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ns among the poor, and the humble, and from among
those classes, has held up, for our imitation and ad-
miration, bright examples of all the better elements o.
the human character, of unpretending virtue, tried, and
triumphant ; virtue, that invests with' moral dignity
and beauty the character of Oliver Twist, the poor-
house boy; virtue, that wins all hearts, in the person
of sweet little Nell, the beautiful and early called.-
-(Enthusiastic applause.) The Writings of our most
cherished. and.avelcome
.guest, distinguished as they
are by'the characteristics to which allusion has been
made, are in the most comprehensive; and best sense of
the term, popular ; and permit me to add, Gentlemen,
that the time is fast approaching, if it has not already
arrived, when hs will be the most desirable fame.
whose highest ,aim shall be to assert the rights, tc
advance-the interests, to improve the capacities, or te
cultivate the, affections of the people.—(Applause.)
Gentlemen, I propose the " Health of Charles
Dickens." Elkted by the world's suffrage to an ele-
vated station in the great republic of letters, his fame is
written on the heart, and the head approves the record.
This sentiment was' received with long, loud, con-
tinuous, and enthusiastic applause.
After the cheering had subsided„ Mr. DICKE.NS rose
and remarked—Gentlemen, to say that I thank you
for the earnest manner-ill, which you have drank the
toast just now so eloquently proposed to you ; to say
that I give, you ba'ck your kind wishes and good feel-
ings with more than compound interest ; and that I
feel how dumb and powerless the best, acknowledg-
msnt would be beside such genial hospitality as yours
—is nothing. To say that in this winter season,
flowers have sprung up in every footsteps' length of
the path, which has brought me here ; that no coun-
try ever smiled more pleasantly than yours has smiled
on me ; and that I have rarely looked upon a brighter
summer prospect than that which lies before me now-
nothing.—(Applause.) But it is something to
he no stranger in a strange place; to feel, sitting at a
board for the first time, the ease and affections of an
old guest ; and to be. at once on such intimate terms
with the family, as to have, a homely genuine interest
in its every member-7A is, I say, something' to be
in this novel and happy frame of mind ; and as it
is of *air creation, and owes its being to you, I have
no reluctance in urging it as a reason why, in address
ing you, rshould not so' much consult the form and
fasluori of my speech, as I should employ that universal
language. of the heart, which you, aid. such as you,
best teach, and best can understand. Gentlemen, in
that universal language—common to you in America,
and to us in England, as that younger mother tongue,
which, by the means and through the happy union of
our two great countries shall be spoken, ages hence,
by land and sea, over the wide surface of the globe—
I thank you. I had occasion, Gentlemen, to say the
other night in Boston, as I have more than once had
occasion to remark before, that it is not easy for an
author to speak of his own books. If the task be a
difficult 'one at any time, its difficulty certainly is
not diminished when a frequent recurrence to the
same theme has left one nothing new to say. Still I
feel that in a company like this, and especially after
what has, been said by the President, that I ought not
to pass lighty over those labours of love, which, if
they had no other merit, have been the happy means
of bringing us together. It has been often observed,
that you cannot judge of an author's personal cha-
racter from his writings; it may be that you cannot
—I think it very likely, for many reasons, that you
cannot—but, at least, a reader will rise from the pe-
rusal of a book with some defined and tangible idea of
the writer's moral creed and broad purposes, if he has
any at all ; and it is probable enough that he may
like to have that idea confirmed from the author's lips,
lor dissipated by his explanation. Gentlemen, my
moral creed—which is a very wide and comprehen-
sive one, and includes all sects and parties—is very
easily summed up. I have faith, and I wish to diffuse
faith in the existence—yes, of beautiful things even
in those conditions of society, which one so degene-
rate, degraded, and forlorn, that at first sight it would
seem as though they could only be described by a
strange and terrible reversal of the words of Scrip-
ture—" God said let there be light, and there was
none." -I take it—that we are born, and that we
hold our sympathies, hopes, and energies, in trust for
the many, and not for the few. That we cannot hold in
too strong a light of disgust and contempt, before the
view of others, all meanness, falsehood, cruelty, and
oppression, of every grade and kind. Above all, that
nothing is high, because it is in a high place; and
that nothing is low, because it is in a low. one._
(Loud Applause.) This is the lesson taught us in
the great book of nature. This is the lesson which
may be read, alike in the bright track of the stars,
and in the dusty course of the poorest thing that
drags its tiny length upon the ground. This is the
lesson ever uppermost in the thoughts of that inspired
man, whO tells us that there are—

