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legal proceedings were taken that they could not do so without
expense, and he should, therefore,' propose—" That in order
to provide the necessary funds to give effect to the resolutions
which had been passed, that Messrs. Schneider and Co. be re-
quosted to deduct from the first dividend a rate in exact pro-
portion to defray the expenses."—(
.Hear, hear ) The expense
on each bondholder, considering their large number, would be
very trifling.
This proposition. like the others, was carried unanimously.
A BONDHOLDER inquired what was the amount in the hands
of Messrs. Liaardi ?

COURT OF CHANCERY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.N.

Sirt,—lt must be gratifying to all true lovers of reform to watch
the growing determination in the public to discountenance the prac.
tice of offices of trust and confidence being performed by deputy.
I regret, however, to perceive that in the law the same jealous
watchfulness does not prevail. In the office of the Masters in Chan-
cery there is at this present time an officer in the receipt of a salary of
1,000/. a-year, who has never attempted to perform the important
duties attached to the office, to which the Lord Chancellor ap.
pointed him two years ago. As this person has neither the plea of
ill health nor old age to urge for this default, I should like to be
informed what pretext can be alleged in justification of a practice
which the Court professes to hold in such abhorrence P—l ant, Sec
Chancery-lane. A SOLICITOR.

The CHAIRMAN could not be positive, but he believed
60,0001. or 70,0001. sterling. The dividends due in April ant.
October were unpaid. It this state of things continued the
arrears would be greatly augmented, and all the advantages
which the bondholders expected to derive by surrendering two
years' interest, would not be realised. Mr. Murphy, the
Mexican Minister, had applied to Messrs. Lizardi with no better
effect than the bondholders. He understood that 70,0(0 dollars
came over by the last packet.
Mr. LINDO considered that the exact amount which Messrs.
Lizardi had in their possession belonging to the bondholders
might be easily ascertained by reference to documents and to
the names of packets which had arrived since the last dividend
was paid.
The CHAIRMAN said their present object was not so much
to ascertain the exact amount of money in their hands as to
enforce its payment.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was proposed and car-
ried unanimously.
In returning thanks, the CHAIRMAN said both himself and
the Committee, wh 3 had acted gratuitously, and should continue
to do so, would use every exertion in their power to promote
the interests of the bondholders.
The meeting then separated.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN

RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.

beg respectfully to call your attention to the very In-
accurate report in this evening's Sun of the Cambridge and
Lincoln Railway proceedings before the Committee in the House
of Commons. Your reporter represents Mr. Hildyard, the counsel,
as saying, that trains by the Cambridge and Lincoln line, would
perform the distance between London and York Hones (in one
place it is many hours, and in another some hours) quicker than
trains by the London and York line could perform it. Now, you
are hereby informed that Mr. Hildyard, whose speech 1 heard from
beginning to end, never said anything of the kind, nor could an
attentive reporter suppose him to have said so. The statement is
totally unfounded, and 1 am sure your interest in the character of
7'he Sun, as a faithful and impartial reporter of railway proceedings,
will inauce you to make some inquiry as to the cause of so extra-
ordinary and mischievous a mis-statement. Allow me, most
strongly to urge that no speculator in shares should be intrusted
with the duty of reporting railway proceedings—a duty peremp.
torily requiring faithfulness and impartiality in him who dis-
chatges it.—Your obedient servant, J. L.
3, Valbrook, July 1, 1845.

SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT.

Gloria Romance Quintiliam togas.

Brilliant and brief, thy mortal course is run ;
And all that earth could yield wee, nobly won ;
Maturest honours deck'd thy vernal day,
And human sceptres could no more repay ;
Grace still be thine, at Hc-aven's behest, to share
Diviner glories which await thee there ;
Beam still thy bright example, from the skies,
On young ambition, that would nobly rise ;
That hearts which now are bursting o'er thy tomb,
And vainly question thine untimely doom,
May pay thee worthier honour than the tear,
And strive to emulate thy life's career.
In vain invoke we the forensic gown,
To walk with spirits mightier in renown ;
Whether undaunted Somers we retrace,
Whether recal accomplish'd Murray's grace.
Whether on Scott, the erudite, we gaze,
Or radiant Copley, of our peaceful days,
Wide of all limit was thy proud report,
The antique senate, or the court.
Nor to thy native land alone confined
Was the rich yielding of thy fruitful mind,
But, like a bird, which on its wings sustains
Th' Arabian perfume to the Arctic plains,
Though not in sight, success will yet await
The minds that labour—hearts that emulate.
Nature instructs us ; for the new-born day
Is faint and feeble in his orient way ;
But constant to his path, his course fulfils,
And sheds his glory o'er exulting hills,
As, one by one, the lesser bodies, pour
i heir crescent light, when once the day is o'er ;
So, Follett, now shall rise thine humbler train,-
Start into being, and divide thy reign.
What though unseen, to thine, example, still,
The young shall sacrifice and shape the will,
As to the breeze bow down the waving fields,
Or to the viewless wind the cedar yields,
So man be cautioned, 'tis the part of lore
To make us better—happier—than before ;
Not stored alone, but wise as we discern ;
Not wise alone, but holier as we learn.
Then let not youth be careless of to-day,
As soulless insects in the sunbeams play ;
Let him be wary how he would misuse
Time, as allotted only to amuse ;
Wary its loss—the treachery, the power,
The thankless dalliance of one single hour.

[lt is our desire and our endeavour to give not only the reports
of the proceedings before Railway Committees, but all reports
which appear in The Sun, with the greatest possible accuracy.
We readily insert this letter. The gentleman who furnished us
the report is not a speculator in shares, nor is be interested
directly or indirectly, to our knowledge, in the success of any
railway project.— ED. Sun.)

