1022 
THE FIELD. 
failure In a joil-lics ratio nee Ecb-pationt enough now, Heaven 
“"Twbt off a shutter, officer, from the rusty hinge, or have a stretcher 
brought Soon done — ftn<l next at the station-house door^ pasteup 
another placard of *' For.'® Dead." * 
Enough ! I've said my say. and am unused U> talking and K > meUn. 
choly that a funeral, which once used to shut up my Autten ci^rejr. 
would make mo feel quite gay now. Gay. os U a house in Chancery 
could hose; 1 am dreaming. . ... 
The very boys run frightened past me and seem to know that 
•' Something alls me now ; 
The place is cursed:" 
and like Torlck's starling, more than twenty times a day, I hear the 
burden of one song—" In Chancery !" InCuancu u ! ! I* CllANCEftV I ! I 
Watkins* London Directory for 1S55. 
Mr. Watkins bas just issued Lis fourth Directory for the 
use of the metropolitan public, and the volume, like that of 
its elder contemporary, published by the Messrs. Kelly, is 
swelling palpably in bodily substance. There seems to be 
no lack of the energy necessary to ensure completeness, and 
we notice in the present publication several now features ‘ 
great service to those who have occasion to refer to th> 
manuals. The directories are not only as numerous as they 
have hitherto been, but they contain certain subdivisions and 
summaries, well calculated to facilitate a doubtful search. 
The directory of the environs of London, both as concerns 
tradesmen and gentry, is a welcome novelty, and is very pro- 
perly included in a volume which professes to pourtray, in 
every form of development and detail, the personal contents 
of the capital of the world. The vigilance of the editors 
Appears to be of the most rapid and practical kind. The 
volume includes such recent facts as the promotion of Lord 
Burghcrsh and the death of the Karl of Abingdon. But the 
editorial activity is visible throughout, and the directory, in 
its aggregate sense, evinces a manifest improvement upon its 
predecessors. Of its general accuracy we are unable to speak, 
excepting us regards the few tests to which we have submitted 
it ; but we conclude that so essential a characteristic has 
received due attention. The volume comprises nearly 2500 
pages, a considerable increase upon the number of pages last 
year ; and the same contrivance is resorted to for opening the 
precise directory which may be required. In a multitude of 
separate alphabets, the latter is a convenience of no small 
moment, besides being an economisutiou of time. “ \V utkins's 
Directory,” in a word, is now fairly iu the field. The pro- 
prietors are both industrious and enterprising ; and the 
production of a fourth volume, enlarged in all its branches, 
at least implies that it has met with an encouraging measure 
of patronage. 
FINE ARTS. 
On National Monuments. — After the two enormous and 
gigantic public monuments of the late Duke of Wellington, 
and those too elevated of Nelson and the Duke of York, 
surely it is but fair that the British people should show their 
gratitude towards the other heroes of the lute war by similar 
testimonies of respect. The names of Hill, Beresford, 
Anglesey, and others, ns they leave the world, should be 
perpetuated to posterity — for their achievements were no 
loss brilliant on the plains of Waterloo than their chief iu 
command — or their renown will in a very few years be only j 
remembered by those who can read of their historical deeds 
in books. We are led to this feeling from having just been ] 
introduced to view a model of a proposed equestrian statue 
of the lato gallant Marquis of Anglesey, by Mr. Carleton 
M 'Gait by, the sculptor. We have much pleasure in testify- 
ing to its great merit. The figure, in the costume of the 
Hussars, is excellently designed, and the expression of the ' 
likeness is most striking ; and the horse we pronounco j 
perfect in contour and action. 
Books for the Crimea. — The officers before Sebastopol 
are calling for books, finding that the Turkish and Tatar lan- 
guages are amazingly similar ; and among those most desired 
is “ Knight’s Pocket Vocabulary; ” but, unfortunately, not 
a single bookseller remains in Bala-Klava. 
TWO YEARS’ TRAVEL IN AFRICA. 
