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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH
MAGAZINE,
No. CCLXVI., for DECEMBER.
CONTENTS :-
I. Alison's History of the French Revolution.—ll. Herder.
Nn. 2.—111. Callimachus. Hymn 2. Apollo.—lV. Circassia.
( Conclusion. )--V. Guizot.—Vl. The British Colonization of
New Zealand.—Vll. The World we Live in. No. 14.—V111.
Augusta Victrix.—lX. Solomon's Flight.—X. Justice to Ireland.
—XI. The Augsburg Goldsmith. A Tale of the Fifteenth Century.
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TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE PERU-BOLIVIAN
CONFEDERATION.

We have been favoured with an outline of the Treaty of
Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between his late Majesty
and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, which was signed at
Lima on the 15th day of June last.
After the usual preliminary introduction, appointing B. H.
Wilson, Esq., the British Consul of Peru, and the President
of the Bolivian Republic, as the respective plenipotentiaries,
the Treaty proceeds, concluding in—
Article 1. That there shall be perpetual amity between both
nations and their respective subjects.
Article 2. That between both nations there shall be reci-
procal freedom of commerce ; both enjojing the most com-
plete protection and security fot their commerce, subject, of
course, to the respective laws and statutes of both countries.
By the same article the right of entering the different Forts of
either country (anchoring, refitting, &e.), is secured to the
ships of war and Post-office packets of both countries. This
does not include the right of carrying on the coasting trade,
in which rational vessels only are permitted to engage.
Article 3 guarantees to the Confederation the same right of
commerce with all British dominions situated out of Europe.

Article 4 guarantees that no higher import or export duty
shall be imposed on articles being the growth, produce, or
manufacture of these two respective countries than would be
imposed upon articles being the growth, produce, or manu-
facture of other foreign countries.
Article 5 guarantees reciprocally the same security with re-
spect to duties or charges on account of tonnage, light, or
harbour dues, pilotage, salvage in case of damage or ship-
wreck, or any other local charges.

Article 6 guarantees recipnically, that the duties (import
and export), drawbacks, bounties, &c., shall be the same, whe-
ther the articles be imported or exported in British or Peru-
Bolivian vessels.

Article 7 determines that in order that a vessel may be con-
sidered as belonging to either country, it is necessary that she
should be built in that country, or that she should have been
made prize of war to that country and condemned as such, or
that she should have been forfeited under some law for the
prevention of the slave trade; or that she should be navigated
by a master who is a subject of such country, and by a crew
three-fourths at least of whom are subjects of such country ;
or that she be wholly owned by subjects of such country,
usually residing therein, or under the dominion thereof, ex-
cepting where the leas provide for any extreme cases.
[No ship, admitted to be a ship of either country, shall be
qualified to trade as above described, under the provisions of
the treaty, unless furnished with a register, passport, or sea
letter, signed by the proper authorities, certifying the name,
occupation, residence, &c., of the owner, and also a full de-
scription of the vessel, &c.]
Article 8 exempts the subjects of the contracting parties
from the necessity of employing brokers, factors, agents, &c.,
for the management of their affairs, and also secures to them
full and perfect protection for their persons and property,
free and open access to the courts of justice, with the mine
right as native citizens of employing advocates, attorneys, or
agents, of whatever description, whom they may think proper.
By the 9th article, the subjects and citizens of the two con-
tracting parties are secured in the enjoyment of the same pri-
vileges, liberties, and rights as native subjects in whatever
relates to the-police of the ports, the lading and unlading of
ships, the safety of merchandize, goods, and effects, the
succession to personal estates, by will or otherwise, and the
disposal of personal property of every sort and denomina-
tion in any manner ivhatsoever, as also the administration
of justice.
The property of any subject or citizen of either of the con-
tracting patties, dying without will or testament, shall be taken
charge of by curators appointed by the Consul of said nation,
as far as is consistent with the laws of said country. The sub-
jects and citizens of both countries are reciprocally exempted
from all compulsory military service whatsoever by sea or land,
from all forced loans or military exactions ; nor are they to be
subjected to any ordinary charge or tax greater than what is
paid by the native subjects.
Article 11 provides for the appointment of Consuls by the
two contracting parties, subject to the usual regulations.
By Article 12, it is provided that in case any rupture
should unhappily take place between the two contracting par-
ties, the subjects of each residing upon the coasts, shall be
allowed six months to wind up their affairs, and a safe escort
to any port they shall themselves select. It also provides that
all subjects of either of the contracting parties who are esta-
blished in the dominions of the other, in the exercise of any
trade or special employment, shall have the privilege of re-
maining and continuing such trade under the same conditions
and regulations, and enjoying the same protection and privi-
leges as a native of the said country.
The 13th Article secures to the subjects and citizens of the
territories of each of the contracting parties the fullest pro-
tection of person and property, with perfect and entire secu-
rity of conscience, the right of exercising their religion, eirc.
This right, however, does not appear to be reciprocally the
same. The Peru-Bolivian Government confining the privi-
lege which it grants to the exercise " in private houses."
By the 14th Article, the Peru-Bolivian Confederation en-
gages to co-operate with his Britannic Majesty for the total
abolition of the slave-trade, and to prohibit all persons inhabi-
ting within the territories of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation
as subject to their jurisdiction, in the most effectual manner, and
by the most solemn laws, from taking any share in such trade.
Two additional Articles have been added to the treaty for
the purpose of the better adapting certain of the preceding ar-
ticles to the present condition of commerce and shipping in the
Peru-Bolivian Confederation.

