The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

LITERATURE.
THE MEDICAL Al?(; US. AND ADVOCATE
OF TTIb G FN,!:I?AL PRACTITIONER OF
EDICINE, S URGE RY, AND MIDWIFERY.
No. I.

This is the first Number of a new weekly medical
periodical, which has been started for the purpose
o upholding the cause of the general practi-
tioner, and of promoting union among the whole me-
dical body, so as to procure for the profession gene-
rally a high©r status than it has hitherto enjoyed
in society. These are most praiseworthy ob-
jects, and we sincerely hope that the projectors of
the " Medical Argus" may succeed in their efforts to
obtain them. The present Number, in addition to a
leading article and an address, contains copious ex-
tracts from the contemporaneous medical press, and
also lectures, reports of cases from British and fo-
reign hospitals, and a great quantity of information of
a scientific character. It is printed in a clear type,
on excellent paper, and its appearance is much in its
favour.

THE SCATTERGOOD FAMILY. 3 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1845.
As this tale, which is here republished in three
volumes, has already appeared in successive numbers
of Bentley's Miscellany, we need say nothing more
on the present occasion, than that it is not undeserv-
ing the honour of republication.

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believe it was
never before cur hap to record, in three consecutive
publications, instances of illicit distillation occurring in
the North. Such appeared in our paper of last, and
also of the preceding week ; and a fresh instance has
just been brought under our notice. Until now we
fancied that smuggling was almost entirely put down
by the strong arm of the Excise. It appears, however,
that there are still parties who roam about among the
rocks, "where the snow-flake reposes," making a
livelihood by defrauding the revenue and evading the
law. Glenlivat was, at no very distant period, one
of the strongholds of smugglers. On Thursday, 16th
instant, Mr. Bain, Excise officer at Grantown, the officer
at Tomintoul, and a party of three cuttermen, whilst
going their rounds through this secluded glen, came
upon a large still in full operation. The delinquents got
off with the still before the arrival of the party, who,
upon entering the boothy, found that it contained the
enormous quantity of 475 gallons of wash, and 51 gal-
lons of low wines, also 8 bushels of ground malt, a large
copper kettle 4 large tuns, a mash tun, 8 casks and 4
tuba—making 18 utensils in all. The whole were de.
stroyed by the effieers and their party. The country
people were collecting in scores, armed with stows and
bludgeetis, bet luckily before they arrived Mr. Bain and
the p:lrty had finish,al the work or destruction. and were
at a sate distaece. This ftetive officer has been survey-
ing the dist ict o' Glenlirst for upwards of 17 years,
and this is the most extensive illicit. distilletion which he
has diseov,red during that per od.—/nreriiess COU, ier.
INTERESTING '•;ALI'I OF AUTOGRAPHS.—Yesterday
at one o'clock, a sale by autism of a large collection of
autograph i-ttera and historical documents, the property
of a well-known collec,or, took place at Mr. Fletcher's
Room. 191. Piccadilly There were 275 lots. consisting
of a complete series of autographs (excepting the ante-
graph of Geo. I.), and including some fine specimens, of
the kings and queens of Great Britain from Remy VIII.
to Geo IV., various foreign sovereigns, noblemen, states-
men, naval and military commanders, literary characters,
poets and dramatists, scientific men, artists, &c. Two
letters in the handwriting or Mrs. Jordan sold for 7s.
Of statesmen, a letter of Charles James Fox sold for Bs.,
and one of George Canning for the same sum. A letter
of W. Pitt, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, dated
Walmer Castle, May 13,1803. sold for 15s. Lot 100, a letter
of the celebrated G. Washington, dated Fairfax, count%
of Virginia, June 24, 1771, brought the large sum of 21. ss.
Lot 101, a frank of Lord Byron, 6th of November, 1813,
very fine, sold for 11. 2s. Lot 109, autograph letter of
Dr. Benjamin Franklin to D. Hartley, sold for 11. 13s.
