Greek Anthology, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Parker. With the wholesome influence of the old nurse's love, and with a few words from wise Dr Thynne, who finds her out and drops suggestions lightly as good seed upon the bare soil of her mind, the change begins. Rosetta takes to nursing as her business. Fever breaks out in the town, she becomes famous for her devotion to the sufferers, is known affectionexercise of her innate energy she is taught to pray, her character is more and more purified and ennobled, till at last she shines as a Grace Darling; and her faithful dog and honour as a Christian heroine. dies on the grave to which she has been followed with love We have told only a "Look verdict of Not Proven. Blow, therefore, follows upon blow; and it was only with an effort that he restrained himself. Mrs Hastings hears that the stranger she has taken to her here, Elsworthy," he said; "it will be better for you not to exasperate me. You understand perfectly what I mean. I repeat, Rosa hearth is crossing her own daughter in her love, and that must come back, and that instantly. It is quite unnecessary to not openly; her motherly care for her child overcomes explain to you why I insist upon this, for you comprehend it. This is a much ampler volume than that of Major every other feeling, and she urges Rose to leave the farm. Pahaw! don't let us have any more of this absurdity," he exclaimed, impatiently. "No more, I tell you. Your wife is not such a fool. Macgregor's Greek Epitaphs,' published in 1857. It is Dr Steel has heard what Dr Thynne had to tell, read the Let anybody who inquires about me understand that I have come a substantial body of the delicate little pieces in which reports of the trial, believes the accused to have been back, and am quite able to account for all my actions," said the Greek literature is of all others most rich, and it is divided guilty, and rides to the farm in hot haste for the special Curate, shouldering his bag. into nine sections-1. Amatory. 2. Convivial, Humorous, purpose of denouncing Rose White as Rosetta Pierce the Rosa has hardly been brought home before she runs and Satirical. 3. Cyzicene (epigrams on the bas-reliefs of murderess. Thus utterly desolate, but prayerless, and in the away, and sensible people as well as scandal-mongers point the temple of Apollonias at Cyzicus) and Miscellaneous. hardest spirit of resistance to the world that turns against suspiciously at the Perpetual Curate. He finds that his 4. Dedicatory and Votive. 5. Descriptive. 6. Epitaphs. her, the unhappy girl, with only her faithful dog to bear zealous and unselfish conduct among his followers, and the 7. Ethical, Perceptive, Sententious. 8. Epigrams from her company, goes to the old nurse at St Anne's. unblemished name he has hitherto held before the world, Planudes. 9. An Appendix of about four hundred more. avail nothing in his defence, and that, with all but a few trust- The little pieces, in number above three thousand seven ing friends, his haughty contempt of the charges brought hundred, are all pleasantly, many of them well turned into against him appears only conclusive evidence of his guilt. English, and to each book of them annotations are appended. Who the real culprit is, and how his wrong-doing gets to The volume is one that will please many a Greek scholar, be fastened upon Mr Wentworth, is the novelist's secret, and as the fullest body of this kind of literature anywhere a very transparent and rather clumsy one, yet one that to be met with in readable English neatly versified, it de-ately as the little nurse; by new trials in the midst of this may as well be left for readers of the book to find out for serves a friendly welcome from many an English reader. themselves. But here, as in each of the other of the Chronicles of Carlingford, the sensation element is weakest; the authoress's real strength lies in her satiric delineations Not Proven. In Three Volumes. Hurst and Blackett. If the Archbishop of York were reading this novel, of character. In the painting of really good people, and of the thoroughly wicked, she fails; but her descriptions which starts with a case like the Road Murder for the of well-meaning men and women, not very good and not motive of its action, he might think at the close of the first very small part of the story of the book, which is in some at all bad, are excellent. The Perpetual Curate himself, chapter that here is another piece of the measly criminal of its incidents, especially in those which explain the high-souled and earnest, but a good deal mystified by his fiction which he has declared to be unfit intellectual meat, mystery of the murder, and produce the assassin with the refined High-Churchism; Lucy Woodhouse, the zealous and would help if he could in banishing from the literary missing flannel night-gown on his body, improbable enough; but it is a book with a soul to it, a tale of the convert who would have made a model sister of mercy shambles. But such an impression of the book would be becoming Rector of Carlingford; the Low-Church aunts, the preacher, in fact, could keep more firmly in view the ing mood yields to the touches of its pathos. It is one had she not been destined to be the Curate's