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DECEMBER 3, 1846.
No. 16,913. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SU NI

ADDRESS of the LIVERPOOL ASSOCIA-
T;ON for the REDUCTION of the DUTY on TEA.
In again calling public attention to the present oppressive and
impolitic tax upon tea, the Association are anxious to give promi.
nence to those facts which indicate the necessity for an immediate
reduction of the duty.
The conclusion of the treaty with China encouraged confident
expectations of the extension of our trade with that empire. It was
reasonably anticipated that the low rate of duty imposed by its
Government upon British manufactures would be reciprocated by a
corresponding liberality in the admission of the staple production of
the Chinese for the use of ourselves. The elements of agricultural
industry essential to the production of tea,—the fertile and exten-
sive territory, and the superabundant population of China, esti-
mated at above 350,000,000,—are capable et enlarging its supply in
a ratio at least equal to that in which the machinery of our manu-
facturers can increase the production of fabrics required for exporta-
tion. Our imports of tea from China have never yet reached four
per cent. of the entire production of that country, according to the
best calculation.
It is, however, a notorious fact, that the expectations thus cherished
have been disappointed. The merchants are exposed to heavy losses
in the importation of tea, which are now selling in the British
markets at prices below their current value in China ; while at the
same time our manufactures are selling in China for less than the
cost of their production here. The population at large are unbeneflted
by any practical result accruing from a treaty that has left behind it
a tax upon British industry, which at the same time confers a bonus
upon foreign competition.
There is no difficulty in ascertaining the cause of so disastrous an
issue. The pressure of an impost, unprecedented in any other tariff,
cripples the operations of our merchants, and excludes our manu-
factures frr,m the larger proportion of the Chinese population ; while
it deprives the labouring classes in this country of one of the most
needful articles of domestic comfort. The foreign policy of our Go-
vernment has achieved a brilliant success; but its results are marred
and counteracted by the incongruous arrangements of the Home
Exchequer. The chief export of China is brought in abundance to
our shores, only to accumulate in our warehouses. A tax, as
anomalous in its principle as it is mischievous in its results, stops at
once the tide of commercial prosperity and the pervading currents of
social civilization.
Under such circumstances, it is almost as easy to predict the future
as to review the past, A losing trade can never be a permanent one.
The discouraging results of this year's imports will curtail the ship-
ments of the next. Comparative scarcity, and proportionately high
prices, will follow. The professed intention of the financial measures
of Government for some time past has been to cheapen the necessa-
ries of life. In this country tea occupies a more prominent place
among those necessaries than in any other. Under the operation of
any uniform and reasonable system of taxation, it would, therefore,
have been recognised as a primary object for the ameliorative inter
position of Government. On the contrary, however, the Legislature
of the country iii which it is most, extensively consumed is the last
to recognise its importance in the civil and social economy of the
state. The British Government has afforded every facility for its
supply to other countries, where if is little more than an occasional
luxury, and has impeded its consumption among ourselves, where its
use is indispensable
The necessities of the Exchequer, the only plea advanced in pallia-
tion of an impost so obviously indefensible, is one which will not
bear examination. There is no reason to apprehend that the reduc-
tion of the duty to Is. per pound would leave a deficit of any import-
ance. The immediate result of such a change would unquestionably
be the liberation of a larger quantity from bond than had ever been
taken out during the same period before. If any temporary pres-
sure upon our finances existed, it would thus be promptly relieved.
There is no room to doubt that in the further course of time the gra-
dual increase of consumption would enlarge the revenue upon a sure
and satisfactory basis. This is not a gratuitous conjecture, but a
reasonable deduction from the result of similar changes in the duties
on coffee and sugar ; and, above all, it is confirmed by the only two
existing precedents of a reduction in the tax upon tea itself. In
1744, the duty was reduced from 131. 18s. 75y d. per cent. and 4s. per
lb. to 38/. 18s. 73,i d. per cent. and is. per lb. The consumption im-
mediately advanced nearly 50 per cent. In 1784, the duty was re-
duced from 551. 15s. 10d. per cent. and Is. Id. 4-sths per lb. to 12%
per cent. The consumption was at once more than doubled. In
1785 it was trebled, and in 1794 it was quadrupled. Since that pe-
riod the duty has gradually advanced. Under the monopoly of the
East India Company it was 100 per cent. ; and under a system of in-
dividual enterprise and competition, it is nearly 200 per cent. Every
reduction in the price of the article has, however, been followed by
an increase in its consumption.
The present consumption of tea in this country amounts to an
average of about I%lb. per head per annum for the entire popula-
tion. This is about one-fourth of the allowance usually afforded to
domestic servants in families of the middle classes ; it is less than
one-half of the quantity consumed in the Channel Islands, where all
intoxicating beverages are far cheaper than in this country; and it
is scarcely one-sixth of the proportion used in Australia, by a popu-
lation whose physical requirements will appear to most persons less
favourable to its use. Whatever test may be applied to our present
consumption, it will evidently appear to be restricted by the artificial
limits of price, and not by any objection to the qualities and proper-
ties of the article. A careful examination of these will justify the
conclusion that it is adapted more than any other beverage for in-
corporation with every description of diet, and for use at every
meal ; that it is suited to every variety of physical constitution,
and adequate to sustain every description of mental or corporeal
exercise.
The present duty amounting to two-thirds of the cost of the most
serviceable descriptions of tea, it is evident that the dealers require,
in order to cover their investments in its purchase, three times the
profit which would repay them, were the article free of duty. The
public have thus to pay a tax upon a tax ; the magnitude of the im-
post, in the first instance, being indefensible and oppressive. Were
the duty reduced to Is. per lb., the consumer would obtain at least
3lbs, of tea for the same money that he now pays ror Ms."; 'and
there is no doubt whatever that the larger quantity would be used.
As the consumption of every pound of tea involves that of 51bs. of
sugar, the extra duty on the latter, added to that on e
the
about four increased
quantity of ten at Is., would at once yield a revenu of
miions, according to the most moderate computation, while the
futllure enlargenvnt of this source of public income might confidently
be expected.
The committee conceive it unnecessary to enlarge upon those
moral and social benefits that may fairly be anticipated under the
operation of a more equitable impost. They are persuaded that the
removal of those restrictions which now impede the use of a cheap
and salubrious beverage would be highly conducive to tire happiness
and well-being of the community, by encouraging habits of tem-
perance and domestic comfort, and by supplying practical dissua-
sives from crime. They regard the burden of the tax as now
pressing upon the energies of the entire population, under what-
ever character these may be beneficially developed; and they there-
fore invite the sympathy and support of all classes in their efforts
for its removal.
Liverpool, November, 1846

