The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

MARKET NEWs.—(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE—MONDAY.
Last week's arrivals of all kinds of grain of home
produce were on a very limited scale, but those of flour,
though small, were somewhat on the increase. From
Ireland and Scotland scarcely any grain came to hand;
but the imports of foreign corn were immense—they
having amounted to not less than 68,000 quarters of
Wheat, 9,558 quarters of Barley, 53,188 quarters of
Oats, 14,676 quarters of Beans, 9,565 barrels and 4,210
sacks of Flour, being one of the largest arrivals on
record. Fresh up this morning the receipts of Wheat
of home produce, coastwise as well as by land carriage
and sample, were on a very moderate scale; yet the show
of parcels was larger than those exhibited on this day
se'nnight. Owing to the immense importations of foreign
corn, most of which are being placed in warehouse, the
splendid weather for the growing crops (the accounts
respecting which are very favourable), and the thin at.
tendance of buyers from all quarters, the trade with all
kinds of English Wheat was excessively heavy, AT A
DECLINE IN THE QUOTATIONS OBTAINED ON MONDAY
LAST, OF FROM EIGHT, TO, IN SOME INSTANCES, TEN
SHILLINGS PER QUARTER, and at which a clearance
was not effected. At the close of the market several
parcels in bulk remained over for Wednesday. There
was a very large quantity of Foreign Wheat on show ;
hence the sale was excessively depressed, and THE
RATES DECLINED FROM SIX SHILLINGS, TO, IN SOME
CASES, TEN SHILLINGS PER QUARTER, and at which
tee millers were by no means anxious buyers.
Since the returns were made up on Saturday, about
seven thousand additional quarters have come in.
Scarcely any English Barley was on sale; but the sup-
ply of foreign was larger. All descriptions were very
dull, and from is to 2s per quarter beneath last week's
figures. The supply of Malt was tolerably good, while
the sale for all kinds was extremely inactive, and the
immense
imports declined from is to 2s per quarter. The
imports or Foreign Oats noticed above produced great
heaviness in the Oat trade, and where sales were effected,
the prices receded from 2s to 3s per quarter. For Beans
we had a very dull sale, at 2s to 3s per quarter less
tnoney. Scarcely a transaction took place in Peas, the
rates of which were 2s per quarter cheaper. Indian
Corn was a mere drug, and might have been purchased
at a reduction of 4s to 5s per quarter. The Flour trade
was very dull. Town-made and country qualities fell

5s per sack, the highest prii
per barrel—the extreme rat.

!e being 655, and Foreign 4s
being 345.

UITMZENC Y. PER rMT 1'.:7 1 rn. i,
,II !,.,....4,,r: -----..........
W*.-.eat --Essex ;. !{..,1,1, 1 7'. Li ---;',., .-%y: —•— • .s Lo 73,
Red. .....• •.68s to 74s Oats— Yorkshire and
Ditto,White, New 72s 60s Lineolnsh., Feed. 28s 32.
Norfolk and Lin- Potato
coin, Red. —68 s Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White.... • • a —s Black .
Irish, Red •••• —• • —s —s Cork, White
Ditto, White.... • • —s —s Scotch, Feed .. • • 33s 358
Rye—Old .••••• • • • • • • —s s Beans—Tick .
New. —— .... 603 63s Pigeons ...... .... 5 s 55s
Barley—Grinding . .... 37s 42s Peas—Grey ... ••• • • 52s 57s
Malting . ........ 478 55s Maple. ... ••• • . 529 57s
Chevalier .... •• • 51 s 52s White . ... • •• • 55s 58s
Stall—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers .... ••• .. 58s 62s
f01k............ 70s 73s Flour—Town-made .• • 60s 65s
Brown ..• ... .•. • • 65s 67s Suffolk .. .. .•• • .. 55s 60s
Kingston and Ware 70s 73s Stocktn & Norfolk 53s 60s
SMITHFIELD.
The following importations of lire stock have taken
place in London during the past week :

From whence. Oxen. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
Flushing — ... 451 ... — _
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Hamburgh 172 ... 398 ... ... ...
Harlingen
Nieu Diep

Total
In addition to the above about 380 Beasts, 700 Sheep and
Lamb; and 40 Calves, have been landed at Hull and the
other northern ports, mostly from Holland. The supply
of foreign stock on offer to-day was very extensive, viz.,
384 Oxen and Cows, 3,492 Sheep and Lambs, and 29
Calves, nearly the whole of which found buyers, at fully
last week's quotations. For the time of year the arrivals
of Beasts frem our own grazing districts were tolerably
good. Although there were several well made-up droves
on sale, the general quality of this description of stock
was by no means prime ; and the butchers complain not
without cause, that the beasts " die" badly. Notwith-
standing the weather was unfavourable to slaughtering,
the Beef trade, owing td the increased attendance of
both town and country buyers, was steady, at prices fullS,
equal to, but at nothing quotable beyond, those ob-
tained on this day se'nnight. The primest Scots
were disposed of at from 5s to 5s 2d per 81bs.
The arrivals of Beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,
and Cambridgeshire, consisted of about 900 Scots, home-
breds, and short-horns; from the western and midland
districts, 800 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c.; from other
parts of England, 700 of various breeds; and from Scot-
land, 320 horned and polled Scots, Compared with
those exhibited on Monday last the numbers of Sheep
were small, but of full average quality. On the whole,
there was an improvement in the Mutton trade, and in
some few instances the primest old Downs sold at 5s 6d
per Blbs, being an improvement in value of 2d per Sibs,
while the value of most other breeds—a clearance of
which was effected prior to the close of the market—had
an upward tendency. There was a fair supply of Lambs
on show; yet the trade was firm at last week's cur-
rencies. The highest value of the best Down qualities
was 6s per 81bs. Calves, the numbers of which were
but moderate, moved off slowly, at about stationary
prices. In Pigs next to nothing was doing, at late rates.
Per tubs. to sink the offal.

s. d. to s. d. 5. d, to s. d.
Inferior Bouts... 310 4 2 Second quality ditto 4 6 4 8
Second quality 4 4 4 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 410 5 2
Prime large Oxen.. 4 8 410 Southdown Nether 5 4 5 6
Prime Scots .. .•.. 6 0 5 2 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs ••• 4 0 4 6
Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers .... 4 8 5 0
Suckling Calves ..18 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs ..17 0 22 0
Inferior Sheep .. . 4 2 4 4 Lambs ••• • • 6 0 6 0
SUPPLY Al MARKET.
I Sheep. I
Calves. I Plgs.
23,740 222 248

Beasts.
2,882

NEMITGATE AND LEADENECALL.I
Considering the time of year, arrivals of country-killed
meat up to these markets since Monday last have been
tolerably good, though of inferior quality. The supplies
slaughtered in the metropolis have been small. Prime
Beef, Mutton, and Veal have moved off steadily; all
other kinds of meat slowly; and the general quotations
must be considered a trifle beneath those obtained last
week, owing to the caution with which the butchers have
made their purchases. Nearly 1,100 carcases of foreign
meat, killed in London, have been on show.

