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mountains, without leaving a single prisoner in the
hands of the soldiers. Since this affair, the people of
Cacilhae and Almada, on the south bank of tbeTagus,
have revolted, and taken the field, to the number of
500 armed men. The scene of insurrection is not
two miles front Lisbon, yet troops could not be spared
to proceed against the insurgents.
The government had been endeavouring to nego-
ciate a loan with the French Bank for half a million
sterling, but the terms demanded were so exorbitant
that the arrangements were not concluded.

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CR scow, Nov. 3.—The Northern Powers have not
been slow to take advantage of the coolness which has arisen
between France andEnglaud respecting the Snanisffintarriage.
It is now determined, and will speedily be officially an-
nounced, that the independence of our city shall cease, and
that the Republic of Cracow shall be swallowed up in the
Austrian dominions. In order to indemnify Russia for her
loss by this arrangement it has been agreed that a
portion of Gaiggia shall be ceded to that Power. No-
thing has beerrs.dd of any compensation to be received
by Prussia. As the existence of Cracow as a free
city. was guaranteed by the Congress of Vienna, we are
anxious to learn with what feelings the announcement of the
extinction of that existence will be remised by France and
England, who wero contracting parties in the treaty, and
whose views on the subject ought first to have been ascer
tamed by their three northern allies. There can be little
doubt that the matter will occasion vehement interpellations
both in the French Chambers and the English Parliament,
though it is equally certain that then outcries will not se-
cure the freedom of Cracow, which the northern powers are
determined to treat as a question which concerns themselves
alone, and in which they will listen to no appeal.

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NEW WORK. by G. A. l J
BECK
ETT &JOHN ',ZECH.
Now published, mice , N.
THE
COMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND.
BY G:LBERT ABBOTT k BECKETT.
LOVIULD ETCHING ON STEEL AND NrMIZOVII ILLVffrILA-
Tioms wr JOHN LEECH.
Pacernercrs.
In announcing a Comic History of England it may be necessary to
observe that the levity implied in the title will relate to the manner,
but by no means to the matter of the work, which will he colleMed
with the gravest regard to the truth and accuracy that the subject
requires. The aim of the writer will bete present a faithful narative,
for which the best authorities will be the most carefully consulted, and
to serve it up to t'..e reader in a more palatable form than hue hitherto
be‘m thought col :patible with the dignity of history. There G not
the smallest intuition to sacrifice fidelity to fun in the fimtbcoming
production, which is designed to show that the utile et dulce are not
inseparable. Tie advantages of blending arauserrent with instruc,.
thin ore universally allowed ; and there is an end to the once favourite
fallacy that food for the mind requires the uninviting flavour of physic.
The COMIC I I ISTORY of ENGIAND will not be a mere abridgment
of any other work, nor will it follow servilely in the Peps of any ormer
historian. The author does not aspire to walla in the gigantic shoes of
Hume, the easy slippers of Smollett, the goloshes of Goldsmith, or the
pumps of Pinnock. In literature the shoes of another are too apt to
prove clogs to the party attempting to make his way in a chauseure
for which he was never fitted. The Comic History of England will,
therefore, be an entirkly orig nal composition, the materials for which
will be derived from a consultation of all the best hiatories already in
existence, or hose accuracy will be tested by direct reference to the
most undoubted authorities.
The chief purpose of thin preliminary announcement is to guard
the public a ;Most any misconception of the intended character of the
work on se cunt of its title. A narrative may, it is hoped. be correct
as well as ,mic; for, as "truth is strapper than ttetion," history is
sometime- much more ludicrous than the fancies of the humorist.
The purpose of the work being explainer* it remains only to
announce the form of publication. It will appear in Monthly Parts,
price One Shilling each, handsomely printed in too., and copiously
illuatrated by JOHN LreCTI, with One large Etching and from Ten
to Fifteen Wood Engravings.
The COMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND will coropri-e from Twelve
to Tweet-, Parts, and will appear regularly with the monthly maga-
st il its completion.

Wm' A.

OPINIONS OF THE PREM.
" The public is deeply indebted to the erudite author of this new
Pictorial History of Eng and. Having formerly translated Blackstono
into a style that may be read without a yawn, he hoe in etth opening
number of his History done the same good service for the il drier
dissertations with which Archeological mourn:its, and the Archeologi-
cal Societies are laboriously stuffed."— Daily News.
"That indefatigable wit and humourist, Gilbert b Beckett, has
coml.:iv:Ltd a new labour of drollery. Having transmogrified that
grave and learned personage, Blackstone, into the merriest mad wag
on th, he rows take flame, I.inlainl, ltapin, Tacituo, and the other
very venerable high priests of Clio in hand, and by the force of comic
geniis concerto them into the pleasantest punsters, and most gro-
tesque spiiits in creation. Ile is ably assisted in bin work by the inn-
ginstive Leech, who gives a form and substance to the airy crotchets
of A Beckett's brain. Tim Landing of Julius Cesar' in a glorious
conception. The illustrious Roman stands on the paddle-box of his
Sandwich d there surveys the invincible tenth lemon wbipping the
lats in the most orthodox manner. To do our ancestors
every justice, they w. re, according to G. A. k Beckett and his inter-
preter Leech, as fine a set of savages as ever dined off their enemies
without either salt or mustard. This History of Englen I will, doubt-
less; be a much greater favourite with ' Young England' than the
fables which go by that name, coanpreed by Hume, Goldsmith, and the
rest.”—Morning Poet.
We predict for this work almost unexampled popularity. In it
historic truth and wit of line polish and easy flow are blended without
apparent effort. Instruction and amusement walk arm-in-arm,
Laughing, moralising, teaching—the pleasantest of modern peripote-
ties. As the author says, 'There is not tha smallest intention to
sacrifice fidelity to fun, the design being to show that the vlile et dui
are not inseparable. Mr. a Beckett, as fur as the first part of his
charming history goes, has fulfilled his design and prosedthat ' there
is an end to the once favourite fallacy, that food for the mind requires
the uninviting flavour of physic., Th. book la copiously and cleverly
illustrated by John Leech. Should the succeeding monthly party
equal the first, the author will have permanently Medlin place in the
first rank of our wittiest writers."—Bell's Life in London.
London: Published at the Punch Office, 8.1, Fleet-street; J. Mac-
. glaahan, Dublin; J. Menzies, Edinburgh ; Glasgow.