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money to pay; for if he have not, the proceeilings are further carried
out against all the endorsers, who are, perhaps, instructed to plead, for
the purpose of swelling costs, and then there is no knowing where the
amount of costs Is to end. And this nefarious system is no exception
to the rule of common law; by far a greater number of persons ace
thrown into prison by it, than ever go there from just debts : and it was
once proved in court, that this very Jos. Russel held at One time upon
its practice twelve prisoners in the Fleet; seventeen or eighteen in the
Bench ; and about thirty in White-cross-street ; and that, upon
one action brought upon a bill in a similar manner to that which we
have described, where the original debt was 1701., a stun of 2001. has
beets paid ;- the furniture of three houses sold up in execution ; about
forty persons committed to prison, many them of course wilfully ; and
that then, at the time when the defence was put in, the amount of
money claimed was no less a sum than 5501. This is a fact recorded in
a court of law, and we are not sure that Sir John Campbell was not
counsel for the defence.
" Of course Jos. Russel was himself perpetually in and out of jail.
Prisons were his element, law his delight ; and we have a document
before us proving, that not long anterior to his death, he was an inmate
of the King's Bench, under the following circumstances :—He had
against him seventy-one actions at the gate ; twenty common writs;
eleven executions; five chancery snits; three references to counsel;
four ejectments ; one indictment by the marshall ; and fourteen notices
under the Insolvent Act!
" It is almost certain that all these actions arose out of transactions
such we have have exposed ; and it is probable that many of them in_
volved theruin of credulous but honest men, working the distress, per_
hops the destitution of their families ; 'at all events we have it on the
face of the statement, that he had brought fourteen individuals to the
Insolvent Court, and—
* What a wreck of happiness was there."
" It would be absurd in us to argue upon the system we have laid bare,
—it carries its own condemnation with its exposure; and, perhaps,
the best way to stop it, is to tell how it has worked. One thing is clear,
that one of the benefits of the abolishment of imprisonment for debt'
would be to put a stop to it once. But in bringing forward Jos, Russel
as the hero and grand operator in its nefarious labyrinth, we put both a
personal as well as a most tangible argument in favour of an increase
of punishment for fraud :" for can any debtors' prison be sufficiently a
home of hardship or retribution to such a man ? nay, would any ordeal
short of the galleys, the pillory, or the hulks, punish him in proportion
to his crime?---he is worse than a common thief, because his is not
common dishonesty,—it is dishonesty of the worst and most mischievous
kind. He is not content with rifling a purse, but he ruins a family,—
he destroys happiness as well as wealth,—and makes hearts as well as
pockets bankrupt. And it is worthy of remark here, as affording a very
striking andimposing proof of the unjust appropriation of equal punish-
ment to unequal guilt, and often 4f ,simple misfortune, to clime;—
which is the great bad principle of the law of arrest,—that this Jos.
Russel (as many others like Him continually are) always in prison with
some of his victims ; he, the criminal, the companion of the sufferer by
his crime; the ruiner in prison from choice, the ruined from necessity."

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.

Vol. X.

Part IL
Black, Edinburgh ; Simpkin and Marshall, London.

Professor Napier, the able and experienced editor of this
excq]lent work, cannot be too highly commended for the
many iinKovements which he has effected in the already
published volumes of this edition of it. The Part before
us brings us into the letter G, and we have, among other
able articles, one on Germany, and another on Greece,
particularly deserving of notice. The biographical sketch
of Goethe is extremely interesting.

SELWYN IN SEARCH OF A DAUGHTER
3 Vols.
Saunders 4- Otley, London. 1835.

As this amusing production is, for the most part, a re-
publication of a series of articles that appeared a few years
since, and attracted much notice at the time, in the
pages of Blackwood's Magazine, we feel that we have no
need, on the present occasion, to enter at any length into
the question of its merits. These are already establiched,
and we have no desire to impugn the public verdict that
l►as pronounced " Selwyn in Search of a Daughter" to be
a work that evinces considerable ability. It is here intro-
duced-by a modest, well-written preface.
ROMANCES.OF MANY LANDS. In 3 Vols.

London. R. .13E.vnEr, 1835.

