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But thou, like one

of distress more memorable to himself and his parishioners
than any " quale-quare-quiditive" case that had probably
ever perplexed his learning.
The latter portion of this volume abounds in
anecdotes and sweet descriptive sketches to such
an extent as makes us grumble sadly at the loss
of space devoted to the opening scenes.

Remarks on Malignant Cancer, and a Remedy
for the Disease. By. J. Pattison, M.D.
London : J. J. Guillaume.

The small pamphlet, of which the above is the
title, is one devoted, in some degree, to a con-
sideration of the means of curing cancer, and a
host of other diseases usually classed under the
name of cancerours and scrofulous maladies,
without the use of the knife or of caustic applica-
tions. His treatment consists in the use of a
vegetable remedy, the precise nature of which he
does not indicate. He complains, however, appar-
ently not without cause, that the medical profession
look coldly, or even adversely, upon his mode of
practice, and throw obstacles in the way of his
being allowed to introduce his remedy. In con-
solation for this unfriendliness, he has the reflection
that the established practitionprs of the respective
dates obstinately opposed Harvey, in his theory of
sanguineous circulation—Jenner, in his discovery
of the value of vaccination—Hunter's views on in-
flammatory action—and a host of other well known
instances. He backs the efficacy of his remedy
by a numerous list of cases in which its success
has been complete ; and, on the strength of these,
maintains his claim to a fair trial. The observa-
tions put forth by him are temperately written, and,
from all we can see, little ground can exist for
not granting him that trial which he so earnestly
desires.

Chambers' journal. London : Chambers.

Placed on the watch by him he must obey,
Dost never, till the appointed time is done,
Refuie to watch and stay.

After an unexampled success of more than
twenty years, a career which has never been at-
tained by any periodical professing to be cheap,
the long-known and well-appreciated Chambers'
Edinburgh Journal has changed its title, by
dropping the name of the city where it was ori-
ginally published, and, in some respects, changed
its features. Retaining. those which were the most
valued, it has the addition of a story, continued
in successive numbers, the first being entitled
" Weary-foot Common," by Leitch Ritchie, an
author who, some years since, was far more before
the public eye than he has been of late ; another
new feature is a monthly article on science and the
arts, and another on the library and studio. Some
difference of opinion may exist as to whether the
changes are improvements, but we should think
the majority of readers would give their verdict in
their favour. The part just published contains
some interesting articles, of which we may men-
tion, "Music in Large Buildings," "There is Gold
in England," " The Little People of our Great
Towns," and " Relations not Acquaintances."

Thou watchful star,

For ever gazing from thy station high,

While, Mounted each upon his silver car,
The planets roam the sky;

Thy changeless light
Revives, directs, and blesses every soul
That looks for guidance to thy radiance bright,
When night surrounds the pole.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

