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A Batch Of Books. Bllie ; Or The. Human ...
C ^ a'Wid ^ -M * kW ^ e M ^ 1 ^ 0 S ^^^ c % o £ sikk-graf ^^ ^ eve r h ^ r 4 or read , ofc « venvMttbo ) -evidence of a prison crotcheteer . TfroSiwe cannot i ^ cp mwe ^ d ^ s tb « fc for any positiv e qnality , we concedefl the negative merit of ^^^ beiiig narmless . The Railway Accident ; a Tale . > Parker . Coming immediately after Ellie ibi ? ^ tale appeara graphic and probable , ialtfie hFghest degree ; a ? it really is , ; iu a degree not far remove *! from the hienesfcV Tlfe idea of interweaving a story of siniple domestic interest , with Sit ciretmistances of a railway accident , disclosed first in a coroner ' s inquest , aWdthen more fully in a trial for manslaughter against the engine-driver , is wrought out with considerable skill . Besides , in the absence of more brilliant qualities of ttyle , the writer has a natural kindliness , and a selfpossessed manner of expressing his thoughts ,. which establish confidence between him and his readers , ; and greatly assist the truthful effect of the relation- . ; ' ...- ¦ -. ' ¦¦ ' ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ - .. ¦ - ¦ - , Tales for the Marines . By the author of Zcs Grins / as . Ward and Lock . HFarry Gringo ( Lieutenant Wise ) has a good reputation with lovers of venturous recitals . His tales have the true sailor ' s relish for the wild , the marvellous ^ and the terrible- The present volume is not , as might be inferred from its title , a collection of separate stories , but has a connected interest throughout ; and it may be cited as a specimen of the cheap literature-which is not dear at any money . Jjove ' s Provocations . By Cuthberfc , Bede , B . A . Ward and Lock . ¦ / the industry which this writer brings into the field of comic literature is
worthy to be associated with greater powers , as well as with a better cause . Charles Wwlhinglon . By Harvey Jingleside . Piper , Stcphenson , and Specce . . OlitirUs WortMngton is short enovgh for a joke—which we fear it is not intended to be—and will keep a moderate laugher on the roar from beginning to end . We regret that it is utterly impossible , in our limits , to describe this book , but we will give a specimen or . two . Here is a scene which , though told in few words , may extend over any space of time we choose to imagine : ¦ — The parting of the lovers was very painful . Gertrude was ill some time afterwards and , with many promises of attachment atid constancy , Albert gave her a portrait of himself in his regimentals , and received her ' s in return . Mr . Charles Worthington is about twenty-eight , " or it might be thirty , " and is . not , handsome ; but ' - '• .:. " There was such a fund of intelligence in his eye , and such decision around the corners of his mouth , that Alice was tempted to take a second glance at him , and felt instinctively , as she did so , that at length the being had appeared who was to influence her life and awaken her love . Mr . Charles Worthington's temperament is not , strictly speaking , " pure nervous , " but " nervous bilious . " He is very proud ; too proud to give a direct
t negative toa question-of paternity , ' though cireunistanijal evidence favours the suspicion that he has betrayed a nursery governess , and hisfriends are anxious that he should deny the charge .-Mrv Worthing 1 | oa ynl \ dp nothing of the kind . An estrangement between him and " Alice , 'Vjsia . e result of his cbaste obstiaacj . He retires and writes a book . He publishes the book . Alice readsit . Gracious powers 1 u These glimpses of moral truth r —^ this perception of purity of soul , of high feeling , of "—everything opposed to trifling with nursery governesses , in short ;—can this be the language of a seducer ? Impossible . "There must be some mystery . Either he was grossly maligned , —he was the victim of some diabolical plot ; or , he did not write that book . " Alice reads the work to her mamma , who quite falls in withher daughter's opinion of its merits . The author , says Alice , must be Mr . Worthington , and he ; is innocent . To this the marnuaa replies : — It is no new tiling , child , to find bad men write gobd books . They know what is good , though they will not follow it . * * * * Who wrote The Christian Hero , one of the finest religious work ever written ? Wh 0 but the moat dissolute man of his day , —certainly the most improvidi-nt . Who drew the Vicar of' Wakejield ' i A man who , though he did not seduce women , was culpably improvident . Who drew-the characters of Gulnare and of Zuleika , and -wrote some of the most touching lines to his wife ever written in any language , and yet left her for a courtezan ? Who drew the characters of Imogen , of Desdemona , Perdita , Uosalind , and yet could not endure his wife ? It will be needless to tell you . However , the innocence of Mr . Worthington is established , and the real seducer is run over by his own carriage ( awful retribution !) and smashed " Thus , " says the book in conclusion , " thus was virtue rewarded and vice punished , —love united , and villany baffled . The end . "
