The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1851.

Specimens of die Table Talk of Samoa Taykr Coleridge family by keeping a general shop. Moderate com-
Teird Bdition. Murray. fort was secured to the family until the housewife
Chase:ahem in Trawl, or Iles Last Days of a Philosopher. became so thoroughly en reseed by family cares as
By Si, Hallam'** Darr, Bart. Fdth Edition, with
to be unable to attend to the shop, when all went
Illustratiose. Murray.
speedily to ruin. Mr. Britton's account of life io
Sehleatiese or Days o 4 Fly By Sir Ilrerunv
Dave', Ban. Fourth dittos, with Illustrations. Murray. a Wiltshire village is exceedingly graphic, especially
where he describes the machinery by which iatelli-
Rejected Address**. By hues Smut and HORACE
SKITS. Twenty-second Edition, with additional Notes. gence was circulated among the rural population :
Murray.
moire—TlM QUICILENER OP CILBATION. • VILLAGE IN OLD TIMIS.
All these volumes belong to a series now in course
no resident 'squire, clergyman, or peewits above the rank of
The intimate 'curtained connexion (says Humboldt) he I In part of my boyish days, says Mr. Britton, Kington had
of publication, under the advertised title of " Murray's
Mien light, heat, electrvity, and magnetism, which has
Choice Editions." Their claim to each a name will be recently bow so much investigated, render" it probable that fatta;r, or village tradequaa. There were ten agriculturists
readily admitted, for they include the colloquial as the transversal vibration, of the ether which fill. celestial who kept horses, cows, and sheep, and about the a •me num-
riches of Celeridgee the wit and humour of the space prates' the ptraomena of light, so thermic and ber of trail, smen, or "'dealers and ehapmen.;" bat I do not
Brothers Smith, and the scientific philosophy and , electromagnetic phenomena depend on movements of an think that there wag a newspaper or msgas.se purchased by
analogous kiod. Great discoveries in this field are reserved one of the inhabitants bane the year 1780, when the genial testing feeling of Sir Hurephry Davy. " Coleridge'el
TEI INQUISITION. fur the fetter*. Light, &addle radiant heat inseparable from doe riots wars talked about, and wondered at. Five or sat
Table Talk" has long been in great demand at book- I The seethed of torture aid the degree of torture practised it, are, for all the non.luminaus bodies of the universe, for years afterwards, the Lady's Magazine was taken in by one
stalls (a sure prof:4ot broad popularity), and this re- is tee Spestola It qoisition will be well understood by tin toe surface of our planet, • prime cause of all motion and all of the farmer's naugbten, and lent by her to my sister
appearance of the work, in a compact six shilling I history of Isaac Orobio, accused by his servant of being a organic lite. The penetrating heat even calls forth elem.°. Eliepe,
wth,,, ;irf,heor„,waarsdstionn,drodouf reatodi,?..,
village,
of the
,Bal
che had open: In gaol, R volume, will gladden the hearts at d just meet tee ; Jsee- Afee'etr:
Aim of i our: magnetic
ewehich exineteilleitiloVnetexl°tirongi tihnefitteeernthee'ufatironfroonmotlT annepeepoch—food for the goosip of the whole' veifle4se.n rare:. r
innattenles,yand Zehi
pocket-money of a large circle of the disciples of the I severaln'her
of which he was accused, discoverytn ordert to his nations and decompositions of matter, upon all formative Robbins, our opposite neighbour, and Thomas, alias Tommy
Iphilosopher of Highgate.. There is a timeliness, too, : ensfaaainn. he was at length earned out of gaol, activity in the mineral kingdom, upon the disturbance of the Collard, an old batchelor, both of whom seemed to live upon
in this reprint tithe the" Table Talk," when all England ' and through several turnings brought to the piece atmospheric e tau:lib:iota, and upon the functioas of all veg.- tittle-tattle, were the bearers and special messengers of all
is excited by furious declamations on some of the of torture. Thu was towards evening. It was a lam table and animal organisations.
