The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
COVENT GARDEN'.
Although somewhat heavy supplies of most articles in
season were on off-r to-day, the general demand ruled steady,
and prices were well supported. New Potatoes are coming
forward freely, and in good condition.
FRUIT.—Pike Apples, 6s Od to lOs Od per lb. ; Hot-
" house Grapes, 6s Od to 12s Od per lb; Strawberries,
6d to ls per oz ; Pears, 2s 0(1 to 5s per dozen ; sqples,
.dessert, ed to Os per dez ; cooking ditto, 5s to lOs per
' bushel ; Oranges, 6s to 14s ; Seville ditto, is to 14s; Lemons,
68 to 12s per 100; Almonds, Os per peck; ditte sweet, Os to
Os per lb; Chestnuts, 2s to 5s per peck; brazil Nuts, 12s to
146; Barcelona, 20s to 22s per bushel; Cob Nuts, 708 to
75s per iOOlbs.
VEGETABLES.—Cabbages, is Od to Is Cd per dozen ;
Greens, 4s Od to is Od per dozen bunches ; Brocoli, is to 12s
Per dozen bundles; Potatoes, &s to 120 s per ton ; ditto, 4s to
7s Od per cwt ; ditto, 2s Od to 3s 3d per bushel ; Turnips, 2s
to 3s; Car .ots,Os to Os per dozen bunches ; Cucumbers, 6cl to
'2s each ; Leeks, ld to 2d per bunch ; Celery, 6d to Is Gd ; Rhu-
barb, 4d to Os 9d ; Horseradish, is to 4s per bundle ; Spinach,
'llcl to Is Ott per half sieve; Onions, 2s to 2s t d; Artichokes,
`3B to is 6d per half sieve; Endive, Is to Is Od per score;
•ted Beet, lid to Ii per dozen; Illushrsoms, 9.1 to Is 3d per
' Pettis; Corn Salad. is to Is 6d ptr half sieve; Radishes, rid
,to is per dozen hands; Cabbage Lettuces, €d to 9d per
:score; Parsnips, 4d to 9d per dozen; French Leans, Od to
' Os Od per 100; Seakail, 9d to 2s per punnet; Asparagus, 4s
to 10s.
NEVTGATE AND LEADBNHALL.
Turkeys, 5s Od to 7s ud ; Geese, 6s ( d to 8s 0(1; Ducks, 3s Od
to 4s Od ; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to is 8d ; Wild ditto, 8d to
'10d; Figeons, 5d to 8(1; Roasting Pigs, 4s 6d to is Od each;
Surrey Fowls, 7s Od to 10s; ditto Chicken;. Os Od to Os Od;
Barn-door Fowls, 3s Od to 6s per couple; English Eggs, Os
Od; French ditto, 4s 6(1 to 5s 6d; and Irish ditto. Os Od to
41e Gd per 120; Fresh Butter, Os to Os Od per lb; Partridges,
.08 Od ; Hares, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; Leverets, 2s Od to 2s 6d ;
Wild Ducks, Us dto Os Od each.
NEv.rpOR.T.
Beef, from 2s 4(1 to 3s .1(1 • Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 8d; Lamb,
kl Od to bs 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to
3s 10d per 81bs.
Beef, from 2s 2d to Os 4d ; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 8d ; Lamb,
486(1 to 53 6d; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 10d; and Pork, 2s 81 to
as 8d per Sibs.
BILLINGSGATE.
Turots, Os Od to J.:Ss 0(1; Brill, is 3d to Os 6d; Haddocks,
Os 6d to is Od each ; Cod Fish, 2s Od to 4s 6(1; Lobsters, 6d
to 2s ; and Crabs, 4d to 2s each; Soles, Os 6d to Is 10d
per pair; Flounders, 9d to 2s Cd each; Dried Haddocks,
tia Od to 8s Od; Smelts, is Cd to 2s Od per dozen ; Whitings,
:28 6d to 7a 6d per 15 ; Eels, Os 6d to Os 10d ; Salmon,
Is 3d to 2s Od per lb ; Herrings, Os Od to Os Od per 100 ;
Common Oysters, 6s Od to lls Od per t ushel; Salt Fish, Od
to Os Od per score; and Mackerel, 25s 061 to 30s Od per 100.
BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from
61%cl to 7d; of Household ditto, 41-Ad to 6d per 41b loaf.
EIDE ItICILICELEIr.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2d to Od; ditto, s 641 b to 721 b
lid to 7id ; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2}(.1 to 2-hd ; ditto, 801 b to
881 b, 21(-1 to 2/(1; ditto, 881 b to 961b,2id to 3d; ditto, 901 b to
1041 b, :Sid to 34d; ditto, 1011 b to 1121 b, 4d to Od. Call Skins,
light, Is rid to 3s Od each ; ditto, full, 5 6d to Os 0(1; Born
Rides, 5s 6d to 6s ; Polled Sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; Rents,
Od to 6s Id ; Hall-breeds, 5s Id to 7s Od ; Downs, 4s 6d
to 5s 9d; Lambs, Is 10d to 2s 10d; Slaearlings, 9d to 10d.
EAT DIABBETS.
SMITHFIELD.—.Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 41 Os Od ; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 1/ is to 11 Is per load.
Supply moderately good, and trade firm.
CustnErtnasrp.—Meadow Hay, 3l 5s to 41 10s; Clover
ditto, 31 lOs to 41 10s; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ lis per load.
Trade inactiVe, at our quotations.
WIIITEeIiAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 3a to 41 6s; Clover
ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 1/ is to 11 9s per load.
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)
RAPE.—John M'Laren, aged 48, described as a shoe-
maker, was indicted tor committing a rape on Rosins
Jane M'Laren, his own daughter. The prisoner pleaded
not guilty.
Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine defended
the prisoner.
The details of the case wore unfit for publication, but
the medical testimony failed to support that of the girl,
and the jury acquitted the prisoner.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)

BURGLARY.—joshua Smith, aged 21, described tl5
hawker, was indicted fcr feloniously breaking and enter-
ing the warehouse of Josiah Lowe, and stealing there-
from six coats value 31, and other goods, also divers
moneys, amounting in the whole to 10/., his property. The
prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Huddlestone de-
, . fended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of a girl named Harriet
• - Ball, with whom the prisoner had cohabited, that one
morning in the beginning of April the prisoner forced
'her to get up between four and five and
go with him to a place in Whitechapel.
When they reached the spot the prisoner desired her
Co stand at the top of a court, while he went down and
fetched some things. She accordingly did so, but she
kept her eye upon the prisoner until she saw him get
over a high wall. He was absent tor about ten minutes,
and when he returned he brought with him a bundle of
Boats and three pair of trowsers. They then returned
'home, and in the course of the day all the property was
disposed of with the exception of a pair of trowsers,which
'the prisoner had altered to fit himself. These trowsers
she subsequently pawned, and when the prisoner turned
her out of doors she gave information of the robbery to
the police, and gave them the address of the pawn-
broker where she pledged the trowsers.
The witness is her cross-examination denied that the
prisoner turned her out of doors because she had hem
false to him, but it was because be wanted to get mar-
ried to somebody else. She had been on the streets,
and the prisoner had participated in the proceeds of her
prostitution. On one occasion she robbed a sailor and
was imprisoned six months for it. On another she be-
came so disgusted with her mode of life, that she took to
shop-lifting, and for one offence of this nature she had
suffered three months' imprisonment. She had been
fined 105. for breaking a woman's head while in a state
.of intoxication, and had been repeatedly accused, but
never convicted of other robberies. Several of the pri-
loner's companions as well as her own had been trans.
ported, and the prisoner, who was tried with one of
Them was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
• The other evidence went to show that the prisoner be-
longed to a notorious gang of cracksmen, and when his
lodgings were searched a large quantity of housebreak-
ing implements were found concealed there. None of the
property but the pair of trowsers pledged by the girl had
een traced, but a knife which the prisoner left behind
him when he committed the burglary was produced and
identified as having been in the prisoner's possession.
