The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING,

DAVID COPPERFIELD. No. ]VII.
By Charles Dickens.
Two extraordinary incidents in the career of David
Copperfield are recorded in this portion of his auto-
biography. We allude to the explosion of the mine
under the feet of the villanous Uriah Heap, and the
premature death of poor little Dora. The former
occurrence is described with remarkable skill—every
circumstance by which it is introduced tending to
heighten the curiosity of all those who were interested
in the humane machinations of Mr. Micawber at
Canterbury. That gentleman " comes out" in
great strength on the occasion, and the partner of his
bosom reveals yet more conspicuously than ever
the exceeding simplicity, we might almost say im-
becile stupidity, of her character. Once, when she
replies to the inquiry of Aunt Betsey, if those around
her were all ber family—" There are no more at
present ;" and again when, immediately there is a
prospect of Mr. Micawber's proceeding to Australia,
she asks if in the new country there would be a
chance of his rising in the social scale—" I will not
say, at present," she observes, "might he aspire to be
Governor, or anything of that sort; but would there
be a reasonable opening for his talents to develope
themselves ?" Poor Mr. Dick's delight at Mr. Mi-
cawber's calling him " Mr. Dixon," is capital. " Mr.
Dixon," says David, " was so pleased with his new
name, and appeared to think it so very obliging in
Mr. Micawber to confer it upon him, that he shook
hands with him again, and laughed rather childishly."
The arrangements are that Mr. Peggotty will emi-
grate to Australia with Emily, leaving Ham in the old
country to be taken care of by Mrs. Barkis. One of the
most touching passages in the number is where Mrs.
Gummidge entreats to be taken out too with Emily
—her agony at the thoughts of being left behind is de-
scribed with a beautiful and natural eloquence. On
visiting Yarmouth with Mr. Peggotty for the purpose
of aiding him in settling his affairs before sailing
From England, David calls in upon Mr. Omer, more
un wieldly and plethoric, but at the same time more
good humoured and humane than ever. On going
down to Canterbury to assist in the explosion, Cop-
perfield observes his old enemy, the butcher, amongst
its inhabitants—by this "advanced to top. boots and a
baby"—what a notion the phrase gives of his having
attained the years of manhood Uriah H.eep proves to
be a greater villain even than might have been conjec•
tured, but fortunately, with the aid of Mr. Micawber's
honesty and Traddles's unexpected coolness and intel-
ligence, all his damnable plans are frustrated. The
way in which he gets rapped violently over the
knuckles by the office-ruler wielded by Mr. Micawber
is quite delicious, the latter having previously worn
that instrument in his waistcoat with two or three
inches of it sticking out like a new description of
shirt frill. The way, moreover, in which "my aunt"
suddenly rushes upon Uriah lieep, and collars him
with both hands, accusing him of having got her
property, and calling upon Trot to " come and take
it from him," just as if for the moment she " supposed
that he kept her property in his neckerchief," is de-
lightful. Prior to the journey down to Canter-
bury there has been a most touching and
exquisite intimation given of the danger of
little Dora's illness. After using many argu-
ments to persuade Aunt Betsey and Doady to be true
to their appointment with Mr. Micawber, and to
never mind leaving her for a while, she exclaims,
" putting back her hair, and looking wonderingly at
my aunt and me, Besides, why shouldn't you b
at oth
go ? I am not very ill indeed ? Am I?' Why, wha
question 1' cried my aunt. a What a fancy said I."
The cheerful tone assumed by the two speakers,
coupled with the knowledge of the fact that their
hearts are almost breaking with the thought, is in-
expressibly and in the highest degree pathetic. The
passage in which her death is directly recorded, is no
less of an affecting character. David having uncon-
sciously pressed his last kiss to her lips, leaves Agnes
with her at night, descending by himself to the par-
lour of his little cottage :
How the time wears, I know not; until I am re-
called by my child-wife's old companion. More restless
than he was, he crawls out of his house, and looks
at me, and wanders to the door, and whines to go
up-stairs.
as a Not to-night, Jip! Not to-night!'
" He comes very slowly back to me, licks my hand, and
lifts his dim eyes to my face.
"' 0, Jipl It may be, never again l'
" He lies down at my feet, stretches himself out as if
to steep, and with a plaintive cry is dead.
" 0 Agnes! Look, look, here!'
" —That face, so full of pity and of grief, that rain of
tears, that awful mute appeal to me, that solemn hand
upraised towards Heaven !
" a Agnes?'
"It is over. Darkness comes before my eyes; and,
for a time, all things are blotted out of my remem-
brance."
So ends the seventeenth number of " David Copper.
".4(1."

