The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-19 00:00:00

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HAMBURGIT ANDERS MAIL.
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BRUSSELS, AuG. Chamber of Representa-
tives agreed yesterday to treaty between the Nether-
lands and Belgium, by a majority of 65 to 6. Six
members declined voting.
Within a short time we have regulated by treaties our
commercial relations with four important powers—the
Zollverein, France, the United States, and the Netherlands.
Henceforth we shall enjoy in these principal markets
of the Continent, which are near to us, particular privi-
leges for some of our principal manufacture s. Yester-
day a considerable majority in the Chamber sanctioned
the treaty concluded on the 29th of July with the
Netherlands ; in this majority were such as M. Delfosse,
M. Osy, Messrs. Rogier and Lebeau. We rejoice at
this. Certainly next to France if there is a people with
whom we ought to wish to live in harmony, and exten-
sive commercial intercourse, it is Holland. There was a
difficulty after the unfortunate difference which arose
between us at the beginning of this year ; it was, to
effect a rec inciliation in which neither of the two nations
should suffer, either in its dignity or interest, looking
over the list of men in our Chamber, who in subscribing
to the treaty have set aside their political opinions, and
consequently forgotten that this treaty would be a source
of moral strength to the Ministry. We may, therefore,
say boldly that the two Governments in signing the
treaty of the 29th of July, hare listened to the voice of
reason and interest, which on both sides was equally
averse to the reciprocal hostilities of the tariff.

The King and Queen arrived yesterday evening (Tues-
day) at Ostend. from the Isle of Wight.
Al7O. 14.—The Chamber of Representatives met yes.
terday at half-past two, and agreed to a project of loan
for a vote of credit of 3,712,000 francs to the Department
of Public Works, and to another of 160,000 francs to the
same department.

The Senate received from the Chamber of Represen-
tatives two messsages, relative, Ist, to the treaty with
Ilolland ; 2d, to the vote of credit, 3,711,000 francs for the
Department of Public Works.
AUGUST 15.—The Senate heard ye4terday the report
to a seoond pr ject of law sent up from the Clamber of
Representatives, and commenced the general debate on
the treaty with Holland. The discussion was fixed for
eight o'clock in the evening on which the senate sanc-
tioned the treaty with Holland, and the projects law
for the votes of credit for the Department of Public
Works; after which the Minister of Finance read the
Royal ordinance closing the session.
The Chamber separated with cries of " Vive le Roi."
The King and Queen have arrived at Lacken.

THE HARVEST AND THE CROPS.
INVERNESS-SIIIRE.—The cutting of barley is now
going on in several favoured situations in this neigh-
bourhood. Generally, the reaping of barley will be
universal, if the weather hold good, in a week or ten
days. We were in Strathglass last week, and were
much struck with the fine field of oats and barley in
tbat beautiful district, many of them ripe for the sickle.
The pasture, too, on the hill-farms is more luxuriant
than it has been known since 1828. The •cops in
general are nearly a month in advance of former years,
and they never presented a richer or better appearance
than they do this season. Fears are entertained for some
fields of potatoes in this neighbourhood. The stems
appear blackened and decayed, as if by the effects
of the mysterious disease ; but we trust these un-
favourable symptoms may be traced to the late thunder-
storm. In Harris and other western islands the disease
undoubtedly prevails.

THE Ps IITHSHIRE IncaL.isos.—We are sorry to
say that unequivocal symptoms of the potato disease
having penetrated into our highland districts aye at last
too manifest. Within the last few days, the mysterious
blight and blackening of the leaves of the "shaw " as
if frosted, can be too generally traced over the whole
country, though be-west of Aberfeldy, with few excep-
tions, the evil may not be so palpable to the hurried
passer-by, as the fields for the most part retain a some-
what greenish, or at most, a brownish or ripened
tinge. We learn that even in this modified state the
root has been found in a state of decomposition, and
utterly uneatable for human food. Shearing will be
commencing in ten days or a fortnight in the more
early districts; and should the crops be got properly
and without ecaith harvested, there is a good prospect
of quantity and quality, but the delay of Saturday last
has made sad havoc in the more luxuriaut fields is
lodging the same.—Pothshirf Advertiser.

