The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

FRIDAY, MARCH 5.

MONDAY, itAncii S.
Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway and Pier
from Harwich to the Eastern-Union Railway at Ardleigh.

COLONIAL EXPENDITURE.
(No. 680, Session 1846.)
It appears, by papers printed by order of Parliament, that
the yearly cost of the British Colonies is 3,171,6461., of which
the military and naval expenses are actually 2,630,804/. 3s. 7d.
Some of the items of this sum are as under :-
1843- 4—Military and Naval Expenses of
Gibraltar ••• ... ... ... £221,537 8 7
Malta ... ... ... ... 140,702 11 5
Jordan Islands ..• ••• ••• 131,227 5 1
St. Helena ... ... , ... 28,000 9 5
Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Cape Coast 38,332 17 4
Cape of Good Hope ..... ... 297,061 10 5
Mauritius... ... ••• ' ••• 87,031 8 6
Bermuda ... ... .... ... 96,161 5 10
The Windward and Leeward Command, viz. :
Barbadoes, Trinidad, &c. ... ..• 319,560 11 2
Jamaica, &c. ... .. •.• 209,811 2 6
Lower and Upper Canada .. : • • 526,034 16 6
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Ed-
ward's Island, and Newfoundland ... 176,660 12 9
Ceylon ... _ ..• ••• ••• 111,728 3 3
Australia, Nov Zealand, New South Wales,
and Van Diemen's Land ... ••• 195,954 3 0
General Military Charges ... ..• 48,941 2 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.
LIVEItrOOL, SUNDAY AFTES.NOON.—The fOliOWiDg horses
have arrived up to five o'clock :
Brunette, Bally bar, The False Heir, Frederick, Latitat,
Marengo, Proceed, Cavendish, St. Ruth, Red Lancer, Bar-
maid, Clinker, Roarer, Mathew, and Cumberland Lassie.
The ground is in excellent order.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Baron Rothschild's stghds., Thurs. Wing-11.
Mr. Brand's hds., Thurs., Ribley heath ; Sat., Wrest Park

-104.
Cleveland hds., Thurs., Capt. Cook's Monument-11.
Devon hds., Thurs., Godstone Gate.
Mr. Drake's hds., Tues., Middleton Toll-bar; Thurs., Ily-
cote Kennel; Sat., Warkworth Village-10i.
Bedale hds., Wed., Wood End ; Fri., Kirby Fleetbam-11.
Durham County lids, Tues., Thorpe; Fri., Elmore-10i.
F. B. hds., Fri., Trewithen Cross.
Haydon hds., Wed., East Woodburn; Sat., Dlanetley.
llurworth hds., Tues., Hornby Village; Thurs., Over Dins-
dale ; Sat., Kennels-1(N.
Mr. S. Lowndes' lids., Wed., Whaddon Common ; Sat.,
Beachampton Grove-11.
Oakley hds., Thurs., Kempston Wood ; Sat., Thuileigh
Windmill-4 to 11.
Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Holton Park ; Fri., Chequers
Court.
Raby hds., Tues., Mansfield ; Thurs., Winston Bridge ;
Sat., Wakertield—ll.
Sinnington lids., Tues., Dial Stone Inn ; Fri., Tylass
Bridge.
Tisdale hds., Thurs., Shortfiat Tower ; Sat., Warden-101.
Mr. Watson's hds., Wed., ,Saltwick Village ; Fri., Nun-
ny kirk.-10 i/2
York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Skip Bridge; Thurs., Pill
Moor • Sat., Copgreve.
Aikton hrrs., Thurs., Higham Lcddie Inn, Aikton ; Fri.,
Blue Bell Inn, Woodhouse.
Carlisle hrrs., Thurs., Victoria Inn, Hornmill Station;
Sat.. Stockdale Walk.
Eamont hrrs., Wed., Kirkbythore ; Sat., Longwathby—

