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years ; one of them, " A Journal of the Sun," being
in many respects remarkable for excellences, most of
them eminently beautiful. The "Love Song," again
occurring at page 35, is surely impassioned enough
for a stripling
trebs's eyebrows." The numerous admirers of Mr.
capable
Kieglake will turn with interest to the lines addres,,ed
"To the Author of Eothen," and those who, like
ourselves, have an agreeable remembrance of ",Pippa
Passes" or who, like others, regard with a sort of
veneration the mysteries of "Paracelsus," will turn
with pleasure to the "Familiar Epistle to Robert
Browning." As a pleasant memento of old days gone
by, when we lingered with delight over the tender
verses of Barry Cornwall—verses sometimes erotic
and sometimes bacchanalian—we transfer to our
columns the exquisite love song we have already men
tioned. Here it is—
" Sit near, sit near! I kiss thy lips,
Ripe, richer than the crimson cherry.
Girl, cans't thou love me in eclipse?
Tell me, and bid my soul be merry.
My life is dim, my fortune fled;
I've nothing save my love for thee.
Give back thy love, or I am dead—
A word, while I can hear—and see.
Sit nearer—near! I kiss thine eyes;
There—where the white lids part asunder.
I love thee—dos't thou hear my sighs?
Love thee beyond the world, thou wonder!
My life is spent; I've nothing left
To tender now, save love's dear duty;
Ah, let 1710—of all else bereft—
Feed until death upon thy beauty !"
The few fragmentary pieces added to the present collec-
tion are closed somewhat mournfully by a "iDirge." We
prefer thinking of them rather in connexion with the
above exquisite outpouring of tenderness. We cherish
with them also a remembrance of the graceful lines
about " Flowers," or the jovial song bight the
" Partie Carree," or the pensive " Finis," or the
generous-hearted " Stanzas." Every page of the
little volume, however, will be almost equally accept-
able, because, nearly every page is marked by beauty
both of expression and,of sentiment.

AN OLD DOCTOR'S OPINION ON WOMAN'S
DRESS.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
You ask me for my opinion on the subject of prac-
tical reform in the dress of women. As I have a
habit of speaking out, you shall hear it roundly, and
at once. I here premise that I utterly disclaim any
admiration of the exaggerated and ridiculous carica-
tures exhibited on the stage and in our shop windows,
under the title of "Bloomer Costume;" such a
theatrical style of attire is not to be desired, nor
would it be imitated by sensible women ; but a modi-
fied phase of the proposed reform may be very judi-
ciously and becomingly substituted. I think that the
sooner an alteration and improvement takes place in
female attire, the better. lam perfectly aware that
vulgar ridicule and conceited prejudice operate power-
fully to prevent this being effected, but we have so
many instances on record of,beneficial discOveries
and progressions being the marked objects of (morn
and derision when first discussed, that a reflective
mind will not be dismayed at the antagonism offered
by impertinence or ignorance. I think woman's dress,
as at present arranged, is liable to the objections of
dirt, danger, discomfort, and most certainly, despite
its " Alexandrian length," indelicacy. Woman has
two legs as well as man, and it is essential to have
them as closely and as separately clothed to insure
from cold and undue exposure. I have seen accidents,
when a woman might have escaped without serious
hurt, bad not her instinctive attention been given to
replacing her deranged outer garments,—she knew
she was insecurely covered below, and her anxiety to
prevent further exposure was the direct cause of mu-
tilation of body, and often loss of existence. Had
she been accustomed to be well cased in some sound
material, she would have been less fastidious about
showing a leg for a few minutes, and the preservation
of limb and life greatly facilitated thereby. .1 have
lately had two female patients, who fell while going
up stairs, in consequence of their skirts being too
long to admit the possibility of ascending without
raising these ridiculous petticoats with one hand.
One lady, unfortunately, had her first-born in her
arms; the child received a severe concussion of the
brain, and the mother dislocated her wrist.
I have been called to attend many with rheumatic
affections of the limbs, and internal diseases of the
lower organs, when, on inquiry, I have found the
patients either entirely without close-fitting habili-
ments, or wearing those of a flimsy and useless qua-
lity, affording no protection whatever against draught
or damp. Now, if one of the two sexes must needs
go about the world in such an unguarded state of
body, I really think we men are most competent to
incur the risk attending it, for the higher and more
nervous organization of women renders it doubly in-
cumbent on them to be uniformly and carefully
wrapped about the extremities.
