The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-04 00:00:00

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.

A very excellent assortment of articles form the May
number of Bentley ; diversified, sparkling, and well-
timed, with but few exceptions. "Brian O'Linn," capi-
tally illustrated by Leech, is pursued as humourously as
ever ; the writer has a good appreciation of the vis
comics, he sketches a ludicrous situation with singular
drollery, and infuses that plaisance • end bonhommie in
the working out of his story which is always so deside-
rated in comic fictions, but so seldom attained. This
aptitude for the ridiculous is, especially in this instance,
well ministered to by the artist already mentioned ; the
fore-shortened figure of Captain Dangerfield, doubled up
(in company with a chair) upon the floor of the Glou-
cester Coffee-house, is eminently ludicrous—it is the
vraisemblance of a pictorial tumble. Miss Costello gives
us an acceptable collection of joltings-by-the-way anent
" Lahore ; and Mrs. Mathews, that indefatigable caterer
to the lovers of theatrical gossip, commences a new
series of stage anecdotes, under the title of " Tea-Table
Talk," a title selected, we conjecture, rather for its un-
wonted alliteration than for its attractiveness. Colman,
Curran, Erskine, and Stephen Kemble, not forgetting,
of course, the great droll, Charley Mathews himself,
supply texts for bon mots and descriptions which, if they
be not conspicuous as brilliants, pass of, for the nonce,
as very fair paste substitutes. " The Apprenticeship of
Raphael Sand, of Urbino," translated by Lady Duff
Gordon, is, as the heading would alone indicate, well
deserving a perusal; nothing, however trivial in itself, can
be deemed too frivolous, when coupled with the beautiful
memory and immortal deeds of the " divile Raphael,"
if pictures can be strictly designated deeds. Another
novelktte there is about a smuggler, by Mr. Kingston,
but it may be classed among its numberless predecessors
—the legends of those illicit gentlemen l Of the verse
in this number we must say somewhat, if it be only in
defence of public patience. It is direfully inane: a
miserable jingle of platitudes, discordant to the ear and
in defiance of the taste of the least fastidious critic. One
miserable thing actually begins thus:—
" Grief parted us,—shame parted us,—
Sin parted us,—weepingfor aye,—
Pitiful dread of the world out-hearted us,—
Memory was poisoned—what should we say ?"
We think you should decidedly say nothing at all, rather
than perpetrate such " asphixiated" metre, and such rich
Zummerzetshire rhyme. Ditto of a vulgar parody called
" The Yard of Clay." " The Cavaliers Hat," by our
old acquaintance Alfred Crowquill, is a very lump of
sugar after such black-draughts: it is a quaint notion
(the hat, Rot the lump of sugar) neatly compiled into a
confession. Does any onehanker after some. knowledge
of " David Hume's Philosophy?" Let him resort to
the article so entitled in Bentley. Some little labour
has evidentlY been bestowed upon its arrangement; and
the paper is at once lucid and impartial. "Payment in
Kind,' by Nail Prendergast, though an ephemeral trifle,
contains some judicious hints to curmudgeons, and has
a grinning risibility about it besides. Albert Smith,
never lacking in riscetious thoughts, and ever keen in
his observations on the middle classes of the community,
takes occasion, in this fourth installment of " Popular
Zoology," to depict the life of A Country Medical
Man." The induction of his paper is felicitous in its
drollery, ex. gr.

"There are a great many painful methods of earning
a livelihood .. .A chimney-sweep's cannot be
a very eligible profession and we should pause some
time before we decided upon following that of a
policeman in St. Giles's, a waiter at a night tavern, a
break-of-day coffee retailer, or an after-midnight cab-
man. Then there are the comic writers ; wretched per-
sons who are obliged to be finny by the page, and make any
quantity of jokes to order that may bt demanded ; but who
are supposed by the world at large to live in a state of con-
stant merriment at their own productions; throwing down
their pen from time to time to scream with laughter at what
they are inventing." (We suspect this to be true over-
much.) "And there are gentlemen in dirty tights and
trunks, and braces worked with faded spangles ; who
dislocate their limbs through the bars of chairs, and
walk on their heads in the gutters, upon mere specula-
tion of the available halfpence to be pitched into the
ring, &c."

" Tipperary Hall " improves upon acquaintance,
though we cannot but regard the endeavour as
over venturesome. The "Irish Whiskey Drinker" is
scarcely competent to walk in tho footsteps of Professor
Wilson. Taking our foregoing remarks as a synopsis of
its contents, it must be acknowledged that Bentley is as
hilarious as a May reader could desire.

