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NESDA Y EVENING, JULY 31, lB5O.

was thereupon, after a very severe reprimand, his Lord-
ship intimating that but fir her age he would be die-
posed to punish her more severely, E enterced to a year's
imprisonment.

The second indictment was against another witness,
who had also given evidence on the same occasion
against Mr. Sne3d; but on Mr. Whateley
the defendant was prepared to admit that be was mis-
taken in swearing what he did, the chargeryas was not pro-
ceeded with, and a verdict cf acquittal s taken by
consent. saying that

WESTERN CIRCUIT —Bodmin, July 27.
CROWN COURT.
There were the names of twenty-four prisoners in the
calendar.

William Gibson pleaded guilty to an indictment charg-
ing him with setting fire to a rich.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, in sentencing the prisoner,
said that he had stated he wished to be transported. The
Court was not in the habit of attending to the wishes of
prisoners, but in such a case as this he must he trans-
ported ; let it, howcvrr, not be supposed that transpor-
tation was merely a removal from one country to
another, and that the prisoner would there have the op-
portunity of bettering his condition. He would first be
kept in separate confinement for twelve months ; he
would then most likely he sent to Portland, and be sub-
ject to very severe and hard labour at the breakwater;
and after being there for a long time, he would be sent
out of the country. The sentence was that he should be
transported for ten years.
Robert flood, aged 62, was convicted of a rape upon a
little girl, and was sentenced to 20 years' transportation.
Thomas Baker, jun., was indicted for striking and
beating William Coles about the head, from which
beating and striking he died.
Mr. H. T. Cole prosecuted, and Mr. Collier defended
the prisoner.
It appeared that the deceased was a farmer. On the
27th of May he was at a public-house called the New
Inn, at Week St. Mary. The prisoner came into the
room in a most excited state, being intoxicated, and
offered to fight any one there. At length he addressed
the deceased, and endeavoured in every way to induce
him to fight. He provoked him very much, but the de-
ceased said he would not fight, although he was •not
afraid. The prisoner then struck him two blows, one
over the eye, and the other under the ear. After the
last blow the deceased fell from his seat, and in a few
minutes died.

The surgeon said, he considered the deceased died
from apoplexy, which might have been occasioned by the
blow. He did not make a post mortem examination, be-
cause the coroner's jury did not wish it.
The witness, upon being pressed in cross-ex:mina:

tion, went into all kinds of possibilities. The deceased
might have been attacked wish apoplexy even without
a blow. He was a stoat subject, and therefore liable to
apoplexy; and from the surgeon's evidence it would
seem that, not having had a post mortem examination,
he could not tell much about it, and he could not
say anything, in fact, that was of any value upon
the subject.
The jury found the prisioner Guilty of a common
assault; and he was sentenced, after a severe admoni-
tion from the judge, to three months' imprisonment.
The assizos for Cornwall commenced on Friday at
twelve o'clock, and ended on Saturday at two o'clock.
During our remembrance the judges have been com-
pelled to sit early and late for a week to get through the
business. Certainly the promotion of Mr. Cockburn and
the illness of Sergeant Kinglake, who was compelled on
that account to leave Dorchester, and has not been able
to come here, may have had something to do with the
small quantity of business, for these gentlemen having
been retained, the attorneys were placed in an unex-
pected position. It is expected that Mr. Slade will be
made a Queen's Counsel before the conclusion of the
circuit. Parties feel heavily the loss they have sus-
tained in the promotion of the Solicitor-General.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
EXTENSIVE. ROBBERIES BY A LADY'S MAID, and
CHARGE AGAINST TWO POLICEMEN.—Mary Ann Raw-
lings (who has lived as a lady's-maid, in several families
of distinction), John Martin, 36 B, and Charles Murray,
171 B, who had been remanded—the female prisoner
charged with stealing two gold watches, a valuable
brooch, a silver teapot, and other property, from General
Sir Colin Halkett, Governor of Chelsea Hospital, and
the two latter with having feloniously received the
brooch, were brought alp for final examination.
There were other charges against the female prisoner,
and a second against Martin.
Sir Colin and Lady Halkett, Sir Fortunatus and
Lady Dwarris, and other persons of condition interested
in the proceedings, were accommodated with seats on the
bench.
A gentleman from the office of Mr. Humphreys, soli-
citor, attended oa behalf of the male prisoners.
The voluminous evidence, which has been already de-
tailed, having been read over,
Lucy Barton, laundress, 23, William-street, Portland-
town, produced some lace habit-shirts and a pair of cuffs,
which had been brought to her by the female prisoner on
the 11th inst. to wash.
Lady Letitia Halkett proved that the female prisoner
had been in her service as lady's maid, three weeks up to
the Ist instant, and identified the several articles pro-
duced upon this and the former occasion.
In reply to a question from the male prisoner's advo-
cate, her Ladyship could not state the exact value of the
brooch, which had been presented to her some years ago
by the General. It might be valued about 6/. It be-
longed to a set, other portions of which she produced.
Sir Colin Halkett was called to negative a statement
made by the female prisoner. In reply to the inquiry
from Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk, whether he had ever
givea her the brooch, he replied that he hal not. He
could not tell the value of the brooch.
As this concluded the case against the accused, they
were severally addressed in the words of the statute by
Mr. BRODERIP, who inquired whether they wished to
say anything?
The female replied in the negative, and the male
prisoners' legal adviser reiterated the arguments used
by Murray on his previous examination, and solicited his
discharge at once.
Mr. BRODERIP refused to accede to this request
which was strongly pressed by the advocate, until he
had heard the other cases which were to be brought
forward.
The next case was then proceeded with..
Sarah Smith, female searcher at the Pimlico station,
proved finding a stocking marked " Rosa Platt" on the
female prisoner's person, and another similarly marked
and apparently its fellow in her box.
Mr. Samuel Platt, magistrate for the county of Mid-
dlesex, residing at 10, Hyde Park gardens, stated that
the prisoner entered his service as one of the lady's-
maids, on the 23d of April, and remained a fortnight.
After identifying the handwriting upon the stockings as
Mrs. Platt's, Mr. Platt stated that he had discharged
the prisoner on suspicion of robbing the kitchen-maid of
half a sovereign. He then went through a long list of
articles, including silk stockings, &c., which had been
missed from his house immediately after the prisoner's
departure.
Mr. BRODERIP inquired whether he had received a
character with the prisoner? Mr. Platt replied that he
had received a good character with the prisoner from
Lady Manners.
The female prisoner, in reply to this charge, said that
Miss Rosa Platt threw the stockings out of her drawer.
Accused knew nothing about the half-sovereign.
In the next case the prisoner Martin was included in
the charge, and again placed in the dock by the side of
the female prisoner.
Eliza Lane, a laundress, produced two cambric hand-
kerchiefs which had been left with her by the prisoner
Rawlings io wash.
John Davy, police constable, 119 B, said that between
nine and ten months ago he bought the duplicate ticket
of a watch and gold pin, in pawn at Mr. Roberts's,
Westminster, of the prisoner Martin. He
redeemed the articles, which were
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gstave the name John Martin, 5,
elapsed prevented his bing able to remember the fea-
tures of the person.
Miss Ann Brereton stated that the prisoner Rawlings
was in the service of her sister, Lady Dwarris, James-
street, Buckingham-gate, for a short time, about June
last, during which witness was upon a visit there. Miss
Brereton identified the two pocket-handkerchiefs, which
had belonged to her mother, and the gold pin, as her
property.
In her cross-examination by the male prisoner's ad-
vocate, the lady repeated that she identified the pin by
some peculiar marks about it, although she could not
exactly describe them, and pointed out the marks to
which she alluded. She could not exactly tell the period
at which she lost the things produced.
In her re-examination by Mr. BRODERIP, Miss Bre-
reton said she had the things at the time she went to
pay the visit at her sister's.
The female prisoner, in reply to this charge, said
she knew nothing about either the pin or the watch, and
never gave them to Martin.
Mr. Roberts was recalled to ascertain whether he could
identify the female prisoner upon another charge with
reference to some valuable table-linen, without which
identification the case could not bo supported. Mr. Ro-
berts said he should be most happy to assist the ends of
an interval of 13 months having
justice, but he could not identify the person who had
sincep aW n
elapsed.
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Mr. BRODERIP said he should commit the prisoner
Rawlings upon the several charesdidbrought against her.
phseedP,r°
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not ho think the male
perty,
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prisoners had any reason to
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whether they had acted phreutoheeurti
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to warrant a com
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cept two sureties in 30f. each fur their appearance at the
sessions.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
GOODWOOD RACES. _ _

