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LONDON, SAT U RDAY,DECEM HER 24,1853.

POSTSCRIPT.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

STATZMENTS and counter•statewentm respecting the

movements of the Anglo-French fleets in the Boa
phorus, the determinations of the Ambassadors of
England and France in Constantinople, or the im
structions sent to the latter by their respective
Governments, have followed one another in rapid
succession almost daily since the intelligence of the
diaster at Siuope was first received in London.
Yesterday, for example—to give only the latest spe-
cimen—Paris letters stated in positive terms that
the instructions given to the admirals are to the effect
that they shall stop all Mission' ships found cruising
in the Black Sea, and force them to return to Sebas-
topol, which port they will not be allowed to leave
till the conclusion of a treaty of peace. Vienna
despatches, received almost contemporaneously, de-
clared that the messenger sent to Constantinople
would in all probability find the fleets already de-
parted for the Black Sea. Another statement was to
the effect that the allied fleets would enter the
Euxine if the Russians landed troops on the Turkish
territory. And finally, the latest advices from Con
stantinople itself, dated the Nth instant, inform us
that the Porte had, on the loth, demanded the sup-
port of the fleets, that the Ambassadors had held a
conference on the subject, and the result of which was
a resolution to do nothing, but await instructions from
London and Paris. This latter version is probably
the one on which most reliance can be placed for
accuracy.
The rupture between the Courts of Turkey and
Persia is confirmed, and positive information has
been received of the departure of our Charge d'Af-
faires from the Court of the Schah. It is stated that
the Russians have promised Persia support to raise
the Affghans against British rule. The debt of fifty
millions duo from Persia to the Russian Government
will also be remitted as the price of her support in
the coming struggle against her fellow in faith, the
Ottoman.

The anniversary of the birth of Mahomed was ce-
lebrated in Constantinople on the 11th. Intrigues
were said to be on foot to get Ali Pacl►a made Minis.
ter of Marine. The dismissal of the Captain facia
was considered probable.
A finnan continuing the privileges of ben is had
been issued.
Some fanatical demonstration:
against the Christians at Smyrna.

bud been made

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Ptia ob.

THE CIAMMEL EI.E4-TIoN took place on Wednesday,
when Mr. John O'Connell was returned without op-
position.
THE Galway Packet gives currency to a rumour
that Sir Thomas Burke, Bart., one of the members
for the county, is about to resign his seat in Parlia-
ment.

Tin.; chair of mathematics in the Queen's College,
Galway, left vacant by the death of Professor Mul-
cahy, has b► en tilled by the appointment of I►r. Geo.
Allman, of Trinity College, Dublin.
AT A CosFi:nEN'•t: of the Roman Catholic clergy of
the deanery of Tuam, which was held in that town
last week, resolutions were adopted expressive of
their surprise at "receiving papers, the tam of send-
ing which appears to be to charge the voluntary
oblations of the faithful—for legal revenues we have
none—with a certain amount of legal taxation," and
announcing their determination to " enter into sub-
scriptions for a sound legal opinion upon the best
mode of protecting ourselves from a tax unconstitu-
tional in its imposition, since we derive no income
from the State or any other legal means."
Tim last Australian mail brought to Limerick a
number of registered letters covering bank orders for
all., :ioi., 401., and each.

The Journal de M. Petersburg says—" The Em-
peror has deigned to order that there shall be pre-
sented t.,) him every time, without waiting for special
orders, detailed information on the families of the
officers of the fleet of the Magi Sea killed in combat,
in order that measures calculated to relieve the lot
of those families may be taken."

A LETTER from Vienna announces the appointment
of Count Valentin Esterhazy as Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria to the
Court of Russia, and that of Count Appony in the
same capacity to the Court of Bavaria. It is stated
that Count Esterhazy, who is of a most conciliatory
disposition, is to proceed to his post without delay, hi
order to attend to the negotiations consequent on the
last note of the four Powers.

ACCOUNTS FROM Moss state that the disaffected in
that city had made arrangements to attempt an
insurrection on the 20th inst., but finding that the
authorities had become acquainted with the plot, and
were prepared to adopt measures for its immediate
suppress►on, prudently abstained from car►ying their
intentions into execution. Several of the leaders
were, however, arrested.

