. Twelve
women died after childbirth.

In the returns for the weeks ending September 22
and 29 diagrams were published showing the deaths
from cholera to every 10,000 inhabitants, in each dis-
trict of London. A tabular statement is now given
showing the mortality from cholera in 58 weeks in
each of the sub-districts into which London is
divided ; the population of each sub-district, the
deaths from cholera to every 10,000 inhabitants, and
the number of inhabitants to every death. To take
a few examples :--Lambeth contains eight sub-
divisions :—in Waterloo-road (first part) the deaths
to 10,000 of the population were 159 • in Waterloo-
road (second part) they were 14"; in Lambeth
Church (first part) they were 118. These places are
in the neighbourhood of the river, but the sub-
districts which are more remote present more favour-
able results ; for in Kennington the deaths were
110 to 10,000 inhabitants; in Brixton they
were seventy-nine, and in Norwood only seven.
Wandsworth and Camberwell also exhibit the
greatest contrasts in the comparison of the sub-
districts into which they are severally divided, the
deaths ranging from 17 in 10,000 in Putney to 175
in Battersea, and 182 in Streatham and Tooting;
from 5 in Dulwich to 182 in Camberwell (sub-dis-
trict),ln St. George's, Hanover-square, the Belgrave
sub•district, which is of low situation, suffered a
mortality of 33 in 10,000, while the average of
portions more favourably situated was not more
than 8. In St. James's, Bermondsey, the rate of
mortality was 208 deaths ; in Rotherhithe 270. The
above are some of the general results, but in the
table the sub-districts which contain workhouses,
hospitals, and other public institutions, are distin-
guished, as allowance must be made for persons taken
into them from other districts, after they had been
attacked by the disease.
The mean height of the barometer in the week was
29.803 ; the daily mean was above 30 inches on Tues-
day. The mean temperature of the week was 34 deg.
5 min., and was lower than the average of the same
week in seven years by 9 deg. 1 min. On Wednes-
day the daily mean was less than the average by 17
deg. 5 min.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1849.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... *173
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 45
Tubercular Diseases ... 170
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 118
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels . 34
Diseases of tho Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration 194
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... 50
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. .• ..• ••• 8
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &v. ••• ••• 12
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ••• 8
Diseases of the Skin, &c. 0
Malformations... 8
Premature Birth
•• 20
Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• 24
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• 45
Sudden e• • ••• ••• •• •111 ••• ••• 5
Violence, Privation G. or Intemperance ••• 14
Causes not specified' ••• ••• ••• ••• • 3

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ...

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8 in the
1841 Five ..tutuunis. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 164 ... 147
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 207 ~. 162
Central Districts 374,199 208 151
East Dis►ricts ... 393,067 ... 259 ... 218
South Districts .. 503,346 ... 324 ...
.253

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,162 ... 931
Maley

Fe males ... ... ... ... ... 442

IVI&GAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)
BENTLEY.
Mr. Robert Bell having already attained one of the
highest literary positions as a dramatist, as a tourist,
and as an historian, now enters the field as a novelist,
and bids fair--if we may judge from the opening
chapters of his novel, which appear in the present
number of Bentley—to achieve as great a literary
triumph in the " Ladder of Gold" :as he has already
achieved in " Marriage," " Wayside Pictures," or
the " History of the Times of Sir Thomas Fairfax."
The " Ladder of Gold" is an English story, the scene
of which is laid in an English country village in our
own times. Richard Rawlings, who is, we imagine,
the intended hero of the tale, is a serving man in a
village shop, who cannot but contrast his own
abject condition, the slave, the unhappy slave, of a
harsh master and a foolish mistress, with that of
those who keep him under, and who, as the result of
the contrast, perceives that in wealth, and wealth
alone, consists their superiority, and therefore deter-
mines to devote himself, body and soul, to the acqui-
sition of wealth as the only road to the acquisition of
liberty and power. The characters of the shopkeeper
Raggles andLhis wife are admirably drawn. Raggles,
who has been a scapegrace spendthrift in his youth,
becomes a miser in his old age; during his career of
dissipation he had avoided marriage as a clog; during
his career of avarice he would fain avoid it as an ex•
pense. The old man, however, is at length fascinated
by the charms of a certain Barbara Flight, a simple
minded girl, whose implicit obedience to her mother
has won him, and one fine evening he makes a pro-
posal to Mrs. Flight for her daughter's hand. The
following description of his feelings on the succeeding
day is admirable :
" The next day he didn't' believe a word of it. He
was like a man getting up out of a dream, and the day-
light and its occupations put it all out of his thoughts;
and when he set out in the evening to visit Mrs.
Flight as usual, he had a feeling of buoyancy, and a gay
sort of giddiness in his step, which was new to him, and
which was the only token he could detect in himself of
any change that had been wrought in him. But when
he arrived at the house he suddenly felt himself very
sick and tremulous ; and when Mrs. Elight asked him
what was the matter, he felt as if his head would fly
off, and as if his ears were burning and cracking
down to the roots. He supposed that he was ex-
pected to say something about the evening before, and
that the best thing he could say would be something
jocose, to turn it all off into a laugh; but the more he
tried to think of a joke, the wore he couldn't think of
anything but a dismal mist that was before his eyes,
dancing up and down like a phantasmagoria. As for
Barbara, she was nursing her cat as unconcernedly as if
nothing had happened, a spectacle of guileless simplicity
which smote him to the heart, and made him feel
wretchedly guilty, although he could not tell why or
wherefore."

