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As an acute and sound reasoner upon political
economy, Miss Martineau has long been familiarly
known to English readers. Iler powers of -algenseht.'
are fully appreciated, -her cases in point arc
admissible, tier manner of regarding any mooted
question of . jurisprudence is always sufficiently
now to render it attractive. Indeed, her popularity
is ascribable more to clearness of -perception and appo-
siteness -of development upon any abstruse principle
than to. displays of rhetoric, or those many superfluous
adjuncts which tend _rather to decorate than
,actually to
Improve a volume. Ingenuity or dexterity as a 1 ,ician
arc qualities to which Miss Skillet-au cat not. advance
the veriest ghost of a claim ; she is-wholly and entirely
deficient in the trickeries so prevalent among political
theorists. She does not skin a social wound over with
the gloss of language ; she probes it, with a firm and
unshrinking hand, to the very bottom ; she sxtracts
each of its poisonous or virulent qualities, bit by bit,
classifies them, one after another, with scrupulous exact-
ness, and then holds them up in succession for public
-scrutiny in so many chapters. Where th'e remedy is
questionable, she specifies one herself, and maintains it
by a Isng array of where/is-es; where, however, the
course to be adopted is self-evident, she abandons it
-to its own silent but moving eloquence. In the series
which have particularly originated these considerations
in our own mind, and of which the volume before us
forms the csnelusion, Miss Martineau has exercised her
abilities in a more alluring, it' not, a more sound or sober
manner. The object of the entire . work is pretty
tolerably plain from the title alone ; and so vigors
oils is the handling of the theme, so ithaussser-
able are the abuses thersin. pourtrayed, and so
utterly incapable -of much longer support, is the
system stigmatised, that we are fain to regard
these " Forest Tales" as harbingers of death to the
game-laws, and as the precursors of a more rational
state of 'things. In this light the last effusion of the
" set" must be regarded as the ante penultimate of
the abrogation. From the two adjectives which foam
the heading of this story—" Gentle and Simple"—we
may learn Its most pervading characteristic. Gentle and
simple enough the talc is—it is pure, unadulterated,
it is English also in its general tone; it is
limpid English. Nor is it merely thus in its style of
composition;
English—thoroughly English—in all its characters. The
authoress has selected her materials from the fountain-
head ; she has transferred to her pages the emotions
which are ever welling up in our agricultural districts.
She has with a right faithful pencil copied the features
which artehevicstiragien,
or among the crops. All the characters, however lightly
sketched, will be recognised ; they are not so much
individuals as representatives of a genus. Their proto-
types are scattered far and wide through every county,
without number. Onslow, the honest, steady-going,
plain-spoken farmer; Lisamer, the conscientious game-
keeper; Granny Stott, the industrious, peevish, and
respectable housewife; Groves, the hearty old fellow
who is licensed to sell game, and who advised his
" poaching party to shake their fowls in the face of the
policeman they met in his rounds of an autumnal
morning, or asked him to judge of the weight of a hare
yet warm on the coldeit winter night;" all these per-
sonages, and many others not specified, are no more the
creations of fancy than daguerrotypes are; down even to
little Tot herself'.

PRICE si.

One blemish in the book, which is however a neces •
sary consequence of the subject and the aim proposed,
is its accumulation of dry and heavy dialogue. Every
scene, every situation, is used simply as a peg upon
which to hang a number of fresh arguments ; yet from
this very circumstance the object is never lost sight of
for an instant. The pernicious game laws f—there it
stands ever before the reader, from the opening sentence
to the concluding syllable—the pernicious game-laws !
Luke Voile, a common day-labourer, as one may say, 3
hedger and ditcher, is the hero; and in tracing his
moral destruction, from his ignorance in picking up a
nest of partridge's eggs from a bank on his way home
from work, to his transportation for catching a couple of
leverets, the mistaken policy of the present legislation
about game is admirably defined; it is a vast political
question condensed, as it were, into an anecdote ; it is a
companion to the Iliad in a nutshell. Any one who is
interested in the welfare of his fellow- creatures, and of
his fellow-countryinen, will read "Gentle and Simple ;"
it is an important exposition of an important topic ; nor
is it devoid of the merits necessary for a work of fiction.
In this respect the suicide of Lisainer, and the return of
Luke to his cottage-home after confinement in jail, are
passages fraught with a strange and touching pathos.
Altogether this is a clever and good-spirited tale, ger-
minated not only in the mind but in the heart also of ita
authoress.

