THE

ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS OF No. II.

1. The Pilgrimage to Glen Ora.-2. May! Sweet May!-3. The Nature and Cure of the Indian Cholera.-4. The Slavery Question.-5. The Battle Flag of Sigurd.-6. Notices of England-Her People and Institutions.-7. Song.-8. Scenes in Poland; No. II.-9. The Villa D' Este; Tivoli.-10. Black and White.-11. The School of Saint Simon.-12. The Three Dukes. -13. The Dropping Glen.-14. Recent Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote; No. II. 15. Bird-Nesting.-16. He is gone! he is gone!-17. "Trustees of the Nation."-18. The Modern Drama-" Alfred."-19. Reporting Progress.-20. Colloquial Dictionary. 1. French Colonization of Algiers. 2. Algiers. 3. Fertility of the Cyrenaica. 4. Statistical Notices of Poland. 5. Kilinski, the Shoemaker of Warsaw. 6. First appearance of the Cholera at Moscow.-21. Journal of Literature.-22. List of Books, &c. &c.

(From the Atlas.)

"The ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE promises extremely well. This is its second number, and it enters with zeal and practised ability into the current interests of the day, and dedicates much of its space to the more refined and elegant branches of literature. The work is well arranged and handsomely got up. The subjects present an intermixture, at once agreeable and select, of the useful and the amusing; while much pains are evidently bestowed upon the collation of Parliamentary matters of immediate moment, which are run through in a vein of pleasant and sparkling commentary. We are so satisfied with the entire number, as to augur very favourably of its prospects. It deserves our approbation, which we willingly bestow upon it.'

(From the Tatler-edited by Mr. Leigh Hunt.)

"We remember no Magazine, the first number of which pleased us so much as the present, and the reasons are clear enough. It is the most unfettered in its opinions of any we have yet met with, and the writers appear to be more in earnest. The new Magazine is altogether to be distinguished from its contemporaries by the independence and fervour of its tone."

(From the Morning Post.)

"Much talent is apparently enlisted in the service of this periodical. The second number boasts a choice collection of papers; political, romantic, and poetic. There are few who can look through the articles in the present number, without gathering not only entertainment, but instruction.

(From the News.)

"The premier number of this Magazine was excellent in its arrangement, judicious in its selections, admirable in its originals, and betrayed great penetration, and no inconsiderable degree of research on the part of its Editor. The second is in every respect equal to the first."

(From the Dispatch.)

"We have been much pleased with this Magazine. We like its politics, and admire its literature."

(From the Spectator.)

"The second number of the Englishman is a great improvement upon the former one."

(From the Athenaum.)

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"Of the Englishman, we are happy to say the second number is an improvement. Pilgrimage to Glen Ora, by Christopher in a Fytte,' is written with manifest power; we have strong suspicions that the writer is known to us, and to others who little suspect him. The Notices of England, by a Yankee Oxonian,' are written with a vigorous spleen that reminds us of Hazlitt. The poetical department is of loftier aspiration, and we may add inspiration too, than the general run of periodicals."

(From the United Kingdom.)

"At no crisis so favourable as the present could a Magazine, supported by talent, and liberal in its principles, have made its appearance. The first number gave evidence that the Proprietors were determined to make the Englishman's Magazine the supporter of opinions congenial to an Englishman's feelings, and that they had availed themselves of literary talent of the first order, to render their undertaking worthy of public approval. The second shews that they have not relaxed in their attentions, and we may safely say that the information and variety of amusement contained in the number for May, has rarely been surpassed by any similar publication. We should not omit to mention that a very elegant engraving of the Villa D'Este, Tivoli, is given with this number."

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(From the Manchester Courier.)

"The work is neatly got up, and each Number is embellished with a beautiful Engraving. The literary contents exhibit a considerable degree of talent, and they are adapted to almost every variety of taste; which is perhaps as much as can be said of a work of this description. The "PILGRIMAGE TO GLEN ORA" reminds us so strongly of Professor Wilson, that we cannot help thinking our old favourite has been contributing his talents to the "ENGLISHMAN." The nature and cure of the Indian Cholera, form the subject of a paper which must be highly interesting to professional men, and it is accompanied by a Chart exhibiting the progress of this disorder since 1817. The political bias of this Magazine is towards liberalism, and it ranks among the opponents of the West India system."

(From the Bedford Chronicle.)

