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MAGAZINES.---(CONTINUED.)
BEN:ILEY'S !I[SCELLA
The opening chapters of Mr. Albert Smith's " New
Romance of the Marchioness of Brenvilliers," contain
nothing remarkable ; indeed, there was an air of
languor and indecision about them, as would lead the
reader to infer that the subject WM not one exactly to
the author's Late. But the present chanters are a
manifest improvement both in point of skill and
vigour. Tne languor induced by the necessity, or
the supposed necessity, of prelitninaiir explanations
has disappeared, and the story now moves rapidly for-
ward without pausing for an instant to indulge in
superfluous digressions. The subject is certainly not
one of the most attracti%e that could have been
selected by an English novelist ; still, we think, that
Mr. Smith's good and it ireruity will induce him
not to put too prominently for*: -el the more loath-
so ne peculiarities of this romance of the days of
Louis the Fourteenth, and if so, he may, by the exercise
of a little management, make it the most bustling
and animated tale that has yet proceeded from his
pen. Leech, the artist, has added not a little to the
comic attractions of the chapters before us, by his
whimsical illustration of " The Students enlightening
Maitre Picard," who cuts a most deplorable figure,
drawn up as he is to the t.-ip of the ceiling on a slight
wooden bench, which threatens momentarily to give
way, and add to the agreeabilities of those who sit be-
neath them. " Sapho and Priaon " is one of those
numerous rhymed legions with which the press has
lately teemed, in imitation of Tom Ingoldsby. It is
exceedingly long, and we should be aoing the author
no ordinary injustice if we were to say there was any-
thing brilliant in it. " The Postbag "is a series of
eccentric correspondence chie:ly relating to the
drama, which has brr 1 furnisTic I to the editor by Mr.
R. B. Peake. The perusal of this most unaccount-
able series of carp: nave letters, is another striking
illustration of the s undress of 31d GiTord's aphorism,
that "the 'e is no sounding the , cpths of human folly."
" Crockford and Crockford's" is seasoned with several
saucy personalities respecting this notorious gambler,
who, by means of his splendid establishment in St.
James's-street, and his luck at Tattersall's and New-
market, realised, it is supposed, an arrornt of capital
scarcely exceeded even by the late Duke of Cleve-
land. The article about " Crockford and Crockford's"
reads off lightly enough, but for much of it we arc
indebted to a little book which ran the rounds of tl
press some years ago, under the takir • title of "Inc
Clubs of London." Miss Lou;sa S e wart Costello, in
her present series of " Sketches of Legendary Cities,"
furnishes us with some curious particulars respecting
the city of Bath. Of course it is utterly impossible
that she can tell us anythirg new or original on so
hackneyed a theme, still she has a mode of refreshing
common-places, and throwing point and liveliness into
often-repeated local anecdotes that act as the salt of
the narrative, and enables the reader to enjoy it with
a relish. In casting about us for extract; we can find
none more interesting than the following account of
a stormy interview between St. Croix and the Mar-
chioness of Brenvilliers, the two celebrated Parisian
poisoners, and the hero and heroine of Mr. Smith's
romance :
The woman retired, and closed the window. Im-
mediately afterwards, he heard footsteps approaching;
the outer door opened, and Madame de Brinvilliers ap-
peared. _ _