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUV

SlR,—Your article upon the Great Britain and steam has had my
attention, and I hasten to inform you that you werequite correct in
your opinion that the figures setting forth her tonnage are reversed.
I gave the Custom-house officer, who called at the office in ac-
cordance with his instruction from the higher powers, 3,481 tons
as her displacement when loaded. A large allowance is always
made for the space occupied by the motive power of steamers,
which really ought to include the coal stowage also, although it does
not, when they are registered, further than that which is stowed
on each side of the engine-room, known by the name of the
bunkers. I send you some rough extracts of the ship's passage
to Dublin, seeing that you appreciate in a national point of view
the vast strides made by ourselves and others in steam navigation.
—Your obedient servant,

N.B. The small amount of tonnage which appears in the returns
when compared with the power of steamers, is to be accounted for
by the omission of the whole space in the body of the ship occupied
by the machinery. Thus the Star, for instance, is nearer three
than one hundred tons. In some cases the engine-room occupies
half the ship ; in none, I should think, less 'ban one-third. Even
with this allowance, the Bristol steamers, generally speaking, are
nearer two tons to one horse power than those of many other
places. Our Irish steamers, for instance, are from 180 to 190
horse-power to a tonnage averaging 400 or thereabouts. The
smaller the vessel, the less should be the proportions of tonnage to
power, and vice versa.

Bristol, July 1, 1845.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sze,--I find in yesterday evening's Sun, " In answer to S:r E.
Hayes, Sir J. Graham said the Government did not require any
additional powers to put down the disturbances in Wicklow,
Cavan, and Fermanagh." As in neither the question or reply was
Wicklow mentioned, I request you will relieve it from the charge
which appears in your paper to apply to that county, which affords
at all times a perfect example of ttanquillity and obedience to the
law.—l have the honour tube, gir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM ACTON, M.P., Wicklow county.
Carlton Club, 2d July, 1845.

' MAGAZINES—CONTINUED.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
The memoir of " Thomas Campbell" contains some
particulars of his life and writings not without interest,
but we regret to say not a few of which ought never to
have seen the light. his downright sacri'ege to distui b
the ashes of a pot-t whose fame will endure while the
flag c.f England " braves the battle And the breeze," and
recount the frailties of his nature, which should have
been buried with him in his tomb. The writer styles
this memoir " A Literary Retrospect, by a Middle-
aged Man." We can, however, find little in it that en-
titles it to a literary character, but a great deal of gossip
about Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble, and Madame
Pasta, and it is singular that the " Middle aged Man"
has shown the same disposition towards these cele-
brated performers, and selected anecdotes which
really do them no harm, while they prove the
bad taste of the author in relating them. Why, for in-
stance, say of John Kemble, " I am glad that I lived
not sufficiently in his day to hear the little gossiping
stories which were, I doubt not, spread about of his cold-
ness and his avarice, but which are interred with his
bones ?" If they were interred, why touch the grave—
why lay it open to the gaze "I the profane vulgar ? And
why find fault with Mrs. Siddons for eating boiled beef
at Sir Walter Scott's, or with Madame Biqa, for de-
vouring oysters after the opera, or with " the expiring
Malibran calling eagerly for porter" ? The middle-
aged gent'eman does not say precisely that he found
fault, the blame is laid upon a gentleman of " nice ideas,"
hut he father's the imputation, for he adds, " these things
must be endured and forgotten, if possible." Now, it
requires no endurance whatever to see an actress eat
boiled beef or oysters, or drink porter when thirsty.
The middle-aged man ought to study carefully the
School for Scandal. The rest of the Number is not
liable to such charges, for on the whole it is interesting,
and in wood taste. Mrs. Mathews furnishes a second
character in the series of "Ennobled Actresses," and
gives a very faithful account of the Countess of Derby
(Miss Ferree). Iler intimate acquaintance with this
celebrate'l actress enabled her to state the truth, and she
does that with the best possible feelings. Her account of
the attachment of the Earl of Derby to Miss Farren,
and the intimacy which prevailed between them
till they were married, is highly honourable
to both. The intimacy she sae s " never in any mind
gave rise to the slightest suspicion of other than Platonic
regard." The following lines which we have not seen be•
fore, and the tone in which the sentiment is ex pres ied, fully
bear out Mrs. Mathews' remarks. They were addressed
by Lord Derby to Miss Farren, on her being one day
absent from church :
" While wond'ring angels, as they look'd from high,
Observed thine absence with an holy sigh,
To them a bright exalted seraph said,—
' Blame not the conduct of th' exalted maid ;
Where'er she goes, her steps can never stray ;
Religion walks, companion of her way.
She goes with every virtuous thought impress'd;
Heaven on her face, and heaven within her breast.'"
We have room for only another extract from the
Miscellany, but it relates to a very different subject, the
retreat from Corunna, and is taken from the " Recollec-
tions of Rifleman Harris" :
" Many trivial things which happened during the retreat
to Corunna, and which on any other occasion might have
entirely passed from my memory, have been as it were
branded into my remembrance, and I recollect the most
trifling incidents which occurred from day to day during that
march. I recollect, amongst other matters, that we were
joined, if I may so term it, by a young recruit, when such an
addition was anything but wished for during the disasters of
the hour. One of the men's wives (who was struggling
forward in the ranks with us, presenting a ghastly picture of
illness, misery, and fatigue), being very large in the family-
way,
towards evening stepped from amongst the crowd, and
laid herself down amidst the snow, a little out of the main
road. Her husband remained behind with tier ; and I heard
one or two hasty observations amongst our men, that they
had taken possession of their last resting-place. The enemy
were, indeed, not far behind at this time, the night was
coming on, and their chance seemed in truth but a bad one.
To remain behind the column of march in such weather was
to perish, and we accordingly soon forgot all about them.
To my surprise, however, I, some little time afterwards
(being then myself in the rear of our party), again saw her.
She was hurrying with her husband after us, and in her
arms she carried the new-born babe she had just given birth
to. Her husband and herself, between them, managed to
carry that infant to the end of the retreat, where we embarked.
God tempers the wind, it is said, to the shorn lamb ; and
many years afterwards I saw that boy a strong and healthy
lad. The woman's name was M'Guire, a sturdy and hardy
Irishwoman ; and lucky was it for herself and babe that
she was so, as that night of cold and sleet was in itself suffi-
cient to try the constitution of most females. I lost sight
of her, I recollect, on this night, when the darkness came
upon us ; but with the dawn, to my surprise, she was still
amongst us."

