The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-11 00:00:00

LONGFORD.

The Committee met at ten o'clock this morning, and
Mr. A LISTEN commenced his argument against opening the re-
gistry. He began by givin zan elaborate and minute description of
the law of registration in Ireland, and noting the points in which
it differed from that of England. He pointed out to the Com.
mittee that the registration in Ireland is not animal as in Eng-
land, but that a vote once put on the registry remained on it
for eight years. The claimant to vote was compelled to send in
a notice to be lut on the register, instead of his name
being ylaccd there by the act of the overseer.
The decision on all cases arising from the registration was
given by the Assistant Barrister of the county, an independent
officer, and the Chief Civil and Criminal Judge of the county.
The mode of examination was much more stringent, and he
contended that the investigations by the law of England and
Scotland were not near so perfect anti complete as that exacted
by the law of Ireland.

GREAT MARLOW.

The Committee met again this morning at the usual hour.
The room was immediately cleared, and rema ned closed for
some time; but the subject of the deliberations of the Com-
mittee did rot transpire.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, addressing the Committee,
said that the Counsel on both sides had had an opportunity
since Saturday of looking over the lists, and having determined
that Air. Henn Hampden should be rift in a majority, they
had 'found an easy means of effecting that object without
troubling the Committee with a re-consideration of the vote of
Charles Giibons. He should, therefore, withdraw his appli-
cation upon that subject, and he would propose that the vote
of William Plumridge should be struck off the roll, on the
ground that he had received relief from the parish, and was not,
therefore, entitled to vote at the late election.

Mr. KINGLAKE, on the part of the sit ting Member, admitted
that the family of the voter Plumridge had, under peculiar cir-
cumstances, received relief fiom the parish, and he would
not, therefore, support the vote. The Learned Counsel then
proceeded to say, that as Mr. Hampden had again been placed
in a majority, the sitting Member wished to retire from the
contest. He might be permitted to say, without meaning any
disrespect to the Committee, that some of their decisions on
the registration question had taken Counsel on both sides by
surprise. The Counsel for the sitting Member had been
duced to advise him not to prosecute the inquiry any further
in consequence of the great length to which the prom dings
had already been protracted, and from a conviction that by
persevering in defending the seat, the result would be doubtful,
and most, in any ease, lead to great additional expense.
Mr. Sergeant \%'RANGtiAM then intimated that he only
wished the usual resolutions to be passed.
ITe room was then cleared, and the Committee came to the
usual decision in such cases, declaring that Sir William Clayton
had been unduly elected to serve as a burgess for the borough
of Great Marlow in the present Parliament ; and that Mr.
Henn Hampden ought to have been returned as Member for
the borough.
The Chairman, Sir J. Y. BULLER, intimated that the Corn.
mittee were ready to hear ai,y statement which might be made
to them relative to their former proceedings.
Mr. Joseph Parkes, the agent• for Sir William Clayton, then
stated to the Committee, on behalf of Richard Gibbons, whom
the Committee decided to have been guilty of perjury, in the
evidence he had given on a former day, that the witness, pre-
vious to his appearing before the Committee, had been ex.
amined in a very hurried manner by the agents of Sir William
Clayton ; that the evidence so taken had been briefed, and that
the voter had been examined upon it before the Committee,
Gibbons had since stated that he had been thus led into con-
fusion by the questions put to him ; that he had confounded the
names of Pusey and Povey, and that everything he ha 4 said of
the one was perfectly true of the other.
Mr. Cooper confirmed the statement of Mr. Parkes relative
to the rapidity with which the evidence of Gibbons had been
taken in the first instance.

The room was then cleared, but the Committee came to no
decision. It was understood that they had agreed that the
subject should be left to the di,cretion of the House.

