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iita Section of MA oWri promise, it will die 1 Of itself.
.Hoot survive the lap,e of nerations—as associated
tnOre mater, d successors it may tas-e of imrnov-
tan y. We have written this mach, because of the in-
dications here given of a real genius for a divine
art, and because of our anxiety that a ggnitig
so propitiously announced may not be rendered
null. and unprofitable eithcr by the precipitation
or indolence of its posses or. Whoever has written
this " Romance of London" has a means of carving out
a niche for himself in the poetical gallery of England;
he has paved the way to public attention; h., has the
faculty (or we are singularly mistaken) for accomplish-
ing greater things; may he have the courage and the
inclination ! In the third edition, lying before uc, the
decorations of the book, as to binding and typography,
are commensurate with its beauty as a literary pro -
duction. It is suitable for the library and the boudoir,
the drawing-room and the study; its exterior is delicate,
with apple-green and blazonry; its interior is adorned
with elevating sentiments; and genuine poesy.

RAMBLES IN NORMANDY By James Hairby,
M.D.

This is a very delightful book. Normandy is one of
provinces,
Haithe rmb
yo sits picturesque
amusing
the
travelling F c h
aompaaioand
nlt Dr.
ap-
pears that his object in wandering through Normandy
was to discover some pleasant and cheap place of resi-
dence, where he could secure good society for himself
and the means of education for his children—and to all
who are engaged in a similar search we recommend Dr.
Hairby's bo..k as a vade mecum—they will find the
respective claims of Granville, and Avranches, and Har-
fieur, and Havre, and Caen, and fifty other places, amply
discussed, and will be enabled, in many instances, at once
to fix on the locality most likely to suit their purpose.
His descriptions of icenery and places are graphic, and
his sketches of society kindly-hearted, and at the same
time amusing. Some of his hints to Englishmen as to
French etiquette are valuable: for instance, attention to
the following may prevent th' commission of many a
liaise in an unconscious stranger:—
" ne Frenchman (says Dr. Hairby) notices what he con-
siders a great rudeness in us, of which many Englishmen, on
their first arrival in France, are unconscious of. The instance
to which I allude is this: one man, accompanied by many
others, meets a lady whom he knows, walking in the midst
of a party, amongst whom are gentlemen with whom he has
no acquaintance, he bows to the lady, every gentleman on his
side raises his hat, and every gentleman in her suite returns
thesalute. Nor is this etiquette limited to intercourse with the
fair sex. The same courtesy is observed between groups of
men; a bow to one is the signal for a general salute. Now
John Buil, at first, under the circumstances stated, takes no
notice of a raised hat that is not elevated to himself indi-
vidually • and says to the ladies, in his company, afterwards,
when they, perhaps, school him for his rudeness, Why
sh .uld I take off my hat, when they did not bow to me?'
Of course such a person is deemed a bete, in the first instance,
oy the Frenchmen. One never loses character by civility;
my countrymen ought invariably to bow to the female of any
sh ,p into which they enter; and should take off their lists to
the inmates of the humblest lodging-house where they may
search for accommoda.ion."
The foll,wing hints, too, will be found very valuable to
persons proposi: g to settle in Normand% :