G. R.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Vice-Admiral Sir William
Hall Gage, Lords of the Admiralty ; and Captain W. A. B.
Hamilton, one of the Secretaries to the Admiralty, left town
yesterday for Portsmouth, to attend on the Queen and Prince
'Albert, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Bel-
gians, on their visit to Osborne and the experimental squadron.
'lle Chevalier Bunsen and other foreigners of distinction ac•
companied them to Portsmouth.

The Black Eagle yacht, Master Commander B. Cook,
waits the pleasure of their Lordships.
The Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Secretary to the Admiralty, and
Rear Admiral Bowles, one of the lords, paid an official visit to
Woolwich Dockyard yesterday, and inspected the school for the
apprentices there.
PROMOTION ON THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE FLEET.—We
are enabled to announce that the three officers whose names we
mentioned as likely to be promoted on the occasion of the
visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to their respective
ships at Spithead, were elevated to the rank of commander,
on Monday last, by the Admiralty. They are Hector Tense,
First Lieutenant of the Albion, 90i Captain Lockyer, C. 8.,
appointed to that ship in November, 1843, an old officer of
nearly twenty-one years' standing as a lieutenant, having been
made in August, 1824 ; John Cheere, of the St. Vincent, 120,
Captain Rowley, appointed to that ship in December. 1841,
made a lieutenant in 1836, passed mate in 1826 ; and William
Frederick Fead, second lieutenant of the Trafalgar. 120,
Captain T. F. Martin, appointed to that ship from the Queen,
in July, 1814, made a lieutenant in 1838, passed mate in 1830.
It was hoped that the first lieutenant of the Trafalgar, Hector
Loring, notwithstanding his absence, which was imperatively
unavoidable, would have obtained his promotion. Mr. Loring
was first lieutenant of the Thunierer, 84, in the Mediterranean ;
afterwards of the Camperdown, 104 ; then of the Queen, 110 ;
and now of the Tratalgar.
The experimental squadron of Spithead were exercising
sails on Monday, and the Trafalgar, 120, Captain T. F. Mar-
tin, was exercising her crew at quarters, firing her lower deck
guns with blank cartridge.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant Commander Robson, arrived
on Monday at Portsmouth from Bristol.

THE PACIFIC STATION-TAHITI.
The Modeste, 18, corvette, Commander Thomas Baillie, was
lying at Otaheite on the 6th of January, with the Salamander
steam-sloop. Commander Andrew Snape Hammond. On the
morning of that day the Modeste ran down along the reef, and
saluted the French Admiral with thirteen guns, which was re-
turned in due form by the French ship, after which ghe went
into port. She has called there from the Sandwich Islands for
dispatches.
The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, with the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir G. Seymour, had not arrived.
The French ships lying in the harboar at that time were the
Admiral's ship ; a frigate of 52 guns ; Urane, 64 guns ;
Arinna, 28 guns ; Phaeton, steamer, 4 guns ; and schooner
Sultana, tender to the French ship.
The Phaeton (French steamer) gut on the reef in the en-
trance of the harbour on the 2nd of January when returning
from Riatea, but was got off without further injury than a good
shaking.

HAYMARKET THEATRE. - Morton's admirable
comedy of A Cure for the Rant Ache was performed
here on Tuesday night to the great delight of a crowded
house. There is no theatre in London at which it
would be possible to cast this comedy, except at the
Haymarket. Farren's Old Rapid is a personation so ad-
mirable, it defies ary approach to imitation ; and the
young Rapid of Chlrles Mathews is as spirited and
effervescing as a glass of champagne. Buckstone's
Frank Oatland, although not equal to Webster's, is a
very worthy piece of acting ; and pretty Julia Bennett
is the most interesting Jessy Oatland that has appeared
on the stage in our remembrance. The comedy is to be
repeated to-night, and will no doubt attract a crowded
house.

