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least, and those nearest to it most—the injury and
danger becoming loss in the ratio of the distance from
the obstruction. In the late accident a similar result
followed. Why is it not made compulsory on all railways
to place one or two luggage vans or trucks between the
engine and the passengers' carriages? On some rail-
ways this is done—on others it is not. If it affords, as
we believe it does, any protection, it ought to be made
compulsory on all. It is worthy of remark, that all those
passengers who suffered by the collision were not aware,
when they left the station, that it was intended to place
the carriages in which they were about to travel upon
the wrong line; and it was only when it was too late to
complain or remonstrate that they found they were to be
sent to Beeston in a fog, and upon the wrong line. It is
to be regretted that such a risk should be rendered
necessary in any case; but it is manifestly most unjust to
place passengers in such a position, without dilly advising
them that the train was not to start upon the usual line
of transit. It ought to be, in future, a well understood
arrangement, that no passengers should, in any case, be
laced upon the wrong line, without being previously
acquainted with that departure from the ordinary course.
It appears that one passenger, who accidentally became
aware that the train was about to proceed on the wrong
line, although he had paid for his ticket, yet refused to
proceed. Why should not the opportunity be giTen to
all the passengers to save their limbs or lives by a similar
exercise of prudence ? The importance of the subject.
involving so largely as it does the safety of the public,
imperatively demands that efficient means should be in-
stantly taken to enforce the most prudential system of
railway management.

annually for the last thirty-two years, and he had
then given an additional sum of ten pounds. The
most effectual way in which they could evince their
gratitude to the Noble Lord for then appearing
amongst them was by imitating, as far as they could,
so excellent an example, and by doing everything in
their power to promote the prosperity of the in-
stitution.—(Cheers.)
The toast was received with great enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN said he had hitherto been obliged
to confine himself to those toasts which were con-
nected with the business of the evening; but he was
now going to propose one of a different character, one
in which his own heart rejoiced, and to which, con-
nected as most of them were with the commerce of
the City of London, he felt confident they would all
respond. The gentleman to whom he had alluded
had done them the honour of becoming one of their
stewards on that occasion; but it was not in that
capacity that he meant to propose his health He
first became acquainted with that gentleman in a
country far distant from this, where he found him
high in office, and where he had had the honour, for
nearly two years, of serving under his orders, and he
stood there prepared to say that, in no instance did
he ever do anything of a public nature which was not
right. Sir Henry Pottinger—(Cheers)—had had
more to do, perhaps, with the commercial than with
the military affairs of this country in the case to which
he referred. That he had done his work well, in
every respect, was clear from the fact that, by the
treaty which he had conducted and finished for this
country, he had made it impossible for any other
country, in Europe or elsewhere, to claim privileges
from the Chinese which we do not enjoy.—(Hear, and
loud cheers.) With the name of Sir Henry Pot-
tingerhe begged to associate thelndian army. When
he went abroad, he found in that army gentlemen
highly educated ; he found officers who knew their
duty, and who did it—(Cheers)—and who had been
to himself delightful companions. Such having been
the case, he begged to couple with the name of Sir
Henry Pottinger the Indian army.—(Cheers.)
The toast was enthusiastically responded to.
Sir HENRT POTTINGER said he was most unex-
pectedly called upon to acknowledge this toast, and if
he did not adequately express his gratitude, it would
not be because none was felt. 'With respect to his
duties in China, it was to him a source of the greatest
satisfaction to find that he had, by the manner in
which he had acquitted himself, secured for himself
the approbation which had been expressed since his
return to this country. No man could appreciate
more highly than himself the honours which his Sove-
reign had bestowed upon him, and yet he could
honestly say that the approbation and the expression
of the kindness and respect of his fellow-countrymen
were not less dear to him.—(Cheers.) Lord Saltoun
had alluded to the army in India. He felt quite sure
that no one would misunderstand him, when he said
that he looked upon the East India Company's ser-
vice as second to none in the world.—(Hear, hear.)
There was as much of integrity, of high feeling, and
high honour, and of devotion to the public service in
India, as in any other known part of the world. He
was sure they would pardon him for bearing this tes-
timony with regard to his brother officers. He
begged to return his most sincere thanks for the
honour which they had conferred upon himself.
