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BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
The opening chapters of Mr. Albert Smith's "New
Romance of the Marchioness of Brenvilliers," contain
nothing remarkable ; indeed, there was an air of
languor and indecision about them, as would lead the
reader to infer that the subject was not one exactly to
the author's taste. But the present chapters are a
manifest improvement both in point of skill and
vigour. The languor induced by the necessity, or
the supposed necessity, of preliminary explanations
has disappeared, and the story now moves rapidly for-
ward without pausing for an instant to indulge in
superfluous digressions. The subject is certainly not
one of the most attractive that could have been
selected by an English novelist ; still, we think, that
Mr. Smith's good taste and ingenuity will induce him
not to put too prominently forward the more !oath-
some peculiarities of this romance of the days of
Louis the Fourteenth, and if so, he may, by the exercise
of a little management, make it the most bustling
and animated tale that has yet proceeded from his
pen. Leech, the artist, has added not a little to the
comic attractions of the chapters before us, by his
whimsical illustration of " The Students enlightening
Maitre Picard," who cuts a most deplorable figure,
drawn up as he is to the top of the ceiling on a slight
wooden bench, which threatens momentarily to give
way, and add to the agreeabiLities of those, who sit be-
neath them. " Sapho and Phaon" is one of those
numerous rhymed legions with which the press has
lately teemed, in imitation of Tom ingoldsby. It is
r:_ceedingly long, and ;we should be doing the author
no ordinary injustice if were to say there was any-
thing brilliant in it. " The Postbag "is a series of
eccentric correspondence chiefly relating to the
drama, which has been furnished to the editor by Mr.
R. B. Peake. The perusal of this most unaccount-
able series of dramatic letters, is another striking
illustration of the soundness of old Gifford's aphorism,
that " there is no sounding the depths of human folly."
" Crockford and Crockford's" is seasoned with several
saucy personalities respecting this notorious gambler,
who, by means of his splendid establishinent in St.
James's-street, and his luck at Tattersall's and New-
market, realised, it is supposed, an amount of capital
scarcely exceeded even by the late Duke of Cleve-
land. The article about " Crockford and Crockford's"
reads off lightly enough, but for much of it we are
indebted to a little book which ran the rounds of the
press some years ago, under the takir.s title of "The
Clubs of London." Miss Louisa Ste wart Costello, in
her present series of " Sketches of Legendary Cities,"
furnishes us with some curious particulars respecting
the city of Bath. Of course it is utterly impossible
that she can tell us anything new or original on so
hackneyed a theme, still she has a mode of refreshing
common-places' and throwing point and liveliness into
often-repeated local anecdotes that act as the salt of
the narrative, and enables the reader to enjoy it with
a relish. In casting about us for extracts, we can find
none more interesting than the following account of
a stormy interview between St. Croix -and the Mar-
chioress of Brenvilliers, the two celebrated Parisian
poisorers, and the hero and heroine of Mr. Smith's
romance :
The woman retired, and closed the window. Im-
mediately afterwards, he hoard footsteps approaching;
the outer door opened, and Madame de Brinvilliers ap-
peared.
A s'.ifled scream of fear and surprise, yet sufficiently
intense to show her emotion at the presence of Gaudin,
broke from her lips as she recognised him. But, di-
rectly, she recovered her impassibility of features—that
wonderful calmness and innocent expression which
afterwards was so severely put to the proof without being
shaken, and asked, with apparent unconcern.
" Weil, monsieur, what do you want with me?"
" Marie!" exclaimed Gaudin, " let me ask .your busi-
ness here, at this hour, unattended, and in the apartment
of a scholar of the Hotel Dieu?"
" You are mad, Sainte-Croix," said the Marchioness ;
"amlto be accountable to you for all my actions? M.
Theria is not here, and I came to see his wife on my own
affairs."
" Liar!" cried Gaudin, as he quivered with jealous
rage, seizing the arm of the Marchioness with a clutch
of iron. 'Theria is within, and you camel o meet him
only. You know that woman.is not his wife: though
many there be less constant_ You would wean his love