wife on his a mistaken one, as every succeeding chapter shows. No passage out of shadow into light so earnestly felt by the writer that, more than once, the reader given to the meltjealous but good-hearted old Rector, and the crowd of sub- highest object than the author of Not Proven does. of those stories that a critic, speaking to those by whom ing mood yields to the touches of its pathos. It is one ordinate members of the story, are drawn with real skill, Though free from cant, it is in its own unobtrusive way a it has not been read, could easily show to be bad; but and make some notably amusing and instructive pictures. religious novel, showing a soul purified in the fur- that is a good book, in spite of all that may be said against We hope, however, that the Chronicles of Carlingford nace of this world's affliction. The heroine, Rosetta have come to an end. The authoress has already written Pierce, is in the position of the daughter of the it, for it is a book with a soul in it, and that counts for more than the best charm of a listless harmony. capital novels of other sorts, and has power of excelling in house who was suspected, in the Road Murder, of others. The Chronicles of Carlingford are almost as good having killed in the night her little half-brother, in of their kind as they could be, and we are glad they have resentment of a stepmother's unkindness. She has been written; but the last written of the series, better expressed resentment strongly, and circumstances, including than its forerunners in many respects, shows that the the loss of a flannel night-dress, direct strong suspicion novelist has said nearly all she has to say of the every- against her, but the scene is transferred to Scotland, she is day life of an English country town, and that if she says tried for her life, and in the first chapter leaves the dock much more it is likely to be extravagant and unnatural, branded with the verdict of "Not Proven." A secondary seeking, but not finding, its sources of interest in sensa-purpose of the book may be to show the cruel damnatory tional instead of every-day plots. Nothing Venture, Nothing Have. A Novel. By Anne' A vein of humour and a richer vein of sound morality, aided by a good understanding of life and character, and especially of the life and character to be found in a Dorsetshire village, make this a very readable and pleasant. effect of such a verdict on a person to whom guilt has not been sufficiently brought home. But the main purpose is novel. It is the history of a youth, representative of an. to show the spiritual triumph of a girl who is thus sent old and fallen family, whose father had led a wandering Memoirs, Miscellanies, and Letters of the late Lucy forth as an outcast with the mark of Cain upon her fore- and worthless life, too proud and fickle to work for his Aikin: including those addressed to the Rev. Dr head. Hated by her stepmother, unloved by her father, living, and only making himself ridiculous by laying claim Channing from 1826 to 1842. Edited by Philip who also believes her guilty, shunned by all the servants of to the forgotten baronetage of his ancestors. The son, Hemery le Breton, of the Inner Temple. Longman the house, she is to be shipped to Australia, but cuts the Lachlan Lyons, is of a different temper. Eager to win knot by quitting her home in the night, leaving a note of Mr le Breton prefaces this interesting collection of short farewell on her table. So she wanders away towards a essays and letters by the late Lucy Aikin with an distant town of St Anne's, where her old nurse and her own unobtrusive and sufficient memoir, a memoir with just mother lives, and is the one friend in the world who, she anecdote enough for the accurate suggestion of her quiet life, believes, will help her. and Co. Baillie. back the honour of his house, his pride forbids him only to live in idleness, and he despises no honest work that can and virtually a pauper, when he is two-and-twenty, he help him to a position of independence. Left an orphan, works as a labourer in his uncle's farm until he finds that of a clever woman's simple and pure character, and for She has placed the ferry of an estuary between herself his food and houseroom are grudged him by his aunt, and the definition of her individuality. Miss Aikin lived for the and home, but as she toils on her strength fails, and she is that he is the innocent cause of disagreement between her last eighteen years of her life in the family of the gentle- charitably taken in at the Kirn Farm by Mr and Mrs and his uncle. Then he begins life anew as a navvy, and man-her niece's husband-who here pays a becoming Hastings, wealthy farmers, who have a bright daughter, in due time rises from that subordinate position to rank as tribute to her memory. She died last January, in the eighty- Lettie, and a roughly-faithful house servant, Agnes. Near a first-rate engineer, fit to claim his title with dignity and third year of her age, and her grave, in the old church- the Kirn Farm is a waste bordering the Kirn rocks, to move as a polished gentleman among his equals. Very yard of Hampstead, is next to that of her friend Joanna fatal to many a good ship. Not far away is the old few novelists now-a-days can write without