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his wife and an enthusiast about Borrioboola-Gha ;
Miss Barbary, Esther's aunt ; Mrs. Racbael her ser-
vant, the twin Miss Donnys, the schoolmistresses at
Reading, and The Little Old Lady. Such is the first
number of "Bleak 'louse," the principal fault of
which appears to be its confusion. This, however,
may be cleared up or accounted for by subsequent
instalments. The illustrations by
Phiz are, as usual,
graceful and characteristic, though in one of them
the jug should have had no handle, and Peepy, we
think, should not have made his appearance.

LITERA.TURE.
SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL GEO-
GRAPHY. By Alexander Keith Johnston. Black-
wood and Sons.

As a geographer, Mr. Johnston has
long since
acquired a very high and deserved reputation. His
rapidofhisinformation.andproceeded
succession,
t throughouti mef b
ya
the least admirable the series of charts appended by
him to the' History of Europe" by Mr... Alison. Those
who have ever used the maps of Mr. Johnston in illus-
tration of the annalist's account of battle
or campaign, will bear the fact in remem-
brance with grateful sentiments such as can-
pnuotblbisehvederbyyetahseilymeosbsirist.erEatleacdi Ino
trated, as it were in one focus, all the more conspicuous
sv
ond the
he
h voalsum coenc heenre
.
excellences hitherto deemed desirable in a school "atlas
of general geography. Every plate is on a larger scale
than those heretofore generally employed for purposes
of education : 00113 F quently more is capable of being dis-
played to the student, and that, moreover, with a
necessary increase of accuracy. Again—tbe facts
recorded on the maps are in every instance, according
even to the explicit announcement of the preface,
'
publication." Added to
t
at once more vivid
and
uniform,
f colouring
p ,
t o
e in theg
mechanical process
instead of by the fatigued hand
;I broughtiiou
bis
produced
and dazzled eye of a
colourist. By an ingenious arrangement the scholar
is always enabled to detect what are the possessions
of Great Britain—all our territories throughout
the globe being painted red in the plates relating to
either hemisphere. Various other advantages have
been combined in the volume under notice,—such as
those of a copious index, of a series of clear and com-
prehensible scales, and of a difference of aspect
between the two elements, land and water—advantages
which constitute the present the most complete and
valuable " School Atlas " hitherto published, and one
which cannot fail, if adopted, to advance very mate-
rially the progress of popular education.

,
SCROOL ATLAS OF PHYSICAL GEO-
GRAPRY. By Alex. Keith Johnston. Blackwood
and Sons.
Everyone acquainted with the celebrated " Physical
Atlas," by Mr. Johnston—one of the most extraordi-
nary productions of its kind that has ever appeared—
will need no assurance from ourselves to be satisfied
that the present volume (a sort of epitome of its
predecessor) is one very largely entitled to
admiration. As a preliminary to the study
of the geologist, the cosmogonist, the zoologist, the
botanist, the ichthyologist, the entomologist, and,
swworiutltde
above all, of the ethnologist—a book somewhat of this
be
enles mapped out
utterly
character is absolutely indispensable. It elucidates
more clearly than any description whatsoever, whether
,utourthe youthful
oral
' matters
intellect,
incompre-
hensible. In this manner, therefore, lka —r. Johnston
is a pioneer to some of the greatest philosophers of
our age. He prepares the mind of the student for the
abstruse pages of Mrs. Somerville, for the luminous
researches of Lyell, for the analytic discourses of
th that
Liebig, for the records of Murchison, for the argu-
ments of Latham, and for the lofty and sublime dis-
quisitions of Humboldt. Even to the educated adult,
to those tolerably well versed in the more consider-
able among the physical sciences, the diffu-
sion over the surface of the globe of certain attri-
butes or aspects of matter is liable to fall into almost
inextricable confusion, unless aided by some lucid and
reliable guide, such as that furnished by this volume
of Mr. Johnston. In its eighteen plates are syste-
matically arranged all the most valuable statistics re-
lating to hydrology, to geology, to natural history,
and to meteorology. As a frontispiece we have dis-
played to us the elements of chartography, as well as
of physical geography : and immediately afterwards
are given charts of the ocean currents of the world—
of the comparative sizes of the principal lakes of the
globe—and of the various river systems in both he-
mispheres. Subsequently are ranged in succession,
charts of the different valleys, plains, table-lands, and
mountains. Three admirable plates afford an accu-
rate and instantaneous notion of the distribution, if
one may so call it, of the winds, the rains, and the
temperature. Thereupon follow maps show-
ing the distribution of vegetable life, the dis-
tribution of animal life, the distribution of
the various races of man, and last, but not by any
means the most insignificant of all these subjects, the
distribution and extent of the different forms of reli-
gion. An aggregation of facts so
inestimable as these,
and an arrangement of those facts as lucid as their variety
is apparently bewildering—ip each, a task the ade-
quate accomplishment of which would of itself be
sufficient to confer lasting honour upon any indivi-
dual. They have both been effected by Mr. Johnston
on a grand scale, in his morecostly work entitled
" The Physical Atlas," the
quintessence the pith the marrow,
quintessence of the whole has agai ''
n been given to
the public by him, in a regard
more or able and, in
to the price, a more generallyPaccessible form, as a
access
minor atlas, compiled with - particular view to the
a ..
use of our intelligent •
seminaries Upon the perfect
realization of all his wish ' ct we have
Johnstonsn this respect
reason here to proffer Mr.most cordial
0 Liston our
and most earnest
congratulations.

