SCRAPS FROM PUNCH. THE DUKE AND HIS LETTER-WRITERS.-It is too bad. The Duke of Wellington, like Echo, is expected to answer every donkey that may choose to bray. A couple of letters (that have not yet gone the round of the press) have been handed to us. The first is to the Duke: the second the Duke's answer : MY LOND DUKE,-Being proud that you are public property, I wish you to inform me whether, as an allottee of the Saffron Hill and Isle of Dogs Junction Railway, I ought to pay twelvepence a share on fifty shares, with three-and-six-pence for the application? Your obedient servant, Adolphus Carns.' 'P. S. When you're writing will you also decide a little wager pending in the parlor of the Flower Pot? Did you say, "Up, Guards, and at 'em ;" or, " Guards, up, at 'em.' Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington has received the letter of Mr. Carns. He is the Commander-in-Chief, and not an attorney; and has no connexion with railways except when he travels by them. As to the expression, "Up, Guards, and at 'em," and "Guards, up, and at 'em," the people of the Flower Pot may take whichever suits them. To the Duke either is immaterial.' THE MONEY MARKET.-The Repeal Funds are still very low. They have fallen again this week. The depression is so great, that unless something desperate is done, and that quickly, a panic must inevitably ensue. Money never was known to be tighter' in Ireland. Defaulters increase every week. There was a call of £1 per share on Saturday, but very few paid up. The doings at Conciliation Hall still continue, but they are so small that they are not worth quoting. Mr. O'Connell arrives on Monday, when a great coup de main is expected. He is a large shareholder, and his transactions may revive the market, if they are on a very imposing scale. Every one, however, is looking forward with dread to the settling day, which cannot now be far distant. THE IRISH CURFEW BILL.-As no person in Ireland is to be allowed to leave his house after a certain hour at night, Mr. Punch respectfully asks Lord Lincoln, how the evicted tenants are to manage, who have no houses to remain in? Are they to roost in the hedges? An answer will oblige. EASTER HOLIDAYS.-Sir Robert Peel has gone down to Drayton Manor to enjoy himself. He has given directions that no newspaper that contains the slightest allusion to himself is to enter the house. called, in compliment, after himself, Une paire de Brougham ei Vaux? THE BEST ENGINES OF WAR.-Several fireengines have been constructed for the Colonies. One of them will be sent over to Oregon, for the purpose of putting Jonathan's pipe out. SEASONABLE RELIEF.-The Public Baths and Warehouse establishment in Glasshouse Yard, Smithfield, have been giving pails of whitewash for nothing to the poor in the neighborhood. We understand that the applications from Railway Directors to be whitewashed have been exceedingly numerous. LORD PALMERSTON IN PARIS -Lord Palmer · ston has been handsomely féted at Paris. On Saturday, his Lordship, accompanied by Lady Palmerston, dined with the Princess Lieven; meeting M. Guizot and other members of the French Cabinet. The evening was spent in the presence of Royalty at the Tuileries. On Easter Sunday, Lord and Lady Palmerston dined at the Royal table. On Tuesday, M. Guizot gave a sumptuous entertainment: the Cabinet Ministers, and a large portion of the Corps Diplomatique, were invited to meet the distinguished stranger. In the evening there was a reception which was attended by the whole of the haut ton of Paris. Count Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, was to give a similar entertainment on Saturday. But this is not all. The pleasures,' says the Times, which Lord Palmerston is tasting in Paris are enhanced by the company of Lord Brougham. At the Institute of France, last Saturday, the noble and learned pair were hailed by a most appropriate address of Baron Charles Dupin on the External Forces of Great Britain;' and although Lord Brougham was (of course) obliged to set that sedate assembly right on a few points connected with the little undertakings of his accomplished companion at Aden, Naples, and the coast of Syria, the scientific courtesy of the Académie prevailed over its political prepossessions, and Lord Palmerston will doubtless be elected an honorary member of the French Institute at the very first vacancy.' Besides the ordinary announcements, the Globe and the Morning Chronicle record the Palmestonian movements with more exclusive particularity. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in Paris on Tuesday; and, according to the Times,is also using his influence in favor of the noble Ex-Secretary. NEW INAUGURATION OF A SYNAGOGUE-A TALMUDIST.-A French journal, L'Univers Israélite, gives some account of an acquisition made by the Bibliothèque du Roi, interesting to the students of Talmudic literature. The Rabbin Isaac Lampronti, a physician and judge at Ferrara, who died in 1756, left a remarkable work entitled Patrad-Jizchak,-forming a general cyclopædia FASHIONS FROM PARIS.