The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 29.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W.,
light breez3 and cloudy.
OFF THE START, MAY 24.—Liela,, Stafford, Baltimore
for Rotterdam.
DOTER ROADS, MAY 27.—S1d. Germania, New York,
after repairing.
SHIELDS, MAY 27.—Wind S.E. ; 28th, E.—Sld. 261.13,
Thomas Metcalfe, Madras.
CORK, MAY 26.—Ski. Oriental, Montreal.
WHITEEIAVEN, MAY 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. British
Queer, Wise, Antigua.
JERSEY, MAY 25.—S1d. Highlander, Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind N.—Arrd. 27th, Galga,
Olano, Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind variable.—Sld. Panama,
Adelaide, South Australia.
DEAL, MAY 28.—Wind N.N.E. to N.—Arrd. from the
River and sailed, America, Hanschildt, San Francisco;
Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Lorey, Moreton. Bay;
James, Scott, Shanghae ; Medium, Fowler, Valparaiso;
John Pink, Jones, St. Vincent; Cleopatra, Lore, Tri-
nidad; Gibraltar, Goodburn, Dominica; Queen of Bri-
tain, Fitzgibon. St. Lucia; Gilbert, Munro, M'Lean,
ditto; Horn, Wingate, Baltimore.
POOLE, MAY 26.—Arrd. Frolic, Newfoundland.
DARTMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind W.—Sld. Hobe, Rio
Janeiro.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 28.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. 27th,
Madras, Sierra Leone; Gossypium, Lowther, Callao;
Thomas Fielden, Lawson,'ditto; England, Brown, ditto;
Juno, Moran, Mobile. Sld. Marquis of Queensberry, Mi-
ramichi; England, Quebec; Young Captain, Newfound.
land; 28th, Merchant, Lake, Buenos Ayres; West Lo-
thian, Jamaica. Off port, Patrick Henry, America,
Montezuma, and Dorcas.
TROON, MAY 27.—The Rosalind, hence for Ceylon,
has put back here from lat. 51, long. 11, with covering
board split and started, decks swept, loss of bulwarks,
rails, &c., and boats; four of the crew lost, having been
struck by a heavy sea on the 24th inst.
HULL, MAY 26.—Sld Minstrel, Quebec.

the boxes grtbted the fair artistes. Mr. T. Mead, who
played Master Trueworth, was also called for, and ap-
peared before the curtain to testify his acknowledgments.
A grand pas de den; from the ballet of Le Las des
Fees, by Mdlle. Louise and Mdlle. Therese Cushnie, from
the Royal Italian Opera, followed the piece, and gave
general delight. The fair ladies were also honoured with
a shower of bouquets. The performances were con-
cluded with the original drama to which we have
referred, entitled the Lily of the Desert and
the Arab Spv ! with the incidental ballet
and characteristic dances being arranged by Mdlle.
Louise, the fair danseuse, whom we have already
mentioned. The scene of the drama, which is in three
acts, and replete with interest and scenic ffect, is laid in
Algeria during its occupation by the French General
Bonfoire (Mr. Neville), commandant of the town and
fort: s, who is greatly chagrined on discovering that a
wandering tribe of Arabs, of whom Ibrahim Bey (Mr.
Emery) is the chief, procure secret infOrmation of his
projects. The General eventually discovers, from the
confession of Bails (Miss Mordsunt), the " Lily of the
Desert," an Arab girl of French extraction, that she has
been for some considerable time acting in the capa-
city of a spy on the movements of the French
troops, justifying her conduct by her natu-
ral desire to rescue her nomadal tribe and people
from the hateful domination and oppression of their
conquerors, the French. Bails, who had been previously
betrothed to Ibrahim Bey, is brought into circumstances,
where, heedless of her betrothal to Ibrahim, who had
ruled her more by fear than love—she conceives an
ardent attachment to Victor Larouse (Mr. T. Mead), a
young cadet in the French service. This intimacy ex-
cites the enmity of Lieutenant Camille (Mr. Raymond),
a rover and gambler, who seeks to compass the destruc-
tion of Larouse, his more favoured rival. By and bye
an opportunity for accomplishing his purpose presents
itself to Camille; he accuses Larouse, before General
Bonfoire, of having deserted his post, and exposing the
French troops to imminent jeopardy ; the fact
being that Larouse had merely quitted his post
for a few minutes to save the life of Baila, the idol of his
heart, who had been precipitated over a cataract. La:.
