The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-15 00:00:00

THE SON LONDON, MONDAY EVENT NG, FEBRUARY 15, 1858

' offwers and the composition of the French lauding
force. The French hive a feeling in regard to the
publication of their arrangements which I of course
respect. The po:sition and nuiut;er of their ships
are a fact patent to all eyes, and I hare therefore
included them in the plan which I forward you.
Perhaps you will send it, as you did my Fatshan
plan, to Mr. Wylde for publication.
In the list of the Naval Brigade we miss the name
of Capt. Edgell. The non-a-rival of the Princess
Coariotie keeps the Tribune a prisoner at Canton.
It is sometiirps a penalty that a man pays for being
a perfectly reliable officer that he is wanted for
some responsible post where energy and judgment
are indispensable. Such is Captain Edgeli's case ;
but we are all here too much indebted to his uu-
wearying industry and foresight to forget him. As
protector of Hongkong and general agent to the
fleet he is doing more important work than he
could even do here.

rockets the flame was led up and down the city
wall, and in an filer edibly short time the long,, thin
line of fire shot high into the heavens, and then
subsided into a smouldering smoke.
While this was st:ll raging those vengeful rockets
described a new parabola. They came hurtling
through the moonlight along the line of the eastern
wall. They sought out the three spots which have
been marked as the objects of the triple assault of
the English and Freuch troops to morroT. As those
dreadful 24-pound rockets flew flames arose. They
seemed to lead the fire about as a tame element pre-
' cisely as they willed ; and, strange to say, it never
seemed to spread inwards or to stray from the line of
the city walls. I expect that when, at some more
convenient season, I come to see the interior, I shall
find that all the conflagrations we have been watch-
ing to-night with an awe-stricken pi!y have de-
stroyed only that line of old houses which leant
against the inner side of the wall and afforded cover
to those giugalls whence all our great losses in
affairs with the Chinese have arisen. I may be
wrong, for I pledge myself to nothing that I write
in this confusion of showering rockets and crashing
roofs—if lam wrong I can correct nay impressions I
hereafter.

Monday, Dee. 28.
• It is five o'clock in the morning, and the north-
wind whistles through the shroud's, and it is thick
darkness as we climb the rigging to the maintop of
Her Majesty's ship

_
Yeh knows what must happen at daybreak. It
has been told throughout the fleet, it has been in-
tentionally allowed to be known to the bumboat-
men, and all who have communication with the
opposite shore that the bombardment will com-
mence at daybreak. The frequent reconnaissances
on the eas'ern side have also told them that the
attack will be on that side, and we know they have
taken the hint, for two new einbrasures have broken
out yestzday and guns mounted.
B,aiore the first streak of daylight every glass 13
directed upon the berth of the green passage boat.
We call it Howqua's boat, moored on the other
side of the river, and used to carry messages to and
fro, and alw4s having a white flag flying. The
boat and the flag are still there, but she does not
move. No, she does not move. I must use the
seam. Al's more practisr.d eyes to tell me so, for I
cannot yet distinguish objects. Surely, surely,
these men will yield while there is yet. time. There
seems to be no thought of such a thing. Had
there been, it is now too late. A cheer tells me
that, not in the dawn but in the less thick darkness,
up goes the white ensign to the main deck of the
Actaeon, and at the same moment a yellow flag
flies on the main of the Phlege-hon. I expected
at that moment to hear a concussion that should
have shaken the • earth. Not s). A dropping
fire, gun by gun, runs along the line. I fancy
that the Crudizer, which has the guns from the
bastion in front of Yeh's yamun pointed down
upon her deck, fires a broadside to anticipate
them, but I may be mistaken, for I am some way
off, and the puffs of smoke are already wreathing
abou,. Some minutes elapse, and the light
strengthens. Then, off gets one of the mortars
upon Dutch Folly. It is fired upon Gough Fort.
The whistling shell speeds high over the city—just
as I have often seen them and heard their plaintive
whistle over the heights of Tchernaya, or from the
earthworks on the north of Sebastopol harbour. It
does not reach its object. At its highest elevation
—far, far away—it puffs forth in a thin white cloud.
I can now see the dark fragments falling, and in
the cold, cloudless morning sky that little c!oudlet
hangs—

