The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-20 00:00:00

THE SUN,

RESIGNATION OF MR. JUSTICE

pose him on either 'occasio'n,, from which I infer that
he inflicted a severe luss on them when they attacked
his patrol from Port Cox, (34 the 13 !ii. inst.
I have, &c., --
GEO. MACKINNON"
Colonel Commanding 2d_
His Excellency Sir 11. G Smith, Bart.,
G.C.8., &c.

PATTESON.

The Hon. Mr. Justice Patteson presided, on
Thursday, at the annual dinner of the Awliscombe,
Buckerol, and Feniton Agricultural Association, at
Feniton, about twelve miles from Exeter, near which
place tin Learned Judge's country residence is
situated.

In reply to the toast, " Success, Long Life, and
Prosperity to the Presflent of the Day," the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman said his excellent friend, Mr.
Drewe, had spoken of him in his judicial capacity in
a manner in which he could not at nll coincide. He
had done his duty, he believed, as well as he had been
able during the twenty-one years he had been a judge,
and he had always endeavoured during that time to
deal justly between man and man, and between the
Crown and men, as far as the matters brought before
him enabled him to do so.—(Cheers.) Being fond
of his profession he had felt that be should lie only
too glad to exert himself for some years 3 et to come
if it had pleased God to spare his life; but it had
pleased Him to 8 fillet him with an infirmity, which
had been coming on for many years, but had so
increased of late that it had now arrived at
such a point that there was a doubt—and a doubt was
quite sufficient in such a case—whether the due ad-
ministration of justice, where he was called on to
preside, might riot ho perilled. Now, they must
agree with him that the due administration of justice
ought not to be perilled at all, and therefore it was
that, upon the advice of his friends, who were batter
able to judge than himself, he found the time was
come when, so far as regarded the hearing of cases
and the examination cf witnesses, he could no longer
do his duty in a perfectly satisfactory manner. lie
did not mean to say that he had ever been perfect in
performing his duty as judge. He meant to say ho
could no longer do his duty in such a manner as be
ought. Therefore it was that, before the next circuit
came, when it would be his duty to preside in one of
the courts, he had determined to tender his resignation
to her Majesty—not because having served 21 years,
15 being the allotted time, he felt at liberty to retire,
but because, by the advice of those better able to
judge than himself, he found the time was come
when be ought no longer to continue in a
situation involving the performance of most
important duties, to the proper discharge of which
his infirmity was a great obstacle. He had always
felt that he ought not to yield to that infirmity
and at once retire and take a pension from the
country, but if the administration of justice was to
be in any degree perilled by his remaining, however
anxious and desirous he might be to remain, he should
not shrink from retiring and taking that pension to
which for some years he had been entitled. Under
these circumstances he should not sit upon the bench
after next February. The consequence would be he
should spend more of his time in the country than
he had hitherto. The same infirmity which drove
him from the bench also prevented his rendering
much service to the country. Neverless, so far as
his infirmity allowed, he would render any service
in any shape or way it might come before him,
and he trusted in God to enable him to hit upon
something to employ his time profitably to his
country and to himself, and conducive to his eternal
good—(Cheers.) It was not his will, but the will
of the /almighty that he must retire.—(Peenewed
cheers.) In conclusion, the Learned Judge thanked
the company for the kind manner in which they had
drunk hie health.

GENERAL'ORDERS.
Head-quhrters,, King William's Town,
Sept. 2, 1851.
The newly arrived and other native levies of 2d
division, will be formed into one corps, trader Com-
mandant Davies, who will observe in their distribu-
tion that the men of, particular districts and stations
will be kept together in tilt companies of which this
corps will be composed. .
The following officers are app 'el to this corps:
Captains W. Musgrave, R.. 13 ; Limutenants J.
Crampton, M. Guinery, Statham, j. Thom, and W.
D. Thom.

