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SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN 146 to those who can see nought but grim features and black deeds in the mind and _visage of a foe, the likenesses will appear distorted or overpainted, there seems little reason for doubting that, in the main, the portraits are correct. This remark, of 'course, is applicable only to those limnings which he had full opportunity of making ; for we cannot, even for an instant, receive as true the revolting picture which he draws of the indignities offered by the English soldiery to the Russian dead. These we unhesitatingly condemn as the creations of an overheated fancy, or the distorted repre sentations, of a credulity too easily satisfied. The Autobiography of a Beggar-boy. London: William Tweedie. Since the period when 'Goldsmith favoured the woad with the " History of a Philosophic Vaga bond," numerous sketches, real and fictitious, of the career of wanderers and outcasts, of the Ishmaelites of society, have, from time to time, made their appearance, and appealed, sometimes to the sympathies, sometimes to the affections, and not unfrequently to the prejudices of mankind. That these have, in every instance, been attended with social benefit it would be preposterous to assert, and it would hardly be less absurd to deny that, one the whole, considerable advantage has arisen from the publication of those narratives, which, delineating the upward career 'of industry and probity, have traced the progress of aspiring worth from .penury to wealth and social impor tance. Of 'this latter character is the work before us. It professes to trace the devious path of a beggar-boy through the varying steps of a very chequered and unpromising youth, and very slightly improved manhood, to the afternoon of a life in which the goal of social respectability, if not of affluence, has been reached. In doing -so the reader is introduced to numerous scenes, in which little of present or prospective good is to be met with ; but after a protracted struggle and many misadventures, the really good though latent and long dormant spirit is evoked, and the outcast is received into communion with his more fortunate, though probably not more deserving, fellow-men. The narrative, which is conveyed in a series of etters, is written in a plain and unpretending style ; its spirit is good, if we except probably a little of The devil's darling sin, The pride that apes humility, to be found to a considerable extent in its pages. In a particular degree are we favourably affected towards this narrative, as, through all its phases, the wanderer is ever impelled to- look for some thing better. While pining in present misery, and suffering from injustice, he never assumes the misanthrope, but sets himself in a hopeful spirit to find out the good which he feels assured lies 'hidden in society. The Irish Quarterly Review. Dublin : W. B. Kelly. The nineteenth number of the Irish Quarterly, like all its predecessors, breathes a spirit of com mendable nationality. Ireland and Irish interests are its peculiar care, its most lively and inspiring theme. The feeling is an amiable one, and even the weaknesses it is apt to superinduce are the more pardonable from the conviction that— Even its failings lean to virtue's side. The present number, though rich in Irish topics, is nevertheless well furnished with articles of a more cosmopolitan character. A fairly written criticism on " Tennyson and his Maud," and another on " The Poets of America," are its chief contributions to what may be called general literature. An interesting continuation of the " Biography of John Banim" is valuable in many points of view, and when completed it will form an interesting chapter of literary history. Among the various articles in the number, is a long review of the fourth volume of Alison's History, of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon in /9.15, , to the Accession of Louis-Napoleon in 1852. In this article the Irish tincture is so lavishly intro duced as to render the compound somewhat nauseous if not unwholesome. The historian in discharge of his arduous and ably accomplished duty, is compelled to discuss the patio vexata of Irish grievances and Irish wrongs. Sir Archibald Alison is not an Irishman, and, as it seems, an established article of Irish faith, that— Never but by Irish hands Shall Irish wrongs be righted. The reviewer is settled in his belief that the historian was wrong, and must be wrong, in his mode of treating the subject. Impressed apparently with this feeling, the writer severely reprobates the solution. of the Irish difficulty demonstrated _by the astute and philosophical historian. His accusation of Sir Archibald Alison is ont in which none but Irish men can sympathise, and apart from Irish grievances he seems not only rational but elevated. in his views. After commenting in favourable terms upon the great and statesman-like views, of Sir Archibald upon the present complications, of European politics, and highly applauding his enlarged views in reference to the . restoration. of Poland as the only means for repelling_the march of Russian aggression, he concludes with the fol lowing eloquent SUMMARY OF THE POLISH. QUESTION. The fiction of the preservation of Turiey has drifted and cleared away with the smoke of the first shot. It is for Europe, for ourselves, we stand; and even upon no higher, no more dignified principle, the restoration of Poland ought to be the rallying-word upon every hustings. . On no pre tence of embarrassing the course of negotiations, of detach ing Austria from the Allies, or of provoking_the hostility of Prussia, should evasion of this question, be permitted. We, for our part, have never triumphed in the weakness or humiliation of Austria ; we have no symnathy with her rebels or her defamers; the dearest action Of Irishmen has been spent iu her service ; we are bound to her for a gene-, rous and open-hearted hospitality in evil times ; and we would not willingly