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A Lady Thief in Cokk .-t-A Mrs . > Barry ^ . the wife of a * respectable " farmer" hear' Term 6 y , is '" in" custody , charged with various robberies . She went into a hotel in Cork , and , having given several orders , and engaged a bed , managed to possess hgrgelf of ^ some keys , with which she opened a wardrobe , and took out a box containing a large amount of jewellery . She then walked off , and shortly afterwards went into a tavern , where ; by pursuing a similar system , she purloined 10 ? . Subsequently to this , she ' went to another house , and' burst , open a box , but found nothing in it . She was pursued and taken into custody * and has been committed for trial ; What renders her conduct the more extraordinary , is , ^ hat she is Very well o'ff ^ ' ^ Jt is probably a case f naonomaiiia . . Ba . iung Robbery in ... GiiAsaow .- ^ -A . pawnbroker ^ shop in Glasgow * has been robbed in a singular nianner . The'Hirst step towards effecting an .-entrance into the premiaea eeema to have been- accomplished by piling a number of packing boxes , usually left in . ^ the adjoining back cxJrirt , one upon anothprj yp ! to £ he level , of a w / ndow on t ho first floor ., One . of the stauuehjons of . thi ^ window was then wrenched off , and easy access nt once obtained . The robbery \ yas npt discovered till the person in charge of the establishment entered to commencq business . f'TltB West Coast of ' Ai ^ ci .,-- Tjie mail puefcet Ganibla , " which arrived at Plymouth ohSunday ¦ morning , brings dates ranging from October 12 th to' November 4 th . From thcee we lohrh " thatf the < 3 otf irhbir of Sierra teono-Tfas engaged in making ^ Bomo sanitary reforms , and that trade in t \» at colony ; was-recovedn ^ . The large town of Vyatatoo ,, on the frontierof Ifrtotciwni haaJ , bee | v inailft > military station . Bathurat , Lagos , and AccrA , TOere unhealthy ; but Fernando Po ; - Old Calabar , land Bo ^ Wr , -were in > ood BanltaW . cbiicl ^ toii ;' . \ Arthougli a / till ^ WitrP ^ * i o "l , Uie < ie * ect 8 , or bui ! w ^ undr received at Sabfcagoe , Governor O'Connor was improving Ija health . Report--saya' that pjeparattdrVa afo ; w ^ ilje' to' attack the ftiaJconteritB nt the ^ p 'bmniehajyftent pf ^ OMy «»'» and , if possible , to extirpate thetnv ( Tha . crowa of the EngJJflh vessels that loaded in the 'MllliciMare >' nli' 4 t 1 > 6 r ; rivers this season have suflfbred severely , j ^ qm . lovor , . ! ¦ . ' , " ,. ;! Ao i »> kjni ? AT thjb Ipswich Gasworks ;—On Thurai day -week , » leak occurred in a new gAahtilder and , tank at the Jpswich Gasworks , and Jbofqrei ^ < Spu ) 4 ' be stopped fljlej . ' nriasalve ironwork of the tank , burst open from top to Bottom . The tank contained 260 , 000 gallons of water , Which rushed out with Immense- velocity / and the ' surrtyt ^ llng property Avaa speedily inundated . The yard of tib ^ gaeworka in which the tank , was situated was several feet tinder water 5 but the workmen rendered every afislsftr ifefte , < and by' morning the flooding had entirely . subsided . M 6 injury to life or limb was occasioned .
Indian Court Circular . —The Calcutta Evglishman gives us the following highly interesting item of intelligence : — "We are informed that His Majesty the King of Delhi has been pleased to appoint Mooinsbee Fuslah Kurreera of Calcutta , ihis Dewan Koob . He has- been presented with the usual khelafr , consisting of a jamah , a nemah , a putkah , a surpoje , a gashnanah , a pearl necklace , jigab , and a kbulghee . The following title has also been conferred upon him : —Mauxazoos Dowlah , Mookeramool Mulk , Mahomed Puzlaol Kurreen JChiin Bahadoor , Mooplah Jung . " - , "( , T ^ e BAt-ppT TisariMONiAL . —The subscription , en .-tered into two years ago for the purpose . of honouring the memory of the intrepid , skilful , and much-beloved French officer Bellot has been closed , jind amountsto opwarda of 2 , 200 Z , of which sum nearly 600 / . . has been expended in erecting a monument of granite ; thq remainder , according to the wish of the subscribers , boing in the course of division , ampng the . fiyaypung sisters of the deceased . The monument ( which is erected on the quay in £ r 6 n $ tof Greenwich Hospital ) ia an obelisk , about thirty-five-feet high , of , red granite , designed by Mr . Pliilip Hard wick ; K . A ., and executed by Messrs . M'Donald , of Aberdeen . It bearsyon , its , base in . large letters ; , the : word '' Bejllpt ,. " bpthpn ( he $ ide . . facing tlie Thames and on , 4 hs » t which is presented to the westorn quadrangle of tbo hospital . 1 T ^ K Substructure of Qi , d London .