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Blackwood's

Magazine. London : Blackwood's

Having received this magazine so shortly before
our publication, we have been compelled to defer an
extended notice until next week. It contains an
able article on the recent defeat of the Ministry.

Dublin University Magazine. Liverpool: Orr.
We had marked for extract several passages in
the January number, but want of space has com-
pelled us to postpone their insertion.

The Protestant Magazine. London : Wertheim.
The number for January has a variety of interest-
ing articles on " Popery in the Legislature." the
late " Ministerial Defeat," " Cruelty of Popery,"
" The Priest and the Druggist," &c.

The Scottish Educational and Literary Journal,

London

Groombridge.

Among the principal contents of the January
number are, " History in Secular Schools," " My
first School," the "Dignity and Importance of the
Teacher's Office," " Mathematical Questions and
Solutions," &c.

ARIETIES.

WHAT is most likely to become a woman? A little girl.
WHEN is a ship in love? When it is attached to the boys.
WHEN is a horse not a horse ? When he is turned
into a field.

WHEN do many bets become singular ? When they

are won.

HE who wears a tight boot is likely to have a narrow
understanding.

SPECULATION.—A word that sometimes begins with
its second letter.

WHAT letter is most valuable to a deaf woman ? A,
because it makes her hear.

WHICH have you most, fathers or grandfathers ? Two
grandfathers and forefathers.
WHY are washerwomen foolish ? Because they expect
to catch soft water when it rains hard.
POETS seldom make good astronomers. They so love
the women, they cannot see the other heavenly bodies.
DRAWING IT MILD.—An Irishman, in speaking of a
relative who was hung, says he died during a tight rope
performance.

THERE are times when none of us would be found at
Lome by any friend, if it were not for the fear of being
found out.

THERE are, by courtesy, no old maids in France.
Those who don't drown themselves adopt the title of
madame, and pass for widows.
RECIPROCITY.—John's wife and John were tete-a-Mte;
she witty was, industrious he ; says John " I've earned
the bread we've ate; " and I," says she, " have urned
the tea."

" INDEED, you are very handsome," said a gentleman
to his mistress, " phoo, phoo," said she, so you'd say if
you didn't think so." "And so you'd think, he answered,
if I did not say so."
TETE Pekin Visitor says : " Coming home a few
mornings since, we met a man attempting to walk on
both sides of the street. By a skilful manceuvre we
passed between him."

Goon ADVICE.—Always do as the sun does, look at
the bright side of things. For while it is just as cheap, it
is three times as good for digestion. The melancholy man
don't even relish wedlock.

SAUCE FOR YANKEE SLAVE OWNERS.—Soper has
become so imbued with the feeling of Uncle Tom's Cabin,
that be has invented a new sauce, which, out of respect to
Mrs. Stowe, he has christened " The Tom-Martyr."
A LADY renowned for repartee, and a gentleman noted
for tenacity to his own opinion, were overheard in deep
and earnest conversation. Says Mr. M. (waxing rather
warm), " Mrs. C., facts are stubborn things." Says Mrs.
C. to Mr. M., " Then what a fa3t you must be."

THE LUXURY OF WOE.—Dog Seller : That 'ere
banimal's the real stock, mum, and dog cheap at five
pounds !—Young Widow : It's a sweet pretty darling—
black and white—but in my present bereavement you
must procure me one entirely black ; this one will do in
about six months, for half-mourning.
POPULAR SIGNS.—A writer, speaking of " Public-
House Signs," says—" There are Marlboroughs, Aber-
crombies, and Wellingtons; Duncans, Rodneys, and
Nelsons, by dozens. I have seen an admiral painted on
horseback somewhere: but I never saw Cromwell on an
alehouse sign yet." This is a singular and a significant
fact.

Luxuntous SHAVING.—A writer in Tait's Magazine
declares that Italy is the only place to experience a truly
luxurious shave. The young lady's operation is so pleasant
as she manipulates your chin with her soft hand immersed
in creamy lather, and her action is so fairy-like and grace-
ful, that one regrets the performance is so soon over, and
feels almost inclined to wish that, like Gargantus in Rabe-
lais, one had ten chins. The charming maiden, too,
beguiles your attention during the whole time by her
delicious converse : and only think of having your nose
pulled by a handsome dark-eyed girl—every glance teem-
Weing with spiritual fire, and darting forth heart-slaughter.
never wished to wear our beard in Italy.

