The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-24 00:00:00

"THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1846."

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER PRODUCE MARKET, AUG. 21.—The
inquiry for sugar this week has bean almost exclusively
confined to good white Bergal, and foreign West Indias:
of these, however, none is offering at present, but a
parcel of the forint r is daily looked for, and a cargo of
Porto Rico expected next month. Some small lots of
Barbadoes have been sold at the previous value. Demand
for refined goods is restricted to the lower qualities.
Nothing worthy of notice has occurred in the silk
market this week.

Cotton is only in moderate request, and the transac-
tions are confined to small parcels.
The slight improvement in the goods market which
we noticed on Tuesday last, has continued to the present
time; and a fair amount of business has been done, but
without.any advance in prices. The yarn market con-
tinues very quiet.—Mcinchester Guardian.
BRADFORD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10.—Wool—There
is a full average business doing in most kinds of combing
wools ; and as the farmers show no disposition to give
way in price, the staplers are compelled to hold firm for
recent prices, which are generally submitted to. Yarns
—The demand for worsted yarns continues steadily to
improve, and notices are generally given to the power-
loom houses who buy for monthly delivery, for an ad-
vance in September, which will, in most cases, be given.
The shippers are doing a fair business, and the trade, on
the whole, so far as demand, is healthy, but the prices
not remunerating. Pieces—We cannot learn any alte-
ration in the piece market, either as regards price or de-
mand. The old stocks are fast moving off, auguring
well for good employment through the winter.—
Bradford Observer.
NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY, AUG. 20.,--There are but
small stocks on hand, either of finished or rough lace
goods. The demand is slowly but satisfactorily in-
creasing ; and by cautiously supplying the market with
suitable articles, the makers have again the chance of
working their machinery to some profit. It is quite
certain that all heavy goods cannot be made without
an increase in prime cost, an advance of 2d. per lb.
having been established upon the prices of all yarns
from No. 80 to No. 100. These numbers are likely to
go higher still. On the whole, our prospects seem to
improve. The best lace goods were never more uni-
versally worn that at the present time.—Nottingham
Mercury. •
LEICESTER, THURSDAY, AUG. 20.—The demand still
continues good for both regular hosiery and fancy goods.
We hare no alteration to report in either wools or yarns.
Leicester Journal.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
PAISLEY RACES.-FRIDAY.

The Anybody's Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft, with 20 added,

Once round.
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Marian Ramsay, 4 yrs...(Noble) 1
Mr. D. Wilson's Mesmeria, 4 yrs 2
Mr. A. Hill's The Bashaw, aged 3
Mr. Hope's Queen Mab, 4
yrs 4
The Silver Bells, given by the Town Council, with 50 added

by the Committee. Four miles and a dig.
Mr. Merry's Pilot, 4 yrs
Mr. W. 11. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter, aged ..
Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Inglewood, 3 yrs
Mr. Murland's Elenic, 5 yr 5.....
The Hunters' Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, and 20 added.
Gentlemen riders. Heats, two miles.
Mr. J. Henderson's Speculation ...... (Lieut. Nicoll) 1 1
Mr. Hill's Sir Henry
The Railway Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, and 25 added.
Heats, once round and a distance.
Mr. Merry's Badinage, 4 yrs ... (Robinson) 3 1 1
Hon. J. Kennedy's fby The Doctor, 3 yrs ..... 1 2 2
Mr. G. H. Johnstone's Pleasure Trip, 3 yrs 2 3 3

Amount of Duty
paid from
Ist Sept., 1845,

sth July, 1846,

OPENING OF THREE PUBLIC
PARKS AT MANCHESTER.
On Saturday last the public parks in the neighbourhood
of Manchester, which have been purchased by voluntary
subscription, and are devoted to the free and uncontrolled re-
creation and amusement of the working community in that
densely-populated district, were inaugurated and thrown
open with great ceremony and display of rejoicing. The
day having been pretty generally observed as a holiday by
the manufacturers and principal merchants of the town
and neighbourhood, vast bodies of working men and clerks
were enabled to attend, and when at eleven o'clock the
municipal authorities started from the Town-hall in a
gay procession of equipages, the multitude of pedestrians
who prepared to accompany them was almost beyond cal-
culation. Various bands of music, military and amateur,
contributed to enliven the scene, and from almost every
window and balcony on the route of procession there floated
gay and variegated banners, bearing devices and inscrip-
tions appropriate to the occasion. It may here be men-
tioned that the parks have been severally named the Queen's
Park, the Peel Park, and the Phillips' Park (the latter in
honour of Mr. Mark Phillips, one of the representatives of
the borough of Manchester). As a matter of convenience, it
was resolved to open the Peel Park first, the grounds lying
within the jurisdiction of the borough of Salford, the trustee-
ship having to be transferred to that body from the corpora-
tion of Manchester. The procession having reached the
Town-hall of Salford was joined by John Kay, Esq., the
mayor, and the members of the Council in nine carriages.
In a short time the cortege arrived at Lark-hill, the site of
the Peel Park, which is about a mile and a half from the
Manchester Exchange. The day being fine, the park
(which is thirty-two acres in extent, and laid out in
lawns, walks, and parterres, with archery-ground and
gymnasium) looked exceedingly picturesque and attrac-
tive, an effect which is not diminished by a fine view of
the river Irwell. Here, as in the other parks, everything
that can tend to promote rational recreation and manly
and iathletic exercise has been furnished in the most
tasteful and convenient manner, whilst handsome and com-
modious refreshment rooms proclaim an assurance that some
more stimulating beverage may be had than that contained
in the stone basins where iron ladles, fastened to the wall,
are somewhat ostensibly displayed. It was expected that
Lord Ellesmere would have performed the ceremony of bap-
tism for the Peel Park, but his Lordship was unavoidably
absent, and the duty devolved on the Mayor of Manchester
(W. B. Watkins, Esq.), who addressed the assemblage in
brief but appropriate terms on the gratifying spectacle before
them. He said that no fewer than 5,000 working persons
had contributed to the Park-fund, and the manner in which
they had been backed by their wealthy neighbours gave a
practical refutation to the statement, that the
ing and mercantile classes of the kingdom were actuated
solely by a desire to accumulate wealth, without caring for
the sufferings or enjoyments of their poorer neighbours.
The worthy magistrate then formally declared a transfer of
the property to the Salford Corporation, and having chris-
tened the grounds by the name of the Peel Park, they were
declareclio be open henceforth and for ever free to the public.
The announcement was received with loud huzzas by the
multitude, amid the firing of cannon and the braying of
trumpets, which made it almost deafening. Amongst the
gentlemen surrounding the Mayor at the moment of in-
auguration, we observed Mark Phillips, Esq., M.P. ; W.
Entwisle, Esq., M.P. ; P. A. Slaney, Esq, late M.P. for
Shrewsbury (one of the first promoters of the park scheme);
Stephen Blair, Esq., Mayor of Bolton ; John Meller, Esq.,
Mayor of Ashton-under-Lyne ; P. Marsland, Esq„ Mayor of
Stockport; and the chairman and various members of the
Parks' Committee.
A considerable portion of the multitude having dispersed
in search of amusement, the procession was enabled to retrace
its steps, and passing slowly through the thronged streets,
ultimately made its way over the Victoria-bridge, and pro-
ceeded towards the Queen's Park at Harpurhey (formerly
the Hendham-hall estate), about two miles distant to the
eastward from the Manchester Exchange, on the Rochdale
road. Here a ceremony similar to that at the Peel Park
was performed by Mr. Mark Phillips, who addressed the
multitude at considerable length on the importance of the
occasion they had met to celebrate, and urging them to
still further exertions. This park is about the same size as
the Peel Park, and is laid out in a similar style. The name
of the Phillips' Park, which is situated at Bradford, about a
mile and a half from Manchester, was given to it by Mr.
Entwisle, M.P., who indulged in a warm eulogium on Mr.
Phillips, fur the manner in which he had performed his Par-
liamentary duties. The firing of cannon, and cheering and
music, having subsided,
Mr. PIIILLIPS expressed his acknowledgments for the high
honour that had been done to himself and family by calling
the park after his name. As Mr. Entwisle had referred to
his retirement from the representation of Manchester, he
begged to say that be found it impossible to continue his
Parliamentary labours without injury to his health. There
was no cricket•ground or skittle-alley, or other gymnasia,
connected with the House of Commons ; and every man who
bad attended to his duties found that his health must ulti-
mately give way.
The proceedings then terminated, and the procession re-
turned to Manchester at five o'clock, where an elegant and
substantial repast awaited the invited guests at the Town-
hall. This entertainment was ordered for three o'clock; but
it was impossible for the authorities to expedite the business
in less time than it occupied.

