The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-03 00:00:00

MONSTER RHUBARB LEAF.

We have received at our office the largest specimen of a
leaf from the rhubarb plant 'that has, perhaps, ever been
grown in this country. It was cut yesterday evening from
the garden of Mr. Dean, of Carrington, nearly ten miles
from Manchester. To afford our readers some notion of the
extraordinary dimensions of this vegetable curiosity, we
may mention that, from the extremity of the stalk to the
opposite,edge of the leaf, it measures no less than five feet !
The circumference of the stem is eight inches; the length
of the stem is two feet and a half ; the diameter of one
of the ribs of the leaf is an inch and three-quarters;
the length of the central rib one ward and eight
inches; and the circumference of the leaf itself upwards of
eleven yards and a half! From these calculations some con-
ception may be formed of the solidity and weight of this very
wonderful piece of Nature's handicraft. In ancient times it
might have screened several millions of elves from the moon-
beams, supposing those luxurious gentlemen ever condescended
to disport themselves in a kitchen-garden ! If Beckmann 's word
can be received as a voucher, two thousand six hundred
florins have been given for a single tulip; and if the price of
vegetation increase proportionably with its bulk, we conceive
specimentthheisbullion
of
twhoeubdiuk
dlefyoftlienj4eiwanedls. ofcthheepgpreadndupSiailntdautnruanned-
formed into a rhubarb pudding, this single stein would baffle
the mastication of a Brobdignag.

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E COURT TAILORS, OF REGENT-
wTiollrkshops used by them, in making the
room for three hundred hands, all
but which has not
lighted With s"" than the destruction of glass, the goods having
extended further ufrsTRE z••— 1 e
exten •aye been much injured,
editiousl,y removed.
LE
opposition.CTlo N.Mr. O'Connell was returned
exatensiveor_
ng
n e t ot NICOLE,
dtsa h a
FALL OF Two HOUSES IN HOLBORN.—Last night,
between the hours of eleven and twelve, an accident of a most fear-
ful character, attended with a serious destruction of property, took
ob enMDlEeEex:r. FridayPlil MESSRS.
without c
E
place in High Holborn, and which was nearly attended with fatal
results to a dozen persons. It appears from inquiries made on the
spot, that the inmates of the house numbered 15, in the occupation
of a Mr. J. Couldridge, a carpenter and undertaker, had, during the
early part of the day, noticed that the different doors in the building
were forced considerably below their usual level. This gave rise to
a suspicion that the foundations of the premises had given way, and
accordingly the residents had determined upon watching the place,
to see if any other portion sank. At the time above stated, whilst
not fewer than a dozen persons were in their beds asleep, the land-
lord perceived that the plaster of the ceilings was falling In one or
two of the rooms upon the floors. That circumstance convinced him
that the place was rapidly sinking. Without a moment's loss of time
he raised an alarm, and having aroused the whole of the in-
mates, they succeeded in effecting a safe retreat in their night-
dresses. Scarcely, however, had they reached the street door than
the whole building, four stories high, fa with a tremendous crash
Into the read, carrying with it the adjoining house, in the tenure of
syoeoluofrthrsiopaittilrit'igas
fall.
in a
most
gerous
Mr. Ta,!;g, a jeweller. Fur some time the neighbourhood was ob-
scured with dust, which gave rise to a report that the place was ono
fire, and fbrthwith the escape of the It yal Society log the-
tection of Life from Fire and the engines were sent for.
Fortu-
nately the whole of the inmates of the latter buildingdhatdheynoticed
were
the same indications of danger as Mr. Couldridge
therefore fully prepared, and at the time of
waiting In Middle-row. Both par
furniture and stock-in-trade,
the persons had not also lost their lives. theei,sihgoccurrenceol wholea
itottt of
ofrmwsidetheir
ef
o f the
sruinstate
,r remained, Ined
wore,
expected a t one n
o'clocknd
mi t
momentarily
et:Ltalist'rreilnhi
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—There is a
of buyers is fair, but only a very
this day's market. The attendance fair arrival of wheat and beans, 'ett
relative value, as compared
onlysinall of other articles, to
any article. The prices are so
with last week, but we consider
Is
other
articles
u 9
altos-
i
lenetiadeneeline in wheat to be 2s, per
irregularlimited
quarter, beans is, Per quarter' lower. I
Won. I

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three
o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The Privy Council was attelded by bis Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of
the Board of Trade, the Postmaster- General, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Hor;ot and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.
At the Council, the Right Honotu-able Granville
George Earl Granville"was by command of the Queen
swam of her Majp:,4
and took his 's most Honourable Privy Council,
;'.ace at the Beard.
Her .ele:;iesty having been pkased to appoint the
Right Hon, Thomas William, Earl of Leiceste to be
Le 44 Lieutenant of the county Of Norfolk, his 'Lord-
ahip took the appointed oaths,
karl Granville had the honour to kiss hands on being
appointed Master of her Majesty's Buck-hounds.
'The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting,
Ware the Cesceil the Queen gave audiences to the
Lord Chanaterlain and the Lord President.
At *le Court Mr. Jervis was presented to the Queen
at an audience by Sir George Grey, her Majesty's
ekinelpal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Mr. Jervis kissed hands on being appointed Attorney-
General, and had the honour of knighthood conferred
upon him by the Queen.
Captain Denison was presented to her Majesty at an
audience.

Me. Charles Buller, the Judge-Advocate-General,
had e.'a audience of the Queen, and made a report of the
proceedings of some courts-martial.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Lord John Russell and
Earl Grey.
The Court was attended by the Marquis of Anglesey,
Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Morley, Lord lui
Waiting ; the Vice Chamberlain, the Comptroller of
the Household ; and the Honourable Captain A. N.
Hood, Groom in Waiting.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians held a diplo"
matic Levee on Saturday afternoon at Buekinghate
Palace.

The Foreign Ministers appeared in their respective
uniforms, the members of orders of knighthood wearing
the ensigns of the same ; there were present the Ain'
bassador of Austria, Count Dietrichstein ; the Minister
of Sweden, Count Bjornstjerna ; the Minister of Bavaria,
Baron de Cetto ; the Minister of Sardinia, Count do
Pollon ; the Minister of Buenos Ayres, M. Moreno ;
the Minister of Portugal, Baron de Moncorvo
Minister of Russia, Baron de Brunow ; the Minis,
of Naples, General Prince Castelcicala, attended by
f
M. G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation ; the Minister 0
Hanover, Count do Keilmansegge ; the Minister of %fur-
temberg, Baron de Hugel ; the Minister of Prussia, the
Chevalier Bunsen ; the Minister from the Brazils, the
Commandeur Marques Lisboa ; the Minister of Dee-
mark, Count de Reventlow ; the Minister of Saxon'',
Baron de Beust, the Chargi d'Affaires of France COO
de Jarnac ; accompanied by Mr. George de leabaudi
Chaneelier of the Embassy ; the diplomatic agent 10
the Hans° towns, Mr. Colquhoun ; the Chargé d
faires of Turkey, Edib Effendi ; the Charge d'Affaires
of Oldenbourg, M. H. F. Tiarks ; the Chargé d'Affaires
of Spain, M. de Tacon ; the First Secretary to the
Netherlands Legation, M. de Stratenus (in the absence
of Baron Dedel, seriously ill) ; their Excellencies havins
assembled in the library, their Majesties the King feu.
Queen of the Belgians, attended, by his Excellency
Van de Weyer, his Majesty's representative at the
be
Court, Mr. Charles Drouet, Secretary of Lege;
tion, and Mr. Castellain, Consul for Belgium, entered
the Saloon and received the congratulations of the dip(/'
matic corps.
The Queen was attended at the Reception by the
Countess Vilain XIV., Dame du Palais, and the 1405
by Major A. d'Hanins de Moerkerke, Officier de Ord°-
nance.

