The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-04 00:00:00

nPri 1 owe Ta up to the close of the year, 393 6d per 0,4 t;
llow, 373 to 37s 6.1 cwt, nP.,t cash; ro_,h

id per Slbs.
lurgh state that 3,000 cas,
ions rates.

aceJunts from St. Peters•
ilia of Tallow Lad sold at pre

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!"
hope to remedy, by means of your ext( onsive
circulation, the injustice suffered by a much in.* ed
and most unhappy set of interesting, amiable men,
called agriculturists, merely because our hares eat the
crops, and our horses level the fences ; like that ex-
cellent dish, called haricot, because it contains all
possible ingredients and condiments, except har;.cots.
Before the Agricultural Committee of Lords„ -1836,
an arithmetical fact transpired, which seems now
entirely forgotten—namely, that any rise or fat', say
of 10 per cent. in the market price of the prodoni:e of
our farms, is a rise or fall of 30 per cent. on our Real
property in that farm held in capite. Our farr aers, it
is clear, are bound to make three rents, one for 11,,
one for our plant, and one for themselves. In the
very general case of no lease, or lease expieed, we
never suffer them to retain on labour-skill-risk
grounds, more than they have already got, so tb at the
whole of that 30 per cent. rise or fall in the
market price annexes itself to (or defs lcates
itself from) our Real property. We have by royal
assignment the same beneficial interest in that 30 per
cent. that H. M. has in Bsgshot-heath or in the ex-
cellent Widdicomb. Now, if the statists had stated
this to us, or if the political economists had politely
said so, should we, could we, with such a per-cents ge
to lose, have made such a gallymawfry of protection,
with little Benjamin for guide. Tne agriculturists
unfortunately see nothing with their own eyes—
So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs,
Or dim suffusion veil'd.
Our advisers should have pointed out the voragine
into which we were rushing, like Curtius tutto
armato e guardandola. For here is no escape—yes-
tigia nulla retrorsum—the ratchet of popular zeal
has a spring of great volume, stubbornly tempered,
and which the power of progress alone can lift: teeth
of rack filed to a very acute angle forward: omnia
in advorsum spectantia. As each superincumbent
tooth ceases to act, the ratchet is forced, with im-
petuous recoil and jarring sound, well under the next
tooth, and the only difficulty is to keep the machinery
clean.

Stock this day • • • • • •
of y. C. [
to(
s d
OsOod
Delivery last week
Intto Worn Ju:le I• ..
• • •
ivals last week • I
Ditto from June 1 .
Price of Town •

1347.

1848. 1849. 1850.
14,542 13,221 36,472 43,370
50s 6d 51s 9d 39s Od to 355 d
to 514 Oa to 52i ed 05 Od to Os Od
1,236 3,159 2,166 1,4A7
65,016 75,689 72,167 67,375
259 1,771 f 2,714
68,935 51,809 101,13 G I 85,274

