The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

THURS .E-S'77ENTING:'Ir OCTOBER

so happened that the train arrived nine minutes before
its time, and his Lordship not observing its approach,
bad just reached the intervening space between the lines,
when the engine was not above its own length from him,
moving at a quicker rate than usual when at a station,
in consequence of the extreme wetness of the day,
which prevented the breaks from catching. Mr. Cuck-
son, the superintendent, with admirable self-possession,
instantly darted from the platform, and seizing his Lord-
ship, drew him back, just as the ponderous engine
passed, and thus prevented an accident which, in all
probability, would have been fatal.—Scotsman.
THE WRONG SIDE OF. THE STREET, OR A CASE
OF Amalie's or MIND.—In a town of Oxfordshire,
favoured with the existence of one of those systematic
structures for the relief of the poor generally yclept
"Unions," and sometimes " Bastiles," not many years
ago the following rather singular mistake happened:—
The chaplain of the union the Rev. —, having been
called to a distance on business, engaged his friend, the
Rev. --, to perform Divine service in the chapel of the
union on a certain Sundae. The latter is an excellent
mathematician, but a singularly "absent"
man; and the
latter failirg or faculty frequently brings him into queer
situations, not the least embarrassing of which arose out
of this very union engagement. Mr.
was punctual
Co the hour in his visit to the town on the morning in
question; it happens that the union chapel is faced by a
Roman Catholic chapel, into the vestry of which, about
the hour for commencing service, walked a gentleman, a
stranger to the sexton, but showing enough of the "points"
of the profession to satisfy the latter that it was some
strange " holy lather come to officiate at mass for the
priest, then in charge of the Mission." The stranger
being apparent] y chary of words, intimated by familiar
gestures his wish to be robed, and accordingly the
priestly paraphernalia was speedily displayed upon his
person. Apparently it struck him that he had donned
rather more than the usual vestments for the reading-
desk. Ile was absorbed in wond.iring at his finery, and
busily engaged in feeling the stiff embroidery of his
cope, and regarding
with wonder the silky texture of his
other flowing robes, when another gentleman entered I
the vestry-room, and the following colloquy took place:—
Second Comer—May
inquire who it is that I have the
pleasure to address ? First Comer—By all means ;my
name is ---, and I have come hero this morning to
officiate for Mr. ---.---. Second Corner—But, my dear
sir, Mr. -- is a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, and this is a Catholic chapel 1 First Comer—A
what ! Catholic chapel 1 So so. I beg a thousand
pardons. I bare made a very singular mistake. I
thought it was the union over the way !-Worcester
Herald.
FATAL AccIDENT.-=On Tuesday night a gentleman
named Fearn was accidently killed while returning home
to Kilmore, from Armagh market. He bad been sitting
on a jaunting car, on the opposits seat of which was a
clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, and while the
vehicle was proceeding, it is supposed the unfortunate
deceased fell asleep and dropped off the car. The driver
and the clergyman , went on their way, never missing
their fellow-traveller,
which was coming in the direction passed over his skull
causing instantaneous death.—Armagh Guardian.
who lay on the road until a cart
THE Jxws IN ROME.—On the lit of this month
the decree for the complete emancipation of the Jews of
the Roman States came into force, They are thereby
declared fit for the exercise of all civil rights. The year
1848 is an amazing one. The changes of the forms of
government are, however, less surprising than the aban-
donment of the Ghetto by the Jews of Rome.—JewishChronicle.
FIRE AT DERWENTWATER.—On Sunday morning
one wing (containing the library, with the valuable col-
lection of books, paintings, &c.) of the beautiful mansion
of 11. C. Marshall, Esq., Vicker's Island, Derwent Lake,
was destroyed by fire. The remainder of the building,
as well as the splendid timber trees by which the mansion
is surrounded, bad a narrow escape.
T. S. DUNCOMBE, ESQ., M.P.—We understand
that the health of this Hon. Gentleman is improving,
though slowly, and that it is hoped, notwithstanding his
severe and protracted indisposition, time and patience
will enable him to resume his public duties.
DEATH Or SIR JOHN KENNEDY, BART.—TiIi3
baronet, for many years so distinguished in England
and Ireland by his patronage of the sports of the field,
died on the 13th instant at his residence near Rathcool,
Dublin, aged 63. He was one of the baronets created
during the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Mulgrave, now
the Marquis of Normanby, in 1836. He was the son of
Edward Kennedy,' Esq., and married in 1819 the
daughter of William Beaumon, Esq., by whom he has
had issue five sons and one daughter. He is succeeded
by his son Edward. Sir John was a magistrate and a
Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Kildare.
MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—Yesterday the lists
for the parishes of Christchurch, Hackney, Shoreditch,
Bethnal-green, Norton-folgate, and the old Artillery-
ground, were revised by L. Shadwell, Esq., at the Green
Man, Bethnal-green. No point of public interest arose,
and the whole proceedings occupied little more than an
hour. The court sits to-day at White Conduit House,
Islington.