Mr. HUDDLESToNE addressed the jury for the defence,
contending that the evidence of the girl was unworthy
of belief, and therefore the prisoner ought to be ac-
_ quitted.
The Learned RECORDER summed up.
The jury retired, and after some time returned into
court with a verdict of Not Guilty.

RAMBLES in the CRYSTAL PALACE
(THIS DAY.)
The receipts of yesterday at the Crystal Palace
amounted to 3 2501., of which 6761. was from the sale
of season tickets, and the remainder, 2,5541., from the
,ss, fee for admittance. The continued eale of season
tickets is a result which we have always anticipated,
since the first 'view of the Exhibition is quite sufficient
to convince any one that a doz,n visits will not suffice
for a satisfactory nista ction, and for all who may be
able to visit it so frequently, a dozen visits will have
found out long ago that a season ticket is by far the
cheapest method of going to work. We confess that we
do not share in the anticipation that inconvenience, at
any rate considerable, will result from the over-crowding
of the place even during the shilling season; but it
would still be well if some provision were insti-
tuted to prevent the admission of more visitors
than would allow perfect freedom of locomo-
tion from one department to another. Even! now,
at some hours of the day in the transept and
some parts of the nave it difficult to move along Put
a proportion of the present ,class of visitors flock to the
Crystal Palace as an afternoon lounge, and scarcely
think of penetrating beyond the transept and the main
avenues ; these, of course, will not be there on the
shilling days, and, altogether, we may assume that the
mass of visitors will be more equally spread over the
building than at the present. Neither do we consider
that the full powers of the building have yet been
tested, since a considerable portion of the foreign de-
partments, especially in the rear—the galleries, do not
yet admit visitors. Whatever arrangements are to be
made, however, must be done speedily, there remains
but a short time before the crowding
may bexpected.
In Section 22, No. 265, we noticed several large spe-
cimens exhibited, by M. Felix Abate, of two entirely
e
new processes for printing 01:1, and otherwise orna-
menting,
inscriptionsr
metallic surfaces. The first an
c t rboy-
chymical process ; the lewd of electricity,
developed
the contact of some metals with the saline solutions
others, are here applied to produce
or bright ornaments, with a dark
ground on
metallic sheets, bars, or tubes, thus opening an nti of
ely
now field to the art of printing, and an endless variety
of useful applications in the manufacture of metallic
wares. The other process is chymical, and produces,
through the application of metallic colours, similar but
still more striking effects. Both the processes are re-
mark able for cheapness and facility of execution.
The same exhibitor has also produced three machines,
with specimens executed by these machines, for smooth-
ing, planing, burnishing, arid ornamenting
king
metallic
sheets,. bars, and tubes, and also for =soot and
polishing sheets of glass, Ind o: wool for veneering
purposes. All these effects are produced instantaneously,
and with astonishing perfection.
A bookcase, by the Messrs. Islollands, upholsterers,
of Maryleborte-street, intended to term the entire side
of a library. It is about twenty-five feet in length, and
between thirteen and fourteen in height. In the centre
is an aperture for a chimney-piece, the embellishments
of which appear to be Perzance marble, but the entire
absence of polish renders it difficult to speak with cer-
tainty. The wood is walnut-tree, but the details of the
carving are far from being admirably wrought, and the
dingy appearance of the walnut wool gives to the whole
a very gloomy aspect. Its ponderous size has nothing
to enliven it. Narrow slips of green marble, introduced
as panelling, we presume are to represent malachite.
