The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-12 00:00:00

XL‘kC'B C..!LLEGE,

that council of this university have givenl notice
o't the military depart meat will open nn\Vera aesday,
aseat°.ber 2. The students admitted into this depart-
the are matriculated student:, or those admitted to
ta.Lregular and full prescribed course of study.
caatimoniandidate for matriculation must produce a
te
of good character from his Fast in-
, actor,
and when admitted by the Principal
14118 t subscdillribe his name to a declaration that he
hcaaform to all the rules and regulations
g°od may from time to time be prescribed for the
and government of the college, under the sanction
authority of the council. Tr e academical year
of three terms :—Michaelmas term, from the
.14'.41)Lng of o..ttober to the week before Christmas ;
te'fat term, from the beginning of January to the week
ju''re Easter ; Easter term, from Easter to the end of
ender
No one can be admitted a matriculated student
of
eearttsfifteen sears of age; and at the beginning
or srgsion each student must take his card
eeti" mission to the professor of military science to be
tt tribtersigned and registered. There are examinations
the e end of Michaelmas and Easter terms, when
ttit students are classed according to proficiency. The
141ninaticn in June is followed by a public distri-
emi
°'
eac °f prizs, and a detailed report is sent at the
studh term to the parents or guardians of each
s‘tteen,t, both as to his progress and as to his general
tuitpliAtl°ll and good conduct during the term. A li-
the-4 /11,unaber of students are admitted to reside within
raeot""ege• The different classes in this depart-
tiot iare (Ten to gentlemen whose occupation may
but etl°lv th'm to attend the whole of the course,
is r
"'"
el)Po t„11,.?, maY wish to avail themselves of the
h Yof studying any particular subject. It
Nvilloted that some of the snore professional studies
acceptable to officers of her Majesty's or the
curable East India Company's service, who, being
their leYndou on uty or on leave, may wish to employ
isure hodurs.

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PP 41VERICAN FAST STEANI-BOAT.
,n
be elegant new
%tea— L RIP OF TUE REINDEER.—T-- _
Itatuer Reindeer made her first trip yesterday. It
Prieto ev"'at that excited much interest among pro-
i4i,er,s of river craft, and nautical men generally., By
taillA°ll of her accomplished commander, C9e-
hener• De Groot, a select party of about fly
her !ed. Persons yesterday made an excursion in
11 3 West Point. Though not made with the
4141,11,i31 testiog her speed, the result of the trip
sWift3 or
to be a very fast boat, if not of unequallnet,
d
kfld Ile". The Alida, one of the fastest boats afloat,
fretne her best passage on the 20th of July, 1849,
hours New York to Caldwell, up the river, in two
made and three minutes. The same passage wba
the ejesterday in two hours and five minutes, y
load. .(1•4 tindeer, against a head wind and heavilyse
zit, As further indication of her speed, h
dist •rotn Castle Garden to Spuyten DevilCreek,.t
1)441;4" of thirteen or fourteen miles, in thirty-eight
f00,:e3) and from Canal street to Piermont, twenty-
Utile Ties) in one hour and eight minutes. Daring this
lure 8" Performed about 20 revolutions, under a pres-
te4s.t)f 261bs. to the square. inch. All circumstances
Ilevelr4etsed, especially as the engine was stiff, having
totok Lue,en worked to any extent, she attained a re-
at th,l°,le speed. The party remained about an hour
beautiful summer retreat known as Cozzens,
to j‘ie th!l'e are now about 200 visitors, and returned
aity ew York about six o'clock, stopping at Jersey
litThtnd Brooklyn to land passengers highly de-
viie(i" While on board the excursionists were pro-
eapt • With a bountiful and sumptuous banquet.
be, atilQ De Groot is proud of his boat, as well he may
lveEkl`e, expects to run her regularly in about a
Ate h ?lit the route has not yet been decided on.
togin ettlieer was built by Thomas Collyer. Her.
Aerie" are from the Morgan Iron Works. Their
koti Aerie" are
were faultless—almost noiseless in their
t°ll and moving with regularity and precision.B
greetedßeindeer proceeded on her trip she was
by the bells of the various steamers passed,
lqattrand j
the Shouts of the people assembled on the
".--Journal of Commerce.

