The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

THE PRESS, AUGUST 29, 1857.

diately on his arrival in Great Britain. [This letter, it
appears, reached the owners of the barque, at New London,
Connecticut, long before the Resolute arrived there.]
We now come to the homeward voyage. Sliort handed,
poirly rigged, and unfitted for the Mug voyage as the
Resolute was, Captain liuddington found it no easy task to
bring the ship into port. The watertanks had burst in
the hold long betore he came into possession of her, render-
ing her very light and apt to roll heavily in the trough of
the sea. Gale after gale was experienced; yet the brave
fellow laboured day and night, and at last was successful in
the praLeworthy effort made to rescue the abandoned
vessel, driving across the mouth of Northumberland Inlet
down to Cape Elizabeth. The open sea was gamed, and
on the 20th October the homeward voyage commenced.
After a succession of strong gales and head winds, the New
London lighthouse was made on the .24th December, and
the voyage was successfully accomplished with credit to all
concerned, but especially to Captain Buddington, for he
worked morning, noon, and night.
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The purchase and restoration of the old ship
to England by the American Government, and
the graceful (?) manner in which the compli-
ment was accepted by Sir Charles Wood, who
ordered the ship to be stripped and laid up in
ordinary, must be fresh in our readers' minds.

To conclude, although we cannot con-
scientiously recommend Mr M'Douaall's hook
as the most lively and entertaining Arctic
volume that we have ever read, it yet has the
merit of exact truthfulness. Nothing is ex-
aggerated, no difficulties or danger over-
coloured, and no attempt is made at effect; it
is an exact and faithful record of an arduous
voyage, and as such will rank highly in the
records of Arctic search.

Dates, Battles, and Erents of Modern History. Dy
Lord Eustace Cecil. London : Stawart.
Tats is a most useful and opportune little manual.
It is skilfully executed, and contains in a v,;ry small
compass all the lending facts of modern military
history. A very good system is adopted of taking
periods instead of single dates, though this occa-
sionally gives rise to a rather arbitrary classification,
and sometimes the omission of important events—
as, for instance, in order to avoid a short period,
such as 166'2-1665, nothing is said of the triple
alliance ; and for a similar reason, perhaps, Crom-
well's wars, including the important battle of
Dunkirk, and the peace of Pyrenees, on which the
history of Europe turned for a hundred years, are
omitted. The work, therefore, is at present not
faultless, but the idea is excellent, and we have no
doubt that in a second edition the execution will be
made worthy of the design.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED—Aucusr 27.
Boors.

Life of Mary Queen of Scots.
Virginia.
Uriel, and Other Poems.

Sampson and Low
Sampson and Low.
.1. Chapman.
"odgson

The item at Arms. T. H,
Rome: Its Ruler and its Institutions. By John Francis
Maguire, M.P. Longmans.
Quits. A Novel. 3 vols. By the Baroness Tautpß hoens.
entley.

PAMPHLETS.
The Churches and Mansions of the Isle of Wight. By W.
1-1. Davenport Adams. Part I. Smith and Elder—The
Present Crisis in India. J. Chapman—Dales, Battles, and
Events of Modern History. By Lord Euatace Cecil. C. J.
Stewart.

QUEEN VICTORIA is the first sovereign of England
that has visited Cherbourg since the time that Nor-
mandy belonged to Great Britain. The last English
monarch seen under the walls of Cherbourg was
Henry V., in 1420.
THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, whn is travelling
incog. under the title of the Count d'Ardennes, will
be absent from Belgium for about three weeks. His
Majesty arrived at Bonn on the evening of Saturday,
and was immediately visited by the Prince of Wales.
The King, on the following day, was to proceed up
the Rhine in a steamer.

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on the snbject of
telegraphs is to be held in a short time at Berne, in
order to establit-h a uniform communication between
the Austro Germa•i telegraph union and the States
wh►ch signed the telegraphic convention of Paris.

A SHORT HONEYMOON was enjoyed on Monday
morning last by a matins in the detachment of Royal
Marines about to embark at Plymouth for service in
China. This private, named M‘Koone, on receiving
his money, asked permission to marry before em-
barking. This request was granted, and, going
under escort of a non commissioned officer, he was
allowed to proceed to church with his bride. The
ceremony having been concluded, the happy pair
were permitted ten minutes to spend the honeymoon,
at the expiration of which time he returned to the
barrack, made an allotment in favour of his wife,
and then embarked with the rest of the detachment
on board the Imperador screw steamer.