At per stone by the Carcase.

s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Beef, inferior.... • 3 6 3 8 Mutton, inferior ••3 10 4 2
- middling •... 3 0 4 0 middling.. 4 4 4 8
- prime large .. 4 2 4 4 1 prime .. ••4 10 5 0
- prime small .. 4 4 4 6 Pork, large.... •••• 3 10 4 10
Vea1........ ••.•• • 3 10 410 - small .... ••• • 4 8 410
Lamb. 4s 10d to 5s 10d.
BOXOUGH HOP DIAPMET.
The accounts relative to the growing bine being con-
sidered favourable, the quantity of Hops on offer is on
the increase; hence the demand for all descriptions is
heavy, but we can notice no alteration in the general
quotations. In the duty next to nothing is doing.
Sussex Pockets, 4lto 41 10s; Weald of Kent ditto, 4/ lOs
to 5/ ss; Mid and East Kent ditto, 51123 to 7188 per cwt.

BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELBS.
Scarcely any old Potatoes are now ou sale in these
markets. About 150 tons of new ones have been im-
ported from Holland, and which have mostly found
buyers, at from 8s to 9s per cwt. The supplies from our
neighbour counties are on the increase. The quality is
excellent, and a good business is doing, at from 9s to 15s
per cwt.

WOOL.
The arrivals of foreign and colonial Wool into Lon-
don since Monday last have been about 2,200 packages.
The public sales have closed somewhat more firmly than
they commenced, but prices have not improved. On the
whole the transactions at the auctions, considering the
large quantities brought forward, were decidedly good.
There is rather more doing in the best qualities of Eng-
lish Wool, at full prices; but all other kinds are neglected
for the present.

TALLOW.
On the whole this market is steady, at barely late quota.
tions. Town Tallow is dull at 503 nett cash.

ISIARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
John Moleszeorth, a well dressed young fellow, was
placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with assaulting
Robert Metcalf, one of the waiters at the Blue Posts
Hotel, Haymarket, and also with assaulting the police in
the execution of their duty.
The complainant stated, that about eight o'clock on
Saturday evening the prisoner entered his master's house,
and ordered to be supplied with a dinner, consisting of
salmon, cutlets, and a bottle of sherry. After the pri-
soner had partaken of his dinner he rang the bell for
witness, and requested him to inform him (prisoner)
what he had to pay. Witness gave him the bill
amounting to Bs. 9d. Directly the prisoner took
the bill in his hand he demanded his change, witness said
What change, I have received no money yet." The
prisoner said, " Yes you have, I have given you a half-
sovereign." Witness persisted that he had not received
the money, and told the prisoner that he must be labour-
ing under a mi: take. The prisoner then got into a most
violent rage, and struck witness several severe blows.
He at length became so violent that witness was obliged
to call his master to his aid, who endeavoured to pacify
the prisoner, and induce him to leave the house quietly.
The prisoner, instead of doing so, struck and kicked
about him in all directions. Witness then ran for the
police, who speedily arrived and took charge of the
prisoner.
Police-constables A 176 and C 141 proved going to
the Blue Posts and taking the prisoner into custody.
The former constable was struck by the prisoner in the
face, and the latter received several revere kicks on his
shins and the lower part of his person, and added that
it was with the greatest difficulty that they got him to
the station.
The prisoner, in reply toile charge, persisted that he
had given the waiter the money. He denied assaulting
either him or the police. He certainly was very much
excited in consequence of the waiter refusing to give him
the change out of the half-sovereign. He could assure
the magistrate that he was highly respectable.
Mr. BINGHAM said that latterly there had been several
persons before him who subsisted entirely by robbing
publicans. He was surprised that prisoner, who called
himself respectable, should adopt such a course. He
should fine him for the first assault 405., or fourteen
days, and for the latter he should commit him to the
House of Correction for fourteen days, with hard labour.
The prisoner then became so violent that it took four
constables to remove him.
Mary Ann Maids was brought before Mr. Bingham
for final examination, charged with having caused the
death of her husband, Edward James Maids, by stabbing
him with a knife.
There being no further evidence in addition to that
which appeared in this journal of the Ist inst., the depo-
sitions were taken, and the prisoner fully committed to
take her trial at the sessions now holden at the Old
Bailey.

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.)
John Gotfrey Brown, a German, and two women,
named Mary Ann Sumner and Mary Smith, were charged
with having burglariously abstracted three watches, and
a quantity of cloth coats, waistcoats, silk handkerchiefs,
silk lining, &c., together with some gold, silver, and
other coins, from the premises, No. 32, Wellelose-square,
and No. 30, Parsons-street, both near the docks.
There were three separate charges against the pri-
soners, and the evidence, which was rather intricate,
was gone into at great length. The first case preferred
was by Mr. Verdet, proprietor of the house in Wellclose-
square (a lodging-house for German emigrants), who
stated that the ,prisoner Gotfrey came to lodge at
his house about a fortnight since, and after that period
a large quantity of articles belonging to various lodgers
in the house were missed at different times, and it had
since been ascertained that the prisoner Gotfrey had
abstracted them by means of some ingeniously-con-
trived skeleton keys which were found on his person. The
a
articles were of the most varied andte
witness-box incongruousr
scription,nd anti the space between
h
the dock was completely
coveredbundleof silk handkerchiefs,
with garments of everyother
kind, together with a large ,
&c., the stolen articles. Mr. Verdes an
silk
pro-
perty, and a
of witnesses identified the
l evlaorati,
various articles
yElr d s their
as
lining, tho property of a German named Christian
Kroll, was clearly traced to Gotfrey by a tailor named
Wilhelm Jenos, to whom he had given it for the purpose
of having it altered.
Police-constable II 99, stated that, from information
ho received, he went to a house in Bridgman's-alley,
kept by the female prisoner Smitg, where he found the
coats produced. '4,Both Smith and Sumner appeared
greatly alarmed when be informed them that he must
search the house, and exclaimed, " It is all out now."
He at first took them into custody merely on strspicion
of having been concerned in receiving the stop .n pro-
perty, but he had since discovered that all th ree had
been concerned in burglariously entering the house of
Mr. Adolphus Litman, an outfitter, and stealie g a quan-
tity of foreign coins. He also produced a letter, signed
by Mary Sumner, addressed to Gotfrey, in which she
said, that if he felt as she did, he must be miserable,
for that she could get no rest day or night fc r reflecting
on what had been done, and concluded with the singular
expression, " not one kiss more."
The evidence, with regard to the abstract' .on of pro- I

perty of the same description from the house in Pa
sons-street (also a German lodging-house), was (,f
sir r,