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ler, a rustic labourer, earning three shillings a week
by breaking stones on the road, worth the serious at-
tention of all thinking men ?
" You said labour?—Yes—at three shillings a week ;
and you said, apply to the parish.' No, no; no unions
for me; break a window first, say I, and go to gaol.
Much mo-e respectable, end a good de..l better fecaiog.
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far more respectable when you comes out*"
" I canro- unthrstand that," said Biggerton.
" It s easy enough when you knows it," said Tom ;
" When one goes into the union, every body knows he's
become disreputable and got no friends. All his sticks
and duds is sold, and his wife and children goes in with
him. They're stripped and washed, and dressed in the
pauper's dress, and separated one from the other, and
if they should ever get out again, they've got to begin
the world anew without a mag to begin it with, and the
stamp of the union upon them ; whereas, if a man
poaches, and is cotched at it, he is fined, and of course
can't pay the fine, but takes it out of the county allow-
ance. He's shut up, it is true, but his wife and family is
not, and jogs along, by the help of their friends, until
his term's up, and he is let out with a few shillings in
his pocket for traveling expenses. When he gets
home he finds all his tables and chairs and beds just
where they were when he left them, and he goes to
work again as if nothing had happened; for rely oil it,
catching a hare or a partridge is no crime in the eyes of
the farmer that employs him, unless he farms his own
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paper, the second of a series, called " Tales of the
Trains," railroads having of course produced incidents
and a midents as well as the old coaches, and as
worthy of being worked up into fiction as " railroad
romance." How Baggs, a commercial gentleman,
met the Duke of Devonshire in a carriage on the
North Midland, and how the Duke condescended to
dine with him, and talked politics, and promised to
make his fortune, and how the said I3aggs found that
the Duke was not the Duke, but the Duke's " gentle-
man," is all very pleasantly told, and we refer the
reader to it for a passing laugh. " Mares' Nests" is
a well written paper on many curious matters of art
and literature. There was scarcely any occasion,
perhaps, to commence by demolishing the fallacy of
Cowper's line, " God made the country, and man
made the town." As an opinion, it was long ago de-
f anct ; to attack it now is like slaying the slain. Miss
Barrett's poems are reviewed with a hearty apprecia-
tion of their beauty of thought, and with no indul-
gence for the faults of diction and conceits of language
which so sadly disfigure many of them. Anster gives
us one of his excellent German translations, tha
" Song of Mahomet ;" but it is not so effective as
many from the same pen. Our language cannot well
dispense with melody and rhyme ; to attempt the
short unrhymed metres generally produces something
that is neither blank verse nor prose ; and we have
little hope of seeing that succeed in other hands which
was a failure with such masters of the English lan-
guage as Southey and Shelley. The other, "Leaflets
.fom the German Oak," are very good. There is a
quaint expressiveness, for instance, in the following
stanzas ffom the " Deserted Mill" of Schnezler
:
It stands in the lonely Winterthal,
At the base of lisberg Hill ;
It stands as though it fain would fall,
The dark Deserted Mill.
Its engines, coated with moss and mould,
Bide silent all the day ;
Its mildewed walls and wine ows old
Are crumbling into decay.
So through the Daylight's lingering hours
It mourns in weary rest ;
