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LITERAT U RE.

MIDDLETON'S LIFE OF CICERO. Part HI.
MOXOII, London, 1841.
For this re-publication, in cheap monthly
Parts, of the learned Dr. IV/iddleton's well-known
" Life of Cicero," we are indebted to the judgment
and enterprise of Mr. Moxon. The present Part
concludes the life of the illustrious Roman
statesman, whose character is pourtrayed by his
indefatigable biographer with great elaborate-
ness, but in a spirit rather more encomiastic,
perhaps, than strict justice would warrant.

CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. Part 111

Moxon, London, 1841

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The Part before us forms a portion of the
twelfth edition of Mr. D'lsmeli's " Curiosities of
Literature," a work which has long since taken
its place among the foremost of its class, and is to
be found, as a matter of course, on the shelves of
all who profess to be book-collectors. The edi-
tion is proposed to be completed in eight half-
crown Monthly Parts, of which the present one
is the third.

DRAMATIC WORKS OF WY CHERLEY, CON-
GREVE, VANBR UGH, cc. Moron, London, 1841.
This is another of Mr. Moxon's cheap repub-
lications, and is prefaced with pertinent biogra-
phical notices from the pen of Mr. Leigh Hunt.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MISDE-
MEANOURS, by Humphry G. Woolrych, of the
Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Shaw and Sons,
London.
Mr. Woolrych having been engaged for some
years on a general work, embracing the whole of
the Criminal Law, together with that branch of
it which relates to procedure, has just published
that portion of it which treats of misdemeanours.
This, as every lawyer knows, is a very exten-
sive field, embracing about five hundred different
kinds of offences; and when the uncertainty of
the law, the endless varieties which these
offences exhibit under different circumstances,
and the conflicting results of actions for abate-
ment, are taken into account, it will be seen that
the task is one of no ordinary magnitude. The
author has classified the cases under eight dis-
tinct sections, quoting all the statutes, and the
more remarkable actions for misdemeanours,
with the names of the parties, at the same time
making numerous judicious comments, both
arising out of peculiar circumstances, and
the opinions of the Judges who tried
them. It is, in fact, a practical trea-
tise, and will be found extremely useful,
not only to the general practitioner, but to
the public in general. We direct the attention
of a certain class of persons to the following
statute, Vict. c. 36, s. 32, for the protection of
p;•inted votes and proceedings in Parliament, and
printed newspapers sent by the post:—" It is
enacted that every person employed in the Post-
office, who shall steal, or shall for any purpose
embezzle, secrete, or destroy, any printed votes or
proceedings in Parliament, or any printed
newspaper, or any other printed paper what-
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ever, sent by the post, without covers,
or_ in covers open at the sides, shall, in
England and Ireland, be guilty of a misde-
meanour, and in Scotland of a crime and
offence ; and being convicted thereof, shall suffer
such punishment by fine or imprisonment, or by
both, as to the Court shall seem meet." In a note
it is added—with or without hard labour, and soli-
tary confinement, for a period not exceeding two
years, the solitary confinement not to exceed
one month at a time, or three months in one year.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LAW OF
DISTRESS. By Edward Bullen, Esq., Special
Pleader. Shaw and Sons, London.

This work was begun with the assistance of the
late Mr. Chitty, jun., and was intended to have
been the joint production of that gentleman and
Mr. Bullen, on whom the death of Mr. Chitty
threw the completion of the undertaking. Such
a publication was much wanted, as no new work
on the Law of Distress has been published for the
last thirty years, and no new edition of any ex..
isting treatise on the subject for thirteen years.
Great care appears to have been bestowed in
arranging the complicated details, usages, and
statutes, on a branch of law of every day's
practice, and affecting so many interests ; and it
may safely be recommended as the best treatise
on the subject which has yet been published. It
contains a chapter on the Tithe Commutation
Rent Charge and the Distress for its Recovery.
This, of course, is entirely new, as the Tithe
Commutation Act has been in existence only for
a few years.

SCHLOSS' BIJOU ALMANACK.
A. Schloss, London, 1841.
This little Almanack, which is scarcely bigger
than one's thumb-nail, has now reached its
seventh year of publication, grid is certainly the
smallest thing of its age we ever saw. Yet, not-
withstanding its Lilliputian dimensions, it con-
tains not less than seven poems from the pen of
Mrs. Norton, together with a useful almanack,
and six portraits of distinguished authors, artists,
and actors, whose features are plainly enough to
be discerned, through the medium of a pair of
spectacles. The work is certainly the greatest
literary curiosity of the day, and is enclosed
in a handsome case made of rich green velvet,
bound with gold.

