The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-04 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING SUN, JANUARY 4, 1847.

No. 16,940.

requisite official facilities. As a mere compilation, it is probably the
most wonderful on record.

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 1846.
This huge volume, the forty-eighth edition of the work, well sus-
tains the reputation enjoyed by the " Directory" of late years. In
the preface, the proprietor maintains that the high character of the
work is not referable to its mere connexion with the Post Office ;
for en important change has been gradually introduced into the
manner of collecting the Information ; and a larger portion of the
work than heretofore has been confided to selected agents entirely
unconnected with the Post Offic.o, this being in groat part the plan of
compiling the editions for 1845 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor
rested content with his past success. hot has introduced many im-
portant alterations in this volume for 1847 nil added to Its bulk
without any increase in price. The " Postai birectory" is especially
Unproved, and there are numerous en...rtges throughout the velimes
to insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vest labour,
to be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains-
taking minuteness. This appearance of the volume has suggested a
very lively effusion, to he seen in another column ; and we trust the
enterprising proprietor of the " Directory" will flnd that his labours
are duly approated and remunerated. To a great commercial coun-
try this is an Indispensable volume.

RAILWAY HERALD, Nov. 21, 184 G.
The new volume of the Post Office Directory for 1447 is already
in o.ir hands, and we can only express our wonder that a work so
laborious. extensive, and minute, could Ise in any degree improved.
It would have been a sufficient merit to have maintained its former
reputation, it is a greet merit to lave surpasiesl itself. The prodec-
tion of a work unequalled for accuracy and for clearness las placed in
the hands of the commercial public a most valuable and indispensable
aid in carrying on the business of this ♦ast metropolis, which would
indeed he subjected to the greatest inconvenience and expense if it
were not for a work of this kind. In a short time our readers will
have theopportursity of judging for themselves on purchasing the new
volume, whether our anticipatory notice is in any degree exaggerated.

BRITANNIA, Nov. 21,1646.
Tho French people have done themselves credit by their industrial
expositions. But it must be acknewledged that, though ingenious
and pretty, they appear quite iusignificaot compared with the indus-
trial exposition presented to the mind by this mighty volume. Kee-
ping pace with the advancing trade and population of London, it still
increases in Belk; and, keeping pace with the movement of society
in a more impc rtant particular, ft vlgilently seises every opportunity
of improvement to insure more perfect accuracy and more complete
classific ttion. We find in this volume many instances of superiority
to former issues, which, though eomparAtively trifling, show the in-
telligence and care exercised over every department. It may be men-
tioned that by the employment of private agents, the changes of re-
sidence are now brought down to a later period thin formerly, and
the value of the Directory" is consequently enhanced. We have
before spoken of It as indispensable to the proper management of
business: Its authority is now so universally established, both at the
Post-office and throughout the metropolis, that any further recom-
mendation of it is superfluous.

lIERIPATIPS RAILWAY JOURNAL, Nov. 21, 1846.
The " Post-office Directory" for 1847 appears with additions and
Improvements upon its valuable predecessor, but with no enlarge-
ment in the price. The continued enterprising spirit with which this
important, and it is not a misapplication of terms to say, national
work is conducted, merits the highest commendation, We know not
whether the same illiberal and unjustifiable attempt will b. made In
the ensuing session as was done in the last, to wrest it from the
hands of the present proprietary, and to place it by the force of might
over right in the hands of Government ; but, should it be attempted,
surely the following statement of its conductors will go home to the
consciences, if they have any, of the parties seeking to draw down
the grasping Interference of Govenunent :—" It can only be neces-
sary to refer to a copy of the work published before the purchase of
the copyright by its present proprietor, to be convinced that the mere
connexion of the Directory' with the Post-efflce has little, if at all,
contributed to its present high character. That the improvements
(the result of many years of unwearied toll and application on the
part of those engaged in the compilation of the work) arc duly appre-
ciated Is now happily beyond all question ; prior to the ' Directory'
passing to its present proprietor, rival books contended successfully
with this—they have disappeared."

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ANCE SOCIETY,
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nits, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense •r for-
citure of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
glso the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
treats te meet other cenveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms et years are granted en the lowest possihle
ates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The reariarkable •access and increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a !ourth nonai, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
each Polley effected ea the Profit scale.

