would the NAPIERS have raised if any one whom they chose to abuse had acted in the same way as the Governor of Scinde. Then, too, something was said by Colonel QUTRAM about the promotion of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S son-in-law, "contrary to the regulations of the service." Major-General NAPIER says, his brother's son-in-law was deserving of his post-and we do not doubt it; but is the appointment" contrary to the regulations of the service" or not? The Major-General does not say that it is not. Two other relations of the Governor were adverted to by Colonel OUTRAM as enjoying advantages in virtue of the tie, and the Governor's spokesman answers that they are not near relations of his brother, but only relatives of his first wife. Now, had they not been relations of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S "first wife," would they have been where they are?

One part of Colonel OUTRAM's letter, affecting Sir CHARLES NAPIER, General WILLIAM NAPIER does not even attempt to explain, and we are sorry for it. We mean the imputation of having demanded a greater share of the donation batta money than he was entitled to, and having been stopped in his design upon the liberality of the Government by the military Auditor-General. We have asked, could this be, and the correspondent of the Naval and Military Gazette does not tell us. We repeat the question; could it be that Sir CHARLES NAPIER not only accepted 47,000 rupees, "picked out of blood," according to his own words, "wiped" them, and put them in his pocket-for we do not doubt that he carefully performed the former operation before executing the latter-and that not content with this amount, and reckless of his own denunciation, that "wipe and wash the money as you will, the 'damned' spot will not out," he was desirous of appropriating to himself 23,000 more of these accursed coins? Could it be? we ask; we would fain believe that it could not.

'However this may be, we cannot help suspecting that Sir CHARLES NAPIER is heartily tired of his brother's advocacy. The latter, in a suppliment letter to the Editor of the Naval and Military Gazette, denies this: he says, "It is not true, that Sir CHARLES NAPIER has publicly expressed, at his own table, his regret and vexation at the publication of my work on Scinde." Now, as General WILLIAM NAPIER never sate at his brother's table in Scinde, we do not exactly perceive how he can know this. But granting that such is the fact, we would beg, with all humility, to inquire, whether Sir CHARLES NAPIER has ever expressed similar feelings privately, or at any other place than his own table? We really think there must be something in the belief that he has; and we are confirmed in this impression by the editor of The Times having excluded from its columns the letter of General WILLIAM NAPIER which has been now under our examination, an exclusion of which the General bitterly complains. In that journal a very indulgent view has always been taken of the conduct of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, and looking to the admirable discretion with which it is conducted, we cannot but think that the rejection of General NAPIER'S last letter was dictated by a feeling that it was calculated todo his brother injury rather than service. We doubt whether it will be possible to gag him by any power short of a censorship, but he has received a very significant hint, which he would do well to follow.

DEBATE AT THE EAST-INDIA HOUSE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.

(Concluded from page 569.)

THE RAJAH OF SATTARA.

