The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.).

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN DRURY-LANE.--ZDOn.
Donovan, the pugilist, charged with the atten3ptrd
murder of his -ifs., w.i.s 3,7,ain brought up. Thu pri-
soc.er was not plac,d in court, but in an adjoining room,
the only evidence being that of M. Woodi, the :coast
surgeon to King's College Hospital. That gene° nan
said that the unlurtunate woman was still in a very pre-
carious st3te.

The prisoner here asked if he could speak to his wife,
as he bad something very important to communicate
to her.

Mr. HALL said that he bad had already two opportu-
nities of so doing, and as be bad not done so he inut,t,
consequently, wait until hin committal.
Mr. HALL then remanded the prisoner fur another
week.

MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

SHOPLIFTING.—EIiza Connor, a well dressed woman,
was placed at the tsar heforo Mr. Bingham, charred
with tealinz 16 yards of silk, value 21. 125., the property
of Mr. William Shea, silk-mercer, No. 264, Regent
street.

The prosecutor stated that on Saturday afternoon the
prisoner came intobis shop and requested to see some
silks. A variety were placed before her, and after ex-
amining the lot, she declined to purchase on the ground
teat none would suit her. She then left the counter, and
on her aay to the door she purchased two reels of
cotton, for which she paid fourpence. She then
left the shop. Witness having observed semi -
thing in her manner which excited his suspicions.
followed her, and brought her back to the shop, and
taxed her with robbing him; whereupon she pulled
from her pocket the sixteen yards of silk produced,
which he identified as his property. Ho accordingly
sent for a constable and gave her in charge. Oo being
searched at the station other property, consisting of
pocket-handkerchiefs, gloves, and pieces of tape, which
st e, no doubt, had stolen from other shops, was found
upon her.
The prisoner, who did not attempt to deny the charge,
was committed for trial.

THE YORKSHIRE SOCIETY'S
SCHOOL.

