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LITERATURE.

suspicion, I had accustomed the boatmen to row me
across the river of a night, under pretence of a sporting
expedition, taking cold provisions and a rifle with me, t
give it a better colour.' That pretext, however, could
scarcely be expected to pass current on the inclement
night, when he ventured the passage of those wintry
waters with the fugitive Queen and her babe. It was
then, evidently a case of life and death, and the boatmen
must have been paid accordingly, for they incurred some
danger themselves. The night was wet and stormy, and
so dark,' continues St. Victor, that when we got into
the boat we could not see each other, though we were
closely seated, for the boat was very small.' Thus with
literally only one frail plank between her and eternity,'
did the Queen of Great Britain cross the swollen waters
of the Thames, with her tender infant of six months old
in her arms, with no better attendance than his nurses,
no other escort than the Count de Lauzun, and the writer
of this narrative, who confesses, that he felt an extreme
terror at the peril to which he saw personages of their
importance exposed, and that his only reliance was in
the mercy of God, by whose especial providence,' he
says, we were preserved, and arrived at our desti-
nation.'
" A. curious print of the times represents the boat in
danger, and the two gentlemen assisting the rowers, who
are labouring against wind and tide. The Queen is
seated by the steersman, enveloped in a large cloak, with
a hood drawn over her head; her attitude is expressive of
melancholy, and she appears anxious to conceal the little
Prince who is asleep on her bosom, partially shrouded
among the ample folds of her draperies. The other two
females betray alarm. The engraving is rudely executed,
and it is printed on coarse paper; but the design is not
without merit, being bold and original in conception and
full orpaskon. It was probably intended as an appeal to
the sympathies of the humbler classes on behalf of the
royal fugitive.
" Our passage,' says the conductor of the enterprise,
' was rendered very difficult and dangerous by the vio-
lence of the wind, and the heavy and incessant rain.
When we reached the opposite bank of the Thames, I
called aloud by name on Monsieur Dusions, the page of
the backstairs, who ought to have been there waiting
with a coach and six, which had been engaged by
Count de Lauzun. The page answered promptly, but
told them that the coach was still at the inn, Thither
Sr. Victor ran to hasten it, leaving Lauzun to protect
the Queen. Her Majesty, meantime, withdrew herself
and her little company, under the walls of the old church
at Lambeth, without any other, shelter from the wind
and bitter cold, or any other consolation than that the
rain had ceased.'
" On that spot, which has been rendered a site of
historic interest, by this affecting incident, the beauti-
ful and unfortunate consort of the last of our Stuart
kings remained standing, with her infant son fondly
clasped to her bosom, during the agonising interval of
suspense caused by the delay of the coach, dreading
every moment that he would awake and betray them by
his cries. Her apprehension was unfounded. He had
slept sweetly, while they carried him in the dead of
night from his palace nursery to the water side; neither
wind nor rain had disturbed him, he had felt none of
the perils or difficulties of the stormy passage, and he
continued wrapt in the same profound repose during this
anxious pause, alike unconscious of his own reverse of
fortune, and his mother's woe.
" Mary Beatrice is said to hare looked back with
streaming eyes towards the royal home where her be-
loved consort remained, lonely and surrounded with
perils; and that she vainly endeavoured to trace out the
lights of Whitehall, among those that were reflected
from the opposite shore, along the dark rolling river.
The historians of that period declare, that the Queen
remained an hour under the walls of the old church with
her babe, waiting for the coach which through some
mistake never came, and that a hackney coach was, at
last, procured with difficulty. This was not the case,
for St. Victor found the co.lch and six all ready at the
inn, which was within sight of the river: the delay,
therefore, must have been comparatively brief, but when
time is measured by the exigency of circumstances, mi-
nutes are lengthened into hours.
" The haste and agitation in which St. Victor ap-
peared, when he came to inquire after the coach, com-