Os oa

52s Od 53s Od I 42s Od 39s 61

--------
- •efelree DAY.)
CHANCERY.—( l'"•••-
: The Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls sat
4 the Old Rail, Lincoln's Inn, to-Jay, to hear the
‘,
in
of " Dimes v the Grand Junction Canal Company,iee.
whieh r. Dimes appealed against ae order of the V
Queen's
Chaect Dor t f England, committing him to the
ts
Prison for a contempt of the Court in disoteyingi that
a
iljunction. Our readers will doubtless recollect t.tahe-
litigation has existed now fir nearly fourteen yealrienm.
twee') Mr. Dimes and the Grand Junction Ceuta.
through
Pally, relative to that part t f the ca! al that goes hl
trials
tee manor of Rickmensworth, and that several t 'hen P'ace in the courts ( f lcw with reseette
lt• Seine ewe since the Chancellor of Englandnie
grant
an injunction, rest: ainirg Mr. Le!
81.1.71 stn an
or impeding the truffle on the canal,
l u"s'llletle It was discovered by Mr. Dimes, on appeal
.o tee Lord
t 1 Chancellor, that his Lordship couldaa not
oga•lY decide the matter in dispute, inasmuch as c f
hish
e r.(l'hiP eas an interest !d party, in consequence
"'nig shares in the canal; and after that discoveryh wasdid
the nets in breach of the injunction for which detilwlitted. Upon application beinmade to theeLoed
yeencellor to hear te appeal of Mr. Dimes frore. thea
Oreer
consignint, him' toprison, his Lordship saiad_eer
Would
no, , .!the by himself t.
y, .. . uear application.
Jurisdiction had teen
jl?lisulting with the Masteerispuntfed,
the Rolls,
after
I,ls Let4ship appointed this morning for hearing the
-deal Motion only with Lord Laegdele.
.i.'"e!4le pANlEL'Sjproceeded at gre.at length to address his
'IcIIP on the behalf of Mr. Dimes, in favour of the
whole a-1) in de.ing which the Learned Counsel occupied the
Mrning.
Nei 95/IM ON 111,
t''ngs at Nisi Prin., at Westminster,—(TliiSbeD!forAe DAY.)
.rhisChief Jtatice WILDE and a Common Jury.)
was
an :U.DSPETU V. yAaNre
plaintiff, a come-
dian to ,_ action brought by t
Nil. te.over from the defendant, the lesce ne
.ehi.e,
fo, 104 Teatre, in Whitechapel-road, the sum
aofweek, ee
eaetwenty•treo and a halt-wee k's salary 1
bey" him 10 his capacity of an actor at the theatre,
lieen December, 1848, and September,
lete Joyce appeared as counsel fur the plaintiff, and
efethelhn re appeared
the defendant.
threoavieuri iebsatuarerish, formerly secretary to the defendant,
Plaintiff was engaged to play at the
et alts ovember, re
in
li 1848, and in the following month
telyte ber entered upon that engagement.
tee ;I's were put in written in N °veill:ri; 1848, by
ngage the
Pic_ enda shed her secretary,
ciPlfr for ensuin season at eaff'wreleekly salary of 21.,
"1
4 half " benefit.g
i kr. GerrgarlYcross-examination, said the plaintiff
Neel in
the
first
u io comedy.
On the 7th of the May
eariling there was " a commonwealth" in theh theatre,eaarks
of teZ ta4frs. was
being unable to pay
(Or hetutee When she gave up the theatre tot tehe actors
Tabfeolinonitight to Pay themselves out of the proceeds.
eceetoon I) CRIES' JUSTICE—What is meant by a
34r
I,wealth in the theatre?
Tee. e1411411---Mrs. Yarnold was deposed, my Lord.
suPpos,rth CIIIEF JUSTICE—There was a revolution, I
etr. p --(Laughter.)
Cre,,IIIIIIie-Exactly so.
!htoo,
el -examination resumed—The "commonwealth"
er;:ee 00 the 7th May, and endured three weeks.
of the
'4144! le netiee posted ia the green-room
I°ll tit the 4 tee 4th and 15th May, stating that the sea-
Waree theatre would close in about a fortnight after.
Prese ithat Waa not a proper notice, a month's notice
the us°atlll to ally season terminating being necessary by
