The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-24 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS OF _POLICEMEN.

The following has just been published relating to ap-
plications for promotion in the police service :
"POLICE ORDER.—The Commissioners issue, with
the approbation of the Secretary of State, the following
notice to the police of all ranks : Whereas it has hap-
pened in several instances that officers in the Metro-
politan Police service have attempted to obtain promo-
tion by means of applications from private friends,
and whereas such practices are injurious to the good
order and discipline of the service, notice is hereby
given that all officers and constables in the Metro-
politan Police service are to understand that their
prospects of promotion must depend on the report which
their superiors may make as to their qualifications, and
as to their conduct in the performance of their duties ;
merit, and not favour, will thus be the ground of ad-
vancement ; and any one in the Metropolitan Police
force who may attempt to bring interest to bear for the
purpose of influencing the Commissioners to recommend
them to the Secretary of State for promotion, or who
shall apply to the Secretary of State for promotion, will
be considered as having disqualified himself for the pro-
motion which he may thus have sought to obtain.—
RICHARD MAYNE.—Metropolitan Police-office, 4, White-
hall-place, Sept. 16, 1853."

BOORS TO NEW ZEALAND.

General Post-office, Oct., 1853.

On and from the Ist November next, printed books,
magazines, reviews, and pamphlets (whether British,
colonial, or foreign,) may be transmitted by the post be-
tween the United Kingdom and New Zealand, by
packet or by private ship, at the following reduced
rates of postage, viz :—For each packet not exceeding
:Ilb. in weight, 6d. ; exceeding zlb., and not exceeding
11b.,15. ; exceeding 11b. and not exceeding 21bs., 2s. ;
exceeding 21bs. and not exceeding 31bs., 35., and so on,
increasing one shilling for every additional pound, or
fraction of a pound.
Provided, however, that the following conditions be
carefully observed :-
Ist. Every such packet must be sent without a cover,
or a cover open at the ends or sides.
2d. It must contain a single volume only (whether
printed book, magazine, review, or pamphlet,) the seve-
ral sheets or parts thereof, when there are more than
one, being sewed or bound together.
3d. It must not exceed two feet in length, breadth,
width, or depth.
4th. It must have no writing or marks upon the
cover, or its contents, except the name and address of
the person to whom it may be sent.
sth. The postage must be prepaid in full, by affiixng
outside the packet, or its cover, the number of stamps.
6. If any of the above ,conditions be violated, the
packet must be charged as a letter, and treated as such
in all respects.
7. To prevent any obstacles to the regular transmis-
sion of letters, any officer of the Post-office may delay
the transmission of any such packet for a period not ex-
ceeding twenty-four hours, from the time at which the
same would otherwise have been forwarded by him.
8. These instructions are not to extend to, or interfere
with, the transmission of printed votes and proceedings
of Parliament, or of printed papers allowed to pass by
the post under the newspaper privilege, all of which
must continue subject to the existing regulations.

THE CHOLEEA.

(From the General Board of Health, Oct. 22.)
NEWCASTLE, Oct. 21.
_ _

Cholera, deaths..
Diarrhoea, death

The total number of cases of choleraic disease treated
by the medical officers at Newcastle-upon-Tyne from
the 21st of September to the 18th of October has been
4,683 ; of these, 3,706 have been cases of diarrhoea, 534
approaching cholera, and 448 cholera. During the same
period there have been discovered by the house-to-house
visitors 4,906 cases of choleraic disease, 4,580 of which
were diarrhoea, 258 approaching cholera, and 65 cholera.
In addition thereto, three corpses have been discovered
in various houses in the course of the visitors' rounds.
The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea
in Newcastle, during the present outbreak, has been
1,524. In the same period (viz., the first 51 days),
during the prevalence of epidemic cholera, in 1831.2,
the number of deaths was 293.

LUTON.
Oct. 21.—Diarrhcea, death
GATESHEAD.
Oct 20.—Cholera, death
GATESHEAD (HEWORTH)
Oct. 20.—Cholera, death ..
DUNDEE.
Oct. 20.—Cholera, deaths
DUNSE.

