The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CROSSE SCHOLARSHIP.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 14.—There will be an exami-
nation for this scholarship on Tuesday, the 26th of
November inst., and following days.
Candidates must be " Bachelors of Arts in the first
year from their degree."
Candidates are required personally, or, if non-resi-
dent, by letter, to give notice of their intention to
each of the electors, who are—the Vice-Chancellor,
the Margaret Professor of Divinity, the Regius Pro-
fessor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Hebrew,
the Regius Professor of Greek, the .Norrisian Pro-
fessor of Divinity, and the Professor of Arabic, on or
before 'Wednesday, the 20th inst., stating their names
at length, and colleges.
NOERISIAN PRIZE.

The late Mr. Norris having ltft 12/. a year for the
purchase of a medal and some books, as a premium
for the best prose English essay on a subject selected
agreeably to certain directions contained in his will,
the Norrisian Professor has given notice that the
subjtct for the present year is—" The traces discern-
ible in Holy Scripture of the influence exerted on
the character of the Hebrews by their residence in
Egypt."
The essay, with a sealed letter containing the name
of the author, is to be sent, on or betore the lOth day
preceding the Sunday in Passion IVeek in 1851, to
one of the three stewards ot Mr. Norris's institution,
who are, the Master of Trinity College, the Provost
of King's College, and the Master ot Caius College.
At a Congregation holden this day the following
graces passed the Senate :--
1. To authorise the presentation of an address to
her Majesty the Queen, deprecatory of the late Papal
encroachments.

2. To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of
Caius College, the Master of Trinity College, the
Muster of Christ's College, the Lucasian Professor,
the Plumian Professor, the Lowndean Professor, Mr.
Gaskin, of Jesus College; Mr. Cay, ley, of Trinity
College; Mr. Adams, of St. John's College; Mr.
Hensley, of Trinity College ; and Mr. Hopkins, of
St. Catherine's Hall, a Syndicate to visit the Obser-
vatory until November, IFSI.
S. To authorise the payment of 2421.25. 10fd. to
the Plumian Professor, in conformity with the regu-
lations adopted on the 27th of February, 1529, the
net receipts of the Plumian Professorship in the last
year having been 2571. 9s. 9id.
4. To appoint Mr. Gibson, of Jesus College, a
member of the management syndicate of the Fitzwil-
liam Museum in the room of Dr. Paget, who retires
by rotation, in conformity with the regulations
adopted on the 27th of March, 1849.
5. To allow Mr. Birkett, of Jesus College, to re-
sume his regency.
6. To appoint Dr. Cartmell, Master of Christ's Col-
lege, a syndic of the press.
The address alluded to in the first grace will be
published after presentation.
At the same congregation the following degrees
were conferred :

M.A.—A. C. Forbes, Caius College ; E. Ridgway,
Jesus College.
LICENTIATE IN MEDICINE.—J.W. Goodwin, Caius
College. _ _ _