There were present at her Majesty's Theatre on
Tuesday, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ac-
companied by their Majesties the Kingand Queen of the Belgians,
and attended by Lady Jocelyn, the Earl of Morton, Colonel Bou.
verie, the Baroness de Hooghvorst, and Major de Moerkerke ; her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe
Weimar, and the two Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and
attended by the Marchioness of Ormobde, the Hon. Mr. Ashley,
and Mr. Hudson; their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Lady
Augusta Cadcgan, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay ;
the Dukes of St. Alban's, Cleveland, and Beaufort; the Duchesses
of St. Alban's and Beaufort; the Marquises of Douro, Ailesbury,
Abercorn, Granby ; the Marchionesses of Douro, Allesbury, Aber-
corn, and Conyngham ; the Earls of Harrington, Wilton, Dal-
housie, Jersey, Lonsdale, and Liverpool; the Countesses of Her.
rington, Wilton, and Dalhousie; Count Kielmansegge ; Lords
Gifford, Sandya, Templetown, W. Beresford, Suffield, Ernest Brace,
Torraigton, A. Paget, and Alford; Ladies Fitzroy Somerset, Ernest
Bruce, Lyndhurst, Ashburton, Quentin, M. Corbet, Rendlesham,
Alford, Jodrell, Meux, Easthope, E. Fielding, W. Martins, B.
Graham, Voulis, Dillon, and Wynchester; Honourable' General
Upton, Colonel A. Upton, Colonel G. Fitzroy, Captain Duneombe,
Colonel Wrottesley, Booth Grey, Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mrs. Duncombe,
Mrs. St. John, Mrs. Fitzgibbon; Sirs H. Willoughby, H. Webb,
H. Meux, W. W. Wynn, R. Wilmot, Colonel Wigrain, &e.
COWARDLY AND HEARTLESS H0.4%.—1t has seldom
or ever fallen to our lot to notice a more disgraceful trick than
was played upon two respectable young females of Colchester, by a
swain who has been notorious in several instances during his
residence there for having " two strings to his bow." He had,
however,contrived to get clear of all these advances under the pre.
tence that he was a minor, and that his friends would not allow him
to change his condition in life. Since then he has attained his
majority, and made overtures of love to the two young ladies in
question, and an intimacy was formed between him and them (of
course
without their joint knowledge), which continued up to his
leaving the town for London, about three months ago; and a
correspondence has been kept up with both of them during his
absence, which led them to believe that he fully intended to lead
ceived letters from 11,Ystarnetiing
them comfortable ant:lh
eparations
them to the altar of
reuwureihthA few weeks since they both re.
celebrated at his parish' that he was in a position to render
previous
sed t
church
and fixed a day for the nuptials to be
the necessary pr
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tried: ont wishingto
dresses,
proceed
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dut
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inmad aiodkn.e:
&c., with whom hye inrel;
per railway, the da
the taking care to name the Barnettr°ain that fixed for the wedding
promised to be in readiness to receivetheor both parties), when be
tion, and convey them to his emn
at the Shoreditch sta-
street, where he arranged to have resida
select in
King William.
meet them, and accompany him and them toPartY of friends to
morning. The bait unfortunately took In both
hhuirch the next
his request was complied with to the very letter ; andntsthanees, and
ties, with their intended bridemaids, arrived in London two par-
same train, but not in the same carriage. On alightingat bsT,
()tit!) e
ditch station both parties met, but neither suspecting the bush:-
of the other, nothing particular transpired to create any suspicion of
the the object of either one er the other's visit to the metropolis. But
no Mr. R. appearing to receive them, both parties felt not only
surprise, but greatly disappointed ; but still their object was kept a
profound secret, until they resolved to take cabs, and immediately
proceed to King William-street, the pretended residence of Mr. R.
• • hoth parties arrived within a few minutes of each other, when
at --nt. no such person as Mr. R. resided at the house
to their astonishou... ,
.o believe was his residence, from his
which they bad been induceu
not even was known in the
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letters to them. On the contrary, he .
neighbourhood. The parties felt tirgt they had been most cruelly
hoaxed, which led to a disclosure between theist, Then the infamy
of the scoundrel was fully developed. But after poi .„
selves that they had far better be booed than united to one VIIPSe
wreckless disposition must have rendered toothtoothreiserable through
life, they repaired to an inn, where they sejourned for the Fii;bt ~
S3Y the
and returned to Colchester the next day, It is needless t o
heartless fellow has not since been heard of ; but it is to be hoped
that, ere long, he will have cause to repent his dastardly conduct in
rifling to such a degree with the of respectable females.—
Ipswich Express,

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
.No. CLI. July, 1845.
This Number is of more than average merit.
" M‘Culloch on Taxation" is a candid and intelligent
review of that economist's " Treatise on the Principles
and Practical Influence of Taxation, and the Funding
System," tile of the principal purposes of which is to im-
peach four of the most celebrated maxims propounded
by Adam Smith, on the theory of taxation. The re-
viewer partially agrees with the commentator ; but we
concur with him in his general adhesion to the principles
of Adam Smith. " Lethe, and other Poems." This paper
impresses us with a very favourable notion of the powers
of its fair authoress, Miss \Voodroofe. The extracts from
" Irene" are very fine. The, following specimen will
verify this praise :
" 0 gracious Empress, spare him!!
Yea, spare him yet awhile, a little while!
Mercy ! oh, mercy ! Do not cut him off
In the fair springtime of his blooming youth,
When all his path is strewed around with roses!
His blood not yet is frozen in the veins—
Not yet the buoyant spirit of his youth
Is to the sternness of old age congealed.
Spare him ! and heaven shall shower its blessings down
Upon your head profuse. Slav him ! and sure
All heaven's fierce curses shall be poured upon you.
Save—save his life—and God requite the deed !
By the soft ties of filial love, and by
The silver link of motherhood; by that love
Which blessed imperial Leo while alive;
And by those hallowed tears which mourned him dead ;
Pronounce the pardoning word to Constantine !"
The " Narrative of a Trial for Witchcraft," " from
some family papers," is a very clever and effective
sketch; too good to be abridged, and, though short, too
long for quotation in our limited space. The date of
the story is 1679, and the scene is laid in one of those
rural districts of England, which even at so late a period
as this, was polluted by the sanguinary excesses of
judicial bigotry and popular superstition, that have
attached perpetual infamy to the associations of our
law courts with the prosecutions of those wretched
victims vvlioni they gravely called " witches," even on
the record as well as in the staute-book. " Anthologia
Germanica, No. XX."—a happy selection from the poems
of Karl Sirrireck, being " The Knight of the Swan," a
romance—" The Fisherman," " Lave, and Blindness,"
&c. " The Life of Lord Hill" is an agreeable precis
of the Rev. Mr. Sidney's work lately published by
Murray ; a work which will, if possible, increase
the respect, the affection, tle:t every Englishman who
will make himself acquainted with the career of the late
Commander-in-Chief must feel for the honest, manly,
and unaffected character of that brave and generous
Englishman. In " Ireland, her Evils and (their) Reme-
dies," we have a sort of running review of various tracts
recently published on the repeal agitation, the payment
of the Roman Catholic clergy, &c. No. 111. of the " Ita-
lian poets" presents us with a second paper on the life
and genius of the illustrious and ardent author of the
Gierusalemme Liberata." It is a beautiful memoir,
written in a spirit of kindred poetry, anti an offering*
meet for the altar of the Torquato, whose death with.
drew him, as it °ere, nn the very eve of the ceremo-
nial of his laurelled coronation. The Conquest
of Sinde" is a spirited account of the stirring
events which led to that signal result, in the shape
of a critical notice of Major-General W. Napier's
memoir of the campaign so signalised by the victories of
his gallant and illustrious relative. The concluding ar-
ticle, " How should Irish Protestants meet their present
dangers ?" is, of course, a controversial one. It con-
cludes by an earnest recomm, udatien of " a union of
the Protestant democracy." The " Parting," and the
e Lament," by Florence. are but so-so affairs ; and " a
Stranger Minstrel" has not added one poor sprig of bays
(as Churchill calls it) to the chaplet that already encir-
clernes thpe fame of one of the most vigorous of our mo-
doets.

