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London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

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COWES, AUGUST 21.
-.TuRE OP Il Ett M AJE STY FOR
OSTEND.
The atron
party to. g gale yesterday prevented the royale
ohne °lg their purposed trip. This evening th
ti.eiligneghhas been to a calm, and at six o'clock this
IVidea, the Ale-lest.Y; Prince Albert, the Prince of
Alfred, e Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Prince
and lifts etaharked on board the Victoria and Albert,
Invay funded by the Fairy, Black Eagle, &c., steamed
41, , ,I°3ten. They are expected back on S stur-
le an don Tues 1
are for v r ,ay her AI sjesty and the Prince
Pe 1,,,,4° lt and Scotland.
Ilik istturr ICE A
0 4,.NNOYANCES.--DISCONTINUANCE OF
:4011 lei Stiite!: rWe‘rVel Gvie very 1):::;hAlAi annoyedl s °l',l; thei h 'lbi
Sundat;
day la,t, t'..and bopEd to have them removed on Sun-
-41 4,d, ll' WEre disappointed. No letters left Cowes.
Rl'eat , "Y eretiin
A ,
g; and {hat was worse, to their
L„ , murti..caLluti .'.. i. . inoriiii,g ;
415 g 110
.‘_.. %none hfc on Alonufly . .
.iti_
veriier,,
~ "(lee of this many were seriowiy Inc, . 1
I,ot reaeeiii•ir [-the
titerslete chi;,
on Saturday
,a .tidun Tuesday. light di:
ill, n mss__________
''t TI"S VISIT TO
The ii
13ELGIUNI.
lio
4andAlh,, °Yel Equadron, consisting of the Victoria
dth ,1.1.1 the Neck Eagle, the Fairy Royal tender,
it e vivid I.
tik at five , 44111-packet, passed Dover this morn-
'Vesther," c'eck, and was saluted from the battery.
estresponderY fi.oe, slight breeze from the west. Our
ing Leo erlt at Ostend announces the arrival of
bia'ht, Italeld and suite at 11 o'clock on Tuesday
%far the
r'l states that preparations were being made
it u'el'eeeekPttl°.° °f her Majesty, who was expected
The pri.. "18 Morning.
illt iher , Ice de Joinville, the Princess Clementine,
• ecalr
Ilea w en; passed through Ostend yesterday on
Rai' to to I
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1144141 0 It NEW HOUSE.
ere our con t't •
)6; S nuth• s i uencies look out for Stentors.a
iaceh ln t' or 4 4 41 the gelse tor it. If they wish to have 100°4d, strongit must
inous House of Parliament,
It ''''Y °tie. The new roof is up, and we
44E1 • 4Ver that
is ex-
ilo,, Y like at the lower Chamber
iO4*---latadsea,,... T, liana. es coal barge turned. upsile
Itilet Lod
reB "'ely lighted, and fitted up with ca.rv-
q ~,8, arid a Plecderit with paint. There she Is-
we aor, and k ktae eellectiy elson complete-over the heads
krtilltlootly
r_.! %isdom, embodying, we suppose,.
flotpoecl oh ao_eneetions of the great architect, as,
itil
the
a dittl.°, his wondrous pinnacles, he gaz,cl 1,1111,e tae t 4 Isle' omeward bound," floating idly
1,0 °last e„ ° aworth or Brentford.
d‘ I le. -.Perini
~,ei. -.era' ih emit has been tried. A Ipst'sise, had salenlons Members, few nights
of religious ten-
-0 the gested the propriety of hanging fl igs
litt...e4B.t's sides or the House, as we see them in
‘hi lve do Chapel in order to do we don't know
tleized aullabst if.they did themselves-but the idea
It t,l rerthw:,,_ original ideas generally are, and Mr.
1100 ell, Etat' "" east himself into a medixval frame
lilt: the new coned broad ribs of wood to run
4,, tlas, 7 roof and down the sides of the
kathei eottilvaa,lll, vv.ere first, however, carved into.
