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London, England, 1848-02-02 00:00:00

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long in obtaining some clue to the guilty parties
Having ascertained that two foreigners had purchased
a press, rolk.r, and stones for lithugraplung, from
Mr. Lea, the lithographer, of High Holborn, he sac-
ceeded in tracing these parties to their lodgings in
Newton street, Soho, and there he obtained possession
of a Bible belonging to one of the prisoners, between
the leaves of which a note corresponding to the spu-
rious ones circulating in Russia was found. Subse-
quently he traced the prisoners, to Short's-gardens,
Drury-lane, where he forcibly broke into a room
rented by Kauffman, and discovered three of the
prisoners sitting round a table in the very act of
preparing the spurious notes. The room contained
a press, ink, roller, paper, stones, and all
materials necessary for lithographing notes,
but the tracings upon the stones had been
coated with gum so as to conceal the letters, marks,
and figures, which had been struck upon them.
This coat, however, had been removed, and the
tracing exactly corresponded with the impressions on
the paper which the prisoners were in the act of
cutting up into parts when the room was broken
into.

A number of witnesses were called to substantiate
the case.

(The trial had not concluded when our report left.)

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Andrew Sehejfer, a German mason, was charged with
stealing a cash-box, value 55., thirty-three sovereigns,
and 355., the property of the General Screw Steam
Shipping Company.
Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and Mr. Iluddleston de-
fended the prisoner.
The evidence against the prisoner was purely of a
circumstantial character. A fellow-countryman of
the prisoner, named Hyllier, had been in the habit of
loitering about the offices of the General Screw Steam
Shipping Company, in Mark-lane, and was well
known to the clerks as a porter. It was assumed
that the prisoner was in connivance with this man,
and on the evening of the 31st of December, while the
prisoner engaged Mr. Dickinson, the manager of the
company,:in conversation upon the subject of his taking
a passage in one of the company's vessels, Hyllier
entered another office of the company, on the same
landing as the one in which Mr. Dickinson and the
prisoner were conversing, and stole the cash-box,
with its contents. The robbery was discovered the
same evening, and, suspicion falling upon the prisoner,
he was traced to a public-house in the Commercial-
road, where he was found in company with
another foreigner, who was supposed to be Hyllier. The
prisoner, upon observing the entrance of a police-
officer, made a desperate but futile attempt to resist
his apprehension, and his companion succeeded in
making his escape. The cash-box was found near to
the public-house, broken to pieces, and it was ascer-
tains d that the prisoner and a man answering
Hyllier's description were seen together that evening,
near to the spot.
Mr. HUDDLESTON having addressed the jury for the
defence,

The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The COURT sentenced him to nine months' impri-
sonment, with hard labour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
In the absence of Mr. Sergeant Adams the Assis-
tant Judge, Mr. Walerby, presided. The new
arrangement for the trial of all the male prisoners
on the first day of the sessions, and of the females on
the next, has not in effect been carried out ; for the
whole of the morning was occupied with the trials of
male prisoners, whose cases were not reached yes-
terday.
James Gardner, being indicted for stealing two
ducks, the property of Charles Chowns "and
another," was acquitted on the ground of informality,
the ducks being the property of Charles Chowns
OD ly.

EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THIS DAY)

THE LATE RAJA OF ATTARA.