101/.12.
Mr. Fane's hrrs., Wed., Great Milton ; Sat., Postcomb.
Her Majesty's staghounds meet three days next week in
the Vale of Aylesbury.
Holderness hds., Mon., Lowthorpe Lodge • Thurs , Cavil
Hall ; Fri., Neswick ; Sat., Brandesburton-4 to 11.
Brighton hrrs., Mon., Patch= ; Wed., Racecourse; Fri;
Dvlie—i to 11.
`Brookside hrrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Tels-
combe•tye--1014.
Fiudon hds., Tues., Michelgrove ; Thurs., Kennel ; Sat.,
Thunders Barrow-11.
Eastbourne hrrs., Mon., East Dean Lighthouse; Thurs.,
Snap Hill; Sat., Willingdon Old Miil-14 to 11.
Glyndbourne hrrs., Mon., Newhaven Barn ; Fri., Broyle.
Worcestershire hds., Dion., Witloy ; Wed., Old Hills; Fri.,
Bredon
Ledbury hds., Mon., 'Kennels ; Fri., Highwain.
Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon., Heythorp ; Wed., North As-
ton ; Fri., Moreton in: the Marsh ; Sat., Blenheim.
Ludlow hds., Wed., Osker ; Fri., Sowdle-10.
Herefordshire hds., Tues., Stoke Lacy Turnpike ; Fri.,
Harewood End.
Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., Monk's Gate; Wed.,
Braid Ridge; Fri., Kingsfold.
Essex Union lids., Wed., South Wood; Sat., Rettenden
Mr. llorndon's lids., Mon., Trebartha Villa; Thurs., Ta-
merton Bridge.
Mr. Roe's hds., Wed., Bablnd Gate ; Sat., Ilatisbon Cross.
Tiverton hds., Morebath ; Thurs., Dulverton ; Sat., Bick-
leigh Bridge-10%.
Wheatland hds., Mon., Monkhepton ; Wed., Willey Park ;
Fri., Harpsford.
Mr. Drax's hdo., Mon., Hurton St. Mary; Thurs., King's
Arms, Charlton Horethorne.
Burton Vale lids., Tues., Wall bridge; Sat., Bishop's
Caundle Hill-111.

