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London, England, 1850-07-31 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY

was thereupon, after a very severe reprimand, his Lord-
ship intimating that but f.,r her age be would be dis-
posed to punish her more severely, zentence:l to a year's
imprisonment.

The second indictment was against another witness,
who had slio given evidence on the same occasion
against Mr. Sneyd; but on Mr. Whateley saying that
the defendant was prepared to admit that he was mis-
taken in swearing what be did, the charge was not pro-
ceeded with, and a verdict of acquittal was taken by
consent.

WESTERN CIRCUIT —Bodmin, July 27.
CROWN COURT.
There were the names of twenty-four prisoners in the
calendar.
Witlianz Gibson plraded guilty to an indictment charg-
ing him with setting fire to a rich.
Mr. Justice COLEEIDGE, in sentencing the prisoner,
said that la? had statAl he wished t,) be transported. The
Court was not in the htiiiit of attending to the wishes of
prisoners, but in such a case as this he must ho trans-
ported ; let it, howev:.r, not be supposed that transpor-
tation was merely a rcmoval from one country to
another, and that the prisoner would there have the op-
portunity of bettering his condition. He would first be
kept in separate confinement for twelve months ; he
would then most likely be sent to Portland, and ho sub-
ject to very severe and hard labour at the breakwater;
and after heing there for a long time, he would be sent
out of the country. The sentence was that he should be
transported for ten years.
Robert Hood, aged 62, was convicted of a rape upon a
girl, and was sentnced to 20 years' transportation.
Thomas Balzer, jun., was indicted f',,r striking and
besting Coles about the head, from which
beating and striking he died.
Mr. H. T. Cole prosecuted, and Mr. Collier defended
the prisoner.

It appcared that the decersed was a farmer. On the
27th of May he was at a public-house called the New
Inn, at Week St. Mary. The prisoner came into the
room in a most excited state, being intoxicated, and
off,:red to fight any one there. At length he addressed
the deceased, and endeavoured in every way to induce.
him to fight. He provoked him very much, but the de-
ceased said he would not tight, although he was not
afraid. The prisoner then struck him two blows, one
over the eye, and the other under the ear. After the
last blow the deceased fell from his seat, and in a few
minutes died.

The surgeon said, he considered the deceased died
from apoplexy, which might have been occasioned by the
blow. He did not make a post mortem examination, be-
cause the coroner's jury did not wish it.
The witness, upon being pressed in cross••examina-
tion, went into all kinds of possibilities. The deceased
might have been attacked with apoplexy even without
a blow. Ile was a stoat subject, and tberefore liable to
apoplexy; and from the surgeon's evidence it would
seem that, not having had a post mortem examination,
he could not tell much about it, and he could not
say anything, in fact, that was of any value upon
the subject.

The -jury found the prisioner Guilty of a common
assault; and he was sentenced, after a severe admoni-
tion from the judge, to three months' imprisonment.
The assizes for Cornwall commenced on Friday at
twelve o'clock, end ended on Saturday at two o'clock.
During our remembrance the judges have been com-
pelled to sit early and late for a week to get through the
business. Certainly the promotion of Mr. Cockburn and
the illness of Sergeant Kinglake, who was compelled on
that account to leave DJrchester, and has not been able
to come here, may have had something to do with the
small quantity of business, for these gentlemen having
been retained, the attorneys were placed in an unex-
pected position. It is expected that Mr. Slade will be
made a Queen's Counsel before the conclusion of the
circuit. Parties feel heavily the loss they have sus-
tained in the promotion of the S:Aicitor-General.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES EY A LADY'S MAID, and
CHARGE AGAINST TWO POLICEMEN.—Mary Ann Raw-
lings (who has lived as a lady's-maid in several families
of distinction), John Martin, 36 B: and Charles Murray,
171 B, who had been remanded—the female prisoner
charged with stealing two gold watches, a valuable
brooch, a silver teapot, and other property, from General
Sir Colin Halkett, Governor of Chelsea Hospital, and
the two latter with having feloniously received the
brooch, were brought up for final examination.
'!'here were other charges against the female prisoner,
and a second against Martin.
Sir Colin and Lady Halkett, Sir Fortunatus and
Lady Dwarris, and other persons of condition interested
in the proceedings, were accommodated with seats on the
bench.

A gentleman from the office of Mr. Humphreys, soli-
citor, attended on behalf of the male prisoners.
The voluminous evidence, which has been already de-
tailed, having been read over,
Lucy Barter), laundreis' 23, William-street, Portland-
town, produced some lace habit-shirts and a pair of cuffs,
which had been brought to her by the female prisoner on
the 11th inst. to wash.

