The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE LIBRARY OF THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—On Friday
the sale of Bibles, formerly the property of the Dtote of
Sussex, was resumed at Messrs. Evans's auction rooms,
Pall-mall. The number of lots disposed of during the
five day's sale is 980, and the amount realised exceeds
£2OOO.

Very numerous applications have been made to the
Home Office for a remission of the sentence on Barber,
who is now on board a convict ship about to sail for New
South Wales, but we can state that they have all been
unsuccessful, and we believe there is no intention what-
ever to remit any part of the sentence of transportation
for life.—Standard.

ACCIDENT.—On Friday part of the iron and slated roof
of the new retort-hom:e for the City and Suburban Gas
Works, at Dalmarnock, started at one of the ends and
came down with a crash. Most providentially, although
there were upwards of fifty persons employed under it at
the time, only five or six were hurt, the others having
had time to escape to the coal-sheds situated on each side
of that which had given way.—Glaaffow paper.

SHOCKING DEATH.—An inquest was held on Friday,
at Herts, on view of the body of a child named Dyce.
The father, a chimney sweeper, had been employed to
cleanse the kitchen flues at Goldings, the seat of Lord
Reay, and sent the deceased up one of them ; but he got
into a shaft, not intended for a flue, having no .outlet,
and became jammed, so that he could not get down ; and
though the brickwork was removed to extricate him, four
hours elapsed before he was reached, and he was then
quite dead.—Verdict, " Accidental."
Lord Heytesbury, G.C.8., the successor of Earl de
Grey in the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, is in his 65th
year, and has been ambassador at the Court of St. Peters-
burgh, Naples, Madrid. and Lisbon. He was appointed
Governor-General of India on the accession of Sir R.
Peel to office in 1834, but on the return of the whigs in
1835, the appointment was cancelled. The noble lord
married the daughter of the late Hon. W. H. Bouverie,
grand-daughter of the first Earl of Radnor.
In two of the Calcutta newspapers, schedules of the
unclaimed dividends of persons and firms who have failed
upwards of six years ago are published for general infor-
mation. According to the Indian practice, which is
widely different from our own, these accumulated divi-
dends will be paid among any of the claimants whose
claims have been established, and the balance unclaimed
will be distributed among the creditors, the estate being
thus brought to a final close.

IRON STEAM-SHIP BUILDING.—The advance which
the use of iron is making, in preference to timber, for
steam-vessels, is sufficient, in a short time, to set the
question at rest. The admiralty are now constructing
many iron steam-vessels of war, of the largest class, and
p iwnetohcz
ntidi ande
best;al
buildingo s
ac accurate
raan3t
doe
tain the best information on this subject, have just
issued a circular, to a sufficient. number of competent
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, de.termwinheicdhtoshpabl-1
complete appointment of a first-class iron steam-ship,
and on the most improved principles. They offer 100
eeesttedo
statementsengengineers,
guineas for the specification, drawings, hc.,
ers toin odbetataiinl, thennn
connected
be considered. as conveying
. the most accurate and detailed
suggestions; 50 guineas for the
guineas for the third best.

