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METROPOLITAN GUIDE

Just published, corrected to the present time, and considera-
bly enla,4 ed, the 9th edition of
EIGH'S NEW PICTURE OF LONDON; or
LI Stranger's Guide to the remarkable Buildings. Antiqui-
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don in eight days, and a description of the Environs.
With Plan of London and Map of Environs Gs. bound.
Ditto and 111 Views 9s. bound.
Ditto ditto and 24 coloured costumes 12s. bound.
Ditto dittoand Rowlandson's Sketches 15s. bound.
London : LEIGH and Co., 421, Strand.

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EMIGRATION.—Theie are at present at the port of London
alone no fewer than twenty-three vessels on the berth taking
in goods and passengers for Sydney, New South Wales, eight
for Hobart Town and Launceston, four for Port Philip, and
five for South Australia ; being a greater number of emigrant
ships for the southern hemisphere on the berth at one time
than was ever previously known.
RIOTOUS DISTURBANCE IN JACKSON'S-ROW, MAN-
CHESTER.—On Monday evening last, from seven to eight
o'clock, there was a disorderly assemblage in Jackson's-row,
Deansgate, on occasion of the apprehension of a man who
was fighting in a beer-shop ; and in the course of the disturb-
ance created by the mob, the prisoner was rescued from the
police, and several of the officers were knocked down and
some of them severely hurt by stones, brickbats, and other
missiles. The ringleaders were subsequently brought'before
the magistrates, and held to bail.

By the Gazette of Tuesday night, we perceive that Prince
Albert has had the good taste to appoint Sir James Clark,
Bart., M.D., F. R.S., to be physician in ordinary to his royal
highness, with Henry Holland, M.D., F.R.S., for his coad-
jutor. The following appointments have also been announced :
John Forbes, M.D., and Theodore Gordon, M.D.,
deputy inspector-general of hospitals, to be physicians extra-
ordinary. Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., F.R.S., Benjamin
Travers, Esq„ F.R.S., and Charles Aston Key, Esq., to be
surgeons in ordinary, and Alexander Nasmyth, Esq.,
M.R.C.S., to be surgeon-dentist.

TO PRESERVE CURRANTS WITHOUT SUGAR.
lowing recipe may be acceptable now that sugar is so risen
in price. Let the fruit be carefully cut from the large stalks,
with the smallest bit of stalk to each, that the fruit not being
wounded, no moisture may be amongst them. It is necessary
to gather thew when the weather is quite dry, having ready
some bottles, perfectly clean and dry, into which gently drop
the currants, stopping the bottles with cork and rosin, and
burying them in a trench in the garden with the neck down-
wards. Cherries and damsons will keep in the same way.
CONDUCT OF THE WHIGS DURING THE PENINSULAR
\VAR.—The opposition were so inveterate against the Spanish
war, that not only did they declaim against it in the most
violent manner on all occasions, both in and out of parlia-
ment, but, if we may believe the contemporary authority of
Berthier, actually corresponded, during the most critical pe-
riod of the contest, with Napoleon himself, and furnished
him with ample details on the situation of the English army,
and the circumstances which would, in all likelihood, defeat
its exertions. It is not surprising that a ministry thus pow-
erfully thwarted, destitute of any members versed in military
combination, with a very scanty majority in parliament, and
no support farther than the cold assent of duty from the
throne, should, during this critical year, have shrunk from
the responsibility of implicating the nation, on a more ex-
tended scale, in a contest of doubtful issue, even under the
most favourable circumstances, which was, to all appearance,
to be abandoned as hopeless by their successors. And yet,
so little can even the greatest sagacity or the strongest intel-
lect foresee the ultimate results of human actions, and so
strangely does Providence work out its mysterious designs by
the intervention of free agents, and the passions often of a
diametrically opposite tendency of mankind, that if there are
any circumstances more than others to which the immediate
catastrophe which occasioned the fall of Napoleon is to be
ascribed, it is the unbroken triumphs of Suchetintotmheagenaisft;
and the strenuous efforts of the English opposition
the dangers, and underrate the great powers possessed by
Wellington in the west of the peninsula. Being accus-
tomed to measure the chances of success in a military contest
by the achievements of the regular troops employed, and an
entire stranger to the passions and actions of
parties in a free
community, he not unreasonably concluded,when the last
army in Spain capitulated at Valencia, and the whole country,
from the Pyrenees to Gibraltar, had, with the exception of a
few mountain districts, submitted to his authority, that the
contest in the Peninsula was at an end,
so fare asatrht
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were concerned • and when he beheld th
Britain, who had all along denounced the war party
as utterly
hopeless and irrational on the part of this country, and sonic
of whom, in their zeal against its continuance and to demon-
strate its absurdity, had actually corresponded with himself;
even at the crisis of the contest, on the eve of getting posses-
sion of the reins of power in London ; he was naturally led to
believe that no cause for disquiet existed, in consequence of
the future efforts of England and Spain. He was thus tempted
to prosecute, without hesitation, his preparations for the
Russian war, and before finishing the conflict in the penin-
sula, plunge into the perils of the Moscow campaign ; and the
double strain it was, as he himself told us, which proved fatal
to the empire. Had. he been less successful in the east of
Spain—had the English opposition less strenuously asserted
the impoliey and hopelessness of British resistance in the west,
he would probably have cleared his rear before engaging with
a new enemy in front.—Alison's History of Europe.

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