Autobiographic Sketches. By Thomas de Quincey.
Edinburgh: James Hogg.
Few men of the present day, whose profession
has been merely literary, have occupied so large a
portion of the world's concern as Thomas de
Quincey. ' It is many long years since the. " Con-
fessions of an English Opium Eater" gained for
their author a notoriety almost equivalent to fame ;
and more than a quarter of a century has elapsed
since an alleged " puppyism" in his name provoked
the excitable wrath of Dr. Macginn to such an
extent as to make De Quincey.the subject of a
bitter invective. During all that period the author
of these sketches 'has been plying his laborious
vocation 'of penning essays for the ilurpose of
making men wiser and better than they were
before he took to teaching them. The success of
these toilsome efforts has been variously estimated;
some affirming that he has been eminently useful,
others maintaining that his labours have been
misdirected, and their results negative. Such is
inevitably the fate of men who, departing from the
common route, lay down a path for their own
progress, and ask others to follow them in it. If,
however, this be a portion of the penalty attached
to noveAeaching, it has advantages of no ordinary
order to counterpoise such drawbacks. Members
of the intellectual aristocracy, by its means, become
familiarised with a name which otherwise might
never have reached their knowledge : such fami-
liarity becomes a passport in their realm, and thus
the lucky Wight has secured for himself the chance
of a reflected immortality at least. Far be it from
ns to hint even that De Quincey owes any of his
popularity to such an adventitious source as this.
The opening pages of his autobiography are care-
fully arranged, to show that from early youth he 11
was habituated to what is called " good society,"
and through a large quantity of very dull reading
we are instructed in what our author shows to be
the usages of parties occupying an exalted station.
It may indeed be true, that every one who has
spoken with a lord has not been domiciled with a
Lord and Lady Massey ; and every youth of sixteen
has not had the inestimable luck to be a sort of
hobble-de-hoy tutor to a lady of rank and title ;
still, we confess our inability to see the real use of
wasting sixty or seventy pages of well-printed
paper, with an elaborate narrative of the absolute
nothingnesses which passed current in that intel-
lectual (P) circle within whose charmed span our
author found such inappreciable joy. Men who
have occupied any apace in the literary sphere,
must at some time have lived beyond the range of
" Laxton 1-Tall," attractive though that residence
may have been, and so has Mr. De Quincey. With '
feeling of no ordinary pleasure we bound over that
park-wall, and find ourselves in company with
Coleridge and Southey, with Wordsworth and with
Wilson, albeit Thomas De Quincey is of the party.
Where such intellectual giants are, babyism for the
time being goes to sleep. Even twaddle about
such men is very different twaddle from that which
suffices to describe the trim and orderly array of
Lord Carberry's stables, or the odd vagaries of
an erratic Irish lord. Accordingly the latter por-
tion of Mr. De Quincey's book is infinitely superior
to its opening. The author feels that he has
something to do, and ex necessitate does it. Brief
and disjointed memoranda of the great " Lake
Poets" 'form the staple of the volume, apart from
the introductory rubbish which has nearly choked
it, and: these notanda are interesting in a high
degree ; and although the narration is, indeed, a
very tangled maze, beset with disquisition and
digression, there are numerous passages of golden
worth inwoven in its tissue. He dwells at consi-
derable length upon the fatal weakness which, in
an evil hour, led Coleridge to the use of opium,
and adduces numerous instances of its baneful
operation in shattering the majestic mind of that
great son of song. Only one illustration of this
can we. find room for ; it is in reference to a series
of lectures on Poetry and the Fine Arts, delivered
by Coleridge at the Royal Institution, at which
time, says De Quincey, his intellect was entirely
prostrated by the use of the pernicious drug.
COLERIDGE BOWED BUT NOT BROKEN.
Generally speaking, the selections were as injudicious
and as inappropriate as they were ill delivered ; for
amongst Coleridge's accomplishments, good reading was
not one; he had neither voice nor management of voice.
However, this defect chiefly concerned immediate impres-
sion ; the most afflicting to a friend of Coleridge's was the
entire absence of his own peculiar and majestic intellect ;
no heart, no soul, was in anything he said ; no strength
of feeling in recalling universal truths ; no power of
originality or compass of moral relations in his novelties—
all was a poor faint _reflection from jewels once scattered in
the highway by himself, in the prodigality of his early
opulence—a mendicant dependance on the alms dropped
from his own overflowing treasury of happier times.
Of Coleridge's father we have a picture of gro-
tesque fidelity. He is represented as a man of
profound learning, great simplicity of character,
and no small amount of oddity. Among other
whims to which his good nature prompted him was
an endeavour to simplify - the Latin Gramnnar,—a
leading featureln which simplification was to do
away with the unmeaning name of the accusative
case,and substitute it by the more significant one of
quale-quare-quiditive, an imjgrovement in the
matter he was unable to effect, circumstance for
which the first-form boys at our academies must
be duly thankful. An illustration of the learned
and rev. gentleman's simplicity (he was a clergy-
man) will be found in the following
DINNER-TABLE INCIDENT.
Dining in a large party, one day, the modest divine was
suddenly shocked by perceiving some part, as he con-
ceived, of his own snowy shirt emerging from a part of his
habiliments, which we will suppose to have been his waist-
coat. It was not that; but for decorum we will so call it.
The stray portion of his own supposed tunic was admo-
nished of its errors by a forcible thrust back into its
proper home; but still another limbus persisted to emerge,
or Seemedito persist, and still another, until the learned
gentleman absolutely perspired with the labour of re-
establishing order. And, after all, he saw with anguish
that arrears of the snowy indecorum still remained to
reduce into obedience. To this remnant of rebellion he
was proceeding to apply himself—strangely confounded,
however, at the obstinacY of the insurrection—when the
mistress of the house,
rising to lead away the ladies from
the table, and all parties naturally rising with her, it be-
came suddenly apparent to every eye that the worthy
Orientalist had been most laboriously stowing away, into
the capacious receptacles of his own habiliments—under
the delusion that it was his own shirt—the snowy folds of
a lady's gown belonging to his next neighbour; and so
voluminously, that a very small portion of it, indeed, re-
mainedfor the lady's own .use; the natural consequence
o which was, of course, that the lady appeared inextrica-
bly yoked to the learned theologian, and could not in any
way effect her release, until after certain operations upon
the vicar's dress
out of snowy
inazes
, and a continued refunding and rolling
upon snowy mazes, in quantities
which at length proved too much for the gravity of the
company. Inextinguishable laughter arose from all
parties, except the erring and unhappy doctor, who, in
dire PerplexitY, continued still
ukht—Perspiring and refunding--until begh:Arith.dall
up the
last arrears of his long debt, and thus put an end toacxse

The Ulster Journal of .Archceology. Belfast :

Archer-and Sons.

This, which is the fifth number of the journal,
includes a series of papers, creditable alike to the
erudition and the industry of the contributors. It
opens by lithographed fac-similies of the signa-
tures of- seventeen of the most remarkable Irish
chieftains and English commanders who flourished
in Ulster in and about the time of Elizabeth. The
lithographed sheets containing their names are
accompanied by interesting notes, descriptive of
the lives, habits, and achievements of the men.
This is followed by a text, copiously annotated, of
two ballads on the battle of the Boyne. The bal-
lads, together with an introductory essay and
critical remarks on their style and interest, have
been contributed by our townsman, the Rev. Dr.
Hume, and bear evidence of his philological acu-
men. Besides those named, there are other papers
of great merit in the numbers, which, taken as a
whole, is a highly creditable collection.