Larly Leitia Ha'keit proved that the female prisoner
had he-m in her service as lady's maid, three weeks up to
the let instant, and identified the several articles pro-
duced upon this and the formeroceasion.
In reply to a question from the male prisoner's advo-
cate, her Ladyship could not state the exact value of the
brooch, which had been presented to her some years ago
by the General. It might ho valued about 61. It be-
longed to a set, other portions of which she produced.
Sir Colin Halkett was called to negative a statement
made by the female prisoner. In reply to the inquiry
from Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk, whether he bad ever
given her the brooch, he replied that he had not. lie
could not tell the value of the brooch.
As this concluded the case against the accused, they
were severally addressed in the words of the statute by
Mr. BRODERIP, who inquired whether they wished to
say anything?
The female replied in the negative, and the male
prisoners' legal adviser reiterated the arguments used
by Murray on his previous examination, and solicited his
discharge at once. _ _

Mr. BRODERIP refused to accede to this request
which was strongly pressed by the advocate, until he
had heard the other cases which were to be brought
forward.

The next case was then proceeded with.
Sarah Smith, female searcher at the Pimlico station,
proved finding a stocking marked " Rosa Platt" on the
female person, and another similarly marked
and apparently
prisoner'spparentl
yits fellow in her box.
Mr. Samuel Platt, magistrate for the county of Mid-
dlesex, residing at 10, Hyde Park. gardens, stated that
the prisoner entered his service as one of the lady's-
maids, on the 23d of April, and remained a fortnight.
After identifying the handwriting upon the stockings as
Mrs. Platt's, Mr. Platt stated that ho had discharged
the prisoner on suspicion of robbing the kitchen-maid of
half a sovereign. H o then went through a long list of
articles, including silk stockings, &c., which had been
missed from his house immediately after the prisoner's
departure.
Mr. BItoDERIP inquired whether he had received a
character with the prisoner? Mr. Platt replied that be
had received a good character with the prisoner from
Lady Manners.
The female prisoner, in reply to this charge,
said that
Miss Rosa Platt threwthe stockings out of her drawer.
Accused knew nothing about the half-sovereign.
In the next case the prisoner Martin was included in
the charge, again placed in the dock by the side of
the female prisoner.

h ll9 B, raid that between
produced two cambric hand-
i-ce Eliza Lane,
reh icf.
i whichae, a
hadlaundress,hee a
efcwith
her by the prisoner
ni
rtr.eoha Rawlingsnnd t
Davy,etonma psiohnl itches ago constable, -
he the duplicate ticket
of a watch and gold pin, in pawn
York-street, Westminster, of thepawn at Mr. Roberta's,
prisoner Martin. He
redeemed the articles, which
I'
the 6th of July. no now d were pledged for 175., on
been in his possession ever spin")ee uced the pin, which had
Mr. Roberts proved that .
the watch and pin were
pledged at his house on
the 7th July, 1849, and re-
deemed as described by two policemen. They were
pledged by a person who
Queen-stre IT
et.
--0 could gave the name John Martin, 5,
not identify the accused (Mar-
tin) as the person pledging. The length of time that had
elapsed prevented his being able to remember the fea-
tures of the person.
Miss Ann Brereton stated that the prisoner
i .Rawl ngs
Lady
was in the service of her sister, D James-
street, Buckingham-;ate, for a short time, about June
last,
during which witness was upon a visit there. Miss
Brereton identified the two pocket-handkerchiefs which
had
belonged to her mother, and the gold pin, '
as her
property.
In her cross-examination by the male prisoner's ad-
vocate, the lady repeated that she identified the pin by
some peculiar marks about it, although she could not
exactly describe them, and pointed out the marks to
which she alluded. She could not exactly tell the period
at which she lost the things produced.
In her re-examination by Mr. I3RODERIP, Miss Bre-
reton said she had the things at the time she went to
pay the visit at her sister's.
The female prisoner, in reply to this charge, said
she knew nothing about either the pin or the watch, and
never gave them to Martin.
Mr. Roberts was recalled to ascertain whether he could
identify the female prisoner upon another charge with
reference to some valuable table-linen, without which
identification the case could not be supported. Mr. Ro-
berts said he should be most happy to assist the ends of
justice, but he could not identify the person who had
pawned tbo property, an interval of 13 months having
since elapsed.
Mr. Bnopeere said he should commit the prisoner
Rawlings upon the several charges brought against her.
Ho expressed his opinion that be did not think the male
prisoners had any reason to feel surprised at the situa-
tion in which they were placed; but the question was not
whether they had acted prudently or properly, consider-
ing their position, but whether there was sufficient evi-
dence to warrant a committal. He thought that there
was, but it was so fix from conclusive that he would ac-
cept two sureties in 30/. each for their appearance at the
sessions.

