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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING,, JANUARY 4, 1347.

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BELITLEY'S MISCELLdIIVY.
Bentley opens this month ssith a glorious article
from the pen of Albert Smith, entitled "Miss Perk-
apple, or the Gothics' Ball."
" Miss Perkapple was the oldest young lady we 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. even 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-

eerity.
" Miss Perkuppl, 's nose was sharp, and always got
red in cold weather before anybody ell• e's; and she had
very uncomfortnble shoulders, with curious points and
peaks about them, unknown in popular social anatomy.
She had also great evidence of collar bone; and wore
spect *cies, with spectacles of a light bluish tint : and she
was accustomed to dress her hair in fanciful deigns, the
like of which had never been seen before--not even in
the imaginative range that begins in the Tashi ,n-books
and ter-mina:es on the waxen brows of hair-dressers'
dummies From these it may he 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
balls, 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 eorner 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 1 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 no attaché 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 Caesar 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 cachucha 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 Cmsar 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 manoeuvring, 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, aril 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
Elizabeth and her dancing Chancellor, Sir Christopher
Hatton, which is illustrated by a portrait of the
dancing Chancellor. Brien O'Linn is continued ; and
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
Miscelany 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
!Jaunts of the English poets, we extract the following
just, and barely just tribute to the merits of Moore as
a patriot :_._.

"
Liberator
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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 flashings of
wit and the force of argument. Parliamentary majori-
ties were scouted 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 reluctance to have it
settled by their intervention. P,el's speech of that year
was not so much a reply to Plunket, as an apology to the
boarding-schools; he felt that it was a hopeless task to
answer songs by sermons; he felt somewhat like the
ak
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d not resist
the 110
diamondney
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wielded
ponderousb
the King of the Kobold3. Now, what has Ireland done
rot. 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."

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 flunrish under his direction. "Gleanings in the
Green Isle," and " The Fatal Flower Basket," are
chrracterised by the usual bonhomrnie 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 neon, 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 magnificent verbiage, 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 amusing 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 excitement once more
transports the revived energies of the wanderer. It is
difficult to return ; another stage of that journey, and it
will be impossible. Two or three, perhaps, out of the
innumerable multitude—two or three, reserved for some
The
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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. Moiler 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 career during the present year.

memoir of Edward Bunting is next introduced, ac-
companied by a strange, bird-like portrait of the
same Edward Bunting. "Another evening with
our Latin Poets," is devoted to the elegant
and (mostly) classical compositions of Mr.
R. Monckten Milnes," especially his " Palm Leaves."
The " Recoil( otions 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 t--

" Upon what have we laid our hand ? The Battle
of Life,' by Charles Dickens ! 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 wer-
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 I 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.

THE NEW SPUR I ING MAGAZINE.
An admirable likeness of the Hon. Member for
Lynn, Lord George Bentinck, accompanied by a
suitable memoir, is prefixed to the January number.
The engraving is copied from a faithful portrait by
M. Claudet. Lord William Lennox gives us a very
chatty, pleasant paper upon Coursing ; Craven writes
a digest upon the " Turf in 'Forty-six ;" and the
editor continues his valuable " Hand-book of the
Chase." The magazine has all the mellowness of a
practised periodical, and all the freshness of one just
commenced."

SHARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE.
As a cleverly illustrated and well•compiled maga-
zine this is about the cheapest of the numberless
cheap publications of the day. There is nothing
ostentatious about its appearance, nor anything pre-
tentious in its tone, but the original articles are
mostly excellent, and the engravings are frequently
still better.

THE WEEKLY CATHOLIC MAGAZINE.
In this periodical, we have an attempt to supply
the Roman Catholics with a hebdomedal organ at
what Tigg would call " the rediculous small
amount of three-halfpence." It a digest of the
weekly Catholic intelligence, varied by editorial
comments upon passing events, reviews, sketches, and
miscellaneous paragraphs. It cannot well interfere
with the Tablet newspaper from the talent and supe-
riority of that publication ; but may probably be
acceptable to the poorer members of the Roman
Catholic religion.

THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.
Upon the same admirable course as heretofore this
journal "proceeds, with unabated industry and un-
stinted talent. Now, when the national agriculture
has excited immeasurably greater interest in the
popular mind than previously to the abolition of the
protective duties, any monthly organ displaying the
excellence of this Journal of Agriculture cannot fail
of meeting with every success.

in the shading are admirable. " Adoration," taken
from the original of Murillo, in the Louvre, is copied
with great care, by the graver of G. Paterson. The
grouping of the Cherubims, and the disposition of
the drapery, aro rendered very happily, and without
anything approaching to stiffness. In the expression
imparted to the face of the Virgin, there is a ma-
nifest deficiency. A charming composition, painted
and engraved by P. W. Topham, and entitled " The
Wayfarers, completes the number. It is sparkling
and animated. Throughout, the engravings are
creditable evidences of the progress of art in England.

THE CHRISTIANS IN PALESTINE. Part IX.
Everything indicates enthusiasm both in the artist,
W. H. Bartlett, and in the editor, Dr. Stebbing, in
the manner with which the present publication is
pursued from month to month. In sketching the
various portions of scenery in the Holy Land, the
former has evinced an admirable discrimination in his
selection of " the point of sight." This characteristic
is conspicuous in the different engravings headed
" Tombs in the Valley of Jehoshaphat," " Mount
Gerizim and the Vale of Nablous," and " Gibeah from
Michmash." Each of them is a panorama ; each
extends before the gazer with the most beautiful
undulations of the earth, and with the most serene
canopying of the skies. The delineation of the fair
near Mount Thabor is a contrast not altogether un-
pleasing. When completed, the series will be an
invaluable addition to every historical and theological
library.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER CUP.
ENTRIES in Towx.—Pam, 5 yrs—Cossack, 3 yrs—Milden,
5 yrs—Patriot, 6 yrs—Horn of Chase, 3 yrs—Camera Ob-
scura, 4 yrs—Duc-an-Durras, 5 yrs—Flahowlagh, 4 yrs—
Pal, 4 yrs—Chatterbox, 4 yrs—Sweetmeat, 5 yrs—Moon-
light, 3 yrs—Finvaragh, 4 yrs—Wolfdog, 5 yrs—Watchdog,
3 yrs—Morocco, 4 yrs—Little Jack, 5 yrs—Humdrum, 4 yrs
—Marmion, 4 yrs Cawroush, hb, 4 yrs—Lady Wildair, 5
yrs—Jenny Wren, 5 yrs—Cherry, 4 yrs—Alarm, 5 yrs—Jo-
nathan Wild, 4 yrs—Geraldine, 4 yrs—Polka, 4 yrs—Mir-
millo, 3 yrs—Marquis of Conyngham, 4 yrs—Queen Mab,
aged—Ajax, aged—Antler, 6 yrs—Sir Simon, 4 yrs—Robin
Burns, 5 yrs—Pride of Eden, 3 yrs—Osprey, 4 yrs—Master
Downes, 5 yrs—Grimston, 4 yrs—Mermaid, 4 yrs--Perpe-
tual Motion, h b, 5 yrs—Monarch, 6 yrs—Cranebrook,
4 yrs—Woodpecker, 4 yrs—Dolo, 4 yrs—Eryx, 3 yrs--
Plaudit, 5 yrs—Cameleopard, 5 yrs—Mickey Free, 6 yrs
—Beatrice, aged—Regalia, 4 yrs—The Crown Prince, 4
yrs—Milliner, 4 yrs—Newcourt, aged—Gwalior, 5 yrs--
Sylyanus, 5 yrs— Emigrant (late The Fairy Queen), aged—
c by Euclid, dam by Taurus, 3 yrs—Chamois, 4 yrs—Em-
meline, 4 yrs—Best Bower, 6 yrs—Mendicant, 4 yrs—Miss
Elis, 5 yrs— Bourton, 4 yrs—The Farmer's Daughter, 3 yrs
—lgnis Fatuus, 4 yrs—Precocious Youth, 3 yrs—Julia Ben-
nett, 4 yrs—Crozier, :3 yrs—Devil-me-care, 3 yrs—Projectile,
3 yrs—King of Morven, 3 yrs—Arthur, 5 yrs—Titbit, 4 yra
—br m No. 45, h b, 5 yrs—Faith, 6 yrs—Dulcet, 5 yrs—
Sting, 4 yrs—Campanile, 5 yrs—Queen Anne, 4 yrs—Heads-
man, 4 yrs—False Report, 6 yrs—My Mary, 5 yrs—
Clumsy, 5 yrs—Roebuck, 5 yrs—Punch, 4 yrs—St. Law-
rence, aged—Farthing Candle, 4 yrs—lonia, 3 yrs— Mistress
Jane, 3 yrs—Moodkee, 3 yrs—Hyderabad, 3 yrs—So-nice,
3 yrs—Tom Tullock, 4 yrs—lago, 4 yrs—Turpin, 4 yrs—
Refraction, 5 yrs—Doleful, 5 yrs—Flitch, 4 yrs—Lady Ce-
cilia, 4 yrs—Golden Bee, 4 yrs—Diomede, 4 yrs—lnfringe,
3 yrs.

