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made for tl a aamission of such foreign sugars as shall
ho cleared out of the foreign, West Indian, and American
ports, before the Ist day of August next, and out of
ports east of the Cape of Good Hope, before the Ist day
of September next, at the rates of duty imposed on such
sugars respectively by the Act 9 and 10 Victoria, c. 63."
He said the duty on sugar from these ports was to be
raised ,from 181. to 201., which would impose on the
merchants engaged in the trade a positive loss of the
difference in the duty. The former duty was guaranteed
to them by the Act of 1846, and when they altered that
resolution they should give those merchants an indem-
nity.

The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
such allowances were never made as those demanded by
this proposal. It would be a great inconvenience to an-
nounce an intended increase of duty, which no Govern-
ment could be called upon to do. It was a general rule
that parties giving orders for goods upon one scale of
duty should be liable to pay any increased duty imposed
in the interval.
M. J. B. SMITH said, in May last the !Noble Lord
assured the merchants in the trade that no alteration
would be made in the duty, and on the faith of that de-
claration orders were sent out to make purchases. Now,
however, larger duties were to be imposed, which was
taking the difference out of their pockets.
Mr. GLAI)STONE said, although all care ought to
be taken in altering duties, that individuals should not
suffer loss, he could not agree in the doctrine that Par-
liament could not make such alterations, though indi-
viduals might suffer, when a general good was to be
effected; but it was a different thing when Members
of the Government made certain declarations to the
parties so interested. The case before the House
was not that the faith of Parliament was pledged
—it was not the Act of 1846 that occasioned any
doubt in his mind; but it was the declarations
which had been made deliberately and distinctly by her
Majesty's Government in February last—not at the im-
portunities of the parties who now complained, but on
motion proposed by the Noble Lord the Member for
Lynn, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer declared
there was not the slightest intention of departing from
the Act of 1846, and added that he was anxious to make
the declaration distinctly and implicitly, in order that
there might be no uncertainty in the matter. The Par-
liament might have made an alteration despite of the
Government, but these parties knew it was not the prac-
tice of Parliament to alter fiscal regulations of this kind
except at the suggestion of a Government, and they had
a right to confide in a declaration made by the financial
Minister of the Crown, and repeated by the
President of the Board of Trade and the Secre-
tary for the Colonies, and, lastly, by the Noble
Lord at the head of the Government. The Noble
Lord was asked, not by the parties who had to
suffer, but by those who sought to alter the law of 1846,
and by them stated so late as the 30th of May last, that
Government did not intend to propose any alteration.
Was it good policy, or consistent with public faith, lite-
rally or rightly understood, that the declarations should
be considered as though they had never taken place, and
parties whe had acted on the assurances of the Minister
of the Crown should not receive protection in having so
acted? There were alterations in the circumstances of
the colonies in June which were not known in May,
when that declaration Iwas made, and though he pro-
tested against the principle of all parties claiming com-
pensation for loss resulting in changes of public policies
when acting on their own risk; but, on the solemn as-
surance of the Government, they were entitled to the
justice the' claimed, and he did not fear that the result
would be that any dangerous precedent would be set.
Mr. LABOUCHERE replied, and contended that the
alteration of the Act of 1846, as proposed by the Govern-
ment, was perfectly justified by the change of circum-
stances which occurred in June, subsequent to the Noble
Lord's declaration in May.
A desultory conversation, in which Mr. Newdegate,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Goulburn, Lord
John Russell, and Lord George Bentinck, took part, en-
sued ; after which the Committee divided, when their
appeared-7

For the amendment 34
Against it
Majority against the amendment --log
On the question that the Chairman report the resolu.
ions to the House, _

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that in the resolutions the sth of July was named as the
day on which the new duty was to come into operation.
He begged, therefdre, to state, that on the next stage of
the measure he should move that the 10th of July be
inserted in place of the sth.
The SPEAKER then resumed the Chair.
The resolutions were reported, the report on them to
be received to-morrow (this day), at twelve o'clock.
The West India Islands Relief Bill was read a second
time, as was also the Parochial Debt and Audit Bill, the
Poor-taw Union Districts School Bill, and the County
Court of Justiciary (Scotland) Bill. The County Ceara
(Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed, and the
Ecclesiastical District Assignment Bill went through
Committee.