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All classes of readers will find something to please them
in theo volumes, for they comprise a variety of tales of all
climes alit; countries, related in every variety of mood—

.-from grave to gay, from lively to severe,"
in which story-tei:,ers are wont to indulge. With some of
them we have been jeatly pleased ; and those which we
liked least will, in all froi,,:ibility, be most interesting to
many of our readers. The hisi:rian will find them parti-
cularly worthy of his regard, as they hibit, with great ac-
curacy, the manners and customs of the friii,j2itants of the
several countries in which the scenes are laid, anJ throw
much light on the dark annals of the middle ages.
author has. read much, and is happy in the application of
his book-acquired knowledge.

HENEB ON,
Or the Countess cf Montfort ; and Bertha of Burgundy.
In 3 Vols. BENTLEY. 1835.

The title of this Novel gives the history of the period,
the personages, and in a great measure, the incidents, to
which it relates. True love, the course of which " never did
run smooth," was chafed into a foaming headlong torrent
during the ages of knightly chivalry and Oriental romance,
and hence this period has ever been a favourite one with
.the most elegant writers of fiction. It affords a scope for
the development of character, which is not to be found in
times when the conventionalities of society not only regu-
lates our conduct, but our looks=even our very thoughts.
Most of the personages, and some of the occurrences men-
ticned in these volumes, are treated of in the quaint pages
of Froissart—that- inexhaustible mine of anecdote and ori-
ginality. Henebon is a delightful novel, and will be popular.

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THE STRANGER IN AMERICA

Comprising Sketches of the Manners, Society, and National Pecu-
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of the " Encyclopedia Americana." 2 vols. post Bvo.

WANDERINGS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
Batavia, Pedir. Coast, Singapore, and China, in 1832, 1833, and
1834. By GEORGE BENNETT, Esq., F.L.S. 2 vols. Bvo.,
with Plates.

A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
to the South Atlantic Ocean, performed in H. M. S. Chanticleer,
by order of the British Government, in 1829. 1830, and 1831.
under the. Command,. of Captain HENRY FOSTER, R.N.
F. R. S. 2 vols. Bvo., with Plates.

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ORIENTAL MEMOIRS.

Comprising a Narrative of Seventeen Years' Residence in India
By JAMES FORBES, Esq. Edited by his Daughter, the Coun.
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Containing Notice; of Brazil, Chili, Bolivia, Peru, &c., in 1831

1832, and 1833. 2 vols. Bvo.

INDlA.—Advices were received yesterday from
Bombay to the end of October last. They contain matter of
much interest. The Government of India were preparing to
commence hostile operations against Joudpore, and it is as-
serted that the expedition was not to be undertaken against
that petty sovereignty only, but was to form the beginning of
a great political movement, for the purpose of obtaining the
entire subjugation of the Indies, and to completely crush Run-
jeet Singh, the Ameers of Siude, and destroy at once the in-
fluence of the Russian Court over the Indian chiefs. The
advices state that the occupation of the Joudpore territory
would destroy the hopes of Russia of any future invasion. The
' determination of the Indian Government to make this move-
ment against Joudpore was rendered the more necessary in
consequence of accounts having been received from Persia
and the East of Europe that the Emperor of Russia was pre-
, paring an armament, the object of which was, as it stated, to
invade the dominions of the Schah of Persia. The movement

against the Rajah of Joudpore had been resolved upon in con-
sequence of his giving refuge to the ex-Rajah of Nagpore,
and having refused to give him and other dangerous persons
up to- the Indian Government. The Governor-General was
about to proceed to the Upper Provinces to conduct the ar-
rangements. Two squadrons of the 11th Dragoons, the 10th
Light Cavalry, some native regiments, and a large park of
artillery and battering guns, were on their way to Joudpore at
the date of the present advices.

DOGS.—The Austrian dog never barks ; indeed, it
is remarked by Mr. Gardiner, in a work intitled " The Music
' of Nature," that "dogs in a state of nature never bark; they
simply whine, howl, and growl: this explosive noise is only
found among those which are domesticated." Sonaini speaks
of the shepherds' dogs in the wilds of Egypt as not having
this faculty, and Columbus found the dogs which he had pre-
p i ,f. !vidtialy carried to America to have lost their propensity to
~' ), barktag.-,:b. The barking of a dog is an acquired faculty—an
i*v - • elcut "fo'-iTA which he derives from his associating with
'.l9e)At
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