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    r CTIBIEA^ SivETCTI^.-j-

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    VO HE KIN CORUES PON D'KNOK.

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    ABOUT LONDON * " O 7 E heartily welcome a new work from the pen of the popular VV author of the "Night Side of London . " Mr . Ritchie understands well the elements requisite to compose .-a good book . In the first place , he has chosen a good subject , and one Which will not be soon or easily exhausted even by the most skilful of writers . Xiike all men of genius and of talent , some one theme or particular event bias possessed , unusual and , it may be , overpowering 1 attractions for him . There has been something in or about it to more than commonly interest him . Mr . Ritchie lias seen London in all its aspects . It has for him all that he requires for the production of intellectual and moral essays ; frequently beholding- and deeply pondering- upon the subjects of the present volume , he has produced a work that shall really be interesting and profitable to the reader . The metropolis abounds with points enough to furnish any author with matter for any number of thoroughly readable volumes . The poet and the painter , the humorist and the moralist find ample scope in the deep and diversified scenes of London for the utmost exercise of their peculiar powprs . In each of the four or five volumes which the author of " iSTight Side of London " has produced , full justice is done to the particular subjects discussed and described therein ; and yet an equal number may be produced by the same pen with the very same result . Mr . Ritchie is versatile as well as original . He does not repeat himself , though all his works are apparently about the same subject . This , however , may ho because the subject itself is- so comprehensive ; but wo think it is also owing to the ability of the writer , who places before us so agreeably and instructively these different scenes and phase ' , of London . The present volume contains twenty extremelv wellwritten chapters on a series of highly popular" topics . There is a chanter about " Newspaper People , " about "Coal , " about " Highgate , " about " London Bridge , " " "Westminster Abbey . " Jto . . . ; ' and much curious information that history has supplied , and much more thai ; " observation" has copied , will be found in these chapters . We have no doubt that this work will meet with that degree of favour from the public which , besides its other merits , as a work of an unquestionably improving- and elevating- ' -tendency ,-it deserves .

    - TjLAYING at soldiers is very fine , but real war-work is not X- always pleasant . The author of "Camp Life , " a work now before us , left an agreeable occupation _ and . comfortable , income for the pleasure of ar ' sinnr-t artillery uniform , and departed from Eng- . land for service in the Crimea . Ho provided : himself with an expensive out lit , which in actual work TTjrned out to he" useless-.. Landing in Kerteh harbour , he was soon stationed at Fort Paul , where he had only brackish water "to- drink , made by a condensing ' apparatus down by the seaside . His lodgings were most uncomfortable , and rheuinatism inevitable . He had nothing , to ¦ eat but salt pork . His- 'Christinas dinner , however , was a festival on board ship , -with oneM'Alpine . At its conclusion , a staff-sergeant arrived with a mcssvigo i ' roin the general . The messenger announced that "The Russians wore advancing in force , the guns must be mounted that night on , the , heights , and , if you please , Sir , the General's . compliments , and tTie last -officer on shore -will be broke . " Wo i leave the ' scamper and the bustle . that ensued to the reader ' s imagination ' . ¦ ' "We are now fairly "launched in tho narrative , which goes on at a j dashing rate . Many a proof had the writer that the privilege of wearing gold lace is bought at a . price . The dinner-hour is not \ respected ' - With a mouth full of bread and rum , he had to conduct j at . command nu escort to take over military stores ; and , on arriving j at the place of destination , had to travel to and fro to procure- ' the password , and found the whole process a troublesome job , to bo j done in a night pitch dark , and under every sort of inconvenience . The Turks enjoyed his troubles . Of One Turk , his iHinba ^ hi , Ibrahim AH , ho gives , us a complete portrait . An Albanian , with black , 'flushing eyes , Grecian features , and a lustrous moustache , effeminate in appearance , but a ruffian' in disposition , with no religion but his faith in a mission to extenninate all Europeans . Ho was , however , a joj ' ly comrade , and gave our author much information about Turkey . He niudu free , niciinwhile , with the " unconsidered trifles " that lay about tho room . "In nine cases out often , " pays'Mr . Wraxnll . " 1 did not' protest ; hut if , for instance , I might go in smirch of a missing * revolver , he would say , ' Truo , it is thine ! ' nnd hand it buck without a murmur . " He had early joined n band of robbers , worked his way through a prison to Government employment , and had shot a pasha . His own end was probably tho bowstring . Our author found it very repulsive to Jive in daily intercourse with men whom ho know to he stewpod up to the eyes in crime , though sometimes not without good qualities . being like wild ammulR that learn to love their keener . ' * through fear of the lash . Other' chiii-nct Grrphotogrnphs : aro priyrrn ; but onv voiulorfsmustbo content with 11 type , nw a tspei-inien of the gallery . They , are literal likenesses , not reniurknblo lor moral benuty . J 5 ut the gallery contains also nouns excellent groups . The sccnos in tho marketplace of Kerteh urb capital * IMh drunken Uussiun landlord , ulno ' , * About . Lo )> , t <» i . Hy J . EwiNd Krrciiii :, Author of . " Ni ^ lit Sido of London , " «/ 'j' ] H , London I ' ubiit , " " Hon .- find There in London , " &c . London : Wiltiimi Tiimloy , ! H 1 , Strand . t Cuuij ) . 7-7 / 1 ' , ¦ or , Piisanies ' from tlio Story of a Contingent ,. Hy Lasoellks WiiAXAUh London : Churlca J . tfke . ofc .

