IN KENTUCKY. The following notice of a Rail-road Meeting, held at Shelby Court-house, shows that the inhabitants of that state are awake to thoir own interest: [From the Shelbyville Examiner.] 1st. That it is expedient that application be made fecting our own interests, and for that purpose to the Legislature of this State, at their ensuing ses- Committee be appointed whose duty it shall be to ion, for the incorporation of a company with the prepare and circulate a memorial to the Legislature, necessary privileges, to construct a Rail-road from embracing all the advantages contemplated in the Lake Erie, commencing at some point between the said project. mouth of Cataraugus creek and the line of Pennsyl- Resolved, That Messrs. Whiting of Ontario, De RAIL-ROAD MEETING. At a meeting of the inhabi.vania, and to run from thence, through the South. Mott of Seneca, Bloodgood and E. Mack of Tomp. tants of Shelby, held at the Court-house, Shelbyville, western tier of counties, by the way of the village kins, H. Pumpelly and Farrington of Tioga, J. on Saturday last, the 3d instant, to take into consid- of Owego, to the Hudson river, or to connect with Whitney and M. Whiting of Broome, be a commiteration the measures necessary to be adopted to pro- Rail-reads already chartered, or otherwise, as may tee to attend the Legislature at its next session, to cure the passage of the Lexington and Ohio Rail. be deemed most advisable, with a view to reach the express our views and urge our claims on that body. road, through or near the town of Shelbyville, the city of Now York, by the best Rail-road route, with Resolved, That we approve of the contemplated following resolutions were adopted: a capital of $5,000,000. application for a Rail-Road from the village of IthiResolved, That we highly approve of the public 2d. That a notice of the foregoing application, ca to the village of Geneva, and that we will give it spirit exhibited by the Lexington and Ohio Rail-road emanating from this convention, and signed by the our cordial interest and support. Company, in their efforts to accomplish a work of officers thereof, be forthwith published in the public Resolved, That we approve of the projected Rail. so extensive utility as that in which they are at pre-papers, as the law directs. Road from the village of Owego to Lake Erie, and sent engaged. 3d. That a committee consisting of five members, that we will also give our cordial interest and supResolved, That we will use our best endeavors be appointed to prepare and report to the conven- port to this measure. to procure the passage of the Lexington and Ohio tion a memorial to the legislature, embracing the Resolved, That all the counties interested, and for Rail-road, through or near the town of Shelbyville. above-mentioned objects. which Delegates have not been chosen by this conResolved, That the Charter granted to the Lexing- 4th. That Executive Committees be appointed in vention, be requested to send Delegates to Albany, ton and Ohio Rail-road Company, was intended for in the several counties interested in this application, to further the contemplated application. the benefit of the State at large. for the purpose of circulating and forwarding me. Resolved, That the Delegates appointed to attend Resolved, That the present route surveyed for the morials, procuring the publication of notices, and the session of the Legislature, have power to ap. Rail-road, pretermits the great Commercial trade of doing such other things as may be necessary to for. point their substitutes. Shelby county, which, in extent, productiveness and ward the objects of this application. Resolved, That the delegates from Tompkins be all commercial means, is equal to, and ifthis great im- 5th. That a central corresponding committee be the committee to draft the Memorial to the Legisla provement should be effected, would in time exceed, appointed, and also committees of correspondence turc. that of any other county in the State. for each of the counties interested in this application. All which is respectfully submitted. D. G. GARNSEY, Chairman. The following named gentlemen were appointed Resolved, That J. Pumpelly, G. Hewitt, T. Farrington, T. Robinson, and F. Bloodgood, be a com mittee of correspondence. Resolved, That John F. Graham, Samuel Harbison, James Bradshaw, Joshua Gore, Joseph M. Venable, Lloyd Tevis, John G. Simrall, P. Butler, Resolved, That Messrs. Morell, Woodcook, J. and Geo. W. Johnston, be appointed a Committee a committee to draft the memorial to the Legisla- Beebe. Waterman, Avery, and, J. Pumpelly, be a to inquire into the trade of Shelby county, both im. ture: committee to attend the convention at Owego on the port and export, to make surveys and reconnois Messrs. Burrows, Leonard, Drake and Avery, of 20th inst. to express to that body our own views, and sances, and to correspond with the Board of Direc- Tioga, and Clark of Chenango. to concert measures in furtherance of the objects of tors of the Lexington and Ohio Rail-road Company. The following named gentlemen were appointed both conventions. Resolved, That this meeting adjourn until Satur- a corresponding committee: Resolved, That the Editors of Newspapers in N. day the 17th inst. JOHN F. GRAHAM, Ch'm. Messrs. M'Clure, of Steuben, J. Pumpelly, of Tio-York and Albany, and in all the counties interested WILLIAM KNIGHT, Sec'y. ga, V. Whitney, of Broome, Clark, of Chenango, be requested to publish the proceedings of this conPage, of Otsego. IN WESTERN NEW-YORK. On motion of Mr. Page, the following resolution was adopted: vention. V. Pros'ta TRACY ROBINSON, Pres't. Ben Johnson, At a meeting of delegates from the counties Resolved, That the central committee be authorizof Chatauque, Cataraugus, Allegany, Steuben, Tio ed to publish the proceedings of this convention, ga, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Greene, and notice of application, in all the counties immeSullivan, Tompkins and Seneca, convened at the diately interested in this project, also in the cities of At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens village of Owego, on the 20th of Dec. 1831, GEO. New York and Albany. of the town of Hinsdale and towns adjacent, held' MORELL, of Otsego, was appointed Pres't., GEO. On motion of Mr. Burrows, the following resolution was adopted: on the 29th of December instant, at the Methodist M'CLURE, of Steuben, JAMES PUMPELLY, of Tioga, Resolved. That the convention cordially approve chapel in said town, for the purpose of taking into and S. S. HAIGHT, of Allegany, Vice-Presidents.of the application to the Legislature, for the con- consideration the practicability of constructing a D. G. GARNSEY, of Chatauque, SHERMAN PAGE, of struction of a Rail-road from the village of Ithica to Rail. Road from the city of Albany to the city of N. Otsego, and JOHN C. CLARK, of Chenango, were the village of Geneva. The thanks of the Convention were voted to the York-Augustus Tremain was called to the chair, appointed Secretaries. President and officers, for the able discharge of their and Frederic I. Curtiss appointed Secretary. The duties. meeting was,then opened by an address to the Throne of Grace, by the Rev. Joel Osborne. The object of the mee,ing was then stated by Abraham F. Hold. ridge, Esq. and moved that a committee of five be appointed by the chair to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of this meeting. The chair, in conformity to said motion, thereupon appointed John Snyder, William Murray, Henry Loop, Russel G. Dorr, and Milton Niles, as said committee. The following preamble and resolutions were then reported by said committee and unanimously adopted by the meeting: Delegates from the following counties presented their credentials and took their seats-Chatauque 3, Cataraugus 3, Allegany 3, Steuben 12, Tioga 13, Broome 7, Chenango 7, Delaware 5, Otsego 10, Sullivan 2, Greene 3, Tompkins 9, Seneca 6; and three gentlemen from N. Y. were invited to take seats-in all 86. The following resolution was adopted: S. Page, GEO. MORELL, President. GEO. M'CLURE, JAS. PUMPELLY, S. S. HAIGHT, Secretaries. PENNSYLVANIA-NEW-YORK. V. Presidents. Whereas, the necessity of a Rail-Road from Albany or Troy to New York, to keep open a communication by steam power throughout the year, is a haps nine tenths of the people of this state: desideratum loudly called for by the interests of per Resolved, That Messrs. Morell and Weedcock, of At a convention of Delegates, from counties of Tompkins county, Avery and J. Pumpelly, of Tioga, delegates appointed at a Rail-Road convention New York and Pennsylvania, interested in a project held at Binghamton on the 15th instant, to attend of a Rail Road from the village of Otsego to the this convention, be admitted to seats in the same. city of New York, held at Binghamton on the 15th Mr. Burrows offered the following resolution, of December, 1831, Tracy Robinson, of Broome, which was adopted: Resolved, That a committee consisting of one del. was appointed President, James Pumpelly of Tioga, And wherers, a route through the eastern part of ⚫egate from each county represented in this conven- and Luther Gere, of Tompkins, Vice Presidents, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, &c. has been explored tion, be appointed to report resolutions for the con- Ben Johnson and George J. Pumpelly, Secretaries. by competent engineers, and found to be much more sideration of the convention. direct, and to present far less obstacles than any Delegates from the counties of Seneca, Tompkins, other route: Tioga, Broome, Otsego, Susquehannah, Wayne and And whereas, ne other practicable route is conMr. Garnsey, of Chatauque, Crooker, of Catarau. Luzerne, appeared present. templated, save a circuitous one, through part of gus, Haight, of Allegany, Leland, of Steuben, Bur- On motion, a committee of nine were selected by Mascachusetts and Connecticut, being some ten or rows, of Tioga, Virgil Whitney, of Broome, Clark, the chair to draft resolutions expressing the views of fifteen miles farther and over an altitude some hun. of Chenango, Baxter, of Delaware, Page, of Otsego, the convention. dreds of feet greator: Therefore Pelton, of Sullivan, Seaman, of Greene, Bloodgood. Messrs. Seeley of Seneca, Bloodgood of Tomp. Resolved, That a respectful memorial be present. of Tompkins, Halsey, of Seneca, Wakeman, of New-kins, Avery of Tioga, Doubleday of Broome, Col-ed to our Legislature at their next session, for an York. lier of Otsego, Ward and Catlin of Susquehannah, act incorporating a company with usual powers, to The committee was announced from the chair as follows: A Communication addressed to the President of Judson of Wayne, and Townsend of Luzerne, were construct a Rail-road from New-York through the the Convention, from Messrs. B. Robinson, E. Lord, the committee, which after a recess, presented the counties of Westchester. Putnam and Dutchess, to Richard M. Lawrence, Robert White, J. D. Beers, following resolutions, which were unanimously Hinsdale, in the county of Columbia, thence to some Wm. G. Bucknor, Richard Ray, of the city of New adopted by the convention. point on the river opposite the city of Albany, with York, on the subject of a Rail-road from Lake Erie Recolved, That this convention cordially unite in power to extend it to Troy, and construct branches to said city, was received, read, and referred to the the general spirit evinced, in the many contemplated on each side. above named committee. improvements of the day. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting. The committee appointed to consider and report Resolved, That we particularly unite in and ap- our enlightened Legislature will not grant a Railto the convention the subjects which should particu- prove of the application for a Rail-Road from the road, any part of which shall, without a natural no. larly occupy their attention at the present meeting, termination of the Ithica and Owego Rail-Road, at cessity, be in any adjoining State, (consequently be.. espectfully Report: Owego, to the city of New York, as immediately af yond their control) thereby conferring great lateral NEW YORK, JANUARY 7, 1832. : and impartiality our aim it is therefore desirable that all communications for this Journal should be accompanied by a responsible name. "An Engi Resolved, That a Rail-Road through the counties aforesaid, from Albany to New York, thereby openIn presenting the second number of the American neer" is requested to call upon the editor, or leave his ing so expeditious and cheap a communication for passengers a freight, would be greatly beneficial, not Rail-road Journal to the public, the publisher cannot address, as the statements in his communication, if only th New York and those passing and sending refrain from expressing his thanks to the Editorial accurate, are of importance to the Rail-road-making freight thereon, but particularly to the freeholders Corps for the uniform politeness with which the first public; but cannot be inserted without authority, and residing on and near its route, by the increased val- number of his Journal has been received. The haste we have not the documents at hand. ue of their real estate and all its productions. Resolved, That a committee of eight be appoint- with which it was got up, (one week only having ed by this meetting to present said memorial and to elapsed from the time he decided to publish it, before We regret the necessity of omitting a particular act as a committee of correspondence; and that the first number was printed,) prevented him from notice of several interesting pamphlets sent us by a Frederick I. Curtiss, John Snyder. Jacob Shaffer, giving it that finish which a specimen number usual. veteran pioneer upon the subject of Rail-reads in this Elisha Wilcox, Augustus Treman, John Wager, `Abraham P. Holdridge and George Lawrence conly receives; that nicety of dress, so requisite to the country. They will be looked upon almost as prostitule said committeefavorable impression which a traveller should desire phecy. We will notice them in our next at length. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting to make upon intelligent strangers, or that variety Accompanying the very acceptable communicabe signed by the chairman and Secretary, and pub- of matter and propriety of arrangement which gene tion upon the subject of the South Carolina Raillished in the Hudson Gazette, Columbia Republican and Albany Argus. rally secure the confidence and patronage of the road, we received from a gentleman familier with the AUGUSTUS TREMAIN, Ch'mn. reading community. For the flattering notice ta- commencement and progress of that important work, FREDERIC 1. CURTISS, Sec'ry. ken of it by gentlemen connected with the press, be the act of incorporation, By Laws, and the different is willing to believe that he is rather indebted to the Reports made to the Company by the Directors, toOHIO CANAL.