On the motion of Captain PECHELL, a copy of the
general order of the Poor-law Commissioners to the se-

veral unions, bearing date the 16th of February, 1848,
was ordered, and the House adjourned at a few minutes
past Two o'clock till Twelve this day.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proeeedings of the House of Commons:

MONDAY, JULY 10.
SUGAR DUTIES.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Duty
on Muscovado, or any other Sugar not being equal in quality
to White Clayed, be, from and after the 6th day of July,
1848, to the sth day of July, 1849, for every cwt. 135.:"
Afterwards moved, ' That the Duty on Muscovado Sugar,
or any other Sugar net being equal in quality to White
Clayed, be, from and after the sth day of July, 1848, to the
sth day of July, 1849, for every cwt. 14s.:"—Question put,
" That the Duty on Muscovado, or any other Sugar, ,not
being equal in quality to White Clayed, be, from and after
the sth day of July, 1848, to the sth day of July, 1849, for
every cwt. 135." The Committee divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 180.
Greene, John Parker, John
Grey, Sir George Pechell, Captain
Grey, it. W. Peel, Sir Robert
Grosvenor, Lord R. Perfect, R.
Hall, Sir B. Pete, Samuel
Hauyburton Lord Pigott, Francis
Harcourt, G. pijkington, James
HardcasUe, J. A. PuseY, P.
Hustle, Archibald jZapkael, Alexander
Hawes, Benjamin Reynolds, John
Hay, Lord J. Ricardo, J. L.
Hayter, W. G. Ricardo, Osman
Headiain, Thomas Rice, E. R.
Heathcoat, John Rich, Henry
Henry, Alexander Robartes, T. J.
Herbert, H. A. Romilly, Sir John
Heywood, James Russell, Lord Jokn
Hindley Charles Russell, F. C.
Hobhouse, Sir John Rutherford, A.
Hobhouse, T. B. Scholefield, William
Hodges, T. L. Scrope, G. P.
Howard, P. li. Seymour, Sir H.
Hughes, W. B. Seymour, Lord
Jervis, Sir John shot°, R. D. .
Kershaw, James Sheil, R. L.
King, Peter John rne, Earl of
Kildare, Marquis Shelburne,
Smith, John A.
Labouchere, Henry Smith, J. Benjamin
Lemon, Sir Charles
Somerville, Sir W.
Lennard, T. B. Spearman, H. J,
Lewis, Sir T. Stanton, 1V.:11.
Lewis, G. C. Strickland, Sir G.
M'Cullagh, W. T. Stuart, Lord D.
M`Taggart Sir J. Taucred,:li. W.
Maher, N.; Thicknesse, R. A.
Maitland, T. Thompson, Colonel
Marshall J. ia. Thornely, T.
Martin,John Tollemache, F. J.
MMaarrttiiiin,lLWruel Towneley, John
Townley, R. G.
Matheson, A. Townshend. Captain
Matheson, Colonel Trelawny, J. S.
Maul; Fox Turner, Edmund
Meigund Viscount Tynte, Colonel
Milner, W. M. Vivian, J. IL
Milton, Viscount Wall, C. B.
Mitchell, T. A. Ward, H. G.
Moffatt, George Watkins, Colonel
Morpeth, Viscount
West, F. R.
Morison, Sir W. Westhead, J. P.
Morris, David Willcox, Brodie
Mostyn, E. Williams, John
Muntz, G F. Wilson, James
tiorreys, Lord Wilson, Matthew
Ogle, S. C.
Wood, Sir Charles
Ord, W. Wrightson, W. B.
Owen, Sir J. Wyld, James
Paget, Lord A. Yoeng, Sir Jelin
Paget, Lord Clarence TELLERS,
Paget, Lord George TufneU, Henry
Palmerston, Viscount Hill, Lord Marcus

Abdy,:T. N.
Adair, R. Shafto
Aglionby, Henry
Alcock, Thomas
Anderson, Arthur
Anson, Colonel
Armstrong, Sir A.
Armstrong, R. B.
Arundel, Earl oc
Baines, M. T.