But soon as the sunset's gorgeous bowers
Begin to fade in the west,
The long-dead millers leave their lairs,
And open its creaking doors,
And their feet glide up and down its stairs,
And over its dusty floors.
And the miller's men, they too awake,
And the night's weird work begins :
The wheels turn round, the hoppers shake,
The flour falls into the binns.
The mill-bell tolls agen and agen,
And the cry is, Grist here, ho I"
And the dead old millers and their men
Move busily to and fro.
And ever as the night wears more and more
New groups throng into the Mill,
And the clangor, deafening enough before,
Grows louder and wilder still.
Huge sacks are barrowed from floor to floor ;
The wheels redouble their din ;
The hoppers clatter, the engines roar ;
And the flour o'erflows the binn.
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FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
One of the liveliest and most amusing stories that
has appeared for the entertainment of the public this
month, is called " A Game of Chess with Napoleon."
The characters are adm'rably pourtrayed, and the
little foibles of human nature are not represented in
that puritanical and severe spirit which raises slight
aberrations into serious misdemeanours. Our tale
opens with a dinner party assembled in Belgrave-
square ; it is given in honour of a German millionaire,
by a banker, with whom he was connected in some
huge money operations. There are ten guests ; a
short sketch of one or two we will lay before our
readers fur their entertainment. To begin with our
host, first let us draw a curtain over his genealogy,
wisely and benevolently considering it either an im-
pertinent or puzzling question ; suffice it to say, he
was a dried up, thin thing, very short and very smart,
but to make up for it his "heart's choice" was redo-
lent of fat, a subject fitting for experiments upon
obesity. By some strange intuition we never look
for intellectual vigour from these full-blown speci-
mens of " the human form divine." Nature is chary
of her gifts, so she prudently dealt out but a small
portion of that commodity called mind to our banker's
eara sposa. But let us pass on to her thin friend,
Clarissa Knagg,ett. According to her own account,
and we always take the word of a lady, she is " all
soul," except, indeed, when she metamorphoses herself
into " all nerve." This creature, self-called spiritual,
reminds us powerfully of Dickens's Mrs. Winterly,
and is one of the sketches truest to nature in our
story. The inamorato of Miss Knaggett is present.
Of course nothing short of a poet could satisfy the de-
sire of one " all soul," or, perhaps, by the bye, the
lady, as the most susceptible creature breathing, had
been, by the influence of the poet, withered into this
nondescript elemental substance. But for our poet,
Skinundgrieff. Of course, he had long hair, or how
else could he have aspired to that honoured name,
and possessed all that outward negligence of dress,
which proves a man a genius ? The rest of the ten
were composed, as usual, of a mixture of grave, fussy,
formal, fine, giggling, and grand. If there is such a
thing as love at first sight, there is certainly its oppo-
site, and accordingly, our Creesus and our poor poet
(for was there ever stronger presumptive evidence of
poverty than a man being a poet;?) were immediately
at daggers drawn. The conversation leads to a dis-
cussion upon chess; whereupon the millionaire, after
much pressing, relates to the company a long, but
entertaining, story of a game of chess he played with
Napoleon, which we regret to say our columns will
not allow us even to draw an outline of, but we make
the following short extract, to give our readers an
idea of the easy and engaging style of the tale before
us -