taetiEttvxßsiox.—The Rev. J. W. Allies,
„tes6t°, n, in a work just published, announces
x;atil 'jig his preferment, and submitting to '
thev intentionicnaori
n oaonff
de Church.
Ala
list ~,, . ousE.— e and
Palaie- iening, the directors of the
different
banking 1 -118I°N-11 Th Lord Mayor entertained,
tt,,,verq tisitutiona with which his Lordship.fira
At - private friends. Covers were laid o acrounetcstet atnyd.
The (Lan - Bing and Brymer, in
their ver 'Was Provided by Messrs. 6,
Si, riottY best style; and amongst the number assembled
Alderman Gibbs, air.
etiwtted Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr. -
Ila •."` Laurence M Sheriff Nicoll, Mr. Haigh,Mr• Curling
krgthy, 6,, '.
o•C. Barr*ron, Mr. T. Barker, JosephMir.r.
r Pigeon, Mr.
I+iiili N, • Starling Mr.Mr.„lT. D, simpson,
kr el Tire, the R -11 r. Anderson, a ]ell
I' • grew:
lent Le ca,phn, air. J. Captaileathorrie,lA
T.
W. Baker,.,,,_ Mr. Wpiili--
ther 3,41, Ur. R. E. Arden, Mr. •
4,i' •ar. L. Pocock Mr. Lockwood, Mr. R. Wilson,Nv M_r_..
. adk- ' J. 1 J. Courage, Mr. W. E
1- nis, Dr. H. Greenwood, Br•
1/4te, the Rev. _Mackenzie, the
T. B. COx,
11 'E• Giraud, Mr. liog t Mr Norton, Mr. ,
ste gar , •
the
Rev. R. B. Gibson,, the
thap, , 'Ty, Mr.
ap
~,,a the Lord Mayor's chaplain), 8" party was kept
George Brooksbank, Rev. Charles Mar-
et,2,lth great spirit, and seemed highly delighted with with their
'Lang's entertainment.
a.,T,_ he American mail steamer Pacific, Captain Nye'
afternoon.
tTilen. for New York from Liverpool yesterday
beadz Ferried out sixty-six
es a fair cargo of goods.
passengers and a considerable mail,
theLIE T
of
-,,,k.TE SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The executors
few
letyBe Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, within the
atte, jenlitted fees to the various medical
fearfaitti him and endeavoured to alleviate the effects of the
gentlemaenw:he
life,
,ident which was the means of
.terim.natoanAglelxiis_
ander ~tiSir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., 250
Ilt°P • aW'
sumsoo guineas • and to thgenomtheer'gentlemen
ortionate '
St 4
j'eteeveibB or A CHILD.—A boy named William
reside al, between nine-and ten years of age, whose. parents
'llintt,rat
,Grarden-place, Bell-street, Vincen!-squaite,hcNNerse:s_t-
°llSat,,' 'bed yesterday- under the following mourns ah
al
go
lOat ; "iidaY afternoon he asked his mother to let 1
-411gOhPi -ay, a.nd on being refused he said he andwouldognootice
ef h. rnstlf. Ile went out, his mother takingh n
1). is threat b -covered
alai h, . ut a short time afterward
ato gulf; in a back shed. He
11 ester-
day
11 hat life was almost extinct. He lingered ta
.y ,
was ismsfrimediately cut
,-olc'ruing at eight o'clock, when he died of lock-Jaw.
, Am,-
Lercia --,-OwelliaNDLEßS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.--Ye -
to thie,,yening a meeting of the committee and sp.bscroitbieiri.s
migeat7°_,ve society, established in 1843, for the red of
ethers "Iln incapacitated tallowchandlers, their wido.ws,,haand.
greet,ist ,eoltueeted with the trade, was held in Basalt, 11
hi.l°,lrieneral business. Tne eo for the past year
Petiti to'Y encouraging there being now on the funds 41
rnot,Z.ets, the mea rec:eivinp- 13s. and the women
,114 per
smog it The funded capital 'now amounts to 3,40 t . s*lt'lfies
~11140tmie,,Paid
...to pensioners during the last 12 months
'rtvio,, 'to 3/2/. The income for the past year, including.
4 hl" balance, was 1 2 i 9/. 14s. 41.
