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      . , ¦ NT _TJ 1 TV" "NT O V " _F 1 _£ maE him understand this . Thrown on the world friend , less , Ernesto has to work for his bread , and soon finds himself _ensured to Lord Lynneld , a doctor of emineneeand _Another rathe _7 _eccentric Sv ? - dual Ernesto is not with him long as private secretary before he breaks a rule aboSt _sneakin- to a _ydun- lady , and is discharged very kindly" ' andis _* advised by Lord _SSfidito _iSJ-auffi Ernesto does so , and _throii-h _abetter _fromhis _ffte Z . _t . T ' iui . uu _o _ua . itiiu iiujii iiia i _. _ill . patron he becomes acquainted with Arnold Major the read _er of the great hrm of Brown , Jones and _^ i _, _Ti _f _^ _?! _Til / ' and here the turning . point ofthe storycommences . Something about Major convinces Ernesto that there is a sad . mysterv hanging <) ver him ; and his home , with three children , in black , who call him uncle , strengthen this suspicion He is unable to fathom it for some time . PIis book is published , and he becomes acquainted with Lord Wilder * who takes him into _sbciety , and , _amon- others , to the housp of _Horatii _SfAndisb tho" almost _n heroine _^ IIoratiaTs _bribed i a _wSnano _?^ a _? _« _eti as . _^ omau - _£ _° _' cat accomplishments , leading a fashionable life , per- haps for excitement Ernesto and Horat _. a soon become friends , and the talk turns on the Majors , whom , it appears , she knows , or did know , well , _Ihis makes Ernesto resolve on asking his friend Major the nature of their friendship formerly , Major refuses to tell him _moi'e than that Horatia was engaged to his elder brother , and that she jilted him . Ernesto cannot believe this , and seeks Horatia for the purpose of ascertaining the truth , because he has some secret Feeling that tho melnncholv on the brow of _Mnior _fi tnattno meianclioly on the biow ot Major is not Caused solely by the fact that the lady jilted his brother , but that . Ins friend Arnold loved her himself . It soon appears that _Arnold ' s elder brother never did proposo to Horatia , but beat about the bush , and _getting no encouragement he left the house without doing so , and that it was only a false report . As n proof of this , she con- _fesses that she could not have received Arnold's brother as a lover , because _' she always loved Arnold _lmnself . It here , also , turns out that after Arnold ' s brother had become ' a reckless man SY pleasure _\ to i : r d Wi ft _T 18 _^ 88 ' riV 10 f 0 Und _^ ; iCil ' e 8 S to marry . He then dosoi'teu the poor unfortunate , leaving _. _hor also his three _children . She soon W grief ; and Arnold takes tho children to _nis uome and becomes their protector . Of course , _wnoato is not long communicating the real story _J ° _« _us Inond Arnold , and , as a matter of course , ho tolls him also that _Xloratia loved him , and not his brother . ' The characters are well conceived , though some of them are " eccentnoians . " But tho best are _pose in whom the reader fools tho most interost . The character of Arnold Major , the hero , is by far the most ably drawn ; and ' his brother , tl _^ . , wan of pleasure in tho background , is well ma- nagea , and presents the reader with a good picture w mo , and , altogether , though slow in parts , Almost a Heroine" is a pleasant novel and won worth reading . /|

