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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1853.

The intelligence just received from India and the
Cape not only announces the virtual termination of
the Kafir war, and the cessation of that heavy and
very unpopular drain on the national exchequer,
but it also affords grounds for a reasonable expec-
tation that the Burmese war has been brought to
a conclusion, and ample atonement made for the
injuries which induced the Anglo-Indian Govern-
ment to demand redress, and, on the contuma-
cious refusal of the KING of Ava, to institute hos-
tilities. It is not, however, to the energy or
activity of the octogenarian General of the British
troops that this happy result can in any degree be
attributed. No ; General GODWIN has main-
tained his character to the last. All the stimu-
lants that have been so freely applied proved ina-
dequate to excite the modern FABIUS into acti-
vity ; and, if we have succeeded in the contest,
it has been in spite of rather than in consequence
of the proceedings of the veteran commander.
Domestic disturbances, however, have achieved
the result which the British arms, under the
great Ceruetator, could not accomplish within any
reasonable time. A formidable revolution, insti-
gated and commanded by a junior member of the
Royal Family of Ava—a brother to the reigning
MONARCH—has taken place. The army support
the claims of the Pretender, and it is more than
probable that the SOVEREIGN who, by his con-
temptuous disregard of the remonstrances ad-
dressed to him respecting the misconduct of cer-
tain officials, has expiated his offences by the for-
feiture of his throne, if not of his life. Under
such circumstances, it is by no means surprising
that unequivocal submission should be made, and
abundant reparation promised. The severe les-
sons already taught, the universal dissatisfaction
expressed by the Burmese people, proved to the
new aspirant to the throne, the imperative
tnecessity of conciliating the powerful opponent
that
might ere long be thundering at the gates of
la capital. The Burmese troops were accordingly
withdrawn from Bassein and Pegu, so that our
troops
.were left in exclusive possession of these
Important provinces ; and ambassadors were at the
same time dispatched to the English camp with
plenary powers to conclude peacewith the invad-
ers. Such an opportunity will, of course, not be
neglected, even by General GODWIN. As it is
neither our interest nor our wish to annex the
Burmese
Empire, or to substitute a British Com-
missioner, or a British Collector for the "
can desire is to obtain
footed monarch,' all that We golden-
full satisfaction for the past, and the best possible
security for future tranquillity. These matters
the new King will be as willing to Concede as we
are determined to enforce. He will rejoice at the
golden opportunity which enables him to juaugu_
rate the commencement of his reign 1-,
--Y a peace
with the Conquerors of Hindostan—those who
now wield the power and authority once exercised
by the MoauL.
The intelligence would be altogether of a satis-
factory character but for a melancholy transaction,
in which the lives of several meritorious officers
and many gallant Men have been sacrificed. Cap-
tain GLANVILLE LOCK, one of the most distin-
guished and energetic officers of the Royal Navy—
and it requires no ordinary merit to acquire dis-
tinction among such eminz:nt competitors has
fallen in a petty, we will not call it an inglorious,
skirmish, for nothing can be inglorious in which a
Manual man is ably and efficiently discharging his duty to I * "The LcoamwpainetdioPn raocrtaice ctoifonpaCrioimammeinttteaerys,
his QUEEN and country. In an attack against a being the
By Samuel WARREN, Esq., F.R.S.,
body of robbers who had taken up a strong posi- Election Law."
of the Inner Temple, one of her MAJESTY'S Counsel
tion near Donabau, Captain LOCK met his death.
and Recorder of Hull. BVO, pp. 370. London : BuT-
Ilis premature and lamented decease was not TERWORTHS, 1853. Altogether, the volume is, un-
cheered bY victory. The British attack was most doubtedly, the most complete and elaborate
Wallycompen-
unequivo repulsed, with loss of 88 men dium of the laws relating to the structure of the House
killed a
wounded, and two guns (!) which re- lof • • not merely the forma-
Commons (or rather to the mode of its construction)
mained as spot' ••• la optnia in the hands of their - • tence of the popular branch of
ignoble adversaries. Li ever published—laws affecting
tion, but the very ens
Lieutenant IC.2.mrEDY, R.N.; . the Imperial Parliament.—ED. a"'

in this, if it were only for the credit, v and
the honour, and the glory of Literature. It'
is pleasant to reflect, in his instance, that
there is real cause for this exultation. If
it is something for the author of " Ion" to
have won the garland of bay leaves, and yet
after that to wear the robe of ermine in his judi-
cial character—it is something too for the author
of " Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician"
to have conquered still more formidable obstruc-
tions than those which strewed the pathway
of the poet, and, by so doing, to have com-
manded the respect of his contemporaries
through the eminence of the position assumed
by him in that most difficult and honourable
profession. It is something, we say, to have
accomplished this under the pressure of those
absurd but discouraging circumstances. What-
ever their weight, they have not, in his regard,
crushed one nerve of energy, one thew of courage,
or one sinew of resolution. Hence : the writer of
Fiction is—nevertheless--one of her MAJESTY'S
Counsel. The Novelist is—notwithstanding—the
Hull Recorder. Already, as we have before in-
timated, Mr. WARREN has displayed his power as
a legal writer of singular lucidity and intelligence.
Until the appearance, however, of the remarkable
work just issued from the establishment of Mr.

BUTTERWORTHS, he had never revealed that scope
and vigour as a jurisconsult which are here ren-

dered so conspicuously apparent. His well-known
" Introduction to Law Studies"—the vade mecum
of every law student—was, without question, as
its very title-page implied, at once " popular and
practical," conducting the novice by an agreeable
and alluring gradation through all the various de-
partments of the profession, whether civil, crimi-
nal, or ecclesiastical. It has, consequently, long
since become the acknowledged guide and accepted
text book, in such matters, both in England and
America. His definition, again, of the " Duties
of Attorneys and Solicitors," has been admitted
very generally to be a volume replete with
chastened and elevating sentiments, inculcating
truths of no little importance, and opinions born
only of serious and tranquil meditation. It was
surprising to observe the sedate and almost severe
simplicity of productions like these coming from
the same hand which had traced in a very different
vein the powerful and enthralling incidents pur-
porting to be taken from the note book of a
deceased physician. It was surprising—though
less so because the effusions, however dissi-
milar in the manner of their elocution, in
conception, at least, came somewhat more within
the same category—to witness the successive pub-
lication of these legal tomes stamped with the
paramount merit of utility, coming to us from the
same pen whose magic had conjured into existence
the varied concourse of imaginary beings crowded
together in the story of " Ten Thousand a Year"
—that prose epic of every-day life in
our own
generation.
The creator of the gentle and loveable
GAMMON, of the
KATE ArTEREy, of the villanous and astute OILY
vulgar TITMOUSE, and the narrow-
minded HuoRARAcx, and the paltry SNAP, and
the odious QUIRK, and the gifted lord of dear, old,
beautiful Yatt3n—
pi.oved himself thus capable
of grappling, upon occasion, with the dry details of