rouse is arrested on the spot for this breach of duty, but
is afterwards rescued by the intervention of Baila, and
after wandering about the desert for some time in com-
pany with the Arabs, is on the point of being shot by
the troops sent in pursuit of him, when General Bon-
foire unexpectedly appears upon the scene, and having
been made acquainted with the victory of Camille, grants
a pardon to Larouse. Baila eventually turns out to be
the niece of General Bonfoire, by his sister,
who had been abducted by a party of Arabs
many years before. The denouement exhibits and
contrasts the felicitous union of Larouse and Bails
and the ignominious death of the infamous and treach-
erous Camille. The main plot of the piece is agreeably
diversified by the odd adventures, vagaries, and hair-
breadth 'scapes of Mr. Winkins Spinks (Mr. Widdi-
comb), a railway stag, contractor, and speculator, who
having made Capel-c?urt too hot to hold him, emigrates
to Algeria, taking with him Mrs. Winkin Spinks (Miss
C. Tellet), his better half, " a poor deceived creature," and
Mr. Solomon Dumps (Mr. Rogers), his head clerk from
the City, and sets up on his own account as civil engi-
neer. The piece was upon the whole well received, and
bids fair to become a favourite.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
NAT DIANILETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 3/ 15s; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 41 16s ; and Straw, 11 5s to 11 lOs per
load. Supply moderately good, and trade very dull.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 18s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 158 ; and Straw, 11 7s to
11 12s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish
demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31 18s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 17s; and Straw, 116 s to 1/ lls
per load. Trade dull, at drooping prices.
COLONIAL.
SUGAIL—The demand for British plantation continues
to improve, and the sales are 720 hhds, and prices are
fully 6d per cwt dearer than on this day week for all de-
scriptions under 40s. Mauritius 3,900 bags sold briskly
at a general advance of 6d; strong chrystalised brought
40s 6d to 41s, mid to fine yellow 39s to 41s 6d; grey
3as 6d to 40s 6d, and brown 378 to 38s. A strong de-
mand prevails for Bengal, and several parcels have
changed hands privately at an improvement of
63 to is per cwt, particularly for the grainy
sorts. A cargo of 150 and 3,000 bags
Pernambuco sold privately at 19s 6d, also 500 boxes
brown and yellow Havannah at 21s to 24s per cwt. The
quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the
East and West India Docks was 3,723 hhds, 368 tierces,
1,241 barrels; there were taken for home consumption
1,092 hhds, 223 tierces, 346 barrels. The stock in the
same places is 13,278 hhds, 1,938 tierces, 3,501 barrels.
Coffee is quiet.
Rust.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 794 puns 100 hhds, there were
taken for home consumption 192 puns 46 hhds, and ex-
ported 53 puns 140 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 20,362 puns 2,585 hhds.
RICE.—Of 1,680 bags Bengal offered, only about
200 found buyers at lOs to Ils for good mid to good
white.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPBITHEATRE.
An abundant bill of fare was last night provided for
;he pleasure-seekers of the metropolis by the spirited
proprietor of this agreeable place of entertainment.
Long experience had convinced him that he might safely
rely upon a fair share of patronage from those anxious
to enjoy the holydays to the uttermost, and he was re-
solved to deserve that success by the quantity and qua-
lity of the entertainments provided for the public
amusement. We are happy to say that none were dis-
appointed. Every part of the theatre, boxes, pit,
and gallery, were crowded to excess. The arena was
completely filled during the performances of the
gorgeous spectacles which commenced and concluded the
evening's entertainment, and the stage was thronged
with a densely-packed multitude while the scenes in the
circle were exhibiting. All, however, was good humour
and contentment. No complaints were uttered; all
were too well satisfied with the exertions made on their
behalf, and submitted with a good grace to the trifling
inconvenience of the crowd, consoled by the considera-
tion that that inconvenience carried with it the legitimate
reward to the proprietor for his unceasing efforts to pro-
mote the public amusement. Moultan and Goojerat; or,
the Conquest of the &ails, the new grand equestrian
military spectacle, which, according to a time-honoured
custom, was produced for the first time to a Whitsuntide
audience, was indeed brought out as truly described by
the bills, "on an unprecedented scale of grandeur."
All the gigantic resources of the establishment were
put in requisition. Nothing was left undone, and
perhaps never was there a more successful result. The
plot of course was slight, it being intended chiefly as a
vehicle for the production of the varied groupings and
scenic effects, for which Astley's has ever been so remark-
able. Good comic parts were, however, provided for
those established favourites, Adrian and S. Smith; while
Miss Rose Henry, as the captive wife of a British offi-
cer, contributed materially to the interest of the piece.
In the first scene, the march of British troops, cavalry,
infantry, and even artillery, and their embarkation for
India, was admirably managed. The storming of
Moultan, the scaling of the walls, and the
terrific combats of equestrians, elicited the most
rapturous applause; and the final group, " An
allegorical representation of the triumph of Great
Britain," was also greeted with well-merited cheers from
all parts of the house. The scenes in the circle were
what was termed a Ladies' Fete," in which female
equestrians only performed, Which they did most admir-
ably. Marie Mecarte," who was styled the " Eques-
trian Enchantress," made her first appearance, and fully
sustained the high reputation she has already achieved
in America and on the continent. This talented young
lady will form a most valuable addition to Mr. Batty's
corps. The performances concluded with the White
Maid of California. which still maintains its attractions.

