The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDVESDAY EVEN ENG, MARCH 8,
_1846.

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with violent squalls—Sid. 6th, Crane Packet, Madeira, I
Teneriffe and Brazils.
CARDIFF, MARCH 6. Sld. Crusador, Naughton,
Brazils; Prince Thomas, Cape of Good Hope; Sir Henry
Pottinger, Bermuda.
KlNGSTOWN.—ArrdaMonarch, Perceval, China, and
sailed for Liverpool.
Hum., MARCH 7.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. 6th, Gitana,
Singapore.
MARGATE, MARCH 7.—The Elizabeth and Mary, of
Charente, on shore, at Kingsgate, 2d instant, was got
off last night, after discharging about half her cargo,
and towed into this harbour.
PORT TALBOT, MARCH s.—The Talbot steamer was
in contact 4th inst., between Scilly and Barry Islands,
with a brig, but sustained only slight damage.
GALWAY, MARCH s.—The Marine Plant, Wick to
Shields, which sank at Galway 28th ult., has been
raised, after discharging; she is logged, and appears to
have suffered considerable damage.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 7.—A quantity of shots, par-
tially burnt, and a topmast charred at the back, were
passed sth inst., between Tuskar and Bardovy, supposed
to belong to the Chieftain, from Liverpool to Africa,
which was seen on fire 3d inst., seven miles N.E. of
Tuskar, by the Washington Irving, arrived at Liverpool.
WurrnY, MARCH 7.—The Eagle, of this port, in
taking the harbour last evening, struck on the bar, came
against the pier, and is expected to have received
damage.

DIP: MAL PA RIA AM ENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS..

The SPEAXBA ;took the Chair to day at Twelve
o'clock.

iirIANCIIERTWATERAVORKS.

Mr.BIIOTHELTON, in the absence of Mr.
Munte, moved, that it be an instruction to the Com-
mittee on the blanchester Corporation Waterworks
Bill, to entertain. the petition of the owners of pro-
perty, &c., in fiyde, presented against this Bill, not-
withstanding the same was not presented within seven
clear days from the day on which the Bill was read a
second time.—Aigreed to.
Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN presented petitions from
the City of Lime rick for the abolition of Ministers
money'.; in favour .of the Jewish Disabilities Bill; and
against the contemplated changes in the navigation
laws.
The Earl of AILLTNDEL and SURREY pre-
sented petitions from Stirling in favour of the Jewish
Disabilities Bill; and from Fleetwood against the
Charitable Trusts Bill, and in favour of the Catholic
Relief Bill.

Mr. FREWEN 'presented:a petition from Islington
against any further concession to the Roman
Catholics.

CARLISLE ELECTION.

On the motion of an HON. MEMBER, the evidence
taken before the Carlisle Committee was ordered to be
printed.
Mr. WADDINGTON presented a petition from
a place in Somersetshire, praying the House to take
measures for the suppression of seduction.

On the motion of Dlr. SPOONER, the River Dun
(extension to Sheffield) Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed.

Mr. FOX presented a petition from Oldham, pray-
ng for the reduction of the duties on tea.

ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.

Mr. C. ANSTEY moved that the House should
resolve itself into Committee on the Roman Ca-
tholic Relief Bill.
Mr. IL DRUMMOND wished to know when the
Hon. Member for Youghal intended to proceed with
the adjourned debate on the Treaty of Adrianople.
Mr. C. AN STEY said, that if the orders of the
day before it were disposed of in the course of the
morning, he was prepared to bring the debate to an
end that day, but as that did not appear likely, he
thought the best course would be to adjourn the con-
sideration of the subject de die in diem, and take the
chance of bringing it on some day when the other
orders were disposed of.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee
on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill ; Mr. Bernal in
the chair.

