The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-25 00:00:00

CIRENCESTE-IiELECTION.

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CIRENCESTER, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAT 24.—
The polling for this borough commenced this morning
at eight o'clock, but it was a remarkable fact that at
that period none of Mr. Ponsonby's voters were at the
hustings, thus allowing his opponent to commence by
leading the poll, which lead was kept throughout the
day. The circumstance of a contested election here is
a rare one, there having been nothing like a contest
since 1812. The number of registered electors is,
478 ; of which, of course, some were double votes
and deaths, &e., reduce that number to 458, while 392
actual votes have been polled, so that it may be said
that the constituency has been nearly polled out. The
state of the poll at the close was—
Mullins 262
Ponsonby 130
Majority ... •• • —432

YORK CITY ELECTION.
(yßom OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
On Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, the Sheriff
proceeded to the hustings, and there declared officially
that William Edward Mordaunt Milner, Esq., was elected
the representative of the city of York.
The numbers were—
Mr. Milner ............... 1,505
Mr. Vincent ............ 860
Mr. Wilkins ..... . ...... 57

Mr. MILNER briefly returned thanks to the electors,
assuring them he would use his utmost endeavours to
serve their best interests in Parliament.
Mr. Vincent and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins also addressed
the electors, and subsequently Mr. George Leeman in a
speech which was loudly cheered.
The several candidates then walked from the hust-
ings. Much excitement prevailed amongst the Chartists,
and special constables were called out during the after-
noon and evening to preserve the public peace.

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DROTIIIIRS AND SISTERS, A TALE OF DOMESTIC
LIFE. BY FREDRIRA BREMER, TRANSLATED BY MARY
HOWITT.—The works of our Swedish novelist are all
delightful—pure, natural, and life-like, as one of Mor-
land's pictures. Like all original minds she has in-
vented a new school of novels, which has obtained the
adhesion of many excellent writers. " The Neigh-
bours " and " The Home" by this lady have enchanted
every one by the truth and beauty of the domestic life
they paint; and "Brothers slid Sisters" will also share
in the popularity those have acquired, as it
possesses
the like qualities, and at the same time embraces that
—wirithestdeerldigayht, this work.—
social element which is so characteristic of the present
time. Those who love that most beautiful of all sights,
at one o'clock,
their annual
meeting in the council-room of the society, Soho-square
td receive the report for the past year.
the members of the Linnean Society held
The Bishop of
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Her Yd
LC family,hr:u' S:ol will
1 ar Te read
Norwich, the President, in the chair. Mr. T. S. Ben-
nett, the secretary, read the report, from which it ap-
peared that a considerable addition had been made to
the collection of the society, by the presentation of va-
rious learned and philosophical documents, &c., from the
Royal Acadamy of Science at Munich, and from other
associations on the Continent of Europe and of England.
The receipts amounted to 7981. 19s. 4d., including 167/.
16s. Bd., last year's balance, 108/, admission fees, and
383/. contributions. The balance this year in favour of
the society was only 98/. 11s., while the debt had in-
creased from. 350/. Bs. 4d. to 9561. Bs. 4d. The officers
of the society were elected, when thanks were voted to
the Right liev. Prelate, and the meeting separated.

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,rf, :IRELAND,
'HEM) POLICE-OFFICR—DuinIN, MAY 23.

