The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRFSS, SATURDAY EVENING, JtLY 11, 1857.

admire the boundless resources of the Crichton who
kads us on. We have not room fur the scene mo-
destly described in the head sure The Gift of
Tongues" (pp
2S-ffill, but wc canemur readers
that they would find it difficult to identify the gay
&Meter, mystifying everybody who accosted him,
sill the Arago whose name is identified the "reld
with the history of philosophy.
The latest remembrances of him by his eontreiC
pararin are honourable and animatiug. His fidelity
to his republican principles through all political and
personal changes, is the grand point in cha-
racter—the great fact which covers and hides
many foibles, and makes us lenient to some real
faults. When the principles which he had held all
his life raised him to the dignity of • place
in the Provisional Government in POR, and to the
Ministry of War and Marine, he did his utmost to
restrain violence and to establish moderation; but
be was not greater at that moment than in his sub-
, sequent "disgrace," as it is called, when he persisted
in his smoke to give up the Observatory rather
than take the oath of allegiance to the author of
the Coup d'Etat. He was ready to be sent adrift in
his old age, rather than compromise his republi-
canism. The virtue was not the less that he was
spared the penalty he was ready to incur. It was
the greatness of the virtue, in fact, which awed the
ruling powers. They could not afford such a spectacle
as an Arago deposed and impoverished for his repub-
licanism ; and the usurper specially exempted him
from the obligation to take the oath. It is believed
that though no personal penalty wee exacted from
him, his grief and deeper at the turn public affairs
had taken hastened his death. In leas than two
years after the shock of the accession of Louis Napo-
leon, Arago was in his grave. These are the things
that should be remembered amidst the disappoint-
ment which cannot but be caused by this book. Oue
of the most interesting passages in the volume is that
which introduces the memoir of Fourier, and
which marks the time and mode of the transforma-
tion of the academician into the patriot and the sol-
diera phenomenon especially remarkable in modern

Frame :
la nom dor ems anderldes diced from another only
la the swaher, asemb sad the ley of his disco*
wens. Thar &en draws bi same sweets tato the maw
▪ swietel at war tide resew of serirk. A boy-
hood wow w slain= ; seentswonewfWess slow, wine.
Orr seWd; inellnadeas thwifetel by ftsgdetwas a; shoo-
=ts ; losiwascy otwasee, no sawilese which
is Nelsen ; thing yard • lebethas profes-
seeinpaml alba airdisr-wisk were the dereas from
Ala We aludahle ildmis sit the early serretarion of the
efthantwore eland le awe* thew portraits, so pionant,
de BOWL sad :*oleoireil erlant beet me of the poncipal
mamma of w oldradma. (P. 242.)
la short, achismised et eiddlited the same con-
ditions sad the NM Mundemede character which
belongs to a lit istallealwal weak everywhere,
till political revolutions mmarioned ability of every
sort to the conflict, and was patriots and soldiers of
men who had dreamed of a
lifetime spent in the
liberty, in the observatory, or the laboratory. In the
first revolution, Badly was at the head of the Na-
tional Assembly ; and from that time to the latest
conflict, the Academy of Sciences has sent out great
men aa national exigencies required them. Arago
lays, after speaking of Bailly's career :
Whew at alder weak senewed urope laandad egoist
'twee aim el eider ; rhea ft Maws ssmiaple
agars* brae Mishear= arres, it me the
whir et the "Hard ear be Wiehmar sal Os
Odendtrie des Paddmir air illsoneed ah alma war
tbs. It wae, agrainsi=sahrigabsnomila SIMOMPIII• who
=~the asodies
whisk Frei Mee
avisee la the seell=
=Med 416\101.W was vism la am
aid heel awls" ambushed GM item
MOM pima eel Spe end dirty/Me sehable,
asetalril ear sernsh trldi her thmest ewes end we=
thismid amirs, seek a imbed themmi
aimed the this et the Ismail with Wry lbrhty
is theor time the awash, the Femme" she the
Berteddre, sls• dr debase et iamb lehms-
=yams al iber amessided him ear mil, by msdlehe et
the "my last OW et mllpseta- whei
essidalk others tsmdamkg, by the aid et ear
Ida maw La
the
the Mlle a the botosi_Olhoeb aid
smiler lawbrehts • headishol aiaranyi widdieframeis
owes& as Weed Ow de
sight to swam tee sow
dsphel ai the WE dWs esesdey_ Saeger, weer
seadsrbess. tbe maw sod brand timsese, Naar sir
sewed ell sees• arrestr et St labisermy. Ha
to lint
dissingebb istassitbilem mooweedsd KMIP•1111. 10
•• • %le le Ina 41611•11 111 h* Jar e6ol•lti. at the age tit fiery yews may, having
rr
arid the parer& Is • lance abusta shone
the Asher ths limurgye, the Haw, the
lbw gelid I heir here the ha escestary of the original
andssay t Maw him isi• • addrard reribly, sato that
esawralar the awrisery air= et whisk tee sigh
Wiest be isethied perlen, Ara we call as Mal hew
*des* With laser
mil pa will shoo see the IlloOkos C
eacluslvely with the gnat Wools et rows lad Weemoity.