On being called on by the Chairman, Mr. G. THOMPSON rose and proceeded with his charges against Lieut.-Col. Ovans, reading from a written paper, to which he constantly referred during the whole of his speech. He would state shortly the object of his speech; it was to ob tain a committee to inquire into the conduct of Col. Ovans while resident at Sattara. It would be better for all thoroughly to know the whole case before he called on them to pronounce an opinion on the conduct which he was going to expose. His charges would be made openly. He called for a committee to inquire, and if that committee were granted, he would abide by the result, and retract every observation he had made if not sup ported. It was but justice to him to grant such an inquiry, as he had used the strongest language with respect to the conduct of Col. Ovans; and if he could not prove the truth of the observations made by him he would consent to be called the greatest calumniator in the world. He was desirous to put this case out of his own hands. He did not want to be Col. Ovans's judge as well as accuser. Justice to Col. Ovans and the Court of Directors demanded the inquiry. The refusal of the Court of Directors to grant such an inquiry was a tacit admission of their inability to justify their conduct. He would not name any gentlemen as a committee; he would leave the Court of Directors to appoint them. From the documentary evidence laid before Parliament, he charged Col. Ovans with subornation of witnesses, and if he established this, it must be clear to all that the ex-Rajah of Sattara-condeinned without a bearing-was innocent of the charges which formed the alleged reasons of his dethronement. All he asked for was an open inquiry. He was sincere in this matter. In the sight of God, he was sincere. The chief witnesses against Col. Ovans would be the dispatches and letters of the colonel himself. Colonel Ovans had been guilty of intercepting letters-the letters of one of their directors (Gen. Robertson) had been intercepted by Colonel Ovans. He (Col. O.) had been sent to Sattara purposely to effect the ruin of the Rajal. A resident had been removed to make room for him. Mr. Elphinstone and Captain Grant Duff had spoken in the highest terms of the character of the Rajah, as also had Sr J. Malcolm, a man who, though he was like himself (Mr. T.) rather prolix, yet (like him also) he had always good sense at the bottom. Colonel Ovans had also been guilty of fraud; he had kept back documents for the purpose of producing the dethronement of the Rajah; messengers had been stopped, letters and dispatches had been intercepted and opened by him (Col. O.) solely to effect the downfal of the Rajah. He (Col. O.) had allowed his own false statements to to be acted on as true. He (Mr. G. T.) was there alone to fight the battles of the Rajah. The friends of the directors and those nameless voters-those persons who always waited in the lobby till the time for division-had mustered strong on that occasion. He wished that all who voted that day would give their names. It was morally impossible that the Rajah should be in 1838 and 1839 what he was represented to be by Col. Ovans. He would read a private letter to him (Mr. T.) from an officer in the Company's service, in proof of the courage and calmness of the Rajah. After reading the letter, Mr. T. He repeated that the Rajah had not had a copy of any of the evidence taken against him. He had been condemned unheard. It was the duty of residents at native courts to be the friends and good advisers of the princes, and not the destroyers of them, as Col. Ovans had been. The hon. proprietor then recapitulated at great length the circumstances connected with the appointment of Colonel Ovans as resident at the court of Sattara, and the dethronement of the Rajah. Col. Ovans, he said, had been guilty of obtaining evidence in a most infamous manner, and any evidence could be obtained in India for a very small sum. If the committee which he asked for were granted, he would prove that every post-master in this affair had been bribed, every messenger had been waylaid, and spies placed in every place, yet in all the correspondence there was not one tittle of evidence against the Rajab. For three years this constant course of espionage had been carried on.

continued.

Mr. PETER GORDON here went behind the bar, but was removed by a constable, by order of the chairman.

Mr. GASELEE objected to the removal of the hon. proprietor. Mr. G. THOMPSON resumed, and continued to speak on the subject of extorted evidence; reading and commenting at great length on the evidence he offered, particularly with reference to one witness, Govind Row, who was confined in an empty powder magazine for three months, and afterwards was in prison

