The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wl/4DBOR, THURSDAY.-1115 Serene Highness the
Duke of Holstein Glucksbourg, and his Serene High-
ness the Prince William of Holstein, took leave of
her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
to-day, and left the Castle.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
took their accustomed early walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exer-
cise this morning in the grounds around the Castle.
His Excellency Count de Reventlow, Baron de
Rehausen, Count Revel, Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, Lord Edward Howard, and the Right
Hon. Sir Stratford and Lady Canning, took their
departure from the Castle to-day.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent:left her
residence, Frogmore House, near Windsor, yester-
day morning, on a visit to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, in Richmond Park.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended
by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse,
Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Right lion.
H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay.
The Council sat three hours.

TA deputation on Metropolitan Cemeteries, con-
sisting of Mr. G. P. Irvine, Mr. James Bourdillon,
Mr. James Bourdillon, jun., Capt. John Gardner, and
Mr. John Hargrave Stevens, had an interview with
Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at the Office of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in
Whitehall-place.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. H. Davidson, Mr.
E. Thomson, Mr. R. Davis, and Mr. A. R. Scott, had
an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Co-
lonial-office, on the subject of the Jamaica Memorial.
A deputation, consisting of Sir Edward Dering,
Bart., Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., M.P., Sir Brook
Bridges, Bart., Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. Hodges,
M.P., Mr. John Neame, Mr. Charles Neame, Mr.
Elvy, and Mr. Knatchbull, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Right Hon. Sir William Somerville had an
interview with Lord John Russell yesterday.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
from Windsor Castle.

The Right Hon. Edward Strutt, Chief Commis-
sioner of Railways, arrived in town on Tuesday
night.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

DEATH OF DOWAGIFIL LADY WATERPARK.—We
have to announce the demise of the Dowager Lady
Waterpark. The melancholy event took place on Mon-
day last, at her residence in Hertford-street. Her
Ladyship was the eldest daughter and co-heir of Mr.
Thomas Cooper, and married 6th August, 1789, Richard,
second Lard Waterpark, by whom her Ladyship had a
family of twelve children, tea of whom survive their
venerable mother.
DEATH or MAJOR-GBNERAL THOMAS Puirrs
Howann, K.H.—We have to record the demise of the
above Gallant General, who died on Monday last at his
residence at Weymouth at an advanced age. The de-
ceased entered the army in 1793.
A SEVERE SENTENCE.—A rich farmer of Valdbye
(Denmark), named Steernersen, has just been tried at
Copenhagen for having attempted, by displaying a red
pocket-handkerchief at the end of a stick, to stop a train
running on the railway from Copenhagen to Rothschield.
He acknowledged that he had displayed the signal as
stated, but affirmed that he did so in consequence of a
wager entered into by him after a copious breakfast well
seasoned with wine, that he should succeed in stopping
the first train, that appeared. Knowing that to display
a red flag signified danger, he had waved his red hand.
kerchief, as mentioned in the indictment. The Court,
finding him guilty, sentenced him to ten years hard la-
bour in a house of correction, being the penalty laid down
in the Danish law against any attempt to stop a railway
train or impede its passage. Steernersen bas appealed
against this severe sentence.
Ceuer or PAUPERISM.—The overseers of Bolton
applied to the borough magistrates on Saturday last,
and obtained their sanction to a new rate upon the
township of four shillings in the pound. The over-
seers stated that from this rate they expected to re-
alise 13,0001., and that although there is still a consider-
able amount to be collected of the old rate, they did not
expect that the whole amount would carry them over
next March.
series
ofThursday
llectures
ua
Dr. Wolff, the Eastern traveller, preached in our
minster to an attentive audience on Wednesday even-
ing
rev. which, and
doctor od ne
delivered
efollowing a
aFriday, re
illustrative of his travels, adventures, and hairbreadth
escapes, which afforded considerable instruction
and
amusement to numerous and respectable audt •
Poole Herald. tories.—

A letter from Algiers confirms a report, which had
been for some time in circulation, that a person holding a
high office in the direction of the interior has been
arrested on 4 suspicion of haring receirecl bribes,

LITERATURE.
A DIALOGUE OF COMFORT AGAINST

TRIBULATION.