THE PAST YEAR AND THE PRESENT
TEAL—A DIALOGVE.
On last New Year's evening. the past year and present .
Shook hands, and convers'd in a style rather pleasant.
" Ilow d'ye do?' said the Old Year, addressing the New;
" Well, I'm nicely, I thank you, old friend, how are you?"
Thus awhile did they chat, and, before they had done,
They touoh'd on the projects of MOSES and SON.
" I have often felt proud (said the Year that is past),
When a glarce on the warehouse of MO-,ES I cast ;
For this vast speculation—this trading domain—
Open'd all its va4t proints,s during my reign.
Whenever I look at this mercantile throne
I rejoice that my honours will rival your own."
" Stop! stop (said the Pre,ent Year), talk not so fast,
I'll prove that the present shall rival the past.
Although in your ' mayoralty' much has been done
By thcHe wonderful tradesmen, E. MOSES and SON,
Don't suppose for one instant that less will appear
At MOSES and SON'S in the present new year.
Os ! !' is the maxim on which they would fix,
And thus will they rival the year Forty-six.
The year Forty-seven, long, long ere It closes
Will add a fresh wreath to the laurel of MOSES.

ONE WORD OF THANKS.
On an annual occasion like this wo would tkank
Our numberless patrons, whatever their rank ;
Our warmest acknowledgments let us exprees,
Since the Forty-six has display'd such success;
And let us make promise that much shall be done,
As a public return by E. MOSES and SON.
LIST OF PRICES.
REAM MAIM
s. d
Beaver Taglionis, from .• ........ ••••..•••' • • • • • •• .. A 8 6
Chesterfields and Coelringtons •• .• .....• ••..• • •• • • 010 6
Pashas, D'Orsaya, and Cheetorfields, and every description
of winter coats ••• .
Boys' Winter Coats, in every style and make .• .. • • .... •• 01 8 6
Tweed Trousers,lined •••••• • • • • ••
Dress Coats.• •• • ....•
Frock Coats.... • ......... • • • ..
Double-breasted Tests .................................0 2 0
Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits
boys' Winter Trousers .•• •
Ditto Ve5t5..........
Mourning to any oxtent at live minutes' notice.

MADE TO MEASURE.
Winter Coate, warranted waterproof, made to any Style,
handsomely trimmed
Milled Cloth Coats, trimmed, velvet collar aad cad's, lined 2 6 0
Tweed Overcoats. • • .... .• • .......
Tweed Trousers .. • • • .
•• •• 0 a
6
Winter Trousers, in all the most approved Franck patterns 1 2 6
Best Drees Trousers ..
Dress Coats . •
Rest quality made .. • • 215 0
Frock Coats
Beet quality made . • • • • • • •••••• •• • . 3 3 0
Satin, plain or fancy .....• •.•• • • • ....... ....... ....... 0 12 0
Boys' Hussar and Tuttle Suits ••..••• • • • • • • '' •' " 1 5 0
°l)strve.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mert-
4111'e, if not approved of, will be exchanged, 6r if preferred, the
money returned.
le, MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
hosiers, Furriers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies aud Gentlemen,
154, 155, and 156, 157 Mlnories, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate,
:My. London.

Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the
public against impostors, but have learned that the untradeaman-
like falsehood of being connected with them, or We tho same concern,
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion with any other hence in or oat of London;
arid those who desire genuine and cher.? clothing, ke., should call at,
err send to, Mlnories and Aidgate, Citr, London.
Notice.—No business transacted at this establiahinent from sun-
4et Friday. till sunset Saturday, when busitess is resuialed till twelve
o'Clcok
The entrance to the far department is at 83, Aldgate, comer of the
Minorles anti Aldgate, opposite the church.

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT OF CHANCERY, made in certain Causes
" CARTER V. TAGGART," " CARTER v. ADNEY," and " CAR-
TER v. YEAVER ;" and of another Decree made in a Cause,
" CARTER v. BASKCOMB," and of another Decree made in certain
Causes " AIDNEY r. BASKCOMB," `• CARTER r. BASKCOMB,"
and "CARTER HACKBLOCK," the Creditors of James Taggart,
late of Chiselhurst, In the county of Kent, Esq. (who died in the
month of Augast, 1834), and the Creditors of the several Firms of
"Taggart, Smith, and Baskcom la," "Smith, llaskcomb, and Company,"
and " Smith and Baekcomb," or either of them In a Brewery at
Chlselhurst, in which the Testator was a Partner, or had some share
er interest, are, on or before the 18th day of February, 1847, to come
in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WmsoN, one of the Mas-
ters of the said Court at his Chambers In t,outhatntton buildings,
Chancery-lane,lLondon ; or, In default thereof, they will be perempto-
My excluded the benefit of the said decree.
THOS. PEARSON, 22, Eseez-street, /Wind,
Plaintiff's Solicitor.

pURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY. made in certain Causes " ADNEY
n. ISASKCOMII," " CARTER 0. BASK.COMft," aid CARTER V.
IiACKIILOCK," the next of kin of ANNA MARIA CARTER, late
the wife of John Waldron Carter, of Wool. near Wareham, in the
county of Dorset, gentleman (which said Anna Maria Carter, died
at Wool, aforesaid, on the 15th day of February, 1844), living
at the time of her death, and the legal personal Representative er
Representatires of any such next of kin as may have since died, are
by their Solicitors, on er before the 10th day of February, 1847, to
come in before Sir GIFFIN Wit,sox, one of the Masters of the said
Court, at his Chambers it Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
Lordon, and prove their kindred, and make out their claims, or,
In default thereof, they will peremptorily lee excluded the benefit of
the said Decree.