A special general Court of the proprietors of East
India stock was held this day at their house in
Leadenhall-street, upon the requisition of nine pro-
prietors, for the purpose of taking into consideration
certain resolutions relating to the case of the late Raja
of Sattara, recommending the directors to obtain the
sanction of the Board of Control to the instituting of
a public and impartial inquiry into the whole case.
Mr. Hums, M.P., proposed the resolutions, of
which a copy had been sent to every proprietor of
East India stock, in order that Hon. Gentlemen
might come fully prepared to decide upon the matter
with the least possible loss of time to the
Court. The Hon. Gentleman went through the
leading points of the late Raja's case. lie could bear
testimony from his own personal observation to the
excellent administration of the Indian Government,
and the management of our vast and important
empire in that part of the world, under the super-
intendence of that Court; for it was now fifty-four
years since he first went out to India as a servant of
the company.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the day
would never come when the Government of those
possessions would be transferred from that Court to
the Colonial-office, although there was a desire to
bring that about, and he was convinced it would be,
if effected, the ruin of our power in India.—(Hear,
hear.) We had hitherto maintained that power more
by good faith and justice than by the sword. The
only exception to our honourable and wise policy in
this respect was the case of the late Raja.—(llear,
hear.) It was too late to do justice to that unfor-
tunate Prince in his own person.—(llear, hear.)
But it was not the less the duty of
the proprietors to retrace their steps if they found
that they were wrong. It was not to be regarded as
the case of the late Raja alone. It was the case of
all India. It concerned the reputation of the Indian
Government for justice and honour with every de-
pendency throughout that empire. There was not a
prince with whom we had treaties, from Cape
Comerin to Lahore, who could henceforth have any
reliance upon the fidelity of the British Government
if it still persisted, through that Court, in refusing
justice in the present case. All that the Raja himself
ever demanded—all that his friends and survivors
now demanded—was an impartial trial. The Hon.
Proprietor dwelt at great length upon those principal
topics, and concluded by moving the resolutions.
The discussion is expected to occupy the Court to a
late hour, if indeed it be not, as on former occasions,
adjourned to another day.
There were many ladies in the gallery.

TO THE COMMERCIAL TRA-

YELLERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Dear Sirs,—l was sanguine in believing that the
unparalleled demonstration made at our inaugural
dinner, on the 27th December last, would have
aroused you to a sense of your duty—that is, to make
the success of the Commercial Travellers' Orphan
Schools a part of your distinct business. To a few
of our friends the committee feel most grateful for
their noble endeavours during the past month, but it
is to the body of thirty thousand that I respectfully
and most urgently appeal to become annual sub•
scribers themselves first, and then they will have a
moral confidence in appealing to charitable and gene-
rous employers, to firms and individuals not imme-
diately connected with commercial men.
Our worthy Lord Mayor, who so ably presided,
told you we required three thousand five hundred
pounds as a building fund, to purchase the property
at Wanstead, by June next. Pardon me for urging
upon you the absolute necessity of raising this amount
by the 25th June, or we lose the opportunity to pur-
chase. Show the distinguished visitors who honoured
us with their company at dinner, that you are men
of deeds as well as words ; and, above all thing 3,
pray enable me, as your treasurer, to gratify my
most anxious ambition—that is, to recommend the
committee to elect twenty children every six months,
until you have the largest school in the kingdom.
I know you will pardon this intrusion, 1 have had
so many proofs of your kind indulgence and sup-
port.—l remain, dear Sirs, your faithful servant,
GEORGE MOORE, _ _

Treasurer to the Commercial Travellers'
Orphan Schools.
5, Bow Church-yard, Feb. 1, 1848.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed
the Earl of Aberdeen's second son, the lion. and Rev.
Douglas Gordon, to be one of his Grace's domestic
chaplains.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons, accompanied by Mrs. Shaw Lefevre and
family, arrived in Eaton-square last evening, from Hick-
field Place, Ilants.

CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH. Yesterday four
inquests were held at the London Hospital on the bo-
dies of children who have died in the above institution
from injuries which they received by their clothes
catching fire.
INDIA NEWS.—GOVERNItIENT OF BOMBAY.—Yes-
terday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when the Right Hon. Viscount 'Falkland was
appointed Governor of the Presidency of Botnuay.
The Count de Trapani, brother of the King of
Naples, who was put forth as one of the candidates for
the hand of Queen Isabella of Spain, is shortly expected
to arrive at Munich, to be married to the Princess Alex-
andra, daughter of the King of Bavaria. The formal
demand of the hand of the Princess was lately made by
the Neapolitan Ambassador to the Court of Vienna, who
went expressly to Munich for that purpose.
It is the intention of her Majesty to hold two
levees, at St. James's Palace, in the course of the present
month; and it is rumoured in the court circles that the
Sovereign will have a drawing-room towards the close of
the month.

FORTIFICATIONS or PLYMOUTIL—AIthough re-
cently some very extensive batteries have been erected
in this vicinity, it is rumour( d that the Government in-
tend to make the defences of this town and dock-
yard, among other places, still more effective.—Ply
mouth Times.

THE MAGAZINES.
BEi\ TLEY'S MISCELLANY.