REWARD OF. ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS FOR THE APPREHENSION OF GOOD.
But little doubt exists that in the course of a few hours Da.-
niel Good will be in the custody of the Police, as, about one
o'clock this day, an order came front Sir James Graham, the
Secretary of State, to the Police Commissioners, autho-
rising them to offer a reward of One Hundred Pounds,
far the apprehension of Daniel Good. That the retreat of
the murderer is known there can be no doubt, from the
fact that last night and this morning several of the lower
class of Irish, living in the vicinity of Tooley-street, havingmade
inquiries of the police whether any reward was likely to be
offered in the course of Monday, and whether they thought
it would be a large sum or not. It is also known that .he
has some cousins residing iii the above locality, and that
he is on the Surrey side of the water is strongly supported by
a lengthened report laid before the Commissioners of Police,
by Mr. Superintendent. Mallalieu, of the R or Greenwich di-
vision, which in substance is as follows :—About half-past nine
o'clock last night a man, who evidently was Good, went
into the Union public-house, situated at the eastern ex-
tremity of Greenwich, and as soon as he entered the tap-room
ordered a pint of beer, which was brought in and drank
off at a draught. He then asked for a penny loaf, which
he began to eat in a ravenous manner. His manner and con-
duct excited thtse present ; when one of the parties said, " I
should like to know whether Good is taken." The words were
scarcely out of the mouth of the speaker, before the man ran
out, leaving the bread behind. He was followed, and from
the sound of the footsteps, took the direction towards
the marshes, but was lost sight of. The police, however, on
duty at this part of Greenwich saw nothing of such a person,
while at an early hour this morning the various inlets were
searched, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he had de-
stroyed himself, but up to the time of Air. Ballantine leav-
ing no discovery was made.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
HIGH PRICE or MEAT.—The extravagant price obtained
for butchers' meat induced the farmers in this island (and in-
deed in all parts of England) to fatten and sell all their o!d
cows ; the consequence is, that they are now trying to make
up their stock, and are saving all the it cow calves for that pur-
pose. This has occasioned the price of veal to be increased
from the price it used to bring 4d. to sd. per lb. to 8(.1. !
THE WHALE.—At public auction this monster brought only
241. It was bought, as we expected, by a party from Cowes,
and was towed up on Saturday, and grounded in Gurnet Bay,
a slight distance to the westward of Cowes harbour. Hun-
dreds fleck to see it; the shore and sands are lined with a
wondering multitude, and many a fair hand is engaged in
cutting up the carcass ; they cannot take a lock of the old gen-
tleman's hair, so they take a piece of his skin or bone, to keep
in remembrance of this visit, as at the sale all seem to be
anxious for a slice, but none seem to know what to do with the
whole. Its lergth appears very different to different persons, some
making it. only 72 feet, while others measure it 100. The tail
is 14 feet broad; it lies on its side, and appears about 8 feet
out of water, and is supposed to be three feet under; as it is ex-
pected to make dry this morning or to-morrow (Monday), its
dimensions will then be correctly taken. One report says it
was seen alive from the Needles lighthouse on Good Friday.
Another, that it was seen drifting in the Channel, and thought
to be a ship bottom upwards. It is likely to turn out a very
profitable speculation, although the charge for viewing it is but
one penny.
East Cowes is all bustle and anxious expectation. A number
of men are employed marking out the roads of the new town,
they are to be sixty-six feet in width, and are to be made by
contract, about two miles has already been marked off on the
north side, while on the south side men arc employed digging
brick earth for the manufacture of thirty millions of bricks.
The contract for the iron fencing for the Botanic Garden, an
extent of forty acres, has been taken by a London house. The
Society is under the patronage of the President of the Royal
Botanic Society of London; G. G. Sig:mond, M.D., F.L. S.,
F. H. S., F. R. B. S. ; Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. ;
Samuel Askwell, M.D. ; J. A. Paris, M.D., ; J.
Elliotson, M. D., F. R. S. ; Professor Lindley, P. H. D., F. R. S. ;
G. J. uthrie Esq., M.R.C.S., F. ; R. A. Stafford,
Esq., M.R. C. Si, F. R. S. ; Thomas Addison, M. D., F, R, B. S.l
W. B. Costello, M.D. ; W. Ifell, M.D., F.R.8.5.; J. C.
Turner, M.D. ; John Fleming, Esq., M.P. ; Hyde Clarke,
Esq., F. R. B. S. ; David Jardine, Esq. , F. R.B. S. ; Major-
General Sir Burges Camac, ; Sir R. P. Joddrell,
Bart., and the principal scientific gentlemen in the kingdom.
The Park is 160 acres in extent, on which it is proposed that.
150 detached villas should be built. From the great rise in the
land, each will command sea and land views of unequalled
beauty.