We have authority to state that the Mrs. Butler
announced to give readings at the Hanover-square Rooms,
on Tuesday, the 2d March, is not the Mrs. Butler, late Miss
Fanny Kemble.
THE SPEAKER'S LEVEE.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons held his second and last
levee, on Saturday night, at his mansion in Eaton-square,
previous to which he had a Parliamentary entertainment.
The following noblemen and gentlemen dined with the Right
Hon. Gentleman :—Lord J. Stuart, the Hon. I'. Vesey, the
Hen. W. S. Lascelles, the Hon. 0. Stanley, Sir T. D. Acland,
Bart., Sir R. Vyvyan, Bart., Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., Sir W.
Ileathcote, Bart., Sir R. A. Ferguson, Bart., Sir J. Duck-
worth, Bart., Captain Jones, Mr. E. Buller. Sir J. Packing-
ton, Batt., Mr. Bramston, Mr. W. Villiers Stuart, Mr. R. M.
Milnes Mr. Wrightson, Mr. W. Ord, Mr. Spencer H. Wal-
pole, Mr. Brotberton, Mr. Thornlev, Mr. 11. R. Yorke, Mr.
Mr. Compton, Mr. Fusey, Mr. Beckett, and
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B. Esteourt. Among the members of the
House of Commons who assembled to pay their respects
obthhoeushe all us
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Villiers, Viscount Castlereagh, Lord E. Russell, Lord
Lord J.
Hotham, Lord A. Hervey,
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Sir C. Napier, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, S
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Morpeth, Lord H. Vane, Viscount_Niroir,t.hland, Sir J. Walsh,
Marchant, Sir Howard Douglas, the
Sir G.
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t Smith, the Right Hon. 11. Goulburn, lion. J. Stuart Wort-
ley, lion. G. Rice Trevor, the Right Hon.
Solicitor-General, lion. Cecil Lawless, Hon • C
well, the Right Hon. Captain
Villiers, Sir J. W. Hogg, Sir J. Tyrrell, lion.
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Lindsay, Captain Duncombe, Sir J. 111•Taggart, Sir R.Price,
Sir P. Grey Egerton, Sir G. Staunton, Sir J. 11. Lowther,
T. D'Eyncourt, Hon. Charles P.
Colonel T. Wood, Colonel Mure, Captain Polhill, Mr.
Taylor, Mr. A. B. Hope, Mr. Mildmay, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr.
Rice, Hon. H. Berkeley, Mr. Parker, Mr. Mattheson, Mr.
A. S. O'Brien, Mr. G. Repton, Mr. Hutt, Hon. C. Howard,
Mr. G. Ward, Mr. Tutlnell, Mr. Watson, Mr. Marshall
Mr. B. Betfield, Mr. Barkley, Mr. R. R. Clayton, Colone,
Austen, Mear•Admiral Bowles, Colonel Reid, the Right
Hon. F Shaw, Mr. Hindley, Mr. Acland, Captain Glad-
stone, Mr. Finch, Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Shirley, Mr. E.
Shirley, Mr. B. Hawes, Mr. Pulman, Mr. Q. Dick, Mr. Loch,
Mr. Moliatt, Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Fellowes, Mr. J. Neel.',
Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Hussey, Mr. Hum-
phrey, the O'Connor Don, Mr. M. Gore, Mr. Birch, Mr.
Wickham, Ilon. W. Cowper. Mr. Stansfield, Captain Rush-
out, Mr. Dennistoun, Mr. Baillie, Mr. A. Letrov, Mr. W.
Ellis, Mr. Deedcs, Mr. G. Duncan, the Right Hon. Fox
Maule, Mr. Tattered, Mr. J. Wood, Mr. Parke, Hun. G. C.
W. Forester, Mr. Entwisle, Mr. Stanton, &c.
POLAND.-- GRAND MEETING To-MORROW ON
CRACOW, AT FREEMASON S' HALL, THE MA 11.QVIS OF
NO RTHAMFTON IN THE CH AIR. —We perceive, with an-
feipied pleasure, that the friends of Poland are going to take
a step which cannot but be approved by every upright man,
and exercise a great influence both in England and on the
Continent. It is to mark with public indignation the recent
violation of the treaty of Vienna, and to petition the Crown
on the annexation of the Republic of Cracow to Austria. The
tyranny of the three despotic powers of Russia, Austria, and
Pru,,ia. will be powerfully exposed by many public cherac-
ters, including several Members of Perliament, who Lave
determined to take a part in the manifestation of feelings
, excited throughout the civilised world, on account of the
destruction of the last relic of Polish nationality.

'LONDON, MiDSrbAV*EVENTING, MARCH 1, 1847.

consideration. But the moment you put her in a fair
way of getting rid of these evils, you have a perfect
right to deal with her, in other respects, as you deal with
the rest of the Queen's dominions. Probably the inter-
mediate result will be, a prodigious changing of hands
in the landed property of the kingdom. If we be rightly
informed, there are few estates in Ireland which are not
mortgaged to ball their money value ; there are many
which, if sold te-morrow, would leave no residue, or next
to none, to the' nominal proprietors. Most of the
former, all the latter, will, of course, pass into new
hands, and many a familj, of historical note disappear.
But though we may lament this as a shock to private
feeling; on public grounds we are constrained to add,
that it is " a consummation devoutly to be wished."
Of all the incubi on the improvement of a people, a poor
hut ancient gentry is the heaviest. The peasant 100k3
up to the descendent of a long line of proprietors, under
whom he and his fathers have worked for ages, with a
degree of reverence which he cannot feel for a new man;
and the poverty of the' chief, as it keeps the serf poor
likewise, so it effectually hinders both the one and the
other from rising in the scale of humanity. Indeed, we
will go further. Though we are no advocates for the
French system, and the minute subdivision of landed
property which it occasions, we confess that very large
estates do not appear to us to be desiraMe in a country
circumstanced as is Ireland. Very large estates, embrac-
ing whole counties, or half counties, cannot be rightly
attended to by their owners, even if they be resident ;
and as in Ireland almost all such belong to absentees,
they operate as a hotbed for the growth of agents,—a
race not very poptil4r or useful anywhere, and least of
all in the Emerald lA. We believe, therefore, that the
facilities afforded to'lrish proprietors for disposing of
their lands will accomplish good in this respect among
others, that it will largely increase the numbers of the
resident gentry; and that the manners of the rich being
copied in the farm-house and in the cottage, Ireland,
under a better system of social management, may vet
become the most flourishing section of the United
Kingdom."
And that it will so become if these measures are ho-
nestly carried out, there can be no doubt. Then,
and not till then, will be the time to consider the pro-
priety of giving Government assistance to railroads.
The remaining articles of this numbea are all good ;
the best, perhaps, being a paper by Sam Slick, enti-
tled " How many Fins has a Cod ?"

