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      Seft tfrti-liiirWff m ^ ch of Ms prestige England , by h « inactivity during ft ? W Wi ^ W' is " still tlie Prophetof the Caucasus , the nineteenth S ^^^ & ^ oi p c ^ Wfr * <^ ' as abput oneof the most re ^ kabte oVSving- mem /^ th * ^*? , ^ Z >*«* * a * fe . for May 1 ^ there iff a narrative oT th « - captivity of two RussianPrincesses , made prisoners duHn * 'the aWcE bh ^ KaKhfetU in i » 2 f 4 , Jn which we get a glimpse of Schamy , as father , ' ti £ b&& ' antf fcrtoce . ' The story is one of breathless

      i&re * v i ^^^ V ^ 'ilWffWK ^ . ^^ r , Two Kuss . au Frincesses , one nursing her . infant ? , trhich perishes , before her eyes , both surrounded by their children and . female ^ servants , are swept away by the soldiers of a roti * H- horde ; who treat them with reckless barbarity . The details of the jourWey as they are hur ¥ ie * d' « oSciia * mxV seraglio , read like those of a romance . Inthe ' seragljo . ' w ? s make ^ Acquaintance with Schamti / s three Trive ^ and ^ see something of the Frpp ^ et . hiiiiself , who shows a very marked fsrient for making advantageous bargains in / the matter of ransom , and who Show * - also a regard for the -welfare of his prisoners . But the story depends for its interest on the accumluation of details , and must be consulted in the

      Tteviie . '"' ' ' , ., ' . '" . ¦ ' ' . / ' // ' « Jn the ^ same Revue tjhere is one of M . IBabwet ' s pleasantpaper 3 on Science , ; ia wbi § b& a ^ mpU&es tb . e tour dejoflpe ot fating about transcendental Mathematics , so as ^ to lamuse aad instruct the reader wholly innocent of -Mathematics . At ? the outset there is a passage characteristically French . l $ i \ 1 &kwxBli t in the notes to his translation 6 ? FaUsi > tells a story of some JFxenoh orator , who * in the full tide of his eloquence , stopped to particularize Ifce 4 brm 6 rid . extent of the Work which inspired bim . ( " en parlant de votre grkri 4 ; puVrage en ' < & *? . volumes' *) -and Mr . Hatwakd adds that he never J&and , the Frenchman . " . who laughed , or tHeifipglishpian who did not laugh , « t ' . this bathos . Almost as ludicrous is the passage in M . Babiket ' s article , wliere , after citing the illiisire savant M . - Bior , he adds , " Nous ne partakgons pas iou ^ ft fait ^ ni ^ n ^ re de yoir de reminent physicien , membra de % 2 cademle des Sciences . eiyde ' v 2 cademi ^ . f ^ aHQaise . " &P-, , Xs . Jiot this the very

      method of Dominxb Sampson , who , when speaking of the great as-^ ronomerf « alfa Mm " Sir " Isaac Newton ^ umqwhile Master of her Ma' 1 estV ^ JftJrit f * 1 But ! ! ML ;! Baptist soon chases away the smile and causes V fa $ M <> W , KS ^ & % < 4 - aUxniratlpn as he explains what lit ' ^ fumett ' tsr- . jopve , powerful , than , any ,, physical tools , are the , mathematical methods . The hammer , . ebjselyanvil f serevv * pulley , what are they compared Wit'fi the more impalpable but more potent logarithms , cosines , tangents , Sec . ? Both are instruments ; t » oth shorten labour * nd multiply human « &fflY > f it ' tn * e ' ma ^ jnjwojp fiS ^ Vtf ' -i ^ W ** qq * # ' $ *?* m , ontlis >? calculate iji the ordinary way , < jmd often to ^ , | ca , lcilatW " wh » t « aW » np ^ tWr ( way > e calculated—the distance oFnthe-etars for example // which ; is ; better ; known , more accurately fi * ed , ^ thaW" the < Kstatice - 'between two '' great'towns * -4 hese , and . the endless applial ^ dr ^^