At the sitting of the urigistrates this morning, the
case of Mr. Devin Reilly (who was arrested yesterday
.afternoon, at Newgate, whilst visiting Mr. Alitchel),
charged with violating the provisions of the Act of the
60th George 111., which prohibits "training, drilling,
&c.,” was gone into.
The first witness called was Inspector Walpole, who
deposed to the general facts of the case.
The second witness (Constable Perry) was examined
by Mr. Porter, the magistrate, and stated that he heard
Mr. Reilly make use of the words with which he was
charged in the informations. He further stated that he
heard the chairman of the meeting declare that " he was
the open enemy of the British power in this country—
that he was prepared for the flash of the sabre, tut not
for the dagger of the assassin."
The constable was cross-examined at some length by
lir' Reilly, who defended himself, as to the construction
of those words.
Cross-examination continued—l saw you at the head
of the club: it was necessary, of course, that the club
should march down the street leading to the meeting,
but they turned as orderly as any body of the metropo-
litan police, and perhaps more so; whatever the purpose
of the club was in going to the meeting:, it was improved
y this military order; I could not Undertake to say
whether you wore present when the chairman's speech
was delivered.
Mr. PORTER—I have evidence to prove that you were
seen going into the meeting, and coming away after its
termination.
Mr. DEVIN REILLY—I wish to ask your Worship what
course • you intend to pursue? How can Mr. Dillon's
speech affect me?
Mr. POIZTER—I do not say that Mr. Dillon's speech
is the principal ingredient in this case; but so far as I
understand the transactions of the meeting in question,
It would be evidence either for you or against you.
Mr. REILLY—If it made no alteration in the crime
with which I am charged, I would make no objection to
what Mr. Dillon said; but if it did, that would alter the
case.
Mr. PORTER--I think it has some connexion with
your case. •
Mr. REILLY, to witness—Did you see any other clubs
but mine?
Constable—No; I was attached to yours alone.—
(Laugh ter.)
Mr. PORTER—Oh, you were an attache, then.,---(Loud
laughter.)
Inspector Little was then examined, for the purpose
of proving that the words alleged to b© used by Mr.
Reilly were military phrases. Witness stated that he
had been twenty years in the army, and was, conse-
quently, competent to give an opinion on the matter;
but, at the same time, he did not consider her Majesty's
troops had an exclusive right to all the words in the
English language. The phrases, " right shoulders—
forward," and "left wheel," were military terms at pre-
sent in use in the British army.
The witness was cross-examined at considerable length
by Mr. Reilly, but the interrogation was purely of a
technical character.
Mr. REILLY—If you saw a number of men marching
to a funeral, as is common with Tontine Societies, &c.,
and if you saw them marching two and two, would you
consider it a military movement?
Witness—l would not.
Mr. REILLY—Do you consider the fact of attending a
meeting held for the purpose of denouncing jury-
packing to be a military movement?
Witness—lt would depend on the course of proceed-
ing adopted.
A discussion subsequently took place between Mr.
Reilly and Mr. Porter, as to the construction of the Act,
in which Mr. Dillon (barrister) took a part. His Wor-
ship having read the preamble and several sections of the
statute, and commented upon them, concluded by saying
that he conceived there had been a prima facia case
made out against the prisoner, and that, consequently,
he was obliged to send the case for investigation else-
where.
Mr. REILLY—I have bail here, your Worship.
Mr. PORTER—With regard to that, I believe the
practice to be this, that when the Court to which these
informations will be returned is actually sitting, to refer
the whole matter to it at once. I will return you at
once to the Clerk of the Crown, and send you for trial
at the present commission.
Mr. REILLY—You refuse bail?
Mr. DILLON—I believe the case cannot be tried at this
commission.
Mr. PORTER—There is nothing at all to hinder it. It
can be tried, if Mr. Reilly choose.
Mr. REILLY—Oh, I will not choose.—(Laughter,)
Mr. PORTER—You have the power to traverse in prox.
Mr. DILLon—Do you not think bail ought to be taken?
Mr. PORTER—That is a question for the Court.
Mr. REILLY—Where am Ito go to—is it to Newgate?
Mr. PORTER—Yes.
A committal was then made out, and Mr. Reilly was
conveyed to prison.

