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Miss Jane Porter, the highly popular authoress in the course of which he puts forth several per-
of the " Scottish Chiefs," and who has here tinent hints, our author proceedd to discuss
communicated some particulars regarding the the breed of cattle in France, which he describes
siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683.

ORIENTAL HERALD.

The " Oriental Herald," owing, we presume, to I
the unavoidable absence of Mr. Buckingham
frc•.n London, offers this month but little scope
IC, criticism, scarcely even for observation. Nine
oit of ten of its articles are drawn confessedly
fom other sources—they are in fact so many
.eprints introduced by some slight introductory
remark. The majority, as a matter of course,
relate to India, and are chiefly of a local and sta-
tistic character, with the single exception, perhaps,
of Mr. Buckingham's own account of a" Voyage
from Bussorah down the river Euphrates to
Bushire," a sketch which, though rapid, and
somewhat desultory in matter, is vet characterized
by all Mr. Buckingham's freshness and vivacity
of description. When we say " vivacity" we
would be understood to allude solely to vivacity
of subject, for Mr. Buckingham's style and mode
of expressing himself are any thing rather
than vivacious or sparkling. A considerable
portion of the present number is made up of ex-
tracts from the different Liverpool papers, de-
scriptive and eulogistic of Mr. Buckingham's
lectures in that town, which appear by all ac-
counts to have been distinguished by informa-
tion and extensive practical experience in the
subject, which of course had a reference to India.
These lectures, when published, will no doubt
be generally read and admired. " Character of
Lord Byron,"—though the subject be so stale
that we almost dread to revert to it—is yet an
article worthy perusal, from the circumstance of
its having been penned by the Countess Albriaii;
a lady of rank and fortune, and high literary
attainments, and one with whom the deceased
Poet was intimately acquainted. The article is
a translation from the Italian, and was first pub-
lished in the Bengal Chronicle, whence Mr.
Buckingham has transferred it to the pages of his
Herald." We give a specimen of its truth
and accuracy of observation.

" His face appeared tranquil like the ocean on a fine
spring morning ; but, like it, in an instant became changed
into the tempestuous and terrible, if a passion (a passion
did I say ?) a thought, a word, occurred to disturb his
mind. His eyes then lost all their sweetness, and
sparkled so that it became difficult to look on them. So
rapid a change would not have been thought possible ;
but it was impossible to avoid acknowledging that the
natural state of his mind was the tempestuous.

" Wbat delighted him greatly one ;lay, annoyed him the
next; and, whenever he appeared constant in the practise
of any habits, it arose merely from the indifference, not to
say contempt, in which he held them all ; whatever
they might be, they were not worthy that he should
occupy his thoughts with them.
" His heart was highly sensitive, and suffered itself to
be governed in an extraordinary degree by sympathy; but
his imagination carried him away, and spoiled every
thing. He believed in presages, and delighted in the re-
collection that he held this belief in common with Napo-
leon. It appeared that, in proportion as his intellectual
education was cultivated, his moral education was ne—
glected, and that he bad never suffered himself to know or
observe other restraints than those imposed by his inclina-
tions. Nevertheless, who could believe that he had a
constant and almost infantine timidity, of which the evi-
dences were so apparent as to render its existence indis-
putable, notwithstanding the difficulty experienced in as-
sociating with Lord Byron a sentiment which had the ap-
pearance of modesty. Conscious as he was that, wherever
he presented himself, all eyes were fixed on him; and all
lips, particularly those of the women, were opened to
say, There he is, that is Lord Byron,'—he necessarily
found himselfin the situation of an actor obliged to sue-
tain a character, and to render an account, not to others
(for about them be gave himself no concern), but to hiM-
self, of his every action and word. This occasioned bin
*feeling Of uneasiness which was obvious to every one.
" Without a Hero to expect him on the opposite shore,
he swam across the Hellespont, with the sole view of put-
ting an end to the controversy, whether or no it were poe-
sible ; and, is the same manner, he also crossed the rapid,
and, in that respect, more dangerous, Tagus, at the
broadest part of the river,—a feat on which he prided
himself more than on the former ; and, as part of the same
subject, I raay mention, that he was seen, on leaving a
palace situated on the Great Canal, instead of entering into
his gondo,a, to throw himself with his clothes on into the
water, and swim to his house. On the following night,
in order to avoid the risk he had the former evening rue of
beige hurt by the numerous oars of the gondoliers, who,
in their swift barks, were conveying home their mamters,—
as one impatient of every obstacle, he was seen swimming
across the same canal with his right arm, and molding,
raised in his left hand, a small lamp with which to illumine
his e, ay. ..tm.t the view of so strange a wanderer, .t is not
poe ;ble to deecribe what was the astonishment of the
o,e- arable gondoliers, who, stretched along the decks of
,r te,,rtem waited, singing the beautiful verses o:Ermina
am I the Brrm,lipa, until the watchful rock should salute
ti a morn,—the hour at which the eight-wandering Vene-
t in ladies are wont to betake themselves to their homes in
immer. With his domestics, from whom he exacted

