The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-09 00:00:00

► MAGAZINES, &c.— (CONTINUED).
DAVID COP PE RT'l ELD. No. XIII. By
Charles Dickens.

Mr. Snewing's St. George, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b ...(Smith) 0
Mr. E. R. Clarke's Rodney, 4 yrs, sst 121 b (1,1 Ford) 0
Mr. Cowley's The Miner, 4 yrf, sst 101 b (Simmons) 0
A good race.
The Roodee Produce Stakes of 15 sovE. each, &c. One
mile and a half. (13 Subs.)
Lord Cl.e,terfield's Concertina c .
Mr. ilowlio's Shilmalta West .
The Queen's Pitt() of 100 Guineas. Thrice round.
Sir C. Mook's Vanguard, 4 yrs, 9st 21b
Sir J. riawky's Fernhill, 5 yrs, lOst ..........

Trot discovers by experiment the difficulties at-
tendant upon the solution cf the mysteries of steno-
graphy. All reporters will appreciate the exquisitely
humorous description cf learning to write shorthand
given in the cpening of the prteient number David
marvelling much upon "the changes rung upon dots,
the wonderful vagaries played by circles, the unac-
countable consequences that resulted from marks like
flies' legs, and the tremendous effects of a curve in the
wrong place." It is with no small degree of accu-
racy that he designates the mere alphabet of steno-
graphy "an Egyptian Temple in itself." Daisy tries
his hand after much practice on one of the crack
speakers in Doctors' Commons. " Shall I ever for-
get," says he, "how the crack speaker walked off
from me before I began, and left my imbecile pencil
staggering about the paper as if it were in a fit!"
Ultimately he begins to manage better by means of a
sort of private Parliament in Buckingham-street,
with Traddles impersonating all kinds of illustrious
orators, with "my aunt and Mr. Dick representing
the Government or Opposition (as the case might
be)," and with David Copperfield himself fagging
after Traddles with all his might and main. A little
further on, we have a formidable interview between
Miss Murdstone, David, and Mr. Spenlow—the
latter having discovered, through the united aid of
Jip and Miss Murdstone, the love passages with
Dora. The soene is admirably described : with Mr.
Spenlow more than ever like Punch, and Miss
Murdstone looking as if she might be broken, but
could never be bent. Next morning there is, as the
title of the chapter intimates, a "dissolution of part-
nership," Mr. Spenlow being found dead on the road
to Norwood. Dora is, of course, disconsolate—her
state of mind being vividly portrayed in certain
excerpts from Miss Julia Mills's diary. This same
diary is one of the richest things in the number.
The interpolated ideas of the writer—flashes of
genius evidently in her own estimation—form
a picture infinitely natural in its absurdity.
" Rush of grief admitted. (Are tears the dew-drops
of the heart ? J. M.). . . Also referred to Patience
on Monument. (Qy. Why on Monument ? J. M.)."
But the purloining of J. by man with " broad nose,
and legs like balustrades of bridge," is the climax—
" Towards evening, strange boys calls. Brought into
parlour. Broad nose, but no balustrades. Says he
wants a pound, and knows a dog," &c. Mr. Dickens
must have had a peep into some such diary,
penned by a sentimental young lady, and, like
his own immortal Captain Cattle, " when
found, made note of." I journey down to Dover
affords us once more the delight of seeing Agnes.
The after-dinner quarrel between Wickfield and Heep
is powerfully depicted. When Mrs. Heep asks David,
" How do you think my Ury. looking, sir ?" we quite
chuckle at heart when David says, "I thought him
looking as villanous as ever, and I replied that I saw
no change in him." The sketch of this detestable
character is singularly replete, and excites a
wonderful degree of abhorrence. Returned to
London, David Copperfield encounters the "Wan-
derer," one snowy night, in St. Martin's-
lane, and turns with him into a room at the Golden
Cross. Mr. Peggotty, who has aged much in his
travels, recounts, in his own style of rough eloquence,
his ineffectual journeys on the
i continent. The fol-
lowing portion of his narrative ▪ s beautiful :
" When I come to any town,' ho pursued, I found
the inn, and waited about the yard till amine one turned
up (some one mostly did) as know 'd English. Then
told how that I was on my way to seek my neice, and
they told me what manner of golitie.olk was in the
holm, and I waited to see any as seemed like her, going
in or out. When it waru't Em'ly, I went on agen. By
little and little, when I come to a new village or that,
among the poor people, I found they know, d about me.
They would set me down at their cottage doors, and
give me what-not far to eat and dri▪
nk, and show me where
to sleep; and many a woman, Ma
found a-waiting for
r Davy, a:4 has had a
daughter of about Em'ly's are, I've
me, at Our Saviour's Cross outside the village, fur to do
me sinflar kindnesses. Some has had daughters as was
dead. Anil God only knows how good teem mothers
was to me!'