(P. 242.)
No name on that honourable list will be brighter
in the eyes of posterity than that of Arago.
lie appears to advantage whenever he treats of
the function mad the attributes of the intellectual
shenieter fm modern France; and nothing in the
bask ma be law interesting to the Engliab. reader
dm dm wow which Marts the methods by
sehish in
sad cultivatioa descry kind ham ad-
vanced of labs in a Wigs remarkable foe its intel-
lectual acoompliahmenti Tim knowing amemet of
the expansion se the holism d the eihmstar may
I well fix the atbation Of friends of odimation to
England, sad may be et se ion importance in the
United Stater whom the inhoisrity of tha auracter
and position of the ths midst al every
provrion for reneeal Oat misty am de-
vise, is • great peopissity esol dismasessmset to
=alio-spirited ahem Hum is • piston dm pro-
et leashing is hawk before and after the
selabilthasisa d that porisatons institatimi the
Naomi lishosL
sem um maspierea the ablempliers ameasi
edelisolos d whose emilldal howdy la i•••• 11 •
dm as &OW lien d the By s.
=Si& minalllA the het sad the
dW well to lo the voodoo
threw war Wee agestbs el the wham
=hinneeet Mei Mt la dr moms. la the
Was midis seimp, • Mle relish • Menage, •
=• liessys, • BerdMot bad b Imes sea
le the der tides. if miler the =. the P -
We lisbadessatel swag Ns ram
lam stets* gibers, mil the Proideas et the Ilsmia, yea
Err babe the anglaraiss el tble ark the logubs stem
by ihe mi liebssL
You we we la Os sadost mut mimeo pesftesees emeamial
in sows amiss baded psesiellm maw as hem •
=Ms the
rapes" A
udilli sod WOW+ st Oh.=
Olt pot Year,
rower vow her
Os two Iwo Iteratog delis NO
atlas"es thelfeenell Sisal and Weer sloe woer Owe
=The tothestOs ma oat o Ow se teveeer.
ens soar erpciated to the tea et
ties the howl promise never ts mite my helms oblelt
they might boo Wesel by Mort. Pier tbat We As dr*
Ilseme •It obese the podheeor, WOOL se to
spa, with Ws esilmse, meta their loclui, lath* paws,
It air eitimessesesi mrsdeses the sesserty toe peemelleg
at pram spud, 11106111" ea the cerzery, the sisendly
et armskw tie reps, of wiratag the the 1.71... are.
beeduard Warriehems, et drills. fs • am Is.
the
rid* visa Ibit eagesssal. Iled WI some hob=
ride et Wsmillema AM de rot amps. that the breast
tweimpas Weer with With the isssbabser • of the
Plea SOW wombed odium te the polik.
absOlool Titters, paid by the sel.meeted them The
she" ellise=weltet by the we sot as
the Masa pupils, Is mob= ski mama-
ihni le the week mi lamb of ths espablis la help
esvenris, 'Midas. nos ma Is um
writhing et risks await with Os pool-
westses ma mesa deer Ilmo Sanity, bassowr,
wee& cow lo AO espeeit, boom skit a hey wpm,
it I we voila is pit eas la this rig
illusidans eashnlibm white mithmsrm peke wee
soloed by the haulm of the Memel &Mal h is Wear
Midst Ws. (PAM)
Om eft Os Ord questions that will be caked about
this whims is, how does Arno treat the illustrious
contemporaries who are htie celebrated ? We have
already referred to the distaste which exists among
us to the French form of Ave. We must add that,
in the hands of Arago, there is a per contra of satire
and occasional disparagement offered to the reader,
not much more acceptable than the high-flown
eulogy. The panegyric prevails, of course ; but we
find -frequent evidences that the calm and impartial
temper proper to philosophy was not always Arag:o's
temper; and there is touch of spite in the levity
with which he Mlle anecdotes like the following.