In the next passage the author notices the influence such news as they could comprehend and talk about through
the whole extent of Kington ; retailing it by picas and
very questions which Coleridge discussed so well, and user :rouged room,•c , ed and the walls covered with
dl ' ticks w fastened to the wall, of the - - scraps at the carpenter's, the tailor's, and the blaelomith's
discussed always with a great "moral thirst after
and at one end of the room there was an enclosed a RADIATION or HEAT FROM THE STARS. shops. At each of these houses they would devote about an
truth." To offer each books at a cheap rate, is the which seemed to him as the very mansion of death, it was
Theo peratunis and influence of rad'
them. of a fir kw. hour to social converse, or rather to collq uocy ;
amation, for the
' best possible way of checking the evil done by the terrible and awful. Here the inquisitor admonished him to problematical character than those attributed to eleetro tradesmen, if employed on work, continued their
dissemination of low-priced, mischievous publications. confect the truth Whore hi, torment, begin; he answered, magnetism. According to Poisson and Fowler, the tem- it,telivrir,e?,tr,terrnpienlethede, - lk-
? 7rls.7thtrusenr'"Sbe•rinogned7
Philosophy in Coleridge,science in Davy,and whin the he hadeedoegr,
stttimehtrauwthual.roe:tiowah,e,reuupt,nttli;linouisitor. perature of celestial space is the result of radiations of heat
—,t What I. In ,0„;an
:Rajected Addressm,"--all in pocket volumes,at pocket- Pr° h
taretestne holy Once would be innocent if he were to shed fjztstutireu:
is:
,d,,from
.111
the
sets; Ate:shed bi:Lbsostrp• queer pie._ . ,_. parts O'—" That Lunnun is a mortal
• " Well, I shall nein r zee a*, nor any o' the
me prices—must ',cure as wide a sale as the ;expo- Ida bland, or even should he expire in the torment. Wren
.ere eaten mentioneMoge a'
of heat by the indent% papishee." Hunan cetholcs and devils were synooymout
niment of tt eir production deserves. In estimating one he had said this they put on him • linen garmentslum,
and
draw (Aristotle, " bleteorolgy ; " and Seneca in " Nat. Q..,,,a,.,,, terms at Kinston too audit marl other count villages. I have
of this collection et books we should temember,tooehat it s) close oat each side as almost west zed hi:
ito death. II.,10.) In recent tinsmiths two area. French mathematicians a
of:raise:coo
i, zendprAdi,mo!...l den:,
ielfrietodtmai: heirn rdatil rounds,,
in the "old days" when George the Third was king_a Whenhet, and 'tree hod lee in ht
oe y borsht:tithe: eagd
atihn.
tab
ed ...odd: just mentiootd, have renewed the interest of this question a
Robbins was aged, occupied a serissll dairyi
fauna, which ro-
ad
the Smiths wrote the " Rejected A .mtrration pat him to the most grievous anguish. When hen la, their
~r s,i,niv, es,
leig,i4titox,
ssisaLit_licabebeteemn acrlurraeleoctlisehow
ti _ a.ra
st t d but a very small portion of his time, and Mr. Collard
dresses," there was no Punch, no comic writers had overcome this torture, the Venter admonition was „paPee, and of the proximate radiation a '
adiation of neat from the earth's loved up in • small annuity of about 301., and was called
inundating London with their jokes, and pa- repeated that he would confess to troll in order to avoid lawless to the heavenly vault, far all the thermal relations, ilan'i'man'
rod id everything they came across from further torture. As he persisted in his denial, they tied his and is fact fir the very inhabitablity of our planet. Accord. Mr. Britton repeats the old complaint of self-edo-
Sophocles to Bann. The " Rejected Addresses" thumbs to very tight with small
the blood
ae sawed their,aelf extra ing to Fourier's analytical theory of heat, the temperature abed men. With active and awakened &tutees, he
have the merit of originating a style of literature mlnies are °IL.
'well
el
retie rn tau he thw
ash ipTance d wit' spirt out
is Dace k outmetlesttl;eordilitetary space, is Kier :beha.towunt4e: thasimeamn found no one to airect his natural tendecce s into lacy
which is exercisin so great an irflnence upon the under
agais the wall and fixed tenon • little bench. Into the deg* of cold c
hi
art
probablye w d I awl% 'at wise or profitable course. In the dark ages of encountered re by man e pale
manners, conversation, and arouaementsof the present wan same jeos 'slays were fixed, through which Tema were region. 1800, the lame and infirm were thought to be the
day. The intrinsic me
rit' of
the Addresses them- drawn and tied round his bodyilo several riaos,bespecially The second 'mei= discusses natural and telescopic natural instructors of youth. To repress any sponta-
selves, their grace, aparkle, and point, their union of hi!lioinurestanydiolleegel, fastened Thefxerst a;yr.wftrt:wthenltto trerworli, vision, the glimmering of the stars, the swiftness of neous development of cature, and impart the me-
every quality which can give to light literature the hg,
sowitast his bands and feet being bound so tightly, put him to light, and the results of photometry, all fruitful in chanical art, of reading and writing, was all which
diguity of high art, Billy entitle them to the wide re- exquisite pain, and seamed to him ea though he had been optical questions—standing in the closest relations to any promised, and more than most performed. The
putation which they enjoy. just dissolvicg in filmes. In the midst Cl these torments, the human knowledge of the heaven., and interwoven by fine pedagogue entrusted with the culture of the
•••—•• torturer os • "olden ~raw the bench from under him, " . the author with most interesting references to the young Britton's mind was a rare specimen in his way.