Tim Belgian Chamber of Representatives has
adopted, by a large majority, a bill on patents.
It is favourable to inventors—tiling the duration of
patents at twenty years, and declaring that there
shall no longer be forfeiture if the inventions be not
carried out within a limited period. The bill im-
poses a tax of 110 f. for the first year, and 20f., 80f.,
,tc., for succeeding years ; and enacts that there
shall no longer be any distinction between patents of
invention and importation.

The I'oer•. has simetioned the understanding to
which his Government has come with the Govern.
anent of Great ll►itain with respect to certain reci-
procal advantages to he conceded to vessels in the
ports of either ►.tate. . _ .

Baltic steamer reached Liverpool yesterday
with New York dates to the 10th inst. The report
of the Secretary of the Treasury had been issued.
The imports for the fiscal year of 1$5:1 were
267,9714,017 dollars, and the exports 230,452,250
dollars. This document also gives some important
information in reference to the proposed alteration in
the Witt The list of articles imported, duty free, is
to be considerably enlarged, sacrificing revenue to the
extent of eight millions of dollars. Other specified
articles are subject to duties ranging from 25 to 120
per cent. The ad valorem system is to be continued
on all articles, with the possible exception of iron.
Tim QUEEN will receive an illustrious family circle,
early in the ensuing week, at Windsor Castle. There
will be two more dramatic performances in the
Rnbens Room the second week in January, which
will conclude the series.

THE KINO OF HANovErt has transmitted 501., as in
former years, to be distribitted among the poor inha-
bitants of Kew• parish, to enable them to enjoy the
pleasttresof Christmas. _ _

Lotto l'Avaria: has left town for his seat in
Scotland.

The vorrespoutb•nt of the Mellwirrior Argun writes front
liendigo on the 13th of septuniber :--- A nugget weighing
17lb. was found in Robinson Crusoe's lust week :
and another, now in the possession of Dr. Liulbury. of
View Point, was tacit out of 31;ser Flat, of ;AIM *some
ounces."

SA'

THE AURORA DESERTERS.
TO THE EDITOR " THE PRESS."

Sir,—Not having seen the subject alluded to in
the public papers, I beg to acquaint you that, when
in the Isle of Wight last week, I learnt from a.gen.
denial', who had it from the coast guard, that the
Russian deserters who were delivered up at Ports.
mouth were hanged soon after they sailed, and
some of their bodies were seen by them in the
channel floating with the rope round their !necl.s.
Comment is supertluous.—Yours respectfully,
A SUBSCRIBER.

CABINET CouNcn.s were held on Saturday and
Thursday. The Ministers who attended both were
the Karl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the apt
Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of,Neir.
castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. Lord Gm_
ville was present at only the first meeting, and the
Marquis of Lansdowne absented himself altogether.
The Ministerial deliberations in both instturces were
prolonged fur nearly five hours.
Two breech-loading" cannon, the invention of Dr.
Church, have been finally tried at Birmingham, preparatory
to their being sent for experimental trial at Woolwich.
They were fired, says the Birmingham Journal, fifty tunes
with heavy charges of powder and ball with perfect auccem,
No defect in any respect could be pointed out by the be t
judges. Upon this plan heavy ship-guns can be loaded
and tired and brought into position by two men five turns
in a minute, and a field-piece eight times in a minute.
The gun heats very little.
THE Brazilian Steam-packet Company's steamer Per-
111011b11,11110 vats wrecked near St. Katharine's on the 11th
t wctober last, and upwards of ferty persons drowned. A
black sailor perfumed unparalleled deeds of heroism in
saving the remainder, who were afterwards conveyed to
Rio, where a large sum was subscribed for their assistance,
the Emperor and Empress heading the list. It was pro-
posed to erect on the Bourse a statue of the black seaman
through whose instrumentality so many lives had been res-
cued from destruction.
Titsvauxas from St. Petersburg state (in the Hamburg
Norm) that in the shops of that city are sold maps of Con-
stantinople, in which the Turkish capital is divided into
Russian police districts. A copy of this map, which was
brought to Vienna, produced a great sensation, as it is well
known that at St. Petersburg no person can sell maps or
engravings without the authorisation of the Government.
THE Fox Una.s, the inventors of spirit-rapping, says a
New York paper, having rapped a large fortune out of the
pockets of the people, have purchased a fine place in Hat-
monia, and retired to private life.
The fallowing is given by the Bombay Gazelle as the sub-
stance of a private Persian letter, dated Ispahan,Sept.2o:
" All Persia is thrown into a state of suspense and anxiety
by the disappearance of his Majesty the King of Persia
nom Teheran, with ;10,INIO cavalry, 1,0(X) pieces of cannon,
and 3,101 camels loaded with ammunition. We are cont•
pletely at a loss to conjecture the object of the expedition
or the place of its destination. Some surmise that his
Majesty has hastened to co-operate with Turkey aroma the
lawless aggressions of Russia ; whilst others, with better
reason, are of a different opinion. l'ersia's uniting with
Russia in the present crisis would at once excite the ani-
mosity of the Sonnees (as all the Turks belong to that
sect 1, and a religious war might be the upshot."
Mn. CHILD, the banker, desired to hire a valet. One
of these gentlemen presented himself and inquired what
wine was allowed at the second table. " Port and sherry,"
replied Mr. Child. " 1 like a glass of madeirs, sir, re-
turned the valet. "Why," said Mr. Child, " there is the
curate of the parish here cannot afford himself a glass t f
wine of any sort." " Alt," replied the valet, shrugging his
shoulders, " 1 always pitied that sort of gentlemen."—
Bathurses Memoir..

