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Fic,.,l!y_ c:,LntA_ to :get an ex r Ission
of sympathy and funds, Prot;iibly the Fer,eseds of
the day were 47: to 51. on the *hole.,

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Spollen's lecture was delivered twice yesterday,
morning and evening, according to ilia advertise-
ments, in a third-class Dublin theatre. It was can-
vassed pretty freely by the groups who crowded to
read the placards, which appeared on the walls,
whether the personal narrative would include any
confession of guilt or any observations upon the
mode in which the murder was committed. It was
also suggested that Spollen ought to apply to the
Crown SoHeapr for the instruments with which the
crime was perpetrated, and for the towel found in
Mr. Little's room, in order to make the shameless
exhibition as complete as possible. Before 1 o'clock
a number of persons assembled near the theatre in
the hope of seeing the lecturer arrive, but he had
already taken his place in the interior. Very few, it
is pleasing to record, felt disposed to visit him there.
Those who did go turned into a dingy hall, and went
up a steep flight of stairs to a lobby, where, from a
hole, they were desired gruffly to "pay." Within
the cashier's box sat Jas. Spollen, jun., with the
same offensive, repulsive expression which was ob-
served when at the police-office he unwittingly con-
firmed so much of the evidence of his sister and
younger brother. Having paid ls. at this point,
another flight of unpleasant stairs conducted the
visitor to a sort of dirty, ill-lighted loft, almost
without seats, and totally without ceiling. At one
end of this wretched place were a small stage, some
three feet above the floor, and a miserable attempt
at a proscenium. There was no curtain, and the
back scene, some four feet from where the footlights
would have been, represented an impossible inte-
rior, gaudily painted in all tlie colours of the rain-
bow. Upon the stage were a ricketty table and a
deal chair. Up to 1 o'clock Spollen did not appear,
but might be heard behind the scenes walking stea-
dily to and fro. To the honour of the city be it said
that scarcely 20 persons visited this miserable loft
during the morning, and these were mainly com-
posed of the representatives of the press, of mem-
bers of the police force, and of two or three
others who came to protest against the audacity of
the man who had solicited their attendance.
Shortly after the appointed time Spollen came
upon the stage, holding in his hand a slip of paper.
He looked furtively round for a moment, and turned
a newspaper which lay upon the table over and
over. In expression and bearing he was altogether
unchanged since the day of his arrest, and he wore.
the great-coat which he had on at the police-offio..
After a moment, he said :—" You all know the
position in which I am placed. I have gone through
a dreadful ordeal, it is true. Situated as 1 am,
without means, you may say without character—
that word character,' I think, will draw from you
a degree of sympathy that any poor man may be
entitled to—l need not enter into much details con-
nected with my present? circumstances; but my
object in coming before you is for the simple pur-
pose of obtaining the means of leaving the country.
In Dublin it would be difficult enough to obtain
employment. lam burdened with a portion of my
family, a young man, who is excluded now by the
mother. She is determined not to do anything for
him. That, you will admit, will be a great weight
upon me. Of course I will not be capable of sus-
taining that burden without 1 obtain those means
necessary for my exit from this country. I have
not entered into this without very good advice,
even from the mechanical portion of society, know-
ing that the public would cheerfully respond to give
a man the means of leaving the country. I have
otherwise, and in a private way, made application
for a fund, but I have been totally unable to obtain
it, to the degree that I require. lam not confin-
ing any gentleman who may think proper to the
amount of admission. Any gentleman who feels
anxious to volunteer further aid may do so."
Having for some time proceeded in this strain, he
was interrupted by a Mr. Fitzpatrick, who said he
thought the citizens ought to show a good example
to Ireland, for this mao, if allowed to make his
speech there, and obtain money, would go to every
town in the country.
Spollen—That I deny.
Mr. Fitzpatrick—At all events the citizens of
Dublin should denounce such a thing. The place
was so thin because the public ware disgusted.
They would not come in to listen to this man, and
he protested against him. If tbty encouraged this
it would be holding out a bounty to others to--.
He came there, although he had business which
should have been done elsewhere. It was mon-
strous to allow that man to come forward, but it
showed what ho was. Branded as he was, how
could he dare to come before the world ? [Mr.
Fitzpatrick here used some observations which,
however just, were too strong for publication.]