In making good my charge of "dirt" the world
will admit the visible evidence afforded by trailing
skirts every dusty or rainy day. lam a tolerable
philosopher, and not easily disturbed by trifles, but
when I see expensive silks and satins go about doing
the work of crossing-sweepers' brooms,—when I see
several inches of rich dresses trailing through the
heterogeneous offensive gatherings of city-streets,—
when I see shoes and stockings one mass of mud,—
when I walk in a choking cloud of dust raised by the
fair beings around me,—really my equanimity gets
slightly irritated, and I am inclined to apply a pair of
scissors to the "part affected ;" and here I can say
something of the indelicacy advanced. Women who
have a natural respect for common cleanliness, as
naturally endeavour to preserve their skirts from con-
tamination, and frequently on a rainy day I have be-
held ladies holding their dresses so high, that a most
unseemly display was the consequence. Poor things !
they were perfectly innocent of the same display,
and only exercising a womanly desire to keep " tidy;"
but I vow that I have witnessed indelicate exhibitions,
from attempts to keep long petticoats out of the mud,
that offended good taste and refined feeling more than
any reasonable adoption touching Turkish trowsers
could have done. I have seen women get out of
omnibuses on black, sloppy days, when one of two
results was impossible to avoid,—either the drapery
must serve as a mop to the steps, or there must be a
very uncertain degree of personal exposure; in the
first case, there is spoliation of a good dress and
great annoyance to the wearer; in the latter, the un-
advoidable "indelicacy" is a subject of grinning de-
light to any empty-headed "gent" who may be pass-
ing. It is my opinin that a woman's walking robe
should be independent of drenched flagstones and
filthy puddles. She ought tnbe able to walk with- '
out devoting her sole attention to the bottom of her
dress. She ought to be educated with less of false
delicacy than to entertain the notion that the sup-
posed possession of locomotive power above the
ankle is "shocking" and " improper." Heaven for-
bid that I should, in the most remote matter, wish to
neutralize the exquisite and charming constituents of
woman's real modesty. I have seen too much of the
holy worth and moral strength attached to woman's
conduct, to be able to do otherwise than worship and
respect the innate principles which prompt such ex-
emplification. lam no raving enthusiast seeking to
place man and woman in false positions, but I am
mentally convinced that woman might be invested
with a freer and safer style of attire, without being
disqualified for any of her important relations, either
as a mother, wife, daughter, sister, or citizen.
Now for the "discomfort ;" perhaps this would be
best understood by adopting the practical advice of
an American lady to a young gentleman who con-
sidered his brains and whiskers competent to rule
the Solar system, " Just try long petticoats yourself
in muddy weather, and see how you like them." We
have little doubt that an hour's experience in the
dabbling, dirty, trailing garments would lessen the
wonder that sensible women should seek some style
more pleasant for " getting about" in. Fancy the
bliss of walking with draggling, heavy, mud-soaken
petticoats flapping against the ankles at every step 1
Consider how pleasant it is to have the feet thoroughly
dredged with dry foul dust on a hot dog-day !
Imagine the freedom of running up stairs to the
third floor with a candlestick in one hand and
some domestic luggage in the other 1 there is a
constriction of limb and action that makes
the journey more difficult than a round or
two on the treadmill ; and then in the mazy
dance, what total impossibility of activity or hearty
freedom do long petticoats cause, when every partner
is likely to step on the hem and produce unlimited
rents ; what yards of damaged gossamer, and what
myriads of " undone gathers" I have observed and
pitied 1 indeed, I am acquainted with a family of
three young ladies who regularly take needle and
thread to evening parties, for the express purpose of
"sewing each other up." Just cast your eye round
a room during the last " galop," and the chances are
that you will behold sufficient tattered and pinned-up
flounces to suggest the notion of a genteel game at
romps in Rag Fair.
I also believe that long petticoats afford a disgrace..
ful concealment to the feet of slovenly, lazy women,
and did we dare to inspect the state in which many
keep their " propelling members," we should find
trodden-down, slipshod, ragged shoes, and unmended,
dirty hose to a disreputable extent ; and this condi-
tion of the feet, and a yawning, half-undone row
of " hooks and eyes " down the back, are points of
personal neglect which always mark a slatternly and
not too really delicate woman. Men in daily life
are invariably neater and better equipped about the
feet than women ; but if women's garments were
short enough to be entirely out of the mud and dust,
and yet of a perfectly modest length, ladies would
soon he as particular about their shoes and boots as
they are now about their collars and cuffs.'
