The contingent liabilities through bills receivable, discounted, amounted to £136,286. 7s. 7d. Several of these bills are on firms that have suspended payment; but it is expected that the whole amount will be provided for through other parties to the bills. On the 4th inst. upwards of £46,000 of the above amount would have run off, supposing all the bills on India to have been paid, of which there was no doubt. The Santipore estate is estimated at its cost value, from its having been greatly improved. Among the assets stated as good was one item of £23,000, a litigated claim at Madras. A verdict in favour of Messrs. Phillips was certain, but the recovery of the above sum would of course depend on the position of the house from which it is to be collected. Bills to the amount of £28,000 will possibly have to be paid in full, a lien in connection with them existing on the Santipore estate. It was resolved that the affairs of the house should be liquidated by the partners, under the inspection of Messrs. Gouger, Dent, Bagshaw, Davis, and Cowell.

It was agreed that the partners should wind up, under the inspectorship of Messrs. Davidson and De Russett.

To sundry creditors on account current, provided they take up the acceptances of Laurence Phillips and Sons, which are drawn for their account to the extent of £15,551. 8s. 10d.

To sundry creditors, partly secured Estimated value of securities in their hands

32,689 0 5 .. 30,338 16 8

Surplus to creditor as per contra .. To amount of acceptances outstanding on the 15th Oct. 1847 Of which there are on account of creditors above .. 15,551 8 10 Of this amount it is estimated there will come against this estate £4,000. 13s. 3d. And credit is given for acceptances of Laurence Phillips and Sons to various parties who are debtors (and which such debtors ought to meet) to the extent of

..55,585 3 1

To liabilities on bills receivabie Of which it is expected there will claim against this estate To liabilities on acceptances given for the account of correspondents, which are covered by real securities, and therefore will not rank on this estate..

696

Creditor.

By sundry debtors (good)

By sundry debtors (doubtful)

By bills receivable

Of this amount £7,105. 11s. 1d. is secured by bills of lading (and policies of insurance on same), and other good securities.

By produce on hand, and bills of lading of produce to arrive, estimated to yield

Amount to which they stand to debit or cost. £. 17,855 17 1 7,344 6 4

10,994 3 8

By surplus of securities held by creditors as per contra

By consignments to Calcutta, Madras, Colombo, New York, and other parts

By coffee plantation at Ceylon, known as the Kaataboola estate By debt due from the Concessionaires of the Brillon Spelter Mines in Prussia

A company for the carrying out the working of these mines has lately been formed. The necessary authority of the Prussian Government is in course of completion, and it is expected the whole of this amount will be repaid.

There is a balance of debt from the late firm of Barrow and Co., which is now in course of liquida5,000 0 0 tion, of There is also some proproperty, consisting of lands and houses in America, of the estimated value of 5,000 0 0 10,000 0

The above two items form the residue of the outstanding estate of the late firm of Jonas Phillips and Sons; and whatever proceeds are derived therefrom will be divisable equally between Mr. Laurence Phillips and his brother, Mr. Samuel Phillips.

Mr. Barnet Phillips has London Dock Stock of the value of £1,000.

12,607 2 9 12,607 2 9

By interest in a shipment to China assigned to Mr. Fraser by a debtor By policy on the life of L. H. Bodelio, Esq., of Calcutta, for £3,000,one premium paid of £118,-age 43, held as security against his debt of £9,445. 10s. 9d. Less rent, salaries, &c.

..

34,646 3 9

2,000 0 0 500 O

1,500 0 0

1,500 0 0

1,672 18 3 375 0 0

£40,297 18 3

MESSRS. FRY, GRIFFITHS, AND CO. The following resolutions respecting this firm were adopted at an adjourned meeting of creditors, held on the 18th:"That the creditors accept a composition of 4s. in the pound, payable at four, eight, twelve, and fifteen months, by equal instalments. That the liquidation of the affairs and appropriation of the assets of the firm be conducted under the inspection of Mr. Francis Chambers, Mr. L. A. Simpson, and Mr. Jay.

"That the creditors agree to this proposal in the full reliance that the more immediate friends and connections of the firm, being also creditors thereof, will, by the suspension of their claims until the said 4s. be paid, enable Messrs. Griffiths and Co. duly to provide for the payment of the said composition." Signed by all parties, subject to all necessary consents.