---BOTANIC WATER
[ADVERTISEMENT.] AND
BEAKS' GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and fall-
ing•off, the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the head,
is the use of the two above-named articles, applied alter-
nate!y, the botanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf, and
as a stimulant, and the bears' grease as a nourisher.
If any,
further evidence was required of the virtues of bears' grease
for renovating and preserving the hair, Mr. Catlin's account
of the quantity used, and the length of hair obtained by
the
end use 1200 f,
bßeiatPsgate-street,
grease in this
some of the North American Indians, would be a sufficient
Londonanswer.
,- -wRh oos s
first&
introduced S' o Is.
country, and who fat and kill the animals, recommend the
public to purchase none other but with their names and
119
address punted on the pot, or the chances are their obtain-
ing a spurious article.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
GOODWOOD RACES.
CMCITESTER, Mot DAY NIGHT.—The entries tur the
plates, aees, closed this evening ut Goodwood, and if one
or two did not come up to the mark—the Craven Stakes
and Cowdray Stakes, the Stewards' Cup, Inkeepers',
Angleuey, and Queen's Plates, filled better than usual,
proving that there were plenty of horses in the neigh-
bourhood, and that the. daily average of racing is likely
to came up to the amount we mentioned last week.' The
pen was drawn through a considerable number of two and
three years old, and several engagements were thus re-
duced within narrow dimensions. For the Ham and
Goodwood Stakes, the Nursery Plate, and the Cups, the
fields will be larger than appear to have been generally
anticipated.
The two and five o'clock trains this afternoon left
London-bridge station with immense freights, but num-
bers having stoppsd at Brighton, Worthing, or Bognor,
with the intention of abiding there during the races, the
proportion which reached Chichester was confined almost
exclusively to the sporting classes, for whose accomode-
tion the Subscription Betting,-room Was opened as usual;
not a bet, however, was laid.
A large and distinguished party is assembled at Good-
wood, where open house will be kept to the close of the
week. A good deal of rain fell this evening, about seven
o'clock, and the prospects of the meeting in respect of
weather are dubious.
TUESDAY.—The weather this morning, contrary to
expectation, turned out fine, and having continued so
throughout the day, we are enabled so tar to record a
favourable commencement of the meeting. The sport,
too, was ample and interesting, but the attendance did
not, either in number or rank, come up to the standard.
The list of the fashionables, and of the Goodwood and
Molecomb parties, we must defer until to-morrow.
The following return will show that four great " cer-
t uinties" did not come off, and that the " fielders" found
some consolation for a long run of ill luck.
The Craven Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya. each, with 50
added. Craven Course, (9 Subs.)
Mr. Walter's Maid of Team Valley, 7st 81b ...(Lye) 1
Mr. Greville's Cariboo, 3 yrs, 7et llb (E. Sharp) 2
Duke of Richmond's Quiver, 7st 31b (Kitchener) 3
Duke of Richmond's Vampyre, Bst 101b...(Flatman) 0
Lord Clifden's Loadstone, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (Sly) 0
Major Martyn's The Moor, 5 yrs, Bst 21b...(Abdale) 0
Lord H. Lennox's Woodlark, 4 yrs, 7st Blb (Esling) 0
Mr. Chatfield's ids to First Chance, 6st 111b(Barker) 0
The Duke of Richmond declared to win with Quiver.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Cariboo, 3 to 1 agst Maid of
Team Valley, and 4to 1 agst Quiver. Woodlark took
a lead of a couple of lengths immediately after leaving
the post, and with Maid of Team Valley and Cariboo
in her wake, cut out the work until half-way between
the commencement of the rails and the distance, where
she retired beaten. The Maid of Team Valley went on
wisp the running and won cleverly by half a length,
Cariboo beating Quiver by the same; nothing was near
these three. Run in 2 min. 20 sec.
Sweepstakes of 300 soya. each, h ft, for three yrs old
colts, Bst 71b each. Craven Course.
Lord 11. Lennox'a Bee Hunter, Bst 71b ...(Flatman) 1
Lord Exeter's Nutshell, Bst 71b
Betting-2 to lon Bee Hunter, who made all the run-
ning and won in a canter by fifteen lengths. Run in 2
min. 50 see.
The Innkeepers' Plate of 50;sevs., added to a Sweepstake
of 5 soya. each. Two yrs old, sst 71b; three, 7st 91b;
four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 11lb; six and aged, 9st. The