During my visits to the Great Exhibition, I had
multifold opportunities of witnessing the absurd ex-
tent to which the "fashion" of "long petticoats" has
been carried. I accidentally trod on the frail muslin
of a young lady, and the consequence wes a rent
some half-yard in length. I apologized, but the girl
with frank sense replied, "Don't name it, Sir; ladies
wear their dresses so long, that it is impossible
to avoid treading on them." A little further on, I
observed the skirt of a lady in literal rags at the bot-
tom—thealining had been pulled and torn into small
fragments and fell beneath the silk in dirty shreads,
affording a subject for laughter and contempt to all
around, until the gentleman with her begged her to
step aside and pin it up, if possible. I happened to
be leaving one day when it rained heavily, and the
distress of the well-dressed women was pitiable. The
bottoms of their dresses seemed the great focus
of anxiety, and no wonder. The turning of skirts
over shoulders, the tucking-up in all manner of mys-
terious arrangements, and the general venting of dis-
gust at the abomination of " long petticoats," assured
me that women have a very keen and impatient sense
of the inconvenience inflicted by them ; and really
the cdd, and not very decorous display of under-
garments and limbs would have been well obviated by
a more rational style of walking attire. And let us
here say a word on the extravagant outlay incurred
by this wilful destruction of material.
I have ventured to remonstrate with my daughters
sometimes, when they requested a sum of money for
" new dresses," and observed that the dresses they
were condemning seemed very presentable. " Oh,
yes !" was the reply, "they are very good, excepting
round the bottom, and they are not fit to be seen
there,' and sure enough they convinced me of the
fact, by exhibiting a collection of soiled and un-
seemly skirts that offended my vision most sensibly,
and a 201. note I€ft my pocket while I poured
somewhat fierce anathemas on " long petticoats." I
ams ased proud of seeing my wife and daughters well
dres as any man, but I decidedly object to giving
half-a-guinea a yard for silk to sweep the streets with.
onable
Thus, we see that " long petticoats" are alike objec-
ti either in the promenade or polka, and ought
to be discarded by rational women as one of those
excrescences of fashion which so often disfigure what
Nature made perfect and beautiful. I firmly believe
that these ridiculously long petticoats were first em-
ployed by some ',high-born child of physicg misfor-
_

LAYARD'S AINEVELI ABRIDGED.
John Murray.
The enterprising publisher of Murray's Reading
' for the Rail could scarcely have decided upon the
issue of a volume snore calculated to prove attractive
to a very considerable part of the reading population.
The celebrity justly acquired by Dr. Austen Henry
Layard as the last and (for many reasons we cannot
but think also) the greatest of oriental travellers, is
enough to secure to a book like the one before us a
popularity spreading far and wide among the multi-
tude. His more elaborate and more costly narrative,
from which the present is a judicious selection or
abridgment, was on account of those very qualities
restricted to the narrower circle of the wealthy and
unoccupied—men capable of giving a guinea or two
for a single literary composition, and of dedicat-
ing to its perusal an amount of time scarcely
compatible with the absorbing occupations of
the industrious. Aware of this, Mr. Murray
has generously, we bad almost said humanely,
resolved upon giving the present epitomised version
of the former volumes to the public at a coat so trifling
as to place it within the reach of a very numerous
class of inquirers. In its new form, the work is, as
the title-page correctly expresses it, "A Popular Ac-
count of the Discoveries at Nineveh, by Austen
Henry Layard, Esq., D.C.L." And the value of the
book cannot fail to be at once appreciated by its pur-
chasers when they find that the labour of abridge-
ment has been entrusted to no other bands than those
of the distinguished author himself. Enabled by this
means to examine into the nature of the discoveries of
Dr. Layard directly, and not second hand or by hear:
say, the reader will very speedily perceive that their
importance has in no single particular been in the
slightest degree exaggerated. On the contrary, they
must willingly acknowledge that scarcely any praise
can be extravagant. when applied to the young and
observant Englishman whose researches have brought
to light from among the ruins of Nineveh facts cor-
roborative of the venerable and divine records of Holy
Writ. We may add that the volume under notice is
adorned throughout with a variety of woodcut em
bellishments.