-Lord Brougham has of all the matters treated of in the Talmud and gone over to Paris, for the purpose, we have been its numerous commentaries. The Royal Library told, of opening in person the grand congress of has just obtained possession of the entire manufashion which takes place annually at Long-script of this great work; which singularly facilchamps. We may consequently expect amongst the next importation of modes a Chapeau à la Lord Hurry, and who knows that his lordship, already so celebrated in trowsers, may not bring us over the pattern of a new pair of pantaloons, itates the study of the Hebrew canonical books, and merits its place beside the Hacksakah of Maimonides. At Berlin, the Reformist Jews have been inaugurating a magnificent synagogue for the exer minute particularity all the discoveries made in or on the moon up to the present time. It is a millionth part of the size of the lunar planet, and, when lighted, represents that luminary as it would appear through a powerful telescope. The German papers state that the Royal Astronomical Society of London has purchased Madame de Witt's wonderful globe. cise of their worship, with its liturgic novelties; | truly marvellous work of art, setting forth with and the grand Rabbin Pirschberger, in his sermon on the occasion, urged the necessity of the Hebrew lending himself to the progress of the age, and assimilating his manners to those of the people among whom he lives. Though this change has been gradually going on under our own eyes, it is yet a more remarkable one than at first it seems. The attitude of the Israelite has so long been that of a stranger amid all the populations of the world-a child of the captivity even where most free-singing reluctantly the Lord's song in strange lands-homeless every where-mixing with all, but refusing to cast in his lot with any-that this new theory of assimilation and progression seems, itself, an entire obliteration of the distinctive character of the race. -Athenæum. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, to which are rather than sparkling or profound. The subjects ་ AN UNPUBLISHED WORK OF LINNEUS.-A Frankfort journal mentions the discovery, in Swe-ical criticism; but they are smart and suggestive, den, of an unpublished work by Linnæus, which had long been given up for lost. This work,the labor of the great naturalist's latter years,is called the Nemesis Divina;' and in it he had recorded, for the instruction of his son, a variety of observations and facts, deduced chiefly from the private lives of men who were known to himself, demonstrating that the rewards and punishments of Divine Justice are distributed even in this world. The manuscript consists of 203 sheets; and, in its preface, the author expressly desires that it shall never be published. To this injunction, no doubt, it was owing that the manuscript was laid aside, and forgotten. Some time since, it was purchased by the University of Upsala, at the sale of the library belonging to a phy-markable. Mr. Everett's adaptation is entitled sician whose father had been employed to arrange The Hermitage,' and is written in ottava rima. the papers of Linnæus; and, the death of all We think that its effect would have been better those referred to in the work seeming to have re- had the original costume of the story been premoved the objections to its publication, M. Fries, served. Other translations from Theocritus, a Swedish botanist, has been appointed to pre- Virgil, and the German and Italian poets, are pare a selection from its pages for the press.gracefully done, but challenge no special distinc Athenæum. PAINTING AND PAINTERS -It is calculated that in the present exhibition of the works of living artists at Paris, the paintings cover a space of 20,000 square metres, or 2 hectares; that the frames are 17 kilometres in length; that the value of the whole collection of pictures is about 400,000l.; and that the canvas and the gilded frames only are estimated at 40,000l. of that sum. tion.-Athenæum. in the history of theological learning. Whatever This is a publication that will be memorable may be the opinions of Professor Stuart's readers he has adopted, all must agree in praising the with regard to the scheme of interpretation which It is asserted that Horace Vernet, the painter, will shortly be created a Peer of France. Tant mieux. The honor done in this country to litera-patient care, and the variety and compass of sature and art, in the persons of their most distin- ject. These volumes are published because the cred erudition which he has brought to his subguished representatives, is greatly to its credit, and will-because it must-sooner or later be of the author after the reading and reflection of matter of them commends itself to the judgment imitated in Britain. Old England, in fact, ought to feel her cheeks tingle at her scurvy treatment twenty years. of her writers and her artists having continued so long. Let the dear old soul be assured that they are among the best and the worthiest of her sonsthat they have done as much to extend her glory as the greatest of her soldiers or the ablest of her statesmen-and that in honoring them she honors herself. Madame de Witt of Hanover has finished the globe of the moon, on which she has been engaged for the last twenty-two years. It is a four parts. First, a