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had a very -respectful touch of the hat from him every day when he went his * rounds—that his name was ( Joinery , and that his son Robert had chosen to add '• • ' Mont" to it , turning it into . Montgomery , which sounded better . N " ow it happens that this calumny was imported into ihe Quarterly Revieiv , while under the editorship of Mr . Lockhart Mi-. Montgomery very properly enclosed his baptismal certificate to the editor , who in the succeeding number informed-his-readers that , according : to it , the gentleman in question had been christened by the name of Montgomery .
Many of these inisprisions might have been avoided , if the writer had added to her personal experiences a more extended reading , and checked the statements she had heard by the testimony of trustworthy documents . ¦ The best written sketch in her book is that of " \ Villia \ n Lawrence ; and she tells us that the most benevolent of her acquaintance were among the medical profession , next to them were the lawyers : but that the clergy were by far the least conspicuous for their virtues . Yet among the most g-lowing articles are those on the Rev . Mr . . Bellow , Mr . F . W . Robertson , and Mr . Spurgeon . In
respect to the lust , she is quite enthusiastic .-.. Our contemporary , to should take it , is a good judge of acting ; if we may judge of her by her article on Edmund Kean . One sentence of hers i > rovcs this . " His action , " she remarks , " was not redundant , but ever happily and singularly M / uibulical , and appropriate to the situation depicted or the language employed . " "With the perception implied by these few words , the fair writer could not help being a competent critic . She is also eloquent and discriminative- on poor Tyrone Power . There will l > c found in those volumes some characteristic anecdotes concerning Lord Melbourne , Thomas Moore , Byron , Lady Blessing-ton , Robert Liston , Dr . Kitchener , . Mr . Justice <_' ro \ vder , Viscount Dillon , Thomas Pringle , and Abraham John Valpy . Thcso are for the most part relieved by episodes of other persons , and occasional anecdotes , in rcleren . ee to the author her-, self and her pets in the animal creation , the claims of which to There
our charity she advocates-with earnestness and fceling . _ are also two or three eases of ' clairvoyance andtable-turning , the phenomena of -which she appears to admit , but docs not attempt to-explain the philosophy . Her notice of Ellen IJawson is certainly curious ; , and as it is not a solitary instance , the case ought , long ago , with others , to have "been , scientifically investigated . That the natural cause is discoverable yo fed certain ; but while scientific men hold aloof from inquiries of this kind , there is very little hope of arriving at a desirable ' solution .. There is a paper on Lord Macaulay , at the opening of the second-volume , luit it is by another pen , traces of . which we fancy we see likewise elsewhere . Be that as it mayj these volumes ' contain a large amount of suggestive matter— -glimpses of chaiiicter may be obtained from them , which throw light on traits of individuality that otherwise sutler from the absurity which necessarily exists where personal acqua intance is altogether wanting . For that , these notices arc a lair substitute .
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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE ¦ speciaj :.. IIakoveu , October 2 , lSGO . TV 7 EXT to the war in Italy , and the discussions in the Austrian JL \ Imperial Council , the approaching meeting of the threelnonarchs at Warsaw occupies the heads and pens o German politicians , who are puzzling themselves and their readers with assertions , hints , and guesses with regard to the aims and j . oj-siblo consequences of the interview . Some see in it a coalition against Franco , others a sort of-family council for the adoption of precautionary measures against au insurrectional movement in Hungary
and X oland . The German journals maintain that Louis JNapolkon sought an invitation , and was refused . The Paris telegrams announce , on the other hand , that an unsought invitation whs declined by the French Emperor . By all accounts from Paris , we are led to boliovo that the interview is considered there a demonstration against Franco , and that a feoling . of jealousy has been excited at the French court . It is , indeed , still a matter of doubt whether the meeting will take iplaoe , for the postponement of the Emperor Amxanjpku ' s departure from St . Petersburg to Warsaw , and the consequent delay in the meeting of tho monarchs would seem to imply that the Russian Cabinet at least is desirous of waiting to seo what turn the affairs of Italy will talce beforo adopting a definite and binding resolution ; or , that negotiations are Iboing carried on with a view to extend the mooting' into a Congress of tho great Powers of Europe ; and although the En-ffusb . journals assert that the Queen ' s visit to Cobuwr is of a
puvoly private nature , the goneral belief is that it stands in some connection with tho Warsaw Conference . Meanwhile tho affairs of Germany aro taking their old jog-trot course . The Congresses of Unionists , Economists , Architects , Chomists , Agriculturalists , Honoy Cultivators , and all the host of preliminary or drill parliaments are over , and wo shall not hoar of them again till this thno next your . Besides these Congresses wo have lately had a deinon & tr-ation of . a inor . e exclusively political character at Darmstadt . At tho ro-oponing . of the Upper Chamber four lords , among them the Prince of BoLMS-Iacii , pub a question to tho Minister Dalwioic in the matter of the Gonnau National Constitution . They desired information respecting the probable issue of tho demand which had boon made by several members of tho Gorraanio Dteb for the development of the Federal Constitution of tith June , 181 & , with a view 1 > o . strengthen , a » cl gradually to