INNER TEMPLE, SATURDAY, Nov. 25.---The
under-mentioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the bar
by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Ed-
ward Brooke, Esq., Peter Moncrieffe, Esq. ; Charles James
Cruttwell, Esq., and James John Fitz-James, Esq.
PR ESTON.—We feel no small degree of pleasure in
being this week enabled to report a continuance of the favour-
able turn in our trade, which we mentioned last week. The
markets are somewhat more firm, and cotton pieces of some
sorts are in active demand. Indeed, the general opinion is
that there is little danger of raw cotton declining any further
in price, so that there is considerable encouragement for the
making of goods, the risk being slight that any loss will be
sustained on them.—Preston Chronick.

Yesterday the Morning Post found a mare's nest,
and with cagey enthusiasm forthwith set itself about
calling its neighbours to participate in the notable dis-
covery. Will it be credited that our Contemporary
has actually hit upon the very novel fact, and we can-
not conceive how it escaped the keen scent of the Fic-
titious Votes Committee, that at least one person has
been put upon the roll of freeholders for the Scottish
county upon a simulate qualification ! Wondrous sa-
gacity ! Lord Roden's conspiracy is a joke to this,
and we cannot help envying the proud feelings of in-
tense gratification which at the present moment must
agitate the bosom of our amiably-sensitive Con-
temporary. But to be serious, if we can be so
for a moment, with our Contemporary's absurdi-
ties. The 'gravameh of the charge which the
Post lays at the door of the Whigs, is this :
It appears that a person of the name of
Pendreich had been some time or other, put
upon the roll for the county of Edinburgh on
a fictitious qualific\tion, and that hg voted for Mr.
Craig. We rather incline to think that the latter act
is what rouses our Contemporary's Wrath. There
Would have been no harm done had a hundred such-
like Votes been made, provided they had all been
available for Sir George Clerk...
_That is where the
shoe pinches, and therefore our Contemporary all of
a sudden waxes ferociously indignant, and denounces
the whole affair as a trick. But does our Contem-
porary pretend ignorance of the fact, that it is by such
tricks that the Tory candidates for every Scottish
county tried to keep their seats, or to thrust them-
selves into them, and among the rest of them Sir
George Clerk ; that it is by such tricks that the
counties of Selkirk, Peebles, Stirling, Lanark, Perth,
Haddington,Caithness, and others have been swamped,
and that thereby the natural constituencies . have had
Tory Members thrust down their throats ? Does our
Contemporary not know that the Whigs seek to
be represented by the force of the natural constitu-
encies, and that they never made a single fictitious
vote except to counteract these tricks of their oppo-
nents ? The Whig party in Scotland have again and
again, in Parliament and out of it, denounced this ne-
farious trick; and if our Contemporary will take the
trouble to look over the report of the Fictitious Votes
Committee (Scotland) of last session, he will have no
difficulty in discovering at whose door the paternity
of this trick ought to be laid. He will see, within
the compass of the first pages of that report, a tale or
two relative to this very county of Edinburgh, where
honourable, right honourable, and learned innkeepers
within the ducal domain of Dalkeith are more than a
pendant to the innborn ex-keeper of the Regent's-park