A stifled scream of fear and surprise, yet sufficiently
intense to show her emotion at the presence of Gaudin,
broLe from her lips as she recognised him. But, di-
rectly, she recovered her impassibility of features—that
wonderful calmness and innocent expression which
afterwards was so severely put to the proof without being
shaken, and asked, with apparent unconcern,
" Well, monsieur, what do you want with me?"
" Marie!" exclaimed Gaudin, " let me ask your busi-
ness here, at this hour, unattended, and in the apartment
of a scholar of the Hotel Dieu?"
" You are mad, Sainte-Croix," said the Marchioness ;
am Ito be accountable to you for all my actions? M.
Theria is not here, and I came to see his wife on my own
affairs."

UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.
The contents of this periodical are by no means of
interest only to the two services—the army end
na7y—the general reader may always derive in-
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of travel, records of adventure, seems of strange
countries, in strange times, all so d;fferent from
every-day experience, and the reality of almost all
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-ing that of imtginary fiction. The first paper of the
present Number is an important one, on the " Spirit
of Military Institutions," by Marshal Marmont ;
there are many suggestions in it well worth the
consideration of military authorities; the remarks on
weapons and clothing seem founded on good sense,
and to be practical also. The rest of the contents do
not require to be detailed.

" Liar!" cried Gaudin, as he quivered with jealous
rap, seizing the arm of the Marchioness with a clutch
of iron. Thuia is within, and you came: o meet him
only. You know that woman is not his wife: though
many there be less constant. Yea would wean his love
from her, and make him cast her upon the world, that
you might be installed as his paramour. You see, I
know all—in another rroment she also shall be ae-
acquainted with everything."
Sainte-Croix had spoken mach of this upon mere
chance, but it proved to be cr rrec.. In an instant the
accustomed fir.nress of the Marchioness dese2ted her,
and she fell upon her knees at his feet, on the cold
damp floor of the landing.
"In the name of mercy, leave this home Gaudin !"
she exclaim: I hurzially. "I have been very, very
wrong. I confc-s I o..ght to ha.e I en more candid.
But leave this house—on my beaded kr 2es I implore it.
I will explain everyth'7-;."
"I shell not stir, Marie," replied Sainte-Croix ; ani
through all his excitement a sarcastic smile played upon
his lip, as he saw the trembling woman at his feet.
" The tumult of this interview will reach your new
favourite's ears ; po-sib'v the police of to-morrow will
exhibit n....nge
In an ago.iy of ter. ) • Ce MaiChness clung to Sainte-
Croix, and besought him to Ceil 1.,. But Gaudin saw,
as she quailed before his determined aspect, that he had
gained a temporary triumph over her haughty dispo-
sition ; and he enjoyed her distress in proportion as it
increased.
" Gaudin !" she cried, "pray, pray quit this place. I
will do all that you may in future wish, so that you will
but go away. I will be ycur abject slave ; you shall
spurn me, trample ou me, crush me, if you choose ; only
leave the house."
" I am waiting for an interview with M. Theria,"
Sainte-Croix rep ied coldly.
" You will not depart !" exclaimed the Marchioness,
suddenly altering her tone, sod springing up from her
position of supplication. " Then but one resource is left."
" Where are you about to go ?" asked Sainte-Croix,
as she advanced towards the top of the flight of stairs."
" Hinder me not," returned Marie. "To the river !"
The Seine flowed but a few steps from the corner of
the Place Maubert, and Sainte-Croix doubted not but
that, in her desperation of fear and excitement, she
would not hesitate to precipitate herself into it from the
quay—at that time unglarded by wall or barrier 0... any
kind. He seized her wrist; as she was about to descend,
and exclaimed I arr;edly :--
" Wherever you go, Marie—l go too ; even to perdi-
They flew down the winding stairs, scarcely knowing
how they progressed, Sainte Croix still keeping hold of
his companion. In an instant they were at the bottom
of the flight, and Gaudin's hand was glowing like a live
coal from the rapid friction of the balusters, as. they de-
scended ; but, frenzied and insensible to the pain, he saw
or thought of nothing, except the pale and terrified ere!,
ture in his grasp. As they reached the end of their
bear headlongupagaanidnsitmtpheetuwouhsirclooufrsetu,
mMualtruieoucsoupladssnioons lon
thatter
agitated her. The struggle had been too intense ; her
nerves gave way, and she sank, apparently lifeless, on
the ground.
The interview between Sainte-Croix and Madame de
Brinvilliers, hurried as it had been, was too violent
for the sound of their altercation not to reach Theria's
chambers ; and the frenzied pair had scarcely reached
Vie bottom of the stairs, when the student was follow-
ing them, accompanied by the terrified grisette, who
was bearing a light. He found Gaudin attempting to
raise the fainting Marchioness. She had struck her
face, in falling, against a projecting portion of the
staircase, and was bleeding therefrom ; a circumstance
which, in the hurry of the instant, Theria, attributed
to Sainte-Croix. A few hot and hurried words passed
on either side, and the next instant their swords were
drawn and crossed.

BRITISH MAGAZINE.
This Number contains a spirited article on " Modern
Hagiology, or the Lives of the Saints," and exposes
the ambition of the extreme Oxford party in very just
terms. The followers of Mr. Newman, or, as our
friend Sidney Smith would call them, the New-
Maniacs, seem determined, by the publication of the
Lives of the Saints, such as St. Walstan, St. Ger-
man, and St. Hellier, to achieve their own destruc-
tion as a party—" Quod Deus vult perdere, priusquam
dementat." Take the following out of many instances,
equally ridiculous :—" St. Walstan was not above
confessing that a savoury roast goose, which was pre-
paring for his dinner, had once so taken up his
thoughts that he could not attend to the service he
was performing, and that he had punished himself for
it, and given up the use of meat in consequence."
We can scarcely recommend any one to incur the
trouble or expense of reading the original work,
though most enticingly got up as to its exterior; yet
if any one is anxious to know the error and follies
which naturally flow from the Newman system, the
able summary in the British Magazine will repay
perusal.

