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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1845.

many that these parties would do well to reconsider what
they have rejected, as their prospects of success cannot be
very bright."
__ _

Sunoistrirte Umox.—The London and Birmingham and
the Grand Junction have united in taking the above under-
taking under their wings; or rather, perhaps, that the
Shropshire Union has succeeded in making arrangements
with these Companies.
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF RAILWAY DIRECTORS.—The
30th of November rapidly approaches, by which time the
mist, which has for a considerable period hung over jnany
projects, will be dispelled ; when the chaff will be sepatated
from the wheat, and the really sound undertakings distin-
guished from those having little more than an existence
upon paper. From the present demand for railway
'leers, and the increased remuneration expected by ;:iietn,
the cost of preparing the necessary plans, books of refe-
rence, &c., cannot be estimated at a less cost t:dan 2001, per
mile, so that on or before the 30th November tke actual ex-
penses incurred upon a line to cost 10,0001. per mile, would
exceed, on a capital of 5/. per cent., 40 per cent. of the de-
posits. It would, therefore, be very des.,rable that the Direc-
tors of railways would seriously cons:Ader before they deter-
mine to incur expenses where littl ;chance exists of the ne-
cessary Parliamentary preliminaries being completed.
TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY .—COMHENCESIENT OF THE
WORKS.—The works of the Trent Valley Railway will be
commenced on Tuesday, 11, at Tamworth, with the
usual ceremonies. The first sod will be turned on this occa-
sion by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P. The
Directors and Shareholders of the line may well feel proud
that the Prime Minister of the empire confirms the earnest-
ness of his parliamentary support of this line by officiating
at the auspicious commencement of the works.—Railway
Record.

cADVEPA M
ISEE T.
N
LYME REGIS AND TAUNTON TjRAILWAY AND

HARBOUR IMP 110VEMENT COMPANY.
We have looked, fr'Jm the first, with a favourable eye upon
this undertaking, snout which there is an unassuming sound-
ness that is F",riking. The Direction is entirely formed of
wealthy a'".Ad influential parties locally interested, who are
about 'greatly to improve the harbour. of Lyme Regis, already
th-, best and most accessible in the western bay. We are in-
formed, upon unquestionable authority, that her Majesty's
Lords of the Admiralty are so favourable to the project as to
have written to the Committee to that effect, at the same time
requesting an inspection of their plans, which will, of course,
be immediately acceded to, as the plans, surveys, &c., are all
in a sufficiently forward state for the next session of Parlia-
ment, and will be duly lodged before the 30th of Nov. The
Committee have, however, come to the novel,wise, and honest
determination of only taking the small deposit of 2s. per
share at present, so that should they not, by any untoward
circumstance, be able to go to Parliament in the ensuing ses-
sion, the remainder of the deposit, viz., 2/. per share, will not
be required for twelve calendar months. This judgment and
forethought reflects the greatest credit upon the solicitors and
managers of the Company.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION

THE
,POTATO DISEASE.
Dr. Ryan yesterday gave a lecture at the above institu,
tion on the potato disease. As this subject has become a
matter of great consequerce to the whole kingdom, we deem
a notice of a portion of the lecture would be acceptable to
our readers.

