The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

BRISTOL—Put back, James, Tyne, for Bermuda, with ports, p. 115, was referred to, in which it was decided Mr. Prendergast submitted that f ler e was not
loss efjibboom and bulworks. by the Court that an address, described simply as sufficient evidence to justify the commi tte .1 ofßrewer.
3luaini.Es, Nov. 9.—Arrd. Ann Blair, Quebec, for " the Oaks" was not sufficient, without the parish or The evidence of such a person as Lewi',;s could only.
N eath.
township being added. be accented so far as it was corroborate(' L Now that
CLYDE, Nov. 9.--Sld. Isabella, Cooper, amerara; St.
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ld
OFF PORTSEA.—Cumberland. Mr. KEATING, for the respondent, submitted that part of Lh ew's evidence which affected Brewer was
John, Savannah.
the question as to the sufficiency of the description uncorroborated, and therefore, he subr witted, in ad-
CORK, Nov. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. LaviLia,M`Phey, was entirely one of fact, and that it would depend miscible. Brewer was a gentleman of respectable
Bombay. upon various circumstances which property came connexions, and his character would hcec:np
ue ch
d, w
under the knowledge of the Revising Barister. by the committal.
The CHIEF-JUSTICE was of opinion that the Mr. theslty said that the case Inust go for trial. '
description might fairly be read as " No. 5, Sher- Mr. Prendergast's argument, if accepted,
borne-street, Cheltenham," although the word Chel- render it necessary that every word of such a wit-
tenham was not added to it, and the objector would ness s evidence should be corrobor, ated.
fail in having any claim to be heard beforo the Re- The prisoners were then come pitted for
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vising Barrister, if it meant Sherborne•street in any same securities were accepted on behalf of 13-4. e..--
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othor town. It appeared to him, therefore, that there and Ralphs, and the witnesses. were boundwas enough on the face of the notice with regard to their own recoemizances for 200/. each.
the description to make it answer all the practical The oiler of bail on the part of B
purposes of the statue. renewed.
The other judges concured in the opinion of r'
Chief Justice.
The decision of the Revising Barister was there.
fore confirmed, and the appeal reversed.

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AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
By the ship Sea, 'arrived at Liverpool, we have
received New York papers of the 19th ult., being
three days later than those brought by the last
steamer. There were, however, no later accounts from
Mexico during the brief interval, and nothing of in-
terest had occurred in commercial matters of any
Moment. The more reflecting portion of the Ame-
rican community continue to entertain sanguine ex-
pectations of an early peace with Mexico, and the
Price of stocks is maintained firm, from a confident
hope that a considerable advance in prices will follow
as a necessary consequence from that event.

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MARLB RO'-S TREE T 13AS DAY.) Charles. Pebloe, a man of colour,
,vas placed be
fore Mr. llardwicke, charged with.ljeirjB--
drunk and
riotous, and assaulting James Nag,ie, barman, at the
Tower public-house, Tower-streev, Sev en. dials.
Complainant stated, that on the prev;Lous afternoon,
the prisoner came into his employer's house, and
wanted to be served with some gin. Seeing that he
hail already indulged too freely, he refused to serve
him, whereupon he (the prisoner) became very
abusive, and swore he would rip him (complainant)
up if he dared to refuse. Complainant requested him
to leave the house. The prisoner 'said he would
see him d first, and called him by a
filthy epithet, and threatened
.to charge him
with a nameless crime. Complaualint, seeing that
the prisoner was determined not to leave by fair
means, proceeded to turn him out. In doing so, the
prisoner struck him twice. He ultimately succeeded
in putting him out, and gave ham in charge of the
police.
The prisoner denied the charge in Coto. Ile merely
went into complainant's house professionally to amuse
the company with some " bone music," and while he
was so engaged the complaintu it came and turned
him out.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOTJLBURN.)
IN RE COGDON.

