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king;, so as <o endanger llic piiLli 

 peace ; and on this whimsical assump- 

 tion, v.liieh is tiie essential feature of 

 criminal libel. Lord Byron's pubiislier 

 has, by the verdiet of a special jury, 

 been rendered amenable to tlie jucl*;- 

 inent of the Court of King's Bench. 

 Such is the outline of the case. We 

 trust the judges will treat it with 

 sound discrimination ; but we lament 

 that sucli a prosecution should iiave 

 appeared on the records of our juris- 

 prudence : for, if its anti-social prin- 

 ciples were to be maintained, Britons 

 would, in respect to biography and 

 history, sink into the condition of 

 the Romans under Tiberius. In these 

 observations, we do not affect to jus- 

 tify the opinions per se of Lord Byron ; 

 and, if he had volunteered such a 

 jiroduction, we should have thought 

 that he had oflended public decency 

 and good manners: but in the present 

 case his sentiments were extorted by 

 the vile spirit of the court-poet ; and, 

 as this pensioner was not dismissed, 

 .so the indignation of Lord Byron's 

 muse was excited to inflict a punish- 

 ment of its proper kind on the delin- 

 quent. For our parts, we arc at once 

 concerned at the degradation of mind 

 which produced the original poem, at 

 ■the notice with which Lord Byron 

 honoured it, at the doctrines of the 

 judge, and at the decision of this spe- 

 cial jary. 



Memoirs of the Life of Riego and 

 his Family, including a history of 

 Spain from the restoration of Ferdi- 

 nand to the present time, are pre- 

 paring for publication, under the 

 superiutendance of the Canon Kiego, 

 and for the benefit of the widow of 

 that unfortunate general. The work 

 will be illustrated with several por- 

 truit-s and fac-similes. 



It is alleged that a manuscript 

 work of Milton's has been discovered 

 in (he State Paper Olfice, but in the 

 liand of his nephew Philli|is. It is 

 theological and controversial, and, 

 con.sequently, of litlle interest or value: 

 H' printed, it could only add to tlic 

 lumber of the polemical writings of 

 his bewildered times. 



Mr. C. Dyek, formerly of Emanuel 

 College, Cambridge, announces for 

 early publication his long-proinised 

 work on "the Privileges of the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge." 



Tlie Albigenses, a romance, by the 

 Ilev, C, K. Matl'RIN, is printing in 

 lour volumes. 



The great success of Nature Dis- 

 played, and of the Atlas of Nature, ha.s 

 led to a determination to illustrate the 

 arts of man in a similar manner; and 

 in the ensuing w inter. Art Displayed, 

 and an Atlas of Art, exhibiting all 

 kinds of machinery and apparatus, 

 will be submitted to public patronage. 

 The only impediment to the sale of 

 " Nature Displa3ed" and its Atlas has 

 been the ditticuity of preparing copies 

 fast enough to meet the general 

 demand. 



In addition to the severe and high 

 mathematical examinations, on the 

 admission to Bachelor's degrees at 

 Cambridge, it is proposed that this 

 year, and in future, tiiere shall also be 

 a Classical Tripos, for those who have 

 obtained lionours in mathematics. This 

 ■.vill perfect a eourseof publiceducation 

 already the most rigorous and complete 

 in Europe. The number of Bachelor's 

 degrees conferred on the 24th ult. was 

 250; of whom eighty-three were can- 

 didates for honours ; and, such is the 

 advancement of mathematics, that 

 thirty-one were admitted to Wrang- 

 ler's degrees, being the largest number 

 ever recorded. The Classical T'ripos 

 will be altogether honorary, and be 

 divided into three classes. The great 

 increase of students will be attended 

 by local imijrovements on a grand 

 scale. Beimet College is rebuilding, 

 others are in course of enlargement; 

 the Filzwilliani ]\iuscum is about to 

 be commenced; and the trumpery 

 houses which obscure the grand lino 

 of colleges on the west are to be re- 

 moved, by which a coup d'aH will be 

 produced equal to any in the world. 



It deserves to be noticed, that of the 

 Observer newspaper \\ liich contained 

 the details of the trial and execution 

 of Thurtell for the murder of Weare, 

 no less than 1.37,000 copies of a double 

 paper were sold, — a number at once 

 astonishing and unprecedented. There 

 were used 274,000 stamps, and 648 

 reams of pajjcr ; the excise-duty upon 

 which, added to the stamp-duties, must 

 have amounted to about 4000/. for this 

 one publication only. 



An account of Six Months' Kesi- 

 dencc and Travels in Mexico, by W. 

 Bl'i.lock, r.L s. with a niaj) and many 

 plates, is in tli<; press. 



Capt. Pakry's Second Voyage for 

 the Discovery of a North-west Passage, 

 with twenty-five plates, from the 

 »lrawings of Captain Lyon, and nume- 

 rous charts, i^c. is nearly ready. 



Capt. 