for three years. He would say a few words on the subject of this document. The articles of British and Irish produce and manufacture exported from the United Kingdom to China consisted of apparel, slops, haberdashery, arms, ammunition, beer, ale, printed books, brass and copper manufactures, cotton ditto, cotton yarn, earthenware of all sorts, glass, hardwares, cutlery, iron, steel, lead, shot, linen manufactures, pickles, sauces, plate, plated ware, jewellery, watches, tin, stationary, pewter wares, tin plates, woollen manufactures, and other arti cles. The following figures shew the aggregate value of British and Irish manufactures and produce during the five years: 1840, £524,198; 1841. £862,570; 1842, £969,381; 1843, £1,456,180; 1814, £2,305,617. The declared value of hard. ware and cutlery exported to China last year was £16,281, The exportations have increased since the establishment of the tariff with China, and a great impetus has been given to trade. The articles imported from China are likewise given. Of course, the article "tea" is a prominent feature in the list. For the five years the following return is given:-1840, 22 576,405 lb. ; 1841, 27,639,817 lb.; 1842, 37,409,262 lb.; 1813, 42,779,265 Ib.; 1814, 51,754,485 lb. The quantities entered for home consump tion are for the years respectively, 31,009,966 lb., 33,558,1221b., 36,603,467 lb., 38,685,262 lb, and 40,118,782 lb. The rate of duty chargeable is 2s. 24d. per pound. In the account rendered of all shipping, it appears, with respect to China, that the vessels that have entered and cleared for China from the United Kingdom for the last two years, ending in January last, numbered as entered inwards" in 1844, 81, and in 1845, 104 British; and "cleared outwards" in 1841, 73, and in 1845, 78 British. Foreign, 1844, 3; 1845, 5. The opening of the trade with China has considerably increased the exports to that country. It appears that the exports from the British West Indies in the year 1844-5 amounted to the aggregate value of British and Irish produce and manufactures to £2,451,477. the East-India Company's territories and Ceylon, the exportations in the same year were of the value of £7,695,666, while to China they were £2,305,617 in 1840, the exportations to the same country were £524,198. The exportations to the Mauritius last year were £285,650, and to the British NorthAmerican colonies £3,070.861. To New South Wales and Australia, £744,060. The average price of sugar per cwt. were,-British plantation, 33s. 8d.; Mauritius, 32s. 10d.; East Indies, 35s. 8d. Last year, the declared value of cotton, manufactures exported to China were £1,457,794; beer and ale, £19,438, glass, £13,535.-Ibid.

To

SIR J. E. TENNENT AT SOUTHAMPTON.-A farewell dinner was given by the directors of the Oriental Company, at the Royal George Hotel, to Sir J. E. Tennent, previous to his departure with his family, in the Great Liverpool, for Ceylon..

CONVEYANCE OF COOLIES TO THE WEST INDIES.-We learn that the West-India body have made a proposition to Lord Stanley to charter a certain number of ships in England, for the purpose of conveying coolies from India to British Guiana, Trinidad, and to Jamaica. The West-India body state that they have been induced to make this proposition in consequence of the attempt made by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners to charter ships for the conveyance of coolie emigrants to the West Indies having failed, the chief, causes of which failure appearing, on inquiry, to be,-1st. The uncer. tainty of procuring any immigrants, as intimated in the form of the charter-party issued by the Commissioners; 2nd. The condition whereby, even if they should be procurable, the emigra, tion agent may require a ship to proceed with seventy-five per cent. of her compliment, without paying "dead freight" for all deficiency; and 3rd. The absence of any provision for paying a certain amount of "dead freight," by way of penalty or compensation, in the event of total disappointment. The opinion is expressed that there exists, in fact, very little doubt that the requisite number of emigrants will, in due time, be forthcoming, The West-India body, therefore, solicited permission to charter sufficient tonnage to convey the following numbers of coolies:2,000 to British Guiana, 1.500 to Trinidad, and 1,000 to Ja maica. It is affirmed that it is evident, from the experience of the past season, and the increasing demand for ships for every branch of trade, that unless a certain number be secured imme. diately, the emigration agent may be disappointed, after making arrangements for the collection of emigrants, in obtaining suit. able ships, especially as they must be all despatched within a limited period. This proposition had been made without any communication with the agent for this island, to whom it was referred by Lord Stanley. It was intended to bring the matter under the consideration of the Jamaica proprietors in London, and will not be acquiesced in by the island agent unless it is adopted by a large proportion of those gentlemen. We have also seen a copy of a contract entered into at Madras, by Mr.

Wilson, the emigrant agent there, with a native, for procuring the petition of Girjibaee, to prove the forgery of which he would read several papers. The hon. proprietor next read a petition of Govind Row, dated July, 1845. He had no connexion with that petition no more than he bad with any thing going on at the ends of the earth. The hon. proprietor spoke at great length with reference to the alleged suppression by the government of the evidence of Krushnajee Sudasew Bhidey. It was a curious coincidence, to say the least of it, that the three petitions of Govind Row followed one after the other the three dispatches of the government. Documents were in existence, with the Rajah's real seals on, calling on the sepoys to extirpate the British, and remove their officers; but the Rajah had sealed these papers when blanks, and they had been filled up afterwards. If the Rajah were the author of these documents, away with him; but if not, why dethrone him? Grant him an inquiry, and he would prove every statement he had made in that court.