3

From a return of cases of cholera and diarrhoea in the
parish of Dunse from the 27th of September to the 18th
of October instant, made to the General Board of Health
by Dr. M'Watt, the medical officer, it appears that
there have been altogether 11 cases of " malignant
cholera," 8 of which resulted fatally, and 3 recovered ;
also 4 cases choleraic diarrhoea, all recovered ; and 20
cases of diarrhcca, likewise all recovered. These various
cases have " occurred generally through the town," and
chiefly among the better classes. The inspector of the
poor remarks, that "of all the cases, both of diarrhoea
and cholera, no pauper, with the exception of ono fe-
male 'belonging to the neighbouring parish of Edrom,
has been seized with either disease."

METROPOLIS.
The Metropolitan Commissioners of Police this day
transmitted to the General Board of Health various re-
ports by the Superintendents of the D, G, H, K, L,
M, P, It, and Thames divisions of police, relative to
cholera, from which it appears that between the 16th and
the 20th inst. there have been 22 cases, of which 10 have
resulted fatally.

PROBABLE TERMINATION OF THE WIGAN STRIKE.—
The Northern Daily Times has much gratification in
being able to state that from a correspondence which
has taken place between one of the principal master
cotton-spinners in Wigan, and those employed by him,
the differences between the master spinners and their
bands are likely to be adjusted, and has good reason to
believe that all the mills will again be at work in the
course of next week. Mr. Eckersley has invited the
bands in his employ to meet him, with a view to an ad-
justment of the differences between them.
Mr. C. P. Roney, Secretary of the Grand Trunk Ca-
na-gun Railway, sails for England, in the steamer of the
15th instant. Upon his arrival Mr. Roney will we un-
derstand receive from the Queen the honour of knight-
hood for his extraordinary and successful efforts in
getting up the Dublin Exhibition, which has done so
much honour to Irish Industry. Mr. Roney, like Mr.
Dargan, is one of the remarkable men of these times, and
well deserves the honourable distinction which is about
to be bestowed upon him.—Montreal Herald.

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OMNIBUS ADVERTISING.—A few days ago we copied
a paragraph from a morning contemporary mentioning
that advertising in omnibuses is prohibited by the new
law now in operation. We have since received a letter
from a gentleman designating himself secretary of an
omnibus advertising office, giving us, in somewhat un-
seemly terms, the credit of originating the statement,
denying its accuracy and asserting that this system of ad-
vertising as at present conducted is protected by the re-
cent act of Parliament.

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PLYMOUTH, Oct. 23. -Wind, S.W. Arrived--William
Bronham, and Marquis of Douglas, Quebec.—The Emma,
which has been lying against the Batten Quay, water-
logged, has broken her stern moorings during the gale ;
it is feared she will go to pieces.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 23.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Hope
(s), Coast of Africa. Off Port—Charlotte Jane, Adelaide,
South Australia.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 23.—Wind, W.S.W., fresh. Arrived
—Galatia, St. Domingo; Southampton and Yorkshire,
New York ; America (s), Boston.—A large ship, appa-
rently abandoned, an American, with a barque alongdde,
was passed Oct. 11. _

MILFoRD, Oct. 20.—The Adelphi, from Newport to
Liverpool, put in here, reports having seen yesterday,
about 13 miles south of St. Ann's a laden schooner (name
unknown) founder, with all hands. She appeared to be
from 100 to 150 tons, and to have all new canvass.
NEWBURY, Oct. 20.—The Elise, from Liverpool to
Christianstadt, came ashore last night a mile to the north-
ward, and has become a total wreck; crew, except the
mate, saved.

