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TIMES.—The Proprietors of the Bank of England
held their half-yearly meeting to-day, and the usual
divident of 31 per cent. (deducting income-tax) was de-
clared for the half-year. The meeting occupied less
than a quarter of an hour, and was, therefore, the shortest
that has been known for many years. An alteration in
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that was to accumulate between the day of the meeting
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and, consequently, the " rest.' is stated according to
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mated to the 10th of October, to furnish a comparison,
an increase of 8,8001. on the former "rest" is exhibited.
The late forgery led to the question whether the loss
which the proprietors have sustained might not have
been saved by an adherence to the by-law which pro-
vides that no clerk to the establishment shall be permit-
ted to act as a broker. Burgess, it was contended by a
proprietor, by identifying the pretended stockholder, bad
performed the office of a broker, and the acceptance of
his identification was in contravention of the by-law. It
is perhaps going too far to say that the mere act of iden-
tifying gives the identifier for the time the character of a
broker, but the opinion is generally expressed that the
Bank ought at once to abandon the practice of allowing
their own clerks to identify. Many of the most respect-
able brokers, who are necessarily well known to all the
clerks in the transfer-office, have declared their willing-
ness to come forward and identify a party making a
transfer, and known to them, whenever there may be
occasion, and even to guarantee the Bank for the amount
of the transfer which they may attest. A Bank clerk is
for one reason the very worst person that could be se-
lected, as he has the opportunity of obtaining towards
the perpetration of his fraud that information which
would be totally inaccessible to a stranger, while the
lowness of his salary, generally speaking, creates a
great temptation to the fraud itself. From a remark
which fell from the Governor during the meeting of this
morning it has been inferred that the practice will be
abandoned.
We insert the following letter, a copy of which has
been sent us by the writer, as a singular instance of
disinterestedness in a railway proprietor :
" TO THS SECRETARY OF TUE LONDON AND SOUTH-
wEsTERN RAILWAY.
" 22, Carlton-terrace, St. James's, Westminster.
" Sir—As a proprietor of a great number of shares in
the abovementioned railway, I request you will imme-
diately submit this letter to the consideration of the
Board of Directors.
"I have to state,—
" 1. That the London and South-Western Railway
trains travel at a much slower rate than those of any
other railway.
"2. That the carriages of the London and South-
Western Railway, and more especially the second and
third-class carriages, are vastly inferior in every respect
to those of any other railway.
3. That the charges exacted for the conveyance of
goods and passengers aro most exorbitant and unequal,
and much higher than the charges of any other railway.
" 4. That for the interest of the proprietors one-third
only of the fares and charges now exacted should in
future be received for the conveyance of goods and
passengers.
" 5. That all the fares and charges of the London and
South-Western Railway should be at a certain rate per
mile. Now there are many gross discrepancies in the
charge made—for instance, 11 miles by the slow train,
Bd.; 22 miles per same train, 2s. 4d.; and this is only
one from among many such unequal charges. This is
very fair, very equitable, very wise, and vastly clever
