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The pleasantest part of Mendelssohn's life-when away from his family-seems to have been passed at Frankfort. Here is a charming account of a fête in a forest, which was given to him by three families of that city:

was sent for by the Queen, who was almost alone with Prince Albert, derive the sense that an incident of some sort is being told
and who seated herself near the piano and made me play to her; first from the following passage:-The head was not boiled. It
seven of the "songs without words," then the serenade, two im-
promptus on "Rule Britannia," Lützow's " Wilde Jagd," and "Gau- was thrown into the Thames. It was found, it was bottled.
deamus igitur." The latter was somewhat difficult, but remonstrance What had become of the body was Catherine Hayes's
was out of the question, and as they gave the themes, of course it secret. But being in arrest, she asked to see the head.
was my duty to play them. Then the splendid grand gallery in And no sooner was the head uncovered before her than she threw
Buckingham Palace where they drank tea, and where two boars by
pleased me well. I must tell you that my A minor symphony has head of my darling husband!
Paul Potter are hanging, and a good many other pictures which up her arms and exclaimed in an apparent agony of passion.
"Oh! it is his head! It is my dear husband's head!
had great success with the people here, who one and all receive us
Oh! that my beloved one should be
with a degree of amiability and kindness which exceeds all I have so cruelly murdered!" and she sobbed and moaned as though her
ever yet seen in the way of hospitality, though this sometimes makes heart would break. She then took the glass jar containing the head
collect my thoughts in order not to lose all self-possession.
me feel my head quite bewildered and strange, and I am obliged to in her arms, and embraced it wildly, shedding many tears, and kiss-
ing it repeatedly.

It is the

Mr Westbrook offered to take the head out of the jar for her, that she might have a more distinct view of it, and be certain that it was her husband's. Catherine assented; and the head being taken out and thoroughly exposed to view, she kissed the reeking, hideous object, and bathing it in her tears, had the audacity to request that she might be indulged with a lock of the hair.

forest where lofty spreading beech-trees stand in solitary grandeur, Within a quarter of an hour's drive from the road, deep in the forming an impenetrable canopy above, and where all around nothing was to be seen but green foliage glistening through innumerable trunks of trees, this was the locality. We made our way through the thick underwood, by a narrow footpath, to the spot, where, on arriving, a number of white figures were visible in the distance, under a group of trees, encircled with massive garlands of flowers, which formed the concert-room. How lovely the voices sounded, The second expresses the admiration in which Mendeland how brilliantly the soprano tones vibrated in the air; what ssohn was held by the late Prince Consort: charm and melting sweetness pervaded every strain! All were so still and retired, and yet so bright! I had formed no conception of After the first performance of the "Elijah" in London, Prince Albert such an effect. The choir consisted of about twenty good voices; wrote the following in the book of words which he used on that during the previous rehearsal in a room, there had been some occasion, and sent it to Mendelssohn as a token of remembrance:- Mr Westbrook, who had been watching her movements with much deficiencies, and want of steadiness. Towards evening, however, "To the noble artist who, though encompassed by the Baal-worship disgust, told her, that he was afraid she had already too much of the when they stood under the trees, and uplifting their voices of false art, by his genius and study has succeeded, like another blood to require any of the hair; upon which she fell into a fit. When gave my first song, "Ihr Vöglein in den Zweigen schwank," Elijah, in faithfully preserving the worship of true art; once more she recovered she was taken before the magistrates to undergo her it was so enchanting in the silence of the woods, that it almost habituating the ear, amid the giddy whirl of empty, frivolous sound, examination with the other prisoners. brought tears to my eyes. It sounded like genuine poetry. The to the pure tones of sympathetic feeling and legitimate harmony scene too was so beautiful; all the pretty female figures in white, and to the great master who, by the tranquil current of his thoughts, Herr B standing in the centre, beating time in his shirt sleeves, reveals to us the gentle whisperings, as well as the mighty strife of and the audience seated on camp stools, or bampers, or lying on the the elements, to him is this written in grateful remembrance, by ALBERT.-Buckingham Palace."

Mendelssohn's opinion of the two great pianists of his day is worth recording. He is writing to his mother from Leipzig in 1840 :

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Early on this very morning, even during the time that Catherine Hayes was shedding tears of deceit and pretending to moan and sigh over the gory head of the husband she had so horribly murdered daring even in her dark malignity to desecrate his death-glued lips with her fiendish kisses-a gentleman named Osborn, and his servant, were riding across Marylebone fields.

moss. They sang through the whole book, and then three new songs which I had composed for the occasion. The third ("Lerchengesang") was rather exultingly shouted than sung, and repeated three Mr Osborn, a citizen, merely riding for exercise, was delighted times, while in the interim strawberries, cherries, and oranges were with the calm, bright morning, and the fresh air that blew from over served on the most delicate china, and quantities of ice and wine and the fields; and raising himself slightly in the stirrups, he took a raspberry syrup carried round. People were emerging in every direc- The New Newgate Calendar, containing the Remark- pleased survey of the scene before him; admiring the fine expanse of tion out of the thicket, attracted from a distance by the sound of the able Lives and Trials of Notorious Criminals, Past fresh green grass, studded with well-grown trees, and here and there music, and they stretched themselves on the ground and listened. As and Present. Nos. 1-10. Harrison. intersected, garden-like, with flowering hedges. While so employed, it grew dark, great lanterns and torches were set up in the middle of something out of the ordinary attracted his attention in a neighbouring the choir, and they sang songs by Schelble and Hiller, and Schnyder, The following (according to the Inquirer) are the titles ditch, and riding briskly forward to obtain a nearer view, he was and Weber. Presently a large table, profusely decorated with flowers of some of the tales now in course of publication in the horrified to see that the object which attracted his attention was part and brilliantly lighted, was brought forward, on which was an excel- penny and half-penny weekly journals: Red-Handed of a human thigh peeping from the green vegetable scum of the foul lent supper with all sorts of good dishes and wines; and it was most Hugh, or the Heir of Osmond Hall;' The Man in Gray,' slimy water of the ditch. quiet withal, and lonely in the wood, the nearest house being at the The mere incidental suggestion of "the foul slimy water distance of at least an hour, and the gigantic trunks of the trees looking by the author of The Woman in Black;' Sea Drift, or every moment more dark and stern, and the people under their branches the Wreckers of the Channel;' The Basilisk's Eye;' "of the ditch" must have for the readers of murdermore noisy and jovial. After supper they began again with the first Deeds of Darkness, or a Fight against Fate;' The bigamy- and - arson romance a refreshment as of the song, and sang through the whole six, and then the three new ones, Smuggler Chieftain, or the Witch of Eccleston Moor;' suggestion of sea-breezes to minds differently constituted. and the "Lerchengesang" once more three times over. At length it was time to go; in the thicket we met the waggon in which all the The Gipsey Buccaneer, or Secret of the Sea; Claude Catherine Hayes was burnt alive. Wind and damp conchina and plate was to be taken back to the town; it could not stir Duval, or the Dashing Highwayman;' 'Gentleman spired, we are told, to secure her a good roasting before from the spot, nor could we either, but we contrived to get on at last, Clifford and his White Mare Brilliant, or the Ladies' she died. Of course this part of the subject inspires pen and and arrived about midnight at our homes in Frankfort. The donors Highwayman;' 'The Hunted Felon, or a Mother's pencil; the pen, surely that of some fashionable writer, plays of the fete were detained in the forest till two o'clock, packing up Vengeance,' by the author of The Murdered Wife; thus over the theme, in the hope that it may succeed in everything, and lost their way along with the large waggon, finding Oscar Bertrand,' by the author of The Black Band getting into the torpid brains of Betsey the kitchen maid themselves unexpectedly at Isenburg; so they did not get home till long afterwards. Cartouche, or the Noble Highwayman;' The Queen a sense of the fact that an incident of some sort, say womanof Night, or the Secret of the Red Lodge;' 'Isabel's roasting, is being told to prod her mind on into some sort, Vengeance, a Romance of London Life;' The Mysteries of a dull intellectual movement. of Merlin's Cave,' by the author of 'Leonora, or Crime of Catherine had now swooned, or at least lost all consciousness Liszt was here for a fortnight, and caused quite a paroxysm of the Deepest Dye;' The Daughter of Midnight,' by the when the executioner was pulling the rope, but after the flames had excitement among us, both in a good and evil sense. I consider him author of Ruth the Betrayer, or the Female Spy;' compelled him to retreat, and when they had commenced to burn to be in reality an amiable warm-hearted man, and an admirable Mazeppa, or the Dwarf's Revenge;' 'Philip's Revenge, a The spectators then beheld her pushing away the burning faggots artist. That he plays with more execution than all the others, does Story of a Lone Island;' Sixteen-Stringed Jack, or the with her feet and hands, while forked and hungry flames darted about not admit of a doubt; yet Thalberg, with his composure, and Daring Highwayman;' 'The New Mysteries of London; her, and licked and glided over her blistered, shrivelling body, like virtuoso; and this is the standard which must also be applied to Liszt, Highwayman; Nan Darrell, or the Highwayman's appalled by such cries for mercy issuing from her scorched blackened The Women of London;' 'Jenny Diver, or the Lady fiends over eager to rifle it of her sinful soul! for his compositions are inferior to his playing, and, in fact, are only calculated for virtuosos. A fantasia by Thalberg (especially Daughter;' 'The Red Chamber;' 'Confessions of a Ticket- and cracking lips as never before reached the ears of mortal man. that on the "Donna del Lago ") is an accumulation of the most of-Leave Man;' 'Black Bess, or the Knight of the Road;' Cries which caused the guilty to tremble and the good to weep. exquisite and delicate effects, and a continued succession of diffi- Jessie, the Mormon's Daughter;' The Ghost's Secret, a culties and embellishments that excite our astonishment; all is so The next heroine of this new Mirror of Fashion is Amy well devised and so finished, carried out with such security and skill, Tale of Terror;' 'Blue Skin, the only Romance giving the Hutchinson, the Beauty of the Isle of Ely, "her hazel eyes and pervaded by the most refined taste. On the other hand, Liszt pos- full adventures of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard.' were exceedingly fine and expressive." Here, as in the story sesses a degree of velocity and complete independence of finger and As for the quasi-fashionable novelists who have been lately of Catherine Hayes, the dish to feed on is a wife troubled a thoroughly musical feeling which can scarely be equalled. In profiting by the discovery that there are a Lady Betty and by thoughts divided between her husband and another man, a word, I have heard no performer whose musical perceptions, like those of Liszt, extended to the very tips of his fingers, emanating a Lord Tomnoddy of the drawing-room with brains and it is of course the husband who goes to the wall. Not directly from them. With this power, and his enormous technicality torpid as those of Betsey and Jeames in the kitchen, that to the well; for this was a case of posset. Perhaps the and practice, he must have far surpassed all others, if a man's own can feel nothing short of a hot poker of murder, bigamy, literature that sets forth such matter is not the most wholeideas were not after all the chief point, and these, hitherto at least, or arson thrust into the midst of them and well stirred some posset in the world, but we beg to assure Lady Betty seemed denied to him; so that in this phase of art, most of the great round, doubtless they will be glad to see the popularity of that Betsey in the scullery will get it quite as beautifully virtuosos equal, and indeed excel him. But that he, along with their vocation worthily attested by the fact that the last served up as its like is served up to her own honourable self Thalberg, alone represents the highest class of pianists of the present day, is, I think, undeniable. new penny periodical is the New Newgate Calendar, con- in the boudoir. If she is just to her own taste she will take "taining the Remarkable Lives and Trials of Notorious in the New Newgate Calendar,' for can she refuse apprecia'Criminals, Past and Present.' tion to such "sweet" writing as this? We see no reason why this should not become a fashionWilliam Hanshaw, Hutchinson's foreman, had carried on the busi

within his more restricted sphere, is more perfect, taken as a

Here is a sensible bit of criticism on the "Rheinlied," which made so much stir in Germany in 1840:

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fiercely around her, she recovered.

Then were the ears of the hushed and horror-stricken thousands

The whole town here is ringing with a song, supposed to have a political tendency against the French, and the journals are striving able journal. It opens handsomely with a picture of a ness since John's decease, but on the day that his master was found with all their might to render it popular. In the present dearth of short-haired hero with a chopper, chopping at the head of dead he had told Amy that he could not long stay under her roof. public topics, they succeed in this without any difficulty, and every a gentleman who lies on a bed with his feet where his This man had been much attached to Hutchinson, and he determined one is speaking of the "Rheinlied," or the Colognaise, as they signifi- head should be. A beautiful girl, the heroine, is holding to watch the widow. On the night following the funeral he closed the shop at the usual commencement of each verse is repeated "Never shall they have it," amuse himself with his lively and doubtless wholesome man, ascended a haystack in a field adjoining Amy's house, and the as if there were the least sense in such words! If they were at least bit of gymnastics. She looks on with quiet, sentimental two prepared to watch her proceedings with the greatest care. They changed into "We mean to keep it," but "Never shall they have it" interest at the chopping exercise, and a gentleman with had not been hid in the haystack more than an hour or so before a seems to me so sterile and futile. There is certainly something very a smile on his face is going out at the room door. What muffled figure approached the widow's back door, and knocked three boyish in this idea; for when I actually possess an object, and hold it could Lady Betty or my Lord Tomnoddy desire better than soon as she recognised her visitor she held out her hand, and bent times; the door was soon opened by Amy, who carried a light. As sure and fast, it is quite superfluous to sing, or to say, that it shall belong to no one else. This song is now sung at Court in Berlin, and in the this? The beautiful heroine of this picture is named forward her pretty face to salute him; in doing so she knocked off clubs and casinos here, and of course the musicians pounce upon it Catherine Hayes, and there is a double charm in the power his hat, and as the man stooped and raised himself in recovering it, like mad, and are immortalizing themselves by setting it. The of associating with something delightfully infamous the the light of the candle fell full upon his face, and the watchers in the Leipzic composers have already brought out no less than three well-honoured name of a singer who has discoursed in her haystack recognised in the widow's visitor the well-known features melodies for it, and every day the papers make some allusion to it. of Gilbert Woodcroft. They waited until the door was closed, and time sweet and noble music. Yesterday, amongst other things, they said I had also set the song, Of the two Catherine then gliding from their lair hastened to the nearest justice of the whereas I never even dreamt of meddling with such a merely defen- Hayeses, this of the New Newgate Calendar is the one peace; but as they sped on their way they tapped at the doors of one sive inspiration. So the people here lie like print, just as they do now to be admired in polite circles. Only think how or two of the cottages, and were joined by other men. with you, and every where else. nice! It is, of course, her husband, to whose hacking village, nestled by the teeming fields, meadows, and uplands, seemed The day was yet in the grey dawn of its infancy, and the hushed We have quoted only from the first half of this charming she holds a candle. It has not occurred to her to throw to slumber as in the lap of a luxuriant mother." The morn was too volume, in which every page contains something noteworthy. him down a well. His head is being chopped off to prevent far advanced for the watchful jealous curs to bark at fancied enemies. We must be content to extract only two more short passages. recognition of the body; and only think how nice! What The warlike roosters having crowed forth their challenges until their The first, a description of Mendelssohn's popularity in she proposes is, to boil the head, and pick its bones. How very throats ached again with venting boastful breath, had fallen in London in 1842, and his reception at Buckingham Palace: can the writer of this story call so charming a Catherine spite of themselves into a morning doze. The drowsy sheep seemed I have really been urged to do too much. Lately, when playing by such a hard word as diabolical? There he shows his another daybreak was yet far off, and the cows winked and drooped the organ in Christ Church, Newgate street, I almost thought, for a inferiority to the more fashionable school of novelists. He the lids over their sleepy eyes, and languidly switched their tails, as few moments, I must have been suffocated, so great was the crowd has told us how she was first a pretty and intelligent child, though determined to forget that the maid with the milk pail ever and pressure round my seat at the organ; and two days afterwards I and afterwards a rustic beauty. He works up his inci- persecuted them into the idea that they were allowed the run of the played in Exeter Hall before three thousand people, who shouted fat meadows for other than ornamental purposes. The impatient hurrahs and waved their handkerchiefs, and stamped with their feet dents after the fashion now approved by the polite; but he chirp of the skylark was now and then beard, but all else was hushed till the hall resounded with the uproar; at the moment I felt no bad doesn't affect psychological insight into the delicious and quiet. Now was the green leaf unfolding under the genial rays effects from this, but next morning my head was confused and stupe- Catherine's exalted purity of soul, and grossly calls her of the young sun of a summer morn. Now were the glorious flowers this the pretty and most charming Queen Victoria, who diabolical." It is a pity that there should be this defect being dyed in their most magic hues. Now the parched petals raised looks to youthful, and to gently to of morn, rose speaks such good German, and who knows all my music so well; again drooped her head, ashamed of the diamond drops she had wooed the four books of songs without words and those with words, and the best sensation romances of the day. Can Lady Betty, to her scented bosom being spied by the peeping honeysuckle who the symphony, and the "Hymn of Praise." Yesterday evening I in the most torpid phase of her habitual inanity, fail to danced in the light breeze from hawthorn hedge and leafy covert.

"Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien Deutschen Rhein," and at the a candle to the hero with the chopper, that he may see to time, but instead of going home, he, in company with a fellow work

to huddle closer together, that they might obstinately convince one

Human wants soon begin to mar the beauty of the scene.

The "else the body is laid upon a bier in the woods until the is common there, and found the reports previously received shimneys in the village began to send forth their smoke; the maids "skeleton is bleached, when the bones are placed in family about them corroborated: to clatter about the farm-yards; the roosters crowed loudly, cows "vaults in the limestone." lowed, dogs barked, sheep bleated, and swinish wails burst forth now Mr Darwin mentions that in the Seychelles, and elsewhere, there

be all astir.

and then in anything but heavenly music; while here and there a There being no anchorage at Niue, the Fawn remained is a species which is in the habit of busking the nuts on the ground,
peering through the doors, gave promise that the village would shortly visiting party landing in canoes at Faleasau, on the island the nuts down, husks them on the ground; this operation performed,
mischievous-looking, rough-headed,, laughing-eyed infantile face there only a single day, and then proceeded to Samoa, -the and then tapping one of the eyes with its great claw to reach the
kernel. Its congener here ascends the cocoa-trees, and having thrown
Suddenly the door of the Red Lion was thrown open. No unu- of Manu'a. Here their reception was quite enthusiastic, again ascends with the nuts, which he throws down, generally
sual event, for the Lion was as active as any other notable in the and, to avoid repetition, the same may be said of the breaking them at the first attempt, but if not successful, repeating it
village; perhaps more so, for he rose early and went late to bed. conduct of the natives wherever the Papalangis (as the until the object is attained. Wherever one goes here, individuals of
But, on this particular occasion, a ploughboy in an adjoining field English are called) went ashore. The Samoans, indeed, are great relative; for not content with robbing the occupants of diffe-
the crab genus are to be seen, well deserving the appellation of their
was scandalised to behold a crowd of well-dressed individuals issuing a very amiable race, and civilization is making great pro-rent land and sea shells of their lives, they walk off with their
from the Red Lion at that early hour. He could swear to one
justice, two constables, the curate, the doctor, the lawyer, the linen- gress amongst them; to show their hospitality, pleasant- houses, and are to be seen marching about in all directions with
draper, the grocer, the baker, the butcher, and he was certain he faced damsels fanned the English officers as they lunched divers-shaped tenements on their backs, out of which the natives have
could see the widow Hutchinson's maid-servant and workpeople. at one of the chief's houses on baked fowls and yams, an odd way of whistling them.
Some of the people carried spades and picks, and were all issuing bread-fruit and palu-sammy, the last an excellent dish
from the Lion in the most orderly manner. What could it mean?
Three or four of these crabs of enormous size were caught
The worthy, gaping rustic was so bent upon knowing that he dropped
made of the tops of the Taro (the Arum esculentum), and during Mr Hood's stay, and their strength was evinced by
his yoke, and scampered off to mix in the crowd.
cocoa-nut. At Tutuila, the next island, the Fawn anchored their bursting the coils of cocoa-nut rope in their efforts to
Upon leaving the Red Lion, the crowd walked steadily on to the in the romantic harbour of Pago Pago-once the crater of a escape. The land crab (Gegarcinus) is common also in
churchyard; when arrived at the gates, some men entered with volcano,-and during a week's stay there was much inter- Tutuila, and its habits correspond with those of the West
spades and picks, and approaching the grave in which the body of
Hutchinson had been deposited on the previous Sunday, began to dig
up the coffin.

whose usual dress is a "tite" or kilt of the green leaves of mit-crabs, of which Mr Hood says:
course. The men of Tutuila are fine, handsome fellows, Indian species. A neighbouring island abounds with her-