In place of the original they would be much better
omitted. In spite of the gilded perforations in two of
the largest panels, the contrast is not sufficiently power-
ful to give any richness or colour to the general clumsy
effect, which is dismal and funereal throughout. A
bad specimen in the Italian style!
TELEGRAPHING AT SEA —Dempster's new equilateral
triangular telegraph is now in a complete working
shape in the Great Exhibition. In the catalogue it is
mentioned under the head of " Naval Architecture, Class
8, No. 313." The advantages claimed by the author of
this invention May make the eons 9t the Ocean put on

THE

their considering caps. The telzgraph stands on the
south gallery, east end of the building, beside the flag-
staff. There is a large map with drawings, plainly showing
that with four flags—white, red, blue, and yellow—the
twenty-Eight characters of the alphabet are fully sym-
bolized upon an entirely new principle of changieg
colours, and to appearance there is never more than time
flag heisted to the mast-head at a time. This experi-
ment. Mr. Dempster pre-:Lica:ly demonstrates in the
Great Exhibition as being a decided improvement upon
all other flag telegraphs for showing numbers or letters
during light winds, or calms, &e. Besides the map
there is a small printed volume suspended to a brass
chain. This volume contains Mr. Dempster's intro-
duction to the ttlegraph, with rules and examples for
the vocabulary, &c. Some general information on the
subject of fishery improvements appears also in its
pager. The questions and answers, sentences, &c., are
under an alphabetical arrangement. The numbers to cor-
respond with the sentences are also made out upon an
entirely new principle. In Mr. Dempster's introduc-
tion to telegraphs he plainly shows that with four car-
dinal flags—white, red, blue, and yellow,and four distin-
guishing pendants (eight flogs in all), he can commence
with No. 1, and proceed up the scale in an unbroken
chain of numbers until he arrives at 128 576. More
than this might easily bo obtained by a slight varia-
tion, but as such a quantity of numbers is considered
sufficient for any marine vocabulary or dictionary, and
as the 128,576 numbers are derived in a clear, correct,
scientific, end uniform principle, Mr. Dempster has
ceased his labours from ringing any more changes. In
most other signal books extant all numbers where more
figures than one of the same sort occur are passed alto-
gether; this Mr. Dempster does not consider a reientific
arrangement.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.--YESTERDAY.
DERBY.
9 to 2 agst Sir J. Hawley's Teddington—taken
6 to 1 eget Lard Enfield's Hernandez—taken
Bto 1 aget Mr. Halford's Prime Minister—t freely
11 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Constellation—taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. J. Clark's Marlborough Buek—t
25 to 1 agst Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham—taken
BATH AND SOMERSET RACES.—FRIDAY.
The Ci'y Cup of 100 sees., added to a Sweepstakes of
10 sow. each; the second to save his stake; three yrs
old, 7st; tour, 9st 51b; five, 9st 13th; six and aged,
last 4!b. About two miles and a bait. (16 Subs.)
Mr. Burgess's Narcissus, 4 yrs (A. Day) 1
Mr. Z. Part's Cloth worker, 5 yrs ...... (Elarmau) 2
Mr. Gregory's Aurora. 3 yrs (W,lls) 3
Mr. Pearce's Heather Bell, 4 yrs ...(Weli) 0
Betting-5 to 4 asst Aurora, sto 2 agst Narcissus,
and 3to 1 agst Cloth worker. Won by a neck, two
lengths between second and third. Run in 5 min 20 secs.
The Aristocratic Haud:cap of 10 sore. each, h ft, and 20
added. Gentlemen riders. Once round. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Barnett's Sir Peter Laurie, I Ist ...(Mr. Scobell) 1
Mr. Land's Defaulter, 12at (Mr. Beville) 2
Betting-6 to son Sir Peter Letitia. Won by a
length. Run in 3 train 12 secs.
The Weston Stakes of 10 sous., each, and 50 added, fog
two years old; colts, Bst 91b; fillies and geldings, Bst
41h; untried allowed 31b, if both 51b. T.Y.C., half a
mile. (13 Subs.)