Mr. PETER GORDON Seconded the motion.

The CHAIRMAN said, that Col. Ovans's conduct had undergone the fullest inquiry, both by the Bombay Government and the Court of Directors, and their decision had recently been confirmed by the Indian Board. He would not, therefore, reply to the hon. proprietor, but meet the motion by a direct negative Mr. Sergeant GASELER said, as no answer had been given to Mr. G. Thompson's statements, they would go forth uncontradicted.

Mr. G. THOMPSON again spoke as in reply, and the motion being put, was negatived by a large majority (as stated in our last), only three hands being held up in its favour. The second motion (given in our last) was then put and negatived.

Mr. G. THOMPSON then gave notice of a further motion on the same subject for the next Quarterly Court. 3 The court then adjourned.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA.-We are concerned to state that the Bishop of Calcutta, now on a visit to the Vicar of Huddersfield, has been taken very unwell. We understand that it is a return of the fever which originally compelled his lordship to leave India.-Leeds Intelligencer, Sept. 27.

THE MONUMENT TO SIR WM. NOTT.-A meeting of the committee for superintending the erection of a suitable monument to the memory of the late lamented Major-general Nott took place on Wednesday (24th Sept.), at Carmarthen. D. Morris, Esq., mayor, stated that he expected the list of subscribers would be materially increased upon the receipt of the next Indian mail. The subscriptions were announced at £1,200, and all seemed favourable to the progress of the project. Mr. Morris suggested the site of the present Cross as the best possible for the proposed monument, and the suggestion was generally approved of.- Welchman.

EAST-INDIA SILKS.-The Commissioners of the Customs have had under their consideration several applications from the principal importers of East-India silk piece-goods, stating that great inconvenience is experienced by the trade in consequence of their being required to give a separate bond for each parcel of silk piece-goods taken out of the bonded warehouse, under the provisions of the Act 8 & 9 Vict. c. 91, s. 29, for the purpose of being printed or dyed, and requesting that the same may in future be dispensed with; and, having considered the reports of the principal superintending officers thereon, suggesting, with reference to the present reduced rate of duty on the goods in question, that a separate or distinct bond for each parcel may be dispensed with, under the following regulations, viz. that the quantity of goods included in each bond be restricted to 5,000 pieces, and that the period within which the whole are to be required to be returned to the warehouse be limited to three months, application being previously made to the Board, as usual, stating the quantity of goods intended to be taken out of the warehouse for the purpose mentioned. The proposition has been approved of, experimentally, for three months, and a notice to that effect has been furnished to the several departments accordingly, with directions to the officers to report, at the expiration of that time, as to the effect of the measure.-Times.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.-A Parliamentary paper, of some importance at the present time, has just been printed, respecting the exports to and imports from the British West Indies, the East Indies, China, Ceylon, and other places, for each of the past five years, ending the 5th of January last, together with the number of ships which have entered and cleared for those places during that period. The report extends to thirty-nine pages, and was procured by Mr. Hastie. The importations from and exportations to, China present an interesting feature in

coolie emigrants. It is also stated, that it is evident that the number of coolies imported into the colonies this season will be insufficient to afford any thing like an indemnity for the agency, and other expenses incurred.-Jamaica Morniny Journal.