THOS. rzAnsoN, 22, Eaaex-street, Strand,

PlaintitraSolicitor.

THE SELF-SUPPORT INSTITUTION,
(aided by Voluntary Contributions.) for the Cure of Stricture
of the Urethra, and all other Diseases of Urinary Organs, 'Nervous,
Local, and General Debility.
Suaonow—F. B. COURTENAT, M.R.C.S.L., 2, Chandos-street,
Cavendish-square.
To small tradesmen, clerks, mechanics, and tho working classes
generally, this Institution offers, in all eases, gratnitoas surgical
assistance, and In others medicine also free of expense.
Apply at the Surgery adjolung the Surgeon's residence.

WELFT H D A Y.
T Mrs. PARKES has the honour of Informing her Patrons, that
her Exhibition Rooms, 22, Golden-square, will open on TUESDAY,
January 5, 1847, at Twelve e'elock, for the SALE of SHARES in
her CLUB SUBSCRIPTION. The eolleetion contains the finest
specimens of English Engraving. The works are mounted in costly
fancy woods, gold, carving, crimson velvet, Ste.
Shares One Guinea each, or Seven for Six Guineas. Country sub-
scribers will reoeive their okaree by Tuesday evening's post.

DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6}d. per lb. ; Genuine
Sperm, Is. 9d. ; Yellow Seep, 485., 545., and 60s. per-112Ibs. ,
Mottled, 60s. and 645.; Wax Candles, IL per lb.; German Wax,
is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Transparent Wax, is. lid. ; Gennine
Wax, 2s. Id. ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 71,4 d.; Sperm Oil, Bs. per gallon ;
Solar, 3e. ad.. Pale Seal, 41. ; Arvind, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d.; Wind-
sor and Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. 9cl ;
Rose, 21.; Almond, is. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. ; Hale's Paragon
Cemposite, requiring ne snuffing, 914 d. per lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established WarehouSe, 63, St.
Martin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

C OPY of a LETTER from WILLIAM
COURTNEY, Esq.
•__ _

To Mr. THOMAS rsocr, 22.9, Strand, London.
Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway
Station, Hants, October 26, 1344.

Sir,—l cannot help expressing my astonishment in the effect I have
experienced in taking your Pills for the Gout. I was taken en Thurs-
day night so severely with it as to be with difficulty able to get on.
of my bed, and after I arose I had severe pains, followed on with in-
flammation of the fbot increasing. I took three of your Pills, and
within two hours I found the pain to entirely cease. I afterwards
took two Pills at a dose twice in tho day, and I am, thank God, this
morning able to walk without the slightest Inconvenience. I found in I
a previous very severe attack very great relief; I had the pains in
my knees and thighs so very severe at that time, I thought I must
have died. and that it must have gone into my stomach. At that
time I had resort to your Pills, and they relieved me—within two
hours I wait quite easy. The use of these Pills ought, really, to be
sown all over the world. I have a brother, a young man, that
suffers horribly with it, and his greatest relief and preventive has
seen your Pills. Make what use you please of my report.—Tours
ruly and respectfully, WILLIAM COURTNEY.
Among the many discoveries that characterise the present age, none
have contributed so much to tho comfort and ease of the community,
nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity, as the impor-
tant discovery of BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC ?ILLS,
the efficacy of which has been tested by the approval and recom-
mendation of many of the greatest men of our day. They are effec-
tive for gout and rheumatism, in all its various forms, including
sciatica, lumbago, pains in the head and face, frequentlyt rented as
ooth-ache, &c. They require neither confinement nor attention of
any kind, and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach,
brain, or ether vital part.
Sold by Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London ; an by his appoint-
ment, by all respectable medicine vendors throughout the United
Kingdom. Price 21. 9d. per box.
Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, and ob-
serve the name and address of " Thomas Front, 229 Strand, London."
mpreseed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each hex of the
U taalealfedlcine.