4ci. iT" of 4141. 48. 'lod. At the rialn'enievxerpseanrydit
14%'3. Ws collected Mrs. North, the wife of the s
of the
tit" shaving, Illa •id d ' 100 guineas in aid o
al e , collected fuers t ijNr'ear-1
,„ litt,,,
""LNIC'ESLINTATION OF CISII3RIDGE UNIVERS.ITY.T: _
,°,tettsl,ll,ll),-ill, WEDNESD \V SEPT. IL—Some surprise was
'4,.1S tki:e'', Amongst- the 'reUident members of the University
(),l'a‘l,llBQ goiltins',3ol:pc. the Gazette announcement that the Speaker
, 1 euxpira ion of fourteen
t),,Ftls' is 3 4,° his wirit Porotnhaeweolnelcdtioant of a Member in the room
t,„``'eola%t"‘e Hon. Mr. Law. The election will, underresten.
-4•entl, !flees, take place before the close of t.he p t
Onraa -nd as the long vacation does not terminate until
ur, of aY, October 10 (the first day of Term), but. few
. NoColleges will have returned
h'ilt:e ofß"ion• Mr• Cowling, who is backed by the
tilt
the
to Cainbridgeominolitliiie
i'li to the^"t ohn's College,*'s, the only candidate who has,_r
tii`V(ittlsta;ielstrie.soe.n! time.announcedl himself. -Although m .
s declined becoming a car!:
bittz, th_ .-...r‘iritor
halidhuresdt
'della-mined to put him in nor: i.
okrt„'hanedTthe goni.eGneanrtleman, it is expected, will be
~itts, ir,the Majority of the members of Q. ehensist,,,
hat w; kidre o 'es' the
The Trinity men r,
sup-
oh
jesus C lieges' heads of whine
ta; ,ar. c 81 to Mr. Walpole. allegesigned the
ohi:veNtx, ko_w,,ling's friends ought to have consulted the
ht-,,,ctiog-i0 re bringing him forward, and that, without
•a oa tiv_utin personally, they ale determined to oppose
z .i. ground.
the kauttehrd'Y ornnibusft commenced running between
ii ---tastera Railways and the Bank at a penny fare.
04-t Al a
1 of te
r"-ttrym t- To THE itaziLs.—The Counci . .
the s•orda 7 of Commerce h. • resolved to memorialise__e.
Ilartate% the reasu-yi faN
e,
rof Liverpool as a -Liverpool of d
4ition.t"t the steatin mn,ilasveordvice to the Brazils.
The ri.
4. l' •131s11°11 of Oxford Mr Page Wood,
as
adi4etiiiridell Pal-n - '
VP. ha -e consented actt?..
on
the t !eatora nt•
_- ` 7, C.C., 11. :' M.P., and
kn-'4'ss r,,, n_piize of 100 gi.uncas'for the best Lisa)
_le
teZy for .'Petting the Protection of Women, offered by tl
" ()Men.
'4
°fl"oll4Pr°ving and enforcing the Laws for the Pro-
cent,Yesterda„. a o laChurch
The ceremony, which was very magni
ll'IS(11:.
M4rie's C th l' was opened at Sheri:
ttliq :satlattes'nded
vcracy.
1 A by a large numbe of the Catholic clergy
FACT.nlot,On ,p,_ , last a party of seamen
fore; tc .. a nursuay ,
'' 'gtl ti, • °tie of her Majesty's shipsas
Portsmouth,
atlie 'Atkin w • " Point-sleet,
troat ' elevate, were walking up
h had escaped
just- arrived from a
Ivit,_ a siati,,,n 'with heavy wet, a. bull, which
Li., u his
t_.;,zter-hon„,
jumped out of
atos way
eli:eneerect in the air, when all the men jolly
Caine running towardsthe
sturdy fellow,
L',„°l in the rent
one, and he, being an iinmtars
tali in the street directly in the way of the bull and hailed
bull, ahoy i I
I.„_;adro„
_'lloWltig manner :—" Bull, ahoy •h,
rut bo' Your Peak and
came
° eoot "rn of 'Be?" 11 bull, continuing fas course,
_o ctietri,o,nuaatttedWi th put your helm a-star .larboard, or you'll
Jack and capsized him; but Ja ck,hiiisoctiobteiliesg,
be ' goeu ' 'Prang from the ground, and, shaking,_ kit, I
told observed to the bull, 1. bberlv
'Mil you hOw it would be." ,
I' ',ITT! ~ (.p._!, you a .