Re.._ Re tf the profession.
441 Paillitled----The " commonwealth" lasted seven-
plat
and Mrs. Yarnold then resumed hers
Pia> eat Gilee Blake was engaged by the defendant to
fee, tly rho theatre in 1848. Recollected the plaintiff per-
leettcell• Did not know when ho came to playat_thee.
I,lertie„. eeeeld not remember dates.—(Laughter.)id Una
e,"lek h'ete aie.hr.istmas pantomime in 1848.
nettles, Plaintiff amused the audience before that.
(.114 4 ki;,,was not engaged at all at the theatre;. he played
estiese,erer of fri nd ship,and his remuneration was. for laugsh.l).' Witness terminated his
.en
leildleeie in August
;I' itt - -:-.1, Was Pia in' 1848,
t4tBlLe wthheeantreMbrefYiraeriThiadt time.die died.
Illtiloerae7" ernPl4nagent at the theatre as a dramatic
''''e lit "'ter Ur• Y ll'e death. Saw Mrs. Yarnold
thethese
.t 1 alnetwho him
(witness) for
dept 01 be Pro uctions, pairs
ene. liot know when the theatre closed; never
e its.
dil4l>tained—Sometimes went to witness his own
sreetets-s• A Mr. Joseph Kersbeer was mar.aging
tee or of e e .
yeleeee „'l theatre. Once volunteered to adjust a
'Note "tween Kerahner and Mrs. Yarnold. Mrs.
ver
1,114 tee deedwsllthe recognised lessee of the theatre. Ne ‘lseole of partnership between Kershner acd Mrs.
Ar PAlNpe:lptt,'"t;riat,,N, in his address to the jury for the defence,
ft. of th e !his as a very unworthy attempt on the
hilr WeiellehPlaintiff to fix the defendantl with a charge
eelB4aktese thoEilttnely vvellshe,rwas
()lot% adoenaethliainble,
August,since
. i the.. • after Mr. e.arn
`4tre and a Mr. liershner in the management of the
lee ir
titter:et, Doerr ,Svean, a solicitor, in Great Knightßofydtehre-
-44elldaet?" 4 Commone, produced en the part _ _
Ryder-
-1 weell a deed ~f partnership, dated 19th May, 1849,
Nati ''sePh le h
itie. t, to
we. ers ner and. Emma Yarnold, thede-
d gee. etch deed he (witness)
44 ee Lee partn h'Ras an attesting ier, the eet.. ens ip commencedto
11;4 • Opo 1 and was to endure 2astwhelle March, rac hrt,e after the
elitre ierge Wilson, acting-Manager at. the Pavilion
bit. weilltelehineelB49, and acted in that c%aeißty,
mtiepnabered
joeill'Xotie" 9f the " Commonwealth,. tie tPerteenYen that year, when Mr. iershoteermcaanmaegaes-
terile,t:f teet,w, wit
Mrs. Yarnold, and took thesolf
the totpart-
tleflttt' est' e. Rad announced the, fact
tlet he ..C.ntnPany previous to Mr. Kitr
whanaeri'snetizaiinegd,
ett4.therettft_a_leyfe among
the rest.he . . lYareoleeeelr. leershner would . jointly liable with
114 he Lerde to the company fir their salaries. Ilehewe Chief Justice `TILDE having summed up
date'. jure f
title ne zei 401 It verdict for
the
to him by the
plaintiff for 431., de-
Wtell:lttnt 1"' `1(le cash already paid vet of three
lei a ,eryor his services, and 6/. in resp ttrilike ee tees during e tee cenemenwealth," 1 eying a
*lllOl ,1"2/. lls. Bd. due t) the plaintiff, the reeal sum
h '4O Verdiet was given.
tilkle, g
Pr, 141,L coURT.—('THIS DAY.)
A 'he 1,
t 4 k,,, .OLD CO U R7l
etl'Oths r %tee, 03'
thingssittin of the Central Criminal Court
ore silenced morning in the Old Court, before
Musgrove,
kie'rb' Pin , the Recorder, Aldermen
I.'4l'l'l' 1141111'1 and Carden, and Sheriffs Lawranceeesivnide
11;1‘1°114ieetIscit)(1 by the Under-Sheriffs and other I,We°,4rse a•
' tolll4one:.itiou of the calender contains the names of
Middlesex,
ele;atez:s, being 32 for London, 53 fur
Ito The el. 12 for leent and 31 for Surrey.
klell Ind jet's, h :
10'11'4 he,* e eateng been selected, sworn, and
tose, eeoee„
'4, 'leek eeeet en prcceeded to ch.arge. them to the
1:lth t toe, e--The calendar which lay before him,
