The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-15 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

Smut.—Business has been dull in British Plantation
and other descriptions, and for all sorts lower rates have
been accepted. The decline in West India has been 6d
to is per cwt by private sale. At auction, Barbadoes
has realised 40s to 42s for fine yellow, 37s to 31i• for
mid, and 36s to 36s 6d for low. St. Lucia, very fine
yellow has realised 41s to 425, and good greyish yellow
35s 6d to 375. Grenada, mid yellow 36s to 36s 6d, and
mid and yellow Jamaica, 365.
REFlNED.—Standard lumps have been 505 Gd to 51s
per cwt.
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius, 7,692 bags 104 casks went
heavily at 6d to is decline, and mostly found buyers,
fine yellow 38s 6d to 39s 6d, low 34s 6d to 355, and ord
to fine grey 34s to 38s. Madras, 500 bags, declined 6d
per cwt., mid damp yellow 32s 6d, and fine brown
30s. Bengal has been cheaper also. Java went lower ;
fine strong grey 40s to 41s 6d, and mid yellow 36s to
36s Bd. _ _ -

FOREIGN.—Bahia has been held at 42s to 43s for white,
and yellow at 39s to 41s, being rather above the value.
St. Croix was bought in at 418 to 43s for good and
fine. White Hayannah 3,160 boxes at 28s to 31s 6d
for mid to fine, and at 27s to 27s 6d for low ; 1,195
boxes yellow were taken in at 19s 6d to 21s for good
and fine.

CoarEE.—ln West India samples there has been very
ttle doing, but Ceylon has had amoderate sale. Planta-

tion has realised 64s 6i and 65s 6d for superior, 51s to 52s
for good, and 29s to 32s for tine ord. Mocha has not
been in much request, good 565, and bold triage 38s 6d.
Costa Rica has been 42s 6d for mid, and 28s 6d to 30s
good and fine ord.
RICE.—From the highest prices there has been a de-
cline of about 23 per cwt. Mid white Bengal Ils 6d to
123, and Madras pinkey 103 per cwt.
SPICES —Malabar Pepper hus been taken in at lid
per lb, and Panang at 2id to 24ci per lb; Jamaica Ginger
2/ 4s to 21 18s.

PEARL SAGO, &C.—Some parcels have been taken in
at 22s per cwt; Bermuda Arrowroot has been sold at
7d to is lid per lb.
MOLASSES.—West Indian have been bought in at 15s
per cwt. . . . .

Rum—The demand has been vary limited, and prices
have receded. Proof Leewards Is 7d to is Bd, mid
Jamaica 2S to 33 per cent over, 3s 2d to 3s sd, and East
India proof is 6d to is 6id per gallon.
SALTPETRE.—This article has been tolerably firm.
Good and fine Calcutta 26s 6d to 28s, and low and mid
25s to 265.

TEA.—The market is not quite so good for Green, but
Black sells freely. Sound ord Congou Sid per lb.
COTTON.—A quiet business has been done.
CocoA.—The demand is moderate, at steady rates.
TALLOW.—Some activity has prevailed. I'. Y. C. on
the spot has been 47s 3d to 47s 6d per cwt, and holders
are ♦ery firm.
FRUlT.—Business is dull for most articles. Foreign
Grapes are expected. In Barcelona Nuts there is no al-
teration. Oporto Onions sell slowly.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FINE.)
IN RE JIRESSON.
Mr. Wooler, a creditor under the estate of this bank-
rupt, applied to his Honour for an order to inspect the
books of the bankrupt, ➢ir. Whitmore, the official as-
signee, having refused permission.
His HONOUR said that Mr. Whitmore, the official as-
signee, having refused permission, he (his Honour)
could not grant an order without hearing his objection,
but at the same time he was of opinion that creditors
should be allowed to sea the books, except in very special
case•.