" You have," continued the indignant gentleman,
addressing Spollen, who stood like marble unmoved
upon the stage, " you have plenty of money, and
you are able to go wherever you wish; but you had
the audacity to go the other day to the other rail-
road to ask for employment, that you might take
the opportunity"—
Mr. Spollen—That I deny.
Here James Spoil( n, jun.. rushed into the room,
and attempted to put Mr. Fitzpatrick out.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, after some further observations
to the same effect, was about to leave, when Spol-
len, who remained calm and cool during this stormy
episode, said, " Will you answer one question 1"
Mr. Fitzpatrick—Not a word,
and I hope no
citizen will hear you.
- Spollen—Have the kindness to hear me. Now,
even suppose I was the most guilty man in exist-
ence, would you run me into a hole to starve 3
Suppose I did commit the murder, would you
starve me
Mr. Fitzpatrick—Upon my word, I would run
you into a hole, where you would be away from the
public and the power of doing mischief. If you
are employed again you will—
, Spollen—That. is not a Christian feeling, at all
events.
Mr. Fitzpatrick—l will wait upon
the Lord
Mayor to say whether you cannot be put down, and
Spollen said that his ebullitio
I hope no one will give you any money.
Mr. Fitzpatrick having retired, was in
no way Christian or feeling, but he laid his case be-
fore the public. They would admit it was a hard
case. What was he to do? If he wps not encum-
. bored with a portion of his family he would retire
to the poorhouse and eke out ex'stence in it. He
would imagine it would be the object of any humane
n of temper
gentleman to assist him in leaving the country, and
not show the feeling that Mr. Fitzpatrick bad. He
then proceeded to request the press to put his case
favourably to the public, and continued to say that
his present step could not add to the notoriety he
got during his trial. Even though he had been the
guilty man, it was an awful and dreadful thing that
La
that sacred bondage of matrimony should be de-
stroyed by a wife. He had no more to say, except
that his object was to appeal to theirsy pathies.
A Gentleman—How do you oplain that your
wife knew where the money was 7
Spollen—lt would be hard to know what the
police could not find out.
Another Visitor—You did not say you were in-
nocent yet ?
Spollen—Oh I always held forth my innocence.
Visitor—You did not even do that in the dock.
Another Visitor—Who put the m one y whore it
was found 7 Did you know anything of it
Spollen—Nothing whatever.
Visitor—Have you a suspicion of any one
Spollen—No suspicion whatever. There may
be domestic faults that it would not he very
right for me to enter into and explain.
-- Perhaps it is better that I should hold them
in silence. My position is a very severe one.
Visitor—lt does not appear to annoy you much.
Your conduct surpasses in audacity all'l ever heard
of. I paid ls. to come in ; you ask a further sub-
scription ; if there is a subscription got up to buy
you a rope I will give another shilling.
Spollen (submisaively)—Of course, there must be
enough to leave
dissenting
ecnotninntgr
A Gentleman You got eight sovereigns, and
country.
of
I want barely
why did you not go 7
Spollen—What would you have me to do with
my son
Visitor—He is as well able to work as you are.
You would get out to America, at all events, for
3/. each.
Spollen—Will my son get work in this count ?ry
Would you want me to land in New York without
a shilling in my pocket ? Take a view in every
way, I would be worse off.
Another Visitor—You are the coolest fellow I
ever met.
Spollen—Would you have me hang about the
• country, amongst society 7 A little thing 3vill
serve me. I have no more to say.
Spollen then retired behind' the scenes and the
audience withdrew.
elrAasttended than in the
that could be construed in-
In the evening, from six until ten, Spollen con-
might be expected,
was manifested. On the
tai nsomewhat
morning
receivextarngoetvrhi
ani tugopar
orntivPeatsoblthe great majority of those
tcoolatrfaeryeli,ntghae
msY
whoput questions to the
ranuldno was
tbuttoregard as the deposi-
apaid
whom their
they shillingseo
tory of a secret, probably, never to be more fully
revealed. He evaded every attempt to entrap him
into a confession, and his observations had as little
the character of a narrative as those reported above.
He stated that be had had more than one offer to
exhibit himself, but in substance and fact he thought
he could make more of it himself, and he refused to
give any information aste who the man was to whom
he had referred in
his speech after the trial. Whoa
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LITERATURE.