THE NUMBER ME CRIARS of home manufacture sold in
Austria before 1841 was only 28 millions per annum. It
is now NM millions per annum, besides 140 rhillione im•
ported from alumul.
The Eehet de Veetme gives good tidings to the gourmet.
The truffle crop in Perigord is excessively abundant this
year, and the 'lei-Anne exquisite. The precious tubercle
can be bought for 1 lf. per kilogramme in Perigueux
market.

Wooncocws in considerable numbers are now to be met
with in different parts of Kent, and from their early arrival
a hard winter is prognosticated.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tweadar, Dee. 20.

BANKRUPTS.—WILLIAIt HINDS, Bedford, plumber—CALllll
Ansaost, Sheerness, Kent, ironmonger—Hinit WensLan
Richmond, Surrey, baker—WILLIAM CUTLILS, Jun., Hyde, Isle et
Wight, carpenter—R.oBmm FILZDZILICIC MILLIS, Hal•lllaisstal
coachbuilder—TnomAs HAYWARD, Gloucester, wok—Jong In
NELL, Weston, Herefordshire, grocer—Joszni JOHNSON, jun
Liverpool, estate agent—JONATHAN ANDRIW, Manchester, com
mission agent.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—Wo.t.rax Hymn, Cotton
Aberdeenshire, overseer—Simou MACKENZIS Ross, Esq., Mello
Ross-siiire—Dsumt, 11PINvosit, Cambletosn, Argyle-hire, ship
moier—FENvos and Roii.Et., Maryland Quarry, near Glasgow
builders--d AIMS Nl•l'llEits4,N, Perth, draper.

Friday, Deeeasier 28.
HAN lila' AtooNt.l, l'ieuannt-row, Holloway
road, am' l'mpley-street. Hoxton Ntw Town, ten dealer, grocer
andoihnotti—Wit.t.tatt IiAIII4NETT, Barking, Essex,
.Ikpstrit Wt.rmox, litTrpool, broker—JonN :Omit, Brighton
atatlotier—WlLLlAM SrEntw.t.ow, Market Drayton, chants •••
RORERT ALEItED DORYINOTON, Mancheator, woollen cloth titer
chant.

st UTcII sEQUigsTRATION. •■•• WttlAkm IlExvineint
lackunnusushire, iltrmer.

DECEMBER 24, 1853.

li:ittraturt.

eimsitleratious on the Ritsso-Torkioh Qmestiott.

By Coningsby. London : noutledge and
Co.
THE author of this pamphlet has availed him-
self of a popular name in treating of a popular
subject, but his considerations are nonsense.
and they are communieated in a style wind'
is illiterate.

Meowing qi 7'hontax Motire. Edited by Lord
.Tolm Russell. Vuls. V. awl VI. Loudon :
Longman and Cu.

