The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-19 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1840.

niE EDIT 01? OF TIIE SUN.

SlR—Allow me to correct an error in The SII7Z of
last evening, relative to the Congress of the United
States.

You observe that, after the 4th of March next, the
present Congress ceases to exist. It is not so : the
only alteration to be made in it, is, that some of the
Members of both Houses retire, on account of the ex-
piration of their time ; and it is already known those who
replace them in 1841 are Whigs, and that the riqjority
in the Senate, as well as House of Representatives, will
he enough to carry all General Harrison's measures, and
it is certain that the currency of the whole country will
return to the same footing as it was when the real
United States Btrik was in existence ; at which time
there was no such thing as derangement of domestic
exchange. A merchant could then make his remit-
tances from one end of the Union to the other in the
post notes to order, issued by that bank, at par.
The whole measures which have cursed the country,
from the inauguration of General Jackson to the present
incumbent, will be ent're!y changed ; and under the
guidance of such men as Webster and Clay, the goo.l
old iz-nes of ihe great Washington v.ili return.
Dec. 18, 1840. A CONSTANT READER.

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MLLTING OF oisr.3ENTERS.

DEC. 17.

A rublie meeting of Dissenters was held lust night in
the South College-s:reet lZkirof Che.rl, called by adver-
tisement from the Central Board, to consider what step
they ought to take in the present circumstances r f the
Church and the country. The meeting was called for six
o'clock, when the chaps 1. was only partially filled; but, in
the course of the evening, it became crowded in every
part. On the platform there were several Dissenting
clergymen and Town Councillors of the city ; clergymen
from Glasgow, Dunfermline, &c. ; the Provosts of Paisley
and Dunfermline ; and several members of the various
Dissenting bodies in the city and neighbourhood.
On the motion of Mr. Archib.dd Thomson, Bailie Grieve
was called to the Chair ; and the Rev. Mr. Johnston, of
Nicolien-sfreet Chapel, opened the meeting with prayer.
Braille GRIEVE shortly explained the objects of the
meeting._

