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April 25, 1848.

?Literature

NOTICES.

marchT.
of England Quarterly Review.
don : W. E. Painter Strand.
,theele number before us of this able periodical is one of
' Most interestinz with which we have been lately
dtP,Pred ; and it will be seen that we have borrowed from
•f,—,9.lloter paers theologian largely. It contains sufficient
,Zuo r theg and the politician ; and at the
tlate time a number of highly attractive articles for the
oaral reader, in which popular topics and studies are
Zited in a most graceful and able manner, literary re-
ch and learning being mixed with pleasing gossiping
mod. ,perception and judgment of the subjects
tevi'co. Amongst the latter description of papers is. a
p.new °f " Zoological Recreations, by W. P. Broderip,
80;•" which has evidently fallen into the hands of a
wr'irar, extensively read in the ancient and modern
4‘ uPon natural history. It is sparkling thronghout.
ohs_ „Present Movement in Italy, by the Marquis l‘ls-
re'f tt,Azeglio," affords the subject of some very striking
the upon the political aspect of Christendom ; and
notices 0,
Mr. Jesse's " Literary and Historical Me-
serise
ofLdondon " is not only pleasingly written, but is
characterised
by a right spirit, and justly rebukes the
:43,t)esr for occasional lapses and inaccuracies. We have
1 some interesting remarks on the social and commer-
Th Progress of Great Britain, in a notice of Sir Edward
eo,, " Memoirs during Half a Century," The
tic Aspect of the Times," in which the bearing of
ttio InP°rary events upon the generally received interpre-
wet!, of the prophecies in the Old and New Testaments,
11_ worthy of attentive perusal.
,ticror ore serious and theological articles are, " A No-
-1100,, p. Peil's Annotations on St. Paul's Epistle to the
and
," A Notice of the Views of Chalmers, Hume,
Word,a2nPnell on Miracles," and " A Review of Dr.
reniati:"th's Works," which afford a theme for some
tbur'_uPon the respective positions and claims
Politico England England and the Church of Rome. The only
Valudi 1'8110n:deal article is entitled " The Theory of
atian as°th Which the writer dissents from direct t,x-
It contains
failssounde
views, mode of raising revenue.
4ails re-ro"ers
the p ably stated ; and although the reviewer
f
Y Which he offers us for the inequality o
failure resent
, 'node of taxing income and property, such
aibilit "n'Y goes to prove the difficulty, if not impos-
poste!' of discovering any mode by which such an ra-
ted nbe rendered acceptible, or just. We have oraiot-_
Se co an excellent review of " Ranke s History f
dente-"o which the reader will find an excelleny con-
itu notice of a people, whose history is little known,
Whose destiny is likely to be an important one.

April, 1848

npe Reports, and Industrial Journal, iucluding the
--P°7lB, Essays, and Transactions of the Royal Agri-
cultural Improvement Society of Ireland. James
Agri-
cultural 21, D'Olier-street, Dublin ;W. S. Orr
and Co., Londo.
vo Weurna have only recently received the first number of this
i—a quarterly publication—which promises to be-
!)ine a most important aid tu the movement making by
be government and the worthy portion of the wealthy
!lasses of Ireland for the regeneration f her agricultural
11,1,?,c1 industrious classes. It contains, in addition to the
arly report and proceedidgs of the Royal Agricul-
;l Improvement Society of Ireland, a number of very
Zuable articles on draining, the potatoe failure, and its
ects on Irish agriculture ; the payment of farm servants,
845 eels of poultry best suited to the farm, the best
stitute for the potatoe, the reclamation of deep bog,
a_rotation of crops, advice to small farmers, and on other
7 1.4 ating subjects. They are characterised by sound
i;Z:2ical ability, and if studied by the small farmers an
1.110,74trY of Ireland, and their teachings acted upon,awte
ile.'fKl not despair of witnessing the advance of Irelan
the position in the social scale. What a boon would
Alithvea:theeesxthinaofitoiadomon of that country confer
of trowould direct them to the study of such books instead
upon their people if
oratory columns of the United Irishman

4" of Making and Mending Fishing Nets.
This London : Whittaker and Co.
1)f tier:4llll)kt recently published by S. F.Every, Esq.,
of riot I',nnutains much information worthy the perusal
anglers but practical inland and sea-coast
lita.tine—rs'il• It is illustrated with plates, and from the able
,11 which they are described, the difficult art ofi
perfectlywhg simplified. As this is the first work
azul celin hits been treated at length, there
little doubtit will be useful to many.

VARIETIES

ttorairL 1110 NY.—The " rebels" who seized Metternich's
1,000 Lof Johannisberg, containing a stand of some
to se bottles bottles of glorious wine, have had the cruelty
The to the expatriated Prince—a corkscrew.
that most extensive dinner ever given in England was
Geo„?' Lord Romney, to the Kent Volunteers, when
Lreee ,'VII. reviewed them near Maidstone. The tables
lables-`7en miles and a half long, and the boards for the
A PUZZLE
X 15,000
Yolkg FOR THE EASTERN HO LI DAY —Fifteen
th, dies walk out seven days in succession, in a column
dayabreast. It is required to arrange them for each
vas, that no two shall walk twice abreast. There are
,TuLninonber of ways in which it may be done.
104,4 r RETORT.—Counsellor Wallace once said to a
thinVatto an in a smock-frock who was undergoing his
tr4ok i°ll in the witness-box " You in the smock-
,hti a`cnr much are you paid for lying ?" " Less than
too unfortunately, or you would be in a smock-frock
‘'lceptabflNG IDEA.—In speaking of the precautions
Y the authorities of Nottingham, during the recent
Atkplent, the Nottingham Journal says r--7" Under the
4441 Precautions, we must not omit to mention an
%I,: hie one that was adopted, we are informed, at the
Naf°r,k,s• At every gate a moveable pipe, attached. to
the mains was fixed up, so that the persons inside
Mt° Pour upon the mob, in case they attempted to break
41Natie premises, a volume of flame, that would force the
4‘ „dating to desist ; and thus the works were guarded
tre :',4e necromantic castles of old, by dragons vomiting

