PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, Fetus June 2d to June 9th.

Boors.

Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa. By ROBERT MOFFAT, twenty-three years an Agent of the London Missionary Society in that Continent. With engravings by G. BAXTER.

The Tempter and the Tempted. By the Baroness Du CALABRELLA. In three volumes.

Josephine ; a Poem, in three parts: and other Pieces. By FaeNess 3f. EATON.

Josephine narrates the career of Napoleon's wife, from the Gipsy's or rather Negro's prophecy at Martinique, to her decease at Malmaison. The verse is graceful and animated; and some of the incidents are produced with good effect, though in rather a melodramatic way. Both Josephine and the minor poems that follow it exhibit strong evidences of an elegant and accomplished mind ; but they are deficient in that unborrowed character of thought and manner, which is the first requisite, in the present times, to attract public attention to poetry.] A Voice from the Town, and other Poems. By JOHN BOLTON Roorinions, Author of "Rhyme, Romance, and Revery," &c. [An outpouring, in blank verse, of images presenting or thoughts suggesting themselves to Mr. ROGERSON'S mind; the title being rather derived from the habitat of the " Voice " than from the subjects treated. With the exception of a clumsy allusion to a street-brawl, the first book contains only things per- sonal to the author, the difficulties he has had to struggle with, the friends he has found, and many matters relating to his family. In the second book, after the gin-palace and the prison-van are dismissed, the reader is carried into the country; and the third is a mixture of reverie and description, in which town topics predominate—and that is all. The style of Mr. ROGERSON is fluent, but stilted ; and it has no sort of keeping with the theme : he not only describes the gin-shop with as mach stateliness as BYRON musing over decaying Venice or the ruins of Rome, but he speaks of its gaudy decorations as if they were chefs-d'oeuvre of art.] France Daguerrirotyped ; or the War Fever. By Captain PEPPER, Au- thor of " Written Caricatures," &c.

[This title is not borne out by the contents of the volume: so far from ex- hibiting a picture of France, the author confines himself solely to Paris, and to that part of Parisian society which is obvious to any one who chooses to seek it. So far from reflecting an accurate but somewhat literal reflection of things as they are, the writer sketches, in a fluent and flashy style of laboured smart- ness, the moral, political, and anti-English feelings of the numerous adventurers who float upon the mass of Parisian society, or the something more than ad- venturers who may be found in it without much trouble; narrates the course of TIMERS ; professes to describe his Ministry, parties, politics, and purposes, as well as those of his opponents, and of Louis FaILLIpE ; the result of the whole being to represent the French as a nation of immoral, dishonest, 11- centious, corrupt, lying, English-hating rascals. The beat things in the book are the current on mots of the French with for the last two years, which the writer has picked up and interwoven in his text.] The Bombay Almanack, Directory, and Register, for the Year 1842. [It was originally intended to have made this work an Indian Annual Register as well as an almanack and statistical journal, but the illness of the editor compelled the postponement of the plan for another year. The Bombay Almanack, Directory, and Register, for 1842, is, however, an informing, useful, and elaborate publication; reflecting great credit on the printer of the Bombay Times, by whom it was compiled, and being, moreover, a very creditable specimen of Colonial bookeraft. Of the six parts into which the Almanack is divided, the ant, in addition to the calendar, contains a variety of scientific information connected with the different methods of measuring time, tables of monies, weights, &c. and some meteorological observations. The second part gives a view, as it were, of Bombay business, in accounts of the insurance and other public companies, elaborate particulars of the steam-communication with England, lists of the law courts and officers, with various miscellaneous infor- mation. The third part consists of statistics, of the world generally, and of India particularly ; of which the most interesting is the account of the health-restoring stations on the hills—the most curious, the long list of Indian Princes, of whose existence our most servile tuft-hunting courtier was not aware. The fourth, fifth, and sixth parts, form Army, Civil, and Navy Lists. The Directory, besides lists of the inhabitants of Bombay, a general account of Indian functionaries, and very particular exhibitions of the officials and societies of the Presidency, contains tables of the Sovereigns of Europe, of the Government of America, and of British and Foreign Diplomatic Agents. The Register contains an account of cdmmercial affairs, arrivals and depar- tures, births, marriages, and deaths, &c. An appendix gives a view of the various Government-regulations on various subjects—trade, taxation, post- office, Etc. ] Bees, their Natural History and General Management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries and improve- ments in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives HOW in use. By ROBERT Huns, F.Z.S., &c. [This volume strikes us as being a new edition, or founded on a previous pub- lication by Mr. Huns. The book before us consists of two topics : the prac- that] management of bees—which displays a good deal of what appears to a nen-apiarian sound and sensible advice: and a controversial disquisition on the structure, functions, and habits of bees—the sum and substance of which is that almost all naturalists are wrong except Mr. Hoists. The celebrated HUBER and Fiesta's followers are the especial objects of the writer's attack ; and be generally conducts his controversy in a coarse and vulgar spirit. From his tone and temper one would suppose that his opponents had been guilty of some serious offence, instead of only advancing views which he disapproves of, or stating facts, on a very difficult subject, which he denies. Part of the contro- versy turns on the propagation of bees; in the discussion of which our author admits he has been free-spoken.] Hints for the Revival of Scriptural Principles its the Anglican Church. By the Reverend GEORGE BIRD, Rector of Cumberworth. [ Suggestions for restoring something. like an Apostolical supervision of the Church over its flock : to which there is little to object in theory, but it would never be submitted to in practice, until the clergy had made the hulk of man- kind so regular in conduct and humble in mind as to render the supervision unnecessary to the majority, and had fitted themselves for the exercise of so vest a power. And whenever both these things happen, the millennium will be close at band, and the reign of the saints on earth commence.] The Antigone of Sophocles ; with Notes, critical and explanatory, adapted to the use of Schools and Universities. By T. MITCHELL, A.M., late Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge. [,&n edition adapted to the advanced student, or even the advanced scholar— any one can cease to be a student in classical literature ; for the notes very often exhibit an acumen alive to poetical beauties, as well as to the construc- tion of words.] Iron as a Material for Ship-building; being a Communication to the Polytechnic Society of Liverpool, by JOHN GRANTHAM, C.E., Pre- sident.