TAIT 'S.
Every one may remember that among the literary
proteges of Sir Robert Peel was the blind poetess,
Frances Brown. Under the title of " Rosemary for
Remembrance," the September number of Tait's con-
tains a short poem, offered as a tribute to the memory
of Sir Robert Peel by the grattful poetess. The
veraes are not so remarkable for themselves as from
the circumstances which occasioned them,
and for
this reason the concluding lines are the most in-
teresting :

" Not only where
Her chiefs take counsel, or by board and hearth
Will he be missed and mourned fur as few are
That wlk he world's high places; but on earth
Ile was thet
muse's friend in dimness and in dearth;
Theretore her glory on his grave will rest.
• • a •
And one whi:se laden memory reckons this
Among the blessings missed in life's cat eer,
nut niggard time or fortune left no space
To speak deep thanks and wishes, offers here
A tribute to the tomb the isles may hold so d
sear."
Wordsv•-orth's " Prelude," and Leigh Hunt'
biography" form the subjects of two very delightful
critical articles. Frances Brown has contributed
another of her half-amasing, half-instructive " Le-
gends of Ulster"—" O'Reilly's Improvements."
" The Origin of Epping Hunt" is a ridiculous tale,
written in that atrocious style which endeavours to
convert the sublime into the ridiculous. Imagine
Richard Cour de Lien talking the slang dialect of
1850, and singing a song commencing—
" When I'm rich I rides in busses,
When I'm po .r I walks and cusses, &c."
The bad taste of such a composition needs no corn.:
ment. Among the most excellent articles in Tait
are those on th"
Te "Clheolatter se of the
ainsessiosomedn" anevere " Scocomttish-
Drunkenness. s
ments upon the depraved and drunken habits winch
abound in many parts of Scotland, as contrasted with
the outward religion manifested by the stoppage of
railway trains on Sunday. Row much better,
argues
the writer, would it be fur the clergy, and other
godly men, to endeavour to amend the morals of thoeia
r
fellow-to wn,man instead of confining themselves t
useless interference with their external concerns.
They are bound to consider, wisely remarks the re-
viewer, " that those professedly for whose sake they
denounce vanities are already sunk in vices, and
that those whom they affect to fear may by railway
trips be led away from the house of Gud, at present
frequent only the house of Bacchus."

THE PARLOUR LIBRARY.
Another volume of this cheap periodical contains a
reprint of Mr. G. P. R. James's favourite historical
romance called " Darnley ; or, the Field oft e
of Gold." From the wide popularity already ob-
tained by cresspnsction, we doubt not that in its
present acble form of republication it will be
eagerly welcomed by the multitude.