preliminary part embraces The Apocalypse is divided by Mr. Stuart into the seven churches; second, what is called the the sixth and six following chapters; then folfirst vision and catastrophe, extending through lows the second vision and catastrophe, extending from the twelfth chapter to the nineteenth. The first of the visions is explained as relating to the fall of Judaism, as a persecuting power; the second as relating to the fall of pagan Rome, in that character; and the remaining portion of the GREAT BRITAIN. Memoirs of the Jacobites, by Mrs. Thompson. Vol. III. book-the binding of Satan, and the consequent prosperity of the church for a thousand years, the SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. loosing again of that arch-enemy, and the war with Gog and Magog,-these parts are all explained as referring to more distant events, which are to precede the resurrection, the judgment, and the final blessedness of the redeemed. It is admitted that the first and second visions may be regarded as symbolical of the fall of Anti-christian powers, subsequent to the fall of pagan Rome; but it is maintained that the first Christians understood these visions as referring primarily to Jerusalem and to the power of the Cæsars, and that such was the meaning of the Divine Spirit. Papal Rome, accordingly, is not an object of special reference in the Apocalypse. quar Mr. Stuart has published this exposition with the manifest expectation that in not a few ters it will prove startling and unwelcome. And, certainly, this is not the view taken of the Apocalyptic visions by the majority of expositors in America or in England. During several generations the stream of interpretation has flowed in the channel marked out for it by Mede, Vitringa, and Newton-the Antichrist of the Apocalyse being eminently the papal system, and the purport of the book being to depict in perspective the history of the church, and the history of the world so far as bearing on the fate of the church But Mr. Stuart's theory, though it is not this one, is by no means a novelty. The substance of it may be seen in an extended and elaborate article on the Revelation in Kitto's Cyclopedia, from the pen of Dr. Davidson. But it was not left to Dr. Davidson, any more than to Mr. Stuart, to be a discoverer on this ground, the same views in substance having been broached long before by Grotius, Hammond, Le Clerc, and others, as may be seen in Mr. Stuart's own Historical Sketch of the Exegesis of the Apocalypse.' We hope to take up the subject of prophecy generally ere long, and may then have occasion to recur to Professor Stuart's book; in the mean while we commend his volumes to the candid consideration of our readers. Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, and the Life Life of the Rt. Hon. George Canning, by Robert Bell, 8vo. The miscellaneous works of Sir James 3 vols. Mackintosh. Edited by his son. 8vo. Life and Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, Lives of the Kings of England, by Thomas Roscoe, Esq. Vol. I. comprising William the Conqueror. Confessions of a Pretty Woman, by Miss Pardoe. America, its Realities and Resources, by F. Wyse. 3 vols. Svo, The second volume of Lord Brougham's lives of Men of Letters, comprising Dr. Johnson, Adam Smith, Lavoisier, Gibbon, Sir J. Banks, and D'Alembert. Travels of Lady Esther Stanhope. 3 vols. The Great Salvation, by the Rev. Robt. Montgomery. Life and Times of Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan. Vol. V. Bishop Heber and the Indian Missions, by Rev. James Chambers. Marston, or the Soldier and Statesman, by Rev. Dr. Croly. 3 vols. Industrial History of Free Nations, by W. Tonens McCullough. 2 vols. Sketches of English Character, by Mrs. Gore. 2 vols. Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies, and Apparent Miracles, by A. T. Thompson, M. D. 2 vols. Memoirs of a Femme de Chambre, by Lives of Twelve Eminent Judges of the Coleridge, speaking, in his Aids to Reflection, of Bunyan's Hero, has wisely said, 'The fears, the hopes, the remembrances, the anticipations, the inward and outward experience, the belief and faith of a Christian, form of themselves a philosophy and a sum of knowledge, which a life spent in the grove of Academus or the painted Porch could not have attained or collected.' But most of the persons who have attempted to comment upon Bunyan for the edification of Chris- present century, by W. C. Townsend. tians, have made a very sorry business of it, the 2 vols. comment being too often as a cloud upon the text. Dr. Cheever possesses more of the qualifications necessary to this delicate office than any of his predecessors. He has knowledge, imagination, sensibility, piety, and sagacity; and has produced a book not unworthy of its subject. This saying very much. These lectures have attracted much attention in the United States; we shall be happy to see them become no less popular in Great Britain. GERMANY. Gerlach: Uber den relegiösen Zustand der Anglicanischen Kirche, ihren ver scheidenen, Gliederungen ein Jahre, 1842. Geruberg, A: Die Kirche der Zukunft. Ronge, J.: Neue und doch alte Feinde. Ulmann, Dr. C. Für die Zukunft der Evangelischen Kirche Deutchslands. |