THE MOORS.
PEsnrrtt, Acu. 13.—8 y the break of day, yesterday,
sportsmen were in watchful readiness in the moors and
mountains all Britain over, to commence grouse shooting,
and ere the sun arose reports of Joe Mantons were heard in
rapid succession, indicative of the slaughtering purposes of
the knights of the trigger. On nearly all the moors in the
north a most fatal disease exists amongst the grouse, scores
of which were found dead on the heaths, while others are
so sickly that they can scarcely fly further than a few
yards at a time. The others are pretty strong on the wing,
and i'. was with difficulty that they were come within range
of. However, with ardent perseverance, several gentlemen
enjoyed an excellent day's sport. The Lion. Col. Lowther,
M.P., on the Earl of Lonsdale's preserves, on Shap Fells,
Westmoreland, bagged thirty brace of fine birds, and Henry
I,:mther, Esq., of the Guards, his eldest son, brought down
upwards of twenty brace. Viscount Ranelagh, Mr. Milos,
and another party who are on a visit at Lowther Castle, on
High Howe and other preserves, had most excellent sport,
but our correspondent had not ascertained the precise number
of birds that each gentleman killed. On Roderip Manor,
near Ashton Moor, W. Parker, Esq., of Yanwath Hall, shot
twenty-four brace ; Timothy Featherstonhaugh, Esq., of the
College, Kirkoswald, twenty-three brace ; and Richard
Tinckler, Esq., of Eden Grove, bagged nineteen brace, but
the birds on the manor were only email.
No intelligence has reviled us of the sport on the 12th,
except that Mr. Dougal bagged 17 brace on his moors of
Glenferness, on the forenoon of that day.—Elgin Courier.
Sir P. Murray Thriepland, Bart., bagged to his own gun,
on the 12th of August, on the Strathbraan shootings, 1031-
brace of grouse and 8 hares.