standing the
ong MAGAZINE.
.701.1?(.1 _.D S SHILLING
tnber is the commencement of the
Tire
DOUGLAS
present
rau
second volume of the Magsz'ne, and we are rejoiced to
the oceans of " Balaant" with which the
us a good sound taste, which can appre-
find the editor acknowledging "the success that has firmly
aat,,dp.utb,hlice -reo.ise•isinti.l'l:
We eijoico at this, because it shows that noiwith•
aenziiiileu as
:d'ortldheh::shilolif'glatielabYe
ciate and reward vigorous, nervo
_list and manly writing
such as constitutes the staple of I,ouy/s Jeri hi's Shilling
establish
We have two new
Maga2ine. chapters of .6 St. Giles
and St. James." Poor tst. Giles is aroused from his
sleep in the bairn of the Lamb and
Star, and arrested
on a charge of having murdered and robbed St. James.
Some smugglers have had their attention attracted
by seeing a saddled horse grazing by the road-side,
and on proce -ding a short distance th,-,
fi
y n St. James
lying in the road, senseless, and bleeding frod m a terrific
wound in the skull. On examining him
they find that
he still breathes, and, as one of them
phrases it, that he
has been altogether robbed and well-nigh murdered.
They carry him to Dovesnest, the residence of Mr. Eben-
ezer Snipeton, the
lovely Clarissa, and
in spite of the opposition of _ Dorothy Vale, the servant,
leave him there. Snip 'ton ,ton is from home, Clarissa enters
the room, sees St. James, who has just recovered his
consciousness, and the lovers (for they are lovers) recog-
nise each other. Snipeton is an old usurer to whom poor
Clarissa has been sacrificed :
" It was here, at Dovesnest, that the thrifty money-seller
kept his young wife close—f araway, and safe, as he thought,
from the bold compliments, the reckless gallantry of the
rich young men who, in theirh frequent time of need, paid
visits to the friend who, t e security certain as the hour,
never failed to assist them. A
1.,,, :iPeton was not, in the
ordinary matters of life, a man
South
underrated his own ad-
vantages, moral and phYsic'!l
,r '''',)9th to say, he was, at
times, not unapt to set what detraction might have thought
an interested value on them. A d yet, what a touchstone
for true humility in man, is woman ! Ebenezer Snipeton,
in all worldly dealings, held i mself a match for any of the
. r Adam. He could f with • money-coining sons o.
is _ fence a guulea
—and sure we are guinea-fencing a far more delicate art
is an exercise demanding a finer touch, a readier sleight,
than the mere twisting of steel foils :--he could fence, nay,
with even the smallest current coin of the realm, and.—no
matter who stnea against
old man sword.'
.him—.come off conqueror. ' Gold,'
'b
says Shelley, ' is the And most wickedly
at times, will hoary-bearded men, with blood as cold and thin
as water in their veins, hack and slash with it ! They know
—the grim, palsied warriors 1 how the weapon will cut
heart-strings i they know what wounds it will inflict ; but
tben,-the Wounds bleed inwardll ; there is no outward and

STIN,_LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1845.

visible hurt to call for the-coroner ; and so the victim may
die, and show, as gossips have it, a very handsome corpse,
whilst homicidal avarice with no drop of outward gore upon
his hands—no damning spots seen by the world's naked eye
—mixes in the world, a very respectable old gentleman ; a
man who has a file of receipts to show for everything ; a
man who never did owe a shilling • and above all, a man
who takes all the good he gets as nothing more than a proper
payment for his exceeding respectability. He is a pattern
man ; and for such men heaven rains manna ; only in these
days the shower comes down in gold. Ebenezer Snipeton,
we say, had a high and therefore marketable opinion of him •
self. And yet, did Ebenezer's wife—his ripe. re&lipped
spouse of two-and-twenty—somehow touch her husband with
a strange, a painful humility. He had sixty iron winters—
and every one of them plain as an iron bar—in his face.
Time had used his visage as Robinson Crusoe used his wooden
calendar, notching every day in it. And what was worse,
though Time had kept an honest account—and what, indeed,
so honest, so terribly honest as Time?—nevertheless, he had
so marked the countenance—it is a shabby, shameless trick
Time has with some faces,—and every mark to the thought-
less eye counted well• nigh double. And Snipeton knew this.
He knew, too, that upon his nose—half-way, like sentinel on
the middle of a bridge—there was a wart very much bigger
than a pea, with bristles, sticking like black pins in it. Now,
this wart Ebenezer in his bachelor days had thought of like
a philosopher; that is, he had never thought about it. Nay,
his honeymoon had almost waned into the cold, real moon
that was ever after to blink upon his marriage life, ere
Ebenezer thought of his wrinkled, pouch-like cheeks; of his
more terrible wart. And then did every bristle burn in it,
as though it was turned into red hot wire; then was he
plagued, tormented by the thought of the wart, as by some
avenging imp. He seemed to have become all wart: to be
one unsightly excrescence. The pauper world envied the
happiness of Ebenezer Snipeton—with such wealth, with
such a wife, oh, what a blessed man ! But the world knew
not the torments of the wart ! And wherefore was Ebenezer
thus suddenly mortified ? We have said that he had a wife
as young and fresh, and beautiful as spring. And therefore,
after a short season, was Ebenezer in misery. He looked at
his•wife's beauty, and then he thought of his withered face—
that felon wart.! In her loveliness—like a satyr drinking at
a crystal fount—lie saw his deformity. Was it possible she
could love him? The self-put question—and he could not
but ask it,—with her, ah:ne, in bed, at board—that torment-
ing question still would whisper, snake voiced in his ear,—
could she love him? And his heart—his heart that here-
tofore had been cold and blooded like a fish—would shrink
and tremble, and dare not answer. True it was, she was
obedient—too obedient. She did his bidding promptly, hum-
bly, as though he had bought her for his slave. And so, in
truth, he had : and there had been a grave man of the church,
grave witnesses, too, to bind the bargain. Verily, he had
bought her; and on her small white finger—it wasp lain to all
who saw her—she wore the manacle of her purchaser."
Snipeton returns and finds St. James at his house.
His jealousy is aroused, and devoutly (I,:,es he hope the
wound may prove mortal. St. James, however, recovers
his strength in the course of a few hours. St. Giles
is brought to Dovesnest to be identified, but on entering
the room of St. James it is found that he is gone.
These chapters are succeeded by an admirable apology
for those whom the world is pleased to misname misan-
thropes, after which we have an excellent paper on the
state of the town poor in Scotland. " Unfashion-
able Movements" is the title of a series of stories
illustrative of the trials of the poor, and the
" Corn Lords Tragedy" is a fine Coleridge-like ballad
from the pen of the author of Orion—a poem not
unworthy to stand by the side of the Ancient Mariner.
Juniper Hedgehog continues his quaint and caustic
comments on the events of the month, and the historian
for Young England gives us the reign of Henry the
First. This History for Young England promises to be
a very valuable work.