"The ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE prepossesses us in its favour by its very wrapper, which flatters our nationality in presenting the effigies of Daniel Defoe, as spirited and noble a politician as he was a powerful and delightful writer. The Editor has evidently aimed at mixing the useful with the agreeable, and his first Number stamps him as a man of taste, information, and liberality. He has done justice to his title and his portrait, by making the Reform question a prominent topic, and stating his views of it with equal force and candour. The monthly "Literary Journal" is written with spirit and fairness.

(From the Dublin Times.)

"On the publication of the first Number, we expressed an opinion strong in its favour, because we thought we could discover in its articles a freshness of idea, and a vigour of intellect which few of our periodicals at present possess. And now, whilst we discuss the pretensions of number two, we can discover no reason for coming to a less favourable decision with respect to it. On the contrary, we find in its articles, even in those which have been continued from its former number, a very great improvement. Upon the whole, we take leave of this talented work with reluctancewe find it difficult to say farewell."

(From the Edinburgh Literary Journal.) "The ENGLISHMAN has our best wishes.-We like its principles."

(From the Aberdeen Magazine.)

"The ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE is certainly the most elegant looking periodical in print, while it is without the disgusting sickliness of the Annuals. We shall be glad to watch its progress to eminence. The downright declaration of political principles, at the commencement, we admire and respect."

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(From the Inverness Courier.)

"A new and valuable ally to the literary liberals-well conceived, well edited, backed and supported by contributors of no ordinary calibre, and graced with all the appliances which the art of the printer and the burin of the ngraver can supply. This is a pleasant number-in all

things fitted to the pleasant month of May. In politics, a high, intellectual, and liberal tone is supported, worthy of the times. The mechanical department is again admirable, and the present number contains a view of the Villa D'Este, Tivoli, which is itself fairly worth the price of the number."

(From the Aberdeen Observer.)

"The ENGLISHMAN is already decidedly superior to several of its competitors, and if it but persevere, it will yet rise higher.'

(From the Greenock Advertiser.)

"We are well pleased with the appearance of the second number of this new periodical. It redeems, as far as could reasonably be expected or desired, the pledges of its conductors on commencing their labours, and gives favourable indications of their resources for carrying on the work with a spirit calculated to make way against the formidable rivalry of its monthly contemporaries."

(From the Perthshire Courier.)

"The second number of this elegant and new aspirant to public favour, contains some articles of solid information, as well as others of that lighter species of reading peculiar to this race of periodicals. Among the former class we would particularly instance an able paper on "the nature and cure of the Indian Cholera," a disease which is at present commencing its desolating course in Europe through the side of Russia. The only thing in it, to which we take exceptions, is its political principles, which are those of "out and out reform;" of course, these will only add to its popularity at the present crisis."

(From the Elgin Courier.)

"We are altogether in love with the broad principles of literary, but especially of political independence with which it commits itself, and with the plain straightforward manner in which we opine from the number before us, these principles will be advocated. There are many able and interesting articles."

THE

ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE.

JULY.

THE EVENTFUL SESSION.

It is impossible to witness the great process of social fermentation going on in almost every quarter of the globe, and not to feel with respect to it more as direct agents than passive spectators. In the days of peaceful routine, the humble citizen forgets his individuality-he is then as an insignificant fly on the vast wheel of the state-" but when the trump of war blows in our ears,"--when the safety of the country calls every true man to his post-there is no member of the community, however lowly his condition, who shows that he is endowed with honesty and courage, that can deem himself unimportant to the public weal, or that can be deemed so by his fellows.

In what times we live !-the moral and political aspect of the world hourly undergoing a change as complete and overwhelming as ever occurred to the surface of the earth on which we tread. Turn to Asia -there the arts, the arms, and the policy of Europe, are awakening energies that have stagnated for thousands of years. At this moment, London exhibits the singular spectacle of a learned Hindoo* mingling with its inhabitants, entering into the spirit of their most grave concerns, and giving the testimony of the mother of antiquity to the necessity of Reform !-In Turkey, the iron sway of the representatives of the Prophet is yielding to infidel innovation. A similar phenomenon is exhibited in Egypt. Algiers, the sink of barbarian piracy, is actually a province of the Giaour. America, which, fifty or sixty years ago, was but a servant of servants," is now almost one unbroken chain of independent republics. Poland has gone forth to battle for her rights, like the Hebrew youth against the Canaanitish giant. Belgium is selfdivorced from the inharmonious mate to which she was united by