SPICES.-1,400 bags Black Pepper were taken in at
2i to 2i for silted Sumatra to halt-heavy Malabar.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 388 9d to 39s per cwt. on the
spot, and Town, 39s 6d.
TEA.—The market is steady, and last week the deli-
veries increased.

" NIL DESPERANDUM."
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
A word in season, how good it is ! and right good
and seasonable are those old maxims, which, with
emphatic brevity, give courage to the desponding, and
new vigour to the weary, when homilies and exhor-
tations are powerless. We could readily enumerate
a hundred or more such
" Jewels five words long,
That on the stretched forefinger of old Time
Sparkle for ever."
Perhaps not one of them, excellent though the
others may be, has so much virtue and efficacy as this
hopeful ejaculation--Ni/ desperandum. The lot of
man is disappointment, but his worst enemy is de•
spair. Resolute confidence, when all other means
fail, may often avert danger, and overcome difficulty;
nay, more, it may convert the bane into a blessing.
We learn this in our infancy. What says the Nur-
sery Rhyme ?
" Tender-handed touch a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains."
Bulwer has truthfully observed, that the most
valuable characteristic of fame is the laborious and
long-continued struggle %Mai it almost invariably
imposes upon its votaries. Similarly excellent is the
discipline of disappointment. If life were exempt
from trial, the sterner virtues—fortitude, patience,
courage, and perseverance, would be uncalled for.
Sybarite ease might abound, but Roman excellence
would be wanting; life might be luxurious, but men
would be worthless. It is a bitter truth, perhaps, but
sorrow and suffering are a man's best teachers, and to
render their teaching efficacious, they must be en-
countered by steady, enduring resolution.
Humbled, but not conquered,—disappointed, but
not dismayed, we must bend before the blast, only to
rise again with new energy. Nil desperandum must
be the watchword cherished in our hearts, even when
its utterance would sound like mockery.
Look at history—and history is a teacher second
only to experience. Who are the men great in their
own generation, and honoured by the homage of pos-
terity ? Who are the men at whose histories our
hearts burn, and our eyes glisten ? The men who
were ignorant of the word despair. Was that baleful
influence felt by the Genoese, whose untiring faith
won a world from the unknown ? Nil desperandum
was the motto of Columbus, as with weary feet,
but undrooping heart, he travelled from court to
court, vainly soliciting aid for the discovery of a new
hemisphere ; and in that most anxious hour when
defeat seemed imminent in the moment of victory,
when the perils of the voyage were surmounted, and
the land of America, all but within sight, the sailors'
courage failed, and declaring the project a delusion,
they insisted upon abandoning the mighty enterprise,
Nil desperandum! exclaimed Columbus. His life
was menaced by the mutineers, but hope still urged
him on. " Give me three days," he cried ; and be-
fore three days had passed, he had, with " a grand
step," trod the shores of the New World.
All ages tell the same tale. When the armed
thousands of Xerxes threatened the annihilation of
Greece, Nil desperandum ! cried Leonidas, although
the cry seemed madness, and with three hundred
followers he encountered the Persian hosts. The dead
bodies of the Grecian heroes strewed the battle-plain
of Thermopylm ; but, the Persian host retreated, and
the salvation of Greece was achieved.
Volumes might be filled with similar examples of
perseverance, and difficulty, and hope, in the jaws of
destruction • for the history of these virtues is the
history of all the great and good that has ever been
accomplished. It is easier to say what a man may do
than what he may not, if he put his shoulder to the
wheel with a hopeful resolution. Who, for example,
would not have ridiculed the presumption of that
gipsy-tinker who, while repairing the grate at a
wealthy painter's house, was captivated by the beauty
of the painter's daughter, and demanded the lady of
her father. Doubtless, the painter thought to con-
vince the youth of the folly of his suit, by declaring
that the lady should only be the bride of a greater
painter than her father. Did the gipsy youth hang
his head in despair ? Nil desperandum Ihe cried, as
he flung aside the pincers and seized the palette.
Years after, that painter's daughter actually became
his wife, and still in the list of Spanish artists the
title of Zingara (the gipsy) attests the genius of So-
lario, and perpetuates the memory of his triumphant
perseverance.
Then, faint not, drooping hearts ! all you now
suffer men have already undergone. The very diffi-
culties which threaten to overwhelm you, brave souls
have already surmounted. Struggle on while breath
animates you. Cowards alone turn and flee.
To give up is to lose. The battle of life resembles
the stone of Sisyphus; it must be fought up-bill. If
We relax for one moment in our exertions, we do not
stand still—we fall back. All the past labour avails
nothing ; and the despairing man is crushed by the
difficulties he should have, and might have sur-
mounted.
There are, it must be admitted (and
ofand the
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admissiontre
should cover us all with the blush
are many impediments
ofut
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struggling and the poor,
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day's wages always the meed
loafusdoecdieEtyn,galnadndbiya
athfaeirsinshyof indeividuals. Not in our
of a fair day's work. Nevertheless,,
Htoopeovoenrya indi-
viduallittle yielding to despair, we say
longer, brave heart! Three days more and
and
land may
be in view !" Moreover, the fortitude the
resolution necessary to bear the storm, will go more
than half-way towards surmounting it.
