The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-02 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN NG, MIA RC II 2, 1848,

solution of a marriage which the defendant had con-
tracted with Ether Field for the purpose of obtaining

THE MAGAZINES.
BLACKWOOD.
Several of the articles for March are very happily
timed—not excepting the one on " Greenwich
Time." Those, however, to which, without joking,
we would make especial allusion, are, first, the on-
slaught upon the Apostle of Peace and Free-trade
with all mankind, entitled cthe paper, not the Apostle)
" Mr. Cobden on the National Defences ;" secondly,
the repetition of the same theme, with different argu-
ments, enforcing the exigency of the question in
a perfectly different manner, being, in fact, " A
Military Discussion touching our Coast Defences ;"
thirdly, the political pasquinade upon the existing
Government in the shape of a review of the Budget
of Lord John Russell and Sir Charles Wood ;
fourthly, a sparkling series of chapters on " R,onsanism
in Rome," a aeries peculiarly appropriate now, when
the liberal innovations of the illustrious Pius are
attracting the eyes and the sympathy of all Christen-
dom to the inhabitants of the Eternal City ; fifthly,
a Sketch of Hudson's Bay, possessing an interest both
geographical and commercial ; and, sixthly, an
agreeable reminiscence headed " My Route into
Canada," a subject especially worthy of considera-
tion just now, from its intimate relationship with
our colonial embarrassments. In the ridicule
which our venerable contemporary endeavours to cast
upon Mr. Cobden, because, without exactly believing
in our approximation to the Millennium, he neverthe-
less anticipates the ultimate pacification of the human
race, Blackwood, we observe, does not forget a sly
hit at what it calls sarcastically Mr. Cobden's
" elegant language." Does not Ebony —(as the
Ettrick Shepherd, we think it was, used to christen
our well-beloved Maga)—recollect that at the very
last free-trade demonstration in Covent-garden
Theatre, this same Mr. Cobden prophesied in this
same language of elegance that before long the aris-
tocracy—the protectionist, monopolising, industry-
taxing aristocracy—would be " bamboozled." And
does it not recollect that before long, nay, within a
a very few weeks, the aristocracy were " bam-
boozled," by the introduction of Sir Robert
Peel's great measure for the abolition of the corn-
laws, and its triumphant passage through the
Upper House, under the particular guardianship of
F. M. his Grace the Duke of Wellington ? The
language may be very inelegant ; but, at
the least, it is very potent into the
bargain—at the least it is telling with the million—
at the least it is the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. We do think that in stirring
times like these it is injudicious to potter over the
grammatical niceness befitting a legislator, and, when
principles are at stake, to become sticklers for the
dictionary. Mr. Cobden is not only the representa-
tive of the largest constituency in England, he is the
representative of a vast majority of the thinking por-
tion of the population of the United Kingdom. We
regret, therefore, that Blackwood should act towards
Mr. Cobden as Sir Lucius O'Trigger acted to Mrs.
Malaprop—cast reflections on his " parts of speech,"
on the "parts of speech" of one so remarkable for
" the nice derangement of his epitaphs !" Incidentally
another of the contributors to the March number
makes reference to the miserable diaposition of our
naval armaments—one of the principal causes of our
present insecurity as an insular and maritime power.
The passage occurs in the clever biographic outline
of the adventurous career of Sir Sydney Smith. The
writer says—
" We have now two fleets on service, one in the Tagus,
and another at Malta ; but both are weak in point of
numbers, though in a high state of equipment. A few
rasee guardships are scattered round the coast. Some
large steamers remain at Portsmouth and Plymouth
ready for service; but, from all accounts, there is nothing
of that active and vigorous preparation which ought to
be the essential object of the country, while France is
menacing us from day to day, while she has an immense
naval conscription, is building powerful ships, is talking
of invasion, and hates us with all the hatred of French-

her property.
The clerk of Trinity Church, a person of the name of
Speller, was then called for the purpose of proving the
marriage and what had taken place at that ceremony,
and the representations made by the defendant. The
defendant had put up the banns, and after the marriage
had taken place he stated, on being asked, that both
parties were of full age, and that they both resided in

W impole- s treet.
The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, who was the curate of
Trinity Church, solemnized the marriage upon the 19th
of June, 1847, between Samuel Brown, the prisoner, and
Esther Field. Upon the question being put, both par-
ties stated they were of full age.
Edward Whitby, who was in service in Wimpole-
street, and had been so for the last eight years, proved
that the defendant had not resided at 31, Wimpole-street
for the last eight years, though he had sometimes called

there.
A person of the name of Luke, who resided at Leighton,
knew the defendant Brown, who was residing, in June
1847, with his brother, at Tring, Saw the defendant
in July last, who stated to kim that, in consequence of
Miss Ficld being under age, he had, with the advice of
the clergyman, put up the banns, and had induced Miss
Field to believe that he had obtained a marriage license,
for the purpose of their getting married.
Mr. John Brown, the brother of the defendant, also
proved that in June last, the defendant resided with
him at Tring, and assisted him in his business. Miss
Field also resided with him. Recollected Miss Field
going to town early on the 19th of June, and his brother
returning with her in the evening. Shortly after this
she went to reside with a Mr. Smith,
This was the case for the prosecution.
Sir F. THESIGER submitted to the Court that the
prosecution had failed, and that there was no case to go
to the jury. The Learned Counsel, after having at
some length adverted to the provisions of the Act, con-
tended that the statements made by the defendant to
the clergyman were not made, as alleged in the indict-
ment, for the purpose of the insertion in the
registry, inasmuch as the insertion of them had
been made by the clerk before the clergyman put the
question; added to which the clerk had no right to put
the questions he did, and the parties if they chose need
not have answered them. He submitted, therefore, that
the defendant could not be charged under the 41st sec-
tion with having made statements for the purpose of
their insertion on the registry, and that such being the
case the present prosecution had completely failed.
Mr. BALLANTINE followed on the same side.
The Loan CHIEF BARON thought there was a case to
go to the jury.
Sir F. THESIGER then addressed the jury on behalf
of the prisoner. He thought the jury would agree with
him that there could be no doubt that in all the trans-
actions that had taken place the lady was a free agent :
it might certainly have been better that the lady should
have married a person nearer her own age than
the defendant, but that in the transaction she was a free
agent there could be no doubt. He considered the pre-
sent prosecution as one of a most harsh description ; the
defendant had already suffered sufficiently for what
some might term his indiscretion ; he had been
attached in the Court of Chancery for the mar-
riage of one of its wards without the leave of
the Court, and he was now suffering imprisonmet
for his contempt ; he thought that this was a sufficient
punishment for him4without this prosecution, which was
being carried on against him in the most harsh manner.
Added to this, it must be recollected that this young
lady's proerty, she being a ward of the Court
of Chancepry, could not be touched by the
defendant, unless he made such settlement
upon her as the Lord Chancellor should think
right. What, he would ask, was the source from which
this prosecution emanated ? Did not the jury think that
the origin of it was the disappointment of some
individuals who were in hopes of obtaining
this young lady's property? He thought that
was apparent from the statement of his Learned Friend
the Attorney-General, who at the outset of the case
observed that the present proceeding was only the
initiative of other proceedings to put an end to the mar-
riage. The Learned Counsel, after going at some
length into the facts of the case, concluded by begging
of the jury to weigh well before they pronounced
their verdict, as it might involve the young lady
herself, as well as the defendant, if they found
him guilty, because she was as liable as him to have a
charge like the present preferred against her.
The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up at some length.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of making a false
statement to the clergyman.
The LORD CHIEF BARON deferred passing sentence,
and ordered the tipstaff of the Court of Chancery, in
whose custody the defendant was, to turn him over to
the custody of Mr. Cope, in order to his being im-
prisoned in the gaol of Newgate until their Lordships
should determine what sentence they should pass upon
him.

