The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-03 00:00:00

No. 16,913. LONDON, TH U RSDA Y EVENING SUN, DECEMBER 3, 1846.

ADDRESS of the LIVERPOOL ASSOCIA-
TION for the REDUCTION of the DUTY on TEA.
In again calling public attention to the present oppressive and
impolitic tax upon tea, the Association are anxious to give promi.
nence to those facts which indicate the necessity for an immediate
reduction of the duty.
'the conclusion of the treaty with China encouraged confident
expectations of the extension of our trade with that empire. It was
reasonably anticipated that the low rate of duty imposed by its
Government upon British manufactures would be reciprocated by a
corresponding liberality in the reliWssion of the staple production of
the Chinese for the use of ourselves. The elements of agricultural
industry essential to the production of tea,—the fertile and exten-
sive territory, and the superabundant population of China, esti-
mated at above 350,000,000,—are capable of enlarging its supply in
a ratio at least equal to that in which the machinery of our manu-
facturers can increase the production of fabrics required for exporta-
tion. Our imports of tea from China have never yet reached four
per cent. of the en.,re production of that country, according to the
best calculation.
It is, however, a notorious fact, that the expectations thus cherished
have been disappointed. The merchants are exposed to heavy losses
in the importation of teas, which are now selling in the British
markets at prices below their current value in China ; while at the
same time our manufactures are selling in China for less than the
cost of their production here. The population at large are unbenefited
by any practical result accruing from a treaty that has left behind it
a tax upon British industry, which at the same time confers a bonus
upon foreign competition.
There is no difficulty in ascertaining the cause of so disastrous an
issue. The pressure of an impost, unprecedented in any other tariff,
cripples the operations of our merchants, and excludes our manu-
factures fr, m the larger proportion of the Chinese population; while
it deprives the labouring classes in this country of one of the most
needful articles of domestic comfort. The foreign policy of our Go-
vernment has achieved a brilliant success; but its results are marred
and counteracted by the incongruous arrangements of the Home
Exchequer. The chief export of China is brought in abundance to
our shores, only to accumulate in our warehouses. A tax, as
anomalous in its principle as it is mischievous in its results, stops at
once the tide of commercial prosperity and the pervading currents of
social civilization.
Under such circumstances, it is almost as easy to predict the future
as to review the past. A losing trade can never be a permanent one.
The discouraging results of this year's imports will curtail the ship-
ments of the next. Comparative scarcity, and proportionately high
prices, will follow. The professed intention of the financial measures
of Government for some time past has been to cheapen the necessa-
ries of life. In this country tea occupies a more prominent place

among those necessaries than in any other. Under the operation of
any uniform and reasonable system of taxation, it would, therefore,
3iavo been recognised as a primary object for the ameliorative inter
position of Government. On the contrary, however, the Legislature
of the country in which it is most extensively consumed'is the last
to recognise its importance in the civil and_soCial sIio94QTY of the
state. The British Government has afforded every facility for its
Stipply to other countries, where it is little more than an occasional
luxury, and has impeded its consumption among ourselves, where its
use is indispensable
The necessities of the Exchequer, the only plea advanced in pallia-

tlo;;;1- an impost so obviously'indefensible, is one which will not
bear examination. There is no reason to apprehend that the reduc-
tion of the duty to Is. per pound would leave a deficit of any import-
ance. The immediate result of such a change would unquestionably
be the liberation of a larger quantity from bond than had ever been
taken out during the same period before. If any temporary pres-
sure upon onr finances existed, it would thus be promptly relieved.
There is no room to doubt that in the further course of time the gra-
dual increase of consumption would enlarge the revenue upon a sure
and satisfactory basis. This is not a gratuitous conjecture, but a
reasonable deduction from the result of similar changes in the duties
on coffee and sugar ; and, above all, it is confirmed by the only two
existing precedents of a reduction in the tax upon tea itself. In
1744, the duty was reduced from 131. lts..7d. per cent. and 4s. per

lb. to 381. 18s. 7%.d. per cent. and Is. per lb. The consumption Im-
mediately advanced nearly 50 per cent. In 1784, the duty was re-
duced from 651. 15s. 10d. per cent. and is. id. 4-sths per lb. to 124
per cent. The consumption was at once more than doubled. In
1785 it was trebled, and in 1794 it was quadrupled. Since that pe-
riod the duty has gradually advanced. Under the monopoly of the
East India Company it was 100 per cent. ; and under a system of in-
dividual enterprise and competition, it is nearly 200 per cent. Every
reduction in the price of the article has, however, been followed by
an increase in its consumption.
The present consumption of tea in this country amounts to an
average of about 1 y,lb. per head per annum for the entire popula-
tion. This is about one-fourth of the allowance usually afforded to
domestic servants in famires of the middle classes ; it is less than
one-half of the quantity consumed in the Channel Islands, where all
intoxicating beverages are far cheaper than in this country; and It
is scarcely one-sixth of the proportion used in Australia, by a mu-
laden whose physical requirements will appear to most persons less
favourable to its use. Whatever test may be applied to our present
consumption, it will evidently appear to be restricted by the artificial
limits of price, and not by any orjection to the qualities and proper-
ties of the article. A careful examination of these will justify the
conclusion that it Is adapted more than any ether beverage for in-
corporatlen with every description of diet, and for use at every
meal ; that it is suited to every variety of physical constitution,
and adequate to sustain every description of mental or corporeal
exercise.

