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London, England, 1850-07-12 00:00:00

MAGAZINES, &c.--(CONTINUED.)
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
The number for July fully sustains the high cha-
racter of this talented and entertaining periodical.
The first paper, giving
a full and clear account of the
modus operandi of that most marvellous of scientific
inventions—the electric telegraph—together with
some brief but lucid observations on the daguerreo-
type, the safety-lamp of Dave, electro-plating, and
others of the most noticeable of " the gifts of science
to art," is one of the best popular treaties we have
seen on scientific matters. A review of Townsend's
" Modern State Trials" is written by * masterly hand,
whose remarks on the duel cases of Stuart and Sir
Alexander Boswell, and of Lord Cardigan and Cap-
tainTuckett, yield only in interest to those on Cour-
voisier's trial, in which he ably and conclusively vin-
dicates the tnuch-vexed conduct of the eminent coun-
sel for the defence. Ile also gives n full account of
the extraordinary claims laid to the Earldom of Stir-
ling, which g ive rise to one e f the most remarkable
trials on record, and descants aed tempe-
rately on the strange case of poor vanity-bitten
Smith O'Brien, profoundest self donkey fier
whether in senatorial coal hole or A ntipe-
dean Gyarx. The Old Mao's Bequest" is
a very good story, and the few pages on "The Poets
and Poetry of Muester" are exceedingly well done.
To the writer, whoever he be, of the article entitled
" Agnes Sorel and her Contemporaries," we send our
affectionate greeting, as a fellow-almirer of that gen-
tle beauty which we first learned to love in Schiller's
beautiful drains. Several modern novels are well no-
ticed in a paper styled "A Flight of Lady-birds," and
a translation from the German, " The Mysterious
Compact," promises, when completed, to be a story
of the highest class of interest. In the " Portrait
Gallery" we are preseeted with a sketch of that true
ornament to his order and bi 3 country, the Earl of
Bosse. A Ballad anent a rebel wight of '9B, " Shamus
O'Brien," would have been more to our liking if the
grotesque spelling, intended to convey a correct notion
of Irish pronunciation, had been avoided. Indeed,
we wish Irish authors would reform this habit
altogether. Dr. Mackenzie has struck into the right
path in his recent clever work, and, to our mind, the
Hibernian stories in his " Mornings at Matlock,"
read all the better for his sparing to perplex the eye
with a barbarous medley of misplaced letters, rudely
and laboriously conveying a lame idea of the idiom
of the reciters or conversing parties. The concluding
paper, being a second notice of " Southey's Life and
Correspondence," is . distinguished by the same ex-
cellences which has already elicited our admiration
for its antecessor. It beare the impress of the scholar,
the critic, and the gentleman—of one whom Southey
himself must have appreciated and esteemed, if they
have ever held companionship. Distinguished as is
the reputation which the Dublin University Magazine
has long acquired for the literary criticism which con-
stantly enriches its pages, we cannot but pronounce it
fortunate in having secured the services of a writer of
such a rare combination of acuteness of intellect and
amiability of feeling. In " Sonnet on the Poetry
of Wordsworth," the following quatrain struck us as
poetical and harmonious in no slight degree :
" Thou gentle Poet, she bath tuned thy mind
To deep accordance with the harmony
That floats above the mountain summits free,
The Concertif Creation on the Wind."

ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE. Edited by J.

Bernard Burke.

In reading the account cf the trial of James
Ste%art, of Clan S:ewart, of Appin, in the year
1752, at Inverary, for the murder of Colin Campbell,
of Glencow, which appears in the present number of
St. James's, we were much struck with the de-
scription and the cause of the murder as detailed in
the following evidence—

" Mango Campbell, writer in Edinburgh, deposed that
he set out from Edinburgh on the 7th cf May last, in
company with the deceased, Mr. Campbell, of Glenure.
t) as,ist him in ejecting some of the tenants upon the
forfeited estates of Ard.hiel aad Lochiel, over which tie
deceased was factor; which tenants, it was apprehended,
would not remove legally ejected; that they went to
Fort William, and, in their return, they arrived on
Thursday, the 14th of May, at the ferry of Ballachelish,
proposing next day to eject some of the tenants of Ard-
shiel. The deceased, after waiting about an hour, and
communing with some of the tenants, crossed the ferry
between four and five in the afternoon. Glenure and
the deponent entered the wood of Lettermore, and coming
to a part where the woad was pretty thick upon both
sides, that the murderer could have easily concealed
himself in the bushes, and where the road was so rough
and narrow that they could not ride conveniently two
horses abreact; the deponent went foremost, and might
have been about twice the length of the court room
before the deceased, when he heard a shot behind him,
and heard Glonuro repeatedly cry out, Oh! lam
dead.' The deponent immediately returned to Glenure,
alighted from his horse, and also took the deceased eff
his horse; then run up the hill from the road to see who
had shot him. He saw, at some distance, a man with a
short dark coloured coat, and a gun in his hand, going
away from him; and there was so great a distance be-
tween them, that the deponent think: he could not have
known him although he had seen his Lea. As the depo-
neat came nearer he mended his pace, and disappeared
by high grounds being interjected between them."

