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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

EQUITY COURTS.—Nov. 2.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
In cons( quence of the Lord Chancellor having re-
ceived the Judges, gieen's Counsel, &e , at breakfast,
as usual, on tin+ first day of this Term, his Lordship did
not tutee his seat in Court until half-I)4st one o'clock.
At the sitting of the Court Vice-Chancellor Sir Jjhn
Stuart took the usual oaths.
His Lordship, utter expressing a strong opinion in
favour of the continuance of the ancient feeling in favour
of Westminster Ball, and his wish that no separation
should apparently take place between the common law
and equity bars, acceded to the request of the bar as tar
as regarded the present term, stating that he was much
influenced in yielding to the request: made to him by the
fact of the other equity judges having to sit in chambers
at Lincoln's-inn.
The Court therefore sat this day at Lincoln's-inn.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCII.—Nov. 2.

MELL')R V LOUGH AND LEATHER.

This was an action of replevin, tried before Mr. Justice
Wightman at the Liverpool Asstze,i, in which a verdict
had been given for the plaintiff
Mr. James now moved for a rule of nisi to show cause
why that verdict, as against Lough, should not be set
aside. The facts of the case, which excited some atten-
tion at Liverpool, were as follows. A certain pony, the
subject matter of the action, had been in the possession
of Leather for a considerable time. The plaintiff Mellor
made a claim to the pony, and, some time before the
action was brought, he, with one or two others, surrep-
titiously obtained possession of it from the defendant
Leather's stables. Upon this a complaint was made to
the police authorities, the parties were given into cus-
tody, and the pony detained by the defendant Lough,
appointed under the Mamma. Corporations Act. The
who was a constable of
..the -borough of Liverpool,
charge having been dismissed, the magistrate exer-
cised the authority given to him, in regard to pro
perty alleged to be stolen, by the 5 and 6 Vic., c. 116,
by making an order for the delivery of the posy to the
defendant Leather, and this order was carried into effect
by Lough, in whose custody the pony was. Thereupon
proceedings in replevin took place. The defendant
Lough at the trial pleaded the general issue, and the
learned judge ruled that the defence could not come in
under that plea. The learned counsel proceeded to corn
ment at some length upon the acts of Parliament relat-
ing to the privileges and powt rs of constables appointed
under the Municipal Corporation Act, and upon the case
of " Haseldino v. Grove" (3 Q. B. Rep.), and one or two
others, when he was stopped by the Court, and a
Rule nisi granted.

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HARRIS V. THOMPSON.—SLANDER •2.
The plaintiff to
the Brewers Insurance Company, and also auditor to
the
London Necropolis Company, but in consequence of
some charges made against him ho was dismissed from
the first-named situation. The defendant was a director
in the Necropolis Company, and at a meeting on the
23d of February, 1852, he communicated to his brother
directors the fact of the plaintiff's dismissal, and pro-
posed that he should be also dismissed from the office of
auditor to the Necrcrlis Company. The chairman in-
quired the grounds of the plaintiffs dismissal from the
secretaryship; when the defendant saii he was charged
with obtaining money Lnder false pretences from the so.
licitors, and giving an I 0 U for a petty cash debt. This
was the slander upon which the action was founded,
but as it I. a s uttered in a privileged communication from
the defendant to his brother directors, it was necessary,
to sustain the action, that the plaintiff should prove that
the defendant bad acted maliciously.. Of this there was
no conclusive evidence, but the plaintiff proved that he
and his solicitor attended a meeting of the Necropolis
Company directors on the Bth of March, called
.for the
purpose of investigating
the matter, when the defendant
refused to make any statement in the presence of the
plaintiff's solicitor, or of the plaintiff himself. The trial
took place before Chief Justice Jervis, at the sittings in
Middlesex after last term, when the jury were of opinion
that malice was proved, and they gave a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages 1501.
Mr. Serjeant Boyles to-day moved to enter a verdict
for the defendant, or for a new trial, and submitted that
there was no evidence of malice to go to the jury, and
that an inuendo stated in the declaration was not sup-
ported in the evidence. As to the new trial, that was
asked for upon the ground that the evidence did not
warrant the jury in finding so largo an amount of
damages.
The Chief Justice said he thought the amount of
damages was very large.
Rule Nisi granted.