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of for ss.on 'and . The
age, as lie justly remarks, is admirable ground for
a p et—it, events are of lasting intere-t, Ip.Ci in
art and history. Toe author is not altoge her Un-
w® thy of his subject though his selection of stanza
and of scene some times provokes comparison with j
Byron's address to the " Niobe of Nations." He
complains that he has been much disappointed in
the execution of his idea, and that there are some
weak lines he could not dispose of. He is certainly
free from the literary vanity which refuses to see
its own error, but the weak lines are less objection-
able than the halting measure which the "needless
Alexandrine" occasionally betrays him into. This
is a fault which a little care would avoid, and an-
other of the same class is a too frequent repetition
of words or epithets. This may be occasionally
effective, but carried too far has quite the contrary
result. The following lines exemplify this—.
" Such painting as from inspiration falls,
When cunning hands with cunning arts defy
The death a happy thought was doomed to die.
These coloured poems on the canvas rest
As summer clouds on summer ocean lie,
Making frish pictures in the mind that's blest
With pow'r to feel so much, and then dream out the rest.''
We meet with fine thoughts clothed in vigorous
language. The following lines express the idea of
an artist never attaining his ideal—
" The statue leaves divinity behind ;
The painter never paints his golden day—
Or gives rare form that in conception lay ;
The Poet's thoughts ask for intenser speech ;
Music's live dreams on dead harps seem to play ;
Nor can the architect do more than preach :
Art shows how we can climb, yet climbing never reach."
That the author is not one of those ambitious poets
who have more metaphors than ideas, is sufficiently
proved by the prose part of the work, for we meet
several original and striking sentiments in the pre-
face and notes. The author has a considerable
share of poetic talent, and a little more care in his
style, and possibly a little less ambition in his sub 7
ject, will enable him on some future occasion to
produce a poem of a high order.

Sinai, the Iledja; and Soudan. By James Hamil-
ton, author of " Wanderings in North Africa."
Bentley.
This volume contains the record of a tour made
some time ago in the neighbourhood of the Red
Sea and across the Ethiopian desert by an intelli-
gent and observant traveller. He tells us it is so
long since he parted with these notes that he has
but a confused recollection of them, but as he is
sure they represented the true state of things at
the time they were written, he hopes they are not
unlike the truth now. The political aspect of
affairs may, he remarks, have changed since they
were penned, but this will probably be only a
fresh source of interest to the reader in comparing
the present with the past, and enabling him to
trace the causes of recent events in the occurrences
of that tinse. The early spring of 1854 found Mr.
Hamilton ensconced in Cairo, where he had passed
the winter. The opening season and the proposed
departure of a friend for India induced him to
leave it. This friend invited him to accompany
him to Suez, and having secured another com-
panion for the journey, he agreed. Wishing to
avoid passing twice over the same ground, they
arranged to proceed from Suez to Gebel Tor by
sea, and to return thence to Cairo by Cosseir and
the Nile. This return route forms the subject of
the narrative, and the description of places and
tribes is told in a pleasant manner, enlivened by
several discursive sketches and observations. The
traveller saw a good deal of the Arab tribes in
hi: wanderings, and was particularly struck
with their simplicity and native nobility. He
considers them the roost perfect of the present
Eastern races. In Arabia Proper the Arab has,
he tells us, successfully resisted the contamination
of Turkish dominion. He groans under the op-
pression but does not despair. "He believes in
yesterday and to-morrow, and this consoles him
for to-day. He has seen the Egyptian Pha-
raoh and the Persian King, the Roman
Emperor and Abyssinian Naja,:h swoop down
down upon his lands like birds of prey, but he has
seen them swept off like a cloud of locusts into the
desert, leaving no trace but partial desolation easily
repaired behind them. Such, be is confident, will
be the near end of the Turks." The desert, he ob-
serves, is the stronghold of their liberty. In
another place he gives an interesting record of the
life of Mahomet and the progress of his creed, but
while disclaiming the intolerance he satirizes, we
must consider he has allowed him more than his
share of praise. It must be remembered, while
rendering him admiration for the idolatries he sub-
verted and turned from in disgust, that ha was
born in the day of a happier revelation, and that he
turned from the truths of Christianity to elevate
himself. The author remarks that the spiritual
destiny of Islam in all countries of the known
world is a rapid and inevitable decay. Neverthe-
less, among the idolaters of Central Africa it is
making progress. It is, he remarks, peculiarly
adapted to the rudest races of men, but can never
be the religion of a civilised nation ; " the growth
of ignorance, it perishes at the approach of science."