THE grievous injury inflicted on the memory
of the late Thomas Moore by the publication
of his memoirs has been a " town talk " in all
circles where literature is cultivated. From
some particulars in our own possession, we
never looked upon Moore through that halo
of sentiment which enveloped his reputation
before the eyes of the public. We confess.
however, that we were scarcely prepared for
the havoc of his personal character, which
would one day result from his own portrait of
himself. By a strange coalition in criticism,
the Edinbury/t and Om rterl Eerie...ls, along
with our coutemporary the Ti mos, have agreed
upon the ruin inflicted upon the poet's repu-
tation. " Poor Moore," cries the last number
of the Edinburgh, with the most contemptuous
pity!
Before examining the present contribution
to the prolix biography of the Whig satirist,
there are sonic curious facts in connection
with the posthumous fame of " Liberal " ce-
lebrities OIL which we would desire to fix
attention. Have our readers ever noted the
manner in which the reputations of the mo-
dern celebrities of " Liberalism" crumble
after their death? It is really a very curious
topic, and meriting special notice. Sir Archi-
bald Alison has truly remarked that, though
the fame of Pitt and Fox was nearly upon a
level in their own age. every political reveht-
&thin since their death had contributed to
raise the character of the former and depress
that of the latter. The mistakes about Charles
Fox have been removed by all the political
memoirs recently published. Look, again, at
the fancy picture of " Lord Holland and Hol-
land House," as described by Mr. Macaulay,
and contemplate the reality, as seen in Lord
Holland's Own " notes," and in the disagree.
able aunt damaging babble of these memoirs
How before us. From Fox turn to Sheridan,
and observe how Whig pens and tongues con-
spire (in 801110 respects unjustly) to blast
utterly the character of one of the most bra-
hunt followers of the party. The exaggerated
reputation of Mackintosh vanishes on a near
survey of him in his son's memoirs. By at
curious coincidence, our contemporary the
Atheuurana,its number 4,f last week, has
made sonic extraordinary " revelations" about
Edmund Burke, and has printed, on its own
responsibility, extracts front the "6renville
Papers" hitherto unpublished. Whether or not
these statements atiect the character of Burke
will be a serious matter fur investigation at our
leisure. And we may add that this long list
of dantaFed " Liberal " celebrities may be
closed with the name of Sir Philip Francis,
on whom both Lord Campbell and Mr. Macau-
lay labour to affix the brilliant infamy of the
authorship of " Junius."

The conclusion which can be inferred from
all these cases is, that the anomalous thing
called " political popularity " produces vast
illusions amongst the ignonutt spectators. It
makes pigmies look like men, and gives to
men of moderate stature the appearance of
Omits. To talk loudly about great things is
ignorantly confounded with the capacity for
performing them ; mediocrities are invested
with the contemporaneous celebrity due only
to mighty natures ; and persons of showy
pretensions are counted on as substantial
public benefactors. Like dimmed poets, the
popular " and unpractical politician appeals
to posterity : and, when his name is exhumed
by history, his pretensions either vanish, or
titintly dwindle down into dwarfish tilladoWS.
• There is much upon this point which will sug-

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gest itself to Any one closely conversant with
the history of the hist half century. But we
llttist leave the topic for the examination of
the digjecia sucosibra of -pour Moore."
The continuation of his biography is to tl►e
same ptu•pose, and made in the same suicidal
style, as the previous portions. Again we
have the revolting philtre Of at greedy gossip
noting down the table talk of people of dis-
tinetion, for the purpose of giving pecuniary
value to his diary. llow little did all these
persons suspta•t that while they were enter-
touting the vivacious poet, with his apparently
frank and genial manner, he was tilling it
l►mg diary with petty reuuu•ks upon their inti-
mate friends! I.tu•d Brougham observed of a
clever biography that it was Boswell minus
Bozzy," but Motr•e's Diary is Doswell pho,
Bozzy." Nothing eau surpass it for the mi-
nuteness and the triviality of its gossip. When
Lady Jersey in ls's invited him to a party at
Middleton, the brilliant hostess little thought
that she was introducing a reporter to
her guest,,. Amongst them was the Countess
Cowper, now Viscountess I►ulmerston ; and nt
the close of the fifth volume before us Moore
reports Lady Cow per's conversation, details
what her ladyship iearned front Lord Cowper.
and so forth. The impudent tunic, too. iu
which the diary is written, and its vulgar• as-
sumption of easy familiarity with high person
ages, are very elua•acteristic:—