or thieves. There were 40 present when the prisoners
were anprehended.
Police-constable 18 L said he had known Grant for
three years es the constant companion of well-known
and reputed thieves. Ho had been in custody on diffe-
rent charges several times.
Grant said this was a story trumped up by the police-
man, who had declared three years age, when a summons
wus issued against a boer-,hop at which he was potman,
acd o❑ which occasion ho was the principal witness
against the police, that if ever the time came he would
give him a turn.
The officer said this was entirely untrue. He rave
the dates when the prisoner was in custody, and specified
the charges against him.
The Assistant Judge thought it high time Grant was
sent to another country. lie than sentenced him to be
transported for ten years. Ryan, who was not known,
was cautioned that if ever he waa convicted again a
like fate would await him, and sentenced to 12 months'
hard labour.

[PRICE SD.

LITERATURE.

THE MAGAZINES.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Nov. 2.
(Sittings in Banco.)
motto.ax v. CT.TFTON, BAI T.
This action was tried before the Chief Baron at the
last sittings at Guildhall, when a verdict was found for
the plaintiff with 8001. damages.
Mr. Edwin James, on the part of the defendant, now
moved for a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground that
the verdict was against the eviclet.ce, and upon affi-

davits.
The action was brought against Mr. Clifton (now Sir
Robert Clifton, son of the late Sir Jukes Chiba, of
Clifton-hall, Nottingham), to recover the sum of 1,0001.
due on a bill of exchange, which was given to a person
named Rowlands. It was pleaded that the bill was
given for a gambling transaction, and that no considera-
tion was paid for it tir the plaintiff, and that it had come
into his possession with a full knowledge of the circum-
stances under which it had been obtained. The
facts of the case were as follows :—The plaintiff
was the keeper of a public-house at Nanty-
Glow, in Wales, and there Rowlands, who was edu-
cated as a surgeon, but spoken of as a sporting man,
became acquainted with the defendant, then a minor.
Mr. Rowlands afterwards visited at Clifton-hall, and it
was proposed that he should accompany Mr. Clifton
abroad, which he did, and diversified the journey up the
Rhine by winning 2,000/. of the defendant at dominoes.
No security was asked or given for this sum, at that
time; but in September, 1848, ho went to Ireland, and
called on Mr. Clifton, who was then visiting his brother-
in-law, Sir Harvey Bruce. Mr. Clifton was in bed when
Rowlands called, but he accepted two bills, each for
1,0001., dated 22d September, 1848, and payable on de-
mand, but which Rowlands pledged his word should not
be presented till after the death of Sir Jukse, or nego-
tiated. One of the bills afterwards passed to the present
plaintiff, and one to a person named Williams. The
plaintiff was called at the trial, and endeavoured to
prove that the consideration for which the bill had
been given vi as a sum of 800/. 6s. 2d., which be
declared was duo to him from Rowlands, and had
been owing for seven or eight years previously. The
principal items of the bill were " brandy and water " and
"horses." Morgan admitted on cross-examination that
ho knew Rowlands was insolvent, and that he could not
have advanced any money for the bills. He also ad-
mitted that on one night in January, 1851, Rowlands
had come to him and asked him to keep the bills for him
in his safo. It was afterwards arranged that Morgan
should hold one of them for the tavern bill in question.
The affidavits on which the learned counsel moved, set
forth that Rowlands, wbo would have been a moat im-
portant witness, had kept out of the way, and Morgan
admitted, on cross-examination, that the evening betore
the trial he had dined with Rowlands at Wood's Hotel,
Furnival's Inn, and that he had also breakfasted with
him there on the following morning, the day of the
trial. Four several journeys had been made into Wales
to endeavour to subpceaa Rowlands.
The Lord Chief Baron—You may take a rule upon
both points.—Rule nisi accordingly.