LITERATURE,
A PENTAGLOT DICTIONARY of the Terms
employed in Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Prat tical
Medicine, Surges y, Olitetrics, Medical Jut ispt udence,
Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Medical Zoology, Botany,
and Chemistry. In Two Pads. By SHIRLEY
PALMER, M.D.

Verily, Tamworth is a place which produces hard-
workers. Sir Robert Peel, the hardest-worked and the
hardest-working Minister who has swayed the destiries
of these kingdoms for the last century, is "of Tam-
worth ;" and he is, moreover, a lover of hard work ; but
hard-worked, and hard-working, and loving of 'hard
work as he is, even the Premier himself must yield the
palm of all those qualities to his townsman, Dr. Shirley
Palmer. To quote the words of a Medico-Chirurgical
Reviewer, in noticing the publication of the first part of
his dictionary—

" In this stupendous work, we scarcely know which to ad-
mire most—the extensive erudition, or the unwearied, we
might say, super-human, labour of its author. Dr. Palmer
may well well exclaim, with the Roman bard,
' Monumentum exegi are perennius.'
Johnson's great Dictionary, in four volumes, cost not one-
tenth the pains and research that Dr. Palmer's Pentaglot
must have done."

Had Dr. Palmer been a resident in a metropolis,
with ready access to the stores of learning collected in
the libraries of the British Museum, of the medical col-
leges, and of the ether public institutions—had he de-
voted a life of leisure to the compilation of this work, it
would still have been a wonderful monument of un-
wearied industry and perseveramce, guided by a most
discriminating judgment ; but when we consider the
circumstances under which this work has been compiled,
its production is little short of the miraculous.
- -

----
" Many have been the disadvantages, and many and for-
midable the obstacles, which I have had to struggle with and
overcome in its execution. It was not composed in the
genial atmosphere and repose of philosophic retirement, but
amidst the duties and distractions of an active and anxious
professional life; for the most part, during hours which might
otherwise have been given to recreation, or passed in sleep ;
and, not unfrequently, under circumstances of depression and
discouragement known only to myself. I had no literary
friend to consult tin- the solution of doubts, or the removal
of difficulties, which were continually arising in my path;
—no library to refer to, save my own limited but valuable
collection of scientific works. I began my labour, and
finished it, without availing myself of the counsel or co-
operation of any human being;—with no assistance but that
of the members of my family in the occasional revision of the
proof-sheets, and the collection and arrangement of the ma-
terials which constitute the German Index."

He formally dedicates his work to the medical stu-
dents of his country, and never has a more worthy offer-
ing been made to them; to quote the words of Dr. Reid
Clanny, of Sunderland, it is "a national work." The
author says—

" That I may be induced to compile a Supplement, or
Appendix, to this Dictionary, accompanied by Latin, Italian,
and English indexes, is not improbable."

That 1)r. Palmer will do this, we sincerely hope. The
addition of the Italian synonymes will greatly add to
the usefulness of his work, the language in which Scarpa
and Tommassini have written is, medically speaking,
classical. We would also suggest the addition of the
Spanish synonymes. There are many valuable medical
and surgical works in the Spanish language, written by
both European and American practitioners, which are
well worthy an attentive study to the surgical student,
more especially a dictionary of synonymes in the
language of Don Antonio Girnbernat, one of the most
accomplished surgeons of the commencement of the pre-
sent century, would be invaluable. Gimbernat's work
on hernia is the foundation of everything of value which
has since been written on the subject.

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK.
George Cruikshank has again laid the scientific world
undtr the deepest obligation to him. Who can ever
sufficiently appreciate the merit of his illustrations of
phrenology P—that which he hath heretofore done for
phrenology he is now about to do for social zoology.
The present number presents us with two illustrations of
the science—the first is, " a horrible bore in the com-
pany," and the second " the lion of the party." The
letter press description of the animals is admirable.
The following is the concluding passage of the zoology
of the bore:—" Literary bores, who are for the most
part females, are usually called blue, and it is believed
that an intellectual ladies' society used formerly to as-
semble at the Blue Boar, in Holborn." This theory of the
Blue Boar, in Holborn, is capital—quite as probable as,
and infinitely mare entertaining than, those of General
Valencay and Sir W. Bce!ham. The "Legend of the
Rhine," with its glorious illustrations, is continued, and
we have a capital tale of the Court Ball, entitled the
" Lover's Sacrifice•," that sacrifice being his whiskers.
The tailpiece. " cut and come again," is a rich sketch.
" Dissolving Views" is an admirable article, admirably
illustrated, and is followed by the Stage Prince," one
of those quiet pieces of burlesque which no man can
work up like A'Beckett. Edward Kenealy furnishes a
poetic garland of exquisite beauty. The concluding
article is from the pen of George Cruikshank himself,
and is "On the Preservation of Life." The article,
which is prl)fusely illustrated by diagrams, is a pro-
pthal of various plans for the preservation of human
life in cases of fire and of shipwreck. In the following
sentiment we fully agree:—" The Legislature, that com-
pels the formation of party-walls and sewers, ought to
make the erection of some simple and effective fire-
escape compulsory upon the landlord of every house in
the metropolis." This article, which is well worthy
attentive consideration, concludes in the following
manner:—•