-Deeming the successful operation novelty of the undertaking, (or scheme, as it has been gether with the report of Alexander Black, Esq. of this improvement to be a matter of much interest termed by some,) and to the well-earned reputation Commissioner, dated October 18th, 1831, giving a to Pennsylvania, we feel it a duty to exhibit to our of the literary and miscellaneous department of the minute detail of its present condition: from which readers all the evidence which we can obtain upon New-York American, from which he is permitted by we shall be able to give, in our next number, a conthat subject. The following account of produce, shipped from Dover for New York and Montreal, its editor and proprietor to make up the greatest part cise history of it, which cannot fail to be highly credis taken from the Canton Repository, and may be of the Rail-road Journal, than to any merit of his itable to the enterprize and public spirit of its projecrelied upon as correct. Dover is situated upon the own, in projecting and undertaking a work of the tors, as well as the perseverance of its CommissionOhio Canal, almost directly west from Pittsburg, and kind, without a single subscriber, or even a favora-ers, Engineers, and contractors. not more than ninety miles distant. [From the Pittsburg Gazette of Dec. 30.] Before the Ohio canal was made, and when pro. ble expressien of opinion from any one, until after At the date of this report between ton and eleven duce from that part of Ohio was sent to market by the proposals were sent forth. So cordial a recep-miles were completed and in use, and the work on common roads, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Baltimore, tion of one so entirely inexperienced in the duties of the entire line progressing rapidly. were the usual destinations of all the surplus produc- an editor, cannot but excite him to the most unretions of this section of country. There being no other mode of conveyance than these ordinary roads mitting exertions, in order to insure a continuance of RAIL-ROADS IN OHIO.-We find by the annexed produce naturally sought the nearest market. The the good wishes of all; and especially of those who paragraph from a recent number of the Dayton completion of the Ohio canal has produced an entire may think favorably of his Journal, or the great cause, (Ohio) Journal, that in that young and enterprizing change in this respect. Owners of produce now find the improvement of the internal communication of state, which already boasts a canal nearly compleit cheaper to send their property seven or eight hun the inequality which now exists will be corrected, dred miles to New York, by canal and lake naviga. our country by Rail-roads and Canals, in which heted, second only in extent and usefulness to the Erie tion, than five hundred miles to Philadelphia, part of is engaged. His thanks are also tendered to those canal of this State-the Rail-road spirit is abroad. the distance by common roads. If a Rail-road or gentlemen who have been so kind as to forward to The bill to incorporate the "Mad River avd Lake Canal is once completed hence to the Ohio canal, him books and documents upon the subject of Rail- Erie Railroad Company," passed the Senate on Saturday, with a few slight amendments, which and produce will again seek the nearest market. roads, now in progress and contemplation, and almost would no doubt be agreed to by the house; so that "Canal Navigation. During the year ending on always accompanied by further and substantial evi- the bill will become a law. It provides that the capthe 30th November, 1831, there were cleared at the dence of their good wishes--a year's subscription in ital stock shall be one million of dollars, in shares port of Dever, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, advance. Hence he is able to issue the second of $50, with liberty to increase it to two millions; 65,750 bushels of wheat, 3,804 barrels of flour, and and authorizes the commencement of the work as 2,069,319 pounds of other produce, consisting number more in accordance with his wishes and in-soon as $50,000 are subscribed. It gives the comprincipally of rye, corn, butter and tobacco. This tentions. Several of the pamphlets and papers it has pany the right to construct a double or single Rail. embraces the articles shipped at Lockport, Trenton, been impossible to examine in time for this number; road from some point in Dayton to Springfield; port. The amount of tolls received was $5,244 18 to or near Tiffin; thence to Lower Sandusky City. grateful for the prospect of a liberal patronage, of The bill passed the House on Wednesday last, with cents." We some time since published an account of the which he has the most undoubted evidence. Ar-only three dissenting votes, and in the Senate there produce shipped at Massillon. From these accounts rangements are making to secure the aid of experi- was only one vote against it.-[Dayton Journal 27th it appears that there were sent from those two vil-enced and practical men, and to obtain new publicaDecember.] lages, neither of them one hundred miles from Pittsburgh, in flour and wheat alone, as follows: tions upon the subject, that the variety and usefulness of the Journal may increase in proportion to its age. We call attention to two communications in this Bevilard, Salesbury, New Comerstown, and New. they will receive attention in the next. He is truly thence to Urbana; thence to Bellfountain; thence Bush. Wheat. . From Massillon, 89,392 From Dover, 65,750 -155,142 Bls Flour. -19,876 The length of this Rail-road will be about 115 miles. To the Editor of the American Rail-road Journal:SIR-It was not until this morning that I was number of the Journal. The one details the route fully aware that you had commenced the publication Well may the people of New York say that Ohio and objects of a Rail-road, for which an act of incor- of a Journal, professedly devoted to a subject of inbegins to furnish their mills with considerable quan-poration has been already obtained, from Newburg, calculable importance to this whole nation, yet but tities of grain. To our country especially, so vast in territory and diversified in products, as necessarily to require a perpetual and ever increasing internal commerce, it promises, and at no very distant day, to exceed in extent even those natural channels with which our through Orange county, to the Delaware river.-imperfectly understood. Canal Navigation on a new plan.-An ingenious This read, if made, would open a new and short cut Rail.roads are no longer a chimera of the brain, mechanic of Chilicothe, Mr. William M'Carrell, has constructed a vehicle which, from the description to the coal region of Lackawana. The other fur. but a fairly tested mode of transportation, and the given of it, appears admirably calculated for running nishes a notice of the Patterson and Hudson river most highly approved of all which have ever boen on the Canal, when the severity of the weather ren- Rail-road, which is, we are glad to see, so forward introduced into any country. ders the usual mode of navigation impracticable. It in its work, and which will, it is estimated by our partakes of the nature of a sleigh and a canal boat; being fixed on runners, so as to move on the ice with correspondent, be completed and equipped-if so we great rapidity, and is made water tight, in order that may speak-for active business, for the original capit may float, in care of breaking through. It came ital of $250,000. The distance will be about fifteen up to this place on Wednesday evening, with a num- miles. ber of passengers; and we have been informed by Fome of our fellow citizens who have taken a ride in By a singular oversight, which is the more to be favered land is so liberally supplied. The present st, that it is a very easy, safe and comfortable mode regretted as it refers to a work near to us, this Rail. season is peculiarly calculated to remind the public of conveyance. It is the intention of the proprietor, road was omitted in the list published in the first of the precariousness of water communication, and