The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

WHERE IS THE BRITON'S HOME 7

Where is the Briton's home?
Where the free step can roam,
Where the free sun can glow,
Where a free air can blow,
Where a free ship can bear
Hope and strength : everywhere
Wave upon wave can roll—
East and west—pole to pole—
Where a free step can roam—
There is the Briton's home
Where is the Briton's home?
Where the brave heart can come,
Where labour wins a soil,
Where a stout heart can toil—
Where gold or fame is won,
Where never sets the sun,
Where a brave heart can come,
There is the Briton's home

Where is the Briton's home?
Where the mind's light can come,
Where our God's holy word
Breaks on the savage herd—
Where a new flock is won,
To the bright Shepherd-One,
Where the church bell can toll,
Where soul can comfort soul,
Where Holy Faith can come,
There is the Briton's home?

Where is the Briton's home?
Where mast's great law can come,
Where the great truth can speak,
Where the slave's chain can break,
Where the white's scourge can cease,
Where the black dwells in peace,
Where, from His angel-ball,
God sees us brothers all—
Where light
and freedom come—
There is the Briton's home!

SILL E. B. LYTION,

REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Cireassia.
By Captain Spencer. London : Routledge & Co.

The belligerent condition of the European states
has evidently acted as a powerful stimulus in un-
locking the stores of knowledge possessed by nume-
rous well-informed individuals relative to the con-
dition, physical and social, of those countries which
form, more or less directly, the scene of our mari-
time and military operations. A desire to possess
accurate information on those points which will
enable intelligent men to form some rational esti-
mate as to the probable duration of the present
war is both natural and praiseworthy, and every
day's experience puts us more and more in the way
of its acquisition. With most probably a natural
flow, the current appears to set strongly in the
direction of Turkey, and the leading peculiarities
of that country and the people inhabiting and
governing it, appear to be objects of general solici-
tude to the civilians as well as to the naval and
military portion of the British population. In con-
tributing to this flood of current knowledge, if
personal experience, aptitude of observation, and a
wish to convey important and exact information,
constitute a claim on public attention, Captain
Spencer is justly entitled to a favourable considera-
tion from the intelligent reader. He has travelled
through nearly every portion of the Turkish em-
pire, with a deliberate and leisurely pace ; he
understands, and speaks most of the languages of
the country fluently, and sympathises acutely with
the feelings of the people ; and, above all, he mani-
fests a spirit of lively diligence in taking note of
men and things. Passing over his clear delineation
of localities, and his speculations as to their military
and commercial capabilities, we will give as a
specimen of his general style, and of the character
of his interesting book, the following particulars
relative to a remarkable group of men, two of
whom, at the present moment, occupy a conspicuous
position in the public eye, while the third,
though now withdrawn from the scene of turmoil
and contention, is yet deeply interesting from the
bias he threw into the course of Turkish affairs.
These are