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

THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 0, 1848.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Advices from the Cape to the 13th of January in-
clusive have been received.

The Laid Afrikaan, of the above date, says :
" The post of Wednesday night last brings informa-
tion frora Kim, William's Town to the 29th ult., repre-
senting affairs in Kafirland itself es in a favourable state
for the pacification of that country. All was tranquil.
The 7th of January was the day fixed for the meeting
of all the chiefs of British Kr,ffraria, when their future
position, their prospects in case of good behaviour, and
the course that will be pursued if the reverse, would be
announced to them by her Majesty's High Commis-

stoner.
" This meeting will, if possible, be of greater import-
ance than the previous one, destined, as no doubt it is,
to declare to that restless people, hitherto accustomed
to nothing but licentiousness, in plain terms, that the
term 'British subject,' is not a mere empty sound.
That their former habits must be laid aside, and a strict
obedience shown to the laws and regulations enacted for
their enlightenment and civilization ; and above all that
their aggressions upon their is hite neighbours cannot be
prosecuted at a Jess price than their total destruction.
" This, we presume, will form the principal part of
the deliberations of a meeting, the result of which is
anxiously anticipated by the colony at large, as the
ratification or the rejection of the terms upon which the
peace agreed to can only be confirmed. The task still
to be performed by Sir Harry Smith—making all allow
ance for his eminent qualifications—is difficult in the
extreme. The conviction, however, that he is no
stranger to such matters, and the recollection of his ad-
mirable government of the British Kafir Province in
1835.6, again fills us with the brightest expectations.
A determined rigidness but justness, tempered by mercy
where circumstances allowed of its exercise, was then
the rule which clearly regulated all his actions, and by
which, within so short a period, he made such astonish-
ing progress.
It is indeed with heartfelt satisfaction that we bring
to mind his proceedings of that time, and the paternal
care with which, sometimes by force of argument, some-
times by well merited punishment, be endeavoured to
convince both chief and subject, that a new, a better
state of things had been brought about, and that a
lock had been forged for the security of the colony which
they would not be able to pick.' "
The news from the frontier is not so satisfactory as
might have been expected; as will be seen from the
following extracts from the Zuid Afrihaanof the 13th
January :

"Fort Beaufori.:Dec. 19.

" This day about eleven o'clock the Kafirs succeeded
in driving off twenty Lead of the contractor's cattle.
Four Kafirs only were seen by the Fingoe herds who had
charge of them at the time, and who came into Beaufort
as quick as possible to give information. Eight soldiers
were sent out with them as a cattle guard, but who had
left them and gone down to the river, when the Kafirs,
watching the opportunity, succeeded kr getting off with
the cattle in safety. Mr. M'Kenzic., and two or three
more, with six of the Dragoons, went off in pursuit, and
have just returned (five o'clock), horses knocked up, and,
as usual, unsuccessful, the ground being so hard they
found it impossible to trace the spoor. How the cattle
guard will come off I don't know.'
" Belevue, 22d December, 1847.
" The Kafirs entered our kraal last night, and cut
loose eight horses. The number of marauders was sup-
posed to be from eight to ten, but being alarmed by the
dog we immediately fired on them, and succeeded in
killing one of them, but still they got off with one horse.
"GEORGE CLAYTON,
"JOHN CLAYTON."
" Scott's Farm, Dec. 25, 1547.
" I had occasion to write to you last week concerning
my loss of cattle, stolen out of my kraal on the 16th
instant by Kafirs, but no notice was taken of it. I am
again compelled to write, as the Kafirs paid me another
visit last night, the 24th, and took out of the kraal four
oxen and the only cow I had, and I am sorry to say got
clear off with them, although I found out that they were
gone as early as half-past twelve o'clock.
" JOHN PANKHURST, Sr."
" Waterloo Camp. Dec. 20,1847.
"Yesterday morning myself and family were walking
a short distance from this camp, scarcely half a mile,
when we were suddenly surrounded by five armed Kafirs,
four with assegais and one with a gun •, they instantly
demanded tobacco, and knives. I told them I had none,
when one of them drew an assagai from his
bundle and presented to my breast, which he
did several times. I desired him to take it away, but he
still threatened to throw it; at length he seized my hat,
with which he ran off saying something in Kafir to his
companions. The man with the gun presented it to my
breast. I told him to take it away and go and fetch my
hat, which he did not seem disposed to do. As soon as
he lowered his gun I turned towards home, took my only
child from my wife, and ran as quickly as possible
towards the camp. We had not proceeded many paces
before the man fired ; the ball passed over our heads;
fear gave wings to our flight and in a few minutes we
were at home. I went immediately and reported what
had transpired to Captain Christy, who promptly sent
out a party of Cape Mounted Riflemen, and twelve of
the 91st Regiment. I went with them to the spot,
showed them the spoor of the Kafirs, and returned to
the camp. I am sorry to say the patrol returned in a
few hours without falling in with the enemy.
"JOHN EDKINS."