a mystery; house inhabited by the young Dr James Steel, of Steel- but the mystery of Nothing Venture, Nothing Have is not Miss Aikin had quick perception, thorough liberality, yards, who has an aristocratic widowed mother living at very improbable, and implies nothing at all offensive to and the charm, only too rare in society, of simple, unaffected St Anne's in what she calls her "jointure house." A good taste or morality. A man worthy by nature, but with sense. It was like her to note this dialogue between a lady wreck on the Kirn rocks many years ago gave life-long both mind and soul run riot, marries one-fourth for love of her acquaintance and her little girl: "How awkward pain to Mrs Hastings of the Farm; she lost a little baby, and three-fourths for money, soon to quarrel with his wife "you are," said the lady, "I do not hold my head down; too, seventeen or eighteen years since, and that grief and be separated from her for nearly twenty years. One "I do not turn in my toes as I walk; I do not lean my remains for her ever fresh. They are people of the kind- of the most skilful and pathetic things in the novel is "elbows on the table." "I beg your pardon, mamma," said liest at the Kirn Farm, and they take in the wayfaring the way in which the husband and wife are reconciled and the child, who was really a well-behaved little creature, girl, who tells so little of her history and calls herself by enabled, after long and heavy struggles and grievous fight"but are you not rather fond of praising yourself?". The her mother's name, Rose White, the name that with an ings with duty, to end their days in happiness and comfort, text being, that it is unworthy as well as dangerous "to old date is in her mother's Bible, the only treasure that the mainly through the agency of their simple-hearted but "impose upon a child the habit of relying on precedents and outcast girl has brought away from home. Her resources very loving and loveable daughter. That daughter is des"bowing to examples, instead of encouraging him to inquire in the way of money were four pounds, remaining out of tined to be the hero's wife, and her character is cleverly "into the nature of things and the tendencies and results of her last quarter's allowance. painted in contrast with some of the other foremost figures "actions, and thus to form himself on the immutable prin- But though Rosetta took with her the mother's Bible, in the book. Men, women, and children of all sorts are "ciples of reason and of duty." It was like her to her heart rebelled yet stubbornly against the wrong she here portrayed, and in labouring to make them consistent comment on the euphemism "limited" income for small suffered, and here the higher purpose of the book begins and life-like Miss Beale has achieved the right sort of sucincome-" as if even the most enormous ones were un- to show itself. The unhappy girl is received at the Kirn She has also succeeded in giving a really good picture "limited" and "limited" number of pupils as a screen Farm into the place of the lost daughter, and Dr Steel, of village life, abounding in jealousy and gossip, but at the to the assumed' derogation of school-keeping, enjoying and who has won poor Lettie's heart, gives himself up imme- same time made something more than endurable by the citing the replies of a man of learning, wit, and spirit, thus diately in thrall to the interesting stranger who tells kindly feeling and hearty sympathy existing between the condescendingly addressed on his introduction to a com- nothing about herself. Rosetta, to whom it is a new joy better disposed of all classes. One fault, comparatively mercial Croesus of mean mind and silken phrase. "I believe, to be loved, is as swift to give her heart to the young trivial and easily corrected, it is right to point out, as , you have a seminary for young gentlemen?" doctor. And now the trouble begins. Agnes, the house- thereby many readers might be deterred from a book quite 'I keep a boy's school, Sir." "A limited number I pre-servant at the farm, stoutly resents the presence of the worth reading. If she must call the members of her story "No, all's fish that comes to my net." interloper, does not easily command her tongue, and when Lyons and Eagles, Bats and Bulls, Ravens and Daws, The chief and the most interesting part of this collection Rosetta one day, triumphant because her pet terrier has and that is better than the absurd adoption of old-fashioned of Miss Aikin's Miscellanies and Letters consists of fifty traced her out and come starved to her feet, calls for milk and aristocratic names stolen from Burke or Lodge,--we letters written by her to the most famous of her corre- for the dog, Agnes speaks her mind roundly, till presently do beg her not to throw into her tale the dead weight of spondents, the noble and pure-hearted Channing. To him Rosetta and her dog are out on the Links by the Kirn oft-repeated puns upon those names. she told, as she saw it, what was worth telling, and with Rocks, fugitive onward to St Anne's. The doctor and the him she discussed what seemed to her mind in its best farmer's wife both follow to bring her back, the farmer's moods worth discussing of the progress of opinion in wife though she has not been near the