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London, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

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mutually explained themselves his encol traging
himself whenever he stopped at a ha:7 word, ;s•hile
reading, with " Now my lad! Withlel ' or,
cht at
""Steady, Edgard Cuttle, steady!" and Ills.
having made over his watch, spoons, and sugiu kings
" jintly," are all in character, Captain Cuttle
vs
henceforth in the Boz Gallery. Florence and Walt
sr
are affianced, and their betrothal beautifully telt.
No news is heard of Edith or of Carker ; and the con-
dolence of Mrs. Chick, of Cousin Phcenix, and of
Major Bagstock, is repelled in succession by the
merchant. Mr. Dombey is still too proud for sympathy.
" The tree is struck, but not down." Even Lucretia
Tox is obliged to evince a surreptitious interest in
his, calamities by stolen visas to the horrible Pipchin.
There is throughout an evidefit, tendency towards the
" wind up" or eclaircissement.

HOWITT'S JOURNAL.
Without question the best contribution in part
for the present month is the poetical one by
il
Hallingham on "Frost in the Holidays." It reads
almost like one of Longfellow's. Here is one verse,
as bracing and true as half an hour's exercise or, the
Serpentine:—
"'rho lake is like glass!—hurrah! hurrah!
On with your skates without delay!
Off we shoot, and poise, and wheel,
And swiftly turn on the scoring heel;
And our flying sandals chirp and sing
Like a flick of swallows upon the wing."
The second volume of this journal of literature and
popular progress is just completed.

THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE.
In his dissertation on " The Literary Forgeries of
Chatterton," the editor displays a full appreciation of
the poetic genius of this most extraordinary and un-
paralleled mortal. To our thinking, however, he
altogether misapprehends the personal character of
Chatterton. lie has not read his history rightly, or
he would see in it the narrative not only of the most
precocious intellect ever vouchsafed to human being,
but of moral excellencies of an exquisite beauty—
excellencies which were only extinguished in the
delirium of poverty, abandonment, despair, and
famine! The other articles are meritorious.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Wrinsoa, MONDAY.—The Royal Family took
walking and pony exercise this morning on the East-
ern Terrace and slopes.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the
sport of shooting this morning, accompanied by his
Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, and attended
by the Marquis of Abercorn, the Marquis of Ormonde,
Mr. G. E. Anson, and Colonel Seymour.
His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, and the
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, took their
departure from the Castle to-day.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
enjoyed the sport of shooting, yesterday forenoon, in
Richmond Park.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Princess Sophia yesterday.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt had a meeting yesterday, at the Treasury.
The Commissioners present were the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls,
the Governor of the Bank of England, and the
Deputy-Governor. Mr. Ilieam, Secretary and
Comptroller-General, was in attendance.
Mr. Justice Wightman had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood arrived in town yesterday, from the seat t.;i: the
Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.
The Right lion. Baronet and Lady Mary left
town in the afternoon, on a visit to the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowood Park, Wilt-
shire.
Dispatches for the Governors of the West India
Colonies, and for the Governors of Gibraltar and
Malta, and also for the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, were sent off from the Colonial-
office, on Saturday evening.