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL.
We have letters from Lisbon, via Southampton, to the 4th
instant. The Duke of Paltnella's appointment as Plenipo-
tentiary to negotiate the commercial and slave trade treaties
with England received its formal ratification in the
Council of State on the Thursday preceding. The
draught of the commercial treaty had been received by Lord
Howard De Walden, and a conference hail already taken place
between the British Minister and Portuguese Plenipotentiary,
which was understood to have been of a most satisfactory descrip-
tion. Baron Fayal, the Al mister of Finance, had been associated by
consent with the two Plenipotentiaries, to aid them in consider..
ing the practical questions of the maximum and minimum
points in the reduction of duties. The calculations
with reference to the fiscal alterations upon articles
of import and export proposed by England were all
completed, and the understanding was that these
were to be submitted to competent referees, approved
by both parties, with a view to test their justice. This being
ascertained, lit le would remain but to sign the treaty, a result
which might be expected to take place very speedily, the
more so as memorials bad been forwarded from Ma-
deira and Oporto, praying for the speedy conclusion
of this commercial treaty, and representing a general
bankruptcy as the inevitable consequence of further delay.
The memorial from the Madeira merchants even went the
length of arguing a temporary suspension of the tariff, with
a view to the revival of commerce. The expected Papal
brief had been received, investing Mounjna with full
powers to represent his Holiness as sponsor at the
approaching baptism of the infant Prince, which was expected
to be celebrated with much solemnity. The new Nati ,nal
Guard was being enrolled, and preparations were also made for
a vehement struggle at the ensuing elections ; but the Govern-
ment was daily acquiring fresh strength and stability.

Major C. J. -Vander Menlen, of the 73d, a most
distinguished Peninsular officer, in which warfare he served
from 1809 till the surrender of Paris, and in which service
he was three times wounded, has received the brevet rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, fcr having commanded the guard of honour
that received her Msjesty on her late visit here. We trust
that Captains Willes and Fynmore, of the Royal Marines, of
the St. Vincent and Queen, will also have the brevet rank of
Major, having commanded the guards of honour in those ships
on t. a occasion of her Majesty's first visit to the fleet. We
hope no little jealousies between the Admiralty and the Horse
Ulla* will prevent this act of justice.,flantpahire Telegraph.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EV.I4_!NING. APRIL 11, 1842

AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT
CALLINGTON.
(Abridged from the Devonport Independent.)
On Wednesday last, pursuant to requisition, a public meet-
ing was held in the Town .hall, at Callington, in the county of
Cornwall, for the purpose of opposing the new tariff relative to
the introduction of foreign cattle, &c.
The requisitionists, with the exception of two, are Tories,
and consequently a meeting got up for the purpose of opposing
a Government formed of the " farmers' friends," excited no
small degree of interest.
B. SNELL, Esq., of Landulph, one of the requisitionists, was
called to the chair. On his right were Sir W. L. S. Tre-
lawny, Bart., and J. S. Trelawny, Esq. ; on his left W. Nat-
tle, Esq. The hall was crowded almost to suffocation.
The CHAIRMAN read the requisition, and said he had, at the
desire of the requisitionists, enclosed copies of the requisition to
Lord Eliot and Mr. Rashleigh. Lord Eliot returned a prompt
and ready reply, in which he expressed his sorrow that any mea-
sure of the Government should endanger the agricultural inte-
rests of the county, but he did not believe that the alterations
proposed would have that effect; but he would lay before the
Government any statements of facts that the meeting should
think tit to send him. Mr. Rashleigh had not replied.
J, BOGER, Esq., moved the first resolution, to the effect that
the object of the proposed new tariff was to give a stimulus to
trade and manufactures, and to afford employment to those
branches of trade which were at present in suffering or distress;
that the agriculturists were prepared to take, in common with
other classes, the proper share of any sacrifices which might be
necessary to arrive at to important a result ; but that whilst
they were not des'rous of raising any obstacles to the attain-
ment of that object, they thought the proposed tariff made
alterations in the admission of agricultural produce to a much
greater extent than necessary, and to an extent that was likely
to prove injurious to the British farmer.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. Hawke.
J. S. TRELAWNY, Esq. rose. It was impossible for him
to allow that reso'ution to pass without a few preliminary ob-
servations. He (Mr. Trelawny) was placed in a peculiar
position, for while he could not entirely support the
resolution, on the other hand he must partly oppose it.
At the last election he told them that a change would be pro-
posed in the Corn-laws, and many would recollect that on the
hustings at Bodmin he asked Lord Eliot whether he would bind
himself to support the principle of protection. What was the
answer of Lord Eliot? He said, " I will support no change
that shall not be acceptable to the agriculturists themselves,"
or words to that effect.—(Cheers.) He asked them whether
or net they were contented with the measures recently pro-
posed ; he asked whether Lord Eliot would have fulfilled that
pledge if he supported the measures of Sir R. Peel ? •
The CHAIRMAN thought it was hardly fair to presume that
he would support those measures.
Mr. TRELAWNY now thought they were bound to apply to
Lord Eliot either to resign or to oppose Sir R. Peel.
W. NATTLE, Esq., questioned very much whether the reso-
lution proposed by Mr. &ger was in accordance with the feel-
ing of the meeting.—(Cheers.) Befere they passed the reso-
lution he would beg to ask them whether they had met there to
oppose the present tariff or not. Everyman of common sense
knew that this tariff was unfair in its application, and yet at a
meeting which had been called to oppose it, a resolution had
been submitted to them which contained a perfectly quiescent
acknowledgement on their part that the object of the Govern-
ment was a proper one ; and, without wishing to touch on
party politics, he would ask the meeting whether not only the
Government had deceived them, but whether their own
representatives. Mr. Rashleigh and Lord Eliot, had not also de-
ceived them.—( Cheers and uproar.) He would most distinctly
state that the present Government had got into power on delusive
principles, and that they had deceived the public.—(Cheers.)
Sonic one had said that he had no stake in this matter, but he
might state that he believed he should have in spring tillage
this year a greater number of acres of corn than any man that
was likely to address them ; he thought therefore he might be
allowed to have some feeling on the object of the meeting.
Mr. Nettle concluded by moving an amendment to the ori-
ginal resolution. As the amendment had to be put first it
was subsequently altered and proposed in these words:—
Resolved, that to acquiesce in the measures recently pro-
posed by Sir Robert Peel, would be to acquiesce in the policy
of Sir Robert Peel, of which this meeting entirely disap-
proves."—( Enthusiastic cheering. )
W. S. Moanax, Esq., of Launceston, seconded the amend-
ment. He thought that the measures proposed by Sir R. Peel
were such as the people of England would not assent to, and
if the Hon. Bar4sset had announced those measures before he
dissolved the lath' Parliament, be would not now have had a
hundred followers in the House.—( Hear, hear.) As for pe-
titioning the House of Lords upon the subject, he would as
soon petition a brick wall.—(Creat cheering, and cries of
" Chair.") The only way was to memorial.se her Majesty,
who had shown her patriotism on this occasion, for she had said
to her Prime Minister, " if you tax my people, you shall tax
me too."—(Loud cheers.) What had been the principles of
the Tories ? From the beginning to the end they had never
taken off a tax as long as they could keep it on. Pressure
from without had always done that. Press them now, gentle-
men.—(Cheers.) Press them now by calling for different
measures. Press them how in their Tory districts._(Cheere
and laughter.) It was new a time for them all to come for-
ward, for he had taxed the landowner, the renter, and the in •
dustrious class of manufacturers. He had taxed them all, and
the worst tax of all was the income tax, for it would paralyze
the whole country.—(Cheeis.)
On the amendment being put, the Chairman declared it
carried by a large majority. The original resolution was sub.
sequently discussed at some length, but on being put to the vote
was rejected.

THE TWO ADMIRALS. 3 VA.
Bentley, London. 1842.

recommends the expediency of our being satisfi• ed with
just vindicating the dignity of our national cht tracter.
The prose tales are as amusing as the general run of
such Magazine articles.

