The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

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214

Londonderry& Coleraine 15
Londonderry and Ennis--
1 lkillen
Lynn and Ely ..... -..... 15
Lynn and Dereham l5
Manchester and Leeds .. 82
Ditto 14 Shares
I 'Do. Quarters
Do. Fifths 5 . .... 10%3/4 lO3/4
Do. Sixteenths 614
Do. Extension 42s. l% p l% p
Do. Liverp. and Bury 24
Do. do. Fifths ..... -.. 1 -•
Dlanchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 42a....... 1 p
Manchest. & Sonthampt. 2 ...... •••
Midland
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Ditto, New
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland Great Western
Irish
Newcastle and Berwick 20
Do. North Shields ... 25
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo
Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5
Newport& Abergavenny 2%......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor
Norfolk ... lOO l3O .... ... ......
Ditto half Shares .. 9 —
Do. Extension
Northern Counties Union 2%
North British . ....... ... 25
Do. Half Shane ll ...... 16 15% .. ......
Do. Quarters
Do. Extension %...... 1%54
Ditto Thirds 1
Northern and Eastern... 50

34%

3634
15%
4
1%
3 %

Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% —
Do. Nov
North Staffordshire 5 ...... 8% 5i ..
North Wales
Northern and Southern
Connecting
North Western 2.4
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Portsmouth Direct 3:4 —
Preston and Wyre 25
Do. % Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 3f. 12s. — dis.
Richmond 15
Royston and Hitchen ... 1% l3/4
Seottish Central ...—... 15 ...... 21%
Scottish Midland 12% l5 .
Sheffield & Manchester 100 - .•
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
_ .

13/4
2114
15

Do. Lincolnshire June. 114 —
Do. & Great Grimsby. 10
Do. do. Extension 428.
Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 ....
Ditto ditto, Claw B. 114 2%
Shropshire Union
South Devon 40 —
South Staffordshire June. 2% — ..
South Eastern & Dover. 33% 383/4
De., No. 1 20
Do., Nc. 2.
Do., No. 3
Do., No. 4

4%
2A
14 dis

8834

St.Alban's, Hatfield,and
Hertford Junction ... 425. —
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% —
South Wales
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 ••• •••••• ••
Taw Vale Extension ... 2 - yes •• e• 000000
Vale of Neath 2
Wakefield, Pontefract. &
Goole 22% ..............
Waterford and Kilkenny 11
Waterford and Limerick 27%
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Wexford, Iry aterford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley 2
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 425.
West Cornwall
Wexford and Carlow ......
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and Newcastle. 25 ..... 38 174
Ditto New 5 ...... ........
1)o. Preference
York and North Midland 50
Ditto % Shares ..... 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension

..31/4

23'7
83

is P

3934
393/8

37%
034
92%

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

61,i p
129

14 P
75

2834
2%

Anglo- Belgian 4 _
Barbadoes 1
Belgian Eastern Junctn. •••
Boulogne and Amiens... 16
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2
Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 .... .
Calais, Dunkrk,andWest
Flanders
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour ....... ....... . 78.
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast. 1 »
Central of Spain .... 2
Ceylon
Demerara ~ 21/2
Dendre Valley ...... .. 4
Direct Bombay and
Madras w.. ss.
Dutch Rhenish 6
East Indian ... .... ss.
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 314 ......
Italian and Austrian. 4 ...
Jamaica S.Mid•Junction 1
Jersey
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . ....„
Luxembourg...... ..... .. 4
Lyons and Avignon 2
Madras ... 1
Madras, Nellore, and ••
Arcot
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ...
Mauritius
Namur and Liege
Nn ofFranceConstituted 5 ...... 10%3A
North Jamaica ... 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d
Paris tiLyonsConstituted 5
Paris and Orleans 2O .
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted
Rouen and Havre ...... 20
Sambre and Meuse lO ... ...
Strasbourg and Bale
St. Laurence & Atlantic
lours and Nantes Con-
stituted 5
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt. 8
Trinidad
West Flanders .. 6
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Union of L0nd0n......... 10 •• •
Union of Australia
Australasia
British North American 50
Commercial of London 20
Colonial 25
London & Westminster. 20
London Joint Stock
National of Ireland 22% — ...........
National Prov. England. 35
MINES

34
10%
3';A

% P
3%

3%
21/s
75%

Real del Monte Unregd. ...... 3%..........,.

17%
614

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A heavy. commercial failure has taken place at
Sunderland, in the bankruptcy of Mr. Richard White, a
large ship and coal owner. His liabilities are consider-
able, and it is said the assets of the estate will be of
trifling amount, the property of the bankrupt being- ex-
tensively mortgaged, or otherwise secured to parties who
have made advances upon it. Mr. White is an alderman
of the corporation of Sunderland, and was mayor two or
three years ago. He is also in the commission of the
peace for that borough, and for the county of Durham.
MADEMOISELLE SOPHIE Fuoco's BENEFIT AT
DRURY-LANE.—The benefit of the youngest of the
Deesses de la danse is fixed for Wednesday next at
Drury.lane, and there cannot be a doubt but that those
who have hitherto paid their devotions at her shrine will
feel it a duty to offer her their homage on this the last
occasion which will he offered to them for some time.
We say some time, for although a benefit is usually a
last appearance, yet when we consider the merited and
unbounded popularity of Sophie Fuoco, we cannot but
feel convinced that she will appear again and again
before an English audience, and that she will grow in
favour every season. Not the least of the obligations
under which the admirers of the chereogruphic art are
to Mr. Bunn is the introduction to the English stage of
Mademoiselle Sophie Fuoco.
EXPORT or HORSES.—The celebrated race horse
Sir Robert Peel, with a thorongh-bred mare, and a
showy entire horse, purchased by Mr. Benson for a
Hungarian nobleman, were shipped yesterday evening
from Hamilton's livery stables, Carr-lane, on board the
Rob Roy steam-ship, for Hamburgb.-1/1111 Packet.
DISTRESS IN MARYLEDONE.—On Friday last the
overseers were engaged until ten o'clock at night in dis-
tributing relief to the out-door poor. The average
monthly distribution of bread amounts to 8,000 loaves.
A BITER BlT.—Last ;Thursday night (the frost
being very intense), I thought I would make some ice in
my garden; I accordingly placed a :basin full of straw-
berry and cream on the snow. In the course of an hour
I ordered my servant to go for it, thinking it would be
by that time sufficiently frozen. He returned with a
smile on his face, informing me that the basin was en.

