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LITERATURE.
.31/011.4 UD'S iILSTORI" OF THE cRu-
Si DE RS Tran.ylnipd from . the French by W.
don street.
Robson. 3 Vol.s.— vol. .1. lioudedg-e, Farrin g• •
Aitn,)ugh it is the history of times Ling oast, the
chief actors ill whim are separateet from us by ages,
and many of whose events seem r ve!o ed in the
" twilight of fable," still the record of the Crusades
must be to all thinking minds an object of interest.
Apart from their important influence over society,
and their effect on the spirit of their generations, it is
interesti:ig as 'well as instructive to consider the
motives that induced to many to forego their existence,
of comparative comfort at home to encounter the
most toilsome and perplexed lives, and to run the
chance of meeting with the most painful and linger-
ing deaths. Indeed, all the ills to which flesh' is
heir seemed arrayed against them. After passing
through hostile lands, after enduring shipwrecks and
disasters at sea, they had to meet in the fiery desert
troops of enemies to whom that scorching soil was
native ground, and to whom that burning atmosphere
was native air. Suffering was iudeed the badge of 1
all their tribes, from the first departure from the home they would never in all human probability revisit,
till their final miseries and frequent deaths in the great
and terrible wilderness in which there is no water.
It is asserted by many writers, perhaps truly, that
all were not sincere iu their professions nor honest in
their practices who were leagued together in the
bands of Crusaders. Human . nature was ever the
same virtually, in all countries, through every
age, in whatever undertakings there have been
been, but it is certain that one of its brightest pages
is that which chronic/es the Crusades. It would be
well if the present age, amid its worship of gold and
its cultivation of luxurious refinement, could exercise
a little of that spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice
which lighted up the doings of the heroes of antiquity,
and drew down the acclamations of their greatest
enemies. It was not zeal without profit that inspired
them, nor was their enthusiasm entirely misplaced,
since it has shown what man can do and dare, when
actuated by a glorious cause. Human aspirations
cannot look to higher, nor can human igenuity
devise grandeur motives than those which
propelled the Crusaders, and it has never
been shown that any equalled them. The best
proof is in the fact that nutmeg daunted them. If in
troubles, they expected them ; if in want and priva-
tion, they bore their Master's cress ; if their friends
fell away, they had gone before them to their greet
reward; and if cast into dungeons, the enterprise that
imprisoned them led captivity captive; while the last
trial that can await all was their crowning triumph.
To couqusr o'hers is the mot to of a warrior in line;
in death he Illi13!", COnClaFr hiY,tit.. And who rose
wore superior to the Kiog of Terrors than the cham-
pion of the Cross, over the mkt:44)y horrors of the '
foreign grave, into winch he cyanid ba flung by un-
hallowed hands alter the flames ut the stake and other
torturing devices had done their worst ; he spreau the
spotle:s robes of ineri-yrdete, send the scene of his ig-
norrliny was made bright to his tenses by a halo of
glory caught front the opening gatas of Paradise.
It such could be eudured for the cause, it was not a
selfish, worldly one ; and it is to be_questioned if those
who decidedly despise it as of earth, earthy, would
undertake so much themselves for the avowed cause
of 11,lven. It is always easy to fish fault, and no-
thing is too great or good to escape ridicule ; but
abuse is not argument, and many who criticise the
faults of ethers are only endeavouring to psrede their
own cleverness. The pilgrimages to the Holy Land
are over, but the pilgrims, to use the words of the
biographer of Lord G-. Bentinck, " they have left us
the legacy of heroes, the memory of their great
names, end the inspiration of their great examples ;"
and it would be well, if on rising from the perusal of
their histories, we were to imbibe some of their
energy, their patience, and their courage, to carry
with us into the battle of life ; then, when assailed by
our numerous trials, their spirit might inspire us to
go and do likewise.

THE GREAT CITIES OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD. By Theodore Alvis Buckley, 8.A.,
of Christ Church. lioudedge.
A highly
attractive and instructive work, presenting
most forcibly to the mind of the reader the images of
the great cities " in their glory and their desolation."
It must be profoundly inttresting to those who have
studied the events and actions of distant ages to have-
the scenes where those events took place and those
deeds were performed brought before them, not only
as they are, but as they have been. Conspicuous
among the list stand the names of Babylon, Palmyra,
Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. Others less known
also find a place, such as Tyre, Ephesus, Elis, Veii, and
Scandinavia. The following is taken from the In-
troduction :

" When we view the sand•buried monuments of Egyp-
tian magnificence on their own site, or study the frag-
meets which, thousand of miles away from the places
they adorned for ages, form the greatest ornaments of
our own museums; when we read of the convulsions
of nature and the ware of men which have produced vast
and sodden ruin, or when we examine the minute poly-
pus which has wrought as sure but more tardy destruc-
tion iu Calabria, than its deadly predecessor the earth-
quake, we feel that even' the worm and the moth' have
thair niche in the temple of history. What the head-
long sway of armed forces has spared, that the minutest
things of earth have claimed for their own, and the same
almost invisible agency that has partitioned the depths
of the ocean with coral reefs has eaten away the well-
chiselled marbles that once bore witness to the pride of
man's greatness. Did we eeek to write history with
perfect accuracy, how humiliating its details, how minute
its subdivisions !"