aper to-day. The proceedings are published at
length, including every thing worthy of mention ex-
cept one, and that is .the ladies (God bless them !)
who, during the hours of speech-making and toast-
ririnking, inspired the occasion by their presence in
the hall near.' Many a bright eye glistened and
many a beautiful face glowed with rapture a 5 the suc-
cessive sentiments occurred. There was one that
wept. The mention of those sweet cherubs who are
io very very dear to her heart, and which she has left
behind her m a far distant land, called up a thousand
associations and awakened a mother's love. She
wept—who would not under such circumstances ?
The health of those little babes, the offspring of our
illustrious guest and his partner, was drank, and a
mother's sympathies were touched—we mean Mrs.
Dickens. The compliment was a grateful one, and
it was gratefully received.
The Nezv York Herald gives a long and interesting
repart of another dinner, under the following head :
THE GRAND LITERARY, FASHIONABLE,
LEGAL, JUDICIAL, AND MISCELLANE-

will ever be as true to you as you have been to me.
—(Loud cheers.) In your enthusiastic approval of
the creations of my fancy, recognised as in a glass,
your enlightened care for the happiness of the many—
your tender and gentle regard for the afflicted and
helpless--for the correction and improvement of the
bad, and the encouragement and solace of the good—.
the education and advancement of every member of
society—(Cheers)—my constant and unceasing devo-
tion to the end of my life to those ends, and to every
other object,' to the extent of my humble capacity,
having the common good in view, shall prove to you
that in this respect at' least you do not mistake me,
and that the light you shed upon my path was not
unworthily bestowed.—(Cheers.) And now that I
have said this much in reference to myself, let me
have the gratification I have long expected, of saying
a few words in reference to somebody else.—(Laugh-
ter.) There is, in this city, a gentleman, who, at the
conclusion of one of my books—and I well remember
that it was the " Old Curiosity Shop"—wrote to me
in England a letter, so generous, so affectionate, so
manly, that if I had written that book under every
circumstance of disadvantage, discouragement, and
difficulty, instead of with everything to cheer and
urge me on, I should have' found in its receipt my
best and happiest reward.—(Cheers.) I answered
him, and he answered me—(Laughter)—and so we
kept on shaking hands autographically—(Laughter)
—as if there were no ocean between us—(Laughter)
—until I came here on Saturday night, longing and
eager to see him.—(Cheers.) And here he sits (said
Dickens, with all the velocity and volubility of a
young " going, going, gone," and slapping Washington
Irving on the back, with most extraordinary Sam
Wellerish gusto, amidst most terrific laughter and
cheering)—and I needn't tell you that it is the
crowning circumstance to me of this night, that he is
here in this capacity.—(Great cheering.) 'Washing-
ton Irving! Why, gentlemen, I don't go up stairs to
bed two nights out of seven, as I have a credible wit-
ness very near at hand to prove—(Here Boz gave a
funny Sam Weller sort of a side look out of one eye
half round at his wife, who sat behind Bryant, and
laughed ; she blushed, hid her face in Mr handker-
chief, and laughed; Miss Sedgwick, who sat next her,
laughed most immoderately—the Mayor laughed in-
tolerably—altogether, too much for a Mayor—Judges
Betts, Jones, and Tallmadge laughed heartily, we
must not say ridiculously, else we shall be indicted,
and Judge Kent might make a grave speech to
Bunkam about the immorality of the press.
The parson laughed, and all laughed, like true
Pickwickians.) I say, Gentlemen, Ido not go
to bed two nights out of any seven without taking
Washington Irving under my arm up stairs to bed
with me. (Here the laughter was nearly loud enough
to wake the dead in the adjoining church-yard of Old
Trinity) and when I don't take him, I take his next of
kin—his own brother—Oliver Goldsmith.—(Cheers.)
Washington Irving ! Why, who but he was in my
thoughts the other day as I approached your noble
city, when I was looking out for the Hog's-back, the
Frying-pan, and Hell's-gate, and all those terrible
places of renown, that were a terror to Dutch naviga-
tors!—(Laughter and cheers.) Washington Irving!
Why, when I was in the birth-place of Shakspere
a few years
.ago, whose name but his was the first