ENTRIES AT CHESTER, FRIDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK, P.M.—
The Premier, 4 yrs—Lord Saltoun, 6 yrs—Emerald Isle, 3
yrs—Lord George, 3 yrs—lntrepid, 6 yrs—Romance, 4 yrs—
Fantastic, 4 yrs—Emigrant, aged— Rufus, 4 yrs—Tom
Tough, aged—Ratcliffe; 6 yrs—Queen of Tyne, aged—Ba-
nana, 4 yrs—Burgundy, 4 yrs—Duke of Richmond, 4 yrs—
Bravissime, 4 yrs—Factory Girl, 5 yrs--Bantam, 4 yrs—
Inheritress, aged—Lightning, 6 yrs—Poynton, 4 yrs—Ban-
nockburn, 3 yrs—Mentor, 5 yrs—Bedlam, 3 yrs—St. Leon,
3 yrs—Crim. Con., 5 yrs—Red Rover, 6 yrs—Wave, 3 yrs--
Lady Sarah, 6 yrs—Agnes, 3 yrs—Chertsey, 5 yrs—Jingle-
pot, 5 yrs—Counsellor, aged—Pilgrim, 4 yrs—Collier, 5 yrs
—Whinstone, 5 yrs—Hope, 5 yrs—Marian Ramsay, 5 yrs—
Spern Gregis, 3 yrs—Bit Nibble, 3 yrs—Sir Tatton Sykes,
4 yrs—Erin-go-Bragh, 4 yrs—Winchester, 5 yrs—Sagacity,
3 yrs—Smuggler Bill, 4 yrs—Little Hampton, 6 yrs—Maid
of Tyne, 4 yrs—Annandale, 5 vrs—The Magnet, 5 yrs.
EPSOM SPRING RACES, 1847.
Entry for the Metropolitan Handicap.
Finvaragh, 4 yrs—Wolfdog, .5 yrs—Buscot Buck, 6 yrs.
Hydrangea, 4 yrs—Pineapple, aged—Best Bower, 6 yrs—
Ajax, aged—Sir Simon, 4 yrs—b f by Elis, or Venison, out
of Odessa, 3 yrs—The Premier, 4 yrs—Flahowlagh, 5 yrs—.
Duc-an-Durras, 5 yrs—Meanee, 3 yrs—Comme it Faut, 3
yrs—b f by Heron, out of Hippona's dam, 3 yrs—Pimento, 6
yrs—Binnacle, 4 yrs—Marquis of Conyngham, 4 yrs—Queen
Mab, aged—Ally Croker, 6 yrs—Ferney, 4 yrs .The Little
Vulgar Boy, 4 yrs—Dexterous—lntrepid, 6 yrs—Duke of
Richmond, 4 yrs—Shelforth, 4 yrs—Hannah Raine, 4 yrs—
Plaudit, 5 yrs--Wyvern, 4 yrs—Ukraine, 4 yrs—Punch,
4 yrs—Humdrum, 4 yrs—Maid of Lyme, 4 yrs—Alli-
ance, 4 yrs—Diomed, 4 yrs—Annandale, 5 yrs—
Lord Saltoun, 6 yrs—Emerald Isle, 3 yrs —What,
aged—The Magnet, 5 yrs—Red Rover, 6 yrs—Akbar, 6 yrs—
c by Amato, out of La Fille mal Gardee, 4 yrs—Roderick,
aged—Satyr, 6 yrs—Secundus, 6 yrs—Gwalior, 5 yrs—Lady
Sarah, 6 yrs—Morpeth, 6 yrs—Sir Peter Laurie, 4 yrs—
Sheraton, 4 yrs—The Lamb, 4 yrs—The Comet, 4yrs—Agnes,
3 yrs—Counsellor, aged—Miss Shirley, 4 yrs—lcicle, 4 yrs—
Roebuck, 5 yrs—Boarding-school Miss, 6 yrs—Lynceus, 4
yrs—Buttress, 4 yrs—C by Euclid, dam by Taurus, 3 yrs—
Arthur, 5 yrs—Rufus, 4 yrs—Driffield, 4 yrs—Cossack, 3
yrs—Bourton, 4 yrs—Pink Bonnet, 3 yrs—Lady Wildair, 5
yrs—Cherry, 4 yrs—Jenny Wren, 5 yrs—Bro. to Stitch, 3 yrs
—Guaracha, 4 yrs—Mildew, syrs—Sweetmeat,s yrs—Mosque,
aged—Giselle, 4 yrs—f by Lanercost, out of Camp Follower,
3 yrs—Little Jack, 5 yrs—Camera Obscura, 4 yrs—Crozier,
3 yrs—Devil-me. care, 3 yrs—Projectile, 3 yrs—Queen Mary
(late Twysages), 3 yrs—Refraction, 5 yrs—halo, 3 yrs—
' Vampyre, 3 yrs—Doleful, 5 yrs—Flitch, 4 yrs—Gannet,
5 yrs—Titbit, 4 yrs—Dulcet, 5 yrs—Sting, 4 yrs—Campa