The present duty amounting to two-thirds of the cost of the most
serviceable descriptions of tea, it is evident that the dealers require,
in order to cover their investments in its purchase, three times the
profit which would repay them, were the article free of duty. The
public have thus to pay a tax upon a tax ; the magnitude of the im-
post, in the first instance, being indefensible and oppressive. Were
the duty reduced to Is. per lb., the consumer would obtain at least
31bs, of tea for the same money that he now pays for 21bs ; and
there is no doubt whatever that the larger quantity would be used.
As the consumption of every pound of tea involves that of 5113 a. of
Sugar, the extra duty on the latter, added to that on the increased
quantity of tea at Is., would at once yield a revenue of about four
millions, according to the most moderate computation, while the
future enlargemMt of this source of public Income might confidently
be expected.
The committee conceive it unnecessary to enlarge upon those
moral and social benefits that may fairly be anticipated under the
operation of a more equitable impost. They are persuaded that the
removal of those restrictions which now impede the use of a cheap
and salubrious beverage would be highly conducive to the happiness
and well •being of the community, by encouraging habits of tem-
perance and domestic comfort, and by supplying practical dissua-
styes from crime. They regard the burden of the tax as now
pressing upon the energies of the entire population, under what-
ever character these may be beneficially developed ; and they there.
fore invite the sympathy and support of all classes in their efforts
for its removal.

WILLIAM NICOL, Chairman.

Liverpool, November, 1846.

REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS TO THE
SHAREHOLDERS OF TILE SCOTTISH MIDLAND EX-
TENSION RAILWAY COMPANY.

The Shareholders are already informed that the Bill, for incorpo-
rating the Company and authorising the Works, was lost in the last
session of Parliament, having been rejected by the Committee of the
House of Commons.

The Directors have been unwilling to dissolve the Company has-
WY, In consequence of their entertaining an expectation that, by
delaying, they would be able to effect an arrangement for relieving
the Shareholders of part of the expenses incurred; and they are
happy in having to report that in this they have at length suc-
ceeded.

The expenses on the Bill, though the greatest economy was exer-
cised, were larger than the Directors anticipated they would be, par-
ticularly in the cost of witnesses. This arose from the groupe, of
which this Bill formed part, having been ordered to meet In March
before the Standing Orders Committee had reported on some of the
Bills. This Bill had passed standing orders, and been read a secon I
time, and it was expected that the notice between the second reading
and the sitting of the Committee on the Bill would, in the circum-
stances (the Committee for a group being appointed to meet on a
fixed day), bel dispensed with. In consequence, the witnesses and
agents were all sent from Scotland, and the other preparations made.
But the Committee adjourned for a month, and so the witnesses and
agents went back to Scotland, and returned to attend the Committee
for the adjourned day. Thus there was a double expense in that de-
partment.
The total number of shares issued (on all of them the Dill deposit
was paid) was 10,687. The accounts of expense have not been all
adjusted, but the total amount appears to be very near 9,5001.,
or about 17s. Gd. per share, which, out of the 50s. of deposit, would
afforl a return of 325. Gd
But your Directors have made an arrangement with the Scottish
Midland Junction Railway Company, whereby that Company agrees
to make a return of 40s. per share, receiving the pans and taking
the place of the Seripholders. The Parliamentary Deeds will be can-

celled.
The Shareholders who desire to avail themselves of this arrange-
ment will transmit their Scrip Certificate,, along with a memoran-
dum of their full names and addresses, to the Interim-Secretary,
without delay, in,'orsing upon them these words —" Transmitted for
the return of 40e. per share, in terms of the Directors' Report, dated
14th November' 1846," and letting this indorsement be signed by
the Scripholder ; and in return the Secretary will forward a Banker's
Credit on London, or Edinburgh, or Glasgow, for the amount of the
return at the usual par, or at sight less the Banker's charge for ex-
change, as may be desired.
By order,
CHRIS. KERR, Interim-Secretary.
Dundee, 14th Nov. 1846.

No. 9, Denmark-street, Soho-square, Dec. 3, 1846.
MENZIES'S ANNUAL CALEDONIAN
COSTUME and FANCY PRESS BALL will take place on
neRSDAT, the 21st of January, at the QUEEN'S CONCERT ROOMS,
Hanover-square

PUBLIC ABATTOIRES, or SLAUGHTER
HOUSES.
The Prospectuses are in a state of forwardness ; in the meantime,
whilst the promoters are grateful for the mass of information
already volunteered, they will feel obliged by any further suggestions
which may be useful in the final settlement of their plan.
HENRY F. RICHARDSON,
Solicitor to the Promoters.
36, Coleman-street, London, Nov. 30, 1846.

THE DRESS OF OTHER DAYS.
A PARODY.
The dress of other days is faded,
Though once esteem'd so smart,
And all its boasted style is shaded
By that of MOSES' Mart.
Such charming di ess I view superior
all that it displays ;
Pc r, eh! It places as inferior
The Dress of other Days.

No dress can equal that of MOSES
In any one respect,
A novel fashion it discloses
Without tke least defect.
MOSES and SON'S fatn'd Mart can rival
Whate'er the trade displays ;
And no one seeks for a revival
Of the dress of other days.