ARRIVAL OF COOLIES AT DEMERARA-The papers by the West-India mail have brought intelligence of the arrival of about 300 more immigrant coolies at Demerara, by the ship Success, after a very protracted voyage. The small amount of this supply of labour, as compared with the magnificent promises made, is dwelt upon with much vexation; but the planters should rather be thankful that they are not further in the mire. The coolies they already have are very uneasy, and in one case their movements are reported to have been restrained by an exercise of official "coercion," very like slavery itself. One of our contemporaries, after assuming, which is a matter of course, that this is for the advantage of the people themselves, adds this very sensible inquiry:-"But is it politic, on the part of the Governor and his associates, to put an argument in the mouth of the President of the United States, prone to exclaim against slavery covered with the cloak of apprenticeship ?”—Anti-Slavery Reporter.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER and family embarked on Thursday morning the 25th Sept., at Blackwall Pier, on board the Soho, for Antwerp.

Major T. B. Jervis was elected Fellow of the Statistical Society of London, at their last meeting.

STEAM. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have purchased the Achilles, of 1,000 tons and 430 horse power, and, in addition to the nine new steamers now in course of building, they are constructing another new iron boat of 1,000 tons and 400 horse power. We understand it is the intention of the Directors to place one of the largest on the Alexandrian line, making the Great Liverpool an auxiliary boat, which enables the others to lay by an extra month occasionally to undergo a complete overhaul. Three, if not four, of the new vessels will be put on the China line, and the others on the Constantinople and Alexandrian line, with a determination to afford better accommodation to the Bombay passengers. There can be no doubt that in the course of next year, the communication between India, the Straits of Malacca, China and England, will be as complete as can be wished, provided the Egyptian link be made perfect; and here we hope for a better state of things under the able negotiation of Sir Emerson Tennent. The intercourse by steam will be extended from Singapore to Sydney, and from Sydney to the Mauritius, in the conrse of a short time, we have also reason to believe.

SHIPPING.-The Royal Alice has been engaged for the conveyance of troops to Calcutta.

HOME.

From LIVERPOOL.-SEPT. 22. Hugh Walker, Cameron, Bombay. -23. Esmeralda, Tollens, Shanghae; Mazeppa, Watts, Algoa Bay. -29. Marwood, Balberney, Cape.

From the CLYDE.-SEPT. 21. Deogaum, Leitch, Calcutta.-23. Helen, Oliphant, Ceylon, Penang, and Moulmein. From RAMSGATE.-Sept. 23. Stewarts, Fisher, Cape. From HULL.-SEPT. 23. Wanderer, Priest, Hong Kong. From ROTHESAY.-SEPT. 20. Strabane, Grierson, Bombay.

INCIDENT.

The City of London, Autram, from Madras to London, put into Mauritius, July 5, leaking, and was discharging part of her cargo.

DOMESTIC.

BIRTHS.

July 8. Mrs. George Frere, son, at the Cape of Good Hope. Sept. 28. The lady of Capt. M'Nair, Madras artillery, son, at Bath.

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 18. William James Snodgras, Esq. son of the late Major Snodgras, of the Hon. E.I.C.'s service, to Isabella Newman, daughter of Henry Bousfield, Esq. late surgeon in the Bengal Native Infantry, at Datchully-house, Inverness-shire.

26. James Neilson, Esq. solicitor before the Supreme Courts of Scotland, to Frederica Anna Eliza, daughter of Robert de Lisle, Esq. of Acton-house, Northumberland, at Treesbanks-house, Lanarkshire.

30. Burton Archer Burton, of the Inner Temple, Esq. to Henrietta Lucretia, daughter of the late Henry Taylor, Esq. Madras Civil Service, at Southsea.

Lately, Mr. François Bonnaffe, late of Calcutta, at 3, Foleyplace, aged 63.

Sept. 20. Miss Mary Abington, sister of the late William Abington, Esq. of the East-India House, at Camden-terrace, Camdentown, aged 74.

22. Mrs. Margaret Jane Cresswell, widow of the late William Cresswell, Esq. of the East-India Company's civil service, at Pentonville, aged 48.

25. Thomas P. M'Viegh, late of Bombay, at Peckham, aged 69. 26. Capt. Gall, of the 5th Madras L. C., to Georgiana Arabella Caldecot James, daughter of the late Lord Bishop of Calcutta, at Letchworth, Herts.