LE.B.—J. Cook, Magdalen College ; T. J. Davis,
Emmanuel College ; J. M. Ware, Corpus Christi
College.
B.A.—William Stigant, St. John's College ;
William Sandford, St. John's College ; George
Alexander Holdsworth, St. John's College; James
Chapman Isard, St. John's College ; Frederick Sleap,
Trinity College; Nash Edwards Vaughan Lyon,
Trinity College ; John Thomas Walford Allen,
Trinity College; Robert Edward Reginald Watts,
Trinity College ; Richard Darrell Darrell, St. Peter's
College ; Thomas Henry Lee Warner, St. Peter's Col-
lege; Wm. Dudley Lockett, Magdalen College; Francis
George Haviland,Catherine Hall ; George John Ribs-
dale, Clare Hall ; Edmund Burkitt Bowman, Queen's
College; Henry Philips, Sidney Sussex College;
James Lyon, Jesus College.
SIDNEY USSEX. COLLEGE.—John Roberts, M.A.
(8.A., 1847), Fellow of Magdalen College, has been
appointed to the Classical Lectureship in the above
society, vacant by the election of the Rev. Francis
Whaley Harper to the curacy of Selby, Yorkshire.
CAMBRIDGE, NOY. 15.—COMPARATIVE NUMBER
OF RESIDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
IN 1849 AND 1850.-1849: Trinity, 546; St. John's,
383 ; Caius, 150 ; Emmanuel, 114 ; Christ's, 117 ;
Queen's, 92 ; Corpus Christi, 71 ; Jesus, 70 ; Catha-
rine Hall, 76 ; Magdalene, 60 ; St. Peter's, 68 ; Clare
Hall, 64 ; Pembroke, 39 ; Trinity Hall, 40; King's,
29 ; Sidney, 35 ; Downing, 10—total, 1,964. 1850 :
Trinity, 537 ; St. John's, 370 ; Caius, 162 ; Emma-
nuel, 120; Christ's, 111 ; Queen's, 85 ; Corpus
Christi, 83 ; Jesus, 76 ; Catharine Hall, 64 ; Magda-
lene, 59 ; St. Peter's, 57 ; Clare Hall, 54 ; Pem-
broke, 42 ; Trinity Hall, 39 ; King's, 32 ; Sidney,
30 ; Downing, s—total, 1,926. Matriculations, Mi-
chaelmas term, 1849, 419 ; ditto, 1850, 412.
ANATOMY. —The ProfessoT of Anatomy will com-
mence a course of lectures on the anatomy and phy-
siology of the human body on Tuesday, Nov. 19, in
the Anatomical School, and continue the same on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, to the end of
the term.

Divisur.—The Regius Professor of Divinity has
given notice to junior Bachelors of Arts and Ques-
tionists who intend to present themselves at the Vo-
luntary Theological Examination in 1851, that his
lectures will commence on Monday, Nov. 18, at the
Law Schools, and will be continued on Mondays and
Saturdays.

OXFORD, Nov. 14.---In a convocation holden this
day 2001. was granted out of the University chest in
aid of church extension at Abingdon.
In the same convocation the Rev. G. Bradshaw,
M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, was admitted ad
eundem.

In a congregation holden at the same time the fol-
lowing degrees were conferred :
B. AND D.D. BY ACCUMULATION.—Rev. Charles
Penny, Pembroke College.
M.A.—Rev. B. Gibbons, Wadham College, Grand
Compounder ; Rev. George J. Curtin, Worcester Col-
lege ; Rev. J. Armstrong, Lincoln College ; George
Sidney Read, St. Mary Hall.
B.A.—George Thompson, Oriel College, Grand
Compounder ; Edmund Green, Oriel College ; Charles
J. Parker, New Inn Hall; William H. Etches,
William J. Williams, Henry Barton, William
Houghton, Edm. C. Law, E. 11. Hodson, Brasenose ;
Francis H. Eadon Eadon, 'William Henry Mayor,
Worcester College ; George Hanmer, George S.
Ward, Magdalen Hall ; William Hooper, Lincoln
College; Edward Coupland, Fellow of St. John's
College; George Stratton, George D. Oxley, St.
John's,College ; Thomas Pitman, 11'adham College ;
IVilliam Pontin Tanner, Trinity College ; George S.
Jellico, All Souls College.
The Professor of Chemistry (Dr. Daubeny) will
begin his lectures at the New Lecture-room, oon •
tiguous to the Botanic Gardens, on Friday, the 15th
instant, at eight o'clock in the evening. These lec-
tures will be continued on the succeeded Wednesday
and Friday evenings during the present and succeed-
ing term, until the course is completed.

GLASGOW
' GLASGOW, FRIDAY,
UNIVERSITY.
ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR-
Tile election of Lord-Rector of our University
took place to-day, when, out of the four "nations'
into which the students are divided, two voted for
Lord Palmerston, and two for Mr. Alison, the his-
torian. Nov. 15.
Mr. Macaulay, the late Lord-Rector, has the
casting vote. Mr. Alison has a majority of 30 indi-
vidual votes.