WILLIAM NICOL, Chairman.

REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS TO THE
SHAREHOLDERS OF THE SCOTTISH MIDLAND EX-
TENSION RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Shareholders are already informed that the Bill, for incorpo-
rating the Company and authorising the Works, was lost in the last
session of Parliament, having been rejected by the Committee of the
House of Commons.

MTh, been
rrnwilli ns to dissolve the Company has-
entertaining an expeCtation that, by
delaying, they would be able to effect an arrangement for relieving
the Shareholders of part of the
happy in having to report that in Ptalree incurred ; and they are
expenses on the Bill, though the grsethateesyt heacvonoamtylewngths sueceentd.
exer-
cised, were larger than the Directors anticipated they wouldabe
par-
ticularly in the cost of witnesses. This arose from the.grouliee
which this Bill formed part, having been ordered to meet in March
before before the Standing Orders Committee had reported on some of the
Bills. This Bill had passed standing orders, and been read a second
time, and it was expected that the notice between tke second reading
and the sitting of the Committee on the Bill would, in the circum-
stances (the Committee for a group being appointed to meet on a
fixed day), be/ dispensed with. In consequence, the witnesses and
agents were all sent from Scotland, and the other preparations made.
But the Committee adjourned for a month, and so the witnesses and
agents went back to Scotland, and returned to attend the Committee
for the adjourned day. Thus there was a double expense in that de-
partment.
The total number of shares issued (on all of them the full deposit
was paid) was 10,687. The accounts of expense have
neanot been all
adjusted, but the total amount appears be veryr 9,5001.,
or about 17s. 6d. per share, which, out of the 50s. of deposit, would
afford a return of 325. 6d
But your Directors have made an arrangement with the Scottish
Midland Junction Railway Company, whereby that Company agrees
to make a return of 40s. per share, receiving the plans and taking
the place of the Scripholders. The Parliamentary Deeds will be can-
celled.
The Shareholders who desire to avail themselves of this arrange-
ment will transmit their Scrip Certificates, along with a memoran-
dum of their ,indorsing and addresses, to the Interim-Secretary,
without delay, upon them these words —" Transmitted for
the return of 40s. per share, in terms of the Directors' Report, dated
14th November' 1846," and letting this indorsement be signed by
the Scripholder and in return the Secretary will forward a Banker's
Credit on London, or Edinburgh, or Glasgow, for the amount of the
return at the usual par, or at sight less the Banker's charge for ex-
change, as may be desired.
By order,
CHRIS. KERR, Interim-Secretary.

