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    tMlcd'WMe--Aw ake , Iff the too-si' stiap > ftaoiis > instance of street-growth that H& ^ ever Beard ' 6 t read ^^ ofi ^ y ^ in'tb ^ e ^ i ^^ of a prison crotcheteer . r £ b ^ ug h ' w ^ e' cannot reconiimend this fcook for any positive quality , we concede it the negative merit ? of being harmless . The Railway Accident ; a Tale . Parker . Coming immediately after JSllie , this tale appears graphic and probable , in-the highest degree ; as it really is , in a degree not far removed from the highest . The idea of interweaving a story of simple domestic interest , with the circumstances of a railway accident , disclosed hrst in a coroner ' s inquest , and then ' more fully in a trial for manslaughter against the engine-driver , Is wrought out with considerable skill . Besides , in the absence of more brilliant qualities of style , the writer , has a natural kindliness , and a selfpossessed manner of , expressing his thoughts , which establish confidence between him and his reader ^ and greatly assist' the truthful effect of the relation . ¦ - ¦ Tales for the Marines . By the author of £ cs Grinycs . " Ward and Lock . Harry Gringo ( Lieutenant Wise ) has a good reputation with lovers o l venturous recitals . His tales have the true sailor ' s relish for the -wild , the marvellous , and the terrible- The present volume is not , as might be inferred from its title , a collection of separate stories , but has a connected interest throughout , and it may be cited as a specimen of the cheap literature which is not dear at any money . Love ' s Provocations . By CuthbeTt , Bede , B . A . Ward and Lock . ' The industry which this writer brings into the field of comic literature is worthy to be associated with greater powers , as well as with a better cause . Charles Worthing ion . By Harvey Jingleside . Piper , Stc-phenson , and Sperce . / Charles Worthington is short enough for a joke—which we fear it is not intended to be—and will keep a moderate laugher on the roar from beginning to end . We regret that it is utterly impossible , in our limits , to describe this book , but we will give a specimen or two . Here is a scene which , though told in few words , may extend over any space of time we choose to imagine : — The parting of the lovers was very painful . Gertrude was ill some time afterward ? and , with many promises of attachment and constancy , Albert gave her a portrait oi himself in his regimentals , and received her ' s in return . Mr . Charles Worthington is about twenty-eight , " or it might be thirty , " and is not handsome ; bujfc . There was such' a fund of intelligence in his eye , and such decision around the corners of his mouth , that Alice was tempted to take a second glance at him , and felt instinctively , as she did so , that at length the being had appeared who was to influence her life and awaken her love . Mr . Charles Worthington ' s temperament is not , strictly speaking , " pure nervous , " but " nervous bilious . " He is very proud ; too proud to give a direct

    ; negative to ' S , question of paternity / though circumstantial-evidence ' fivours'the , suspicion that he has betrayed anursery governess , and his friends are anxious that he should deny the charge . Mr . Worfchington will do nothing of the kind . An estrangement between him and " Alice , ' * is the result of his chaste obstinacy . He retires and writes a . book- He publishes the : book . Alice reads it . Gracious powers ! < c These glimpses of moral truth , •— this perception of < purity of soul , of high feeling , of " —everything opposed to trifling with ' nursery governesses , in short ; - ^ -can this be the la nguage of a seducer ? 1 Impossible . "There must be some mystery . Either he was grossly maligned , ' —he was the victim of some diabolical plot ; or , he did not write that book . " ' Alice reads the work to her mamma , who quite falls in with her daughter's 1 opinion of its merits . The author , says Alice , must be Mr . Worthingtcn , and he is innocent . To this the mamma replies : — It'is no new thing , child , to find bad men . write good books . They know what is ! good , though they will not follow it . * * * * Who wrote The Christian Hero , one of the finest religions work ever written ? Who but the most dissolute man of his day , —certainly the most improvident . Wbo drew ? the Vicar of Wakejield ? A man who , though he did not seduce women , was cul-\ pably improvident . "Who drew the characters of Gulnare and of Zuleika , and wrote some | of the most touching lines to his wife ever written in any language , and yet left her for ' a courtezan ? Who drew the characters of Imogen , of Desdemona , Ferdita , Hoaalind , ' and yet could not endure his wife ? It will be needless to tellj'ou . However , the innocence of Mr . Worthington is established , and the real seducer is run over by his own carriage ( awful retribution !) and smashed " Thus , " says the book iu conclusion , " thus was virtue rewarded and vice ; punished , —love united , and villany baffled . The end . "