On the motion for postponing the preamble being
put
Sir R. INGLIS said he was most desirous of
knowing what course the Government intended to
pursue with respect to the B:.11.
Sir G. GREY said, that as the House was in
Committee on the Bill, he should be prepared to
state on the part of the Government, as the Bill
went on, what course they would pursue with respect
to it. He saw no objection to the first part of the
Bill, and did not intend to oppose that part of it.
Mr. SLANEY could mat support the Bill in its
present shape. He had voted for the second reading
of the Bill against the wish of his constituents, but he
did so in order that the objectionable part of it
might be removed in Committee. If they were
not he must oppose the Bill altogether. He was
against monastic orders having more privileges
than they had at present, and must object
to everything that was calculated to give them
an introduction into this country. Ever since he had
the honour of a seat in that House, he had always
voted for the removal of real grievances from all
classes of her Majesty's subjects ; and he trusted he
should not be considered a bigot, if he stated that he
was riot prepared to go the length of the present Bill.
If the objectionable part of it were not removed in
Committee, he should object to the Bill altogether in
a future stage.
Mr. GOULBURN was anxious to know upon
what part of the Bill the present discussion had taken
place ?
Mr. BERNAL said that the discussion had arisen
upon the question of postponing the preamble.
On the first clause being put,
Sir R. INGLIS proposed the omission from the
clause of the words, " shall be repealed."
After some desultory discussion in which Sir R. H.
Inglis, Sir G. Grey, Lord Mahon, Mr. Law, Mr.
Henley, Mr. Smith O'Brien, Mr. Chisholm Anstey,
Mr. Croulburn, Mr. Drummond, the Attorney-
General, and Mr. Shiel took part,
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the
Committee divided when there appeared--
For the clause

Against it . .
Majority in favour of it
The amendment was consequently lost.
Mr. HENLEY moved as an amendment that the
words "in so far as the same relates to or concern
Roman Catholics" should be left out, so that no
distinction should be drawn between Roman Catho-
lics and any other class of religionists.
Mr. ANSTEY had no objection to omit the
words where they appeared in any other part of the
Bill, but he could not consent to their being struck
out of the clause.
Mr. GREENE remarked that if the words were
struck out, the clause would be rendered unintel-
ligible.
Sir G. GREY agreed with the Hon. Member for

Oxfordshire that the words to which he had referred
ought to be left out of the Bill. The Act proposed to
be repealed by the clause related to Protestants as
well as Roman Catholics, and it ought, therefore, to
be repealed unconditionally if it were repealed at all.
Mr. BERNAL (the Chairman) gave it as his
opinion that the amendment was informal.
Mr. HENLEY, under the circumstances, would
not press his amendment.
Mr. LAW did not think it right that Honourable
Members should be precluded to move the omission
of words in a clause, but he felt with the Right Hon.
the Home Secretary that the provisions of the
Act proposed to be repealed applied to all
classes of religionists, and ought to be struck out
of the statute-book, without any reservation.
He could see no reason why the Roman Catholic
.
should be placed a more advantageous situation
than Protestants, and the amendment proposed by the
Hon. Member for Oxfordshire was not necessarily
repugnant to the title of this Bill. He hoped the
Committee would be allowed to give their opinion
upon it. He should therefore re-move the amend-
ment which had been withdrawn by the Honourable
Member for Oxfordshire.—(Hear,
hear.)
Mr. HILDYA.RD said the omission of the words
could be moved on bringing up the report without
violating the rules of the House; and as the Hon.
Member who had possession of the Bill had stated
that he would consent to the amendment then, it
would be much better to defer the amendment till
the report was brought up.
Mr. LAW thanked his Hon. and Learned Friend
for this advice, and would readily adopt it.
1 The amendment was accordingly withdrawn.
(LEFT SITTIN4I.)

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(Tins DAY.)
BE W DLEY.

