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London, England, 1859-04-28 00:00:00

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W. Caradon (Liskeard) 2O 8.5 88
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Wheal BuPer (Redru'..h) 5 125 135
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Wheal Kitty(U. Lelant) 1.7.2 94 104
Wh'l Mary Ann (Menhe) 8 45 47
, Wh'l Trelawney (Lick.) 44 32 34
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ing Co. of Jamaica
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NETYMA.RK.

THIS DAY.)

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SOVS.

Glenince Colt
Mazzini

Three ran.
£5O SUSCRIPTION PLATE.

Mimosa

Orianda

Four ran.

MATCH—Prioress beat Olympus.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 25 Sovs.—Ellen Horn filly, Sneer
filly, and Sacrifice filly have paid forfeit,
CLARET STAKES.—Happy Land and Wilton have paid
_ _ _

forfeit

LATEST BETTING.
TWO THOUSAND.
2to 1 ngst Promised Land (taken freely)
Bto 1 agst Nimrod (offered)
Hal o' Kirklees scratched.

DERBY.
1000 to 40 asst Trumpeter (taken)
50 to 1 agst Defender (taken)
50 to 1 agst Balnamoon (offered)

CHESTER CUP.
Bto 1 agst Leamington (taken)
25 to 1 agst Rosabel (taken)
25 to 1 agst Brewer (taken)
25 to 1 agst Queenstown (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Master Bagot (taken)
40 to 1 agst Polestar (offered)
60 to 1 agst Satinstone (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Sam Spode (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Thornhill (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Botany (taken)
1000 to 10 agst King William (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Ancient Briton (taken)

LAW INTELLIGENCIB.-(THIS DAY.)

ROLLS COURT.

(Before the Master of the Rolle, efr John Hominy.)
MOTION FOR DECREE.-BRADBITRY V. DICKENS.
Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., for the plaintiff, applied for the
usual decree of dissolution of partnership, and sale of stock,
machinery, and plant of the company, and sale of the peri-
odical literary publication called Dickens's Household
Words, in terms of the articles of the company, and notice
of dissolution of partnership before the 28th May next. He
said the dissolution was solely caused by difference of feel-
ing arising amongst the partners, and there was nothing
that affected either the commercial interest or literary cha-
racter of any of the parties. The usual certificate of disso-
lution and injunction would be granted. As to the sale of
the publication called Household Words, he proposed the
court should do what was done in the case of " Cooper v.
Wellbrook," where, on the dissolution of a steam boat part-
nership, the partners did not agree upon a person to conduct
the sale, and the court appointed a person to conduct the sale,
and sell the ship, and if this cause was remitted to chambers,
he trusted that the Judge at chambers would give the same
directions and make the same appointment, and that the
sale of the publication would take place before 28th May,
that being the day on which the dissolution of the partner-
ship would take place, and that there would be the usual
decree to take accounts. _ _ _

Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., for the defendant, said he would not
object to any minute of agreement assented to by the Court,
but there was a material difference between the right of
parties in the sale of a publication such as .Dickens's House-
hold Words, and a publication which was formerly referred
to, the Times newspaper, especially under the articles of
partnership. A partner or editor retiring from a newspaper
does not stop the publication—the publication goes on. But
it is expressly provided by the articles of partnership, and
declared, that when the defendant (Mr. Dickens) shall ceaso
to conduct this publication, the partnership shall terminate,
and the publication and sale of this literary work ceases
and terminates also. He would not object to do anything
for the advantage of his partners, provided his rights were
protected.
His Honour the Master of the Rolls said—ln point of
fact, Mr. Selwyn, what you object to is the use of your
periodical by the plaintiffs, or by any person who chooses
to buy that publication and chooses to use it in that or any
other publication. That being the only question between
you—there being no commercial or literary interest:Wu
difference between you—it will be for you to consider
whether it would be advantageous to you for me to remit
this case to chambers.

Mr. Palmer and Mr. Selwyn consulted together, and in-
formed his Honour they trusted they would be able to
agree on the appointment of an autioneer, who would pre-
pare such conditions of sale of the publication of Dickens's
Household Words as would secure the interests of all
parties in the sale of that publication.
His Honour made no order, but left it to counsel to agree
upon and appoint an auctioneer to conduct the sale.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY,
(Before Mr, Commissioner Evans):

IN RE .LAS. POLDEN-APPLICATION FOR PROTECTION
• AFTER REFUSAL OF CERTIFICATE.

