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TIIE ORAL LAW and its DF EENDERS. 4/ disgraceful" in people being strongly affected
Review.
By A SCRIPT URALIST. by an irresistible appeal made to their sense of
Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row. I justice and compassion ? We look upon Mr.
ADOLPHUS' impassioned retort as one of the
happiest and most effective ever delivered in a
Court of Law ; its appeal is direct to the heart;
and he must have been more or less than man
who could have heard it unmoved. And
yet we are gravely and oracularly told
that all those who were affected by its truth,
and force, and pathos, acted disgracefully in
ailovcing feelings so creditable to their nature to
escape them, and deserved to be punished
severely as offenders against the awful etiquette
of a Police Court! Surely this is being punctilious
over much ! Police Courts are often in roars of
laughter when some absurd drunken frolic of an
-Irishman, or a Captain SNooKs, is brought under
the cognizance of justice, and no Magistrate ever
dreams of reprehending such levity, but on the
contrary, enjoys the joke quite as much as the
spectators--especially if he happen to be a Lord
Mayor or an Alderman, in which case Ile is sure
to be a wag. Why, then, should the momentary
interruption occasioned by an involuntary out-
burst of serious natural emotion be so vehemently
objected to by the Marylebone Magistrate ? This
is a question to which, we apprehend, no rational
answer can be made.

PHE EDINBURGH REVIEW,No.CLIII.,
ill be published on THURSDAY NEXT, the 13th inst.

CONTIANTS.
1. ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE.
v. THE HON. AND REV. MR. KEPPEL'S LIFE OF ADMIRAL

LORD KEPPEL.
3. TAYLOR'S EDWIN THE FAIR.
4. BERRYER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECOLLECTIONS.
5. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA-ITS CONSTITUTION AND

DEPARTMENTS.
6. MADAME DE SEVIGNE AND HER CONTEMPORARIES.
7. THE NEW UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.
S. THE LATE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.
London : Longman, Brown, :and Co. Edinburgh: A. and
C. Black

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We regard the news brought by the Overland
Mail, though meagre, as, on the whole, favourable.
They come, be it remembered, not direct from

the Indian ,Government or English correspon-
dents, but through a French medium, which,
from mistake or design, has generally given an
incorrect and unfavourable view of the state of
affairs in our Eistern empire. According to
the previous telegraphic despatch, " sickness and
want of provisions were decimating the army" in
Affghanistan, and discontent among the troops
was at its height, all which statements were utterly
devoid of truth; and we are, therefore, warranted
in attaching little importance to the modified ac-
count that " sickness still prevails among the
different divisions of the army," as well as to the
assertion that more men bad been lost in taking
possession of a small place like Chapoo than
in any other affair with the Chinese. One fact,
however, appears certain, that the army west of
the Indus had been ordered to march on Caubul
in opposition to the opinion and direct instruc-
tions of the Governor-General of India. When
Lord ELLE4BOROUGH was appointed to the
office which he now holds we had great mis-
givings as to his judgment, spirit, and
general qualifications for such an impor-
tant trust, and the orders issued by him for
the recal of the army •certainly justified the
worst suspicions. He is an eloquent speaker, and
may possibly have been a useful man of
business when under the guidance and con-
trol of an able chief ; but as regards moral
courage under difficulties, grand conceptions,
energy, and dignified appearance a mat-
ter
of some importance in the East—few 1
men would give him any credit for being pre-
eminent. Had he been allowed to follow the
bent of bib timid mind the English army
would have been for ever disgraced, our
vast possessions in India seriously endan-
gered, and the treacherous barbarian, who
had murdered unoffending women and
helpless soldiers in thousands, been exalted to the
highest honours. It is fortunate, therefore, that
there are men in the Cabinet of a different stamp,
who have some regard for the honour of their
country, and some sympathy for the sufferings
and shame of British soldiers. We do not take
into account the absolute justice or the expe-
diency of the war. It may have been necessary
for the safety of our Eastern empire ; or not ; we
look simply to the fact that a truce was entered
into, arms and ammunition were given up, and a
solemn engagement made that our troops should
pass through the country unmolested. The
awful result it is needless to recount. Inde-

At the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Notting-
hamshire Agricultural Association, which took
place on Tuesday last, Mr. GALLY KNIGHT ob-
served that the " exhibition of stock had been
so excellent as to allay all . fears of the quality
and breed of our animals being excelled by
neighbouring or other nations." We hope
this remark which, as coming from a
decided Tory, is of more than ordinary
moment—will tend to reconcile the agriculturists
to the Tariff, and convince them that their
doubts of its safe and salutary operation are in a
great measure unfounded. For our own part,
we cannot express our joy at hearing that a free-
born British bullock will still maintain its
superiority over one born and educated
'iii Holland or Belgium, for our rump-
I steaks and sirloins have long been, like
our Constitution, the " envy and wonder
of surrounding nations," and it would be a
grievous shock to our patriotism, were our
acknowledged excellence in this respect ever to
be surpassed by foreigners. At the same agri-
cultural -meeting, Mr. NORTON—who, we
believe, is also a Tory—made some ob-
servations on the late changes in the
Corn-law, which evince a moderation and even
liberality of sentiment strikingly at variance
with the opinions of those who assert that agri-
culture is on its last legs, having been brought
to that lamentable state of decrepitude by the in-
judicious nostrums of the Tamworth Doctor.

