lity that there is any truth in a
paragraph which has been going the round of the papers, and which
described the late convert to Catholicism, the fair and vagrant Ida,
Countess von HAHN-HAHN, as parading herself in the streets of Berlin in
the guise of a haggard penitent, literally clad in sackcloth and ashes!

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Lord MAHON, in the last volume of his _History of England_ that has been
published, has a good deal to say upon Junius, and his decision upon that
vexed topic will be heard with interest: "But who was Junius?... I will
not affect to speak with doubt when no doubt exists in my mind. From the
proofs adduced by others, and on a clear conviction of my own, I affirm
that the author of Junius was no other than Sir Philip Francis." The
_Literary Gazette_ also says, "We are as much convinced that Sir Philip
Francis was Junius as that George III. was king of Great Britain."

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In an elaborate article on the intellectual character of KOSSUTH, the
_London Athenaeum_ remarks, "Of the minor merits of this remarkable man,
his command of the English language is perhaps that which creates the
largest amount of wonder. With the exception of an occasional want of
idiom, the use of a few words in an obsolete sense, and a habit of
sometimes carrying (German fashion) the infinitive verb to the end of a
sentence--there is little to distinguish M. Kossuth's English from that of
our great masters of eloquence. Select, yet copious and picturesque, it is
always. The combinations--we speak of his words as distinct from the
thoughts that lie in them--are often very happy. We can even go so far as
to say that he has enriched and utilized our language; the first by using
unusual words with extreme felicity, the latter by proving to the world
how well the pregnant and flexible tongue of Shakspeare adapts itself to
the expression of a genius and a race so remote from the Saxon as the
Magyar."

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The Chancellorship of the Dublin University, vacant by the death of the
King of Hanover, has been conferred on Lord JOHN GEORGE BERESFORD, the
primate of Ireland.

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The Scotch Journals announce the death of one whose name is familiar to
many of the scholars of this country, Mr. GEORGE DUNBAR, professor of
Greek Literature in