The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-22 00:00:00

UKE CONSTANTINZ

Mr. Selwyn—The rest of the decree will be carried into
effect upon the usual certificates.
_ _ _

Mr. Follet—One half is---to--1;e appropriated by way of
annuity, and the other half is the portion out of which the
debts and legacies are to be paid.
Mr. Selwyn—This winds up the whole case.
The Master of the Rolls—ln order to see that the terms
of the order of the court is carried into effect the amount
-west be verified by affidavit. - •

CITY SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.)
CLASHING OP THE COURTS.-THE VEXED QUESTION
AGAIN.---HART V. PARKER.
This was a judgment summons, and defendant, who for-
merly kept the. Vine Inn, produced his discharge from the
Insolvent Court, and a copy of his schedule, containing
plaintiff's claim. The original order was made in 1856, and
defendant took the benefit of the act in 1857.
His Honour said he felt bound by the act of Parliament
to commit defendant ; he had, however, been informed that
persons so committed had been discharged by the com-
missioners. If defendant was committed for this debt
it would cost him £8 or £9 to get a discharge.
Pliintiff—l knew nothing of his taking the benefit of the
act. I had no notice.
Defendant—lt was under the amount that renders a
notice necessary..
His Honour—From defendant's appearance and man-
ner I think he has the meat.'" to pay. Now the Court of
Common Pleas, at Westminster, says that I must commit,
and it is time that some creditor took the matter to the
superior court and got it settled.. I shall not commit now,
but if the creditor chooses to go on he can.
INFANCY NOT PLEADED.-RICHARDSON V. ROBINSON.
Mr. Clarke appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Beard for
the defendant.
This was a judgment summons, and Mr. Beard asked, on
behalf of his client, for a fresh order. Defendant had to
keep an aged mother, and might have pleaded infancy, he
being only 20 ; but he was anxious to settle the matter.
Mr. Clarke said defendant ought to have obeyed the order
of this court. Rlaintiff had been put to great expense.
Mr. Beard—The order was too large ; make one a little
smaller, and he will, I am sure, pay.
His'Honour thought defendant had shown honest inten-
tions in not pleading infancy, and made the required altera-
tion in the order.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY:

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CLEVER CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED PRISONER.--jOhD.
Thomson, alias ',Dick Doody," a very desperate fellow, and
who has already been tried with another, but not convicted,
for garotting a person named Stocker, in Arthur-street, was
brought up under the following circumstances in custod y
of Sergeant Chown, of the E division.

The prisoner was brought up at this court on the 19th
Oct. lastcharged, with a man named Lindsay, with attempt-
ing to enter the house No. 55, Davies-street, Berkeley-
square, and both were committed for trial on the evidence
of Sergeant Croelpr and a detective namedim and while
waiting at the close of the court in the lobby to be removed
in the van the prisoner Thomson (in the absence of Welsh,
the gaoler of the court, owing to illness) managed to effect
his escape.

Several active officers have been on the look out for the
prisoner since, amongst others Sergeant Chown, but with-
out success till the previous evening, when the sergeant
went about half-past eleven at night to the Union Arms,
Union-court, Holborn-hill, where at the time a raffle was
going on for a pickpocket, the house at the time containing
some of the worst of characters--pickpockets, burglars,
and garotters. To prevent the prisoner's escape the ser-
geant took with him 20 other constables, and so placed
them as to prevent all egress. Having searched the rooms,
the sergeant went into the tap-room, and seeing the pri-
soner sitting there, he made a rush at him, seized him, and
at once told him it was no use his attempting to resist, as
he had a large force outside. Having told him he wanted
him for the affair in Davies street, the prisoner said, " -
me, Chown, I did not think that you knew me, and if my
pals had been here it would have been warm for you ; no
force would have taken me." The sergeant said he never
saw such a place in his life as the place where he was
taken from.
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ITIES.

rgeant Croker and Joy having sworn the prisoner was
the same man who escaped,
Mr. Beadon said the prisoner would be committed on the
original return.

