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Dublin University Magazine. May, 1838.

There are some first-rate articles in this number, the
best of which is " Bay Brady's Goose,. or Dark Do-
ings at Slathbeg," whrillis in Carleton's best style. The
-secret is extremely well preserved until towards the close
of the tale. The reviews in the Dublin University Ma-
gazina are always well written. This remark particu-
larly applies to the notices .tof " Woodward's Sermons,"
4‘ Rambles in the footsteps of Don -Quixote," "-Alison's
French Revolution," the "Elements of Civil Govern•
anent," and of " frwen's Sermon" in the present num•
ber. The Orphans of Dunasker" continues to interest
as much as the preceding parts of the same tale, hut it
;is rather too long for a magazine, especially as the chap-
ter!: do not appear in monthly succession. The essay
on " The Law of Executorship" is a clever paper from
the pen of the author of " Old Bailey Experience."—
' The Rubi, a Tale of the Sea," is beautifully conceived.
The " By-Ways o. Irish History" contains some curi-
ous remarks on the " Royal College of Maynooth"-
-" ducation at Maynooth"—and the " Royal Com-
missioners of Enquiry." The " German Brothers" is
rather tame.

Taira Edinburgh Magazine. May, 1838.

Tai€'s reviews are, as usual, excellent, embodying
.as they do such very copious extracts from the different
works under notice. The subjects of criticism this month
are, " The Political Works of Thomas Pringle," and the
concluding volume of " Lockhart's Life of Scott." The
'lrish Reapers" is a very characteristic sketch from the
pen of the O'Hara Family. The verses on the "Triumph
of Woman" are .pretty, as are also those on "Spring,"
and the lines addressed "To an "The Society
of Friends, as it was, and as it is," by Hewitt, contains
some very honest remarks on the constitution and disci-
pline of that body. "Peeps into Paris" promise to be
very entertaining. "Glimpses into the Western Corner
of Fairy Land"- display tnudi learned investigation.
Benthanism—Emancipate your Colonies," contain a
greater mass of falsehoods and absurdities than we have
ever seen before crammed together in the same compass.
"The Congneror's Dream" is a beautiful fragment.
The remarks on " Serjeant Talfourn's Copyright Bill"
are, fraught with sound sense. "Trafalgar" is another
Perpetration of blasphemous nonsense, by Ebenezer
Elliott, the truculent author of the "Corn Law Rhymes."

If Tait would only eschew politics it would be one of the
very best magazines in existence. Its literary merits
are of a very superior order.

The Monthly Chronicle. May, 1835..
This periodical bids fair to sustain the high pretensions
with which it was ushered into public notice. Its literary
and scientific articles are of a very superior description,
whilst its political essays have the .merit of being ex-
tremely well written. This number contains two arti-
cles of a political tendency—a paper on " The Irish
Church," and some strictures on " Lord Brougham:"
The former of these is penned in the style truculent of
Richard Shiel, whom we suspect to be the author. The
notice of the " Life and Writings of Sir Walter Scott"
is neither very clever nor very original. The paper on
•` Warming and Ventilating" contains some very judici-
ous and useful remarks on the stoves of Arnott and Joyce,
which have recently engaged so much public attention.
The continuation of "Zicci" possesses a very powerful
interest. The essay on "Manners" is excellent. "The
Architecture of London" is a very learned paper. The
miscellaneous contents of this number of the Monthly
Chronicle display considerable taste and ability.

The Asiatic Journal: May, 1838.
This number contains several very interesting ,papers.
The "Review- of Eastern News" is temperately. ex-
pressed. The article on "The Passage of the Red Sea
by the Israelites, and its locality; and on the Situation
of Mount Sinai," is very learned and elaborate. "Born-
bay" is a very lively paper, containing much original
information. The verses on "Twilight" are pleasing.
`• A Voyage up the Red Sea" is spiritedly written. The
verses on the "Death of a Young Officer" have much
originality. The paper on "The New Criminal Law of
India" contains a brief epitome of the proposed code.
The communication on the "Interpretations of the Lats,
or Pillars, of Hindostan," displays a profound acquaint-
ance with the ancient languages of that country. The
miscellaneous intelligence in the Asiatic is always of a
highly interesting character.