Tins Moons.—The morning of the twelfth dawned as
auspiciously for the sportsman as could be desired. Since
the storm% and floods of last week, the weather has been
fine, but comparatively cool, with westerly breezes; and
the slightest touch of frost made the scent lie strong. So
far as the accounts have reached us, the sport will be
about an average on the principle Highland moors ;
but, of course, we are unable to give the first day's
work. The mail, which passed Blair at mid-day,
and the Duke of Wellington which came down four hours
after both brought a number of boxes, the produce of
the morning's work, some of which were addressed to the
leading members of the nobility now in London. There are
few changes in the principal Perthshire moors this season.
There is a new party at Falar ; and Thomas Brown, Esq.,
and party, from Glasgow, have got Amulree, formerly Mr.
Fox Maule's; and Charles Gray, Esq., and party, also from
Glasgow, the fine preserved moor of Logiealmond, belonging
to Castle Huntly ; John Ewing, Esq., at Bruar ; and Robert
Graham, Esq., Calvine. The other Athol and Rannoch
moors are tenanted as formerly.—Perth Courier, Thursday.
SHEFFIELD—THE Moons.—We are sorry to find that the
grouse on the moors was proved, by yesterday's sport, to be
very scarce. As usual, numbers of gentlemen were up and
stirring at an early hour, but the birds were wild and high
on the wing, and were with difficulty got at. The largest
bags we have been able to hear of was 12 brace, and our
neighbour, Mr. William Aldam' brought down 11 brace out
of 24 shots. The prices varied from 105. to 12s. per brace,
at which price our neighbour Fox is said to have sold be-
tween 70 and 80 brace.—lris.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
No shooting season could begin under more favourable
auspices than that of 1846. The fogs which enveloped and
shut out the distant landscapes have been dispelled by the
thunder of last Saturday, and now the bracing atmosphere
invites the young sportsman, inclined for an early shot, to
roll himself in his plaid and listen for the first crow of the
old ,cock, as, on fluttering wings, they rouse the young
broods—many of them destined, ere evening, to fall, at the
sound of the gun, on their native heather. We have often
wondered, on looking at maps which give the lines of rail-
ways, that no enterprising publisher ever thought of a
sporting map, where, in a similar way, shootings might be
outlined and described—noting down deer corries—the bold
peaks where ptarmigan are found—the heath-covered up-
lands, where dwell innumerable broods of grouse—and the
fantastic old birch clumps, sloping to mountain streamlets;
winch are the choice habitations of black game.
.We present
lists of parties all intent on seeking, at least,
" The freshness of the mountain air,
Which bloated ease can never hope to share."
LIST OF SHOOTING PARTIES AT FORMER
QUARTERS.
Inverness, Sir St. George Gore, Bart.; Gildermory, the
Earl of Selkirk ; Mar Forest, the Duke of Leeds ; Loch Leg-
gett the Marquis of Abercorn ; Torlundy, Lord Abinger ;
Balmacaan' Lord Reidhaven ; Garviemore and Glenshiero,
Lord Maidstone, Sir J. M. Stanley, Bart. ; Dundriggan,
Sir H. Meux, Bart., Richard Arabin, Esq.; Inchnacardoch,
Colonel Porter ; Ardgay and Greenyards, Colonel Long ;
Glendoe, W. Weinman, Esq. ; Corrour, Mr. Compton ;
Coul, Colonel Matheson ; Fairness, A Campbell, Esq. ; Brae-
- ro3, Mr. Crawford ; Invererne, Charles St. John, Esq. ;
Craigdarroch, Horatio Ross, Esq. ; Boath, J. C. Freebairn,
Esq. ; Invershie, W. Evans, Esq., M.P. ; Pitmain, E. Lave-
rack, Esq., Messrs. Gladstone ; Kinrara, R. H. Clive, Esq.,
Mr. Ince, Mr. Merrick ; Torrish, H. W. Meredith, Esq. ,•
Gernserie, B. Borough, Esq. ; Auchintoul, Mr. Warter and
' friends • Erchless Castle, S. M. Boulderson, Esq., T. Bark-
worth, Esq.; Castle Leod, R. Reid, Esq., Mr. Granville, Mr.
West; Gruids, R. Johnson, Esq. ; Skiradvie, Mr. Tollemache ;
Kincraig, Lord Russell ; Glentilchan, Mr. Mercer, Mr. Wil-
liams; Lochindorb, Mr. Campbell of Blythswood ; Corrie-
mony, Sir E. Vaughan, Ralph Creyke, Esq.; Scatwell, Mr.
Petre ; Eskadale, Captain Mitford ; Relugas, George Orred,
Esq. ; Invercauld, Lord Castlereagh ' • Helmsdale, George
