The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1841.

STRAWBERRIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-I observe in the last number of Chambers'
Edinburgh Journal an amusing article on straw-
berries, which, nevertheless, contains one passage
which seems to me not correct. It is asserted
that the name of the fruit was bestowed on it
either from the berries being brought to market
on straw run through them, or from straw being
laid under to cultivate them. Both suppositions
are made in forgetfulness of some common prin-
ciples of language. The strawberry is an in-
digenous production of our soil, and must
undoubtedly have been named before art had
fallen on a peculiar method to string the
berries together, or to cultivate them. At the
same time a peculiarity of the strawberry-root
is mentioned, which ridicules the source of its
name. It is said to propagate itself by its layers
striking root in the ground, so that one
plant will fill a garden, or strew itself over
a large space. The name, then, is not pro-
perly straw, but strew berries, though when or
how the vowel became changed I know not.
Their present name in German is Erdlwili(
but the German word struen, used mtgly,m,the
same sense as to strew, is, I 14ayeillo doubt, the
real source of the name strtt*tierry.
Your obedient servant, CRITICUS.

CHARTISM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sts—The subscribed will feel greatly obliged
by the insertion of the following address in your
paper :
To the Originators of the Plan for the Formation of a
National Aslociation for Promoting the Political and

Social Improvement of the People. -
Esteemed Fellow-men—Looking back with grateful
remembrance to the many services you have rendered to
the cause of Democracy, honouring you for your virtues
and moral worth, and sympathizing with the sacrifices
you have made on our behalf, we feel that, under the
present circumstances, we should be guilty of the foulest
ingratitude if we did not stand boldly forward and pro-
claim our entire confidence in your integrity and
patriotism, and your devotedness to the principles of the
People's Charter.
Treating with scorn and indignation the calumnies
which men, who assume the name while they violate
the principles of Chartism, have levelled against you,—
we hereby assure you of our approval of the plan which
you have recommended for the attainment of the People's
Rights, and the improvement of their moral and social
condition.

As men struggling for righteous objects, we desire
to obtain them by righteous means. We think they need
only to be understood to• be appreciated, and that the
assent of an united, intelligent people, once obtained in
their favour, no power (however mighty) can prevent
their adoption as the law of the land.
Believing the ignorance and moral degradation of the
working classes to be the grand barrier to the creation
and demonstration of that enlightened public opinion
on which alone we rely for their eventual adoption, we
accept your plan as the one best calculated soonest to
remove that mighty incubus, that at present weighs
down the spirit of Reform, and allows faction, violence,
and misrepresentation, to libel and disfigure the fair face
of freedom.

Impressed with these sentiments and views, our ar-
dent longings for the consummation of our principles
will permit us no longer to remain in silent inaction.
We call on you—we entreat you—again to take the post
of honour, which your character and past services en-
titlei you to. Let us boldly take up our position, and
vindicate to the world the spirit and principles of Char-
tism ! Let us show in our organization our principles
of action, meetings, speeches, and every proceeding,
that reason and philosophy, and not the impulses of our
passions or the contracted notions engendered by party
and factious feelings; are the impelling motives which
actuate us to struggle for the moral and political eleva-
tion of our class.

Yet the moral and intellectual energy of man is the
mighty lever destined to uproot the strongholds of
tyrannic assumption, and place the sons of men in that
just and equitable relation to each other which will
usher in the reign of universal peace and good-will on
earth,

Earnestly hoping that this, our heartfelt appeal, may
incline you to the rescue of our glorious cause,
We subscribe ourselves,
Your Brother Democrats I
James Savage, 27, Mape street.
Charles H. Neesom, 68, Hare-street, Bethnal-green.
James Williams, 58, Stanhope-street, Clare-market.
James Hoppey, 4, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square.
John Rogers, 8, Herfurd-place.
11. B. Marley, 31, Charles-street, Hampstaad-road.
Joseph Turner, 42, Store-street, Bedford-square.
William Hodge, Hemming's-road, Charing-cross.
George T. Wood, 4, Stepney-green.
W. Burton, 6, Finsbury-square.
E. Mariner, 10, Ruddock's-buildings, Finsbury.
John Halford, 14, Dugget-court.
Arthur Dyson, Kingsland-road.
William Watson, 1, Bedford-court.
R. T. Webb, surgeon, 18, Wyndham-street, Bryanston-
square.
Charles Savage, 4, Chapel-street.
W. T. Walker, 1, Cornwall-row.
Joseph Thorkham. 1, Cornwall-row.
John Eiger, 26, Philip-street, Kingsland-road.
Thomas Wade, 29, Red Lion-street, Hoxton.
G. Bennett, 4, Compton-street, Clerkenwell.
R. W. Woodward, 9, Lock's-gardens, Clerkenwell.
Robert Cubitt, 18, Cromer-street.