MR. MITCHEL'S CASE.
This day, at half-past ten o'clock, at the sitting of the
Commission Court, the Clerk of the Crown called upon
the keeper of Newgate Prison to put forward the person
of John Mitchel, upon which Mr. Mitchel advanced to
the front of the dock, where he remained standing for a
few minutes, and then took the seat provided for him.
Sir COLMAN O'LOOHLEN rose and said, ho moved
that the indictment should be quashed, upon the
grounds ho had stated yesterday, which were,
that two distinct felonies could not bo charged
in the same indictment, and he submitted that
upon a rule of law it was quite clear the prose-
cutor was not at liberty to charge two separate and dis-
tinct felonies in the same indictment. He did not allege
that there was anything illegal in charging two felonies
in the same indictment,
.because it might not be an ob-
jection in the case of an arrest of judgment or a writ of
error. It was not usual to quash an indictment in cases
of high treason, except when error had arisen, or upon
motion before the Court. The Learned Baronet at some
length contented that the prosecutor should be put upon
his election, and cited several cases in support of his
argument.
Mr. O'IIAGAN followed on the same side, and cited a
case in which Chief Justice Mauls had decided a case
similar to the present in favour of the accused, and con-
cluded by contending that Mr. Mitchel was entitled to
forty challenges on the array, twenty challenges on each
of the felonies charged.
Baron LEIROY, in giving judgment, said he did not
think it necessary to call upon the Attorney-General to
reply. There did not exist any inconsistency or repug-
nancy in the two felonies charged in the indictment. The
two felonies charged only varied the offence but did
not vitiate the indictment. The Learned Baron re-
ferred to cases in support of his judgment, and to the
long experience had in the administration of the 'White-
boy Acts, under which a variety of the same offences
might be charged in the same indictment—such as
assembling together in arms by day or night—malicious
assault on habitation—going into a house, and although
not committing an assault, to carry away property with-
out the consent of the owner—by administering unlawful
oaths—and by various other offences for which the
Whiteboy Acts provide, might be all included in the
same indictment, by which a variety of the same offences,
and not separate and distinct offences, might be charged.
On those grounds, the Learned Baron refused to quash
the indictment.
Judge MOORE fully concurred in the decision pro-
nounced by his Learned Brother, Lefroy.
Sir COLMAN O'LOGHLEN then applied for liberty to
demur to the indictment, and plead over to the felony.
The grounds on which he applied for the demurrer were,
that in the indictment the time and place at which the
alleged offences had been committed were net sufficiently
stated and set forth. He was f
per ect y aware that the
day was not material in every case ; but still the day
should be stated in every indictment on which the alleged
offence had been committed. Ho merely submitted that
the demurrer should be received pro forma, and the
prisoner would plead over to the felony.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said that, if Sir Colman
O'Loghlen would persist in the demurrer, he would ask
the Court for formal judgment in the event of the de-
murrer not being well founded ; or if it were the
Learned Baronet's intention to try the general issue, the
Crown was ready to join in that issue at once.
After a desultory argument, in which Mr. Henn and
the Attorney-General, on the part of the Crown, and
Sir Colman O'Loghlen, on the part of the prisoner, i
took part,
The COURT decided that if the demurrer were to be
argued, judgment of either guilty or not guilty should
follow.
Sir C. O'Locitrxx asked leave for till to-morrow
morning to plead or to demur.
The ATTORNEY•GINERAL opposed the application for
further delay.
Baron LENaGY suggested that if the prisoner would
now plead, and be at liberty to withdraw that plea and
demur on the general grounds, he thought there would
be no objection at either side.
Counsel at both sides having assented to the suggea.
tion of the Learned Baron,
The Clerk of the Crown called upon Mr. Mitchel,
saying, " You have heard the indictment read yester-
day ; what say you—guilty or not guilty 2"
Mr. Mitchel—Not guilty.
The COURT then decided that the prisoner should have
until four o'clock this day to withdraw his plea of not
guilty, or proceed with the demurrer.
Four o'clock—ln accordance with the arrangement
entered into this morning,
Sir COUsiN O'LoGELEN stated that, on the;:part of
the prisoner, he would, with the permission of the
Court, request that the plea of not guilty should stand,
and that he and his Learned Friends Messrs. Holmes,
°Eagan, and Pigott would be ready to conduct the
defence of his client on whatever day the Court would
appoint for his trial.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said considerable interrup-
tion might be given to the proceedings by challenges to
the array, and the arguments that might arise on that
question, and as term would sit on Friday, it would be
desirable to have that case disposed of as soon as possi-
ble. It was not his intention to deny a reasonable time
to counsel for the prisoner to prepare his defence, and
he thought, under all the circumstances, the Court
would not consider him precipitate in applying for a
trial to-morrow.
It was ultimately decided by the Court that the trial
should take place on Thursday morning next, at ten
o'clock.