nile, 5 yrs—Queen Anne, 4 yrs—Alarm, 5 yrs—Geraldine,
4 yrs—Polka, 4 yrs—Mirmillo, 5 vrs—Headsman, 4 yrs—
False Report, 6 yrs—Laundryinaid, 4 yrs—My Mary, 5 yrs
—Clumsy, 5 yrs—Witsend, 4 yrs—m by Samarcand, out of
La Fille mal Gardee, 5 yrs—Correct Card, 5 yrs—lago 4 yrs
—Tom Tullock, 4 yrs—Farthing Candle, 4 yrs—Moodkee, 3
yrs—So Nice, 3 yrs.
Capt. D'Arcy has purchased for a large sum the celebrated
steeple-chaser Culverthorpe, and has sent him to John Scott's
to be trained.
The celebrated Alice Hawthorn was ssld yesterday at Yor2
for 800 guinea.
The Metropolitan Handicap Fund amounts to 560/.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Cheshire h.is„ Mon., Daresburs Hall ; Wed., Bruera Staple-
ford; Thurs., Oulton Park; Sat., Tatton Park-101.
Sir W. W. Wynn's hds., Mon.,,Plas Teg ; Tues., Dudles-
ton Chapel ; Thurs., Carden ; Sat., Penley Hall.
Montgomeryshire lids., Tues., Coffronnyd ; Fri., Kerry.
North Staffordshire hds., Mon., Stapleford Bridge; Wed.,
Stallington ; Fri., Whitmore Station-101.
Badsworth hds., Tues., Scorsby Bar ; Thurs., Askern ; Sat.,
Ackworth Moor Top— l 01.
Holderness hds., Mon, Whitlecross ; Tues., Lomlesbro'
Gate; Thurs., Brandesburton Moor; Sat., Bainton New Inn.
Baron Rothschild's staghds., Thurs., Aston Abbots-11.
Surrey staghds, Tues., Red Lion, Smitham Bottom ; Sat.
Leatherhead.
Cambridgeshire hds., Wed ,Henlow ; Fri., Whadden-101.
Cleveland hds., Thurs., Hazlegrove-1.
Devon hds., Thurs., New Inn, Stoven-11.
Mr. Drake's lids., Tues., Souldern Gate; Thurs., Chester.
ton Village; Sat., Thenford House-10i.
F. B. hds., Fri., Kiggan Bridge.
Haydon hds , Wed., Moss Kennel ; Sat., Langley Castle.
Heythrop hds„ Wed., Bradwell Grove; Fri., Gawcomb ;
Sat., Ensham Hall—% past 10,
Hurworth hds., Tues., Deighton Village; Thurs., Middle-
ton One Row ; Sat., Croft Bridge-101.
Mr S. Lowndes's hds., Sat., Winslow-11.
Oakley hds., Tues., Calton Village; Thurs., Cranfield ;
Sat., Shelton Gorse—l to 11.
Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Thame Park; Fri., Harpsden
—lo',
Pytchley hds., Wed., Lilbourne ; Fri., Fox Hall; Sat.,
Spratton Bridge.
Sinnington hds., Tues., Cawton ; Fri., Dalby-10,
Lord Southampton's hds., Wed., Castle Thorpe ; Fri., Stowe
Nine Churches; Sat., Woodend Green-11.
Tindale hds., Thurs., Belsay-1012.
Mr. Watson's hds., Wed., Eadington ; Fri., Butterwell-
-101/.
York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Red House ; Thurs., Pill
Moor Sessey ; Sat., Skipwith Bridge.
Mr. Hildyard's hrrs., Tues., High Lewen ; Fri., Newby
—lO.
Val of White hds., the first open day, Kennels.
Old Berkshire hds., Wed., Hinton; Fri., Step Farm.
Lord Lonsdale's hrrs., Tues., Weston Tury ill ; Fri., Monk's
Risborough.
North Huish hrrs.; Thurs., Deptford Court-10.