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      " Roccabella" should have ' -been an excellent ro- _mancebutthewiter has made it only the skeleton of one . There is plenty of rough material and out- line , but there is no colouring to give softness , as it were , to the picture . It is the story of a mistaken marriage—a marriage for money and a position . . _xfch subject baB bfe _* so ab _! v _^ _andledV Mr . Anthony _Trollope , in his last novel , _Ihe Bertrams , " as to leave little more to be said on the question . Yet " lloccabella" is quite an average novel , and the author having something to say , has said it in a straightforward manner , and although we cannot speak in very great praise of his characters , we at least can say nothing in cen- sure . Still , there is something wanting to make it very good fiction , and perhaps / this is to be found m the general hardness ot the characters and the author ' s style . ± or instance , we are first introduced to Rosamond , wedded to a Liverpool merchant , and we are given to understand that she has not one jot of affection for him . Yet there is no moralising , which is . the colouring of all novels . As we have said , " Roccabella" is only the outline of a romance . We may say , however , for the story , that it is well sustained , and that the careful reader may glean the author ' s abject therefrom , . . ,. " Edith On ey is a little book deserving notice , because the writer has fallen into a mistake , com- ¦ . mon among writers of her class . The work is » Dedicated to the Young Female Protestants of England , " and its . object fs best explained by the writer : "This little work has been considered likely to be useful to _those who are seldom spoken to upon the subject of opposing creeds , and who are _constantly - open to the _misleadings of Rome ; their studies not being calculated to enable them to unravel the _sophisfry and mysticism too often prepared for them in the present day , under the guise of Tales and Novels . " Taking the author ' s o „ . r 1 + 1 atr _.,. v \ a nn < _5 _} _xr + r > _frl purport for gi anted , the sto : y is neatly told . ; QuaJier or friends their Rise and Decline , -Sampson Low , Son , and Co . _Tiik causes of the decline of Quakerism are treated in these pages . Sects have their origin in the _idiosyncracies of individuals , and these religion strongly developes . Fox , and _tlie Friends , were in- _dn-iduals in whom _mdtviduahty _was _^ strongly de- veloped ; but in modern times the individuals have gradually become secularised , and like other people . Now this resemblance to the rest of the world de- prives them of their distinctive characteristics . Fox Wmself . iburid _conventional Christianity _unsatisfac- torv , and sought for illumination from above . His _disei ' p ] es m _tf _. _ese days have accommodated them- selv ( _£ to conveationlil forms of religion . Their founder saw no remedy for the _M-rongs of ecclesiasti- cal presumption , and no way of restoration to taith and holiness , but on the one hand to deny the authority and ignore the ground and matter of the clergy ' s teaching , and on the other to insist on a return to the positive guidance of the New Testa- ment in the plainest and most direct acceptation of its word and spirit . A church , according to Fox _aiul Jus first disciples wa . v a society of fnends _, de- pendent alone on "the light that lighteneth every , nftn t ] mt COmeth into the world . " For this opinion and its resuitant practico they suffered much- spoliation , imprisonment , exclusion from civil rights —but they continued to assert tho inviolability of the rights of conscience . But from the boginning they wero , both in doctrine and practice , too nega- tivo . But they practically exhibited an example , that without all tho complex and imposing machinery of systematic theology , a trained , authorised , vone- _nited , and pmd clergy , tho _practice of ordirianoos of Joubtful or purely human invention 5 without core- ™ a m _E'l _& ffi _. _ZtCtlflti _2 ufno 7 _™&* of _tiio' _^ tuS _' naSSS , Sndiuoni a _id _duUes of Christian life . «« with _tho _Wionda _intoflGct was hv thnir mvnit ngI _^ Vu . _?^ _^ _urd thrall . Its submission _M-as not 1 transferred from one sot of artificial ordinations to another , Even the authority of the Scriptures was regarded as mediate , though superior to ajl human _aesump- _tions . Tho source of tlieir plenitude and power was _nt'v rogardod the original and final resort of tho soul - Compliance with their own conditions of rocop- tion , to the exclusion of all other , was the manner in wi . eh _Bblo-truths wore to bo apprehended , digested , $ ? W ? 8 w but _^ ° _^ word { o _bffi _fSrS Ma . ' They studied , they tested ' , they applied , _tlioao inimitable delineations and parabolic descriptions of human life and divine teaching . They possessed , as their _numbors _ineroaaod , a larger and moro con-

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      _iSrmed testimony to the practical operation of thei principles _andeffects in ordinary moral and socia relationships . " With all their merits , hdwever , the Friends , lik other _sects _^ are doomed , to extinction . When the ? ease to . be persecuted they ' cease v to grow . Th gS _^& W _JSSLSS _^ t _^ _X P _'S ? _S _2 _^ lieSof its members , not by conversion . Secession are nQvr frequent among them , and their decay a noticeable that treatises are written to account fo the faet . Among them the present pamphlet deserve especial attention . TAg Thirteenth Keport O J the Associate Institution f < jmprovinq and Enforcing the Laps for the Protec tion of Women . Thb prOffress of this society is satisfactory , and w trust that its efforts at improved legislation may to crOwned with success . ¦¦ _/» ..

