The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY

UNITED HILLS MINE COMPANY,
A special general meeting of the shareholders was
held yes.e day, at the Company's offices, 5, Adam's•
court, Broad street—Mr. Clark in the chair.
A report was read, stating that the directors had been
compelled to suspend the resolutions come to on Nov.
12, 1846, to the effect that new shares should be issued,
and that 3,000/ of the debt should be liquidated. It
stated that 1,800 of the shareholders had refused to
take up new shares, and had offered their old shares at
a ruinous price in the market. The directors, there-
fore, could not go on. They proposed now creating
4,800 new shares, issued at 11. instead of 21. 10s., in hope
that the shareholders themselves would take them up,
and thereby enable them to extinguish the debt alto-
gether.
The CHAIRMAN stated that the debt was 4,0001, and
the additional 800 wu uld be very advantageously em-
ployed in sinking their shaft to a lower level.
The report was adopted and passed.
The resolutions of the 12th of November last were
then rescinded.
A resolution rescinding any clause or clauses in the
company's deed opposed to the creation of new shares
was unanimously adopted.
Resolutions based on the report, and creating 4.800
new shares, at 11. each, to be offered to the shareholders
on or before the 21st January inst., were then unani-
mously passed, and the meeting separated.

MAGAZI.NES, ETC._(CONTIN UED.)

CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. Para V. By Albert

Smith. Illustrated by Leech
The present number opens with an account of the
Journey' of Mr. Gudge to Liverpool, where he meets
Rockey and Christopher, and where he takes the
latter into his service as a page, having previously
agreed with Sir Frederick to bring him up in igno-
rance
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" He had only one thing to vex him—the Parthenon
did not flourish so well as he wished. The excitement
caused by its inauguration had been but a tide that floated
it temporarily, and now it was in danger of gradually
settling down into the mud of inutility; which as the
member of an ill-regulated mind, Mr. Saunders, declared
was a shame, inasmuch as he had not received half
enough amusement for his subscription. He didn't want
knowledge, he said, he went in for fun.
" But the knowledge diffused there was of a very
dreamy character—mere Brutnmagen ' learning ; by
which, however, none could be deceived, except the pos-
sessors. Whatever the subjects of the lectures were
(and variety was an object in the selection) there were
the same vacant faces, looking with the same fishy stare
into the !ect.urer's countenance. And the owners of the
dull faces heard one night a lecture on astronomy, and
next week one on mathematics, which drove all they had
heard about astronomy out of their bead,, just as one
pellet in a pop-gun drives out another. Then came some
foggy subject, which, as it had no meaning at all—at
least that the lecturer knew of —could not impart any
very great deal of useful knowledge. Next others on
dyeing and calendering—unknown islands in the South
Seas, and their political relations—smoke--Japanese
forest trees—and the like ; as well as pages cut from
funny works and pasted in a copy book, which were col-
lectively called lectures on the comic writers of the day.
But the whole syllabus promised to be as useful to the
members, as the cheap books in the boxes outside brokers'
shops, labelled All at 3d.l' consisting chiefly of old
Court Guides and odd volumes of unsuccessful novels,
are to the world in general.
" Yet there were many good young men who made a
point of never missing a single lecture—always sitting in
the same place and never smiling, except when the lec-
turerto enliven his subject made some small witticism—or
jekelet, as Mr. Saunders called it—to enliven his subject
with; which to them, for want of contrast or cornpari•
son, appeared a masterpiece of wit ; really witty lec-
turers not being understood, or condemned, by Mr.
Buffies as trivial," childish,' or 'superficial.' Others
assisted their memories by taking down incoherent pas-
sages in little note-books, in a handwriting which would
of itself have been sufficiently unintelligible if they had
ever again referred to it, which they didn't and never
meant to do—having with it all some confused idea that
the process they were undergoing °improved their
minds,' though not exactly knowing bow it could—
sitting out wearying lectures with a perseverance worthy
of a better cause—applauding old truisms heard for the
thousandth time, or listening with eager interest to
facts which had not the slightest relation to them, and
never would have, whilst they forgot them immediately,
of course. And at last, when they came out each even-
ing with their brains filled up like dust-holes with all the
odds and ends, rubbish and broken pieces and chips of
cheap knowledge, retreading the same path day after
day—month after month—in the dull obstinate infatua-
tion that they were speeding on the road to knowledge,
when they were, in fact, only blundering about amongst
the dust and sweepings on its edge.
" As for the library, it contained but few scientific
works: and those were generally full of superseded
systems or useless theories—being mostly presenta-
tions.' For one of the uses of the library appeared to be
—that persons having worthless books lying about their
houses, chose, by presenting them to the Parthenon, to
save the trouble while they nobly sacrificed the profit, of
selling them for waste paper.
" The few really useful books the Parthenon possessed
were seldom, if ever, taken down from the shelves; while
the staple stock—the novels and romances—were so
torn, worn, and dirtied with constant use, that each
volume became a sort of Bottle Imp; useful only so long
as the member holding it for the time could pass it on
to another, and so on, until it came to the unfortunate
last borrower, in whose hands it dropped to pieces and
subjected him to the penalty of destroying the property
of the Parthenon—whose huge broad seal was stamped
in printing ink on the centre of all the engravings, and
on all the blank spaces at the ends of chapters.
" There were classes, too; but those for which no
extra fee was required were on the system of ' mutual
instruction,' which may be defined as that of teaching
nothing without a master. The course pursued appeared
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the most profound regard for the institution and its ob-
jects—(Mr. Saunders said its greatest objects' were the
members, with Mr. Buffies at the head of them)—never
came near it, except for the purpose of displaying their
own rhetoric, one would have thought the institution a
Cradle of Learning, a Nursery of Science, and a perfect
Shrubbery of trees of Knowledge. But the trees were of
that kind that would not bear transplanting."
The Parthenon is a failure, and Dr. Aston takes
back all " the curiosities " which he had presented to
the temple of learning, and returns them to his own
surgery, much to the annoyance of his aged house-
keeper, Mrs. Grittles. The Doctor is sent for to
attend the wife of Ludly, who is about to add a unit
to the census, and who, with her husband and