THE KNIGHT OF G WYNNE. Nos. I, and
By Charles Lever.
While his brother litercaeu.'s, with scarcely another ex-
ception, are subsiding either into utter silence (such as Sir
Bulwer Lytton), or into casual magazine writers (such as
W. H. Maxwell), or into a mongrel existence in newspapers
(such as Dickens), or into resurrectionists of their own for-
gotten creations (such as Ainsworth)--Charles Lever, the
quondam " Harry Lorrequer" continues as fresh, and spark-
ling, and prolific as he has been heretofore. In these acme-
what turbulent-minded times, when both politics and litera-
ture appear to have lapsed into the confusion wide; is ge-
nerally the forerunner of a great change, it is really pleasant
to be greeted each month by the same hilarious heart which
has lightened our own so frequently during the last four or
five years. We regard that old pink covering alone, as some-
thing worthy of our estimation : it looks the harbinger or: at
least one evening's amusement ; nor is its smallest adjunct
that " Phiz"—rare, delicate, laughter-moving "I'lf
z'—stcl
continues to be the illustrator. Although it is scarcely pos-
sible to arrive at any correct conclusion regarding the merits
of a fiction after having perused merely nine chapters, we
can safety declare that the commencement of the
" Kaight of Gwynne" is equal if mot superior
to the commencement of any other of Mr. Lever's
productions. Curiously enough, whether by design or for-
getfulness, the first chapter opens in a manner identical with
the opening of "Jack Hinton," namely, in a banquet-room,
immediately after the guests have retired ; the only dis-
similarity being that one is situated in London, and the other
in Dublin. The characteristic in Which " Harry Lorrequer'
is unrivalled, is as an anedote teller: as he cracks a
walnut over his madcria some grotesque and extravagant
adventure is rattled off with the most fascinating smartness,
and without the faintest indication of ace. As one among
the drollest of these little episodes, the account of Dick
French's hunt on a dromedary after an " ibis" is wonder-
fully funny ; especially with the assistance of Hablot
Browne's etching needle. We also particularise the de-
scription of Gwynne Abbey as charmingly picturesque. The
old knight himself is beautifully conceived, and Bageua,
Daly promises to be 'one of the most finished and originsa
characters Mr. Lever has yet summoned into existosnee.
According to our estimate, the motto of the Gwynnes "Are
le tGuellez pas:" will not apply to the present narrative
their descendant's career ; far otherwise—the pages are
destined to be well thumbed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
THE NEWMARKET TRIENNIAL STAKES
Closed with 161 subscribers.
The first race for it will be run in the Fitt; October
Meeting, 1848, the horses being then twQ nars old. The,
engagement is binding with the same nominations for
the First October Meetings, 1849 and 1850, the stake
for each year being 10 son- Produce to be declared at
the usual time.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1846.
MONDAY.
Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair, 4 yrs, agst 'Lord
Orford's Prussic Acid, 3 yrs, weight for age. D•BL
200, h ft.

Mr. Clifton's Brown Bess agst Mr. O'Brien's Tribute
both 2 yrs old, 7st 71h each. 100, h ft. Y.C.

FIRST SPRING, 1846.
MONDAY.
Lord Orford's Prussic Acid, Bst 7lb apt Lord Glas-
gow's f, by 'lstrialer, out of Amelia, 7st I lib, RAI.,
200, h it.

HOUGHTON, 194 6.
AIONDA Y.

Duke of Bedford's Free Gift agst Lord Egliuton's
Eryx ; Criterion Course ; 300, 200 ft.