OXFORD, JULY G.—ln a Convocation holden this day,
being the last day of Act Tarm, the Rev. Wm. Joy, M.A.
of Trinity College,
In a congregation holden Cambridge,
at
thewsaasmaedrimitetedthaedfoeltil,oldweiVang.
degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts.—liev. Henry
Hugh Courtenay, Merton College; Rev. David Dale
Stewart, Exeter College; Rev. Edward Holland, Mag.
dalen Hall; Rev. Theodore C. B. Stretch, Worcester
College ; Rev. Abraham Mason, Brasenose College (in.
corporated from Trinity College, Dublin.)—Bachaors of
Arts.—Rev. James Peers Tweed, Fellow of Exeter Col-
lege; Richard Hopkins, Brasenose College,
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 6.—At the Congregation held on
Monday and Tuesday the various. prize poems, odes,
epigrams, &c., were recited by the successful candidates
Wednesdayfrom
hi s
work, last, a
searchyou n g
already announced.—At a Congregation held on Thurs-
day, the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of
Arts.—Thomas Sanders Evans, St. John's College ; John
Atcherley Ashley, Jesus College; Benjamin John Arm-
strong, Caius College; Charles Wade Green, St. Peter's
College; John Barham Johnson, Corpus Christi College.
man, aged 20, in the employment of Mr. Derock, manu-
facturer, London, being
DEATH BY CHARCOAL.
was made after him on the premises ; and on the parties
to be fastened inside. It was immediately forced open,
eventually going to the wafer-closet, the door was found
floor. From an examination of theplace,
it appears that
so determined was he to effect his object, that be had
when the young man was found quite dead, lying on the
taken the precaution toyaste paper round the doorway,
wised— O n
admitted, and then ignited a pan of charcoal, over which
it is supdosed he stood inhaling its suffocating vapours
and over every crevice by which the slightest air could be
until deprived of life. The cause of his committing the
rash act is said to be an attachment to a young woman,
by whom his affection was not returned.
ANTIQUE BRACELET.—About three weeks ago, as
some men were excavating about four miles from Ely,
one of them discovered, at a depth of about eight feet, an
zczni
(ciei,si.t y . I t
Ai s sstiimp:i
similar
do tone be
w aosf
found
antique solid gold bracelet or armlet. It is of a spiral
slCtesar, and its value is of course great
form, and has two very peculiar terminations, which seem
as though intended for a clasp, and present the appear-
ance of a piece of rope, being twisted in the same way.
Cheshire ; and the one to which we
Wore it uncurled, it would measure four feet in length ;
:me"''loeetlifoi;wliji;tiuiettilo:utiissnitie possession
asaitilolt:ilemd,p
drteiioetistapii
of this town, who bought it of the luclq tinder for a c.,m-
paratively trifling stmt.- Its value, as uld gold, is al>,,nr
£2l. Cambridge Independent.

, 7 /

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE POS7-
OFFICE.—In the Rail Court, last week, the Great Western.
Railway Company sought to recover from t'e Earl of
Lonsdale, as Postmaster-General, the sum of £48,308 for
the conveyance of the mails since 1841. The action was
founded on an award in the Company's favour, made ac-
cording to the Act. but a difficulty had arisen on some
technical point. Ultimately it was arran,ted that a fresh
arbitration should be instituted.
The Wesleyan Methodists of the Bingham circuit, have
erected a moveable wooden meeting-house upon wheels,
capable of seating about one hundred and twenty persons,
at a cost of about £tiO, for the accommodation of severa
villages where no site could be obtained. The above pla e
of worship was opened on Monday last, .by Mr. Jo
Shelton, of Nottingham, who preached two sermons up •
the occasion; at the conclusion collections were made,
which together, amounted to upwards of £5O.

TRIAL OF THE RIOTERS AT LEEDS.—This extraor-
dinary trial, according to the reports in the Leeds papers,
terminated on Tuesday last, having occupied four days of
the borough sessions, and twice as long as the other 36
cases put together. The speeches of the learned counsel
alone occupied about twelve hours, five being taken up
by Mr. Ingham, five by Mr. Overend, and two by Mr.
Pashley. The recorder, in summing up, occupied nearly
half of the time of the whole of the speeches of the learned
counsel ; to wh.ch, if we add the three hours taken up in
the consideration of the verdict of the jury, the business
of two of the four days of the trial is amply accounted
for. Twice the court sat until between ten and eleven
o'clock at night. Of the military, four were found guilty,
and eight not guilty ; of the civilians, four were found
guilty, and three not guilty. The sentences on the former
were different periods of imprisonment; of the latter,
one was fined £4, the others were sentenced to short
period of imprisonment.