Dublin University.—The first article in this month's
number is entitled " A pilgrimage to Quilca in the
year 1852." It gives a very detailed account of the
old " belongins "of that place. Several celebra'ed
characters have been connected with this placeplace—
Swift, Sheridan, Stella. Henry Brooks was born,
bred, and buried in the parish, and therefore it must
be interesting to all to peruse a sketch so associated
with the memory of the departed great. The tomb
of Henry Brooks is thus described :

" We landed in the glebe meadows, where we
found they had secured the attendance of a N ery
old and wrinkled woman, that she being the nonog,e-
narian of the parish, might point out the precise spot
where H. Brooks was buried, for seventy long years
ago she, as a young country colleen, went with the
whole county side to meet the funeral coming from
Dublin. There indeed is no tomb or monumental

marble, hut in the absence of all such decayahle
matter, God's sun shines perennially on the spot, and
every evening its descending beams will come to visit
the old ruin, and with their rich and tender light
rest on the good man's grave, bathing the green sod
in day. There are wild flowers too growing there,
planted by no human hand, the common yarrow, the
yellow melliloh, and the wild pansy. Descending
from the mound which holds Brook's dust, I found
myself repeating Campbell's fine lines—
' But fling his ashes to the wind,
Whose tongue and pen has served mankind.
And is he dead, whose glorious mind
Lift's mine on high,
To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.'
A sketching tour of five weeks in the forests of Ceylon
is very interesting ; it contains much information
concerning the objects met with there. There is a
second part of the biography of Tyrone rower, which
enters into all the particulars of his celebrated career.

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH,
Hamilton-place New-road, London.
Tne principles of the lIYGEIAN or MORISONIAN SYSTEM are
contained in the following propositions :-
1. The vital principle is in the blood.
2. Everything in the body Is derived from the blood.
3. All constitutions are radically the slime.
4. All diseases arise trom impurity of the blood, or, in other words,
from acrimonious humours lodged in the body.
5. Pain and disease have the same origin; and may therefore be
considered synonymous.
6. From the intimate connexion subsisting between mind and
body, the health of one must conduce to the serenity of the other.
7. Proper Purgation by Vegetables is the only effectual mode of
eradicating disease.
8. The discovery of a VEGET ABE COMPOUND, capable of
being digested, and mixing with the blood, so as to impart to it
the energy requisite for ridding the body of all impurities, was a
desideratum.
9. This discovery was made by JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist,
in the composition of the VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE
(Morison's Pills) of the British College of Health, Hamilton•place
New-road, London.

The Colonial. Chapter IV. of the " Overland
Route" describes the journey from Suez to Aden
and Bombay. The new Australian gold regulations
from the Sydney Government Gazette will afford
useful information to the numerous visitors to the
gold regions. The first part of a drama entitled
"Head Quarters, or Manners in the East," is lively
and amusing. The " Financial and Commercial
Statement for the Month," and the " Summary of
Colonial and East Indian Intelligence," contain a
variety of instructive and entertaining accounts of
events and opinions.

The Liao Magazine.—The first article in this
number is on Charitable Bequests, in which the
writer observes that "Few Acts of Parliament have
given rise to a greater number of disputed points than
the statute 9 Geo. IL c. 36, commonly called the Sta-
tute of Mortmain." Several cases are cited, and the
conclusion states that, if the recommendations of the
Committee of the House of Commons appointed to
inquire into the Law of Mortmein, are carried into
effect, the question under discussion will not arise;
for in their report presented last session, they
propose to relieve all descriptions of property
given for charitable purposes from the restric-
tions of the Mortmain Act. An article on
Marine Insurances gives a clear account of
them. There also Notes on Leading Cases, and a
list of events of the quarter, which gives the names of
the lawyers in the new House of Commons.

The Farmers' Magazine and Monthly Journal of
the Agricultural Interest.—This publication is in-
tended for the use of those connected with agricultural
pursuits. To those thus engaged it must be of essen-
tial service, as it contains varied details of the requisite
knowledge. Three articles on American macbines,
on the science of manuring, and the cultivation of
flax, form the greater part of the contents.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Nov. 2.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE PRENTICE.