ALEPPO BUTTONS.—But space fails me to describe hal
the incidents of our stay in Aleppo. There are two thing,
peculiar to the city, however, which I must not omi-
mentioning, One is the Aleppo button, a singular ulcer,
which attacks every person born in the city, and every
stranger who spends more than a month there. It can
neither be prevented nor cured, and always lasts for a
year. The inhabitants almost invariably have it on the
face, either on the cheek, forehead, or tip of the nose,
where it often leaves an indelible and disfiguring scar.
Strangers, on the contrary, have it on one of the joints,
either the elbow, wrist, knee, or ancle. So strictly is its
visitation confined to the city proper, that, in none of the
neighbouring villages, or even in a distant suburb, is it
known. Physicians have vainly attempted to prevent it
by inoculation, and are at a loss to what cause to ascribe
it.—Journey to Antioch and Aleppo.

AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT THE CAPE.—The follow-
ing circumstance is mentioned in the last received Gragf-
Reint Herald:—" On Sunday last a singular duel came
off in the outskirts of the town. Two young Fingoes, it
appears, had been quarrelling for a week, and at length
worked themselves up to such a pitch that they resolved
to fight it out. The combatants stripped, and arming
themselves with a neck-strop apiece, the battle com-
menced. A powerful Pingo, with a double waggon-whip,
acted as second, or ' bottle-haler,' to both parties, and
when he perceived either of them in the least degree
flagging, a judicious application of the doubled waggon-
whip was had recourse to. The fight lasted nearly three
quarters of an hour, at the end of which time one of the
lads was quite exhausted and gave in. Both of them were
covered with blood from head to foot, and it was evident
they bad received a wholesome lesson. The bottle-holder,
in reply to a
quarreluestion from the only white spectator, ob-
served that they would not again, and that this
was the Pingo method of putting a speedy end to all
quarrels."

CURIOSITIES IN THE BERLIN LIBRARY.—During my
sojourn at Berlin. I spent a morning in the library, and
was much gratified by the examination of its principal
curiosities. Amongst them the Bible of Charles I. which
he bore with him to the ace-old, possesses to an English-
man great interest. It is a small volume, bound in black
leather, and bears evident signs of having been much used.
It was lying open, appropriately enough, at the ith chapter
of Job, which commences, " Is there not an appointed
time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the
days of an hireling." By the side of this interesting
relic, which should be in our national collection, lies
Luther's original manuscript translation of the Holy
Scriptures. Turning over the leaves, it was very apparent
from the vast number of corrections and alterations in the
mysterious Book of Job, as compared to the other books
of the Old Testament, that it was to Luther, as it has
been to many other learned divines, full of difficulties.
Some of the chapters present a tangled mass of additions,
erasures, and amendments, showing c'early that Luther
was puzzled by the original. Another interesting MS. is
Goethe's " Faust," which is very clear and legible—so
clear, indeed, and free from alterations, that I cannot
think it is the original draft of that immortal work.
Close to these literary curiosities is preserved Otto von
Guerick's original air-exhausting apparatus, consisting of
two hemispheres, which when placed in juxta-position,
and the air exhausted between them, could not be detached
by the strength of thirty horses.—Correspondent of the
Literary Gazette.

I IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, DEC. 27

The Lord Chancellor (Lord St. Leonards) took his seat
on the woolsack.

The Earl of Aberdeen. the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of
Clarendon, and Earl Granville occupied the Treasury
bench.

There were a great number of peeresses present. The
Duke of Cambridge was also in his place.