RYE, ITS CHEMICAL COMPOSI-
TION AND NUTRITIVE VALUE.
(From the Northern Whig.)
The recommendations which have lately been given, in
various public journals, with respect to the introduction
of rye, as a crop to succeed potatoes, render it important
that we should notice its value as a source of food. It
would be interesting to trace the change which has
taken place in the opinions that formerly prevailed
respecting this grain ; for at a very early period, we
find, by the testimony of ancient writers, that, either by
itself, or mixed with wheat, it formed the general food
of the people of England. As, however, the agriculture
of the country improved, the more nutritious wheat
gradually assumed its place t and it was only in times of
scarcity, that the English labourer would willingly
submit to change " the white loaf for the brown." But,
even in the latter part of the sixteenth century, the
use of wheat as a bread-stuff, had not by any means, be-
come generaL An old writer, speaking of that period,
says,--"'I he bread, throughout the land, is made of such
grain as the soil yieldeth ; nevertheless, tho gentilitie
commonlie provide themselves sufficiently of wheate for
their own tables, whilst their household and poore niegh-
b9urs, in some shires, are inforced to content themselves
with rye or barlie." 1689, the proportion of wheat
and rye cultivated for food, in England, will be seen by
thf Itollowing statement,l made by the celebrated statist,
Gregory King :
Wheat
Rye
Whilst, however,
since that time, the cultivation of
wheat in England enormously increased, less attention was
every year directed to the growth of rye. But on the conti•
nent, as is well known, rye continues to form the staple
bread-stuff of the people of Russia and Northern Germany,
and is extensively cultivated on the sandy plains of the
countries which border the South of the Black Sea. The
small quantity of rye, at present grown in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, is chiefly consumed by the distiller. In
Holland, this grain is extensively employed, at Schie-
dam, and other places, to mix with barley, for the pre
paration of " Hollands Gin." The straw of the ripe
grain is not well adapted for fodder, and is chiefly used
for thatching and for the manufacture of hats ; but when
cut green, in May or June, it may advantageously be
employed for soiling cattle. In Germany, the schacarz
bred, or black bread, so much relished by all classes of
the people, is prepared from rye. When fresh, this
bread has a peculiarly sweet and agreeable taste, which
is supposed to depend upon the presence of an aromatic
substance in the husk of the grain, as it has been found,
that bread made from very fine flour, from which the
husk had been removed, did not possess it. But upon
this, and many other subjects connected with our culti-
vated grains, careful experiments are yet required.
Rye is supposed to be a native of Crete, but it has
been cultivated in these countries from the earliest times.
There are several species known to the botanist; but
that usually grown by the Irish farmer is secale cereale,
of which there are two varieties—Spring and Winter rye.
With regard to the amount of nutritive ingredients
contained in rye, the late investigations of Professor
Horsford, condusted in the laboratory of Liebig, show us
that soil and cultivation exercise a great influence upon
its composition;—thus, while one sample of meal, from
Vienna, contained only 10i per cent. of what we arc ac-
customed to describe as muscle-forming materials,
another sample afforded nearly 16 per cent. A sample
of rye, of superior quality (secale cereale stauden roggen),
from the celebrated agricultural Institute of Hohen-
h ein. in Wurtemberg, examined by Horsford and
Krocker, containers, of nutritive materials and water, as
follows :
Nitrogenized matters (muscle-forming), 15.27 per cent.
Starch.

Water

By comparing the above numbers with the analyses of
wheat, oats, and Indian corn, given in preceding papers.
it will be seen, that though inferior to " the stout oat-
cake," the black bread, prepared from rye, must be well
adapted as a sustaining food.
Like the potato, the cultivation of rye requires but
little agricultural skill, and it will flourish in situations
where no other grain would be capable of affording food.
This circumstance, however, though it may prove of
importance to a slovenly and ignorant people, should
not be regarded as an inducement to substitute it for the
more nutritious oat. A dry sandy soil is beat adapted
for its growth; though, as we have remarked, in
will flourish in almost any farm. Experienced
farmers advise, that if the land be damp, it should
be ploughed in ridges. It is sown either in autumn or
spring, and managed as the other grain crops—from two
to two and a half bushels of seed being usually required
to the statute acre. Formerly, an early kind of wheat
and rye were sown and rgeraapinedwtaosgteetrmherea;
manedslitnh,eabnraemade
from the Latin miscellanea. The
smt:pidpeosfomerdto
htheedemriivxeded
average produce of rye is about 25 bushels per acre ;
the quantity of straw obtained is usually from three to
four times the weight of grain. The following analyses
of the grain and straw of rye have lately been published
by Will and Freseneus, of Giessen, and will be interest-
' lng to the farmer, as exhibiting the kind of ingredients
which this crop selects from the soil, and which, conse-
quently', a field must contain, to bring it to perfection :-
9itsth
the straw
ofo
inand
dryness, usually oonta
ash.
I,ooolbs. of the grain: of
Ono hundred parts of the ash of the grain and straw
were found to contain, respectively, as follows :
G rain. Straw.
31.89 17.03
••• 014 ••• ••
433
2.84
•••
9.86
0.80
..•
46 03
••• •••

Potash ..
Soda ... ••• •••
8.98
Lime ... ... •.• •
2.39
Magnesia ... •.• ... ... J...
Peroxide of iron ... ... 0.80 1.35
Phosphoric acid •.• ... 46 03 3.80
Chloride of sodium .•• ... 0.56
Chloride of potassium ... 0.25
Sulphuric acid ... .•. ..• 1.42 081
Silica ... .., • ... 0.17 63.89
Charcoal and sand ... ... !2.66 0.94

100.00 100.00
JOUN F. UODVIS, M.D.
Laboratory of the Chemico•Agricultural Society.