FRIDAY.--Information has reached town of the murder
last night, by the hands of Kati) s, of John Stanley, at
his farm in Groblers Kloof, about ten miles S.E. of
Graham's Town.
From a deposition made before the magistrate it
appears that the unfortunate deceased went out yesterday
morning with his waggon for the purpose of cutting and
bringing into town a load of fire-wood. On reaching
the bush, on his own farm, a Hottentot, who accompa-
nial him, observed that there were several spoors or
too:rasiks of Kafirs about the spot, and he remarked to
his master that he thought the Kafirs themselves must
be in the immediate vicinity. Stanley treated this with
indifference—said he had no fear, and proceeded as usual
to collect the fuel, as originally intended. They had
retired to repose after the close of the day, the oxen
being tied to the waggon, when the man was aroused by
the discharge of fire-arms and the noise of Kafirs.
Springing upon his feet and calling to his master, he
fled, and when a short way off heard the cries of his un-
fortunate master, and who must then have been in the
hands of his savage murderers. On receiving this report
a patrole of the Cape Mounted Rifles was immediately
sent to the spot, accompanied by the Hottentot who
escaped, and by whom the remains of the unfortunate
man were soon discovered.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.—The body of the murdered
man has just been brought into town and delivered over
to his now deso!ate and distracted widow. It was
found lying on the ground at the back of his waggon,
from which there is reason to believe the unfortunate
man must have been dragged by the merciless savages.
The two principal wounds were a gun-shot wound
through the right breast, and a shocking gash at the
back of the head. The back was black from contusion,
and the muscles of the thighs and ribs were pierced by
assagais, as though to gratify the insatiate appetite of
the savages for blood. There were several wounds in
the abdomen, from which the intestines were pro-
truding, and the grass—which had been trodden down,
as though the murderers had danced round their
victim—was saturated with blood. The oxen of the
waggon, a gun, cooking utensils, and every por-
table article had been carried off. The case of
this unfortunate man is one well calculated to
excite public commiseration. He was sixty-seven
years of age, twenty-eight years of which had
been spent on this frontier, having come hither
with the British emigrants of 1820 He was a
native of Lichfield in England, was respectably educated,
possessed considerable intelligence, and had ever evinced
great industry and perseverance in the cultivation of his
farm. By the Kafir invasion of 1834-5, and also the
present war, he was a severe sufferer, his premises being
tired, his fields laid waste, and his cattle carried off:
From comfort he has latterly been reduced to poverty;
his only means of subsistence being that of cutting fuel
on his farm, and selling it in Graham's Town. While
thus unoffensively and usefully employed, he fell, as
above detailed, by the hand of the savage natives.
The Graham's Town Journal contains a full report
of the great meeting held by Sir Harry Smith at
King William's Town on the 7th inst. The follow-
ing is the oath taken by the chiefs. An address
from Sir Harry closed the proceedings of the day.
Sir Harry was about to start for Natal, via Shiloh
and Colesberg

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

Yesterday a special general meeting of the proprietors
of stock in this corporation was held at the company's
house, for the purp,se of re-considering the case of the
into ex-Baja of Sattara. The chair was taken by Mr.
Henry St. George Tucker. The Court was but thinly
attended.

