From Moscow to St Petersburg, a macadamised road of seven hundred versts conveyed the traveller to the northern city of the Czar, where, on the 8th of October, he terminated a journey from Ochotsk, of about seven thousand miles. In eight days from St Petersburg he reached Hamburg, and in five days more arrived in London, having rounded the globe in a period of nineteen months and twenty-six days! We have given an abstract of this work with the more satisfaction, that it not merely supplies a certain knowledge of vast regions of which the European world knows little; but that it gives a favourable view of the condition, the habits, and the temper, of the multitudes of our fellow men, spread over those immense spaces of the globe. Personally, of course, a man of the official rank and individual intelligence of the writer, might expect the hospitality of the Russian employes. But he seems to have been met with general kindness--to have experienced no injury, no obstacle, and no extortion; and, on the whole, having exhibited the good sense which disregards the _inevitable_ annoyances of all journeys in distant countries, to have escaped all the severer ones which an ill-tempered traveller naturally brings upon himself. But the feature of his volumes on which we place the still higher value, is the honesty of his English spirit. He knows the value of his country; he does justice to her principles; he gives the true view of her power; he vindicates her intentions; and without depreciating the merits of foreign nations, he pays a manly tribute to the truth, by doing deserved honour to his own. FOOTNOTES: [A] _Narrative of an Overland Journey Round the World._ By Sir George Simpson, Governor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories in North America. LETTERS ON THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. VI.--RELIGIOUS DELUSIONS: THE POSSESSED: WITCHCRAFT. Dear Archy,--The subjects about which I propose writing to you to-day are, delusions of a religious nature;--the idea of being possessed,--the grounds of the belief in witchcraft. With so much before me, I have no room to waste. So, of the first, first. The powerful hold which the feeling of religion takes on our nature, at once attests the truth of the sentiment, and warns us to be on our guard against fanatical excesses. No subject can safely be permitted to have exclusive possession of our thoughts, least of all the most absorbing and exciting of any. "So--it will make us mad." It is evident that, with the majority, Providence has designed that worldly cares should largely and wholesomely employ the mind, and prevent inordinate craving after an indulgence in spiritual stimulation; while minds of the highest order are diverted, by the active duties of philanthropy, from any perilous excess of religious contemplation.