The Bewdley Electioa Committeereassembled at the
usual time this morning, Mr. Wrightson in the chair.
The evidence in favour of the case for the petitioners
was resumed.
Sarah Bineer, a labourer's wife, residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Bewdley, proved that Mr. Harris, one of
the agents for the Tory party of Bewdley, to whom her
husband was indebted a few pounds, threatened to send
him to Worcester gaol if he did not vote for Mr. Ire-
land. It was to herself that Mr. Harris made this
threat, but ho stated, at the same time, that if her hus-
band would vote for Mr. Ireland he was authorised to
present her with 101. when the election Was over.

LINCOLN.
The Select Committee appointed to try the merits of
the petition presented against the return of Mr. Charles
Seeley, for the city of Lincoln, met for the first time at
twelve o'clock this day. Mr. Morgan John O'Connell
in the chair.
Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and Mr. Wordsworth sp-
peered for the petitioners, and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake,
with whom was Mr. Edwin James, for the sitting
Member.
Mr. Sergeant WRANOII.OI opened the case for the
petitioners. The Hon. Gentleman against whose return
the petition had been presented was a miller and baker,
in Lincolnshire, and was a candidate for the city in
the year 1841, but he was defeated then by Mr.
Collett. After his defeat the friends of the Hon. Mem-
ber started a club, which they christened " The Pig
and Whistle," and it would seem that the object 0,
its
foundation was to secure Mr. Seeley s return at the next
election. About twelve months before the last election
the club began to enroll members with great spirit, and
Mr. Seeley made a very liberal donation to its funds.
The club flourished after this most astonishingly, and
just before the election the interests of Mr. Seeley were
committed to the custody of the managers of the Pig
and Whistle, and they at once established Free- and-easys
at every public house where landlords would promise to
vote for Mr. Seeley. The expenses were defrayed by
Mr. Seeley and his friends ; but, in the case of the land-
lord of the Plough, who hnd supported the opposite
party with his vote, and whose bill for the free-and-
easy amounted to between 141. and 131., payment was
refused, and the bill was afterwards recovered in the
County Court, from one of Mr. Seeley !; friends, who
gave the necessary:orders for the establishment of the
Plough free-and-easy.

THE PRESBYTERIANS AT MALTA.-411S Excellency
the Right Hon. Mot O'Ferrall, Governor of Malta,
has directed that for the future the bodies of Presby-
terians shall receive burial in the ground destined to
hold the remains of the other members of the Protestant
community.

MAGAZINES, &c. (CONTINUED).
FRASER.

