The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-20 00:00:00

LITERAT URE.

art and history. The author is not altogether un-
worthy of his subject though his selection of stanza
and of scene sometimes provokes comparison with
Byron's address to the " Niobe of Nations." He
complains that he has been much disappointed in
the execution of his ide t, 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 ay( id, 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 bands 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 fresh pictures in the mind that's bleat
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—.

Sinai, the lledjctz, 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 time. The early spring of 1854 found Mr.
Hamilton enscouced 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 Tur 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
hit wanderings, and was particularly struck
with their simplicity and native nobility. Ho
considers them the most perfect of the present
Eastern races. In Arabia Proper the Arab has,
he tolls 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 Najash 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, he 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 creed, but
while disclaimng 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 he was
bore 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, he 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 commercial 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 rosy 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
flourishediamong 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-
inacides 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 literatty e,
—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 short 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 House of God
has sold 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 Mussulinan 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 oppoood bo rho pro-
gress of civilisation. However the struggle may ~err-
oinate, its effeots can only be injurious as regards the
disposition of the Asiatic moslemiu 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, favourc l 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
Hindostao, 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, ho 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 almost 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 l Such catastrophes aro not surprising
in an atmosphere described as follows :
"To give an idea of the heat it is not enough to say
that the thernaome;;er 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
bath and sponge-bags, though protected from the action
of the sun, were rendered useless ; but what will give a
hotter 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."

" The statue leaves divinity behind ;
The painter never paints his golden day—
Or gives rare form that in conception by;
The Poet's thoughts ask for intenser speech ;
Music's Lye dreams on dead harps seen to play;
Nor can the architect do more than preach :
Art shows how we can climb, yet climbing never reach.''
Tint 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 carp in his
style, and possibly a little less ambition in his sub-
ject, will enable him on some future occasien to
produce a poem of a high order.

Two maps trace the traveller's route, and point ou1;
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 charm 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.

Leoniida : A Roman Romance of the Sixteenth
Century. By Felix Meldred. Mitchell.
Thie is a romance in verse, in the Spenserian stanza
—a somewhat ambitious attempt it must be ad-
mitted, although the author must be allowed cre-
dit for more success than usually attends such
efforts. He gives us in the preface a curious Re-
count of his beginning to write verses, and his at-
tempts as a poet seem to have resulted from his
failures as a painter. Being in Italy, the land of
inspiration, and having vainly endeavoured to
clothe his ideas in colours, he thought he would try
painting iu words, though without any intention of
presenting a long poem to the world. Ho was
nerved, he tell us, by the continual failures of
others. " There is nothing under heaven which the
world treats with so much silent contempt as indif-
ferent verse. Bad pictures are hung up and looked
at, and sometimes admired ; bad sculpture iss that
looked
for a garden ; but indifferent poetry, what i t
good for ? The world will forgive many weaknesses
and even crimes in a mau before it will forgive his
silly verses." He appears, however, to have taken
courage with time, and the reader has DO cause to
regret his venture. He has chosen for his period
the pontificate of Leo X, and the story turns on an
attempted assasination of -the Pope by a baud of
ambitious cardinals, which is recorded in Roscoe's
Life and Times of Leo X. The plot is slight, and
in some points painful, but it affords the author au
opportunity for digression and description. The
age, as he justly remarks, is admirable ground for
a poet—its events are a Wing interest, Nth in

worth one hundred thousand pounds. The latter
portion of his Australian r,,cords is devoted to the
politics, finances, and legislation, and afford some
interesting particulars of the establishme It of the
new constitution. The eagerness with which the
colonists avail themselves of it is a s'riking proof of
its judicious introduction. Speaking of the demo-
cratic tendency in Victoria, the author says it
would be a mistake to suppose it is only recently
developed, though the sudden accesAon of popular
strength from the masses brought by the gold dis.
covery has rendered it more conspicuous, and en.
enabled the colony to surmount with more than
usual colonial rapidity the restraints of the imp,.
rial

"This exemplifies the usual fate of our colonies ir4
time past ; which, by custom and prejudice of the parent
state, have been held in bonds till they could be I.teld
no longer.

"There is an evil in this repressive imperial system
which needlessly prolongs unsuitable political insti-
tutions among the colonists. If the bad effect do not
come prominently before home eyes, we may attribute
that circumstance to the forbearance of our colonial
countrymen. They rarely now think of exhibiting die.
satisfaction in any other than constitutional forms
' ;.
while, on the other hand, the remote imperial govern,
ment has been proverbially apt to disregard so gent'',
an aspect of colonial discontent. To illustrate lar,w
needless, or rather how hurtful, has been thist;shyastpino.ft
checking colonial development, I may remarknathtuakra:vteiets
concession to colonial freedom, and every withd,l2,,,,ai
of
imperial interference with local colonial off...ire, has
sbeentate attended nad
reeds
übLyo
pitni
ocrne,asiend
short,attachment
of
those
steo
that bad been only weakened by the curbs and precau-
tions of imperial pollcy. A severance T,arty, that wan
ever lifting its head in Victoria, was never effectually
extinguished until the recent concession of complete
self-government."
The great check on the violent democratic party
will be the liberty allowed in local ma'ters to the
colonists, and they gave an emphatic proof of their
good-will towards the home government with re-
spect to the emigration money—a fund destined by
their parliament to be set aside for the encourage-
ment of emigration from the mother country, and
amounting in 1854, to upwards of 865,0001. Thia
surplus was, owing to some financial difficultie,
employed for other purpose?, add this was censured
by the representatives.