Dundee, 14th Nov. 1846.
No 9, Denmark-street, Soho-square, Dec. 3, 1846.
MENZ lES'S ANNUAL CALEDONIAN
COSTUME and FANCY DRESS BALL will take place on
'I RUUSDAY, the 21st ofJanuary, at the QUEEN'S CONCERT ROOMS,
Hanover-square.
ABATTGIRES, or SLAUGHTER
P ÜBLIC
HOUSES.
The Prospectuses are in a state of forwardness; in the meantime,
whilst the promoters are grateful for the mass of in
suggestions
formation
already volunteered, they will feel obliged by any further
which may be useful in the final settlement of their plan.
HENRY F. RIC HARDSON,
Solicitor to the Promoters.
36, Coleman-street, London, Nov. 30,

MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, and GREAT
ORIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the above Company has been DIS-
SOLVED, pursuant to the Act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 28.
An holders of Scrip and Banker's Receipts are desired to forward
the same to the Secretary, who, on receipt thereof, will remit
Dividend of 4s. 6d. per Share, together with a Certificate entitling
the holder to a further pro rata division of the Funds of the Com-
pany (if any) after all the liabilities of the Company are discharged.
By order,
FRANCIS PARKER, Secretary.
Rotherham, Ist December, 1846.
N.B. As it is impossible for the Directors to know all the present
holders of Scrip, parties who have not received a copy of their Re-
port may obtain one on application to the Secretary

SHEFFIELD, ROTHERHAM, and DONCAS-
TER JUNCTION RAILWAY.
MASBROUGH to DONCASTER.
Capital 300,0001., in 12,000 Shares of 25/, each.
Deposit 11. per Share.
Notice is hereby given, that the Plans, Sections, and Books of
Reference of the above Railway have been duly deposited, according
to the Standing Orders of Parliament.
All holders of Scrip of the late Manchester, Midland, and Great
Grimsby Junction Railway who intend to avail themselves of the
option of taking Shares in the above Company, according to the
terms of the Directors' Report, are desired to signify their intention
to Mr. Parker, High-street, Rotherham, on or before the 15th inst.,
or they will forfeit all claims to a pro rata allotment.
By order,
FRANCIS PARKER.

Rotherham, Ist December, 1846.
to b y3iJr.o nctio li
Parker. R,
N.B. Any Shareholder who may not have received a copy of the
n
Report of the Directors of the Manchester, Midland, and Great
(i/ors
wg
ha-ys t rule ea ty, Rbeotherfurnished with one on applica-

NATIONAL SECURITY BANK.
TEMPORARY OFFICE, 163, Fenchurch-street, London.
Capital, 500,0001., in 5,000 Shares of 100/.
Deposit 10/. ; Call 40/ per Share.
In consequence of the numerous shares already subscribed for, the
public are respectfully informed that :an early application will be
needful on the part of those who may desire to become interested in
this establishment. The solidity of the principles on which it is
founded having been universally admitted, whether with reference
to the complete protection of the shareholders, the sound secu-
rity offered to the customers, or the advantage arising to them by
the interest on deposits, which neither the Bank of England nor
the private banks allow, with the addition of a security perfectly
unexceptionable, even in the case of trustees, or official parties,
the Directors feel confident that the only ingredient necessary
to secure it the entire approbation of the public ivill be supplied by a
detailed statement, now prepared, of the various soutees of profit from
which its large contemplated returns will be derived. These are such
as cannot fail to confirm the opinion of those who have already sub-
scribed for upwards of 4,000 shares, and to satisfy any doubts that
may have been suggested as to the very profitable nature of the pro-
posed investment.
Applications for shares may be addressed to the Secretary, at 163,
Fenchurch-street, by whom prospectuses and a detailed statement of
the sources ofproflt, &c., will be forwarded, post free, if written for;
to Messrs. Sutton and Co., solicitors, 6, Basinghalbstreet , Messrs.
Capron and Co., solicitors, Saville-place, New Burlington-street ; and
to Messrs. Sutton and Co., stock brokers, Royal Exchange.