that was pointed out with pride upon the wall !
Diedrich Knickerbocker, and Geoffrey Crayon !
Why, where can we go that they have not been be-
fore us ? In the English farm house, in the peaceful
village, in the crowded city, along the beautiful
lanes, across the pleasant fields of England, and
amidst her blessed happy homes, his name above
every name rises up with rich and hallowed recollections
of his virtues and talents, and like his memory will I
continue to be hallowed in those bright and innocent
sanctuaries, until the last tick of the clock of Time.
—(Tremendous cheering.) If we go into the country
are there no- Bracebridge Halls in existence ? If we
visit the crowded city has Little Britain never had a
chronicler ? Is there no Boar's Head in Eastcheap ?
Why, gentlemen, when Mr. Crayon left England, he
left sitting in a small back arlour of a certain public
house near that very Boar's Head a man of infinite
wisdom, with a red nose and an oil-skinned hat, who
was there when I came away. Yes, gentle-
men, it was the same man—not a man that was
very like him—but the selfsame man—his nose in an
immortal redness, and his hat in an undying glaze.
(13oz said this with such inimitable naivete and humour
that the whole company, ladies and all, including Wash-
ington Irving, were literally convulsed with laughter.)
Why, Mr. Crayon was also on terms of intimacy
in a certain village near that same Bracebridge Hall,
with a certain radical fellow who went very much
out at the elbow, with his hat stuffed full of old
newspapers. Gentlemen, I knew the man. (Laugh-
ter.) He's there to this very hour, with thc news-
papers in his hat, very much to the dissatisfaction of
Mr. Tibbitts the elder.—(Great laughter.) Gentle-
men, leaving the town and rustic life of London, and
forgetting for a moment if anybody can, the "Pride
of the Village" and the "Broken Heart," let us cross
the waters again, and ask who has associated himself
most with the Italian Post House, and the Bandits
of the Pyrenees ? 'When the traveller is lighted to
his chamber, along dark, echoing, and spacious corri-
dors, very gloomy and very cold,—when he has sat
down by the fire to watch the gradual change of his
room from misery to comfort, and has drawn his
curtains, such as they are, moth eaten and mouldy,
over the window—thinking of all the ghost stories
that ever he has read or heard told, until the thick-
coming fancies crowd around and in upon his brain—
who is it that he thinks of at such a time ? Why,
Washington Irving !—(Cheers.) Go further away
still, to the Moorish Fountain, sparkling in the full
moonlight, with a few water-carriers and village
gossips, lingering about it still for its refreshing
coolness, and the voices of others going to the village
dying away in the distance like bees, who, at such
an hour, takes his silent stand beside the traveller,
and points with his magic wand to the walls of the
Alhambra ? Who awakens in every cave the echoing
music, the tread of many feet, the sound of cymbals,
the rattling clang of armour, the tramp of mailed
men, and bids all those Moors who for centuries have
slept a dreamless sleep, within the earth, watched
unwinkingly for buried treasure—who bids them start
up, and walk in griin array before his eyes ?-7(Loud
cheers.) Or leaving this, who leaps with Columbus
into his gallant ship—who stands beside him on the
main—and waves the flag of Spain—(Loud cheers)
—who but this same man ? And who, again, to
come to your own coast, is fit company for the buc-
caneers and money-diggers ? Or who fit to accom-
pany Rip Van Winkle in his fearful journey to the
mountain, where the uncouth crew did play at nine-
pins on that thundery afternoon ?—(Roars of laugh-
ter.) -What pen but his could make 'these creatures
as much a part and parcel of those Catskill mountains,
as any crag that ever frowned, or torrent that ever
darted headlong from their heights ?—(Cheers.) But,
Gentlemen, this is a most dangerous theme for me ;
for I have been enchanted with these people, I am
sorry to say, in one sense, from my boyhood, and my
glass-slipper is on me still. I will conclude, then,
by giving a sentiment—most appropriate in the pre-
sence of such a company as Bryant and Halleck—
ladies, I suppose, I mustn't mention—l will give
you "The Literature of America—she well knows
how to honour her own literature, and to do honour
to that of other lands, when she chooses Washington
Irving as her representative in the country of Cer-
vantes !"