NE W COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Alderman Sir JAMES DIME.)
Francis Verinder, a labourer, was indicted with steal-
ing a gallon of rum, value 12s 6d., the property of
Henry Hart. The charge against the prisoner having
been clearly made out, the jury found a verdict of
Guilty, and he was sentenced to one year's imprison-
ment.
The following prisoners were also found guilty of the
several charges with which they were indicted:—
Robert W estgard, a labourer, for stealing a pair
of pistols, value 21., the property of Sarah
Blissett, sentenced to three menthe' imprisonment;
Richard Cordele, also a labourer, for stealing a block
bill, belonging to John Kneenes, sentenced to 3 months'
;imprisonment;
Catherine Kelly, a married woman, for
stealing a waistcoat, value 205., belonging to Thomas
Speken, sentenced to be imprisoned for one month.

THAMES.-(THIS DAY.)
This morning information was given to this Court
that Mr. Edward Hughes, a gentleman residing at No.
31, Joha-street, Commercial-road East, had been found
dead in a cab, under very mysterious circumstances.
It appeared that last night about eleven o'clock, a
cabman wearing the badge 4,911, called the attention of
Police-constable Curtis, No. 345 K, to a gentleman in
his cab, which was then standing opposite the George
Inn, and said his fare was either drunk or dead. The
policeman looked in the cab and saw a well-dressed man
in a state of insensibility. Curtis ordered the cabman
to drive as speedily as possible to the station-
house in Arbour- square, adjoining to this court,
where it was ascertained the gentleman was quite dead.
Dr. Falconer, of the Commercial-road, attended imme-
diately, and said the gentleman had only just expired.
The cabman stated that he took up the gentleman at
a house in York-terrace, Regent's Park, and a person
who assisted him into his vehicle ordered him to drive to
No. 31, John street, Commercial-road. On arriving
there he was unknown, and on speaking to his passen-
ger, discovered he was insensible. He then gave infor-
mation to the first police-constable he met with. It
appears that the deceased actually resided at No. 31,
Johnson-street, Commercial-road, and was formerly a
clerk in a mercantile establishment. The body now lies
in a cell in the station-house of this court, awaiting a
coroner's inquest.

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.

A contribution called "Reformation not Tolera

Italy," and represents the reforming Pontiff in the
centre of a group of Italians. A cross is in the
back ground: a broken manacle lies at the feet of
Pius : a soldier stands on his left hand, and a woman
on the other side is holding up her child to receive his
benediction. Most of the names of the old and most
valued contributors are still visible in the table of
contents. We observe that one amongst them (Dr.
Smiles) has just commenced a delightful series,
called I" The Poets of the People," beginning with
poor Robert Nicoll.

THE BELLE ASSEMBLEE.
Essays, stories, sonnets, stanzas, and fragments of
every description both in prose and poetry, are here
grouped together as usual, by the skilful hand of Ca-
milla Toulmin. The nuaib'er is of average ability,
and has a graceful but rather insipid beauty as its
frontispiece.

LITERATURE.