THE CORN-LAWS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Srn—Feeling, amongst many others of your readers,
grateful for the able and Christian manner in which you
advocate the repeal of the unjust and cruel bread tax
laws, I am induced to trouble you with a few observa-
tions upon those unchristian laws. It is certainly sur-
prising how strangely men who make a profession of
religion appear upon this subject to disregard the plainest
precepts of morality. Hence they very conveniently, in
their eagerness to resist any change in these laws which
they deem prejudicial to their own interests, disregard
some of the most awful passages of Scripture. Have
they no reason, then, to fear the threats contained in
the Epistle of James, sth chapter, verses 1,2, 3, but espe-
cially the 4th verse, " Behold the hire of the labourers
who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept
back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have
reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth."
In these cases, alas ! the innocent suffer and the guilty
escape; that is, they escape the punishment of their crimes
in this life ; but it does not follow that they will escape
it ultimately. These dispensations I cannot but think
furnish the strongest proof of a future state of retribu-
tion. Can there be multitudes of poor wretches suffering
the heaviest calamities arising from crimes in which they
had no share, while they who perpetrated them are not
only free from all the evil effects of those crimes, but are
enjoying great wealth, great honours, and power, ac-
quired by the commission of them. Can this take place
under the government of a Being infinitely wise and in-
finitely good, and yet there be no other state in which
these glaring iniquities will be corrected. What, then,
is wisdom, or justice, or goodness ? Are they all words
without a meaning ? I have the honour to remain,
Sir, yours respectfully, A CHRISTIAN.

MR. ROEBUCK AND HIS CON-

STITUENTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin—Your remarks on the proceedings of Mr. Roe-
buck are in unison with the sentiments of a large majo-
rity of his constituents. Great surprise has been felt
that he should have left the House upon Mr. S. Craw-
ford moving an amendment to the Address, in favour of
an extension of political power ; but his reasons for so
doing have caused still greater astonishment. For one
who prides himself in the name of Radical to talk of
giving Sir Robert Peel a " fair trial" is indeed an ano-
maly. The Whigs complain of having been frustrated
in the work of Reform by the opposition of Peel and
the Conservative party, and yet Mr. Roebuck, forsooth,
would have us believe there is a chance of good resulting
to the country from his (Sir R. Peel's) Premiership! If
Mr. Roebuck is yet ignorant of the feelings of the
60,000 persons he is the representative of, let him con-
sult the following Protest, agreed to unanimously, but a
short time ago, at a very numerous meeting convened for
the purpose, and which Protest was supported in a most
lengthy, eloquent, and argumentative speech by Colonel
Napier :

a THE PROTEST OF THE NON-ELECTORS OF BATH,
" Declared—

" That by far the larger portion of the male adults of
the city of Bath have no voice in the election of repre-
sentatives to serve in Parliament.

" That, therefore, the election of Lord Duncan and
John Arthur Roebuck, Esq., is a matter in which they
have not been permitted to participate.
" That they, the non-electors of Bath, hereby protest
against their exclusion from representation, and declare
that, though they respect, personally and politically, the
Honourable Gentlemen selected for representatives of
the city by a small portion of the inhabitants, their re-
turn has not been legally sanctioned by the great body
of those persons who are most interested in matters of