%Cita reoird to burg:aiy Lit the premiss of Mr
Adclphus Litman, Owing to the accidental abserce of
that gentleman, who had been ordered to be in attend-
ance at ten o'clock, it could not then be proceeded with,
and the three prisoners were removed, in order to per-
fect the evidence, with a view to the depositions being
taken, and it was understood other and similar charges
would be preferred against them.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

t THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair to day shortly after
Twelve o'clock.
WAKEFIELD GAS BILL.—SITTING OF THE

HOUSE AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Admiral GORDON moved, pursuant to notice, that
the Committee on the Wakefield Gas Bill have leave to
proceed with three Members and report forthwith.
Lord G. BENTINCK opposed the motion. He de-
precated the House sitting at twelve o'clock, and would
do all in his power to prevent Committees sitting during
the sitting of the House at twelve o'clock. They had a
specimen on Friday of the results of the House sitting in
the morning, as during the greater part of that time
there were only fitteen Members present, and only
one Membhr of the Government. He thought
the sitting of the House at twelve o'clock
highly objectionable, as the Government by that
means got over the trouble of keeping a House.
If he was unable to prevent the morning sittings, he
was determined to do his best to enforce the attendance
of Members, by preventing Committees meeting during
the sitting of the House.
Lord J. RUSSELL deprecated the course pursued
by the Noble Lord. It had been the custom of the
House of late years, at the end of the session, to sit at
twelve o'clock, and he thought the doing so was attended
with no inconvenience. He considered the conduct of
the Noble Lord on Friday was without precedent.
and totally unworthy of the position which he
claimed to fill as the leader of a great party.
The Government would take care in future to be more
vigilant, in order to insure them against surprise. He
thought, if the Government did this, it would be as well
to meet at twelve o'clock as at four.
Mr. R. SPOONER thought it extremely inconvenient
for the. House to sit at twelve o'clock.
After some observations from Mr. R. YORKE,
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division
took place,
Lord G. BENTINCK withdrawing his opposition to
the motion, on its being stated the Committee did not sit
till half.past three o'clock.
The motion was then agreed to.
Mr. BOUVERIE then moved that all the Committees
have leave to sit, notwithstanding the sitting of the
House.

Lord G. BENTINCK opposed the motion.
Afer some discussion, in which Mr. Buck, Mr.
Mackinnon, Mr. H. Berkeley, Mr. Newdegate, and Mr.
W. Mills took part, the House divided, when there ap-
peared--
For the motion
Against it .... 14
_ _

Majority against the motion —53
Leave was then given to all the Committees to sit,
notwithstanding the sitting of the House.
THE WELLINGTON STATUE.
Lord G. BENTINCK gave notice of his intention, on
the motion for the House resolving itself into a Com-
mittee of Supply, to move as an amendment, " That an
humble address be presented to the Queen, praying her
Majesty not to revoke, without the consent of the sub-
sclibers to the Wellington memorial, or the majority of
them, the grant which her Majesty was graciously
pleased to matte in 1838, under the advice of her respon-
sible advisers, and in person to notify to the Duke of
Rutland, that the triumphal arch in the Green Park
should be the site for the erection of an equestrian
statue in commemoration of the military achievements
of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

The House then resolved itself into Committee on the
Health of Towns Bill.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed to postpone the
17th clause, which motion, after some discussion, was
agreed to, and the clause postponed.
Clause 19 having been agreed to,
Lord J. RUSSELL moved that Mr. Greene leave the
chair and report progress, and that the further considers..
tion of the Bill be taken to morrow, at twelve o'clock. He ,
(Lord John Russell) would at five o'clock state what he
intended to do with the other Bills during the session.
The House then adjourned till five o'clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room B.
GREAT WESTERN (AMENDMENTS AND

EXTENSION).

The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock.
Mr. Bonita opened the case en behalf of the promoters
of the line.

Mr. Frere, mineral agent, was called to show the
extent of the Radstock coal-field, and the facility which
the Radstock branch (one of th© proposed extensions of
this Bill) would afford for the transmission of that
produce.
Mr. JAMES appeared on behalf of the Somersetshire
Canal Company, who opposed the Bill, and claimed to
be heard as landowners, to show that there was no pubba
necessity existing for the proposed lines.
Mr. AUSTIN objected to his being heard.
The Committee, however, decided that the parties
should be heard.