The situation of permanent secretary to the Aca-
demy was to be balloted for, the three candidates
being Fourier, Biot, and Arago. The latter was an
unwilling candidate, and he tells us that his protests
against being voted hr, and his declarations on be-
half of Fourier, are supposed to have largely con-
dueed to Fourier's election :
The meth was se loamy.: M. Towne waved thirty-
eight vows, and K. Blot tin la a ewe a/ this nature malt

ism centens ceasmis me& bode ast tem ths risk
a tutus, assopesemot aim vie my Inessiel wish
the
sa whhhei Me Ando/a ei
4"lreti=kita.
; sno
of Wales MA *Rd
wrote do d bOlk raMTl:l7l* LIU
(oldies thus ept./L wat tbs=MO
book it, sad stes is tats moo moor "Yea sm
tom mama sue ppm; I tea iihrg _to tee;
up eau
shell pat de elbardle ern hue be =MN
omens air dish el the two esameene I boos estsL"
Al noise re lle esiskierd essisolssa 101 l aid; ally
Ask/rosy Gm lore di* esdabit lot lib vita been
de Yams" • sad the admit as petsbiliths was la so
oacheasoMay tor .rdelog st ids moat. (P. It)
essat striking instance of unphilosophical
prole" is perhaps in the treatment of Bailly's in-
quiry into the theory of Animal Magnetism put forth
by Mesmer. Ilailly is abundantly eulogised; but,
en the other hand, the whole subject is treated with
a violence of tone which is incomprehensible, if the
commission of inquiry had only shadows to fight
with, as our author masts. We need not go into
this. Everybody has heard of Mesmer.' theory, his
devices, and his dupes; and it matters little now
whether the man was a complete impostor, or not an
impostor at all, or partly deceived by a bewildering
aimed of phenomena, and disposed to make the best
of such an accident for the benefit of his own fame
and fortune. As the man himself is not in question
we need not touch on his history or character ; and
we have no inclination to quote Armco's denuncia-
tions of that particular extravagance of a disturbed
time, nor his coarse satire on all who believed
what they thought they saw. Anybody can laugh,
in the middle of another century, at the diverse em-
pirical methods by which it was attempted to sub-
ject the sick to a new and most subtle curative agent,
believed in on far stronger evidence than philoso-
phers usually require for starting a hypothesis.
Any body can despise the morbid, the ignorant, the
silly people who are always carried away by any
new marvel, and sure to make fools of themselves.
An).body can declaim about the madness of Ms..
mount SO years ago, as about the madness of Seeds
Sea speculators in Great Britain, and of the pens-
cuter. of witches in New England; but it is ant
usual for the narrators to grow angry, fiercely see-
erotic, and broadly disingenuous in the treatment of
persons who have hem half-a-century in their graves,
and of a mania which is pronounced too *nous to
affect any rational person. Yet M. Amp is thus
angry and sarcastic ; and, we must add, hs is disinge-
nuous in his account of Bailly's investigation and re-
port. He conceals the fact that Dr. Franklin protested
against being put on the commission, that he was
never present but once at its sittings, and that he
always declared that the use of his name was
merely formal. Arago fails to point out the main
fact of the whole case—that the business confided
to the commissioners was simply to examine the
theory of an animal-magnetic fluid, and not the
genuineness of the phenomena asserted beyond what
was necessary for that object ; and he conceals the
facts that the commissioners admitted the genuine-
ness of many of the most remarkable phenomena,
while pronouncing against the theory proposed by
Mesmer for their explanation ; and that a subtle-
irent commission, appointed to fill up the defi-
ciencies of the first, reported in favour of the facts
asserted, and of the conclusion that a new agency
must be admitted as the cause of them. M. Arago
does not mend the matter by the provident
caution with which he at last intimates, in a
vague and mysterious way, that there may be facts
of the human frame now and then disclosed, by
which we are warned that a new world
of discovery may some day open before the asto-
nished vision of physiologists. This saving word,
put in to rescue himself from possible future charges
of unphilasophical prejudice, is "polled in an attempt
to cut off the men of the last century from any be-
nefit from it. While obscurely admitting that cer-
tain states of somnambulism offer very remarkable
phenomena, he says they are in no way connected
with the proceedings of Bailly's and Franklin's
time bemuse they belong to " an entirely new world.
of width those illustrious learned men did not even
Gasp* the existence That was the pity. That
" sew wide as peedely the region which the
Mir&was appointed to explore ; and it is pra.
dis
gentlemen whom M.Aragu UMW. ni it
'ssissial_sorpttse -7MM. de Sigur, de Lafayette,
sad might have had some-
thing le MA if listened to, about finding
the may late it. The kind and degree of intemperance
numiheleil by Amp in this matter must necessarily
horde the valued his decisions in other COMM, and
this diSculty remains, whether his pseionate invec-
tives against Mesmer and his followers were adapted
to the temper of the academy, or a simple outpour-
ing of hie own feelings.