Corneille says, "To conquer without perilisto
triumph without glory." But with all due deference
for the opinion of Corneille, we should rather say
that, without peril is no triumph at all.
" In the sweat of thy face, thou shalt eat bread."
Such was the edict which imposed upon man the lot
of labour, and promised for that labour a recompense;
and to this hour the promise has been verified.
Without labour nothing great can be achieved, while
with labour all things may be done. Let every
honest heart cry shame on all who infringe the

ESCAPt:.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Your paper of late again presented us with
frightful details of loss of life, through the burning of a
house in King William-street.
Notwithstanding the frequent recurrence of such dire
calamities,London and the citizens of and of other towns in
England (although
compelled to take their nightly re-
po-e on seconds, and troisiemes and quatriences, and as-
scending thereto over matchwood staircases) do adopt
so few individual precautions against accidents that one
might almost suppose the "voluntary system" to have re-
placed that of fire and faggot of olden times, consecrating
the modern sacrifices.
If otherwise, however, permit me, through the me-
dium of your journal, to suggest a simple and not ex-
rensive apparatus as a fire es: ape, and which, in a mul.
titude of instances, might have been perhaps, and may
be, the means of saving life, and would always, if at
hand, supersede the cruel necessity of leaping from a
window.

Let the window of every sleeping room be furnished
with a htrong iron hook firmly planted at the upper part
thereof. Let every inmate of the same keep ready at
baud a stout, thick rope, with a ring of proportionate
strength at one end; this rope should be of sufficient
length to admit of an open angle or long line of descent,
as much so as the position or locality will allow. Be-
sides this will be required a broad belt, or long jacket or
waistcoat made of carpeting, with five or six button
holes, strongly worked, and doubled with leather or
sailcloth; in place of buttons, are to be fixed on with
packthread, five or six rings of a size sufficient to allow
passage to the ring on the rope. Thus, in a critical
moment, a person buttons on the jacket, passes the ring
of the rope through its buttons or rings, beginning with
the lower one, hooks on the rope to the window, the
people below make fast or hold on to the other end
thrown out, and down the individual glides in safety.
I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant,
JAMES NICHOLSON.

Brussels, May 19, 1849.

DISTRESSED NEEDLEIVOMENS' socirry. --- There
was a meeting of this society on Saturday last at the
Hanover-square Rooms, at which Alderman Fare-
brother presided. The principal speaker was
Mr. J. L. Hansard, who gave a detailed account
of the operations of the society from its commence..
ment in 1844 to the present time; from which it
appeared that the circumstances of the needlewomen
are greatly improved, and that still more favourable
results may be confidently anticipated, especially if the
society continues to be supported in the way that it
deserves. Several resolutions were passed in accordance
with the objects of the meeting, and thanks having
been voted to the chairman the company
separated.
TREMENDOUS CONELAGRATION.--An extensive
conflagration broke out this morning, shortly before two
o'clock, in Willow-walk, Bermondsey, by which a vast
amount of property has been destroyed. The flames
commenced on the premises belonging to Mr.
Clapham, a tanner and leather-dresser. The
moment the discovery was made an alarm was
given ; but before assistance could arrive the greater
portion of the works were enveloped in flames. The
engines of the London, West of England, and parish,
were quickly on the spot, as well as the fire escapes. The
flames were then rushing so high as to illuminate the
whole of the metropolis. As soon as water could be procured
the whole of the engines were set to work, but in spite
of the endeavours of the firemen the flames crossed
the carriage road and fired almost simultaneously the
extensive works of Mr. Hugman, in the same line of
business. These latter buildings were equally capacious
as the former. Mr. Inspector Freud, with a strong mus-
ter of the police, were on the spot, and were guarding
the property removed as well as keeping a space clear
for the firemen to work, but was ultimately got under.
THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS. WooLwlcu, MAY
28,—The Woolwich division of the London district of
Chelsea Pensioners were prevented assembling on Wool-
wich-common to-day for the inspection of Colonel Tullob,
in consequence of the heavy rain which fell from an
early hour in the morning until the afternoon. They
have now received orders to hold themselves in readi-
ness to proceed to London, on Thursday next, to be
present at an early hour for review in Hyde-park, on
Friday, June 1, when the Peninsular war medals will
be presented to all those entitled to them.
BEATING A CHILD TO DEATH.---A labouring man,
named Holloway, living in Southamp-
ton,Kingland-
has been taken up for his c
beating Place,
hild (a boy about
ten years old) to death, on Saturday last. The boy had
been guilty of some very trifling offence, and his father
beat him with a strong buckle and strap, and kicked
him until he died. When the poor child was dead, the
brute took the body to the back of the house and poured
water on it, in the hope of bringing it to life again.
The man is a drunken, bad character, and has been in
the habit of using his wife and child very cruelly.