In this case Mr. Taylor, a solicitor, attended be-
fore his Honour for his decision as to his costs, the
consideration of which stood over on the question,
whether the solicitor to an insolvent could be allowed
costs for preparing the schedule, there being no pro-
vision in the Insolvent Act to that effect.
His HONOUR held that in cases of doubt they were
to be treated in the same manner as those in blnk-
ruptcy, as far as the points were analogous. In this
case he therefore considered that costs ought to be
allowed in the same manner as costs to a petitioning
creditor, or to a person suing out fiat against himself,
on the attorney making an affidavit that he had not
received any money in account, or was in expectancy
thereof from the insolvent, or any other person in
respect of bill.

Mr. LINDSAY, the solicitor to the trade assignees,
applied for costs in respect of their expenses, &c.
He said the case was a very bad one, as there was
nothing for the creditors, and his Honour Mr. Com-
missioner cane had adjourned the case for eighteen
months, unless the insolvent had previously under-
gone a certain term of imprisonment. Mr. Lindsay
also contended that the costs of the assignees ought
to be paid before those of the insolvent.

Mr. HARDWICKE committed him to the House of
Correction for one week, with 'hard labour.

THAMES.—(TRIS DAY.)
Four railway excavators, James Buttly, Joseph
Jones, Thomas Smith, and William Johnson, were
charged by the master of the Mile-end Workhouse
with having taken up their quartQrs in that establish-
ment over night, and with having this morning re-
fused to' pick the stipulated quantity X oakum re-
quired by the parochial authorities. (
It appeared that the four prisoners were admitted
last night as casual paupers—they received a meal ,
of bread and cheese each, and were supplied with'
their breakfast this morning. Prior to these meals ,
being given them they were inforrned that in the
morning they would be required each to pick two
pounds of oakum. They gladly assented, but when
the oakum was given them to pick they resolutely
refused to touch it, assailed the mpAter 'with abuse,
and endeavoured to dissuade the. cither inmates from
performing
th eythweei
rreagl
given
dt a
intos k Under these circum-
stances
usto
dy.
In their defence, the pris' driers said all they wanted
',groper roads.
wai\sitro.
Bbeml,eLtAgsoTioNnE theirob i
Antved that he would mark his
n Aisconduct by teaching them a
lesson o
nNfvhtilLir goherhosps rtdwould operate as a salutary
warning to others. He should send them each to
the house of Correction for twenty-one days, with
hard labour.

j Hislll:moult said there was an express power by
J the 6 Geo. IV. c. 16, s. 14, allowing costs at the
audit; but in this case there would be no audit, for
nothing had been realised for the creditors. If costs
were allowed where nothing resulted from the busi-
ness done, a small estate would be absorbed. There
was a great reason for granting the costs of the in-
solvent, as it protected the estate from being wasted
by the insolvent paying unreasonable costs, which
were by one grade of attorneys frequently extorted.
Mr. LINDSAY said the trouble and expense were
the same, although no estate was realised, and unless
costs were allowed, trade assignees would not in-
terfere.

His HoNoun. then sent for the taxing master, and
after discussing the question, decided that he could
allow the costs under the 10th rule framed under the
Insolvent Act, but the insolvent's solicitor was first
entitled to be paid in the same manner as a petiti(;n-
ing creditor, or a person presenting his own fiat.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS
(before Mr. L nder-Sheriff BURCHELL.)
rt:OIIERTSON V. lIICKIN.
This was an action to recover the sum of 30/.,
money lent. The plaintiff is a licensed victualber,
keeping the Acorn public-house, in Thames•street,
and the defendant was formerly clerk to Mess rs.
West, Green, and Sedgwick, corn merchants, Rut-
land-wharf, in the same street.
The action was originally commenced in the
Palace Court, but had been removed into the Court
shove, as beyond the jurisdiction of the Palace Court.
The defendant did not now plead.
Several letters were put in, fully making out the
plaintiff's claim.
The UNDER-SHERIFF held that interest could not
be allowed.