His Excellency M. Murphy, Minister of Mexico, /vs 9
prevented by illness from attending the Reception.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester viOte
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians on Saturday.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by tbetr,
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honourea
the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday even-
ing. The Royal suite included the Countess of Chari_le.
moot, Countess Vilain XIV., Lady Caroline COI'
Hon. Miss Napier, the Earl of Morley, Maior rh;
d'llanins de Moerkerke, Lord Alfred Paget, and '—
Hon. Captain Gordon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir George Cooper;
Bart., and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duehesa
of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke all
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, attended by
o
Baron Knesebeck and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, als,
honoured the performance of the Opera with the,'
presence.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Ladies a

Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household,
attended Divine service yesterday, in the Chapel hi
Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Reverend C. Leslie
Conrtenay offieiated.
Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duch°.
of Mecklenburg Strelits visited the Queen yesterday
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their se'
customed early walk yesterday.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the. Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing in an open cat"
ridge and four on Saturday. Her Royal Highness the.
Princess Helena was taken an airing in the royo,ll
gardens. The Royal Family took their usual airion
yesterday.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yestertini•
Her Royal Highness took a drive with the Queen of he
Bel
Lgians.
ord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) has
Colonel Arbuthnot in the duties of Equerry in Ws' has
to the Queen ; and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gorcisi!', of
relieved Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour in the duties
E in Waiting to Prince Albert.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service
terday in Grosvenor Chapel.
gt
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon::
the Foreign- office. The Council sat an hour en
half.
in
The Duke of Wellington, Lord G. Paulet, and Sir Fin
deriek Trench, attended the early service yestem"den
the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. J. C. 'clic°
officiated and preached the sermon. At the daily' se•To
the sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesle,,Y,e 0,0"
prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore. -1-60oper
them was " Lord of all power" (Mason). gr•
presided at the organ.

LT
DEATH OF DWARKANAVII`
TAG ORE. ce el"
We regret to state that this distinguished person3.-tfeet.
pired on Saturday last, at his residence in Albeloarlelo out
From the tenor of the paragraph which apPes- These, tb°
columns on Saturday last, announcing his serious conelit
reader is somewhat prepared for the painful annou9
swe henof
hitt
we have now the duty to promulgate. so fatal
terminationA valuableedthe deixsoiardteenrcewwhiasch led to
of the
liver, which had so far advanced as to baffle the "
con-
of Dr. Chambers and Mr. Martin. .
tirnatoy .
Through the kindness of a gentleman °now the e‘uvo
necte,l with the Baboo, we are enabled t° srdman• "t
ate
joined inadequate memoir of that much larae inforroarl"
give the annexed particulars as supplied by our , minutes
an affecti tea
skill
It may be as well to state that he expired at twen'Y years!
past six on Saturday evening, at the age of fifty-ene ,v,, midis,
"In a rapid memoir of this distinguished native oi His
there will be found much to interest the reader. _
claim of high descent from one of the five BrahminS 7`o
~1,
Ni
several centuries back visited Bengal to celebrate rites Wboe'a
their inferior brethren were unable to perform, is a fact Was
authenticated in the books of the religion and laws_,..-
present believed in by the Hindoos. It has, theretb";
never been doubted that Dwarkanauth Tagore wastber
noble of the highest rank in his country; and if anY °;"ba
proof was requisite, it is in the acknowledged fact Oa' r
Ci
refused the title of Rajah or Prince, offered by a "ver: al°
General of India, beeause it only nominally added rar'i,oo4
the eyes of foreigners. He likewise declined a knight; to
on his first visit to Europe. It is necessary
to silu.etbe
those facts, inasmuch as, through misapprehensi°°„'ttri-
late lamented Hindoo had been . styled with the ; tbie
butes of Royal Highness, Prince, &c. The claim Oil, for
illustrious personage has on the present generation tolli,
his unbounded philanthropy. No reference to craeljteat °'
his purse in the cause of charity—in the advancewookie
education—in the promotion of colleges, whether fa Aatst/
or Christian ; and his name
with all the noble institutions flourishing will be: proudl4l. Botisle-tittfor*
He had an extraordinary degree
beyond those participating ourishing,...T,,tol, 'to
. of self -CO ,e 4
illustrate which we have in his own r,elfdeir°l,o
subject, an abhorrence of the
encouragement to surgery.
youths for the study of anato
the bigot portion of I When the collegi.,,voicao°l s
was personally present, and
than that he conceiveirhae
heart and body, he in In.y was opened, .1-;ction us' of
onlyr a vet
so t
niantsutraen c eir; polo: 05 ,
col :jut:
instinctively felt, for to„ adynnieroogh
witnessed the (l's' the O'et, at
of,,slicieenlcievedan
jd.usdtoilnong
the ordeal with an ugnflainching
was
nfuobrtlhyesrtinayget4;i:uovetbiletrt?,,bott
duty to mankind. Ilebascl itSfrrelboll
energy
with those of his own particular religion who
fruits of big
nerve, which, were I.lle
, ,;vo
in t enoughhe brilii atnot witness
of ..,..o•
nt, wooh 00 :roast
triumphant(Hindoo) student's in the University of Loa" They v.
sweenetkto_patsb,siead
country
yh
and
de College of. Stainurtor: b.,,4 Sole e
wholly main • bed
pense. A' 009
"To conclude this brief notice of a man so %.15iii be lof.,
by universal application towards good, and wholzed 1011,
remembered as the greatest ornament a civTot °tali)
under British rule, we have but to remark that,._t.seebig
rd
content with the pleasures of travelling and "
tboured of
extend his already extended information, he - t to thoq b.
to acquire the language of France as a
Europe, and also took delight in the various d
ne;re partela
ments of society, especially that of singing? „an,,is life bibs
cularly Italian and English music. 11.8" tmeor, In 1„a
spared he promised to become no mean agis, native a``,4
town-hall of Calcutta the inhabitants, botd" his portrre„,
European, in testimony of their regard, had
liostriolls,oo
painted by Say ; and in further honour to the
portrait
„ put, ~,
ceased, at the same time they voted his , _,!'z'factor,t`:
subscription, authorised a marble bust of their ?e'2,,e
to
be executed by Weekes to grace that ball which L" h
rected t°"•4l
virtues and talents of Lord Metcalfe caused to be ebed in Incir
memory. No public undertakirg was ever broac
tributor ;
without Dwarkanauth Tagore being a large eoUll noel,
no mercantile establishments ever required
aidoti cool for
or counsel in their transactions, that he did ri neroslt3l
ward—civilians and military men can attest his Feoio in t
Pasepor a
_woo
..
strangers can testify to his unbounded heePitthe Obi&
artists of Europe can well be proud that tone of modern
statuary of Gibson, paintings . of the old and beauties
masters, are placed in his galleries, and add to ~,, bee
of his garden palace. The taste and munificence of_ra: it be
volent Hindoo are spoken of far and wide. Trull wtr•;,o pre"
said of him that such faults as he had were of his eoFo_,. ciceroj
judices, but his virtues were hie own : in the words o•ceps„
" Tic frater,tu pater, to amicus, tu bonus civic, to veil P;:, owe
His country has sustained a moral loss, which 'Zt• those
generations may be retrieved ; but in the opirool,',. Of
who know India, it is considered donbtfal if eTaX to
11111 lay wiz. 0.