Alston, Esq. ; Logie, G. 11. M. Baker, Esq. ; Latheronwheel,
Mr. Grevilte ; Benevreic, Colonel Ross; Glenroy, B. North,
Esq. ; Loubcroy, J. M. E. Jones, Esq. ; Mamore, R. Blan-
chard, Esq.; Newtontnore, G. R. B. Berney, Esq.; Edinbein,
James Lockhart, Esq. ; Roseholl and Culrain, J. Jones
Esq., M. Steel, Esq., Mr. Lees; Calder, Halkirk, R.
Nicholson, Esq. ; Rothes and Birnie, Lord Saultoun ;
East Glentruim, Sir John Mackenzie; West Glentruim, E.
Macpherson, Esq., P. Purcell, Esq.; Crowdale, Mr. Bruce, of
Kennet; Guisachan, S. Steers, Esq.. W. Peel, Esq.; Belle-
ville, Mr. Macgildowny, Mr. M'G. Casement; Ardgour, Mr.
Montague, H. St. John, Esq.; Upper Lochtreig, H. Blair,
Esq. ; Inchrory, Lord W. Bentinck ; Attadale, P. Mitchell,
Esq. • Scourie, Sir. Taylor, R. S. Sitwell, Esq.
SHOOTING QUARTERS TAKEN FOR THE PRESENT
SEASON, AND ON LEASE.
Fasnakyle, Captain Inge, Lord Bateman, E. L. Gatacre,
Esq.; Kinlochchewe, C. G. Eversfield, Esq., Lord Paget,
Captain Blair, Captain Graham, Captain Lewis; Coigach.
'C. M. Campbell, Esq. ; Dalmagavie Messrs. La Touche ;
Grant Lodge, J. Vibart, Esq. ; Carr Bridge, Sir H. Wilmot,
Bart.; Aviemore, Mr. Gordon; Dulsie Bridge, Mr. Boden-
ham ; Gaick, Mr. Des Yaws; Glenbrean, W. B. Wain-
man, Esq.; Phoness and Dalwhinnie C. C. Martyn, Esq.;
Corrybroughmore, A. Macmahon, isq., Hon. W. Stuart ;
Farr, S. E. Colby, Esq., Captain Skinner; Sanquhar, Captain
Shawe ; Culnakyle, Hon. H. Coventry, Captain Ferguson ;
Langwell (Ross-shire), J. Robertson, Esq.; Upper Killin,
D. C. Majoribanks, Esq., Lord E. Hill, Mr. Broadhurst ;
Foyers, W. Ramsay, Esq. ; Lochalsh, E. Buxton, Esq.; Loch
Rosque, Captain Bishop, Mr. Ci idland, Major Merryweather,
Lord Suffield; Balblair, Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., Sir G.
Houston, Bart. ; Knocks-, J. W. Perry, Esq. ; Langwell
(Caithness), J. P. Wilson, Esq.; Mop Beg, George Orred,
Esq.; hlonalia, Hon. F. De Grey ' • Glenfintaig, B. Locke,
Esq. ; Glenevis, C. T. Master, Esq. ; Finzean, Messrs.
Callwell ; Blackball and Birse Forest, R. Winsloe,
Esq. ; Kiltarlity, E. Bligh, Esq. ; Banchor and Free,
C. Woodmas, RaCi., Mr. Erskine; Poolewe, Mr. Callender, A.
Houblon, Esq., Dr. Cumming; Dundonnell, Walter Boyd,
Esq. • Morar, J. G. Symons, Esq.; Auchinault, T. Garde,
Esq.,'W. G. Jackson, Esq., Mr. Power; Lower Killin, J. King,
Esq. ; Dummaglass and Aberchalder, S. D. Penrose, Esq.,
Mr. Wilson, C. F. Colmore, Esq., Captain Young; Strath-
tummel, L. Melville, Esq.; Glenlivat, C. Goring, Esq., M.P.;
Gledfield, J. A. Smith, Esq.; Craigguanach, It. N. Turnbull,
Esq. ; Lochshiel, S. Simpson, Esq.. ; Duntelchaig and 13u-
nachton, Mr. Grierson ;
Kellochy, W. E. Mackintosh, Esq.;
Stittenham, J. T. Tisdall,- Esq., Colonel Moore ; Torridon,
Walter Berwick, Esq.; Sir A. Humble, Mr. Macarthy ;
Strathaird, J. W. Eyton, Esq. ; Harris, Mr. Lloyd, R. M.
Leeke, Esq. • Achnacarry, Tomline ; Migavie, Captain
Downes ;
sidisser, Mr. Caldwell, Esq. ; Cantray, J. S.
Hodgson, Esq., Mr. Staunton ; Kilmorack, E. I. Collingwood,
Esq.; Diebdale and Salachie, M. W. Forde, Esq., J. F. Close,
Esq., Mr. Close • Dalmally, H. Brooke Esq. ; Loch Eilt, G.
Wood, Esq.; Dalcrombie and Dalbuie, Rev. J. S. Casborne ;
Errogie, Mr. Powell.
SPORTING PARTIES AT TIMM. OWN RESIDENCES.
Dunrobin Castle, the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Stafford ;
Armadale Castle, Lord Macdonald, Lord Cardigan ; Cawdor
Castle, Earl Cawdor, Lord Emlyn, Lord Thynne, Hon. A.
Campbell ; Beaufort Castle, Lord Lovat, the Master of Lovat,
Hon.— Fraser, Captain 511sstyn ; Glenquoich, Ellice, EA.,
; Rtrathconan,
oßalfour,_ the Marquis of Salisbury ;
TiriV_ I h
_Cr. I
JRoss, Col. 11. Ross ; Cluany, Mr. Mackenzie, Seafortho. ; Lewes, Mr. Denys,
g rry, the Marquis of Conyng-
ham,Msjor Houston ;
amieson, Mr. Hamilton ;
To-
matin, L. Maclean,
Glen i‘al
Cluny Castle, Cluny
Lord Hathert ' on, Earl of Leicester,
Tolls,
ElNalrri .
.5i Mathesonoutch e s
EMsq. P.: ;W. Baillie, Esq., Lord Gifford, the
Macpherson;
Johnrf 0 Bu
re, nEb o.
Duke of Manchester, Lord Grosvenor; Mow, H. W. White,
; _ uic art, Sir J. J. R. Mackenzie,
Esq. ; Clime. Mr. Mackintosh, of Balnespick ; Achany, James
Rhidarroch, J. H. Mackenzie, Esq.
L hl h
Matheson, Esq
Bart., J. Brown, Esq. ;