RAISING OF THE THIRD. BASSO-RELIEVO ON THE
NELSON CoLvmsr.—Yesterday (Friday) morning the third
basso-relievo, emblematical of the victories of Nelson, repre-
senting an event of the Battle of Copenhagen, was raised to
the place intended for its reception on the east side of the
pedestal of the column in Trafalgar-square. It is from the
studio of Mr. John Ternoutb, the sculptor, and was cast in
bronze by Messrs. Moore, Fressange, and Moore, of Baldwin's-
lane, Holborn. Unlike the two previous works the present
one was brought to the place ready for fixing, which work
was executed in a few hours.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND AURICULAR CONFES-
sIim The Rev. T. A. Bolton, of New Basford, having
written to his Lordship, to inquire whether he intended in
his late charge to discountenance the use of confession and
absolution altogether, has received the following reply
Fulham, Nov. 11, 1850. Rev. Sir,—When I spoke of
auricular confession being used as a means of grace, I
supposed that every one would understand me to mean the
Roman practice, and not that which is recognised as useful
and salutary by our own Church.—I am, Rev. Sir, your faith-
ful servant, C. J. losasosr."—Nottingham Journal.
THE LATE MR. GEORGE JAMES PENNINGTON.--It
was with unfeigned regret, a regret in which we are sure all
who knew the truly amiable nature of his character will
join, that we yesterday announced the sudden decease, and
by his own hand, of this gentleman. He was the only son
of the late Dr. Charles Pennington, of Nottingham, and a
nephew of the late Mr. Pennington, of London, who prac-
tised for many years as an apothecary and surgeon, amassing
a large property, great part of whicif we believe he devised
in favour of the deceased. Mr. G. J. Pennington was edu-
cated at Eton, and from thence passed to King's College,
Cambridge, where he distinguished himself as a Greek
scholar. He chose the bar as his profession, and was for a
time a member of the Midland Circuit. He was afterwards
appointed one of the judges in the lonian Islands, where
he resided some years. SnortlY following his return to this
country, he was appointed to the important and lucrative
office of Auditor of the Civil List; which he resigned only
within the last few days, consequent upon an attack of pa-
ralysis about the month of August last, from the effect
of which he never fully recovered, lie married the eldest
daughter of the late Thomas Jekyl Rawson (formerly of
Ash bourne, Derbyshire), by whom he had two sons and three
daughters.

fosT-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Henceforward all news-
vendors will be allowed to print upon the covers of any
newspapers and stamped periodicals which they may send by
post, the title or name of such newspaper or periodical, and
also their own names and addresses. No writing or print-
ing of any description whatsoever, either on the outer or
inner side of the wrapper, except that above-mentioned, and
the name and address of the party for whom the newspaper
er periodical may be intended, will be permitted.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CREWE STEEPECHASES.--Fninmr.
The Eddleston Free Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 30
added ; the second to save his stake. Three miles.
Mr. W'ainwright's Young Dutchman, lOst 81b(Fowler) 1
Mr. Taylor's Jesuit, aged, 104 121 b (Taylor) 2
The following also started, hut were not placed:—Mr.
Hind's Lord Stafford (late Banker), aged, 10dt 10Ib
(Frisby)—Mr. Eachus's Marbury, aged, lOst Slb (Pear-
son)—and Mr. Denison's Comet, aged, 10st 81b (Bradley).
Even on Young Dutchman. Won in a canter.
The Crewe Grand Steeplechase Stakes of 10 am.
each, h ft, and 50 added; the second saves his stake.
Three miles. (11 Subs.) -
Mr. Vevers's Volatile, lOst 81b-31b over (Darling) 1
Captain Little's Chandler, 10st 41b-4lb over (Oliver) 2
Mr. Land's Frank, 10:h t 101b-31b over (Owner) 0
Lord Lurgan's Molly, aged lOst 51b-701. (Brodie) ) 0.
Mr. Hind's Lord Stafford. 10.4-70'
5 to 4 agst Chandler, 5 to 4 agst Volat&," 2 to 1
agst Molly, and 4to l agst either of the others. Won
cleverly by four lengths, after a good race. The winner
was claimed.
The Hatherton Stakes were won by Mr. Tempest's
Pegasus, heating three others.
WARWICK AND LEA MINGTON NOVEMBER
MEETING, 1850.
WEDNESDA Y.
Acceptances for the Free Handicap Hurdle Race.
st 11 at lb
The General
St. Helier
Buscot
Little Queen
Risk 9 2
'The Briar
.and Open Steeplechase.
st lb
Abd-el-Kader l3 4
Maria Day lO 2
Verse lO 2
The General
Champagne 9 12
Volatile (and 71b ex.) 9 10
Gipsy Bees 9 9
The Skipper .. 9 7
,Grimaldi