said by those who know his affairs well, that the
644;_Property of the late Baboo is next in extent to the
h,tuils ot the Rajah of Burdwar, and pay nearly ten lass
itr %tie to the East India Company vearlv.
ItZunderstand that the mortal remains of the departed
Lill not be embalmed preparatory to being conveyed
,etaeueent to India, but that a vault will be purchased in
dtposittedr3r. at Kensall green, where his remains are

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?o: -SAL INTELLIGENCE.
Wap. lit JULY 31.—The Monarch, 1,400 tons, Cap-
,
all one of the splendid fleet of Mr. Green, of Black-
ttror,sail this evening or to-morrow morning at day-
"Licutta direct. Ibis beautiful frigate (pierced for
which we have no doubt she could carry and fight
her thlui
ead many 50-gun frigates on the navy list) was
, then the Experimental Squadron was assembled
-‘l,s e •P'ear, and the royal yacht, with her Majesty on
tifor,_reed round her. She looks an admirable compa-
litne Constance, 50, Captain Sir B. Walker, although
koi;;_l,e 726 tons longer in build!
'M appears to have been made with regard to the
kk.derliora,...roersion of her Majesty's brig Contest, 12, Com-
aricialurdo. This vessel was built at Cowes by Mr.
a, Was understood to be a sister vessel to the Daring.
h7+laailleelarkably handsome vessel, and will unquestion-
-41411, but she does not resemble the Daring. Her
kiedl4llell More like that of the Waterwitch, but the stand-
rake of her masts are very different from either.
'lets 1 rake very little, and the foremast stands much
4il)ttiZWard than the Daring's, which had an unsightly
theroe:, and caused the necessity of putting goring cloths
Lbtitn:joUrse, to enable the fore tack to be hauled out to
Ney`lll. However, all this has nothing to do with the
eoye,,After being commissioned six weeks it has been
~tiootie that she has immersed nearly all her copper,
NlitiA she is not complete in her stores and provisions,
roill4l,,at yet taken her crew aboard. It has consequently
4.eotlq requisite to haul her away from her bulk, and
Niet tier streak of copper all round her, and this has been
tilhe to- day.
dajlad, an old 42, was docked last evening, to be fitted
tt-ePut for coals for team-vessels, to lie at Callao. This
Nidepa,for a long time a desideratum, and will cause a
tPteo".4°le saving both of time and expense. The
!(14", .120, was undocked to make room for her, but
et, c' the got out of the basin owing to the neaping of the
,4he
'reerald tender sailed last night with supernumeraries
h hiouth
•
`ton,`„"eY tender arrived with men from Plymouth for
„'4oce and Eurydice this morning.
tin'ew of the Eurydice, 26, Captain George Elliot, were
I:ll,:elenths.' wages in advance yesterday.
t....alletance, 50, is still short of a few hands, but it is
4tio'l will be completed to-day by a draught from
Lws_
e...-er—Excellent, Victory, Contest; Comet, and
At rolers • Seaflower and Netley cutters.
Kati'
head—Constance and Eurydice ; Monarch East
bock
itts —Prince Regent, Naiad, Cambrian, Leander,
4;11 aii
and Rattlesnake.
tili btritZasio—Neptune, Edinburgh, Trincomalee, and
ni4 lighter from Pembroke-yard arrived this
Po 8.
%le Nto
Oekod SUNDAY.—The Athol troop-ship, Master
Pearn, arrived this morning at Spithead, from
;7111, Indies, with military invalids from the regiments
Mg: cm that station. She left Halifax on the 23d efJune,
A4aluda on the 11th ult.
onstance, 50, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, and the
ho'ee, 26, Captain George Elliot, sailed this morning for
They weighed about eleven o'clock, the Con-
r'st. and stood out under royals and flying jib. There
odesteady working breeze from S.S.W. The Eurydice soon
er stern to her larger competitor, and maintained the
I„'_e the race (which had evidently been agreed pon) Bo
'k,as we could follow them from the shore. They join the
iulieleVloe_eLtrd..e_r Sir William Parker.
u`', 12, Commander M'Murdo, bent sails, and
en board her officers and crew from the hulk on Friday