Parbury's Oriental Herald. May, 1838.
In this number we find some very interesting details
respecting the " Maldiva Islands," the geography,
history, and statistics of which have been hitherto but
indifferently known. "The East India Voyage, No. 5,"
contains some very useful advice to outward-bound cadets.
The remarks on "The East India Slave Trade" abound
in gross exaggerations and perversions of facts. The
Indian, Chinese, and Australaian intelligence in the
Oriental Herald will be found to possess great interest.
The mass of news collected under this head is astonishing.

7'he Nero Monthly Belle Assemblee. May, 1838.
Variety is the leading feature of this agreeable perio-
dical, as, indeed, it ought to he. The principal articles
are :—" The Widow's Vow," " A Scene at the Court of
Queen Anne," "My Spanish Kinsfolk," " Broken
Faith," "Je ne Change qu'en Mourant," " Notes
during a short Residence in Paris," " Sketches by an
Old Maid," " Leonard Harleigh," and " The Ruins of
Quarendon Chapel." The tales in this nausber are
very superior. The poetry and lighter articles are of a
very amusing and instructive character. This elegant
magazine deserves to be popular.

The Sportsman. New Series. May, 1838.
The illustrations to this number of the Sportsman
are:—" The Sportsman's Study," containing a portrait
of Mr. Apperley, the celebrated "Nimrod," and a view
of a " Trout Pool." The latter isan exquisite engraving.
The literary and sporting articles are of a very high
character, especially the " Anecdotes of the late John
Mytton, Esq.," the " Neilgheries," the " Sporting
Biography," the " English System of Racing in 1838,"
the " Treatise on the Management of Horses," " Sport-
ing, by Nimrod," and the " Prize Essay on the Inflam-
matory Complaints of Horses." The miscellaneous
intelligence embraces a great variety of subjects, all of
which are of interest to the sportsman.

The Farmer's Magazine. May, 1838.
This journal is one of the cheapest and most useful
published. The variety of its contents is surprising It
is scarcely necessary to dilate upon their importance.
Among the principal articles this month, we would enu-
merate the articles " On Making Hay," " On Spade
Husbandry and Cottage Gardens," " On Steam Car-
riages and Railways," " Professor Johnson's Lectures
on Botany," " On the Culture of Wheat within the
Tropics," "On the Cultivation and Use of Mange!
Wurzel," " The population of England not redundant,"
" On the Inflammatory Complaints of Horses," " The
Horse—Stable Operations," "On Smut in Wheat,"
&c., &c. To the farmer this publication will prove a
substitute for almost all others.

The Anthropological Magazine, May, 1838.
The present number of this magazine contains an
essay by the editor, Dr. Epps, on " The Postoffice and
Reduction of Postage." The subject is treated of in all
its bearings, and with much ability. The information
embodied in this article ought to be in the possession of
every one. If the facts which it details were more ge-
nerally known we should find the public taking more
energetic steps to procure a reform of the Postoffice
system.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE CORONATION.

(From eEn G
In the coronatidnth
affair,ast asßidi
in allazette
other .)
s where good
taste, loyalty, generous feeling, and dignity are inter-
mingled, the "shabbiest of all shabby
ministries" has
been obliged to give way. Lord Melbourne fixed the
anniversary of the death of the uncle for the coronation
of the niece, and an universal groan of scorn and con-
tempt has compelled him to recede. More, however, at
the present moment, he dares not do. Lord Westmin•
ster, and others of the whig famine:4, demand their por-
tion of the public spoil; and having an abundance of
mere wealth, they crave exaltation in conventional rank.
They know full well that they can hope to acquire it only
upon an extraordinary occasion, when the crown, with-
out the question of the nation, may give away honours.
Such an event is a coronation. They know, also, that so
wretchedly tottering is the present ministry, that it isut-
terly impossible for it to go through the session in a re-
gular course of public business, and survive. Hence the
breathless haste : no coronation in June, no twenty-six
peerages, with eight or ten promotions, to gratify abase,
incompetent, and most tyrannical faction.
According, then, to Lord Melbourne, the whips are to
have another "half crown-ation." And the popular
Same of our young Queen is to be blurred and blotted
throughout the -land in order to promote the miserable
purposes of a shabby ministry. The public voice, how.
ever, has already given certain warnings; and, from
these and other proceedings which are in progress, we
verily believe that, even were the coronation to take
place on the List day in June, it would not find Lord
Melbourne at the head of the Treasury.

