THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

REVIEW;

OR,

EUROPEAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL.

"In primisque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio."

VOL. XII.

1841.

CICERO, DE OFF.

LONDON:

RICHARD AND JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR,

RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXLI.

THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

REVIEW.

ARTICLE I.

1. Shurnal Ministerstwa wytrennich diel. (Journal of the Ministry of the Interior.) St. Petersburgh, 1840.

2. Shurnal Manufactur i Torgovli. (Journal of Manufactures and Commerce.) St. Petersburgh, 1840.

3. Russland in historischer, statistischer, geographischer und literarischer Beziehung. Von THADDEUS BULgarin. Riga and Leipzig, 1839.

4. Reise um die Erde durch Nord Asien und die beiden Oceane in den Jahren 1828, 1829, und 1830. Von ADOLPH ERMANN. Berlin.

5. Das Ausland-ein Tagblatt-redigirt von Dr. ED. WIDEMANN. Augsburg.

THE opening and closing up of new lines of communication between Europe and the sunny East, have ever been marked with the convulsive throes inseparable from the awakening of new, and the decay of old political and material interests. Nor can it excite wonder, that the eyes of all nations should be turned with anxious attention to the steps now taking to restore the almost forgotten, although most natural, channel of intercourse between these two quarters of the globe. Have we not all in our turns hung with the curiosity of wondering childhood, and of admiring manhood, upon the recitals of the marvellous power of regeneration possessed by the lands situated between the Persian Gulf VOL. XII.-No. XXIII.

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