Mr. Hubbard, on behalf of the .assignees in this case,
made an application under the following circumstances:
—The bankrupt had obtained his certificate several
yeare ago, he had since come into the possession of con-
siderable property, and having paid all his creditors in
full was desirous of a properly classified certificate under
the new act. The old certificate lay at his (Mr. Hub-
bard's) office; and, what was more strange, there was
a large surplus in the hands of the official assignee,
after payment in full of all the creditors, for which the
bankrupt declined to apply.
His Honour said he had no power to interfere ; the
certificate already issued must stand.

Newton's London Journal.—Among the Patents
mentioned in this repertory of arts, sciences, and
manufactures, is that of W. Squire, for improve •
inents in piano-fortes ; and W. W. Collins, for the
manufacture of steel. The rules and instructions
issued under the New Patent Law Amendment Act
find a place in the Scientific Notices. 'There is a
List of Grants under the new law, and there are two
plates of the chief patents described in the magazine.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
dust published, by H. Bailliere, 919, Regent-street, London.
No I.
Second Edition, with Additions,
in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d.,
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD.
"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, be informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
sower to correct."—Londm Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare
the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to
care a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object
than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperms-
torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the
treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852.
—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
he subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate
price at which the brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April
18,1852.

No. 11.

Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, Is.

THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
Wilk BY CAUTERIZATION ; its Inefficiency and Danger.

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments
geons has been marced with all kinds of violence, an indifference
about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and
all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical
Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Ceurtenay) has
given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xvill. No. ix. had resisted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix, appear, both
in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently saccessfifl."
—Palma IsIh& oa the Treetuteit f Stricture,

Memoirs of the Baroness 1Y Oberkirch. Written by
herself, and edited by bergrandson, the Count do

Mon tbrison.

3 vols. Colburn.

In introducing these memoirs to our readers, we
cannot do better than transcribe the passages in
which, with a very charming simplicity of manner,
Madame D'Oberkirch introduces both herself and her

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT,—Nov. 3.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Law.)
IN THE MATTER OF MANUEL ENDINE DURUF.
This insolvent, who had been in no business or pro-
fession applied to be discharged. Mr. Sargood opposed.
The insolvent was entitled, under the will of his fa-
ther, on the death of his mother, to considerable funded
property. In November, 1850, the insolvent was indicted
by his mother tor stealing some articles of grocery, of
the value of 155., and before trial she died. Her depo-
sitions were admitted in evidence, and he was convicted
at the sessions, and sentenced to 21 days, imprisonment.
By his mother's death be became entitled to the property
lett under his father's will. The crown had, as ho was
convicted of felony, made a claim to the same, and va-
rious negotiations had been pending between the solici-
tor of the Treasury and his attorney, and it was antici-
pated that the crown would relinquish the claim, and
that the property would come to him. He had given
mortgages to some of his creditors on the pcoperty in
question.
Mr. Commissioner Law required some further evidence
on the subject, and the case was adjourned.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Nov. 2.

memoirs to our notice :
" The pages which I present to my reader," she
tells us, " are not memoir., they are rather recollec-
tions. I have never had the slightest pretension to
he a hel esprit, or to occupy a niche in the temple of
fame. I write that I may pass over in my mind the
principal events in my life ; they are deeply interest•
bag to me, nor will they be less so to my daughter.
I know not in what light they may appear to others.
I speak little of what concerns myself personally,
just as much as is necessary to make me know and to
prove that I have seen what I relate. My thoughts
and my reflections are exclusively my own—l am not
accountable to any person for them. My recollec-
tions are dear to me, because I alone have a right to
them. To divulge them would be to diminish the
happiness they afford me. These pages, then, are but
as a casket in which I place them, whence I may

draw them forth in my old age.
" I write these pages in 1789, in my thirty-fifth
year. I kept in 'B2 a journal, in which I minutely
detailed my travels with Madame la Comtesse du
Nord (the Grand Duchess of Russia) to Paris, and
from tbenco through Brittany, Normandy, Picardy,
Holland, and the Electoral States. I observed the
same practice in '34 and 'B6 during two visits I made
to Parii, whither I was drawn by the kindness with
which Madame la Duchesse de Bourbon deigned to
honour me. I combine these journals and these notes
to form the history of the first thirty-five years of my
life. I speak in it of those that I have known—of
facts of which I have been the witness—of the re-