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Just published, in 2 vols.. with Illustrations by G. Cruikshank,
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OAKES AND, ALE,: TALES and LEGENDS.
By DOUGLAS JERROLD, Esq.
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THIS EVENING, at the MUSIC HALL, STORE-
STREET, Mr. WILSON-will give the following Songs in his
ENTERTAINMENT : _ _

" My Ain Fireside "—" Saw ye my Wee Thing?"---" Auld
Robin Gray "-" The Laird o' Cockpen "—" Lizzie Lindsay "
Soots wha has wi' Wallace bled ' —" Get up and bar the
Door."

" Cakes and Ale,' have all the heart-felt relish which be=
longs to genuine cheer,"—Monthly Review.

Part H.—" Jock o' Hazeldean "—" My Boy Tammy "
" Pibroch al .Donuil .Dhu "—" Come under my Pl'aidie"—
c, There's nae Luck aboot the House "-L-" Wood and Married
and A'."

.1 More agreeable volumes could-not grace the thble."—Lite-
rary Gazette.

tit tne HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS, on WEDNES-
.DAY MORNING, at Two o'Clock, Mr. Wilson's Fourth En-
tertainment.

Tickets and Programmes "may be had at the Rooms and the
Mu,ic-shops.

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BOULOGNE—:Every Thursday and Saturday Morning.
HULL—Every Tuesday and Friday at Eight Morning.
YARMOUTH—Every Saturday Evening, at Six.
EDINBURGH—From Brawn's Wharf, Poplar—Every Sa-
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and May 4, 7,14, 18, 21, aud 28.

NEWCASTLE—Every Wednesday and Saturday Evening,
at Eight..
SUNDERLAND—Every Saturday Evening, at Seven.
To secure Berths, and for all information, apply at the
Offices of the Company, 69, Lombard-street ; 37, Regent-
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STEAM TO NEW YORK.

lIHE GREAT WESTERN,
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IS INTENDED TO SAIL FROM
LIVERPOOL Saturday, 2!st of May, 1842
BRISTOL Saturday, 16th of July
LIVERPOOL Saturday, 3d of September
BRISTOL. Saturday, 22d of October.
FROM NEW YORK.

Thursday, 28th of April . . For LIVERPOOL
Thursday, 16th of June For BRISTOL
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Thursday, 29th of September For BRISTOL
Thursday, 17th of November For LIVERPOOL.
For Freight, or, further information, apply at Bristol to
CHRISTOPHER CLAXTON, Managing Director.
Lt,.ldon—T. M. Ward, Great Western Railway-Office, Bank.
Liverpool—Gibbs, Bright, and Co., North John-street.
Birmingham—John Poncia and Son, r ershore-street.
Hull—W R. Goddard, Hull and East Riding Times Office.
Leeds—Haigh and Womack, Accountants, Benson's-buildings.
Glasgow—H. B. Webb, Glassford- street.
Paris—Andelle and Soulas, Rue de l'Echiquier, No. 20.
II avre-de-Grace— Williath Davidson. •

MHE IMPROVED IRON FENCES.—The
only manufactory for J. 1 PORTER'S much-approved
IRON BAR and STRAINED. WIRE FENCES, many years
before the public, and from their superior quality, as well as
many other advantages, now so generally adopted by private
gentlemen, Railway Companies, &c., in preference to Hurdles
-(and which, from the present low price of iron, he is enabled to
offer at considerably reduced prices), is at the Grove Iron Fence
Works, Southwark, rear Southwark-bridge, where long lengths
of patterns may be seen fixed on the ground ; also Hurdles,
fancy Garden Fences, Wrought and Cast Iron Palisading, Wire-
work for horticultural purposes, &c., Iron Bedsteads, for do-
mestic use, public institutions, and exportatidn. The most im-
proved principle of heating by hot water. Experienced work-
men sent to any part of the kiisgdom. Ironmongers and Smiths
supplied.
Pattern-room, 77, Cornhill, late 82. Upper Thames-street.

SIR WILLIAM BURNETT'S, PATENT for
the PRESERVATION OF TIMBER, CANVAS,
CORDAGE, COTTON, WOOLLEN, &c., from DRY ROT,
MILDEW, MOTH, and PREMATURI DECAY.
The Tvvo Testimonials at foot, selected from an immense
number, will afford evidence of the efficacy of this Patent.
16, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square, Feb. 9,1842.
Mr DEAR Sia,—ln reply to your question respecting the
effect Of your solution upon the sails and awnings of the vessels
of the Niger Expedition, the canvas of which was steeped in
it before they were made, I have much pleasure in being able
to state that they were most effectually preserved from mildew,
and this *after as severe a trial as canvas could well undergo,
being alternately exposed, during several months, to heavy
rains and a burning sun, with the thermometer sometimes at
93 deg., and generally much above 80 deg.
I am, my dear Sir,

H. DUNDXS TROTTER, Captain R.N.
Sir Win. Burnett, K.C.H.

Ramsgate, Dee. 20, 1841.

SIR,—I beg to acquaint you that, agreeably to your request,
I have examined the sails on board the Gull steam light vessel,
the which were prepared with Sir William Burnett's Patent So-
lution, and were put on board in September, 1840, since which
time they have been kept on the deck, and exposed to the
weather ; notwithstanding which, they are still in as good a
condition as when first put on board ; they are free from mil-
dew, and have no appearance of any decay whatever. Unpre-
pared sails under similar circumstances would have been in a
decayed state, and rendered quite unserviceable.
I am, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) R. DAVIS.
Jacob Herbert, Esq., Secretary, Trinity Board.
It is cheat) and simple in its application. Timber, Deals,
&c., &a., Canvas, Sails, and Ropes will be prepared at the
Company's Station at Liotehouse, at a small expense ; or the
preparation may be purchased for use, under license or other-
wise, at a rate that will give persons, who are disposed to enter
into it as a branch of trade, ample profits. Application to be
made to the Secretary, No. 4, Castle-court, Birchin-lane,
Cornhill.

