The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-24 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

NEW QUAI?TF,RLV REVIEW, No. XV.
There is an ambitious character about this publication
which cannot fail to elicit very considerable talent, and
to arouse no inconsiderable interest. If we felt inclined
to pronounce any wholesale condemnation upon the pre-
sent number, it would simply be for a blemish arising
out of an advantageous quality, namely, for discursive-
ness. In regard to variety of materials, there is, indeed,
anything but a deficiency ; but, from that very circum-
stance, there is, too generally we conceive, a lack of
solidity in the contributions. From their brevity and
multiplicity, the reviews bear too frequently the appear-
ance of superficial smartness than of astute and search-
ing analysis. This, however, is not applicable to every
Individual article ; on the contrary, some might be par-
ticularised for their penetrant and philosophical acumen.
One pecularity in this periodical we must, nevertheless,
specify forthwith, inasmuch as it might be so readily
rectified, and constitutes such an intolerable deformity.
We allude to the extraordinary indifference to the
orthography of names and places ; whether arising from
the deceptive memory or execrable penmanship of the
reviewers, or the egregious carelessness of the composi-
tors, it is impossible to conjecture. "Don Juan" contains
an adroit sarcasm at military glory, where it condenses
it into a wooden leg, or having " one's name mis-
spelt in the Gazette." Byron overlooked the evan-
escence of literary glory in the same blundering of a
critic—though, true enough, the New Quarterly was not
then in existence. In speaking tkus we are not battling
with a shadow ; the flaws and errors of this description
obtrude themselves upon our attention from many of the
pages now lying before us. We will not, however, con-
tent ourselves with simply entering a protest ; we will
substantiate our accusation by very credible witnesses.
For example : in a paper entitled " Melville's Residence
in the Marquesas" the writer calls Nukuheva, Makaheva ;
he blunders taboo into tafoo ; Marheyo into Markego ;
Fayaway into Fazawaz ; and the rest in like manner.
Such sins of commission are absolutely without the
slightest palliation ; they are the very converse of
the precision of those asetic caligraphers to whose
punctitious exactitude in orthography, we are indebted
for the preservation of many of the most important his-
torical facts, and thousands of the most precious poetical
beauties of the ancient historians and poets. Subordinate
as this failing may be, it is entirely divested of excuse,
and requires the most scrupulous avoidance. According
to our view, the examination of " Prichard's Physical
History of Man" is the most meritorious and valuable
article in the present number. It condenses the pith of
that very extraordinary work into an agreeable and
readable compass; it occasionally does justice to its
learned and most industrious author, but occasionally
also casts a flippant derision upon theories which have
been generated by many years of arduous me-
ditation. In the astonishing scope of his sub-
ject in multifarious accomplishments —in scho-
lastic and scientific erudition—in rigidity of judg-
ment and fecundity of imagination, the mind of Dr.
James Cowles Prichard bears some affinity to that of
the renowned Liebnitz. The extent to which this one
work upon the physical history of mankind has swelled,
and the astonishing fund of learning which it has plun-
dered from all preceding writers, cannot but remind the
readers of Liebnitz of the disquisitions, and essays, and
histories, and memorials, issued .by that wonderful
genius. In these particulars, but in these particulars
alone, do we feel ourselves justified in hinting at an
analogy between minds otherwise so eminently dissimi-
lar. Liebnitz was an universal genius; his capacities ap-
peared to be exhaustless; no one could, or can conjecture,
the profundity or strength of his intellect. Dr. Prichard,
on the contrary, has presented us with the gauge of his
own mind in his researches upon the physical history of
mankind. We know precisely its depth, and it is not
shallow; we perceive precisely its hue, and it is not de-
ficient in lustre; we feel precisely its force, and it is not
feeble. Whether the whole human race—the black
negro, the tawny Arab, the fairest of the northern na
Lions, the red Indians, the dun Laplanders—are all the
offspring of one common stock, is one of those startling
questions which can never fail to excite the inquiries
of the thoughtful. That question is to be answered
either by reference to revelation or by appealing to the
judgment by an array of facts and arguments logically
placed. Dr. Prichard has evidently acquiesced in the
scriptural intimation that the human family has sprung
solely from Adam and Eve; and not only that those are
our exclusive progenitors, but that the descendants of
Noah alone survive on the face of the globe. Never-
theless, Dr. Prichard has not contented himself with
that very indolent mode of settling the spatter: he has
argued the question .os one of the problems of natural
and moral history, of psychology, of anatomy, of geo-
graphy, ethnography, and physiology. To elucidate its
merits he has devoted to it 37 years of his valuable
life, and still the matter remains incomplete. The arch
still lacks its keystone. May Dr. Prichard Jive to con-
sumate his very remarkable and protracted exertions !
The dissertation on the " Odes of Horace"—those ara-
besques of poetry !—is a charming and scholarly paper.
Some of the latter pages seem powdered with the dia-
monds, and emeralds, and pearls of literature, in the
shape of quotations. Of a geographical character, we
are treated with articles upon " Stokes' Discoveries in
Australia," " Overland Route from India," "Expedition
to Borneo," &c. ; of romances we are granted a flavour"
in notices of Miss Pardoe's last novel, of" Emilia 'Wynd-
ham," and of Niccolo de' Lapi. With other interesting
papers the New Quarterly is singularly attractive.