The CHAIRMAN stated that since the last Court certain
papers had been presented to Parliament, the titles of
which would be read.

The CLERK read the titles of the papers.

THE EX-RAJA OF SATTARA.

The CHAIRMAN stated that the Court was male
special for the reconsideration of the case of the late
Raja of Sattara.
The CLERK read the following requisition :
.._ _ .

"London, 16th Feb., 1848

" To the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company

" Eonourable Sirs,—We, the undersigned Proprietors of East
India Stock, duly qualified by law, request that you will convene a
Special General Court of Proprietors, fur the purpose of taking into
consideration the accompanying resolution, and that you will be
pleased to publish the same with this our requisition.—We have the
honour to be, Honourable Sirs, your obedient servants,
(Signed) " JOSEPH HUME.
" ALEX. RAPIIAEL.
" ARTHUR J. LEWIS.
" J. SULLIVAN.
" ROBERT J. BAGSHAW.
" CHARLES FORBES.
" J. W. GRAHAM.
" J. WILLIAMS.
'• GEO. THOMPSON."

" Resolved—
" That it appears by the official documents laid before this Court
that, in the year 1836, a secret Inquiry was instituted, by order of
the Government of Bombay, into an alleged breach of the treaty of
the 25th September, 1819, subsisting between the East India Com-
pany and his Highness Pertaub Shean, the Raja of Sattara.
" That on the 26th of October, 1836, the Raja appeared before the
Sceret Commiss!on, consisting of Colonel Lodwick, Mr. Willoughby,
aud Colonel Ovans, and requeste I a Mahratta copy of so much of the
depositions of the two Soobalidars and the Brahmin as affected him-
self, which was not at the time objected to.'
" That on the 27th October the Commission were occupied the
greater part of this day in preparing Mahratta translations of the
evidence regarding the interview at the Palace, for the ultimate use
of his Highness the Raja of Sattara.' (Par. Pa. No. 569 of 1843,
p. 348.)
" That Sir Robert Grant, Governor of Bombay, recorded in a
Minute of Council, on the 15th of August, 1837, (Par. Pa. p.
86, para. 12) 1 hat he was strongly of opinion that, before
the case is conclusively disposed of, the Raja should be made
acquainted with the fresh evidence that has been elicited against
him, and should be allowed the opportunity of offering defence or
explanation. And again, in his Minute of Council of the 20th of
September, 1837, (Par. Pa. p.lOO, para. 13,) suggests, ' That Colonel
Ovens should be instructed to prepare a complete statement of
the case which has been established against the Raja, in order
that when his inquiries are concluded, it may be furnished to his
Highness for any such explanation, or answer, as lie may choose
to offer.' _ . . .