Mr. PEDDLE, Secretary to the Central Board for vin-
dicating the rights of Dissenters, read a lengthened state-
ment, prepared by the Board for circulation among Dis-
senters. regarding their grievances, and their duties at the
present crisis.
Rev. M. HARVEY, of Glasgow. moved the first reso-
lution, that the meeting were fully persuaded that petro-
nage, intrusion of ministers, and civil interference with
the Church, were inconsistent with the constitution of a
Christian Church, and were inferior evils only to the State
support from which they spring. Ile said the Church of
Scotland was now divided into two parties. who were
more opposed to each other than the Voiontaries were to
either of them ; they tugged the Church difbrent ways ;
and it vas not at all unlikely that in the struggle they
would pull her in pieces. He trusted that the time was
not far distant when the Church would throw away all her
Parliamentary parchments, and trust entirely to the good
old parchment of the Word of God and the promises of
Christ.—( Cheers. )
M. M‘Lenee, tea-dealer, seconded the motion.
Mr. Mensneet, of Kirkintulloch moved the second re-
solution, that Dissenters could not co-operate with Non-
Iltrusioniste, because, their avowed object was to strengthen
what they believed to be an unseriptural institution ; and
because, though their labours would probably have the
contrary effect of destroying the Church, still they cculd
not for such a covert purpose join those who thought
otherwise—because another avowed object wae to weaken
or extinguish Dissenters—because the Dissenters regarded
every institution supported by public money to be rightly
placed under public control—and because the Established
Church had no right to complain of patronage, as she
might free herself at any time by resigning her endow-
ments. There were two questions which he proposed to
consider, as demanding the attention of Scotch Dissent..
ers—how they should conduct themselves towards the
Non- Intrusionists, and how they should conduct themselves
towards the Whig Administration, he meant in the exer-
cDisiessoenf
ttehrse
ofurganhctletioses.upil)otrtmtighhetNsoene.mbittroussiooimlisetst,haastotuhye
were contending for popular election, which was one of the
principles of Dissent. But the answer to this was ex-
tremely easy. Popular election was neither their only
principle, nor their must important one. They maintained
the right of popular support as well as of popular election.
They held that the privilege and the duty ought to go tes-
eel her; they were joined by the principles of equity; they
were joined by the express authority of Christ; and s o
joined, where was the man who would put them asunder?
—(Cheers.) Non- Intrusion was a thing of which no
enlightened Dissenter, and no loyal suLject, could
Possibly approve ; it was en attempt to set up an in-
stitution in the name of Christ, which Christ utterly dis-
owned, calling itself a nationel institution, supported by
national property, and yet at the same time refusing to
be controlled by national property, and setting at defiance
ail laws but its own. Was that a Christien institution—
was that an institution to ho tolerated in any free
State ?—( Cheers.) Their example was replete with mis-
chief—discreditable to them as Christian men and mi-
nisters; is open insubordination and avowed contempt,
for lawful authority. How much were they not doing to
demoralize the Scottish population—to demoralize berth
those who approved of them, and the far greater number
of those who despised them ?—( Cheers, with hisses.)
Was it not wonderful that these men should
receive countenance from a Whig Administration--
that their wild prof cts should nut only be en-
dured but encouraged by more than one Member
of the present Government? Yet it was understood that
Mr. Fox Maule—( Hisses)—and the Lord Advocate—
( Repeated hisses)—had caballed, and were caballing with
the Non-bitrusiunieta. More astonishing still, it was %%this.
pored that a far different m.n, their own Babington
cauley, was doing die same thing.—( Hear, hear.) It
Right not be true; but if it were true, it was mattsr
fur great surprise. Had these men no regard for fame—
hed they no regard for their characters with the exist-
ing generation, and still more with posterity? Certain it
was that the Non-Intrusionists were attempting to revive
the scenes of the dark ages when the Church of Rome
reigned supreme over the kings of the earth. If history
were faithful to her trust, the name of Thomas Chalmers
would go down to future ages, associated with the name of
Thomas a'Becket.—( Loud cheers, mingled with hisses.)
1 should like to know how such a man as Mr. Macaulay,
with his richly endowed mind,—fully acquainted with every
precedent of history, and not insensible to posthumous
fano, and yet at the same time refusing to be controlled
by national property,—l wou d give something to knoA how
he relishes the icea that in future ages be may be regarded
as a truckling pusillanimous Minister, who, front no higher
motive than the love of place, suffered the laws or his
country to be trampled upon, and the honour of his Sove-
reign's Crown to be insulted—by whom? By a band of
clerg)man who, under the name of ecclesiastical inde-
pendence, were labouring to establish a system of clerical
supremacy. The speaker then added, hehad long been of
opinion that a political Christianity, endowed by the State,
was the Antichrist of the Bible—(Hear)—by whatever
name it might be called—whether Popish, Piclatical, or
Presbyterian.—(Cheers.) The other subject to which he
meant to refer was the exercise of the franchise. Ho con-
ceived that the Whig Administration had no claims upon
the Dissenters; but he did not mean to say that Dissen-
ters ought never to support Whigs. Ile held that each
particular case ought to be judged of by its own merits.
He maintained farther, that at elections, Dissenters ought
to act in concert throughout the kingdom, by committees
established in every town. After alluding to the Chartists,
he concluded thus :—He did not speak of the Chartist
leaders, who had so justly rendered themselves odious,
and who had done so much injury to the public cause—be
did not speak of those savages who disturbed the public
meetings—(Cheers and hissed--he spoke of the people
who were misled by them; and, taking them as a body, he
had yet to learn that they were less qualified ler the suff-
rage than the superior classes.--(Cheers.)
Mr. GRANT, one of the Chartist leaders, here presented
himself; and for a few minutes there was a great coutu-
sion and excitement. The general wish of the meeting
appearing to be to hear Mr. Grant, though much disap-
probation was expressed, be mounted the platform, and
said he only wished to thank Mr. Marshall for the senti-
ments he had expressed in favour of the people; and from
this movement in advance of the Dissenters, he trusted
that the Chartists and they would yet become united.
Bailie H AUILTON, of Glasgow, then seconded the motion,
which was carried.

Councillor GIBBS, of Leith, after a fcw words, moved
that the meeting viewed with alarm the mit:chief which the
agitation of the Church was threatening to the cause of
civil and religious liberty, by men professing Liberal prin-
ciples making the support of Nan- Intrusion and Church in-
dependence the test for Parliamentary and civic represen-
tation.