[A practical investigation of the advantages of iron for the construction of ships, exhibited in a comparative view of the character of timber and metal, with instances of the success or failure of particular ships constructed of either material. We notice that part of this detailed criticism consists of reasons why the iron did not succeed on particular occasions.] Deutschea Hanbuch : the German Manual for self-tuition. By WIL- HELM KLACER-KLATTOWSKE of Schwerin in Mecklenburg, late Pro- fessor of German in the Nobile Accademia Ecdesiastica in Rome, &c. In two volumes. Third edition, entirely revised and improved.

The Rose of Arragon; a Play, in five acts. By JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.

Sketch of the Union of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania with Poland, Polish Aristocracy, Samogitia, and Polish Titles. By Count HENRY KRASINSHI, Author of " Vitold," &c.

SERIALS.

Wright's Sir Henry Cavendish's Debates of the House of Commons, during the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, which met in May 1768 and was dissolved in June 1774, commonly called the Unreported Par- liament. Part V.

[The fifth number of this important work contains the whole of the spring session of 1770, and part of the winter session ; our ancestors, with much less Parliamentary business to do, deeming it necessary to take more time to do it, and oftener meeting in the autumn. The principal topics debated are—the affairs of America, which were then assuming a very critical and warlike aspect ; the seizure of Falkland's Island by Spaiu, which has an extrinsic in- terest from the topic having employed the pens of JOHNSON and Justus; Sir WILLIAM MEREDITH'S movements in favour of ameliorating the criminal law, in which he threw out the hint of a suggestion now accomplished, that death should he abolished for all offences except murder ; and the debates on the law of libel and the liberty of the press, springing out of Lord MANSFIELD'S charge and the conduct of the Crown lawyers on the different prosecutions of publishers for printing or selling JuNius's Letter to the King. The illustra- tive notes by the editor, Mr. WRIGHT, are useful, and agreeable as a relief. However, Mr. WRIGHT seems in error in the matter of BENSON the Juryman, alleged by Justus to have been illegally challenged by Lord MANSFIELD, and of Mr. Justice YATES, who is said to have returned unopened a letter from GEORGE the Third which the Judge supposed to contain some endeavour to tamper with him privately. Tsuni.ow in his speeches does not contradict the charges, but treats BENSON'S as an impossibility, and the other as too con- temptible to be inquired into : but had he contradicted them point-blank, TIMELOW'S word would go for very little. ./;k. list of subscribers, so far as they are known to the editor, is affixed to the part, and exhibits a goodly array of royalty and rank,—the Queen and her cqosort, Louis PHILIPPE, the Kings of Prussia, Belgium, and Hanover, as well as the principal Peers. The only representative of a crowned head is the Belgian Ambassador, M. VAN DE WEYER. The Members of the House of Commons, whom one would have calculated on as being the most numerous, are in reality the fewest—not more than a dozen, excluding members of the late and present Ministry. But to be ignorant of the past, indifferent as to the future, and careless or incapable as respects the present, seems the characteristic of a modern M.P.] Doyle's Cyckrpadia of Practical Husbandry, Part II. England tn the Nineteenth Century. Northern Division, Part VI. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Halts Ireland, Part XX.