LETTERS FROM MADRAS. By a Lady
Murray's Home and Colonial Library. No. XXX V.

A volu-me of this delightful series is equivalent to an
excursion in a steamer. It carries its reader in imagina-
tion to the most distant and beautiful quarters of the
world; it does so with the utmost rapidity; and it con-
veys to his mind all the most striking characteristics of
those countries—their scenery, their inhabitants, their
customs, their amusements, their religious ceremonies—
as vividly as the most faithful memory and the most
picturesque pen can delineate them. With a number of
the " Home and Colonial Library" in our hands we can
at pleasure follow Malcolm to Persia, Borrow to
Spain, Hay to Morocco, Father Rips to China, Lewis
to the West Indies, Bishop Heber to the East
Indies, Melville to the Marquesas Islands, or the fair
authoress, whose lucubrations are now lying upon our
portfolio, to Madras; and go thither, moreover, without
the trouble of removing our slippers on rising from our
elbow-chair. A map sketched before us on the table,
a paper-cutter, and one of the works just enumerated,
and, hey presto !—this brick Babylon of London is
forgotten, and we are strolling at leisure under cork
trees, among pagodas, by wigwams, or in any other
extraordinary locality we may please to select. By
issuing such a periodical Mr. Murray is performing
a service to his subscribers and to literature; he is en-
larging the minds of the former, and counteracting the
effect which might otherwise be produced by the spurious
products of the latter. These letters from Madras are
remarkable for the discursiveness of their descriptions,
and the utter lack of symmetry in their arrangement ;
and yet those very blemishes are the source of the
principal beauty of the performance. What is
lost in primness and neatness is gained in
naturalness. This is not one of those speci-
mens of book-making which are too often palmed
off upon the public as veritable originals. The narrative
is that of a voyager; the accounts are those of an eye,
witness; the paintings are copied from nature; and,
hest of all, the narrator is a woman—a young, lively,
chattering, observant woman. From the moment when
she is overcome with sea-sickness in the Bay of Biscay,
and exclaims with horror, at the entrance of her MA
servant with a great plateful of beefsteak and potatoes,
"0, what is all that for? Oh, dear me!" to the period
when the dinner table, at Samuldavee, is covered with
myriads of black bugs, and a man walks round the table
with a dessert-spoon (I) and a napkin to take them uff
the shoulders of the company, our authoress is
always in excellent humour, her descriptions are
always piquante, her observations always on
the qui vive. Nor does she neglect, whenever an
opportunity occurs, to intersperse her tittle-tattle with
serious and sometimes most benevolent commentaries.
For example, her animadversions on the trade in Hill
Coolies—a trade by which those unfortunate people arc
trepanned from their native land, torn from their fami-
lies or deluded by fallacious statements toservitude in the
Mauritius—are to us most welcome. They are morever
of especial interest just at this juncture, when the Sugar
Duties Bill is receiving the sanction of the Legislature,
and when the names and misfortunes of the Hill Coolies
are thereby attracting a considerable share of public
attention. We can commend this little volume to every
one, but especially to those whose relatives are sojour-
ners either in Madras or its vicinity, and they are, we
conjecture, " not one, but legion."

THE ZOIST. A Journal of Cerebral Physiology
and Mesmerism, and their application to Human Wel-
fare. Nos. 13 and 14.