Mr. TAYLOR, of St. Andrews, seconded the motion.
Mr. HARPER of LEIIII, in a speech of some length,
moved that the Non-Intrusion party have not only excluded
a citizen from the civic chair because ho was a Dissenter,
but through their restless intrigues, and the timid policy of
the Government Dissenters, were excluded from the High-
land Schools lately endowed by Government, they were
excluded from the 'Bible Board, from being prison chap-
lains, and from being inspectors of schools.
Provost DRUMMOND, of Paisley, seconded this motion.
Provost MORRIS, of Dunfermline, moved that in all
future elections, Dissenters should require from candidates
an assent to the preposition that a perfect equality of civil
rights ought to be' maintained, independent of religious
opinion or profession ; and that while the Church was main-
tained by the State, it ought to be under public control,
and subject to the law of the land, as interpreted by the
Civil Courts, and to rt fuse their support to any candidate
who cannot assent to these propositions. And likewise to
oppose all new grants of public money to the Established
Church, and other religious sects.
Mr. IaNTON, of Kehl°, in a speech of great length, se-
condedi. i se
tthtesmoLion .
i‘ rn
proposed the appointment of a Com-
mittee to attend to the Parliamentary registration of Dis-
senting electors.—(Cheers.)
the
mgwehrisci ofl
the t the i e
nieecon-
gregation Bailie Beveatoos, of Dunfermline, moved a vote of
:ion af:ttenra
thanks to
for
the
the Chairman,
use
o f thea n (I C
Vg separated.

The Earl of Mint° was called to town from
Roxburghshire by the urgent business connected with his
department in the State. The Countess and Ladies El-
liot return to the Admiralty in the second or third week of
the ensuing month, for the season.
WAGES OF LABOURERS.—Just as the setting
in of an inclement season makes the wants of the poor
gr,;ater, the friends of the farm labourer, his employers,
have had the ,Tl:,:ltv reduce wagc.e. In two
tiear this town the highest zninunt is pee ;,„(k.
onn shilling flaying with -it the last fortnight been cledur2tea
tbe tioso wl,O
tilling their cutlers by taxing the poor man's Wile.
shire Independent. .

LITERATURE.

THE VICEIWY, 3 "rum.
Murray. London, 1840.
The scene of this tale is laid for tke most part in
Ireland, and the period referred to is that of the
Viceroyalty of the Marquis of Anglesea, who is
brought helot e us under the name of Lord Alderney.
The story is of the slightest possible construction,
containing indeed nothing worthy to be called a plot.
and is full of personalities, against which we must
enter our protest, especially when, as in the instance
of the sketch of the Hon. Anthony Earwig, they are
marked by acrimony. We had hoped that this spirit
was extinct in our fictitious literature, for it is un-
worthy of any one who aspires to the character of a
clever novelist, requiring little talent, but much ill-
nature. The most commendable portions of the
" Viceroy" are those which describe the tour of
Randolph and Harvey through the southern pro-
vinces of Ireland, and their visit to Derinane Abbey,
in which there is considerable graphic skill, unal-
loyed with spleen;or party rarcour. The author,
Mr. Murray, is a writer of some talent, but lie too
often affects smartness in his dialogues, in which he
is not at all calculated to excel. Of his principal
male personages the less said the better. His forte
is decidedly the descriptive.

SELECTIONS FROM ROBERT HALL.
Ball, London, 1840.
The name of Robert Hall is one never to be
mentioned without reverence. Whether regarded
as a divine, a philosopher, or a scholar, he stands in
the foremost rank of the great men whom the last
century produced. In clear and vigorous under-
standing he was fully equal, if not superior to, his
old friend Sir James Mackintosh ; his rare scho-
lastic attainments extorted the admiration of Dr.
Parr ; and his powers of imagination were so exu-
berant, so ever obedient to his summons, as to bear
a comparison even with those of Burke. But, not-
withstanding Hall possessed this high faculty in
such perfection, he was liever its slave—never
carried away by it—but always kept it under the
wholesome control of his reason. In his fl'ghts of
fancy Burke often lost sight of his theme alto-
gether : but not so Hall, who always kept it steadily
ii► view, resisting every temptation 'to '"digress from
his main object, with a fixedness of purpose which
we but seldom meet with in authors so yariously
and abundantly gifted as he was. Having said that
Hall was a great man, it remains to accord him the
more valuable praise of having been a good one.
His religious principles were fervent, yet unalloyed
with the slightest leaven of fanaticism ; and they
exercised that cheerful and mellowing influence on
his manly, unaffected nature which we see deve-
loped in every page of his writings. The present
judicious selection from his works, for which we are
indebted to Mr. Badham, arc calculated to he of
great benefit to the more reflecting portion of the
community, to whose attention, therefore, we cor-
dially and earnestly recommend them.