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The next is a murder story. The next, illustrated with the Dracaena terminalis or a flowing dress, called "lava- It was amusing to see walking up the trees and along the the picture of a fashionable young lady being entreated by 'lava," of coloured siapo (made of the inner bark of the branches, sea-shells of all colours and species, each being the stolen a gentleman highwayman in moustache, ringlets, and mulberry) and sometimes of white cotton, and they are in abode of one of these robbers, which, if you approach the tree, tumble ruffles to elope, is entitled 'Adventures of James Maclane, general elaborately tattooed from the waist to the knees, in down from it at once like a shower of crab-apples. The way (he adds) Seducer, Swindler, and Highwayman.' This is followed and strongly-made, cannot, Mr Hood thinks, be called operculum. a most artistic manner. in which these creatures adapt themselves to their habitation is very The women, though nice-looking interesting, their two larger claws forming, when retracted, a perfect by the autobiography of Beau Langley, Scholar, Libertine, pretty, but they make the most of themselves, and their Pickpocket, and Highwayman.' The latest number of this dress is becoming, consisting of siapo robes or short petti- but progress is greatly checked by the jealousy that exists We have spoken of the civilised habits of the Samoans, new journal for the Drawing-room and Scullery, published coats of dracena: they also wear wreaths of scarlet between the chiefs, leading them to the practice of great the day after Christmas day, ends with the story of "the hibiscus flowers in the hair, which is cut short and brushed barbarity, an illustration of which is thus given by Mr "celebrated robber Joseph Thompson Hare. He was a "man of large natural abilities, great personal courage and back, à l'Impératrice, and powdered with fine coral lime. Hood:

"determination, and notwithstanding his wicked course of "life, was full of generous and manly qualities." In fact, he was a true hero of sensation literature.

Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S. " Fawn," in the Western Pacific, in the year 1862. By T. H. Hood. Edmonstone and Douglas.

male sex with great consideration. Both men and women
As such well-attired ladies deserve, they are treated by the
are a gay, light-hearted race, and dancing is their great
amusement. How a ball is conducted in Tutuila, Mr
Hood tells us as follows:

There is great jealousy existing amongst the principal chiefe, and "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" in Samoa, as elsewhere. they never go to sleep without guards on the watch, lest they should be murdered by the often unbidden retainers of some rival chief. They come in the darkness of night, oiled all over, and with their First entered five or six splendid-looking fellows in full native Thugs, gently tickle the sleeping unfortunate until he is in the posihair cut short, so that they cannot be easily laid hold of, and like the costume, wearing small aprons of red dracena, which being oiled tion required for effecting his destruction in a manner similar to that glittered and reflected a dark red light. All the tattooing is visible, by which Edward II. perished. The instrument used is the slender of course. On their heads were full wigs of a reddish colour, frizzed barbed "sting" of the Ray, which, penetrating further and further While disclaiming the intention of "making a book," Mr period allows to grow long for the purpose of making these headout gloriously, made of their own hair, which every man for a certain into the intestines, causes a certain but cruelly lingering death. Hood has written a very interesting volume. In a simple, dresses, worn in war and dance. Around their foreheads they twine unaffected way he has told the story of a visit to one of those strings of large heads made from the pearl pautilus shell, or coronets improvement-also exist in the Camoan islands, and a Some lingering superstitions-additional obstacles to numerous groups of islands which stud the Pacific Ocean, of the flowers of the scarlet hibiscus, which, together, look very certain American whaling captain told Mr Hood the foland has given us many curious details of the manners and handsome. The performance cannot properly be termed dancing lowing amusing anecdote in illustration: customs of a very interesting people as yet only half civi-springing up at times many feet from the ground, their agility and They go through an infinite variety of strange motions and attitudes, lized. Sydney Harbour was the point of departure and correctness being anxiously watched and criticised by the assembly, board the ship in great numbers, and were thronging in over the Off an island near the Line, some time ago, the natives came on return of the Fawn, and the cruise which Mr Hood de- especially the leader's, who is generally some young chief, whose bulwarks in a very suspicious manner, whilst more canoes were seen scribes extended as far as the Samoan group. After calling every motion is instantly followed by all the others. In the rapidity coming off from the shore with armed crews. They were consulting at Auckland, the ship of war shaped her course for those the performance. When they left the house a number of girls when one of the sailors happened to go near a large white cockatoo, and exactness of imitation and exact time consists the perfection of on board how they should get rid of their visitors without a collision, islands, and on the nineteenth day, after leaving Hauraki entered, who went through a somewhat similar set of evolutions with who immediately raised his crest, and commenced his garrulous gulf, sighted the little-known island of Niue, to which infinite exactness and grace. It may seem incredible to our fair speech. Instantly, with the wildest exclamation of alarm, the Captain Cook, on account of the ferocity of the inhabitants, sisters in England that a young lady, arrayed in no other garment savages jumped overboard as fast as they could, and warning their gave the name of "Savage," a name which now appears could they see those Samoan belles enter the circle in their full shore; nor could any persuasion induce one to venture into his prebut a mat tied round her waist, should look handsomely dressed, but friends of the presence of this awful "Aitu," they made for the to be little merited, the greeting which the Fawn received evening costume, with their coronets of nautilus shell and scarlet sence again. being altogether friendly, and the first salutation by which hibiscus, and their necklaces of red and yellow flowers, I believe she was accosted creating great surprise. they would admit that their appearance is highly imposing. Some Mr Hood adds that another vessel had a somewhat they cost more than a rich silk or satin dress. Others had white of invaders were scared away by a barrel organ,-but in wore beautifully plaited fine mats, which are so highly prized that similar escape at Byron Island, where a jabbering assembly soon came alongside, but as we were going fast through the water, amplitude of which would satisfy the most extensive patroness of They shaggy dresses, made from the inner fibres of the hibiscus, the this instance the Polynesians only did what we ourselves the first two or three failed to catch the ropes thrown to them. Not crinoline, and indulged in trains equalling in length those worn by should have done, they leapt overboard at once and fled in the least disconcerted, their merry-looking crews of four in each the dames of England in former days, while their carriage and airs from the angry God of the whale-catching white men. It boat plied their paddles lustily, and although we were going six knots, plainly showed that, whatever we might think, they felt themselves is curious to find how customs prevail among these islanders did not drop much astern. Sail having been shortened, the next canoe succeeded in getting hold of the line, and one of the men, superior beinge. taking off his mat, rolled it round in a plantain leaf, and, with a net which were observed in Europe not later than two or three Not on all occasions, however, do these gay damsels centuries ago. Mr Hood tells us that the Samoan chiefs

At half-past ten o'clock we stood in within four miles of the land, when we saw the canoes of the natives paddling towards us.

in his teeth, plunged into the water, and came up under the taffrail, limit their adornments to the promptings of a natural keep fools, or privileged jesters, but he gives them a bad calling out, to our surprise, "You fliend Engleez; give rope, all right!" He soon came up on the loose line thrown to him, hand taste. Though they know nothing of the prevalent custom character, calling them "most offensive rascals," and this over hand, and made his appearance on deck decently attired in a among English ladies of making themselves as smart as may well be so, seeing "their chief recommendation is clean fringed mat. He was followed by another, who, not so parti- possible when they go to church, they have instinctively "making hideous noises and taking insolent liberties, which cular, came up with his kilt of green leaves of the Dracena, all hit upon the same plan, and accordingly Mr Hood, when "would cost others their lives, such as walking over the dripping, looking like a veritable son of the sea-god. They were he attended the mission-church, saw very much what he "chief's legs, snatching his food from before him, and so on." quickly succeeded by numbers, and we had before long eighteen to twenty canoes alongside with pigs, plantaine, bananas, malay-apples, might have seen in any place of worship in England. It appears they are trained in impudence from their youth cocoa-nuts, spears, and other articles of commerce. They seemed I confess (he says) it was rather difficult to preserve one's gravity. to fit them for their calling. These practical jokers reprevery anxious to trade, and had their little shops all along the deck. Wherever one's eyes turned, they were sure to rest upon something sent a phase of Samoan merriment: grief, in one of its We soon found they had a "pretty smart" idea of the value of a most astounding in the way of bonnets. Under a huge coalscuttle forms, is displayed in the amputation of finger joints. Of "tanna," as they had learned to call a shilling, and of doing business, of native manufacture, built upon the most exaggerated state of the the beauty of the scenery in Tutuila, we have the followgained, no doubt, by their intercourse with whalers, sailing under the fashion prevailing when Europeans first came to these islands, you ing animated picture: stars and stripes," which we found were now constantly in the saw the happy contented-looking face of a girl, looking as though habit of coming here for supplies. Instead of the uncouth ferocious she had been got up for a pantomime, who, in her native head-dress savages we had expected, we found them pleasant, good-looking of a single flower, would have been much more becomingly arranged. some miles into the country. The road or rather pathway, led us We rode out to-day on one of the little, active, island-bred horses, fellows, of a light olive complexion, with well-shaped features, clean, Perhaps beside her sat her mother, who, with spectacles on her nose, through a most luxuriant forest of cocoa-nut, bread-fruit, and orange quite sufficiently attired for the climate, very merry and happy, but pored over her book with an equally astonishing work of art over- trees, mingled with bananas; underneath, in the moist shade flourished quiet, and remarkably well behaved. The younger men were ready shadowing her shrunken figure. for any "lark," as the sailors said, and after being decorated in fana rank growth of pine-apples, red-peppers, etc. After a mile or two, tastic style in the forecastle, with red and green paint (for which the these plantations, as they are called, gave place to larger forest-trees, The Samoans are a very courteous people and understand conspicuous among which was the beautiful banyan, out and in artists were paid liberally with shells and bananas) some of them the laws of politeness as well as Lord Chesterfield, who, amongst whose feathery branches sailed the boatswain-birds in their danced with great glee, and in good time, to the jigs and hornpipes besides teaching its study to a son who turned out a cub, snowy plumage, looking almost transparent against the bright rays played by the ship's musician. The only faux pas I observed committed was by one who, having obtained possession of a marine's old practised it in his dying moments, "Give Mr Dayrolles glades, in which a few cattle were feeding, giving life to the scene. of the tropical sun. We reached a picturesque village with open scarlet jacket in exchange for his goods, had struggled into it as a "a chair," being almost the last words the sick man Through it ran a sparkling little river, now rushing swiftly among pair of breeches, and came ignominiously upon his back on the uttered. In their "fonos" or public meetings, the the basaltic rocks in its bed, at the foot of high cliffe, over which quarter-deck. He heartily enjoyed the absurdity of his position, strictest attention is paid to precedency, and it would be hung beautiful tree-ferns, and frequently leaping in bright cascades amid shouts of laughter. Bright cotton handkerchiefs, fish-hooks, an excess of ill-breeding unheard of among themselves to over the dykes of lava, from fifty to a hundred feet high, over which knives and trousers, seemed most prized; and many were the in- walk across the circle round which the chiefs are seated. the native girls rejoiced to plunge themselves. quiries made for Jew's harpe, of which, unfortunately, we had none" Sometimes a white man, looking upon himself as far But however charming to the eye, the country, owing "superior to the 'savages,' that he may infringe all their to the damp heat, is very undesirable for a European to How the natives of Niue had become familiar with the "rules, marches carelessly with his pipe in his mouth in dwell in. English language was explained by the fact that intercourse "front of the speaker. The only remark they make is, On leaving the Samoan Islands Mr Hood has a few with American whalers was frequent, and that a missionary"Oh, the poor white pig, he knows no better." White words to say respecting cannibalism. To this reproach the and his wife were living on the island. Though the pigs are plenty enough, as every day's experience shows. Samoans are not open :