The horse that ran second for the Derby, and was
within half a length of winning the stakes, is the pro-
perty of
agriculturist, Mr. Godwin,—
litralc4

THE SUN, LONDON, TVESDAY •PVENINO-, MAY 20, MO.

voice was a park of artillery ; her-talons a charge of —of the -luxurious recluse (a double of Raiselas)
bayonets." And yet, on reflection, Shakspere has called Donjalolo—of those scamps the Plujii f
been beforehand in the idea (as he 1
has in so Nora•bamma —of King Uhia—of that jolly old lord,
many thousand others) w here he says " She speaks Borabolla—of Mondoldo—of Maramma—of Hivo-
poignards, and every word stabs." And, describing hitee—of lake Yatnmo—of Alma--of Ravoo, and of
his spouse, and lamenting that so frequently the eyes Hevaneva. Still better, as far as their comprehen•
of the " human face divine" are " mere lenses in: sibility is concerned, are the descriptions of Hivohitee;
serted into the socket as glasses in spectacle rims, ' of the Tapparians ; of Pimminee ; of Diranda; of
he exclaims (Vol. I. p. 151), " But my Lords Piko and Hello (a chapter to which we commend
Islander had a soul in his eye, looking out all the members of the Peace Association); of Dominora
upon you there, like somebody in him !" (otherwise England), and Bello (otherwise the British
Neither is burlesque beyond his reach, when it suits Sovereign); of Vivenza (or the United States); of
him, even in the paroxysms of his sublimity. Hear Porpheero (or Europe); and so on till we come to
him talk of the nose of Oh-Oh, in a strain that Doxodox and Hooloomooloo. The three avengers
would have tickled the ribs of Slawkenburgius ! and the three spectral messengers frozn ;Hardie, who-
" The old man was a sight to see; especially his nose; corresponds orientally with flowers, impart a fan.
a remarkable one. And all Mardi over, a remarkable tastic embellishment to the general narrative, without
nose is a prominent feature: an ever obvious passport to rendering it much clearer to the understanding. The
distinction. For, after all, this gaining a name, is but end, we can scarcely call it the catastrophe, is dim,
the individualising of a man; as well achieved by an dreamy, vague, suffused with a mist by no means
extraordinary nose, as by an extraordinary epic. Far Ossianic. On closing our criticism, as cn closing the,
better, indeed; for you may pass poets without knowing
t
them. Even a hero, is no hero without his sword; nor third volume, ourremainsunaltered—that
opinion a
Mardi" displayed very
Beelzebub himself a lion, minus that lasso-tail of his,i
Mr. Herman Melville hasn
wherewith he catches his prey. Whereas, he who is remarkable powers, and, above all, a rich and almost
famous through his nose, it is impossible to overlook. Arabic imagination ; but those powers, that imaging-
He is a celebrity without toiling for a name. snugly tion, his eloquence, his observation, his wit, his senti-
ensconced behind his proboscis, he revels in its shadow, ment have all been squandered to no avail upon a
receiving tributes of attention wherever he goes." wild conceit, as though d'Urbino had drawn cartoons
There is an impertinence in the manner of our upon the dust, or Watteau had painted landscapes
author that at first provokes us to indignation, upon gelatine.
but at last only to merriment by its repetition.
Seemingly a pretence at the outset, it proves ulti-
mately to be an eccentric mannerism. It is where he
speaks in this wise of dead and living celebrities
(Vol. I, p. 191)—" My scientific friend Faraday;"
(Vol. 1., p. 159)—" My Peloponnesian friend Thucy-
dides ;" (Vol. 1., p.120)—" My glorious old gossiping
ancestor Froissart ;" (Ibid)—"My late eloquent and
prophetic friend and correspondent, Edmund Burke."
One feature of the romance or allegory must not be
overlooked, namely, its mixture of the prose and the
poetic. In this concoction of his literary repast,
however, Mr. Melville when he least wishes it makes
the intended prose poetical, and the intended poetry
prose. His bard Yoomy is too often, like many
sentimental persons, rather a bit of a bore.
The verses most to oar liking are those which most
excite the enthusiasm of his Majesty King Media—we
mean the warlike song (Vol. 111., p. 3) of; the clubs,
the bows, the spears, and the slings. As to the
chorus, evidently suggested by the discovery of the
gold-dust in California (Vol. 111., p. 173), we wonder
if the writer ever heard of Thomas Hood's memorable
chaunt about the leg of Miss Kilmansegge 1 It looks
marvellously like a plagiarism. On the whole we
scarcely feel disposed to remind Mr. Melville of the
advice given to Yoomy by the philosophic Babbalanja,
namely, (Vol. 11., p. 86) " that his business is to make
the metal in him jingle in tags not ring in the ingot."
Our author is but seldom inclined to be sententious.