Eastiory. A Tole. By ANNA Umtata" Dart v, that the miserable wretch hung by the cord', without any. 1
of " Frienle and Fortune." Pickering.
Aathore history of discovery and to his per:onel experience in lie was a baptist preacher, named 'Maseley, whose
es thing to support him, and by the weight of his body drew I .„,.
It ham long been evident that a Lincteus is the cords tighter. After this a new kind of torture succeeded: n 1
Idi erent regions of the earth. claims to be either a spiritual or secular instructor do
of there was an instrument like a small ladder, made of twoln the third section
' thnumber,
e distribution, and not appear, since the author can remember nothing of
required to classify novels, and the vast increase
upright piece, of wood and two crow ones, sberpened on the colour of the fixed stars is treated. This ceapter opens the man, except that his he ad was powdered, hie
their numbers daily makes the necessity more and front ode. ; this the torturer placed over *going him, aid with the fll •
o owing passage on heir hung in long curls over his tars, and stand close-
, more urgent. There are two or three distinct el Mel by • ciente motion struck it with great viols we against both
crept and mane-like about hie neck. Of these boyish
of satirical novels—two or three of philosopeical ones 'hint, so that he received maw each of them five stroke., A PHENOMENON PECULIAR TO PIRO.
—and half-a-dozen of sentimental ones. And every which put tin to such intolerable agony that he fainted If the whom heavenly vault had been covered with inch- days he has many tales to tell of field sports, to which
eneseeeful novelist founds a new school of his own.
y. After this the torturer tied ropes about Ornbio's mush!" starry cams, as with an all-covering tapestry, so, he seems to have been extremely. partial, and it is pro-
went,,&le and then put those ropes across his own back, which supposing .ight to pass through celestial space unweakened, bible that tee severe exercise to which there
Beetbary is definable as belonging to the genus wa our, rdwitule
leather te prevent him hurting himself; would the sun be discernible only by its spots, and the moon accustomed him may have been of great use in
sentimental mid species religious. IVe are glad to say, then falling backwards and patting his feet against the wall, by her dusky due, and no particular star would be distio fieing him for his future pedestrian excursions. however, that the term "religious" may be sincerely he drew them with all his might, till they cut through the guialsalbilee in the
Itliniversal brightness.. On the high plain of ..,a
ti second master was one Sparrow, very unlike
and fairly applied to it. It is not a fiction written victim's flesh, even is the bone,;,,a,nlthis tort:l)7ra, repeated r
g I grwrieleaset7leeanptheenee'mutehooenne;:r and
eno
enough
crhe ami 1•so
removed
the
(eons
that Anders,
the baptist, for he could write a good hand,
with a sectarian view,—nor, happily, at all like the trice,ell
breadth el; rue° thehtOrnletruwdoeuhnd, and ''
drawn wlth two
finger"
implied in the above speculation as to its cause, but some- kuew the common rules of arithmetic, and could
little nonsensical Pose its romances lull of antiquarian
violence. "But it happened, as the ropes were being drawn what resembling such • slate of the firmament in its appear. measure a field. Ile could further engrave spoons,
jargon stolen from Pugin's "Ecclesiastical Antiqui- the ',mod time, they slipped into the firmer wound, sere to the eye. . For leveret months together the firmament and had been known to paint village signs. Union
rise "—with twaddle for their style, and apostacy for which caused so great an effusion or blood that is veiled by • thick cloud. 'This period of the year is called,
tunately for these works of rural art, they both suffered
tteir object. It is a fine, pure, good-hearted book, he seemed to be dying. Upon this the physician tali tteheme p,00,,diL10,,, ghaensami;
Hemisphere,
pinan,aetLnootutshenbori, twee trsoitas,
written with graceful earcestness, and as regards its and surgeon, who are always Wady, ere by the first shower of rain, which washed the white
;t I' sentl' nor the feet of the Cenptaur a'r• out of • neighbouring apartment to as their advice whether . visible. plt'is often ditticul, swan to its natural element, and changed the white
seriousness and piety might be appropriately read on
the torture could be continued without danger of death, lest to ascertain the situation of the moon. If the outline of horse into a zebra. With this master he remained
the eve of St. Agnes by any romantic person 60 the ecclesiastical judge should be guilty of an irregularity if the sun hippen to lea discernible, it is seen as without two years as a day boarder, and was making
disposed. the victim should die in hi. tormen't They, who were tar rays, just as through a darkened or coloured glass ; usual
We start in " Eastbury " rather briskly—for we set from being enemies
_to Oroba, answered that
ii had t a yellowish-red hue, sometimes w , very
hits and rarely tolerable progress, when be was called home,
by ofn a bluish-green. The sailors driven by the cold currents probably through the poverty of his parents,
off from a railway station with the pretty and lively strength eeeugerctocceeceicerce the. retstco,f,,t,,he tutu
herealnendureit of the S uth Sea, then mistake the coast, and, unable to to spend twelve months in idleness. Subsequently
heroine Julia Seymour, an enthusiast of the joyous Pe_aererlungt thire,arori fi.alslenatence
was tact ate i
t • should take their usual observation', wit by the harbour inte he was placed under the care of a Mr. Stratton, a