"Nobody but a chess-player can appreciate the strong
tie of brotherhocd which links its amateurs. When
men spend much time together, they become accustomed
to each other, like horses used to run in the same coach.
For a fellow chess-player, a man will do that which he
would refuse his father and mother. The habit of
breathing the same air and looking at the same chess-
board creates a friendship to which that of Damon and
Pythias was mere How d'ye do?' This it was upon
which I reckoned. Schmidt and I had played thousands
of chess games together, and barely exchanged three
words. He no more suspected me of being a banker's
clerk than of being the King of the Sandwich Islands.
We had mostly singled out each other as antagonists,
because pretty nearly matched; and Schmidt loved me
the more, as I knew, because it was not every man who
would play with him.
" Schmidt was the slowest chess-player I have ever
seen. He has been known to sit three-quarters of an
hour over a move, his head covered by his hands, and
then to be discovered fast asleep! In everything he was
the same. Correct as the sun; but a slow sort of person,
for all that. Schmidt was the kind of man ivho, meet-
ing you in a pouring rain, says, What a wet day this
is!: A wholesale dealer in prosy truisms, an 4 nothing
brighter; and yet covered all over with a portly assump-
tion of consequence, which famously dusted the eyes of
the vulgar. I had ever been a judge of physiognomy,
and knew my man. How many Schmidts there are in
the world! Excuse my thus moralising at the dinner-
table, if only for its novelty."
We have read the review of "Anti-Coningsby, or
the New Generation Grown Old," and fully agree
with the writer in reprobating the custom of making
personal attacks on living public characters. How-
ever clever these sallies may be, if the habit be en-
couraged, it may lead to a taste for scandal and per-
sonalties in fictitious writing highly to be deprecated.
It would have been better if the writer of this review
had confined himself strictly to his subject, instead of
wandering into other matters, and digressing upon
things not immediately connected with it. But upon
the whole it exhibits a careful consideration of the
matter in hand, and is written in a dispassionate and
careful manner. We subjoin the following extract,
rs expressing an opinion of the author of " Anti-
Coningsby," in which we heartily concur :
" The writer of ' Anti-Coningsby' has only had two
objects in view : first and foremost, to glorify herself
(we are satisfied the book is the production of a woman);
and, secondly, to heap abuse and ridicule upon every-
body against whom she has conceived a dislike. In
carrying out the latter object, she displays a boldness
and recklessness quite as great as that which prevails
throughout Coningsby.' She occasionally, too, shows
great cleverness and power in depicting the ludicrous.
But there is a superabundance of coarseness and vul-
garity ; an utter insensibility to all gentle and proper
feeling ; and a magnitude and intensity of spitefulness
that makes the book, upon the whole, loathsome. No
doubt, in compering Coningsby,' Mr. D'lsraeli was
actuated by some motive beyond the mere desire of
giving vent to his personal spleen ; but the author of
' Anti-Coningsby' wrote for no other motive except
this, combined, as we have observed, with the desire to
puff herself ; and this has been done in a very coarse
and clumsy marner, and is far more likely to produce
disgust than admiration in the mind of a stranger. A
clever shrew, a witty virago, is, in our opinion, the most
odious thing in nature. We heartily wish Sir Peter
Laurie would take these Furies under his care, and put
them clown,' together with suicide, Puseyism, and
againstwood-
the which nuisances all the powers of
~,
his vigorous mind are at present directed. As a nap-
propriate punishment for these viragos, wewould sug-
gest to the worthy Alderman that they should be put
paverner
under the same ban with the real, old, original Furies
whoran
:thttramendous burst after the slayer of Cly-
temnestra

THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE.
The paper, type, and embellishments of this Ma-
gazine are admirable, and place it in a prominent
rank among periodicals. Several stories advance a
stage in this Number; and if they do not in any in-
stance rise above a respectable mediocrity, it is fair to
say that they do not sink greatly below t.

FISHER'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE.
The sketches of Henry Clay, the unsuccessful can-
didate in the contest for the American Presidency, is
the most ger.erally interesting paper of the Number.
The article on the " Tariff of the United States" is
very solid reading indeed, but somewhat relieved by
that on " Trinidad in the Nineteenth Century."

ion !"

WADE'S LONDON REVIEW.
r) his Magazine is yet in its nonage, but at this,
its ,fifth Number, it promises well. We have been
most struck with the " Autobiography, of a Living
Writer."

