a fancy to see what the inlet of which you speak | as may be anticipated, much of the conversation is like." turned upon the mutual adventures of Bob and myself in an open boat, in the bleak, dreary Antartic Ocean. The Beagle was consequently hove-to off the Cape until daylight, when I went on board the Wyandotté with the captain in the pinnace, and returned Captain Pandrake his oars, and presented him with six case-bottles of Jamaica. the several circumstances, which have never heretofore been published. To the best of my belief Captain Robert B- is still living and hearty. I know that he was three years ago, and he is very far from The worthy skipper, however, positively re- being an old man either. Should this narrative fused to accept the rum as a present. He said ever meet his eye, I am confident that he will that no one should ever say that he took pay-attest to the accuracy with which I have related ment for rendering a service to a brother sailor in distress; therefore, to gratify his humour, our captain accepted a barrel of seal oil in exchange for the spirits, and having shaken hands heartily once more with the honest skipper and crew of the Wyandotté, I returned with my captain to the Beagle, which forthwith proceeded on her voyage. We remained nine months longer off the dreary, desolate coast of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and then gladly enough sailed for England. Some two years later, having duly served my time as a midshipman, I "passed," and quitted the service. Many years elapsed ere I saw little Bob again, and when we did meet again, he was no longer "little Bob but stout, burly, Captain Robert B, commanding a fine West Indiaman. I spent the evening at his house in the environs of London, a snug little villa, over which his mother- -a comely, matronly old lady, happily presided, and I was introduced to his married sister and her husband the curate of an adjoining parish. They formed together a comfortable, happy, cosey family circle, and, There may have been, in fact, I know that there was, on the return of the Beagle and the Adventure to England, a newspaper paragraph or two written relative to the drifting away of one of the Beagle's boats, off Cape Horn, with a midshipman and a ship-boy on board; but as a midshipman and ship-boy were no such important personages that their mishap should interest the general public, especially as the mishap terminated in their being restored in safety to their ship, and as no one except Captain Robert B, and the present writer, could narrate the circumstances attending our eight days' cruise in an open boat in the Antarctic Ocean, and as the present writer had not then embraced, and did not embrace till many years afterwards, the "idle profession of an author," none beyond our own shipmates on board the Beagle and the Adventure, and our own immediate friends, have ever, until now, heard any further particulars of our adventure than those same newspaper paragraphs afforded. J. A. M. From the Examiner, 29th Dec. - We must not forget either that anger may enter even celestial minds, and that Count Bismarck's successful tricks have doubtless left a very sore feeling behind them. NaSUCH was the comforting declaration poleon III. is in no better humour for havwhich assured France and Europe that a ing been humoured to some small extent régime of peace and prosperity was opening, having been allowed to act the part of umand that if the sword were not turned into pire when the reality had departed; having the plougshare, the ploughshare should at been deferred to in Saxony, and the dim least not be displaced by the sword. Some discrowned King, his protégé, received with years have passed, not without great wars, what must be peculiarly pleasing honours at and, though no war menaces France ex- Berlin, and regaled with the " Saxon Hymn" cept from herself, the same voice proclaims by Prussian soldiers, while in all essenthe necessity of turning her whole popula- tials he was cheated and disregarded. This lation to the profession of arms. It is true was an irritant, not a salve to his wound. that nearly all the continent is now armed, The best chance of a lengthened preservabut France has been the general armament, tion of peace is the very general reluctance and even now she knows well that no Bis- of France-though France also, there can marck and no Gortschakoff will, unassail- be no doubt, looks on the Prussian conjurer ed, lift a finger against her. It is but with no friendly eye- to sacrifice the prosnatural, then, to suppose that the real ob- pects of the country to revenge for an ject of the threatened measure is a con- affront, and dissatisfaction with the event of templated attack on some other Power. ill-planned diplomatic and military enterOne has lately outwitted France, and, with- prises. There is, indeed, a very general out her consent, aggrandized itself suddenly disapprobation in the half-free portion of and enormously. The Mexican failure may the press and probably in the country. have had its share in producing this resolu- Many deputies, it is said, talk loudly in detion to be more powerful for the future, and precation of the measure. But if it come so may the ripening of the Eastern ques- to the vote, the majority will, no doubt, be tion; but we can little doubt that the Prus- found faithful. sian power is the immediate aim as well as Our own duty is evident, to neglect nothcause of the proposal. If the Legislative ing which can contribute to secure us against Body be as obsequious as usual, and the all chances. Europe cannot remain for an desire of the heart of "the man of peace "indefinite time a collection of vast standing be fully carried out, he would hardly be a armies without a spark falling where it will rash prophet who should assign 1867. -"or explode some of the powder, and, with the still more probably 1868," as Dr. Cumming best intention to keep out of the way, it may We have no says - for war between France and Ger- be impossible for us to do so. many. For the first time in his reign, the idea, and happily no need, of "arming the Emperor has been seriously baffled, has fail- people," but let us improve our existing ed in his enterprises and plans, and received means to the utmost, see to our militia, utilan unpleasant impression of mortality. 