winner to be sold for 100 soya. if demanded, &c. T.Y.C.
(8 Subs.)
Count Hahn's Meridian, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (Whitehouse) 1
Mr. Well's Vigilant, 2 yrs, sst 71b (Kendall) 2
Mr. Hughes's fby Cowl, 2 yrs, sst 71b (Cowley) 3
Mr. Delme's Ranger, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Flatman) 0
Mr. Osbaldeston's fby Pantaloon, Sat 71b (Barker) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Slang, 3 yrs, 7st 91b ...(Witherton) 0
Captain Hervey'a fby Envoy, 2 yrs, sst 71b(G.Mann) 0
Major Martyn's Fernando, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (W. Abdale) 0
Betting—Even on Cowl filly, 4 to 1 agst Vigilant, and
5 to 1 agst any other; the winner not mentioned.
Meridian took the lead at starting, was never ap-
proached, and won in a canter by four lengths. Run in
1 min. 20 cec:.
The Lavant Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 30 ft, for two yrs
old. Colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 31b, winners extra; the
second to save his stake. Half a mile. (16 Subs.)
Lord H. Lennox's Turtle, Bst 31b (Kitchener) 1
Sir J. Hawley's f by Bay Middleton out of Venus
Bst 611), including 31b extra (Templeman) 2
Duke of Richmond's Buckhound, Bst 71b (Fletsuan) 3
Mr. Henry's Julia, Bit 31b (A. Day) 4
Betting-5 to 2on Venus filly, 4to 1 agst Buckhound,
and sto 1 agst Julia. Buckhound went off with the
lead, which, with Turtle and the favourite laid up, he re-
tained to the Stand; the runniug was there taken up by
Turtle, who delighted the fielders by winning, not easily,
by half a length, the Venus filly beating Buckhound by
the same. Run in 52 secs.
The Gratwicke Stakes of 100 sovs. each, la ft; for three
yrs old, colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 51b; 31b and 61b
allowed, &c.; the second to receive 200 soya, and the
third horse to save his stake. One mile and a half.
Mc. Foster's Musician, Bst 71b . ..... .....(J. Mallon) 1
Colonel Peel's Herdinge, Bst 101 b.. (Flatman) 2
Mr. Bowes's Mickleton, Bst 101 b (Li'. Butler) 3
Lord Exeter's Cora, 7st 131 h (Norman) 4
Sir J. Elawley's Hippie, Bst 51b ........(Templeman) 5
Mr. Gannon's Dei..:oon, Bst 101 b (S. Rogers) 6
Betting-5 to 4 agst Hardiuge, 3to 1 asst Deicoon,
and 7to 1 agst Musician. The race, like the two which
preceded it, came off in favour of the fielders, and is easy
of description—Musician taking the lead, keeping it to
the end, and winning cleverly by a length; a head be-
tween second sad' third, and the same between third and
fourth. Run in 2 min. 51 sec.
The Ham Stakes of 100 aovs. each, h ft; two yrs old,
colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, alt 71b; 31b and 61b allowed,
eee.; the second to receive 200 soya. out of the stake.
T.Y.C. (38 Suns.)
Lord Exeter's Phlegm, Bst llb . (Norman) 1
Lord H. Lennox's Hernandez, Bst 71b ...(F. Butler) 2
Lord Eglinton's Bonnie Dundee, Bat 71b (Marlow) 3
Mr. Howard's Christina, Bst 41b (A. Day) 0
Mr. Gratwicke's Anspacb,,ast 41b (S. Mann) 0
Mr. Greville's Genevra, Bst llb (Flatman) 0
Sir J. Hawley's The Ban, Bst 101 b (Templeman) 0
Lord Clifden's Coticula, Bst 71b (J. Marson) 0
Colonel Peel's The Black Sea, Bst 101 b ...(S. Rogers) 0
Mr. Stehbing's Knook Knoll, Bst 121b(Bartholomew) 0
Betting-7 to 4 agst Hernandez, sto 1 agst Bonnie
Dundee, 6 to 1 each agst Black Sea and The Ban, 7 to 1
agst Coticuls, and 8 to 1 agst any other.
Phlegra took the lead at starting, closely attended by
Hernandez, Anspach, and Knook Knoll, the others lying
well up. They ran in this order to the distance, where
Bonnie Dundee and Knook Knoll beaded Anspacb, and
immediately after challenged Lord Exeter's mare. An
extraordinary close race ensued, Phlegra winning by a
he ad, and Hernandez beating Bonnie Dundee by the
same, Knook Knoll a good fourth, Anspach fifth. Run
in 1 min. 18 sec.
Sweepstakes of 300 sm. each, h ft, for four yrs old;
colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b; the second to save his
stake. Queen's 'Plate Course. (12 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's The Flying Dutchman ...(Marlow) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Vatican (Templeman) 2
Betting-10 to 1 on The Flying Dutchman, who fol-
lowed the non-favourite for about two miles and a half,
and had all the rest to himself, winning by ten lengths.
Run in 7 min. 23 sec.
Match, 1001., h ft. T.Y.C.
Mr. Gratwicke's Henrietta, 2 yrs, Bst 41b (Flatman) 1
Mr. Dorrien's Chaplet, 2 yrs, Bat 71b.. ...... (Ducker) 2
Betting-2 to lon Henrietta, who won in a canter by
four lengths.