opportunity so permitted, into the smaller thoroughfates
eading into Piccadilly, Trafalgar-square, the Strand,
"Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, St.. Paul's Churchyard,
Cheapside, the Poultry, King William-street, and
ao on by " the silent highway " to the Tower
cif London. Only once does he diverge con-
siderably from the main artery of the capital, namely in
his chapter on Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall,
and the Houses of Parliament. As may be readily con.
jectured, the main portion of the two volumes is coin
posed of recollections more or less modern, the more
antiquated parts of the city having been either consumed
by the greet fire of 1666, or obliterated by the encroach-
ments of time, or the innovations and improvements
effected by the ingenuity of man. Some conception
may be formed of the difficulties which present them-
selves to the antiquarian is his researches through the
metropolis, when we remember that the birthplace of
Chaucer is a spit altogether undiscoverable, and that
the famous " boar's head" in Eastcheap, immortalized
by Shakspere, as the resort of Prince Hhl and Sir John
Falstaff, stood on the very spot new occupied by the
statue of William the Fourth in King William-street.
From the restriction, therefore, of the present work,
simply to the line running from Piccadilly parallel with
the Thames, it is manifest that Mr. Smith's work cm
only be regarded as one of a series in a delineation of
London. Those who bear in recollection the glorious
papers published some years since in Blackwood's Ma-
gazine, by John Fisher Murray, and entitled the
World of London," will know how much may be
written upon the capital of Great Britain without ex-
hausting the subject. And that impression will only
he confirmed by the perusal of those two volumes.
The deficiencies of the work as an antiqua-
rian ramble in the streets of London are
too apparent to require enumeration, but they are
such deficiencies as it would be impossible to cast in
depreciation either at the writer, Mr. J. T. Smith, or
the editor, Dr. Charles Mackay. Both those gentlemen
have performed their labour of love with industry and
talent. As far as the work is concerned individually it
is complete ; it is only as an antiquarian account of
London in the abstract that it is so marvellously incom-
plete and unsatisfactory. One word alone upon the
title-page redeems the production from a charge of in-
sincerity, namely, the word which designates it as a
" Ramble." A desultory ramble enough it certainly is,
but a pleasant one withal, end from the beginning to the
end the author chatters away with a voluble and delight-
ful fund of information. It would be almost as super-
fluous, if not as preposterous, ae the presentation of a
brick as the sample of a house by scholasticos in the
" Witticisms of Hierocles," to quote a mere fragment
froleeehe chapters h.etein contained about the streets of
L;o.ndopo. We dean leave the literary fabric of Mr.
Smith. unflawed.',` by `the abstraction of a solitary
brickeidismiseinkie from our consideration with senti-
meets of gratittaile fier the pleasure which its perusal
Was atforded use 'The author of " Nollekens and his
'Fitnee," has here presented hiecountrymen with a legacy
appropriate to bath donor and donee.

