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felt that, owing to the vague and imperfect manner
in which the bills of particulars had been made,
they containing many items not likely to be required,
that Court determined to receive fresh contracts for
their works in the Ranelagh and Counters-creek
district.
Mr. GUNTER seconded the resolution.

AND

Vubitr 14% OMOn.

An amendment was moved by Mr. BEECH, and se-
conded, that Messrs. Hazlitt and Bonnin's tender be
accepted.
A lengthened discussion arose upon the questir.:,7,
Mr. Leslie explaining, at consider '
different modes in wbir le
length, the
3-
contracts were made by the
vommisions. He adverted to; the facts,
that the lowest candidates on that day had reduced
their tender to an amount of some 2601. from that
which they had put in a fortnight before; that there
were only three candidates in all, arising, he had
no doubt, from the discouragement of public compe-
tition by the system pursued in that Court. He had
found that, supposing the Bow-street sewer to have
been built according to the Holborn and Finsbury con-
tract, that the saving in digging alone would be about
3501. That was surely enough to make them pause
ere they proceeded further in the matter. Perhaps a
clause in that Commission's Act of Parliament could
satisfactori!y explain the better management of affairs
there. It was enacted, under a penalty of 1001., that
no person interested in the question at i,sue should
Sit in that Court. The Hon. Commissioner then gave
the relative depths of works done at the rate of
_lBs. 6d. per Toot run in the Holborn and Finsbury
division, and argued therefrom that contracts should
be taken by "the job," as snore likely %to encourage
cum petit ion.
The CHAIRMAN said there was no parallel to be
drawn between the works done in Bow-street and the
line to which Mr. Leslie had alluded. The average
depth of the Holborn and Finsbury works was sixteen
feet, while in Bow-street the average depth was
twenty-four feet, and that, too, through ground of the
ttost difficult character—a running sand. Mr. Ben-
- tett had been a great loser by the Holborn works,
and the fact was apparent, for the second tender was
!greatly higher. It would have been impossible for
him to continue the works at those prices. But he
(the Chairman) maintained that no public body was
justified in getting their works done out of the pockets
of the contractors. There was another fact in the
I-Vstem pursued by the Holborn and Finsbury district
Which materially reduced the expenses of the con-
tractor. If he were to use old bricks, and he was
• allowed to do so, they would be charged only 20s. a
thousand,and, in the great quantity of bricks used, this
Made a most essential difference to him—
Mr. BEECH—Of course, when new bricks would
be charged- 365.
The CHAIRMAN—Then, again, he was allowed to
Use the pit sand instead of sharp river sand, and this
also made an important difference. He (the Chair-
man) knew an eminent builder, and he had said to
hint that he had some few years ago been allowed to
use Pit sand in one of his buildings, and the mortar
--was at that time actually rotten ; and so dissatisfied
la's he with the result, that he stated he would rather
have lost in the first instance 1,0001. out of his own
Pocket, than used it. The Chairman was of opinion
that the tender given in that day by Messrs.
azlitt and Bonnin was a moderate one, and should be
accepted.
The amendment and the original motion were then
Put, when the former was carried by a majorityof six.
Messrs. Hazlitt and Bonnin were then called in,
and informed that their tender was accepted ; but
these gentlemen begged to withdraw if the whole
works in the district could not be guaranteed them.
Their resignation was received, when--
Mr. LESLIE again urged that further competition
86_111.1 be invited.
Mr. WOOD moved, and Mr. LOCKE seconded, that
the next tender should be accepted. The motion was
carried, but Mr. Todd resigned the contract on the
same ground that the first parties had.
Mr. LESLIE renewed his application, but again un-
successfully, for it was carried that the third and only
candidate should have the offer of the works. He
also declined to accept them, and for the same reason.
Mr. LESLIE inquired whether, under these un-
paralleled circumstances, it would not be worth their
while to try the plans he had all that day been ad-
vocating. It was very evident that the bills of par-
ticulars were either not understood, or looked at with
suspicion.
The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that the Court was
degraded in the eyes of all contractors, by its never-
ending efforts to cramp them in their operations.
After much recrimination, the Court adjourned, it
being understood that .the subject of the contracts
should be considered again next Friday.