Business
Done.

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IN RE WOODHOUSE, DEBENHAM., AND ttriEGREW.
This cause came on to be spoken to this morning.
Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., said that thii cause came on before
his Honour on the 20th December last, respecting the
purchase of an annuity, and his Honour then settled
the principle upon which the annuity was to be pur-
chased ; but as there was no power given to charge
tho executors with interest, his Honour directed it
to be mentioned this morning in order to see whether the
agents and the chief clerk could arrange it. In the order that
his Honour then made he did not dispute it, and with re-
spect to the interest, after going over the accounts pro-
duced, and without taking any further accounts, he thought
the sum of £2O would be sufficient for interest. His Honour
the Master of the Rolls said " Let it be so if the parties are
agreed."
Mr. P'ollett, Q.C., said he thought £l5 sufficient, but
would not object. There were a very large number of
small lega\cies to be paid hero, amounting to between £25
and £3O, andin place of taking separate discharges he pro-
posed that the solicitor's discharge would be sufficient, on
receiving letters from the legatees. This gentleman had
already received a number of letters from the legatees
in respect to discharging the shares duo to them,
and it seems to be quite right that he should re-
ceive payment and grant discharges, The amount of the
fund for distribution is only £3OO, and the legatees reside
in Auckland, Portland, and in different parts of England,
and some of them in Australia, and it would be difficult to
obtain discharges from each of them. He thought the dis-
charge by the solicitor would be sufficient.
His Honour the Master of the Rolls assented, and said
that if the executors paid they must pay jointly. If the
executors distributed it, they undertook to distribute it
jointly. They would be both liable if they distributed the
fund—they could not separate it. They could not distri
bute it one at one time and another at another.