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CHAMBER S'S PAPERS for the PEOPLE.
A fourth volume of the Papers for the People
illustrates the continued capacity of the Messrs.
Chamb-rs to cater for the ppresentublic entertaiportionnmenoft
the
in
instructive literature. The
weekly miscellany before us contains a tale called
the " Black Pocket Book," an autobiography called
" Lady Margery St. Just," a biography of Fenelon,
aonnd‘,
Tahe u
biovgerrayp_hdy,yoLf i
fSir f
tßheobGe rrtee
kPse,e,,l
a,
nadn
another
on "California, a charming paper on the " Science
of the Sunbeam," and a masterly historical summary
respecting the Bourbon family. Each of these con-
tributions is of very superior excellence.
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THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE.
Additional recollections are given of Bishop Baines,
one of the most eminent men among the Roman Ca-
tholics of England. Our editor himself pens what
he
calls a " Sunday Chit-chat," fill of humour, learng,
and intelligence. The " Diary of Martha Baliol" is
continued, and the number of the Catholic Magazine
and Register for September is wound up with a well
condensed summary of recent oc-urrences

THE RAMBLER.
Similar in character to the foregoing perio3ical,
the Rambler is equally deserving of considera-
tion. While the first contribution, by the very
nature of its theme, " Religion and Modern
Philosophy," assumes to itself a general im-
portance, the second being a notice of
" Celebrated
Sanctuaries of the Madonna," is important only to the
believers in Catholicism. ``Brief Notices of some
Writers of the English Franciscan Province since the
era of the Reformation," form the prelude to the
theological reviews contained in the September instasm
l-
ment of the Rambler, from one of which, a critici
on the recent
he wriings of the Abbe Gaume and Dr.
Miley, we exteact t following remarkable introduc-
tory passage :
" When the glorious temple of King Solomon arose in
all its splendour upon Mount Sion, neither hammer, nor
axe, nor any tool of iron was heard within the sacred
precincts dining the building. In fitting though humble
emulation of the works of the God of nature, its massive

RAILWAY PROPERTY'.
The following circular has been issued by Messrs.
John 14,-iilton and Sous, Stock and Sharebrukers :
On the 26th of April last we took the liberty of
suggesting such reorganisation of your railway con-
cerns as appeared to be necessary to protect the shat-
tered state of your unguaranteed capital from further
violation. The long-continued misapplication of it to
personal and other objects entirely astray from the
original intention,—as shown by the investigations
you set on foot iniependent of your directors,—ended
in the great capital drawn to railways becoming pa-
ralysed and almost unheeded, with the exception of
professional jobbing; and a very diminished confidence
was caused in guaranteed, preferential, and other new

