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      existence of unutterable misery , amid sin-stained , perchance crime-dyed , devils like themselves . Somebody cries " hah ! hah !"—- Man , the devils will echo that hah-hah-hah ! when , in a tew short years—perchance days—perchance hours—they seize upon you , and , hurling you into the innermost recess of hell—where the blaze is most fierce— -where the flames rise highest—and ¦ where the heat is most intense—dance with fiendish joy around you , as they -watch you writhe , and twist , and turn in agony unutterable , unendurable , yet still eternal , never ending , lasting for evei—forever ! A light , cooling diet , regular habits , wholesome exercise , and a careful abstention , from writing , is the regimen we should prescribe for Mr . Powys Oswyn ; some years of that practice may release him from the unutterable , unendurable" hallucination that possesses him when he mistakes this hydrophobic foam for Christian rhetoric .

      Frirwin .: a Novel . By Octavia Oliphant . 2 vols . ( Hope aiid Co . )—Frirwin is a pedler , who carries a pack fulL of mysteries . He is strangely connected with liady Lackland , a pale copy of Lady Deadlock , who is hectic , beautiful , fond of spaniels , and addicted to curling her lip . The stage is crowded -with characters , men and women , high and low , all of whom deliver themselves of their conversational oratory in the stiff , measured language peculiar to one sort of drama . Some ingenuities of invention are developed in the plot ; the sketches of life are often animated ; and there is nothing in the style to repel or to excite ridicule .

      Julia ; or , the Metropoiitan Marriage , and other Tales . By Margaret Tulloh . ( Hope . ) - —Of the " other tales , " that called The Bronze Hors 3 " is the best . ^ " The Twins" is a hackneyed , absurdity , concerning a young Italian girl , who , during a cholera season , personates her medical brother , is theatrically sent for to attend her high / born lover , and dies by his bedside , he dying also . There is no plan or purpose in the stovy . " Julia " contains a picture of an Italian domestic interior ., which is interestin" -, because it has obviously been draw a from familiar personal experience , but the scheme of the narration is poor and the moral silly . Julia Bellfield , a young lady who left school too soon , elopes with a Neapolitan marquis , and lives in palatial poverty—with a profligate husband , no men-servants , and Roman Catholics seeking how they may ensnare her into the power of the Church . Of course , Julia bitterly regrets her mairiage ; bat does penance by fighting for lier orthodoxy . Let us hope that Miss Tulloh will obtain the one object she had . i » view when publishing—that of dissuadino- ydun « girls from running away with worthless JSTeapolitan marquises . a ° Not a novel , but better than most novels , is a volume published in Bonn ' s Illustrated Library—Tales of the Genii ; or , the Delightful lessons ofHoram , the Son ofAsmar , translated from the Persian by Sir Charles Morell . " Sir Charles Morell" was simply the Ilev . James Ridley , who dred soon after the publication of his fascinating stories , not " translated from the Persian , " but written by himself . There have been more than twenty editions of the book , which is intensely Oriental in tone and colour . Most persons will remember John Martin ' magnificent picture , Sadak in Search of tlie Waters of Oblivion , which illustrates one of the best of the Tales . The ; Heroes of Asgard and the Giants qfJb'tlimheim . By the " Author of < c Sidney Grey . " ( Bogue . )—A pleasant and instructive volu me for the young , detailing the ad-ventures of the ^ Northern gods and heroes ., and illustrating , in- a familiar way , the Scandinavian mythology .

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      212 _____________ - THE LEADEE , [ No . 362 , Sattcday ,

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      FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , February 24 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . — Bought AsnwoiiTjr , Vale-mil ) , Newchurch , Eosscndale , Lancashire , cotton spinner ana tnanttfacturer-BANKRUPTS . — linwin SimrnEB-D and Waxteb . Shepherd , 12 , Crane-court , FLeet-strcct , City , lozenge manufacturer— WiiLiAM Sadojhove , the younger , and iticnAHD ltAGO , lildon -street , Fhisbury , and Dminings-alloy , Bishopsgate-sircot , City , « abinot-m . akcrs a \ id upholsterers—Fiiedebick PaANCia Shaw , 253-, Elackfriars-road , Surrey , irou-Mionger—Sleatkr Geoou moan , 7 , Palsgrave-placo , Strand , Middlesex , printer , engraver , and stationer — Hoiiejit ixBAVES , Windurill-street , Gravescml , corn , and Hour merchant —Joshua . Downing Stanuuhy , Richmond , Surrey , draper—Thomas Wjuixk . tho younger , Portsmouth and ( xosport , ship builder and engineer — Frkui 2 iu oit Wang , buudcrlaud , timber raoiehant — Jamks Arm-8 KroTOM ° sinfeXS ^ fl " - - lillC 11 a » a wooliot , draper S £ ^ ^^^ 4 ffl fuS ? h « hn * «" . JDWAU ™ . « 1 'i «(? onv , commission j norcimut — JtoutUT Al . Aiax . AND , Koso-stii > et-ln . im i . viin burgh , posUnasaeraiidhorso dealer . » jl ' ' vidav . Jfehvtitifu ot