carry into effect , the Federal Unity of entire Germany . This question has excited the greatest astonishment among the liberals , who , like all the rest of the world , have heard of such a demand having been made in the Diet . The National Association will , doubtless , be highly delighted to fmd allies in the Federal Diet , where no one imagined there was the slightest tendency to unity . The international condition of Austria is becoming daily more threatening . The state of the public mind is plainly seen by . ' the ' .. bold ' language . -held in the Imperial Council . The debates , which have been published at length in all the journals , sound in the ears of Germans almost revolutionary . When it is considered that this assembly consists of " men of confidence , " selected by the Government itself , no one can doubt , must
after reading the speeches , that a total change of system very shortly occur , not by peaceable by violent means . In the debate upon the press and the concordat the discontent evinced was very great and general , although the defenders of the concordat , Cardinal Rattscher and Count' Tnuji , performed their parts much better than did their opponents . In the debate of the 21 st tilt ., upon tbe state of the finances , a perfect storm arose against the ministry . Down with . . whole system or expect the ruin of Austria , was the theme of every speech . From this discussion -we learn that during the last ten . ' years about 800 millions of florins more taxes have been levied than during the ten years preceding ^ while , at the same time , the national debt has been increased Toy 1 , 300 millions , and the state capital decreased by 100
millions . j The negociations said to be on foot between the Cabinets of Vienna and St . Petersburg , give still a good deal of work to the pens of the South German journalists . The Russian party maintain thaf ' -an alliance has been concluded between Austria and Russia , while the reformers , on the other hand , assert that the negotiations have been broken off . The truth would appear to be that the negotiations are going on still between the two Cabinets . Russia proposes firjst arid foremost a revision of the treaty of 1815 ^ Austria is opposed to this from a wish , possibly , to keep on good terms with Prussia and England , who are supposed to be resolved to maintain that treaty at all risks . minist
In a circular note signed by the er , Yon Schleimty , . the Prussian Government declares that the present movement is not convenient for any attempt to reform the Federal Constitution . It is tolerably evident that the convenient moment will never arrive if Prussia intends to wait for ' the unanimous goodwill and self-denial of the the princes of Germany . The lukewarmness of the Prince Regent in the great . -national question of unity and constitutional government has tended very considerably to cool the enthusiasm , not only of the national Verein , but of the Hessians , and even of the Prussians themselves . Since the meeting at Tophtz and the announcement of the intended interview of the threemonaxchs at Warsaw , ' the Regent has shown a more decided opposition to the agitation for unity . A private letter states that
the Regent in passing through the town of Duron observed the German tri-colour flag , the union banner , hanging from the window of a house , lie immediately called an official , and sent him to the house to express -his dissatisfaction with such demonstrations , and ordering the instant removal of the flag . B y thus discountenancing the German idea , the prince is setting himselt right with his fellow sovereigns , but in the same proportion rendering himself obnoxious to the great mass of the people . Ilia former hesitation in granting constitutional representation , and present active discouragement of the union tendencies of the nation , have put an end for the time to a . chances of Prussian sxipvemacy . The regent was never very popular in tin part of Germanywhere there exists among tho
* , military , more especially , a traditional hatred o the name of Prussian , and just now these sentiments avo extending among tho other classes of tho population . How . matters stow * I in tho South wo may perceive by tho desperate quarrols constantly taking place at Frankfort , between Austriuns and Bavarians on the one sido , nnd Prussians on the other . If tho Kegenfc continues in hisiivesent course he dare not rely upon tho rest of Germany , in tho event of a war against Franco . The lato enthusiasm of the pooplo of nil countries of Germany for Prussia took its rieo only in tho firm belief that the Regent was favourable , to real Constitutional Government , and tho union of all Germany enthusiasm
under ono chief . This boliof , and consequent , have boon of vory groat sorvice to Prussia , and while sho was isolated tho Hcgoiit took good care not to show the cloven foot ; but now lio h « s two despotic friends , and the support oi liberal Goriiutny can bo dispensed with . According to tho Prussian journals tho complaint made by Captain . Macdonai- » m disposed of , iho officials at Bonn having acted only in strict performance of tlioir duty . Mr . JfiiOKiioFir , tho lawyer , who in . a Hamburg piier made certain charges against tho Prussian autliovHioB , and y > iim aontonood because ho wasumvblo to bring iorwuni liia iiroofs in conllrnmtion of his assertions , although most peppio behoved that ho had spoken tho t { uth , Ims again published a pumplilot , onlilloil " Police Profiles , " and has again been proscoutoS in comoquQiico . One story related by him 1 ™ ™^ " ™" SEft » ^ W ffiS
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1860, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101860/page/9/
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