RAILWAY DUTY.

AN ACCOUNT " showing the Amount of Duty paid by Railway Companies in England and Wales, from Ist September'
1815, to sth July, 1816;* and likewise the Amount of Duty the said Companies would have been chargeable with upon
the Third Class Passengers, but for the Provisions contained in the Act 7 and 8 Vict. c. 85.

Amount not
charged by
7 & 8 Viet., c. 85,

s. d.
733 7 11
17 15 6

REMARKS.

Includes Birmingham and Glouccster.

80 16 1

Included with Grand Junction from Ist Jan.
Included with South-Eastern from 12th March.

6 7 0

755 7 4
5 19 4
3,482 5 2

Includes Northern and Eastern.

Includes Liverpool and ➢lanchester, Bolton
and Leigh, Chester and Crewe.

2,683 3 11

:ncludes Cheltenham and Great Western,
Bristol and Exeter.

373 15 3

141 3 6

293 19 10

Included with Grand Junction from 4th Oct.

3,248 14 11

408 10 10

210 17 3
84G 19 1
452 14 1
46 14 6
2,075 19 8

Includes Midland Counties, Birmingham and
Derby, Sheffield and Rotherham.

232 5 3
700 0 0
241 0 9

Includes Seghill and Percy Main.
Includes Durham Junction, Pontop and South
Shields, and Brandling Junction.
[ncludes Wigan and Prestou, Bolton and
Preston.

'Deludes London and Greenwich, Canterbury
and Whitstable, Tunbridge and Maidstone
Branches.

Includes Clarence.

!See York and North Midland from 4th Sept.

.ncludes Hull and Selby, Leeds and Selby,
Whitby and Pickering, Branch to Scarboro',

J. GREENSTREET, C. S. C. D.

!tuber, 1845, to Ist August, 1846, but could only be furnished
having been collected.

THE MURDER at the GUILDHALL
COFFEE-HOUSE.
LATEST PARTICULARS.