The workmanship and cloth together
I've always found the best,
And, wear them in the roughest weather,
You'll find they stand the test.
With facts like these I often wonder
At what the buyer pays ;
A price considerably under
the Dress of other Days.
LIST OF PRICES.
BEADY MADE.

le. d
Beaver Taglionis, from .. •• • ....... •• • ,
•
Chesterfields and Caringtons ..... .•• .• .: 6
0 10 6
Pashas, D'Orsays, and Che,sterflehls, and every description
of winter coats ••••••••••• • • • • • .. • • 1 5 0
Boys' Winter Coats, in every style and s
Tweed Trousers, lined •••• • • .. . ..... 4 6
Doeskin
Dress Coats• •••• • .. • ..... •• ••••"•••••••• • •• • • • • • • • • • • 1 9 6
Frock Coats.. •••••••• • • • • • • ••
Double-breasted Tests
Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits •••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • '• • • 0 18 6
Boys' Winter Trousers .••••• • • • • • •••••• • • • • • ... 0 3 0
Ditto Vests •••• • • ..
Mourning to any extent at dye minutes' notice.
MADE TO MEASURE.
Winter Coats, warranted waterproof, made to any style,
handsomely trimmed ••••••••••• • • • •• •• • • •• • ..... •• • 1 h 0
Milled Cloth Coats, trimmed, velvet collar and cuffs, lined 2 6 0
Tweed Overcoats • • • •••• •••• • • • ...... •• • " •• • • • 0 18 0
Tweed Trousers .... • • • • • • • • • •
Nr • Trr in all the most approved French patterns 1 2 6

inter Trousers,
Best Dress Trousers .. • • • • • •
Dress Coats ....... • • • • • • • • • ' • • •
Best quality made .. • • .• • • • •
Frock Coats ...... ••• • • • • ••• • • •
Best quality made .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Fancy Vests ........ ..... •
Satin, plain or fancy • • •
Boys' Hussar and Tunic Sults . • .. • • • •

1 6 0
1 12 0
......... ..... 2 15 0
. .......... 1 15 0
••••.•.•••..•••• 0 8 6
... ........... 1 5 0

Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea-
sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the
money returned.
E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Furriers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen,
154, 155, and 156, 157 Minoriez, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate,
city, London.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret bedhg, obliged to guard the
public against impostors, but have letrned that the untradesman-

like falsehood of being connected with thera, or it's the saute concern,
has been resorted to in many instances, old for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion with any other house in or out of London;
and those who desire genuine and elle, p clothing, &c., should call at,
or send to, Alinories and ♦ldg.ite, City, London.
this e-dtabll,llmmt from. sun •
tlll sulast Sltur..ll.y resuncd till

The entrance to the fur department is at 83, Aldgat inn of the
Minorles and Aldgate, opposite the church.

MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, and GREAT
GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the above Company has been DIS-
SOLVED, pursuant to the Act 9 and 10 Vie., cap. 28.
All holders of Scrip and Banker's Receipts are desired to forward
the same to the Secretary, who, on receipt thereof, will remit the
Dividend of 4s. 6d. per Share, together with a Certificate entitling
the holder to a further pro rata division of the Funds of the Com-
pany (if any) after all the liabilities of the Company are discharged.
By order,
FRANCIS PARKER, Secretary.

Rotherham, Ist December, 1846.
N.B. As It is impossible far the Directors to know all the present
holders of Scrip, parties who have not received a copy of their Re-
port may obtain one on application to the Secretary.

'IHEFIIELD, ROTHERHAM, and DONCAS-
TER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
MASIIROUGH to DONCASTER.
Capital 300,0001., in 12,000 Shares of 251, each.
Deposit 11. per Share.
Notice is hereby given, that the Plans, Sections, and Rooks of
Reference of the above Railway have been du'y deposited, according
to the Standing Orders of Parliament.
All holders of Scrip of the late Manchester, Midland, and Great
Grimsby Junction Railway who intend to avail themselves of the
option of taking Shares in the above Company, according to the
terms of the Directors' Report, are desired to signify their intention
to Mr. Parker, Iligh-street, Rotherham, on or before the 15th inst.,
or they will forfeit all claims to a pro rata allotment.
By order,
FRANCIS PARKER.

Rotherham, Ist December, 1846,
Grimsbyto
Mr.Junctionr ark er, sill
N.B. Any Shareholder who may not have received a copy of the
Report of the Directors of the Manchester, Midland, and Great
gwha-street, t rme eat Rotherham. y,bfam ished with one on applica-
tion

NATIONAL SECURITY BANK.
TEMPORARY OFFICE, 163, Fenchurch-street, London.
Capital, 510,0001., in 5,000 Shares of 1001.
Deposit 10/. ; Call 401 per Share.
In consequence of the numerous shares already subscribed for, the
public are respectfully informed that 'an early application will be
needful OR the part of those who may desire to become interested in
this establishment. The solidity of the principles on which it is
founded having been universally admitted, whether with reference
to the complete protection of the shareholders, the sound secu-
rity offered to the customers, or the advantage arising to them by
the interest on deposits, which neither the Bank of England nor
the private banks allow, with the addition of a security perfectly
unexceptionable, even in the case of trustees, or official parties,
the Directors feel confident that the only ingredient necessary
tb secure It the-eutiro approbation -ef the pfibric will be supplied ley a
itatement,-now prepared, of the various sources of profit from
which its large contemplated returns will be derived. Those are such
as cannot fail to confirm the opinion of those who have already sub-
scribed for upwards of 4,000 shares, and to satisfy any doubts that
may have been suggested as to the very profitable nature of the pro-
posed investment.
Applications fir shares may be addressed to the Secretary, at 163,
Penchurch-street, by whom prospectuses and a detailed statement of
the sources ofprofit, &c., will be forwarded, post free, if written for;
to Messrs. Sutton and Co., solicitors, 6, BasinghalFstreet , Messrs.
Capron and Co., solicitors, Saville-place, Now Burlington-street ; and
to Messrs. Sutton and Co., stock brokers, Royal Exchange.

BROWN'S LECTURES on ETHICS,
with a Preface by Dr. CHALMERS, post Bvo, Bs. 6d
BROWN'S PHILOSOPHY of the MIND,
Fifteenth Edition, Stereotyped, Bvo, lBs.
BROWN'S PHILOSOPHY of the MIND,
Library Edition, 4 vols. Bve, 2/. 2s.
ST. Tait, Edinburgh; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London.