Of the. observations contained in Fraser's Magazine
respecting the miserable immorality and ignorance
prevalen among the humbler classes of the population
of Wales. we have already spoken in another depart-
ment. J 1 he writer is evidently ambitious of nothing
more that i an enforcement of the facts enumerated in
the repor is published by the Commission appointed
by Sir George Grey. Those facts are sufficiently
startling to corroborate to the uttermost the assertions
made by the late representative of Coventry (Mr.
William, 0 at the commencement of the Parliamentary
session cif 1846 ; and they are certainly enough to
justify tbe Government in adventuring upon some
educatio''al scheme of an extraordinary character,
even supposing that scheme be alone applicable to
the principality of Wales. No tuition of a very
remarkable character is requisite in the first instance ;
let schoo 1-rooms ;be opened in the different parishes
with the simple intention of teaching the poorer
children 1 he English language, and when that is done
much ge od will have been already accomplished.
Let the circumstance be borne in recollection
that the wealthier members of Welsh society are
habituate! d to the English tongue—a tongue
as foreign to their humbler brethren as the patter of
Timbuct oo would be to an Irish peasant—and some
concepti. m may be formed of the estrangement of both
classes ft sum each other. All the relations of life are
interrupi:ed by this single casualty, and no practical
improveettent can be effected until one idiom er other
is common to all the inhabitants without distinction.
" A Plea for Physicians" might have had an alias—
" An Ons laught on Charlatans," " Childhood and its
Reminiscences," is a didactic composition, which
might have been penned by Elizabeth Youatt, and
the delliwation of Church-lane, St. Giles's (the last
remnant .of the once notorious rookery), might have
been autlaorised by the signatures of the Commis-
sioners or Gwydyr House. Without possessing that
skill in the portraiture of a locality which is one of
the principal charms of " Boz," the writer is as exact as
the most conscientious appraiser. We have been sin-
gularly amused with an article in the present number,
entitled (with more truth than was everintended by the
contributor), "Romance of Portuguese Revolution."
It is a critical notice of a novel called " The Student of
Coimbra," recently written by one Doctor Centazzi.
The book itself is a romantic effusion which the
author possibly imagines to be a historical novel.
Whether Dr. Centazzi is such a chamurros as to fancy
so or not, it is clear that the writer in Fraser is
possessed with the idea. Not only, indeed, does the
latter regard the work as a historical novel, but he
actually reviews its revelations as history—with all
the seriousness one would devote to Tytler or Rapin.
After uttering an incidental eulogium upon the im-
mortal " Lusiadas " of Luis de Camoens, he jeers at
the barrenness of Portuguese literature—a literature
which after the poetical King Dinia, contains such
names as Francisco Nascimento, Barbosa Bocage,
Albuquerque, Garrett, Carvalho, and Castilho. As
if a nation of scarcely 3,000,000 could be expected
to be as prolific in writers, and sculptors, and
painters, and musicians, as the more populous
countries of the European continent, especially
when it is borne in remembrance that Portugal
was toiling so long and so bravely in the very van of
European enterprise, and that it has latterly been the
prey, first, of British intermeddling in the Peninsula,
and secondly, of its own intestine dissentious. Por-
tugal is, in truth, the very last kingdom that should
be pointed at by the finger of scorn, for if it has pro-
duced very few great thinkers, it has given birth to
very many great actors—actors, not upon the petty
stage of a provincial playhouse, but in the broad
arena of Christendom. Few histories are more
glorious than the history of Portugal—of that Por-
tugal which, by promoting the science of navigation,
gave a sublime and irresistible impetus to the cause
of civilisation. If France has its Charlemagne, Por-
tugal has its Prince Henry ; if England has its
Chaucer, Portugal has its Camoens; if Spain has its
X.itnenes Portugal has its Vasco da Gama ; if Rome
has its Rienzi, Portugal has its Diaz ! It is an act of
ignorance and ingratitude to scoff at Portugal
as a country that is low in the scale of
European nations, when it is not to be
forgotten that its princes were the first geographical
adventurers in Christendom. But the contributor to
Regina only ceases to ridicule the Portuguese when
he begins to distort the history of Portugal. He
recounts, with punctilious exactitude, the arrival of
the corvette Lealdade (from Rio Janeiro) in the
mouth of the Tagus, bringing news of the royal
decree by which his Majesty Dom Pedro IV. (the
Emperor of Brazil), gave a constitution to the Por-
tuguese, and resigned the crown of Portugal in
favour of his daughter, Donna Maria 11., who was
to marry her uncle, Dom Miguel. This, of course,
was in 1826. Ile tells, also, of the rejoicings which
commenced on the 31st of the July of that year in
Lisbon, immediately this decree was officially con-
firmed. But when he begins to recount the rise of
the adherents of Dom Miguel, and the proclamation
of that prince as King of Portugal, be outrages all
common sense by his exaggerations. We doubt not
that his ears would tingle with horror at the sound
of 0 Rei chegoul—" The King is come !"—the first
stirring words of the Miguelite war-song. He
has scarcely patience to mention the capture of
Oporto by the Aliguelites, and the ocupation of the
Portuguese throne by Dom Miguel ; he hurries on to
the fitting out of Dom Pedro's expedition atrierceira,
and its arrival at Oporto in July 1832—the expedi-
tion consisting of a fleet of two frigates, two corvettes,
three brigs, fifteen gun-boats, and a number of trans-
port ships, on board 2,400 seamen, and 8,029
soldiers ; the British brigades being commanded by
Shaw, Cotter, and Bacon. The contributor then
refers to the entrance of Dorn Pedro into Oporto on
the 9th of July ; the blockade of that city; its bom-
bardment; the heroic assault made upon it by the
iguelites on Michaelmas-day; the mutiny of the
fleet under Sartorius, and its re-organization by
Napier; the presence of Maria in Lisbon, and the
ultimate capture of that capital by the Pedroites and
their British auxiliaries. All these things, however,
appear to have been re-capitulated in the magazine,
principally for the purpose of showering the most
vulgar and scurrilous abuse upon the head of the
unfortunate Dom Miguel. In one passage he is "an
absolute king," who gives way in the moment of
victory to " a bloody reaction ;" in another, he is " the
tyrant Miguel ;" in another, he is described as a first-
rate charioteer, "like the Nero whom he in many re-
spects resembles." The Limoeiro is painted as a second
Bastille ; the Fortress of St. Julian as another Bicetre;
Telles Jordao as a monster little less infamous than
Marat ; and Cardoso'as not much better than Henriot
" Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer cloud
Without our special wonder?"
There are thousands now in these islands who can
well recollect the time when Napoleon Bonaparte was
looked upon by Englishmen as a sort of devil incar-
nate, a sensualist, an adulterer, a wretch guilty of
every crime from incest to intoxication, a man accus-
tomed in his paroxysms of rage to kick his mother
down the stairs of the Tuileries, to swear at his at-
tendants, and occasionally (perhaps by way of
variety) to " pitch into" his Field Marshals. There
are thousands now living in England who can recol-
lect that such things were actually believed of the
First Consul and the Emperor. The late John Murray
published books seriously stating as much with
all the grave veracity—not of verse, but of history—
we have read the books ourselves with disgust, and
believe they were called, if we recollect right, " The
Revolutionary Plutarch." Since then the true spirit
of history has vindicated the character of Napoleon.
The same spirit will in like manner dissipate these
bugbear stories about Dom Miguel: posterity will
see him more justly than we do. Other articles are
contained in Fraser for March, and the number con-
cludes, as usual, with a clever epitome of the events
which have occurred throughout the world since its
ast publication.