Novels and Tales. by GOethe. Translated chiefly
by R. D. Boylan. London : Henry G. Bohn.
The present, which forms a volume of Bohn's
Standard Library, consists of the minor works of
the great German novelist and philosopher. Its
contents are " Elective Affinities ;" " The Sorrows
of Young Werther ;" " The Recreations of the
German Emigrants ;" " A Fairy Tale ;" " The
Good Women ;" and another tale. Among these
the " Sorrows of Werther" is unquestionably the
work best known in England, that mawkish and
unwholesome romance having at one time attained
an extensive popularity. The present is a new
volume direct from the German, the one previously
circulated in this country being only the transla-
tion of a French translation, and is superior, in
being a more direct transcript of the original. The
other tales possess much interest, and are finely
illustrative of Goethe's peculiar metaphysics. The
translations are well and vigorously executed ; and
the volume forms a valuable addition to the excel-
lent collection published under the name of the
Standard Library, a series at once combining
sterling worth, copiousness, and cheapness.

The Universal Library. Part 28. London
Nathaniel Cooke.

The twenty-eighth part of this handsome and
comprehensive series is devoted to the poems and
plays of Oliver Goldsmith, and beautifully got up
it is. Notwithstanding its extreme cheapness, it
is embellished with two highly-finished engravings,
and is enriched by a condensed biographical me-
moir of Goldsmith. The Universal Library stands
pre-eminent in even these days of cheap and ele-
gant reprints, for its general beauty and the low-
ness of its price.
Orr's Circle of the Sciences. Part I. London
and Liverpool : W. S. Orr.

The first part of this really simple and instruc-
tive series of treatises is such as to convey an idea
of the sterling excellence of the work. Commenc-
ing with a treatise introductory to natural science,
it passes quickly to the subject of physiology,
animal and vegetable, the leading facts and prin-
ciples of which are elucidated with judgment and
perspicuity. The mathematical and chemical sci-
ences are also popularised to such an extent as we
had scarcely deemed possible ; and all the subjects
treated of are illustrated by well adapted and beau-
tifully executed diagrams. As a source of never-
failing interest to youthful readers, we have not
met with its superior, and have seldom seen its
equal.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERALCOMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

TELLING SPEECHES.—" That was a very good speech,"
said a friend to Charles James Fox, " but it won't read
well " The best speeches seldom do," was the states-

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

man's reply. " People see their shallOwness when the
veil of oratory is withdrawn."

THE PROSPECTS OP THE BAB.—A briefless barrister
is by no means uncommon ; an entire bar without a brief
is not so often to be found. Such a circumstance, how-
ever, occurred at the recent Bath sessions, at which not a
single prosecutor or prisoner engaged counsel! Thirteen
gentlemen, in wig and gown arrayed, accordingly had
nothing to do but to lament their uncheering prospects, or
tie up calendars with pink tape to look like briefs.—Bath
Journal.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

