Star.
London, England, 1830-07-12 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.

The fiction of the Duke of Wellington having been surprised tom
the above great occasion, has maintained its place in almost all nar-
ratives of the oar for 15 years. The Duke's magnanimous silence
for so long a period swill be appreciated by posterity. The facts of
the case are now given, jroes authority, in the History of Napo-
teox which toms the two tint volumes of The Fa.
ashy Library :
• At half-past one o'clock p. m. of the same day (l'bur•dey, the
15th), a Ptussian officer of high rank arrived at Wellin_ton's
head-quarters in Brussels, with the intelligence of Napoleon's de-
cisive operations. By two o'clock orders were despatched to all the
cantonments of the Duke's army for the divisions to break up, and
concentrate on the left of Quatrebtas, his Grace's design being that
his whole force should be assembled there, by 11 o'clock cot the
next night, Friday, the 16th.
" It was at first intendedeto pui:ofra ball armour ced for thee% eniis
of Thursday, at die Duchess of itichatoud's hotel in Brussels; but
on reflection it waned highly important that the populatioo of that
city should be kept as far as possibk in ignorance as to the course of
events, and the Duke of Wellington desired that the ball .hould psi).
ceed accordingly, nay, the general officers received his commands to
appear in the ball-room, each taking care to quit the apartment
as quietly as possible, at ten o'clock, and proceed to join his re-
spective division en route. This arrangement was carried into
strict execution. The Duke himself rabid at twelve o'clock, and
left Brussels at six o'clock next morning fot Qoatre-11ras. The re-
serve quitted Brussels in the night with the most perfect silence and
regularity, unnoticed by the inhabitants and the events' which had
occurred were almost wholly unknown its that city, except to the
military authorities, until the next day.
" The Duke of Wellington conversed at the ball with various
persons on the movements which had occurred—stated his calcula-
tion of the Preach force directed against his left, and expressed his
confidence that his whole army would be up at Quatre-brao by 11
o'clock the next night. This most extraordinary and rapid con-
centration of force wee erected ; the various divisions of die army,
previously cottoned over an extent of fifty miles, were collected at
Quatre-bras, within the short space of 24 hours."—Vol. ii. p. 308.

A WALLOPER AND WALLOP.

(Frees • Corrosporidext.)
Walloper is a word denoting • poem that boils • for tealkp sig-
nifies to boil, and is derived from a Saxon word of that meaning.
In some pans of England the elective franchise is of ancient wage,
it every man that wallops, or boils a pot in a tenement ; and baths
pei.esoliepitey and pei-srallopers are Parliamentary and legal MINI,
familiar to committees of the House of Commons and counsel MI
election cases. We sometimes hear a rade boy threaten to wasp
somber, which, though vulgar, is a proper word, eaprvssive of de.
termination to thoroughly hest his adversary by a sound beating.
Certain families bear the name of Mayo, whence, by ct4mp.
don, comes the more common name Yeinp. In the reign Id James
11. an =them lawyer, named Wallop, distinguished himself by re.
sluing the legal escroidutents on popular rights. With a view to
the establishment of Pmy, the King issued a &awake Mr li.
betty of conscience. lfr. S'allop, in common with the.cbs:NS
saw the " false proems," and said, "This Is but a
they Omni to builda house s when disk house is built, they'll i
down their scaffulds." The Dialtspe wore quiescent wades tho
Royal Mucks upon civil liberty, until they imoglistra " the i
demi In dam., t" sod then they put nob a thilaratisi fir
et=af the subject. On its appearance, Ma Walley
"Mute! Dew tbas eirbitasry power is boltdowes
they bops thus is meat it ? They have allowed dee to the
bowel es bs bookof not and now 'they think to oat with
disk elimbe Mr. Wallop and the Ken
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" Why is atil Na. Wallop node a falser A proses of
den answered this by sayleg, " Poe theaters renew that Mfrs:
ma is slot rank a bishop. At length bln Wallop was inad.fs isms
do Zzoisiguer by Lod Primers t he died soon after Lis pre.
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BRIDGP.

'Thf summit of the Andes, the highest penk of Mount flimalaya,l
are exceedingly poetical stations to him who discerns thtlr [epee-
live comparative altitudes in the prettily coloured pictures which see
to be sees in the wintlowc of the stationers shops. There is some-
thing very sublime in the thought of being