TM. Villas went off dux morning. Had at if is
Lord Villiera, a ith tag% young cony M, !MEd%
fiat and tirimmon, enure over from t fxfortl for the et citing.
tsmakton, a I I. • and natural maunurcd g fellow,
with a good singing voice, which he let as hear at the
pianoforte in the fluning : %hell my mougs, tuff, afle pat
in relaisiti.se as asstd. wislicet to t. Stark d for town
to. rtrw ; but not only the .llfrhe3S IhEMSCIVCS but I. 111•
Noll wished the e 01111.1,111111 :,11 )lehled.
"'fete Jerseys," tssulstons," and so through-
out. If such vulgarity had been written by $
presuming Yankee. what an outcry would-be
raised ! But the flimsiness of the memoirs
—the endless repetition of old jokes—the
perpetual !wattle and prolonged superfici
ality—its elaborate record of the chrysalis
existence of "the bard of Erin," alternately
a butterfly of fashion and the grub of
party (ready to sting the defenceless and
assail the dead)—make a move merciless tend
blighting exposure of Moore's hollow heart
and want of deep-toned (+ante-ie.r than we
could ever have expected to have seen.
The best passage in the fifth volume is the
description of a visit to Castle Dffititigtott,
where our readers will reeollect Aloure was
first introduced to " high life "

Walked over thy house, and felt deeply inteiested by it ;
everything l.a.kcd so familiar. so reiloient of old times.
The breaktlist-room. the old clock, and the letter-boxes on
each side of it, all remaining the Marne AM they were twill
thirty years ago, alien I felt :ay silt* till grand at IX:1W; Ow
inmate of such a great house. It seemed as if it was lig
yesterday I hail lett it, AlBl 1 almost exiieeted at every thin
meeting me with the same ranks.
to see the same people
Hut, alas ! what surpriseil lie was to find that I hail all
the pietareN so thorotiOily by heart, for I certainly did vent
much care about 'minting when I was corona, and knew
still less of it than Ido now. Yet thew was Hilt *figure in
any of the landscapes that did iiiit seem to me a- Gnu ilium
Kb my own fare. Th.' 11011 Illit or liable... Pith hia head
leaning so thoughtfully on him hand, and at. •g to say.
with a sort of 11111111111111 n." 411116011, rl 1000'11 ?nor,/ the
pretty Nell tiW,lllll', the brawny Pious, prol'essing tole
a Titian, &'c., ate. %talked niumul the pond, that Imp. lets
I' in entligielitiling to till which Txpill Moira expended
so much trouble mid money without success ; the water
still escaping like him own wealth, through WWII` 111%esiiile
1118.1111118481111/18101e outlets, and leaving it dry. If anything
alms wanting to show the uselessness of experience I.) man-
kind. it will be Grand in what I now witnessed. From
lilt!' to INII I hod seen at irknien ineeasantly emplioyeil iu
imitating and eitileaviouring to Piton+ this miliirtinuite
IN mil. awl now, in 111417. I found about a dozen or fifteen
pianist fi-llows tip to their 14110'8 in floe mull, at the M llu.-
wise
empli iyment. Oh 'WHO, heiminpuft Imni mist.
ings ! I remenilier Ittvgers °nee saying lam lie read the
on the dial in the pull here )i tarot layarer '• 11.'
111010 IN ills ...Mks, I sttipoNc."

Here the " got-up" sent intent evaporates heart-
lessly in a joke. The scores of such passages
read with the dreariest effect, and remind us
of that "Dead Sea fruit" front which Moore
extracted so many metaphors. He wrote a
book up►n religion, "'!'ravels of an Irish Oen-
tleman, &e.," and he affected to pass for a
Roman Catholic. Observe the utter indiffer
elitism of the following passage relating to his
father's death :

Our Nan ersatinn d'•i•ply interesting; fianiit that nyitlet
my mother nor Kate were %try anxious to prow 1111,011 him
thy rryseuce via eivrgyman; but, on mentioning it to lam