we understand, to run it regularly between Chilico- number of the Journal. There were other errors al- the necessity of something more to be depended upthe and Columbus, so long as the season will per- in that list, but we have not yet been able to ob- on. Amongst Rail-roads already in progress, (and mit, should he meet with sufficient encouragement. -[Ohio State Journal.] tain the necessary information to give a correct one, and therefore defer it for the present. The Norfolk Beacon, of Dec. 30 states that the Dismal Swamp Canal, which was closed some time with ice, is again open: and that the obstruction to I would say, nearly completed, if the obstacles to the commencement of this work were taken into view,) is one from Charleston, S. C. to Hamburg, on the “An Engineer” is correct in his inferenco: our Savannah river, opposite Augusta, 135 miles—partinavigation through the whoie line of transporta. object is "as much to enlighten the public mind on culars of which you shall have for your next numtion, by the Canal and Roanoke is entirely removed. this mammoth subject, as to aid useful projects 'ber. S. NEW-YORK AMERICAN. DECEMBER 31, 1831-JANUARY 3, 4, 5, 6, 1832. notes. -. who have borne an active part in the world-the ed comparison of either Voltaire or Byron, with REVIEW OF THE WEEK. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XCI.: London, Murray-The opening article in this able number dealt with without serious injury to their fame.this, their first journal, affords high promise. We of the London Quarterly is on the same subject as There never,' says Mr. Croker, has existed any have little room for extracts, but cannot deny ourthat in the latest number of its great rival the Edin.human being, all the details of whose life, all the selves the pleasure of presenting the vivid picture of burgh Review-Croker's Boswell; and it is as unmotives of whose actions, all the thoughts of whose the city of Morocco--as drawn by Lieut. Washingmind, have been so unreservedly brought before the measured, but neither as argumentative, nor as de- public; even his prayers, his most secret meditations, ton, of the British Navy, who accompanied a diplomonstrative, in its praise of this compilation of the and his most scrupulous self-reproaches, have been matic mission from Tangiers to Morocco:late Secretary of the Admiralty, as the Edinburgh laid before the world. They have all been sifted, 'Debouching from this rocky defile, the imperial is in its condemnation. It is manifest, therefore, too, and commented on, it may now be added, with city-with its buildings, its mosques, its minarets, and as deliberate an exercise of studious aeuteness as lofty tower, on a plain, in the midst of a forest of as has been insisted by several of the most respecta-ever frightened a conscious imagination. All that palms, backed by the eternal snows of the Atlas, rible journals in this country, that party politics enter curiosity could glean, or enthusiasm garner, philo. sing to a height of eleven thousand feet, and brought largely into these literary Reviews; and that this sophic penetration has bolted to the bran. There forward in striking relief from the deep blue sky bework, in particular, has been treated of by both are, perhaps,' Mr. Croker says elsewhere, not many hind them-burst on our view. While we gazed men who have practiced such self-examination as to with delight on this beautiful prospect, our Moorish sides, not so much with reference to its merits, as know themselves as well as every reader knows Dr. leader, on first sight of Morocco, halted his troops, to the previous career and charactor of its compiler. Johnson,' And what is the result ?-that, in spite and one and all offered up prayers for the health of Yet after reading both Reviews, and making all al. of innumerable oddities, and of many laughable, and the ultan, their master, and thanksgiving for the lowance for the inordinate praise of the one, and some few condemnable weaknesses, when we desire happy termination of their journey; encamped for to call up the notions of a human being thoroughly, the night under the shade of the palm-trees; the the, perhaps, inordinate censure of the other; there as far as our fallen clay admits the predication of contrast striking between this enabler of tropical "emains on our mind the impression, resulting from such qualities, good and wise; in the whole of his and burning climes, and the snowy mountains, now he proofs of gross inaccuracy and carelessness pro-nind lofty. of his temper generous, in the midst of rising almost immediately over our heads; at sun. duced by the Edinburgh, that Mr. Croker's book, misery incapable of shabbiness, 'every inch a man,' set many of the peaks still lighted up, while all which we only knew from these Reviews, is, in re. Whatever our habits of self-examination may have 135. -the name of Samuel Johnson springs to every lip below lies buried in one mass of shadow.'-p. 138, gard of the anticipations concerning it, a failure. been, we certainly know him better than we are ever The following day, the 10th December, they Yet of this book the London Quarterly says—“Onlikely to do most of our own friends, and feel that. "Cross the river Tensift, at Alkantra, a bridge the whole, in spite of a few trivial mistakes and in. in one instance at least, the adage about heroes and of thirty pointed arches, and continue over a peradvertencies easy to be corrected hereafter, we may ter is before us bare, and throughout it stands erect, the city; accompanied by the sultan's guards, all in their valets-de-chambre, does not hold. The charac fectly level plain, through a forest of palms, towards safely pronounce this "Boswell" the best edition of sineere, great; the thoughts habitually turned on white clothing, and the whole of the troops and male an English book that has appeared in our time.”—great things, and yet the observation of the world population of Morocco, not less than forty thousand The charm which the Quarterly especially insists equally keen and broad; the sympathy with human persons; spirited charging of cavalry; firing of on, is "in the philosophical reflections on Johnson's passions, interests, and occupations almost bound- guns and crackers; barbarous music; incessant less; and the charity for frailty, and feebleness, and shouting; bawling, and piercing screams of women! character and genius," put forth in Mr. Croker's sin, most Christian. in short, suffice it to say, every honor that could be It is, indeed, sad to consider how few even of the offered, attended us as we advanced. At high noon Dismissing however, the merits of this particular first could, after such a process of dissection, lay-at the moment the white flags were waving from edition of Boswell-the article before us discusses claim to this high, pervading nobility. If we want the summits of the Minarets, and the loud and deep a foil for Johnson in his own order,' we have but voice the muezzin was heard from the lofty towwith power and eloquence the value of such contributo pick and choose among the few of recent times ers of the mosques, calli g on the faithful Musseltions as Boswell has furnished, to the most attrac- who have descended to the grave after having com- mans to acknowledge that there is no God but one tive, we are not sure but we may add-the most in. manded anything like the same measure of public God, and that Mohammed is his Prophet'-did we structive species of reading-personal memoirs and attention. On all sides, with hardly an exception, unbelieving Nazarenes enter the imperial city of what follies of the wise!'