Fugitive
Half-and-Half
Miss Collingwo6d
Sir John lO 5
Fez ley
Volatile
Acceptances for the Gr
st lb
Sir Peter Laurie ll 8
Spring Buck
Farnham lO 13
British Yeoman lO 12
Rat-trap lO 7
St. Helier
Lucy Neal
Shinrone lO 5
The Victim
Bark ston lO 5
Nominations for the Hunt Cup Steeplechase.
Evergreen (late Pepetual Motion), Ace of Trumps,
Spang along Bet (late Gridiron), Charley Lopside, Lana-
quenet, Grimaldi, Spectator, Plaintiff, b g by Barkston,
Coquin, Subduer, Tallyho.
Acceptances for the Free Handicap Steeplechase.
at lb at lb
Miss Collingwood ~ 11 6 Ringdove
The Young Un
Trust-me:not
Little Paul
Ace of Trumps . .... 10 10 Catch-me-who-can 10 2
The Painter
Chandler lO 8 Frank lO 0
Molly
SouVenir lO 6 Cayenne 9 12
Gulnare
Outcast
EPSOM FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1851.
THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STARES.—Tbe nomina-
tions for this race will be made on Monday, Dec. 16,
being about a fortnight earlier than usual.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag hds. will meet on Monday at
Hayes; Fri., New Lodge-11.
Lord Henry Bentinek's•,hds., Mon., Thonock-10i;
Tues., Nor ton-place •, Weds., Brant Broughton; Thurs.,
Thorney; Fri., Bardney ; Sat., Magin-moor-11
Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Mon., Thornhaugh; Wed.,
Buck worth ; Fri., Holme-wood-10.
Duke of Rutland's hds., Mon., Piper-hole; Tues.,
Cold-harbour; Wed., Croxton-park ; Fri., Newton-
tollbar.
Sir R. Sutton's hds., Mon., Syston Station-12; Tues.,
Wadmerpool Inn; Wed., Bradgate-park; Thurs.,
Houghton-on-the-Hill; Fri., Ragdale-hall--11.
Worcestershire hds., Mon., Oldiogton-common; Wed.,
Himbleton; Fri., Croome-10i.
Warwickshire hds.. Mon., Grove-park; Tues.,
Braile's- house; Wed., Nockley-house; Thurs., Compton
Verney; Fri., Farnborough; Sat., Milverton-kennel
—IOZ.
Herefordshire hds., Tues., Berrington; Fri., Wormo-
low-turnpike.
Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon., Boulter's-barn; Wed.,
Bradwell-grove; Fri., Tangley; Sat., Bedbroke.
Mr. Giles's hds., Mon., Bosbury• village; Fri., Red
Lion, Huntley-1.
Upton berm, Tues., Hanley-common Turnpike-10f.
Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Ted worth kennels; Tues.,
Oarebill; Wed., Wherwell-wood ; Loweaweek Farm;
Fri., Soutbgrove; Sat., Norman-court-11.
Duke, of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Trouble-house; Thurs.,
Foss-lodge; Sat., Codrington-village,
Mr. Farquharson'a hds., Mon., Witherston; Tues.,
Cerne-park.
Somerset Subscription hds., Tues., Wick-park; Sat.,
Du nster- park-10i.
Shropshire hds., Mon., Sundorne; Thurs., Rowton.
Brighton parrs., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Racecourse;
Sat., D) ke
Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket-hill ; Thurs.,
Telscomhe Tye.
Essex hds., Tues., Wethersfield Town; Thurs., Coun-
tess-cross; Sat., Mark's-hall-10i.
Essex and Suffolk bds., Tues., Stour-wood; Fri., Hin-
tlesh am- park gate-10i.
Suffolk hd.., Tees., Walsham-hall ; Thurs., Horse•
heath mill; Sat.. Chedburgh hall.
Essex Union hds., Wed., Haze/eigh-ball; Sat, Prit-
tlewell Priory-10i.