LITERATURE.
WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No, LX XIII.
Hooper, London, 1842.
Like a lady's letter, the most important article in
this Number is introduced by way of Fos tcript, armi is
THE 'SPORTSMAN AND THE SPORTING
a discussion on the financial project of Sir Robert
MAGAZINE
Peel, wherein the Reviewer eaters a just .and: forcible " The Pedestrian," a continuation. of a series of arti-
,, ye pro-protest against the income tax, o..sserving,des on France, in the first of these publications, contains
test against the injustice of so levying the tax that it some interesting details on the manners and customs of
will fall lightly on the rich, but with a crushing the people. as well as the state of manufactures in that
weight upon the commercial and professional classes. country. The writer calculates that of the thirty-six
We deplore the wrong about to be cu-Inmitted, as thousand English resident in France not fewer than ten
thousand are employed as artificers and manufacturei-s•
bringing odium upon a principle of taxation in itself
Want coal,eoftte
ehowever, forms a sad drawback on indus-•
just, and which, when confined to realiz‘rd caPita),
undoubtedly the best mode of obtaining a revenue,
otrfy,Eth eland.
being under one. fifth of tt
degreecoosftsatiawtice as much ash n
because that which interferes in the slightes .1; , London, the total annual valuee consumed in the
with the productive interests of a country.
„le, French capital being estimated at 1,600,0001. The sport-
Reviewer then goes on to speak in terms of qu42119 lift ing intelligence for the month is very copious. Nimrod
approbation of the new commercial tariff, addi.lg, gives a good account of a day's hunt with the Queen's
however, by way of drawback, " a false prim-, hounds, and Prince Albert's stud—ln the Sporting Ma-
ple pervades the whole, which we regret exceed- , gazine there are two good sketches, with well-executed
ingly to see set up, and which we remark with
Inaps, of the places of meeting of the Hunt of the Mar-
some surprise, because opposed to the spirit in which clu- ,s of Hastings in the country around Castle Donning_
most of the reforms appear to be made." The ." false ton, and of Mr. Muir's Hunt in Suffolk.
principle" here alluded to, is the principle of protoc-
tion which, says the reviewer, " Sir Robert Peel de-
stroys with one hand, while with the other he calls it
again into operation." In the "Memoirs of Jeremy
Bentham," one or two anecdotes are related of the
philosopher's youth, which, we are assured, exhibit an
extraordinary " sedateness of thought and self-
reliance:' On one occasion, it seems, "the Duchess
of Leeds said, Little Bentham, you know who lam ?'
I had no notion she was a great lady, and answered,
'No, Madan), I have not that honour.' " We must
honestly confess that we are blind to the " sedateness of
thought and self-reliance" of this reply. Here is an-
other anecdote.." A short time before dinner Bentham
was summoned up stairs to the Duke of Leeds's
apartment, where there was a physician, to whom he
said, This is Bentham, a little philosopher.' A
philosopher !' replied the doctor : can you screw
your head off and on ?' The answer was, No, Sir.'"
This answer seems to have thrown the Reviewer into
transports of admiration, for he detects in it not only
a world of " sedateness of thought and self-reliance,"
but also the precocious understanding of the " em-
bryo founder of the utilitarian philosophy." In
another part of this article, we are told that Dr.
Bowring, to whom Bentham " bequeathed the
greatest marks of his esteem, is a poet and
a linguist." Linguist he may possibly be, for
we believe he has translated, one after another, and
with equal success, all the known and unknown lan-
guages of the world ; but we must in common justice
acquit him of the charge of being a poet, for anything
less resembling poetry than the majority of the
Doctor's rhymes, we never yet read. We should as
soon suspect Mr. Wakley of being a poet. " Recent
Tragedies " is a disriminating criticism on two suc-
cessful dramas that have lately appeared from the pens
of Messrs. Troughton and Marston. In the " Political
Retrospect " for the last ten years, the Reviewer
points out several of the principal defects of the Re-
form Bill, adding, "we do not consider that the
present existence of a Conservative majority is by any
means to be taken as a proof that the Bill was wholly
a failure ; but we assert an opinion long weighed and
deliberately formed, that in the instance of numerous
small constituencies, the Reform Bill introduced de-
moralizing influences infinitely greater than any which
prevailed under the old system of pocket-boroughs."
From a notice of some recent " Travels in the
Himalaya," we quote some interesting details of that
wild, mountainous region :
It must not be supposed that eternal snow prevails
always in these regions. The valleys, though set in a
frame of everlasting snow and ice, are often very warm
and exceediegly productive. Grain of several kinds
is produced, sometimes to a considerable height up the
mountains, where the flocks in summer also find abundant
pasture. After crossing a snowy pass, or sterile district
of peaked rocks, the traveller will occasionally descend
suddenly upon a valley neatly laid out in fields and gar-
dens of peas, beans, and turnips, abundantly supplied
with water by numerous channels, and studded with
rural cottages and villages, and where there are shady
avenues of apricots and widely spreading walnuts, which
form dark arbours and afford a cool retreat. In some
favoured spots two crops of grain are produced an-
nually ; of the vine, eighteen kinds are cultivated in the
district ; and so plentifully is fruit, that the inhabitants
would often bring loads of grapes to.feast our traveller's
followers, and would shrike the trees, when the party
passed through an avenue of apricots, to shower down
,their produce in the greatest abundance. Even potatoes
are to be had, thanks to the author's brother, vt•ho dis.
tributed more than 2,0001b5. weight for planting ; yet
the natives are not so Hibernian in their taste as he
could desire, for the root is not nearly- so common as it
ought to be. This, however, does not surprise us ; for
if the inhabitants can, as the Captain reports, get a tole-
rable supply of sheep and goat's flesh, with grain, vege-
tables, and fruit in abundance, they can hardly be blamed
fur looking coldly on the potatoes. The climate of this
region is almost as rem9rkable as the face of the country,
and a person may, in a short space, experience every
change from the heat of the torrid zone ahnoSt to the
temperature of a Lapland winter.i,

