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    from the river ' s mouth , but a hundred , at least , from its source in the Rocky Mountains , and from those "lull diggings" whence the author expects , at no distant day , to hear of monster nuggets and ^ old divings of fa bulous richness . . They were a sunburnt , motley group , but all merry on the strength of nuggets found and dust gathered . One old hind had realised nearly five hundred dollars , while the author had made about ten ounces with his geological shovel and pan only . . . _ ¦ The yield here was equally satisfactory , but the novelty had died away , so that the men talked less about itand " realised" their hundreds of

    dol-, lars without chronicling the sum There was plenty for all , and tens of thousands besides . And now the author * becoming impatient of tins mode ot life , and having seen his chums established in a log hut , sold his share in their canoe , and set out for Victoria with two painted Indians . Shooting down the river like an arrow , he parted from his guides at the junction of the Thompson and Frazer rivers . Here he purchased a canoe for one hundred and twenty dollars . He passed abundance of diggers near Fort Gale and Fort Hope , as well as hundreds of boats and canoes making their way up . At the latter station he sold his canoe at half price , and

    arrived the same day at Victoria . Here he iound the community in disorder ; for a land mania , brought upon the wings of the Caliibmiau immigration , had seized upon it , and it was ^ hardly to be supposed that one of the author ' s evidently mercurial temperament could escape the infection . He resolved to invest a portion of his dust in land allotments , took his tuni at the Hudson ' s Bay Company ' s counter , and succeeded , after some difficulty , owing to the- rush of intended purchasers , in securing three located lots at the standard price of 100 dollars each , and three others of less value at prices which he does not mention . ¦¦ England , however , seems to have had

    so much more charm for him . than Victoria , that the steamer Republic being unexpectantly announced to leave for San Francisco , lie lost no time in disposing of the three'first at a profit of ] 5 ., S 00 dollars , and in turning homewards with his travellingbed , the opossum skin rug , and his valise heavy with nuggets and gold , to make room for which he had been compelled-to fling away his spare pair of boots and other articles of clothing . The 3 rd of June saw him lecturing upon his travels to the eager Fransciscans , and he can have lost no time in getting home , for he has , we hear , been already some weeks in London .

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    MAGAZINES . Bxackwood . —" Buckle ' s History of Civilization " comes under review , and , though compliments are sufficiently paid to the genius of the author and to the singular merits of his work , there is evidently at bottom a doubt in the reviewer ' s mind as to tlve true value of this new and startling contribution to literature . Mr . Buckle is evidently regarded in some respects as an ingeniousbut unsound builder-up of theories which have a stratum of fact and probability to recommend them to notice , but which , nevertheless , are thought to be based on unsubstantial foundations , and are open to refutation , though the opposing facts and arguments do not

    present themselves readily . Sir K . Uulwer Lytton ' s " What will lie do with It ? " ia continued . When the tale is finished ve shall have some remarks to offer . " Edward Irving" is nn nrticlo' on a once popular man who has long passed out of sight , and whoso memory his ? friends would best respect by ajudicious silence . The writer of the article takes a pompous and inflated view of Edward Irving ' s powers as a preacher , nnd , indeed , of the power and value of Scottish preachers generally . Tried by tho highest standard of English celebrities , tho Scottish pulpit would be considered in England ns only entitled to n second-rate position ; indeed , its triumphs—achieved by Chalmers , Irving , and Cairtl—pwo a deeper debt of gratitude to the works of English churchmen

    much for an overtasked intellect , and the end was what every good man must deplore but no wise man wonder at " The Light in the Hearth" is another story continued . The last article is on Cherbourg , a subject we may justly claim to have assisted in exhausting and in placing more correctly before the public than roost of our contemporaries . Phaser-opens with " Our Failures , " by a Manshester Man . What a comprehensive title ! IIow many bookshelves , we are tempted to ask , and how many more hundred Frasers would this ample subtreatedstuff to repletion ? And

    ject , if diffusely , what a terrible antagonist is this for *• failures ! ' The very name of a Manchester Man is almost a voucher for rapid recognition of , and speedy justice upon , failures , failers , dupers , dupes , humbugs , and shams of all sorts . Our author is just the man to do it , too ; for he puts lance in rest * and cries havoc upon the flock . As a Manchester Man , he of course begins with the failure " isolated , " or commercial embarrassment , tumbles him over , and tackles " panics , " or the failure gregarious ; a good deal of this sort of failure of credit he attributes , of course , smart

