The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, .11TILY 9, 1857.

Castle. I was busy sending out the extras for the patients
on half diet.
"I was irritated at being interrupted, and said, ` You
must please to walk out. I don't wa9tpetticoats here.'
"There were perhaps as many as thirty orderlies in the
kitchen, and I was cutting fowls and putting things ready
for them to carry away.
" Seeing the necessity of the case, she wont away ; and
when the hurry was over, she came back agniu, and said,
You were in a bad humour, Mrs. Davis.'
" I denied it, for I did not consider just displeasure as
bad humour.
" She said, 'I thought you were. ' You spoke very
sharply.'
" I told her that I was very busy, and thought that she
would not like to be there among the common men. So

[ she went away again,"
Mica Nightingale, however, appreciated her ser-
vices; ani her invincible integrity and sobriety
amen gso many of a different character, and when
her health at last failed from her unremitting exer-
tions, she offered to send her where the doctor re-
commende -I, at her own expense. Mrs. Davis, how-
ever, refused all the places selected, Malta, Smyrna,
and the South of France, for she wished to come
home; which she did, and is at present resting after
her varied adventures. ,The editress's appendix
has little to recommend it ; she has taken her ideas
from her heroine, without making due al'owance
for a prejudiced mind, and invincible obstinacy,
and she has taken up the cause of hospital nurses,
maintaining they have been very unjustly treated
and disparaged. It would be indeed satisfactory to
think that the clans was equal to her assertions,
but it is prepo.terous to infer that all are like Mrs.
Davis, who, with all her narrow-mindedne,s and
self-satisfaction, is a woman whose strength of cha-
racter and presence of mind, whose honesty and
truthfulness, are rare in any station. Unfirtu-
nately, it is too well known that the sight of
habitual suffering hardens the heart, and it
has been recently proved that some hospital
nurses are almost devoid of feeling. No doubt
some are worthy women and gentle nurses ;
it is always unjust-to condemn a class, but if the
edAress will turn to the, book shefrequently quotes,
"Eastern Hospitals and Engli.h Nurses," slo will
find a differed; of inion. -
It is an original and interesting work, giving a
sketch of a varied and adventurous life, and show-

ing the outline of an uncommon character. Had
the editress contented herself with publishing it as
the biography of a remarkable woman, who had
seen strange sights and visited many places, it
would have been more satisfactory than adopting
the opinion of a prejudiced witness, who perhaps
had not always the opportunity of judging, to at-
tack, on very insufficient foundations, the services
of Florence Nightingale. But setting aside this
drawback, it is fall of entertainment for the curiouß,

and will better serve to amuse a leisure hour than
many works of fiction.

Amusing Poetry. Edited by Shirley Brookes.
Lambert and Co.: London.

This cheap volume presents us with a collection
of all sc,rts of poetry, and all sorts of authors, induct;
ins, among others, Longfellow, Tennyson, Thomas
Hood, and the Edit )r himself. Old blllads and
now songs are mingled in pleasant confusion, and
form an agreeable book. Perh.ips an objection
may be fairly urged against the "cutting and
maiming" abridgment of many of the poems, as it
has tended to deteriorate the character and quality
of some of oar ancient and modern favourites.

