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    RECORD OF THE WEEK. HOME AND COLONIAL.

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    His peculiarities of style must be softened to tis by familiarity , before ¦ we can detect the great humanity imder the sm-face cynicism , and fully recognise the artistic grace of his life-like creations . His delineations are quiet and natural ; he startles-with no stage effects , no burlesque , no caricature ; we smile or sigh as the living panorama passes , but seldom'laugh or passionately weep . Wo arc lookers on , not actors in the drama , and earnestly but calmly watch the progress of'the plot , and the developments of character—our judgment unwarped by intensely excited feelings , out mirth rational , and our sadness salutary . His stories are eminently suggestive , and he rarely analyzes his . characters . This is a great charm of his books . It undoubtedly requires much less skill to describe a character , than to force that character to unfold itself , and to change and modulate it in harmony

    with the incidents of the story . And it . is in this gradual development that Thackeray excels . It has been Thackeray ' s mission to portray life as it is . He brings more than great creative genius to the task ; he has read with clear vision the mysterious scroll of the human heart , and gives us the pages as he finds them—now , bright with the record of noble deeds , now blurred by weakness and folly , and now deeply staiued by guilt and crime . His books are full of moral lessonslessons that will make us wiser and better if we heed them . "Wo . find there no glow of false sentiment , which perverts while it dazzles ; vice is never clothed in attractive garb , and though deceit and hypocrisy are unmasked , honour is paid to every womanly grace , and every manly virtue . " The present number also contains article fourth on Mr . Tom Taylor's [ Recollections of the late C . R . Leslie , B . A ., which will be read with interest . We also find a notice of one of the most remarkable

    productions of the past year , namely , " The Thought in aid of Faith , by Sara S . Hennell , " published by Mr . Ma-nwaring , the successor oi Mr . John Chapman . The work in question is thus summarised : — - "As a help to other inquirers , the results of the niost radical and uncompromising thinkers who have written since , and been made accessible to the English reader . Thus , Feiicrbach represents for her . the- ' Essence of Christianity , ' and Mackay's ' Progress of the Intellect , ' its development ; in . discussingthe ' Christian System , ' she traces the course of thought from Unitarianisin through Mr . Martineau to Francis Newman , with whose pure Theism she is not satisfied to rest ; her ' Principles of Psycholgy' are those of Herbert Spencer , adopted without qualification or reserve ; her view of the ' History of Philosophy ' is . wholly in the light of Lewes and Cbmte ; and for the ' Science of Morality' she starts with the expediency doctrine , as the

    defended by Henry Thomas -Buckle . Six chapters thus cover wide field of modern speculation . They are preceded by an-Introduction ,, setting forth the personal naotire and experience from which the inquiry has started , and followed by a conclusion , in which the bearings of the whole On personal faith and hope are ccmrageously atid calmly stated . The argument of the book is not , as might possibly bo guessed , to pro test against anything in t ho-moat radical and seemingly irreligious of the- results she registers ; but , explicitly reducing ; psychology to physiology , religion to anthropology , mid morals to philanthropy , renouncing all personal hope of another lift ' , and- . 'holding tho conception of a . personal God to bo only tho imago of himself which man projects upon the vast Unknown—nay , denying the very distinction of matter and spirit , her purpose ia still to vindicate the intellectual harmony , the moral progress , and tho spiritual calmness and trust , whioh belong fitly to tho domain of faith . "

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    It was expected as tho past week : drew to a close , that tho growing complications abroad , and tho inclement weather at homo , would teil unfavourably on tho financial barometor , but we aro happy tp record an agreeublo disappointment , for t hoy etodd firm at 93 } to » -8 , notwithstanding the clouded sky and tho gloom which obscured tho political horizon , and only suffered a subsequent depreciation of about 1-8 . Tho past week was wry unfavourable throughout for such portion of tho harvest aa had not been garnered , for when not actually raining , which was seldom tho case , tho air was 30 damp and chill , and sunshine so ruro , that tho iiitervula during which tho wet was suspended were of very little avail in many localities ; in eomo , however , there was a less tho Bunk

    unfortunate etoto of affairs to chronicle . Tho bullion in wua £ 123 , 807 loss than the preceding week , tho totul being ; C 10 , a 5 f > , 95 J .. Tho fine mild weather " of tho present woolc has brightened , our prospects in more senses than ono . Tho harvest may now bo looked upon , ua wo anticipated in theso columns , us amply fulfilling tho expectations of those- who looked fora fuir averugo yield . Tho financial us well as tlis atmosphorio bn-r . oinotor roso towards mid-week . Consols reaching 03 3-8 to L ut whioh they evinced a tendency to considerable flrmnons . - Richard Williams , tho " psoudo-clergymnn , " who hud obtained a curacy by fulao representations , and perpetrated a Jong tissue of fmud . s , having been arrested in London , uuu soiifc in custody from tho merropolia to Oundlo , committed euicido at Northampton by throving himself uudor a train , whioh instantly killed him , tho body being mutilnticd and disfigured .

