The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

8 UPPLEMENT TO THE EVENING SUN, SATURDA Y,

AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS.
THE CENTRAL SUFFOLK AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION.
The annual meeting of this large association took
place at Stoa market, on Thursday, and the exhibition
of stock of all kinds was abundant, and of the finest
quality. The members dined together in the evening,
including the two representatives for the division, (11. S.
Waddinoon, Esq., and P. Benett, Esq., and the High
Sheriff, Henry Wilson, Esq. Three remarkable speeches
were made, on leases, increased production of land, and
the education of' farmers' sons.
The Rev. COPPINGER HILL observed, it had been inti•
mated that short speeches were to be the order of the
day, but with this desire he feared he could not comply.
Indeed, he felt convinced he could not. He was desirous
of making a long speech. (Laughter.) He wished to
take part in the discussion of agricultural questions.
He looked at the newspapers and found nothing but
speeches on leases, the education of farmers, and of
confludon to the game. (Laughter.) In compliance,
therefore' with the custom, he must make a speech on
each of these subjects. (Oh ! oh !) What did leases
offer to the farteer ? It was said they allowed him the
chance of getting back the capital expended on the land
during his occupation in the way of improvements. Leases
might afford a chance to the farmer, but they gave no
certainty. (Hear, hear.) But though leases would
not secure the farmer from loss, there existed a well-
devised system of compensatory clauses, which might be
placed in action, capable of saving the farmt rs from any
loss at the close of his term of occupation, and also
averting loss to the landlord by a change of' tenant.—
(Hear, hear.) He had considered this subject deeply
for a lengthened period of time, and his opinion was
this—that it was preferable to the occupier to have six
months' notice to quit, with compensation for the value
of the improvements helhad made on the land, than trust
to the security the best lease could afford him.—(Cries
of" No, no.") Look at Scotland, the country to which
it was now the fashion and habit to turn on all ques
tions of agriculture, where the lease expired and the te-
nant quitted at the same time. Look, again, at Lin-
colnshire, where it would be found that six months' no-
tice to quit, with the compensatory clauses in the agree-
ment, worked well, both fur tenant and landlord..—
He was, therefore, of opinion, as h. said previously, a
six months' notice to quit, with a compensation for out-
lay and improvement—the sum, of course, settled by vas
luation properly made—was more remunerative and fair
to a farmer than the uncertainty of a lease.—(Hear,
hear, and No, no.) With respect to another subject—.
the education of the farmer—he thought that class as
well educated, proportionately, as other classes. Still
they must keep pace with the times, and provide intel-
lectually for those that followed in a coming generation.
(Hear, hear.) One plan he would at once recommend :
to send their sons from home, for -
" The homely keeping youth was ever homely wedded."
and to take advantage of those institutions established
for their benefit.—(Hear, hear.) As respected the game
question, he begged to say that, when improperly pre-
served, game was an insufferable nuisance.—(Hear, hear.)
He had heard of a plan, however, to reduce the evil. lie
was himself fond of the trigger, and, therefore, did not
think ho ought to give it tongue, but he wished to adopt
a counter irritant—a St. John Long system—with re-
spect to game. Let the landlords preserve the game as
they pleased, but if the farmers would not cultivate vul-
pecidal propensities, the nuisance would soon be put
down.—(Hear, hear.)
F. HOBBS, Esq., replied to the observation of the Rev.
C. Hill relative to a six months' tenantcy. His opinion
was that an enterprising tenant would not be satisfied
by a holding that might expire at the end of six months.
—(Hear, hear.) There were improvements made and
money expended on a farm which no valuer could de-
tect, or detecting, appreciate—(Hear, hear)—and
though the occupier were paid for improvements, still
the uncertain tenure by which he would hold under
Mr. Hill's plan would be a bar to his prosperity
and comfort. The landlord on his part ought to have
a good and remunerative rent for his land, but he
thought he would not do his duty if he did not
afford to his tenant a fixity of tenure.—(Hear, hear.)
Before he sat down, he would allude to the observations
made by Captain Rous, M.P. for Westminster, on the
subject of the corn- laws. That gentleman had said;
alluding to the Ministers, that no man ought to have
laid his head on his pillow, without attempting some-
thing to remedy the existing state of things, and be (Mr.
Hobbs) presumed that Captain Rous held the opinion
that the country must, or should, look to other coun-
tries for support—(Hear)—because of the increase of
the population, and the want of corresponding increase
in the productiveness of the land. If Captain Rous had
consulted Maculloch's Statistics, he would have found
that corn had increased in a twofold ratio with the
population. And the land would do more than this. If
confidence existed between the landlord, the farmer, and
the Legislature, he fully believed the land would pro-
duce greater abundance than it yet yielded.—(Hear,
hear.) Could any body visit one particular parish in
the kingdom where, if the land was managed by a good
Suffolk bailiff, one bushel an acre could not be grown
more than at present ?—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, put
the land into a sound state of cultivation such as this
possible increase indicated, and a vast increase would be
the effect.--(Hear, hear.) The waste lands, also, amount
ing to several millions of acres, could be made produc-
tive in time.—(Hear, hear.) All these things proved
to him that England might become, by the energy of her
sons, an exporting instead of an importing country.
—(Hear, hear, and much applause.)
The Hitcm SHERIFF proposed " the health of the
Chairman."—(Hear, hear.) He also alluded to the fair
prospects now before the West District of Suffolk, in
the railway in progress of construction, observing that
the realisation of the means to forward stock to Smith-
field without deterioration in flesh would be accom-
plished.—(Hear, hear.) He wished to speak of an-
other subject, not new, but which had occupied the mind
of Mr. Mapletoft, and, indeed, himself, not long ago,
and had recently been revived by the Earl of Stradbroke
—he meant the subject of the education of the farmers.
—(Hear, hear.) He was of opinion that agriculturists,
as a class, had not equal opportunities with others, of
properly educating their sons according to the advance-
ment of the times.—(Hear, hear.) He did not wish that
the sons of farmers should be made masters of the
classics—he did not desire that the sons of agriculturists
should show dragons' teeth, so that soldiers might
spring from them, or that they should think,
by extracting the cube of any given number,
they might have an extended knowledge of
agricultural implements. (Hear, hear.) He de-
sired only that a farmer's son should have the means
afforded him of obtaining a good, sound, and practical
education.—(Hear.) It was not the mere accident of
birth which made men, but education.—(Hear.) It
ought to be the object of all, that whatever profession
they followed, an attempt should be made for improve-
ment— that an effort should be made to create better
sailors, better soldiers, better philosephers, and to instil
into all the fullest sense of the responsibility of mankind,
and of their high position as moral creatures.—(Cries of
" Hear, hear.") He only wished the members of the
Association to talk over the subject among themselves,
fur surely it could be but of the greatest advantage to
procure such an education as he had understood could
be obtained at Cirencester and in Hertfordshire, and at
an equally moderate expense. If the opinions of the
farmers of the county were in unison on the subject, the
thing was done. Public opinion was then obtained in
its favour—public opinion, which only spoke with a
whisper at first, but at length rose into a voice which
reached every ear—a voice which Government ought at
all times to respect.
Other topics were introduced, which called forth keen
arguments, and the whole proceedings may be charac-
terised as remarkable, compared with the usual run of
such gatherings.

LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The 15th annual meeting of this society was held on
Thursday in an enclosure at the top of Sackville-street,
near the New Haymarket.
The repot t of the committee for the year 1845 stated,
that their funds continue in a healthy state, and that
after discharging all claims fur the past year, their trea-
surer has a balance in hand of 151. 14s. 4d.

The dinner took place as usual at five o'clock, in the
large room, Lucas's Repository. Lord Stanley in the
chair.

After the usual national toasts had been drank,
The CHAIRMAN said, in rising to propose •i Prosperity
to the Liverpool Agricultural Society," he believed it
would net be deemed inconsistent with a very sincere
desire to promote the welfare of that Society, and the
important objects for which its maintenance was most to
be desired, if he should say that he trusted this would
be the last occasion on which he should have the oppor-
tunity of addressing the members of the Liverpool Agri-
cultural Society as a separate body.—(Applause.) Ile
had hoped that before that time, he still hoped before
that time next year, an union might be effected between
this and another similar society, (the Manchester So-
ciety,) which occupied the south • eastern part of this county
and a greater portion of the northern part of the adjoining
county of Chester. He had hoped that that union would
have already taken place, and he still trusted that it
would take place within a short period, because he was
satisfied that such an union would be for the mutual
benefit of both Societies, and tend to extend more widely
the benefits derived from such Societies, for the exten-.
sion of the sphere of influence of these Societies mate-
rially tended to promote the merit of the competition
raised within them.—(Hear, hear.) He did not by this
at all mean to deprecate the establishment of small local
Societies, confined within a very limited sphere ; on the
contrary, he thought they
.were calculated to do infinite
good. He rejoiced to see them springing up in every
direction, in every part of the country. He knew that
within their limited sphere they excited a spirit of emu-
lation and desire of improvement which could not be
excited by Societies having a more extended range.
He knew that improvements carried on under the eyes
of the farmers themselves, and by those with whom
they were most friendly and neighbourly, and of whose
means they would have the power of estimating, and
by comparison with whom they might form a judgment
of what they themselves were able to accomplish—he
knew these were calculated to excite a desire of improve-
ment, and a spirit of competition, without which improve-
ment in agriculture was not to be expected ; but
vt hen that spirit had been excited—when that emulation
had been raised, comparatively speaking, teat emulation
extending only over a narrow district of country could
effect little of good. Persons comparing their stock or
farms with their neighbour', within a limited sphere,
were satisfied with moderate superiority—with very
moderate farms, very moderate stock, and very moderate
implements ; but when the feeling of emulation was ex-
cited by the competition of small societies, then the more
they could extend the range of large societies, to which
the smaller ones ought to be affiliated, the greater the
competition and the greater the range of improvement,
the greater the merit and the higher wculd be raised the
standard to which each in his separate locality would en-
deavour to raise himself.—(Applause.) And, therefore,
whilst he rejoiced to see springing up and multiplying

in every direction these small societies within a very
narrow compass, he rejoiced also to think there was a
prospect of this great society extending its advantages
and its benefits more widely by a co-operation with an-
other society extending over another extensive district.
He was balmy to be enabled to say that, so far ies he
was aware, the obstacles which prevented the annexa-
tion of these two societies up to the present time
had been an obstacle not on the part of this Society, but
some trillirg financial difficulties,_ he hoped nearly sur-
mounted, on the part of the Society with which they
were desirous of entering into copartnership. He was
enabled to congratulate them on the financial position of
this Society, inasmuch as they had succeeded by efforts
made a year or two ago, in removing the embarrass-
ments to which they were subjected, without any decline
in their subscriptions, and, he believed. an increase of
members, they had a balance, not a large one, hut still
a balance, in the treasurer's hands. Although he had
to regret that on the present occasion, and in the course
of the morning, the attendance had not been so large,
and in the yard considerably smaller, than it had been
on many former occasion:, he thought, that when they
considered what sort of weather those had who attended
the showyard that day, it was rather a matter of con-
gratulation that a sum of 60/ or 70/., mostly in
shillings, had been taken, than of regret that they had
not such a sum on former occasions. He believed
he might also congratulate them—though he must con-
fess he was one of the defaulters, and had not been in the
show-yard, and therefore could not speak of the.show
from his own individual kno wledge,---yet he believed he
might safely congratulate them on the exhibition of that
(lay. lie believed that am mg the cattle some very su-
perior animals were exhibited, very far superior to most
of those exhibited in former years ; that the pigs of the
show-yard continued to be marked by the same degree of
excellence, and that there was exhibited some valuable
implements of husbandry, a department to which he was
particularly desirous to see the attention of the farmers
of this country directed. But, it was not en the thriving
position of the Society—it was not only the show,
brought together that day, that they were about t.) look
at as resulting from the labours of this Seciety—it was in
the general marked gratifying improvement which had
taken place in agriculture, within the memory of almost
all he saw around him. lie was quite certain that within
the time to which he could himself look back, and since
the commencement of that society, there had been an im-
provement in the stock, in the farms, and in every de-
scription of agriculture in that neighbourhood, which
gave the greatest satisfaction for the past, and which
gave the greatest of hope and confidence for the future.
—(Applause). He would not say that there existed that
prejudice against the use of implements which he had
heard related by a gentleman from the midland counties,
who presented one of his farmers with a couple of iron
ploughs, and having left the country for two years, re-
turned and was surprised to find not only that the
number of iron ploughs had not increased, but that no
use had been made of those he bad given to the tenants.
The answer he received on inquiring the cause of this
was, "Why, you see, we have a notion in this country that
iron :ploughs breeds weeds."—(Great laughter). He
(the Chairman) would not say anything so absurd as
this existed in this county, but he should like to see a
considerable increase of iron ploughs. He should like to
see them superseding the lumbering wooden ploughs still
too prevalent. He should like to see two horses abreast
doing the work of three or four in a straight line. He
could only put down as one of these prejudices, the notion
that one horse working in a furrow must necessarily
poach the land. He apprehended the natural remedy
would be to drain the land ; that would be found a more
advantageous remedy than making four or five horses
do the work of three. This was one of the prejudices
of this country. He recollected another. He was cer-
tain he was speaking within compass when he said that
within fifteen years any one here would have been told
that the land in this neighbourhood would not grow tur-
nips. That was superseded by the test of experience.
Mr. Skirving had done something to undeceive their on
that point, and the practical experience of every farmer
would prove, that not only could they grow turnips, but
that there were few countries in the world that could
grow better; and very many farmers, he thought, would
find that they had not made a bad exchange by sowing
their land with turnips instead of potatoes.—(Hear,
hear.) Again, referring to the improved state of agri •
culture, he said he saw draining going on in every di-
rection on the best and most scientific principles. He
saw, with satisfaction, landlord and tenant co operating
together to improve the agriculture of this county; and
unless the landlords did so co-operate and combine, he
was satisfied it was not reasonable to expect improve-
ment from the farming and agricultural population of
the country. When landlords (lid come forward and
lend their assistance, they had a right to expect that
the tenants would go hand and hand with them. Tney
had a right to expect that assistance given by the land-
lord was not an excuse for slovenly conduct to the
farmers.—(Applause.) He had seen, and did see every
day, great and manifold improvement ; but that was not
a ground for relaxing their exertions. Their motto
should be,—