THE DEATH FROM STARVATION
IN MARYLEBONE.
Yesterday, pursuant to resolution of Friday lad, a
special meeting of the board of directors and guardians
of the poor of St. Marylebone, took place in the board-
room of the workhouse, New-road, for the purpose of
investigating the conduct of the relieving officers, and all
other circumstances in connexion with the late inquest on
Louisa Merdaunt. Sir J. Hamilton took the chair.
A letter from the Poor-law Commissioners requesting
a statement of the facts connected with the case of Louisa
Mordaunt, a list of the workhouse officers, &c., having
been read, and deferred for consideration, Mr. Langley,
the inspector If permanent poor, was called in, and the
regulation applicable to his office read over.
The inspector admitted the foregoing to be the regu-
lations for the performance of his duties. He admitted
in the case of the Mordaunts, he had neglected to comply
with such regulations, and repeated his statement made
on Friday, as to being tired from having gone up and
down so many stairs to deliver tickets.
The CHAIRMAN said, Mr. Messer, the assistant over-
seer, had put in a statement of the case of Louisa Dior-
daunt, as far as he was concerned, in writing. Was it
their pleasure to have it read?
Considerable discussion ensued on this point, and
ultimately it was resolved to have the communication
read. It was to the purport that an offer of admission
into the workhouse having been made to the Mordaunts
and refused, barred any subsequent allegation of neglect
as against the workhouse officers, the possibility of
perishing by want being, Mr. Messer states, clearly of
their own election. The document denies generally the
charges made against him.
Mr. Messer was here called before the board, and
having had the duties of his office read over t ) him, he
underwent an examination, which occupied nearly two
hours. The facts elicited, however, were mainly those
contained in his written statement.
Mr. MARTIN THACKERAY moved a resolution to the
effect, " That it appears to this Board, from the evidence,
that Langley, the inspector of permanent poor, has
grossly violated the duties of his office in neglecting to
examine the case of the family of the Mordaunts."
Mr. MALLALIEU seconded the motion, but an amend-
ment somewhat similar, but leaving out the word
" grossly," was ultimately adopted. It.was then re-
solved that Mr. Langley and Mr. Messer should be
called in and reprimanded, which was at once carried
into effect.
The Board having resolved to write to the coroner for
a copy of the depositions in the late inquest, the proceed-
ings, after lasting seven hours, terminated.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT THE GOVERNMENT
WORKS AT MORICE TOWN.—A very serious accident
occurred at these works on Wednesday morning last,
though fortunately it has not resulted in the loss of life,
in consequence of the falling of a portion of the ma-
chinery employed in lifting the large blocks of stone at
the docks in course of construction. It appears that by
the negligence of the men employed on the traveller,
which is elevated a considerable height from the ground,
despite of a caution which had been given them, they
allowed it to traverse to a weak portion of the railway
which had been shored up, in consequence of which they
were precipitated to the ground, together with the whole
of the machinery they wero working. The names of the
injured men are the foreman Pearce, Burgess, Pascoe and
Harris, and a few others who were not greatly injured.
Pearce had his arms fractured, and received a wound
laying open the elbow joint. Burgess, who had been
taken to the South Devon Hospital in mistake, instead
of the Royal Naval Hospital, received an injury at the
elbow joint, which was so severe as to require immediate
amputation. Pascoe, who lived at Stoke (and was for
some time thought dead), had his ribs fractured and re-
ceived a concussion of the brain ; and Harris, who was
removed to the Royal Naval Hospital, had his thigh frac-
tured. Dr. Row, the surgeon of the establishment, was
immediately in attendance, and gave every attention and
skill which the condition of the unfortunate men re-
quired, and we are happy to find that they are all going
on favourably.—Pevenport Independent.
HARWICH, DEC. I.—The Lords of the Admiralty
arrived here on Saturday- on a visit of inspection of the
extensive works now in progress. Their Lordships
were accompanied by Commodore Sir Walker 0. Pell,
and were attended by Mr. James Walker, the engineer
to the Board of Admiralty, under whose charge the con-
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tire approbation at the efficient way in which, so
has been constructed. It is, we understand, to extend
800 yards from the base of the cliff. More than 120
yards have been completed ; so that it will be seen that
the work cannot be finished under three years.—lPswich
Express. _

ARMY INTELLIGENCE.—DUBLIN, DSC. 1. It 15
reported in military circles that Prince George of Cam-
bridge, who has been appointed to the command of the
Dublin district in succession to Major-General Wynd-
ham, will eventually succeed Sir Edward Blakeney in
the high office of Lieutenant-General Commanding in
Ireland. No specific time, however, is mentioned for the
retirement of the gallant veteran, who has for so many
years discharged his important duties to the satisfaction
of the country. The 68th Light Infantry, which has
been but a few months on the Irish establishment, has
received the route from Dublin to the south. Three
companies have already left for Kildare and Ruthangan.
It is believed that this corps will be replaced here by the
13th (Prince Albert's Light Infantry), from Weedon.
Several other moves of regiments in this garrison are
contemplated.
VACANT INSPECTORSHIP OF LUNATIC ASYLUMS.--
With regard to a paragraph under this head, which we
recently copied, stating that Dr. John Mollan, of Dublin,
had been promised the situation, but, owing to the in-
fluence of Mr. O'Connell, it had been conferred on Dr.
Nugent, we are authorised to state that no promise of
the situation in question was ever made to Dr. Mollan,
nor has the appointment been given to Dr. Nugent.
tSc utcrry 01: EGGS.—For the list two days thero
bab ban a retnarkubk dearth of egg., which u,re liot to
he obtained at any price in many parts of town, whilst
they were generally sold at very advanced prices.