" Who runs may read."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.
CHIPPENHAM FIELD—THURSDAY.
First Ties for, the Derby—Sherwood beat Reginald ;
Full-Sail beat J. Rex ; Marshman beat Deptford ; Flash
beat Swing.
First Ties for the Cup—Traveller beat Magog ; Cap-
tain beat Vale ; Thorn beat Oetavia ; Wildrake beat
Sovereign.
Pint Ties for the Oaks—Egeria beat Cloak ; Top
beat Darner; Killena beat Dimple; Rhea, beat Grace Jones.
First Ties for the Port Stakes—Mintman beat Fore-
mast ; Dorothea beat Viator ; Soignie's beat J. R. ;
Miracle beat Garter.
The Rutland Stakes for Puppies.
Mr. Gillett's Crocus beat Captain Daintree's Kentish
?ire ; Mr. Fyson's Farmer beat Mr. Bagge's Turk ;
Fyson's Filigree beat Mr. Vipan's Venture ; Lord
Straribroke's Michael beat Mr. Nash's Chesterford.

The Chippenham Stakes.
Mr. Nash's Cruiskeen beat Mr. Dobede's David
Deans; Mr. Vipan's Verona beat Mr. Gillett's Gamester.
WORCESTER RACES—THURSDAY.
The Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each and 15 added, one
mile and a quarter, were won by Captain Peel's Nonsuit,
-5 yrs (Mr. Wynn); beating Adrian and three others.
_.A match for 100 sous., four miles, was won by Mr.
Timms's Cora, beating Mr. Smith's Lady Harkaway.
The Hurdle Stakes of 3 soya. each and 20 added, one
mile
and a quarter, were won by Mr. Gill's Sands, 4 yrs
(Archer), beating Go-forget-me, and three others.
„, HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Albrighton hounds, Monday, Woodcote ; Thurs-
day,.t„ Whitmore, near Penkridge ; Saturday, The
.I°o Shepley-common—Atherstone hounds, Monday,
Zisberwick; Wed., Cricket's Inn; Thurs., Kennel; Sat.,
butterworth
ZlO1—Crawley and Horsham hounds, Mon.,
taz, Horsham-common; Thurs., Ifield-court; Sat., the
bc'ee Southwater, 10:I—Montgomeryshire hounds, Tues.,
•Isetrenant ; Fri., Pantyfrid, 10—Shropshire hounds,
9rl-, High Ergall; Wed., Petton; Fri., Atcham-bridge
Essex and Suffolk hounds, Tues., Bradfield-street;
Wed Gol Green, 101—Brighton hounds, Mon., Patcham;
-, Race-course; Fri., Dyke, 101—Brookside harriers,
•°ll-, Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Telscombe Tye—Findon
t,ounds, Tues., Southwick Mill; Thurs., Parham Park;
rh*, Ashington Gate—Captain Cander's hounds, Mon.,
iffe3'; Wed C t Elm; Fri., Croome Perry-wood
9Peu -

.4•efordshire hounds, Tues., Hope Turnpike, Fri.,
Stoke 1
-Lacey, 10—Warwickshire hounds, Mon., New-
bold Pace Y; Tues., Mitford-bridge; Thurs., Ufton-wood;
fn., Ufton House • Sat., Red Hill, 10i—Holdernrss
Percy_' Mon., Frodingham-bridge ; Tues., Kilnwick
-rercY_; Thurs., Swinstead : Fri Calnwick Mil'