28. Lieut. W. W. D. Voyle, 9th Bengal N.I. at Tenby, South Wales, aged 24.

29. Elizabeth Mary, daughter of the late Captain T. Barrow, of the Hon. E.I.C.'s service.

SEPT. 25.-Archer, Logan, Bengal; The Duke, Bissett, Bengal ; William Wilson, Young, Bengal.-26. Mirzapore, Hickmann, Bengal; Charles Jones, Clarkson, China.-27. Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Pook, Bombay.-29. Isabella Blyth, Lane, Mauritius ; Oriental, McFie, China; Prince of Wales, Wilson, Bengal; Vanguard, Walker, China; Janet Izat, Squires, Cape; Alert, Martinsen, South Seas; Anthony, Klomp, Batavia.-30. Eleanor Lancaster, Baker, and Skipton, Johnson, Ceylon; Ermerdale, Boadle, Bengal; Gurli, Lothman, Batavia. OCT. 1.-Agincourt, Neatly, Ceylon; Ganges, Cheverley, Bombay.-2. Ann Grant, Foreman, Sydney; Maid of Mona, Atkinson, Cape; Caledonia, Case, New Zealand; Indian, Mackie, Saldanha Bay.-3. St. Vincents, Young, China; Semiramis, Carnie, Manilla.

DEPARTURES.

From the DowNS.-SEPT. 23. Deva, Sproat, Ceylon; Mary Catherine, Howlett, New Zealand; Golden Spring, Poole, New South Wales; William Clercq, Hock, Batavia; Margaretta, Pippet, Cape. -25. North Briton, Heard, Hobart Town.-26. Persia, Stevens, Ceylon; William Gillies, Clarke, Bombay; Japan, Tuit, Mauritius. -28. Swithamley, Jennings, Sydney.-29. Amity, Hodges, Tajura. -30. Wanderer, Priest, China; Wanderer, Potter, Newport and Ceylon,

HOME.

Ralph Mitford Ingilby, ditto.

Edward George Gerard Cruikshank, ditto.

Edward William Barwell, ditto.

Illtudus Thomas Prichard, Monarch, 26th July.

Jonathan Keer, ditto.

Frederick M'Combe Turner, ditto.

Nedham Thompson Parsons, ditto.

To rank from the date of his departure from Southampton by the overland route, viz.

George Money Battye, Oriental, 20th August.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which they proceeded, and in the following order, viz.:

George Augustus Williams, Tudor, 23rd August.
Charles Stuart Ward Ogilvie, ditto.

To rank from the date of their departure from Southampton by the overland route, and in the following order, viz. :

Benjamin George Vander Gucht, Great Liverpool, 20th
Sept.

Frederick William Norman Fortescue, ditto.
Edmund Kerr Otho Gilbert, ditto.

Memo.-Mr. Augustus Edward Angelo, having declined to accept his appointment, his name is to be struck out of list No. 3, of 1845.

Walter Fane, Alfred, 21st June.

To rank from the date of the transmission by the overland mail of the paragraph announcing his appointment, viz. :William McKerrell Dent (abroad); para, viâ Southampton, 3rd July.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships by which they proceeded, and in the following order, viz. :

George Anthony Harrison, Tory, 8th July.
William Ramsay, ditto.

James Murray Grant, Gloriana, 22nd July.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which he proceeded, viz. :

Charles Atterbury Wyatt, Vernon, 20th August.

To rank from the date of his departure from Southampton by the overland route, viz. :

William Henry Hessey, Oriental, 20th August.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships by which they proceeded, and in the following order, viz.:

ASSISTANT-SURGEONS FOR MADRAS.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships by which they proceeded, and in the following order, viz :Frederick Lewis Clementson, Vernon, Aug. 20.

John McGregor, M.D. Earl of Hardwicke, Sept. 12.
John Brett, M.D. ditto:

ASSISTANT-SURGEONS FOR BOMBAY.