6,424,456

The value of exports to China for the above years was respectively £524,198, £862,570, £969,381, £1,456,180, £2,305,617, £2,394,827, and £1,791,439.

MR. BROOKE. We understand his Excellency Mr. James Brooke will shortly receive a mark of distinction from her Majesty, in testimony of his eminent services to the country in the Indian Archipelago. Mr. Brooke does not depart for Borneo so soon as originally contemplated. It is probable he will not leave England before February. The Meander, 44, Capt. the Hon. H. Keppel, will convey Mr. Brooke to Borneo, and remain there to assist him in his endeavour to abolish piracy. Her boats are being built on Lord John Hay's principle. She is to have a launch, the keel of which is forty-five feet long, fitted with engines of four-horse power, and which is to carry two guns.

How OUDE AND THE DECCAN OUGHT TO BE TREATED.-It is to be hoped that the Earl of Dalhousie will be commissioned to introduce into the Governments of Oude and the Deccan the only element which can render them salutary or permanent-we mean the supreme control of the English. Without this all reformation is hopeless. We have now sat quietly by for ages, and apparently seen all that the chapter of accidents is likely to effect for these unhappy countries, and instead of witnessing the slightest dawn of improvement, have beheld a rapid progress from bad to worse, until the lowest depths of oppression seem at length to have been reached-it being utterly impossible to increase the helplessness and mismanagement of the rulers, or the demoralization and discontent of their subjects. A climax has been reached-our interference has become imperative. It now, therefore, only remains to determine the spirit and manner in which we ought to undertake the task.-Morning Chronicle, Nov. 5.

THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Two important offices in Scotland, those of the Lord Clerk Registrar and Keeper of the Signet, are held by Lord Dalhousie. It is not known whether his lordship will retain them.

COTTON.-Mr. Chapman has published a letter in the Times on this important subject. Its length precludes it from our pages.

DEPARTURE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. -Lord Dalhousie arrived at Portsmouth shortly before one on Thursday, the 11th. His lordship was received with the usual honours, and left in the Sidon, at 3 p.m.

The Rev. W. A. W. H. Brunton, M.A., has been appointed chaplain to Lord Dalhousie.

RECENT APPOINTMENTS.-Charles Zachary Macaulay, Esq., brother of the distinguished writer, has been appointed manager of the currency in the Mauritius.-Hougham Hudson, Esq., jun., has been appointed civil commissioner and resident magistrate of Somerset, at the Cape.

MR. BROOKE.-It is said that the honorary degree of D. C. L. will be conferred on this gentleman by the University of Oxford. CAPT. GROVER.-We regret to announce the decease of the gallant officer, at Brussels, on the 5th inst.

Major-General F. Napier, C. B., lieutenant-governor of Guernsey, has resigned that appointment. We congratulate the island on the happy occasion, and of both governor and governed it may be said requiescant in pace.

SUDDEN DEATH.-An inquest was held on Saturday last by Mr. Bedford, at 5, Tenterden-street, Hanover-square (in connexion with the Oriental Club), on the body of George William Traill, Esq., aged 51, late of the East India Company's Civil Service. From the evidence of Sir T. E. Colebroke and other witnesses, it appeared, that the deceased was formerly in the Bengal C.S., but had retired. He was a member of the club. On the Thursday previous he dined there. After dinner he went and sat in the drawing-room, where about half-past eight some warm milk and water was taken to him, according to custom. This was the last time he was seen alive. Next morning deceased was discovered dead in one of the water-closets. The body was opened by Mr. White, who found some adhesions of the heart of long standing, and the heart itself four times its usual size. Verdict-" Natural death from disease of the heart." -Times of yesterday.

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 16. Robert Jones, Esq. to Jane Margaret, eldest daughter of Francis Sapte, Esq. of Eaton-place, Belgrave-square, at the British Embassy at Florence.

Oct. 28. Capt. Henry Aylmer, R.A. to Charlotte Louisa, daughter of John Gwatkin, Esq. late of the Madras civil service, at Veryan, Cornwall.

Nov. 4. Mark Edward Currie, Esq. of the Bengal horse art. second son of Sir Frederick Currie, Bart. to Jane, daughter of the Rev. T. T. Upwood, at Torrington, near Lynn, Norfolk.

DEATHS.