Charles Dibdin's Songs, Part IX. Thornton's History of the British Empire in India, Vol. HI. Part IL

PERIODICALS.

The Christian Watchman, and Midland Counties Protestant Magazine, No. I. British and Foreign Review, No. XXVI. Magazines for June—Asiatic Journal, Musical Atheneum.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

The Book of British Ballads. Edited by S. C. HALL, Esq , F.S.A. Part L [The design of this beautiful book is to illustrate the national ballads of Britain by British artists, as the ballads of Germany have been illustrated by German artists: but instead of the etchings of Die Lieber and Bilder, the Book of British Ballads is embellished with wood-engravings, executed in the most finished manner. The selection of old ballads is a popular one; they are culled from the various collections, not for their antiquity but their interest ;

each is collated with the original, and i

prefaced by an introductory notice of its history ; and they are all profusely illustrated, every page being fairly divided between the verses and the designs, the head and tail pieces to each respectively filling nearly an entire page. Of the five ballads contained In the First Part, "Chevy Chase" and "Fair Rosamond" are illustrated by J. FRANKLIN, whose designs are in the true chivalrous spirit, with a relish of the best German style ; " The Children in the Wood," by J. R. HERBERT, who has treated the subject in a literal and meagre style ; " The Daemon Lover," by J. GILBERT, with brilliant and imposing effect; and " The Nut- brown Maid," by CHESWICK, in pastoral style. In all cases the artists have themselves drawn their designs upon the wood, and most of them are exqui- sitely cat; especially those by LINTON, ARMSTRONG, BAS'FIN, FOLKARD, WALMSLEY, and the whole family of WILLIAMSES. The typography is hand- some, and the fanciful borderings give a finished appearance to the pages.1 View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf; New Zealand, including a part of the site of the intended town of Nelson. On stone by T. ALLOY, from a drawing made in November 1841 by C. HEAPRY. View of a Part of the Town of Wellington, New Zealand, looking to- wards the south-east, comprising about one-third of the water-frontage. On stone by T. Ar.Lost, from a drawing made in September 1841 by C. Intern-.

[Attractive views of the sites of the two principal port-towns of the New Zealand Company ; not only interesting as delineations of the seat of a grand and hitherto successful experiment in colonization, but pleasing as pictures. Wellington already wears the appearance of a populous and thriving settlement : the houses are neat, mostly in the cottage style, one or two being in classic taste ; native canoes are hauled up on the beach among cows and goats, and the harbour is alive with European ships. The natural breakwater of Nelson Haven is a conspicuous feature in the view ; and the vessels in this harbour of Nature's own formation are decked with flags to welcome a fresh band of settlers, towed in to their adoptedi. country, beneath an evening son that sheds a mellow light over the whole. Here tents are erected, the labourers are cutting timber, and only one house appears; though by this time many have been raised.

These lithographs have all the freedom of original drawings]

Portrait of the Right Honourable Charles Kendal Bush, Lord Chief Jus- tice of the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, &c. Painted by W. STE- VENSON; engraved by D. Lucas. LA homely but very animated portrait of the late Chief Justice of Ireland, which, we are assured by those who have seen that eminent person, is a faithful and characteristic likeness. The ex-Judge is represented inplain clothes, and the absence of the wig shows his high forehead to advantage.] British Moths and their Transformations, No. Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part IV. Fluctuations of Corn, Currency, and Consols, from 1790 to 1840. By H.

CUOLMONDELEY.

Farrell's History of British Birds, Parts XXIX. to XXXL Selby's History of British Forest-Trees, Parts VIL to X.

PAMPHLETS.

A Voice from Ireland in Reply to the Reverend R. W. Sibthorp's Pimiph- let styled " Some Answer to the Inquiry, Why are you become a Ca- tholic ?" By RICHARD P. BLAKENEY, A.B., T.C.D., a Layman of the Irish Branch of the Catholic Church.

[A foolish attack upon the foolish conversion of the Reverend R. W. Sansone to Romanism. The strongest point is the probable effects of the abuse by bachelor priests of the power of confession, derived from the regulations upon the subject with respect to women.] Statement Explanatory of the Independent System of Emigration. By COLIN SHARP MC Laws, merchant, Glasgow. On the use of Mechanical Power in Draught on Turnpike-roads, with re- ference to the new system of wood-paving. The Case and Claims of the Holders of Treasury Bonds or Exchequer Bills of Spain. By JOSEPH TAMER, Esq. Second edition.