the heat of summer,-the grand masses of those cedars, with what the Prophet Ezekiel so portrayingly called their 'shadowing shrouds,'-the headlong torrents of Lebanon lulled gradually into quiet streams in the valley,-its desolate forests as enhancing the beauty of surrounding fruitfulness,its snowy heights in contrast with its sheltered flowery dells and vineyards,-are subjects of frequent allusion in the inspired literature of Judea. Nor would they thus have been used but that such points were familiar with those whom the prophets (the public preachers of the time) addressed in discourses full of feeling, and adapted to all ranks. There are but few in this part of England who would be impressed by allusions from the pulpit to the mountains of Wales or Cumberland, to Snowden, Helvellyn, or Skiddaw. But every Israelite could enter into the force and beauty of allusion to the nearer or more remote scenes of his native land. He was therefore no half-barbarian. He was one of a nation trained to be a wise and understanding people,' (Deut. iv. 6.) The learned and accurate Dr. Robinson was much struck during his travels in Palestine with the number and definiteness of the topographical notices preserved in the Old Testament," &c.-Gent. Mag.

PANORAMA OF BAALBEC.-This view is in a graver style than those Mr. Burford has lately exhibited, but is not less meritorious in its execution or at

For oft it wrings the heart with pain;
And like the night-wind on the lute,
Makes what before was hush'd and mute
Into a wild and mournful strain :
It should be ever sad, and yet
There are who hear it and forget;

But oh! how they who never more
Can hope to meet as they have met,

These last low accents linger o'er, To feed a long and vain regret!—Ibid. REAL MURDER." We had the satisfaction," says Backhouse, in his Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies," of witnessing the destruction of five puncheons of rum, containing four hundred and ninety-two gallons, and two hogsheads of Geneva, containing one hundred and sixteen gallons. They were the property of one of our friends, who had received them as a part of an investment from his agent in England, who had not been apprized of a change in the views of his correspon dent respecting the use and sale of spirits, in which he cannot now conscientiously be concerned. He therefore represented the case to the governor, who allowed them to be taken out of bond free of duty, under the same circumstances as if for export and, under the charge of an officer of the customs, placed on board a staged boat, which took them out into the Cove, where the heads of the casks were removed, and the contents poured into the sea. tractive in its subject. The vast extent of the Some persons, from neighboring vessels, looked on scene, the magnificence of the ruins, the air of with approval, others with surprise; and others, desolation that reigns around them, the striking not yet awake to the evils of spirit-drinking, exisolation of façades and columns, which seem pre-pressed regret. A man, from a little vessel, cried served to mark the beauty of the temples of which out That's real murder!'"-Hood's Mag. they are the only remains, the mountainous country, with Lebanon rising in the distance, are forcibly represented. The drawing is extremely accurate, and the coloring properly subdued to suit the sombre character of the scene. But its highest merit is that it is a faithful representation of reality, and that, if the spectator will allow himself to think that he stands in the middle of the ruins, he can survey them rising around him in all the sublimity of aspect they present to the eye of the traveller on the desert plains of Asia. Mr. Burford may well be congratulated on the novelties he is constantly preparing for public gratification, and on the perfection to which he has brought this striking style of art. His views are always among the best exhibitions of the metropolis, and fill the mind as well as gratify the eye.-Ibid.