HIGHLAND FUNERALS.—There is at present a
general movement throughout the towns and villages of
the north to do away with the entertainment usually
afforded on the occasion of funerals, so burdensome to
the humbler classes of the people, and which often de-
generates into excess. In the remote country parishes
it will be more difficult to eradicate this custom, in con-
sequence of the distance which many parties travel to
be present at these solemnities, but the subject is well
worth the consideration of the clergy and proprietors.
A striking memento of the old Highland funerals may
still be seen a few miles from Corpach, near the western
terminus of the Caledonian Canal. On the southern
bank of the canal is an ancient burying-ground, and be-
side it a curious green mound of earth in the form of a
horse-shoe, which was constructed in that singular shape
some centuries ago, in order to accommodate the attend-
ants at funerals. After the interment the people were
seated on the grass in the curve, while the opening gave
access to the servants to bring in the wine and spirits
consumed on such occasions. It is still the custom to
hold these orgies occasionally in this sequestered spot,
and many a fervid Gaelic address and full quaich have
been poured out to the memory of the various parties
committed to the " narrow house" in the adjoining rest-
ing-place. The bag-pipe,.too, sometimes added the wild
notes of a" lament," which heightened the effect of the.
strange scene.—lnverness Courier.

DESTRUCTION OF QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY-OFFICE
By FIRE.—(SATURAY.)—We have to record the de-
struction of this office, situated in Dean's-yard, West-
minster, by fire. It appears that the first cause alarmo
took place about three o'clock this morning, at a f
lower
room on the south side of the premises.lnformation
was sent to the different fire-engine stations, and but a short
time elapsed before the Chandos-street brigade engine
was at the spot, very quickly followed by the County,
Test of England, Watlieg-street, and other stations.
There was a good supply of water from the Chelsea
mains, and although the utmost exertions were used
by the firemen, by five o'clock the whole of the
building was destroyed ; but through the excellent
management of the officers of the fire depart-
ments, by their well. directed exertions, the valuable
documents were preserved from that destruction which
for some time was considered inevitable. Through the
excellent management also of Inspector Lowry and In-
spector Forbes, of the B division of police, the surround-
ing property was protected from a gang who infest the
neighbourhood. As to the cause of the fire, nothing
authentic could he ascertained; but the loss of furniture
and other property must amp unt to a very heavy sum.
NEWCASTLE•UPON-TYNE STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC.
31.—The sales were—Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding, ss. p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction,
31 die.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 265. 3d. p.
—Newcastle and Carlisle, New, 111 p.—Newcastle and
Berwick, 15i p.—North British, 11 p.—Ditto, Quarters,
455. p.—Ditto, Extension, IN—York and North Mid-
land, Preference, 12f p.