The 39th anniversary dinner of this society was
held on Saturd.iy, at the London Tavern, Bishops.
gate-street. The Earl of Carlisle presided, and was
supported by upwards of 100 of the friends of the in-
stitution. The schools were established in 1812,
originally for the purpose of boarding, clothing, and
educating both boys and girls, being the children of
respectable Yorkshire parents who had been reduced
by misfortune, and who were resident within 10 miles
of the General Post•-office ; but it has recently been
determined that the benefits of the society shall hence-
forth be confined to boys only, one of whose parents
shall have been born in Yorkshire. The usual loyal
toasts having been drunk, the Noble Chairman pro-
posed, " Prosperity and Perpetuity to the Yorkshire
Society," and in doing so, expressed the great grati-
fication he had derived from:attending the examination
of the pupils. Their physical condition was mani-
fested by their ruddy hue and chubby appearance, and
their moral and intellectual training were equally
satisfactory. His Lordship did not, however, think
that the great county of York had fairly done what
she ought to have done in this matter. The very ex-
tent of that county no doubt operated against the
institution, for it was the besetting sin among all large
bodies of men for each person to indulge in the re-
flection that what he might leave undone somebody
else would do. But if every one argued in that way
nothing would be done at all. Little Westmoreland
had adopted a sounder logic, and had done more for
those whom she had sent forth than had that empire
af a county, York, achieved for those of her destitute
brethren whose lot it was to sojourn in this gigantic
city. He hoped the men of Yorkshire would no
longer suffer themselves to lie under this reproach;
and he exhorted the company present themselves not
to be fatigued in the work of well-doing.—(Cheers.)
In the course of the evening the Mayor of Bradford
expressed his conviction that means had not been
adopted to make the nature of the society sufficiently
well known to the people of Yorkshire ; otherwise
he was convinced that the committee would now he
able to support 100 boys instead of 35, which he un-
derstood was the actual number in the school. As a
Yorkshireman he felt perfectly ashamed at the small
number that were thus benefited by the institution.
The report stated that the committee had been obliged
to sell, during the last year, 4001. Three per Cent.
Stock, to make up the deficiencies in the funds for
the settlement of the preceding year's accounts; and
had found it necessary to decrease the number of
children in the school from about 50 to 40. Dr.
Saner, the treasurer, and the originator of the society,
stated that the contributions on this occasion amounted
to about 5001., but he entertained a very sanguine
expectation, after the observations of the Mayor of
Bradford, that by means of that gentleman's kind co-
operation with the committee the funds of the society
would be greatly and permanently augmented. The
dinner was served up by Mr. Bathe in his well-known
style of excellence, and the vocal arrangements were
very efficiently conducted by Mr. Bruton.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MAY 11.—We
have had a much better market to-day than we have had for
the last three or four weeks. Spinners, as might naturally
be expected, have been asking a further advance for their
yarns; a small advance it has certainly been, yet not one
that would remunerate spinners at the present prices of
cotton, but that advance cannot be obtained. In yarns a
greater amount of business has been done than has been
transacted for some weeks, but in goods the business done
has been very limited. Prices have experienced little
alteration for goods or yarns since Thursday. Mary of the
spinners are determined not to take the present prices for
yarns, but buyers appear to be quite as firm, and no advance
will be given. We have heard of bat few transactions in
which the rates of the spinners have been conceded.
SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF MENDICITY.—
The annual general meeting of the supporters of this in-
stitution vi as held ou Saturday, at the Society's office, 13,
Red Lion-square, the Marquis of Westminster in the chair.
The chairman,lin opening the proceedings, stated that during
the past year the money they had subscribed was more
effectually and directly than ever laid out upon those for
whom it had been intended. The number of cases relieved,
the activity of the police, and especially the diminution
of begging-letters, were all proofs of the utility of the
society, and a consequent source of satisfaction to its
friends. The secretary then read a report, which was
adopted, on the motion of Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., se-
conded by Mr. Slaney, M.P. It appeared from the report
t hat a system had been established by which the managers
have arranged with the proprietors of some public baths to
admit, on their order, persons sent from the society. Most
of the speakers expressed their cordial approbation of
this measure, as conducive to both the moral and physical
welfare of the objects of their charity. The begging-letter
cases referred to.t.`ie office were stated to have diminished
from 8,025 in the year 1847, to 5,747 in 1848, and to 4,525
in 1849, which was, no doubt, attributable to the publicity
given to the punishments inflicted; upon the writers. Of
905 vagrants committed, however, a large proportion had
been begging-letter impost° Ts, and the number of convictions
would have been greater but :or the reluctance of those im-
posed upon to come forward as witnesses. The penalty
awarded to those found guilty had been three months' im-
prisonment with hard labour. Other statistics were adduced
in proof of the value of the society's reports to the public;
and the statements of accounts showed for receipts, includ-
ing former balance, and other matters, 4,4431. 14s. Bd., with
a balance remaining over expenditure of 6621. 3s. 9d. There
were present the Right Hon. Lord Radstock, the Hon. E.
Phipps, Viscount Gage, Sir W. Sterling, Bart., Major Sothe-
by, and others. The usual complimentary votes terminated
the proceedings.
ELENHEIM PALACE.—It is currently rumoured that
this magnificent building will shortly be open to the public
a heretofore,,,, every day except Saturday and Sunday. This
concession on the part of the Dike of Marlborough will gra-
tify the public much. It is to be hoped that care will be
taken to appoint civil and intelligent men to show the house
and grounds, and that their charges will be moderate and
well defined, so as to leave no ground for complaints to the
numerous body who now seek recreation in summer ex-
cursions.

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW-TAX. —A letter was
read at the Marylebone vestry on Saturday from Lord Dun-
can, M.P., acknowledging a vote of thanks passed to his
Lordship by the vestry, for his exertions to repeal thegwindow
duty. His Lordship assured the vestry that if the people
were only true to themselves that obnoxious impost would
be abolished before the next budget appeared.
METROPOLITAN WATBR SUPPLY.—The Parlia-
mentary Committee have decided that the standing orders
ought not to be dispensed with in the case of this company
asking leave to deposit a petition for a Bill this session.
THE SUICIDE AT WANDSWORTII.-0a Saturday
evening Mr. W. Carter concluded an inquiry at the Spread
Eagle Hotel and Tavern, High-street, Wandsworth, relative
to the death of a gentleman at that time unknown, who
committed suicide there on 'Wednesday night. The name of
the deceased, it appeared, was William Baker, and he was a
native of Kit gston. He had been employed as storekeeper
at the Clarence Foundry in Liverpool; but, in consequence
of a dissolution of partnership in the concern, he had been
thrown out of employment, and, being of a desponding turn
of mind, it was conjectured that he had committed suicide
under the pressure of tear that he could not obtain another
engagement, The jury were unanimously of opinion that
deceased was of unsound mind when he committed the act,
and returned their verdict accordingly.
THE INFANT PRINCE.—We are informed that on
the baptism of the infant prince he will take the
Christian names of Arthur Patrick Albert. The first is
compliment to the Noble and Gallant Field-Marshal the
Duke of Wellington (as has been already announced) ; the
second in compliment to Ireland, and as commemorative of
her Majesty's visit to the " green isle ;" and the last after
his illustrious father, the Frince Consort.

ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC 110iPITAL.—Yesterday morn-
ing a sermon in aid of the funds of the above charity, was
preached at St. Germans Chapel Blackheath, by the Rev. J.
Wright, M.A., F.R. S., Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge.
During a very eloquent appeal, the Rev. Gentleman warmly
advocated the claims of the chaiity, which, in curing and re-
moving different deformities to, which the human frame is
subject, was daily conferring a most invaluable benefit upon
the community ; and needing, at; the charity did, the further
co-operation of the benevolent, an urgent appeal was made
upon their liberality and sympathy. At the conclusion of
Divine service a liberal and gr at Vying collection was made
at the doors of the chapel.

Sir G. and Lady Stanhope. entertained at dinner on
Saturday, at their house in Grosvenor-place, the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Lord and Lady Willoughby,
Count and Countess Wittgenstein, Count and Lady Cecil
De la Feld, Mr. and Lady Mg. Lindesav, Mr. and Mrs.
Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. LethbrAge, Sir L. Cockburn, and
Mr. Villiers.

ETON COLLEGE.—Mr. Cre asy, the eminent bar-
rister and professor of history Sc.) the London University,
himself an Etonian, and also of icing's College, Cambridge,
has just completed a work of great and general interest
entitled " Memoirs of Celebrate I _Etonians." No foundation
in the kingdom has produced a greater number of men dis••
tinguished in the highest depart ments of military and civil
life than this ancient, renowned,, and magnificent establish-
ment. Mr. Creasy's work will. include sketches of the
greater number of these " worth ie s." Thus this new work
will have an historical value and p ossess interest not merely
for all Etonians, but for the public, generally. Mr. Creasy's
book will be published on the day of the ensuing anniversary
dinner of the Etonians.
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TESTIMONIAL TO THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE,--•
The Society of Madras have presented the Marquis of
Tweeddale, Governor and Comma nder-in-Chief 1842-1848,
with a very superb silver candelabs urn, upwards of four feet
high, and of the value of 2,0001., not ,delled by Mr. A. Brown,
after a design of Mr. F. Grant, A .R.A., and under the in-
spection of Mr. Baily, R.A.., at the establishment of Messrs.
Hunt and Roskill, Bond-street. On the base of this very
elegant piece of plate is represented stag, boar, and wolf
hunting. A group surmounts the base, representing the
celebrated ancestor of the present Marquis, and. the story of
his resistance to the Danes. e group consists of the
figures of the elder Hay and his sons, who attack a Danish
horseman and defeat him. The figures are be autiful speci-
mens of the art of modelling statuettes. T. e‘yr are very
spirited and full of character. The minuter pc wtions of the
candelabrum are of elaborate workmanship, afte r the manner
of the times of Louis XIV. The work is one o f great merit
and of the highest rank of modern art. The inscription,
which is short, says the testimonial is presented as " a token
of respect and esteem for the public and privt tte worth of
George Bth Marquis of Tweeddale."
LADY ALICE PEEL'S SOIBXE DANSA. NTE.—On
Friday night the Lady Alice had a. "dunse" at the family
mansion in Park-place, St. James's. About 200 of the elite
of fashionable society went c,n the occasion. We 1 telieve the
reunion was given as an introduction to Miss Peel, who has
recently made her debut in the fashionable world.
NOTTINGHAM LACE AM) HOSIERY TRADE .—Nei-
tiler of these stable articles of commerce of this t, )wn and
neighbourhood present any more favourable app, larances
than that we have reported for the last few weeks. Each
trade, it is said, is retarded by the ungenial weather u 'e have
lately had. Yarn is still held at high rates, althouf ;h the
sales have considerably diminished.—Notting/nun Jon, nal.
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LITERA T (ME.
The E DINBURGII REVIEW. CLXXXIV.
A better number of the old blue-and-buff quarterly
has not for a considerable time appeared. More or
less, each of the contributions, upon the most various
subjects conceivable, has a superior excellence ; and
the tendency of each is of that elevating character
which is alone suitable to an age like the present, one
of contintril progres'iun and perpetual advaixement.
In testimony of this we should be tempted to enter