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ANECDOTE OF HER PRESENT MAJESTY. By the author of "Real Random Records."-King George the Fourth, the uncle of the reigning sovereign, Queen Victoria, is very well known to have held strong opinions on the subject of Catholic Emancipation. I forget on which side, but he could not bear O'Connell; and when Kemble the poet wrote would not read it. Franklin was another of his a poem called "O'Connell's Child," his Majesty aversions; I mean the man who drew down lightning with a kite, and went to the North Pole. But his favorite antipathy, or rather his royal father's, was Wilkie, the North Briton. He was supposed, if I remember rightly, to have a hand with Canning in the famous work called the "Anti-Something" against the French republican principles, which Burke attacked about the same time in Parliament in his celebrated speech, when he threw down the dagger, and said to Fox, "There's a knife and fork." Canning, who afterwards became prime minister, was stolen in his youth by a gipsy, one Elizabeth Squires, who was tried for it, and either acquitted or hung. It made a great noise at the time: which reminds me of Mother Brownrigg, who starved her apprentices so cruelly that one of them, named Otway, choked himself in ravenously swallowing a penny roll. I think there was something written on it, called the "Rolliad" but am not sure. Swift was certainly writing on or about the time; and his notorious "Draper's Letters" in favor of shutting up early, were very popular with the shopmen of the metropolis. So were "Sinbad's Voyages to Lilliput." I forget what great people were shown up in it. But the rage was for the "Beggar's Opera," the author of which was said to have made Rich, rich; and Gay, gay. Something runs in my head that he also wrote the " Elegy in a Country Churchyard." Perhaps it was Gray-or did

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Gray write the "Beggar's Opera?" One gets puz- ult., of the Earl of Mountnorris, an elegant and zled between such similar names. For example, accomplished scholar,-who acquired distinction, one of my own favorite works is White's or some five-and-twenty years ago, as Lord Valentia, Wright's "History of Shelburne or Selburne." by the publication of his Travels in the East,' I never can remember which. However, as I said and their connexion with certain literary questions before, King William the Fourth had his political which, about that period, a good deal occupied prejudices, and who has not? Every bias, as the public mind.-In this obituary paragraph, we some one says, has its bowl; probably Lord Shaftes- may record, also, the death of Samuel Drummond, bury in his Maxims, if it was Shaftesbury, and if Esq., associate of the Royal Academy, and, for they were maxims. My head is not what it was, very many years, a copious contributor to its exhinor will be on this side of the grave-but so long bition walls. Mr. Drummond was in the 79th as my memory serves me to recall an anecdote or year of his age; but had three pictures in the extwo, however imperfectly, I must not complain.-hibition which has only just closed.—Ib. Hood's Magazine.

ANOTHER of the Bonaparte family has departed. Joseph Count De Survilliers, once the intrusive King of Spain, died at Florence, on the 28th of last month. He was attended in his last moments by his surviving brothers, Louis, ex-King of Holland, and Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia.-Spect.

JAMES STUART, April 11. Aged 116, James Stuart, commonly known by the name of Jemmy Strength.

Mr. Biddle's career and character have some features which require a good deal of elucidation and discrimination, in order to be properly understood. As a private member of society he was one of the He was born on Dec. 25, 1728, at Charleston, most accomplished-most honorable-most amia- in South Carolina, United States. His father, ble, and most courteous of men. As a public man, General John Stuart, was a near relative of the in the presidency of the United Sates Bank, he con-pretender Prince Charles. He left America, when ducted its affairs, during the first years of its exist- seven years of age, and was a spectator at the batence, with great skill, integrity, and prudence. tle of Preston Pans, and witnessed the death of But as soon as the intriguing politicians of both Colonel Gardner and the flight of Johnny Cope. parties got hold of him, when he wanted a re- He beheld the triumphal entry of Prince Charles charter, he went astray further and further, until into Edinburgh, and was a spectator at the battle the institution exploded, and strewed, as we have of Culloden. When about 20 years of age he seen, the whole land with its ruins. It is asserted enlisted in the 42d Highlanders, in which regithat the narrative of the deceptions and duperies ment he remained about seven years. He was an which have been practised by these politicians on ensign in General Wolfe's army, and fought at Mr. Biddle, during his career, would surpass any- the battle of Quebec; after that war he sold his thing ever written in any language, in the annals of commission, but very soon after he again entered intrigue and corruption; and that the recollection the army, and served during the American war, of these deceptions, practised on his unsuspecting and was at the battle of Bunker's hill. After this nature, constantly pressing on his wounded spirit, he entered the navy, and served under Rodney. were the main cause of his sudden and premature He was also for several years a sailor on board of death. Mr. Biddle has left a very fine family. merchant vessels. About sixty years ago he set-Gent. Magazine. tled in Berwick-upon-Tweed, or rather in Tweedmouth, and during that period he has travelled the borders as a wandering minstrel, scraping upon children. Ten of his sons were killed in battlefive in the East Indies, two at Trafalgar, one at Waterloo, and two at Algiers. He was short in stature, but of remarkable strength; he is said, upon one occasion, about 30 years ago, to have gone beneath a cart loaded with hay, and carried At Paris, M. FAURIEL, Member of the Acad-raised some time since which enable the old man it on his back for several yards. A fund was emy, died on the 14th, at the age of seventythree-and M. Lepere, the architect, on the 18th, aged eighty-two. The name of M. Lepere is connected with many of the brilliant events of the generation which he has survived. He was a member of the expedition of Egypt, and his draw-received from a fall on Thursday, April 4. The His death was caused by an injury which he ings enrich the work that commemorates it. He raised, in conjunction with M. Gondouin, the column in the Place Vendôme.-Ib.