The potato ov;es its nutritious properties to the starch
which it contr:ms. 100 parts of a fresh potato, denuded of its
skin, are co.Aposed of—water, from 68 to 72 ; meal, 32 to 28.
The me
8 to ":.,. consists of—starch, from 15 to 17 • fibrous matter,
9 ; mucilage, 5 to 6. . To extract the' whole of the
st'Arch from 15 to 17 per cent. may be obtained.
The idea of employing starch as an article of food may
I appear to many exceedingly strange; but the difficulty will
perhaps disappear when they learn that arrowroot, tapioca,
&c., are merely varieties of starch ; wheat flour, rye, barley,
rice, &c., also contain large quantities of that substance.
The process of obtaining starch from these substances is
comparatively easy and rapid. Formerly all the starch of
commerce was obtained from wheat flour or meal. That sub-
stance contains a considerable amount of gluten, and to sepa-
rate that entirely from the starch occupied a considerable
period of time—upwards of ten days. First of all, the
wheat and meal had to be kept in cold water until fermenta-
tion set in. This fermentation was allowed to go on to the
acetous stage, in order that the acetic acid formed might dis-
solve the gluten and allow the starch to separate. The starch
was then removed, and washed repeatedly, and passed
through sieves of various degrees of fineness, and this pro-
cess
was continued until sufficient purity was obtained.
In obtaining starch from other substances, such as the
potato or the sago plant, the gluten offers no annoyance, as
simple maceration is sufficient. The skin is first removed,
and the potato grated into a pulpy mass; it is then stirred up
in cold water, when everything will dissolve, but the fibrous
matter, the mucilage, will disappear upon washing, and the
fibre is removed by passing through sieves. Th starch is
deposited at the bottom of the water, is then dried on stones
or in an oven, and is then fit for use.
When it is intended for immediate use it is not necessary
to dry it, but the addition of boiling water affords a highly
nutritious and palatable food. During the process of wash-
ing the diseased portions are removed. The Learned Doctor
feared that it would be difficult to convince the poor of the
facility with which the process might be done. The Doctor
also stated, although the potato disease was ascribed to a
variety of causes, that which he considered the most probable
was cold and damp, which was quite sufficient to produce
the results discovered in the tuber. This disease somewhat
resembles that which attacks other plants from long-con-
tinued rains. It is well to know that vegetable matter, in a
state of decomposition, is highly prejudicial to health, and
produces serious epidemics.
The view taken of the potato disease by Dr. Ryan seems to
coincide with that of the Government Commissioners in Ire-
land, who seem to attribute the disease to a sluggish circula-
tion in the plant.

