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ROME, ITALY, April 4, 1871.

ber of the commission is Lord Robert Montagu, brother of the Duke of Manchester. This nobleman belongs to the Queen's privy council, and was minister of public instruction in the Disraeli cabinet. Viscount Campden, Lord Howard, uncle of the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Arundel of Wardour, the Master of Herries and the Lord of Herries, the Master of Lovat, Lord Archibald Douglas and some fifteen or twenty more noblemen and gentlemen of high rank, wealth and influence compose this ninteenthcentury pilgrim band from the Anglo-Saxon island to Pius IX. They attended the private ceremony of the Pope in the Pauline Chapel on Palm Sunday, received blessed palms from the Holy Father's hands, then went down into St. Peter's, and were present at the Chapter Mass. Boston Daily Advertiser.

JUST now Rome at the Vatican is deeply interested in the visit of the English deputation to the Pope. The high rank of its members reminds one of days far back in the middle ages, when Offa, king of Mercia, established the tax called "St. Peter's Penny," and Anglo-Saxons made pilgrimages to Rome. Even Saxon kings took the holy journey. William of Malmesbury tells us of Ina, king of Sussex, who left kingdom and crown, came a pilgrim to Rome with his pious queen, was "shorn a monk," and founded the Anglo-Saxon college in this city in 788. Florence of Worcester, too, records that in 1031 King Canute travelled over sea and land to the Eternal City and made some fresh arrangements with the Pope for the treatment of the English bishops when they came to receive their palliums. Canute had an eye to business, for all his pilgrimage piety; he selected the time for visiting Rome when many great princes were assembled here, the Emperor Conrad of Germany, Rudolph, king of Burgundy, and others, in order to make treaties in his recent interesting and instructive address with them by which he obtained a free and unmolested passage to and from Rome through their dominions for English travellers, whether ecclesiastics or merchants. These treaties were faithfully carried out during the middle ages, and led to the custom of passports which are now, owing to the changes of time and habits, so annoying to the modern traveller.

cess stopped, and the plant was killed. M. Boussingault, who was present when this communication was made to the French Academy, accepted the statement, on account of the known ability of M. Melsens, but he detailed experiments to show that other ferments had their activity destroyed by exposure to temperature much less severe, or even by ordinary frost.

The Vitality of Yeast.- Mr. H. J. Slack, to the Royal Microscopical Society, stated that M. Melsens made experiments last year on the vitality of beer-yeast. He found fermentation possible in the midst of melting ice, a temperature at which the yeast would not germinate. The life of the yeast-plant was not destroyed by the most intense cold that could be produced, about 100° C. below zero. In close vessels These English pilgrims of 1871 bring" St. when the products of fermentation gave a presPeter's penny" in a good round sum, and sym-sure of about twenty-five atmospheres the propathy deep and strong for the Holy Father; but they do not come in peaceable treaty-making times; nor are they kings or representatives of governments. The island of saints became an island of heretics to the Holy Father many long centuries ago, when the ancestresses of the young nobleman who heads the deputation were furnishing wives to that royal Bluebeard, Henry VIII. The Duke of Norfolk, who is the chief of these modern English pilgrims, is first peer of Great Britain, earl marischal of England, ranks all the nobility of the land, and takes precedence next to the royal family. Though no king, he is the descendant of kings; the third duke of his house married the daughter of Edward IV., the Princess Anna, and his family has been connected by marriage with the sovereigns of France, England and Scotland. He is a good-looking youth of twenty-four, and is going to marry a princess as his ancestors and his cousin of Lorne have done. Margaret of Orleans, the daughter of the Duke de Nemours, is to be the future Duchess of Norfolk. The next in rank in this deputation is Earl Denbigh, who is descended from the house of Hapsburgh, a branch of which famous line settled in England some centuries back. Lord Denbigh is about 45 or 50 years old. Another distinguished mem

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Escape of the Abbé Moigno and Injury to M. Ch. Girard.- The "Chemical News February 24 states that it has just received a letter from the Abbé, dated Paris, February 15, 1871. From this it understands that the distinguished savant had a narrow escape during the bombardment. A shell exploded in his bedroom, and destroyed more than a thousand valuable books, but he escaped uninjured. Les Mondes, the publication of which was suspended last September, will reappear as soon as communications are open. M. Ch. Girard has, we regret to say, received serious injury from the fall of a shell, but our readers will be glad to hear that he is now convalescent.

