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an uncle may even bo desirous of personal communion with our King on the subject of the marriage of their neice the Princess Victoria ; the meeting argues good faith , and some promise for the future happiness of the heiress presumptive to the throne of these realms . The newspaper stamp duty being reduced on the 15 th , from fourpence to one penny , has given birth to many additional emanations from the public press , and yet we hear that all other papers have somewhat
increased in circulation : the charge to the public has been reduced in proportion , or nearly so . FRANCE . —Again a Ministry has resigned—and lo ! another succeeds them . " Louis Philippe and Mole" appear as names to a document of September 19 , which declares for the present , at least , a list of the Cabinet , & c . The state of Spanish affairs appears to influence the vaccillating policy of the French government . The detenues at Ham , Prince Polignac and his fellow-prisoners , are likely to be liberated .
SPAIN . —The bloody tragedy of the murder of Quesada by the rabble patriots , seems to have satiated their appetites . Isturitz and Galiano have escaped . There is a singular fortune attended the latter ; he miraculously escaped the determined vengeance of Ferdinand at Cadiz ; he again succeeded in evading the hot-headed resentment of the populace , and now he is once more a wanderer from his native country , which has adopted the very Constitution he himself was sworn to support .
Mendizabal is again appointed to the Finance . The Queen gouvernante , perhaps , has little to do but to obey the power that is , her destiny probably depending upon the future policy which England and France may adopt . The civil war remains unchecked . Letters from Sebastian of the 15 th , represent the British Legion to be in better spirits , and that general supplies have been more liberally afforded them . PORTUGAL . —The Queen and the Prince her husband , have sustained
the shock of another revolution , demanding the Constitution of 1 S 20 . The troops , it appears , sided with the ultra-republican deputies , and her Majesty " spontaneously resolved to swear to the Constitution . " Little tumult occurred , and no lives were lost .
LITERATURE . —The Defence of Socrates , by Henry Raper Slade , L . L . B ., Cleric . Sherwood . —Had not the whole of this most vivid , translation appeared in the pages of the Freemasons' Quarterly , we should have borrowed largely , very largely from its stores of eloquence ancl beauty . Mr . Slade appears most felicitous as a translator ; he the essence of the Greekthe wonderful Greekinto the body
pours , , of English , and animates it with a new spirit and a new fife . All to whom the great original is a sealed book , owe a debt of gratitude to Mr . Slade for the golden addition he has here made to their lofty thoughts and aspirations . We earnestly entreat him to give us a fewmore apples from the Hesperides of Greek literature . There is one class of readers to whom Mr . Slade ' s translation must prove invaluable . It may be considered as a standard to the students of
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge , to whom such a work is an absolute desideratum ; and we have no doubt they will each readil y supply themselves , ancl thus encourage the learned and liberal translator to turn his attention to the other dialogues of Plato .
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Miscellaneous,
an uncle may even bo desirous of personal communion with our King on the subject of the marriage of their neice the Princess Victoria ; the meeting argues good faith , and some promise for the future happiness of the heiress presumptive to the throne of these realms . The newspaper stamp duty being reduced on the 15 th , from fourpence to one penny , has given birth to many additional emanations from the public press , and yet we hear that all other papers have somewhat
increased in circulation : the charge to the public has been reduced in proportion , or nearly so . FRANCE . —Again a Ministry has resigned—and lo ! another succeeds them . " Louis Philippe and Mole" appear as names to a document of September 19 , which declares for the present , at least , a list of the Cabinet , & c . The state of Spanish affairs appears to influence the vaccillating policy of the French government . The detenues at Ham , Prince Polignac and his fellow-prisoners , are likely to be liberated .
SPAIN . —The bloody tragedy of the murder of Quesada by the rabble patriots , seems to have satiated their appetites . Isturitz and Galiano have escaped . There is a singular fortune attended the latter ; he miraculously escaped the determined vengeance of Ferdinand at Cadiz ; he again succeeded in evading the hot-headed resentment of the populace , and now he is once more a wanderer from his native country , which has adopted the very Constitution he himself was sworn to support .
Mendizabal is again appointed to the Finance . The Queen gouvernante , perhaps , has little to do but to obey the power that is , her destiny probably depending upon the future policy which England and France may adopt . The civil war remains unchecked . Letters from Sebastian of the 15 th , represent the British Legion to be in better spirits , and that general supplies have been more liberally afforded them . PORTUGAL . —The Queen and the Prince her husband , have sustained
the shock of another revolution , demanding the Constitution of 1 S 20 . The troops , it appears , sided with the ultra-republican deputies , and her Majesty " spontaneously resolved to swear to the Constitution . " Little tumult occurred , and no lives were lost .
LITERATURE . —The Defence of Socrates , by Henry Raper Slade , L . L . B ., Cleric . Sherwood . —Had not the whole of this most vivid , translation appeared in the pages of the Freemasons' Quarterly , we should have borrowed largely , very largely from its stores of eloquence ancl beauty . Mr . Slade appears most felicitous as a translator ; he the essence of the Greekthe wonderful Greekinto the body
pours , , of English , and animates it with a new spirit and a new fife . All to whom the great original is a sealed book , owe a debt of gratitude to Mr . Slade for the golden addition he has here made to their lofty thoughts and aspirations . We earnestly entreat him to give us a fewmore apples from the Hesperides of Greek literature . There is one class of readers to whom Mr . Slade ' s translation must prove invaluable . It may be considered as a standard to the students of
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge , to whom such a work is an absolute desideratum ; and we have no doubt they will each readil y supply themselves , ancl thus encourage the learned and liberal translator to turn his attention to the other dialogues of Plato .