MONDAY _EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1861.

The PPriaßceisNs'sCTEhSeaSt 'reS opTedEfAorTtitheEseason on
Saturday with The Merry Wives of Windsor and
Mr. Tom Taylor's amusing farce, To Prents ancl i Guardians. There is no essential
change ian
the per.
sonnel of the Princess's company from last season, and
as at the commencement of last season, so at the cora-
mencement of the present, Messrs. Kean and Keeley
' have entered into a short engagement with Mr. Bart-
ley, who on Saturday night appeared as Sir John
Falstaff, and acted the part as jollity, as unctiously,
and as artistically as ever he did. It is a model piece
of acting is the Sir John Falstaff of Mr. Bartley,
almost the last remaining specimen left of the good
old school•acting of the days when there was a school
of acting. It should be not only seen, but studied
attentively; studied by every actor who is ambitious
of becoming a conscientious interpreter of the Slaak-
sperian comic drama. Mr. Charles Kean appeared as
Mr. Ford ; and to our thinking not only is he the best
Mr. Ford at present on the stage, but his Mr. Ford
is, if not the best, certainly one of the best of his im-
personations. It is delightful for its unconventionality,
whilst at the same time it is worthy of all praise for
its high finish. The nervous fidgettiness with which he
listened to Falstaff's schemes, as shown by his gesticu-
lations, more particularly by his drumming with his
fingers on the table (so characteristic of a nervous
man) man), proved that he had studied attentively in the
school of nature ; and his look of blank despair when,
as he listened to the adventures of the buck-
basket,ad over-
whelmededy.
the truth
wastruth a finefisshedbit of genuine
on him n
comedy.
Never has Mr. Charles Kean shown himself 'a more
accomplished artist than on Saturday evening. Keeley
made a comfortable and amusing Sir Hugh Evans,
and Addison a bluff and rubicund host; Harley's
was a traditional Slender, but Mr. A. Wigan rescued
Dr. Csius from the conventional and traditional ab-
eflretreh
surdities by which he has hitherto been disfigured,
r Wigan he e
a and represented him as Shakspere intended he should
be represented—as
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the filth and varnish Whichof
fromrs,
had disfigured it
has been carefully removed, and h.
fresh as the day it left the leeaserle.aPPldarrss
Charles Kean played the part of Mrs. Ford with
infinite taste ; she raised the tone of the char ter
throughout, and made of Mrs. Ford a somewhat
irritable, but refined and lady-like woman, wthae
character to the level of high comedy. Mrs. raisingKeel y
as the kind-hearted, laughter-loving, joyous Men.'
Page, was quite in her element, while Miss Mar
Keeley made a very interesting Ann Page. Mrs. Winstanley acted the part of Dame Quickly in a
careful and artist-like manner. The piece has been
carefully put on the stage, and the costume adopted
is that of the time of Henry IV., instead of that of
the age of Elizabeth, which has been the costume
adopted of late years. At first sight this may
appear a judicious alteration, but we must recollect
that in Shakspere's time propriety of costume
was not thought of, that throughout the comedy of the
Merry Wives of Windsor there is nothing which
points to the time of Henry IV. as the period in
which the action of the play takes place, and that by
adopting the costume of Elizabeth we avoid falling
into an absurd anachronism. " They are my East
and my West Indies," says Falstaff, speaking of the
Merry Wives of Windsor, "and I will trade to them
both.' Now, however natural it might be for a
knight of the time of Queen Elizabeth to talk of
trading to the West Indies, it is very certain that no
such allusion could have been made by a knight of
Pie time of Henry IV., and for this reason,
if for no other, we prefer the Elizabethan
costume for the Merry Wives of Windsor.
At the conclusion of the play the National Anthem
was performed by the orchestra, but not sung by the
company, an omission at which we were somewhat
surprised. It was of course enthusiastically cheered.
The house was crowded to the ceiling.

tune, who had swollen legs or deformed feet trans-
mitted with the same blood that claimed a coronet,
and thus were primitively worn, on the same prin-
ciple as the stiff, high, abominable stocks exhibited by
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half century ;
entury since were—that of biding an
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in dirty trolloping drapery, and why the want of
healthy liberty of action and personal comfort should
be thrust on the whole sex on such a score, only the
obstinate and silly prejudice of fashion can explain.