IMPROATEIVIENTS IN FIRE-ARMS
AND CARMIDGES.
We were this day favoured with a private view of
Dr. Jaegar's improvements in fire-arms and cart-
ridges. The improvements in question have been
submitted to Prince Albert, Lord Fitzroy Somerset,
and a select committer, of officers, at Woolwich, and
a favourable report of the same has been made by
those parties to the Master-General of the Ordnance.
The principal advantages gained by this invention
appear to consist in the following points :--The fire-
arm is loaded and discharged without making any use
of caps or priming, and, as a consequence, all those
inconveniences are avoided which have so frequently
arisen from the slipping off, or bursting of the caps,
and also from the priming being partially spilt or
wetted, and the fire-arms can be discharged with
speed both by night and by day, in cold, rain, or
wind, as in dry weather. By the adoption of the
principle of placing the cock under the barrel
instead of the old mode, wet and rain have no influence
on the lock or on the charge. When the gun or
pistol is overcharged it will not be liable to those
involuntary discharges which so frequently occur ;
all possibility of the fire-arms being overloaded is
also removed. In consequence of these improvements
the act of loading is facilitated and shortened, the
par tial spilling of the powder is prevented, and the
ranks of our gallant army may be recruited from
those who, from want of teeth to bite off the end of
the cartridges, are at present disqualified from serv-
ing their Queen and country. The charge may be
h andled with perfect security, and the kindling of it
commences immediately in the chamber of the fire-
'lnns. The shot is thus kindled more speedily and
more safely, uniformily at one time as at another,
and produces a lesser rebounding against the person
I who discharges. The handling of such-like fire-
arms is thus made more simple, easy, and
safe than of those now in use. The fire-
arms can be loaded and discharged eight
times and more in one minute. There is also another
•Advantage connected with the invention. Such fire-
arms can optionally and each time, without the least
delay, be turned into percussion cap guns, and, what
is of considerable importance, the manufacture of these
fire-arms and cartridges is less expensive than that of
cap-guns, or guns with flint and steel. In all other
respects such fire-arms are like the others now in
use. In addition to the above-named advantages, the
gun is not subject to the slightest recoil. We dis-
charged several of the pieces ourselves, and were not
able to discover the slightest effect from the discharge,
and in consequence of the peculiar nature of the car-
tridge, there is none of that liability to "fouling"
which invariably attends the repeated discharge of
ordinary fire-arms. And, as a matter of considerable
importance to amateur sportsmen, we confidently
pronounce that there is considerably less danger
in the handling of these fire-arms than in those in
ordinary use. The mode by which these advantages
are brought about are by dispensing entirely with the
loose priming and percussion caps ; and the inventor
thus does away with priming altogether, thereby
reducing gunnery to the two simple operations of
loading and firing. The pernicious practice of biting
off the ends of the cartridges is rendered unnecessary,
by the construction of his cartridges of a peculiarly
prepared paper, which takes fire as quickly as pow-
der itself, and burns without any residuum whatever.
Every cartridge is made to carry its own priming,
thus superseding entirely the necessity of the
priming. The top, or rather, the powder end of the
cartridge, is
,made to terminate in a small nipple
charged with fulminating powder, which drops into
a recess formed for it in the breach of the gun, and
is entirely protected by a shoulder-piece in front of
the recess from the percussive action of the ramrod.
In the top of the recess there is an orifice through
which the hammer attached to the cock of the
gun descends on drawing the trigger, which
striking the nipple of the cartridge, causes the instant
discharge of the piece. From what we have to-day
seen of the actual working of the principle, we have
no hesitation in pronouncing the invention to be a
most invaluable one. The principle upon which it is
founded, a perfectly sound one, applicable alike to the
sportsman of the moors and the infantry and cavalry,
whose deadly charges may yet affect the destiny of
nations, and the world.