Although Mr. Baron Platt, in passing the awful sentence
of death on the wretched man Smith, said that he could hold
noluatnnsoidhnoep3e.s of
and itnheercsy on this ias siredde the
eterm ginreadvet,oyuesteMerv.eArylder-
ex-
ertion in their power to obtain a commutation of the sentence,
by getting it reduced to that of transportation, and a petition
is already in circulation for signatures for the same purpose,
to be presented to the Secretary of State, as the medium by
which the royal mercy can be extended. The wretched
man, as far as he is concerned, is fully prepared for the worst,
and, in fact, from the time he delivered himself up down to
the present, he has entertained no hope of having his life
spared. This feeling has been so deeply impressed on his
mind, that it may be said to amount to that of fatalism. One
cause of this morbid feeling arises from the divination of a
dealer in the occult sciences; for while he was in Giltspur-
street Compter, be wrote a letter to the Governor, in which
he stated, that when a boy of five years of age, his parents had
his horoscope cast, and they were informed that he would come
to an untimely and disgraceful death ; that this prediction
was always uppermost in his
impression
and by no mode of
reasoning could he remove this deep-rooted from
his mind. When he was taken from the Compter for re-
examination on Tuesday last, he then stated to the officer
who removed him that he hoped that that examination
would be his last, for he was fully prepared to meet his
fate, which was inevitable; that he deeply and sincerely
regretted what had occurred, but it could not be avoided.
When he was taken to Newgate, Mr. Sheriff Sydney hap-
'pened to be there, and was in conversation with the chaplain.
The worthy and humane Alderman instantly entered into
conversation with Smith, by asking him if he had taken any
steps towards his defence, and whether he had caused
any gentleman of the bar to defend him. He replied that
he had not, for he was quite prepared for the worst, and
that he intended to plead guilty; that he had not the re-
motest intention a minute before he committed the dreadful
act to take the lifeof the deceased, but during the absence of
the little girl Ann Wetenhall the deceased made use of
some violent expressions, and jumped up from the chair in
which she had been sitting, holding the knife which she had
in her hand in a menacing attitude, when he unfortunately
having his cook's knife in his hand, and being goaded, as
it were, to madness by her reproaches, rushed on her
and wounded her in the neck, and under the fatal impulse
of the moment, and in a paroxysm of rage, he forced
her head back and inflicted the deadly wound. She
then staggered towards the door. As soon as he observed
what he had done he was horror stricken. The worthy Al-
derman remarked, that if such was the case, there were ex-
tenuating circumstances,. and advised him to obtain profes-
sional aid. Smith, however refused to do so, and the
Sheriffs, therefore, directed Mr. Clarkson to defend the
wretched man. That the dreadful act was the result of a
sudden impulse there can be no doubt, for his fellow-servants
on the trial spoke to his general good temper, and Mr. In-
spector Woodpffe in his cross• examination said, he had
known the prisoner for ten years, and he was the very last
man he should. have thought would commit such an act.
Whe
he nhe was being brought up from the gaol for trial he
said was aware of the result—that he was satisfied that
the jury would find him guilty. When he was reconducted
back to the prison after the awful and dreadful sentence of
death had been passed, he merely said that he was glad that
it was over, for he knew there was no hope for him. Since
he has been in Newgate he has been several times visited by
his unfortunate wife, who has administered as far as she
could to his wants and comforts. The result of the trial, it
is understood, has had The most fearful effects on her, being
as it were now left destitute with four young children de-
pending upon her. Should the Sheriffs and those who are
exerting themselves to save the life of the wretched man,
fail in obtaining the royal clemency, his execution will take
place within a month, the Sheriffs having the power
to suspend the carrying of the sentence into effect for that
time.

HORRID MURDER IN FRANCE.
The Gazette de Tribunaux gives the following details of
the murder in the Rue Montmatre, the main facts of which
have already appeared in the Messenger :—" Relatisns of
business, which led at length to personal intimacy, had
existed between M. Lejeune and M. Jay, the latter of whom
has made his name well known by his mechanism, called
Jayotype,' for which he has taken out several patents. M.
Lejeune, who is a master tailor, is a remarkably good-look-
ing man, about 28 years old. As to M. Jay he was turned
of 40, and rather ill than good-looking. M. Lejeune, how-
ever, whose wife is young and pretty, had conceived a
jealousy of M. Jay. His suspicions, which were at first
vague, had latterly become more fixed, and to such an ex-
tent was his mind affected, that after having broken off all
relations with M. Jay, he is said to have informed the com-
missary of police of the quarter, that if he should ever find
M. Jay alone with his wife, he would proceed to the last ex-
tremities. Things were in this state when, on Tuesday
morning, M. Lejeune told his wife that he had received a
pressing order, which compelled him to set out immediately
for Rouen, and at about four in the afternoon he proposed
that his wife should accompany him as far as the railroad
station, in the Rue St. Lazare. She did so, and did not
leave him until she had seen him take his seat in the train.
This pretended departure, however, was only a feint, which
has been practised by a thousand husbands, and which un-
fortunately is almost always successful. Lejeune had no
sooner arrived at the first station of Asnieres, than he left the
Rouen train and returned to Paris by one from Versailles.
He proceeded to the Rue Neuve Vivienne, and placed him-
self in a position to watch the shop of M. Jay. We are in-
formed that whilst he was there watching, he saw a
letter delivered to M. Jay, which he concluded was from
Madame Lejeune. About nine o'clock in the evening M.
nila ettl hour. He pro-
Jay, whose wife and children are in the country, left his
, which indicated
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Lejeune, and
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followed
by
M. Jay having entered the house where Madame Lejeune
was, the husband after waiting some time went in also, and
by means of a second key. which he carried penetrated into
his room, and saw the guilty parties in bed, with a night-
light burning near them. At this sight Lejeune lost all
control over himeelf, and taking a pistol from his pocket
attacked Monsieur Jay in the breast
tired at M. Jay, but his hand being agitated his victim was
untouched. He then drew forth a couteau poignard,
which he was in the habit of carrying in the pocket
f
in his sleep, could
offer no resistance, and expired after uttering a few words
As to Mdme. Lejeune, she was more dead than alive, and
severalo his ptai
ml e teost. ,
Monsieur and
could rather imagine than see the scene that was passing.
When the unfortunate Jay was dead, Lejeune, who bad in
some degree recovered from his fur y, Went down stairs and
said to the porter of the house, ~ I have just killed my wife's
lover; go and tell the Commissary of Police and the Procu-
reur du Roi that lam waiting for them." The porter went
instantly to the office of the commissary, M. Couesna, in the
Marche St. Joseph, exactly opposite the house in which this
dreadful affair had taken place. When the commissary ar-
rived, Lejeune surrendered himself, and said he was ready to
answer for what he had done. The commissary placed a guard
over him during the night, and on the following morning
sent him to the Perfecture of Police. In the course of the
day, the Procureur du Roi had Lejeune brought to the house
and confronted with the dead body. lie repeated his former
declaration with much calmness, and was then taken to the
prison of the Conciergerie." The Gazette des Tribunaux states
that Madame Lejeune has not been arrested, but is gone to
reside with her family.
Lejeune, alluded to above, appeared yesterday before the
Court of Assizes of the Seine as witness in a case of robbery.
He had been brought under guard from the Conciergerie to
give his evidence, which amounted to nothing. He is a
man of small stature, pale, and with fair hair. His appear-
ance is that of a German, and he speaks with a foreign
accent. He did not appear much cast down by the position
in which he is placed.

WOOLVICH DOCKYARD.— It is stated that Captain
Stewart, R.N. (now acting pro tern.), is to be the permanent.
Captain Superintendent of her Majesty's dockyard, and that
Sir Francis Collier, C. 8., will be appointed one of the junior
Lords of the Admiralty.