Oldie? 'nediraval form, and now look le,-
"t 1 (41. " There is • • wetne '
nt
tp ~. 8) 3;04 ere a decided linpru
4ti with ~ really
can catch a sentence now grid
klgeLienaaera „
131 distinctnesq but Bully Bottom,
r\tlatertt; could not make himself audible all over
,ta,vell'ositirialtatelis.trlic.ture. If the Miaister addresses
kii hi/id the ly is friends won't know when to cheer
1'11%4'014a lost n• Member for Buckingham will
Artie takes ii.°ll the hard-headed men of cotton,
6li t " lae ha 's setun the Government benches.
I,llares rve this e edifice, starting into end
h,. ; nai,_ g
t:ttl its tAlt itito"ii riot into grotesque zoology, and
11 tr tow, • 14'lls and all sorts of fern nature,
~,/tit e ere„,!ing and
of fioriture ornament,
4 Its 41, ',IC%
,c .
iNutiOlut 1 .' which millions have been
ehltf deeY. and entirely an utter failure
VtMIK ne kernel, illeraturn. The splendid shell
ilts ri A. whole forest of florid
iklr: iitefsparrees into the air for the use and
014 eereaht°s and swell w " with endant nest
kr.thih.:ll lib II." racit• " and or- s'
. n Of
, -Nei bu, -; ior the pitatio
I 4 4 111 the unhappy bipeds within, with
°use s tin, broiled or frozen by turns,..
or in
404 ,llrEed
41%14/ 4104%t °lit for a cold promenade amid
t,b`sairett thera!rs ill the passages, can see but little
gy 4 libly h min that "glorious river front," or " the
'il'li I'll 4 aqs°4te Committee•rooms." It cost
, , srae red pound
valle-. roof • -as to try the experiment of the
Olatb ries ahcill, is now proposed to knock away t‘pt'lt „Ziste thoeu-Leod the House, front and rear, to
itl4 ill old he for°ll,,aPPy representatives. What a
":ed 0 aa rash vs air. Poulett Scrape if it hal oc-
ty jr? 400 humans'iworlhouse ! How he would haveh
I,qed that allot t h.einga crowded together with
\ ,is)it St 01 . sit Ip-so-,
V ii in a building so con
Oe e * could not hear what his neighbour
aht . rota"
114 Illto '''' upo
t; 14 f a Small sown endless staircase the other.
ptell'oat of
the of stone, with lattice
„,liti. ;4 Aletho? same rigid marerial, and behold
`'44,1'.11, the ,C.'st conventicle before us with the
i4oet:se ,
iwtair, ana
u the audience on parallel
, 'ea rtipe-Ile i Y boys
, itL Dale r scoustic apparatus, at church, with hand to ear
Ithqa, ~.R. away while Mr. Hawes
iht.Leer4
its,tatv iati at
a red box in an inaudible pe-
4N'ttith grl fib,. ;were some little pews, intended
Nt4 t4reeial boozrtihous
strangers ; in advance were
411 Pkti or ftleY dad 1: e gangway, where Hon. Mem-
ittege roroin brgrlig draughts of wind, whether
l'a Sla,Nbera :seio's laboratory we cannot say
li„t et, skoh
of ()1 the Government were wrapt in
k,!sttilaged •their new roof; the Opposition
til 41:4a, 14 harthi ,
Vlr,jeOfb ..ellt9
.3-.ess badinage, or in the diges-
lylsso ezzia.',,en.'l from the body of the House came
tai4, front° the with now and then " a strong
the thee on. Under-Secretary for the
rtt•tt"e I' were encl of an emphatic sentence.
A4llatpt th°Pg hx. reporters grovelling away in an
ta 'itaEei , Ingeniously constructed so as to
thi. !he'll the
the orator while Mr. Barry se-
-16111„' la th bue advant '
ha rseeh e hew „ age of not hearing him.
tililhl'ire 4:,4 are „ 'louse of Commons-the place
ialti Nog fat, the Made for the House, but for
141'bi‘4.1 elteqUre,"
,e, World ! The chef deuvre of
,kt„llt,D Dnse; ,Fle fruit of so much toil, of such
got "• W • .I.t Nir
' ,:1341,„ e felt as really disheartening and
).11tikjitshil`9, nod b" immediate necessity of seek-
tlii:. ot. tletlses, oregging him to turn it into baths
iiMdtai, relief' 4 itito a smoking-room, or a
%a.'%, 4,4 With 411,te•cl.lamber for the library,. and
,flle'streteisikl knee'illat intent fell over the tail of a
'teeth ed to , knocked our indignant head against
!I. let h ligue .