tO !t COMPLIMENT-TO THE LAWYERS.—Among the
4014",,Ped by Peter the Great, during his sojourn in
tnai r,',Was Westminster Hall in term time, when the
`4,114 tl-v,"'e court was crowded with lawyers in their wigs
r7oseb;„n". Peter, struck by the sight, enquired " Who
6,-",..._°ns could possibly be ? " Being informed by
tote sf"'arthen that they were all persons of the legal
t he appeared to be greatly mystified, and at
lay Ceiumed, Lawyers !—why I have only two in all
the -111'nions, and I believe I shall hang one of them
tft pornent I get back." Happy Peter !—Church of
a. and Quarterly Review.
2,4,I:IRREDITARY TENDENCY TO SUICIDE .—There
.tre
richofsi
xmcehricihdan t
CulY curious instances on record where whole families
mve been swept away by suicide. I will only cite one
!39efa:---thAer of an impetuous character, was
14;lerable sum of money when they were all fully grown up.
children, to each of whom he gave a con-
tieyoungest son became melancholy, and at the age of
nty-six or twenty-seven threw himself from the top of
e house. One of his brothers became especially de-
42.1Ned at his death, and after frequent attempts at sui-
ige, died a year afterwards from often repeated prolonged
teltnga. The following year another brother had an at-
ht,, of mania ; a fourth, who was a physician, and who
tieli Years previously remarked to me, with horrible cool-
Q; that he should not escape his fate, killed himself.
dent or three years afterwards, a sister was affected by
el.al disease, and made many attempts to destroy her-
, and, lastly, the sixth brother, who lived in the hap-
-7t domestic relations, and seemed in consequence to
tidre been spared during many years, also committed sui-
*--Journal of Psychological Medicine.
Ii,4ILOSING SCENE OF THE TRIAL OF THE EARL OF
13tProRn.—On the last day of his trial he was attended
ie Young children, who were allowed to stand by his
fe e
iat the bar. Regading them with looks of deep af-
/11
Iliet,°n, andul appeal pointing
to towarthed vsast audience e
thus concluded
"cautif:—" lords,
'than now now troubled your lordships a great deal longer
;the ' I should have done were it not for the interest of
~is Pledges which a saint in heaven has left me." Here
for ~eeclings overcame him, and compelled him to pause
fn-,lew seconds. " I should be loath, my lords—what
ble'elt for myself is nothing ; but I confess, that my
deelsleretion should forfeit for them, it wounds me v.ery
sobtr,:, You will be pleased to pardon my infirmity :
able-""Ing I should have said, but I see I shall not be
ter Vold therefore I will leave it. And now, my lords,
totr—,2 I thank God I have been, by his good blessing
are not Me, taught that the afflictions of the present life
than. to be Compared with the eternal weight of glory
even suall be revealed to us hereafter. And, my lords,
taihnl?, with all humility and tranquillity of mind, I do
"Yself clearly and freely to your judgments; and
death,ethat righteous judgment shall be to life or to

"^-48 Te Deum laudamus, to Deum confitemur."
VviiBe 8 Literary and Hisorical Memorials cif Londo.n.
best 0,...1; ARE THERE DISAFFECTED MEN ?—Even ln the
Xvertled countries there has always been a numer.-
ban-n—ss of persons who have thrown away all their
thin and spoilt themselves for the existing statet_
that
Vijp:B* There is no form of government whatever hon
set's, atowaY the stigma of crime, that will give common
lien
a fool and activity to a drone, or that wil renmodner
tiaii °f disagreeable temper anything else than a c.t
d-
ts: nuisance to himself and his friends. The United
tssoB, What with their free institutions and their unlimited
Peet
ces give a man as many chances as mortal can ex-
n this ephemeral existence ; but even there society
kti:er the out a considerable portion of its members
the }pa backwoods, or into holes and corners, or across
that ritish line. Thousands finding first this city, then
tessieitY, " too hot for them," roam about under a suct-
tlek, of aliases, and either open gin-shops in a new se -
the ,nti Or, as a last resourse, cut fuel for the steamers on
are utarshy banks of the Mississippi. In England 9iere
Are° such outlets for branded guilt or disappointed
qual. There exist everywhere amongst us men who have
1)10;relled irreconcilably with their friends or their em-
theirtsesinen who have only half-learnt their trad.e. or
Profession—men of desultory and useless abilities,
11(4;1 their heads full of schemes applicable to every other
thj,...but their own. Such men are generally beaten in
Are ;:r.,,0f life by steady and industrious worth. They
Lileir'„llailY at the tail, while plodders are at the head of
whenretY• Therefore, their only chance is. a row.
ahour is disorganized, when large populations are
raytialcitated to ruinous stakes, the same folly that causes
ileerils. to starve, raises such persons as we have been
JaSt tv."lug into wealthy and comfortable men. They arc
sideritt7 Bart of people to be the presidents and vice-pre-_
the f„_?f union lodges, of course with the management of
As o,"us, and with no end of meetings and deputations.
tht as there are many such men, there is always the
(real for sedition • and, therefore, it is necessary, in
thett tit these, for' the working classes to be put on