THE GLASGOW POISONING CASE.I

EIGHTH DAY.
EDINBURGH, JULY 8.
The Dean of Faculty made an able speech for the
prisoner, contending that it was not proved that
the prisoner and L'Angelier met on the 19th of
February, and particularly that it was not proved
the prisoner possessed arsenic until the 21st of
February, though all the druggists' shops in Glas-
gow had been searched, and the prisoner's pur-
chases had been openly and frankly made. The
Crown must therefore choose between the horns of
this dilemma :—lf L'Angelier was then ill from
arsenic some other hand than the prisoner's
must have administered it ; if lie was not, the
whole foundation of the case was shaken. After
maintaining that the evidence disproved their
having met on the 22d of February, the second oc-
casion on which she was charged with attempting
to poison, be referred to the absence of all proof
whatever that they bad met the night before the
death of L'Angelier. The appointment was made
for Saturday, not Sunday. Piisoner went to her
bed late that night with her sister, and there
was not a tittle of evidence that the house
was disturbed or approached in the course of the
night. She could have had no motive to destroy
D'Angelier while he had such letters in bis posses•
sion,• and • every circumstance in the ease spoke
strongly against the probability of her committing
a foul and deliberate murder. After referring to
the probability of L'Angelier's death being the re-
sult of suicide or arising from other causes, he called
on the jury-not rashly to tear aside the veil of
mystery in which Providence had wrapped this
man, and in an eloquent and affecting peroration
prayed them to bring their hearts as well as their
minds into judgment in this case.
The Lord Justice Clerk commenced his charge
to the jury. He said, poisoning by arsenic was
almost always a secret crime, aiLl was generally to
be proved by circumstantial: evidence ; that evi-
dence, however, must be complete, distinct, and
satisfactory, and must exclude the possibility of
innocence or of unexplained mystery, and
they must not supply any defect in the pro-
secutor's case by suspicion or presumption against
the accused. They must be satisfied that the ac-
cused had the purpose and the opportunity ; they
must be satisfied the parties met that night.
They might have a strong suspicion they did so, or
the probabilities of the case might favour that
view ; but unless they could by just, satisfactory,
and inevitable inference conclude that they did
meet, a link remained wanting in the case, and the
catastrophe and its alleged cause were not found
together. The numerous theories for the defence
might not be of much value, but their failure could
in no way strengthen the case for the prosecution,
which must be of itself complete and conclusive,
and carry conviction to their minds. His lordship
had read over nearly a half of the parole evidence,
when the Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-
morrow (this day).

ETON COLLEGE.—A resignation has just arrived at
the Provost's Lodge, Eton College, from the Provost •
King's College, Cambridge, occasioned by the marring
of the Rev. Mr. Taiwan. Mr. Austen Leigh, captain
of the school, will consequently take his departure for
Cambridge. Mr. Austen Leigh is the fifth son of the
Vicar of Bray, and has distinguished himself whilst at
Eton by gaining the declamation prize, Christmas, 1856,
and Eager, 1857. Mr. Austen Leigh is succeeded by
Mr. Willis as captain of the school.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The result of the
poll has been unfavourable to the preference share-
holders. The directors' motion was declared carried by
a majority of 13,597 votes, representing 1,443,501 , lh,
stock.