-what jealousies, what Morocco. An abrupt turn brought us to our quarbiography. "What," exclaims the Reviewermeannesses, what intrigues, what petty ambitions, ters, in a vast garden, "at once silent, shaded, verwhat degrading indulgences, what shameful subser. dant, and cool," and where we were at full liberty viencies and panderings to the worser parts of that to take our repose. common nature which genius is sent down among The plain of Morocco extends in an east and us the appointed instrument of heaven to rebuke, west direction, between a low range of schistose charm, and elevate! What a worship of wordly hills to the north, and the lofty Atlas to the south, idols, what hankerings after toys, what a want of about twenty-five miles wide, and apparently a dead -the first, and as yet by far the most complete pie-sense, even in the midst of the most brilliant ener- flat to the foot of the mountains, which rise abruptture of the whole life and conversation of one of gy of the finest understandings, to comprehend the ly to the height of eleven thousand feet, their peaks that rare order of beings. the rarest, the most influ- worth of their own place and destiny; what a maze covered with snow. This plain, which has no limit ential of all, whose mere genius entitles and enables of small vanity, and fierce self-love, and malice; as far as the eye can reach east or west, lying about them to act as great independent controlling powers how little either of moral repose, or even of intel- fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, the upon the general tone of thought and feeling of lectual pride! And what apologies are we called soil of a light sandy loom, with numerous rolled their kind, and invests the very soil where it can be on to accept as quittance, when compared with the stones of crystallized quartz, agates, flints, porphyry, shown they ever set foot, with a living and saered those which, had he fallen as short of the right sta- a green stone, cornelians, &c. &c,, is, generally charm of interest, years and ages after the loftiest ture as the most gifted and worst of these, might speaking, covered with low brusnwood of the thor. of the contemporaries, that did or did not conde- have been advanced for him? Who had stronger ny plant called scdra nébach, or buckthorn; the scend to notice them, shall be as much forgotten, passions, who more besetting temptations, who banks of the streamlets fringed with oleanders in even by the heirs of their own blood and honors, as more painful physical infirmities, or a darker enemy great beauty, while to the north of the city is a for. if they had never strutted their hour on the glit to straggle against in the very spring of his essence; rest of palm-trees and olives. The river Tensift, tering stage? Enlarged and illuminated, as we who, with such exquisite sensibilities, had to with- springing from the northern hills about forty miles now have it, by the industrious researches and stand such abject penury, such chilling scorn, on eastward of the city, flows along at their base about the sagacious running criticism of Mr. Croker, the one hand; or, doubly dangerous for contrast, four miles north of Morocco, and joined by several Boswell's Johnson' is, without doubt,-excepting, a more lavish excess of assentation, after the world streamlets from Atlas, reaches the Atlantic about fif yet hardly excepting, a few immortal monuments of had been pleased to smile? Truly, it is enough teen miles south of Saffy, nearly one hundred miles ereative genius,-that English book, which, were to make the most compassionate heart swell, when distant; the river is shallow, but rapid; the chan. this Island to be sunk tomorrow with all that it in- we are gravely desired, in judging of more than nel here about three hundred yards wide, but fordahabits, would be most prized in other days and coun- one career that we could mention, to take such ble except in the spring, in almost all places. tries, by the students of us and of our history.'-and such sorrows and grievances, and blandishments The City of Morocco lying on the northern side We may easily satisfy ourselves as to this point and allurements, into our account-and remember of this rich plain, is surrounded by a strongly built, what is that Greek or Latin book which the most as who ean forget? through what a sea of troubles machicolated wall of tadia work, thirty feet high, ardent scholar would not sacrifice, se he could evoke this forlorn giant worked his way,-how Syrens and with foundations of Masonry; square towers about from some sepulchral palimpsest a life of any intel. Circes, and Calypsos assailed him in vain,-how every fifty paces; the whole nearly six miles in cir. lectual giant of antiquity, a first rate luminary, both safely he steered his heavy laden and laborious bark cuit, entered by eleven streng double gates. But social and literary, of old Rome or Athens, conceiv-between the Seylla of disgust and the Charybdis of this vast area is far from being generally covered ed and executed after this mode!? Probably every luxury, and with what calm self-possession he occu- with buildings; it comprises large gardens, and open one will answer 'Homer: but who will make three pied the harbor he at last had found-totus teres at- spaces from twenty to thirty acres in extent. The exceptions besides ? or at all events, who are the que rotundus ;'-a proud, melancholy, ambitious spi. Sultan's Palace stands on the south of the city fathree persons that will agree as to what the three rit; yet neither to be shattered by affronts, nor bruis. cing the Atlas, outside the main wall; but enelosed other exceptions ought to be? ed down by the tedious anguish of neglect, nor sap- within walls of equal strength, in a large space of And again, after combating the opinion of Words.ped by adulations. We happen to have at our el- of about fifteen hundred yards long, by six hundred worth, that, "the lives of authors should not be pried rale, et avec le Roi de Prusse,' in twenty-one vo- which are detached pavilions; forming the imperial bow as we write a certain Correspondance Géné. wide, divided into squares laid out in gardens, round into with the same diligent curiosity, and laid open lumes, 8vo., and Mr. Moore's two recent quartos: residence; the floors of the rooms tesselated with with the same disregard of reserve," as those of men but we should be sorry to trust ourselves in a detail- various colored tiles; otherwise quite plain; a mat, What can the best charactor in any novel ever be, Compared to a full length of the reality of genius? and what specimen of such reality will ever surpass the 'OMN votivå velati depicta tabellâ VITA SENIS?—' a small carpet at one end, and some cushions, form the furniture.'