stock.
We lately tested the value of the unguaranteed
capital by supposing a person to purchase one share
in each of twenty -three unguaranteed lines, the most
attended to, at the date of our hut circular, on the
26th of April, by an outlay of 7331. 163. 31., and
keeping them over the 26th of July—three very dull
months in the share market—and without any ap-
parent improvement in confidence to attract particular
observation. The result, on the 26th July, showed
no variation in value upon one line—a loss upon seven
lines, and a gain upon fifteen lines—leaving a balance
of profit amounting to 31. 7s. 3J. per cent. at the end
of the three months—or at the rate of 131. 9s. per
annum.
During those three months the share market was
chiefly supported by jobbers. It may perhaps be re-
marked that the season of the year, when the obser-
vation was made, was favourable rather than other-
wise to a rise, on account of the approaching divi-
dends; but it may also be said, on the other hand, that
there never was a time when such hope had less in-
fluence in that respect.
All changes proper to be made in the constitution
of a new railway board should be commenced by
balloting out of a previously proper -selection from
the body of unbiassed and independent shareholders of
double the number required .rto form the first half of
a new board, and which halt should, by selection—
and not by ballot—make up the other half to complete
the new board from the old board ; otherwise it will be
rarely if ever possible to make up a board that would
work harmoniously and efficiently together. If so many
as are required cannot be selected satisfatorily from the
old board, the number then wanted may be taken out
of those remaining after the first ballot. Boards will
in course be numerically formed, as occasions may
really require.
It is of the most leading consequence to get an in-
telligent and proper board of directors, that will con-
fine themselves rigidly to the duties to be performed.
They will have to choose a competent general ma-
nager, to whom the manager of each working de-
partment must be accountable. The directors should
not personally interfere in the practical working of
the concern, but through the general manager, who
will be in constant communication with the board;
otherwise all will move under disorderly confusion as
heretofore. None in the concern below the directors
should have any personal interest in the capital of the
company, otherwise they may devote more atten-
tion to jobbing than to the duties they have to
perform.
The directors might be allowed to invest, but not
habitually job in their own company's concerns, nei-
ther should they be permitted to derive any benefit
through any contracts or business the company may
have on foot, under a heavy forfeiture and removal
from their official appointments, without the power of
return at any after period.
Until a railway work is completed for traffic, its
real value cannot of course be ascertained ;—it will at
that period be solely governed by the income from
traffic which it can secure and retain, coupled with
the management it is famed for, and by a comparison
with other securities according to their relative cir-
cumstances.
If it be of high national importance to continue the
statement, weekly, of the position of the Bank of
England for regulating the operations of commercial
affairs,-it is surely not less so as regards a necessity
for a truthful statement, to be put forth at less inter-
vening periods than at half-yearly meetings, of the enor-
mous and increasing amount of capital absorbed by
railways, always quickly transferable and available to
every occasion required.
It is a fact difficult to reconcile, after all the wide-
spread misery that railway mismanagement, deceits,
and fraud have given rise to, that shareholders should
sit down in any case satisfied without the most scru-
tinising search Into the actual state of their railway
affairs, apart from the statements put forth under the
separate and sole care or authority of directors alone
—no matter how much they may otherwise be con-
fided in—and it is more extraordinary still that such
men should suffer any taint of suspicion to hang over
them in their administration of railway affairs, until
they have encouraged every effort that can be made
to perfect the confidence of both the present share-
holders and the public.
All reflecting persons may easily conceive the
degree in which Governmental interference may con-
fuse and harass the economy of a railway concern,
however slightly the attempt be made—but none can
forget the practical injury done to railway interests
when Government looked tamely on while Parliament
in 1845 let loose its unguarded power to create an
excess of new railway schemes, chiefly unrequired,
inducing a necessity for new capital impossible to
raise ; and which, in very numerous instances, have
been wisely withdrawn under the Abandonment Act,
after creating disputes to be settled in Chancery of
the most shuffling and disgraceful nature—alike
humiliating to the dignity of Parliament and the
folly of impetuous gamblers.
For Government to let loose a new set of officials
in any form to fasten on railway affairs, would be as
fatal to the interests of shareholders as are the fol-
lowers of an army on the heels of retreating troops,
who kill the wounded and
carry off the spoil.
Surely such madness will not again be attempted, or
shareholders suffer the disgrace for its absolute ne-
cessity ! Every man must now hold by his case ; and
surely no present director will flinch from his impe-
rative duty until it is faithfully and honourably per-

formed.
and well-audited accounts, many
With well organized
railway concerns can
management, well-framed,
hardly fail to do well for their proprietors, or to at-
tract that portion of the great unemployed and accu-
mulating loose capital now sinking in value. An
alternative of this may he, that too great an amount
of that capital will be forced into channels detrimen-
tal to the manufacturing interests of the country, at
railways up to a late period have done.
the imminent risk of doing worse, eventually, than
Exchange-arcade, Manchester, Aug. 27.