description, who is on her way to her home in the r`
:afar them all at one time, eo that if forced to leave WI which they should enter. dull, Wilmette man, where he would have made no
country. Her fellow-paseeogers are Lord Eustaoe, a through few of death, all the tortures, even those already This atmosphere, impenetrable to radiations, and progress whatever but for the encouragement and aid
capital tory peer, and as fine a specimen of a protee- suffered. must be inflicted in succession to it,,:cestriTnetisea- incapable of electrical discharge, carries the author's of Mrs. Stratton, a lady of superior attainments and
tioci-t as was ever laughed at; his daughter Beatrice, tennhetivaltirownesthei an tdheed.to rirhe„,„wuapos
orehP: was bound up inerii thoughts back to the remote periods of the history of manners. A transfer to Chippenham opened his
very interesting (and the interest regerding whom dthis earth, when, beforo the solid, liquid, and gaseous
sown clothes and carried back to -
prism, and scercely healed mind to town ideas, and introduced him to new sports,
steals over the reader gradually and strongly); and her of his wound. in eeventy dayr. And, insomuch ash. had elements had well aspirated, the atmosphere may excitements, and influences, but he remained here but
companion, Mrs. Hargrave, • cold-blooded, scheming wn,in no contession under torture, he was condemned, se we have been of this heavy mixed character, not alto- for • short period, and at the age of thirteen finally
old woman, eery powerfully drawn. It soon becomes not convicted but suspected of Judaism, to wear for two whel. gether obstructive of some vegetable growths, but ot left school, never having seen • dictionary or a book on
evident that Beatrice is, from some mysterious Cause, years the infamous habit railed senbenito ; and after that a nature to shut out the stars from earthly sight.
to perpetual bentshment. geography or hietery, and never having met with a
under an evil influence—and that she leads • mm- . !! Respecting the number cf the stars, and their cies-
"The torture of the wooden horse and suffocation by newspaper or maeazine.
eerable life, made worse by her father', mean and pas- sification according to relative magnitude, Humboldt
water is thus described : A purchase he made about this time at a sale will
sionate nature. quotes the calculations of
There ss a wooden bench which they call the wooden hone, Argrlander, of Bonn. Act I recall the youthful joy of men • reader. " About
The " tale" goes on in Eastbury, where the he- made hollow lite a truugh, so as to contain a man lying on cording to that astronomer there are of the first mag- thin period" ho writes, " a sale of the household effects
roine's father, Sir John Seymour, resides. There is eis back at tull length, about the middle ot which a ter i• nitude, 20 ;of the second, 65 ; of the third, 100; of lea Squire Weite, w who occupied the great how, oc-
an excellent picture of t
heh state of a badly &clothes- laid across Liu pon this the bark o'
the %Wits is
solaced;laed the fourth, 423 ;of the fifth, 1,100 ;of the sixth, 3,200 l i curred. I was tempted to bay a lot of his broke, nine
towed parish, which eddy recemmend to those ao tilt, he
bisuLotnaltut tairg trtett eilLsbginsera 1 s t„h ;a of the seventh, 1,300; of the eighth, 'lO.OOO ; and ell in number, fe•r one chilling. Among them were
agricultural constituencies who are tired of being ing in the ninth, 142,000 of celestial bodies. The approxi- ' 'lying in withthis manner, his arms, thighs, and abets are tie d 1 ' Rebinson Crusoe,' the ' Pilgrimer Progress,' and the ,
ill-represented. The rector, Lionel Itevis, is the round with small cords or strings, which, being draws eel) motive number of stars visible to the naked eye is i Life of Peter, Cz ir of Muscovy,' all of which volumes
anthoress's hero. It is eufficieut to say of him screws placed at convenient distance from each other, cut 5,000, a number which appears at first sight far too I read with &tidily ; though often puzzled to under-
that he is such • clergyman se 1)r. Arnold would him to the very bone. The torturer then throws over hi. smell. The author reckons that it would take 105,291 stand their cameras. The first made me long to be
have admired—which is probably the highest
Itomouth and
e clads a thin I'll eth, so Tat he i;likicareee a
tread, i full moons to cover the be
reckouing the mean on a derielate island, and meet with • ' man Friday;
Praise that can h° given to a rhrgraaa ad soil:141:4 sod
nderowp,af:lrtroemtrea heighte
miss the victim's diameter of that satellite at 15 deg. 33 min. 5 bee, whiLa the second excited • desire to encounter some
et our day. . The plot turns on the tir.• ...nu, sadPll9- easily sinks down through the this Oath to la the fourth section the author treats of the singu- of the adventures of ' Christian: That this work was
tunes
sautead sufferings of Beatrice, which term- The bottom of the throat. There is eo rseibility of breath. ler phenomena of the appearance of new stars, and an allegory, sad the first fictitious, never entered my
slate
in her life. These it is fur the reader to follow out, an wits the cloth; to thaLthei„wire
t. teteliejelus:lur
cribirrondirur: heavens. Tne fact of these changes was recognised He had now to prove the weariness of uncongenial
exertion which will, we are sure, afford much plea. Pe ef.l
out his breathingthroat,soentthtet lisr. ea.y an, ear the emeations, it is many years since, by Sir Wm. Herschell, and Hum- labour, being required by his mother to assist in the
sure. Let us particularise Isaac Barnard as one of the °..