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETU'UNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
opened,
1850.
BIIITISU.
-- --
72 Aberdeen .. ••••.... • • • . . £560 £1,246
37% Belfast and Ballymena 415 596
17 Belfast and County Down• • - 164
16 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 777 921
27 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. 401 592
85% Bristol and Exeter • • .... • ..... • ..... 3,334 3,788
160 Caledonian.-- 5,806 6,237
94% Chester and Holyhead.- 1,5u8 2,549
32 Dublin and Belt:lst Junction ........ 259 475
53 Dublin and. Drogheda.. •• •• ........• 853 987
6 Dublin and Kingstown ...... • • 712 723
16 Dundee and Arbroath •• • . • • •• • • .. • • - 316
21 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 611 613
19 Dundalk and ..... ,144 103
67 East Ang1ian........................ 752 634
79 East Lancashire •• • • ........ •••• • • • • 2,719 3,400
322 Eastern Counties and N0rf01k........ 14,331 14,22 A
1 658 2,177
95 Eastern Union • 2,394 3,582
57% Edinburgh and Glasgow .••
71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee .• •• • . 2,173 2,273
18 Furness Railway -
• • • •• • • ••••• • • • • • 178
171 Glasgow, and South-Western ........ 2,767 3,067
22% Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock •• • • 919 844
231 Great Northern and E. L..... •.• . .. 2,799 7,104
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 3,931 4,203
262% . Great Western •• • •
90 Lancaster and Carlisle. • ••
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire 11,493 15,070
39 Leeds and Thirsk • • .... 667 826
12% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport• •
518128 London and North Western... •
5% London and 81ackwa11.........., 606 787
17114 London, Brighton, and South Coast 9,244 10,885
239 London and South Western.
is Londonderry and Enniskillen
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 103 112
;67% Manchester, Streit eld, and Lincolnshire 4,922 6,947
9% Manchester and South Junction 280 476
28 Maryport and Carlisle .. • ...... - 666
49514 'Midland ..... ....... ..... 21,681 22,695
50 Midland Great Western (Irish) .• •• • • 1,365 1.315
60 Newcastle and Carlisle., 2,209 2,365
146 North British •• •• • •....
222 North Staffordshire 4,339 4,798
47 North-Westarn •... •••• . • • - 414
••••• • • • •
45 Scottish Central 1,267 1,467
32 Scottish Midland • • • ••••. • • • •• 346 423
47 Shrewsbury and Chester • ........... 1,454 1,290
30 Shropshire Union ••••••• • • • • • • 347 420
58 South Devon- • • . • 1,470 1,735
234 South Eastern.. •• • • 9,7138 10,969
75 South Wales ...................... - 758
69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole 1,337
40 Taff Vale •• • 2,027 2,339
36 Ulster 781 , 940
25 Waterford and Limerick • • • • - 360
13 West Cornwall ...... ....... ..
12 Whitehaven Junction
293 York and Newcastle, and Berwick
256 York and North Midland. .. 6,688 7,452
FOREIGN.
76% Amiens and Boulogne... •• •• • • ...... 1,452 --
44 Dieppe . • • ••••• • • • • • ...• ••• • • • .• • • 607 --
63 lffontereau and Troyes .............. 1,069 1,103
336 Northern of France •• • . •........... 17,709 18,512
143 Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) .......... 2,668 3,254
72 Orleans to Bordeaux .... • • ....
82 Paris and Orleans 7,699 7,945
85 Paris and Rouen . .. • 6,243 -
69% Rouen and Havre .. -