IRELAND.
THE POTATO CROP.—THE ADJOURNED MEETING.
DEBLDT, Nov. 4.—There was a very full attendance to
day at the adjourned meeting. At half-past two o'clock the
chair was taken, on the motion of " the Liberator," by the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
His LORDSHIP read the resolutions of the Committee, sub-
mitted to the Lord Lieutenant on the preceding day, together
with his Excellency's answer. The answer was received with
partial hisses.
Mr. HAUGIITON expressed his regret that any resolution
should be agreed to to stop the exportation of food. They
ought not to place any restriction on commercial pursuits ;
other steps could be taken to prevent famine. His plan was
to call on the Government to place at their disposal money
to purchase food in the markets of Europe, guaranteeing the
repayment by a tax on the country. He thought the plan
of raising money on the Woods and Forests revenue a bad
one, as no country or people ought to go in debt.
Mr. S. GonDoN thought it a bad move to go to the Lord
Lieutenant as he had no power, still he thought they would
derive good from the meetings, for they might agree to a call
on the Government to repeal the law on the importation of
food. Mr. Gordon submitted a resolution embodying the
purport of his speech.
Mr. Baru seconded the resolution.
Mr. J. A. O'NEILL stated that Mr. Haughton's suggestion
was that we should purchase in the European markets, but
where were the markets open to them to purchase food.
The ports of Europe were closed against them. Mr. O'Neill
discussed at considerable length the course adopted by the
Lord Lieutenant. The Lord Lieutenant should not have
contented himself with police reports The -Lords Lieute-
nants of counties ought to call meetings of their districts or
the Deputy lieutenants in their baronies and parishes, to see
what could be done. It wasn't enough for them to go about
with a potato in their pockets, but be ready to put their
hands there when the time came. Mr. O'Neill again ad-
verted to Mr. Haughton's proposition. He recommended the
use of ardent appeals to Almighty God to deal with us in
this judgment with clemency.
Mr. CLASSON next came forward, and moved as an amend-
ment on the proposition of Mr. Gordon, the appointment of
a Committee, which was seconded by Mr. J. A. O'Neill
Mr. HauGirrox asked why they should seek to give the
former resolution the go-by ?
Mr. O'CONNELL said they were indisposed to introduce a
political question into the meeting. He was as sincere a free
trader as anybody could be, but he was not for free-trade to
the exclusion of the consideration of a question of probable
famine to the country.
Mr. J. A. O'NEILL said the passing of Mr. Gordon's reso-
lution would keep from their Committee most respectable and
influential People of the country.
Mr. DIXON said the disease, he was sorry to say, was pro-
gressing. The Lord Lieutenant did net say funds would be
forthcoming if what he called a necessity should arise. He
was in reality one of Mr. O'Connell's best Repealers.
The LIBERATOR then came forward, and said his purpose
was to support a practical plan for the purpose of carrying
out the measures of the Committee, for the purpose of
avoiding famine and pestilence. He appealed to Mr. Haugh-
ton whether the object of the Anti-corn-law League was not
to get into the country all the corn they could, without ever
thinking of sending it out of the country. Ireland was pe-
culiarly circumstanced—her produce went into England, and
the price never came back. That was what he supposed was
called a union, The Hon. and Learned Gentleman defended
the plan of raising money on the Woods and Forests. He
then adverted to the interview with the Lord Lieutenant.
They were badly treated. The Lord Lieutenant was
very uncivil to take the Lord Mayor out of his baili-
wick. He didn't care if they got anything, but to be
put into one cold room and bowed out of another,
but he gave them no promise, and he asked no in-
formation. He (the Liberator) then commented on the Lord
Lieutenant's answer, paragraph by paragraph, keeping the
assemblage in a continued roar of laughter at the ludicrous
light in which Ile placed it before the public. The assertion
that there WAS " no pressure in the market" was untrue ;- it
was gross and lamentable ignorance on the part of the Lord
Lieutenant. The Liberator then proceeded to develope his
remedies for the condition of the country. He would pro-
pose in the next Committee—a Committee of twenty—a tax
on absentee property. Every man who went on that Com-
mittee should show his intention of working by paying his
five guineas. They would lose the assistance of one-third of
the gentlemen who would support them if they were pledged
to abolish the corn-law. He suggested to Mr. Gordon to
withdraw his resolution, that their labours should be united
to charity alone, in harmony and in union.
After some consideration, and an attempt to persevere,
which the meeting would not sanction, Mr. Gordon, at the
suggestion of his seconder, withdrew the resolution, and the
amendment—the appointment of a Committee—was carried
nem. eon.
The Committee was then named. It is as follows:--
The Lord Mayor, Duke of Leinster, Lord Cloncurry, Mr.
O'Connell, Mr. Grattan, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. Classon, Mr.
Mahony, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Bermingham, Mr. T. Gresham,
Mr. Perry, Dr. Gray, Mr. O'Donoughoe, Rev. Dr. Yore, the
O'Connor Don, :Sir J. Power, C. Fitzsimon, C. 11PLoughlin,
J. Dunn, Alderman Keshea, Alderman Gardiner, Sir J.
Murray, Dr. Kane, Alderman M'Kenna, Alderman O'Brien,
M. T. Whelan, M. J. O'Connell, Mr. Tennyson.
The Committee is to assemble each day at two o'clock, at
the Mansion-house.
Mr. FITZSLMON spoke of the course adopted 'in Belgium.
They had stored provisions of all kinds in that country in
granaries. But the Belgians had adopted one plan in the
stubble lands they had already ploughed, and sowed with
oats, barley, rye, and here, and that in the hard season, the
time between the two crops. They would have food, if the
farmers adopt the wise example of the Belgians. The Bel-
gians have also planted already hundreds of acres of potatoes,
which, though the frost is very severe there, they protect by
scattering straw over them in winter, and this crop also they
will have early next year.
Mr. BERMINGHAM said the landlord who did not tell his
tenantry to keep his oats in his haggard, could not die
easy on his bed. Lord Clonbrock had told him he desired
his tenantry not to touch their oats, and the landlord who
did otherwise would incur a curse which all the prayers of his
household could not stay.
Mr. O'Neill was then called to the chair, thanks were
voted to the Lord Mayor, and the meeting separated.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

NINE LIVES LOST AND TEN OTHERS DREAD•

FULLY BURNT.
(ntom A CORRESPONDENT.)