DR. M` ALE.—A letter from Dr. WHale to Sir R..
Peel, animadverting in strong terms upon the bill intro-
duced into pailiement by the government, "to provide
for the more effectual application of charitable donations
and bequests in Ireland, and to enable grants and devises
to be made in trust for Roman Catholic ministers in Ire-
land," has been published. One of the principal griev-
-11 ances complained of in the bill is denominating the Roman
Catholic priests " ministers!" This term, it appears,
ruffles the equanimity and excites the very indignation of
the Titular Archbishop of Tuam. " Roman Catholic
ministers! (says this " divine" in his letter to the Premier,)
pray appropriate that designation to the officers of the
Kirk or the parsons of the Establishment, the one being
the elected ministers of the state, the other of their
congregations; but do not call the Catholic bishops or
priests of Ireland by a name under which their faithful
flocks could never know them, being imported with that
alien establishment, with which they have been taught to
associate the worst evils of Ireland." He concludes by
designating the bill " a foul measure, which would be as
unworthy of the boasted freedom of the age as it would
be insulting and injurious to the people of Ireland."
ACCIDENT AT THE EDINBURGH RAILWAY. —On
Saturday morning, shortly before six o'clock, an accident
occurred at the Glasgow station of the most alarming
kind, but most providentially, no lives have bees lost.
About half-past five in the morning, a great number of
trucks, loaded with large stones and bricks, were prepared
at Cowlairs to be brought down the incline by three
breaks. By some great misfortune, either seven or nine
of the trucks were shoved forward and on to the incline.
They immediately began to move downward, of course,
and although, as we understand it, one poor fellow leapt
-on a break, which was forwarded to try to stop their
onward course, all his efforts were unavailing, and the
carriages came rushing down the incline with an appalling
speed which no one can describe, the rails, as they neared,
being actually on fire. There was no human power now
to stop them, and down they came, three of the foremost
running right through the centre of the large station-house,
through both walls, and out at the front, into the door of
the bar of the North British Hotel, on the opposite side
of the passage. There was no person in the station-house,
and no one hurt. The breaks man leaped off, we believe,
and was injured, but how he escaped with the life in such
circumstances, is more than we can nnderstand, There
were in all nine or ten waggons, we learn, came down the
incline, six of which were smashed to atoms.—The gra-
titude of every person witnessing the effects of the acci-
dent, was that no lives were lost.—Glasgow Paper.
INVENTION OF PA PER FOR PRINTING.—The invention
of paper, about a century and a half before Richard de
Bury wrote (namely, 1194), and its general employment
instead of vellum for manuscripts in ordinary use, was a
great step towards the multiplicatio❑ of books. Tran-
scribers necessarily became more numerous; but for a
long period they wholly belonged to the monastic orders,
and the books were essentially for the use of the clergy.
Richard de Bury says, with the most supreme contempt
for all others, whatever be their rank, " Laymen, to
whom it matters not whether they look at a book turned
wrong side upwards or spread before them in its natural
order, are altogether unworthy of any communion with
books." But even to the privileged classes he is not
sparing of his reproach as to the misuse of books. He
reprobates the unwashed hands, the dirty nails, the greasy
elbows leaning upon the volume, the munching of fruit
and cheese over the open leaves, which were the marks of
careless and idle readers. With a solemn reverence for a
book at which we may smile, but with a smile of respect
he says, " Let there be a due decorum in opening and
closing of volumes, that they may neither be unclasped
with precipitous haste, nor thrown aside after inspection
without being duly closed."—Biography 'of William
Caxton.