ALARMING FIRES.-DISCOVERY OF A SECRET DIE..
TILLERY AND SHOCKING OCCUARINCIL—Yesterday (Friday)
morning between the hours of six and seven o'clock a tire
was discovered raging in a house numbered 4 in a court
behind the Effingham. Saloon in the Whitechapel-road. The
engines having been set to work, the parish engineer and
firemen succeeded in extinguishing the flames, when on en-
tering the basement they found sufficient to account for the
absence of all parties connected witk the building. The cellar
they discovered to be fitted up as a distillery, with a number
of casks, washjand spirits in the place. The furnace under
the still was alight. The still, furnaces, and plant have been
seized by the officers of Excise and removed to Old Broad-
street. Shortly before two o'clock the same morning a fire
happened on the premises of Mr. Hanninger, No. 15, Orange-
street, Lomand's Pond, t outhwark. The firemen on entering
the premises found the bed and furniture in the back room
ground-floor in a blaze, and in the midst a naked body of a
female also much charred. It was learned that a female
named Campbell died the preceding afternoon, and her body
.was laid out on the bed. From what cause the room became
fired is a mystery.
No MESSMEN ALLOWED IN THE 'NAVY.--The
Admiralty have at length determined to allow no person to
be entered on board her Majesty's ships, or to be employed
in the service as a " messman," whether in the gun-room or
the ward-room mess, their Lordships having fully satisfied
themselves that most of the extravagance, and nearly all
the intemperance, with their concomitants—ruin, disgrace,
degradation, and loss of position in the service and society,
are attributable to the practice of the gun-room mess of large
ships appointing a regular " Messman," from whom any
quantity of spirits or wiue can be procured by. paying for it.
—United Service Gazette.

THE COLSTON ANNIVERSARY.—BRISTOL, NOV. 14.
—The great day of the year in Bristol, the charitable anni-
versary of the birth and death of Edward Colston, merchant
of London and Bristol, who was the founder of so many and
such munificent charities, and who died in 1708, was held
on Wednesday last, when the various Colston societies, after
having attended Divine service at the cathedral and other
churches, sat down to their anniversary dinners, which were
attended by several Members of Parliament, the Mayor, the
Sheriff, the Lord Bishop, Ice. At the conclusion of the
dinners the collection for the relief of lying-in poor women,
widows, and orphans, and for apprenticing poor boys; were
as follows :—At the Dolphin Society, held at the White
Lion, 376/. 125.; at the Anchor Society, held at the Royal
Gloucester Hotel, 476/. 13s. 6d. ; and at the Grateful Society,
held at the Montague. Tavern, 570/.; making a total of
1,4231. 53.6 d.

NOVEMBER 16, 1850.

FOR 1851.

LITERATURE.

THE DRAWING-ROOM SCRAP-BOOK

Under the able auspices of Charles Mackay, the
"Drawing. Boom Scrap Book" for 1851 is equal to the
most elegant and valuable of its elegant and valuable
predeces,ors. Its attractions are threefold. In the
first place, we admire its appearance—its richly-
adorned binding and the beauty of its type, paper, and
various et ceteras rendering it, eminently deserving of
a place on the table of the most exclusive salon or
boudoir; secondly, the excellence of its thirty. six
beautiful engravings ; and last, but not • least, the
merit of its poetical contents, combine to render it
charming to the eye and agreeable to the memory.
Some of the engravings we have noticed before under
other names, but they are all worthy of reprinting,
and thus grouped together they torus
beautiful and valuable collection. As an
evidence of the excellence and variety of the engrav-
ings we need only particularise the names of some
of the subjects and their artists. There are portraits
by Lawrence and Chalon, scenes by Corbould, Cat-
termole and Parris, a charming glimpse of a
" quarrel" by Stephanoff, charmingly illustrated in
verse by Mackay ; a portrait of Sir John Franklin,
by Derby; " Chinese Kite-flying," and some others
by Allorn ; Chinese Lady, by Penstone—a beau-
tiful face, wort delicately portrayed ; these and other
engravings worthy of accompanying them,' render the
" Drawing-Room Scrap Book" worthy of its reputa-
tion. Portraits of female loveliness are the chief
features of the collection ; for the editor, in his pre-
face, while commending the volume to the patronage
of the ladies, declares himself, in the words of Chaucer,
" Their oven Knight,
That serveth them with will and herte and might,
Aud ever hath done since they first him knew."