The Clan william Levyr, ivhoseperiocl of service has
expired, will march to East London for evibarkation
to Cape Town, on • Thursday, Abe 4th inst. The
Commander-in Chief desiies to ackacwlei3e the ser-
vices voluntarily extended
vices of this. Levy, which
at his Excellency's rcquest ; and that it is -with great
satisfaction that his Excellency repeats to Captain
Shaw, their commander, his markedpxobation ('f
his conduct, by bis gallantry in the field before the
enemy, as well as in the management and discipline of
his Levy.
The Commander-in-Chief has 'again the satisfaction
to notice the conspicuous activity of Major-General
Somerset, who with P. sa4l patrol of Cape Mounted
Rifles, under Captain Carey, supported by a company
of the 74th Highlanders, under Captain Hancock, re-
captured 159 bead of cattle andJs horses i!rom a con-
siderable body of the tnetty, on-the 29th ult., in the
valley of the New Year River.
The Dragoon horses, arrived from Cape Town, are
attached to the Cape Mouthed Rifles.
Mr. William Forrester is appointed lieutenant in
the Graham's Town Fingo'Corps, from the Ist inst.,
vice Mr. Field.

Captain Mouseley, Riverdale Levy, having been
detained on duty, will receive pay to the end of
September.

A. J. CLOETE, Lieut.-Colonel, D. Q. Gen.

Head-quarters, King William's Town,
Aug. SO, 1851.
Mr. William Henderson is appointed lieutenant in
the Port Elizabeth .Levy, from the 17th August,
1851, vice Cook.
Mr. John' Forrester' is appointed lieutenant in
Stubbs's Rangers, from the 25th instant, vice D.
Mitchley, deceased.
A. J. CLoLTE, Lieut.-Colonel, D. Q.M. Gen.

Head-quarters, Kidg William's Town,
Sept. 1, 1851.
It is with great satisfaction that the commander-
in-chief epresses his marked approbation of the
spirited conduct of a patrol in Seyolo a country, under
the command of Captain Knight, Cape Mounted
Rifles, with 20 Cape Mounted Rifles and 20 Arm-
strong's Horse, in purSuit of flame Fingo rattle, in
which by this small party 16 Ke.firs were killed, their
muskets and assegais all captured.
Captain Wellesley, deputy assistant adjutant ge-
neral, will receive forage for an additional charger.
A ration of 2 oz. of beau 4 will be issued to the
troops at King William's Town, in lieu of rice, from
the 4th inst.
A. J. CLOETE, Lt2,C01., D. Q. M. Gen.

A WHOLESALE MURDERESS.—BURY ST. EDMUND'S,
SATURDAY.—This town and neighbourhood have been
thrown into a state of great excitement in consequence of a
young person, moving in the better station of lite, who re-
sided with her uncle, a person of great respectability, at
Crawford, near Bury, having been committed for trial for
two distinct murders, the victims being
her own illegitimate
children. From the facts which transpired before the magis-
trates and coroner, it appears that the prisoner (Maria
Stuart) was suspected of having given birth to a child, and
a police-constable apprehended her on a charge of concealing
the:birth. On her road to the station she confessed that the
child was buried behind the lodge at her uncle's house.
Search was made and the body of a female child discovered.
On being examined by Mr. Image, a surgeon at Bury, that
gentleman gave it as his opinion, that the child had not only
been born alive, but that it had sucked. Whilst the pri-
soner was in the station-house she made a vcluntary con-
fession, in which she admitted the following facts: —That
she was delivered of the child on the 24th of September, that
she murdered it on the following day, and kept it in her bed
till the Gth inst., when she buried it at the lodge, and that
she had murdered one child before. She then indicated the
spot where she had disposed of the body, and where upon a
search being made, its remains were found. She was fully
committed by the magistrates to take' her trial at the next
assizes.

GOVERNMENT 'NOTICE.
King Tewn, Sept. 1, 1851.
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief having
submitted' to her Majesty's High Commissioner and
Assistant Commissioners the proceedings of a court of
inquiry, held in Graham's To*n, to investigate the
causes that have led., to the recent desertion of certain
soldiers of the Cape corp 4, and the report thereon
that such desertiOns have been caused by rumours
having been spread amongst the men that they are to
be disarmed and given °Vet. AO the Fingoes and
settlers, they deem it necessary to' notify to the
Hottentot classes generally,4hat, determined as the
Government may be to punishl the guilty, it will not
fail effectually to protect from injury and oppression
the loyal and innocent; and they are further advised
that rumours of a contrary tendency can only have
been framed for the purpose ofinvolving them in the
same disastrous consequentes*hich await those of
their fellow-subjects implicafedln rebellion—that they
are entirely groundless, amliif traced to their authors
will subject them to condiga Finishment.
By his Excellency's command,
Jot:m GARVOCK, Lieut.- Col.