THE GENIUS OF SHELLEY.
Ball, London 1-840.
In this elegant little duodecimo, we have a series
of extracts from the poems of Shelley, carefully di-
vested of every thing in the shape of opinion that
may be likely to offend the most orthodox or fasti-
dious reader.

DEATH OF LIEUT. LE MESURIER.

Her Majesty's ship Talbot, off Acre, Nov. 5.
DEAR SIR-IL is with the sincerest regret that I
have to inform you of the death of your young relation,
Lieut. G. B. Le Mcsurier, late Third Lieutenant of

this ship. As no examination of hiS papers has ytit
taken place I know not who are his nearest' relations;
but in order to save time and to insure that the true ac-
count may reach his home as soon as possible by the
means of the steam boat which leaves in a few hours, I
send this in the hope that you rrill- forward it itninedi-
ately to his borne. On the 3d, the day before yesterday.
the squadron bore ur and ran in' to attack the batteries
of Acre. The Talbot had an inshore berth, and getting
into it one of the earliest Was necessarily much exposed.
The Talbot's first gun was fired about half-past two
p.m., and the firing in her neighbourhood had ceased
about five o'clock. It was as near as I can judge
an hour after the commencement, and in the very heat
of the action, that Lieutenant Lc Illesurier perceived
his wound. He was quartered at the foremast main
deck guns, and was superintending them Zealously
and with great effect, when a double-headed shot fro:n
one of the batteries came in, and splitting against
some obstacles, one of the pieces struck him with
considerable force on the stomach ; he was carried be-
low fainting front the blow, but was considerably re-
covered by the surgeon's treatment. I saw him after
the action ; he complained of a good deal of inter-
nal pain from the effects of the blow, which had left.
a dark contusion of two or three inches square on
the outer akin, but without cutting it. His watch was '
quite dented in and flattened. The night was on the
whole favourable, though he had a good deal of internal.
pain at times. I saw bins again twice in the morning
and afternoon of yesterday, the 4th ; there was no sign
of inflammation, the surgeon's proceedings hail been suc-
cessful, and all the symptoms being favourable, and the
pain subsiding, we thought he would soon be out of dan-
ger, when on my return on board at five, p.m., I beard
he had expired very suddenly. The surgeon had been
before ;
with him very shortly be bad just taken sonic
arrow-root, and expressed himself as being more com-
fortable to the servant who saw him within the last five
~
minutes, what on the surgeon .again looking .into hii
cabin, he saw him getting out of his bed, and apparently
in a fainting fit, and he had just time to receive him in
his arms and lay him on his bed, when his spirit
bad passed away. There is no way of conveying
such bad news without giving the greatest pain, and
indeed I hate in the pressure of this hurried day neither
language no time to express- it.. lqy -less has been groat
in him, and froni-what I can judge of it, -must aiso.be
to his friends. lie has' belonged to the Talbot only
two months and a half, and
yet in that short time he
has won the esteem and affection of all his shipmates.
The vacancy in the ship may be filled up ; but be his
successor who he may, I doubt he will so readily fill up
the void left among us by the loss of our young friend.
It enly remains for me to say, as his Captain, that
in the character of his life, and the manner in which he
coded it, there is every consolation to his family for the
untimeliness of his death. May I request you to take
care that the substance of this letter may reach his
friends in England as soon as possible.
Believe me, deer Sir, your's truly,
(Signed) H. C. CODRINGTON.
Rev. J. I. H. Le Mesurier, Malta.
[A secot:d letter has since been received from Cap-
tain Codrington, in which he says that the funeral of
Lieutenant Le Mesurier took place on the Bth ult. ;
his remains being deposited in a retired hollow on the
sonth side of Richard Coeur de Lion's Mount, outside
the town ; a fit resting-place for a gallant British officer.]

LE DOCTEUR DE ST. BIUCE,
ACTED AT THE PORT T. MARTIN.

