The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

WESLEY'S BIBLE.—At the Wesleyan Conference re-
cently held at Birmingham. it was announced, that the late
Rev. H. Moore, the surviving executor of John Wesley,
had bequeathed to the Conference the pocket bible used
by the founder of Methodism in field-preaching, and pre-
sented to him by Mr. Wesley.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—On the return of the Cabi-
net Ministers to London, after visiting the Queen, on the
birth of the Prince, they traversed the distance from
Slough to Paddington, eighteen miles and a quarter, by
the Great Western Railway, in fifteen minutes and ten
seconds, being at the rate of upwards of seventy miles an
hour /
CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH. The Anti-Corn-Law
League has sustained another severe defeat, in the rejec-
tion of its treasurer, Mr. Wm. Rawson, of Manchester,
RS a candidate for the representation of Dudley, by a
large majority. The polling took place on Thursday, and
the numbers at the close were—For Mr. 13enbow ,n-
-servative, 388; for Mr. Rawson. leaguer,.7s • majority
A majority which, considering
the register
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213
member,
bad a majority of 247 over Mr. Adams Smith ; but on
that occasion there were 921 names on the register, and
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pointment to the Attorney-Generalship,pand it has now
done itself still further honour by the rejection of the
league's nominee.

LONDON WOOL SALES.—The sales of sheep's wool,
which commenced on the 16th ult., in London, have been
brought to a close. The quantity brought forward amount-
ed to 29,557 bales, and the interest was pretty regularly
supported throughout, The experienced brokers give
their opinion that the prices have averaged very nearly
the same as at the last sale. It must, however, be re-
membered, that the prices with which this comparison is
made, were in advance of those at the beginning of last
year, not less than from 35 to 40 per cent. Oar colonial
wools are evidently in a regular course of improvement,
but, as far as preparation is involved, the improvement
made in the Cape wools was the most conspicuous. Our
colonial production is rapidly throwing the German wools
into the shade, and as the quantity can yet be almost in-
definitely increased, in a few years more we shall be
independent of all foreigners, except for a comparatively
small quantity of the finest
.qualities. There was a small
quantity of Spanish wool in the sale, and nothing can
more clearly exhibit the change of circumstances than the
fact that it sold from is. 6d. to ls. 9d. per lb., whilst the
best Cape wool fetched 2s. 3d. to 2s. 10d. per lb.
SUGAR.—Sugar
is characterized by its solubility in
water and alcohol, by its sweet taste, by being soluble in
alkalies, and by its crystallizing readily. There are
several varieties of sugar, but the two principal are cane
and grape sugars, thaeslat(i.ttegrrabpeeisn,gptlhuamtsw, hpeicahrsr
avpespitehse,
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sweetnessBz c .
Although t o rui ts,
the difference between cane and grape
sugar in composition is merely that
the latter contains
one atom more water, yet the forme! possesses sweeten-
ing properties in a much more eminent degree. Un-
fortunately for domestic economy the sweeter sugar can
be artificially converted into the one less sweet, but not
vice versa. These sugarscan be distinguished from each
other by the action of acids and alkalies. Sulphuric acid
completely decomposes cane sugar, leaving nothing but
a carbonaceous mass, whilst it but. slightly colours grape
sugar. Honey, which consists principally of grape sugar,
is merely rendered into a fluid like treacle, whilst a so-'
lution of sugar candy is acted on very strongly, little else
but a mass of charcoal being left. Alkalies have a con-
trary effect, acting strongly upon grape sugar, and but
slightly on cane. There are several other means of dis-
distinguishing between various sugars, and amongst the
best is their action on sulphate of copper,—Architect's
Journal.