MAGAZINES—{CONTINUED).
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Bentley opens this month with a glorious article
front the pen of Albert Smith, entitled " Miss Perk-
apple, or the Gothics' Ball."

Miss Perkapple was the oldest young lady wo ever
knew; and we wager the world to a China orange—
which are long odds, but which, at the same time, there
is no possibility of settling, oven if you lose, so they may
always be laid with tranquillity—that if you had known
her, you would have thought the same. And we will
even allow you to have lived amidst a legion of old young
ladies, who had fallen back upon the calm of tracts and
canaries, from the anxiety attendant upon man's insin-
d
witaeewmfs
t(rhiot)ei
ektrhyahhdt aeegnt pamhsrtbrdppoeeal 1
spectacles
,deut'ghertsns
aeyeeehkefesnyootlrsni
hoeurdohsasal
been
anybody
unknown
sharp,enrwnhesia:abnolsiisiowfrngepasehicipopular
to,
phiaubnbialel
fanciful
hro:
curiousbass
re
social
hneo;
oataei
sdnnan;hapdel
before—not
designs,
fashion-books
ingnenaadh-anlynt
b:stesds
owo,nhomas, ,toinahhir:
had
very insin-
cerity.
pvinvi
epeeekhadree
cra,
ces,i
ykt
layosnehum'
feaanci
coldal
had also
about
hipumnaoi
and terminates on the waxen brows of hair-dressers'
dummies. From those it may be conceived, by intelli-
gent minds, that Miss Perkapple was also literary."
Miss Perkapple pays an annual Christmas visit to
London, to her friends the Straggs's. Mr. Straggs,
the principal of the house, being a most respectable
tailor. Of course he patronises fancy balls, as every
intelligent costumier ought, and at one of these fancy
halls, at the Hanover-square Rooms, Miss Perkapple
figures away as a Spanish girl. She is full of poetry
and love, writes sonnets to her gondolier, for she
believes in Venice, and regularly appears in the left-
hand corner of a weekly provincial paper,as the inditer
of Spanish heroics, or Italian love songs. At this ball
she meets with a Spanish cavalier, attired I la Wal-
lack, as Don Caesar de Bazan. She dances with him,
she flirts with him, she loves him. He, however, must
leave her—he has business of importance to transact '
before he retires to rest, and imagining she had cap-
tivated the heart of an attache of the Spanish em-
bassy at the least, Miss Perkapple remains until it
shall please the Straggs's to depart. At length the
Straggs's prepare to depart.
" Shawls were recovered; coaches called; and, in the
cold grey of morning, amidst a mob of early risers who
were loitering round the door to watch the company out,
they drove away.
" Miss Perkapple thought but on one subject—the
partner of the evening; and, with her eyes closed, pre-
tended to be asleep as she conjured up his image before
her. But she was aroused from her reverie by a laugh
from Mr. Straggs, and a cheer in the streets, as if from
boys, which somewhat startled her. Looking from the
windows a spectacle met her own pair that well nigh
brought on a fit of hysterics. They were in a west-end
thoroughfare; and there, in front of a shop—a common
normal grocer's shop—was Don Cresar de Bazan, as he
had appeared an hour previously, taking down the
shutters, to the delight of a crowd of boys on the pave-
ment, who were madly dancing about him. Some un-
provoked assault upon his cloak caused him to turn
sharply round as the hackney coach passed, and Miss
Perkapple saw that he had only one moustache! The
other had been danced off in the last polka, and was now
lying on the floor of the Hanover-square Rooms; for he
had trusted to composition instead of springs, which
latter had set him so sneezing that he had well nigh
blown his head off before he came. As he turned, his
eye caught Miss Perkapple's. Despite the cold air of
morning he blushed crimson, and shot the shutter he
held down a grating under the window with a precipi-
tancy that looked as if he would have given worlds to
have gone down after it; after which he rushed into the
shop and disappeared behind a monster coffee grinder,
but whether he merely hid for the moment, or committed
suicide by throwing himself into it, remained a mystery.
" The spell had been too rudely broken: and Miss
Perkapple saw that the secret of his anxiety to " leave
the halls of dazzling light" was fully explained. She
suppressed the cry that rose to her lips as well as she
was able, and pulling her shawl over her head, at the
great peril of her caehucha comb, and she—shall we say
it—and the back plait attached to it, was alone in her
misery."
Leech's illustration to this story, Don Csesar de
Bazan in difficulties, representing the Don pulling
down his shutters, is the ne plus ultra of fun. It is
quite worthy of the tale. Cooper contributes another
chapter of Captain Spike, in which the chase of the
Molly Swash is continued by the revenue steamer
and a fast sailing schooner which has joined her.
Spike, however, by superior manceuvring, again man-
ages to escape, and the revenue people reluctantly
give the matter up. " The Wofully Wedded" is a
beautifully told tale of English rural life, by Mary
Howitt, ani to which "The Broken Vow," by Mrs.
Romer, is an admirable companion, albeit the scene of
it is laid in Switzerland; but the feelings of the
heart are the same everywhere, and those
who feel for poor Agnes, the heroine of
Mary Howitt, cannot refuse their sympathies to the
broken hearted Antonio, the hero of the Broken
Vow. Portfire, in his shots from an old six pounder,
gives us some pleasant reminiscences of the days of
pupillage at the Military Academy at Woolwich ;
and The Flaneur continues his amusing sketches of
Parisian society. D. W. C. Taylor gives us a very
valuable article, full of historical research, on Queen
illustrated n
Elizabeth and her dancing Chancellor, Sir Christopher
Batton,
portrait of the
danc
is followed by a short, but admirably written, sketch
of poor Barham, the Thomas Ingoldsby of Bentley,
whose legends were wont to set the readers of the
i whiehis
Chancellor.
Brieni nby a
is continued ; and
Miscellany in" a roar." The portrait which accompa-
nies this sketch is life like in its resemblance. From
a notice of W. Howitt's book on the " Homes and
Haunts of the English poets, we extract the following
just, and barely just tribute to the merits of Moore as
a patriot :
" Moore, rather than O'Connell, deserves the title o f
Liberator of the Catholics of Ireland; the Irish National
Melodies were infinitely more efficacious in winning the
mind of England than all the speeches made by all the
orators of the Catholic Association; and the Memoirs of
Captain Rock produced a deeper and wider effect than
the Simultaneous Meetings. When emancipation was
denounced from the pulpit, it was preached from the
piano; the husband may have voted on the illiberal side,
but the wife and daughters propounded liberal sentiments,
superadding the charms of melody to the flashing of
wit and the force of argument. Parliamentary majori-
ties were seonted in the drawing-room,
and the gravities
of the Court of Chancery were routed by the gaieties of
the saloon. Fully two-thirds of those who voted against
the Catholic Bills of 1825, did so, not through any dis-
like of the measure, but through reluetancoftothhat yearave ",t
tlie
settled by their intervention. Peel's speech o
was not so much a reply to Plunket, as
apologyan
n to
task to
boarding-schools; he felt that it was a hopeless
like the
answer songs by sermons; he felt somewhat
knight in the tale of the Honeystow, whose
wielded by
eponderous
armour could not resist the diamond weal'
the King of the Kobolcins. Now, what has Ireland done
'
for Moore?—simply this; it has neglected him in pri-
vate and assailed him in public—made no inquiry
respecting his condition, and attacked him
in the columns
of the Nation."