bined with his foreign accent and idiom, excited ob-
servation, meantime, in the inn-yard, where a man
with a lantern was on the watch, and when he saw the
coach and six ready to stert, ran out to reconnoitre, and
made directly towards the spot where the queen was
standing. went,' says St. Victor, ' with all speed
on the other side of the way, fearing that he would re-
cognise the party on the bank. When I saw that he
was actually approaching them, I made as if I wished to
pass him, and put myself full in his path, so that we
came in contact with each other, fell, and rolled in the
mud together. We made mutual apologies for the acci-
dent. He went back without his light, which was ex-
tinguished by the fall, to dry himself, and I hastened to
the carriage which was now near, and joined her Ma-
jesty, who got into the coach as before. The page was
to have returned, not having been intrusted with the
secret ; but having recognised the Queen, his mistress,
he wished to follow her. As we left the town, we en-
countered various of the guards. One of them said,
Come and see, there is certainly a coach full of papists.'
But God willed it so, that they changed their purpose,
for no one came near us. We had scarcely gone three
miles, when we were overtaken by the Sieur Leyburn,
one of the Queen's Equerries, on horseback, he had
brought another horse and boots for me, which the
King had, with inexpressible goodness, sent to enable
me to perform my journey. I descended from the car-
riage, put on my boots, and mounted my horse in evil
plight, what with my fall, my wet clothes, and the wind,
which never ceased.'"
Until the arrival of the royal fugitives in Calais, on
Tuesday, December 11, at nine o'clock in the
morning, the unfortunate Queen supported her
afflictions with the same magnanimity, although
subjected to privations even more distressing than
the foregoing. Here, however, is a contrast most
charmingly introduced by the authoress, in her ac-
count of the subsequent flight of King James. It is
while crossing the channel to France that the sub •
joined incident occurs :
" The tragedy of real life is sometimes strangely
mingled with circumstances of a comic character, which
appear the more ridiculous perhaps from the revulsion of
feeling they are apt to produce on persons labouring
under the excitement of excessive grief. King James,
in the midst of his distress during this melancholy
voyage, felt his mirth irresistibly excited, when he saw
the brave captain Trevanion attempting to fry some
bacon for his refection in a frying-pan that had a hole in
it, which that gallant officer was compelled to stop with
a pitched rag ; at the sight of this expedient the king
gave way to immoderate laughter, which was renewed
when the captain proceeded to tie a cord round an old
cracked can, to make it in a condition to hold the drink
they had prepared for him. A keen perception of the
ludicrous is often a happy provision of nature to pre-
serve an overcharged heart from breaking under the
pressure of mortal sorrow. It was well for the fallen
majesty of England that he could laugh at things,
which were melancholy indications of his calamitous
reverse of fortune. The laughter, however, was medi-
cinal, for he ate and drank
heartily of the coarse fare
that was set before him, and always declared that he
never enjoyed a meal more in his life.
In the tenth and forthcoming volume of the "Lives
of the Queens of England," the close of this interest.
ing history is promised—the close, not of the reign,
for that has long ended, but of the life of Mary of
Modena. Before we conclude these observations, we
would express our regret at a circumstance which
obt rfuatnt
whs
esi re d almost immediately after the publication
fneienitchomvpoleullmed to e. Weudttoerasoncein with
allre honestythe uctanee,
and simplicity. For the purpose of correcting a
blunder (for it would be monstrous to designate it
otherwise) in the work of a contemporary historian,
the authoress endeavoured, by a letter in a public
newspaper, to direct the finger of scorn at one of our
most distinguished legislators. We regret this rash
and ungentle proceeding. While Miss Strickland's
" Lives of the Queens of England" will constitute a
noble offering to the historical literature of this coun-
try, Lord Campbell's "Lives of the Lord Chancellors
of England," will not the less be a magnificent tribute
to the genius of our. jurisprudence. This biography
of Mary Beatrice of Modena forms an admirable corn
panion volume to the " History of Icing James the
Second," by the Right Hon. Charles James Fox.