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on board.

extension of Christianity amongst the inhabitants had Mauga, the principal chief of Tutuila, afforded evidence by They may perhaps have been so to a certain extent in remote times; greatly tended towards their civilisation, it was found that his own conduct of his powers of restraint, a convertible but so far as their own traditions reach, they never actually had a many old customs still prevailed. "The women," says term for politeness, for in an entertainment given on board relish for "Bakola," or human flesh. This word (literally meaning Mr Hood, "are modest; infidelity is severely punished, the Fawn in his honour, though suffering from a severe body, unless indeed when they speak of Puaka-balava, or long pig, "eating food") is the only one the Fijians have to denote the human "and illegitimate children are always thrown into the sea. attack of fever, he behaved with perfect amenity and good in contradistinction to Puaka-dina, short pig. They admit that at "Suicide is not unusual, when urged by some violent humour, not for a moment allowing his indisposition to times an enemy, notorious for cruelty and hostility, has been cooked, "paroxysm of passion, they rush to the edge of some high betray him into the slightest breach of etiquette. and a portion of the body tasted by each of his conquerors as the "coral cliff, and throw themselves down headlong. Their token of utmost detestation and triumphant vengeance. Nor did they While at Tutuila, Mr Hood was desirous of ascertain-ever practise any of the horrible cruelties of the Fijians and other "dead are generally put into a canoe, and sent adrift; or ing the habits of the Ou-ou, a cocoa-nut eating crab which Melanasians (as the islanders of the Papuan or Negrillo race are

called by the French), who launched their war-canoes over the pros- many of his countrymen, first by unscrupulously fulsome growing influence of the communes and of men acting in trate bodies of half a hecatomb of living men, used as rollers; and adulation, and afterwards by an unscrupulous detraction. masses, when chivalry began to decline and the true with each post of a new house, buried some unfortunates alive, He was over-cautious, indeed, but of blameless probity, and influence of woman was enlarged as she became more free, placed in the post-holes, each standing up with his arms round the to him alone was due the rescue of Maryland. Captain the age of Chaucer in England and Froissart in France. tree. Of the ferocity of these savages, no stronger illustration can be given than the lament of a chief over his son, whose many Chesney points out that Lee also, as after knowledge We may also, without affecting premature criticism, at virtues and amiable qualities he enumerated in the bitterness of his proved, lost by over-caution a great opportunity of follow-once give as much interest to the book as belongs to its sorrow, winding up with the exclamation, "Oh my son, my son ing up his victory at Fredericksburg. date from Charleston, and the fact stated in his preface by So just, so brave, and fierce was he; if even any of his own wives the author, that the civil war broke off from his work an disobeyed him, he cooked and ate them on the spot!" account of Europe during the first half of the fourteenth BIOGRAPHY.-The Life and Times of Bertrand du Guesclin: a His- century, which he designed for its introduction, but has tory of the 14th Century.' By D. F. Jamison, of South Carolina. In had neither the leisure nor the heart to write; and that the Two Volumes. (8vo, pp. 287, 314.) Trübner and Co. Charleston: book, which is the result of six or seven years of assiduous John Russell.- Autobiography, Correspondence &c., of Lyman Beecher, labour, had to bear all risk of loss in running the blockade D.D. Edited by his Son, Charles Beecher. With Illustrations. In Two before it could be published. Volumes. Vol. I. (Crown 8vo, pp. 502.) Low, Son, and Marston.