HOOD'S MAGAZINE'
Even the brief plea for the orphan children oi
poor Thomas Hood (a man whose memory we ar
love and venerate so much), prefixed to the present
number of the magazine deriving its very title from
his genius, is preferable to no notice whatever.
Something must be done for those relics of the friend
of the destitute and forsaken, or the wrongs of the
world which he expiated by. a lingering death of many
years, will be perpetuated in his offspring. Now that
Hood's wife is no more, and his children wholly de-
solate, we have a mournful satisfaction in transcribing
the five stanzas by the dead poet, in which that domes.
tic calamity is literally foretold. The writer of the
brief notice in the magazine terms the following most
touching and most beautiful versos, the best
that could be uttered. appeal
TO A CHILD EMBRACING ITS MOTHER.
Love thy mother, little one !
Kiss and clasp her neck again_
Hereafter sho may have a son
Will kiss and clasp her neck in vain.
Love thy mother, little one !
Gaze upon her living ayes,
And mirror back her love for then
Hereafter thou may'st shudder sighsaTo meet them when they Cannot see.
Gaze upon her living eyes !
Press her lips that while they glow,
With love that they have often told--
Hereafter Hereafter thou mayst press, in „,,, d
And kiss thorn till thine
Press her lips the while they
Oh ; revere her raven hair
Altho' it be not silvery grey,
Too early death led on by care
May snatch, save one dea loa
Oh ! revere her raven hairy!
, away.
Pray for her, at eve and morn
r That Heaven may long the stroke defer,
Fur thou may '6t lire the hour forlorn
When thou wilt ask to die
Pray for her, at eve and morn her.
The " Avenger" and " Blanche Neville".r. ueeD.
are con-
tinued, and the author of the former
contributes an
agreeable paper headed " S
Success." The rest of the
magazine is a compilation of the veriest odds and ends
of literature, the very garbage of sentiment, the very
broken bits of humour, and the very stalest of stale
quotations. The editor is mistake
he may be packing his "casket of nin acting thus ;
sawdust.gems„ with mere