canteen. But we are not surprised at the reprehen-
sive philippic of our virtuous Contemporary ; we
can well understand his indignant allusion to the
" freedom and purity of electioneering concerns,"
for this is but a part and parcel of that closet enthu-
siasm which the Tories find it extremely convenient
to press into their writings, but still more convenient
to shake from them the moment they cross the thresh-
hold of the Registration Court, or enter the confines
of the polling booth. While our Contemporary is
abstird in his knowledge, or rather concealment, of
facts, he is not the less unfortunate in his state-
ment of the law. This Mr. Pendreich, who really
was bred to the bar, and did not, like his proto-
types, the honourable, right honourable, and learned
innkeepers of Dalkeith, assuming the calling late
in life for the purpose of serving the public, stated
that he had received payment of his ex-
penses from London to Edinburgh and back
again. Does our Contemporary doubt the le-
gality of this ? If he does so, we must refer him
to Sir George Clerk, • who will put him right
upon the matter, for we hear that not a few Mid-
Lothian patriots ventured north to support his
defeat upon precisely similar engagements. But, in
pJint of fact, it is a mere waste of intellect to attempt
to convince our Contemporary, who, all. the while he
believes himself to be flinging dirt on his opponents,
has committed the grievous mistake of bespattering
himself and his party. Of the grossly indecent at-
tacks which have been heaped on Mr. Craig, we
shall only say that that gentleman is known, by
those who are competent to form an opinion, to be
a man of sound judgment and ability—tempered,
or perhaps weakened, however, by becoming diffi-
dence and modesty. Against his first appear-
ance on the floor of the House of Commons,
where even abler men than he have quailed
and sank down when addressing for the first
time such an assembly, we can set his many
public efforts for three years, during which
he vigorously and eloquently fought the battles
of Reform, and vanquished the Corvplimus of Scot-
tish Tories. We could name many men who have
afterwards been ranked amongst our most distinguished
statesmen, and for one we may name the late Mr. Ri-
cardo, whose painful embarrassment on a first appear-
ance must be still fresh in the memory of many Mem-
bers of the House. The first exhibition of one of the
greatest orators who ever addressed a public assembly
- the late Mr. Sheridan—was a failure. It is stated
by Mr. Moore, that on the occasion alluded to he re-
paired to the gallery to advise with Mr. Woodfall,
who told him that he would never succeed in that line;
on which Mr. Sheridan, after a moment's pause, ex-
claimed, "I know it is in me, and by G—d it shall come
out l's We could name many other instances were it neces-
sary. The self-possession and vapid forwardness of pre-
suming dulness are notorious. We do not believe that
Mr. Peter Borthwick ever felt a moment's uneasiness
in addressing an audience either in a theatre or the
House of Commons, though Cicero goes so far as to
lay it down that no man will ever succeed as a speaker
who is not in the greatest agitation during his first at-
tempts. Mr. Peter Borthwick and another gentleman,
who appears destined to pluck the laurels from the
brow of that honourable gentleman—Mr. Benjamin
D'lsraeli—ought to thank their stars that in their out-
set they so far eclipsed Mr. Sheridan, and are living
proofs of the advantage derived from the possession of
a good stock of presumption.—Morning Chronicle.