TEE NEW MONT.HL Y.
For several months past to mention the New Monthly
once has been to describe it.always, every successive
number being the very counterpart of its predecessor.
This no doubt arises from its amazing quantity of " con-
tinuations." There are no • less than six before us at
this * moment ; as usual, contributed by Marryatt,
Levinge, Maxwell, James, Oxenford, and that unfortu-
nate wight Mister Jolly Green. To say this, however,
is to observe that the majority of articles are excellent
and the extreme minority the reverse. " The Priva-
teer's Man" has much animation ; " Echoes from the
Backwoods" much sprightliness ; " Lights and Shades
of a Gentleman on Half-pa .no little amount of plea-
santry ; and " Beauchamp' a tone of singular medio-
crity. Captain Levinge describes that often-described
wonder of the world the falls of Niagara, and although
his pencil is scarcely so vivid as that of Charles Dickens
or Lord Morpeth, the picture of that amazing tumult of
`i distracted waters"- bears-about it the air of truthful-
ness. Mr. Jolly Green in his " Travels and Opinions"
becomes to our thinking more and More intolerable in
his vulgar prolixity about " nothing at all." His
mongrel style. however, half Gallic and half English,
doubtless hath its admirers ; under which conception_
we can do no better than transcribe the paraphrase of
Boz—" May good digestion wait on appetite, and health
on both, and a waiter on all three I"
Spa-
nish Ballads relating to King
oA IpThohne ,
zo the Wise," though less meritorious than thosef
Mr.
con-
tributed last month, are not unworthy
a 1 to impart
. cannot f
Oxenford. He has a facility of expression; and a just
perception of his author which
beauties to his translatibids. Those Versions of ballad
orate form : they
will, be collected and published in a separate literature, especially
readers. " Ali!
the Geiwan,
. should, and of course
would be a boon to the scholarly amongino doubt, but we
do not go 1" is an impassionedh
reverted to that exquisite. song
uncon-
sciously
? A com
Is it not so
hint it to Mrs. Butler that eramYemoryo
he
" I arise from dreams of thee 1"
identical, though t
n the same
is not to be whispered i
unt of
development, of them .
meagre account
' ' but a
parison will show the ideas to be
breath. "George Canning ' filllS'healLePns,
of his abilities, or impressive
inch closed his
loftiness
that illustrious man ; not compatible
ner for the melancholy catastrophe
,exting
uished the sun at
at its zenith—which
eeilleoVuagtiiio elevation tnolathne.
career
he epitaph w. itten by Canning on
is pert : . _ .
in this dairy,
nisiorosn. .
C"
lies buried
1 r e Thes
' 'And is not this sad q a uondary?"
"PopdouorngQinuon
tn

Mr. Charles Hooton is rather prosaic in his poetry :
"Bonnabel " scarcely deserved his signature. " A Pro-
spectus for an Asylum for Decayed Dandies" is a sickly
effort after the humorous ; our heart aches when the

4
author intlulas,tus'to be merry. Reneely has a curiou
morpeau entitl6:.!

4 THOUGHT.
"Life—like a lute, whose strings, some tense, some loose,
Discourse delicious music—is most sweet
When in pursuits diversified employ'd—
Pleasure this hour and wisdom in the next."
Such are the component parts of this magazine, mis.
cellaneous both in selection and ability. A:paper spark-
ling with much drollery, and spangd with many classic
recollections, undertakes to defend' the gold curtains -
round the boxes of her Majesty's Theatre against all
fractious disputants. We have already transcribed it
entire in our columns. It is a pleasant, witty, apropos
contribution.

AINSWORTH.
There is a really mournful poverty in the present
number of Ainsworth, the principal portion of its pages,
consisting of twenty.three chapters, translated from third-
rate French romances, another section of a long-pi2b-
lished fiction, and only three original coutributions.
Alexander Dumas and Eugene Scribe are
clever, showy writers, without
question, but surely very
we
have scribes of our own equally good, if not I
immeasurably superior, and as surely their effusions
would more appropriately distend an English magazine
than the second-hand lucubrations of our neighbours.
" Piquillo Alliaga" and the " Count of Monte Christo"
are not decidedly of such transcendant excellence but '
that they might give way to wholesome pieces of our
indigenous scribblers. Such an anomaly as the one we
have just mentioned is too glaring to allow us to pass it
over in silence. Ainsworth must " awake! arise!" or
very rapidly dwindle away in popularity. We say this
from a wish to witness its resuscitation from a terrible •
state of torpor. Mr. Wright's article about an alchemist
is the only attractive one in the number, and it is suffi-
ciently
strange to excite the curiosity of the most indif-,
ferent. " Bassora" carries in every line the impress of
Mr. W. Francis Ainsworth's pen, and consequently,
while it betokens the industrious and observant traveller,
it is tedious withal. " Irish Legends," by Mr. Forrest, •
may possibly be read, because they are the only rhyth- •
mical effusions in the magazine; which altogether affords
good opportunity for improvement.