A few contributors have lightened the labours of the
editor. Mrs. Thomas has described in graceful verses
" The Tryste" and the "Jewels." Le Chevalier de
Cbatelain has celebrated (in French) "La Pnesie"
and " English Beauty." The author of The Patri-
cian's Daughter has addressed some stanzas to his
baby god-daughter, which are very beautiful—wit-
ness the concluding lines :
" Who takes his tint from outward fate.
Is to his fate beholden;
Who his own sunshine-can crests,.
Makes all he meets with, golden.
Be this the record of thy name— • ,
Due to the loving-hearted—
She found a blessing where she came,
Or left one where she parted."
Thomas Miller has recounted in blank verse the story
of " Hagar and Ishmael." " The Letter to a Chinese
Lady," by Shirly Btooks, is capital. The writer—if
by return of the overland mail, he is only informed
that " Yin Chang is willing"—is prepared to abandon
friends and country, and repair to the Celestial Em-
pire and become for her sake a Chinaman—
" On pickled ducks supporting life,
And scollop'd slugs in rich farina,
I'll int my bright•eyed, limping wife,
And talk whole hours in broken China.' "
The whole epistle, however, should be read in
order to be appreciated. Dr. Mackay's contributions
are necessarily on very various subjects, and he mentions
in the introduction the difficulty of writing the poems
nu
to t the pictures, a difficulty which has apparently
en no impediment to his muse. Among the more
serious pieces are the lines on the "Portraits of Sir
Robert and Lady Peel," and on the " Expedition in
Search of Sir John Franklin ;" among the lighter
and gayer themes are some graceful verses on a happy
thought—" Borrowings and Returnings." " Chinese
Kite-flying," a scene that would have delighted Mr.
Dick, has suggested some delightful stanzas on " The
Philosophy of Sport," in every line of which we
recognize the genial tones of Charles Mackay. The
moral of the verses is summed up in. two golden
lines—

" I honour human happiness,
And deem it gratitude."
In pursuance of which thought, he exclaims—
" I love to see a man forget
His blood is growing cold,
And leap, or swim, or gather flowers,
Oblivious of his gold;
And mix with children in their sport,
Nor think that he is old."
Of a style similarly cheering are the lines on " Happy
Days" :
" Come back—oh! freshness of the past,
W hen every lace seemed fair and kind,
When sunward every eye was cast,
And all the shadows tell behind.
Come back!—'twill come:—true hearts can turn
Their own Decembers into Mays,
The secret be it ours ty learn—
They come—they come—the happy days."
Of a different character is a beautiful vision of Notre
Dame, " The Phantoms of the Greve." Musing at
midnight in Paris, the poet sees before bim a vision
of Liberty, and then a melancholy concourse of the
victims of the Reign of Terror :
" Next passed fair Roland's pure and haughty shade,
Twin-sister of the freedom she adored,
With the calm spectre of that earnest maid
Who slew the cynic that her soul abhorred."
* * * * •
"And then emerging from the silvery Seine,
With dripping garments, trailing wet, passed by
The druzon'd of ffant,s—the hapless women skim
By vengeful and inhuman anarchy."
When all th phantoms are assembled and v Paris
seemed a city of the dead," the spectre Goddess of
Liberty vindicates herself from the crime of having
caused so much death and desolation—
" The heavy guilt lies not upon my head—
They knew me not, the men of other years.
'Twas Tyranny they worshipped and not me;
'Twas Ignorance inspired the deeds you mourn.
For love is still the law of liberty,
And hatred dwells with anarchy alone."
So many and so varied are the attractions of this ele-
gant work, that instead of attempting to particularise
them all, we may say that the " Drawing-Room
Scrap-Book," edited by Dr. Mackay, fully sustains
its own reputation and its editor's claims to popu-
larity ; and to those who are familiar—as who is not?
—with the earnest and eloquent "Voices from the
Crowd," such an assertion will be deemed no mean
encomium.

THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS. No.

XXII. By W. M. Thackeray.
In the present number the author is busily em-
ployed in clearing the stage preparatory to the de-
nouement. Pendennis is, for the first time, aware of
the proceedings of his uncle in relation to the Cla-
verings, and, horrified at the idea of being considered
as particeps criminis, determines to refuse Clavering's
seat in Parliament, and to marry Blanche without a
farthing, although he now knows she is a con-
vict's daughter. To this resolution he is urged by
Laura ; he announces it to his uncle, and the poor old
worldly Major is so shocked at what he considers the
madness of the proceeding that he takes to his bed.
This part is full of those admirable specimens of cha-
racter-painting for which Mr. Thackeray stands un-
rivalled. '1 he following description of the situation of
a Dandy of the Regency in this year of grace, 1850,
is worthy of La Bruyere:—
" As became a man of fashion, Major Pendennis spent
the autumn passing from house to house of such country
friends as were at home to receive him, and if •the Duke
happened to be abroad, or the Murqtfis in Scotland, con-
descending to sojourn with Sir John or the plain Squire.
To say the truth, the old gentleman's reputation was
somewhat on the wane—many of the men of his time had
died out, and the occupants of their halls and the
present wearers of their titles knew not Major
Pendeunis, and little cared for his traditions •of
the wild Prince and Poyns,' and of the heroes
of fashion passed away. It must have struck
the good man with melancholy as he walked by
many a London door, to think how seldom it was now
opened for him, and how often he used to knock at it—
to what banquets and welcome he used to pass through
it—a score of years back. He began to own that he was
no longer of the present age, and dimly to apprehend
that the young men laughed at him. Such melancholy
musings must come across many a Pall-mall philosopher.
The men, ,thinks he, are not such as they used to be
in his time: the old grand manner and courtly grace of
life are gone: what is Caatleivood House and the present
Castlewood, compared to the magnificence of the old
mansion and owner? The late Lord came to London
with four postohaises and sixteen horses; all the north
road hurried out to look at his cavalcade; the people in
London streets even stopped as his procession passed
them. The present Lord travels with five bagmen in
railway carriage, and sneaks away from the- station,
smoking a cigar in a Brougham. The late Lord in au-
tumn filled Castlewood with company, who drank Claret
till midnight: the present man buries himielf in a' hut
on a Scotch mountain, and passes November in two or
three closets in an estresol at Paris, where his-amuse
ments area dinner at ace I and a box at a little theatre.
What a contrast there is between his Lady Lorraine, the
Regent's Lady Lorraine, and her little Ladyship ot the
present era! He figures to himself the first, beautiful,
gorgeous, magnificent in diamonds and velvets, daring
in rouge, the wits of the world (the old wits, the old
polished gentlemen—not.the canaille of to-day with their
language of the cab-stand, and their coats smelling of
smoke) bowing at her feet; and then thinks of to-day's
Lady Lorraine—a little woman in a black silk gown, like
a governess, who talks astronomy, and labouring classes,
and emigration, and the deuce knows what, and lurks to
church at eight o'clock in the morning. Abbots-Lor-
raine, that used to be the noblest house in the county, is
turned into a monastery—a regular La Trappe. They
don't drink two glasses of wine after dinner, and every
other man at table is a country curate, with a white
neckcloth, whose talk is about Polly Higson's progress
at school, or Widow Watkins's lumbago. • And the
other young men, those lounging guardsmen and great
lazy dandies—sprawling over sofas and billiard-tables,
and stealing off to smoke pipes in each other's bed-
rooms, caring for nothing, reverencing nothing, not
even tor an old gentleman who has known their fathers
and their betters, not even a pretty woman----what a
difference there is between these men who poison the
very turnips and stubble-fields with their tobacco, and
the gentlemen of our time!' thinks the Major; the
breed is gone—there's no use for 'ern;
by a parcel of damned cotton-spinners and utilitarians,
- and young sprigs of parsons with their hair combed
down their backs'." they're replaced
ri