markable personages of this century with whom I
have been intimately or distantly connected, or with
whom I have had either personal or family con-
nexions. I add some of the letters which have been
written to me by 11. I. 11. Madame la Grande
Duchesse Marie Fc:eierowna. This august princess,
spite of her abode in a foreign land, still entertains for
me the deep and tender affection which sprung up in
our infancy, and is good enough to write to me some-
times. My respectful devotedness to this amiable
princess is one of the most profound sentiments of my
heart. As these memoirs may some day meet the eye
of the careless or the cold, I would scruple to inter-
weave in them that part of our correspondence which
is solely confidential. I cannot, however, resist the
desire of making my daughter and her children
acquainted with this noble mind, this tender heart,
and this pure and lofty imagination, which the highest
degree of worldly honours has never for a moment
been able to corrupt, and which unconsciously reveal
themselves in this correspondence."
The above remarks dictated by the partiality of
friendship, are fully verified by a glance at the cur.
respondence to which they refer. The wife of the
Grand Duke Paul, Marie Feederowna, during her
youth, while residing with her parents at Montbe•
lard, and bearing the appellation of Dorothea of
Wurtemberg, had been constantly associated with the
young daughter of the Count de Weidner, and a most
tender affection existed bet weep them from their early
years. When the one had been removed from
her home to the Imperial Court of Russia, as the
bride of the heir apparent, compelled to abandon
her religion and her very name, she still regarded with
the same warm tenderness the friends of her south
and her letters to her early companion,
Madame D'Oberkirch, continued to indicate h
y hich had
now
beecsame
warm affection, and the same familiar
characterized their intercourse durihnsi:beirw girlhood
q, as here por-
at Montbeliard. The Grand I)
st fascinving
trayed by her friend, is indeed tobutnecen;
8 his
wife,year after their
and loveable of women. When
under the
marriage, the Grand Duke and
du Nord, visited Paris,
title of Count and Counters
of the early reign of
and mingled in gaitiestmheadameD
,
Oberkirch hastened to
Marie-Antoinette,
join her friend, and
participated with her in the bril-
liant course of festivities
with which the French
Sovereigns F
welcomed their illustrious guests. ller
diary kept
during this period, . necessarily one
of the most attractive portions of her memoirs.
The simple tastes and domestic habits of the Baroness,
rendered the laborious routine of gaiety some% hat
irksome to her, but the companionship of her beloved
Princess enchained her at Paris. In a most
graceful and natural manner she comments upon the
various remarkable personagesaround her, and en-
livens her pages with the anecdotes of the day—pages,
however, remarkable throughout by the purity of sen •
timent and womanly delicacy by which they are char-
acterized. The closing passages of the third volume
are overshadowed with the gloomthe of impending
Revolution—an event which to Madame
D'Oberkirch
must have been an especial calamity, imbued as
she
had been from childhood with the most exaggerated
notions respecting high birth And genealogical

(Before Mr. Serjcant Adams, Assistant Judge.)
Charles Grant, 2a, and James Ryan, 18, were con-
victed of feloniously assaulting James Stewart, and
stealing from his person a watch, value 51, his property.
The prisoners were apprehended at a public house in
Dudley-street.
The Assistant Judge said the place where the pri-
soners were taken into custody 14(15 a regular rendezvous

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family of sle‘irlatildurileciart,
that, in the beginning of her meneoirs,..efterdetailing
with exactitude the names of her illustrious an-
cestors, she thus pathetic:by expresses he-
anxiety that her race mey not become de-
generate in the person of her son in•law—hel.
only child being a daughter. " I ask in my future
son-in-law, if Providence should send me one in the
chaos which surrounds us, and which seems about to
swallow up all social order—l ask, I say, in my son-
in-law, only high birth; there is a remedy for every
defect but that!" Nevertheless, having quoted this
extravagant passage, we must, in justice to the writer,
remark that, according to her reading of the proverb
noblesse oblige, a man of " high birth" must of neces-
sity be in every sense of the woed a " gentleman," his
ancestral honours imposing upon him a weighty re-
sponsibility. Madame D'Oherkirch, notwithstanding
her antiquated opinions iu these matters, is .herself st
most delightful individual ; we can easily discover this
from her pages, although she is singularly free from
egotism, and we may very safely commend her to our
readers as a very pleasant acquaintance.