Whenever he is, however, he is welcome. We turn
with a sense of relief from such prolonged rhapsodies
—very labyrinths of language—as the chapter upon
Dreams (Vol. 11., ch. 49), to sentences like the sub-
joined :—Speaking of beauty (Vol. 1., p. 152), "But
the only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through
the face ; and though beauty be obvious, the
only loveliness is invisible." Or when he says
thus much of fame and the famous, the truth of his
saying is perceptible (Vol. 11. p. 270)—" Whence it
comes, as old Bardiana has it, that for years a man
may move unnoticed among his fellows; but all at
once, by some chance attitude, foreign to his habit,
become a trumpet-full for fools, though in himself the
same as ever. Nor has he shown himself yet ; for
the entire merit of a man can never be made known ;
nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We
are only known by our names; as letters sealed up,
we but read each other's superscriptions." But plea-
santest of all is he when revelling in the description
of the scenes of Nature or of Dreamland. In the
latter he dilates upon the vegetable exuberance of the
acclivities of Willamilla where (Vol. 11., p. 15,)
" the topmast crags poured over with vines,
which, undulating, seemed leafy cascades ; their
sources the upland groves." In the former he
rejoices in the enumeration of the chondropterygh
and other uncouth hordes infesting the South Seas;
such as the Devil Fish, the Brown Shark, the Blue
Shark, the Tiger Shark, the White Shark, the Por-
poise, the A lbicore, the Black Fish, the Al-
gerines, the Killers, and the Thrashers;
prefacing his account of them with the
ejaculation (Vol. 1., p.:sB)—" It's famous botanizing,
they say, in Arkansas' boundless prairies; I com-
mend the student of Ichthyology to an open boat,
and the ocean moors of the Pacific." A suggestive
hint that ! say we, without any intention of punning.
Not always, however, is our author's hilarity of such
a very scientific tendency. When he lists he can
talk like a boon comrade without a dash of pedantry.
Hearken to him, ye lovers of the soothing weed,
when he descants upon the virtues of Pigtail and
Oronoco, of York-river and Cavendish, of Shag
and Nail-rod, of Negro head and Plug, of Lady's
Twist and Gold-leaf, of Returns and Cimaroza, of
Bird's-eye and Smyrna, of James-river and Sweet-
scented, of Honey dew and Chaster, of Persian and
Turkish, of Shiraz and Kentucky, in fact of all the
aromatic kinds and qualities of 'that plant popularly
known as Tobacco ! Hear him when he grows gar-
rulous over the Regalia and the Principe, over the she-
root and the cigarette, over the Dutch porcelain and the
hookah, over the narghil and the chibouque !—talking
in a strain that would be grateful to the ears of
his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, when, on
entertaining her Majesty's Ministers the other night
at a grand banquet, he conducted them to a superb
divan and offered them—pipes. In the very impe-
tuosity of his most humorous scenes, Mr. Melville,
we must not fail to observe, breaks off suddenly with
the utterance of a grand thought expressed in thrilling
language. Talking of kings and toadstools, Babba-
lanja pauses and, quoting from his oldfavourite
Bardiana, says (Vol. 111. p. 162)—" Who put
together this marvellous mechanism of mine, and
wound it up to go for three score years and ten;
when it runs out and strikes Time's hours no more ?
And what is it, that daily and hourly renews, and
by a miracle, creates in me my flesh and blood ?
What keeps up a perpetual telegraphic com-
munication between my outpost toes and digits, and
that domed grandee up aloft, my brain ? It is not
I; nor you ; nor he ; nor it. No ; when I place my
hand to that king muscle my heart, I am appalled.
I feel the great God himself at work within me. Oro
is life:' To us that is noble writing : and scarcely
less so is this.—Speaking of the lapse of time that is
required to produce anything great, he has observed
that the bower of Artaxerxes took a whole Persian
summer to grow, and that the Czar's ice palace took
a long Muscovite winter to congeal ; continuing, he
exclaims—

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" No, no; nor was the Pyramid of Cheops masoned
in a month; though, once built, the sands left by the
Deluge might not have submerged such a pile. Nor
were the broad boughs of Charles' Oak grown in a
spring; though they outlived the royal dynasties of.
Tudor and Stuart. Nor were the parts of the great
Iliad put together in haste; though old Homer's temple
shall lift up its dome, when St. Peter's is a legend.
Even man himself lives months ere his Maker deems
him fit to be burn; and ere his proud shaft gains its lull
stature, twenty-one long Julian years must elapse. And
his whole mortal life brings not his immortal soul to ma-
turity; nor will all eternity perfect him. Yea, with
uttermost reverence, as to human understanding, in-
crease of dominion seems increase of power; and day by
day new planets are being added to elder-born Saturns,
even as six thousand years ago our own earth made one
more in this system; so, in incident, not in essence, may
the Infinite himself be not less than more infinite now,
than when old Aldebaran rolled forth from his hand.