Speaking of the Koran, lie says—
" When it is considered that the Koran provides for
all the relations of life, that in its minuteness it pre-
scribes the machinery and details of the c )mmercial and
civil, as well as of the religious and criminal law,—that
it limits the cycle of the arts,—that it contains for the
devout Mussulman the only elements of all the sciences
which he may lawfully cultivate ; we may wonder, not
at its tendency to confine the intellectual development
of its followers, but much more that during a short
period some of the arts and sciences should have
fiourishediamong them. The explanation of this fleeting
phenomenon seems to lie in the preponderance at the
court of the Caliphs of the Persian element. The Bar-
!Decides and many others of the leading men under the
Abbassides were of Persian origin. Bagdad, the seat of
the empire, was on the borders of Persia and naturally
affected by its vicinity. And it was from Bagdad that
that intellectual movement went forth, a movement
bitterly condemned by many orthodox contemporaries,
which endowed the Caliphate with a scientific 'iterative,
—Greek not native in its origin, but superior to any-
thing that contemporary learning could produce. But
even during this exceptional period Islam was great in
only one of the fine arts, architecture, and was reduced
to seek to supply the want of sculpture and painting by
calligraphy. The productions of this period were ad-
mirable, but it was of ehort duration, for it was contrary
to the genius of Islam."
On his road to Jidda the travellers met a ship
crowded with dervishes, who were proceeding to
Constantinople to offer their assistance to the Sul-
tan. The concluding portion of the following ex-
tract is very striking at the present time, when we
remember it was written three years ago :
"The enthusiasm for the cause of Islam is at this
moment extreme in the cities of the Hedjaz ; and more
than one of the pious settlers round the Howe of God
has sad all that he possessed to buy arms for the equip-
ment of volunteers in the Holy War. France, as well
as England, in the interest of their Mussulman subjects.
if for no other crime, are entitled to call Russia to a
severe reckoning in her unprovoked attack upon Turkey,
for this revival of a fanaticism so opp used te the pro•
gress of civilisation. However the struggle may ter-
minate, its effects can only be injurious as regards the
disposition of the Asiatic moslenain towards their Chris-
tian masters : if, as is more than probable, justice and
the rights of nations be avenged by the intervention of
England and France in the contest, the result will be
ascribed only to the ever-victorious arms of the Sultan ;
should he succumb, it is a Christian power which has
inflicted the blow, favoured by the treachery of false
allies. England will not have aided him, because she is
powerless against the Muscovite, whose name and whose
designs are too well known on the northern frontiers of
Hindostan, and the blow which strikes Constantinople
will be felt at Calcutta."
The journey through the desert was rather a for-
midable undertaking, and, unfortunately, the sup-
ply of water was not quite sufficient. Those in-
tending to pass through a desert would do well to
profit by Mr. Hamilton's experience. The party
unwisely objected to taking extra camels, which
was, he says, "a small and a bad economy." The
camel cannot carry so much in the desert, where
it only drinks once in four days, as where it finds
water every day; also the loss from dripping and
evaporation should be allowed for, and the water
should be secured in barrels, from which there is no
loss or depredation. One barrel should be allowed
for each person, three camels would then suffice for
six persons, while the party of Mr. Hamilton were
badly off with five. Though injudicious to drink
much in the day, Mr. Hamilton says it should be
from choice not necessity, as the fear of wanting
water aggravates thirst ahnost as much as the
reality. Death from thirst is very rapid in the desetr
from the dryness of the air. A few days before the
passage of the party, a merchant of Assuan impru-
dently quitted his caravan, and missing his way,
was found the next day dead from thirst in sight
of the Nile ! Such catastrophes aro not surprising
iu an atmosphere described as follows :
" To give an idea of the heat it is not enough to say
that the thermometer was at 110 deg. every day from
12 to 4. This is only to say that it was four or five
degrees higher than we have had it every day for the
last three months. The dry heat was such that it was
impossible to write two words consecutively without re-
dipping the pen into the ink-bottle; my india-rubber
barb and sponge-bags, though protected from the action
of the sun, were rendered useless ; but what will give a
better idea of the temperature as judged not by the ther-
mometer, but by sensation is, that when at night the
thermometer fell to 84 deg. the body felt the change so
intensely, that a Scotch plaid was a welcome covering
on camel-back, and in the tent a woollen blanket or quilt
was absolutely necessary ; in the hot hours of the day,
water cooled down to 75 deg. chilled the teeth as if
iced."