Victoria and the Australian Gold Mines in 1857.
By William Westgarth, E,q. 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, having 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, th 3 Aus-
tralian stamp by which they are now distinguished. All
the quadrupeds of the Australia of to-day, it we except
the doubtful claim of the dingo or native doe to be con-
sidered 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 smaller modern races that
the mastodon did to the elephant an I 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, probably,
in the same bright sunshine that now enlivens A UE.
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 egg-bearing animals, marks the
lowest order of mammiferious races ; and it is not unin-
teresting to observe that the same strange country which
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 eio comparison to
those found in European waters awl the native
fruit is very indifferent beside of those exported,
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,
wilh festive interludes of snakes, toads, and a va-
riety of small reptiles " It is curious to reel 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
land to cross the streares of the Murray and the Ovens,
there is now the corporate town of Beeohworth, 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 on public
and social matters are well deserving of some do-
gree of attention. The rapid iuflux of Chinese has
presented a difficulty to the colonial Government
that they do not exactly know how to meet. They
endeavoured to check the stream of immigrants
acme years ago by putting a sort of t ix 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. Westgirth
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 to consti-
tution and in their political negations I 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 c boy, 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 come 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 are 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 so many have done,
the large number of emigrants who are quite un-
fitted for the place. The numbers "who can turn
to anything," the respectable married couples with
no particular vocation, the young men well educ_atee.
but with no profession, seem entirely out of plae
an
THE AMERICAN A
good book-keeper, an experienced tradesm MAIM—LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
Oliver Eldridge, sailed from the Mersey this forenoon
_;The United States mail steamship Atlantic, Captain
ing the stream of progress, and the s
accurate accountant, are never long withoeuti:easyzebr-e•
said of the female emigrants, 1 disappointed. for Ne w York, with the United States mails, a full
definite employment are genera y
of emigrants, it is
. . complement of passengers, and a large cargo of mei,
chand"
As these constitute a large class Ise on freight.
should be more generally ,
important that this fact buit thaese with no
THE BRAZILS.—SOIITHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.--In.
telligence reached here to-day by electrio telegraph to
poser of the mechanical 1.-
app the effect that the European and American Company's
struck with the
vg the gold. Powerful ma- screw stearneihip Hydasp
known. With respect to the mines, the author is
antes for procuri es, with passengers cargo, and
is evidently the want here. a few days' later advices from the Brazils:left Lisbon
°hickory, he say!,
Nothing struck him so much in a view of the Vic- last evening at five o'clock for Southampton. She may
the f t for the conveyance
torian gold-fields as great expending o human
and the small results. In this age of iron, has been chartered by governmen
strength ediately on her return.
be expected here on Saturday next. The Hydaspes
it is indeed surprising that no machines of a more of troops to India lam
powerful character have been exported, especially being taken to establish re
learn that active step,s are
for the quartz-crushing. He gives us a picture of vessels between. Liverpoo land
the Victorian " diggings," having been one of the
Royal Commission to enquire into the condition of lof steam
WEEKLY ATLANTIC STEAM LIWe are glad to
weeklyQuehee ifnore
which a giant of 50,0001. was voted by the
Legislature drusiog the late session . The pro..
the gold-fields, which recommended a' complete prietors of the Montreal Ocean
hine, whose vessels are
Canadia'n
fourtionCa2tadiare
change in their administration. He had thus, of rapidly becoming contracted wire
change most PbOaf.refon, forevenew steams
course, a full opportunity for a thorough acquaint- Messrs.
auce with them. The account he gives of the hotel of first-classlen jpi o wfe 'l2'2 d accommoda
charges at the gold-fields is amusing, and it must News'
DAMS Tosser:DS EXIIIBITION.—AnOther highly
certainly have been a matter of congratulation to
interesting object has just been added to the Largo
the travellers that they went at the expense of collection of historical models. It represents a per.
Government when their host reckoned 16s. each trait model of Miss Madeleine Smith. This figure 1$
for dinner without wine. The great apparatus for
and thee
considered an excellent likeness of the young lady, and
was the represents an interesting young female in fashionable
producing gold at the time of their visit
puddling machine, which requires a large supply of modern attire, the execution being admirable j
bo
water, and those who owned these appliance we.re appearance most life-like, and it willo,ulasooubt,
looking out anxiously for a long an object of interest to the nuTer visitors Wll6
which, in the circumstances, way reckoned ainal honour the Messrs. Tussaud with their patronege.

