The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-07 00:00:00

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.e chance of our redemption, and how much we
y 1
111.1,, teed, In heart and intelligeneo,resolution and natien,!,,
Liu)t .
, talent, and of labour, befo-e we can advance in
itnlT.h which has b-en tr”cAl for us. It is rare, lac
is 2"lge, for men to unite so many ; it
bi,!lorinus destiny in life to be rawier the otessivg and
acing necessity of acquiring them." [The speaker,
titir:lludillg to himself and the peculiarities of his po-
bitt°„,,-"" saying a few words on the d,ffletilt;es and
• feu with which that pos'Aion is surrounded., thus
'1111.51e(13 :-o"That which God has &creed in his
will be accomplished. Let us bow to his will,
that with timorous or incredulous weakness, but
deen anon
toth r humility of heart, that confiding resign
their
chestternal counsels which elevates our souls to
Power."

11 COURT CIRCULAR.
zo ite,e,
regzenci
Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal
to Osborne House at a quarter before
0 clock on Friday afternoon, from Arundel Castle.
their Saturday her Majesty and her Royal Consort took
li.1:18tial walks in the pleasure grounds, and the Royal
Yeti took their accustomed airings.
Ot pxlav morning their Roal Highnesses the Prince
?ri„a`", Prince Alfred, they Princess Royal, and the
'fess Alice walked and rode on the sea-beach.
o%senteirpMliesty and Prince Albert, and the Ladies and
Whi -.,n1; el! or the Court, attAaded Divine service in
tier Church yesterday morning.
/iii ted Royal liighnnss the Duchess of Cambridge
no sit 'ller Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
Co;lik,rdaY at Gloucester House.
t:‘,"'ned deputations of merchants and others in-
-1-,Wel„,-" in the reduction of the duty upon tea, from
elte:trol. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Blackburn, Man-
' and Norwich, had an interview with
%dB t Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
la 1)1-„tinru113. at the official residence of the Noble Lord
~'"fro°,„—,ffig-street. The deputations were composed of
n. the town of Liverpool, Messrs. William Eat le, T.
Ltiecirall, and J. Bromley Moore ; from the town of
Of BC Messrs. H. Stansfield and Scarlet; from the town
itna7Lkbliro, Messrs. Montague, Fielden and Pilkington,
qty oftur.l city of Edinburgh, Mr. W. Law; from the
1144 islasgow, Messrs. John Scott, Andrew Jamieson,
tethw*,..aglinton• from the Liverpool Association of the
100, on the'duty on tea, Messrs. Christopher Raw-
' Rathbone, and James Stearns; from the
• "416 East India and China Association, Messrs.
tl'ott• i ;1,41 Potter, Henry Winch, and Edward Brodribb;
4nber Manchester Commercial Association, Messrs.
Ito% Gardner, Leopold Reiss, and William Steuart;
toste:"o Glasgow Merchants House, Chamber of Com-
' Bcott AEast India and China Association, Messrs. John
the b&ndrew Jamieson, and Rolert Eglinton; from
the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. C. Halliday;
?est L""e, Merchants and Manufacturers of Norwich,
1.-v,„"• W. Robberds and Willett; from the Liverpool
`lloPralls—s II", Association, Messrs. John Lockett and
sir Joh
"nee f--„n Hall transacted business on Saturday at the
eol°- the Board of Trade.
' 111411).40nel Campbell had an interview with Earl Grey on
Birlti at the Colonial-office.
kston enry Pottinger left town on Saturday for South-
, tp. T; enlbark for the Cape of Good Hope. t
bq4eo,"i?wring, M.P., and a deputation respectingoton
4'11401194 an interview on Saturday with Lord J
Sir
ta
4111 eGrge Grey left town on Saturday for Sandon
/41.4 e seat of the Earl of Harrowby.
foreht;Tioha Russell left town on Saturday afternoon
ith wood.
Jl4 V,.udinial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
11:11467, and resumed the hearing or an appeal from
‘144413, -"ii " Gordon v. Horsfall." Mr. Wigram, Queen's
*eh hs Mr. Rennals, and Mr. Turner, Queen's counsel,
At ter& The case was adjourned;
tyoets a Chapel Royal St. James s, yesterday,d the
las were read by the R ,v. Dr. H. Dakins, en t e
kettoht,AbY the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was
o_l4 rrePare ye the way of the Lord" (Wise). Sir George
Of 8_ Presided at the organ. The Duke and Duchess
Thtilutherland, the Marquises of Anglesey, Granby, and
iatolu,°llci, Lords Sandwich, and W. Graham, were
g the nobility present.