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The return voyage of the Fawn included a visit to Uea or Wallis Island, for the purpose of enforcing payment of a fine of twenty tuns of cocoa-nut oil inflicted by the Commander of H.M.S. Elk, for plundering a vessel which got ashore on a reef and maltreating her crew. Into the rights of this question it is not necessary to enter, though TRAVEL.-Constantinople during the Crimean War." By Lady The other biography of the week is the first of two we are inclined to think, with Mr Hood, that the natives Hornby. With Illustrations in Chromo-Lithography. (Super-royal volumes that are to tell the Life of the Rev Dr Lyman had rather hard measure dealt out to them, but a few 8vo, pp. 500.) Bentley. words may be given to the Queen of the island, a very old Three Volumes. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 320, 240, 264.) Chapman and Hall. LITERATURE.The Poetical Works of Henry Taylor, D.C.L.' In Beecher. It contains portraits well executed in lithography of Dr Beecher, at the ages of 28 and 58, and a few lady, who very politely received the unpleasant demand, FICTION.-The Belle of the Village. By John Mills, Author of sketches in woodcut of localities connected with his life. seated on a throne composed of folded " tapas" (cloths), The Old English Gentleman.' Second Edition. Select Library of with one round her waist and not a very elegant dimity Ball." A Novel. By William Pickersgill, Author of Washington was descended from John Beecher, one of a highly-respectFiction. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 369.) Chapman and Hall. The Belle of the Dr Beecher was the father of Mrs Beecher Stowe. He upper garment, having two maids of honour on either side, Grange,' &c. In Two Volumes (post 8vo, pp. 323, 319). Newby. The able party of merchants and others led by a London clergyand a large assembly of sages, sitting cross-legged on mats, Golden Rule: and other Stories for Children.' By Mary C. Hume, Author man, who settled in New England in 1638, 18 years after around. Her chief interpreter and principal adviser was of The Wedding Guests,' &c. (12mo, pp. 148.) Pitman. GIFT BOOK. The Seven Ages of Man Described. By William the arrival of the Mayflower. His great grandfather was an individual named Solomon. Of what country he was Shakespeare. Depicted by Robert Smirke. (Square 12mo, 9 photo- strong enough to lift a barrel of cider and drink out of the native is not stated, but he had once been a cab-driver for graphs.) L. Booth. two years in Paris, and consequently spoke French, besides Production of Wine; embracing an' Historical and Descriptive Account of cider into a cart. His father also could lift the barrel WINE.The Vine and its Fruit, more especially in relation to the bunghole. His grandfather was only able to lift the barrel a little English. By her minister's recommendation the of the Grape, its Culture and Treatment in all Countries, Ancient and of cider out of the cart and carry it into the cellar. Dr Queen, after a good deal of feminine (or political) contro- Modern. Drawn from the best Authorities, and incorporating a Brief Beecher's grandfather and father both were blacksmiths. versy, agreed to settle the demand, and the various inter- Discourse on Wine.' By James L. Denman. (Post 8vo, pp. 346.) Longman and Co. His father was a well-read man, with whom college stuviews for the purpose of ensuring its acceptance passed off RELIGION. Counsel and Comfort spoken from a City Pulpit.' By dents boarded, and who remembered everything he very pleasantly. Mutual compliments were paid, and the the Author of 'The Recreations of a Country Parson, Crown SO, PP had read; but when he came in from the barn Queen, in approval of those which were paid by Captain of God's Holy Word.' Prayer. The Lord's Supper. Christ Mystical. with his pocket full of eggs at least twelve times he 304.) Strahan and Co.- Golden Words: The Rich and Precious Jewel Cator of the Fawn, patted her "tapa" approvingly with The Sabbath. Public Worship. The Art of Hearing. Walking with was known to sit upon them. Such anecdotes of the past her three fingers, "her allowance on either hand, the God. Faith. Repentance. And Passages on Miscellaneous Subjects: cheerful Doctor Beecher remembered when in his later "others having been sacrificed, joint by joint, as tributes title-page." (Crown 8vo, pp. 356.) J. H. and J. Parker. Birmingham: years he thought of writing a history of his own life and Being Selections from the writings of "thirty-two divines named on the "of affection, upon their death, to her dead relatives." Henry Wright. times. He was, we are told in the introduction to the Leaving the Feejee group unvisited, the Fawn, after quitting By Henry Alford, D.D., Dean of Canterbury. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. book, a careful writer. Though in speaking he used rustic ESSAYS.The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and SpelUea, and touching at New Caledonia, proceeded to Norfolk 256.) London: Strahan and Co. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co. dialect and would say "creetur" and "natur," in writing Island, not long since a name of terror, but now, we are VERSE. A Bundle of Ballads.' Edited by the Author of 'Guy his sister has it that "he was given to the lust of finishing." glad to find, a place which Mr Hood describes as one of the Livingstone.' (Small 4to, pp. 141.) Tinsley Brothers. loveliest spots on earth, and "now occupied by perhaps Institution.The British Quarterly Review, No. 77. Jackson, Wal-son to arrange his sermons, letters, and MSS. Then, in QUARTERLY.The Life Boat; a Journal of the National Life Boat More than once he began his autobiography; he got his "the most moral and well-behaved community in exist- ford, and Hodder. the sitting-room of his daughter, Mrs Stowe, he would tell ence, after having been for fifty years a blot upon the MONTHLY. Homes without Hands; being an Account of the Habi"face of creation." tations Constructed by Various Animals, classed according to their Prin- his life conversationally, while his children questioned him ciples of Construction. By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A., F.L.S. Part I. and wrote down what he told and they elicited. After(8vo, pp. 32.) Longman and Co.-The Intellectual Observer. Good wards what was produced thus was read over to him, or Words.-Magnet Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights.' (Pp. A Military View of Recent Campaigns in Virginia and 45.) The Young Foresters." By Frances Browne. Groombridge and compared with recollections of other of his children, and Maryland. By Capt. C. C. Chesney, R.E., Professor Sons.-Blackwood's. Fraser's-Macmillan's and the Cornhill Ma- in this pleasant domestic way grew that autobiography of of Military History, Sandhurst College. With Maps. gazine. The Victoria Magazine. The English Woman's Journal. Smith, Elder, and Co. The New Review. The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle. an American divine of which the first volume is in our list Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments.' With Pictures of Books of the Week. This is precisely the sort of book on the American War by the Best Artists, including J. E. Millais, John Tenniel, J. D. Watson. Lady Hornby's Constantinople during the Crimean War' that is most wanted by those who endeavour at moderate Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Part I. (PP. 40.) Ward and is a book expensively produced, and illustrated with five or Lock. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible.' Part XI. Appendix to cost to place on their own shelves clear and sufficient Vol. I. Bentley's Miscellany. Colburn's New Monthly. Cassell's six coloured lithographs from pictures of harem life by Mrs records of contemporary history. It is well for those who Illustrated Bunyan.- Cassell's Popular Natural History.' New Edition. Walker. The work is stated, in a note prefixed to it, to be can afford to keep their libraries well stocked with Bible Dictionary. Part 10. Christian Work." No. 1.- The Life and an edition for the public, remodelled and enlarged, of a literature of the day, to give a few shelves to a collection Lessons of our Lord Unfolded and Illustrated. By the Rev. John work by Lady Hornby entitled 'In and Around Stamboul,' of the scattered voices that express the conflict of the Cumming, D.D., F.R.S. E. Part 1. Shaw & Co. of which, some years ago, only a limited number of copies mind in a historical event of such moment as the Chambers's Journal.' MONTHLY AND WEEKLY.-All the Year Round.'—' Once a Week.'- were printed. It is in the form of private letters from the transatlantic Civil War. How diverse are those voices, PAMPHLETS. The Common Prayer in Latin. A Letter Addressed authoress, chiefly to her own nearest relatives. and what large books have sometimes been written to set to the Rev. Sir William Henry Cope, Bart.' By William John Blew. The neat little library edition of the Poetical Works of With a Postscript on the Common Prayer in Greek. (8vo, pp. 52.) forth such a theory as might be enounced sound and C. J. Stewart.Address of the Council of the Operative Miners Na Henry Taylor' is a pleasant companion to the recent issue complete in ten minutes of speculative after-dinner talk, tional Association to the Coal and Ironstone Miners of Great Britain.' of the works of Robert Browning, by the same publishers, we have already briefly shown. Of books absolutely (8vo, pp. 8.) Spark and Co.. Leeds. Essays on Digestion, and on the Messrs Chapman and Hall. The first volume contains dispassionate, that give with original thought and some Blood. Written in 1834, by the late James Carson, M.D., F.R.S., Influence of the Venous Capillaries in Promoting the Circulation of the Philip van Artevelde;' the second, Edwin the Fair' freshness of information, a critical narrative of events Membre Honoraire de la Societé Française Statistique Universelle. (8vo, and Isaac Comnenus'; the third, a Sicilian Summer,' approaching as nearly as may be to the dignity of contem- pp. 40.) Longman and Co. Elements of Designing on the Developing St Clement's Eve' and the lesser poems. Each volume System, calculated to bring out a Taste for Order, Regularity, and Sym- is provided with an independent title-page, and may be porary history, the number is very few indeed. There are metry. In a Series of Numbers. No. 1-Form-Drawing for Junior several volumes of remarkably good picturesque description, Classes. Straight Lines in Squares. (Post quarto, pp. 23.) Edin- procured for binding as a separate and independent work. the lively records of eye-witnesses, including anecdotes burgh: Nimmo. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. The novels of the week are the Belle of the Village' and biographical sketches; but many who get such books To our usual classified list of the new books of each week and the Belle of the Ball.' The 'Belle of the Village' is from the circulating library, ask where they may find a we shall henceforth join a current account of what they a two shilling reprint of a tale by Mr John Mills. The volume or two not too expensive for the multitude of look like. Except that a couple of general reports upon Golden Rule,' which gives its name to the little book by private book-buyers, that will narrate and interpret simply the Fiction and the Verse of 1863 are due from us, and Miss Mary C. Hume, is the first of seven simple tales for and soundly, without any ornamental wilderness of words, that a few sterling works are yet reserved for notice at the children, here and there with a few wholesome lines of the whole or part of the tale of the Civil War, in a way leisure such books only can afford to wait, we enter into musical verse interpolated between one story and another. convenient for present information and for future reference. the new year with an unusually light satchel of unnoticed We have read enough of this little volume to entitle us at One such book is this volume by Captain Chesney, Professor literature at our back. So long as we don't set ourselves once to recommend it as a story book with enough quickof Military History at Sandhurst. It is a book for up for critics who, like one of the spiritualists of the day, ness of incident to please the young. It is the work of an the home library, not much more than 200 pages have only to touch a book to know everything about it, we earnest, graceful mind, here and there directly religious in long, and divesting the subject of all passionate feeling, may make the simple weekly report of a glance through the tone of thoughts alive with a sense of love to God it describes the unsuccessful operations of the North the new books and pamphlets convenient to readers and an revealed in His Son and in Nature, but unsectarian, and against the Southern Capital. Having sketched from act of fair justice to many writers. But such report will nowhere risking failure of impression on the young mind the military historian's point of view the theatre of be, of course, only the supplement to a full critical notice by obtrusive preachfulness. war, the armies and their leaders, Captain Chesney writes of the chief works of general interest published in this At once, too, we may commend, as we describe, a the history of McClellan's advance on Richmond by the country during the year. charming like gift book, issued by Mr Booth, of small Peninsula and his retreat; of Pope's campaign in Virginia; Of a book like Mr Jamison's 'Life and Times of Ber- photographs, that exquisitely reproduce Smirke's illus of the attempt of the South to turn the tide of war back trand du Guesclin,' we can say little more than that the trations to the Seven Ages of Man,' Shakespeare's lines into Maryland and Pennsylvania. He tells how check was volumes are handsome, that the work is printed upon fine facing each illustration; photographs of Shakespeare, from put upon this project by the battle of Antietam, and how toned paper, and that it has prefixed to it a portrait of Du the Stratford monument and from Droeshout's engraving, the subsequent fourth invasion of Virginia was followed by Guesclin engraved on steel. But while we defer criticism of are prefixed to this little book, which, in its elegant white the dismissal of McClellan, and the appointment of Burn- a book that can be judged only after careful reading, and is and gold, or crimson and gold cover, is a fit ornament for side as his successor. Captain Chesney then describes the not to be read in a day, it is but the labour of a few minutes any table.

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nature of Burnside's change of base, and the defeat he to cut the pages of the preface and tell from them how the Mr Denman's book upon the Vine and its Fruit' is prepared for himself at Fredericksburg, in December 1862. author himself describes his design in writing of Du Guesclin an enlarged edition of a former essay. Here the narrative ends with the important chapter of the son of a poor and obscure Breton knight, leader of a band 'Counsel and Comfort spoken from a City Pulpit' is a military history of which it gives a clear detail; the detail of adventurers during the wars between John de Montfort prettily printed volume of sixteen sermons, by the author of a skilled critic, who knows what are essential facts in and Charles de Blois for the succession to the Duchy of of Recreations of a Country Parson,' prefaced by a reprint the great miscellany of reports from public and private Brittany, who having won fame in his own province, from Good Words' of his essay Concerning the close of correspondents on the spot, and of a critic who is also well attracted the notice of the King of France by his daring Holiday Time; with some thoughts on Pulpits.' 'Golden supplied with private communications from spectators of courage, led the Free Companies into Spain, dethroned Words' is a series of extracts chiefly from Divines of part the incidents he narrates and interprets. A chapter is Peter the Cruel, and came home to France where he was of the fifteenth and of the sixteenth and seventeenth cenadded by which the narrative is advanced to the battle of made Constable and gradually drove the English out of all turies, compiled by a lay member of the Church of England, Chancellorsville, won by Jackson's successful flank march, their extended possessions in that country, until little was with a prefatory collection of short page-long biographies and the book ends with the death of General Jackson, on left them but the city of Bordeaux in the south and Calais of authors quoted. the 11th of May, last year. While defining the nature of in the north. Mr Jamison sees in this hero a man of stern Dean Alford's little book on the 'Queen's English' was the superior generalship of the Southern leaders, Captain virtue, and in his times the interesting transition period, first born in the excellent periodical Good Words.' An Chesney is just to McClellan, who suffered at the hands of when the feudal system was being forced to yield to the essay of his in that journal produced strictures from a Mr

The Bundle of Ballads,' edited by the author of 'Guy Livingstone,' which represents the verse of the week, is handsomely printed. Of its quality we shall speak when we speak, as we mean soon to do, of the main body of the poetry of the year 1863.

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one, and eight men tottered under the weight of what, a week since, was the stalwart living form of William Makepeace Thackeray. In the chapel the Rev. C. Stuart, of King's College, read the prayers with becoming solemnity. The grave is not far from the southern wall of the burial-ground, and the crowd hurrying to it from the point which all were anxious to reach. Room was, however, the chapel soon overflowed the narrow pathway and hastened to again made for the two mourners in chief, and in a very few minutes that "Vanity Fair" was over for the great artist who had given its the coffin had been lowered, the earth had been shovelled in, and the solemn words, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," told the outer world imperishable picture to the world.