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HASTINGS, Oct. 23.—A head sail and board, belonging
to a vessel named the Foyle, supposed to be a steamer,
washed ashore this morning. Several portions of wreck
and teak planking, marked B. H. P., a trunk with a label,
" T. It. Thomas, surgeon of the ship Dalhousie," a writing
desk with the bottom out, initials on the brass, " John
Kay," a cabin door and several fittings, a cask of beef, a
tent, a small drawer, with half a sovereign jammed tightly
in the crevice, and a spar 40 feet in length, all supposed to
have come from the Dalhousie, have washed ashore to-day
along the coast.
WEYMOUTH, Oct. 21.-- The Two Brothers, from Ply-
mouth to Quebec, came ashore this morning on the beach,
West Bay, Portland ; crew saved.
WEXFORD, Oct 22.—The Exile, from Port Talbot to
Cork, was damaged yesterday, and this morning ran ashore
at Patrick's Bridge, inside Salter's Island, in a sinking
state ; crew saved. It will depend upon the weather if
any of the cargo and the ship be saved.
BARMOUTH, Oct. 22.—The Sillery of Liverpool struck
on the land last
night, and is now ashore ; crew saved.
part of her keel and bottom plankings are washing up.
DONEGAL, Oct. 18.—Sailed--Ann, for St. Johns, N.B.
QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 22.—Wind, S.W. ; blowing strong.
Arrived—Tam O'Shanter, Fox, Valparaiso. Sailed—
H.M.S. Terrible, Portsmouth. Off—Oscar, from Mazattan.
SLIGO, Oct. 20.—Arrived—Sea, St. Johns, N.B.
WIVENHOE, Oct. 22.—Arrived—Helen, Quebec.
CARDIFF, Oct. 22.—The Broedertrouw (Dutch ship),
hence for Singapore, and the Lord Elgin, for Callao, have
been in contact in Penarth Roads, and both have received
considerable damage.
DUNDEE, Oct. 22. Last night it blew a heavy gale from
S.W., but it has moderated to-day.
SWANSEA, Oct. 24.—Arrived—Tom Bell, Cuba.
Scrim, Oct. 20.—Arrived—Mundeep, Swansea, for
Madeira, main-sail split and boat stove.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.45 a.m.
Wind, S., moderato and dull.
Arrived—Nova Cilina, from St. John's, N.B. ; William,
Quebec; Anna Maria, Malaga.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1853.

LITERATUBE.

THE QUARTERLIES.

The Edinburgh. No. CC. Longman and Co.
An entertainingaccount of " The Arctic Regions"
lends a charm to the newly-published number of the
"Edinburgh "—a charm which the reviewer could
hardly have anticipated would be so speedily and
considerably enhanced, as it has been by the re-
turn of Captain M'Clure to this country with in-
telligence that thelong-desired North-WestPassage
has at length been discovered. Au attractive but
arctic
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ptoa e?rir
navigators.o sesn
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assuredly
more
inconclusive.
immediately following that having reference to our
on examination to have been materially increased
by events subsequent to the moment of its publi-
cation. The development of the Eastern Difficulty
has rendered a subject of double importance, the
situation, at the present crisis, of the vast multi-
tudes of the Mussuhnan population. It cannot be
doubted, therefore, that many will turn to these
particular pages of our Whig contemporary : though
we question very much whether their researches
into the lucubration will be rewarded by any
accession of enlightenment. Blame is cast by the
reviewer upon the unsatisfactory nature of the
argument advanced by Mr. Crowe in relation to
this Oriental Question—while the critic himself
cannot possibly be allowed to have acquitted him-
self in that argument to admiration. No argu-
ment be more loose in its ar-
nodeductioAnnocothueldr bere-
viewer in a chapter dedicated to the consideration
of " Our National Defences," accords high praise
to Mr. James Fergusson's novel and remarkable
morermaenngte ar-
rangement, indeedneenx te
t ca
oos
system of fortifications. The aid yielded to that
thesegentleman's
pages
otfh
teho re yEbdyi
nt
bhuer
gmh an
willly
time, we feel assured, to prove its importance as
nsuoptpreocirtuioref mitucihn
another means of securing to the new system the
advantages of a popular and practical appreciation.
The subjoined excerpt from the opening article for
the quarter, that relating to " Church Parties,"
will be recognised, we are confident, as one fraught
with a really startling significance :
" As another mode of obtaining an approximation to
the proportion of parties, we have gone through the
Clergy List, marking the names of all clergymen whose
opinions we knew, to the number of about 500. The
result of this examination has been, that supposing
those unknown to us to be in the same proportions with
those known, we should be led to classify the 18,000
clergy of the Church of England as follows :
( Anglican 3,500
High Church i Tractarian l,OOO
' High and Dry' 2,500
Evangelical 3,300
Recordite .
'Low and Slow'
Theoretical
Anti-theoretical . 2,500
and about 1,000 Peasant clergy in the mountain districts,
who must be classed apart."
So much for the balance of " Church Parties" in
the estimation of the Edinburgh—the new confu-
sion of tongues—the contention of broad church,
low church, and high church, of high and dry, low
and slow, of tractarian and recordite, of Anglican,
evangelical, and theoretical. Mr. George Grote
obtains from our Whig contemporary higher com-
mendations than ever, in consideration of the merits
discoverable in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh, the
three latest volumes of his "History of Greece"
just published. Upon this subject the Edinburgh
observes :