CHICTiESTER, 51011 DAY NIGIIT.—The entries for the
plates, &c., closed this evening at Goodwood, and if one
sir ta o did not come up to the mark—the Craven Stakes
and Cowdray Stakes, the Stewards' Cup, Inkeepers',
Anglesey, and Queen's Plates, filled better than usual,
proving that there were plenty of horses in the neigh-
bourhooll, and that the daily average of racing is likely
to come up to the amount we mentioned last week. The
pen was drawn through a considerable number of two and
three years old, and several engagements were thus re-
duced within narrow dimensions. For tho Ham and
Goodwood Stakes, the Nursery Plate, and the Cups, the
fields will be larger than appear to have teen generally
anricipated.
The two and five o'clock trains this afternoon left
London-bridge station with immense freights, but num-
bers having stoprd at Brighton, Worthing, or Bognor,
with the intention of abiding there during the' races, the
priTortion which reached Cnicbester was confined almost
exclusively to the sporting classes, for whose aepomods-
tion the Subscription Betting-room was opene 1 as usual;
not a bet, however, was laid. _ _ _

A large and distinguished party is assembled at Good-
wood, snere open house will be kept to the close of the
week. A good deal of rain fell this evening, about seven
o'clock, and the prospi-cts of the meeting in respect of
weather are dubious.
TUESDAY.—The weather this morning, contrary to
expectation, turned out fine, and having continued so
throughout the day, wo are enabled so far to record a
favourable commencement of tho meeting. The sport.
too, was ample and interesting, but the attendance did
not, either in number or rank, come up to the standard.
The list of the fashionables, and of the Goodwood and
Molecomb parties, we must defer until to-morrow.
The following return will show that four great '• cer-
tainties" did not come off, and that the " fielders" found
some consolation for a long run of ill luck.
The Craven Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sous. each, with 50
added. Craven Course, (9 Subs.)

Mr. Walter's Maid of Team Valley, 7st 81b ...(Lye) 1
Mr. Greville's Cariboo, 3 yrs, 7st Ilb (E. Sharp) 2
Duke of Richmond's Quiver, 7st 31b (Kitchener) 3
Duke of Richmond's Vampyre, Sat 101b...(Flatman) 0
Lord Clifden's Loadstone, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (Sly) 0
Major Mertyn's The Moor, 5 yrs, Sat 21b...(Abdale) 0
Lord H. Lennox's Woodlark, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Esling) 0
Mr. Chatfield's sis to First Chance, 6st 111b(Barker) 0
The Duke of Richmond declared to win with Quiver.
Betting-2 to 1 agst. Cariboo, 3to 1 agat Maid of
Team Valley, and 4to 1 agst Quiver. Woodlark took
a lead of a couple of lengths immediately after leaving
the post, and with Maid of Team Valley and Cariboo
in her wake, cut out the work until half-way between
the commencement of the rails and the distance, where
she retired beaten. The Maid of Team Valley went on
with the running and won cleverly by half a length,
Cariboo beating,Quiver by the same; nothirig was near
these three. Run in 2 min. 20 sec.
_ _

Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old
colts, Bst 71b each. Craven Course. _ _

,
Lord IT. Lennox's Bee Hunter, Bst 71b ...(Flateasn) 1
Lord Exeter's Nutshell, Bst 71b