Two maps trace the traveller's route, and point out
the spots described to the reader. It is not often
that the traveller enters so thoroughly into the
national life and character; as he himself observes,
it requires a peculiar temperament to appreciate
the oharni which some minds find in the East.
"It possesses a fatal charm, which deprives him
who has once tasted it of his zest for the more com-
fortable but infinitely less poetical life of Europe."
This spell has been fully experienced by Mr. Hamil-
ton, and he contrives to invest a route, which does
not include any of the great objects of general in,
terest, with attraction and incident.

Victoria and the Australian Gold Mines in 1857.
By William Westgarth, Esq. Smith, Elder and
Co.
Though the author of this work professes to re-
present colonial life as it appears at present, his
volume furnishes a complete outline of the rise and
progress of the colony of Victoria. He tells us
that this is the third time that he gives an account
of it, baying on two previous occasions employed
the leisure of a return voyage in recollections of
the land he had quitted. Having to cross the line
once more he resumes his accustomed task, but
finds as his subject expands his time diminishes.
On the first voyage, one hundred and forty days
were occupied, while by mere sail propulsion the
homeward passage has recently been performed in
sixty-three days. His opening chapters are de-
voted to a retrospect of aboriginal Victoria, and a
comparison with its present condition. Geologists
may not be acquainted with the following curious
facts

" Science is slowly reading the physical history of the
past in the strata of Australian geology. Here aro the
analogies of other countries, the corresponding systems
of rocks and strata, showing that Australia was identi-
fied with the great cycles of the earth's developments,
although she still preserved her local distinctions.
There are Australian granites, and basalts, and coal
formations. The eras of huge mammalian quad-
rupeds of various kinds in the other continents are
marked by corresponding eras in ancient Australia ;
but all these animals bear, in this remote era, the Aus-
tralian stamp by which they are now distinguished. All
the quadrupeds of the Australia of to-day, it we except
the doubtful chilli of the dingo or native dog to be con-
sidere 1 aboriginal, bear the marsupial character ; and
this great modern distinction of Australian mammals is
still traced in the records of the past. Cotemporary
with the mastodons and dinotheria of other countries,
Australia had her race of these pachydermata ; not, in-
deed, rivalling the first in dimensions, but bearing some-
what of a proportion to her snsalsr modern races that
the mastodon did to the elephant an 1 other animals that
represent the largest forms now existing. Kangaroos six-
teen feet high sported over the ancient sod, and unwieldy
creatures that combined the features of the elephant,
the wombat, and the kangaroo, were basking, probaldy,
in the same bright sunshine that now enlivens Au--
tralian scenery. All these animals carried with them,
either in the perfect or imperfect development, the Aus-
tralian feature of the marsupium. This peculiarity,
which forms a link between the perfectly viviparous
and the oviparous or egs-bearing animals, marks the
lowest order of mammiferious races ; and it is not unin-
teresting to observe that the some strange c suntry which I
these creatures, stamped by this relative inferiority, have
so long and so uninterruptedly occupied, is found in the
co•possession of the most degraded and irreclaimable
specimens of the human race."
The natural productions of Australia he regards as
very inferior. The fish can bear no compari,on t )
those found in European waters and the native
fruit is very indifferent beside of those expo.ted,
and now naturalised in the country. We shall
judge the adaptation of the natural productions
more justly, he remarks, by the satisfaction they
afford to the aborigines, " who appear to have long
revelled alike on the fruits, the fish, and the flesh,
with festive interludes of snakes, toads, and a va•
riety of small reptiles " It is curious to reed the
difficulties and hardships of the first overland jour-
ney between New South Wales and Port Philip
in the present altered state of things.
" Where Hume and his party struggled in a strange
laud to cross the streams of the Murray and the Ovens,
there is now the corporate town of Beechwortb,
in
whose vicinities twenty thousand busy hands gather the
mineral wealth of the new land. The steamboat already
moves at their once solitary crossing-place on the
waters of the Murray ; and the charts of the country
shows that railways are already marked out, in pre-
liminary surveys, for the future traffic. And yet but 33
years have elapsed since these travellers launched forth
into the unknown wastes of the South and West. To
complete the satisfaction of the picture, both of the en •
terprising explorers who headed the expedition are still
alive, to enjoy, by a comparison they are well qualified
to make, the spectacle of progress around them."