" On matters of graver moment, I am unwilling to enter;
though there is one point of morality to which I shall ad-
vert, the indifference to truth, which is so often shamefully
exhibited, even by persons, who, from their station in life,
might be supposed to consider their word binding and con-
clu.i ye in their trarvactions.
I snail forbear from giving individual instances to this
effect, but I may mention a case which is, probably, not very
rare--that of a proprietor, who undertakes to let a house for
certain rent, assures the proposing tenant, that he shall
have it on a certain day; in the meantime, he is offered a
higher rent by another person, and he tells the first bidder,
very coolly, on the day when he had promised to give pos-
session, that he had let the house to another. ' But, Sir, you
promised to let me have it, and offered to sign the lease this
ctly ;' to which the other replies, with that peculiar shrug
which a Frenchman alone can give with full effect, ' True,
but then the agreement was not in writing.' In short, a
verbal promise is not considered binding, and, therefore, a
disregard for one's word may be fairly inferred. I fear that,
in the transactions of business, this want of principle will be
found very common.
" The Normans are proverbial for cunning and extreme
exaction in their dealings; but I have not found them so,
and lam glad to compare the lights with the shadows of
their character. The meanest servants will not steal, and,
with rare exceptions, are most scrupulously honest; they
seldom pilfer in your house, the doors and windows of which
are left open—no rogue enters them ; house-breaking or
house-robbing, in town, and may be country, are scarcely
known : you feel secure of life and property in the most
lonely retreat. Can we say as much for our own people?
Again, there is a confidence in your integrity, on the part of
tradesmen and shopkeepers, which impresses one with a high
opinion of the correctness and regularity with which debts
are paid, at least in the part of France under my immediate
observation ; and though a few losses have been sustained by
the shopkeepers of Avranches,' from the defalcation of
English customers, they are, on the whole. as civil and
obliging as any people in their situation can possibly be.
Those who may report the contrary, and complain of rude-
ness or great exactness of dealing from the bankers or
shopkeepers, will be found on inquiry, in nine cases out of
ten, to have formed erroneous views, or to have given
cause for doubts as to their own solvency, or reasonable
grounds of complaint, from want of punctuality, or an im-
propriety of some sort.

.
" The operatives are idle and slovenly, and, in many in-
stances, of intemperate habits. If a gentleman wants to
have a house repaired, he is tortured by workmen, who will
undertake half a dozen jobs at the same time, and not finish
any of them, neither at the period promised, nor in a work-
manlike manner. A good English carpenter, mason, or plas-
terer, would be ashamed to turn out such defective work, and
would execute as much in a day as one of these will do in
two or three : every trifle takes off their attention and causes
them, like children, to loiter and look abut them ; and, what
is worse, while some of them frequent the cider-houses and
take holidays as often as they can, their wives are per-
petually labouring, and experience the greatest want of sym-
pathy and affection on the part of their husbands : this is,
alas! a crying evil among our British labourers and me-
chanics also.
" The Norman temper is notoriously quick and violent, and
some of the most faithful and honest servants will give im-
pertinent answers on the slightest contradiction of their
wishes, and exhibit the most childish petulance; yet, with
this great fault, and others of a minor character, besides ex-
treme want of method and tidiness, they are a good class,
and universally abstemious in eating and drinking. If they
do not execute a.; much work as an English serv.mt, nor in
the same satisfactory style, they are, on the other hand, much
lees expensive in every particular. The best servants (I
speak of females, for the men are usually idle, profligate, and
troublesome) are in the service of French families, in which
they are treated with a degree of kindness and familiarity un-
known to our more reserved and formal habits : yet, though
they are allowed so much freedom of conversation and man-
ner, this privilege does not engender is them a presumptu-
ous department.
" The lady mistress of a French family often sits in her
kitchen and talks to her maids, and such is the reciprocal
attachment between the heads of the family and their do-
nieric4, that lengthened servitude is very common ; small
a'auttes to faithful dependents, and if a servant marries in
service, a dint], r is generally provided by the master or mis-
tresi, who entertain the bridal party with the utmost hos-
pitality."

These rambles are profusely illustrated by beautiful
wood-cuts., Toe doctor, in his preface, half promises
that be will next year conduct us over Brittany and L 2
Vendee. We shall be glad to ramble over those chi-
valrous provinces accompanied by such an intelligent and
amusing guide.