He at length marries the gentle Barbara, and a change
takes place in the household of the old miser :
" When Mr. ltaggles brought home his wife, he found
that he did not exactly know what to do with her. lie
had made no calculation of the extensive changes which
are produced by the appearance of a mistress in the
menage of an cld bachelor. While the place Ras new to
her, Mrs. Rargles was perpetually running in and out of
the rooms, and up and down the stairs, and flirting iuto
the shop, and ringing the bells, and ordering the maid-
of-all-work about, and sending out the shopman on
trivial messages, and creating a hubbub and disturbance
all day long, that effectually broke up the clock-work
routine of the house. Mr. Raggles was fairly taken
aback by the extraordinary sprightliness of motion she
exhibited ; nor could ho comprehend how that quiet
girl, who purred about her mother's little parlour
so noiselessly, could have become so troublesome all of
a sudden. But Raggles was not a profound man on
some subjects, and, least of all, on the philosophy of
female character."

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of Richard, who thus mounts the first step of the
ladder of gold. Sylvanus continues his " Bye-lanes
and Downs of England," and in his present contribu-
tion gives us several amusing anecdotes of those by-
gone heroes of the turf, Frank Buckle, the
Chifneys, and William Scott, with some plea-
sant gossip anent Templeman, Nat, and other
first-rate jockies of the present day. The
"Note-book of a Coroner's Clerk" is continued,
and we have a most powerfully written and thrilling
description of the proceedings in a commission de lund-
tico inquirendo, in which the insufferable arrogance
(arrogance, the child ofignorance and pretension,) of
the mad doctors, of whom Dr. Quoddutns may be
considered as the representative, is admirably shown
up, and in which the motives of " those kind rela-
tives," who are so particularly anxious to shut up
their relatives in mad-houses, lest they should dissi-
pate their property, are laid bare. "This investigation
has probably come upon you by surprise," asks the
Commissioner to the alleged lunatic. His reply is a
conclusive answer to all the twaddle which the Com-
missioners of Lunacy have published about the care
and affection of relatives, &c.:—
"No
: I was satisfied it would commence the mo-
ment I ceased to honour the Count's drafts. I have my
banker's book with me. My last and final remittance
to my kinsman was made, I see, late in May. Early in
June following the first step to deprive me of income
and liberty was taken. No, sir,—no; lam not sur-
prised. It is only carrying out into action a motto dear
to the: grasping and the desperate—' Give cheerfully
and readily; or else I take. "
Paul Pindar, on whom the mantle of Isaac Walton
seems to have fallen, gives us in his present Piscatory
Dialogue an admirable West Country Ballad, " Old
Grumbleton," on which the farce of Domestic Economy,
now performing at the Adelphi, is founded. Alfred
Crewquill gives us some delightful gossip about
Loudon and Mrs. Ward a pleasant prolusion anent
Porchester Castle. We have divers other papers of
more than average merit, in addition to the " Review
of the Literature of the Month," in this, the best
number of Bentley that has appeared for some
months.

THE ST. JAMES'S. Edited by J. Bernard
Burke, Esq.
In the present number Mr. John_flay brings to a
conclusion his pleasant "History of Boscobel."
Among the most interesting articles in the present
number are the report of the trial for murder of
Don Pantaleon.Sa, the brother of the Portuguese Am-
bassador to the Commonwealth, and the following
LINES WRITTEN BY SIR TOURLOUGH O'BRIEN, WHILE
ABSENT PROM HIS LADY LOVE.—A.D, 1560.
(Never before published )
would that I were a voiceless sigh,
Floating through air,
When thy spirit draws nigh
Unperceived I would steal o'er thy cheek of down,
And kiss thy soft lips,
Unchecked by a frown.
" I would I could pass from this living tomb
Into the violet's sweetest perfume ;
On the wings of the morning to thee I would fly,
And mingle my breath
With thy sweetest sigh !
" I would that I were a dying tone,
To dwell on thy ear,
When the music is gone :
I would cheer thy heart with my latest breath,
And yield thee pleasure,
E'en in my death I
":,My heart is bound with a viewless chain :
I see no wound but I feel its pain I
Loose my fetters and set me free !
Bondage, tho' sweet, has no charms for me.
Yet e'en in fetters, my fond heart must dwell
Since thy Spirit flits o'er it,
And bellows my cell I"

and romantic. "Paris and the Parislaw" a criticism
on a work of that name, gives a gloomy idea of the
politics and an interesting picture of the peculiarities
Sponge's Sporting Tour"
of the gay city. " Swipe.),
is continued, as Is also "A Drift-Log on the .Alissis-
sippi." " The IlabituCs Note-Book" is filled with
amusing anecdotes, also concerning Paris. Mr.
Francis Ainsworth has contributed an article on
" Tyrone and Tyrconnell," which is full of interest ;
but his remarks on the religious difficulties of Ireland
in no way Record with our own opinions. The lite-
rature and theatres of the month receive their wonted
consideration. This enumeration sums up the con-
tents of the New Alonthly for December—a number,
on the whole, superior to many of its predecessors.