A correspondent writes from Nice on the 16th,
giving some account of the proceedings of the
Grand Duke Constantine in that part of the world
before leaving for Paris:—
"The Grand Duke Constantine paid yesterday
his first official visit to the naval arsenal of Villa-
franca, which he inspected in a minute manner.
The Russian High Admiral, who was accompanied
by the Chevalier Rochi, major in the Sardinian
engineers, paidmarticular attention to the wet-dock
and careening basin, in which extensive improve-
ments are about to be commenced without delay,
at the expense of the Russian Government. his
not generally known that at the same time that
the negotiations with Russia were pending for the
lease of, the Villafranca establishment, proposals
were made for the same object by M. Mires of
Paris, who had conceived the idea of founding a
company to introduce shipbuilding in that port
These proposals were rejected on account of the
advanced stage of the Russian negotiations, but
the French capitalist appears to have abandoned
the idea with reluctance, for he paid yesterday a
flying visit to Villafranca, and having doubtless
felt convinced by the presence of the Russian
squadron that no hopes of realising his project ex-
isted for the present, he departed immediately for
Rome with two engineers and the manager of
the Roman railways in his wake. The Russian
squadron at Villafranca has been strengthened by
the arrival of vessels- from Cadiz, and it now com-
prises one line-of-battle ship, two frigates, and three
corvettes, all propelled by steam. Admiral Isth-
vain has hoisted his flag as second in command.
With respect to the movements of the squadron,
nothing definitive is known. It had orders on
Wednesday last to weigh anchor, but counter-in-
structions were subsequently received. The first
anchorage of the squadron will be Toulon, and it
will then probably proceed to Cadiz and other
Spanish ports, and return to Villafranca. On Tues-
day last, the first stone of the Russo-Greek church
was laid here, as you have doubtless already
learned, by the Grand Duke, with great ceremony.
All the members of the Imperial Russian family
residing in Nice were present, along with the en-
tire Russian colony, the authorities of the town,
and the French consul. A species of tent had
been erected over the site of the projected building,
and afforded shelter from the sun. The interior
of the tent was fitted up as a Greek chapel and
decorated with flowers. An alter, groaning under
the weight of candelabras, richly bound missals,
gorgeously framed pictures, and sacred vessels, had
been erected at one extremity of the tent. The
ground was kept by detachments of sailors from all
the Russian ships of war then anchored at Villa-
franca. These sailors, by the way, marched into
Nice with a precision which would have done
credit to a regiment of the guards, and altogether
they lack that elasticity and catlike activity so
essential in naval operations. They are sturdy and
rather savage-looking men, who would certainly
stand true to their guns ; but they exhibit none of
the characteristics of our tars, excepting a strong
predilection for rum. The Grand Duchess Cathe-
rine, dressed in a splendid plaid mantle, was the
first to arrive ; she was rapidly followed by Prince
Constantine, accompanied by the young Grand
Duke Nicholas, dressed as a middy, and Duke
George of Mecklenburg. A second carriage con-
tained Count Stackleberg, Russian envoy to the
Court of Turin, and the cortege was closed by the
Grand Duchess Constantine with her maids of
honour. The Grand Duchess was attired in a
handsome white moire antique dress and a mantle
of white cashmere. The Grand Ducal party was
received at the opening of the tent by the four
officiating priests, who made a very gorgeous ap-
pearance. ATe Deum was sung, in which a choir
of sailors and sailor boys took part in an effective
manner, after which the Grand Duke deposited
some coins in a Greek cross dug out in the soil, and
then applied three blows with a silver trowel to a
stone which had been rolled over the cross in ques-
tion. This ceremony was repeated by the other
members of the imperial family, who took their
departure after having embraced a cross presented
to them by the principal priest. After their de-
parture, the remainder of the congregation em-
braced the cross, and dispersed. A grand banquet
was given by Prince Constantine, in honour of the
occasion. The proposed erection of this church has
created some dissatisfaction in the town, not from
a motive of intolerance, but from the, fact that the
building will interfere with the regularity of
the street which is projected in the same quarter.
It is believed that every legal opposition will
be offered by the neighbouring house owners to
the construction of the church on the exist-
ing plan. The edifice, was dedicated by the
especial desire of the Empress-mother to St.
Nicholas and St. Catherine. The squadron at Villa-
franca attracts crowds of visitors, who are very
courteously received by the officers. The prima
donna of the Nice Opera House, Madame Boccaba-
dati, paid the flag-ship Retrizan a visit yesterday,
and met with a complete ovation. Her colleague,
Madame Gianni-Vives, encountered a different fate
the same evening on the stage. Her appearance in
the " Favorita ' was greeted with a storm of dis-
approbation, proceeding from a clique which has
set its heart on driving her and the present director
from the Nice Opera House. After struggling for
some time against this relentless opposition, Madame
Vives was seized with a nervovs attack and fainted
away on the boards, an event which brought the
performance to a close. The persecuted singer
has an agreeable voice, and she is most unjustly
made to suffer for the unpopularity of the di-
rector. The sisters Ferni, who evidently con-
sider it necessary for their musical reputation
to break a limb or to drive lovesick young men to
suicide in every town they visit, have purchased
some land here and propose building a villa.
These young violinists would do well to imitate
the admirable example offered them by the sisters
Milanolo, who achieved their fame by legitimate
means, and conquered the love of the public by
their abstention from all the sickly arts of puffing.
The ball to have been given on Tuesday to the
officers of the 3d regiment, quartered at Villafranca,
in honour of the Russian squadron, was adjourned
in consequence of the unfavourable accounts re-
ceived of the Empress Dowager's health. It will
probably take place after the return of the Grand
Duke from his cruise to Toulon. Invitations had
been accepted by the Grand Duke and his wife,
by the King of Wurtemberg, by the Duke George
of Mechl_mburg and the Grand Duchess Catherine,
and by five hundred other persons, including the
elite of Russian society and of that of Nice. This
ball will be given in the chateau of Villafranca.
The concert in favour of the poor, in which the
Baronne Vigier (Cruvelli) has promised to perform,
on condition that the stage of the opera-house shall
be transformed into a concert platform—in other
terms, that she shall not be led to break her vow
of never again singing on the boards of a theatre—
has been at length fixed for the 10th of January.
With the attraction of that magnificent voice, the
charitable cause will achieve a brilliant victory.
I will conclude by stating that a ' difficulty' exists
between the Sardinian. Government and the Prince
of Monaco on account of no less important a ques-
tion than a builder's bill. Last summer a barrack
occupied by the small Sardinian garrison of Monaco
was partly consumed by flames. Sardinia now
calls upon Charles 111. to pay the sum incurred for
repairs, but the latter sovereign stoutly declines to
listen to the appeal.. A great coolness consequently
prevails between the two courts. Probably a fifty-
pound note would settle the entire business."