Betting-2 to lon Bee Hunter, who made all the inn-
ning and won in a canter by fifteen lengths. Run in 2
min. 50 cm

Tho Innkeepers' Plate of 50:sevs., added to a Sweepstake
of 5 soya. each. Two yrs old, sst 71b; three, Tat 91b;
four, Bat 41b; five, Bst 111 b; six and aged, 9st. The
winner to be sold for 100 sovs. if demanded, &c. T.Y.C.
(8 Subs.)
Count Hahn's Meridian, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (Whitehouse) 1
Mr. Well's Vigilant, 2 yrs, sst 71b (Kendall) 2
Mr. Hughes's fby Cowl, •2 yrs, sst 71b...., .(Cowley) 3
Mr. Deltne's Ranger, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Flatman) 0
Mr. Osbaldeston's fby Pantaloon, sst 71b (Barker) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Slang, 3 yrs, 7st 91b ...(Witherton) 0
Captain Hervey's fby Envoy, 2 yrs, sst 71b(G. Mann) 0
Major Martyn's Fernande, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (W. Abdale) 0
Betting—Even on Cowl filly, 4 to 1 agat Vigilant, and
5 to 1 agat any other; the winner not mentioned.
Meridian took the lead at starting, was never ap-
proached, and won in a canter by four lengths. Run in

1 min. 20 sect.
The Levant Stakes of 50 sous. each, 30 ft, for two yrs
old. Colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 31b, winners extra; the
second to save his stake. Half a mile. (16 Subs.)
Lord H. Lennox's Turtle, Bst 31b (Kitchener) 1
Sir J. Hawley's f by Bay Middleton out of Venus

Bst 61b, including 31b extra (Templeman) 2
Duke of Richmond's Buckhound, Est 71b (Flatunn) 3
Mr. Henry's Julia, Bst 31b
Betting-5 to 2on Venus filly, 4to 1 agst Buckhound,
and sto 1 agst Julia. Buckhound Went off with the
lead, which, with Turtle and the favourite laid up, he re-
tained to the Stand; the running was there taken up by
Turtle, who delighted the fielders by winning, not easily,
by half a length, the Venus filly beating Buckhound by
the same. Run in 52 secs.

The Gratwicke Stakes of 100 sovs. each, b ft; for three
yrs old, colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 51b; 31b and 6lb
allowed, &c.; the second to receive 200 sovs, and the

third horse to save his stake. One mile and a half.
Mr. Foster's Musician, Bst 71b . (J. Manson) 1
Colonel Peel's Hardinge, Bst 101 b.. (Flatman) 2
Mr. Bowes'i Mickleton, Bst 101 b (F. Butler) 3
Lord Exeter's Cora, 7st 13Ib (Norman) 4
Sir J. Hawley's Hippia, Bst 51b ..... (Templeman) 5
Mr. Gannon's Deicoon, Bst 10Ib (S. Rogers) 6
Betting-5 to 4 agst Hardinge, 3to 1 agst Deicoon,
and 7to 1 agst Musician. The race, like the two which
preceded it, came off in favour of the fielders, and is easy
of description—Musichn taking the leal, keeping it to
the end, and winning cleverly by a length; a head be-
tween second and third, and the same between third and
fourth . Run in 2 min. 51 sec. _