Mrevillo's bf by Slane—Brington's dam...(Flatman) 1
Mr. Hay ter's Tested (W. Day) 2
Mr. J. Arnold's Little Harry (A. Day) 3
The following also started, but were not placed:—
Mr..T. Stanley's Richard Primer (Hiatt) 0
Sir C. Ruahout's Queen of Spain .(Clay) 0
Mr. P. Tomb's Pickle (Wakefitlo) u
Mr. W. Gulliver's Lady Blanche (G. E. Sharpe) 0
Betting-6 to 4on the Slane filly, 4to 1 agst Tested,
and sto 1 apt Lady Blanche. Won easily by a length;
the same between second and third, and the others
beaten off. Run in 55 arcs.
The Dyrham Handicap Plate of 1001. Occe round;
about a Mile and a Half.
Mr. J. Arnold's Pitsford, 4 yrs, Sat 81b (A. Day) 1
Lord John .`a'cott's Windbound, 4 yrs, ist (Welt) 2
The followino also started, but were not placed:—
Lord W. Powlett's St. Ann, 7st 10lb ...(G. E. Sharp) 0
Mr. Gain's Seignor of Holderness, 4 yrs, 7st (Cowley) 0
Mr. Jenkin's Miss Larkaway, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b (Burn) 0
Mr. T. M. Smith's Fugitive, aged, 6st 91e ...(Archer) 0
Mr. Symonds's Jester, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b (Donald) 0
Mr. Cowley's Combatant, 5 yrs, Est 51b (Lowe) 0
Mr. Hamp's Banton, 4 yrs, Est 31b (Kendall) 0
Mr. Croiton's Carbuncle, 5 yrs, 6st slb (Barker) 0
Mr. Austin's Tommy the Tinman, 5 yrs, Est 21b(Hiett) 0
Mr. Gregory's Aurora, 3 yrs. si,t. I Ilb (crd sst 131 b) 0
Mr. Bloomfield's Simplicity, 3 yrs, sst 61b (Cowley) 0
Mr. Pitcher's Harry, 3 yrs, sst 31b.... ..... (J Goater) 0
Betting-5 to 2 agst Piteford, 3to 1. agst Windhound,
7to 1 shat Combatant, and 7to 1 agst Becton. Won
by a bead, the same between second and third; Corn-_
batant a bad fourth. Run in 3 min 4 sec.
Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. Heats.
Half-a-mile. (11 Subs.)
Mr. Shrimpton's Arlette, 7st lib (Gilbert) 0 0 1 1
Mr. Whitehouse's Costume, 6st lib (Hiatt) 1 0 2 2
Mr. Way's Miss Conyngham (Cowley) 0 1 0 dr
Mr.Greville's Diligence,7st2lb(G.Sharpe) 0 2 0 dr
Mr. Treen'e Launcelette, sst 61b (Treen) 0 0 0 dr
Mr. Crofiou's Cosachia, 7st 41b (Donald) 0 0 0 dr
Mr.lsaac Day's Mignon,7stalt.(Wakefield) 0 0 0 dr
Mr. Farrance's Lord of the Manor(Goater) 2 0 dr
Mr. Jenkin's Miss Larkaway4 yrs (Burn) 0 dr
Mr. Lane's Lycinm, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Lowe) 0 dr
Mr. Gregory's fby Birdcatcher (Wells) 0 dr
Won easy.
Match; 1001.; Somersctsbire Course over 4 hurdles.—
Mr. Burrow's Aixa (Burrows) bt Mr. Glossop's Rubens
(T. 011iver).
6t04 on Aixa. Won by two lengths.
DERBY BETTING ON THE COURSE.