CHINESE DWELLINGS.—In all China the houses are
built upon the ground ; i. e. without any cellar under
them. The apartments are paved with flat square bricks
—a thing very agreeable in warm weather, but very little
suitable to the severe season of the year. To defend theta
from the piercing cold which they experience in the nor-
thern parts of the empire, the Chinese have devised sub-
terraneous furnaces in every direction under the bricks
of the floors, and on a kind of platforms on which the
Chinese sleep. They even pass through the walls which
divide the different rooms, so that the heat diffused by
the tubes produces in the apartments the temparature
desired. The fire is kept up night and day in the outer
stove or furnace, without tha slightest. danger to the
buildings, because a coat of bricks closely confines that
destructive element, and opposes its disastrous effects.—
Chine4e Olio.

MILITARY ArTHons.—lt is a curious fact, formerly
stated in this magazine, that the private soldiers of Eng-
land, though taken from the humblest classes of society,
and few in number when compared to the hundreds of
thousands forced by conscriptions into the ranks of Con-
tinental armies, have yet surpassed all foreigners as much
in letters a.; in arms. We have several highly-interesting
books of military adventure written by private soldiers,
and conveying vivid pictures of their habits, feelings, and
opinions; as well as the dangers and terrible hardships to
which they are exposed in the field. No work of this kind,
deserving of notice, has been produced by either French or
Germans, for the memoir of the French Serjeant Guille-
mard is a poor and paltry fabrication ; and though the
Germans have two works of military adventures edited by
Goethe, even they were both written by soldiers who had
served in the British army, and only convey to German
readers pictures of English military life. This literary
triumph of our countrymen is not, indeed, likely to silence
the liberal and patriotic persons who so constantly tell us
of the brutality of English soldiers ; but, as an established
fact, it may be successfully urged by the unbiassed against
the mere declamations of party orators.—Fraser's Maga-
zine.

THE ROMAN ARCH.—I agree with Mr. R. C. Long,
of Baltimore, Maryland, in his very judicious remarks
relative to the capabilities of the Roman arch, which he
considers has not yet been fully developed as a beautiful
feature in architectural composition. What in the archi-
tectural world can exceed in sublimity and grandeur the
long unbroken line" f arches in the Roman wilderness?
But there must be no higgling, sniggling, paring, frost-
ing, tinkering, and the rest of the little ings and things
with which our modern arches are ornamented. I'verily
believe that the man who spoils an arch with a dropping
keystone could be guilty of inserting a ring in the nose of
the Venus de Medici, and though it might be merely his
own bright idea, he might think all the while, persuading
himself that others thought so too, that it had been se-
lected by the fair hand of science to set off the Queen of
Beauty to advantage. 1 have seen, or perhaps only think
I have seen, sculptured keystones which had a good effect,
the sculpture alone being in relief. By the bye, sculp-
ture is too seldom called in aid by architects to embellish
their works. I do not mean the Paul Pry intruding or
protruding keystone with mere glyphs, but something like
what is to be found in nature relieved on a smooth ground
appearing like a single star in the firmament, or to speak
of things terrestial, a single and well selected ornament
on the arched and unwrinkled brow of beauty.—Civil
Engineer.

A PLEASANT BEDFELLOW.—I was awakened last night
at midnight by a violent storm of thunder and lightning,
and wind and rain. Hard dreaming al I was, I had sense
enough left to feel something moving in bed, and, by the
light from a flash of lightning, to my unspeakable horror,
I saw crawling over the mattrass a cobra de capello. He
reared his head when he came to my body, and slowly
crawled on my legs ; and, as there was nothing over me
but a thin cotton sheet, I could distinctly feel the cold,
clammy body of the venomous reptile, through the sheet,
the heat of my body seemed agreeable to the monster, as
he coiled himself up there. I lay dead still ; I knew my
life depended upon my remaining motionless, for had I
moved a leg or an arm be would instantly have bitten me,
after which I could not have lived many minutes. A cold