'• The Council condemned the proo3dure of the Execu-
tive in laying hands on the accumulation of the emi-
gration money, whose tempting accessibility, it is to be
feared, had furnished the chief stimulus to the extrava-
gance that swallowed it. A motion was passed ordering
the repayment of the whole sum, and that in future the
appropriated moiety be remitted to the Emigration
Commissioners, in accordance with the provision by act
of Parliament.

"The carrying out of this self-denying ordinance
might have afforded a rare trial to the colony's fidelity
to engagements. Towards the end of the same year,
however, came the proclamation of the New Constitu.
tion, which transferred all colonial affairs and revenues
to the control of the local legislature, and we have
heard no more of the emigration fund balance. But

the case, so far as it goes, forms a pleasant illustratioa
of those views of colonial policy that I have already
touched upon ; for we here find that it was the imperial
administration in the colony that contravened the im-
perial interests, and that these interests were taken up
and defended, not as might be naturally supposed by
the imperial party in opposition to the people, but by
the popular opposition itself, in some of its last con-
tendings with the expiring imperial system in Victoria."
The author having beau a member of the Victoria
Legislature, is well qualified to give his opinion on
these local political questions, and his penetration
and observation enable him to estimate clearly the
position of the colony, and to trace its probable
progress. This work is characterised by an air of
quiet, good sense, with which prejudice or personal
feeling does not appear to mingle. A resident for
many years and a participator in the legislation of
the colony, he is yet an Englishman by feeling, as
well as by birth, and can look on the tumul-
tuous progress of a new state with the expe-
rience of an old one. He gives us some chapters
on Ceylon Aden, and Egypt, which places he vi-
sited on his return home, and he has prefixed to
his substantial volume somo useful maps of the
colony.

A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia.
By Walter White, author of "A Londoner's
Walk to the Land's End," 6,1 c. Chapman and
Hall.
Among the numerous works of travel that issue
from the press, Mr. White's are always remarkable
for their good sense, quick observation, and plea-
sant style. As the readers of his former works are
aware, he does not adopt the express mode of tra-
velling for which English tourists are proverbial ;
he prefers to wander about the quiet bye-ways of a
country, to mix freely with its inhabitants, and see
something of their domestic system, as well as to
form a personal acquaintance with its chief natural
features. This mode of travelling makes more de-
mands on the traveller's energy than on his purse ;
and those who are accustomed to a more indolent
and extravagant method will learn with surprise
that after a month's wandering over the three
countries, the author reckoned up the sum of his
journeys and outlays, and discovered that he had
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London, with etceteras, amounted to three pounds
more. The author is well acquainted with German
history, and knows the special points of interest,
historical or legendary, of all the spots be visited;
he therefore adds much to the interest of his narra-
tive by recalling them to the reader's memory. His
little sketches of the country people themselves
give a favourable impression of the national cha-
racter. The vexatious passport system is sure to
be felt by a wandering traveller, who does not make
a long stay in any place ; but nowhere did our au-
thor find its numerous annoyances more oppressive
than in Bohemia. The inhabitants are not allowed
to go more than twelve miles from home without a
pa sport, which is frequently refused. Passports for
France and England were peremptorily rex
fused to Hungarians of every degree during
1855, and in 1856, when the rigour was a little re-
laxed, leave was only granted for three months.
Should auy one be known to have visited Kossuth,
whatever his professed opinions, he would be im-
prisoned on his return. An amusing mistake oce.
curred at an inn where the traveller was passing a
night. It is the custom for the landlord to examine
the passport, and enter the guest's name in a book
kept for the purpose, as the inspector frequently
comes in the night to examine it. On examining
his passport the host add his son were hopelessly
bewildered, and invoked the aid of a soldier who
knew a little English. This sage puzzled out the
first line, and informed them that the traveller was
" Vilheim Fredrich Clarendon, Baron," and as
such, in spite of his remonstrauces, he was eutercd.
in the book, and treated with the greatest deference
by the household, who believed him to be travel-
ling incognito in the German fashion. Another
amusing mistake respecting an English minister
was nearer home. It appears that great excite-
ment prevailed in Germany respecting the trial
of the poisoner Palmer. Even in little towns the
author saw the Process for sale, and eager discus-
sions in public places were common. When his
execution took place the news was telegraphed in a
brief despatch, ' Palmer is hanged." The clerk,
by some extraordinary mistake, thought it was
Palmerston, and great was the amazement o e
Pal-
quiet Germans when the news was issued—'ebadl,
merston gehangot." In his account of Carl
re-
specting the springs. Those whtohehi
ysablty atlined.
arvextent. The
the author gives us some curious infoeratneattivoni?ite
the spot may not be aware of
gallons.
gleverya edra
calculates tha in thin
chemist,
of carbonate of soda era
S quantityp rtid e
Gilbert,l ea?. of
Germannwe aistere s pouredti
matten ase
tuott
fwomillion
The reader will derive much.
thrown up in a y .
m this record of the experienc
entertainment froh
quantityfifteen
thousand ten oe u.l
rtsea.:sd
combines a love of "
sense of tree
e humorous, and has
turesV°
certainly the happy
art of adapting himself to the
people and places around him.
of a wandweirtehr,
awry