'ii Yth eaehi. (for its anatomical properties
1., 4 til 'eked le than a_i aeh duo ur 4,..5, natural), which so tho-
L'a sk tha, i,.,,,,_510tir that we returned to our
ilteattt the seve'r-uoill,r,y the first available cab. It is
I)tit°flateie loLhie 410 n. Members aho were last
4'a 44 sYI Ilad tBl, of the House, have not been
~ 'l,peetiO4
_. that their constituents will have
. fat ehi.
~?I' trover or detinue against Mr.
(It.
11
..,,,.,a.s.„_..hu ronic/e.
oktil°4lthßlTlsn
ao, 4,tieh , ate, , 4a-----e
ii------------__A
thVg rug cla, a, -."-'tOLOGICAL risSoCIATIoN.-
•ith:,p(lFlitti 111,4 laeide."l,_ng of the British Archaeological
:iNY4 Of e:hetit,r 11:1alarichester and Lancaster) corn-
t,illkl; ',l,lars Re;,,,,MendaY morning last, under the
41,143', ,1e R: 1444' col, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., F S.A.
4e 'totttlq tOeral au" of Members After visiting the
14 'll i d t ere w nleeting w
lvtokitol; t° tee as ate_ as held on the morning of
1V411.,tt l'etiilß %'s.t of
_u an evening sitting. Tuesday
, hi_ yl, h, the
5,.., se.ries of excursions for the pur-
rt,iS, 'obi3, eolbepuLlquities of the County Palatine of
1114 t 4111,414 at 4 Proceeding from Manchester to
, to I,os ikt!4!ter
b,e,ssdale, and thence to Ribchester,
'I% 141). lelt th'slo li ii'itere a Riveting was held in the
Lt)k 144 , o ten, rest d
11011 4/ "411113 o oray the Association pro-
*, h 1„, thle....ta.f. spiel Castle and Furness Abbey.
ell'llt,l)44l4ltrittit,: 4"llrlvredlci an elopement of a most
I,,th, heg 4 tid th rom this town, both the par-
titr.r,),,,,,0pp,,44 laid t man having, pri4 to his guilty
jnit;4t 4'l wjtirs !that taknds on all 'the money he could
1"Ift i,s), 4eiltit Li " woman left her husband (a
'ttk el \llia t and "/Paol here ipostt of 4 t,til para,,,_ ere she was planning,
4111,,!11),1141113.4.1atte„"f
,t_lor to the haven of rascality
kit,mo, 11,411 of ~y) .tv. wa ls also a butcher, and has
ytl ertisPal,, gere hi) attending Wakefield cattle.
hleti4 the es he ald partners. Having got as
'4,13', t,lles orpattleagailty e": 1; he Went to Liverpool, and
.(111 th4t ta:r Nes' tatrta4ealr sailed in the Constitution.
kt',lt4iiik,„l:4tatlll'R the raet off next day to Liverpool,
t,ll,lllti, Nos ,t ,L,oly arr_Vurn of some portion of the
ti4l!oo.1t11, the partiev a too late. We forbear pub-
;.4 1 mon ~ aro 1., frOna a regard to the bus-
,ll,lt Ica ite rich °f all th"' in ilalifax ; but we must add
tLiAtult, 40uplest aoighbours, England has got the
%,it4silitli, ti44sl, op ---Ifahf„ Guard".