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WORCESTER, WARWICK, AND
RUGBY RAILWAY.
A meeting of shareholders in this line was hell yes-
terday afternoon, at the Londe. Tavern, to consider
the propriety of requiring the directors, under Lord Del-
housie's Act, to call a general meeting of the shareholders
for the settlement of the affairs of the company.
Mr. SPACEMAN, who was called to the chair, said that
he and his friend Mr. Samuel represented several thousand
shares belonging to parties in different parts of the coun-
try, and who were willing to concur in any steps that the
meeting might-decide upon taking. He considered the last
meeting of the shareholders a nullity, inasmuch as the
directors introduced 4,240 shares which had been pre.
viously paid off and cancelled. The effect of this pro-
ceeding was to neutralise the votes of those present. If
those 4,240 shares were deducted from the number of
shares represented, the votes given on that occasion were
not sufficient to constitute a meeting. The share-
holders, therefore, under the Act, could call
upon the directors to hold another meeting
to decide either upon desolving the company in the ordi-
nary way, or doing so by an act of bankruptcy. With-
out taking such step, the shareholders would be de-
prived of all their deposits. They would recollect the
assertion of Mr. Ward, M P., the chairman, that, in
order to relieve himself and the directors of all liability,
the whole of the claims against the company, and those
previously disputed, would be discharged in order that
there might be no creditor to support a fiat in bankruptcy.
The course be (Mr. Spackman) suggested they should
pursue under these circumstance was to sign a requisition
calling upon the directors to hold another meeting, and
if they refused that, they, the shareholders, should call a
meeting for them, at which the dissolution and bank-
ruptcy should be discussed. In the event of their not
being able to obtain a satisfactory statement of their
affairs, they would then petition the House of Commons
for a Committee of inquiry, more especially with regard
to the conduct of some of their own members connected
with the company. That petition would also show the
defective state of the present law with regard to joint-
stock companies, and pray for its amendment.
Mr. DIXON then proposed, and Mr. GOOLD seconded,
a resolution to the effect that a requisition be sent to the
directors calling upon them to convene another meeting,
which was unanimously passed, and the meeting sepa-
rated.-

ELY and HUNTINGDON RAILWAY

COMPANY.