WARRINGTON, Nov. s.—This morning at five o'clock,' the
No. 3 coal-pit, belonging to iNleisrs. Turner and Evans, at
Haydock, near Newton, Lancashire, caught fire, (by some
means at present not known,) and a most tremendous ex-
plosion took place, which uplifted and carried to a consider-
able distance the planks fastened at the mouth of the pit.
These collieries are at work both', night and day; the night-
men had just returned from the pit,. and the day-men in the
act of descending, nineteen of whom had gone down when
the explosion occurred; had it happened a few minutes later
about twenty more would have shared the same fate as their
unfortunate companions. Some were actually hanging by
the rope when it took place. As soon, as safety would permit
their fellow-men went down to explore the full extent of the
mischief, and nine dead bodies were found, amongst whom
was that of a boy, who was so dreadfully mutilated that thex.
were under the necessity of puttinC.binilrt a sack in order
to get him up. Ten men were :got up alive, but all so seri-
ously burnt, that not the least hopes are entertained of their
recovery, except one, who seems to have been more fortunate
than the rest. These most unfortunate men are nearly all.
married, and have left most of them large families to lament,
and it is to be feared grievously suffer this their sudden, unt
expected, and to them irretrievable loss. The inquest will
take place at Haydock to-morrow.
Since writing the above, I have been informed of an acci-
dent by gunpowder, to a boy in this town, who, having some
in his hand it ignited, and he is so seriously burnt that his
life is despaired of.

1 THE OVERLAND ROUTE to INDIA
v* TRIESTE.
TO TIIF EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—Briefly I beg to return my thanks for the conspicuous
manner you have been pleased to put my name before the
public in connexion with the Trieste route.
I beg to solicit you will allow your paper to give the public
the following particulars of my journey :
In the first place, the Semiramis steamer was 19 instead
of 17 days between Bombay and Suez, thus a loss of two
days to my express. Again, we were six days and a half
between Alexandria and Trieste, in consequence of head
winds and heavy seas the whole way (the common passage
is five days), hence again a loss of one day and a half; thus
three days and a half have been lost in this express upon
the sea passage, by which the express should have reached
London in 26 days, instead of 29i days.
It is generally supposed that I arrived at Trieste in the
Austrian steamer; such is not the fact. I steamed to the
extreme finish of the Adriatic, viz., Dwino, which is 12 miles
nearer London than Trieste, and a steamer can reach within
20 yards of that place.
I may now mention, Sir, an extraordinary instance of
Austrian alacrity and attention. His Excellency the
Governor of Trieste, Count Stadion, Chevalier de Bruck, the
head of the Austrian Lloyd's Company, and all the elite of the
merchants, &c., of Trieste, were waiting for me at Dwino,
though at the hour of half-past twelve at night, and one of
the darkest I ever experienced; we were guided only to
Dwino by the rockets sent up by them. My passport was
given by order of the Emperor of Austria, and countersigned
at Vienna by the representatives of Belgium, Prussia, Baden
and Bavaria, countries through which I passed; indeed, I
was not asked a question throughout the journey.
I shall shortly be in a position to offer to her Majesty's
Government and East India Company a series of trials again
by this route for three or six months certain, as they may
think proper, in order to take away those doubts which may
yet remain about the Trieste route. My opinion is, that the
three or six trials, when determined upon, will avera6e
twenty-five days between Bombay and London; and again
I have to mention, that when the present steam ships for the
Bombay line, now in course of completion in the Thames and
Clyde, are placed between Suez and Bombay, the route vid
Trieste will then be brought down to five days less; and, ere
two years, I feel convinced that dispatches will be in London
on the 21st day from Bombay.
Again thanking you for the notice you have already taken
of my sincere endeavours to shorten the space between India
and hngland, and assuring you of my unalterable devotion
thereto, I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
THOMAS WAGHORN, Lieutenant, R.N.
34,, Cornbill, Nov. 4.