It 4' aetelArehe.nda The' names of 123 persons, charged
the al ereeeelonious offences, differing only in degree.
Ili neret;llne to
i tlal ee him to be able to inform themo that
it iteem fell considerably short
has
litle) N., ler of prisoners at this periodr
SeB,tel4iti ,°,l,l3lting at the long interval which h.a
;el'`,N't awareefee '',."" period of the l st sessions. The juris-
lect -8
ti
eat d d aas no doubt the ..Iw7
'''oll4),' eer%Zer, a popueletitieon' of upwards of two muts;
ftNtOadt;eLa"d the gratification which
1t Orilla ,',"e Dumber of cases diminished walolulm.d.ebhe
'4 et' 'ere 4ee be a reference to a statement ht
tlieetisNttelanl..l, and which brought into comteeawrpieco_n_
e'et til Yette e'; the year 1849 with those of nre
4ts% NI . tee feund in this document a statementr__
oet eerie inittai, f
at.'ned filet, eor the year had decreased by 09e
eerie ,ee whale this improvement was
o„., tittri loth Whn, r cause 4ti m, tiler wtever happy circumstances it
.might be
listeeitleieZerlileeoneWti.sano doubt that it indicated an improved
lion4ti eer.l. ef "logreat body of the people. The mere
e etch PtePerty by unlae means nes.
em, ntl Peelle , 'ecee Pel, "aril Arose from fats tate of destitu-
Coh„ tki,s, Ity,
tomeagedBlirl inched;ll. is . this
4 and 'description of offence had
el):r I ' 'in with regard to the other offences
r 'ariv, 4 Cale d
ratty much the
ret,,Ariv. ,e ar, they were p •
late gee Of' h ''eh yet of the whole number. of 123
hembraced
e,eenlea fi,44i11,, 4rgeS of larceny, wine ,
ectil;aeta. TA t-t,lreeny, larceny in. dwelling-hone ~ elle Illeeeel 11 et4P-rson, and larcenies committedvebryy 114(1%4 Of 1 deer:. ef embezzlement there was a_ 5
I Wee tehe 's'aewhile, with the exception of PI air "IA in
erb
AO
!he 'etie ne. teeJe_tmotia the person and. 4ef cutting lte'tesei the no: were no cases cf a serious character
the arses
04r4P13trerilan• He was happy to say, also, that
to eou., ag. "ea of the calendar did not pr
sent
111134:entiori to the extent which hitherto
V4ll,ttl.etri tport" jury bad had the misfortune
Ilse lee
y Nu, .the whole, thermore, he had
.most
%et. at to u4sl elk' 11 stating, that looking at the inter-
til 4, it.: elapsed
Since the last session, the calendar
e o Nhl son sse
eel th,4 e dee_ ith former sessions presented averoy
thrones IvreieZlse in the number and characterinutinnf
!see Iteetch %emit contained, and since the dim
1 tilt tl4d i . Whole of the preceding year they
o1e4)01:lent n Indillgin
t it
send, were
Kritgclutahlei hope that the metropolis
y and sttaiily improving
At4lktl'e, hielltteh, tic'w• The state of the ealeadar, then,
0a ,t,!) tr did
e.,, net appear to be necessary
'it -.+4 -• ee evass any length upon the
kactt th !I Jury•
IN .•r, t' (hire , oralo dirct it to the
~lawemas. 41:4: ettl•jotl: uterclflitneerilryellte charges which the calendar
„, Peaking they simply involvtd
hi teeror tee ;!. n'tlich intelligent
ereieh ~e Wee '0'4.1'37 Woul have no difficulty in deciding.
gentlemen in
.the
tl4lll tan
14 147'e cased
Of to three individuals
%etepee% gore,c'7, out of the ordinary course, and to
te 14ledeen.e 'wished particularly to direct thee.
eiNmee eleeeeee_tee charg which was comprehended
ee,:tee,
itwlllth e'or'geiantlen of forgery. The parties warn
4llteNed ‘2l the Jur g the Paper money of a foreign
and t 414 the rat wouli find the law bearing on the
tt-othowfhieh- offe4ce in William IV., c. 16, s. 19, which
elehilltilit/ „froPeleleicletle various
weahyes, differingfin degree,in
Iltielt4etietapiecip".err:
with
to the
.oWaerautso of proving
that Power in
-to ;a e the Party accused. That
9111 Y ous 411ing out of the