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in force to the obligation to society and the state ? ALTON- TO WERS. and so on till you wonder what on earth they were
_
Lord John Russell regards the franchise as a trust, ____all built for, and under what possible combination
and in his view does a promise to eemmit a "The magnificent contents of Alton Towers, the of circumstances (unless the whole county were en-
breach of trust ho'd good against the duty to die- princely seat of the Earl of
Sihreeslerry, which, by , tertaiued), could they all be used.
cl.a-ge the trust honestly. order of Jec., dm., dec., will be sold by auction, by 1 The State bedrooms deserve especial notice • their
There is nothing startling in Mr. H. Berkeley's Messrs. Christie and Manson." So runs the erand- ' fittings are so gorecous and magnificent as literally
assertion that high moral authority sanctions the Roguent advertisement which announces that one almost to dazzle the eyes. The g. eatest efforts, of
breach of illicit engagements. If Lord John Rus- of tee noblest families in the Eng'ish peerage is ex- . course, are concentrated upon the bedstead and ap-
sell's servant were bribed to open his door to a raid- fillet, its effects for sale, and the manor over which ' pendages. The former is a very temple of Morpheus,
night thief or cut-throat, on which side should li- the pi emir]: earls of England have le id right and I and we should almost fear to say the exact amount
delity prevail at the lest moment, fidelity to the jurisdiction since the days of Henry 11. is about to of sleeping surface it contains, though it would cer-
master or fidelity to the robber or asssssin ? Lord J. pass into the keeping of straneers. Rustics, holy- tainly accommodate a whole Royalfamilywith ease.
Russell would see the true bcariegs of the morel day seekers from the manufacturing districts, coin_ Like Thackeray's bed of the Marquis of Carrabas, a .
doctrine clearly enough apart from the electoral , try gentlemen, and agents from London jostle and murder might be done at one end, and those sleep-
question, but he and most of his class have from ; crowd about the grand saloons and gall-ries. Serne ing at the other know nothing about it. The bed-
custom contracted very lax notions of the oblige- examine the various lots, note their numbers, and ' stead is adorned with towers and battlements,
tions of electors. A voter is in their v'ew a vessel I speculate upon their prices ; others wonder at the spires, domes, and turrets, all carved in oak and
having no more conscience concerned in what is ; splencleur around, or regale furtively upon the con- richly gilt, so as to make the whole 'affair, in fact,
deposited in it than a pipkin. I
1 ten, aof heavy baskets which they lug abut the pa- resemble a sleeping Alton Towers, but in which one
Lord John Russell lays much stress on the lia- lace, while Ruth and Giles, who till then never sat could not sleep, and would not like to try for all the
bility of electors to error. They are not infallible, ou anything softer than a (laity stool or five-barred world. The hangings and coverlid of the bed are
says he, and why should they be irresponsible? gate, recline with easy luxury upon the couches silk damask, elaborately embroidered with flowers
They should be irresonsible simply because, like the lin the music room. No place is shut agains-, the and gold tracery. The libraryancl ante-library are fit-
t
sovereign, it isimpossible to naske them responsible, curious, or closed to the depreciating eyes of would tad up wi h massive and leather sombre decorations in
there not being any safe and competent tribunal to be purchasers. The late e rri'a bedroom—plain, black oak, with short moral sentences in illuminated
discover their errors. Bribery, indee I, may be quiet, and unostemadous amid the general magni-
letters over each bookcase. The music and drawing-
detected, but how is the vote extorted by intimida- ficence—is still crowded as forming an import-ant rooms aredecoratei withraremagnificence. Mirrors,
-
tion against the sincere conviction to be discovered, portion of the show. Even the noble cba-
mosaic tablet., bald cabinets, Sevres vases, old
and how are the suffrages given for unreasonable pal, with its high vaulted roof and stained glass Dresden chanch lies, and maftive candelabra, with
and discreditable causes to be found out? The windoe-s, which seem to hush the very daylight gilt couches and chairs covered with embroi-
teibunal of public opinion is in this instance a fic- into a mournful silence, resoundriwith loud talhcing dared Utrecht velvet, make those saloons the very
tion or sheer fudge. Several boroughs have per- and the tread of feet as visitors pour in and out types of profuse luxury. These ceilings are carved
s'sted in returning men whose fraudulent offences each hour. High towers and chambers, the Doria oak with ornaments in blue and gold, and the arms
are notorious, and how has public opinion acted on apartments and suite of Arragon saloons and
, conserve- cypher of the fain ly upon the panels. The
them ? Has it shamed or corrected them ? Not a tories, galleries, and corridors, all, from roof to suites of Arragon and Doria rooms are, however,
jot. They boast and glory in their prefe- basement, are thrown open to the public and be- the most tasteful in ornament, and command the
rence for what the Americans call " smart come as thoroughfares, for the "magnificent con- most picturesque views of any in the building.
men ;" and two of them are only likely to be de tents of Alton Towers are on view." From the drawing-room of the latter suite an al-
prived of their worthy representative by process of The history of Alton Towers, which in a few most unequalled prospect is gained over the series
criminal trials. Neither collectively nor individu- weeks will be closed, may be soon told. Forty years of terraced gardens, fount sins, roseries, alcoves,
ally is there any responsibility for the suffrage, ago the site was one of the wildest and most and temples which lie beneath in shady nooks and
except the responsibility there ought not to be to desolate of moorland hills in North Stafford- corners of the deep ravines around the mansion.
the intimidator, the dictatorial individual, or the shire. The approaches to it were bad and difficult From the vicinity of the music-room a grand con-