Several other witnesses were called with a view of cor-
roborating the evidence, and in favour of the other pro-
posed amendments and extensions.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
'COVENT-GARDEN.
There were two debdts, a new opera (new at least at
this theatre) arid a new ballet, here on Saturday
evening. The opera was Ernani, in which Made-
moiselle Steffanoni made her deldit as the heroine. This
lady possesses a soprano voice of sweet quality, great
flexibility, sufficient compass, and immense power. 'le
the cavatina "Ernani iuvolami," she was particularly
successful, and in the trio of the fourth act her immense
power gave her an advantage, of which she well knew
how to avail herself. Her success was complete. Salvi'a
Ernani, albeit scarcely so intense as the Ernani of Mo•
riani, was very- beautiful, and Marini's Don Silva was
superb. The great feature of the evening, however, was
the Don Carlos of Mademoiselle Albuni. This parts
written for a, baritone voice, was admirably
given by the great contralto. The solo parts were de-
lightful, nothing could be better—and even in the con-
certed music se scarcely missed the baritone part, s 9
exquisite was A)boni throughout. Her " making up'
was superb. Sits looked the Emperor, the conqueror of
Francis I. The new ballet was entitled L'Amour et kt
Danse, and was- produced fur the debiit of Mademoiselle
Plunkett, whose improvement since last season was
marked and manifest. She has formed her style upon
that of Carlotta. (Trisi, and certes she is the most worthy
of the disciples of the d6csse. Mademoiselle Baderna,
another promising danseuse, also appeared in the same
ballet, and dancedapas to the air of " Ratamplan"(Jennf
Lind's celebrated song in the Figlia del Regiinento) with
great spirit and infinite grace. The house was crowded.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
( RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING.
Acceptances for the Liverpool Cup.
Sir J. Girard% Pantasa, 5 yrs, Bst 51b.
Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair, 5 yrs, Bst 51b.
Mr. Meiklara's Lightning, 6 yrs, Bst 51b.
Mr. Meiklat n's Poynton, 4 vrs, Bst. 41b.
Duke of Ric bmond's Lothario, aged, Bst 41b.
Mr. St. Geo rge's Chanticleer, 4 yrs, Sat 41b.
Mr. Meiklain's Inheritress, aged, Bst-31b.
Lord Strath more's Brocardo, 4 yrs, ist 121 b.
Mr. B. Green's The Conjuror, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b.
Mr. Fraser nd Rowena, 6 yrs, 7st 81b.
Mr. Cook's Inglewood, 4 yrs, 7st. 51b.
Mr. Pedle-7's Co,sack, 3 yrs, 7st. 51b.
Lord War wick's Gwalior, 5 yrs, ist 51b.
Sir W. M. Stanley's Pic-nic, 5 yra, ist 41b.
Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy, 4 yrs, ist 21b.
Mr. Hessei,tine's Fitzallen, 4 yrs, 7st 21b.
Mr. Justice nd Crown Prince, 4 yrs, 7st 21b.
Mr. Meny's, Pilgrim, 4 yrs, 7st 11b.
Mr. Stephenson's Sheraton, 4 yrs, 7st.
Mr. Wormald 'a Quadruped, 4 yrs, 7st.
Lord Eglintan's Plaudit, 5 yrs, 7st.
Mr. Wormaid's Hydrometer, 5 yrs, Est 111 b.
Mr. Igoe's Woodpecker, 4 yrs, Est 111 b.
Lord Milltown's Flahowlagh, 5 yrs, Est 61b.
Sir W. W. Wynn nd Romance, 4 yrs, Est 61b.
Lord Maidstione nd Punch, 4 yrs, 6st.
Mr. Mostyn's Camera Obscura, 4 yrs, sst 101 b.
Mr. Mostyn's Wiseacre, 3 yrs, sst 101 b.
Mr. Greville's Geraldine, 4 yrs, sst 81b.
Mr. F. Villiers nd Miss Castling, 4 yrs, sst 81b.
Mr. Mostyn's Queen Mary, 3 vrs, sst 51b.
The above are subject to any declarations that may have
been made at Liverpool since four o'clock on Saturday after-
noon ; it was not expected that any more would be received.

RIVER PLATE.
(Extract of a letter from Monte Video, April 28, 1847.)
" We have nothing new here; all parties are anxious
for the arrival of Lord Ilowden. lam of opinion the
mission will be successful, at least so far as the opening
of Buenos Ayres, which will receive trade very much.
The Custom-house shareholders are fearful peace will
be made, for at present they arereceiving, a monthly divi-
dend of from 10 to 15 per cent. on their shares, which, ac-
cording to their agreement with the Government, should
continue till the end of 1849, but is it to be supposed the
community are :to be sacrificed to favour a certain few?
You will receive in the parcel* a copy of the petition
lately sent to Mr. Ou:=eley, relative to the withdrawal of
the British sailors and marines. Such a thing was never
contemplated by the Commander of the naval forces,
but this petition was got up to make a juggle. Rivera
is at Maldonado, hemmed in and surrounded by the
forces of Oribe, and has to get his supplies of provisions
from hence.

" I hope the news of the fall of Paysandu Mercedes,
&e., will have reache d you, ere Lord Ilowden would
have left, for you would then see the total annihilation
of the Government :party.
"It now rests tc, be seen if the shay: holders of the
Customhouse will _pay up for their last purchase Of
1849; I doubt very much if they do.
Freigh t 51. for tallow.
955. for salted hides.
70a. for bales.
Salt, last sale, 18 reels. Foreign Exchange, 43d."