The present number of BentlPy opens with an
interesting biographical memoir of Beethoven from
the pen of Miss Thomasina Ross, and is illustrated
by an engraving by Cook of a portrait of the great
maestro, which is considered by Mr. Charles Czerny
to be the most correct likeness of this celebrated
composer extant. This is followed by an amusing
description of a fete champetre at Constantinople
(at which the Sultan was present), by Mrs. Percy
Sinnott, who thus describes the personal appearance
of the Sultan Abd-ul-Meschid—

" is above the middle height, broad
shouldered, and finely shaped, with the youthful
luxuriance and fulness of form on which the Asiatic eye
is so well pleased to rest; and his natural advantages
were further set off by the elegant simplicity of a close-
fitting dark blue surtout, embroidered on the seams with
gold, white pantaloons, and polished European chassure.
Notwithstaading some traces of the small pox, his face
has much manly beauty, with its high forehead, finely
arched brows, small mouth, and straight, well formed
nose. The Sultan has nothing of the look of premature
decay so often spoken of in Europe; but in spite of his
Caucasian blood by the mother's side, Abdul-Meschid
has the olive-tinted skin of his Turcoman ancestors.
Ilis profile is very handsome; the moustache is short
and thick, and his whiskers and beard kept within due
bounds. His solitaire was a large diamond as big as a
pigeon's egg. Sultan Abd-ul-Meschid is twenty-three
years old, and, though nut disinclined to pleasure, capable
of severe labour, and is undeniably one of the best
intentioned princes of our time."

Professor Creasy continues his commentaries on the
six decisive battles cf the world, and chooses as the
subject of his present paper, the defeat of the
Athenians at Syracuse. Dr. W. C. Taylor gives us
the fruits of his researches in the provincial
literature of France, in a learned, and to antiquaries,
most interesting disquisition on the origin of the
story of "Blue Beard," and three candidates appear to
contest the unenviable distinction of having been the
original Blue Beard of the legend. The first is Gilles
de Betz, Marshal of France, one of the firmest
adherents of Charles VII., and Lord of the Castle of
Champtoi6, situated on the banks of the Loire, be-
tween Angers and Nantes, which is called "Le
Chateau de Barbe Bleu" to the present day. Gilles
de Retz professed openly to be one of the most reli-
gious of men, and had the service conducted in the
chapel of his castle with all the splendour and forms
used in cathedrals, but secretly he indulged in the
most debauched excesses. Every day young maidens
were taken by force from the cottages of their parents,
and carried to the castle, from whence none of them
were ever known to return. Broken in fortune, he
turned alchemist, and according to the superstitions of
the period, he was said to have entered into a
compact with Satan, and to have stipulated with
the Prince of Darkness to pay for his instruction
in the forbidden art, by a tributary sacrifice of
Christian children. Dr. Taylor is of opinion that
Gilles was in reality the dupe of his own supersti-
tions, and like the Goomsoors and Thugs of India ke
believed in the efficacy of human sacrifices. A Floren-
tine mountebank named Prelati was his assistant or
his instructor in these horrible mysteries, and the
cries of the tortured children were frequently heard
proceeding from the secret chamber of the castle, the
approach to which was forbidden to any of the do-
mestics under pain of death. Gilles was at length
arrested, the skeletons of forty children were found
in his castle; and he was executed on the 23d October,
1440, "a date," says the historian, "about which
there can be no doubt, for all the people of Anjou and
Maine, by common consent, whipped their children
on that morning, so as to impress the precise date on
their memory." Another prototype of Blue Beard is
found in Coniorre, Count of Cornouailles, who lived
in the country of Vannes, in Brittany, who married
seven wives, and murdered them as they
were on the point of becoming mothers,
and whose guilt was revealed miraculously
by the corpse of his last wife. Burgundy sets up a
third claimant in the person of the Count of Saulx,
who shut up his wife in a den of bears, who, how-
ever, caressed her as if they had been lap-dogs. Her
brothers hearing of her treatment, attacked the castle
of the Count, and killed him just as he had raised his
sword to murder their sister. We have some pleas-
ing " Road-sketches of the Inns of France," by
J. Marvel, and some pleasant " Reminiscences of
Geneva and its Neighbourhood," by Miss Costello.
Mr. Warren continues the narrative of his " Adven-
tures on the Amazon," and Cooper gives us another
chapter of " Captain Spike." Spike is dying in the
hospital at Key West, attended by Rose Budd and
Jack Tier, the latter of whom turns out to be a
woman, and the wife of Spike, whom he had deserted
twenty years before, and who, disguised as a sailor,
and assuming the name of Jack Tier, had wandered
over the world in search of him. " What Tom
Pringle did with a Hundred Pound Note," is the
title of a Boz-like sketch of the doings of a clerk of an
old house in the City. What Tom Pringle did we
shall not tell you, reader, for we would not for the
world deprive you of the pleasure of reading the
paper and guessing as you proceed as to what may
be the intentions of Tom Pringle anent the said 1001.
note. It is quaintly illustrated by Leech. The
lovers of romance will he delighted with the
" Heiress of Budowa," and the lovers of horrors with
" The Old Man and his Guests ;" while the laughers
at the petty miseries of human life will find ample
focal for merriment in the " Difficulties in a Tour to
Wiesbaden." There is something to suit all tastes
in Bentley this month.