The Ils,m Stakes of 100 sous. each, h ft; two yrs old,
colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, 83t 71b; 31b and 61b allowed,
&e.; the second to receive 200 soya. out of the stake.
T.Y.C. (38 Subs.)
L'rd Exeter's Phlegra, Bst llb . (Norman) 1
Lord H. Lennox's Hernhndez. Bst 71b ...(F. Butler) 2
Lord Egliuton's Bonnie Dundee, Bst 71b (Marlow) 3
Mr. Howard's Christina, B,t 41b (A. Day) 0
Mr. Gratwicke's Anspach, Bst 41b (S. Mann) 0
Mr. Greville's Geneyra, Bst llb (Flatinan) 0
Sir J. Hawley's The Ban, Bst lolb (rempleman) 0
Lord Clilden'a Coticula, Bst 71b
Colonel Pkel's The Black Sea, Bst-lolb ...(S. Rogers) 0
Mr. Stebbing's Knock Knoll, Bst 121 b (Bartholomew) 0
Betting-7 to 4 apt Hernandez, sto 1 agst Bonnie
Dundee, 6 to 1 each agst Black Sea and The Ban, 7 to 1
egst Coticula, and 8 to 1 agst any other.
Phlegra took the lead at starting, closely attended by
Hernandez, Anspach, and Knook Knoll, the others lying
well up. They ran in this order to the distance, where
Bonnie Dundee and Knook Knoll headed Anspach, and
immediately after challenged Lord Exeter's mare. An
extraordinary close race ensued, Phlegra winning by a
head, and Hernandez beating Bonnie Dundee by the
same, Knook Knoll a good fourth, Anspach fif,h. Run
in 1 min. 18 sec.

Sweepstakes of 300 stns. each, h ft, for four yrs old;
colts, Sat 71b; fillies, Sat 21b; the second to sane his
stake. Queen's Plate Course. (12 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's The Flying Dutchman ...(Marlotv) 1
Sir J. flawley's Vatican (Templeman) 2
Betting-10 to 1 on The Flying Dutchman, who fol-
lowed the non-favourite for about two miles and a half,
and had all the rest to himself, winning by ten lengths.
Hun in 7 min. 23 sec.

LITERATURE.

ALETIIEIA, AND OTHER POEMS. By
William Charles Kent. Messrs. Lonz man and Co.
The minor pieces contained in this' volume, of
whose principal poem we had occasion some time
back to speak in terms of high and richly-merited
eulogium, fully sustain Mr. Kent's high character as
an accomplished writer, and an intuitive and ideal
artist, possessing very considerable powers of fancy
• and of pathos, together with a felicity of expression
which no mere cultivation can ever give—the genuine
and unforced fruit of an originally poetic tempera-
ment. There is the same apparently careless beauty
of language, the same happy choice of imagery, the
same tenderness, and the same truth in these shorter
poems as in his longer and more sustained effort.'
The following sonnet on poor Keats seems pregnant
with the peculiar graces of Mr. Kent's style :
" Another sadness round Apollo's fine;
A cypress wreath hung on his golden lyre;
A gleam of beiuty born but to expire;
Another Cnattcrton in hart and brain—
The doom of genius fell on earih again,
And, like a thunderbolt of Sapphic fire,
Bkstel the rapture of thy young desire!
Again from out thy lips the dcatbful strain
Pour'd like the murmur of undying love.
Again the glory, and figain the woe
OF bariic joy fell on thee here below,
Fell but to lift thy fame to realms above.
A life had perfected thy form, but now
A torso of' eternal !pace art thou,"
The concluding line, concentrating as it does in its
most quintessential form the whole truth about Keats'
genius, is singularly felicitous ; the sonnet itself
realises the ideal formed by Keats himself of this class
of composition,

"swelling loudly
Up to its climax, and then dying proudly."
In the verses which immediately succeed, upon
" Amelia; a Beloved Memory," there is a deep and
genuine pathos, which passes fresh from the soul of
the poet into the soul of the reader : " beautiful ex-
ceedingly" is this recollection of
" The smile of innocence and joy,
The smile of bright, seraphic rest,
Which hallow'd, like a saint, the form
That died upon my breast.
It gleams upon my mem'ry still,
It wafts me back to years of old,
It glimmers on the darken'd Past
Like moonbeams on the wold."

