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LACE AND BONNETS."
' HE ASSIGNEES of Dlr.-RUSSELL 16611.
.OXFORD-STREET, Lacemau and Ifaberdasher, have sold
tali whole of his valuable stock, in one lot, for Cash, to
It. WILLIAMS, 57, MORTIMEa4STREET,
Where it will be sold off at less than half ttie- Original prices.
Amongst other goods, there is a large stook 'of the following :
:Bonnets of the best quality and newest shape, in IJeglionns, Tuscans,
,;Dunstahles, and fancy straws ; gimps, fringes, haberdashery, hosiery,
fgloyesoyerked muslin collars; Cuffs, capes, cheinisettes, stomachers,
:habit-shirts; and Elizabethans; French cambric handkerchiefs (plain
'mild trimmed); mourning millinery and collars ; silk, muslin, and
alpacca -aprons ; corded skirts, long-cloths, diapers, hollands, Irish
linens,' table linens, and sheetings ; napkins, toweling, flannels ;
'baby-Ilnen, ladies' and children's under clothing, and stays ; trim-
mings in scollops, insertion, and ilouacing,s worked on mull, jacconet,
cambric, book and French cambric (some soiled, very cheap) ; plain
and fancy muslins ; French coloured and white tarlatans, and drawn
musling ; Swiss ditto (two and a half yards wide) ; robes,
ribbons, lam, capes, collars, veils, falls, sleeves, cull's, berthas, and a
quantity of very wide lace for fiouncings (white and black); parasols,
umbrellas, flowers, eau de Cologne, &c., &c.

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MAGAZINE DAY,
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

is a brief biographical sketch, accompanied by an
estimate of the character of these three eminentin-
dividuals. The article is lightly and pleasantly hit
off, is sound in criticism, and abundantly seasoned
with anecdote. " A Few Pages from my Journal"
is a diary of Mr. Fynes Clinton's recent travels in
Greece, of whose gradual improvement he speaks in
most encouraging terms. The " Philosophy of De-
lusion" is a smart, ingenious, desultory paper, by a
writer who quaintly signs himself "An Irish
Whiskey-drinker." " Baron Von Pfaffenburg" is a
very so-so affair. We subjoin an account of a dog-
show from the " Philosophy of London Life :"
" A friend of ours is a dog-fancier, and we accom-
panied him one evening to, of all things in the world, a
dog-show. We had heard of agricultural shows, horti-
cultural shows, tulip shows, dahlia shows, and fifty other
shows ; but we never dreamt of a dog-show. However,
there it was, on a printed paper, pulled by our friend out
of his waistcoat pocket, in black and white, with a long
list of presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, treasurer,
committee-men, judges, conditions, prizes, and so forth.
On entering the show-room, whose proximity was audi-
bly made known to us by the reiterated barking of the
competitors, and the howling which followed the applica-
tion of the whips of their owners, we could hardly avoid
laughing, not less at the assembled bipeds who crowded
the room, than at their quadrupedal friends upon the table.
One old gentleman, with a white waistcoat and black
silk smalls, relieved by a huge bunch of gold seals de-
pending from the most prominent part of his person,
held a pug under each arm, whilst he_.c.riticised_Oe
points of a remarkably beautiful little tnrier then
upon the table. A tall, thin, sickly-looking man,
who, as I was imformed, was a peer of the realm, was
busily engaged in discussing the comparative beauties
of a black and tan, and a red and white spaniel of the
King Charles's breed, who, to do them no less than jus-
tice, appeared to enter completely into the spirit of the
thing, and growled, and barked, and flashed fire at each
other from their large, round, antelope, eyes, with all
the apparent jealousy of two contending beauties at an
assize ball. Running about our feet were all sorts and
sizes of the canine race ; bloodhounds, Irish grey-
hounds, terriers, wiry and short-haired, silky-legged
spaniels, but not a cur of low degree ; all bad their pe-
digrees, and well-attested certificates approved their ho-
nourable birth.