THE ROBBERY AND MURDER OF MR. BELL-
CEIADIBERS.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford resumed, for the
third time, at the Grosvenor Arms, the inquiry touching
the death of Mr. John Bellchambers, who was robbed
and ill-used on the night of the 11th ult. The case
having been stated by Inspector Taylor to be still in the
hands of the police, the coroner again adjourned the in-
quiry to await the result of the magisterial investigation.
Some fresh parties have been taken into custody and re-
manded to this day week.

SEASONABLE MOVEMENTS.—The fog arrived in
town for the season on the 2d of November, and was re-
ceived with the usual formaliaties. Several boys with
torches were in attendance, holding in their hands those

links of civilization which unite the dark ages with our
own time. Omnibus rivalry was for a time buried in
oblivion, or at least in a fog, and
" Many a cab was made to bump unseen,
And waste its fleetness on an awkward post."
All nature, in fact, seemed to have distributed over the
metropolis one tremendous ticket for soup, with which,
in the shape of the densest atmospheric fluid, London
and the suburbs were indiscriminately served out. We
will not say we hope we shall never look upon its like
again, for it cannot be the like of the late fog, if we are
enabled to look upon it at all.—Punch
intended
topmasts fora pa
an packet COWES, Nov. 10.—LAuNcit OF THE BRILLIANT.—
A splendid brig of 372 tons was launched this day, at
half-past twelve o'clock, from Mr. Joseph White's yard,
tnd to a Madeira.nd
yards
across,
had
and
washet takenmasts
s
ill to the Thetis D
berths. ock the same tide. She has 50 cabin

on AconanerawonTrroeadtdislea-tvvthheeerlaCteaorrfitaegnem, eixlepseacntehdout or,
bt
yr.atvheel
light, simple, and pleasant labour of a tread-wheel
attached to machinery in the interior, and capable of
carrying twelve persons at this rate, for thirty to forty
miles, by one driver, without fatigue, is at present ex-
hibited in model at Liverpool. If the power requisite as
a prime mover be so light and easily applied, why not
replace the driver's by a powerful spring, to be wound up
like that of a watch, at convenient stations, or by the
driver himself at once, with the hel of a passeng or
er
two, instead of having him on the treadmill continually
like some incorrigible criminal?—Builder. ,