GOSPORT BRANCH RAILWAY.—WE under-
stand that a slip of earth occurred yesterday on this line,
which detained the trains, and in consequence of the
wetness of the season, and the treacherous nature of the
soil, the Directors have resolved to discontinue the run-
ning of the trains from Gosport to Bishopstoke for the
present.
ktis :_ We find dist hseaidfotlhloawt following in
mini
inthse Memorial Borde-
try
is about to create
eight new Peers, all to be taken from t.he Chamber of
Deputies. Amongst them are named
DEe ffdaouudiarsd, for-
merlyde Minister at Frankfort,
and
M.
Bussiere, Minister at Dresden."
ST.PETER'S, THANET P.
.----XTRAORDINARY
PRODUCE FROM TWO POTATOES,—In
year a friendly contention the
spring of
the
between Mr. Joseph Silver,arose at St. Peter's, Thanet,
and his neighbour baker, of Reading-street,
which should rear Mr. Joseph Hill, butcher, as to
tatoes from the
. greatest quantity of po-
a single
his own gardenthe root.
Mr.
Hills
planted
in
weighing 2 pounds cuttings of a Jersey blue,
the same day, l 6 ounces ; Mr. Silver planted
at the Red
Lion, St. Peter's, the cuttings of his
seed potato, weighing
Jersey Blue. Asa proof
2 pounds 10 ounces, also a
proof of what may be effected by
culture and sa
attention, on digging up the produce of
both a short time
since, on the same day, the immense
number of 332 potatoes, s, weighing 141 'pounds, and
measuring 18 gallons, was the produce of Mr. Silver's ;
one root yielding 23 potatoes, weighing 15 pounds and a
I half. Mr. Hill's produce was 240 potatoes, weighing
137 pounds, and measuring like his' competitors, 18
' gallons ; some weighing upwards of two pounds each,
and one two pounds 11 ounces, and being grown on a
third of a perch of ground.—Kent Herald.;
SYMPTOMS OF PUSEYISM AT ST. JOHN'S
CHURCIL—A new form of administering the Sacrament
has lately been introduced at St. John's Church. A
bracket has been fixed on the south side of the " altar,"
upon which the unconsecrated elements remain during
Divine service, without any " fair linen cloth" to cover
them. At the time for the performance of the Commu-
nion Service, the elements are removed by the Rev. A.
Watson from off the bracket, and placed upon the altar;
when the service is over, the remaining portion of the
consecrated elements are covered with a fair linen cloth.
The above forms, we are told by the Rev. Gentleman
' who carries them into effect, are strictly in accordance
with the " Rubric."—Cheltenham Paper.
THE GIANT WHITE CARROT.—From a crop
of these 'vegetables, grown at Fairfield, in Mogan, there
taken up as many as grew in 6 feet by 3 feet, 1.18t;I:
of a lace of ground, which weighed with the tops 36allas
Sinking the i for any dirt that might have remained.l
about the roots, there would be 46 tons 5 cwt.
West Briton. per acre,

LONGEVITY OF SLAVES.---011tOf 14,189,108
free white inhabitants of the United States, as shown by
uthrowlaarsdts. cenosufs,2,t4hB72al3re
s7la9vles, ofloo years of age and
there
are
no less than
1,333 of the same age.—New York Paper.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester, in a recent
charge, in referring to the Vicar of St. Mary's, in this
city, says, " The object " of his tract (90) is,
" to prove
that the difference in doctrine which separatesi the
Churches ofEnglan
Chronicd and. Rome, will, upon examination,
vanish."—Oxford le.
Captain. Morgan, Royal Artillery, has had the
honour of submitting to Prince Albert a beautiful and
picturesque model of the ancient castle of Limerick, so
celebrated in Irish history, of unique construction, in
pleased to expi•ess his admiration.
The Duke of Rutland, in consideration of the
cork, with which his Royal Riginiess was
graciously
advanced price 'of provisions, has raised the wages of
his agricultural labourers from 12s. to 13s. 6d. per week.
Part of his Grace's tenantry have followed this good
example.
„Nottingham Journal.

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