THE TRAVELS of BOLA. DO ; or, a Tour
Round the World. George Routledge and Co.
A new edition .of this wink has long been called
for. It includes travels in Morocco, Egypt, Arabia,
the Cape of Good Hype, and Batavia, and many in-
tere.ting accounts of the cu,tomis and inhabitants of
those countries are introduced. Wandering Arabs,
snake charmers, Hottentots, elephants, lions and
crocodiles are encouli!.-ered, and numerous illustrations
are given. Fis translated by Miss Aiken, and newly
corrected and revised by Cecil Hartley, A.M. It is
an excellent combination of instruction and enter-
tainment, conveying valuable information under the
form of exciting incidents and agreeable descriptions
of foreign lands.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, wish their Royal
Higbee:s-s the Prince of Wels, the Princess Royal,
Prineo Alfred, the Princ-sses Alien, Helena, and Louisa,
and Prince Arthur, and accompanied by his Serene
Highness Prince Leoplod of Saxe Coburg, left Windsor
Cattie at twenty minutes before three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, for the station of the Groat Western Rail-
way, in Windsor, where a guard of honour of the Cold-
k,treani Guards, with the band of the regiment, received
her Majesty on her arrival with the usual honours. _
The Queen and Prince left by a special train, attended
Byng,
the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Beatrice
by the Counters of Desert, Lsdy Caroline Barrington,
Earl Talbot, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Pnipps! Captain_the
t and the
the House
Francis- Hugh Seymour, and the Master
a detachment of
Albert Hon. Joseph Denman, RN., Lord Colville, Coinloenses.l,
oftoi
hreareadiness,
wherehold.
seven'fhe aeutgtuhsetwere Paddington,
which conveyed heg'rp:er Majestyet yn ' Queen's ercarriageswere
f
r i conveyedti
the 7th Hussars forming the escort.
..
Royal party to Buckingham Palace ;
The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at Bucking.
ham Palace at twenty-
five minutes before four o'clock,
and were received by the Master of the Horse, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, Lord George Lennox,
and Colonel Wylde.
s Royal .
Her Majesty and hi e
ji.Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by his Serene
highness Prince Leopold of
Saxe Coburg, and atten y the Countess of Desert,
Earl Talbot, Lord Colville, and Colonel F. H. Seymour,
the Princess's Theatre with th •
honoured their presence last
evening.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of
Customs, had an interview with_.h the Board of
the eh
Exchequer yesterday, at his offi_. ,residence in Down-
ing-street. Mr. John Wood, Chairm
Inland Revenue, had also an ian of the Board of
Hon. Gentleman. nterview with the Right
Lord Lyttelton had an interview
Faking-
ton yesterday at the Colonial with Sir J.
epu from BurnhamOffice.
terview yesterday with the (Somerset) had an in-
their 'offices 'Rh- the General Board of Health at
, Whitehall. The
Messrs. G. Reed, . deputation consisted of
Sir Tho Gunter, and Hobbs.
mail Gladstone
Secretary W I had an interview with Mr.
a pole yesterday at
Dispatches
were. the Home-office.
Sunday from the received at the Colonial•office on
Governors of
Dispatches were received Hong
Kong
and Ceylon.
yesterday from the Governors
of Canada and of the Mauritius.
Dispatches
were sent yesterday.
office to the Governor from the Colonial-
s of
Gibraltar and Malta, the Lord
High Commis • stoner of the lonian lslands, the Governor
of Ceylon, and the Governor of Hong-Kong.
D

- ucur or CORN WALL.--A return printed by
order of the House of Commons, showing the receipts and
disbursements of the Duchy of Cornwall, for the year ended
31st December, 1851, includes under the head of receipts,
among other items, 8,6091. 15s. balance at the bankers, to
the credit of the account of the council of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, on 31st December, 1850; rents
and profits of courts, 27,0481. 9s. 74d.; produce of the
royalties of coal min in Somerset, and royalties and reser-
vations of dues and rents of mines and quarries in Cornwall
and Devon, 7,1421. 53. I ld. ; and annuity received trom the
C maolidated Fund under Ist and 2d Vie., c. 120, in lieu of
tin coinage duties. p.stgroats, and white rents, 16,2161. 155.;
total receipts, 61,272/. 2.5. 7d. The disbursements, amount-
ing in the whole to 53,5951. 16s. 2d., include, among other
items, 39,9021. 10s. payments made to the trustees and trea-
surer of his Royal Highness; and 13,0611. 118. 2d. for salaries,
superannuation allowances and annuities, donations and
charities, law charges, tithes, rates, taxes, income-tax, De-
and
other incidental charges; leaving a balance on the
cemher last of 7,676/.65. sd. '
Dccay or,LANCASTER.—:-From
issued) ir, appears that the income,
wilblvtichaelmas last
Duchy of Lancaster in the year ending 12001. was paid
amounted to 35,9981.'.2. 9id., out of wvarious payments the
Atter to her Majesty's Privy Purse. return
baiancyse:teorfatsiil;
balancers wore 5,2871.35.