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West Indies, a Twelve Months' Residence in, by Dr. Madden.-Athenæum Wife, The, or Women As They Are.-Metropolitan Magazine, Lady's Maga- Walter, or, Second Peep into the World, &c.-Metropolitan Magazine, Tait's Woods, Perils in the, or, The Emigrant's Return.—Metropolitan Magazine, Woman, Ás She Is, and As She Should Be.-Spectator 18th. Yarrow Revisited, &c., by W. Wordsworth.-Quarterly Review. LITERARY NOTICES. The Life of Admiral Lord Exmouth, drawn up from official and other The large Ale and Porter Brewers will next week be presented with a The fifteenth and concluding volume of the Library of Romance will be The Diary of a Solitaire, containing a lively and animated Sketch of a VI. THE MEDICAL STUDENT IN LONDON: EXAMINATION AT APO- XII. SPECIMENS OF WIT AND WISDOM, ELOQUENCE AND LEARNING, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. J. VALPY, M. A. FOR THE PROPRIETOR. LITERARY REVIEW FOR SEPTEMBER. Page Memoirs of the Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh: edited by his Son Plantagenet The History of England; continued from Sir James Mackintosh: vol. 5. The Child's Guide to Knowledge-A Guide to Jewish History Congreve's Nursery Gem . Songs of England and Scotland, vol. 2. The Songs of Scotland The Pilgrims of Walsingham. By Miss A. Strickland Sir Arthur Wilmot; a Tale . The Doom of Giallo; a Neapolitan Romance. By J. Boaden, Esq. 177 178 ib. ib. 179 181 ib. 182 183 ib. Diary of a Solitaire; or, a Sketch of a Pedestrian Excursion through Part of Switzerland, &c. Stanfield's Coast Scenery.-Views in the British Channel, &c. Part III. The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, vol. 3. 185 186 ib. INDEX TO BOOKS REVIEWED IN THE LITERARY PERIODICALS DURING MR. SMITH'S work on the Philosophy of Morals,-a work which places him on a level with Stewart, Reid, Cudworth, and Paley,—will be examined in our next number. The importance attached to the position and prospects of the Peers has put aside two articles in type for this month's 'Constitutional.' We have been favoured with several works for notice which have been some time before the public. Our desire to do justice to the literature of the current month will in many instances prevent us reverting to these, except in cases where the works are of general and permanent interest. CONSTITUTIONAL MAGAZINE. SEPTEMBER, 1835. THE LORDS: THEIR POSITION AND THEIR PROSPECTS. "THE Lords," says the Edinburgh Review,' for April, 1835, "have shown by the painful experience of four years, that they are resolved to separate themselves from the rest of their fellow countrymen, to desire all that they hate, and to refuse whatever they most desire." This is a grave charge brought against an integral portion of our Constitution, and one to be carefully weighed. The great question of the Reform Bill experienced a degree of hostility in the Peers' House, that threw an odium upon it, which it has not yet shook off; and it is watched with a jealous suspicion, not perhaps very favourable to correctness of judgment. An outcry has been raised about privileges; and if we were to form an opinion from the present structure of the Commons, considering that House to represent the majority of the nation, both as to numbers, intelligence, strength, and capability of action, we should say that the Lords must ere long change their position, and, in place of standing between the Throne and the representatives of the people, become a subsidiary chamber, exercising no independent functions. This would be an uprooting of our Constitution: to bring the veto into direct collision with the people would be to overthrow the Monarchy. The first question which meets us here is this-Is the majority in the House of Commons of a nature to demand any marked change in our Constitution; that is, is it numerically great enough to show unequivocally that it represents the popular mind; or has it attached to it any collateral weight or dignity to compensate for a defect in numbers? The answer is, No! What is the majority, as to number, which at present clings to the Melbourne Cabinet? Does it count one hundred members? No. Fifty? No. Forty? Probably; but of a surety not more. Will any man then tell us, that this number is a sufficient Const. Mag.-No. 2. G |