tirely emptied. At this I was rather surprised, but it
soon struck me that a cat must have been the thief. I
therefore replaced the basin, with more cream in it, con-
cealed my::elf behind a bush with a gun. In the course
of a few moments, I may say, I heard—mew, mew, mew,
which cries were shortly followed by a female cat and a
tribe of little oues. I was not more than ten :yards off
the basin, the moon being very bright, I was able to see
plainly. When they were seated round the cream in
the midst of their enjoyment I let fly, end bagged the
mother and two of the little ones, one or more making
escape.—From a Correcpondent.
TIIE WEST-END REFUGE POE, THE HOUBELEBS
POOR.—In consequence of the severity of the weather,
this institution, situate in Market-street, Edgeware-road,
has been thrown open for the nightly reception of 200
poor. Each is furnished with a supper of bread and half
a pint of beef soup, a comfortable bed, and breakfast in
the morning.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Prince Albert enjoyed the
sport of shooting this morning. His Royal Highness
was attended by the Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting,
the lion. Colonel Phipps, Equerry in Waiting, and Mr.
George Edward Anson.
Lord and Lady John Russell, and the Hon. Miss Lis-
ter, arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen.
Viscount Palmerston left the Castle to-day.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include Lord and Lady John Russell, the Hon. 31155
Lister, the Rev. Mr. and the lion. Mrs. F. Anson, and
Sir Henry Wheatley.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend
during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards
Wend in the evening at the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridgevisited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterdal•
The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Ms.
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, had a meetin
Pg
yesterday at the Council-office. The Lords preseoe
were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, t
Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendl.•
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Son.
B. Macaulay.
Mr. Dempster Hemmings and Mr. Henry Chan:l had
an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesteritsPl
the Board of Trade.
The Earl of Devon had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Lord and Lady John Russell left their residenceilo
Cbesham-place yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Casty
tle:
Mr. Mosquera, Minister of New Granada, transac •
business yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Despatch received yesterday at the Coloni the
Mauritius, fromes thewere Governors of New South Wales' the
Mauritius, and Cape Coast Castle ; and also from
Governors of the West India Colonies. bed
anoir. Georg Frederick Young, and Mr. Dunbar,
a 5,
nt rviewe yesterday with the Earl of Clarendon,
the office of the Board of Trade.

story, The
EU M THEATED , new
CeifrheTirntihipanetrmgove not also
firstevening, when Ls
the hTekKdeterhßaemiatabttleeisctof—veLwrifsaiset sparuirewiadikoleoegni4reos her
ii:
minute
umteosatnacloyms
analysis
had the
work; and Mr. Albert Smith, the adapter, us- ?Ito ihe
good taste loeftethseuerleoeYtsssin.opened for the se
ourW We
noticehave
as close
followlf each
original and the good sense to keep
aspossible. The successive seenes . best
other
to i fol
ent
sh
ofe
in the same order as in
the book •
an 811 the
t descry
dialogue.Dickens—such for instance, 01;13iirera.di
jxigte;veenn,
is preserved, while the Val° . deo of
as his deseriPire in.
calaterawmovaennynei
nr toe
trhlei
possible.diao
ghuAeerl
boeeflrbttho
ew
Smith p
iece
in hehreclrem
05 Is
.4arn c
et I s
°f
is tbe 131—..onstie
adaptation
pters, for he has to admirably " built" this 1" one
of the- Battle of Life that t° ight
ignorant of the existence of Dickens's' Boa' it:ited
consj idle.
well seem an original and an admirably
drama.._r The following is the cast:--Doctor Jeteigb
Murray_ Frank Matthews; Alfred Heathfield, gr'sfichsel
his first appearance at this theatrek;
.4;dows;
Warden,( Mr. F. Vining; Mr. Snit hley Mr. "ii,,eleit
IGlrra.eCer. aggsllr. Turner • Ben.'amineßrit'sin,_Mi% P. 14105.
Jodie', L„,,
Maym (her first Jeddler,
a pMpeiasraaEnclie'eantEgthjailsyt;heMatarrei)°;ll
gra. Siasitscrrit;ja,
rs. Woollidge; Mrs. Craggs, Miss Grove; Aunt Teeelei•
Miss Foster ; Clemency Newcome, "Bill* 'l, the
The Dr. Jeddler of Mr. Frank Matthews is searcetJer of
Dr.D Jeddler of the author. In drawing the chart° into
Dr. Jeddler, Dickens has xhibited a greater
epths of character, as e ' losigllC is
the d
perhaps, any character that he has hitherto dra.:ideby,
,N
modified by
.Pickwick, his Weller, his Squeers, his Ralph I"Far loYe • ~1.;.'
h"
Fagin, his Quilp, his Chester, and his recksnlisori,,,• :1/4
been representatives of genera, of classes•—hl, if'.lo °fa, ‘1,4:',4
ansmall
'VI ividual; or it a representative,the represelltat;whiX 1,"
any one at all acquainted with the social life of re hole -,'
rural districts will at once understand. He i:/, ;le and • '
ahnd hearty and healthy man • and, like sll bp le
*arty and healthy men, he 'has a warm and 5
heart—the
ncracieso