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Set me a task, and it is not done;

I tried and tried since the early morning,
And now to westward sinketh the sun!
Noble the task that was kindly given
To one so little and weak as I
Somehow my strength could never grasp it,
Never, as days and years went by.

Others around me cheerfully toiling,

Showed me their work as they passed away; Filled were their hands to overflowing,

Proud were their hearts and glad and gay.

Laden with harvest spoils they entered
In at the golden gate of their rest;

Laid their sheaves at the feet of the Master,
Found their places among the blest.

Happy be they who strove to help me,
Failing ever in spite of their aid!

Fain would their love have borne me with them,
But I was unready and sore afraid.

Now I know my task will never be finished,
And when the Master calleth my name,
The Voice will find me still at my labour,
Weeping beside it in weary shame.

With empty hands I shall rise to meet Him, And, when He looks for the fruits of years, Nothing have I to lay before Him

But broken efforts and bitter tears.

Yet when He calls I fain would hasten
Mine eyes are dim and their light is gone;
And I am as weary as though I carried

A burthen of beautiful work well done.

I will fold my empty hands on my bosom,
Meekly thus in the shape of His Cross;
And the Lord Who made them so frail and fee-
ble

Maybe will pity their strife and loss.

The Month.

From The Edinburgh Review. LORD BROUGHTON'S RECOLLECTIONS OF A LONG LIFE.*

LORD PALMERSTON and Lord Broughton — who was better known to his contemporaries, as he will be to posterity, by the familiar name of John Cam Hobhouse were born within a few months of each other; the one in 1784, the other in 1786. The lives of both these eminent men were extended to the furthest span of human existence, for they passed the age of fourscore in full possession of their faculties. The time in which their lives were cast was the most eventful period of modern history; and in the parliamentary and administrative service of their country both of them bore a conspicuous part. Although Lord Palmerston entered life as a political descendant of Pitt and Canning, with all the advantages of high birth and early official connexions, whilst Hobhouse sprang from a humbler stock of Bristol merchants

party, and of peculiar interest to ourselves,

we allude of course to the Memoirs of he had completed his eightieth year. But Lord Brougham, written by himself after in this case also we must be content to wait until the work is more advanced. At The volumes before us-five goodly octapresent our task is altogether different. VOS - contain Lord Broughton's own reminiscences of his long and varied life. They were extracted by himself in the years immediately preceding the close of it, from journals and memoranda he had kept in his possession. They contain a vast variety of incident and anecdote, acute sketches of character, animated pictures of parliamentary contests now almost dations of curious passages in ministerial forgotten, and sometimes important eluciesting record by its author is not such as history. But the form given to this interto justify its complete publication in its

and Dissenters, and owed his early celeb-present shape or at the present time. rity to the vehemence of his liberal opinions, they met at last in the Cabinets of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell, and no two members of those Administrations more cordially agreed in spirit and in policy, for they had both reached that broad and secure ground of Whig principles on which the Conservative traditions of the one blended with the Radical tendencies of the other.

The life of Lord Palmerston has in part been written and published by one who, as a public servant and a private friend, is eminently qualified to do justice to that great Minister. The work in its unfinished state has already been fully examined by several of our contemporaries. We reserve our judgment upon it until it is completed

and we will then endeavour to take a con-
nected survey of Lord Palmerston's politi-
cal career.
The same remark applies to
the publication of the first volume of the
Autobiography of another veteran of still
higher distinction in the ranks of the Whig

