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the governorship of Of en will be restored . In acknowledgement of the national claims of Hungary and the population of Servia , a High Commissioner is appointed to hear the views of the leading men of the different classes , whose proposals will be submitted to the decision of the Emperor . Analogous constitutional arrangements are promised for Transylvania .
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MISCELLANEOUS WORKS . A Handy Book on Dinners ; Dinners and Diners , at Home and Abroad . By E . I > Blancharu . London : Adamson , 16 , Brytlges-street , Strand , lt > i > 0 . We Lave had handy books or digests of laws by the score , and now we have a much more agreeable one in a handy book of the laws of digestion ; and what is more , it is replete with piquant plates ( as appetising as the plates of another sort treated of m the etter-press ) and choice cuts ( as relishing and gustative to the mental palate , as the choice-cuts of the joints which form one of its topics of discussion are to thephysieal ) of a comical , anatomical , and gastronomical character ; the whole forming a comprehensive dining directory for all tastes and all pockets . Voltaire ( whose name is suggested to us by an interesting anecdote in this little workto be presently noted ) having been
feli-, citous in a good digestion , makes his Candide " find life most tolerable after meals , " as Byron tells us ; while the poor poetical peer lumselt being eiirsed with a bad one , and having veg etated on potatoes , and vinegar—have we not been told it?—to make himself look thin , pale , and interesting ( ye gods ! that the marks and symptoms of disease should be thought attractive !) , maunders about that celebrated lunatic , Alexander the Great , having declared that the pleasures of feeding painfully reminded him of his mortality , when the incense with which his licksp ittles and toadies , had regaled him pro-red too light even for his god-like stomach . According to Dean Swift , however , the Macedonian maniac was so ; inordinately given to gorging fried eggs , that whenever he woke up after one of his drunken nts ( tor
do we not know that ..... " Alexander hated thinking , Drank a bout at Council board , : And subdued the world by drinking ;' IVIore than by his mighty sword ? ) his courtiers bawled out « all eggs under , the grate , " and that hence was derived his name . But that is neither here nor there . The fact is , that life depends on certain processes of animal chenlistry , such as breathing , for example ; eating and drinking are another example and happy is the man who can perform these processes with comfort to himself , and without annoyance to . others by manifestations of ill-temper and suffering ; for verily such a man has good lungs liver he is free
and a good liver , and what is more , shall be a long 5 from indigestion and bile , and asthma and" dyspepsia , and his days shall be many in the land .- Do not doctors and physiologists tell us that all the organs and functions of our system ought to be duly exercised , and that the pleasurable discharge of the latter is a sign 0 * health ; and that the non-exercise of these functions , the non-performance of these na tural processes of animal chemistry , is detrimental and destr uctive of " health , just the same as excesses are ? Then let us breathe fresh air , and eat and drink , &c , not because " to-morrow we die , " but that we may live long and comfortably , as _ nature ,, it she has any intentions at all , evidently intended we should do . But to revert to our anecdote about Yoltaire , —we find by tins little work , ^»« v >»/ M . of a nluce w herj hungry men do congregate , to wit , J . I 10 ¦
Bedford Head , " Maiden-lane , Oovent-garden , that the " l- ' atnarcn , When , on his escape from the Bastile , he camo over liore , wont to live only two doors off from this resort , so clear ( in one sense , though , we believe , cheap in another ) to . " diners ; " and remained there sonie time , collecting subscriptions for his " Henriade , " and cultivating the acquaintance Sf Pope , Young , Congrevo , and other contemporary celebrities . Womw and her mtiif . i . From Lectures on tlio' Fcmiilo Body « n <} Its Clothing . By Hadftmc Kosoy Ann -Onpllu . X-oua » « X > urton auU Co , 66 , Holbom Hill . Most people who have frequented the western division of the metropolis of late years must have had occasion to traverse Bernors-Btreet , and in that commodious thoroughfare most probably hove observed some feminine lay-iiguros coquottishly attired in stays and Sed mthaffauaysort of garniture . ' 4 ? UUi . the texnple of liygewc