To rank from the date of the transmission of the overland mail of the paragraph announcing their appointments, and in the following order, viz. :

John Reynolds (abroad); para via Southampton, 3rd
July.

John Evan Freeman, M.D. (abroad); ditto ditto To rank from the date of the sailing from Cork of the ship by which he proceeded, viz. :

Ronald Bayne, M.D., Andromache, 13th July.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships by which they proceeded and in the following order, viz. :Thomas Shuttleworth Butler, Mary Anne, 29th July. John Frederick Steinhaeuser, Claudine, 29th July. To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships by which they proceeded, and in the following order,

LITERARY NOTICES.

Our Israelitish Origin: Lectures on Ancient Israel and the Is-
By J.
raelitish Origin of the Modern Nations of Europe.
WILSON, a witness to the truth of the word of prophecy.
London: Ward and Co.; Nisbet.

THE object of this work is to trace the lost tribes of Israel to the north-westward, and thence to modern Europe, in the inhabitants of which the author recognizes a race of Jews destined by the word of prophecy to execute the counsels of the Divine Mind, in bringing all nations to the knowledge of the truth. We are not convinced by the author's reasoning, but it is evident that he is deeply in earnest. His book is ably written, and though many who read it may remain, like ourselves, unaffected by its arguments, none but those utterly dead to the importance of the subject can turn over its pages without interest, nor without finding valuable trains of thought awakened in their minds.

The Practical Cook, English and Foreign, embracing a great variety of old receipts, improved and re-modelled, and many original receipts in English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, American, Swiss, and Indian Cookery; with copious directions for the choice of all provisions, the laying out of a table, giving small and large dinners, and the management of a cellar, By JOSEPH BREGION, formerly Cook to H. E. Prince Rausmouski, to H. H. the Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, the Russian Ambassador at Paris, &c. &c.; and ANNE MILLER, Cook in several families of distinction. London, 1815. Chapman and Hall.

THIS is a very copious title-page, and we were half tempted to abridge it; but we have retained it unmutilated, on the principle that a full bill of fare is a most useful guide to the guests at a profuse feast. The feast in this case, indeed the greater the pity is ideal; but it is well to let the reader know what he has to look for.

We confess to the "soft impeachment," if it be one, of an enthusiastic love of the fine arts. We listen in wrapt delight to the strains of Mozart and Gluck; nor are we insensible to the lighter, but not ungraceful, melodies of Rossini and Bellini. We are entranced by a Raphael, or a Claude, and touched with all the varieties of feeling called forth by the homelier pencil of Wilkie, Canova and Chantrey have place in our memory. We -gaze with wonder on the majestic specimens of architecture bequeathed to us by our ancestors, and withhold not our homage from the later developed genius of Barry and Cockerell. Last but not least in our dear love" stands the noble art of cookery that which pre-eminently distinguishes man from - brute-for of all the definitions of man which we have ever heard, we greatly prefer that which describes him as "a cooking animal." The brutes do not cook; the dog and the lion eat uncooked flesh, just as they did centuries ago. Man knows better; and not only does he cook, but from the first crude effort he has been constantly improving (the true test of rationality), till he has attained to the profundity of culinary science, and the perfection of culinary art, displayed in the volume before us-which is, indeed, an encyclopædia of knowledge, brought to bear upon a popular subject, and that, in the estimation of all wise men, a very important one. Dr. Johnson said that he who did not regard his dinner, is not likely to regard any thing else; and we quite agree with this quaint and witty old sage upon this point. To those who think with the Doctor and us-and this category includes nearly all mankind, if they would but have the honesty to speak out, we have only to observe, that the volume now claiming our attention, and that of our readers, is decidedly the most comprehensive book of the kind extant in our language. There are instructions for the due preparation of all the substantials of British fare; the far-famed roast beef of Old England," not forgetting the boiled the "glorious haunch" of mutton, and the luscious saddle; instructions for foreign dishes in almost endless variety,-French, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Swiss, Dutch, American; and, what is most of all for our purpose, INDIAN dishes. This last is a valuable addition for many families; and, commending the work to general patronage, we summon the authors to speak for themselves on behalf of their Indian chapter :As there is scarcely an English family among the higher or middle classes which does not number among its members a retired military or civil servant of the East-India Company, or a retired naval officer or commercial man, it has been thought advisable to introduce a considerable chapter on Anglo-Indian cookery. This, it is thought, is the most complete system of Indian cookery ever presented in a connected form.