    to the overweening confidence in our kite-flyers , and in gentry of the bank-director class who support them . Vowing that of the latter lie would ship a few to Norfolk Island , pour encourager les autres , he proceeds , i ? er saltum , to investigate the often alleged failures of the Es ^ tablislied Church and its preaching . On the latter point he is with the complainants , but on the former he is Toryish—as he is also about the parochial system—but withal as liberal as most Tories of the present day ; i . e . more willing to go ahead and be patted than stand still and be spurred . " Concerning Tidiness , " by a very Particular Man , goes a leetla too far . We are bachelors . Org .-inised

    untidiness is our state , and we hold the constant , pervading , active , all-reacliing . energetic Tidiness , of which he speaks so endearingly to be loved , an utter abhorrence . She must be an old maid . Only let us catch her here . That abominable little Dutch place , Broek , of -which he talks with such unction , is , we . tell " him flatly , enough to drive an English bachelor out of hiss senses . ¦ Washing-ton Irving could not brook it for more than half an hour , used as lie was to American tidiness ; and we would not punish such a good fellow as the Particular Man , whatever his literary delinquencies , by an imprisonment there for more than one whole wet Sunday afternoon . tf Pelicans" is-an interesting natural history paper ;

    and so is that on Rarey the horse-tamer , and his pilfered method , though we are not so confident as the writer that a well Rareyfied animal will ever after be obedient to his original operator . We have recently marked with some inquietude an indication or two to the contrary- The anthor of Meg of Elibank commences in the present number a new tale , called " Hector Garret of Otter , " which seems to open , painfully enough , with prospect of sorrow for the hero ' s young and gentle bride . Tho veteran author of Headlong Hull , the taskntri

    The North American Review . — The broad and philosophical spirit pervading the various articles which form this number is beyond praise , and speaks volumes for that great advance which the American mind is making in every department of literature . The review of Buckle ' s History of Civilization is well worth perusal , and , though the eminent author will be found to have received duo honour , yet . many of his theories and his hypotheses are dealt with in a manner which will induce the reader to pause before he accepts them implicitly on the faith of a great name . The article on Sir Walter Scott is rather too laudatory , but we do not quarrel with the disposition of our American brethren to

    show they fully appreciate the great minds that liave amused and instructed our own nation . The " iSTeW Crime of Austria" refers to priestly persecution by the Jesuits of opposing sects in Hungary . " liccent French Literature" is a very readable article . The " First Stages of the American devolution" is a candid and liberal review of the causes which produced the estrangement and the ultimate severance between England and the American colonies . Several other articles are equally worth consideration , and altogether this number is a very good one . The National Magazine ^ —Mr . Robert 13 . Brough gives us the first chapter of the first book . of . a newtale entitled " Which is Which ? or Miles Cassidy ' s

    Contract . " The scene is laid in Oxford , and the actors at present upon the stage are Mr . Miles Cassid yi an unlettered Irish bog-trotter of no estate , and Dr . Bashawe , the Dean of St . Ogive ' s College . The former happening to visit that interesting city , " on the tramp , " we will suppose , for want of better information , in company with a couple of little boys , of whom more is promised to follow , is made the victim of a practical joke by some gownsmen , and introduced to the Dean as the parent to two youths about to matriculate . The interview between Miles and the Dean is well told . We can realise the feelings of

    both , and we wait with anxiety the result of the Dean ' s evident intention to interest himself for Mr . Cassidy ' s young charges . Mr . H . S . Edwards ' s " Sketchesand Studies in Russia" ( now arrived at their fourth number ) , an historical paper on " Cyrano de Bergerac , " a conscientious review of Carlyle ' s Fricdrlch Wilkelm" and " Our Chemical Friends , " are the otlier pieces de resistance of the number . In the great pin question , as treated in the article " Where they Go , " we may possibly be interested , but we could get neither head nor point of the little fugitive from the bottle of hay in which the learned author has smothered it .

    than whom none could be fitter for , co - butes a learned and curious notice of some translations of Sanscrit poems into ancient Greek , by Demetrius Galanus , a Greok settler in Benares towards the end of the last century , which have been recently edited at Athens by G . K . Typallus , Superintendent of the Royal Library there . The number concludes with a ¦ urvey of the " Village System and the Policy of Annexation , " and a review of Mr . J . Langton Sanford ' s Studies of the Great Rebellion , and Mr . John Foster ' s first volume of Historical Essays , both of which the editor styles " volumes of

    Millions , " and " Nothing to Wear , " by Williat Allen Butler , are from a transatlantic source . Th former is rather lengthy , but in parts very racy The latter , which we think the reader may liavi already seen on railway book-stalls , is a- heat and forcible little , episode of city life , with an elegantly couched moral , that , must find an . echo in every heart . " Art and Science Abroad" is the most interesting chapter of all to " practical" people . The short articles comprised under this heading , on the Silkworm , on M . Almeida ' s new stereoscopic discovery , whereby images rna . y be rendered visible to many persons at once ; on the trans-Russian telegraph overland to China , &c . &c , are soundly instructive and amusing .