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LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, VOL. IX.
BY AGNZS STRICE:LAND.—The career of Mary of Modena,
Consort of the ill-fated James the Second, was so eventful,
that this volume,
which. is dedicated to her life, will prove
one of the most interesting of Miss Stickland's very interest-
ing series. History tells us but little of this unfortunate,
but noble•minded lady, and the greater portion of the facts
now laid before the
pul!lic have been sifted and selected from
the secret archives of .r ranee- One of the most interesting
extracts taken from this source is a part of a MS. diary, kept
by one of the nuns of Chaillot, of the sayings and doings of
the exiled Queen during her occasional retreat to that con-
vent, after the death of James the Second. This diary
throws great light upon the personal history of the royal ex-
iled family towards the latter part of their lives. To one of
her friends in the convent the Queen also addressed a vast
number of letters, from which we have copious extracts in
this volume. Miss Strickland, like a true woman, most
heartily sympathises with the fallen Stuarts. She would
have been a Jacobite a hundred years ago; now she speaks
with sympathy of the sorrows that are past, and dedicates
her book to the most illustrious of the House of Brunswick.—
Weekly Chronicle.

LITERATURE.

FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
The article entitled " Portugal and its late Rulers," in
the July number of the Foreign Quarterly, will be read
with much interest at the present time. It is a "full,
true, and particular account" of the career of the
Brothers Cabral, and we quite concur in opinion with
the writer, that

" Western Europe has offered no parallel in recent times
for the bare-faced effrontry with which official peculation and
venality have been practised during the last four years in
Portugal, where it was not one individual alone of a ministry,
but the majority of its members, who made either stock-
jobbing, or contract selling, or patronage vending, the great
business of their public lives ; and notwithstanding the noto-
riety of such practices, carried on year after year, they en-
joyed the favour of the court up to the latest moment, to an
extent unequalled by any former administration."
The government of the Cabrals

"Spring out of a rebellion planned by a disgraced employe,
the elder Cabral (Jeze Bernado da Silva Cabral) in 1842,
and executed by the younger brother, Antonio da Costa
Cabral (then Minister of Justice), who set the novel exam-
ple of abandoning his portfolio, to upset the Government of
which he was a member."