TUESDAY, Dec. 29.
I mark the change of days, but they are not
divided by repose. All night the city was girt by
a line of flame. The approach of morning was in-
! dicated by a suspension of the ro:ket practice, and
by the re-opening of she mortar battery with re-
doubled energy. As the day broke the flames sank
down and the sun rose upon a perfectly smokeless
city. It is necsssary to describe the conformation
of a Chinese city more accurately than I now have
time to do to account for the rapidity with which
the waliside houses perished. For police pur-
poses every city is dividsd into walled depart-
ments of some fifty yards square, with gates
that can be closed. The houses that lean
upon the inner walls are, in most cities
that I have seen, divided from the rest by a mound
or a ditch ; they are encroachments—hovels made
by squatters—wood and thatch, that blaze and
vanish.
The charges of powder must have been increased
in the mortar batteries, for the shells now flew high
up to the hill f,rts. One of them at daybreak burst
upon an embrasure of Fort Gsugh, and another
went right over it. The ships that had been enfi-
la ling the eastern wall now ceased firing. It was
the moment for the assault. In the neighbourhood
of the E sat fort the three divisions formed and the
rush was made. For two hours nothing is visible
but smoke—nothing is hoard but the rattle of
muske ry and loud cheering. What deeds are
done among this broken ground—among these
trees and brushwood—on the tops and in the in-
terstices of these grave-coloured hillocks—how fare
these forces, spread over more than a mile of
attack, what divisions are first, who fall and who
survive, I must tell hereafter. At eight o'clock the
wall is gained and I see the bluejackets, English
and French, racing along it northwards. Gough's
Fort gives us its fire, let us hope without effect,
but, well-served, its guns might sweep the wall.
There is a check and silence for half-an hour. I
can recignise the blue trousers of one of. the
divisions of our naval brigade. The leaders are
probably teaching them how to take that five-
storied pagoda upon the north-western wall.
Along the city wall, and protected by its
battlements, they pass, I think, unscathed,
the fire from Gough Fort away to their right, and
come in front of a gleaming white battery, newly
built, and full of guns erected upon a ledge of the
rock upon which the wall and the five-storied
pagoda, here stand. If the assailants would only
go to a proper distance, how these guns would
riddle them. But with a rush and a cheer a de-
tachment strikes from the cover of the wall, which
the guns do not command, and houses itself
safely at the foot of the very rock which bears the
battery. Not a shot can it fire. The riflemen
from the walls now ply this half-moon for some
minutes, and in a quarter of an hour the detach-
ment at the foot of the rock has gone round and
taken the position from behind. Relieved from
these guns, which might have swept them down by
hundreds, our men in serried masses arenow swarm-
ing along the wall. The five stoi ie,l pagoda (which
is no more a pagoda, acc,rdieg to our notion of a
p sgoda, than it is a bum-boat, but an old squarq
red building divided into stories) is carried by the
bayonet, and the Fr. nch and English colours are
hoisted simultaneously. Now, Gough's Fort opens
out sulkily upon its late ally ; but the assailants,
not waiting to reply, hurry along the intervening
wall westward. I can follow them for some time
from my position, and I hear them cheering, when
I lose them in the hollow. A few thinutes of sharp
fusillade and blue-jackets emerge from the trees
and up go the two bits of bunting which tell that
this key of Canton is our own.
It is now 2G minutes after 10. In four hours,
therefore, the hill defences of this city have bon
captured. Gough's Fort yet holds out, but this is
a mere question of a few hours or minutes more or
less—the Magazine-hill commands it, and it is
within point-blank range.
The whole of the operations have been conducted
with a view to occasion the smallest possible sacri-
fice of life, and especially of the lives of our own
men and of our allies. We may hope, therefore,
that the victory will be a cheap one. I purposely
refrain from repeating any of•the rumours that are
flying about as to deaths and wounds, but I may
state it as within my own knowledge that Captain
Bate was killed while superintending the placing
of the scaliug-ladders. Captain Hackett was also
killed, and Lord Gilford is wounded in the arm.
How many others are lost it is impossible to say
The Chinamen are still shooting at our men from the
tops of the houses, and is this goes on I fear it will
be nsessary to treat the city less tenderly than
hitherto.

"As tho' an angel in his upward flight
" Had left his mantle floatii.g in mid air."
Strange fancies seize us in these highly wrought
moments—the angel of mercy has fled from the
doomed city.
Slow and continuous, with a sombre monotony,
like the firing of minute guns, the cannonade con-
tinues. No broadsides, no quick firing, no excite-
ment. Every gun is accurately pointed after many
minutes' care to strike or sweep the appointed wall,
and to avoid the habitations. The shells are not so
obedient as the round shot. What the opposing
guns are doing we cannot see, for the smoke gathers
thick below us, and the big guns seem to have
brought down the wind. Vainly do the mortar
shells strive to reach those hill forts, which seem to
be sleeping in tranquil security against the cold
gray sky. They all fall short. That red 5-storied
barn, whichis called the 5-storied pagoda, and which
is said to be the barrack of 500 Tartars, was nearly
touched. A shell burst half way up the hill. But
G nigh Fort has Dever yet been approached. Some
who must have keener sight than _I have say that
the Chinese are endeavouring to bring their mon-
ster guns to bear this way. The strength of the
mament of those forts was placed to bear upon
the eastern face when we reconnoitred them
on Wednesday last. But it is useless, even
if practicable, to change the bearing of
those guns. If we cannot reach them at
this nearly 4,000 yards range with our mortars they
will never reach us. The morning wears on and
the smoke thickens, and still this dull monotonous
minute-gun sound continues. Still no sign of sur-
render. These strange Chinese actually seem to
be getting used to it. Sanpans and even cargo
boats are moving down the river like London
lightermen in the ordinary exercise of their calling ;
people are coming down to the bank, and watch
the shot and shell fly over their heads. Even the
great kites which hover about here all day have re-
turned, and are circling above the smoke.

Now the gunboats leave their stations, embark
the troops and hurry down the river to the landing
place at Kupar Creek. I also change my position,
and dot clown these hasty memoranda as I fly. A
strong body has already lauded, and through my
glass I can distinctly see the General and his Staff,
protected by a party of bluejackets and redcoats—
either Marines or 59th, I can't distinguish which,
for they are crouched on the ground—pushing a
close reconnoissance to Fort Lin.

Here -1 must leave off. It is now half-past 11
o'clock. The Opossum leaves with the mail exactly
at 12, and I have small time to close my despatch
and reach the Admiral's office.

HALF-PAST 12.

No sign of surrender. The embarkation of the
laud force continues, and the bombardment goes oil.
BEFORE CANTON, DEC 29, 1857.
Untaught by experience, some officious person at
Hongkong has taken upon him to delay the mail.
Whoever it may be, it was done without the know-
ledge of Lord Elgin or the Admiral, for their
despatches went by the steamer which conveyed
mice. Possibly the consequence may be that you
will get no China mail at all, as happened in the
case of that to which we are still without answers.
However, I send you a supplementary letter on
the chance of its arrival.

While the Algerine gunboat, Lieutenant Forbes,
is with steam up taking the supplemental despatches
on Laird, 2.5 p. m., Gough's Fort is assaulted and
taken.