(Vroni Charivari.)
D . Davenay loves his wife an:lb:is. profession, though
not with equal affection ; one has the ridtarrtage—we
mean his wifa.
This model of doctors is any thing but a quack-3a
fact which might induce some persons to suspect that
he has not been received into the faculty of Paris, and
his entire happiness consists in giving advice gratis to
the poor, and overwhelming his ctife with every delicate
attention ho can imagine or command,
Unfortunately Madame Cecile Davenay', is far from
participating her husband's tastes. Bort: of a noble,
though not a wealthy family, Madame Davenay Molds
in sovereign' contempt, firstly, the medical profession I
secondly, the family of Dr. Davenay. And so, to drive
away ennui, my lady thinks she cannot do better than
give a series of magnificent fetes.
The Doctor uses every argument to bring his wife
to a more reasonable opinion on the little points we
have mentioned ; but no ; Madame Daveney will not
bear a word on the subject. On which the husband
talks to her professionally, and orders her to take a
post-chaise and set out for his country-house at St.
Brice—a fine seat, in faith, and one that would lead us
to believe that the father of •young• Davenay, a member
of the same profession, had in his time invented some
pectoral paste.
Once fairly installed at St. Brie; Madame Davenay,
instead of hailing with poetical rapture the appearance
Of Aurora, and tasting all the pleasures so abundantly
afforded by murmuring brooks, warbling birds, and
frisking lambkins, continues to play old Harry, and
plastic every one about her, not excepting her husband.
The Doctor has brought down to the country with
him a young female cousin, whom he wishes to unite in
holy bonds with a yonng artist of enormous beard and
txpectatiiliis to matelt I\To.,i, though Mme. Davenay's
affection for her husband is not excessive, her jealousy
is extreme, and she imagines that the Doctor is in love
with his fair cousin. Thereupon she conceives the pro-
ject of running away,' and thus 'effecting an immediate
separation from her husband, though not' from her jewels,
for these she takes with her.

The Doctor surprises his wife in the act of taking

flight, and reproaches her for the levity of her conduct ;
but Madame Pavel-lay, in- lieu of repenting, forms a
new project while casting a sinister glance at the small
pharmaceutic colleCtioa placed in the room. ' Seizing a
little phial, labelled " poison," she withdraws to her
:ipartment there to discuss its contents.

At the moment when the company, who have just
returned from a walk, are inquiring on all sides for Ala•
dame Davenay, she presents herself, in the intention of
.4firdino- her husband and supposed rival the gratifying
spectacle of her dying agonies. She informs them with
.duo solemnity of the dreadful deed she had committed,
and immediately every one starts off to seek for as-
,iitance, with .one exception—namely, her husband,'
who, with a.yery proper feeling, remains near his wife.
He commences by -declaring that her case is hopeless,
beyond human aid and having made this satisfactory,
though uncOnsolatory; remark, he goes on to reproach
wife with her past coduct, when, seeing the salutary,
symptoms of sincere repentance, he deems it unneces-
sary to continue the trial any longer, and tells 'her that
the supposed poison she has taken is a harmlesi drug.
The young artist marries the young cousin—the whole
14mily embrace one another—and all appearances tend
to foretell. that boit'couples will' be' blessed with long
life and lots of children.

CASE OF POISONING AT HEY-
FORD, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

(FROM .A CORRESPONDENT.)
A serious and extensive case of poisoning occurred
last week in Lower Heyford, a village situated about
six miles from Northampton, by which nearly twelve
persons had fallen a sacrifice ; and, as might be ex-
pected, has caused a considerable sensation in the neigh-
bourhood, the particulars of which arc as follow :
Martha West, aged 70 years, who had on several
occasions -partaken of cakes . and puddings made from
flour, which she kept in her house, died on the 21st of
November, and was buried on the 26th. In cense-
(pence of several other persons falling ill at the same
time, and who have not as yet entirely recovered, suspi-
cions arose that the old lady could not have come hy her
death by natural means; information of the circumstance
was immediately given to the Coroner, and a warrant
was instantly isbued for the, disinterment of the
body. On the sth instant an inquest was
held at the Sun public-house, Lower Heyford,
and as it was considered requisite to give further time
for the medical gentlemen who attended to give an
opinion upon the state of the stomach of the deceased,
it was taken out far the purpose of having it analyzed
by them ; and,.tbc,,Coroner adjourned the further in-
vestigation of the subject-until the 10.11 inst., when it
was ascertained that it contained a quantity of arsenic,
and portions of the flour which were found in the house
at the time were also diicovered to he strongly impreg-
nated with the same poison.
The circumstance having been communicated to Mr.
Goddard, chief constable of the County Constabulary,
he sent cohstables,Hassett and: Young to make further
inquiries ; and it was ascertained thia the deCeased had
left property amounting tO-about WM., which, should
she have survived, would eventually have been divided
amongit the members of her family, consis:ing of two
sons and three daughters.