THE ART-UNION OF LONDON
AND THE GOVEiiNMENT.
The conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
now opposing the legalising of art-unions, is regarded
with much diz.pleasure by a large number of persons
who regard it, not merely as unparliamentary, but as
inter-
fered yearswlth ago,the
short-sighted, sad calcuLted to produce great injury.
valuable
tfirst unwisely inter-
se"vhael un associations,. Sir . Robert Peel
said more than once, it was wrong. to imagine the Go-
vvrtiment were opposed to art-unions, and that they
would support Bill
a which could be brouaft in
,►i to
legalise them. The H
the principle b °use admitted the goodness of
mittee to inquiyre a • resolution, appointing a Com-
art-unions on a firinto the best means of placino.
Committee so appoint:: and ermanent basis ; • thee
subject, have set forth inquired most carefully into the
in an excellent report the sense
they entertain of the
vdalue of such societies, and recom-
mend that a Bill should
that uncertainty ma , be brought in immediately, so
all this, the Chancelior of the
prevail ; and now, after
the question of principle the Exchequer is to return to
ries, and I see no reason
why'a and say, art-unions are lotte-
dheir promoters Should be
exempted from the pains a
Lottery Acts. penalties of the existing
The assertion that they encour
proved over and over again.. ; thaege• gambling was clis-
m le fact that the
subscribers restrict ther:Lselves, withsvie 13
very few exceptions,
to one share, ever_ 'in a greater degree than at first, is, of
itself a sufF:
:;tent disproof of it.
Of tide good effect they had in spreading a love of art
4:nroughout all classes, all bear witness ; there cannot be
two opinions upon it, and as regards the interests of
artists as a body, we have evidence that the suspension
of art-unions would produce an amount of positive dis-
tress which only those who have inquired into the sub-
ject can rightly estimate.
The hint tnrown out by us last week is about to be
acted on. A public meeting of artists will be held, and
a memorial forwarded to Sir Robert Peel. A large
body of artists have manifested their anxiety to move in
it, and simply wait for some of their more favoured
brethren to take the initiative, lost if they moved first,
the latter might consider it infra dig, to follow. There
is no time to be lost, as Mr. Wyse's Bill stands for com-
mittal on Wednesday next.— The Builder.

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dA APRIL.
superintendentl.in o, lnrdi.ire
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CoooWlcl e°
-r3°.,
in reldiness to proceed to Spithead, to hoist his pendant on
Duck-yard at Wo-lwich, has received orders to hold himself
one of the vessels intended to be experimented with in the
approaching naval trials of the merits of ships and steam-
vessels of war. The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Com-
mander Petty, has returned from Whitby, and proceeded
down the river yesterday with the Monkey steam-vessel,
Master-Commander W. Bryant, to tow the Trafalgar, of 120
guns, to the Downs, that vess.el being ordered to form one
of the experimental squadron. One lieutenant, one sergeant,
three corporals, and thirty privates of the 20th Regiment,
arriviat at Woolwich 3.esterday from the Isle of Wight, where
the depot is stationed, and embarked in the Scotia convict-
ship, as a guard, and they will remain at head-quarters of
the regiment stationed at Bermuda.
WIaYMOUTII.—Our town was in a state of great excite-
ment during the whole of Thursday last, owing to the non-
arrival of the London mail. it appears that by some mistake
the mail-bag was sent to Rochester instead of Dorchester,
so that we did not receive the mail till the arrival of the
Emerald, Southampton coach, about six o'clock in the even-
ing.—Slierborne Journal.
CREMORNE GARDENS, CRELSEA.--At the M
Sessions on Friday an appeal against the decision of theiddlesex local
magiorlt refusing a r.liewal of the license for these gardens,
wa p:, .1 ...,! 'may 18. Mr- Se:i.,eatit Wilkins
Mr. James Ellis; and Mr. Clark-
is retained for the appellant,
son will appear for the magistrates. The case is important,
and excites a large ohara of public attention.