tae
TyGoodwill, navy lighter, sailed on Friday evening, with
af Devonport Dockyard.
ii Netlen tender, sailed for Devonport with supernume-
On Friday evening.
4-,ens.n. APPOINTMENTS.
,t 'B-4. Adamson, to the Caledonia ;T. H. Moly-
the Spartan ; E. W. Vansittart, to the Contest ; R.
411'11Yte, to the Columbine; W. Horton, to the Queen; J.
41.1 es c 1846), to the Inflexible.
tt4t:r r. Hart, to the Inflexible.
ie. Kent, to the Dido.
e,
,!istructors—W. E. Shaw, to the Calypso ; Rev. N.
SOroe, B.A. (acting ), to the Raleigh.
totlethant Surgenn—G. E. Freeman, to the Caledonia.
i:11 Charge—J. B. Burlace to the Nautilus, vice
run"
Rennie, to the Spartan ; W. Sainsbury,
t)lat rt°7•
Itqoi try:. 3' Assistants—R. Todd and H. Goldsmith, to the
D. Bowden, to the Actaeon.
AD •
t°lllt COAST GUARD.
-At; it J. Pegus, R.N., to Winchester Station,
p'ot,4,';`°ant Southey, instead of to the Grand Redoubt
t ro O Xewan
cll4tt:tioss.-Lieutena.nt G. A. Hine, from Newtown, to
I,elt vice Barnard, previously removed ; J. Williams,
Ito4te, Island of Innis-gowla, to Blackhead, vi.ce amp
6'areste4; Lieutenant IL Stokes, from Manmesbay, to
iia„4l.44_4lion, vice Millet.
th;'Art `l, JULY 31.—The Columbine, 16 guns, Cm:
14,10ri ercleth, is completed by the dockyard,. with the ex
NI Painting her weather-work, which is now in hand.
t,p'erti,B are on board, and she received her sea stores
"tti•e"7 She is expected to sail in the beginning of
111„„ek.
4 rid
hF,h'early peat steam-packet, Lieutenant Rigge, commander,
RIZg ptii,+e a oly ; her rigging is complete, and she is now
4Zrfor-p`ed• She is provided on board with provisions and
Irh 'Nvu months, and goes out of dock on Wednesday
thentit e she will take in. her coals, and will sail for Trieste
titNk 18th of next month, to be there on the Ist of
zki 'or, ready for the .1 She calls in at Gibraltar
ialta. Mr. G. •-•tma•aut: second master ; Mr. D. P.
kri'aniara, clerk in charge ; and Mr. T. Tait, assistant-
s, have Joined her. The purser will join her at Malta,
The Webb, master.
ENI 101111 deg steam-sloop, Commander Davis, is fast pro-
Nr:g in her fittings and rigging, and is getting her sea
board.
e ma I
S llman master, :sailed this day for Ports-
jot`lochester, Sedgwick, master, arrived from Ports-
,2sth instant and she is refitting.
'stiwe kutine, 12-gun brig, is ordered to this port to be
Ore a21(1 to have her defects made good.
ff,„°l_l) Faithful arrived on the 29th with a cargo of tim-
P 4,1 Riga for the dockyard. The Alexander Cochrane,
'1641. t'°rt, arrived on the 29th with a cargo of hemp from
ttst4tc:r the dockyard. The Recovery arrived on the 30th
etersburgh with a cargo of hemp for the dockyard.
PROMOTIONS.
14 ""11 Hogg, inspector, is appointed acting foreman of
p„,ard, vice Blesley ; John Dulvey, leading man, al,-
pie,ts',_aCting inspector, vice Hogg; and Henry Cardwell,
iirw.ahip-wriglit, is' promoted to acting leading man,
v Y.
SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION.
Lky 1,1,-analiß SENTENCED TO BE HANDED.—On Wednes-
-I,7tir erning the ships of the fleet sailed out of Cove Har-
f,'llite a two-months' cruise, as stated in our last. Previous
deParture a court-martial was held on board the
41fo ' of Marines, named James
f r the trial of a private
R`oli Oyer,,°ll three charges, viz. :—For assaulting Sergeant
, his superior officer; for assaulting Sergeant
ais supenor officer ,• and for assaulting Corporal
;'oti,'• The Court consisted of Admiral Pigott, president ;
'"odores Collier and Bremmer, and the captains of
the :everal ships of war and steamers constituting
Nittlaudron. It appeared in evidence that the pri_
rit4) a fine looking man twenty-six years of age, had
,°l,l board in a disorderly manner, after parting wi t
f,41 lo,' his necessaries on shore, and was ordered to be pu
,11,41,0.-8' Sergeant Connor then requested him to go down
°,l`atit'r,":ll which he turned round and struck him ; Ser-
-1,."N •`-'onnor then sent for a guard, and he was forced
oti„. let° the fore cockpit, when he strucleSergeant Smith.
1i":5,-,then thrown down to be ironed, and was laid hold
mot 'orporal Webby, when he said that he would
the e
e transported for nothing, and turning round, struck
44,T0,P0ra1. They all swore that the prisoner was not
4,,,,,tr0nat the time, and that all the blows he gave were in-
toTh wretched man had nothing to offer in his defence, but
t,hroZ ,that he s gorry for what had happened, and to
inirriself onwathe'mercy of the Court. The Court having
41111re'eared, the members remained in deliberation for an
then on its being again opened,
silen,eN Judge-Advocate rose an the most death-like
kep:'e, though the Court-room was filled with officers, sea-
4hbithrd marines, and said, " Does it please the Court I
I,r.read the sentence upon the prisoner?"
The Tent (much affected)—lt does.
l'ainedm4dge-Advocate then read the document, which con.
court he charges, the names of the officers comprising the
State' anti of the several witnesses, anaduwhichNVento
on to
that the Court, having well and
charges
th 'elite, declared the first and second m
considered
proved, and
at the third was not proved, and adjudged that Private
.441,s
Sayer be hanged from the neck from one of her Ma-
vessels, at such time, and on board such vessel, as the
1' of the Admiralty should direct.
tfte,.resident--James Sayer, I am sorry, indeed, that I cannot
tarried You hope that the sentence of this Court will not be
meet out, and I recommend you to prepare yourself to
I,lYour doom. The court is dissolved.
titt„g Prisoner was then removed in custody of the Provost
etiLual. It is said that within a very short time the unfor-
all Prisoner has been twice whipped, and has undergone
tierk"er modes of punishment known in the royal navy.-
.ieporter.
T-

113-‘1: LASH.—EXPOSDRE OF THE PERSON AND TOR.
gt„t." Two AGoNIES IN oNx."—lf the Government do
`8 speedy warning the spread of reading and intern-
'wiljreach the soldiery to such an extent as (coupled
theirfrith knowledge of the sympathies of the public being
00Ni:real against this beastly punishment of torture, and
ostret 0 manslaughter or homicide) will goad themtoa
°Ppostal!lerstanding among themselves, which, watching it
111111tY, will some day place us of a sudden, and when
s
Ittiaejlt expect it, or are prepared for it, in the midst ofta
llroturtevolution It only needs a martinet man-flayer to
~ntenDe for a soldier, who is a favourite with his comrades,
nit -I.„`e- of exposure and flagellation—his comrades resent its
`') PLl"ne.sa—dernur—murmur—refuse to carry it out, or,
'All -*lilt it to be carried out :—they are mutineers.
or aZ'oLer regiment is called in to butcher—to fire upon,
(,14en, no them—this other regiment refuses to do so—and
"0(I "°t Only military flogging is abolished for ever,. but,
ngrant that, with such a mode of abolition, military
„,,Piete.eBnt!') not spring up too, and the social fabric fall to
„"wiit,il, °nee and, perhapq, for ever! We describe not this
"II an ,`3---probabilitv will be the titter name, ?.s time goes
1413,- 'l, Intelligence spreads a thousandfold with it—from
, to produce it, but with the oppcsite desire of era-
Llood -*g. and abolishing for ever an irritant, an exasperaut of
ignominy which otherwise, sooner or later, wi.ll
the ,-"'Y Produce acatastrophe The torture of the lash is
4 Ifler'ellibllstible matter, now in' an exposed situation, which
tilt fo_aPark will some day ignite and explode 1 We would
thev r the new
Government'a fair trial ; but if, at starting,
114 4e(TITBit a capital crime against all notions of humanity
lash,
wccial improvement, by defending the use of the accursed
to Le 'hail pray for their doom to be sealed, and their days
Tn"M,l)ercd.—Hood's Magazine for August.
o,tibse„,,
~,,kjonutN NATIONAL PllND.—rho amount of
oiasci-1)Is to this fund sent to the secretary in Manchester now
s:
,"13, exceed,' 40,0001, Amongst the sums received during the
tr 2061:4. we observe the firm of Walker, Smith, and Hacking, Bury,
Ici,and the names of R. Ashton, Esq., Limefleld ; R. Walker,
letuoi.Z. Bury; W. Richardson and Sons, Manchester ; John
ebester Manchester; Itostron, Dutton, and Co., Man-
.& each for 1001.--Manchester Guardian.
Avan utelon
ci, ,Tvits gathered few days ago in a garden at
4116;'4, asragu"9l.wllich measure% 17 incites In diaplets.r and 4 feet
"411,44 lbs