The elder brother Jose da Silva was originally an
official in the Court of Belaßoe of Oporto, and to which
post he had been appointed during the constitutional
regency, while at the same time his younger brother
Costa Cabral was appointed to a magisterial situation
in Penella. On the return of Don Miguel, Silva Cabral
became one of his most zealous partisans, and proclaimed
him as absolute King at Nellus, whilst Costa Cabral
remained a Pedroist and emigrated to Belgium.
Silva Cabral, at the fall of Don Miguel, passed over to
the winning side, and persuaded Don Pedro that all
through the reign of Don Miguel he had been secretly
attached to the Queen's cause. Don Pedro conferred on
him a magisterial office in Oporto, and here he exer-
cised his ingenuity in arresting Miguelites, and seizing '
their property for the State. A mysterious loss of much
of this property in its way from the coffers of the
Miguelites to the Treasury brought Silva Cabral into
bad odour, and he was dismissed from the office he held
in Oporto. Ile was, however, soon after appointed to
the office of Corregidor of the district of Ro9io, in the
neighbourhood of Lisbon, and here he imprisoned a
priest named Da Silva, and seized all his property, which
was of great value. In consequenee of the severities
exercised upon him, the unfortunate priest died. An in •
vestigation took place. The witnesses declared it was
their profound conviction " that the imprisonment
of the deceased priest had been concerted in order to ad-.
mit of those robberies being made, which were abetted
by the Corregidor," and the judges to whom the matter
was referred, decided against the Corregidor; and this is
the man who was recently appointed by the Queen of
Portugal, Minister of Justice and Religion. Costa
Cabral, on his return to Portugal, was appointed to a
judicial situation in the Azores, and was elected at..l)e-
-puty for St. Michael's to the Cortes. He distinguished
himself by the violence of his ultra democratical opinions,
and contributed largely to bringing about the revolution
of 1836. In the clubs he was constantly denouncir, for
assassination all those who opposed his views, and was
called, and seemed proud to be called, the Murat of Lis-
bon. Silva Carvalho had procured him his ap-
pointment to the Azores, and of course Silva Carvalho
was the object of his unceasing attacks. By Count
Bomfin he had been brought into the Ministry, and, of
course, he immediately commenced a series of intrigues
against him, which ended in the downfall of his ministry.
His influence over the King Consort became very great
in fact, the King was governed by his German favourite
Dietz and by Costa Cabral ; and, at length, while still
Cabinet Minister, he left Lisbon, and put himself at the
head of an armed force to destroy the government of
which he was a member, and to restore the charter of
Don Pedro, which he himself had helped to set aside in
1836. He succeeded, and for four years he and his
brother were ministers. "In that period he suspended
the Constitution three times, and caused the Queen to
affix her signature thirteen times to ordinances in vio-
lation of the written charter, which is the fundamental
law of the state." When he came into power he was
pennyless ; when he was expelled from Portugal, the
other day, by an indignant people, he was possessed of
large estates, large sums in the public securities, of a
castle at Thomar, and a palace in Lisbon,
the produce of the most barefaced peculation; and yet no
Minister ever received such support from the Court as
Cabral ; and it is to force him upon the unwilling Por-
tuguese people that the Spanish Government is at this
moment concentrating its forces on the Portuguese fron-
tier; and to support him that the Spanish Minister at
Lisbon, Gonzales Bravo, contrary to the law of nations,
interfered in the internal concerns of the State to which
he was accredited. This, however, may be accounted
for, by the fact, that Cabral is in league with
Dietz, the German favourite of the Portuguese
King, and that Diet; if not an agent of France,
is certainly. one of the warmest of the upholders
of French Influence and of French interference in
the affairs of the Peninsula. The article on the French
political preachers of the sixteenth century is worthy
of study. The writer clearly shows that the ob-
ject of the Guises and the League was to esta-
blish a sacerdotal democracy, and that the preachers
openly enforced the duty of assasssinating all
those opposed to them, as a " holy, heroic, praise-
worthy deed, which would assure Paradise to the per-
raior ; and one of the Garin declared, in a sermon,
that the family of Jacques Clement, the assassin of
Henry 111., ought to be ennobled. The massacre of St.
Bartholomew was constantly held up as an example
worthy to be followed ; and, even after the League
was suppressed by the firmness and wisdom of Henry
IV.,
.Boucher, one of these preachers, declaimed bitterly
against the edict of Nantes, and published a treatise in
defence of the attempt at regicide, made by Jean Cha-
tel, in 1595. The writer thus concludes :

" It is a history worthy of serious contemplation even in our
own times. But let us not forget, above all, that our fore-
fathers were watching with painful anxiety every phase of
this, to them, fearfully tragic story. Their faith and peace
were equally at stake. Spanish money was as actively. em-
ployed against Elizabeth as against Henri 111. or Henri IV.
The knife of the assassin had doubtless been more than once
prepared for her. Hundreds of cunning Jesuits and wily
preachers, educated expressly for the purpose, were sent into
this country in disguise, and were busily engaged in sowing,
in private the same seditious principles. A Ligue was prepared
for England, if it had succeeded in France. Let us not, then,
judge too rashly the statesmen, who, in condemning Mary
of Scotland, thought that the death of an ambitious woman,
a Guise by her mother's blood, a ready instrument in the
hands of her family, was necessary for the safety of their
country. The designs in which she partook were those of the
Spaniard, the pope, and the house of Lorraine; and when
she manifested her zeal for the establishment of the Catholic
church and the overthrow of heretics, it was to be done by
means such as those employed on the continent by Spain,
and the pope, and the Guises. It is thus that, at certain
periods, to understand our own history, it is necessary that
we should have something more than a superficial knowledge
of that of the surrounding nations."
In addition to these articles, we have an admirable
review of " Stoke's Discoveries in Australia," an inte-
resting" Biography of Herder," a stirring account of
the attempt of Burlamacchi at Lucca, in the year 1546,
to originate a movement for the nationalisation of Italy;
a learned review of the " Oxford Graduates ;" recently
published work on Modern Painters, and several amus-
ing notices of recent American publications.

THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. No. 11. New

Series.