The last half-yearly volume of the Zoist demands im-
peratively the most solemn and careful attention of
every man who desires to advance science and to pro-
mote the welfare of mankind. The physiological facts
which are here collected surpass in their importance all
that may be found in the " Transactions" of Royal and
Medical and Chirurgical Societies, or in the " Reports "
of Academies, from the invention of printing to the pre-
sent time. They are produced by patient observers of
nature—earnest inquirers after truth—men of high
personal and professional character and extensive ac-
quirements, in all parts ' of the globe. They are esta-
blished by authority so conclusive, so far above sus-
picion, that none who can appreciate the force of
evidence will honestly deny them. They are of such
transcendent value to suffering mankind that it is both
cruel and iniquitous for those who live by professing
the healing art, to withhold their benefit from those
whom they are paid to relieve. It is, in fact, vain any
longer to decry Mesmerism as a delusion, or stigmatise
its disinterested and (happily for the world) indomitable
champions—the chanipions of now triumphant truth—
as impostors or tools. The day is gone by, and for
ever, when a heartless joke or a malignant sneer may
turn aside the attention of the world from phenomena,
which are not less precious in their practical utility than
instructive in their relation to the science of life. Let
the jeerers make their own of Clairvoyance ; let them
pit the "Mysterious Lady " and the " Scotch Boy "
against Julie and Adolphe. Whether and with •w hat
limitations, Clairvoyance may be true, is a question
which can afford to stand over. But the amputation of
limbs, the extirpation of tumours, and a thousand miner
operations of surgical art, must, in the mean time, be
performed every hour. What torture, what agonies.
what miserable deaths attend them ! Do not, then,
stand and jabber about abstruse questions of imma-
teriality, like the pretended followers of Aristotle in the
old schools, whilst the patient writhes and screams
under your reckless knife, until the dep h of your lore
and the prodigies of your skill are testified by a man-
gled corpse. Shame ! shame ! Do you not know that
there is not one case of surgical operation, from the most
complicated and hazardous to the drawing of a tooth,
6 that cannot be readily and certainly performed without

inflicting the slighest pain ? If you do not, you
ought. It is still shame I shame I

To turn from the aggregate and individualities
of professional pride, insincerity, and recklessness,
let us call to this invaluable periodical the .prompt
attention of the public (who are the most inte-
rested in the question of pain or no pain), and
of so much of the medical profession as prefers the
honest and useful exercise of their art to a spurious re-
putation for the profound knowledge of it ;—beside3 ac-
counts of operations effected without pain, and with in-
variable success as to the result, at Cherbourg, in Ame-
rica, the West Indies, England, and Ireland, all authen-
ticated upon unquestionable evidence *—that of public
functionaries, professional men of high standing, and
others—the cases communicated by Dr. Esdaile, of
Hooghly (East Indies), the head of the Government
medical establishments in that place, will be found to
place the happy efficacy of mesmerism, in this respect,
entirely and fur ever beyond doubt. The cases are very
curious, and they are (with the exception of some inter-
posed atrocities on the part of two sceptics) as gratifying,
we should say delightful, as they are curious. Dr. Es-
daile had never seen anything of mesmerism, when a
native patient in the hospital gaol, being in great suffer-
ing, was brought to him, and he thought the case was
one in which he might give mesmerism a trial. We have
not space for the detail ; but the experiment was suc-
cessful. During the operation, usually attended with
excruciating pain, the man was motionless as a corpse.
When his wounds were dressed, and he was roused from
the mesmeric trance, he declared that he was wholly
unconscious of all that had been dune, and knew
only that by some means his tumour (of 401bs. weight)
was gone. Subsequently Dr. Esdaile, having from
this moment persevered, without failure in a single case,
removed a number of similar (scrotal) tumours, of weights
varying from 81bs. to 801bs. In these cases, which
are more commonly fatal than otherwise, the wounds
healed, by what is called the " first intention," and the
recovery was rapid. Up to the last report, published in
this volume, from Dr. Esdaile, upwards of a hundred
operations, amputations, &c., were performed by himself
or his assistants, in the overnment Hospital, in the
presence of the authorities and most respectable resi-
den's of Hooghly, whose solemn testimony is likewise
published. In one case, to gratify Dr. Bedford, who
wished to ascertain whether the patients were not natu •
rally insensible to pain, a poor creature was subjected to
cruel tests, which we shrink from relating. It is im-
portant to observe, that in all these cases, as well as in
the French, American, and British cases, recorded in
these pages of the Zoist, cure followed the operations.
It is by no means uncommon to see recorded the fact that
" Mr. So-and-so, of such and such an hospital, performed
the most difficult operation with his usual skill, and to
the admiration of all present. The patient suffered se-
verely, but is doing well." Such flattering and gratify-
ing report is not at all unfrequently followed next day
by another to the effect that—" We regret to say, that
notwithstanding the favourable symptoms, which at first
appeared, the patient gradually sank, and ex-
pired at, &c. &c." But it was asserted by a
high authority, and cheered, at the Medical
and Chirurgical Society, that the suffering of pain
during operations, " is, according to the intentions of
nature, that it would be wrong to prevent it, and that it does
them goad." !) It is a tact that a Dr. C. said so,
speaking in the character of an infallible authority.
against mesmerism, which prevents pain. Is it not,
however, probable, if even the facts did not prove
it, that an operation which is unattended with pain
or irritation is less likely to be followed by fatal inflam-
mation than one which was inflicted with torture, and
immediately succeeded by a total prostration of the vital
powers? Nor is it in respect to operations only that the
Zoist establishes, upon incontrovertible facts, the efficacy
of mesmerism, but, in respect to numerous acute and
chronic diseases, the rationale of the cure being clearly
enough explained in the reports. For these the publi-
cation must now be left to speak for itself. The truths
which it announces are before the world, and must make
their way. Patients will not much longer submit to
needless torture ; and operations without previous mes-
merism, will become as obsolete as the application of
red hot iron to a bleeding stump, notwithstanding the
wise and pious maxim that pain is ordained by Provi-
dence, is salutary, and ought not to be prevented.