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Ninety.nint• times as high as St. Paul's.
The imagination of climbing up a glorious ascent snits well
aspiring ambition of mortals, but the reality does not quite so won
suit their knees, toes, and lungs, and there are not twenty mess in
the great metropolis who would not willingly exchange the summit
of the Andes and all its sublimity to boot for a snug corner In
Dolly's chop-house, where one may be quite as poetical as at the
top of a mountain, and where one may see a great deal more of the
world. If from one of these regions of sublimity a man could really
Look from its throne of clouds o'er half the world,
and could see what he looked at, it would be a fine sight. But the
worst of the matter is, that there is Nothing to be seen but elOutls,
and nothing to be felt but cold weather ; the rest is all imagination.
Or if the mingled sounds of human voices came buzzing up to the
mountain top, there might be a sublimity in the multitudinous
noise : but there is nothing to be heard but the wind, and that may
be heard as well in St. Paul's-churchyard.
For a scene of real interest take Waterloo Bridge. There is some.
thing to be heard, something to be seen, and something to be thought
of There is an eye-full, an ear-full, and a heatt-full. Blessings
on the tollgates, they make it a glorious solitude—a solitude that
may be felt. It is not a res in urbe, it is worth fifty rus iw lobes.
It is a fine architectural solitude, infinitely superior to a brown grass
plot surrounded by dusty lilac+. Here one may know by contrast what
solitude really is. You arc altogether out of the world, but you are
not under the necessity of forming an imaginary world fm yourself ;
you have one before you and around you. On Waterloo Bridge you
are lilted up above the world in a kind of granite balloon, and have
no fear of breaking your neck. It is most pleasant to listen to that
monotonous murmur of mingled sounds, which, composed of ten
thousand changing elements, yet continues the same. Waterloo
Bridge is the centre of the world. All the lines of human interest
there meet together. Look to the East and there is the world of
business; loot to the West and there is the world of fashion and of
pleasure. Look to the East and the mind's-eye may sail down the
widening river and bold converse with the mighty ocean, and with
distend lands; look to the West and the imagination may trace the
meandering. of the river amidst rural scenery and the bosom ahem:it.
Look to the north bank of the river and there is an old would: look
to the south bank and there is a new world. Listen, and you will
hear inimitable music—and is not the sound of a great city an in-
imitable sound ? Hail, rain, and thunder may be imitated, and are
imitated at Drury-lane, Covent-garden, Sadler's Wells, and many
other places. Alen have imitated the crowing of cocks, the singing
of Canary-birds, the squeaking of pigs, the lowing of cattle, and the
bleating of sheep; but no one has yet invented any machine whereby
the multitudinous sounds of a great city may be imitated. And
what an interest Is there in the music ! There is an interest of
feeling, and there is an interest of science. Weber or Mozart mightl
have caught, not inspiration indeed, but an impulse to inapiratiou
• from the roaring melody and the rolling harmony. For what in
music in its purest and fullest meaning but an echo of the sounds of
humanity, a modulated transcript of the expressed emotions of the
species ? And what is the teat of muaie's verity but the heart's and
ear's appeal to nature ? The multitudinous murmur of a great city I.
a sublime national chorus, including every variety of vocal and instru-,
mental sound. The everlasting rumbling of carriage wheels forms
fine running bass. The mingled voices of the busy ones are an ex-
cellent tenor • and above, in the shrillness of a treble, may be heard
the high-raised voices of itinerant or ambulatory metebants. IC
would answer well, in point of effect, if an artist could arrange,.
fora winter pantomime at one of our great theatres, a lively and :sew
curate semblance of the sound of a great city. And there is such a
deep and heart-stirring interest in the music. There is something'
serious in it. Bees that work havd not much time to listen to
music, and drones that do not work have not much sympathy with
the sounds of labour and toil ; but if we could conceive of a busy
bee being sufficiently at leisure to attend to such a sound, what
could be sweeter music to its ear than the murmuring of its own
hive ?

On Waterloo Bridge one sets nothing to connect it with the name
which It bears. There is no warlike emblem or triumphal arch,
there is no military decoration, it is altogether a civil structure, a
great granite accommodation to the visitants of the Coburg Theatre s
and if the bridge and the theatre should change names, it would be
a matter of no importance, for the bridge is as Coburgish as the
theatre, and the theatre is as Waterlooish as the bridge. In short,
on Waterloo bridge one thinks of anything and everything but Wes
terloo. The name of Waterloo seems most appropriately to belong
to the cheap linen-drapers' shops, they are quite as Waterloo-Biters
the bridge.—Sunday paper.

CHESTER SUMMER CIRCUIT.

The Hon. Tilos. Jzavis, his Majesty's Justice.
Montgomeryshire—Thursday, August 12, Welchpool.
Denbighshite--Wednesday, August 18, Ruthin.
Flintshire--Tuesday, August 24, Mold.
Cheshire—Monday, August 30, Castle of Chester.
V} TERN CIRCUIT.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN and Mr. Baron Bott.Awrt.
Southammon—Nlonday, July 19, at the Castle of Winchester.
Wilut—Saturday, 94, at New Sarum.
Dorset—Thursday, July 29, at Dorchester.
Devon—Monday, August 2, at the Castle of Exeter.
City of Exeter—On the same day, at the Guildhall of the City of
Exeter.

Cornwall—Monday, August 9, at Bodmin.
Sometset—Saturday, August 14, at the City of Wells.
Briatol—Saturday, August 21, at the Guildhall of the same city.