TIM following appeared as an advertisement in the
Staffordshire Advertiser :—"MATRIMONY.—To a Lady's
to a young Lady of a respectability wishes to change a
single Life to a Married Life, young Lady age not over 35
and be welthea of about 500 or from that to 600 hundred
pounds and a bout half ove it at the time of the young
Lady she is Married, the advertiser is a respectability
young Man aged 26 of a Light complexion with Genteel
appearance amiable and agreeable disposition, wishes to
unite himself to a Lady and he feels confident that he
would not be an unacceptionable partner to a Lady
desirous of entering upon a Married Life address with full
particulars, to the post office Leek till called for, the
strictest secrecy may be depended on."
MILITARY REVOLITTIONS.—MiIitary treason, Praetorian
revolt, even when supported at the time by the voice of a
vast majority of the people, can never in the end termi-
nate in anything but destruction to the cause for which it
is undertaken ; and for this plain reason, that being
carried into effect by the strongest, it leaves society with-
out any safeguard against its excesses. This, accordingly,
was what took place In Spain; it was the triumph of the
revolutionists which, by destroying liberty, rendered in-
evitable their fall. The Royalist reaction, and desolating
civil war to which it gave rise, preceded, not followed, the
invasion of the French. It arose from the oppressive
measures of the government appointed by the military
chiefs who had been the leaders of the revolt. It was
Riego, not the Duke d'Angordeme, who was the real
murderer of liberty in Spain. It was the same in Eng-
land. No one supposes that either the Long Parliament
or Cromwell were the founders of British Liberty ; what
they induced was, the military tyranny which made all
sigh for the Restoration. No cause was ever yet advanced
by treachery and treason, least of all in the armed de-
fenders of law and order.—Alisorei History of Europe.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN F OZEIGN AND BRITISII REVO-
LVTIONISTS.—AIthough these revolutionary movements
(the Hunt and Thistlewood movements) were obviously
made in pursuance of a common design, and for a common
purpose; the agents in them and the parties in each state
to which their execution was intrested, were widely dif-
ferent- In Great Britain they were conducted by
the very lowest classes of society ; and although they met
with apologists and defenders more frequently than might
have been expected in the House of 043111101 W, and from a
portion of the press, yet no person of respectability or
good education was actually implicate(' in' the' treasonable
proceedings: The-whole respectable and influential clan es
were ranged' on the other side. But the case-was widely
different on the continent. The French revolutionists
embraced a Inge portion of the talent, and. by far' the
greater part of the- education of the country ;: and it was
their concurrence; as the event afterwards proved, which.
rendered any insurrectionary movement in that' country
as extremely Birmillable. In Spain and Portugal the-
principal merchants in the seaport towns, the- most re,
nowned generaki;. and almost the whole officers- my the'
army, were engaged on the revolutionary side, and. their
adhesion to its enemies-in the last struggle left thethrone
without a defence: In Italy the ardent and generous.,
youth, and nearly the-whole educated classes, were-deeply,
imbued with liberal': ideas, and willing to run any hazard:
to secure their establishment ; and nearly the whole-youth
at the German Universities had embraced the same sentil
ments, and longed for the period when the Fatherinnd
was to take its place air. the first and greatest of represen-
tative governments. Such is the difference between the
action of the revolutionary principle upon a constitutional.
and a despotic monarchyrand such the security which the-
long enjoyment of freed4m, affords for the continuance-oft
that blessing to future- times. —Alison's History of
Europe.
gIR WALTER SCOTT.—Siott had, like Moore, a frank;,-
ness, and a freedom in his,. conversation which soared far
above• the small jealousies;.-snarling criticisms, and faint
praise; which are but too-often exhibited among authors;
when speaking of each other. Scott, with a good, soundl
understanding, had an open, hearty manner, and, where.
his, politics did not interfere; a cordial warmth towards-.
his fellbw-men. His chief merits in society were a cheer-
fur tone, an inexhaustible- memory, and a fund of anec-
dotes and stories, which he told with strong Scottish
humour,.aided by a strong Scottish accent. But, in order-
to see. Walter Scott at his ease, it was necessary to see
him at the head of his own.table, or, at least, in his own
country-. When he came VI London, he was stiff and
constrained, and seemed alimys apprehensive of remarks
which. he should feel bound to-resent. The consequence
was, that his London acquaintance were equally con-
strained with him. But puthim in his own house, sur-
round him with friends,.and there could not be a more
jovial, a more agreeable, or a more unaffected member of
society. Like Samuel Johnsen, he pretended to no fine
sentiment,. or divine inspiration, which made him an
author. Redid his work as,aiworkman, knew the merits
and: defeats= of his writings,. and was contented to reap
the reward of a, very popular-talent without overrating
the intrinsic. value of the article he produced. This
wholesome; genial, kind, and. manly disposition is as
visible in it, letters as it wasin his intercourse with his
neighbours,--Moore's Mentaira, by Lord john Russell.

SCOTTI4II: LITERATURE.—At a public dinner, recently
given to Sir. E. Bulwer Lyttoaiin Edinburgh, in reference]
to the literature of Seotlankiaid :—lf I desired to convey
to you some idea of its value. to the society it adorns, I
would ask you to compare it for one moment with the
contemporaneous literaturecf France. When in the last'
century theehilling and comfortless influence of material
philosophy'spread from the-French Encyclopedists to disc.
organise one world and to get rid altogether of the other,
shelteringitself under the, high authority of Locke, then
arose that great school of Scotch metaphysicians which,
whatever may be its faults and shortcomings, at least
restored to. matter the. necessity of soul, and proved that
ideas were-not merely flitting impressions upon perishable
brains. When in France, poetry consisted only of frigid
bombast er-of insipidimitation, then suddenly was heard
" the bold. free" song of Burns calling poetry back to
nature, and; later, the viscid romances of Sir Walter Scott
restored to this great nineteenth century the generous
sentiments and healthy vigour of chivalric youth. When,
in France; history decked herself out in all the gewgaws
of rhetorical artifice; in. Scotland she observed that exacti-_

tude without which she had better renounce the name of
history, and call herself fiction at once ; so that, a.French-
man—as Frenchmen have owned to me—can hatter learn
the later history of his country in the pages of Alison than
in tlioseof Tillers. If you will look to that popular litera-
ture which, for the time being, most affects. the moral
character of the people, and only compare the-healthy and
manly interest of tho Waverley Novels with that glittering
but corrupt series of fictions which Francehas produced,
you: will not fail to see the immense supericcity of the
former over the /utter, which only serve to:.show to what
base uses genius can stoop. Ido not deny the extraordi-
nary brilliancy and fancy of French imaguiative literature
at this period, but I do deny that it has, been attended by
any salutary effect, and assert that it has.been attended by
, deleterious effects to the happiness, to. the political free-
dom:, and, to the national virtues of tits French people ;
while, on the other hand, this praise ailleast must be given
to the literature of Scotland, that it- is cot more valuable
on account of the delight which it administers than be-
cause of the lessons which it inculcates.
Sr.Axisn LADIES.—I shall be accused of insensibility
and want of taste, when I confess,that my first disappoint-
ment on landing in Spain was the ahnost total absence of