TUE RECENT ILLUMINATION AT MANCHESTER.

—The consumption of gas on Friday night week by the
people of Manchester in their illumination was 2,316,000
cubic feet, and the cost, at 4s. 6d. per thousand feet, more
than 5201.

AN ATTOP.NEY CONVICTED OF FELONY.—At the
recent quarter-sessions for Hereford, on Saturday, Mr. John
Sparrow Taylor, an Vorney, was indicted for stealing two
goslings, of the value of 55., at Kingston, in September last.
It seems that the two birds were missed from the fi•ck, and
they were found in the prisoner's possession—one was dead
and the other alive. The prisoner denied stealing them, but
said that he had a Newfoundland dog, and that the brute
killed the bird. His address to the jury occupied several
hours. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned
for three calendar months, with hard labour. The case ex-
cited great interest.
DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN BY SUFFOCATION.—.
A melancholy occurrence took place at Copford, about four
miles from Chelmsford, on Tuesday last, in the death of
three children of Thomas Nice, a farm labourer, one of the
number having, in the temporary absence of his mother, set
fire to the straw covering of a heap of potatoes in the room,
which, though it did not blaze, emitted a largo quantity of
smoke, and so caused their suffocation. Tho bodies, when
viewed by the jury, were lying upon the bed in their night-
clothes. They were all very floe children, and bore so little
the appearance of death, that they might readily have been
supposed to be only asleep.
DEATH FROM THE KICK OF A HORSE.—On Satur-
day an inquesti was held by Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, oil the body of a man named Rogers, who was in
the employ of Messrs. Reid, the brewers, in lAquorpond-
street. He was in the act of cleaning a horse, when the
animal kicked out and struck him on the thigh, one of the
bones of which was fractured by the violence. He was
taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and he ultimately
sank and expired. The jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental Death."
BALLOONING EXTRAORDINARY IN PARIS.—M.
Brunel, an aeronaut, made an ascension on Sunday last from
the Park of Rambouillet, in a balloon of 180 cubic metres,
and filled with pure hydrogen gas. From some difficulties
attendant on the inflation the operation, which commenced
at six o'clock in the morning, was not completed at a late
hour in the afternoon. M. Brunel, finding that the gas
which had entered the balloon would not give it power
enough to take up the car and the usual appendages, and
determined not any longer to disappoint the spectators, who
had assembled in great numbers, removed the car and placed
a plank across the hoop, on which he seated himself, having
first thrown off his coat and even taken the money out of
pockets in order to render himself the lighter. On giving
the signal to " let go" the balloon rose into the air with the
rapidity of an arrow, and in a few minutes had attained an
height of about 2,000 metres. The witnesses of this perilous
ascension raised a cry of terror, hut their anxiety was soon
relieved by seeing M. Brunel descend in safety.

The Cape Town plaid contains the official minutes
of two meetings, held by the British Resident with
certain chiefs of the Orange River sovereignty. The
first of these meetings took place on the 4th of June
last, at Bloem Fontein, and was attended only by the
Barelong chief, Moroko, and the Koranna chief, Gert
Taaibosch. These chiefs stated the grounds of com-
plaint which they had against Molitsane and his
allies, and either: denied or justified the questionable
proceedings of which they themselves were accused.
The second meeting was held on the 29th of June
the day before the attack made by the troops and na-
tive auxiliaries of
.the Resident upon Molitsane and
his allies, at Viervoot, in Which action the assailants
were repulsed with heavy loss. At the latter meet-
ing there were present the chiefs of all the tribes who
had obeyed the Resiclent's'aunamons to aid him in his
expedition against Molitsane.• M4jor Donovan, of the
Cape Mounted Rifles; Mr...Biddulph, magistrate of
Winburg ; and Mr. Erwee, unofficial member of
Council ; were also present at this meeting.