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

The Earl of ABERDEEN said,—lt is my duty to give
your lordships the requisite information respecting the
recent construction of Her Majesty's Government, and to
indicate, though briefly, the objects which will occupy our
attention, and the general policy we propose to adopt.
Before describing the proceedings which have recently
taken place, I wish to advert to circumstances which I
understand occurred a few days ago, when the noble earl
opposite declined to perform what appeared to me to be a
very reasonable request, and accused me, and those acting
me, of having entered into a species of combination
or conspiracy to overthrow the noble lord's government.
1 believe it is an accusation which was answered at the
time by the noble duke (Newcastle) near me; but, never-
theless, I wish to add that my share in such a conspiracy
was not for the purpose of ejecting the noble lord from
office, but for the purpose of keeping him in. When it
appeared, from the ambiguous paragraph in Her Majesty's
speech, that it was indispensably necessary that some de-
claration should be made of the advantage of free trade,
my own anxiety was that the terms of that declaration or
resolution should be such as the noble earl and his col-
leagues could accept, without doing violence to their feel-
ings, and consistently with their own honour. Those
terms were framed with that view; they had the effect
intended by those who proposed them, namely, that of
enabling the noble earl to retain the office he held, by the
assistance and votes of the very conspirators themselves.
Lord Aberdeen proceeded to say, that on Saturday week he
received a message from Her Majesty, desiring his attend-
ance at the Isle of Wight. Of course, he had neither youth,
strength, nor will sufficient to undertake the formation of
a ministry without the assistance of Lord John Russell ;
and it was, therefore, with great pleasure that he found,
at a casual meeting with the noble lord, that his senti-
ments were entirely conformable to his own. In the
course of the week he succeeded in preparing an adminis-
tration which was fortunate enough to receive the appro-
bation of the Queen, and which now stood for the judg-
ment of the country. He then went on to allude to the
office accepted by Lord John Russell, and said the truth
was that for the last 30 years the principle on which the
foreign policy of the country was founded had never
failed—it being to respect the independence of foreign
states, great or small, and not to interfere in their
internal affairs. This he trusted would still be the case.
With regard to our commercial policy, he believed the
interest of the country and the feelings of the people were
in favour of an extension of that system of free trade
which Sir R. Peel commenced in 1546; and without stop-
ping to discuss the merits of direct or indirect taxation,
he could assure their lordships it was the wish of the
government to see that system further advanced. The
question of education and legal reform would receive every
attention at the hands of Government; nor would an
amendment of the representative system, undertaken with-
out haste or rashness, be excluded from its mature consi-
deration. He came now to the complaint of the noble lord
opposite with reference to the present coalition. The noble
earl found fault with him for having joined Lord J. Russell,
but he could assure the noble earl that he had long ago
arrived at the conviction that the country would be satis-
fied with no other government but one of progress. Now
Lord J. Russell, while he was in favour of moderate libe-
ralism, was also in favour of legitimate conservatism ;
and he had, therefore, no hesitation whatever in joining
him, believing, as he was thoroughly convinced, that the
country was sick of those party distinctions which were
recognised in the terms whig and tory. In conclusion,
he moved that the house adjourn until Thursday, the 10th
of February next.

The Earl of DERBY denied that he had found fault
with the course which the noble earl had thought it his
duty to take. What he did complain of was, that the
late government did not receive that generous considera-
tion from parliament which it had a right to expect, and
he added, when he made that complaint, that the noble
earl would meet with better treatment at his own hands
and those of his supporters. He did not retreat now
from that complaint ; and he was sure, if their lordships
would take the trouble to recal the events which had
taken place since the last election, they would be con-
vinced that this complaint was not made without just
cause. At the same time he had a good right to find
fault in bitter terms with some of the noble earl's col-
leagues. For instance, there was a right hon. baronet
who commenced his early life upon ultra-radical princi-
ples, but who afterwards abandoned those principles in
favour of conservatism. That right hon. gentleman went
down to his constituents at the last election, and declared
that the late government was a government without a
principle, and he should therefore take every opportunity
of giving it his most decided opposition. When he came
up to town he disclosed matters in his speech on the corn-
law debate which led him (Lord Derby) to believe that
there had been a union of parties, including whigs, re-
formers, and conservatives, for the purpose of ousting the
late government. Although the negotiations which took
place would not justify his calling the movement of these
three parties a conspiracy, they yet did justify him in
thinking that the three parties acted in concert, for the
purpose, if possible, of defeating the late administration,
and they ultimately succeeded in accomplishing it. He
should abstain from discussing all the points of the
budget, hut there was one point, namely, the income tax,
which must be taken up by Her Majesty's present ad-
visers, and if they could succeed in removing the ine-
qualities of that, they should have his hearty support.
He must be allowed to dissent in toto to the statement of
the noble earl, that the foreign policy of this country for
the last 30 years had been conducted only upon one prin-
ciple. The intentions of Lord Aberdeen on education
and legal reform were undoubtedly satisfactory, though
his views on the amendment of the representation were
of oracular ambiguity. The noble Earl had ridiculed
the notion of a dangerous democracy, but it remained to
be seen whether an alteration of the existing represen-
tative system might not throw too great power into the
hands of a lower and less informed class of the com-
munity. Personally, he had no feeling of hostility against
the new government, but he bad no great confidence in
it, for he had no conception of the principle on which it
was based. If, however, the noble Earl conducted his
administration on a truly Conservative policy, he should
receive no evidence of public hostility.
The house then adjourned to the 10th of February.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, DEC. 27.
The Speaker took the chair at two o'clock.
Mr. Disraeli, and the other members of the late Go-
vernment, took their seats on the opposition benches.

NEW WRITS.
On the motion of Mr. Hayter, the following new writs
were ordered to be issued

For London, in the room of Lord John Russell, who
had accepted the office of one of Her Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State.