"We trust that none of our readers will consider the
small space which we have devoted to this subject as mis-
applied—imperfectly as we feel we have executed the task
thus voluntarily undertaken : but having the advantages of
illustration at command, we have preferred the risk of dis.
appointing a few of our good friends, who look to our pages
for mirthful sentences alone, to incurring the self-reproach
of having maintained silence upon a subject which we feel to
be important, as affecting the good of many of our fellow-
creatures, and which could not have been so clearly put for-
ward without the elucidation of our pencil."

Nut only has the space not been misapplied, but George
Cruikshank has laid all his fellow-creatures under great
obligations to him for the timely publication of this
paper, which we trust will have the effect of directing
the attention of the Legislature and of the Executive
Government to this very important subject.

PARISIAN ARCIIITECTURE.-1 he Hotel de Ville,
at Paris, a work of the 16th century, has for many years
been in a course of enlargement and completion. The exte-
rior is now entire, and the interior is in progress with all
the richness of embellishment of which the " Re-
naissance" affords such splendid examples, and to the
production of which the genius of its architect,
M. Serrure, is fully equal. This edifice is now the worthy
municipal palace of the French capital, little, if at all, inferior
in grandeur of arrangement and decoration to that of the sove-
reign. The Prefect of the Department of the Seine, in carry-
ing out this fine conception, has felt and acted as the chief of not
merely a locality, but of a powerful, an enlightened, and an
art-loving community.— The Builder.
CURE FOR DIFFERENCES.—The Builder remarks,
relative to the squabbling in the Archaological Society It is
satd to be common in one part of India, when there is any dissension
be ween Church and State, for a man to go to the top of
a certain pagoda, and vow that if the quarrel be not termi-
nated in twenty-four hours that he will return and throw him-
self off; and they further relate that, sooner than have the blood of
the man upon their heads, both sides usually yield a little, and so
the difference is adjusted. Can we not find some one devoted to peace
and quiet to try this move on Westminster Abbey, and thus lite-
rally precipitate an amicable result ? If it succeeded, we should
claim a daily allowance of milk and honey for the rest of the year."

CONSTITUTION OF JERSEY•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
LETTER IV.

Sia,—A friend once remarked to me th it he
thought he should like to purchase a pretty cottage
in Jersey for his summer residence, but I doubt
much whether he or any other person would do so,
after perusing the following exposure of the laws
here :

Although you are now aware that you would be
coming to an island where the law allows a man to
run extensively in debt, and having plenty of means
to pay his liabilities, yet can swindle his creditors out
of every farthing of their claims, by passing his
effects over to his wife; and moreover are cognisant
of as much as I have mentioned relating to the law
of decret. Yet, you may possibly imagine, that if
you see a nice little cottage, &c., for sale, which will
suit you in every particular, and pay the whole of
the purchase-money for it, that you, at least, are
therefore beyond the reach of being swindled out of
your property ; but foolish indeed must you be if you
can imagine that any one is safe when such gross acts
of fraud as I have stated in former letters are rendered
legal. It N ill perhaps seem to you to savour of ro-
mance upon being toll—but nevertheless it is fict—
that you could be turned out by the operation of the
law, although you may have been in possession
for many years, and purchased it of the legal
owner, without committing fraud or wronging
any one; aye, and under certain circumstances,
no time, however long it may have been your pro-
perty, would avail you. I described in my second
IL tter the method of drawing up the list of a bank-
rupt's liabilities—these extend not only to all the real
and personal property he owned at the time, but to
all which he possessed for the fifteen years previous,
and, in some cases, to that which had ever been in
his possession. The more you examine the law of
decret the more you will be at a loss to discover the
purpose for which it was framed, unless it was to
give the colour and protection of law to the grossest
acts of fraud; in its 22d Article it is stated, that con-
tracts passed with the insolvent for fifteen years at
least before the renunciation of the property in de-
cret, shall be exempt from insertion, excepting in
the case provided for in Art. 44. This exemption is,
that should a decret be void in consequence of no one
declaring himself tenant, those who possessed con-
tracts with him for fifteen to thirty years previous,
shall be summoned, in order that one may be found
therefrom—and if that be not sufficient, all those
with whom he he has ever passed any contract. Is it
not a monstrous state of the law, that should a person
sell his estate, and become insolvent after the lapse of
twenty years, the purchaser of it can be legally de-•
prived of it ?

I will now show how you can be dispossessed of a
house, taken upon a lease, as I mentioned in my
first letter, but must premise, that no lease is valid
againt a tenant under a decret, and should a tenant
die without lineal heirs, the Lord of the Manor re-
ceives the rent of the estates for a year and a day, or
takes possession of it for that time. Let us now as-
sume I have taken my house upon lease for three
years, have paid the money in advance for the whole
of the time (for which I have a receipt), and that my
landlord at the end of the first year dies, leaving no
direct issue, in such a case the Lord of the Manor
can claim possession for the second year of my
tenancy ; suppose I pay him for it sooner than be
turned out, well, at the expiration of the time I may
be surprised by a visit of the Deputy Viscount, who
conies to take bond fide possession for the tenant
under a decret, as my landlord died insolvent, and
' his property had been adjudicated subsequent to his
decease ; if lam allowed to remain upon payment
for the remainder of my term, I shall have paid five
years rent for three years possession, and, if not, shall
be turned out at the expiration of two years ! having
taken my house for three ! ! and paid rent for four ! ! !
Were I to tell you all the various methods whereby
swindling can be legally perpetrated by the aid of
even the few laws I have mentioned, my task would
be almost endless,—and as it is necessary, for the
perfect understanding of our anomalous position, that
you should be acquainted with our constitution, I
purpose in my next to begin a short sketch of it,
leaving any further account of our laws till you will
thus be better qualified to understand the causes of
their present state ; and when you find how the
Royal prerogative is not only usurped, but Orders in
Council, and Acts of Parliament, &c., set at defiance,
you will be able to form some idea of the importance
of Wilson's case, wl-ich is but little understood in
England, owing to the want of information in the
public press—aye, but little understood, notwith•
standing their fierce denunciations. B. L.