• DOLMAN. • •
Guided by experience, the new editor proceeds upon
his mission with even increased ability; the articles
are
generally selected with discrimination, they are attraa-`
the in their theme, and have a very singular and pleas- •
ing diversity of style. In this latter respect one might'
almost identify the writer of each without the assistande
of their signatures: the galloping, hedge-and-ditch pre--
cipitation of John Keegan, the earnest, though some- •
what crude beauties of the compositions of Mr. Price,-
the lucid precision of Mr. Jerningham, the sonorous but
rather elaborated mannerisms of the author of the
" Analysis of Wit," and especially the scholarly, yet
natural eloquence of Mr. Keon. All these may be de-
tected without much trouble, and their great dissilnilarity,
together with their different amount of merit, impart to
this magazine the charm of discursiveness, We pre-
sume we may now regard Dolma* as numben'ng amongst
the prominent miscellanies. It hasproceeded with an un-
usual appearance of vigour for fifteen months,• and
instead of dwindling away to the average tenuity of new
publications, it has ripened in merit as time has elapsed.
The opening paper for May has considerable interest,
being a narration of the persecutions inflicted upon r
" The Catholics of England." It extends in point of
time to the reign of the boy king, Edward VI. The
compilation reflects much credit upon the industry and
impartiality of Mr. Jerningham. " A Tale of the
Falls," by the Rev. E. Price, has a dual attraction, see- -
ing that it recounts a perilous escape from a cataract,
and hinges mainly upon the conversion of the writer to
Catholicity. " Gleanings in the Green Isle" displays
the same animation as ever, but, unfortunately, the
same want of concentration. It is aptly :followed by a '
metrical ttibute to the "Lakes of Killarney," by Mr.
Tames Silk Buckingham. " Vicissitudes of Illustrious
Men" has no little novelty in the .subject selected for the
present number—namely, the romantic history of Na-
poleon's Paladin, Murat. We remember no separate
narrative of this extraordinary man—indeed, we believe
this to be the first memoir of his life which has ever ap-
peared, at least in the English language. The editor
has restricted himself to a critical notice of a remarkable
work, published not long since, and called " Rome as it
was under Paganism, and as it became under the Popes." "
On the whole, we admire the panegyrics lavished on the
author, because we conceive them to be honest and dis-
criminating. In one particular, however, we think the
reviewer has displayed an undue leniency—he lauds the -
book in ita entirety. Now, here we seriously think him '
to be at fault. The two volumes are undoubtedly superb in
their imaginativeness, in their erudition, and in their
artistic excellence; but we regard them as decidedly de-
ficient in symmetry of construction—they are void of
that sequential perspicacity of narration, without which
a literary work cannot be regarded as faultless. It is a
glorious assemblage of fragments, but they are discon-
nected and confused in arrangement. As a specimen of
the poetry in Dolman's Magazine, we transcribe several
verses from an exquisite contribution addressed to the •
subject of " Spring," and subscribed by the initials
E. E. M. K.

A beam and a gush of tears—bless'd tears !
From relenting spheres,
Have pierced my dungeon's gloom ;
And now uprisen from chains, from prison,
I float on clouds of bloom !

A zone, and a kirtle green—tender green,
With the trickling sheen
Of molten diamonds spread,
These have lured, from its cell immured,
The snowdrop's virgin head !

I smile mad the stirring mould—miser mould,
Of its hoarded gold,
A. boon is forced tQ yield;
As it up-creeps in claiiling heaps,
The crocus gilds the field.

I weep, and the violets bloom—purple bloom,
In a leafy gloom,
(Like sweet thoughts born of borrow)
Than which no gem my diadem
Of rarer worth might borrow.

My feet as the meads they skim—deftly skim,
From the mountain's rim,
A trail of lustre bear ;
Emerald gloss for the sprouting moss,
Sheen for the piping air.

And see, in my wild-wood bowers—happy bowers,
The white may-flowers,
As saints immaculate,
Whose starry eyes look up to the skies
With beam-light saturate I

FRASER.