a far as I know, none of his relations, who are people of
good property, ever came to Sweden. Had not the King
adhered so firmly to this principle, a great number of
Frenchmen dissatisfied with the government of the elder
branch of the house of Bourbon, would gradually have
found their way to Sweden to importune their former
general with applications for appointments, the granting
of which would have been mortifying to the Swedes.
" Though the King, as I have already observed, gene-
rally lay long abed, he was attentive to his health, rarely
rode on horseback, scarcely ever went a-hunting, and in
general exposed himself to as little fatigue as possible,
still he could upon occasion, in spite of his age, endure
more than even the younger of his attendants liked to
encounter. In great manoeuvres, I have seen the King
for several successive days, passing eight or ten hours on
horseback, and distinguished by his noble military bear-
ing, and the great simplicity of his dress, among the
brilliant uniforms of his numerous staff. His frequent
journeys to Norway were often performed with the ut-
most celerity, in winter, in the most intense oold, and on
roads, which at that season are not always the best.
" I shall here introduce one trait from Bernadotte's
life, which does him great honour, and attests as well
integrity as his powers of persuasion, and the influence
which he always exercised upon tho3e around him. At
the breaking out of the revolution in 1789, Bernadotte
had recently been appointed sergeant by his captain.
This captain, a native of the same province as himself,
and who wished him well, had often reproved him for his
fondness for the revolutionary ideas which were gradu-
ally gaining ground, assuring him that they could not
lead to any good ; and declaring that he was tine man-
'iaiie-ftte-,r and, in spite of his superior education and
acquirements, he would come to nothing. When the
troubles actually commenced, and order and discipline
were beniched from the army, several regiments deposed
their officers, or refuted to obey them, and elected others
out of their own midst. The regiment to which Berna-
dotte belonged followed this example, arrested its colo-
nel and its officers, and unanimously chose Sergeant Ber-
nadotte for its commander.

Mr. Louis Blanc's " History of Ten Years," dating
from the last French Revolution of 1830, forms the
sub;ect of a critical notice in the present number of
I.aga. The criticism, as might be expected from the
Cory politics of Blackwood, is of a most severe and
searching character, and accuses Mr. Blanc of being
no better than a downright anarchist. This opinion
is certainly anything but a just one. The historian
—who, we may add, by the way, is a popular French
.ournalist—is opposed to the system of policy at pre-
,,ent prevailing in France, and is by no means vio-
lently enamoured of the principles of the bourgeoisie,
' but he is no advocate of anarchy and confusion, and is
merely desirous that Louis Philippe should adhere
conscientiously to his pledges, and carry out into
practice the principles which he professed when raised
to the throne of the barricades. In fact, so far as we
can gather from an attentive perusal of his history,
which is penned in an eloquent and animated style,
'VI. Blanc maintains the same opinions which were
maintained by the late Artniand Carroll, who, though
a republican, was no anarchist in the Tory accepta-
ion of the term. A. "Night on the Banks of the
I'enessee" is a spirited American sketch, evidently
the production of a' writef who is familiar with the
localities and characters which he pourtrays. The
" Execution of MontitiSe"isla passable national ballad,
in which we think we can detaThere and there an imi-
tation of Macaulay's manner in his Legends of Ancient
Rome. " National History of Man" is a grave and
complicated theme—too much se, perhaps, for
the pages of a magazine—treated in a dull,
prolix style. In "Poems by Coventry Patmon"
Christopher North wields the crutch with a vigour and
heartiness that seem proof against the infirmities of
age. His criticism is, in truth, a most truculent one,
and in some respects is not undeserved, for not a few
of the extracts quoted by the Reviewer teem with
sillinesses and affectations that would be unpardonable
even in a school-boy. " It is no Fiction" is a painful
story, turning upon madness, and supposed to be re-
lated by a lunatic. The "Burns' Festival" is a de-
scription of this recent holiday-making on the banks
of the Doon, in honour of the memory of the poet
whose genius has immortalised that stream. " Mar-
ston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman" improves in in-
terest as it proceeds. In the chapters before us we
have a glowing description of a war debate in the
House of Commons, where Pitt, Fox, and Burke are
the chief speakers. The manner of each of these
illustrious orators is pourtrayed with much exactness
—that of Fox especially, who is painted to the life,
just as we find him represented in the pages of
Wraxall, and other contemporary memoir-writers.
We prefer quoting, however, a sketch of the depar-
ture of the Guards for Holland on that memorable
expedition which the Duke of York commanded, and
which was attended with such insignificant results :
" All now was excitement and activity. The intelli-
gence of the French advance into the territories of our
old and very helpless ally, awoke England at once. The
feeble and perfectly fruitless negotiations, by which the
slide from disgust into war is generally managed, had
produced their effect ; and France, furious for its prey,
and England, steady and stubborn, for the first time
were brought face to face. The summons, so long wished
for, at length reached us ; and the Guards were ordered
for embarkation. We received it in the spirit of a jubilee.
All had been prepared. And on the night before our
final parade, I received my appointment to a company.
Our parade, next morning, was one which I believe was
never forgotten by any individual who had the good for-
tune to witness it. Of all the striking ceremonials which