serves :

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A RAILWAY TUNNEL.-
On Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, a man named
William Wright was knocked down by a goods train in the
tunnel of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, between
Cowlairs and Queen-street, and so severely injured, espe-
ciallS, about the lower part of the body, where he was torn
in a shocking manner, that he died on Monday morning,
about five o'clock, at the Infirmary. The unfortunate man,
so far as can be ascertained, had entered the tunnel from
Cowlairs ; for a Watchman was on duty at the Queen-street
station, and a number of plate layers were at work at the
lower end of the tunnel, none of whom observed him pass-
ing. The breaksman, it appears, had seen the man in
advance of the train, and every effort was made to arrest its
progress. But ere it was finally stopped one of the trucks
had overtaken and knocked him down, and a lever, brought
from the station, had afterwards to be employed in raising
the truck before he could be removed from under it.—
Glasgow Daily Mail.

FRENCH IMMIGRATION INTO THEIR WEST INDIA
SETTLEMENTS.—A contract has been entered into by the
French Government agent for the supply of 20,000 immi-
grants, for the term of six years, to commence from the day
of engagement. The wages are fixed at 12f. per month for
men, 6f. for women, and 3f. for children between the ages
of 6 and 14 years old. The working days are to be 26
the month, or 312 in the year, and they are to make them-
selves useful in any way their employers may direct, though
it is understood the principal work will be the cultivation
and manufacture of sugar. A contribution of one tenth
part of the immigrants monthly pay is to be retained,
which, at the expiration of the term of servitude, is to be
returned either for passage money home, or for any other
purpose, should the immigrant prefer remaining in the
colony.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Monday last
Mr. W. Walton, a man who has held a respectable position
in society at Worcester, was committed for trial,
charged with embezzling moneys of the Worcester Dis-
tillery Company to a considerable extent. The prisoner
had been employed as traveller and collector at £l5O a-year
and a guinea a day expenses up to last September, when
he absconded,. and deficiencies to the amount of about £2OO
were then discovered. All trace of him was lost until a
detective procured a photographic likeness of the missing
man, and, procuring a number of copies, they were trans-
mitted to the various police stations in the country, the
result being that he was discovered in lodgings at Douglas,
in the Isle of Man, where he was apprehended, brought
back to Worcester, and on Monday last fully committed
for trial, had wising just three months.

Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social
Topics. By the late Rev. F. W. Robertson, of
Brighton. Smith and Elder.
This volume contains a collection of the lectures
and addresses delivered by the late Rev. F. Robert-
son, of Brighton, on various occasions, principally
at the Mechanics' Institute of that town. They
are well worthy of an enlarged audience and a more
enduring form. They evidence a cultivated taste
and extended sympathies. They do credit alike to
the head and the heart. of the writer. The preface
gives a brief record of his life and labours, which
is full of interest, and shows how consistently he
practised what he preached. His popularity, and
the success of his ministry among the working men
whom he addressed, is not surprising. His clear
and correct arguments, his patience and toleration
of opposing opinions, and the eloquence of his tip-
peals, not to their passions or prejudices, but to
that reason and conscience in which he admitted
them to be his equals, were certain of producing
effect where intelligence and good intention met
him. Perhaps the most remarkable feature in these
addresses is the broad and tolerant spirit which per-
vades them. There is a total freedom from narrow-
ness of mind or prejudice, a respect for the opinions
of others, which is very rare in any sphere, and is,
perhaps unavoidably, especially so in the pulpit.
The principle that each man has a right to his own
judgment and opinion, is consistently maintained
throughout, only it is insisted that he should act
up to those conscientious convictions, honestly and
fearlessly. The habit of admiring and apiteciating
excellence in our opponents is another duty strongly
inculcated. Mr. Robertson's was one of those cul-
tivated and comprehensive tastes that can perceive
the merits of the most opposite styles. The follow-
ing passage expresses this strongly :
" Cultivate universality of taste. There is no surer I
mark of a half-educated mind than the incapacity of ad-
miring various forms of excellence. Men who cannot
praise Dryden without dispraising Coleridge ; nor feel the
stern, earthly truthfulness of Crabbe without disparaging
the wild, ethereal, impalpable music of Shelley ; nor exalt
Spenser except by sneering at Tennyson, are precisely the
persons to whom it should is consistency seem strange that
in God's world there is a place for the eagle and the wren,
a separate grace to the swan and the humming-bird, their
own fragrance to the cedar and the violet. Enlarge your
tastes, that you may enlarge your heart as well as your plea-
sures; feel all that is beautiful—love-all that is good. The
first maxim in religion and in art is—sever yourself from
sectarianism ; pledge yourself to no school ; cut your life
adrift from all party ; be a slave to no maxims ; stand
forth, unfettered and free, servant only to the truth. And
if you say, But this will force each of us to stand alone.'
I reply—Yes, grandly alone I untrammelled by the preju-
dices of any, and free to admire the beauty, and love the
goodness of them all."
The lecture from which the foregoing passage is
quoted is one of the best in the volume. It is the
second of two, lectures on the influence of poetry on
the working classes, in which the elevating and
yet levelling influence of that divine art is
clearly shown; elevating in its aspirations after all
that is true and noble, it levels the petty distinc-
tions of rank and wealth to the equality of our com-
mon humanity. In alluding to those utilitarian
critics, who ask what is the use of poetry, Mr,
Robertson speaks of its power to bind together the
most unsympathetic classes :
"Milton, by all the associations of education and refined
taste, belonged to the royalists and the church ; but he
threw himself, in spite of the vulgarities which repelled
him personally from its worship and left him at last with-
out visible worship, on the side of the conventicle, because
in the days of the Stuarts the cause of the conventicle was
the cause of liberty and truth.
" Dante was a Romanist ; but no slave was he of Popery.
His world-wide conception represents the heathens and the
Christians of all.a)ges as the subjects of one moral govern-
ment, responsible to the laws impressed upon humanity
rather than those written by the Church; and his severe
justice does not scruple to consign a long list of bishops
and
Or,
to the eternal penalty of crimes.
r, again, Byron and Shelley—aristocrats both by
birth, yet no minions of a caste, nor champions of heredi-
tary privilege—they were men ; and their power lay in
this, that they were the champions of human rights, as well
as utterers of the passion that is in men. So far as they are
great, they are universal ; 80 far as they are small or bad,
they are narrow and egotistical. And, as time rolls on,
that which is of self, limited and evil, will become obsolete,
and wither, as the mortal warp and woof shrivelled on the
arm of Halbert Glendinning, when he plunged it into the
sacred flame to grasp the Volume of Truth at the bidding
of the White Lady of Avenel ; and that of their works
which remain unconsumed will be the living flesh of the
humanity that never dies—so much as is true to universal
nature and to fact.
"It is thus that the poets universalise and. unite. 'One
touch of nature makes the whole world kin.' And, hence,
Poetry has been silently doing a work for the poorer classes
when they were not aware of it ; for even that Poetry which
does not interest them may be opening the hearts of the
richer classes towards them. Did Burns teach the nobles
no sympathy with the cares, and the loves, and the trials of
the cotter's life ? And when poor Hood wrote the ' Song
of the Shirt,' so touchingly expressive of the sorrows of an
unknown class, the over-worked needlewomen, and all Eng-
land thrilled to the appeal—
" 0 men, with sisters dear !
0 men, with mothers and wives !
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives—" •
and. when,in consequence, plan after plan....waa tried, and.
investigations instituted, and a kindlier interest evoked to
ameliorate their condition, tell us—Had Poetry done no-
thing for the Working Classes ?
"Again, Poetry discovers good in men who differ from
us, and so teaches us that we are one with them. For the
poet belongs to the world rather than to his party; speaks
his party's feelings which are human; not their watch-
words and formulas, which, being forms of the intellect, are
transitory, often false, always limited. Thus, Romanism
and Puritanism, and their modern feeble descendants, as
dogmatic systems, are forbidding enough. But listen to
Dante, and you will feel that purgatory, false as e. dogma,
is true as the symbolism of an everlasting fact of the human
soul. Hear Milton sing, and the heart of Puritanism is re-
cognised as a noble and a manly thing. And, however re-
pelled you may be by the false metaphysics, the pretensions
to infallible interpretations, the cant phrases, and the im-
portant intolerance which characterize the dwarf and
dwindled Puritanism of our own days, out of which all pith
and manhood appear to have departed, who does not feel
to be disposed to be tender to it for Cowper's gentle sake ?
However out of date the effort of the Tractarian may seem
to you, to reproduce the piety of the past through the forms
of the past, instead of striving, like a true prophet, to in-
terpret the aspirations of the present in forms which shall
truly represent and foster them, what man is there to whose
heart Keble has not shown that in Tractarianism, too,
there is a "soul of goodness," a life and a meaning which
mere negations cannot destroy."
Again, speaking of the refining influence of poetry,
especially in the three departments which were the
peculiar sphere of romantic poetry—love, honour,
and war—he overthrows, with a genuine and elo-
quent indignation, the cold and calculating argu-
ments of those who think a secure investment of
capital is the grand object of life. After alluding to
the remark of one whom he calls " a truly great
man," the American Channing, that if armies were
dressed in a hangman's gar, the false glory of
military enthusiasm would be destroyed, he ob-