Fraser contains a number of very readable articles
this month, but scarcely any of them refer to subject*
requiring discussion, or that can give rise to any
lengthened observations. " Past and Present Condition
of British Poetry" gives a succinct and on the whole an
impartial account of the poets that came in with King
George 111., and those that flourished during his reign.
And it may be mentioned as a curious fact, that all the
great, celebrated poets of the age closed their labours
with the close of his reign. Byron died four years after
that period, Campbell, and Scott, and Crabbe, and Moore
o name,
one lt it
na
ds
ws pe r uena gn utphersienfncerethhaatrdislyresaelelyheonwtiathede
may be said to have then finished their poetical labours,
atondthne
writer will be able to find materials, as he promises, fin*
another Railer on the present condition of our poetryL.
" The Princip'al Campaigns in the Rise of Napoleon"
are continued, and the present article is entirely devoted
to the campaign of Marengo. In that vi e find little
novelty, for the history of the remarkable battle, re-
markable for its results, as well as for the mode in
which it was gained, is generally known. It was an ac-
cident to which Bonaparte's genius and courage con-
tributed nothing. Dessaix and Killerman did the work,
but the prime agent was the old, incapable Austrian
awoke found his army
day,severoatSomething
n ed t ghai
whenni ng e
mored
he, -
ellabtoWut Vs liecetop r alit uognoe"
General, lifelas, who, in place of following up the most
vthiceto
ry
oc
,oeml
ocp
kl , tien
utterly ruined.
gives a very fair opinion respe • cting the works of the
French poet and peer, and will enable the reader to
judge for himself, for there are
long extracts given
from his works, with a free translation in English.
a well arranged
the Sutlej, with a ‘lcrislitramary of the campaign on
p ion of the battles and the
country where they were
fought. It is
extremely im-
partial. All due praise is
given to Sir Hugh Gough for
his resolution, daring courage, and ultimate
doubts are occasionally thrown' on his mode success,
ofbat command-
ing an army, and some blame is attached to him for
trusting
than
to judicious arrangements and mancouvting, by
h
wbic- the writer thinks many lives might have been
spared. The charge is nut unfounded, and possibly
Gough would have had less reason to boast, nay, might
have been defeated, if he had commanded any other
troops. The writer thus sums up his remarks:—
" The Seikbs have been punished by the privation of all
that fertile district which lies between the Sutlej and the
Hyphasis or Beass. The whole of the protected states, as
they used to be called, are absorbed and become an integral
portion of the British empire. One million and a half ster-
ling is demanded as compensation for the expenses of the
war, and military occupation of the whole of the Ptuljaub is
to be held till the full amount shall be paid. And a re-
arrangement of the Seikh army is to take place, on such a
plan as the Governor-General shall judge best for the preser-
vation of peace both at home and abroad. Finally, Sir
Henry Hardinge has been created Viscount Hennas, Sir
Hugh Gough, Baron Gough; Sir Harry Smith has
and
rewarded with a baronetcy, which lie has nobly earned'
have been
on all the other officers and men engaged honours
bestows them,
heaped, which may gratify the country which
or the recepients.
but can add nothing to the high fameu of Parliament
They have been thanked by bothornan,
and child through-
outthey are thanked by every man r
'wlio mourn over the fall of
the empire; and even they .
the thought that they
died nearest of kin find comfort
,in,
their
died nobly, and in a righteous
cause. '

A FALSE AND FRAUDULENT LOVER. -- At Marl-
Rrracecart,areonntSlyatnurdot amyo,raelittitliaenrtrme.neenlitywyoetasno, offaignete::.sht :-
I 7 'g borough
de an
td lu a family living in Gloucester-place, applied to the
I. , ly's ma
magistrate, under the following ciremnstances :—She stated that
some months ago she became acquainted With a young man named
Chandler,le n
y ed
ui united. On
she had every reason, from the vows of loy e
which had constantly made, to believe that she would have been
shortlOn the 14th of last mouth he expressed a wish that
the marriage should take place as soon as possible, when confiding
in his honour, she VIPs induced to draw 301. from the savings' bank,
and give it to him towards purchasing furniture. On the following
day he said he had expended the BM at Dent's furniture shop.,Sing
that day she had seen nothing of the man, and shehad
was false.
disc.oree
that his story about having purchased furniture at Dent's
to
give
her
The magistrate expressed his regret that he was unable
any assistance.