The whole of the above must be sold without resorre

" Having accepted this new dignity, he assembled the
regiment and thanked his comrades for their confidence,
of which, he said, he felt and would prove himself worthy.
" Above all,' he thus concluded his speech, I must
impress it upon you, that without discipline no military
body can subsist, and if I am to command you, and to
operate efficiently for your welfare, you must promise
me absolute, implicit obedience.'
" That we will,' cried the men, with one voice.
"' It follows of course then,' resumed the sergeant-co-
lonel, ' that whoever does not instantly obey my orders,
shall be punished according to the laws of war. Do you
swear this ?'

" Notwithstanding the ludicrous nature (to us, at least),
of the exhibition, not a muscle, either of the dogs or
their generous protectors, was discomposed ! all was
conducted in a business-like English manner, with true
John Bullish gravity and decorum; nor, when a very fat
man, with a red carbunclated nose, uncovering a quart
pot, which he had hitherto concealed with a silk hand-
kerchief, placed it on the table with a little stunted dog
peering out, was there a single countenance in the room
irresistibly disposed to laughter, save our own. The little
stunted dog himself, to all appearance a puppy of three
weeks old, but who was, in fact, arrived at the respect-
able age of two years, having recovered his liberty,
scrambled over the hedge of the quart-pot, and with
great gravity waddled round the table, paying his re-
spects as he went to other little stunted dogs, who, how-
ever, not being quite so stunted as himself, appeared to
regard him with no great cordiality.
" Of the extraordinary force of the sporting passsion
among even the working, or business classes of London,
we may take as an illustration the revelations of Mr.
Basil, in evidence before the Commissioners of Bank-
' ruptcy.
" Mr. Basil stated that he was a hide and skin mer-
chant in Leadenhall-market. On the evening of the 18th
May last he went to the Swan Inn, in the Old Kent-
road, where he drank with Mr. Calf till eleven o'clock,
and then went afterwards together to the King's Arms,
in the Kent-road, where he had more drink ; from thence
they went to a house called the Waterford Arms, where
deponent had 71. in Champagne ; at four o'clock in the
morning proceeded to a gaming-house, 11, King-street,
St. James's, where he lost, at hazard and roulette,
1721. 10s., when he paid 122/. 10s., and gave an I 0 U
for 501., which he paid at twelve o'clock in the day, de-
claring his opinion that he had not lost it fairly, and was
informed that Flash was the proprietor ; and, when he
afterwards met him at the Royal Mortar, in the London-
road, telling him what he lost, and that it was unfair,
Flash did not deny that he was the proprietor, but
laughed, and said I had had it.

" We swear it I' responded the soldierii,
" Bernadotte immediately took a company—the one to
which he belonged, and on which he could reckon impli-
citly—put himself at its head, led it to the prison, and
brought out the officers, with whom he proceeded to the
front of the still assembled regiment.
" ' Soldiers,' said he, taking the hand of the colonel,
you have, of your own accord, conferred on me the
command over you, and sworn obedience to me : I now
command you to recognise again your former colonel
and officers. Let us not disgrace a good cause by rebel-
lion and disorder. My command is at an end—l resign
it to our former chief.'

" The latter, however, had seen too much, and was too
well informed of what was going on in Paris, and
throughout all France, to accept the proffered command
again. lie declined it, and with most of the officers
quitted the regiment, of which Bernadotte then assumed
the command."

