The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER PERIODICALS.

\\•n.AT is our old friend Lbossy about? hi he sleet,
ing or idling, or peradventure has he gone on a far
Journey ? Is it possihie that the northern thane
has juggled his faenitiest by some mesmeric process?
Can he be ignorant of the real secret of his strength"
It would seem so. For now, while the great heart
14 the empire is throbbing with indignation at the
efforts of an Wirtilleiried Coalition to mil our
honour through the mire, that they may retain molls
limbed possession of their places, the stout. teal
hearted part. of Edinburgh can send us nothing
better than a lame and most miserable imitation of
the abortive reek of Irish faction. The" grievances"
of Scotland, we suppose, are now to become a stand-
ing topic. Bah! And our whole representative
system is to be unsettled because one member repro
cents :15,145 of population in England, and 51,11111 of
population in Scotland. What would London, with
its two millions of population, say to this reasoning?
Why, it should return tiny member++ at least ; but
would you, good Christopher, think that sound Con.
servative doctrine? It is news to us that the eitizens
of the Scottish metropolis are (snivelled to maintain
their own police, when " the police of London is paid
oat of the imperial recenue !" This is sheer raving,
and nought else. There must be a screw loose in
the direction of this otwe most able, eloquent, and
stanch defender of the constitution when such stuff
finds admission into its 'wages. The last article is
not much better titan the first. Are we never to hear
the bust of Burns' Circular, and of the millions of
yards of cotton produeed at Manehester, of which
we can no more realise the idea titan of the distance
(tithe fixed stars? oh, good Blackwood ! a truce, we
pray, to the statistics of thy most excellent and in.
dnstrious Liverpool correspondent. Let him in future
edit a trade circular, or cram some yawn- ( not yarn
provoking orator of the Lower House. The literary
contents of the number are, as usual. %twits' and ex-
cellent; " Foreign Estimates of England" is an
amusing analysis of Max Sehlesinger's" London Wan-
derings." We must make room for what is justly
styled the gem of the parliamentary chapter :
"So that is my Loot Palmerston," whispered I►r. Keit
"that if/ the God•rreserrequi of all rut mid Continental
cabinets! He yowler with the shin- uhiskets, the finely.
cut features, the striped neckcloth. and the brown Mothers,
which he probably got as a present front Mazzini? Yonder
elderly g-ntletnan, lying, rather than sittime. uptin his
twitch, and chatting with his neighbour as he might do in
a tasen►? Now, by Metternich! this Lord Palmerston
looks so cordial that. if I had not read the German news.
papeN for many years past, I never would have believed
all the wickedness there is in hint. To think that yonder
people 110 not Seraph. to converse with him! with a con•
victed partisan of rebels, in whose company no reslw•etable
citizen of %lent's Or Berlin would Ise liven to erupts a street!
Nit, as NV there is nothing in a man's looks. Ib•
does not look in the least like a rebel or a conspirator.
And yet to Unit of all the rude notes he has written!"

" That is just because he is a I.,,reat diiiiiiniatiht." re-
marked Sir ;loliti. with much mietion. " We like Min
mall the nom, because you, neross the wfttur. mill
fciir, and tlinw stones nt him. He has the Inek to Is' ns
popular at hnne as he is abused abroad. When that is
not the cane with a minister of foreign affairs, hitter pension
lam off at once. lie II appointed fur the very purpoac of

barking and snapping all round the house. to keep otrlei•
trailers and thieves. And eau vent deny tluit Lon' Palmeri..
tote islfeetly leerfeenned his bull-dog miss' ? Was he not
RlN'M\e on his legs? !MI he not lustily hark like a chained
wateieelog. tai that all the neighbours naiad n.sieettril him?
And did he e%er bite anybody? No, you cannot say that
he taut. hit anybody. Only showed hia Weds. Seething
mom. That i`ll.lllol. .feud that, merely by au doing,
he (tightened you all, that, we well know, is what will
" gi%r Nllytlllllg 111 tile world," cried Or. Kell,
"to hear him make a little. speech. How does% he speak ?"
" In a way I well like to hear," answered Sir John;

•• out and openli—no
telligibly—rind also% e all. emirteously and politely, as helitti
an English gentleman. It is not in his maim. to be rude;
he cannot la. M,l, exeept %hell Ite take* pen in hand to ante
abroatl. 111 the Itouw• he IS uelrr periumal. uud yet no•
hotly IN'tta•t• knows how to tutu a troubleaome yuel.tialn•r
into ri,lieule, often 111 tht.
it is is. he antra• with him."