BENTLEYS.
Dr. W. C. Tayler opens the present number of
Bentley with a well written criticism on the life and
writings of the late Isaac Disraeli (the Disraeli par
excellence). It is illustrated with an admirable por-
trait of the author of " Curiosities of Literature."
Mr. J. Marvel then smokes a pleasant " Pipe with the
Dutchmen," and then comes a most interesting his-
torical paper entitled, " Anne Boleyn and Sir Thomas
Wyatt," from which we extract the following account
of the removal by midnight of the body of the ill-fated
Queen from the chapel of the Tower :
" The hour of midnight had just passed away, when
four women and four men, singly and stealthily crept
into St. Peter's Church, in the 'rower. When there,
grouped together, one explained to the rest the proposed
course of proceedings : all then bent their steps to the
same point, and were presently engaged, some in lifting
up a huge flag. stone from the pavement, others in
spreading a very large cloth by the side of it ; and, two
wooden shovels being produced, two of the men pro-
, ceeded instantly to throw out upon it the earth from a
newly-made grave. This was the grave of Anne Boleyn,
whose headless body had been rudely and hurriedly
thrown into it, only twelve hours previously.
" In all possible silence the men worked, and with no
other light than was thrown OR the soil by a small dark-
lantern, most carefully held; but, although silently, they
yet worked resolutely, and with great vigour and dispatch
cast forth all that was found between them and the
object of their search; which was an old elm-chest, that
had been used for keeping the soldiers arrows in. In
this were deposited the remains of their late queen; and,
the lid being removed, the body,
.which had on the
scaffold been most carefully folded in a thick winding..
sheet, was then lifted out, and laid on a large black
thrown in, and the large
cloak. The lid replaced, and the earth, with great
caution and speed, being again
" flag-stone again laid down, the party hastened to the
church door. A gentle signal from within having been
answered by the opening of the door from without, and
the assurance given that all was well,—that no -one was
stirring, or in sight, the whole party passed hurriedly
away with their burden into a house near at hand.
Very shortly after the men separately retired to their

