The Press. — 1853-12-24 (London, England)

NMI 1,111,111.11 1,. iii .1.1111, x Ili pit f..taisol at home. TlOlll 1111' thrd, Mlllll. id I i 1.111.111. Ile' 1 on. 1•14,, .1 lainrodll it. ttambluting the " Iliad'auto the r `.tall /.11. I U pulls Mile)! Lord ',Ali subjoins 'I her.• i. nn iiincrtirtie, boll% 11 Ilat 1 alt, mptivl sm. to 1.01,,1at1. a sing!, Ism " im the. 04iff/ ‘i 111111 TH•Nit My II I WO4l OW thr Mitrillilt V mi. I lint 11 1111. MN 14, WV 01111 lls. Ihl% Nrv)". 11..4.11114tis radn r the liars add e 104W1111{ 1.1 ut mum vb. and t the .''her tlibmit,yof the," "and " h:ut W.l  The late Lord Northampton published sonic of my stanza's in a collection called " The 1 ribute.--.T. It. The scenes in coaching up to town, in which Moore used to amuse his fellow-passengers, while he remained inetiy., arc amongst the funniest thingi in the Ineltioirs. lien. is an amusing one:— Started in the conch for town at eight. Party inside, an u)d Irish gentltman and his grantblailehtec, a very pretty girl, just arrived by the Bristol packt t. After sounding each other for some t* • its Irish poltties, fl/111111 than he wan a violent Orangeman. Avowed Inv self of a different opinion ; upon which, taking me fitr ans Englishusaii. he lamented our ientonmee in this ssaintry of Irish atrinra ; the girl, too, as violent ws atiti-t 'al lodic as her gramipalia, hich I liked her all the Is tier row : argued plavftilly wills them both. When we *loomed to breakfast, keitill Lord Arthur II ill nniong the I nit side passengers ; whispered iliM not to betray tile. In the coitme of the journey owned to them I was an Irishman, and told the girl that when she knew who 1 was she would, perhaps, forgive ale fur being a rebel : offered to put myself in her hands to convert me. Told them quatititieN of Itimli stern 's. mid kept them, 111111 a good sort of Englishman, who formed oor fourth, laugh. ling the whole time. Lord A. I ill hold me tie.), inquired of him who I was, and he said it Mr..lohitson. At last, after se clintig44l Isom, nt Ilnmulow, I give the girl my earl', and declared myself to he the veritable Captain Ibtek. The girl exclaimed al 1, mid the old b.llow, in spite I/1 his Otungeitone, taking 1111. es olllitally by the hand, said he was 111194 rejoiced to meet me, and that he had urhudlr, tier the two or three last hours, 1.41114111.1.11.11 111110 1 1111.4, 11.• then got very adrisitly over the difference in our opiniuus, by saying," VIM, air, take the )sletical view of these matters." Proved to be Sir Ilem.y Osborne, once high sheriff of the county of Waterford, and a member of the Irish mutt parted great friends.  We will shortly return to the sixth volume of this protracted literary suicide. " Poor Moore !"  Life in Ahyminia. Being Notes Collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels  in that Country. London : Murray. THIN is a clover hook, at once amusing and instructive. It contains a great deal of information respecting a country as yet little known, and has moreover the rare merit of being very concise. We are acquainted with few works of travel which it, would be less easy to submit to a condensing process with out eliminating something which readers would regret to lose. Mr. Parkyns has one fault as an author which to fastidious critics is peculiarly offensive, but which a little practice in bookwriting will remove. His style is affectedly flippant: he travels fair out of his way in searell of rather flat jokes, anti tells stories which he assures us were good when be heard them, but which in his rendering seem decidedly pointless. There is also a puerile ostentation of the author's (imaginary) preference of savage over civilised life—a preference which we do not believe him or any other reasoning human being seriously to entertain, and the affectation of which, new in Rousseau's time, is long since worn threadbare. That the desire to see strange sights, the hope of increasing the world's knowledge in natural or geographical science, nay, even the mere love of adventure anti sport, should take men among barbarous tribes, is natural enough; but an educated European who expatiates on the happiness of living ill a society whose members go half naked, anoint their hair with rancid oil, and know no occupation beyond fighting and the chase, excites our pity either for his veracity or for his taste. But we must not be hard upon a traveller if he " magnifies his office," and exalts the pleasure of that pursuit of which we reap the results. The first requisite for successful discovery is health. Be who cannot keep his physical energies unimpaired in all temperatures and climates, while undergoing hard labour, and living on any sort of provision he can get, would do better to stay at home. Rut this, with proper precaution, is easier than many think. Mr. Parkyns repeats and enforces the lesson which every explorer has learnt in turn—that health, in whatever climate, depends mainly On abstinence in eating anti drinking. It is principally neglect, or want of self-control, in this respect that renders the Indies anti Africa the grave of Englishmen. Light diet. -al avoidance of spots to prevail, are the lure to sun is less Ily considered, if the )3- non-observance of  By Mansfield Parkyns.  It,f,  disuse of strong drink, mail • Vs known ; • • • Expose for .let ...unit A usual' .' • tg\--not ditspased b; • •N t • 4 • •