LATEST BETTING.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
sto 4 agst Windischgratz 7to 1 agst Snowstorm (t)
7 to 1 agst Won't-you- 12 to 1 agst Clothworker
come-out-to-night 25 to 1 agst Cayenne
GOODWOOD CUP.
2 to 1 agst Canrzou I sto 2 agst Windischgratz

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, TUESDAY.

The Queen and Prince, accompanied by their
illustrious visitors, walked early this morning in Os-
borne Park and grounds.
The Prince of Wales, and younger branches of the
Royal Family, took their accustomed walks and rides.
His Imperial Highness the Prince Peter of Olden-
burgh arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, on a
♦isit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness, and re-
turned to London this forenoon. _

There was no other addition to the Royal dinner
party yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Princess Mary, the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, with the
infant Prince of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, left Cam-
bridge House at nine o'clock yesterday morning, for
the Euston-square terminus, and left town by the
London and North-Western Railway, far Plasne-
wydd, Anglesey, the seat of the Marquis of Anglesey.
The Rev. Mr. Hutchinson was in attendance on the
Duchess of Cambridge. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester visited and took leave of the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz on Monday even-
ing, at Cambridge House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
left Gloucester House yesterday for Richmond Park.
The Rev. Dr. Murray, Chaplain Convict Service,
Bermuda, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday
at the Colonial•office.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board
of Inland Revenue, had also an interview with the
Right Hon. Baronet yesterday, at his official resi-
dence, in Downing-street.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK. - Yesterd!Ly the
fourteenth general annual meeting of the shareholders in this
bank was held in Liverpool; Mr. William llathbone in the
chair. Mr. Cross, the manager, read the report, which stated
the profits of the past year, after payment of all expens s of
management, and after allowance being made for all had and
doubtful debli during that time, amount to 51,263/. 17s. 4d.
The directors have found it necessary to make a further re-
duction in the valuation of the doubtful debt account of
3,339/. 15s. 2d. The directors were of opinion that the basis
of the bank works should be enlarged, and they have ac-
cordingly prepared a plan for increasing the capital of the
Walt. The reserved fund at present is 25,747/. 17s. 7d. The
report having been adopted, the meeting was made special,
to consider the resolutions of the directors relative to the ex-
tension of capital. Mr. Cross read the resolutions, which
were to the effect that, in consequence of the gradual in-
, crease of the business of the bank, a corresponding increase
'of capital was desirable and expedient. That the capital of
the company be increased by the issue of 50.000 new shares
of 101. each, to be paid in calls of 1/. per share, at intervals
of six months, &c. The Chairman moved the adoption of
the resolutions; Which-were carried.

31,

1850.

LITERATURE.

ALETHEIA, AND OTHER POEMS. By
William Charles Kent. Messrs. Longman and Co.
The minor pieces contained in this volume, of
whose principal poem we had occasion some time
back to speak in terms of high and richly-merited
eulogium, fully sustain lir. Kent's high character as
an accomplished writer, and an intuitive and ideal
artist, possessing very considerable powers of fancy
and of pathos, together with a felicity of expression
which no more cultivation can ever give—the genuine
and unforced fruit of an originally poetic tempera-
ment. There is the same apparently careless beefily
of la,ngutge, the same happy choice of imagery, the
some tenderness, and the same truth in these shorter
poems as in his longer and more sustained effort.'
The following sonnet on poor Keats seems pregnant
with the peculiar graces of Mr. Kent's style :
" Another sadness round Apollo's fane;
A cypress wreath hunt on his golden lyre;
A gleam of beluty born but to expire;
Another C'nattcrton in heart and brain—
Tito doom of genius fell on earth again,
And, liko a thunderbolt of Sapphic fire,
Blas!ol the rapture c.,f thy young desire!
Again from out thy lips the deathful strain
Pour'd like the murmur of undying love.
Again the glory, and again the woo
Of bardic joy fell on thee here below,
Fell but to lift thy fame to realms above.
A life bad perfected t. y form, but now
A torso of eternal grace art thou !"
The concluding line, concentrating as it does in its
most quintessential form the whole truth about Keats'
genius, is singularly felicitous ; the sonnet itself
realises the ideal formed by Keats himself of this class
of composition,

-- "swelling loudly
Up to its climax, and then dying proudly."

In the verses which immediately succeed, upon
" Amelia ; a Beloved Memory," there is a deep and
genuine pathos, which passes fresh from the soul of
the poet into the soul of the reader : " beautiful ex-
ceedingly" is this recollection of •
" The smile of innocence and joy,
The smile of bright, seraphic rest,
Which hallow'd, like a saint, the form
That died upon my breast.

It, gleams upon my mem'ry still,
It wafts me back to years of old,
It glimmers on the darken'd Past

Like moonbeams on the wold."
Very beautiful, too, is this pure and delicate tracery
of a virtuous and gentle character :
"Thy sorrow for fictitious woe,
Thy sympathy for true distress,
Thy tears of charity divine—
The tears that God will bless—
Thy noble and unselfish mind,
Thy spotless and celestial youth,
Resembling in angelic dreams
The radiant grace of Ruth.
Such recollections stream along
The channels worn by floods of grief
And, oh! they pour upon my soul
A sad and lorn relief.