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.
Vol lx. By Agnes Strickland.

glad to find, is again in the field, smashing the "Grand
Job—Purchase in the Army." The following are a
few of the reasons adduced by Colonel Firebace for at
once doing away with this iniquitous absurdity :
" In any profession ca. trade,
.in which people were
allowed to purchase their situations' and sell than
whenever they liked, or only forfeit them for some dis-
honest or immoral act; does it not follow as the natural
effect, that men would generally shuffle over their dui ies
in the most careless and inefficient manner ? Is there
any reason why there should be any particular deviation
from this natural cause in the case of the army ? When
a young man comes into the service by purchase, to fill
up his idle time until he can be placed on the staff,
until he comes of age, or his grandmother dies, from
whom he expects a fortune, what particular benefit to
him to study a profession he never intends to follow up ;
still less, what possible interest can he take in the wel-
fare of the soldiers, on whom he never looks but as a :et
of working tools ? Would you have this fine gentleman
go into a barrack-room to inquire if the men were well
satisfied or comfortable, or could he condescend to learn
the names, still less the dispositions of those under his
command ?

As this voluminous and laborious work progresses
towards its completion, the promise which had been
afforded by its commencement is being very happil
verified. Amidst all her wearisome researches, and
amidst all her tedious collation of manuscripts, some-
times spurious and frequently almost illegible, Miss
Strickland must feel herself sustained and even in-
cited to still greater exertions by the reflection that
she is contributing to the literature of her country an
historical production which must preserve her name
in perpetual remembrance. It was a graceful and
ambitious project, in the reign of her Most Excellent
Majesty, our Sovereign Lady Victoria, that of writing
a series of biographies of the Queens consort and
regnant of these realms; and admirably is that graceful
and ambitious project being realised by our authoress.
Miss Strickland takes no superficial view of the oc-
currences she has undertaken to narrate ; she
gives us no mere second-hind information ;
she is not contented, as are some modern
historiographers (so called), with weaving together
the threads of a variety of narratives already pub-
lished, and then of embroidering them with pictu-
resque language and personal conceits. Lofty and
beautiful as is this latter species of composition, it
has not a sufficient attraction for the lady who has
penned these nine goodly volumes. She is ambitious
of producing something possessing more novelty.
Even on her title-pages she divulges the inquisitive
and industrious cast of her intellect, by quoting that
couplet of Beaumont—
" The treasures of antiquity laid up
In old historic rolls, I opened."
So peculiarly is this manifested in the single volume
now submitted to our examination, that upwards of
two hundred autograph letters and original and perti-
nent documents, never published before, are here
either transcribed in extenso, or are epitomized by the
writer. Under the auspices of the late Secretary
for the Home Department, and of the present
Prime Minister of France, in the Archives au
Royaume de France ; and the State Paper-office
at Duke-street; from diaries written in the
cloisters of Chaillot, and from the sprawling charac-
ters formed by the ancient burgesses of Edinburgh ;
have Miss Strickland and her congenial sister been
taking transcripts with the zeal of literary devotees,
and the discriminating sagacity of alszmni. It would
be almost impossible after the expenditure of so much
intelligence and inquiry, that such an undertaking
'could he in any essential particular a failure. But
when, after having accumulated so many and such
valuable materials, the writer was endowed with a
capacity for reproducing those materials in limpid
diction, for narrating events with consecutive clear-
ness, and for estimating acharacter in its entirety, suc-
cess became matter of absolute necessity. Among
the many illustrious personages who have shared the
thrones of our British monarchs, not one is invested
with so pathetic and attractive a celebrity as the
subject of the present volume—the beautiful and un-
fortunate Mary Beatrice of Modena, spouse of King
James 11. In comparison with the virtues of that brave
and most gentle lady, those of Catharine of Arragon
seem of a lesser lustre. Beside the desolate romance
of her misfortunes, the magnificent glories of Eliza-
beth are scarcely endued with an aspect of fascina-
tion. With maternal affections equally intense with
those of Margaret of Anjou, Mary of Modena had
less of that great Queen's masculine and almost un-
queenly resolution. Her history is fraught with the
most moving and solemn catastrophes, while it is
Tcohleoturehdisttehry roughhadountebvyerthheeejnauwndriictteenofumnteil it waslancholy.
undertaken by Miss Strickland, and beautifully has