h'sqll, to re real Tna SE
0, Jl4 Fe . wh• °yea a A---It is stated that
i',41t1,,,:ts ~,klihmbeel3' Six acres of beach and
il:i as, :: It'she;eteeptetaie.llAd!osit(d and silted up aet
iiVillittEr tills°
~the riart le !at some future tim
Il'!lsil't ht 4sa "pear, ~_i el li artnoutti may be laid
,wt I,„ it, eetti Otirth, plat the Hood shoal to the
kro 'e 0 earl • it the .7. 'lsanpeared. This shoal has
‘4,'lct 4th O Ito r tido out
to tor e ,aiste eale,,el between the Barber and
h iii p. t4t tuor r hvaeh new Causes the tide to arrive
t,lib,,t4 t111,11,p Y4.10,r ore Yarn%
°TIT easing off its sluicing
4mi Itik ,f 0 '',Bo 4u8,,, 1, and affording greater
u4,tp. !It._
sc4,,tatlee iuir:, ail the beach. Practical men
iAk, `itlq:illocBtitt Nue TbiClirant changes are taking place
!,1,../),,atl3inf,rlt dis,p,!eti_eed, is pretty evident from
,',ll 14 :,NA '9 1,4, tande Var,ance of the whole or part
' I,it klretkr? tiAtivr '44 Shoals by which we are
4 1414 e'l t e 1111
ll;itit,' ie. 'Btrat.° ha 4e
!Mi.4,A 1,,,
,tly -,uo, ,Ye digs doctor of VIA name of
otst 0)143 5
,°, Nrt,ie, raced a specific for cholera,
vi 4 optutruit l.;. l has been Very successful,
iih.,stio,llq ',tia,,,,,a ',el.' eases and • t a
m(I." i ,3tc,. -4 At lair 4,.., creating as great
It: t,, lit,'lltv ei„„ ore 01., ;Amor." His txcellency
6 at 'lli,l'akeit wait," hod ii, "Tall, accompanied by the
4tl i oottittiat y., beat (1 ot,cio oo Inspector of Charitable
hi 41114 spi,i!liNf he wiiil"-P, entreAting him. on the
ii,Gioftt 1114„ by
ha,..gl,ve publicity to the recipe;
411,4 ey,,iteata oy hi q beep slight ed on the occ 1-
444 411 to priiiiihpl,c% at
aarr'e
_,°"!ade to the ove nor, lie
Nt, oth,r'tsit,teitl, a.tieria`"vnlging his Secret, though
alettitluilf, 4ft,, Slid administer it in the
` ate f'aru! a reasonable considers-
the luotaeat at a positive

Ou

LITERATURE.
Y OUSG ITALY. By Alexander Baillie
Cochrane, _VP.

A brilliant contribution to the Fallen annals,
serving as materials for the future Sismondi, has
been made in this eloquent and picturesque narrative
by the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Brid-
port. From the opening sentence to the conclusion
we have perused the work before us with an extra-
ordinary sense of gratification. For while in several
particulars our opinions are directly at variance with
the political sentiments entertained by the author,
our warmest sympathies are commanded in his
favour by the spirit of gentleness and magnanimity
pervading the entire performance. As a literary
composition the book is one of no ordinary character,
possessing merits in this respect which must inevitably
tend to widen the popularity of Mr. Cochrane,
and materially to raise his reputation. Several of
the episodes introduced into the narrative would re-
flect honeur upon the ability of even our most emi-
nent living reneancist, Sir Bulwer Litton, to where
the volume is very gracefully dedicate d, "partly from
the pardonable ambition to have the writer's name,
however bri fly, associated with his in-Teri:liable
fame, partly because to his hind suggestions the work
or. es whatever slight merit it may posse ma." These
are the modest expressions in which Mr. Cochrane
ir:scribes his latest effusion to the author of "Rieezi,"
and the circumstance intimated towards the close of
the dedication cannot but invest that effusion with an
additional and adventitious attraction. Altcgether
epee, however, from any such incidental allurement,
the pages of "Young Italy" abound with charms of
their own such as are certain to arrest the attention of
the intelligent, and to secure to the author from the
more discriminating among his readers a very large
amount of earnest and cordial admiration. We speak
thus emphatically because in this volume we recog-
nise the evidences of those noble qualities which we
would ever see acknowledged as the national character-
istics of all true Englishmen. We detect in its reproba-
tion of atrocity, in its homage to misfortune, in its
panegyrics on virtue, in its tender commemorations
of beneficence, that largeness and soundness of heart
which are the first essentials of a chivalrous tem-
perament. We perceive in the very extravagance
with which some of its scornful passages, and some
also of its generous eulogiums are articulated, the
tokens of an impassioned nature, the testimonies of
an impulsive and emotional disposition. In an age
when most men are assuming an air of ennui or in-
difference, when among the many despicable affec-
tations of fashion the most conspicuous is that of
being blasé, our heart leaps up within us at any