THE BACHEI:O7I?6iTIZALBANY. 1 Vol.
By the Author of tile "Falcon Family."
A spurious style of composition has long been the
principal characteristic of the novelists of both France
and England. Since the departure of Sir Walter
Scott in the one country, and the exclusive cultiva-
tion of his dramatic powers by Viscount Victor
Hugo in the other, the writers of romantic
fiction on both sides of the Channel (with a few illus-
trious exceptions) have become remarkable rather for
exaggeration than truth, for sentimentality than
pathos, for caricature than humour, for complication
of plot, than for ingenuity of invention. They have
frequently degenerated into fustian where they
have aspired at eloquence, and have crowded their
works with indecencies where they have aimed at
originality. Balzac, it is true, has on several occa-
sions given superb evidences of genius; Marryatt
has now and then evinced a delightful appreciation of
the ridiculous (as in the famous triangular duel in
" Midshipman Easy "); Dumas has, in numerous
instances, such as in the opening chapters of his
" Memoirs of a Physician," betrayed a marvellous
fecundity of imagination; Ainsworth has at times
surpassed most of his contemporaries in the vividness
of his scenic descriptions (as in the noble account
of the great storm of London, which forms the
introduction to his "Jack Sheppard"); Sue has even
at certain moments soared into the regions of the
sublime (as where he tells of the sermon of Gabriele
to the ruffians who burst into the cathedral, in the
" Wandering Jew"); James has at intervals
written with the pencil of a Salvator (as
where he depicts the earthquake in " Atilla") ;
other authors of a nearly equal popularity
have, in like manner, emerged for an instant
from their habitual mediocrity, or (what is worse),
from their systematic viciousness—but on the whole
they have not written in a manner worthy of them-
selves, of the age, or of literature. Amidst these
prevailing blemishes there have been, nevertheless,
as already observed, a few illustrious exceptions.
The " Atala " of Che.teaubriand, the "
of Saintine, the " Notre Dame de Paris" of Hugo,
are among the most conspicuous of these exceptions
in France. The books penned by Dickens, by
Bulvver-Lytton, and by Warren, the " Sartor Re-
sartus" of Carlyle, " the Broad-stone of Honour" by
Kenelm Digby, and the " Vivian Grey" of Dis-
raeli the younger, are certainly the most con-
spicuous of these exceptions in England. Otherwise
the imaginative literature of both countries has been
marred by the praise bestowed on charlatans—
charlatans, whose wit has been nothing better than
grotesque conceits, whose tenderness has been twaidle,
and whose favourite figure of rhetoric has been that
of hyperbole. We do not, of course, pretend to
have enumerated all the exceptions to this
class, either in the publishing world of Paris or in
that of London, but, in the names we have particu-
larized, we have certainly mentioned those most
worthy of remembrance. Compared with the
multitude of novelists who feed our library
shelves, and keep our printing-presses in
activity, those exceptions form but a select few.
We are disposed, therefore, to welcome with double
earnestness any young writer who may, to
our thinking, give promise of proving an
accession to the minority. Such a writer—
a writer of this auspicious character, we recog-
nise in the author of " The Falcon Family; or
Young Ireland." His new story—" The Bachelor
of the Albany"—betrays qualities of an order de-
serving very particular commemoration. Those who
may have perused his preceding fiction, " Young
Ireland," cannot altogether have forgotten the felicity
with which, therein, the persons and passions of the
day were woven into the texture of its plot; neither
will they have entirely lost a recollection of the
humorous air which pervades the volume, and
especially the grotesque refrain of the dialogues—
" Hurrah 1 says Hurley O'Burley." There is evi-
dence, however, of much larger capacity both as a
novelist and a satirist in the twenty-seven chapters
of " The Bachelor of the Albany." The purpose of
the story is simple enough, namely, the conversion of
a crusty old pragmatical bachelor (resident in the
Albany) into a generous, cordial, sociable (and a
rather delightful than otherwise) Benedict. As to the
Albany, everybody, at all acquainted with that por-
tion of London situated west of Charing-cross,
and east of Piccadilly, north of Pall mall, and south of
Oxford-street, knows that it is a long avenue of very
secluded apartments dedicated especially to bachelors
open town, younger sons who have got into Parlia-
ment, and the like genus. As to the bachelor him-
self, he is one Mr. Peter Barker—the very best drawn
character in the book—here is the calotype of his
personal appearance :
" Imagine a small, well-made man, with a smart, com-
pact figure, excessively erect, his action somewhat mar-
tial, his eye grey, cold, peevish, critical, and contemptuous;
a mouth small and sarcastic, a nose long and vulpine;
complexion a pale dry red ; hair stiff and silvery, and
evidently under the severest discipline to which brush
and comb. could subject it, with a view to its impartial
distribution on each side of a head, which was carried so
high, and with such an air, that it was clear the organs
of firmness, combativeness, and self-esteem, were su-
perbly developed. With the exception of a plain, but rich
robe-de-chambre, his morning toilette was complete ;
trousers of shepherd's plaid, seemingly made by a
military tailor, and tightly strapped down over a pair of
manifest Hoby, s; a double breasted cashmere waistcoat,
of what mercers call the shawl pattern; the shirt-collar
severely starched, and a little too exalted above a cravat
of dark blue silk, carefully folded, and tied with a simple,
but an exact knot."
As to the other personages who figure in the story,
the most genial are the Spreads and the most repul-
sive the Narrowsmiths. Mr. Spread, Augusta Spread,
Elizabeth Spread, Mrs. Spread, and Philip Spread
--that is the Spread family. Mr. Isaac Narrowsinith,
Mrs. Narrowsmith, and Miss Maria Theresa Narrow-
smith—that is the Narrowsmith family. Among the
minor personages are Grace Meddlicott (the heroine),
Spread; the Smyly girls, Adelaide
young
(afterwards Mrs. Peter Barker); good
whoand
Mrs. Briscoe and her fat maid Letty ; young Mr. St.
Lauraweds
Leger, who marries Adelaide Smyly ; Mrs. Harry
Farquhar, who is a decidedly fast lady; Mrs. Martin,
the governess of the young Spreads (Theodore, Ka-
tharine, and Maria) ; Dean Bedford, the jovial plu-
ralist, resident at Far Niente ; Mr. Owlet, a Puseyite,
who manes Elizabeth Spread ; Ste., &c., &c. We
may afford a better notion, however, of the many
brilliant characteristics of the volume by giving, as
quotations, the following—several of them are passages
of exuberant wit.