• The important cases of cure in glandular, vascular, and
nervous diseases of the most formidable kind, communicated
by Dr. Elliotson, Dr. Ashburner, (of the Middlesex Hospital),
Mr. Widdell, Mr. Chandler, andothers, would be sufficient to
convince any person who would take the trouble, or rather
give himself the pleasure, of reading them. But we must
particularly refer to operations performed by Mr. Thomas
Bell, Professor of Zoology in King's College, and lecturer
at Guy's Hospital, the mesmeric phenomena of which are
certified by Mr. E. Forbes, Professor of Botany, King's
College ; Mr. W. Ferguson, Professor of Surgery, King's
College, and surgeon to King's College Hospital; Mr. James
Luke, surgeon to the London Hospital; and Mr. John
Adams, Assistant Surgeon, London Hospital. Mr. Thomas
Bell is to introduce the cases to the notice of his pupils at
Guy's Hospital in his lectures next session. How long will
the " reflex motion" and " useful pain" doctors hold out?
and the surgeons who swear in courts ofjustice that blundering
and fatal operations cannot be helped, and that a man must
wade knee deep in human blood to surgical eminence? That
sworn statement was distinctly applied to blood fatally shed 1

LAYS AND LEGENDS OF GERMANY. By
Ella Louisa Harvey.
A very pleasing volume of fugitive pieces, by the ac-
complished daughter of the Bishop of Jamaica. In
fluency of versification, and analogy of expression, Miss
Harvey's translations from Garman poetry are frequently
equal to the most successful performances of John
Oxenford—and, to our thinking, that is no mean com-
mendation. Nevertheless, the fair authoress is some-
times singularly unequal in spirit. One stanza is spon•
taneous and unaffected, while' the very next is forced
and unnatural. Her version of that tenderest of all
tender ditties (" Most musical, most melancholy")
" Mignon's Song," is a striking example of this defect ;
the second and third verses are altogether unworthy of
the first ; it is the merging of a delicious melody into
discordance. In the minor fragments Miss Harvey is
generally eminently successful.

" Ye never shall possess it
The free, the German Rhine,"
seems heating with the pulse of a love for fatherland.
Sometimes, by the novel pensivenes with which she in-
vests even a trite idea, our authoress writes in a tone sin-
gularly touching. Thus, after revisiting " The Scenes
of Childhood," and, after musing on their unaltered
verdure and beauty, she exclaims :
" Ye are the same—but in my heart
There dwells a world of change ;
And all your glories but impart
A feeling cold and strange.
" To me the woods, and rushing streams,
The wild and beauteous shore,
Are shadows of ronembered dreams.
For I am young no more!"