NATIONAL ASSoCIATtoN OF
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

A very large meeting of the members of this Association
was held 'on Friday night at the Hanover-square Rooms;
Mr. R. R. Pennington presiding on the occasion.
A very lengthened report having been read by the Secre-
taries, setting forth the past operations and future plans of
the association, several resolutions were carried, embodying
the suggestions it contained, and of which the following are
copies:—
" 1. That the indefinite postponement of the settlement
of the medical question in Parliament, and the consequent
unsuccessful issue of the exertions of the committee to obtain

a charter of incorporation for the general practitioners, is
chiefly to be attributed to the existing colleges having un-
duly exercised their influence, and thrown unwarrantable
obstacles in the way of the Secretary of State for the Home
Department; that in consequence an absolute necessity exists
for the general practitioners to maintain a permanent col-
lective organization, wi. ', an authoritative council to protect
their interest. It is therefore, the opinion of this meeting,
that the recommendation of the committee, in the report
which has just been read, that the National Association
sh.;uld be established on a more permanent basis, be forth-
with adopted, and that the members of the association, and
of the profession generally, be canvassed as to their willing-
ness to co-operate in the formation of a National Institute of
Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifwry, on the plan recommended
id the report.

"2. That it is expedient in the meantime that the
National Association should maintain its present position,
that it may be prepared to act in any emergency that may
arise, and be ready to avail itself of every suitable occasion to
urge upon the Legislature the pressing necessity, on public
grounds, of a revision of the laws affecting the medical pro-
fession, and also, as a numerous and important collective
body, that it may exercise all the means at its disposal to
produce a satisfactory settlement of the complicated question
of medical reform.

" 8. That the committee of the National Association be
requested to continue their functions as a provisional com-
mittee, and with power to add to their numbers, for the pur-
pose of carrying out the two last resolutions; and that future
public meetings be called as soon as the committee may be
prepared to receive a report from the committee of their pro-
ceedings, and of the opinions of the profession on the forma-
tion of a National In -titute of Medicine, Surgery, and Mid-
wifery."

A 'Cote of thanks was carried to the Apothecaries' Society,
for their enlightened policy in raising the qualifications of the
general practitioners, and in the part which they had taken
in the late questions affecting the medical profession.
A great number of speakers addressed the ni,eting, amongst
whom were Mr. Bird, Mr. Purcel, Dr. Cooper, Mr. Bedding-
field, Mr. F. A. Bonney, Mr. G. Daniel, Mr. Rogerson, Mr.
J. Woolridge, and Mr. M. Beale. Great indignation was ex-
pressed eluting the evening at the terms in winch the Hun-
terian oration bad spoken of the general practitioners, and
generally at the conduct of the council of the College of Sur-
geons. Hopes were also expressed by IS:r. Sparkes, Mr.
Cooper, and members of the committee, that the d,fferences
which had hitherto existed among the body of general prac-
titioners might yet be adjusted.
After a vote of thanks to the chairman and secretaries the
meeting broke up.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRANDLING
Juscriox RAILWAY.—The inquest on the body of Sarah
Rippon, whose death was occasioned by the accident on this
railway on Sunday last, was resumed at South Shields, on
Thursday, before J. M. Favell, Esq., coroner for the district.
It appeared in evidence that the death of the unfortunate
woman was occasioned by the scalding she received while
under the ruins; her sufkrings were described as intense—
her head, face, arm, and chest presenting a frightful appear-
ance. The guard of the train which ran off the line, Mr. T.
E. Harrison, engineer to the Newcastle and Darlington Rail-
way Company, and others connected with the line, were
examined at length, but they failed satisfactorily to explain
the exact cause of the accident. The jury, therefore, agreed
to the following verdict :—" That the decased, Sarah Rip-
pen, came to her death from being scalded by the boiler of
the engine No. 9, belonging to the Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction Railway Company; but that there is no evi-
dence to show the jury in what way the engine was thrown
off the line, or that any blame can be attached to any of the
company's servants."
A RAT-CATCHER CAUGHT.—Our readers will, many
of them, recollect a noted rat-catcher who exhibited in our
market, a few weeks since, a cage full of vermin, over which
he seemed to have obtained a sort of mesmeric influence, in-
asmuch as they did just what he permitted them to do, and
no more. On Saturday last this same individual exhibited
his stock at Bedford; and while hplding a rat in each hand,
irritating them to fight each other, one of them fastened on
his hand, and before he could release himself from that, the
other rat fastened on his other hand, and both of them lace-
rated him severely. He was unable to make them loose their
hold until he strangled them off with his teeth, and spat
them dead upon the ground. Misfortunes, we are told, go in
pairs ; the same evening he was again caught, and locked up
in Bedford gaol, on a charge of stealing a watch.—Banbury
Guardian.