Mr. Bayley applied in this case for protection for the
bankrupt, whose certificate was wholly refused a short time
since and limited protection granted. The bankrupt had
carried on business in Leicester-square as a fishing-tackle
manufacturer, and had involved himself in some accommo-
dation-bill transactions, whereby the trustees of the Aroma •
way Charity had been defrauded. The bankrupt had not
armpabta fro. 41.4 proaant application
was for an enlargement of the protection to enable the-
bankrupt to make arrangements with his creditors, several
of whom had accepted a composition.
Mr. Warrand, for the assignees, consented.
The order was made for further protection for one month.

IN RE ALLEN.

This bankrupt was an underwriter at Lloyd's, and is
under remand on a charge of misappropriating trust monies
on the prosecution of the Bank of England. He was now
brought up in custody to surrender under the bankruptcy.
Messrs. Paul and Turner have been appointed the ac-
countants, but the books -having been in charge of the police
since he was captured at Altona, Denmark. The liabilities
are stated to be very large.
Messrs. Lawrance and Plews are solicitors to the peti-
tioning creditor.
Bankrupt was taken back to Newgate in custody.

POLICE INTELLIGENCR.-(THIS DAE)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

FORGING ORDERS ON THE RYE SAVINGS BANK.—
George Edwards, of 7, Drummond-street, Euston-square,
was charged before Mr. Bingham with obtaining by means
of a forged order the sum of £lO from the Diss branch of
the Rye Savings Bank, the money of James Whitehead.
James Whitehead, carpenter, of 50, Drummond-street,
said he had an account at the Savings Bank, Diss, Norfolk,
for £37 ss. Knew the prisoner, but never authorised him
to write for any of the money.

Mr. Francis Cupiss, cashier of the Dias branch of the
Rye Savings Bank, said he received the letter produced on
the 31st of March, requesting the sum of £lO to be sent by
return of post, and in consequence on the Monday follow-
ing, the 4th of April, obtained two post-office orders for
£lO, less the cost of the orders, and sent them in a letter
directed to the Vigo-street post-office for payment to be
made at the post-office in Regent-street. On the 22d of
April he received another letter, requiring all the money to
be paid, in the same handwriting, signed " James White-
head." In answer, he wrote to say that he could have
another£lo, that being all he could send on so short a notice,
and sent two post-office orders for £lO, payable as before.
Alfred William Earl, assistant in the post-office, Fobart's-
place, proved payment of the order, and seeing the prisoner
sign the receipts in the name of " James Whitehead."
Inspector Thornton, of the detective force, Scotland-yard,
proved following the prisoner into the post-office, and see-
ing the prisoner sign the receipt and receive the money,
and finding on him the letter sent by Mr. Cupiss containing
the orders.

The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was committed

for trial.

L I

Love me Little, Love me Long. By Charles Reade
author of "It is Never Too Late .to Mend." Twc
Vols. Trubner and Co., Paternoster-row.
The appearance of a new work from the pen oi
Mr. Charles Reade will naturally excite some
curiosity and interest in the literary world. The
sparkling freshness of Christie Johnstone showed a
degree of originality and talent that led readers
to anticipate much from the author when time and
practice had matured his style and toned down its
extravagance. " Peg Woffington," the original
of the charming little drama of "Masks and Faces,"
did not disappoint these expectations, and after
some time, the striking success of his most am-
bitious work, "It is Never Too Late to Mend,"
showed that he had not forfeited public favour.
With many faults in the construction of the work,
and even in the original plan of the story, and
with too much of the author's favourite vehemence
of style and invective, there was no doubt much to
rivet the attention and touch the heart of the rea-
der, besides a vivacity of description and variety
of character well calculated to interest and
amuse. Great was, therefore, the disappointment
of the admirers of this author when, instead of
. .