Mortiv MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 15 per mine, which, at the English Mint price of
3Z 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.52; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25 42+. it follows that gold is 0.37 per
cent, dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 3L 17s. 10id. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.10,
it follows that gold is 1.46 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh
than in London.
.
FRATERNISATION EXTRAORMNART.---A deputation
of riotous Silesian peasants cams in .April to the seat of
a nobleman, making unheard-of deznands, and threaten-
ing to kill, burn, and destroy, if those demands were not
complied with. They were shown into the baron's study,
who immediately locked the door, throwing the key out
of the window, told the astonished mob that, unless they
immediately asked his pardon on their knees, he woul,i
effect
fff causeegc ut nwt
phaoeswcmdi gearagrwi
magical.
i c. was
Ta
stood
soemo4donkeoiennsgoatf otfrishorap eebranys iaa
hneitsws
fis tirhdaeat.e n ,
ib AT:heed, I.
with the carpet ; they craved in humble tone his forgive-
ness, and were at length allowed to make their exit
through the window, for the baron lamented that be,
alas! had lost his key.
JENNY LIED'S VISIT TO
A. YORKSHIRE FARMER.— During the recent visit of this distinguished 'vocalist to
this part of the country,
she had expressed a great desire
sayth;ebuktitheehrens,
to see an English farm-house, and the domestic arrange-
ment. and internal management generally. Mr. George
Simpson's, of Grafit Howe, near Hunmanby, was fixed
upon to gratify her wishes. What her ideas of a sub-
stantial English farmer's dwelling may have been, it is
t 0
00t
another; easy
to
astonishmenthittiog.r
sitting-rooms,
0 was
m s,
bed-rooms,
e d almost
-roo
muntt-,
bounded as she was successively shown from one room
larder, and dairies each seemedequally to excite in-
creased eurprise,—being so unlike
the one•
roomed buildings appropriated to the same purposes in
her own country . • She was attended by a travelling
female coniparnon her secretarandanother
3",
The different out-buildin were also visited, and
afforded as many subjectsgoaf
on which Mr. Simpson had a nu wonder.
of sheep killed and
y der. Being the day
tt
by a passing train, the
others injured on the railwa
accident se, med to interest he'
r much —B 1 Parked
THE WEATHER.—Yesterd ' • 41
ay, in the northern parts
of, the metropolis, a alht fall f
• d d '3 snow took place, which
was accompanie by a col and Di eing
night the cold continued very • .' er
'.-- wind. • Last
.. , , . , intense for the time of
year. ' '
ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.—IIer Majesty the Queen
Dowager has been pleased to forward to the Rev. Robert
Joynes, rector of Gravesend, the SUM of 20/. towards the
erection of a new church in the pariah of Gravesend.
ESCAPE OP EDWARD HOLLYWOOD.—In a letter
received in town yesterday, it is stated by the writer
that Edward Hollywood, silkweaver, and who had been
one of the deputation to France, had effected his escape
to Boulogne.—Freeman.
SHOT IN A QUARREL....-.0U Monday night a sur•
peon named Addison was in company with Mr. Thomas
1:1 rtnoll, a painter, drinking at a public-house in South-
ampton.a They left about two o'clock on Tuesday mon:s-
with each other. When they •
arrived at
quarrelling MASTER BOOT AND SHOEMAKERS' PROVIDENT ing, .i 11,
ee a large open space in the centre of the
the Hound well, INSTITUTION.—Yesterday evening a meeting of the
n, Addison took a pistol from his pocket, and shot i
members and committee of the above society was held tow .1 in
i the groin. The report of the pistol was
Hartno
at the Freemasons' Tavern, for general business. Thee policemen, who immediately rushed to
report congratulated the members on the steady progress some heard by
which was being made. The funds for the purpose of the 'Pet.. Addison was immediately apprehended.l
after walking a few paces fell, and was con-
Hannon, .
affording relief, by way of annuity, to aged and decayedfi ary where he now lies dangerously I
members, their widows, and orphans, amount to 2,200 L, to the in rID ,
veyed
x ected to recover. The ball has not yet
and a building fund for the erection of an asylum, to ill, and is note p hiss attended at the infir-
-3,1001. There are at present six annuitants on the been extracted. A
tle magistrate
.
deposition.
funds—the males receive 201. and the females 15/. per mary to takehis post •
MIRAcULOUS ESCAPE.--On Tues-
annum.