A prosperous course seems to lie before this period
cal; and its contents, for excellence of writing, for
variety of contributions, and for uncynical morality,
justify the success which they promise. " Methodism as
it is," though of anything but general interest, is a paper
so agreeably compiled, that it will be perused with at-
tention, especially as it relates to a very large and in-
fluential body of our countrymen. Sane of its ani-
madversions are not altogether undeserved ; many of
them are richly merited. " The History of the Dog" is
a capital collection of memorabilia relating to that most
sagacious of animals ; but we marvel that the writer,
while referring to Youatt and Martin, as authorities,
entirely overlooked the recent and excentric narrative of
Jesse. There is likewise an elegant little dissertation
on the last twenty years of the reign of George 111., evoked
by the concluding volume of Mr. Knight's "Pictorial His-
tory of England." Never was any similar fragment of time
in the records of England, or possibly of Europe, so
' fraught with wonderful occurrences, or so remarkable
for an array of extraordinary personages. Parlia-
mentary oratory was then at its parehellion; Pitt, Fox,
Burke, and Sheridan, were as habitual haranguers
of the House at that period, as Russell, Hume,
Duncombe and Wakley are now-a-days. Poetry was
only second in excellence to the Shaksperian and Mil-
tonian eras : Coleridge, Shelley, Campbell, and Byron
issued their couplets as irregularly as Bulwer, Tenny-
son, Elliott, and the author of the " New Timon' " do
in our generation. The startling news of an Aus-
terlitz or a Trafalgar are now replaced by intel-
ligence of a division upon some free-trade ques-
tion, or (according to the mal adroit fasciousness
of Lord Brougham) the latest bulletin of the
potato disease. Hallam and Lingard in history ; Ilaz •
litt and Gifford in criticism ; Bentham in philosophy ;
Erskine in forensic and Hall in pulpit eloquence ; Mack-
intosh as a biographer ; Foster as an essayist,' then
occupied posts which are now almost vacant. Sydney
Smith was to his day what Punch is to ours. The
Waverley Novels were then devoured with avidity, like
that evinced by the public for Martin Chuzzlewit and
the like. Brougham and Jeffrey were then reviewers ;
their present representatives we cannot enumerate.
\Liss Mitford has beef succeeded by Miss Martineau ;
in lieu of Miss Edgeworth we have Mrs. Gore or the
Countess of Blessington. The parallel might be con-
tinued almost ad infinitum, and we fancy would not
be altogether uninstructive. The closing years of
George 111. are among. the most memorable lessons
of humanity •, and it is singular enough to
reflect how at that great epoch the imaginations of men
were filled by the names of two extraordinary charac-
ters, Napoleon and Byron—the one the hero of the
sword and of the sceptre, the other the hero of mis-
anthropy and the pen. With other contributions upon
Thomas Cartwright, the Argentine Republic, &c., the
Eclectic Review is readable and instructive.

BORDEAUX AND ITS WINES. By C. Cocks.
Those who relish that most flavourous of all beverages,
claret, will relish this very agreeable volume. And who,
we should like to know, does not relish claret? If there
actually be any individual with a palate so callous as not
to be tickled by the tine-juice of Medoc, we should be
uncommonly glad of an introduction to him, and should
prize his friendship as that of an unique specimen of hu-
manity. Everybody at all worthy of being considered as
anybody has admired the ingenuity with which Sinbad
the Sailor got rid of the Old Man of the Sea, by present-
ing him with a calabash of wine ; and we could scarcely,
take upon ourselves to blame the old gentleman, supposing
the wine in question were such wine asLafite, or Chateaux-
Margaux, or Latour, or Haut-Brion. The book, now
lying open before us., has a kindred ripeness with the fruit-
age of which it is commemorative ; the descriptions con-
tained IA its pages come u glibly and as pleasantly from