POLMAN' S.
In accordance wlth a custom which has become
somewhat prevaleibt with monthly publications,
Polman se4llM—. in price by half of its ori-
itial—gattite:' Otherwise there is scarcely any
perceptible alteration in the periodical. Saving
that its amount of pages is slightly diminished,
the magazine is characterized by all its previous excel-
lence. Under the conduct of its new editor, the articles
are, as heretofore, selected with care and discrimination.
Without lapsing into a merely ecclesiastical organ, Dol-
man still continues the indisputable mouthpiece of the Ro-
man Catholics of England ; it combines agreeable com-
positions for the general reader, and contributions
essentially of a nature peculiar to the religion. From
a paper entitled "Future prospects of Ireland," we would,
had our space permitted, have made copious extracts,
seeing that the suggestions contained therein are sensible
and new. The editor continues his serial upon the Penal
Laws, a subject which has latterly acquired a peculiar
interest, from the gradual passage of Mr. Watson's Bill,
for their abolition, through the Lower House of Par-
liament. His eloquent predecessor, Mr. Miles Gerald
Keen, pursues his interesting paper upan " Holy Week
at Oscott," it is written with a loving tenderness of pur-
pose, and a calmness of contemplation that occasionally
merges in philosophic profundity. The contribution
throughout is large from its thoughtfulness ; and the
miscellaneous contents are arranged with an attention
compatible with the excellence of the preceding portions.

DOMBEY AND SON. No. VI.
By Charles Dickens.
As might have been anticipated, there is a mournful
description of the sorrowing of Florence for her " dear
dead brothel" in the present number. it is exquisitely
delineative of the woes and memories of a young
and lonely heart. The account -of her mid-
night visit of conciliation to ber inexorable
father, with his repulse of her proferred affection is
beautiful but harsh. " Let him remember it in that
room, years to come!" Diogenes the " ridiculous dog,"
not the cynic philosopher, Mr. Toots, even Towlinson
and the wooden midshipman who is declared to be quite
a " callous, obdurate, and conceited midshipman"
in his way, are severally introduced. But
Captain Cuttle, the superb diplomatist of Brig-
place, the gentleman who wears a silver watch of such
plethoric dimensions, that it comes out of his fob like a
bung, the simple-hearted sailor, who sticks a small
sunflower in his button-hole "to give him a relish of
the country," the sympathetic listener, who sits
with a grin on his face and " a tear on his
shirt collar," stupid, excellent, delightful, ab-
surd Captain Cuttle is the principal feature in No. 6,
from his interview with Mr. Carker and Mr. Perch to
his farewell with Walter on the latter setting sail for
Barbadoes. The same lavish drollery, the same pensive
and pathetic sentiments, the same natural and unaffected
eloquence which have characterised the preceding portions
of this inimitable work stream through these three addi-
tional chapters. In an advertisement prefixed to the number
we observe the announcement of a projected republica-
tion of the various writings of Mr. Dickens in a form as
convenient as it is novel, and at a price which may with
perfect truth be termed unprecedented. A rich and
noble casket of wisdom, wit, and the gentlest humanity,
will thereby be opened indiscriminately to the people.

HOWITT'S JOURNAL,
Weekly and monthly in its form of publication, Mr.
llowitt's periodical offers attractions to a large body of
readers. Its very title is a sufficient indication of the
spirit in which it is conducted, and forms a guarantee
that in its pages the cause of the people will not merely
be respected, but sedulously and energetically advocated.
We have already observed upon the distinguished cha-
racter of its contributors, and we may here repeat some
of the names which will be discovered in the March part,
viz.:—R. 11. Horne, Silverpen, Thomas Cooper, Hans
Christian Andersen, Dr. Bowring, and Dr. Smiles. The
editor himself evinces remarkable industry. Although
the engravings are rather indifferent, the literary con-
tents are sufficiently meritorious to compensate for.
that single deficiency.

