The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day),

, OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
The only ewes left in this court were those of John
4 tarklzam and William Atwell, who were charged with
passing forged cheques, by means of persons who ad.
tertised for situations. The prisoners were tried sepa-
,4 telY,, and the cases were proceeding when we went to

THIRD COURT.
(Before W. Prendergast, Esq., VA)
a enry Charwell, 'William Martin, Charles Peshell,
4°411 Tillett, and John Sales, were indicted for stealing
~„riutintity of plate, valued at iebout 500/., the property
"' Richard Trott Fisher.
1, 41% Gifford prosecuted, and Mr:"M'Enteer, Mr.
4r.TY, and Mr. Cooper defended.
This„ case also was likely to last the entire day,
the prosecution had not closed when this edition
NA to presv. Charwell bad been butler to the pro-
a
"utor, and had feigned a story of the place having
been broken into, and the other prisoners bad been
Been at the prosecutor's house upon the night of the
l'obbery.
This was the last case of the session.

AND Loss OF Two LIVES.—On Thursday night
ti fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Mitchiner, ven,e-
04h11 blind and packing case manufacturer, St. Ann s-
De.an street, Soho. Mr. Mitchiner, his son and
1:„1? ter, occupied the first floor, and several other
13„—,_Illes tenanted a portion of the building. The
attic, where the fire originated, was rented b y
AI:T
"'rßen named Dubbinson, and Mr. Bowler, his wife
"9'' children, r,-.4.1eil in the room a,Thining. The
tirin-,was ,i-Afedily got under, but we regret to say that
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114 two children, Eliza and George Bowler, were found
Ere ,to death in one of the rooms. The origin of the
unknown.

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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 3i_1_1856.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE.

Extensive preparations are in progress for the cere-
mony ollayiv the first stone of this noble institution by
her Majosty;:iioifoliday, next.

The 4re4 4 94„tittil,ding has been enclosed and fittel
up with 3satS;,..As4aa'p“ition.r.eirepied at the south end
for the use 4tlit-Quee"n. iar.os working party of sol-
diers frore_ 14r!bteb:as. actively employe;.l
in prepari4 the4gstpp,ufl and in:4l4llg arrangements for
the rt;viek, =;,...1-461%;.tht:iinitit,Oi-4utlinrities are using
to render as effntire. possible;. Refreshment tents
have been-erected, antt:the Ststik.ti entrusted to Messrs.
Staples, of the Crystall.).lla,3.4; whO have undertaken to
make ample provision for the comfort and accoinmocia.
tion of vibtors.

Numerous applications have been received for tickets,
and from the warm interest which her Majesty and the
Prince Consort, and all classes of the public, have
evinced in the progress of the institution, it is expected
that the inauguration of this noble monument to the
memory of the great duke, and for the education of
orphan sons of the gallant men who have fallen in.the:r
cmintry's service, will take place under auspices the
most favourable to its future usefulness and well-being.
The governor of the College will assemble at the
Royal Pavilion by one o'clock, to receive her Majesty,
and the Queen's arrival will be announced by a royal
salute from two batteries of artillery.
A prayer for the occasion will be offered up by the
Archbishop of Canterbury. A glass tube, containing
specimens of the current coins of the realm, together
with an inscription engrossed on vellum, will be depo-
sited in an aperture in the stone by the Queen. Her
Majesty will then proceed to lay the stone, and the com-
pletion of the ceremony will be announced by a die-
charge of neallery. The Queen will then return in pro-
cession to the Royal Pavilion, and the governors will
have the honour of taking luncheon with her Majesty.
The military bands will play during the time of
luncheon, after which the Queen will return through the
building to the royal tent on the terrace at the north
front, to review the troops. About 12,000 troops, with
two field batteries of artillery, will be assembled for the
occasion, under the command of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge. At the close of the review the
troops will march past her Majesty in front of the ter-
race. The Queen will return to the Pavilion, and take
her departure about 4h. 30m., and the special trains fur
the governors and their friends will leave half-an-hour
after her Majesty.
Ticket holders for the reserved seats, and no others,
will be admitted to the Queen's terrace. _ _

A special train, of first class carriages only, will leave
the Waterloo bridge station for the site of the building
at 10h. 30m. on the morning of the 2d Juno. There will
also be a special train, at nine o'clock, with first and
second class carriages, from the London•bridge station
of the South Eastern Railway, on a train of first class
carriages at 10 o'clock from the Bricklayers' Arms sta-
tion.

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

LITERATURE.