EXPLANATORY NOTICE
RESPECTING REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS,
ENDER THE NEW REGTSTRATION ACT.
16 and 7 Gulielmi IV., c.`B6.]

By the new registration act, the parent of every child born
after June, 1837, may obtain for it the advantage of a legal re-
gistry of its birth, without payment of any fee, provided it be
registered by the registrar of the district in which the child was
born within six weeks after the birth. A birth may be register-
ed at any time within six months after the birth ; but, after six
weeks, the expence of registering it will be 7s. 6d., and after six
months it cannot be registered at all.
The new register of births is the only legal register which is
evidence of the time of a birth, and, consequently, of the precise
age of the child, and which is also evidence of the place where
the birth occurred.

It is of importance to all classes of persons to be able to prove
when and where they were horn, which may be done in future
by means of the register of births. To the wealthier classes such
a register is especially useful for proof of pedigree, and for vari-
ous legal purposes connected with the disposition of property,
and for settlement of claims thereto, and also for life insurance.
To the poorer classes it is useful for the same purposes, and for
others also, particularly such as apprenticeship, employment in
factories, and admission to endowed schools and charities.
There are many schoolS, societies, asylums, and other charitable
institutions, very desirable for the children of the poorer classes,
for which a proof of the age is required before the child can be
admitted.

Many trading companies will not take an apprentice without
a certificate of the age; and this is also sometimes necessary in
order to obtain employment in the dock yards, and other public
establishment.

Those who live in manufacturing districts know how desirable
it is to be able to prove. the age of children seeking to be em-
ployed in factories.
Refristration is also of great importance to all members of
friendly and benefit societies.

The new system of registration not only. gives a register of
the age, which could not be obtained before, out.makes it easier
to obtain the proof when wanted. Persons in the country may
obtain a certified copy of any entry of a birth or death register-
ed in the district, from the registrar or the supelintendent regis-
trar; or by applying at the general register office in Somerset-
place, London, or causing a friend or agent to apply for them,
they may have a certified copy of any entry of birth, death, or
marriage, that has been registered in any part of England and
Wales; and this certified copy will be sufficient evidence, with-
out requiring an affidavit that the entry is correctly copied,
which is often required for the confirmation of extracts given
from church registers.

The difference between the new registers of births and the
church registers of baptism. and the effect of the registration
act, having been much misunderstood, it is right to explain—
That the one is not a substitute for the other; but that they
are entirely different, the new register being a register duly of
births, the church register being a register only of baptisms:
That registry of birth does not warrant neglect oftigirred
rite of baptism, nor is the fact that the child has hee tized
a sufficient reason for neglecting to register the birth.
That the church register of baptisms is not affected by the
new act, tort remains as before, a legal record of baptisms, but
not of births; for though births are sometimes enLered in the
church registers, it has been decided by Judges in courts of
law, " that an entry of a birth made by a clergyman in the re-
gister of baptisms is not evidence of the time or place of birth."

The small pox continues very prevalent in Ripon, attended
with great mortality amongst children.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY AND SHARSPEARE

CLIFF.

(By the Editor of the Railway Magazine.)

We had lately an opportunity of visiting the works of this
line about the terminus at Dover It was originally intended
to fix the terminus at the Military hospital some hundred feet
above the town, and to have three successive tunnelis through
the cliffs, together of about 11 mile, the intermediate half-mile
being an open gallery.
Mr. Cubitt, the present engineer, has, by an alteration in the
direction of the line, reduced the two tunnels of 11 mile to one
of i of a mile, and intends to bring the line so closely to the
docks that goods may be craned from the vessels to the waggons
of the company, and the contrary. By this means the expense
and delay of cartage will be avoided, and, what is of vastly
more consequence to the company, the cost of construction will
be considerably reduced, an incline of between thirty and forty
feet per mile will be avoided, and the tunnell, which is to be a
double one, with Gothic arches, each thirty feet high by twelve
wide, will be capable of much more easy and certain natural
ventillation. To effect these objects the line will run on a low
embankment on the highest part of the beach under Archcliffe
Fort, and enter the Shakespeare Cliffjust•beyond the garden of
a little 'place called the Mulberry-tree Public-house, where a
perpendicular face is now'cut of 110 feet in the hard cliff. Seven
vertical shafts, six feet diameter, varyin,,,,, from sixty-nine to
fifty-six yards deep, and continued with brick-work ten feet
above the surface of the ground, descend to the tunnel in the
course of the three-quarters of a mile ; and, likewise, to the
sea-face of the cliff, from the bottom of the tunnel are made,
from 188 to 123 yards long, as many gangways, seven feet high
by six wide. These decline at the rate of 176 feet per mile to--
wards their mouths, which gradually expand in the shape of
funnels at the sea end.