By Sir Thomas More,

Gladly do we perceive a love for the natural and
healthful writings of our English classics growing up
amongst us, and supplanting those spurious composi-
tions which have during the last half-century encum-
bered our bookshelves. The volume before us—being
the third in a series entitled " The English Catholic
Library"—is a noble example of the wisdom and-
poetry in homely guise which has lain concealed
during . successive generations in manuscripts or in
obsolete and garbled editions. What promise is there I
not in the very title-page—A Dialogue of Comfort
against Tribulation, made by the right virtuous wise '
and learned man, Sir Thomas More, some time Lord
Chancellor of England, which he wrote in the Tower of
London, A.D. 1534 ! How pregnant are those simple
words of the romance of history ! How they revive
the *collection of one of of the most dastardly crimes
perpetrated by the most ruthless despot who ever
disgraced the throne of these fair lands ! How they
bring to remembrance one of the noblest men that
ever trod the ground of England—one of the wisest
hearts that ever throbbed under the ermine of the
Chancellor—one of the purest souls that ever fled from
this earth from the planks of a scaffold ! Although
the editor of this new edition acknowledges in
his " Introductory Remarks" that the orthography
has been adapted to our own day, we are
rejoiced to find that the manner of the original has
been in no particular tampered with : it smacks still
of the sweet English dialect as spoken by Sir Thomas
More in his house at Chelsea ; it is racy of the spirit
of that England which he loved as his heart's blood;
it: breathes as pleasantly on our ears as the dulcet
tones of that right virtuous, wise, and learned man
must have done to his daughter Margaret, or his son-
in-law Roper. The thought, too, that this famous
dialogue was written during the period of his incar-
ceration in the Tower of London, that it was the last
gentle .utterance of his intellect, that its production
may have caused him for a while to forget his own
personal misfortunes, and to rise for a moment in the
abstraction of philosophy above the common ills of
humanity—the knowledge, moreover, that it was in-
scribed with a coal (" his enemies having enhanced
the pains of incarceration by depriving him of all
ordinary writing materials"), and that it has been
preserved to us through a succession of disasters—
both the disasters of his own family and those of the
kingdom at large—serve to enhance the value, if
that be possible, which is at once avowed by us for
any work by the inimitable author of the immortal
Utopia. We turn over the leaves of the "Dialogue
of Comfort against Tribulation" as we would handle
the cup of the Goddess of Health—tenderly and
lovingly ; for it imparts to all who read it aright a
health better than that of the body—the health of a
Christian resignation under all afflictions, and of
calm, lowly, and philosophic subinission to the de-
crees of an adverse destiny. How beautiful is the
simplicity of the diction, especially in the induction
of any homely truth ! as thus—" Sith a man is made
of the body and the soul, all the harm that any man
may take, it must needs be in one of these two." To
us, the " Complete Angler" of Izaak Walton has
always breathed of the blooms of the wild honey-
suckle on the hedgerows, and of fresh mould when
moistened by the pleasant showers of spring. In the
same style of metaphor we should say that the
"Dialogue" of Sir Thomas More breathes of
the perfumes of spikenard, and ambergris,
and such precious gums and spices. In
it he embalms the flies of household
thought as in amber, but it is, as it were,
that amber which when touched gives forth
fragrance. Some notion may be formed of the diffi-
culties under which this celebrated work was pro-
duced from the note to the original title-page, pro-
fessing it to be " A Dialogue of Comfort against
Tribulation, made by an Hungarian in Latin, and
translated out of Latin into French, and out of French
into English." Under that elaborate mask did the
writer strive to address his countrymen upon matters
touching their religious condition, when to do so
openly would have been impossible. Above all, it
must be remembered, while viewing Sir Thomas
More as an author, that he is the most illustrious
martyr to truth who ever fell under the axe of the
executioner.

LARGE AND SMALL FARMS ; and their In-
fluence on the Social Economy. By H. Passy.
Among the many distinguished political economists
of France, not one has evinced a greater readiness to
grapple a difficult question and to examine its bearings
to those very fundamental doctrines upon which it is,
as it were, an excrescence, than Al. Passy. Cer-
tainly none amongst his countrymen have betrayed
so little inclination to gloze over any flaw in the con-
stitution, because its removal involved the necessity
of research and argumentation. As a Peer of France,
as a member of the National Institute, as Minister of
Commerce and of Finance, and in other less exalted
capacities, M. H. Passy has laboured assiduously for
many years past to explain away the difficulties which
obscured some of the most important problems of a
politico-economic character, and, in doing so, he has
brought to bear upon them the energies of a mind of
no common astuteness. When the Villele Ministry
of 1826 strove to re-establish the obsolete laws of
entail and primogeniture, it was M. Passy who gave
that project the master-blow in his treatise, entitled
" Aristocracy Considered in its Relations with the
Progress of Civilization." In that treatise he declared his
intention to consider in a similar manner a question
of almost equal interest, namely, the influence of
large or small farms on the social economy. Long as
his intention was delayed, it was ultimately realised
in the production of the present work, which, in the
form of a memoir, was read before the French Aca-
demy of Moral and Political Sciences on the 24th of
August, 1844, and was subsequently published, with
a supplement, in the Journal des Economistes. From
that publication the present translation has been made
—a translation as faithful in spirit as it is elegant and
literal in expression. We are glad that an English
version such as the present has been issued, seeing
that it will enable many more of our fellow-country-
men to become acquainted with a volume which
assumes to itself a high position as a direct reply to
the arguments of M'Culloch and Arthur Young.
The notes given at the conclusion of the treatise, and
especially those collected by the translator, are most
interesting.