They bring me back to peaceful scenes,
To scenes and things to you so dear,
And, at the potent touch of truth,
What buried thoughts appear!
Thoughts of thy bright, poetic taste,
Thy seer-like, child-like love of books—
A love that shone within thine eyes,
And liv'd within thy looks."
Unless we are mistaken, in allowing ourselves to be
influenced by a very natural and indeed almost un-
avoidable feeling, there must be great depth, delicacy,
and purity in the character of a writer who can so
admirably appreciate Lied pourtray these qualities in
another. Ttie following passages from a poem called
"A❑ Elegy on the Old Year" are tinged with the
same tender melancholy, and are steeped besides in
that idyllic richness of expression which we have
already noted as an attribute of Mr. Kent's style :
" Weeds grow where I look'd for roses—weeds, weeds!
And the grave•mounds of the dead up-ripple the smooth

meads;

Where rich grapes were lately peeping,
Knots of ivy boughs are creeping:
Thus with me, alas! Old Year, thy dqeds
Smiles have chang'd to weeping.
Fair she was with youth and beauty—fair, fair!
Lip of vermeil, deep as sunset, molten gold her hair;
One she stood amidst a crowd,
She—withal so nobly brow'd,
So pure, so mild—Old Year, thou hadst no love nor care,
For she is in her shroud." •
The lines printed in italics need no comment to re-
commend them to the lovers of rich and picturesque
imagery. As a specimen of our author's style,
we extract the whole of the graceful little poem called

FEEINE IN THE CORN FIELD.
" Feline dearly loves her lover,
Loves him :IR the lark the morn;
Yet her love she'll ne'er discover;---
Reaping down the ripened corn.
He is timid of her beauty,
Timid as the fawn of eves,
And his passion screens with duty;—
Swathing round the rustled sheaves.
She allows her thoughts to slumber
As at midnight sleep tho flocks,
While his sighs her sighs outnumber;—
Preppirg up the yellow shocks.
What though he beside her tremble,
(Sunbeams weave a checquered shade!)
She will yet h3r love dissemble;—
Gleaning each forgotten blade.
For he has not told the glory
Of his loving hopes and fears;
And she hides her heart's fond story;—
Toying with the wheaten ears.
'Heath his gaze her pale cheek flushes,
Yet her love is still conceal'd,
While the last autumnal thrushes
Warble near the stubble field.

Fefine :peaks not, yet her glances
Toll of love in every look,
And while boldly he advances
Downward drops his reaping hook.
Lo! his pent emotion gushes
Blindly firth in burning words;
While in answer she but blushes—
'Round them softly chaunt the birds.
Palm to palm their fingers mingle—
He so fervid, she so chaste;
Thro' his arm warm pulses tingle
Circling 'round her supple waist.
All her grace of art he copies,
Bending o'er her form so'fair,
Twining scarlet leaves of poppies
In her auburn gloom of hair.
Fefine dearly loves her lover,
Loves him as the lark the morn,
Now that both their love discover—

Breathing 'mid the golden corn."
The exquisitely tender lines on a " Mother's Love"
contain passages of a very high order of beauty ; our
citations must be limited to the following stanzas on
a topic abundantly familiar, but which has very rarely
been more gracefully handled :
"Days of my boyhood! wherefore did ye seem
So glad, and bright, and glorious, and fair;
Why did ye flit in such a joyous dream,
Giving a bluer beauty to the air.:
Did the green river sparkle clearer then,
Were the rimm'd daisies whiter in those hours;
Came there a blither whistle from the wren,
Or sweeter perfume from the meadow flowers?
I know not; but more softly atirr'd the leaves,
The cowslips bloom'd more golden in the grass,
Poppies look'd deeper scarlet in the sheaves,
And thyme smelt sweeter in its russet mass;
A richer ripeness gloom'd upon the fruit,
A pearlier dew hung glimmering on the sprays;
A darker purple deck'd each violet's shoot,
And fraught with charms appear'd those mystic days.,
Of all the minor pieces, however, in•this volume, the
most remarkable is " Phillippo, the Dream--haunted,"
a poem founded on " an old legend of a young man in
Languedoc, who, seeing an unknown lady in a dream,
pined away and died for the love of her, despairing."
In this Idyll (for such in truth it is) the shadowy
's
tenderness, the vague longing, the chill disenchant-
ment of a poet love-dream are given with high
artistic power; it seems as though the teller of the
tale had drawn his inspiration from the waters of
Lethe, and, in the language of Keats " made his
rosary of yew berries," and " suffered his pale fore-
head to be kissed by nightshade, ruby grape of Pro-
serpine." The reader finds himself in a climate
of mild and monotonous langour ; a visionary haze
wraps all objects in the hues of the unreal; only at
intervals the leaden air is streaked with some fever
flashes of a passion whose anguish soon merges
into despondency. How Phillippo, in the words of
hi 3 poet, *lies for the death of his delicious dream
and melts into oblivion" can only be learnt aright
from the poem itself. The following extract will give
some notion of the voluptuous richness of the
imagery which adorns it
" Then from night's solace I arose, and drain'd
The healthful coolness nature breathes at morn,
While my light step along th' elastic sod
Mov'd with elated pressure; when the dew
In splrkles glitter'd on the spider's web,
The fairy cordage of its network strung
From thorn to bramble, like most' delicats lace