sweat ran in a stream down my back ; I was in an agony
of terror; home and friends, and all that was dear, rushed
to my memory ; my whole life passed in review before me.
I saw no way of escape, and considered my doom sealed ;
every flash of lightning showed me my new bedfellow in
all its loathsomeness. When I had lain in one position
about three hours, my legs became sore and stiff, from
having been kept so long motionless ; and at this time I
gave an involuntary shudder, which attracted the notice
of the reptile. He raised his head about a foot high,
thrust out his forked tongue, looked around him, as if for
some living object to prey upon. I now thought it was
all over with me. 1 prayed mentally (for I dared not
move my lips, for fear of attracting notice) for the forgive-
ness of my sins, when—heaven be praised—the reptile
unfolded his coils, and crawled slowly away from off my
limbs, on to the bed, down by the bedpost to the floor,
and left me. It has been said that poverty makes a man
acquainted with strange bedfellows ; it might be added,
so does wandering in foreign climes.—Journey of a
Wanderer.

A PLEA gOR SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN.—However
praiseworthy the efforts of those may be —and none can
impugn their motives—who have waged war upon fer-
mented liquors, we think that they would eventually do
more good, and be more likely to carry out their inten-
tions farther, if they would insert some saving clauses in
favour of the grape and John Barleycorn. We cannot
imagine that the English people can forego the use of
' malt liquor consistent with their nationality, and that,
when they awake from this play which is now acting be-
fore them, they will say, with Christopher Sly, " And
once again a cup of the smallest ale 1" It is worthy of
remark, that the increase of dyspeptic complaints has been
very great of late years ; and such hosts of these affec-
tions, if we may judge from medical records, were not to
be found ameng the same class of people in the good old
days when John Barleycorn reigned autocratically. This
is due to that great change which has taken place in the
march of society—to that restlessness of mind which has
engendered so much uneasy feeling—that desire of "going
ahead," which has pervaded all classes of people to such
a degree, as to leave it a query whether any one class is
aptedutpooan hantyot penseseietats of inion
education,
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citementhep articul
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attendant
has only taught so many to be what they are not, rather
than what they are, has unhinged the lower orders. If
happiness be not compatible with profound ignorance,
neither is it with that spirit of dissatisfaction, disquietude,
disloyalty, which are the result of having placed the means
of education in the people's way without securing to them
its real advantages. Where is the yeoman with his twenty
acres of land, his sons following the plough, his daughters
m the dairy or at the spinning-wheel ? Contented with
their means, to them reward enough to tap the Christmas
barrel, are they happier that they have quitted their
sphere to be wrecked on a sea of adventures l—Fraser's
Magazine.

TRIUMPHS OF PITT IN PUTTING DOWN JACODINISM,
In January, 1793, the cruel murder of the innocent and
unfortunate Louis XVI. had been perpetrated by the
National Convention—an act which Napoleon long after-
wards pronounced " a grand political error, sufficient to
stamp the government not merely with guilt, but with in-
fatuation." The French minister at the Court of St.
James's was ordered to leave the country, and war was
proclaimed. The revolutionary committees in England
now assumed increased activity. Communications were
established between them and the Jacobin government ;
and while France prepared for war, English republicanism
prepared for revolution. The time of the struggle was
fully come. The English minister now buckled on his
armour. A succession of vigorous measures employed
the legislature during the whole period ; they were fiercely
combated, but they were all ultimately carried. Opposi-
tion never exhibited more brilliant parliamentary powers.
Fox was matchless in declamation ; alternately solemn
and touching ; Sheridan, Grey, and a long list of prac-
tised and indefatigable talent, were in perpetual debate ;
but Pitt, " with huge two-handed sway," finally crushed
them all. The classic illustration of Hercules destroying
the Hydra, was frequently used to express the solitary
prowess of this extraordinary man in resisting the multi-
plied, wily, and envenomed attacks of his opponents ; and
he realized the fable to the full—he not merely crushed
the heads, but he seared them. lie extinguished that
principle of evil increase, by which all the efforts of fo-
reign governments bad been baffled in their contests with
Jacobinism ; and in the midst of an empire at all times
inclined to look with jealousy on power, and at that mo-
ment nervous for the suspended privileges of its constitu-
tion, Pitt utterly extinguished the Whigs. Fox was de-
feated so hopelessly, that he gave up Parliament altoge-
ther, and his party followed his example. Pitt bad not
merely cut down the statelier trunks of Opposition, but
he had swept away the brushwood, and smote the ground
with sterility. His bold enterprise had not merely taken
the citadel of faction by storm, and driven its defenders,
faint-hearted and fugitive, over the face of the land, but
he had sown the foundations with salt. The total soli-
tude of the Opposition benches, during the greater part
of the minister's political life, was the most unequivocal
and striking evidence ever given to ministerial supremacy.
—Blackwood's Magazine.