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

THE INHABITANTS OF THE REGENT'S PARK,
THE %\ OODS AND FORESTS, AND THE RE-
GENT'S CANAL RAILWAY.

Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone vestry
Mr. John Williams in the chair, a deputation of iahabit-
ants of the Regent's Park, amongst whom were Mr. W.
Williams, M.P., Mr. Peter Laurie, Mr. Bishop, of the
South-villas, inner circle, and other gentlemen, waited
upon the vestry, for the purpose of presenting the follow-
ing memorial in reference to the projected Regent's Canal
Railway:—

" To the vestry of the parish of St. Marylebone, the
memorial of the undersigned ratepayers and inhabitants
of the R 4 gent's Park and its vicinity, showeth :
" That they have heard with regret and alarm that it
is the intention of the proprietors of the Regent's Canal
Company to apply to Parliament for rowers either to
convert the present water way of the Regent's Canal into
a railway, or to construct a railroad on one of the banks
of nob canal.

" That the retirement of the Regent's-park, its salu-
brity, and security as a place of healthful exercise and
recreation, and the assurance of the Government that
the advantages should be permanently secured to those
who should invest their capital in erecting or purchasing
dwellings, in or near the park, have induced a large
number of wealthy and respectable persons to take up
their residence in this parish, to the great increase of the
parochial rates and general benefit of the trading and
commercial interests of the parish.
That such contemplated line of railway, from the
annoyance and danger generally attendant on such a
system of traffic, will materially interfere with the com-
fortable and secure enjoy-merit of the residences, and
greatly depreciate the value of the property in the neigh-
borhood, thereby diminishing the amour available in
aid of the parish rates, and injure, to a considerable ex-
tent, the trade of the parish.
" That the memorialists confidently rely on the energy
and discrimination of the vestry of St. Marylebone, as
guardians of the interests of the parish, to take all neces-
sary steps for strenuously opposing a Bill for a private
speculation so injurious to your memorialists and the
parish at large."
Mr. BISHOP said this memorial had been agreed to at
a very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of the Re-
gent's Park, held a few days ago, and presided over by
Sir P. Laurie, who was that day out of town.
Mr. WILLIAMS, MT., said he attended the meeting at
which the memorial was adopted, as one of the residents
of Park-square, which might be said to be. in re.lity, in
the Regent's Park. He was, therefore, like all other
inhabitants of the park and its vicinity, much interested
in the matter, and he had no hesitation in declaring, if
the canal was converted into a railway, or a railway were
permitted to run along its bai.ks, nearly all the property
on the northern aide of Mary lebone would be destroyed,
or so depreciated, as to render it almost valueless, and
consetuently there would be a great diminution in the
rates of the parish.—(Hear.) Ile intended, in his place
in Parliament, to give the project his most determined
opposition, and he hoped the vestry would aid in pro-
tecting the rate-pa) ers of the northern districts from
being enveloper, in smoke and steam.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. P. LAURIE said he hoped the vestry would aid so
large and respectable a body of ratepayers as the inha-
bitants of the Regent's Park, in opposing a private
speculation which would inflict so much injury upon
them, without the slightest pre tence of aff wiiing any
benefit to the public. Ihe inhabitants lm ked upon the
vestry as a most important body, and was desirous of
securing their co-operation. With regard to the legal