Low Church

Broad Church

" Wherever the facts, authentically known, allow a
consecutive stream of narrative to be kept up, the story
is told in a more interesting manner than it has any-
where been told before, except in the finest passages of
Thucydides.
" We are indeed disposed to assign to thi3 history
almost as high a rank in narrative as in thought. It is
open, no doubt, to minute criticism ; and many writers
are superior to Mr. Grote in rapidity, grace, and pic-
turesqueness of style. But even in these respects there
is no such deficiency as amounts to a fault, while in two
qualities, far more important to the interest, not to say
the value of his recitals, he has few equals and probably
no superior."

An eulogium that (coining from so established au
authority) must gratify, we doubt not, the heart of
the laborious annalist of antiquity. The next ar-
ticle in the number, that referring to the subject
of " Military Bridges," will be found by the more
curious class of readers eminently well deserving
examination, what though it may in title appear
unattractive to the generality of the unprofes-
sional. The closing passages of the subsequent con-
tribution having reference to the long-agitated ques-
tion of " The Newspaper Stamp," are too excellent
in every way to allow of our passing them over
without quotation.

" It would surely be superfluous to enter on argu-
ments showing that the British newspaper press, such
as it is, free, copious, and able in discussion, has long
been, is now, and probably will be for ever, the very
life-blood of our political system ; and that those pro-
pose the infliction of a national ca,larnity,—a violence to
the national tastes, habits, and interests—who thus pro-
pose to destroy the press as an engine of discussion,
and to relegate political speech and power solely to the
platform and the inverted tub. If that fact admitted of
doubt, or required discussion, it would not be necessary
to range over a larger period than that embraced in Mr.
Cobden's own not very protracted public life, to find
that, without the press, the platform sometimes could
not exist at all, and sometimes would exist only for evil.
There was a time, not low:, ago (though Mr. Cobden
seems to have forgotten it) before the platform could come
into play, and when the press was the only means of
keeping alive and advancing the great cause with which
his name is for ever associated—when League lecturers
were pumped upon in the agricultural districts, and even
in manufacturing towns Mr. Cobden himself could
scarcely hold a meeting without a protection, by tickets,
from Chartist and Protectionist inroads - and, for thirty
years previously, this use of the press had been exem-
plified in the history of the whole class of questions of
reform. Thereisa time at present—and Mr. Cobden seems
to know it too sensitively—after the platform has begun to
run riot, and when the press makes a stand against
crudities and quackeries. , The platform is good, though
not better than the press, when public attention is
aroused and public favour gained, but in evil days the
platform sinks away. It is .in a discussional press, as
in an ark,'-that good causes are preierved when in ad-
versity, and from it, as from an entrenchment, that bad
ones are assailed when they are prosperous. All this is
known to every man that has kept his eyes and
understanding open these thirty years. The press
as it is —as contradistinguished from what Mr.
Cobden would have it to be—is the chief engine
through which during this generation political re-
forms have been wrought in a country where po-
litical reforms have been more numerous, peace-
ful, and beneficial than in any other ; and —now that
the object is avowed—there may, perhaps, be fewer
persons disposed to aid any change which tends to sub-
stitute for an engine so safe and so effective either the
French barricade or the American 'stump.' "

Added to the contributions already particularised,
the Edinburgh for the quarter just commenced has
an elaborate literary criticism on Taylor's " Life of
Haydon," and an equally elaborate, though by no
means equally entertaining, political criticism on
the subject of " Parliamentary Purification."