M A GA ZINES—(CONTINUED),
314GAZINE,
An Elegiac Ode to Thomas liood is prefixed to the
Df.cember nuinbcr. . it has some merit. The tragedy
of " Avenger "is continued, as is likewise the
story of " Blmche Neville." Beyond these contribu-
tions the magazine is an oda podrida of miscellaneous
scraps in prose and poetry, some of them good, and
others execrably bad. One of them is entitled, "A
Though:," to this effect—
" Ceti,e, to murmur, hapless whims,
Throw that sigh away,
Think if caring much won't win her,
Caring little may I"
Surely the editor has forgotten the most inimitable
of the delicious songs of old—Sir John Suckling;
surely he has not observed before that the above is a
direful parody upon this exquisite and valve ditty—a
ditty none the less beautiful for being familiar to
many—

.6 Why so rile :Ind wan, fond lover ?
Prythee, why so pale ?
Hill, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prythee, why so pale ?
Why so dull and mute, young sinner?
Pr) thee, why so mute?
Hill, when speaking well can't win her,
Speaking nothing do't?
Prythee, why so mute ?"
The invitation from this is most manifest. Mr. T.
Jones manages, again, very adroitly to ruin his
noble sonnet to December, by the most ill-judged
alterations.

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGA-
ZINE. _ _

Where tarries the cab driver ? We have missed
him from the stand for months past, and we almost
despair of ever meeting with him again. Can it be
that Juniper Hedgehog bath resigned the whip for
the razor, and turned from cab-driver to barber, giving
oral instead of epistolatory information to his fellow
creatures ? But although Juniper Hedgehog no
longer enlightens us, we have still the history of St.
Giles and St. James. The 34th chapter of which
commences the present number. Capstick, who
through the remonstrances of Bright Jem, begins to
have an inkling that Snipeton has made a tool of him
in the affair of the representation of Liquorish, goes up
to the cottage at Hampstead to satisfy his doubts; he
arrives there just as St. Giles has returned with the
account of the abduction of Clarissa by Was and
Tom Blast, and is present when on first learning the in-
telligence, Snipeton grinds his teeth, howls his curses,
and, in very impotence, works his hands like a demon
balked of his revenge :
" And now is Snipeton widowed. Yes : with a living
wife, damned to worst widowhood. It would have worn
and tortured the spirit within him sometimes to wander
from the desk to the churchyard, and there look down
upon Clarissa's grave. To have read, and read with
dreamy, vacant eyes, the few tombstone syllables that
sum up—solemnly brief—the hopes, and fears, and
wrong!-, and wretchedness ; the pleasant thoughts and
aching weariness that breath begins and ends. Cla-
rissa, wife of Ehernzer Snipeton, died —.' Words to
dim a husband's eyes ; to carry heaviness to the heart ;
to numb the soul ; and for a time to make the lone man,
with his foot at the treasure-holding grave, feel the
whole world drifted from him, and he left, landed on the
little spot he looks on. And then breaks small, mourn-
ful music from those words : pleasant, hopeful sounds,
that will mingle her name with his ; that will make him
own the dear, the still incorporate dead. The flesh of
his flesh, the bone of his bone, is lapsed into the dis
grace of death: it is becoming the nourishment of grass;
and still his heart yearns to the changing form; still it
is a part of him; and his tender thoughts may, with the
cotEned dead, love to renew the bridal vow the dead ab-
solves him of. And Snipeton, his wife in her winding-
sheet, might so have solemnised a second wedlock. For
surely there are such nuptials. Yes; second marriages
of the grave between the quick and the dead, with God
and his angels the sole witnesses.
" And Snipeton was denied such consolation. His
widowhood permitted no such second troth. Living to
the world, his wife was dead to him; yet though dead,
not severed. There was the horror: there, the foul con-
dition of disgraced wedlock : the flesh was still of his
flesh, cancerous, ulcerous ; with a life in it to torture
him. By day, that flesh of his flesh would wear him ;
by night, with time and darkness lying like a weight
upon him, woula be to him as a fiend that would cling
to him; that would touch his lips; that would murmur
in his ear. And let him writhe, and struggle, and with
a strong man's strong will determine to put away that
close tormentor, it would not be. The flesh was still of
his flesh, alike incorporate in guilt and truth."
" St. Giles and St. James" is followed by a graphic
description of the Night Fair in Alexandria, evi-
dently from the pen of one who hs been long resi-
dent *in Egypt. " Fables for Foolish Fellows," and
" Pearls for Popish Places," are continued. Angus
Reach contributes a paper on " Our Statues and their
Wardrobes," which commences thus :
" There is one dress for the people of the nineteenth
century, and another dress for the statues of the people
of the nineteenth century. Flesh and blood wear Erg-
lish costumes—stone and bronze, Roman. Coats and
trowsers are quite good enough for actual breathing
humanity—togaf, and buskins must be employed to set
off its more valuable and honoured effigies. A man is
not felt to be degraded by a waistcoat and a standing
Rood
thee enough
greatest shirt collar—a statue is. The statue being the more
costumier...xatisdthingaonfytthhointgwofs c
g) grehatefosrt caanreesxoisftitohge
original—hardly anything is good enough for a metallic
portraiture. The tailor is thought to be sufficient to
clothe the man—the artist must drape the statue. Happy
statues—miserable men 1 Who would not be bronze rather
than human—sculptured by man rather than formed by
Nature?"
lie suggests, and very properly suggests, that we
should dress the statues of Englishmen as English-
men. Of course there will be a great outcry among
the "high art" people against this sacrilege, but we
value truth above high art, and if high artists cannot
sculpture statues in modern costume, doubtless low
artists will be found who can and will do so, and
who will do it tastefully, picturesquely, artistically,
and drive from the field the herd of mere imitators,
who, to hide their want of original genius, cant of
" classical taste," and drivel oceans of nonsense about
"high art." We he also in this number some
passable poetry, and some good reviews of new
books.