The writer does not confine himself to the agricul-
tural districts. He takes a survey of Victoria co-
lonised, and his remarks and suggestions ore public
and social matters are well deserving of same de-
gree of attention. The rapid influx of Chinese has
presented a difficulty to the colonial Government
that they do not exactly know how to meat. Titey
endeavoured to check the stream of immigrants
assure years ago by putting a sort of tax on them on
their arrival, ostensibly for the benefit of the Chi-
nese themselves. This has since been altered, but
their number is still very large, Mr. Westgerth
reckoning them as one-thirteenth of the inhabitants.
He does not appear quite satisfied with their num-
bers himself. He asks—
" Are these masses of Chinamen to be privileged like
other colonists, or are they to remain amongst us an
inferior race—inferior alike in their collecti se consti-
tution and in their political negations ? Either alter-
native has a dark aspect. Somewhat of an American
difficulty looms upon our future ; for although a China-
man has more intelligence than a Negro, his people are
perhaps more obstinately anti-European. Like an in-
digestible mass in the system of the colony, they will
turn up to-morrow, and an age hence, just as they
appear,to-day.
" The distinguishing feature of a free and enlightened
society is the condition of its operative masses, whose
vigour of body and originality of mind are ever rising
into the superior grades to maintain the onward pro-
gress. This social aspect, which so well characterises
our good Old England, the Northern States of America,
and, more than any other, a thoroughly British colony,
is materially altered by the large infusion of the Chinese.
We cannot exactly predict what aspect time will give
to the question ; but, whatever form it may here-
after take, I regard our Chinese visitation as threat-
ening our moral and intellectual greatness, and the
darkest spot that has yet came upon the colonial
horizon."
•

His view of the future of the colony is sanguine
and satisfactory. He sees and admits the draw-
backs and disadvantages that may retard its pro-
gress, but its onward tendency he does not ques-
tion, and the free and broad principles of equity
and toleration that aro general in such a mixed
nationality are in every way encouraging. He
speaks at some length on the colonies as a field for
emigration, and laments, as E 0 many haVoitde tin:.
the large number of emigrants vrho arheo
qcuan turn
fitted for the place. The numbers
well educated
pg men
no particular vocation, the you
to anything," the respectable married"vcoules with
fail out of place.
but with no profession, seem e'll indy
Leonilda: A Roman Romance of the Sixteenth A good book-keeper
Century. By Felix Meldred. Mitchell. accurate accountant; are
an experrenc, tradesman, an
never long without enter-
disappointed.
Thie is a romance in verse, in the Spenserian stanza ing the stream of progress, and the same may he
—a somewhat ambitious attempt it must be acl said of the female emigrants, but those with no
e class of eialigraut., it is
generally
witted, although the author must be allowed ere• definite employment are
dit for more success than usually attends such As octantonstt a larg
efforts. He gives us in the preface a curious ac- imp that this fact should be more generally
count of his beginning to write verses, and his at- known. With rospect to the mines, the anther is
tempts as a poet seem to have resulled from his struck with the poverty of the mechanical azDV
failures as a painta. Being in Italy, the land of ances for procuring the gold. Poweride ma-
inspiration, owl having vainly endeavoured to ehinery, he says, is evidently the wit here.
the Vic•
clothe his ideas in colours, he thought he would try Nothing struck him so much in a view if
of human
painting iu words, though without any intention of torian gold-fields as the great expenFiug
e of iron,
presenting a long poem to the world. He was strength and the small results. Irthis ag
nerved, he tell us, by the continual failures of it is indeed surprising tlapa ....,-..r6clrines of a more
others. "There is nothing under heaven which the powerful character ha-- been exported, especially
world treats with so much silent contempt as indif- for the quartzrtriaeg. He giVea us a picture of
ferent verse. Bad pictures are bring up and looke I the Victori am, cc . :ggings," having been one of the
Royal Co Sion to enquire into the condition of
at, and sometimes admired ; bad sculpture is good
' for a garden ; but indifferent poetry, what is that the g'i'n- elds, which recommended a complete
goodsilly
vfeorrs
e? s
~, The
Hweo world elle their administration. He had thus, of
courage with time, and the reader has no cause tr /charges at the gold-fields is amusing, and i. must
pdpweailrlsf,ohrgoiwyeevrenra,ntyoll\),eaavlrenteaskseens
and even crimes in a man before it will forgive his ~Nse a full opportunity for a thorough acquaint
' regret his venture. He has Olean for his \
Slee with them. The account he gives of the hotel
eerie; t certainly have been a matter of congratulation to