men.
The fact is happily expressed in this brief sentence
We are clamouring at once for a reduction in our
expenditure, and for an extension of our defensive
armaments on the sea—and yet we are winking at a
system which squanders a splendid fleet in the vicinity
of Lisbon, for the purpose of awing a nation into
obedience to a Sovereign they despise, and of prevent-
ing two-thirds of the population of Portugal from fulfill-
ing their own wishes by re-elevating to the throne
that Prince (Dom Miguel) whom they consider to be
their best security for rational liberty and national
happiness ! Another paragraph in the same article is
worth extracting, if only as a foot-note to the
famous simile of Mr. Canning :
" The unrivalled triumph of human invention is the
instrument by which all those powerful qualities are
brought into play : a ship of the line, with all its stores,
its crew, and its guns on board, is the wonder of the
world. What must be the dexterity of the arrangement
by which a thousand men can be victualled, at the rate
of three meals a day, for four months; a thousand men
housed, bedded, clothed, and accoutred; a battery of a
hundred and twenty guns—the complement of an army
of fifty thousand men, and two or three times the weight
of field guns—fought; this mighty vessel navigated
through every weather, and the profoundest practical
science;applied to her management, through night and day,
for years together? No combination of human force and
intellectual power can contest the palm with one of those
floating castles, of all fortresses the most magnificent,
the most effective, and the most astonishing."
Altogether the contribution from which this is tran-
scribed is one of the most agreeable in the current
number; it presents us with a rapid but tolerably
complete epitome of the life and adventures of the
distinguished sea-captain, Sir Sydney Smith. One
blemish the article his, and a singular, unaccountable,
preposterous one it is. The writer suddenly inter-
rupts the thread of his narrative to retail all over
again the thrice three-hundred-thousand times told
tale of Gustavus. Simply because that rash but
heroic king had written an affectionate letter to Sir
Sydney Smith, offering him a command in the
Swedish service—off flies the imagination of the
contributor at a tangent to the ;masqued ball on the
16th of March, 1792, to the pistol of Ankerstrotn,
and to all the details of that dramatic assassination
which the genius of Auber has associated with im-
perishable melodies. That Sir Sydney Smith was an
adventurer of esprit, daring, and perseverance, is suffi-
ciently shown by the astonishing rapidity of his rise in
his profession—being first rated on the books of the
Admiralty in June, 1777, obtaining his appointment
as Lieutenant in 1779, and becoming a captain in
the October of 1782, when only eighteen! With all
this Sir Sidney was incontestably mad—as mad (as
the saying goes) as a March bare. Even Blackwood
unwillingly acknowledges as much when the writer
says that Sir Sidney " had his oddities and phantasies."
His most brilliant feats were certainly his burning
the French vessels in the harbour of Toulon, and
his courageous defence of the fortifications of St.
Jean d'Acre. There is visible in the contribution
which here recounts the incidents of his career a
hatred of Napoleon almost as venomous as that of
Walter Savage Landor, and almost as uncompromising
as that of Nelson, who, in a letter, dated August, 20,
1799, speaks of the " army of French villains, headed
by that arch-villian Bonaparte." Howbeit, as a
biographic sketch the article is thoroughly good.
" Crimes and Remarkable Trials in Scotland" forms
one :of those odd and striking effusions which are
always devoured with interest and avidity. Perhaps
the only really light article in the magazine is the
tale of the bivouac called " Intercepted Letters ;" it,
however, is by no means too light, for it will be
perused with irelish. If Blackwood has often been
more witty and wise, it has seldom been more varied
and appropriate.

SOMETHING LIKE A PIE.

s' In the centre stood, or rather towered, a vast pie,
which was surrounded with minor attractions, such as
tongues, fowls, collars, and marmalades, just as a great
planet is attended by a bodyguard of satellites. Bat as
Jupiter excels his moons, so did that pie surpass collars,
fowls, and tongues in magnitude and glory. That was a
pie indeedl—a subject for hymn and history, a pie to be
held in such reverence as Molisrarnedans pay the Caaba,
or Christians the chapel of Loretto. Evidently the pro-
duction of a great artist, a Palladio of pastry, Or a Wren
of cooks. It was more an Acropolis or a temple than a
pie, worthy of being served to a Lord Abbot, amidst
anthems; not made to be opened with knife of Slu-flield,
but carved with blade of Toledo or Damascus. It might
have been considered as a poem, a composition of talent
and turkeys, of genius and grouse. Into such a pie was
it that Lion, the philosopher, wished himself meta-
morphosed, that wisdom, in his form, might captivate
the sons of men. Stub!)les had been thrashed, covers
ransacked, woods depopulated, and preserves destroyed,
to furnish forth its mighty concave. It was a pie under
whose dome you would have wished to live, or been con•
tent to die. Appetite grow by feeding on it; its very
sight was better than to eat aught else eatable. It
dilated the soul and exalted the character to be in the
same room with so noble a creation of gastronomic
mind."

tion," and penned by Mr. Jerningham, is pithy and
bitter. Very different, indeed, are " The Adventures
of a Schoolboy," written, we conjecture, by one whose
animal spirits are as restless and hilarious as those of
Albert Smith. The general purpose of the series
appears to have been suggested by Mr. Dickens' in-
imitable revelations of Dr. Blimber and his establish-
ment st Brighton. The " Lines," in answer to some
verthes of Mrs. Norton's on a Nun, are pretty—and
nothing more. A continuation of a clever narrative,
entitled "The Mixed Marriage," follows, and then
comes a brief but capital "Apology for Pleasant
Wine," which is inspired in some measure by the
fervour of Anacreon. " The Union of Charity" is in
parts almost too horrible ; and the very best contri •
bution in the March numer is one on "The Spirit of
Christian Art." It is the production of one who has
descended in imagination, if not in body—reverently
—into the catacombs.

SIIARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE.
After commencing the new year with singular
ability as an illustrated periodical, Sharpe is be-
ginning to relax its energies, and to degenerate into
a cheap publication, sprinkled (we cannot say " em-
bellished ") with very coarse and indifferent wood
engravings. There is no abatement, however, in the
excellence of the letter-press, and the editorial super-
vision seems to be continued with undiminished dili-
gence.

THE MIND OP AN m.p.
" The minds of scholars are libraries ; those of anti-
quaries, lumber-rooms
those of sportsmen, kennels ;
;
those of epicures, larders and cellars; but the mind of
Upton was an office. It had been an attorney's office
formerly ; it was a Parliamentary office now. His
knowledge was of Ilanzard ; his reading of blue books ;
his memory of votss and standing orders. It was a
pigeon- holed, alphsbeted mind ; as full of bills and
reports as the scrutoire of the Abbe de sieyes
was of
constitutions. The common asscciations of Upton's
ideas were of red tape,
the liner ones of green ribbon."
THE GIRTHcr A PLURALIST DEAN.
" When he first imparatlised himself at Richmond, he
measured not more than a yard and a half in the girth,
by by any means an unreasonable circumference for an
ecclesiastic of his rank and fortune; but a life of case
and luxury, passed between the couch and the table,
rapidly increased his bulk: at the end of the third year
his tailor raise his prices; at the close. of the fourth the
o.w his knees for the last time; and
buxom dignitary
it‘ was a favourite. frolic of his
ere a fifth had expired,
wife's merry nieces (the b. iny,y girls), to span him with
their united arms ; and it was. not without con.idsrable
effort—at least so they pretended7,--that the tips oft eir
fingers were brought into eo,ntaet.
mn. DARKER 'S PET WIND.
The north-saiter was still blowing, parching the
earth, and chilling the very souls of men. Spread could
not help thinking, as he buttoned himself up to his throat,