THE BANKERS' AL4GAZINE.
From the paper entitled the " Claims of Bankers'
clerks" we give the following extract, thinking that
the particulars ought to be known in order that the
public may have a proper knowledge of what are the
serious responsibilities of a large and deserving class
of men. From the duties of a position ought to be
calculated the remuneration to which they entitle
the person holding it, and some recent events have
plainly proved that a liberal policy towards those who
have so much trust reposed in them, euld be the
best one that could be followed

" The duties and responsibility of a banker's clerk are
very imperfectly understood by the public ; and though
our readers generally will not require to have the parti-
culars of the occupation minutely specified, yet we may
usefully remind them of some of the peculiar burdens'
that are necessarily borne by bankers' clerks. Of these,
of course, the chief is their personal responiibility for
any loss that may be occasioned by their neglect or error,
or by the fraud of a forger or a swindler, who can impose
upon them. A person brinks a cheque to the teller in a
bank, and demands cash for it. The signature appears
to be that of a highly respectable customer ofthehouse,
and the teller accordingly. pays the ana.ount
in-
quiry it turns out that the signature is a forgery, Onand the
But
this is a mistake. The unfortunate clerk
public supposes that the Bank :mustbear
the
wbolohssa.s paid
doto
so, his securities will be called
the cheque must provide the amouont;
°ern f bee does
obligednot
suns is placed to the
credit of a party, and the bank sustains ultimatel
keeper or accountant, a wrong
pay it. In the same way, if,up through mistake of a book-
and h
this fails on the bookkeeper or accountant,e must
Y a loss
pay for big mistake. The position of a banker's clerk is,
h very different from that of a merchant's or a
terekesolicitor'sr, clerk ; and it places him in the condition of a
confidential assistant to his employer. In fact, he is called
upon to perform duties which, in other occupations, are
executed by principals alone.
" Such services being required from the officers in
a bank—and all are more or less exposed to loss from
negligence or error—the scale of remuneration ought to
be proportioned to the kind of services required. It is
obviously unfair to determine the salary of a man who
is every day exposed to the risk of heavy losses, by the
same standard which determines the salary of an artisan
or a mechanical workman in any department of trade.
Nor is it just that a person in the high situation of a
banker should refuse to give his clerk a salary propor-
tioned to his services, and the appearance in society he is
required to maintain, because, from the great number of
geekiri;.- employment, the same services can be ob-
tained at a reduced and improper scale of remuneration.
A banker %% ho acts on this principle does not act pru-
dently; for he should bear in mind that his clerk is A

Sainte-Croix, it need scarcely be observed, was a
practised swords man. But he nearly found his match
in Camille Theria. The students were, at that time,
most expert in fencing ; and Gaudin was somewhat
hardly driven by the assaults of his antagonist, who,
with more enthusiasm than science, pressed on him,
following thrust after thrust so rapidly, that Sainte.
Croix was compelled to act on the defensive alone for
some seconds. At length the cool calculation of the
soldier, unnerved as he had been by 6he events of the
last few minutes, prevailed over the impetuous assaults
of his adversary. He allowed Therm to spend his
energy in a series of heated attacks, which he put
. aside with practised skill ; watching his moment,
he made a lunge, and thrust his rapier completely
through the fleshy part of the sword-arm of the student,
whose weapon fell to the ground.

AMSWORTH'S PrAGAZINE,
The " Revelations of London," by the Editor,
which are continued in the present Number, increase
in interest as they proceed. .‘ The Doctor's Pee" is
a good story, well told. We cannot say as much for
the " Phantom Face." It is a dream of indigestion ;
the author should take an occasional seidlitz powder
and shower-bath, and, as Falstaff says, " lire cleanly."
Mr. Francis Ainsworth continues his narrative of the
Euphrates expedition, and Thomas Roscoe gives
an admirable article on the Danish drama. The il-
lustrations of Phiz are very good.