EASTBOURNE.--
Mr. Stevenson, jun., Was walking on
THE ROYAL FREE HOSPlTAL.—Testerday evening ' • t SS
day se nnigh ,
Meads, in search, of fossils and other geolo-
a meeting of the governors and committee of manage- the cliffs at
be
fancied he saw a path leading to the
meat of the above hospital, was held in the Board-room, gical specimens, d
walk down; but he had, not pro-
Gray's Inn-lane-road; the Rev. Dr. Rice in the chair. beach, and essaye
to his foot slipped, and he was pre-
The report stated that during the past week near 700 ceeded many steps ere
A distance of 240 feet. He fell,
cipitated to the bottom, new cases of diseased and utterly destitute persons bad
rocks on some loose earth, which
been received as in and out patients. Two large wards it appears, between two .
to.
nee.
As
soon
as
he
oircu ta
are at present closed from want of funds, the institution was a most providential
he crawled a little, Way and called
having been long encumbered with a heavy debt, gradu- recovered sensibility, . k,
seeing Les situation, ran and
ally in the course of liquidation. The resources of the out for help. A gentleman
ssistance, and he was conveyed
hospital compel the committee daily to refuse admission obtained the necessary
Meads,a whence Mrs. Wm. anon
to many deserving cases. The number admitted during to a public-house at
dto Mrs.. Holland's b cl•
oar ing-
the past year was 21,393 out and 629 in patients. kindly had him conveye , ...
. On his arrival he was visited
house, where he is Staying.
BATHS AND WASIIHOUSES POR TEE Poolt.—.The who found that, not • h
. ‘ wit stand-
by 'Mr. Williams, surgeon,
Committee of -the above excellent charity, situate in
had received .severe contusions no
Glasshouse-yard, East Smithfield, yesterday made their ing the gentleman
or any bone broken, and we
vital injury was sustained,.
third annual report, which states that the establishmentfast recovering the effects of
is highly valued by the poor, as proved by the ardour are happy to say that he. I.shto
Guardian.
and anxiety with which its gratuitous benefits ate his yerilous.descent.—Brs2
Messrs. Frederick A
i„
icT.-.-- sra. and
sought, it having been found that amongst the numbers 'JRIBUTE OP Jub,ESP
Queen's College, Oxford
who continually flock to the establishment, 'many have Edmund Mode, Commoners of
of the late Air. William"d
purposely journeyed the distance of five, six, and seven and the two youngest sons
solicitor in Liverpool,
miles. During the past year the bathers were 33,65 i, Hinde, many years a successful th
and 34,843 poor women had washed and dried the have honoured their tutor
guardian,and.,A Vicar f Tervin,
rßeverend
e yin, near
clothes of themselves and families, and 12,610 had Thomas Stanley Bowstead,
Mcbfield, with asmall silver
ironed. The institution had also gratuitously furnished Chester, and Prebendary of Li
which is
many hundreds of the poor in the crowded and wretched font, of an octagonal form, on : „ _ inscribed
re the fol-
localities in the neighbourhood of East Smithfield with lowing grateful acknowledgmeL
ar P sented to the
whitewashes, chlorides, &c., for the purpose of cleansing Per. T. S. Bowstead, M.A., yie _ of Tervin, from
and purifying their abodes, together with loans of pails Frederick and Edmund Hinde, in todket! of their esteem,
and brushes, which to a great extent had prevented the and in remembrance of his kindness urn; g the two years
spread of fever. The receipts of the year (367/.55. lld ) they were under his care, readingfor co lege. -- Chester
have been considerably exceeded by the expenditure. Courant.
—A seal engraver, hearing
NARROW ESCAPE or LORD JOHN RUSSELL. On SINK. AND THE DEEMS.
Thursday the 6th instant, Lord and Lady John Russell that the Thames so poisoned the atmosphere that it was
and two of their children left Campbell's (late Gibb's), dangerous to lire near it, called it " a first-rate sink for
Golden Lion
Hotel, Stirling, for Edinburgh. Short as a die !"—Puneh.
the distance to the railway station is (not above 300 THE MERRY CHURCH BELLS.--In the Stafford-
yards), Mr. Gibb, to ,show respect to his Lordship, shire Advertiser of last week there is an account ofthe
drove him {thither from the hotel in a four-horse chimes newly fitted up in the venerable tower of St.
riage. When at the station, his Lordship ha a car-
very
Mary's, Stafford, and ilist is given of the tunes adapted
narrow escape, which was not referred to b the local to each day. On Sunday, a psalm tune; Monday, "Lite
Y
papers. The up trains, or those •
h h." Tuesday, emy lodging is on the cold
grg south, travel upon let us c ens ,
the line furthest from the stet'
"There is nee luck about the
ship had arrived just at the timelun-
advertisedouse, and as his Lord- ground;"Wednesday,
e Harmonious Blacksmith;"
,he lifted his house;" Thursday, .« .The .
youngest child, and proceeded
11 • I" S t d
morning a nr ay
in a thoughtful mood to Friday "We won't go home tl
cross to the aide for the up train passengers, But it (being Market da Oh d what can the matter be?"