fatal rocks for sevenEngland between 1826 and 1842. We might quote, as an teen years, and it costs her a serious illness now to have example of her way of writing, the few words that so gone there. Rosetta returns, and nurses Mrs Hastings, happily describe Lord Brougham in 1830, and, in illustra- whom Dr Steel attends, and to whom Dr Steel brings from tion of the pleasant reminders that the book contains, may St Anne's the abrupt and gentle-hearted bachelor, Dr refer to the first mention of Miss Martineau when, in 1832, Thynne, in whom she recognizes one of her old rejected she was becoming famous for her 'Tales illustrating Poli- lovers, and who silently recognizes in Rose White the tical Economy,' and Lord Brougham said of her," There notorious Rosetta Pierce; for he had been upon the jury, "is a deaf girl at Norwich doing more good than any man and was one of the two or three whose doubt of her guilt "in the country." turned what would have been a verdict of Guilty into a "Mr "sume." cess. The Confederate Secession. By the Marquis of Lothian, Amongst the numerous publications to which the American Civil War has given birth, this volume will not be the least welcome,-at least to those who take the author's side of the question. Lord Lothian is an earnest partisan of the South, but he fairly reviews the subject of Secession in all its bearings, narrates all the phases of its history, and deduces the conclusion that to secede was inevitable. There is nothing new to be learnt from the noble author's book, but his array of facts is comprehensive, and his arguments are close and convincing. We are, however, at issue with him on the question of Recognition, believing that course to be the wisest which the Government has pursued, and which Lord Lothian condemns. Eccentric Personages. By William Russell, LL.D. Two This is an utterly worthless compilation. Our only reason for noticing it is to assist in giving denial to the supposition, which prevails in some quarters, that it is the work of W. H. Russell, LL.D., the brilliant correspondent of the Times. Internal evidence would, perhaps, have sufficed to dissipate the idea that the author of the war-letters from the Crimea, from India, and from North America, had written a single line of these wretched volumes, but similarity of name might probably deceive unobservant readers. BOOKS OF THE WEEK. SOCIAL SCIENCE.History and Cultivation of Cotton and Tobacco.' | Delhi. The second volume is to carry the narrative down ley's Farmer's Almanac for 1865.'-'Showell's Housekeeper's Account QUARTERLY.-The North American Review.' No. 205. October, 1864. Boston: Crosby and Ainsworth. London: Low, Son, and Co. MONTHLY.-Our Mutual Friend.' No. 7.-Blackwood's, Fraser's,' "There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces Macmillan's,' and the Cornbill' Magazines.- Bentley's Miscellany of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the HISTORY.- Brigandage in South Italy.' By David Hilton. In Two "land." FICTION. Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife.' By the Author of 'Paul Ferroll.' Fourth Edition. (Post 8vo, pp. 333.) Saunders, Otley, Towards the adequate fulfilment of this design Mr Kaye and Co.-Martin Tobin.' A Novel. By Lady Campbell. In Three has received especial help in the private and demi-official Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 303, 297, 310.) Maxwell and Co.- Gaspar correspondence of Lord Canning during the whole term of Trenchard. A Novel. By Bracebridge Hemyng, of the Middle Temple, his Indian administration, papers placed in the hands of Barrister-at-Law. In Three Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 317, 320, 317.) Maxwell and Co.- Reaping the Whirlwind.' A Novel. In Three the historian by Lord Canning's executors; he has had also Volumes. By Mrs Mackenzie Daniel, Author of 'After Long Years,' valuable materials from Sir John Lawrence and Sir Herbert Miriam's Sorrow,' 'My Sister Minnie,' 'Our Guardian,' etc. (Post Edwardes; from the late Colonel Baird Smith he received 8vo, pp. 303, 277, 298.) Newby.-The Brookes of Bridlemere.' By G. J. Whyte Melville, Author of The Gladiators, Digby Grand,' The many papers illustrating operations of the siege of Delhi; Interpreter,' Holmby House, The Queen's Maries, etc. In Three Sir James Outram before his death gave Mr Kaye his Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 293, 307, 293.) Chapman and Hall. Jackson. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 126.) Trübner and Co. VERSE.Echoes from my Youth,' and other Poems. By J. W. correspondence relating to the operations in Oude and so forth; Sir Charles Wood filling up the measure of the ANNUAL Cassell's Illustrated Almanac for 1865.-The Farmer's historian's resources by giving him access to the official Almanac for 1865.-' Morton's New Farmer's Almanac for 1865.- Thor- records of the department of the Secretary of State for India. How the work thus assisted has been done, it will remain for us to show. In this place, except brief criticism of a few such works as can be read and dismissed quickly, we only say what the new books look like, and The New Monthly.' The Art Journal.'-'The Alexandra Maga- tell from their prefaces how they describe themselves. zine.'