legislation.
" That on the day of nomination, when the choice of
representatives was submitted to the people, a vast ma-
jority—at least five hundred to one—declared in favour
of Lord Duncan and J. A. Roebuck, Esq. ;. notwith-
standing, a poll was demanded by the opposite parties,
and the great body of the people were denied the privi-
lege of recording their votes.
" That, therefore, the non-electors of Bath hereby
protest against the election of Lord Duncan and J. A.
ltoebuek, Esq., hoping thereby to secure a material
alteration in the law of election—an alteration that shall
extend (under certain restrictions) political power to all
the male adults of the United Kingdom."
Mr. Roebuck will do well to attach due import-
ance to this testimony of a desire on the part
of his constituents to obtain such changes in our laws as
shall make the Government at all times, and in every
sense, responsible to the people. Soon after the division
on Mr. Sharman Crawford's motion had taken place, a
public meeting was held in the Corn-market, by per-
mission of the Mayor. One of the speakers, alluding to
Mr. Roebuck's conduct, said he deemed it a great " are-
fiction of duty." A few of Mr. Roebuck's friends pre-
sent shouted " No, no;" these were received with louder
ex.ciamalions of " Yes, yes." The speaker then pro-
posed tile following resolution, which was carried unani-
mously:—
" That the thanks of this meeting be respectfully ten-
dered to Mr. Sharman Crawford,. Mr. Wallace, Mr. T.
Duncombe, and the other Members of Parliament who
supported the endeavour to bring the people's claims be-
fore her Mttesty the Queen ; and this meeting is of

opinion that such attempt was well-timed, and that its being
brought forward was not a " want of respect to the
country."
IF Mr. Roebuck desires•to be the virtual representa-
tive of the people of Bath, he will avail himself of any
and every opportunity to advocate the people's claims tee
political power. We deem the representation of the
people of infinitely more importance than the personal
attacks of the Times on Mr. Roebuck. Ile, however, it
appears, attaches more importance to himself than the
people. We hope better things.—Your's,
AN ELECTOR.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-I scarcely know how to express the indignation
that I felt on seeing it calmly announced that Sir R.
Peel, after passing a few necessary votes, intends to
prorogue Parliament till January or February next !
Good God, Sir, is it possible ? Are these fellows mad?
Do they wish to drive us to rebellion ? Or are they,
as some here charitably believe, utterly ignorant of the
distress and suffering so long find so patiently borne by
the people ? It may be that, surrounded by luxury, re-
moved from the very sight 'Of poverty, and feeling
nothing of 'its-gripe thep+selVes, they are indulging the
failietrrCi'i of unbelief as 'to our real condition, and ac-
tually think with the Duke of Wellington, that every
honest man is sure of a competence, if willing to work!
What infatuation ! What heartless mockery ! How long
will it be endured ? Will nothing but a popular out-
break of the starving millions convince these lordly aris-
tocrats of the danger of trifling thus with hungry, angry
men ? Pray, Sir, let your voice be constantly heard on
our behalf, and warn these men in high places that if
they should dare to separate to enjoy their hunting and
shooting, without first having done something to relieve
the distress of the nation, on their heads will be all the
awful consequences of so mad a course.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant;
A WORKING MAN.
Manchester, Sept. 11, 1841.

THE HARVEST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- - -
EAST LOTHIAN, SEPT. 11.
Sin—Although the weather has rather been broken,
I am happy to say we are getting on famously with the
harvest, and with the symptoms of a very little late
sown spring. We shall have all the white corn cut to-
day, and all the beans before this day week, and the
crops altogether much better than I expected. Indeed
so far as I am concerned I feel perfectly satisfied with
it, and to show you the quality of the wheat, I enclose
you a sample of some just taken from the field to-day.
(Wc have received the sample of wheat, which is firm
in the grain, and of beautiful quality. We may at the
same time mention as a proof of the great convenience
of the new system of postage, that the letter and sample
were transmitted at the small charge of a twopenny
stamp.)