Powdered with diamonds; when the skyward lark
thro' the vapours faint and fainter, till
Its canticles of love were heard alone
By the Invi,ibk; while tears of dawn
Hung pendant on the pendant cherries, each
A ruby with a twinkling crystal drop !"
From the " Burial of the Archbishop," a sombre and
solemn dirge, rich with the gleam of censers, and
remnant with funeral music, we take the following
passage of imitative melody :
" Echo all the crypts around,
Even every crevice dim,
With a sweet, but awful sound—
Sorrow's ogonizin 127 ma.

Tuba mirum spargens sonum—
'Round the vaulted chambers ring,
Per seputchra regionum—
Where the silent dead we bring,
Coget omnes ante thronum,—
Sorrowfully murmuring."
Space fails us for ftirther extract, and we must con-
tent ourselves, therefore, with merely pointing out to
the reader's notice the two spirited and Tyrtsean
ballads "The Hungarian Patriot," and "Lamartine
in February," the politics of which alone would com-
mend them to all readers of this journal, even if their
poetry were less meritorious than in fact it is. Here
then we take a reluctant leave of Mr. Kent, in the
full confidence that we shall encounter him once
again in that region of high art where he has already
achieved so much and given promise of so much
more. The rich redundancy of his manner requires
occasionally a wise repression ; maturer taste will no
doubt increase the correctness and concentration. of his
language; while it is certainly to be hoped that his next
subject will be of more general interest and of more
manageable proportions than .the "Doom of illy tho-
, logy." These, however, are all errors of judgment,
for which time and experience supply the remedy.
On the other hand, he possesses, in enviable though
imperfectly developed vigour, some of the finest and
rarest attributes of the poetic nature—wealth of words,
grace of fancy, strength and variety of inventiveness.
In these and their careful cultivation reside his future
celebrity. He cannot, we think, fail, if ho be not
wanting to himself. The sterile correctness which
commences its career without fault is certain to con-
clude it without glory. Its highest praise is a kind
of blameless impotence. The exuberant life and
vigorous manhood of Mr. Kent have undoubtedly led
him into some few faults of excess—excess of orna-
ment, excess of epithet, occasional excess of thought;
but what Dryden says of the desire of glory may
truly be affirmed of the occasional outbreak of a rich
and generous nature, it is " a godlike sin" and worth
a whole boarding-school of the tamer virtues. With
such opinions of the position already won by Mr.
Kent, and with such hopes for his future achievement,
we heartily commend his book to our readers, and
himself to " those fresh fields and pastures new"
which few indeed of his cotemporaries are better fitted
to traverse with honour.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,-02 Monday the 29th, the Member returned for
London was called to the table, and asked by the
Speaker, why he demanded to be sworn on the Old
Testament; to which he replied, that it was because that
was the form of swearing that he declared to be most
binding on his conscience. On which he was directed
to withdraw.

Much skirmishing then ensued upon a motion, that the
Member be asked what Oath he claims to take, whether the
Roman Catholic or the Protestant Oath. On which nobody
succeeded in making plain, or even in asking, whether
the question meant, which of the two Oaths he pre-
ferred to take in substance but after his own form, which
was on the Old Testament,—or which of them he preferred
to take in the form in which ho would take nothing. If
it was the last, the House was desired to put itself into
the position of the Frenchman, who asked his chickens
which of two sauces they preferred being eaten with.
And on the cock's saying they did not want to be eaten
at all, the Frenchman cried " Question, question." If
it was the other, then it was apprehended the enemy
was ready with the assertion, that the Roman Catholic
Oath was rigidly and carefully limited to Roman Ca-
tholics. All of which probably operated in preventing
the point being pushed to an explanation.
This motion being withdrawn, motion was made that
the Member should be asked by the Speaker whether
he was willing to be sworn to the Oaths required of a
Member by Act of Parliament before he takes his seat.
Which being a manifest attempt to obtain an answer in
an adverse form, was opposed and negatived by 118
to 104.

Motion was then made that the House refuses to alter
the firm of taking the Oaths. To which Amendment was
moved, that the Clerk be directed to swear the Member
for London on the Old Testament. And atter an ad-
journment to five P.M. the original motion was negatived
without a division, and the Amendment carried by 113
to 59; the motive for allowing the original motion to be
thus disposed of, being apparently the conviction that
the Reco'utiolis promised by the, Government would do
the busin-ss best.