DOG - STEALING. COURT - MARTIAL. --- C•rporal
Blewes, of the 2.d battalion of the Grenadier Guards, stationed at
Windsor, found guilty of stealing a valuable dog belonging to Mr.
Smith, chemist, of that town, has been sentenced to two month4im.
prisonment Chatham Military Prison, and to be reduced
kite
ranks. The dog bad been sold by
gentheueocnrlnoralre,e.widiintluata jezghb,siren
after he had stolen it, to a French
a trifling SUM,

SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND
MARINERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
The eighth anniversary of this valuable charity was
celebrated at the London Tavern, en Saturday, by an
excellent dinner, of which about 200 noblemen and gen-
tlemen partook, and which was presided over by the
Veteran Sir George Cockburn. Amongst those present
we observed, the Earl of Cadogan, Sir W. Gage, Sir J.
Johnstone, the Hon. Mr, Lambton, Sir W. W. Pell,
Captain Porter, R.N., Captain Locke, Rev. D. Laing, E.
Y. Leeks, Esq., E. West, Esq.' and E. Brewster, Esq.
After the usual loyal and constitutional toasts had
been given, and warmly responded to,
The CHAIRMAN said he had now come to the real
business of the evening. If the Lord Mayor, who had
promised to attend, had been present, he might have
been able to win their souls to charity, but he trusted to
the cause itself. and that it would not suffer from the
absence of any ability on his part to do justice to the
position which he had unexpectedly been called upon to
fill at the last moment. He trusted he should be able
to show them that there was no charity which could be
more acceptable to them, and one to which they could
have greater pleasure in contributing, than the institu-
tion wose eighth anniversary they had met that evening
to celebrate.—(Cheers.) He begged them to consider
the perilous condition of those who gained a hard live-
lihood as fishermen, and in that capacity contributing to
the luxury of the rich—who went out to sea in all
weathers—during heavy rains, and during the preva-
lence of every kind of storm and every kind of danger,
to obtain a steady, but humble subsistence for themselves
and their families as long as they were spared to
pursue it. He must say that the elements at ties got
the better of them all.—(Cheers ) li
to them the dangers
which beseteiehed to picture
these industrious
a
nd brave men in the pursuit
oef their calling.
is destroyed
o
A storm over
--his beat is overtakes
aakl es
s him
a.nand h
destroyed his family and
his humble cot have lost their protector. His wife,
rage round her, begins to feel those
hearing the storm h
feel.
placed such a position can
fears which only those
She puts her children to bed, but she has no rest, for
the storm continues to rage.
She goes out and braves
the storm—she seeks for her husband in vain, but she
sees him no more.—(Cheers.) He prayed them to ima-
gine her feelings on her return to her desolate home,
not knowing how to obtain food or keep a roof over the
heads of herself and her children. The door opened and
the agent of the society entered and administered to her
each consolation as a woman in her condition can re-
ceive at such a moment. He said, "You shall retain
your cot, you shall be safe, your children shall be spared
to you, for the Shipwrecked Fishermen's Society exists
and will afford you assistance."—(Cheers.) If she had
a son old enough to follow his father's pursuit, the
society helped him to a boat, and protected his family
and his mother.—(Cheers.) What must their feelings
be when they knew that that woman and her family
were blessing God that there was such an institution?—
(Cheers.) He was satisfied that they would not hesi-
tate to support an institution which had for its object
aced in such a situation. He then
the relief of persons pl
adverted to mariners, who, he said, contributed to all the
luxuries of this great metropolis, and to the vast
fortunes possessed by British merchants. —(Loud
cheers.) And who if the country was involved in war,
were always ready to come forward and defend it
(Cheers.) During the terrible revolution in France,
-when almost every nation in Europe had its shores in-
vaded, and misery stalked abroad in every part of it,
this country was as free from such disturbances as it
was at this moment. But this was owing to the exer-
tions of our sailors, who nobly defended our coasts from
invasion. In the course of the duties of those sailors—
in the course of their generous effbrts in the time of war
and of peace—they were exposed to dangers from the
iron-bound shores of the country—they were exposed to
all the dangers of lee shores from the want of refuge
harbours ; and the number of lives 10-,t in this way was
quite astounding. And although our sailors were the
best in the world, they were, like the poor humble
fishermen, liable at times to be overpowered by the ele-
ments, and in endeavouring to prevent their ships from
becoming a wreck, toiling night and day to get an offing,
but their efforts were often unsuccessful, and their
ships, perhaps, became a wreck. But what was the fate of those unhappy sailors who were
wrecked and driven upon our coasts ? They were
possibly thrown upon shore almost in a lifeless state from
having been beaten against the rocks, and if they re-
covered, it often happened that they had neither food,
clothing, or anything else, and it was no uncommon
circumstance to find them begging in the highway, in
the endeavour to get to their homes. The " Shipwrecked
Mariners' Society" had been established to avert these
evils, and the unfortunate sailor had now aid extended
to him in the shape of food, clothing, and money to
take him to his friends.—(Cheers.) Was it possible for
a mercantile country to have an institution more bound-
less in its charity ? He thought, however, he had said
enough to induce them to think that they could not do
better than contribute, according to their abilities, to a
charity of such a description.—( Hear.) After having,
complimented the ladies with much gallantry, from; whom, he said, all charitable feelings emanated, for their
exertions on behalf of the society, he concluded by
proposing " Prosperity to the Institution," and resumed
his eeat amidst general cheering.
The toast was received with great enthusiasm.
The SECRETARY then read the report, and the list of
subscriptions, among which were the following
sums:—
Sir G. Cock s. d.burn lO 10 0
The Lord Mayor
George Byng
T. Hutchinson, Esq.. and others, the residue
of the fund of a society, called The Fisher-
man's Refuge, which has ceased to act
R. S. Elalford, E-q. 2O 0 0
.Earl Manvers, in addition to former dona-
tions
21 0 0
Earl Cardigan
7 7 0
Sir Thomas Wilde lO 10 0
E. Brewster, Esq., and Friends 4O 0 0
Lieutenant-Colonel Williams, R. E lO 10 0
Subscription from the Ladies
Several other toasts were drunk before the separation
of the company:
=Nearly 2,0001. was subscribed during the evening.
The Misses Pyne, Messrs. Hatton, Francis, and Ma-
chin, end the band of the Scots' Fusileers, did great
justice to the musical department.

