The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-01 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWO OD.
Hail yet once again to King Christopher Redivivus!
In the Wren's Nest at Cladich, under the shadow of
Cruachan, the Seer of the Crutch discourses again
wittily, fervently, and eloquently, upon the themes of
criticism, poetry, and philosophy; stimulated in their
discussion by the companionship of Talboys, Seward,
and Buller—Talboys the captious, Seward the taci-
turn, and Buller the jocose. Othello constitutes the
principle topic of the present conversation, yielding
opportunities for disquisitions on the wickedness of
lago, and for some new analyses of the genius of
Shakspere. First in ability—immeasurably first in
ability, though last in position—" Christopher under
Canvass," forms a rich and mellow background
for the contents of good Master Ebony for
April. As to the introductory paper on
the " Ministerial Measures," we can heartily
commend it for a smartness we have relished, not-
withstanding our known variance with the political
predilections of Blackwood. "My Peninsular Me-
dal," in a fifth instalment, rattles along gallantly in
the slashing, dashing, helter-skelter style of .1f ax-
well ; yet we entertain strong doubts as to the author-
ship—seeing that Jones's ckanson de la dance smacks
marvellously of that most delightful mannerism f
Lever's, which sparkles in the narratives of " Jack
Hinton" and " Harry Lorrcquer," and which Mickey
Free has rendered so popular in the history of hie
master, " Charles O'Malley." Here it is—a capital
little tidbit of comicality in rhyme—provocative to
the last degree of an attempt at the " light fin-
tastic r-

JONES loquitur.
" Hands across, back again, down the middle—
' Please to make room, for Pm going to faint.'
Do'nt scream so loud, Miss; I can't hear the fiddle.'
Ma'am, you're quite rude.'—' No, I'm sure I aint.'
The doctor's dancing quite contrary,
Holds his breath, and turns in his toes.
Ranting, prancing, capering Mary
Cocks her chin, and off she goes.
Cross over to Betsy Magiunis,
And foot it again to Major Shaw.
Miss Molloy, your sweet mouth in a grin is.'
Mister Mickey, keep off your paw.'
The doctor's dancing quite contsl7,
Holds his breath, and turns in his toes.
Ranting, prancing, capering Mary
Cocks her chin, and off she goes.
Down forty couple, I'm sure will fatigue us.'
I told you it would'nt, and here we're come.'
' Ma'am, shall I fetch you a tumbler of negus?'
No, if you please, sir, a glass of rum.'
The doctor's dancing quite contrary,
Holds his breath, and turns in his toes.
Ranting, prancing, capering Mary
Cocks her chin, and off she goes."
Take as a delicious contrast to this the following ex
quisite stanza of a love-song from "Festus, " re.
viewed in a very masterly style in the subsequent
contribution.

" Like an island in a river,
Art thou, my love, to me;
And I journey by thee ever
With a gentle extasie.
I arise to fall before thee;
I come to kiss thy feet;
To adorn thee and adore thee,
Mine only one! my sweet!"
The estimate formed by Blackwood of the poetical
genius of Mr. Bailey appears to be in the highest
degree judicious—at one and the same moment to
the uttermost extreme condemnatory and commenda-
tory. Another brief quotation we must give, but this
time it shall be prose, though prose having immediate
reference to poetry. To our thinking the subjoined
is a genuine and most accurate definition of some
among the more prominent requirements as to style
in poetic composition :
" One must be pardoned for repeating the very rudi-
ments of criticism to to some of the headstrong writers
of our day. A lucid, correct, harmonious style—they
have forgotten what it means—what virtue there is in
it. They speak or think of it as of some matter of an-
tiquated prejudice—of stale, conventional observance.
It is no matter of convention; it is the living source of a
calm perpetual gratification. It is the music of the
printed book. It is that which makes reading
a delight as well as a necessary task.
It is that which makes another's thought,
to the mind, what the visible object is to the eye—seen
without effort, and seen clad with beauty, as well as dis-
tinguished by form and position. Whether the subject
of the poet be of a calm and gentle, or of a grand and
sublime description, this charm of beautiful composition
ought always to accompany it. The theory is false
which separates beauty from sublimity. The wing of
the eagle is not less graceful than that of the smallest
bird which flutters from bough to hough, or from flower
to flower; nor is his flight less smooth, in his stormy al-
titudes, than the slow sailing of unruffled swans in their
peaceful element. And as the pleasure attendant upon
distinct and melodious language is of itself of the calm
and graceful order, so also some degree of calmness and
self-possession should pervade the mind of the poet who
is to produce it f)r us."