MAGAZINES (CONTINUED).
BENTLEYS MISCELLANY.
The present number of Bentley opens with the
second chapter of Cooper's novel of " Captain Spike."
In the last number we left Spike's clipper, the Molly
S wash, on the "Pot Rock." She, however, has
merely touched the rock with her fore-foot, and im-
mediately gets off. Spike, however, does not like the
look of the boat which has been dogging him, and
would fain get clear of the revenue steam cruizer,
which is moored lower down the estuary. There is
some fun produced by the fears of Mrs. Budd, the
widow of the sea captain, whose mistakes as to
nautical technicalities are most ludicrous ; but Mrs.
Budd's mistakes do not divert the attention of Budd
or his crew from the working of the ship. Jack
Tier, a former shipmate, is taken on board, albeit
under suspicious circumstances, and then Spike's
great endeavour is to outmanoeuvre the revenue
steamer. In order to do this, he transforms the brig
into a schooner, or, as Mrs. Budd phrases it, " un-
dresses his snip." By this manoeuvre he gains time.
However, at length the steamer gives chase ; but she
Ins to get her steam up which gives Spike an ad-
vantage, of which he is not slow to avail himself, for,
aided by the darkness of the night, he puts into a
deep bay while the steamer goes past the entrance,
and thus for the time he escapes. The description of
the chase is most graphic and exciting, such a de-
scription as none but Cooper could write. The reader
feels himself on board the " Molly Swash" while
reading it—a particeps criminis with Captain Spike,
and it is quite a relief to find the Molly Swash safe in
the bay, with the steamer sailing past the entrance on
a wild goose chase. " Spring Tide," which follows
this chapter, is a pleasant Waltonian prolusion, with an
illustration by T4eech,Aowing how the loversof the
angle ard.sometames tormented, even as they them-
selves torment the fish, by insects. Then we have
" Long Jim, or the Tipperary Process-server, by a
Cove of Cork." The "cove" of Cork can, if we mis-
take not, give us an insight into the causes of
the so-called "lawlessness" of the Irish peasantry.
"Long Jim" is a most suggestive paper. The story
is soon told. Long Jim mounts on the Clonmel
mail-car to go into the rural districts. The car is
attacked, not as the driver and passengers imagine, to
rob the mail, but to punish Long Jim, the process-
server (and to use the words of one of the peasants),
" to give him a taste of what's in store for him, if he
don't lave off," and Long Jim is only saved from
being murdered by the arrival of a travelling chariot
and four, with outriders, &c., which chariot contains
" his Lordship," who takes Jim under his protection.
But according to the showing of the peasantry, who
show the utmost courtesy towards the other passen-
gers by the car, the crime of Jim is not so much pro-
cess serving per se as apostacy. True he " takes little
shlips o' paper about the country, ruining
poor people," but as the leader of his assail-
ants observes, " An' what harm, only the blackguard
is one of ourselves, an' a dacent father and mother's
child, that's ashamed of him so they are, instead of
taking to honest work to earn his bread, the nasty
baste for the sake of the thrifle he gets by it, becomes
a bailiff bad luck to him, and goes about sarvin his
own flesh and blood, I may say wood notices to pay
tithes." Here is the grand secret of the murder of
process-servers in Ireland, they are apostates who
serve processes upon their own flesh and blood. If as
in England the bailiff trade was delivered up to the
very lowest and most degraded of the Jews, as their
own especial monopoly—a monopoly to interfere with
which would be considered by decent Christians as an
indelible disgrace process-service in Ireland, would as
in England be unattended with danger, because pro-
cess-servers would by common consent be regarded
as the pariahs of Society. Miss Costello's Summer
Sketches in Switzerland, are scarcely worthy of her,
but en revanche, we have "the Cranks of Christmas
tide," which is a glorious prolusion. Then comes a
sonnet from Tetrarch, gracefully translated by Lady
Nugent.
I go lamenting o'er my days past by,
Those days consumed in love of mortal thing,
Without attempt to mount, I having wing
Perchance to soar and give example high.
Thou, who dost see my deep iniquity,
Invisible, immortal, heavenly King,
Aid the frail soul in her wide wandering,
In what defective from they grace supply ;
So I, with strife and storm wont to contend,
May thus in peace and haven die. I see
How vain the past, yet blameless be the end ;
O'er that short span of life now left for me,
And at its close, thy saving hand extend—
Thou know'st I have no hope in aught but Thee."
The " Gipsy's Baptism," by Thomasina Ross, is a ro-
mantic legend, anent the loves of the father and mother
of Lope de Vega, and then comes a pleasant article
on old Jest Books by Halliwell. The "Adventures
of Brian O'Linn" are continued, as are the interesting
revelations of the "Flaneur in Paris." A quaint and
mirthful " Narrative of an Expedition to the end of
Birkenhead," by Albert Smith, concludes this num-
ber, which contains two plates by Leech, the one
illustrating the Gipsy's Baptism, the other illustrating
Brian O'Linn, and a portrait of Sir Thomas Over-
bury, from an extra rare engraving illustrating an ad- ,
mirable criticism by Dr.\\ . C. Taylor, of Mr. Am os, s
n recently published work, "The Great Oyer ofToison-
ig."