of Barker's perverse fancy for the rascalliest wind that
blows. Iloreas is a ruffian and a bully, but the north-
east is a rascal. /Eolus has not such a vicious,ill con-
ditioned blast in his puffy bags. It withers like an evil
eye ; it blights like a parent's curse ; unkinder thanin-
gratitude; more biting than forgotten benefits. It comes
with sickness on its wings, and rejoices only the doctor
and the sexton. When Charon hoists a sail, it is the
north- cast that swells it; purveys for Famine and caters
for Pestilence. From the savage realms of the Czar it
comes with desolating sweep, laden with moans from Si-
berian mines, and sounding like echoes of the knout; but
not a fragrant breath brings it from all the rosaries of
Persia, so destitute is it of grace and charity. While it
reigns, no fire heats, no raiment comforts, no walls pro-
tect,—cold without bracing, scorching without warmth.
It deflowers the earth, and it wens the sky. The ghast-
liest of hues overspreads the face of things, and collapsing
Nature seems expiring of cholera."

AN ENGLISH MERCHANT.
" Mr. Spread was one of the freshest and handsomest
men of fifty in England. his complexion was florid, his
nose aquiline, his chin double, nay, triple ; a perpetual
pleasantry- seemed to be playing about his mouth, and he
had that kind of an eye that seems to be always looking
out for somebody to do a service to, or something to say
a gay or good-natured thing of. In person, he was of
considerable volume, but the protuberance was net a
parte ante, as in the aldermanic and episcopal con-
formations; he carried his head erect, and at the same
time somewhat advanced, so that his figure had a slight
resemblance to a crescent, with the convexity behind, and
this perhaps was the reason that ho began to carry a cane
beforehi a
s limbs
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of their vigour
Spread were a little formal, slightly Grandisonian and
Sir Rogerish. For a moment you thought him pompous,
but directly he smiled or talked, the amenity of his eye,
or the hilarity of his voice, entirely removed the impres-
sion. He dressed well, with a tendency to the fashions
gone by, rather than to the modes of the day. For
instance, he always appeared in a white cravat, and
never wore a frock-coat, or carried his watch in his
waistcoat pocket. To these few personal details we
have only to add that he was short-sighted, and wore a
ponderous double eye-glass, resolvable into a pair of
spectacles, and pendant from his neck by a gold chain of
corresponding massiveness.
" Mr. Spread was the model of a man of business;
activity without bustle, dispatch without hurry, form
without punctilio, order without rigidness, dexterity
without craft, vigilance without suspicion. Business
inundated without overwhelming him, and care neither
corroded his mind, nor sat on his brow. It was wonder-
ful with what perfect serenity and ease he managed the
multiplicity of affairs, private and public, in which he
either was involved of necessity, or spontaneously
engaged himself. He felt as every man ought to feel,
that he had duties outside his counting-house, and
obligations to society, as well as to his wife and children.
He never shrank from any of the responsibilities of life;
he was a magistrate, a juror, an elector, and at one time
had, at a great personal inconvenience, even consented to
go into Parliament, because the constituency of a large
manufacturing town insisted upon having him to repre-
sent them, and his refusal to gratify their wishes would
have endaqgered the success of the liberal interest.
Then, if a relation or an old school-fellow desired to
name him his executor, or was anxious that, after his
decease, Mr. spread should be the legal guardian, as
well as the hereditary friend of his children, to refuse to
act in either capacity would have been utterly foreign to
his character. Nor was this all; he was (perhaps Mrs.
Spread had helped to make him so), a lover of literature
and art, for ever ready to aid with his purse, and, what
was to him still more valuable, his time, in the establish-
ment or direction of any society or institution calculated
to advance science, or diffuse exalted tastes and sterling
information through the country. Of giving his coun-
tenance to benevolent undertakings, he was more chary;
he hated the false philanthropy that creates distress
with one hand, while it relieves it with the other; he
objected to paying Paul out of the robbery of Peter;
held that there was no more difficult problem than to
help the poor without sowing the seeds of pauperism;
but of all things what he most deprecated in disposing
of the funds at our command for charitable uses, was
their investment in sentimental speculations or romantic
schemes, to make bad Christians of gipsies or Jews,
confer the blessings of episcopacy upon the South Sea
islanders, or discover the lost tribes of Israel in the tents
or the Calmuck Tartars. He thought that there was
ignorance and irreligion enough at our own doors, to
employ both our purses and our piety ; and that the
home department in England and Ireland ought to be
tolerably well administered, both in civil and ecclesiastical
affairs, before it could be our duty to interfere either in
the secular or the spiritual concerns of Madagascar or
Otabeite."
When depicting the timidity and lowliness of Grace,
the author says, " She looked like a poor girl found
guilty of the crime of poverty and sentenced to shirt-
making for life, a seven years' term, at most, of neces-
sity and needlework." In another chapter he observes,
that " to combine the lot of poverty with the state of
enjoyment, is as difficult a problem as to square the
circle or ascertain the longitude at sea." In a de-
scription (a capital description by the way) of the
sitting-room at the Spreads there occurs this sen-
tence :—" You sometimes desired to have the Riot
Act read to disperse a little monster meeting of stools,
and now and then wished a devotion chair at the
deuce." Christians, again, he mentions as a season
when " the ivy and miseltoe have superseded the
birch." Of Mrs. Harry Farquhar he says, " she had
a pert, expert, and malapert tongue, that could libel
or scold one in a leash of languages." Several of the
conceits and incidents in the volume verge beyond the
limits of extravagance, but altogether the " Bachelor
of the Albany" is a genuine book, a book redolent of
the humour, the domesticity, and the sarcastic suavity
of England.

DUTY OF THE ARISTOCRACY.