An autograph letter of Shenstone (W.) the poet, to the
Hon. Mrs. Knight. sold for 135., and an unpublished
poem of Robert Bloomfield, in his autograph, sold for
1/. Is. The autograph of Henry VII. fetched 175.;
Henry VIII., 195.; " Marye the Queene,"ll. 25.; James
1., 11. Is.; Charles Prince of Wales, 135.; a beautiful
letter of Charles I. to Viscount Falkland sold for 11. 25.;
the autographs of Charles 11. brought small sums
James IL's letter to Dr. Zouch sold for 145.; the auto-
graphs of William 111., Mary, Anne, George IL, George
111., and George IV., brought sums of from ss. to
14S. each. Lot 154, ten original state letters, addressed
to William 111., from Christian VIII., King of Den-
mark, the Emperor Leopold, the Dukes of Saxe
Gotha, and various other German potentates, sold for
21. 12s. 6d. Lot 164, authograph letter of the Princess
Charlotte, sold for 11. Bs. The next lot, " A leaf from
the same lamented Princess's copy-book, the text, ' Fame
Animates,' " sold for a 1 s. Lot 174, a beautiful auto-
graph letter of Margaret of Austria to the Queen of
France, date 1610, sold for 21. 2s. Lot 224, Casti No-
velle Galanti, an unpublished translation of five tales
into English verse, by Lord Byron, partly in the auto-
graph of Percy Byshe Shelley, by whom it has been
prepared for publication, sold for six guineas. The next
lot consisted of a folio manuscript of 358 pages, every
page containing an autograph of Sir Walter Scott ; this
sold for the small sum of 2/. 10s., whilst, earlier in the
sale, one autograph of the same individual brought Bs.
The sale excited considerable interest, the principal pur-
chasers being Messrs. Thorpe, Simpson, Upcott, Boone,
Rutherford, &c.
THE STATE OF THE STREETS.—There is still the
same complaint to be made respecting the disgusting
condition of the foot-pavements in damp or rainy weather.
They are far worse after a fall of snow, such as took
place on Thursday night or Friday morning, as the
house and shop-keepers almost in all cases neglect to
clean away the filth that is accumulated on the flags by a
partial thaw and the successive tramping of hundreds of
pede.tria.ns. But we wish to point out another nuisance
requiring instant abatement. After a fall of snow, and
whilst it. is still freezing, it is the custom of a great
number of slovenly shop-keepers to attempt to dissolve
the frozen snow by an ..pplieation of salt ! The inevi-
table result is, that whilst a portion of the snow is melted,
the remainder is converted into slosh, and the surface of
the stone pavement rendered besides miserably wet and
cold to the feet. This dirty practice is greatly destruc-
tive not only of the comifert, but of the health, of pedes-
trians, and it is strongly to be desired that steps should
be taken taiPel those whom the law requires so to
do, to compel
footways in front of their premises in a
proper, efficacious, and effectual manner. As things are
allowed to remain, the poor peleatrian must perforr.e
trudge through all the filth, mire, slosh, and diluted mud
which the housekeepers may choose to prepare for him.
Why should the clause in the New Police Act (so often
and repeatedly quoted in this journal) be suffered by the
magistrates to remain a dead letter ? The auisance is
positively unbearable, and must be " put down." What
is Sir Peter Laurie about?—Timee
MRS. CANDLER'S MURDER.--For several days, or
perhapi a fortnight, great exertions have been made to
find a little girl of the name of Mellish, who was said
to have told a woman in Yarmouth that she was going
past Mrs. Candler's house at the time of the murder,
and that hearing a voice inside, she went and peeped
through the keyhole of the door, where she could
clearly see what was done inside, and that she
saw Royal and Mapes there. The keyhole has
been carefully tried by the magistrates, and it was
found, that from the keyhole might clearly be seen what
was done inside in the direction of the murdered wo-
man ; but Mellish, who was only eleven or twelve
years of age, could nowhere be found. Her
father, it seems, is an unbrella mender, and travels
the country for this purpose, commonly bivouacking
with the cadgers. The girl when in Norwich, called
at the station-house, and, telling a tale of great distress,
obtained some temporary relief, and though every
lodging-house in the city, and many in the county,
have since been visited, and rewards offered to
produce her, she could not be found till Friday
last, when she was seen in Norwich Market-place
on the walk. She was at once taken to the station--
house, and has evidently had much experience in
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asked any questions as to the particular business that she
Was wanted for, she was taken off to Yarmouth by Capt.
