The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-09 00:00:00

THURSDAY 141 T EN ENG, MARCH 9, 1848.

piny. The ballot could not he demanded until after it
was known what awendinent would be proposed to the
original motion, which ceased to be the question before
the Court the moment that a motion for an adjournment
was made, and which took precedence of every other
question. It was the duty of the Court to uphold the
by-laws which had been framed by theruselves.—(No,
no.) He approved of the course pursued by the chair.
,nan in stating at once his intention to move an adjourn-
ment, instead of delaying making such intention known
until a late period of the debate. The who:e question
of the case of the Itaji, had been discussed over and over
again in that court, and a dozen times at least decided on
its merits.—(No, no.) Why was not a ballot demanded
on any one of those occasions? Why was that course
now adopted a 3 a last resource? He next alluied to the
proceedings at the last Court, and to the few votes given
on that occasion, notwithstanding the efforts made by
Mr. Ilume, by sending n circular letter to every indivi-
dual proprietor, imploring his personal attendance—
' (Ilear)—but yet, out of 2,000 proprietors, he obtained
the rotes of twenty-two only.—(Hear, hear.) The ad-
journment was moved out of respect to the proprietors
who had declined to interfere in the case of the Heja.
They had decided on the case twenty or thirty times at
least, and it had also been decided in the House of Com-
mons. Were the directors to treat all those decisions as
nothing—(Hear)—and treat with contempt the deci-
sions repeatedly given by vast majorities of the Court ?
It was for the benefit of India that the further agitation
of this question should be put down.--(Hear.)
Mr. HustE proposed that the original motion should
now be put.
The CHAIRMAN desired the clerk to read the motion,
but previous to that being done, said he considered the
question was long ago finally disposed of by that Court.
No practical good could result from leaving it to be de-
cided by ballot by two thousand proprietors, very few of
whom took any interest in it, or knew anything at all
about the question,'which was too complicated for the
majority of them to understand. He had no wish to
resort to any trickery—those who had watched his
public conduct for the last fifty years knew that ho was
above anything of the kind. The course he proposed
was the result of his honest conviction.—(llear.)
Mr. Ilu3re said the proprietors generally took more
interest in this question than the Hon. Chairman sup-
posed, and he wished them to have an opportunity of
expressing their opinion. He should place his protest
before the chairman, and then leave the Court. The
Hon. Proprietor then withdrew.
Mr. CLARKE disapproved of any further discussion of
the question, now that the Raja was dead, and had not
left a successor to the throne, and, consequently, all his
political rights had died with him. He should like to
know who was to benefit by any further investigation
of the matter P No case had ever undergone greater
discussion. The conduct of the Government of Bombay
had been fully discussed. He thought that the property
taken from the Raja should be given to his surviving
relatives, and that course, he hoped, would put an end
to all further agitation of the matter.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WEEDING defended the course pursued by the
Government of India with reference to the case of the
Raja.
lieneral BRIGGS said the late Raja had a right to
adopt a son, who, at his death, was entitled to succeed
not only to his property, bat to his political rights and
privileges.
Sergeant GASELEE remarked that when the Chairman
wanted votes he did not object to receive those even of
the old ladies.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question from Mr.
Sullivan, said that no doubt the Standing Council of the
East India Company would furnish a written opinion
relative to the by-law.
The Court then on the question adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

TUESDAY, MARCH 7.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The following Resolution was reported from the above
Committee:—
That in the case of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway mad Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness
Railway Amalgamation petition, to suspend standing
order, No. 127, the standing order ought not to be dis-
pensed with.----Report to lie on the tablo.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Common&

WEDNESDAY, siAncit 8.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.

(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
First Clause (That from and after the passing of this Act,
the several Acts hereinafter mentioned. or so much and such
parts of any of them as are hereinafter specified, shall be re-
pealed):—Amendment proposed, to leave out the words
" shall be repealed :"—Question put, " That the words pro-
posed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Com-
mittee divided:—