-'The Geological Magazine.' No. 5.-'Homes Without Hands.' Part 11.- Latham's Johnson's Dictionary.' Part 6.- Watts's DicMr J. Cordy Jeaffreson writes a new Life of Robert tionary of Chemistry. Part 21.- London Society. The Churchman's Stephenson,' to which Mr Pole adds, as an engineer, disFamily Magazine.The Sunday Magazine.The Quiver.Mil-quisitions upon the atmospheric railway system, and on ner's Gallery of Geography.' Part 16. (W. and R. Chambers.)-Cas the great iron railway bridges that Stephenson erected. sell's Family Bible. Reissue. Part 10.- Cassell's Illustrated Goldsmith.' Part 8.-Cassell's Robinson Crusoe.' Part 12, completing Mr Jeaffreson says that mistakes in former memoirs have the Work.-'Cassell's Popular Natural History.' New and Revised made it necessary for him "to rewrite the life of George Edition. Part 12, completing Vol. I.-'Cassell's Bible Dictionary.' Part 20.-Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare. Part 9.-Cassell's Illus-and to tell the whole truth of the son's life to the best of Stephenson, so far as it affected Robert Stephenson's career, trated Bunyan.' Part 17-'Macaulay's History of England.' Cheap Edition. Part 13. my ability." Papers in aid of his purpose have been WEEKLY AND MONTHLY.-All the Year Round.'-'Chambers's lent to him by Mr Longridge, Mr Illingworth, and the PAMPHLETS. Introduction to the Science of Wealth.' By William late Mr Charles Empson. Portraits of George and Robert Henry Daniels. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 40.) Hardwicke. The Witness of Stephenson are frontispieces to the two volumes, and the the Church to the Promise of Christ's Coming.' A Sermon preached in second volume contains pictures of the Britannia and Conthe Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on St Peter's Day, 1864, at the Consecration of the Bishops of Peterborough, of Tasmania, and of the way Bridges, of the High Level Bridge at Newcastle-onNiger, by H. L. Mansel, B.D., Waynflete Professor of Moral and Meta- Tyne, and the Victoria Bridge over the St Lawrence at physical Philosophy; Fellow and Tutor of St John's College; Examin- Montreal. ing Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Peterborough. (Svo, pp. 18.) Oxford and London: J. H. and J. Parker.-Education for Frugal Men Mr Baines's volume of 'Explorations in South Africa' is at the University of Oxford.' An Account of the Experiments at St an ample record of exploration, well indexed, well supplied Mary's and St Alban's alls. By the Principals of those Hall (8vo, pp. 24.) Oxford and London: J. H. and J. Parker. Bristol: J. E. with route maps, and rich in good illustrations from the Chilcott. Guide to the Great Northern Railway.' With Historical. author's sketches. Mr Baines went, in 1858, as artist Topographical, Statistical, and Descriptive Notices. By George Rose with the Zambesi expedition under Dr Livingstone as Emerson, Author of 'Guides to the South-Eastern and South-Western far as Tete, returned to Cape Town, and, after recovery Railways; London: How the Great City Grew;' etc. (svo, pp. 87.) from a severe illness, set out on this enterprise of his W. H. Smith and Son, Strand. Journal.'-'Once a Week.' LITERATURE. Early English Text Society.' Arthur; a Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century. Copied and Edited from the Marquis of Bath's MS. By Frederick J. Furnivall, M.A. Camb., Editor of de Borron's and Lonelich's History of the Holy Graal,' Walter Map's Queste del Saint Graal,' etc., etc. (8v0, pp. vii, 20.)-Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century.' Copied and Edited from a unique Manuscript in the Library of the British Museum. With an Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial Index. By Richard Morris, Author of The Etymology of Local Names,' Editor of Liber Cure Cocorum,' and Richard Hampole's 'Pricke of Conscience,' Member of the Council of the Philological Society. (8vo, pp. xl, 216.) For the Early English Text Society. Trübner and Co.-'Greek Anthology, with Notes Critical and Explanatory.' Translated by Major Robert Guthrie Macgregor. (Imperial 8vo, pp. xvi, 740.) Nissen and Parker. GIFT BOOKS. Schiller's Lay of the Bell. Translated by the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. With Forty-two Illustrations, drawn on Wood by Thomas Scott, and engraved by J. D. Cooper, after designs by Moritz Retzsch. (Oblong 4to, pp. 30, and 42 plates.) Low, Son, and Marston.-Home Thoughts and Home Scenes. In Original Poems by Jean Ingelow, Dora Greenwell, Mrs Tom Taylor, the Hon. Mr Merivale's Boyle Lectures on the Conversion of the own, to cross the continent from the west coast to the Zambesi on the east. He reached, in company with his Mrs Norton, Amelia B. Edwards, Jennett Humphreys, and the Author Roman Empire argue, in eight pulpit essays read before a of 'John Halifax, Gentleman;' and Pictures by A. B. Houghton, en- mixed audience, that the Conversion was effected chiefly in famine, and the murder of many of their attendants friend, Mr J. Chapman, the Victoria Falls, where fever, graved by the Brothers Dalziel. (4to, pp. 70, and 35 plates.) Routledge four ways-1, by the force of external evidence to Chrisand Co.-Routledge's Every Boy's Annual. 