    Dublin Univeusitv . ^—A good number , commencing witli tho 10 th and 11 th chapters of " Gerald Fitzgerald , " by Harry Lorrequer , hended , " Some of Time ' s Changes , " and "A Reception at Madame Roland ' s ; " the latter introducing to us that pure-hearted , single-minded , and enthusiastic woman , who might justly be called tho soul of the party political to which her husband belonged . "Horace Walpole in his Old Age" is a vory pleasant paper , a . richauffd des rcohaufftSs , of course , but for all that well worth reading . The author has interwoven with it some memorials of Mrs . Anna Darner , Gray , the gentleman poet ( then a rarity ) , Mrs . CHVe , Maritime Du Detfnnd , and others of the clique in which Wai polo

    unusual worth . Titan . —The opening paper of the present number , •' At Munich , " ia evidently written by a genuine lover of the arts , and the topics suggested to such a one by a visit to tho charming Bavarian Resident are handled in a plain and manly style . The reader will enjoy tho author ' s pleasant commentary upon tho manners nnd customs , civil , military , and religious , of the place , and the interesting historical notabilia interwoven with it , as well as with the fine art criticism . " Autumnal" is n smooth and elegant lay , reminding one , now of Tennyson , now of Gerald Massey . " Rlurriagti aa in France" is n smart translation from tho French of a pretty and

    welldelighted . " Crinoline and Whalos" is a little essay upon the natural history of the Jialtona Myaticetua , IS . musculus , Ji . Jtostrata , and others of tho genus , of whom the first-named species has now taken n , more important place than over , as being the only one producing the groat raw material of crinolino petticoats , namely , whalebone . Tho scientific mattor of the paper is rendered palatablo by n good deal of wit nnd nntiquariunisip , and is seasoned with aonic yood stories , on concluding ono or two of which theroudor will bo ant , ns wo did . to cry , " Very like » wJinle . "

    told little love story . " Behind the Scenes nt Paris " has reached its twenty-fourth chapter , uiul tho . " Memorials of tho Jolly Dogs" comes to a somewhat abrupt conclusion with , tho death of Vernon . Wo are sorry to pnrt wltli our author who , very rapidly , in a sort of Envoi , disposes of tho five " dogs" whoso deaths have not been chronicled in previous chaptors . Trench was nioitally wounded nt Now Orleans . John Smith died in his pariah . Tho older Moyriok « t Chillinnwnlhih ; and hla father , not long after Poyntz became nn eminent lawyer nnd M . P ., caught a cold after a late debate , nnd came to nn untimely end . Peterkin , though not exactly dead , is no longer jolly ; but Frnnois Meyriulc , Esquire , of Moyrujlc Hall , having married Mias Uorbert , and takon Mrs . Biggs aa housekeeper , la aa much so ovor as over . " Two

    " Jottings on Eclipses '' is a well-written , soim-seiontiflo article , nnd it . " Subtorrauonn Adventure , which purports to relate a mysterious nnd hostile rencontre in nn Alpino mine gallery between Mr Hudson Lowo nnd tho present Kinporur Nnnowou , hns the air of a translation from tho * ' ° » > « " « merits its motto , "Lo vrni n ' ost pas towotualo vrnisemblnble . " This number of the JJtfIn ftjo contains nn interesting chapte * upon Egyptian travel called « 'Rldos upon Afules nnd Donkeys , Sm wSSTwo Xuld like , had wo the space , to

    than the Scotch critic is inclined to admit . Tho secret of Edward Irving ' s popularity is to be sought for , not in his varied powers , for they were groat , and cultivated by a careful study of tho rnntuhless productions of the massive intellects of mediiavnl English divines , but rather in his disregard of tho solemn pomposities of pulpit gentility , his immense person , hia uncouth aspect , his portentous squint , his broad Scotch brogue , and tho sledgo-hammcr vehemenco with which he rolled out sonorous sentences nnd hurled anathemas against sins and pomps and vanities , which his titled nnd carriage audiences could not fail in perceiving were levelled mainly against themselves . Irving was somewhat of a clerical enthusiast ; ho was earnest nnd , in Ms way , pious ; but sudden popularity and praise combined wore too

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    No . 450 . November 6 , 1858 . ] THE tBADEK . ' . US *

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 1189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2267/page/13/