from her, and make him cast her upon the world, that
you might be installed as his paramour. You see, I
know all—in another moment she also shall be Re-
acquainted with everything."
Sainte. Croix had spoken much of this upon mere
chance, but it proved to be correc::. In an instant the
accustottied firmness of the Marchioness deserted her,
and she fell upon her knees at his feet, on the cold
damp floor of the landing.
"In the name of mercy, leave this house Gaudin !"
she exclaimed hurriedly. " I have been very, very
wrong. I confess I ought to ha..e him more candid.
But leave this house--on my banded kr ees ii mplore it.
I 'will °Wain everythink"
"1 th 1 niSt tar, Mane,' replied Sainte-Croix ; and
theough all his excitement a •sarcastic smile played upon
his lip, as he saw the trembling woman at his root.
"'The. tumult of this interview will reach your new
taVourites ears ; Ro-elbly the police of to-morrow will
ethibit itirtinge pnson^m" •
afi'agony of terror the Marelioness clung to Sainte-
Croft.) and besought him to depart. But Gaudin saw,
as she quailed before his determined aspect, that he had
gained a temporary triumph ever her haughty dispo-
sition ; and he enjoyed her distress in proportion as it
increased.
" Gaudin !" she cried, " pray, pray quit this place. I
will do all that you may in future wish, so that you will
but go away. I will be ycur abject slave ; you shall
spurn me, trample on me, crush me, if you choose ; only
leave the house."
" I am waiting for an interview with M. Theria,"
Sainte-Croix replied coldly.
" You will not depart !" exclaimed the Marchioness,
suddenly altering her tone, and springing up from her
position of supplication. " Then but one resource is left."
" Where are you about to go ?" asked Sainte-Croix,
Is she advanced towards the top of the flight-of stairs."
" Hinder me not," returned Marie. "To the river !"
The Seine flowed but a few steps from the corner of
the Place Maubert, and Sainte-Croix doubted not but
that, in her desperation of fear and ercitement, she
wou'd not hesitate to precipitate herself into it from the
quay—at that time unguarded by wall or barrier o: any
kind. He seized her wrist as she was about to descend,
and exclaimed hureedly :
" Wherever )ou go, Marie—l go too ; even to perdi-
tion !"
They flew down the winding stairs, scarcely knowing
how they progressed, Sainte Croix still keeping hold of
his companion. In an instant they were at the bottom
of the flight, and Gaudin's hand was glowing like a live
coal from the rapid friction of the balusters, as they de-
scended ; but, frenzied and insensible to the pain, he saw
or thought of nothing, except the pale and terrified cres.
ture in his grasp. As they reached the end of their
headlong and impetuous course, Marie could no longer
bear up against the whirl of tumultuous passions that
agitated her. The struggle had been too intense ; her
nerves gave way, and she sank, apparently lifeless, on
the ground.
The interview between Sainte-Croix and Madame de
Brinvilliers, hurried as it had been, was too violent
for the sound of their altercation not to reach Theria's
chambers ; and the frenzied pair had scarcely reached
the bottom of the stairs, when the student was follow-
ing them, accompanied by the terrified grisette, who
was bearing a light- He found Gaudin attempting to
raise the fainting Marchioness. She had struck her
face, in falling, against a projecting portion of the
staircase, and was bleeding therefrom ; a circumstance
which, in the hurry of the instant, Theria attributed
to Sainte-Croix. A few hot and hurried words passed
on either side, and the next instant their swords were
drawn and crossed. .
Sainte-Croix, it need scarcely be observed, was a
practised swordsman. But he nearly found his match
in Camille Theria. The students were, at that time,
most expert in fencing ; and Gaudin was somewhat
hardly driven by the assaults of his antagonist, who,
with more enthusiasm than science, pressod on him,
following thrust after thrust so rapidly,
.that Sainte-
Croix was compelled to act on the defensive alone for
some seconds. At length the cool calculation of the
soldier, unnerved as he had been by the events of the
last few minutes, prevailed over the impetuous assaults
of his adversary. He allowed Theria to spend his
energy in a series of heated attacks, which he pat
aside with practised skill until, watching hinmoment,
he made a lunge, and thrust his rapier completely
through the fleshy part of the sword-arm of' the student,
whose weapon fell to the ground.

