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      movement whereby the sound is : made to echo the Sense . " The Bride of Corinth , " as we have said * undoubtedly possesses high , merit—but its perfection ( if it be perfect ) is that of structure ; the verbal ( Construction is rather coldly correct , or technically artificial . We suspect that by the English reader . " The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus" will be preferred . The translators apologise for not rendering the poems , entitled as a series , "in the manner ot the antique ; " in the classical measures of the original . Their apology was needed . Justice cannot be done to these poems in any other measures ;; and their theory on this score we are bold to consider erroneous . On the whole , however , we think that their task has been admirably performed .

      78 Tie ' Ii.E A Deb. [No. 460, January 1...

      78 TIE ' ii . E A DEB . [ No . 460 , January 15 , 1859 * .

      Verninent That Since Our Return To Valpa...

      verninent that since our return to Valparaiso with our naked crews , even clotlies have been withheld for four montlis , during which no pa 3 'mcnt has been made , the destitute seamen being without blankets , ponchos , or any covering to protect them from the cold of winter , the more severely felt from the hot climates in which they have for nearly three years been employed . With ships ar id seamen thus neglected , with . treachery ,-fraud , and insult to contend with , did our hero proceed with his duty , ; and , having brought it

      to a successful termination , left the Chilian service in disgust , not only without airy substantial reward , but actually without mere pay or prize money . These would have amounted , according to the rules of any other service , to probably 1 QO , OOO £ , and it was not until thirty years qftencards that the ungrateful , and , as regards this transaction , contemptible state he had saved , took advantage of the ruin it had brought upon its deliverer to settle with him for G 000 / . in full of all demands .

      show that he was no mere sailor of fortune , but a statesman of enlightened views , and a lover of rational liberty ¦ . . Clearly and graphically written , with here an d there a pleasing dash of sentiment , they will interest not only the profession , but all who love to read of daring men and daring deeds .

      The _ second volume relates entirely to Lord Cochrane ' s connexion with . Brazil . Here his services were of a still more extraordinary description , although less dashing than those on the western coast . His blockade of Buhia . with one single vessel , the enemy ' squadron numbering thirteen sail- —his daring entry into that port with his flagship in " the dead of . jnight , and his pursuit of that squadron for days and nights during its retreat to Portugal , were achievements ,. ' -which few but he would have attempted . They , however , emancipated Brazil from ' the . Portuguese yoke ; but instead , of the gratitude which such aid should have inspired , opposition , bad faith , and even persecution , were

      Cochrane ' s guerdon . T ' ollowmg the example ol the Chilians , the Brazilians left the squadron unpaid , impounded its prize money , and condemned the admiral in the Prize Court to heavy damages Iri explanation 6 f such wickedness and folly , it should be toldl that poor Brazil had placed . her infant liberties in the hands of her enemies , the Portuguese , who . did their best to strangle them in their birth . Such intrigues were , for . many years , too successful . They "drove Cochrane from the service , they lost the sovereign his crown , and they have created confusion iri the empire almost to the present day ; This it is which accounts for the periodical popular risings of-.-the . Brazilians against the Portuguese ; but these it is to be hoped will cease as the causes are removed . .

      Lord Cochrane riext saved to the empire its northern provinces , which had revolted arid proclaimed an independent republic ; but we cannot say we are so well satisfied with his Lordship ' s explanation of his proceeding at Maranham , to which exception has been taken . After the treatment his squadrons had received in Chili and Brazil , we can see how he was justified in forcing the Junta of Maranham to refund 100 , 000 dollars ; and we have no doubt that this sum was honourably disposed of j but it does appear to us incredible that Lord Cochrane should have transhipped his flag to the Pirnnga with the sole view of taking a cruise to a colder climate , when by sailing south he would have attained the

      same object , and would not have been guilty of leaving his post . We arc forced to tho conclusion , therefore , that when Cochrane left Maranham in the Piranga , he purposely— -fearing tho consequences of his act jf ho returned to Rio—set sail for England , and that when he g ^ ot there , ho detained his frigate until lie attained his object , namely , dismissal from the Brazilian service . If this , our impression , is right , Lord Cochrane was wrong not to avow tho whole truth j for , tho war being over , ho might have justified the step by reference to the known hostility of tho Portuguese faction , Wo trust , however , that theso volumes will oauso tho Brazilian