      » itfnsW ^ at ^^ attc 1 to scientific ?'' and : < prfectfeatptfr - po -s esV 'may , | Eruiy be said ^ Q . KayJB / . ip ' i ^ fi ^^^' . huinaiv ; force , thousand-fold . \ What steam ' is . torfioaches ,. whai tfie . fibwta& teJLegprapti . is , to Jbe speaking tru mpet , ttyi t tare liuifchematifcaHnMmmenfcato our physical itopjs ..,, ; . . , ' ¦¦ lJ 6 oftrithmiajtn uncouth word , yet 'M .: OBabinjct throws a sudden interest ' ^ rertt ,- ^ irittlhting'dut a few ^ nn ^ siye ^ ted ' illustrations ; Wlint is a loga-^ Wtiiri-f" tf ' kVerfes of * eqiiai' causes j ) f 6 ddces a" series of effects always jnffe-. se ^ YWg ., tfee sam fi p ^ portion ^ as for example ^ in ^ he gam e of clies ^ when a lgf »\ m o £ wfeeM is . g iye . rijfur th&fiwkmmW > . twft . gr ^ ^ ^ fteqond v fpur grains for the third , eightjoi ^ the fourth , andso on always doubling—th « relation of eff ect to the . cause js tta . t of We number ^ to its logarithm . The thi ^ riuniber

      cause which ^ prQ ^ uc ^ s doubling <> f the of grains is the successive n > ij ^ ber ., pf . squ ^ es , " ami tliis nuiiiber is the logarithm , that of the grains vb » Wg tl ^ e . corresponding number . Now , if you cover a plant with a gjass i ) oll t ^) lieii over that place- another ,. over that a third , and over the third a '' ftmrfchj the effect of" the loin ' s ray « will be , doubled at each boll , and with the J iRMrtH tfie plant will bd ' eobked ; the wnter underneath begin logarithmically : to boil ! Affain'if , as ^ ve kn 6 w , a iray of light in passih ^ through a certain * Jfo er ( > ql > jror ^ a ^ ec JLosps . some pf lfs force ^ tntf which traverses will lose

      •« n dqiwl portion when it : again , pAssQ 8 through an equal layer : the number moC layers ' traverse ^ determining ! : the amount ofiloss-r-a iogmithmio law . ¦ 'Whende we aee . the'hWri ' fl rayo almost powerless ftt thebottoni of the sea , and 4 Mt lWarithmifealfiy redu ' ebd'to a fe - cbto mfluence ih our noblo London fogs . S ^ iftSSftftW , , M ! f ^ W mffleTofijs / rn W reaaer ' s mind , If the next tune ^ feq ^ Mfc . iPflpm ty . iWfl > ik& > KM $ X . "WrW , Pf tt . ^ f ^ boy , ho reOects th ^ it -itfch&doi ^ raASilbj ^ itihnquuil > Somo ; people-, feel , consoled , when they know

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      Readers at Froser for May "will have beeii stru'dk t ^ ith * slashing' review of the translation of Count Monta ^ embebt ' sibook , which was very damaging to the translator in its accusations of ' suppressions' made hy him . Mr . Murray has addressed the following letter to the Atkenceum , which , in the spirit of literary fairness , we extract : the perusal may perhaps help towards that very desirable object of suspending judgment ih cases of attack : — u , Albemarie-street , May 10 . " In an article of the May number of Fraier * MagaziM upon the translation of Montalemberfc ' s work on England ( for which I , as publisher , ' am to a certain extent responsible ) , the writer makes a series of cbarges of ' fraud , ' ' perfidy :, ' ' falsehood , ' &c , upon the ground of certain wilful omissions arid suppressions , which he asserts to have been made in the English translation . I feel called upon to state that these charges are utterly false—for this good reason , that the passages alleged to have been suppressedincluding ' one whole chapter , ' did not exist in M . Montalembert's -work

      , before the third edition , which was not published in Paris until April , -whereas the English translation was published by me in London on the 2 Qth , of March last . The English translation was made from the first and second editions of the French as long ago as February last , consequently all the scurrilous insinuations of Fraser ' s as to the political and other motives for the omissions fall to the ground- I have carefully collated the third edition ^ with that used in the translation , ' and I assert that there is no omission but one , and that accidental , of an unimportant note at pagci 178 . It may be supposed that the writer of the article in Eraser may have erred through ignorance ; but what will you say when I tell you that he was aware of the existence of variations in the different editions , as he states in a note at page 582 of one chapter on Hereditary Peerage , 'It ia but fair to say it only appeared in the third edition ^' May I not justly apply to him one of his own sentences , which I have proved to have no applicatipn , as he wrote it , ' anything more dishonest than this is not to be found in literary history ? ' . " Job » Mubkat . "

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      £ T $ IV $ bw $ ^ # ' t » A * 1 ; " 8 nVart'ret 6 r £ mentioned with oiroumstAntiAl partiouluiV in a recent article on Moonu ( lie refers to tttB ^^ fif * mlbih % ^ k ^ j faWiVVhMiOM MdriatoiA-y may be foiind In ' Joun * - bon's life of Phiob , attributed to that poet . " Whether he hits the patent

      right of originality , " adds our correspondent , "I know no ^ . Nothing iaTso difficult as to trace the paternity of a wiitty saying . ; One often meets with a 4 o » ' 0 * 0 rf ! related .-aa of recent birth which , writers long since departed have recorded as- uttered by the Seven Sages , and perhaps were traditional in their days . " Very true : the primieval Job MiixfiR has notyet ^ been detected in the most ancient of Mythologies ; and yet ^ nere he must one day be found , parent of jokes , procreatiye of puns , the Original "VVag , whose avatar ' is always " bard by . " As we , haye not John 6 qn ' s Zm ?< wiat hand we content ourselves with what our correspondent states , and refer the reader to his authority . ... . ;