1865. (Crown svo, pp. viii, 760.) Routledge and Co. FICTION. Chronicles of Carlingford: The Perpetual Curate. By testimony to the miracles by which its promulgation was west coast to the east. The story of the expedition is tianity, in the apparent fulfilment of prophecy and historical obliged them to return, although the voyage down the Zambesi was all that remained to complete the passage from the Proved? A Novel. In Three Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 300, 313, 299.) for pulpit treatment, is not laid stress upon; 2, by internal who is still in Africa. 312, 327, 295.) Blackwood and Sons.- Abbot's Cleve; or, Can it be accompanied. This part of the subject, as too historical edited by the traveller's father from the papers of his son, Tinsley Brothers. The White Gauntlet. A Romance. By Captain evidence from spiritual sense of the need of a Redeemer, Mayne Reid, Author of 'The Scalp Hunters,' The Maroon,' etc. In Three Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 307, 301, 000.) Skeet. The Young Heiress. A Novel. By Mrs Trollope. [Cheap Edition.] (Post 8vo, pp. 388.) Chapman and Hall. du Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe siècle. Par Pierre Larousse. PAMPHLETS. L'Angleterre Jugée par Jacques Bonhomme.' Extrait (Royal 8vo, pp. 16.) Paris: Larousse et Boyer, Libraires-Editeurs, 49 Rue Saint-André-des-Arts.-The English Press on the Irish Question, with an Irishman's View of it.' By Philo-Celt. (8vo. pp. 28.) Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co.-The Continental Monthly, Devoted to Literature and National Policy. (8vo, pp. 360.) Trübner and Co.On Dr Newman's Rejection of Liguori's Doctrine of Equivocation.' By Rev. Frederick Meyrick, M.A., H.M. ector of Schools. vo, pp. 35.) Rivingtons. This Week. the Author of 'Salem Chapel,' etc. In Three Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. xii, 335.) the point most insisted upon in the lectures; 3, the testi- Mr Boyce's 'Arnold Prize Essay for 1863' upon the Holy For the Hakluyt Society Mr Clements Markham has edited a substantial volume containing the translation of a work that he describes as "one of the most remarkable America; written by a man who had passed bis life in literary productions of the age of Spanish conquest in "the camp from early boyhood, it is conceived on a plan "which would have done credit to the most thoughtful "scholar, and is executed with care, judgment, and fidelity." Its author, Cieza de Leon, born in Seville about 1519, embarked at the age of fourteen to seek his The first volume of Mr Kaye's History of the Sepoy fortune in the New World. In the year 1541, when War,' inscribed reverentially to the memory of Lord Can- serving under Robledo at Cartago in the Cauca Valley, HISTORY. A History of the Sepoy War in India. 1857-1858. By ning, comes with high recommendation in the character Cieza de Leon began to write a journal of some kind John William Kaye, Author of The History of the War in Afghanis-earned by the author's previous History of the War in which formed the material of his future work. He tan.' In Three Volumes. Vol. I. (8vo, pp. xvi, 656.) Allen and Co. 'The Conversion of the Roman Empire. The Boyle Lectures for the Afghanistan.' Many important collections of private papers finished writing his notes in September 1550, and sailed Year 1864, delivered at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. By Charles Meri- have been placed in his hands, and he has been looked to for Spain, where the first part of his intended work was vale, B.D., Rector of Lawford; Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of naturally as the man who should write from full contem- published in 1553. No more was printed, and the author Commons. (8vo, pp. xv, 247.) Longman and Co. BIOGRAPHY.The Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S., etc., etc., late porary information the standard history of perhaps the died in or about 1560. The book before us is a translation President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. By J. C. Jeaffreson, most momentous, certainly the most interesting, incident of for the Hakluyt Society of that first part which professes Barrister-at-Law. With descriptive Chapters on some of his most important Professional Works by William Pole, F.R.S., Member of the British rule in India. To this end so liberally have his to treat, and was found by Mr Prescott to be a most trustInstitution of Civil Engineers. In Two Volumes. (8vo, pp. xvi, 363; resources been enlarged that, says Mr Kaye, "I felt that, worthy record, "of the division of the provinces of Peru, as though many could write a better history of the Sepoy "well towards the sea as inland, with the longitudes and TRAVEL-Explorations in South West Africa.' Being an Account War, no one could write a more truthful one." The "latitudes. It contains a description of the provinces; an of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. By Thomas work, he adds, is mainly based rather on private than on "account of the new cities founded by the Spaniards, with Baines, F. R. G.S., formerly attached to the North Australian Expedition, public papers, it comes of the personal and privately com- "the names of the founders, and the time when they were and subsequently to that of Dr Livingstone on