The oval i 9 not arriyod, the ve4sel only of Plymouth•

WANT OF SANATOR Y REGULA-
LATIONS IN THE CITY.
The following is the substance of observations wil:ch
Were drawn up by the late Dr. Lynch, who intended.
to submit them to the press in a more careful form, it,
as was his expectation, the majority of the Court of
Common Council persevered in turning a deaf ear to
to the rpetition of the Inquest Juries of the ward of
Farringdon Without :
The memorial has been agreed to by men of all
shades of political opinion. Every allegation has
been dispassionately examined. I have been selected
to present it, because I have been known to have
for years endeavoured to improve the locality, and
because my daily avocations have made me practi-
cally acquainted with the wants of the poor. The
memorialists discuss the propriety of an outlay of
nearly half a million of money by the Corporation in
the formation of a new street, which they believe to be
of questionable utility. They are of opinion that if
the improvements cannot be concurrent, the diminu-
tion of disease and death, the preservation of life and
health, are of primary importance.
The memorial states that the ward contains 34,000
inhabitants; that it is principally situated without the
walls of the city, and that it contains courts and alleys
of the worst description, to which the poor of the other
city parishes resort; that the houses are built back to
back, without ventilation ; that the rooms are not
more than eight feet in width, and nine feet in length,
and that they have on an average six persons in each
room ; that the privies are generally under the stair-
cases, and communicate with cesspools, the effluvium
from which is deadly poison to the element in which
the unhappy residents struggle to exist ; that such
hovels are unfit for human habitation, and a disgrace
to the city; that most of them are undrained, and
that where there are sewers they are untrapped and
unflushed, and the sewers thus become themselves the
sources of disease and death from the pestiferous gases
produced by the decomposition of animal and
- vegetable matter beneath; that the supply of water
is only on twice a week for two hours each time ; that
the poor have no vessels in which to preserve it,
and that in the crowded and heated rooms it absorbs
the poison contained in the animal exhalations, and
becomes altogether unfit for use. This is the picture
which the memorial presents, and to the horrors of
which the Corporation of London is indifferent.
Under such circumstances as the memorial repre-
sents the most simple diseases become malignant.
Scrofula, consumption, and other fell disorders are
generated, and a great portion of the labour of the
poor is lost in weakness. How frightful is the mor-
tality in these wretched localities ! The average du-
ration of life amongst the middle classes in London
is forty-three years, that of the labouring classes is
only twenty-two. Amongst the former the deaths
from epidemic disease amount to no more than six,
whilst amongst the latter they amount to nineteen per
cent. From such places fever is never absent. The
number who suffer from that preventible poison is
twelve times greater than that of those who die, and
the victims are most frequently the heads of families,
as it prevaili at the productive age of man (from
twenty to forty), and the offspring are consequently
made burdens on the poor rates. One-fifth of those
who receive parochial relief are the subjects of fever.
Nothing can more exclusively show the influence
Which want of air and water has upon the health of
any district than the report of the Registrar-General,
from which it appears that in the ten healthy districts
in which an allowance is made of 202 square yards of
Space to each individual, the mortality is 1 in 49.
In the medium districts, where 102 square yards are
allowed, it is 1 in 30; and in the unhealthy districts,
where there are only 32 square yards to each person,
the mortality is 1 in 30 ; the labourers in St. George's
parish die at 27, in St. Giles's at 17 years of age. In
the most unhealthy district of Liverpool, the gentle-
men die at 35 ; the poor at 15. In the last season,
the most unhealthy within the memory of man,
simple fever was the minister of death. In the quar-
ter ending March, 1847, 56,100 persons died. In
Liverpool there was an increase of 13,034 deaths
over the corresponding quarter—in London an in-
crease of 10,000. The increase in London, out of an
equal number of males residing there, was 3 deaths
for every 2in the country. The excess in London
over healthy districts in seven years amounts to
97,000 persons—the excess of deaths of children in
London is 58,000. To prevent the possibility of
being met with the cry of exaggeration, or the
denial of those statements, I submit the statis-
tics of Farringdon Without. Of every 1,000 females,
taking the average seven years, 28 died in that ward,
whilst in Islington, of every 1,000 females only 18;
and in Hackney, of the same number only 16 died.
Thus twelve lives out of 1,000 are doomed to as cer-
tain destruction as if they were slaughtered in the
shambles in Smithfield. It is a most remarkable fact
that in Hackney, of the male children under five
year of age, 66 die, whilst in Farringdon West 128
die; and that of men in the intellectual prime of life,
between the ages of 45 and 55, in Hackney only 21
die, whilst in Farringdon West 34 die. Of 1,000
boys under five years of age in Surrey and Sussex,
48 die annually, whilst in London the number is 93.
I adduce these details for the purpose of removing
the extraordinary ignorance which prevails amongst
those whose duty and condition make that ignorance
iniquity. No sneer or clamour can overthrow these
deplorable facts, which are written down in that
invaluable repository of useful knowledge the Re-
gistration-office, and from which it appears there is a
waste of life per annum of 22,000 lives, by contagious
diseases, out of four millions of inhabitants; and that
by a little care and attention to sanatory regulations,
there might be a saving of 50,000 souls.
I felt it to be my duty, after having read in the
public papers that most ridiculous of official false-
hoods " that the cleanliness of London could not be
surpassed," to wait upon the foremen of the inquests
of each parish, who in the discharge of their duties
are obliged personally to inspect the dwellings of the
poor. From the following presentments to the City
Aldermen this year, it will be evident that the most
charitable comment on that statement was that it was
made in ignorance and not in a wicked or wilful dis-
regard, or criminal perversion of the truth. The in-
quest of St. Sepulchre alleges that numerous courts
are in the most foul condition, that the habitations of
the poor are unfit for beasts of burden, that the houses
are dilapidated, that cesspools and open gutters are
found in every court, that the privies are common to
several houses, that in cellars 14 feet square, eight per-
sons are lodged, that these nuisances have year
after year been presented to the Court of Alder-
men, without producing the least symptom of
correction, and that the labours of the in-
quest were useless, as their remonstrances were
unheeded. In the districts of St. Andrew's
and St. Dunstan's the same state of things exists,
and their active foreman in vain exerted all his capa-
bilities. I have visited the parish of Bishopsgate
Without, in which the chairman, who made the ex-
traordinary statement I have repeated, resides. In
front, on each side, and at the back of that chair-
man's house, in Devonshire-place, in Farran's-rents,
in Half Moon-street, place, and mews, in Sherrard'se
buildings, in Thompson's -rents, abominations abound.
The evidence of Dr. Porter before the commission
exhibits the desolating effects of sanatory neglect in
that particular locality, %%hid, is one of the worst in
London. Yet the chairman declares that, with all
those nuisances under his nose, the health of London
cannot be surpasse I. I have been for ten years
medical officer of several parishes, and of a large
workhouse, and am daily called upon to attend
diseases distinctly traceable to the want of pure air,
the best and first of God's gifts, and to the want of
water, thousands of tons of which are running
to waste under their feet. In those filthy
masses of bricks and mortar, rotten, tottering
with age, built centuries ago, reeking with plague,
vapours, and exhaling irremediable infection, as
I have wound round the wretched staircases, I have
frequently been called upon to " lay hold of the rope,"
in order to be enabled to guide my footsteps. Every
house had its victim—there you would meet the or-
phan and the widow, the recipients of the poor-rates.
According to the returns ordered under the commis-
sion, there are in this way pauperiied in England
and Wales, 47,000 widows and 120,000 orphans.
The loss in money in the year's deaths, in round
numbers, from the loss of the productive powers of
labour, amounts to fifteen millions, and the loss of
the East and West London Unions is 146,0001., the
greater part of which may be saved to the country
by sanatory regulations. In these crowded hovels,
in which filth abounds, in which no order can at all
exist, where no separation can be made for sex, where
darkness, disease, and death are the inseparable com-
panions of the inhabitants, where the lowest of the
animal wants are not supplied, where decency is
daily, hourly outraged, where the most loathsome
forms of vice are engendered, where poisonous ex-
halations and moral miasmata fester and react upon
each other, where health and life are undermined,
where youth is corrupted and innocence is destroyed;
in those nurseries, those normal schools of crime, in
those hotbeds of thieves and prostitutes, your la•
bourers dwell.
Lord Ashley well said, " While such a state of
things exists schools and chapels were useless." The
Malaria from the cesspool, the privy, or the sewer, is
a sedative poison, it depresses the energies of body
and mind, it saps the constitution ; the poor fly to the
gin palace fora stimulus to resist its effects. Intem-
perance lends the last link to complete the circle of
theirthe physical and moral degradation. The parish or
workhouse, or the hospital is the alternative. We
read witlihorror of a certain caste of Africans, whose
sympathy for filth is so strong upon them that they
preserve the dead until the exudation; gradually fill
the hut and expel the survivors. In thls city of Lon-
don, for the surpassing health and clean' iness of which
the Chairman of the Commission vouches, there is to
be found a parallel to the enormous ablmination of
the savage state of existence to which I allude. I, and
other medical men, have seen the dead kept so long
14 the QC1191411 deus, tag the horrors of the grave were

