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MONTHLY CHRONICLE.

There is infinitely less assumption in the tone of

. .
is Journal than there used to be ; which is an

alteration greatly for the better. Works of this
class should not appeal to the narrow, purblind
tastes of a coterie, but be dedicated to the service

of the community at large. Such has been the
case with the later numbers of the Monthly Chro-
nicle, which, we trust, is beginning to reap the
benefit of its more enlarged and catholic way of
thinking. The " Editor s Room" is entertain►ng
gossip enough, though the system of newspaper
reporting, on which the writer expatiates at some
length, is by this time pretty well known to the
generality of readers. " Final Darkness" is a
servile imitation of Lord Bvron. Why does not
Mr. Reade write from his own impressions, instead
of closely following in the track of another ? There
is no merit in copying the thoughts of another man
—a real_ genius would scorn to do so. But the
author of " Italy " has no real genius. He has
tact and talent, but that is all. See, for instance
how in these two vapid lines—
" Death, with petrific sceptre, reigned o'er earth
And Darkness buried at his feet her dead"—
he has hammered out, and utterly spoiled Shakspeare's
sublitne image, " and Darkness. be the burier of
the dead !" It is easy to compose poems after this
fashion. A retentive memory, considerable assur-
ance, and a faculty of glibly versifying, are all that
is requisite. " Social Despotism of Aiistria," is
a bold expose of the hydra-headed despotism of
ti►e Austrian system of governMent. Spies, it ap-
pears, abound there, in proof of which the author
relates this anecdote :
The writer of this was arrested under the following
irritating circumstances. He• had been on the confines of
Hungary, and had there at the hotel purchased a box of
cigars, upon the assurance of the waiter that they might be
taken without fear into Baden (not Baden-Baden the spa,
but a watering-place near Vienna). lie was smoking one
of these cigars in a cafe, when a gentlemanly-looking man
at the same table, sniffing the curls of the smoke as they
passed him, said, " That is an excellent cigar, indeed."
" Yes," was the reply, " it ought to be good—it is Hun-
garian." " Oh, indeed ! that accounts for it. They are
the only tolerable cigars we get ; but I did not know
there were any to be had here, or I should have bought
some. Would it be impertinent to ask where you
bought those, as I will stock myself ?" He was informed,
and appeared pleased at the prospect he said he should
avail himself of ; the writer then offered him a cigar,
which he accepted with thanks, and smoked. We then
chatted pleasantly enough—in German, Italian, French,
and English, in all of which he was proficient, and was
very deferential to the writer's political opinions, which of
course were guardedly enough expressed, and fortunately
so, for as he rose to depart he was arrested—his gentle-
manly smoking linguist was a spy During the examina-
tion before the police inspector it was in vain that he pro-
tested ignorance of the Austrian laws. " Unwissenheit,
Ist keine Entschuldigung"—ignorance is no excuse—was
the eternal reply. In vain had he been duped by the
waiter—he also would be punished. Nothing else could
be elicited. In vain he reasoned on his innocence, as
shown in the open manner of his relating the facts, and of
producing the cigars in a cafe, when he could so easily
have kept them in his own apartment, bad he suspected
them to be contraband. The inspector, all urbanity and
politeness; stolidly admitted that laws were framed for con-
trabandists, and that the writer was not one ; still " such
were the laws—he could not help it ;" the crime was that
of having purchased contraband goods, and for that he
was fined twenty florins sterling, and his cigars " confis-
• cated for the good of the country." This anecdote is a
sufficient indication of the reserve and secrecy necessary to
be made of every thing, lest it should turn out wrong._
the suspicion of every one which must ensue—and the
consequent moral effect on the nation."

The despotism of Napoleon was nothing to this ;
and yet Austria was among the foremost to com-
plain of the French Emperor's tyranny. Out upon
such sickening cant In the course of his article,
the writer observes that Italy, the Tyrol, Hungary,
and Bohemia, wait but a fitting opportunity to
emancipate themselves from the galling shackles
that Metternich has flung round them. God speed
the hour; and may we live to see the full and per-
fect regeneration of these, enslaved countries " In-
fluence of Eloquence on English Freedom," gives
a vivid .sketch of the character of Lord Chathant's
oratory. The writer, however, is in error, when he
speaks so warmly of the lofty independence of Pitt's
mind. He was independent in spirit, only by com-
parison with those who had gone before him. When
his interests .demanded it, he could be pliable
enough ; and some of his, letters to George the
Third, show that ..he could stoop v :ry readily to
play the courtier and the sycophant. However,
with all his faults, he was a great--a first-rate
statesman ; and the middle classes owe him-undy-
ing gratitude, for he it was who first taught them
the secret of their own power, and by their means
ruled the Court and the oligarchy with a rod of
iron. " Notes of a. Tour in Northern Europe,
aon‘e‘
re ver y
ot of l ecr ahbi e m
Childhood,"
hcoood o n
contain- common-place. .
dents, narrated with much energy. Someortwo
Recol-
lectionso i
inci-
dents,

METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE.
In the " History Of the Jews," the first portion
of which appears in the Number before us, the
writer observes with truth 'and spirit—" Europe,
in the middle ages, may be said to have been
without communications ; every road bristled with
the fortified castles of feudal barons, ever ready to
discharge their brutal and rapacious courage on the
persons of merchants and travellers ; nothing de-
ters the Jews ; everywhere they are seen as money-
lenders, buying up the
.farming of the customs,
the tolls, and seignoral rights, flocking to all the
great fairs, and supplying tip; Churches as well as
the barons with Eastern profusion ; every town has
its Jew—every city its synagogue ; and if at any
time an outbreak of religious excitement succeeds
in procuring their expulsion, rarely more than one
or two years elapse before the prince or the baron
recalls them to his estate." The tale entitled.
" A House in the Rue d'lnfer," is just the sort of
thing likely to please the readers of monthly peri-
odicals. It is stirring, graphic, and mysterious,
with a small murder thrown in by way of relief.
The " Note-book of an Irish Barrister " gives a
biographical sketch of Hussey Burgh, the cele-
brated contemporary of Grattan. There is less
metaphor about it than has usually been the case
with this series of legal papers. " The Old Cha-
teau of Colonstere "is a passable story. We
quote some lines on the " Death of Lord William
tussell," from the pen of Mrs. Abdy :
All in its wantod calm repose.
How tranquilly that dwelling stands
Nought in its quiet aspect shows
The fearful work of reckless hands.
The scent of flowers is on the air—
Their usual place they yet retain,
Though he who loved to view them there,
Shall never watch their bloom again.
'Tis true, the darkened windows tell
That Death within asserts his power ;
Yet strangers on the hope might dwell.
That peace had soothed that awful hour ;
That friends had, with attentive care,
Sustained his venerable head,
Breathing the pious words of prayer
Softly around his dying bed:—
Yet no—the crowds who hover near
A Some tale dreadfullocfnttahned
ruthless
startledu t
h importlessd
sene breathe;saet h tc
How
shrinkssigh. and shudder while they speak,
hear
Of violent
Mourning that guilt so dark should be,
And some, with wild conjectures, szek
To pierce the veil of mystery.
Yet let us not too rashly yield
To vague surmises on the crime ;
The murderer's name shall stand revealed,
Doubtless, in God's appointed time.
0, rather let us love to trace
The placid and benignant life
Of him, whose unoffending days
Portended not this close of strife.

MONTHLY MAGMAGAZINE.A
reform in stage matters
Mr. Heraud is again labouring diligently in thu
field of dramatic reform, but we fear he is destined
isalio donestilohpiesle dsust,y.
to reap little by his lafboroutrhibsuvtertlyieoignraiotuifics arteioarsronof
having
n.,
that the stage itself is all but in artzeuto mortis. We
have n 6 tragic actor of first-rate eminence, and but
one or two actresses of any talent at all. Granted,
that the Editor's I?onian Brother were accepted,
who could fill the three principal characters ? Who
could play Antoninus as it deserves to be played?
Not one. It is not clever dramatic writers that .We
want, but first-rate tragedians ; and, these once
• secured, dramatic reform will follow as a matter of
course; for then writers_ of plays will not have to