N.B. Active Agents wanted in the princi Seaports and
Inland Towns.

A liberal allowance to the Trade.

GREAT SELLING OFF, by Mr. FOSTER, the

ACCOUNTANT.
-MR. FOSTER has instructions to submit for
171 SALE,in Lots, as prepared for Auction, 27,0001. worth
of LINEN DRAPERY GOODS, being the Stock adver-
tised for Auction on the Premises, CORNER of FLEET.
STREET and FARRINGDON-STREET, trading ipder
the firm of HEBBLEWHJTE and CO., notice having been
given that an auction is not permitted by. the lease.
Mr. Foster, in calling attention to this immense sale of goods,
begs to remind ladies and families that they are not expected to
realise more than half the original cost, the object being to clear
the whole off the premises, and any portion remaining must of
necessity be removed to his Auction-rooms. Ladies are soli-
cited to mal:e allowances for the awkwardness of the assistants,
being mostly young men from his office, consequently unused
to this method of selling goods over the counter.
The following is about the reductions intended to be made.
The linens being the larger portion, will be reduced as under :
s. d.

730 pieces of Irish linen; mostly Knox's make, that cost -
from ls. 6d. to 2s. 2d. 'per yard, ladies may choose
from all, at 26 yards, for
About 8.50 of his curiously tine numbers, worth from
2s. 9d. to 3s. 3d. per yard, will be likewise reduced
to 26 yards for
1,000 or more pieces that are soiled, amongst which are
some warranted fabrics, will be reduced to 26 yards for'62l 0
The sheetings and table-linen require particular notice. The
respectable family trade carried en for thirty years at the esta-
blishment rendered it necessary to keep none but fine and war-
ranted goods, consequently ladies will not be subjected to the
chances usual on selling off stocks of risking the durabillity.
Fifty pieces of linen sheeting are reduced to be sold in the
length only at 4s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. the pair, those at 10s. 6d.
being three yards wide, and real Barnsley manufacture, having
originally cost 2s. 9d. per yard. Should the length be found in
convenient a further reduction will be maths in the price. The
tablecloths, although of the finest description, are mostly soiled,
consequently the reduction must be immense. Some superb
damask cloths, three yards long, will be sold as low as 6s. 6d.
each ; lots of good linen breakfast cloths will be marked from
Is. to 2i. 6d. each, and about 130 cloths, from three to six
yards long, many worth three to four guineas, will be sold none
higher than fifty shillings.
Mr. Foster wants an offer for the following lots from the
trade :-Ribands, as per book, 1,8301.; lace, as per book, 640/. ;
gloves, as per book, 1431. All the other goods will be sold as
usual in selling-off stock s. d.
The blankets will be sold, two yards long (larger sizes in
proportion), the pair 4 0
A lot of blankets, that weigh eight pounds, will be sold,
the pair
A bale of counterpanes, many near three yardslong, will
ba sold. all each
About 800 expensive quilts, that cost 21s. to 255., will
be all sold, each.... . .
161, dozen of cambric handkerchiefs, worth Is. 9d. each,
will be sold by the dozen, only at
A lot of lawn ditto, will be reduced to, the dozen
liorrock's long cloths, usually sold to the trade at 6d
per yard, will be sold, 40 yard: for l2 6
Prints will be reduced all under 4s. 6d. the dress, to
All Sherriffs and Cobden's best prints, usually so expen-
sive, will by sold, the dress...
1,400 shawls, anti 690/. worth of furs will be aold at any rea-
sonable price that may be offered.
Mr. Foster would not have undertaken this sale had he not
felt satisfied of the character of the goods to be sold, and ladies
may depend that every article will fully answer the description
given in this advertisement, or at the time of sale. The prin-
cipal part of the stock having been kept in their wholesale ware-
houses, will be found in good condition: and any person buying
in large quantities, no obstacle w.ll exist in the way of price ;
also a liberal discount will be allowed off the bill when it ex-
ceeds 101. Hebblewhite and Co.'s Warehouse, 105, Fleet-
street, corner of Farringdon-street.
Mr. Foster particularly directs the attention of families re-
quiring Carpets-many superb patterns in rich Brussels will
be sold without reference to the cost, good qualities at 2s. 6d.
and 2s. 9cl. per yard ; several lots of good wide Kiddermin-
ster, excellent qualities, Is. 4d. and ls. 9d. Observe, the
sale is now on at Hebblewhite and Co.'s Warehouses, 105,
Fleet-street, corner of Faringdon-street. Omnibuses pass.by
every five minutes from all parts of the town. Carriages will
find it most convenient to set down in Feringdon-street.