(From a Supplement to the Overland Register.)
HONG KONG REGISTER OFFICE, DEC. 30.
The French and English Naval Brigades advanced
on Monday forenoon and took Fort Lin ; one
French officer was killed, and several French
caslaltiei ; some English wounded severely. The
troops then advanced towards the south, and
bivouacked for the night off the south-east angle
of the city wall.
We believe Lieut. Hackett was acting as aide-
de-camp to General Straubenzee, and while at
some distance from any corps, carrying despatches,
was set upon by a party of Chinese, who over-
powered and slew him.

I broke off in my first despatch while the bom-
bardment was still proceeding, while the troops
were landing at Kuper Creek, and while the Gene-
ral was prosecuting a close reconnoissance of the
East (or Lin's) Fort.

So near did the reconnoitring party advance
without any appearance of defenders that we ima-
gined the fort roust be deserted. I suppose, how-
ever, the General had reason to think otherwise,
for the 59th and the Artillery were ordered up, and
were posted in the broken ground to the left, while
some of the Naval Biigade and Marines, who bad
now formed upon a hill-side, were advanced into the
village at the right of the fort. Immediately this
movement took place some matting which covered
a square building on the top of the round stone
fort was removed. and three guns from the lower
embrasures and a volley from jinoalls on the top
soon told that the place was occupied. Our men
were well under cover, and skirmishers were pushed
forward, who with the deadly Enfield made it
dangerous for the gunners to appear in their large
embrasure;. They continued their fire, however,
with great pertinacity until the 9-pounder field-
pieces were got into position and low.tered and
shelled the place (from the village side and across
the ravine which separates the village from the fort)
at close quarters. A storming party was now
formed, but the Chinaman had had enough of it,
and after firing a general volley at the advancing
column they absconded in some mysterious way and
were seen swarming up the hill towards Gough
Fort ; a moment after, and two men appeared in
the embrasures waving the English and French
flags.

The advance on the Magazine or City-hill Fort,
as it is variously termed, took place at 9 a.m. yes-
terday. Capt. Bate was killed and Lieut. Lord
Guildford wounded there. Capt. Bate, as usual,
ever forward where duty called, was volunteering
to place the scaling ladders, when he was shot from
the wall through the stomach. He died as be had
lived, a Christian hero, with the sounds of
victory ringing in his ears. The expedition
could not have sustained a greater loss than the
death of this excellent officer, not more remark-
able for the sweetness of his temper, the child-
like purity of his life, than for the extent of his
scientific acquirements and the shining splendour of
his personal valour • this lamented officer in his life
and death was a bright example of the Christian
hero. His rare intrepidity, his perfect self-corn-
orand, his ready talent, rendered him one of the
most valuable officers of the naval service. He
was equally beloved by officers and men, superiors
and inferiors. In the words of Southey respecting
Nelson, he has fallen in the hour of victory, and if
the horses and chariots of fire had been vouchsafed,
he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze
of glory.

•
Mr. Hackett was a young promising officer, much
esteemed by his immediate commanding officer, and
beloved by his regimental companions.- His death
is much regretted.

My view of this operation was from the river
side of the fort. What happened afterwards I saw
less distinctly. About an hour after the t ort had been
in our possession it blew up with a loud explosion.
The occupying par ty and also the troops enc4mpad
on the hill side were put in uaction, ascood:d the
hill, arid descended on the other side. I saw Capt.
Maclure's and Capt. o,=borne's men, conspicuous by
their white gaiters over their blue trousers, gather on
a little summit and disappear into the valley beyond.
There we lost sight of them. Volleys of musketry
and flights of rockets continued in that direction
for several hours, and there was all the appearance
of an obstinate fight, which lasted till sun down ;
but whether this was occasioned by the discovery
of some unknown fort commanding the east fort
and rendering it necessary to blow up the latter, or
whether some body of Chinese troops had come out
into the open, we shall not know until we can draw
out the separate threads of this wide • spread entangle-
ment.

Besides Bate and Hackett we hear o►►ly of the
loss of Mr. Thomas, midshipman, of the Sauspareil.
Gough Fort was taken between 2 and 3 p.m.,
but the casualties had not reached the river when
the Firm left.

The bombardment was to be renewed during the
night with greater severity.
The body of Captain Bate and that of Lieutenant
Hackett are being brought down in a gunboat for
interment here.

The destruction of China life is not known, but,
as the Admiral humanely delayed commencing ope-
rations until it was apparent that all who desired to
leave had left, it is supposed that the loss of life has
been comparatively small for such a city.
The following is the Admiral's order t—
" The prod being nearly at baud for commenc-
ing active operations against the city of Canton, the
Commander in-Chief has to call the serious atten-
tion of the captains, officers, seamen, and marines
of the squadron to the necessity of carefully protect-
ing the lives and property of the peaceable and un-
armed inhabitants—not only on the scare of hu-
manity, but likewise on the policy which renders it
so important to retain the goodwill of those classes
of the. Chinese population whose material interests
and predilections separate them from the high Man-
darins and the military power of Canton, against
whom alone our hnstile action will be directed.

Then came the night—and such a night ! The
ships almost ceased from their firing, but the city
soon became like our own Shropshire iron counties
at night--a plain of fire. At first it appeared as
though the besiegers were bent upon reducing the
place to ashes ; but little by little, as I gained by a
change of position some idea of the scene as a
whole, the destruction was not without a plan.
There was a great blaze at the north-west angle of the
city. The gate there is surmounted by a Chinese
gnardh, rpe, withthe usual groteique up ward pointed
roof. Shells and rockets were poured in volleys upon
this structure, and it soon became a sheet of flame
through which the roof, the rafters, and the walls
stood out in dark outline, By constant khowera of

" The Rear-Admiral hai also to impress upon the
officers and men who may soon be actively employed
his determination to discountenance and pravent all
looting ' or plundering, both as demoralising as
well as subversive of the discipline that is
k 0 ementially uecessAry to allocess ; and ho

trusts that the officers by precept, and opecially by
example, will carry out his views and instructions.
" The Commander-in-Chief takes this opportu-
nity to express his warmest thanks to the commo-
ore, captains, and commissioned officers, seamen,
and Royal Mar:nea of the squadron for the patient
endurance they have evinced during the last twelve
months in the monotonous and frequently
harrass-
ing duty of keeping open the navigation of this
river. And he further assures them that, whatever
maybe the nature of the future operations, he shall
enter upon it with the strongest confidence in their
ready and gallant co-operation for the maintenance
of the honour of the British flag aid the success of
our arms.