I VEDDER'S POEM. Smith, Glasgow, 1842.
Mr. David Vedder, the author of this collection of
icgendvry, lyrical, and descriptive poems, displays
mucti ease and grace of versification, together with
a corm and of imagery that proves him to be skilled
in the rt.'sources of his art. He has attempted a
great variety
of metres, and has successfully ac-
quitted himself in all. His " Ode on the Anniver-
sary of BurnO" is characterised by a high strain of
generous enthus!asin ; but, generally speaking, his
odes are not his lin 1-vniest performances, he is more at
home in the simpie ,ballad, to which he imparts an
worthy of Hogg in his best
energy and feeling not uk:
days. The volume is en qlished with several spi-
rited &
engraN'ngs.
____

THE WARD OF THORPE-C6...118-E. 3 Vosil.
Bentley, London, 1842.
With the single exception of her "Widovvr,:lrnaby,"
we incline to consider the " Ward of Thorpe-Combe"
the cleverest work of fiction that Mrs. 'I rollope has
yet produced, if only for the portrait of the demure,
intriguing, ambitious Miss Sophia Martin. There is
a vigour, and even an originality, about this character,
an • adroitness in its development, and a per-
fectly con amore spirit in the manner in which
it is .sustained throughout, that convince us— cud
we need further assurance of the fact—that the
authoress is well read in the human heal t, and takes
a pleasure in dragging into light all its latent weak-
nesses and vices. Mrs. Trollope is certainly a
powerful writer, but she is not a tolerant or an
amiable one. She has none of the bonhommie
of Sir Walter Scott—none of that sunny socia-
lity of temperament which conciliates the reader, and
imparts a generous glow to his feelings. She looks
on humanity with the stern eye of scepticism, is quick
to believe in its inherent baseness, slow to discover i 1
redeeming qualities. Even her humour has nothing
cordial about it, but is dry and sarcastic—a thing, of
the head, not t& heart. In a word, she is a Dean
Swift in petticoats, though it is but justice to add,
that she never trespasses against decorum, as was
too often the case with the author of " Gulliver's
Travels." Her present work is written with singular I
force, and keeps attention on the alert throughout.
The heroine, Miss Sophia Martin, is a young orphan,
who haS been brought up under the superintendence
of a . kind-hearted uncle and aunt, Major and Mrs.
Heathcote ;. in her early youth she is repreSented as
being reserved, self-possessed, and diffident, appa-
rently, to a very unusual degree ; but a handsome for-
tune having been unexpectedly left her by an eccentric
relative, her whole woman's nature undergoes a total
change, and she becomes as bold, confident, and aspiring
as she once was—or appeared to be—the reverse.
No longer the timid, thoughtful, sycophantic depen-
dent on another's bounty, she suddenly starts up the re-
solute, ambitious, subtle despot, hungering and thristing
for ascendancy over all who come within the sphere
of her influence, greedy of wealth, and determined of
purpose to obtain a titled husband, no matter at what
cost. Ultimately, she is deprived of the fortune that
had been leis her, by . the sudden return to
England of the rightful heir, who had been long
supposed dead, and then, after a violent burst of in-
dignation, she coolly sets her wits to work, and accepts .
the hand of a man of moderate indeperylence who had
courted her on the supposition that she was still pos-
sessed of wealth, and is not made acquainted with the
fraud that has been practised on him, until the indis-
soluble knot has. been tied. This character is essen-
tially dramatic, and has lost nothing of its efficiency
in Mrs. Trollope's hands. The, other personages of
the
,story have nothing particularly; noticeable about
them, but ere evidently intended merely to set off,
and bring into active play the pa-ssions and-
ties of the plotting, ambitious Sophia Martin.