it_ tir s L 144 'l9 0 N T 1-1 TJ RSDA Ir EVENING, NOVEMB

MAGAZINES, szc. —(C

Thy throbbing temples need repose--
E'en penury hath eyes to close;
Suffice it now 'as mine to wake—
All labour's sweetened for thy sake.
And thus with prayers he sendeth her to rest,
To write of cheer with trouble at his breast,
While the goose-quill striveth and straineth away
Over the paper
Beneath the taper,
Through the hours that man calls night—and genius day.
" Alack, the taper's getting low—
The fire hath slumbered long ago—
What's to be done? not half the task
Fulfilled, these craving dear ones ask;
The thoughts, too, burn so bright and high,
They flash Like lightning from the sky;
That now the taper should refuse its spark!
It flickers—the pen flies—it drops—and all is dark.
" A moment bath the penman paused in doubt—
At length, as with a groan he turns about,
Ho starts with joy, for a long fine ray
Through the shutters shoot the light of day;
He flies to the window, opens it wide,
And shrinks from the morning's great Heed-tide
That bursts on bis blood-shot eyes, o'erwrought
From the deep carouse of desperate thought.
He steals to the table, and once again
Opens the orgies of breast and brain,
While the goose-quill fluently fleeteth away
Over the paper,
Without the taper,
Through the hours when night sleeps in the lap of day."
Painfully true as this is, we are not sure that we do
not prefer the exquisite pathos and simplicity of " The
Poplin Weaver." Alas ! how many of our own
countrymen may be subjected to the like privations
by an obstinate adherence to the unwise and impolitic
monetary laws under which our manufactures have
been checked, and our operatives deprived of employ-
ment. We would fain ask our lawgivers is the fol-
lowing picture one that they would wish to see
realised in what was once merry England ?
" I'm loth to awake ye, Art, my dear!
But the steps of a stranger are drawing near—
Up the ricketty stair they come,
Making, I think, for our wretched room—
Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent—
Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent!
" See, daylight has lit on the window-sill—
Art! is it you to be slumbering still?
Ye knew that at last we must quit, or pay,
Though ye didn't expect the distress to-day!
Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent—
Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent!
" At the doorl—oh, a month, to make up what's due
The landlord he knows, Art, your word is true—
If he saw how we strive, he'd put off the sale—
'Twas the will of God that the trade should fail!
Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent—
Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent!
" In days gone by, it was Ireland's pride
To be decked in the web that our looms supplied—
Those were the times, Art, that ye took me home,
And told me that love would make business come.
Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent—
Art, its the sheriff—the rent—the rent!
" It's hunger, Art, that has made ye weak—
What can I think of, your fast to break?
Here, Art, here is my wedding-ring—
The lodgers will lend on the blessed thing!
Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent—
Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent!
" God forgive me! my heart is torn
To drag ye from bed this bitter morn;
The bed that they're coming to seize and sell—
Where I've nursed and prayed by ye, sick and well!
Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent!
Art, it's the sheriff—the rent—the rent!
" How silent he sleeps! not a stir, or breath;
Poor famishing husband, you're worked to death!
At the shuttle before and after the sun—
And a morsel of meal when the day is done!
Rise, Art, rise! the last shilling's spent—
Art, it't the sheriff—the rent—the rent!
" Dead !—Oh, my God! it is over at last--
The wearisome struggle is past—is past!
The heavens be praised! 'tisn't you need fear—
'Tis'your widow that's desolate, husband dear!
Rise, Art, rise! to the happy skies,
Where the tears are wiped from the poor man's eyes!"
We have little space to notice the remaining articles
in the number, although they well merit attention.
The title of " A Week in the Hebrides—Gleanings
in the Queen's Wake," explains the subject. " The
Bachelor of the Albany " also will be read with much
interest. "Poor and Pauper" states the means
adopted by Mr. John Hamilton, of St. Ernan's, Do-
negal, for unpauperizing the population on his own
estates—an example which, if generally followed by
other proprietors of the soil in that country, would
speedily be attended with the most beneficial results
to all classes. "University Reform," the last paper
of the number, is an able and elaborate defence of
the Alma Mater against the charges put forward by
Mr. Heron, in " The Constitutional History of the
University." There are some sentiments put forward
highly creditable to the writer, and which we would
gladly see participated in by the authorities of Oxford
and Cambridge. He says, "Mixed Education is now
very generally approved of. It lessens acerbity of
feeling, removes prejudices, unites men in after life
in pursuit of useful objects in which they agree, and
leads them mutually to forbear on subjects on which
they differ. In Trinity College it has been found
eminently successful; Roman Catholics and Pro-
testants now live there on the best and most cordial
terms of friendship, and are treated with perfect im-
partiality by the heads and senior members of the
College. And again—" In short, the system we
advocate in Trinity College is to admit Roman Catho•
lies freely to all rewards for learning, and all places
for teaching, which are not parts of the body cor-
porate, or governing body of the University, and not
directly for the teaching of religion." These state-
ments, coming from such a quarter, should silence the
cavillers who object to the admission of Dissenters to
the English Universities, and who have ventured to
state " that mixed education has been found to work
badly, and was very mischievous in fostering religious
animosities in Trinity College, Dublin."