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      , it ; - -sir . ROBERT PEELr'S MEMOIRS . Memoirs of ike Sta ® MnJ Stritrierl feel . Published by the trustees *> f his Papers ¦ "Loi-d Mahon ( nowOEart Stanhojie ^ and ' the ^ 'Bight Hon . Edward Cafdwell , M . P . Part \ . —Roihah C&tkoJic Emancipation . Murray Twenty years after his initiation in parliamentary life , " Sir Robert Peel Srepared the draft of a measure for removing the disabilities of the Roman iatholics . During those twenty years he had invariably and vig orously opposed the idea of concession . This Memoir is a plea in justification of hjs change of policy , Jts , effect is , to raise and brighten the fame of the statesman , and to disparage the motives no less than the intellect of his party . Sir Jloberc-Peel . thoush ; a Conser . vatiy * , was ; npt long a Tory . There was

      none , of Jthe pje ^ horjc qbstinaqy . Toryism in his character , Xrajned » n the school of Pitt , taught to consider Perceval rather than Canning , the model of a political leader , habituated to a jealous suspicion of pogular power , imbued by academic culture an < J by hereditary inspiration with , asuporsUtipua rpyerenpc of a , ncient forms , he was , nevertheless , too clear-sighted to irrnore the ' progress of knowledge ox the , reform '¦ of manners , too liberal to deny the weight of well-supported opinions , too wise , as well as too humane , to challenge a civil war for the sake of a Tory tradition . Ihe lnUuehces of '" school , college , family , friendship , parliamentary _ habits , cabinet lon oui

      connexions , oflieia , ! aftegiances , long bound l > un . to the wea ; , while UMoiK'like an ancestral voice , was prophesying rum in the House ot Peer * , While the Bishop of Limerick was ' offering to lay down his life or the Protestant ascendancy , while Oxford fumed , and the King vowed his consistency , —Peel saw that " consistency" Hviis impossible , and tuat , in spite of Eldon , the Bishop of Limerick , Oxford , and the King , Emancipation must be conqeded . The only question was , should the Catholic claims be conceded after a miserable civil contest , or should they be yielded in time to save the peace and dignity of the realm ? He chose the policy ot conciliation ; and became fiWthat moment a statesman , instead ot a lory . Tt . whs obvious to him that Great Britain , divided irregularly among classes , calculable

      sects , and interests , growing and varying under influences not two centuries ago , could not be governed upon the principle , maintained unaltered , of a legislative system two centuries old . This was the key 0 liis political conduct , not in the case of Emancipation only , but m the case 01 the Reform Bil land of the Corn Laws . . When the Duke of Wellington was called upon , in January , 18 JW , i <> form an administration , ho applied to Peel for advice and co-operation . I eel a attitude had , even then , been modified by the events that had occurred in form Cabinet the prin

      Parliament and in Ireland . It was hopeless to a on ciplo of united existence to the Catholic claims . The Catholic claims liiiu the assent of the leading minds in tho la « islaturo , and of the largest constituencies . Ultra-Tories , of course , were dissatisfied ; but Peel wrote , 1 10 not cftre , " and satirized tho notion of a government of full-blooded j oryisui , backed " by very warm friends , no doubl , but those very warm fnenda Dei „ prosperous ' county gentlemen , fox-hunters , &c , most excellent men , wi will attend one night , but Who will not leave their favourite pursuits to up till two or three ^ o ' clock lighting questions of detail . " 'lh « s , ]\ ° ^ l was a miaon . do , plus . Ite had " other grounds " ' for refusing to identify ln « n claims

      self any loiifeor with ii decided opposition fo , the Catholic - *»" „ ' lie foresaw fh'at it wftuld be iippoa&iblo to protract , indefinitely , tho ' eswt / " J < vf Parlianieht to an u itaLi 6 h which kept > lie groA ' t Irjsli viecroyoky almost in a state of sjoge . Wlion if had beondecided £ hat to repress the ag " " " wntf ' ImttrnctieaoTe , it sceincdt 6 follow tliat tb yield to it was nfeedsaavy . *» death of George III ., the conversion of Cunning and Castloroagli , ttie un

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1856, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2142/page/16/