Mr. Whitmore's clerk said he would communicate his
Honour's opitdon to Mr. Whitmore.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
PARRY V. DAVI/I.—MOTE R.
This was an action in trover to recover the value of a
gold watch and chain.
The evidence went to show that the watch had been
left with the defendant, who is a licensed victualler at
Maidstone, to be forwarded to a gentleman at Oxford.
The watch, however, not reaching its destination, de-
fendant said it had been forwarded by railroad, but not
being claimed had been returned to the Paddington
station. On inquiry, however, it was found that this
was not the case, and as the defendant did not give a
more satisfactory account the present action was brought.
The jury assessed the damages at 101.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
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clerks to the firm, who proved that on Satur-
day. the Ueth of August last, the prisoner ap-
plied to him for the quantity of rope set out
in the indictment, which he said he waisted for a ship
which his brother, an extensive tradesman in the ship-
ping line in Napping, was fitting out. Mr. Frost asked
him was it to be a ready money transaction ? to which
the prisoner answered in the affirmative. The rope
having been selected and placed in Mr. Frost's cart, the
prisoner said he could not give a cheque at that moment,
but if Mr. Frost would send to his brother on Monday,
he would find a cheque ready for him. He had directed
the invoice to be made out in his brother's name,
which he gave as " Peter," that being really his
own name, his brother's being " Thomas." The
prisoner had represented himself as an old customer, and
as the person who gave him the fitting of the Hitvannah
packet with cordage. The prosecutor had no recollec-
tion of the prisoner or of the Havannali; but on going
to his books, and finding that he had supplied the packet
with ropes, he credited the rest of the prisoner's re-
presentations. The carter was directed to take
the rope to Mr. Thomas Firnie, 331, Wapping, and
the prisoner accompanied him some way in that direction,
but before they reached Wapping he told the man that
he had changed his mind, and that he thought it would
be more convenient to leave the rope for the present at a
store in Hermitage-street. On Monday Mr. Frost as-
certained that the ropo was not ordered for Mr.
Thomas Fernice, and on searching the place in Her-
mitage-street, only one coil was found, the prisoner
having disposed of the other two.
Mr. BALLANTINE, in the cross-examination of the
witnesses, elicited that the rope had been sold to the
prisoner, and was, in effect, in his possession, before he
said that it was for his brother, and referred to him for
the payment. Mr. Frost would not have partod with
the property, if he did not suppose it was a cash transac-
tion, but he had no suspicion of the prisoner on account
of the statement respecting the Havannah.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said that the whole case of
false pretence fell to the ground, as the goods were ob-
tained before the brother's name was mentioned.
The prisoner was forthwith acquitted and discharged.

FlRE.—This morning between two and three
o'clock, a fire was discovered at the extensive premises
of Mr. S. Mordans, the engineers in the City-road. The
fire was discovered by the policeman on duty, and
several engines were speedily on the spot, under the
direction of Mr. Braidwood, and the fire was extin-
guished with considerable difficulty, it being necessary
to saw away a great portion of the timbers. The first
floor of the factory was completely destroyed, and a
great portion of the roof. It is supposed that the fire
was occasioned by some sparks from a furnace used for
hardening steel. The property is insured.
IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER TIIE CITY SMALL
DEBTS ACT.—This morning, Mr. Commissioner Bul•
lock, in a case heard in the City Small Debts Court,
held that a defendant was not bound to be in attendance
unless subccened to give evidence as a witness. His
Honour was so strongly of opinion on this point that he
refused to adjourn the case fur an application to the court
above.

FATAL ACClDBNT.—Yesterday an inquest Was
held by Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster Hospital, on
the body of Bartholomew Farrell, aged 21. The do
ceased was a labourer, employed on the works of the
New Houses of Parliament. On Friday morning last
deceased was engaged on the top of the ventilating shaft
of the New House of Commons, lowering an immense
iron chain, which was affixed to a crab; but instead of
lowering it in the usual way by the handle, he undid a
portion of the chain off the drum of the crab, and in the
velocity of the chain running out it caught deceased's foot
and drew him down the shaft, and he tell to the bottom,
a depth of 91 feet. Deceased was picked up perfectly
insensible and conveyed to the above hospital, where
ho expired on Wednesday morning. Verdict " Acci-
, dental death."