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      mercha-nt—Abthuk . Beearb Caistor , Bakcr-strcet , Portnian-square , saddler—David Cheetuam , Rochdale , cottonspitiucr— Hkney Martin Mainwaiun& , Toxteth-park , near Liverpool , grocer—Thomas Owen , Liverpool , joiner and builder—William Hadiheld , Cockspur-street , Middlesex , merchant—Luke "W ' ahd , Wisbcach , St . Peter , Cambridgeshire , plumber— Thomas HoitNEu , llart-sfcreet , Jloomsbury , houso decorator—William Bayley , jun ., iuttcsland-strec't , Hoxton , carver and gilder—David Mohklss , Wisbeach , grocor .

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      THEATRICAI , NOTES . Mrs . Barney Williams has appeared at the Aoelpiii in a farce entitled In and Out of Place , in which slie performs the part of a discharged servant girl , who presents herself again and again to her former master disguised as natives of various countries , including Ireland , Germany , and France . Finally , she comes forth as" ? ' a genooine Yankee gal , " with a new song , called " Independence Day . " All who have seen Mrs . Williams will appreciate beforehand the animation , sparkle , freshness , and abrupt native grace , with , which she performs this character ; and to all who have not seen her we say . —Kepair the omission on the first opportunity . A wild and fantastical piece of farce- "writing was produced at the Ltcetjm on Monday everting under the title of A Friend from Leatkerhead . The acting rests chiefly upon Mr . Toole , who is provided with a part such as Mr . Robson has recently made popular at the Olympic . Mr . Tooxe has more than once exhibited a tendency to the same kind of grotesque extravagance of humour hovering on the borders of the horrible , and lias shown , we think , a faculty that way , though lacking the positive genius of his prototype . In this new farce , he plays the part of a Mr . Loophole , who . has fallen in love with an unknown lady , and followed her about in the Regent ' s Park , to her great annoyance . lie afterwards goes to the house of his old friend , Captain Sguiffem , and finds that the fair one is the Captain ' s wife . Spuiffem threatens to call out the fellow who has annoyed his spouse ; and poor Loox > hole is in an agony of apprehension that Mrs , iSquiff ' em will denounce him the moment she sees him . His adventures in endeavouring to evade this terrible consummation—his feverish fright , his vain disguises , and his leaping out of the window of the drawing-room into a greenhouse below—are all conceived in the most outrageous spirit of farcicality , but receive a kind of wild truth from the acting . The lady is performed by Mrs . Buckingham White , and there is a lady ' s-rnaid part for Miss Wilton . The piece is written by Mr . Edmund IT . Yates and Mr . W . Harrington .

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      RIP VAN WINKLE AWAKE . England and liussia Natural Allies ; or , Distinct Views of Political Economy . By Bernard Moncriff . Hamilton , Adams , and Co . Rip van Winkle awoke after centuries of sleep , and found the world changed . Mr . Moncriff , waking also from souae dim cloister dream , discovers that England is aiot where she was five hundred years ago . But , unlike the phlegmatic philosopher , he proposes to restore the ancient ways . Such ajvriter can give no offence . He has a notion , and lie prints it . Well , it is printed , and there is an end of it . So might a speculator with peculiar

      views propose that in future the moon should rule by day and the sun h night , prohibit steam , insist on oil-lamps , revive the Star Chamber enlar */ the limits of . the -wasting Caspian . Plainly , Mr . Moncriff suggests somethi ^ as impossible . He wants a tax levied on all publications so as to niak ° them ' dear , ' in order that the press may represent " the enlightened anl wealthy classes" alone . " Dearness is the best means to make prints good for it must be a very good book indeed ere a man will pay a good price for it . " We recommend Mr . Bernard Moncriff to lose no time in studying the alphabet of political economy . He shall have an illustration . What are the vilest publications sold in England and in France ? The most exnen sive . They who will not give a penny for a newspaper will give a Guinea for an abominable engraving . But we intended only to smil e at this Northern economist , ami here -we are reasoning with him ! Hesin ^ s of the dancing stars ; he sings of the < 3 oedal earth ; he sings of the giant wars and other things that were ; but his eccentricities have not the slightest practical bearing on the men or things of our own day . Of course , they profess to be distinct views on contemporary questions ; and here is a specimen of their distinctness : —