THE TRINITY HOUSE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

TAIT'S MAGAZINE.
In his political article this month, entitled a " Re-
trospect of the Session," Tait observes :—" We take
leave of the session of 1844 with the pleasing persua-
sion that it has rendered, in a left-handed way, a fair
contribution of useful service to the popular cause.
It has been to the Ministry one of retribution—to the
people one of instruction and preparation. It has greatly
weakened party ties, and damaged the prestige of high
party names." This last remark is true to the letter.
The effect of the session just passed has indeed been
to weaken " party ties," by demonstrating the folly
and inconsistency of party, and its utter inability to
legislate in a comprehensive, national spirit. Hence-
forth neither Whigs nor Tories will exercise much
influence over the public mind, which has at length
become fairly weary of the assumption and hollowness
of both factions. The " Burns' Festival" is an ac-
count, somewhat overcharged, of the late gathering
on the banks of the Doon of the admirers of this
truly national poet. The details are spirited and cir-
cumstantial, but we could have wished that the
writer had dwelt less upon the faults of Burns, for,
from all we can gather from his numerous biogra-
phers, they were by no means of a flagrant character,
but were such as ought to have been forgotten long
since. Poor Burns never committed a fault half so
grievous as that which his own countrymen com-
mitted when they left him to die in all but absolute
penury, neglected and broken-hearted. " Our Hearth
and Homestead" is a clever domestic sketch from the
pen of Mr. Mills, a writer whose sporting sketches
are fully equal to those of the late Nimrod. " Life
of Lord Chancellor Eldon" is an impartial notice of
Mr. Twiss's recently-published Memoirs of this over-
rated statesman. From the " Feast of the Poets" we
quote some pleafing stanzas, entitled the " Beautiful
and True :"
The Beautiful and True, dear love,
The Beautiful and True,
Oft they meet to part, but yet
They never say, Adieu !
The stars, how gloriously they greet !
But then, as morn comes on,
Heaven's pavement to their glittering feet,
Is echoeless and lone.
Brightly they dance away, but still
Such partings yield no pain ; •
For ne'er they bid adieu, until
They 'ye sworn to meet again,
Dear love,
They 've sworn to meet again
I saw two birds, like Faith on wings,
Meet o'er the waters blue ;
0 they could part like hopeful things,
Nor breathe a last adieu.
I saw a warrior, armed for fight,
Quit his lady fond and true.
But their lips first held a meeting bright,
And thus they bade adieu !
I saw two ships part company,
O'er the ocean's sparkling foam,
And the " Outward Bound" sang a song of glee,
And the " Homeward," a song of home,
Dear love,
And the "Homeward," a song of home
O Minnie, thy words may breathe, "Farewell !"
But thy voice hath a binding thrill,
Whose latest sound shall wreathe a spell
To keep thee present still.
The touch of thy hand when kind and fond,
And thy smile, and thy waving hair,
And thy soft deep eyes, with their hopes beyond
The gloom of each passing care,
Shall haunt me still, and when thou art gone
I will Eva in a dream of thee,
And with thee will rove when the night comes on,
Through the grove to our try-sting tree,
Dear love,
Through the grove to our trysting tree.

I have ever seen, it was the most striking. The King
had given notice of his intention to be present, and bid
us farewell. At six o'clock, the three regiments were
drawn up in front of the Horse-Guards, a body of three
thousand men, and finer-looking troops never bore arms.
All the avenues to the Park were crowded with the mul-
titude. Exactly at the half-hour, a rush of the people
towards the parade, showed that the King, always punc-
tual, was at hand. He came, surrounded by general
officers, with the Prince of Wales, then a most chivalric
figure, in the uniform of his regiment of Light Dragoons,
and the Duke of York, as a field-marshal. The enthu-
siasm of the troops could not be restrained, as this bril-
liant staff approached the line ; and three cheers were
given with all the zeal of honest loyalty. There are
times when tears are the only substitute for speech ; and
the King, one of the most kind-hearted of men, visibly
shed tears at this reception. Another cortege now ap-
proached ; they were the carriages of the Queen and
Princesses. The scene now became almost painful.
There was many a tear from royal and noble eyes—the
impulse of high emotion, not of sorrow—or, if tinged with
the thoughts which always shade the name of war, yet
undegraded by weakness. The multitude caught the
feeling ; the shouts subsided ; and all was weeping and
waving of handkerchiefs. The King put an end to this
embarrassing sympathy. Ile rode forward, and, taking
his station in the centre, gave the word to march.' He
was answered by one gallant huzza' from the line, re-
peated by the thousands and tens of thousands who now
moved before and around us. Our bands struck up, and,
with the Monarch and his sons at our head, and the
Queen and Princesses following in their equipages, we
marched through streets, crowded to the roof, echoing
with acclamations, and wishing us all good fortune as we
passed along, uatil we left the mighty metropolis behind.
Even then, it was only to meet the new multitude of the
country. The road to Greenwich, where we were to ern•
bark, exhibited a population as countless, enthusiastic,
and full of good wishes as those with whom we had just
parted. The King still rode in our front ; flags, ban-
ners, and every kind of joyous testimonial met our eyes ;
and if ever there was a triumph before the victory, it
was in that honest and generous display of the true heart
of England. The embarkation took place within a few
hours ; and on that night we slept on the element which
Britain has so long made her field of battle. The wea-
ther was serene, and we fully enjoyed the freshness of
the air, and the brightness of the view as we rounded the
coast. At the mouth of the Thames, we had met a strong
squadron of the line of battle, appointed for our convoy,
and bringing numerous transports with troops. Our
fleet had now become extensive, and as we moved out
from the land, the sight became continually more ani-
iloinhTgehhgeoefdtiohsfpesaitggcerheaoalstf,
theth e
convoy,fi look-out
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ma-
noeuvres fri-
gates,
guns
to sailing
toating castles, the seventy-fours and
three-deckers, the harmony of their bands as they passed
us, rushing along under a cloud of canvas, with the hum
of the thousands on board—all formed one of the most
heart-stirring combinations that could exist to the eye,
or even to the heart of a human being. I stood gazing
from the poop of our transport the entire day ; and even
when twilight came, there was but a change of interest
and beauty. We moved on, a moving multitude—a frag-
mf
ent
ndaeteip°.n—laVlithimost a nation of ourselves,
Within the horison which now
smooth as glass, and shining in
lay
yeent beneath
ieeocnffheaanacteemhs soin oyf glance,the
; what bold hearts ; what
what indefatigable perseverance ; what ac-
complished intelligence I a force inferior to the one be-
hliivinhghogpes; power were gathered
be-
fore me had more than once changed the fate of the
world."