Baring, Sir F. T.
Barnard, E.;G.
Bellew, R. M.
Benbow,'John
Berkeley, Captain
Berkeley, Craven
Bonverie, E. P.
Bowring, Dr.

Boyle, Colonel

Brand, Thomas
Brocklehurst. John
Brockman, 11. D.
Brotherton,j.
Brown, W.

Browne, R. D.

Banbury, E. 11.
Butler, P. P.S.

Carter, John B.
Cavendish, G. H.
Cavendish, W. G.
Childers, J. W.
Clay, James
Clay, Sir W.
Cockburn, Alex.
Coke, E. K.

Cowper, W. F.
Craig, W. G.

Crawford, W. S.
Dalrymple, Captain
Davie, Sir 11,
Duncan, Viscount
Duncan, George
Dundas, Admiral
Dundas, Sir D.
Ebrington, Viscount
Edward
Elliot, J. E.

Enfield, Lord
Evans, Sir De Lacy
Evans, John
Evans, William
Fagan, William
Fergus, John

Ferguson, Sir R.
Fitawilliam, G. W.
Foley, J. H.
Forster, M.

Forteseue, J. W.
Freestun, Colonel
Glyn, George Carr
Graham, Sir James

11_fasterMan, John
MINORITY—NOES, 124.
Aciand, Sir T. D. Fitzgerald, W. It.
Baillie, 11. J. Fitzroy, Henry monsell, William
Baring, Thomas Forbes, William Moody, U. A.
Barrington, Viscount Forester, G. C. Napier, Joseph
Bateson, T. Fuller, A. E. Neeld, John
Beutinek, Lord G. Galway, Viscount Neeld, Joseph
'rilnegi
Bentiuck, Lord 11. Gaskell, J. M. Newdegate, N.
Blackstone, W. S. Gladstone, W. E. O Rkn to Sir Luciusr, Sir J.
Bi:tndford, Marquis Goddard, A. L. Packe, C. IV.
Boldero, Henry Gooch, E. S. pa
Bowles, Admiral Gordon, Admiral Palmer, Robert
Bramston,,T. W. Goulburn, Henry Palmer, Roundel'
Bremridge, Richard Granby, Marquis of
vil,'eennetti,
,o,tjl: o. new .
eollonel
Broadley, Henry Greene, Thomas
illuseitoCuziounaepl
Brooke, Lord Grogan, E.
fain
Bruce, Lord E. Gwyn, Howel
Sandars, George
Buller, Sir J. Y. Raiford, Sir H.
Scottssslei
ally:yi,i'oel
t;aynehC Somerset,nrr,,
Buxton, Sir E. Halsey, T. P.
Cardwell, Edward Hamilton, G. A.
Aldermann .Johnl.G.
Chichester, Lord J. Hamilton, Lord C.
Christopher, It. Heneage, G. 11.,W.
Christy, Samuel Hervey, Lord A.
Captain
Sotheron, T. H. S.
Clerk Sir G. liiidyard, T. B.
Spooner, Richard
Clive, Henry B. Hodgson, W. N.
Start, Henry G.
Cobbold, John C. Hood, Sir A.
Cochrane, A. Hope,:H. T.
Cocks, Thomas S. Hotham, Lord Sutton. H. M.
Codrington, Sir IV. Hume,' Joseph Trollopo, Sir J.
Turner
li, Ggl rj.J. T.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Inglis, Sir R.
Jolliffe, Sir W. H.
Corry, Henry
Jones, Captain
11 e s Viscount
Courtenay, Lord
Vilifiers,
T.
Knox, Colonel
Denise", J. E.
Lennox, Lord II G. -,,, •
Nylasde.dillnitlion.,:. David
Disraeli, B. i
W.wilawniouglbyT:sir
H.
Lincoln, Earl of
Dod, J. IV.
Lockhart, A. E.
Drax, J. S. W.
Wodehouse,E.
Lockhart, W.
Drummond, Home
Duckworth, Sir J. Lowther, Colonel
Lowther, Henry
East, Sir J. B. Worcester, Marquis
Mackenzie, W. F.
itarklyT,ElLLlenrEßyS.
Egerton, -Sir P.
Emlyn, Viscount M`Gregor, John
Estcourt, J. B. B. Manners, Lord C.
Farrer, James Manners, Lord G. Miles,
wimam
Fellowes, E. March, Earl of