M AJ 0 R I T Y:
Robert
aralt:',EaersS4 , 94 .
Adair, It. Shafto Henry. Alexander Scully, Francis
Baines, M. T. Harvey, Lord A. Mooly, Charles
Barrington, Viscsnut Ileywood, James Seyraour, Lord
Bellow, R. M. Hodges, T. L. Shell, X. L.
Berkeley, Grantley Jervis, Sir John Walley, Robert A.
Brockman, L. 1.). Johnstone, Sir J. Somerville, Sir W.
ltrotherton,:J. Keating, Robert Stanfield, W. It. C.
Carter, John It. Kershaw, James Strickland;pir G.
Clements, Charles King, Peter John Strutt, Edward
Cobden, It. Macnamara, Major Sullivan, liickSea
Craig, W. G. Meagher, Thomas Sutton, H. M.
Cubittt, William Maitland, T., Talbot, J. H.
I)ivett, E. Tenison, E. K.
Drundanrig, Via. Martin,
Martin, C. W. Thompson, Colona
Drummond, 11. liaises, It. M. Thornoly, T.
Duncan, Viscount Monscll, %William Townshend. Jake
Dtunie, Francis P. Morison, General Trelawny, J. S.
East, Sir J. B. Mowatt, Francis Tufnell. H.
Ebrington, Lord Nugent, sir Percy Urquhart, David
Evans, William O'Brien. J. Vane, Lard H.
Ewart, William O'Brien, Sir Luoin2 Villiers, Charles
Fagan, William O'Brien, W. S. wakley, Thomas
Fitzpatrick, J W.
10:.:iiFitrkifldia,::11:te,:ressitiyt:i, A ntkony Walmsley. Mr J.
Fordyce, A. D.
Fox, Richard M.
Fcx, W. J. tigott, Francis
Gardner, J. D. I:NVNYv'soilliwcsi,jodals:m',Sjillr;lnTca.th.t6l:rhelwall.
Gibson, T. M. Power, Nicholas Torke, it. It.
Glyn, George Carr PuseY,Thilip
Graham. Sir James Raphael, Alexander
Greene, Jolla Reynolds, John
Greene Thomas Russell, F. C. H.
Grey, Sir G. Sadleir, John

TELLICO.
Austey, Thomas C.
Arundel, Eurl of

MINORITY-NOES, sv.
Adderley, C. B. Dodd, G.
W. S. oSandars, George
,oulburn, henry Long, Walter Alexander,
m
Alexander, N. Duncobe, 0. Lygun, Gen.
Arbutlisiott, Hugh k:fullistt, J. 31alten, \riscowit
Arehdall, C.iptaist } rowen, C. 11. MAtincra, Lord C.
Arkwright, G. Fuller, ..A E. Miles, P. W. S.
Baldock, E. IL Gore, W. p. .Mundy, E. Miller
lienhow, John Goring. Charles I'lmaptre, J. Y.
Blaekotone,
Brackiey, Visc,sunt Greenall, Gilbert Sibthorp, Colonel
Brentridge,lltichard Gwyn. llowel Smollett, A.
Brooke, Sir Arthur Haltord, Sir Henry Sotheron, T. 11. S.
Bruce, C. L. C. Mama, Hon. Capt. Spooner, It.
Buck, L. W. Heald, Jatnes Stafford, Augustus
Carew, W. E. Henley, J. w. Tollemache, John
Chaplin, W. J. Mildyard, It. C. Pyle, It. it. X. 11.
Christy, Samuel Hood, Sir Alexander Waddington. 11. ti.
Clive, H. B. Hope, Sir J. Wellesley, Lord C.
1 Codrington, Sir W. Jones, Sir W.
Compton, H. C. Knox, Colonel TELLxas.
Conolly, Col. Law, C• E. Inglis, Sir, It.
Deering, John Lindsay, Colonel Newdegate, C. N.

Same Clause (Repeal of Acts affecting Roman Catholic
Subjects,
all the
cI
words:"--Anienlnm the
ent proposed, page 2, line
17, words '• shall be re-
pealed," the words
words " also the whole," page a, line s:
Question put,e E
That the words proposed to be left out stand
part
of the Clause." The Committee divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 111.
u bjt eoe ites,
a to y 1
to
hl u Eli z.