" That Mr. Wathen, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay,
in Ws letter to Colonel Ovens, dated the 27th of September, 1837,
directed Colonel Ovans to prepare a complete statement of the case
established against the Raja, that it may be furnished to the Raja,
and that If this statement b denied, his Highness should be con-
fronted with the witnesses, the most effective measures being adopted
for their protection.' (Par. Pa., p. 422, para. 48.)
" That Sir Robert Grant, again, in a Minute of Council, dated the
31st of May, 1838, says, The Raja has not been told of the evidence
taken by Colonel Ovens, and undoubtedly has a right to be heard in
his vindication.' I repeat this opinion (which he) expressed in
a Minute of Council, In August, 1837, not meaning that there should
be merely the form or farce of a trial, to be closed by a ready-made
judgment, but that the defence should be fairly heard and impar-
tially weighed.' (Par. Pa., p. 205, para. 53.)
" That Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of India, in a
Minute, dated 23d of September, 1838, ordered in the following
words
I would, as suggested by Sir Robert Grant, request that the
Raja should be furnished with a written statement, embodying a
full and clear detail of the facts connected with the several charges,
and of the names (with any reservations which may be absolutely
required for the safety of the party) of the witnesses by whom they
are proved, with a notice of the circumstances under which the evi-
dence was obtained, and call for from him, within a certain reason-
able time to be fixed, a similar written statement of whatever he
may desire to urge in his own behalf.' (Par. Pa., p. 229, pars. 12.)
" That notwithstanding the preparations of the evidence promised by
the Commission (which closed its proceedings on the 4th November,
1836), and the repeated desire expressed by the Governor of Bombay,
and the Governor-General of India, that a statement of the whole of
the evidence taken against the Raja should be placed,in his Highness's
hand, such statement was withheld, for reasons secretly stated by
Colonel Ovens, Colonel Ovens personally informing his Highness,
' That the proceedings of the Commission being strictly secret, it did
not consider itself authorised to grant a copy or any part of those
proceedings to any person whatsoever.' (Par. Pa., p. 367.)
"That the dethronement of the late Raja of Sattara, when no sud-
den emergency, nor imminent danger, nor any preparations made by
him for: commencing: hostilities,' threatened, without obtaining
the previous and express sanction of the Home authorities for the
act, was a -violation of the 33d George Third, cap. 52, sec. 42 and
43, made and provided to guard against and prohibit the exercise of
such dangerous and despotic power by any subordinate authority in
India, viz.:—
" Section 43—' It sia all not be lawfhl for the Governor-General in
Council, without the express command or authority of the Court
of Directors, or of the Secret Committee, by the authority of
the Board of Control, in any case (except where hostilities
have actually been commenced, or preparations actually made
for the commencement of hostilities against the British nation in
India), either to declare war,"or commence hostilities, or enter
into any treaty for making war, &c.'
" Resolved,—That this Court, taking all these circumstances into
consideration, is of opinion that the dethronement of the Raja of
Sattara, by Sir James Carnac, without furnishing him with a copy
of the evidence taken in secret against him, and thereby withholding
from him the means of making a defence, and without the previous
consent and authority of the Court of Directors, or the Secret Cons.
mittce of that Court, and of the Board of Control, was unjust, pre-
mature, and contrary to law ; and, therefore, the guilt or innocence
of the late Raja of Sattara, and the conduct of the Bombay Govern-
ment, in these transactions, ought to be made the subject of a public
and impartial inquiry, alike for the protection of the Princes of India
in alliance with the East India Company, from the perpetration of
similar wrongs, for the satisfaction of the ends of justice, and for
the vindication of the honour of the British nation, and the security
of the British Empire in the East."
Mr. JOSEPH HILTHE, M.P., complained that the ballot
had not been taken on the last meeting. The Court was
asked only to retrace its steps, and re-open the inquiry
as to the innocence of the ex-Raja of Sattara. The
Hon. Proprietor then reviewed the proceedings of the
Court of Directors, which have already been fully re-
ported. .From first to last the ex-Raja had not had a
fair trial. The Raja did not even know the charges
brought against him—a privilege allowed to the lowest
mechanic in this nation. He was never allowed to pro-
tect himself from the charges. The conduct of the
Government of India had been most heinous, and the
time would come when the people of India would rise
against such injustice being continued. The character
of England was as much jeopardised as the Government
of India in refusing a fair trial. Lord Auckland, while
Governor-General of India, wished the ex-Raja to be
furnished with lull statements of the charges brought
against him. There was a secret motive in the conduct
of the Bombay Government, which he (Mr. Hume) was
anxious to fathom. But still this most reasonable request
was never complied with. Let the Court of Proprietors
do justice to the ex-Rija's memory. His (Mr. Hume's)
object was to obtain a ballot. Such a tissue of injustice
could not much longer last. He would persevere until
justice was done to the late ex-Raja. The Court of
Directors had not sustained the dignity of the Govern-
ment of India. So confident was the ex-Raja, that be
declared he would retire from his post while the inquiry
went on. He (Mr. Hume) wanted to know the secret of
this most abominable proceeding against the late ex-
Raja. Under all these circumstances, he should move
the resolution. The stability of the Government of
India depended upon justice being done to the late ex-
Raja. It was no time to trifle with the people of India.
Mr. Hume tendered an addition to the resolution, which
was as follows:

" We, the undersigned proprietors of East India stock,
duly qualified by law, and present in Court, do request
that the Court of Directors will appoint a ballot, accord-
ing to chap. 8, sec. 1, of the By Laws, to determine the
question this day brought before .the General Court,
relative to the late Raja of Sattara.—Signed, Joseph
Hume, J. Sullivan" John Briggs, S. Gazelee, Hankey,
Johnston, H. Stephen, Arthur J. Lewis, Thomas
Newham.—March 8, 1848."
The CHAIRMAN would not receive any addition at the
present moment. He intended to move an amendment,
that of adjournment.
Mr. Serjeant GAZELEE protested against this course.
If these questions of adjournments are to be moved, the
fate of the Court-of- Direcfors was sealed. He had the
utmost respect for the directors, but they had got into
bad comparly.—(Laughter.) The by-law upon the
question of adjournment was illegal, and the proprietors
would subscribe their money, and fight the directors
upon the point.
Mr. SULLIVAN said the ex-Rajah had been dethroned
and deprived upon ex-parte evidence. Had the directors
or the Government of India the power to set up or pull
down native Princes at their pleasure, contrary to solemn
treaties, as in the case of the ex-Raja of Sattara ?
Did the Court of Proprietors do wrong in their course
of proceeding, in not seeing if the Raja was innocent
or guilty ? If the directors had done wrong, let them
retrace their steps. Was not the Raja's throne in per-
petuity granted to himself, or his heirs, or by adoption.
There was not a native Prince of India whose fate
might not be that of the late Raja of Sattara. There
was a public opinion in India that could not be sup-
pressed. The native army of India might become
affected by a continuance of the injustice to the ex-Raja
of Sattara.
Mr. LEWIS contended that the by-law, by which the
Court was attempted to be coerced, was illegal. It was
as follows:
" Bylaw, chapter 8, sec. I.—Then it is ordained, that
if, at any general Court, nine of the members present
duly qualified to vote, shall demand a ballot for deter-
mining any question, except for adjournment, or the
previous question, or an amendment, such question shall
be put by the ballot, and not otherwise."
After some discussion upon the subject, Mr. WIGRAM
held that there were no difficulties in the case ; unless
these laws were under appeal, the Court of Directors
were bound to abide by them. The privilege of the pro-
prietor was to move an amendment or an adjournment.
Mr. THOMPSON, M.P., held, if such be the law, it
nullified the Charter of the Corporation. The ballot
was given to the proprietors for their protection, and
not to overpower those who were the friends of
justice and truth. The most eminent men in the
country were in favour of the cause of the late Raja,
including that high and honourable man, Mountstuart
Elphinstone. The Court of Directors were not asked
to revise their opinion ; they were only asked for
a full inquiry. The Hon. Proprietor condemned the
conduct of Sir Robert Grant, in keeping back papers
' connected with the charges against the late Raja. Was
not this a subject for full inquiry ? Had the Court of
Directors no sympathy for the character of the late Sir
Robert Grant ? Why, then, refuse an inquiry ? He
wanted to have an inquiry into the conduct of Sir James
Carnao. He went out a friend of the late Raja, and be-
came his enemy. The Court of Proprietors only wanted
a full inquiry into the course pursued by the Government
in India, and in the policy of the course adopted by the
Court of Directors. They wanted to know the legality
of the dethronement of the Raja. Would the legal ad-
viser of the court say that the dethronement was legal.
Why was not he (Mr. Thompson) prosecuted for the
charges he had openly brought against Colonel Ovens ?
Ile repeated those charges. The character of the com-
pany was bound up in this question—the fate of Princes
and of treaties in India, as well as that of the lowest
of the people, was concerned in this base transaction
connected with the ex-Raja. He would say—perish
the East India Company, its patronage, its pelf, its cor-
ruption, rather than injustice to any one of the people
of India. Would not the Court of Directors heed the
signs of the times? This one act of injustice, if fully
understood, would consign the company to infamy. The
people of India were oppressed to a degree almost past
bearing.
Sir J. W. HOGG defended the legality of the by-law,
and said that the right to ballot was not given by common
law, or Buy statute, but only by the by-law of the com-