Love, the superintendent of the Yarmouth police, who
has for the last fortnight come to Norwich nearly every
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since by the wrecks of those ill-fated vessels the Conque-
ror and the Reliance. On inquiries being instituted, the
report was found to be too true, and it was said that
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owing to the high sea, and the inaccessible nature of the
coast, the whole of the crew had met a watery grave.
Immediately on the report being authenticated, Mr.
Hamilton, her Majesty's Consul, and Commander Ha-
milton, his son, proceeded to the spot to afford all the
assistance in their power—though it is feared that, on
account of the violence of the storm, and the total
wreck which the vessel presents, all their efforts will
prove unavailing, and but little of the property be saved.
The name of the vessel is unknown, as her stern was
dashed to pieces by the fury of the waves. Her loss is
attributed to her having missed stays. She was being
driven on a lee shore, and when she attempted to tack,
her rudder proved totally useless ; in a short time she
struck on a ridge of rocks, and although the inhabitants
of Etaples used the utmost exertions to save the crew,
no boat could reach them, and they perished miserably,
within hearing from the coast, end after hiving passed
thousands of miles to arrive at their country which they
were destined never snore to see. It is the universal
belief of sailors that if she had been able to get her head
round she would have weathered out the storm in safety.
The galliot Phoenix, of Malines, Captain G. Kuiper,
arrived here on Wednesday, with stem and bows stove
in, bowsprit broken, and much other damage, having,
on her voyage from Lirerpool to Antwerp, been in con
tact with a large barque, name unknown, off Dungeness,
early the same morning. Also arrived on Wednesday,
the schooner Fanny, of Jersey, Captain Thomas Amy,
from Demerara for London, laden with rum, having lost
anchor. part of chain, several sails, eith datnav ie
hull and rigging, in the gale on Sunday last —Dover
Chronicle.

A CHANCE FOR BRISTOL.
The Great Britain has, according to the various
accounts of those who went in her from Bristol to
London, made a most successful experiinenral trip,
under circumstances well qualified to test her capabi-
lities. True, she had only ballast on board, and was,
consequently, light and buoyant as a duck; bat she
steered admirably, and so conducted herself through-
out a bt,isterous passage, as to leave the impression
that, under any circumstances, she will be able gal-
lantly to face foul weather. The fair presumption is,
that she is a capital sea-boat.
Now, Government wants good sea-boats, and
builds very bad ones. With Government steamers,
failure appears to be the rule—success the exception.
Bristol builds good steamers—witness the Great
Western and Great Britain. The fair inference is,
that Government cannot do better than give Bristol
an order.
A writer in a morning paper, evidently conversant
with the subject, shows that in almost every instance
Government steamers have turned out, on trial,
lamentable blunders. The Gorgon, on her first trip,
swam so much by the stern, that, in her passage from
Sheerness to Longreach, " the lower ports on the
main-deck had to be caulked in ; and, notwithstand-
ing this, the officers' cabins were filled with water."
She would only go eight miles an hour, and her
bisilders were compelled to " caulk in the ports fitted
for guns." To make up for the Gorgon being so much
by the stern, the Victoria and Albert swam so much
by the head that 200 tons of lead ballast had to be
placed aft to keep her on an even keel; and she steered
badly. The Firebrand, in her experimental cruise,
" rolled and jerked about to that degree in a sea-way,
that it was impossible to cast the guns loose for prac-
tice." The Cyclops, the Retribution, and other
vessels, were equally failures. The Examiner, in
reference to these official " mistakes," observes—
If you happen to fall in with a steamer at sea, mak-
ing bad way and bad weather, you may be sure that she
is a man-of-war. Slowness, awkwardness, and uneasi-
ness, are the certain characteristics of the man-of-war
steamer. The common trading packets beat them
wherever they happen to try their speed with them. It
is curious, indeed, that the managers of these things in
the navy have so contrived matters as never yet to have
produced a tolerably good man-of-war steamer. The
unifoi mitt' of the failure is quite extraordinary. In so
many experiments it is singular that there has been no
solitary deviation into success. The surveyor, however,
takes his measures so as to guard against any such irre-
gularity, and no one of his steamers shames the others.
When they are put to shame, it is by packets with cargoes
of pigs, oxen, and the like."