A correspondent of her Majesty’s ship Pluto writes to the 
Athcnnum, under date, Fernando, July 25 
“ We have had a most exciting cruise. After leaving 
I this place, and communicating with the senior officer at 
I Luanda, we were sent up the river Congo to settle a dispute 
between the master <>f an English merchant brig and some 
j Portuguese. After this was arranged, we returned to Luanda 
for our letters, but the Polyphemus not arriving in time, the 
j ship sailed again for the Congo, and 1 was left behind in 
' one of our gigs, with four kroomen, for the mail. During 
! our stav I met. nt the house of one of the commissioners, 
I one of the most extraordinary men I have ever Been, Dr. 
Livingston; he has just arrived from the Cape overland, a 
most arduous undertaking, and one never accomplished 
before, although often attempted. His plan of proceeding 
I differed materially from any of his predecessors ; instead 
of setting out with half a bundled attendants, horses, 
bullock waggons, &c., he commenced his journey, carrying 
with him only a sextant, gun, chronometer, tent, four ser- 
vants, and ns many days' provisions, relying on Providence 
and liia gun for a supply when these were gone. After 
leaving the Cape colony, he was obliged to travel a long way 
to the north-east iu order to avoid the deserts and hostile 
tribes in their vicinity that lay on their left; crossing in this 
route a great many branches of the river Zambegi and 
others, the names of which I have forgotten, till he arrived 
at a large town. There, as the chief was very hospitable, he 
remained a short time to recruit his health, having been 
nearly drowned and starved half a dozen times during the 
nine months it took him to perform this part of his journey, 
and his arm badly broken in two places by a lion. It ap- 
peared he had wandered one evening from his attendants, 
after they had pitched their tent, in quest of game, when he 
came suddenly on a large lion crouching down ready for a 
spring at him ; without waiting a second he fired, and must 
have been knocked down at the same moment and stunned, 
as he remembers nothing from the time he fired till he was 
found by his servants next morning ; when they ciuue up 
they found the doctor insensible and the lion lying dead 
alongside him. When he left, the chief, who was very 
desirous of finding a route to the westward for the trans- 
mission of his ivory, gave him twenty-four of his people to 
assist him on his journey. After leaving, lie again travelled 
to the N.E., until he arrived in the parallel of Luanda. 
Now came the tug of war. He had upwards of 
thousand miles to travel across the unexplored 
countries of our charts, a tract never hitherto trodden 
by any white man, and wholly* unknown even to the blacks 
he had seen as yet ; however, this part of then* journey 
proved to be the easiest, and it was not till he arrived near 
Cassanga, on the Portuguese frontier, that he met with any 
molestation. The country he found to be thickly popu- 
lated, and the inhabitants very peaceably disposed. From 
their never having seen a white man before, you may fancy 
what an object of curiosity he became to them ; wherever he 
stopped, the people from far and near flocked round him with 
the utmost astonishment pictured on their countenances. 
As the doctor was very much sunburnt, his colour did uot 
so much surprise them as his hair, which was very loug ; 
this was the great object of attraction wherever he went, and 
highly favoured did those fancy themselves who became the 
possessors of a lock of it. Every tribe ho met with had some 
idea of one Supremo Being and a future state of existence, 
though they all worship, in addition, various animals that 
they hold sacred. At every place he stopped they supplied 
him liberally with provisions, and it was not, as I mentioned 
before, till he arrived near the Portuguese territories that he j 
met with any trouble. There the inhabitants have been in | 
the habit of kidnapping the people further inland, to sell 
to the Portuguese for slaves, and fearing, should the road be 
opened that way, it would spoil their traffic, they became very 
troublesome and wanted the doctor to pay toll nearly every 
step he took ; however, by putting on a bold front, he 
managed to make his way through, and arrived at Loanda 
safely in the beginning of June, making it exactly two years 
since he left the Cape. The doctor is very much emaciated 
from the hardships he has undergone, and has not recovered 
the use of his arm perfectly yet ; but as soon as he is well 
he is determined to return, trying this time to find a shorter 
road than the one he came by. We had the whole of his 
attendants on board, and showed them over the ship ; having 
never seen salt water before, or anything afloat larger than 
a canoe, they were very much surprised and delighted, 
though they told the doctor they would never be ablo to get 
any of their people to believe them on their return, so per- 
fectly astonishiug did everything appear to them. 