MAGAZINES (CONTINUED).
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
The present number of Bentley opens with the
second chapter of Cooper's novel of " Captain Spike."
In the last number we left Spike's clipper, the Molly
Swash, on the " Pot Rock." She, however, has
merely touched the rock with her fore-foot, and im-
mediately gets off. Spike, however, does not like the
look of the boat which has been dogging him, and
would fain get clear of the revenue steam cruizer,
which is moored lower down the estuary. There is
some fun produced by the fears of Mrs. Budd, the
widow of the sea captain, whose mistakes as to
nautical technicalities are most ludicrous ; but Mrs.
Budd's mistakes do not divert the attention of Budd
or his crew from the working of the ship. Jack
Tier, a former shipmate, is taken on board, albeit
under suspicious circumstances, and then Spike's
great endeavour is to outmanoeuvre the revenue
steamer. In order to do this, he transforms the brig
into a schooner, or, as Mrs. Budd phrases it, " un-
dresses his ship." By this manceuvre he gains time.
However, at length the steamer gives chase; but she
has to get her steam up which gives Spike an ad-
vantage, of which he is not slow to avail himself, for,
aided by the darkness of the night, he puts into a
deep bay while the steamer goes past the entrance,
and thus for the time he escapes. The description of
the chase is most graphic and exciting, such a de-
scription as none but Cooper could write. The reader
feels himself on board the " Molly Swash" while
reading it—a particeps criminis with Captain Spike,
and it is quite a relief to find the Molly S wash safe in
the bay, with the steamer sailing past the entrance on
a wild goose chase. " Spring Tide," which follows
this chapter, is a pleasant Waltonian prolusion, with an
illustration by Leech, showing how the lovers of the
angle are sometimes tormented, even as they them-
selves torment the fish, by insects. Then we have

THE DRESS OF OTHER DAYS.
A PARODY.
The dress of other days is faded,
Though once esteem'd so smart,
And all its boasted style is shaded
By that of MOSES' Mart.
Such charming dress I view superior
Ila all that it displays ;
r, oh ! it places as inferior
The Dress of other Days.

No dress can equal that of MOSES
In any one respect,
A novel fashion it discloses
Without the least defect.
MOSES and SON'S fam'd Mart can rival
Whate'er the trade displays ;
A nd no one seeks for a revival
Of the dress of other days.

The workmanship mid cloth together
I've always found the best,
And, wear them in the roughest weather,
You'll find they stand the test.
With facts like these I often wonder
At what the buyer pays ;
A price considerably under
The Dress of other Days.
LIST OF PRICES.
• READY MADE.

" Long Jim, or the Tipperary Process-server, by a
Cove of Cork." The " cove "of Cork can, if we mis-
take not, give us an insight into the causes of
the so-called "lawlessness" of the Irish peasantry.
"Long Jim" is a most suggestive paper. The story
is soon told. Long Jim mounts on the Clonmel
mail-car to go into the rural districts. The car is
attacked, not as the driver and passengers imagine, to
rob the mail, but to punish Long Jim, the process-
server (and to use the words of one of the peasants),
"to give him a taste of what's in store for him, if he
don't lave off," and Long Jim is only saved from
being murdered by the arrival of a travelling chariot
and four, with outriders, &c., which chariot contains
" his Lordship," who takes Jim under his protection.
But according to the showing of the peasantry, who
show the utmost courtesy towards the other passen-
gers by the car, the crime of Jim is not so much pro-
cess serving per se as apostacy. True he " takes little
shlips o' paper about the country, ruining
poor people," but as the leader of his assail-
ants observes, "An' what harm, only the blackguard
is one of ourselves, an a dacent father and mother's
child, that's ashamed of him so they are, instead of
taking to honest work to
.earn his bread, the nasty
baste for the sake of the thrifle he gets by it, becomes
a bailiff bad luck to him, and goes about sarvin his
own flesh and blood, I may say wood notices to pay
tithes." Here is the grand secret of the murder of
process-servers in Ireland, they are apostates who
serve processes upon their own flesh and blood. If as
in England the bailiff trade was delivered up to the
very lowest and most degraded of the Jews, as their
own especial monopoly—a monopoly to interfere with
which would be considered by decent Christians as an
indelible disgrace process-service in Ireland, would as
in England be unattended with danger, because pro-
cess-servers would by common consent be regarded
as the pariahs of Society. Miss Costello's Summer
Sketches in Switzerland, are scarcely worthy of her,
but en revanche, we have "the Cranks of Christmas
tide," which is a glorious prolusion. Then comes a
sonnet from Petrarch, gracefully translated by Lady
Nugent.
" I go lamenting o'er my days past by,
Those days consumed in love of mortal thing,
Without attempt to mount, I having wing
Perchance to soar and give example high.
Thou, who dost see my deep iniquity,
Invisible, immortal, heavenly King,
Aid the frail soul in her wide wandering,
In what defective from they grace supply ;
So I, with strife and storm wont to contend,
May thus in peace and haven die. I see
How vain the past, yet blameless be the end ;
O'er that short span of life now left for me,
And at its close, thy saving hand extend—
Thou know'st I have no hope in aught but Thee."
The " Gipsy's Baptism," by Thomasina Ross, is a ro-
mantic legend, anent the loves of the father and mother
of Lope de Vega, and then comes a pleasant article
on old Jest Books by Halliwell. The "Adventures
of Brian O'Linn" are continued, as are the interesting
revelations of the "Flaneur in Paris." A quaint and
mirthful "Narrative of an Expedition to the end of
Birkenhead," by Albert Smith, concludes this num-
ber, which contains two plates by Leech, the one
illustrating the Gipsy's Baptism, the other illustrating
Brian O'Linn, and a portrait of Sir Thom as Over-
bury, from an extra rare engraving illustrating an ad-
mirable criticism by Dr.W . C. Taylor, of Mr. Am os s
recently published work, " The Great Oyer ofPoison-
ing.