-pp 135, 136. Of these the false Achitophel was first- That the King's Minister should, even while re- tent to say, (with some reservation, however,) a® turning thanks for a personal compliment-of which Dryden did of his predecessor— He then describes the mosques, the fountains, the Lord John may be so short-sighted as not to detect bazaars, streets, and houses-the aqueducts, ceme the worthlessness-that he should not have expresteries, and gardens. It was one of those belonging sed some dissent from the illegal and treasonable dosto the Sultan, in which the British mission were ac trines with which the compliment was accompanied, commodated during their residence of a month in is sufficiently surprizing; but that, though a serious Morocco. It was called dereliction of duty, is venial when compared with Sebt el Mahmonia, covering an extent of fifteen his characterizing the exercise of the undoubted and In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin acres planted in the wilderness style, with every va- constitutional right of the second branch of the Le- With more discerning eyes or hands more cleanriety of fruit tree-olive, orange, pomegranate, cit- gislature as the whisper ef a FACTION;'-the phrase Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift with dispatch, and easy of access; ren, mulberry, walnut, peach, apple, pear, vine, &c; in itself is as awkward and poor as its meaning O had he been content to serve the crown with cedar, poplar, acacia, rose, myrtle, jasmin-seems to us indecent and dangerous. The opposi With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed forming a luxuriant and dense mass of foliage only tion to the Reform Bill, forsooth, has been a whisFrom cockie that oppressed the noble seedbroken by the solemn cypress and more stately palm, per-a pretty audible whisper-expressed in one David for him his tunetul harp had strung, and through which nothing was to be seen but the parliament so distinctly as to induce the Ministers to And heaven had wanted one immortal song! snowy peaks of Atlas rising almost immediately dissolve it: and in the new Honse of Commons we But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land; above our heads, and the tall tower of the principal sheuld have thought that, from the beginning of June Disdains the golden fruit to gather free, mosque distant about a quarter of a mile. Nought to the end of September, on every day of every week, And lends the crowd his arm to shake the tree. but the playfulness of gazelles, and the abundant and every hour in every day, they had heard some- But all the multifarious talents of the mercurial trickling of water in every direction, to break the thing more than a whisper,'-the whispers, indeed of Chancellor cannot redeem-nay, they enhance-tho stillness of this delightful spot, combining every Sir Charles Wetherell, of Mr. Croker, of Sir Robert monotonous and mischievous imbecility of the mathing to be desired in a burning clime, silence, Peel the whispers of Lord Carnarvon and Har-jority of his colleagues. shade, verdure, and fragrance. But, as a contrast rowby, and the Duke of Wellington! The whisper, to the bounded view of our garden, the terraced too, of a Faction" We should be glad to have SHAKSPEARE'S SEVEN AGES ILLUSTRATED, by John roof of our house commanded a view over the city, explained to us the tenets and objects of the faction Evans, LLD.; N. Y., Chas. P. Fessenden, No. 157 the extensive plain boundless to the east and west, which unites in one house Sir Robert Peel with Sir Broadway.-This is a reprint in a very good manner and the whole dahir, or belt, of the Atlas, girding. Charles Wetherell; Mr. Baring with Mr. Croker of a book, prepared originally by the author for his as it were, the country from the south-west to the Lord Chandos with Lord Porchester; and in the oth north-east with a band of snow; and few days pass-er, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Eldon; Lord own pupils, and new addressed to the world at large. ed during our stay in Marocco, that we did not Lyndhurst and Lord Tenterden : Lord Carnarvon It is an amplification in prose and poetry of the well spend the hours of sunrise and sunset gazing on and Lord Harrowby. Except a conscientious and known passage in Shakspeare detailing the progress this striking and beautiful object, noting its masses disinterested opposition to a revolutionary reform, is of Human Life, and peaks of snow, and deploring that this mighty there any motive-any hope-any object which can range, combining, within one day's journey, every be suspected of having pervaded all these gentlemen ?| variety of climate, from the torrid to the frigid zone, and by what political dictionary is the concurrence The style and tone of the extracts and original reand offering such a field to the naturalist, the geo in a speculative opinion of persons who never before logist, and the botanist, should still remain unexplo- concurred, who probably never may concur again, flections, are we calculated to excite and sustain red, and present an impassable barrier to eiviliza- and who certainly never expected to reap any person- pure and virtuous feelings. tion.'-p. 139. al advantage from their concurrence, to be defined a All the world's a Stage, FLORA MAITLAND, by the author of Harriet and her An extract of "Lander's journal which resulted in action? A whispering faction,' composed of men Cousin; N. Y., Pendleton & Hill-is a charming who probably never met to discuss the subject except settling the question of the long sought termination in their respective houses of parliament; and who little story for young persons, inculcating the best of the Niger, or rather the Quorra, as now it must there spoke trumpet-tongued, their unconcerted and maxims in an agreeable way. We only object to the hardly accordant sentiments on this single object :a whispering faction why, the thundering le. gion' would have been an infinitely more appropri. ate term! abruptness of its conclusion. be called, is among the papers of the society noticed in this article, but we have not room for any of its The Encyclopædia Americana, vol. VIII., the Hisstatements. It is mentioned, and we repoat it as tory of the Northmen, by H. Wheaton, and Crowe's creditable to the liberality of Mr. Murray, the great It is declared by the writer to be impossible, after History of France, Vol. III.—all from the press of London publisher, that he gave the Lander's one such an insult to the Peers, that Lord John, notwith. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia-reached us too fate thousand guineas for their journal, with a view to standing his disclaimer in the House of Commons for this week's Review. They shall be noticed in publish it in the Family Library. of the application of the phrase in question to the the next. An admirable article on the Bishop of Gloucester's Lords can ever be permitted to act again as a Cab- GLASSIANA. To the man of taste, this work can. life of Dr. Bentley, will interest scholars and critics. inet minister. If he should, the House of Lords, it not fail of proving a rich banquet; to the antiquary It is succeeded by one on Cholera, which is very is declared, will, on re-assembling, take notice of the in erudite compositions, it offers food for the gratifielaborate and puzzles us amazingly-for having ar-insult. The Press and the Populace are, it is affirm- cation of his favorite pursuit; to the scholar, it rived pretty satisfactorily at the conclusion established in this article, the actual rulers of England-and cannot fail of being a treasure invaluable by soed we thought in the last number of the American that such is the weakness of ministers-such their lacing him in his hours of relaxation from severer Quarterly, of the non contagiousness of this Pesti- dread of "the Frankinstein-Monster" of their own studies; to the man of science, it presents a mirrer lence-we are taken all aback by the proofs here creation, that by the firmness alone of the Peers, in which he may see the mysteries of his craft exproduced of its contagiousness. When Doctors dis- and a consequent defeat of reform, can tranquility emplified in the practical results of experience and agree, it is not for us to attempt reconciling their and safety be restored. Of the Ministers-the skill; to the sage, it will afford matter of the most opinions and for ourselves we must be content to Quarterly, the courtly Quarterly thus writes-but of lofty and interesting contemplation; to the fool, a remain in doubt. There is a second article too in Whig minsters it must be remembered: subject of easy digestion; to the aged, consolation; this number respecting the rules and regulations to Ask any man, Whig, Liberal, or Radical, in the to the young, anticipation; to married ladies, the be observed, in case of the appearance of Cholera Lords, in the Commons, or in the country-who is means of establishing a firm and stable government in England, which certainly indicates great alarm, sot immediately connected with the ministry-ask in the domestic empire; and to the young, it comes and proposes the most severe and inconvenient, and him what he thinks of the vigor, talent, and respectability of the government? You will receive no in the shape of a Mentor to teach them a charm yet possibly necessary restrictions. reply:-if you name Lord Althorp, he shakes his more potent than was ever contained in the cup of The concluding paper in the number is a bold head-if Lord John Russell, he groar-s-if Lord Circe, or circumscribed in the girdle of Venus.