80,t

n 4 4 •,44.4.)'4, storta,,a jots he I ' self with ft., if.
The islll..leti 1101;41.111 1% Rs. Illtleetl. Ile 4.101 40110. 11 ...111•.
tilh.ll huh 116 Mutt' 1%115 11151 t.'‘.lle. list pri..l %/Is
lilt.ceetllllg It. tray Ills Colifuto.l4isl, Mist 1.11% list' U11ee..1.1111
.411.,11‘111% for 11.1 a pin s..r It. 111111. In. 11.41 my tnothet
and Mll.l, " Ant, 'Oll e.lll tell this gellllelllllll 1111
Ile ev.ittleel. 1.. know .11111 e MN Well as I.- %el v
line. as slit' kilt.% his 511•1.% action awl tin .tight . and is n
tnost notching trent of hunt few nights
Mhrn Eikn wits sloinnz something fo.e. hint, Ir munl to tics,
int env a tuhuthlr hille girl. it s a int% ..nor g 1441 1110111
1104.4notknow lour 11111... * Albin ins•nry who %41.
st inkling 1.y..11.1 Nllll it .mile. '• I gi.14.41 111,511
lesn. " Not an allot 'went On nigh. 1111 Meeetl 111,
n kick looked as t Itc I.lonkno•ss, for whir' he %Ms
alwu%sronnikal.lv, hail not 110 n then ilynyrtell hint.
tan elsliselNtllitill 114111111111 V 111111141 upon wligiots, and 101
.aster Kate. %hit, tile last turn,. I Sit% 1141., was Whore I haw
half inelittell 1.. 41evInt... Inisorlt a l'intustant , 1.4.1 Me Ally
mitt ancr taken any nth ice and i. mantra .inte 11, It
(*hi 1.014 e. • • • 1 ..1* 111, self. Ins lists nig 111111 lls 0 n
Protestant wife gout env not oho. y of do Nonni.: it
toigina.si Icast for tnt chihhru, tool, it tnt 111111.11111:.V hod
no athyr nlll4lutage, I .100411111 think 1!... pm.. omen:sent to
l4.11144.•1111 for.
The I'r nl. gentleman. Ali% Corry, was the
person to suggest that aphilital hits hlllllllll lit,
offered to the dying Maier! Then the hitter
%lam inclined to be a I'l.oo:bunt. but Afoot° ad-
vised her to 1.141111i1l And this
frolli the Milli olio entell4' find malignantlyin
Fudges •' assailed tile character of an or
nament to the Church of Ireland, because that
estimable person had left the Pohl of !tone'
lint the religion of Nloove, like his Irish pa-
triotism, was little better than the veriest
" fad e." I.:veli the Whigs Kt' t. tit s Imre folmil
oat what 1% were Milli Of Welds hi' Wfts at but-
film

11111.11killSted 111, 11.41111.101111. Tiara 14 Inv slot-Wen
Life ; t egarthal in tattered. he say s, its an at tnek Nam t Ito
higs. I .atly lirry arge4 Lool rey to lento son reeiwd
hi % own statement of the cirennist awes iii 0411. Lord
ivy himself takes it very quietly. Said that it was
et Went I wits 114.1 11 Whig ; Ihr, though nay %jewy were
strongly on the side of Wally, they were not modified by
those const it titionalit ics said It galities with hieli a Whig
tented round his principles. So.i.lacti to enahltive rov re'
marks taut t4salitissa as an instance of this. !mid 110111111.1
it is 11111111 I am not disposed to agree a ith Mr. Fuca
in any I Wm.!, and that it is not likely 1 aboold.

If lie was not a. Whig, !wither was he a de-
mocrat, nor was he, in any tiolitical meaning.
air Irish patriot." Ile wits a musician in
words, it literary melodist, with an eXtillitiiio
Car, 111141 physiCal of strung ',cumin'
In opeasiliCS, HMI fancy,—but of
114.411.1 or genuine passion me vittintit MO It
iii the prattling prolixity of these NH..