LITERATURE.

-- -
inflicting the slighest pain ? If you do not, you
ought. It is still shame ! shame !
To turn from the aggregate and individualities
of professional pride, insincerity, and recklessness,
let us call to this invaluable periodical the prompt
attention of the public (who are the most inte-
rested in the question of pain or no pain), and
of so much of the medical profession as prefers the
honest and useful exercise of their art to a spurious re-
putation for the profound knowledge of it ;—besides ac-
counts of operations effected without pain, and with in-
variable success as to the result, at Cherbourg, in Ame-
rica, the West Indies, England, and Ireland, all authen-
ticated upon unquestionable evidence *—that of public
functionaries, professional men of high standing, and
others—the cases communicated by Dr. Esdaile, of
Hooghly (East Indies), the head of the Government
medical establishments in that place, will be found to
place the happy efficacy of mesmerism, in this respect,
entirely and for ever beyond doubt. The cases are very
curious, and they are (with the exception of some inter-
posed atrocities on the part of two sceptics) as gratifying,
we should say delightful, as they are curious. Dr. Es-
daile had never seen anything of mesmerism, when a
native patient in the hospital gaol, being in great suffer-
ing, was brought to him, and he thought the case was
one in which he might give mesmerism a trial. We have
not space for the detail ; but the experiment was suc-
cessful. During the operation, usually attended with
excruciating pain, the man was motionless as a corpse.
When his wounds were dressed, and he was roused from
the mesmeric trance, he declared that he was wholly
unconscious of all that had been done, and knew
only that' by some means his tumour (of 401bs. weight)
was gone. Subsequently Dr. Esdaile, having from
this moment persevered, without failure in a single case,
removed a number of similar (scrotal) tumours, of weights
varying from 81bs. to 801bs. In these cases, which
are more commonly fatal than otherwise, the wounds
healed, by what is called the " first intention," and the
recovery was rapid. Up to the last report, published in
this volume, from Dr. Esdaile, upwards of a hundred
operations, amputations, &c., were performed by himself
or his assistants, in the Government Hospital, in the '
presence of the authorities and most respectable resi-
dents of Hooghly, whose solemn testimony is likewise
published. In one case, to gratify Dr. Bedford, who
wished to ascertain whether the patients were not natu-
rally insensible to pain, a poor creature was subjected to
cruel tests, which we shrink from relating. It is im-
portant to observe, that in all these cases, as well as in
the French, American, and British cases, recorded in
these pages of the Zoist, cure followed the operations.
It is by no means uncommon to see recorded the fact that
" Mr. So-and-so, of such and such an hospital, performed
the most difficult operation with his usual skill, and to
the admiration of all present. The patient suffered se-
verely, but is, doing well." Such flattering and gratify-
ing report is not at all unfrequently followed next day
by another to the effect that—" We regret to say, that
notwithstanding the favourable symptoms, which at first
appeared, the patient gradually sank, and ex-
pired at, &c. &c." But it was asserted by a
high authority, and cheered, at the Medical
and Chirurgical Society, that the suffering of pain
during operations, " is, according to the intentions of
nature, that it would be wrong to prevent it, and that it does
them goad." (H) It is a fact that a Dr. C. said so,
speaking in the character of an infallible authority,
against mesmerises, which prevents pain. Is it not,
however, probable, if even the facts did not prove
it, that an operation which is unattended with pain
or irritation is less likely to be followed by fatal inflam-
mation than one which was inflicted with torture, and
immediately succeeded by a total prostration of the vital
powers? Nor is it in respect to operations only that the
Zoist establishes, upon incontrovertible facts, the efficacy
of mesmerism, but, in respect to numerous acute and
chronic diseases, the rationale of the cure being clearly
enough explained in the reports. For these the publi-
cation must now be left to speak for itself. The truths
which it announces are before the world, and must make
their way. Patients will not much longer submit to
needless torture ; and operations without previous mes-
merism, will become as obsolete as the application of
red hot iron to a bleeding stump, notwithstanding the
wise and pious maxim that pain is ordained by Provi
deuce, is salutary, and ought not to be prevented.