Viscount and Viscountess Melbourne are staying
at Brockot Hall, Herts. His Lordship, who has for some
years suffered severely from gout, has lately improved in
health.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday, by
special licence, at Blenheim Palace, his Grace the Duke of
Marlborough was married to Miss Jane Frances Clinton
Stewart, youngest daughter cf the Hon. Edward and Lady
Katherine Stewart, and niece to the Earl of Weymss and
March.
How TO PAY A LAWYEE.—An old lawyer of the
city of New York tells a good joke about one of his clients. A
fellow had been arraigned before the police for stealing a set
of silver spoons. The articles were found upon the culprit,
was applied to by the prisoner as counsel, and
and there was no use in attempting to deny the charge.
Lawyer G—
seeing no escape for his client except on the plea of insanity
or idiotcy, he instructed the fellow to put on as silly a look as
possible, and when any question was put to him, to utter in
a drawling manner the word " spoons." If successful, the
fee was to be twenty dollars. The court proceeded to trial ;
the charge was read, and. the question put to the prisoner,
" Guilty or not guilty?" "Spoons," ejaculated the culprit.
The court put several questions to him, but" spoons, spoons,"
was all the answer that it could elicit. " The fellow is a
ool," said the judge ; "let him go about his business." The
prisoner left the room, and the lawyer followed in his wake,
and when they got into the ha it the counsellor tipped his
client on the shoulder, saying, Now, my good fellow, that
twenty dollars." The rogue looked the lawyer full in the
grotesque and silly expression, and
wfaicnek,
eyes,ianngdwiluthtthinisgon a
exclaimed " Spoons," and them made

NATAL.
We have received Natal papers to the 7th of August.
They do not confirm the report of the resignation of
Mr. Moodie. The land, difficulties had been ratisfac-
tority settled, by the removal of the restrictions which
prevented the sale, lease, mortgage, or devise of cer-
tain farms, without the consent of the Lieutenant-
Governor, until the expiration of seven years after
the issue of the title deeds. The proprietors are re-
quired to fulfil the other conditions relative to the
Government inspection of their farms and six months'
occupancy, and also to pay twopence per acre for
land situated south and south-east of the Great Bash-
man's River, and one penny per acre for lands situate
north and north-west of that river. The farmers in
the Klip River district are said, in particular,
to be
well contented with this arrangement.
The Independent of August 7 states that " the
force to be dispatched to the aid of the British resi-
dent at Bloem Fontein consisted of Captain Parish,
commander; Lieutenants Morris and Miller, Ensign
Barnes; Lieutenant Mills, C.U.R.; Staff ssistant-
Surgeon Sparrow, Deputy Commander General
M'Clintock, two companies 45th, twelve Cape
Mounted Rifles, and a party ' of natives, under J.
Walmsley, Esq." Th 3 same .paper adds :—" The
commissariat, it is said, have been unable to procure
the waggons required for removing the troops to the
Sovereignty." Later advices (of August 'l2) men-
tion that the detachment set out for the Sovereignty
on the 6th of August, and that,Lieutenant Governor
Pine had proceeded to the Klip River district for the
purpose of endeavouring to raise an auxiliary force
of burghers in that district.
The Lieutenant Governer arrived from the Klip
River on Friday last, highly delighted with his
trip, and, we are informed, has succeeded in termina-
ting for ever the heart-burninga of the Boers respect-
ing their lands. The Certificate Title is now a
thing only that was.

MARKS OF ESTEEM INTENDED TO RE
PAID TO KOSSUTH.

tracks.-
TuE OMNIBUSES.—Now, we suppose, it will be the
people's turn to deal with the multitude of omnibuses called
into action during the last six months. Short-distance
prices appear to be a desideratum, as well as a return to the
old threepenny half-distances and Bank fourpenny fares.
These, we dare say, will sate sfy the middle classes, who would
daily and constantly fill the 'buses for short lifts at say 2d.,
while they retain even 3d. in their pockets. There is wanted,
too, in the metropolis what Liverpool has already got—a
working class omnibus at still cheaper fares, for certain dis-
tances even so low as a penny ; though it must be admitted
that if these are to traffic throughout the whole length and
breadth of the metropolis the fare for the whole distance
must be higher—say 3d., half the middle-class price. The
penny omnibuses at Liverpool are literally besieged by the
working classes, and taken by storm, and the demand for
more is about to be supplied by a new and superior kind of
vehicle. It whatever way it may be managed, there is
likely to be a reform in the omnibus ranks in the metropolis,
and a reform is needed in the vehicle no less than in the fare.
Let the Parisian omnibus, even, be simply imitated, and the
proprietors will find the change to be for their advantage,
and
to enable them at once to re-arrange their fares on the
desired scale. A little wider and a good deal longer—just
such a
machine as was exhibited in Hyde-park, if we mis-
take not, from Glasgow,
lighter to draw will do. Would not iron ones be
than those we have, even though they were
larger ?—Builder.