manifestation of earnestness such as is here dis-
played by Mr. Cochrane in his narrative of the
Italian movement. We welcome his record of that
revolution with the sincerest satisfaction, what
hough in some particulars we may differ
from him in his predilections and prejudices ;
and the warmth of our welcome is attributable to
a respect for his energy in advocating principles as
bold as they are evidently conscientious. " Young
Italy" is a production which does infinite honour to
the heart and brain of Mr. Cochrane, being no less
genial from its liberality and enthusiasm, than from
eclectic taste and ripened scholarship. It pre-
sents to the imagination of the reader a rapid and
animated panorama of the principal occurrences which
transpired during the late convulsion of the Roman
peninsula. Beginning with a brief, but suggestive
chapter on Cannes, in the course of which the hospi-
tality of Lord Brougham is celebrated under the
pseudonym of Lcelius, the narrative, by an agreeable
transition from that existing locality to its dead asso-
ciations, commemorates the glory of the Ist of March,
and so traverses the plains of France until its arrival
in the streets of Paris. Having summoned up from the
recollections of the past some of the many wondrous
phantoms of greatness which rise in the memory at
the mere mention of Napoleon le Grand, the author,
on passing through the ante-chambers of the
Elysee Bourbon to make his respects to the Prince
President, cannot refrain from ejaculating, "Oh,
that Elysee!—what a long history it might tell of
broken fortunes, and worse than broken faith. As I
stand in its magnificent reception rooms,crowded with
the interesting memorials of the empire collected
from all parts of Paris, the old curiosity shop of past
glories, gazing upon the nephew of that man whose
name illustrated not France alone' but Europe, be
cause he was the proudest type of human greatness—
observing that nephew installed there in almost regal
splendour, with his pale and earnest countenance, yet
always anxious steps, my heart recals the past and
trembles for the future." A reflection, this, still more
appropriate at this present moment, when the imperial
Prince is traversing the southern departments of the
Republic, at once invested with the shadowy purple of
Napoleon, and preceded by the fasces of Democracy.
Passing across Piedmont, the narrator introduces us
into the midst of Lombardy at the time when the
heroic but unfortunate Charles Albert was
beaten back by the forces of the great
Marshal, and where on the fatal field of
Novara he expiated his dream of Italian inde-
penderce. How disinterested our commendations of
Mr. Cochrane's earnestness are in some particulars
may be guessed when we observe that he labours
under the delusion that the Lombards cherish an a

fection for the Austrian Government ! "At Novara,"
' says Mr. Cochrane, " Charles Albert was a hero ; it
was the last effort of expiring greatness; he defended
himself single-handed against repeated assaults of
fresh troopers : three horses were shot under him—to
use his own phrase, he sought to die; it was the su-
pernatural struggle of a man against his destiny."
The following anecdote of the fallen monarch cannot
be perused without emotion; it recounts an incident
which occurred shortly after his abdication:—
"He arrived at Alassis quite worn out wish fatigue
and anxiety, where he was driven to the principal hotel;
it is one of those old picturesque palaces, with very
dingy decorations, and bearing in every article of furni-
ture an impress of fallen grandeur. The man and the
scene were adapted to each other. After passing up the
ld time-worn, narrow staircase he entered a great ball,
from which the rooms branched in all directions, where
the first object that struck him was his own portrait,
hanging against the all ; he was there represented
with all the paraphernalia of royalty; it was taken soon
after his accession, when the people were enthusiastically
attached to him, and the recollection of the past, added
to tee misery of the present, made him burst into tears.
A slight breakfast was prepared, and he sat down oppo-
site the picture, intently gazing on it ; suddenly he
turned round to the young girl who was waiting on him,
and asked her if she remembered the King when he
passed by in 1835. No,' she answered, I was such a
child, but I am quite sure that you are the King!'
How do you know that if 3ou never saw him?' he
asked. She pointed to the picture upon the wall—he
pointed to his own sad, grief-worn face, and said, 'ls it
so like."