" To think nothing done while aught remains to do ;"
and very few farmers in that or any other country could
say honestly and conscientiously that nothing remained
to do in the way of labour on their farms. He did think
they had a right to expect that they should not see—
tnuch as a sportsman he should like to see them—those
high stalked stubbles, offering an excellent cover for
game, but suggesting to the agriculturist a very lament-
able condition of farming, and suggesting, if he might
be allowed to say to the landlord, a very natural con-
clusion that the farmer must be very low rented indeed
who could afford to grow so large a crop of weeds.
(Laughter and applause.) He trhsted as they had be-
gun so they would go on, hand in h•qid ; that they
should promote agriculture, and endeavour by all their
power—by all the applications of science, in which he
did not expect the farmers to take the lead, but he did
expect the farmers would not shut their eyes when
the advantages were demonstrated to them. The
country had a right to expect it from them, and they
must remember that, as par after year passed by, they
had an increase of 300,000 mouths to feed beyond the
population of the preceding year, and that on their exer-
tions the supply for those 300,000 mouths mainly de-
pended. He believed himself, not that the capacities of
the soil were infinite, but that the productive capacities of
the soil were in finitely larger than most people imagined;
and he believed it was not only capable of providing for
the existing population, but, with the application of
science, of providing for a much larger and increasing
population. It was their duty and their advantage to
find the means of providing for that population, and in the
hope that that and other similar societies would be the
means of exciting the landlord and tenant to fresh exer-
tions and renewed applications of capital, science, and
skill. It was with such anticipations, such hopes, that he
proposed to them, whether maintaining its present posi-
tion, or united with another body, and thereby extending
its advantages, "Prosperity to the Liverpool Agricul-
tural Society, with three times three." (Drank with
much enthusiasm.)
Several other toasts having been drank, and the prizes
having been distributed, the company separated.

THE LATE FIRE AT GREAT WALTHAM-AP-

PREHENSION OF TOE SUSPECTED INCENDIARY.
labourer, named Charles Murralls, is at present in cus-
tody on suspicion of having wilfully occasioned the con-
flagration which took place on the 13th ult. on the
premises of Mr. Isaac Livermore, the Old Park Farm,
in the above parish. Suspicion attached to the prisoner,
it appears, owing to a threat which he made to Mr. Li-
vermore when discharged from his service for some
misconduct. He was seen at the fire, and on the first
occasion of Mr. Livermore observing him he re-
marked that he was in a state of profuse perspiration,
which he accounted for by stating that he had been
running. The police have been actively engaged in.
investigating the matter, and the prisoner is to undergo
an examination upon the charge.—Cheksford Chronicle.
SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a poor lad,
named James Johnson, having ascended the roof of the
house, 18, Cornwall-road, Lambeth, to entrap a pigeon,
lost his footing, while in the act of whistling to the bird,
and fell a height of about forty fret into the court be-
neath, where he was found by his sister, lying on his face
(which was frightfully disfigured), bleeding and insen-
sible. Mr. Sewell, surgeon, of the New-cut, advised his
immediate removal to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he
now lies in a precarious state.
SERIOUS ACClDENTS.—Yesterday the following ac-
cidents occurred :—The first happened to a bricklayer, named
John Stitch, aged forty years. who, it appears, was at work
on a scaffold at the Home-office, when he missed his footing
and fell to the ground with great violence. He was removed
to the Westminster Hospital, where he now lies in a very
precarious state. A second accident took place in the after-
noon to a labourer named Timothy Avant, living in Hocking-
ham-street, Westminster, who, while assisting in the removal
of a heavy stone, when the whole mass, weighing several
hundred weight, fell upon his fingers, crushing them in a
frightful manner. lie was taken to a surgeon, and ulti-
mately to the same hospital, where he remains in a state of
great suffering: A third accident took place in Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, to an aged female, who was running across the
roadway between the end of Ludqate-hill and Fleet-street,
and before she could reach the kerb she was knocked down by
a horse, which was being driven at a rapid speed from Smith-
field cattle-market. She was picked up bleeding from a
wound on the right temple, and was carried in to the nearest
surgeon's,.but after a short time, was able to walk home.
FATAL SCAFFOLD ACClDENT.—Yesterday, about
twelve o'clock, an accident, which terminated fatally, occurred
to a man named Michael Dalton. Deceased, a labouring
man, was at work on a scaffold erected at the back of the
Prince of Wales's Tavern, near the Paddington terminus of
the Great Western Railway, when, missing his footing, he
fell head foremost to the ground. He was picked up in a
state of insensibility, and conveyed to St. George's Hospital,
where it was found that he had received such a combination
of injuries as to cause his death in two hours afterwards.
THE AFFRAY AT HOUNSLOW BARRACKS.—The
surgeons in attendance on Quartermaster Tarleton examined
the wound yesterday, and pronounced a favourable opinion of
its state. At a late hour yesterday evening, Tarleton was
reported to be progressing favourably.