Motion made, and Question put," That provision be made
for the admission of such Foreign Sugars as shall be cleared
out of the Foreign, West Indian, and American ports before
the Ist day of August next, and out of ports east of the
Cape of Good Hope before the Ist day of September next at
the rates vf Dvty imposed on such Sugars respectively by
the Act 9 and 10 vie. c. 63." The Committee divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 34.
Bagge, William Herbert, Sidney Senner, H. Y.
Brown, W. Heywood, James Sidney, Alderman
Cardwell, E. Ring, P. J. Spooner, Richard
Cobbold, J. C. Lincoln, Earl of Stuart, Lord D.
Cocks, T. S. Lockhart, A. E. Start, 11. G.
Duncan, George
Weigand, Viscount Turner, George
Edwards, Henry Mitchell, A. T. Williams, John
Fitzgerald, W. R. Moffatt, George Wodehouse, Edmund
Galway, Viscount Monsell,'WilliaM
Gladstone, W. E. M I
Glyn,-G. C. Palmer,iltobert TELLE
Pechell, Captain Bouverie, E. P.
Hardelstic, J. A. Sanders, George Smith, J. B.'
Hastie, Alexander Scholelleld, William

MAJORITY-NOES, 142.

THE MAGAZINES.
BLACKWOOD.
Without being too political for those who eschew
politics, or too imaginative for those devoted to the
more sober themes of investigation, Blackwood for
July has articles enow both upon the art of govern-
ment and upon subjects of a fictitious character
to satisfy the readers of Great Britain—a class as mot-
ley as it is happily becoming fastidious. One sen-
tence we must quote at once, because it has arrested
our attention so powerfully, because it conveys a
holy and most awful truth, and because it expresses
that truth in language singularly beautiful for its sim-
plicity. The sentence is contained in one of the po-
litical contributions—a letter from the American
Correspondent of Maga, entitled "American Thoughts
on European Revolutions." After speaking of the
terrible and extraordinary spectacle presented by the
different kingdoms of continental Europe, the writer
says, nevertheless—" I do not look without feelings
of awe, for I am sure it is the shadow of God's own hand
that is now passing over the nations." Who does not
feel in his heart's core the correctness of that solemn
conjecture P Another word or two upon the other
political contributions before we comment upon the
miscellaneous effusions. " Central i sation"—a subject
which has latterly occupied a very considerable share
of the attention and intelligence of the press—is here
examined in its entirety, the writer treating succes-
sively of the morality of the question, its advisability,
its possible consequences, and the effect which it must
inevitably produce, not only upon the mother-country,
but upon the British colonies themselves. To those
Conservatives who swear by the Pilot who weathered
the storm, and who are, consequently, not indisposed
to relish a good stiff piece of sarcasm at the present
Government—a piece of sarcasm combining some-
thing of the acidity of Mr. Roebuck, with much of
the bitterness of Mr. Disraeli—we commend the
verses called " Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs !"
verses referring derisively to the increase of the epis-
copacy, to the stringent measures adopted towards
Ireland, and to the contempt expressed for the Chart-
ists by the Whigs, those same Whigs, according to
our delightful Christopher, being the most likely par-,
ties, if out of office, to clamour against the Church, to
shriek against the wrongs inflicted upon old Erin, and
to side not only with the Radical Reformers, but with
those respectable gentlemen who demand nothing less
than the six points of the Charter. " Huzza for the
Rule of the Whigs !" cries Ebony : but would he,
with all his satire, admire the Whigs the more
were they to reverse their present system of ad-
ministration, were they, for instance, to mulct the
two Archbishops and their suffragans to the tune
of some thousands, were they to yield to the in-
timidations of Mitchel, and to cringe before the
threatened asseverations of the fellow Fussell ? We
doubt it. And, therefore, say we with a better grace,
" Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs !" Little sym-
pathy have we, either, with the sentiments expressed
in the articles on the " Navigation Laws," and upon
" Republican France"—the former, however, being
written with great acumen, if not with a strictly logi-
cal explicitness. In the clever and epigrammatic
article on " The Laws of the Land," being a criti-
cism upon a recent work by Mr. M'Culloch, there is
this facetious observation—" The spirit of the age
wears a pen behind his ear, and sits upon a high stool
with three legs." The best of the remark is that it is
as true as it is facetious. Part 11. of " Life in the
Far West" reminds us in some way very vividly of
the " Overland Journey Round the World, by Sir
George Simpson." The graceful, and in point of
sistycloen,
trineauleldy;adamndirathbleesatamlee
ccoalnlterdibu"toTrh, easCaxwe-
tmo ne rs
e"
conjecture, who reviewed, last month, " Stoddart's
Book on Angling," this month analyses and eulogises
the book written by the two Stuarts, heading his cri.