PVEW QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XV.
There is an ambitious character about this publication
which cannot fail to elicit very considerable talent, and
to arouse no inconsiderable interest. If we felt inclined
to pronounce any wholesale condemnation upon the pre-
sent number, it would simply be for a blemish arising
out of an advantageous quality, namely, for discursive-
ness. In regard to variety of materials, there is, indeed,
anything but a deficiency ; but, from that very circum-
stance, there is, too generally we conceive, a lack of
solidity in the contributions. From their brevity and
multiplicity, the reviews bear too frequently the appear-
ance of superficial smartness than of astute and search-
ing analysis. This, however, is not applicable to every
individual article ; on the contrary, some might be par-
ticularised for their penetrant and philosophical acumen.
One pecularity in this periodical we must, nevertheless,
specify forthwith, inasmuch as it might be so readily
rectified, and constitutes such an intolerable deformity.
We allude to the extraordinary indifference to the
orthography of names and places ; whether arising from
the deceptive memory or execrable penmanship of the
reviewers, or the egregious carelessness of the composi-
tors, it is impossible to conjecture. "Don Juan" contains
an adroit sarcasm at military glory, where it condenses
it into a wooden leg, or having " one's name mis-
spelt in the Gazette." Byron overlooked the evan-
escence of literary glory in the same blundering of a
critic—though, true enough, the New Quarterly was not
then in existence. In speaking thus we are not battling
with a shadow ; the flaws and errors of this description
obtrude themselves upon our attention from many of the
pages now lying before us. We will not, however, con-
tent ourselves with simply entering a protest ; we will
substantiate our accusation by very credible witnesses.
For example : in a paper entitled " Melville's Residence
in the Marquesas" the writer calls Nukuheva, Mahahcra ;
he blunders taboo into tafoo ; Marheyo into Marhego ;
Fayaway into Fazawaz ; and the rest in like manner.
Such sins of commission are absolutely without the
slightest palliation ; they are the very converse of
the precision of those asetic caligraphers to whose
punctitious exactitude in orthography, we are indebted
for the preservation of many of the most important his-
torical facts, and thousands of the most precious poetical
beauties of the ancient historians and poets. Subordinate
as this failing may be, it is entirely divested of excuse,
and requires the most scrupulous avoidance. According
to our view, the examination of " Prichard's Physical
History of Man" is the most meritorious and valuable
article in the present number. It condenses the pith of
that very extraordinary work into an agreeable and
readable compass; it occasionally does justice to its
learned and most industrious author, but occasionally
also casts a flippant derision upon theories which have
been generated by many years of arduous me-
ditation. In the astonishing scope of his sub-
ject -- in multifarious accomplishments --in scho-
lastic and scientific erudition--in rigidity of judg-
ment and fecundity of imagination, the mind of Dr.
James Cowles Prichard bears some affinity to that of
the renowned Liebnitz. The extent to which this one
work upon the physical history of mankind has swelled,
and the astonishing fund of learning which it has plun-
dered from all preceding writers, cannot but remind the
readers of Liebnitz of the disquisitions, and essays, and
histories, and memorials, issued by that wonderful
genius. in these particulars, but in these particulars
alone, do we feel ourselves justified in hinting at an
analogy between minds otherwise so eminently dissimi-
lar. Liebnitz was an universal genius; his capacities ap-
peared to be exhaustless; no one could, or can conjecture,
the profundity or strength of his intellect. Dr. Prichard,
on the contrary, has presented us with the gauge of his
own mind in his researches upon the physical history of
mankind. We know precisely its depth, and it is not
shallow; we perceive precisely its hue, and it is not de-
ficient in lustre; we feel precisely its force, and it is not
feeble. Whether the whole human race—the black
negro, the tawny Arab, the fairest of the northern na •
tior.s, the red Indians, the dun Laplanders—are all the
offspring of one common stock, is one of those startling
questions which can never fail to excite the inquiries
of the thoughtful. That question is to be answered
either by reference to revelation or by appealing to the
judgment by an array of facts and arguments logically
placed. Dr. Prichard has evidently acquiesced in the
scriptural intimation that the human family has sprung
solely from Adam and Eve; and not only that those are
our exclusive progenitors, but that the descendants of
Noah alone survive on the face of the globe. Never-
theless, Dr. Prichard has not contented himself with
that very indolent mode of settling the matter: he has
argued the question as one of the problems of natural
and moral history, of psychology, of anatomy, of geo-
graphy, ethnography, and physiology. To elucidate its
merits he has devoted to it 37 years of his valuable
life, and still the matter remains incomplete. The arch
still lacks its keystone. May Dr. Prichard live to con
sumate his very remarkable and protracted exertions
The dissertation on the " Odes of llorace"—those ara

besques of poetry !—is a charming and scholarly paper.
Some of the latter pages seem powdered with the dia-
monds, and emeralds, and pearls of literature, in the
shape of quotations. Of a geographical character, we
are treated with articles upon " Stokes' Discoveries in
Australia," " Overland Route from India," "Expedition
to Borneo," &c. ; of romances we are granted a flavour"
in notices of Miss Pardoe's last novel, of" Emilia Wynd-
ham," and of Niccolo de' Lapi. With other interesting
papers the New Quarterly is singularly attractive.

LETTERS FROM MADRAS. By a Lady.
Murray's Home and Colonial Library. No. XXXV.
A volume of this delightful series is equivalent to an
excursion in a steamer. It carries its reader in imagina-
tion to the most distant and beautiful quarters of the
world; it does so with the utmost rapidity; and it con-
veys to his mind all the most striking characteristics of
those countries—their scenery, their inhabitants, their
customs, their amusements, their religious ceremonies—
as vividly as the most faithful memory and the most
picturesque pen can delineate them. With a number of
the " Home and Colonial Library" in our hands we can
at pleasure follow Malcolm to Persia, Borrow to
Spain, Hay to Morocco, Father Ripa to China, Lewis
to the West Indies, Bishop Heber to the East
Indies, Melville to the Marquesas Islands, or the fair
authoress, whose lucubrations are now lying upon our
portfolio, to Madras; and go thither, moreover, without
the trouble of removing our slippers on rising from our
elbow-chair. A map sketched before us on the table,
a paper-cutter, and one of the works just enumerated,
and, hey presto !—this brick Babylon of London is
forgotten, and we are strolling at leisure under cork
trees, among pagodas, by wigwams, or in any other
extraordinary locality we may please to select. By
issuing such a periodical Mr. Murray is performing
a service to his subscribers and to literature; he is en-
larging the minds of the former, and counteracting the
effect which might otherwise be produced by the spurious
products of the latter. These letters from Madras are
remarkable for the discursiveness of their descriptions,
and the utter lack of symmetry in their arrangement ;
and yet those very blemishes are the source of the
principal beauty of the performance. What is
lost in primness and neatness is gained in
naturalness. This is not one of those speci-
mens of book-making which are too often palmed
off upon the public as veritable originals. The narrative
is that of a voyager; the accounts are those of an eye,
witness; the paintings are copied from nature; and,
best of all, the narrator is a woman—a young, lively,
chattering, observant woman. From the moment when
she is overcome with sea-sickness in the Bay of Biscay,
and exclaims with horror, at the entrance of her Irish
servant with a great plateful of beefsteak and potatoes,
"0, what is all that for? Oh, dear me!" to the period
when the dinner table, at Samuldavee, is covered with
myriads of black bugs, and a man walks round the table
with a dessert-spoon (!) and a napkin to take them bff
the shoulders of the company, our authoress is
always in excellent humour, her descriptions are
always piquante, her observations always on
the qui vive. Nor does she neglect, whenever an
opportunity occurs, to intersperse her tittle-tattle with
serious and sometimes most benevolent commentaries.
For example, her animadversions on the trade in Hill
Coolies—a trade by which those unfortunate people are
trepanned from their native land, torn from their fami-
lies or deluded by fallacious statements to servitude in the
Mauritius—are to us most welcome. They are morever
of especial interest just at this juncture, when the Sugar
Duties Bill is receiving the sanction of the Legislature,
and when the names and misfortunes of the Hill Coolies
are thereby attracting a considerable share of public
attention. We can commend this little volume to every
one, but especially to those whose relatives are sojour-
ners either in Madras or its vicinity, and they are, we
conjecture, " not one, but legion."