Lynch law in San Antonio. — For some time past the 
people residing iu Contra Costa, and all that section of the 
country, have suffered much from the depredations of cattle 
thieves, and so great has become the audacity of those who 
engaged in this nefarious business that it was uo unusual 
thing to have whole herds of cattle driven off iu one night. 
The working cattle, milch cows, and fat bullocks of the 
farmers were being constantly stolen, and as they had 
learnt by experience that very little protection might be 
expected from the laws, they determined to take the matter 
in hand themselves, and make an example for tile first cattle 
thief who might he caught iu the act. About four months 
ago no less than 87 head of cattle were driven off in one 
night, and 27 of them were tracked to a “ corral” near Ouk- 
laud. A watch was set and the thieves were arrested, brought 
to trial, and sentenced to two years iu the state prison ; but 
one of the parties was aoou afterwards pardoned by the inter- 
position of the executive clemency, exercised so often with 
discernment. It is a notorious fact that a large portion 
of the beef, scut over here from Oakland is stolen 
beef, and a few days ago a quantity was shipped on 
one of the ferry-boats at Oakland, but it had scarcely 
been stowed away when an officer came on board and in- 
formed the captain that it was stolen. The boat was about 
starting, and the captain said that he would not allow the 
beef to be delivered in San Francisco, but would bring it 
back. Suspicion was excited, and the keeper of the toll-bridge 
near Clinton, with three or four other men, proceeded to a 
slaughter-house which had long been supposed to be the 
head-quarters of the cattle-thieves, and, hiding themselves, 
watched to see what would transpire. This was on Monday 
night. They had uot remained long when five head of cattle 
were driven in, slaughtered, and their hides buried. They 
then rushed in and arrested the persons, who proved to be 
two Frenchmen, named Amadere Oarenne and Peter Aughaiu- 
hault, who had long been suspected as the chief cattle-stealers 
in the neighbourhood. They brought them over to San 
Antonio, together with the two butchers at whose place the 
cattle were slaughtered, aud delivered them over to the civil 
authorities there. They were confined at Wetherby's, and 
during the whole of that evening considerable excitement 
prevailed. Early on Wednesday morning a party numbering 
some forty or fifty came down from the Redwoods, aud brought 
out the prisoners and tried them. The proof of their guilt was 
positive, and sentence of death was pronounced upon them. The 
two butchers who were arrested at the same time were, how- 
ever, let loose, as the evidence was not strong enough to 
convict them as principals, it appearing that they only acted 
as hired assistants. Oarenne and Aughamhault were 
brought out to a tree near the house, lassos were thrown 
around their necks, and they were strung up to one of tho 
trees. While preparing for the execution, a small party of 
Frenchmen came down, for the purpose, it was supposed, of 
rescuing Careuue ; but a line was marked out, and thoie who 
ordered the execution announced that the fix*st man who 
Bhould step inside of it should bo shot down. The feet of 
one of the persons who was hung were not more than six 
inches from the ground. Carenne was reputed to be a 
wealthy man. His wife keeps the Hotel de France, near 
San Antonio, aud is, besides, the owner of considerable 
property, it is said that she came forward on Tuesday 
night and offered large sums of money for the release of her 
husband. At one o’clock yesterday the bodies were dan- 
gling from the tree .-* — San Francisco Herald. 
SRtoertftfemcntg* 
HENRY PEAT, 
HUNTING SADDLER, 
14, OLD BOND-STREET, 
LONDON. 
GUNS. RIFLES, AND RKVOLVEItS. 
T LANG has an extensive assortment 
el • of Second-hand GUNS, by all tin- first 
l-ondon Makers, at lmlf their original cost, which 
he has taken in exchange, in addition to his own 
superior GUNS and RIF LBS, as turned out by the 
late Joseph Manton, for the superior finish of which 
J. Lang obtained a prize-medal at the Great Inhi- 
bition. Hi lies on the most approved plan for the 
Conical Ball, for Deer-shooting or long distances. 
Revolving 1‘istols on J. Lung's own plun, ns also 
Dean and Adams', Colt's, tic.; but n trial is re- 
commended before risking money or life. 
22 . Cockspur-strect, London. 