RACES T

0 COME.

Chester Spring
Newm. Second Spring l4
Shrewsbury ... 15

Manchester O2
Epsom Summer 2B
Edinburgh
r NE.

JU:
Newton
Ascot

Newcastle
Bibury 26
Stockbridge 27

Hampton

Newmarket
2
Liverpool lO
Nottingham l6
Stamford l7

Salisbury lB
Winchester 23
Goodwood

Ripon
Brighton

UST.
Reading
York
Stirling

:DEER.

I Doncaster
Manchester Autumn 26
IBEIL

Newmkt. Second 0ct.... 14
Newmarket Houghton.. 28

"It Vtai Martha at the door. I saw her haggard,
listening face distinctly. My draed was lest he should
turn his head, and see her too.
" They would often put their children—pattielar
their little girls,' said Mr. Peggotty, upon my knee;
and many a time you might have seen me sitting at
their doors, when night was coming on, a'most us if
they'd been my Darling's children. Oh, my Darling!'
" Overpowered by sudde❑ grit f, he sobbed aloud. I
laid my trembling hand upon the hand he put before his
face. Thankee, sir,' he said, don't take no notice.'

" In a very little while he took his hand away and put
it in his.breast, and went on with his story."
Some inkling is obtained, through post-marks on let-
ters, of the whereabouts of little Em'ly, and we ex-
pect, therefore that Mr. Peggotty's new expedition
in search of her will proved successful. Tne number
closes with his second departure.

HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Part I. Conducted
by Charles Dickens.
. _

Apart from ail other attractions, the name of
Charles Dickens alone, was certain to secure for this
cheap weekly periodical thousands upon thousands of
purchasers. A name so dear to the hearts of the
people of England could never prove otherwise than
an object of attraction—au attraction too beyond the
reach of resistance. Itself already a " household
word " among so many millions, it could
not but prove potent in introducing other
Household Words in the language of Shaks-
pere. Hence the immense popularity which
welcomed the present publication on its first com-
mencement, and which at once placed it above the
help of approval or even of panegyric. The numbers
from the first have, as complete portions of the under-
taking, steadily and perceptibly
improved—although
two contributions contained in the second number
we regard as immeasurably surpassing anything that
has subsequently appeared in Household Words.
Both these papers it is easy at once to
father on Mr. Dickens himself. No other
man living could have penned that " Child's Dream
about a Star," which is worthy the creator of little
Nell and little Paul Dombey. And no other hand but
his could bare written that chapter on " Perfect Fe-
licity—in a Bird's Eye View," hich in its humorous
of equal length
and grotesque extravagance is comparable to any
chapter
great in Ravens—witness this his
Gripa and his reference to his own ravens in
sketch
Dickens e
of
always
is
in Rabelais. But Mr.
the preface to the cheap edition of " Barnaby Rudge."
And a raven—the raven of the Happy Family—is
the hero of the chapter on "Perfect Klicity." We
should be tempted to transcribe a few fragments from
this and other pages of Household Words, but that we
are satisfied our so doing would be with the vast majo-
rity a work of needless repetition. Altogether the
present portion, Part 1., of Household Words, while
not exactly equalling our expectations, which were
great, gives large promise of their rapid and complete
fulfilment.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER RACES.

RACECOURSE, WEDNESDAY, FIVE o'CiucK.
The following races were decided at the time our parcel
was mad© up:—
The Scramble Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 30 says.
added. The winner to be sold for 80 sous., &e. Half
a mile. (12 Subs.)
Mr.r Jones's
s
O
7st ( W.Sharp) 0
'strhmesllbly, 4 y
ease, 4
yrs, Bst 101b......q Evans) 1
Mr. BJ rs, 7st 9lb ......(G. Harrison) 2
046 y, 131 b (Bazham) 0
st,
Mr
air. . B s
taenbebrionfge,ss borsf;b
Mr. G. Palmer's 'Pity, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ...... (G. Oates) 0
Mr. Armstrong's Chieftain, 3 yrs, 6st 13lb (Hazelq) 0
Colonel Ilertey's Ranelagh, 3 Yl'', Est Cib (Keegan) 0
Mr. Lawson's Eunuch, 3 yrs, bet (Arnold) 0
Mr. Nicoll's Greenwich, 3 ) re, Est ............ (that) 0
Mr. G. Barton's Leonidas, 3 yrs, sst 10Ib...(Osborne) 0
Mr. PeMoy's Golden Lady, 3sr, Set 7,1 b ...... (Wells) 0
bs
lyd thee s t oPn
r,vo 3 yrs,st,
5 to 2 agst Eunuch, and 5 to 1 each agst Osbeldeston
and Greenwich. Won by a neck; Eunuch, Provost filly,
and Golden Lady, well up. Run in 57 sec.
Sixty Guinene, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 says. each.
Once round a:id a distance.
___