" It is wonderful how the generous enthusiasm of Dr.
Charming has led him into such a sophism. Take away
honour, and imagination, and Poetizr from war, and it be-
comes carnage. Doubtless. And take away public spirit
and invisible principles from resistance to a tax, and Hamp-
den becomes a noisy demagogue. Take away the grandeur
of his cause, and Washington is a rebel, instead of the
purest of patriots. Take away imagination from love, and
what remains ? Let people treat with scorn the defenders
of its liberties, and invest them with the symbols of degra-
dation, and it will soon have no one to defend it. This is
but a truism. •
" But it is a falsity if it implies that the mere change of
symbolic dress, unless the dress truly represented a previous
change of public feeling, would reverse the feeling with
which the profession of arms is regarded. So long as
people found it impossible to confound the warrior with the
hangman, all that a change of garb could do would be to
invest the sign with new dignity. Things mean become
noble by association ; the thistle—the leek—the broom of
the Plantagenets—the garter—and the death's head and
cross bones on the front of the Black Brunswickers, typical
of the stern resolve to avenge their chief—methinks
those symbols did not exactly change the soldier into a
sexton I"
In alluding to the possibility of aFrench invasion,
which was the subject of the day when this lecture
was given, he speaks as follows :
" No one who loves his country,—no one who knows
what is meant by the sack of a town, especially by French
soldiers—can contemplate the possibility of such an event,
without a fervent hope that that day may never come. Nor
does it become us to boast; the enthusiasm of the platform
is easy, and costs little ; and we may be called upon, before
very long, to show by something more than words, whether
there be steel in our hearts and hands, or not.
" But this much I will dare to say. If a foreign foot be
planted on our sacred soil—if the ring of the rifle of the
Chasseurs de Vincennes be heard upon these shores, ter-
rible as the first reverses might be, when discipline could
be met only by raw enthusiasm—thanks to gentlemen who
have taught us the: sublime mysteries of ' capital' in lieu
of the old English superstitions of honour and religion—
they may yet chance to learn that British chivalry did not
breathe her last at Moodkee or Ferozeshah, or Sobraon, or
Goojerat, or Meeanee, or Hyderabad. They may yet be
taught that there is something beyond the raw hysterics of
a transient excitement in the spirit of self-sacrifice which
we have learned from our Master's cross. They may yet
discover that amongst the artizans, and peasants, and
working men of England, there are a thousand thousand
worthy to be brothers of those heroic eleven who sleep be-
neath the rocks of Trukkee, with the red thread of Honour
round their wrists."
In his addresses on more business-like subjects,
a clear and practical sense takes the place of poetic
enthusiasm. His remarks on the Early Closing
Movement, and on the Improvement of Labourers'
Cottages, show a thorough knowledge of human
nature and its necessities, and a keen perception of
the many ways in which a good purpose may be
diverted from its original intention. The two
addresses, especially treating of the Mechanics'
Institute he was so anxious to assist, are well wor-
thy of perusal. The first was delivered shortly
after the opening of the establishment, which was
supported by the working men themselves, and
entirely under their management. The second was
given on the occasion of a fierce controversy among-
the members. Some of them were anxious to in-
troduce into the library the works of Tom Paine
and other infidel publications. The others were
equally averse to their introduction. Mr. Robert-
son's address on this occasion is a striking example
of the liberality and justice of his judgment He