DOLMAN.
We are gratified to see that the new editor of this
magazine disclaims all intention of trespassing upon

the ground already monopolised by :the writer of
" Barnaby Rudge." We expressed our opinion last
month that the editor had overlooked that publica-
tion, and was entering upon a field well reaped and
gleaned by Dickens. This month the former dis-
tinctly observes—" we tread not in the footsteps of
one of the most popular writers of the day." The
Rev. Mr. Price tells us at once, that his serial about
" The Last Days of the Penal Laws, and the Riots
of 1779 and 1780," are not to be fictitious in the
slightest degree. The narrative, he says, " will be
entirely, even to the minutest particular, founded on
facts." We are glad of this determination, and we
are glad that there has been any misconception on
our part, since that misconception has elicited this
avowal. After this announcement, and especially
after a perusal of the article itself, we can undertake
to say, that the series promises to be one of the most
curious and interesting disclosures that has been
made for many years. The editor has two circum-
stances greatly in his favour, he writes with a scrupu-
lous and even punctilious simplicity, and he writes,
moreover, with an earnestness which at all times renders

that simplicity striking and impressive. Besides at-
tending to his own laborious compilation, the editor is
displaying a very laudable discrimination in the selec-
tion and arrangement of Dolman, and in the general
supervision of its pages. With a continuance of the
same industrious and watchful care, the publication
must flourish under his direction. " Gleanings in the
Green Isle," and " The Fatal Flower Basket," are
characterised by the usual bonhommie of John

Keegan, who writes with quite an Irish precipitation,
as though (to use a quaint Irishism) there were a
spur in his pen. " The Holy Week at Oscott," by
tho late editor of Dolman, Mr Keon, is a remarkable
composition; it is written with an enthusiasm that
sometimes soars into eloquence. The paper opens
with a panegyric, and closes,. with an apostrophe.
Here it is redundant with mainfticent-3-entage, and
there ornate in the style and construction of its sen-
tences ; but throughout it is brimming with anima-
tion. One allegory there is in it which, but for the
lavish splendour of the diction, would remind us
of Addison. In conception, it has a feature in com-
mon with many of the inimitable allegories in the
" Spectator." In this case it is an allegory on dissi-
pation. The Catholic man of letters is musing in
his library, his mind worn down with close and ha-
rassing occupations, his spirits exhausted :
" Suddenly, a merry summons came to him to pass
some time in that wild existence, so fair outside, so ter-
rible within, which, some time or other, allures every
young man of warm blood, and strong passions, and
quick susceptibility, who toils in London—that strange
existence, that garden of fatal enjoyment, that pleasance
of deceitful bloom, full of lustre and loveliness at a distant
view, echoing with effeminate music, fragrant with in-
toxicating perfumes, teeming with sweet fruits, spread
out for luxury and for drowsy repose ; but stored with
all abominations, and impregnated with all pestilence ;
distilling an universal poison in every plant, and shrub,
and root, and breathing disease in the nostrils of every
living thing ; the home of all creeping and venomous
reptiles ; the paradise of perdition ; the gate of death, at
which sirens sing, and on which inscriptions glitter, all
false, hollow, fatal—where there are lost opportunities
at every step, and lost health, and lost love, and lost
happiness, and pale remorse, with troops of spectres ;
where, in fine, broken hearts and bruised spirits enter
never to return, the kingdom of despair. The name of
that most false country is Dissipation.
"From the happy fire-side of home—from beneath
the tranquil tree of domestic joy—from the yellow
fields of honourable and, perchance, historic toil—
from the dear arms of sisterly love and pure affection—
from the noble tumult of lofty emulation—from the
stormy joys of young ambition, of generous hope, of
sweet triumphs, of intellectual inebriations, of courageous
attempts—come the mad disciples of a madder discon-
tent. They come, they enter those fatal portals, they
move forward with careless gait ; and the guardian
angels of some creep timidly behind them. Here, there
is a bower ; there, there is a grotto, not untenanted ; a
bloom is over all things. The contagion of riotous and
fearless youth seizes on the pulse. The future is hidden,
the past is forgotten ; the laughter of strong nerves, the
drunkenness of animal spirits, rule the hour. Further
on, is an ancient and tottering temple ; and the name of
it is Exhaustion. A pale, thin, and diseased Philosophy
has written ominous inscriptions upon the wall ; and,
from the steeple of that old ruin, glimpses are caught
through the gathering mists of the land that has been
left behind. Here, we know full well, some are rejoined
by their guardian angels, who point to the onward road,
and draw the attention of a still lingering compunction to
the fading hues of that false landscape, and to the gibber-
ing faces of a thousand spectres that begin to hover round
the pilgrim. Old times, and sounder joys, and the faint
remembrance of a certain celestial music, that once rang
in the healthful ears of their younger and happier time,
almost break the fatal somnolency of that execrable
scene. But a sort of false sublimity is undoubtedly