The whole paper is worthy of a perusal. "Cash
and Pedigree," being a sort of analytical epitome of
the gist of a certain work recently penned by M.
Jules Sand9au, affords us what Maga has so often
given us before, a clear and rapid insight into the
contemporary literature of France. " Caird's High
Farming Harrowed," and the three metrical contri
butions to Blackwood for April, will prove about
equally attractive and palatable to the majority of
magazine readers. The now song entitled " Britain's
Prosperity," is nothing better than an ingenious
piece of rhyming—calico and malecho Newdegate
and repudiate (!), a merry go and Jericho, Huatable
and muck stable' chiming together about as pleasantly
as spikewise and likewise, the penitent thief and hand-
kerchief, cum ceteris paribus, in the new poem pub-
lished this day from the MS. of Mr. Browning.

BENTLE rs MISCELLANY.
The " Ladder of Gold" is continued, and increases
in interest as it progresses. In the present in-
stalment we find the Rawlingses located in Park-
lane, Mr. Rawlings being a sort of railway king, an
influential Member of the House of Commons,
courted and sought after byiall parties. Several new
characters are introduced, among the best of whom
are the Baroness Poudre- bleu, an English lady with
a foreign title, and just 8001. a-year to starve upon,
as out of that she has to job a small carriage, rent a
small house, and keep a couple of livery servants on
board wages, being herself content to feed upon
air ; her son, Mr. Bulkeley Smirke, a fortune-
hunter, who, under the tuition of his excellent
mother, is endeavouring to make a favourable
impression upon Margaret Rawlings ; Lord Charles
Eton, a most favourable specimen of our old aris-
tocracy, a polished gentleman, an orator, a statesman,
and a scholar, who seems inclined to pay great atten-
tion to Margaret, in which he is encouraged by
Rawlings, much to the annoyance of Henry Winston,
who it seems had been the intimate friend of Lord
Charles Eton at college, and who can by no means
brook the pretensions of his college friend to be suitor
to the object of his own boyish love. The account
by Mr. 'Wheatley of the career of Lieutenant Wag-
horn is a record of national ingratitude, which should
bring a blush into the cheek of every Englishman.
The secret of the unrelenting persecution of which
Waghorn wcs the victim is here exposed ; he bad
offended that vindictive body, the Court of Direc-
tors of the East India Company. Having traversed
the Red Sea in an open boat in 1829, Waghorn
reached India. He shall tell the remainder of his
story in his own words :
" On my arrival at Bombay, I received the thanks of
the Governor in Council. Armed with this record, I '
commenced an active agitation in India for the estab-
lishment of steam to Europe. In prosecution of that
design, I returned to England, expecting, of course, to
be received with open arms, at the India House espe-
cially. Judge of my surprise, on being told by the then
authorities in office, that the India Company required no
steam to the East at all. I replied, that the feeling in
India was most ardent for it; that I had convened large
meetings at Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta; and, in
fact, all over the Peninsula, which I had traversed by
dawk ; that the Governor-General, Lord William Ben-
tinck, was enthusiastic in the same cause, and had done
me the honour to predict (with what prescience need
not now be stated), that if ever the object was accom-
plished, it would be by the man who had navigated the
Red Sea in an open boat, under the circumstances al-
ready named. To all this the parties made answer, that
the Governor-General and the people of India had no-
thing to do with the India House; and if I did not go
back and join their pilot service, to which I belonged, I
would should
beb
receivey such a communication from that House as
no means agreeable to me. On the instant
I penned my resignation, and, placing it in their hands,
then gave utterance to the sentiment that actuated me
from that moment, till the moment I realised my aspira-
tion—that I would establish the Overland Route in
spite of the India House. This avowal, most impolitic,
on my part, as regards my individual interests, is per-
haps the key to much of the otherwise inexplicable
opposition I substquertly met with from those upon
whose most energetic co-operation I had every apparent
reason to rely."
The charter of the East India Company expires in
1852, and when the question of its renewal comes on,
it is to be hoped that the avowal of the directors that
they required no steam to India at all, and that the
Governor-General and the people of India had nothing
to do with the India House, will he borne in mind.
This number also contains a most interesting
°bio-
graphy of Major Edwardes (from whict
gave a long extract in The Sun of ,!
atur-
day), with a poi trait by Alfred Crovrquill.
the
one have two pleasant Americanisms,
one " Coit's Ridge," by Alfred B. Street, the other
" The Great Kalamazoo Hunt," an excellent drollery
by a New Yorker. " Women in the East " repre—
sents what life in a harem really is, and should be
read by all those who have only formed their ideas of
it from the perusal of Mr. Monckton Milnes's poetry.
Our sporting friends will be delighted with Mr.
Whittle 's "Hunting in a German Forest," and all true
It bath the trite Rabelaisian fiavour.
Pantagruelists will revel in Mr. Whitling's " Praise
of Smoking."