Miss Strickland told of the loveliness, of the virgin
purity, of the transitory splendour and subsequent
sorrows, of the heart-moving pilgrimage and brooding
widowhood of that noble heroine. Even in the classic
loveliness of her appearance, Mary Beatrice has a
claim upon our admiration. The portraits of
her by Lely and Kneller, assure us that her
countenance was admirable, and the pensive
expression of her features of itself indicates
the melancholy nature of her story. Born on
the sth October, 1658, in the palace at Modena—the
native city of Tasso and Corregio—the future Queen
of England was fortunate in the possession of a
mother eminently qualified to tutor her mind with
those precepts of morality and philosophy which are the
surest bucklers against misfortune. United to James
the Second, then Duke of York, Mary of Modena wt's
introduced at the tender age of fifteen to the most
profligate court this country, or possibly any other,
ever knew. In the midst of all its brazen debauchery,
however, the young Duchess of York preserved n:,t
merely an unsullied character, but was conspicuous
for a dignity and self-respect worthy of a princess.
The events with which this splendid pattern of a
woman was afterwards so intimately associated, and
the trying nature of which only tended the more to
the development of new virtues in her disposition, are
too familiar to every English reader to render a
merely casual reference to them less than an imper-
tinence. Her courage under an accumulation of
terrors and difficulties; her maternal tenderness in
moments of personal jeopardy; her untiring and pas-
sionate fondness for the generous but unfortunate
sovereign to whom she was united; her con-
stant and romantic devotion to his memory after
his decease, and while she was sustaining the
desolation of her widowhood in the nunnery
of Chaillot are qualities which must ever demand
the unqualified panegyrics of the historian. It
is impressed with these considerations that the
Hon. George Sydney Smythe has pictured two
ladies seated together in a chamber at Versailles, tell-
ing each other of their sufferings and denials during
life ; and that he closes that description with these
affecting words :—" And their hope is, that when the
spouse of Christ shall have summoned her glad array
to meet the bridegroom, among the humblest of her
handmaidens may be numbered the names of
Francois de Maintenon and Marie of Modena
and England." Beyond all these gentler
characteristics, however, the latter evinced others
of an heroic and even chivalrous daring.
As the Girondists were wont to assemble in the
saloons of Madame Roland, and to receive from her
lips additional incitements towards the development
of the great revolution and the political regeneration
of France, so did the Jacobite party derive:new stimu-
loin to enterprise, and receive fresh inducements to
persevere, from the courageous wife of James, and
the mother of the so-called Pretender. We must,
nevertheless, afford our readers a specimen of the na-
tural and yet poetic style of Miss Strickland's narra-
tive; and we could not adduce a more appropriate
passage than the following description of the flight
of Queen Mary Beatrice from Whitehall, in company
with the infant Prince.
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armed, ascended by a
secret staircase to the apartment of the King, bringing
with him some part of the disguise which he had caused
to be prepared for the Queen, and told the King all was
ready for their Majesty's departure. I then,' pursues
he, 'retired into another room, where the count deLauzun
and I waited till the Queen was ready. Her Majesty
had, meantime, confided her secret to Lady Strickland,
the lady of the bed chamber, who was in waiting that
night. As soon as the Queen was attired, we entered
the chamber. The Count de Lauzun and I had secured
some of the jewels on our persons, in case of accidents,
although their Majesties were at first opposed to it; but
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hand to the Queen to lead her away. She turned a
parting look on the King—an eloquent but mute fare-
well, and followed by the two nurses with her sleeping
infant, crossed the great gallery
Victor,insilence, stole down
backstairs,tlitzedpvirreiclietdeehl for ever. A coach was sdal by keys, and passing through a postern door into
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friend Signor Ferichi, the Florentine resent, as if it
had been for his own use. On our way,'
we had to pass six sentinels, who
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custom, cried out, " Who goes there?" I replied ing'
with-
out hesitation, " A friend ; ' and when they saw that I
had the master-key of th,e gates, they allowed me to
pass
without opposition. The Queen, with the Prince,
his
two nurses, and the Count de Lauzun, got into the coach,
but to make all sure, I placed myself by the coachman
on the box to direct him. We drove to Westminster,
and arrived safely at the place called the II f orse erry,
where I had engaged a boat to wait for me. To prevent