The health of the " Duchess of Sutherland and the
Ladies Patronesses," and of the " Duke of Buccleuch
and the Edinburgh branch of the Society" having
been drank,
The Hon. W. FRAsiaR rose to propose a toast,
which he was sure they would drink with much
satisfaction. It would be impossible for him to do
justice—it would not be expected of him to enlarge
upon the merits of the Indian bar ; but he might be
permitted to remind them that it numbered in its
ranks many of their fellow-countrymen in India, and
that they had a highly distinguished member of that
body present at their festival on this occasion, and
enrolled among the number of the supporters of their
charity.—(Hear.) He begged to propose " The In-
dian bar," and to couple with it the name of Sir
Thomo Turton.—(Cheers.)
Sir T. TERTON having briefly returned thanks,
The Noble CHAIRMAN next gave, in warm terms,
" The health of Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq.,"
who had recently succeeded his brother, the Hon. IV.
Fraser, in the office of treasurer of the Corporation.
Mr. P. M. STEWART, in returning thanks, observed
that the path of his duties had been so clearly pointed
I out to him by his friend and predecessor, that all he
desired was to be enabled to peform them in the same
efficient manner.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentle-
man then said that he could not sit down with satis-
faction without proposing to them to drink that gentle-
man's health.—(Cheers.) They had been kind enough
to express their sense of the manner in which he had
himself, during the short period he had held the office,
discharged its duties; but they had forgotten, per-
haps, that it was to Mr. Fraser that all the merit of
such efficiency was in reality due, for he had held it
for four and twenty long years—(Hear)—during part
of which time the Society, though now strong, had
several difficulties to contend against, all of which he
had overcome by the exercise of a zeal and energy
which it was his desire, as it should ever be his endea-
vour, to imitate.---(Hear.) He would give them
" The health of his excellent friend and predecessor,
the Hon. W. Fraser."

THE MAGAZINES.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

In a very spirited and, to our mind, convincing
essay on the subject of the " Scottish banking
System" which heads the present Number of this pe-
riodical, the writer warns Government how they
venture on any further interference with this system,
whose efficiency for all commercial purposes in Scot-
land has already been proved by the surest of all
tests, experience. "Is it politic," he asks, "in the
present state of matters, to rouse up a feeling in
peaceful Scotland which may, with little fanning •of
the fuel, terminate in an agitation quite as extensive
as that which at present unhappily prevails in Ireland?
It is most injudicious to overlook in such a matter the
tendency of the national character. Scotchmen hare
long memories, and although the days of hereditary
feuds have gone by, they are not the less apt to re-
member and to cherish injuries." The inference to
be drawn from the writer's argument is, it is better
to " let well alone," and it is to be hoped that Go-
vernment will see the propriety of keeping this whole-
some admonition in view, and leaving Scotland to
conduct her own commercial affairs in her old accus-
tomed fashion. The " Milkman of Walworth" is a
singular story of a most mysterious and tragic com-
plexion. The first portion excites some interest,
which, however, is destroyed by the preposterous ab-
surdity of the denouement, which is in direct violation
of all probability. The Walworth Milkman had, it
seems, originally been a Devonshire farmer, who
after paying his addresses to a neighbour's daughter,
finding that she had no property, transferred his af-
fections to her rich cousin. The rejected girl, in a
transport of rage at her lover's perfidy, immediately
murdered her rival, which so shocked the faithless
farmer, that he instantly sold all his property in the
country, and retired to the neighbourhood of London,
where he purchased a milk-walk, and went his daily
morning and evening rounds in Walworth. Mean-
time, the girl whom he had discarded discovered his
whereabout, and from that time to the hour of his
death, never ceased to dog his footateps,accompanying
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easily have done without betraying the woman's
guilty secret, is so evident, that it is scarcely neces-
sary to point it out. If we except this defect, the
story is forcibly written, and keeps the reader's cu-
riosity alive, till he draws towards " the lame and im-
potent conclusion." " Edmund Burke" is a biogra-
phical and critical account, evidently by a practised
writer, of this most thoughtful and far-sighted of
modern politicians. " John Brown" is the conclusion
of a clever story illustrative of the peculiarities of col-
lege life at Oxford. We quote from an essay on
" Guizot," a sketch of Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hume,
in their capacity of historians :
" Voltaire was of great service to history, by turning
it from courts and camps to the progress of literature,
science, and the arts—to the delineation of manners,
and the preparation of anecdotes descriptive of cha-
racter ; but, notwithstanding all his talent, he never
got a glimpse of the general causes which influence
society. He gave us the history of philosophy, but not
the philosophy of history.