THE ZOIST. A Journal of Cerebral Physiology
and Mesmerism, and their application to Human Wel-
fare. Nos. 13 and 14.
The last half-yearly volume of the Zoist demands im-
peratively the most solemn and careful attention of
every man who desires to advance science and to pro-
mote the welfare of mankind. The physiological facts
which are here collected surpass in their importance all
that may be found in the " Transactions" of Royal and
Medical and Chirurgical Societies, or in the " Reports "
of Academies, from the invention of printing to the pre-
sent time. They are produced by patient observers of
nature—earnest inquirers after truth—men of high
personal and professional character and extensive ac-
quirements, in all parts of the globe. They are esta-
blished by authority so conclusive, so far above sus-
picion, that none who can appreciate the force of
evidence will honestly deny them. They are of such
transcendant value to suffering mankind that it is both
cruel and iniquitous for those who live by professing
the healing art, to withhold their benefit from those
whom they are paid to relieve. It is, in fact, vain any
longer to decry Mesmerism as a delusion, or stigmatise
its disinterested and (happily for the world) indomitable
champions—the champions of now triumphant truth—
as impostors or fools. The day is gone by, and for
ever, when a heartless joke or a malignant sneer may
turn aside the attention of the world from phenomena,
which are not less precious in their practical utility than
instructive in their relation to the science of life. Let
the jeerers make their own of Clairvoyance ; let them
pit the " Mysterious Lady " and the " Scotch Boy "
against Julie and Adolphe. Whether and with what
limitations, Clairvoyance may be true, is a question
which can afford to stand over. But the amputation of
limbs, the extirpation of tumours, and a thousand minor
operations of surgical art, must, in the mean time, be
performed every hour. What torture, what agonies,
what miserable deaths attend them ! Do not, then,
stand and jabber about abstruse questions of imma-
teriality, like the pretended followers of Aristotle in the
old schools, whilst the patient writhes and screams
under your reckless knife, until the depth of your lore
and the prodigies of your skill are testified by a man-
gled corpse. Shame shame ! Do you not know that
there is not one case of surgical operation, from the most
complicated and hazardous to the drawing of a tooth,
that cannot be readily and mrtainly performed without

* The important cases of cure in glandular, vascular, and
nervous diseases of the most formidable kind,
communicated
by Dr. Elliotson, Dr. Ashburner, (of the Middlesex Hospital),
Mr. Widdell, Mr. Chandler, and others, would be sufficient to,
convince any person who would take the trouble, or rather
give himself the pleasure, of reading them. But we must
particularly refer to operations performed by Mr. Thomas
Bell, Professor of Zoology in King's College, and lecturer
at Guy's Hospital, the mesmeric phenomena of which are
certified by Mr. E. Forbes, Professor of Botany, King's
College ; Mr. W. Ferguson, Professor of Surgery, King's
College, and surgeon to King's College Hospital; Mr. James
Luke, surgeon to the London Hospital; and Mr. John
Adams, Assistant Surgeon, London Hospital. Mr. Thomas
Bell is to introduce the cases to the notice of his pupils at
Guy's Hospital in his lectures next session. How long will
the " reflex motion" and " useful pain" doctors hold out?
and the surgeons who swear in courts ofjustice that blundering
and fatal operations cannot be helped, and that a man must
wade knee deep in human blood to surgical eminence? That
sworn statement was distinctly applied to blood fatally shed !

LAYS AND LEGENDS OF GERMANY. By

Ella Louisa Harvey.
A very pleasing volume of fugitive pieces, by the ac-
complished daughter of the Bishop of Jamaica. In
fluency of versification, and analogy of expression, Miss
Harvey's translations rom German poetry are frequently
equal to the most successful performances of John
Oxenford—and, to our thinking, that is no mean com-
mendation. Nevertheless, the fair authoress is some-
tunes singularly unequal in spirit. One stanza is spon-
taneous and unaffected, while the very next is forced
and unnatural. Her version of that tenderest of all
tender ditties (" Most musical, most melancholy")
" Mignon's Song," is a striking example of this defect ;
the second and third verses are altogether unworthy of
the first ; it is the merging of a delicious melody into
discordance. In the minor fragments Miss Harvey is
generally eminently successful.
" Ye never shall possess it
The free, the German Rhine,"
seems beating with the pulse of a love for fatherland.
Sometimes, by the novel pensivenes with which she in-
vests even a trite idea, our authoress writes in a tone sin-
gularly touching. Thus, after revisiting " The Scenes
of Childhood," and, after musing on their unaltered
verdure and beauty, she exclaims :
" Ye are the same—but in my heart
There dwells a world of change ;
And all your glories but impart
A feeling cold and strange.
" To me the woods, and rushing streams,
The wild and beauteous shore,
Are shadows of remembered dreams.
For I am young no more 1"

Many of the legends are striking and original ; and
the historical ballads, written in emulation of those glo-
rious lines, beloved of yore, by Bishop Percy, are
pleasingly and sometimes nervously composed. Miss
Harvey has shown herself an adept in all the myste-
ries of rhythm, and because she has not striven for the
attainment of too much she has been successful.

THE TORY CAUSE IN BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.—A
circular has been addressed to the wealthy Tories in Brad-
ford, to say that, unless they double their subscriptions, there
can be no stand made for the West Riding at the next elec-
tion, as the Tory funds are much depressed.
REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.—It will be re-
collected that at a meeting of the committee of the Manchester
Reform Association, on Wednesday week, a resolution to put
Mr. Cobden in nomination, notwithstanding his reluctance
to offer himself as a candidate, was met by an amendment,
to the effect that the meeting regretted exceedingly that
Mr. Cobden should decline to become a candidate, and that
it was advisable to seek some other gentleman to offer him-
self as a candidate. It was then agreed that a special meet-
ing of the committee should be held on that day week, to
consider the whole question. The special meeting was
held on Wednesday last, and there was a very large at-
tendance, including nearly all the members of the commit-
tee. Mr. George Wilson moved that Mr. Bright be invited
to become a candidate at the next general election. Mr.
Edward W. Watkin seconded the motion. A long discus •
sion ensued; those who supported the motion urging the
claims of Mr. Bright to the honour of representing Man-
cbester, while on the other hand those who were in favour
of putting Mr. Cobden in nomination, contended that no
good reason could be shown why the same course should
not be taken with regard to him, that was pursued towards
the late Mr. Poulett Thomson, who was put in nomination
and elected without his consent. On the other hand, it
was urged that the committee had only a week before—(we
believe, by a majority of 13 to G )—negatived the course now
recommended by the majority of those present. Ultimately,
it was resolved unanimously that a meeting should be held
that day fortnight ( Wednesday the 2d September), to con-
sider the propriety of rescinding the resolution of Wednes-
day week, and of reconsidering the whole subject.—Man-
chester Guardian.