part of the question, the inhabitants had already called the
attention of the Woods and Forests to the subject, and
were in a position to prove, in the event of the Regent's
Canal Company obtaining a Bill for converting the
canal into a railway, that such conversion would be in
direct violation of all the covenants and agreements en-
tered into by the Commissioners on the part of the
Crown with the holders of property in the Regent's
Park.—(Hear, hear.) He held in his hand the report
of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests, bear-
ing date 1823, the period when the park was laid out,
and it was there declared that the plan attached thereto
was the plan as finally settled, and that in no way what-
ever should any alteration take place. He also con-
tended that the construction of a railway along the
banks of the canal, or in the water course of the canal,
was an equal violation of the act of 1812, which gave
the Regent's Canal Company the power to construct
their canal. There was a clause which prohibited the
use of any steam engine near that portion of the canal
touching on the property of the Crown, and upon the
faith of this understanding gentlemen had been induced
to go to a large outlay in building their villas in the
vicinity of and on the slopes of the canal. It must also
be remembered that the Regent's Park had been laid
out and beautified at an immense expense, not only for
the comfort and recreation of the locality, but for the
humble classes also, who were equally in danger of being
killed or injured by runaway horses frighted at the
ste am-engine or the noise of a train, as those who were
either riding or driving them.—(Hear, hear.) There
could be no doubt also of the great injury such a rail-
way would inflict on the parish, and he hoped to have
the strenuous aid of the vestry in opposition.—(Hear.)
Mr. H. C. Wilson concurred in all that had fallen
from the gentlemen of the deputation, and said there
was a committee appointed to watch the proceedings of
the Bill in Parliament.

Mr. MARTIN THACKERAY moved that the memorial
just presented be referred to the committee,
Mr. G. DANIELL seconded the resolution. He bad
been invited to at:end the meeting presided over by Sir
Peter Laurie, but being the chairman of the committee
alluded to, he thought it better that he should not. He
(Mr. G. Daniell) had, however, a few days since, at-
tended at Gwydr House, where he saw Mr. Drinkwater
Bethune and a deputation of gentlemen who were with
the vestry last time in tin ir opposition, but who were,
he regretted to say, not so n..w. lie was very much
surprised to find that the tr sd-rs along the banks of the
can•il were now rt ady to support instrad of cppese the
scheme. It appea, ed that the) ha•) "wide thcir own
terms with the Canal .:'ompany, and eared nothing for
the interests of oti.er people. He (Mr. G. Daniell)
thought that those parties would, when to-) late, find
out their mistake ; that they were not to have the water
taken away. Let the Canal Company once get their
Bill for a railway, and they would soon leave the canal
a dry ditch.—(i (ear, hear.) The Canal C .mpany tried
to make it appear that the canal was very unhealthy,
and gave those who resided near it a-thma, created ma-
laria and other disorders ; and they proposed as a cure
for such diseases, smoke, steam, and noise.—
(Laud laughter.) [hey proposed to carry a
tunnel under Maida Hill, and immediately under a
large and popular church there, as also under other of
the most valuable propert) in Marylebone. Did the
vestry suppose that people would live in houses immedi-
ately over a r nlway iunr.el?—(No, no.) The loss to the
parish, if such a proj• et were adopted. woul.l not he less
than 10,0001. per year, and tLeretore the vestry had
strong ground in going to Parliament in opposition to
such a scheme.