It is not a little strange that England, so long the
first naval power in the world, should, notwithstand-
ing her great experience, have failed so often and so
signally in the construction of her war vessels. Is it
not lamentable that the service should have been
crowded with "Forty Thieves"—" Donkey Frigates,"
that could " neither fight nor run"—and gun-brigs,
facetiously known as " Coffins," in consequence of
the " alacrity in sinking" for which these vessels
were distinguished? It is notorious, too, that in the
last war many of the best ships in the British navy
were those taken from the French. We won our
naval battles, not because we had better ships, hut
because our sailors and officers knew better than
French officers how to handle th,.m, and becauAe our
soamen were better than those of our neighbour. So
well known were the superior sailing qualities of the
French vessels, that it used to be a stupid boast that
British ships were built to fight—French ones to run
away. But, as it is well known that the superior
sailing qualities of a ship frequently give her crew
immense advantages in taking up a position, it is clear
that in this respect, as in many others, we won our
battles against olds.
We mention these circumstances, because what was
true of Government-built ships at that time is true of
Government-built steamers in the present day; and
the frequency of failure then, as now, leads to the
presumption that there must be something amiss in
the Government system—inefficiency, favouritism,
wrong-headedness, or want of science. Now, con-
sidering the immense importance of the naval service
in upholding the honour, interests, and reputation of
this country, and considering the increasing import-
ance of steam-frigates as a branch of that naval ser-
vice, the repeated failures in the building of efficient
Government vessels are worse than disgraceful—are
positively dangerous. If better vessels, out of all
sight, can be built by private companies than at the
Government dockyards, then the Government owes
it to the nation to give orders to private companies
for the construction of national vessels.
Government has had its agents on board, scrutinis-
ing the qualities of the Great Britain. Should they
report favourably, a great step will have been gained.
The vessel will, no doubt, have first to go through the
ordeal of an Atlantic voyage ; but should she prove
successful, then we think there is a fair and reason-
able chance, on applications being made in the proper
quarters, that this city may obtain orders for the con-
struction of one or more Government vessels.
No other place, perhaps, could be selected pos-
sessing equal advantages. The dock where the Great
Britain was built, and the immense machinery em-
ployed in her construction, being already at hand ;
whilst the vicinity of Bristol to the iron of Wales
gives her great facilities in cheaply procuring that
material.
The Great Britain, though possibly a failure in a
commercial point of view, may be looked upon as a
great experiment in naval science, which may yet
have a national influence. Should she succeed, and
should Government wish for vessels like her, surely
Bristol possesses claims superior to any other city
to be favoured with their construction.
It is to be hoped that this subject will not be lost
sight of by those who have most interest in looking
after the matter.—Bristol Mercury.

THE GREAT BRITAINSTEAM-
SHIP.
This interesting monster, whose reluctance to quit
,he dock at Bristol gave rise to so much fun, and at the
same time to so much solid trouble, is at length quietly
moored in the Thames—after her trip from Bristol, re-
corded in our paper a few days back, in which she
silenced, by anticipation, many of those objections to her
sailing and seaworthy qualities which are so ready to
start up in the minds of the nautically-wise, and of that
still larger class —the prophets of evil. She is moored
otf Blackwell, close to the terminus of the railway, and
nearly oppo-ite the ship-building yard of Mr. Greene,
where her solid mass of dark bulk—.its giganticpropor.
tions scarcely relieved by the six bare poles that stretch
(with the name of masts) from bows to stern—appears
to monopolise the Pool. The vessel is evident an ob-
ject of unusual interest. Crowds of persons are to be
seen on the pier, from the steem -Wet station up to
Love grove's Tavern, staring with all their eyes at the
gloomy-looking leviathan in the distance. Others,
more adventurous, put off in the boats that poke
their prows into each other around the stairs, re-
gularly marshalled, and " taking their turns " of
the passengers, to row visitors round the ship or
put them on board. Hawkers of prints, too, find it
worth their while to parade up and down the pier in
the cold and fog, selling for ld. a very fair engraving of
the vessel, with a full, true, and particular account of all
her proportions and wonderful exaggerations. We are
not surprised that the Great Britain should excite this
curiosity, or that such numbers should crowd to see
what so many believe is to be at once the alpha and
omega of monster-ships. The old waterman who took
us on board observed on returning, with an awfully pro-
phetic shake of the head, " Glad you've seed the wessel,
Sir ; don't think she'll ever be seed or heerd of agin !