London : How and Parsons, Fleet-street.

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Lit FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman..
J. ElliotsOn, 141.D.,F.R. S. John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. I John Riddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

" Tongues n the trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything."
—(Cheers:'
before me, I am at no loss -to refer your favour and
r gne u Gentlemen, keeping keeping the'objects.steadily
you
back to the right source.
While I know, on the one hand, that if, instead of
being what it is, this were a land of tyranny and
wrong, I should- care very little for your smiles or
frowns' so I tun sure, upon the other, that if,
instead of being what I am, I were the greatest
genius that ever trod the earth; and had exerted my-
self for the oppression and degradation of mankind,
Vou would despise and reject me. I hope you will,
whenever, through such means, I give you the oppor-
tunity. Trust me that, whenever you give me the
like occasion, I will return the compliment, with
interest.

Gentlemen, as I have no secrets from you, in the
spirit of confidence you have engendered between us,
and as I have mule a kind of compact with myself
that I never will, while I remain in America, omit as
opportunity of referring to a topic in which I and all
others of my, class on both sides of the great water,
are equally interested—equally interested, there is
no difference between us—l would beg leave to whis-
per in your ear two words, international copyright.
I use them in no sordid sense, believe me, and those
who know me best, best know that. For myself, I
would rather that my children, corning after me,
trudged in the mud, and knew by the general feeling
of society, that their father was beloved and had been
of some use, than I would have them ride in their
carriages and know by their banker's boOks that he
was rich. But Ido not see, I confess, why one should
be obliged to make the choice, or why Fame-, beside
playing that delightful reveillie for which she is so
justly celebrated, should not blow out of her trum-
pet a few notes of a different kind from those with
which she has hitherto contented herself.

It was well observed the other night by a beautiful
speaker, whose words went to the heart of every man
who heard him, that if there had existed any law in
this respect, Scott might not have sunk beneath the
mighty pressure on his brain, but might have lived to
add new creatures of his fancy to 'the crowds which
wound about you in your summer walks, and gather
round your winter evening hearths.
As I listened to his words, there came back, fresh
upon me, that touching scene in the great man's life,
when he lay upon his couch, surrounded by his family,
and listened for the last time to the rippling of the
river he had so well loved, over its stony bed. I pic-
tured
bodyy his
myself,bfaint,
wan,
in mind' honourable struggle, and dying,
crushed both
and
hovering round him, the phantom of his own imagina-
tion, Waverley, Ravenswood, Jeanie Deans,
Caleb Balderstone, Dominic Sampson—all the fami-
liar oy,
the chamber,
and High-
land chiefs innumerable, overflowing
throng—with cavaliers, and puritans,
and fading away in the dim distance beyond—I pic-
tured them fresh from traversing the world, and
hanging down their heads in shame and sorrow, that
from all those foreign lands into which they had car-
ried gladness, instruction, and delight for millions,
they brought him not one friendly hand to help to
raise him from that sad, sad bed. No, nor brought
him from that land in which his own language was
spoken, and in every house and hut at which his own
books were read in his own tongue, one grateful
grhecAolblbecetyfon home ! would
dollar-piece to buy a garland for his grave. 0
but! if
every man who goes from here, as many dO, to look
re-
memberupon that
this, tomban id
n bringD y bt uh re
Gentlemen—l thank you again, and once again,
and many times to that. You have given me a new
gare nisyt birth-day,
and dearest
reason for remembering this day, which is already
ando
one of marls
havemarlcignilmeyn cthalnesn'ed\evrh,nitarebenhet
to me a new reason for recollecting it with pride and
interest. Heaven knows that, although I should
grow ever so grey, I shall need nothing to remind me
of this epoch in my life. But I am glad to •think
that from this time you are inseparably connected
with every recurrence of this day ; and that on its
periodical return I shall always, in imagination, have
the unfading pleasuie of entertaining
you as myguests,
guests' in return for the gratification you have af-
forded me to-night.
The Editor of the New England Weekly Review
makes the following remarks :—" It is needless for us
to say any more about the dinner to Charles Dickens,
Esq., than to refer our readers to the columns of our

