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pass the eulogy upon i which he does pass. Here,
for instance, is one example of Mr. Buckle's
unscrupulous mode tf reasoning which we honestly
believe is sufficient b discredit the fidelity of the
whole volume. It i such very strong evidence of
a foregone conclusion in Mr. Buckle's mind to be
supported nt all risk :
He even permits hi dislike to legislators to lead him
into an inconsistency for he allows them to merit for
their good measures, bcause these are really the produce
of the public opinion; yet he does not relieve them from
blame for their bad aeasures, though these are quite as
much the result of the oublic opinion of the age. He gives as
at illustration of a god measure the repeal of the Corn-
laws, but allows no merit to Minister or Parliament,
as.igning all to the force of public opinion ; but the
protective policy which was set aside had born in its day
and generation quit as popular as the doctrine of free
trade is now ; and siren he fulminates against this policy,
he throws all the Wane on the Government and Minister.
A " system was organized an I strictly enforced, of inter-
ference with marlcts, interference with manufactories,
interference with machinery, interference even with shops.
The Owns were guided by excisemen, the ports swarmed
with tide waiters, whose sole business was to inspect
nearly every process of domestic industry, peer in..° every
package, and tax every article ; while, that absurdity
might be carried tr its extreme height, a large part of all
this was by the way of protection; that is to sat, the
money was avowed)' raised, and the inconvenience suffered,
not for the use of the Government, but for the benefit of
the people ; in other words, the industrious classes were
robbed in order that industry might thrive," ( p. 235).
Nothing is said here of the popularity of protection, and
that the industrious classes were the very people who
clamoured for it. All is ironically laid "to the paternal
care of European legislators."

enable us to reward others in the manner most accept-
ble to a nstive." Well, what does this advice amount
to? As will he observed, it refers solely to the men
who had taken an active or leading part against us ; and
it is suggested that the lands of the men should he
" largely " confiscated. In what sense is " largely " to
be here understood ? An elephant is " large,"--3 hen's
egg, three inches long, is " very large !" All epithets
are comparative, and must be understood from the
context. There is no difficulty in thus understanding
Sir James's language. The confiscation, he suggests, is
to be " large," in order to allow of others being rewarded
by the confiscated estates; in other words, he recom-
mends that enough of the land should be confiscated to
enable us suitably to reward those who had proved our
friends. Well, then, what was the number of our friends ?
By Lord Canning's own showing (vide his proclamation)
—only six ! This, then, is the standard by which Sir
James's " largely "is to be understood. Instead of so
acting, Lord Canning confiscated the entire soil of Oude
to the British Government—he disinherited the whole
five millions of the population of Oude, with the exception
of six persons l—aud nevertheless asserts that Sir James
Outram at one time advised him to do so ! We give his
lordship full credit fur believing what he says he does, but
it is at the sad discredit of his common sense. Neverthe-
less, even supposing (for there is no end to the hypotheses
we must make fur his lordship's sake) that Sir James
Outrun had actually at one time recommended confisca-
tion as largely as the magnifying mind of the Governor-
General understood,—in fact not " largely " at all, but
" entirely,"—should it not have occurred to his lordship
that SirJames's subsequent retractation of that opinion
was a v.Ty important matter? If a man, when brought
face to face with the actual circumstances, earnestly
counsels the opposite of what he had counselled before, is
it not the greatest possible proof of the strength and
earnestness of his latter convictions ? Every man is
averse to retract a formerly-expressed opinion, and never
does so without strong reasons therefore : yet Lord
Canning acted on the opposite principle, and held that
Sir James's first opinion, given on abstract grounds, was
better worth minding than his later one, formed on the
spot after personal observation of the circumstances.
As we have shown above, Sir James Outrain never did
concur in Lord C inning's policy of wholesale confiscation,
and it says little for his lordship's sense to fancy so ; but
even if it had been so, the revised opinion of Sir James
was certainly the one to which alone weight should have
been given.

premising at present. " The Expensive Luxury of
Waste " is a good paper, but the Indian articlea
the review of Messrs. anford and Forster are, en!
think, both unfair and unreflecting.
The Dublin University Magazine contains several,
curious and pleasant articles. "Horace Walpole in
his Old Age," and " Patrick Delaney," are two clever
gossiping, Gentleman's Magazine style of articles,
and will be read, we think, with general amusement.
We notice, however, one statement in the latter
which rather staggers us. In speaking of the literary
circle that used to frequent Delaney's house, near
Dublin, the writer says, "Here came Addison in 1717'
—several years after Addison's departure from Ireland
" Crinoline and Whales" is an amusing article on
ladies' dress, for which a good deal of strange Woe..
(nation on the subject has been exhumed. m Out.
side a Playground " is sensible and pleasing, and
" The Half.Biothers " a very good tale indeed, the
subject of which is bullying in the army.
The only very remarkable paper in Bentley is
called " The Undiscovered Islat,d," and purports to
be an account of an island that was peopled in 1627
ny the survivors of an English ship chat was wrecked.
The ten souls who landed on the island have in-
creased to twenty five thousand. They speak a
quaint variety of English, and their dress is in the
tashion of James 1. They are a republic under
hereditary chiefs, have little crime among them,
breathe a delicious climate, and cultivate a fertile
soil ; their drink is the fermented juice of the pine-
apple, and they are greatly given to hospitality; the
women are exceedingly beautiful, and adultery is
punished by a very mild form of public flagellation.
They bad heard no European news from the year
we have mentioned, and were ignorant of the murder
of King Charles I. They had a few books, the chief
of which was Shakespeare ; and public representa-
tions of his plays were one of their principal amuse-
ments.