.I'he ardent genius and pictorial eye of Gibbon ren-
dered him an incomparable delineator of events ; and
his powerful mind made him seize the general and cha-
racteristic features of society and manners, as they
appear in different parts of the world, as well as the
traits of individual greatness. His descriptions of the
Roman empire in the zenith of its power, as it existed
in the time of Augustus--of its decline and long pro-
tracted old age, under Constantine and his successors on
the Byzantine throne—of the manners of the pastoral
nations, who, under different names, and for a succession
of ages, pressed upon and at last overturned the empire—
of the Saracens, who, isssuing from the lands of Arabia,
with the Koran in one hand and the cimetar in tho other,
urged on their resistless course, till they were arrested
by the Atlantic on the one side, and the Indian Ocean
on the other—of the stern crusaders, who, nursed amid
the cloistered shades and castellated realms of Europe,
struggled with that devastating horde " whton 'twas
strongest, and ruled it when 'twas wildest "—of the long
agony, silent decay, and ultimate resurrection of the
Eternal City—are so many immortal pictures, which,
to the end of the world, will fascinate every ardent and
imaginative mind. But, notwithstanding this incom-
parable talent for general and characteristic description,
he had not the mind necessary for a philosophical
analysis of the series of causes which influence human
events. He viewed religion with a jaundiced and pre-
judiced eye—the fatal bequest of his age and French
education, unworthy alike of his native candour and in-
herent strength of understanding. He had profound
philosophic ideas, and occasionally let them out with
admirable effect ; but the turn of his mind was essen-
tially descriptive, and his powers were such, in that
brilliant department, that they wiled him from the less
inviting contemplation of general causes. We tura ever
his fascinating pages without wearying ; but without ever
discovering the general progress or apparent tendency of
human affairs. We look in vain for the profound reflec-
tions of Machiavel on the permanent results of certain
political combinations or experiments. He has led us
through a mighty maze ;' but ho has made no attempt
to show it not without a plan.'
" Hume is commonly called a philosophical historian,
and so ho is ; but he has even less than Gibbon the
power of unfolding the general causes which influence
the progress of human events. lie was not, properly
speaking, a philosophic historian, but a philosopher
writing history—and these are very different things.
The practical statesman will often make a better de-
lineator of the progress of human affairs than the phi-
losophic recluse ; for he is more practically acquainted
with their secret springs ; it was not in the schools,
but the forum or the palace, that Sallust, Tacitus, and
Burke, acquired their deep insight into the human heart.
Hume was gifted with admirable sagacity in political
economy ; and it is the good sense and depth of his
views on that important subject, then for the first time
brought to bear on the annals of man, that has chiefly
gained for him, and with justice, tho haracter of a phi-
losophic historian. To this may be added the admirable
clearness and rhetorical powers with which he has stated
the principal arguments for and against the great
changes in the English institutions which it fell to his
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SCOTTISH HOSPITAL AND COR-
PORAT lON IN LONDON.
The members and supporters of the Scottish Hos-
pital and Corporation—one of the oldest and most
valuable of the thousand benevolent institutions of
the kingdom—celebrated the 179th anniversary of
the charity by a dinner at the London Tavern. The
festival of St. Andrew was, on this occasion, distin-
guished by one or two circumstances which naturally
invested it with more than usual interest. In addi-
tion to the presence of General the Right Hon. Lord
Saltoun, who came up from Scotland expressly to
preside over the proceedings of the day, and who was
received with a most hearty welcome, at once an ac-
knowledgment of his Lordship's kindness in that par-
ticular, and a tribute of national respect for his dis-
tinguished military character, the banquet received
much eclat from the attendance of Sir Henry Pot-
tinger, our recent Plenipotentiary in China ; of Col.
W. N. Burns (the son of the Poet) ; and of several
members of the family of Mungo Park. The Hon.
