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though short,- been sharp, and in its brief and somewhat

turbulent pr

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which will

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teaching

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n some of their latter war

as invariably the

ion, to the decline of their national g

As if stiff

wondro

side-by-side with foreign hirerm,,
have condescended to become pedlars i _
perty. Early in the present year the count
the.discreditable spectacle of ministers who h

in anticip.

known as

Potations pottle deep

I triumph, amd f

Dutch courage

vaunti

nflicted o,f

laurela: This was on the occasion' of desialching„!
renowned commander, at the head of" a vast and. 00'Y

enterpriie; to• effect a destructive and desolating warfare Foi
the Baltic. He went and saw ; but, unlike C.NSA33;' dit
not conquer, at least not much : but hcspeedily found °ll'
(what he and his employors ought previously to 110"
known) that his skips and armament were unfitted to the
purposes of the expedition ; and that for 'service in'tt9
intricate and shallow passages which beset-the navig4ione
Vl'
of the Baltic; gun-boats with heavy artillery and a 110.
draft of water were more suitable than stately shins.

enough, the' KING of PRUSSIA had discOver'erthat inv.„
portant fact before, and had got two such gun-boats
on the banks- of the Thames ; but our gallant First Lou

or tne Aarniratty, more intent upon shedding
blood of " Srlto's vine" than estimating: the r.`
•
quirements of warlike expeditions to the' Boleci
takes no note- of such affairs, till they are • fore
upon his official' observation, and then he sets about oe,
acquisition of the tWo coveted gun-boats in a marine!, i
l.

not entirely sui certainly tin:

the British cabit;et. On behalf Of
GRAITAM has acquired those identical gun-boats bralr°;,
cess, which a Scotch packman would describe as nun;cl
cf
ing ;" in his own words, he has agreed to give a
frigate" for the two vessels ! Here was a bargain worthyt
of the employment of Several: of the "talents." The.thri
of getting two " speu 'and span new" gun-boats, far an
i
" old frigate," was indeed an idea worthy of a " nation or.
shopkeepers" ; and when we reflect that the opposite n!.