rans
331 ex div.
a
LIVERPOOL, Siam. 2.
RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.Iim
BRISTOL, S 2. '
Srocic EXCIIANGZ.—The market to-day was firm, and
prices are rather improved. Great Westerns were done at
The share maret was not so fi
6too-S3Adirey:KadnivEd.xl—ictt:lleAidß bus
alsEnV.d n—Eiess doing. Thek tactions wererm as
follow : Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 421/2—
Ditto, Fifths, 9 dis.—London and North- Western, 109% c-
--Ditto, New Quarters, 15-16 p.—Midland, 33%—Ditto,
Halves, 25 1-16 dis.— South-Eastern and Dover, 161A—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original N. and B. 15—
I Newcrstle end Carlisle, 821,4.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 2,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was better to-day
than for some time past, and prices firm, especially for Great
Northerns and Dovers. The transactions were as follow :
East Lancashire, 83H—Great Northern, 134, dis.—Ditto, 5
ner cent, Preference, Scrip, 11%—London and North-
maNniedns
gt eh
Lincolnshire,r,tt im,
,N Quarterse w Quarters,(c 1 p.—Ditto, Manchester and Bir-
) 1 1.16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
Preference, 8 146—Newcastle and Car-
lisle, 813:t North Staffordshire, 10 13-16 South-Eastern
and Dover, l 6 Consol. (No. 3), 16,a—Ditte (No,
4), 5 7-16

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MISCELLANEOUS.
Among the periodical light literature of the day,
there are so many as to render a detailed criticism of
each impossible, but very few of such inferiority as
to deserve no mention whatever. It is, therefore,
only practicable to evade the difficulty which must
obviously arise from these two facets
a ch by a
fsort
on
of
monthly omniurn gatherum. Almost proessi
and nearly every class of the community has its se-
parate organ, and to each and all these respective
organs must be especially interesting. The maritime
reader, for instance, may always derive instruction
from the pages of the Nautical Macrazine, andhints ladies
in
receive the most useful and delightful
regard to the toilet from the elegant designs of Le
Follet. The lover of religion must ever find his
tastes gratified by the contents of the Church of
England Magazine, and these who are solicitous in
regard to the dependencies of England obtain all re-
quired information from the Colonial Magazine. The
agriculturist will of course turn immediately to the
Farmer's Magazine for his facts and figures ; while
the frequenter of the turf will linger longest over the
lucubrations of the Sportsman. In the cur-
rent number of the last-mentioned publica-
tion, we observed some excellent contribu-
tions by Craven, Castor, Venator, Druid, Saron,
Foxglove, Remrod, Oxonian, Gelert, and, 1:- t but
c l
n ity
which
toto
t oo
r ail not least," by Harry llieover. Among those p2riedi-
no particular section of the come
ouappeal
the old
at alike,hof ittuvwsoieun favourite, i tea, mustndCrChambersefer of
. ' course
bountifully Edinburgh
supplied espe-
cially
Journal,as
, com-
munity,
Assemblie, todoubly the popular miscellany
called the People's and Howiti's Journal, and to
another elegant addition to the table of the boudoir
or the drawing-room, the Ladies' Companion. One
cheap periodical pu
of the most estimable of the • b -
lications is the Household Narrative of Current
Events, a paper condensing within a narrow compass
all the occurrences which have transpired during the
month just concluded. Another serial, though of a

YORK, AUG. al.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day ware ae
follow:—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 141. 16s. 3d.—Ditto
(G. N. E. Purchase), 414— 3reat Western, 603/4.....y0it ant
North Midland, Preference,, 714.

-,--
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
The following notice to the public, and instructions
to all postraabters, sub-postmasters, and letter receivers,
has been issued by command of the Postmaster-General;
66 General Post-office, August, 1850.
" Henceforward all letters addressed to the United
States, and not directed to be otherwise sent, will be
transmitted by the first packet, whether British or
United States, which is dispatched after they are posted.
" Letters specially directed 6 by British Packet,' 6 by
United States racket,' or by any particular vessel named,
will l forwarded in accordance with the desire thus ex-
pressed by the writers.
" The postage upon letters
aarend
convenews yed pape
brs ißrits pre-
cisely the same, whether y y ish
or by-United States' packets.
" Postmasters will bear in mind that all letters to be
transmitted by the packets which start from Southamp-
ton must be forwarded to London, and not to Liverpool."