Adair, R. Shafto Gladstone, W, B. Power, KWh°las
Adare, Viscount Glyn, O. C. Pusey, I'.
lcock, Thomas Goulburn, Henry Raphael, Alexander
A
Anson, Viscount
Sir Graham, Sir James Rawdon, Colonel
Armstrong,
. ... Greene, John Reynolds, John
Greene, 'rheum Russell, F. C.
Baines, M. T. Grey, Sir U. Sadleir, John
Baring, W. D. Grosvenor, Lord It. Setiolefleid, William
Bell, John Buell, r. a. Scully, Francis
Bellew, K. M. Henry Ssean,ortr. ,
LLo rd
Shelburne, Earl or
Simeon, John
Stanley, E. J.
Somerville. Sir W.
Berkeley.zlßß
Brockman.l r kreei
nali elyl , , ~
SunGj.rE.r. R.a"n.
Dt I e. 3 r
nualjj iih,Yrdp::
Jerrie,iese .93't, A
1.10:s,
id:liLeer, W.
I:, Jejarlis Itod,
„lima.
Likrall:( 1:
J.
1
Stunstield, W. It.
Strickland, Sir G.
Keating, John Strutt, Edward
Keogh, William Stuart, Lard I).
Burke,
1 rut
ioittbel
ui Banbury,
oi v
vrnE.T.d. J.wojs..er PE h
KePPel, G. T. Stuart, Lord J.
Campbell, w. F. Kershaw, James Sullivan, Mich
Carter, J. B. ael
, O. King, 1., J. Batton, Henry
Cayley, Edward Eawiess,Neat Talbot, J. H.
Clay, James
Clements, Charles Lemon, Sir Charles Venison, E. K.
Cobden, Richard Lewis, Sir T. Tennant, .J.
Lewis, George C. Thick nesse. Ralph
Cochrane, A.
Lushington. Charles Thompson, Colonel
Maenamara, Major Thornely, Thomas
M`Gregor, Jelin Towneley, John
*Sr:lr.'''.
Meagher, Thomas Townsliend, Captain
Mahon, O'Gorman Trtlawny, J. 3.
Mahon, Viscount Tuttle, Henry
Maitland, Thomas Turner, Edmund
Marshall, J. G. Tynte, Colonel
Martin, J. Urquhart, David
Martin, C. W. Vane, Lord H.
mewid, Tim:4KM Watley, Thomas
Mitchell, T. A. Wall, C. B.
Mensal', William Walmsley, Sir J.
CAlrCCCCl)lDll:all:llwebwurlimbAaitt:fr:Duncan, Duncan,tlnro'l:l''a:',Crawford,
Edward
:la
L'urdTM:e.*: illwel:gleloir-o:aVai.d.
rirnaVeSg. :ill. itsa:
Moore, George ,_ll. Watkins, Colonel
East, Slr J. B.
.t_ franc., Walvis, J T.
Ebrington, Viscount Mows, . l
Mulgrave. Lar Westhead, J. P.
Ewart, William
E vans, William
Nugent, hir Percy Williamson, Sir 11.
Fagan, William O'Brien, Jolts Wilson, Matthew
00:nraihener,
tYry:An_g.theny, Iwir,Y,74:oovddiiieliwmir.alCr...haradleisike
Patten, J. W.
Fitzpatrick,F
ki ,: :o rrr Fordyce,Former, Mathew
ee A:,
j.j.l):W .IV.
Chichester .
Perfect,l i enigi t'
o' CI
t:oI benttl
nao . TILLTIII.
Fox, Itichful M.
Fox, W. J. Pinney, W. A
Gardner, J. D. Power, Dr. xAmiult11:121:11:st

7S) 119.
Mackenzie, W. F.
ru m h• Ti.i 11'Naghton, Sir E.
IIINID) 00
di tin,ljn.
0;:d. .
Duckworth, Str..T. Manners, Lord C.
buncombe, 0. March, Earl of
Du Pre, C G. Maxwell, Hon. J. I'.
Ferrer, .111111eS Dieux, Sir Henry
Yfolliott, J. Miles, Philip W. S.
Filmer, sir,:r- Moody, C. A.
Forbes, Willlain Mundy, E.M..
Fox, S. L. li eeld, John
Frewen, C. 11. If ewdegitte, Y.
Fuller, A. E. Palmer, Hobert
Gocch, E. S. Pigott, Francis
Gordon, Admiral Plumptre,:J. P.
Gore, W. 11. 0. Plowden, W. 11.
Goring, Charles Prime, Richard
Greenall, Gilbert Repton, U. W. J.
Gwyn, 'Jewel Rushout, Captala
Halo, R. B. Sanders, George
Belford, iiir H. Seymer, Henry Key
Marti% CaPtAl" Shirley, E. J.
Heald, James Sibthorp, Colonel
Heathcote, Sir IT• Sinollett, A.
Ileneage, Edward Spooner, Richard
Herries, Johu C. Stafford, Aitgustus
Ilildyard, R. C. Stanley, Edward
R ~.iidytrd, T. B. T. Stuart, Henry
Hood, Sir A. Stuart, J.
Hope, Sir J. Taylor, T. E.
Hotham, Lad Thetnhill, G.
Hudson, George Trollops, Sir J.
Inglis, Sir It. n• Yyse, R.*H.
Ireland, Thomas J. Waddington, David
Jaffe, Sir 'V G. H. Waddington, H. S.
Jones, Sir W. Willoughby. Sir H.
Jones, Captain Yorke, E. T.
Knox, Colonel
Lindsay, Colonel TILLERS.
Long, W. Henley, J. W.
Lowther, Henry Law, C. E.
Lygo, General

Adderley, C. Z.