The atru:ity ltts been ascrih of to an outbr,.ali-
Mthornedan fanaticism, but, it seems as likely it was
merely an aggravated • case of urgla,y, and Mr.
De Leon, the United States Consul, will no doubt
find the Turkish authorities fully disposed to sec ,rid
him in his efforts to trice out the auth:rs of th 3
crime, without the necessiiy of tie throat tiia,;.
would implied by the presenc,o of a ship of
The place of the Coostellttion has been taken by
a Swedish frigate which came into port this
morning.

Prices in the Alexandria grain-markets have
continued depressed throughout the past fortnight,
and all shipping business has been much obstructed
by the weather. Saide wheat is quoted from about
255. 3d. to 275. 4d. per quarter, free on board ;
beans, 225. Bd. to 235. 2d. ; bar:ey, about 13s.
Cotton, on the other hand, is very firm, and the
late advices from England have caused an advance
in prices of fully id. per lb. Sales are estimated
at 21,000 cantars, at from 6fd. to 71d. per lb., free
on board. Freights 4s. 6d. to ss. 3d. per quarter
for beans to the United Kingdom, for orders.
Exchange on London for three months' bills
continues at 1011 piasters per pound sterling.

"MICHAEL SEYMOUR,
"Rear-Admiral, Commanding-in-Chief," To the Commodore, Captains, Commanders,
Officers, Seamen, and Marines and tha Squa-
dron in China."

A supplement to the Friend of China, dated the
30th of December. has the following :
"The gunboat Firm, Lieutenant-Commanding
Nicholas, arrived about 4 this morning, bringing
despatches fron the Earl of Elgin. (The Algerine,
with the despatches on board, had got on shore, and
was high and dry a short distance below the barrier,
when t'ao Firm passed her about 5 last evening.)
The Firm reports as follows :
" 'About a dozen of the eunboats were busy all
Monday forenoon landing the. 59th and English and
French Naval Brigades and Artillery, in all about
2,500 men, abreast Kupr's Island. On landing,
possession w,is at once taken of the round fort,
which some of our readers remember crowns a
small height about 1,000 yards below the French
Fol!y, and there they remained all Monday, and
up to 10 o'clock yesterday morning. At the hour
mentioned the bonabardme-it, which commenced
before daylight on Monday
morning, and was con-
tinned throughout both day and night up to that
hour, ceased, and the assault of the bill forts took
place afterwards. These, it was understood (only
Gough's Fort can be seen from the landing place),
were in our hands, as well as the lower section of
the eastern wall, at the time the Firm passed down.
Particulars of the casualties have not reached us ;
but may be looked for by the Kestrel, with the
Admiral's despatches for the mail, directly.
" ' But saddest of all is the dta'h of Capt. Bate,
and that of Lieutenant Hackett. Capt. Bate, that
heroic man for whom all Hong Kong will mourn,
with Lieut. Viscount Gilford and party, was en-
gaged in making an inspection of the ground over
which the assaulting party would have to pass and
the best point for escalading, when a shot from the
walls struck him in the abdomen and he died
almost immediately. Vinount Gilford was also
shot through the arm, but not seriously. Thanks
to the gallant boat's crew who were with
the officers, the body was brought off. Lieu-
tenant Hackett was bearing a despatch from an
outlying picket, and, taking a short cut, was sud-
denly assailed by a man in ambuscade, and killed
in a moment. The wretch who did the deed, how-
ever, was caught by our Jacks, and hung on a tree
with short shrift. His body still dangles to the
breeze. After those painful occurrences our men
became so excited that they destroyed the village
near which the last mentioned death occurred, and,
with large sections of the suburbs, it was in fierce
blaze when the Firm left. The Chinese return-fire
appears to have been confined to their small arms ;
no large guns were aimed at the squadron.'
tc P.S.--A letter received from a friend since the
above was printed supplies the following additional
particulars 'Captain Bate, when killed, was
choosing the spot to pace the scaling-ladders at the
five-storied pagoda. Lin's Wort, Five-storied Pa-
goda, and Eastern wall are in our possession."