FRASER.

The " Poughkeepsie Seer and his Revelations," is
the title of the first article in this number of Fraser.
The Poughkeepsie is a " smart" American youth,
named Davis, who having been "clairvoyant boy " to
an itinerant mesmeriser, set up in business for himself
as a quack doctor, and ultimately as the founder of a
new religion, in opposition to Christianity. The
article is well written, although we think the blas-
phemous absurdities of this impudent impostor are
not worth the time and the attention which the
writer has bestowed on them. We are glad to find
that the author of the " Orators of the Age " has
again resumed his pencil. In this number he gives
us sketches of three new Members of the New Par-
liament—Mr. J. Walter, Mr. F. O'Connor, and Mr.
Cornewall Lewis. In his sketch of Mr. J. Walter
we are glad to see that he does full justice to the
merits of one whom he justly designates as one of the
most original and extraordinary men of the age—
the late Mr. Walter. He it was who first rendered
journalism the power which it has now become. Ile
was the creator of the fourth estate.
" He made his journal an exemplar of what is and
must be the power of the world in this age. It is a
power the most eatural in its origin, and the least vi
cious in its i ffeets, of any the world has yet seen. The
consolidated empire of the warrior, though transmitted
from generation to generation, never loses the taint of
its unjust origin. The institutions invcnted to sustain
it are all based on the tradition of force. Religion,
which has founded some systems of rule, and cemented
more, has, nevertheless, save in some favoured portions
of the earth, too often had, as it still has, Superstition
for its strongest ally. Throughout three-fourths of the
world it has hoped to secure the present and eternal
salvation of man only by degrading and enslaving him;
and even now, when, seeing what a purer practice has
effected during the last four centuries for this island,
and for some parts of the Continent, the most elevated
in mind and station of Catholic Europe are striving, by
other means, to reach the same end, the vices of the
system are found almost too strong for the virtuous pur-
pose of the individuals. But the power of which the
most commanding example was created and perfected
by the late Mr. Walter, has no such evils, either of
origin or in effect. It is instinct with a spirit and life
coeval with that of humanity—dormant, but never dead;
and being
,itself of that creative and inspiring nature,
that it must sustain the moral and intellectual future of
man, precluding the recurrence of those intervals of
torpor which have heretofore furnished history and phi-
losophy with some of their most striking examples. Of
all the influences by which mankind have, from age to
age, been ruled, this is the most purely intellectual in
it origin. But, perhaps, its greatest claim consists in
that, being a substantive and independent power, it can,
at will, make itself the ally of those other powers which
have preceded it., holding the balance between them and
humanity, and throwing its weight into either scale,
according to the demands of a high moral necessity.
Deriving its authority from the assent and conviction of
mankind, it is subject to a perpetual check upon its
possible excesses. There is ever a moral pendulum to
moderate pernicious activity.
" The late Mr. Walter, by elevating this new agent
to the highest point yet attained--sometimes judiciously
following the example set him by his brethren, but more
often setting that example himself—has earned a very
high place among the benefactors of mankind. We
must not regard him as a mere fortune-maker,possessed
of more skill than his competitors, or as a first-rate
practical printer, who could himself ' turn to at case,' or
superintend the working of his machines when deprived
of the due service from his subordinates,—or as a man
of enterprise and capital, running expresses against the
Government, and distancing all competitors in the early
procuring of news. He was all this, and a great deal
more. We remember once being struck with an ex-
pression used by one of a class much abused by the
journal to which we refer. Scrambling over a mountain
side, in one of the wildest and poorest districts of the
west of Ireland, with our temporary host, a Roman Catho-
lie clergyman, the conversation turned upon some of the
dainty epithets which had been applied from time to
time by the leading journal to the * surpliced ruffians.'
Our companion was a man of considerable attainments,
and contradicted, in his manners and habits, the esti-
mate usually formed of his class. Having incidentally
used, as applied to that journal, the word newspaper,
he broke out suddenly, ' Newspaper, sir ! it is a part of
the Government of the country 1' This magnanimous
admission of the much-abused priest was, in fact, the
highest tribute to the late Mr. Walter. By the most
skilful management, requiring a knowledge of human
nature, an acquaintance with the past, and a prescience
of the future, for which even the intimates of Mr. Wal -
ter never gave him sufficient credit, he brought his
journal to be the most fine and delicate barometer of
public opinion. As public opinion more and more su-
perseded, in this country, other and more ancient but
effete forces, statesmen found it to their advantage to
consult the barometer. From consulting it, the step
was natural to making use of it ; for, by a very simple
process, it had equally become to the people a supposed
barometer of the designs of statesmen. The alliance
thus formed was highly honourable to the younger of
the contracting parties ; because it was not an insulting
condescension, but was based on the principle of inde-
pendence. The intermediate period, however, between