,h, ~S,lt Ti,'G3 nr Tilt INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT:7
Co
a'aeidligyi of the
in rtiroi,• neXt for the hearin-,-
Insolvent Debtors Court will be re3tnaFd,
kle, a4"ner will preside 1 a'cc irdance with a rule. Just
of cases, when the C.lnei
-4iNs-juiLiore cases I'vi I.b -11, tr:d to three Commissioners
111•7.io,ti':; iraereris,of the continued -indisposition of Mr. Com-
eet:. 1,.1.L. ba untac BATH COMPANY. Petitions
have
Of
thil2::oB,Zt:nd t,o the Court of Chancery for the winding-up
e. v Y 1 affairs.
th "Rs'rE
(i w a AND R B, lEW kY.—Traffie for
a,204, eek erid_, HOLYHEAD A
14,. i• 143. 44 7o Sept. 8, 18_,0: - C. and H. Slain Line,
d. ; •vetal. Nlold, 1261. Os. 6d. ; Steam-boats, 291/.
• The 1\ , 3,C22/. Bs. 11d.
Agoe rtmont, .
clout- of
a, prisons are expected to ba occupied,
4, 'ill ;',, 1 ix
tilling a limited number of c_onvict_s,
sy„
74144 employed in the adjoining land,- Presiern

LITE IZ-A

T

LIFE OF OLIV.ER
GOLDSMITH: By
Washington Irving.
A biography of the Goldsmith of English literature,
by the Goldsmith of American literature, could not
have failed, under any circuinstances, to attract the at-
tention of all those who are inter( stE d in the annals of
the really illustrious. Considering, however, that
the voluminous memoir of the author of the " De-
s-rted Village" and the " Vicar of Wakefield," by
Mr. James Prior, had been followed, and so very
very recently, by the elaborate performance of a
similar kind, by Mr. John Forster, it became, of
course, no small matter of interest to examine a work
of precisely the same character, by Washington
Irving. Knowing the extent of the interest thus ex-
ci'ad, Mr. Murray has acted judiciously in publishing
a London edition of the narrative, in a cheap form, as
two supplementary numbers to his Home and Co-
lonial Library. A careful perusal of the life
of Oliver Goldsmith, as here penned by his
American admirer, convinces us that Mr. Irving has
materially added to his reputation by its composition.
As a specimen of style it is pure and admirable, re-
plete with all the graces of his manner, and abound-
ing with the charms of his aesthetic judgment. As a
memoir of a man of letters it is peculiarly and even
unusually fascinating, rendered attractive by the
beauty of those descriptive passages in which incidents
of a homely kind are by the refracting power of fancy
transfigured into the romantic. It may not be inap-
propriate to remember that on the occasion when
Charles Dickens was entertained at a grand banquet
in the United States, be very humorously appealed to
his lady, then present among the fair spectators
assembled together in the gallery, whether he di I nut,
almost every night of his life, carry up stairs with him
to bed either Oliver Goldsmith or his half-brother
Washington Irving. The phrase was a felicitous one,
as indicating their literary relationship, and the re-
collection of it is not without its interest, now that we
find Irving penning the biography of Goldsmith.
That biography compiled from the scantiest details, has
nevertheless an absorbing charm about it, arising, of
course, from the thought of those ainialA and loveable
qualities which, joined to his great genius, have ren-
dered poor Goldsmith such a world-wide favourite.
Born on the 10th of November, 1728, at the hamlet
of Pallas (or Pallasmore), in the county of Longford,
in Ireland, and dying on the 4.h cf April, 1774, in
the forty-sixth year of his age, at his chambers in the
Temple, London, a comparatively brief period was
allowed him within which to condense all his many
wanderings and vicissitudes. Following him with
his sympathetic biographer, it is marvellous to dis-
cover the charm thrown over the record of his way-
ward movements by the sense of his gentle nature and
all-embracing benevolence. We see him a mere childat
the house of his father, the Rev. Charles Goldsmith; we
loiter with him along the margin of the river Inny ;
we change with him from his birthplace Pallas, to
that village of Lissoy, in the county of Westmeath,
which he bas celebrated as Auburn, his lovely and
beloved "Deserted Village ;" we brood with him
over the horn-book at the knees of Mistress Elizabeth
Delap; we are promoted in his company, at six years
of age, to the benches of the village pedagogue
Thomas, commonly called Paddy, Byrne. After a
frightful attack of the small-pox, which nearly proved
fatal, and pitted his face for ever afterwards through
life, we find him studying first under the Rev. Mr.