Many of the legends are striking and original ; and
the historical ballads, written in emulation of those glo-
rious lines, beloved of yore, by Bishop Percy, are
pleasingly and sometimes nervously composed. Miss
Harvey has shown herself an adept in all the myste-
ries of rhythm, and because she has not striven for the
attainment of too much she has been successful.

THE TORY CAUSE IN BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.—A
circular has been addressed to the wealthy Tories in Brad-
ford, to say that, unless they double their subscriptions, there
can be no stand made for the West Riding at the next elec-
tion, as the Tory funds are much depressed.
REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.—It will be re-
collected that at a meeting of the committee of the Manchester
Reform Association, cn Wednesday week, a resolution to put
Mr. Cobden in nomination, notwithstanding his reluctance
to offer himself as a candidate, was met by an amendment,
to the effect that the meeting regretted exceedingly that
Mr. Cobden should decline to become a candidate, and that
it was advisable to seek some other gentleman to offer him-
self as a candidate. It was then agreed that a special meet-
ing of the committee should be held on that day week, to
consider the whole question. The special meeting was
held on Wednesday last, and there was a very large at-
tendance, including nearly all the members of the commit-
tee. Mr. George Wilson moved that Mr. Bright be invited
to become a candidate at the next general election. Mr.
Edward W. Watkin seconded the motion. A long discus
sion ensued; those who supported the motion urging the
M
claims of Mr. Bright to the honour of representing
cheater, while on the other hand those who were in favour
of putting Mr. Cobden in nomination, contended that no
good reason could be shown why the same course should
not be taken with regard to him, that was pursued towards
the late Mr. Poulett Thomson, who was put in nomination
and elected without his consent. On the other hand, it
was urged that the committee had only a week before—(we
believe, by a majority of 13 to 6)—negatived the course now
recommended by the majority of those present. Ultimately,
it was resolved unanimously that a meeting should be held
that day fortnight ( Wednesday the 2d September), to con-
sider the propriety of rescinding the resolution of Wednes-
day week, and of reconsidering the whole subject.—Man-
chester Guardian.

FINSBURY CHARITY ScnooL.—The fifty-fourth an-
niversary dinner of this institution was held on Thursday
last at the London Tavern, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
in the chair, supported by the Rev. J. Saunders, rector of
St. Luke, Rev. L. Marcus, incumbent of St Paul's, Finsbury,
H. Lee, Esq., treasurer, E. Robinson, Esq., H. W. Elder, Esq.,
H. J. Leas, Esq., J.. Seeley, Esq., &c. The dinner was
served in a style highly creditable to Messrs. Bathe and
Breach, and gave great satisfaction to a numerous and
respectable company. The cloth being removed, "Non
nobis" was sung by Messrs. Sporle, Kenny, Smith, and King.
After the usual loyal toasts, the chairman rose and expressed
the gratification he felt in occupying the chair on so interest-
ing an occasion, pointing out to the company the most pro-
minent features of the institution. His Lordship then alluded
to the importance and advantage of a Scriptural education of
the poor, and the social guarantee it afforded, and urged the
assembly to give a practical proof of the estimation in which
they held the charity. He then gave the toast, "Prosperity
to the Finsbury Charity Schools," amid great cheering. The
children were then introduced, whose neat appearance and
behaviour elicited much approbation. After an appropriate
address by the Rev. L. Marcus, the health of the treasurer
was given and acknowledged, a handsome subscription was
then made ; among the donations was the Lord Mayor,
101. 103. ; J. Thomson, Esq., 51. ss. ; H. W. Elder, 51. 55.;
Messrs. Lee, 101. 10s., &c. Other toasts followed, and the
party broke up, delighted with the evening's entertainment.
DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.—Our Neath correspondent
informs us that an extraordinary and unheard-of disease
has attacked numbers of cows in his neighbourhood, and
Itat,the milk which they yield is so fetid as to be totally
tutfit for use.— Welshman. _ _

Lea LAW.—A somewhat ludicrous exhibition of this
mode of procedure was witnessed in Stamford butter-market
on Friday last, and which was inflicted upon a female vendor
of eggs—one of those who visit this market eridently with
the intention of defrauding the public. This honest woman,
it appears, had stood in the market that day with a brisket
of putrid eggs, part of which she succeeded in palming Oil
at the usual market price, hoping, no doubt, to get clear ad
before the purchasers found out their mistake; but she hac
good reason to lament her dishonesty, for before she could
make her exit her enraged customers returned, and, possess•
ing themselves of the remainder of her ware, pelted her
with them so lustily that she was obligdd to retreat into a
tradesman's shop close by to avoid a further infliction of tbi,
not very agreeable punishment, which has doubtless taught
her that, alter all, "honesty is the best policy."—Lineanslare
Chronicle.