As our author very justly observes, this unfortunate
Sovereign was " one of the few men who, without ex-
aggerated phrase, may be said to have died of a
broken heart." Expiring at Oporto crownless, almost
companionless, and in exile, with all the visions of
his ambition dissipated, he left his country the re
collection of his heroism and his misfortunes, re-
ceiving himself from the grateful Parliament of Turin
the designation of The Magnanimous. Immediately
after his description of the last victory achieved in
Northern Italy by the veteran Radetzky, our
author introduces one of those episodical romances to
which we have already alluded as imparting such a
peculiar fascination to the work under review, and as
evidencing a remarkable improvement in the powers
of Mr. Cochrane as a novelist. " The Madonna of
Genoa" is an exquisite version of the story connected
with the last and the greatest production of Pelegrino
Piola, the celebrated Madonna painted for the com-
pany of Genoese goldsmiths. After this, as if by way
of startling contrast, comes a stern, and inexorable
narrative of the events which marked the rise,
development, reign and downfall of Republicanism
in the Eternal City. This portion of the
volumes, comprised within gages 53-129, affords a
vivid notion of the Roman democracy, and is followed,
as though by way of relief to the reader, by another
romantic story of a painter, entitled "The Two
Artists," those two artists being none other than
Francois Boucher and Joseph Vernet. In analysing
the character of his present Holiness Pope Pius IX.
ti e author has evidently divested himself at the
outset of all partialities and antipathies. To sum Ili
in a few words his estimate both of Pius IX.
and of Gregory XVI., we might say that he regards
the former as the embodiment of Mediocrity striving
to screen itself by Severity, and the latter as the very
incarnation of Goodness, marred by Weakness of
character. Pius IX., he says, in one of his epigram-
matic sentences, "could deny a favour with a happier
grace than Gregory XVI. could grant one." The
two men are in a manner calotyped by that single
observation. The eve of the memorable outbreak of
the 16th of November is described in befitting terms
of solemnity. Count Rossi bad that morning been
assassinated—on the following day the pontifical
palace of the Quirinal was to be bombarded. Mr.
Cochrane, in a tone of awe that is irresistibly pathetic,
exlaims—
" What traveller who stood that night on the p'aee
in front of the mightiest monument ever reared by a
Christian faith, or adorned by man's geniuQ, listening
to ,he fall of the wuters as they dash duwn the sides of
those glorious fountains, and gazing on the statues of
the h ly and mighty men who had died for the cross,
standing forth in the bright blue air as the guardians of
the faith which their lives adorned; who could have be-
lit-ved that the person of the head of that church, the
expi,under of its tenets, that God's Vicegerent on earth,
the old na,in at one time so loved by the people, and so
eloquent in their cause, would in a few short hours be
driven forth by that same people, from the ancient city, a
proscribed F xile from beneath the shadow t f that church
which St. Peter founded."

One other passage in this chapter on the Roman
Republic imperatively commands perusal, we mean
the passage in which our author argues the contested
question as to the number of bodies found by the
French troops in the garden of the Convent of
Calisto in Transtevere. This argument, which may

be found at pages 116-118, is one of some moment,
And appears to us to be altogether irrefragable.
Another section of the volume, Leaded " The
Mount Quirinal," is followed by a description cf
" The Feast of the Golden Rose," and this egain by
an inquiry into the problem of the "Tempera]
and Spiritual Authority of the Pope," it,
the course of which Mr. Cochrane says. almost
wittily, " the keys of St. Peter have been hitherto
guarded by the sword of St. Paul." A beautiful
tribute is paid by him, soon after, to the munificence
of the ecclesiastical establishments of Catholicism, in
a chapter on " Monte Casino." Howard, the philan-
thropist, might almost be expected to rise from his
ashes with horror, at the description given, further
on, of the prison of Naples. An interview which
took place between the writer and the King (which
may be found at page 275), will be read with urn
ft igned satisfaction. The last portions of the work
under consideration are partially cornpcsed of frag-
ments, already printed in the columns of our con-
temporary the Timcs, under the signature of th.
person humorously designated by Mr. Cochrane,
`• that most aLle, eh quent, and universally esteemed
gentleman, ` our own correspondent.'" The most
remar kuble portion of the NS hole hook, Low
ver, we have hitherto refrained from met.-
, tionir:g, desirous as we were to close our
comments upon " Young Italy" with an earnest en-
comium upon it as an historical composition. It is
the chapter inscribed "The Murder of Rossi," and
depicts in startling colours the whole of that bast])
tragedy. It affords a noble and touching prod* of
the eloquence and humanity of the author, and pre-
sents to the imagination a picture so terrible in i-s ,
vividness that it cannot very speedily be obliterated ,
from the recollection. •

ANNALS of the PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS.