Sept. 18. Dr. Henry Solomon, eldest son of Saul Solomon, Esq. at St. Helena. Oct. 2. Rev. James Hough, M.A. minister of Ham, Surrey, and late chaplain to the Hon. East-India Company at Madras, at Hastings, aged 58.

Nov. 1. Harriet, widow of Col. E. W. Butler of the Bengal art. at Paris.

4. The Right Hon. the Countess Cornwallis, at St. Leonard's-onSea, aged 37. 5. Ann Agnes, the wife of Richard Laughton, Esq. Hon. East India Company's service, at 60, Chester-square.

Maria, widow of Major General Christopher Fagan, Hon. East India Company's service, at Pau.

6. George Francis Barlow, Esq. of the Manor-house, Hampton, Middlesex, aged 74.

7. Rev. G. P. Boileau Pollen, at Little Bookham, Surrey, aged 49.

9. Capt. H. Elliott, late of Hon. East India Company's service, at Hope Cottage, Wormley, Herts, aged 73.

William Sloane, Esq. late of Tirhoot, East Indies.

12. Henry Lloyd, Esq. of Hastings, and formerly of the East India House, aged 43.

Charlotte, relict of William Stanley Clarke, Esq. at Elm Bank, Leatherhead, aged 70.

16. Capt. C. Dennet, of the Hon. East India Company's Madras service, aged 45.

19. G. W. Traill, Esq. Bengal civil service, suddenly, aged 55.

SHIPPING. ARRIVALS.

Nov. 8.-Chieftain, Rains, South Seas; Pilgrim, Francis, Ceylon; Arab, Baker, Mauritius; The Duke, Carson, Bengal; Herculean, Patricksen, Ellen, Braithwaite, John Moore, Withycombe, and Prince of Orange, Smith, Bombay; Tuscan, Silver, Ceylon.-9. Jane Erskine, Baillie, Madras; Success, Boult, Kandiana, Hulbert, Bolton, Davison, and Fairy Queen, Richardson, Bengal; Dublin, Skelton, and Earl of Ripon, Kellow, Ceylon; Queen, Hutton, China; Eucles, Chivas, Bombay; Courier, Johnson, Madras.-10. Edmonstone, Peek, and Majestic, Brown, Bengal; Honduras, Cayzer, New South Wales; Arabian, Robertson, and Orpheus, Neill, Batavia; Humayoon, Cameron, China; Stebon Heath, Knight, Madras; Thames, Gardner, Ceylon; Blonde, Fildes, Singapore; Fanny, Hight, Bombay; Salopian, McLaughlan, China; William Stewart, Jamieson, China.-11. Fatima, Wilson, Bengal; Elora, Turnbull, Bombay; Lavinia, McPhee, Bombay.-12. Sovereign, Loutit, Bombay; Seringapatam, Lovett, South Seas; Isis, Graham, Siam.-13. Eleanor, Mills, Mauritius; Briton, Mitchell, South Australia; Paragon, Coleman, Bengal.-15. Princess Royal, Adamson, Bengal; Arun, Houston, China; Jane Greene, Harrison, Bordeaux.-16. Dream, Butterworth, Ceylon.-17. Brooke, Browne, Maulmain.-22. Soubahdar, Umfreville, Bengal.

DEPARTURES.

From the DowNs. - Nov. 5. Reaper, Thompson, Ceylon.-9. Chaseley, Aldrich, Sydney; Golden Spring, Smith, and Diana, Pugh, Bombay; John Hullett, McIntyre, and Pauline Houghton, Nicholas, Mauritius; Eleanor, Strettell, Maulmain; John Scott, Nosworthy, Newport and Ceylon; Mangalore, Taylor (from Shields), Ceylon; Lismoyne, Roals, Ceylon.-6. Duke of Wellington, Duncan, Cadiz and Calcutta.-7. Arabia, Brown, Cape and Madras.-11. Prince Regent, Massie, Hobart Town.--12. Vanguard, Norris, St. Helena; Rajasthan, Stewart, Bombay; Balley, Laws, Algoa Bay; Symmetry, Mackwood, Malta and Mauritius.-13. Sooloo, Butter, Batavia; Thetis, Mainland, Madras; Kite, Smith (from Shields), Madras.-14. Nautilus, Davis, and Atlas (from Shields), Bombay; Rookery, Greig, Launceston.-15. Adventure, Davis, South Seas.-16. Indian, English, New Zealand; Tam O'Shanter, Marienborg, New South Wales; Apprentice, Hardy, Bussorah. -18. Conservative, Tuit, Mauritius; Rosebud, Winn, Algoa Bay. -19. Lord Dalhousie, Ord (from Shields), Calcutta.-20. Tulloch Castle, Jamieson, and Bombay, Moore, Bombay; Robert Syers, Morrison, Sydney.