dressmaking , Svhenco the lectures in question ^ jjavo emamueu . xn Eeetuw I . wo are told that « Motherhood U the highest point to which a woman ' s ambition can sour . There is glory in many things which wo can do , literature and art are open to us , and we are justly proud ot the euooess of many of the first writers of this age , who are the d » stinfmished ornaments of our sox ; but the mpthors of England , with thoir jaiiUions of beautiful daughters and npblo sons , have a higher and a , holier fame . " O £ courso , if one is suro of produoing eons and daughters that avo noble and beautiful , and if one has the moana Of bringing thorn up to bo happy and useful members ot sooioty . •? motherhood , " and « fatlxorfipod , " too , are vovy orecUtablo things , bufc there is nothing spooial in which the formes is more estimable ov movo usoful than the latter ; nor is there anything in- mthor that should cause it for itself alono , aB an aim and objoot m ituoU , Instead of the moans to an end , to be considered " tho noblest point to wluoh nnv onnfiihld narson ' s " ambition can soar , " Thoro avo oases m wluoh
the «• noblest point to which a woman ' s [ or ft man ' s ] ambition oould soar" would be found in that generous and exiUie'd spirit ot swJIt saariflooand devotion to the general good in which motherhood and ftttl erSood would bo excluded . Are there sot poop o wit i mortg and doadlv xnalttdioB tho Iiorod tary transmission of whioh to thoir children isfnovlSloP Whoro is the WrC , thosonao , tho fooling of those who woXS-obirtitottproffony stricken in tho very gem with ft fatal ^^ SiJlni dtawBO ? Kom " artifloWlnBtinot" fa «»««« wile irt fffiimisfv Sroduood by habit and oirortmstanaes , and prejudices olia ^ inV in Mimoa of tenoranoQ and barbarism , mixed ¦* tl > toon * ^¦ gCfo ? oMd » vLty a nd o « otiBm , too often at tty bottom of what ooonlb mistake 'for- ft " noblo ambition . wo nsK xp m very St { w » £ 8 S . pirttr 5 iit how about tho mothers of tho pnnnh , the
prodatorv and prostitute classes , of those who have been driven to their frightful calling by . iriabilifcy to obtain work , or who wlien fully employed , like the multitudes of famishing needlewonaen , cannot eurn enough tu keep soul and body together , and arc compelled to eke out . their wretched existence by the proceeds arising from various kinds of illicit acts ? If the parents of these unfortunates think they have reached the " noblest point to which a woman ' s ambition can soar , " ' we do not envy their feelings , nor the feelings of those who may agree with them . These lectures have the merit of being calculated to make young women conversant with the construction of their Own-organism —a subject on which they have hitherto been absurdly and
criminally kept in the dark . And thus it has come to pass that multitudes of young women , from a sheer want of information on the construction ¦ of their-own- frame , have , through tight lacing and other pernicious practices , entirely deranged the healthy action of their bodily functions , and . entailed , the most fearful consequences on themselves and their children : Nay , there are even now frumpish people in the world with antidiluvian notions , who think it absolutely immoral for women not to lace themselves up after the ridiculous fashion , of a former period ; and any young woman who attires . herself in a comfortable and natural way is stigmatized by them as " fast , " &c . In tending to cure this evil , Ifadame Capliu ' s lectures will have a very good effect , and we commend them to the special attention of the gentler sex .
SERIALS . KoHh American Review ; ISo-. 180 . Oct . 18 G 0 . Boston , U . S ., Crosby & Co . : ' ifcw York , II . H . . Dexter & Co .: London ., Sampson Low & Co . —The presGnt number of this standard Review contains papers that will be interesting to every elass of readers . The philologist , the critic , the classical student , will find suitable mental pabulum in " Homer and his Heroines , " a paper on the Hon . W . E . Gladstone ' s " Studies on Homer and the Homeric Ago , " as also in articles on " The EiiTlisli Language in America , " and " Edmund Waller ' s Poetical Works ;" the historian will turn to the articles on " ^ he Life and Labours of Richard Prince , " the " Memoirs , Letters , and Speeches of Anthony Ashley Cooper first Earl of Shaftesburyi" " Palfrey ' s History of New England ; " the diplomatist and politician will be attracted by " Rusk ' s