Sir C. Monch's Vanguard .....................
.......7 .—..- -
Mr. Jamieson's Tower ....................... (J. Evans) 2
Mr. Lawson's Cauriri (Noble). 3
Mr. Hobson's Gladiole, 3 yrs ...... : ...........
,coshorne) 0
Mr. Campbell's Saucy LIO, 4 y:rs ......... ((v.x Abdttle) o
Mr. Meeson's Doubt, 4 yrs ............. .(%N intehouse) 0
Mr. Jones's Stepping-stone, 3 yrs
Mr. M. Kenna's Charlotte, 3 yrs (Megan) 0
Mr. Foster's Osbald wick, 3 yrs ...... (Wakefield, jun.) 0
Mr. Cowper's Mite filly, 3 yrs ...............(Simmons) 0
Mr. Copeland's Candlewick, 3 yrs ......... (W. Sharp) 0
Mr. Pedley's The Cantab, 4 yrs
7to 4 agst Vanguard, and 7 te.2 agat Doubt. Won
cleverly by a length. Run in 2 nun. 7 see.
The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 sovs., added o a handi-
cap of 25 sovs. each, 15 fr., and 5 only if declared;
the second t 3 receive 501, and the third to save his
M r.
Thels Isaac
following
stake. Two miles and a quarter. (189 Subs., 85 of
whom declared.)
Mr. H. Pitt's Mounseer, 4 yrs, Est 91b ... (Dockeray) 1
5 yrs, 84 51b (Marlow) 0
Mr. Eddison's John Cosser,
Day's Caloscoksetrarnrtoeudthb,u6t st
werelolbn.;:t.:pCB(lh(ialnerptdrisutica))) 021
Mr. Pedley's Cossack, 6 yrs, 9st 21b ... (Templemun) 0
Lord How th's Peep-o'-day Boy, 6 yrs, 9st (A. Day) 0
Captain Ilarcourt's Ellerdale, 6 yrs, bit 31b (Maroon) 0
Mr. Payne's Glauca, 4 yrs, 7st 51b . (Flatman) 0
Mr. F. Nicoll's Woolwich, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (liiott) 0
Mr. H. Stebbiog's Westow, 4 yrs, 7st 2:b (Basham) 0
Mr. Oshaldeston's Fugletnan, 5 yrs, 7st (G. Brown) 0
Mr. Hill's Ostorley, 4 yrs, 7:t ...............(G. Sharp) 0
Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 4 yrs, 7st-- ~...(W. Sharp) 0
Mr. Jaqut•s's Cht.ntrey, 4 yrs, Est 101 h --(Charlton) 0
Mr. Bowes's The Knout, 4 yrs, 64 81b (Trcen) 0
Lord Warwick's Grief, 4 vrs, Est 71h (line tt) 0
Mr. S. George's Whim c, .4
yrs, 6st 71b (Keegan) o
Mr. C. Green na Keleshea, 6 yrs, 6st 6113 ...(Evans) 0
Mr. J. Robinson n Fleur de Seine, 5 yrs, 6st(Osburne) 0
Mr. Osbaldestone's Minimum, 4 yrs, sst i011;(Barker) 0
Mr. Thempson's Lily c, 4 yrs, sst 101 b ...(Uarrison) 0
Mr. Meiklara's Roland, 4 yrs, sst sib (Arnold) 0
Mr. Holdforth n General Sale, 4 yrs,sst 121b(Cowper) 0
Captain Fraser's Emma, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Wells) 0

THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1850.