W. Fraser, of Saltoun, the late, and Mr. P. M.
Stewart, M.P., the present, treasurer of the corpora-
tion, were also present ; with Sir T. E. Colebrooke,
Bart., M.P.; Sir 1. Turton, Registrar-General of
Calcutta ; the Rev. John Cumming, and upwards of
200 gentlemen, among whom were several of the
most munificent patrons of the charity.
The gallery presented a brilliant array of Scottish
beauty, which contributed materially to enhance the
splendour of the scene, one of the most pleasing fea-
tures of which was its eminently national character.
Mackay, the piper to the late Duke of Sussex, and
Macbeth, the Duke of Sutherland's piper, contributed
in no small degree to this agreeable result, and the
national music of the pipes was succeeded in the
course of the evening by a variety of songs and glees,
which formed no slight portion of the agremens of the
festival. Among the professionals present we must not
omit to mention the names of Mr. Sinclair, who sang
some of the stirring melodies of Burns and his coun-
try, and of Messrs. Machin, Young, &c., with Misses
Cubitt and Porter.
The dinner was served with all its appointments
in the most excellent style, and the wines were very
good.
After the cloth had been drawn,
The Chairman gave in succession the usual loyal
toasts, each of which met with a due reception from
the company.
The CHAIRMAN said, after what had taken place
within the past year in the north, it would hardly be
proper in him not to propose " The memory of that
Freat poet, Robert Burns ;" and he felt great pleasure
in coupling with it the health of Colonel Burns, who
was present on that occasion.—(Cheers.)
Colonel BURNS briefly returned thanks, but in so
subdued a tone, that in the position in which we were
placed it was impossible to distinguish what he said.
The CHAIRMAN said the toast which he was then
about to propose being the principal one of the even-
ing, required that he should say a few words in refer-
ence to it. Speaking, as he did, to a company which
consisted, almost exclusively, of his own countrymen,
it could not be necessary that he should enter into
the early history of this corporation, or that he should
state its early dangers and difficulties, the lengthened
time during which it had existed, and the manner in
which it had prospered. It was well known to all
of them that it was instituted shortly after the union
of the two Crowns, and that it had been incorporated
by- royal charter ever since the reign of Charles 11.
The principal object of the institution was to benefit
poor unfortunate individuals belonging to their own
country who might be left in a destitute condition in
London. For that purpose many Scotchmen, and he
was proud also to add, many who were not Scotch-
men—(llear, hear)---had contributed to the funds.
In the position in which they then stood they were
deprived of one great auxiliary with which many
other institutions could enforce their claims. They
were not able to bring before the public ocular testi-
mony of the benefits which they were conferring by
this charity ; such testimony could only be found in
the report of the officers who had the managementiof
the institution. Other charities—such charities, for
instance, as schools, could produce before the public
visible proofs of their usefulness ; but as it was impos-
sible to bring there the lame and the decrepid, they
must look to the report to learn that their money
was well and satisfactorily appropriated. He was
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on the list eighty pensioners, receiving 101. per
annum. Further, he was happy to inform them that
seventy-two destitute persons had been sent to Scot-
land, it being one object of the institution to forward
such persons to their native country. He called upon
all present, in conclusion, to manifest the interest which
they felt in their own countrymen by putting down
their names as subscribers to so good a cause.
The Noble Lord then gave the toast of "Prosperity to
the Institution," which was drunk with enthusiasm.
Major ADAIR (the Secretary) proceeded to read
a report of the subscriptions for the day. Before
naming the principal donors, however, he exhibited to
the company an ancient silver cup belonging to the
Corporation, presented to it, in 1683, by James Kin
neir, who had formerly held an office in the institu-
tion, and who, during his life, had been a subscriber
to its funds of not less than 460/. To this cup a
cover had been added about a century ago by two
gentlemen, eminent bankers in their day, and the
founders, respectively, of the present banking-houses
of Messrs. Drummond and Co. and Coutts and Co.