revealed to the living, until the maggots of putrefac-
tion have crawled about the fire-place, and under the
table at wilic the relatives were taking their meals.
We read of the tyrant who in the exercise of an atro-
cious ingenuity chained the living to the dead. The
neglect cf the poor and their necessities assimilate
their condition to that of the still-breathing corpse, for
the cesspool and its appendages are of like chemical
. decomposition, and prove equally destructive their
effects. All other classes have improved in their
social position—their comforts are consulted by every
means which science suggests. For the mass of so-
ciety—the productive classes, the bees of the hive—
nothing whatever has been done. With the increase
of the population there has been a diminution of
household accommodation, which was greater than it
is now 100 years ago. The improvements—the fine
streets in other parts of the metropolis—have aggra-
vated the evil. The philosophic exposition of Mr.
Chadwick—whose vigilant humanity is only equalled
by the power and the means with which he guides its
operations—and the admirable articles which have
from time to time appeared in the press, have fully de-
monstrated that fact.
Some persons may be disposed to impute the pre-
sent mortality and that of last year to the scarcity of
food. It is true that an inadequate supply of food
has its deleterious effects per se; but it is still more
injurious in bad districts, as, by reducing the powers
of the system, it renders the system more susceptible
of the noxious influences which surrounded it. Ire-
land presents a melancholy instance of the fact that
famine precedes fever. Scarcity cannot be received
as the explanation of the mortality in such places as
I have described. For the records prove that the
proportion of deaths from epidemics in 1838, in the
ward of Farringdon, was 1 in 102, whilst in Cam-
berwell it was 1 in 262, and in that year amongst
children, who, like plants, are sensitive of atmos-
pheric impurity, the deaths were as 2 to 1, and the
excess of deaths in east and west London was above
the healthy standard 1,162. Upon the most un-
deniable statistic calculations the inhabitants lose
eight years of their natural lives. Thirty-eight
people die of ascertained and preventible maladies
every day. The city of London, without the walls, and
Whitechapel,are the two most unhealthy of the thirty-
six metropolitan districts. In Elliott's-court there
are eighteen houses, each of which has four rooms,
which contain on an average thirty people, so that in
each house there is an excess of 200 per cent. above
the proper number. Smithfield and the Old Bailey
abound with such nuisances, as well as Cow-cross,
nest-street, and Field-lane, with the adjacent slaugh-
terhouses and knackers'-yards. In Fetter-lane there
are 2,600 people in 145 houses, and in the courts of
that immediate locality there is intolerable over-
crowding. In Plough-court there is an excess in
thirty houses of 400 per cent. over the healthy stand-
ard, and in Plum Tree-court, an excess of 360.
Fleet-street and Holborn, two of the finest streets,
are hemmed in by dense unventilated, unwholesome
masses of miserable habitations. The squalor of the
courts is strikingly contrasted with the splendour of
the shops. There are three times as many people in
the worst courts as there are in the better class of
lanes. It, however, invariably happens that where
sanatory precautions are most necessary they are
most deficient. Language would fail to convey any
idea of the horrors of the black-holes in the lodging-
houses of Field-lane. Mr. Payne recently held an
inquest upon a man who was asphyxiated in a crowded
room, where there was no ingress of air, and the
jury expressed their horror of the place, in which
males and females, old and young, were promis-
cuously lying, and where such was the want of ac-
commodation since the removal of the dens of St.
Giles's, that the indigent stragglers about town paid
twopence a night for permission to stretch, or rather
to huddle themselves on the staircases. The Corpo-
ration calls itself the guardian of the public health.
It has disclaimed Government interference, and thus
incurred a fearful responsibility, which Government
ought not, in the present condition of the city, to al-
low for a moment to exist. But as it seems they are
to remain in their; boasted independence of all obliga-
tion to do good or evil by the favcur of their Minis-
terial representative, and as they disregard the ap-
peals of their fellow-citizens, I implore them through
the powerful medium of the press, which knows well
how to administer its bitter corrective, to devote some
portion of their enormous funds to the amelioration
of the physical and moral evils of the humble and
neglected classes to whom they owe everything them-
selves. I entreat them to insist upon a constant sup-
ply of water, to cause the sewers to be flushed, and the
foul air to be trapped and carried off by the shafts, and
to apply immediately to Parliament for the necessary
authority to make every house communicate by
drains with the sewers, and to abolish cesspools
altogether. If they expend half a million in im-
proving traffic, they can easily contrive to expend
one-fifth part of that amount in preserving the lives
and administering to the comforts of their fellow-
creatures. Interest, duty, humanity, economy call
upon them to promote the public health. Let them
at once avail themselves of the assistance of men of
science (for hygienie is not to be learned by inspira-
tion, and men engaged in the busy pursuits of com-
merce cannot be acquainted with it), and all the
evils I have enumerated will disappear. They are
proud of their historical traditions. Let them
achieve the greater glory of raising the condition of
their fellow-creatures in the scale of moral and
physical improvement. At all events, whatever
change may come upon the Corporation as regards
the good of their fellow-citizens, it is to be hoped
that the Government will acknowledge the necessity
which the Corporation have not yet discovered, and
so far make amends for their attempt to degrade one
of the most able and honest and indefatigable public
functionaries in the kingdom, by extending the
operation of his enlightened plan to every filthy nook
and corner of the metropolis.