DEATH FROM OIL OF LMONDS.—Yesterday
afternoon, Mr. William Payne, the City coroner, went into a
long inquiry in the board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital, as to the death of Sarah Webb, aged 49 years. It ap-
peared by the evidence,.that the deceased was in the habit of
working for a Mrs. Francis, residing at No. 2, Bennett's. hill,
Doctors'-commons. On Friday morning, whilst the deceased
was at work in the kitchen, she was seized with a tit of
shivering. Mrs. Francis ran to the deceased and placed her
on the floor. She remained in that position a few minutes,
when she vomited. A surgeon was called in, who, seeing
the state she was in, ordered her to be removed with all
speed to the above hospital. A small bottle was soon :after-
wards found, which the deceased had been tasting from.
There was a strong smell in the room of the essential oil of
almonds. The deceased never spoke after she fell to the
ground, and died in ten minutes after her admission into the
hospital. Mr. T. Francis said, in answer to the coroner,
that the bottle was his property. It contained a small por-
tion of almond flavouring, which was considerably weaker
than oil of almonds. The deceased must have placed the
bottle to her mouth for the purpose of tasting its contents.
The coroner animadverted in strong terms on the danger c f
leaving such articles exposed, after which the jury returned a
verdict, " That the deceased died from the effects of poison
taken by mistake."

MAGAZINES, Szc.—(CONTINUED):

A !NSW (MTH' S MA GA ZIN E.
The three chapters of "Caesar Borgia," tvith which
this number commencee, are a decided improvement on
those which hare, preceded them. The author begins to
sketch the terrible soldier-cardinal with a steadier and
more vigorous -hand, and .the :accessories to the story
come out with a-degree of keeping and fidelity which in-
duce us to believe lie has studied the pages of Bur-
ehardus, Platina, and Macchiavelli to good account.
The personal character of this latter, indeed, is some-
what feebly pourtrayed ; but it is no evert -day task to
bring before the public in the nineteenth century a good
posthumous portrait of the great Florentine Secretary
and diplomatist of the sixteenth. The Black Penitent—
Dom Sa.bbat—we are led to suppose will turn out an
embodiment of the " Wandering Jew." It will not be
an easy thing to give force or novelty to this edition of
that most romantic of legends after it has been so ably
and variously handled by the German and the French
romance writers. To show the disheartining effect of
coming after great masters, we may remark that even
M Eugene Sue's more carefuly elaborated portrait of
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Tom Hood's pathetic and solemn ballad, eittitlei " -The
Bridge of Sighs." Mr. Thomas Oilier furnishes a very
pretty sonnet on October, !nil of poetical imagery and
feeling. " Glimpses of Germany, with a Glance at
France," have been caught. by some ono who calls
himself " a travelling satellite of Queen Victoria,"
and appears to have been perfectly .ehloui by,
we suspect, the munificent courtesies of the Duke
of Saxe Gotha to those whom the writer calls "feuille-
tonistes." He announces, with much circumstance, that
"a compliment, one of the neatest, nay, the most ele•
!ant national compliment that" (can it be believed?)
"he had ever heard, was paid through him—his insig-
nificant self, to —the whole British nation!" by some
Pole—not named—in some service—not hinted at—with
Louis Philippe, on board the steam-boat, in its home-
ward passage irons Tat,tort. lie is extremely wrath
with Jules Janin, as one "of the French journalists
who are best at a distance" (this is neither the " neatest
nor the nicest compliment we have ever met with")—is
denounced as a sort of "bourgeois dandy;" and he
kindly vindicates her Majesty from imputations sug-
gested by two absurd anecdotes which, having been at
the trouble to set up, he has the best right in the world
to bowl down; and does accordingly overth row with
most superfluous solicitude. "James Shepherd, the
Jacobite." a tale of the reign of George I. (suggested,
we presume, by a well-known case in the black collec-
tion of the "State Trials"), is a clever but dreary tale
of that vindictive period, in which the change of dynasty
on the throne seemed to have, for a time, extinguished,
even among the leading members of the two contending
parties, advocating respectively the succession of the
house of Stuart and that of the House of Hanover
all the emotions of human pity ; the dictates of mercy
in the Sovereign and his councils, and the judges of the
land; the charities of life both among his adherents and
his enemies, but especially among the former. Poor
Shepherd, the young herald-painter of 18, was hanged
at Tyburn on the 17th of March, 1718, a mistaken, but
conscientious and unrepining victim to a deeply-rooted
principle of enthusiastic devotion to the Stuart family.
" A Tale of East India Life, founded on fact, by J. E.
Stocqueler," is a story of an attachment commenced in
England] between a ha -f
-caste youth (son of an English
officer quartered in Bengal, by a native mother), and
crushed in India through this " abatement " in the
hero's "escutcheon of pretence" The following is the
denouement of the narrative:—
" It was on a fine night in the middle of August, 1832,
that Merton, who had been dining with a friend at Kensing-•
ton, was returning along the pathway which skirts Hyde
Park, when he was accosted by a female who appeared rather
disposed to solicit alms of the stranger, than propose an of-
fensive traffic. The general demeanour of the woman caused
Merton, whose heart was always alive to generous impulses,
to slacken Lis step and listen to her. She walked by his
side for a short distance—the voice was familiar to his ear—
the gait was not altogether foreign to his eye. Presently they
reached a lamp-post, when stopping to take out his purse and
afford her aid, he suddenly beheld in the stream of light the
well-known features of Emily Bertram! Great was his grief
nce in
superior In d
servants
the
and astonishment at this sudden rencontre. lie had sup-
opfosaedsehneirotor
Merchantbe living
Com-
pany were then called), for he had seen her marriage an-
nounced. She recognised him as readily as he discovered
her, and with less reserve than she would have shown in
prouder days, revealed her sad history. It involved a tale
too often told in India—of selfishness, ambition, passion, re-
morse, and disgrace. Emily, instigated by her burra bebee
much her senior in year:, who had a large income and a ,
(great lady) friend, had given her hand to a gentleman very
handsome establishment. 'Her heart she reserve I for a later
suitor—a captain of dragoons. The liaison was-discovered;
banishment from her husband's house, followed by a formal
separation, was the immediate result ; her paramour refused
to receive her—aaciety turned its back upon her, and she was
only too glad to receive from one who lead tasted her hospi-
tality, when in affluence, the means of returning to England,
a prey to the undying worm. She had landed only a fort-
night
previous to her meeting with Mert,-)n; no one of the
few friends she had would admit her, and beggary, or some-
thing worse, was the only source of subsistence open to het!
Merton shed burning teats over her narrative—gave her the
present means of existence, and appointed to meet her in
Hyde Park the tbllowing day, intending in the mean time
to consult with his wife as to further arrangements for her
welfare. On reaching home he told die whole story to Mts.
Merton, who, out of the fulness of her sympathy for the
erring sufferer, proposed that their house should afford her
an asylum.