THE BANKERS'.
, This is indeed an important and stirring period for
the Bankers' Magazine. There are unfortunately no
lack of subjects that come within the sphere of its ope-
rations. " The Triumph of the Banking Principle"
sets forth the proceedings immediately preceding the
virtual repeal of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, to-
gether with the letters that passed between the Go-
vernment and the Bank on the occasion. The follow-
ing sensible observations are made with respect to the
recommendation that eight per cent. should be the
minimum rate of interest charged by the Bank :
" We do not believe that the eight-per-cent. minimum
will be long maintained: it should not be maintained one
moment longer than the exigencies of the times may
seem to warrant it. A usurious rate of interest is so
contrary to the Spirit of all our commercial institutions,
and so destructive in its consequences, that it cannot long
be tolerated by the Government with impunity ; and we
are sure that we echo the sentiments of nearly the entire
commercial community when we state, that the recom-
mendation of Government, that the Bank should not
charge less than eight per cent. on its advances at this
crisis, in order to attempt to keep in force an exploded
theory, is a heavy blow and a great discouragement to
our commercial greatness."
There is an excellent memoir, accompanied by a
portrait, of Thomas Bracken. Esq., late the respected
Secretary of the Bank of Bengal. A melancholy
catalogue then ensues of the series of disasters which
have taken place within the last month, and
of the several banks which have been com-
pelled to yield to the pressure of the times,
and to suspend payments, together with lists of
the shareholders in the Royal Bank of Liverpool, and
the Liverpool Banking Company, reprinted from the
last official returns, and lists of the shareholders in
the several other joint•stock banks that have sus-
pended payment. These are succeeded by the balance-
sheets of the great firms which have recently failed.
There is also an excellent article on the state of com-
mercial affairs in Liverpool, showing the dreadful
state to which the trade and commerce of the first
mercantile port in the world has been reduced, from
the baneful operation of our monetary laws.
" Savings' Banks" relates to the general withdrawal
by depositors in all parts of the country, in conse-
quence of the present depressed Estate of the public
funds, and the loss to the nation thereon, which,
from the 16th of March to the 12th of June last,
amounted to upwards of 100,0001. How much it
has been in the disastrous period subsequent thereto
it is impossible for us to state. The usual paper on
"Banking and Commercial Law" refers this month to
the law relating to bankers' receipts. There is also
a vast quantity of valuable information on various
points, which will render the present number highly
acceptable to all commercial men.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RE VIE
"The Scottish Church and its Assailants," the first
paper in the present number, is principally founded
on the report of the, deputation appointed in May,
1846, of ministers and lay members of the Church of
England representing the congregations adhering to
her forms and doctrines in Scotland ; the members of
the deputation are described as schismatics, and dealt
with very severely for the objections which they have
put forward in their report. The controversy is very
fully entered into, and letters from several of the
English bishops, in answer to the circular addressed
from one of the congregation of Fochabers, are given
in extenso. " Episcopal and Capitular Revenues "
attacks what it terms the late spoliation," in other
words the allocation of revenues which had been
founded on the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Com-
mission. " The Churches of London," the tenth
paper under this title, by Ridley, is a lamentation
over the degeneracy of those clergymen who obeyed
the Order in Council, by using the form of prayer,
thereby appointed for the Thanksgiving Sunday—and
a laudation of those who refused to do so, more par-
ticularly of the Rev. Bryan King, the Rector of St.
George's-in-the-East, and of the incumbents of St.
Paul's, Knightsbridge) and rSt. Andrew's, Wells-

ft , 11, 1847.

•
street
, Oxford-street. " A Country. Curate 's—
Tale,"
is aIA easingly written poem of the Crallbe school.
The number also contains the usual short reviews and
Main 3rsity intelligence.