    Another party of Guribaldian exourtioniats , numboring nearly BOO , embarked on board a vessel oallocl tho * lSnip « iror , at Harwich , as lust week elodod . Tho rovonuo returns for tho past quarter , whioh will bo found at length in anothor column , show a falling off , from obvious oausos , in customs , and an . increase- of near £ 5 , 000 , 000 , arising ohiolly from in-( iomo-tax , excise , and posfc-oflloc . Tho prosperous state of tho country in ila moroantilo und industrial volutions boing prominontly shown by tlio figures in question . „ . . Aldoiauan Oubitt , wwe ohoson on SuUirduy us the Lord Mayov c-lool . Tho Court of Aldormon , wo inuy » talo in oonuoxiou with eivio nudtors , have resolvod to nltor their mooting day from Saturday to irida-y . The North Atlantic Telegraph is progressing entieftwtorjly , aa wo loum through a communication from Mv , Oroukey j a , considerable portion of tho I . oolnnd coast ) Una already been Biii'voyod for tho purpoflos of tho onlovpviso .

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    The criminal record of the week dbes not flag . A murder of peculiar atrocity has been perpetrated at a cottage , adjoining Urpeth Corn-mil ) , seven miles from Newcastle . One Milner Lockcy having stabbed his wife , a lodger , named Harrison , interfered to protect her , when he immediately became the object of the man ' s Tiny . Lockey inflicted a mortal wound , which speedily terminated in the death of his new victim ; In the matter of the Stepney murder the man Mullins was committed for trial on Tuesday . The inquiry into the late tragedy at Road is pending us we write , but without much . prospect of '¦ anydecisive issue . At Aldershoft , a soldier , named James Johnson , has murdered , two men wit-hone shot— Sergeant Chip and Corporal Cole : the ball passin " through the first and then entering the body of the ¦

    second . . In the matter of tho Road murder , Elizabeth Gongli , the nurse , w . ; s taken into custody at the close of last week , on the charge of having perpetrated this crime . This week' ( Monday ) ' commenced the winter session at the hospitals , when the usual opening addresses were delivered to the students . The'Victoria Terminus' , at Pimlico . forming the nucleus where the connecting threads ' of : the lines north and south of the Thames are tu be agglomerated into a sort of locomotive love-knot , was opened on JMondav . .

    The ladies of ' Brighton * the . hands of Mrs . William Coninghain and Sirs . J . White , the wives , of the liberal members for the borough , have presented silver bugles to the Artillery and Rule corps of local Volunteers . Tho presentresses delivered , with graceful enunciation , appropriate addresses . Mr . William Coiiinghnm , M . P ., for . . Brighton , and his son were present in their respective , uniforms of the 1 st Sussex , and the Eton corps , to which they belong . An accident-happened ¦ to ' --Prince . Albert , on Monday . . As he was returning froni sliootiii ^ , the horses ran away . with the ¦ carriage , and the Prince , who jumped out , had his face slightly scratched . . . A telegram , dated Tuesday , from Lord John Rhsfl > 11 , wo are happy to stale , informs us th : vt the injury was nothing to spetvk of , and that the Prince . was-convalescent .

    Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Digby Seymour , and Jtfr . Bristowe have appeared at public meetings during the week , the first to address his cdnstiiueiicy , the last two at Southampton ; and Kidderminster . Mr . Seymour vindicated the measures of . M > . "Gladstone in finance , and Lord J 0 I 11 . 1 Uussell as-.- regards Parliamentary ' Reform . Mr . Pigott , t he meiribcr for Heading , having become Grovernor of the Isic of Man , his brother , Mr . Serjeant Pijjott has come forward- , to solicit the suffrages of the constituency . . His" platform" comprehends retrenchmentj extension of Ihe elective '¦ franchise ' , church-rate abolition , and income-tax . Tho funeral of the late Mr . IL Ingram , M . p :, was fixed to takofplaee yesterday ( Friday ) . .. . ' ¦ ' .. „ .. ,. treatwith lTrancct l