brahim Pacha left the baths of Vernet on the 12th
instant for Paris, with his health completely re-established.
He is accompanied by the Marquis de Lavalette, who was
sent to him by the King, Soliman and Sanci Pashas,
Scantier Bey, son of Soliman, Major-General Ibrahim Bey,
Dr. Lallemant, Colonel Bonfart, Mustapha Effendi, an Aide-
de-Camp of his Highness, M. Nubard, and Outré, dragomans,
the secretary of the Marquis de Lavalette, and a train of ser •
vents. The private physician of his Highness, M. Castag-
none, and Mehemet Effendi, a superior officer, left Vernet
three days before Ibrahim Pacha; the first having obtained
leave to visit his family in Piedmont, and the second on his
return to Egypt. While at Vernet his Highness gave noble
instances of his liberality, and his departure is felt with pro-
portionate regret.
STRANGE WAY OF CIRCULATING NEWS. The
Figaro of Berlin, says a German journal, not wishing to
get into trouble by the publication of a piece of scandal,
lately inserted the following notice :—" A terrible piece of
news for M. —, director of—, is now in circulation. As
we cannot publish it nithoat danger to ourselves, and as the
public ought however to be informed of its purport, we have
given orders to our porter to relate in all its details the said
intelligence to whatever persons may think fit to make in-
quiries. We pledge ourselves that the details are all correct."
This article not having received the authorisation of the
censorship, the journal has been cited before the Criminal
Tribunal. The person alluded to however had been already
dismissed from office.
At Marlborough-street, Police-court on Friday Mrs.
Henry, the widow of an officer, who was brought to this
Court on Thursday for annoying the family to the Earl of
Arundel, presented herself before Mr. Hardwick with a
newspaper, containing a brief notice of her case, and begged
the magistrate to deny that Lord Arundel hal ietiniated a
doubt about the soundness of her intellect. Mr. Hardwick
said he could do nothing of the sort ; for Lord Amu 'del, as the
most charitable way of accounting for her strange conduct,
had assumed that the applicant was not exactly in her right
mind, an impression which he (Mr. Hardwick) also shared.
The applicant said she would now disclose the nature of the
plot against her. The family of the Howards believed that
she was in possession ot; or knew the place of deposit of
certain documents, that would materially alter the position
of the family. Ever since the family had arrived at this
knowledge they had formed a plot to persecute her, and they
had persecuted her for the last four years. They had not
succeeded in poisoning her, but they had poisoned her faithful
house dog. The family had also, f;m• sinister purposes, spread
abroad a report that she laboured under mental delusion. In
order to counteract this, she had made the Commissioners of
Lunacy acquainted with her case, and those gentlemen
would be able to vouch for the soundness of her intellect. As
Mr. Hardwick continued to express his inability to contra-
diet the report, the applicant said she should immediately
write to the editors of tie papers.
CHATHAM. APRIL 17.—The Warspite, 50 guns, Capt.
P. W. P. Wallis, was towed up from Folly Point, Gillingham,
on the 15th inst., by the African and Fearless steam-vessels,
to the moorings lately occupied by the Southampton frigate.
She is to be paid off without any of her bulkheads or internal
fittings being removed. On Wednesday afternoon, as a party
of her crew were running violently with a cart from the sail-
loft in the Dock- yard, where they had deposited some of the
ship's sails, to the wharf for another load, the cart came in
contact with a large gun, by which several of the men were
injured. Three ofthem were found to be so much hurt that
they were immediately removed to Melville Hospital. This
ship brought to Ch ahem six military prisoners, under sentences
of courts-martial for seven and fourteen years' transportation.
The names of the prisoners and corps they belong to are as fol-