A special general meeting of the proprietors of the
above company was held yesterday at the company's
offices, Mdlbank street, in order to authorise the direc-
tors to borrow such sums of money as were specified by
the Act.
The advertisement convening the meeting having been
read,

Mr. H. C. LACY, the chairman, said that the business
which they were assembled to dispatch was brief, but
important. The directors sought to borrow certain sums
of money, to enable the company to proceed with the
works. For this purpose they required the assent of
the shareholders, and he should, therefore, submit to
them the following resolution :
" That tne directors be empowered, and are hereby
authorised and empowered to borrow on mortgage or
bond, at such rate of interest not exceeding five per
cent. per annum, and for such period or periods as
they shall think fit, the whole or any portion of the
sum of 64,8001., which the company by their Act of in
corporation is authorised and empowered to borrow."
One of the PROPRIETORS having remarked on the rate
of interest they were empowered to give,
The CHAIRMAN said they would of course endeavour
to borrow at as low a rate of interest as possible.
Several Proprietors wished to know whether the
Eastern Counties Company were likely to accede to the
proposals made to them by the company.
The CHAIRMAN said that they had refused already;
but he understood that they themselves would bring for-
ward proposals for some negotiation very shortly.
The resolution was then agreed to, and the meeting
separated.

ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF SPIRITS.--Owing IO
the high and increasing price charged by the principal
metiopulitan distillers, the licensed victuallers generally
have given notice that within a short space of time they
will be compelled to advance the price of gie, whisky,
and rum to the extent of about threepence per pint, or
one penny per quartern.
Accounts have been received from Bombay, which
mention the serious illness of Lieutenant• General Sir
Thomas M'Malion, Commander-in-Chief at that Presi-
dency. It is understood that in the event of the gallant
officer resigning the appointment, his successor in office
will be Sir Charles Napier.
On the 11th of August last, in the 14th year of his
age, on board her Majesty's ship Grampus, on the pas-
sage from Callao to the Sandwich Islands, in conse-
quence of a fall from the topmast rigging, James Dudley
13rownlow Stuart Townshend, Naval Cadet, second son
of Captain Townshend, R.N. In the words of his Cap-
tain :—" His amiable and excellent qualities had won
him the regard and affection of every officer and man in
the ship. As he was universally beloved, so was he
generally lamented. Never did a purer and more inno-
cent child pass from this to the other world."
ALLEGED CURIOUS DISCOVERY AT BLACKPOOL:.
On Wednesday last we copied from the Preston Guardian
a paragraph stating that a bottle containing a letter had
been found in the belly of a cod-fish taken off Blackpool.
That journal, however, now states that the letter and
story were fabricated by some persons at Blackpool, for
the purpose of deception.—Manchester Guardian.
SUPPLY OF FOOD.—MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL
ASSOCIATION.—We noticed in our last that the directors
of the Manchester Commercial Association had memo-
rialised Lord John Russell with reference to the present
stock and probable supplies of food. On behalf of the
First Lord of the Treasury, Sir George Grey has ac-
knowledged the receipt of the memorial ; but, of course,
does not refer to Lord John's views or intentions on the
matter.—Manchester Guardias.

Hickory, occupies a small cottage near the Salt town.
" The chief occupation of a country doctor resembles
that of a railway guard, whose business lies in ushering
people on to the platform at the commencement of a long
journey, and assisting them as easily as he can away
from it at its terminus, with the exception that he has
no control over return tickets. But during this journey
nn the line of life he can attend to them at its different
stations; try to obviate any complaints; and, al eve al,
see that the luggage they carry with them is carefully
looked after, and in a safe condition."
Whilst he is at the cottage, amusing himself by assist-
ing Hickory in getting up the battle of Navarino,
until his services shall be required by Mr. Luddy,
Gudge arrives with Christopher, and having ascer-
tained from Dr. Aston that he perfectly recollects all
the circumstances attending Christopher's birth, he
sets off with the child for London. Taking advan-
tage of Gudge's absence, Sprouts has invited Bessy
Payne and Miss Twitts and the Jolly Man to tea at
Gudge's chambers. The Jolly man brings with him
a bottle of gin and some tobacco, and the mirth is
getting "fast and furious " when Gudge bursts in
upon the astonished company, ejects them from his
chambers, and dismisses Sprout from his service,
having done which he and Christopher get into a
Brompton omnibus to return to Gudge's villa. This
number is full of fun. The description of the admi-
nistration of the physic to the youthful Gudge is very
graphic (Leech's illustration, too, is very good),
and Sprouts's party is one of the drollest affairs
imaginable.

THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. No. XIIL
Be,, Charles Lever.
Perhaps this number is the most excellent that has

HYDROPHOBIA.—Yesterday a dog in a highly rabid hitherto appeared. The description of the burning of
state was shot at Parton, after it had thrown down and Newgate, and the escape of Freney the highwayman,
severely bitten a child about the head and face, which it is written in the most brilliant style of Harry Lorre-
would probably have worried to death had the little quer. Then again the commotion caused at Miss
sufferer not been released by assistance. The rabid Fumbally's, which is capitally illustrated by " Phis,"
animal snapped at everything that came in its way, and .
as it has been seen in different parts of the county be- gives us a scene that is quite extravagant in its drol-
tween Wigton and the place where it was destroyed, it lery. Miss Daly proves a worthy sister of the inimi-
may have bitten several other dogs ; it would, there- table Baganel. The best chapter, however, in the
lore, only be showing a due regard for public safety present number is one relating the levee of the then
were all owners of dogs in the locality we have men. Commander-in-Chief his Royal Highness the Duke
tioned to confine these animals for a certain time until of York. The interview between the Knight and
they had ascertained that there was no fear of danger, the Duke is so cleverly detailed, that we herewith
or in case of their exhibiting symptoms of hydrophobia transfer it to our columns :
that they might be destroyed.—Cumberland Packet of " A considerable time elapsed before Lord Castle-
Tuesday. reagh with the Knight following, had entered the room.
LONDON COACHMAKERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITU.• I" It is against the positive orders of his Royal High-
TION. —Last night the yearly meeting of the members ness, my Lord,' said an aide-de-camp, barring the
and supporters of this society, which is established for passage; none but field officers, and in full uniform, are
the relief of indigent members, their widows and orphans, received by his Royal Highness.'
was held at the rooms of the Institution, King-street, "Lord Castlereagh whispered something, and on-
Golden-square, Mr. Savage in the chair. Mr. Brown ,deavoured to move on, but again the other interposed,
the secretary, read the report., which stated that the so- saying, Indeed, my Lord, I'm deeply grieved at it, but
ciety's funded property amounted to 3001., exclusive of I cannot—l dare not transgress my urde rs.
up
tothis
of in the banker's hands, and that the subscriptions " The Duke, who hadbeen engaged
of the year, including a previous balance, figured moment conversing with a group suddenly turned, an
and
681. 17s. 6d., leaving a general balance of 4211. Upon the perceiving that the presentations were not followed up,
motion of Mr. Lee the report was adopted. said, Well, gentlemen, lam waiting.' Then recogni-
A HALT AT THE ALTAR. Thursday was fixed sing Lord Castlereagh, added, gaily, Another time,
for Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, of Bromyard, a third time to my Lord, another time; this morning belongs to the
enter on hymeneal blessedness. She was 78, and the service, and the colour of your coat excludes you.'
object of her affections was a stalwart smith, of Norton, "6I ask your Royal Highness's pardon,' said Lord
under 40. The bride was there in time—her groom was Castlereagh, in a tone of great deference, while he made
not, and two weary hours did she wait for his coming. the apology an excuse for advancing a step into the
By-and-by John appears, tolerably cool. " I'm sorry room, have but just left the Council, and was anxious
I's kept you waitin', Betty," says he. " Why, where to inform you, that your Royal Highness's suggestions
have you bin, John," says she. " Oh, I've bin to the have been fully adopted.'
castle, a cleaning the squire's smokejack." The lady "' Indeed! is that the case,' said the Duke, with an
was satisfied—business must be attended to—work first, elated look,' while he drew his Lordship into the recess
though it is but cleaning smokejacks, and play after, of a window. The intelligence to judge from the Duke's
though it be but the small joke of marrying a wife—is a expression, must have been both important and satisfac-
golden rule. And so the two were hitched together in tory, for he looked intensely eager and pleased by turns.
the matrimonial noose.—Worcester Herald. "' And so,' said he aloud, • they really have deter-
FIRE IN MANCHESTER.—About half-past five mined on Egypt? Well, my Lord, you have brought
o'clock on Tuesday night a fire broke out in the premises me the best tidings I've heard for many a day.'
occupied by Mr. William Bentley (executor of Messrs. " And like all bearers of good dispatches,' said Lord
Massey and Travis), calenderer, &c., 28, Deansgate. Castlereagh, catching up the tone of the Duke, prefer
The fire originated in what is called the raising-room, a claim to your Royal Highness's patronage.'
where the shearing of certain descriptions of cloth is "'lf you look far Chelsea, my Lord, you are just five
carried on, and all the hands were at work at the time. minutes too late. Old Sir Harry Belmour has just got it.'
It was first perceived amongst the waste on the floor, "'I could have named as old and perhaps a not less
and as this is of an excee,iiugly inflammable nature, the distinguished soldier to your Royal Highness, with- this
fire in a short time had spread over the whole room, and additional claim, a claim I must say, your Royal High •
ignited the roof of the building. An alarm was imme- ness never disregards—'diately sent to the police-yard, and Mr. Thomas Rose " That he has bsen unfortunate with the unlucky,'
was speedily on the spot with an engine ; but meantime, said the Duke, laughing, and
.good-nattubreedketablelurdiianngds ;
to
the workpeople had done all they could to extinguish his own failure in the expedition to
the flames, and after the engine had played for about ten but who is your Maud ?'
minutes, the fire was completely subdued. It is not "'The Knight of Gwynne •, an Irish gentleman—'
known at present how it originated, as all the lights ‘" One of your late supporters, eh, Castlereagh P said
used in that room are protected. The damage done is the Duke, laughing. Hew came he to be forgotten till
Principally to the machinery ; out of eight raising ma- this hour, or did you pass him a bill of gratitude, payable
chines four having been almost entirely destroyed. The at nine months after date ?'
property is insured.—Munchester Guardian. "'No, my Lord Duke, he was an opponent ; he was
I 'THEATRICAL FRACAS.—At the Greenwich Police- man that f never could buy, when his influence and
court on W ednesday, Mr. Herbert, the lessee of the power were such as to make the price of his own die-
Deptford Theatre, was charged with assaulting Mr. Cane, tating. Since that day, fortune has changed with him.'
one of the performers, by ejecting him from the green- " And what do you want with him, now ? said the
room, when he rinsed to perform until his arrears of Duke, while his eyes twinkled with a sly malice, 'are
salary were paid. In Cane's hurried Ejectment from the you imitating the man that bowed down before the
green-room his nose came against the wall, and several statues of Hercules and Apollo at Rome, not knowing
contusions and bruises of an anti-dramatic appearance when the time of those fellows might come up again ?
were the result. The magistrate recommended a corn- Is that your game ?'
promise, which the parties effected by virtue of a " Not exactly, your Royal Highness, but I really feel
59TOreigU and S rumpet9aii dinner, some scruples of conscience, that, having assisted sq