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" You said labour?—Yes—at three shillings a week ;
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you, still holding the office of " Senior Consulting Physician," while
you dogmatically announce there can he no subject for deliberation—
no matter for consultation ? I beg pardon, it may be the perquisite
of the " Senior Consulting Physician" to consult as to the no.nination
of the undertaken—From Dr. Cronin's "Letter en the Curability of
Consumption."

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FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
One of the liveliest and most amusing stories that
has appeared for the entertainment of the public this
month, is called " A Ganie of Chess with Napoleon."
The characters are admirably pourtrayed, and the
little foibles of human nature are not represented in
that puritanical and severe spirit which raises slight
aberrations into serious misdemeanours. Our tale
opens with a dinner party assembled in Belgrave-
square ; it is given in honour of a German millionaire,
by a banker, with whom he was connected in some
huge money operations. There are ten guests ; a
short sketch of one or two we will lay before our
readers for their entertainment. To begin with our
host, first let us draw a curtain over his genealogy,
wisely and benevolently considering it either an im-
pertinent or puzzling question ; suffice it to say, he
was a dried up, thin thing, very short and very smart,
but to make up for it his " heart's choice" was redo-
lent of fat, a subject fitting for experiments upon
obesity. By some strange intuition we never look
for intellectual vigour from these full-blown speci-
mens of " the human form divine." Nature is chary
of her gifts, so she prudently dealt out but a small
portion of that commodity called mind to our banker's
cara sposa. But let us pass on to her thin friend,
Clarissa Knaggett. According to her own account,
and we always take the word of a lady, she is " all
soul," except, indeed, when she metamorphoses herself
into " all nerve." This creature, self-called spiritual,
reminds us powerfully of Dickens's Mrs. Winterly,
and is one of the sketches truest to nature in our
story. The inamorato of Miss Knaggett ii present.
Of course nothing short of a poet could satisfy the de-
sire of one " all soul," or, perhaps, by the bye, the
lady, as the most susceptible creature breathing, had
been, by the influence of the poet, withered into this
nondescript elemental substance. But for our poet,
Skinundgrieff. Of course, he had long hair, or how
else could he have aspired 'to that honoured name,
and possessed all that outward negligence of dress,
which proves a man a genius ? The rest of the ten
were composed, as usual, of a mixture of grave, fussy,
formal, fine, giggling, and grand. If there is such a
thing as love at first sight, there is certainly its oppo-
site, and accordingly, our Crcesus and our poor poet
(for was there ever stronger presumptive evidence of
poverty than a man being a poet;?) were immediately
at daggers drawn. The conversation leads to a dis-
cussion upon chess ; whereupon the millionaire, after
much pressing, relates to the company a long, but
entertaining, story of a game of chess he played with
Napoleon, which we regret to say our columns will
not allow us even to draw an outline of, but we make
the following short extract, to give our readers an
idea of the easy and engaging style of the tale before
us:—

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THE CHISHOLM, Chairman.
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Francis Brodigan, Esq. Henry Lawson, Esq.
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An ample guaranteed Capital, in addition to tho fund coktinnally
accumulating from Premiums, fully sufficient to afford bbibplete
security.
Cannrr.—Credit given to MEMBERS for half the amount of the
first five annual premiums, without security.
Credit allowed to MEMBERS for the whole of the first
five annual premiums, on satisfactory security being given for their
payment.
Claims on Policies not subject to be litigated or disputed, except
with the sanction, in each case, of a General Meeting of the Members.
An extremely low rate of Premium, without participation in the
Profits, but with the option, at any time within five years, of paying
the difference between the Reduced Rates and the Mutual Assur-
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to a full participation in the Profits.
Extract from the Reduced Scale of Rates, for an Assurance of 1001.,
for ono year, seven years, and the whole term of life.

