assuming the command of the Channel fleet; Major Gen. X. L., on resigning the lieutenant governorship of Gibraltar; Hon. G. F., on going out as secretary to the governor of Malta," &c. This sketch, too hastily made up, is founded upon a base of a very few years; _i.e._, we have, in one or two instances, placed in juxtaposition, as coexistences, events separated by a few years. But if (like Milton's picture of the Roman grandeur) the abstraction had been made from a base of thirty years in extent, and had there been added to the picture (according to his precedent) the many and remote embassies to and from independent states, in all quarters of the earth, with how many more groups might the spectacle have been crowded, and especially of those who fall within that most picturesque delineation-- "Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed"! As it is, I have noticed hardly any places but such as lie absolutely within our jurisdiction. And yet, even under that limitation, how vastly more comprehensive is the chart of British dominion than of the Roman! To this gorgeous empire, some corresponding style and title should have been adapted at the revision of the old title, and should yet be adapted. _Apropos_ of the proposed change in the king's title: Coleridge, on being assured that the new title of the king was to be Emperor of the British Islands and their dependencies, and on the coin _Imperator Britanniarum_, remarked, that, in this remanufactured form, the title might be said to be _japanned_; alluding to this fact, that amongst _insular_ sovereigns, the only one known to Christian diplomacy by the title of emperor is the Sovereign of Japan. [4] For the sake of those who are no classical scholars, I explain: Voice and language are restored to him only to the extent of _replying_. [5] Accordingly, Coleridge has contended, and I think with truth, that the passion of Othello is _not_ jealousy. So much I know by report, as the _result_ of a lecture which he read at the Royal Institution. His arguments I did not hear. To me it is evident that Othello's state of feeling was not that of a degrading, suspicious rivalship, but the state of perfect misery, arising out of this dilemma, the most affecting, perhaps, to contemplate of any which _can_ exist, viz., the dire necessity of loving without limit one whom the heart pronounces to be unworthy of that love.