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COURT CIRCUIa
THE ROYAL VICTORIA AND ALE
THURSDAY, AIII2I7ST 20. —The QUee 1;o I 'ince,
Albert left Weymouth, at six a.m., and si'oet.estiett/or
sea, kept along the coast - laying to off Lyme Regis,
Sidmouth, Babacomb Bay,' passing through Torbay and
round to Dartmouth ; her Majesty passing the night at
anchor in the River Dart.

Her Majesty anchored at a quarter after three p.m.
The weather was very wet, and there was a great deal
of wind.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21.—Her Majesty and her Royal
Consort left Dartmoth at six o'clock, a.m., and arrived
at Plymouth, at half-past nine o'clock.
The Admiral, the Commander of the Forces, and all
the principal naval and military authorities came on
board, and paid their respects to the Queen.
The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe also came off
from Mount Edgecumbe to pay her respects to her
Majesty. _ _ _

The Queen and Prince Albert embarked on the Fairy
at half-past one o'clock, for an excursion up the Tamer.
Her Majesty proceeded as far as Cothele, an eld
mansion of the Mount Edgecumbe family, where her
Majesty and the Prince disembarked, and walked up to
the old house.
Her Majesty returned to Barn Pool at half-past five
o'clock, having inspected the newly launched frigate;
Thetis, on her way.
The Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe joined
the royal party at dinner on. board the yacht.
SATURDAY, , AUG. 22.—His Royal Highness Prince
Albert left Plymouth at 7 A.M., on a visit to Dartmoor
Forest.

Her Majesty and her Royal Consort will honour the
Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe with their com-
pany at luncheon.

A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Sa-
turday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland,
Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth,
the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and
the Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
The Council sat an hour and a half.

Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, had an
interview with Lord Palmerston at the Foreign-office on
Saturday.

A deputation on the Salvage Bill, consisting of Ad-
miral Dundas, M.P.; Major Beresford, M.P.; Mr. Samuel
Palmer, Mayor of Great Yarmouth ; Mr. W. T. Clarke,
and Mr. Saunders, had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon, on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of
Trade.

The mortal remains of the late much-esteemed Baron
Dedel, Minister of the Netherlands at this Court since
1833, were conveyed on Saturday from his former resi-
dence in Wilton-crescent, to the St. Katherine's Wharf,
in order to be transported from thence the next day by
the Dutch steamer the Batavier, to Holland, in confor-
mity with his express wish. The burial of the Baron is
to be strictly private, and takes place near the village of
Loorduynen, in the vicinity of the Hague. The funeral
cortege was followed by his son, chief mourner ; M.
Stratenus, Councillor to the Legation ; and by Mr. May,
the Netherlands Consul-General.

Mr. Henry Boyd, Charg6 d'Affaires of the United
States (ad interim), has removed the office of the Lega-
tion from Harley-street, to No. 7, St. James's• place.
The Bishop of Jamaica had an interview with Earl
Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
The Ministerial white-bait dinner took place on Satur-
day at Greenwich.
The Duke of Wellington, Lord Wynford, Lord G.
Paulet, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service
yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The ser-
mon was preached by the Rev. J. C. Haden. At the
daily service, the prayers were read by the Rev. T.
Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. J. Haden. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
Anthem was " Thou, 0 God, sit praised in Sion "
(Greene). Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The
Marquis of Winchester, Lords Fortescue, Listowel, and
Granville, were among the nobility present.

PENSIONS ON THE CIVIL LIST.
The following is a return to an order of the House of Lords,
dated August 3, 1846, for a return of all pensions granted
since January 1, 1838, with the respective amount of any
permanent place under Government held by the party at the
date of the grant:—
DATE.
1838.
March 14 ... Sydney Morgan £3OO
April 7 Win. Wallace, died April 28. 1843 300
June 20 Sarah Mears ... ... 40
December 17
Albina Gibbons ... ...1
James Gibbons
John Gibbons ...
Catherine Gibbons ...J
1839- .
January 17
March 25 John Gurwood, Lieutenant-Colonel
(died Dec. 27, 1815) ... ... 200
April 23
June 18..
November 20
February, 1843) ... ... 1,000
December 31 Hannah, Caroline, and William
Aldridge ... ... 25

NAJ4E.