savage mob. No one thinks if public opinion, or in summer, and in winter there was no approaching servatory, every groined arch in the roof of which
what its judgment will be in giving a vote, but it at all- The land was poor, almost destitute of wood is draped with flowering creepers and rich exotics,
many have unpleasant reflections of what the con- and water, and a large farm-house, called Alton- leads out into the private gardens, filling the large
sequences may be, either from the resentment of a lodge, in the centre of an extensive rabbit warren, square space enclosed by the buildings. These are
landlord, patron or customer, or from the violence occupied the spot in which the far-famed seat now beautifully laid out in the Italian style, and so as
of an excited rabble, rears its lofty towers. The c untry mansion of the to bring the parterres up to the windows of all the
We agree with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Earls of Shrewsbury was at that time Heythorp chief groundfloor apartments. The family cypher
that the Ballot bas reached that mature and im- Castle, in Oxfordshire, a grand old feudal residence is executed here on a large scale in shrubs and
portant epoch in the history of all great popular which with the whole of its contents was unfortu' flowering plants. Attached to this are the ro-
questions, " the practical stage." All that was to nately a few years back desmoyed by firs. Their series, a series of paths walled and closed in above
be done by argument was exhausted by Mr. Grote ; estates in St affordshire were seldom visited by tes with a trellis-work, and over which are trained every
all that ridicule could do in aid of reasouing has successive Earls, who on the rare occasions when known variety of the rose tree. The perfume which
been accomplished by Mr. Berkeley ; and the time they did inspect them limited their sojourn to a they shed through these secluded walks is almost
seems indeed come for the strenuous and combined few days only, and hastened back to forget the die-
overpowering. A private terrace leads from these
action of reformers necessary to prove that they are comforts of the visit in the luxury of Heythorp or gardens to a battlemented walk on the summit of
in earnest and determined to carry their point. Grafton-hall. In truth, they bad some reason to the ball which flanks one side of the mansion. The
Sir George Cornewall Lewis has done his best, avoid the place, for beyond the lonely farmhouse view from this extensive range of grounds and gar-
and without success, to 'tell the question back we have mentioned and Alton Castle—a mutilated dens beneath is one of the most beautiful and pie-
to the didactic stage, which was certainly more in stone remnant of the feudal times, which had been turesque that can possibly be conceived. At the
his power than to reconquer its humorous position. finally battered down and blown up by Cromwell—
doors of the turrets along the walks, in question-
Had it been possible to laugh the truth down, no decent house was within miles of the neighbour-
able taste, lay figures in complete armour, seem to
Lc rd Palmerston would have been the man for the hood. It wasnot till 1812 that Charles,the 15th Earl keep watch and ward, so that but for the peaceful-
occasion,ness of the scene the visitor might well imagine the
and would no doubt have been in his place who keenly appreciated the beauties of nature
todo it; butitwasprobablytheopinion °nil() Cabinet visited Alton-lodge, arid, struck with the rough first grim iron age of violence and rapine had re-
that their best chance was a little more dry discus- grandeur of the scenery around, and the unrivalled turned again.
siou, which ace.ll,ltS satisfactorily for their having facilities it would offer to a man of taste, deter-
No merely verbal description will convoy an ads.
left the battle of Tuesday night to be fought by rained to erect a villa there. When he commenced quate idea ot the rare beauty of the pleasure grounds.
their best master of that particular fence. his design, in 1814, his plan was only to improve Though the ground they cover is little more than
It is easy to imagine what the feeling of the and beautify the farmhouse thou existing, but the 50 acres in extent, yet the paths through them are
House of Commons must have been of a sultry natural capabilities of the place gradually led to an so winding and so diversified as to appear almost
summer night to hear the Chancellor of the Ex- extension of his views, and atter going to some ex-
endless. Both sides of the steep ravine down which
chequer state that "he was desirous toexamine the pens he at length decided to rear an edifice worthy they extend are divided into a series of terraces,
question practically." lie meant, of course, to con- of his rank and great possessions, To this object each of which is named and distinguished for some
' vey that Mr. 11. Berkeley had left that mode of he devoted himself exclusively, and, as a Roman surpassing natural or architectural beauty. Gra-
treating it to him ; but to us it appears that Mr. B, r- Catholic could not then take part in the political toes, fountains, temples, rockeries, statues, refuges,
keley's speech was far the more pratical of the two. movements of the day, he was enabled to pursue conservatories, and pagodas are disclosed by every
Ilowforexaanplewasitpossibletoaeguein more busi- his darling object undisturbed by the demands of VI inding path, or stand out boldly on little emi-
ness-like way for secret voting than by producing a party warfare. He obtained an iuclosure act, and nences overlooking the deep ravine. The conserve-
long array of strikiing and notorious facts illustra- planted and enclesed the hills and commons round tories area noble range of buildings ornamented in
tive of the evils of voting openly ? The practice of the edifice, formed a deer park, and planned the front with massive columns, and surmounted by
intim'dst'on will appear to most plain-thinking gardens, which for rich and picturesque beauty seven large gilded domes, which seem from the op-
people a strong practical reason for devisiug some leave Chatsworth or Trentham far behind. He was posits side of the ravine to impart to the whole
method of defeating it. Narratives of outrageous still labouring at the works at the time of his death structure the appearance of an eastern mosque or