Mr. JOSEPH considered the inhabitants of the Regent's
Park ought to make an urgent appeal to the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests in tne matter.
Hr. P. LAURIE said a memorial was already prepared,
and signed by upwards of 120 of the Crown tenants,
which would be placed in the hat.ds of Lord Morpeth by
a d. imitation as soon as he arrived in town.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
DEFICIENCY IN THE REVENUE OF THE
CHURCHES OF MA RYLEBONE.
Mr. W. BAGSHAW rose to call the attention of the
vestry to the necessity of a more extended circulation of
the auditor's reports, with a view to inform the parishi-
oners of the condition of the affairs of the parish. The
most important point touched upon by the speaker
was the extraordinary want of church accommodation
in Marylebone, and at the same time the deficiency in the
revenue deriveable by the parish therefrom. Marylebene
had a population of upwards of 150,000 persons, and all
the paid sittings provided in the seven churches under the
controul of the vestry amounted to 5,900, of which num-
ber about 900 were annually vacant. The returns for
the last twelve years for pew rents was 58,0001., being
4,8341. per annum, or 16s. per sitting ; but the returns
of expenditure amounted to 74,2401., being a deficiency of
11,8401. The whole amount of accommodation afforded
by the church in Marylebone was 32,000 sittings, whilst
the Dissenters gave accommodation to the amount of
27,000 sittings. He thought that the ratepayers at
large ought to know that such a state of things existed,
and with that object he moved " That measures be taken
for a more extended circulation of the auditor's reports."
Mr. H. C. Wu.son, in seconding the motion, thought
it ought to be followed up by something like the proposal
of a remedy. He thought the great fault was, that there
was not a selection made of popular preachers for the
churches, and he thought that was a subject the Crown,
who had the patronage, ought to attend to. Had the
vestry the patronage, they would take care to select such
gentlemen as would benefit the public at large.
The resolution was ultimately carried, and a committee
appointed to consider the matter.
A resolution of condolence, by the vestry, to the Rev.
Dr. Spry, the rector, on the loss of his lady, having been
adopted unanimously, the vestry separated.

DEATH or MR. JOSEPH CALEIN.—We regret to
announce the decease of this accomplished musician, at
his residence in Pall-mall, on Friday afternoon, after a
short but severe illness. Mr. Calkin was born in 1781.
He was a pupil of Mr. L; on, and afterwards was arti-
cled for two years to Spagneletti, so many years leader
of the Opera band. Mr. Calkin was a violin player in
the Drury-lane orchestra in 1798, and was one of the
few survivors present at the first performance of the
Iron Chest, which was condemned, as Colman attributed,
to John Kemble's bad iicting. Mr. Calkin assisted in
the arrest of Hatfield when he fired at George the
Third. Mr. Calkin was a tenor player in the Philhar-
monic band, of which society he was a member and
honorary librarian. In 1821 Mr. Calkin was appointed
one of the King's state band by George the Fourth.
For many years Mr. Calkin was an active member of
the Royal Society of Musicians. Ile was much re-
spected in the profession.
THE GREAT SEA EAGLE.-.--One of the most perfect
and full grown specimens of this splendid bird was shot
lately at Glengarry. Its dimensions were full three feet
in length, and weighing fifteen pounds. The great size
and muscular strength of its legs and talons showed at
once how easy it could destroy beast, bird, or fish, equal
in bulk with itself. No wonder that the sea eagle has
long been multiplied into, several varieties, for even
among scientific naturalists each stage of the bird's pro-
gress to maturity had its synonyme as a separate species.
The confusion did not end here ; for the remarkable
similarity of the full grown sea eagle to the white-
headed or bald eagle—the symbol of the American
States—induced some ornithologists to consider them the
same. Closer observation disclosed a remarkable change
in the plumage of the latter, which, when full grown,
assumes a beautiful white over all the head and neck.
It is a fourth less in weight than the European eagle.—
Inverness Courier.