HP 0 SPORTSMEN. — Her Majesty’s 
L Royal Letters Patent, for valuable and exirn- 
ordinary improvements in the most powerful and 
brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Opera, Rucc-cour*e. 
and Icrapective Glosses, to know t lie distances oi 
objects viewed through them— of great importance 
to >l>ortsuien. the Army, Navy, and others Messrs. 
N. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians, 32. Albemarlc- 
street Piccadilly. Observe -Opposite the York 
Hotel these lelescopes possess such extraordi- 
nary powers, that some threc-and-a-lnilf inches 
with an extra eye-piece wilt show distinctly .Jupi- 
ter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double star-. 
With the same Telescope can be seen a person's 
countenance thrcc-and-a-half miles distant, and 
an object from sixteen to twenty miles. They are 
of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers ac- 
cordingly. 
THE ROY’AL EXHIBITION, 1851.- A valuable, 
newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat- 
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a 
person can be seen and known one-nnd-n-hnlt 
miles distant. They answer every purpose on the 
race-course, at the opera-house;, country scenery, 
and ships are clearly seen at twelve to fourteen 
miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer- 
stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, game- 
keepers, mid tourists. Opera and Race-course Per- 
spective Glasses, with wonderful powers; an object 
cun be clearly seen trom ten to twelve miles dis- 
tant. Newly-invented Spectacles. The most aged 
detective sight is brought to its youthful, natural, 
and original state. Invisible and all kinds ol 
Acoustic Instruments for relief of extreme Doaf- 
i’iwttdiUy, opposite 
I OANS. — Persons desirous of obtaining 
ADVANCES from £50 to £250, upou ap- 
proved personal security, repayable bv easy instal- 
ments, extending over n lengthened period, are 
invited to examine the principles of the BRITISH 
MUTUAL SUBSCRIPTION LOAN ASSU- 
RANCE CLASSES. Prospectuses. Reports, and 
every information, may be obtained on application 
at the British Mutual Life Office, 17, New Bridge- 
street, Bluckfriui >. Rules (id. each copy, or Is. per 
post. CHARLES JAMES TIIICKE, 
Resident Secretary. 
4 LLSOPP’S PALE ALE in BOTTLE, 
1 V. iis supplied to the CRYSTAL PALACE; 
also in Casks of 18 Gallons, recommended by Baron 
LIEBIG. 
Address, HARRINGTON PARKER and Co., 
5J, Pall-mall, London. 
n LENFIELD PATENT STARCU, 
\ T (Used in Her Majesty’s Laundry.) ami 
WOTHEItSPOON'S Machine-made CONFEC- 
TIONER Y, MARMALADE. JAMS, JELLIES, 
Itc. (which gained the prize medal of 1851),— may 
be had of all Grocers ; wholesale of YVotherspoon, 
Mackay, and Co., 06, Queen-street, Cheapside, 
London. 
M atrimonial institution.— 
Offices, 12 , John-street. Adelphi, London, 
and 18 , Nassau-street, New York. Founded in 
184C. — Tills Institution has been established many 
years (with great success), ns a medium for the 
introduction of parties unknown to each other, who 
are desirous of forming matrimonial alliances, but 
Who. from some cause or other, cannot find partners 
in their own circle of acquaintance, suitable in 
position. &c. The strictest honour and secrecy is 
maintained in every case.— Prospectuses, Applica- 
tion Forms, Rules, and every information, sent free 
to any address, on receipt of twelve postage stamps. 
By Order of the IJireotors, 
LAURENCE CUTHBURT. 
12, John-street, Adelphi, London. 
K NOM IH^SELI'. — Persons desirous 
of know ing the gifts, defects, talents, tastes, 
affections, and other characteristics of themselves 
or any friends in whom they are interested, must 
send a specimen of the WRITING, stating sex 
and age (including thirteen penny postage stamps), 
to Miss GR VHAM, 3, New-rood, Hornsey, .Mid- 
dlesex, and they will receive a minute graphiolo- 
gical delineation, written in a style peculiarly her 
own. -Testimonial from W. It.: "Having seen 
several of your pourtrayals of character, and being 
much struck with the forcible truths contained iu 
them, 1 should like your opinion of mine.”— Miss 
II. S : " Your delineations are most faithful." 
Miss Grove : “ Y our letter gave great satisfaction." 