Mens sana in corpore sano,
and wherever there is the corpus sanUin, at Dr.
(loth the mens sana take up its habitation; i.s. beep
Jeddler, relegated to a remote country vi.l.lig__,_ °sob 0 ,'
compelled to associate either with chilal:7,are intel-
Grace, Marion, and Alfred, or with men 71 Cragga'
lectually his inferiors—to wit Snitchy u .I:_ll.he gad!
Therefore hath he sought refuge from enabiloie"ep` hy. 111
of books, and, above all, in books; °if Pthe theory.--
there be sure
these books he has met w'tv tbat he adoßts
that the world is a farce. Is it surprisemagtes
4 to Bocce" in
the theory? The world, as far as /,it r bad an sorrows--
life, has gone well with him. He ..415
no trials. He has seen none about
h ham sorrows alf
and trials, save, and except, such s can shake °
sham trials as a mens sana al corpore sari o
that
he becomes
and laugh at. What wonder then .
,_ dsuoter
but when tits
a Democritus—a Voltaire, come up
bun
leaves him, when real trials and real sorrows . oils a te.
suffering sorrow!
him, then is Dr. Jeddler an altered man ; a d g
hero],
ration ought to be marked by the actor, and . 0
_,A brie
F. Mathews failed. In the earlier scenes he sh o
Why-
made of Dr. Jeddler a Voltaire, with a spice of
wog of
mie, his bonhommie breaking through the PL 4,13 itt
false philosophy ever and anon, as °lli' thia
spite of himself. In the last scene a a the
should have been completely reversed, se. beet
renunciation of the false philosophy should ba",1111)4,,
made all the more heartily, and the mere path set of
and the more intensely, because it was the conge`itsd
the heart over the head, and because, albeit, the herd
had ruled for years, yet it had not ruled with Lindley
sway, the heart having ever and anon protested 02,0es„gbeewr
mently against its rule. Instead of this Mr. F. alltatase•
made the Doctor the regular conventional stage °"-tverds
He utter, d his sneers at the world, because the ;1, the
were set down for him ; but there was no sneer : usl
manner or in the tone—on the contrary, the manna; viol
the !one belied the words—and if a person igee Woo
the language had chanced to have seen him, o,eatle
have put him down as a jolly, comfortable, old;arid':
man, who considered the world a very excellent, 0 jest:
far too excedent to be made the subject esr_..,nartq
The other characters were admirably .tusirif so:
Had Dickens drawn the characters of 8r,1.,at Ogg
Clemency for Mr. and Mrs. Keely, he coulaite"bf filo
more admirably fitted them. Meadows 's 51111:85 sl!e,t
quite equal to his Gruff and Tackleton ; and ' .11 Mr.,
Daly • were all
and Miss Mhy, as Grace and Marion, doi ,
it
Dickens could have desired. The piece 104,,riseler,
put on the stage, and, at the conclusion, all re raclaPtba
artists, including Mr. Albert Smith, t before t
were called for, and made their appearsnee
curtain.

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INEa i SPORTING
t,
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,6.17 CO.
The
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St
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Sna.e—ry
e' Y.'
r ru Is
ri:i 11: r: .
Y was an exception ;theterdanumber '' ,„-- a bo":"¢"
present, and the amount of business transarc,, leech%
harm_
backedte s werefol: carit,btare..aeletinoOert
ohs 1`,:r.";0 TOPIrf
considerably exceeded the avera,e.
at
15detcoid2edalnydin18
at
tur hundred pounds, Epirote at 14 and 10,r for th4,"l„net
four
18 and 20 to 1, and Glentilt at 25 to 1 COD .0, i '--30
t r hundred pounds at the least. Of this select;,ooo to t
and Epirote were most generally in deniac', Red 115 f„;
was taken about Lansdale, 1,000 25 abOW 'gilt -
to 00 ei at
900 to 20 twice about Co 1 000 to - . AbO
Ilynghatr, t nn tWiCe. Ale,
ten times about the Liberator, 1,000 to '-' rroJe',: 0
Montpensier, similar bets about Christopher', 1 000 "6:0
eand Bingham, 2,000 to 30 about War Eagle' ' and 0 ' ere
planter, 5
ach
other abetsbout
in Bedlsmallamer amounts. and West I
osi
ndia
The rice.....
clng,Po9 :
In most instances governed by these tranciftlo
CHESTER CUP—(Name or not./
50 offered on the field of.
50 agst Mr. Dawson's Crim Con—offered , and sa• -
1250 to 25 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen--';,:',;
2000 to 30 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free-43'
1000 to 15 agst Mr. H. Hill's Punch—taken ken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Griffiths's Newcourt—ta
1000 to 15 apt Mr. Wall's Crown Prince--takee'
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAgrjh
sto 1 offered on the field.
DERBY.
15 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van TrOcIP
14 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote
17 to 1 agst Mr. M ' r. ostyn s Planet ,
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—takell n.
28 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sis. to Cobweb Co
33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lunedale--taken
33 to 1 ag-
,,t Mr. Wracord's Old Port 35 to 1
33 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Wanotatake co
015
35 to 1 agst Mr. 11 Guy' s Allertonian i gait'
to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Be"
and afterwards offered. ag tOl
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mathematician a, t, 4-
40 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Martin Ow'
45 to 1 agst Sir Pigot's Conyngham--takell
50 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberator—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—taken tiattil
50 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Montpens?,lBo
50 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Bingliam--"Li"-keo ,ori
50 to 1 apt Mr. W. Scott's Christophe--ts,'-,,taii d
1000 to 15 agst Lord Strathmore's Galvanic gin-~teas
111
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle't
afterwards offered.
100 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Bedlam
100 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter'

_
Ito 1 ast Mr. ostOnt"Slander. WO'
15 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawyley's M iami—taken to t and
15 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Farmer's Daughter
---ta o
theThmeepssrresmßisoesndi,n St.
afterwards offered.
20 to 1 agst. Captain Harcourt's Ellendale--341(.e...,111ed Of
have j beenam e 3
Turf Club,al of which about seventy noblemen and gent]
have co
in a
few days.
members; the substchreiptrieontlen'ell
..,- target
from the Ist of January.
Mr. Hargrave's horses will leave Richmond for ~..40
'st-askterenetb,yformerly oTiycoroied
will be
to the Metropolitan Handicap, as we Predicted'
11l u 5001. An immense ent_r.j-22.L .......-IticiPated.
--- -.r

GOLDICUTT v. BE a G 114%,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUL:* our
.0 SlR,—The report of this case, contained into
journal of the 18th, is inaccurate in one particular, ;
Mr. Cockburn did not, as stated in your papery tiPP
postpone the case on Thursday evenin,
a g nor
,were the
ffidavits read ; but there was much confusion So the
time,
and your reporter may, have easily mistak.„ereli
object of Mr. Cockburn's application, which 'To hiS
to ascertain whether (it being then past four o cloc
Lordship would take the case that evening or tist.boye 10
Requesting the favour of your insertingdient s the get 006
your next number, I am, Sir, your very obe_,
THOS. FRAS. JUSTICE, Defendant's trot
17, Bernera street, Dec. 21.