And now to a frightful source of evil—the tight,
suffering
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out of the pale of physiological
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.kon
with the ribs compressed into such a
circumference as we are daily forced to loowkasP.) e
how can the spine retain its beautiful uprightyfiggol
on ?
so warped and ilhtreated as it is ? Can we belitierve
that God did his work so badly in the fairest
and most exquisite work of his creation, that buck-
ram and steel are needed to prop up " the house
of life ?" Did he mould the best of his creatures so
carelessly, that pinching in here and swelling out
there, are essential to render the " plastic, breathing
image" fit to enter a drawing-room ? What insolent
presumption is in the hand that seeks to improve the
upright beauty of the human being ! And does the
short-sighted mortal think that Nature will not have
her revenge for the insult thrust upon her ? Does
the woman imagine that the arteries, veins, stomach,
lungs, and heart, will do their proper duties under
such a grasping vice of artificial restraint ? Does she
think her progeny will be strong and healthy, as if
born of an untrammelled mother ? Surely there is
need of reform in this error most peremptorily ; for
if the real amount of injury indicted on the human
system, by means of stays, were exposed to the blind
victim's eyes, a woman would turn from " corsets"
as from a boa constrictor. I have three girls in my
family, but not one of them has ever been incarcerated
in " stays." A substantial sort of close-fitting vest
is all I ever permitted them to wear, and I am happy
to say that finer forms, or better constitutions, cannot
be produced ; their spines are as straight as those of
my boys, and had I a score of girls to bring up, I
would teach them to look on steel, whalebone, and
buckram, as so many means of suicide.
There is another condition of female dress which
deserves unmitigated censure; I mean the mysterious
heap of either feathers, flannel, horse-hair, or wool,
which goes by,the generic name of "bustle." I have
followed ladies who sported such an extreme redun-
dance in this department, that it at once appeared
laughably unnatural and grossly indelicate. Oh,
what a pity it is that woman is not able to appreciate
the natural and exquisite beauty of her form ! How
it is to be regretted, not only in a physical, but in an
artistic sense, that she pinches in here and piles up
there, regardless of the power and design of the
Creator ! Why will she insist on screwing in the ribs,
and thereby ruining one of the greatest beauties in
the human form ?—a flat, straight back. All grace
is utterly negatived by the round, hunched-up
shoulders which too often mark the female figure,
and which are almost invariably the result of undue
pressure on the spinal muscles. I saw a young
woman on horseback at Brighton, a few days since,
whose waist was a " mere nothing"—l looked at
her with pity ; for not only was she miserably
sickly looking, but her whole figure was
angular and ugly to a painful degree, and
not "a line of beauty" presented itself to the
eye, despite her very taper waist. And now,
taking all,things into consideration, do you not think,
my dear friend, that woman's dress might be im-
proved ? There is not the slightest occasion for
women to be dressed like men ; but I contend that
flowing skirts of reasonable length, with trowsers,
full or otherwise, to the ankle, would be infinitely
superior in every way to the nasty, uncomfortable,
dirty, " long petticoats," now in vogue, most strenu-
ously observing, at the same time, that the body be
habited loosely and freely, and I am convinced this
reform would afford exhibitions of elegance far be-
yond anything the present system can show.
There is another point of woman's "full " dress, or
rather " undress," which I cannot forbear touching
on. "Indelicacy" seems to be the great moral sta-
tistic on which people dwell in this question of robe
reform. Now it seems to me to be great twaddle to
discuss the gross indelicacy of showing four inches of
ankle and leg covered with some thick material,
while the bosoms of women are laid open to the in-
solent and unhallowed gaze of every male observer
in " fashionable society." I have beheld " conven-
tional" and " authorized" displays in this degree of
Almack's " Bloomerisna," which mortally disgusted
me. How do we reconcile this incongruity ? lam
an old man, a husband, and a father, and could
say much on this view of the question, but shall con-
tent myself with this advice to the "Women of Eng-
land,"—Cover your bosoms, and prove your delicacy;
show a little more of your legs, and become clean and
comfortable.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE,
Through the length and breadth of the land how
few there are who have not heard of Astley's. We
' have been induced to make the above remark in con-
sequence of Mr. Batty producing on his boards the
new dramatic spectacle of Azael, which, as a drama,
is the best and most instructive piece ever produced.