By this means ventilation is insured in summer as well as in
winter, a property which no tunnel with vertical shafts only can
eflect ; for the air within the tunnels, being then heavier than
that without, would not raise up the vertical shafts, but here will
roll down the sloping gangways and escape at their mouths over
the-cliffs.

From the place where the tunnel ceases, the line runs along
in a gallery 14 mile,• cut out on the edge of the cliff, until it
meets with what is called the second cliff beyond Lydden Spout,
' where it is generally in cutting, but sometimes on embankment.
To•those who know the localities it will be obvious that the
ride along the beach, and afterwards along the gallery facing
the sea, will be one that most will regard as singularly beautiful,
while the admirers of our great bard will be gratified to learn
' that-the cliff which goes under his name still rears its 330-feet
head undisfigured, and, as they would say, undesecrated.
The manner of executing the work is exceedingly simple, in-
genious, and comparatively inexpensive. Mr. Cubitt first sinks
his shafts only four feet diameter, over the pier left ten feet wide
between the two tunnels, to about seven feet below the verticles
of the two tunnels. He then drives a cross-heading, six feet, or
thereabouts, high, into the middle of each of the archways of
the tunnels. After this, he sinks the shaft to meet the gang-
ways descending outwards towards the cliff. He has now out-
lets through which fhe remaining two-feet portions cf the shafts,
amounting to five-ninths of their total contents, and all•the ex-
cavations of the tunnels, may be taken to the sea. Having
thus prepared for discharging the spoil, Mr. Cabin drives drift-
ways along the heads of the tunnels from shaft to shaft, and
then gradually forms his tunnels downwards.
At the places where the shafts descend, the pier between the
tunnels is taken away, leaving in those places free communica-
tion between the two tunnels over which the roof is groined to
meet the shaft.

The total excavations are estimated at 96,000 cubic yards for
the a mile tunnels, and the contract has been taken at £12,000,
that is, about £8 per yard run, or 2s. per yard cubic, exclusive
of 9,000 cubic yards at the face, which are executing at 6d. per
yard. These sums include all the expenses of clearing, re-
moval, &c. But previous to forming the gallery, it has been
found requisite, owing to the irregular face of the cliff, to cut
two benches or paths following the silitposities of the cliffs,
one at the level of the railway, and the other 100 feet above.
Of course, the expense of these, about £7OO or £BOO, is not in-
cluded in the contract for tunnels or gallery. The lower of
these benches communicates at present with the summit of the
cliff over the tunnel, by long flights of steps cut out of the rock
chalk. The object of these benches is for the purpose of making
the necessary plans to expedite the operations of the works-, but
if the benches could afterwards be preserved, they might, in
our opinion be turned to profitable account, as most beautiful
and attractive walks. At all events, it would be well worth the
consideration of the town of- Dover to pay the expense of con-
struction and preservation.
It will hence be seen that the entire cost of this very expen-
sive part of the line will not exceed about £20,0(X) or £21.000
per mile. We believe the company limit it to £23,000, which,
in such a material and under such favourable circumstances, it
seems hardly possible it can reach.

RAILWAY FROM CARLISLE TO EDINBURGH
AND GLASGOW.