Griffin, of Elphin, Roscommon, afterwards under the
Rev. Mr. Campbell at Athlone, and subsequently-
under the Rev. Mr. Hughes of Edgeworthstown. Sub-
sequently, on the 11th of June, 1747, when sixteen,
ha is entered as a sizer, or poor scholar, in
Trinity College, Dublin. He lodges at No.
35, in the top rooms adjoining the library of
the building. Here he gets bullied by his tutor, the
Rev. Theaker Wilder, loses his father by a premature
death, writes street ballads, causes anxiety to his
generous uncle Contarine, has Edmund Burke for a
fellow-student, and far his cronies one Beatty, and
Robert (otherwise Bob) Bryanton. Disgusted with
his life at college, and his frequent humiliations,
Oliver runs away from Dublin with only a shilling in
his pocket, but is induced to return shortly after-
wards. On the 27th of February, 1749, 0. S., he is
admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and
finally quits the university. Having attained his
twenty-first year, he leads two years of an unsettled
life, sometimes at Lissoy, sometimes at Pallas, by way
of probation to his entering the clerical profession.
Here it is that at Ballymahon he carouses with some
boon companions in the tap-room of the Three
Pigeons. He presents himself at last (in quest of
orders) to the Bishop of Elphin, but being arrayed in a
pair of scarlet breeches meets with a refusal. A
tutor in the house of a Mr. Flinn, he suddenly gets
disgusted with his situation, and sallies forth once more
into the world on a good horse and with thirty pounds in
his pocket—returning home soon afterwards penniless
and with a wretched little poney, hight Fiddleback, as
his companion. His account of his mishaps on this
peregrination is amusingly given in a letter addressed
to his mother, Mrs. Anne Goldsmith. Baulked in
his project as regards the Church, Oliver obtains fifty
pound:: from his uncle Contarine to enter on the
study of the law in England—in Dublin, however,
he loses every halfpenny at the gaming-table. Dis-
appointed again in his hopes of becoming a lawyer,
he determines to aim at the dignity of a physician,
to this end taking his departure for Edinburgh, where
he arrives in the autumn of 1752. Thence in
February, 1753, he sets off on a tour to the Conti-
nent with a shirt, a flute, and a guinuea. After two
years spent in roving through France, Holland, Italy,
and Switzerland, be lands at Dover early in 1756. Ar-
rived in London, he wanders about the streets almost
in a state of starvation. His first situation is as
usher to a school; his next as assistant to a chemist
near Fish-street-hill—soon after this he sets
up himself as a doctor in _Binkside, South-
wark. One of his patients, a journeyman printer,
introduces him to his employer Samuel Richardson,
the novelist and publisher, io whose parlour he
.en-
counters Dr. Young, the author of the " Night
Thoughts." Goldsmith is engaged by Richardson as
his reader and corrector of the press, the former still
striving to keep up, between whiles, his practice as a
physician. About this time he becomes again, for a
brief period, a pedagogue at Dr. Milner's classical
school at Peckham, in Surrey; but in April, 1757,
commences his literary labours by becoming a contri-
butor to the Monthly Review, published by Mr. Grif-
fiths, in Paternoster-row. At thirty years of age,
therefore, we find Oliver entering upon his literary
drudgery by writing for his bread as a bookseller's
hack. His lodgings are at this time near Salisbury-
square, Fleet-street; his address is the Temple Ex-
change Coffee-house, near Temple-bar. Returning
for an interval to his pedagogic labours at Peckham,
he endeavours to obtain some medical appointment in
India, but ineffectually. Reduced by poverty to
great straits, he becomes • temporarily relieved by
contributing to the Critical Review, published by
ArchibMd Hamilton, and thereupon moves into a shabby
first floor in a forlorn court near the Old Bailey. On
the 21st of Dec -mber, 1758, he fails in his examina-
tion before the College of Surgeons—and settles down
again as a literary hack, drudging in his shabby
lodgings at No. 12, Green Arbour-court, between
Fleet-market and the Old Bailey. Here he writes a
" Life of Voltaire," and in the March of 1759 brings
oat his " Inquiry into the Present State of Polite
Learning in Europe." Besides the periodicals already
mentioned as being contributed to by Goldsmith, his
pen was employed in writing for the pages of the
Bee, the Busybody, and the Ludy's Magazine. He
was likewise employed by Me. _Newberry as an essay-
ist in the Public Ledger, a newspaper first issued on
the 12th of January, 1760—about the middle of
which year Oliver leaves Green Arbour-court, Old
Bailey, for some more respectable apartments in
Wine-office- court, Fleet-street. It was in the last-
mentioned abode that he first received as a guest to
supper, on the 31st of May, 1761, the great Dr.