many unworthy candidates to pensions and peerages, I
should have done nothing for the most upright man I
met in Ireland.'

" If we could make him a Commissary-General,' said
the Duke, laughing, ' the qualities you speak of would be
of service just now—there never were such a set of ras-
cgls as we have got in that department ! But come, what
can we do with him ? What's his rank in the army ?
where did he serve ?'

" If I dare present him to your Royal Highness, with-
out a uniform,' said Lord Castlereagh, hesitatingly, he
could answer these queries better than I can.'
" Oh ! by Jove 1 it is too late for scruples now—in-
troduce him at once.'

" Lord Castlereagh waited for-no more formal permis-
sion, but hastening to the ante-chamber, took Darcy's
hand, and led him forward. _ _ _

" If I don't mistake, Sir,' said the Duke, as the old
man raised his head after a deep and courteous saluta-
tion, ' this is not the first time we have met—am I correct
in calling you Colonel Darcy ?'
The Knight bowed low in acquiescence.
"' The same officer who raised the 28th Light Dra-
goons, known as 'Darcy's Light Horse ?''
The Knight bowed once more.
" A very proud officer, in command,' said the Duke,
turning to Lord Castlereagh with a stern expression on
his features ; Colonel, who threatened a Prince of the
Blood with arrest, for breach of duty.'
" He had good reason, your Royal Highness, to be
proud,' said the Knight, firmly ; first, to have a Prince
to serve under his command ; and secondly, to have held
that station and character in the service, to have ren-
dered so unbecoming a threat pardonable.'
" And who said it was ?' replied the Duke, hastily.
" Your Royal Highness has just done so.'
" How do you mean ?'
"' I mean, my Lord Duke,' said Darcy, with a calm
and unmoved look, that your Royal Highness would
never have recurred to the theme to one humbled as I
am, if you had not forgiven it.'
"' As freely, as I trust, you forgive me, Colonel
Darcy,' said the Duke, grasping his hand and shaking it
with warmth. Now, for my part, what can Ido for you?
what do you wish ?'

