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Messrs. Blackwood publish A Row in the Zoo; or, the

Hole in the Eastern Wall, a feeble imitation of "Dame Europa's School." The only noticeable thing about it is the quarter from which it comes. It main- tains the principle that a State may do what it likes with its own rebel, just as Blackwood's Magazine always maintained with special vehemence that a man may do what he likes with " his own nigger," and has never, we believe, really changed its opinion up to this day. Edinburgh Toryism never could pat up with the weak sentimentalism that objected to "horrors." "Horrors of the Middle-Passage," "Bul- garian horrors "—what are they, to the" sacred rights of property "and the "right divine to govern wrong ?"