Nor is this the only offence of political economists
against the grand theory EX

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1850
-()lsusT AN

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Friday night there was the repetition of one
of the scenes for which past Houses of Commons have
been famous, on occasion of your representative's
insisting on stating the case of the Bradford manu-
facturers and operatives, as he was engaged to do by
what had passed at his last visit to your town.
At the same time it is but justice to say, that there
were evidences that the progress of the age has made
its way in this direction as well as others. The dif-
ficulty of being heard, it is true, was such as, though
tolerably experienced in the kind of thing from ser-
vice with the League, I never remember equalled
except in the meeting of the representatives of the
League with the Chartists in the Town Hall of Bir-
mingham in February 1844. But the noises were
all human. Neither ass nor cock lift up their voices in
the agricultural ranks. For all signs of the march of
intellect, let us be duly thankful.
Not to repeat without necessity, I will refer you to
the best report that circumstances would admit of, in
the columns of Saturday's Sun. My business now is
to impress on you, and on our friends in still more
extensive manufacturing communities with whom I
have no doubt a constant and lively sympathy is
maintained, the importance of two or three leading
points; and I do it with the confidence of one who
has not been altogether unsuccesi-ful in times past, in
pointing out the road to present liberation and to
future safety.
The first point I want to impress, is the importance
of keeping up the habit and practice of Public Meet •
ings, for the purpose of examining with deliberation
the questions which the constitution and practice of
Parliament are not adapted for entertaining. If cer-
tain propositions connected with the preservation of
your rights and fortunes, turn Parliament into a
whirlpool,it is in the calm shades of the Free
Trade Hall,
building, that the discussion must necessarily be
and your own Temperance-devoted
carried on. Or if the simple fact were that the
Parliamentary vessel overflows, it would be an out-
rageous policy that would think of blaming our at-
tempt to preserve the over-runnings.
The second point is, that the question the Protec-
tionist party cannot bear to be pressed with, is that
of justice. Pinch them there, "and like an unsound horse
they cough. We have what in military language is
called, felt the enemy, and ascertained the point
on which he is most jealous of being ap-
proached. It utterly breaks down their patience to
be asked, why:a manufacturer or operative of Bradford
should not as well call for a twenty years' tax of twenty
shillings a quarter on home-grown corn as the means
of increasing the quantity of his goods which shall be
exported to pay for corn, as the agriculturists demand
a tax of the same nature or a return to it. But
there are circumstances in their case which claim your
commiseration. They have unhappily been born to
the belief, or have imbibed it from the instructions of
their fathers, that they have the same right to your
property and labour which a proprietor in South Ca-
rolina thinks he has in his negroes. There are ex-
ceptions ; but the irrational are perfectly intractable in
their insanity. They may disguise it as they please,
but your genuine Protectionist honestly believes that
if all the Orchidaceous plants of South America are
collected at Crow Nest, it is so much clear robbery
of what ought to have been handed over to the
agriculturist body ; and that if the hospitalities
of your Mayor approximate to those of his metropo-
litan elder brother, it is only the result of the same
moral obliquity. You cannot set right the under-
standings of your adversaries, except by effectually
resisting them.
My third point is to try to throw light on the road
to such resistance. The Protectionists are loud and
incessant in their assurances that they will persevere
till they get back again. Ask then, on what their
actual strength, and with it their chance of getting
back again, depends. It depends, among other things,
en this ;—that there is an organization by which Man-
chester with its fourteen thousand constituents, and
the Tower Hamlets with its fifteen thousand, and you
with your four thousand if it is grown to so much
since the last election, shall each send to Parliament
the same number of votes as a little agricultural
borough with three hundred. Put the case, that
all the constituencies sent a number of representa-
tives proportioned to their numbers, but the law
was that in any contest between the commercial and
the agricultural interests, fifty votes in one lobby
should only count for one in the other. Fancy that
it was the duty of the Speaker to say, on a division
in the success of which you were interested, " The
Ayes to the One-per-head lobby, the Noes to the
Fifty," and you will see the full deformity of
the system which applies the same rule under a dif-
ferent aspect. As sensible men, will you continue
this, when, like Bunyan's Pilgrim, you " have the
key called Promise in your pocket." If the operative
classes would drop the delusions of a visionary
Socialism, which has filled Europe with blood
and tears when every country in Europe
might at this moment have been in the en-
joyment of constitutional governments, and instead
of that apply themselves to a hearty Jur otion with the
Free Traders for bringing the representation to some-
thing like a fair position for the interests of the differ-
ent classes of the industrial community,—and if your
wealthier classes would use the calm which in-
creased comfort has induced in the minds of
those in their employment, in pointing out
the strong interest employers and employed have
in pulling down the stronghold of those who are at
thii moment riding round your borders and swearing
that half of every morsel which goes into the mouth
of a Bradford labourer is theirs and they will have.it,
—a force of united opinion might be produced,
before which it is the avowed necessity of all parties
in this •country to bow. You must drive your
adversaries farther, or they vow and protest
that they will drive you. I want to see the leaders and
the men go together. The Free Trade notorieties are
the ready-made guides. The men are the operative
classes, who, if they will not move on this most in-
viting of occasions to preserve the feeding of themselves
and families, will leave me nothing to request of them
but that in the season of their repentance, they will
record that their representative did the duty of an
honest man in doing his best to point out to them
the way.
If your representative is told he should have risen
reply, that he rose five
times,earli er, a
nhde
whatwill
couldprob ay
man
bl
do
more ?
On another opportunity you shall receive more in
elucidation of our position.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, Feb. 4, 1850.

PROTECTI__ -ALYSIS
THE DIVISION ON THE ADDRESS,

(FpritoolterheioHNeirstiTs/d.)
Present of Country party Tellers "'
Pairs ...
Present 'Whig Protectionists

Absent of Country party, without pairs
Country party supporting Government

}ME
Whigs and Radicals preseE
ntTRADERS. ...
Tellers ..
Pairs ... ••• ••• ••
Peelites . ... ..• .
Desertions from Country party..

OF

COUNTRY PARTY ABS
Alexander, N.
Alford, Viscount (ill)
Arbuthnot, General
Benett, J.
Blackstone, W. S.
Blair, S.
Brackley, Viscount (ill)
Brooke, Sir A. (ill)
Chichester, Lord J.
Christy, S.
CliTo, lion. R.
Dundas, G.
Edwards, H.
Egerton, W. T.
Ftothou, J.
Gordon, Admiral
Gore, W., jun.
Houldsworth, T. (ill)
Hughes, J. B.
DESERTED AND VOTED AGAINST AMENDMENT,
Acland, Sir T. D. Johnston, Sir J.
Cubitt, W. Legh, G. C.
Cocks, T. S. Monsell, W.
Currie, H. Pakingt n, Sir J.
Drumlanrig, Lord Plowden, W. H.
Duncuft, J. Pugh, D.
Emlyn, Lord Reid, Colonel
Greenall, G. Sandars, George
Hayes, Sir E. Sandars, J.
Heald, J. Stuart, H.
Heneage, G. W. Turner, G.
TEN WIIIGS AND FEELITES WHO VOTED FOB THE
AMENDMENT.
Grattan, H.
Harcourt, G. G. (Peelite
Heathcote, G.
Pusey, P. (Peelite)
Sadleir, J.
SUPPORTED GOVERNMENT,
Lindsay, Hon. Colonel
Lockhart, A. E.
Mackinnon, W. A.
Mahon, Viscount
Martin, C. W.
Mure, Colonel
Owen, Sir J.
Palmer, Roundell
Peel, Right Hon. Sir R.
Peel, Colonel
Peel, F.
Smythe, Hon. G.
Thesiger, Sir F.
Villiers. Viscount
Wellesley, Lord C.
Wortley, Right Hon. J. S.
Young, Sir J.