Lieutenant Walpole commences a series entitled the
" Protestant Pilgrim ;" in the present instalment ber—Rl
gives` us a pleasant account of his journey f 01:1,.
Frankfort•oll•tile-Maitle to the Castle of IVastbu 11-. -- , -
the town of Aisenach. We have besides smut s= ..... t.
excellent poetry, amongst which " A Song age 4.77,2:4
the Beautitid," by Theresa C. J. West, deserves' • (--t `(*A-:
pecial mention.i. ottoltire,

FRASER.
The present is a delightful number of
there are no political articles, unless a review
work of Mr. Poulett Scrope on the operation of the
poor-laws in Ireland can be considered such, and .even
that is more a politico-economical than a political
article. The dreary " Peace Campaigns of Ensign
Faunce" are at length concluded, aad all the other
articles are of purely literary character, and, like all
the literary articles in Fraser, of high merit. The
number opens with an elahora'e and excellently-
written criticism on Mr. Ticknor'a recently published
" History of Spanish Literature ;" we have then some
interesting gossip on operatic and other musical
matters; and then a defence of Juno Howard
against the attacks of Thomas Carlyle. Join
lloward we consider as one of the greatest men
that not England only but that the w orld has ever
produced. Ile was an earnest man, a " man with a
mission," which he conscientic uslv fulfillNl, and we
should have thought that Thomas Carlyle would have
rether placed him in his gallery of heroes than have
classed him wi!li the " benevolent platform fever
sect," with whom lie had nothing in common. It is
true that that busy, fussy, chattering magpie sect
have endeavoured to claim him as their own, as they
have endeavoured to claim almost every other illus-
trious man who has appeared of late years; but
the admirable biography of John Howard by
Mr. Hepworth Dixon has placed this matt
in its true light, and has shown us that
John Howard was an eminently practical man—a
doer, not a talker; and so far from being one of the
" benevolent platform" sect, we doubt whether he
ever spouted humanity from a platform in his life.
The admirable " Leaves from the Note-book of a
Naturalist" are continued, and we rejoice to learn
from them that there is every probability that the
gardens of the Zoological Society will, in the course
of the present summer, become the residence of a
hippopotamus, the first that has ever been seen alive
in England. The illustrious stranger is at present in
Egypt, waiting for his passage. The batch of
General Conway's letters published in the present
number extend over the year 1758, -and fur-
nish some interesting particulars concerning
the unsuccessful expedition against Rochefort,
in which Conway was the second in command. We
are glad to find that in a review of " Madame Pulaky's
Memoirs," and of some other recently published
Hungarian books, the Tory Fraser does justice to
the noble Magyar race. He thus speaks of recent
events in Hungary
" The scenes through which Hungary has lately
passed give to both of these books something of a sus-
tained and dignified Severity ; and if we can imagine a
society more qualified than that which they depict to
shine in the rivalry of refinement and superficial ele-
gance, we certainly can point to none more adapted for
developing the sterner virtues, and for training up its
members to be brae er men or better citizens."
There are several other articles in Fraser of this
month, all of which will well repay a perusal.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHELTENHAM S rEEPLECHASES.—SATURDAY.
A Free Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 5 soya. each, h ft,
with 40 added; the second saved his stake, and the
winner paid 5 sovs, to the fund. Two miles, over six
hurdles.
Mr. Bernares Jack-of-all-TradeF, 9st 41b ... (James) 1
Mr. Hughes's Tipperary Boy, lOst 5113....1 (Darling) 2
The following also started:—Mr. C. Hughes's Re-
becca, lOst 31b (Tacker)—Lord Lurgan's Fugitive, l lst
101 b (Magee)—Mr. Oakes's Half•and-half, lOst 31b
(Archer)—Mr. W. Wood's Sobersides, Bst 10lb (Wynne)
—Mr. Williams's Syrup, Bst 101 b (Fowler).
There was a Mae start, in which all but Fugitive and
Jack-ot-all-Trades ran the whole distance, Tipperary
Boy winning easily. The actual race was won by a
length. Sly rode Half-and-half in the false stmt.
The Annual Steeplechase of 20 soya. each, h ft, and only
3, &c., with 100 added; the second saved his stake,
and the winner paid 20 sots. to the fund; winners 71b
extra. Four miles.
Mr. Mangan's Farnham, lOst 101 b (Abbott) 1
Mr. Mason's Proceed, lOst 10Ib (Mason) 2
Mr. Keate's Verax, lOst (J. Holman) 3
The following also ran:—Mr. Story's Victim, lOst
121 b (Taylor)—Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader, lOst 61b
(Wynne)—Mr. Vevers's Vengeance, lOst (Archer)—
Captain Green's The Treasurer, 9st 121 b (011iver)—Mr.
Williamson's Wolverhampton, gat 101 b (Fowler)—Mr.
Isaac Day's Sparta, Bst 71b (R. James).
Betting-3 to 1 agst Vengeance, 3to 1 agst Proceed,
4 to 1 agst Abd-el Kader, 4 to 1 agat Farnham, 7 to 1
agst Wolverhampton. Won by a head. Verax a bad
third.