OUS DINNER TO " BOZ" ON. FRIDAY
NIGHT, AT THE CITY HOTEL.
Brighter and brighter shines the sun of Charles
Diaeas's popularity. The interest in his movements,
and the desire to see, hear, talk to, eat and drink
, with him, instead of diminishing, increases daily.
After the Boz Ball on Monday night, and the tremen-
lons excitement occasioned by it, many thought that
the exhaustion consequent on it, and other little mat-
ters, would produce a reaction. Not a bit of it.
Although Boz has been extremely sick, and con-
fined to the house ever since the night of the ball, he
has been besieged by a dozen of applications to go
out to private parties—to dinner, supper, breakfast,
dejeune a la fourehette—anything and everything to
be dined, and wined, and done everything to, but to
be let alone. However his sickness has been his ex-
cuse, and he has thus far escaped any serious infliction.
But sick or well, nothing could excuse him from
the great dinner last night, given to him by his ad-
mirers at the City Hotel ; and this, by the by, was
one of the most sensible movements that has yet been
made in relation to him since his arrival here. Who
the original projectors of it were we do not exactly
know : but believe that Charles A. Davis, Prescott
Rail, Anthony Barclay, John Duer, M. H. Grinnell,
fienry Brevoort, Fitz-Greene Halleck, and one or
two others, were the prime movers in carrying it out
to perfection ; and a most splendid affair it was.
The chair was taken by Washington Irving ; on
his right sat Charles Dickens, the honoured guest ; on
-his left sat the Rev. Mr. Bellows. Along this table
;at his Honour the Mayor and other well-known in-
lividuals ; the Mayor being tlie only layman who
was an invited guest that attended.
After the last course was cleared off, " Non Nobis"
xas sung.
Then WASHINGTON IRVING rose and said—l never
•egretted more than I do at this moment my total
.vant of the habit of public speaking. For I feel that
[ could now wish to give way to the whole current
)f my thoughts and feelings ; and yet I feel that I
tm like a poor horseman, and that I must be careful
how I get into the saddle or I shall be thrown from
my seat. And yet, on further consideration, Ido
not see much cause to regret this inability of mine
co interest you in this way ; for I feel that there will
be no want of champions ready to take my place ; I
'';ee so many of them around me at this moment firmly
seated in their saddle, and who find it difficult to rein
in their steeds, until the signal is given them to start.
So, therefore, I leave the field, and with a few prelitni-
miry remarks I will dispose of my part of the subject.
And yet, I never rose under deeper or more pleasur-
able excitement, or with more feelings of pride as an
author, as I now look around with pride upon this
assembly of my townsmen, met to greet the arrival of
an author among them. I never was more proudly
conscious of the intellectual character of my country-
men than in witnessing this burst of enthusiasm,
which has been echoed from city to city, to welcome
a mere literary visitor to our land.—(Cheers.) And
this, too, at a time of great public distress, when every
mind, more or less, is corroded by care, and the most
prosperous among us doubts the foundation of his pro-
sperity. , Gentlemen, this enthusiasm is of the right
kind. It speaks well for the people—it speaks well
for our nation. We have been accused of being sor-
did and of being mercenary—and too much given up
to the pursuits of our mere worldly interests. But,
in the present instance, our enthusiasm has given the
lie to the charge, and has spontaneously arisen in one
wide-spread scene of homage paid to intellect.—
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is impossible for me to pro-
ceed—(Here Mr. Irving was almost overcome by his
feelings, but the cheering and enthusiasm was most
tremendous—and cries of "Go on, go on !") I find
it impossible for me to make out a speech : and there-
fore, gentlemen, I'll give you a toast. I'll give you—
" Charles Dickens, the literary guest of the nation."
—(This was received with the most tremendmis
cheering, and three times three, and two or three
" -Manchesters" over. They were werry unanimous
in this ere thing. The bawl played. Several werry
enthusiastic gentlemen drank three glasses upon the
strength of their admiration for Boz, and then sat
down. Then, amidst great silence, and with all sorts
of sensible, and sober, and unsober eyes upon him,