THE MAGAZINES.
BLACK WOOD.
Honour to old,Maga ! Honour to Christopher North!
Notwithstanding all the wit, wisdom, drollery, senti-
ment, "peptic precepts, and dietetic instruction"
lavished upon their readers during three hundred and
,sixty-nine numbers of the former, under the supervision
of the latter, the wit is not less piquant, the wisdom less
mellow, the drollery more resistible, -the peptic precepts
less digestible, or tie dietetic instruction less palatable,
as the pages of the old Edinburgh magazine accumulate
in bulk Blackwood for August, lea, is scarcely in-
ferior in intrinsic merit or extrinsic attraction to any
preceding number. We are not, unquestionably, treated
with a revival of the " Noctes Ambrosianae"—as glorious
Nights as the famous One Thousand and One. We miss
the crutchet-stick of Christopher, the familiar patois of
O'Doherty, and the interjectional pithiness of Tickler.
" Ten Thousand a Year" tells us no longer of the
machinations of Oily Gammon, or of the gentle and
beautiful Kate Aubrey. Jerrold no longer presents us
with the "Peregrinations of the Man of %Vex, or of any
other specimen of the genus homo. Sir Frizzle Pumpkin
bath no more Adventures, and the lyre of B. Simmons
is silent. Yet despite all these deficiencies of our old
favourites, Blackwood is Blackwood still ; and from
the perusal of this present number, we cannot think
any one can rise without having derived both
information and amusement. What we welcome so
heartily in this number for August is the purpose which
is traceable in almost every individual article. Generous
principles are inculcated—principles both moraland utili
tarian, and we are the more rejoiced at this circum-
stance because of the frivolity which has been latterly
the most striking characteristic of so many periodicals.
Maga is not, this month, without his political article ;
and, bearing in mind the extraordinary measures of
commercial reform which have so recently been
carri-_d through Parliament, the singular vicissi
tildes wltich have in consequence befallen the dif-
ferent legislative parties, and more especially the
" strong party" of Conservatism, advisedly so called,
we turned with peculiar interest to the lucubrations of
old Ebony. Our curiosity was excited by the mere
heading of the essay, a suggestive one under present
circumstances—" The Late and the Present Ministry."
That we can have but little sympathy with the views
entertained by Blackwood with reference to the most
advisable movements of the legislature, we presume, our
readers will readily comprehend, and fancy that Chris-
topher himself, could not scruple to admit. Our opinion
upon this point cannot therefore be tinged with any-
thing approaching to partiality. Yet we are so eminently
satisfied with the pervading tune of the political article
before us that we commend it most seriously to the atten-
tion of all sticklers for protection. Although the writer
thinks infinitely wrong, to our mind, as to the probability
of the Russell administration, and mistakes the prudent
and circumspect phrases of the Premier for hesitation and
premeditated obscurity, we admire the spirit of the
strictures upon the illustrious statesman who so re-
cently and so gloriously retired from the office of
First Lord of the Treasury. There is none of that
vulgar acerbity in Blackwood which has lately been in-
dulged in so lavishly ; there is no gratuitous abuse or
supplementary sarcasm—yet Blackwood is not one jot
less devoted to the cause of protection than my Lord
George Bentinck himself. When we find so much earnest-
ness and so much gentlemanly toleration linked together,
we are compelled to attribute the leaning towards
the protective system to a conscientious conviction.
Though, at the same time, be it observed, we are at a
loss to comprehend the adherence of such talents to
such an exploded system. Thus speaketh Blackwood:—
" We cannot join with the more violent of the protec-
tionists in their virulent denunciations of Sir Robert
Peel." Again: "as the financial reformer of the whole
national system, he (Sir Robert) may, though at heavy
risk, become a public benefactor." Again, say we, ho-
nour to Maga Such language is most graceful after
the coarse and revengeful epithets cast by others upon
that same extraordinary statesman. Time, we feel sa
tisfied, will alter the writer's preconceptions as to the
intended policy of the new cabinet ; and lie possesses so
much fairness that he will not then shrink from con-
fessing his misapprehensions of Lord John Russell.
"The Army," is a courageous and stirring appeal in be-
half of a very noble and a very neglected class—the
soldiery. Recent occurrences have tended to display the
lamentable state of mismanagemeut into which the cor-
respondents of the Horse Guards hare fallen, or rather
in what a degraded condition they are allowed to con-
tinue. We have ourselves represented the brutality,
and indecency, and immorality, and impolicy of that ex-
ecrable system of military flogging which only a few
days ago deprived a fellow creature of life at Hounslow,
and deprived him of life moreover, through superfluous
cruelty, hurrying him to a premature death in the most
excruciating agony. A system that permits such exhi-
bitions of barbarity is one which calls very loudly
for reform ; and calls for a reform, moreover,
of the most comprehensive character. Black-
wood recommends the substitution of rewards
,for
punishments ; rewards to lure to good conduct, not
punishments to awe into subordination ; ribbons to ex-
cite a wholesome spirit of emulation, not scourges to
goad into drunkenness and to debase. The writer re-
commends likewise a material alteration in the plan of
enlistment; condemning on very adequate grounds the
enlistment for life, and proposing in its place an enlist-
ment for a limited period ; namely—for seven or five
years. He observes, " Let the lash, at once and totally
disappear ; replace torture by instruction, hold out ju-
dicious rewards instead of disgraceful punishment - ap-
peal to the sense of honour of the man, instead Of the
sense of pain of the brute." We cordially coincide in
these very admirable views ; we would gladly know our
soldiery to be properly educated, properly stimulated to
exertion by medals or other recompenses, properly
allowed an opportunity of rising in their profession, and
that not merely to the post of non-commissioned officers,
but to the highest and noblest ranks. Surely there
would be no degradation to the service in such an ar-
rangement, premising that the privates of each regiment
were prepared by tuition. Surely, Ney, Massena, and
Murat, and Junot, were no discredit to the Gallic
legions l Surely the father of Lady Peel was no dis-
grace to the mess-rooms of the British army ! Were
such a system as this introduced our soldiers would be
morally and socially elevated ; they would be enabled,
like the veterans of Napoleon, to beautify their native
country during the continuance of peace, as well as to
defend it during the period of war ; their leisure hours
would not, as now, be irksome and wearisome ; they
would no longer be the drones of the national hive, but
would tend to the improvement as well as to the glory
of the empire. Blackwood has come forward nobly
for the vindication of these enlightened principles ;
and if its fellow labourers of the press join
in the like spirit of independence and benevolence, the
boon will be achieved, and our army will be most ma-
terially benefited. Well may the writer repeat that
excellent old adage, " Fas est al) hoste doceri 1" The
military system pursued on the continent is not wholly
unworthy of imitation. Another admirable article is
intitled, " Mesmeric Motentebanks." It is a delicious
bit of irony : overwhelming the followers of Mesmer
by an adroit and capital satire. " Moriamur pro Rege
Nostro," is likewise a delightful and enthralling story.
It reminds one of the best fictions which have appeared
in this magazine. The characters are cleverly grouped,
the incidents vividly coloured, and the plot ingeniously
constructed. Although we are by no means inclined to
agree with the writer of the paper on the " Romantic
Drama," in his admiration for the old unities, we must
nevertheless confess that his arguments in favour of a
revival of those unities, as a means of reviving a love for
dramatic entertainments, are singularly striking, and
deserve a trial. "My College Friends," is the fourth
continuation of an agreeable series, and one which
promises an unlimited source of entertainment. The
article suggested by Dr. Tschudi's " Peru," and the re-
view of M. Soyer's " Gastronomic Regenerator," are
conceived in admirable spirit. They revive our re-
membrance of the pungent criticisms indulged in of yore
by Maga, while they improve both our taste for litera-
ture and dietetics. With an assortment of papers thus
varied, sparkling, and serious, Blackwood cannot fail to
crease its popularity, and to perpetuate its supremacy.