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VISIT OF LORD ASHLEY TO THE
RAGGED SCHOOLS, DUMFRIES.
Lord Ashley, on his return from Edinburgh, where
he has been on a commission in connexion with the
General Board of Health, examined the Industrial
School, Burns-street, on Friday morning last, in pre-
sence of a number of its supporters. The meeting
was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Wallace.
The children sung a hymn at the commencement of
the proceedings with great accuracy and spirit, and
two classes were afterwards examined in reading.
The senior one read a chapter of the New Testament
as correctly, if not more so, as the classes similarly
advanced at any of the ordinary schools of the town,,
although they have only been under Mr. Ramsay s
training for some seven months, and the majority
scarcely able to read previously. Questions in con-
nexion with their lessons were answered also with
promptitude and correctness ; and altogether, although
they did not seem the most favourable subjects, their
appearance was highly satisfactory. Lord Ashley
expressed himself as highly gratified.
When the children were dismissed Baillie Nichol-
son was called to the chair, and
Mr. STEWART, the secretary, read a report of the
progress and condition of the society.
Baillie NtenoLsoN then called upon Mr. Hender-
son, convener of the work committee, who stated that
some months ago it was deemed necessary to depute
one of the committee to visit the industrial schools in
Aberdeen and elsewhere, that some method might be
adopted for the industrial occupation of the children.
Having entered into a number of details regarding
that deputation, Mr. Henderson mentioned that there
was a division of opinion in the society on the ques-
tion whether the children should be taught trades, or
whether they should confine themselves to giving
them industrious habits; and concluded by requesting
his Lordship's opinion on these points.
Lord AsnLaz then rose, and said that it appeared
to him the society had every reason to be satisfied,
and might heartily thank God for their success.
When he came there he was prepared to find some-
thing very inferior; but the children seemed to have
made great progress, not only in those matters bene-
ficial to their condition here, but their more im-
important hereafter. They had got a very suitable
building too, and with a little ventilation it would
do much better for their purpose than one the supe-
rior architecture and adornments of which might
raise the taste of the pupils above what must be their
condition in life. This he believed to be a great er-
ror in modern arrangements. Their great difficulty
would be the maintenance of the funds for
their annual expenses. They must take the
children the whole day if they wished effectually
to benefit them ; and if they did so, they must sup-
ply them with food. The most of these children had
no way of getting food but by begging or steal-
ing, and, therefore, unless they fed them they could
have them only in the evenings, and it was difficult
to teach them to any purpose in three hours each day.
It was, therefore, absolutely necessary that the chil-
dren should be fed, which added very mach to the
expense. In London they were unable to do it under
a cost of 41. 10s. for each child per annum ; although
he believed, from the difference of habits, it could be
done in Scotland for about half that sum. .Again, in
all these ragged schools it was necessary to have in-
dustrial classes—in all schools for the children of the
working classes these were necessary, but more espe-
cially in ragged schools. The children attending
these institutions must be shown that labour is honour-
I able. The character of the employment given was of
no great importance, if it was of such a nature that
the children could understand it as a useful and
profitable one. In the Edinburgh school they
employed them in picking oakum, but the children,
looking upon that merely as employment to keep
them out of mischief, did not enter upon it with the
ardour with which they applied themselves to work of
which they could see the benefit. They ought to
confine the children to one or two very simple occu-
pations, preferring those suited to the district, as
net making was to Aberdeen ; but tailoring and
shoemaking were the best generally. After re-
marking that the children were much superior in
appearance to those of the London schools, he
Mentioned that at the schools in Westminster the
managers took all that offered themselves ; and ex-
cept where they had to burn their clothes the chil-
dren received nothing. They were put into classes and
given what they earned; and, after making clothes for
themselves and their schoolmates, they were allowed to
make for their friends ; and seven or eight who were
sent out as free emigrants to Australia, conducted
themselves so well on their passage, that a gentleman
had informed him the captain said that he had never
seen such well-behaved passengers. Such persons
would not be a week in that colony before they
would obtain an engagement of 10s. a week and their
rations. All they could look to here would be to
give the children industrious habits, And the reforma-
tion of their moral character. There was a very im-
portant question, whether they ought to make the
labour of the boys profitable. That raised the
question whether they had a right to bring the labour
of these children, whom they partly supported,
against those who cannot meet them upon equal
terms. lie believed the wretched condition of
the sempstresses of London was mainly caused by
bringing the labour of the inmates of gaols and
asylums into competition with them—pitting what
he might term slave against free labour. In a short
time also they would come into,,collision with the
parents and guardians of the children, who would
think they were making a profit out of the labour of
the boys and demand a share in it. And only when