" 6. The charge of 3s. per cwt. for extra luggage of the
passengers (whether for a short or a long distance) is
very moderate indeed—only the price charged fur the
conveyance of goods from London to Calcutta. No
more.
" 7. The Directors of the London and South-Western
Railway certainly take great pains to make travelling
by that railway as disagreeable and expensive as pos-
sible. Surely their best policy is to make it as agreeable
and cheap as they may be able to do. Cheapness in-
creases the use or consumption of everything ; and if
the excursion trains do not convince your Di-
rectors ef this fact, and make clear to them that
three sixpences are more than one shilling, the lately
projected and ' Direct London and Portsmouth Railway'
doubtless will.
" 8. The income of the London and South-Western
Railway is mainly derived from second-class and third-
class passengers, as there aro fifty of these to every
first-class passenger ; and yet the Board of Directors of
that railway bestow all their civility and accommoda-
tion upon those from whom the proprietors derive the
least profit, and but a small part of their income.
" 9. There should be third-class carriages with every
mixed train. People should be encouraged to travel,
and accommodated as much as possible, and should not
be hindered, or nearly precluded, from so doing ; and
the carriages generally of the South-Western Railway
ought to be as good as those of other railways, and not,
as they are, ten times worse.
" 10. The future passenger fares should be—
By the slow or cheap trains, id. per mile.
By the third-class carriages, per mile.
By the second-class carriages, Id. per milo.
By the first-class carriages, ld. per mile.
and goods and merchandise of every sort, packages, par-
cels, &c., should be conveyed very cheaply.
" 11. A return of all accidents upon the railway
should be conspicuously posted at every station upon the
line. (This should be done on every line, and would
have more effect in preventing accidents than heavy fines.)
" 12. By adopting the 10th regulation above suggested,
or by some equally efficacious measure, Parliament may
be induced to withhold its sanction of the Direct London
and Portsmouth Railway ; but an adherence to high
fares and charges, unequal charges, and to regulations
and arrangements which make travelling by the line
disagreeable and very costly, will materially promote
the progress of the contemplated London and Ports-
mouth Railway, and greatly damage the interest of the
Proprietors of the London and South-Western Railway.
" I am, Sir, your obedint servant,
" JOHN JULIUS RAMSDEN, F.R.S."
SUN.—The Funds have been firmer this afternoon, a
purchase having sent up Consols for time to par again.
Bank Stock has been supported, and for Account East India
Stock was done at 283 i ; South Sea Stock was 115.
The Foreign Bonds were dull. Spanish Three per
Cents., 34 2 ; and the Deferred were done at 13k.
Buenos Ayres were at 36 to ; Brazilian receded to
881 e and Mexican to 361 I.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Bristol and Gloucester, ex div., were 19;
Dublin and Belfast, 241; Dublin and Cashel, 71; Har-
wich, 1 ; Birmingham, 116 ; Ditto, Thirds, 34 ;
South-Western, 34i ; Croydon, 2i; London and York,
21; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 3; Northern
and Eastere Scrip, 10; South-Eastern, 4i; Ditto Scrip, S;
York and North Midland, Selby Scrip, 361 ; Boulogne
and Amiens ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, ;
and Paris and Rouen, 18k premium. Brighton have been
31 to 2/ ; and Greenwich, 2a discount. Colonial Bank
Shares were 11i to k ; and National Provincial of Eng-
land, 2 discount.