beauty amongst the Spanish women.. Poets have sung of ,
Spain's " dark-glancing daughters," and travellers have.
wandered through the country, with minds so deeply im-
pressed with the preconceived idea of the beauty of the
women, that they have found them all their imaginations
so fondly pictured, and their, works have fostered what I ,
cannot help maintaining is a mere delusion ; one of the
many in which people stilt indulge when they think and
dream of Spain. The women of Spain have magnificent
eyes, beautiful hair, and generally fine teeth ; but more
than that cannot be said by those who are content to, give
an honest and candid opinion. I have rarely seen one
whose features could b called strictly beautiful ; and that
bewitching grace and fasination about their figures and
their walk which they formerly possessed have disappeared
with the high comb which supported the mantilla,. and the
narrow basquina, which give a peculiar character• to, their
walk. With the change in their costume those distinctive
charms have vanished. The gaudy colours which now
prevail have Cztroyed the elegance that always accom-
panies black, in which alone, some years since, a lady
could appear in public. No further proof oftbis is required
than to see the same people at church, where black is still
considered indispensable, and on the Alameda, with red
dresses and yellow shawls, or some colours equally gaudy,
and combined with as little regard to taste. The men
have also abandoned the cloak, and now appear in paletots
and every variety of foreign invention; nor have they
either gained by their sacrifices at the altar of French
fashion. By no means distinguished in figure, none needed
more the rich folds of the caps to lend them that air of
grace and dignity which it peculiarly possesses.—Castile
and Andalusia, by .Lady Lomisa Tenison.
INDOLENCE OF THE LOWER ORDERS IN SYRIA.—In
a country like Syria, where every creature-comfort or ne-
cessary is extremely cheap, the lower orders, who are
generally of an indolent disposition, would much prefer
remaining idle for one-half of the year to engaging in any
occupation which might make it incumbent on them to
go through a certain portion of daily labour ; and this
they can afford to do, as their habits are frugal, and the
amount gained in one day by a labourer will suffice to
support himself and family for three days. This applies
equally to the fellah or peasant employed in cultivation.
His portion of the silk harvest is sufficient to maintain
him till the wheat crop is gathered in, when he earns with
his scythe a sufficiency to maintain him in idleness till the
olive and grape harvests arrive, and then he is either paid
in cash or allowed a certain quantity of wheat, oil, wine,
aqua vita, dibs, raisins, &c., as recompense for his labour.
Of this store he lays by a sufficiency for the winter; the
silk and the surplus of the wheat, &c., he either sells or
barters for other household requisites, such as clothing,
butter, and charcoal. He brings his own fuel from the
mountains, and, if he be at all a careful manager, can
keep a mule of his own to carry goods and passengers to
and from the nearest towns and villages. Thus, with a
very small amount of labour, the peasant of Syria can
afford to have an idle time of it, were he not in terror of
Government taxes; for, although the system of taxation
is fairly and justly arranged, and in reality the sums
levied are small in proportion to the income, still there
are understrappers, insides their own Christian Nazir and
Sheikhs, who peculate to a large extent under the plea of
moneys required for Government levies. This induces
the peasant gladly to embrace any opportunity that may
offer of entering into the service of a Frank ; for, from
the hour Aims employment, he is the subject of another
power. Fre is exempt from taxation, and the Nazirs and
Sheikhs durst not intrude themselves upon the privacy of
his household, under penalty of boing at loggerheads with
the consuls and pashas, and possibly of being exposed to
the ignominy of the biustiml9.—The Thistle and the
Cedar of Leban9ni

of certain books, or rendering them from Latin and
Greek into English, and vice versa. Have not the Scotch
and German professors been hurling such like charges
against Oxford and Cambridge for the last twenty years—
since the time when Lord Jeffrey left Oxford in intense
disgust at the idleness existing in it, and the little oppor-
tunity of learning to be had. Oh ! say the university
reformers, the learning taught in Oxford is not a scientific
knowledge of books, but a mere verbal one ; science, as
science, has not been taught in it ; no endeavour was
made to give the student a scientific knowledge of the
books he was using, or to compare those books with others
upon the same subject—no ; the simple demand was, what
says your book, and the better able he was to repeat word
for word what it said, the surer he was of getting his
degree. Thus the rewards went to youths with a good
memory, whether their judgment or reasoning powers
were good or not. This has been thrown in the teeth of
our university men over and over again. And so do the
detractors of the negro race, when any display of mental
powers is made by them, a mere effort of memory say they
—a power which a parrot has in common with them, and
could manifest equally as well. But the negro has a great
eye for the beautiful, and a highly religious nature. These
are two important things which render him capable of
great improvement ; and that his home in the West Indies
is one which appeals to the former of these susceptibilities
nearly all who have written upon it (with one exception)
declare. A gentleman, whose residence in the islands was
only for a few months, could, when seated in Dominica,
at even time, with a full view of the lovely Rousseau valley
before him, give expression to his feelings and emotions
in the following beautiful lines :

EDUCATION FOR THE BRITISH COLONIES.
LBTTER V.