From LIVERPOOL.-Nov. 3. Cressida, M'Fee, and Brooklyn, Richardson, Calcutta. 10. Dumfries, Green, Shanghae.-14. Flora M'Donald, Sutherland, and Capitel, Simpson, Calcutta ;

Currency, Devey, Bombay.-18. Guardian, Vickerman, Hong Kong.-19. Joseph Bushby, Sparkes, Bombay.

From HARTLEPOOL.-Nov. 2. Gutterus, Cockburn, Bombay.— 11. Christina, Craig, Singapore; Augusta, Allen, Aden and Bom. bay.-16. Sarah Birkett, Proddow, Madras.

From PLYMOUTH.-NOV. 10. Lady Peel, Fraser, Port Phillip.12. Hyderabad, Castle, New South Wales; Warrior, Hoof, Bombay.-16. H.M.S. Fly, Oliver, New Zealand.

From GRAVESEND.-Nov. 3. Eagle, Sewell.-11. Madura, Smith, and Sea Queen, Hall, Hartlepool and Aden.

From the CLYDE.-Nov. 3. Urgent, Warden, Mauritius. From PORTSMOUTH.-NOV. 4. Lady Flora, Eagles, Madras.— 18. John Cooper, Were, Hong Kong.

From SHIELDS.-Nov. 8. Dorothy, Nicholson, Hong Kong.13. Dauntless, Putt, Ceylon.-15. Clansman, Johnson, Aden. From HULL.-Nov. 12. Doris, M'Donald, Cape. From BORDEAUX.-Nov. 13. United, Taylor, Mauritius. From CowES.-Nov. 3. Albion, Hinderwell, Bombay.

PASSENGERS DEPARTED.

Per steamer Hindostan, from Southampton, Nov. 20, to proceed per steamer Precursor, from Suez:

For MALTA.-Mr, Rose, Mr. Palliser, Mr. and Mrs. C. Grey, and two children; Lieut. Grimston, R.A.; Mrs. Hearne; Capt. Pattinson.

For SUEZ.-Mr. Devries.

For ADEN. Mr. Watkins, Mr. Strover, Major Gordon, Mrs. and Miss Harrington, Mr. E. Delpratt.

For CEYLON.-Mr. and Mrs. James Smith, Miss Mainwaring, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Hoyte, Lieut. Wilson, R.N.

For CALCUTTA.-The Hon. Mrs. Erskine, Mr. J. H. Morris, Mr. Watson, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Chester, Mrs. Holroyd, Mr. Davidson, Capt. Campbell, Lieut. A. Robertson, Capt. Trotter, Mr. E. G. Clark, Mr. J. H. Adams, Miss Boyes, Mr. and Mrs. Grierson, Mr. E. M'Intosh, Col. and Mrs. Low and 2 children, Lieut. Tucker, Mr. Davis, Lady Thackwell, Miss Thackwell, Mr. Bayley, Mr. Glubb, Miss Free, Col. and Mrs. Hearsey, Rev. L. Poynder, Mr. Metcalfe, Mrs. and Miss Scott, Mr. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Currie, Col. Cowslade, Mrs. Erskine, Mrs. Martin and 3 children, Mr. Watts, Mr. Richards, Mr. Millett, Mr. Buckell, Lieut. Waddilove, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Oakes, Mrs. Moseley, Mr. Beetson, Mr. Delpratt, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Farrell, Mr. Jackson.

For MADRAS.-Capt. Evatt; Mr. Baldock; Mr. and Mrs. Whittingham; Mr. E. L. and Mrs. Morris; Mr. and Mrs. M‘Taggart and child; Mr. and Mrs. Purvis; Mr. Montgomerie; Mr. and Mrs. Wedderburn; Mr. C. Taylor; Mr. Binny; Mr. and Mrs. Sevigny; Major Lewis; Capt. Murray.