• Saturday, &Linton, New Inn, Hi —Lord Yar-
borough's hounds, Monday, Ravendale ; Wednesday,
Somerby House; Fri., Langmere Furze, 11— Eddie-
thorpe hounds, Mon, Birdsall House; Wed., Galley
Gap; Sat., Pluchham; 101—Mr. Morgan's hounds,Wed.,
idham -bridge, 10—Wheatland hounds, Thur., Cressage
Park—Mr, Wall's harriers, Mon., Clirow-hill; Thur.,
Empton; Sat., Talymaur—Ludlow hounds, Tues., Gat-
ley Coppice
; Fri, Dinehope, 10 Cambridgeshire,
hounds, Mon., King William the Fourth Inn, on the
Huntingdon-road; Wed., Southill, 11 ; Fri., White
wood
wood' .4 Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds, Mon., Monk's
„.; Wed., Stanwick Pasture, Thur., Kennel, 10—
, Mr. S. Hellier's hounds, Mon., Tothill ; Tues., Tower
on the Moor; Thurs., ainton; Sat., Greenfield, 10k—
Thanet harriers, Mon., Sheriff's Court; Wed., Ozengell,
Sellinge L;aes; Fri
East Rent hounds, Mon., Swingfield Park; Wed.,
son's hounds, Mon , King Grove ; -Tues., Armswell;
Sweech Gate, 10A--Mr. Farquhar-
Thur., Sydling Barn—Taunton harriers, Mon., Handy-
erc'sa ; Fri., Black Lion Inn, 10—Cheshire hounds,
Harley, Sat.
Mon., Davenport Hall; Wed., Tatton Park; Thur.,
, Guide-post—Sir W. M. Stanley's hounds,
Mon., 'Fhurlston; Wed., Bebbington; Fri., Upton, 11—
-Sir.W.W. Wynn's hounds, Mon., Pentre Byehan; Wed.,
Rryn-y_p
Fri., Holt—Essex Union hounds, Wed.,
vyvs;
Tiptree indmills; Sat., Danbury Griffin 10}—East
Essex hounds, Mon., Kennel; Thur., Topingoe Hall ;
Sat. High Garret, lo3—Mr. Mure's hounds, Mon., Rush.
ford Village; Thur., Hardin-green—Badsworth hounds,
Tues., Hut-green:. Thurs., Owston; Sat., Haver-
- croft, —Mr. Foljambe's hounds, Mon., Darl-
ton; Tues., Barnby Moor; Thur., Gateford Toll-bar—
Rufford hounds, Mon., Kirklington Hall; Wed., Laxton
Village; Sat., North Budley Forest—Lord Yarborough's
bounds, Mon., Ravendale ; Wed., Somerby House; Fri.,
Langmere Furze—Lord Henry Bentinck's bounds, Mon.,
Langworth Bridge ; Tues., Panton ; Wed., Langford
Lodge; Thur., Norton Place; Sat., Saxilby, i—R. V.
H., Tues., Pointington Ridge; Fri., Bagbere Common,
11i—Mr. Deane's harriers, Tues., Hunter's Lodge; Fri.,
Two-Ash Hill (Chard), 10—Mr. A. Smith's hounds,
Mon., Fosbury House; Tues., Mannin g ford ; Wed., Wher-
Well Wood; Thur., Shoddesden Gate; Fri., Everleigh;
Ziat, Clarendon Park Duke of Beaufort's hounds,
Mon., Draycot; Wed., Dyrham Park ; Fri., Compton
Basset; Sat., Yate Rocks, 10—Sherwood harriers, Tues.,
Robin Down's Hill ; Fri., Bolsover, 11—Donnington
hounds, Mon., Langley Priory ; Wed., Flourish Inn ;
Sat., Hathern Turn— fr. M. Ingram's' hounds, Mon.,
Egginton ; Thur., Snelston ; Sat., Rollestone—Quorn
hounds, Mon., Shearsby Inn ; Tues., Quorn House ;
Rollestone Hall ; Fri., Ratcliffe, iO4—Sir R.
Sutton's hounds, Mon., Tollethorpe Oaks; Tues., Mar-
ket Overton ; Wed., Irnham Hall ; Fri., Manton ; Sat.,
Little Delby, 11 —Pytchley Hunt, Mon., Maidwell ;
Wed., Swingford; Fri., Brixworth ; Sat, Pytchley, 101.

Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P.,
presides at the next festival for the City of London
General Pension Society.
ROBBERY AT LAMBETH CHAPEL.—On Wednesday
morning early, or late on Tuesday night, some thieves
entered Lambeth Chapel, and abstracted all the Commu-
nion Service plate and other valuable property.
KEEL-HAULING.—A gentleman asked Justice Par-
Sons the definition of keel-haul. He replied, "It
,j* under-
90ilig a great hard-ship."

T 1 SUN, L

SUMMARY OF NEWS All the ground behind Emanuel Hospital, upwards of
extendingac eisnofwrocmleatrheed
sfotranthaer
d d ntelheed mrari:
msixentetesn,
Vauxhall-
bridge-road, in a line through Mr. Elliot's pleasure-
grounds, in front of the Artillery beer-house, in a line
through that sink of vice, the Almonry, to the Abbey.
This will be one of the most splendid improvements in
London.
Information has been forwarded to the various metro-
politan police stations of the mysterious disappearance
of a gentleman named John Albon, residing at No. 21,
Albion-place, Clerkenwell. It appears that on the even-
ing of Thursday, the 24th of October, he quitted his
home for the purpose of transacting some business at
Hampstead, t which place he was last seen, at the White
Bear Tavern, and left about twenty minutes to twelve
o'clock, to return home, since which time he has not been
heard of.
Mr. Henderson, Recorder of Liverpool, has subscribed
Wu guineas towards the establishment of a Sailors'
Home in that town.