NOT AT HOME.—Mrs. Charles Kemble, giving orders
to a newly-installed footman—a clod whom she had
picked up in the country, and who was quite ignorant
and unpractised in the fitnesse of polite life, told him that
she " should not be ' at home' the whole of that clay ;"
but which intimation the man undoubtedly understood that
she intended going out, but hearing a knock at the street
door a moment after he had received his order, the man
unhesitatingly admitted a party of ladies to the presence
of his surprised mistress, who had seated herself at her
writing table in all security of her precaution. Mrs.
Kemble received her unwelcome visitors with some embar-
rassment, looking daggers at the booby, who coloured up
to the very roots of his hair, as he withdrew, leaving the
incumbrances he bad forced upon the time of his vexed
mistress. Before Mrs. Kemble had presence of mind to
recover from her contre-tems, another carriage drew up
to the door, and Mrs. Kemble turning her head to the
window, perceived that it was that of Mrs. Siddons, and
glad that her order for general exclusion had not deprived
of the pleasure of such a visit, she became reconciled to
the recent blunder of the stupid footman, and waited with
great complacency—her eyes directed to the door of the
room—for the dignified entrance of the tragic muse, but,
to her great chagrin, the carriage drove away, and Clod
not appearing with any message, Mrs. Kemble rang the
be'l somewhat impatiently, and inquired the reason why
Mrs. Siddons did not come in. To this inquiry the now
sulky boor replied with an expressive waive of his hand
towards the visitors—" Wby ma'am, you looked so black
at me for showing in these, that I thought I had better
send Pother away, so I told her you wouldn't see her to-
day."—Anecdotes of Actors. .
DAMASCUS, THE MOST ANCIENT CITY.—DaMaSCUS
is, perhaps, the most ancient city in the world, and the
only one that has enjoyed a continued, though not undis-
turbed, course of prosperity through so vast a succession
of ages. It existed in the days of Abraham, and before
them we know not how long. Founded before almost
all those that afterwards rivalled or eclipsed it, it has
seen them perish one by one, and sometimes so utterly
as to leave no memorial to mark the place on which they
founded
the Caliphs.
bcebelyial
imßpehe
hst.shien
A,f capi-
taltwaser
stood. And yet Damascus has had its full share of the
of Israel, but soon
Seleucidm had transferred
'bf.sloiodrvaeiimont eenkci wasone
fg. once
polis
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recoveredt
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Bagdad,
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by Jeroboam,
Joe
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rri
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of f tshyeriak it/log:Igo
before
Syria,the
the seat of their empire to Antioch. Under the Saracens,
in the brilliant period of Arabian history, Damascus be-
thl
this, sieges and disasters were no rare occurrences in its
annals. Repeatedly was it swept with fire and sword, but
never did it sustain so fearful a calamity as towards the
close of the fourteenth century, when it was beleaguered
by the ferocious conqueror Timur Lenk (Timur the Lame.
or Tamerlane.) For several days the black flag floated
in vain on the Tartar's tent; and never had that signal of
desolation been hoisted for three days on the same spot
without the fulfilment of its fatal presage. At length the
city was taken by storm, and the streets were deluged
.with blood. They still show, near the gate called Babel
Kabi, the spot on which stood a pyramid of heads, the
horrible monument of the victor's ferocity. Timur Lea.
carried off with him the ablest artisans, after butchering
the rest, desiring to enrich his capital, Samarcand, with
all tl,e arts of which he robbed Damascus.—Library of
Travel.
THE EMPEROR NlCllol.xs.—The plainest dressed, but
browto her e
tower
o wmovements abov
all,
-,
1, but the most magnificent figure upon all public occasions in
Russia is, unquestionably the emperor. /is the empress
hangs on the arm of her noble husband, arrayed in a blaze
of jewels, and, with short steps drags a heavy train of
velvet behind her, the emperor accommodates his steps
hisconitmheansdoiunlg-stitigrurirnegannatd l!or/fat:it
and, whilst
hymn is played, " Boje Zarachrani," the Russians gaze
on their emperor as though he was a god. On festivals
or ceremonies of a religious character, the emperor in-
variably stands with head uncovered, and remains wholly
motionless. Jove frozen by eternal cold, or riven by one
of his own thunderbolts, could not possibly be more
statue like. Yet this is not to be attributed either to
want of heart or of emotion. But he knows that every
movement is watched, differently interpreted, and made
to mean more than it was intended to evince. lie knows
that they say and think of him that he is "le plus bet
bomme qu'on puisse s'imaginer ;'' and as he hears this
everywhere, and sees the same thought written in every
smile and bow of the Russian beauties of his court, he
cannot he indifferent to his person, or treat with contempt
their adulation. Sometimes he may be seen dashing
along with his white feathers streaming, muffled in his
military cloak, in his solitary sledge y drawn with one
horse ; and, at another time, striding with powerful steps,
wholly unattended, in the dusk of the early evening, the
whole length of the Nevski. Whenever and wherever he
appears there is a sort of imposing character about his
movements which rivets all eyes, and fixes the attention
of every one. When Lis towering plume approaches, the
crowd falls back, and, enframed in a vacant space, appears
a figure to which there is no second in Russia, evcn.if
there be in the world. The Russians declare that it is
" a figure of the grandest beauty, expression, demeanour,
and carriage, uniting all the majesties and graces of all
the heathen gods." When they say and write this, they
mean every word of it to the letter. The person of the
emperor is that of a colossal man, in the full prime of life
and of health: Forty-eight years of age, about six feet
two inches itr height, with a bust and person welttiled„.,
out, without any approach to corpulency. ti.k i s,kat 1 _ is`' •.. . ~
m.zanil d7ht
hiently carved, he has a splentlieathla gri. .1.2.\,,
shoulder and chttt, great length and sYmiliftry.a.litni,,), 1
with finely formed hands and feet.—Fraser'al.ra-ger:o4,