lows :—Peter Morrison, James Brownley, and John Burgess,
of the 79th Regiment; John Cameron, 32d; and Joseph
Twedie and Robert Walker, of the let Royals. The pri-
soners were received by an escort, and taken to the Detach-
ment Prison, where they will remain until an order arrives
from the Horse Guards for their removal. The Raleigh, 50
guns, Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., is in Pinop-
reach, getting on board her armament and powder, &c., and
completing for sea. Her crew were removed yesterday from
the llussar hulk, where they had been remaining whilst the
ship was in dock, She will not remove until the 25th inst.,
when she will then drop down to Sheerness, and there re-
tn‘oin until the 17th of next month, when she will proceed
with the Trafalgar to the Nore.
The case of " Woolmer v. Toby" was heard on Fri-
day in the Court of Queen's Bench,
and a rule Nisi for a new
trial Was granted, all the judges concurring in the propriety
of this decision. Although letters from the solicitors of joint-
stock undertakings to allottees have now become too frequent
to create any particular surprise, if the demand for 2s. or as.
be made in the ordinary way, a case now and then occurs in
which the former applicants seem literally startled at the
boldness of the request. Such a case, it appears, happened
the other day. About eight months ago applications were
made for shares in a certain undertaking, but there was no
allotment till the present month, and it is not now a week
since the day fixed for the payment of the deposits. It will
hardly be credited that letters have already been written to
the allottees, threatening them with proceedings if the whole
of the deposits are not paid. This is a specimen of "sharp-
ness" not to be exceeded in the history of modern companies.
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of John Daniel, a private in her Majesty's :31st Regiment of
Infantry, whose parents reside in Robinhood-yard, Notting-
ham. For a time his family were overpowered with grief at
the loss of a son and brother, and went into n ourning ; but,
when they had worn their funeral haldbmerts for two or
three week', their mourning was turned into joy by the ar-
rival of a letter from him, written in the hospital at Feroze-
pore, on the Ist of February, stating that, baying been left
for dead upon the field of battle during two days, he had at
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on the 17th of December,
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given, ' Stand to your arms, the enemy are upon m
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several native corps, covered by our cavalry and artillery, again
advanced upon them. When we had got within a very short
distance of them they (valet, a fire of small arms upon us,
together with grape and canister shot, which cut down a
great many of our men ; but we advanced steadily, until the
word I' charge' was given, when at that moment I was
wounded through the ankle with a grapeshot, and dropped.
I lay upon the field for two days in the greatest pain,
without refreshment of any kind, and without any dressing;
but I happened to have a towel in my havresack, and I tied
that round my leg. On the third morning I crept on my
hands and knees four miles, which took me six hours to ac-
complish,
but 1 thank God that He enabled me to do it by
any means, for if I had stayed two hours longer I should have
been cut to pieces; the enemy scoured the field. and made
short work of all they found alive by cutting off their heads.
But they paid dearly for this, for our cavalry made a circuit,
and cut up two regiments of them entirely, and threw the
rest into confusion. It has been reported that in this affair
alone, which was but a skirmish, the enemy lost about 4,000
men 1 They were well hemmed in on all ,ides. I am now
very comfortably accommodated in the hospital, and shall
soon be able to get out on crutches. The doctor wanted to
cut off my leg, but I would not let him, and I am glad now
that I did not."