depend on the caprice of one individual. In the
portions of Mr. Heraud's tragedy which appear in
this Number of the Monthly, there is no lack of
energy or poetical -talent ; the dialogues have good
stuff in them ; but some are rather of too subtle
and metaphysical a character to suit the tastes of
motley English audiences. The soliloquies are in-
variably impressive, but would tell better in the
closet than on the stage. Here is one of them.
It is supposed to be spoken by Africanus in chains :
Ye stars 1 whom to behold I've stolen forth
The tent of my captivity, thus still
A prisoner chained—well ordered are your courses ;
On your free orbs no manacles imposed,
Save the eternal law which bade ye move
In everlasting music—free my soul
Springs to ye, soaring from my raptured eyes.
In solitude, in silence, and in darkness,
Ye keep your lofty places, and have kept them
From time's beginning—ye, the immutable I
Prophetic signs and teachers of true wisdom,
Serene and calm and bright and beautiful I
Perpetual volume wherein all may read,
And universal sympathy may feel,
Along creation's line, instinct with life !
• Anon, the moon will sink, and not a star
Be left of this great host—and the pure arch
In shadelcss azure deepen and expand
Into an image of the Infinite—
Yet is it but an image—for I feel— •
A subtler purity within my soul,
And my exalted spirit scorns to dwell
In aught that is apparent—she conceives
Of higher—holier—for her proper home—.
A temple; without idol, yet divine,—
And would adore the Being in Himself!
" Guizot's Theory of Syncretism and Coa-
lition" is somewhat too vague and cloudy for our
taste. We must except, however, the incidental
remarks on Protestantism,- which are justly and
forcibly put. '" Protestantism," says the author,
" is the child of free examination. Inquiry formed
its very cradle and swaddling clothes. This it has
never abandoned, whatever relation it bore to
civil authority. In fact, human thought, in re-
ligion as in all other matters, has displayed itself
in Protestant countries with infinite activity and
freedom." The " Prince and the Fisherman" is an
eloquently written tale. " London as it is, and
ought to be," advocates the expediency—which is
an improvement that has long engaged the atten-
tion of architects—of constructing elegant and
spacious quays on each side of the Thames between
Vauxhall and London Bridges. We wish that
this scheme could be carried into execution. It is
the only thing wanting to make London the most
magnificent city in Europe.

UNITED SERVICE JOUNAL.
This is an excellent number. There are several
articles, all so well drawn up, and interesting, that
it is difficult to give the preference to any. " The
Duke of Wellington," " The Turkish Fleet,"
" England's Wooden Walls," containing a history
of the Victory, with the last hours of ..Nelson ;
" The Recollections of the Expedition to the Chesa-
peake, and against New Orleans," and the Cam-
paign of Affghanistan," are all good in their kind.
The last, as referring to a late campaign, the most
successful recorded in British history, we shall select
for a short notice, and copious extracts. It is drawn
up by an Officer of the " Queen's," who, with his
regiment, sailed from Bombay on the 18th of No-
vember last, landed at Bommacote on the right
bank of the Indus, after a voyage of twelve days,
marched to Kandahar, a distance of 699 miles,
and rushed into Ghuznee at the head of the column
that like a thunderbolt dashed among the astonished
defendants of that strong fortress. The hardships
they had to endure on their march—the appearance
of the country and its inhabitants—the capture of
•Ghuznee—and the entry into Cabul—are all given
with the characteristic frankness of a soldier, and

the air of truth which an intelligent observer gene-
rally impresses on the record of military deeds.
The distance altogether, from the point of landing
to Ghuznee, was 920 miles, and from Belgaum,
which they had left but nine months before, not
less than 1,721 miles. The march in a hot cli-
mate, and through a barren country, was neeces-
sarily painful and tedious. The thermometer often
stood at 110 in the shade—owing to the negli-
gence of the Commissariat department they were
ill supplied with provisions—vast numbers of their
beasts of burden died of hunger and fatigue, but