taking the tide of public favour at its flood, he
published a work which it is perhaps kindest to
omit from a critical catalogue. A small volume of
reprints did not advance his reputation, and we
are glad to see he has at last issued an original
work in a connected form, which is more worthy
of an author who has achieved decided success.
Even this work is very inferior to what might
have been expected from Mr. Reade. With
some powerful passages, some originality, and some
skilfully-drawn characters, there is too much
diffuseness, too much of his old extravagance, too
much imitation of Carlyle's eccentricities of style.
Mrs. Bazalgette, for instance, is overdrawn. Great
as is the extent of feminine love of finery,
few ladies would get up in the middle of the night
and knock up another lady for the sake of trying
on her dress. The chief object Mr. Reade
appears to have set himself is the delineation
of a young lady's character, a somewhat at ;;a_
ward and difficult task. His heroine, Lucy
Fountain, is an orphan, who divides her time
between her uncle, Mr. Fountain, an old bachelor,
and her aunt, Mrs. Bazalgette, a married flirt.
Each takes great pains to open her eyes to the
selfishness of the other, which is sufficiently per-
ceptible .to the reader from the first. Each has a
particular friend they want her to marry—Mr.
Fountain, a country gentleman ; Mrs. Bazalgette,
a wealthy banker. Lucy is a beautiful and
amiable girl, not at all above the weaknesses and
tricks of her sex, but gifted with remarkable tact
and courtesy of manner. She has scarcely an
opinion of her own ; she is like the chameleon,
changing with every change of atmosphere. " The
courtier," and "my Lady Chesterfield," are terms
frequently applied to her by the author. There is
another aspirant to her favour in the shape of
David Dodd, a young sailor, the first mate of an
Indiaman, and the object of adoration to his sister
Eve, who is one of the most original characters in
the book. Into the fashionable and hollow circle
surrounding the fair Lucy, DavidDodd comes with
the freshness and sometimes the bluffness of one of
his own sea breezes. He is one of those fine
natural characters, with great hearts and simple
minds, whom Mr. Reade delights in depicting.
Entirely ignorant of conventional forms, he
is possessed of a natural kindly courtesy
to rich and poor alike, which even the
somewhat artificial Lucy cannot fail to appreciate.
But Mr. Reade, in his desire to make him entirely
devoid of affectation, has sometimes gone to the
other extreme, and made him talk in rather too
nautical a fashion continually. The cross purposes
played at by this band of plotters and counter-
plotters, and the final denouement of the romance, we
shall leave the reader to gather from the sale itself,
as it would be anticipating the author's elaborate
contrivances. The work is full of animation, and
is likely to entertain a large circle of novel readers.
It spares them any deep 'or thrilling interest, and
does not make too great a. demand upon their sym- ,
pathies by pictures of sorrow and trial. David
Dodd seems to be about the only individual encum-
bered with a. heart; all the rest are elegant, sneer-
ing automata, scarcely excepting the fair heroine
herself, who with all her amiability is somewhat
cold-hearted and artificial. She improves, hdwever,
as the story advances; and we leave her under the
promise of still further improvement. The passage
relating to the little vessel in the storm, and Lucy's
marine adventures, is full of spirit and interest.
Altogether, the work is likely to be a favourite
with many, though not all that might have been
expected from a writer of Mr. Reade's undoubted
powers.

" A Good 2Yme Coming." By the Author of
"Mathew Paxton."
This is an entertaining novel, and while it does
not present anything striking to the notice of the
reader, it exhibits so much good sense and right
feeling, that it has many claims on the attention.
The chief person in the story is Oswald Shakeshaft,
who is a fine character. There is something noble
in his great powers of endurance, his unshaken
faith in the value of perseverance, and his energetic
pursuance of every purpose he had once under-
taken. He did not exhibit these qualities in the
sunshine of prosperity, but it was through storm
and shade, in suffering and distress, that his high
spirit sought its lofty aim, and his intelligent mind
disclosed its resources, and developed its hidden
powers. It was at a period of great national distress
that the story opens, and succeeding years added to
the burdens of the poor, and increased the peril of
the oppressed operatives. The sad effects of this
calamity are powerfully shadowed forth, and the
depression that wears away the spirits, and seems
to consume the powers of endurance es a moth
fretting a garment, is ably described as the worst
enemy in those troublesome times. Oswald dis-
played far greater foresight than his companion
and. fellow-labourer, Philip Scarisbrick, who was
greatly appalled at the direful prospects before
them. The concluding passages of the story are
of exciting interest, and the reader sympathises
with the difficulties that surrounded the partners
in their momentous and hazardous undertaking. It
is a great satisfaction to find the crafty enemies
circumvented, and the ruin they had prepared for
others overtake themselves. Jack Armitage is a
well-drawn character, and in many respects an
original one. With all his eccentricity and abrupt-
ness, there was something kind and genial in his
nature, which always revealed itself in times of
distress. He was of great service to the harassed
Oswald and Philip at the period of their confusion.
There are some home scenes in this story that are
interesting, and the various characteristics of the
different persons are skilfully pourtrayed. Quinta,
the heroine, is a pleasing girl, though deficient in the
spirit and animation which render Kate Standin so
charming. There is a lifelike representation in the
Scotch baker, whose quaint sayings and ingenious
devices form an amusing episode. There is an
elevated tone pervading this work which cannot
fail to win the approval of the reader•, and there
sufficient interest interspersed among its records of
struggles, and sketches of home-life, to engross the
attention, and render its perusal a source of
gratification.