Johnson. Before long the two Doctors become inti-
mate by meeting con inually together at Davies's, the
bookseller, in Russell-street},C ovent garden. His
connexion is all this while still maintained
with Newberry, for whom he writes a pamph-
let on the Cock-lane Ghost, and a Life of
Beau Nash, besides remodelling and republishing his
anonymous Cninese letters, under the title of " Tao
Citizen of the World." Towards the end of 1762 he
removes to Islington, where he produced in two
volumes the " History of England, in a Series of Let-
ters from a Nobleman to his Son." About a year
later, namely, in 1763, Goldsmith becomes acquainted
with Bowel). In 1764 is established the famous
Literary Club, meeting at supper once a week, on
Monday night, at the Turk's Head, in Gerard-street,
Soho—its original members being Reynolds, John-
son, Burke, Dr. Nugent, Chamier, Hawkins, Bennet
Langton, Topharn, Beauclerc, and Goldsmith.
Among the other " piece-work" productions of poor
Oliver's about this period was an oratorio, entitled
The Captivity. On the 19th of December, 1764,
his poem of the " Traveller" makes its appearance.
Become by this time a celebrity, he emerges from
Wine-office-court and takes chambers on what was
then the library staircase at the Temple. His
many anonymous effusions in the magazines are only
collected together in 1765, and reprinted as " Essays
by Mr. Golderntth." It was on the 27th of March,
1765, however, that hi; greatest prose work was pub-
li-thed, a work for which two years previiu!ly he had
received sixty guineas front Newberry—
of Wakefield." Scarcely twelve months afterwards,
early in 1767, his comedy of the Goodnatured, .111. an
and having been rejected by Garrick
was completed,
for Drury-Lane, was broughtout
by Colman at
Covent-gardee. Producing for its author no lessthan 500/., this comedy induced Galdsmitdgh.to s
aspwith!re
to a nobler residence than his shabby
Jeffs, the butler of the Temple--inconsequence of
loing
which we find Oliver at length purchasing the la ase
of three rooms on the second floor of No 2, Brick-
court, Middle Temple, on the right hand as you as-
cended the staircase, In these apartments t,he poet-

novelist-drematis' keep'; up h 7; gey v, ith s.ech
t -
' a '6 racket" o' nights that " B:ckson‘', viho,e deem •
hers were immediat-ly below, and who was studiously
occupied on his Commentaries, used to complain of
the noise ma le overhead by his revelling
neighbour !" Having made another tern-
pote&ry sojourn (not before mentioned) at
Isling-on, Goldsmith in 1768 takes up his residence
for the summer season in a cottage about eight miles
from town, on the E igware-road. About
of Mey, 1769, his " History of Rome" was published,
and in the same year he commenced writing his
" History of Animated Na:.ure." The Royal Aca-
demy of Arts having bet.-n founded in 1768, honorary
professorships in connexion with it sere first
inti-
tuted in December, 1769, Johnson being nominated
to that of Ancient Literature', and Goldsmith to that
of History, at a time when Napoleon was yet an
infant at Corsica. On the 26,h of May, 1770, ap-
peared the " Deserted Village," a poem which of it-
self would have given the name of Oliver Goldsmith
to immortality._ After its publication, the next li-
terary effusions of Goldsmith were his " Life of
Parnell," and soon afterwards his " Life of Boling-
broke." During the August cf 1771 his "History
of England," in four volumes, made its anonymous
appearance. A year liter, to escape from his cre-
ditors, he lodged at a farm-house near the six-mile
stone on the Edgware-road, in which farm-house
he penned the comedy of She stoops to
Conquer, first performed at Covent-garden, under
the management of Colman, on the 15th of March,
1772. This brilliant comedy was the last production
of any eminence given to the world by the genius of
Oliver Goldsmith, if we except that witty jcu d'esprit
entitled " Retaliation," which was thrown off in a
humorous inspiration shortly before the poet's disso-
lution. In recounting this narrative in a detailed
biography, Washington Irving has allowed the cha-