Billy's is the first biography after Ames own.
It is followed by Memoirs of William Herschel,
Laplace, Fourier' Carnet, Fresno!, Thomas Young,
and James Watt. The substance of all of them
is valuable, though the style is not altogether
agreeable ; and to the English general reader the
memoir of Yesft will perhaps be the most interest-
ing, with its tedsot justification of the claims of an
injured man, and with the following anecdote to-
wards the close :
la do yaw IRS 1 stab a tsar la balm& with my salsa-
tide Idsa4 li. thrtassaa llsamd_lod jut dra 'Mood
aasisalles wog I domed toned
seril'this "lam& sa Dletasike." This wadk,
mdoMid.
lasedisa, maddsla @mad amomast losollis
will the demssim dory st deld, team, rim* do I
lot "dirt el err hemedea with De. Time. Ile way
sideithel at amassass mollisadme Midi la re upon
em piney It, mg at Milli la staled le us that de very
=witch we se red smiroodel bad Is pelt
hag slam as INC is his dodo as oltalaro
Plikseily." This smestisadd ma sera is mwalloodd.
It emonsd !log sad Wads daseelea. Team wo
Castut 111:rk=1:: rhtsZklitireb±:"ar.ii:
me. the Maim lIMIKIMM fli im-tie memos
Wld
sit eery semesdtotes mmmaset llsolgests;
tor meet et ddssmsrat ail Mee as till de so-
mas whoa Ito.. Thug Os* gild bee else: we the.
Masa to stamp' MOMS aMEbEslmmk OM, her
soma., the mem eserytag maw lot a • ham mot.
mime. This see ths do mama dr " YAW Phi-
=." do plass& it ea tha Ws, sad Maim melee •
gamest st ism 7117_, pshM4l MI6 her isur
dmeam widikilsernmsmessulestthe /Mod( brads,
ca 'kick the alissolsa dna% ems thestedsolly otehdhed.
(P. 616.)
The translators explain in a preface that they have
annotated certain passages which seemed to them
more or less incorrect at unfair. This is very well.
It now remains for the publisher to guard the
guardians—to set some one on the tract of the
translators, in order to repair their errors. This
would improve the book ; but we doubt whether
anything that could be done with the existing ver-
sion could make it acceptable reading to those who
have been accustomed to admire the life, and expect
great things front the works, of Francois Arago.
The Awtobiogrophy of Elkabeth Doris, a Bala.
clans Nurse. Edited by JANE WILLIAM& Lon-
don : Hurst and Blackett.
The story of government mismanagement in the
Crimean war, the neglected soldiers, tie rotten
stores, the melancholy hospital deaths of men who
can never be replaced, has been told by
more pens than one. The book before us
—the autobiography of one Elizabeth Davis,
a true Welshwoman, and a Balaclava nurse,
corroborates the truth of all that has before been
written about the lamentable Oats of the hospitals
in the East during the war. Mrs. Dacia is s woman
of high temper and strong prejudices, and three-
fifths of her autobiography is occupied with details
about her early life, that are only interesting in so
far as they show the rise and progress of a self-re-
liant, strong-willed, and conscientious character ; but
the latter portion, which refers to the nursing
organisation in the East, is valuable as • contribution
to the history of the more homely, but not the less
heroic, occurrences of the We war. We shall
take
art2Mrs. Davis's beak at the point when she
for the Criacinter the gniisaise of Miss
Stanley. Miss N' she Nom to have con-
seised a strong Against from the first.
She speaks of the ...,J meat of the nurses ;
Ids clear la es oad esSant be three who
agg sed her wad to w
do. Two pm, woe ma-
dbdsai I woad= eat, sad dided wq sea bodge,
bite I awe beilts:r. Ms MINN oho Wags
eels slue de bat does ammo mot base Ira Melly
of ohs WI ate • d dodo d Asir owe.