BENTLEY.

We are delighted to meet with our old friends Mr.
Ledbury and Jack Johnson in the present number.
Mr. Ledbury revisits Paris and is ignominiously ex.
pelted from his Lodgings." 'We have not the actua
ignominious expulsion in the present number, although
the following escapade of the wine-warmed Ledbury at
the Chaumiare seems very likely to lead to his expulsion
from the good city of Paris altogether. Mr. Ledbury
determines to play the jeu de Bague, a game in which
the player, seated on a wooden-horse in a roundabout,
tilts with a small spear at some small rings. On one
of these horses Mr. Ledbury mounts:—
" For the first few rounds Air. Ledbury simply smiled at
the company, politely bowing to them every time he came
near them, like the little man at the evening party on the
top of the organ, and then he kissed his hand, and waved his
pocket-handkerchief, and finally, with the flourish of his
spear, began to play, imitating martial music on a cornet.
By some good luck or another, he carried off a ring or two,
at which the students and grisettes who were looking at him,
cheered. This was quite enough to drive him into any act
of wildness: and, after a few more turns which did not im-
prove his steadiness, coming on the champagne, he formed a
project of unequalled boldness. One of the garde was stand-
ing near the game, looking with folded arms and frowning
brow, upon the players. As Titus came near him, he seized
his helmet, and lifted it forcibly from his head, directly after-
wards putting it upon his own, to the intense astonishment of
the soldier.
" Any insult offered to the authorities is sure to be
hailed with acclamation by the frequenters of the Claaumiere
and a roar of delight burst forth. At this Mr. Ledbury was
so excited, that by some marvellous exertions, he contrived
to stand up in his stirrups, and would have got upon the
horse itself, to have thrown himself into a tableau, had not
the enraged functionary stopped the machine, and pulled the
offender from his charger. The crowd pressed round, and
tried to hustle him away, by pushing the grisettes, all in a
heap against the guard; knowing that he would not attack
them. Jack had sprung from his perch like lightning, and
seeing their object, caught Ledbury by the collar, and
dragged him actually through a party of gendarmes, who
were coming to the scene of the row."

This paper is illustrated with great spirit by Leech ;
the other illustrations of the number ale illustrative to
the continuation of Brian O'Linn (this tale increases
in interest as it proceeds, and promises to be the chef
d'cfuvre of Maxwell); and a beautiful little vignette of the
caves of Dahra, and which serves as a headpiece to an
article of Everard Clive, on military atrocities. Among
the papers of permanent interest, we have a translation,
by the Archbishop of Dublin, of a review of Dr. Nean-
der of the Memoirs of Dr. Arnold, which is full of
deep theological learning, and a paper by E. V. Rip-
pingille on poor Haydon, which should be studied by all
who are endeavouring to create a taste in this
country for works of high art. Of light and
amusing articles, we have an abundance. " The
Lioness," for instance, is a capital story, capitally
told ; and Paul Prendergast's "Last Days of a Bachelor,"
in the merriest manner imaginably., inculcates an ex-
cellent mai. Ting Mrs, Mathews, in her Tea Table-

talk, tells piquant anecdotes of the late Justice Parke,
and of Miss Mellon, and of Theodore Hooke, and an
annonymous contribution in "A First Evening in Na-
ples, and "La Fusta di Santa Brigida"—(we imagine both
pa; ers proceed from the seine pen)—gives us some
pleasant off-hand sketches of Neapolitan scenery and
Neapolitan society. For some time past we have ob-
served a marked improvement in this periodical, and the
present number more than sustains the character of its
predecessors.

FRASER'S.
We are glad to perceive, from the commencement of
the " political" article of Fraser for the present month,
the more sensible of the protectionists—in fact the
great majority of the party—accept, like sensible per-
sons, the establishment of free trade as "un fait
accompli."
" There is no employment more profitless, in public as well
as in private life, than to look back upon misfortunes that
are beyond remedy, and to complain of their occurrence.
Peel's Corn Bill, whether for good or for evil, has become the
law of the land. The great principle of free trade is estab-
lished as that onwhicla the commercial policy of this country
must henceforth be conducted, and let its remote conse-
quences be what they may, there is no power in any quarter
to avert them. We have taken a step in politics which does
not admit of recall. Lovers of the Arcadian state of exist-
ence may mourn over this, hankerers aster feudalism com-
plain or threaten, and men of soberer jugdment than either
doubt the wisdom of measures which bid fair to convert
England, at no distant date, into a huge manufactory. But
the impulse. having been fairly given, we may no more hope
to stay the progress of events than to arrest the speed of the
railway carriage, or the descent of the loosened rock into the
lake. NVe are in the beginning c,f changes, of which it would
puzzle the sharpest-sighted to foretell the end, and there is
positively no help for it.
"Entertaining these opinions, and heartily subscribing to
the doctrine that ' the brave never repent,' we purpose for
the future, as often as the projects of politicians make a de-
mand upon our attention, to look at them with a forward
rather than with a backward glance, forgetting, as far as we
are able, party feelings that have been engendered of old as-
sociations, and delivering our sentiments on men and things
more with reference to the effects which they seem calculated
to produce upon society hereafter, than in the idle purpose of
trying them by the test of bygone arrangements."
Of course, then, there will be some few impracticables
who will repudiate the doctrine of Fraser, but we be-
lieve that he speaks the sentiments of all, but the most
minute fraction of his party; and, believing that, we re-
joice at the determination here expressed, to look for the
future at political matters rather with a forward than a
backward glance. The paper is entitled " Will the Whig
Government stand?" and the writer answers the ques-
tion in the negative. The fact, however, that the ex-
pectations of the writer have already been falsified
would seem to show that the writer has been somewhat
hasty in making his calculations. The writer of the
series of " Contemporary Orators," takes as his subjects.
Mr. C. Wood, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Hawse, Mr. Wyse,
and Mr. Ward. His sketches of Milner Gibson and Ward
are highly graphic. He does ample justice to the talents
of Mr. Hawes, who has always been, in our opinion, an
under-rated man ; and he passes a high, but teost de-
served, eulogium on Mr. Wyse. With regard to Mr.
Charles Wood, the writer considers that he will turn out
the least efficient Member of the Administration, and
that he will prove a foil even to Mr. Goulburn. There
a another political article in this month's Fraser, de-
voted to the praise of the aristocracy, in which the
writer sets about gravely to argue that the aristocracy of
rank in England is also the arisctocracy of talent. Of
I the manner in which the writer makes out his case, take