George West, the younger son,- kept a shop at
ford, in the grocery and general line, doing an excellent
bushiess, and Occupying a cellar of the house in which
the deceased resided, situated about two hundred yards
from the shop in which he carried on business, and kept
as a siore-i-oom for his goods. The flour, which was.
proved at the inquisition to hare been p&soned, was '
kept in a stone jar at the house of the deceased, and was
usually placed in a recess near to the top of the stairs.
The officers having satisfied themsetycs that West had
it ily ree'nufte to cella;;sustiected•that he must have
been enticerned in -ea.usirig the death of the thcc:..,sed,
and having gone to his house on the 9th instant, they
apprehended him, and kept him in custody until Toe,-
d3v, the lsth, the day appointed by the Coroner to Lold
the adjourned inquest. The proceedings commenced at
ten o'clock in the morning, and there being nineteen wit-
•nessdi exatnirio,4liey d4:n'Of,terrninate.,until half-past
tite evening. :.wh:en ;the'Groner' commenced
tht eiidence, whiCh laSted two hours. The
Jury without 'hesitation returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder" against George West, and he was accordingly
fully committed on the Coroner's warrant for trial at
the next assizes.

Among other circumstances brought before the Jury,
that went to criminate the prisoner, it was stated by a
witness that on Sunday, 22d November, the day atter
the deceased's death occurred, a person connected with
the family being about to make a pudding at the de-
ceased's house, with some of the flour which was after-
wards found to have been poisoned, the prisoner, who
was invited to join the family at dinner, said, " Don't
use that flour, as poor mother was so set against it, but
take it home and give it to your pigs, or do something
else with it ; for if we should use any of it, and be
afterwards taken bad, I should never forgive myself."
He then directed that some flour should be sent for from
a neighbouring baker's shop, and he would have no ob-
jection to dine with the family.

It was also proved by a constable, that the prisoner
had a quantity of poison in his possession before the oc-
currence took place ; and when he was questioned about
it, he acknowledged having had one pound weight of
it, two ounces of which he had sold, at the same time

producing a packet, and putting it into his scales, he
said, " There is the remainder, see, it weighs exactly
fourteen ounces." And when the constables called the
next day, for the purpose of making further inquiries,
he first told them they had taken it all away with them
on the previous day ; and in a few minutes after he said,
" If you 'nave not taken the remainder, it must have
been taken by some person who put his arm through
the window, which 1 happened to break accidentally a
few days back, for it could never be found since the last
time you were here,"

Lord and Lady Stanley leave Knowsley, the
seat of the Earl of Derby, the week after next, for their
mansion, in St. James's-square, her Ladyship intending to
come to town fur her accolichement.
Lord Northwick intends to erect a small but
elegant church in the vicinity of Thirlestaine House,
Gloucestershire.
THE LAME JAMES SMITH'S COMIC MISCEL-
LANIES.— A new edition of this work has just appeared,
with numerous additions. Its popularity is easily accounted
for when we consider the extraordinary variety of amusing
reading offered by its pages, which may be gathered from
a glance of the table of contents, divided into the follow-
ing heads :-I."Miseellancous Sketches," a collection of the
most humourous contributions. of the author to various
periodicals, interspersed with much new matter. 2. The
amusing series of illustrations of cockney lite and manners,
called " Kit Cat Sketches." 3. " Miscellaneous Pieces
in Prose," containing the " Annus Milabilis," " Civic
Sports," and other similar icux d'esprit. 4. " Miscella-
neous Pieces in Verse," consisting of those numerous odes
and pieces dc circvnscance, in which James Smith so much
excelled. 5. " The Essays of Endynion the Exile.'
6. .‘ London Lyrics," a famous collectiOn of songs, ludi-
crously txhibising the peculiarities of the great metro-
polis. 7. " Martial in London," half a hundred epigrams
emulating the force of sarcasm of the Latin poet himself.
8. The many comic songs which, from the lips of the late
Charles Matthews, have so often made " our lungs to crow
like chanticleer," and 9. last, though not least in point of
attraction, a selection from the author's correspondence,
principally with a lady of great wit and beauty, ( Mrs.
'Form Holma), affording most delightful specimens of
epistolary writing. Add to these an interesting memoir of
James Smith's life, by his brother, the author of " Bram-
bletye house," and no one need be surprised at the popu-
larity of this work, which ought to go through at least as
many editions as the Rejected Addresses themselves.
THE HOLTSELESS POOR.—The Committee for
managing the Asylum for the Houseless Poor, met on
Tuesday lust, and, on account of the severity of the
weather, determined to open the doors immediately. On
that night 31 poor creatures were admitted. On Wednes-
day night 81 were admitted; and on Thursday night the
number of unfortunate guests anigtuite4 to 101.