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      beautiful . The " Coneiliatore " had the credit of putting an end to inere verbiage , and terminating the age of literary nullity . Its first number was issued Sept- 3 , 1 . 818 . It was discontinued in 1820 , in consequence of the censorship to which it was subjected , and which'left , as its writers complained , little more than the titles of the articles and signatures of the authors . It appears to have been mainly in consequence of the political views expressed by him in the " Conciliatore" that Silvio 1 ejlico was arrested at Milan , Oct . 13 , 1820 . The particulars of the ten years' imprisonment which succeeded have become world-renowned through his book , "LeMie Prigioni . " Released August 1 st , 1830 , he lived chiefly in his native land , Piedmont , until June 31 , 1854 , when he quitted

      this life . His fellow labourer , Berehet , wrote for his own age , and for the enslaved provinces of his country . His poems produce home-sickness in the exile , and kindle the fire of independence in the bosoms of those who breathe the air of the Peninsula . Though lie may have done little for art , according to the severe rules of Italian criticism , he did a vast deal for his country . Gratitude and veneration are due to him jn that , with the capacity to do much more , he willingly sacrificed a portion of his fame to his endeavours to secure the libertv of his native land .

      Carlo Troya , by his historical and political writings , and Giuseppe Giusti , by his political poetry , sought to shake oppression and free their country fromtheyoke of the foreigner . The former presided over ' the Constitutional Ministry at Xaples in 1848 . Among the most meniorable of the writings of the latter is a , satirical poenx , written on occasion of the visit of the Emperor of Austria to Milan in 1838 , when nearly all the Sovereigns of the Peninsula—the high-minded and independent King oi Sardinia excepted- ^ vent to offer him their homage : Giusti died March 31 . 1850 .

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      A Birmingham paper states that four pairs of shoes have been taken from the shop of a shoemaker at Broseley , in the execution of a distress warrant for the non-payment of a church rate . Two cl * eeses were also weighed by the executors of the law in the Jiouse of a widow , who resolutely refused to compound for her goods ; but her daughter ultimately was induced to pay the money . The LUn reports a curious sentence which has been passed at Unturwalden , Switzerland . One Melchior Risi , accused of disturbing the public order , has been condemned to a month ' s imprisonment , and to a regular attendance for two years at the morning and afternoon religious services !

      A correspondent of the Australian Mail , writing from Auckland , mentions that Dr . Selwyn , Bishop of HJqw Zealand , has taken his departure in his little yacht , the Southern Cross , on a tour through a number of the MHtntssiivn Islands . " It Is , I believe , his lordship ' s intention to pay a first visit , to some now groups for the purpose of conveying to the natives ' the glad tidings of the Gospel , ' nnd to endeavour to induce sonic of them to accept of the advantages of an education in the College of St , John , so as to fit them to become in their turn instructors of their fellow men . He ia expected tocall at Worfolk Island . "

      " TitYiNG it ON . " - ~ -Bullicr ' ii Lithographic Sheet gives the , following curious letter as having been addressed to the Emperor Napoleon . It ' was detained at the Office for Examining Petitions to His Majesfcy i-T- Sire , ' —Being the ppsscssor of a small property in the Beaujoles , favoured by a good soil for wine and turnips , and , on Wednesday , two days before Christmas , my wife having made us a soup of tlioso turnips , I found the taste so exquisite and so sweet , that the idea of our dear Emperor instantly occurred to me , and I said to my wife and my two sons , their Majesties have not perhaps a bettor soup . Then a happy inspiration passed through the mind

      of my oldest son , and ho said , ' Father , you ought to send a cask to their Majesties . ' Sire , we aro giving eflbct to the idea . May the vegetables bo agrooablo to you , and wo shall esteem ourselves so fortunate to have procured you that trifling pleasure . ( We have more of them still . ) --1 am , with the most profound respect , sire , your very humble and very dovoted subject ; , J \ Borrow , shirtmaker at KoiBPay Aim ) . This letter wna followed hv a second , in wfolQh P . Bolniorxt prayed that hie oldest son ( ho wjio hod . conceived aiich an excellent ideu ) might bo exempted ft . Qin military service . It ia not stated wn ^ tbor hja . Majesty has approved the soup or ex-OI Wfytn . o , « on A ; , _ 7