DEFENCE OF LAMARTINE.
(Continued from 7he Sun of yesterday.)
The Manifesto which I addressed to Europe, as a
programme of the Republic, was accepted spontane-
ously and simultaneously by France, by the peoples,
and by the Governments. The justice and modera-
tion which were therein expressed at once placed
right on the side of France, and that right surpassed
armies. All the Foreign Powers responded to the
Manifesto by a prudence of language and by a re-
spect for the moderate revolution, such as prevented
the general conflagration of the Continent. What
homage was evinced towards us, for example, at
Berlin, at London, at St. Petersburgh, at Madrid,
at Brussels, at Frankfort, everywhere ! Scarcely a
few days had elapsed, when the different peoples of
the Continent, fascinated simply by the attraction of
ideas, detached themselves from absolute institutions
and gravitated towards our principles. In Ger-
many and in Italy seventeen partial revolutions re-
plied to ours. We had no cause either to inflame,
or to agitate, or to combat. The name, the attitude,
and the reserve of the Republic, fought for us pacifi-
cally. A commencement of harmony began to be
consolidated between ourselves and the various con-
stitutional Powers. France only wished to maintain
the place which it occupied in the world ; who would
dare to refuse it so much ? Above all, who would
do so, when France assumed its true role as the
sympathetic missionary in the incitement of the pro-
gress of humanity through the influences of freedom.
In order that our capabilities might correspond
with the situation which we had already assumed, I
immediately demanded from the Government three
armies of observation ; one army of a hundred and
twenty thousand men upon the frontiers of the Rhine
and of the North ; one army of five thousand men at
the foot of the Pyrenees; and a third army of sixteen
thousand men at the foot of the Alps. The two
former were only a forethought, the army of the
Alps was an act.
Italy rose to vindicate its legitimate independence.
The King of Sardinia went to fight for her in Lom-
bardy. We neither provoked nor encouraged the
war against Austria. The question was peculiarly,
and above all, Italian. I felt that it would not be
just or judicious to transform it into a French ques-
tion. Had our arms adventured beyond Savoy we
should have appeared in the light rather of conquerors
than of auxiliaries. We should thereby have alarmed
the German population; have re-formed against our-
selves the coalition, and have provoked a general war
without leaving ourselves a single ally. Behold, then,
the attitude which I caused our diplomacy to assume
in my written instructions, a policy which I after-
wards confirmed at a later period by my language in
the tribune, a language which received the approbation
of the National Assembly.
I said—We ought to prepare ourselves for three
eventualities in Italy.
Will Charles Albert, unaided among all the mas-
ters of Italy, be victorious ?
Will Charles Albert call for our assistance ?
Will Charles Albert experience reverses?
Supposing Charles Albert to be alone triumphant,
so much the better ! Italy will in that event be eman-
cipated without our interference.
Supposing the fate of Italian independence is pro-
longed, and that Charles Albert makes an appeal to
our generous aid, we should reply to that appeal, and
we should descend from the summit of the Alps to
succour him, justified in so doing by the right of our
alliance and by the coincidence of our motives with
the aspirations of Italy.
In fine, supposing that Charles Albert abstained
from asking our assistance, and supposing that the
safety of his own dominions, and of those different
provinces which had been conquered, or which had of
themselves proclaimed their independence, were me-
naced in consequence of his reverses, then likewise
we should descend into Piedmont, not as conquerors,
not as agitators, but as armed and disinterested me-
diators. Europe could not in that event accuse us
either of ambition or of impatience. The right of
proximity is a title to all mediations. Europe would
respect that right in our instance. Its plenipotentiaries
would follow, and march in accordance with, the move-
ments of our troops. The principal powers of Christen-
dom would combine with us, in establishing mat-
ters upon a sufficient basis, upon a foun-
dation compatible with the events inaugura-
tive of the independence of Italy. I quitted
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time when
Charles Albert was still triumphant. lam ignorant
what counsels have guided my successors. Two of
the eventualities which I had foreseen and dis-
cussed have since been realised ; but the interior
situation of our Government is altered, and evi-
dence, perhaps, something less of temerity. Of this
I am still ignorant. The responsibility of our
Italian policy fell from my shoulders on the occasion
of my official resignation on the 24th of June; never-
theless I have implicit confidence in the cir-
cumspection of the Government, and in
the wisdom of the two great powers of
Europe. I believe that negotiations will afford
a compensation for the absence of victory. To
affect Europe in such a manner that she should, to-
gether with the new French Republic, decide unani-
mously as to the future condition of Italy, has always
appeared to me as the remote perspective of these
occurrences, and as a guarantee of alliance and peace
for the whole world.
THIRD ACCUSATION.
I delayed the elections in order to prolong the dic-
tatorial power of the Government of which I was a
member !
My only reply is this—Read the accounts con-
tained in the 11Ioniteur of the five or six days
during which the dictatorial faction of the
anarchist clubs of Paris plotted against the
Government for the purpose of inducing us to
adjourn the period fixed for the elections. You will
there find an explicit refutation of this absurd
calumny. During three months I had only one
thought—the National Assembly ! the prompt and
substantial consignment of power into the hands of
the Republican representation On the 17th of
March what was my reply to the club of the Na-
tional Guard ? I transcribe it :—" Citizens ! of all the
dogmas which have survived the grand subversion of
thrones or of governments, there is only one dogma
which is imperishable in our estimation, it is that of
the national sovereignty—(Bravo, bravo)—it is that
of the national sovereignty, that sovereignty which
we ourselves will never imperil, and which we will
never allow to be endangered, either in our name or
in yours."
On the 17th of March what were my words in the
proclamation destined by us to be the disavowal of
all such ideas of usurpation ? I transcribe again
(from the printed reports in the Moniteur):—"Raised
by acclamation to power during the interregnum of
the people, we have never desired, and we will never
desire any other dictatorship than that of absolute ne-
cessity. If we had refused the post on account of
its danger, we should have been guilty of cowardice ;
if we remained here one hour more than is positively
necessary we should be guilty of usurpation. You
alone are powerful. We number the days which
must elapse, and we have hastened by every means
within our reach the time in which we shall resign
the Republic into the hands of the nation" And
further on :—" A few days more of magnanimity,
of devotion, and of patience, and the National As-
sembly will receive the Republic from our arms:
The Republic will be great and strong like the
nation ! "