Very beautiful, too, is this pure and delicate tracery
of a ♦irtuous and gentle character :
"Thy sorrow for fictitious woe,
Thy sympathy for true distress,
Thy tears of charity divine—
The tears that God will bless—
Thy noble and unselfish mind,
Thy spotless and celestial youth,
Resembling in angelic dreams
The radiant grace of Ruth.
Such recollections stream along
The channels worn by floods of grief
And, oh! they pour upon my soul
A sad and lora relief.
They bring me back to peaeeful scones,
To scenes and things to you so dear,
And, at the potent touch of truth,
What buried thoughts appear!
Thoughts of thy bright, poetic taste,
Thy seer-like, childlike love of books—
A love that shone within thine eyes,
And liv'd within thy looks."
Unless we are mistaken, in allowing ourselves to be
influenced by a very natural and indeed almost un-
avoidable feeling, there must be great depth, delicacy,
and purity in the character of a writer who can so
admirably appreciate and pourtray these qualities in
another. The fbllowing passages from a poem called
" An Elegy on the Old Year" are tinged with the
same tender melancholy, and are steeped besides in
that idyllic richness of expression which we have
already noted as an attribute of Mr. Kent's style :
Weeds grow where I look'd for roses—weeds, weeds!
And the grave-mounds oj the dead up-ripple the smooth
meads;
Where rich grapes were lately peeping,
Knots of ivy boughs are creeping:
Thus with me, alas! Old Year, thy deeds
Smiles have chang'd to weeping.
Fair she was with youth and beauty—fair, fair!
Lip of vermeil, deep as sunset, molten gold her hair;
One she stood amidst a crowd,
She—withal so nobly brow'd,
So pure, so mild—Old Year, thou hadst no love nor care,
For she is in her shroud."
The lines printed in italics need no comment to re-
commend them to the lovers of rich and picturesque
imagery. As a specimen of our author's style,
we extract the whole of the graceful little poem called

• FEFINE IN THE CORN FIELD.
"Feline dearly loves her lover,
Loves him as the lark the morn;
Yet her love ne'er discover ;
Reaping down the ripened corn.
lie is timid of her beauty,
Timid as the fawn of eves,
And his passion screens with duty;—
Swathing round the rustled sheaves.
She allows her thoughts to slumber
As at midnight sleep the fl nits,
While his sighs her tighs outnumber;—
Prepping up the yellow shocks.
What though ho beside her tremble,
(Sunbeams weave a cheequered shade!)
She will yet her love dissembln;—
Gleaning each forgotten blade.
For ho has not told the glory
Of his loving hopes and fears;
And she hides her heart's fond story;—
Toying with the wheaten ears.
'Neath his gaze her pale cheek flushes,
Yet her love is still conceal'd,
While the last autumnal thrushes
Warble mar the stubble field.

Fefine speaks not, yet her glances
Tell of love in every look,
And while boldly he advances
Downward drops his reaping hook.
Lo! his pent emotion gushes
Blindly forth in burning words;
While in answer she but blushes—
'Round theuvoftly chaunt the birds.
Palm to palm their fingers mingle—
He so fervid, she so chaste;
Thro' his arm warm pulses tingle
Circling 'round her supple waist.
All her grace of art he copies,
Bending o'er her form so fair,
Twining scarlet Imes of poppies
In her auburn gloom of hair.
Fefine dearly loves her lover,
Loves him as the lark the morn,
Now that both their love discover—
Breathing 'mid the golden corn."

The exquisitely tender lines on a " Mother's Love"
contain passages of a very high order of beauty ; our
citations must be limited to the following stanzas on
a topic abundantly familiar, but which has very rarely
been more gracefully handled :
" Days of my boyhood! wherefore did ye seem
So glad, and bright, and gloriour, and fair;
Why did ye flit in such a joyous dream,
Giving a bluer beauty to the air:
Did the green river sparkle clearer then,
Were the rimm'd daisies whiter in those hours;
Came there a blither whistle from the wren,

Or sweeter perfume from the meadow flowers?
I know not; but more softly stirr'd the leaves,