-.c4reoly any thing, he was generous, good, and affe.ble :
amoaga tig: rest, he always carried with him an old do-
mestic, beca4s,e J.e eaid he had been in the family when he

as being even up to the present period, very
degenerate. He then discusses the quality of
the French silk InanJactures, remarking, en
passant, that " the value of the silk annually
worked up in France may now be taken at
about six millions sterling." He concludes with
the satisfactory observation, that " property of
all kinds in France is now leaping in tranquil-
lity, the harvest whose seed was sown in the
blood of the Revolution and whose growth has
outstood the stormy wars of the empire."
Hinboldt's " Political and Statistical Account
of Cuba," is somewhat dry reading, but full of
technical points of information on the subject.
" Meyer on the Judicial Institutions of the
principal Countries of Europe," is a paper of
an enlarged and comprehensive character, it ad-
vocates, (for it dwells chiefly on the laws of
England) a temperate and gradual reform, and
on the subject of economy in time, makes the
following sensible remarks:—
" There is, however, another species of judicial eco-
nomy which can hardly be too highly rated, although
there is often great difficulty as to the right means of en-
forcing it—the economy of time ; an article of inestimable
value, and which we have sometimes heard most unjustly
depreciated by being set down as of no account when
weighed with the demands of strict and impartial justice.
In one sense this is indeed an undeniable axiom—but by
no means so when employed in that which it is' usually
made to signify, when adduced as an apology either for
indolent indifference on the part of the Judge, or for ego-
tistical proliiity on that of the advocate; and it is accord-
ingly a matter of well-known experience—not to name
any of the present Judges, we refer to the state of lousiness
in the Rolls Court during the time of Sir Williark Grant
for our example—that the character of the Bench in-
fluences that of the Bar, and that the opinions entertained
by the latter of the unremitting vigilance and strict atten-
tion exercised by the former, operates as a severer check
upon the license of loose and disjointed talk, as well as
upon, still more. blameable habits of practice, than any
other consideration whatever It was the saying of 4 great
Equity Judge, still presiding, that the first duty of an ad-
vocate is to the Court, the next to himself, and the third
only to his client. Perhaps the order might have been
well varied by placing self-respect as his highest obligation,
and substituting the public (whose officer he is) in place
of the Judge, as the second object of reverence. There
is no question, we think, but that the client, peculiar as
is the nature of his claim for defence and protection, must
be content to cede the point of priority in favour of both
the former It ought never to be absent from the mind,
either of the Advocate or of the Judge, that every minute
uselessly consumed in the hearing of a cause is so much of
the public time unjustly taken from those whose property
it is, and who have a direct right to the provident and
thrifty administration of it."
Oginski's Memoirs of Poland" is confined
chiefly to detached accounts of that country of
late years, under the Russian dynasty, in the
course of which the Reviewer takes the oppor-
tunity of doing justice to the character of the late
Emperor Alexander—who is the hero of the
article—as one of the greatest benefactors of his
extended empire. Derode's " New Theory of
Harmony" is a scientific analysis of an able but
too elaborate treatise on music ; to musical men
it will of course be interesting, but is, we fear,
caviare to the multitude. " Memoirs of Vi-
docq" is a light, easy, gossiping notice of a re-
markably diverting piece of autobiography. Our
very circumscribed limits prevent us from saying
more of the remaining articles than that they
will, most of them, reward the labour of perusal.

was born.
"Lord Byron disliked his ocitutrimen, but only because
he knew that his moral* were held in contempt by them.
Ike F., kaglish themselves, rigid observers of family duties,
could not pardon him the neglect of his, nor his trampling
on principles; 1110efore, neither did he like being present-
ee to him, nor did they, 'specially when they had their
wives with them, like to culawats his acquaintance. Still
there was a strong desire in all of them to see him ; and
,the Avomen in particular, who did not dare to look ;t him
but by stealth, said in an under-voice, What a pity it
is!' if, however, are of his compatriots of exalted rank
and of high reputAting was the first to treat him with cour-
tesy, he showed hinaselioWiously Battered by it, and was
greatly pleased with such association. It seemed that to
the wound which remained always open in 11i4 ulcerated
heart, such soothing attentions were as drops of holing
asiaa, which comforted him."

FOREKIN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
The present nurcher (the sixth) of this mos'
promising Patagonian periodical, if it does nol
abound in matter of a particularly interesting n 4.
ture, is yet any thing but deficient on the score
of sound practical information. In fact, it is the
most useful number we have yet seen. The
first paper, which is replete with sound, well•
digested, and well-applied knowledge, gives an
accurate .ccount of the " Arts and Manufactures
in France"—the" growing prosperity" of which
,the author dates front the restoration of the
Bourbon dynasty in 1815. " The ravages," he
obset“.,s, " made by the wars of the Revolution
and .of the prnpire upon her population and
wealth have bee: estimated, according to M.
Dupin, at two millions of men and 600 millions '
of English money.. Every succeeding year pf
peace is, however, healing these severe wounds ;
private losses have been indemnified, houses and
factories have bc.::.'n rebuilt, the cattle-and live
stock are more numerous 041;) }before the war,
and the population has been augmented, an
thirteen -years, by two millions and a half of in-
habitants." After enteling into an estimate
of the agricultural produce of France,
more especially as regards the culture of the
vine, on which he dwells at some length, and