lENT WITHOUT PAIRS.
Hall, Colonel (unavoidably
absent at Windsor
Castle)
Lennox, Lord A. (ill)
Lockhart, Major
Macnaghten, Sir E.
Newry, Lord
O'Brien, Sir L.
Pennent, Colonel
Pigot, Sir R.
Robinson, G. (ill)
St. George, Christopher
Sidney, Alderman
Stephenson, R.
Vesey, Hon. J.
Vivian, J. E.
Vyvyan, Sir R.
Wegg, P. F. R.
West, F. R.

Barron, Eit H.
Berkeley, Hon. G.
Cayley, E. S.
Cholmeley, Sir W.
Dunne, Colonel
THIRTY-FOUR PRELIM Will
Beckett, W.
Cardwell, E.
Charteris, Hon. F.
Clerk, Right Hon. Sir G.
Copeland, Alderman
Douglas, Sir C. E.
Douro, Marquis
Estcourt, J. B.
Fitzroy, Hon. IL
Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E.
Goulburn, Right Hon. H.
Graham, Right lion. Sir J.
Herbert, Hon. S.
Hervey, Lord A.
Hogg, Sir J. W.
Jermyn, Earl
Lewis, Right Hon. Sir T.

Mandeville, Viscount
Lacy, H. C.
Burrell, Sir C. M.
Tyrell, Sir J. T.
Lewisham, Viscount
Hope, Sir John
Renton, J. C.
Ossulton, Lord
Kerrison, Sir E.

INFORMATION for the MILLION.
yourTO TI I E
paperE DITo Of RT
Tuesday Jan. 2. 9 ,
there is an article headed "Drinking," from Eliza
Cook's Journal. uOFd aTy IIE
evening,SUlV.

I have always been an admirer, and am so still, of
whatever comes from her pen, especially in the pre-
sent case, where she clearly establishes the insane and
unnecessary prtotice of drinking,—the more so as she
proves to a demonstration that drink, with its villan-
sus compounds, brings on premature death.
What can be more beautiful than where she sap,
" Drink destroys man's self-respect, eats
away his
moral character, makes him powerless to resist the
insidious approaches of vice, saps the foundation of his
spiritual being, ruins his health, brutalizes his intel-
lect, impoverishes his family, desolates his home, and
spreads a moral pestilence throughout society."
In one part of her letter I respectfully beg to set
her right (also the public), where she says commercial
men treat their customers ; this is very seldom the
case (there may be a few honourable exceptions), but
it is a well known fact in the commercial world,
generally speaking, that customers treat the commer-
cials. There is not much thought of a commercial if
he is not up to the scheme of selling a few articles,
in the course of taking his order, at a price sufficient
to make both of them drunk that evening. Who pays
for it? of course the shopkeeper, and what is worse
the shopkeeper loses twice as much the next day, not
being fit to attend to his business from a bad headache
occasioned by the villanous compounds put into the
liquor by the innkeeper, so as to have double profit,
not caring about the life of either the commercial
or shopkeeper. Meantime I beg to assure Miss
Cook that the commercial men of the present day are
not the abject wretches she thinks them ; they are
very much reclaimed from what they used to be
twenty years ago; at that time they used to swim in
whisky, brandy, and gin,
but now they float lin a
more pure and intellectual atmosphere, and are becom-
ing every day more and more enlightened, so as to be
an ornament to society—a benefit to the State and
their fellow-man (Cobden to wit)—so much so that
in a very short time drinking will altogether be
banished from their minds.

I recollect I:;inglciOf an occurrence once taking
place in Berkshire of a commercial asking his cus-
tomer to take a pipe with him in the evening,—this
was one who forgot to lay on a little additional profit
in taking his order; he never forgot that pipe, nor
never will, it cost him about 6s. or 75.; as for the pipe
and tobacco it was nothing, it was the trimmings that
did the mischief (the whisky and brandy that fol-
lowed) ; he has assured me that ever since that he
would not run the risk again of even asking his
father to take a pipe for fear of the consequences.
PAUL play
Of the new school, who dislikes either arsenic,
whisky, or brandy—the one is certain death,
the others, in the villanous compound state yon
get them, produce the worst of all deaths—a
lingering one.

PREFERMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor has pre•
santed the Reverend Charles Whately to the rectory cf
Taplow, Bucks. His Lordship has also presented the
Reverend Joseph Willey to the vicrage of Druz, York-
shire; and the Rev. Thomas 11111 to the perpetual cu-
racy of Bs, Trinity, Mit:gale&

THE MAGAZINES, &c.
BLACK WOOD.
Oliver Goldsmith furnishiis a l›.autiful theme fur a
biographical paper, prefixed to the miscellaneous con-
tributions in the February number of Blackwood.
Regarding Mr. Washington Irving as the best, be-
cause the least discursive, biographer of Goldsmith,,
the magazine writer pens upon his recently re-written.
Life a genial and most agreeable criticism. Nothing
can be in snore excellent taste than this able and
fascinating review—throughout earnest, discrimina-
tive, and judicious. The exceptions drawn to the argu-
ment of both Mr. Irving and Mr. Forster, to the effect,
that our author was a fop less from any innate vanity
than from a painful consciousness of his own personal
deficiencies, are the most ingenious, but it appears
to us the least ingenious, too, of all the adverse com-
ments on those two generous and intelligent bio-
graphers. That a theory so kindly should excite
the spleen of any reviewer is to us matter for
astonishment, and splenetic assuredly the annotations
are, upon those divisions of the two performances.
The estimate given of the personal character and in-
tellectual capacity of Oliver Goldsmith, by way of
induction to the notice of his wayward and chequered
career, is conceived in a very different temper,
and is altogether admirably accurate The portraiture
of his unpropitious youth, the account of his dullness
at school and college, the record of his eccentric and
improvident manhood, are all excellent. But most
excellent of all is the mention made of his untimely
death at 46 years of age, and the deep affliction felt
by all his loving friends at his departure. Beautifully
has Washington Irving penned this portion of his
narrative, telling us how Burke, "on hearing the
news, burst into tears ;" how Sir Joshua Reynolds
" threw aside his pencil for the day, and grieved
more than he had done in times of great family dis-
tress ;" how Dr. M'Donnell " wept bitterly at the
intelligence ;" and bow Dr. Johnson " felt the
blow deeply and gloomily." Then it is, moreover, that
we hear with tender admiration that there was heard
the " lamentation of the old and infirm, and the sob •
bing of women" on the stairs leading to
the poor dead
poet's chambers in the Temple, while the reader's
heart melts within him at that charming but affecting
incident of the coffin-lid being unscrewed to cut off a
lock of Oliver Goldsmith's hair at the request of a
lady, a particular friend--that lock of his hair being
treasured to her dying day by the beautiful Mary
Horneck, the Jessainy Bride I Twu delightful
magazine papers follow this admirable biographic
sketch of Goldsmith, the one entitled the " Siege of
Dunbeg, or the Stratagems of War ;" the other
headed "Agrippa d'Aubigne and Madame de Main-
tuon." Every artist in England should turn to the
subsequent contribution—being a most judicious,
careful, and intelligent criticism on the recently
published memoir of William Collins, Royal
Academician. The preliminary remarks eulogistic
of the style of Georgio Vasari are to us most
agreeable, seeing that that glorious biographer has
ever been numbered among our especial favourites.
"The Green Hand" drags its slow length along,
without affording any apparent token of its approach
ing termination. After another elaborated exposition
of the evils of free trade and the advantages (!) of pro-
tection' Blackwood, in a huge appendix of 122 closely
printed pages, gives verbatim at seriatim the opinions
expressed by various journals upon its previous dis-
quisition on " British Agriculture and Foreign Com-
petition." The article and its cumbrous supplement
demand more than a merely passing consideration.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
The present number of Bentley opens with the
three first chapters of the second book of Mr. Robert
Bell's admirable novel " The Ladder of Gold," a
work which is destined to hold a permanent place
among the English classics as the best portraiture of
the life and manners of the English people during the
first half of the nineteenth century that has yet been
given to the public. Without the exaggeration of
Dickens or the caricature of Thackeray, Mr. Bell
is equal to either as an appreciator and delineator
of character, manners, and customs, and superior to
either as a describer of out-of-door scenery. In these
chapters Richard Rawlings, the hero, ascends various
steps of the ladder of gold ; having married the
widow of Raggles, and succeeded to the shop, he
soon after acquires a great increase of pro-
perty in consequence of the death of the uncle
of his wife at Tours, to which city he goes to reap
the rich succession. He travels to Paris with a cer-
tain Mr. Turn Chippendale, a shrewd London attorney,
who directs him to an agent at Tours, a Mr. Sloake,
an Englishman, and this gives occasion to a delight.
ful little episode, which reads like an unpublished
fragment of Sterne's. On his return to England
Richard Rawlings invests certain sums of money,
under the advice of Mr. Chippendale, from which he
derives a large profit. " The first taste of gold-
breeding experience," says our author, "is like the
taste of blood," and we are, therefore, not
surprised to find that Richard Rawlings dis-
poses of his shop, takes a "residence," and becomes
money lender o❑ a large scale. The scene in which
"he transacts important business" with Lord Valte-
line, is one of the most admirably-finished pen-and-
ink pictures ever drawn. This scene, and the scene
of the departure of the Rawlingses per coach from
Yarlton, are the subjects of the two illustrations of
Bentley fir the present month. The "Ladder of
Gold" is followed by a dry and humorous Yankee
story, showing " how Simon Suggs raised Jack," and
Maxwell begins the" Biography of Richard Raffety,"
a gentleman whose further acquaintance we much
desire to cultivate. Mr. S. D. liuygbue, a gentle-
man who was employed in Canada under the Boun-
dary Commission, contributes an interesting ac-
count of a winter passed in the back woods
of Canada, and " Turtini's ,Familiar" gives us
a pleasant biography of Frederick Chopin.
" Old Times, by Captain Blue Anchor, R.N.,' of
which we have here the first number, promises well.
" Le Potage de Caporal" is one of the best yarns that
has been spun for many a long day " The Souve-
nirs of Versailles, St. Cloud, Neuilly, and the
Tuileries," also promise to be of much interest. No
buildings are so rich in legends of love, intrigue, and
crime, as the palaces of the Kings of France. The
present paper, entitled the " Galerie de Bourbon