fortunately no epidemic broke out among the troops,
and they arrived at their destination with a smaller
loss of officers and men than was anticipated. The
following is a striking description of the country,
and of the hardships which these brave men had to
suffer, at the distance of a thousand miles from the
sea :—.
It is hard to be believed, but true nevertheless, that
since leaving Scinde, itself no Paradise, we have scarce
met with a dozen cultivated fields, except in the imme-
elate neighbourhood of Queue and Kandahar. It has
been all one vast interminable desert, varied only by the
alternations from a sandy to a stony soil. Mud villages
there were at most of the halting-places, but often in ruins
or deserted; and how the inhabitants contrived to exist
there is a mystery. The Bholun Pass, though destitute of
vegetation of any kind, was a remarkable feature, from its
very loneliness and utter sterility. The hills, though no-
vi here of any considerable height, became latterly pre-
cipitous and difficult; so much so, that the road, in some
places barely wide enough to admit of the passage of files,
was inclosed by perpendicular walls of rock. A few hun-
dred men, judiciously placed on the heights, could have
prevented our forcing the Pass, though we might perhaps
have turned it. Until the sixth day, when we were at-
tacked by the Kankers, or hill thieves, we did not meet a
living soul unconnected with our force, nor a trace of hu-
man habitation ; yet was the place thronged—a very coun-
terpart of the Valley of the Shadow of Death—being full
of quagmires, and the road strewed.with the bodies of thou-
sands of camels, the victims of the two preceding armies ;
and here and there we stumbled over the corpses of men in
every stage of decomposition. Talking of camels, I may
as well here inform you that all mine, four in number, pe-
rished by the way, and that I only rescued about a third of
my kit by the chance acquisition of a brace of tattoos;
from which fact you may form an estimate of the average
mortality caused by fatigue, and the want of the camel's
natural sustenance, the branches of trees or jungle shrubs.
Under such circumstances, you may well suppose our
table was not too luxurious. Our staple food was mut-
ton, we had a miserable substitute for bread, no vegetables,
except occasionally a few onions—once my abomination—
and water, our only beverage, was facetiously termed
Deadman's Entire, being frequently extracted from muddy
ditches, choked up here and there by the carcase of a Be-
lochec or camp follower.
The capture of Ghuznee we have already given
in the excellent report drawn up by Captain (now
Major) Thomson, but the subjoined details, never-
theless, will be read with interest :
STORM AND CAPTURE ON CaIUZNEE.
23d of July, 1839.
At one o'clock on the morning of the 23d, we were
under arms, and marched by separate corps to the place of
assembly, about a quarter of a mile from the fortress. This
was easily indicated, by two stupendous pillars, 150 feet in
height; their origin is unknown, but they are supposed to
have been erected by the great Mahmoud. Here a Eu-
ropeen Brigade was formed, consisting of H. M.'s Queen's
Royal, H. M.'s 13th Light Infantry, It M.'s 17th, and
the Bengal European Regiment; the whole under the
command of Brigadier Sale, the Colonel of the 13th, who
was selected for this duty, from his well-known fighting
qualities; and nobly he fulfilled the trust reposed in him ;
for, independent of the cool and accurate manner in which
his plans were formed, he was himself one of the first to
enter, receiving a severe sabre cut in the face, which nearly
severed his lower jaw ; and had it not been for the pre-
sence of mind of his old comrade, Captain Kershaw, of
the 13th, who once before saved his life at the Stockades
in Ava, it is probable he would never have risen. They
were both rolling on the ground ; but even in that con-
dition, Kershaw contrived to pass his sword through the
body of the Brigadier's assailant.
But to our tale :—We remained by the pillars for up-
wards of an hour, smoking our pipes, and listening to the
Brigadier, who chatted with us in the most affable and en-
livening manner. At length, when all preliminaries were
arranged, the wished-for word was passed to advance,
and the column moved in deep silence. As we neared the
fort, the enemy for the first time became aware of our de-
sign, and the thunder opened from both sides simul-
taneously. For my own part, I felt, I know not why, a
most comfortable conviction that I should not be even
scratched, let alone killed, in the encounter; so, or. I
marched, amidst showers of shot and shells, whizzing,
tearing-up the earth, and exploding in all directions. A
more brilliant panorama could scarcely be conceived ; for
the moon was down, the day had not yet dawned, and the
fire of the guns, and blae-lights suspended from the wall
to show us the way, shed a most ghastly and truly infernal
hue upon every object. Our way lay up a steep ascent,
leading to a massive gate in one of the bastions. A few
minutes before we arrived this was blown to atoms, by the
action of 300 lbs. of powder, piled against it ; and the
advance, consisting \of the light companies of the four
corps before named, rushed in, closely followed by the co-
lumn, at the head of which was the Queen's, as the senior
regiment. In the mean time, the engineer who had fired
the train, as brave a fellow as ever stepped, was knocked
senseless by the concussion; and when he did come to, not
seeing any outlet or glimmer of light, owing to a
turn in the passage, he imagined there was an inner
gate yet to be forced ; and, being still in a state
of confusion, he unfortunately ordered a retreat to

