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of champagne. It is from the pen of Angus B.
„ " The Left-hand Glove" ix.-frfide of horror.
The c.—Tbjtris-te.-&-he.w-44*-er of trusting to cir-
cumstantial evidence. A wife is on the point of being
condemned condemned t,) death for the murder of her husbano
the chain of circumstantial evidence is complete.
against her, when at length her innocence is made
manifest, and she is acquitted--the fact being that het
husband had committed suicide. The tale is welt
told, and the interest is kept up to the last. Mrs.
Trollope continues " The Robertses on their
Travels," and gives us several piquant sketches of
society at Baden. " A Field Day with the
Portuguese" is a lively narrative of An 11(17
venture at Vittoria in 1837, during the time thstit
General Evans's English legion and the Portugtleie
forces under Das Antas were quartered in that city.
Lights and Shades in the Life of a Gentleman orp
Half-pay, and the Excursion up the Oronooko are
both continued in this number. " The Conversations
in the National Gallery " are likewise continued.
Th?, present conversation contains much valuable cri-
ticism on the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, and of
Raffaelle, although we think the author scarcely does
justice to the merits of Leonardo. Agnes Strickland
furnishes one of those delightful tales which she so
well knows how to write. Her present production is
entitled " Kate Wilson, or Sea-side Wooings." It is
a pleasing tale, pleasantly told. The Talleyrand
Papers are continued. The present number relates
entirely to the reminiscences of Talleyrand, of the
state of society in France before the Revolution,
when, as M. I. Abbe de Perigord, he was the pet of
Madame du Deffund, and the great star of the salons
of the witty and accomplished Madame de Brignole.
There is also an elaborate review of " Thiers' History
of the Consulate and the Empire," and a short notice
of the new novel, " Maids of Honour."

THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE.
The conductors of this magazine announce their
intention of commencing a new series next month,
when the Illuminated will appear as a handsomely
bound small octavo volume. This arrangement will
be a great improvement, for the present size of
the Magazine is exceedingly inconvenient, and rather
unsightly. The contents of the present number are
of average quality. We extract the following ele-
gant little poem, from a paper on the coining of the
Spring :
Soon nature will resume her dormant powers,
Immortal as in triumph over death ;
The spring will soon be with us. Many flowers
The earth will hallow with sweet forms and breath,
And thousand bosoms with delight be rife,
Those symbols welcoming again to life.
They will arise o'er many a wooded hill,
In lowly spots 'mid many a pleasant vale—
Will gem the brink of many a gurgling rill;
And who will deem their charms of slight avail,
Wooing us to regard their blossoming,
Telling us silent tales of our warm Spring ?
•
Fond hands will place them in the sick man's room,
Their presence gleaming like a ray of light
And beauty, peering through its saddened gloom;
And with their scent will visions, calm And bright,
Lulling in soft delight the sense of pain,
Arouse the faintness of the sick ones brain:
A flush will overspread his faded cheek,
A brightness fill again the sunken eye;
And friends will bow to hear him softly speak
Of health and vigour, life-renewing, nigh;
A blessing will be with them—that they keep
Hope from relapsing into weary sleep.
And shall we not love flowers, if they but raise
Our thoughts a moment from the worldly din
That stirs our hearts too deeply in this maze
Of toil, ambition, passion, or of sin ?
Oh, are they useless? Every flower we see
To sight and sense betokens purity.

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK.
George Cruikshank, this month, opens with "A
Young Lady's Vision of the London Season," which
may be called rather a picture-gallery than a picture.
It is full of spirit, piquancy, and meaning—is exqui-
sitely drawn and beautifully engraved. The two.
illustrations to the tale of " Separation" are admirable.
The stage countryman is a glorious bit of fun, and
the editor, Gilbert A'Beckett, gives the following
admirable sketch of his appearance and habits:—
" The coquille of the stage countryman is arranged
with an eye to the picturesque rather than the practical.
He frequently wears a very light sky-blue coat with a
waistcoat of the gayest chintz, as if somebody had
given him a window curtain, and he had been seized
with the heureuse Mee of having a vest made out of it.
He has dark blue stockings, which are made of silk if
he is the first countryman. but are ordinarily of grey
worsted if he is only one of a party of rustics getting in
the harvest, or assisting at a village festival. The re-
mainder is made up of a red wig and a hooked stick,
with a small bundle slung across it, and a pair of danc-
ing pumps, in which he is always prepared to walk to
London, for the purpose of righting ' poor sisther
Phcebe,' or telling ' the great squire' that he (the stage
countryman) has got' feelins like,' and that he the (stage
countryman) is as good a ' mon' as he (the squire :)
' thof he (the squire) have gotten a fine coat on his
back'—a home truth which sometimes throws the squire
into a state of pitiable penitence about something or
other which there is no proof of his having been
guilty of.
" Though the dramatic rustic is vividly alive to any
wrong, real or imaginary, inflicted on his own sister, he
is often, as far as his own treatment of the fair sex is
concerned, little better than a domestic ruffian. He is
either contemptibly soft, accepting as a wife some village
coquette, who has been declined on account of her flirt-
ing propensities, by some former lover, or he is brutally
hard, refusing to fulfil the vows he has plighted to some
unfortunate village girl, and setting the yard dog at her
if she persists in pursuing Lim.
" The occupations of the stage countryman are usually
of the very vaguest character. lie appears to have no-
thing on earth to do but to avenge his sister for some
wrongs not very clearly made out, bully the landlord
about ' fearther, who is a most unpunctual old man la
the payment of his rent, flirt with village maidens, grow
sentimental about poor old ' mither,' and ' dom' the
young squire."
The illustration to " Alice Brompton" is admirable.
The remainder of the illustrations are all thoroughly
embued with the true Cruikshankean spirit; while the