LAST DAY.
Duke of Bedford's Paragon, Bst 71b, agst Lord Eglin-
t Thersites, Sst ; D.M. ; 200 h ft.
SECOND OCTOBER, 1847.
MONDA Y.
Lord Glasgow's e, by the Saddler, out of Marpessa,
Bst 51b, agst Lord Glasgow's f, by Retriever, out o.
Canada, 7st Slb ; 200 h ft.

(RCEIVED IS DAY.)
HEREFORD ESTEEPLE C THHA.SES.—YESTERDAY.
The Aristocratic Steeple Chase was won by Captain Read's,
Mameluke, beating Lord Glamis's Satan, and the Hurdle
race by Chance.
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING—WEDNESDAY.
EXNING FIELD—Tim OAKS.
Mr. Nash nd Moss Rose beat Mr. Buckworth's Busy Bee.
Mr. Mood's Ruth beat Mr. Bagge's Tiny.
Mr. Fyson's Fenelle beat Mr. Dobede's Delicate.
Mr. Bagge's Treasure beat Mr. King's Rachael.
Mr. Gillett's Graciosa beat Lord Stradbroke's Medley.
Lord Stradbroke's Meg beat Mr. Dobede's Dowager Queen.
TIIE Cur..—First ties.
Farmer beat Tabby I Miles beat Belle
Figaro beat Muslin Destiny beat Regina.
Tars DERBY. —First Ties.
Deerslayer beat 13akshecsh, j Dunkirk beat Mac
Thaddeus of Warsaw beat Richard.
TIIR PORT STAKT.S.
Lord Stradbroke's Mintinan beat Mr. Nash's nd Major.
Mr. Bagge's Turkey Cock agst Mr. Gillett's Guy Alannering.
Guy Manner ins drawn.
Mr. Tyson's Fidelity beat Mr. Dobede's Dew-drop.
Lord Stradbroke's 14ar3hal beat Mr. Dobede's Duchess.

FACTORY Houße.—The adjourned meeting of cottos•
spinners, which we announced in our number of Wednesday hot.
was held at the offices of Messrs. Joseph and William Meren. soli-
citors to the Association, on Saturday, and it was numerously at-
tended. Considerable difference of opinion prevailed with respect to
the subject which had been under consideration on the ptece.liug
Tuesday—viz., the reduction of the hours of factory labour from.
twelve to eleven hours, upon the passing of Sirnobert Peel's proposed
tariff; and, after some discussion,
Bill should be strenuously opposed, and that the consideration of the
proposal ter working
Baiiij ly
ii(cf,our,eatdhehe,eureferu:nrl:atin:teisteotits:
eleven hums should be postpxed until after the
it was agreed that Lord Ashley's
passing of Sir R. Peel's measures.—Nanclalter 61 ttlian.
GAME LAWS.--, lio,
=eminent
of file jaw, in Engle.] relative togame) proposes to
enact that no person bhalirstlell lif),aucllros'tso
,uch person be lord or lessee of at nutnor
for reputed manor, Or his
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not yet
.fixed). Nothing,a.ud pehrosewne:rn,
acres of land a the
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pauttitol,lri
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t'o justice, if calledtBSeSSOSit°ollg.
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Damage done by game is to be apportioned among
Liken to the next Quarter Ses-
neighbouring pro
sions. The provisions of the former Act are to be extended to Ma.
as regards penalties, &c.
The Duke of Wellington i
House on the 26th inst., for sttathl xdesayp'
his annual banquet. the Judges going to ZettberdthteopluerarAvsee oAf PgiSelinesr
the Western Circuit.
On Tuesday, the 10th '
of the Academicians of the instant, a general assembly
apartments-1n Trafalgar Royal leadenly of Arta was held at that°
M`Dowell, and John •square, when Thomas Webster, Patrick
Rogers Herbert, Eocis., were duly elected Royal
Academicians in the
surte,
and room of Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, Robert
TliOnaas Piallips, Xscls., dtgen,sed,