the tongue of the writer as its subject may be presumed
to tickle over the tongue of the reader. Mr. Cocks has
evidently undertaken his account of "Bordeaux, its
' Wines, and the Claret Country," with an epicurean
gusto, and he knows moreover precisely which infurina-
tion to introduce, and how it should be introduced. To
our thinking there is nothing whatever superfluous in
his chapters, nor are their contents in any instance su-
perficial. The theme is ostensibly familiar to the author,
and he treats it well ; and it' the conceit may be
permitted, we should say that he treats it so well
because it is so familiar. A history of Bordeaux,
with which the volume commences, is singularly
interesting ; it describes the growth of that beautift.l
town, from the period when it was denominated Burdi-
gala of the Romans, down to its reception of the Dukes
de Nemours and d'Auinale in IS-15. Besides this, we :.re
regaled with a charming narrative of its antiquities, its
modern buildings, the character and customs of its in-
habitants, its system of public instructions, and the cele-
brated personages of which it is the birthplace; among
whom should be especially mentioned the renowned
"Legislator of Nations," Charles Secondat Montesquieu.
A railway trip to La Teste, and an excursion by steamer
to Royan, filllow, and thereupon the reader is inducted to
the pith of the whole performance—a description of the
qualities, the localities, the seasons, and the manufacture
of claret. Separate accounts are devoted to the six great
wine districts of Upper Medoc, namely, the Arrondisse-
ments of Bordeaux, Lesparre, Libourne, La Reole, Ba-
ses, and Blaye. Of the manner of the composition, we
shall afford our readers some inkling by transcribing the
accounts of the ceremonies, of the vintage, and of the
preparations necessary before the pressure of the grapes,
and the fermentation of the liquid that exudes upon that
pressure. The following is more than merely graphic ;
it is photo-graphic:--
"The vintagers are disposed in the following manner. The
women and children arc employed to cut off the grapes.
They ought to reject and pick away whatever is defective,
unripe, parched, or rotten : one cutter is allotted to every
row of vines, and the grapes thus cut are put into baskets.
For every eight rows of vine there are two carriers of bastes,
or buckets, thirty or thirty-two of which make a charge' or
load, which again is composed of two small tubs, called do-
nilles, placed on a cart. A carrier, termed a ridepanier, re-
ceives the basket of every vintager, as soon as it is full, and
empties it into the bucket, which is carried on the back of
another, to be emptied into the tubs placed in the cart. A
commandant, or inspector, is set over every twelve rt'ges, whose
duty is to hasten the cutters, and to see that they do not
forget any of the grapes. When the two tubs on the cart
are full, the bowler, or ox• driver, conveys the load to the
cuvier, a spacious outhouse, where the wine is made.

" When the tubs have arrived in the caner they are re-
ceived by four or live men, who empty their contents into
the pressoir, or wine-press, which is made either of wood or
stone, and composed of four sides, sixteen inches high, and
joined at right angles, having a bottom of nine square feet;
this press is about two feet from the ground, and slightly in-
clines towards the front. The men next scrape the grapes
off the stalks; this is done either with rakes, or by rubbing
the bunches on a wire sieve. The stalks having been carried
away into another press to drain, the grapes are thrown into
a heap, and trodden by the men, who, bare legged, and fol-
lowing each other, tread round the base of the heap till the
whole is gradually levelled and crushed. Some proprietors
are averse to the fouluge, or treading of grapes : confining
the operation to the egrappage, or scraping the grapes from
the stalks, they instantly pour the fruit entire into the vat.
While this operation is being performed, a hole in the front
of the press allows the moot, or juice, to escape into a tub,
called
.gargouille. The men empty this juice into long
buckets, termed comportes, which are traversed near the top
by a long stick, for the purpose of being carried by two men,
who pour the juice into the caves or vats. It is usual to fill
these vats only to within fifteen inches of the top; otherwise
there would be a risk of losing much wine at the time of
fermentation."
Mr. Cocks has presented to merchants and connoiseurs
in wine a volume for which they will be grateful, and in
recommending it as we have done, we cannot surely be
performing any disservice to the advocates of total absti-
nence. For the teetotallers, as a body, we entertain
feelings of the most unaffected respect, but the teetotal-
lers themselves cannot but acknowledge, that, taken in
moderation, wine may be eminently beneficial, and that
a supreme authority has declared that it " maketh glad
the heart of man!" This volume cannot therefore promm,
in any particular, prejudicial.

GAUGE EVIDENCE. The History and Prospeets
of the Railway System, Illustrated by the Evidence
given before the Gauge Commission. By Samuel
Sidney, Author of " Bristol, a Free Port," c.
We have here the gauge evidence arranged under the
separate heads of " Narrow Gauge Evidence," " Uni-
formity of Gauge Evidence," " Intermediate Gauge
Evidence," and " Broad Gauge Evidence." The evi-
dence is preceded by a brief history of the gauge ques-
tion, in which the author avows himself a " Narrow
Gauge Man," and it is illustrated by a map, showing
the territories of the respective gauges.