CHRISTOPHER 1
PADPOLEIV. By Albert Smith
art. . -

The tenth chapter opens with a description of the
approach of Hickory and Christopher to Liverpool :
" The calm and soothing twilight of spring eventide
was gliding slowly onward upon the earth as Hickory
led the donkey, upon which Christopher was seated,
along a rude bridle-way towards the last halt he intended
to make on their journey.
" They w ere travelling along a bold
to heathedland had , on tone
he
ridge of which their path lay. Hithery g
for some little distance over broken ground, encumbered
with huge blocks of stone,
and dug into deep quar-
ries and pits that it required some little caution to avoid
in the failing light; but now they had arrive
It d was t a beaten
track, and all was smooth before them. not yet
so dark that Christopher could not observe the extensive
panorama around him, although the horizon was already
veiled in shade. But his attention wasp rincipay at-
tracted b a swarm of lights that he was looking down
upon o.n his rlght, the like of which he had never be-

tore witnessed:
gleam" d T hoe, raoyse, ,
one
eight abovean and
e twinkling,
until
dis-
tant and the faintest appeared to mingle with the peeping
stars that one by one were coming out in the blue air.
ev etnh ein
mostthe last Their reflection gleamed and quivered in a great water
that flowed between them and the headland ; and they
spangled the banks in long array, until they got so hazy
at the far-off points, that they only caught the eye at
intervals. But they were not all stationary. Upon the
shore, and on the water, they moved along, crossing;
and re-crossing one another, and mixing with the gene-
ral mass, until all appeared to be endowed with bewil-

dering motion.
That's a larger mine than we've got,' said Chisto,
topher, as he looked in wonderment at the illumination,
his only idea of a number of lights being connected with
toe working of the miners.
'
"6 It isn't a mine,' replied Hickory, as you shall see
to-morrow. That's a great town, and those are the
lamps. It's Liverpool.'
They put up for the night at the " Ring o' Bells,"
at Ridston, where Christopher is unfortunately recog-
nised by a " miner," who gives information of his
whereabout to Hockey. The next morning Hickory
and Christopher go to the docks to meet buddy, who
has come to Liverpool by water. Poor Christopher
gets confused and bewildered in the docks, and no
wonder, tor—
" One had only to look upon the goods debarked under
the sheds to see what wonderful journeys the ships had
made. Strange logs of wood—of grain and colour un-
known at home—were pitched down in heaps. Odd out-
landish packages, too, were there, marked with mystic
hieroglyphics, as if the artist had learned his alphabet
from the bottles in chemists' windows, or the curious
diagram—which some people pretend to understand—in
Moore's Almanac. Further on were drums of figs,
enough to have supplied all England with dessert for al
year, including Lord Mayor's Day, t which festiva
such unwonted numbers of. dishes always figure in the
long lists of eatables that everybody knows, but nobody
reads—tight little band-boxes of seed and-sugar-bags,
seen singly at reputable grocers, but here stocked in
piles that an ordinary siz,d man might not look over.
Bales of matting like enormous first-bJrn-baby pin•
cushions ; or rather, as such would appear in the Poly-
technic microscope, when the ingenious gentleman who
lives all amongst the oxy hydrogen gas and dissolving.
views in his vivid sentry-box, shows you the triumph of
nature over art as exhibited in the leaf and bit of cam
brie. Strange casks which might contain fish, or
treacle, or pickles, or anything else a vivid imagination
chose to fancy in them. Hid,s of supposed wild beasts,
looking like diseased do-.+r-mats : skins of animals as
unknown as the wondrous Liver—the bird from which
the town takes its name, and who has never been n
see en
except on the corporation seal, but is supposed, ie
dark ages, to have paired off with the Dodo upon sotnu in-
teresting division of the globe generally. Every thing
lying about was odd, and new, and foreign. Even the
carts that carried these things away were like non 2
others in England : for they were very long—tile)
would have done for large gang ways at steam-boat
piers—aud had only two wheels, so that eireu thing bad