LITERATURE.
THE O'DOIVOGHUE ; a Tale of Ireland of Fifty
Years Ago.
This number brings the very striking story of O'Do-
noghue to a close. Like most of these periodically-pub-
lished romances of real life, the catastrophe seems too
precipitately brought about; and the charm of probabi-
lity, therefore, expires at precisely that period of the
narrative when its presence is most necessary to vivify
and give effect to the closing tahleaux of its action. But
with this and other defects there can be no doubt this
" O'Donogliue" is still destined to be one of the standard
novels of its class. There is just enough admixture of
political excitement to enhance, without overlaying, its
purely dramatic character. Mark O'Donoghue, after a
hair-breadth escape fiom the plot contrived by the exe-
crable villain Hemsworth to secure his capture, and to
subject him to the ignominious fate that would in-
evitably follow on his being taken, inflicts a signal
chastisement on Hemsworth by throwing him out
of the window—and after being challenged and
pursued by some English dragoons, effects his
passage, and is again on the eve of being made prisoner,
when his generous rival, Captain Travers, rescues him,
makes him mount his own charger, and bids him " God
speed !" Mark subsequently gets himself put on board
one of the French dispersed squadron near Bantry Bay.
Hemsworth dies a violent and appalling death, well
merited by his crimes. The spirituelle and beautiful
Kate is united to Mark ; and the wedded lovers, after a
lapse of some seven or eight years, revisit in peace the
desolate but romantic scenes in which the young Irish-
man had passed his boyhood, and he then returns to
his permanent establishment in France as an officer 3n
her armies.

ON CHRONIC DISEASES of the SKIN; their

various Causes and Cure.
Dr. de Prati is already so advantageously known to
the public as a medical reformer of great sagacity and
success, that we were prepared to expect from this
Essay on Chronic Diseases much of the careful
study, extensive research, and original thinking, in
which it certainly abounds. Any man who,
having ability and learning abundantly sufficient
to give him a comprehensive knowledge of the various
systems of pathology which have obtained, both in
ancient and modern times, is endowed with that quick-
ness of perception, and that accuracy in combining re-
sults, which are constantly invigorated by observation
founded on extensive daily experiences, ought to be
able to rise superior to the trammels of all systems
when his own convictions, thus founded and thus forti-
fied, happen to be at variance with them. It is Dr. dc
Prati's praise to fulfil this notion of what should be
looked for from a clear, powerful, and unprejudiced
intellect. He passes in review the theories or discoveries
of eminent predecessors in that branch of medical in-
vestigation which he has here selected for discussion ;
but while rendering justice to their labours, he preserves
a tone of sustained critical discrimination, which, un-
biassed by all his respect for such great names as those
of Malphigi and Cheyne, Willan or Bateman, Alibert or
Fohman cannot repress. His painful investigation is
divided into many heads, as Tinea Capitis (T. Fur-
furacea, T. Scatulata, T. Lupinosa, and other forms of
that disgusting malady); Herpes, or Tetter; Leprosy;
Ichthyosis; Acne and Varus; H. Circinnatus or Ring-
worm; Mentagra, &c. The "Appendix" contains some
important notices of " a few of the medicines employed
by the author in the treatment of chronic cutaneous dis-
orders." This little work supplies a very valuable con-
tribution towards the remedial treatment of some of the
most common, and, at the same time, most cruel diseases
that afflict humanity.

ANEXP 0 SI 77 ON of the CHURCH of ENGLAND
CATECHISM, compiled chiefly from the Bristol Ca-
techism, and Dr. Burrower' Summary of Christian
Faith and Practice.

This is an excellent little work for Sunday-schools,
more especially for Sunday-school teachers, inasmuch
as it will enable them clearly to explain the Church of
England Catechism to their scholars. It is, in fact, a
popular compendium of Anglican theology. It is, we
understand, the production of a young gentleman named
Hayden, who, at the time he compiled this tract, was
only sixteen years of age. As the work of a youth it is
an astonishing production. In these days the Established
Church can ill spare the services of such young men as
the author of this tract, and it would be well that her
dignitaries should seek out such men, and if found in
other respects fitting, should afford to them every facility
and encouragement for taking on themselves the duty o
the ministry.