DRAPERY.—It will be seen by reference to an adver-
tisement in another column, that the remaining portion
of Mr. M'Connell's excellent stock is now selling at Mr.
Kerr's, by whom he has been succeeded, at half the origi-
nal cost.

NEW FANCY REPOSITORY.—It will be seen by an ad-
vertisement in our paper of to-day, that Mr. E. Flower,
who is meritoriously known to the public as having been
one of the most strenuous advocates of early closing, has
opened a shop in Renshaw-street. Amongst the stock
are many novelties. We wish him every success.

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the viands, &c., on a latticed shelf above them—the whole
being so contrived, with a nonconducting substance be-
tween the double sides, &c., that not only the ice, but the
meat is preserved for a long time, even in the warmest
weather. We have since writing the foregoing to add the
name of another competitor for public favour in the same
line,—namely, our respected townsman, Mr. Lynn, of the
Waterloo Hotel, who is also an importer of pure Amen,.
can ice, and has a supply on hand of the same refrigera-
tors. Mr. L.'s long standing in the town as a purveyor
of all the good things of this life to his. customers, gives
him also a strong claim to support in this department, and
there is ample room for both. The ice trade is one in
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POETRY.

AN OLD MAN'S MUSINGS.

(From " Echoes of Mind," No. I.)

" Last scene of all
That ends this strange eventful history,
In second childishness and mere ob ivion."
As You Like It.

I am old, I am old, my hair is grey,
The strength of my manhood hath passed away.
And al things around me seem strange and cold,
And not as they used to be of old.
The young and the gay. they care not for me;
How should they?—their hearts are full of glee;
ThAr hopes are blooming, and mine have faded.
They know not yet what my brow bath o'ershaded
I am old, I am old; I am left alone;
The joys of my youth have long since flown.

Park! there's a whisper that comes through the trees,
Borne on the wings of the scented breeze;
And it seems to tell of the years gone by,
And of hopes that I deemed were too bright to die.
It comes from the hours of my childhood now,
And gently it fans my old wrinkled brow.
It tells of the flowers that decked the bowers,
Wherei❑ I once spent such happy hours,
When my heart rejoiced in a holy love,
That resteth now in its home above.
It tells of the blossoms of early youth,
When all seemed fairness and beauty and truth ;
And now it comes with a ruder blast,
As the years of manhood are sweeping past,
And the tall trees bend before the winds,
As the years bow down the pride of our minds.
And sternly it comes, and it scatters the leaves,
As time does the h0,,-.es that our fancy weaves;
And now it is sinking again to rest,
As the pa,sions do in an old man's breast.

The breezes are hushed, the Spirit is gone,—
Gone to the realms of laughter and song.
Bright spirits dwell with the young and the gay,
They care not with me an old man to stay ;
But they came from heaven my old heart to cheer,
They have brought to my old eye a childhood's tear.
The chords of my heart 1 thought were all broken
The Spirit bath touched them, once more have they spoken.