DOMBEY and SON. No. 111. By Charles Dickens.
Son is developed in the eighth chapter to five years
old. Under the tutelage of one Mrs. Wickam and the
watchful eyes of Time—" so far," says the facetious
historian," another major"—little Paul is at that time
dreadfully tardy in a physical and constitutional sense,
and dreadfully precocious in an intellectual one. "He
looked (and talked)," says the author, " like one of
those terrible little beings in the fairy tales who, at a
hundred and fifty or two hundred years of age, fan-
tastically represent the children for whom they have
been substituted." Mr. Dickens has, however, so
beautifully delineated the character of a child in this
same Paul Dombey, that we will transcribe an entire
scene from his pages :

" They were the strangest pair at such a time that
ever firelight shone upon. Mr. Dombey so erect and
solemn, gazing at the blaze; his little image, with an old,
old, face, peering into the red Mr. Dombey
with the fixed
and rapt attention of a sage. Mr. Dombey entertaining
complicated worldly schemes and plans; the little image
entertaining Heaven knows what wild fancies, half-
formed thoughts, and wandering speculations. Mr.
Dombey stiff with starch and arrogance; the little image
by inheritance, and in unconscious imitation. The two
so very much alike, and yet so monstrously contrasted.
" On one of these occasions, when they had both been
perfectly quiet for a long time, and Mr. Dombey only
knew that the child was awake by occasionally glancing
at his eye, where the bright fire was sparkling like a
jewel, little Paul broke silence thus:
" Papa! what's money?'
" The abrupt question had such immediate reference
to the subject of Mr. Dombey's thoughts, that Mr.
Dombey was quite disconcerted.
elbows‘ of his lit
'What
is
money,
.Yehchild, laying his hands upon the
Paul?'and
hen
turning
a answered. ' Money?' er eth e
old ney ?'
face
u p
towards Mr. Dombey's, what is money?'
" Mr. Dombey was in a difficulty. He would have
liked to give him some explanation involving the terms
circulating-medium, currency, depreciation of currency,
paper, bullion, rates of exchange, value of precious
metals in the market, and so forth; but looking down at
the little chair, and seeing what a long way down it was,
he answered, Gold, and silver, and copper. Guineas,
shillings, halfpence. You know what they are?'
" Oh yes, I know what they are,' said Paul. I
don't mean that, Papa. I mean, what's money after all.'
" Heaven and Earth, how old his face was as he turned
it up again towards his father's!
" What is money after all!' said Mr. Dombey back-
ing his chair a little, that he might the better gaze in
sheer amazement at the presumptuous atom that pro-
pounded such an inquiry.
" mean, Papa, what can it do?' returned Paul, folding
his arms (they were hardly long enough to fold), and look-
ing at the fire, and up at him, and at the fire, and up at
him again.
" Mr. Dombey drew his chair back to its former place,
and patted him on the head. You'll know better bye-
and- bye, my man,' he said. Money, Paul, can do any-
thing.' He took hold of the little hand, and beat it
softly against one of his own as he said so.
" But Paul got his hand free as soon as he could; and
rubbing it gently to and fro on the elbow of his chair, as
if his wit were in the palm, and he were sharpening it—
and looking at the fire again, as though the fire had been
his adviser and prompter—repeated, after a short pause:
" Anything, Papa?'
, yes, Anything—almost,' said Mr. Dombey.
" ' Anything means everything, don't it, Papa?' asked
his son: not observing, or possibly not understanding,
yes,' said Mr. Dombey.
money save me my mamma?'
idldtoetns;:tierits:etnctrutheel'idiseait.?:No. A good thing can't
the qualification.
necrekteuirontebd,
be cruel.' said Mr. Dombey, settling his
~, If it's a good thing, and can do anything,' said the
little fellow thoughtfully, as he looked back at the fire, I
wonder why it didn't save me my mamma.'
" He didn't ask the question of his father this time.
Perhaps he had seen, with a child's quickness, that it
had already made his father uncomfortable. But he re-
peated the thought aloud, as if it were quite an old one to
having recovered from his surprise, not
him, and had troubled him very much ; and sat with his
chin resting on his hand, still cogitating and looking for
an explanation in the fire.
it was the very first occasion on
tois‘tyrtiis Dombeyahu.ill (for
which the child had ever broached the subject of his
d
mother to him, though he had had him sitting by his
thean ‘c:
shlceWiteri yei includes
didn't
side, in this same manner, evening after evening), ex-

' pounded to him ,how that money, though a very potent
spirit, never to be disparaged on any account whatever,
could not keep people alive whose time was come to die;
and how that we must all die, unfortunately, even in the
city, though we were never so rich. But how that money
caused us to be honoured, feared, respected, courted, and
admired, and made us powerful and glorious in the eyes
of all men ; and how that It could, very often, even keep
off death, for a long time together. How, for example,
it had secured to his mamma the services of Mr. Pilkins,
by which he, Paul, had often profited himself ' • likewise
of the great Doctor Parker Peps, whom he had never
known. And how it could do all, that could be done.
This, with more to the same purpose, Mr. Dombey in-
stilled into the mind of his son, who listened attentively,
acd seemed to understand the greater part of what was
said to him.
"' It can't make me strong and quite well, either, Papa;
can it?' asked Paul, after a short silence ; rubbing his
tiny hands.
" Why, you are strong and quite well,' returned Mr.
Dombey. Are you not ?'
" Oh ! the age of the face that was turned up again,
with an expression, half of melancholy, half of slynes?,

