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though opposed to the traditions of diplomacy.
are sound and reasonable. " Strike." he says.
"at the root. Don't iraste lives and ships on
"an African blockade ; but deal with the
" slave-importing eountries—enba and Brazil.
" They art the responsible authors of all this
" mischief

Most thinking people'.—lf hen•stealin pre % ail to a
plainly unendurable extent, will you station
at evvry hennaed : and keep thou watelting :mil cruising
incestutntly tee and f►o over the pettish. in the WM hob,
saute dark, at enormous expt nse. with almost no effect ?
tkr will yun not try rather to discover when• the fox's den
is, and kill doe fox ! Which of those two things will you
the? Moat titinkittg people, yon know the fox and laden:
then• he bun, and discharge your cruiser% auti
police•e etchers

Speteheo, Parliamentary and iliseellaneinm, by the

Right Hon. T. R. Maeau London: ('lntl.►•,
Becton, and Co.
Wm are not at all sorry that at least one edition of
Mr. Macaulay'a spceehes should have been thus
issued without his personal superintendence. In
the ease of so strong a partisan, and so seven. a
critic upon many of the " Peolites," we are etortaitt
that, if the matter were entirely in his own power,
Mr. Altwattlit)'s •'snp►eriutendeuee" would have la_'eu
synonymous with summation or some at least of
those speeeltes. We doubt. ti►r example, whether of
his own accord he would like to reprint those three
attacks on Sir .lames Graham's "spy system" which
we find here, and in one or which the member ter
Edinburgh spoke of the present First Lord of the
Admiralty—" I say that there is a wide distinction
between the toomluet of the right honourable gentle-
man t Sir J. (Ingham) anal that of any ps•rsons who
have preceded hiu► in Akio"! 107.)
Some other very invidious passages in the arraign-
ment of Lord Aberdeen and Sir J. tiraham will
perhaps require special annotations in Mr. Macau-
lay's •• authorised" edition. Neither will Sir .lames
tintham like to n•ad the passage (vol. .141) in
which Mr. Macaulay fastens on the assertion of the
member for Carlisle " that ho (Sir -lames ttraliantl
said that ho was pledged to William IV., or some-
body else, vet to alter the ReArut

We will deter our estimate of Mr. Macaulay as a
parliamentary speaker mail we have the opportunity
of comparing the two editions of his speeches. We
shall wait with entiosity to see whether he will otter
any explanation of the eontratlictions that. appear in
his public life. We could cite several, but w e content
ourselves with pointing to his elaborate onslaughts
against. O'Connell and the Repealer% in 114:1:1, and his
attacks on the Conservative Cabinet in 1544 for its
having vmseented the Agitator. it is worthy of ape-
cial notice that. 31r. Macaulay, two years before the
ill-starred Lichtteld-house compact, told ri'onnell
that he should never succeed in searing or haunt •
dating the Whigs" (vol. i., p. Thus, the
member for Edinburgh, though eminent as a re-
viewer and historian, cannot lay claim to distinction
as a prophet—an office which he seems to aspire to,
from the oracular manner in which he propounds
ambiguities. Hut, as we have intimated, tve shall
defer our critical estimate of his claims to the title
of " an orator." and conclude by saying that, in the
ease of one who has been so memiless a critic to his
political adversaries, we are not sorry that rut inde-
pendently-published edition like the present. is in
existence to riattintl him that, with all his brilliancy
anal versatile faculties, he ham tuade Its great mistakes
in judging of "men anti things" as others of his
eontemporaries, to whose errors or shortcomings he
has shown little of that forbearance which, after
all. he most ask for in his own case.

Nu;;onby. A Tale of Trott'dons Thne4. Second

F.dition. London : .1. Whitaker.

Timm: is something very pleasing in the calm tone
and smoothly-flowing style of this historical novel ;
and we are not surprised ut its having meek
much general appreciation as is shown when an
anonymous work appears in a " second edition."
The " troublous time" is '45, the plot of the story
introducing "tho Chevalier" on the English side of
the Border; and tho bemniful scenery of our north.
ern counties is picturesquely described with all the
feeling of a poetical mind. Amongst the real histo-
rical characters depicted are John Wesley and the
Countess of Huntingdon, who are portrayed with a
grace of manner and delicacy of touch that show the
author of " Ponsonby" has nothing in commmon
with that sign-painting class of novelists who daub
all their strung subjects without regard to chasteness
of colour, or truth to nature. The pictorial skill and
pleasing sentiment that we find in this writer induce
its to look forward with interest to his next publica-
tion.

d Letter to the Archbishop .!Dublin on Miss SeUon's
Establishment at Plymouth, Sc., Sc. By the Rev.
W. 6. Cookesley. Fifth Edition. London: Ridg-
way.

Tuts edition of Mr. Cookesley's correspondence with
the archbishop contains. in addition to former mate-
rials, a letter from I►r. l'usey, with Mr. Cookesley's
reply, and the pamphlet tlu►s amplified is commended
to all who watch with a►tsiety the development of
a not nalotts principles and of foreign institutions within
the boson► of the English ('lunch. It deserves
attentive pentsal, as it will probably hiloro long lead
to further inquiries on the subject of these establish-
ments.

The Happy Premier. Cabinet Melodrame. By

Nemo. London : Kent and Co.
.t In in illustration of this motto:-
- .fine bed
Itin till! itNeilrii it 14Ia1 bell a rows

The Thane hiniself—one I 'olonins "—Misty, Berna-
l'::, and .lean the Iteiver, bear a singular rementblanee
to certain characters to whose perfigimuices we have
inirseli es called attention. The plot is an imbroglio,
in whieh the 11MM:1h. piTSlOnte appear to be at ero:o4
TOIITOSC,, Mid Hhieh bass no clear dinaufairat : but
the cultse that such are the perplexities of existing
personages, mid thin the author has studiously
copied nature. available in its behalf. ‘le wish
every success to this new drainittie artist.

A Stll: ry is being formed under title of the
" to=nnes Institute," which, if successful, will supply
an obvious want in our popular educational institu •
boas. It is, in fact , intended to WINO as a national
school of geography, and to be the means of throwing
open to the public, under the fewest possible restric-
tions. a vast collection of gtstgraphieal end etistito-
graphical knowledge at present accessible only to
professed *grans. The virtual author of this when's,
is Mr. Wyld, the geographer, who has transferred to
the institute his celebrated globe in Leicester-square,
with the models, maps. sod books appertain-
ing thereto; a property which, with the buildings. is
estimated at upwards of :HyNNIL These 'loadings
it is proposed to enlarge, and also to increase the
collection of seitlitilie works, until it boesittivit what it,
is nltimately destined tole, a museum and repertory
of geographical learning. We understand that the
capital of the new company under whose auspices this
plan is to his carried out will not exceed 50.01101. The
shares will be of the valno of 11. each, and the pos-
session of a share will confer the perpetual right of
Recess to the collection. A charter will shortly be
obtained, the capital required is expected to be raised
without. difficulty, and we believe that the new build-
ings will be proeeeded with immediately.

dint ;Alts.