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built under the same shed. lint,,'h
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Csptain G. Goldsmith, C. 8., has received the Anti-- .loasrsiic estai:ll,,hris..-pt.i of the present day. A.
good service pr,nsion at the disposal of the First in seat:eel kind
peculiar mark of the tiroe k t',-- pu-11:ng fo ,wows
Lord of the Admiralty by the peomotiten of 'Lord everything that 'snits fee te,i:ie.,, trete it bees its
oli,ipal &- ' ' -
Clarence Paeee to flag rank. . e . aracter in 61,,comfort or extravagance. The
The folk) Wing eppoaltmente were made on Sato r- friendly ititelcomme of -the old'.r.ittbs does not exist iii,
day at the Admirelty : the steer. . Nitiing can be more vapid than the con,-
vena,lon ru modern ►cl ly h .
o - ouses. Nut that men of.
R. Geiger, surgeon, to the Wakrloo ; J. G. ability are not .
Buchanan, 'surgeon, to the AjaeC; G. F. Adams, ber able to stl t
a membersoonovfertheT, but that for one
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acting assistant-surgeon, to the Impregnable •; J. R. an idea of anything but the:stair' there are tenfwit.boul:
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Bertrand, assistant-clerk, to the Cumberland ; and , avocations. All must be lowered to their tone.TEL F. Seater, assistant-clerk, to the Eioellent. I old clubs consisted of a few - i. persons, wpo were more-
equal in regard to talents, or nearer upcm an equality
in mind, and attached to the end of the institution, if
it were of any peculiar character. Thus mutual! in; r-
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Pifty Years' Recollections. By Cyrus Redding, eac'i other by congenial pursuits, formed friendships
C. J. Skeet, King William-street.
that lasted through life. Even as 'to eiclasiveness
Any man with a tolerable amount of ability, who little .is now gained, notwithstanding the black-balL:.
has measured his "three score years and ten" i
-n an system. The truth is, the ballot goes much by iotereei.
active and desultory literary life, must needs have ' Ina well-known club which has many candideet and'
much that is interesting to record in his i few vacancies, it is quite common to black-ball all down
career ; but Mr. Cyrus Redding possesses to a particular name, which the members feel desirous.
talent of superior order, and perception of , should be among them; and interestis made for the
acute degree ; and has, therefore, succesded!! P3rticular catoiidate accordingly. They have no teruple
in producing throe volumes of more, than average ' about rejecting men of high honour and unimpeachable
merit in the autobiographical style of publication. i character, to whom they have no objection except that
For our omu part, we entertain a degree of moral ! they prefer or are pressed to admit another, Who stands
and mental of to this class of writing ; con- I perhaps forty down upon the lit in order of applicatioo.--
sidering end i erceiving teo goner .11y that - the Ju. tics ani the principle of lio lour have no hold'here...
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thereby at once IflV3lid.etimsg the integrity of mainers are not guarantee(! by it. In on e clubee decent
a
the au hor, the acquirement of the reader, and the ' inetnin-r may be discovered" walking away with a
chsra,ltere o: th-:.se who are treated, of in the w irk. . purl lined quire of paper, and a stick of sealing-wax in
Autobiographies are doubtless intended' to ple , his pocket ; in another, acts happen which rigid ci3m-
santly amuse and truthfully enlighten ; but there mittsss endeavour to prevent, that would hardly have
is seldom sufficient delicacy or- care displayed in occurred in' the most uneducated and vulgar clareies of .
the revelations of past circumstances and connec- . tocie'y Compared to the old club, the resemblance,
lions ; and the relater is apt to degene:ate into .
CL)ereforo, is but small, The multitudinous, sullen, '
gossipping vacuity or injedicious betrayal of: ostentatious, modern establishments, without friendly
oonfidential associa ion.' Mr. Cyrus Redding has
intercourse, are but reflect'ona .of the fashion of the
lay—aimless, heartless,
inbnt superficially.imposing.
many ..mposing.
not nearly so much to answer for in this respect al
, There is nothing gained these social bodies by the
many who have issnel similaehooks ; yet he is not lapse
of half a century.
exempt from the prevalent habit, and not a.. few '
instances of incorrectness arid exaggeration mark --_
his pages, but the large amount of iaithtul intelli-
gence and. intellectual interest pervading the
volumes would prevent a more captious spirit than
,ours from wishing to break a lance with him.
Mr. Cyrus Redding was well-born, well-bred,
and well-connected; having the advantages of
highly-educated and classical friends in early life,
and numerous excellent positions for the
exercise of his talent throughout his career—
havina been re'ponsibly established on seve-
ral first class papers and periodicals ; in-
:chiding Galignani's Messenger, , The New Monthly,
aid Metropolitan ; which latter serial he founded
in conjunction with the poet Campbell ; but he
does not appear to hive benefitted much by his
opportunities, and we fear that his love of excite-
ment and change . tended somewhat* to hinder
his solid well-doing-•=the case with many
clever men—thereby causing Dame For-
tune to incur an odium which might be
more justly assigned to want of steadiness of pur-
pose and directness of application. After long ser-
vice in the world of letters, with ardent zeal for
liberal politics, and enthusiasm for literary pursuits,
it is painful -to find a gentleman of upwards of
seventy obliged to have recourse to his autobio-
graphy for the means of respectable existence, and
working harder than he probably did in manhood's
prime ; however, we can only hop!, that Mr. Red-
ding may receive some bounty- at the hands of
Government before long ; for though not among
the original geniuses or most prominent minds of
the age, he bas laboured well and unceasingly in
the service of the re iding public.
We shall present a few specimens of his work,
beginning with the following, relative to a famed
and favourite poet :
" It took time to know Campbell in his better days.
He had most estimable qualities, with some peculiarities;
1 these made- many mistake his real character. He was
I often thoughtless, disliked labour. and was forgetful.
He required a hint to make him do what to people in
general was the most obvious thing in the world. • He i
was way ward at times, now particular,and then careless.
By fits and marts he was grave, and then frolicksoms,
both upon slight excitements, and sometimes ready to
push things to excess, at others to evade them. He wag
amused of being wanting in his friendships, I never saw
it, but it be-were judged by his omissions, his conduct
often bore that appearance. No man possessed a more
kindly temper or wished more to do good to others, but
he use not forward to do so because of his abstractions.
He was perpetually occupied by some subject from
which nothing came. Political economy, Hebrew,
Eastern history employed' his thoughts in turn, and
were dropped. I never found him wanting towards
myself, it I had I should have openly told him of it, as
I once did when I thought he was guilty of an omiesiun
on an indifferent matter. Though he early f 1:, that
without me he should not be able to remainlong as editor
of the Nero Monthly, from his want of forecast ited little
regard to the effects that wouli fellow, acting on the
impulse of the moment, and that this would have pro-
duced a much earlier break up, yet he did not hesitate
to offer me the professorship of English at the Univer-
sity of Warsaw. which Prince Czlrtorisky, then ru!er of
Poland under Alaixaoder of Russia, placed at his di,:posl
to fill up by an Englishman. I declined it, forturia,itly
for myself, on acomint of the difficulty of the language.
not lonx before the revolution that was provoked by the
Grand Duke Constantine. His countrymen accused
him of not laying himself out to procure profitable
Places for them from the Whia,, They esteem it a
duty in any of the natives of the north, who become
possessed of inftaenee of any kind, to work for thorn in
this way, but Campbell was too independent to job for
any body. He would scarcely solicit the most trivial
thing for himself, which almost anyone might ask and
have."