DOMBEY and SON. No. 111. By Charles Dickens.
Son is developed in the eighth chapter to five years
old. Under the tutelage of one Mrs. Wickam and the
watchful eyes of Time—" so far," says the facetious
historian, " another major"—little Paul is at that time
dreadfully tardy in a physical and constitutional sense,
and dreadfully precocious in an intellectual one. "He
looked (and talked)," says the author, " like one of
those terrible little beings in the fairy tales who, at a
hundred and fifty or two hundred years of age, fan-
tastically represent the children for whom they have
been substituted." Mr. Dickens has, however, so
beautifully delineated the character of a child in this
same Paul Dombey, that we will transcribe an entire
scene from his pages :
" They were the strangest pair at such a time that
ever firelight shone upon. Mr. Dombey so erect and
solemn, gazing at the blaze; his little image, with an old,
old, face, peering into the red perspective with the fixed
and rapt attention of a sage. Mr. Dombey entertaining
complicated worldly schemes and plans; the little image
entertaining Heaven knows what wild fancies, half-
formed thoughts, and wandering speculations. Mr.
Dombey stiff with starch and arrogance; the little image
by inheritance, and in unconscious imitation. The two
so very much alike, and yet so monstrously contrasted.
" On one of these occasions, when they had both been
perfectly quiet for a long time, and Mr. Dombey only
knew that the child was awake by occasionally glancing
at his eye, where the bright fire was sparkling like a
jewel, little Paul broke silence thus:

pounded to him how that money, though a very potent
spirit, never to be disparaged on any account whatever,
could not keep people alive whose time was come to die;
and how that we must all die, unfortunately, even in the
city, though we were never so rich. But how that money
caused us to be honoured, feared, respected, courted, and
admired, and made us powerful and glorious in the eyes
of all men ; and how that it could, very often, even keep
off death, for a long time together. How, for example,
it had secured to his mamma the services of Mr. Pilkins,
by which he, Paul, had often profited himself ; likewise
of the great Doctor Parker Peps, whom he had never
known. And how it could do all, that could be (lone.
This, with more to the same purpose, Mr. Dombey in-
stilled into the mind of his son, who listened attentively,
and seemed to understand the greater part of what was
said to him. _ _

" ' It can't make me strong and quite well, either, Papa;
can it?' asked Paul, after a short silence ; rubbing his
tiny hands.
" 4 Why, you are strong and quite well,' returned Mr.
Dombey. ' Are you not ?'
" ' Oh ! the age of the face that was turned up again,
with an expression, half of melancholy, half of slyness,
on it !