- < -In ranking the excavation for the greair sew"er which will eoon convey from vieW the Fieet-ditoh i at a ., d ^ p ^ h of ' about 13 feet below the surface in Ray-street , near the corner of little Saffron-hill , the workmen came upon the pavement of an . old street , ! consisting iof ; very 'largo * blocks of ragstone of irregular shape . An examination of the paving-stones shows flia ' t the street had . boon ; 'tyell used ; they are worn quite smooth by the footsteps . and traffic of a past generation . Below the old street we find another phase of Old' London . ' Thickly covered with slime are piles of oak , hnril and blaolc , which have seemingly been portions of a mill dum . A few feet below wore very old wooden water-pipes , nothing but the rough tiHinksof trees . The ' ec-ursB'bf time and the weight of matter-above the did p & vemerit'have preyed the' graV ^ l , clay , ginnito , portions of tiles , , & fjv into a hard and almost solid mass , and it ia . curiouqito observe that near , the old surface are great numbers of pins . Whither have the pins gone ? is a query which has puzzled many . ' The' ntyv / hnrd , concrete , stuck ; ,, wrtth these useful articles , almopi like a pln-. cusb . ion , i » a partial repl y to the < quory . The 13 feet of newer deposit would seem tb'Wnr * abctamulatdd iu two or three centurioa ; it is not unlikely that a portion of the
rubbish from the city , after the great fire , was shot here . — The Builder . The Russian Trade . —A man has been sentenced at the Southward police-office to two months' hard labour for stealing a quantity of Russian tallow from ft wharf in Tooley-street , where he was employed . In answer to a question from the magistrate , the foreman said : — " We have large dealings , with Russia , although we are at war , and oar money is extensively receiredin return . Nearly all our tallow comes from Russia . It conres through Prussia . The tallow in question came from Merhel in a Dutch vessel ; " : 'So ; touch , for Prussian " neutrality" and' the-allied blockade ! The iDo & . TRADE .- ^ The Record has lately been indulging in transports dP pious horror at the irlea of idoto being manufactured ifr Birmingham' for exportation to the . heathens ; and it feara . that it hns discovered a " painfully minute' proof : of this trade being really cdmed" on in a sort of" price current" published in the $ ie <} ie . Whereupon , the , Birmingham Gazette comes out with-the prodigioiM fact that the said " price earrent" originally appeared in JPunch . and was of course a facetious invention of the wicked wags of that periodical . " Having been copied ; - without acknowledgment , into an Amoric « h journal , tlie too confiding st & - eiHfx > rofthe Siecle . reproduced it as a horrid reality ; and hence the holy spa . sma of tlie Record . , C < SJ ? YB . iq 8 T " ,. OpNVeNXIOIJI ' , VflTX % , PnUSSIA AND Saxony . —A convention with Prussia and Saxony , recently published in the Gtizette . provides that " the i \ nt , horf 3 of any , bqpjjs pub . lteb . ed , or of n > iy dramatic pieces first publicly represented within the dominions of Prussia , Saxpny , Saxe Weimar , Suxe . Meiningon , Saxo iVlteaburgi Su ? ce Coburg Gotha , Brunswick , AnhoU Dttrsaii Cothen , Anhalt Bernburg , Sclnvurzburg Rudolstadt , Sohwarzbuig ; Sondwrshnurfen , or Hcubb , ot nny time after the day next ufter the day of the publi- I cation hereof in the London Qa ^ tle who may choose 1 to reserve the . riuht of . trunsluting such books or 1 draniatio pieces , tnoir executors , administrators , and nssigns , shal | , until tho expiration of ( ivc years frojn ih , e dute of the first pubMcatipn of the ti analatiofls authorised by them , respectively , of such books , < " " frotn the time at wliicli the tiarialations uutliorised by ] them ,, of such drainufic . pieces , are first jmbliaUcd . or . publicly represented , bo empowered to provent the publication in the 'British dominions of any tnuislutfon 01 , siioh- books or dramatic jpjioce ^ , and the repreaentatloP therein of any translation of such di-amatio pieces not so respectively authorised by them . "
Geography Of The War. If The War Has No ...
GEOGRAPHY OF THE WAR . If the war has no objects , it has already had a result . We have more and better maps than previously of the Euxine and Baltic coasts , of Turkey , and of the Russian Empire . Whithersoever a corps or a flotilla is moved , Mr . Wyld's , or Mr . Standford ' s , or Mr . EfBngham Wilson ' s geographical artists follow it , laying down its progress , indicating the towns , villages , bays , headlands , and havens , en route , and mapping . out the area of the war . We have on our table four new maps—one of the country between Odessa , Nicholaief , Perekop , Simpheropol , and Sebastopol , indicating all the lines of communication ( Standford and Co . ); and one of Southern Russia , the Crimea , and the Sea of Azof—slight , but clear . Mr . Wyld has published a * ' Map and Chart" of the coasts between Otchakov , Nicholaief , and Kerson , with the soundings marked , and the routes b y land and water carefully traced . Lastly , the positions and movements of the Sardinians , the French , and Russians at the battle of the Tchernaya , or Traktir , are presented clearly in a sketch map , published by Mr . Stanford . Such publications , besides familiarising us with the scene and scope of the passing contest , will be valuable to " the child that is unborn , " when he writes or reads the history of the Russian war .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17111855/page/20/
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