4to 1 egst Teddington(t) 20 to 1 agst Black Doctor(t)
10 to 1 aget Constellation 30 to 1 eget Lumartine (t)
12 to 1 egst Maribro' Buck

THE LAW ASSOCIATION.—The 34th annual general
meeting of this association, established for the benefit of wi-
dows and families of professional men in the metropolis and
vicinity, was held on Thursday, at the Hall of the Incor-
porated Society, Chancery-lane; Augustus Warren, Esq.,
one of the treasurers, was in the chair. The report, which
was read by Mr. J. Murray, the secretary, stated, inter
alia, that the income, as in the preceding year, amounted
to 1,6351. ss. 7d., and the directors had the gratification
to announce that 101. 10s. had been given to the asso-
ciation by Mr. John Jaques ,• 5/. ss. by the Principal of
Staples Inn ; 5/. ss. by Mr. J. G. Hough ; 11. ls. by Mr.
H. P. Bird ; and 21. 2s. annually by the widow of Mr.
Michael Clayton. The Master of the Rolls, arid his
'Honour Vice-Chancellor Turner, had both consented to
become vice-presidents of the association. No new case
of the primary class had come before the board during
the past year ; whilst, on the other hand, one of the
claimants, on her marriage, voluntarily resigned all claim
on the funds. The outlay in this branch of relief has.
been this year 9851.1 being less than in the preceding year.
The sum voted at the last annual meeting for the benefit of
the widows and families of persons who had been, or who
had ceased to be, subscribers to the society, was 2001., being
50/. more than the grant for the previous year. Relief had
also been afforded to six other cases, and there is now a ba-
lance of only 181., which consequently falls into the general
fund of the association. The directors hoped that a similar
grant for the next year would relieve them from the painful
nessity of rejecting applications, which they cannot but think
the subscribers in general would be willing to include
amongst the objects of their benevolence, but which cannot
receive much attention if this find be much under 2001.
During the year, notwithstanding the issuing of an address
at its commencement, only seventeen new members had been
obtained. Since the last meeting 2001. had been purchased
in the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., thereby increasing
the funded property to 10,8001. in the Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., and 104001. in the Three per Cents. Reduced.
The report having been adopted, the vice-presidents and
other officers were elected, and a vote of thanks to the chair-
man closed the proceedings.
ANOTHER ROBBERY AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—
Yesterday, a second robbery in the Exhibition building
was reported. The article now stolen is a lady's dagger of
a very unique description.. It is only six inches long, in the
form of a cross, having steel blade, ivory handle, and silver
cross ornamenting it, and enclosed in a purple case. The
property was seen safe shortly before ten, and at a quarter-
past it was found missing. Immediately the loss was made
known at all the entrances, and extra constables stationed,
in order to catch the guilty-party; they, however, got clear
away.
M. MAzzlNl.—The manifesto to the revolutionary
committee in London, which has been going the round of
the Paris and London journals as emanating from M. Maz-
zini, has been denied by that gentleman.
ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, MAY
tain Mundy's company, 6th battalion, embarked at Roff
wharf this morning in one of the Woolwich steam-vessels,
for conveyance to Sheerness, to be stationed there. Forty-
' seven gunners and two buglers embarked at the same time
'to fill up the three companies removed from Chatham to
Sheerness today. It is expected that an additional com-
pany will be stationed at the Tower, and at Portsmouth and
Sheerness, on the arrival of the three companies ordered
home from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Canada.
DOVER, SATURDAY, 2.10 A.M.—Their Roval High-
nesses tie Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, Prince Lei-
ningen, and the Duke of Wurtemburg and suite, arrived at
Dover from Calais at 12 30 A.M. in her Majesty's packet
Garland, Captain Wylde. They were received on landing by
Mr. James M`Gregor, chairman of the South-Eastern Rail-
way, and will leave Dover for London per special train at
10 A.M.
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ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A DAUGHTER.—A
named Robert Carpenter, and Louisa, his wife, were ex-
amined before the magistrates at Bristol yesterday, upon a
charge of cruelty towards Christina Carpenter, a girl sixteen
years of age, the daughter of the male prisoner by a former
wife. The evidence of the girl, whose body was in a wretched
state from debility and sores, was to the effect that she had
been confined in a small room up stairs for a period of three
months, till at last she made her escape; that sufficient food
was not given liar, and that both the prisoners, particularly
the female, had severely beaten her. After a lengthened in-
quiry, the case was adjourned.