Washington Moon, by which the Dean seems to have been | States, and afterwards in London. In 1857 Mr Thackeray solicited | sion, no ceremonial in carrying the coffin. Two young ladies, urged to write more, and to lay stress enough on his the suffrages of the constituency of the city of Oxford, but his closely veiled, and reverently escorted by Mr Henry Cole, followed subject to form what he has written into a little book, opponent, Mr Cardwell, was returned. In the same year he published it closely into the chapel. Every one knew who they were, and which will invite, we hope, serviceable discussion, and his "Virginians," the last of his principal novels. In 1860 he why they were there, but their sorrow was too sacred even for the of which we shall not omit in due time to speak as it became the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, in which appeared prying curiosity of a London crowd. The coffin was a long deserves. "Lovel the Widower" and "The Adventures of Philip," and at the time of his death he was engaged on a work of fiction which is spoken very highly of by those to whom the earlier sheets were shown. Mr Thackeray's association with the newspaper press, though formed Three of the monthly publications in our list are new. while he was still a very young man, was never permanent. In the The first shilling part of the Rev. J. G. Wood's 'Homes without Hands' is very nicely printed and neatly produced, ultra-liberal principles, under a directory of which his step-father, year 1836, when the Constitutional daily paper was established on with fire excellent woodcuts, including a whole page picture and sectional plan of a Prairie Dog Town, and Major Carmichael Smith, was a prominent member, Thackeray two sheets of clearly printed text in demy octavo. was the colleague of Douglas Jerrold, Laman Blanchard, and one or This first number describes the homes of burrowing two other literary men who still survive,-his services being rendered mammalia, including the Mole, the Fox, the Badger, in the shape of letters from Paris, where, after the failure of the and the Rabbit. Part 1 of Christian Work,' pub- Constitutional from pecuniary causes, he continued to reside, and where lished at the office of Good Words,' is, in fact, the he chiefly lived for several years afterwards. On the unhappy recommencement, in a modified form, of the plan of a recent journal, entitled 'Christian Work all over the World.' decease of Laman Blanchard, in the beginning of the year 1845, Mr It is a magazine of religious and missionary information, Thackeray, who had just returned from that journey, the account of of about the size of Chambers's Journal,' clearly printed which when published bore the title of "From Cornhill to Cairo," in double columns, forty-eight pages in the sixpenny occupied the post of sub-editor of this journal, but retained it for part, and contains first, papers of information and few months only,—and from that time to the date of his lamented criticism, then letters descriptive of the movements death, all regular connection with journalism ceased, though to in all countries effecting Christian Work, and lastly, a short Punch, as we have seen, he still continued a constant contributor. account of New Books bearing on home and foreign mis- How he earned the affection of his colleagues in that famous sionary work. The third novelty of the week is Number 1 of a new series, the fourth, of our excellent old friend periodical may be gathered from the following words which we Chambers's Journal,' with new type larger and rather more extract from this week's number. "While generous tributes are luminous than of old, but with unfailing signs of the old everywhere paid to the genius of him who has been suddenly called clear head and right heart that have been its life for two- away in the fulness of his power and the maturity of his fame, some and-thirty years. who have for many years enjoyed the advantage of his assistance and the delight of his society would simply record that they have lost a dear friend. At an early period in the history of this periodical he became a contributor to its pages, and he long continued to enrich William Makepeace Thackeray belonged to a Yorkshire family, and them; and though of late he ceased to give other aid than suggestion was descended from that Dr Thackeray who was for some time Head and advice, he was a constant member of our council, and sat with Master of Harrow, and who introduced the Eton system there. His us on the eighth day from that which has saddened England's father, the son of the Rev. R. Thackeray, of Hadley, in Middlesex, Christmas. Let the brilliancy of his trained intellect, the terrible was in the Civil service of the East India Company, and the subject strength of his satire, the subtlety of his wit, the richness of his of this memoir was born at Calcutta in 1811. The future author humour, and the catholic range of his calm wisdom, be themes for was sent to England in his seventh year, when, the ship having

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others: the mourning friends who inscribe these lines to his memory

As there are many stories in circulation respecting the circumstances which immediately preceded Mr Thackeray's death, the following facts, which were given to a writer in the Daily News by one of his most intimate personal friends, may not prove unhealth, he was at intervals subject to severe spasms of the stomach, interesting. It appears that although generally enjoying good which caused violent retching and nausea, and left him in a state of utter prostration often for hours after the first violence of the attack had passed away. On the night of his death, his mother, who slept overhead, heard him get up and walk about his room, but was not alarmed, as this was a habit with her son when he felt any symptoms Thackeray's bedroom as usual, and saw him lying on his back quite of an attack coming on. In the morning his valet came into Mr still, with his arms spread over the coverlet, but he took no notice, as he also was accustomed to see his master thus after one of his stomach and it was only when he returned after an interval and found that attacks. He brought some coffee and set it down beside the bed, the cup had not been tasted, that a sudden alarm seized him, and be seized when his mother heard him get up in the night and walk discovered that his master was dead. Mr Thackeray had in fact been about the room, and the violence of the attack, it is supposed, brought on the effusion on the brain, which, as the post-mortem Durham, the eminent sculptor, has undertaken to preserve the likeexamination showed, was the immediate cause of death. Mr Joseph ness of his deceased friend in a marble bust, which he means to present to the Garrick Club."

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER.

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS.

We shall be able next week to give a comparative estimate of all the Christmas pantomimes and burlesques. But as that can only be done by our usual way of seeing them all with the same pair of eyes, and hearing them all with the same pair of ears, so that they may all be measured by one standard of opinion, we have not yet had time to become fully instructed. We can only report upon four theatres visited this weekDRURY LANE, the HAYMARKET, the PRINCESS's, and the ST JAMES's; and as we cannot compare their entertainments with those not yet seen, it will not be fair to say much of them until we can speak of all DRURY LANE pantomime of Sindbad the Sailor is a capital impartially. Let it be enough then now to say that the children's pantomime, with a bright and pleasant introducdances, and a very liberal allowance of pantomime business in the harlequinade. In the evening performance it is preceded only by a farce, and keeps the children merry for almost three hours. At COVENT GARDEN, also, the pantomime is planned on a liberal scale and is well spoken of; but we must speak of that next week, from our own knowledge.

The pantomime of Tom Tucker that we have seen at the PRINCESS's is ingeniously preluded by an introduction that weaves six or eight nursery rhymes into a connected fable. Its author should be named, since he has catered singularly well for the small patrons of his muse. The scenery in in real beauty any that we have seen for many years, and this pantomime is good, the transformation scene surpases we hardly expect to find an equal to it this year at any of the other houses. The succeeding harlequinade is not stinted, and has had some little thought spent upon it.

think of the affectionate nature, the cheerful companionship, the large heart and open hand, the simple courteousness, and the endearing frankness of a brave, true, honest gentleman, whom no pen but his own could depict as those who knew him would desire." THE FUNERAL of Mr Thackeray took place at Kensal-green school of the Charterhouse, commemorated in more than one of his cemetery on Thursday, and the ceremony is thus described by one works in a spirit of affectionate loyalty. From thence he proceeded who was present: "The day was beautifully fine, with a clear to Cambridge, but left the University without taking a degree. On blue sky, and a warm sun shining brightly down on the white tion, a very pretty ballet, some lively and clever occasional coming of age he found himself in possession of a fortune of 20,000l., monuments with which the burial-ground is so plentifully studded, but not wishing to lead an idle life he chose the profession of an and which, from the bad arrangement and incongruity of design, artist, in the pursuit of which he visited Italy and Germany. For a give the place very much the appearance of a stone-cutter's yard. time he resided at Weimar when Göthe was at the summit of his The entrance gate is approached from the shabbiest suburb in the fame, and in a letter to Mr G. H. Lewes he has given his neighbourhood of London, and the inhabitants were at the time the reminiscences of the greatest of German poets and critics. It was funeral procession was expected all engaged in their ordinary occuwhen he was about three-and-twenty years of age, and when his pations, a funeral being an every-day, almost an every-hour, inherited fortune had been much reduced by losses, that Mr Thackeray occurrence in Kensal green. There were labourers at work in the gave his thoughts in earnest to literature. He began as a writer in grounds, and hearses returning from ordinary funerals. Soon after, Fraser's Magazine, in the days when Dr Maginn was its ruling spirit, groups of friends and strangers, clad in mourning, came up to the and, under the name of Michael Angelo Titmarsh, wrote numberless gate, and whispered an inquiry into the ears of Mr Chesterton, the essays, reviews, tales, sketches and poems of various degrees of undertaker, after which they passed in, forming, as they increased in merit. He also contributed to other periodicals, and worked for numbers, a long, dark, moving thread down the centre of the pathnumerous publishers, without, however, acquiring much pecuniary way that leads to the chapel. Then came private carriages, one of advantage from his untiring labour. The first of his works which which bore the coronet of Earl Granville, and from another Mr appeared in a separate form were "The Paris Sketch Book" (1840), Dickens, accompanied by his son-in-law, Mr Charles A. Collins, At the HAYMARKET there is a bright little burlesque and "The Second Funeral of Napoleon," and "The Chronicles of a alighted. Ladies now arrived pretty numerously, but not all in version of King Arthur, by Mr W. Brough, added to a Dream," in metre, published together (1841). But neither these, mourning; then more persons on foot, next a few broughams and revised edition of Dundreary.' The scenery is pleasant, nor “The Irish Sketch Book" (1843), made a permanent impression carriages, and finally, the simple funeral procession itself. There above the average of burlesque writing. There is a pleathe acting good, and Mr Brough's jokes and puns are on the public. From an early date he was connected with Punch, at was but one mourning coach, and in this and the succeeding carriage, sant little ballet introduced, but great stress is not laid first as the "Fat Contributor," and soon after as the author of the which was the private one of the deceased, were seated the Rev. F. upon it; the distinctive merit of the burlesque being inimitable "Jeames's Diary," and "The Snob Papers," contributions St John Thackeray and Mr James Rodd, cousins of the deceased, rather its good incidental singing, for advantage being which greatly attracted public attention. In 1846 he advanced to a Captain Shaw, his brother-in-law, and the Hon. E. Curzon. The taken of the voices of Miss Louisa Keeley, who is the higher form of composition than he had before attempted. His first chapel was not as yet open, but its steps were crowded with the King Arthur; and of Miss E. Romer, who is engaged and perhaps greatest novel, "Vanity Fair," began to appear in that representatives of art, of literature, and of science, come to see the for the piece, really good music is introduced, besides the year, and being continued in monthly parts, grew in public favour last of their great friend who had been so suddenly taken from popular tunes of the street; and the burlesque closes by taking from Dryden's 'King Arthur' Purcell's 'Come if until, on its completion in 1848, its author was universally recognised amongst them. Most of the literary men now in town, and many of you dare?' as one of our greatest living writers of fiction. Passing over some the artists, were there, including Mr Charles Dickens, Mr Robert At the ST JAMES's Mr Webster, whatever the croakers small occasional and Christmas books, "Notes of a Journey from Browning, Mr Anthony Trollope, Mr Millais, Mr Robert Bell, Mr G. may say, will, we believe, draw full houses, for even now, Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846), “Mrs Perkins's Ball" (1847), “Dr H. Lewes, Mr E. S. Dallas, Mr Charles Allston Collins, Mr although cumbered with a curiously poor burlesque called Birch and his Young Friends" (1849), we come to "Pendennis," a Theodore Martin, Mr Richmond, M. Louis Blanc, Mr E. S. Piggott, 1863,' that must soon be withdrawn, he brings such a force young man of not the most amiable character, whom Mr Thackeray Mr Creswick, Mr George Cruikshank, Mr J. Hollingshead, Sir J. of clever acting on the stage that, with Mrs Stirling to invited the world, "knowing how mean the best of us is," to receive Carmichael, Mr H. Cole, C.B., Mr O'Neale, R.A., Archdeacon delight the public in her charming part as the oppressively kind and tender mother, with Mr Toole to save the burwith charity "with all his faults and shortcomings, who does not Hale, Mr Herman Merivale, Rev. W. Brookfield, Baron Marochetti, lesque, and while he keeps the house in a roar, give high claim to be a hero, but only a man and a brother." In 1851 Mr Rev. W. Mitchell, Mr R. Sturgie, Mr G. Smith, Mr Palgrave dramatic value to his part in Mr Hollinghead's farce Thackeray delivered at Willis's rooms a course of "Six Lectures on Simpson, Mr W. Richmond, Mr J. Millais, Mr R. Doyle, Mr V. of the Birthplace of Podgers, with pleasant Miss the English Humourists," which delighted some of the most brilliant Princep, Sir W. Alexander, Mr R. Redgrave, and others. Punch sent Cottrell and Mr Paul Bedford, now on the St audiences which have honoured a literary man in these days, and have its deputation in the persons of the Messrs Evans, father and son, James's stage, and Mr Webster himself coming, Mr and since been numbered with his published works. In 1852 "The Mr Mark Lemon, Mr John Leech. Mr Tom Taylor, Mr Tenniel, Mrs Charles Mathews too, and other famous entertainers, History of Henry Esmond, Esq." was given to the world, and was Mr Shirley Brooks, and Mr Horac. Mayhew. The Garrick Club, theatre in King street. Even now, though the burlesque there will be no empty benches at the so often unlucky followed by "The Newcomes," in 1855. The success of the lectures of which the illustrious deceased nad been a leading member is a failure, on the whole certainly not the least pleasant on the English Humourists, and the tendency of the historical studies and frequent visitor, was represented by Mr W. H. Russell and Mr of the four evenings of entertainment here recorded was evident in “Esmond,” led Mr Thackeray to prepare a series of lectures Deane, and a host of others whose names would not be so speedily that spent at the St James's, thanks especially to Mrs on "The Four Georges," which he delivered first in the United recognised by the public. There was, strictly speaking, no proces- Stirling and to Mr Toole.