ferer, in goods " contraband' of war," was 7' veritable,
though probably not a. very kingly king, the transaction
seemed of a higher reach-in " dealing" than otherwise 1t
might have claimed to he.= A slight consideration of the ease
will speedily show us, however, that, how defective scorer •
Sir JAMES may be in kinweraft, his fellow-trader is the
superior huckster. The old' frigate" turns out to be
none other than the Thetis afrigateof 1,524 tons burth_Aell'
carrying 36 guns, launchedin46 18 from the building-Ya'i
at Deptford, and considered by connoisseurs a model ed ,
naval architecture. Her performances in the Pacific 011
also. in the Channel are reported of in highly complimer
tary terms; and, so far as the• economy of this bargali
goes, it appears to oscillate considerably beyond the rear
of ourpresent first Lord of the Admiralty. In accordaat
with present probabilities, the:Thetis', assuming the oe
character of the Vladimir of the Baltic, will, next sess°il".
7,'
cruizing under Russian colcurs, take a peep at the tr,
gun-boats for which she was- exchanged, and run at'
from them or with them, as circumstances, or the fs're'
may determine ! Who knows, however, probably at tail.
close- of the next valedictory. Reform• Club libation, P,
JAMES, instead of conferring or, his departing deputY
power of declaring war, may impose on him the necesslie
of capturing the Thetis, and' then we- shall have frigs 0
and gun-boats both. Sir JAXEa. is a borderer, and,. life
doubt is up to a thing or two,. in the- art of predm°^'
warfare. Nous verons.
A. long-promised and anxiously-looked-for work has
rs
just made its appearance. It was announced, and apra d
under the title of " Thirty Yeaxsof Foreign Policy,
is from the pen of the author of " The Right Hon Is
r
Disraeli, M.P." It is a singula work, and, like
~1
predecessor, one of no small ability, however little mil,
rity it may carry with it. It has been written obvious
with. the intention of demonstrating the extraordinary
and startling proposition with, which. the Earl of .A 10,11;
BEEN astonished Parliament-, and the country on 1„)--_`..
accession to office as Premier, when he declared that B.":
thirty years the foreign policy of 'this country had bees
the same. To those who remember the commentarie
more•graphic than graceful, by which Lords PaLmERsTo!
and AI,EADEEN respectively characterised the foreign
policy of each other, the task.undertaken in the present
instance may seem difficult of- execution ; but to darinf
genius all things become easy, and the author ,f;
'Benjamin Disraeli" is one- of those who make t'ig
banes of cutting blocks with .razors. True enougti or
premises are always made prize-of war, whether larvwo,
otherwise, and from these he-" draws his conch's'. dt,
because they will not follow." His modus operaaAfi.
though not very new, is somewhat ingenious, and sti-ei,
cranny* startling. He reviews the-foreign policy of of
of the aspirants to statesmanship, through the optics
,10
one-who is decidedly inimical to that of both ; and by of
method, having got up a pretty strong condemnatTiltwo
the• one and-of the other, he sets about showing that the
sets of policy which could be thus obnoxious to lee
censures of M. FICQUELMONT; the assumed arto
malorum in this contest of politics, must in the main „eat
a good many points of resemblance—hence, hist-Coal
assumption is that they must be very much alike. ynot
this limb of the syllogism the.transference is easY,.„, "Avg
quite conclusive, that they are identical. xia-tize
established, • in this singular manner, not onlY, the
general similarity, but the absolute identity 's' ea
two systems of policy, which appear to have no corn.
• feature, except that of having- secured the blind hastille-
of M. FICQUELMONT, the author's next step in ratioclo .
tion, is an equally bold one. It stands something in
PAy,
form, although not quite so-succinctly given. Lord et•
MERSTON would make an excellent Minister for conolt„it
log the present war—all :men are agreed on that ;Lord
Lord ABERDEEN'S policy is identical with that 01 ital-
PALMERSTON ; therefore, Lord ABERDEEN is a Ca'
Minister for for conducting • the- war—therefore he does
duet it admirably. Q. E: D-! Another of the paradoisis7l,
demonstrations of this bold and cunning sciolpusillani W ty
dle the blame of the present war, not on the and
and bad faith of the Ministry, but on the influencedussS-
conduct of the Peace, Society. That the stark 01' hoe
and raving absurdity of these mock philanthropists _ na-
gone a good way in inslueing Europe to a belief in oi!lrsh
tional insanity, may, indeed, be true, but it seems b,c for
distribution of justice- to hold their twaddle amrlt,aot- the
the barbarous treachery and rapacious hyP0en.4,11,9100
CZAR. Another abortive, as well as impudent 21-",„ of
into the literary vineyard, has been made in the 11,17„gli
biography of " Barr.um' the bold. The book, °"'-
ill-concocted and tastelessly put together, aboundS-111,,,,,t
teresting matter, . and with the aid of one ordinarly,
in book-making, it might have been dressed up 111,. is,
highly amusing and not uninstructive volume.. M
Mr. BARNUM, the-very jay of artistes, struts-about ;bp
vellously in the • peacock plumage of the unabasupr
showman. Among his other drafts -DC- Plest
credulity, Mr. BARNUM exhibits himself as a, the
devout and pious Christian, who has dabbled 111 of
piety of Shakers and other nondescript prafess°‘
nondescript faiths, mixing here and there his pious Ivies
with devices-for the sale of lotter tickets, end sorae.l..te
defiling them with newspaper libels, for which latter'tbe
dering of faith he was condemned to imprisonment-I°,le'
"common jail. of Danbury," whence he was taken ill pea
fessional triumph, drawn in a carriage and six, twee aed
by the appropriate " brass band," whose brayisqtable
noise seem-throughout life his characteristic and yr°ll,ced,
companions. As an exposition of impudent and-WreotTA
as well, as successful humbug, the memoirs of %jell is
have few rivals ; and one is somewhat doubtfnl W or the
the more fertile source of wonder, hisitupwience
Public gullibility. sie4
The Christmas oratorios have introduced to theetalin:
world of London two vocalists who promise t°;,;ztril"l't
able acquisitions. The one is Miss PAIMEX,f once
of good capability and taste. Her voice is at express„,„
and sweet, and in her execution she combines `-,r
and delicacy, as well as no small- degree of P° w#4l. „,
t.
ljts
other is Mr. THOMAS, a bass of rare accoruplish.°l-conoPas'i
voice is full and rich in quality, and, extensive I °
His execution generally was distinguished by briei-which•
effect and a considerable extent of artistic Pas"' to
. may, however, be enlarged with no disadvantage
musical capabilities. na•e s of
,_
For a considerable time past, the inventive Pi ~,fanJ
theatrical managers and mechanicians have bee_l: ;0001
absorbed in preparations for the Pantomimes, tin" 0130
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Lau. uvula au a greab taegruc utsumucta arvan p
stage, and although spasmodic efforts have eccA"tetlA
been made to stimulate the wander, if not to e%580,11
admirationof the public, success has not generallY ,a lar--
the attempts. To-morrow evening, the Pantos in foite
blaze forth in full .41. the houses, tiothewhose

delight and amazement of countless juvell"'-'2oadernle
nesty of applause and outbursts of ecstatic tbe
. tbollll
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