" Money, which carries all before it in England, does
not lose its influence in the army ; the young men who
have little or nothing beside their pay, and to whom the
profession is their existence, in place of furnishing an
example to these gilded interlopers, become worshippers
of mammon, yield up their better judgment, and follow
the lead of the men who jump over their heads, imitate
their cold•bearted indifference, and separate themselves
as much as possible from the men under their command,
whom they learn to look upon more as mere instruments
formed for their benefit than in the light of fellow sol-
diers deserving their sympathy; I appeal to all those
who have experience in the army to say whether I have
exaggerated the case. Look at the household troopi,
where the commissions, except those of adjutant aid
quarter-master, are all by purchase ; we see here the
unfairness of giving men promotion by purchase
en-
hanced to a great degree, for a captain of the Foot Guards
raised to that rank by money, leaps over all the majors
of the army, and may exchange with a lieutenant-colonel
of infantry, and thus obtain the command of a regiment,
about which he cannot possibly know much ; indepen-
dent of this injustice to the army in general, it is unfair
to the body they belong to, for what possible reason can
be assigned why a captain of the Foot Guards becomes
a lieutenant-colonel, and that no such advantage attends
the captains of the cavalry of the household ?"

THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
Mr. A'Beckett, in the present number, runs laugh-
ing through the reigns of Edward 1., "whose legs were
too long in proportion to his body, which gained him
the nickname of Longshanks, though it would have
been more respectful to have called him Daddy
Long-Legs, in allusion to his being the father of hi,
people," Edward 11., and begins that of Edward 111.
This is a capital number of this right merrie history,
and is capitally illustrated by Leech.

THE PATRICIAN
In the present number we have a propos to the
recent royal marriages, the genealogy of the royal
house of Spain, and a short account of the Count,
and Dukes of .Montpensier. Under the head " A Cata-
logue of Noble Authors," in continuation of Walpole,
we find short but well-written sketches of the lives
and works of the late Lord Holland, the present Lord
Strangford, th• late Lord Dover, and the late Earl of
Dudley. The account of the murder of Mr. Thynne,
whose monument is well known to all the frequenters
of Westminster Abbey, is one of the most interesting
tales of adventure we have ever read, and is an addi-
tional illustration of the truth of the adage, " that
truth is stronger than fiction." We have besides
some good papers on the fine arts, several well-
written notices of new books, and a variety of articles
interesting to the archeologist.

OLD ENGLAND'S TVOR7 RIES. Part X.
This admirable series of engravings and biographies
is as costly in its character as it is moderate in price.
Kings, philosophers, poets, statesmen, and divines are
variously introduced ; and the present, among others,
numbers William 111., Locke, Dryden, Lord Somers,
and Ray. The fund of knowledge condensed into
these pages is altogether a marvel.

THE PICTORIAL GALLERY OF ARTS.
Part XXII.
But that some of the wood-cuts introduced in this
periodical have already appeared in other publications,
the richness of ilustration would be wholly incom-
prehensible. The treasures of antiquity, in the shape
of busts, statues, bas-reliefs, medallions, fragments of
architecture, groups of sculpture, &c., are here re-
presented in profusion.

THE ALMANAC' OF THE MONTH.
November, foggy as it has been, is incapable of
infecting Gilbert A'Beckett with congenial gloom, or
of diminishing his good spirits one jot. The " Al-
manack for the Month" is to the full as witty and
sparkling as ever.

CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. Part 111.
The adventures of " Christopher Tadpole" are con •
tinued in this number with unflagging spirit. The
benevolent individual into whose hands Christopher
had fallen on his escape from the salt mine, turns out
to be an itinerant professor of conjuring and tum-
bling, and Christopher is regularly received as a
member of his corps, and instructed in the art and
mystery of tumbling. The description of the country
fair is admirable. In the meantime the adventures of
the London portion of the dramatis persona are not
neglected, and we have the conclusion of the party at
Sir Frederick Arden's, in which Mrs. Gudge's vul-
garity comes out in grand style. The return home
and the adventure of the ginger beer cart are capital
bits of fun. All who enjoy a hearty laugh should read
the history of the return of Sir Frederick Arden's
guests.

SLIIIIIONDS' COLONIAL.
The opening article of this number on the Fish-
eries of New Brunswick, should be read by all our
statesmen as a warning. 'We see in this how many
of our most valuable privileges have been frittered
away by the want of skill, and knowledge, :and
spirit on the part of our diplomatists; how they
have been bamboozled into giving to France and the
United States nurseries for their navies, by per-
mitting them to fish on the coasts of our trans-
Atlantic possessions, (we wonder they have never
asked to have the privilege of digging coal in North-
umberland ? Some of our Laissez faire statesmen,
would, for the sake of preserving peace, on the entente
cordiale, have suffered them to do it) ; and how
they have, by gradual encroachments, turned this
permission into an exclusive right, and have actually
prevented British subjects from fishing on their owl,
shores. A small squadron of gun-brigs and cutters
could not be better employed than in defending our
colonial fishermen against encroachments. There are
several other excellent articles in this number of
Simmonds.