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THE VIOLET.

(From Poems and Ballads of Goethe, in Blaelewoo,Ps MaTazine.)

A vio'et blossom'd en the lea,
Half hidden from the eve,
As fair a flower as you might see ;
When there c me tri pin, by
A sh:Therd maiden fair and oung,
Lightly, lightly o'er the lea;
Care she knew not, and she sung
Merrily !

" 0 were I but the fairest flower
That blossoms on the lea;
If only for one little hour,
Th t she might gather me—
Clasp me in her bon.), beast!"
Thong' t the little flower.
" O that in it I might rest
But an hour!"

Lack-a-day ! Up came the lass,
Heeded not the vio et ;
Trod it down into the Grass;
Though it nied, ',was happy yet.
" Trodden down although 1 lie,
Yet my de ,th is very sweet—
For I cannot choose but die
At her feet !"

N o TICE S.

A System proposed and recommended fir the Better,
Manallement and Improvement of Landed Estates
in Liven pool and its Neighbourhood.

• An interesting pamphlet. under this title, has just issued
from our local press, and we reck,mmentl it to the perusal
of proprietors. It appears to us to cont,in some sugges-
tions which, if nut already generally acted upon by intel-
ligent landlords, it might be well for them to adopt, not
only for their own interests, but for those of their tenants.
The author (a profes,i .n l gentleman in this town)
commences by recommending an accurate plan and
survey of every estate not recently inspected, and a
report on its condition, to he taken, so as to &ter-
mine what leases should be given or renewed, and what
alterations or improvements should be made. lie next
proposes that no lease should be granted for longer than
seven or fourteen years of lands already in a fair state of
cultivation, or for mote than twenty-one years where
wastes are to be cultivated, or considerable sums to be
laid out for enclosures. He urges the necessity of good
draining, judicious application of manure, and a proper
rotation of crops; and makes some useful remarks on the
duties of the officers whom he considers it the duty of the
proprietor of landed property to appoint. He also offers
suggestions to those officers as to the provisions of leases,
the engagements of landlords and tenants, and other simi-
lar subjects. He next treats on the renewal of bulling
leases—on repairing leases—on yearly tenancies—on the
care requisite in the tinanciAl department—on the neces-
sity of employing an experienced surveyor to make plans
of the estate, superintend buildings, &c.—on the duties
of the steward—the annual reports and accounts, &c. &c.
But we must refer to the work itself, which is very neatly
printed by our townsman Mr. Marples.

The Star of Jacob. Edit el by the Rev. MosesMargoliouth,
Author of " The Funda.nental Principles of Modern
Judaism Investigated," and " Israel s Ordinances
Examined."