courage and kindness to inform the dying sufferer of
his approaching end; and although he was not able to
be present with him at last as he had hoped, h
could depart with the cheering reflection that he
had rendered by his words of solemn assurance,.less
awful the dark passage to another world from
which the young pilgrim shrank with awe. Little
did they think when Edward first warned the in-
valid, that he himself, who then stood beside him
in health and strength, should be the first to walk
through the dark valley; but so it was. A sudden
illness proved more than be could struggle through,
owing to his mind having been very much harassed
for some time, which had gradually told upon his
health, and his long atendance on Frederick bad
undermined his strength. The circumstances which
gave rise to his quarrel with his relation, Lord
Conyngforcl, are admirably related ; and the final
confusion which resulted in Edward's dying with-
out explanation, and his friend's lifelong remorse
and regrets, offers a warning to those suspicious
and hasty tempers that rush at conclusions and re-
fuse to hear the voice of reason until too late. There
would be nothing to lament in the premature death
of Edward Young were it not that he departed
under the impression that he had failed in the ob-
ject of his life to requite in some degree the debt of
gratitude he owed to Lord Conyngford in conse-
quence of the latter's conduct to his father. How-
ever, his work was not profitless, although he did
not live to sec its fruition. Had he not exercised
a stern control over himself, it was evident that
Ellen Scudamore would have soon forgotten her
transient feelings towards Lord Conyngford ; and
that on the arival of the latter he would have found
himself supplanted by his young kinsman in deed,
instead of only in thought. Those who are pleased
with fine delineations of character, and powerful
descriptions of human nature, will find in some of
the subjects here presented to their notice ample
scope for study. The excitable Ellen affords a
strange contrast to the reserve under which Edward
concealed his sensitiveness of feelings, and the strong
passions which were hid by Lord Conyngford's pride.

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