PON.EX6IIV.
The Moniteur de I 'Armee announces that by a royal
order of the 30th ult., General Rostolan is appointed to
the command of the Polytechnic School, and that by
another royal order of the 29th, Lieut.-General Count
Grouchy is appointed to the command of the 13th mili-
tary division.
On Sunday the full-length portrait of the King, pre-
sented by his Majesty to the town of Sevres, was put in
the town-hall. The Prefect of the Seine et Oise, the
Mayor, and the Municipal Council, a deputation of the
National Guard, and some officers and hussars quar-
tered in the town were present. The Mayor having de-
livered an appropriate address, which was greeted with
cries of "Vive le Roi ! Vive la Reine ! Vive la Famille
Royale !" a grand dinner took place, at which a number
of loyal toasts were drunk.
Four of the conspirators arrested at Barcelona were
shot at eleven in the morning of the 30th ult., near the
Convent of the Trinitarians. Pickets from each of the
corps in the garrison formed the escort. All the generals,
officers, and soldiers who were not called upon this duty,
were confined to their barracks.
Mr. Lumley, the director of her Majesty's Theatre,
London, passed through Paris a few days ago for Italy.
It is statsd in a letter from Perpignan that two soldiers
of the 67th regiment of the line were drowned, on their
march from that place to Macon, by the overflowing of
the Rhone, and that some soldiers of the 16th and a
quantity of baggage were lost by a similar calamity, in
the march of that regiment to Perpignan.
A letter from Constantinople states that the health of
the Sultan occupies the attention of every person in that
capital. His brother, Abd-ul-Azis, who, though the
present Sultan has male children, would be called to the
throne according to the laws regulating the male suc-
cession in Mahometan States, was born in 1828, and is
of a robust constitution. As much as the present Sultan
is feeble, timid, and deprived of energy, is Abd-ul-Azis
petulant, stubborn, and self-willed.
The Journal des Debats publishes the following ex-
tract from a letter dated Mentz, Ist inst.:—" An electro-
magnetic telegraph, en Mr. Faraday's plan, has been
attached to the Taunus Railroad, which lies between our
city and Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, the extent of which is
about 16 French leagues."
Nina Sontag, sister of the Countess Rossi, has just
entered a Carmelite convent at Prague.
A letter from Berlin, in the Augsburg Gazette, states
that in the late combats against the tribes of the Cau-
casus, the Russian army has lost a great number of
officers.
The Silesian Gazette states, that in the course of the
month of August last a secret association for political
purposes was discovered in the kingdom of Poland, and
many arrests were made at Warsaw and at other places.
The committee appointed to inquire into the facts, after
having ordered twenty-two persons to be set at liberty,
condemned the following persons to hard labour for life
in Siberia:—Gervasius J. Jowski, assessor of the
Criminal Tribunal at Legya; Wladislas Wieckowski,
Advocate; and Alexander Karpinski, Advocate.
Eighteen others were condemned to the same punish-
ment for ten years. The property of the condemned
was ordered to be confiscated.
Accounts from Riga, of the 23d ult„ announce the
.destruction by fire of the steam-boat Riga, which ar-
rived there on the preceding afternoon. The flames broke
out after she was moored on the usual ground for
steamers, and, in spite of every exertion, continued
burning till five o'clock the next morning, when she was
reduced down to the water's edge. The disaster is sup-
posed to have been occasioned by spontaneous combus-
tion of the coal.
A letter from Algiers, of the 30th ult., states that the
monks of La Trappe are
.proceeding with great rapidity
in the construction of their monastery in the plain of
Staoueli. A farm on a very extensive scale will form
part of their establishment.
LAW .11.27 D POLICE.
The case of the Baron de Bode again cause before the
Court of Queen's Bench, and Mr. M. D. Hill obtained a
rule nisi to enter up judgment generally for the Baron,
notwithstanding certain of the issues had been found for
the Crown.
In the Court of Exchequer, a rule nisi for a new trial
was granted, in the case of Wood v. Ledbetter, an action
brought for turning the plaintiff off Doncaster race
course, in which the verdict had been for defendant.
Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, in the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, issued an order for the prosecution of Robert
Bannister, a bankrupt, under the provisions of the sth
and 6th Victoria, cap. 122, for obtaining credit under
false pretences, and improperly making away with and
embezzling property.
The rule calling on Thomas Younghusband, who 30
years since had been discharged by the Insolvent Court,
calling upon him to show cause why he should not now
pay those debts, was discharged.
At Guildhall, two young journeymen shoemakers,
natives of Ireland, named Michael Hogan and Edmund
Hogan, were brought before Mr. Alderman Johnson,
charged with being found on the premises of Mr. Pen-
nington, of No. 4, Beech-street, Barbican, under circum-
stances of suspicion. It appeared that the prisoners had
entered the house for the purpose of making love to the
two maid servants of the prosecutor. No property was
missed ; and as there was no reason to doubt their
story, which was confirmed by the servant girls them-
selves, they were discharged.