Under the above title, nur talented and excellent towns-
man, now Curate of St. Augus'ine's, proposes to publish
a uionthly magazine, designed for the improvement of
those of his brethren of the house of Israel, who still
dwell in the faith of their fathers, and refuse to believe in
the true dispensation of Christ ; the first number to
be issued as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers
is procured to warrant the expense of the undertaking.
The nature of the magizine will be best explained by the
following passage from the prospectus
It will contain critical expositions of prophecy, and at the
same time perverted constructions corrected. It is intended to
examine all the principal Jewish objections against Christianity
and to refute them even on their own grounds. According to
the suggestion of a prelate of our beloved church, it will also
be retrospective in developing the state of the Talmudical tra-
ditions, as they have varied from the time at which they were
censured by Christ Jesus. The inquiry will b • also retrospec-
tively conducted back to the time when the sacred text began
to be the subject of the commentator, who gradually debased
its meaning by various steps, and at various times, until the
Christian wra, when our Lord declared that the Scribes and
Pharisees made the word of God of n ne effect through their
tradition. The different departments of Jewish literature, of
which there are ,ome most valuable. will he noticed. The ma-
gazine will also contain articles on the Old Testament institu-
tions, as they are now observed by the Jews, throughout their
dispersion. Their present state and movements in all places of
their captivity will also be described."

Mr. Margoliouth is also preparing for the press a
" Translation of the Babylonian Talmud, with a Preli-
minary Dissertation on the real Genius and the Nature
of that extraordinary Production." The work—one of
great labour and research, and which it is admitted must
be of great value to the theological Christian student—
will be publ'shed in separate vo!umes, at two guineas each
to subscribers, as soon as a sufficient number of names
are received to cover the expenses of the press.

Martin Chuzzlewit. Nos. 19 and 20. London : Chap-
man and Hall, 186, Strand. Webb, Liverpool.

In these two numbers Mr. Dickens winds up the thread
of his story, and administers poetical justice to each of
his characters. Mr. Pecksniff, the hypocrite and cheat,
despoiled himself of the fruits of his roguery sinks down
into "a drunken, begginz, squalid, letter-wri'ing man,"
such as may be met with by hundreds, stealing through
the haunts of crime and low dissipation in our large
towns; and Mr. Jonas Chnzzlewit concludes his murder-
ous career by suicide. Tire remainder of the personages
introduced to us are made happy according to their vari-
ous inclinations and tastes. The author has displayed his
peculiar powers in these concluding chapters. To two of
the characters in particular—those of Tom Pinch and
" little Ruth"—tie has lent a charm which will make them
live in our affections, as beautiful creations of the poet
rather than of the novelist, when many a more laboured
eon shall be forgotten.
As a whole, we cannot say that Martin Chuzeewit is
inferior to any of the previous productions of Mr.
Dickens. Less striking it may he than some, and less
original in conception. There is a continual freshness,
however, in the style of the author which wins admiration
and imparts interest even to subjects and characters which
we feel that we have had presented to us before from the
same pen. Upon a work published in the serial form,
with an inter, ul of eighteen months between the first and
the last number, it is difficult to form a just judgment
until we have an opportunity of repet usal in its compli to
form, which we shall shortly have. In the eantime we
can a fely say for ourselves that by none of Mr. Dickens'
previous works we have been more interest, d than by
this his history of the Chazzlewit family. We observe
that the work is now to be had complete, stitched in cloth
or bound.

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country. London :

G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent-street.

Fraser leads off this mon'h with an article, perhaps
somewhat too laudatory, upon the history and character
of the Emperor Nicholas of (kis:4a, by the same hand
which recently furnished us with sketches of Louis Phi-
lippe, Prince Metternich, &c. The remaining portion of
the number is made up of varied articles in prose, poetry,
history, and criticism, written with the talent and taste
which ordinarily distinguish the contributors to this ma-
gazine. In particular we have a masterly cutting•up of
Mr. D'lsraeli's new work " Coningsby," and an excel-
lent paper entitled " Southey's Sale and Southey's
Works," which contains some sound and excellent cri-
ticism. The political article, on '• The State of Parties,"
is well worth perusal. If anything, it is more severe than
it ought to be upon the refractory members of Sir Robert
Peel's party, and less severe than, with justice, it might
be upon the Premier himself.

Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : William Curry,
jun., and Co. ; London : W. S. Orr and Co.

This magazine continues to display the excellence of
spirit and interest of detail by which it has been distin-
guished from its commencement. The present number
contains the commencement of a new tale by its talented
editor, Lorrequer, entitled " The Neville's of Garrets-
town, a tale of 1760," from which we have borrowed
largely in our " Selections." It contains, as well, some
able reviews, in particular a second notice of Captain
Siborne's recent excellent work " The Campaign of
1815," and a review of " Remedies for the Perils of the
Nation." The remaining articles fully sustain the repu-
tation of their talented writers, and are full of variety and
interest.