BANKERS' MAGAZINE.
In addition to the usual professional contents of
the Bankers Magazine, we have in the present num-
ber a well written memoir of the life and labours of
Mr. Thomas Joplin, the father of the system of
Joint-stock Banking in England. To this memoir is
prefixed the following Note by the Editor :
" Mr. Thomas Joplin is no doubt well known to many
of our readers as one of the early advocates and origin-
ators of the existing system of Joint-stock Banking in
England and Ireland. We think that the following nlP-
moir of his services, which has been drawn up by a
friend acquainted with the extent of his usefulness, will
therefore be interesting ; and we may add, that we trust
it will be of some service to Mr. Joplin himself, whose
pecuniary resources have not increased in the same pro
portion as those of the institutions which he assisted in
establishing.
" Without entering into any discussion of the claims
of Mr. Joplin on the successful Joint-stock Banks, we
may be allowed to express a hope that, after having ex-
erted himself energetically and actively in their behalf,
at a time when his exertions were undoubtedly useful
he will not, now that he requires some assistance at
their hands, make an appeal to their liberality in vain.
We should much regret to find that such an appeal now.
when he is in the decline- of years, and afflicted with bad
health, was listened to with apathy. We hope that thf
reproach which attaches itself to the leading men of the
Railway Interest, for neglecting one of the earliest ad
vocates of their own system, Mr. Thomas Gray, will
never be applicable to the Joint-stock Banking Interest;
and that Mr. Joplin will receive a satisfactory proof
that it can and will repay with liberality any public ex-
ertions which have been made on its behalf.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
ranks. The
THE MILITARY MAGAZINE.
This is the first number of a new periodicilnd:e)htvaciotntehlytel
to the instruction and amusement. of the soldier. " We
xtls.beWabele
design
ny
design it," says the editor, in his preliminary observa-
tions,
commissioned,'‘for not
bountl only
hgeennoenra.elsornbumt
non-commissioned
dalrs
it also
youthful cornet or ensign, we trust, will find some-
thing in it to charm his attention,. while the veteran
for a barracks' resource—so, when the. weary sergeant
approvesFiel d 11lairtssh al,
spiritit
or raw recruit shall require relaxation from, or direc-
tion in his duty, that, in the Military Magazine, he
isanhdopemd;
may glean either an hours repose or a half-hour's
food for salutary reflection. To the military in" all
parts of the world are our labours dedicated." The
want of a periodical devoted to military matters, and
which should be suited to the barrack-room, has long
been felt, and, judging from the present number, we
think it very probable that the Military Magazine
will supply the deficiency.

RAILIVAI REGISTER.
This number is illustrated by numerous plans and
sections, showing the working of Captain Powell':
patent sectional carriages to avoid break of guage,
and illustrative of Clarke and Varley's improvement
in obtaining motive power. The article on the Pro-
cess of Investment in Railways, by the Editor, is a
complete answer to the arguments of the Croakers
The Portfolio, which is now incorporated with the
Register, contains a history, complete, as far as it
goes, of the formation of the South- Western Rail-
way Company. We have, in the present number,
copies of the original prospe3tuses and reports, show-
ing the alterations that were from time to time made
in the plans of the original projectors of the railway.

COLBU.RN'S UNITED SERVICE.
The admirable " History of the Sikhs and the
Punjaub" is continued in this number. When com-
pleted, we take it for granted this History will be
published in a separate form. The opening paper of
interesting
this number, entitled " The present War in Kafir.
land," is from the pen of a writer contri-
butedwhpoahaessofthi
on former occasions much valuable information
magazine.o then
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tl
narra-
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tive of an " Expedition into the Interior of New Zea-
land, in June, 1845 ;" and Colonel Firebrace, we are

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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SUI Ng
NOVEMBER 12, 1846. PRICE SD.