David Weaver, a policeman of the F division, 28, Ives
placed at the bar at Bow-street, before Mr. Twyford,
charged with having committed a criminal offence on
Constantine. Jones, residing at 38, Exeter-street, Strand.
The prosecutrix, however, so prevaricated in her testi-
mony, and contradicted herself so frequently, that the
Magistrate discharged the prisoner, who loudly protested
his entire innocence of the offence charged against him.
George Coombs, for a violent assault upon Ann Gam-
mon, an unfortunate girl, was fined 5/., or two months'
imprisonment, at Clerkenwell.
Mr. Hardwicke committed an old man, named Samuel.
Coulthard, for one month, from Marlborough-street, for
making use of indecent language to children in Kensing-
ton-gardens.
Thomas Burn, charged with stealing a child's chaise,
the property of Mr. Stephen Bland, 8, Percy-passage,
Rathbone-place, Oxford-street, was fully committed from
Marylebone.
At Worship-street, Henry Miller, Wm. Thompson,
and his wife and daughter, and Samuel and Charlotte
Edge, whose former examinations on almost innumerable
charges of fraud and felony, in all parts of the metro-
polis, before noticed, were brought up. for final exami-
nation, and the cases against them having all been com-
pleted, the depositions were ordered to be taken, and
the prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial.
Several cab-drivers were fined at Union- hall for neglect-
istg to wear their badges.
At Woolwich, James Hawksford, charged with com-
mitting robberies at the Cadets' Barracks, was remanded.
A. Hammersmith, VVm. Young, a carter in the employ
of Mr. Wm. Atley, market-gardener, at Hanwell, was
charged with having stolen a bunch of turnips, the pro-
perty of his master. Ile was driving a load of turnips
to Covent-garden market, and sold one of the bundles at
a public-house on the road. Mr. Clive told the prisoner
that it was his duty to send him for trial, and most
strongly reprobated the practice of the keepers of road-
side houses purchasing articles from carters stopping
there, declaring that, in his opinion, such purchases were
made as an inducement to them to come drinking there.
At the Thames Court, John Mills, a man about 45
years of age, who had been in custody three weeks, and
was on the last occasion remanded for a fortnight, was
brought before Mr. Ballantine for final examination,
charged with intermarrying with Charlotte Burney, his
first wife being still alive, and fully committed for trial.
GOTIXT—PALSECIONABIAS.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, and Lady
Olivia Montague, intend to pass the winter in Spain, for
the improvement of her Grace's health, which has been
for some time in a delicate state. The Duke and Duchess
have arrived at Brampton-park, on a visit to Lady Olivia
Sparrow, previous to embarking for Cadiz.
The Duchess of Grafton and Lady Louisa Fitzroy
have arrived in town from Euston Hall, near Thetford,
where the Duke and the Earl of Euston remain for a few
days, and then will go to Wakefield Lodge, Northamp-
tonshire. The Duchess leaves town early in the ensuing
week for the latter seat.
The Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe has arrived at
Bath, from Broxmouth, N. 8., to take the waters. The
Dowager Duchess is likely to stay some weeks in that
city, and then remove to Brighton for the winter.
The Marquis of Winchester has left town for his seat
in Wiltshire, on a visit to the Dowager Countess of
Pembroke, near Salisbury.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick and Lady Caro-
line Neeld are prolonging their sojourn at Ramsgate.
Lord Brooke will leave shortly for Burghley House,
near Staford, where her Majesty and Prince Albert
are expected to arrive on Tuesday next, from Windsor
Castle.
Earl Fitzhardinge has left town for Berkeley Castle,
Gloucestershire. The Noble Earl repairs next week to
his villa at Cheltenham, and remains there while his
hounds hunt in that neighbourhood.
Lady De Dunstanville has left Dover, and gone to
Brighton.
Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.B. and
G.C.H., accompanied by Lady Blakeney and family,
arrived at Cheltenham on Monday last from Dublin.
The Earl of Pembroke was detained by the boisterous
state of the weather at Folkstone, until Wednesday,
when the Noble Earl embarked fur Boulogne, on his way
to Paris.
The Count de Jarnac, first Secretary to his Excel-
lency. the French Ambassador is gone on a tour for a
few days. The marriage of the Count with the Hon.
Miss Foley is expected to be solemnised during the first
week in December.
The Limerick Chronicle gives the following ececunt of
another aggrarian murder :—" Mr. Arthur Gloster, a
wealthy landholder, returning from his farm, near Kit-
keshen, county Clare, to his house, within a mile of this
city, was murdered yesterday evening at the early hour
of five o'clock, by two ruffians armed, who lodged slugs
in the body of the unfortunate gentleman."
The Nenagh Vindicator states that the floods caused
by the late rains have inflicted considerable damage in
that neighbourhood—bridges swept away, houses flooded,
and roads rendered impassable. The sufferings of the
poorer classes are represented to be in consequence very
great. A great deal of rain has fallen in Dublin.
Information has been received by the police that a
gang of provincial sovereign-makers have arrived in
London, and that the money they have with them are
not of the value of more than fourteen shillings each.
The sovereigns are well made, and mostly of the date
of 1842. -