KING'S HEAD TAVERN, POULTRY.--The re-open-
ing of this " ancient hostelry," under the auspices of the new
proprietors, Messrs. Se'wood and Neale,
was. celebrated on
J
Saturday by a sumptuous inaugural dinner, J.
Thompson,
Esq., in the chair, supported by the Sheriffs of London and
Middlesex, Mr. Under-Sheriff Hopwood, Mr. L. Thompson,
&c. Between seventy and eighty
gentlemen sat down to the
banquet. After the usual loyal toasts had been drunk, the
chairman, in proposing success to the King's Head Tavern
and prosperity to Mr. Sellwood and his partner, adverted to
several historical and interesting events connected with this
house as far back as the time of ion. the Restorat lie next
stated that Mr. Sellwood had for fifteen years been connected
with the London Tavern, and that fact, he was sure,
was a sufficient guarantee fur the most unremitting atten-
tion to every department connected with the cuisine
supply of the establishment. The principle on which the proprie-
torssupp the best of everything
started was, to at the
lowest possible prices, and in the most comfortable style.
He congratulated Mr. Sellwood on the presence of the
1,
Sheriffs and so many other
kind friends, who thus testified
the respect which they entertained for him personally. Mr.
Sellwood, in a very appropriate and modest speech, returned
thanks. The toasts of ~ '
Ile Press" and "The Proprietor of
the London Tavern" were severally drank with much cor-
diality, Mr. Bathe responding to the latter Molt. The'
greater part of the company remained to the latest moment
that propriety would allow on a Saturday night, and the en-
tertainment went off with great éclat. - Messrs. 'F. Smith,
Genge, and others added much to the hilarity of the evening,
bv their vocal exertions, ... Messrs. Sellwood and Co. are
eminently entitled to the patronage of their friends and of
the publunic,
dertak ing. and we cordially wish them every success in their
arduous
THE SPEAKER'S PARLIAUENTARY DINNER.—The
Speaker gave his third Parliamentary dinner on Saturday.
The following Members of the House of Commons were pre-
sent :--The Marquis of Douro I ;
' :.seount Palmerston, Lord
-rrerp
Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Sidney
ert M
--t, r. James Stuart
Wortley, Mr. Goulburn, Sir James Graham, Mr. Edward El-
lice Mr. William E. Gladstone, sir
George Clerk, Mr. Tuf-
nell, the Master of the Rolls, Captain
Fitzroy, Mr. Charteris,
Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Sir Frederic The-
siger (Attorney-Graneral), Mr. Loftus Wigram, Mr. Crow-
der, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Pussy, Mr.
Monckton Milnes, Mr.
.Henry Baring Mr. Henry Drum-
mond, Mr. •
mond, Mr. G. H. • Evelyn Denison was pre-
vented from attending through indisposition. Sir Robert
Ferguson was also unavoidably absent. The Speaker's vees will be held on Saturday the 20th and Saturday the
le-
27th instant, at ten o'clock.
THE VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON's PARTY.--The
Viscountess Palmerston held another fashionable re-union,
on Saturday evening last, at her ladyship's residence,
Carlton- gardens. ' This soirée, though not so numerously at-
tended as on previous occasions, wto, nevertheless very
recherché and select ; several members of the corps diploma-
tique and a long list of the aristocratic world graced her
Ladyship's saloons, during the evening. Previous to the
arrival of the company the noble hostess presided over the
following select private dinner party :......The Earl and Coun-
tess of Shaftesbury, Admiral and Miss Bowles, aar, Hippesly, Henryr. and the Misses Sullivan, Mr.
-- HemminMr.
Percy Burrell, and the Hon. Mr. William Cowper. g,
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Earl of Derby
has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon.
Edward Wil-
braham to be his private secretary. Mr. C. W. Stronge, of
the Treasury, is also acting as the second private secretary
of the Premier. The Right Hon. S. a Walpole has ap-
pointed as his private secretary
_a_tr. the Home Office, Mr.
Spencer Perceval, grandson of_.me Perceval, the Prime
Minister of George the Third. The Earl
Lordship's
of Malmesbury has
appointed Mr. George Harris as Lordship's private se-
cretary at the Foreign SirOffice_iaoey John
Paki Pakington, has ap-
pointed his son, Mr.
mull Office. Mr. nyton, as his private
secretary at the Colonial
Cole, of the
secretary to the Treasury, is privateappointede
Duke of Northumberland has
of
the Exchequer.
Th
P. Pelham to be h. land has ap
pointed the Hon. F. S.
Mr. S. R. M. Leak©,s
private secre-
tary at the Admiralty.
of the Treasury, arincipal clerk
assistant to the secretariesMr Leaks is succeeded: s retired after
. Mr. W. H.
a service of 50 years.
. clerks, who was by
Stephenson, one of seniortree
1 when Piime Ministre'rrivarirsertee--
tary to Sir Robert Peel
Ste-
phenson is succeeded by al
„,,r. T, P. Courtenay one of the , e e
as-
sistant clerks.
TkIENT3.--Tho lion
CONSULAR APPoIN . . . Henry
Vereker is appointed her, Majesty,s consul at
Prendergast
Samuel Vines, Esq., is appointed con-
sulßio Grande du Sol. .
„..,_ ,_
.SpinK, ."-`l, L* appointed consul at
at Para. Charles _ .„sq. 8 .
11 Callender, L , i appointed consul at
Maranham. Banda
St. Catherine's.
HORRIBLE DEATH FROM SCALDING. —On Satur-
day
Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Cottage of Content
Walwortb, upon the body of Alfred
Tavern, Lock's-fields, -of ady • k
the son e-sin er, residing near
Okey, aged three years, , ,
ea upset a kettle of boiling
the above house. The deceiLi
the effects of Which he died —Ver-
water over himself, from
diet, "Accidental Death."