FOREIGN CONSECRATION OF
BISHOPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR-Au Act of the fourteenth of Charles the Se-
cond, entitled " An Act for the Uniformity of Public
Prayers and the Administration of Sacraments and other
rites and ceremonies, and for establishing the form of
making, ordaining, and consecrating, Bishops, Priests,
and Deacons in the Church of England," in the form
for " the consecration of Bishops," orders and directs
that when the Bishops present to the Archbishop " the
godly and well-learned man to be ordained and conse-
crated Bishop," he " shall demand the King's mandate
for the consecration, and cause it to be read." How
then can there be any doubt on the question whether the
Archbishop has power to ordain without leave of the
Crown ? If the Archbishop had placed this form of
consecration before the civil lawyers they would not
have been puzzled on this point. If it be intended by a
side-wind in the new " Foreign Consecration Bill" to
repeal the rubric in the " Form of Consecration of Bi-
shops" in the Act for Uniformity, &c. &c., and allow
the Archbishops to consecrate Bishops without the
King's mandate, it ought to be most strenuously op-
posed. The Church has already too much power in its
bands, and it ought not to have this enormous authority
conceded to it. If Bishops be necessary in foreign parts
it will be quite sufficient that the Crown should deter-
mine of the expediency of each consecration, and issue
the Royal mandate accordingly.
I am, Sir, your's, &c. •
Ilfracombe, Sept. 9, 1841. R. W. D.
[This letter and some others were duly received, but
were accidentally mislaid.]

SIL VlO PELLICO.
Another of Europe's tuneful sons—another. of her high-
soulded patriots, has been gathered to dust and darkness.
The Semaphore of Marseilles has delivered the tidings of
Silvio Pellico's death.
When to the inspiration of the poet and the glory of
his song, there is added the fervour of the patriot and
his consequent nobility of soul, it may justly be appre-
hended that the harmonious combination of the two,