they could make the impression upon the boys and
their guardians that they were teaching and sup-
porting them from charitable motives alone would they
come out freely. As for the expense they must con-
sider what they could do in the way of exciting their
neighbours to contribute. They had nothing to
complain of as far as they had gone; for in ten months
to do what they had done was extremely creditable
to the burgh of Dumfries ; but if they relaxed their
efforts for one instant they would fall back. They
must show the people that this question is not only
one of humanity, but one on which depends the material
advantage of Dumfries. In London they had ap-
prenticed out a number of boys, and their conduct
had been very good. But in all places there was a
great pressure on the market of labour, so that if they
got ten of their boys out to trades they would have
excluded some other ten. With the view of obviating
this he had proposed a resolution in the House of
Commons for the purpose of getting a certain number
of these boys transplanted to some of her Majesty's
colonies. That motion was lost, biz the Government
had volunteered to send out 150 children early
and this had been attended with the best effecyts. .11
they followed that system they would relieve of
Dumfries a great body of children, and if they could
raise 1001. that would pay for the transplantation
of ten to fifteen. They would thus at once relieve
the labour market and transport those children
out of mischief to where they would consume
much more of the manufactures of this country, and
thus give a stimulus to its trade; and if he could
i render them any service he should be most happy to
do so. In conclusion, he would impress upon them
his conviction, that if ten years longer were to pass
with the same inattention to the condition of
the
lower orders, it would be beyond the power of any
statesman or combination of statesmen to maintain
this empire in its present condition. He thought the
lessons they had lately from Europe might teach them
that when the people were disaffected and 'determined
to rise in mass, the finest standing army in the world,
under the most able officers, must fall before them;
and if those who possessed property and station did
not look to it, the people would rise some day against
them or their children, when regret that the present
opportunity had been lost would be unavailing.
The Rev. Mr. MANN, after stating how much the
meeting had been delighted by the able and instruc-
tive speech of Lord Ashley, and offering him its
thanks, on the part of the committee, requested an-
other conference with his Lordship before his depar-
ture. And as they had never yet laid their scheme
before a meeting of the inhabitants, perhaps his Lord-
ship might be induced to give his countenance to such
an undertaking.
His LORDSIIIP requested ti
me to consider, and
would answer the committee from Cumloden, to
which he was about to proceed.
The meeting then separated.—Dumfries Courier.

LITERATURE.
THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 1 Vol., pp.
215. By Harry Hiecver.
A jovial and pleasant writer is Harry Hieover,
and a right knowing one in all matters pertaining to
the stable or the kennel, the hunt or the race, the
.stud and its relation, in all respects, to the pocket.
Since Apperley disappeared from the sporting maga-
zines, we know no more delightful name to meet
with among the contributors than Harry Hieover.
And that is saying a vast deal, with all the rol-
licking scribes who adorn that section of our
periodical literature with their lucubrations. In the
hilarious tone of his effusions, and in the bonhoinmie
which beams forth in almost every page, "Harry
Hieover" is akin to " Nimrod," and not only in
bonhorranie :-nd hilarity, but in shrewdness and in a
perfect familiarity with his subject. These qualities
have not only bean conspicuous in his miscellaneous
papers as a magazine writer, they have been also
particularly manifested in his capital work called
" Stable Talk and Table Talk ; or Spectacles for
Young Sportsmen"—a work in two goodly volumes,
tilled to repletion with the nuts of amusement and
the wine of information. Those who appreciate John
Dlills's" Old English Gentleman" will have wiled
away many an agreeable hour over the chapters of " Stable Talk and Table Talk." The volumes are
imbued with the same gusto it; everything relating to
the rural scenes and field sports of old Albion. Here
however, is a book of a very different character; not
that it has less vivacity of manner, but that it con-
veys a much greater abundance of "facts and figures",
in a very portable and compacted form. Those who,
are habitual readers of the principal sporting periodi-
cals may fancy from the mere title-page of the pre-
sent volume that it is chiefly a reprint of contribu-
tions which have already appeared. Their conjecture
will have been nevertheless in a considerable degree
erroneous. Nearly four-fifths of "The Pocket and
the Stud" being in reality here printed for the first
time—three chapters alone having been previously
published. In as far as the economy of private horse-
dealing—not the wholesale horse-dealing of Tatter-
sall's, but that moderate speculation in horseflesh in
which so many thousands of our population are in the
habit of indulging—are concerned, the book is a very
encyclopaedia. its advice is not merely elementary,
it goes to the heart of a hundred difficulties and
establishes beacons and buoys in all directions.
Scarcely a quicksand or a sunken breaker is left un-
marked. 'Yorkshire jockeying is gibbetted. The
cunning sharpers against whom the late lamented
Lord George Bentinck waged such an unrelenting
and successful warfare, meet with no sympathy and get
no mercy, no not even the smallest, from our author.
He flays them in an allusion and goes on in his droll
and unflagging way along the path of pleasantness.