FAILURE IN MANCIIESTEe regret to have to
announce the failure of a large cotton-spinning firm in Man-
chester, that of Messrs. William and David Morris and Co.,
of Salford and Chorlton. The liabilities are variously stated
at from 40,00/. to 60,000/., but we believe they will be
tound not to exceed 25,06)/. Mr. William blorris was an
alderman in the corporation of Salford, and has sent in his
resignation.
TIIE:BEADFORD MILL-HANDS AND THE FACTORY
ACT.—During the last week disputes and dissatisfaction, und,
in some places, turns out have been the result of the recent
Factory Act coming into operation, extending the period of
working two hours a week. The hands have demanded a
proportionate Advance in their wages, and such demand has,
in many instances, been acceded to.—Leeds Mercury.
An hydropAthic establishment is about to be opened
by an English surgeon at Alexandria, on the Graefenburg
system. It is expected to derive its main support from in.
valida arriving from India.

different kind, of extraordinary cheapness, is that of , SIR CHARLES NAPIER.
the Peony Maps, puhrvheci by Messrs. Chapman and TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Hal', and engraved by Mr. Jo,a-ph Lawry, Sir,--It is now well known that Sir Charles Napier
rit_e ra'cond part, jest, issuail, comprises maps of Er,g- has tendered the resignation of his command in India,
land, luland, and Scotland. but it is not known why; and in that country and in
England inaccurate tales are rife as to the causes of
his quitting an office to which he was called by the
united voices of Sovereign and people when India was
thought to be reeling, and he the fittest man to pre-
vent it falling.
Some of the causes assigned are idle attempts of
Indian editors and correspondents to account for what
they do not understand, but others have been con
cocted with a view to repetition in this country, with
foul additions and arguments, to effect the dishonest
purpose of prejudicing the pUblic mind against a Ge-
neral whose faults are that be has gained great battles,
governed a large province with ability, and vigour-
ously commenced a military reform, admitted by all
to be needed, but which few would have had the
judgment and courage to attempt. All this has given
offence to conceited power and private interest.
It has been said that a difference has arisen be-
tween him and Lord Dalhousie, because of some bar-
rack building—because of his disbanding the 66th
Regiment without reference to the Governor- General
—because he desired war, it is not said with whom,
and that Lord Dalhousie desired peace—because the
commander-in-Chief attempted to usurp the power
of Government, and when mildly corrected replied
with intemperate language, and resigned.
These mixtures of a little truth with great false-
hood have been commented upon with all paid-for
malignancy in certain journals whose vulgar enmity
to Sir Charles Napier on former occasions has been
exposed and rebuked. Wherefore, knowing how
true the Chinese proverb is, that though lies have no
legs to stand upon, they have wings, and fly a great
way, I, in defence of an absent brother, beg, through
the medium of your universal journal, to state-
1. That it is true Sir Charles Napier has tendered
his resignation on account of a difference between
him and Lord Dalhousie; but it is not true that this
difference arose about barrack building—or from any
desire to make war—or because he disbanded the
66th Regiment—or that his language was intemperate
and unbecoming—or that he resigned peevishly.
The real cause of that step was a diff rence between
him and the Governor-General on a vital point of
public interest, accompanied by circumstances which
rendered it imperative upon Sir Charles Napier to re-
sign the high office conferred on bim by bis Sove-
reign; and he is prepared to justify his conduct to
that gracious Sovereign and to the public, proudly
confident that he has served both well, and would
have served them better, if he had been permitted to
combine such service with that self-respect which no
man can relinquish without dishonour.
W. NAPIER, Major-General.