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confidential officer, that as tttetrffill have frequent op-
portunitie s of a L‘ting dishonestly, when it will be difficult
and very omen impossible, to detect and punish an of-
fence ; and that if be does not place his clerk above the
temptation to act in this manner, by giving him a
salary proportioned to his deserts, he is endangering his
own interest to a greater extent than he is benefiting it
by the saving of a few pounds per annum."
This argument is carried out much further in this
paper, which we hope may have some influence in
bringing about a better state of things. Mr. Samuel
Jones Lloyd is the third of the series of " Currency
Portraits." This gentleman's opinions on the currency,
question are well known, and they are here recapitu-
lated. The nature of the other papers may be
gathered from their titles. They are on " Bankers
advances on Railway Shares ;" on " Savings' Banks;"
and on " Banking and Commercial Law—the 14;..w
of Cheques," with a large addition of miscellaneous
matter.

THE RAILWAY _REGISTER.
This periodical is devoted entirely to railways and
railway questions. It contains an immense mass of
information which, at all times valuable, is doubly so
at the present moment, when the extensl_on of old
I'nes, or the formation of new ones, is occupying so
much attention both in Parliament and out of it.

POLYTECHNIC REVIEW.
The article on " Projectile Weapons of War and Ex-
plosive Compounds," nas now extended to some length,
but has lost none of its value ; it displays a knowledge
of the subject treated of, and extensive reading on it.
A large part of the present paper is given exclusively
to a description of those formidable missiles, Congreve
Rockets. The notice of Mr. Haydon's "Lectures on
Painting" is not particularly favourable to that artist ;
it scarcely does justice to him and his zeal for the
improvement of English art. We remember reading
his volume with much pleasure. The contents of
this periodical this month are varied, and seem well
selected, but are too numerous b go over in detail.

THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE.
This well-known monthly presents two well-
executed engravings of a Durham heifer, the pro-
perty of 11. Brown, Esq., of Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
which won the first prize at the last Smithfield Cattle
Show ; and of Foigh-a-Ballagh, the winner of the
last St. Leger. The letter-press is exclusively devoted
to what is useful and practical.

THE LATV REVIEW, c.
This is an excellent Number. The first article is
an elaborate review of Twiss's " Life of Lord Eldon,"
worthy of the Edinburgh in its best days. It is
almost impossible to mistake the authorship of this,
par excellence, the article of the month. It is evi-
dently from the pen of one whose contributions to
the early numbers of the Edinburgh produced
a revolution in periodical literature, and raised the
review to the height which it has ever since main-
tained. It is full of materials for history—not only
for the history of the times of Lord Eldon, but for
the history of the times which immediately followed.
In allusion to Lord Eldon's oft-repeated assertion
that he was the King's Chancellor, which he seems to
have considered as a sufficient apology for intriguing
against Mr. Addington, the Minister, under whom he
held office, we have the following interesting revelation
with regard to the somewhat different conduct held.
by Lord Grey's Chancellor when solicited by his Sove-
reign to form a Government to the exclusion of his
chief