She middies a mod:
W% Weems Italy Awed sas osall box apiece tr way of
sad woe ast asset to orun it until vo g 4 to
t)ietMVIOL I candle dome of Hasa is a bag, but

by -the lesildrilnr; ileeerin. tee broad in the bottom. We
had a leastmens voyage in her some thought the wee not
elf
war tibia& that was the este or ant, the fruit
wee la bit ltdlitkl.
She arrives at Therapia, and becomes discon-
tented :
I was very me& disappointed, like the rest of Mies Stan-
ley'. party, at being seat to Therapia instead of having em-
ployment at ones is some military hospital. I was ready to
go to the Crimea, end to do my best for the pour soldier. ;
but I wee left without knowing want I yam to do, or whether
I atould ever be set to the work for which I had hired my-
self; and, like the rest, I was discontented and &comfort-
I knew that this state of things would be harder for Mice
Stanley then for any of un, for she had not only her own
dinppointinent to bear, but ours tim ; beside■ the ill-bo-
baviuur of two or three of the party, who dial,-need them-
aloes by drunkenness, as well as the discontent and slur-
' swing of all the ladies and nurse*, who, knowing that
their eervicee were really. and Pally wanting at Scutari,
were kept sway front their proper work. which they had
quitted home and friends to do; and left either to per their
time in utter idleness, or to while it away in doing things
of a sort which they had never engaged or intended to do.
When Mina Stanley needle go to l'era and Coentantmople
to see it there woe any opening for tet, the nuns would
watch for her return, and flock around her like a swarm at
bees, questioning and teaming, and spooking repreechfelly
I among themselves, on purpose thvt rho might overhear them.
Mire Stanley bore it wonderfully. I honoured bee for the
patient, resolute way in which she eufferedit all,end kept her
own counsel without condescending to complain, or to toll
us tne trouble she was in. She used only to say—
"ldo my best to get you employed. I hope you will not
have to wan long. I cannot name the day."
What a picture of the stores, though, unhappily,
we have been made familiar with it before :
I never era allowed to visit any of the wards, but I saw
the patients in the long corridor, through which I passed in
and out. On Friday morning. Mrs. Bracebeidge came to me,
and sad abe wanted me to go into the stone from two o'clock
until five, to sort the linen with other nurses. I think there
were five of them. When I got into the stores, really I was
shocked to see the condition they were in. If there wee a
pound of rotten linen, there were thirty tons. I do net
speak at random, for I am used to the weight of goods. I
remarked to one of the nurse,
" What • sin and a shame it was to see so much Bin
spoiled."
She answered, " Don't talk about that. Go to the mar
guard stone, you will see everything, from a baby's shirt to
a man's great cost—a hundred tens, if not moro—not wadi I
•
" What stores are they P" Irked.
" They call them Mims Nightiogele'estores," abesaneeses&
I never win in them, but I believe what she told
thous I saw had water tinder them, sod wear war se
it thawed that day, and the melted ice and new ems Iswa
through the roof. The linen, good and bad, no la b bees
mined together, was all rotten. Mr. Brasisidges
cony was there. It woe Ins stable.
Here is a slight tiff with Miss Nightimak t
On Monday, at noon, Miss Nightingale agesY malt
speaking very politely, and telling me to sit down, is mill
I understand that you have been upsetting my romans
I said, "No, I bare nothing to do with anybody but my-
self, but I want toga home if I can't go to the Cameo."
She inquired "Why 1"
I said, " Bearer I deal like this place, nor anybody in
it, nor do I like the eysteen."
" You don't like ma,
_then?' ohs said.
"No, I don't," I said "but I never saw you before."
" Before I go any further," said Mies Night imen, "I want
to impress one thing particularly on your mil. If you do
gu to the Crimea, you go against my will."
This she repeated over and over again, adding, "Another
thing which I wish to impress upon your mind to, that, if
you misbehave younelf, there will be nohow for you here,
and you will be sent straight to England from the Crimea."
This put up my Welsh bleed, and I told her that neither
man nor woman dared to accuse me of misbehaving myself.
I had too much regard fur my employers to do that, even if I
had none fur myself.
She informed me that the bad made me over to a new
superintendent, and I said (my Welch blood being up again),
"Do ymt think I am • dog. or sn animal, to make me
ovee P I have a will of my own."
I persevered in my intention of going to Balaclava, and
she ...nerved "Well, Mrs. Davis, Inuit let you go without
some one to overlook you. If you do go," ate added, join-
ing her open hands sideways together, and then forcibly
dividing than, and spenaingout her arms by her aide, " I
have done with you end your new superintendent entirely."