To show the extent of the ungranted lands in Trinidad,
to the quantity granted, I beg now to call your attention

to the evidence taken before a committee of the House of
Assembly, for the year 1841. Martin Sorsano, Esq., a
gentleman holding the situation of commissary of popula-
tion, and surveyor general of the island, a descendant of
Contador et Exercito, under the Spanish Government,
said, in his evidence before the committee, at Port of
Spain, —" There are 180 sugar estates, of which 104 have
distilleries : 21,710 acres are planted in canes ; 6,910
cocoa ; 1,095 coffee ; 6,313 provisions • 7,237 pasture :
total in cultivation, 43,265. Acres granted in the colony,
208,379 ; ungranted, 1,079,30 L Total acres according to
Captain Columbine, which Mr. Lorsano thought the cor-
rect one, 1,287,680: according to Captain Mallet, 1,536,000.
From the immense number of ungranted acres of land in
the island, it is evident that Trinidad is capable of sup-
porting a very much larger population than she has at
present. What is remarkable is, that the population of
some of the West India islands is much less now than it
was two centuries ago. Barbadoes for instance is said to
have had, in the year 1676, a population of 70,000 whites,
and 80,000 blacks, making in all 150,000 souls. In 1666,
the island had an effective military force of 20,000 infantry,
and 3,000 cavalry, composed entirely of the colonists.
The number, extent, and importance of our West India
islands to England is little known to the general public of
the country. With the exception of Jamaica, and one or
two others, little is known of them : they might as well,
nearly, so far as the public interest themselves in them,
have no existence. Their interests are never cared for,
and the progress of their people in science, morals, or re-
ligion, unheeded. When I say this, I speak, sir, of the
nation at large. I know that, in some of them, indivi-
duals have long had their hands at the plough, and have
not proved themselves unworthy of the Kingdom of
Heaven by looking backward ; but what can a few indi-
viduals do in a matter which should be done by the na•
tion at large Just to give your readers some idea of the
number of little island paradises which rise from the blue
waters of the Atlantic, and from the towers- which guard
their towns our countrymen see,. as they sail, by on
their way to other lands the old familiar flag of their
country, waving in the hot breeze and bright sunshine,
let me call your attention to that numerous constellation
the Bermudas, or Somer Isles. These islands are more
than 300 in number. The principal of. them are St.
George's, Ireland, St. David's, Somerset, Paget, Lang-
bird, and amith'S. St. George's is the. main island ;
Somerset and Ireland form a chain, with very little ex-
ception, of about thirty miles in length, though in.breadth
they are not near so much, forming, as they do, some-
thing like a shepherd's crook. Groves of cedar trees are
here and there detached on plains of rising ground, which,
with the numerous basins formed by the islknds, give
very much the appearance of lake scenery. Tbe'tbwn•of
St. George, on theisland of the same name, staads-on, the
south side of the eastern extremity of the island, in a sort
of amphitheatre, lbw built,_ and with narrow streets.

These islands have their'own legislature and council and
the inhabitants are distinguished for their industry,• good
morals, and hospitality. Then, again, there are that-sin-
gular group of isles termed the Lucayes, or Bahamas,
which extend in a creseent-lie form from the Matanilla
Reef to Turk's Islandra•distance of about 600 miles. Nw
Providence is consideretithe most important of the Lucaya
Wands: on it is Nassaui• the seat of government for the
and the head quarttra of the naval and military
estaiftsbments. The mist important islands are Hog-
Island, Rose island, Harbour Island, Turk's Island, and 2
'forth and South Biminia;;: these islands are well wooded t
and; watered, having also• rapacious anchorage for large
shipping. The streets of Nassau are well laid out, and
the public buildings good.. How many of the public are
theruthat know nothing of the groups of islands I have
just named The Bermudis some may have heard of,
hut' their notion of them iu,..that they are two or three
insignificant spots ; while, of the Bahamas, I dare assert
that thousands will acknowledge they did not know of
their existence, though no less- than three hundred have
been.enumerated as existing. I could advance some in-
tOrestingstatistical details in connection with the other
Wands; but the immense ground to go over compels me
tO hurry on with a racer's speed; or the ground will not
be got orer.. Thus I must clost. at present, with a few
general-reflections upon the negro'S character and condi-
tion in the Wands of the West Indies.

Beautiful Islands I where the green
Which nature wears was never seen
'Neath zone of Europe ;—where the hue
Of sea and heaven is such a blue
As England dreams not; where the night
Is all irradiate with the light
Of stars like moons, which hung on high,
Breathe and quiver in the sky,
Each its silver haze divine
Flinging in a radiant line
O'er gorgeous flower and mighty tree—
On the soft and shadowy sea I
Beautiful Islands I brief the time
I dwelt beneath your awful clime;
Yet oft I bee in noonday dream
Your gorgeous stars with lunar beam;
And oft before my sight arise
lour sky-like seas and sea-like skies,
Your green banana's giant leaves,
Your golden canes in arrowy sheaves ;
Your palms, which never die; but stand
Immortal sea-marks on the strand.