FINSBURY CHARITY SCHOOL—The fifty-fourth an-
niversary dinner of this institution was held on Thursday
last at the London Tavern, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
in the chair, supported by the Rev. J. Saunders, rector of
St. Luke, Rer. L. Marcus, incumbent of St Paul's, Finsbury,
H. Lee, Esq., treasurer, E. Robinson, Esq., H. W. Elder, Esq.,
11. J. Leas, Esq., J. Seeley, Esq., &c. The dinner was
served in a style highly creditable to Messrs. Bathe and
Breach, and gave great satisfaction to a numerous and
respectable company. The cloth being removed, "Non
nobis" was sung by Messrs. Sporle, Kenny, Smith, and King.
After the usual loyal toasts, the chairman rose and expressed
the gratification he felt in occupying the chair on so interest-
ing an occasion, pointing out to the company the most pro-
minent features of the institution. His Lordship then alluded
to the importance and advantage of a Scriptural education of
the poor, and the social guarantee it afforded, and urged the
assembly to give a practical proof of the estimation in which
they held the charity. He then gave the toast, " Prosperity
to the Finsbury Charity Schools," amid great cheering. The
children were then introduced, whose neat appearance and
behaviour elicited much approbation. After an appropriate
address by the Rev. L. Marcus, the health of the treasurer
was given and acknowledged, a handsome subscription was
then made ; among the donations was the Lord Mayor,
101. 10s. ; J. Thomson, Esq., 51. ss. ; H. W. Elder, 5/. ss. ;
Messrs. Lee, 101. 10s., &c. Other toasts followed, and the
party broke up, delighted with the evening's entertainment.
DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.—Our Neath correspondent
informs us that an extraordinary and unheard-of disease
has attacked numbers of cows in his neighbourhood, and
that the milk which they yield is so fetid as to be totally
unfit for use.— Wi lshman.

EGG LAW.—A somewhat ludicrous exhibition of this
mode of procedure was witnessed in Stamford butter-market
on Friday last, and which was inflicted upon a female vendor
of eggs—one of those who visit this market evidently with
the intention of defrauding the public. This honest woman,
it appears, had stood in the market that day with a basket
of putrid eggs, part of which she succeeded in palming off
at the usual market price, hoping, no doubt, to get clear off
before the purchasers found out their mistake ; but she had
good reason to lament her dishonesty, for before she could
make her exit her enraged customers returned, and, possess.
ing themselves of the remainder of her ware, pelted her
with them so lustily that she was obliged to retreat into a
tradesman's shop close by to avoid a further infliction of this
not very agreeable punishment, which has doubtless taught
her that, atter all, " honesty is the beat policy."—Lincolnshire
Chronicle.

COURT CIRCULAR.

THE ROYAL VICTORIA AND ALBERT YACHT.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.—The Queen and _Prince
Albert left Weymouth, at six a.m., and proceeded to
sea, kept along the coast laying to off Lyme Rejig,
Sidmouth, Babacomb Bay, passing through Torbay ai.'d
round to Dartmouth ; her Majesty passing the night a t
anchor in the River Dart. _ _

Her Majesty anchored at a quarter after three p.m.
The weather was very wet, and there was a great deal
of wind.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21.—Her Majesty and her Royal
Consort left Dartmoth at six o'clock, a.m., and arrived
at Plymouth, at half-past nine o'clock.
The Admiral, the Commander of the Forces, and all
the principal naval and military authorities came on
board, and paid their respects to the Queen.
The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe also came off
from Mount Edgeeumbe to pay her respects to her
Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert embarked on the Fairy
at half-past one o'clock, for au excursion up the Tamer.
Her Majesty proceeded as far as Cothele, an eld
mansion of the Mount Edgecumbe family, where her
Majesty and the Prince disembarked, and walked up to
the old house.

Her Majesty returned to Barn Pool at half-put five
o'clock, having inspected the newly launched frigate,
Thetis, on her way.
The Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe joined
the royal partly at dinner on board the yacht.
SATURDAY, Aua, 22..—His Royal Highness Prince
Albert left Plymouth at 7 A.N., on a visit to Dartmoor
Forest.

Her Majesty and her Roysi.l Consort will honour the
Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecambe with their com-
pany at luncheon.

A Cabinet Council was held at three o-Nockon Sa-

turday afternoon at the Foreign-office.— The Ministers
•
present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chaucellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Mink I. Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Aucklaitd,
Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpethf
the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and
the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere.
The Council sat an hour and a half.

Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, had an
interview with Lord Palmerston at the Foreign-office ou
Saturday.
A deputation on the Salvage 111, consisting of Ad-
miral Dundas, M.P. • Major Beresford,,M.P.• Mr. Samuel
Palmer, Mayor of M.P.;
Yarmouth ; W. T. Clarke,/
and Mr. Saunders, bad an interview wi;,`la the Earl of
Clarendon, on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of
Trade.