AGAZINES CON rINUED.
BLACKWOOD.*

" Humboldt" and " The Railways " are both able
articles, discursive, it is true, and full of play and fancy,
like some of the best productions of Maga, but, at the
same time, abounding with information, with a generally
correct knowledge of the subject, and if not :always
coming to a proper conclusion, throwing forth new ideas
and placing common-place matters in an interesting
light. The review of Humboldt'slast production is the
best instance we have seen of the loose, yet useful and
fascinating writing, which distinguishes this Magazine.
It is prefaced with a long introduction, and, like the in-
troduction to Sallust's History of the Cataline Conspi-
racy, might serve for any work whatever. It would do
for a,book of travels, or a novel, or a history, or a treatise
on railways, a volume of sermons, a tragedy, a comedy, or
a farce, and if the reader were not led to form
an idea of what was to follow from the heading of the
article, he would imagine that it was a lecture on edu-
cation, delivered by some teacher newly installed into
the London University, or a Birmingham College, or a
Mechanics Institute, while to his surprise he would find
it referred to Chimborazo, and Nundidevi, the rapids of
Orinoco, the pampas and !Janos of Brazil, and the
snakes, alligators, and panthers of the New World.
Speaking of the Oxford student the writer says, " His
head is full of Homer, and Virgil, and iEschylus ; he
could tell you all the amours of Mars aad Venus, of
Jupiter and Leda ; he could rival Orpheus or Pindar in
the melodies of his Greek verses, and Cicero or Livy in
the correctness of his Latin prose, but, as unfortunately
he has to write neither about gods nor goddesses, but mere
mortals, and neither in Greek verse nor Latin verse,
but in good English prose, he is utterly at a loss for
thought or expression." This would apply equally well
to every trade, profession, or pursuit, with the exception
of' perhaps one—the drudgery of an usher at Eton or
Harrow ; yet it refers only to the labours of a traveller
who takes a fancy for writing a book. Cambridge is
treated with the same ceremony. The Cambridge man
knows how to solve cubic equations, is a master of loga-
rithms and the differential calculus, but as the world is
neither a geometric world nor an algebraic world, a world
of conic sections or fluxions, but a world of plains
and mountains, of lakes and rivers, of men and
women, flesh and blood, he finds his knowledge
of little or no avail. Specimens are then given
of the travels of some celebrated scholars, among
others Clarke and Heber, and all are thrown
into the shade when Humboldt appears, because
the system of education in Germany is different ; and
an Englishman who has spent the best part of his youth
in making " nonsense verses," is totally unable to com-
pete with the Prussian, or Bavarian, or Saxon instructed
in all the elements of useful and general science. We
admit the truth of the censure, and only wish that the
monks of Oxford and Cambridge would make the same
admission, and mend their manners. The article on rail-
ways furnishes deep matter for reflection, while it posses-
ses the same discursive character, and displays the same
eccentricity. One part of it struck us as peculiarly charac-
teristic of the Scotsman, prudent, cautious, argumentative,
and seldom forgetting either himself or his country.
Allusion is made to the countless schemes for new lines,
and plans are proposed for making selections which shall
bring those most useful into operation. Among others,
boards are recommended—one for England, another for
Scotland, and another for Ireland ; but Scotland, of the
three, has by far the strongest claim for preference on
the part of the Prime Minister. And why ? Because
the manufacture of kelp was destroyed some ten years
aio by a wicked Cabinet Minister (we believe Poulett
Thomson is referred to) largely connected with foreign
trade ; by whom, without inquiry, and without warning,
" the market was thrown open to competition from
without, barilla imported, and the staple pro-
duct of the north of Scotland annihilated."
" There is now," adds the writer, " a great
opportunity of giving us a reasonable compensation,
and " in the event of a restriction, we so far claim pre-
cedence." This, however, is only a little episode, the
article altogether is written in a good spirit, and laughs
to scorn those croakers who would crush the enterprising
spirit of Englishmen, because one speculation out of
twenty might fail. We give here a brief extract in
proof, and subjoin some verses from a rhapsody by a
" Provincial Committee of Contributors," too long for
insertion entire :