LITERATURE.

• NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. 11.
Hayward and Adam, London, 1844.
Thefe are several interesting articles in this Num-
ber, and among them may be mentioned the " Auto-
biography of a Living Writer," in which the auto-
biographer gives some affecting reminiscences of a
Dissenting minister, named Whitehead—a gentleman
who had passed through the greater portion of his life
beloved and respected by all who knew him, until in
an evil hour, in the autumn of his days, the devil—
who, as we are told, is always prowling about seeking
whom he may devour—placed temptation before Mtn
in the shape of • seductive young girl whom he had
been selected to instruct in the great truths of religion
and morality. Unfortunately, Mr. Whitehead could
not resist this temptation, so he sinned and fell, and
the co:s^qm nee was that he was ever after shunned
by his neighbours, and died a victim to remorse and
a keen sense of humiliation. The autobiographer
ca'ls him a " fallen angel," but Dissenting ministers
—so far as we have been able to perceive—have little
of the cherubic essence about them. In the brief
sketch of " Louis Philippe," the writer states that
" he belongs to the class of Earl Grey and Lord
Lansdowne." Surely this is a very hasty and inac-
curate statement ! The French King is notorious for
his political tergiversations, whereas Earl Grey is
celebrated for nothing so much as his undeviating po-
litical consistency, which resisted for full forty years
all the temptations of office, and maintained an almost
Spartan inflexibility of principle. " Social Doctors"
compares the views of the Political Economists with
those advocated by the party styled " Young Eng-
land." The article is tolerably impartial in its esti-
mate of the comparative merits and influence of these
two sects, and thus expresses on the subject of the

latter's deserts :
" For the spirit of Young England we have a lively
sympathy ; it is genial, youthful, joyous ; it is our own
spirit, but more romantic and historical. Mr. Disraeli,
who appears to be the head of the new college is a
clever—perhaps' maturing into an able man ; ambitious
—we take it—and upward-looking ; humbling himself
to be exalted ; of too large dimensions—though the fail-
ing is too common to be noticeable—in his own esti-
mate ; and who will finally settle down somewhat be-
neath the highest peak. The same miniature represen-
tation may pass for the Hon. G. S. Smythe and Lord
John Manners ; abating a little of the strength of the
deeper tints, and infusing more sweetness, fancy, and
genuineness into the colouring. However we like the
trio well—feel grateful to them ; they are doing a work
long needed by rousing the torpid benevolence, social
fellowships, and generous sympathies of England. They
have got hearts, which can never be safely predicated of
a thorough Benthamite or political economist, and thus
supply an essential element in the national elixir. Next
we welcome them most cordially for repudiating old
political parties, exclaiming with Dr. Hook, the vicar,
Away with party to the winds—away with any go-
vernment that shall be so debased, so lost to the princi-
ples of humanity and religion, as to say that they will
oppress the million that the few may grow rich on their
oppression Not that parties may not be sometimes
needful ; Young England itself is a party; nothing great
was ever done without leagues, unions, or associations ;
but that which is disclaimed are the worn-out confede-
rations that have ceased to be banded upon any intelligi-
ble principle, or for any national object. Holland House
is doomed, and with it rest the thrice-told tales of the
' great Lord Chatham,' Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Sheridan—
able men, good men, perhaps, some of them ; but their
faded glories and aristocratic feuds are inapplicable to
our time, which cannot be served by rhetoric only, the
glitter of eloquence, gorgeous abstractions, philanthropic
maxims never meant to be practical, or aught, save po-
pular traps, for oligarchic supremacy. The difficulties
that beset us are home questions, neither constitutional,
forensic, nor collegiate, but the sudden efflux and conflict
of material interests ; and the first step to the reconcile-
ment of these perplexities is to apply a little galvanism-,
as Young England is doing, to the sectarian and icy cal-
culus which has frozen the genial springs of social life,
and benumbed, with its opiate influence, the soul of the
community."