The Quarterly Review. No. CLXXXVI. Murray.
A more attractive number of the Quarterly has
not for a long time appeared. There are in it only
seven contributions, but the subject of each will be
found even by the generality of readers to be
fraught with fascination. A peculiar interest,
moreover, has been attached to the introductory
article, the one relating to " The Institute of
France," at the very moment of its publication.
It was indeed "almost needless" for the writer to
add in a note to the current number of the
Quarterly, that the paper in question was
"in type" before intelligence was received of
the lamented death of M. Arago, one of the
most illustrious of modern philosophers. " If we
could have foreseen the event," says the Quarterly
" we could hardly have spoken with
warmth of his genius, though," he adds,
grerveaietwerer,
, we certainly should not have selected such an
occasion to comment upon what we thought his
injurious importation of political feeling into the
Particularly
iaedumi
ai
rrieyr s
coupledwill
as that
the
ramenegi onase o
hf
osnc
oi erial cbei
e. '.'
remark is with this eulogistic observation—" It is
satisfactory to reflect that while any party heats
into which he may have been led have expired with
himself, his discoveries and writings will always
survive, to attest his right to be ranked among the
most brilliant savans of the age." After all it can-
not be surprising that the Quarterly should lack sym-
pathy for the patriotism of M. Arago, however
much it admires his genius as a philosopher—his
patriotism having identified him iu a remarkable
manner with the interests of democracy. An elabo-
rately minute and detailed account of the "Murder
of Thomas a'Becket," is the next contribution. So
carefully are the different statements authenticated
that almost every page is minutely sown with foot-
notes—referring the reader to Roger and Grim, and
Garnier, and Benedict, and Fitzstephen. This
paper was avowedly suggested by the recent
labours of Dr. Giles, just
as
si
Beauchesne. For
the subsequent one
was suggested by those of
the third article in the
Quarel relates the history
children,y
"King Louis
the Seventeenth."
of that most ill-fated
of tll
Immediately afterwards we
on the "Holy Places"—
havea ne
s essay
y illg the new crusade adventured
-clad knights but by black-coated
diplomatists.
An excellent review of the " Diary
of Casaubon
" is then given by another contributor
to the Quarterly. Afterwards comes an admirable
verreyco curious
uei
upon not by sti e
t essay
chapter upon ff Electro-Biology and Mesmerism"—

followed in its turn by a criticism on that " Life of
Ilaydon" which 'for the last month or so has met
us at every turn in our survey of periodical litera-
ture.