literary contents of the present number are of a
higher character than those of any of its predecessors

COLBURA'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE
The article of greatest immediate interest to the
general reader in the present number is the one entitled
" Martin Zurbano." It is a brief but spirited sketch of
the career of that celebrated chieftain, whose heredi-
tary hatred to the French seems to have been the cause
of his ruin. Detesting his ferocity and his cruelty, it
is impossible not to admire his fierce fidelity to the
cause of his benefactor Espartero. His were the
virtues and the vices of a semi-savage, and no one who
reads the story of his life but must lament his fate.
Savage as he was, he was worth a host of such
mere self•seckers as Narvaez. Spain has produced
many a worse man than Martin Zurbano. The
article on the War of Succession in Portugal is also
a very interesting article. The other contents of the
magazine, although of a more professional character,
are well worthy of perusal.

THE RAIL WAY REGISTER and RECORD
of ENGINEERING and PUBLIC ENTER-
PRISE, for April.
We refer our readers interested in railway, compa-
nies to some useful and just remarks on the decisions
of the Railway Department (,f the Board of Trade, in
refereLee to rejected lines. This is a fruitful subject
for inquiry, as the rejection injures not only the sub-
scribers, but the populous districts through which
they were intended to pass. This number contains
several well executed railway maps.

TROTTING MATCH AT LEWISIIAM.—`\edIIBSday
morning a trotting race of two
nmiles in harness came off over
that distance of road near Lewisham. The matchwas between
Mr. Gray's mare and Mr. Tomlinson's gallowav, and the
race was for 10/. a side. The start having been effected,
they went away at good speed, and at the termination of half
a mile the galloway had the lead of twenty yards, which he
maintained, and concluded the first mile in three minutes
and twenty-five seconds, and was proceeding to the second
mile when it broke out to a gallop, and was immediately
but was quickly overtaken by the pulled and turned. By this time the mare came up and
passed her opponent,
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loway, and when within half a mile of the goarthey were
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rEARFUL INJURIES BY A Cow.—On Wednesday
about half-past ten o'clock, a cow belonging to Mr. Heyte,
cowkeeper and dairyman, of No. 64, White Lion-street,
Pentonville, calved at the back of the above premises. Mrs.
Iloyte, who had prepared some gruel for the animal, pro-
ceeded to the cowhouse for the purpose of administering it,
when the cow, in an infuriated manner, rushed upon her
and tossed her with its horns several times in the air, and
then trampled upon her. Her screams attracting the at-
tention of her husband, Mr. Hoyte repaired to her assist-
ance, when the animal made a similar attack upon him,
tossed him twice, and gored him very severely, and whilst
on the ground violently trampled upon, and injured him
also in a dreadful manner. A labourer, who happened to be
in the yard at the time, perceiving the danger to whic.h
himself and Mr. and Mrs. Iloyte were exposed, took up his
pitchfork and endeavoured to keep off the animal, but it
rushed at him, and would have served him in a similar
way, but he struck the prongs of the pitchfork at its eyes
and ears, which induced the animal to retreat until it got
into a corner, and then, fixing the prongs of the fork into
the animal's neck, lie kept it in that position until assist-
ance arrived, and it was secured by ropes, and prevented
doing further mischief. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyte were then re-
moved to their residence in a state of perfect insensibility
Each of them had several ribs broken, and they were other-
wise so considerably injured as to render their condition ex-
ceedingly dangerous. The injuries were principally caused by
the trampling of the animal.
FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Wedpesclay, the
bakers in the borough of Southwark and neighbourhood
lowered the price of the 41b. loaf to 4d. and W., and in
some places as low as 3id. At two shops in Blackman-
street_ the poor assembled. in great numbers, and literally
besieged besieged the shops, to purchase
i bread at the red cod f 4,
their
and the bakers were compelled, n self-defence,
to close
shops as early as five o'clock, beock, being unable to satisfy the
demand, and to give notice that no morebread
supplied till the =msg.