On Tuesday shortly after twelve at noon, the Member
for London was again called to the table, and the Oaths
of Allegiance and Supremacy administered to him on the
Old Testament, the Member, at the instant of kissing the
book, putting on his hat, which may be apprehended to
bo a trace of the Oriental feeling, by which an individual
who should uncover his head in presence of his superior,
would be thought guilty of as great a solecism as one of
our ancestors who should have exposed his shaven poll
by taking off his peruke in like circumstances.
The third Oath, that of Abjuration, proceeded in the
same manner till the Clerk came to the words " on the
true faith of a Christian," when the Member said " I
omit those words, as not being binding on my con-
science," and immediately putting on his hat, said " So
help me God," and kissed the book. Upon which he
was directed by the Speaker to withdraw, a considerable
number of the Members present crying out " No, no,"
and " Sit down."
In the debate which ensued, the Member for Oxford
" tJwn" made one of the most luminous and able plead-
ings produced before any judges. The Attorney-General
followed, and assigned his reasons for the unhappy opi-
nion put forward by the mouth of the Prime Minister on
the previous day, declaring his inability to agree with
the sufficiency of the Oath. Conscience is a❑ intract-
able thing; but what conscience enforced the expression
of this opinioa before the case was heard? It is plain
that the Government not only discharged their con-
science, but fired it off considerably too soon for a con-
scientious hearing of the question.
As bystanders are proverbially said sometimes to see
more than those who play the game, the observation may
bo hezarded by one in that position, that it might have
been an improvement if on the Clerk's uttering " on the
true faith of a Christian," the Member had said dis-
tinctly " on the true faith of a believer in the Old Tes-
tament," and then finished his oath. This would have
added weight to the strong point of the defence, which
was that the words were part of the form
and not of the substance. It was stated
in conversation, that it would not do to alter
the words of the Oath. But a substitution of this kind
is a smaller alteration of the words of the Oath than leav-
ing them out altogether. Besides which, it strengthens
the claim for their being among the inufatis mutandis. .
It further seemed to be an oversight in a leading ad-
vocate to volunteer the admission that his client " refused
the words of the Oath." It might be for an
adversary to urge, that he virtually refused. But
the concession should not have been made, and
having been made should be recalled. The fact
is that the Member did not refuse. He stated that he
omitted them as irrelevant. And the way to recover the
lost ground, would be that be should be brought up again,
and en coming to the words, should substitute "on the
true faith of a believer in the Old Testament." This
mild re •open the argument, that he has a right to change
t`,e form; which is exactly what the plea that "he has
refuted," is intended to preclude.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, July 31, 1850.

FALL OF A MILL AT STOCKPORT.

DREADFUL LOBS OF LIFE.

Yesterday afternoon, between one and two o'clock, a
very serious and alarming accident occurred at a mill
bzlonging to Mr. Cephas Howard, and rented by Mr.
Joseph Heywood as a doubling mill, while the hands
were at dinner. One of the ma►n supports of the build-
ing gave way, and a great portion of it fell, burying 15
or 20 of the hands vvno real lined inside. Five people
were conveyed to the infirmary, of whom one has died,
and others are expected not to live. At present, none of
those who were completely buried have been recovered,
so that the names are not accurately known ; but we
understand that, in addition to a number of girls who
were dining at the mill, there were some machinists
and workmen who were employed there temporarily.
It is a fine large fireproof mill, four storeys high; and it
will have to be almost entirely rebuilt. A great portion
of the machinery was all new, and has been entirely
destroyed.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. - CHESTER, SATURDAY.--
About a quarter before twelve o'clock last night the exten-
sive steam saw-mills belongiq. to Messrs. Dickin and Beards-
worth, situate near the Shrewsbury and Chester Canal offices,
at the Canal-wharf, in this city, were discovered to be on
fire. About one o'clock the flames had attained their greatest
height: the roof fell in with a terrific crash, and the fiery
elements illuminated the city and surrounding district. In
consequence of the wind blowing very strong at the time
from the north-west, the pieces of burning wood were carried
up in the air and fell on the houses of the residents in King-
street, Northgate-street, &c., to the great alarm of the inha-
bitants. There was a large quantity of timber in the yard
adjoining the mill, but this was fortunately preserved by the
rain falling heavily at the time, and the large quantity of
water thrown on it by the engines. In a very short time
atter the fire was discovered, the fire brigade, under the di-
rection of Mr. Hill, were on the spot. As they had abun-
dance of water close at hand from the canal, they completely
succeeded, in extinguishing the burning embers of the wood.
The fire broke out in the first story of the mill, but whether
it was the work of an incendiary or not we cannot at present
learn ; yet it appears somewhat strange, as there had been
no fire lighted on the premises from twelve o'clock yesterday.
The damage done is considerable, but the exact amount
cannot be ascertained at present. The premises and stock
are, it is sad, fully insured.

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