And if time was, when this round earth, which to innu-
merable mortals has seemed an empire never to be
wholly explored; which, in its seas, concealed all the
Indies over four thousand five hundred years; if time
was, when this great quarry of Assyrias and Romes was
not extant; then, time may have been, when the whole
material universe lived its Dark Ages; yes, when the
Ineffable Silence, proceeding from its unimaginable re-
moteness, espied it as an isle in the sea. And herein is
no derogation. For the Immeasurable's altitude is not
heightened by the arches of Mahomet's heavens; and
were all space a vacuum, yet would it be a fulness; for to
Himself his own universe is He.
" Thus, deeper and deeper into Time's endless tunnel,
does the winged soul, like a night hawk, wend her wild
way; and finds eternities before and behind; and her
last limit is her everlasting beginning.
" But sent over the broad flooded sphere, even Noah's
dove came back, and perched on his hand. So comes
back my spirit to me, and folds up her wings.
" Thus, then, though Time be the mightiest
ries, yet is he the mightiest mason of all.
and a counsellor, and a physician, and a scridne a ,
poet, and a•sage, and a king.', An of Ala-
atnudtor a ,
d th
True eloquence that! an eloquencehei,sairroe:eartlye borerowed from the golden verse of t
Can-
ticles. Without in any
way revealing prematurely
the interest of the volumes to those who may not
ye
havet
that examinthemed
or,
under themselves,
disguise andmay re-
marktitle
of the demigod Taji, takes up his abode in
threa,e we
the archipelago, having espoused the beautiful Yillah.
Suddenly, however, Yillah is missing : and the host of
Taji King Media pitying his guest for the calamity
that has befallen him, and anxious himself to circum-
navigate Mardi, consents to join him in a search for
the lost Yillah. They enter upon their expedition in
three gorgeous barges, attended, besides paddlers, by
Mohi or I3raidbeard, a rather prosy old gentleman
calling himself a philosopher; by Babbalanja, a
capital fellow, first of all a sceptic and almost a blas-
phemer, being possessed indeed by a devil known as
Azzageddi, but ultimately a believer in God and Reve-
lation ; Yoomy the royal poet, a somewhat lackadai-
sical personage not much to our taste, except once
when he becomes ferocious ; and Vee-vee, a little
shrimp of a boy, who is Trumpeter and Ganymede
all in one. With the commencement of this voyage
the author begins to lose his senses, or, to say the
least, his judgment, for involuntarily he grows in-
coherent. Yet, scrap by scrap, the reader gleans
amusement and sometimes, through satirical elle-
gozleE, instruction—when he beau 91 little Ling reepi

SPECIE FROM CALIFORNIA..—.-The accounts from
California come down to the 6th of March, by way of
Mazatlan, and we have seen letters from San Fran-
cisco, which state that a very profitable business was
being done in several articles of import. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Calypso, which left Mazatlan in March, for
England, has a piece of gold on board, weighing
halt a pound, consigned to a Liverpool house, and oa
the ship's arrival those who are sceptical of anything
but small grains being discovered in California will have
the correctness of their opinions tested, as there will bo
no difficulty in ascertaining whether it be in its native
state or not. We have also seen bills of lading by this
mailfor about 80,000 dollars of gold, and, though on ac-
count of a Liverpool house, it is distributed to various and
distant places, part to China, part to New South "Wales,
part to Valparaiso, and remainder to England. We
mention the circumstance in support of remarks which
previously appeared in this article, that England could
not expect to be the first recipient of the treasure, as
she had not sent the means of purchasing it, and did not
offer the same inducements as the nearer markets for its
investment in goods, produce, &c., for consumption in
California.—Liverpool Albion.
ROYAL MARINES,..-WOOLWICH, MAY 28.—The
unfavourable state of the weather prevented the Wool-
wick division of Royal Marines being inspected until
the afternoon, when they assembled on the parade
ground in front of their spacious barracks, and submitted
their kits to Lieutenant• General Sir Thomas Downman,
C 8., K.C.H., Commandant of the Garrison, Colonel
Parke, C. 8., and Colonel Owen, C. 8., K.H., Deputy-
Adjutant-General, and Captain Wesley, Assistant-
Adjutant-General. There were ten companies on the
parade ground, including one of the Royal Marine Ar-
tillery.
LONGETITY.-Mr. John Moon, a venerable pa-
triarch, residing at Norton, near Stockton-upon-Tees,
was last week busily engaged in hoeing his potato
garden. Ile is now in his 101st year, in full bodily and
mental vigour.—Yorkshire Gazette.
SAVINGS' BANKS AND EMIGRATION.—NOtWith•
standing the present depressed state of the country, it is
not a little gratifying to learn that on Tuesday, the Ist
instant, more than 1,0001. were deposited in the Lincoln
Savings' Bank, chiefly by farmers' servants. There
were likewise 6501. drawn out on the same day; and it
is a curious fact that out of the latter sum no less than
4001. were drawn out by parties on the point of emigrat-
ing.—Birmingham Gazette.
DEATH OF A JOCKEY FROM " SWEATING."--An
inquest was held on Thursday, at Horodean, Hants, on
the body of George Davis, aged 23, a groom in the em-
ploy of J. Burrill, jun., Esq., who died that morning.