MR. BUNN AT YORK.
We copy the following from a Yorkshire paper of
Saturday last .
" THEATRE ROYAL, YORK.—The Shaksperian en-
thusiast, the lover of the drama, and the student of
our literature, have had a treat of no ordinary nature
within the last day or two, by the appearance of one
of the most celebrated gentlemen and scholars of our
day, Mr. Bunn, who has given us the entertainment
which his varied talents have rendered so popular,
alike in the metropolis and the provinces. Mr
Bunn's object is to remove the ambiguity, and to
confirm the truth which the learned and the unlearned
have thrown around the history and the genius of
England's great poet—to connect him not merely
with the very existence of the stage itself, but with
its very creation—to uphold the importance, and lay
bare the impurities of that stage ; and by tracing its
rise, its progress, and its fall, endeavour to lay the
foundation stone of its restoration. In doing this,
Mr. Blum evinces deep research and thorough.
knowledge of his highly interesting subject; im-
parting much new matter, and clearing up much
doubt hanging about the old ; and, conveying his
observations in an easy and colloquial manner,
the monologue becomes one of the most agreeable
entertainments we have ever been present at. Mr.
Bunn adds considerable value to his popular lecture
by an exposition of that meretricious style of acting
which has so disgraced, and still disgraces our na-
tional stage—and in the execution of this task he
displays so masterly a manner of elocution, that the
student for the bar, for the pulpit, and the theatre,
may derive the utmost advantage from witnessing his
performance. It is impossible, in the columns of a
weekly journal, to do that justice to so eminent an
artiste as Mr. Bunn has proved himself to be, that we
could wish; but we should be wanting in our critical
remarks, if we omitted to say that in the reading of
the second interview with the " Weird Sisters," in
Macbeth, Mr. Bunn contrasted the ludicrous manner
in which the low comedian invariably delivers this
sublime language, with the solemn and energetic way
in which it ought to be delivered—i❑ the highest
style of a consummate actor, and elicited a perfect
explosion of applause. Indeed, the lecture through-
out, if such it might be called, was welcomed with
intermittent laughter and approbation—a gratifying
proof of this distinguished dramatic character, that
the city of York, which has furnished his theatres of
Drury-Lane and„Covent-Garden with so much high
talent, can likewise appreciate the eminence of his
own.

CRICKET.

AQUATICS.
SIIADWELL AND RATCLIFF REGATTA.
The very old-established contest amongst the water-
men belonging to St. Paul's, Shadwell, and the hamlet
of Ratcliff, came off yesterday, and was most numerously
and respectably attended. The award of victory was a
new boat for the first man, to which was added various
liberal money prizes. The race was with six scullery in
five heats, and was extremely well contested.
First Heat—William Manna, New Crane-stairs
(green), 1; Robert Skinner, Bing James's-stairs (yel-
low), 0; John Wade, Stone-stairs (pink), 0. The dis-
tance was from New Crane to the Regent's-canal buoy,
twice round each heat. Green got the start, kept the
lead all the way, and won by six lengths.
Second Heat—John Yeomans, Stone-stairs (red), 1;
John Robertson, ditto (blue), 0; and Charles Fenwick,
Shadwell-dock (white), 0. Red took the lead pressed by
blue, white well up, in which order, after some capital
rowing, they continued to the finish.
Third Heat—John Robertson (blise),; 1; Robert Skin-
ner (yellow), 2; Charles Fenwick (white), 0; and John
Ward (pink). 0. It was a capital start, all being away
together. Blue took the lead, closely followed by yel-
low, the other two shortly after becoming tailed, but
rowing a hard race against each other.
Fourth Heat—William Matins (green), 1; John Ro-
bertson (blue), 2; John Yeomans (red), 0; and Robert
Skinner (yellow), O. It was a severe race for a short
distance, then green, who shortly after the start had
taken the lead, paired off with blue, who made some stir-
ring efforts throughout, the winner going considerably in
advance at the finish.
Final Heat—William Manna (green), 1; and John
Robertson (blue), 0. A good start, and a few strokes
scull and scull, was succeeded by the winner taking the
Lead and keeping it, winning by several lengths.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. EIGHTEEN OF

MANCHESTER.
The finale of this match exhibits All England
triumphant over their local opponents; the second in-
nings of Eleven exceeding both of Eighteen by seven
runs:—