respective temporary lodgings, to ponder rather upon
their plans for the ensuing day, than to reflect upon the
dangers they had incurred in their proceedings.
" The four women, to whose care the body of the
queen had been thus confided, were the four faithful, and
attached, and chivalrous maids of honour, who had
attended upon Anne in the Tower, and accompanied her
to the scaffold. These, when her head was severed from
the body, took charge of both, suffering no one to touch
them but themselves, and having wrapped them carefully
in a covering they had provided, and placed them in the
old chest, which had been brought thither to receive
them, they went with those who were appointed to bear
, away the body to the church, and did not leave it till
they saw it completely enclosed in the grave which had
been so hastily opened to admit it.
" One of these four was Mary Wyatt, and one of the
four men was her brother, Sir Thomas Wyatt, who could
not endure the thought that one whom he had once so
fondly loved, whom he had always admired and esteemed,
should be buried like a dog, and thrust into the grave as
a thing dishonoured and despised ; and, when a mes•
senger brought him word that Anne, but a moment be-
fore she knelt down on the block, whispered to his sister
to implore her brother to bear off, if posssible, her re-
mains frozi the Tower, and to give her the rites of
Christian burial in a place she named, be determined at
once to encounter all risks, to fulfil, if practicable, her
dying request.
"There was, undoubtedly, great personal danger to
himself in the attempt. He had very narrowly escaped
being sent a prisoner to the Tower, with Norris, Wes-
ton, and Brereton ; and, had he accompanied them, he
would undoubtedly hare been executed together with
them, two days before. He knew and felt this ; and
that his life was not worth a week's purchase.
" But there were other difficulties to contend with,
and other considerations to be given to the subject, than
such us arose from any personal dangers to himself.
Alone, he was powerless. Yet, who would be his con
federates in a scheme that threatened the loss of life to
all engaged in it ? Who would enter into a hostile
Tower, well garrisoned, and vigilantly guarded, and
brave the vengeance of a governor, by carrying away
the body of a queen, of whose person, whether living or
dead, he had the custody ? The poor queen could give
no thanks: her friends were all in disgroce. Wyatt had
no money, and no influence or authority ; but that
helped him which has helped so many others, and which
has so often achieved success in still more perilous en-
terprises—he had man's love for woman to appeal to.
Those chivalric maidens, who braved without fear the
frowns of their king, and the insulting speeches of his
courtiers, to attend upon their unfortunate and maligned
queen in her degradation and distress, were not likely to
have either pusillanimous lovers or brothers ; and the
men happened to be in this case worthy of the women.
They entered immediately and cordially into Wyatt's
plan, and separately, and without an hour's delay, made
their way to the Tower, to make inquiries as to the
health and well-doing of their respective favourites.
When there, various reasons were found for their stay-
ing during the night. The ladies themselves would all
depart the next day, and the assistance of such friends
in their removal was more than desirable.
"Besides, other circumstances within the Tower in
some measure favoured their projects—the hurried pre-
paration for so many executions within the walls during
the last :few days—the arrival of so many nobles and
counsellors, to sit in judgment upon the prisoners—and
the arrival that day within the Tower of the King's
brother—the Duke of Suffolk, the king's son, the Duke
of Richmond, and other high officers of state, to witness
Anne's execution—and their hurried departure, after all
was over, with their numerous retinue, deranged the
usual customary duties of the guard, and made them
less inquisitive than they would otherwise have been, as
to the persons they admitted.
"In addition to this, all the prisoners, who had
caused this excitement, had been disposed of—all were
executed, and, moreover, buried. There was no one re-
maining within the Tower cared for by any one ; and
the extreme vigilance of the constable, Sir William
Kingston, so long as he had the prisoners in charge,
and until he had in every respect obeyed the King's
stern decrees in respect of them all, made him, perhaps,
now less severe in his regulations towards the few un-
happy ladies, their friends, who would be his guests
only a few hours more within the Tower walls. "
The peculiarly mournful situation of these ladies,
the melancholy and afflicting scenes they had so lately
witnessed, their heroic conduct, and their deep distress,
made it impossible to deny to them the sympathy and
visit of a few friends. Mary Wyatt, in her deep sor-
row, might well bo supposed to need a brother's consola-
tion, and even, in her forlorn state, a brother's protection.
This gave him, immediately subsequent to the execution,
an amply sufficient reason for visiting his sister in the
Tower; and he soon arranged with Mary all the details
of his enterprise; and Mary soon secured the hearty
co-operation of the other ladies, who were but too well
pleased to lend their aid to fulfil the last expressed wish
of their dying mistress.
"A quiet entrance into the church was all that Sir
Thomas then seemed to need for the success of his plans.
He strolled into the church, conversed unreservedly, and
with as much composure as he could assume, with the
sexton, who pointed out to him the stones which covered
the bodies respectively of Queen Anne and her brother,
Lord Rochford. The man, it appeared, from his con-
versation, had greatly commiserated the fate of the un-
happy Queen, and was shocked at the heartless manner
in which she had been thrust into her grave, without any
attendant priest or religious service. Sir Thomas Wyatt
availed himself of this favourable prepossession, and by
persuasions of various kinds, some verbal, some perhaps,
more substantial, he obtained of the man permission to
enter the church at midnight, and with the ladies who
had been the Queen's attendants, to complete her funeral
obsequies secretly and quietly, as they best could.
" Of course the sexton never knew, nor did the Con-
stable of the Tower ever dream, of the masterly ma-
nceuvre that had been practised against them. So far,
however, had Sir Thomas succeeded, that he had rescued
the body from its grave, and bad placed it in hands that
would, to their utmost, protect it. The next step was
to remove it beyond the Tower walls.
" It was natural enough, that from the excitement and
distress of the preceding day, from the terror and grief
they had been exposed to in the actual witnessing on the
scaffold the beheading of their lovely queen, that the
ladies should be more or less ill, and that one at least
should need to be carried to her litter, from illness and
sheer exhaustion.