Alexander, N.
A.rtaitlinott,
Arkwright, George
Bane, W.
Bailey, Joseph

Italdeck, E. y.

Barrington, Lord
Bein)ow, Jolua

Bennet, P.
Beresford, William
Blackstone, W.
Bolder°, Henry
Belling, Willlan
Bowles, Admiral
Brackloy, Viscount
Breuarldife, Richard
Brooke, Lerd
Brooke, Sir A. B.
Bruce. Lord IC.
Bruce, C. L.
Buck, L. W.
Bullet, °lir J. T.
'Sunbury, W.
Burghley, Lord
Carew„W. I'.
Chaplin, W. J.
Chichester, Lord J.
Chohneley, Sir M.
Christopher, It.
Christy, Samuel
Cobbold, John C.
Cocks, lhomas S.
Codrington, Sir W.
Cole, 11. A.
Colyile, C. B.
Compton, H. C.
Conolly, Colonel
Cotton, W. li.
Deedes, W.

,
Docrin, Jolla P.

MAGAZINES, Sce (CONTINUED).

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S MAGAZINE.

" Twiddlethumb Town " is capital. The editor
has manifestly been inspiring of late the atmosphere
breathed by the giant Gargantua and the eccentric
:,nd inimitable Pantagruel. There is only one thing
~vitinn our recollection at all comparable to Twiddle-
thumb Town, and that is Clovernook. Douglas
Jerrold could alone have imagined to himself the
unctions visage and jovial paunch of his
Reverence the Hermit of Bellyful, and no
one but Douglas Jerrold could by any possibility
have conceived his Highness the Duke de Bobs.
Then his commentary on the Posset March, that
wonderful piece of instrumentation which was de-
scriptive "in sound" of every incident of man's life,
from the cradle to the bier, from the midwife to the
undertaker—" the flute cooing in long clothes ; the
fife screeching at the nurse ; the fiddle running
alone ; the drum tumbling down ; the clarionet
squalling ; the bassoon grumbling over sugar to make
all well again !" Well may he exclaim at last, "It is
a wonderful composition, sir, the Posset March !"
Add to this the history of " Melon-and-Pepper," the
Duke's own newspaper, and that incidental sentence
addressed to the reader sotte voce—" You, sir, are
scholar enough to know that the first newspaper
published was the Sybil's leaves, rery irregularly dt li-
vered by the winds atthe Guthman beershops." Pignutz,
the editor of the Melon and-Pepper, is an outline so
exquisitely caustic that we suspect it to be a por-
traiture—the writer speaks of him in a tone that is
throughout a snarl. Speaking of the ridiculous cus-
tom of firing guns in commemoration of the birth of
the babes of great personages, Douglas Jerrold
starts a merry notion, which we transcribe. Why
should not man, says he, announce his more important
doings with the blast of gunpowder ?
" He ought, on all occasions, to season his triumphs
with the relish of saltpetre. Philosophers and sages are
thought so little of because of their silence. To be
taciturn is, we take it, to be contemptible. Astronomy
herself has suffered much from the neglectful quietude
of those Rho minister to her.
" A new star is discovered. Another diamond known
upon the frontlet of Eternity. Unborn millions are
inheritors of the glory of its knowledge. And no guns
are tired ; there is no noise, no heart delighting rever-
beration. None. Wisdom is brought a bed, and there
is no salvo to proclaim the little stranger.
" We think this very wrong of the world at large ;
and very foolish of wisdom herself. We are convinced
of it : she loses more than she can count by such sim-
plicity. Hence, contemplating anew the use and beauty
of noise, we would have all colleges mounted with a cer-
tain number of brass ordnance : to the end, that all
proctors, and fellows, and students, might make known
in the most glorious—that is in the most thundering—
manner the triumphs of their solitary hours.
" Imagine, all the sons of Alma Mater roused up in
their shirts, at dead night—bounced out of their beds—
by the first gun, the first of a round dozen, that should
announce to all the foundation that the true reading of
a long fought-for Greek text was at length discovered!
" And Metaphysics should have the use of the battery,
and with ready lighted fusee be prepared, at least every
other night, to wake the college.
" Indeed, every science should hare free access to the
brass battery, with unlimited supply of powder, to make
known every birth of every truth, though the smallest
seven month babyling. To bo sure, now and then,
there might arise a difference—a quarrel ;so many dis-
coverers requiring to blaze away at the same t►me.
This dilemma, however, might be prevented by some
iron rules to be, after the manner of an ostrich, well
digested.
" And batteries once mounted upon the colleges, pri-
vate students might, in due course, be allowed the use
of rejoicing, glorifying gunpowder. As thus, sir. You
are a sculptor. Why, for these two years your heart
has been pulsating in that bit of marble ; whence, by
degrees, the vans of cupid have unfolded themselves—
that chrystal lump of stone warmed with your daily
doings into winged life. The arms and legs break from
the block—the body throbs from it—the clustering
ringlets are shaken out—and the soul dawns upon the
Cupid's face, as light steals upon the lily.
" And now, sir, wherefore should you not be permit-
ted to firs a wily° in honour of your marble child ?
Your immortal bit of Parian, laughing at death I' Still,
your laughing baby, when unborn great-great-grand-
fathers are crumbling into dust ? And yet, sir, you are
not to he permitted to have a few pounds of powder for
your infant's glorification. Happily, it is otherwise with
with thelßabies of Dukes."
Among the miscellaneous contributions to Douglas
Jerrold's Magazine, one of the most excellent is the
disquisition on the " Gods of Greece," that fertile
field of antique poetry. " how Soldiers are made in
Prussia" should be read with particular curiosity now
that the militia movement has set the minds of all
Englishmen a-soldiering. Several other papers are
in the number quite werthy of the periodical.