The Selling Steeplechase of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added.
About three miles.
Mr. Williams's Gulnare (Owner) 1
Mr. Johnson's Sarah Sykes ' (Archer) 2
Mr. Wilson's Venture (Wynne) 3
The following also s'arted:—Mr. Baker's M'Orville
(llavison)—Mr. Williams's Jitnerack (Barker)—Mr.
Burrough's Titruworth(Owner)-11,1r.Gardner's Midnight
(Darling)—Mr. Tenbury Lass (James).
Won easily.

NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY BUNT

RACES.

NOETIIA3IPTON, ►SUNDAY NIGHT, NINE O'CLOCK.--•
Colliugwood, Iron Bastinado, Dover, Watchdog,
Olivia, Impression, Give and Take, Hind of the Forest,
and The Recluse.—Kont's and John Day's lota are ex-
pected tomorrow.

OBJECTS FOIL THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—The trus-
tees of the British Museum, having received information of a
shipment from Boston, United States of America, on board
the British vessel Amelia, Captain S. E. Carne, of two cases
containing casts of the head and lower jaw of the
Mastodon, intended to be deposited in the collection of the
British Museum, Mr. Hayter, the Secretary to the Lords of
the Treasury, has communicated to the authorities of the re-
venue the desire of their Lordships that as these objects are
of a fragile nature they will give directions to permit their
removal, on arrival, under official seals, and without being
disturbed, to the British Museum, there to be opened for ex •
amination in the presence of the proper authorities, and then
delivered for deposit in that establishment, and directions have
therefore been given to the proper officers to take care that
their Lordships' wishes be duly observed.

MOORFIELDS CHAPEL.—On Thursday evening
last this well-known place of Roman Catholic worship nar-
rowly escaped being destroyed by fire, some artificial flowers
used in the decoration of the " altar repose" having acci-
dentally caught fire from the candles with which it was al-
most surrounded, in consequence of the draught from an
adjacent door. Owing to the presence of mind, however, of
the officiating clergymen, the fire was extinguished without
any material injury being done.