THOMAS CAMPBELL,
ORIGINAL COPY OF THE " PLEASURES
OF POPE."

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—That the list contained I
only one race of public interest does not appear to
have excited the slightest regret, the St. Leger
settling, the sale, and the meeting at the club-house
for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro-
priety of limiting future meetings to four days, &c.,
having proved quite sufficient to occupy the greater
part of the day. The settling, we are happy to say,
is admitted by all hands to have been decidedly good;
money, of course, was not over-abundant, and time, as
a consequence, was required in several cases, but no
fears are entertained that the outstanding balances
will shortly be paid up. It has not often been our
fortune to record so pleasant a finale to a race that,
whatever mancauevring may have preceded it, was
evidently run on the square. Mr. Irwin wins
between twelve and thirteen thousand pounds ; Mr.
Forth, two thousand by one account, and by another
three times as much. Colonel Charritie, Mr. Har-
greaves, and some Irish gentlemen, are also good
winners ; but we do not hear that " the publio"
have had any participation in the spoils—The Cure,
Ithuriel, or The Princess, would have suited them
much better. In the losing class we may include
Mr. Collett, most of John Scott's masters, two or
three Noble Lords, and William Scott. Some of the
professionals have also dropped their money, the
profits realised out of The Cure, Scott's horses, and
the outsiders, having been insufficient to cover their
losses against the winners. The Club meeting, at
which the Earl of Glasgow presided, was attended by
the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Eglinton,
Earl of Chesterfield, Lord George Bentinck, Hon.
George Anson, Hon. Captain Rous, Mr. Lumley, one
of the Stewards, and other influential patrons of the
races. The objects for consideration were—first,
whether any change should be made in the days
which the races are hereafter to come off; tad se-
condly, whether, by increasing the prize tothe second,
and giving a prize to the third horse, a stronger in•
ducement might not be afforded for larger entries for
the St. Leger, as well as a more certain guarantee
obtained for the appearance of a more extensive field
of horses at the post than in modern times ; for it has
been seen, that ever since the " play or pay" subscrip-
tion was altered toso sovs., h ft, the fields have decreased
until they have reached nine, as on Tuesday, thereby
stripping this important race of its most brilliant fea-
ture. With regard to the first proposition, it was I
unanimously agreed that, next year, the races should I
begin on Tuesday and terminate on Saturday; that
the Great St. Leger should be run for on Wednesday,
the Yorkshire Handicap at a late hour on Thursday,
so as to afford time for the settling, and the Cup on
Friday. This resolution was adopted principally on
openmtihgehtbbeettpinrgev_eroontemds,
the ground that Sunday travelling
regard to the second
aonndsthnenpdrneys,enstypoliadnedo.f kewrepiitnhg
point, Lord George Bentinck urged the vast im-
portance, in a race like the St. Leger, of secur-
ing a large field of starters, as well as
of encouraging them to run honestly and fairly to the
end, instead of, as in the present day, pulling up
when the chances of becoming first and second were
out. By enlarging the second prize, creating a third
prize, and enabling the fourth to save his stake, there
would be a stronger inducement to competition; for
if some might abandon the hope of obtaining the first
prize, all might entertain an expectation of getting
sufficiently near to obtain a remuneration for coming
such a distance. His Lordship's proposition was,
therefore, that the second prize should be increased
to 5001., and the third to 2001., while the fourth should
save his stake. In the opinion of Lord Glasgow,
Lord Normanby, Lord Chesterfield, and others, this
would be too large a reduction of the great prize, and
proposed smaller sums. Lord George Bentinck re-
plied that, by thus extending the chances to competi-
tors, all deficiences would be supplied by the increased
number of subscribers to the stake. Finally, it was
agreed, by way of experiment (to commence with the
year 1846), that the second should have 3001., and the
third 1001., instead of saving his stake; after which
the meeting broke up.
The races did not commence till three o'clock, and
the " Great Yorkshire Handicap" proved unusually
attractive, as well as a source of very extensive spe-
culation. The atsendance was certainly far inferior
to that of the preceding day; nevertheless the com-
pany in the Grand Stand, the ring, and the running-
ground, was numerous and respectable, and fully
equalled anything we have seen in former years on
the third day.
CORRANNA AND POIG..A-BALLAGII.—The dispute
between Mr. Collett and Mr. Irwin was amicably
arranged this evening, Mr. Collett having agreed to
pay forfeit on the 1,000 sous. in proportion to the odds
that might be expected to be laid on Foig-a-ballagh
had the match been run. Captain Rous, who was re-
quested to fix the price, has named 9to 4. Mr.
Irwin, therefore, will receive about 4421.

As the Poet Campbell will doubtless find a bio-
grapher, and at no distant date, it becomes a matter of
importance that everything given to the public con-
cerning him should be correct and consistent with
fact. Of late we have perused several letters now in
the custody of private individuals in Edinburgh, some
of them from the poet himself, written at an early
period ; others from his mother, who seems to have
been a woman of intelligence and strong good sense.
These documents are indispensable to the writer of a
life of Campbell ; but we have no intention to allude
to them further at present, than merely to intimate
the fact of their existence. What we wish to correct
in thus adverting to the subject is a passage in an
article on Campbell in the last number of Fraser's
Magazine, which contains some curious and interest-
ing anecdotes of the poet. At page 344, the writer
of the article observes :
" I have often heard it said, and in Campbell's life-
time, that there was a very different copy of The
Pleasures of Hope' in MS., in the hands of Dr. An-
derson's family ; and I once heard the question put to
Campbell, who replied, with a smile, 0 dear, no
nothing of the kind.' The alterations which the poem
underwent by Anderson's advice may have given rise
to a belief that the poem was at first very unlike what
we now see it."