Old and Young. Smith and Elder.

This book displays considerable ingenuity and
some talent, but it fails to please or satisfy the
reader. The characters are not improbable, and
some of them are sketched with vigour and effect ;
but the one on which the author appears to have
bestowed the most pains is not the most successful.
Camden Lyde, the gentle scholar and literary
recluse, is one of the chief figures on the canvas,
but his prototype has several times appeared
in literature under more pleasing auspices. Sir
Philip, the gloomy and saturnine baronet, and Gen.
Crawford, his heroic brother, are both drawn with
force and effect. Nesta, the gentle heroine, is a
graceful and feminine portraiture, of whom Horace
Clifden appears scarcely worthy. The reader could
spare a few pages about him and his friends, which
are occasionally tedious. There are some well
written passages and graphic delineations. If, as
i
we should conjecture, tis the first production of its
author, it gives considerable promise of better
things. The writer should aim at more concentra.
tion, more animation of style; in occasional passages
he rises into eloquence, but in the general tone of
the book there is a want of vivacity and life. The
author is evidently one who knows something of
the world, of men and books, and we have no doubt-
that time will enable him to apply his knowledge
to more effect than in his present volume.

The History of France, from the Earliest Times to
1848. By the Rev. J. White, author of " The
Eighteen Christian Centuries." Blackwood.
The Reverend James White has rendered valua-
ble services to the cause of historical literature.
He has succeeded in a most difficult task, in com-
bining brevity with interest. Most instructors of
youth or juvenile students will acknowledge the
dreariness of the epitomes and outlines of history
which attempt to give minute statistical particulars
of many centuries in a few pages. Mr. White
adopts a very different course. He does not trouble
himself to impress the exact dates of every. king's
reign upon the reader, but he endeavours to give him
a general idea of the chief characteristics of the age
and time ; to show what were the causes, and what
the influences that assisted or retarded the progress
of the nation ; how, in France, the destruction of
the power of the feudal nobility increased the
despotic authority of the crown, and rendered the
subjugation of the people complete. He shows us

the long course of centuries, during which kings,
and royal dukes, and nobles and counsellors, plotted
3, and counter-plotted, and struggled for pre-eminence
0 and power, while the murmurs of the down trodden
Jacquerie were unheard or unheeded. The ter-
f rible days of the Revolution, and the marvels of the
e Consulate and Empire cannot be done justice to in
e so brief a space, but the great facts are given, and
the general impression of the form and features of
3 the time left on the reader's mind. Mr. White's
L powers in condensing history are already well
I known in his " Landmarks of the History of
I. Greece," and of " England," and more recently in
' his admirable summary of the general history of
Christendom, " The Eighteen Christian Cen-
turies." The history of our continental neighbours
must always be especially interesting to us, and a
more extended knowledge of it is much to be
desired, not only from the intrinsic value of the re-
cords, but from their enabling us to comprehend and
appreciate the national character, so different from
our own. Such a work as the present is eminently
qualified for the attainment of this object, although
Mr. White lacks that spirit of military enthusiasm
so peculiarly characteristic of the French. :His
record of the earlier and middle ages shows us only
the gloomy side of the picture. It is not wonder-
ful that the historian, looking from the factions of
the court, and turbulence of the nobles, to the d_e_
spised and trampled people, should see the
gi tter
of regal pageantry dimmed by the tears of thea uffer-
ing peasants, and lose the clash of knightly swords
in the murmurs of the discontented crow? But it
is hard to believe that in high-spirited and martial
France the spirit of chivalry was so entirely ex-
tinct as our author would see-di to impl ; and
is
however faulty the ambition that tyrannises at
home that it may conquer abroad, still it is neces-
sary to believe in tie existence of a genuine
military enthusiar.,m to appreciate the national
character.
are not fam,W',. heartily commend all those who
with the outlines of French history
to consult this interesting volume, which is one of
the 111',-st successful condensations of an eventfu-
ancl.4.tengthened history we have ever met with.