Bipeds and Quadrupeds. By Harry Hieover. T,

-C. Newby.
The humanity which dictated this little essay is
• something beautiful. Although insignificant both
' in extent and elaboration when compared with the
other writings which have emanated from the same
pen, we believe that, once perused, the argument
here submitted to the public must ultimately prove
calculated to extend, and that rather considerably,
its author's reputation. It appears from the Pre-
• face that the original design was to have intrusted
the composition of the treatise to ono of a profes-
sion more popularly associated with the inculcation
' of the sentiments of benevolence. From the am big u-
• ous phraseology employed in this part of the writer's
• explanation we are led to conjecture that the au-
thor at first proposed must perforce have been an
ecclesiastic. However this may be, that earlier
• intention was abandoned, and the responsibility of
bringing the projected volume before the commu-
nity was thereupon intrusted—the reader cannot
but feel (after a glance through the pages of this
unpretending production) most judiciously—to
Harry Hieover, the Nimrod of Now-a-days ! It
is as if Martin's Act were enforced by an illustra-
tive supplement. The . book reads like a sermon
from the saddle. Not some dry, didactic discourse,
not some puritanical and canting homily—but a
genial and winning enforcement of theadvantages of
universal kindliness—a lecture that might (for the
most part) have fallen not inappropriately froai
the • lips of the gentle Yorick ; an oration
that might have been emphasised on the pulpit
cushion by the fist of dear old Parson Adams; a pre-
lection such as excellent Parson Dale might, in one
of his livelier moments, have declaimed to hishonest
parishioners of Hazledean. Understand us we
don't wish by any means to intimate that Harry
Hieover has donned the white surplice in lieu of
the coat of vermillion. No. If he has under-
taken, out of the most generous of motives, to
argue as it were ex cathedra about the merit of
" good nature," he may seem at times to be as-
tonishing us with a sermon, but at any rate it is,
as we have already intimated, a sermon from the
saddle. Throughout he never once attempts to
travesty the sacred eloquence of your clerical ora-
tor or clerkly rhetorician. From first to last he
never fails to remind you that it is a sportsman you
are listening to, and not to a merely fantastic sen-
timentalist. In testimony of this, allusion may
here be made to the change in the title of the book,
an alteration effected by its author immediately
prior to its publication. Originally it would seem
that title was to have been, bluntly and going at
once to the point, without any compromise or cir-
cumlocution— " The Cause of the Quadruped."
Hear what Harry Hieover has to say about his
rejection of that title and his substitution of the one
under which the work now appears—that of
" Bipeds and Quadrupeds." He observes (p. 11)
in the preface—" I must confess the title was
altered by myself, and must solicit pardon while
stating my reason for the alteration. The
cause of the quadruped only intimated that
it was with an eye to his benefit the essay was
written, and I feared such an impression would
not be favourable to its circulation." Admirable.
Under that apologetic explanation—how much
satire ! How much deserved severity upon the
egotism that lies at the bottom of our humanity,
upon the self-seeking, that is, so to speak, the
almost invariable under-current of benevolence !
And so our essayist resolves to enforce the cogency
of his argument about kindnes towards the brute
creation, by giving the public, even on his title-
page, a notion that he is going to prove (as he does
prove to the generality) that the system is fraught
with advantage to themselves. An excellent pro-
ject which is here in this amiable little essay car-
ried to a delightful and eminently successful con-
summation. The volume, by the way, is proferred
to his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, through the
most graceful and courtly of dedications.