on it!
" You are as strong and well as such little people
usually are ? Eh ?" said Mr. Dombey.
" Florence is older than I am, but I'm not as strong
and well as Florence, I know,' returned the child ; and
I believe that when Florence was as little as me, she
could play a great deal longer at a time without tiring
herself. lam so tired sometimes,' said little Paul, warm-
ing his hands, and looking in between the bars of the
grate, as if some ghostly puppet-show were performing
there, and my bones ache so (Wickam says it's my
bones), that I don't know what to do.'
" Aye! But that's at night,' said Mr. Dombey,
drawing his own chair closer to his son's, and laying his
hand gently on his back; little people should be tired
at night, for then they sleep well.'
" Oh, it's not at night, Papa,' returned the child,' it's
in the day; and I lie down in Florence's lap, and she
sings to me. At night I dream about such cu-ri-ous
things!'
"And he went on, warming his hands again, and
thinking about them, like an old man or a young goblin.
Mr. Dombey was so astonished, and so uncomfort-
able, and so perfectly at a loss how to pursue the con-
versation, that he could only sit looking at his son by
the light of the tire, with his hand resting on his back,
as if it were detained there by some magnetic attraction.
Once he advanced his other hand, and turned the con-
templative face towards his own for a moment. But it
sought the fire again as soon as he released it; and re-
mained, addressed towards the flickering blaze, until the
nurse appeared, to summon him to bed.
" want Florence to come for me, said Paul.
"' Won't you come with your poor Nurse Wickam,
Master Paul!' inquired that attendant, with great pathos.
" No, I won't,' replied Paul, composing himself in
his arm-chair again, like the master of the house.
"Invoking a blessing upon his innocence, Mrs. Wickam
withdrew, and presently Florence appeared in her stead.
The child immediately started up with sudden readiness
and animation, and raised towards his father in bidding
him good night, a countenance so much brighter,
so much younger, and so much more child-like altoge-
ther, that Mr. Dombey, while he felt greatly re-assured
by the change, was quite amazed at it.
"After they had left the room together, he thought
he heard a soft voice singing; and remembering that
Paul had said his sister sung to him, he had the curiosity
to open the door and listen, and look after them. She

was toiling up the great, wide, vacant staircase, with
him in her arms; his head was lying on her shoulder,
one of his arms thrown negligently round her neck. So
they went, toiling up; she singing all the way, and Paul
sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment. Mr.
Dombey looked after them until they reached the top of
the staircase—not without halting to rest by the way—
and passed out of his sight; and then he still stood gaz-
ing upward, until the dull rays of the moon, glimmering
in a melancholy manner through the dim skylight, sent
him back to his own room." _ _ _

The father is ultimately so alarmed on hearing
that his Son is in danger of losing the use of what
Miss Tox delicately describes as " his members"
that he has him dispatched forthwith to Brighton,
for the purpose of being dragged about the beach in
a little carriage drawn by " a weazen, old, crab-faced
man, in a suit of battered oil-skin, who had got tough
and stringy from long pickling in salt water, and who
smelt like a weedy sea beach when the tide is out"
The dame, under whose protection Paul is placed at
Brighton, is an ogress yclept Mrs. Pipchin ; and both
herself and her house are such capital drawings from
the life that we must transfer them to our columns.

" This celebrated Mrs. Pipchin was a marvellous ill-
favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure,
v ith a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a
hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been ham-
mered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.
Forty years at least had elapsed since the Peruvian
mines had been the death of Mr. Pipchin ; but his relict
still wore black bombazeen, of such a lustreless, deep,
dead, sombre shade, that gas itself could'nt light her up
after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any
number of candles. She was generally spoken of as
" a great manager" of children ; and the secret of her
management was, to give them everything that they
didn't like, and nothing that they did—which was found
to sweeten their dispositions very mush. She was such
a bitter old lady, that one was tempted to believe there
had been some mistake in the application of the Peru-
vian machinery, and that all her waters of gladness and
milk of human kindness had been pumped out dry, in-
stead of the mines.

" The castle of this ogress and child-queller was in a
steep bye-street at Brighton ; where the soil was more
than usually chalky, flinty, and sterile, and the houses
were more than usually brittle and thin ; where the small
front-gardens had the unaccountable property of pro-
ducing nothing but marigolds, whatever was sown in
them; and where snails were constantly discovered hold •
ing on to the street doors, and other public places they
were not expected to ornament, with the tenacity of
cupping-glasses. In the winter time the air could'nt be
got out of the castle, and in the summer time it couldn't
be got in. There was such a continual reverberation of
wind in it, that it sounded like a great shell, which the
inhabitents were obliged to hold to their ears night and
day, whether they liked it or no. It was not, naturally,
a fresh-smelling- house ; and in the window of the front
parlour, which was never opened, Mrs. Pipchin kept a
collection of plants in pots, which imparted an earthy
flavour of their own to the establishment. However
choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a
kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs.
l'ipchin. There were half-a-dozen specimens of the
cactus, writhing round bits of lath, like hairy serpents ;
another specimen shooting out broad claws, like a green
lobster ' • several creeping vegetables, possessed of sticky
and adhesive leaves ; and one uncomfortable flower-pot
hanging to the ceiling, which appeared to have boiled
over, and tickling people underneath with its long green
ends, reminded them of spiders—in which Mrs. Pip-
chin's dwelling was uncommonly prolific, though per-
haps it challenged competition still more proudly, in the
season, in point of earwigs."

The other pupils are two : one Master Bitherstone,
who from having been often shut up in solitary
rooms, is regarded by Paul as " a boy of mysterious
and terrible experiences ;" and Miss Pankey " a mild
little blue-eyed morsel of a child, who was sham-
poo'd every morning, and seemed in danger of being
rubbed away altogether," and who is instructed by
the ogress herself " that nobod7 who sniffed before
visitors ever went to Heaven.' In the subsequent
chapter " the wooden midshipman gets into trouble,"
and in the one after Captain Cuttle and Major Bag-
stock " come out" in splendid feather. Joey B.—
Josh.—J. B.—Joe—Joseph—is a superb droll.
Smollett's Captain Weazel is nothing to iiim.