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      - •> ¦ . ¦ "TXTI TII regard to the rectorship of the "University \ V of Edinburgh , we understand that the election will be between Mr . Gladstone and Lord Neaves . The committee which had been formed for Lord Campbell and Lord John Russell have united with the Gladstone committee . It i 3 reported at St , Andrew ' s that the principalship of the United College , vacant by Sir David Brewster ' s removal to Edinburgh , has been conferred on Dr . Wordsworth , Bishop of St . Andrew ' s ; and the report has been so far credited that both the senatus and the provost and magistrates have memorialised Government against the appointment .

      The matriculation examination of the Bombay " University commenced on the 3 rd of October , simultaneously at tlie town-hall in Bombay , and at the assembly rooms in l ' oonah . . It is satisfactory to notice that eighty-eight ; candidates presented themselves for examination at Bombay , and forty at Poonah , making a total of 128 candidates . A statue has been decreed by the City of Mexico to the illustrious Alexander Von Humboldt . The statue is to be executed in marble by an Italian sculptor . It will be placed in the interior of the V School of Mines , " and will bear the inscription" A Alexandre de Huniboldt , le Mexujue reconnaissant . "

      A commission , appointed by the French Academy of Sciences to draw up a report on the results of the scientific expedition undertaken to observe the late total eclipse in Brazil , calls attention to the very important total eclipse which will occur in July next year , and will be visible in Spain and Algeria . The commission believe that at least forty astronomers , from France , England , Germany , Russia , and Italy , will assemble in Spain . or Africa to -witness this eclipse . A great deal of the attention both of , the Tuscan Government and the population turns upon matters connected with the Ministry ot Public Education . The Mirquis Ridolfi is thought to have been an } r - thing but felicitous in his new appointments . The vacations are drawing to an end , and the Universities of Pisa and Siena are soon to feel the benefit

      of their enlarged endowment and the newly-added professorships . The same activity in the same branch of administration is exhibited by all the Governments of Central Italy . Whole batches of new professors are seated on newly-erected chairs at Farma , Modena , and Bologna , In the latter place Count Carlo Pepoli , long a resident in England , and well known as a poet and scholar , was offered the dignity of Rettor MagniflcQ , or President , of that eldest of all Alma Maters . He answered , he would only accept on one condition , and that was that he should be allowed to open the University in the morning , to close it again immediately , in the evening of the same day , after distributing to all students applying tor a certificate of matriculation billets of admission into the ranks of the various corps of the national armies .

      M . Philoxene Boyer has interrupted his course of l

      to general principles of liberty an indirect but tolling application , cons tantly drew from the closelypacked audience the most ; enthusiastic applause . M . Ainedeo Xicnee the well-known French journalist ia just dead . M . Renoo was the author of several works . The last were , " The Nieces of Mossurin , " and " Manners and Characters of the Eighteenth Century . " He formerly contributed to the lievua da Paris , nnd to the Encyclopedia das yens dn Monde . In the spring of 1857 he roplacod M . do OGsena ns reductenr-en-oh a / of the ConsLUutionnct nnd of the Pays , but was not acting in that capacity at the time of hid death .

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      shadows in which memory invests the past . Mr . Trollope's pencil , however ^ suffers no such inconvenience . He begins his book on board the brig ; describes the state of the wind and the wave , and proceeds to Cien l ' ue «» os , to resume his pen and his voyage . In truth , the book opens with great s pirit , and a touch of character in the everlasting poor " blue-nosed skipper , " which demonstrates at once that a quick-eyed observer is on his travels . But to come to more special matters . Jamaica is not so thriving now as it was once ; and Kingston , adds Mr . Trollopc , " is a disgrace to the country that owns it . " Ugly buildings are a continual eyesore . Spanish town is even worse : —