their position as becomes the executive of a
great commercial country. But the direct re-
verse is the case in every particular. The trus-
tees demonstrated, to the entire satisfaction of the
Commons' Committee, in the teeth of an astute and
energetic opposition, first, that they had the will to
advance in the right direction; secondly, that it was
their interest and the interest of all connected with
Birkenhead to do so as rapidly as possible , and,
thirdly, that the Bill would give them the power to do
so ; while without the Bill they and the works must
be forthwith paralysed. The Woods and Forests never
Lave yet contributed a farthing to an undertaking
without which their foreshore and all the rest of
their now valuable possessions of a like kind would
be worthless ; nor have they given the remotest hint
that if they had the whole concern in their hands to-
morrow they would go on one inch with it; as indeed
how could they without money ? And is it to be
supposed that Parliament would sanction the devotion
of the funds of the State to the confiscation of private
property, whose value can only progress, and is pro
greasing, with the progression of public convenienceand
advantage, as the Commons' Committee have declared.
No person has shown more lucidly or more em-
phatically than the noble head of the Woods and
Forests, in his reports on the Navy, &c., Expendi-
ture, the waste and inefficiency and mischief in-
herent in the whole system of Crown management
of what should be left to private enterprise ; and if it
could be supposed for a moment that Lord Seymour,
when he comes to examine into the present case
and to judge for himself, could really recommend a
persistance in the course threatened, such conduct
would be a thorough burlesque upon those very re-
ports, which have done him so much honour, and
which rendered his acceptance of his present.office so
gratifying to all who were cognizant of the unavoid-
able deficiencies and short-comings pertaining to the
department he now presides over.
However, should his Lordship be so far ill advised
as thus practically to refute his own doctrines, and to
exhibit a free-trade Ministry in the odious light of
opponents of all trade in one of the most favourable
and most promising haunts of commerce in the world,
he must lay his account to meeting with a resistance
resolute and determined in proportion to the magni-
tude of the interests now imperilled. Liverpool is
fully alive to the injustice of which Birkenhead
is sought to be made the victim, and has spoken out
in a memorial not a little significant, perhaps, of ap-
prehensions on its own account; for it the Woods and

Forests are to usurp the function and seize the pro-
perty of the Birkenhead trustees, where is the gua-
rantee that the Duchy of Lancaster may not, one of
these days, carry the centralizing predilections of the
age to the extent of becoming administrators of dock
affairs in Liverpool ? The manufacturing districts
of Manchester and the neighbourhood, Stafford-
shire, Shropshire, and Wales, will of course exhibit
a keen sensitiveness, and are doing so through their
representatives, at the prospect of their rising port,
with all its means of cheapening and facilitating
trade, being rendered useless, and the works suffered
to fall into decay. Such must inevitably be the case
should the Woods and Forests execute their threat of
stopping the Bill, and thereby inflict irreparable
evil on three or four millions' worth of property in-
vested in dock bond?, warehouses, railways, and the
township generally, on the faith of the Great Float
being gone on with, the walls built, manufactories
established, and warehouses erected as required. All
this is now being done, and the removal of the forfei-
ture clauses is alone wanted to ensure its continuing

to be done in a vastly accelerated degree; for
was shown in committee that those who were eager
to become a resident trading population and pur-
chasers of property‘wc.re seared away by the natural
fear that the Woods and Forests would have their
pound of flesh; though at the time the bond set:tiring
them that power was executed, the idea of its ever
after being mooted, much less enforced, never crossed
the thought of any one in any way concerned with
the business—the ten ears' proviso being looked upon
as purely nominal, and of no more real obligation than
the Duke of Marlborough's annual flag is an equiva-
lent rental for Blenheim.

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.
Oa Tuesday the Commissioners assembled at the
Guildhall ; Air. Deputy Peacock in the chair.
Tee report of the Committee of Health was read.
It referred to the investigation into certain alleged
nuisances, more particularly noticed in the report of
the Medical Officers of Health, given below, and re-
commended that the Court should not interfere with

the subject of the Bill in Parliament on Metropolitan
Interments, as the Parliamentary Committee of the
Corporation were engaged in the consideration of that
question.

Mr. Deputy Lorr hoped the Court would not allow
so important a subject as the Metropolitan Interment
Bill to pass by without some peculiar notice, particu-
larly as there were come clauses in it which showed a
spirit of jobbing of the most resolute and nefarious
character.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. IL L. TAYLOR said, the Bill alluded to af-
fected every ward in the City, and ought not to be
given the " go by" to by the Court in consequence of
the interference of any other authority. Ile should
move as an amendment, that the part of the report he
particularly adverted to be referred back to the com-
mittee.