all wet with blood aid water, aid is like peeling his bowels boldt has nothing to add to his statements. Tables general busman of the farm. He had also to rise at
best
faitsportraits in the book, and add, that though earn- through his mouth. of new and chargeable stars ate inserted into this 1 four, on baking mornings, to assist in making breed,
estates clarly an honourable characteristic of the Trecres who wish to learn more of the history of this chapter from Argelander, and form, together with the . some of which he afterwards carried out on horseback
authoress's, and her strong point, she is In ettentlY abominable institution may march Mr. Turuley's explanatory historical notes by the author, its nre.. Ito neighbouring villages and farm-houses. On re-
delicately humorous, and alwaye, when she stoops to volume, where they will find accounts of horrible interesting portion. The fifth and concluding chap-1 turning, he had to feed the pigs, attend to the poultry,
playfulness, delightfully shrewd. cruelties perpetrated by the Rcmish priests in the tees are devoted to a consideration of the proper mo- I groom the pony, and perform a number of miacell i-
nto followicg extract brings our friend the tory name of religion. lion of fixed stirs (such is the verbal contradiction 1 nems ',facts about the yard. 'rims and in play n
th
the into contact with Lionel Reels. Julia Seem-sue, which a premature nomenclature has entailed), thel his time spent from the thirteenth to the sixteenth the heroine, is, with his "lordship," on her way to his Memoirs of Me Opera in Italy, Fran, e, Gelman'', and
probable existence of opaque stars, doubts on the eels-
residence. once of a central orb of the entire universe', and
Mr. Hogarth is • gentleman who has been longAt this period his provincial life closes. A firm
"Tile POOR."
They had saw entered the park, and wen within sight equally well known and respected in the world of double eters, their number and dietar.ce from each believer in ghosts, fairies, Jack-u' lanterns, ;Ind the
of the horse when racy observed a mount, d figure ' meg music and letters, wherever
the dull actualities of other' haunted house, he was to be transferred to London,l
to meet theirs. "Then some. that splendid nous I he.' life are made subservient to its graces and refinements The name of Humboldt assures us of a certain ors- which place he reached in a fast coach, that travelled
noticed so many times," said Lord Eus.sce, " and I
—as a high musical authority, end „the frieed beside, ginality in his mode of treating any of the natural five milts an hour. His uncle, to whom he was con-
ks'', to whom it belonged ; et, you tell at this distance, sciences. We must not, however, conceal that we miss
of some of the most distinguiehed of his contempora-signed, apprenticed him to Mr. Mer dhsm, ot' the
Miss Seymour t I suppose it if WM. one I (neon a knee."
" You certainly ought, my lord," said Julia, "for it is ries,from hie Walter Scatt toC. Dickens. The two small in this third volume that freshness of thought which Jerusalem Tavern, Clerkenwell-green, witheut once
oar rector Mr. Bevil." volumes be fore us are a new edition of a more exten- distinguished its two precursors. The innumerable consulting his inclinations, and apparently without
"I. it, lad. ed ?" lam very glad we have met ; I bear • sive work upon the ei Musical Drama," published some references and ample quotations were not needed to °sting about the result. Here, for six years, during
most erre .rdiaary accowat of his abili ies ; rpm I. inclined to years si, ce—deprived of much that was needless, acd remind us that we are reading information acquired which,accordiag to his indentures, he should have been
onthwiens, though, is be not?"
