I may perhaps try my hand on Miss Austen’s novels.  That is a subject on which I shall require no assistance from books.

Whatever volumes you may send me ought to be half bound; or the white ants will devour them before they have been three days on shore.  Besides the books which may be necessary for the Review, I should like to have any work of very striking merit which may appear during my absence.  The particular department of literature which interests me most is history; above all, English history.  Any valuable book on that subject I should wish to possess.  Sharp, Miss Berry, and some of my other friends, will perhaps, now and then, suggest a book to you.  But it is principally on your own judgment that I must rely to keep me well supplied.

Yours most truly

T. B. MACAULAY.

On the 4th of February Macaulay bade farewell to his electors, in an address which the Leeds Tories probably thought too high-flown for the occasion. ["If, now that I have ceased to be your servant, and am only your sincere and grateful friend, I may presume to offer you advice which must, at least, be allowed to be disinterested, I would say to you:  Act towards your future representatives as you have acted towards me.  Choose them, as you chose me, without canvassing and without expense.  Encourage them, as you encouraged me, always to speak to you fearlessly and plainly.  Reject, as you have hitherto rejected, the wages of dishonour.  Defy, as you have hitherto defied, the threats of petty tyrants.  Never forget that the worst and most degrading species of corruption is the corruption which operates, not by hopes, but by fears.  Cherish those noble and virtuous principles for which we have struggled and triumphed together—­the principles of liberty and toleration, of justice and order.  Support, as you have steadily supported, the cause of good government; and may all the blessings which are the natural fruits of good government descend upon you and be multiplied to you an hundredfold!  May your manufactures flourish; may your trade be extended; may your riches increase!  May the works of your skill, and the signs of your prosperity, meet me in the furthest regions of the East, and give me fresh cause to be proud of the intelligence, the industry, and the spirit of my constituents!”] But he had not yet done with the House of Commons.  Parliament met on the first Tuesday in the month; and, on the Wednesday, O’Connell, who had already contrived to make two speeches since the Session began, rose for a third time to call attention to words uttered during the recess by Mr. Hill, the Member for Hull.  That gentleman, for want of something better to say to his constituents, had told them that he happened to know “that an Irish Member, who spoke with great violence against every part of the Coercion Bill, and voted against every clause of it, went to Ministers and said:  ’Don’t bate a single atom of that Bill, or it will be impossible for any man