LITERATURE.

SPORTING NOTES.

THE START FOR THE SEASON;
There did not appear much probability, at the corn.
mencement of last week, that the Lincoln meeting would
be celebrated. It seemed somewhat outrageous to imagine,
while ono's finger ends were smarting with the biting,
bitter cold, and the ground in Rotten Row was " as hard
as bricks," that the " terrible high-bred cattle " would be
really racing the same week as far north as Liucolnshire.
However, as it turned out, the frost was Co preventative
to the inauguration of the Isthmian Games of OS, and the
season was commenced to the day under most auspicious
circumstances. The running groun I was in beautiful con
claim], and the trainers did not evince the least solicitude
fer
.the safety of the tendons of their tenderest youngsters.
London taifites mustered in force in the ring, plying their
avocation with their customary earnestness ani obstropei-
onsness. The patrons of the turf, too, congregated in
tolerable strength, and gave unmistakeable Eigns of how
uncongenial to their tastes is any prolonged inactivity,
welcoming with sportsmanlike heartiness the termination
of the reign of dulness. In the weighing-room everybody .
was shaking hands with everybody else, and chatting
cheerily over the racing prospects of the ensuing campaign.
The reporters of the accredited sporting organs were perpete
nally being interrupted with all sorts of inquiries after their
health by bookmakers, trainers, and jockeys who have not
had an opportunity of exibiting their friendliness since
the curtain fell at Shr:wsbury. The sport was extra-
ordinarily good for Lincoln, and the largest " fields" ever
beheld in that locality assembled at the post for the events
on the flat. Johnny Osborne, on Commotion, won the
first " legitimate" race of the pi esent year, after a fine set
to with Nat on the Cernbridgeshire hero, Old Trick. Both
Commotion an 101 d Trick, however, bed to succumb to
the prowess of Honeytree (the recently named colt by
Honeywood, out of Incense) in the race for her Mejesty'a
Plate. The Lincoln Handicap was a great success, and.,
Judge Johnson must have experienced no little gratifica-
tion when the2l animals Cal terad down to the startingpost.
The northern handicapper is undeniably the most accurate.
and able official wo have, and owners of horses and trainers
place implicit confidence in his wisdom and impartiality.
Vandermulin, the winner of the handicap, is the property
of the well-known and eccentric Mr. Edward Rawson
Clarke. Not the most trifling of "D'Orsay'e" many pecu-
liarities, is his extravagant admiration of the Lincoln.
champion. An Arab in his fondest adoration of his steed
scare excels Mr. Clarke in his professed affection for
Vandermulin, and I have reeeetedly heard him avow that
he absolutely " loves the turf the horse impresses with its
hoof." Vandermulin was for a certain period a great •
favourite for the Derby in " Ellington's year," but he
figured most ingloriously in that encounter, a circumstance
which almost drove peer " D'Oreey" wild with vexation.
Tee Derby betting is pursued with the utmost reserve,
for Clydesdale is so wonderfully firm in the market that
the " fielders" aro a bit dispirited and dismayed. John
Scott's grey, Cock-a-deodle-doo, is improving his position
in the betting, and report states that he is wonderfully
improved. To convert the clumsy offspring of Chanticleer
and the 141 upper into a De, by horse of formidable preten-
sions will, I think, require greater potency than even " the
wiz ird" is endowed with.

We have often proved that complimentary dinners
to popular individuals are questionable affairs on
some ground or other, and the one given to Hogg,
the Ettrick Shepherd, does not impeach our expe-
rience. 141 r. Redding says—

Jiogg was a much quieter man than Wilson made him
out, and was reported to say things he wat too well.
informed to utter. His writings are eminently Scotch,
and were not adapted to make a sensation in this coon•
try. I confess in all I ever saw of Hogg, which was
not much, I was greatly prepossessed in favour of his
abilities. While he was in town, it was proposed to give
him a dinner on the anniversary of the birthday of Burns.
I was named a steward with Lockhart and several
friends. Campbell was nominated ales, but he was in
the country. On repairing to the Freemasons' Tavern
to make preparatory arrangements for a meeting of the
stewards to provide the dinner, wo found that the whole
had been clandestinely done. The tickets were 224. One
of the stewardv, who went with rue, was equally surprised
at this intelligence, and we neither of us attended. Sir
John Malcolm was in the chair. I had a note of excuse
from Campbell, which, as I did not attend, 'sent to the
' chairman for the purpose of its being read. S:r John
declined doing B.), saying he was in the hands of the
stewards, but what stewards were his instructora we
could never learn. I wrote to Sir John, who ex )nerated
himself by a note, explaining the matter as far as he
was concerned. Two or three out of the eight or ten
stewards nominated, had secretly settled all, binding Sir
John to their toasts, not having communicat 3d with any
others. Nor was this all, the dinner was paltry—the
affair looked like a job—there was not enough food for
the guests present, four shillings a head would have
amply covered it. I sent an account of the whole dis-
graceful affair to the" Athenteam," which had shrewdly
inquired what was the reason myself and others were
ar,sent from the Lenten affair. It had goof ground lot
the question, but surmise would not prove the facts of a
liagraceful character connected with that affair. ll•igg
was never in London afterwards.