' The witness underwent a long and severe cross-
examination, wherein he stated that he had, from twelve
years of age, been accustomed to play at skittles, and
toss for 517 or 101. ; he had even tossed for a quantity of
wool, and whether the parties were to give him 5001. or
nothing, and he fortunately won 1 Ile even played at
skittles when a man at each side of the frame held a tine
string at each end, so contrived as to pull the pins down
as the ball was thrown, so as to make it appear that the
pins were thrown down by the ball. lie always carried
1,0001. in his pocket, and was ready to toss for a cool 100/.
at any time, and once engaged to go in a balloon with a
man of the name of Snooks, and would have tossed for
100/. in the balloon ! He knew that gaffing' meant
tossing, and that a halfpenny with two heads or two tails
was called a gray,' but never used one. He was a
married man, and had had two wives ; he was the father
of six children—indeed he was a grandfather."

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and the debauchee are all more or less held in check
by a salutary fear of seeing themselves reported in
the newspapers. If the ambition of one half the world
is to keep out of the newspapers, the account his fairly
balanced by the desperate efforts of the other half to
get in. In fact, all people who court publicity through
these, the great dispensers of it in our dad, work upon
the newspaper's blind side ; they wish
the paper to
have no eye for anything but their claims, their
abilities, and their virtues. Within the last twenty
or thirty years the influence of the press has been all
but omnipotent. It was the press that carried the
Reform Bill, and brought about that state of public
feeling which enabled the Minister of the day to
strike the fetters off the limbs of the Catholics and
chap
the Dissenters. In the present ters of the
" Fortunes of the Scattergood Family" we find a
forcible description of a destructive fire in a
country village. " Choice Fruit, or the Ba-
lanced Account," is a humorous poem, some-
thing after the quaint manner of Peter
Pinder, which would have been more effective
had it 'been shorter. The " Gaol Chaplain" contains
an impressive tale, illustrative of the demoralising
effects of the game-laws, of which the writer thus
speaks :—" These laws are bringing about a state of
oppression and tyranny on the one hand, and of re-
sistance and crime on the other, which would dis-
grace a land inhabited wholly by heathens. Poachers
are hunted down by landowners and their game-
keepers as keenly and fiercely as the early settlers in
America hunted down the natives. The upshot is
the scaffold and the hangman, the drop and the noose,
the dying struggle, and the death shriek. And all
this for what ? A partridge or a phcasant! But the
gentry must have them, it is said, on their tables,
because game is a rarity, and beams.) it is nice and
delicate eating !" "Selwyn, Walpole, an— . a lat
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denham, where he compil
" Annals of Great Britain
Gt orge the Third to the
ve heard of this work, fewer
read it. The most intelligent bookseller 101
was, a week ago, unaware of its existence." " Classics
0. the Table" is a light, piquant essay on the various
fruits, sweetmeats, &c., that go to make up a dainty
English dessert. " French Fashionable Life Two
Hundred Years Ago" will remind the reader of the
agreeable and desultory ana of the French memoir
writers of the last century. The " Suniassie" is an
Eastern story, common-place in incident, and by no
means remarkable for ease or vivacity of manizer.
" Concerning Dog-stealing" is a feeble attempt at the
facetious suggested by the report of the Parliamentary
Committee on this subject. The following " Vision
of Hoar Frost" may perhaps amuse our readers