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    A Lady Thief in Cojik . —A Mrs . Barry , the wife of a Respectable ' farmer' near Ferrhoy , is In custody , charged with various robberies . She went into a hotel in Cork , and , having given several orders , and engaged a bed , managed to possess herselfof some keys , with which she opened a wardrote , and took out a box containing a large amount of jewellejy . She then walked off , and shortly afterwards went into a tavern , where , by pursuing a similar system , she purloined 10 / . Subsequently to this , she went to another house , and burst open a box , but ' found nothing in it . She was pursued and taken into custody , and has been committed for trial . What renders her conduct the more extraordinary is , that s . he is ' very well Off . It is probably a cage of mpnomania . Daring Robbery in Glasgow . *—A pawnbroker ' s ehop in Glasgow has been robbed In a singular rnarmer . The' first step towards effecting , an entrance into the premises seems to have been accomplished by piling a number of packing boxes , usually left in the adjoining back court , one upon another , tip to the level of a window on the first floor . Onq of the staunchiona of this window was then wrenched off , and easy access at once obtained . ^ The , robbery was . not discovered till the person in charge ' of the establishment entered to commence business , T * tB West Coast of Amid . * , —The mail packet Gambia , which arrived at Plymouth on Sunday morning , brings dates ranging from October 12 th to November 4 th . From these we learri that the ! Governor of Sierra I * one ~ wae engaged in making some sanitary reformB , and that trade In that colony was recovering . The large town of Watatoo , on the fromfor , of Ifyeetpwn . has been jtiade a military station , jjathursty tagos , and Accra , were unhealthy } bub Fernando I ' o , Old Calabar , and Bonny , were in good sanitary condition . Although still ttuffl ^ ing fro m the effects of his wounds received at Sabbagee , Governor O'Connor was improving in health . Report says that preparations are making to attack the malcontents at the commencement of the year , and , if possible , to extirpate them . The crews of the English vessels that loaded in tho MUHcoure and other rivera this Season Imve Buffered severely from faver . " AdbinicNi at tub Ipswich Gasworks . —On Thursday week , a leak occurred in a new gasholder and tank « t the Ipswich Gasworks , and before it collet bo stopped the massive ironwork of tho tank burst open from top to bottom . Tho tank contained 260 , 000 gallons of water , which rushed out with immense Y e' ° city , and tho swrroundlng property was speedily inundated . Tho yard of the gasworks in which the tank was situated was several feet under water ; but tho workmen rendered every nssiatfcnee , and by morning the flooding 1 iad entirely aulaidod . No Injury to life or limb was occasioned .

    Indian- Court Circular . —The Calcutta Englishman gives us the following highly interesting item of intelligence : — " We are informed that His Majesty the King of Delhi Iia 3 been pleased to appoint Moonshee Fuslah Kurreem of Calcutta , his Dewan Koob . He . has been presented frith the usual khelat , consisting of a jamah , a nemah , a putkah , a surpoje , a gashnanah , a pearl necklace , jigah , and a khulghee . The following title has also been conferred upon him : —Mauzassoos Dowlah , Mookeramool Mulk , Mahomed Fuzlaol Kurreen Khan Bahadoor , Mooslah Jung . " The Bellot Testimonial . —The subscription entered , into two years ago for the purpose of honouring the memory of the intrepid , skilful , and much-beloved-French officer Bellot baa been closed , and' amounts to upwards of 2 , 200 / : ; of which sum nearly 500 ? . has been expended in erecting a monument of granite ; the remainder , according to the wish of the subscribers , being in the course of division among the five young sisters of the deceased . . fThe monurheiit ( which"is ' erected '' on the quay in' front rof Greenwich Hospital ) is an obelisk , about thirty-five feet high , of red granite , designed by Mr . Philip Hardwick , It . A ., and executed by Messrs . M'Donald , of Aberdeen . It beard on . its base in Urge , letters the word " BeUot p " both on tpe side facing ^ Ue . Thames and on Unit whicMs presented to the western quadrangle of tho ho . ipital-Tme Su 3 smucru , Ri 5 op . Otp . Condon . —In waking the excavation for' t [) e great sewer which will soon convey from view * the Fleet-ditch , at a depth of about 13 feet below the surface in Ray-street , near the corner of littje SaffYon-hill , the workmen came upon the pavement of aa old street , i consisting of very' lurge blocks of ragstone of irregular shape . An examination of the paving-stones shows that the street had boon well used ; they aro worn quite smooth by the footsteps and traffic of a past generation , Below the old street we find another phase of Old London . Thickly covered with slime ore piles of oak , hard and blnclc , which huve seemingly been portions of a mill dam . A few feet below were very old wooden water-pipes , nothing but the rougli . trunks of trees : Thfl course of time and the weight of matter above the old pavement ; have pressed the gravel , clay , granite , portions of tiles , &c , into a hard and almost ; Bdlid mass , and it is curious to observe Hint near the old surface are great numbers of pins . Whither have the pins gone P is a query which has puzzled many . ' Tho now hard concrote , stuok with these useful articles , almost like a pincushion , is a parliul reply to the query . The 13 feet of newer deposit would « cem to nave accumulated in two or three centuries ; it is not unlikely that a portion of the