" The next day Merton proceeded from his residence to the
appointed spot. Emily was not true to her engagement. For
an hour he waited in expection of her coming—but she came
not. He was leaving the Park by the bridge across the Ser-
pentine river to retrace his steps homeward,,, when some
policemen, followed by a ragged crowd, emerged from the
house of the Royal Humane Society, bearing a human body
upon a board. Poor thing!' ejaculated an old woman who
formed part of the curious assemblage,' tired of her life, I dare
say.' The words arrested Merton's attention—he addressed
himself to the police officers and begged to look upon the
face. His curiosity was gratified—Emily Bertram was the
hapless suicide !"

Madame de Crespigny's " Saint Silvester's Night,",is a
" Romance of Peal Li►e," the scene of which is laid in
the old Castle of Heidelberg, and the epoch dated from
no more remote period than ten years ago. " Charac-
teristics of Early English Poets (viz., Chaucer, Webster,
Quarles, and Chapman)," a pleasant paper enough.
The "Lover's Leap" and " Ehrenstein," are continued.
This number of Ainsworth is a very good one. We
hail with much satisfaction, the marked improvement in
the illustrated embellishments of:this periodical, which
commences this month, and is, we trust, like the frag-
mentary romances it contains, to" be continued in our
next." The " Black Penitent," in the present number,
is, in point both of design and execution, by fur the best
thing se have seen in Ainsworth for a long time past.

GEORGE CRUICKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK.
" Oddities from the Rhine," the opening paper of the
present number, from the pen of Angus B. Reach, is
quite worthy of being illustrated by George Cruik-
shank, and this is the highest praise that can be bestowed
upon the productions of any comic writer. And most
gloriously has Cruikshank illustrated it, in his return
from a delightful trip to the Continent, where the party
are seen being conveyed in an open boat, " amidst the
peltings of the pitiless storm," from the Belgian packet
to Dover harbour. " Never trust to outward Appearances"
is a very good story, well told, and capitally illustrated ;
and " The Hermit of Vauxhall," by the Editor, is a
" right merrie" imitation of Goldsmith's " Edwin and
Angelina." We recommend the following to the atten-
tive consideration of all young ladies wcickfancy they
have a voice :
" If all the young ladies who sit down to a piano to
sing a song were to be taken at their words—that is to
say, at the words of the poet, which, for the time being,
they adopt as their own—much awkwardness might be
the consequence. If the invitations that are frequently
issued were to be literally accepted, we should have
people rushing to willow glens the day after an evening
party; or jumping into cabs and giving directions to the
cabmen to drive • where the aspens quiver,' `down by
the shining river,' whither they had been requested to
• bring their guitar' by some syren of last night's soirée.
Four or fire years ago it was customary to recommend a
whole roomful of company to hurry Away, away to
the mountain's brow !' and many of our readers will
recollect being intreated to leave the gay and festive
scene' considerably before supper, and to 'rove 'mid
forests green,' for the purpose of watching the lingering
ray that shoots from every star; which, as the stars
happen to be innumerable, would have been a very end-
less business. To ask a gentleman to come and watch
the rays that shoot from every star, is almost as bad as
inviting him to come and count the • five million addi-
tional lamps' at Vauxhall, a task under which even
Cocker must have fallen prostrate. The coolness with
which a request for a meeting by moonlight alone' is
frequently conveyed may be all very well in a crowded
room full of guests, but if the solitary interview were to
come Off at the appointed hour, the strongest of female
nerves might be shaken. As the invitation is general,
any one present is at liberty to accept it, provided he
fulfil the condition of coming alone ; and if Spring-
heeled Jack should happen to overhear the song, he
might take into his head—and heels—to keep the ap-
pointment.
" Young ladies should be very careful in issuing notes
of invitation to a moonlight soi, ee, for they do not know
who may overhear them, and attend the rendezvous. The
Cock-lane Ghost, had he been living when the song of
Meet me by moonlight' was composed, would have been
a very likely sort of gentleman to be waiting 'in the
grove at the end of the vale,' for the purpose of bestow..
ing the sweet light of his eyes—glaring through two
holes in a turnip--upon any one who had asked for it.
" We must say, we prefer the present system of wri-
ting songs with no meaning at all, to the old method of
asking people to a moonlight tete-a-tete, a meeting in ' a
tranquil cot at a pleasant spot,' or a conversazione
where the aspens quiver.' `You'll remember me,"
pledges you to nothing, unless a waiter sings it while you
nod your assent, arid a promise to do something when
hollow hearts shall wear a_ mask' is certainly void, for
impossibility."
The other papers are all redolent of fun, and the
Table-Book of this month will set full many " a table in
a roar."

THE BRITISH MAG4ZLIVE.
The contents of the " Britibh" for the present month
are of a more varied range and interesting character
than the scope of a publication so largely devoted to pole-
mics usually embraces. The most important papers are
" Modern Hagiology"—" Morals of Armorial
Bearings"—" On the Restoration of the Jews to the
Land of Canaan"—" Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council"—" Mr. Ward's Secession to the Church of
Rome"—" Church of England in India"—" Rt,v, W.
Wingfield's Reasons fur withdrawing from the Church

of England." In pity to our readers, who must bted
and somewhat more, with the Tractarlau Controversy,
we shall find room but for two very short extracts from
the first of these articles. It is, however, a most able
paper. A more epigrammatic summary of doctrine, and
an inference more irmsistible than that which the writer
wisely leaves the world to draw from it, we haVe not
often seen than those which are comprised in the follow-
ing passages :

"ProM'what has already been laid before the reader
in these papers it may be gathered that Dr. Posey en-
tertains no serious objection to the system advocated by
Mr. Oakeley.
_ _

" The passage referred to is in the Preface to his
adaptation of another work of Avrillon's :