the following as a specimen :
" It was a review, in fact, of the late struggle against the
corn-laws that suggested this article; for it proved most in-
contestably that, with the exception of those two remarkable
men,• Richard Cobden and Robert Peel, the overwhelming
superiority of talent lay, on either side of the question, with
members of the aristocratic body."
The writer should have carried his exceptions to a
much greater extent to make out his case, for unless
he includes among his exceptions such men as Sir James
Graham, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Disraeli, he will
not have a leg to stand upon; and once admit exceptions
to be made in this manner, there is no propo-
sition, however absurd, which may not be
demonstrated. The literary contents of this number
are excellent. We have an admirable philosophical
analysis of the life and writings of John Foster, the
essayist—a continuation of the series on the " Manners,
Traditions, and Superstitions of the Shetlanders "—a
Celtic story entitled, " Red Finlay of the Deer "—a plea-
sant gossiping paper about Hampton Court—a most
amusing jeu d'esprit, entitled, " Proposals for a continua-
tion of Ivanhoe," in a letter to Alexandre Dumas, by
Mon. Michael Angelo Titmarsh, and a variety of other
amusing articles.

TAIT'S.
Unusual merit characterises ithis magazine—a ma
gazine, by the way, always meritorious in some degree or
other. The principal feature, perhaps, in this number
is, the amount of sterling information conveyed in a
most popular and agreeable manner. Elizabeth Thorn-
ton continues her excellent romance of "Truth and
Falsehood ;" and, if the succeeding chapters are only
equal to the elventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth,
her present fiction will unquestionably obtain a much
larger circulation than either the " Marchioness " or
"Lady Alice." This authoress succeeds best, we con-
ceive, in her delineation of the emotions of her fic-
titious characters in situations of excitement ; here her
writings are invested with a very charming, and some-
times a very touching delicacy ; in evidence of which
we would adduce the description of the scene between
Herman and Lady Felsenburg, when the former dis-
covers that Bette is his sister. " The Catholic Doctrine
of Music" is an admirable paper, and will afford gratifi-
cation to all truthful lovers of the " divine art." Some
of the reflections are remarkable for their sagacity. The
notice of " Mary, Queen of Scots," and the continuation
of the anal:, sis of Ulrici's recent criticism upon
the dramatic art of Shakspere, are both of
them elaborate compositions. It is a singular wee
fact that while a Frenchman was the first -
to attract the attention of the learned to the supreme
genius of our wonderful countryman, the Germans have
displayed the most peculiar capacity for analysing his
productions. Indeed the commentaries of William Au-
gustus Schlegel may be regarded as the noblest tribute
ever paid to the glory of this divine teacher of humanity.
There is more subtlety in his elucidations, more ardour
in his panygerics, more appositeness in his illustrations,
more indications of capacity in his " Lectures," than in
all the commentaries upon the same poet that have ever
proceeded from the press of any nation—from Voltaire
to Ayscough, from Malone to Collier. We say this,
moreover, not in depreciation of the latter, but in all
justice and,candour towards the renowned German. In
the disquisitions which he has produced upon the
dramatic genius of Sophocles, lEschylus, Aristophanes,
Calderon, Racine, Cervantes, Corneille, Moliere, and
especially of Shakspere, Schlegel has displayed a
noble affinity in his intellect for theirs; in crowning
others with, what we may be allowed to term, the
chaplet of eulogistic criticism, he has endued his own name
with a reflex of their glory. It is frivolous to imagine
that too many books can be written in exposition of such
works as those of him who wrote " not for an age, but for
all time." Every perusal of such works discloses some
hitherto unrecognised beauty ; every mind, especially if
remarkable for astuteness, appre-2iateb some meaning
which would never have presented itself to another dif-
ferently constituted, and hence the interchange of
thoughts between such minds; and the collation of those
innumerable perusals cannot but tend to divulge more
excellencies than could otherwise superficially present
themselves. The advantage of commentaries on a by-
gone author is tantamount to the dissections made upon
a corpse. The veins and nerves, which are concealed
1 under the surface, are then displayed by the skilful
touches of the dissector's knife. The veins and ramifica-
tions of thought in literature are disclosed in a precisely
analogous manner by the penetrant survey of the com-
mentator; with this advantage, however, that the dissec-
tions of the latter cannot mutilate or injure. For these
reasons, we are always prepared to welcome any fresh
illustrations upon the plays of Shakspere, provided they
possess the characteristic of novelty. If collected
together, the folios, and quartos, and essays and
pamphlets, directly or indirectly relating to Shakspere
would form a gigantic and splendid library : Ul-
rici has just added another volume to the
collection ; and still there is room for more.
A perfect edition, and a perfect biography of this
poet have yet to appear, and this despite the industry of
Mr. Payne Collier, the costly labours of Mr. Blondell,
and the enthusiasm of Mr. Charles Knight. "An Even-
ing's Adventure at a Country Inn," is a comical conceit,
and the pourtraiture of the resurrectionist with a nose
" much reiembling the toe of a crab in formation ; the
colour rich, rare, burnished red," and with a complexion
which appeared " as if the outer skin had been peeled off,
and the under cuticle suddenly frozen, so red was it;—
not the redness of health, but an unearthly, dark, crim-
son hue, like a stain of blood on a towel," is ludicrous
though extravagant. We are greatly pleased to observe,
that while Tait acknowledges the real talent of M.
Michelet, the bigotry of his recent productions on the
People and Jesuits, meets with a severe and deserved
castigation. As usual the literary notices in this Maga-
zine are copious and discriminating : the one on
poor Haydon's last performance " Lectures on Painting
and Design" will be perused with singular interest.
Among several choice pieces of verse, scattered between
the prose contributions, the translation of Freiligrath's
" Revenge'of the Flowers" must be particularised for its
fantastic notion and its dainty imageries. The emerging
of the elfin phantoms from the petals of the different
blossoms is beautifully described :
"From the flower-bells, gently sweeping,
Come three spirits robed in air;
Shields they bear with light emblazoned,
Crowns amid their flowing hair.
Starts a tall and graceful maiden
From the rose's purple lap ;
Pearls upon her forehead glisten,
Waving curls her bosom wrap.
From the ' Iron-Casque' up-springeth,
Girt with sword, a valiant knight;
From his helm, a heron's feather
Pending, long and silver bright.
From the ' Turkish turban,' stalking
Proudly comes a Moorish king;
With the half-moon's golden crescent
On his turban glistening."
In reviewing the "Politics of the Month," Tait evinces
its general impartiality, though we cannot but regard its
strictures upon the new Administration as rather super-
cilious and unflattering. Its indignant remonstrances at
the injustice of the Irish Church Establishment are
likely to impress the public mind forcibly, and to drive
the popular opihion in the right direction. They, there-
fore afford us very considerable pleasure. Timo and
events will place Lord John Russell and his colleagues
in their true light. Till the policy of their government
be further developed by acts, we shall continue, like Tait,
expectant and sanguine.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.