We understand that a fine dish of green peas was
gathered from the garden of W. Came, 'Esq., of Ellenglaze
"louse, on Wednesday last.—Royal Cornwall Gazette.

We believe that the office of Clerk of the Crown,
about to be vacated by Lord Cottenham, is to be filled up by
the appointment of C. J. Tindal, Esq., son of the late much-
respected Lord Chief Justice.
Mn. GROOM'S COLLECTION OF TULIPS.—The

friends and patrons of Mr. Groom, the florist at Clapham-
rise, were in the course of yesterday afternoon admitted to a
priyate view of his tulip show. The exhibition was one of
great interest and astonishing variety, no less than 2,000
roots of the finest specimens of the tulip being displayed
under an awning measuring 156 feet in length. Among
these flowers we observed some specimens of those tulips
which amateurs set such store by, for instance, the Victoria
Regina, Prince of Wales, Duke of Norfolk, Nourri Effendi,

Adtlison, Catalani, Marshalt Dr. Horner, and many
new combinations of colour and shape, none of which have
as yet been introduced to public notice. The impression
produced by so many and such exquisitely timed flowers
was most pleasing, and Mr. Groom's exhibition is most in
teresting.
AMERICAN SLAVERY.—The Temperance Demon-
stration Committee have unanimously passed the following
resolution :—" That while this committee desire to cherish
the most friendly feelings and to exercise all the require-
ments of fraternal and Christian hospitality towards any
advocates of temperance from America who may visit this
country, they feel it to be their imperative duty not to wel-
come to their platforms, or to any conference which may be
held on the subject of temperance, any minister of religion or
other gentleman, whatever may be his reputation in his own
country, who hesitates to avow his abhorrence of slavery,
and his earnest desire for its abolition, or who acts under the
influence of the unnatural prejudice against the coloured
portion of the population."
THE LATE THUNDER SToßMs.—Last week,
during a violent thunder storm in Essex, several labourers
at Dengie took refuge by the side of some mustard straw.
Alarmed by the vivid play of the lightning over the straw,
five of the men quitted the spot ; one, who lingered behind,
was instantly struck dead. At Edinburgh, just as a wedding
party were about to enter a drawing-room, a flash of light-
ning struck the chimney, passed through the room, and
broke its way out through the window. If any of the party
had been in the room it is supposed there would have been
loss of life. On the 24th ult. a thunder storm broke over
Upwell, Lincolnshire. The lightning set fire to a mill, and
killed a labourer. On the same day, at 13arroseby, a fine old
ash tree was struck, the bark peeled off from top to bottom,
and two or three divisions made through the trunk. A farm
bonne at Norton, in Gloucestershire, was struck by lightning
on Wednesday week, and considerable damage was done.
The inmates fortunately escaped. Among other freaks, the
electric fluid effectually swept the chimney.
TUE WINDOW-TAX.—The Board of Stamps and
Taxes have issued instructions to the assessors throughout
the country, din cling them not to make any assessment of
the window-duties for the current year. These instructions
amount to a repeal of the tax, commencing from the sth of
April last.
LEICESTER TRADE.---NO material alteration from
last week can be reported in the state of trade. Shipping
orders to some extent have been received ; but these in a
large measure have been met by the stocks on hand—SO that
the amount of employment remains abcut the same.

LITERATURE.

STUART OF DUNLEATH.

By the Hon. Mrs.

Norton. 3 Vols. Colbirn.
" The power of writing," eays Mrs. Norton, in her
preface, has always been to me a source of intense
pleasure ; it has been my real solace in hours of
gloom, and the name I have earned, as an author, in
my native land is the only happy boast of my life.