ticism " The Scottish Deer Forests." Besides a paper
descriptive of the desolate scenery of Siberia, there is
an exquisite poem, we know not who by, the signature
being, however, the familiar initials W.E.A., called
" The Buried Flower." At first the conceit of the
poem is somewhat dim, but it grows upon the imagi-
nation ; as you proceed, it rises gradually up through
the obscurity of the introductory lines, just (to use
one of the dainty metaphors of the writer) as—
the
Spreads its blossom on the sod."
In the rhythm, the suave and delicious rhythm, there
is a delicate and almost indefinable resemblance to
some of the best lines ever written by Tennyson,
as in the verses—

" 0 the merry burst of gladness;
0 the soft and tender tone!
0 the whisper never utter'd
Save to ono fond ear alone!

" 0 the light of life that sparkled
In those bright and bounteous eyes!
0 the blush of happy beauty,
Tell-tale of the heart's surprise!
" 0 the radiant light that girdled
Field and forest, land and sea,
When we all were young together,
And the earth was new to me!"
Or again, when the bard has summoned the buried
flower of his love from her grave—
"Lo, she cometh in her beauty,
Stately with a Juno grace,
Raven locks, Madonna-braided
O'er her sweet and blushing faco;

" Not a word I dared to utter—
More than he who, long ago,
Saw the heavenly shapes descending,
Over Ida's slopes of snow:

" When a low and solemn music
Floated through the listening grove,
And the throstle's song was silenced,
And the doling of the dove:
" When immortal beauty open'd
All its grace to mortal sight,
And the awe of worship blended
With the throbbing of delight.

" As the shepherd stood before them
Trembling in the Phrygian dell,
Even so my soul and being
Own'd the magic of the spell."
There is something essentially Tennysonian in the
composite expressions of " a Juno grace," and locks
" Madonna-braided." Altogether Blackwood for
July is one of the most diversified, and is certainly
not one of the least valuable that has yet appeared.
Its supremacy is more than ever indisputable. It is
now in truth—par excellence—Maga.