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At what period the question was put to the poet
does not appear ; if at a late period of his life, distance
of time might have made the circumstance escape
his memory, for assuredly such a MS. exists, and
has been for several years in the possession of Mr.
Patrick Maxwell, editor of Miss Blamire's poetical
works. It originally belonged to the late Dr. Murray,
Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of
Edinburgh, is in good preservation, and is in the hand-
writing of the poet. The whole poem consists only
of about 40 or 50 paragraphs, and altogether scarcely
amounts to one-half of what it now does ; it extends
over 20 pages of MS., and may contain about 400
lines. At the end of the poem is " The Irish Harper's
Lament for his Dog," tune—" The Nine Links of
Yellow," word for word as it is now printed under the
title of "The Harper." It is truly stated by the
writer in Fraser, that the introduction to the " Plea-
sures of Hope" underwent many alterations ; and how
much it stood in need of it, and how much it was
beholden to Dr. Anderson's exquisite taste and friendly
advice, may be gathered from the following extract
from the beginning of the poem in the MS. before us,
which we insert with Mr. Maxwell's permission, and
which may be considered as a literary curiosity :

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ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION TO THE POEM.
Seven lingering moons have cross'd the starry line
Since Beauty's form, or Nature's face divine
Had power the sombre of my soul to turn—
Had power to wake my strings and bid them burn.
The charm dissolves ! What Genius bade me go
To search th' unfathom'd mine of human woe—
The wrongs of man to man, of clime to clime—
Since Nature yoked the fiery steeds of Time—
The tales of death—since cold on Eden's plain
The beauteous mother clasp'd her Abel slain—
Ambitious guilt—since Carthage wept her doom—
The Patriot's fate—since Brutus fell with Rome?
The charm dissolves ! My kindling fancy dreams
Of brighter forms inspired by gentler themes ;
Joy and her rosy flowers attract my view,
And Mirth can please, or Music charm anew ;
And Hope, the harbinger of golden hours,
The light of life, the fire of Fancy's powers
Returns :—Again I lift my trembling gaze,
And bliss the smiling guest of other days.
So when the northern in the lonely gloom,
Where Hecla's fires the polar night illume,
Hails the glad summer to his Lulean shores,
And bow'd to earth his circling suns adores.
So when Cimmerian darkness wakes the dead,
And hideous Nightmare haunts the curtain'd bed,
And scowls her wild eye on the maddening brain,
What speechless horrors thrill the slumbering swain,
When shapeless fiends inhale his tortur'd breath,
Immure him living in the vaults of death ;
Or lead him lonely through the charnell'd aisles,
The roaring floods, the dark and swampy vales,
When rock'd by winds he wanders on the deep,
Climbs the tall spire, or scales the beetling steep,
His life-blood freezing to the central urn,
No voice can call for aid, no limb can turn,
Till eastern shoot the harbinger of Day,
And Night and all her spectres fade away.
If then some wand'ring Huntsman of the morn
Wind from the hill his murm'ring bugle horn,
The shrill sweet music wakes the slumberer's ear,
And melts his blood, and bursts the bands of fear ;
The vision fades—the shepherd lifts his eye—
And views the lark that carols to the sky.
These verses clearly indicate the peculiar genius
and the refined taste of Campbell ; yet they are very
different from the introductory lines which were after-
wards substituted, and with which the printed
poem now begins. Many of the passages in this origi-
nal draught are verbatim, or nearly so, with the pub-
lished work ; others have been evidently retouched,
and some (the episode to the Nightmare for example)
have been entirely suppressed. It is unnecessary, for
us to give any detail of the way in which the original
MSS. was procured, or how it came into the hands of
the present custodier ; this may be done in a different
form, or through another channel. Our object in the
meantime has been gained, by giving proof that Campbell
must have forgotten or been unwilling to acknowledge
the fact that " there was (as Fraser's correspondent
says he often heard) a very different copy of the
Pleasure of Hope,' in manuscript, in the hands of
Dr. Anderson's family."—Edinburgh Advertiser.