For Tiverton, in the room of Lord Palmerston, who had
accepted the office of one of Her Majesty's principal Se-
cretaries of State.
For Oxford University, in the room of Mr. Gladstone,
who bad accepted the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
For South Wilts, in the room of the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, who had accepted the office of Secretary at War.
For Carlisle, in the room of Sir James Graham, who
had ace, pted the office of First Lord of the Admiralty.
For Halifax, in the room of Sir Charles Wood, who had
accepted the office of President of the Board of Control.
For Southwark, in the room of Sir William Molesworth,
who had accepted the office of Chief Commissioner of
Works.

For Leeds, in the room of the Right Hon. M. T.
Baines, who had accepted the office of President of the
Poor-law Board.

For Nottingham, in the room of the Right Hon.
Edward Strutt, who had accepted the office of Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster.
For the county of Cavan, in the room of Sir John
Young, who had accepted the office of Chief Secretary for
Ireland.

For Marlow, in the room of Lord Ernest Bruce, who
had accepted the office of Vice-Chamberlain of Her
Majesty's Household.
For Scarborough, in the room of the Earl of Mulgrave,
who had acceptei the office of Treasurer of Her Majesty's
Household.

For Hertfordshire, in the room of the Hon. W.
Cowper, who had accepted the office of one of the Lords
of the Admiralty.

For Morpeth, in the room of the Hon. Edward George
Granville Howard, who had accepted the office of Steward
of her Majesty's Household of North Leitch.
The house then adjourned to Tuesday.
TUESDAY, DEC. 28.

The house met at two o'clock, and, after some:notices
and petitions, adjourned till Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29.
The house met at noon.

NEW WRITS

On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, the following new
writs were ordered to be issued :
For Wolverhampton, in the room of the Hon. C. P.
Villiers, who had accepted the office of Her Majesty's
Judge Advocate-General.
For Alyesbury, in the room of Mr. R. Bethell, who
had accepted the office of Solicitor-General.

For the city of Oxford, in the room of Sir W. P. Wood,
who had accepted the office of Vice-Chancellor.
For Leith burghs, in the room of Mr. J. Moncrieff,
who had accepted the office of Lord Advocate for Scotland.

For Dumfries, in the room of Viscount Drumlanrig,
who had accepted the office of Controller of Her Ma-
jesty's Household.

F-or Gloucester, in the room of Rear-Admiral Berkeley,
who had accepted the office of one of the Lords of the
Admiralty.
For the county of Limerick," in the room of Mr. Mon-
sell, who had accepted the office of Clerk of the Ordnance.
For Brighton, in the room of Lord A. Hervey, who had
accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Treasury.
For Southampton, in the room of Sir A. Cockburn, who
had accepted the office of Attorney-General.
For Carlow, in the room of Mr. John Sadleir, who had
accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Treasury.
The house then adjourned till Friday.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31.

The house met at two o'clock. About sixty members
only were present, chiefly Ministerialists.—Alr. BLAND
took the oaths and his seat, as member for King's County.
—On the motion of Mr. HATTER, it was agreed that the
house, at its rising, do adjourn till Thursday, the 10th of
Feb. NEW WRITS.

On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, the following new
writs were ordered to be made out, VIZ. :
For the county of Haddington, in the room of the Hon.
Francis Charteris, who had accepted the office of one of
the Lords of the Treasury ' • and
For the borou4h of Lichfield, in the room of Lord A.
andH. Paeertk, Marshal to accepted l
iajty.
the office of Chief Equerry

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Mr. OLIVEIRA gave notice, that after the recess he
should move a resolution to the effect that the duty upon

foreign and colonial wines be reduced to Is. per imperial
gallon.—Mr. I. BUTT gave notice that on Tuesday, the
15th of February, he should move for leave to introduce a
bill for grenting a new trial in criminal cases.—Mr.
BLACKETT gave notice that after the recess he should ask
whether it was the intention of Government to bring in a
bill this session to carry into effect the recommendations
of the commission appointed to inquire into the affairs of
the University of Oxford.—Mr. JoHN M'GREGon pre-
sented a petition from a mechanics' institution in Glas-
gow, praying for a supply of Parliamentary papers printed
by order of Parliament.—Mr. KEATING gave notice that
after the recess he should ask whether it was the intention
of Government to take any measures for insuring unifor-
mity in the drawing up of future Acts of Parliament, and
for the arrangement and consolidation of our statute law.
The house then adjourned till Thursday, the 10th Feb.