Lord Granville Somerset's motion for a renewal of
the Committee of Inquiry into the system of fictitious
votes, by which the Irish elections have been swaffiped,
was carried last night, not only without a division, but
without even a debate. The indignation of all parties
against these gross abuses is zealous enough in the
sittings of the whole House, when publicity stimulates
or checks the course of conduct--in that sense there is
plenty of public virtue : but when the Committee begins
its functions in a small morning room, where there is
hardly any body to observe its deliberations and nobody to
publish them, then the Whig and Radical combine for
mutual protection, and distort, or distract, or disguise the
evidence, till sober andfair men, puzzled and disgusted,
grow slack in their attendance, and fraud contrives to
wriggle unscotched through the investigation. W e
trust that a Committee will be nominated for this im-
portant inquisition, who know their own duty, and the
sort of thing and sort of men, whpm they have to deal
with. Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Emerson Tennent,
unfortunately, will not be able to resume their places
in the Committee till the Dublin and Belfast petitions
shall have restored them to their proper seats ; but
Mr. Serjeant Jackson, Mr. Hogg, Mr. M. Gaskell,
and one or two others who did good service in the last
Session, are in a condition to renew their aid, and
we are sure will not withhold it. After the mbtion of
Lord Granville Somerset came that of Sir H. Ver-
ney, for preserving the Bishopric of Sodor and Mnan,
proposed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to be
incorporated with. the See of Carlisle. The wishes
of the islanders, who deprecate the junction, well me-
rited all possible consideration ; but that consideration
having been given, as we are persuaded, most care-
fully, by the Commissioners, it would have been
idle to overrule, by a mere hasty vote of the House

DEAL, Nov. 27.—Wind W.' moderate.—Arrived the Hopeful,
Seward, from Sierra Leone. Put pack the Tantivy, from -Yar-
mouth for the Mediterranean. Came down from the River, and re-
maining, the Isabella, Munro, for Calcutta ; Magnet, for Trini-
dad; Fortitude, Fowle, Gratitude, White, and William Mills,
Kindley, for I3arbadoes ; London, Turner, Helas,f Partridge, Ewell
Grove, Barton, landings, Burger, and Volusia, Russell, for Ja-
maica ; COnception, for Corunna ; Vernon, Davies, for Madeira ;
Douglas, Hamilton, for Bermuda; Swallow, Morre, for Trieste;
Orontes, Short, for Sydney ; David, Luekie, for Demerara ; and
David, Scott, for Madras. Sailed the Greyhound, Knill, for St.
Michael's.
DOVER, Nov. 27.—Arrived the Burgomaster, Schmidt, from
Matanzas ; and Sterling, Barton, from Quebec.
So our). AIPTON, Nov. 27.—Lrived Calpe (S.), from Lisbon.
WEYMOUTH, Nov. 26.—Arrived Gulf of Paria, from Lisbon.
COWES, Nov. 27.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Tusltar,
Chadwick, from Virginia.
MARGATE, Nov. 27.—Arrived off, John, Gerrard, from Riga.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind N.W., squally, blows hard.
PLYMOUTH,
_NOV. 27.—Wind W.N.W.

FA LMOUTII: Nov. 261—WindW. S. W. to N. W., fresh breezes,
with rain, and thick weather.—Arrived the Pandora packet, from
Rio Janeiro—sailed 15th Oct., and has brought 90,0001. sterling
en freight.
BRISTOL, Nov. 27.—Arrived the John Walker, Gaskins, from
Quebec ; Equivalent, Wake, from Archangel, after being aground.
SWAIiSEA, Nov. 26.—Arrived Amethyst, Wells, from Quebec.
MILFoun, Nov. 26.—Arrived Pembroke Castle, from Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 27.—Arrived the Dorothea, Fairhurst, from
Calcutta ; May, Morton, from Quebec ; and Cowper, Henchman,
from Savannah. Off port, the Robert Pulsford, from New Or-
leans. The Monarch (schooner), and No. 5, pilot-boat, have
been alongside a brig that was at anchor off West Hoyle all the
morning, with a signal of distress flying—she is now under weigh,
standing for the floating light.
BELFAST, Nov. 245.—The Enigheden, Hust, from Cordeour to
Stralsund, has put into this pert in distress.
CoRK, Nov. 25.—The wreck of a barque, dismasted, bowsprit
standing-, painted with a bread white streak, was passed, 9th inst.,
by the Isabella, Meredith, arrived off this port.
YARMOUTH, Nov. 27.—The Clyde, Carr, from Gottenburg to
the Cape of Good Hope, has been assisted into these Roads, having
got entangled between the Scroby and Crop Sands.