ONE or THE- OLDEN TlME.—There is now living
in the parish of North Crealie, in this county, a female
named Martha Johnson, who on the 21st of September last,
completed her hundredth year. She was born at Cley next
the sea, in 1751 ; her maiden name was Farnsby, the
daughter of a respectable merchant of that place. This ex-
traordinary individual, who has been thirty years a widow,
has lived to see her descendants to the fourth generation,
numbering twelve children, forty-eight grandchildren,
seventy-nine great-grandchildren,and four great-great-grand-
children, in all, 143 ! She has consequently lived during the
reigns of five sovereigns, namely, George 11., George 111.,
George IV., William IV., and our present Queen. She is,
moreover, in the enjoyment of good health, with her facul-
ties unimpaired, particularly her eyesight and memory.--
Norfolk chronicle.

We are enabled to state that, among the various
marks of esteem which are intended to be paid to
Kossuth, on his arrival in England, one will be the
offer by a gentleman to place his house in Jermyn-
street, and his servants, and carriage, at the disposal
of the illustrious Megyar, during whatever period he
riat state that the proprietor
no
may be disposed to remain in the metropolis. Another
gentleman, one of our best kpnaotwrinot,Cs isttyayinLondon.
bankers, and
long a Member of the House of Commons, also means
to invite Kossuth to be his guest, in his splendid man-
sionvvo doruerinfugrtthheer
enabledHunga
of one of the most respectable establishments for boys
in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, has waited on
a friend of the distinguished Magyar, to request him
greatestto intimate
pleasure Kossuth
toos sruetche i
vthat
his it
sonw intoill
and that he will give him gratuitously, with his board,
the best education which the country can afford for
any term of years which may be agreeable to Kos-
suth,—Advertiser.

AN EXHIBITION PIECE OF MACHINERY DESTROYED.
—At three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, as a waggon be-
longing to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, drawn by three
horses, was proceeding down Wellington-street, Strand, the
leader stumbled, and the other two horses immediately losing
their footing down the incline, the waggon came with such
force upon the shafts to the ground, as to throw upon the
pavement one of the most valuable pieces of machinery of
the many for the last six months on view at the Cr3stal Pa-
lace. It appears that the machine (for dressing cotton) for
which a prize bad been awarded, had been purchased by a
French manufacturer, and was consigned to the care of
Chaplin and Horne, to be taken to Woolwich Dockyard,
where it was to remain until arrangements should be made
for shipment; and the driver states that the accident was oc-
casioned by the greasy condition of the street at the moment,
the rain having just set in. The machine is said to have
been worth 700/. ; but the concussion was so great as to re-
duce it to fragments—more especiallythose portions composed
of cast metal. The shafts of the waggon were broken short
off, and the wheel horse was severely cut on right shoulder.
COLONIAL APPOINTMENT£4.—M. Swaminaden Ede.
remanesingara is appointed a member of the Legislative
Council
oltslCaend. M
lon ira.
A.
seAuncedeorfo Mr.
isArampitsignet.
Joseph Hensleyoci
is, appointed Solicitor-General for Prince
Edward's
spectox of Sch99l4 is Trinidad.

LONDON, MONDAY: t _EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, OCT. 18.
The Countess de Neuilly, the Duke and Duchess
de Nemours, and the Prince and Princess de Joinville
arrived from Claremont, and visited her Majesty yes-
terday afternoon.
Tne Royal dinner circle at the Castle yesterday in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, the
Baroness de Speth, the Count de Buol Schauenstien,
Field-Marshal Count Nugent, Colonel Count A.
Nugent, Lord Seymour, and Major-General and
Lady Isabella Wemyss.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner, and played the following pieces :
Ovnture---" Belisario"
Donizetti.