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Lord Broughton's own use, or at most for These volumes were printed solely for the amusement of his own family, and to ensure the preservation of them. They have therefore not the strictly confidential character of private manuscripts, but neither were they intended for the public eye: accordingly they have been communicated with the greatest reserve and to very few persons. We are however enabled, by the kind permission of his nearest representatives, to make use of them on the present occasion for the purpose of presenting to our readers a sketch of the life of one of the ablest and most energetic members of the Liberal party and champions of the Liberal cause, in times now long

which may

gone by. It has been thought that, if there be one place more than another in which such a sketch may appropriately appear, it is in the pages of this Journal, be regarded as a contemporary of Hobhouse himself, and which has won whatever reputation and influence it possesses on the same fields on which he contended. Much, no doubt, must be left unsaid in reviewing memoirs of a confidential character, relating to times and persons still so near to us. We shall exercise a discreet forbearance with reference to some points and some characters, which may

hereafter be more fully disclosed; but that he underrates his own classical proenough and more than enough remains to ficiency; for he remained through life a accomplish our principal object, which is to preserve in these pages a memorial of a very honest politician, a high-spirited and accomplished member of society, and an able Minister of the Crown.

ready and accomplished scholar, if not a profound one; and there are numerous traces, both in his travels and in his life, of an habitual familiarity with classical literature. Indeed the notes to the fourth canto of "Childe Harold" are a lasting memorial of his fine taste, learning, and culture.

JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE was born on the 27th June, 1786, at Redland, near Bristol. His father was the second son of a Bristol merchant; his mother the daughter of Mr. But the great event of his Cambridge Cam of Bradford in Wiltshire. The lady life was the intimacy he formed there with was a Dissenter; and so was Miss Parry, Lord Byron. He was scarcely three-andhis father's second wife. Young Hob- twenty when he started with the poet on house was therefore sent in the first in- that memorable tour across Portugal and stance to a school at Bristol, kept by a Spain to Gibraltar, Albania, Greece, and Unitarian Minister, Dr. Estlin. His boy- Constantinople, which is immortalized in hood was spent amongst that highly the first cantos of "Childe Harold," and respectable and intelligent class of English was related by Hobhouse himself on his Presbyterians, who were ever cordially return by the publication of his travels. attached to the cause of Liberal opinions, Throughout life, he was animated by an then highly unpopular in England. Party ardent curiosity to witness the most strikspirit never ran higher than it did during ing scenes and events of his time. He the early years of the French Revolution; was an indefatigable traveller, at a time and the societies of Liberal Dissenters when travelling was neither easy nor safe. were the most enthusiastic advocates of He scoured Germany in the rear of the the cause of freedom. Coleridge and French and German armies in 1813. He Southey, then in their republican phase, was in Vienna with Mr. Kinnaird when used to frequent Dr. Estlin's modest sup- the Truce of Prague was terminated and pers at Bristol; and Humphry Davy, then Austria declared war on Napoleon. He an apothecary's assistant on St. Michael's visited Leipzig two months after the battle, Hill, assisted Dr. Beddoes when he lectured when heaps of cannon and offal were smokon chemistry to the townspeople. ing in every direction, and the suburbs But notwithstanding these democratic of the city were dotted with shot-holes. connexions, Mr. Hobhouse the father was He reached Frankfort in January 1814, a man of property and good family. He where he met Mr. Disbrowe and Mr. stood for Bristol, and was beaten at the Rolfe-afterwards Lord Cranworth. At election of 1796, but was soon afterwards Wilhelmshöhe he saw the scaffolding emreturned for the borough of Grampound. ployed in taking down the inscription In 1812 he obtained a baronetcy, which "Napoleonshöhe " and replacing the old afterwards devolved on his son. This name little foreseeing that it would one gentleman was intimate with the first day deserve, in another sense, the French Marquis of Lansdowne, who on more than appellation; and he reached Paris on the one occasion showed the greatest liberal- 19th April, about a fortnight after the ity to the Dissenting interest, and even occupation of the allied armies. The received Dr. Priestley into his family. entry of Louis XVIII. into his capital on Young Hobhouse was taken by his father the 3rd May has often been described. to Bowood, which led to his removal to On the following day the allied troops, Westminster School, where young Lord chiefly Russians, defiled before the SovHenry Petty had been educated; and in ereigns. All the military splendour of due time he proceeded to Cambridge, Europe was gathered in that spectacle. where by his own account he did nothing But one man was there, whom none of the beyond gaining what he terms an "obscure illustrious personages present had probahonour," the Hulsean Prize. We suspect bly ever seen, although his fame filled the

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