The Colosseum, Winos, from St. Petersburg to St. Übe's, ran
on the Kentish Knock, 26th inst.
The Caroline, Do Sud, from Rio Janeiro to Buenos Ayres, was
totally wrecked, near Monte Video, Sept. 17.

LAW, INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY--,Yor7 28.

The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-inn Hall to-day, and
was occupied the whole morning with the arguments in an ap-
peal of Nock v. Newman, which was an appeal from a decree
of the Vice-Chancellor. The Bill was filed for the specific
performance of an agreement for the purchase of property.
The Lord Chancellor referred the matter back to the Mager.

COURT OF Q UEEN'S BENCH, Nor. 28.
( Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
The cases for trial this morning were mostly actions upon
bills of exchange, and contained no features of public interest.
The Court will sit in London from the 7th to the 15th of
December. After as many causes as shall have been appointed
by the Marshal shall have been tried in London, the Court will
return to Middlesex, and remain there until Saturday, the 23d
December, for the trial of qpecial end a few common jury cases.
Cases on the Middlesex Speci,ll Jury List, which have not
yet been appointed, will not be tried before the return of the
Court firm London.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nor. 28.
(Sittings at Arisi Prizts.)
PLACE V. DELEGAL.
The Court was occupied the whole of the morning with this
case, 166 turned entirely on complicated principles of law,
and presented nothing of the slightest popular interest.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Nor. 28.
THE QUEEN V. BONE AND OTHERS.
This was en action brought against Richard Bone. Henry
Budd, and Edward Attwell, fur removing spirits without a
permit, by which removal certain revenue Acts had been vio-
latcd. The jury gave a verdict in favour of the Crown, strongly
recommending Atwell and Bone to the mercy of the Court.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Simon Morgan was indicted for stealing, on the 9th of Novena- I
ber, in the parish of Woolwich, eight pair of trousers, value
2/. 10s. 6d., the property of John Moore and another.
The prosecutor, who is a pawnbroker, deposed that about seven
o'cicek in the evening his attention was called to a person who was
stealing some articles which were exposed for sale in the front of
his shop. He ran out and detected the prisoner in the act of car-
rying off eight pair of trousers. Guilty.
Thos. Jones aas indicted for stealing, on the 30th October, in
the parish of Woolwich, one pair of trousers, value Ms., the pro-
perty of John Moore, the prosecutor in the last case.
The RECORDER thought the case inconclusive, as the only pre-
sumption that the prisoner stole the trousers was the fact of the
pawnbroker's ticket being found on him, and that ticket was not
now produced. He therefore directed the prisoner to be ac-
quitted.
One of the Jury called the attention of his Lordship to the re-
prehensible practice of exposing goods for sale in the front of shops,
thus offering a temptation to theft.
The RECORDER said he quite agreed with him that it was an
improper practice, and he would therefore not allow the usual ex-
penses to the prosecutor.
Samuel Newman was indicted for stealing, on the 28th of
October, in the parish of St. Mary, Newington, 600 bricks, value
10s., the property of Messrs. Grissel and Pete.
Guilty, but ineconsequenco of the excellent character which he
received from the prosecutor, the prisoner was sentenced to only
one month's impriaournent and hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection.