— Miss Rosa C. : “Accept my sincere thanks for 
your advice. I was exceedingly doubtful of him." 
PIPOIWANT to FAMILIES FUR- 
KTKAn 1 n I> ! r ,A, /-°» G - ANY AUAIllA N BED- 
it i i . " n fc C u V"" ?t * Cnr Prt. Looking-glass. 
J'j Ul’boistery Warehouse-- Brompton-housc, 22 
and 2J, Queen s-buildings, lvnightsbrldge Esti- 
mates given, and a list of prices scut post-liree. 
I 
LORD’S EUREKA 
SHIRTS.— Best quality, 
six for 40s. ; if washed and 
ready for use, 42s. Second 
quality, six for 3ls.. if washed 
and ready for use, 33s. Gentle- 
men desirous of obtaining shirts 
in the very best manner in 
which they can be made, are 
solicited to try Ford's Euiif.k as. 
"The most unique, and the 
only perfect fitting shirt made ” 
—Observer. 
Country residents purchasing 
in any provincial town are re- 
quested to observe on the inte- 
rior of the collar- band the stamp 
—“Ford's Eureka Shirts, 38, 
Poultry" (without which none 
are genuine). Price lists, con- 
taining directions for seif-mea- 
surement, and every particular, 
are forwurded post free; and 
patterns to select from of tho new Registered 
Coloured Shirting, on receipt of six stamps. 
RICHARD FORD, 38, Poultry, Loudon. 
sewage CHARCOAL MANURE. 
r |''IIIS highly fertilising MANURE, 
!. which is I^at Charcoul, completely saturated 
with London .Seiyago, will be found must efficient 
for every species 6’* cron, more especially for Pens. 
Beans, Turnips, Mangold Wurzel, and other root 
crops It will produce a greater return for the 
outlay than Guano o." any other manure ut an 
equivalent value; it nlsOi possesses the property of 
retaining its fertilising flower longer than other 
Manures now in use. It nl»ay be obtained ut tho 
SEWAGE MANURE WORKS. Stnnley-bridgc, 
Fulham, at £4 per ton, and, n|) quantities less than 
half a ton, at 5s. per cut., for\ready money only; 
and in quantities not less than \a ton will be deli- 
vered at the London Termini of\I' e Railroads tree 
of charge for carriage. It may tM- s ° be hud from 
Messrs. G. GIBBS and Co.. No. 'A'. Down-street. 
Piccadilly, Agricultural Seedsmen,. Agents tor 
London ; and Jrorn ull tire other Agents of tho 
Company. 
Jive 
RUPTURES.— BY’ ROYAL LETTERS 
PATENT. 
Wf KITE’S MOC-MAIN LE^ER 
V T TRUSS is allowed by upwards of 200 jV e di- 
cal gentlemen tube the most etfei 
invention in the curative trentin 
of HERNIA. The use of a : 
spring, so often hurtful in its ell 
is here avoided ; a soft bandage bciiq 
worn round the body, while the re 
quisite resisting power is supplici 
by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PA- 
TENT LEVER, fitting with so much 
ease and closeness that it cannot he 
detected, and may be worn during 
sleep. A descriptive circular may 
be had, and the Truss (which cannot 
fail to fit) forwarded by post, on the 
circumference of the body two inches 
below tho hips being sent to the 
manufacturer, Mr. White, 228, Pic- 
cadilly, London. 
Price of a single truss, I fis., 2 Is., 20s. Cd., and 
31s. Od.; postage, Is. Double ditto, 31s. fid., 42s., 
and 52s. Cd. ; postage, Is. ml, Post-office orders to 
b>- made payable to John White, Post-Office, Picca- 
dilly. 
I 
.4 LASTIC STOCKINGS. — Thematerial 
m. J of which these arc made is recommended 
by the Faculty as being peculiarly ELASTIC and 
COMPRESSIBLE, and the best invention for 
giving efficient and permanent support in all 
cases of WEAKNESS and SWELLING of the 
LEGS, VARICOSE VEINS. SPRAINS. &o. It 
is porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and 
is drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price Ryiu 
7s. Cd. to 16s. each. Postage, 6d. 
Maxofactobv, 228, Piccadilly, London. 