the Zambesi. (8vo, PP. municated knowledge that access to official documents has founded; an account of the ancient rites and customs of xiv, 535.)The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de Leon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the First Part of his Chronicle of Peru.' Translated and mainly served to verify. As to Mr Kaye's predominant" the native Indians, and other strange things very different Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by Clements R. Markham, theory in the book, if he has any, it is, he says, this: "from those of our country, which are worthy of note." F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Author of 'Cuzco and Lima,' Travels in Peru and Because we were too English the great crisis arose; but India,' and a 'Quichua Grammar and Dictionary.' (8vo, pp. lvii, 438.) Mr David Stevenson's papers on 'Lighthouses,' reprinted Printed for the Hakluyt Society. "it was only because we were English that, when it arose, from Good Words,' give in an elegant little volume, illusCIVIL ENGINEERING.-Lighthouses.' By David Stevenson, F.R.S.E., "it did not utterly overwhelm us." He desires also, he trated with pictures and plans, a clear and pleasant popular Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Author of Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America, Treatise on the Application says, to assign all of the history that is assignable to the account of the construction, illumination, and management of Marine Surveying and Hydrometry to Civil Engineering,'Remarks individual characters of few eminent men, and to repre- of lighthouses, the illustrations being chiefly taken from on the Improvement of Tidal Rivers,' Treatise on Canal and River sent clearly the individualities of men like Dalhousie and the Scottish coast. The rock over which the Inchcape Bell Engineering, etc. etc. etc. From 'Good Words.' (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 120.) Canning, Henry and John Lawrence, James Outram, John was set had fragments of wreck lodged in every crevice Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.The Domestic Service Guide to Housekeep- Nicholson, and Herbert Edwardes. He remarks, in his when Robert Stevenson made his first landing there in ing; Practical Cookery; Pickling and Preserving; Household Work; Preface, on the absence of a like individuality in the leaders the year 1800. Robert Stevenson's lighthouse on the Bell Dairy Management; the Table and Dessert; Cellarage of Wines of the revolt, and to their want of individual energy Rock was completed in 1811, and from that date to this Home-brewing and Wine-making; the Boudoir and Dressing Room; Travelling; Stable Economy; Gardening Operations, etc. Being a ascribes, in part, the success of our countrymen. not only has there been no wreck, but the rock which was Handbook of the Duties of the Housekeeper, Cook, Lady's-maid, Nursery-maid, House-maid, Laundry-maid, Dairy-maid, Butler, Valet, Mr Kaye proposes to arrange his story in nine books, once a terror to mariners is now their comfort. Footman, Coachman, Groom, Gardener. From the best and latest making three volumes. In the present volume he has The Domestic Service Guide' is pretty well described Authorities, and the Communications of Heads of Families in several written of the antecedents of the mutiny of the Bengal by its long title-page. It details, for the benefit of heads hundred new Receipts. (Post 8vo, pp. xiii, 420.) Lockwood and Co.First Help in Accidents; being a Surgical Guide, in the absence or army, and touched on the chief political events and of families, and yet more especially for the use and instrucbefore the Arrival of Medical Assistance, for the Use of the Public, espe- points of social and material progress during the ten tion of servants, the duties of each kind of domestic cially for the Members of both the Military and Naval Services, Volun- years preceding the outburst; having traced the history servant, from the housekeeper to the gardener and groom. teers and Travellers, etc. By Charles H. Schaible, M.D., Ph.D., Royal of the Bengal army from its formation to the close of The housekeeper is instructed in expenditure and accountMilitary Academy, Woolwich; Examiner in the German Language and Literature in the University of London; Member of the Council, Licen- Lord Dalhousie's administration, he closes this part of keeping, on marketing, stores, pickling and preserving, and tiate and Examiner in Natural History and Physiology in the College his work with a detail of the first year of Lord Canning's so forth; the cook is set up with recipes; the lady's maid is of Preceptors; Corresponding Member of the Association of Medical Officers for the Advancement of Public Medicine of Baden; and of government, and of the earlier incidents of the mutiny, up shown the way of wisdom in the matters of dyeing, cleaning, other foreign Societies. (12mo, pp. xxiv, 226.) Hardwicke. to the period of the outbreak at Meerut and the seizure of scouring, management of hair, skin, teeth, and nails. The DRURY LANE, till he had melted from nursemaid is taught how to manage children, to keep the on the whole, no comforting balance to strike in the read a letter from her husband, in the wife's