      " It is like the city of the dead . There are long streets there in which no human inhabitant is ever seen . In others a silent old negro woman may be sitting at an open door , or a child playing , solitary , in the dust . The Governor ' s house—King's House , as it is called—stands on one side of a square ; opposite is the house of the Assembly ; on the left , as you come out from the Governor ' s , are the executive offices and the liouse of the Council , and on the right

      some other public buildings . jL lie place would have some pretension about it did it not seem to be stricken with an eternal death . All the walls are of a dismal dirty yellow , and a stranger cannot but think that the colour is owing to the dreadfully prevailing disease of the country . In this square there are no sounds ; men and women never frequent it ; nothing enters it but sunbeams ; and such sunbeams ! The glare from those walls seem to forbid that men and women should come there . ¦

      " The parched , . dusty ,- deserted streets are all-hot , and perfectly without shade . The crafty Italians have built their narrow streets so that the sun can hardly enter them , except when he is in the mitl heaven ; but there has been no such craft at Spanish Town . ' The houses are very low , and when there is any sun in the , heavens it can enter those streets ; and in those heavens there is always a burning :, broiiing sun . " But the place is not vholly de . * ertcd . There is here the most frightfully hideous race of . pigs that ever made a man ashamed to own himself a

      baconeating biped . I have never done much in pi . i ^ s myself , but I believe that pigly grace -consists -in plumpness and cqmparativo shortness—in shortness , above all , of the face and nose . The Spanish Town pigs are never plump . They are the very ghosts ot swine , consisting entirely of bones and bristles . Their backs are long , tlieir ribs are long , their legs are long , but , above all ,, their heads and noses are hideously long . These brutes prowl about in the sun , and glare at tjie ' unfrequent stran-ri-rs with their starved eyes , as though doubting themselves whether , by some little oxertion , tlicy might not bicoiue beasts

      ot prey . Such is a specimen of the style ol this spirited book ; hero is a penman who can llmiriah away , without being tedious ; copious , nnd yet witty . Homlrtt , in Denmark , thought it strange to hear that " the world'had grown honest , " nnd feared that " doomsday was near . " Hut Mr . 'J rollone had no such four in Jamaica ; though In ? speaks in high terms ol * the honesty of the people . Another comfort ho had , that though he had been compelled to speak disparagingly of the principal town , the country round about deserved ( he highest praise . Ho found , too , the people exceedingly comfortable . . .

      Though the augar-onno is the chief production of Jamaica , Mr . Trollopo tolls us that " one may travel for days in the iaiand and only see n cano piece here and there . " Mr / Trollops has a chapter devoted to the case , of Black Men , which will bo read with interest . Tho Creolo has no country of his own ; none of h \ s adoption . He has no language of his own ; none o Ins adoption . With no idea of country , no m-ulo ol race , no religion of his own , tho Creole linfl , nevertheless , developed tastes of his own , halms , aptitudes , and faults , tlwvt peculiarly imlivnluu wo him . He" is capable , too , of tho hardest bodily labour . Intellectually , he is ambitious , ami buy " to be roffurclod as a scholar , llulitfioufl teaching

      TUB WX 1 ST INDIM 8 AND THJO SPANISH MAIN . IJy Anthony TroUopQ . — CJinpiuan nml Hall , The picture painted in presence of its objects ia most likely to be correct , though in tho literal rendering there may be a want of tho spiritual

      has not been inoperative for good with hun ;}>}" Mr . Trollopo does not seem to have much Imtii in missionary success . Tho following , contusion * —for in Mr . Trollopo tUoy arc . ooncossioiw- — n ™ important . "But tho groat point to bo suttlod is thifli whether this roco of nuilattoa , quadroons , i »» fltos ; and wluvt not , are capable of manuring niuUur ? iw themselvosj of undertaking tho higher walks ot liioi of Hvinor . in shortaa an indanOndonfc people wltn ft

      , proper share of mastordom t aiul not noecfisuniy »» a eorvilo people , ns howoia of wood niul UraworB oi

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      LITERARY NOT ^ S OF THE WEEK .

      Literattjre. Science, Art, Etc

      LITERATTJRE . SCIENCE , ART , Etc

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      1252 THE LEADER . [ No . 503 . Inov . 12 , 1859 .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 12, 1859, page 1252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2320/page/16/