7qIE SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENA OF DO-
MESTIC LIFE, familiarly explained by C. F.
Gower. Second Edition.
This is a most interesting and instructive little work ;
its object is admirable and it is admirably carried out.
In his introductory observations, the author remarks
that, in the present intellectual age, while it is customary
to teach children " every art, every smence,andevery ac-
complishment that the mind of man can suggest, we
too often forget to teach them that which would turn all
these to good effect : we forget to teach them to think,
to reason, te, observe. It is for this purpose that this
little book has been written ; it is to illustrate the great
book of nature." In all books of instruction, the man-
ner of teaching is almost of as much importance as is the
matter that is taught. The ars celare artein is here most
necessary ; it is desirable to give information without
seeming to teach. Children, and indeed persons of all
ages aro generally willing, and often delighted to learn
but they cannot bear being taught. Hence there are
donbtless many who will experience much pleasure, and
derive much profit, from the perusal of Mr. Gower's
little volume, who would turn coldly and carelessly away
from the very same information, if conveyed" in a more
pretei ding manner. But perhaps the most valuable
quality of this work is, its so ably fulfilling its author's
intention of inducing people to think. In ordinary edu-
cation, far more is thought of learning by rote than by
reason ; it seems generally to be forgotten, that the
great object of education should be to cultivate the mind
rather than store the memory. It is not the absolute
knowledge of certain facts that is desirable, but the
improvement that the acquisition of such knowledge '
liquid occasion in the intellectual powers. To under-
stand one thing, however simple it may be, is infinitely
more advantageous than to possess superficial informa-
tion regarding a hundred. The best system of educa-
tion is undoubtedly that which secures both objects, af.
fording information in such a manner as to make it tend
to develop the reasoning faculties. Such is the system
pursued by Mr. Gower. Taking as the subjects of his
investigation the common occurrences of daily life he
enables us to understand what is going on around us,
and by showing what wonders are contained in things
apparently the most simple, he induces a habit of thought
and inquiry. Thus beginning with the bed room, he
tells us bow the frost is formed on the window ; why
the marble feels so much colder than the carpet, &c. ;
and so on through the succeeding chapters of the " Break. ,
fast Parlour," where the tea-kettle gives rise to an into- I
resting account of the discovery of steam ; the "Morn-
ing Walk ;" the "Study ;" the " Summer's Evening ;"
" Navigation—Latitude—Longitude ;" and the " sea-
shore," In each of these chapters the explanation of
any little incident or object imperceptibly leads the way
to some more important information ; thus we learn
what effect the moon produces upon the tides ; about
atmospheric pressure ; the barometer and the atmos-
pheric railway, &c., &e. In visiting the kitchen we are
instructed in the mysteries of bread-making ; in the walk
in the fields some useful information is given about
evaporation—practically useful indeed. We arc told,
that evaporation produces cold, and " for this reason re-
maining in wet clothes is dangerous ; the evaporation
that takes place, during the time they are drying, carries
away so large a portion of heat from the body, as almost
certainly to induce cold, and all the thousand diseases
which follow in its train. When a person is obliged to
remain in wet clothes, the best method to adopt is, to
prevent evaporation, by covering them with a makintosh
or any other garment that will keep the moisture
in." The perusal of this little volume, besides
affording useful knowledge on subjects of
which many, even educated persons, are ignorant,
must necessarily have a beneficial effect upon
the mind and hearts of its readers; upon their minds by
habituating them to look around with a spirit of in-
quiry, and by enabling them not only to learn, but to
understand, how certain effects produce certain causes ;
and it can hardly fail to have a beneficial influence upon
the heart, for it is hardly possible to contemplate the
wonders, and admire the beauties of creation, without