And now there shall gleam through the shadow of years,
My childhood's glad hopes, and its fleeting tears ;
And fancy shall bring back my b t days again,
As echo repeats the last notes of op strain.
Men sort not with children—they sort not with me ;
What care I for that. if a child's heart of glee
Will come back again to this worn-out breast,
And cheer its last days till it sink to rest,
Like a play-tired child in the arms of His love,
Who hath said, " Ye shall never see heaven above,
Till humbled in spirit, and undefiled,
Your hearts are as pure as this little child."

C. W. M.

NOTICES.

Blackwood's Magazine.

.. The first article in this magazine for the present month
is of painful interest, relating, as it does, to the sad tn.
gedy cf Affghanistan. The writer has evidently studied
the subject with great attention, and recapitulates under
five distinct heads the blundering and infatuation of the
leaders of the British troops in that lamentable series of
conflicts in which 17,000 valuable lives were sacrificed,
and the military banners of England were for a time tar-
nished, not, indeed, by want of prowess in those who ral-
lied around them, but by a want of foresight, and of that
"discretion'' which especially in wars with treacherous
and unfeeling barbarians strong in their native fastnesses,
and innured to the rigours of their own clime, is, after all,
" the better part of valour." Ably, however, as the sub-
ject is handled, and incontestibly just as are the severe
reprehensions of the writer, we question the kiolig of re-
curring to a subject, the reminiscence of which inflicts a
national pang, which can result in no good that we can
perceive, but, on the contrary, serve to
cherish in the
minds of suffering survivors a feeling of indictation and
mistrust towards our rulers in the east, and (by our ad-
missions) gratify would-be belligerent foreigners, jealousers, lous
of our general power and our glories, who rejoice in our
discomfiture in any part of the globe, from whatever un-
toward circumstances it may arise. Our author himself
makes a sort of apology for resuscitating a topic which by
almost common consent has been consigned, not without
tears, to the obliterating waters of Lithi ; and he is, we
think, blameable in again harrowing it up, without sug-
gesting any means, except by inference, of averting the
recurrence of a similar catastrophe. Why did he not,
since he would recur to these appalling disasters, urge
upon the government the necessity of a rigid investigation
by court martial of the whole affair, so that the parties
alleged to be grievously in fault might be pronounced
guilty and punished accordingly, or stand acquitted of the
higher offence from evidence of error in judgment. On
this point we have no hesitation in stating that our home
ministry have been culpably remiss, and it was the only
atonement they could have made to the relatives of those
whose remains were left in thousands to bleach on the
wilds of Upper India.—" Etching Thoughts by the Etch-
ing Club" is cleverly written, exhibiting in a pleasing
manner the worth and the neglect of the art. "A Love
Chase, in Prose" is amusing but of moderate merit—the
close especially bring abrupt, and deficient in retributive
justice to the swindling coterie of the village of Wimble-
ton. The account of the ancient canal between the Nile
and the Red Sea will be read with interest. The Tradi-
tions and Tales of Upper Lusatia are continued. The
tale of the Dwarf's Will occupies the present part, and is
curious, while it conveys a sound moral. The remarks on
" Schiller's Maid of Orleans " are tastefully written.
" The Stolen Child," a tale of the back woods, wrought
up frohl the particulars of an incident related in the Mis-
sissippi newspapers of 1825-G, contains a good description
of the interior wilds of the far west. The last article is a
review of the recently published Life of Lord Eldon, by
Horace Twiss, and is replete with anecdote. We give
some extracts in our present number.