By Thomas Hamilton. A New Edition.
Anything more than a cursory reference to the
fact of this present republication would be a species of
impertinence to the merit of the work itself and to the
author's wide and brilliant reputation. What is par-
ticularly commendable in the present edition is the
circumstance of its having been carefully revised
and augmented by Frederick Hardman, already well
known as the author of "Peninsular Scenes and
Sketches." In revising and augmenting a history so
popular in its previous form, Mr. Hardman has acted,
to our thinking, under all considerations most judi-
ciously ; not introducing matter in any respect super-
fluous, or erasing passages of any importance or in-
terest whatever. The labour, in fact, which be has
had to accomplish as editor has been nothing less than
the interpolation of illustrative anecdotes and mili-
tary particulars towards the latter portion of the
narrative, the history as originally penned being more
copious in both those particulars at its commence-
ment than towards its conclusion. Besides which it
should be borne in mind that since the first appear-
ance of these "Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns,"
by Mr. Hamilton, now some twenty years bygone,
a variety of works and documents have been penned
or produced, to which its author was denied access
by the premature character of his undertaking ; all
which works and documents have been scrupulously
consulted and collated by Mr. Hardman, with a view
to perfect as far as possible the task of emendation.
For example, he has had to consult the volumes of
Colonel (now General Sir William) Napier, of Colo-
nel Toreno, of Mr. Alison, and, beyond all others,
Colonel Gurwood's collection of the "Despatches" of
his Grace the Duke of Wellington. Aided by these
remarkable documents, the editor of these annals has
been enabled to improve them very materially both in
respect to the amount of their details and their indivi-
dual correctness. How far Mr. Hardman was quali-
fied to attempt the fulfilment of the duties devolving
upon him in this double toil of revision and aug-
mentation, may be conjectured by those already
acquainted with his literary productions, as well
as from the fact of his having familiarised
himself by personal scrutiny with nearly all
the ground fought over by the British soldiers frini
the Ebro to Toulouse. This conjecture of his capa-
city to accomplish all required from him in his newly
assumed office, will be resolved into a conviction
with any one who may take the trouble to compare
Hamilton's Annals of the Peninsula as they were
When orignally printed, and as they are in their pre
sent form of republication.

MAPS ILLUSTRATIVE of the CAMPAIGNS
in the PENINSULA. By Alexander Keith
Johnston.

An excellent series of maps from the hand of Mr.
Johnston, numbering altogether twenty-four, has
been issued in the shape of a companion volume to the
military annals just referred to, as the joint produc-
tion of Messrs Hamilton and Hardman. Already fa-
miliar to us in the splendid atlas illustrating
the later edition of Alison's " Europe," and
consequently already very frequently eulogised in our
columns as engravings worthy of the distinguished
Scottish geographer, it is only necessary for us to
enumerate the maps Is Lich have been selected as
representing at a glance the various cities and
localities connected with the Peninsular victories.
Atter an admirable outline of Spain and Portugal,
cfm-, in their several positions, the lines of Torres
Vedras, the plan of Ciudad Rodrigo, a map of the
ryrenees, a sketch of the attack of the French in-
treLched position on the Nivelle, the Sifges of Sarra-
gosss, Gerona, Tarragona, Bade.), z, Burgos and San
Sebastian, together with the battles of Medina De
Rio-Seco, Vimeira, Corunna, Talavera, Oc:.n
Busaco, Barossa, Albuera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Bd.
yonne, Orthes, and Toulouse. In the limning of
each of these famous spots Mr. Johnston has acquitted
himself more than creditably—every road, elevation,
or watercourse being marked with as scrupulous an
exactitude, as the bodies of infantry, cavalry, and ar-
tillery involved in the different engagements.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, TUESDAY.

The Right llon. Sir Francis Baring had the
honour of joining the Royal dinner circle yesterday,
and remained at Osborne last evening, on a visit to
the Queen and the Prince.
The unfavourable state of the weather this fore-
noon prevented her Majesty and Prince Albert from
taking their accustomed early walk. The Royal
children were l►kewise prevented from taking their
pony and walking exercise in Osborne Park this
morning.