Trio Bouffe—" Sous . votre baniere"
(Prophete)
Walzer—"Frubliogs Lieder"
Selection—" Fidelio"
March de la Caravane (Le Desert) F. David.
Her Mejesty'a private band afterwards attended in
the Castle, and Ferformed the following selection :
Overture--"Czaar and Zinitnerme.nn" Lortzir.g.
Finale, 3(1 Act—" Der Freischutz"

Ballet Music—" L' Enfant Prodigue" Auber.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert walked
in the Slopes.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
younger members of the Royal Family took walking
exercise.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel Hon. C. Grey and Colonel F. H. Seymour,
left Windsor by a special train of the South-Western
Railway this morning for town, to preside at the
Council for the Management of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, at the Duchy-office, Somerset-house. The
Prince returned to the Castle at five minutes to two
o'clock this afternoon.

The Count de Buol Schauenstein, Field-Marshal
the Count Nugent, Colonel Count A. Nugent, and
Lord Seymour left the Castle this morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived at two o'clock this afternoon, from Richmond-
park, to visit her Majesty. The Royal Duchess took
her departure at a quarter past three o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by her Lady in Waiting, the Baroness de Speth,
dined with her Majesty this evening.
The Queen's private band was in attendance after
dinner, and played the following pieces :
Overture—" Z.inetta" . Auber.
Fackeltang Meyerbeer.
Romance, aceur et Couplets. "L'Enfant
Prodigue"
Ballet Music—" L'Enfant Prodigue" Auber.

SUNDAY, OCT. 19.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home-
park and the Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
younger members of the Royal Family, also walked
in the home-park.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service this morn-
ing in the private chapel of the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also
attended the service. The Hon. and Rev. G. Welles-
ley officiated.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Thursday
next, the 23d inst., at Windsor Castle. Summonses
were issued on Saturday to the Ministers and Officers
of State.

The Belgian Minister had an interview with the
Right Hen. Henry Labouchere on Saturday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed eleven o'clock
on Monday, Nov. 3, at his Lordship's residence in
Eaton-square, for the reception of the Lord Mayor
elect, and the authorities of the city of London, on
which occasion the Noble and Learned Lord will
signify her Majesty's approbation of the Lord
Mayor-elect.

The Lord Chancellor will, on the same day, at
twelve o'clock, at bis Lordship's residence in Eaton-
square, receive the Judges, Queen's Counsel, dm, it
being the first day of Michaelmas term.
Mr. H. G. Gordon, chairman of the Oriental Bank
Corporation, had an interview with Earl Grey at the
Colonial-office on Saturday.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday. Lord Seymour had, also an
interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. Baronet.
Lieut.-Colonel Reid had an interview with Earl
Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office, and had
also an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governor of New South
Wales were received on Saturday, at the Colonial-
office,