Tire Mysteries of Paris, Chapman and Hall, London.
We have received Parts I. and H. of "the only English
edition (of this extraordinary work) authorised by M.
Eugene Sue," the gifted author ; and it is got up in a
manner highly creditable to the publishers, whether as
regards the apparent fidelity of the translation, the beauty
of the typography, or the excellence and number of the
illustrations, which last are highly sketchy and effective,
maintaining a vraisemblance of the several actors in the
stirring drama, by which they are instantly recognised in
the varied scenes, he they disguised or in their usual cos-
tume. Of the merits of the work as a literary produc-
tion, we find it difficult to speak in terms of adequate
praise. The writer is evidently a man of powerful con-
ception, and a shrewd observer of human character, both
in its sunny and in its dreariest and most revolting aspect;
and, so far as we have yet perused his narrative, he has
excited and sustained in us a deep interest in the fortunes
and the fate of those whose portraitures he so vigorously
depicts, and which are enhanced by striking contrasts of
disposition and pursuit, and, above all, by rapidity of in-
cident. Nothing can be more charming or affecting than
the innocent, confiding, sensible, and naturally-refined
character of the Gonaleuse, otherwise" Fleur-de-Marie,"
a deserted girl thrown unprotected (at first) upon the un-
pitying world, and suffering numerous hardships and pri-
vations amongst the most abandoned and wicked of her
species ;—nothing more generous, but firm and disinte-
rested, than that of Rodolph, " the unknown," who, by
the very nobility of his nature, though by personal chas-
tisement in the first instance, redeems to grateful and
honourable feelings the hardened, but not impenetrable
or dishonest " Chourineur," The " Schoolmaster," a
returned and desperate convict, who had deserted and
wronged his family, and had more than once stained his
bands with blood, meets, at an early part of his second
career of guilt with an awful punishment—short only of
an ignominious death on the scaffold—namely, the instant
.
deprivation of sight, which denies him the power fur-
ther mischief; and he is left by those he has most injured
with ample means to prolong life in penitence and prayer.
The horrible situation in which he had previously left
Rodolph to perish in the vault of " The Bleeding Heart"
—a low tavern resort of the worst description, concealed
in a ditch near Paris, and in which he is nearly drowned
before he is rescued—is fearfully worked up. The history
of La Gonaleuse from her childhood—with the old Ogress
(a returned female convict), who kept a drinking-shop,
the resort of felons, thieves, assassins, and the dregs of
Parisian society—is related by herself with great feeling
and simplicity ; and " the unknown," who listens to her
story, rescues her from that den of infamy, still virtuous,
and in the early bloom of womanhood. We have not
seen the whole work, although it has already had a great
run in France, and (in a spurious English edition) in the
United States ; but we conjecture that " Fleur-de-Marie"
will turn out to be of noble family, and that " the lost
son," in search of whom Rodolph resembles Ulysses in
seeking his own, will also be restored to his parental
rights. The present edition of the work is a translation,
which, according to the prospectus, " repudiates every
thing that can by possibility be thought offensive to the
English reader, yet preserves that intense interest which
bas given it such universal popularity." We shall pro-
bably give some extracts hereafter.

The Civil Engineer and Architects Journal. R. Groom-
bridge, London.
We have received another number of this " Journal of
tho Arts, Sciences, Public Works, Railways, Steam Na-
vigation, Mining, and Machinery," and it contains many
articles important to those inthrested in the scientific and
mechanical advancement of our country, with numerous
diagrams and illustrations. In noticing the proceedings
of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the paper of our
townsman, Mr. John Grantham, there read in February
last, on the experiments made on a vessel called the " Li-
verpool Screw," fitted with Grantham's engines and
Woodcroft's screw propeller, is favourably noticed, and
the discussion that ensued is reported, with illustrations
of various sizes and fans. Mr. Rennie, C.E., after re-
marking on experiments made by various parties with the
screw as a propeller, said " It was, however, Mr. F, P.
Smith who first rendered the screw-propeller practically
useful; for his perseverance, being aided by spirited capi-
tarnacl:in,ienrduced the building of the Archimedes steamer, the
Y of which was constructed by Messrs. G. and J.
Rennie, in 1839. The results obtained from that vessel
were well known, and caused the subsequent construction
of the Princess Royal, the Great Northern, H.M.S.V.
the Rattler, and the Dwarf, formerly the Mermaid ; also
not
Great Pritain, which lasthaving yet been to sea,
could only be mentioned as a projected experiment." We
have already given an abstract of Mr. Grantham's paper.
We give in another column some extracts from this ta-
heated and cheap periodical.