— and vehement denunciation of Reform in Parlia Grey, he shrugs his shoulders if the Lord High And what does the reader think is the subject matChancellor, he laughs in your face. But it is, to be ment and of the Reform Ministry; and a spirited sure, the most entertaining Chancellor that ever ter of this invaluable volume, for which we have appeal to the Peers to persevere in their stand for rattled the seals or straddled on the woolsack; every coined the title at the head of this notice? Cookthe Constitution and laws of the land. It is writ- thing he does is forcible, everything he says is cle- ery-AMERICAN COOKERY-whose transcendent me. ten with great ability, and with deep conviction, ap. ver, but, somehow, all is ludicrous. In the House rits are thus put forth in a little book, from the press parently, that no change which can be made by is he great? No, but so amusing! On the bench is he awful? Bless your heart, he's droller than of the Harpers, by Miss Prudence Smith. Ministers in the Reform Bill will enable them to Liston.' Declaiming-jesting-judging against time FASHIONABLE SATIRES, by Arthur Cragengelt pass it in the House of Lords. The Cabinet Coun--an Encyclopædia interleaved with Joe Miller-the Gent-Peabody, Broadway-is received too late to do sellors of the King are spoken of in a style quite object of abundant wonder, but of scanty respect; new to the Quarterly, in regard to men in power; with great talents, little character-and a combina. more than notice its appearance which in neatness and Lord John Russell is especially the object of doubt whether their possessor is really a minister or tion of qualities, high and low, whieh leaves one in of typography is creditable to the publisher. bitter comment. The expression in his letter of only a mummer! THE YEAR 1832, is the title of a new work in thanks to "the Birmingham Political Union," after He reminds us of another politician who was cal. 12 numbers, the first of which may be expected in the rejection of the Bill, that "it was impossible led to the woolsack by the intrigues of a faction, a few hours "from the press of that indefatigable the whisper of a faction should prevail against the knowing little of the law which he was to administer publisher," TIME. The volume is to be printed with never having appeared iu the court of Chancery unvoice of a nation," is assumed to refer to the ina til he surprized its usual inmates by his apparition as a broad margin for annotation, and, when complet. jority of the House of Lords, and is thus indig-Chancellor. Of the faults and the merits of that ed, will form a duodecimo of about 365 pages, which pantly characterized Judge he has a large share—and of him we are con- may be bound up with the centuries that have pre The number of the New-Monthly Magazine that ceded it, from the same press; the whole forming any who would think of purveying for the chain-led in ministering to thy entertainment and improvea concise introduction (which it would be well to ed eagle, when hawks were abroad that must be fed ? ment, though differing often from thy own, is still remember) to the greater work of ETERNITY, and The answer is, that it is not expedient "to move :" unbiassed by that of others. Bethink thee, that consequently of much use to those who would pre. the answer is, a stone! and that to those who had a the shafts of our wit, though they may find a dif. pare for that important sequel. As we may have right to come for bread! For if courts of law took ferent rest, are sent upon the same errand as thine. occasion for daily comments upon passages of this cognizance of these matters, would not Peland reco. Our target is truth; and though our aim may be obpublication as they present themselves for observa-ver for every year that she maintained Christendom structed by what thy keener vision sees through, or tion hereafter, do not let us begin yet the ungrate-(against the Ottomans) after it came of martial age? miss the mark from want of vigor in the bow, the ful task of criticism, but glance a moment at the old So stands the subject denuded of all rhetorical ac- arm that draws it is true and untrammelled by annual of '31, before putting our folder into the companiments. Now clothe these cold and naked any influence, save that of "the law." Beautiful leaves of the new. features, upon which the damps of the sepulehre are reader!-for we begin to suspect that thou art a There it lies, with many a hope flattened between already settling, with all the drapery with which they female, since this long rigmarole is not yet im. its pages, like faded rose leaves in an old novel. may be rightfully invested,-from their own ward-patiently torn up to light a segar with-gentle and Like an old novel, too, it has many a passage crossed robe, not that of imagination: the mellow-hued robe fair reader! have we not diligently catered for thee and underscored; some that reflection would oblite. of ancient tradition and the dazzling mantle of event. in the last year? Have we not given tales so long, rate, and others that judgment would preserve for ful history, banners that have floated over the Aus. that none but you would read them; and poetry so future reference. And here is a marginal note of trian's towers, and waved triumphant in the capital of much, as with them would make an annual? Have impatience to get ón; there, a leaf turned down, the Muscovite and the Prussian; standards that have we not given thee long reviews of novels, and where the reader would wish to delay. Sometimes, been won in glorious fight from the conquering Tur. short ones of histories? and have we not, and de there are whole chapters turned over so cleanly, koman; and pennons that for ages have fluttered we not now apologize to thee for being obliged to that they seem scarcely to have been read at all; from adventuring lances in every clime where men make room for the endless speeches and documents and again, there are occasional pages thumbed as were up and doing, and chivalry in request;- that those people at Washington will send home to if the reader's patience had been well tasked to get breathe again into the form thus gorgeously apparel. their wives? Receive, then, courteously, our part. through them. How various have been the feelings led the breath of heroes, and let its cry to the rescue ing salutation, with the closing of this year; and of the many who have perused this book! How sim. resound through the world. Let it be answered by the remember, when twisting this lucubration into pa. ilar are the feelings with which most of them now silence of the tomb, or sympathy in uselessness, as pilletes at the first hour of the next, that we are fling it aside for ever! A few sad regrets,-a few mocking as the pemp that would adorn it. Let the among the