The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17
Rochester, January 3, 1855.


of Mr.. Jas. Brown, of Boston, !" the partner OF
the house of Messrs. Little, Brown, Co.
says that "thereby literature has lost very
useful friend, and the publishing interest at
Great Britain backbone of support His or
ders in England have varied from 100000 TO
100000 during the three months of the year
he was in London. He dealt in old as well IS
new books, and is described as man who had
a vein of quiet humor, was generous, was still a
Yankee, and was very fond of English society,"
For the last twenty years, he annually visited
England as book purchaser"
Mr.. J. Silk Buckingham has begun to pub
Esh his autobiography in England. How far it
will extend, there is no saying for there is no
limit to the diffuseness of the writer, and lhe
reader will probably appreciate this uncertain
ty when he learns that the two first volumes,
though extending to upwards of 800 pages, only
bring the narrative down to 1915, leaving the
incidents and observations of the subsequent
forty years, and as much longer as Mr.. Buck
ingham may live, to be recorded.
Mr. Thacksray, who is expected to return to
America in few months, ION the completion
of The Newcomes,) bringing with him a new
series of lectures, is said to have recently APP
piled for the Secretaryship of the British Lega-
ton at Washington, and to have received an
intimation from Lord Palmerston, through their
mutual friend Lord John Russell, that such a
situation could not be given except to a person
who had been regularly bred up to the practice
of diplomacy as profession. Mr.. Thackeray,
who has recently been called to the bar, was
subsequently spoken of as a proper person to
receive the appointment of stipendiary magis-
trate at Brighton; locality within two hours
ride of London; salary $500 year. The
Brightonians, alarmed at the idea of having a
satirist on their judicial bench, used all meaas,
direct and Indirect to prevent the appointment,
and were successful.
By Decree of the Sacred Congregation Of
the Index, dated Goth March, Cardinal de An
drea announces the condemnation and prohibi.
ton of the recenty-published works, entitled
Pieces Interessantes," "The Church and State
in Piedmont" " History of the Mussulmen in
Sicily" Relation and Memorial of those OPP
posed to the New Dogma of the Immaculate
Conception and the Bull Inefable," by Able
Iaborde, and the "Arte POetica" of Pruden
ziane.
The Risks of JeunaliSm.-Duringt the past
six wears, the proprietors of this newspaper Save
invested no less a sum than CA, 400 nett cash
in its establishment; the whole amount Of
flOO69 received by the Gazette during that
period. for news and advertisements, lover and
above the said E4,OO0,D having been expended
in carving it on and improving it. During all
this time the proprietors have not received a
single shilling in return, even in the shape Of
interest on the capital invested. 1t is now sim
ply paying its way, and no more.
~ Shields Gazette.
Curiosities of Transldti0n-In the original
French translation of "Guy Mannering," the
"nrodigious Dominic" is called Gun ministre
assassin" literal rendering of the "stickit min
ister;" and, again, in the same novel, when
Dapdie Dinmont is told that it has just chap
pit aucht on the Tron,' the translator has rem.
dered it, a." est hut heures, et le rOi est sur son
trone.-V. T. Sternberg.
Childe Harold Corrected.-Before Byron is
dismissed, must speak of one of the strangest
misprints that perhaps has ever occurred, tor II
was committed without being discovered by the
author. sensitive as we know he was, or by the
public who have for years admiringly quoted
the lines The stanza which follows the one
last cited, runs thus
"Thy shores empires, chang'd in all save thee
Thy waters wasted them when they were free,
And many tyrant since -
| A skilful critic was very recently reading this
passage, and when he came to "Thy waters
wasted Them" he paused Wasted what
Where is it on record that the Mediterranean
sea has wasted the shores that surround it ?
What part of the coast-European, Asiatic, or
| African-has been overwhelmed by the tide, and
then left desolate? The ruins of Tyre are still
a landmark; the rock of Salamis still overleoks
the wave; the site of Carthage remains. Ty-
rants NAV have wasted those shores, but the
waters never. There must, then, be some fnis-
take. Could the critic have access to the origi-
nal manuscript? 1t was produced and exam
med. and, as much to the surprise of all pres
ent as, dare say, it will be to the public, the
faulty line ran thus:
Thv waters washed them power when they were free
And many a tyrant since"
The MS. of another of Byron's poems rectines
a misprint which has been allowed to pass cur
rent in all the hitherto published editions of his
works. 1t occurs in the Prisoner Of Chillon:
and thas together, yet apart,
Feter'd IN hand but pind in heart-.n -
For "pin'd,n read "joind," which completes
the antithesis:-Di ckcns's Household WorGfs.
FEARFUL PosITIoN.-The Montreal Gdsette
of Friday saws the ice was broken up and rsAid-
ly moving away, but the river was not c;har.
On Monday last, twenty-three persons, inclusin ing
thirteen ladies and gentlemen, who wishel to
take the cars for Boston, and ten ferryr en-,
undertook to cross the river on foot w len
about four hundred yards from the Mont cal
shore, a loud shouting from the land which Aey
had quilted, and sharp, kissing sound, car sed
by the rapid upturning of the ice above tb I'M,
warned them that "shove" had common, ed,
and that the ice was moving down. They ere
in very dangerous position, and immedia ely
commenced making for the shore. Arc nd
them was moving mass of Jagged, rotten ce,
and they were obliged to jump from one Ike
to another. Finally, all reached place of
safety, with the exception of one gentlem IN,