She arrived at Balaklava, and gives another awful
testimony to the state of the hospital wards :
On eetting out, the superintendent told me that I was not
to speak to the When I got to No. 6 ward, pour
_ „ _ ...„ _ • The Snit

saying Ws ems odor cloths. 41 the leg i we wale • vt.l7 dindaillganoe acting upon the working of
dirty-looldeg est.
We we= by railway to Folkestone =derailed the Ctl
to Boulogns. Wellies went tl PeebVebere we weeess_s_werl
e Tennis. By GEORGE MArlhrottn, author of
be meet well we eteded there over Seal' On eeewwei we " Within and Without." London: Longmans.
seat to Lyons; we pissed from thence own the Rho= to
Vetoes, and west on by railway to Avignon sad Monial!e.. Some years nd Mr. Albert Smith is pritt-
Tbere I west le the gutty, and *eked which of the obi.. cipallv amounts= the fact that our simile does
we Inn le take oar passage by. not hold good in the present day—the good old
The Egypt= was pointed out to rae, having stldnrs us
board. classiest Parnassus very much resembled the now
I ssa.t_iima dat, is a ped,l rol I i ft, 7 pip ~ " I haw it Cockney-haunted Nont Blanc. For, while very few
Lit- - • 'in- ' - We adventurous - - surmounted the difficulties of

youths
the Mar de la cote, and stood triumphant on the
culotte of the monarch of mountains, hundreds of
tourists who had adventured so far as Montauvert
and the Mcr de Glace took credit to themselves
as Alpine climbers, and were received in
awe and wonder by their friends at home : so,
while but two or three gifted spirits had
within our generation trodden the higher regions of
Parnassus, its sides and base were thronged by
minstrels of very various powers, who yet rejoiced
in announcing themselves to the world in general as
poets. When will these young men, who—directly
they institute a rhyme between " mine" and " thine;'
" heart " and " dart," and " heaven" and " given "
become possessed of a frantic desire to rush into
print, learn to know the difference between poetry
and versification? When will they discover that to
he prolific is not necessarily to be inspired, and that
there is a want of respect to his readers and an in-
ability to perceive either the real importance
or the high prize of his calling in the
poet who throws his first thoughts imme-
diately before the public, warm as they come
from his head, and before he is himself in a
condition to exercise a cool judgment upon them?
Mr. George MacDonald, whose volume is now be-
fore us, is evidently in no condition to answer these
queries, for what man in his senses could have
printed and published a thick octavo volume of
nearly 400 pages had he not imagined himself one of
the yenta irritubile,who are "dowered with the hate
of hate, the scorn of scorn, the love of love." It Is
not a pleasant task to undeceive any gentleman on
to his own merits, but, in truth, it is a long
time since we have met with such extremely bud'
attempts at verse as those contained in Mr.
MacDonald's volume. Heading it, we are re-
minded by a faint, far off jingle—a kind of spurious
echo—of some of the best works of modern poets,
fragments of blank verse after (oh, how long after!)
Tennyson, sonnets by Hood, and ballads by
Longfellow. These remarks may seem harsh,
but we think our readers on judging for
themselves, will acquit us of all malicious intent.
Take the poem of two stanzas, which is called "An
Old Story, for example :
They were limited at last, although
Each was tenderly dear;
its ersosselsr tAar eyes did go,
Whew first slate and near.
'Ti. an old story this—
A trembling and a sigh,
A gsse in the eyes, a Inas—
Why will it nor go by P
What on earth does it mean ? Two persons' eyes,
which at first had been alone and, near, went
asunder! Is that it? If so, it would be an in-
teresting case for the Ophthalmic Hospital report;
and why will not what go by ? a kiss ? a gaze in
the eyes? both? no • then the plural pronoun
should be used. Our no;
will excuao our pur-
suing the subject further—that way madness lies.
Our next extract is a Scotch song, stated by the
author to be sung by a lady " in the rough northern
tongue of Aberdeen." We need only remark that
after reading this gem, the proprietors of Burns'
copyright have determined upon stopping any
further issue of the poems of that highly over-
rated man.
Yell bee me yet, yell lac me yet,
Sae lang sn' braid, as never • hame I
It'. ass the depth I fear a bit,
But oh, the vacates, aye the same!
The jaws* come up, wi eerie bark;
Cryin I'm creepy, cauld, an' reen;
Come done, cense he's lyin' stark,
Come doom an' desk hie glowed's' ern.
gyve triobt .1 they baud their weary roar,
An' slide awn', on' I grow sleepy
Or tang, they're up shoot my door,
Yowlin', I'm could, an' weet, an' creepy!