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MESMERIC ABSURDITIES.

" THE RATIONALE OF MAGNETISM." BY

SAMUEL SPURR ELL.

Whilst there is an obvious and increasing ten-
dency, on the part of the public, to inquire into the
reality, the nature, and the uses of the mesmeric
mystery, and to listen with impartiality, if not with
favour, to the averments of its believers, the insane,
or perhaps the fraudulent pretensions of many who,
instead of pursuing the subject as a matter of cautious
investigation, profess it as an art ascertained, estab-
lished, and complete, have the effect of startling
Credulity in her eager advance, and inducing doubt
upon the best authenticated facts, and distrust upon
the most sincere and the most eminent advocates. In
raising the indignation of the honest observer, and the
disgust of the candic sceptic, the ingenious tissue of
absurdities, entitled by its author the " Rationale (!)
of Magnetism," is calculated to be immensely effective,
as the work itself is immensely ridiculous. The in-
troduction gives a learned exposition of the two classi-
fications of the " science," viz., mental and anima
magnetism. It then proceeds to explain some (no/
doubt interesting, if intelligible) views of the
author on the powers of ultra-vision and intro-vision,
and the advantages that would be derived from an
operator becoming his own patient, and thus pos-
sessing himself of those two wonderful powers. The
case of the " Philadelphian Solitary," who could
travel from Philadelphia to Africa, thence over
Europe, and lastly to London, in search of an un-
known man, whom at last he meets bodily at
a convivial table in London, and puts questions to
him from his wife—with the answers to which he
returns to Philadelphia—all his mission having
occupied but a few minutes, and the said solitary
having been all the while entranced in his own
chamber This is gravely stated; not merely as an
illustration, but as an authority ! And the book, too,
is boldly put forth as a text-book—a philosophical
text-book—supported by facts solemnly vouched for
on the author's testimony, and that of several others
named, described, and referred to. But from the
specimen just referred to, Mr. Spurrell goes not for
by-gone authorities, to the Arabian Nights or our
own fairy tales— in truth, these faithful nar-
ratives have too much the semblance of
rationality to bear out his " Rationale." As to
his own facts, ridiculous and unblushing as they are,
they would deserve no notice, but that they.are told
with such an air of simplicity, that they might im-
pose upon some innocent lovers of the marvellous,
o
r,
what is perhaps worse, bring into disbelief
impor-
tant and ascertained phenomena upon which this
monstrous superstructure of hardy invention is erected.
Nay, it does appear that the book has a great sale ;
and certainly its contents are very extensively dis-
cussed, finding, strange to say, many sturdy de-
fenders.
Now, the utmost length that a reasonable person
could at present go with the philo-mesmerists would
be to admit that Dr. Elliotson and the other eminent
men, of unquestionable honour and distinguished
talents, who investigate mesmerism, have pretty well
established that it is possible to produce in a human
being a peculiar condition, in a state of existence not
only different, but separate, from the ordinary one is
passed, and powers and faculties are developed which
are not possessed in the ordinary condition. There is a
sleep unlike the natural ; rigidity of the muscles—
utter insensibillity to pain—sometimes sleep-waking,
and an inexplicable exaltation of the senses. That
there does accompany this latter condition a facility
of seeing objects not presented to the eyes se'ms to
be affirmed by a large body of evidence vei y far re-
moved from suspicion. But this chump, co b so