into an elaborate consideration of the opening paper '
dedicated to the delineation of our "National Ob-
servatories," but that the charm of the
theme, and its engrossing nature, if al-
lowed to master us at the outset of our
notice, would leave us but little space or opportunity
for reference to the other meritorious contributions.
Nevertheles., white refraining from a closer and more
detailed allusion to this masterly essay on a noble
branch of science, we must especially and earnestly
beseech in its favour that attention from the public to
which it is peculiarly entitled, revealing as it does in
such vivid and agreeable colours the economy of one
of our least noticed, but at the same time one of our
most important, institutions. We allude to
the observatory at Greenwich, a building
whose external peculiarities are we doubt not fa-
miliar to the mass of the holiday-makers of the metro-
polis, but the marvels of whose interior arrangements
are known but to a select few out of our vast and in-
telligent population. An hour's perusal of the article
here spoken of as standing at the head of the current
number of the Edinburgh will acquaint the reader,
and that too in a most delightful manner, with a mul-
titude of facts hitherto scattered through such ab-
struse works as those of the Russian Struve
and Captain William Henry Smyth, R.N., and
the Astronomical Lectures, or the Planetary,
Magnetical, or Meteorological Observations of the dis-
tinguished Astronomer Royal, George Biddell
Airy. Here recounted, in a most lucid and popular
form, these facts are grouped together in a way such
as must materially tend to facilitate their remem-
brance, while acquainting the uninitiated public with
the nature and use of that extraordinary apparatus
which is accumulated in the Greenwich Observatory.
Having completed the examination of the paper the
reader will feel as though he had personally traversed the
circle-room, the transit-room, the computing-room, the
chronometer-room, and the library ; and will have
become familiarised with the shape and meaning of
such scientific eccentricities as the time ball,
and the astronomical clocks, and the brazen
quadrant, and the altitude and azimuth in-
struments. Many passages connected with the pro-
gress of modern discovery demand quotation, but we
are compelled to pass on regretfully to the notice of
the subsequent contributions. A genial and
Smith's recently
enables the jpur
ni ct
ei odu s
Moral critic
m rohni l
sSo ipdhnyey,
re-
viewer to illustrate anew, by extracts from
lectures hitherto but little known, the subtle taste
and discriminating judgment of the celebrated wit
and ecclesiastic. All those who are interested (and
who is not ?) in the " Supply of Water to the Me-
tropolis," should not only read, but study, seriously
study, page by page, the paper contained in the Edin-
db an regh regard Review
is
nupond
to this i s
evil subject,sori
s seriously affecting the a paper in which
sanitary condition of the metropolis. Tracing the his-
tory cf what we must call, for want of a more
accurate word, the improvements in the supply of
water to London, the writer demonstrates most
forcibly the necessity for rapid and gigantic innova-
tions. Most agreeable to us, however, among all the
contributions to the great Liberal Quarterly is the
critical essay on " Landor's Poetry," in which the
must judicious and exquisitely balanced opinions are
pronounced upon
"That deep-mouth'd Pre )tian Savage Landor,
Who taketh for a swan rogue Southey'e gander,"
as Byron termed him in his Poetical Encyclopaedia
" Don Juan." As an imaginative prose writer
the veteran author of the " Imaginary Conversations"
has acquired a large degree of celebrity, but a very
restricted amount of popularity. As a poet, he is
still less known and still less appreciated. And hence
we are gratified to see his claims to poetical honours
manfully acknowledged, and energetically and
aesthetically proven in the luminous pages of the
Edinburgh. If for nothing else, the general readers
of the Review would have reason to thank the
contributor for making him acquainted with
Raicos, the lover of the Carian hamadryad,
with Acon and Rhodope, with Enallos and Cymo-
dameia, with Corythos the son of Paris and (Enone,
with the madness of Orestes and the death of Arte-
midora.
Yet, beyond the gratification derivable from
these unhackneyed passages of poetic beauty, are the
intermediate comments upon the metrical productions
of Mr. Landor, accompanied by discursive
critcisms on this kind of classical poetry
in the abstract, preparatory to which the
Reviewer descants upon the differences exist-
ing between ancient and modern poetry, and
upon the connexion traceable between pantheism and
polytheism. Upon the " Imperfect Appreciation of
Classic Mythology" by modern writers the remarks
of the Reviewer appear to us to be so eminently new
and judicious, that we must gratify ourselves and our
more reflective readers with the subjoined quotation :
" It is in delineating the least pronounced part of the
Greek mythology that a clear discernment of its mean-
ing is must required. In the poem from which we have
quoted, the shadowy nature of a being not so much ele-
vated above our mortal nature as standing at one side of
it, seems to us most happily indicated. Such discrimi-
nation has long been rare, both in French and in English