1840.
April 23..

AMOUNT.

James Browne, LL.D. ...
July 23 Rev. Henry Barez
Guiseppe Guazzaroni
John Bernard Sale

Thomas Steward ...
Franeoise Grandineare
Lucy Anderson
Sarah Matilda Bonrdin
September 9 Henry Williams
...... Thomas Walker ...
.. Edward Morgan ...
1841.
March 17
June 7
~, George Burges

Thomas Webster, died D ec. 26, 1844
...... Rev. Thomas Kidd, M.A. ...
June 17 Benjamin Thorpe ...
July 2.3
August 3 ...... Sophia Wynyard, died Oct. 28, 1844
August 30 Dame Catherine Jet emie
.....
August 14, 1844) ...
August 31 Eliza Ann James ...

1842.
September 21 ... Louisa Baroness Lehzen
November 17 ... Elizabeth Devereux Kennedy, addi-
tional pension (see June 7, 1841)
.. Anna Maria Kennedy ...
William Wordsworth
November 25

Richard Owen ... ... ... ... ...

1843.
September 14 Dame Marion Bell ...
Anna Eliza Maria Drummond
Robert Brown
November 16

1844.
April 27 ... Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Knt.,
MA., Astronomer Royal for Ire-

1845., _
January 28 .... Patrick Fraser Tytler
...... Jane Hood ...

January 31
March 5
June 81 Clara Maria Susanna Lowe ..
July 28 Augusta Emma d'Este (additional
pension) ... ... ... ... ...
September 30
4, 1846) ••• ••• ••• •••
October 14

. James David Forbes, Professor of
Natural Philosophy in the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh (salary from
the public, 30/. per annum) ...

1846.
April 22 .. Jane Loudon .. ... ... ... ...
June 30 ..•• 00000 Anna Archer Shee .. ... ...
Mary Archer Shee ... ... ...
Christian M'Caskill ... ... ..
Jessie M'Caskill ... ... ... ..,

...... Catherine Taylor ...
John Ramsey M'Cnlloch, Comp-
troller of the Stationery Office,
salary 9001. per annum ...
July 4
July 6
John Lloyd ...

100
100
300
100
200

100
200
200
500

200
100
50
50
50
50

50
50
200
100
50

200
50
25
25

Total amount ... £10,780
J. PARKER.
Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Aug. 18, 1846.

ILFRACOMBE.

TO TIIE HON. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN P.

ASSEMBLED.

The humble Petition of the Guardians of the Poor of the

Parish of Ilfracombe, in the Barnstaple Union,
Sheweth,

That the Legislature having sanctioned the contracting of
marriage before the superintendent-registrar of marriages,
your petitioners consider that no stigma or degradation shoul d
be suffered to be cast on marriages so contracted, and they
believe that compelling parties so desirous of contracting
marriage to attend for such purpose at an union workhouse
will tend to cast a stigma on marriages so contracted.
That the registrar-general has refused, in some instances,
to allow the superintendent-registrar's office to be in union
woi khouses, on the very ground of your petitioners' objection,
above stated ; but in the case of the superintendent-regis-
trar's office for the district of the Barnstaple union, the
registrar-general has been induced to comply with a vote of
the board of guardians, in sanctioning the office of the clerk
of the union being appropriated to and for the purpose of
marriage and the general business of the registration of
births, deaths, and marriages of the district of the Barnstaple
union.

That at the present advanced period of the session your
petitioners cannot hope for legislation on this point, but your
petitioners humbly pray that your Hon. House previous to pro-
rogation will be pleased by vote to express dissatisfaction at
any part of an union workhouse being used for the purpose
of contracting marriage, or as a place of deposit for the re-
gisters of births, deaths, and marriages.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
. DICKINSON,) of the Poor of in
theRICHARD BLIGH, parish of lifracorpbei
JOHN JONES, the Barnstapla.Union..

BREAD COMPANY.—A company is being established to
supply the community with bread, to be made from the best
wheaten flour, at 4d. the four-pound loaf, which will include
a profit of 5 per cent., as well as the actual cost of material
wages, &c. The capital is to be 200,0001.