A Guide far passing Lent Holily, in which is found
for each day, Advice as to Practice, a Meditation and
Thoughts on the Gospel for the Day, and Passages from
the Holy Scriptures and the Fathers ; with a Collect,
and one point in the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
By Avrilion. Translated from the French, and adapted
t, the use of the English Church.'
" In the preface to this volume, Dr. Pusey plainly
avows his approval of the method of tampering with
Holy Scripture which is now recommended by this party,
under the name of Meditation ; and on precisely the
same ground as Mr., Oakeley has taken."
Under the heading " Church of England in India"
we find extracts from a sensible and iatreetionate " Fare-
well Ch,rge" of the Bishop of Calcutta (Wilson) to his
clergy. We make room for the following passage :
"Ic is true, there are many anomalies still in our po-
sition as compared with an Erglish diocese. It is true,
the inherent powers or the biship, as ri,cognised and
defined• in the royal lettrrs patent, were not duly sup-
ported in the Act for the erection of the see in 1S 14, by
corresponding provisions. It is true, the rev, chaplains
are not incumbents nor perpetual curates, as at home.
It is true, the bishop's license is not clearly and formally
acknowledged by the Government in their proceedings,
as it should be. It is true, that the appointments to sta-
tions and the removal of chaplains are in the Govern-
ment. It, is true, that impediments, as to the Bishops of
Calcutta and Madras holding their ecclesiastical courts,
have arisen. It is true, that the rev. chaplains are still
sometimes termed military ones.'
" But all these anomalies are, in practice, very much
remedied. The bishop's recommendations to appoint
ments are acted on ; removals do not rake place without
his approbation, and his endorsing of that approbation
on the license. All the cleegy, both chaplains and mis-
sionaries, are duly licensed by the bishop, and act under
that license. Notices of the licenses of the rev, clergy
are inserted in the Government gazette ; anything 'dis-
orderly in the conduct of the chaplains is referred by
Government to the bishop, and his opinion duly sup-
ported ; the chaplains, if described 'as similar to mili-
tary ones,' are known and acknowledged to be described
so improperly and merely in common parlance."

JOURNAL of AGRICULTURE; and the Transac-
tions of the Highland and Agricultural Socitty of Scot-
land. No. X. New Series. October, 1845.
We see but one objection to the scheme on which this
intelligent and pains-taking journal is conducted. It
may be that we have old-fashioned notions on such sub-
jects ; but it seems to us that the sphere of usefulness
such a periodical is destined to fill must be determined
by the presence, among other elements of success, of
this primary condition, namely, that its contributions
be popularly treated. Allowing much for the more ge-
nerally diffused amount of chemical and geological
knowledge among the farmers and cultivators of the
northern, as compared with those of the southern
divisions of the island, we cannot persuade ourselves that,
fur the purposes of the average run of Scotch farmers,
even in the most highly-cultivated districts, such as
those of Perthshire and the Lothians, an array of agri-
cultural essays, with such a large sprinkling of scientific
and technical designations as we meet here, is the most
expedient means of inducing those who are in want of in-
formation on the questions treated of to acquire it.
What would one of our great wheat growers on stiff
clays on the enormous farms of the Isle of Ely, or farmers
on the heavy soils of Essex, or the tillers of the great
wealds of Kent and Sussex say. if they are requested to
peruse a paper with a heading like that, for example,
which is presented to us at the very first page of this
quarterly number ? Here we have an article "On the
Source of the Carbon str.cl Nitrogen in Plants as derived
from the Soil !" Let us not be misunderstood in offering
this criticism. It is with great satisfaction we state
that we have never opened a number of this journal
without deriving both instruction and amusement from
it. We merely wish to express our conviction of
the universal value of popular papers with popular
titles : such, for example, as that uhich we find at p. 125
of the number before us ; "On the over-liming of Land, by
Henry Ch %per, Eiq , of Clervaux Castle, Darlington."
A most admirable manual this is for regulating the ap-
plication of a most valuable but very caustic manure.
The paper " On Insects most injurious to Vegetables and
Animals, and the means best calculated to counteract
their ravages, by the Rev. James Duncan, Af.W.S.,”
reaches its sixteenth chapter. We cannot find in the
present number any matter that seems well calculated
for being tramftrred to our own columns : though we
doubt not that the practical farmer will study with ad-
vantage W. T. Rowlandson's (of Liverpool) excellent
essay "On the Formation of Manure Heaps, and the
Eccnimising of Liquid Manures."

THE RAILWAY REGISTER.
The present number opens with the first of a series of
articles on railways in Ireland, which should be rend
with attention by every legislator, statesman, and phi-
lanthropist. The writer goes into a minute considera-
tion of the peculiar evils of Ireland, and shows, from
authentic ducuments, that those evils are social rather
than political, that they are caused neither by ab-
senteeism nor by the exportation of provisions, but by
want of proper means to develop the natural resources
of the country among which the writer enumerates, as a
most important one, which has been strangely over-
looked by the Railway Commissioners, the fisheries. The
writer then goes on to observe—
" The only cure for the social miseries of Ireland
consists in the encouragement to industry. For this
purpose capital is absolutely necessary before a step
can be taken ;—capital to encourage production, and
capital to make roads for the conveyance of the produce
to proper markets. We care not much at which end the
application of this powerful agency is commenced. Per-
haps the proper beginning would be in the matter of
roads ;—for when they are made, comparatively Lttle
capital would be sufficient to do something in the way
of production ; and that little would soon grow to more.
"The only wholesome inducement to the investment
of capital upon an extensive scale consists in the expec-
tation of a profitable return. That such return may be
obtained in Ireland has become too generally discre-
dited,ao
—lsso, much so that the English capitalist prefers
sending over small contributions in charity, to alleviate
the immediate pressure of extraordinary distress, to
risking more with a view to profit. With this impres-
sion,it has been the practice to make advances of
public money, in aid of local works in Ireland ; in our
opinion a most pernicious practice, as whilst the good
actually done is extremely small compared with what
the country requires, the very fact keeps alive the no-
tion, already too prevalent, that capital cannot be pro-
fitably employed in Ireland. This notion we are sorry
t? find pervading the report of the Railway Commis-
sioners, as will be seen by-and-by when we come to its
details. In the meantime it will be our anxious desire
to disabuse the public mind of a prejudice which we sin-
cerely believe to be as groundless es it is fatal in its
influence."