THE ATTACHE. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1844
" Ecce iterurn Crispinus !" We have here our old
friend Sam Slick, the Yankee Clockmaker, again,
throwing out his drolleries, conceits, witticisms, and
shrewd, sententious aphorisms, with a careless profu-
sion that would almost induce one to believe that his
resources were inexhaustible. He is now arrived in
England, in the quality of Attache to the American
Embassy, and being a keen and caustic observer of
men and things, gives his impressions of English
society, prejudices, tastes, habits, &c., in a spirit that
is more to be commended for its homely, truthful
plain-speaking, than for its complimentary character.
The present volumes, which, it seems, are the last of
the series, though hardly equal in freshness and ori-
ginality to their predecessors, are yet well worth the
reader's perusal—more especially if he happen to be
of a worldly, satirical, practical turn of mind, for
their views of human life are marked by uncommon
sagacity, and here and there we meet with a philo-
sophical reflection, referring to the bustling every-
day world about us—for Sam Slick seldom or never
deals in metaphysical abstractions—worthy of old
Johnson, when in one of his happiest conversational
moods. But the Clockmaker is not only a sayer of
smart things, but he possesses, in addition, descriptive
faculties of no ordinary character, and has given us
sketches of humble, provincial life in the Canadas,
that in their truth and force of detail remind us of"
those masterly ones which abound in the late Mr.
John Galt's novel of " Laurie Todd." We quote
some pertinent reflections which Mr. Halliburton has
put into the mouth of his hero, the Clockmaker, while
attending the funeral of Thomas Campbell in West-
minster Abbey :
" Ah, poor Campbell ! he was a poet, a good poet, a
beautiful poet ! He knowed all about the world of ima-
gination, and the realms of fancy ; but be didn't know
nothin' at all about this world of our'n, or of the realm
of England, or he never would have talked of the
Pleasures of Hope' for an author. Lord bless yell I let
a dancin' gal come to the opera, jump six foot high,
'light on one toe, hold up the other so high you can see
her stays a'most, and then spin round like a daddy-long
legs that's got one foot caught in a taller candle, and go
spinnin' round arter that fashion for ten minits, it will
touch Peel's heart in a giffy. This spinnin' jinny will be
honoured by the highest folks in the land, have diamond
rings, goold snuff-boxes, and pusses of money given her,
and gracious knows what.
" Let Gineral Tom Thumb come to London that's two
foot nothin', and the Kentucky boy that's eight foot
somethin', and see how they will be patronised, and what
a sight of honor they will have. Let Van Amburgh come
with his lion, make him open his jaws, and then put his
head down his throat and pull it out, and say, What a
brave boy am I !' and kings and queens, and princes and
nobles will come and see him, and see his lion feed too.
Did any on 'em ever come to see Campbell feed ? he was
a great lion this many a long day. Oh, dear ! he didn't
know nothin', that's a fact ; he thought himself a cut
above them folks : it jist showed how much he know'd.
Fine sentiments ! Lord, who cares for them !
"Do you go to Nova Scotia now, and begin at Cape
Sable, and travel all down to Cape Canso—the whole
length of the province, pick out the two best lines from
his Hope,' and ask every feller you meet, Did you
ever hear these ?' and how many will you find that has
seen 'em, or heerd tell of 'em ? Why a few gals that's
sentimental, and a few boys that's a•courtin', spooney-
like, that's all.
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pays better nor
rhymin', and ticklin' the ribs with fingers pleases folks
more, and makes 'em larf more, than tickliu' their ears
with varses—that's a fact."

THE
Moron,LOoFndoAnTITB4E4.GHEI.
The preface to this little volume of poems informs
us that it is the production of a young Irish lady,
named Brown, who composed it under circumstances
of great discouragement, having been blind almost
from her youth, and consequently having acquired
knowledge with infinite difficulty, and only -by the
kind agency of others, who read to her works of
history and poetry, and prose fiction, which seem
to have made an indelible impression on -her mind.
From her own brief, modest account of her early
struggles and aspirings, we should judge Miss Brown
to be endowed with superior energy of character, and
to be stimulated to renewed exertions by obstacles,
rather than to be depressed by them. Alluding to
this subject, the Editor of the present volume, who
has introduced the Authoress's memoir into his pre-
face, justly remarks—" The energy displayed from
her childhood by this almost friendless girl, raises at
once the interest and the character of her muse. There is
something touching—and teaching, too—in the picture
of that perseverance which has conquered for itself
an inner world of thought in lieu of that outer world
so early withdrawn from the sense. The bard gathers
dignity from the darkness amid which she sings. as
the darkness itself is lightened by the song. There
are lessons to be dravvn from both, and the Editor
believes that this little volume has a variety of titles
which should promise it a sure and extended popu-
,