rater of Goldsmith to develope itself in his actions, in
his sayings, and in his writings, illuminating his
pages with frequent anecdotes, and scattering
through them at intervals his own comments and de-
ductions. One phrase,- and one phrase alone, in this
• biography we do not regard as felicitous, and that is,
where speaking of Goldsmith and Reynolds, it is said,
—" They were men of kindred genius, excelling in
corresponding qualities of their several arts, for style
; in writing is what colour is in painting." Injudicious
illustration ! seeing that the colours of Sir Joahua
Reynolds have already faded almost entirely
from his canvass, and knowing that the colours
of the poetry of Goldsmith are of a perennial
brightness. Mr. Irving agrees with Mr. Forster in
surmising that the nursery story of " Goody Two-
shoes," and mayhap some similar effusions, were the
work of Goldsmith's innocent and versatile imagina-
tion. What renders the present life of our poet " best
beautiful" of all is the nature of its frequent allusions
to the family of the Hornecks. Insomuch so, that
the deathbed of the bard becomes invested with an
overwhelming pathos, and we close the volume with a
loving memory for the very name of the Jessainy
Bride, and a sigh for " Poor Goldsmith."

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
GLOUCESTER, WEDNESDAT.—The first grand con-
cert at the County Hall, last night, was attended by
about GOO fashionables. The concert was opened with
Spohr's overture to Jessonda which was faithfully
rendered by the band. Herr Formes then made his
debid to a Gloucestershire audience in the beautiful
and solemn air from Mozert's Zauberjlote "In
diesen heilingen," which displayed the full power and
compass of his magnificent organ. He was raptu-
rously encored. The duet, " Serbami ognor," from
the Semiramide was set down for Madame Castel-
lan and Miss Dolby, but in consequence of the con-
tinued illness of the latter, as explained by Mr. Tur-
ner, one of the stewards, Miss Williams, took the
contralto part. Nothing could have been more per-
fsct than this duet in the hands of these two aceom-
pliehed artistes. Madame Castellan's pure soprano
blended in delicious harmony with the mellow con-
tralto of Miss Williams. In this duet, however, as
in several other pieces performed during the evening,
the band was too powerful for the voices. This was a
fault which no one acquainted with the undoubted
talent of the members of the orchestra could have anti-
cipated. Mr. Lockey sang " Ob,'tis a glorious sight to
see," from Oberon with taste and correctness, and
had we not heard a Bral;am deliver the same song,
Lockyer's enunciation of it might have satisfied U 3.
After this spirited song Sontag came forward, and
was most warmly received by :the audience, many
of whom were present at the rehearsal on Monday
night, and were greatly prepossessed in her favour by
her manner in the orchestra on that occasion. She
made her deldit in an aria of Donizetti's" Caso berie,"
in which she both astonished and entranced her hearers
by her delicious voice and wonderful powers of exe-
cution. Sims Reeves was the next debutant, in Bee-
thoven's lively " Adelaida" song, which we imagine
we have heard him sing batter. Miss Williams's deli-
very of the recitative and air from Oifeo (Gluck),
" Sposa,"tec., was a most chaste performance; and
Castellan's " Son vergin vezzosa," in the pollees and
quintetto from Puritani, was equally delightful. Mr.
Blagrove played a violin solo—" Introduction and
Polonaise"—by Mayseder with correct taste and cer-
tainty of intonation, and was loudly applauded. But
the gem of the concert was Sontag's " Soldier tired"
(Arne), in which she elicited the most unbounded
admiration. A little more English, and far less
Italian, would have been most agreeable to a mixed
audience like that of last night. The first part of the
concert was closed by the ever-pleasing, never-tiring
" Haste thee, nymph," which was given by Henry
Phillips with that jocund spirit and abandon which
no man can so well impart to the music.