1301e'
Campagne) says a letter from Bask,
The wife of -------------an inhabitant of Armelinger ildreo
inm the course of the present year. In the earl,' P., de,
March she had twins, and a few days ago she wicipat
re 5611 1 ~,
•The twins a
livered of three children. • woro
but the last three children, who came into the
tither before their time, bavo died. has had iiire Cbot of

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LITERATURE.
•E BATTLE fll A Love Story. By

Dire lichens
ji„ dose who have latterly s,enied to rejoice in cavil-
n
at the Cbristris books of Mr. Dickens will find
;rare difficulty in discovering any theme for ridicule
epreeension in this exquisite " Love .77,t0ry." It
iiiititattiteirsicinc:td as escription of a race between a kettle
didn the " Cricket on the Health ;"
neither are its pages peculiarised by a dissertation
tr pe, as were those of the "Chimes." Amnng
enaracters we can discover no William Fern, talk-
. revolutionary sentiments in words of rustic elo-
laen
e -ea 3 among its incidents there is no narrative
AL'i 4 Lilian hurrying to the river to commit suicide.
thdogether, there is not here a single peg upon which
pi: Mott churlish reviewer could, with any degree of
Ttibi,litY, hang up his scarecrow objections.
Mil' I,s no opportunity, in critscising the present
4,,„.mation, for any one to vituperate upon the
trlor for what might be construed into an affecta•
of drollery or the indulgence of a spurious phi-
oitittliro
e„, P,Y• If ever Mr. Dickens wrote without
lt ;""4tton, he has so written in this little volume.
.44 the most graceful composition he has yet penned.
he
as
is less mannerism about it than about anything
the as ever produced. The author has written upon
simplest plot imaginable, has introduced the
h:st natural characters, and has told his tale of the
solinan affections with the most delightful volubility
bob, the most genial pensiveness. As to the pur-
"); ?f the narrative, it is noble and unaffected
atti,,'`'„,.,ga• It is so condensed into a single sentence
seil'L'eu by the hero, that we shall transcribe that.
ILtiesseba_nteteleentire " believe," he says, speaking o
of life, " I believe there are
self
victo-
Sete mad,. atru.ggles, great sacrifices of and noble
li of heroism, in it—even in many of apparent
its
trtnesses and contradictions—not theless difficult
kachieve because they have no earthly chronicleanor
litirienee ;'done every day in nooks and corners, d
arty
households, and in men's and women's hearts
to Y one of which might reconcile the sternest est man_n
such
th a world, and fill him with belief and hope _
-°llgb two-fourths of its people were at war, and,,
illoatlier fourth at law; and that's a bold word.
litifallY are these grand and elevating principles
bekessed by the deeds recorded in this little book:
4,ll•airtlllY are these " quiet victories," these " great
to 41-,:ces of self," and these " noble acts of heroism"
tenses ,sand women's hearts, exemplified in its occur-
ttoadm' :_ipeautifully are merriment and melancholy
Lye was in the materials of this simple fiction.
the'vw;" shown the foolishness of his misanthropy
d j.gr_edt Co'lliati,L°r's of the " Carol.:" Trotty Veck was ren-
tol_h.mare-snted even with his miserable existence by the
of the " Chimes :" John Peerybingle was
°f the
of the faithfulness of little Dot by the dreams
tge Cricket on the Hearth." in the " Battle of. Life".
tharransforrnation is effected in one of the principle
asters, not however through the agency of gob-
t,,,!) or fairies, or spirits. or other supernatural visi-
imoetbLat by the
.purity, the valour, the self- denial,
titer l'e magnanimity of virgin hearts. Doctor Jed-
-44) at the commencement of the story, is described
&treat philosopher, the heart and mystery of whose
liseorPby was " to look upon the world as a gigantic
lidenalioke; as something too absurd to be con-
ofV,a by any rational man., ' Before the conclusion
t„,,tie. book this same Doctor Jeddler is forced to ac-
etri:ledge that " it's a world full of hearts, and a
oo as world, with all its folly ;" that " it's a world
th,which the sun never rises but it looks upon a
theo '_od bloodless battles that are some set-off against
.44:11,series and wickedness of battle,-fields;" that, in
So ,t's a world we need be careful how we libel."
perto'aital and purifying is the effect produced by the
irn at of this volume ; so generously is the mind
so
vessel y
the nature of the truths embodied in it;
erei4l and so beautiful is the sentiment by which its
Passage is pervaded, that we close the leaves
e that golden sentence ringing in our ears—
keZrea forgive us, for it is a world of
beoe-,inlysteries, and its Creator on knows what lies
thi "/ the surface of his lightest image!" In saying
the we are uttering no idle panegyric on the book ;
sooJ;lstice of our commendations may be settled in
PirP'e of hours by the perusal of the "three parts.
titaelt,,aB to the plot : —The story occurs " once upon a
spot' about a hundred years ago, and opens upon a
foal
ht here, long before, a fierce battle had been
ltoot. "It was fought," says the historian, "u pon
gre hi. Summer day when the waving grass was
" Many -a, wild 49wer," he continues,
to TeY a wild flower, formed by the Almighty hand
tap Perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its ena.me.e
diio),,tl „high with blood that day, and shrinking
We' The description of the battle-field is a
teetiFY but instructive picture, even in
,the grim
tar,tY which is described as having followed the
alts-hage• Here, however, the author abruptly
sear,les his theme by pourtraying a pastoral land-
reaF in autumn, and by especially directing the
thris attention to one particular orchard where
st,,_Young girls are dancing merrily together on the
i(;;;33,.while peasants are gathering apples in the sur-
eVplog trees :
th4l there were no such thing as display in the world,
Private opinion is, and I hope you agree with me,
seAt might get on a great deal better than we do,
54,4 'night be infinitely more agreeable company than
Th'eare. It was charming to see bow these girls danced.
144437
shad no spectators but the apple-pickers on the
They were very glad to please them, but they
idltaCercl.to pledse themselves (or at least you would have
apposed so); and ycu could no more help admiring,
the they
could help dancing. How they did dance!
"Not like opera dancers. Not at all. And not like
lsdame Anybody's finished pupils. Not the least. It
manot quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even
tior
r
t j-dance dancing. It was neither in in the old style,
I nor the English
stylertpew style, nor the French
one, I am
The Spenath it may have been, by accident,y a trifle in
told, delir4l6ll, style, which is a free and joyous.
fr°ra the a delightful air of off-hand ins
amoebae .3 chirping little castanets. As they._
Pidraantiejend
and ,he orchard trees, and down the groves tstems
kid again, and teirled each other lightly
d to
_peround, the influence of their airy motion seeme -
round
tiPaosa.d and spread, in the sun lighted scene, like an ex
unix circle in the water. Their streaming hair and
jutteringo skirts, the elastic grass beneath th.-ir feet, the
ughs that rustled in the mornin air—the flashit g
t'aves, their speckled shadows on the soft green ground
"the balmy wind that swept along the landscape. glad
bturn the distant windmill, cheerily—everything be-
een the two girls, and the man and team at plough
on the ridge of land, where they showed against the
.7 as if they were the last things in the world—seemed
dancing
too."
These
tib are the daughters of Dr. Jeddler, already men-
.a,.tied, the elder named Grace, the younger named
nion. And admirable creations are Grace and Ma
bon. Excepting Little Nell, they are the most exqui-
site female characters yet conceived by Mr. Dickens.
making certain allowances for the brevity of the
IdAttie of Life" when compared with the "Pirate,"
Grace and Marion are quite equal to Minna and
ends, ods, the most charming of the heroines of Sir
Apter Scott. Both these maidens are in love with
j !red, Jeddler's ward, who, on attaining his ma-
thtY,leaves his guardian to seek his fortune. Marion,
wi,,Younger sister, is affianced to Alfred—Grace,
41a noble self-forgetfulness, concealing her own
passiont,, for him, and fostering by every means the
& talon of the lovers. The first part closes with the
departurev.i of the hero from the house of his guardian
his separation from his betrothed. Exquisitely is
hearei°llquest of Grace over the impulses of her own
bea Pourtrayed with those honest eyes of hers
eat !';1111? upon her sister, " so calm, serene, and
kwcheer-
Exquisite is that little incident related where
of il`°ll gazes for a moment after the retreating figure
eaeor affianced, and " then turning back again, and
sobbing for the first time those calm eyes, fell
Bat rig on her neck Oh, Grace ; God bless you!
heart, „cannot bear to see it, Grace ! It breaks my
re5,,,,,A, Three years have rolled by when the story is
a half- in the seeond part. One Michael Warden
seeibLtotned squire is then introduced ; he is de-
as d`" as wonderfully reduced in circumstances and
oanctsPerately in love with Marion. They meet
stinlY, and everything indicates a reciprocal
affection,
when
a letter arrives from Alfred 1-Leth•
givhein
OUnei, g
grand part • • tof returning home. A
inten ion
_ • hen, of
time in
arrive v_e that night D arin
D 4 nephew,
Dr. Jeddler at Christmas
s
who is expected to
tiMarion steals out tbe height of the fe.tivi-
ogf the lyinquet room and
`bAsislfri:"'be:di are reaches
srehaidselrloimmeagines, with Michael Warden.
only ta find hi; betrothed
airs "Tile a fugitive under the nios`
pereumstancea. nfavow able
• Six years have eia,b,.ed, %Own the
6°,llllg'es of the fie ion are „vb., ietr. inced in time
ria Part. G ace hz-:- married AlfrQd.
fit"vt erred) but mystery
pes the fate of Marion. Ooe 0-&-'1011,..:. a
til.3,llnto anniversary, the elder sister is prome,ed
14,7' before the sun has set she shall know all
about the younger. The day-god is slowly
tCing below lior zon, a figure is perc.ptible on
, threihold of the orchard,
`I I e a. rustle of a
Goa
garment is visible in the evening `'Oh.
Ol°,, Was it a vision that, came busting from the
al,mans arms, and with a cry, and with a waving
its hands, and with a wild pre.i?itation of itFelf
i'5,..13°° her in its boundless love, sank down in her em-
,'"l" Marks has returned, still a maiden, still
momarried still unbetrothed. During the six past
'ears she has been seeludel with her aunt Martha—
. 'laving resolved, in the greatness and nobleness of her
,Ilatore, to conquer her own selfish feelings, and by
'4,4 retirement to enable Grace to be united to the
!Ilan they both loved so truthfully. So i= demon-
strated the heroism of those battles of life fought " in
little households?' So is effected the conversion of
Dr. Jeddler to a knowledge of the grandeur, and the
Pathos, and the mysteries, and the magnanimity
Which,' are discernible in God's creation. Michael
Warden, meanwhile, has turned uo attain, with his
evity somewhat diminished, and his fortunes some-
what improved, and the author, in his pleasant way,
obierves, " Time—fr: m whom 1 had the latter part
of this story, and with whom I have the pleasure of a
rraollal acquaintance of some five and thirty years'
`4lllttic)no informed me, leaning etsily upon his scythe,