RICE, as a CHEAP and WHOLESOME FOOD
for ALL CLASSES, and Especially as a SUB-
STITUTE FOR POTATOES. By a Family
Man. London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
EXTRACT No.
RICE TO BREAKFAST.
With cold meat, chop, ham, bacon, or fish, &c.
For each individual allow one small dessert spoon-
ful of rice washed in cold water; boil in a second
water, cold, at first, full fifteen minutes; strain it, and
serve it in a covered dish.
This will be found to be a treat, and at the cost of
less than a penny for a dozen people.
Extract from an account of the Benefit of the Use of
Rice. By the Matron of the Foundling Hospital,
London.
" During the scarcity of wheat in July, 1795; one
of the measures adopted at the Foundling Hospital,
with a view of lessening the consumption of flour,
was the substitution of rice puddings for those of
flour, which, by the table of diet, were used for the
children's dinner twice a week. The flour puddings
for each day had taken About 1681b5. weight of flour;
the rice puddings, substituted in their place, required
only 211bs. of rice to make the same quantity of pud-
ding ; the result of the experiment being, that in a
baked pudding made with milk, one pound of rice
will go very nearly as far as eight pounds of flour.
" The use of the puddings has ever since been con-
tinued in the hospital, with this variation, that the
quantity of rice has been increased to 241bs. weight
for each day's dinner; and it now continues the sub •
stitute for nearly 1681bs. of flour before used ; the in-
gredients in the rice puddings at present being 241bs.
of rice, 61bs. of treacle, and 18 gallons of milk ; and
the produce, upon an average, 1801bs.* of good sub-
stantial pudding, a very sufficient dinner for the 170
persons who dine on it.
" The milk is the better kind of London milk,
about equal to good skim. milk in the country. The
expense of the dinner is as follows :-241bs. of rice,
55.; 61bs. of treacle, 2s. ; and 18 gallons of milk, 1254
the total for 170 persons being 19s or rather more
than five farthings per head. The saving to the
hospital, by this use of rice during the year, was
something more than 2001.; and the national saving
in the consumption of flour, from that circumstance
only, during the same period of scarcity, being one
year, ending July, 1796, appears to be nearly
17,4721b5. weight of flour."
PLAIN BOILED RICE FOR THE DINNER TABLE,
Which may also be used with preserves, milk, Sze.
Wash the rice in cold water, boil in a second
water, cold at first, full fifteen minutes, any quantity
required; salt to taste, just before it is removed from
the fire, strain it through a cullender, and, if thought
proper, it may be dried a little belore a fire or in an
oven.

In order to ascertain correctly the comparative
weight of the materials in their liquid state, with that of
the pudding after it is baked, the weight has been care
fully taken several times. The amount has not always
been precisely the same, but the average is nearly as
follows:
Weight of 18 gallons of milk, being about
lib. 3oz, the pint ...
241bs. of rice
Gibs. of treacle

1711bs.
241bp.
... ... 6lbs.

Total of the ingredients ... 2011bs.
Average weight of the rice pudding in a
solid state ... 180Ibs.

Average waste in dressing

211bs.

" t Where skim-milk, as in the country, may be had
much cheaper, the price of this dinner would hardly
exceed a halfpenny per head.