poetry. In the gods, us described by each, the god-
like element is left out; while the heroes of antiquity
are, and yet more frequently were during the last
century, restored to life as courtiers and fine gentlemen,
touchy about their honour, and admirable in the decorum
with which they carry their wig above peplon or toga.
Prior was not unfamiliar with ancient mythology; but
in his case familiarity may be said to have bred contempt;
and though many classical touches are to be found in
his verses, yet, in his jocular vein, he too frequently de-
grades his Venuses and Cupids not less than his Chloes
and Silvias. Akenside, in his Hymn to the Naiads,'
presents us with forms truly antique, but the spirit of
life is not in them. He imitates the ancients rather than
catches their inspiration, and the repast which he lays
before us, how ever grand, is served up cold. Dryden
and Pope, men whose masculine understandings and
manifold accomplishments must, despite the caprices
that affect public taste, long preserve for them the high
place they have occupied, largely as they translated from
the ancient poets, never entered into the genius of the
ancient mythology. The spirit of Theocritus is not to
be found in I)ryden's version of his Idyls.. In his noble
Oda on St. Cecilia's Day' it has been well remarked
that when he makes Bacchus show his honest face,' he
wholly misses the my thic idea of the mysterious divinity
whom he vulgarises. Pope, in his ode on the same oc-
casion, is still more unfortunate; and atthuugb, in his
Tartarus,' Proserpine is stern and Orpheus devoted,
while Ixior, Sisyphus, and the Furies, 'do what they
ought to do' with laudublo industry, we lack, notwith-
standing, both the awfulness and the serenity of the
Elysian region.
" Nor has ancient mythology fared much better in the
hands of most of our recent poets. They have loved it
more; but their love has often been as undiscriminating
as that of a wood-god for a fugitive nymph. They have
nut
talways appreciated the character of divinities, oven
when exhibited in sculpture before their eyes. Lord
in his Childe Harold,' describing the Venus de
asks the goddess whether she appr tired in this
deeply blessed Anchises,'
larasin or to `morn
ore fortunate still; and then follows a
golßiruyeirs dicta, ,
e' to Paris,
to
rhapsody about lava-kisses, melting while they burn,'
showered on the cheek of the recumbent war-god.
Such a group would hardly have suggested itself to the
imagination of a Greek sculptor about- to embody a
Phedra; and is in strange contrast with the Venus of
the Florentine Tribune, that beautiful and passionless
impersonation of the morning star. Elaborate blunders
in a case of this kind are the less pardonable, because it
is especially through the interpretation of Greek art
that the several characters of Greek divinities are to
be distinguished. We respire no allusive attribute,
neither quivered shoulder nor crescented brow, to recog-
nisethe Pallas,sha
a Dian in those feet, firm and alert, though for the
moment arrested, that slender but sinewy form, and,
above all, the far-projected Apollonian glance, clear as
the beams f the sister luminary embodied. With the
fa godde:s chaste
of Love, but
shafts form, equally girlish but simply joyous and blameless,
of Ilebe or a Grace, such a divinity was almost as
astrikingly
Huntressthat contrasted a
uchaste from the collected sternness of self-sufficing
strength, and from the high wisdom, confederate with
virtue, which subdued the presuming with its Gorgon
and presided over every industrious art. The character
of a Venus was expressed not less plainly, in early ages
of art, by the union of perf-ct beauty with a reserve and
sacredness which belonl.,s to the maternal relation, and
in later by the languishing and humid eye, the lips en-
wreathed
withsped a
wreathed with smiles and dubious look, the narrow
shoulders, the marvellously-moulded form, slightly de-
veloped and yet luxuriant, in which numberless and in-
calculable curves were lost in one another, and finally by
the slender feet, and the tread, at once confiding and in•
secure, apparently accustomed to a more unstable ele-
ment than earth. The genius of a natien'a poetry will
ever be exhibited in its other arts,—at least, in those it
cultivate.,—as the latent spirit of its philosophy is dis-
closed in its laws."
The rest of the criticism is of similar excellence.
Speaking of the superiority of modern over classic
poetry, the writer inquires, very happily, " Should we
prefer to the choral vesper chaunt of creation the
early and slender trill of a bird but half-awakened ?"
Again, such sentences as these sparkle throughout
the contribution—" Poetry is the vital religion of
nature "—" Nature itself was the first revelation
made to man," &c. Its eloquence sometimes
rises to a strain as sonorous as the following

yerr:flzenc't that the
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instrument which in later times shook the Christian
the a
temples with awe, or thrilled-with the secretof a hushed
and subdued pathos the sanctuary itself, bore yet in its
glorious aspect and manifold organization, no small ana-
logy to the simple reed-pipe of the Arcadian divinity as
well as of the shepherd watching his flock by
night."
The paper closes with a strange and startling legend
of Parmenio, who was priest of Lydian Apollo