that Michael Warden never went away again, and
never sold his house, but opened it afresh, maintained
a golden mean of hospitality, and had a wife, the
Fele and honour of that couatrystde' whose name was
Marion." Thus terminates this beautiful " love
story"—conceived in the most graceful vein—fraught
with a lofty truthfulness—painted with the sunniest
colours. Secondly, az; to the characters :—Of Grace,
and Marion, and Doctor Jeddler, and Alfred Heath-
field, and Michael Warden, we have already spoken.
Then there are a brace of attorneys, called (very
euphoniously) Snitchey and Craggs—men possessed
of a wonderful office, contaioing, besides other strange
chattels, " tiers of boxes, padlocked and fire-proof,
with people's names painted outside, which anxious
visitors felt themselves, by a cruel enchantment, com-
pelled to spell backwards and forwards, and to make
anagrams of, while they sat, seeming to listen to
Snitchey and Craggs, without comprehending one
word of what they said." Snitchey, in his way, has
a smack of Tackleton and Gruff in his disposition.
But there is one Benjamin Britain—a superb fellow.
He is described as " a small man, with an uncom-
monly sour and discontented face." Having forgotten
himself by laughing while serving at Dr. Jeddler's
breakfast table, Britain is remonstrated with, by a
fellow-servant exclaiming—
" Do you know where you are? Do you want to get
warning ?'
" 'I don't know anything.' said Britain. with a leaden
eye and an immovable visage. I don't care for any-
thing. I don't make out anything. I don't believe any-
thing. And I don't want anything.'
"Although this forlorn summary of his general con-
dition may have been overcharged in an access of des-
pondency, Benjamin Britain—sometimes called Little
Britain, to distinguish him from Great; as we might say
Young England, to express Old England with a differ-
ence—had defined his real state more accurately than
might be supposed. For serving as a sort of man
Miles, to the Doctor's Friar Bacon ; and listening day
after day to innumerable orations addressed by the
Doctor to various people, all tending to show that his
very existence was at best a mistake and an absurdity;
this unfortunate servitor had fallen, by degrees, into
such an abyss of confused and contradictory suggestions
from within and without, that Truth at the bottom of
her well, was on the level surface as compared with
Britain in the depths of his mystification."
In the subsequent portions of the book Britain is
transformed—improved as a man, but deteriorated as
a comic character. "He was very much broader,"
says his biographer, " much redder, much more
cheerful, and much jollier in all respects. It seemed
as if his face had been tied up in a knot before
and was now untwisted and smoothed out."
In the end he marries Clemency Newcome—
capital Clemency Newcome. This_ is one of the
best pictures in the " Boz" portrait gallery. Cle-
mency Newcome is not a jot like the Opportunity
Newcome described in Cooper's: " Ravensnest.'
Opportunity has the coldest heart in a well-favoured
covering ; Clemency has the warmest heart in the
oddest body conceivable. Mr. Dickens, however;
must speak for himself:—
"She was about thirty years old, and had a sufficiently
plump and cheerful face, though it was twisted up into
an odd expression of tightness that made it comical.
But the extraordinary homeliness of her gait and
manner, would have superseded any face in the world.
To say that she had two left legs, and somebody else's
arms; and that all tour limbs seemed to be out of joint,
and to start from perfectly wrong places when they
were set in motie•n; is to offer the mildest outline of the
reality. To say that she was perfectly content and
satisfied with these arrangements, and regarded them as
being no business of hers, and took ht r arms and legs
as they came, and allowed them to dispose of them-
selves just as it happened, is to render faint justice to
her equanimity. Her dress was a prodigious pair of
self-willed shoes, that never wanted to go where her
feet, went; blue stockings; a printed gown of many
colours, and the most hideous pattern procurable for
money; and a white apron. She always wore short
sleeves, and always had, by s'.me accident, grazed
elbows, in which she took so lively an interest that she
was continually trying to turn them round and get im-
possible views of them. In general, a little cap perched
somewhere on her head; though it was rarely to be
met with in the place usually occupied in other subjects, '
by that article of dress; but from head to foot she was
scrupulously clean, and maintained a kind of dislocated
tidiness. Indeed, laudable anxiety to be tidy and
compact in her own conscience as well as in the public
eye, gave rise to one of her most startling evolutions,
which was to grasp herself sometimes by a sort of
wooden handle (part of her clothing, and familiarly
called a busk), and wrestle as it were with her garments,
until they fell into a symmetrical arrangement."
Clemency's mode of writing has been already de-
scribed, almost in the same words in regard to
Christopher Nubbles. Here is a humorous narra-
tive of how Clemency Newcome brought a letter into
the drawing room of Dr. Jeddler, and of how she
conducted herself after Dr. Jeddler cried out " What's
the matter ?"