Having given a detailed account of the experiment
recently tried by Lord G. Hill, in the county of
Donegal, as a proof of the beneficial effect of capital and
good management upon the social condition of the Irish
people, the writer concludes the present article in these
words :

" We must not look at present, we fear, for many Irish
landlords to follow the wise and laudable example of
Lord G. Hill ; and in justice to this class, we must add
that we apprehend that under the existing laws relating
to landed property in Ireland, as in England (in Scot-
land it is not so) few of them would have the means,
even if they had the inclination, to undertake a similar
System of improved management. Three-fourths of the
property in Ireland is under strict entail or settlement,
which would prevent the present owners from borrow-
ing money, upon the security of their property, and
without money nothing can be done. The capitalist,
however, might still step forward and assist in working
the remedy, as a speculation on his own account, or
partly so ;—and the most gratifying results, we have no
doubt, would reward his public spirit. Dr. Kane assures
us that Ireland is not destitute, and points with seeming
pride and satisfaction to the fact, that upwards of two
milliors of Irish capital is employed on English railroads.
We should be but too happy if we could convince the
owners, by the observations which we have yet to make,
that their capital might be as profitably employed in en-
coursging the industry of their own country."
We look forward with interest to the next paper by
this very able writer on this all-important subject. In
an excellent review of the Continental Railways, the
low price of Havre and Rouen shares, as compared with
Rouen and Paris shares, in consequence of reports that
have appeared from time to time respecting the defective
construction of the works on the Havre and Rouen line,
are made the occasion of introducing the following valu-
able remarks on the construction of lines of railway,
which we commend to the attentive perusal of every
holder of shares in lines not yet constructed :
" On the solidity and durability of the works con-
structed on a line of railway depend chiefly the patron-
age which that particular line shall receive from the
public. If the constructions are defective the traffic will
be decreased in proportion to the alarm thereby created
in the public mind, and a corresponding loss of revenue
will be the consequence. If the constructions are defec-
tive they will be continually demanding fresh expenses,
to repair those defections, and hence will arise another
loss of revenue. We need not add, that when a public
highway, such as railways have now become, gets into
disrepute from its defective construction or its defective
management, and the consequences of its loss of cha-
racter are daily depicted in the share list, that it is next
to impossible to reinfuse confidence into the public mind.
hence it is expedient, that whenever rumours prejudicial
to any particular line have currency among the public,
the directors should immediately institute an inquiry as
to the truth of those rumours, and if unfounded, give
them a circumstantial contradiction ; if well founded,
set about to rectify that which has produced them ; and
more still, to give every possible publicity to the contra-
diction or to the rectification, as the case may be. As
we have before said, the public are the patrons of rail-
ways, and their patronage will always be extended in
de-
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shareholders, the public should have every means of
judging of the condition of any particular line, and how
far its construction and management are calculated to
meet those public wants which the railway system has
created, and must therefore supply. We have not yet

allud d to the danger to which ihe lives of pissengevs
me subjected when travelling on a railway whose con-
strucion and management are es nfided to parties who
have nothing more than the immediate pecuniary profit
in their eye. The recent melarcholy and fatal cases of
this miture which have happen( d in England justify us
in calling upon all who hate the control of railways to
commence elt once an organisation that shall effectually
prevent such occurrences in future. Prevention is better;
than cure.

" With respect to railways 3et to be constructed, we
would avail ourselves of the experience which the past
has given us to avoid the justice of the censures we have
felt ourselves bound to pass upon this occasion. We
would advise directors lo be cautious in taking the first
step after gaining the concession of their line ; that is,
in fixing upon the party who :hall construct it. Who-
ever, or whatever that party may be, it should be a
stringent condition that he be not a director, that he be
not one of the company, or that his interest in the de-
posits be not so great as to give him a preponderating
influence in the deliberation, of the society. The party,
whether a company or an intliyidual, who undertakes
the execution of the work', should i..tand in his natural
position as a servant, under certain conditions, of the
directors. If, on the contrary, he be one of their body,
Or fats an overwhelming interest in their deposits, he
will execute the works nut as they, but as he may think
proper, and will be his own judge into the bargain.
*f In re will be no control over him exer pt that which his
own immediate intert sts may dictate. The disadvan-
tageous position which we have here support d is the
very one respectively occupied by the dirt ctors of the
Havre line and their emits actor. Hence, the complaints
that have been publicly made respecting .the defective
condition of the works have not drawn forth a single ob-
sersation, but have been treated with contemptuous
silence, because the contractor reports to the director,
and the director is the contractor. Another strict rule

should be olierved by directors in future contracts, and
that is, that the interests of their engineer and those of
their contractor should not be identical. The want o:

due precaution in this matter. on the Ilavre line, has been
productive of much well-founded complaint."
The present number likewise contains a valuable paper
on American Railways, and analyses of the various rail-