I said, " Oh! time of frost and rain,
No charm thou wear'st for me ;
Nought, till summer comes again,
Is beautiful to see!
The snow, albeit without a stain,
Dims the visions of my brain,
And brings me thoughts funereal,
When it lieth, like a pall,
Veiling earth's sweet, friendly face,
And a mournful silence fills
Every familiar place •,
And the hollows of the hills,
Where the streams in summer-tide
Like happy living creatures glide,
Are still, and cold, and voiceless now,
Same when dreary tempests blow
With a fitful icy breath,
Souading far, yet sad as death!
" Why is Autumn called most sad?
He is like a king
In a robe of triumph clad,
Gayer than the Spring!
In his woods the trees are dight
With a splendour rich and bright,
From their boughs there fall in showers
Leaves of warmer hue than flowers.
Down upon the earth they fall,
Frequent drops of living gold,
Like some fountain magical
In Arabian groves of old,
Dropping with a pleasant sound
Where the grass was sun-embrown'd.
The winds that herald him breathe low,
And wake new glories-as they go;
Merrily the brooklets leap,
And the streams are wide and deep.
" But in days of frost and snow,
When the streams are still,
And the woods no longer glow,
And the air is chill,
I could weep for all the gloom,
Like a mourner at a tomb.
Earth's heart grieveth like my own
For the gladness that is flown.
Dreary season, saddest time,
Gloomy days of storm and rain.
Binding even song's glad chime
With a weary, leaden chain !
When I hear of lands far hence,
Where the summer's influence
Burneth through the livelong year,
I could weep that I ass here,
And my inmost heart is stirr'd,
Piling like a captive bird."
Thus my fretful spirit said
Only yesterday ;
Now those darker thoughts are dead,
Now my heart is gay !
Oh, the pomp mine eyes hare seen 1
Oh, the glory that hath been
Every branch and every spray
Wore a radiant garb to-day;
Not its veil of summer green,
And yet as beautiful a dress,
White, and dazzling in its sheen,
Wondrous in its loveliness ;
And the sunbeams, gliding through
Knotted oak and beechen bough,
Made the upland's woody height
Seem a region of delight ;
The very silence made it seem
Less like truth than some fair dream !

SIRS I am glad to find, from a recent article in
The Sun, that the local imposts upon ,British shipping
have begun to attract your attention. The returns
just ordered by her Majesty's Government of the
amount of harbour dues, and other local charges
levied in the ports of the United Kingdom, is certainly
one step in the right direction. But this step must
be accompanied by a stringent inquiry into the
" doings" of that irresponsible body of monoperlistr
which somewhat irreverently continues to style itself
the " Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most
glorious and undivided Trinity."
I transmit to you a copy of the reprint of an ar-
ticle on the " Trinity House," which appeared in the
last Number of the Westminster Review. The abuse(
which that article exposes are these—
.l. The unreasonableness of the rates at the prVeut
time;
2. The illegality and injustice of the appropriatiom
of so large a portion of the surplus tolls to the eel-
disant charitable purposes" of the Corporation ;
3. The rotten borough system under which the
corporators of the aforesaid guild or fraternity are
elected ;

4. The scientific incompetency of the acting Tri-
nity Board ;

g. The extravagant expladiture for the services of
the Central Board of Management;
6. The illegality of the system of electing Cabinet
Ministers as honorary Elder Brethren : a mere
shabby subserviency to the "powers that be," and
directly opposed to a clause in the 7th and Bth Wil.
c. 21, which clause expressly forbids the election
of civilians to the office of Elder Brothers of tbe4ri-
nity House