" Ile ruleth in the heavens above, and among the in-
habitants of the earth beneath."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—These are not moments to occupy your
pages with unnecessary words. 'Tis one great idea
alone that I want to inscribe. All are struck with
the fact that the late great events in Italy, Switzer-
land, Naples, France, have been marvellously accom-
plished by an almost unseen hand ; that all human,
natural, intermediate causes are lost in the gigantic,
instantaneous, omnipotent results ; and that the whole
has been one great moral advance. What voice then
has gone out throughout the world ; and what
does it proclaim ? That the time is come, whether men
like it or not, that whatever is not based on MORAL
JUSTICE will be swept away. That no schemes of
legislation can prolong it when Hearen has doomed
it ; that not,even the roar of cannon can drown the
whisper of truth. That "every man's work shall be
be tried of what sort it is," and the wood, hay, and
stubble of nations shall be cast into the fire. That
the time is come when political expediency, diplomatic
proprieties, State justice, statute right, and the
morality of nececessity and convenience will deceive
men no longer, or, if they deceive men, will no longer
be tolerated by God. What lesson then ought our
legislators and aristocracy to learn ? Shall the ark
be delayed when the rain is already descending ?
Pray,Mr. Editor, apply the above idea in your own
more able manner.-1 am Sir, yours,
Cheltenham, March 1, 1848. DALETH.

THE INCOME-TAX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—The great injustice of the income-tax will, I
hope, be considered sufficient apology for troubling
you with the following statement of the operation of
the law as it affects me :
I have for many years held an appointment as chief
clerk in a public establishment. My income is 250/.
per annum, out of which sum I have six children of
my own to maintain, educate, and provide for, in
addition to which I have three orphan relatives, left
in a state of destitution, who look to me for succour
and partial support, and who, when houseless and
friendless, found an asylum under my roof, and still
continue to be a heavy charge upon my income.
When the income-tax was first imposed I felt it to
be a heavy burden, requiring the greatest economy to
meet, but relying on Sir Robert Peel's statement that
it was for three years only, I did not complain. It
was re-imposed for three years more, yet it was borne
in silence ; but now that it is proposed to perpetuate
the tax and increase the amount, I am constrained to
pour forth the voice of complaint and discontent.
The annually increasing cost of educating my
children so greatly diminishes my resources, that 1
have but little left for other purposes ; yet the Prime
Minister of England stands forth prepared (if Par-
liament will allow) to charge me 121. 10s. per annum
as a tax upon my income, whereas the self-same
Minister, when on the Opposition benches, declared in
Parliament that the income-tax ought not to be
exacted from income derived from industry, and that
real:estate ought:no lo2ger to be exempt from pay-
ment of its proper share of legacy and probate duty.
In common with the class to which I belong, I am
firmly attached to the Throne and Constitution, and
am willing cheerfully to pay my fair proportion of the
required revenue ; but I cannot feel that that law is
just which charges upon my industry the same sum
per cent. as upon land or accumulated property.
Should the proposition pass into law (which God
forbid !) it will place me in a position the most pain.,
ful to be conceived. I have a policy[of assurance on
my life, upon which I have for several years paid
211. 10s. per annum, to secure for my family 1,0001.
at my death. I have also an orphan girl dependent
entirely upon me, a relative whom I once knew pos-
sessed of parents and a happy home, but now
bereaved and forlorn, but dear to me—yes,
most dear to me, because she is forlorn.
If the tax collector, armed with the authority of law,
shall demand of me annually the payment of 121. 105.
as the tax upon my income, what can I do, to what
resource can I fly ? Am I to allow one or more of
my children to go uneducated, my policy of assur-
ance to be forfeited, or what is more painful still, am
I to thrust forth from my house a poor orphan girl, to
be a wretched outcast or become a pauper in a union-
house ? Away, away, with the idea. The orphan
girl shall still find a friend, she shall still share my
home ; and my children, so far as I can secure it,
shall be educated : but what must become of my
policy of assurance the only provision for my dear
wife and children Ihave it in my power to make ?
Sad thought, painful indeed the alternative, the
policy must be forfeited.
Should this statement meet the eye of any Member

THE PEASANT AND HIS LANDLORD
Traiislatedirom the Swedish, by Mary Howitt. 3 Vols.
If we are not mistaken it is to Mary Howitt tha.
we ‘vere indebted for our first introduction to the
literature of the North. It was she who, by her
admirable translations of the admirable works of
Frederika Bremer and Christian Andersen, first
made English readers acquainted with the attractive
nature of northern fictions, and the high merit of
Danish and .Swedish novelists. The names and
writings of Miss Bremer and Christian Andersen are
now familiar to us as those of our native authors, and
the :domestic narratives and fanciful imaginings of
Sweden and Denmark are almost as well known in
England as are the brilliant romans of Paris, or the
mysterious legends of Germany. And this isa, fact
in which we heartily rejoice, not only becouse we hail
with pleasure every event which facilitates inter-
national intercourse; but also because the light lite-
rature of the North, judging from the specimens we
have met with, seem to be generally pervaded by a
healthy and lofty spirit, and forms a strong and fa-
vourable contrast to some of the recent fictions of
other nations. The translation of " The Peasant and
his Landlord" introduces to us an authoress as
vet unknown in this country the Baroness
Knorring, who Mrs. Howitt assures us is quali-
fied to take a place beside Miss Bremer
and Andersen. After reading the " Peasant and
his Landlord," there are few who will dissent from
this assertion. Of a place beside the authors of
" Home" and " The Improvisatore," Baroness
Knorring is most assuredly right worthy—her place I
would perhaps be between them, for in some respects
she resembles both the one and the other, while in very
many she surpasses both. Miss Bremer chiefly excells
in the vraisensblanceof her portraiture. Her "interiors"
have all an air of reality and her various characters a
strongly marked individuality. This is effected not
only by a truthfulness of conception in the first
instance, but by a minute attention to details in the
filling up, like the thousand touches a careful artist
may bestow upon an apparently finished picture,
invisible in themselves, but most visible in their
effect. Andersen, on the contrary, though he has
given us some accurate sketches of Danish life, is
generally remarkable for the playful vagaries of his
fancy, and the poetic flights of an imagination which
can invest the meanest object with a beautiful ideality.
Madame Knorring, in a certain degree, combines
both these attractive characteristics ; her domestic
scenes and incidents are invested with as complete an
air of actuality as any of those detailed to us in
the " Horne," while her pages abound with as much
true poetry as may be met with in the " Poet's
Baxaar." The theme of this tale, " The Peasant
and his Landlord," is a somewhat novel one. It is
essentially a tale of peasant life, its heroes and
heroines are all of the lower orders ; but it is a tale
very different from ordinary peasant histories, and
its humble dramatis persona are depicted in a manner
very different from that in which such classes are usually
described. Madame Knorring tells us in her introduc-
tion that she has passed nearly all her life amid rural
scenes, and has consequently had a constant oppor-
tunity of marking the various peculiarities of peasant
life and peasant character. And these peculiarities
she affirms are very striking ones, she finds fault,
and very justly, with the generality of authors who,
in speaking of the poorer classes dilate chiefly upon
their poverty, and seem to bring them forward merely
for the sake of contrasting their condition with that
of their richer brethren. Madame Knorring,how
ever, regards them as a class per se, interesting in
themselves without regard to their relation to others.
The author of the " Princess" has solved the
difficult questions . regarding the super
of men and women, superior rights
by declaring tha,t,
" woman is not undevelopt man, but diverse,"
and in like manner, the authoress of , the
Peasant and his Landlord," without entering into
political dissertations on the rights o f man, seems to
look on the two great divisions of rich and poor not
as upper and lower orders, but as different ranks,
equally important and worthy of interest in their
different ways. Taking a group of peasants for her
heroes, and,theirPassions an I sufferings fur her theme,
she pourtrays to us as lofty sentiments, as tender and
pure affections, as noble self-sacrifice, and as un-
affected devotion, as if her characters had been taken
from among the educated and refined,or her plot selected
from the records of ancient chivalry ; and in so doing
she has not been led away by a warm imagination,
she has consulted the observations of experience.
She assures us that among the unlettered and igno-
rant peasantry by whom she is constantly sur-
rounded she has remarked the existence of many