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENTS.---Mr. Wil-
son is at present making a most successful tour in the
west of England. At Plymouth his entertainments were
honoured by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of
St. Alban's, the Earl and Countess of Morley, Lord
Auckland, Sir Ralph and Lady Lopez, Admiral Sir
David and Lady Milne, and all the gentry of the neigh-
bourhood. He gave "A Nicht wi' Burns," in the Ply-
mouth Theatre, under the patronage of Admiral Sir
David Milne, when the house was crowded to excess.
We see by the northern papers that in a few days the
Scottish minstrel bends his steps as far north as Inver-
ness, and the towns in the neighbourhood.

DISAFFECTION IN AUSTRALIA.—The Australian
papers are almost as menacing and exciting as the Cana-
dian. Sir George Gipp's order of the 2(1 of April, levy-
ing 101. pasturage license for every station on the sheep
feeders, has raised an indescribable ferment. Meetings,
and speeches, and resolutions, crowd one upon the other,
all declaring war upon Lord Stanley and his Governor.
The more moderate rely on their influence in the Legis-
lative Council to embarrass and upset the Governor ;
whilst the more violent propose nothing less than a re-
fusal to pay tho tax, and exhort the feeders to sot the
Government at defiance. The parties insist that they
alone sustain the colony, furnishing it with its only ex-
port, and that the policy of compelling them to purchase,
settle, and till, instead of feeding, will prove as disas-
trous as it is arbitrary. The colonial authorities evi-
dently regard the sheep feeders with an unfavourable
eye, as men whose capital is not vested permanently in
the soil, and who contribute little to the expenses of
.the
colony or the immigration fund. The parties deride the
land system altogether, with its failure, its suspension,
and its bankruptcies. They form the most powerful
body in the colony, and are evidently too much exaspe-
rated to reason calmly, or abide by the fiscal edict of the
Governor, which has raised a ferment not easy to be
allayed.—Cork Examiner.
CHEAP TRAIN FROM YORK.—On Monday a cheap
train brought an importation of between two and three
thousand visitors into Newcastle, giving an unusual ap •
pearauce of bustle to its streets.— Tyne Mercury.

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&lit o 1 th ftit.tattle sloop, that lir, 101444
(Lti he declares) met with otio Institut, of it ail-4441dt
the great number of leis own patients, although there
have been amongst them many most extraordinary
cases. Yet the pseudo-mesmerists deal with clair-
voyance as an every-day occurrence—an almost inse-
perable condition of mesmerism—so that ws have
seen upon a platform at Mr. Vernon's lectures
as many as six clairvoyants at a time, who were, how-
ever, exhibited with no better success than the experi-
ment deserved, although it was calculated to throw
very unmerited discredit on genuine mesmerism.
Mr. Spurrell beats these practitioners hollow. He
finds not only clairvoyance, but extra-vision. His pa-
tient sees not only the money in other people's
pockets—but from Maidstone he sees all that is pass,•
ing on the way to London, and all the goings on, tie
doings, aye, and the sayings, of the Queen, the Prince
and the company! He reads the cards in the gentle-
men's pockets, and repeats their names to his mes-
meriser in Maidstone, at the very moment they are
announced at the Palace, &c., &c. It lightens in Lon-
don at the moment he is outside the Palace, and he
promises to " go up and see what it is" the first op-
portunity. But this Edward Willesden, the Sunday-
school teacher at Maidstone, is beaten by another
mesmeric youth, who goes up occasionally to the
moon, and describes to his operator all that is to be
seen there. It is actually affirmed that there is an
erratic genius of this kind in some midland county,
and that his revelations will be given to the world in
due time. To wade through one-half of the trash to
be found in this "Rationale" would be as tedious as
unprofitable. It is sufficient to point out that the able
and honourable men who maintain their belief in cer-
tain phenomena of mesmerism, aro not to be disgraced
by the madness or dishonesty of every enthusiast or
impostor.