TILE POISONING AT CASTLE CAMPS.—AII doubt as
to the propriety of the verdict and the guilt of the two
wretched prisoners now awaiting execution in Cambridge
county gaol upon this charge, has been set at rest by the
confession of the female prisoner, Mary Reeder. Imme-
diately after leaving the dock this criminal became appa-
rently resigned and penitent, and on one or two occasions
gave vent to observations indicative of a desire to unburden
her mind of the load that oppressed it. On Tuesday evening
she expressed a wish to see her father, and he accordingly at-
tended on Wednesday morning, and was admitted to an in-
terview with her in the presence of the rev. chaplain and the
matron of the gaol. The presence of the chaplain appeared
to act somewhat as a restraint upon her freedom of speech,
and so he withdrew, leaving her alone with her father and
the matron ; and then she acknowledged to her father that
it was her hand that put the poison in her sister's mess, and
attributed the desire to be rid of her to an illicit connexion
that existed between herself and the male prisoner Lucas.
This connexion, she said, had not taken place since Christ-
mas last, and she most strenuously denied that she was in
the family way. She has not in terms accused her partner
in crime of inciting her to the commission of the deed, but
she has done so by implication. She is now quite resigned
to the fate that awaits her, and appears fully cognizant of
the enormity of her offence. She states that she made tip
her mind to commit the crime only a few minutes before its
'execution, and that she has not the slightest wish to live.
' The male prisoner still denies that lie was aware of the in-
tention of Mary Reeder to poison his wife. He admits that
an improper intercourse had taken place between himself and
his fellow-prisoner and states that it subsisted up to within
about six weeks of his being taken into custody. He adds
that he had become disgusted with Mary Reeder, and he was
determined to be rid of her; and if he could but have suc-
ceeded in effecting that, he should have lived happier with
his wife for the future.— Weekly Dispatch.
and Pretended.
sSpil s
chargedb y,
on CREDULITY.—. Awtilltilalme
3miaargtiinst.roarteus:atooffiti,mcweaa,
him
receiving
to
imposingcu re
hoiii:lw'oibfei aosfllaacveirstoani,nbye,ognlivpilnagint,
Robinsont
on the edforisfeth'iirtahtlinetsame the sum of 10s. Mr.
"wise man, and by the
Martin, who is an old man, 85 years of ag?: and has long
exerciseenjoycd theof h
ihis
ar
t reputation
a contribution
weeks as.
he took the Well l
'
credu-
lous. Davison stated that about eight
,o lie went
that
and told himhis wife was ill,
to the prisoner's house
levied o fmbaeni many a
c u cure ler ; m
I 10s , and he - T
niitorbee,
the prisoner that he had on y 1„ said, ~ ~ .i.
gave him a paper parcel which he said was
and he was to come and snoss
cannot help it, if youmoney,
part of the room, to another
and went
his wife's
to be suspended round
it
,0,, . neck, and it would do her
. his wife wore , ....e time according to prisoner's
good. i
did not
came again and
direction, but receive any benefit. The bench
ordered be
the parcel toopened, when in several folds of the
paper peers found sonic pieces of sticks and a piece of writing-
paper
which was , on,. Written the word "Abracadabra," the
12 signs of the zodiac, some fractional numbers, and the fol-
lowing lines :
" By Saint Peter and Saint Paul,
God is the
maker of us all ;
What he gave to me I give to thee,
And that is nought to nobody."
Mr. Robin^on
, recommended the prisoner to the merciful
consideration of the bench on account of his great age and
infirmities. Ordered to be committed for fourteen days, to
pay all expenses, and the cost of maintenance in prison. The
chairman said that but for his great age and many infir-
mities, the full punishment would have been inflicted, and
the prisoner would have been committed for three months,
with hard labour on the treadmill.—BoAton Herald.

MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.—The Commis:=ioners of
her Majesty's Woods and Forests took possession, on the
part of the Crown, of this royal residence on Monday last,
from the officers of the late Queen Dowager's household.
The Commissioners have, it is understood, arranged that
soon after Easter the Vernon Collection of Pictures shall be
removed from the National Gallery to Marlborough House,
which, in addition to two suites of rooms on the ground and
ant ileor4 contuh4 a very fine grand hall.

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