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    NEW ROMANCES.*

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    THE " PRIVY COUNCIL."*

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    purchase one of Mr . Wilson ' complete sets of birds' skins , which can be co mmissioned through Messrs , H . G . Scott and Co . of Massuree . The sportsman should , however , learn the cry of each variety , and their several minor calls ; . as when travelling" through the jungle , some faint note close at hand , which the uninitiated would not notice , may arrest the steps of the practised hunter , and direct him to game which would otherwise have entirely escaped him . ' We now come to a chapter upon . " hill peculiarities , " in which we are made acquainted with the old Sanscrit fable of the five Pandua princes , who , in an archery contest in whieh the reward was to be left to the discretion of the king 1 , agreed

    beforehand that whichever of their number should be lucky enough to bear off the pr ize , should share it equally between himself and his less fortunate brethren . The prize turned out to be the king ' s daughter , who thus found herself blessed in the possession of five husbands , instead of the one she had originally expected , which single spouse , doubtless , had her wishes in the matter been consulted , she would have considered as quite enough of a , good thing . And thus , it is said , was the system of polyandry first introduced in these parts . In the Jaunsar district , when the elder brother marries the woman is equally the wife of the younger brothers , though the children are , by courtesy ( P ) called the children of the eldest brother . When much difference exists

    in the ages of the brothers of a family , as , for instance , when there are six brothers , the elder may be grown up , while the youngest are but children , the three elder then marry a wife , and when the young ones come of age they marry another , but the two wives are considered equally the wives of all six . " Among the author ' s numerous hill experiences , we find the following : ~ " On the first appearance and fall of the regular rains , the grass or jungle throughout the hills swarms with small leeches , which , when you march in any costume but the kilt , wander up your trousers , down your stockings , and gorge themselves to overflowing with blood before you suspect their arrival . The author how enters the " snow ranges" of the Himalaya , in search of the rarer kinds of Thibetian animals . This chapter is particularly

    descriptive and interesting , initiating us into the mysteries of snow storms , glaciers , frozen torrents , and the several peculiarities of these wild and perilous passes . Further on he says : " There is a stream entering tha phowlna at Suminuhghenta , which issues from a snow Valley , apparently riot yet explored ; it is called / the gorge of smoke ' or ' vapour ; ' its physical features iare * fudged' n > the portrait of it which we find in our maps , and the natives in the neighbourhood say that they have never gone through it , as there is no practicable path , that it contains nothing , and trends nowhere ! The stream which issues from it , however * is very impetuous , and effects a natural quartz-crushing of the rocks in its channel * and several Dhunias , or gold washers , visit it annually , to extiact gold from the sands of the bed . " o .

    We will here take leave of Mr . Dunlop , allowing him , without further comment , to pursue his course unmolested through the " Bunchbwr tracks in eternal snow . " Before doing so , however , we can heartily recommend this volume to the inspection of the public , and especially to such readers as may feel a personal interest in the peculiar kind of adventure to a detailed account of which the present pages are devoted .

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    TTTE suspect that most of our readers have a very vague im-Y \ pression as to what the Privy Council is . We know what or rather who a Privy Councillor is . But what he does singly , and still more what he does collectively , and above all , what is the reason of his being , are all topics of mystery . Indeed , beyond certain associations with the great Gorham case , and the recent proclamation against vice and immorality , we should be puzzled to give any proof for our faith that the Privy Council is a living entity . Our own ignorance on the subject was , we confess , as dense as that of most of our readers , till we came , the other day , across an account of the Privy Council , which is at once instructive and interesting . Strange , too , to say , this , account is contained in the

    depended on the absolute power of its master . Its relative power varied inversely as the strength of that master's character . As a specimen of the curious information with which the Essay is replete , we quote a sketch of the Privy , Council ' s occupations : On the 20 th August , 1839 , the Council is engaged in negotiations with vthe Duke of Richmond about the restitution of the Earldom . of Richmond . Their next business is to ' settle that Lord Stanley be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , then to send an embassy to France , and to review the accounts of the Treasurer , of Calais . Their deliberations , held in the King's presence , are concluded by arrangements with regard to certain pensions .