He exposes their tricks and subterfuges in a sentence
and proceeds in his accustomed vein of pleasantry.
After apologizing for his apparent " impertinence '
in giving his advice unasked—a course which he trusts
will not lay him under any " imputation of conceit or
arrogance"—he enters boldly upon his task ; first of
all treating of "stable management" and afterwards
of "stable economy; first telling us how we may be
best enabled to purchase a horse and then explaining
the different modes of keeping him. In the chapter
on stable management we have sections on ventila-
tion, on dryness, on wide doors, on stall -posts, on
racks, on windows, on balls, on mangers, on head
collars, on collar shanks, on muzzles, on lofts, on
boxes, on stoves, and on all the multifarious requisites
of a stable, including chamois, sponges, dressing tools,
water-brushes, mane-combs, and bandages. In the
chapter, again, on stable economy he explains to us
the ordinary cost of keep, the occasion upon which
veterinary surgeons should be consulted, the choice of
grooms, the ingenuity of servants, and the like
subjects of importance. The following extract will
be read with interest and deserves the widest circula-
tion :
" To show the difference between practically knowing
the expenses of a stable, and listening to being told by
interested persons what they ' must be, at least,' I will
just take a pair of sixteen-hands carriage-horses, and
see what their expense, not 'must be,' but should be;
and here I show no presumption in saying I care not
what all the grooms or coachmen in London may say—
I know I am right: not from any talent, ingenuity, or
peculiar mode of treatment; not reasoning upon even the
best theoretical principles, but on the broad, plain,
homely facts of experience and practice—that not
arising from having had the management of any one or
two classes of horses, or those under one or two diflerent
situations or circumstances, but from having had the
direction of all sorts of race-horses, hunters, carriage •
horses, hacks, machinery, and cart-horses, and at one
period all at the same time ; what I say, therefore, on
the subject reflects about as much credit on me in'poiPit
of intellect as we should attach to the man who had
been all his life emptying coal-waggons telling us how
many sacks went to the chaldron, and the chance of our
being in error would be about equal. It will be re-
membered I am now taking a pair of horses that are
more expensive to keep than any others used for private
purposes, for I allow each six quarterns of corn per day.
No two hunters living est ai much, take the year
throughout ; for though the name of a hunter to some
persona conveys an idea of great expense—though
hunting is expensive, it is not the keep of the horse
that makes it so—a good well-worked 401. cover hack
costs quite as much, and more, than you can get some
hunters to cost you.
Two horses, 6 quarterns a day each, at 1/. 4s.
per qr., say
£4l 0 0 141bs. of hay per day each, at
41. 103. per ton, say ' 20 10 0
r, Supposing straw to be scarce, 1
cwt. of straw per week, 11.108 ,
per ton, say
„ Shoeing both, los. per month,
28 days
0 (
„ Wear and tear of chamois, spon-
ges, brushes, &c. 6d. per week 1 6 0
„ Wear and tear of clothing and
head collars, 6d. each

6 10 0

2 12 0

£75 10 0
When our author is previously entering into a more
detailed account of the cost of keeping a horse, he
describes the advantages and disadvantages of the
various kinds of food from bran to carrots, from
barley to chaff, from beans to oats, and from malt to
all other sorts and descriptions of horse nutriment.
We must observe that the work is embellished with
a portrait of Harry Hieover on his favourite horse
Harlequin, engraved by Hacker, from a painting by
the author. Besides the useful information contained
in the volume, there are an abundance of illustrative
anecdotes such as impart piquancy to the recom-
mendations. Speaking of his success in matters
which some regard as subordinate, Harry Hieover
facetiously saith :—" We should have been sorry to
see John Kemble sing:a comic song between the acts
of Hamlet. Now, I certainly could not play Hamlet,
but I fancy I could, manage ' Jim along Josey.'
Well it is better to be encored in that than hissed in
Hamlet." Heartily coinciding in this we say encore
to works as pleasant and as much to the purpose as
" The Pocket and the Stud," by Harry Hieover.

CLARENDON ; a Tale of Recent Times. By Eliza
Smith.
read
" Clarendon " is an interesting addition to that al-
y popular class of works--" Religious Novels."
To the Roman Catholics this little tale will be pecu-
liarly acceptable, the writer being evidently an
enthusiastic and zealous member cf their faith ; while,
to the dispassionate and inquiring general reader, it
will be hardly less so, inasmuch as that the arguments
are carried on in all fairness, are untarnished by the
least acerbity, and place in candid juxtaposition the
chief grounds upon which the contending churches
base their respective creeds. In the opening and
closing chapters there are some exquisite touches of
nature. The incidents are well conceived, and re-
lated with a pleasing and earnest simplicity. Claren-
don, the leading character in the tale, is the very
beau ideal of Christian perfection. The moral of his
life appears to be the memorable injunction of the
Great Teacher,---" Seek ye first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you."