" Very much so, I should think," said Julia, is whose at second hand. This result was in a great measure
enriched with much that is interesting. Wbat Barney taught the art and mystery of a wine-merchant, he
good and Hawkins had done before le M Hoearth has'
determined by the subject of this, the last portion of name I the days in bettliug corking and binning wines.
opinion eBthi'lialla wee the eAt e: eheellehee ' ..
t" s - " Kama;' which precluded the introduction of pie He •
that i • ' • • ' d"
ha does is immense." taken advantage of ; what they left undone he has tried . . - e declares he never was instructed in any one Or.
"Ah I" said his lordship, rather discontentedly, " but to supply ;at d the result is a narration of the origin and turesque desenption and
personal seutial branch of the business, either in its ac ?counts,
that may be carried too far in thew times especially. U .ed progress of the lyric drama brought down to the pre. contributed to the charm of the two first volumes, commercial usages, or the history, growth, In mo-
nomial', sir, I am very glad to be just an time to induce
rent time—fluent and agreeable on style useful and Novell, too, was lacking here ; for, while geology nufacture of wines. He did not know where Lisbon,
you to tune back," continuo! he, in his most gracious . . .
and bola** have advanced immensely within the last if Mr. H h has here mariner, honing low I. return to Lionel'' 'Kleiman, as the =tracts's in material,. r. ogart Madeira, or the Rhine were, and never saw it
later rode up to the aide of the carriaae. "This call is most and there reposed with perhaps rather too good na- few 3 ears, astronomy has com ativel no new re-
Par y bonded cellar, a merchant's stock vaults, nor a mer-
kind and pastorel in your part, and I cannot afford to low tared a confidence upon stories of doabtfal authority, creations. But we believe that the chief cause of this eh„e„hip. Confinement in this cellar, broke down
such an opportunity.' his main fettle at any rate, are unassailable. From inferiority lies in the tact that hitherto Humboldt has mind and body, and an appeal to his master having
"You: lordship must elms as now," ssid Lim, I. I
" - the variety of anecdotal matter with which the book epoken of what he has seta and experienced, con- proved unavailing, he betook himself in despair
have hese waiting in your study, in hopes of your return,
and am now on my way to keep as appointment." abound,'' we select theefollowind —which may remind recquently clearly, and with directness ; while now, to reading " Dodd's Thoughts in Prison," " Hervey's
"I am exceedingly ed ;is there aay.thing 1 could the reader' of the exploits of more than one actress in to complete the circle which he ispledged to tra- " "
Meditation among the Tembe, and Young's Night
do for you, Mr. Ittvis t You look as if you bad come ors our own day : verse, -he is compelled to lie under large oblige- Thooglats." These only increasing the morbid cm-
some 'newt buaiuees I know already that your time is never A LOLA MINTZ& OF PRI 17T11 CENTURY. tiutill to more original inquirer.. It by no mean lotion of his mind, he resorted to medicine and swan
erd for an instant" amour the gingers of that peeled who are mentioned by however, follows that, because he does not always lowei some gallons of mixtures from aide,
dis'ipeesery in Lionel meted. " I believe nobody's Lead be, or rathet French writers, there are none whose names are worthy of !equal himself in this volume, he has been surpassed St. John's-square. Becmin useless to his master,
bog hymn be, my teed. We us awe], employed, either being preserved on account of tht ir
Lang.talets. On of them, by any rival in this field. Humboldt is fully conscious l • him his liberty ix months before the
doing harm or good. however, La Msupio, tilt/ SUCCtSSIA of chols, may he , that we are .
with
Come, mute, my dear sir, that is a paradoxical sole noticed on am we of her wild and lowless character istill far f the • •
we
ti os, for which I must demand • proof. At this moment. anti strangeoess of her adventutes. She was &era in I may be poesible to concentrate all our sensible inten- two vice's instead of the twenty which he had
that we are all three doing nothing at all, how CAR WO be at 1673, end married at a very early age, but soon ran dohs to the unity of a caret?, ion of nature" (p. 101 i
- -•1• engaeed to do, and thus left him in the world to shift
mischief. i' we wished it ?" away with a fencing master, from whom she learned accordingly he has called his work an " endeavour." I for I„,,,,ntit.
" I wish, my, lard, we could do good as easily. u
—alf the . the use of the email sword. Alter remain r some I How fer he has succeeded in the attempt tee result i mischief ia the world might be traced to the bad elf. c's of time et menteilles, where she ... .1...,..., Bathe 1.1, D •'odof slavery Britton tad picked
uring then' pert
l'—'''—' I Pea-- Iwill h M lel the effort of constrneti
casual conversation, leaving impressions on the mind little meat resettle burnt alive for "'Wog fire to a convent, she I e °W. • "aw 1 e ag aup a few beaks, chiefly of second-rate character, teem'
attended to at the time, sad very difficult to efface attar- woo, to parts, appeared en the opt'', neg. at the nre , completely articulated system out of the materials of a neighbouring stall, which served rather to keep
wards." of two-and-twenty, alai was for a ronsiderab • time tae the special sciences is a certain means of revealing hie faculties alive than add to his information. 'flis
"Then, perham," said Lord Eustace, smiling, •"you are mehtsing favourite of the day. Helios on some occasion their deficienciee. " Kosmos" is a criticism of OW I friendship of William Essex was more serviceable to
doing me harm at this miaow ?" bees affronted by Demean, • singer, she rut on male attire.