I am, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, Feb-. 2, 1854,

JANES LISTER.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMVITS.

Rev. J. Champney, to the Rectory of Ltpperstone,
Nottinghamshire.

Rev. F. H. Coldwelfr to the Stipendiary Curacy of the
parish of Wigan. LancasNite, and to be a Surrogate for the
Diocese of Chester.

Rev. H. J. Cummins, M.A., Curate of St. George's,Slooms-
bury, to the Rectory of the United Parishes of Sti. Alba n
Wood-street, and St. ()layer Silver-street, London.
Rev. D. W. Davies, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of
Llatielltyd, Merionethshire.
Rev. T. Fawsett, M.A., Curate of Chalfont St. Giles,- Ser-
rard7s Cross, Bucks, to the Vicarage of East Stoke,-with
Coddington annexed, near Newark.
Rev. W. Halton, M.A., to the Rectory of Branstone, near
Melton Mowbray. Leicestershire-
Rey. G. H. Hamilton, M.M. Chaplain to the Durham
County Gaol, to the Vicarage ofßerwick-upon-Tweed.
Rey. A. Jenour, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John 4,
Church, Blackpool.
Rev. J. A. T. Lee, to the Assistant Curacy of Honiton.
Rev. B. S. Malden, 8.A., to the Curacy. of Clayton-cum,-
Reymer, Sussex.
Rev..J. C. Miller, M.A. Rectorof St. Martin's, Birming.
ham .to,be Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Warwickshire.
ray. H. C. Mitchinson, M.A., Head Master of the East
Retford Grammar School, to the Cdvaey of Louth.
Rev. G. Philpot, BA., to the Stipendiary Curacy of St.
Min% Manchester.
Rev. E. Pizey, MA., Incumbent of Trinity Church, Trow-
bridge,.to be a Surrogate for the Diocese of Salisbury.
Rev. W. Rawson, M.A., Senior Curate of Aylesbury, to be
Diocesan Inspector of Schools for the Deanery of Wendover.
Rey-. J. E. Riadore, to the Curacy of'St. Alkinund's' Derby.
' Itev..W. Richardson, B.A. to the Ministry of theEcclesi-
mica' District formed out of the Parish of Miles Platting.
Rey. J. B. Smith, M.A., to the Rectory of Dorsington,
Gloucestershire..

Revs De _D.. Stewart, to the Perpetual'Curacy of Maidstone,
lientt

Rev.. VaMace, M.A., to the Reotory of Southchurch,
Essex.