In the next plies we have a very long instalment of
" What rill had° with it?'' and a scene among Mr.
Cutt's fraterniy reminding us vividly of the famous
escape scene in " Pelham." Another article upon
Cherbourg gives us a very complete account of the
fortifications, and finally lays before us the three
conclusions,—that Cherbourg is only valuable to
France as a defensive position ; but that either as
protective or offensive it would be of little use—that
is to say, thit a French fleet could not lie there in.
satety while the English were masters of the Channel'
and that it possesses no peculiar capabilities for the
embarkation of an invading force sufficient to coun-
teract the inherent difficulties of the undertaking.
But the best article in the present number is on
" Lord Csoning's Reply to the Ellenborough De-
spatch." It is logical and vigorous—driving eery
conclusion well home—and thoroughly establishing
the proposition with which the writer sets out,
namely, that Lord Canning is " an ordinary Governor-
" Creneral placed in extraordinary circumstances."
As good specimens of this brief hut remarkably able
paper we subjoin the following :

The Kew Monthly is rather prodigal of good things
this month. We have a very usetul and illustrative
review of Mr. Carlyle's Frederick ; an equally good
one of Mr. Gladstone's Homer, in which Virgil is
vindicated from some of the aspersions cast upon him
by the Right Hon. Grecian ; an interesting story
called "A Night with the Ghosts ;" and a very
amusing paper on " Alexandre Dumas and his Pets.*
"Evenings at Inns," is a carious collection of odd
anecdotes—the last especially.
The National Magazine opens with a new story by
Mr. Brough. It is eminently humorous and original,
and seems likely to be a great attraction. " Bob
Black's Illusion " is another rather lively written
story. And the usual amount of artistic and critical
contributions make up about an average number.
The Englishwoman's Journal continues to discuss
the questions to which it confines itself without any
abatement of talent. In the present number, too, we
have a tale which is well written and interesting.

The remaining papers in' the number call for no
particular comment. _ _

The November number of Fraser strikes us as
slightly below the average standard of that capital
periodical. The two first articles, called " Our
Failures," and " Concerning Tidiness," both excite
expectations which they do not fulfil. " Peli-
cans," too, is unluckily not a very favourable
subject for the lively and genial ornithologist
for whose monthly contribution we always look
with eagerness. Perhaps the best article in the
number is that on Mr. Esrey, whose process is here
explained and discussed by a competent judge and a
clever writer. The following account of the taming
of Cruiser may be acceptable to many of our
readers.—

Only in two matters has the personal action of Lord
Canning stood out clearly—and neither of them can be
made the subject of eulogy. The first of these is his over-
ruling the military plans of the Commander-in-Chief. In
the beginning of the present year, Sir Colin Campbell's
plans were, to clear the Doab entirely of the enemy, and
fully re-establish cominunications between Calcutta and
the Punjiub,—to leave Central India to be cleared by
the Bombay and Madras field-forces, which, under Roberts,
Bose, sit Whitelock, were advancing to the line of the
Jurnna front the south and west,—and to march himself
into Rohileund, the reconquest of which province could be
effected with the force then at his disposal, and which re-
conquest was indispensable to free the important line of
c numunication throu4ll the Doab from serious and cease-
less link attacks. All the rebels over this wide extent of
c nintry, north-east of the Jumna, would thus have been
either destroyed or driven into Oude, the conquest of
which province Str Culin designed to reserve for another
c impsign,—in the interim, spending the hot season and
the rainy months in the roughly strengthening and re-
organizing all the surrounding regions ; so that, when the
otrapadAn reopened, whatever portion of the Oude rebels
should escape from the attack of his converging columns
!by that time strong in cavalry), synth! find no resting-
„hate elsewhere, and be utterly crushed, without being
able to betake themselves to (our greatest peril) a
guerilla warfare. On the other hand, tile Governor-
General insisted that. an attack should be made at once
upon the centre of the enemy's power in Oude—
maintaining that the capture of Lucknow would so
discourage the rebels, that they would give up the contest
and send in their submission. The Commander-in-
Chief had to yield to the orders of the Clovernor-General ; and
the consequence has been a widespread and harassing
guerilla warfare, a campaign in the hot season, most disas-
trous to our soldiers—and results so unsatisfactory, that not
a single revolted province has as yet been thoroughly re-
duced to order an 1 tranquillity. Sir Cohn Camjbell
did his part of the work—be took Lucknow—and not
only Lucknow, but Bareilly, and every other place of
importance. But the rebels did not surrender. Lord
Canning had entirely miscalculated. The object for
which he had overruled the plans of the campaign
proved quite illusory. And thus, in this momentous
matter, his policy was a failure.
And of the Proclamation :