The overture to William Tell, opening the second
part, was played amidst some noise arising from
parties returning into the room. This may account
for the curious fact that the ostensible conductor (Mr.
Dove, of Worcester), and the leader of the band (Mr.
Blagrove), were each beating different time. It ap-
pears a farce for a prominent cathedral organist to
attempt to conduct such a band in such a subject.
The overture was brilliantly played, but the succeed-
ing accompaniment to Herr Formes' song from Der
Freischutz, a Taci, taci," was sufficiently powerful to
drown even Formes' voice. The air and rondo
" Prendi, per me," from Elisir d' Amour, was a com-
plete illustration of the skill with which mechanical
difficulties may be overcome, and apparently almost
imposiible achievements attained without destroying
musical proprieties. In the hands cf Madame Cas-
tellan it was a thorough triumph of art. Madame
Sontag's air, "Ah ! VOU3 direr (Adam) was
acother illustration of a similar school. M.
Remueat's flute accompaniment to this air was
a brilliant and wonderful performance, and was
greatly admired. The piece was encored. The
Oberon quartet, " Over the dark blue waters," was
admirably given by Miss Byers, Miss Williams, and
Messrs. Lackey and Phillips. Tee madrigal of the
evening was Welbye's " Stay Cerydon," which
greatly disappointed the audience. Mr. Lawler sang
the song " As I view," from La Sonnambula, very
respectably; and the concert closed soon after eleven
with the quartet from Don Giovanni," Non ti
the executants Mesdames Sontag and Castellan, Suns
Reeves, and Herr Formes.
At the conclusion of the concert there was a ball,
which was attended by between two and three hun-
dred of the company, but the assembly broke up

early.
The weather to-day continued most brilliant, and
not a cloud appeared in the sky. Fresh immigra-
tion began to pour in early, and by half-past eleven
o'clock, when the performance of sacred music
commenced at the cathedral, the floor of the nave
was crowded in every part, the aisles were also fully
occupied, and the western gallery had but a few va-
cant seats. The oratorio to-day was Mendelssohn's
.Elijah. On the whole it was not 60 finished a per-
lorinance as we have heard at these festivals, and was
not at all to be compared to that at Norwich, in 1848,
when it was a much greater novelty. Miss Dolly,
we were happy to see, was sufficiently recovered to
take her part in the oratorio, but Miss Lucombe was
still confined to her room, and her placa was filled
very inadequately by Miss Byers, of Exeta-
Mr. H. Phillips took the part of the Prophet, and
Madame Cas:ellan the widow. Lockey sung the air,
"If with all your hearts," beautifully, as usual. The
double quartet, "For He shall give II;s angels charge
over thee," was indifferently performed by Mira
Byers, Master Woodward, Miss Dolby, Mr.
Williams, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Rickhep (Worcester
Cathedral), Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Whitehouse
(Windsor Chapel Royal). The air, "Help me,
man of God," was exquisitely given by Madame
Castellan, and Mr. Phillips interpolated soli sere
given with his well-known taste and judg-
ment. The duet between Castellan and Phillips,
"Now by this I know," was hardly taken brisk
enough, and failed to afford the contrast to the preced-
ing passages which was intended by the composer.
Tae succeeding chorus, "Blessed are the men who
fear him," was well rendered by the choral body. The
choruses by the priests cf Baal, were given with that
discrimination which showed the artists to have seized '
the Composer's ideas. The lovely quartet, " Cast thy
burden upon the Lord," was sustained by Miss Byers,
Miss Dolby, Mr. L )ckey, and Mr. Lawler, and pro-
duced a marked effect upon the audience. The
chorus, " The fire descends from heaven," was most
effectively rendered; and the next chorus, "Take
all the pr.-.oeti of Baal," was well taken up.
Miss Williams eclipsed her farmer doings in the
air, which she has made her own, "Woe unto him."
In the unfortunate absence of Miss Lacombe,
Miss Byers took the part of the child in the
interlocutory passages with Peillips, commencing
" Gj up, now," but the result was far from satisfac-
tory. Madame Sontag made her first re-appearance
iu oratorio at these festivals in the divine air, " Hear
ye, Israel." Her clear ringing mellow voice never
told more effectually than in this air. The following
chorus, "I3e not afraid," was admirably taken up,