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The collected Writings of Edward Irving. 1864-5. 6 - trace the progress of Irving's mind and the development of his views, we shall, as far as may be practicable, follow the chronological order of his writings, referring occasionally to his life for information that may throw light upon his mental history. And here we regret to be obliged to find fault MORE than four years have elapsed since with the editor at the very outset of his we reviewed Mrs. Oliphant's Life of Ed- work. The first volume begins with a series ward Irving.' The interest which that book, of four discourses, ranged under the title 'On the Word of God." They are not introby its graphic and truthful portraiture, revived in the great Presbyterian preacher, duced by any preface of the author, or accalled up in the minds of many, yet living, companied by any note of the editor; and vivid recollections of his eloquence, and there is nothing to tell whether they are aroused a desire in many more to possess now printed for the first time or not. Morehis works. Though a large portion of his over, there is nothing to show what place Consequently, if we writings had been published in his life-time, they take in the chronological arrangement and some of these had passed through sev- of Irving's writings. eral editions, there did not exist either an did not happen to know something about uniform edition of what Irving had published them, beyond what Mr. Carlyle tells us, we or a complete collection of what he had should remain in perfect ignorance of the a fact of great importance, as bearwritten. It appeared, therefore, proper to fact the possessors of his literary remains, to put ing upon Irving's theological and intellectual forth such an edition as should answer both history that these four discourses are the requirements of uniformity and complete- famous Orations' which, together with the Argument for Judgment to Come,' formed ness. We are consequently indebted to the Rev. G. Carlyle, Irving's nephew, for Irving's first published work. This volume, this series of five handsome and portly oc- as we learn from Mrs. Oliphant (Life of tavos. How far these volumes answer ex- Edward Irving,' vol. I. p. 169), at once pectation as to completeness or judicious- aroused public attention to the highest deness of selection, we shall see as we go on. gree of interest and excitement. Of course At any rate, no higher tribute could be paid it is the part rather of the biographer than to the power of Irving's intellect than the of the editor to relate these facts, more espublication of these volumes. For Irving pecially as this edition of the work professwas no safe and sound divine whose theolo-edly follows in the wake of the Life.' gy any man, who cared to be thought ortho- But while we may accept this as an apoloHe wrote nogy for the total absence of any note of exdox, would openly admire. work upon any subject of lasting interest planation, there is extraneous to theology. His style of sermon composition was in every sense inimitable. No one could hope to come up to it in its excellencies, or would attempt to follow it in its peculiarities. Therefore, in publishing his discourses, the expectation that they would find a sale amongst the starveling preachers of our time, who hunger and thirst after new volumes of sermons, could have had no place as a motive. And yet, in the absence of all these which form the usual reasons for reproducing the writings of a deceased author, who was neither a novelist nora poet, the well-known publisher, Mr. Alexander Strahan, has deemed it wise to put forth a large and elegant edition of his works. And we doubt not the public have That it duly appreciated the venture. should be made, and that it should succeed, now that Irving has been dead above thirty years, is, we repeat, a noble testimony to the force of his genius. 6 no excuse left for changing the title under which Irving issued his first book, and by which it has ever For the Orabeen known as one of the most brilliant efforts of theological rhetoric. cles of God, Four Orations; this was the title with which Irving headed his work: On the Word of God;' this is Mr. Carlyle's feeble and unauthorized substitute. But this is not all. Doubtless Mr. Carlyle, when he undertook the task of producing a collected edition of his uncle's writings, had to decide with much deliberation upon the limits he should assign to it so as to avoid, on the one hand, an unsalable voluminousness, and, on the other, an incomplete exhibition of the author's views and genius. We accept with approbation the principles he lays down for himself in his preface, in these words. It is now proposed to make such a collection of his writings as will fairly exhibit his great powers of oratory and thought. It will be the EdAs the object of the present article is to | itor's object to include whatever is of perma |