Major Adair stated that, it having struck him that
the representatives of those gentlemen at the present
day, upon being shown how much interest their an-
cestors had felt in the prosperity of a Corporation to
which they had very largely contributed, might pos-
sibly exhibit no less a desire to promote its benevolent
objects, he had communicated with the principals of
those two establishments, from each of which, to their
honour be it said, he had received, upon stating the
foregoing circumstances, a donation of 100 gaineas to
the funds of the charity.—(Loud cheers.) Among
the other donations and subscriptions read were those
of 401. from the Duke of Sutherland, and 101. from
the Marquis of Stafford (his Grace's son), the Duke
(who is President of the Society) having given 1,0001.
to the charity since his first connexion with it; Miss
Burdett Coutts, 50 guineas; Sir Charles Forbes,
Bart., 50/. ; Right lion. Lord Saltoun, 10/. ; the
Marquis of Lorn, 10 guineas; Sir E. Colebrooke,
Bart., M.P., 25/. ; Sir 11. Pottinger, Bart., 5 guineas;
with many others of greater or less amount, reaching
together the sum of 805/.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the
" President of the Society, the Duke of Sutherland."
His Grace had, for many years, filled that situation,
and, on all occasions, he had proved himself one of
the warmest friends of the institution. Finding, how-
ever, that, on account of the state of his health, it
would be almost impossible for him to attend that
meeting, in the month of August last the Duke re-
quested him (the Chairman) to act as his substitute.
Being an old friend to the institution, he at once com-
plied, and he had accordingly come from his hunting-
grounds, a distance of 300 mites, to be present on that
occasion.—The toast was cordially responded to.
Sir E. COLEBROOK said that, as a stranger to the in-
stitution, it would be necessary that he should apologise
for intruding upon them, were not the task he had
to perform the very easy one of proposing the health
of the Noble Lord who so ably occupied the chair.
—Cheers.) They had shown, by their cheers, how
fully they appreciated that Noble Lord's zeal on
behalf of the institution, and how grateful to him
they were for presiding over that festival. He had
given more substantial proof, however, of the interest
which he felt in the cause by subscribing five guineas

The toast having met the same hearty reception
which a sense of the late treasurer's unvarying atten-
tion to the best interests of the Corporation for so long
a period never fails to accord,
The Hon. W. FRASER said he was particularly
grateful to his friend Mr. Stewart for the kind manner
in which he had mentioned his name, and to the com-
pany for their acknowledgment of any humble services
he might have been enabled to render the Society.
In doing what he had he had only performed his duty
—a duty, at the same time, which he would never
have done with efficiency had it not been for the kind
assistance which had always been afforded him by the
Committees which the Society had from time to time
appointed, on which Committees Mr. Stewart had
done his duty with the same zeal as the rest of the
members, whose united exertions had, coupled with
the aid of their late respected secretary, Mr. Auld,
enabled the Society to overcome many difficulties
which had stood in the way of its successful operation.
Mr. Fraser concluded by drinking "The health of
Mr. Auld, and happiness to him in his retirement."
This toast, with the healths of " the Stewards," of
" the Secretary, Major Adair," having been disposed
of, the Noble Chairman retired, and the rest of the

lot to recount —arguments far abler than were either
used by, or occurred to, the actors by whom they were
brought about ; for it is seldom that a Hume is found
in the councils of men. With equal ability, too, he
has given periodical sketches of manners, customs, and
habits, mingled with valuable details of finance, com-
merce, and prices—all elements, and most important
ones, in the formation of philosophical history."

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
In the " Talleyrand Papers," which are resumed
this month, we find some biographical particulars re-
specting the notorious Madame Du Barri, the last of
the numerous mistresses of that profligate, imbecile
Monarch, Louis XV. The career of this woman was
a singularly chequered and eventful one. In her
youth she led a life of " easy virtue" among the
stews and low gambling-houses of Paris; when
arrived at years of maturity she was introduced by an
intriguing adventurer at Court, where she was imme-
diately noticed by the King, and became the ruling
favourite, who brought forward and displaced Minis-
ters, and made peace or war with the European
Powers just as she pleased ; and a few years after-
wards she was disgraced by the new Sovereign,
Louis XVI., lost her political and social influence,
and finally expired beneath the axe of the revolu-
tionary guillotine. In the Papers before us Talleyrand
is represented as saying of her—" She was a person
of small, almost diminutive stature, extremely frail and
delicate in feature, which saved her from being
vulgar; but even from the first she always wore that
peculiarly fane look, which she owed to a youth of
dissipation and a maturity of unbounded indulgence."