told and very interesting French tale, entitled " The
T 11." Eugene Scribe's "Piquillo Alliege" is con-
tinued, and we have some pleasant gossiping notes of a
tour in Belgium and Germany, which we are glad to
see are to be continued. Mr. St. John, however,
does not, in his editorial capacity, confine himself to
merely entertaining—he mingles the useful in its
proper proportions, and the article on " Free Trade in
France" is superior to many an article on the free
trade question which has appeared in periodicals of
nearly three times the price of the Mirror. The fol-
lowing account of the progress of the free trade asso-
ciations in that country will be read with a lively in-
terest by all English free traders.
"The French free traders have now actively and en-
ergetically entered into the campaign, which was opened
with due solemnity in the Salle Montesquieu on the 25th
of August. At this re-union, presided over by the Due
d'Harcourt, were present Anisson, Duperron, Horace
Say, Frederic Bastiat, Leon Faucher, Riglet, Blenqui,
Michel Chevalier, and Louis Reyband, &e. The meet-
ing was successively addressed by the Due &Harcourt,
Leon Faucher, Riglet, and Blanqui, who exposed the
mischief which was and is the result of protection. The
sympathies of the audience we're entirely with the
speakers' for the fads were easy of comprehension, and
the truths were home truths ; and each, as dealt forth,
told fearfully against monopoly, finding a ready and con-
firmatory response in the breasts of the auditors, who in
the common occurrences of their daily life, constantly
experience inconvenience and suffering from the prohi-
bitory tariffs of the Custom-house. The systems of agi-
tation proposed and adopted (as I take it) consists in es-
tablishing in every town of note, and of sufficient popula-
tion, a local league, which, while it acts under the direc-
tion and in unison with the central executive council,
will of itself have sufficient distinctiveness to interest the
inhabitants, and be able to demonstrate daily and
hourly, theoretically and practically, the disadvantages
of protection. Each league will represent as it were a
different class of the community, with their different in-
terests and reasons of hostility to prohibition.
" Thus we see three in full and active life. La Ligue
Bordelaise, La Ligue Parisienne, and La Ligue Marsel-
laise ; the first representing the wine growers and agri-
cultural producers, who find the protection awarded to
some of the manufacturers deprives them of a good mar-
ket for their wine, and forces them to use agricultural
implements and machines ages behind those employed
in England or in Belgium, and retards the progress and
improvement dictated alike by nature and reason. The
second, the manufacturers of those graceful articles, in-
digenous to France, and characteristic of her people,
which have a European reputation, and would have
commanded a European market, but for protection,
which also deprives them of good and cheap machinery
and tools, substituting in their stead those which are
extensive and bad. The third, the shipowners, mer-
chants, and traders, who year by year see their
trade diminish, and pass into the hands of strangers.
Their ships empty, their crews idle, their ports filled
with foreigners. And this the result of that protection
which has not only crippled, but, in spite of the increase
in wealth and population of France, has reduced her
merchant navy far below what it was fifteen years
back."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 11.—This morning at 9 o'clock,
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, the Commander-in-Chief,
struck his blue flag, and hoisted a white one at the main
of the St. Vincent, which was duly saluted; all the ves-
sels at this port under his command thereupon changed
their ensigns from blue to white.
The Lieutenant• Governor of this garrison (Sir Her-
cules Pakenham, K.C.8.) being promoted to the rank cf
Lieutenant General, makes the command of the garrison
and the south-western district vacant.
evening Th eßforos em, ItB, Commander
heWest
Ind ianPestla/
station,
,wbhrioc
uhgahrtrai arrived
re
iglast
on merchants' account. Lieutenant Parkhurst died on
board, and was buried at sea. He was an officer of high
promise, and deeply respected by all who had the plea-
sure of his acquaintance. The Rose has encountered
very heavy gales, and just escaped the hurricane which
was so disastrously felt at Havannah, and which overtook
her. Mr. Grant, paymaster and purser of the Rose, ex-
changed with Mr. Giles of the Electra, who has conse-
quently come home in the Rose. First Lieutenant Lob-
aie is promoted to the rank of commander. The freight
brought by the Rose is taken charge of by Mr. Edwin
Galt, of Portsmouth, wine-merchant and freight agent,
for conveyance to the Bank of England. Sbe touched at
Plymouth for supplies, and is ordered to Sheerness to
be paid off. She was to have been paid off all standing
and recommissioned immediately, had she been in a
serviceable state, but this not being the case, she will
be stripped. She is bark rigged, and was built at this
dockyard by the superior class of shipwrights in 1821-
385 tons.