Poems and Tales of Travcl. By John Leekey.
.Whittaker and Co.
We are expected, of course, by the writer of this
little volume, upon opening it "to chew the cud
of sweet and bitter fancies" stored up in these same
" Poems and Tales of T,‘vel." For the life of
us, however, we cannot swallow it. It is precisely
what is to us subject for the most utter repugnance.
Jingling verse, pretty in sound, weak in passion,
frivolous in signification. Precisely, too—all this
—what we have showered upon us most ablind an tly:
" biding [as we luckless critics must] the peltin;Y, of
the pitiless storm" of " Poems': (so called) hurled at
us in cartlowls, season after season, 4tos, Bvos.,
1.2-
mos., 16:n05., by a, legion of poetasters. It is, never-
theless, a mistake for any one to suppose that the
;multiplicity of these kinds of small versifiers consti-
tutes anything at all peculiar to our very favoured
generation. Not a bit of it. Age after age some-
body or other has bad to lament it. Sometimei a
cry of anguish corning from the lips of a really
great poet, stunned—under the dissonant dis-
cord of the would-be songsters not less
than the hero of Hogarth's deafening picture of the
Enraged Musician ! What was it Lord Byron
wrote in the second decade of the present century ?
" They storm the types, they publish, ono and all,
They leap the counter, and they leave the stall,
Provincial maidens, men of high command,
Yea, baronets have inked the bloody hand !"
As for the stages of their rise and development,
does he not say, moreover, very descriptively ?
"Alas ! woo worth the scribbler often seen,
In Morning Post and Monthly Magazine.
There lurk his earlier lays; but soon hot pressed,
Behol:l a quarto ! —Tarts must tell the rest."
The time for quartos, it is true, has pretty well
gone by—but neither for duodecimos nor for tarts.
And so we still have the poeta3ters—a wonderful
band : numerous in themselves, and in their
habits marvellously industrious and productive.
They will " sing you like any sucking doves,"
and write whole libraries as they warble. Here is
another modest little volume to add to the yearly
hecatomb. Elteu ! for the many heartaches con-
sequent upon poetic ambitions, bootless, fruitless,
and fraught only with the most woeful disappoint-
ment. It is curse enough in itself, we should con-
jecture, without the aid of ridicule from reviewers.
And so—shrugging our shoulders with bewilder-
ment when we find what we presume from the
title of the piece must be anguish—thus articulat-
ing itself—
" A chill came o'er my bounding heart,
A void in its recess ;
A blighting pang in every part,
A deep-felt, sore impress ;"
and so forth—we close the little book, and lay it
aside sorrowfully.

COVENT GARDEN.

Tho supplies of vegetables are greatly, on the increase,
yet the demand for them is active. Fruit is tolerably
firm in price.
FRIIIT.—Fine apples, English, 8s to 12s per lb; colonial
do., Os to Os each ; hot-house grapes, Fs to 12s Od per lb ;
foreign ditto, Od to Os ; melons, Os Oil to Os Od each ;
peaches, 30s Od to 40s ; nectarines, 30s to 40s per dozen ;
apples, 3s 0.1 to 5s Od per half sieve ; pears, 3s Od to
Os per dozen ; plums, Os to Os per sieve ; green gages, Os
per punnet; apricots, Os Od to OsOd per doz.; common plums,
Os 0,1 to Os Od per sieve; cherries, 3s to 5s per pound ;
lemons, Oil to is Gd per doz ; oranges, 6s to 12s per 100 ; fil-
berts, 9s to Os per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, 15s to Os ; almonds,
Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 01 to 0.1 per 100; figs, Os 9d
to is Gd per doz. ; strawberries, is 01 per basket ; goose-
berries, 2s 6.1 to 4s Od per half sieve ; currants, Os Od to
Os Oil per half sieve ; raspberries, Od to Od per pottle.
VEGETABLEe.—Greene, is Od to 3s Od per doz. bunches;
cabbages, 9d to is 6.1 per dozen ; Savoy ditto, is to
2s Gd per do. ; brocoli, is to Is 6.1 per bundle ; potatoes, 50s
to 110 s per ton ; vegetable marrow, Od. to Os per doz.; peas,
Is to 2s Od per quart ; French beans, is Od to 2s Oil per
100 ; turnips, new, is to is Gd per bunch ; carrots, is to 2s
per bunch ; cucumbers, Os 6d to is 6d each ; garlic,Gd to
Os 8d per pound ; spinach, is 6.1 to 2s Oct per sieve;
old onions, 5s 0,1 to 76 per bushel ; new ditto, 3d to 4,1
per bunch ; leeks, 4d to Gd per bunch ; shallots,
s to is 6d ; borse-raddish, 2s to 4s per bundle ; parsley,
3d to 4d per bunch ; celery, Os 6d to is 9d per
bunch ; endive, 2s Od to 4s Oil per doz. ; beet, is Oct to :is
per doz. ; parsnips, Os 6.1 to is Od per dozen ; small
salad, 2d. to 3d per punnet ; mushrooms, is Od to is 64
per pottle ; artichokes, 6.1 to Ed each ' • cabbage lettuces,
is to is 6d per score ; sorrel, Od to Os per half sieve ;
radishes, Gd to is per dozen hands ; tomatoes, 3s to 43
per half sieve ; chillies, 1s to is 6d per 100; Brussels
sprouts, 2s Od to 3s Od per half sieve ; capsicums, is to 2s
per 100 ; walnuts pickling, Od to Os per 100 ; cauliflowers,
is to 4s Oct per doz. ; rhubarb, 4d to 8d per bundle ;
asparagus, is Oct to 4s per 100 ; sea kail, is to 3s per punnet.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Perversion ; a Tale for the Times. 3 vols.
Smith and Elder.