For SINGAPORE.-Mrs. and Miss Carnie; Mr. E. Twiss; Mr. W. Twiss.

From MALTA for CALCUTTA.-Mr. J. Bax; Capt. Pott.

For MADRAS.-Col. and Mrs. Montgomerie, and Miss Montgomerie.

For HONG-KONG.-Mr. Helbling.

From SUEZ for CALCUTTA.-Dr. Farquhar; Col. and Mrs. Mountain; Chinese Christian boy; Mr. Wheatley.

MILITARY.

Bengal Estab.-Lieut. Henry Hammond, artillery, overland. Lieut. John H. Maxwell, engineers.

Assist. surg. John R. Withecombe, overland,
20th inst.

Madras Estab.-Maj. Eames Amsinck, artillery, overland.
Lieut. Colin Campbell, 1st lt. cav.
Lieut. William B. Jackson, 31st N.I.

Bombay Estab.-Lieut. Hugh Spottiswoode, 1st It. cav.

Maj. John Hallett, 3rd N.I., overland, Feb. Lieut. Thomas W. W. Whittard, 15th N.I., overland.

MILITARY.

Bengal Estab.-Lieut. Powell J. Comyn, 68th N.I., 6 months. Madras Estab.-Capt. Henry A. Tremlett, invalids, 6 months. Assist. surg. James Cornfoot, M.D., 6 months. Assist. surg. Alexander C. MacLeod, 6 months.

ECCLESIASTICAL.

Bengal Estab.-The Rev. Richard Panting, M.A., 6 months.

MARINE.

Bombay Estab.-Lieut. Edward C. Zouch, Indian Navy, 6

months.

APPOINTMENT.

MARINE.

Bengal Estab.-Mr. Edwin Lewis Bartlett, appointed a volunteer for the Pilot Service.

HAILEYBURY.

Mr. James Erskine Oliphant, a student at the East-India College for Bengal, and

Mr. William Balmain, a student for Bombay, have been permitted to exchange their destinations, viz.

Mr. Oliphant from Bengal to Bombay, and
Mr. Balmain from Bombay to Bengal.

The destination of Mr. Jervvise John Grey, a student at the
East-India College, has been changed from the presidency of
Madras to that of Bengal.

LIST OF RANK.

VOLUNTEERS FOR THE INDIAN NAVY.

(In continuation of List dated the 5th May, 1817.) To rank from the sailing from Portsmouth of the ship on which he embarked, and in the following order :

Charles Henry Farrer, per Owen Glendower, sailed 14th
Aug. 1847.

To rank from the sailing from Gravesend of the ships on which they embarked:

William Francis Yates, per steamer Ajdaha, sailed 25th
Sept. 1847.

Frederick Samuel Taylor, ditto, ditto.

Charles Hugh Weston Barrow, ditto, ditto.

Thomas Carpenter Richardson Carpendale, ditto, ditto.
Walter Shairp, ditto, ditto.

John Herbert Trollope, ditto, ditto.
Philip William Fendall. ditto, ditto.
Beresford Bardin, ditto, ditto.

Charles Pooly Georges, per Larkins, sailed 27th Oct. 1847.

CHANGES AND PROMOTIONS

IN H.M.'S REGIMENTS SERVING IN INDIA.

WAR OFFICE, 5TH Nov. 1847.

Bengal, 80th Foot.-Capt. Robert Hawkes, from 4th Foot, to be capt. v. Welman, who exchanges; dated 13th Aug. 1847.

Madras, 4th Foot.-Capt. Hercules Atkin Welman, from 80th Foot, to be capt. v. Hawkes, who exchanges; dated 13th Aug. 1847.

25th Foot.-Ens. William Thomas Potts, to be lieut., by purchase, v. Sir Robert Barclay, who retires; dated 5th Nov. 1847.

Standish Grady Maunsell, gent., to be ens. by purchase, v. Potts; dated 5th Nov. 1847.

Bombay, 28th Foot.-Capt. George Butler Stoney, from the 86th Foot, to be capt. v. Mayers, who exchanges; dated 5th Nov. 1847.

60th Foot.-John Du Cane, gent. to be second lieut. by purchase, v. Dawkins, promoted in 7th Foot; dated 5th Nov. 1847.

86th Foot.-Capt. John Perkins Mayers, from 28th Foot, to be capt. v. Stoney, who exchanges; dated 5th Nov. 1847.