And, again, on the 17th of March, what is my
reply to the manifestation of a hundred thousand
men, whose pretended spokesmen called upon us to
postpone the elections? This :—" Citizens ! I do
not wish, out of a feeling of respect for our inde-
pendence, to decide in any manner upon a decree
which tends to declare to the nation that Paris aspires
to monopolize the Republic, upon a decree which
would oblige us (in the isolated name of the capital,
and under the pressure of a multitude well-
intentioned, it may be, but still imperative by
reason of its very numbers) to assume the dictator-
ship of the Republic, of that Republic which the
entire people established in this metropolis by their
victory—by that victory which was gained for the
advantage of the whole of France, and not for the
exclusive benefit of a few citiz!..ns t lf you
command me to deliberate under the pressure of force
and to pronounce the outlawry of the whole nation
which does not happen to reside within ' the walls' of-
Paris, to declare their exclusion from the representa-
• tion and from the constitution during a period of

three months, of six months, of I know not how
long—l would say to you, citizens, that which I
have said within the last few days to another Go-
vernment : You may draw my consent to your de-
mands from my bosom only with the balls which
shall have pierced it !" Behold how I have ad-
journed the National Assembly in the face of those
who have demanded its postponement! Is this, then,
I ask of you, to be numbered amongst my criminal
concessions ?

It is true, without doubt, that a little further on
we delayed the convocation of the National Assembly
for five days. You shall learn why. It was in order
to enable the National Guard to elect some of their
officers prior to the great day of inauguration, for
that civic army was not then perfectly organized, and
we were anxious, and we felt ourselves bound to be
anxious, so to arrange the preparations that the
National Guard should appear to advantage for the
purpose of surrounding the National Assembly with
the respect, with the authority, and with the invio
lability of Paris in arms I \Vas this treason, or was
it solicitude for the National Assembly ? The 15th
of May has given the response I What would have
become of us on the 15th of May if the National
Guard had been absent?