" It's only me, Mister,' said Clemency, putting ii her
head at the door.

" ' And what's the matter with you?' said the Dactor.
" Oh, bless you, nothing an't the matter with me,'
returned Clemency—and truly, too, to judge from her
well soaped face, in which Mere gleamed as usual the
very soul of good-humour, which, ungainly as she was,
made her quite engaging. Abrasions on the elbows are
not generally understood, it is true, to range within that
class of personal chorms called beauty.spots. But it is
better, going through the world, to have the arms
chafed in that narrow passage, than the temper: and
Clemency's was sound and whole as any beauty's in the
land.

Nothing an't the matter with me,' said Clemency,
entering, but—come a littic closer, Mister.'
"The Doctor, in some astonishment, complied with
this invitation.

saei d
in Clemency.
thel en a f
familyne
wasn't to give you one before them,
you
AiYtnnlc
00t,,u,v ~
said
might have supposed, from
her extraorainary ogling as she said it, as well as from
a singular rapture or ecatacy which
pervaded
t}ame.o
her elbows,
as if she were embracing herself, that 'one
favourable interpretation, meant a chaste salute. in its
the Doctor himself seemed alarmed, for the moment;
hut quickly regained his composure, as Clemency,e.
1 sdt
Indeed
had recourse to both her pockets—beginning withvithge
right one, going away to the wrong one, anafterwards
coming back to the right one again—produced a letter
i'rom the post office.
" 'Britain was riding by on an errand,' she chuckled,
handing it to the Doctor, and see the mail come in,
and waited for it. There's A. H. in the corner. Mr.
Alfred's on his journey home, I bet. We shall have
a wedding in the house—there was two spoons in my
saucer this morning. Oh, Luck, how slow he opens it!'
" All this she delivered, by way of soliloquy, gradu-
ally rising higher and higher on tiptoe, in her impatience
to hear the news, and making a corkscrew of her apron,
and a bottle of her mouth. IA last, arriving at a climax
of suspense, and seeing ',the Doctor still engaged in the
perusal of the let ter, she came down flat upon the soles
of her feet again, and cast her apron, as a veil, over her
head, in a mute despair, and inability to bear it any
longer."
In the account of the hostel called " The Nutmeg
Grater," and kept by Benjamin Britain, the writer
gives this natural but ridiculous incident. A
discover stranger
has has entered the bar, and Clemency, having d
that it is none other than Michael Warden, endea-
vours to convey her discovery to Britain by dumb

show :
d intent onhe pros-
" Seeing that the stranger's
the wind)w, and that he seeme
; to her husband, and
pet, she made some eager s.gres -
face was turned towards
pointed to the bill, and moved her se et
o wh
mouth o
r
repeating with great energy, one d
pound, and as
over and over again. As she uttered no s
word eirme
her dumb motions, like most of her gestures, wedruectofrea.
very extraordinary kind, this unintelligible con
duced Mr. Britain to the confines of despair.
He
at the table, at the stranger, at the spoons, at his v,
followed her pantomi:ne with looks of deep amazement
and perplexity—asked in the same language, was it
stared
atd
property in danger, was it he in danger, was it she—
answered her sienals with other signs expressive of the
deepest distress and confusion—followed the motions of
her lips -gu. ssed half aloud ' milk end water,' ' monthly
warning; • mice and walnuts'—and couldn't approach
her meaning."
On the return of Marion, Clemency is wonderfully
excited. She is ignorant of the return of the long-
lost -.

