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provoking a boundless enthusiasm amongst the troops . » " The first and last wound of which the commander-in-chief of the Hungarian armies could boast , preserved him his command . The chief of his staff fomented a conspiracy among the commanders of the corps , and the Governor ' s peremptory orders for Gorgey to resign , for the army to march to the Lower Danube , and for Klapka to see to the execution of . these orders , were as peremptorily disobeyed . Klapka convoked a council of -war ,. where it was resolved that he should go to Pesth and insist on the Governor cancelling his decrees . At the moment of his departure he
received another decree , by which he was ordered to ? hasten the march of the army , ' while he himself ¦ was desired to remain at Komorn , with 18 , 000 men . The hopeless demoralisation of the military leaders is most glaringly shown by Klaplca ' s ingenuous confession , that this order ¦ * spurred him on to greater speed , ' and that he immediately proceeded to Pesth . * Jlis mediation sufficed to shake the Governor ' s , resolution , and it was agreed that Gorgey should resign his office as secretary at war , the functions of which he had never performed , and that he should remain with the army and retain its command ,
provided he acknowledged Meszaros as commander-inchief and promised obedience to his orders . On the return of the negotiator to Komorn , Gorgey pledged his word that he would obey the orders of the new commander-in-chief , but he knew how to distinguish between his promise and its performance . He was again requested to march his troops to Pesth . Instead of doing this , lie assembled a council of war and proposed to lead the armj- to Xrsike Balaton . This plan was so thoroughly opposed to the real interests of Hungary , that . the generals , and especially Klapka and Nagy Sandor more than suspected his secret intentions . "
It would serve no purpose to pursue tins melancholy tale to its conclusion . The various events are too fresh in the recollection of . our readers The triumph of the Austrians was most cruelly carried out . Executions for political crimes were frequent , anil were also accompanied in spine cases ¦ with manifest injustice . The Hungarian war had been provoked and fomented by the Austrian Government , ; it was carried to the last extreme , says M . Wenkstern , " by the obstinacy of that Government , andby Mr . Kossuth ' s ambition , sustained by the devotion of an unfortunate and long-suffering people , and hurried to its abrupt termination by the pusillanimity of its civil leaders , by the
deliberate treachery of Gorgey , and by the selfseeking , the greed , and the envy of others . " Many , perhaps , will disagree with the author's estimate , but all will join in his indignation and regret of the infamous manner in which Austria was conducted to absolute dominion in Hungary . A change now is coming over the dream of nations ; and it may be that the hour is at hand when these and other wrongs may meet with redress . The tinie is full of warning and preparation ; scarcely a day passes , but some new phase of events is developed , and every such phase is an instalment of Che-debt which despotism owes , and must pay , to the cause of humanity .
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THE BYE-LANES AND DOWNS OF ENGLAND , with Turf Scenes and Characters . By Sylvauus . — Itlohnrd Bentley . Tins is the third edition of an amusing , and in some respects , a valuable work . 1 here are reasons , however , why it should not be dismissed in the usual summary manner , that is the natural lot of new editions in reviewing column ? . The mode of life that it describes may justly command attention , profitable , at all events , for reproof . We shall content ourselves with one picture—of . that world , the knowledge of which appears to many so valuable .
"One of the metropolitan corners to which the West-end denizens of the parent nook in Pimlico resort in greftt force is Limmor ' s hotel , in Conduitstreet , where some heavy bye-play is done on the few days , or rather nights , immediately preceding the Derby ; and where the long-room of the hotel , the bar , and even " George ' s pantry" are crowded by till sorts and conditions of men ; some lisping out An abortive oiUh at their " infernal luck" in not having backed the favourite ; othors on the hover , or crouching , ready for a spring , though apparently the most jolly , trustworthy , delightful set of follows who over shared ft magnum of claret , or essayed to shake a man ' s arm off . "Hither we repaired after a lute dinner , and rojoiced at meeting our amusing friend , O'Jfay , at the
doorway of the house , mellow as a , nectarine October , and , quite as delicious in the mouth . He was in cut-and-thrust humour , and hardly required interrogating before he pointed out the notables of the flash rendezvous , and gave us the cream of the news of the day . " ' Ah ! my rustic friend , " exclaimed he , as I crossed orer the street ; ? en route for Epsom , and standing on Gaper , I suppose , as usual ? Plenty of gape-seed hereabouts ; but not safe to speak as well as stare ,
I assure you . A pretty game is a-foot ! They tried to burn Scott ' s stables at Leatherhead last . night Cotherstone is ' potted , ' * . but will win ! Gaper is ' potted ; ' Old Charitie and the Atrocious Division are upon an extreme old ' an . John Day has been obliged to hedge 20 , 000 * . to 3 , 000 Z . with Lord George ( a tidy bet to make with an old servant ) . They take six to four about Bowe ' s horse . Here ' s old Fatty inside . Two new hells open to-night . But come in and see the fun . " Thus rattled on Q'Fay , and in we went .