DR. JOHN HASLAM, well known to the public by his practice and writings in connexion with the treatment of mental disease, died on the 20th inst., in the eighty-first year of his age.—Ath.

On the 18th, Mr. HYMAN HURWITZ, Hebrew professor at University College, London, and distinguished by his very extensive knowledge of biblical lore.-Ib.

EARL OF MOUNTNORRIS.-The papers announce the death, at Arley Castle, in Ireland, on the 23d

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to spend the evening of his long and eventful life in comparative ease and comfort. He said a few weeks ago that he "hadna been sae weel aff this hunder year."

remains of this extraordinary man were, on Sunday, April 14, consigned to the tomb in Tweedmouth churchyard. The funeral was attended by an immense concourse of people, considerably more than 5,000.-Gent. Mag.

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.-No. 21.-5 OCTOBER, 1844.

CONTENTS.

22. POETRY.-Struggle for Fame-Burns' Festival, 524-Lesson of the Louvre, 536-August-With Angels and Archangels, 557-September, 572.

23. SCRAPS.-Order of Odd Fellows-Waterloo-Louis Philippe-Iron, 523-Railway Excursions, 529-Population of Hungary, 542.

tined to have a more lasting influence, and to embrace a wider sphere of action.

The spirit of the Irish Press is thus spoken of: THE REPEALERS' HOPE.-Some of the Irish Repeal papers are holding a language which is not calculated to raise their cause in public respect. The Belfast Vindicator holds forth thus

"The Prince de Joinville has won his laurels before

"Yet, it is not peace between two great and often antagonist nations; it is not the harmony of the lily and the rose that men alone think of; it is the concord of many kingdoms, the tranquillity of innumerable states, and the pacification of Christendom, that men consider when they long for peace. England and France at war, where would be the tranquillity of Europe? England and France in harmony, what great or desolating war can inter- the ramparts at Tangier. We are sure they will not rupt the happiness of the world? It were as be his last. reasonable to suppose that the great bodies in the triumphs. He has a mother, whose prayers we doubt We are full of confidence in his future physical world could come into mutual collision, not are offered up for his honor and welfare; that without carrying havoc and destruction amid their mother is a living saint, and her prayers are not offered dependent satellites, as that the two kingdoms of in vain. More triumphs await him in the MediterFrance and England could contend, without involv-ranean, and perhaps on the Atlantic. What if he ing the other states of Europe in the fortunes of should invade Ireland ?" the contest. And it is the consciousness of thisof the peril to which a rash engagement in war would expose more than the first parties to it-of the responsibility which lies upon men in high station-of the enormous evil that one hasty or ill-that the millions of Ireland are helpless without judged measure may introduce amongst other ele- foreign aid. If France throws a few regiments to her ments of disturbance-it is this which, felt in a there is no invasion by that great captain, the hero coasts she is to throw off the English yoke; but if lesser way and with a less individual interest by of Tangier, why then all the castle-building falls to men in private station, should exert a strong and the ground. A national cause, relying on such aid intelligible influence upon the mind of ministers, for success, must be a very weak and spiritless one. on whose every word and every sentence depend, If six millions of people were in earnest, they would humanly speaking, the chances of war or peace. find their way of shaking off an oppression without A minister of foreign affairs cannot but feel the the help of a handful of Frenchmen and a puppet momentous responsibility too deeply to act with prince in an admiral's uniform. The men who precipitation. He should be cautious and wary, accomplish great exploits are they who depend on therefore, not to be the first to throw away the their own resources and energies; not those who scabbard, and to plunge Europe amid the confla-look to strangers for help, which is the expectation of gration of an unnecessary and unnatural discord." the intervention of Hercules instead of putting the