things are always exciting ; nay, there is always a in 1827, when he left theperfectiug and completing palace. Above the terrace on which this stands is
spring of humour in them, as there is in romances of his great plan to John. the 16th Earl. He fol-
another row of conservatories, almost of the same
that symbolise by giants and ogres the abuses of lowed in the footsteps of his predecessor, and even size, with a portico in the centre and two large
strength and excesses of power. added to and improved on his designs. Under his gilded domes at either end. Amid the parterres in
When Sir Henry Ward brought t ,rward this queßtion care Alton Towers was finished almost as it stands front of the great conservatory is erected a fac simile
copy, in marle, of the Choragic monument of Lysie
he cited the case of an estate which had changed hands at present—one of the most picturesque mansions
crates at Athens, containing a bust of Earl Charles,
three times in a very few years. It first belonged to a in England.
Tory, then to a Whig, and then to a Tory again ; and at Alton Towers is situated on a lofty eminence in with the appropriate motto, "He made the desert
every election during that time the tenantry upon it in- the valley of the Churnet, one of the steep com-
smile." Above the upper conservatory is a terrace
variably voted in accordance with the politics of the manding hills which form the base of Derbyshire de'rated with double rows of marble statues and
landlord for the time being. (A laugh.) Again, in Lanark- Po ik. The house overlooks a narrow and very vases, and above this again is a terrace for the reser.
shire, during the life of the late Duke of Hamilton, who step ravine, which stretches southward for about voirs filled with aquatic plants, and on the uppermost
plateau of all a large imitation of Stonehenge has
was a Whig, his tenantry there always voted for a a mile
and a half, terminating in a wild, dark-look-
Whig, but when the present duke., who was a Tory, sue-
ing gorge, like one of the mountain outlets in South been erected. Lower down the ravine is the great
seeded to the ti le, they turned round and voted for the
Wale.. The approach to the Towers wiuds from the screw fountain, the path from which leads up to
Tory candidate at every election. (Laughter.)
railway station at A!ten up the steep ascent, which the Gothic temple—a handsome solid structure,
The mirth produced by such anecdotes as three
is due much more to the source we have just indi-
is so thickly wooded as almost to exclude the light from the summit of which is the finest view over
rated than to the speaker's agreeable manner of and give a sombre, melancholy aspect to the scene. the grounds and towers beyond. Golden gates lead
The house stands on the very edge of the ravine, from the gardens into the rock walk, which, wind-
whilerelating them. The house laughed repeatedly
edown eitimr side of which are the terraced gardens, ing for more than a mile, terminates at a rough
Mr. Berkeley read the memorial presented to
tier below tier, till the bottommost parterres mass of stone called Ina 's rock, in memory of the
the Marquis of Waterford, by his Trials tenantry
the are almost undistinguishable save for their bril- great battle fought on the spot between the Kings
dacious answer returned to it by
previous to the late general election and the au-
marquis's liant colours. The Towers themselves form of Mcrae and Wessex, Coelred and Ina. In the
gorge of the ravine is a tall Chinese pagoda, which
a with noble Gothic pile, vast as a little town,
agent. As there is light sod fire in flint,
a whole crowd of turrets and pinnacles has been converted into a fountain, and pours into
so there is a fun inseparable from mischief, . . .
stretchingd high. into the ,
air, and visible for miles the air all day a lofty spire of water.
and the humour of Mr. Berkeley's speech, chiefly
Such is a cursory. mention of the principal ob-
..arop . There is a wild and picturesque irregu-
flowing from his familiar acquaintance with the
area' about the structure which gives it an appear- jects in the gardens, which have been described by
monstrous details of his subject, was a hundred I
times more practical than the gravity that followed
an. ce of antiquity far beyond its real age. The prin- Loudon "as the finest combination of garden
cipal entrance is under a massive square tower of building with garden scenery anywhere existing in
without answering it.
the Gothic type, the broad steps up which are Europe. ' For some years past they have been con-
The division on the ballot in the new Parliament s
flanked with the armorial bearings of the family, sidered as public grounds to all the surrounding
neighbourhood, and thousands of visitors from the
is naturally a matter of interest both to the friends
and oonents of secret voting, and it is satin- the tyke or tallest rampant. Over the high Norman
manufacturing districts daily availed themselves of
factorypp to find that no ground has been lost. The doorway the emblazonments of the still older lanai-
number for Mr. H. Berkeley's motion was 189 lies from which the Talbots spring are deeply cut the privilege during the summer. No tickets were
,
required, and every one went in or out as he liked.
to which are to be added 24 pairs in favour, in stone, the shields of the Furnivallsland De Ver-
e Dsoinsday
With a most unusual amount of consideration for
making a total, including the two tellers, of 215, dons, whose names are foremost in tee
which is within one of the largest division ever Book, IN ith the martlet of the great house of Ne- the visitors, the predecessor of the late earl allowed
mustered for the Ballot. The adverse majority tilde, whose last heir, Warwick the King-meker, fell
a house for the sale of refreshments to be built in a
was composed of a strange jumble of 257 members, at the field of Barnet. The entrance-hall is an apart- secluded part of the grounds, where refreshments
about four-fifths of whom were inveterate anti- meet as large as a modern mansion, and nearly are sold at a moderate fixed rate. Gradually the
Reformers. The fact that nearly a third of the 60 feet iu height. Hung round with weapons, stags' mansion itself was thrown open—at first ou ticket',
house is for the ballot, and that the adverse two-
heads, and bunting trophies, it gives tee visitor a and freely then to all who came—and though hun-
thirds are mainly Tury, is full of significance._ good idea of the noble suite of apartments which dreds daily wandered