    Look at the Council board twelve years later . The meeting recorded was held some time in March or April , 1401 . The business is even more than usually multifarious . The Counsellors are occupied with the collection of the customs , a dispute between the Abbot and the towns' folks of Cirencester , and the despatch of J . Curzon , Esq ., to Carlisle , that he may report the details of the last treaty with Scotland . They next arrange a list of Lords commissioned to inquire into the truth of accusations brought against certain malefactors in the County of Gloucester . They then accord an annual pension to the son of Lords Salisbury and Oxford , till they attain their majority ; give their attention to the funds necessary for an embassy , which is to conclude a marriage between the King's daughter and the King of the Romans , and resolve to take the royal pleasure on certain points connected with the King ' s retinue . One Other example is sufficient . The assembly is held during the the reign of Henry V ., May 29 th , 1415 . The first business entered Ihe

    on has reference to an alliance with the Duke of Burgundy . Council then turns to money matters , and arranges to pawn the King ' s jewels , a mode of raising money constantly recurred to by the Crown in periods of distress . Various measures are then devised for defending the kingdom . The Chancellor is ordered to issue commissions of array . Proclamations are to be made , ordering a genera ! erection of " beacons , and directions are given about victualling the army and the fleet . From civil the ministers direct their mind to ecclesiastical matters , and enjoin the Bishops to take measures to resist the malice 6 f the Lollards . Then follow matters of police . The Lord Mayor is to be spoken to about the destruction of the walls of the Friars Augustmes , and to be cautioned not to proceed with any demolitions in the City without the advice ofjiome persons , probably commissioners appointed by the Council . At the same time the Mayor is to be communicated with about _ the imprisonmentof certain workmen , who had been impressed in London

    for the royal service . . In fact , if anybody wishes to get at any information about the " Privy Council ' " ' in a portable and a reasonable form , without reading through dry volumes of blue books , we recommend him heartily to turn to Mr . Dieey ' s Essay .

    we know that this is about the last placewhere anybody will naturally look for anything , either instructive or interesting , that we wish ' to call attention to the fact . It is worth knowing that something good can come out of Galilee . The theory which the author puts forward is , that the Privy Council is , properly speaking , the lust remnant of the great " Curia Maaitt , " which formed the Council of the early Norman Kings . The Curia originally decided , or rather advised , on every matter which concerned the King , that is when the King required advice , or chose to take it . In course of time , this assembly split up into various sections , or committees , one of which undertook the decision of justice , and executed law in the King ' s name . Another undertook more private affairs of the King and became the Privy Council . One of these private affairs consisted in hearing appeals to the King's equity h' 9 *! l decision ° * ? aw courts » ? n ? ** was onl y at alater period that ^ the Privy Council . ' "

    _ ... . It would take uh too long to truce out , m the . author does , with considerable ability and close power of reasoning , how the Privy Council varied in its character with the circumstances of the time and the weakness or vigour of the reigning monarch . In fact , if we may use the term , the Privv Council was all along the middle man between the Crown and the nation . Its absolute authority

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    MANY of our readers may be already familiar with Burke ' s celebrated passage relative to the universal sovereignty of reason being the only true sceptre under which we can steer through the troubled waters of life , without the fear of foundering and being submerged at every onward step . For the benefit of such of our readers , however , as may not be conversant with this saying , we - roserHtras ^ olltrn'ST ^^^ safe to live under the jurisdiction of severe but steady reason , than under the empire of indulgent but capricious passion . " With this embellished the title of

    excellent motto Mr . William Platt has -page a very ingenious production , entitled , " The Story of a Lost Life . In ttiis short history / the author has endeavoured to demonstrate the infallibility of the doctrine thus put forth by one of our best . writers , as also to warn the young and inexperienced , and all those enlisting for the first time in the great battle of existence , from falling into an error which has wrecked many a brave and enthusiastic spirit , whose budding energies had given promise of such a bright and glorious career . To trust unreservedly to the impetuosity of our passions , impulses , or by whatever name the non-regulated feelings of the heart is known to casuists and moralists , the author i wuitwivw 4 11

    has fullv succeeded in snowing , s running u ^ """ «« many moral quicksands , which are only too liable to founder all our most cherished hopes and wishen , scatter them broadcast on the waters , without our retaining the remotest chance of their ultimate realization . The character of the hero , Christopher Horncastle , is intended to illustrate the theory upon which the author has built up the argument of his book ; and he is , of course , brought forward as an instance of how little the most brilliant natural capacities can in themselves avail to render any individual groat und honoured , unlesn accompanied by induHtry , perseverance , and that stcadmessof purpose und resolve , by which alone their existence can be made manifest to the world at large . Though endowed by nature with Jhe highest intellectual faculties—faculties which only required u little judicious guidance , and earnest , heartfelt endeavour on the part of tliuir giltcd possessor , to have enabled him to achieve for himself a world-wide reputation and renown- yet , through a constitutional irresolution ot mind , tlio lack 6 rapr # ,, Wrn ,, n , nv hnhitnnl vieldintr to the impulse of the moment , under

    tho supposition that all impulses , springing directly from the heart , the fountain of everything great and noble in our imperfect o ^ nw » - tions , muHt necessarily lead us in the right direction , the sophistry of which mode of reasoning will make itself at once apparent to all

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    July 21 , I 860 . ] The Saturdayr Analystand Leader . 673

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    New Romances.*

    NEW KOMANCES . *

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    THE " PRIVY COUNCIL . " *

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 21, 1860, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2357/page/9/