" When. looking up in wonder, and in indignant re-
monstrance, and in the added emotion of
.a great roar
from Mr. Britain, and seeing that sweet face so well-
remembered close before her, she stared, sobbed,
laughed, cried, screamed, embraced her, held her fast,
released her, MI on Mr. Snitchey and embraced him
(much to Mrs. Snitchey's indignation), fell on the
aiid enibra-fd him, !ell on Mr. Britain and em-
brae rd and coileluded by embracing herself, throw-
ing her apron over her head, and going into hysterics
bAind it."
But to appreciate Clemency thoroughly the book
itself must be read. The frontispiece, by Daniel
Maclise, depicting Grace and Marion lancing under
the apple-tree, is a gem. The figures of the two
1 damsels are exquisitely drawn. The three other illus-
trations from the same eminent hand are excellent.
Those by Stanfield, particularly the Nutmeg Grater,
are good. Leech has used his pencil for once indif-
ferently; and the three embellishments by 1)03 le are
execrably bad. They would entirely spoil the volume
if anything could. Mr. Dickers has unquestionably
made an improvement upon his last Christmas hook.
" The Battle of Life" is a charmin,, love story—a
story not unworthy of its distinguish? it anther.

The " Observer" of Sunday, Dec. 6, contained
an iwprtetial review, with extracts from Sir E. L.
Buiwer Lytton's new work entitled " Lucretia," to the
extent of four of the Observer folio columns. The
Observer of Sunday, Dec. 13, contained an impartial
review, with extracts from the second series of "Lord
Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors of England,"
to the extent of two folio columns and a half. The
Observer of Sunday, Dee. 20, c-aitained an impartial
review, with extracts from the annual Christmas work
by Charles Dinkins. EN., entitled, " The Battle of Life,
a Love Story." to the extent of nearly five of the
Obse,ver columns. A Monday's edition of the
Observer is regularly published at tour o'clock on Mon
day afternoons, which is beat adapted for the country
and readers abroad.

THE PROPOSED NEW BRIDGE.
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CHARING CROSS
BRIDGE COMPANY.
A special general meeting of the shareholders in this
e napany was held at 1 o'clock yrstaday, at the offices,
No. 9, Villiers street, Strand, to take into considera-
tion the notice advertised in the London Gc:zette of 4th
November last, of an intended application to Parliament
for powers to erect a bridge across the Thames, from or
near Whitehall-place to the opposite side of the Thames,
with approaches thereto from York-road and elsewhere,
as in such notice particularised : and further, to take
into consideration and to determine the course to bo pur-
sued, and the steps to be taken in reference to such in-
tended application to Parliament and the proposed new
bridge, and to pass such resolutions as in the opinion of
such meeting shall be expedient for the better protection
and advancement of the property and interests of the
shareholders, or otherwise to give effect to the deter-.
mination of the meeting."
William Hawes, Esq., the deputy-chairman of the
company, presided. There was a numerous attendance
of proprietors.
Mr. Lawrence, the secretary, having read the adver-

tisem ent convening the meeting, -
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the meeting.
He said it was scarcely necessary for him to say that the
reason the directors had called the proprietors together
was for the purpose of laying before them what
they (the directors) had already done with respect
to the project now before the public, fur erecting a new
bridge across the Thames, to state their views with
regard to it, and for the purpose of submitting to the
shareholders the plans which they had devised for the
purpose of protecting the interests of the company as
much as possible. The directors thought, as soon as
they saw the plans, or rather read the advertisement,
that it would be best not to take any public steps in the
matter- until the plans were deposited ; and they ac-
cordingly waited until the 30th of November had ex
pired, when the plans had to be deposited, in order
that they might have an opportunity of examin-
ing them. When they had procured them, they
immediately waited on Lord Morpeth, the Chief
Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, from whose
office the plans apparently were furnished, and explained
to him the extreme hardship which would be imposed
upon this company, if the Government stepped forward
and erected a new bridge in direct opposition, and in
juxta-position with the one which they had so recently
erected under the powers of an Act of Parliament, which
specified that " the company were to erect a bridge,
which would be of great public advantage." That
the public had derived advantage from the bridge
was sufficiently proved by the large amount of
traffic that daily passed over it. The utility of the
bridge, as set forth in the preamble of the Bill, had,
therefore, been amply demonstrated. They urged upon
Lord Morpeth that the bridge appeared to be a proposi-
tion which had emanated from the Government, but he
made no reply whatever to this observation ; but, after
considering the subject for some time, the deputation
asked his Lordship where the funds requisite for the
erection of a new bridge were to come from ? Lord
Morpeth said, "We have no funds—l have nothing to
do with the funds," adding that the plan was put
before the public by the Commissioners of Metropolitan
Improvements; he did not, however, say that it was not
a Government measure beyond that it had emanated
from these Commissioners. He likewise added that he hail
no funds whatever at his command, either to erect a
bridge or to give compensation to any parties whom the
erection of such a structure might injure. Having dis-
covered, then, that the Government did not intend to
oppose the Charing Cross bridge Company, and that
that company shoald not have to oppose them,
the directors added a postscript to a circular which
they issued a short time ago to the shareholders,
asking them to attend a meeting which was to te- held in
the Westminster-road, in order to concert what mea-
Aires should be taken to oppose the project. That
meeting, as they a ere no doubt aware, Vas most fully
attended by all the influential persons residing in the
neighbourhood. From that meeting a committee ema-
nated for the purpose of devising the necessary means
to carry into effect the object for which the meeting was
called, and that committee was now in active operation.
A meeting would be held this afternoon on the Westminster
side of the bridge, in order to take steps for the holding
of u public meeting, at which Sir De Lacy Evans Ni ould
occupy the chair, and at which there would be, he
believed, a strong expression of public feeling against
what he was juqtified in terming an almost useless pro-
ject.—(Cheers.) The directors had been endeavouring
to ascertain by whom the bridge was put forward. Mr.
Barry had been aimed at, but he saw a gentleman there
(Mr. Grissell) who was intimate with Mr. Barry, and
who stated, at the meeting in the Westminster-road,
that the project was not Mr. Barry's, and that he did
not approve of it as it was laid before the
public, as he spoke from an intimate knowledge
of the views of Mr. Barry. They were, therefore, not
justified in saying that it had emanated from a gentle •
man of the power and position of Mr. Barry. Then
from whom did it emanate ? It had been intimated that
the South-Western Railway were its promoters ; but he
(the Chairman) declared that he could not believe it,
because they had Westminster-bridge on one hand, and
Waterloo and Hungerford-bridge on the other, and
would necessarily be anxious to avoid the confusion
which the new bridge could not fail to create in the im-
mediate vicinity of their proposed terminus in
the York-road. He believed, then, that it was
a suggestion of the under officials of the Im-
provement Commission, who had done nothing yet—
it was a crude, unconsidered proposition, emanating
from them ; at least, that appeared to him the only way