POOR MANS GUARDIAN SOCIET Y
A public meeting of this Society was held on Friday
right in the Theatre of the Western Literary and Scientific
Institution, Leicester. square.
Sir DR LACY EVANS hating taken the chair, and after
apologising for doing so when others, he thought, rather e-
served the honour, said, the name of the Society spoke for
itself, and of the benevolence of those who had brought it
into existence. When it was remembered that there were
more than a million in this country dependent on relief to be
obtained under the laws, and the miseries of those in that
state, the gentlemen who formed this Society were deserving
of the highest praise. And when the amount of wealth was
recollected, and the amount of sympathy for the poor, and
the number of those unhappily dependent on others, great
efforts were necessary, and more might be expected than in
any other country. The statistics lately got together by
order of the House of Commons showed the state of the
country in reference to the subject which had brought
them together. There was an inquiry proceeding in
a Committee of that House at present with respect to
the Andover Union, and though some would rather have
objected to that Committee, yet there was a movement in
that House which he hoped would issue in good to the poor.
But, in the presence of his Hon. Friend and former colleague,
Mr. Walter, of Bearwood, he would not detain the meeting
on a subject to which he (Mr. Walter) was far more compe-
tent tee do justice.—(Cheers.)
Tile CHAIRMAN then called on
Mr. COCHRANE, who gave a statement of the objects and
origin of the Society.
Mr. WALTER, who rose to move the first resolution, said
he attended the meeting with great pleasure, and the more
so as the objects of the Society accorded with what had been
the operations of the latter part of his life—(Appleuse)—
when he laboured to alleviate the case of the humble poor.
For he had laid it down as a principle that the humblest of
his fellow-subjects had an equal right to be clothed and fed
as the richest to enjoy their estates.—( Cheers.) By the
poor he meant the honest and industrious poor, and they had
rights both by the law of man and of God. He was sure,
lwowes7er, that the meeting had seen enough in the public
newspapers et' the poor in the union workhouses to convince
them of the need of some supervision of the system, and
protection of the poor. gater, Sevenoaks, and many
more places had scarcelyceasedh to ring in their ear when they
beard of Andover---(Rear,
cases had been buried in' seceraer2—fnaud how many more
like this it was impossible to say. These ought
of a Society
inanity on the Tti rive, considering the vast accumulation to put
vice In in those places where these wretched beingscum were
of
con-
gregated. A society such as this was necessary, in oredertoexercise supervision so long as the detestable law which
caused so much wretchedness should continue. But at the
Same time it was not the law itself so much, whatever it
might be, as the manner of carrying the law into operation.
In general he was opposed to societies and combinations, but
since this poor law had been forced upon the country, he
knew not how it was to be moderated and humanized but by
a society like this; for, as Burke said, " when bad men con-
spire, good men muse combine."—(Applause.) And as
nothine could be gained from advocatiug the case
consciences,case of poor
man, except the approbation of their
nothing sordid could be attributed to them. After some fur-
Veer observations, he moved—
" That this meeting deems the principles and objects of
* The Poor Man's Guardian Society' worthy of general ac-
ceptation, and recommend their fellow-citizens to aid the
Society, by uniting in membership with them and contribu-
ting to the funds of the Society."
Mr. WAKLEY, M.P., in seconding the resolution, said an
attempt was made by this Society to organise the friends of
humanity, so that they might. make their operations to bear
on the arm which oppressed the poor. It was impossible to
say w
hat it might do; some present might know of unre-
lieved cases of distress, and they could make them known to
the Society, and that would very soon be followed by pub-
lication and the application of public flagellation. There was
nothing which time • 'e miscreants who exercised that oppres-
sion on the poor in private felt more than the public finger,
for they knew that it was pointed at the right target. In
his (Mr. Wakley's) situation he had occasion to meet with
Very many cases and facts, and he know well what was the
condition of the poor, and if lie told them one hundredth part
they would not believe it • such cruelty, such oppression was
exercised towards the ing them to
peon Societ 'would br -
light, env d •
The pre
doing prevent the repetition of such cruelties.
from the ActiC)f
he regretted to eay, had been altered
had ever been put t4,nabj,th—an Act which was the best that
title of the poor to reliefeasntatute-book, for it recognised the
ing them on property.
it and it threw the burden of supp,rt-
eider the difference that existed iPlerrectlY astonishing to con-
under one Crown. If a Seetchm'ahe three countries, though
for relief, he might receive a to a.workhouse
the other hoped that he would nut
areettien
and a hint that
the poor man did go ba-k, he was told he again.
But if
house in order to be passed home. muttwen eime into the
at an expense of 40s. or 505., what met him th:rrt
he was entitled to no relief whatever—none whateveLieWhy
hf,e;:
he was dying and diseased.—( Shame). The words of the passed for Scotland were, that no able-bodied hiton;er
is entitled to relief. In Ireland matters were worse. When
the poor man had been passed home, if the house was full,
tber‘..' was no relief for him—he was entitled to none.—(Shame.)
`That was thought nothing of in aliment ; It any one there