WAR OFFICE, 12TH Nov. 1847. Bengal, 18th Foot.-Lieut. Robert Doran to be adj, v. Bruce, promoted; dated 12th Nov., 1847.

Bombay, 60th Foot.-Lieut. William Henry Stirling, from halfpay, 9th Foot, to be lieut., v. Mitchell, promoted; dated 12th Nov. 1847.

WAR OFFICE, 19TH Nov. 1847, Bengal, 10th Foot.-Lieut. Richard Cormick Clifford, from 50th Foot, to be lieut., v. Singleton, who exchanges; dated 10th Sept. 1847.

21st Foot.-Lieut. George Webb, from 61st Foot, to be lieut., v. Dilkes, who exchanges; dated 21st Aug. 1847. Lieut. Henry Ferguson Barclay, from 24th Foot, to be lieut., v. Graham, who exchanges, dated 14th Sept. 1847.

24th Foot.-Lieut. Oliver Thomas Graham, from 21st Foot, to be lieut., v. Barclay, who exchanges; dated 14th Sept. 1847.

61st Foot.Lieut. James Massey, to be capt., without purchase, v. Atkinson, deceased; dated 19th Nov. 1847. Lieut. William Charles Dilkes, from the 21st Foot, to be lieut., v. Webb, who exchanges; dated 21st Aug. 1847.

Ens. Frederick Robert Eyre Burnside, to be lieut., v. Massey; dated 19th Nov. 1847.

Ens. Charles Bisset Fenwick, from the 1st Foot, to be ens., v. Burnside, dated, 19 Nov., 1847. 98th Foot.-Lieut. William Coutes, to be capt. without purchase, v. Dunbar, deceased, dated 18th Aug. 1847.

Brev.-major Henry Bates, from 82nd Foot, to be capt., v. Montresor, who exchanges, dated 19th Nov. 1847.

Ens. Henry Wallace Stroud, to be lieut, v. Coutes, dated 18th Aug. 1847.

Montague Brown, gent., to be ens., v. Stroud, dated 19th Nov. 1847. Madras, 4th Foot.-Ens. Charles Collins, from 84th Foot, to be ens., v. Whitlock, who exchanges, dated 30th Aug. 1847.

81th Foot.-Lieut. Francis Hutchinson Garner, from 82nd Foot, to be lieut., v. Beague, who exchanges, dated 19th Nov. 1847.

Ens. George Frederick Tod Whitlock, from 4th Foot, to be ens., v. Collins, who exchanges, dated 30th Aug. 1847.

EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FOR INDIA. Per Thetis, for Madras, from Gravesend, Nov. 10, 160 troops from the East India Company's depôt at Warley; officers, Capt. H. W. Wood, 4th Madras N. I., and Lieut. R. D. Dansey, 30th Madras N.I.

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Anabasis of Xenophon, with English Notes, critical and Explanatory; a Map, arranged according to the latest and best Authorities; and a Plan of the Battle of Cunaxa. By CHARLES ANTHON, LL. D., &c. &c. London, 1847. Wm. Tegg and Co.

THE Anabasis of Xenophon, from the easy simplicity of its style, and the romantic adventures it relates, is usually one of the first Greek books that a boy reads. Hitherto the edition most commonly used has been that edited by Hutchinson; but to this, as a book for beginners, there are, we conceive, several objections. First, the abundance of philological remarks tends to weary the attention; and next the notes, being in Latin, is also, in our opinion, objectionable. In this latter respect, indeed, the editor has the authority of custom on his side, though we cannot but think that custom bad which adds to the early difficulties encountered by students of a dead language, by explanatory notes written in a foreign tongue, and of course frequently in the very language of the text. But while condemning these faults in Hutchinson, and such as he, we do not desire to advocate the other extreme, where every thing is rendered so plain, that "he who runs may read." If it may be said of the former class of editors that they weary the pupil's attention, it may be said of the latter that they never excite any attention at all.