SURPLUS FUNDS FROM INSOLVENT ESTATES.—It
is the intention of Government to authorise the payment
of 21,3001. out of the surplus funds in the hands of
the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court,
arising from insolvent estates, in the purchase of the
freehold house, No. 34, Lincol's Inn-fields (the resi-
dence of the late Mr. Baron Gurney), for the in-
creased duties of the court, in consequence of the re-
cent Act of Parliament, including the cost of fitting
up and furnishing the same as courts and offices.
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r , THE QUARTERLIES.
771 E EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXXT7I. 7I
THE Q UAR TERL Y REVIEW. No. C I.XI V.
THE WESTITINSTER REVIEIV. No. XCVI.
THE BRITISH QUARTERLY RE VIEIV. No.
XIV.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND REVIEW W.
No. XL VI.
THE NORTH BRITISH RE VIE TV for May.
Several bulky volumes by Caxton or Wynkin de
Worde would scarcely furnish such a mass of writing
as is here contained in these quarterly publications—
publications which form only a single phase in our
periodical literature. Of itself this circumstance
alone would be significant of the spread of intelli-
gence, but the marvel. of the thing is strongly
enhanced when we consider the diversity of the
subjects and the brilliancy (in some instances) of the
style which are lavished in their production. In
biography we have sometimes the compactness of
Southey and the analytic skill of Plutarch. In
criticism the subtlety of Dacier and the precision of
Gifford. In metaphysics the depth of Coleridge and
the imaginativeness of Richter. In papers of a
humorous character, the terseness of Swift, the sly.
ness of Sterne, the eccentricity of Rabellais, and the
homeliness of Smollett. We shall not be accused of
having here pronounced any very exaggerated pane-
gyric upon the Quarterlies when it is remembered
that among the contributors to those publications
have been numbered within the last forty years such
men as Brougham, Jeffrey, Macintosh, Walter Scott,
Sydney Smith, Lockhart, Macaulay, Robert Southey
himself (one of the most exquisite prose writers in
the language), Chalmers, Leigh Hunt, and a multi
tude of others. Latterly, however, we cannot pre-
sume to speak in terms so unconditionally eulogistic,
although the sparkling mannerisms of Mr. Charles
Buller and the scholastic diction of Lord John
Russell have embellished the Whig organ at intervals.
In the number for the April quarter of the Edinburgh
is a noble and scholarly disquisition on the " Genius
of Plato." After mentioning the unsatisfactory
translation of Floyer Sydenham and the almost
insane paraphrase of Thomas Taylor, the writer
laments that England has not yet given birth to a
creditable translator, of the great disciple of Socrates
—whereas France has long since done so in the
person of Victor Cousin, and Germany in the person
of Schleiermacher. This reminder should be enough
to arouse the industry of some man whose acquaint-
ance with the Greek tongue may approximate in
some measure to the familiarity of Porson. As a
striking contrast we presume, this article is imme-
diately followed by a delightful and gossiping remi-
niscence of " Coleridge and Southey." Willingly,
nay gladly—for the honour of Joseph Cottle, the
publisher of Bristol, and still more for the honour of
Southey, for whose memory we have individually but
little sympathy and politically none whatever—do we
transcribe the followinganswer
Cottle that on retiring beautiful
muiat fbuuls
iandn regrete s
sne oxhbpelree-hshsaeedadr t
notbeyd
returned the copyright of his works to Southey.
lett hose
lliloehreeritt
who
now read it remember that
turnienygetso
thatdust, l
eheakde
led
heart that throbbed ,
kindly, and a hand that had
a frankand
" My dear Cottle,--What you sa
for those he loved when living: and cordial grasp
of copyrights
affects me very much. Dear Cottle,y 3 ra-set your.
They wereh
heart at
m te
yours;rest on
fairlythat subject.
bought
alntd oughtfai
rfairly
to
sobl
de. at
You
rest.
bought
on the chance of their success, which no Londo
book-
seller would have done; and had they not been bought,
they could not have been published at all. Nay, if .0
had not published ' Joan of Arc,' the poem would never
have existed, nor should I, in all probability, ever have
obtained that reputation which is the capital on which I
subsist, nor that power which enables me to support it.
" But this is not all. Do you suppose, Cottle, that I
have forgotten those true and essential acts of friendship
which you showed me when I stood most in need of
them? Your house was my house when I had no other.
The very money with which I bought my wedding-ring,
and paid my marriage fees, was supplied by you. It was
with your sisters that I left my Edith during my six
months' absence; and for the six months after ray
return, it was from you that I received, week by week,
the little on which we lived, till I was enabled to live by
other means. It is not the settling of our cash account
that can cancel obligations like these. You are in the
habit of preserving your letters, and if you are not, I
would entreat you to preserve this, that it might be seen
hereafter. Sure I am, that there never was a more
generous nor a kinder heart than yours; and you will
believe me when I add that there does not live that man
upon earth, whom I remember with more gratitude and
more affection. My heart throbs, and my eyes burn
with these recollections. Good night, my dear cid friend
and benefactor. " ROBERT SOUTHEY."
This letter deserves to be remembered when the back-
slidings, the bigotry, and the tergiversation of the
writer is forgotten. Another attractive contribution