contended that the poor were entitled to relief, it would be
said !hat such a doctrine would be a confiscation of property
in Ireland. He and his Hon. Friend present had heard the
words as they came up Parliament-street that night, used by
a Member of the House—why, he said, there were two mil-
lions of poor in Ireland, and It would be a confiscation of
property.—(Cries of "Oh, oh.") So as the case became
worse they did nothing! Pretty state doctors, he thought.
If there were now two millions in Ireland left destitute, what
would it soon become? He cordially supported the Society,
and hoped it would be effectually aided.
Mr, FIIILDEN, M.P., after some able remarks on the poor-
law, moved—

" That this meeting is of opinion that the destitute poor
are at all times entitled to be relieved and assisted in a spirit of
kindness by the relieving-officers, more especially when they
have been employed for many years in the district or parish
to which, in the hour of necessity, they are compelled to apply,
from the infirmities of age."
Mr. S. BCCKINGHAM seconded the resolution, which was
put and carried with acclamation.
Mr. SAVAGE, in moving the next resolution, introduced
the case of a poor man present in the meeting who had been
rejected at the workhouse of St. James's parish without
sufficient inquiry about his case, which was a needy and a
helpless one. Several other powerful cases were read by Mr.
Savage. He concluded by moving the following:—
" That F. T. A'Beckett, Esq., and Mr. Charles Nichols be
nominated by this meeting to be elected as members
was
of
put the
to
committee of the Poor Man's Guardian Society,"
Captain Evioss seconded the resolution, which
and seconded by Mr.
the
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oavndedcarbryiedmurn.anstornualy%
PITT the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman
cEh—at
and Committee of the Poor Man's Guardian Society for their
kind attendance this evening."
It was moved and cafnee
ilesd;
" That this meeting fl
e u to the press for its ready
and humane exertions in the causet of the poor."
A vote of thanks was also passed to the chairman, and
the meeting separated.