earliest in wishing thee, and those that sober reflections,—many gay hopes, and many giddy appea! be again and again repeated,-backed at each are dear to thee, A HAPPY NEW YEAR. anticipations ;-some slight misgivings for the past, renewal by stronger and stronger claims for assistand some feeble apprehensions for the future ;-an ance,-until "Pole" becomes a term for prowess army of good intentions, officered by a few limping and patriotism, and "Poland” a name for unsolaced has just come to hand, is the first that has appeared resolutions; these are what most men transfer as suffering. Will not the stolid, stupid indifference, since the author of Pelham assumed the editorship of naturally and as quietly, from one anniversary of or the short-sighted selfishness, with which the that periodical. The article most likely to attract life to another, as if each period of Time were the courts of Europe have looked on and seen one of its attention, is by the Editor, entitled "Ourselves, our Correspondents and the Public." It is made up in heritor of that which preceded it; and they would nations destroyed, reduced usque ad cinerem-to anhand down their weaknesses through them, as heir.nihilation, be regarded by posterity as barbarous ? the shape of Blackwood's Noctes, but wants the racy looms to Eternity. Will it require the pen of a Scott or a Campbell, or spirit that animates that creation of whim, humor of him who has celebrated "Europe's Craven Chi. and talent, and, with some cleverness, is upon the In the inner world, then, that of the heart, affairs have gone on much the same this year as in the years valry" in a native line, to tell of these things hereafter whole a mediocre affair. Mr. Bulwer, in a compli that preceded it; in the external one, of human afin a strain that may make the men of these days blush mentary notice of American letters, doubtless aware for their ancestry? No! nor to make them trem. of his great popularity here, expresses some kindly fairs, there has been continued commotion, and ble for themselves! The greediness of rapacity grows feeling towards this country. The time is fast somsome changes. But though nations and volcanoes have together created considerable confusion upon by what it feeds on; and should England totter or ing, he says, when America will be a country whose France be untrue to herself, ruin and spoliation may friendship, above all others, England must cultivato, the face of the earth, the old ball seems to maintain not be the lot of Poland alone. The Scythian inva. and whose manners and institutions she must accu pretty much its usual situation in the regions of still sluggish and inert in its essential proper- the Saracen and the Turkish, all came from the ward is daily, in the existing state of England, beder, the Hun and the Goth, the Norman conqueror, rately know. Indeed the disposition to look hither. ties, as the slaves who have looked unmoved upon North; and when once they started from their fro.coming more general. In a late number of Black. the tragedy that has violated its bosom. The theme of Poland is a hackneyed one, and at this moment zen homes, sooner or later found one in a more ge. Wood's Noctes, North, after expressing his conviction nial clime. Could the buried majesty of Henry the that a revolution in England is approaching, adds, belongs to the news-boy; but we cannot help ven. Great revisit the glimpses of the moon in the next "Tis as well to be prepared." To which Tickler re. turing the observation, that, if Opinion should ever establish that empire over the world which enthu. age, it would hardly hold the benevolent scheme of plies: "Internos, I have already put aside £10,000 in siasts assert that it will, the freshening up and federating all Europe into one commonwealth real. the American funds, my cock; and moreover, I ized by finding it under one master. But a truce to have made a conquest, as we Parliament-house lada warming into new life, of the bloodiest pieture in the book of Time, that we have lately witnessed, these dreary thoughts. Turn we to our own bright say, of a small croft of some fifty thousand acres, land, where all is fresh and animating as a snow co. about forty of them cleared, towards the Alleghany will alone be sufficient to make the present æra, invered landscape upon a sparkling January morning. region. Omne forti solum patria-that is to say, if spite of its boasted march of intellect, its assumption Look abroad cheerily upon all that there is here to you knock my old friend John Bull on the head, I of the most refined civilization, and its self-arrogated character for liberal and gonerous sentiment, regard- let prayer for the continuance of such bounties be all, is a very decent fellow, and, in my opinion, mere inspirit patriotism and give a glow to gratitude; and mean to take up with brother Jonathan-who, after mingled with thanksgiving for their possession. likely to have peace and quiet under his own figtree, by and by, than any other gentleman of our aequain space; ed by posterity as a barbarous age. Take the bare facts of the case! stripped of all mawkish sentiment, and publie-meeting humbug, and how do they stand? And now, patient reader, one word with thee at tance." "America,"says a late number of the London A nation that has been dismembered by foreign in-parting till another year. We have jogged along so- Literary Gazette, "is the Utopia of our pseudo potrigue and violence, determines, under a favorable ciably enough together for the last twelve months; liticians;" and so, too, it seems to be of their poets, juncture of events, to rise against oppression, and and although all the conversation has been upon one judging by the following ironical observation by the re-assert its independence. It gives an earnest of side, believe us it has been for thy edification. Some author of "Corn-law Rhymes," in his introduction its ability so to do, in the first throe of the struggle, interchange of sentiment might indeed be desirable, to "The Village Patriarch," just published:-"The and then appeals to Europe for assistance;-not to if not to modify our course, at least to cheer us on it unhappy people of the United States cannot bear establish it as a new power, but merely to hasten its when chosen. Yet, could we hear all thine own to road Crabbe: they think him unnatural, and deliverance from subjection; to give it arms and a shrewd opinions and clever strictures upon ours, he is so to them; for, in their wretched country, breathing moment from fighting, in which to erect think ye our pen would be as free as now in giving cottagers are not paupers-young men are not comfortresses, and secure the few positions that are tenable the thoughts of the moment upon occurrences as pelled to marry or become preachers-marriage is in alchampaign country: in short, to afford it only a they pass? We have a prodigious rospect for thy not synonymous with misery-and partridge shoot. moment's vantage ground,a rov srw, where its own discernment; and indeed stand so much in awe of ing is not religion to the elect." efforts could heave off the weight that was crushing it, most discriminating reader, that were we privy to The admirable article in the last number of the it. The answer is, that, among all the new political half its exercise upon ourselves, never again could Edinburgh Review, upon Croker's Boswell's Johnsystems that have been a-mongering since the fall of we venture an editorial opinion with due official unc- son, part of which we extracted some time since, Napoleon, such an emergency is not provided for in tion. Be then content that the judgment here exercis- is thus spoken of in the New Monthly:— |