w•a.y schemes of the month, illustrated by maps and

CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY RE-
VIEW, October. No. 36.
We, laymen, are not disposed to quarrel with the
somewhat overtinted orthodoxy which is the standard
ever flyiug at the mast-head of this able periodical, pro-
vided that we find, in friendly combination with it, the
flags of other nations of civilised literature. On this
account the expectations with which we open each new
" Manifest" of her qui,rtcrl3 cargo are seldom disap-
pointed, Theology, divinity, and controversy of course
form the staple commodities of the cargo; but we arc
sure to find sound ethics also, questions of social and
municipal policy, and occasionally ingenious, if not pro-
found speculations of natural philosophy. The enume-
ration we have now to report is a curiosity in its way—
and a very creditable one. Under " Scriptural Geo-
logy" we have a review of the Rev. Dr. Burton's " Lec-
tures on the Deluge and the World after the Flood,"
followed by a paper on that chaotic " amas" of pseudo•
physieo-geological common-places called " Vestiges of
Creation." But No. 3on the list delights us. The
generic designation of the thesis is " Mr. Oakeley and the
Claim to Hold." The exemplar selected for illustrative
criticism is " The Claim to Hold as distinct from
teaching, explained in a Letter,to a Friend, by the Rev.
F. Oakeley, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxon."
This Tractarian pastor thus openly confesses to the im-
putation, that declining to comply with the command of
the " Good Shepherd," his Divine Master, " Feed ye
my sheep," he yet prefers, with tenacious worldliness,
his own temporal demand, " Pay me my hire, though I
do not perform my work." Mr. Oakeley should have
graduated at Brazen-nose or Saint Peter's, rather than
at Balliol. Then we have an account of Professor Nord-
heimer's " Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language."
There is, next, a somewhat dull paper on " Infant
Schools"—a very remarkable one on " Socialism in
France." The notice of the Duke of Manchester's new
work on Sacred and Profane Chronology is executed
with learning and candour. Mr. Ward's letter to the
Oxford Herald is made mince-meat of ; but a just and
fair discrimination is thus made in his favour, on a com-
parison of his disinterestedness with Mr. Oakeley's
" hoking on" propensity:—
" But this very weakness of Mr. Ward should have
protected him from much that has been said of him—
certainly from the charge of being actuated by motives
of gain. He may be weak, and little aware of his true
position with regard to ecclesiastical politics, but he is
not dishonest; worldly gain has, less than anything,
entered into his contemplation ; he has not for one
moment been swayed by such crafty considerations."
Of the article headed " The Congress of Vienna," we
were at first tempted only to remark that we were
grieved to see so much ability and information
wasted on the chastisement of so ignorant and
clumsy a libeller of our national character as the
author of the " Fetes it Souvenirs du Congres de
Vienne." It seemed, surtly, to be doing too much
honour to a very disingenuous, if not an unprincipled
writer, to notice these fussy memoranda of his engage-
ments and his absurdities. And yet the anecdotes ex-
tracted from his pages into this very article are pre-
cisely those from which we can cull matter calculated to
amuse the general rt oder. But first, here is a vigorous
sketch of the action of the French Revolution by the
reviewer:—
" But the Congress a3sembled at Vienna had another
task. They stood amid the ruins of Europe—amid
wrecks so great and confused that to attempt to form
out of them the original edifices of which they had been
a part, was beyond the power of man, inasmuch as it
appears to have been contrary to the will of God. It
was in obedience to his v ill, and for the accomplishment
of His own wise purposes, that whatever the French Re-
volution should touch, that object should straightway
wither into nothingness—the breath of that whirlwind
was annihilation. In a few cases the ashes of old great-
ness were fashioned into something new; but in no case
did any object that ever came into collision with that
terror of nations ever recover the appearance, the
vigour, or even the name, which it bore ere it endured
the shock. That revolution touched French feudality,
and cast it into shivers—it breathed on absolute mo-
narchy, and absolutism in France melted away before it
like hoar frost beneath the sun of spring: it looked upon
Germany, and forthwith all German things endured a
change, from which they never recovered. The empire
of Germany, last remnant of old Rome, ceased for ever.
The electoral houses disappeared like dissolving views;
and things sacred were so scattered or so exposed that
they either were never recoverable, or could never be
contemplated as sacred again. The government of the
Doge, at Venice, had boasted of immortality ; but a
single glance and a menacing expression from the
French Revolution smote it instantaneously and irre-
coverably with death. As its effect in Venice, so were
its consequences to Europe in general.
" The task, then, out of the chaotic and anarchical
confusion to create a new beauty and a new order, was
not a light one. This was the task of the governments
of Europe, when they saw the disturber of all govern-
ments chained to his mock and diminished dignity in
his infinitesimal empire at Elba. Vienna was announced
as the locality where the peace of the world should be
consolidated; and no sooner had the fiat gone forth,
than Europe seemed to have changed one agitation for
another. An universal flutter seized all hearts, from
the Arctic to the Mediterranean, from the Bay of Biscay
to the Black Sea. The war of interests was renewed,
but the struggle was to be maintained by diplomatic cun-
ning rather than strategetic ability."
And this is the portrait drawn by our author, the
Count de la Garde, of the Congress itself on a reduced
scale :

. "If we may receive Monsieur de la Garde's evidence
as unimpeachable testimony, the well-being of Europe
was settled under the most- joyous of auspices. The
royal and noble senate, if we may so term them,
shrouded themselves occasionally from the public eye;
and good easy people fancied that kings were discussing
the destinies of nations when, in fact, they were dis-
cussing matters more substantial, and infinitely more
agreeable. M. de la Garde has effectually torn down
the veil which hung between wide-mouthed nations and
the monarchs who were supposed to be in sleepless de-
liberation for their good. The truth, as revealed in the
pages before us, very much places the parties in the posi-
tions occupied by the liquor-loving executive of our own
Commonwealth, and the Puritans, who gave them credit
for being engaged in prayer for the welfare of the Re-
public. " The people fancy (said one of the roystering
Roundheads, as he was groping under the table) that we
are seeking the Lord ! Now, for my part, I'm seeking
for nothing but the corkscrew !"
Let us now see how the real business of Congress is
transacted, for this is quite a curiosity:—
" It would be great labour to us were we compelled to
show, by detailing each day and each night't employ-
ment, how little was the labour of serious business an
object of care to these gay arbiters of dynasties and
destinies. The actual labour seems to have been under-
taken by a little knot of natienal representatives—such
as Castlereagh, Talleyrand, and Metternich: though
how even those iron-nerved individuals contrived to re-
concile the heavy toil with the heavier pleasure will
always be a mystery to us. As if there had not been
more than enough of war, reviews, stimulating general
engagements, with a horrible expenditure of powder and
noise,_ made the capital rock again with excitement and
harmless thunder. From these the monarchs and glit-
tering crowds sought repose by listening to a concert,
in which a hundred pianos resounded at once in one and
the same room: then ensued an endless succession of
balls, banquets, huntings, carousals, tournaments, and
masquerades. In the very high top-gallant of this joy,
a report reached Vienna that the Queen, Mary Caroline
of Naples, had just expired. Here had been a contre-
temps, but for the contrivance that elu it. Means
vtere actually taken to prevent the sad news being an-
nounced officiallyto the Government. The monarchs
would not mourn, as no proof-positive of their sister's
death was before them. As long as they could enjoy
their little day, the deluge might come after them, for
what they cared. They determined that the already
tomb-inclosed queen should not officially die till ' next
week.' They had no leisure for sorrow. just then; and
they could mourn all the more appropriately when the
fun was over!—and, therefore, to their follies they went,
with appetite renewed at the check it had experienced
but for a moment. French clamors, Italian singers, and
German actors, managt d with little difficulty to conceal
from the eyes of the illustrious spectators, the grave of
the cold, dead
killing queen. Lotteries, pie-vies, and a thou-
sand other devices for kill time, made them probably
forget that the latter had ever existed. Universal
Europe, in its sovereigns or its representatives, ::ere too
eagerly occupied in admiring a living empress, to think
of a Mune; queen. The entire, illustrious mob fell to
admiring the dexterity of the wife of the Emperor of
Austria; her Imperial Majesty was a capital shot, and