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STEPHEN DUGARD, A NOVEL. -Th is II
powerful novel, by a person of very considerable thought and
ability. Allowing for the necessities of romantic fiction, and
the character of the age in which the scene is laid, the inci-
dents arc suffiiiently probable, and knit together with maw anal
coherence. The humbler characters ere drawn with strength
and discrimination, and the higher with consistency. Neither
Bulwer, nor Ainsworth, nor even Boz, has come up to its
author in the powerful delineation cf criminals. The scenes,
toe, in which these are engaged, in " Stephen Dugard," are
drawn with great force, and with a fearful nakedness; yet
they are not so melodramatic, or merely ph)sical, as some of a
similar character in " Oliver Twist ;" nor are they done with
such appearance of effort. It must not be inferred, however,
that there is nothing but crime in " Stephen Dugard ;" on
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original reflection and observation.— Spectator.

Rs. M E R LY.—The Portrait of Mrs. Maberly
which is just now attracting so much attention in Alr.Maelean's
window, is, we suspect, not the only one ertant of this clever
and popular lady. The one to which we are now alluding is
drawn in pen and ink, and has the singular interest of beiqg
delineated by the lady's own kand. Whether the likeness,
which some of her friends have observed is an intended or acci-
dental one, is more than we can decide. Certain it is that the
" Emil)" of the novel has many charming features in common
with the writer of it ; and the resemblance gives a double in-
terest and attraction to the work.

29,
EsAs LABNIE) NDIAEIR,rf:TEI-vSET\II.IEsiEOT, 34.—PAICgCreAatDerILpLroT.of—of
the value of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Invisible Opera-
tive Voice Conductor, and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses,
cannot be adduced, than the circumstance of the mans- than-
sands of individuals who have obtained the greatest benefit and
instant relief, and the constant immense 'demand there is for
them, and the patronage they have, and daily continue to re-
ceive. The Messrs. S. and-B. Solomons disclaim all connec-
tion with persons of the same name, and the sale of amber spec-
tacles ; the pernicious use of amber spectacles being now well
known to the public, and the vendor being aware of it, he has
therefore altered their name, by leaving out the word "Am-
ber," and calling them "Patent _Spectacles." Dr. Andrew
Ure, Esq., M.D., FAR. &c., states amber is most power-
fully electrical by friction, very hot, to such an extent as to ex-
plode into fragments. The workmen, too, are subject to a nes,
vows tremor in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they encounter great
danger by handling such dreadfully excited electrics. Amber
of such a soft and sticky nature, that is apt • to:f.tike fire
and when exposed to warmth, it swells, bubbles up, aed
burn away with flame. This statement is further confirmed by
Sir D. Brewster and Pliny, as also by Parks and Herat ou
Chemistry. The pernicious aid destructive use of such a int-
tcrial for spectacles to imperfect vision may be ascertained at
any respectable optician's in London.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 29.—The
supply has been suite adequate to meet the wants of the buyers,
as the very high prices have considerably abated the disposition
to purchase. The injurious, the ruinous effects of the West
India monopoly, cannot be more justly and forcibly •preseatisd
to public notice, than by The Sun.— Bristol Mercury.
SUGAR MoNoFoLY.—A petition is now in
course of signature in North Shields, praying the House of
Commons to admit for home consumption other sugar than
that of British Possessions, at such a rate of duty as may be
fair and just. This application has been founde4 upon the
great diminution of sugar produced in the West Indies, whicAt
was for the last ten years, 55,000 tons lots as oompred stltb
the ten years previous,—Tyne Pilot. '•• •