FRASE R.
The article of Spanish Affairs in this month's Fra-
ser is from the pen of one who evidently thoroughly
understands the subject, and who because he under-
stands the subject unhesitatingly expresses his ap-
proval of the conduct of Sir Henry Bulwer and of
Lord Palmerston throughout the recent Sotomayor
controversy. He, however, is of opinion that it
would have been wise at the commencement to have
let the Spanish Government know that we were pre-
pared to at once resent an insult, and to have at once
adopted the " knock down" alternative of Lord Archi-
bald Hamilton. We extract from this Tory periodical
the following account of the pet of the Protectionists,
General Narvaez:—
"But lot us study the public and constitutional history
of General Narvaez, Duke of Valencia, the head of that
Cabinet which has cast such an insult upon England.
What are his antecedents? what confidence are we jus-
tified in reposing in him for the future in consequence of
his past history? Narvaez has accused Mr. Bulwer of
being privy to the recent movements at Seville. Seville
is certainly one of those towns with all the movements
of which General Narvaez ought to be well acquainted,
inasmuch as he headed the rebellion there against his
own Sovereign in 1838. It is quite his pays de connais-
sance ; and we should be very much astonished if in the
end it were not to turn out that he created the move-
ment himself, in order to give some plausible ground for
the tyrannical policy he has since adopted. Well, this
is not all. Narvaez was the prime mover in the attack
on the palace in 1841, when the misguided but most
gallant Diego Leon fell a sacrifice to the wretched ca-
bals and perfidious intrigues of this very man Narvaez;
and at the instigation of the Queen-Mother, whose only
object was to regain her lost influence in Spain, the
sanctity of the royal bedchamber was violated, and the
Queen and her sister narrowly escaped with their lives.
Narvaez, too, it was who accomplished his purpose in
1844, by overthrowing the regency of Espartero-.ofEspartero who, though a soldier of fortune, illiterate
and uncultivated, was still the only man who had shown
anything approaching to intellect or judgment in the
conduct of the Spanish Government. It was after the
overthrow and final expulsion of Espartero that Nar-
vaez brought back the Queen-Mother to Madrid, and
afterwards formed the Cabinet. Subsequently, when
the Roncali and Miraflores Administration broke up in
1846, Narvaez was again at the head of the Government,
and he was recalled a few months since to the same high
office, with all his bigotry and pretension only matured
by the lapse of time.

" But ft is to the year 1846 that we would principally
direct attention, for it was then that Narvaoz entered
upon office with the loudest pretensions of respect for
constitutional government and the liberty of the sub-
ject. No sooner had he accepted the seals than he pro-
mulgated two royal decrees—by the first of which the
sitting of the Cortes was suspended; while by the second
rigorous restrictions were imposed upon the liberty of
the press."
Such is the man whom the Protectionists think it
decent to uphold, whom they think it not unpatriotic
to encourage in heaping insults on Great Britain, in
plundering her subjects, and ruining her commerce,
provided they can only make use of him as a tool for
regaining political ascendancy, and with it the power
of again plundering the great mass of their industri-
ous fellow-countrymen by a re-enactnient of thecorn-
laws. " The State of the Acted Drama" is an
ad-
mirable article. The decline of the drama is entirely
attributable to the mismanagement of managers, and
the gross selfishnesss of artistes. The writer'sa.pprel•
ciation of Macready is most just—his art in himself
not himself in his art, has been his w
Every other
holeandsteady,
object of pursuit throughout his career.
consideration has been sacrificeditordehretohean3 notahle
him to display himself; for this purpose

scrupled to inutilat.! Shakspere by cutting out all the
best portions of Cordelia, or to ruin the fame of Tay-
lor by reducing the Clara van Artavelde to the di-
mensions of a walking lady. The example thus set
by the "great .actor," has been followed by all the
minor ones, who not only imitate him in his jerking,
growling, recitative style of declamation, in his poses
plastiques, his strut and his stare, but in his determi-
nation to have no brother nor sister near the throne.
Let English actors think less of themselves and more
of their art, and the drama will revive; until they do
so, and thus become artistes indeed, it will not, nay,
it ought not to revive. In the article on "Denmark
and the Duchies," the much vexed and most obscure
question as to the right of Denmark to the Duchies,
is treated in an able and lucid manner. We have, in
addition, a beautifully written Greek tale, entitled'
" llyas the Athenian," the commencement of " The
Autobiography of a Young French Widow," which
promises well; an excellent drollery entitled " The
Confessions of a Nervous Soldier," some interesting
sketches of the "Mexican 'War," and a variety of
other amusing papers.