Mr. DICKENS rose, and was received with the
most enthusiastic applause. On its subsidence he
said :—Mr. President and gentlemen, I don't know
how to thank you—l really don't know how. You
might suppose that by dint of custom, and from the
experience you have given me, this difficulty has
diminished, has dwindled into nothing, but I do as-
sure you that the fact is exactly the reverse. Unlike
that 4: rolling stone which gathers no moss," I have in
my progress to this place collected around me such
a heap of gratulation and weight ,of acknowledgment,
that in my power of expressing it I have grown
more and more unwieldy every hour.—(Loud ap-
plause.) I picked up such a quantity of fresh moss,
so to speak—(Laughter)--at a certain brilliant
scene on Monday night, that I thought I never could,
by any possibility, grow any bigger—(Great laughter)
—but crowded upon that, there comes again to night
,a new accumulation, of such extent and magnitude,
' t I am fairly at a stand still, and can roll no more.
aff-(Laughter, and enthusiastic applause.) Gentlemen,
we know from the authorities that whenever a fairy
stone, or ball, or-reel of thread stopped of its own ac-
cord—which I do not—some catastrophe was sure to
be at hand. The precedent, however, stands good in
my case, for remembering the short time I have be-
tbre me, in this land of mighty interest, and the poor
opportunities I can at best acquire of making myself
acquainted with it, I have felt it almost a duty to de-
cline the honours• which my generous friends else-
where would heap upon me, and henceforth to pass
through the country more quietly. Argus himself,
though he had but one mouth for all his hundred
eyes, would have found the reception of a public en-
tertainment once a week somewhat relaxing to his
vigilance and activity.—(Great laughter and ap-
plause.) And as I would lose no scrap or jot of the
rich mines of gratification and instruction which
await me, I know, on every hand, and of which I
have already derived no small instalment, even from
your hospitals and common gaols, I have resolved to
take up my staff and go upon my way rejoicing, and
cbr the future to shake hands with Americans, not
out at parties, but at home.—(Long continued cheers.)
And therefore, gentlemen, I say to-night, with a full
heart, and an honest purpose, and a grateful meaning,
that I bear with me, and shall ever bear with me, a
leeper sense of your kind, affectionate, and noble
4-reeting than it is possible to convey in words—that
no European sky without, and no cheerful home
within, shall ever shut out this land •from my vision ;
that I shall often hear your words of welcome in my
quiet room, oftenest when it is most quiet, and see
your faces in the winter evening fire—that if I live
to grow old, the light of this hall, and others like it,
will shine as brightly in my dull eyes fifty years
hence as it does to-night, and that when my course
;s run the sympathy you have shown to me shall be
laid back and well remembered, if it so please God,
in the enduring love and honour of my race.—(Loud
ind eithusiastic applause.) Gentlemen, one other
cord in reference to this tiresome first person sin-
7ular, and I close that theme. I came here in an open,
honest, and confiding spirit, if ever man did, and be-
(muse I heartily inclined towards you—if I had felt
otherwise, I should have kept away. As I came here
without the admixture of the hundredth portion of a
;rain of base alloy—without the faintest unworthy re-
ference to self in any word I have ever addressed to
,'eu, or in any sentiment I have ever interchanged
with you, I claim to. night, in reference to the past,
''(,r the last time, my right in reason, truth, and jus-
tice, to appeal to you, as I have done on two former
occasions, on a question of, universal literary interest
in both countries. And, gentlemen, I claim this jus-
tice, that I have made the appeal as one who had
some right to speak and to be heard ; and that I have
done so in a frank, and courteous and good-humoured
pirit of deference to those who frankly, courteously,
Ind good-humouredly differed from me in any
w in every respect.—(Loud and continued cheers.)
For myself; gentlemen, I have only to add, that I

We have not room for other speeches. Under the
head of

" BOZ MANIA,"
he Editor of the New York Herald observes :
" With this dinner, we believe, closes the Boz

mania in all its public manifestations. Charles
Dickens's measure of popularity is now full. He has
been indicted, tried, found guilty and punished by
several surfeits and fits of sickness, which will require
several weeks to get over. After that revival, he in-
tends to take his scrip ,and hat, and go along among
the " highways and byways " to find out, very quietly,
the characteristics of American society and Ameri-
can life.
"We congratulate Dickens on his escape—and we
trust he will be very careful hereafter how he commits
any more offences against the vanities of his contem-
poraries. He sticks, however, to his opinions of an
international copyright, from his first speech to his
last. We like this feature. It indicates a species of
the real bull dog character, which every person can
appreciate."

FIRE FROM THE LIGHTNING OF YESTERDAY.—
During the burial of a body at Brixton churchyard, yesterday
afternoon, a tremendous storm took place. The thunder was
frightful, and the lightning most vivid. The electric fluid
struck the steeple of Brixton church, knocked- the cross on one
side, and dislodged several of the stones. At the termination of
the funeral ceremony information was forwarded to the parish
engineer that the lightning had also struck the houses of Messrs.
Williams and Poore, of Upper Tithe Hill-road. A mounted
policeman was despatched to London for the engines, when in
a short time those of the West of England and London Esta-
blishment reached the spot, but fortunately by the time they
arrived, through the timely assistance afforded by the police
and neighbours with buckets and plenty of water, the fire was
soon extinguished, but great damage has been done to the fur.
suture and two houses.