TF)E cokti,C HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
No. XVII. By Gilbert Abbott A'Bechett.
There is a capital brew of fun in this number out
of the mash of Oliver Cromwell, the brewer of Hun-
tingdon. The author, however, is wrong in saying
tha t the last known descendant of the Lord Protector
died in 1821 ; there are several of the -Protector's
deicendants yet living. The description of the cele-
brated " Royal Oak scene" is admirable :—" After the
battle of Worcester, Charles determined to pecceed
towards London, and, by the aid of a leathern doub:et,
grey breeches, and green jerkin, he 'made up ' very
effectually as a stage countryman. Takin with him a real countryman, one Richard Penderell, i
, as a
companion, Charles went into a wood, from the edge
of which he saw a troop of horse ; but the rain
poured down in such torrents that the troop retired,
instead of taking shelter in the wood, which was cer-
tainly the wisest course they could have adopted.
The anecdote is, however, so essentially dramatic,
that the soldiers were perfectly in character when
they went quite in the opposite direction to that they
should have taken, like those pursuers on the stage
who usually overlook the person they are in search
of, and who, to every one else, is most conspicuously
visible. Charles's position on this occasion resembled,
in a minor degree, the situation of the fugitive at the
fair, who, poiwing to a painted blind representing a
tree with a hole cut down the centre of it, expressed
his detePmination to conceal himself in yonder
thicket.' Finding accommodation for his body only
in the tree's imaginary trunk, his legs of course pro-
truded from the shady grove,' when two assassins in
hot pursuit tumbling over the out-hanging heels of
the wretched runaway, exclaimed confidently in the
ears of the audience, By ivins, he as eluded us.'
Such must have been the good fortune of Charles,
and the stupid blindness of the troop when the
former sat on the forest's edge, and the latter never
noted him. This incident being over, another
soon afterwards ensued of an equally melodramatic
character. Charles and Penderell, after travelling
two nights on foot, had put up at the house of one of
Penderell's brothers ; but it was not thought safe to
remain in it, and his Majesty was recommended to an
oak, whose parent stem would afford friendly shelter,
while all the junior branches might be thoroughly
relied upon. The king having supplied himself with
bread, cheese, and beer, which could not have been
table beer, for there was no table to put it on—though
there were plenty of leaves—made the best of the im-
perfect accommodation that the tree afforded him.
He had no sooner settled on his perch, and made
himself a kind of nest in the boughs, than some sol-
diers entered on the 0. P. side, and looked every-
where—except in the right place—for the fugitive
monarch. His legs, as usual, were visible enough,
but the troopers possibly mistook them for a pair of
stockings hanging up to dry, and they were not even
struck by the shoes at the end, that should have
awakened them to the value of the booty. The most
infantine participators in the game of Hide and
Seek, would not have been at fault under circum-
stances of a similar kind ; and there can scarcely
be a doubt, that if any urchin had only raised a
suggestive cry of ' Hot beans and butter !' Charles
would have been laid by the heels without a scruple
on the part of those who were in search of him.
Leaving his Majesty's legs to dangle in the air, and
allowing credulity to score one for his heels on the
cribbage-board of fancy, we proceed to contemplate
Charles in a more dignified position on the throne of
England."

