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The new proprietors of this valuable work are
doing good service to the public, by placing it more
within the reach of every clergyman and minister
whose means are unfortunately not ample. It will
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day, that the selling price has been reduced from
six guineas to three guineas per copy. The edition,
consisting of six handsome quarto volumes, con-
taining 5000 pages, with maps and illustrations, is
printed in a good bold type, on good paper, and is
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by a large subscription issue; and we would strongly
advise all whom we can influence, immediately to
enter their names as subscribers to this best edition
of Scott's Commentary, as such an opportunity
may possibly never again occur.

Blackwood's Edinburgh

3lagazine.

The number of Blackwood for the, present month
is one of sterling value ; and the political articles
especially, of which there are three, are addressed
most happily to the circumstances of the present
crisis in the nation's affairs. The opening article--
"The Earl of Derby,"—is an eloquently written por-
traiture of that nobleman, as he presented himself
before his fellow peers and his country on assuming
the conduct of the nation's affairs in February last ;
ncontains in addition some references to the
period last year when he occupied a similarly pro-
minent though less favoured position. Another
article, on "Th C'7-trati-cia !Disasters of 1851," is
worthy of attest, i,erusal, and disposes completely
of the prosperity flippantly alleged to have been
enjoyed during the past twelve months by the mer-
cantile and trading classes. The views of the writer,
it will be seen, were fully confirmed by the declara-
tion made on Thursday last, at the Amphitheatre
meeting, by Mr. Chas. Turner, the Conservative
candidate for Lirerpool, when he said, " I believe in
no period has Liverpool ever lost so much as in the
last fifteen months. I believe more money has gone
out of Liverpool during these fifteen months than
has ever been known since Liverpool was a port."
Another excellent article, from which we give the
following extract, is entitled

THE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY.
We would entreat every man in the country who is
opposed to democratic innovation, and who values the
blessings of that constitution which we now enjoy, to
reflect that, unless due support be given now to Lord
Derby's Ministry, there may be no possibility of erecting
another bulwark against the tide of organic change—in
other words, of revolution. Men lived as calmly as we
do, during the earlier days of the French commotions.
They saw the waters rising gradually at their feet; but
they would not believe that they could he overwhelmed,
until the current became too strong for resistance. So is
it always. We do not profit by the lessons of history,
because we do not realise our own situation. We make
light of things trivial in themselves, but which are, never-
theless, the necessary harbingers of greater things to
come. No event which has occurred for the last twenty
years is so significant as the movement of Lord John
Russell towards Mr. Cobden. It shows us what
we must expect if the constituencies do not give their
hearty support to Lord Derby and his Administration.
We are not ashamed to confess that we greatly dread
organic changes ; but we dread them upon no narrow
grounds. We do not advocate, and never have advo-
cated, any class interests. What we wish to see is, a
happy and contented people, united by that harmony of
interest which cannot be attained if one class is to be
unduly favoured at the expense of another, or if jealousies
are to be sedulously promoted between natives of the
same island, brothers in blood, subjects of the same sove-
reign, professing the same religion, and distinguishable
only by a difference of craft and livelihood. What is
there wanting but an equitable adjustment of interests, to
restore peace and concord throughout the whole nation ?
Who stand in the way of that adjustment but the agita-
tors who derive their fortune from their trade, and the
trading politicians who, incapable of holding office them-
selves, will not allow others, with better and purer mo-
tives, to occupy it unmolested ? lf, as all concerned with
trade and manufactures allow, the history of the last three
years has been one of almost unmitigated disaster, why
not allow some remedy to be tried ? We do not fear the
people—if by that word is meant the bulk o lthe opera-
tive masses—at all. Why should we . For their cause
we have ever strenuously contended. We wish to see the
rights of British labour most thoroughly recognised and
defended. If, in bygone years, our treasure was spent,
and the labour of unborn generations mortgaged, most
thanklessly, for the subsidy of continental nations, who
even failed to fulfil their part of the contract, it is the
more reason that we should take care that no undue
advantage is given to those nations over the people of our
own soil ; and that Englishmen should not be forced to
emigrate, for the sake of carrying out a vain and imprac-
ticable theory.

The approaching political struggle—however it may be
disguised by local influences, whatever complexion it may
assume in districts more or less interested in the solution
of particular questions—is a national one, and upon its
issue the destinies of the country must depend. If there
are any who look with complacency on the expatriAtion of
the British labourer, on the decline of the colonial empire,
on the depression of once thriving branches of industry at
home, and an unsettled trade abroad—if there are any
who think that a democratic form of government is the
safest and the best which can be devised by the wit of
man; who agree with Mr. Cobden, " that the instinct of
the million is wiser than the wisdom of the wisest"—let
them by all means cast the weight of their influence into
the opposite scale. But let those who wish to see the
harmony of interests restored, and the conflict of classes
ended ; who desire that labour should be justly dealt with,
and native industry encouraged; who deprecate all rash
innovations on the constitution; who uphold the cause of
Protestantism, and appreciate the value of sound govern-
ment—let them rally around Lord Derby in answer to
his noble appeal; and the triumph of the cause of truth,
justice. humanity, and religion is secure.

Complete Worlit of Kin; Alfred the Great. Jubilee

Edition. Parts 1. and IL Oxford : J. &F. Smith

Many of our readers will remember the Alfred Jubilee
of 1849, when the birth of an illustrious King was cele-
brated 1000 years after the event. It was on this occa-
sion that it was resolved to publish the works of King
Alfred, accompanied by such illustrations as might be
necessary ; and the present is the first volume of the
series. It consists of two parts, the first of which is a
Harmony of no fewer than six Chronicles. The Saxon
Chronicle takes the lead, then the life of Alfred by Asser,
Ethelwerd, Florence, Henry of Huntingdon, and Simeon
of Durham. The second part consists of a treatise on
the Coins illustrative of the reign of Alfred; but, strange
to say, they are alluded to by a system of continuous
numbers in the letterpress, while each of the plates is
numbered separately and independently. The series pro-
mises to be an interesting and valuable one.

from India. By William Byrom. London

Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co

s one of our own townsmen, engaged in
the walks of commerce ; yet he has given to the public a
very interesting little volume, which we take to be a
combination of fiction and fact. It consists of two sto-
ries, " Alice Jevons," and " The Heiress of Halls
in both of which the incidents are of a local character.
and brought under the writer's attention in a natural

Mr. Byrom

ead" ;

easy manner. The curious coincidences are perhaps
'onerous ; for though all within the limits of possi-
-re far out of the range of ordinary probabi-
econd tale is a very interesting one, and the
well sustained. In a simple narrative
and places would not have been given
there is a vrairemblance about both

parts ari
flip name

tomer, which convinces us that

By D, R,

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