The crew of the Resistance troop-ship, Captain Patey,
were paid off at the Navy Pay-office in this dockyard
this morning.
The Mercury tender, Second-master Scarlett com-
manding, sailed this afternoon with one supernumer•
ary (!) to Plymouth.
The depots of the 91st and 20th Regiments vacated
their quarters in this garrison this afternoon, and crossed
•)ver to Gosport to take up the quarters at Forton, va-
cated by the 2d (Queen's) who come to this garrison
,his evening.
WooLwian, Nov. 11.—Rear-Admiral Sir Francis
Augustus Collier, K.C.B. and K.C.H., will continue the
duty of Captain-Superintendent of her Majesty's dock-
yard, Woolwich, until the arrival of Commodore Sir
James J. Gordon Bremner, K.C.B. and K.C.H., who is
to succeed as Captain. Superintendent here. Commodore
iir James J. Gordon Bremner is at present in command
of the Queen, 110 gun flag-ship, one of the vessels of
the squadron of evolution.
Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., who had the tempo-
rary charge of Woolwich dockyard, on the appointment
of Lord J. Hay, C. 8., to be a Lord of the Admiralty,
succeeds Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., as Comp-
troller
of the Coast-guard.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.

Major-General Cockburn will vacate his office as head
f the laboratory department of the Royal Arseual;
\lajor-General Paterson his office as chief of the R ?posi-
tory Exercises Department; and Major-General Lacy
the head of the Carriage Department in the Royal
Arsenal, in consequence o their promotion to that rank
by brevet. In the lists which were previously circulated
relative to the brevet no notice was taken of William
Greenshields Power and Alexander Macdonald, Brev, t
Lieutenant-Colonels of 1817, who have been promoted
to Major-General.
Major Nevett's Company, 2d Battalion, left Woolwich
at three o'clock A.m. to-day, for Ireland. The company
will be stationed at Waterford, which is to be a company
station in future.
1 sergeant and 28 gunners and drivers left Woolwich
it eleven o'clock A.M. to-day for Deptford, under the
command of Captain Fisher, to embark in the Blenheim
transport ship for a passage to Jamaica, where Captain
Fisher's company is at present stationed.
ROYAL MARINES.
Colonel Mercer, second in command of the Woolwich
livision, is to succeed Major-General George Jones, pro-
moted from the Portsmouth division.
Mr. Thomas Pidcock, on the list of clerks, promoted
to be Paymaster and Purser, is the officer who distin-
guished himself in command of a boat, with a part of the
crew of the Alecto, in the recent engagements on the
Rivers Plate and Parana.
The following ships, steamers, and sloops, have become
vacant by the promotion of their commanders, and »ill
give great patronage to the Admiralty:—
Ship. Station. Promotion to Captain of
Albion
Canopus Ditto ...... ..... ...... G. H. P. White.
Superb
Trafalgar ... Ditto J. W. Morgan.
Vanguard ... Ditto
Vindictive... West Indies...
Alecto S.E. coast of America.. F. W. Austen.
Comus
Columbine
Cruizer
Driver Ditto .
Harlequin ... Mediterranean... ..
Siren
Cormorant... Pacific ... ...... .....
Helena
Hydra.
Larne ... ...... Ditto.. ......... ...
Rolla ..... ... Ditto
Belvidera ... Coast of Scotland ...
Imaum
The following lieutenants' commands and appoint-
ments have also become vacant by the promotion of the
officers to the rank of commander, viz:—

Promotion to the Rank
Ship. Station.
of Commander of
Albion ...••• Channel Squadron Cumberland Hadaway
America Ditto James B. West.
Ardent
Bonetta ....... Ditto Wm. Critchel.
L
Dasher
Griffon
Jackall
T0rch......... Ditto
David
D
Victory Portsmouth
Ditto
Ditto ..... Ditto
J. W. Finch.
R. B
Welch..
Mapleton.
.
Jenkin.
Nfyrmydon . Coast of Ireland Charles
phen.
Raven
Grappler ... Portsmouth H. Hawker.
Scourge...... Ditto .. Hon. G. D. Keene
Rattlesnake. Ditto J. M. R. Inch.
Vengeance.. Ditto ...
'
Nautilus .... Lisbon
R
Trafalgar ... Ditto R. D. Fowler, Flag-
Lieut. to Commodore
Sir G. Bremer, K.C.B.
Terrible Ditto F. E. Johnston.
Daphne Pacific,. W. Barrie.
Flamer
Vanguard
Fox ... East Indies W. It. Mends.
Caledonia ... Plymouth
Blazer
Viper ...
Queen......... Plymouth
Conway Cape of Good Hope AAW.r.tHhHues.reDeltouibnmbeimeing. Rose
Albion
The following officers being promoted to the rank of
Rear-Admiral of the Blue :
Kat., K.C.H., gives up the good
Sir W. H. Dillon,
service pension.