The cowslips bloom'd more golden in the grass,
Poppies look'd deeper scarlet in the sheaves,
And thyme smelt sweeter in its russet mass;
A richer ripeness gloom'd upon the fruit,
A pearlier dew hung glimmering on the sprays;
A darker purple deck'd each violet's shoot,
And fraught with charms apposed those mystic days."
Of all the minor pieces, however, in this volume, the
most remarkable is "Phillippo, the Dream -Haunted,"
a poem founded on " an old legend of a young man in
Languedoc, who, seeing an unknown lady in a dream,
pined away and died for the love of her, despairing."
In this Idyll (for such in truth it is) the shadowy
tenderness, the vague longing, the chill disenchant-
ment of a poet's love-dream are given with high
artistic power; it seems as though the teller of the
tale had drawn his inspiration from the waters 'of
Lethe, and, in the language of Keats, " made his
rosary of yew berries," and " suffered his pale fore-
head to be kissed by nightshade, ruby grape of Pro-
serpine." The reader finds. himself in a climate
of mild and monotonous langour ; a visionary haze
wraps all objects in the hues of the unreal; only at
intervals the leaden air is streaked with some fever
flashes of a passion ,whose anguish soon merges
into despondency. How. Phillippo, in the _words of
his poet, " dies for the death of his delicious dream
and melts into oblivion" can only be learnt aright
from the poem itself. The following extract will give
some notion of the voluptuous richness of the
imagery which adorns it :
" Then from night's solace I arose, and drain'd
The healthful coolness nature breathes at morn,
While my light step along th' elastic sod
Mov'd with elated pressure; when the dew
In sparkles glittr'd on the spider's web,
The fairy cordage of its network strung
From thorn to bramble, like most delicate lace
Powdered with diamonds; when the skyward lark
Shrilled duo' the vepours faint and fainter, till
bucanticles of love were heard alone
By the Invisible; while tears of dawn
Hung pendant on the pendant cherries, each
A ruby with a twinkling crystal drop !"
From the " Burial of the Archbishop," a sombre and
solemn dirge, rich with the gleam of censers, and
resonant with funeral music, we take the following
-passsge of imitative melody :
" Echo all the crypts around,
Even every,creviee
With a sweet, but awful sound--
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Tuba minim spa-rgcns sonum--
'Round the vaulted chambers ring,
Per sepuldra regionum—
Where the silent dead we bring,
Coget omnes ante thronum,—
.
Sirrowfully murmuring."
Space fails us for further extract, and we must con-
tent ourselves, therefore, with merely pointing out to
the reader's notice the two spirited and Tyrtican
ballads " The Hungarian Patriot," and "Lamartine
in February," the politics of which alone would com-
mend them to all readers of this journal, even if their
poetry were less meritorious than in fact it is. Here
then we take a reluctant leave of Mr. Kent, in the
full confidence that we shall encounter him once
again in that region of high art where he has already
achieved so much and given promise of- so much
more. The rich redundancy of his manner requires
occasionally a wise repression ; maturer taste will no
doubt increase the correctness and concentration of his
language ; while it is certainly to be hoped that Ills next
subject will be of more general interest and of more
manageable proportions than the "Doom of 'Mytho-
logy." These, however, are all errors of judgment,
for which time and experience supply the rt.unedyo
On the other hand, he possesses, in enviable though
imperfectly developed vigour, some of the finest and
rarest attributes of the poetic nature—wealth of words,
grace of fancy, strength and variety of inventiveness.
In these and their careful cultivation reside his future
celebrity. He cannot, we think, fail, if he be not
wanting to himself. The sterile correctness which
commences its career without fault is certain to con-
clude it without glory. its highest praise is a kind
of blameless impotence. The exuberant life and
vigorous manhood of Mr. Kent have undoubtedly led
him into some few faults of excess—excess of orna-
ment, excess of epithet, occasional excess of thought ;
but what Dryden says of the desire of glory may
truly be affirmed of the occasional outbreak of a rich
and generous nature, it is " a godlike sin" and worth
a whole boarding-school of the tamer virtues. With
such opinions of the position already won by Mr.
Kent, and with such hopes for his future achievement,
we heartily commend his book to our readers, and
himself to " those fresh fields and pastures new"
which few indeed of his cotemporaries are better fitted
to traverse with honour.