DOMBEY AND SON. No. XVIII.
By Charles Dickens.
In the fifty-fifth chapter " Rob the Grinder" loses
his place in this wise :—Mr. Carker flies in a panic
from Dijon, hurries through Paris, through Boulogne
to England ; after stopping at a little secluded station
on one of the railways, he walks out in the grey of
the morning—suddenly beholds to his horror the face
of Mr. Dombey—recoils—and then—
" He heard a shout—another—saw the face change
from its vindictive passion to a faint sickness and terror
—felt the earth tremble—knew in a moment that the
rush was come—uttered a shriek—looked round—saw
the red eyes, bleared and dim, in the daylight, close
upon him—was beaten down, caught up, and whirled
away upon a jagged mill, that spun him round and
round, and struck him limb from limb, and licked
his stream of life up with its fiery heat, and cast his
mutilated fragments in the air."
lie is thus destroyed by a railway engine ; and we
hear no more of the horrified merchant in the present
number. Before we proceed to the other revelations
of the story, we must transcribe one passage—a pas-
sage admirably truthful of a hurried journey in a
phaeton-and-four through a continental country:—
",The monotonous ringing of the bells and tramping
of the horses; the monotony of his anxiety and useless
rage; the monotonous wheel of fear, regret, and passion,
he kept turning round and round; made the journey
like a vision, in which nothing was quite real but his
own torment.
" It was a vision of long roads, that stretched away to
an horiz.m, always receding and never gained; of ill-
paved towns, up hill and down, where faces came to dark
doors and ill-glazed windows, and where rows of mud-
bespattered cows and oxen were tied up for sale in the
long narrow streets, butting and lowing, and receiving
blows on their blunt heads from bludgeons that might
have beaten them in; of bridges, crosses, churches,post-
yards, new horses being put in against their wills, and
the horses of the last stage reeking, panting, and laying
their drooping heads together dolefully at stable doors;
of little cemeteries with black crosses settled sideways
in the graves, and withered wreaths upon them dropping
away; again of long, long roads, dragging themselves
out, up hill and down, to the treacherous horizon.
Of morning, noon, and sunset; night, and the rising
of an early moon. Of long roads temporarily le ft
behind, and a rough pavement reached; of battering and
clattering over it, and looking up, among house-roofs, at
a great church tower; of getting out and eating hastily,
and drinking draughts of wine that had no cheering
influence; of coming forth afoot, among a host of
beggars—blind men with quivering eyelids, led by old
women holding candles to their faces; idiot girls ; the
lame, the epileptic, and the palsied—of passing through
the clamour, and looking from his seat at the upturned
countenances and outstretched hands, with a hurried
dread of recognising some pursuer pressing forward—of
galloping away again, upon the long, long road, gathered
up, dull and stunned in his corner, or rising to see where
the moon shone faintly on a patch of the same endless
road miles away, or looking back to see who followed.
" Of never sleeping, but sometimes dozing with un-
closed eyes, and springing up with a start, and a reply
aloud to an imaginary voice. Of cursing himself for
being there, for having fled, for having lot her go, for
not having confronted and defied him. Of having a
deadly quarrel with the whole world, but chiefly with
himself. Of blighting everything with his black mood
as he was carried on and away.
" It was a fevered vision of things past and present all
confounded together; of his life and journey blended
into one. Of being madly hurried somewhere, whither
he must go. Of old scenes starting up among the novel-
ties through which he travelled. Of musing and
brooding over what was past and distant, and seeming
to take no notice of the actual objects he encountered,
but with a wearisome exhaustingeonciousnesa of being
bewildered by them, and having their images all
crowded in his hot brain after they were gone.
" A vision of change upon change, and still the same
monotony of bells and wheels, and horses' feet, and no
rest. Of town and country, post-yards, horses, drivers,
hill and valley, light and darkness, road and pavement,
height and hollow, wet weather and dry, and still the
same monotony of bells and wheels, and horses' feet, and
no rest. A vision of tending on, at last, towards the
distant capital, by busier roads, and sweeping round, by
old cathedrals, and dashing through small towns and
villages, less thinly scattered on the road than formerly,
and sitting shrouded in his corner, with his cloak up to
his face, as people passing by looked at him.
" Of rolling on and on, always postponing thought,
and always racked with thinking; of being unable to
reckon up the hours he had been upon the road, or to
' comprehend the points of time and
Of being parched and giddy, and half mad. Of pressing
on, in spite of all, as if ho could not stop, and coining
into Paris, where the turbid river held its swift course
undisturbed, between two brawling streams of life and
motion. place in his journy.
" A troubled vision, then, of bridges, qu!tys, inter.
minable streets; of wino shops, water-carriers, great
crowds of people, soldiers, coaches, military drums,
arcades. Of the monotony of bells and wheels and
horses' feet being at length lost in the universal din and
uproar. Of the gradual subsidence of that noise as he
passed out in another carriage, by a different barrier
from that by which he bad entered. Of the restoration,
as he travelled on towards the sea-coast, of the mo-
notony of bells, and wheels, and horses' feet, and no
rest.
"Of sunset once again, and nightfall. Of long roads
again, and dead of night, and feeble lights in windows
by the road-side; and still the old monotony of bells,
and wheels, and horses feet, and no rest. Of dawn, and
'daybreak, and the rising of the sun. Of toiling slowly
up a hill, and feeling on its top the fresh sea-breeze;
and seing the morning light upon the edges of the distant