FOREIGN CORN AND HA.RVEST.
Eight vessels have entered the harbour of Antwerp
laden with rye, and one with wheat. •
Our markets on Wednesday were not well sup-
plied, and there were only 250 sacks of potatoes,
which were sold at a lower price than at Friday's
market. In potatoes there was, as might have been
expected, a great fall in the price. The old potatoes
did not find many purchasers, in spite of the manoeuvres
of certain sellers. New potatoes were sold retail
at 12 to 14 centimes per kilogramme. Vegetables of
every kind follow the general movement in becoming
much cheaper, caused by the prospect of the most
magnificent and abundant harvest which we have
seen for years.
The Prussian State Gazette publishes the medium
prices of corn during the month of May in the diffe-
rent provinces of the Prussian monarchy. The
medium price of corn was--
In the Province of Prussia l6f.
Posen .... .... 17f.
Brandenberts c,
It Pormerania... 171'. 25c.
Silesia l6f. 25e.
71
Saxe .. . l6f. 62c.
Westphalia 2lf. 60c.
Rhenish Provinces
We thus see that in the Rhenish Provinces provi-
visions obtained the highest price.
COPENHAGEN, JUNE 20.—1 t is stated that a decree
is about to be published which will prohibit the sales
of standing corn in Denmark. This decree not only
imposes heavy fines for every breach, but sets aside all
contracts which may have been already made. The
ships Hecla and Bellona have returned from Russia,
richly laden with corn, and immediately after landing
their precious freight, have returned to the storehouse
of Russia for a fresh supply. The prices of corn have
again fallen. The magnificent appearance of the
crops, the continued aids afforded to our poor, as well
as the continued free importation and suspension of
the mill system, gives us every prospect of a happy
future.

Shoals of fellows are tramping the county attempt-
ing to entrap and deceive the unwary. Some represent
themselves as surgeons ; others as broken-down clerks ;
others, again, as persecuted and banished schoolmasters
from Ireland. In their wake coineoththeres wsehlovedso not
assume so lofty pretensions, but
content
selling religious tracts to some and dissolutem songs with
to
others. These fellows are undoubtedly of thesamefra-
ternity. One fellow, who represed himself as an
Irish schoolmaster, was recognised arbeing one of the
London " runners," although he had been, according to
his own version, imported only a fortnight. When
taxed with the fact, he politely walked away. All
would do well to refuse any relief to such vagabOnds, who
arc impostors from London on their summer tour._
Brighton Gazette.
The Observer of yesterday gave a folio column of
particulars connected with the splendid preparations in
progress at Cambridge up to 8 o'clock on Saturday
evening; four folio columns of literary notices, including
the Edinburgh, Quarterly, and Westminster Reviews,
also Blackwood, Fraser, and Bentley's Magazines, &c.;
summary of the quarter's revenue; second critique of
the exhibition of the works of art at Westminster Hall,
to the extent of three folio columns; a folio column of
Alarylebone election, 100 miscellaneous advertisements,
and twenty-six folio columns of foreign and domestic
news, chiefly original. Price of the Observer, sixpence.
Published at 170, Strand, by Mr. Clement, junior.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.
—At the last general meeting of this society the bishops
of Cape Town, Adelaide, and Newcastle were present,
and acknowledged the grants recently mado by the
Board towards promoting Christian knowledge in their
several dioceses. The whole sum lately voted by the
society in behalf of its objects in these dioceses, and that
of Melbourne, amounts to 10,0001.; previously to this
the society contributed 10,0001. towards the Colonial
Bishops' Punch The issue of books and tracts during
the year was stated to bo nearly 4,000,000.
We understand that Mr. Labouchere will enter
upon the office of President of the Board of Trade im-
mediately before the dissolution of Parliament. The
Right lion. Gentleman will be succeeded by Sir William
Somerville as Secretary for Ireland.

ELIZA COOK'S POETRY.
(From the Dispatch )
Ma. EDITOR,—You have favoured your readers
with a good likeness of Eliza Cook ; but there exists
a far better portrait—sketched, though unconsciously,
by herself; and delineating, not indeed the external,
but the mental features of the popular poetess. Her
truest portrait is in her lyric compositions ; and while
thousands are receiving with delight, and treasuring
with care, the excellent engraving which makes her
at home in their dwellings, I would stimulate them to
make her at home also in their minds and memories,
and to read her works not only for the enjoyment of
particular songs 'and passages, but so as to realise the
intellectual and moral companionship of the writer,
and understand and appreciate her character.
This is, indeed, the noblest work of literature. It
gives us, not only lessons of wisdom, but the friend-
ship of the wise. No product of the mind is to be
compared with the mind itself from which it flowed.
The emanation is insignificant compared with its
source ; but it leads us towards that source. Even a
solitary ray of light guides the gaze to the sun. The
perception of individual character in a work is the
best good we derive from the best work. It renders
an isolated gratification of taste subservient to the
widest and noblest influences on the heart and life.
This philosophising, which almost every reader
practises, in a greater or less degree, though often
without being aware of it until the critic comes with
his explanation, is our compensation for the change
introduced by the Press—the one small evil in the
vast ocea❑ of good created by that invention. A
book is in itself a cold thing. To have Plato's Dia-
logues in print is poor work compared with gathering
round the Sage in the groves of Academe, and catch-
ing from his lips the living accents. " I sing," says
the modern Bard, speaking to the eye alone, by the
help of type-founders, papermakers, compositors, ink
balls, folding, and stitching. Of old, the Bard struck
no figurative lyre, nor chaunted with fictitious voice;
but his fingers drew forth real melody to the en-
chanted ear, and his inspired tones went thrilling to
the heart. The song and the singer were one, as
they have rarely been in later times. For the charm
thus lost, we must make up, as well as we can, in
other ways. The painter's and graver's art does
something ; the reader's mind must do the rest. It
is to stimulate the minds of readers to such an opera-
tion that these criticisms are appended to the portrait
bestowed upon your subscribers.
Eliza Cook is just the writer to be at home with.
and to snake at home with ourselves. The spirit of
home pervades her compositions. Every household
object has its song ; from the kitchen to the garret,
and every flower of the adjoining garden, or of the
field beyond. True, her imagination will sometimes
soar with the lark above the clouds ; or skim the
ocean, i❑ calm or storm, to bask in the golden light
of oriental regions ; but her " heart untravelled,
fondly turns" to home; and like the lark, from the
loftiest flight, she drops into her nest. Yes, there she
is ; in " the Room of the Household ;" you may see
her by " the Rushlight ;" in the " Old Aral Chair ;"
the " Grandfather's Stick" is by, a sacred relic ; she
has been gathering " Buttercups and Daisies," or
" Blue Bells in the Shade," or sporting with " Old
Pincher;" and the "Murray Plaid" is thrown by, with
the " Old Straw Hat," and she is musing on childish
times, when she swung on the " Farm Gate," or wore
" Red Shoes," and played at "Tom Tidler's Ground."
People send their cards with Mr. and Mrs. Such-an-
one at home, on such a night ; but Eliza Cook is
always at home, and every where, with all who de
serve it. The reader that has no relish for her songs
ought not to have a home, and has no proper concep-
tion of the meaning of the word. Her card or motto
might be " Poetry at Home."
Perhaps it was one of those pieces whose subjects
have just been enumerated that suggested to a critic
in a splenetic mood the not very felicitous sarcasm of
calling these lyrics "Dunstable stuff." And yet the
appellation was better than its author intended. The
straw hats of Dunstable are very serviceable for a
long country ramble. On a warm summer's day
they are very pleasant and familiar things; and they
wear very well to the last. If that be a sneer, what
would be praise ? False criticism, like the false
prophet, unwittingly blesses where it meant to curse
The poetess may sing defyingly,
And if one bay-leaf falls to me.
11l stick it firm and fast in thee,
My Old Straw Hat.