" You are as strong and well as such little people
usually are ? Eh ?" said Mr. Dombey.
" Florence is older than I am, but I'm not as strong
and well as Florence, I know,' returned the child ; ' and
I believe that when Florence was as little as me, she
could play a great deal longer at a time without tiring
herself. lam so tired sometimes, said little Paul, warm-
ing his hands, and looking in between the bars of the
grate, as if some ghostly puppet-show were performing
there, 'and my bones ache so (Wickam says it's my
bones), that I don't know what to do.'
" ' Aye! But that's at night,' said Mr. Dombey,
drawing his own chair closer to his son's, and laying his
hand gently on his back; little people should be tired
at night, for then they sleep well.'
"' Oh, it's not at night, Papa,' returned the child, it's
in the day; and I lie down in Florence's lap, and she
sings to me. At night I dream about such cu-ri-ous
things!'
"And he went on, warming his hands again, and
thinking about them, ike an old man oils-ydung-gobrfn.
Mr. Dombey was so astonished, and so uncomfort-
able, and so perfectly at a loss how to pursue the con-
versation, that he could only sit looking at his son by
the light of the fire, with his hand resting on his back,
as if it were detained there by some magnetic attraction.
Once he advanced his other hand, and turned the con-
templative face towards his own for a moment. But it
sought the fire again as soon as he released it; and re-
mained, addressed towards the flickering blaze, until the
nurse appeared, to summon him to bed.
"'I want Florence to come for me, said Paul.
" Won't you come with your poor Nurse Wickam,
Master Paul!' inquired that attendant, with great pathos.
" No, I won't,' replied Paul, composing himself in
his arm-chair again, like the master of the house.
" Invoking a blessing upon his innocence, Mrs. Wickam
withdrew, and presently Florence appeared in her stead.
The child immediately started up with sudden readiness
and animation, and raised towards his father in bidding
him good night, a countenance so much brighter,
so much younger, and so much more child-like altoge-
ther, that Mr. Dombey, while he felt greatly re-assured
by the change, was quite amazed at it.
"After they had left the room together, he thought
he heard a soft voice singing; and remembering that
Paul had said his sister sung to him,;he had the curiosity
to open the door and listen, and look after them. She
was toiling up the great, wide, vacant staircase, with
him in her arms; his head was lying on her shoulder,
one of his arms thrown negligently round her neck. So
they went, toiling up; she tinging all the way, and Paul
sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment. Mr.
Dombey looked after them until they reached the top of
the staircase—not without halting to rest by the way—
and passed out of his sight; and then he still stood gaz-
ing upward, until the dull rays of the moon, glimmering
in a melancholy manner through the dim skylight, sent
him back to his own room."
The father is ultimately so alarmed on hearing
that his Son is in danger of losing the use of what
Miss Tox delicately describes as " his members"
that he has him dispatched forthwith to Brighton,
for the purpose of being dragged about the beach in
a little carriage drawn by "a weazen, old, crab-faced
man, in a suit of battered oil-skin, who had got tough
and stringy from long pickling in salt water, and who
smelt like a weedy sea beach when the tide is out."
The dame, under whose protection Paul is placed at
Brighton, is an ogress yclept Mrs. Pipchin ; and both
herself and her house are such capital drawings from
the life that we must transfer them to our columns.
" This celebrated Mrs. Pipchin was a marvellous ill-
favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure,
n ith a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a
hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been ham-
mered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.
Forty years at least had elapsed since the Peruvian
mines had been the death of Mr. Pipchin ; but his relict
still wore black bombazeen, of such a lustreless, deep,
dead, sombre shade, that gas itself could'nt light her up
after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any
number of candles. She was generally spoken of as
" a great manager" of children ; and the secret of her
management was, to give them everything that they
didn't like, and nothing that they did—which was found
to sweeten their dispositions very much. She was such
a bitter old lady, that one was tempted to believe there
had been some mistake in the application of the Peru-
vian machinery, and that all her waters of gladness and
milk of human kindness had been pumped out dry, in-
stead of the mines. _ _ _

" The castle of this ogress and child-queller was in a
steep bye-street at Brighton ; where the soil was more
than usually chalky, flinty, and sterile, and the houses
were more than usually brittle and thin ; where the small
front-gardens had the unaccountable property of pro-.
ducing nothing but marigolds, whatever was sown in
them; and where snails were constantly discovered hold-
ing on to the street doors, and other public places they
were not expected to ornament, with the tenacity of
cupping-glitsses. In the winter time the air could'nt be
got out of the castle, and in the summer time it couldn't
be got in. There was such a continual reverberation of
wind in it, that it sounded like a great shell, which the
inhabitents were obliged to hold to their ears night and
day, whether they liked it or no. It was not, naturally,
a fresh-smelling-house ; and in the window of the front
parlour, which was never opened, Mrs. Pipchin kept a
collection of plants in pots, which imparted an earthy
flavour of their own to the establishment. However
choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a
kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs.
Pipchin. There were half-a-dozen specimens of the
cactus, writhing round bits of lath, like hairy serpents ;
another specimen shooting out broad claws, like a green
lobster ; several creeping vegetables, possessed of sticky
and adhesive leaves ; and one uncomfortable flower-pot
hanging to the ceiling, which appeared to have boiled
over, and tickling people underneath with its long green
ends, reminded them of spiders—in which Mrs. Pip-
chin's dwelling was uncommonly prolific, though per-
haps it challenged competition still more proudly, in the
season, in point of earwigs."

