the University of Edinburgh.

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The Rev. Dr. SADLEIR, Fellow and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, died
suddenly on the 14th of December, He was a man of liberal views and
charitable feelings, and although in a society not remarkable for
catholicity of spirit, his advocacy of all measures of progress and
freedom was uniform and zealous. He was appointed to the provostship by
the Crown in 1837.

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Among recent deaths of literary men, we note that of BASIL MONTAGUE, best
known as the editor of the works of Lord Bacon. He was an illegitimate son
of the famous Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, by the
unfortunate Miss Reay, who was assassinated in 1779, by the Rev. Mr.
Hackman, her betrothed lover. The tragic story is told in all the London
guide-books, as well as in collections of celebrated trials. Mr. Basil
Montague studied for the law, and rose to a high standing in the
profession. He was called to the bar by the Honorable Society of Gray's
Inn, in 1798. On the _Law of Bankruptcy_ he published some valuable
treatises, the reputation of which gained him a commissionership. With
Romilly and Mackintosh he worked diligently for the mitigation of the
severity of the penal code. On capital punishments he wrote several
pamphlets, which attracted much public notice. Besides his edition of
_Bacon_, with an original biography, he published _Selections from Taylor,
Hooker, Hall, and Bacon_. He died at Boulogne, on the 27th of November, in
the 82d year of his age.

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From France we can expect no more literature for some time, and we must
think ourselves fortunate that GUIZOT'S two new works reached us before
"society was saved," as the man says who has earned the execration of the
world. These two works are _Etudes Morales_ and _Etudes sur les Beaux
Arts_. The former contains essays on Immortality, on the state of Religion
in modern society, on Faith, and a lengthy treatise on Education. The
second is interesting, as showing us Guizot criticising Art.

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A curious work, entitled, _Les Murailles Revolutionnaires_ (Revolutionary
Walls), has been published in Paris. It contains the proclamations,
decrees, addresses, appeals, warnings, denunciations, remonstrances,
counsels, professions of faith, p