NE ll' COURT.
James Warley and James Pennington were indicted for stealing
two pockets of hops, and 30011)5. of hops, the property of Alder-
man Humphreys, in whose service Warley was at the time.
Mr. PHILLIPS was for the prosecution, and Mr. PAYNE for the
defence.
The COMMON SERGEANT said there was no evidence against
Pennington. The principal evidence as to Warley was, that, hav-
ing been employed to take 118 pockets of hops to some purchaser,
two were missed ; and he was heard to say.that he had two pockets
in his possession on the same day.
The JURY found both prisoners Not Guilty.
The Commix SERGEANT-Mr. Warley, you have had the mos
narrow escape I ever witnessed.
Ramuel Simmons was indicted for having, on the 2d of Novem-
ber, stolen from Peter Mallow, Esq., a Magistrate of the county,
several pieces of wood and other articles.
Mr. Plimi.ips, for the prosecution, said, the prisoner, who was
in the horse patrol, having been suspended from his office, was re-
stored by the instrumentality of Mr. Mallows.

(Laughter.)
Mr. CHAMBERS—And so you displayed your money to the
keeper of such a house, and really exi ected to find it safe in
the morning? Complainant--Such a house! Ah, there's
the point. Why, I didn't know the sort of house it was. In
the morning I found my pockets had been picked of the four-
teen sovereigns, my snuff-box, and a silver toothpick.
Mr. CHAMBERS—You could have expected nothing else. Do
you charge this woman with having taken your property ?
Complainant—Why, I find she is the only servant ; but as I
possess some energies, I'll devote them all to this investiga-
tion. I'll first ascertain if this woman is an accredited agent.
Woman, are you the accredited agent? Prisoner—Doethn't
know thir. I'm the sarvent that you thent for thix pannerth
of throb for the lady, and vot brought you the clean theats.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Why, it seems you took a lady into the
house with you? Complainant—l deny it in toto. She
brought me in, but mark, when she said she would stay I
gave her a proof of my energies by making her leave the room.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What do you propose to do in this matter?
Complainant—Devote all my energies to the work of extir-
pating every house of this vile sort in Loudon, and in order to
make a beginning I'll indict this woman.
Mr. CHAMBERS—It would be very desirable if you could
do as you say; but I'm afraid you'll find it a difficult task.
As to this woman, I supcct a jury would take a different
view of your case than you do. I cannot, however, com-
mit her fur felony. Complainant—Not commit her ! Is a
British subject to have his pocket picked of fourteen so-
vereign., a snuff-box, and a silver toothpick with impunity?
Prisoner—l never theed a thixpence of your thufferins.

Complainant—You had a sovereign to gtt me a pint of
half-and half wi,h, and you kept ten shillings.
The woman shook her head.
Complainant (wrathfully)—l say, you hussey, you kept five
shillings more for a candle.
The woman gave another shake.
Complainant—Aud you had th'rteen shidinga besides for a
skuttle of coals.

Mr. Cumunrits—You appear to hive prted with your
money very easily. There seems to be n) evidence, and I
must, therefore, discharge the woman.
Complainzut (going)-oh, very well—very well ; it shah%
end here.

Mr. CHAMBERS—I would willingly ass'st you if I cou'l.
Complainant (slapping his spectichs on the desk)—Mark
me, I make a vow ; I'll devote allmy energies to inflict con-
dign puniskmeta ou the offenders. Yes, hussey (turnics•
to the woman), you shall fi:id I've got som:, unn-g:es, and I
devote--

The woman, finding herself at lib, rty, made off v Hi great
expedi ion, followed by the complainant, tSho scolded her till
beyond hearing,

Lest night a meeting of tile electors of Wcstmiuster,
hastily called together by circulars, was held at the Crown and
Anchnr Tavern, Strand, for the pu-pose of taking into consi-
deratiln the recect important decia' ati in of Lord John Rus-
sell on the motion of Mr. Wakley, on the subject of the Balkt,
&c. 'I he meeting which principally uinsisted of the members
of the Westminster Reform Club, aszemb'ed soon Cterseven
o'clock, when Mr. Prout, of the Strand, was unanimonev
called to the chair. The Chairman, in a brief speech. explain d
the object of the nrzeling, and, aster some discußion, it was
ultimately determine:l to call a public meeziag of the elLetors
on Monday next.