Examiner.
are to follow, and can be seen from the door, for a shilling's worth of loss ordamage was never sus-
communicating
with the hall is the armoury, and
tained.
joined to that again is the picture gallery, forming The Duke of Norfolk, who at present holds the
one magnificent vista nearly 500 feet in length, and property in trust for his second son, has with much
lofty iu proportion. The armoury is a splendid kindness determined to keep up the gardens (though
chamber, with a vaulted roof of carved and polished at a cost of 2,0001. a-year) fur the benefit of the
oak, and with every minor fitting, even to the doors public in the neighbourhood, who from long right
and door locks, in keeping with its severe and mas-
of use consider them almost as their own.
sive style of decoration. It i 3 adorned with a collec-
The sale commenced on Monday, and will con-
tion of antique weapons and armour, second iu ex- tinue for the next five weeks, when Alton Towers
tent, rarity, and value only to those of Meyrick will be stripped and desolate and closed for many
and the Tower of London. Twenty-four figures,
Onsold for 123 guineas, and a cattle
yearsi.. to come. Tuesday portrait of Philip IV.
sheathed from head to foot in complete mail, stand
guineas. When, the lit'
iga-
by easasqucz was
565
in niches on each side of the ball, and look so for- Piece by. Ouyp for
tion which is about to ensue respecting the real
miclably grim and silent, that one can fancy venge-
terminate is not, ful et es are watching from behind the barred vizors,
ever, quite so certain. The lawyers, we imagine,
ownership. of the estates will
how-
and though of course not frightened, would prefer
prove the real heirs to the property, and, not being left alone with them. Some of these suits
will(ably, after it has been involved for years in the
pro-
are most antique and valuable, complete in all the
meshes of Chancery, and exhausted by the constant
technicalities of pouldrons, gussets, lobster toppets,
cuisses, jambs, and sollarets. The rest of the hall is drain of retainers, refreshers, and reminders, and
filled with ismembered portions of cap-a-pie
all the lucrative devices employed to keep counsel
suits, rich to look at and uncomfortable to wear, constant, the despairing litigants may compromise,
with halberds, maces, half-pikes, bills, wheel-guns, and sell the encumbered property to the eons of
and double axes, ail presenting the same general some lad who is now sweeping out his master's
bloodthirsty features, and expressly constructed to warehouse in Cheapside, or arranging spools in a
gash and maim on the smallest provocation.
cotton mill at Manchester. Thus, then, may the
A fine old screen of pikes and partisans divides
hospitalities of Alton be revived hereafter, under
the armoury from the picture gallery, a spacious the auspices of a Viscount
Cripplegate or a Baron
building 120 feet long and 30feet high. It is lit Stockport. But Alton Towers just now is no
from the roof, and all its decorations are rich and Place in which to indulge in such reflections.
beautiful, harmonising well with the fine paintings,
The visitor must rouse, and make way for
mosaics. and sculpture which adorn its entire length. the bustling employs of Messrs. Christie
Here are examples from the Roman, Tuscan, Vs-
and
Royalty has reclined Manson. Let them' arrange
netian, Florentine, and Dutch schools of art • pic- whichned
in a manner likely to
the couches on
tures by Raffaele, Domenichino, Titian, Raffaellino, attract the bidders, and ticket the banners which
and Veronese ; designs by Michael Angelo, and have
been borne by the Earls of Shrewsbury in the
statues by Canova ; in all 700 paintings hang in
heat of battle
the galleries of Alton Towers. Of this large num-
armour kings.lace in the best light the massive
ber the fame and histor of about sixt are chroni-
Let them or waved at the coronation of our
yrt ; the others are mixed of the -renownedp John Talbot, the suit in
(led in every work on a
y
which he fought his way through France by the
works, such as one expects to meet in so large
countered Joan of Arc, and died full knightly under
side of the stout John Folstaffe, in. which he en-
and well-known a gallery. There are some remark-
the walls of Poictiers. It is a mere suit of armour
ably tine specimens by Rubens, i Wouvermans,
now, and the political associations of an extinct
and Cuyp among them. The greater part of these line go for nought, for the last heir male of the
paintings were purchased by the Shrewsbury family
Sbrewsburies has been laid at rest for ever, and the
in one lot, from the collection of Madame la Mere, ~ magnificent effects" of Alton Towers are for sale.
Bonaparte's mother. Here also is the most cele-
brated Roman Mosaic table in the kingdom, on
which the exotic birds and plants seem like pen-
cilleda drawings. At the end of the gallery s
d-
nificent statue of Raffaelle by Ceecarini,iaacd
of busts by Canova, a superb candelabrum of varie-
gated marble nine feet high, and
a copy of
the great
same size
Warwick vase in statuary marble,
of the
as the renowned original.
Chapter-house at Salisbury. One
noble column supports _
The picture gallery opens into the octagon cham-
car, a copy of the Chap
the groined roof, over which
its enriched capitals radiate in all directions. By
the side of the column is a representation of the
tomb of the first earl—old John Talbot—Shak-
speare's favourite hero, with his mailed feet resting
on a couchant hound, and his stony gaze fixed hard
and stern upon the intrusive crowd assembled to
haggle over the effects of his last descendant. From
this the visitor turns to the tribune of the Talbot
gallery, then to the Talbot gallery itself; then to
the Talbot corridor, which leads to the State bed
and dressing rooms, the library (two spacious
chambers), the ante-library, the poet's bay, small
dining-room, drawing-room, music-room, and so on
from room to room till the visitor is bewildered
am id countless chambers, all of which are furnished
in a style to extort both admiration and wonder.
It is useless to attempt describing how the rooms
are situated, or even all the rooms in the place.
We have the suite of Doria rooms, the Arragon
rooms, the chintz rooms, the red bedrooms, the yel-
low bedrooms, the plate-glass rooms, the south
rooms, the fleur-de-lis rooms east and
west, the
Sae= and billiard rooms, the upper red bedroom's,