will produce a character which shall challenge the ad-
miration, not only of contemporary, but after-times.
This it was that Byron aspired to be, but Missolonghi
quenched in death the high deires of his soul. This
Pellico became, by the bias of circumstances, around him.
But, above all, it is beautiful to observe in the pages of
this good man's life, how both the flame of the poet and
the magnanimity of the patriot were softened down into
a lovely mildness—a Christianized beauty, by the amiable
religion which, supreme in Pellico's soul, swayed all
his other thoughts and passions. The amaranths of the
poet may be his, and his, too, the laurels of the patriot,
but assuredly his brow, above all, will be ennobled with
the crown of the patient Christian martyr.
Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo, in Piedmont, about
the year 1789, together with a twin-sister, named Rosina.
His mother, a native of Savoy, belonged to the house of
'foamier, and the name of his father was Onorato.
Silvio, in common with not a few men of genius, was
of extremely delicate constitution ; one illness succeeded
another, and during the intervals of these trying attacks,
Silvio was attended by a priest of the name of Mana-
vella, to prepare him for a public school.
Silvio, in his youth, was constantly subject to men
tal delusions. Sometimes, after having experienced
some sudden alarm, he was accustomed towards the
close of the day to behold a number of strange fantastic
shapes running all around him ; and even when lights
were brought they only seemed to withdraw into the less
luminous parts and corners of the room. At first he
would make a great outcry, and try all means of avoid-
ing this singular species of persecution, and on these oc-
casions the good Lady Nonna was in the habit of consol-
ing him. " And what are they like, my pretty Silvio ?
What sort of faces had they ?" " Ah," replied the boy,
" they have got long faces (so long), just like the Signora
Nonna's." Perhaps this odd passage of Silvio's life may
be, in some measure, cleared up by observing that the
lady possessed the mysterious book of the Seven Trum-
pets ; and it is probable that the child's imagination,
being excited by perusing its strange legends, may have
assumed this form of evening dreaming.
About this time Silvio's twin-sister, Rosina, possessed
of great beauty, was on the eve of marriage with a dis-
tant relatve in Lyons, and he accompanied her and his
mother into France. Here for a space of four years he
delivered himself up to his studies, -and had almost for-
gotten his native land, when a poem of Foscolo's, called
I Sepolcri (the Tombs), appeared in 1806, and was read
by Silvio. His heart gushed out anew in love for his
country. The skies of France no longer wore the same
transparent hue. The deep brilliant blue of Italy alone
haunted his imagination. He grew abstracted, his friends
questioned him ; till at length Silvio confessed that some
poet on the other side the Alps had given him the Mal
du Pays. " Who is he ? What is his name ?" was the
inquiry; "and would he recite them a few of these magic
verses ?" Pellico, in a deep fervent tone, gave an impro-
vised version of almost all the exalted passages. In a
few days afterwards he quitted France for Italy.
At Milan he was called to the Professorship of the
French Language, at a period when it merited the title of
the Athens of Italy, and in the society of Monti and
Foscolo, and celebrated men of various nations, his
poetical genius rapidly matured. Ippolito, Pindemonte,
and Breme, were, among other contemporaries, objects
of his highest regard. The following is a trait of Pel-
lico's frankness of mind :
Monti one day meeting Pellico at the Cafe Verri,
addressed him on the subject of his quarrel with Foscolo.
" Well," he said, " will you no longer deny Ugo's en-
mity and malice ? Ungrateful as he is ! who brought
him into notice ? The Sepoleri would have remained
unknown to this day. He owes his honours to me, and,
by a single word, I could consign them to ignominy and
neglect." "There, dear Monti," replied Silvis, "you
are wrong. You brought this poem into high esteem,
to be sure ; but they, whose eyes you have opened, now
partake the light, and can judge of colours as well as
yourself. Before that, indeed, you might have treated
them to the sound of the trumpet, and then have assured
them it was the colour of scarlet ; but this is now out
of your power." Monti struck his forehead.
About a year subsequently a distinguished actress,
with whom Pellico had been much struck when young,
awyed it ; it was re-
peated as allotted to the
re-appeared at Milan. Pellico and his friend Breme re-
cognised her, and Silvio's play of Francesca was brought
nowo the
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and with still increasing success.
The Neapolitan Government had fallen, and Silvio's
chief
family returned to Turin ; but Pellico remained alone
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at Milan, the guest of Count Briche, and afterwards be-
came the tutor of his son. He next went to reside with
Count Porro, with the same views of directing the edu-
cation of his sons.
On his return to Milan he again resided at the house
of his friend Count Porro, with whom he lived on terms
of the strictest intimacy, and where he met the most dis-
tinguished men, both foreigners and natives, of his time.
It was there he became acquainted with Madame de
Stael and Schlegel, then at the head of the critical
writers of their respective countries. It was there he
first saw Lord Byron, Mr. (now Lord) Brougham, Thor-
waldsen, the sculptor, Davis, with numbers of enlight-
ened travellers of various countries.
Pellico had shortly before translated the " Manfred" of
Byron. The latter requested to see the manuscript of
his drama of Francesca, which had not then publicly
appeared. Two days after his Lordship received it lie
himself returned it into Pellico's hands, abserving,
" You won't be angry if I have translated it ?" lie had
in fact translated it into English verse ; and he then
added, " You ought to have translated the Manfred'
into verse." In 1819, Lodovico Breme put forth an
edition of the " Francesca, with the above-mentioned
translation of Byron's " Manfred."
Pellico now contemplated the establishment of a pe-
riodical work, to be entitled " The Conciliator," as an
element for the social and moral improvement of the
people, and a means of reconciling the then dis-
cordant elements of public feeling. Count Porro
devoted all his energies and resources to the under-
taking i but the oppressive Austrian Government