of Parliament, let him endeavour Co realise my posi.

most striking qualities, and the frequent exercise of ' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
acts of " Roman " chivalry and devotion. Her LIVERPOOL NATIONAL STEEPLECHASES.
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obligations which have been conferred on the reading Mr. M. Blake's Bailin,
public by Mrs. Howitt. Lord Chesterfield's La,
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Mr. Webb's Flirt beat
Mr. Hope's May Quee'
Mr. J. Robinson's Ali:
Mr. Bake] na General
British Lion
Mr. Jepson na Merry
Sir St. :George Gore'
Trip
Mr. Rushton's Shadow
Mr. Slater's Moselle be:
Mr. Ridgway's Comus
Mr. Taylor's Rufus la(
Mr. B. B. Robinson's
Mr. P. Taylor's Kite 1
Sir J. Boswell's Vray
Mr. Corbel's Clarion
Mr. Douglas's Calum
Mr. Sutcliffe's Bellow

tion, let him imagine what my feelings must be when
I look upon my family, and reflect that at my death—
it may be even before another year shall have passed
away—my wife may be a widow, my children
fatherless, without a penny in the world, dependent
upon the :cold hand of charity—when but for the
passing into law of a measure, admitted by its
propounders to be most unjust, my widow would
have become possessed of a thousand pounds, and
my family been preserved from poverty and
pauperism. Let it not be said that mine is an isolated
case—the exception and not the rule. Look, I say, to
all classes of professional men, and you will find the
sum exacted as the tax upon their income must in
almost every case render them unable to make ade-
quate provision for their families at their death.
I trust these observations may be read by some of
the many honest and good men having seats in Par-
liament ; if so, let me entreat, supplicate, implore
them to use every effort to reject the measure, which
must, from its glaring injustice, cause great dis-
content, and array class against class. It may be
necessary to increase the army, navy, and ordnance ;
it may also be necessary to erect fortifications on our
coast; but I humbly submit that nothing is more
necessary, more important, more conducive to the
peace and well-being of the empire, than that the
Parliament should enact ;righteous and just laws,
that shall command the respect and willing obedience
of the people.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Southampton, Feb. 24, 1848. W. W. W.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Szu,—Seeing:the:interest you have taken in the op •
position to the Government plan of increasing the
income-tax, and having given us daily information
of tae general feeling of the country, I beg to ac•
quaint you with the sentiments evinced in this bo-
rough on the subject.
As soon as the daily press furnished us with !the
budget of Lord John Russell, nothing could exceed
the universal disgust, indignation, and astonishment
which it excited from persons of every shade of po-
litics, but more particularly from those who were
well disposed to the present Administration, believing
as they now do that he has deceived and betrayed
them.
Accordingly, a public meeting of the inhabitants
was convened on Friday evening last, and a nume-
rous attendance took place, when a petition against
the measure was resolved on, which, in the course of
the same evening and a part of the next day, received
the signatures of the principal inhabitants. It was
then forwarded to the Honourable ..Dlonel Boyle,
Member for the borough, for presentation.—I remain,'
Sir, yours faithfully,
A CONSTANT READER.
Frome, Feb. 26, 1848.

GLASGOW CorroN MARKET.—In the early part
of the week, on account of the slightness of the demand,
it was necessary to reduce prices about id. per lb., and
since, even at the reduction, the business done has been
very unsatisfactory.—Scotch Reformers Gazette.

First Ties. ken sr ‘saa.l3o
Flirt beat May Queen Rufus boat \ sans P
I General beat Miller Smut beat *q,z,
Shade beat Merry Lad Vraye Foy • %, i 6
Shadow beat Moselle I Bellona beat CieMAM,DS
The Waterloo Purse. , „lr'Sr
Mr. Jebb's Sidrophel beat Mr. Douglas's Tarieft gmog
Mr. Ridgway's Rose Cheri beat Mr. Deakin's I!.lllejteat
Mr. Webb's Hylas beat Mr. J. Cruso's Craft ',yr-
Mr. A. Graham's Credit beat Mr. Jepson's Princid
Mr. J. Robinson's Bugle beat Mr. Slater na Harrithirds,
Mr. Edleston's Beauty beat Mr. Sampson's Black
Mr. B. B. Robinson's Sybil beat Sir J. Boswell's Pestt....
Mr. Temple's Tom Bowling beat Mr. Bake na Nimble.