to the Edinburgh is the one devoted to the "French
Republicans ;" it is a rapid but_ careful narrative of
the labours and the consistencies of those indefatiga-
ble democrats. Among the more characteristic effu-
sions in the Quarterly, the very foremost is certainly
the one respecting " Count Montholon and Sir Hudson
Lowe." It has all the dogmatism of the political
fanatic in its manner, all the petulance of a declaimer
ill at ease in his conscience, all the implacability of
the partizan, and all the elaboration of the special-
pleader. A hint or two is thrown out incidentally as
to the revelations which are to be expected in the forth-
coming memoirs of the infamous Sir _Hudson Lowe.
Rumour already begins to mutter dark inuendoes as
to the disclosures preparing for the world in this very
veracious production. It is said even (not, be it &-
served, in the Quarterly, but in the whispered conver-
sations of society,) that documents are there to meet
the light betraying the existence of a conspiracy on
the part of the Whigs during the days of Bathurst—
a conspiracy in which are implicated such important
members of the present Administration, as the Lord
President of the Council, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
then Lord Henry Petty—a conspiracy between the
Whigs and Bonaparte for the liberation of the latter
from Saint Helena! As Thersites exclaimed in a
paroxysm of ironical indignation—"Lo, 10, 10, 10,
what modicums of wit he utters !" A Whig con-
spiracy for the liberation of Bonaparte from Saint
Helena! If it were for the alleviation of the martyr-
dom of greatness, glory, say we, be to the memory of
those Whig conspirators ! But manifestly the com-
plicity of Lord Lansdowne in the supposititious scheme
is alluded to by the deceased Gaoler of Longwood,
for the purpose of raising a suspicion of Whig
patriotism, and of gratifying his own base avidity for
vengeance even in the darkness of his ignoble tomb.
It is but of a piece with his despicable career that the
after-thought of the life of Sir Hudson Lowe should
be that of posthumous slander. Repeating, however,
the words already uttered by one of our contempora-
ries, we turn from the contemplation of the career of
Sir Hudson Lowe to some more savoury theme,
with one simple ejaculation—" Peace to his
infamous remains!" In a criticism on Alfred
Tennyson's " Princess " a criticism which
has the advantage of being neither a pa-
negyric nor a hyper-criticism, but a judicious
mixture of praise and exception—the character of
Ida is brought by one simple comparison thoroughly
to the comprehension of the unreading few. The
comparison is this, that the Princess bears a striking
resemblance to Dabnecker's Ariadne—that matchless
creation of the sculptor—that soulless form of beauty
carved in marble, to which Dannecker in his old age
and his madness used to send " his love." There
are two delightful chapters on antique lore in the
very commencement of this number of the Quarterly
—chapters such as would have puzzled Edie Ochil-
tree more than the Roman encampment. These are
articles on ', Antiquarian Club Books," and on
' Scotch
Topography and Statistics." Those who
in tombs
relish the records of antiquity and " the old historic
scrolls,"
which preserve the evanescence of the past
of grey dust and yellow parchment, will
,delight in papers so fraught with venerable facts and
recollections. " Eastlake on Oil-Painting " is a fair
artistic memento, and the disquisition on " Our Mi-
litary Establishments—Artillery," is not the less
attractive from being preceded by the pacific
speeches of Mr. Cobden, and the warlike move-
ments on the Continent. At the conclusion
of the present instalment of our old Con-
servative contemporary there is a biographic
commemoration of Lord Ilervey, followed by a
Copious narrative of the "French Revolution of 1848."
From the multiplicity of the accounts of this great
political explosion, however, which have appeared
since the three days of February, it is idle to enter
intoa new description of events now patent to every-
body's understanding. It is impossible not to detect
a restrained joy on the part of the Quarterly at the
dewnfal of • a parvenu dynasty, and especially at
the disgrace which has fallen upon the head of the
Ring of the bourgeoisie: Another, and if possible, a
still more elaborate statement of the rise, progress,
and consequence of the Paris Revolution is given as a
sort of appendix to the Westminster Review. The
paper which is addressed to M. Albert Ouvrier, in
another part of the same periodical, reads like a satiric
burlesque, now that we think of Albert confined as a
conspirator in the dungeons of Vincennes for his dis-
graceful and treacherous participation in the riots of
the 15th of May. Again, the somewhat eulogistic
notice of M. Louis Blanc in reference to .his Organi-
zation du Travail is of a very mock-heroic cha-
racter when we bear in remembrance the cowardly
conduct of this eccentric little gentleman on the
evening of that same deplorable but glorious day.
A better judgment on the part of the editor of the
Westminster Review is displayed in the remaining
contributions, the very best of which is the memoir
of the career and character of Lord Sidmouth.
Among the foreign works reviewed, in the supple-
mental pages of the Foreign Quarterly, are Amari's
" Sicilian History," Cotta's "Doctrine of Education,"
1 and Lewald's "Italian Picture Book." Three men
of a very different calibre of intellect, of a very diffe-
rent reputation, and of a very different disposition,
obtain their due meed of eulogium in the British
Quarterly Review, , Sir James Brooke, the, Raja of
... ;.; ,:,t,cm, Loa (noisetossa e