"‘ I can scarcely ask your Royal Highness, I find that
some kind friend has already applied in my behalf—l
could not have presumed, old and useless as I am, to pre-
fer a claim myseW
" There's your own regiment vacant,' said the Duke,
musing. 'No, by Jove ! I remember Lord Netherby
asking me for it the other day, for some relative of his
own—Taylor, is the Coloneloy of the 28th promised ?'
" Your Royal Highness signed it yesterday.'
"' I feared as much; who is it? perhaps he'd ex-
change.'
" • Colonel Murk() Darcy, your Highness, unattached..
•" What, have I been doing good by stealth? Is this
really so!'
"`lf it be, your Royal Highness,' said Darcy, smiling,
I can assure you that the officer promoted will not ex-
change.'
" The depot is at Gosport, your Royal Highness,'
said Taylor, so reply to a question from the Duke.
" Well, station it in Ireland; Colonel Darcy may
profer it,' said the Duke; for, as the regiment forms
part of the expedition to Egypt, the depot need not be
moved for some time to come.'

" • Your Royal Highness can increase the favour,
by only one concession, dare I ask it? To permit me
t• take the command on service.'

" The Duke gamed with astonishment at the old man,
and gradually his expression became one of deep interest,
as he said, _

" Colonel Darcy could claim as a right what I feel so
proud to accord him as a favour. Make a note of that,
Taylor,' said the Duke, raising his voice so as to be
heard through the room, 'Colonel Darcy to take the
command on service at his own special request. Yes,
gentlemen,' added he, louder, these are times when the
exigencies of the service demand alike the energy of
youth, and the experience of age; it is, indeed, a happy
conjuncture that finds them united. My Lord Castle-
reagh and Colonel Darcy, are you disengaged for Wed-
nesday?'
" They both bowed respectfully.
" Then on Wedneiday I'll have some of your brother
officers to meet you, Colonel. Now, Taylor, let us get
through our list.
"So saying, the Duke bowed graciously, and Lord
Castlereagh and the Knight retired, each too full of
pleasure to utter a word as as he went."
If the serial be conducted to its conclusion with un-
flagging ability, " The Knight of Gwynne" will be
the most admirable among the most many admirable
actions of Mr. Lever.

THE MAN IN THE MOON Edited by Albert Smith
and Angus B. Reach.

This is an admirable sixpenny worth of fun. The

illustrations by Phiz, Meadows, Hine, Thomas, &c.,
are capital ! and as the engineers for the amalgama-
tion of the broad gauge of Fancy with the narrow
gauge of Fact into the Grand General Amusement
Junction, Albert Smith and Angus Reach beat the
Brunels and the Stephensons hollow. To the Man in
the Moon is due the credit of having given to the
world—

" THE VERY WORST RIDDLE EVER MADE.
" Why was Queen Elizabeth a greater person than
Shakspere?
_. .

" Because Shakspere was a wonder (one der), but
Queen Elizabeth was a Tudor (two der).
'• N.B. Your are humbly requested to suppress your
indignation."