The Library of Travel. Chapman and Hall,
il,9ndon.
Part IV. of this work has come to hand, and
tinuation of Syria and the I.loly. Land. The editor Mr.
It. Kelly, has exercised a wise discretion in appropriating
the best portions of the information collected by the moat-
celebrated travellers of this a number countries, and the
work is illustrated by a great of finely executed

wood-cuts, conveying accurate representations of the ci-
ties, scenes, and antiquities which the reader is pleasingly
led to ramble through and contemplate. The descrip-
tions of what the countries through which be p sses now
are, are enhanced in interest by reflections on what they
were in the earlier days of Christianity, and the whole is
enriched by numerous anecdotes of travel, and narratives
of interesting incidents and events. In the number before
us we have interesting accounts of Aleppo and its envi-
rons—field sports of the nations—Murrah—Harrah, with
its large water-wheels—journey from I3eyrout southward
—interesting memoir of Lady Hester Stanhope—the town
of Seyde—curious account of the life and exploits in India,
and success and final beggary in Syria of General Lous-
tanneau—Modern Tyre—Excursion to the Sea of Tiberias
—Nazareth—Mount Tabor—Tiberias, with a view before
and after the destructive earthquake of 1837—Safed, also
in ruins—the Bridge over the Jordan—Lass—and finally,
a journey from Acre to Jerusalem, including Mount Car-
mel, the ruins of Athlete, Western Syria, the beautiful
valley of Sharon, &c. Some extracts from the last num-
ber of this admirable work will be found elsewhere, and
we shall hereafter appropriate several interesting passages
from the present part.

The Polytechnic Review and Magazine. London , John

Mortimer.
We have received the second number of the new series
of this periodical, and have derived much information, as
well as entertainment, from its perusal. An excellent ar-
ticle on agricultural chemistry is here concluded. The
" Sketches of Constantinople" are well penned, and
highly interesting, and there are many other papers, re-
reviews, &c. VF e give elsewhere two extracts, and shall
probably recur to the number when we have more space
to spare.

Echoes of Mind. By C. Mann and Chas. H. Hitch-

ings. 'London : C. Mitchell.
No I. of a neat little pamphlet under this title is before
us, and is exclusively occupied by poetry, the whole of
which appears to us to be of an order vastly superior in
taste and feeling to the usual productions of modern ver-
sifiers. 'We have no knowledge whatever of either of the
authors, but it is pleasant to find two poets,—an irritable
and generally jealous race,—and both probably young
men, with congenial feelings, joining hand in hand in de-
voting their offerings at the shrine of the Muses. It has
been well stated by a celebrated author that if literary men
would but act together they might chasten, adorn, and
even " lift the world," and though from this mere union
of two we cannot anticipate so high a result, we may ven-
ture to predict that if these two brothers in literature pro-
ceed in the career they have so well begun, they will ar-
rive at a distinguished eminence as writers. The whole
of the pieces belong to or border upon the pathetic ; and a
rich vein of sympathy and amiable feeling pervades the
whole. The work is prefaced by a brief and unassuming
address, in which the authors state that "at irregular and
indefinite intervals, the present work will be followed by
others, differing in the nature of their contents. Some-
times we shall ofler a play—sometimes a poem, and pos-
sibly, at some distant peaiod, a collection of essays ;" and
they intimate that their course will mainly depend on the
encouragement they may receive. The little work is
" affectionately dedicated to Henry Morley, Esq., their
friend and fellow author, as the only tribute of esteem
which they are able to offer him," and we wish them every
success. There are in all eleven pieces, of nearly equal
merit—so that we have been puzzled which to select, our
present space not permitting us to give more than one—
which will be found in our poet's corner. Those entitled
" The Child of the Night " by the same individual, and
"The Night of Agony," by C. H. Hitchings, also strike
us quite equal, if not superior, to "An Old Man's
Musings."