In the lively essay entitled " Making Presents," the
hospitable Christmas season is thus spoken of :—" It
is no period for scant measures or for bare justice; the
cup must overflow. The spirit of the time is un-
grudging, hospitable, generous. It is not the meal of
Enough, but the festival of Excess." Not a wearied
apothecary's boy in the kingdom but can bear testi-
mony to the truth of this last remark. The "First
Meet of the Season" is somewhat dull and common-
place, notwithstanding the straining after humour
that is visible throughout it. We cannot speak much
more favourably of Mrs. Trollope's continuation of
the "Robertses on their Travels." In the report of
the " Conversations with the late Mr. Beckford," a
high but not unmerited compliment is paid to the
"IngoldsbyLegends," of which the eccentric architect
of Fonthill is said to have observed that they " were
perfect in their way." " Lights and Shades in the
Life of a Gentleman on Half-pay," are the confessions
of an obscure, penniless adventurer, with whom an
Earl's proud and handsome daughter fell desperately
in love, to the infinite chargrin of her father, who
wreaked a terrible vengeance on the presumptuous
suitor. " Reminiscences of Talma" impress us with
a vivid idea of the powers of this consummate actor,
of whom we are told that "his fury in Othello was
terrific, electrical, the real being, not the ideal
image of the passion he depicted. The difference of
years in his characters was pourtrayed, too, with
surprising verisimilitude. The decripitucle of age
and the vivacity of youth were in him equall v pic-
tures of unexceptionable excellence." As a specimen
of the poetry of the New Monthly Magazine, we

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company separated at midnight, after a very agreeable
meeting, and one, it is hoped, of great benefit to the
Corporation.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Morton, the prince of modern farce writers, pro-
duced a "regular screamer" at this theatre on Satur-
day evening, under the title of Young England. When
we first read the announcement, we were inclined to
exclaim, "No scandal about:Queen Elizabeth, I hope,"
for we feared something political. Mr. Morton, how-
ever, is a man of too good taste to introduce politics on
the stage, although every one of her Majesty's sub-
jects have at one time or other belonged to Mr. Morton's
" Young England " party. The Young England
of the farce is neither Mr. Smythe, nor Mr. D'lsraeli,
nor Lord Jahn Manners—all these are orators--but
Mr. Morton's Young England hath not yet attained
the power of speech. It is an infant which has been
handed by its mamma to Mr. John James Pooley
(Mr. Buckstone) to hold, and which has been left in
his possession. Mr. Pooley has arrived at South-
ampton per train to meet his wife, who is coming by
the Havre packet from France, where she has been
for the fashions. By the same packet Mrs. Dash-
along (Mrs. L. S. Buckingham), the mother of the
infant, expects her rich uncle, Major Martinet (Strick-
land), and her husband, Capt. Dashalong (Hell), who is
over head and ears in debt, also joins her at South-
ampton. Pounce (Tilbury), a bailiff, arrives, and
assumes the style and title of Alajor Martinet, in
order to decoy Dashalong into his clutches. Such is
the situation of affairs, when the farce begins by the
entrance of Mr. Pooley, with " Young Engt3nd " in
his arms, anxious to discover the mother. Ilittlelivers
his burden to the landlady, and then a series of blunders
commence. The Dashalongs are searching after their
child. Dashalong descries Pounce, and learns that
he has assumed the name of Martinet. He makes a
confidant of Pooley, who consents to pass off as Dash-
along to favour his escape. The real Major arrives,
and is bullied by Pooley, who takes him for the
bailiff, while Pounce arrests Pooley and carries him
off. Mrs. Pooley (Mrs. Humby), seeing her husband
carried off, appeals to the Major for assistance, and is
horrified at hearing the Major declare that the
fentleman just carried off is married to his niece. Sh:i
aints away, and, on her recovery, asks Pooley, " on
his oath," how many wives he really has, and ex-
presses a hope that bigamy is punished capitally.
All is of course explained to the satisfaction ofevery-
body, and the appearance of Young England every
evening was announced amidst the shouts and laughter
of a crowded house. This is a capital farce, capitally
acted ; a more amusing piece of absurdity has not
been produced for many along day.