Nor could it be otherwise when founded on that most
beautiful of all parables " The Prodigal Son."
There, perhaps, never was a time when a visit to
Astley's would be so amply repaid as at present. A
more instructive and pointed moral than that conveyed
in Azael it is impossible to conceive ; from the unex-
ceptionable moral of the story and its historic
character, the splendour of the costumes, appoint-
ments, processions, tableaux, &c., it is peculiarly
adapted to the instruction and gratification of the
young, and therefore we expect that at the approach-
ing Christmas Astley's will be the theatre par ex-
cellence of the family party. The spectacle of Azael,
as produced at Astley's, has obtained the assistance
of those accessory effects which the ♦ast and peculiar
resources of this establishment only could supply ;
troops of horses, camels, zebras, sheep, goats,
ostriches, and other animals, give a vivid reality to
the desert life depicted. The piece undoubtedly must
and will have an enviable run, for it ia, throughout,
well acted and gorgeously mounted. In addition to
the above, are presented nightly several new and most
attractive scenes in the circle by eminent native and
foreign artiktes, who have recently been added to the
programme of the establishment.

As for the " indelicacy" of this reform, which is so
much talked of by some very "nice" people, I can
only say that I know the indelicacy lies rather in the
minds of the fastidious observers, than in the pro-
poEed curtailing of street-sweeping garments, and
every sensible man will readily admit that the proper
cleanliness, real modesty, and personal comfort, of
half the human creation would be greatly advanced
by the abolition of these " horrid long petticoats."
We never experience any great shock to our propriety
when we see tall stripplinggirlsattired in "frocks and
trowsers," but rather admit that they are gracefully
and healthily dressed ; we never start at the sight of
a Turkish lady, nor deem her at all unsexed because
she displays a small portion of her legs in elegantly
arranged muslin or silk. Oh ! Fashion and Preju-
dice are a couple of jades, alike impudent and obsti-
nate. For many years these two jades kept dear
little infants muffled in " long petticoats," which were
useless, expensive, and very inconvenient. They
insisted
on the tiny head in close-hot caps, and
on many other things as foolish and unhealthy ; but
we have had a reform here, and the sooner we have a
reform among our loved and highly-esteemed female
scavengers, the better. As for " wearing the breeches,"
" inovation of masculine rights," and all that sort of
nonsense, indulged in at random by brains of a very
limited or very course corder, I can only say, that I
as much pity the man who deems his manhood es-
tablished by his sole right to trowsers, as I do the
woman who considers her modesty based on a need-
less quarter of a yard of dirty, dragging, cumbersome
petticoat. Now you have my honest opinion on
woman's dress—use it as you will.

THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW.
The attraction at this house during the week has
been centred in the person of that famous comedian
Air. Wright, who has for many years kept the London
Adelphi in a roar. This gentleman has appeared in
a succession of crack parts; and his quiet, natural
style of acting, has been greatly appreciated by the
lovers of comic art. In such characters as John
Grumley in Domestic Economy—an amusing farce
founded on a familiar homely tale—Mr. Wright is
particularly happy. Honest John feels displeasure
at the manner in which his household affairs are ma-
naged, and insists that he could do all the " hussey-
skep" better in a tithe of the time usually taken. Mrs.
G. is but too glad to allow John a trial of his skill and
powers, and she fur the time undertakes the manage-
ment of his out-of-door duties. But John has mis-
calculated his strength; everything goes against him,
and he is fain, crest-fallen, to resume his ordinary
and appointed occupations. This is the whole plot, if
it deserve that term ; but the delineation of charac-
ter: is excellent, sustaining en agreeable interest.
Paul Pry, Harvest Home, The Wreck Ashore, and
other pieces, have, in the course of this engagement,
been presented ; and last evening, for the benefit of
Mr. Wright, the comedy of Sweethearts and Wives,
The Spits fields Weaver, and Illy Precious Betsy,
were performed before a well-filled house. In all
these pieces Mr. Wright was intensely amusing.—
Glasgow Citizen.

THE CHARGE OF CARD-CHEATING AT
BRIGHTON.