HfcATomßs or PORTRAITS.-Our next-door neigh-
bour over the water, the Charivari, informs us that
portraits of the French Members swarm all over Paris.
One house, it says, is quite blockaded with them—the
exterior is covered all over. The house may well bide
its face for putting on so bold a front! It seems there are
no less than three editions of these endless portraits.
Now, there are upwards of 900 Members, which only
makes the pretty number of 2,700 heads. The most
Dantonian Red Republican could not wish to take off a
greater number. Never did such a number of patriots
put their heads upon the block before! Imagine having
them all hung about your room! What an ugly ♦iew it
would give of Universal Suffrage I The portraits, we
are told, are so diversified, that there are not two alike.
This makes the collection all the richer, and is only an-
other proof that no politician is himself for two days
together. However, it must be a festering epingle to
every Frenchman's vanity, that his belle France should
possess such a cabbage-garden of portraits, and scarcely
one good head amongst them. We would recommend
vigorous weeding. At all events, France cannot com-
plain of being badly represented—in the shop windows.
—Punch.

Notices have been issued by the commissioners of
the metropolitan police to the superintendent of each
division of the police force, that the mea should make
reports of the various nuisances in existence in their "beats," and that the same should be for-
respective
warded to the commissioners every Monday morning.
Upon a complaint being made, the party offending is
cautioned ; but should the evil not be removed, it is
stated that the commissioners intend to take legal steps,
in order that as far as possible, under the present cir-
cumstances of malaria visitation of the cholera, nothing may
exist to cause a in any locality.
PRlNcEss's lIIIEATRE,—We are requested to state
that there is no truth whatever in the reports that this
theatre was damaged by the alarming fire Which took
place yesterday in Winsley-street, Oxford street. By
the exertions of the numerous persons employed on the
establishment, who were at rehearsal at the time, the
flames were kept from injuring the theatre, and the
usual entertainments were represented last evening.

DISCOYERING THE Lox•irunn.--The Sea Serpen
has been seen again; persons declaring it was several
miles in length. We should not at all wonder if it was
a stray column of one of Mr. Anstey's speeches, for we
know as a fact that that gentleman has been at sea for a
long time.—Punch.
SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Friday an investigation
took place at the Guildhall, Falmouth, relative to a young
man, a steward of an English vessel, unders orders for
Antwerp. It appears that, about half-past ten o'clock
on Wednesday night, the captain, steward, and a lad,
left the pier in a boat, to return to the vessel in the
harbour. It is reported that the captain and steward
were drunk, and that a quarrel took place, and a figfii
ensued in the boat, and, in the struggle, both captain
and steward fell overboard. The captain succeeded in
regaining the boat, bat the steward after much struggling
to do so, sunk to rise no more. It appears the poor
steward came on shore to post letters to his parents and
sweetheart in London. The body, has not yt t been re-
covered.— Western Luminary.
bUNFBRAILINE.-11 e rejoice to state that the deep
gloom which has so long enveloped our commercial
hemisphere seems to be dispersing, and the dawn of
prosperity again breaking on our half-famished commu-
nity. Mr. Erskine Beveridge on Friday last employed
nearly a hundred men, who had been without work, and
it is understood more will find employment from him.
We also learn that Mr. Robertson of London and Dun-
fermline, who had failed for a vast amount, and who has
lately obtained a settlement, has given an offer to n--
purchase the extensive factories and works which be for-
merly possessed, and it is expected that he will com-
mence manufacturing immediately on an extensive scale.
—lVeshire Journal.

ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.