RICE wrrir WHEATEN FLO"R TO MAHN BRIM?,
Rice contains a great deal ‘-if tiptriment in 3.
compas,, and does pas:- sn quickly oft-thastqmsci...', •
as some other sub:ititutes for vs heatNfiour
good ingredient in bread. Boil a quirVr:Olik
of rice till it is quite sofa ; thew-OftWan t
part of a sieveko drain it; and when it is cold, mix it
with three-quarters of a pound of flour,"two table
spoonfuls of yeast, and one of salt; let it stand three
hours to ferment, knead it thoroughly and roll it in
about a handful of flour, so as to make the outside dry
enough toput it into the oven; after baking an hour.
and a quarter it will form a loaf of good white bread,..
weighing more than two pounds.
Cost—Quarter pound broken rice ......
Two-thirds of.a pound best flour, 1
Firing, salt, and yeast

Total, 21; or ld. per pound.
This small proportion of rice Oyes the extra weigh' .
Broken rice is preferable ; one pound of wheate i
flour, without rice, will on!y yi,•:d a loaf of one pt un
two ounces.

ANOTHEM METHOD

Simmer a pound. of rice, in two quarts of water,
till quite soft: when of a proper warmth, mix it
thoroughly with four pounds of flour, four table
spoonfuls of yeast, and salt as usual ; knead it par -
ticularly well, and set to rise before the fire ; some of
the flour should be reserved to make up the loaves;
thus nine pounds of very good bread will be produced.
If the rice should require more water, it must b
added, as some rice swells more than others : give

plenty of time to simmer.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

SIGNOR BRIZZI'S SOIREE
MUSICALE.

The Soiree Musicale d'Amateurs, all of whom ar a
pupils of Signor Brizzi, was given on Thursday la.3' ,
at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, before a gay ar
fashionable assemblage of the rank and beauty of th tt
neighbourhood. The large and noble ball-room, t t
the Royal Hotel, was beautifully lit, and presente 1
as gay and animated a scene as we ever witnessed,
either there or elsewhere. The room was well
filled, but not inconveniently so, and the party was
given by Signor Brizzi, who has been for some tin., e
past residing here.
The concert commenced shortly after eight o'c'ook..
Mr. F. Williams accompanied the singers on a splendi
piano by Erard, from Mr. P. E. Rowe's establishmen
in a style and with a brilliancy of execution'that calle
forth the approbation of all who heard him. His pet
formances of one of Thalberg's fantasies, and ait
andante by Mendelssohn were greatly admire( .
The choruses were sung with much sweetness,
and with an effect which was extremely beautiful.
Miss Gammell and Miss Rowe took the solos ill
the choruses of La Carita, and acquitted thein.
selves admirably; as did also Miss Blackwob.l
and Miss Seale in the solos in L'Asia in Lancie.
Miss Calmady, who has been tor several years a
of Signor Brizzi, showed by her style that she had
attained to a much greater proficiency in the art that*
those who have been only for a short time under
Signor Brizzrsainstruction. Miss Calmady's voice
is a soprano of great sweetness, and she was umet
admired in the difficult romance of Meyerbeer 3
Robert toi que Jaime. She was accompanied iu thi
piece by her talented Maestro, who most ably sus .
tained his high reputation, and their efforts calle 1
down a burst of applause from tut admiring audience ,
Mrs. Charles Knapp's beautiful v lice added a great
deal to the effect of the national an-them, in which she
sang the last verse, and also to the pretty Cavatina ut
Mozart, from Figaro. The Miss es Bulteel really
showed what art will do in the training of young
persons, for they sang with singular taste and witb
limitless execution, a pretty but intricate composi-
tion of Gabussi's, besides several other pieces. Their
youth and promising talent made them objects of very
great interest.
It would be difficult for us to say whom we should
praise the most where all performed so well, but we
ought not to forget the Misses Soltau, Miss Hillyars
Mrs. Bisshopp and in a duet with Signor Brizzi,
though last not least, Mr. Messingberd, who we.
sustained his great reputation as being the Tainburin i.
of amateurs. That brilliant song of Donizetti's wa ;
most rapturously encored, and he very kindly re.
peated it, to the great satisfaction of the audience.
During the evening the company appeared to b
highly delighted with the efforts of their youn
friends, and it must have been gratifying to all parties
to have seen so pleasing -an exhibition of musical
power, superadded to an elegant and highly cu.ti •
vated style. Signor Brizzi was in excellent voice,
and sang occasionally most brilliantly; but he meah
his efforts entirely subservient for the occasion rather,
than for a display of his own talent. At the close of
the performance the Signor was presented with r•
valuable diamond ring which had been subscribed for
by his pupils, as a token of their respect for him, and
a souvenir of a very delightful evening. The ring
was supplied from the elegant establishment of Mr.
Page, in George-street.

-After the vocal performances had concluded tho
room was cleared fur daiLAng, which was kept up Vr
some time. More than four hundred persons were
present.—Plymouth Journal.