there ; and the rapture of animal exciEemeat once more
transports the revived energies of the wanderer. It is
difficult to return ; another stage of that journey, and it
will bo impossible. Two or three, perhaps, out of the
innumerable multitude—two or three, reserved for some
brighter and greater destiny—two or three, marked
on the forehead, recoil. The rest, with loud shouts,
pass into the outer darkness ; and, from that day, they
are never heard of more--never. Such is that wild and
terrible life, of which the generic name is Dissipation.
Mr. Motler completes his meditations upon " The
Old Village Church," and Mr. Jerningham gives us
a readable paper on " Predicaments of Peril." The
January number of Dolman altogether gives bril-
liant promise for its careet during the present year.

PRICE SD.

tures are four columns, two of Median, and two of Baby-
lonian writing. We fear that all these upper columns
are so much injured from their exposed situation, or so
inaccessible that they cannot be copied. The three
columns of Median writing have been copied, and Major
Rawlinson has made use of them to supply some of the
defects which unfortunately exist in the great Persian
inscription ; but the copy has not yet been communi
cated to the public, nor even to the Royal Asiatic
Society, in the journal of which the Persian inscriptions
have new appeared."

Two very indifferent sonnets are addressed to
Wordsworth, for which the poet Laureate cannot
feel himself much indebted. "The Occult Sciences—
Magic," is a copious review of the work recently
translated from the French by M. Salverete, by Dr.
Thomson. " Rogue and Rapparee" is an entertain-
ing trifle. The romance written by Mr. Albert Smith
in Bentley's Miscelllny, entitled "The Marchioness de
Brinvilliers," and the recent work of " Lumitia," from
the pen of Sir E. L. B. Lytton,. have [evidently
suggested the idea of the paper which follows, called
" Remarkable Female Criminals—the Poisoners of
the Present Century." The subject is a disgusting
and loathsome one enough, but it is well that crime
should have its scarecrows as well as corn. A
memoir of Edward Bunting is next introduced, ac-
companied by a strange, bird-like portrait of the
same Edward Bunting. "Another evening with
our Later Poets," is devoted to the elegant
and (mostly) classical compositions of Mr.
R. Monckten Mines," especially his "Palm Leaves."
The "Recollections of the Burschenschaft of Ger-
many," is one of those glorious articles about Ger-
man students' life for which this excellent magazine
is already remarkable. From a delightful review of
the scores of " Christmas Books" just published—
blue, saffron, cream•coloured, crimson, and gold—we
quote a few sentences of loving admiration addressed
with touching simplicity and truth to an old
favourite:—

" Upon what have we laid our hancri"Thflitailltr
of Life,' by Charles Dickens 1 Within whose heart
does the name not touch a cord ? On our ear it
falls like that of an old friend, well known, and
long-remembered ; and yet we have never seen thee,
Charles Dickens, and it is possible we never may, but
should these pages ever meet thine eye, know that in this,
our green island, there are few hearths at which thy
name is not a pleasant household sound, and there are
few hands at which, shouldst thou ever visit her shores,
would not greet thee with a kindly and a cordial wel-
come, for to us thou art a kindred spirit ; for thine own
sake we would hail thee, and for the sake of those plea•
sant images with which thy name is associated—those
bright and happy pictures thou bast created."

What other writer of the day could make any reader
speak in these terms of natural and spontaneous en-
thusiasm ?

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW.

The wonderful impudence of the series styled
" Historic Fallacies " elicited our honest condemna-
tion on its first appearance. Formerly the writer
insisted that the Spartans were NOT brave ! now he
maintains that the Athenians were ungrateful—and
he calls the contrary idea of the latter an historic
fallacy. Why every blockhead that had ever
spelt his way through Plutarch or Nepos
knew perfectly well that the Athenians had
evinced most despicable ingratitude on more than
one occasion. And yet the contributor parades the
notion as though it were some wonderful discovery
of his own 1 It is refreshing to turn to the sensible
and acute review of Landor s works, by which this
first article is succeeded. When Ireland is in her
present mournful and perilous dilemma the " Notes of
an Irish Tour by an English M.P." are peculiarly
well-timed and will be read with the attention they
deserve. " The Church of Scotland " and " Regalia
Sepulta" are the only other contributions worthy of
particular observation. In an " Advertisement "
prefixed to the present number, it is announced that
Mr. Toogood, the former editor of the Oxford and
Cambridge Review, retired from that office during
last April, and that henceforth "all the articles pub-
lished in the pages of the Review will breathe the
same spirit of warm and strong attachment to the
Church of England, combined with kindness and
tolerance towards Roman Catholics and Dissenters."
This is a plain-spoken and honourable compact with
the public.