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, July 9.—Wind this day at noon, W.N.W.;
light breeze, and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, July B.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.—
Sailed—Copenhagen, for Melbourne.
PLYMOUTH, July 8.---Wind N.N.E.— Sailed— Lady
Ann, Adelaide, S.A.
FALMOUTH, July B.—Wind N.—Arrived—lphegenia,
from Rio Janeird.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning•

Wind N.W.
Arrived—Alexander, from Quebec Teneriffe, screw
steamer, Palermo ; Caman, Callao ; Adelaide, St:John's.
N.B. ; Charleston ; Glenroy, Smyrna ; Magician,
Hamburgh ; Dart, Ostend.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
A
GiGRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.30 son;
Wind W.N.W. • tide low water ; fine.
Arrived, _Douglas, from G uernsey ; Gauline,
July
rrived, July 9—Centaur, from Rio Grande ; Margaret
leiAuzasa,dGtu;e Minerva, Riga; Thomas Hughes, Honduras;
EPollock, Quebec; Britannia, St. Stephens; Propitious,
Cberbourg ; Medway, Militello ; Concordia, Rotterdam.
Sailed, 9th—Sylph, for Bordeaux.

DEAL, Thursday morning, 9 a.m.
Wind W.N.W. ; light.
Passed, July B—Ellide, from Bergen, to Frankray ; Frani!
and Ernst, Cardiff, Lubeck; Rowallon, Aux Cayes, Rot.
terdam.

Passed, 9th—Elizaboth, brig, from outward, to. west!
nrcl,

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