The mortal remains of the late much-esteemed Baron
Dedel, Minister of the Netherlands at this Court .since
1833, were conveyed on Saturday from his former rmi.
deuce in Wilton-crescent, to the St. Katherine's Whaef,
in order to be transported from thence the next day by'
the Dutch steamer the Batavier, to Holland, in confor-
mity with his express wish. The burial of the Baron is
to be strictly private, and takes place near the village of
Loorduynen, in the vicinity of the Hague. The funeral
cortege was followed by his son, chief mourner ; M.
Stratenus, Councillor to the Legation ; and by .45-r- May,
the Netherlands Consul-General.
Mr. Henry Boyd, Charge d'Affaires of the United
States (ad interim), has removed the office of the L ega-
tion from Harley-street, to No. 7, St. James's place.
The Bishop of Jamaica had an interview with Et\u'l
Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
The Ministerial white-bait dinner took place on Satur-•
day at Greenwich.
The Duke of Wellington, Lord Wynford, Lord G.-
Paulet, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service,
yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The ser-
mon was preached by the Rev. J. C. Haden. A t the
daily service, the prayers were read by the Rev. T.
Ilelmore, and the lessons by the Rev. J. Haden. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. Thf_
Anthem was " Thou, 0 God, art praised in Sion
(Greene). Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The
Marquis of Winchester, Lords Fortescue, Listowel, and
Granville, were among the nobility present.

PENSIONS ON THE CIVIL LIST.
The following is a return to an order of the House of Lords,
dated August 3, 1846, for a return of all pet. SiOna granted
since January 1, 1838, with the respective amt,,unt of any
permanent place under Government held by the pay at the
date of the grant :
DATE.
1838.
March 14
April 7 Wm. Wallace, died April 28. 11:343 1300
June 20 Sarah Mears ... 40
December 17
Albina Gibbons ...
James Gibbons
John Gibbons ...
Catherine Gibbons ... ,

NAME.

A.VOUICT.

1839.
January 17
March 25 John Gurwood, Lieutenant-Colonel
(died Dec. 27, 1845) ... 200`
April 23 ...
June 18 Mary Banim 40
November 20
February, 1843) ... ... 1,000
December 31
Aldridge „.. ... 25

1840.
April 23 Mary Lander ...
James Browne, LL.D. ...
July 23 Rev. Henry Barez
Guiseppe Guazzaroni
John Bernard Sale
Thomas Steward ...
Francoise Grandineare
Lucy Anderson

Sarah Matilda Bourdin
September 9 Henry Williams ...
~. Thomas Walker ...
.. . Edward Morgan ...
1841.
March 17
June 7
... George Burger
Thomas Webster, died Dec. 26, 1844
...... Rev. Thomas Kidd, M.A.
June 17 Benjamin Thorpe ...
July 23
August 3 ... Sophia Wynyard, died Oct. 28, 1844
August 30 ... Dame Catherine Jeremie

... ..... John Anger, LL.D. ... ... ...
... ...... Rev. Henry Francis Cary (died
August 14, 1844) ... ... ...
August 31......... Eliza Ann James ... ... ... ...
... ..... Margaret Clapperton ... ... ...

1842.
September 21 ... Louisa Baroness Lebzen
November 17 ... Elizabeth Devereux. Kennedy, addi-
tional pension (see June 7, 1841)
.. Anna Maria Kennedy ...
William Wordsworth ... ...
November 25
.. Richard Owen ... ... ... ... ...

1843.
September 14 Dame Marion Bell ... ... ... ...
.. Anna Eliza Maria Drummond
Robert Brown
N

ovember 16 Dame Flocentia Sale ...
1844.
April 27 .. Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Knt.,
M.A., Astronomer Royal for Ire-
-1845.

January 28 .... Patrick Fraser Tytler
••• 000000 Jane Hood ••• ••. ... ...
Susan Robertson ... •.• •• • ...
Mary Robertson ••• ... ... ...
Eleanor Robertson ...

Elizabeth Robertson ...
January 31
Frances Agnes Stoddart
March 5
June 81 Clara Maria Susanna Lowe ..
July 28 Augusta Emma d'Este (additional
pension) ...
September 30
4, 1846) ...
October 14 ...... Alfred Tennyson ...
James David Forbes, Professor of
Natural Philosophy in the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh (salary from
the public, 301. per annum) ...

1846.
April 22 ... Jane Loudon .. ... ... ... ...
June 30 . ..... Anna Archer Shee .. ... ...
Mary Archer Shee ... ... ...
Jessie M'Caskill ... ... ... ..,
..
... Catherine Taylor ... ... ...
... ..... John Ramsey M'Culloch, Comp-
troller of the Stationery Office,
salary 900/. per annum ••• ...
July 4
July 6

200
100
60

100
100
300
100
200

100
200
200
500

500

200
200

200

50
50
200
100
50

200
50
25
25

Total amount ... £10,780
J. PARKER.
Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Aug. 18,1846.

ILFRACOMBE.

TO TIIE HON. TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT

ASSEMBLED.

The humble Petition of the Guardians of the Poor of the

Parish of Ilfracombe, in the Barnstaple Union,
Sheweth,
_ _

That the Legislature having sanctioned the contracting of
marriage before the superintendent-registrar of marriages,
your petitioners consider that no stigma or degradation should
be suffered to be cast on marriages so contracted, and they
believe that compelling parties so desirous of contracting
marriage to attend for such purpose at an union workhouse
will tend to cast a stigma on marriages so contracted.
That the registrar-general has refused, in some instances,
to allow the superintendent-registrar's office to be in union
woi khouses, on the very ground of your petitioners' objection,
above stated; but in the case of the superintendent-regis-
trar's office for the district of the Barnstaple union, the
registrar-general has been induced to comply with a vote of
the board of guardians, in sanctioning the office of the clerk
of the union being appropriated to and for the purpose of
marriage and the general business of the registration of
births, deaths, and marriages of the district of the Barnstaple
union.

That at the present advanced period of the session your
petitioners cannot hope for legislation on this point, but your
petitioners humbly pray that your Hon. House previous to pro-
rogation will be pleased by vote to express dissatisfaction at
any part of en union workhouse being used for the purpose
of contracting marriage, or as a place of deposit for the re-
gisters of births, deaths, and marriages._

And sour petitioners will ever pray, &c.
}R. W. DICKINSON, Guardians of the Poor of the
RICHARD BLIGH, parish of Ilfracombe, in
JOHN JONES, the Barnstaple Union.

BREAD COMPANY.—A company is being established to
supply the community with bread, to be made from the best
wheaten flour, at 4d. the four-pound loaf, which will include
a profit of 5 per cent., as well as the actual cost of material
wages, &c. The capital is $0 be 20010004