THE AMERICAN NAVY.
► It seems that early in the session the Senate Commit-
tee on Naval Affairs addressed the Secretary of the
Navy to know what increase the naval force of the
/country required. This letter was dated December 22.
The reply of the Secretary is dated January 8. A
little more than a month previous his annual report
called for estimates, to sustain a peace establishment,
but, without any reason, his opinion is now stated to be,
that an accumulation of naval materials and stores is
requisite. He recommends the repair and equipment of
alf the vessels in ordinary, and of the frigates and sloops
on the stocks, a suspension, for a definite period, of the
limitation of seamen in the service to 7,500, so that
further enlistments might be provided for, and the con-
struction of three steam frigates, five steam sloops, and
two steamers of a smaller class.
He also sent to the Committee the suggestions on the
subject of the heads of bureaus in the navy department,
signed by Commodores Morris, Warrington, Crane, and
Shrubrick, without any expressed approval or disapproval
of the same.
The heads of bureaus, after speaking of the relative
naval forces of the United States and Great Britain, and
giving their united opinion of what one nation could or
could not do against the other, were hostilities to ensue,
proceeded to recommend first, the construction of two
classes of war-steamers, particularising as fellows :—One
of the larger class for Lake Michigan and Huron, and
27 for the Atlantic coast, and 12 of the smaller class
for the southern coast besides those which are now avail-
able; that supplies of ordnance and ordnance stores be
lodged at different points on the lakes ready, for private
steamers to be speedily armed in case of need; that the
number of sea steamers, like the Mississippi, but rather
enlarged, should be increased to 5 ; that our frigates
should be increased to thirty; our sloops of war to forty;
that five of the frigates and six of the sloops should be
fitted with such steam arrangements as may be bust
adapted to use in aid of sails, without materially affect-
ing their qualities as sailing vessels; and that a force,
besides the officers and marines, of about 28,630 men,
will be required to properly man so many vessels.
Neither of these documents contained any estimates
as to the cost of this great number of vessels of war, and
of the ordnance and other supplies necessary to fit out
and subsist them. On aciount of the absence of these I
very important and most essential requisites, Mr. T.
Butler King, a member of the Committee, and a devoted
friend to the navy, paid a visit to the Secretary of the
Navy, and requested that the proper estimates should be
:mule out and furnished the Committee, as data
upon which they could frame such Bill as might be
deemed expedknt.
Some time after this, the Secretary furnished to the
House Committee the desired estimates of the heads of
bureaus of the department before named, which had pre-
viously been sent to the Senate's Committee.
These estimates put down the pre ent force at sea,
ready for sea, or in ordinary, to be made ready, some
in three, some in six, and some in twelve months, as
follow :—Five ships of the line, one razee, nine frigates,
twenty- three sloops, two sea steamers, eight brigs and
schooners, two harbour steamers, and four store ships.
The cost of preparing this force is estimated at 625,000
dollars.

On the stocks there are four ships of the line, three
'frigates, and two sloops of war ; one ship of the line
partially finished at Sackett's Harbour and Lake On-
tario; one steamer is building at Pittsburgh, and an-
other has been contracted for with Mr. Stevens, of New
York. The cost of completing such of these as can be
finished, is estimated at 2,955,000 dollars.
The heads of bureaus specified certain additional sup-
plies that would be necessary to the fitting out of the
vessels in question, and estimated the aggregate cost of
the same at 10,600,000 dollars.
They stated that the augmentation which it was be-
lieved the proposed objects imperatively required, would
be the additi.!n of three sea steamers of the class of the
Mississippi ; of five frigates, and six sloops with steam
propellers in aid of their sails ; twenty-eight coast
steamers, of about 600 tons, with arrangements for mov-
ing along the coast with safety, to carry two heavy guns
and eight or ten days' fuel ; twelve smaller coast
steamers, calculated to carry one heavy gun, fur the navi-
gation and protection of the sounds and passages which
skirt the Southern Atlantic States, and those of the
States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico ; that one
steamer be provided for the protection of the Lakes
Michigan and Huron ; and thirteen new sloops, to be
fitted with sails only, or with sails and steam combined.
The probable expense of this proposed additional force
was estimated as follows :

Dollars. Dollars.
3 sea steamers at 550,000 each, 1.650,000
28 coast and lake ditto 130,000 „ 3,640,000
12 small coast ditto 60,000 ~ 720,000
3 trgates with steam
6 sloops with steam
112 frigates, if with sails only 340,000 „ 4.080,000
9 sloops 170,000 „ 1,530,000

Making a total of 16,190.000
To which add for ordnance and other stores 1,030,000

Gives
Such, in substance, was the character of the recom-
mendations and estimates furnished the Committees of
Congress by the Secretary of the Navy, and which the
Pry sident slys, in his Message, in reply to Mr. Day-
ton's resolution, met with his sanction.
Now, the question is, which of the two sets of pro-
positions and recommundations met with the President's
sanction? The recommendation of the Secretary for ten
steamers, or that of the heads of bureaus for forty?