present knowledge of nature ;itis a monument to the I him it him example,soundadvice, ,as gave • good
I confess it," said Lionel: •• I am wronging your lord- I washed Ike him In the Plaza dee Victoiree, insisted on his • .
ship by delaying the infortari in I came to bring. eer scieLofic of the nineteenth century ;it is andaccess to a library. It i, drawing his sword and fighting her, and, on his refusing, rae • spirit
Ilia reading was reel dead-
simply this—a committee is hein,: formed, by Sir John thy- sated Ida and to.k his watch sad snuff-box. Next day, also a summons to arise and possess the yet uecorquered i tory, but he contrived to pick up a quantity of mar
molar and otk, r geolemen, for the aniatane• of Our poor Dumeui and
boasted is the opera house that he Iv.d domain of nature. We wish the venerable author , II
ce elneelle informatinn, and to run through a variety
seitthboire who suffered hy the fire the other night; A 1
a'!-. ' defended bistseli against three men who had attempted to many more honourable e•ears, and the
he may wit- of books en natural science and general literature,
am dipsted to request your lordship to accept the chair. ' I
. rob him, she told the whole story, and produced his watch hers the perfection of that structure which he us no; • •w betold h much
"Tank yea. thank you, sir, you do me tot much sad sauff-box is proof of her having chastised hint as • t The reader will not require to o
lunaoar," said lewd Bastasse, boveng, with an mesh' raw coward. Tbevenard, another singer of note, was nearly permitted wholly to complete. mated strength was neceesery to rapport these pieti-
sm' which he 'trove to conceal by chap/Jag the subject, treated in ti, sins wanner, and had no other way of tions, sad at the same time resist all the temptations
" What • noble creature that is of your's, Mr. Rens ' He : escaping but by publicly Wining her pardon, after Stamp
would melee • fire-rate hunter , e "OW, my seYiell he must' hiswellia the Palale Royal Mr three weeks. At • ball gymicyraphy ofßr'ttan Parts I. I . and .
TA.
Atitob . Jo/us , . , ,
I 111 of a tavern frequented by the loom livers of both
ller risks throws away as alt Patera% occupation ~ by Monsieur, the brother et Lewis XIV., she' ppeared in I The Deers that " Old John Britton," topographer , dwhere no counteracting influences in favour
sexes, at.
lie e ie. a from • heath g seeable, 0,,Wi11.1 ay " said "2". meas clothes, and, having behaved impertinently to a lady, and antiquary, had began to write his own life, gave ,of virtue could be t fund.
keeping his keAs eye, as his custom wee, MU MI the MM. miscalled out b.
How this pennilesi hero fell in love, walked two
A tares °I hit friends, Instead of *voiding ' . •
of *
genuine book to stand beside the auto- ' isolates a
keine, ate was addrresia?' "had his /porting minds ors at the combat, by isco • her ....x, slie drew her sword mid
preeeet I. abeyance; hut lam not hachned to titiok nowt's. killed all the three ; and than, returnieg Ily to the hi-graphies of Ltekiugton, Hutton, and Evelyn.' huedred and thirty miles to see " the lady," was co ally
I le• e meditated something des-
and et:tooth, and be. uty welted whoa employed, however Three parts o; the promised book have appeared, and , received, oat iscou,sag ball room, told the story to Moo-iear, whot:Awned her per-
gaiety, In
thew/vice of Oed and the poor."t. On in "rum and milk," we
ion. After some other advestures, she went to Brumes in them are traces of the experience of the first, and I petite, and found @siva i
in London, from this
The poop,"
ter
um gnaw," ye, that is the where she became mistress of the Elector of Bavaria. Tins the strong common sense of the second, with the aim. I cannot here relate. He arrived i
fashionable cry of the day, lir. It 'via; schools ior the pace' miens, b„;,,,, nnt„ad bat for the Countess
of ,___L a
at
f the tl • ' All readers love now ! excursion, shirtless sod ehoelees ; and heftily was
clothes for the row ; soup, libraries, gardens for ate poor. imr by that lady'. husband • purse of 4,000 lime(w.ts'a;ith.. ple enthusiasm o aro.
of
' le• ' glad to take a situation as a cellarmao, at 15s. per we shall have pull sweats nest, I suppow, and her hltiand then to drop into the track one of these sing !