the first small beginning and this grand result (for it
was a grand result so to conquer the enshrined pride of
aristocracy in office) was one of great trial and difficulty
to Mr. Walter, not as a newspaper proprietor, for there
his way was clear to him, but as a private individual,
taking openly an active personal share in politics."
With the greater part of the above we entirely agree,
but we do not see the difficulty in which Mr. Walter
was involved, as a private individual, by his connec-
tion with the Times newspaper; on the contrary, we
believe that if, at the first outset of his career as a
Member of Parliament, Mr. Walter had boldly
avowed (that of which every one was perfectly aware)
his connection with, and his influence over, the Times,
and upon that connection, and that influence had
grounded an additional claim for a respectful attention
to his views on the part of the Members of the Legis-
lature, he would have escaped many of the difficulties
which he afterwards experienced in the course of his
legislative career, and would have given to the mem-
bers of the fourth estate, which he had created, not
only power, but social position also. This disquisi-
tion on the character of, to use the words of the
writer, " the Louis Philippe of Journalism," is the
most interesting portion of the most interesting paper
of the present number. The " Chronique de Paris"
is an amusing resume of Parisian gossip anent
the domestic habits of the King of the French and
his family, in which we find several characteristic
anecdotes of the late Madame Adelaide, who was by
far the most talented and the best disposed of the
Orleans family. " L'Uscoque" is a review of George
Sand's novel bearing that title. Geore Sand, in this
novel, has undertaken to condense, combine, illustrate,
dcvetail, and continue Lord Byron's poems of the
" Corsair" and " Lora," and the writer of this review,
in his hatred for Byron, has made him answerable for
all the sins of his continuation, and repeats the foul-
mouthed libels of " turncoat Southey" about " the
Satanic school" with evident gusto. This article, we
should imagine, must have been admitted into Fraser
by some unaccountable oversight. It was evidently
intended for " Aly Grandmother's Review," and we
might almost be tempted to surmise that it was a
similar production of that worn-out pen of " my dear
Robert's" himself. Turn we from this to a review of
" The Life and Remains of John Sterling," in which
the beautiful, truthful character of that most honest,
yet most loving and most tolerant of theologians, is
treated of in a kindred spirit. It is a beautiful notice
of a beautiful work. " The Guerilla" is concluded,
and the description of the unsuccessful attempt of the
Saltador to carry off King Joseph to the mountains
is most dramatically given. We recommend this
story to some of our dramatic adapters. They would
find their account in perusing it. The " Chronicle
and Commentary on the Current History of the Month"
is written in a spirit of great impartiality, and fur-
nishes an useful record of contemporary history.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND ALLEGED MURDER.—
Yesterday Mr. G. J. Mills held an inquest at the Hope,
John-street, 'Tottenham-court-road, on the body of
Joseph Edge 31`Donnell, pianoforte-case•maker, aged
34, It appeared from the evidence that the deceased,
who had been spending tho evening of the 13th ult. in
Francis-street, Bedford-square, left the house about
two o'clock on the following morning, when, as he was
crossing Tottenham-court-road, opposite the chapel, he
was attacked by three men, who attempted to rob him,
but having resisted them, one of the party felled him to
the ground with a blow of a bludgeon, which inflicted a
dreadful wound on his head. The wound was dressed
by Mr. Parke, of the University- College Hospital, and
deceased was attended at his residence, 78, John-street,
by Mr. Weston until he died, on the 26th ult. Both
those gentlemen stated the death was the result of
erysipelas, produced by the injuries inflicted on the
head. Verdict, "Deceased died from erysipelas, caused
by a wound on the head, but how the wound was
inflicted there was no evidence to prove."
COVENTRY AND NUNEATON RAILIVIY.—BIRMING.•
HIM, MONDAY EVENING.—The third half-yearly meet-
ing of the proprietors of the above railway was held to-
day at the Queen's Hotel, in this town, J. Ledsam, Esq.,
deputy chairman of the London and North-Western
Company, in the chair. The secretary, Mr. Watkins,
read a brief report from the directors, which stated that
the line having been re-surveyed by the engineer, Mr.
Gooch, several amendments had been effected. The
line had been sold to the London and North-Western
Company; but, by the provisions of the Act of Parlia-
ment the purchase could not be completed until one-half
of the capital had been paid up- At present the pro-
prietors had only paid 104,0004, 57,000/. of which re-
mained in hand. The directors had therefore made a
call of 11. 12s. per share, in order to complete the sale of
the line. The report was received and adopted without
a word of comment. Mr. John Ellis, Mr. J. L. Prevost,
and Mr. Smith were then elected directors, and the
meeting terminated.
NIGHTLY SWELTER TOR THE ITOUSELESS.—Yes-
terdav the committee of the above institution made a
7—port of the poor persons who had availed themselves of
its ben( fits since the opening of the asylums (three in
number), on Saturday, the 22nd ult. In the central
asylum, Playhouse-yard, St. I tike's, 1,295 were ad-
mitted; in the eastern asylum, Glasshouse-) ard, East
Smithfield, 1,067; and in the western asylum, Ogle-
street, Maryleboue, 598; making a total of 2,960 men,
women, and children, amongst whom 16,739 rations of
bread wore distributed. During the last four nights
upwards of 1,100 bate been admitted,