LITERATURE.
ENGLAND UNDER 7HE HOUSE OF HAN-
b andeeAn tnot:se tmaVrepEdvteeßi every
fodruo2erms Volt'.loop unt country
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had essayed, and failed in, a more philosophic narra
tive of the fortunes of England. Knight had pub-
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a work as eccentric as any written since the days of
Raloellais and Cervantes. Maccabe had laboriously
translated the chronicles of our ancient bookmen.
But it was reserved for Mr. Wright to conceive and
accomplish an undertaking which contrasts in a
brilliant manner with those of his predecessors. The
notion of the work before us is as eccentric as it is
decidedly felicitous; it is nothing less than the vivid
portraiture of the occurrences which have marked
the progress of the British empire since the rise of
the dynasty of the House of Brunswick on the de-
mise of Queen Anne—by a multitude of grotesque
wood-cuts copied from the caricatures of the last and the
present century. The successor of our author will
have only to follow his suggestions as to the accumu-
lation of subsequent caricatures for the purpose of re
presenting the reigns of George IV., William IV. zi
and of our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria ; aod,
the inimitable cartoons of H. B. will of theinselves
afford a fruitful field for his investigations. Up to the:
commencement of the felicitous labours of the elder
Doyle, or rather up to the appearance of the incom-
parable Cruikshank, Mr. Wright proceeds, but no
further. So that a glorious field is still left for the
sequel of his history embellished by caricatures.
Although the close of his ingenious undertaking, pre-
cisely at that period when the political caricaturists
were becoming more than ever numerous, prolific,
and imaginative, must have required an infinite effort
of self-denial, we cannot but feel that the de-
termination of our comical historian was, to
say the least of it, judicious. Had he adventured
further he would have endangered his fame, as a
poacher on the domains of artists still living,
and would thereby have militated in a great measure
from the agreeable and innoffensive character of his
volumes. According to their present arrangement
they may be very nearly described as without'
blemish, if we except the indulgence of the limner
in a few licentious, not to say indecent, excerpts from
the original drawings of Gillray and Rowlandson.
As a frontispiece to the first volume we have, as we
think, rather appropriately, a capital engraving of
William Pitt, the great Earl of Chatham. We say
appropriately, inasmuch as the sarcasm of the artists
of the eighteenth century attained the height of their
drollery during the period of his memorable adminis-
tration. To the second volume is prefixed, an en
graved portrait of one of the greatest, if not Me
greatest, of our English caricaturists—James Gillray.
Mr. Wright, in the enthusiasm of his esteem for
the abilities of this eminent satirist of the
last age of statesmen, calls Gillray, the
greatest of our caricaturists. To our thinking,
however, such a dogmatic decision appears to be
somewhat rash and precipitate after the prolonged
and unexampled career of the celebrated H. B.
Doyle has been called, we are well aware, rather a
portrait-taker than a caricaturist; but such an opinion
is little less than actually preposterous when some of
his wild and witty tableaux are borne in recollection.
To Gillray, nevertheless, and to Rowlandson, we
must acknowledge ourselves indebted for some of the
oddest conceits in the way of pictorial travestie that
have ever been delineated. And our gratitude to
them is the more lively after the laughter provoked
from us by the examination of the entertaining
chapters of Mr. Wright's " History of the House of
Hanover." Were we to attempt to enumerate one
quarter of the wood-engravings lavished upon these
two volumes by the faithful implements employed by
F. W. Fairholt, we should exhaust the mus-
cular energy of our hand, the attention of
our compositors, and the patience of our readers.
Those who are curious as to their diversity will be
best enabled to satisfy their inquisitiveness by referring
at once to the books themselves ; and such a proceed-
ing is undoubtedly the most advisable,
seeing that
it is beyond our powers of description to convey any
adequate notion of any one figure or any one face in
any one of these ridiculously facetious caricatures.
Drollest of all amongst them, to our mind, are in•
disputably those relating to the fluctuations of fashion
in regard to the different costumes in vogue at dif-
ferent epochs. Take for example the " cuts" upon
perukes, the quarrel at the whist table, the novel
opera-glass, the dandizette, the parasols, the lady
evading the vigilance of a bailiff; the invisibles, and
a swarm of similar exaggerations. Of course there
are no lack of caricatures towards the close of the
reign of the third George, upon the career
of that wonderful adventurer, who, from being
the son of a Corsican barrister, became tilt
ruler of an empire greater than that of Charle-
magne, more populous than that of Caesar, and more
consolidated than the precocious conquests of the
Macedonian Alexander. Out of all these hits at
Napoleon, there is only one of them to our taste, as
in any respect humorous, whether in conception or
execution. We mean the little, careless, off-hand
sketch by George Cruikshank of Roney being
"snuffed out." The effect of it is inexpressibly
laughable. Beside it the portraiture of "Jean Bul,l,
again," of " Gulliver and the King of Brobdignag,
and even the elaborate picture of " The Hand-writinF
on the Wall" sink into insignificance. Good again,
inimitably, delightfully, ridiculously clever, is the
limning of John Bull basking in the sunshine.
Equally humorous are the following :—Heidegger in
a Rage—Ahithophel in the Dumps—the Successful
Candidate the Brandy Drinker— and John Bull
turned Fiddler. Those who are not sufficiently
studious in their habits to undertake the perusal of a
more sober composition may obtain an agreeable
knowledge of the history of England under the House
of Hanover by poring over the researches of Messrs.
Wright and Fairholt. We warrant them a good
digestive chuckle, a chuckle as genial and prolonged
as any chuckle ever chuckled by the immortal Mr.
Toots. Sometimes, indeed, it is scarcely possible to
scan the narrative without indulging in an explosion
of laughter. The two volumes are filled to overflow-
ing with the fruits of an entertaining and felicitous
erudition.