The following numerous arrivals of specie have
aken place at the metropolis from the places men-
tioned :—The American line-of-packet-ship American
Eagle, arrived from New I ork, has brought 3
packages of specie, consigned to two different firms in
the metropolis ; the Oriental Queen, from the
Mauritius, 1 case of bullion, individually addressed;
the Tourist, from Calais, 1 bag of gold, addressed to a
firm in London ; the vessel Inchinman, from Calcutta,
4 cases of specie, consigned to a firm in London ; the
Crusader, from Bahia, 1 bag of silver coin, similarly
consigned ; the Pauline Houghton, from Bahia, 2
cases of specie, consigned to order ; the Doris,
from the Mauritius and the Cape of Good
Hope respectively, 1 box of silver coin individually
addressed, and 5 cases of specie, consigned to
order; the Athenian, from Madras and the Cape of
Good Hope respectively, 1 case of specie, individually
addressed; the Anglo-Saxon, from the Havannah, 1
box of silver; the American line-of-packet ship Sir
Robert Peel, from New York, 1 keg of specie, indi-
vidually addressed, and 20 packages of specie, con-
signed to a firm in the metropolis ; the Mary Nixon,
from Madras, 1 case of treasure, similarly addressed;
the Lucinda, from Bombay, 1 box of specie, con-
signed to order ; the Greyhound, from the Cape of
Good Hope, 2 boxes of specie, consigned to two
houses in the metropolis; the Scottish Maid from
' Valparaiso, 4 mats of bar silver, consigned
to a metropolitan firm, and 2 mats of bar silver
consigned to order; the Wilton 'Vood, from
Monte Video, 1 box of specie, consigned to a
firm in London ; the London, from Madras, 6
kegs of specie, individually addressed ; the Daphne,
from Bordeaux, 1 case of specie, consigned to order;
the Benah, from Whampoa, a quantity of copper coin,
consigned to order ; the Carlista, from .Belixe, Hon-
duras, 1 package of coin, individually addressed ; the
John Brewer, from Bombay, 1 box of specie, simi-
larly addressed; the American line-of-packet ship
Prince Albert, from New York, 3 packages of
specie, consigned to the Bank of British North
America ; the Circassian, from Cadiz, 9 packages
and 2 bags of specie, consigned to a house in the
metropolis; the American line-of-packet ship West-
minster, from New York, 1 case of gold ore,
consigned to one firm, and 1 package of specie,
consigned to another in London ; the Belfast, from
Calais, 1 bag of money, addressed to a house in the
metropolis; the Samuel Enderby, from the Mauritius,
2 cases of bullion, addressed to individual houses, and
4 packages, consigned to order ; the Nautilus, from
the Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope, 1 box of
specie, consigned to a firm of eminence in the
metropolis ; the Standerings, from Algoa Bay, Cape
of Good Hope, 1 case of specie, individually addressed,
and 1 case, consigned to a firm in London ; and the
William and Sarah, from Oporto, 11 cases of specie,
consigned to the Bank of England.

BLOKE AND WESTMINSTER
ABBEY.
Really it is high time that Mr. Blare should cease
to be allowed to do what he likes in Westminster
Abbey. If deans and chapters cannot do without
him, let him go to Chester, or Carlisle, or even York
—to some place, in short, with very few or no asso-
ciations to remove. Why detain him in Westminster
amid monuments and recollections which he cannot
understand—and can destroy ? Dean Ireland (Gif-
ford's Dean Ireland, by the way) permitted him to
destroy the identical small square stone, with " 0 rare
13en Jonson" upon it, which Jack Young put over
Jonson in the north side of the nave of West-
minster Abbey. The man who smashed the Port-
land Yape; the cook at Mr. %Vest's, who singed geese
at Michaelmas with Massinger's unpublished plays ;
and Malone, who' painted Shakspere's bust at Strat-
ford-upon-Avon, were destructives of the same kind.
But this is not all that Mr. Blore has done or is
doing. He induced the Dean and Chapter not to
repair the monument to Chaucer, because it was not
a monument of Chaucer's age, and theref not and did no4(which it does) contain theore ashescould of
the father of English poetry. The same Mr. Blore
actually took up the blue flagstone covering Cow-
ley's grave, and bearing Cowley's name, and packed
it away as a stone of so many square feet and no-
thing more.

A primrose by n river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.
And now this identical Mr. Blore, by permission of
Dean Buckland, Mr. Milman the poet, and others,
has destroyed one-half of glorious John Dryden's
monument, and removed Sir Godfrey Kneller's bust
and Pope's ennobling epitaph to where the bust can-
not be seen, and the verses cannot be read. Poor
Lady Kneller! have all her activity and desire for
a lasting perpetuation at Twickenham and West-
minster Abbey been to no purpose ? She was busy
enough to get Pope's monument to his father and
mother removed from the place in which it is still to
be seen (unless Mr. Blore has been recently called
in) ; and the poet, who opposed her at every turn,
paid her with a kind of epigram epitaph—
One day I mean to fill Sir Godfrey's tomb,
It for my body all this church has room.
Down with more monuments; more room (she cried),
Fur I am very large and very wide.
If " Down with more monuments " be Mr. Blore's
cry, then "Down with Mr. Blore!" must be ours.—
Athenctussz.

DEATII OF PROFESSOR TE/INANT,—It is With ex-treme regret that we have to announce the death of Mr
William Tennant, Processor of Oriental Languages in
the College of St. Mary, St. Andrew's, but more exten-
sively and enduringly known as the author of *. Anster
Fair," and various other works in general literature,
hich took place at his house, Devon Grove, Dollar, on
Sunday last.—Scotsman.
INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.—At the forthcoming
November election, among the number of candidates is
the child of John Charles Frederick Piercy, two years
and nine months old, whose father was one of the ur;
fortunate London Fire Establishment, who perished in
the execution of his duty at a fire in New Crane, Sh well, on the 28th of July last. The deceased's widow
was left with two children. The case is strongly recom.
mended, and it is hoped w;11 prove a successful Ofle on
the day of election.