Mr. BLAKE disapproved of the idea of mixing up
in the discussion anything of a political kind, and
thought it was quite enough tbat the subject of the
Bill for metropolitan interments was referred to a
committee of the corporation to be dealt with.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON said the Bill had been re-
ferred to the Parliamentary Committee in order that
a double expense might not be incurred. They all
concurred in support of the plan of extramural inter-
ments, and if the Commissioners found that there
was any hesitation upon the part of the Parliamentary
Committee to act upon that principle, then he hoped
the Commissioners would take up the question them-
selves.—(Hear.)
Mr. ELLIOTT would wish to see the Corporation
cast aside the antiquated prejudices which stood in
the way of the most important improvements at-
tempted to be accomplished for the benefit of the sani-
tary condition of the community. The means pro-
posed for effecting these improvements were de-
nounced as being part of a system of centralization.
Now he would say that centralization was anexcellent
thing.—(Laughter and No, no.)
Mr. Deputy °BEARD supported the amendment.
The report was then received, and
Mr. Simon, the Medical Officer of Health, then
read the following report as to the alleged nuisances,
the complaints of which had been referred to him :

" According to your desire I have inquired into the
condition of the burial ground adjoining the church of
St. Botolph, Aldersgate.
"In your inspectors' reports the area of this ground
is stated at 1,783 square yards. I have found, ou ex-
amination c•f the parish record, that, during the last five
Years (1845-9 inclusive), 547 burials have taken place.
This number is excessive in proportion to the space ;
and I entertain no doubt that it would be both offensive
and hurtful to make, during the approaching summer,
any fresh disturbance of a soil so saturated with decom-
posing animal remains. .

~
" For the information of those who are nett acquainted
with the locality, I may state that the burial ground is
for the most part surrounded by houses (those, namely,
of Little Britain and Bull and Month street), by the
back windows of which it is overlooked. It is from in-
habitants of these houses that the complaint originated«
which led your Hon. Court to desire my report on the
matter.
"On inspection, it appeared to me that the gravestarnod
were crowdei together, and that the soil, whereo
up for present interment, contained a quantity f
ani-
mal matter as yet but very incompletely, decayed.
"I hatvhea view visited
tot the
determine almshouses
sage vc Iwhethern Jacobs
there
waerl; - paansy-
-1 Court for their more effectual drainage
circumstances renderingit necessary that the order issued
by your Lon.
circumstancesthat charity.
should
"Entertaining be complied
an withopin
opinion
the
that
t eer a
s ofl l
an open cesspool is injurious to the neighbourhood in
t trustees
which it stands, I cannot certify that the order in ques-
tion has been unnecessary, or that its enforcement
would be inexpedient. Nevertheless, owing to the
very small number of inmates having recourse to the
privies of these almshouses; owing also to the privies
in a space which is comparatively
and cesspools being situate at a distance of some feet
exterior
open and ventilated; (Ring further to the fact that in the
to the residences,
opposite direction they abut only on a warehouse and
not on occupied dwellings, there are certainly some
peculiarities in the case which enable me to admit that
inconveniences of the highest degree do not result from
the present arrangements.
"At your last Court a memorial was submitted by
certain inhabitants of Fore-street on the subject of
nuisance experienced by them from the drysalters' esta-
blishment of Messrs. Gaby and Wills, situate in Moor-
lane, and this memorial having been referred to me I
have inquired into its subject matter. I find that the
chief inconvenience sustained is that of smoke, which is
evolved in immense quantities from the furnace of the
establishment in question. Owing to the defective height of
the chimney the smoke does not clear the level of the
adjoining houses, but frequently pours down on them to
the level of .the ground floor, and renders it impracti-
cable f.)r the inhabitants of such houses to oxen thedoors
and windows sufficiently for the purposes of ventilation.
An adequate length of shaft would, no doubt, relieve the
immediate neighbourhood from this serious evil, but a
still better remedy would consist in the employment of
such a furnace as would consume its own s
m
o
k
e
' and
but
would relieve not only the immediate neighbourhoode.
the city generally from this nuisance of wastedefu I-
likewise
"In compliance with your desire,
Brown e , "'a
and
visited the refining house of Messrs. .
have as-
certainedWin-
grove, situated in Wood-street, C
beaPgaeionally diffined
by Messrs.
and
that the acrid material occasionally
of
the
from this house thrcugh
neigh-
bourhood, and complained of especially
consists of nitrous
Webber and Harris, of Milk-street,
considerable quantities at elle
in
acid, which is evolved
ofthe stwo,speheieny
pfining. The greater
stage of the proses gold .
share of these acid fumes s recondensed by a
peculiar' apparatus',
so as not to escape from
the :bac of the rsfining house, nor to be perceptible
or injnrious
to the neighbourhood: and I am in-
formed that it would be practicable to condense, also, that