" When the hour arrived for their departure, they re-
spectively sent their adieus and their thanks to Sir
William and Lady Kingston, and a litter being at the
door, three of the ladies, in the deepest mourning, en-
tered it; and presently Sir Thomas Wyatt and another
gentleman appeared, carrying in their arms a lady, who
seemed but little able to support herself. She was also
in mourning, and closely covered up. This was the
body of Anne. Having safely deposited her with the
others, the whole drove away, followed by the other
maid of honour, disguised as one of the attendants.
Quietly and togetker the gentlemen walked through the
Tower gates, beyond which their horses awaited them;
mounting these, they proceeded westward, and were soon
lost sight of in the crooked and narrow street which led
directly from the Tower to the City."
The body was afterwards interred at Salle Church
with the proper observance of religious rites. Mr.
Warren continues his "Adventures on the river
Amazon," Miss Costello her " Sketches of Switzer-
land," and Professor Creasy his " Comments on the
Six Decisive Battles of the World;" the Battle of Me-
taurus is the subject of the present comment. Mr.
Postans contributes a graphic account of the " Two
Funerals of Napoleon ;" the one at St. Helena, the
other at Paris, at both of which he was present ; and
" A Cape Codder" spins a superb yarn about his
"Adventures among the Mermaids,"which is as superbly
illustrated by Leech. M. Appert, under the title of
" Visits, Dinners, and Evenings at the Quai d'Orsay
and Neuilly," gives some pleasant gossip anent various
notabilities of Parisian society. Charles Whitehead
contributes an account of the " Battle of Aliwal,"
which is illustrated by a life-like portrait of Sir Harry
Smith. This is an excellent number of Bentley.