    comes in as a variety , in company with a Russian doctor with an enormous beard , a large book , and a huge pair of spectacles . As to the terras on which English and French stood to each other before Sebastopol , our author states that nothing- more than a system of politeness was maintained—there was no cordiality . He says , indeed , " The Pr . ench were insufferably haughty . " His account , in fact , is not favourable to our allies ; but there is doubtless a considerable amount of prejudice in his report . He confesses , however , to their cleanliness . Tuey were the most shirt-washing troops he knew , and every Chasseur was carefully shaved every morning . In disposition they are rather melancholy . He speaks with great respect of the Chasseurs d'Afrique . He pictures them in one sentence— " Coquettishly dressed in light blue and silver tunics , carrying a long pea rifle on their backs , and mounted o n fiery Arab barbs , they offer the beau-ideal of a trooper . " A French John Bull , also , named Jean Taureau , is introduced as a curious eccentric , and his adventures are exceedingly amusing . The great charm of a military life is . it seems , not glory , but idleness . For this men sacrifice their future at one-and-a-penny per diem . While preparing for evacuating Kerteh , Mr . Wraxall had opportunity for leisure , and employed it in watching from the quay the embarkation' of the troops . At length , with his wife , our author took refuge on board the Goshawk , and was enabled ( to use | his own words ) "to draw up a mental balance-sheet . " He had ! played out his play ; he bad some ' eighty , pounds to receive , and | his connection with the Government would be settled . In his politics on ? author is somewhat heretical , and his love for civilisation makes him rather intolerant of strange customs . His patriotism is not very strongly pronounced ; but he may be excused , as he was ultimately some hundreds of pounds but of pocket by his soldiering . Some of this loss he has been able to repair'by writing a narrative of his travels , which , after " appearing in the I columns of a newspaper , has now , in an improved state , taken the j shape of a small volume , characterised by considerable vivacity . I He complains that , after all his service , he was defrauded of the ¦ I Crimean medal ; but he v bears his disappointment with good I humour , and it is impossible not to respect a mau who laughs at ' his-own-mischances ..

    i - ¦ .-:- "' ' " ¦ ¦ ' : .- ¦ - : ' . " . ' ' ¦ ' . " ¦¦ To the JStMtor of The Leader am > Saturday Analtst . "¦' . . ¦ LORI ) CHELMSFOKD'S BILIr . : IN a petition to the House of Commons , relative , to the above measure , now before Parliament , signed by the iniuister , chapel-warden , and vestry-clerk of the United Church of England and Ireland chapel . St . Vincent-street , Edinburgh , is the following clause : — " That the experience of your pelitioners in Scotland , has led them to observe , that the insisting upon the Mosaic law of the seventh-rday . Sabbath being still in force , and applicable to the first day of ' the week , does not tend to ' establish auiongst us' either "truth and justice , ' or ' religion and piety . "' ¦ Tb . is . sounds . somewhat unlike the — follawjng ~ r ^ olivtum ,-whlch ^ a ^ — passed -in the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland , on the 27 th of May , IS 4 K : — .. ' . . " The Assembly , feeling it to be the duty of this Church- . to cherish a holy and . enlightened zoitl for the honourOf the Lord of tlie Sabbath , and an siff ' ectionate . regard to the best . interests of the flock over which the Holy Ghost . ' hath nmd' > her overseer , as well as to those of this nation in which God has largely blessed her , resolves through grace to ^ pare no efforts for promoting a devout and increased rospect for this loved and blessed institution ; reminding tho people of her communion , that they who an ; guilty of its violation are liable to tlifi discipline of tho Clu-. rch , in the smne ' manner , a ' nd to the snino extent , as those who are guilty of transgressing any other commandment of the moral law . "

    IIanovkh , June 20 th , 1 SGO . PUBLTC attention during the past , week- has been directed almost exclusively to this latu meeting of princes at UadtMi JJ ; i ( Jen . and , a .-i may be conceived , iill are on the lookout tor any positive iii . ' oruui ,-tion tlint may bo jxirniitted < n ooze out as to I ho results . It . would be useless 1 o repeat tho tiuuiIutIchh reports anil Miirinisiis thut linv <; been in circulation . Tho German journals are , lor the ino .- > t part , viulently inimical to tho French Empkuoh—libcruls and foutinlisiH sire iinuninious in their mistrust of Fnn . u : e . Jmiyiug by \\ m ridicule henped upon the English press by all p : ir '; u-. * in this t-ountry , I must conclude- thut tho -Fruucli und tJioir Ivm vuiuxll iiiul tiivourvuii . li you , The Vuiuourt . dullik'ss of ti-ailc l . ncn ..,... ! the constr . ntly ituircj ^ ing taxation aro attributed entirely to French policy j and out ) ambitious . sovereign would hnvu little diilieulty in gaining' all ( Jiinnii . uy over to hin tfido by a ( Iccliiratiou ol' wnr agiiinst . Fntnce , with or wifimut grouiuls;—tlio fitct of ( i NAror . KON l ) eii ) g on the French throne i » ground enough for any-German . Tlie , inei'ling of ihe I ' rinci'K at Uuden is regarded as ii failure , in no tar as it was intended to' hit a display of tho unanimity , of the I '<> l , enlale . s of Gumimiy . This in evident from the npeo ' e . h of tin- Uimk . nt , in which ho wiys that his idciw as to the policy to bu niir . sucd l > y J ' ruw . sin nud Gur-

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    Jiine 30 , 1860 . J The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 617

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 30, 1860, page 617, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2354/page/17/