Á via media between these two extremes was long wanting in our school classics; such editions as should lighten but not remove the learner's labour. This desideratum is now gradually being removed, and to Dr. Anthon we are not a little indebted for this movement in the right direction. We have on two former occasions been enabled to award our meed of approbation to the editor of the present work, and we have now the opportunity of confirming our previous judgments. The text of the present edition, the editor tells us, is based on that of Professor Long, of London, though in some places it is conformed to the readings of different German critics. The great difference between the texts of Anthon and Hutchinson appears to consist in the frequent adoption by the former of the readings in the Eton and other MSS., while the latter inserts these readings in notes, unwilling to disturb the "common reading." We give the following from Hutchinson's edition, Glasgow, 1822, 1 vol. 8vo. It is the opening of Book vii.

“Οσα μὲν δὴ ἐν τῇ ἀναβάσει τῇ μετὰ Κύρου ἔπραξαν οἱ “Έλληνες μέχρι τῆς μάχης, καὶ ὅσα, ἐπεὶ Κῦρος ἐτελεύτησεν, ἐν τῇ πορείᾳ, μέχρις εἰς τὸν Πόντον ἀφίκοντο, καὶ ὅσα ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου πεζοὶ ἐξιόντες καὶ πλέοντες ἐποίησαν, μέχρις ἔξω τοῦ στόματος ἐγένοντο ἐν Χρυσοπόλει τῆς ̓Ασίας, πάντα ἐν τῷ πρόσθεν λόγῳ δεδήλωται.

This passage Authon reads thus :Οσα μὲν δὴ ἐν τῇ ἀναβάσει τῇ μετὰ Κύρου ἔπραξαν οἱ Έλληνες μέχρι τῆς μάχης, καὶ ὅσα, ἐπεὶ Κῦρος ἐτελεύτησεν, ἐν τῇ πορείᾳ, μέχρι εἰς τὸν Πόντον ἀφίκοντο, καὶ ὅσα ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου πεζῇ ἐξιόντες καὶ ἐκπλέοντες ἐποίουν, μέχρι ἔξω τοῦ στόματος ἐγένοντο ἐν Χρυσοπόλει τῆς ̓Ασίας, ἐν τῷ πρόσθεν λόγῳ δεδήλωται.

One of the principal differences in the above is the adoption of the imperfect in place of the first aorist, and in this Anthon is supported by the Eton MS. and some old editions, but those who read inоinoav receive no small support from the fact that a previous verb used in the same way is in the first aorist, viz. ἔπραξαν. The adoption of πεζῇ for πεζοὶ, οἱ ἐκπλέοντες for πλέοντες, and the omission of πάντα, are also on the authority of the Eton MSS. In the second instance, the repetition of the preposition is certainly adds force to the passage.

In the comprehensiveness and utility of his notes Dr. Anthon has been highly judicious. The researches and discoveries of modern travel have been freely used in their preparation, and the works of the German editors have been copiously consulted. A plan of the battle of Cunaxa, and a map, by Mr. W. F. Ainsworth, the accomplished traveller, will aid the pupil in fully comprehending the geographical part of the work. Arguments, in English, are prefixed to each chapter, and several appendices are added, the first containing remarks on some astronomical points connected with the march; the second, Rennell's table of the dates of the principal transactions; and the third, an index and comparative table of the expedition. This last is a monument of industry and skill. It is divided into four columns. The first contains the name of the place as given by Xenophon, the second the modern identification, the third the distances, the fourth the references and authorities. A glance at the last column will shew the indefatigable labour bestowed on the compilation of this table. A life of the author is prefixed, taken from Knight's Cyclopædia. On the whole, then, we have no hesitation, after a patient and careful examination, in pronouncing this edition to be incomparably superior to any that has yet appeared. We have already extended our remarks beyond our usual length, from an honest conviction that this is a really impotant work; but we cannot close them without expressing our thanks to Dr. Anthon for the very valuable addition which his learning, industry, and high abilities have made to our classical literature. He has done all that could be done towards producing a perfect edition of one who was a lively historian, an agreeable writer, and whom, though οὔτε στρατηγὸς, οὔτε λοχαγός, οὔτε σrpariáns, a peculiar concatenation of circumstances made a great general.

The Anabasis was published at New York in May last, so that very little time has been lost in placing it before the English public. This is a proof of the high estimation in which Dr. Anthon's labours are held in this country, and we rejoice to see it. Praise is due to Messrs. Tegg for this extraordinary de spatch. It is a handsome, elegantly printed volume; the Greek type is clear, bold, decided, and modern. The name of the gentleman under whose superintendence it has passed through the English press is not given, but a word of praise is due to him for the care bestowed on it.

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