O doel, dool I ye are like the tide—
Ye oak' a feint awe to gang;
But I - awe* ye scions bide,—

nisi -
fallow. I "Ciol yea they oat. -me _
lam 1 aid bow be wee. She scolded or
doings; awl seinstel oder, that I should not spook to
Oez
joules le elm saws of thdr sainnh, The ant that I
ma • sae Of tont Ws. The tem of both the man.
het MI Weft the brasses.
The had draw ors NI of at the Ina. t we
•
henight, es then rd le du weeks, nom the wounds of
many_of those met hal ism looked at and drawl.
What became of =my of the stores sent out by a
sympathising nation, in addition to the government
shipments, is sufficiently shown by the following
statement ; what was intended as a solace to the
wounded soldier became a splendid bargain for the
eager Jew :
I Misty paid • visit to • friend of mitre at Wools eh. I
Toad that government stores sad free gifts were selling
then by wholesale. Crowds of Jews and dealers cruse from
hr end near to purchase tam. Articles of clothing had
been ramrod from the Crimea to Woolwich: sad articles
of feed, such a four, biscuits, eocos, to. to Deptford.
I went to • chop at Woolwich, and listed if they had
needs me rale from the Crimea ? The man answered
Plenty."
Ile showed me various thing*, and I bought of him as
mealtime several articles of wearing apparel, both linen and
eafteo—the mat of clothing of rich people—from among the
fres gilla I ham also bought new clothes and haridker•
which I knew to be foe gifts.
Ziodeletrial and Social Position of Women in the
Math and Lower Ranks. London: Chapman
and Hall.
The man who undertakes the remustruction of
society as regards the gentler sex, accepts the
responsibility of a task which most of great social
organisers would shrink from. Difficulties of no
ordinary kind meet him at every step—inexperience
—domestic prejudices—accumulated sentiment of
ages—poetic objections—the anathemas of theology
—and the recognised principles of political economy.
Melancholy enough, no doubt, is the picture of the
superficially educated girl with no earthly hope
under heaven for a prospective subsistence than
that of meeting with an eligible husband. Melan-
choly enough, no doubt, is the picture of the saute
young lady, disappointed in her prospects, and
thrown upon her remourees—the old, old story—a
dressmaker or a governess. Let our author or
authoress (for wso are ignorant which) speak for
himself or Unreel! on these points:
The dependenee at women on mania" ea the only
mid andeihiga eamintehle settlement in life, most
I=ll(Zmersiss wry peseealeiel bellesnes on her early
on the Meath& se bar obaterter.
And In the asst plea these is a striking Mara, given to
her Woken* by Its unsettiednem of aim. It is like
gambling. her fernmae Ise nay be geed is a day. and no
won= bat is conesions et tab in seta el herself. So
= iisitherefole, as the dimes et mange is open, the
and kw of the expeolatka will occupy the mind
more or Mai, sad interfere with appileation to soy other
pursuit. If the lot fell right, the wwheeitss purpose of life is
regarded is NOM, and a enemy Is kit In the mind ever
after; if the lot fail, there is loft no tar or spirit to turn
the mind and permute into another elawnsi.
However, as an evidence that industrial occupa-
tions are not wholly neglected by the female sex, a
series of Bores are given in the work before us,
extracted from the census of 1851, exhibiting the
employments of women of twenty-one years of age
and upwards—an interesting document.
In connexion with that document is a subject that
cannot, from any false delicacy, be ignored; and
our author very properly alludes to it. It is a
melancholy fact that, if from ignorance, overpopu-
lation, or want of judgment, female labour persists
in crowding into a market already overstocked, the
rate of wages will fall, even below mere sustenance
point, and prostitution become the inevitable re-
source. Pamphlets, volumes, and newspapers may
fulminate against this; but there are but a few
practical remedies—early religious training; fore-
thought and prudence ; abstinence from imprudent
marriages ; education as applied to extend the area
of female occupations, and to overcome the repug-
nance to emigration.
Our author, who has much to say at every step of
this interesting and difficult subject—the social and
industrial position of women—devotss the close of
the volume to the omsideration of their political
status. But any of the questions which he dis-
cusses are bejmd the power of my government to
control, and must depend for a satisfactory or un-
satisfactory solution upon the advance or retro-

lang ye o.
An' better greet than aye fang.