begins playing the saute tricks over again, and is just as
sure cal its effi et; but now, having apparently grown legs
ardent of conquest, as it grows older and st 'adicr in its
progress, it exercises its arts in a more listless, careless
fashion. At first it appears only in the humble and un
pretending garb of the rugged willowed islands, that
split it into numerous branches,—the bare sand. banks,
that are like sun-burnt freckles on its face,— and the
low villages, that possess no other attraction than
histories of innumerable battles fought on the neigh •
bouring plains, from the times of Rudolph of Hapsburg,
through those of Turkish invasion, to the more modern
days of the French empire—au attraction which may
seduce a military heart, but which, in spite of some
romance, exercises but a very transient sway over mine.
At Presburg it begins to give a smile, and then, as if to
watch the etitct of this glimpse of seduction, languidly
falls back into its monotony. At Gran, how( ver,it
again raises its head with the adornment of mountain,
and valley, and tributary stream, and proud cathedral.
At Vissegrad it crowns itself with a haughty diadem of
imperial ruin, and lays on its most brilliant rubes of
wood-woven reek and precipice. At Pest and Buda the
fulness of its beauty is put forth in one wondrous
panorama; and its work is Again done. Ido not know
of what stuff other men ate made, but I am invariably a
lost man."

The description of Pest and Buda, the twin capitals
of Hungary-, as see❑ from the Danube is sufficiently
effective—

" But before long, the rough prQeipitous outline of the
Block!bcrg on the right bank, but lying before you on
the horizon, Legins to announce to you that you are ap-
proaching the Hungarian capital : and now, the long
line of the far-stretching suburbs of Old Buda begin to
rise to your sight on the same side ; and green wooded
islands stud the stream ; and innumerable anchored
water-mills tell you that a great town is near: and then
the Margarethen•lnsel is passed with its archducal
gardens and woods : and then, all at once, what a won-
derful panorama is before your eyes! On the right is
Buda, with its terraced garden and stately hanging
palaces, rising above each other up the mountain-side, its
palatinate palace, and its citadel---Buda, the old capital
of the Hungarian monarchy, the city of middle-age
souvettirs and great historical deeds. lieyond, rises still
higher, the huge, uncouth mass of the Blocksberg, with
the observatory on its summit, and suburbs clinging to
its side. On the left are the new palace like houses
which line the quays of Pest, spreading along the flat
banks of the plain on that side. Pest is the representa-
tive of modern reforms, modern ideas, modern architec-
ture, as Buda, on its height, of old aristocratic state-
liness and ancient times. The two form a panoramic
whole, which will scarcely find its match in the world.
The sun is setting; but its last glow yet sheds a beautiful
tint over this grand scene. Lights begin to gleam along
the heights of Buda and the quay of Pest, and add live-
liness to the general effict. And now, the great piles
of the mighty suspension bridge across the Danube,
which, when finished, is to be one of the wonders of
Europe, are shot past with rapidity: the steamer cannon
is fired ; and the steam-boat sweeps up to the quay of
Pest."

Pest, however, we are told, in its wide streets and
neglected squares, has a vague resemblance to " that