Travels of an Irish Gentleman, in Search of a
Religion. By Thomas Moore. Dolman.
Respectful greeting is due to this remarkable and
well-timed republication. Whatever his religious
predilections, it would be impossible for any man
of conscientious sincerity as a Christian to deny to
these pages, from the hand of Thomas Moore, the
regard which should ever be the meed of a seri-
ously minute and exquisitely cautious investiga-
tion. These are, in truth, the prominent and dis-
tinguishing characteristics of this singular display
of logic and erudition. Whatever our own view
as to the force of his deductions, it is altogether
impracticable to deny that Moore evidently believed
in his heart, and in his conscience, the conclusion
at which the close of the work before us intimates
that he had arrived. Its principal merit, indeed,
consists in the sincerity of that conviction—the
conviction in the author's mind of the necessity of
that tremendous alternative. Diametrically oppo-
site though the inference drawn by the reader may
be, nevertheless he must confess on laying down the
argument with the last sentence still lingering in
his recollection, that such was the serious belief of
the writer when he penned it, and that that belief
is cherished by many millions of the subjects of
our gracious Sovereign. Therefore we cannot but
hail, as an incident of some importance, the ap-
pearance of this valuable and curious repub-
lication. Hitherto, we believe, the "Travels of
an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion" have
been given to the public in two volumes, issued in
a costlier form than suited the economic tastes of
the general community. Compressed into one
portable volume, the work is at length rendered
accessible to the mass of the population. It cannot,
therefore, we feel assured, fail, for this reason, and
from other timely considerations, to command for
itself a closer scrutiny and a more extended circu-
lation than has hitherto been accorded to it by our
fellow-countrymen. As formerly, the book is pre-
faced by its simple but earnest dedication to the
people of Ireland, while the text itself is profusely
interspersed with the author's original notes and
illustrations.
As an additional attraction, the volume opens
with a biographical and literary introduction, as
succinct as it is undoubtedly perspicuous. For this
paper the reader is indebted to the author of the
" Memoir of Moore—a memoir of which the chap-
ter before us is the welcome epitome. Mr. Burke
has in this biographical and critical essay combined
the advantages of brevity with the apparently incon-
gruous merits of completeness. He has enume-
rated, with a few unimportant omissions, the diffe-
rent events which marked the career of Thomas
Moore from his birth on the 28th of May, 1780, at
Dublin, to his death in the seventy-second year of
his age, on the 26th of February, 1852, near
Devizes, in his little cottage-home at Slop erto
n.
Moore's education at Mr. Whyte's school ; his con-
tributions at the age of thirteen to the Dublin
Magazine called th Anthologia Eabernia ;
entrance in 1793 into Trinityi nnC3, on ollege; his pennings
his first political satire, the " King of
Dalkey ; his familiarity with the "patriots" im-
plicated in the political transactions of 1798 ; all
the principal occurrences of his childhood, are care-
fully enumerated. We are reminded after this of
the appearance, in 1799, of Moore's first literary pro-
duction, his translation of "The Odes of Anacreon"
—followed at intervals by his " Irish Melodies,"
and these again, in 1817, by " Lalla Rookh."
Afterwards we observe Moore visiting Italy in
1819 with Lord John Russell penning his
" Rhymes on the Road ;" subsequently " Alci-
phrou ;" then " The Loves of the Angels ;" then
the "Fables of the Holy Alliance;" " Captain Rock,"
in 1824 ; " the " Life of Sheridan, in 1825 ;
" The Epicurean," in 1827 ; the " Life of Byron,"
in 1830 ; in 1831, the "Life of Lord Edward
Fitzgerald ;" and, in 1832, these " Travels
of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion."
So that the last-mentioned work has survived an
existence of just twenty-one years, and notifies the
event of its " coming of age" in this very adinir-
able republication.

I
History of France. By Emile de Bonnechose.
Routledge.
Sufficient, indeed, for an English reader to know
in regard to this " History of France, that it is
"A work approved of by the Royal Council of
Public Instruction and adopted by the Minister of
War for the Special Military School of St. Cyr, and
all the corps of the French .Army' —sufficient, we
say, for the English reader to know this to feel per-
fectly assured of the sterling merits of the work, of
the impartiality of its statements, of their undoubted
authenticity, and of their skilful arrangement.
Conscious of this, Mr. William Robson, th
lator of the present edition,
himself ahead well
" Michaud's y e trans-
story
of
known as the translator of Hi
the Crusades, inscribes the above announcement
upon the very title-page. It is a
remarkable cir-
cumstance that until now we have not possessed a
single popular history ofth
the gree
Channel. Scarcely
°
at nation confrontino.
us on the other side of
twenty miles of salt water
countries, and yet, u roll between the two
p to the present time, the
have annals of France not once been clearly re-
counted in our own tongue, by any writer of autho-
rity, to the great
mass of Englishmen. Happily,
now that the long-antagonistic races are united
cordially, and
l
of political alliance, let us hope securely, by the bonds
nce, and the ties of social friendship
—a lucid, and.
reliable, and picturesque " History.
of France" has at length been provided for our fel-
low-eountr
ytrahen in the English version, by Mr.
Robson, of )3_ , e admirable work by M. Emile de
onlke enose. The name of the author, by the way,

M-1\ lLz.
• , TT, „„

may be regarded, withou,kez. jravagance, as the Aur•
rect definition of his per:.rniance. For the adq-
tage of thus acquiring rii 'their own languag;i a
really trustworthy acco4t Of the annals of Franke,
from the invasion of the. Franks under Oforis,
down to the accession of Dt>iii§ .Philipe, Finflish
readers are indebted once morettia theintelirise of
Mr. Routledge—that most indefatigable among
the publishers of cheap and wholesome literature.