THE GRAND GENERAL JUNCTION AND INDEFINITE EXTENSION

RAILWAY RHAPSODY.
Though the farmer's hope may perish,
While in floods the harvest lies,
Speculation let us cherish,
Let the Railway market rise!
Honest trader, whosoever,
Sick with losses, sad with cares,
Quit your burden, now or never,
Cut the shop and deal in shares.
Spendthrift—short of drink and dinners,
Half-pay-captain, younger son,
Boldly throw while all are winners,
Laugh henceforth at debt and dun.
Come, ye saints, whose skill in cavilling,
Shock'd at skittles, cards or dice,
Thinks, except for Sunday travelling,
Railway gaming is no vice.
Hither haste, each black-leg fellow,
Quit the turf or loaded bone ;
Like your brother-black Othello,
Ow❑ your occupation's gone.
Tribes that live by depredation—
Bulls" and. " Bears," and birds of prey
See the coming spoliation,
Scent the premiums far away.
Stags!" your rapid forms revealing,
Show awhile your front so bright,
Then from your pursuers stealing,
Vanish sudden out of sight.
‘s, •
Now no more the Ragfair dealer
Hints with horrid breath " Old Clo' ;
Putting forth another feeler,
" Any shares ?" he whispers low.
Every paper's a prospectus,
nostrums, news, are at an end ;
-wing" don't affect us,
" The Silent Friend."

"Eftv
Silent even, • .
Morison resigns his hub
Lazenby has lost his zest ;
Widow Welch has ceased from ittiAling,
Weary Moses is at rest.
Every station, age, and gender,
Deep within the torrent dip ;

* We find that this magazine was punctually delivered Bs
=all bat mislaid 1;7 some accidtrut iu The Sint sgEce.

Even our children, young and tender,
Play at games of nursery scrip.
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Countless lines, from Lewes to Lerwick,
Cross like nets the country soon;
Soon a railway (Atmospheric,)
Speeds our progress to the moon.
Traversing yon space between us,
Soon the rapid trains will bring
Ores from Mars and fires from Venus,
Lots of lead from Saturn's Ring;
Belts from Jupiter's own factory,
Mercury from Maia's Son ;
And when summers look refractory,
Bottled sunbeams from the sun.

If too soaring, too seraphic,
Seems to some that heavenward tack,
T'other way there's much more traffic,
Though not many travel back.
What a gradient through Avernus!
What a curve will Hades take !
When with joy the Shades discern us,
How Hell's terminus will shake!
How the Pandemonium Junction,
With the Central will combine,
Rattling both without compunction
Down the Tartarus incline!
Phlegethon no more need fright us,
For we've bridged its fiery way ;
And the steamer on Cocytus
Long ago has ceased to pay.
Charon—under sequestration—
Does the Stygian bark resign,
Glad to find a situation
As policeman to the line.
Thoughts of penance need not haunt us;
Who remains our sins to snub?
Pluto, Minos, Rhadamanthus,
All have joined the " Railway Club."

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.