increased sentiments of veneration and love to the great
First Cause whose power and whose goodness has pro-
duced them. Such sentiments have evidently influenced
the writer, and, let us hope, will influence the readers of
these " Scientific Phenomena." As a brief epitome of
the wonders which surround us, we transcribe the-
author's concluding observations, and dismiss the little
volume with a most cordial'recommendation.'
" To the observing mind an hour never passes with-
out food for reflection. The rich, though often unculti-
vated soil of human intellect, will be constantly furnish-
ing us with subjects for contemplation. The air in
which we breathe, the earth on which we tread, the
broad expanse of ocean, and the starry vault of heaven
above us, are all replete with wonders. The vegetable
kingdom alone would afford subjects for a lifetime. The
flowers that draw their nourishment from the soil, the
air, and the dew, are all furnished with functions suited
to their different natures ; some turn their delicate heads
to the cheering rays of the sun, and seem to drink deep
from that fountain of light and heat, and close their
petals the moment he parts from their view ; whilst
others hide themselves in the shade, and shun the ap-
proach of day: to each Nature has appointed its proper
place, and proper powers for keeping in the station
allotted to it. In the brute creation we may observe
the same order. To the domestic animal she has given
strength and docility; to the beast of prey, the eye
capable of piercing the darkness, and agility to seize on
its destined victim; to the bird of passage she has given
strength of wing, and a wonderful instinct to direct its
flight. Again, if we descend into the depths of ocean,
fresh wonders meet our view—from the mighty whale,
the monarch of the deep, down to the diminutive min-
now, each as perfect as the other, though on so different
a scale. Then, turning to the insect world, we see the
laborious ant heaping up her store for winter consump-
tion; the bee, building her hexagonal cells with a regu-
larity equal to that of the nicest architect ; the spider,
weaving her delicate thread to catch her prey ; the
glow-worm, with its modicum of light,' sparkling in the
dewy grass ; each with its separate sphere of usefulness,
each separate insect affording a fresh theme for inquiry ;
and, were it possible to exhaust all these, one glance at
the microscope would again overwhelm us in endless ob-
jects of research. The secrets hidden in a single drop
of water, which the microscope has revealed, are almost
beyond our conception, discovering to us myriads of
beings filling every atom of creation, and forming a
world of which we scarcely know the existence. But
even all these sink into nothing when compared with the
wonders of the starry firmament, where thousands and
thousands of suns, each the centre of a system of worlds,
peopled perhaps with beings destined for immortality
are nightly presented to our view. Tho extent, the
magnitude, the harmony of Nature, fill us with awe and
admiration, and we are lost in the contemplation of the
controls,attribute directs, n
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THE TRAVELLER'S MISCELLANY.
There has long been a necessity for a periodical answer-
ing exactly to the size, exactly to the character, exactly to
the talent, and exactly to the arrangement of the Travel-
ler's Miscellany. In all these particulars the first number,
now lying before us, is admirable. Are amusing narra-
tives wanted, drollery, gossip, pleasant and sparkling
compositions ? Here are abundance. And fur informa-
tion—the pages are crammed with it. We know not a
publication more fitted to beguile the
stages of a
journey, the transit of a steam-packet, or the inter-
stations of a railway trip than this excellent little
magazine. It is as effectual as the most facetious com-
panion in scaring away the diabolit vulgo, " blue
devils." It is better than an guide bOok, in respect to
the miscellaneous information most useful to travellers.
We would espeeially note the " Theatrical Guide," the
callendar for the Current Month," the " Catalogue of
Exhibitions and Amusements in the Metropolis," the
" Excursion Guide," the " Time Table," the Post-office,
Passport, and steam-boat Guides," cum cateris paraus.
They are as copious and compact as the magazine itself
is worthy of commendation.