to account for it, because none on the face of the earth
would derive any benefit from it.—(Cheers.) Why, if
it were made, the very converse of the conduct of the
Government would take place. For some years they
had been doing all they could to afford the people the
benefit of large open areas like the parks, but if
tthhee
ebtrhiedrgesidwe eerfe
tmheadew,atetrhos
ewouwho
harveseid. tod goon
half a mile further than at present in order to
reach St. James's and Hyde Parks. Besides, the Go-
vernment had sanctioned a new street running toward,
Westminster-bridge, and the parties in whose hands it
was placed are bound to complete it under the pain of
heavy penalties. Could they believe that the Government,
after bringing responsible men into an undertaking like
that new street, would render the improvement perfectly
useless, by placing a bridge at some distance from, and
compelling the traffic wishing to cross the river to go a
considerable distance round? He did think then that he
was justified in saying that the project was one which
was calculated to injure every body who had property in
the neighbourhood of the present site, and do no punlic
service whatever.—(Hear, hear.) Believing that they
would agree with him in these sentiments, he would
proceed to read a series of resolutions which the
directors had framed, with a view of opposing the pro-
position in the .nsuing session of Parliament. Three
bridges with so many piers would be a serious
interruption to the navigation of the river. It
was a subject, however, of which he hoped the
City would take cognizance. It had always been
a great point with them not to have too many
arches on account of the navigation. Judging by
the plans of the new bridge, he thought it would have
seven or eight piers, and that the arches would
Ise low, and this was proposed to be done at a short
distance from their own and Waterloo. bridge. The
directors thought that as this was a matter of the
greatest importance to the shareholders of the bridge,
and to the market company, that it would be
most desirable that a Parliamentary Committee,
the appointment of which the directors proposed,
to watch whatever proceedings might be taken with
respect to the new bridge, should contain some one
highly connected with the Market Company. They
therefore proposed that it should consist, it addi-
tion to several of the directors of the Bridge
Company, of one of the largest shareholders and
proprietors, and the deputy-chairman of the Market
Company, if he would do them the favour to accept a
seat in the committee.—(Hear, hear.) The directors
thought that by the adoption of this plan
they should have the aid of the Market Com
pany, which they considered very important, and
also that the friendly intercourse which would thus be
engendered would tend to the amicable settlement of
matters which hitherto they had not been able satisfac-
torily to adjust. The chairman concluded by submitting
the first proposition.
Mr. FEW suggested the addition " of Charing cross-
bridge, so recently sanctioned by Parliament," and the
expulsion of the word " alarm.*
The CHAIRMAN thought they might justly use the
word, as they were more than surprised by the an.
no cause for alarm, as the
Legislature would never sanction the project.
Legts t
EW tohfotuhgeh newt
they bridge.h ad
SEAREg°LDER considered that as the Le-
Another d
gislature had
they would not be so unjust as to utterly
noumnrc.e;
ty.
t deputy chairman of the Market
Mr. SroTEIN.
thate as that was the first time he had
Company, said .
n of adding him to the committee,
heard of the proposal()
consideration
he must have time for cons
edre°sstsrObyritdhgeei; tpropehr
the committee, as the labour
prietors ought to be in
would be excessive.
would act in concert with
The
CHAIRMAN said they _
Mr. FEW considered that a greater number of pro-
d, rive great aid from them.
Ca two gentlemen that
.tain KELLY though that the
Mr. Stutley, one
the Westminster Committee, and would, consequently,
had been named. Mr. Robert Few and
the recent solicitor of the company,
and the other the
deputy chairman of the Hte gerford-mark Coonany. tp
amply sufficient for all purposes.—(Hear, hear)
would, therefore, strongly recommend that the num
should not be increased. I!' a further addition was re
qeire.l it might he easily obtained at a future period.
The CHAIRMAN said 'that lie had considered the sub-
leer be discussed at the present meeting of such
vital imp.rt.ice, both to the Bridge and the
Market Csanpany, that he wrote on Satur
;ay last to Mr. Robert Few, expressing a hope
would forget all past differences, and heartily
join with the directors of the Charing Cross-bridge
Company in their endeavours to annihilate their common
er.eitc,—(Fiear, hear)---and he was happy
to say that
he had received from that gentleman a letter, fuli)
bearing out the high opinion he had ever held of him,
and expressing the happiness he felt at its reception, and
atating his determination to co-operate with the Charing
Cross-bridge Corepiny in putting an ei.d to a scheme
that, if carried out, w‘mld be alike fat .1 to the interest,
of the company and themselves.—(Bear.)
Mr. STAINTON wished to know from the chairman
whether the proposition to erect the new bridge to
Charing--cross emanated from private individucls or
railway jobbing ?—(Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said that he had already, in fact,
answered the question of the Hon. Proprietor. Ile
did not believe it was a matter of rail a.ay jobbina.
that it emanated from the South Wes- rn
Rail-
way Company ; he had no doubt, because Lord
Isterpetli had told them so, that it did not