CURRENT EVENTS.

is found out early, and the destruction only includes one corn stack. | more such shots as it received would have demolished it. One shot The great number of incendiary fires of late has caused an extraor- at the base broke every plate through, and evidently nearly penedinary number of applicants for insurance, and the Sun office has met trated it." [A mark (*) is attached to the Events discussed or more fully nar- the demand by raising its rate from 5s. to one guinea per cent. for rated in this week's EXAMINER.] farm produce.

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Dec. 17.-The New York Herald nominates General Grant as candidate for the next Presidency, and puts forward as an electioneering cry that he would demand from England an indemnity for the depredations of privateers, and would expel the French from Mexico. 18.-The steamer Ella and Annie captures the Chesapeake, with three of her crew, in Sambro harbour, Nova Scotia. The Chesapeake was taken to Halifax for judicial decision. The British authorities have ordered the arrest of the pirates who seized the Chesapeake. The Richmond press denounces President Lincoln's amnesty proclamation as an infamous document, which will but arouse the Southern people to new zeal and new efforts.*

arms.

The Federal House of Representatives passes a resolution by 93 to 64 that the war shall be prosecuted so long as the rebels are found in 19.-The New York Tribune asserts that as the Chesapeake was captured in British waters, she will be delivered to the British authorities, but it was not believed that the pirates would be allowed to put to sea again. Mr Seward has a friendly interview with Lord Lyons on the subject. FRANCE:

Dec. 29.-A report of Marshal Randon, approved by the Emperor, is published. "It decides that general officers on service, no matter how employed, shall be legally relieved of their functions as soon as they have reached the age of seventy.

The Moniteur publishes the reply of the Sultan to the Emperor's invitation to the Congress.* The Pays says: "Positive information enables us to deny the hesitation asserted to be shown by the Archduke Maximilian to accept the Mexican throne."

30.-The Gazette de France asserts that General Forey will proceed shortly to Miramar, on a mission to the Archduke Maximilian.

31. It is asserted that the Austrian Government will send two iron-cased frigates to the North Sea.

The Pays says: "A rumour is current that Lord Cowley will be!
superseded in his post as English ambassador at Paris."
It is announced that the Archduke Maximilian will shortly arrive in
Paris.

26. A colliery explosion takes place at Maesteg, the property of the Llynvi Vale Iron Company, by which the lives of thirteen or fourteen persons are lost.

Sir G. Grey orders a medical commission of inquiry on the state of mind of Townley, the murderer of Miss Goodwin.*

The Confederate Press on Mr Lincoln's Proclamation. The Richmond Inquirer, in publishing Mr Lincoln's proclamation of amnesty, rejects its projects in the following language: "He is going to forgive us something, it seems, on certain terms. Forgive us what? Forgive us because he has invaded our States with armed multitudes to compass our destruction? Forgive us because he has 28.-At the weekly meeting of the Lancashire Distress Committee, plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, desolated our Mr Maclure reports that 1077. was received during the week, and that homes? Forgive us for the many thousands of brothers and sons the present balance in the bank is 224,9897. Mr Farnall stated that whom he has slain upon our soil while repelling his invasion, and for on the 19th ult. there was an increase in the number of persons receiving the many dear mutilated ones who will remain the legacy of the war parochial relief in the twenty-seven unions in the cotton manufacturing when the war is over? He may forgive us for all these his crimes, districts, as compared with the number so relieved in the previous week, but so long as we have hearts to feel and hands to strike we shall of 2,046. never forgive him. But he goes further, he makes his forgiveness 29.-The Earl of Kintore is appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeen-dependent upon terms. We have to swear that the proclamation of shire, in the room of the late Marquis of Huntly, and Sir J. H. emancipation which we received with mocking last year, and which Burnett, Bart., Lord-Lieutenant of Kincardineshire, in the room of the has since been a general derision, shall be submitted to by us. We Earl of Kintore. must abandon to that demon thirst for their blood all the men under Acting on the report of the medical commission sent to Derby, Sir whom we have won fame, if not a name among nations. We must G. Grey respites the murderer Townley, till the Queen's command on give the President to Abraham's tender mercies. The army of the the subject is known.* Potomac must offer up their glorious leader, under whom both have The Herald is authorised to state that there is no truth in the report become illustrious. Beauregard must be hanged. Is even Lincoln that the Earl of Cardigan has subscribed either 1007. or 500l. towards base enough to imagine a brave people such as the Confederates have paying Colonel Crawley's expenses, or that pending the proceedings of proved themselves, would, under any stress of fortune, prove traitors the general court-martial he has placed himself at the head of a list of to the men whom they have called to lead them in camp or council ? subscribers. [The Herald first gave currency to the report.] This infamous proclamation will but arouse us to new zeal and new efforts."

30. It is announced by the Guardian that the Archbishop of York has offered the valuable living of Bolton Percy to the Bishop of

Tasmania.

Jan. 1.--The Buckinghamshire election results in the return of the Conservative candidate, Mr Harvey, by a majority of nearly 2,000 over his opponent, Dr Lee.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

The War in Tennessee.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION. Condemnation to Death of Count Stanislaus Zamoyski. The Patrie of the 23rd ult. says: "The news of the condemnation to death of the young Count Stanislaus Zamoyski was evidently believed to be true in the Senate, and even in official quarters, for, if we are correctly informed, communications of the highest character were addressed on this subject to the Russian court, and it is because of these steps, taken almost simultaneously at Brussels, Paris, and London, that the despatch from St Petersburg, announcing that the trial The Federal pursuit of Longstreet appears to be reversed, the is not yet concluded, was issued. We have no cause to cast doubts on accounts from New York of the 19th ult. representing them as falling the authenticity or accuracy of this despatch. But we cannot help back before the Confederate General, who had turned upon them. recalling what occurred in 1861, when the condemnation to death of Despatches from Cumberland Gap of the 16th report that General Canon Bialobrzeski was reported all over Europe. On the 17th of A telegram from Suez, dated 30th inst., announces the inauguration Longstreet captured twenty-two loads of quartermasters' stores at the December a despatch was issued from Warsaw stating that the trial of the meeting of the waters of the Nile with the Red Sea. A banquet fight on the 14th, which is now stated to have occurred at Bean's was not yet concluded, and a few days after the official papers annountook place on the occasion, at which toasts were proposed to Ismail and Station. The Federal General Wilcox had been driven back to ced that the penalty of death which had been pronounced against the Said Pashas. Tazewell, where he was fortifying. Fighting was reported in pro- prelate had been commuted to that of detention in a fortress." gress at Blair's Cross-roads on the 16th, from which it would seem that the Federals have been also forced to retreat towards Knoxville.surrection caused the authorities at St Petersburg to ask General Berg The Cologne Gazette says that the increasing development of the inConsiderable anxiety is evinced by the public in New York to learn whether he could undertake to put it down in two months. Berg prothe true situation of affairs at Knoxville. A statement in the despatch mised to do so on certain conditions, which were granted. Among from Cumberland Gap on the 16th, to the effect that the Union them was his being empowered to banish or otherwise put out of the Dec. 27.-Garibaldi sends in his resignation as deputy in the Italian citizens were leaving Knoxville, lead to the belief that General Long-way any person likely to interfere in any way with his plans. The street was about to again besiege the town. The World remarks: The Diritto publishes a manifesto, signed by twenty-nine deputies "The news from Knoxville has not a very cheerful look. One of military authorities are now drawing up lists of the persons in their of the Left, explaining the motives which determined the majority of two things, we fear, has happened-either our forces have been too and the "harmless." These lists are expected to be completed in a respective districts, who are arranged in two classes--the "dangerous" the Left in Parliament not to quit their posts, but to remain in the widely scattered, with a view to cut off Longstreet, upon the theory month, when banishments on a sweeping scale will take place. General that he was retreating in disorder; or else he has been lately reinThe Italia asserts that the manifesto of the Hungarian committee forced from General Lee's army. This last is practicable. It would Berg has also decreed that foreigners implicated in the insurrection are emanated direct from Kossuth: "A National Committee has been be an awkward circumstance if, after all, Knoxville and East Ten-not to be sent out of the country, as hitherto, but treated as Poles, in organized in Hungary, acting on the same footing as the secret Polish nessee should be repossessed by the Confederates." consequence of which twenty-five Prussian subjects were banished, Government. A manifesto issued by this committee has been placarded and one, Demski, executed, on the 21st. On the 16th an Italian Woclawek, although the Italian ambassador, Marquis Pepoli, had internamed Becchi, formerly a lieutenant under Garibaldi, was also shot at ceded with the Emperor in his favour. He died exclaiming, "God save Poland." The battles in various parts of Poland continue to succeed each

Advices received at Marseilles from Constantinople to the 24th inst., assert that the Porte will shortly address an explanatory note to France on the subject of the Suez canal, in conformity with its note of the 6th of April.