Titan is kept up with spirit. "Behind the Scenes
in Paris " is very clever, and is vastly exciting.
Some of the articles are in rather bad taste. Bet the
magazine, as a whole, is able.
The Art Journal is a remarkably rich number, full
of pretty illustrations, an I interesting information
given in the must attractive manner, among which
"The B 'ok o the Thames " continues to glide most
pleasantly un its way. The engraving of the picture
of " The Jager's Wife," in the Royal collection, is so
admirable and so `)eautifully clear, that we should be
almost tempted to cut it out and give it a frame and
a place by itself on the walls of uur favourite room.
We understand that Mr. S. C. Hall, the well•
known editor of the periodical io which we have just
referred, contemplates giving two lectures on the
authors of the age. There is probably no man
now living who has had the advantage of so exten-
sive a personal acquaintance with the distinguished
literary persons of the present century, and we
cannot conceive anybody more perfectly competent
to the task he proposes to undertake.

Accompanied by one individual alone, a nobleman of
indisputable nerve, temper, and physical strength, Mr.
Rarey proceeded to the encounter. As we have heard the
story told, his injunctions to his comrade were character-
istic enough. " Whatever happens, my lord," said he,
" don't you speak, or interfere. At least, not till you see
me down under his feet, and him worrying me ! " This
compact made, he resolutely walked into the arena, which
consisted of a loose box divided by a half-door of some
four feet or more in height. Stepping quietly up to this
barrier, he leaned his arm upon it, so that it was just
covered by the iron bar that ran along the top, and looked
fixedly at the savage he intended to tame. Cruiser—
from whom muzzle, head-stall, and all such impediments
had been removed, we believe, by some mechanical
arrangements, for none dared go near enough to touch him
—made his usual dash at the intrepid stranger, to ppunce
on him as a cat would on a mouse. Rarey stood perfectly
motionless, neither altering his attituiti nor the expression
of his countenance in the slightest degree. Thinking he
had his enemy by the arm, the horse seized and worried at
the bar 83 if he would have bitten it through. Again and
again retiring for an impetus to the further corner, he
rushed at the mysterious stranger, actually screaming in
the uncontrollable violence of his rage, Rarey sustaining
these successive charges with the same sangfroid that he
had shown at the commencement of the engagement. At
length, after more than an hour of this wild scene, with its
frantic fury on one side, and its calm scientific superiority
on the other, the redoubtable Cruiser, hbwn, exhausted,
drippiuig with sweat, and completely puzzled in his equine
mind as to the properties of this figure, which he could no
longer believe to be human, came quietly close to it, and
true to his nature, warped as it was, smelt at it, and
touched it with his nose ; then Rarey threw open the half-
door and walked boldly up to him. The last sentence
speaks volumes. It was a trait not of the system perhaps,
to much as of the man. But what confidence the man
must hate had in his system, thus to preserve his coolness
and equanimity in a position which to every one but himself
would have been of mortal danger. The " salt was now on
the bird's tail," and when his own peculiar method had
been resorted to, and f.ruiser, converted into a quiet,
docile, and not particularly showy hack, bad been ridden
before astonished hundreds, the horse-tamer was univer-
sally recognized as such, and both the papers and the
public expressed themselves satisfied with Mr. Rarey.
We don't know what kind of a story " Hector Garret
of Otter " ntay turn out to be, but it is not very

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
BOOKS.
Punch's Pocket Book for 1859.—Panch Office.
Cudrus, King of Athens, a Tragedy ; and Miscellaneous
Poems. By Richard Neal.—S4npron bow.
Lott•ery. By Mrs. Jones of Panicles —Routledge.
True to the Last. By the Author of " I've been Thinking.'
—Simpkin and Marshall.
The C Iszuscellor's Chaplain. By the Rev. Erskine Neale,
M.Pa.—Siluilkin and Marshall.
The English Governess. By Rachel M'Crindell.—Simpkin
and Marshall.
Emma De r.essan.—Simpkiti and Marshall.
Sketch of Algeria during the Kabgle War. By Hugh
Mullenaux Walmsley.—Chapman and Hill.

PERIODICALS.
Routledge's Shakespeare; King Henry Vlll.—Routledge.
Le Follet.—Simpkin and Co.
Tales from Blackwood: La Petite ifacklaine.—W. Black-

But Sir James °ilium,
objected t) the proclionatn
previously taken a different
me, says his lordship, to the
men who have taken an act

ays Lord Canning, if he
)n when sent to him, had
view. He had written to
effect that " the lands of
ive part against us should be
r, among other reasons, to

wood.
Davenport Minn.—Chipman and Hall.
The Farmer's Alnaanack.—Ridgwa).
North British Review.—Kennedy.
The Gordian Knot.—Bentley.
4rl Journal.—Hall and Virtue.

largely confiscated, in