gives a thrilling history of the poisoning of the D.►u-
phin, the father of Louis XVI., by the Jesuits (of
which body he was a member), in revenge for his
alleged inability to prevent the expulsion of the order
from Prance. There are several other interesting
papers in Bentley besides the usual admirable
review of the current literature of the month.

FRASER.
Could the author of the paper "On the State and Pro-
spects of the Country,"in the present number of Fraser,
have foreseen the result of the two divisions on the
Address, he would certainly have greatly modified
the opinions therein expressed. For months past
Fraser has been halting between two opinions, but
has always rather inclined towards free trade; fright-
ened, however, from his propriety by the bellowing of
the Bucolics (which, as having been admitted for-
merly behind the scenes, he ought to be aware is vox
et pretereanihil), he ventures to predict " that either
this Parliament or some other will return to a mode-
rate system of protection." The day on which that
prediction was uttered the House of Lords rejected,
by a majority of 49, the Protectionist amendment to
the Address, and on the day following the
House of Commons, by a majority of 119,
rejected a similar amendment. We differ
from the author of the paper "On the Drain-
age, of the Metropolis." He would still permit
the sewage to run into the Thames, we, on the other
hand, contend that no proposal for drainage can be
admissible which does not preserve the Thames free
from pollution. The interesting story of " The
Dom of Dantzic " is concluded ; as are the ad-
mirable " Sketches of North Devon." We have
a review of Mr. Bright's Opinions on Ireland,
which are, of course, unequivocally condemned by
the aristocracy-loving Fraser, an admirable review
by " Morgan Rattler" of Mr. C Jrnwalle Lewis's,
" Essay on the influence of Authority in Matters of
Opinion," an exquisitely beautiful Lyric "On the
Battle of Alliwal," besides several other papers of
interest.

NE W MONTHLY.
A. poem, " Jaffar," by Leigh Hunt, contained in
the opening pages of the New Monthly, is gracefully
inscribed to the memory of Shelley, thus:—
" Shelley, take this to thy dear memory;—
'l'o praise the generous is to think of thee."
Horace Smith's tale of " Love at First Sight" is con-
cluded after the fashion of " all's well that ends well."
The drowned lady whose sad fate was recounted last
month was not the heroine, but her sister. The pro-
posed communications between the Atlantic and the
Pacific form the subject of a very interesting article.
That " the love of poetry is not extinct " is gracefully
proved by Mr. Alaric Watts in some stanzas bearing
that title, in which are enumerated a few of
theinnu-
merable and blessed achievements of th poet.

" As Moses like, you struck the heart
With the charmed wand of song,"

is one of many beautiful thoughts contained in these
verses, which seek to prove
- -

" Tho love of song can never fade
AV hilst gentle hearts aro rife.,
To feel the sunshine and the balm

It sheds on human life."
Many very interesting papers are contained in this,
which is a very excellent number of the Ne;<,
Monthly.

UNITED SERVICE.
Lieut.-Colonel Wilkie has written on " The Pay of
the Army," and, utterly heedless of Mr. Cobden,
advocates iti augmentation. The article on " Pun-
ishment and Crime" is to a certain extent just, but in
some respects too severe, especially in allusion to
corporal punishment.. IN o say so undeterred by
the complimentary muendo c01:4414cl iu the