      Govern-FOKEIGN GRATITUDE . Narrative of Services in the Liberations of Chili , Peru , and Brazil , # c . By Thomas , Earl of Dundonald , G . C . B . In Two Volumes . James Ridgway . What man of liberal education , possessing a spark of chivalry or love of daring , can see or hear the name of Cochrane with indifference ? During the early part of this century , when pur navy was engaged in those gigantic contests which left it undisputed mistress of the seas , when acts of personal valour were so common that it was rather the exception than the rule for a seaman not to have

      distinguished himself , Lord Cochrane was pre-eminent for his daring . Le plus brave des braves ; . some of his acts appear like romance rather than reality . Who does not remember with pride his leading of the fire-ships into the Basque roads , or the wonderful pluck that dared attack , and capture too , a large Spanish frigate , in the Speedy ten-gun brig ? Recalling these feafs , and comparing them with what was done , or rather left undone , in the Russian war , we almost sigh for the good old times . Lord Cochrane was driven from our service ; but

      he promises ns , " should God spare his life" ( tor he is now eighty-three years of age ) , other volumes relating to his early career , with explanations of the intrigues which , brought this calamity upon the country : for a calamity the loss of such an , officer undoubtedly was ; his subsequent restoration being prima facie evidence that his dismissal was unjust . In the year 1817 , being thus out of employment , and too active , too enterprising in mind and body to remain idle , our author accented the command , or rather formation , of the Chilian Navy , and , under circumstances which rendered the smallest

      success wonderful , brought it to such efficiency that in two years he swept the Spaniards from the Pacific , ensured the independence of Chili , and secured that of Peru . In this service his deeds supported his former reputation . The cutting out of the frigate Esmeralda from under the batteries at Callao is almost unequalled in the annals of naval daring ; and we may recommend the capture of Valdivia to the perusal of modern naval men as one more proof , if proof were needed , that stonewalls as against ships are only formidable to those who fear them .

      It was as due to the country , as to Lord Cochrane himself , that , these volumes should have been written to disprove the abominable calumnies heaped upon this distinguished hero . By members ot his own profession , to its shame , he has been termed a buccaxxeer , — -a pirate b y those he served , —and by men to whom he gave liberty , " athief of the seas . " But these were either the contemptible enviers of his fame or the , real "thioVes of the seas" who used the services and lives of Cochrane and his men to purchase national independence and personal freoclom , and rewarded their benefactors by leaving thorn to starve in nakedness . Such are the almost incredible and damning acts of dishonesty and cruelty that "will rest for ever as a stain upon tho honour of the Governments of Chili and Poru .

      We believe that during tho wholo two years and a half of his command neither he , his officers , or seamen , ever received one farthing of pay , prize money , provisions , or clothing of any kind . After having put to sea they actually sustained thomselves as best , they could upon thoir prizes , with tho exception of the seizure at Anoon of money bolonging to the Chilian Government , but which the traitor San Martin was applying to his own purposes . After the return of the squadroix to Valparaiso no notice was taken of their condition , and an address , signed by all tho . oaptains , was forwarded to tho Government , of whioh tho following is a short eatfraot : — Permit no , thoroforof to call to tho notjoo of tho

      Goraont to do him tardy justice . That Government has nw a wide reputation for good faith , that it were pity should bo tarnishod by continued ingratitude and injustice to its dolivcror . Tho present prime minister , the Marquis of Olindn , has alrcudy given his opinion that Lord Cochrane ought to be paid his claim in full . Upon this distinguished man , and , indeed , on others in tho Administration—Souza JFranoo , for instanco—whoso liberality and sense of justice are not oxcooded even b y their powers of intolloot , tho last appeal of tho ill-used votoran will suroly not bo thrown away . Lot , however , ihe [ experience of Loud Coohrano bo a warning to British officers against tendering their services to foreign states without some " material guarantee . " Wo rejoice that theeo volumes havo nppoRrod . They prove beyond question tho chivalrous olmraoter and tho reasonable disinterestocluoss of our gallant countryman . They

      The Book Of Job. The Book Of Job.; The C...