Those who think so think rightly.

The Calcutta Review. No. VI. June, 1845. Calcutta: Printed for the Proprietors. London: Smith and Elder. THIS is the first number of this periodical which has come under our critical cognizance, and, assuming it to be an average specimen, we have no hesitation in saying that the production of such a literary journal is highly creditable to our fellowlabourers in the City of Palaces. We wish well to the progress of literature in the East, and under the influence of this feeling we derive gratification,-first, from the establishment of a Review of high pretensions at Calcutta; and secondly, from finding that its pretensions are borne out by its performances.

Northern India. The fourth article, a very able one, has for its running title, "The Lex Loci; Marriage and Inheritance.” The immemorably misgoverned, and seemingly everlastingly-tobe misgoverned, kingdom of Oude furnishes a subject for the fifth. The sixth, headed," Notes on the Left or Calcutta Bank of the Hooghly," is a very amusing paper, in which the results of a good deal of research are melted down into a readable mass. This and the preceding article are in the style of literary cookery which is practised in the fabrication of popular articles in our Quarterlies at home.

The shorter notices of books are of various degrees of interest. One of them is a review of a course of lectures on education, a subject upon which we really think that we have had lectures enough. We cannot but wish for somewhat less talking and writing and a little more of practical exertion. The effect of lectures on education we suspect to be not unlike the lectures on good manners which used to grace our old spellingbooks, wherein Master Jacky was directed to deport himself gracefully in company, by "putting one hand into the bosom of his waistcoat, and letting the other full easily down by his side." We have enough, and more than enough, of formalism, and coxcombry, and pretension, and lectures on education tend greatly to increase these nuisances. At the same time, judging from the extracts made by the reviewer, we should say that the lectures reviewed are by no means among the worst of their class. There is rather too much parade of school-boy erudition about the Spartans and the Athenians; but there are also some sensible remarks, especially upon the common failing of over-sensitive mamas, who are never satisfied unless their children overwhelm them with caresses and sweet words; thus inoculating childhood, at the very dawn of reason, with habits of hypocrisy, deceit, and cant, to say nothing of the effeminacy of mind produced in one sex, and the undue nervous excitability fostered in the other.

The last article in the number is a review of the review of Napier's Conquest of Scinde, which appeared in the Bombay Times; and the reviewer in-appeal, seems to think that the brothers Napier have been thrashed enough. We should think so too, if they would be quiet; but if they will not, what is to be done?

FINE ARTS.

Four Views of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. Drawn from nature by T. W. BOWLER, and lithographed by Day and HAGHE, lithographers to the Queen, Cape Town: J. N. Collard. London: Snow.

THESE Views exhibit Table Bay, Cape Town near the Amsterdam Valley, Cape Town on the beach near the military stronghold, and Cape Town from the Tamboer's Kloof, Leon's Hill. The points of view appear to be well chosen; the draws ing is excellent, and the lithographic engraving such as might be expected from the eminent establishment in which it was executed. To those who know Cape Town, the publication will be an agreeable souvenir; to those unacquainted with it, a vivid instructor,

Portrait of the Rev. Charles Webb Le Bas, M.A., late Principal of the East-India College. Engraved by S. L. ATKINSON, from a picture by MORTON.

Oux readers will recollect that a short time ago we recorded the presentation of this portrait to the E.I. College. The engraving is now completed, and we have no hesitation in expressing our opinion that the engraver, Mr. Atkinson, has done complete justice to Mr. Morton's picture. The likeness is admirable.

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