In. their amusements, the • negroes display' a marked
f6zidness for- the dance, and narratives partaking of the
marvellous. The dance is now conducted by them with
a great deal mare decorum than- %rmerly, when slavery
existed among them. So fond i'of this amusement are
they, that parties will not break :up. for three or four days
when they meet to enjoy it. A wird mirth and jollity is
manifested by them when engaged in it. So fond are
they also, of narratives, that when they meet on a moon-
light night to listen to some tale • of African origin, they
will'aemain the whole of the night. They have a great
relish for this kind of amusement, and eagerly pick
up any tale they eau hear, about their betters, which they
-.-relate with greaia seeming pleasure.• The loud laughter
with which such Vales are received , by the company show
',their relish for them. Light-hearted gossip they have a
relish for, and embrace every opportanity for indulging
in it. Thus, when they gather together, at one of their
cottage doors, when the full moon is, throwing its silvery
light around them, and illumining the dark shades of
night, tales of wander and romance-are related by those
among them who-have the talent for oral narrative, while
the rest hearken,with. the • most: intense interest. The
goiit with which they relate, and the embellishment they
give, to these tales, whether of romance or scandal, show
,'that they both enjoy it theinselve4 and that it is enjoyed
also by their auditors.. Through: this avidity for narra-
tive, great hopes may be justly entertained of their im-
provement, if education be diffuse& among them, and the
power to read a general acquirement. Evidently, they
have a natural talent for history, and, were education pro •
-
moted among them, the great events in it would be the
subjects of narrative,•to the moonlight parties, instead or
wild tales or idle, gossip. The, achievements of Alexander-
and Tamerlane„inlius Clesar. and:Hannibal, Cceur-de-Lioni
and Wellingtom.might form the subjects of narrative to
them. History, would" be • an inexhaustable field of ina -
formation and, interest for them ; and, if well educated,
they would be able to cull, from its pages lessons of in,
struction andwisdom. The. troublous epochs in history,
when war raged from nation to nation with a terrNic
fierceness ; these. eras which: rise from out the past like: •
mountain ridges above • the level plains, or lofty rocks
from amid the waters of the sea, would be estimated pra-
perly. Whatrheaefits .did, they confer upon the nations ?
What progress was made in morals or science in conse-
quence ? -would ,be questions asked by them in connection
with thoseperiods. Conquerors and armies waging battle,
the victors returning iit triumph, laden and enriched with
the rutiesi.pearls, and, gold of the vanquished, and with
their banners of victory prendly waving above them; the
pages of history which relate these things woul& not be
those most loved: and, dwelt upon by the West Indians,
howevenporopous the language, or brilliant the. rhetoric:
employed by the historian, to depict them ; neither would
they take.frombistory's pages her grand eras and!splendid
epochsto,make with.their imaginations a glowing para-
dise, and to people it with the heroes of war • the magni-
ficent epochs-which tower above the mists aLI glooms of
time into the mental sunshine of the present, like the.
domes, mosques,, minarets, and spires of religious temples
intaAhe blue firmament above the towns a Europe and.
Ortntal, countries, would still get their rightful weed of
praise• and admiration, but nothing more. They would
know how to value them. And when she unrolled•
her-long pages of the past before them, and allowed them,
togazein conception upon the great cities of the ancient
world—Thebes and Memphis, Babylon and' Nineveh, Fair
myra, and Persepolis, Balbec and Tyre, Carthage and Sidon,
with all: the. hosts that follow in their train, an elevation.
would be given to their character of whieh we little dream.
Fancy a party of negroes met, on a beautiful moonlight
night, at one of their cottage doors, Dominica, and with
a full view of the Rousseau Valley, lighted up with, the•
beams" of a full round moon ; and what must be. their
emotions when traversing the streets and squares, of
those magnificent cities in the, days of their pride- and
greatness, when they were the glory of the- earth
for their magnificence and splendour ? Clearly they would
have emotions a hundred times more lofty than at the
present time, when they have• to manufacturesome Africo
—American romance, or tale of island gossip. Some
there are, I know, who have condemned the negro as not
capable of such emotions as I have ascribed to. him. One
writer in particular has heaped the most unreserved abuse
upon them as a low, cruel, selfish, and brutal race ; but
evidently he has been troubled with the spleen during his
stay among them ; even the islands presented little beauty
to him, and, in fact, were it not, that once or twice, in
the course of his two good sized volumes, he acknowledges
having passed through scenery which was of surpassing
beauty, one might be tempted to deny him the powers of
imagination altogether. Some natures there are that can
see no beauty in anything thing familiar to them; to
detract and degrade seems their natural forte; they belong
to the class among mankind called grumblers ; dissatisfied
with themselves they are the same with all the world.
The writer I am speaking of has belaboured a brother for
describing scenes as beautiful, when his stay among them
was only for a limited period. It does not require a law
residence in any place to discover the beauties of its
natural scenery. These rush upon the soul at the first
view, and can be valued early. Some men, when they
live any time in a place, verify the old saying that
an "11l bird befouls its own nest." They are those who
reverse the beautiful lines of the poet applied to the
patriot, whose "First best country always is at home."
Theirs, on the contrary, is everywhere but at home,
which is the worst and bleakest in the world. Fatherland
is a land of sorrows, dreary as the coast of Labrador.
The greatest detractors from the beauty of the West
Indies have not been able to deny to the views from
Cayon in St. Kitt's, and from Monte Bruce, in Dominica,
up the Rosseau Valley, the attribute of beauty. Nevis
also is a place of great beauty ; so is the view from Fig
Tree Hill in Antigua. St. Vincent also has scenes of great
beauty.
One of the least favourable witnesses which could be called
up to give testimony in favour of the negroes, says: "I visit-
ed the Moravian settlement in Bermuda Valley, Antigua,
when the children in the school were drawn out in a line,
and questioned upon geography. Their answers, as efforts
of memory, were most astonishing. The teacher, he says,
asked them what country is that which lies in the north
of Africa ? Egypt was the general answer immediately,
given. by the whole of them. Its far famed river (the
Nile), with its direction and the chief cities were all
correctly gone through. The Mediterranean, with its
islands, volcanoes, &c., were all gone over and named by
the class. But in all that was given, the same person saw
nothing but a mere effort of memory, the children repeat-
ing, parrot like, what they had been told before. In fact,
the same party seems to think that negroes are very little
in advance of monkeys, and what he saw in the Bermuda
Valley, exhibited by negro boys, from seven to ten years
of age, was nothing more than what parrots could be
taught to do. But the same objections have been hurled
at the English universities for years, namely, that the
highest honours have been conferred upon men for repeat-
ing portions of Latin and Greek books, without any
regard to a knowledge of the truth, or falsehood of
the books themselves, or whether the views of science or
morals which they inculcated were true or false. It was
mere word icholarobip, repeating from memory the words

Rev, R. Welker, M.A., to the Vicarageof !Winstead Helion,
near Haverhill, Essex.
Rev\ Warbwrton, M.A.,of Queen's-College, Oxford, to
be DOmestic Chaplain to the arl of Ellesmere.
Rev. G. F.. Whitaker, &A.. of Wadbaas College, to be a
Sarrogate for the Diocese of Oxford.