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Sketch of the History of the House of Stanley and the
House of Sefton, by David Ross of the Liverpool
Chronicle. London : W. S. On and Co., Paternoster-

AN IRISH DEFILE.—Ceim-an-eich, i. e., The Path of
the Deer, stands frowning before us, on our reaching the
Macroom and Bantry high road. This remarkable pass is
two miles in length, lying nearly north and south. Its
breadth is barely sufficient for the roadway, which is con-
ducted through it with no little engineering skill. A
gigantic mountain has been cleft in twain, down to its
very base—not cleanly cut, as with an archangel's brand,
but torn asunder, through sheer strength, as by the earth-
quake's strong hands. Adown the jagged edges of this
deep wound in mother earth, are scattered about, in
quaintest confusion, huge heaps of rock, covered with
lichens and mosses of many kinds, or with fern, and ivy,
and other creeping plants. In the interstices flowers the
arbutus ; or an occasional yew springs up from a covert of
London-pride, gemmed with drooping lusmore or fox-
glove. Looking upward from the narrow strip of road at
the bottom of the pass, your eye follows the ragged out-
line of broken cliffs, that stand almost straight above you
in the zenith, until it turns from them, abashed by their
awful majesty. You behold, you think, the measured
pattern of the roadway you stand on, cut out from the
clear, bright heavens ; for so much only of the etherial
canopy is visible to you. A parallel thought in the Roman
poet we need not repeat. The sudden windings of the
defile conceal your way of approach to it. " You look
back," writes C. 0., and you cannot find how you gotin
—before you, and you cannot imagine how you are to get
forward. You might imagine that the spirit of the moun-
tains had got you into his stronghold, and that you were
impounded here by everlasting enchantment." The Gou-
gane entrance is more striking than that on the Bantry
side, for the cleft is less widely drawn and the rocks stand
up steeper and more precipitous. On the other hand, the
latter possesses the most striking single object at Ceim.;
an.eich—a great square, castellated rock, like a barbican
reared by Nature herself.—Dublin University Magazine.
LOLA MONTES.—The Cornwall Gazette gives the fol-
lowing account of this notorious danseuse. Our contem-
porary first excuses himself by saying that he is no ad-
iy them for sixpence a piece. mirer of Lola Montes, and has no wish to claim her, even
'ear country then ?" nominally, for this country; but her unprincipled career
es, my jewel," said Pat. having become matter of history, he finds a place for the
AND THE NUMBER TruarEEN.—The following particulars of her early life, for the authenticity
I-en is attached in a most singular of which he vouches :—" This notorious personage is the
manner to the life of the King of the French. as appears daughter of a gentleman named Gilbert. She was born
by the following, written in 1843 :—Louis Philippe was in India, where she remained till she was about ten years
'73 ; he emigrated in 1793 ; his emigration old, when her father sent her home to a great friend of his,
113. He has reigned and governed for thir- Sir J. N., a gentleman of high rank in the British array,
a thirteen years the Count of Paris will be who had promised to have her educated with his own
of age. The king has thirteen chateaux,—Le Tuilleries, daughters; but he soon found the little Indian lady quite
Le Louvre, Le Palais Royal, L'Elissee Bourbon, Neuilly, unmanageable, her temper being so exceedingly violent
St. Cloud, Meudon, Versailles, Compiegne, Fontainbleau, that he was afraid to trust her with his own children. He
Eu, Pau, and Le Rainey. The Civil List has a total of therefore sent her to school, from which she was soon re-
Mrteen children and grandchildren. His life has been in turned to him as incorrigible. He then tried another
_aes since 1830. And lastly, since his school in Bath for her, and there she remained about two
seen thirteen Governments succeed each years ; and, notwithstanding her violent temper, her coin-
aluding his own. panions could not help being fond of her, as she had a
.—The three luxuries of tra- peculiarly fascinating manner; and her wondrously bril-
ya_ a stout pony, a pleasant companion, and liant eyes pleaded most effectually in her favour. Her
plenty of money. Three things which, whoever visits father died soon after she left India, and her mother mar-
Wales, is mire to take away with him—worn-out shoes, a ried the late Major Craigie, of the East India Company's
shocking bad hat, and a delightful recollection of the service, Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Bengal army.
gs without which no man can enjoy Upon his death, we believe Mrs. Craigie returned to Eng-
•ood health, good spirits, and good land, when her daughter was about fifteen. She settled
'-gtthings in Wales—buttermilk, in Bath, and immediately took her daughter from school.
Three things that the On her homeward voyage Mrs. Craigie became acquainted
,—travel in the dark, wait in doors with a young lieutenant of the name of James, who de-
may be a rainy day, and try and keep his feet voted himself entirely to her, and when she took a house
--lifications for properly pronouncing in Bath was a constant inmate ; he soon, however, found
—a cold in the head, a knot in the the daughter the most attractive, and a mutual attach-
.usk of barley in the throat. The three ment sprang up between them, of which Mrs. Craigie was
wawa a man may speak in Wales when he does quite unconscious, still believing the lieutenant devoted to
..new Welsh—that of the Chinese—that of the Chero- herself. In the summer of 1837, a few months only after
Kees, and that of the Houhmyhms. The three languages she had reached England, she left Bath with her daughter
f a man all over Wales without having a and the gallant lieutenant for a tour to the Lakes. But
—that of the arms, that of the eyes, that at Clifton, Miss (Eliza) Gilbert and her mother had a ter-
"ickwood. rible quarrel, about some trifle, which, from their simi-
-"Ala.—La the house of the Sibe- larity of temper, was no uncommon occurrence. Unfor-
--Puny saw many of the exiles tunately, Miss Gilbert left the room forgetting her bag
-ilad by the mild name which was on the table, and Mrs. Craigie wanting a pen-
ally; • cil soon after, most innocently opened it and there found
.4 to • a letter from Lieutenant Janes to her daughter, saying
the I that he had made every arrangement for their marriage at
oetter r" some town on their route ! Poor Mrs. Craigie's eyes were
..d or bre*, thus suddenly opened, and the violence of her passion may
iy served in F be more easily imagined than described ; and Miss Gilbert
re-appearing at the moment encountered the storm, and,
after a terrible scene, was ordered to her room. Out she
rushed, and on the stairs met Mr. James, told him what
had passed, and immediately they left the house together,
the lady without either bonnet or shawl, and got on board
a steamer just starting for Ireland, where they were mar-
ried, and soon after they returned to India.
BRITAIN'S STABILITY.—" NO revolution," says Ma-
me de Stahl, " can succeed in any country, unless it is
qed by a portion of the higher, and the majority of the