The object of this tale is to show the causes that
chiefly lead to infidelity in the present day, and to
depict their consequences. The hero, Charles
Bampton, is the only son of a weak and foolish
widow. He is heir to a large fortune, and is sent
to a preparatory school at a great distance from his
mother, whose indulgence his guardian feared
would impede his progress. But at this school he
meets with so much petty tyranny, and suffers so
much from the cruelty of the elder boys, headed
by • one named Armstrong, that he makes his
eselpe, and, after a long and painful journey, re-
turns to his mother. His sufferings and fatigues,
added to the exposure to the weather, bring on a
dangerous illness, from which be never entirely
recovers. After this unfortunate affair, school is
not to be thought of again, so a German tutor is
procured, with the stipulation that he is neither to
make his pupil a Republican, or an Atheist. To
this the instructor assents, and, consequently,
when Charles begins to inquire into the traditional
principles of his faith the tutor takes refuge in
vague generalities. But it is not enough net to
instruct youth in evil ; it must be taught what is
right, or the natural faults of the character and the
influence of bad companions will speedily depress
the scale. It was thus with Charlesßampton, but in
his case the evil was further increased by unfortunate
circumstances. His mother, who was a weak-
minded woman, easily influenced by those around
her, had taken up her residence in a country town
where the two extremes of High and Low Church
had developed themselves. Unhappily for Charles
and hir. twin sister Clara, who shared his opinions,
the individuals of both sects whom they met, pre-
sented none of the features of a Christian charac-
ter ; consequently, they decided that religion was
a delusion, and that most of its followers were hy-
pocrites. Charles's principles had been undermined
at college, where he had met with his old enemy
Armstrong, without recognising him. This indivi-
dual, after passing some time in the army, left it
in consequence of some discreditable transactions,
and after many singular adventures, spent some
time in America with the Mormons. He had been
married, had left his wife with the Mormons,
and returned to England, taking the name of
Archer ou inheriting some property. He consi-
dered the best way to employ himself was to enter
college, and accordingly went to Oxford, where
his talents soon procured him distinction. Here
he met his former victim, Bampton, who did not
recognise him, owing to the alteration of name and
appearance. They were frequently together, and
Archer, who was a confirmed atheist, partly from
inclination and partly from the theories of German
metaphysicians, soon brought his friend to join his
views. He, in his turn, confessed his opinions to
his sister, and almost extinguished the lingering
elements of belief in her mind. But the time of
sorrow was coming, to prove to them that in the
furuaceof suffering how the false ore of their German
theories, their mysticisms of Kane, and Hegel, and
Atkinson, would dissolve and fail them—only the
true gold of earnest Christianity could be their
support and guide. Archer and Bampton, in
making an excursion over the mountains, lose their
way in a dangerous part, when Charles falls and
breaks his leg. Assistance is procured, and he is
carried to the house of his aunt, who lives near,
and with whom Clara is on a visit. Archer falls in
love with her and her fortune, and proposes to her.
She accepts his offer, and they are engaged, with
the consent of her guardians. Not, however, with
that of Charles. In any case the marriage of his
favourite sister, with whom ho had shared all his
thoughts and opinions, would have been painful ;
but Charles, atheist though he was, began to think
Archer a very undesirable husband for the impe-
tuous and affectionate Clara. However, his re-
monstrances are too late, and he goes abroad for
his health in disgust. Archer introduces his bride
to some atheistical friends, who finally induce her
to abandon her faith. S )on after she is startled
by the appearance of her husband's first wife, whom
he had left among the Mormons, thinking himself
effectually rid of her. She threatens him with a trial,
from which he escapes, only, however, to be subse-
quently convicted of perjury, and sentenced to
three years' imprisonment. Poor Clara, over-
whelmed by this terrible misfortune, is tended with
affectionate care by her aunt. But all human
solace is in vain, her trouble is more than she
can bear. The religion of consolation is to her
only a name. One way remains• to procure relief
and comfort. She pours out her feelings in a long
letter to her brother, which does not, how-
ever, reach him till he has road in anewspaper
the intelligence of her suicide. The effects of
this shock to his precarious health are nearly
fatal. He is saved, however, by the attention of
a clergyman and his wife, who are preparing to
sail fur Madeira, and who prevail on him to accom-
pany them. In them he first sees true holiness—
not the narrow distinctions of sects and parties, not
the intolerance which reaches no further than
forms, but the true foundation of a Christian's life
—faith, hope, and charity. He is not, however,
convinced, though he regrets his inability to share
their belief, and though the words of his sister's
pathetic farewell, in which she bewails her loss of
" the religion of the cross," aroused him to a sense
of the share her infidelity had in her final desola-
tion. He returns to England, and while waiting
on the coast he encounters one whom he had known
in earlier days when under the influence of Archer
and his circle. He provides for one of whom his want
of principle had accelerated the downfall, and, like
the recreant Crusader, unwittingly exclaims, "Ma'y
God forgive us both." He returns to his summer-
house in the old town where he and Clara had met
so many unworthy professors ; but searching in a
different spirit ho discovers one whom before they
had overlooked, an earnest and faithful minister,
who has devoted all his time and energies to labour-
ing among the poor and neglected. The last strong-
holds of his philosophical arguments are over-
thrown as he witnesses the self-denial, the charity,
the patience under suffering, the unshaken faith
with which he new becomes acquainted. He has
seen the effects of his boasted light and reason.
He has seen its encouragement of vice ; he has
witnessed its fruits in a treacherous friend and a
broken-hearted sister ; he has tried its inefficacy to
restrain from guilt; he has proved it powerless to
console. Henceforth he is a member of a truer
and holier creed. But the memory of the past
weighs upon him ; he seeks some means to atone,
if he may, for the years worse than. wasted. Not
Tct butin
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before thenlglitcota
noble purpose. This toeftlhifeemcatno
sboemheoped for, and he resolves
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andleaves England to
ob-
ject he finds in the events of the war which has
then just commenced, lie
devote himself to the care of the sick and suffering,
and to endeavour to alleviate their wants and
miseries by his own abundant means. After a