" No doubt the royal words passed which he has re.
corded ; and no doubt the king calls him his Chan-
cellor,' especially when out of his mind. It is, however,
certain that kings are exceedingly apt to use this
phraseology. William IV., we happen to know, did use
it much more explicitly to one of his Chancellors than
his father is said to have done respecting Lord Eldon ;
and yet that Chancellor never considered himself as
otherwise than the colleague of Earl Grey ; like all his
other colleagues, proposed to the Crown for the high
office he held ; and like all his other colleagues, abso-
lutely prohibited by every tie of honour and even of
common honesty from making or favouring any attempt
against the Government, of which he was so important a
member. Little would it have availed him, if detected
in any intrigue with the common adversary, to plead that
he was the King's Chancellor ; that his Majesty had
distinctly told him he so regarded him ; that he had in
plain terms said, Other Chancellors came into office as
members of the Government, and as proposed by its
chief ; but you hold your office from me ; you are my
Chancellor.' As words of compliment such expressions
were received with the deference and gratitude such
gracious condescension called for ; as constituting any
substantial difference between himself and his colleagues,
they had no meaning at all : and accordingly, when in
1832 the Chancellor was, both in the closet and by letter,
asked to form a Government which should substantially
carry the Reform Bill with the help of Lord Ellenbo-
rough and others, the answer was, not that as the King's
' Chancellor he could take this course, but that as Lord
Grey's colleague it was utterly out of the question—an
answer which was not soon forgiven by the Monarch; nor
perhaps ever forgotten."
This article also gives an authentic and authorita-
tive account of the flight of Princess Charlotte from
Carlton House in 1815, and of the manner in which
her return to the protection (such as it was) of her
paternal roof was brought about by Mr. Brougham.
'e regret that want of space prevents us from
transferring this most interesting extract to our
columns. This Number likewise contains biographical
sketches of Mr. Baron Gal fow and of the late Sir
John Bayley, and articles on the law of conveyance,
on the judgment in the O'Connell case, and on the
criminal law, all of which are replete with legal lore.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE.
This is a fair average Number of this cheap religious
periodical. Many of the vignette wood-cut illustra-
tions are worthy of high praise ; among these we
think the Lanercost Priory and the Church of Bosham
are the best. Both are exceedingly beautiful.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The American Minister, and
Mrs. and Miss Everett, took their departure from the
Castle this morning. The Duke and Duchess of Buc-
clench, and the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, also left
for town.

At one o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert, accom•
panied by the Prince of Wales, and attended by the
Countess of Gainsborough, Hon. Amelia Murray, Hon.
Lucy Kerr, Marquis of Ormonde, Sir Frederick Stovin.
Captain Meynell, Color el Buckley, and Colonel Wylde,
left the Castle in three carriages and four, escorted by a
party of the Royal Horse Guards, for the Slough station
of the Great Western Railway, to leave for town by a
special train.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, and attended by the Countess of Gains-
borough, arrived at Buckingham Palace in a carriage
and four, escorted by a party of Lancers from the Pad-
dingtoa terminus of the Great Western Railway, at two
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The Hon. Misses Murray
and Kerr, Marquis of Ormonde, Sir Frederick Stovin,
Captain Meynell, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Wylde,
followed in two carriages and four.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at the
Palace by the Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Cham-
berlain.

The Queen held a Privy Council shortly before three
o'clock. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Privy Seal, the Commander-in-Chief, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the
Home and Foreigi Departments, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the President of the Board of Control, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chief Com-
missioner of the Woods and Forests, the Lord Steward,
Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.
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the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in
cohsequence of illness in his family.
bier M • ajesty gave audience to Sir Robert Peel
and
Lord Wharnelitfe. Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster had an audience of the
Queen.

- The Court was attended by the Vice-Chamberlain ;
the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick in Waiting ;
the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Waiting ; and Sir
Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting.
After.the Council, the Queen, attended by the Coun-
tess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting, and Colonel
Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, went to Cambridge HQUSO
to visit their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz. Her Majesty remained near an
hour with the Royal Duchesses, and afterwards returned
to Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has re-
turned to town from honouring the Duke of Beaufort
with a visit at Badminton, Gloucestershire.
The French Ambassador and the Russian Minister
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-ofc_eo.
A deputation on the subject of the. duty on foreign
copper
3er rec,
rfoearllnti:
a3cpoly.s;l,Bilrsrt.ionviltcaolfkl,egi:r.xj-Aor-ri:nins:itrionentegt:a,, Mr. Charles
Dlhiraeu:cteess;

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF
ENGLAND. Part IL Vol. V.
This is a publication of a goodly bulk, and that
bulk is well filled; this part contains no less than
thirty-three articles, twenty-two miscellaneous com-
munications, and an appendix. They have all one
object in view—the improvement of the practice of
agricultv-e; and many are the suggestions offered for
the purpose of making land fertile, or keeping it so.
'We wish Mr. Pusey and the Society suosess in all
they undertake by their own energy, skill, end
capital. We tiast that the agriculturists are begin-
ning to see how little Acts of Parliament and sliding
rerles can do for them, and how much they may do
for themselves.