PRICE SD.

may be termed) of the flight are cleverly introduced,
as that of the " red-rushing" lightning which seared
the eagle, until he
" " Fell, struggling, downward to the boiling sea."
Celtic Tenures and Highland Clearings" is a
judicious paper just now, when the destitution ex-
perienced in those parts of Scotland is attracting so
much and, we will hope, such beneficial observation.
A copious and caniil review of " Lord Nelson's
Letters and Dispatches is given"—such a review as is
creditable to Tait. IVe are amazed to find any one
having the temerity to contribute even half a dozen
verses upon the " Farewell of Mary Stuart to
Scotland," after the exquisite and unsurpassable
" Lament" of Robert Burns—that beautiful lament,
one stanza of which haunts our memory whenever
the name of that unfortunate but erring Queen i -
uttered:—

"Now blooms th- lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn 's building in the gin),
And milk-white is the slae:
The meanest hind in fair Scotland
May rove their sweets amang;
But T, the Queen of a' Scotland,
Maun lie in prison strang."
From the " Letters from the West of England" some
conception may be formed of the position of agricul-
ture in that direction, and of the state of political
opinion in those provinces. " The Law of Primoge-
niture" is the heading of a rather superficial paper
upon that very difficult and complicated question.
Not but what we are satisfied of the decision which
should be arrived at in its regard, but to those who
have never weighed its merits, or again to those who
regard it through an atmosphere of hereditary pre-
judice, we conceive this article would be utterly in-
sufficient. Under the division of " Literary Register"
are accumulated various recent publications, each of
which receives a succinct and generally a judicious
notice. In the political article for December, Tait
is unusually discursive ; the heading itself is sug-
gestive of manifold reflections—" Parties—Public
Opinion—Next Election." " If," says the writer,
"the next Cabinet is necessarily to be composed of
members of one or both of these parties (Rus-
sellites and Peelites), there can be little doubt
of its being what has been called, in former
days, a 'broad-bottom administration.'" Whatever
may be the conjectures, or the hopes, or the fears of
individuals as to the result of the Next Election, we
cannot fur a moment tremble for its result. The
spirit of enlightenment has penetrated amongst the
multitude—the people can be no longer deluded by
specious aphorisms—the hind and the ditcher are now
more capable of detecting a sophism than when the
political quacks last vended their panaceas from the
hustings. The current of public opinion has set
strong in the right direction ; any obstructions would
only render that current dangerous thereto.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW.
We can very readily conjecture the authorship of
the "Notes of an Irish Tour by an English M.P."
The love of Young England is strong in the bosom
of its leader, and he knows well how to sustain its
avowed organ by his patronage. The pervading tone
of the publication is benevolence to the poor ;
whether this be merely an affectation of benevolence or
a sineTrity we will not decide—we will believe with-
out further testimony than the articles themselves,
that it is heart-born. In the " Notes" just mentioned
this characteristic is conspicuous, even in the quo-
tation from the " Spirit of the Nation :"
" Leisure to live, leisure to love, leisure to taste our free-
dom,
Oh, suffering poor, oh, patient poor, how bitterly you
need them !
Ever to toil, ever to moil, that is your social charter,
And City slave, or rustic serf, the toiler is its martyr."
The same species of philanthropy is visible in the
contributions on " The Ragged and their Reforma-
tion," and on " The love of the People." There is,
moreover, in the December number a very
readable and intelligent continuation of an article
we noticed last month in Blackwood's Magazine.
The present continuation is entitled " A Plea for
the Press." The writer fully enters into a considera-
tion of the toils, and dangers, and difficulties, incident
to the conduct of a free press, whether intermittent
or periodical, quarterly, monthly, weekly, or daily.
He congratulates his fellow countrymen so earnestly
on the glory and advantages of the English press, that
he terminates his remarks by parodying that line of
Thomson :

"Ye gen'rous Britons, venerate the press I"
The Review is, as usual, very miscellaneous and
equally meritorious.

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Under the new editor, the Rev. Edward Price, this

intelligent publication will have to maintain the dis-
tinguished position it has already attained, and to
advance still further. From the editorial address we
perceive that the periodical is intended to be ".strictly
and essentially a Catholic magazine"—namely, what
it has striven to he all along. "No contribution fri-
volous or disedifying will ever be allowed insertion."
That is saying much, but we shall look for its ful-
filment. " Literature of Young France ;"—Mr.
Jerningham has here given a somewhat caustic but,
we believe from our hearts, a richly-merited castiga-
tion to the morbid and immoral feuillonists. " The
Last Days of the Penal Laws; and the Riots of 1779
and 1780," is the very lengthy title of a series just
commenced by the editor. The notion is excellent,
but not new. It is unfortunate for the writer that
Charles Dickens should have delineated the same age,
the same scenes, the same leading characters, the same
villainies, and the same execrable acts of insubordi-
nation in his masterly story of " Barnaby Budge."
Boz, moreover, in that fiction, described the pro-
gress of the riots with a scrupulous exactitude, and
with a generous impartiality. His vivid and pic-
turesque descriptions will be anything but foils to all
subsequent historians of the Gordon fanaticism.
" Savanarola" is a clever biographical paper upon a
very remarkable man. Mr. Keegan, who delights to
call himself " the man in the green cloak," continues
his sparkling and lively " Gleanings from the Green
Isle." " The Old Village Church," and the "Effects
of Catholicism," will be acceptable papers to the
readers of the magazine, which is altogether excel-
lent in promise. If the new editor only emulate his
predecessor, he will do well.