A REGULAR “DOWN EAST" SAM.
PLE OF THE LEX TALIONIS.

(From the Sporting Review.)
Among the earliest settlers in the wilds of
Salmon River, was a Vermontese, of the name
of Dobson—a large, resolute man. Returning,
one evening, from a fruitless hunt after his
vagrant cows, which, according to the custom in
new countries, had been turned into the woods,
to procure their own subsistence from the rank
herbage of the early summer ; just before emerg-
ing from the forest, upon the clearing of his
neighbour, the worthy Joseph Sleeper, he saw
a large bear descending from a lofty sycamore,
where he had been, probably, in quest of honey.
A bear ascends a tree much more expertly
than he descends it, being obliged to come down
hindforemost. My friend Dobson did not like
to be joined, in his evening walk, by such a com-
panion; and without reflecting what he should
do with the " varmint" afterwards, ran to the
tree on the opposite side from the animal's body,
and just before he reached the ground, he seized
him by the fore-paws. Bruin growled and
gnashed his tusks; but he soon ascertained that
his paws were in the grasp of iron paws, equally
iron-strong with his own ; nor could he use his
hinder paws to disembowel his antagonist, as the
manner of the bear is, inasmuch as the trunk of
the tree was between them. But Dobson's pre-
dicament, as he was endowed with rather the
most reason, was worse yet. He could no more
assail the bear than the bear could assail him ;
nor could he venture to let him go—a very gra-
cious return for thus unceremoniously taking him
by the hand. The twilight was fast descending
into darkness, and his position was far less com-
fortable than it otherwise would have been at the
same hour, surrounded by his wife and children,
at the supper-table, to say nothing of the gloomy
prospects for the night. Still, as Joe Sleeper's
house was not far distant, he hoped to be able to
call him to his assistance; but his lungs, although
none of the weakest, were unequal to the task;
and although he halloaed and bawled the live-
long night, making the woods and welkin ring
again, he succeeded no better than old Glen-
dower of old, in calling spirits from the vasty
deep.
It was a wearisome night for Dobson, such a
game of hold fast he had never been engaged in
before. Bruin, too, was somewhat worried, al-
though he could not describe his sensations in
English, albeit he took the regular John Bull
method of making known his dissatisfaction—
that is to say, he growled incessantly. But there
was no let go in the case, and Dobson was, there-
fore, under the necessity of holding fast, until it
seemed, to his clenched and aching fingers, as
though the bear's paws and his had grown to
gether.
As daylight returned, the smoke from Mr.
Sleeper's chimney began to curl up gracefully,
though rather dimly, in the distance. Dobson
again repeated his cries for succour, and his heart
was soon gladdened by the appearance of his
worthy, but inactive neighbour, who had at last
been attracted by the voice of the impatient suf-
ferer, bearing an axe on his shoulder. Dobson had
never been so much rejoiced at seeing Mr. Sleeper
before, albeit he was a very kind and estimable
neighbour.
" Why don't you make haste, Mr. Sleeper,
and not be lounging at that rate when you see a
fellow-Christian in such a kittle of fish as this ?"
" I run! is that you, Mr. Dobson, up a tree
there? And was it you I heard halloaing so last
night? I guess you ought to have your lodging
for nothing, if you've stood up agin' the tree all
night."
'' It's no joke, though, I can tell you, Mr.
Sleeper; if you had hold of the paws of a black
varmint all night, it strikes me you'd think
you paid dear enough for it. But if you
heard me calling for help in the night, why
did'nt you come and see what was the trouble?'
" Oh, I was going tired to bed, after laying up
log fence all day, and I thought I'd wait till
incrning., and come bright and airly. But if I'd
known it was you---"
" Known 'twas me ?" replied Dobson, bitterly,
you knew 'twas somebody who had flesh and
blood too good for these plaguy varmints though;
and you know there's been a smart sprinkle of
bears about the settlement all the sprmg.o
" Well, don't be in a huff, Tommy. It's never
too late to do good. So hold tight now, and don't
let the tarnal critter get loose, while I split his
head open."
" No, no," said Dobson. " After holding the
beast here all night, I think I ought to have the
pleasure of killing him. So you just take hold
of his paws here, and I will take the axe and let
a streak of daylight into his skull about the
quickest."
The proposition being a fair one, Mr. Sleeper
was too reasonable a man to object. He was no
coward either; and he therefore stepped up to
the tree:and, cautiously taking the bear .with