The sea's trouble enough wi' whales, and don't want to
be bothered wi' no more sich big barges as that !" Now,
a great number of persons go to see the ship with fore-
bodings very similar to those of the exasperated old tar ;
but most of them must come away with different im-
pressions. Nautical men of course base their opi-
nions upon certain calculations ; and to them the
breadth of the Great Britain (50 feet 6 inches) appears
too little for her length, which is 322 feet. The unscien-
tific spectator, on approaching her side, is certainly
struck with the remarkable length from stem to stern ;
and, looking at her under the bows, the breadth does
seem utterly inadequate. But this is a question which
the different schools of shipbuilders will settle, pro or
con., to their own satisfaction beforehand, and which
will be disposed of more, we trust, to the satisfaction of
the public after a few successful voyages across the At-
lantic. Those who may take advantage of the facility of
the railway to take a trip to Blackwell, in the expecta-
tion of finding anything beautiful about the Great Bri-
tain, will be mistaken. If their imaginations have
figured one cluster amidst the forest of masts and spars,
towering high above the rest, its crowded canvas taper-
ing in light and elegant diminution to the topmost spire,
and swaying the " tall ship gracefully," they will be not
a little disappointed to see only a long, monotonous, dark,
half-painted, dingy, coppery hulk, not moulded into
shape like a good sailing boat, and yet without the abrupt
bulge which the paddle-boxes cause in ordinary steam-
boats, and which, if unshapely, at least speak of hard
work. If you look above the hulk for your beautiful
three masts with the graduated outline of their spars and
rigging, you are not a little annoyed at seeing six naked
poles, running like a row of posts from stem to stern,
and suggesting, in spite of the vastness of the surface
they cover, the idea of a laundress's yard prepared with
props and lines for hanging out the clothes. When the
ship is under full press of sail, the inelegance is none
the less ; because the masts are not high enough to re-
lieve the heaviness of the long bulky mass that forms
the ship.
But, this first disappointment got over, there is every-
thing to admire in this extraordinary effort of human
determination. The Great Britain has evidently been
built not for ornament, but for use. She might easily
have been made more graceful, and perhaps without any
saciifise of power or safety. Her claim to admiration
consists in her plainness and simplicity, the r-stness of
her proportions, the rigid utilitarianism with which not
one inch of space is thrown away. There is an ap•
pearance of iron-bound strength which inspires confi-
dence.
The interior is fitted pon the same principle. There
is nothing gay or gaudy ; on
.the contrary, it there be a
fault in the arrangements, it is perhaps that they are
too plain, hard, and cold (so to speak) for comfort and
ease. For this reason the accommodation for fore-
cabin passengers is nearly as good as that in the
chief cabin. It would have been next to impasiible to
render them more plain. On the other hand, though or-
every provi-
moat hes been used perhaps too sparingly,

THE WEATHER—THE TEM-
PERATURE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
Since our last the weather has continued to increase
in severity, there being heavy falls of snow during
Tuesday night and Wednesday night, or rather
Thursday morning. The frost during Thursday
night was intense, and the temperature lower than
we have experienced in Manchester for a great num-
ber of years past. In the cold frosty weather of De-
cember last the temperature fell from 31 deg. on the
3d, to 20 deg. on the 6th; and during the night of
Saturday, the 7th, or rather at an early hour of Sun-
day, the Bth, it reached its lowest point, 19 deg.
But the temperature during the last few days has
declined much more rapidly, and to a much lower
point. On Monday the lowest point was 33 deg.;
on Tuesday, 26 deg.; on Wednesday, 23 deg.; on
Thursday evening, 13 deg. ; and yesterday morning
the mercury was as low as eight degrees of Fahrenheit,
or 24 deg. below the freezing point.