    With regard to tlie ' coinnuMvial .- ' y , Ko organs <> that jisirtv the viuws-of ¦ whieh arc supposed to be ^ as far as it goe .-, . 'uibotlied . in this-important measure , and ono of . whose rcc <> pmse ; l chiefs Jias had tho " enn-iago" of it confided to him both in prinui [ , l ? uncl detail , and which aro therefore- likely to be well'informed , state , in recent IS os ., tho present , positions- of tho matter . Tho Manclirstcr Examiner ami Times states , that in consequence of ono of thoso nil--haps incident to diploniaev , the entire tarill ' of metals will be delayed for another week . The Movnhuj and ' Evening Mar publishes that portion of items which , bv article l ( i of tho treaty , aro to be admitted by Fram .-o at tho now duties ' iVom tho 1 st October . " Tho various rates , " says thu Star , "in tho new tariff uro adapted to a classification which is based in general on tho greater or smaller amount of humau lubour bestowed tho same weiht of muteriul , or in other words , on the cost of

    upon g production , as fur as that is possible , in a now tanfl which knows no ad valorem , but only specific-, duties . Tho first thing which strikes ono in tho classification as woll as in the rates , is tho extreme 'similarity to tho provisions of tho Zollveroin treaty . " Aftor eoiupaiuuff tho two tariir « , tho article continues , " in tho « nso of iron in bars tho . duty u fixed at the uniFmn rate of 7 f . per 100 kilos ., while tho Zollvorcin treaty charges it at two diH ' erent rates , and both higher , which iuct exeroiaos iv vorv injurious effect on building und railway industry , n . na yet this dooa not ' shut out English competition . JJranuo yill get a tieaided start by being cnubled 10 import ) tho English urticJo large y lor her consumption , whieh sho lms hitliprto been precluded from donitf , by tho liigh dutios imposed . Tho cumo of steel merits special montioii , tho fanner oxorbitnnt dutyhuving been reduced to 15 f . per 100 lalos . This is a fair loetonl burryinc out of tho frco-trudo pmwipio . r lulco oil ic do

    thoso prohibitive duties and- iron will bo proiiuooU onn p . uducod ohenpost , best , nnil mo « t ploiilifuUj , namely , in Juiglaml , uiu bo dielributed wliero mpst Wimtod , nainoly , in li ' nineo ; things will Mn < i tlicir own level , and liuman nocUs be best ; entielieu . / oil a tho plulusophy of tho qiiost . ion in a niitaholl . And so with nuy other artiolo , ns wines . IFero the aiso is revcrood ; Frunoo can produco them better , ohonner , and mnro v ) loilti (< u 11 ^ ( lmu Wt '» nucl Avll J' hIiouUI bo pn ; - vcnlccl by r . roliibiiivo duties ( and nil dutios ni'o moro or less prolnbitivo in tlic-ir tendoncv ) from drinking thorn , it would aoivJy puzzlo U 10 euomlca of fri'ts-lrado to explain .

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    52 The ' Saturday ' Analyst andLeader . [ Oct . ( I , I 860

    Record Of The Week. Home And Colonial.

    XIECORD OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL .

    Koriacin.

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    AVo rosumo the thmtrt of our Italian " lleooi'tl . " A . s Lisli week clivw to a oloso we received Udingu ol' tho advance of Ooneral 1 'anti s oorprt upon Koine j tho dobpuloliea whioh loft the awno of action , dosoribnitf tho head of his foreo to bo nfc Jiraoeiano , within 17 niili'd from tljn oinjital . Tlio object of tho fci / ii-diniiiuH w « a to surround tho oity ltaoll so ns tp avoid n collision between tho Frem-h and Garibaldi . Out no othor hand , the Piviiuh troops uppoared to havo or-cupiod UvnsvMl and Albnno in addition to givltu- Vooofiin 0 "tl R » mo . Tim forla qt 1 » IH ° u » id l » ulugo laid fallen boforo ' lliu jn-owcis of tho bcadigors . ot Anoonn , undtlio oantiiro of Gardotto was consideroil only a quoslion ol Jiouw when ( lio advi . Mfl left , whilo Iho whwlo i * ij bm « b ot X » or-ttt Pia was in 1110 hnndH of tho hSunUniuuti , and 011 tfrJVlny D 0 H 0 Gi'iikIo , anothov fort , rowarded Uio ollbi'tB of Ilin " Jibomtovs . 'V Jjnnioriwicro 111 person wus eonducting tho dofonoo of the oily . Tho VzVw ^ j upwuks ol 1 this oommandui ' aa « . UioPop «' B footuiAn" who lias Vjnen <( ( jouiiclly thvuslxod . ' » otwithstancling tho BtwtQ of blockade iu iofoi-ouco to tho bolwguwdcitj ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1860, page 852, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2368/page/12/