watched this band of " Conciliators" with a jaundiced
eye, and men who proposed to be the liberators and en-
lighteners of the people were dreadful to their thoughts.
A storm burst upon the heads of the " Conciliators;"
Count Porro was one of the few who had early enough
the precaution to escape, while others were condemned
to expiate the crime of loving their country in dungeons
and on the scaffold. The suppression of this high intel-
lectual school, in which the young and beautiful spirit
of Italy, once more about to become bright, and glad,
and lofty, was hurriedly effected. Arrests followed ar •
rests, and Austria grasped her victims. Pellico was about
to visit his friend Pietro Maroncelli, and inquired for him
at his house. The answer was, he was arrested. Him-
self had scarcely entered the City of Milan before some
one advancing close to him whispered in his ear, " The
police fro after you !" " They know where lam to be
found," was the answer ; " I am going to wait for them."
He went, and they were in readiness for him. His pa-
pers, poems, tragedies, correspondence, were all seized,
and he was compelled to follow his inquisitors to the po-
lice prisons of Santa Margherita.
The account of " My Ten Years Imprisonment" by
Pellico is, indeed, a long detail of misery; exquisite for
its lovely facts and language, and soul-touching from its
unaffected pathos. The main charm of. this book of
Pellico lies in the singular calmness and placid beauty of
its tone. It is, says an elegant critic, one long tragic
monologue, and the scene is a succession of prisons.
And yet it presents a picture so interesting of a refined
and amiable mind labouring against the most trying of
earthly calamities—long and continued solitary impri-
sonment ; it exhibits him under so many touching as-
pects of weakness or strength—of patient mental exer-
tion, or the weariness and sickness of hope delayed—it is
brightened by. so many interesting little episodes—
glimpses of existence, as it were, seen through prison
bars ; it is instinct throughout, .with so kindly a spirit
towards mankind, so anxious a desire to discover good
even in evil, that it possesses the history of a romance
combined with the truth of reality. It is at once an his-
torical document and a psychological picture, drawn, as
the author himself says, from no motive of personal
vanity, but as a legacy to those who may be placed under
circumstances as trying.
The circumstances of Pellico's imprisonment, which we
have above but cursorily alluded to, are so well known
to the world at large, that it would be but vain reitera-
tion on our part to again recount them; suffice it that we
refer to the long-hoped for period of his release.
The Ist of August, 1830, was a Sunday. Pellico had
returned from mass, and was preparing with his fellow-
prisoners his table for a sorry meal, when Wegrath, the
Superintendent, entered, and conducted him to the Di-
rector of Police. This personage, taking a paper from
his pocket, said, in courteous tone, " Gentlemen, I have
the pleasure, the honour, of announcing to you that his
Majesty the Emperor has had the kindness to grant
you —. Here he stopped, and Pellico expected some
diminution of punishment, but he added—your liberty.
Maroncalli and Pellico left their dungeons. They
crossed through. Styria and Carinthia. As the happy
evening of the 17th of September dawned, Pellico had
reached Turin.
Who can attempt to describe the transport and conso-
lation his heart received when Pellico again saw and em-
braced father, mother, and brothers. He was once again
in the bosom of home, and blessed Providence that he
had quenched all his past sorrows in the bounding trans •
ports of his present happiness.
The latest tidings of Silvio Pellico come to us through
Miss Sedgwick's " Letters from Abroad to Kindred at
Home," in which, among the other illustri she met with
in her journey through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy,
was the amiable object of our present memoir. "We
have seen something here," says she, " that will proba-
bly interest you more than all the pictures in Italy—Sil-
vio Pellico. He lives near Turin, as librarian to a cer-
tain Marchese. We wrote him a note, and asked the
privilege of paying our respects to him, on the around of
being able to give him news of his friends, and our dear
friends, the exiles who were his companions at S_pielberg.
He came immediately to us. He is of low stature, and
slightly made : a sort of etching of a man, with delicate
and symmetrical features ; just enough body to gravitate
and keep the spirit from its natural upward flight—u
more shadowy Dr. Channing ! His manners have a
sweetness, gentleness, and low tone, that correspond well
' with his spiritual appearance. He was gratified with
our good tidings of his friends, and much interested with
our account of his godchild, Maroncelli's little Silvia.
His parents have died within a year or two.

" I have been very sorry to heir some of his countrymen
speak distrustfully of Pellico, and express an opinion
a reluctant one—that he had sunken into willing subjec-
tion to political despotism and priestly craft. It is even
said that he has joined the order of Jesuits. I do not
believe this, nor have I heard any evidence adduced in
support of it, that tends to invalidate the proof of the
incorruptibility of Pellico's soul contained in Le Mie
Prigioni (My Imprisonments). He is a saint that cannot
fall from grace. There seems to me nothing in his pre-
sent unqualified submission incompatible with his former
history and professions. His phase,of the Christian cha-
racter has always been that of sufferance. He is the
gentle Melancthon, not the bold and valiant Luther; the
loving John, not the fearless Paul."

LITERATURE.
THE PLAYFELLOW.
Knight, London, 1841.
This is one of a series of tales which it is pro.
posed to publish quarterly. It is from the pen
of Miss Martineau, and inculcates sound, useful
truths, such as were inculcated in her " Illustra-
tions of Political Economy." The scene of the
story is laid in Norway, and it abounds in ani-
mated descriptions.