s'y
order to quit Biaterle. Bat this Gingen,' heroine am thefrom starvation.
will bold elrawing•toome far the poor . and then will be a pane at tag Count's bead, telling Lim it was • recompecae • Minded men, like old Izaak, who, by the side of a week, as a refuge
MOS at St. 011./ s and Kessaltgreen, as we I Babe we.r• , worthy of lash a switadrel as himself. S m afterwards re-from the miler to the attorney's
gliding stream, in a quiet rustic walk, or in the shade His next move wasl
sereaame. sad Hydepark. Ivory age hoe its y, acid ' turned to the Par:sian stage, which the left la 1705. The ot • ble rain, make us forget quarter-dotal' desk. His peamansh4) here stood him instead, and
Ws. is peculiar to the preasat •" conclusion if such a life Is not the I art ez!Ts6rdinary part GI botches' bills, and " all the dail imperenerae of life." his situation, although tot more lucrative, was Isis
're. saucer in which-gentlemen of his lordship's She became at last very devout, and, having recalled acquired, and will be per- • 01111)1.10 than before, and he improved his more
class cry out at the word e poor "—as in this well. her husband. qt.'s whow she bad bean long separated, lived Mr•Britton's 'fame wan
ant leisure by more extensive reading. The
t. ted, by the real monuments of antiquarian and : abundant drawn scene—reminds us of Harpagon, in Mel. fire's watittlitiVraficacca 1 iguuschniaininber.o Ile r clea'h in 1707, at the &gm pe tut .
l ' le h ath of his employer in 1790 threw him again upun
phicai earning wtc tramp an en ustas ! e
L'eleare, when his servant asks for money : t• Quit Labordye sod Other writers ; aisatd!'ee'N `4l7,tolaLarle':.°,.Lb t°P
couarrraear. The man was born to the kingdom, ' the world ;s but he subsequently obtained a situation
efiegir ! tort jours de rargeng !—,le ear9i Of .' T•tii....i4lS no reason for &atriag its truth. ' "shillings a week.
in order to trace ruins, inspect rolls,survey cathedrals, ! at the improved salary of twenty
porter de V ortient .' " Mr. Hagar:lt has recently tree. appointed
-ea also secretary , and embalm the glories of a past age. Bat before he's Here he met with an acquaintance who took him to
All true novel eerier. wi;l be glad to learn that to the Philnarmonic Society. II i one of the . could enter upon this his peculiar vocation, what a d. bating secieties, where he became a great orator,
this estimable elergym AU marries the heroine, at the . brat of our daily musical entice, his good nature being succession of experiences awaited him! It is this : and was received with vociferous and clamorous &p-
-dose ot this well-ietentloned and welt-executed book. modified only by his high standard of taste. i battle of life we find told in his autobiography, and pianee.
I 't is this which will interest the majority of readers. We are brought thus far by the autobiographical
Popery ie. Power, or. Me spud of OW rofirow• by KOSPOWS By kurt. vow 1101111OLDT Part I, Vol. 111..1 narrative withwhich the first part of the work is
Joseph Turnlsy. ES glum Wilmot,. , From part Lof the work before us, whichis, as
Cotta, Bmttgart, 1860.
Nothing can be more natural teen that at the iesued Notice.; yet, incomplete, we learn that John Britton was born I occupied. The preface informs us that the publieation
lent moment Englishmea should wish to recall to! The concluding part of " Kosmos" contains an in. at Kington, in Wiltshire_
, July 7, 1771, the son ot a of the remainder
is delayed by the illness of the
mind the manifestations of pal try in power. A troductien. which gives anhiatorical survey of the small farmer, whose wife aided the income of the author,who in his eightieth year cannot afford to set

work which should assist them to do this could not fail
to be welcome. The pretensions of the Romish Church,
the vastness of the papal system, the long-preserved
seemsy of its ramifications, and the terror of its in-
strumentalities, are subjects which would be interest-
ing at any time, and read with the " apostolic letter "
of September still ringing in the ears, would awaken
a moet powerful excitement. That Mr. Turnley has
written such a work is more than we can affirm. He
has treated a subject above all others requiring com-
pression and arrangement, in the loosest manner, has
introduced a variety of subjects remotely, if at all,
connected with the subject; and in one part actually
Ends room for a drama in the midst of his history. A
quotation will show the author's style:

Imany attempts which have been made to present the
system of nature as a connected whole—a chapter
rather literary than scientific. The subject of the
first section is celestial space, and the conceivable
existence of a fluid medium tilling the intervals not
occupied by the stars. It is Baroil Humboldt's belief
that we stand on the verge of• greet discoveries re-
Ispecting this at present hypothetical fluid :