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be sounded. This was but too readily obeyed,
whereby many extra lives were lost, as our only chance
lay in a sudden rush forward. I was borne to the ground,
and a whole section passed over my back, while I felt my-
self sinking among heaps of rubbish and broken timber.
The first solid support I met with was the face of a dead
man. With this for a point d'appui, I contrived to rise,
and assiste in rallying the men.
To it we went again, under the inspiring influence of
the British cheer, and this time charged so rapidly, that we
—I meats the company to which I am attached—contrived
to get through all the cutting, stabbing, and shooting, un-
scathed. The only casualty in No. 3 was our Colour- Ser-
geant, who was shot in the head by my side, and has, I fear,
but a slender chance of recovery. The leading, and par-
ticularly the rear companies, were more roughly handled,
—some of the men literallv cut to pieces : nor would you
be surprised at the gashes that were inflicted, could I show
you a specimen of the arms they used,—a crooked sabre,
some two inches broad in the blade, which I took from the
first prisoner who surrendered to me. Once inside, the
town was our own. The men, it is true, still continued to
be picked off occasionally by popshots from loopholes and
corners. But to every matchlock thus presented, at least
a score of muskets replied. We took 2,000 prisoners ;
and, best of all, we took one of Dost Mahomed's sons, who
commanded the fortress. He cannot, to this moment,
make out how it was taken ; and says the Feringhees do
not fight like other people. So great was the panic of the
euemy when they found their hitherto impregnable fortress
captured by a coup de main, that they did not even make
an attempt to defend the citadel ; and, at twenty minutes
past five o'clock, the British flag, in conjunction with that
of Shah Soojah, was floating in triumph from its summit.
You will be glad to learn, that a promise was exacted,
and rigorously enforced, that none of the prisoners who
had surrendered to our arms should be executed. Had
they been left to the tender mercies of the Shah, there
had been small hope for them. A very few only, who re-
fused to give in, and fought on after the fort had capitu-
lated, were shot to death, of course, according to the
custom of war in like cases. The detail of casualties on
our side, you will have seen in the published Gazette,
132 being the entire amount of killed and wounded. This,
you will say, was a small totl out of upwards of 1,600
men engaged ; but that it was so small is mainly to be at-
tributed to the gallantry and suddenness of the enterprise.
We took the boll by the horns, and luckily succeeded in
throwing him. Had we been provided with a heavy bat-
tering train, we should have taken the place scion les regles,
when probably treble the number would have fallen. It
was found impossible to make any accurate calculation of
the killed on the enemy's side, as some were carried off
by their friends, and others crept away after the action to
die in ditches. I believe about 500 were buried in pits
by fatigue parties of our soldiers. You are not to suppose
that the killed on either side bore any proportion to the
number of the wounded; they never do. We (the Queen's)
have only buried five men as yet, and most of the cases are
in a fair way of recovery. My gallant chum, Hadley, the
Quartermaster, who went into the action to amuse himself, is
of the number of the wounded. He will be all right in about
a month. Those too ill for removal, as well as the soldiers
in a like predicament, will be left in ga, rison at Ghuznee.
Poor fellows I they will at least have a comfortable resi-
dence to console them, as they are to be quartered in the
principal building, partaking the nature both of palace and
citadel, where there arc spacious halls and neat bedrooms,
quite in the French style, and commanding a magnificent
view of the country.
Old Ghuznee lies at the foot of some hills, about two
miles from the fort, and bas a picturesque appearance, being
surrounded by gardens and trees with very green foliage.
Beyond an air of remote antiquity, the only remarkable
feature it possesses is the tomb of Mahmoud, closed by a
gate of sandal-wood taken from Delhi. This latter, from
its being now nearly nine hundred years old, was esteemed
so great a curiosity as to form part of the last treaty
entered into by the Malia- Rajah Runjeet Singh and Shah
Soojah-001-Moolk ; and its restitution was the only article
therein a compliance with which was declined on the part
of the Shah.

Camp at Moorghera,
Twelve miles short of Cabul, Aug. 5.

I open once more, to say, that our splendid visions'Of a
general action have been dissipated. The fill of Ghuznee
was too heavy a blow ; and we are to enter Cabul without
opposition. The Dost, it is plain, would have fought to
the last, had he been at all supported. So bent, was he
on mischief, that when deserted by the last of his army,
he had to fly for his life, leaving twenty one guns loaded
and in position, which were immediately taken possession
of. Captain Outram, with a few of our light cavalry,
and a large body of Affghauns, commanded by Hadjee
Khan, are gone in pursuit of him. The marches lately
have assumed a very animated appearance. Every day
we are joined by a fresh Chief and his tail, who come in
to make their salaam to the Shah. Their costume, and
the trappings of their steeds—fine showy animals—are of
the gaudiest and most picturesque description. They
pride themselves on their horsemanship, and seem to ex-
pect great applause. At one moment they will be cara-
coiling like the equestrians at Astley's, and then launching
into full speed, discharge their matchlocks in the air,
taking taro to select no particular object, for fear of
failure. One would think that a more modest deportment
would better become the deserters of their King