Substitute the name of Mauleverur for that of Camp-
bell and the account would read as that of the moat
recent Irish murder. Ia 1750 Scotl ind was in the
slme unsatisfactory social state that Ireland is in

1850, and the necessary conclusion is, that if in
1850 we adopt precisely similar measures with regard
to Ireland, which in 1750 .ve adopted with regard to
the Highlands of Scotland, we shall have Ireland in
the same orderly, happy, inclustriouF, and prosperous
condition as Scotland. We commend the attentive
study of the measures, so successfully adopted for the
regeneration of Scotland a century since, to our
legislators. The series of the " Heroines of the Peer-
age" is continued, and the Countess of Salisbury, in
honour of whom Edward 111. instituted the Order
of the Garter, is the heroine of this month. Among
the miscellaneous contents of the St. James's
Magazine of
July, we should select us worthy of
especial commendation " The White Knight's Vow, a
Tale of the Desmond Wars."

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THE. BRITISH GAZETTEER..
The part issued for the present month reaches to
psge 416 of this popular and valuable work. The
county maps are those of Huntingdon and Glouces-
tershire, and it is embellished by a beautiful engrav-
ing of Richmond Railway Bride.

THE BANKER'S MAGAZINE.
One of the bast a:ticles in the present number is a
statement of the glaring absurdities of the present
condition of the law, as regards the existing system
of pleading, in which the writer has availed himself of
the able pamphlet of Mr. T. Jones,
a very able ana-
lysis of which appeared some time since in the Times.
Among other papers characterized by the usual ex-
cellence of this periodical, we would direct attention
to one on the " Progress of the Business of the Royal
Britivh Bank," one of the soundest and most valu-
able institutions which has yet appeared in the Bank-
ing world.

COURT
The Queen will
hold
(Saturday) at aWigU—Cl-4ouAncßil. to-morrow
Buckingham Palace. Summonses
were issued yesterday from the Privy Council Office
to the Ministers and yesterday
Officers c rs of State.
Her Royal r•
lig ness the Duchess of Gloucester
and his Royal Hi h
g ness Prince George visited the
Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, rode out on
horseback yesterday morning.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Mr. Birch, took a carriage drive yesterday.
Their Royal llighnesses the Princess Royal and
the Princess Helena took an airing in an open car-
riage and four yesterday. The other members of the
Royal Family took their usual exercises yesterday in
the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes.
terday afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Com-
mission for the promotion of the Exhibition of the
Works of Industry of all Nations, to be held in the
year 1851.
His Royal Highness arrived at the new Palace of
Westminster at ten minutes past three o'clock, at-
tended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander
Gordon. The Commissioners present were, Earl
Granville, Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. Henry
Labouchere, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir
Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyall, Mr. Cokden,
M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott,
Mr. Pusey, M.P., Mr. R. Stephenson, Mr. Sheppard,
and Mr. Alderman Thompson. Mr. S. Russell and
Mr. Stafford Nortbcote, secretaries to the Royal
Commission, attended. Colonel Reid, chairman of the
executive committee, and. Dr. Lyon Playfair were
present.
The Building Committee of the Royal Commission
hs Id a meeting, at twelve o'clock, in the new Palace
Westminster, which was attended by Mr. Cubitt
(chairman), Mr. R. Stephenson, Mr. Brunel, and Mr.
T. S. Donald4on. Mr. Digby Wyatt, Mr. Owen
Jones, and Mr. H. Wyld were present. Mr. Scott
Russell, Secretary to the Royal Commission, was in
attendance.
Mr. Walker, Government Secretary of British
Guiana, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday.
Mr. F. Bernal had an interview with his Lordship
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners fjr England had
a general meeting yesterday, at their office in White-
hall-place.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

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from some gates before it was dry.—LincOn Mercury.