topics, from the occasional narratives of
voyages and adventures along the coast. Visits to the commandants of the
so-called castles; a description of the European and native mode of life
at the settlements; accounts of the slave-stations, the slave-dealers,
the slaves, and the slave-trade, together with sketches of more
legitimate commerce, and occasional trips to the islands lying off the
coast, for change of air and fresh supplies, are frequent features. Sir
Henry Huntley's duties sometimes brought him in contact with native
chiefs, and continually with slavers, in the search, the capture, and the
pursuit. During the latter part of his career, the office of Governor
gave great variety and largeness to his subjects; consisting of public
business, palavers with native potentates, and matters connected with
home policy. In point of literary character this work very nearly
resembles the author's "Peregrine Scramble." Indeed, the "Seven Years'
Service" is a sort of continuation of that book, without the form of
fiction.

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M. JULES LECHEVALIER, known in this country chiefly as one of the foreign
Correspondents of _The Tribune_, but in Europe as an able writer on the
Social Sciences, has recently delivered in Paris and Berlin, and in
London, (where he is residing as a political exile,) a series of
lectures, which will soon be given to the world in a volume, upon the
subject of his favorite studies. M. Lechevalier's system, which he
denominates "New Political Economy," is based upon the principle of
association, in opposition to that of competition and _laissez-faire_,
which constitute the groundwork of the school of the present political
economists. In the course of his series he pointed out the gradual
tendency of the competitive principle to produce extremes of riches and
poverty, and ultimately revolutions, and maintained, that by the adoption
of the associative principle alone, society can be preserved from
confusion and destruction. He contends that the new political economy,
or _Socialism_, is essentially Conservative, while the present system of
unlimited competition, or buying cheap and selling dear, is destructive,
M. Lechevalier pretends to base his system on the moral principles of
Christ, and maintains that Christianity cannot be practically carried out
in any other way. His lectures abound in examples of the working of the
two opposing systems.

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