The report of the Committee on Lighthouses lift
1834, is an enduring monument of the diligence and
perseverance of Mr. Hume. But there ought to be
another Parliamentary investigation, and I am glad to
see that Mr. Hume has given notice of a motion to
that effect next session. If Mr. Hume perseveres in
his motion, the Government can scarcely refuse a
Committee, and then, it is to be hoped, that the-
Augean stable on Tower-hill will at last undergo a
thorough purification.
The shipowners ought to feel grateful for the Vale
manner in 'which you have advocated' the reductiora
of those local charges which now press with peculiar:
severity ; and on this account I have preferred trust--
ing to your impartiality to give an insertion to my
letter, rather than address myself to the evening jour-
nal, which, although professedly established as the
hwadea;:oirceoalsfdateeissffd:oosfu,,tstorreh,ghelugvsaßehrrdii:tbNiNhys,h shipowner, is so curiously
unhappy in its endeavours, as almost to deserve the
reproach cast upon an Athenian orator, of whom it
he
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wolves he takes care not to bite, and the sheep, which
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I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
g.
servant, CHRIS. RICHARDSON.

A FISH WORTH CAPTURING.—The Bay of Luce'
Wigtownshire, whether from depth of water or other-
wise, has long been famed for the superiority of itas
flounders. Fresh water lochs and rivers furnish different
kinds Of trout ; and it is the same in the open sea, as
regards the distinctions between genera and species. In.
Luco Bay there is a variety of flat fish, alike large and
tempting to the palate—say from five to she or more
pounds, rivalling in delicacy the finest sole. Still that is no-
thing, compared to what we are about to relate on compe-
tent authority—the testimony of Mr. J. Irvine, tacksman
of the Balcarry fishery, kindly forwarded to us by our
antiquarian friend, Mr. Train, of Castle Douglas, On
Monday, the 19th, the precise date of our last publica-
tion, a fish was caught in the beautiful bay named above,
of the flounder species, which measured from head to
tail four feet three inches ; in breadth twenty-two inches
from the tip of the one fin to the other ; and in dercliototf
chest or body six inches, and weighing 5 llbs Mr.
innkeeper, Auchencairn. not only Barr the fish weighed and
measured, but he partook of a portion of it, which he, ht
common with others, considered excellent. Of the fed; Q.
this case there can be no doubt, and the only difficulty oon-
sista in accurate scientific classification. On consulting
Baron Cuvier's "Animal Kingdom," the highest
authority on such a subject, we have (arrived at
the conclusion that the marine stranger described
rosnmboursd,erofiothoeuoitni4tbnrt.wgeftenrersin:
must either have been a specimen of the WA)
which attains to great size and 'weight in the northernu 4
raare
seas, but of which there are miller •
icteutrtrianngeaunp,
so
or
vt
oeu:ftedo
which is also shaped and finned like afl 4: Pus'
it is a pity it had not been previously presenited fbr ex-
amination to some individual curio in naturalhistory_
Since
Since the above was written,
we have !received from
Glenluce five flounders, which together weighed 191b5.
Dumfries Courier.
EXTRAORDINARY
SPEED BY THE GREAT WRSCERPT
RAILWAY.—(From a Correspondent.)—His Royal High-
ness Prince William of Prussia, who left Bristol on Sa-
turday afternoon, at seven minutes before four o'clock,.
in a special train, arrived at the Slough station en route
to Windsor, upon a visit to the Queen, in two hours,
and seven minutes, the distance being exactly 100 miles;
The Proserpine engine attached to the three carriages
comprising the special train, which was driven by Mr.
Gooch, the chief superintendent of the locomotive de-
partment of the Great Western Railway Company, pro-
ceeded along some portions of the line at the r of
sixty-five miles an hour! His Royal Highness retied
the Castle, from Slough, in one of the Queen's carriages,
and was in the presence of her Majesty and the Prince
Consort within two hours and a half from the period of
his departure from the Bristol terminus.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—The Lord Mayor has
issued the following notice for regulating the closing of
the various stalls, booths, &c., on each night of the con-
tinuance of Bartholomew Fair. " Magnay, Mayor—.
Notice is hereby given, that Bartholomew Fair is ordered
to be closed on the night of Tuesday, the 3d, the day of
paoclamation, at 11 oclock ; of Wednesday, the 4th of
September, the first day, at 11 o'clock ; of Thursday, the
sth, the second day, at 11 ; and on Friday, the 6th, the
the third day, at ten o'clock. And any p. rson keeping
open any exhibition, booth, or stall, after these hours
will be proce,ded against for the same. By order of the
Lord Mayor.--8.8. GOOD W,"