deprive her of a foot of territory, scruple of influence. We have no particular grudge against Prussia ; if we take anything from, her, it must be at a . valuation. Let Austria have the Danubian provinces, and something more ; mediatize half-a-dozen of German princes, and throw their dukedoms. to Prussia ; hut let Poland be revived at any cost. Gratify the pride, make safe the interests of Austria and, Prussia as events may permit ; the means will not be wanting if the determination be adopted and adhered to. Austria and Prussia will be more immediate gainers,;, Austria,, no doubt, is aware of this, but her position is lamentably peculiar. She owes it to Russia that she exists. When all Europe, and England more particularly, stood by and flouted her in the death struggle with democracy upon all her frontiers, Russia interposed and , saved her. And has Russia no claim upon her gratitude P Alas, Poland was her last deliverer, and gratitude never interposed to forbid the partition, though the partition was simply a crime, while the reduction of Russian power is a necessity. After a little decent reluc tance, and a little ceremonious pressure from without, Austria, we may be assured, will come to terms. Prussia, too, it is likely, will come to understand her own interests, and may be brought to surrender Posen for a proper equi valent ; but she is under the fascination still, and will require more peremptory dealing. In a word, Europe can have no faith in moral obligations ; she must have her "material guarantee" or nothing. Russian and European interests can have nothing in common; their enmity is instinctive, their antipathy invincible, their union impos sible, their very co-existence scarce conceivable. Statesmen are not even yet - disabused of the idea that Russian and European destinies, like the lines of the parabola, can approach for ever without ever coming into contact. Men seem to think that some squinting treaty looking every way and no way, or blinking the only interest it would appear to stare upon, is the necessity of the time. Diplomatists, if it be left to them, will continue to substitute darkness for safety, ambiguity of clauses for opposition of forces, paper for iron, and back-doors for ramparts in front.— Poland is the only rampart that will stand ; and unless we raise it up, ministers may outwit each other upon details, and win their little victories with their customary ARD. little arts ; but the solid. victory witlo.'' nay, we can suppose heat L plogt w he il P l arretlTl° m /ilt re 'lleu i lteti t ° vanquished,, and consent, like Samson_,,ol3'll.:etlilh, bonds of her own choosin that she 0-4 ' 7 ,,,,.. stryf u . t gi effort ; but we who know the secret of ''', lo o il long are we to trifle with ouri._opport un;tl, „ 0' t rif to heart that Russia is beyond 'her coo'n -51 perk 0 nothing short of h • - a rrest tbe' l a p ysicaL obstacle can „ w m „ill : A great and fanatical people ; set in its () l t f stition of a destiny, is no more master a '' 5 0:1, 4 01 ° an avalanche detached from the mount fiel d '', i as well attempt to arrest-the- one by ari..- - ,,,i 0 4 as the other. It is only the•oppositel na , unv ito i barrier in. a word, that: oan:offer an 01 7.;,. Polancl,,we say. once again is that bar''',-'llO/ expect ;to have no other: inland belecg-'' i o rl i ', religion, .civilisation, tradition, manner4-)fef 1 08 1 7 antipathies; and while, Russia holds. a-sfoiti l 4 . ie4 ,, west, Europe is threatenedand defied. ',..„ 0 0 I / poet..an unfortunate scholar, aph tittle Alf ~,,,tv; whonever learned diplomacy,and had '"forg with red. tape as with the red ribbon —a' 'l,edlai o the_ first partition of Poland, felt and des 4rl , fO7) f Russian preponderance in the west ;0 1 . 0 r",„ #1 t a h ny. one of us all appears to understand it l a beh e• power of this people," he says,-.!`91,10,V,' posseSsien of a flood-gate ; and when a ble to u 6, w ir,i necessity prompted,, they might then,, world with a barbarous inundation!! ~,,,sis', .7cote„ the possession. of a single fort by P t ." ife ._finirope was almost an improbable 0 043 :: frall a i d her conterminous .with Austria, Pr°selicl, o p rra inAts w ofh in sa g wsa t bl h leeow e n f il r .t s gh t, tehe f . a wt s oh c n i i n rtti a . t o in f g Lthhee Irish 00.0 ; ni er , at least for some time past, .tben--13pDPDril with an elaborate report on rue ocla Reformatory. Schools, in wili ci information,is conveyed. A FRENCH, 43f40)`". vi TOWARDS the end of is.o6, on 8 _,.; morning,. Napoleon was reviewi L ti, n e i • ft ) decorated with the lauxels. of EgIE A and Italy, and he had:already pasf , ',io / 1:1 Y, several regiments, whose dangerO li itoe74 the field of battle he had so oft shared, when he arrived at tho 6 t' ori /A,0 4 q t remarkable for its. splendid 3 Pf e t ee . , 2o ,r eagle eye soon pereeivinc , fi a °l t ': caracoling out of the 4' 10 1 , 1 1 exclaimed— 'Why is this hussar. not ifi.t . %;• "l4 t rd, added he to the colonel, " W o o ita 0,1 regiment which I. frequently c l a rosi' s e such a want of discipline r tin presence ? Ilia the soldier be IP eight days?' g( pprtait , to Sire, replied the col • 2, ortel , aea appeal against this severe seutet'ould,o pardon for my volunteer. 0 1 Yca 1 ,.:.4 me, if you would b u t interrogs", ° r , " " Very well," said the Er a l 3e. so' let hussar a .10 came forward at a following dialogue ensued " Your name?" 11 ,00 1 , e " My Emperor, my name if) •Th ol ibl e ' but the regiment call me Breton m e o rae " For what reason did y ou P rs the ranks ?" "I have never entered i nto tee s ' following the regiment as a vololl out, wishing to form p a rt of it until 110:03 considered me worthy of that 11 011 °., c lie " How long have you been. AL" regiment?" " Eight years." • tlle") 0 Y " What has induced you to je l l i f 0 1,, 0 Love of my country,-an from whom I was desirous never "' A " What ! you are a w o man"?' /. 0*" " Yes, Sire, and you have De° regiment an arm mo re devoted di:1_ 11 110 J. " What is the name of your 10' " Poncet." Po'oo. Or IS6