We will conclude by extracting a translation from
Ultland, which, for sheer badness, we back against
anything that has been ihmied by a respectable pub-
lisher for the last ten years:
In a lovely garden walking,
Two lovers went hand in hand;
Two wan, sick figures. talking,
They eat in the flowery land.
Oa the cheek they limed each other,
Mg they kissed upon the month ;
feat diagad they one another—
And but ewe their health and youth.
Two habilis mig shrilly,
And the drum went with the hoar
She lay in the cloister stilly,
He tar in the dungeon tower.
71.aralated from Maid.
Shade of Catnaeh, from thy nook in Hades, look
down upon this effusion, and see what a splendid
contributor thou halt lost !

• Jaws EnglioA, breakers.

Tat LIKE or C0r0..-We are at Como, on the i
lake—that spot to beloved of opera dancers—the day-dream
of prima donor—the Elysium of retired barytones I And
with what reason should this be the Parodies of all who have
lived end sighed, and warbled end pirouetted, within the
charmed circle of the footlights ? The crystal waters mbror-
ing every cliff and nag with Intense distinctness ; the vege-
tation variegated to the very verge of ezheveganoe ; c
trees overlosded with fruit; arbutus only too murln
be-
spangled with red beeves; vines, more coquettish than ever
sceoe-peinter caraived, with vistas of rooms within, all
redolent of lardy ; tensor, and statues, sad vase., and
fountains, sad marble Weenies, steeped in • thousand balmy
odours, make up • picture which well may &winede those
whose ideal of beauty Is formed of such gorgeous groupings.
There is something of unreality in the briWant °Glowing
and variety of the scene suggesting the notion, that at say
moment the tenor may emerge, velvet mantle and all, from
the copse before you; or a pima donna, in all the evel-
ment of her back hair, ruah madly to your feet. There is
not a portal from which an angry father may not issue • not
• shady syak that might not be trod by anuicensed biro I
The rustic bridges •0001 made for the tiny feet of short-
potticoeted damsels, daintily tripping, with whito-napkin
covered baskets, to soft music ; and every bench appears but
waiting for that wearied old peasant, in blue stockings,
etaff, and a leather belt, that has vented his tiresomeness in
this same spot for the last half century. Who wonders, if
the distracted Princess of " the scene " should love a pie-
tare that raisin the most enthusiastic triumphs of her auc-
efts ? Why should not the retired " Peri "like to wander
at will through a more enchanting garden than ever she
pirouetted in ?—„Darrsport Dem. No. I. A new story by
Charles Lever.

INCREARE IN BRAIN Diskttitt.—lt is a question
entitled to the mime consideration of the practical phy-
sician and medical pathologist, whether there baa not bum
of late years a marked increase in the number of cases of
diaries of the brain and nervous aystem? We think the
fact is indisputable. Physicians, who have favourable op
pmtunitiee of investigating this subjoct not only agree in
opinion that ouch dimessee are of more frequent occurrence,
but that certain unfavourable (but in its incipient stage,
certainly not incurable) type of cerebral dborgante. ation
develops itself In the present age, at a much earlier
period than formerly. Softening of the brain, for
example, now often manifests, itself at the early age of
thirty and thirty-five! It is indeed lamentable that the
brain and mind should yield to the influence of certain
noxious moral and physical agents, at a time of life when
the intellect ought to be in an active and vigorous condition
of mercies and health. That the brain in the present day is
overworked—dot its physical (motions are unduly eser-
deed, sitrainedoned taxed in the great effort required, n the
severe struggle and battle of life, to obtain intellectual
eupeemary, professional emolument and statue—is a fact
which the ployeician epecially engaged in the treatment of
this Clare of maliultes cannot ignore. It is difficult to say
why that portion of the delicate nervous tissue ao intimately
and mysteriously associated with the phenomena of mind
should be more amenable, in the present epoch, to the influ-
ence of those cause. which are known to exercise an inju-
rious influence upon the organ of thought. Has the brain
deteriorated in Pa structure ? has it lees power of resisting
the effects of airente brought to bear upon its (unctions P It
is an admitted fact that the type of nearly all dares of
disease boa, within the last fifteen or twenty years, under-
gone a material modilication.—hertidt of .Peyeholofical
Medicine, for July.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JIILY 7.—The Queen has been
Ilisamed to approve of Mr. Henry diehard Van der Spar as
maul at Point de 011ie, in the Island of Ceylon, for his
Mejesty the King of the Netherlands ; and of Mr. William
Thomson as coned at Sou.thenaptcut for ihp United BMWs of