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      The Cotton Trade. Trefltin^ Of The Vool....

      THE COTTON TRADE . trefltIn _^ of the vool . and the corn _tride wi P _^ _^\^^^ oSJ \ S _^ _S « S _^ h « the ruinous hand of the Protectionist legislator wa - tl , f th The cotton trade thom ?] _witnurow n iromtnem xne cotton traae , tnougj the raw material was taxed till 1844 , was neve _^^^^ J _^ _t _^^ _St _^^ _Z _^^ cor _^ _^ _£ J _^ j _^ _^ f much by the ex veiv . _™ ucli , f _™ , _^^ : _* Z l _* _V _™?^~ y _£ _t _»^™ tensioni of other branches of trade under freedom , _™ _^ fin _? ' . ™ S _* P be a _priory _"" £ ** " ?? ' _* £ e _?* GTiS } on ° t V _^^« _S _£ r _^ _&^ _tW other trades . It is distinguished , too , from them _fy deriving all its materials from a fore _, gn source _, Every pound of _^ cotton used in the country has t < be entered at the Custom House , but of the wool and the corn consumed , the greater part is grown _^ _^^ of thig parfc ' ( _Government record is kept- _^ happily we say , though in this we differ from those who want to see the lye and the hand of the _re-ulationist every whero . It is , however , well known that the corn aud the wool grown at home have increased quite as _niucli or more than the and the wo _^ p orted s cc th e Protectionist forced to let go his grip of the national throat _, _£ , _+,, _*„„ i _^ _„„„„ : _" , i o , _i , _i ;< . _;« ,, _oi vr _, 4 _^ . _^ _P _^^ _fn _^ Z uvrof tS _? Z J £ r , S nf J » ome and _^ _reign 8 _? " _^ 1 _, _^ for _^ mS _^" ll _fSi _* "e cotton trade is __ wholly derived from the foreigner . We transcribe , therefore , to show how our supply of this valuable material has been regularly increased—although for it we are wholly d ependent on others-the following account of l _roTTov i _\ ri > _OKTim _tv Millions of lbs _MUilons-ofiha _lts-w .. .. _OW _iwo .. .. « o : _J 1841 .. .. 4 s ? _ihsi .. .. 7 i > 7 J _*]!^ •• ¦ jj _ii . _^ _]*^ •• _^ i 6 . _^ " _" ( 4 _'( j i _. srt ' t ' . ' . ' . ' . sh 7 1845 .. .. in _is . v » .. .. «> l _J _*} 0 •• 4 « J 7 i & w .. .. log _^ s ' / . ' . ' . na law . "I ' . ' . ml ISM .... 755 ,, r . , , , _. „ AVc must remind our readers , however , that all the cotton imported , as all the wool imported , is not for our Qwn use—a portion of it is re-exported _, Trade being here comparatively free , though the pre-eminent advantages of freedom have not tempted statesmen entirely to leave the old path of restriction , _England is a great emporium , and commodities of different kinds , to the value of . £ 23 , 000 , 000 , wore imported lust year to bo re' rtcd . Of these the cotton exported waa in quLtity 1 , 300 , 000 _ewts _., almost _oneieighth of the . _^ rtl and in value £ _3 f _Wfl 000 . The increase m the imports is , therefore , ruther nn indication 01 the relative increase of * tho quantity produced _^ _oad than of the quantity we actually consume _, The supply , it will be Been , from tho table vanes much from year to year , as'the season is good or bnd . but on the whole has increased , one year with another , about C per cent , por annum . It has doubled , taking tho average of throe years , at the beginning and end of tho . periods between 1841 um _j 1857 . _Uotwocn 1840 anil 1858 tho wool importcd ftS Wo stated last week , increased from 49 000 , 0000 lbs . to 126 \ 0 _QO , OO 0 lbs . _; in the samo interval the cotton _imiWtdd _increased only from 502 , 000 , 000 lbs . to , 1 , 0 _$ 4 , 000 , 000 lbs ., the latter , scarcely double tho former , increased twp-and-ahalf tiroes , besides the honiOTgnwn supplies . The wool imported _hus boon only a supplement to them , and , as a oonscquenco , m wo pointed out

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1859, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/sldr_17091859/page/21/