t )1. " New Headings in Shakespeare" we shall anon
have something to say ourselves. We agree that the
most curious emendation ?1 of Mr. Collier's vanutctl
folio is in the speech of Mime ()Welly on the death
of Puistal. The old copies read, "After I saw hint
fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and
smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there WWI lint
one way ; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a
table of green Theobahi, founding his
correction on what is observed of the sick in fevers,
proposed "his nose was sharp as a pen. and a' babbled
of green fields." The typographiesl alteration was
not great, and seemed satisfactory ; so passed into
the text. But Mt'. Collier's folio Inuits, " His wise
was as sharp as a pen on a table of green frieze."
We doubt whether either emendation will stand
rigid senttiny, but of the two we prefer Thcobahl's.
The image presented by the other is Use reelaidite to
have presented itself to plain Paw Quickly. Wo
WWI' hook at tsaltillatlittollti, So pass teer " Lady
Lee's Widowlitstd;" hut " Thu Duke's Dilemma"
and "Coral Rings" are both very readable papers.

er.ssositr. moist he mingled with praise in our mulct,
of this 111011ill'S Dublin I'seirersity. .litiongst the
ft arcßlast tit' ilk` 111311) HMI• etatitributiirs to this I,ertiait-
cal was the lab. learned Rita Vlitallictit ttttt
alit, I 1.1 he) 01111 01104 of nil
the Idmh Conservativi, IsatiUcHl writers of tin: last
thirty :11`liN. Ile 44)1111111114i the Merl 1.4 thought
and 14' style in Isis writings, HMI the 1111111%) litatiee of
them in the present number of it magazine to which
he brilliantly contribitteil is sun thing but pleasing.
'%t' hope, beton. long, to hat Ins 1111101011Ullity Of lilting
:liiSties. le the merits of this citoinent %dollar and
olivine. "Geology, Popular and Artistic,' is a reada-
ble notice of tha worsts of 11 rising geologist, Mr.
Jukes, tint Itireetiir of the t Stiney of Ire-
land. The other papers do not call for Mpeeigi notice.

Fraser lumps together some twenty or thirty volumes
of travel in its opening paper, giving a few lines nut
of the most satisfactory diameter to each. This
kind 441* literary t iiiii infaciiire iq neither 14 0 iiiii 11111181/10
1141 E att " Aladomuu Pia" is a ti4.at adapta-
tion 11' the Nlarilitis ►lO 11111' tragesly.
recently 1/1"Nillei'll at It i‘lillt 1111%11V, 10111(61 of
course oil the 1.1. W mo•hmlcholy litii
expressive lines 111 Dallie. 11 halt In0►•1 11114 1.% 44 al •
(11.1100111 140 11111111 meaning into so brief a 41► ace ?
I I apt( 011.14 11101111i114 f 111.11141 of course a sostial
moralising article. Poor ti•Ilow ! in his better days
how heartily—ti►r, with all his tailings, ho wax a
child of futi—would he have laughed over the
dismal commentaries to which the close of his
iolventurous lite• lilts give's rise! In art—spite
of his love for it--he was misplaced ; in the
army or navy 111‘ would have been a Napier or a
Nelson ; it is near the truth to say he could do any-
thing but paint. There are a number of minor
articles to which the table of contents is a sufficient
guide.

The Illustrated London Magazine is one of the
best produced of all the cheap periodicals. Be-
sides established hacks of lit, rature, it has con•
tributors of superior standing, and ix profusely illus-
trated with woodcut's, in the wild, ardent sph it Of
Dickens' and Sue's conceptions.

Tut: monthly part of Diogenes %bows that, grave peo-
ple as we are, we have fun enough in us for the
support of a couple of hunu,rous poidicals, in
which wit of the pencil disputes the palm with Nit of
the pen. Some of the cartoons are better than
whole volume of political economy. " Before and
After the Strike—representing on one -isle a party
of jovial, well-fed workmen discussing, with pia and
pipe, their social grie‘inices, and on the other a Is
and haggard artisan gaziiir despairingly un his
%taming family—conveys a powerful lesson on the
folly and wickedness of such combinations. The
chief fault of /fief/cars is its too palpable adoption of
nU Punch's peculiarities.

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