The Marchioness of Douglas arrived at the Duke
of Bamilton's mansion, in Portman-square, last evenings
from Arley-house, near Nantwich.
The Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, received at dinner last evening, at his official re-
sidence in the Admiralty, the Earl and Countess Grey,
Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, &c.
Viscountess Dungannon and the Misses D'Arcy
Irvine have left Grafton-street, for Brinkinhalt, Den-
bighshire.
Lord Brougham, according to letters received yes-
terday at the Noble and Learned Lord's residence, in
Grafton-street, intended to leave his chateau, near
Cannes, early in the present week, for London.
Lord Foley, Captain of the Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms, received at dinner last evening, at his mansion, in
Grosvenor- square, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the
Earl Spencer, Viscount Canterbury, the Duchess Dow-
ager of Bedford and Lady Rachael Russell, Viscount
Goderich, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Cadoen.
Mr. Matthew 'Wyatt, her Majesty's Lieutenant of
the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at-Arms, enter-
tained the Officers and Gentlemen of the Corps, at dinner
yesterday, at his mansion in Hyde Park square.
THE REPRESENTATION OF YARMOUTIL—Two can-
didates are in the field soliciting the suffrages of the
electors—Mr. Goldsmid, a Liberal, and Mr. Lacon, a
Tory banker. The local paper says, "It is very doubtful
in well-informed circles, whether Yarmouth will have
two Mt mbers when the freemen are disfranchised."
REFORM THE TAXES.—Our Liverpool correspon-
dent says, " A petition is being got up here praying the
Legislature to reduce the income tax to 2i per cent., to
levy a to x of 4 per cent. on real property for twelve
months, and to impose a probate and property tax.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CASHEL RAILWAY...-.
A melancholy accident occurred on Sunday between
Ballybrophy and Knocknahaugh. In the latter place an
immense abyss has for some months baffled the utmost
efforts of the engineers, and the labourers are employed
every day in the week in an attempt to fill it up. A
number of " lorreys," or timber warns, were on the rail
yesterday, and the timber being unfastened , the beams
upset, and two brothers, who had been sitting en them,
were cast with terrific force upon the line and instantly
killed.
THE MILITARY ESTABLISIIMENT.—The total num-
ber of the establishment of the Royal Horse Artillery
and Royal Artillery during the year 1847, is stated to
have been 10,281, being 1,220 beyond the strength of
those services in the year 1846. It was the largest
establishment of artillery in this country since the year
1829, when the number was only 7,015. The total
number of the establishment of the corps of Royal En-
gineers and Royal Sappers and Miners in 1847, is stated
to have been 1,798, being an increase of 500 over the
numerical strength of the same force in 1846.
CUsTOAls.—Mr. H. H. Sutton, searcher of the
senior class at the port of Liverpool, has been appointed
to the situation of landing surveyor at that port, ren-
dered vacant by the nomination of Mr. W. Barber to s
landing snrveyorship at the port of London.
THE NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.—The amount of all
sums annually paid from July 1, 1843, to July 1, 1847,
under the Order in Council of June 1843, creating a re-
tired list and increasing the half-pay Is. a day to part of
the Paymasters and Pursers, is officially stated to have
amounted in the aggregate to 25,3031. 12s. 3d.1 The
aggregate amount of all sums that have been annually
paid under the Order in Council of April, 1836, for
increasing tho half-pay of the Paymasters and Pursers
Is. a day from July 1, 1836, to Juno, 1847, is stated at
73,076/. 13s. 6d.
A BURGLARY PREVENTED BY A DoG.—A. young
fellow, named Charles Foley, who is already welt
known to the police, was on Monday brought up at
the Borough Court, charged under the following sin-
gular circumstances:—About half-past one o'clock on
Sunday morning,
osioy. morning, Mr. Jones, tailor and draper, of
street, was awoke by the loud and furious
Lowerun
barking of a dog which he keeps inside his house,
when, suspecting that thieves were about the premises,
he got up hurriedly and dressed himself, and proceeded
to call up his apprentice. Arming himself with a stout
stick and a watchman's rattle, he then proceeded to
examine his premises, when, satisfied by the continued
barking of his dog that some ono was concealed about
the place, he sprang his rattle for a policeman. This
signal, it is almost unnecessary to state, soon brought
him the aid of a constable, when it was discovered
that the iron grid leading ,into the collar had been
forced, and an entrance thus gained into the house.
On visiting the cellar the supposition proved true, for
there, sure enough, lay ensconced the prisoner, ook-
ing about as cheerful as can well be imagined on find.
ing the sort of trap he had fallen into. He was of
course taken in charge by the obliging policeman, who
gratuitously provided him with lodgings ; and, being
unable on Monday to persuade Mr. Maude that he had
been drunk and had tumbled into the cellar, he was com-
mitted for trial at the assizes.—Manchester Courier.
BANK ROBBERY AT WORTIIING.—Between Sa-
turday evening and Monday morning the premises of
the Worthing branch of the Joint Stock Company's
Bank were entered (by means of skeleton keys, it is
supposed) by thieves, who carried off fourteen 101.
and fifty-six 5/. notes, besides gold and silver,
to the amount altogether of between 6001. and 7001.
Several trifling articles were also taken, and a ledger
weighing about 251bs. It seems probable that this
might have been taken on the supposition that it
contained the numbers of the notes, and that all clue to
them would he thus removed. The number, however,
of every note is known and has already been made
public. The person who has charge of the promises,
whose name is Philips, and who lives within two or
three doors of the bank, went to the premises as usual
on Monday morning, and found everything externally
in the same state as when he left on Saturday even-
ing. Ho proceeded to open the large iron chest
which contains the safe, &c., and is fastened with a very
strong padlock. This ho also opened without per-
ceiving any difference ; but when he endeavoured to
open the safe, he found the key would not go in. He
gave the lock a shake, and it fell off. Ile then discovered
that all the money had been taken as well as the ledger.
Two men were seen by two or three persons coming out
of the bank on Sunday evening between seven and eight
o'clock; one is described as a tall man dressed in a
light coat, and the other rather short. Jenkins, our
head-constable, is gono to London to communicate with
the police ; and at present all is mystery.—Brighton
Guardian.
QUEENBOROUGIL—The monotony and quiet of this
little town is about to be agreeably broken by the intro-
duction of soldiers into it. A largo house, formerly the
residence of G. Baker, Esq., but which has been unoc-
cupied many years, has been taken by the Government
and converted into barracks for the reception of fifty
men, who are expected here in a few days. A barge
load of barrack stores was unloaded here on Wednesday
last, and deposited in the above-named building.--
, entishpbserver.

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