HISTORY OF 1.11171AT10.N.
Spencer, London, 1842.
In this volume we have the substance of twelve
lectures, comprising a detailed account of the rites
and ceremonies, doctrines and discipline, of all the
secret and mysterious institutions of the ancient world.
The work is got up with evident care, and the it-•
rangement being in a great measure new, and propor-
tionably abstruse, " I have," observes the author, the
Rev. Dr. Oliver, "advanced with much caution, and
have not ventured to introduce • any single fact with-
out its accompanying authority." We may add that
the volume displays in every page marks of extensive
research ; that the materials are well digested, and
the language of the lectured uniformly recommended
by ease and perspicuity. Those who take an interest
in Freemasonry will read it with pleasure.

Mr. Cooper must be a man of a strange, way A'ard
temper, for nothing ever seems to give him satisfac-
tion. If he writes about America, he is sure to write
in such a tetchy, unpleasant spirit as never fails to give
offence to his American readers; end if he writes
about England, he produces similar effects on the
minds of his English readers. Some few years ago he
took to abusing the habits and manners of the aristo-
cratic classes in London, notwithstanding he was
kindly received among them ; and in his novel of
"Eve Effingham" he lavished similar abuse—but with
much more justice—on the fashionable circles of New
York. He is now out of humour with the petty,
purblind character of American nationality ; and in
speaking of the naval system of the United States, is
quite indignant that the Yankees exhibit such reluc-
tance to collect a fleet, and to reward naval offi-
cers as they deserve to be rewarded. " The Repub-
lic," he says, in his preface, " possesses the mate-
rials for collecting a fleet, but has ever seemed
to be wanting in the will. A strange and dangerous
reluctance to create even the military rank that is in-
dispensable to the exercise of a due authority over
such a force, has existed in-the councils of the State.
The legislators of the country apparently expect that
men will perform miracles without the inducements
which usually influence human beings to perform
anything.—Whenever the national councils shall give
us admirals ,and fleets to write about, it will be our
delight to aid, in our own humble way, in attempting
to illustrate their deeds." These censures may, or
may not, be deserved, but at any rate they are mis-
placed in a work of fiction, where an author's object
should be to conciliate as many of his readers as pos-
sible, and not offend a large and influential body of
them, like the American middle classes, at the very
threshold of his narrative. Mr. Cooper, however, is a
man whose temper—we judge only from his writings
—too often gets the better of his judgment, and who
imagines that he is expressing wholesome, well-inten-
tioned truths, when he is merely giving vent to
his spleen. He has yet to learn that there
is a material difference between the hasty ebullitions
of a waspish temperament, and the sound convictions
of a calm and matured understanding. But to the
tale before us. It is, as the author observes, almost
exclusively a " Tale of the Sea," and refers to the
middle of the last century—about the year 1745,
when Oakes and Bluewater, who are the Two Ad-
mirals, were first and second in command of the
channel fleet, on the occasion of a battle with the
French fleet, which, as a matter of course, terminated
favourably for the English. In the two first volumes
—more especially the first—the interest of the nar-
ration sometimes flags ; but when once Mr. Cooper
gets fairly"launched into his proper element, the sea,
his incidents become exciting in a high degree, and
his descriptions exhibit uncommon vigour, combined
with, apparently, the most literal and pains-taking
Minuteness. His details of the manoeuvres of the
fleets in action, are among the happiest and most
striking effects he has yet produced in fiction, though,
as a whole, we consider the " Two Admirals" as in-
ferior to the " Pilot," or the " Red Rover."