There are vulgar smatterers who will think such
themes "shockingly low." They can reciprocate no
sentiment in a less costly attire than silks and satins.
They feel neither poetry nor pathos beneath the
Peerage. The muse, as they suppose, only " dwells
in marble halls." Everything about her must be
Eastern or antique. They are in raptures with the
bulbul, and scorn the skylark. In the Cymar they
make shift to see more than in English costume.
They are profoundly classical in taste, and know
the Latin for a three-cocked hat. Any weapon
more modern than a spear is spurious in verse. In
vain are such people told, but it is the
fact, nevertheless, that the wellsprings of all poetry is
in the common human heart. It may gush forth and
overflow upon the most familiar articles of cottage
furniture. All the great poets of classical antiquity
were homely. Virgil poetized his farm-yard; with
Homer we sit down to heroic cookery and feasting,
which show that fingers were made before forks.
Transfer this dandyism to the East (of the world,
and not of Temple-bar), and Orientalisms are no
longer rich and rare. All subjects are elevated, on
which poetry alights, and leaves the radiant traces of
its footsteps. A song on Irish Jumpers may have
higher inspiration than one on old Olympus. " The
poet," says Byron,
" can make a silk purse out of
a sow 's ear." And if it be asked, why select such
topics, when there are many with dignified associations,
the reply is ready. The choice is a championship of
human nature, in its most frequent mode of exist-

ence. It ministers to the millions, and feeds them
with Angel's food. The divine is brought to the
cottage-door ; and tarries there, like celestial guests
of old, in the Patriarch's tent. Put an Eliza Cook,
by her portrait and her poems, in the homeliest
abode, and you give new feelings, a new sense, to
its inmates. They look around ; they sing, they
weep, they sympathise, rejoice, and hope ;
and a glory unperceived before plays over all the fa-
miliar objects of their habitation. Monsieur Jour-

dain (in lqoliere's comedy of the Bourgeois Gentil-
honzme) was astonished that he had spoken prose all
his life without knowing it. The millions find that
they have breathed an atmosphere of poetry with like
unconsciousness. The writer who works this wonder
is a public benefactor. The multitude harmonized
by song, which comes home to their business and
bosoms, realise the fable of Orpheus and the brutes.
The homeliest themes are not the least favourable,
perhaps the most of all, to true delicacy and refine-
ment of feeling. Miss Cook's published works may
be confidently referred to in proof of this fact ; she is
never mawkish, affected, or what is called sentimental.
The emotion she expresses or excites is always sound
and healthy, It has a clear tone, and rings like a
bell. There is a sturdy morality in it, often made
tender, but never weak, by susceptibility. Happily
the tendency of her compositions is not matter of
mere speculation. The transported convict, weeping
over his tattered copy of " Our Native Song," super-
sedes or silences a thousand criticisms, and is a nobler
trophy than warrior ever won. After that anecdote
(vide Preface to " Melaia,") it may be said, as Dr.
Johnson said of the "Elegy in a Country Church-
yard," "Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain
to blame, and useless to praise him." Gray did not
often write like the Elegy; Eliza Cook always writes
like " Our Native Song."
How delicious is that cluster of reminiscences which
makes poetry of an accumulation of ballad titles in the
lines on " Old Songs,"—
Old songs, old songs, what heaps I knew,
From " Chevy Chase" to " Black-Eyed Sue,"
From " Flow thou regal purple stream,"
To " Rousseau's" melancholy " Dream."
I loved the pensive " Cabin Boy,"
With earnest truth and real joy •
My warmest feelings wander back,
To greet " Tom Bowling" and " Poor Jack;"
And, oh! " Will Watch," the " smuggler" bold,
My plighted troth thou It ever hold!
I doated on the " Auld Scot's Sonnet,"
As though I'd worn the plaid and bonnet;
I went abroad with " Sandy's Ghost;"
I stood with Bannockburn's brave host,
And proudly toss'd my curly head,
With " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled."
I shouted " Comin' through the rye,"
With restless step and sparkling eye;
And chased away the passing frown
With " Bonnie ran the Burnie down."
Here was inspiration. The enjoyment was the pres-
tige of power. Appreciation was the herald of pro-
duction.

Old songs! old songs! ye fed, no doubt,
The flame that since has broken out;
For I would wander far and lone,
And sit upon the moss-wrapt stone,
Conning " old songs" till some strange power
Breathed a wild magic on the hour;
Sweeping the pulse chords of my soul,
As winds o'er sleeping waters roll.
'Twas done—the ♦olume was unsealed—
The hallowed mission was revealed.

Old songs called up a kindred tone;
An echo started—'twas my own.
Joy, pride, and riches sward my breast,
The " lyre" was mine, and I was blest.
Rightly was the vocation construed ; and its real
worth and nobleness were justly understood.
Oh ! who shall say the ballad line
That stirs the heart is not divine !
And where's the heart that would not dare
To place such song beside the prayer?
I have dwelt chiefly on the songs of Eliza Cook,
because they are her most characteristic compositions;
and those in which she renders the most peculiar and
valuable service to our popular literature. England
is not, like Scotland, or Ireland, a land of song. Our
poverty, in this respect, has been obvious and de-