Dr. Coulter's "Adventuresin the Pacific," and Her-
man Melville's Residence in the Marquesas Islands"

(of which latter we ourselves have already given a !fa-
vourable notice), have suggested a theme to one of the
contributors of the Dublin University, which he has
treated in a capital article, leading off the Au-
gust number. The delineations of an uncommon
race of beings in a distant quarter of the globe ; the
account of their domestic manners, of their recreations,
their religious ceremonies, disposition, features, language,
dress, and general character, is always a subject of the
utmost fascination; but that fascination is infinitely en-
hanced when the narrator writes in a good-humoured
and agreeable strain. Such is the case in the specimen
before us, and the reviewer has rendered his composi-
tion equal in attractiveness to a passage of romance. In
the subsequent pages of the magazine, however, we are
presented with veritable pieces of fiction, among others,
the continuation of Mr. Carleton's vivid tale of an "Irish
Famine," and "Signor Formica," a pleasant fiction, in
four chapters. Now that the French metropolis is in an
unusual state of animation from the elections, and from
the recent attempt upon the King's life by Henri, the paper
entitled " Paris in 1846 " will be devoured with
an appetite. Nor has the recent recurrence of the July
jubilations detracted from the interest with which any-
thing relating to that brilliant city will be regarded.
With no city in the world, perhaps, are associated more
reminiscences of glory and shame than Paris—the glory
of Charlemange, Henri IV., k Grand Roi, and Napo-
leon ; the glory of the Champ *de Mai and 1830 ; the
shame of its double capitulations, and the devilries per-
petrated in its precincts during the Reign of Terror.
Paris is indeed tesselated with grandeur and meanness,
and the writer of this article has felt this whilst penning
his lucubrations. "Stray Leaflets from the Oak of
German Poetry"—alway's right welcome—are this
month peculiarly, so. Some of the verses are inimitable.
We cannot refrain from quoting a very elegant sonnet,
addressed to Sir E. Butwer Lytton, by Kenealy, and we
do so the more readily, as they are a favourable speci- •
men of the poetry, admitted into the magazine
" Like the young Moon, when down from Heaven she came,
To court the slumbering Shepherd, as he lay
Nooked in a dell amid the Latmian hills,
Filling the spot with an ambrosial flame
Of light ethereal from her silver ray—
So to thy soul comes genius from the skies,
And such immortal splendours there instills
As charm the young, and glad the old and wise.
O Venus-souPd—Historian—Minstrel—Sege—
Weaver of dreams of light from olden lore—
How shall I thank thee for the enchanted hours
Passed with thy spirit o'er the golden page?
So Plato mus'd—so Shakspere wrote of yore—
So dreamed of love, Rousseau, 'mid Clarens' lakes and bow'rs.'
" Political Prospects" is a marvellously sombre and
long-winded lamentation on the hopeless position of
national affairs. The Dublin University might have saved
itself the trouble of writing such unnecessary expressions
of grief. It will meet with few sympathies, either in its
indignation with Sir Robert or its melancholy forebod-
ings as to the Russell Cabinet. Its intolerant spirit,
moreover, :is here and there developed in a manner ab-
solutely ludicrous. It scorns the May nooth grant, as
another " attempt to give to Popery an ascendancy" in
Ireland, as if Popery was not already in the ascendant
among a people more than eight-tenths of whom number
themselves in the pale of that church! Again, it speaks
of Popery being "aggrandised in Ireland" by that same
grant. As well might we talk of a pauper at the street-
corner being aggrandised by the gift of a few halfpence!
The literary portion of the magazine is, however, of ex-
ceeding merit.

THE SPORTING MAGAZINE.
Two capital conceits form the illustrations of the
August number, " Success to the Secret," and " The
Compliments of the Season"—the said compliments being
nothing less than a brace of grouse painted by Han-
cock. Surely such compliments are ever welcome, like
the cup of sack dispatched per Bardolph to Sir John
Falstaff. There are some rare articles too in the
Sporting Magazine, such as would prompt the
hermit of Vauxhall, himself, to induct his lower extre-
mities into buckskins and tops, and to sport " pink "
one day in the week at the least. " The Sportsman's
Dressing Room" for the nonce, would give even the
dispeptic a longing for an amble over the stubble. John
Mills continues his "Life of a Foxhound" with excel-
lent spirit ; there is a freshness and originality
about the second chapter quite exhilirating. Who
will discredit the notion of dogs having a language
of their own, after reading the conversation between
Ringwood, the hero, and Trimbush, the old adept in the
chase? Who would not carol with Linton?—
The moors! tie moors! the joyous moors!
When autumn displays her golden stores—
When the morning's breath
Blows across the heath,
On the mountain-side,
'Es gladness to ride,
At the peep of dawn o'er the dewy moors!
At this iniatory season, when the young sportsman, like
Aurora, in Shakspere, "stands tiptoe on the misty
mountain's top" with expectation, this magazine will
prove a welcome instructor, and we will engage that the
aspirant will not find hie tutor in the smallest degree
churlish or superficial. The number is in most respects
seasonable and. clever.

MONTHLY PRIZE ESSAYS.
What has attracted our especial perusal in this
second number of a new adventurer among the periodical
literature is an essay upon " The Works of Charles
Dickens." We have read it very carefully, and are
forced to pronounce it most egregiously flippant : it is the
very coxeombry of criticism. First of all, it is merely a
trifle beyond nine pages, and the possibility of analysing
the works of such a writer as Dickens, in nine pages,
appears to us about as reasonable as the compression of
the Iliad into a nutshell. Secondly, the writer assails
the writings of Dickens as being of a decidedly immoral
tendency, and if that be not the very prudery
of literary squeamishness, then Archer's Sermons
are only fitted for the shop-windows of Holywell-
`. Thirdly, the writer throws himself into a
violent fit of excitement and indignation at the dinner of
tripe devoured by poor Trotty Veck upon the door-
step of Mr. Alderman Cute ; " Delicacy," says he,
" would have prompted us to turn away till the old man
had finished his dinner 1" Fourthly, Dickens is called
something little short of an advocate for Drunkenness,
from such circumstances as that of Dick Swiveller
moistening his clay till it becomes of a slippery
and uncertain consistency I Fifthly, Miss Haredale and
Dolly Varden are discovered to be identical characters:
and so on "to the end of the chapter." We will not
insist upon the arrogance of such opinions, or of their
moral absurdity they are their own counterpoise. In
a rather grandiloquent piece of metre, called " The
Dead and the Dying," there is this solemn expression,
of an angry spirit:—
" Slapping round mine ears
Those cursed wings 1" &c.
in other words, actually boxing his ear! The other
contributions are, however, in a great measure devoid of
these blemishes, and if the publicatien be judiciously
supervised it will prosper.