A report was current at Madrid, on the 28th
that Government had received important news
from Valencia, which city had been threatened
for sometime with serious disturbances. It was
even asserted that an insurrection had taken
place, and that the insurgents had insisted that
the QUEEN'S majority should be fixed at 18 years
of age.
The Peninsular of the 28th ult. publishes a
letter from Algesiras, stating that on the 17th
ult. a British officer, belonging to the Admiral's
ship, presented himself at the port of St. Philip
with two boats filled with troops, and ordered
the commander of the Spanish guard-ship to
withdraw. One of the Spanish officers imme-
diately landed and apprised the commander of
the troops of the line, who immediately assem-
bled his men, and marched them to the sea
shore: The English officer then asked whether
he was on the Spanish territory, and on being
answered in the affirmative, he withdrew with-
out further explanation.
Private letters from Madrid state, that on the'
day appointed to receive tenders for the new
loan of 40,000,000 of reals, no offers had been
received by the Minister of Finance.
On the Madrid Bourse, on the 28th ult.
1,800,000 reals were sold in the Three per Cents.
at 211 at GO days. The Five per Cents. were
done at 26 for cash, and 251 26 261 1 9-16 at 60
days, with prime and 11 coupons due ; 21i.
cash with 3 coupons.

pendent, however, of the disgrace, every one

but Lord ELLENBOROUGH must be aware of the
unfavourable impression such a retreat from that
country would have made on the petty Princes
and people of India, and we are therefore bound
in self-defence to recover our position, and con-
vince our enemies that England cannot be be-

trayed or insulted with impunity. For the safety
of the unfortunate prisoners we are as anxious
as their nearest friends, but no one can success-
fully contend that surrendering every point of
honour, and yielding to every demand made by a
treacherous foe, are the only means of effecting
their release. The prisoners themselves, if we
may judge of the magnanimous conduct of Lady
SALE, would be the very last to sanction such
ignoble proceedings.

The Paris papers of Wednesday contain un-
favourable news from the seat of war in Africa
lt appears that General CH A NGARNIER, a highly

distinguished officer, had marched to the western
frontiers of the. province of Oran, and invaded
the territory of some tribes which had not yet
been visited by French troops, where he expe-
rienced a most vigorous resistance from their
warlike population. The Arabs fought during
two days with a courage amounting to heroism
and are supposed (no doubt correctly) to have
sustained ~considerable loss. In ttiese conflicts
the Frenclecoti ess to have had 150 men killed,
and wounded, including six officers killed, and
amongst others Lieutenant SEBASTIAN', nephew
of Marshal Count SEBASTIAN'.

Our eloquent Contemporary, the Morning
.Herald, has evidently been taking lessons lately
in description of GEORGE ROBINS ; and to do
him justice, he bids fair with a little practise to
surpass his illustrious master. We hope GEORGE
will not be jealous, but really if he do not look
well to his laurels, he will stand a fair chance of
having them filched from him, and being
thrown into total eclipse by the superior
effulgence of our Contemporary's graphic genius.
But not only does the Herald exhibit
descriptive powers of the highest and rarest
order, but he exhibits also a genius for the un-
grammatical, which, if properly cultivated, may
entitle him to claim equal renown with the late
lamented SIMPSON of Vauxhall—that lofty and
daring violator of the petty, vulgar niceties
and proprieties of Syntax. Here is a speci-
men of our Contemporary's anti-syntactical
peculiarities, which it would be difficult to
equal, and scarcely possible to surpass :
" The oldest individual living cannot remember
such a long duration of seasonable, and the most
beautiful and invigorating autumnal weather as
the present, it being chilly and misty in the
mornings, until the glorious orb of day comes
forth in his strength and magnificence, dispelling
the hoary dews till he hastens on the noon of
day,rife with resplendency, warmth, and beauty ;
and having passed the southern hemisphere, and
travelled some stages towards the gorgeous
west, his power subsides, the air becomes chill, yet
clear and bracing, evening draws her sable cur-
tain round, and dark and dewy night succeeds."
What a glorious confusion reigns throughout
this impressive description ! What a happy in-
congruity of images! What an exquisite infeli-
city of epithets ! Metaphors—no matter how
harmless and unoffending—are subjected to the
cruellest compound fractures, and poor Pais-
CIAN'S head is broken in the very first sentence.
Again we say, look to your laurels, GEORGE, or
the Herald, with its fine imaginative comparison
of the sun to a stage-coach passenger " travel-
ling some stages towards the gorgeous west,',
will assuredly tear them from your brows, 'and
leave your scalp as bald as a turnip !