LITERATURE.
AN ANTIQUARIAN RAMBLE IN THE
STREETS OF LONDON. 2 Vols. By John

Thomas Smith.
Pleasanter books cannot well be written
atenneitehnatn htoetiiesse,
descriptive of the ancient localities o,
many
personal
with all their historical associations. So
recollections are connected with the old piles of
ebriecnkatneds
mortar, so many anecdotes about illuestnrteioussopremany
are combined with the decaying tenements,
inci-
dents of an attractive character have transpireet
in
more dilapidated quarters of an antique r o prd,l ithat
n
the imagination is carried back throghacnedntumrieeusldbeyrituhge ,
mere sight of the crumbled walls
lintels. The late keeper of the prints and drawings
in the ,British Museum, Mr. Smith,. was fully con-
scious of the fullness of Rain
this fascination, and be has
shown by his former writings,Book r y
Day," and " Nollekins and his Times,". that
.he pos-
sessed all the capabilities of selecting.. his materials from
this eccentric store with discrimination.
.11e. was,
moreover, peculiarly qualified by his professional pur-
suits, as well as by. his. domestic manners, to glean
if not the most recondite, facts
the most interesting',
associated with the history of London. And what
nobler arena for the display of his peculiar abilities was
there than London ? London, the most venerable city
in the British islands, the most gigantic and extraordi-
nary of civilized times, the contemporary of Caesar and
Boadicea, the central point round which from age to age
the tragic drama of our national fortunes has revolved
and fluctuated. Whether wecont emplate London, in regard
to our sovereigns, as the spot in which our Edwards and
Henrys, and Richards, have dwelt, as the scene of
Charles's decapitation, of Lady
.Jane Grey's imprison-
enti and execution, of Cromvreli's summary vengeance
on the Long Parliament, of James's flight, of
William's entrance, or of the fourth George's de-
baucheries; whether we consider it in relation to
the poets it has harboured, from old Chaucer to blind
Milton, and so on to lame Byron, or in reference to the
statesmen and philosophers who have been numbered
amongst its denizens, from Sir Thomas More to Lord
Bacon, and from Verulam downwards; or, in allusion to
its military reminiscences in the age of Marlborough sill
Prince Eugene, or its artistic reminiscences in the ages
of Hogarth and Flaxman; or its literary reminiscences
in the ages of Farquhar and Johnson, we must always
look upon it as invested with a charm in praise of which
the most extravagant panegyric could scarcely be
counted as hyperbolical. Under all aspects London is
fraught with interest, even in its rookeries as connected
with Turpin and Ilowaro, and its prisons as associated
with Sheppard and Mrs. Fry. And even in those dege-
nerate regions investigation would prove by no means
uninstructive. From the western boundaries of nouns
low, to the eastern limits of Bow, from Highgate a! d
Hampstead in the north, to Dulwich and Peckham in
the south, taking in the whole circumference from those
suburbs, there is scarcely a single point which does not
prove attractive as the home or the haunt of some re-
markable individual. Mr. Smith, indeed, was so con
scious of the fruitfulness of his subject that he has
doubtless restrained his inclinations, and has restricted
his antiquarian rambles to a continuous line beginning
with Hyde Park•corner, and ending with the Towcr.
In his pilgrimage, therefore, he comes successively
upon Charing-cross, Waterloo •bridge Temple •bar,
Blacktriars, Cheapside, and Loudon-bridge, branching
off occasionally as circumstances required, or as the

NORFOLK ESTUARY COAIPAN Y. This company
held their first half-yearly meeting on Saturday, at the Bri-
tish Hotel, Cockspur-street, Lord George Bentinck, M.P., in
the chair. In the course of his addrees his Lordship
an-
nounced that in consequence of the present depressed state
of the money market, and fro other causes, the directors
had come to the determination of recommending to the
shareholders that no further step should be taken towards
carrying out this project until the next half-yearly meeting,
to be held in August next. The statement of accounts
showed that the
.items of expenditure to February, 1847,
were—to the engineers, 8,489/. ;to Parliamcntariagents,
1 329/. ; to solicitors, 4,422/. ss._ 6d. ; for maps, printing', &c.,
514/. iss. Bd. ; agent at Cambridge, .2511. On the other side
cf the account the gross sum, including deposits, Exchequer-
bills, &c., appeared be 25,100/. Resolutions in conformity
with the determination of the directors having been passed,
the meeting separated.
or DR. CRONlN.—Application was made
y last to the sitting judge at chambers (Mr. Baron
Parke), to allow bail to. be put in for tbe appearance before
the sesaions of Dr. Cronin, who had been committed, upan
on ItFrridLaEAsE
the coroner's warrant, on the charge of manslaughter. Dr.
Cronin was brought up from Newgate by writ of habeas
corpus, and the judge having carefully examined the depo-
sitions at the inquest, consented to take bail, the doctor in
The prisoner
of 80/. for himself, and two sureties in 40/. each.
The prisoner was then discharged out of custody.