The little work before us, although not possessing so
much of novelty as its predecessor, the history of the
Rouse of Russell is even more interesting to Lancashire
and Cheshire readers, from the connexion of the two
illustrious houses with our own immediate locality. The
career of sufferings of James, seventh Earl of Stanley,
and of his heroic wife Charlotte de la Tremouille, is
striking episodes in history which
'plating, and which tend to
.actor of the British nobility,

rked in that of the far-descended in most other
as executed his task with great ability
1, like those in his former publication,
las appended to the sketches of the
ad Sefton, are full of valuable matter.
)urse we differ from him in our estimation of the
present distinguished scion of the
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VARIETIES

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Punch exhibits the versatile Harry as " the citizen of the
world, or Lord Brougham naturalised everywhere;" the
well-known lineaments being pourtrayed in three-and-
twenty different characters, viz., as English, French,
:otch, Indian, Roman, Greek, Persian, Yankee, &c. &c.
CHEAP POULTRY.—An Irish pedlar asked an itinerant
he softer sex the price of a pair of fowls.
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irmations wnicn
portant observation. Had the National Guard of Paris
stood firm, the troops of the line would never have wa-
vered ; the government would not have been intimidated ;
a socialist revolution would have been averted ; public
credit preserved ; the savings' bank, the place of deposit
of the poor—the public funds, the investment of the mid-
dle classes—saved from destruction. When we contem-
plate the dreadful monetary crisis which has been brought
on in France by the revolution ; when we behold the
Bank of France suspending payments, and all the chief
banks of the metropolis rendered bankrupt by the shock ;
when we behold wealth in ship-loads flying from its me-
naced shores, and destitution in crowds stalking through
its crowded and idle streets, we are struck with horror,
and impressed with a deeper sense of thankfulness at the
good sense and patriotic spirit of the middle classes in this
country, which has so quickly crushed the efforts of the
seditious to involve us in similar calamities. " The un-
bought loyalty of men,—the cheap defence of nations,"—
still, thank God ! subsists amongst us. The poison of
infidelity has not destroyed the moral bonds of society—
the rolling-stone of revolution has not crushed the insti-
tutions of freedom amongst us. There are hearts to love
their country—arms to defend their Queen—not less
among our civil than our military defenders. The pillage
of Glasgow on the first outbreak of the disturbances there,
their speedy suppression by the energy of the inhabitants,
has not been lost on the empire. It is not in vain that
twenty thousand constables came forward to be enrolled
in one day in Glasgow, and eleven thousand in Manches-
ter. We see what we have to expect from the seditious ;
they see what they have to expect from the middle classes
of society, and the whole virtuous part of the lower.
With such dispositions in both, Great Britain may be
exposed to local disorder or momentary alarm, but it can
never be seriously endangered, or undergo that worst of
horrors—a social revolution. Nor will she, with such
dispositions in her people, be less prepared to assert the
ancient glory of her arms, should circumstances render
that alternative necessary. She has no internal reforms
to make that she cannot achieve peaceably, by the means
which her constitution affords. Her giant strength slum-
ships of war, in the noble words
one of those stupendous
t still-

many con

bets, not sleeps.
of Mr. Canning

ness,—how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of ne-
cessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated
thing, instinct with life and motion—how soon it would
ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage—how quickly it
would put forth all its beaniy and its bravery, collect its
attered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant

thunder !"—how soo,
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