Annual Premium.
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301291 3 3 2 2 1
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"Nobody but a chess-player can appreciate the strong
tie of brotherhood which links its amateurs. When
men spend much time together, they become accustomed
to each other, like horses used to run in the same coach.
For a fellow chess-player, a man will do that which he
would refuse his father and mother. The habit of
breathing the same air and looking at the same chess-
board creates a friendship to which that of Damon and
Pythias was mere How d'ye do?' This it was upon
which I reckoned. Schmidt and I had played thousands
of chess games together, and barely exchanged three
words. lie no more suspected me of being a banker's
clerk than of being the King of the Sandwich Islands.
We had mostly singled out each other as antagonists,
because pretty nearly matched; and Schmidt loved me
the more, as I knew, because it was not every man who
would play with him.
" Schmidt was the slowest chess-player I have ever
seen. He has been known to sit three-quarters of an
hour over a move, his head covered by his hands, and
then to be discovered fast asleep! In everything he was
the same. Correct as the sun; but a slow sort of person,
for all that. Schmidt was the kind of man who, meet-
ing you in a pouring rain, says, What a wet day this
is!' A wholesale dealer in prosy truisms, and nothing
brighter; and yet covered all over with a portly assump-
tion of consequence, which famously dusted the eyes of
the vulgar. I had ever been a judge of physiognomy,
and knew my man. How many Schmidts there are in
the world! Excuse my thus moralising at the dinner-
table, if only for its novelty."

ing, short commons, solitary confinement, and such other
little soothing remedies as you end your learned
)thren are in the habit of prescribing for rampant
offenders of the feminine gender."

Full particulars are detailed in the Prospectus.
A. R. IRVINE, Managing

Director.

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause ASTON
against MEREDITH, the Creditors of CHARLES MEREDITH,
late of Leamington Priors, in the county of 'Warwick, Esquire, who
died in the month of June, 1843, are, on or before the 3d day of
March, 1845, to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN
WiLsow, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers,
in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; or, in default
thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said
decree.

CASES of JAUNDICE and TYPHUS
FEVER CURED BY MORISON'S PILLS, OF
THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW
ROAD, LONDON.

TO MESSRS. MORISON.

Sirs,—A grateful sense of duty, both to yourselves
and the public, requires me to record the case of cure
effected by the Hygeian Medicines on my youngest girl,
about three years and six months old, who was, about
two months ago, severely attacked with yellow jaundice,
and in which she was very ill for a month, part of which
time the complaint was' so bad that some persons con-
sidered it was turning to the black jaundice. However,
about the expiration of the above period she was com-
pletely recovered, and has, for some weeks, fully re-
covered her natural colour and voice, which was pre-
viously exceedingly altered. This cure, like many others
around us, was solely effected by the Vegetable Universal
Medicine, commencing with three or four at a dose of
No. 1, at night, and No. 2 in the morning, and increas-
ing up to twelve, making now twenty-four pills per day,
which was continued a fortnight, when an ascendancy
was obtained over the disease, and the doses, conse-
quently, reduced gradually until her colour, &c., were
restored. She is now, as she has been for these three
weeks, in good health, betraying no ill symptoms of any
kind. This same child, with her sister, was, about six
months ago, cured of typhus fever, wholly by the Vege-
table Medicines. There has been no other medicines
used in our family for a considerable period but the
Ilygeian, as we hare too much confidence in them to
think of any other, as on any and every occasion " Mo-
rison's Pills" is the reference, and upon invariable suc-
cess that confidence is. established, and we always find
the most speedy and effectual mode of treatment is that
of taking high doses regularly administered, with such
an increase as the case requires, by which means the
mastery is more easily and quickly obtained over the
enemy, and he is effectually eradicated.
Yours, most sincerely,
R. ELLIOTT.
15, Cambridge-place, Cambridge-terrace,
Paddington, London; Jan. 31, 1845.
N.B. No Chemist or Druggist is allowed to sell Mori-
son's Pills;,.