EXTRAORDINARY EXHUMATION

A discovery of an extraordinary nature was made a
few days ago in Moor-street, Birmingham, by some men
in the employ of Mr. William Smith, surveyor, who
were at the time engaged on the premises at the back of
the public office. The occurrence has supplied food for
much curious speculation. The workmen were excavat-
ing the ground in the yard for the purpose of making a
well ; and when some four or five feet below the surface
of the earth, one of them came in contact with something
which he thought to be a stone, but which, on being
lifted tip with the shovel, proved to be a human head.
This naturally made them more careful in their work.
On further examination, they found the skeleton
of a large dog, whose skin and hair were as
perfect as though they had only been buried a
week, though the body was completely gone. A foot
below this were the remains of a coffin in which the bones
of a human being were discovered, to which the head
first thrown up had belonged. The bones were at once
taken out, and most of them washed, and Dr. Skerritt,
who was passing by at the time, having his attention
called thereto, conceived that they were either the bones
of' a female, or of a youth not more than twenty-five
years of age. The skull was in tolerably good preserva-
tion. The teeth on one side were sound, though decayed
on the other side. On the forehead above the left eye
there was a round indentation, as if made by a blew
from a hammer or other blunt instrument, giving evi-
dence all but conclusive of a deed of murder. The
length of the skeleton was five feet nine or ten inches.
The coffin, as the remains testified, was an open one; but
decay had worn it down to the thickness of cambric
paper. It was fastened together with oak pins instead
of nails, which had evidently been dipped in grease or
paint (the ancients not using Ryan's patent), as they
were not decayed. This would appear to fix the
burial as taking place not less than 250 years ago, as
about that time we understand coffin nails came into use.
On the lid of the coffin was found a porcelain tobacco
pipe of peculiar construction. It had a heart engraved
upon it, with the initials in old English, W. S. The bowl
of the pipe was not more than three-eighths of an inch
wide. The core of tobacco therein was as fresh as when
discovered, as though it had been laid down by some
living being who had just been smoking. The discovery
of the pipe and tobacco certainly fixes the date of the
murder less than three centuries ago. A thick stake had
evidently been driven through the dog, if not through the
coffin, as the marks thereof were clear, though the stake
on coming in contact with the air fell to powder. This
fact suggests a scene of no common occurrence. In
all probability, the poor dog, for faithfulness to his mur
dered master, was doomed to die and be buried with
him there. A month or six weeks ago, the same indi-
viduals, when working also for the same surveyor, found
some human remains in Oxford-street, at the back of
Mr. Allday's, the butcher. In that instance every bone
was broken, the skull was cracked, and the legs were
turned upwards on the breast, as though the body had
been doubled up. An old-fashioned stone bottle was found
oetween the abdomen and the legs, filled with black li-
quor. This relic might have been preserved, but the
son of Hibernia, who was engaged in the work, ex-
claimed the moment he saw it, " Och, there's some of
the ra'al crature—here goes for a drop 1" and striking
it with a shovel to break the neck off, dashed it into
innumerable pieces. A Mr. Salmons, who remem-
bers the neighbourhood fur eighty years, says he re-
collects that part of the town being a park or plea-
sure ground of " Lord de Burlington," which ex-
tended from Moor-street to the river Rea. Tim-
ber trees of immense size were growing there within his
recollection. There is, too, an individual now living,
whose grandfather superintended the building of Aston
Park-wall, who related the following facts to his son,
the father of the present relator. They are, therefore,
the traditions of two generations:—" Oa the left hand
of Digbeth was the Duck Pool, or Duck' Bath, be-
longing to Lord de Burlington, where a beautiful spring
arose, that since supplied a great part of the town
with water. From its name arose Duckbath,' since
corrupted into Digbath or Digbeth.'" He says, too,
" that at the top of Bordesley was formerly the park-
keeper's house, for the protection of the deer, where the
grazing pasture ended; and thence (not from a corrup-
tion of Dirty-end') arose the name Deer-end," Deer-
endton," Derington,' an I Deritend.' " If this tradi-
tion be true, the two bodies are connected with some
deed of darkness in the baronial ages; but we have heard
of another means of %accounting for the marvel, which
we will lay before our readers as we received it. It is
as follows :—" The place where the body and dog were
found is supposed to be the part called Loft Croft, ad-
joining the former park of Lord de Burlington' would
seem to record the garden belonging to the house (now
the Court of Requests) in which the rich Humphrey
Jennings lived, who bequeathed an immense property,
long subject to litigation. It is supposed that the body
found is that of Robert, one of the four sons of the said
Humphrey, to whom a large portion of the property was
bequeathed, and of whose death no account has been
given; but it was supposed at the time (about the year
1700, when he was missing) that he had been made
away with. The descendants of the family who now
claim the property have found the register of his birth,
and his name in the will, but have, never been able to
obtain any tidings of his. death. H the body found in
the public-office yard was that of Robert Jennings, the
pipe evidently did not bear Ills initials.—Birmingham
Advertiser.

We have heard with regret that the child of Mr.
Booth Bell, who had his arm fractured by a fall from the gig when
his father was shot, has since died.—Northern Standard.
A letter from Munich states, that there is now
being cast in bronze, at the Royal Foundry of that city, the statue
of the English statesman, William Huskisson, which is to be
erected at Liverpool. The model is from the hand of a young
English sculptor, Mr. Gypson, now at Rome.