That happiness and that boast will be more than ever
justified and augmented by the publication of this
work. " Stuart of Dunleath," although one of the
most mournful, is one of the most beautiful, the
most enthralling, and the most tenderly pathetic
stories that we have read for years. Many novel
readers may, perhaps, find fault with it as "too me-
lancholy," hut all who have experienced real emotion,
all who have truly loved and truly suffered—and the
terms are to some extent synonymous—will find their
hearts irresistibly moved and their deepest sympathies
enkindled by the sad, sweet story of the gentle,
loving, unbeloved Eleanor Raymond, narrated as it
is in the most natural and fascinating manner imagi-
nable. The effect produced by the revelation at the
close of the first volume is most powerful and most
admirably managed. We must confess that, habi-
tuated to novel-reading as we are, and hence unfortu-
nately apt to guess the denouement of a story, long
before it arrives, we were as completely taken by sur-
prise as Eleanor herself when she read the letter of
her guardian, the unhappy and unstable Stuart of
Dunleath. ‘Ve are loath to say a word
that may hint at the nature of that revelation, which
would be doing injustice alike to the readers of the
novel and to the very successful authoress of its skil-
fully arranged story. Yet this dramatic effect is only
one of the may excellent characteristics of "Stuart
of Dunleath." Its greatest charm, perhaps, is the
natural and beautiful development of the character
and history of Eleanor—she is the centre of interest
and attraction, throughout accompanied continually
by the sorrowing sympathy of the reader. Stuart
himself is enother illustration of tint too-often
justified prophecy, " unstable as water, thou shalt not
excel." During a considerable part of the narrative,
seeing him as Eleanor sees him, believing him what
Eleanor believes him, we follow him with interest and
regard, but by the close of the third volume the moral
purpose of the tale has made itself felt, and we re-
cognise the success with which Mrs. Norton has ful-
filled the intention alluded to in the dedication (ad-
dressed to the Queen of the Netherlands). " Hold-
ing as I do," she says, "that that power (the power
of writing as she can write) entails a certain
responsibility, I have not ventured to present to my
countrymen or to offer to your Majesty a mere ro-
mance—the weaving of idle thoughts to amuse idle
hours. I have endeavoured at least to write with a
distinct purpose, to illustrate the working of particular
faults on our own destinies and the destinies of others,
and at the same time to uphold a wider toleration than
we are generally willing to accord to those defects
which do not exist in ourselves." The powerful effect
produced by cur faults on our own destinies and on
the destinies of others, is fully demonstrated
in the sad eventful history of Eleanor and
the unstable Stuart, while the beautiful virtue of
toleration is most exquisitely set forth in the example
and teaching of Lady Margaret Fordyce, one of the
most charming loveable creatures that ever cast sun-
shine over the pages of a novel, diffusing gladness
around her. one extract can suffice to do justice
to Margaret, and there is something so infec-
tious in the very character of her goodness,
that instead of attempting to describe her
here, we recommend all who love sunshine at home as
well as abroad, a sweet temper as well as a sweet
voice, beauty of character as well as beauty of face, to
make acquaintance with Margaret, who combines all
these charms, and having seen her, not only to ad-
mire, but to go and do likewise. " Popular she was
to her heart's content. From her brother Lanark,
who simply thought there had been nothing like her
since Eva was presented to Adam in Paradise, to the
chance acquaintance who had the good luck to sit by her
at dinner the day before, a unanimous vote was always
given in her favour. Taut sweet cordiality of her
manner had no forwardness in it, and was balanced
by a certain stateliness and dignity, hereditary and
natural, while her perfect temper, active kindliness,
sincere and unostentatious piety, increased to love
the admiration already inspired by her gaiety, ac-
complishment, and beauty." Although example is
always more effective than exhortation, we must give
Ladyof
Margaret's eloquent vindication
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