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few months he dies, and so the tale concludes.
Much may be found to instruct and interest the
reader. There aro no doubt several points which
may provoke criticism ; but the main object of the
book is set forward openly, and the story told
with a simple straightforwardness, and a total
im-
press of lecturing or sermonising, which must
the most censorious. The complete impar-
tiality of the writer crnnot be ton much com-
mended. He sets forward no particular creed—no
especial sect ; the plain truths of Christianity
aro his stronghold. His work will attract
the thoughtful, and may serve as a warn-
ing to some against the dangers that await
them. In a very brief preface the author attributes
infidelity to three causes. In the deliberately
wicked it originates, he considers, in a desire to
throw off all moral restraints, in better natures, in
the inconsistency or hypocrisy of those who call
themselves Christians, and sometimes in a sceptical
understanding and its inherent difficulties. The
consequences, moral deterioration and loss of hap-
piness, he considers, alike in all. In this list he does
not include those theories of the German school
which have of late years exercised such a pernicious
effect, which dazzle and mystify the understanding,
though they never satisfy the heart. Some of these
theories aro shown in their true colours, and also
the principles of the Mormons, of which, however,
few people have any doubt. The book is on a sub-
ject which is likely to attract attention, and its
interest, and the ability it displays will maintain
its character, and should it convince any reader
that the hypocrisy he sees around him is a proof of
the absence of the Christian religion, rather than
of its presence, and to warn him not to judge a
whole Church from the absurdity of one or two
members of it, and above all, should it show him
in their true light the brilliant sophisms of would-
be philosophers, the author will have achieved a
merited triumph.