The Farmer's Magazine. London : Mark-lane Express-
office, 24, Norfolk-street, Strand.

To the agricultural reader we need not enlarge upon
the general usefulness of this magazine. The present
number contains some highly valuable papers, and is il-
lustrated by a splendid portrait of that eminent agricul-
turist, Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., together with
a plate of a short-horned heifer, bred by Mr. H. Watson,
of Walkingham, near Gainsborough. No practical far-
mer, desirous of being guided in his improvements by the
experience of his brother agriculturists and by the lessons
of science, should be without this excellent periodical.

dedicated
Song of the Zephyr. Ballad, composed and
to Mrs. Morrison, by H. V. Lewis: Liverpool:
published by the Composer, 11, Elizabeth-street,
Pembroke-place.
A very lively song has just appeared under this title,
by our talented townsman Mr. H. V. Lewis, composer
of " Sing not of the Past," and other pieces. The air is
light and fiowing, and is likely to become an established
favourite with the fair portion of the public. The words,
which we believe are by a lady, and are very gracefully
written, we make no apology for giving here :
I come on the wing of the beautiful Spring,
As she streweth our earth with flowers ;
And I pass through the air, with a footstep rare,
To the fairest of Eden's bowers.
I kiss the rose, as it sweetly blows
the
In the earliest blush of
which night tau strewsmtho ronrn;
And shaker ff the dews w .
On the blossom-bearin wing, I come on the &c.

In summer's bright glow, where rivulets flow,
I skim o'er the rippl►n stream ;
And float in the shade of woodland and glade,
Like the thought of a fairy dream.
Then wildly gay through the valleys I play,
'Mid flowers so rich and fair g
And waft he perfume of their fragrant WOOtrl,
To sce.,t the pure mo main air.
I corns on tho wing, &c.

The New Monthly Belle Assembhce. L0(14/011 : Joseph
RogeNon, 24, Norfolk-street, Strand.

The Jnly number of this excellent and cheap period;:tal
is full of entertaining li.erary nuttier, tasteful y and :,hly
stl-cted by the for edit ress, po:t y and tale aiternat
and both well suited for the boudnir or the drawing r,.om,
for the yiailg as well as for the mature. A beautiful en-
gr tying is as u•wil given with the number, and the usual
" Fa,hions" ifeet,llli any it, upon the cnrrectuess of which
we do not presume to express an opinion.

Tom Burke of Ours, No. 19. Wi:liam Curry. jun., and
Co., Dublin ; W. S. Orr and Co., Pate. noster-row,

London.

The present number, although the incld,nts are no
longer connected with the movements of the Frtnch army,
is yet stirring and striking, as are all Mr. L,•ver's tale;.
A Sc, ne with the Maitne Guard is leo:4 graphically
described, as is the descent of Burke over the cliff at t.,e
Fahuse to the vessel by wh ch he achieved his escape
from France on his leturri to his native land. An extract
or two we may probably find room for in our next.

The Illuminated Magazine. By Douglas Jerrold. Lou-

don: Office, 2, Crane-court, Fleet-street.

The second number of the new and improved series of
this splendid specimen cf art of typography and illustra-
tion, contains some excellent articles, both in prose and
poetry. Amongst the former we may particulari•e the
" Yankee Sparking Frolic"—a racy sketch of Yankee
life, which we should almost be inclined to attrbute to
the pen of the lively author of " Uncle Sam ;" and the
" Last Hour of a Suicide"—we rear "an ower true tale."
The " Adventures of a Scamp," of which we have here
the first chap'ers. promises to be an amusing story to
some tastes, but we like not these incursions, too corn-
men amongst certain writers of tire present day, into the
haunts of roguery and crime. Our lite.ature is already
quite fill enomli of Newgat9 Calendar Riograllies. Or
a much better character is a sketch of the career of the
wonderful boy poet Chutterton, which is ably and feel-
ingly written.