" Notre Dame des Victoires" is an impressive and
romantic story of a dream which has the effect of re-
claiming from a carber of wild dissipation and impend-
ing death Casimir Delatour, the last descendant of an
ancient and illustrious house in Languedoc. The writer
vouches for the truth of this extraordinary vision, its
precedents, and its results. It is somewhat too sustained
an affair, like the dream in M. Scribe's " Victorine ;"
but, otherwise, it is picturesnuely conceived and elo-
quently told. Mr. S. F. Buckiz.,gham's " Mary Queen
of Scots and Lord Brougham" is G, very needless re-
sumption of the argument which has been raised—and
successfully—in twenty other quarters, to prove the
bigoted fallacies that have been indulged in• by
the noble historian of the " Lives of Men
of Letters in the Reign of George the Third."
Unless Mr. Buckingham innocently labours under
the delusion that the clever ex-Chancellor is an histo-
rical or polemical authority safely to be trusted,we cannot
understand how such a writer as Mr. S. F. Buckingham
can have brought himself to suppose that he could evia-
tribute any new light, or adduce any fresh facts, to corro!.
borate the ample and really able vindication of the unfor-
tunate and persecuted Mary, which has lately been com-
pleted by Prince Lubanoff. All that was necessary to
be done, in the shape of critical abstract, for the purpose
of introducing the extensive work of the distinguished
Russian to the great bulk of the English reading public,
had been already unexceptionably peformed in the pages
of the Atheneum. We are the more disposed to offer
this remark, on account of the threat with ',which this
paper concludes, "ro be continued." " The Countess
Clemence," by the editor, is continued ; and these
chapters have some good groupings and clever situa-
tions. The " Hornpipe" is a mortally long one ; and
though its " sketch of the Scariff Mountains" is graphic
and fresh, it is disfigured by local politics, and a dash of
religion, moreover, that have no interest for the general
reader. " A tale of Oxford Life" is a brief but very
graceful poem on the untimely fate of a student—the
young Vernon—who, having formed an unfortunate
connexion, finally destroys himself by plunging into the
Isis. Here are some exquisite pencillings of the abode,
and of some lineaments of the " frail Ellinor:"—
" A little on I pass'd; and stood before
A latticed cottage, where a streamlet foams
Through cowslipp'd grassplot ; and the jalouse o'er •
Hung many a rich red rose or droop'd around the door.
" Upon the casement lay a soft white hand,
Which ever and anon was rais'd to pull
Some odorous bud that dangled from its stand;
A dazzling arm it was, right beautiful; •
And o'er it were a pair of dark eyes, full
And gleaming ;—the eloquent deep passion shone
On that wild youthful brow. The beds of Gui
Were not more delicate than the tints thereon ;
Like rose-ting'd silvery shell, on tropic island thrown.
" Too much of dreaminess, perhaps, there lay
In the soft form and the voluptuous eyes;
The tissued robe, perhaps, was over gay—
Yet did I gaze, and gaze in mute surprise,
Watching to catch her lips' sweet melodies.
.For lips so lovely must speak soft, I trow !
To stand and mark such charms is little wise:

But pencill'd lashes, but enchanting brow !
In girlhood's flush, how fair, frail Ellinor, wcrt thou!"
A discovery of Vernon's intercourse with this fair one
ensues. He rushes forth in all the self-abasement of con.•
scious guilt:—
How calm, how beautiful ! no wild wind's rage
Had stirr'd the baby-bloom upon the trees;
But o'er the rose• clad little parsonage
Wove they their big green arms :—the odorous breeze
Bore to the near churchyard its melodies,
There where his steps above his grandame's grave
A thousand times had strayed, while round his knee
Twin'd the long grass, that all spring through did.wave
O'er the grey burial stones that spoke Christ's power to save.
" And overhead, a woof of orange light
Was shot through the blue vestment of the sky; ' •
And there was that deep silence of the night,
That rustling of an angel's pinThns by,
That wondrous music of tranquili?!y • • .
All Nature's lovers love."

The catastrophe, although it savours somewhat of too
close, but perhaps involuntary, a recollection of, Milton's
Lycedas, is eminently poetical:—
" Surely this woe is far too great to bear,
Surely"twere better, 0 my soul, to die!
Ye cold cold waters spread so brightly there,
Ye are not colder than earth's charity—
Father, no father hast thou been to me—
One sin, one shame, and all thy love of old
Hath flown for ever, ceas'd for aye to be;
My love for thee is changeless and untold—
Wherefore thy will so stern, wherefore thy heart so told?'
" He said, and pluug'd where fresh and graceful fall
The many lilies with their garlands green
Upon the waters, like a corona]
For nymph, by haunted dreamer dimly seen,
Rushing with foam-white foot the waves between.—
The waters closed around him and before,
And stirr'd the broad-leav'd lilies; and a sheen .
Of sparkling drops glitter'd each calyx o'er.
Then slept the ruffled lake—and Vernon was no more !"