As this temperature is ) Re unusually low, as oc-
curring in this town, we have been careful to make
inquiries as to the circumstances under which it was
observed. Messrs. J. B. and J. Ronchetti have a
carefully graduated and tested thermometer, sus-
pended on a low wall, bounding a garden, at Higher
Ardwick, and not contiguous to any house; and at
midnight on Thursday this instrument indicated the
temperature to be 12 degrees. Struck with the low
point, Messrs. Ronchetti tried three other instru-
ments. They drove a piece of wood into the soil in
the middle of the garden, and hung these instruments
upon this wooden upright, at a height of about three
feet from the ground, and they all indicated the same
degree -of temperature. At one o'clock yesterday
morning (an hour after midnight) they again looked
at all four instruments, and found them alike to in-
dicate 11 degrees ; at two o'clock they found the
temperature 10 degrees ; and at three o'clock in
the morning they were again observed, and at
that hour they all indicated a temperature of nine
degrees. They were not again observed till an ad-
vanced hour in the morning; but, being all self-
registering, they were found alike to indicate, as the
lowest temperature attained, eight degrees. We un-
derstand, that, in this respect, they agree with other
instruments in different parts of the town and
suburbs. Mr. Lawrence Buchan, who resides in
Hyde Place, Higher Ardwick, and has for many
years been a careful observer of temperature—re-
gistering his observations, made with excellent in-
struments of his own construction—found the lowest
temperature registered on Friday morning to be
eight degrees ; exactly agreeing with the observation
of Messrs. Ronchetti, in the same suburb of Man-
chester. But we have received one communication
deserving of attention, from the well-known scientific
attainments of the writer, which certainly exhibits a
much lower minimum than that just noticed. The
following is the note of Mr. Joule, whose experiments
and researches in physical science are well-known :
" Sir,—This (Friday) morning, at half-past seven
o'clock, the temperature of the air at Oak Field, Upper
Chorlton-road, was four degrees and a half below the
zero of Fahrenheit, or 36} deg. below the freezing point.
The thermometer was placed in an open field, its bulb
being five or six inches above the surface of the snow.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" JAMES J. JOULE
This, it will be seen, is 123- degrees below the." ob-
-se'rvations of Messrs. Ronchetti and Mr. Buchan.
But Mr. Joule's is not the only thermometer which
has shown this extraordinarily low temperature. We
have been informed that a gentleman residing at
Withington observed his thermometer, at eleven
o'clock on Thursday night, at six degrees ; and at
half-past six o'clock yesterday morning it indicated
two degrees below zero. This is not the first time
that we have noticed that, in the district to the south
of the town, within the range of the town fog, the
observations of low temperatures have indicated a
point lower, by several degrees, than in other localities
about equidistant from the centre of the town.
We know but previous of one occasion in which
the temperature has been observed so low as on that
just noticed. On the 13th of January, 1826, the
thermometer indicated 10 deg. Fahrenheit. On the
morning of Thursday, the 4th of January, 1827, the
lowest point observed in the town was 6 deg. above
zero; but in several parts of the neighbourhood self-
registering thermometers were found to have marked
a temperature of 4 deg. below zero ; being at that
time the most intense cold ever observed in this neigh-
bourhood by any person in the habit of registering
his observations. During the great frost of 1814, the
lowest point was 6 deg. above zero. It is a fact
worthy of observation, that both in January, 1827,
and during Thursday last, the barometer was un-
usually low for a period of severe frost. During the
whole of Thursday last, it stood at 29.11, and the
mean pressure on the 3d of January, 1827, was 29.45.
January being the month of lowest temperature,
we have taken from the registered observations of
Messrs. Ronchetti the lowest temperatures recorded
by them during that month in each of the last sixteen
years :

- January. Degs January. Deg*
1830. 19th r 17 1838. 19th,11degs.;20th 9
1831. 26th and 27th ... 25 1839. 31st
1832. sth
1833. 10th 23 1841. 7th, 11 degs. ; 6th 9
1834. 28th 32 1842. 23d
1835. 21st 201843. 2d
1836. 11th
1837. Ist
To these we add the two lowest temperatures
known in Manchester or its neighbourhood :

Below Zero.
1827. Jan. 4.—Neighbourhood of the town, 4 deg.
1845. Jan. 31.—Lppe► Chorlton•road 44 dog.
1845. Jan. 31.—Withington

THE SALE AT CHESTERFIELD
HOUSE, BLACKHEATH.