On Saturday Mr. Sill, of Tavistock-row, the solicitor
for the prosecution in the alleged card-cheating affair at
Brighton, made an application to Mr. Justice Cressweil,
at chambers, on the part of the defendant in the case of
" Bignell v. Purday, ' an action which has originated
out of the case referred to.
Mr. SILL said ho appeared to make an application in
suppoi t of a summons which be had served upon the
plaintiff, calling on him to show cause why the action of
"Bignell v. Purday" should not be tried by a special jury.
It would no doubt be in the recollection of his Lordship
that the action arose out of the now somewhat notorious
case of the " Queen v. Broome and others," one involving
a charge of conspiracy, and cheating at cards, at
Brighton. The present action originated in circum-
stances of a peculiar character. The plaintiff Big-
nell being desirous of obtaining the liberation
of one of the prisoners in the case referred to, named
Staden, gave to the defendant the sum of 250/. for
the purpose, as the latter alleged, of enabling him to
justify as bail, and, as he further contended, without any
condition. The defendant, however, was not called to
justify as bail, and the plaintiff had proceeded.for the re-
covery of the 2501., as he contended that the money had
been merely deposited with the defendant. The ques-
tion raised in the pleadings, which set forth fully the
circumstances of the case, was whether the agreement
so made between the parties was not a corrupt and
illegal one, and was therefore, he (Mr. Sill) submitted, of
a character which would make it proper that it should
be tried by a special jury.
Mr. Justice Cresswell here inquired whether the ap-
plication for a special jury was opposed on the
part of
the pla plaintiff.
The tirf
who attended for Mr. Robson, the solicitor
for the plaintiff, answered in the negative.
A short conversation having ensued about the costs of
the ayplication,
His Lordship directed that the order for the special
jury should issue in the usual form.
Notice of trial has been given for the sittings after the
present term, in the Court of Common Pleas, and it is
said that some amusing disclosures will be made in the
course of the trial.

[We are happy to bear that our old friend Wright
has entirely recovered from his illness,. and is an-
nounced to appear 'at the Adelphi on the let of De-
cember,—ED. Sun.]

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.
GLASGOW, FRIDAY.—About two o'clock this morning
an alarm was given that fire had broken out in a house
in South Albion-street. When the brigade proceeded to the spot smoke was found to be issuing from every
chink of one of the rooms in the tenement, occupied by
a lady and her child. It was at first hoped that the oc-
cupants might be absent, but this unhappily was not the
case, for on the firemen breaking open the door and
creeping into the apartment, at great personal risk, they
found the child (a little girl about three years of age)
lying on the floor and still breathing; but the poor
thing died in the course of her removal to the police-
office. The search was instantly renewed, and the
mother was also found, lying on the floor in a state
of insensibility, and though instantly removed she
died before medical aid arrived. The bed,
stood in the,' corner of the room, and some
of the furniture, was on fire, but the flames
a
other
easily subdued, before they obtained a hold onm Jr
mysterious
part of the tenement. There is anmeingwaman and
regarding the identity of this unfortunateerh is that her name
her child. All that is known of
to
the which
highlands, and
was Campbell, that she belonged
visited by a person in the
garb of a gentleman,
who
the husband of the woman.
that she was occasionallyyis
of the child, though not
Since the catastrophe
f no
h one has appeared to identify
e solitary pair. The house wasor claim the bodies o
stun,
of money found in the repo-
derstood to be the father
well furnished, and a
that while in this state the
61d to liquor, an
been addicted
have
woman. It is supposed that she may have
stu
smoke arising soon p
of
is ified mother and daughter.
thened by the fact that when Mrs. or
This view streng
bell was found she wore the clothes in which
Miss Camp
candle may
fallen on the bed, and that the volumes
. the
s-e s had been seen in during the day.

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ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.NOIiCe was issued on
Saturday at St. Paul's Cathedral, that the public will only
be admitted on Sundays during the morning and afternoon
service, and on other days from eight A.m, till four P.M.
(gratis), the same as Westminster Abbey.
DEATH OF COLONEL SIR HORACE SEYMOUR.--
This distinguished officer departed this life at Brighton yes-
terday, after a long illness. He was Member for Lisburn.
He served in Spain with the 10th Hussars, and was aide-de-
camp to the Marqui4 of Anglesey at Waterloo.