'Turning to Isle if 114.3 icr Wiled ID llte
%Aline, we will select home, beginning
one of Lord Ilroliglinin's :
I lined at
Lind 4 .101% : ofilloilify. IhN,npltiu. CI 41 t p,,
illitim Lomb, A 1... A•e. 1:104q..) %sly dinning
out NnHltntn I apt lie yells I,in, ) on 11is tote sit Lit el.
)4.44 : rrlwndiug him lot thkir fotteici•
bi..ll.4litutt, lie `.lllll, 1111 f. lorltf.ll 0111 1.1.1.1 1.M... %tom is Ift
1111t11 11/tV illg filing n ring into tin is o•ni rings. anti he with
teal oonee.- Mentioned it,onulumn hit mg ex haul ell et ely
fork in is stove' hes, ing Iwo I I'res tey 1 nothing Io
. HMI MB 4.l`Ci'VC\ •
rirlail,ilStilltitig it it II 111111.14 SOW, " Oh,
111•111. 1 Shall 1.1•11$11% I. hellei Io 111..1 toe Aeet.rilitigliy, ott
the tio.l row he took Ho tieithir twins not to let% r
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stories Mount ilratuedrin kers ettt tieing fire, pool sued the ith
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corn tog t near the canine when hr NH% Si..
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The late Lord Northampton published sonic of my stanza's
in a collection called " The 1 ribute.--.T. It.
The scenes in coaching up to town, in which
Moore used to amuse his fellow-passengers,
while he remained inetiy., arc amongst the fun-
niest thingi in the Ineltioirs. lien. is an
amusing one:—
Started in the conch for town at eight. Party inside, an
u)d Irish gentltman and his grantblailehtec, a very pretty
girl, just arrived by the Bristol packt t. After sounding
each other for some t* • its Irish poltties, fl/111111 than he
wan a violent Orangeman. Avowed Inv self of a different
opinion ; upon which, taking me fitr ans Englishusaii. he
lamented our ientonmee in this ssaintry of Irish atrinra ;
the girl, too, as violent ws atiti-t 'al lodic as her gramipalia,
hich I liked her all the Is tier row : argued plavftilly wills
them both. When we *loomed to breakfast, keitill Lord
Arthur II ill nniong the I nit side passengers ; whispered iliM
not to betray tile. In the coitme of the journey owned to
them I was an Irishman, and told the girl that when she
knew who 1 was she would, perhaps, forgive ale fur being
a rebel : offered to put myself in her hands to convert me.
Told them quatititieN of Itimli stern 's. mid kept them, 111111
a good sort of Englishman, who formed oor fourth, laugh.
ling the whole time. Lord A. I ill hold me tie.), inquired of
him who I was, and he said it Mr..lohitson. At last, after
se clintig44l Isom, nt Ilnmulow, I give the girl my earl',
and declared myself to he the veritable Captain Ibtek.
The girl exclaimed al 1, mid the old b.llow, in spite I/1 his
Otungeitone, taking 1111. es olllitally by the hand, said he was
111194 rejoiced to meet me, and that he had urhudlr, tier the
two or three last hours, 1.41114111.1.11.11 111110 1 1111.4, 11.• then
got very adrisitly over the difference in our opiniuus, by
saying," VIM, air, take the )sletical view of these matters."
Proved to be Sir Ilem.y Osborne, once high sheriff of the
county of Waterford, and a member of the Irish
mutt parted great friends.

We will shortly return to the sixth volume
of this protracted literary suicide. " Poor
Moore !"

Life in Ahyminia. Being Notes Collected
during Three Years' Residence and Travels

in that Country.
London : Murray.
THIN is a clover hook, at once amusing and
instructive. It contains a great deal of infor-
mation respecting a country as yet little
known, and has moreover the rare merit of
being very concise. We are acquainted with
few works of travel which it, would be less
easy to submit to a condensing process with
out eliminating something which readers
would regret to lose. Mr. Parkyns has one
fault as an author which to fastidious critics
is peculiarly offensive, but which a little prac-
tice in bookwriting will remove. His style is
affectedly flippant: he travels fair out of his
way in searell of rather flat jokes, anti tells
stories which he assures us were good when
be heard them, but which in his rendering
seem decidedly pointless. There is also a
puerile ostentation of the author's (imaginary)
preference of savage over civilised life—a
preference which we do not believe him or
any other reasoning human being seriously
to entertain, and the affectation of which, new
in Rousseau's time, is long since worn thread-
bare. That the desire to see strange sights,
the hope of increasing the world's knowledge
in natural or geographical science, nay, even the
mere love of adventure anti sport, should take
men among barbarous tribes, is natural enough;
but an educated European who expatiates on
the happiness of living ill a society whose
members go half naked, anoint their hair
with rancid oil, and know no occupation be-
yond fighting and the chase, excites our pity
either for his veracity or for his taste. But
we must not be hard upon a traveller if he
" magnifies his office," and exalts the pleasure
of that pursuit of which we reap the results.
The first requisite for successful discovery
is health. Be who cannot keep his physical
energies unimpaired in all temperatures and
climates, while undergoing hard labour, and
living on any sort of provision he can get,
would do better to stay at home. Rut this,
with proper precaution, is easier than many
think. Mr. Parkyns repeats and enforces the
lesson which every explorer has learnt in
turn—that health, in whatever climate, depends
mainly On abstinence in eating anti drinking.
It is principally neglect, or want of self-control,
in this respect that renders the Indies anti
Africa the grave of Englishmen. Light diet.
-al avoidance of spots
to prevail, are the
lure to sun is less
Ily considered, if the
)3- non-observance of

By Mansfield Parkyns.

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disuse of strong drink, mail
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