Verily the Man in the Moon is greater than either ;
for if Shakspeare was a won-der the perpetrator ef
the abOve atrocity is, as far as word pressing is con-
cerned, at the very least a ten-der. Here is some-
thing else in the punning style not quite so bad:—
"There is a Quaker gentleman residing at Clapham,
who is so averse to capital punishment, that he cannot
he persuaded to wear suspenders to his inexpressibles ."
And here is an article which, although it appears in
the guise of a jest, bath matter in it, and goes to
the root of abuses legal and social. It is to make use
of the Carlyle slang " most suggestive" :
" THE BOGY COMMISSION.
" On a recent trial, at the Central Criminal Court, a
very pretty little girl, aged apparently about eleven,
was put into the witness-box. The offence with which
the prisoner was charged was grave, and the credibility
of the witnesses was of great importance. The judge
wished to ascertain whether the little lady ' understood
the nature of an oath.' So the following dialogue passed
between him in the horsehair wig, and her in the shining
ringlets:—
" My dear, do you say your prayers?'
" ' Yes, sir, every morning and every night.'
" " Suppose you tell a story, what will become of you?'
Old Bogy will hare me, sir.'
" Let her be sworn,' said the judge; and sworn she
was; and, thanks to her evidence, a very ill-looking
gentleman is at this moment wheeling a barrow in Nor-
folk Island. But her answers set the judge thinking,
and the result has been a commission to inquire into the
Bogy Religion, as held by the childish mind. A few
extracts from the replies of the witnesses examined by
the commiseion may be interesting to mothers in general,
who may not be aware how widely the faith in Bigy is
spread, or how earnestly it is enforced by missionaries
in the disguise of nursery-maids.
Emily Rudd examined—ls eight years old. Iles
heard of Bogy. Never saw him, and hopes she never
shall. Was told all about him by Jane, the maid, that
let in the man that stole the plate. Jane used to tell
her of him every night. Jane used always to threaten
her with Bogy when she could not go to sleep. Jane
said Bogy had red-hot claws, and scratched all the flesh
off little girls who did not go to sleep, or told tales to
their papas or mammas. Believes Bogy sits in the cos]
cellar, to be ready when he is wanted. Once heard him
roaring on the stairs, and then she had a fit.
" Charles Twits examined—Was five last birthday.
Has heard of Bo but does not care for the Bogy in
gy,
his papa's house half so much as he does for Bogy at
grandmamma's, he don't. That bah dreadful Bogy,
grandmamma's is. Never saw him, saw the grating
of the window, down in the well, where ho is. Thought
he saw his horns come out one day when he threw a
stone down the well. Never threw any more stones, and
is afraid to walk in the garden. Don't want to talk
about it.
'° Margaret Macdowell examined—Thinks she is six.
has heard 6 of Bogy, but has not been naughty for a long
time, and don't known why she is spoken to about him.
If she is to speak about him, begs she may be taken up
and nursed. (The rest of this witness's answer was given
in whispers.) Bogy is a great, horrid, naked, black mun,
who is chained in the cellar, to chop up little children
into sausages. Believes a little cousin of hers was
chopped up for telling a fib.
" Katherine Earnshaw examined—ls seven.
There
was a Bogy in the barn when she was with her aunt in
Yorkshire. One night, when she had pinched the ser-
vant, she was taken into the dark barn for Bog to see
her. Screamed dreadfully, but they made her Y
fire, lookingb at
They
took her to the end of the barn, and called
all Bogy, in
a moment she saw two dreadful eyes,
.egan to
her, and two great wings streched out.
hiss at her, and Sarah said that in anothegrYminute he
was•taken
would have torn her all to pieces., only she
away. her aunt, when she heard of
it, la
told her it was only the owl, but Sarah said,
and
that it was a dreadful Bogy, and that he would up,tairs,
have her aunt for laughing. She cried dreadfully certainly
they put her to bed, and wouldn't go „,,ain ally when
a 6 to her aunt's,
not for all the world.
Mary Jane Howard, examined—ls seven
quarters. There is no Bogy in her mamma's and three-
Ann, the nurse, took her into the church house; but
made her look into the vaults under
and once, and
the church.
ing through the window, she saw thous Look-
and something else, too dreadful to telltrids of coffins,
tell, it was a dead person who had been d If she must
not bear to look at the face, but Ann toldr"ned. Could
a Bogy, with flaming eyes, walking her there was
and that he would fetch her and ti about the vaults,
person, if she told about Ann leaving eh
her to the dead
walking with the soldier. Never did ter and going and
ell,
to go to church after she was shown Never liked
that
mamma never frightened her, she is to, sight. her
The Man in the Moon is one of kind'"
companions for the fireside, or for a e most pleasant
has ever tendered his services to railway t that
public. a. laughter-loving

THE PATRICIAN.
In the present number of the Patrician we have
the commencement of a series of articles on " the
deaths of the Sovereigns of England," and the deaths
and burial places of the English monarchs, from
William the Conquerer to Henry 111. are described.
It is not often that we find a political article in the
Patrician, in the present number, however, there is
a short hut ably written paper on the " Constitutional
value of the British Aristocracy," in which the aris-
tocracy of Britain is co.mpare4 with the asistooracie