THE QUARTERLIES.
ThE EDINBURGH REVIEW. CXCH.
The principal characteristic of the current number
of the Edinburgh is, that its contents are chiefly de-
voted to the consideration of works which may be
classified among the curiosities of literature. Fore-
most among these in position, and we are disposed to
think also in value, is the philological volume com-
piled by Professor Bopp, in reference to the compara-
tive gre.mmatical construction of the Sanskrit, Zend,
Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Scla-
vonic lraeguages. To every linguist this very mas-
terly ex iticism cannot but prove eminently attractive.
It recovmts the rise of the modern science of compa-
rative philology, notifying as it proceeds its rapid
and remarkable development. Asa science, it is pro-
nounceo: by the Edinburgh reviewer to be deserving of
that eulogiuni of Humboldt, who proclaims it in his
Cosmos " to be among the most brilliant fruits of
modern research. Speaking also of the manner in
which this study has been regarded by the more dis-
tinguished scholars of our age, the critic very sig-
nificantly remarks that ()dried Muller was
one of the first to apiyrcciate fully the value of the
new discoveries vshica had been made in the field of
language. Immediately before explaining the differ-
ence existing between philology and comparative
philology, the writer also observes that the latter
must not be mietaken for the mere acqoisition of
languages—thus he eoutinues, by way of illustration,
the late Cardinal Illezzofanti, the most wonderful
linguist the world bar eve: known, a man who knew
upwards 'of thirty different language?, together with
their almost countless variety of patois or dialects, was
not for ehat reason entitled to the appellation of a
comparative philologist. Having marked down facts
elucidative of the growth of cognate languages:—one
of the most astonishing problems in philology—the
writer gives an admirable comparison of those
tongues, and comments also with consider •
able ingenuity on their superficial classification.
Perhaps the most interesting portions of the whole
of this very singular inquiry are those relating
to the ethnological results of comparative philology
and to the common origin of languages. Several
very curious tables of root words in Sanskrit, Zend,
Latin, Greek, and Gothic are scattered through the
paper by way of illustration to the context, as in regard
to the word brother, bhrata, brata, frater, Tx; ,p,
brother. Another strange theme, selected by a con-
tributor to the Edinburgh, is that furnished by the
" Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino," by Dennistoun.
Of the task undertaken by Mr. Dennistoun,
in writing these memorials of the house of
Urbino, it is facetiously said that the surprise
experienced by the public on first seeing his
three splendid volumes could scarcely have been ex-
ceeded, had the reader in lieu of this encountered
" as many portly footmen in blue and gold, clearing
the way in the streets for the Kings of Brentford.'
Unexpected though the purport of the work in ques-
tion may appear, it will on scrutiny, however, prove
to be in every way entitled to examination. A political
curiosity of literature will be found, moreover, re-
ferred to in the pages of this distinguished periodical,
namely, in the review devoted to the recently pub-
lished correspondence between the " Comte de la
Merck and the Comte de Mirabeau"—a correspon-
dence which has at last explained many of the pro-
blematic features in the career of that extraordi-
nary demagogue. A fourth literary curiosity is
examined into in the paper relating to Sir George
Head's translation of the " Metarmophoses of Apu -
line ;" and a fifth—one of an artistic character—is
scrutinized in the writings of Mr. Ruskin in reference
to the " Sources of Expression in Architecture." Be-
sides these articles, the Edinburgh for the present
quarter contains a vigorous treatise on " Juvenile
Delinquency ;" a very elaborate argument upon the
subject of " Neapolitan Justice," in which, by the
way, Mr. Baillie Cochrane is rather severely handled ;
a chapter on the " Anglo-Catholic Theory ;" and a
masterly article of a comprehensive nature suggested
by the " Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition."
The number is wound up by an apologetic note to the
sixth article in the preceding instalment of the
Edinburgh, in which note the =elide honorable is
very gracefully made to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
for an unintentional misstatement to the effect that he
was among the converts to the principles of protection •

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
No. CLXXTIII.
Only one out of the nine themes above mentioned
has been simultaneously adopted by the Quarterly—
and this is no other than " Mirabeau's and La
March's Correspondence." Instead of an article on
Bopp's Comparative Philology we have, in the con-
temporary of the Edinburgh, a splendid paper on
Lyell's investigation as to " Life and its Successive
Developments"—perhaps the mcst admirable of all
the current contributions to the Quarterly. Religious
topics have been selected by two of the r6viewers, one
of these papers relating to "Papal Pretensions," and
the other to " Put itanisua in to:3 Highlands." Bio-
graphical chapters a an attractive kind will be found
in the reviews given upen the " Life and Works of
Bishop Ken," and upon Wilkins's edition of the
writings o► " Sir Thomas Browne." Two singular
papers remain to be particularized, namely, those
respectively on " Widow Burning," and on
the "Lexington Papers"; while the closing
article, the one entitled, " Revolutionary Literature,"
we have reserved until now, because in it we perceive,
possibly, the most attractive, and, certainly, the most
important materials for consideration. Under the