      THE BOOK OF JOB . The Book of Job . ; the Common English Version , ( lie Hebrew Text , and the Revised Version . With an Introduction ; and Critical arid Philological Notes . By T . J . Conant , Professor of Hebrew in Rochester Theological Seminary . . Trttbner and Co . This is the first part of a learned work on an interesting subject—the oldest dramatic production in the world . The " revised version" is very carefully done , and has many points of excellence . It is the more to be welcomed , as the received translation in King James ' s Bible is perhaps the most inaccurate of all the books that compose it . The

      argumentative character of the drama renders it necessary that it should be translated with the nicest precision . In his " Introduction ' Mr ; Conant deals intelligently with the commentators , particularly Ewald and Hcugstenberg , to -whose views he severally objects , leaving his own , meanwhile , to be inferred . But , after all , the grand solution of the whole , as a poem , though obvious enough on the very face of the record , is complacently passed over , by all the writers . AYc lind iii it the earliest traces of the classical idea , thnf . the

      struggles of mankind form dramas and spectacles for the gods . The action of the Book of Jyb is initiated to satisfy one of the angels , whether the hero was not susceptible to certain temptations , and the trial is permitted by the Supreme to gratify the curiosity of his minister . ¦; ' Wliy superior spirits should require this sort of investigation , or why thcy ^ should be permitted to indulge in this species of . amusement , is a transcendental question not susceptible by its nature of an answer . The Book o £ JoV justifies it on the ground of its perfect innocence . There are some amusements which arc

      sports to one party and death to the other . Ihe trial and temptation of Job were not of that kind . They were overruled for his beneGt , and brought him out in an attitude of triumph both in regard to his temporal fortunes and his moved nature . The last , indeed , is the one great triumph of the argument , the former only its result . He is made to feel that the most righteous man is necessarily yet a sinner , inasmuch as he is human , by the very coustitution of his nature and its original projection . He is willing , therefore , to submit to any outward evil that , may serve as a corrective to-his inward proclivity , however painful it may be . This we find , from his answer to Ins wife , that he was willing to

      do from the first ; but he miscalculated his powers of endurance . The most patient of men , he was yet not patient enough , and vyas forced at last by his sufferings to douyt the justice of their infliction . But at the point where his natural heroism fails , divine power ( as in many subsequent Grecian dramas ) interposes and restores the overtasked victim to more than his former position in worldly rank and moral dignity . The difficulty about Elilnr , which Mr . Conant and the commentators he has consulted cannot sec their way through , is host

      solved by the Hutchinsonian interpreters , ns \ Vlmt the thcosophists term a tboophany . But this is a view which scarcely bolongs to mere literary criticism , and may therefore properly enough not bo entitled to a place in , the work before us ; perhaps it is exclusively of a theological character , and tux assumption besides that would entirely preclude nil controversy . This would not well harmonise witli the purposes and interests of those who would lain live by it , aa the Ephcsian traders did by their Diana .

      The Quaktjsrlies. Tub Wkstminbtkii Ubvie...

      THE QUAKTJSRLIES . Tub Wkstminbtkii Ubview . —The Anglo- ' political article of the present number , an oaeay on " Kc-form of Parliament , " touohoa on extension of HiiflVngc , ballot , prevailing dofocts in tlio procoss of legislature , the neccasity of life peerages , & a , and is interesting . With respect to secret voting tho roviowor lias angaoipusly hit a blot when ho argued that instead or intimidation being removed thoroby tho rich and arbitrary will still have tho power ot establiuhing a reign of terror unless sywtexxintlo taciturnity or deceit is to prevail among'the class oi voters who now suffer by intimidation . Tho evils ot botching legislature might Uo lessoned , the author thinks , woro Parliament to discriminate between laws

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1859, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15011859/page/14/