waves. Of coming down into a harbour wht,:, e tide ,
was at its full, and seeing fishing-boats float in, and wad
women and children waiting for them. (if nets and
seamen's clothes spread out to dry upon the shore; of
busy sailors, and their voices high among ships' masts
and rigging; of the buoyancy and brightness of the
water, and the universal sparkling.
Of receding from the coast, and looking back upon
it from the d. ek when it was a haze upon the wattr,
with here and there a little opening of bright land where
the sun struck. Of the swell, and flash, and murmur of
the calm rea. Of another grey line on the oceav, on
the vessel's track, fast growing clearer and higher. Ot
cliffs, and buildings, and a windmill, and a church,
becoming more and more visible upon it. Of steaming
on at last into smooth water, and mooring to a pier
whence groups of people looked down, greeting friends
on board. Of disembarking, passing among them
quickly, shunning every one; and of being at last again
in England."

The cows splashed with mud, and " receiving blows
on their blunt heads from bludgeons that might have
beaten them in," is eminently Boz-like : also the
" bellowing and clattering" over the city pavement.
In the succeeding chapters Florence and Walter get
married to the delight of Captain Cuttle, of Miss
sipper (who has come up from the country to attend
her old mistress for a time), of Mrs. Richards, other-
wise Polly Toodles (who is engaged as a temporary
assistant), of old Soll Gills (who returns suddenly one
evening from his travels in search of his " nevy "),
even of good Mr. Toots (who magnanimously swal•
lows his jealousy, declaring it to be " not of the
slightest consequence"), but to the inextinguishable
disgust of the Game Chicken who had expected to be
called upon to " double somebody up," and, regard-
ing Mr. Toots's conduct as mean, leaves him and sets
up in the public line. All these things are told in
capital style as only Dickens can tell th€m, and the
number closes with the departure of the young mar-
ried couple aboard a vessel on a voyage to China.