Admuts has been advanced to the premiership for the
Chester Cup, but in my opinion there are many animals
engaged in the race that negrtive his chance, notwithstand-
ing the big talk about the "little horse's" improved form
and his last year's performances.
Turfites are looking hopefully towards Lord Derby for
some needed reforms, and doubtless, when his Parliamen-
tary labours are mitigated, we may hear of some selutary
measures at his inetigatien. By the bye, I learn that it is
proposed to rescind General Peel's rale, which excluded
the Shrewsbury Selling Race delinquents' from all hancli.
caps under the Jockey Club authority.
Edward Day has removed from Codford to Amesbury, at
which famous coursing quarters he has obtained permission
to school his select string of youngsters. American turfites,
I find, by "Porter's Spirit of the Times," keep up a con-
tinuous crow at Prioress' hollow victory over the English
horses in the Cesarewitch, endeavouring by every inge-
nious contrivance to magnify the importance of the mare's
achievement. A. writer to the transatlantic paper
mentioned, draws an inference from the Cesarewitch
running that will amuse English racing men enor-
mously. lie infers that Prioress must be an " al-
mighty wonder," because, carrying rather more weight she
ignominiously defeated the British bred horses Sluggard,
Poacher, and Illuminator. Ignorance in this case may be
productive of blissful sensations to Brother Jonathan ; but
iu England it is well known that the three specified horses
are about the worst brutes at present in trainine. To judge
by advertisements in this week's Bell's Life,Dhir. ltsrey,
" the horse tamer, " will have to contend against
some active competition in his novel line of business.
Two individuals announced that they are in the
p Asession of a secret which they will impart to others
for a trifling sum, and by which the moat intract-
able steed may be converted into the gentlest of crea-
tures. I trust that we may not find the public ready to
exemplify the adage which avers that a fool and his money
are soon parted. There was a great scene at the Town-
hall, Dorset, on Wednesday evening, when the brave old
Farquharson was presented with his magnificent testimo-
nial. Some sanguine people deluded themselves with an
idea that " the squire" would relent of his avowed deter-
mination of giving up the country which for 50 years he
has hunted and imm( rteliseethimself in ; men of imagi-
native minds • thought that "the squire" might,
at this very banquet, announce benignantly that
he had resolved, after much consideration, to pocket
his affronts, to let bygones be bygones, Sic., &c.,
and that he would not secede from his mastership.
When, therefore, the honoured old fox-hunter announced
in a voice full of emotion that it was impossible for him to
alter his determination, the company seemed absolutely
spirit-broken and irretrievably dejected. It must b 3 con-
fessed that the severance of such a connection may well be
painful to thorough sportsmen, and at the same time it
will be affirmed that " the squire" has acted with consis-
tency and courage.
Racing men will enjoy little leisure this week. Two
days' capital spurt are promised at Nottingham, and the
lergenese of the entries shows how shrewd a turf
tactician is the experienced clerk of the course. The
fields are likely to be as numerically strong as
those at Lincoln last week, and the races will
not only be interesting, but productive of some brisk spa.
culat ion. Honeytree will meet'Vandertnulin on 16 lbs.
better terms than he (lid at Lincoln, and this advantage
will not only make " Vander" safe, but ought to give the
race to Honeytree. Of the top weights I prefer Tame
Deer. Like the Two Year Old race at Lincoln, the Little
John Stakes seems likely to be to all intents and purposes
a watch between Arminius and Joyeuse, and tho former's
5 lbs. extra may enable the filly to pull through. For the
Forest Plate, Vanderrnulin and Yeller Gal shall represent
my
interest.
The "jumpers" shall not refor to.
A. FRESH MAN.

What will the idolaters of "Betty Foy" and
"The Excursion" think of this iconoclastic heresy ?

When Wordsworth died there was a contest about
his merits as a poet. I got into a contention on
the subject. It cannot ho denied that the projector of
a new scheme for poetical wriiing. not to be challenged,
iteirits especial notice, for with Wordsworth ell was ex
cathedra. Hie lyrical balLtds I reed on their first ap-
pearance, with- a perfect. ignorance of what end their
author could have in view, except to strip poetry of all
that is attractive, and send her a dogrel ballad - inger
ell chemise through the world. Dcgmatie, hau4hty,
sod sell-sufficient, there was nothing of soul.kindlinesi
in Wordsworth, and a pelt without a heart is a non-
descript creature. He had no relish for Shakveare, and
affected an abstractedness, which he imagined, or his
friends for him, was a communing with the Week or
grey spirits of the Cumberland mountains. When the
Excursion' appeared, a friend who admire l the poem
lent it to use. Is WAS with difficulty I waded through
it. That there were fine lines here and there is admitte I,
but it is too much to have to grope through a bushel of
ceaff to find a grain or two of wheat. Wordsworth was
a man who, I hope, only affected a sort of asceti.m iu
order to cultivate soliteryne,e, and obtain credit for
t
profundity or rather obscurity. He would fain be
oracular and austere as well, in order to be taken for a
second, and no doubt in his own opinion an unproved
hei
cotapari-
Milton. Yet eo far from being worthy of
son, he endeavoured to frame a new
fooetical qitem
bwulttichwhhih
ecilOstoOmrieollicliyenviolated iend
neatly
the face of his
ercottee,
violations. All phrases and forms werer y all he
tobered
_
that were not included in the language of common life.
He would degrade all to tie
wouldhumblestgive nothing of the
1 tngnsge of the
reality, that was his law.
gratification which fancy -cff
the language of poetry should Te. thatllc AoSi eprose,Tted too,t
thatat
feet or imagination
were the same.
feinted his own language •
own example
prosaic. Ti 0 1 gh
convinced by his
it of
as the impracticability
as
of
his theory, he advocated
All the poetry of England, with one or strenuouslyt reluctant
exceptions, were beneath his lofty endurance. He affected
an equal regard and interest for the meanest as for the
grandest object, an error self-evident. Vain and et,o-
tistical, destitute of genial feeling, intellectual in his own
way, he moves no passion, rases no heart-warmth,
excites no bympathy, works upon nature, and nature
-lone, but does not depict nature in her glories.
We conclude our notice with a few words on
modern clubs—cordially recommending Mr, Ile I-
ding's " Recollections " as a highly interesting and
entertaining work.
Social clubs won) a past institution. They were few I

