BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCCXVI. JUNE, 1850. VOL. LXVII. CONTENTS. LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS, 641 THE HUNGARIAN JOSEPH, 658 MY PENINSULAR MEDAL. BY AN OLD PENINSULAR. PART VII., 661 A MONTH AT CONSTANTINOPLE, 679 MADAME SONTAG AND THE OPERA, 688 THE GREEN HAND--A "SHORT" YARN. PART X., 701 PALACE THEATRICALS. A DAY-DREAM, 722 THE QUAKER'S LAMENT, 733 THE GREAT PROTECTION MEETING IN LONDON, 738 INDEX, 783 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45 GEORGE STREET; AND 37 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. _To whom all communications (post paid) must be addressed._ SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCCXVI. JUNE, 1850. VOL. LXVII. LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS.[1] [1] _Latter-Day Pamphlets_, edited by THOMAS CARLYLE. No. I. The Present Time. No. II. Model Prisons. No. III. Downing Street. No. IV. The New Downing Street. London: 1850. It is nothing unusual, in this wayward world of ours, to find men denouncing, with apparent sincerity, that very fault which is most conspicuous in themselves. How often do we detect the most quarrelsome fellow of our acquaintance, the Hotspur of his immediate circle, uttering a grave homily against intemperance of speech, and rebuking for some casual testiness a friend, whose general demeanour and bearing give token of a lily-liver? What more common than to hear the habitual drunkard railing at the sin of inebriety, and delivering affecting testimony against the crying iniquity of the ginshop? We have listened to discourses on the comeliness of honesty, and the degrading tendencies of mammon-worship, from gentlemen who, a few hours before, had given private instructions to their brokers to rig the market, and who looked upon George Hudson as the greatest ornament of the age. Cobden mounts the platform to propose a motion in favour of universal peace and brotherhood, and, by way of argument, suggests the propriety of crumpling up the empire of the Russias, like the sheet of white paper which trembles in his omnipotent hand. He is seconded by a Quaker.