title here quoted we find no less than twenty-one
separate publications particularised, ranging in
variety from llornien's " .I;re des Cesars" to the
autobiography of " Alton Locke," from Yeast, a
Problem," to " line solution Militaire," from a Par-
liamentary blue-book presented to both Houses of the
Legislature by command of her Majesty, to the al-
ready well-known, and in some respects the already
notorious, " Ilistoire de la Restauration," by M. ue
Lamartine. The Quarterly reviewer criticises the latter a
work with vigorous severity which we cannot by
any means regard as undeserved. He reprobates the
miserable adulation lavished upon Louis XVIII. by
Lamartine as strongly as we would ourselves repro-
bate the same historian's very mean and contemptible
caricatures of Napoleon. As an evidence of the truth-
fulness of LI. de Lamartine as an annalist we may point
to the passages in which he paints the countenance
of a very fat, stupid-looking old man as that of a
middle-aged Apollo, and in which he distorts into all
conceivable ugliness that beautiful and Jupiter-like
bead, the outlines of which have about them the in-
effable grace of a Greek medallion, or the exquisite
chiselling of an antique cameo—that noble head, the
matchless symmetry of whose proportions has been
attested by the unflattering chisel of the republican
Canova. Treating of the mere style observable in
this precious volume of so-called history, the Quarterly
reviewer pronounces over it the very strongest
words of condemnation. But the most important
division of the whole of this very adverse criticism is
that in which the reviewer explicitly and emphati-
cally denies the imputation cast at all the Foreign
Ministers concerned in the peace of Paris in 1814—
an imputation explained by the following quotation
from the " Ilistoire de la Itestauration :"

" M. de Taileyrand, who wished to furnish an autho-
rity in his own favour at a later period, for the diplomatic
allowances assigned by usege to the negotiators of
treaties of territory, distributed six or eight millions—
(from 250,0001. to 300,0001)—in ransom to the
European diplomatists who signed the treaty of Paris.
Prince Metternich, the Austrian Minister—Lord Castle-
reagh, Plenipotentiary of the British Government—M.
de Nesselrode—M. do Hardenberg—the one especially
in the name of Russia, the other in that of Prussia, re-
ceived each a million (40,0001). The Ministers of the
secondary powers received considerable sums in propor-
tion to the importance of the courts they represented.
This ransom, offered and accepted as the price of peace,
produced it more promptly, but made it more humiliat-
ing. As a precedent it was shameful—as a bargain it
was advantageous, for every day of continued occupa-
tion cost France more than eight millions.—p. 456."
After making the above extraordinary extract, the
reviewer denies the charge in these stern words of
indignation :
"Of this strange statement! we also suspected the
translation of being erroneous; but it is very exact, except
only that the French word ran fon does not always mean
what ransom does in English, but sometimes an exorbi-
taut or fraudulent overcharge. But in whatever shade
of obloquy M. Lamartine may have used the term, the
assertion remains that Prince Metternich, Lord Castle-
reagh, and their colleagues, sold their earlier
acquiesenee in the treaties for a bribe of 40,0001. each,
and that this was given them by that arch-knave de
Talleyrand, as a precodeant,siomniltahre
hstarrevit.th of which heo
such aWsetatSehmouenldt
was by and by to reap
a thought on
not have thrown away
from ono of the ordinary class of revolutionaryscrib-
biers, but—recollecting that M. do Lam;.rtinewas for a
stheaesmoninaitsttrl7
ohfela,odroeifgathAe
Affairs,
andb'ie,h holding
ietsspseccciarelltys
within his reach—we have Lieu thaevitnrgouble—though
almost ashamed of
to contradict,fsuch
enabling ourselves supererogation—of
aworkoonfthEue highest and best
authority, and iu the most direct and
absolute manner,
espvearrey point and
Lanadniscritricnueth circumstance
o h
o thedoes )e. s assertion.netry dese W ee
t
—the indignant terms in which this denial
is conveyed
to us by the most distinguished survivors of the states-
men who signed the treaty of Paris; but we call uponhim
in the face of his orn country and of Europe to produce
his authority for so scandalous an imputstioa egainst
men whom it may be natural that he should envy, bat
whom it is unpardonable that he should, whether from
negligence or malevolence, thus and now, calumniate."
Admiring Alphonse de Lamartine as we do most
profoundly, loving his exquisite poetry and his chi-
valric nature, reverencing him as the hero whose
dauntless bravery and superb cloquesdnteieesavneliodnirEepluacb
rpiee
war—we
in 1848,
B,fraorneifothrethheosrerovresryof
reasons
aeabsloonoy andl
indig-
nant when we see him jeopardising his fair fame by
the blunders, the prejudices, the follies, and the mis..
representations with which he has tarnished the pages
of his last literary composition. It ma be observe
it d,
in conclusion, that the Quarterly ireutantiy is