Occasional Productions ; " the naturalist , savant , and the medical man will select the papers on " Climatology , "" Quarantine aiKV Hygiene , ^ ( in wliich , among other topics , Dr . Utibington ' s work on Xhc . Epidemics of the Middle Ages , " is discussed ) , and that most interesting question , " The Origin of Sp ecies , " at the head of which stand the names of Professor Agassiz and Professor Parsons , as " representative men" in the discussion of the matter , though , of course , the name of Mr . Darwinjwlxo has placed the subject in a more complete and satisfactory form than it had ' ever-previously assumed , will occupy a-principal share of the reader ' s attention . In addition to the above , there are a paper , the subject of which may be inferred from its title , An lnfflonous Milton , " " Critical Notices , " and " New Publications . It will be seen that the subjects of the articles contained in the present nature
number arc of a peculiarly varied and interesting . The . Leisure Hour . Part % 0 G . October , 18 G 0 . London : Religious Tract Society , 56 , Paternostcr-row ; and 164 , Piccadilly . —Ihis -iannl . v journal of instruction and recreation , " well fulfils its » >) ccialit . . The present part contains an interesting p aper , illustrated with siutabk cuts , of the total solar eclipse which occurred on the lbth of da 3 111 =.. "A Summary of NcapoUtan History" possesses pcculuu--m e . ivs i j liojn current events it is illustrated . by a map of Southern Italy . Haj to use the Barometer" ( also appropriately illustrated ) , . 13 a V ^'; i ^ contribution . Tho " Story of the Crooked Sixpence « gie ^ through chapters 8 to 15 , both -ihclus ^ cy in the present -pail ana " The Black Country , " which commences in it , proceeds ns lai a ^ ohaptorT There are , besides , a number of > voll written ««• Uelij . tphich we must dispose of e » masse by recommending tho ^ ubl . ^ uu ftn general perusal . In . " Missionary . Itineration . 111 India , it is wi 0 us , to got * in the graphic illustration given , how travellers rule ,-in vel 0 i 7 .,,. L ^ o ,, o i , «« v , iif not drawn bv European methods of tuution .
Bip ^ o i ^ in K of quadrupedal or stcamfmotiyo Po ^ ouldeH . id lion . Two running natives each take a shaft ovo » - h ^ 8 houUk , ana two more push bolund ; arid this is the way they got over he g 101 m in India ; the equine population of India 19 scarce , tho unlo . Ulicjct bipedal race is suporobundant 5 voila , the secret .
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RECORD OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL . Last week closed with Consols down at 97 7-8 to 1 ) 3 . Tho notuaj aiidantSlpAtod suspension pf diplomatic relations between ^ St , rd . nla w * tho pi ' o-Neapolitan States , had a pvwoipal share in this dui u .. Wo havo , wo regret this weak to ivdd tho naino of tho Duko oi k in mond to th ' o obituary of woU-Unonni public tnou who havo du-d daring tho prosont autumn , , , i \ - . Lord Bury , who is woll knowix as a aooi « l roformor , h « a ° ' ^ ^ ' Ul ) 1 soif as a oandidato to tho ooustlLiwuyy of the Wiok Buvyiis . Tho Session at tho Central Criunnal Ouurt was resiimocl on - ;; : ; ' ^ : Tho important oasea of tho murdors at Stopnoy , Loa-brj ( ltf «» , " * . '• , •• notiood undor tholr sppoifb heads . Tho i . vdox of cri . no , oj , ii : I ' - Surrey Sessions , sooms to show a somowlmt , favonijnblo niato o l . ijjff in that county , attributed by tho ohim-man to H » o s It I ny bonofloont results of rncgpd-sclioola and roionnulory ins In ioint .
Tho . now Soin-etavy of tho-Ti-otwuvy , i « Mr . -irotlorick L el . f , The oriminnl record of tlio vroolc , w ejvollou by a u »^ »'»' tragedy nt Bradford . A Mrs . Gowlfuul lias ; murdorod u « ' dron . Tho instrument of dostruotion was a raaor , wiUi « mtu »« k thoii ' throats . She Hum altomptod s . uioido . p ., Q lcmioy A true billwae found against Mullhw , 1 » tlw ™* ° o £ tho b ^ P" ^ murdov . on Tuosduy . . , i w ni-u . viou The charge agninsb W . 33 . Wobb , of having munlo vaW . J . o o the high eons , has AiUon to tho ground , tho grand jury ha \ mg »>»« ^ Is ^ rcis Stvpot-rallwnyn , » n cwfltofori having : been njajo Jo iU « OommlBlionorB of Sowove , by Mr . Tnun , foi > leave lo inlrocluco
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900 Tlie Saturday Analyst arid Leader . |_ Oct . 97 , I 860
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1860, page 900, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2371/page/12/
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