      All the Paris journals , -with the exception of the Monitem ; might be suspend ed ad iTtfinitum , without producing any other material derangement than a blank in the list of amusements . Here , also , is a case supposed : — In order that all possible conditions favourable to " no servitude" may be present let us suppose all human beings now existing to disappear from the face of the earth ' with the exception of a limited number , say , ten young men . married to ten young ladies . Any one cur ious to learn how Mr . Moncriff marshals the " tenyoun ^ men married to ten young ladies" as the mothers and fathers of a future world , will consult his sybil book , which the ( public being tired of Russia ) has the advantage of being almost totally disconnected from the subject announced on the title-page .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . jmmis . CAvEINDISIL — On tlie 2 Sth inst ., at 22 , 1 ' ark-s . troot , Grosvenor-squaro , tho J ^ ady Elinof Cavomlisli : a sou . NOltQiV . TJK .-Uu tho 1 st or January , at Jtlooshejarpoo-r , tho wife or JLiout . J . T . Norgatc , ( i'Jtli JLt . N . l .: a sou . MAlUUAGES . VOllltEST-WRIGHT . —On tho 2 lth inst ., at St . Nicholas ' Clinrdi , Nowcastlo-upou-Tyno , Thomas i oi > sytii Forrest , Esq ., oldosfc son of Thomas Itorsytli , Esq ., to Miss Surah Wright , KiunUdaughtor ot' tho lato John . Grace , Es < i .., of Nc \ "vcasUe-ui > on-Tyiu » . TAYIjEU , —GIJUEOjN . —On tho lHtof January , at St . Jnmos ' s Chinch , St . Helena , by tho R <; v . \ V . UelpH , Garrison < Jhiu |) laiii , assisted by tho ltcv . It . lCeiripthorno , rural dean , Lieut . Iloiu-y Taylor , II . JM . 'h at . iloicna Regiment , and i ' orfc Adjutant , to Sibislla lloso : and Lieut . John Baldwin llaiiwiult ltamicr , of tho name regiment , to Luna Kuinpthornc—the third and yoiuigbMt duuKhtora of J ^ ewia Gidloou , Esq ., of Wt . llclona , OoukhI for Portugal and H 10 AlKai'vcs . DEATHS . POUXETT . —On the 20 tli inst ,, at Jlinton St . GeorKo , Somorm : tsliii'o , tho ilon . Ainlius l ' oulott , ngail 2 ' J , younKCHb son of thul ' jiivl and Couutusd Jfoulutt . lfVljiA-iNl ) . —Ou 1 ' riday evoniiiB , U » o 20 th inst ., at Camberwell . Archer RyliuiU , Es ( i ., DaiTistor-at-law , iJon « hor of Qmy ' a-ina , and Honior Ouinuiou rieaUor of the Coryora-Mom of London . TlilSliS —Ou iho 20 tU inat ., at her residenco , Uxbridsecojurnon , Mrs . EH / . ubcth Xobbs , hi lior u : frd year , widow of tli « lato John Tebbs , Esq ., whom aho nurviveU 50 yoara to a « lay .

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      ? London , Friday Evening , February 27 , 1817 . TriB Funds have remained absolutely inactive since lust week . There seems a slight tendency tan fall in Government securities , the second editions having spoken loss hopefully of the chauco of a reconciliation with Persia . The majorities in both Houses have given tho political quidnuncs a rest for a while . Tho Turkish Six per Cents , stock , and most foreign stocks , continue well supported . An inquiry after the old , mucii despised Spanish Certificates has led to sonio large purchases , a woll-sproad report having been started tlmt M . Mires is buying them up in order to start his loan , nerliaiis . Foreign railway shares aro very buoyant . East lmliiiii and Belgian in tho ascendant . Canadian Westerns aro well supported , and will fio toll premium before tho autumn , tho railway is doing so well . Canada Trunk railway shares aro Hat , their liabilities ana dilllculties seom overpowering . Tho heavy railway niarkj'i has been very buoyant all the > week . Lancashire and \ orUshiro aro now beyond par , and Midlands bid fair to ny < 'U them before long . Tho continuations were light , wmdi proves stock to be scarce . Caledonians havo sprung 20 s . niui 30 s . per share , and seem likely to go higher with an uaM ' -i ' money market . Tho rate paid for short loans in the Stock Exchange has been as high as 7 per cent . Jlow long speculators will I mi it desirable to carry on their adventures urulor «' . »« 1 ' 'I' - ; advantnKos , is a mystery , yet with a . i > y osiso iix disi : « ium » wo should see high water and ilood-Lldo with tho iuuis , liothingbut dear money kee |> s them lVom operating ' ^ < -M " prosent momeiifc . , . Joint-Sioek Hanks keep woll up in price . Ottoman isaiiK shares aro nearly at 1 . premium , iiiidKjjjyiits at i > ar . , General OmnibuH Company shares are well lnauitainta iu price . Tho Russian railway schemo will never obtain any countenance horo under tho present conditions . , Tho markets close at four o ' clock very heavily . (<» i ! s 0 lil for account , 03 J , 3 ; Turkish Kix j ) ur Oenta ., IMi , £ ; ( llU 0 ' Four per Centa ., lOlf , ft .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2182/page/20/