The probable course of Russia, in the event of War, is confidently supposed to be hostile to France. The Britannia says:

Drowning men catch at straws; and at this hero of straw the champion of repeal catches to sustain the wild hopes of its cause.

There is really vast humility in this. It supposes

shoulder to the wheel.

Frail and pitiful indeed must be the cause, the hopes of which are built on the speculation of such a championship as that of the Prince de Joinville, and on the strength of the wondrous achievement of knocking down a few stones at Tangier! of oppression to desire to exchange even the misrule And does it quite become a people who complain of England for the sort of government with which the Citizen King has blessed the French. The heaviest abuse of which Ireland has now to complain would be light and trivial compared with the vexations, mortifications, and oppressions to which she would be subjected as a French province. It may however be imagined that France, for the sheer love of freedom and of Ireland, would deliver her from England, and then leave her to herself; but what if there should be a mistake in such a calculation, and the French should find Ireland an easier and pleasanter possession than Algeria? We must apologize for the folly of contemplating such absurdities, but nonsense must be combated on its own ground.

The visit of the Emperor Nicholas to this country, followed so speedily by that of his minister, Count Nesselrode, gives countenance to the idea that an important negotiation is in progress for binding together more closely the ties which exist between Russia and England. The emperor, it is probable, took the initiative in this important business, laid his views frankly before the queen, and, when he found them cordially received, committed to the hands of the most experienced statesman in his dominions the task of carrying out his wishes and intentions. What the precise proposal of the emperor was cannot of course be known with certainty, but general opinion assigns it to have an intimate relation to the present aspect of affairs in Europe, and to be connected with the The piety of the Belfast Vindicator is in keeping possibility of a French war. It is even conjectur- with the rest of its views. Heaven is to heed the ed that Russian councils saw more in the famous prayers of the "living saint," the Queen of the pamphlet of the Prince de Joinville than the rest-French; and those prayers being for the honor and less ambition of a petulant youth; and, conceiving its publication to be a piece of diplomacy rather than an act of individual rashness, thought it expedient to secure the alliance of the other four great courts by additional guarantees. If this view be well founded, the proposed visit of the Emperor Nicholas to the Prussian court may have a political significance. His Imperial Majesty is not of a disposition to rest satisfied with half measures. To a Russian diplomatist belongs the honor of that alliance which preserved Europe from war in 1840, has a mother whose prayers will obtain for him sucThe logic is briefly this. The Prince de Joinville and satisfactorily settled the Turco-Egyptian ques-cess in whatever he undertakes. Ergo, if the Prince tion. A treaty of a yet more important nature, de Joinville should invade Ireland, he will carry all and projected by a higher mind, may now be in before him, and sweep the English from the face of ¡progress, having an equally pacific aim, but des- the land.

welfare of the Prince de Joinville, Providence is to subject people to the horrors of war as conducive to the prince's aforesaid "honor and welfare."

Are there no mothers, living saints, in Ireland, whose prayers, though not offered up from a throne, may, through the honor and welfare of their sons, bring about the redress of Ireland's wrongs by milder

means than the scourge of war?

far off, and with so roundabout an effect.
It seems rather strange to reckon on prayers so