BA.II,7'LE Y.
The portrait of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, which
was to have illustrated the present number of Bentley,
is postponed to the ensuing number in consequence
of the delay on the part of the engraver. We have,
however, the memoir of Sir Edward Bulwer Lyt-
ton, including, as the memoir of every literary man
must necessarily include, a critique on his genius
and productions. The following passages are worthy
the attentive consideration of all who are desirous
of adopting literature as a profession :
" We may conclude this catalogue of his works by one
or two traits interesting to literary aspirants. The first
is that he has worked his way to eminence—worked it
through failure, through ridicule. His facility is only
the result of practice and study. He wrote at first
very slowly and with great difficulty ; but he resolved
to master the stubborn instrument of thought, and
mastered it. He has practised writing as an art, and
has re-written some of his essays (unpublished) nine:or
ten times over.

" Another habit will show the advantage of continuous
application. He only works about three hours a day—
from ten in the morning till one—seldom later. The
evenings, when alone, are devoted to reading, scarcely
ever to writing. Yet what an amount of good hard
labour has resulted from these three hours! He writes
very rapidly, averaging twenty pages a day novel print.
" Courage, industry, and perseverance are qualities
which he has brought to bear upon high aims and dis-
tinguished abilities. The results have been adequate.
His career is honourable to himself, and a lesson to
men of letters.

" One remark must be made before concluding, and
that is upon the true conception of the literary man's
position with regard to letters, as illustrated in Bulwer's
career. He has avoided an error which is all the more
common because the public encourages it. The man
who has succeeded in any one department is always
looked on with suspicion if he attempt another. People
are reluctant in giving credit to various accomplish-
ments. They will admit your superiority on one point
—it does not affect their self-love ; they flatter them-
selves that they are superior to you on others : but if
you attempt to prove your superiority on other points,
you invade their domain and irritate their complacency.
Why doesn't he stick to his novels?' says the historian;
Why does he attempt the drama?' says the dramatist;
How absurd to fancy himself a politician?' exclaims
the 31. P. It is thought to be no answer to say that the
man is versatile, has many faculties, and employs them:
the public like a man to confine himself to one special
topic. Division of labour is the grand thing: if you
have made pins' heads, content yourself with that, and
do not venture upon points.
"Accordingly we see men always working the mine
where they once discovered gold, and afraid to dig else-
where. They repeat themselves. All their works aro
but changes of name and costume. Like sculptors who
having once carved from marble a statue which has
been admired, they continue taking casts from that
statue in diilerent, and often indifferent, material.
" Not thus has Bulwer worked. When once he has
done a thing, he has done with it; new blocks of marble
lie before him, new creations are wrought from them.
Having once written a 'Pelham,' he writes no more
dandy novels; having once written a Rienzi,' he writes
no more Tribune' novels. Athens' follows the
Duchess de la Valliere,' and Maltravers ' follows
' Athens.' He gives no repetition of the Lady of
Lyons,' though urged by actors, managers, and public.
He writes just as the impulse urges him, not as a clamo-
rous, foolish public wishes. Into various spheres of acti-
vity he throws his active mind, and always with new re-
sult. A resolute diver, he plunges into the dark ocean,
struggles amidst the waves, and rises each time with a
new pearl. The amount of wealth he has thus accumu-
lated should always bo estimated when his career is
spoken of. He has, we say obeyed his own impulse:
the Di clef e; has been within, not without. Although he
has been, perhaps, more than anxious about pleasing the
public and writing for effect, he has only done so in the
matter of `form. He has chosen, to please, himself;
he has written to please the many."
Maxwell continues his highly wrought story of
"Robert Emmett and Arthur Aylmer." The scene of
the death of old Reginald Aylmer, is most powerfully
written. Sidney Bywater furnishes us a rich drol-
lery entitled " Horrible Delusions," which is illus-
trated con amore by Leech. A pleasant biography
of " Madame Viardot Garcia" follows, and then we
have " Pocahontas," an Indian tale by Odard. Abra-
ham Vanderdoort, under the title of " Pictures and
Painters," gives us an elaborate, artist-like, and con-
scientious criticism of several of the picture exhibitions
of the present season, and Prince Lowenstein conti-
nues his pleasant " Andalusian Sketches." Our
friend, the Flaneur in Paris, gives us some pleasant
sketches of " The French National Assembly," and
dashes off a series of portraits of the principal mem-
bers with the hand of a master. A very interesting
paper is that by the Baron Harthahsen entitled a
" Visit to the Rusian City Jaroslaff," introducing us
as it does to Russian life in the provinces. The re-
maining papers of this number are of more than aver-
age merit.