FRENCH PLAYS.—These performances last evening
were attended by a full and highly fashionable audiencz
amongst whom we noticed the following distinguished
personages :--Ilis Grace the Duke of Beaufort, Prince
Edward of Saxe Wiemar, the Earl and Countess of
Chesterfield, the Count and Countess St. Aulairo,. the
Turkish Ambassador and suite, Count Esterhazy, Count
King ski, Count Kielmansegge, Lady Bruce, Baron
Koller, Lady Lister Kaye, the Hanoverian Minister,
Baron Rehausen, llon. Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Lady Tyrr-
whitt, Sir Henry `Webb, Sir J. H. Lowther, Hon. :Arr.
Pery, Lord Gifford, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. 4.nson, ekir
Wm. Massey Stanley, &c.

We have read the review of "Anti-Coningsby, or
the New Generation Grown Old," and fully agree
with the writer in reprobating the custom of making
personal attacks on living public characters. How-
ever clever these sallies may be, if the habit be en-
couraged, it may lead to a taste for scandal and per-
sonalties in fictitious writing highly to be deprecated.
It would have been better if the writer of this review
had confined himself strictly to his subject, instead of
wandering into other matters, and digressing upon
things not immediately connected with it. But upon
the whole it exhibits a careful consideration of the
matter in hand, and is written in a dispassionate and
careful manner. We subjoin the following extract,
as expressing an opinion of the author of " Anti-
Coningsby," in which we heartily concur :
" The writer of Anti-Coningsby' has only had two
objects in view : first and foremost, to glorify herself
(we are satisfied the book is the production of a woman);
and, secondly, to heap abuse and ridicule upon every-
body against whom she has conceived a dislike. In
carrying out the latter object, she displays a boldness
and recklessness quite as great as that which prevails
throughout Coningsby.' She occasionally, too, shows
great cleverness and power in depicting the ludicrous.
But there is a superabundance of coarseness and vul-
garity ; an utter insensibility to all gentle and groper
feeling • and a magnitude and intensity of spitefulness
that makes the book, upon the whole, loathsome. No
doubt, in composing Coningsby,' Mr. D'lsraeli was
actuated by some motive beyond the mere desire of
giving vent to his personal spleen ; but the author of
Anti-Coningsby' wrote for no other motivo except
this, combined, as we have observed, with the desire to
puff herself ; and this has been done in a very coarse
and clumsy manner, and is far more likely to produce
disgust than admiration in the mind of a stranger. A
clever shrew, a witty virago, is, in our opinion, the most
odious thing. in nature. We heartily wish Sir Peter
Laurie would take these Furies under his care, and put
t.
them down,' together with suicide, Puseyisni, anti wood
pavement, against the which nuisances all the powers of
his vigorous mind are at present directed. As an ap-
propriate punishment for these viragos, we would sug-
gb
to the worthy Alderman that they should be put
under the same ban with the real, old, original Furies
who ran that tremendous burst after the slayer of Cly-
temnestra :

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eEcov res, ou3 CO9Fo7roc OLA.E 9YQ trrE.

You would soon see, Sir Peter, how speedily this little
prohibition would put down the most refractory of them.
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confidential officer, that as such- _have tequent
portunitiEs of acting dishonestly, whe-iiit,
and very often impossible, to detect and punish' an of.
fence ; and that if he does not place his clerk above the
temptation to act in this manner, by giving him a
salary proportioned to his deserts, he is endangering his
own interest to a greater extent than he is benefiting it
by the saving of a few pounds per annum."
This argument is carried oat much farther in this
paper, which we hope may have some influence in
bringing about a better state of things. Mr. Samuel
Jones Lloyd is the third of the series of " Currency
Portraits." This gentleman's opinions on the .currency
question are well known, and they are here recapitu-
lated. The nature of the other papers may be
gathered from their titles. They are on " Bankers'
advances on Railway Shares ;" on " Savings' Banks;"
and on " Banking and Commercial Law—the Law
of Cheques," with a large addition of Miscellaneous
matter. ;