The Courrier Francais publishes the follow-
ing account, dated Algiers, September 25, of
the affair :

‘: General Changarnier's column, 2,500 strong, had
arrived in the aghalick of Onaz, between Milianah and
Mascara, when the Arabs and Kabyles of that district,
re-inforced probably by the troops of the Emir, at-
tacked them with extraordinary fury. The combats
succeeded each other so ',rapidly, that for two whole
days they were fighting with swords and bayonets,
or within pistol- shot. Our column could not
be shaken, but it obtained no result of any
importance. The troops behaved admirably, but the
balls did not spare them, and we had one hundred
men either killed or wounded. Whether it was that
the officers exposed themselves too much, or that they
were particularly aimed at by the enemy, it is certain
that the number of them who were killed or wounded
is out of all proportion with that of the private sol-
diers. The loss of the enemy has been considerable,
but ours has been very important, for MM. Moran-
gies and Magagnos, who have fallen, were two of the
bravest and most experienced officers in the army of
Africa. It is probable that a new expedition from
General Changarnier's column, the garrisons of Mill-
ana and Medeah, and the column of D'Arbouville, will
be sent into the country of the Braz."
The Ilioniteur Parisien accounts for this cala-.
mitous affair in a different manner, and repre-
sents the loss of the French as less important :

" General Changarnier," says that journal, " was
attacked suddenly by forces very superior in number
to his own, and we have to deplore a pretty consider-
able loss,', including several officers, amongst whom
are mentioned the following :—M. Laplanche,: of the
staff, attached to the Zouaves, and M. Sebastiani and
M. Maquards, of the same corps, and M. Denantes,
of the Ist regiment of African Chasseurs."

The 2floniteur Parisien does not give the de-
tails 'or even the date of this affair, but it must
have taken place on the 19th ult., as the death
of Lieutenant SEBASTIANI is stated by the Mar-
seilles journals to have taken pl►ce on that day.
In his march to Tekedempt, from Mostaganem,
the French General D'ARBOUYILLE likewise met
with unexpected and determined resistance, and
was obliged to fall back, with the loss of 9 killed
and 6 wounded.

An incident occurred yesterday at the Mary-
lehone Police-office, during the investigation of
the strange case of ALICE Lows, who was
charged with having robbed Lord FRANKFORT,
with whom she cohabited, of articles of jewellery
to a large amount, which is well worthy of
notice, exhibiting, as it does, magisterial cant—
and where is solemn, ultra-dignified cant more
in vogue than among our Police Magistrates ?
in a very edifying and characteristic light. Mr.
ADOLPHUS having subjected the noble com-
plainant to a cross-examination, the evident ob-
ject of which was to show that his judgment was
at times not quite so unclouded as it might be,
Mr. CLARKSON interfered, apprehensive that his
Lordship's sensibilities might receive too severe
a shock, if his Learned Friend's questions were
continued in so searching a spirit. The rest of the
'incident we give in the words of the Reporter :
Mr. Clarkson here made some observations relative
to the painful situation in which his Lordship was
placed by the line of cross-examination which had
been adopted, when he was interrupted by
Mr. Adolphus, who said with much emphasis—And
don't you think the poor gill standing now at the bar
feels her situation equally paiVul, if not more so
A number of persons here simultaneously cried,
" Bravo," and, by the clapping of hands and stamping
their feet on the floor, caused an interruption of some
moments to the proceedings.
The worthy Magistrate spoke with a proper degree
of warmth with respect to the highly improper and in-
decorous ebullition of feeling which had been evinced,
and stated, that in the event of a similar disgraceful
scene being enacted, the parties so offending would,
I if pointed out to him, be severely dealt with.
This virtuous indignation on the part of the
Magistrate seems to .us to be utterly uncalled-for

The province of Tlemecen was perfectly tran-
quil. In that of Constantina there had been
sonic fighting, in the direction of Setif and
Bugia. General SYLLEGTJ having left the for-
mer place to levy contributions among the neigh-
bouring tribes, came up with a large body of
Kabyles, whom he attacked and dispersed, with
the loss of 100 of their number killed, and many
wounded, having had himself 55 men put
hors de combat. At. Bugia, the Arabs made
a desperate attack upon the French advanced
posts, but after a fruitless attempt to carry some
of the blockhouses they retreated, leaving, '
stated, 100 men dead on the field. The division
which was to march to the East, under the com-
mand of the Governor-General, had been or-
dered to rendezvous in advance of the Maison
Carree on the 29th ult. It was to consist of
nine battalions of infantry, 400 cavalry, two sec-
tions of mountain artillery, and two of rampart
guns, and a detachment of engineers. The
column was to take provisions for twenty days,
and to bring with it 500 oxen.
This news produced a very unpleasant im-
pression on the public mind in Paris on Wed.
nesday.

The Commerce seems to anticipate another coup