" The house was crammed with loungers and lookers-in , in addition to the few real inmates Of the hotel , and cofFee-Toorn habitues ; all more or less speculators on the forthcoming race at Epsom , and endued with that dominant , if not rude and overbearing air , which so distinguishes every sportingman about town , who , no matter what his extraction or propensities , has contrived , through the influence of all-levelling betting , to insinuate himself into the ' Limmer Clique . ' " The entire details of the scene are most graphically presented . with personal hits , which are highly interesting ; but our limited space prevents us from giving the whole series of portraits .
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THE NUT-BROWN MAIDS ; or THE FIRST HOSIER AND HIS HOSEN . A Family Chronicle of the I > ay 3 of Queen Elizabeth . —John \ W Parker . ROCKS AND SHOAL . S . By Captain Lovesey . 2 vols . — Charles "VTesterton . BENTLEY PRIORY . By Mra . Hastings Parker . 3 yols . Hurst and Blackett . S 17 OKD AJS ' GOW > . By the Author of "G-uy 3 , iving-st 6 n . "—John W . Parker . In " The Nut-Brown Maids" the reader will find
genuine pictures of domestic life , at the time when Elizabeth was in the prime of her life and the height of her distinguished reign . Without subscribing to all the writer ' s opinions we cannot too highly * praise the manner in which he has . performed a very onerous task . The writer has portrayed , faithfully , the manners and customs of the people at the time of our history from which we date the life-blood , as it were , of our social progress , our drama , and religious principles . In Elizabeth ' s time the English nation first began to emerge from a brutal and licentious life to feel that micbt was not right , and that moral force was far
preferable to physical . But it is only in a passing notice that the writer speaks of the great names of the time— "Good Queen Bess ; " the Swan of Avon ; the bold and adventurous Drake ; the philosophic Raleigh and Bacon , the accomplished , Sir Philip Sydney ; the wayward Essex ; the , courtly Dudley , and a host of other names , all of which awaken in us mnnjr reflections , are names familiar in history and fiction to all readers . The story opens with Queen Elizabeth paying a visit to Cambridge , wherein the performance of a drama her -Majesty becomes interested in the
good acting of plaster William Lee " a distant kin of our good friend and' champion , Leo of Ditcliley , " whom she wishes to make one of her suite . Lee answers , ' ' By your grace ' s leave , I say nay . I humbly thank you ; but I have no other nuraG than Alma Mater , no arena save what her search after truth supplies . I should but disappoint your goodness , 1 crave your pardon , madam , but if I am to vindicate your gracious notice , I must remain a scholar in the school of Cambridge . " With a token of esteem , Elizabeth leaves Master Leo to pursue his studies , which he does with great success . But we are unable to follow him in these
or in his manner of courting the beautiful and accomplished Cicely Yorke , the daughter of Master Richard Yorke , whom he wins against the rules of the University . Ho is expelled from the scat of learning on account of his marriugo , and af-tor passing through many troubles in inventing ' the Stocking-loom ,. he applies to 'Elizabeth for assisting to carry out his design . Of course , ho did not apply in vain . Our version of the tale is
very imperfect—not that by giving it more fully we should be afraid of spoiling the reader ' s interest in it , but because it is better that they should react it at first hand for themselves , which we heartily recommend them to do—not for the tale only , but for the light the work throws on domestic life durin" the reign of Elizabeth . To our readers ? notice we commit the " Nut-Brown Maids ; " it is well-written , beautifully printed ( there is something in reading a book nicely " got up" ) , and altogether it is one of the most pleasant stones that ever came under our notice . ^ " Rocks and Shoals " is written in a free and burlesque style , and the work is just long enough to bes-uile awav a winter evening . If Captain Lovesey