It is proposed to call, as speedily as possible, a great
public meeting in the metropolis, to which all the metropo-
litan Members are to be summoned to attend, and to which
Lords Durham and Brougham are to be invi•ed, for the pur-
pose of eliciting public sentiment on the que-lion of Balkt and
extension of the Suffrage. We are not aware what steps have
been taken in the matter; but we hear that the meeting wilt
probably take place en Monday next, at the Crown and Anchor.
A very fine hare was killed by Thomas Grime, of
Grascngill, near Bentham, on the 15th instant, and " thereby
hangs a talc," for pussy was found to have tw o fun grown dis-
tinct and separate " scuts" ( Anglice t&ils) about two inches
ap rt. The above lusus niturat is is the possessim of Mr.
Richard Leoming. of Green Smithy, in. Mewith, near High
Benham, Yorkshire, who has got it stuffed f.r the inspection
of the ct.rieus --Lancaster Guardian.

CITY OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INSTITUTION, ALDERSOATE STREET.—The first stone ,of a
new building for this. Institution was laid, with the usual
ceremony, en the 20th instant, in presence of a numerous
body of the Committee and members, who afterwards cele-
brated the event by dining together at Radloy's Hotel. The
new building and alterations in progress (which will cost
about 4,0001.) have been rendered necessary to accommodate
the large number of members, averagit g from 800 to 900—a
convincing proof (were any wantiag) of chic adaptatiOn of
such societies to the wants of the communit:, and a ,most
gratifying fact to all who are anxious for the " diffusion of
useful knowledge " among the people.
AIRS. GORE'S "MARY RAYMOND AND OTHER
NOVELETTES."-The announcement of a act of Novelettes,
from the pen of Mrs. Gore, will be received with an interest
and curiosity that few other names could command. There
may be (for it admits of doubt) other writers among us who
can, if they tax their talents to the utmost, produce a better
Novel in three volumes" than Mrs. Gore; but for a brief
talc, of whatsoever class or character—a novelette—there is
no living writer who can compete with her. Her ease, her
grace, her brilliance, her point, her truth, her pathos, her ex-
traordinary knowledge of life and society in all its grades ;
and, finally, her artistical skill in making- all work together, to
the moral end she ever has in view in each tale she produces,
leave her without a competitor.
MISS PARDOE'S " CITY OF TFIE SULAN.“-
Mr. Colburu has just issued a new edition, in three post Svo
volumes, of Miss Pardoe's delightful work, on Turkey and
the Turks. We are glad to record the success of this book ;
for, certainly, one more entitled to public approbation has
rarely appeared. Miss Perdoe speaks from personal observa-
tier, and her account of Turkish domestic life, of the daily
manners, the social customs, the public and private ceremonies,
the habits and temper of the people, and eli that pertains to
them, is no less valuable than interesting.
TIIE HON. KEPPEL CRAVEN'S NEW WORK.
We are requested to state that the new work entitled, " Ex-
cursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples,"
by the Hon. Keppcl Craven, (in two vols. Bvo., embullished
with numerous plates,) is published this day by Mr. Bentley,
New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty,
and may now be obtained of all booksellers. Agents :—fur
Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland
Mr. J. Cumming, Dublin.
MR. THEODORE HOOK'S " PASCAL BRuNo.”—
Travellers talk of the fertile valleys of France, and the culti-
vated richness of Piedmont ; but give us the rude sublimicies
and romantic dangers of the Alps and Appenines, which look
down upon them. There is no true excitement without a
little danger, either physical or moral—and who that has the
true spirit of a traveller upon him would object to encounter a
Pascal Bruno at the cost of a broken crown. or a bereaved
purse ? But -there is still a better thing in encoureering a
celebrated Bandit in propria persona
and that is to meet one
in the animating pages of a writer like Mr. Hook—who, say
what we will about his increnparable turn fur humour,
is salt
wawyon as
greater as the constructor of a narrative of escapes and dan-
gers.isnew
romanceh re is
of nothingin literature
; andterat we can scarcely reso good in its
der at it when we bear in mind that the tale is, with a very
small allowance for dramatic arrangement, as true as it is
stirring. Pascalel
else
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