    rubbish from the city , after the great fire , was shot here . — The Builder . The Russian Trade . —A man has been sentenced at the Southwarfc police-office to two months' hard labour for stealing a quantity of Russian tallow from a wharf in Tooley-street , where he was employed . In answer to a question from the magistrate , the foreman said : — " We have large dealings with Russia , alt hou ^ l we are at war , and our money is extensively received / a return . Nearly all our tallow comes from Russia . \ t comes through- Prussia . The tallow in question came from Memel in a Dutch vessel . " ' So- / much for Prussian " neutrality" and the allied blockade ! . # ¦ ¦ ¦ .. ¦ * The Idol Trade . —The JRecord has lately been . indulging in transports of pious horror at the idea of idols > being manufactured "in Birmingham for exportation to ' the , heathens ; and it fears that it has discovered a ' " painfully minute' proof of this trade being really carried on in a sort of 4 ? price current" published in the J Siecle . Whereupon , the Mrmmff / tam Gazette comes oat with the prodigious fact that'the said " price current" originally appeared in Punch , and was of course i a facetious invention of the wicked wags of that periodicaK Having been " copied , without acknowledg- j ment , into an American journal , the too confiding subeditor of the . Siecle reproduced it as a horrid reality ; and hence the holy spasms of the Record . ' . ' .. Copyright Convention with Prussia and Saxony . '—A convention with Prussia and Saxony , recently published in the Gazette , provides that " the I uathors of any books published , or of ' nny dramatic | pieces first publicly represented within the dominions * " jj Prussia , Saxonyj Saxe Weimar , Saxe Meiningon , Stixe Altenburg , Snxe Coburg Gotha , Brunswick , Anhalt | Dessau Cothen , Anhalt Bemburif , Schwurzburg Ru- i clolstadt , Schcvarzburg-, SondcraliauSen , or Heuss , at ' « ny time after the day next ufter the dny of the publiontion hereof in the London Gazette , who may choose to > reserve tha rit ^ lvt of translating such books or dramatic pieces , tneir executors , administrators , nod assigns , shall , until the expiration of five years from the date of tho first publication of tho translations authorised by them , respectively , of auoli books , or from the time nt which tho translations iiutlioriaed by them , of such dramatic pieces , arc fust published pr publicly represented , be empowered to proverit the publication in the British dominions' of any translation ot aufih books or dramitio pieces , and the representation theroia of any translation of such drarnutio pieces not so respectively authorised by th « m . "

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    GEOGRAPHY OF THE WAR . If the "war has no objects , it has already had a result . We have more and ' better maps than previously of the Euxine and Baltic coasts , of Turkey , and of the liussian Empire . Whithersoever a corps or a flotilla is moved , ' Mr . Wyld's , or Mr . Standford ' s , or Mr . Effingham Wilson ' s geographical artists follow it , laying down its progress , indicating the towns , villages , 1 bays , headlands , and havens , en route , and mapping out the area of the war . We have on our table four new maps—one of the country between Odessa , \ Nicholaief , Perekop , Simpheropol , and Sebastopol , indicating all the lines of communication ( Standford and Co . ); and one of Southern Russia , the Crimea , and the Sea of Azof—slight , but clear . Mr . Wyld has published a " Map and Chart" of the coasts between Otchakov , Nieholaief , and Kcrson , with the soundings marked , and the routes hy land and water carefully traced . Lastly , the positions and movements of the Sardinians , the French , and Russians at the battle of the Tchernaya , or Traktir , are presented clearly in a sketch map , published by Mr . Stanford . Such publications , besides familiarising us with the scene and scope of the passing contest , will be valuable to "the child that is unborn , " when he writes or reads the history of the Russian war .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 1112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2115/page/20/