The Committee appointed to obtain a survey of the.country
from Carlisle to Edinburgh and Glasgow by Beattock, with the
view of ascertaining the practicability of a Railway by that
route, have published a report from which we extract the follow-

ing passages:—
By the actual measurements, it appears that the distance
from Johnstone Bridge to Edinburgh, according to the survey
now mad 6 is 64 miles : and it being known that the distance
from thence to Carlisle, by a line of very easy gradients, can-
not (supposing it taken by the thriving port and town of An-
nan ) exceed 35 miles—the whole distance from Edinburgh to
Carlisle would be under 100 miles, or only about 7 miles farther
than by the shortest turnpike-road now existing. The distance
from Carlisle to Glasgow would also be under 100 miles.
In comparing this line, therefore, with the one proposed by
Cumnock and Kilmarnock, the Committee beg to call the at-
tention of the subscribers to the important fact, that in point
of distance from Carlisle to Glasgow, it will be 25 to 30 miles
shorter, and this saving they cannot doubt, will do a gre at deal
more than connterbalance every disadvantage there may be in
the ascent of the Evan, is now reduced. And with regard to
Edinburgh, it is obviously almost 70 miles shorter than by any
other projected line, from that city to Carlisle, and consequently
to Liverpool and Manchester, while by the Birmingham Rail-
way to these towns it will afford the nearest possible com►nuni-
cation with London.

The committee believe that the period is not now distant
when the subject of a general Railway communication from
England to both Edinburgh and Glasgow, must engage the at-
tention of the Public and Legislature, and when that arrives,
they have no doribt it will be found that this is the only line
which combines all the advantages necessary to induce capital-
ists to embark in such an undertaking.
Under this impression the Committee earnestly recommend
to the landed proprietors of the counties of Edinburgh, Lanark,
Peebles, Dumfries, and Cumberland to go-operate in the pro-
motion of a measnie which, by opening up the central districts
of the south of Scotland, will increase their produce and value
to an extent of which no estimate can now be formed.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Intelligence,..)

TRADE OF LT:Eng.—There has been a slight improvement in
the demand for goods since our last; yet the state of the markets
is deemed very unsatisfactory. The sales in the warehouses for
the London market have been more extensive during the week,
than of late, and there have been several buyers from the Dublin
and Belfast markets, which have caused a little bustle in certain
quarters.

BRADFORD MARKET.—The transactions in manufactured
goods at this market on Thursday were very similar to those of
last week, and prices remained pretty stationary. For yarns
there was a better demand, but remunerating prices were scarcely
obtained; and very little was the alteration which took place in
the wool market, either as to supply or demand.
HUDDERSFIELD.—The transactions at this market on Tues-
day were by no means extensive; the sales beingchiefly limited
to checks, fancy trousers pieces and kerseys. Not much busi-
ness-was done in plain cloths; and the wool market was report-
ed to be not quite so firm as for some time past.
HALIFAX, APRIL 28.—There has been a fair quantity of
goods sold in our Piece Hall to-day, and the price of the last
two weeks fully maintained. There is little or no alteration in
Wool, but more business is doing.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MAY 4.—We have but little
variation to report in the market this week ; if any, it is that
there has been rather more business done in the light and fine
descriptions of combing wool, with more inquiry for low carding
wools ; for all other sorts the demand is dull.

DEWSBURY.—The attendance of buyers at our Blanket Hall
on Monday was very limited; consequently the transactions
were few, and there was no improvement in prices.

SA LIDLEWORTH.—The woollen cloth trade has not been in
such a depressed state for several years past ; a great number
of dyers, spinners, and weavers are entirely without work, and
others have not half employment, yet we are glad to state that
manufacturers say they will not reduce wages. There are no
prospects of amendment at present.
LEICESTEIT.—We have nothing new to report. Trade con-
tinues, as for some time past, very flat, and few goods are
making.—Leicester Chronicle.

SILK AND COTTON WEAVING.-Silk weaving, of almost
every description for ten miles round Manchester, is consider-
ably slacker. On Friday and Saturday last several of the small
manufacturers were offering d. per yard less wages for figured
sarsenets. The larger manufacturers declare there is no oc-
casion to reduce wages, and they are giving ()Id prices ' • figured
work and handkerchiefs are brisker than other sorts. It is said
there are nearly two thousand plain sarsenet weavers entirely
out of work, besides a great number who have not more than
half employment. Cotton hand-loom weaving of nankeens,
tick, and ginghams is exceedingly dull—many bands are with-
out work—wages are miserably low. 'roilinets, a cotton warp,
and woven with worsted, are very brisk, but the prices paid for
weaving are extremely
itoN TRADE.—We have been informed that orders have
been given out this week for 12,000 tons of iron rails,-10,000
for export to America, and 2,000 tons for consumption at home,
and that several other extensive orders are about to be given for
iron rails and chairs, for railways now forming in this country