THE SAANDARD NOVELS.
The very important news of foreign or domesti,.!.
politics which from day to day, for several months,
hasn
filledot
ie o
ourf columns,this
trulyat
has compelledional
us to postpone
any work
class
of its
The public are indebted to Mr. Bentley, one of the.
most enterprising publishers of our time, for this
work, which, for talent and variety, is unquestionably
unrivalled by any previous collection of works of
fiction in any country. The volumes which Mr.
give even a new
them we would
added tAomiotng
particularly mention the popular romance of the
attraction Bentley hatso rtehcies ntl3,
collection.
Danish poet, Andersen, " The Improvisatore" the
lamented L. E. L.'s " Romance and Reality," Gra-
. tan's picturesque romance, " Agnes de Mansfeldt," and
Miss Costello's "Catherine de Medccis." In this great
collection (which every family ought to have, for it is
singularly free from objectionable stories) we have
the matchless humourous sea stories of Marryatt,
the powerful romances of Bulwer Lytton, the
masterly productions of Fenimore Cooper, James,
Theodore Hook, Miss Edgworth,
Glen;, Miss Austen,
Victor Hugo, Mrs. Gore, Galt, Godwin, Mrs. Brun-
ton, Mrs. Trollope, Mrs. Inebbald, Maxwell, Miss
Lee, Washington Irving, Ba„iiiin, Airs. llall,Peacock,
" Marriage," " Inheritance, ",Destiny" (Sir Walter
Scott's favourites), Mr. !Join: s " Anastasius," Mo
rier's " Oriental Stories, &c.,. and many others too
numerous to mention. M!'. Bentley! has here placed
a body of elegant entertainment before the reader at
a price generally accessible, for which he heartik
deserves our heartiest thanks., e are not surprised
at the wonderful success of this greatiliterary under-
taking (which stands almost alone for extent, even in
these times) ; for this class of literature, from the
talent and genius exercised upon it, has n,,w taken
high position amongst us for good or for evil, which
claims and has obtained from us a very extensive
popularity. _ Where shall we find shrewder lessons of
worldly wisdom than are to be culled from every
page of the fictions of Hook and Galt ? where more
valuable practical morals than may be drawn from

the searching tales of Godwin ? where a profounder
insight into the sources of passion than is
to be found in the " Anastasius" of Hope?
Read in a right spirit, the well- written work of fic-
tion contributes quite as much to the instruction as
to the entertainment of the reader; and so long as
man takes interest in a record of the joys and sor-
, rows and vicissitudes of his fellow man, and the spirit
of adventure and curiosity lingers in his nature, so
long will the romance and the novel continue to find
favour in his sight. The young, the old, the sailor,
the soldier, and the lawyer, have found a welcome
solace in such works as are included in this vast store-
house, to relieve arduous duties. How many a weary
day of a lingering voyage have the Standard Novels
beguiled of its ennui I Of the Standard Novels it
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REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE,

An extraordinary general court of the g6vernors of
this excellent charity was held at the London Tavern,
yesterday, at halt-past two o'clock, to consider the pr t-
priety of purchasing an estate at Dalston, for the pur-
poses of the institution. The property in question is
situated at Dalston, and its cost, including its enfran-
chisement, will be 3,2001., which, with the con-
struction of the necessary buildings and works,
will amount to 6,0001. more, 9,000/. altogether.
The present establishment in the Hackney-road, it ap-
pears, is situated in an unhealthy neighbourhood, and it
is deemed very desirable to remove it to Daleton. E. J.
Forster, Esq., occupied the chair.
Mr. GURNEY Iloanr, moved that the corporation be
empowered to purchase the property, after a proper
valuation by the surveyor, at a prico not exceeding
3,000/. • If they did so they would become possessed of
eligible freehold instead of expensive and ineligible lease-
hold property. There could not be two opinions upon
the matter.

The Rev. Mr. KELLY seconded the motion. The
building in the Hackney-road was most inconvenient,
and was altogether unsuited for the purposes of the
charity. For instance, the mansion on the estate which
would be available for the purposes of the charity, was
in good repair, and the repairs alone in the Refuge at
Hackney cost 400/. a year. Last year they cost 500/.,
equal to the interest of 10,0001, and which sum would
allow the construction cf the works, leaving 1,000!.
margin. The property (which belonged to Mr. Olding,
the banker) was leasehold, whereas that in the Huck.
ney-road cost them 3001. a year.
In reply to several questions,
The CHAIRMAN replied that the premises in the
Hackney road would be let; there was no legal difficulty
in the way, and washing, which was carried on to some
extent in the institution, could be better performed in
the country. The institution would not be too far from
London. _

After a desultory conversation, in the course of which
the surveyor stated that the property was well worth
3,000/., the motion was agreed to, and the meeting
separated.