Akftl.Ull!)

Sarawak•, is one ; Charles Lamb, the essayist, is an-
other, and Samuel Warren, the barrister and novelist
is another. The civilizer of Bor

justly, for his'expedition into the
pelago ; Mr. Warren, for his sum
fiction of " Now and Then," and

dear Charles Lamb—for his exube:

forced pathos, and his odd, sparklinL
boundless wit. One quotation from
respondence of Elia, we are grateful
bringing to our recollection. It is
letter to Bernard Barton, the Qualc,

overflowing with humour—that dry,
humour in which Charles Lamb was absolutely, and
will for ever be unrivalled—that.we transcribe it pere
without one word of comment, and certainly without
one syllable of apology :
" I have not a thing to say; nothing is of more im-
portance than another; I am flatter than a denial or a
pancake; emptier than Judye 's wig when die head
Is in it; duller than a country stage when the actors are
ofY it; a cipher—an 0: I acknowledge life at all, only by
an occasional convulsional cough, and a permanent
phlegmatic pain in the chest. lam weary of the world,
and the world is weary of me. My day is gone into
twilight, and I don't think it worth the expanse of
candles. My wick hath a thief in it, but I can't muster
courage to snuff it. I inhale suffocation; I can't distin-
guish veal from mutton ; nothin4 interests me. Tis
twelve o'clock, and Thurtell is just now coming out
upon the New Drop, Jack Ketch alertly tucking up his
greasy sleeves to do the last office of mortality, yet can-
not I elicit a groan or a moral reflection. If you told me
the world will be at end to-morrow,' I should just say,
‘Vill it?' I have not volition enough telt to dot my i's,
much less to comb my eyebrows; my eyes are set in my
head; my brains are gone out to see a poor relatioh in
Moorfields, and they did not say when they'd come back
again ; my skull is a Grub-street attic to let—not so
Much as a joint stool left in it; my hand writes, not I;
just as chichens run about a little, when their heads arc oft.
0 for a vigorous fit of gout, of cholic, toothache!—an
earwig in my auditory, a fly in my visual organs; pain is
life—the sharper, the more evidence of life; but this
apathy, this death! Did you ever have an obstinate
cold—a six or seven weeks' unintermitting chill and sus-
pension of hope, fear, conscience, and everything?- Yet
do I try all I can to cure it; I try wine, and spirits, and
smoking, and snuff in unsparing quantities, but they all
only seem to make me worse instead of better. I sleep
in a damp room, but it does me no good; I come home late
o'nights, but do not find any visible amendment!' "
That reminiscence of Lamb too is delightful about
his dissuasion to Manning as to his visiting China,
where he added—" Some say they are cannibals, and
then conceive a Tartar-fellow eating my friend,
and adding the cool malignity of mustard and
vinegar !" Besides the everlasting " French Revo-
lution in 1848" there is a political theme in the pre-
sent number of considerable interest—" Italy ; ita
State and Prospects" a subject of peculiar interest
just now,: from the victories of Carlo Alberto in
Lombardy, and the reconciliation of Pio Nono and
his people at Rome. It is not unagreeable to turn
front the contemplation of these bewildering move-
ments on the continent of Europe to such topics as
" Animal Psychology" and the " Result of German
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inexhaustible theme of journalists, " The French
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