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

The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question from Mr.
Sullivan, said that no doubt the Standing Council of the
East India Company would furnish a written opinion
relative to the by-law.
The Court then on the question adjourned.

MAGAZINES, &c. (CONTINUED).

DOUGLAS JERRoLD'S MAGAZINE.

" Twiddlethumb Town " is capital. The editor
has manifestly been inspiring of late the atmosphere
breathed by the giant Gargantua and the eccentric
and inimitable Pantagruel. There is only one thing
within our recollection at all comparable to Twiddle-
thumb Town, and that is Clovernook. Douglas
Jerrold could alone have imagined to himself the
unctious visage and jovial paunch of his
Reverence the Hermit of Bellyful, and no
one but Douglas Jerrold could by any possibility
have conceived his Highness the Duke de Bobs.
Then his commentary on the Posset March, that
wonderful piece of instrumentation which was de-
scriptive "in sound" of every incident of man's life,
from the cradle to the bier, from the midwife to the
undertaker—" the flute cooing in long clothes ; the
fife screeching at the nurse ; the fiddle running
alone ; the- drum tumbling down ; the clarionet
squalling ; the bassoon grumbling over sugar to make
all well again I" Well may he exclaim at last, "It is
a wonderful composition, sir, the Posset March 1"
Add to this the history of " Melon- and-Pepper," the
Duke's own newspaper, and that incidental sentence
addressed to the reader sotle voce—" You, sir, are
scholar enough to know that the first newspaper
published was the Sybil's leaves, very irregularly deli-
vered by the winds atthe Gizmo= beershops." Pignutz,
the editor of the Melon- and-Pepper, is an outline so
exquisitely caustic that we suspect it to be a por-
traiture—the writer speaks of him in a tone that is
throughout .a snarl. Speaking of the ridiculous cus-
tom of firing guns in commemoration of the birth of
the babes of great personages, Douglas Jerrold
starts a merry notion, which we transcribe. Why
should not man, says he, announce his more important
doings with the blast of gunpowder I)
" He ought, on all occasions, to season his triumphs
with the relish of saltpetre. Philosophers and sages are
thought so little of because of their silence. To be
taciturn is, we take it, to be contemptible. Astronomy
herself has suffered much from the neglectful quietude
of those who minister to her.
" A new star is discovered. Another diamond known
upon the frontlet of Eternity. Unborn millions are
inheritors of the glory of its knowledge. And no guns
are tired ; there is no noise, no heart-delighting rever-
beration. None. Wisdom is brought a bed, and there
is no salvo to proclaim the little stranger.
" We think this very wrong of the world at large ;
and very foolish of wisdom herself. We are convinced
or Ii :. SIM guava 111,,,,LNa {dawn 0110 Altscal rn
plicity, Hence, contemplating anew the use and beauty
of noise, we would have all colleges mounted with a cer-
, tain number of brass ordnance : to the end, that all
proctors, and fellows, and students, might make known
in the most glorious—that is in the most thundering—
manner the triumphs of their solitary hours.
" Imagine, all the sons of Alma Mater roused up in
their shirts, at dead night—bounced out of their beds—
by the first gun, the first of a round dozen, that should
announce to all the foundation that the true reading of
a long fought-for Greek text was at length discovered!
"And Metaphysics should have the use of the battery,
and with ready lighted fusee be prepared, at least every
other night, to wake the college.
" Indeed, every science should have free access to the
brass battery, with unlimited supply of powder, to make
known every birth of every truth, though the smallest
seven month babyling. To be sure, now and then,
there might arise a difference—a quarrel ;so many dis-
co