TILE MIRROR.
The Mirror for November opens with three addi-
Aonal chapters of " Paul Pevensey." The Lover of
Kate returns, and weds her. His name is Laurence
Stanley, and he is high in the service in India.
There is, however, a great drawback to the happi-
ness of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Stanley—their child,
Paul, is nowhere to be heard of. Stanley, in com-
mon with almost every one else, believes that he has
perished in the explosion ; but Kate, with true wo-
man's faith, believes and hopes, in spite of hope, that
she shall yet see him again. She, however, departs
for Bengal with her husband, without having heard
any tidings of Paul. We have already spoken of
the writer of this work as a philosopher possessed of
a thorough knowledge of character, a poet in the
highest sense of the term ; we have already spoken
of his exquisite descriptions of rural scenery; we
now present our readers with a gem of an interior,
an interior that Mulready might have painted.
" Our readers will not perhaps object to step, this fine
Sunday morning, into the parsonage of Ulraven, where
the parson was just now at breakfast with his family.
He was an extremely odd sort of a man, that same par-
son; who seemed to love especially three sorts of things
—children, books, and cats. Mrs. Williams, as part of
himself, went, of course, for nothing. That he loved ber
was most certain, but that he never thought of it was
equally certain. He was as unconscious of it as of the
Ms he breathed, though the one was as necessary to his
life as the other. She sat at one corner of the table,
while he took up his position exactly opposite, with his
youngest son upon his knee, a huge Tom cat upon his
shoulder, and one or two mewling little vagabonds of
minor calibre on his lap. All these bipeds and quadru-
peds he fed from time to time, occasionally taking a
peep into a volume of Tillotson—which he held more
from habit than for use in his left hand. The bigger
children occupied their places round the table, his eldest
daughter, Nancy, sitting close to his side, on the right.
If we glance at the table we shall find that it displayed a
number of comfortable things—solaces, as the parson
expressed it, for the outer man. Mrs. Williams was a
very nice person, a jewel of a housewife, who loved to
see everything about her as clean and neat as a Dutch-
woman's band-box. The table-cloth was as white as
snow, and Mrs. Williams exerted all her authority to
prevent the unthinking youngsters from spilling the
coffee over it ; and then that coffee ! what fragrance it
diffused through the room—how the foaming hot cream
mantled over it, making Master Philip's teeth water, as
the parson's grace, which was rather of the longest, was
saying. We have always thought that it was highly
injurious to the devotional feelings of the family to pour
out the coffee before the grace was said, a sort of secular
whiff ascending from the cup to the nostril, generally
bringing down the thoughts to sublunary concerns,
when they should have been otherwise employed.
Besides, there was fresh butter lying pillowed in a china
basin, delicate enough to tempt a St. Anthony ; and
racks of dried toast, and fresh white eggs in little egg-
cups with gold rims—all intended to shed over the break-
fast-table an air of epicurean refinement. But the
greatest ornament of all was the row of rosy faces, with
a dash of eagerness in each, peering over the white
table-cloth.
" Mrs. Williams looked perfectly happy, as she glanced
over the group, and concluded with looking at her hus-
band, who was just then maturing in his mind, not his
sermon for the day, but a series of questions, which
when, in Homeric phrase, the rage of hanger should
have been a little appeased, he meant to put to Nancy.
But we are going a little too fast. We ought by all
means to cast a look out of the parlour window, and
describe the prospect which presented itself there. We
wish for Mr. Williams's sake we could dwell upon a
fine lawn, with indications of a coach-house, and stable
peeping from behind a screen of trees.
" But our imagination must not fly beyond the reality.
Mr. Williams's parlour window looked into an orchard,
where a few golden apples, the remnant of the year's
fruit, still hung upon the trees. The leaves around might
almost be said to be of all colours, and as they rustled
and twinkled in the October sun, look down upon a
number of their brethren lying in tranquil decay upon
the grass. There is a sort of melancholy in autumnal
sunshine, reminding us of the mellow splendours of in-
tellect which light up our passage to the tomb. It has
nothing in it of the bright fervour of morning—nothing
of the golden hue or warmth of summer. It is placid,
gentle, relaxing; as if meant to make us let go our hold
on this world, and pass away without start or struggle
into that undiscovered country from whose bourne no
traveller returns. And yet I love the sunshine of
autumn, which indicates that the work of the year is
over, and that all things are approaching their rest."
Mr. Percy St. John concludes his interesting story
of "Cecilia Armand," the object of which is, he says,
to call attention to the false notions which have
hitherto prevailed on the subject of the French Revo-
lution, more especially as regards the characters of
St. Just and Robespierre, who are described by Mr.
St. Johti as almost the only virtuous men of the
revolution. We do not agree with him in his estimate
of the character of Robespierre; we consider
h
Robes-
pierre to have been a cold-blooded, selfisha
who was preserved from any flagrantPersoutrages
,
of decorum by the coldness of bas
partisanscooanl y
st
of the
constitution —a
traitor, constantly intriguing
with the
the words of Camille
Desmoulins, "endeavoured
old regime, who, to quote
to drive liberty mad in
order to disgust the world with her." He was the
man of the reaction
he reaction,
not and he would have succeeded in
his schemes had
been as inferior to Danton in
courage as he was to Camille Desmoulins in honesty
and ability. In one point, however, we entirely agree
with Mr. Percy St. John, the history of the French
Revolution has yet to be written, and we know of but
one living author capable of doing justice to the task
f of
ather writing it, and hat' is Mr. J. A. St. John, the
he author

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