Arland Faith ; or, the Harmony of Science aid Scrip •
tare. By George Troup. James Bleck wood.
Already Mr. George Troup has very frequently
displayed his literary abilities—abilities which have
stood him in good stead at different times, as editor,
now of the Glasgow Daily Mail, and now again of
Tait's Magazine. His present volume shows in n
somewhat remarkable manner the scope and versa-
tility of his intelligence. No more comprehensive
commentary hats yet appeared upon the vast and
almost bewildering subject of the Great Industrial
Exhibition. The production reminds the reader in
every sentence of the astonishing progress made of
late years in the advance movement of practical civil-
ization. A brilliant evidence of this is afforded in
the very initial chapter itself—a chapter which calls
to remembrance, in a vivid and startling manner,
the difference observable of late years in modern tra-
velling. Reference has already been made in our
leading columns to the enlightened opinions expressed
by our author upon the subject of the British North
American Railway, by which enterprize the advan-
tages of modern travelling would be so very marvel-
lously and inestimably increased. Upon a variety of
other subjects, Mr. Troup displays, in the charming
little volume under consideration, a no less extended
and elevated amount of information. Occasionally he
may evince a rather over weening anxiety to prose-
lytize ; but even this we are disposed—in spite of
many evident prejudices— to respect as an additional
proof of his sincerity and earnestness. Scarcely any
one, however comprehensive his knowledge, can rise
from the perusal of the work without having secured an
incraise to his stock of intelligence, or without having
recognized the tokens of a mind deeply imbued with
the responsibility devolving upon the present, and
increasingly, of course, upon after generations. If
for nothing else, the work would be welcome,
inasmuch as it is thus far a provocative of serious
meditation. But, in addition to all this, the volume
is remarkable, as affording a clue through the laby-
rinth of doubt and unbelief; separating to many people
the seemingly incongruous study of Science and of
the Scripture. The notion is not a new one—indeed
the project was adventured upon in a less popular
form, and with more ostentatious erudition, several
years ago, by no less a personage than Cardinal Wee-
man. It is not, however, through the medium a
the more abstruse departments of science and
literature, that Mr. Troup is here endeavouring
to trace analogies between the records of divine
and human knowledge. His endeavour is more
directly adapted to the popular appreciation.
He writes upon the subject—a subject ever enthral-
ling no less to the ignorant than to the philoso-
pher—somewhat in the same homely but delight..
ful strain which Robert Hunt has adopted in his
picturesque compositions. George Troup describes
in this manner " silver in and out of the mine." He
has a beautiful chapter upon " lodine." He has an-
other upon " Forest Trees," that good old Mr.
Evelyn would not have disdained to applaud. He
has another called suggestively " Snatches from the
Loom," and another " The Fleece and the CIA,"
and another " The Fuel in the Earth," and another
" The-Seed in the Furrows." Expressions like those
are of themselves sufficiently attractive. But the
volume abounds in other subjects equally commend-
ing it to general examination. The lover of botanical
research will find himself in this manner roused to
curiosity by the chapter upon " Weeds and Wild
Flowers." The lover of entomology will turn not
less willingly to the chapter upon " Art and In-
sects." The metallurgist will have an interest in the
one on " Gold and Silver," and the lapidary in the
one en " Diamonds and Pearls." Indeed the volume,
compact though it is, presents to its readers scarcely.
less diversified allurements (and all of them whole-
some ones) than were afforded to the visitor to the
Crystal Palace by the nave, and the traneepte, and
the galleries of the great Industrial Exhibition.