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TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
LATHLAST IGH BUT FIVE.
, N
BOHEMT lAN GI RL .
TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, will be repeated, for the sth
41 in. England, LA ZINGAB,I, being the Italian version of
Bslfe's Opera of The Bohemian Girl, by Madlles. Piccolomini
and Sannier ; Signori Belletti, Violetta, and Giuglini.
n the second Act a new Divertissement, by M. Mascot
(the music entirely new, composed by Mr. Balfe), by Mdlles,
clavelle, Morlacchi, and Pasqualo.
To conclude with the successful Divertissement, by M.
Itiasvot, entitled L'HYMENEE, by Madlles. Clavella, Mor-
laocti, and Pasquale.
Prces :—Pit Stalls, 12. 6,1; boxes (to hold four persons),
Tit and one pair, 2/. 2s; grand tier, 3/. 3s ; two pair, 11. 55.;
three pair, 15s ; gallery boxes, 101; gallery stalls, 3s 6d ;
pit, :3s 6d; gallery, 2s.

JELER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
LAST NIGHTS.
Piceolomini, Sannier, Belletti, Vialetti, and Giuglini.
TO-MORROW, Feb; 16 (Last Night but Five), LA
£ll4 GAR I.
THURSDAY Feb. 18 (Last Night but Four), LA
TRA VIATA, P
A pplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at
the Box-office at the Theatre.

11 . jt. T R E-R, 0Y A fA, DRURY-LANE,
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the new comic
Ana, A LUCKY HIT.
After which, TWO HEADS BETTER THAN ONE.
Followed by the new grand pantomime, LITTLE JACK
NORNEB.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with

THE RIVALS.
After which, a now comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD ; or, Harle-
quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclercq ;
Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. XaekaY ;
Clown, Mr. Charles Leclercq.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. &d. Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
pit 2 0 Pit 1 0
Gs.llery 1 0 Gallery 0 6

11,0 Y AL ,PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Skakspere's Tragedy
of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Chas. Kean; Gertrude, Mrs. C.
'Gan. _

After which, a new grand comic Christmas Pantomime
entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT; or, The Princess
Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess
Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cox-
snack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and
Columbine, Miss C. Adams.

IHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE FAIRY
CIRCLE. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
After which, YANKEE COURTSHIP.
To conclude with LATEST FROM NEW YORK.
Commence at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee
and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon.—

?first appearance of Mr. Charles Dillon in the character of
lago—Engagement of the American Tragedian Mr. Roberts,

who will appear as Othello.

THIS EVENING, Shakspei e's Tragedy of OTHELLO.
supported by Messrs. Charles Dillon, Roberts, Barrett, J.
G. Shore, Calhaem ; Mesdames Dillon and Weston.
To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LALLAH
BOOKH, and the PRINCESS, the PERI, and the TROU-
BADOUR ' • or, Harlequin and the Ghebers of the Desert.
Supported by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White,
Eliza Webb, Maria Ternan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar ;
Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Poynter, and J. L.
T role. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ;
Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites,
Herr Zeleski and Sons ; Columbines, Misses Malcolm and
Lees. Gorgeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton's Grand Trans-
formation Scene.

Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7.
Sox-office open from 11 to 5 daily.

TRAND THEATRE.—lmmense Saccess.—
IJ
THIS EVENING, will be performed
a comic drama, entitled FALSE CONCLUSIONS.
After which, JOHN STREET, ADELPHI.
Followed by the Latest Edition of THE LADY OF
LYONS ; or, Twopenny Pride and Peany-tence,
To conclude with a new and screaming Farce, entitled A
WOMAN IN MY DUST HOLE.
Boxes, 25.; Stalls, 3s. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery 6d. Half.
price at Nine. Commence at Seven.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.

THIS EVENING, will be performed an original English
Play, RIGHT AND WRONG.
After which, QUEEN NAB ; or Harlequin Romoo and
dulliet. Clown, by the Surrey Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Brad-
bury.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EATERY EVENING.—The follow-
) ig company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
elections from all ttfe popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dtc., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madllo. Marietta, Miss Brunel', Miss Ray,
Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ;
Hsrr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, Russell Grover,
B. Jones,ll,J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L.
Rime, Mr Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Ber-
nard; Messrs. W. T. Critchfisld and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Suppers, des., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAIIA3f will appear every Evening.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY—Morn., 3 min. aft. 3—Even., 20 min. aft. 3
To-Monnow —Morn., 35 min. aft. 3—Even., 51. min. aft. 3

THE WEATHER—SUN OYPICE, FEBRUARY 14.
IHERSIONETER, IN THE Sivon.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
40 —this day at noon.
Bartomitrzn. 29.93.
WIND, N.E. ; fresh, with heavy rain, and dull waather
all day. Heavy rain in the night and this morning.
FEBRUARY 15.
41—highest since noon yesterday.
39--lowest this morning and during the night,
43—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.94.
WIND, N.N.E. ; fresh and cold, with fine weather:

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