dreariest and most soul-deadening of all would-be
grand cities—that showy but dull, magnificent but
shabby, new and yet seemingly half-ruined capital—
that still-born creation, galvanised into a false and
spectral life—St. Petersburg." These volumes, like
all reminiscences of travels, are naturally of a very
rambling and discursive character; and, besides, their
author is a professed " Aneur," or lounger—and, as
he himself very truly says, " a confirmed Aneur
might bQ as easily bear-led from sight to sight, as a
butterfly dragged by a chain from flower to flower."
Consequently he wanders hither and thither as his
fancy leads him, and if his letters are not free from
the imperfections to be met with in most works of
their class, they also contain sundry pieces of infor-
mation, and much matter of interest and amusement.
Following the course of the Danube, he gives us
some pictures of Turkey and Turkish life, as seen
"by the walls of high Belgrade." There is a very
interesting account of the vintage in Syrmia, and the
manufacture of Syrmian wines. Here is a description
of the manufacture of one almost unknown in this
country :

" The Syrmian auslruch, the choicest and most valued
of all these wines—that which often obtains the prefer-
ence over the more generally celebrated wine of Tokay
—is not to be produced every season; its fabrication can
only be expected in a very favourable year. It is made
then by a process peculiar to the richer Hungarian
wines. When the weather is especially dry and advan-
tageous, the fuller and richer grapes are allowed to re-
main upon the stalks until they are dried to raisins in
the sun; under less favourable circumstances they would
rot, not dry ; they aro then only gathered in the late
season. These raisins are picked very carefully and
heaped together in tubs, bored below like sieves; and
their oily juice is allowed to run off, pressed out by their
own weight alone. It would appear almost impossible,
at first, that any drinkable liquid should be extracted
from the thick liquor thus expressed from this sweet,
dry grape. By degrees, however, the particles settle to
the bottom of the tub into which it is conveyed; and the
pure wine is run off clear from the top.
" The wine thus obtained is never in a state to be
drunk until it has stood several years, some thirty or
more, I was told; and at that period the second deposit
made by this purified liquor is said to bo sometimes so
great, on the sides as well as the bottom of its receptacle,
that, if the cask be broken, the wine will stand alone in
an inward .formed cask of its own leather. Whether
this story be apochryphal or not, the fact remains the
same, that after many years preservation, the result
produces that nectar of nectars, as it is called, the Syr-
mian auviruch. This superior sort is called, par excel-
lence, the ' essence.' "

After quoting one most beautiful sentiment, w•e
must take leave of these instructive and interesting
volumes :

" Elevated views have always the effect of elevating
the spirits; at least I find it so. Generally speaking,
let those who are accustomed to clamour loudly over
their woes, go out into the great temple of Nature, and
into what insignificance will they feel their !sorrows
shrink : surrounded by the magnificence of heaven and
earth, the wailing over every petty misfortune of life must
appear like the puling cry of a child, amidst the choral
organs and devout aspirations of the pious in an immense
cathedral."