,verers requiring to blaze away at the same time.
This dilemma, however, might be prevented by some
iron rules to be, after the manner of an {ostrich, well
digested. •
" And batteries once mounted upon the colleges, pri-
vate students might, in due course, be allowed the use
of rejoicing, glorifying gunpowder. As thus, sir. You
are a sculptor. Why, for these two years your heart
has been pulsating in that bit of marble ; whence, by
degrees, the vans of cupid have unfolded themselves—
that chrystal lump of stone warmed with your daily
doings into winged life. The arms and legs break from
the block—the body throbs from it—the clustering
ringlets are shaken out—and the soul dawns upon the
Cupid's face, as light steals upon the lily.
" And now, sir, wherefore should you not be permit-
ted to fire a salvo in honour of your marble child ?
Your immortal bit of Parian, laughing at death ? Still,
your laughing baby, when unborn great-great-grand-
fathers are crumbling into dust ? And yet, sir, you are
not to he permitted to have a few pounds of powder for
your infant's glorification. Happily, it is otherwise with
with the Babies of Dukes."

Among the miscellaneous contributions to Douglas
Jerrold's Magazine, one of the most excellent is the
disquisition on the " Gods of Greece," that fertile
field of antique poetry. " How Soldiers are made in
Prussia" should be read with particular curiosity now
that the militia movement has set the minds of all
Englishmen a-soldiering. Several other papers are
in the number quite worthy of the periodical.

DOMBEY AND SON. No. XVIII.
By Charles Dickens.
In the fifty-fifth chapter " Rob the Grinder" loses
his place in this wise :—Mr. Carker flies in a panic
from Dijon, hurries through Paris, through Boulogne
to England ; after stopping at a little secluded station
on one of the railways, he walks out in the grey of
the morning—suddenly beholds to his horror the face
of Mr. Dombey—recoils—and then—

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

waves. Of coming down into a harbour when the tide
was at its full, and seeing fishing-boats float in, and glad
women and children waiting for them. Of nets and
seamen's clothes :spread out to dry upon the shore; of
busy sailors, and their voices high among ships' masts
and rigging; of the buoyancy and brightness of the
water, and the universal sparkling.
" Of receding from the coast, and looking back upon
it from the deck when it was a haze upon the water,
with here and there a little opening of bright land where
the sun struck. Of the swell, and flash, and murmur of
the calm sca. Of another grey line on the ocean, on
the vessel's track, fast growing clearer and higher. Of
cliffs, and buildings, and a windmill, and a church,
becoming more and more visible upon it. Of steaming
on at last into smooth water, and mooring to a pier
whence groups of people looked down, greeting friends
on board. Of disembarking, passing among them
quickly, shunning every one; and of being at last again
in England."
The cows splashed with mud, and " receiving blows
on their blunt heads from bludgeons that might have
beaten them in," is eminently Boz-like : also the
" bellowing and clattering" over the city pavement.
In the succeeding chapters Florence and Walter get
married to the delight of Captain Cuttle, of Miss
Nipper (who has come up from the country to attend
her old mistress for a time), of Mrs. Richards, other-
wise Polly Toodles (who is engaged as a temporary
assistant), of old Soil Gills (who returns suddenly one
evening from his travels in search of his " nevy "),
even of good Mr. Toots (who magnanimously swal-
lows his jealousy, declaring it to he " not of the
slightest consequence"), but to the inextinguishable
disgust of the Game Chicken who had expected to be
Felled upon to " double somebody up," und, regard-
ing Mr. Toots's conduct as mean, leaves him and sets
up in the public line. All these things are told in
capital style as only Dickens can tell them, and the
number closes with the departure of the young mar-
ried couple aboard a vessel on a voyage to China.