The deceased bad in training at Horndean a mare which
was to run at the ensuing races on Portsdown-hill; de-
ceased was to have been the jockey, and being desirous
to decrease his weight, resorted to a practice, we believe
not uncommon in such cases, of putting on a great quan-
tity of additional apparel, and then taking walking ex-
ercise; thus attired, and in perfect good health, he set
out from Horndean, at a quick pace, and returned in two
hours, but so completely exhausted as to render it ne-
cessary that he should fe placed in bed; he did not rally,
however, but soon after was a corpse. Verdict—" Died
from exhaustion."

lIOODLESS, TILE HORSE-SWIMMER OF LINCOLN.
SHIRE.—Some months ago, it will be remembered, we
gave in our supplement a very interesting account of
Richard 'foodless' a farmer on the Lincolnshire coast,
having saved the lives of several shipwrecked persons
by acts of almost unparalleled daring. The account
was copied from Chambers' Journal. A few days ago
Hoodless called upon us with the information that the
British and Foreign Sailors' Society had presented him,
through Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, with a 101. note,
as a mark of their especial estimation of his brave phi-
lanthropy. Since the account ae copied from Chambers'
Journal was inserted, we understand Hoodless has been
instrumental in saving several more lives.—Bull Packet.
The Opera Comique, St. James's Theatre, was last
evening attended by the Turkish Ambassador and suite,
the Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess of Leeds, the
Marchioness of Downahire, the Countess of Lichfield,
the Marquis of Douro, the Count and Lady Cecil de la
Feld, the Earl of Portarlington, Viscount Clifden, Sir
John L 3 ster have, Lady Quentin, Lady Jodrell, Mrs.
Crawshay and party, Sir Henry Meux.
A BEGGAR IN MASQUERADE.—A native of Wales
writes to the Liverpool Mercury that he, a few days ago,
discovered that a pretended Hindoo, who entered a
tavern near Clayton-square, was a fellow-countryman,
who had coloured his face and dressed himself in chintz,
the better to obtain alms.

DREAMING OF GOLD.--Wednesday week, a young
man, formerly an inhabitant of Nottingham, but who
has recently resided in Lincolnshire, accompanied by an
elderly man, called on Mr. Winter, the Duke of New-
castle's agent, and showed him a note he had obtained
from the Duke's steward, giving him permission to dig
in a certain place in the castle-yard, where the man, in
accordance with the dream twice repeated, was to find a
very valuable " crock o' goold." On Friday morning
the dreamer borrowed the necessary tools, and, attended
by his companion, went to the place. He then took off
his coat and went to work with the zeal of a Californian
emigrant, cheered with the grave expectation of finding
a treasure that would make him a rich man for the rest

of his life. hard at work ho continued in the rocky
sandy soil for upwards of an hour without the slightest
success—nothing bearing any resemblance to the wished-
for " crock" having met his gaze. When he had dug all
over the spot ho was forced to admit the truth of the
ando.ld that " dreams go by contraries," and so he
companion disconsolately left the place. The
signs passing tho
saying,
sintghs industry may be seen by any ono
castle-yard on the road to Lenten.—/Voltinghant Journal.
OPENING OF TUE NEW STATION', EUSTON -SQUARE.
—The new station of the North-Western Railway, at
Euston-square, which has been for several months in
progress, was, on Saturday, opened for business. The
building (externally very plain)
is in thethd
ofw its with Corinthian Cutohriann
ctholeominnste.rioTrhodelceonrgatthed
ißan
northo amnadnfrospl yt°B Irei
is°;
168 feet; the east and west fronts, 221 feet. In addi-
tion to the handsome waiting-rooms, booking and other
offices, compactly arranged within the building, are two
vestibules ; the outer, for general traffic, measuring 64
feet by 21, is paved with patent metallic lava, resembling
tesselated pavement, an article impervious to damp.
The inner vestibule is a magnificent apartment, 140 fee t
long, 60 feet wide, and GI feet high; around it rune en
elegant light iron gallery communicating with the upper
offices : it will be used as a general waiting and refresh-
ment room. At the east end is a bold flight of steps,
leading to the general meeting room, which is calculated
to hold 4,000 persons. Over the entrance is a piece of
sculpture in Caen stone, representing Britannia sup-
ported by Mercury and Science, executed by John
Thomas ; and contiguous (by the same artist) are bas-
relief devices symbolical of London, Birmingham, Man-
chester, Chester, Northampton, and Carlisle. The deco-
rations of the principal apartments are profuse, chaste,
and elegant; the general offices are neat,convenient, and
spacious: the whole in fact, as a railway station, is
without equal. It has been executed by Messrs. Cubitt,
from a design by P. Hardwicke, DA., the architect., at
an expense of nearly 140,000/.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—The acti-
vity which took place in sales of cotton at Havre on
Saturday last was again displayed yesterday. The
sales amounted up to two o'clock to 1,500 lee.
Prim very firm,—ln other articles little or no business
transacted.