The remaining effects of her late Royal Highness the
Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester were on Thursday
brought to the hammer by Mr. Chinnock, of Regent-
street, by permission of her Majesty's Commissioners of
Woods and Forests. The auctioneer was honoured by
a vast number of bidders, and the greater portion of the
articles put ap fetched extraordinarily high prices.
Amongst the books, engravings, &c., were a full-length
portrait of King William IV., in his coronation robes,
the Duchess of Kent ditto, and half portraits of Queen
Adelaide and Prince Albert ; these sold for 20s. only ;
six portraits of the Royal Family, ditto, 20s. ; a royal
elephant portfolio, containing valuable engravings of
battles, landscapes, portraits, &c., brought 61. 10s.
Water-coloured drawings of lodges in Windsor Great
Park, very beautiful, but which proved, on close inspec-
tion, to be only lithographic prints skilfully coloured,
fetched 525. Roscoe's " Monandrin Plants," 2 vols.,
plates, were sold at 70s. ; Lewis's drawings of the
Alhambra, 655.; Beaumont's " Travel's through the
Alps," 325. ; Lewis's " Sketches of Spain," 51. ss. ;
David Roberts's " Sketches in Spain," 90s. ; "Pic-
turesque Voyage to Geneva, Milan, &c," in French,
plates highly coloured, in Morocco double-gilt,
5/. 7s. 6d. ; and about 20 other lots of choice books went
off at equally good prices. Amongst the furniture a
handsome bird's-eye maple cabinet, inlaid with ebony
and lined with crimson silk (lot '655), was knocked
down at 24 guineas. Lot 669, an elegant eight-light
glass chandelier and chain to ceiling, sold at 5/. 171. Of
the china ornaments—lot 682, a pair of white gold
torches with three open-work trays for flowers, 18 inches
high, brought 90s. Lot 683, a small alabaster vase, with
bouquet of rice flowers, and a pair of small china cornu-
copise match vases, sold at 48s. Lot 684, eight old real
china cups, embossed flowers and stands, 265. Lot 685,
a carved ivory pedestal watch-stand, with thermometer
and a bronze sliding candle-screen, 90s. Lot 686, a
Dresden china Grecian vase, 13 inches high, sold for
8 guineas. Lot 687, a pair of small china flower-stands,
with pencil landscapes, fetched 17s. Lot
689,
a painted
time-
piece in Dresden china case, 24 inches,
flowers and landscapes, sold for 25 guinfeaws.::
a .pair of handsome flower vases o
knocked down
painted in medallions, were
Lot
after a sharp bidding at 29/. los.ldt LSutev6r9eos;
cream•coloured china candlesticks 692,
size, sold
and a pair aofpcahiocr choco-
late-ground
at 5/. Lot 693, a pair cf
late-ground china flower-pot stands,
esrtmanedles,
vases small
tazzas, with bor-
essories, small, fetched
bor-
der of Cupids, Hymen, and
8 guineas. Lot 694,ap iuwGerreeesiaonld
correspond, glass shadesstands,aainrdof
scentcasket, ditto
tray, and a soapstone-cat, sold
guineas. Lot 696,_ a satinwood a with
four bottles, a glass pen
rm
Lot 697, Parisian ormolu timepiece,
at 5 guineas.
very pretty, sold at 81. lls. Lot 698, a dejeuner and tea
service of old white ground Furst, nberg china, painted
pastoral subjects, small set, only 12 cups, saucers, &e,,
sold at 10 guineas. Lot 699, a handsome cut glass basin
stand
with her Re:- al Highness's coronet and initials, the
harp and Irish symbols, 31. 3s. Lot 790, a case of 17
Chinese drawings ou rice paper, and a Turkey morocco
writing case, 50s. Lot 701, a Ru.sia leather paper-case
with painted drawing of the Italian coast, and marble
paper-weights, 2 guineas. Lot 702, a bijou envelope-
case of crimson velvet fitted uon p and a medallion painted
ivoryt 6/. 10s. The sale of about 2,000 ounces of
plate followed, which varied in price from 7s. per ounce
to 31s. sd. Lot 740, al3 inch circular salver with em-
bossed border of grapes, engraved centre and coronet,
sold at 14s. an ounce. A quantity of plated articles and
other unimp ,rtant things were sold. and the sale closed
at a late hour. A very great number of lots realised
more than twice their original coat.