TIM NEW MONTHLY.
Both the numbers of this eminent periodical for
June and July have arrived together. Coming upon
us in this double profusion of contributions we are
reminded of the large amount of invention required
in the composition of such a publication, the diver-
sities of style, the ingenuity in the fabrication of
plots, the penetration requisite for the selection of
the most appropriate themes, and, above all, the saga-
city, the taste, the patience, and the unwearying
industry necessary for the fulfilment of the responsi-
bilities of editorship. But burdensome as those duties
must be, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth has nerve and
skill enough to edite two magazines simultaneously,
namely, the one which bears his name, and
the one now before us a periodical already
celebrated for its editors, from Sir E. Bulwer Lytton,
to Theodore Hook, to Tom Hood, down to Mr. Ains-
worth himself. And, in addition to all this, we shall
presently find that the editor of the New Monthly
and of Ainsworth's Magazine has sufficient leisure
left to revise the new and improved edition of his
romance of " Crichton," now in course of republica-
tion. Little as such literary labours are noticed,
they deserve at least this prising commemoration from
the newspaper critic, and the labours of Mr. Ains-
worth in particular justify us in terming him one of
the most industrious, intelligent, and gifted of the
magazine editors of England. Take a rapid glance
at the contents of these two numbers of the
New Monthly, by way of affording an illus-
tration to our remark. In June you are
carried away at a hand-gallop to Southern Africa by
Lieutenant-Colonel E. Napier ; into the thick of the
Paris Revolution on the Rosinante of Mr. Jolly
Green, or into the lax coteries of Sicilian society by
the writer of " The Confessional." Mrs. Acton Tindal
sings to :you, " Fear not to Die ;" and the melodious
voice of J. E. Carpenter chaunts the dirge of pomp
in two verses beginning " Treasure not the costly
gem." Charles Rowcroft writes as merrily as ever
about " Tick ;" the author of " Chantilly ' about
" Paquevette ;" Dudley Costello about " Madame du
Barri ;," I Charles Hervey about the " Paris Drama,"
not to ..ntion papers on " Philip and his Poodle,"
" Eastern Life," an " Evening Landscape," the
" Richest Commoner in England," the "Kafir War,"
" Contin, !‘.ntal Politics," the " Royal Academy," the
" Opera,'" and the " Palingenesia of the Alchemists."
Of' the J uly number we may say ditto in regard to
the dives city, merriment, and abundance of the con-
tributior Is, the editor not forgetting that the second
title oft he 'magazine is " The Humorist."

AINSWORTH'S.
Both the June and July instalments of Ainsworth,
like its i:ompanion, the New Monthly, have reached
us ; and conspicuously in both, not only as the
opening F ortions, or as being illustrated by the
etching-mec dle of llablet Knight Browne, are the
chapters of the editor's gorgeous romance of " Crich-
ton." T'ho present chapters are those called " The
Bezoar," "The Jester,"-and " The Sarb.rane.”
In
the July number Prince Wladimer Odojeffsky con-
tributes " Capriccio" as unpronounce,ably queer as
the mum of H. S. II.—" an .odd name, ' as the Irish
say, "to open a pew-door with." The other contri-
butions are, in their different way, agreeable' •
especially r" the description of " The Homesteads of
Brittany. .