7'AIT.
An excellent narrative of the late revolutionary
movement in the French metropolis is given towards
the conclusion of Tait's Magazine. The introductory
portion is, however, the only part of the paper which
is in any respect remarkable for its accuracy—the ac-
count penned by the contributor of the &nettles them-
selves and of the consequences of the insurrection
being marvellously false and partial. For example,
the writer execrates the rabble for having pillaged the
Tuileries, and destroyed its magnificent decorations,
when it is among the many glorious characteristics
of the revolution of 1848, that property was respected
beyond all precedent under similar circumstances, and
that the productions of artistic ingenuity were guarded
by the mob as things sacred. "Mort aux voleurs!
That was one of the many memorable cries which re-
sounded in the streets of Paris during the three im-
mortal days of February. Mort aux voleurs I—and the
thief bit the dust of the boulevards, shot by the bul-
lets of the citizens. Mart aux voleurs !—and the
burglar was transfixed by the bayonets of the insur-
gent workmen even while clambering over the ledge
of a window, or dropping
from the leads of a dwel-
ling•house with his pockets stuffed with booty. It
was the wild justice not of revenge, but of a libe-
rated people —a justice that was pitiless and
inexorable. How erroneous, therefore, for
Tail to declare that the Parisians " attacked
the Tuileries, and destroyed the furniture,
the books and the pictures of that magnificent man-
sion"—and how doubly erroneous to preserve this
slander in the magazine, even while it is acknow-
leged in a foot note that the rumour has been con-
tradicted ! Mort aux voleurs !—that is its contradic-
tion. Then, again, a covert derision is cast upon
the members of the Provisional Government of the
Republic, a derision arising from a vague belief of
their incapacity to direct the affairs of a great nation,
and, above all, to nurture the powers of an embryo
and scarcely nascent Legislature, when already—
before a week has elapsed—those Republican states-
men have, by the wisdom of their proceedings, evoked
order from chaos, tranquillity from revolt, and confi-
dence from doubt—covering themselves with glory
by the beneficence and vigour of their numerous in-
augurative measures. In these respects the close of
the article is unworthy of its opening—an opening in
which the different motives for the outbreak are
dispassionately discussed and consecutively enu-
merated. " Miranda" becomes this month doubly
interesting, since it is a tale of the former revolution
in France, by one who has been an eye-witness of all
the stirring events recently enacted in Paris. From

the exact and facile pen of Mr. Percy St. John, we
anticipate a very lively description of that grand
popular movement which he has just had the privi-
lege of watching as a spectator. George Gilfillan
writes a clever sketch of Professor Nichol, as the
first in a series ofsketches of " Popular Lecturers." We
would suggest, however, to Mr. Gilfillan that he is
plunging too many irons into the fire together—al-
ready we have had from him the commencement of a
series of " Literary Portraits " (as a second series),
and of portraits of " Female Authors "—and now we
have a third series of "Popular Lecturers"—
all begun and not one completed. We suspect from
his discursive contributions to Tait that he is as vola-
tile in disposition as he is versatile as a book-
man. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder perseveres steadily,
" plodding his pleasant (not his weary) way " along
the margin of the Tyne. " Entails and their Reme-
dies " will prove most readable to younger sons, and "A
Word for Dr. Hampden " will be anything but nuts for
Dean Merewether. " Fragments of the Life of a
German Princess " is an agreeable criticism on an
agreeable book, followed by another " Letter from
the Channel Islands" and a chapter on " insurance
Societies." The magazine closes with a copious
" Literary Register " and " Political Register," and
by way of an appendix, it administers a bitter blow
to the Cabinet anent the Budget, which is to be
amended, and the income tax, which is not to be
increased.