The other pupils are two : one Master Bitherstone,
who from having been often shut up in solitary
rooms, is regarded by Paul as " a boy of mysterious
and terrible experiences ;" and Miss Pankey " a mild
little blue-eyed morsel of a child, who was sham-
poo'd every morning, and seemed in danger of being
rubbed away altogether.," and who is instructed by
the ogress herself " that nobody who sniffed before
visitors ever went to Heaven." In the subsequent
chapter " the wooden midshipman gets into trouble,"
and in the one after Captain Cuttle and Major Bag-
stock " come out" in splendid feather. Joey B.—
Josh.—J. B.—Joe—Joseph—is a superb droll.
Smollett's Captain Weazel is nothing to him.

" Papa! what's money?'
" The abrupt question had such immediate reference
to the subject of Mr. Dombey's thoughts, that Mr.
Dombey was quite disconcerted.
" ' What is money, Paul?' he answered. Money?'
" Yes,' said the child, laying his bands upon the
elbows of his little chair, and turning the old face up
towards Mr. Dombey's, what is money ?'
" Mr. Dombey was in a difficulty. He would have
liked to give him some explanation involving the terms
circulating-medium, currency, depreciation of currency,
paper, bullion, rates of exchange, value of precious
metals in the market, and so forth; but looking down at
the little chair, and seeing what a long way down it was,
he answered,' Gold, and silver, and copper. Guineas,
shillings, halfpence. You know what they are?'
"' Oh yes, I know what they are,' said Paul. I
don't mean that; Papa. I mean, what's money after all.
" Heaven and Earth, how old his face was as he turned
it up again towards his father's!
" What is money after all!' said Mr. Dombey back-
ing his chair a little, that he might the better gaze in
sheer amazement at the presumptuous atom that pro-
pounded such an inquiry.
" mean, Papa, what can it do?' returned Paul, folding
his arms (they were hardly long enough t o fold), and look-
ing at the fire, and up at him, and at the fire, and up at
him again.
" Mr. Dombey drew his chair back to its former place,
and patted him on the head. You'll know better bye-
and- bye, my man,' he said. Money, Paul, can do any-
thing. He took hold of the little hand, and beat it
softly against one of his own as he said so.
" But Paul got his band free as soon as he could; and
rubbing it gently to and fro on the elbow of his chair, as
if his wit were in the palm, and he were sharpening it—
and looking at the fire again, as though the fire had been
his adviser and prompter—repeated, after a short pause:
Anything, Papa?'
yes,' said Mr. Dombey.
yes, Anything—almost,' said Mr. Dombey.
means everything, don'
money save me my mamma?'
his son: not observing, or possibly nottittinPdaeprast?a'nadsiknegl,
returned
cruel, is it?
" Cruel !' said Mr. Dombey, settling his neckcloth,
and seeming to resent the idea. No. A good thing can't
be cruel.'
theth
e
If it's a good thing, and can do anything,' said the
Ablu‘itavnlldihYin.fiytcchladui:tidlliig:e:nnsits'int: t
little follow thoughtfully, as he looked back at the fire, I
wonder why it didn't save me my mamma.'
"He didn't ask the question of his father this time.
Perhaps he had seen, with a child's quickness, that it
had already made his father uncomfortable. But he re-
peated the thought aloud,. as if it were quite an old one to
m .
him, and had troubled veryh much , and sat with his
chin resting on his hand, still cogitating and looking for
an explanation in the fire.
" Mr. Dombey having recovered from his surprise, not
to say his alarm (for it was the very first occasion on
which the child had ever broached the subject of his
mother to him, though he had had him sitting by his
, side, in this same manner, evening after evening), ex-

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may be termed) of the flight are cleverly introduced,
as that of the " red-rushing" lightning which seared
the eagle, until he
" Fell, struggling, downward to the boiling sea."
" Celtic Tenures and Highland Clearings" is a
judicious paper just now, when the destitution ex-
perienced in those parts of Scotland is attracting so
much and, we will hope, such beneficial observation.
A copious and candid review of " Lord Nelson's
Letters and Dispatches is given"—such a review as is
creditable to Tait. We are amazed to find any one
having the temerity to contribute even half a dozen
verses upon the " Farewell of Mary Stuart to
Scotland," after the exquisite and unsurpassable
" Lament" of Robert Burns—that beautiful lament,
one stanza of which haunts our memory whenever
the name of that unfortunate but erring Queen is
uttered:—

" Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn 's budding in the glen,
And milk-white is the slae:
The meanest hind in fair Scotland
May rove their sweets amang;
But I, the Queen of a' Scotland,
Maun lie in prison strong."
From the "Letters from the West of England" some
conception may be formed of the position of agricul-
ture in that direction, and of the state of political
opinion in those provinces. " The Law of Primoge-
niture" is the heading of a rather superficial paper
upon that very difficult and complicated question.
Not but what we are satisfied of the decision which
should be arrived at in its regard, but to those who
have never weighed its merits, or again to those who
regard it through an atmosphere of hereditary pre-
judice, we conceive this article would be utterly in-
sufficient. Under the division of " Literary Register"
are accumulated various recent publications, each of
which receives a succinct and generally a judicious
notice. In the political article for December, Tait
is unusuall/. discursive ; the heading itself is sug-
gestive of manifold reflections—"Parties—Public
Opinion—Next Election." " If," says the writer,
"the next Cabinet is necessarily to be composed of
members of one or both of these parties (Rus-
sellites and Peelites), there can be little doubt
of its being what has been called, in former
days, a 'broad-bottom administration.' " Whatever
may be the conjectures, or the hopes, or the fears of
individuals as to the result of the Next Election, we
cannot for a moment tremble for its result. The
spirit of enlightenment has penetrated amongst the
multitude—the people can be no longer deluded by
specious aphorisms—the hind and the ditcher are now
more capable of detecting a sophism than when the
political quacks last vended their panaceas from the
hustings. The current of public opinion has set
strong in the right direction ; any obstructions would
only render that current dangerous thereto.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RE VIE IV.
We can very readily conjecture the authorship of
the " Notes of an Irish Tour by an English M.P."
The love of Young England is strong in the bosom
of its leader, and he knows well how to sustain its
avowed organ by his patronage. The pervading tone
of tile publication is benevolence to the poor ;
whether this be merely an affectation of benevolence or
a sincerity we will not decide—we will believe with-
out further testimony than the articles themselves,
that it is.heart-horn. In the " Notes" just mentioned
this characteristic is conspicuous, even in the quo-
tation from the " Spirit of the Nation :"
" Leisure to live, leisure to love, leisure to taste our free-
dom,

Oh, suffering poor, oh, patient poor, how bitterly you

need them—!- - -
Ever to toil, ever to moil, that is your social charter,

And City slave, or rustic serf, the toiler is its martyr."
The same species of philanthropy is visible in the
contributions on " The Ragged and their Reforma-
tion," and on " The love of the People." There is,
moreover, in the December number a very
readable and intelligent continuation of an article
we noticed last month in Blackwood's Magazine.
The present continuation is entitled " A Plea for
the Press." The writer fully enters into a considera-
tion of the toils, and dangers, and difficulties, incident
to the conduct of a free press, whether intermittent
or periodical, quarterly, monthly, weekly, or daily.
He congratulates his fellow countrymen so earnestly
on the glory and advantages of the English press, that
he terminates his remarks by parodying that line of
Thomson :

"Ye gen'rous Britons, venerate the press !"

The Review is, as usual, very miscellaneous and
equally meritorious.

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Under the new editor, the Rev. Edward Price, this
intelligent publication will have to maintain the dis-
tinguished position it has already attained, and to
advance still further. From the editorial address we
perceive that the periodical is intended to be " strictly
and essentially a Catholic magazine"—namely, what
it has striven to be all along. "No contribution fri-
volous or disedifying will ever be allowed insertion."
That is saying much, but we shall look for its ful-
filment. " Literature of Young France ;"—Mr.
Jerningham has here given a somewhat caustic but,
we believe from our hearts, a richly-merited castiga-
tion to the morbid and immoral feuillonists. " The
Last Days of the Penal Laws; and the Riots of 1779
and 1780," is the very lengthy title of a series just
commenced by the editor. The notion is excellent,
but not new. It is unfortunate for the writer that
Charles Dickens should have delineated the 'same age,
the same scenes, the same leading characters, the same
villainies, and the same execrable acts of insubordi-
nation in his masterly story of " Barnaby Rudge."
Boz, moreover, in that fiction, described the pro-
gress of the riots with a scrupulous exactitude, and
with a generous impartiality. His vivid and pic-
turesque descriptions will be anything but foils to all
subsequent historians of the Gordon fanaticism.

" Savanarola" is a clever biographical paper upon a
very remarkable man. Mr. Keegan, who delights to
call himself " the man in the green cloak," continues
his sparkling and lively " Gleanings from the Green
Isle." " The Old Village Church," and the "Effects
of Catholicism," will be acceptable papers to the
readers of the magazine, which is altogether excel-
lent in promise. If the new editor only emulate his
predecessor, he will do well.