ITALY:

Parliament.

Chamber.

sensation."

owes her successes."

THE PONTIFICAL STATES:

Dec. 29.-The English Consul is authorised by the Government to sign passports and Italian papers. PRUSSIA:

Dec. 27.-The Royal reply to the Address of the Chamber of Deputies announces that the Federal Diet, in co-operation with Prussia, has reserved its decision on the question of hereditary succession in Holstein. Withdrawal on the part of Prussia from the London treaty

would not be feasible without further consideration. GREECE:

The Siege of Charleston.

in all the towns of Hungary and Transylvania, producing an immense has rejoined General Hardee at Dalton, where he is reorganizing his Chattanooga despatches of the 18th state that General Wheeler The Stampa gives a denial to the rumours of extraordinary arma- cavalry for an active winter campaign against the Federal lines of ments being carried on by the Italian Government, and says: "Italy communication. On the 16th the Confederate cavalry commander has been occupied for the last four years in forming her army. The Ferguson, with a small force, captured the train of the 1st Cavalry possession of Venice by Austria is doubtless fraught with continual Division, while on the route from M'Minnville to Sparta, in Ten- other at short intervals. The engagement of Major Rudowski at danger to peace in Europe, but it will not be Italy who by impatience the Tennessee River at Gillespie's Landing, sixty miles above Chat- woods, where a small body of Polish infantry, under Major Lady, was nessee. The same despatches announce that General Morgan crossed Kielce, on the 14th, was followed by another on the 16th in the Ilzy will give the signal for war. Italy will not depart from that wise moderation of which she has given so many proofs, and to which she tanooga, on the 13th. Captains W. and R. Cummings, who escaped attacked by fourteen companies of Russians, but succeeded in cutting with General Morgan from Columbus, were captured, together with its way through the enemy with the bayonet, after a sanguinary handfourteen of their escort, during the ride from that town. General to-hand fight, in which the losses were very severe on both sides. In Howard's cavalry was in pursuit of General Morgan, who had the palatinates of Sandomir and Cracow the insurgents, under General escaped southwards across the Tennessee river, sixty miles above Bosak, are in great force-the various detachments numbering 3,000 Chattanooga. Sixteen of his escort were captured. infantry and about 300 cavalry in all, under such experienced leaders as Bogdan, Rembajlo, Ostoja, and Liwocza. KONIGSBERG, Dec. 28.-The Courrier de Wilna confirms the news fourteen Greek fire-balls were thrown into the city each day on the the fortress of Wilna, named Casimir Sytcbouch, who had passed over Confederate telegrams from Charleston report that from four to of the arrest of the Abbé Mackevitch, and announces that a gunner of 11th, 12th, 14th, and 15th ult. They caused, however, but trifling to the insurgents, was shot on the 22nd inst. in the market-place of damage. A part of the wood in Fort Sumter accidentally took fire Wilna. The same journal also announces the execution of a Podolian Dec. 25.-Advices from Athens announce that the Ministry had on the 17th, and before it could be extinguished caused the explosion noble, M. Maurice Dnybacki, accused of having taken part in the revoresolved that the military posts in Athens should be occupied by the of some ammunition, which killed ten men and wounded many others. lutionary organization. M. Dnybacki was executed on the 11th of police and gendarmes, instead of by the National Guard. Disturbances The official reports of the commanders of the Monitors made to December in the moat of the citadel of Kieff. were consequently created by the latter. The sittings of the National Admiral Dupont immediately after the failure of the attack upon Fort BRESLAU, Dec. 29.-According to advices from Warsaw, numerous Assembly were of a turbulent character. An address to the King Sumter, in April last, have been submitted to Congress by Secretary arrests were made in that city on Christmas day. requesting the dissolution of the National Assembly and a new Welles with his annexed report, and show that these vessels were 30.-Arrests continue to be made in Warsaw, particularly at the Constitution was circulating in the provinces. The King has received incapable of resisting the concentrated fire of heavy rifled ordnance. hotels. The National Government has made a fresh appeal to the a deputation from the Ionian Islands, requesting him not to accept the Captain Drayton, of the Passive, says: "I was struck in quick suc- insurgents in arms. Intelligence received from Radom states that Chiunion of the Islands with Greece under the stipulated conditions. cession in the lower part of the turret by two heavy shots, which mielinski has been shot at that place. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES: bulged in its plates and beams, and forcing together the rails on CRACOW, Dec. 29.-Advices from Warsaw state that the agents of which the carriage of the 11-inch gun worked, rendered it wholly General Berg in that city have commenced enforcing the signature of useless for the remainder of the action; a little after a very heavy addresses expressing loyalty to the Czar. The first addresses submitted rifle-shot struck the upper edge of the turret, broke all of its eleven to the inhabitants for signature were taken round to the Jewish quarter plates, and then glancing upwards struck the pilot-house with such of the town, M. Pezewuski, the substitute of Archbishop Felinski, force as to send it over, open the plates, and squeeze out the top, was required by an agent of the Government to issue a pastoral letter exposing the inside of the pilot-house, and rendering it extremely recommending the signature of the addresses, but he refused to comply. likely that the next shot would take off the top entirely." Captain 31.-A new insurgent corps, under the command of Zubr, has made Rodgers, of the Weehawken, reports: "Two or three heavy shots its appearance in the government of Radom. Numbers of volunteers, struck the side armour near the same place. They so broke the iron including peasants, are waiting to be supplied with arms in the that it only remained in splintered fragments, much of which could government of Lublin. The National Government has issued a decree be picked off by hand, and the wood was exposed. The deck was dividing all the forces of the insurrection into four commands, the pierced so as to make a hole, through which water ran into the vessel; three first of which are apportioned to Bosak, Kruk, and Lada respecthirty-six bolts were broken in the turret, and a great many in the tively. The fourth commander is not yet appointed. pilot-house. To the Patapsco no damage was done which disabled BERLIN, Dec. 30.-The Courrier de Wilna of the 26th inst. anher, although injuries which she received, if multiplied, would do so. nounces that Lieutenant Dominique Malekki had been shot, having Forty bolts in the funnel were broken. After the third shot from been found guilty of passing over to the insurgents. the 15-inch gun of the Nantuck a port stopper became jammed, several WARSAW, Dec. 30.-An order has been issued by General Berg that shots striking very near the port and driving in the plating. It was until the complete restoration of tranquillity all the police authorities, not used again. A number of the same plates were started so much including the head of the police, shall be subordinated to the military that another shot in their vicinity would have knocked them off. authorities.

Dec. 28.-The General Correspondenz of Vienna announces that all
the fortresses on the Servian and Wallachiau frontiers are being hastily
placed in a state of defence by the Turks.
SPAIN:

Dec. 29.-A semi-official announcement states that the Council of
Ministers is decidedly favourable to the assembling of a Congress at
Paris, in order to avoid the consequences of an European war.
30.-It is positively denied that the Spanish Government is about to

contract a loan of 300 million reals in Paris.
JAPAN:

Advices received at Shanghai on November 9, say that affairs are in a critical state. A great conference had taken place at Yeddo to discuss the advisability of entirely excluding foreigners from the country. According to news received in Paris on Wednesday, the parties of the Tycoon and Prince Satsuma had agreed upon their expulsion. The yielding of the Tycoon was attributed to the pressure exercised by Prince Satsuma.

Nov. 26 (from Shanghai).-Prince Satsuma has proposed to pay an indemnity, to erect a mausoleum to Mr Richardson, and otherwise to

atone for his death.

INDIA:

COLONIAL.

Dec. 14.-A telegram from Bombay states that there has been no more fighting on the frontier. General Chamberlain has resigned the command to Major-General Garvock, on account of the wound he received in the late encounter with the revolted tribes. All is quiet at Peshawur. Sir W. Denison was installed as Viceroy on the 2nd ult.

The Russians,

com

The deck plates were cut in twelve places; one shot cut through the VIENNA, Dec. 31.-The General Correspondenz of to-day confirms iron, and about two inches into the beam, starting the plates, several the intelligence of the insurgents having defeated the Russians at boits, and the planking, for some feet below. The plates on the side Wodzislaw, near Cracow, in the kingdom of Poland. armour of the Nahant were badly broken in several places, and one, who were commanded by Colonel Danilow, were pursued up to the where struck by two shots in close proximity, partly stripped from gates of Miechow. the wood, and the wood backing broken in, with edging of back plates started up and rolled back in places. The deck was struck THACKERAY'S CHARITY.-Amid the numberless traits recorded of twice damagingly, one shot near the propeller wheel quite shattering Thackeray's universal kindness and generosity, the following, and tearing the plate in its passage, and starting up twenty-five bolts, municated by the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, is worthy another starting plates and twenty bolts in the turret. There were of being recorded: "One morning, on entering Mr Thackeray's bed-room marks of nine shots; fifty-six of the bolts were broken perceptibly, in Paris, I found him placing some Napoleons in a pill-box, on the lid the heads flying off inside the turret, and the bolts starting almost of which was written, One to be taken occasionally. What are their length outside, some of them flying out completely, and being you doing?' said I. Well,' he replied, there is an old person here found at a considerable distance from the turret, on the deck. One who says she is very ill and in distress, and I strongly suspect that Dec. 23.-Another, making the twelfth, incendiary fire on the shot struck the upper part of the turret, breaking through every this is the sort of medicine she wants. Dr Thackeray intends to leave Yorkshire wolds occurs at Huggate, on the farm of Mr Horsley, but plate. The pilot-house was much damaged and wrecked, and four it on her himself. Let us walk out together.'"

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