is never profound , he is never dull—ii he is never very serious , he is never very sentimental ; and if he is never witty , he is nearly always humorous . / Lhe story opens at the end of the last century , with the hero bein" packed off to school for witnessing some advances to his mother from a dashing officer of dragoons , with whom she elopes soon after , on finding that her husband has become reduced in circumstances . As his schooling osanint bp naid for . G-eoflrey runs away from the
establishment of Dr . Oglethorpe , to fight his way on the rocks and shoals of London . On Jus journey thither he falls in with a strolling player , who gets all his money , leaving him to pursue his journey penniless . Luckily for him , he sees some robbers attacking the mail , gives the alarm and : the thieves make off ; for which service the guard gives him a " lift" to London , and assistance when there , till he finds him a situation as clerk in . the offino of Messrs . Hawker and Dodgeley . Here he
remains Ion * enough to find out that they are scoundrels , but not before he has had several mishaps-, one of which is being on the point of marriage with a widow , the landlady of the Black Swan , when her husband the ( picture of brutality ) walks in from America , where he has been for seven years . Geoffrey has to make his exit , and soon after he finds his employers trying to get possession of the property of one Ursula Walnisley—who has died , f _ ii „» . „ ± ^ 4-i . n i-i ^> iT "_< ii--lfiTir—Yrv forffinff leavi iv iu ± i ~ w
ngiuepiopex me x ^* - •*— r-iT -U a will . As this good lady is Geoffrey ' s aunt * he is the heir . Another heir-at-law turns up , but whether Geoffrey is able to retain the property , we will leave our readers to find out . Those who are fond of a fiction written in a humorous strain and , that rattles along something like an express tram , will get the volumes , and complete the story for themselves . , . -. " Bentley Priory" is a novel treating solely ot fashionable life . Generally speaking , we are ^ partial to fashionable novels , and have tried to write them down ; but " Bentley Priory cornea to us not so much as a type of this school as a work depicting fashionable life as it is to-day . At has the advantage of being the only fashionable
novel published , this season , at least the only one that has come under our notice . Taking Mrs . Hastings Parker ' s work as truthfully reflecting life among the upper ten thousand , we consider it a very meritorious work ; and those that wish to know how the nobility beguile away their time , should-consult " Bentley Priory . " Speaking of the lovers when they are " settled , " the author says they were"Gifted in an eminent degree ™ t 1 ' ? ., ^ " " privilege of ministering t < rthe » a nts of other a , regarding the advantages of rank « " » d foituno wig as talents committed to their ^ JSj ^ fXaT whom one day they must render ^ « n account of all . they went / m thoir wVty blessing Afid blest . What say you , readers ? familiar with Ihe
Most of our readers arc " Sword a Gown , " it having been originally published in Frase ' r ' s Magazine , . and t ^ TOress of the story noticed as it appeared in that serial . The wr tor is a person of greaf talents , and has produced TSon o / no ordinary kind , but wo regret to seem it so noli slang . The writer , w « should say , from hi « » S » ofa !« nee with the tecU » lities of military ifb , is a soldier familiar with the turf and . P . R . It is true that this is part of the > vHtor ' plan of hs story ! and wo aro ' wilHng to . admit that heihas suocoedied in his object ; but did he ever reflect on what ; would bo the feelings awakened m the minds of his readers by the present work ? By de-U eating only one type of life in the army and , the clorffy ~ -nnd that the knnve of one and the tool . of the other—the writer has performed an unnecessary task , as both have been shown up before , though perhaps there is more truth in tho oha-
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* Itlnpkn ' f ) War in Hungary , vol . 1 . p . 150 .
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* llottod against by parties who hnvo no Jntontion pf paying-,
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No . 301 . Oct . 29 , 1859 J THE LEABEB . 1197
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 29, 1859, page 1197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2318/page/9/
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