absolute nursery wholesome, and what to do in case of accidents; interests of literature. One great point has been gained in love and perfect innocence, void of false shame, slow to the housemaid is taught the management of bedrooms and the declared allegiance of Messrs Edmund Falconer and believe ill, strong to resist it, Miss Faucit's Imogen is "house-cleaning in all its varieties," and so throughout; F. B. Chatterton, the lessees of eloquent to our eyes even when she fails, now and then, to the footmen being honoured with a special addition to their satisfy our ears. She is an actress trained in the school lessons upon the cleaning and polishing of furniture, care to the true English drama. But vigorous and well- of the Kembles, careful to make every gesture an of the dining-room fire, plate-cleaning, knife-cleaning, the directed as the efforts of these gentlemen have been, and embodiment of thought, too careful sometimes, as when cleaning of clothes, boots and shoes, and the art of making are, they dig, as yet, only at the foundations of their after the cry, "What ho, Pisanio!" she remains with blacking, in a section upon "footmen who have risen to proper work. They are forming a company that may some upraised arm throughout half the speech of Iachimo that " eminence "-Southey's John Jones and Robert Dodsley. day be in all parts, as it is now in some parts, able to do begins "Oh happy Leonatus!" There is a graver fault of This is daily instruction for members of those best- justice to the wit and poetry of our own best dramatic excess in the first part of the representation of womanly regulated families in which, nevertheless, accidents will literature; best of ours, best of the world's. In all that fear when, as Fidele, she calls at the mouth of the unoccuoccur. And, in case of these, Dr Schaible's book of First they have done, thus far, they have done well, restoring to pied cavern, and runs from the sound herself had made. Help in Accidents' enables any one to know what should their theatre public respect and liberal support. They The warning of her error might be found in the fact that be done at the moment. Such books have been written have done well, thus far, in the honouring of Shakespeare, her pantomine here excites rather general laughter, where before, but they cannot be too numerous when trustworthy. Faucit's representation of the Antigone of Sophocles and should grin. But that short sin of excess is followed by and as their programme for the season includes Miss surely Shakespeare never meant that even the dullest boor less space to the medical and more to the surgical side of an original play by a writer from whom genuine poetic the entry into the cavern, which is done most charmingly. the chapter of domestic accidents. The book was, in fact, effort is to be expected, and a good achievement fairly to Miss Faucit's voice is more often at fault; it fails her designed originally for the use of soldiers, in the belief that be hoped for, it indicates sufficient knowledge of the im- whenever she has a violent emotion to express, and passion on the battle-field a wounded soldier's comrades should portant truth, that to build out of Drury Lane a temple to sounds often like petulance. The voice may not obey the know how to do what may prevent the loss of his life while Shakespeare alone would be rather hurtful than helpful to prompting of the will, or there may be defect of that higher they are waiting for the surgeon. German soldiers are the true interests of the English stage. Shakespeare's dramatic genius which can make words sound as 'thoughts now taught in selected companies how to transport the place in our acted drama should be the place of paramount that breathe.' Whatever be the cause, she fails to express wounded and to dress on the spot the simpler forms of honour; all his plays should be acted, and the greatest of by voice such phases of the character of Imogen as we have wounds. From a work by Dr Beck, a military surgeon of them adorned, like the Drury Lane Macbeth, with the in the scene with Pisanio near Milford Haven. Yet where Baden, written to help the instructors of such companies, with us for a genius so Titanic that, like the first-born of she attains often, though even then, perhaps, with a too best of stage effect. But Shakespeare must not pass the mere emotion to be expressed is more tender than violent Dr Schaible has taken part of his information. And nobody before has told the English householder so briefly the gods, he too should hide other divine births in the visible art,—to the utmost delicacy of expression. An but yet clearly how to deal with a wound, a dislocation, or earth, or swallow them into himself. If there had been no example of this is in her picture to Pisanio of how she a fracture. He does not overlook the antidotes to the Shakespeare, still England would have in her literature an would have strained her eye to look on her departing poisons, is strong on the subject of restoring animation array of dramatists unequalled by any other nation of the lord after drowning, and makes a special case of accidents upon scrawled ornamentally, upon the ceiling of the Lyceum, world. The names of some of them are to be seen, a march, and the right way of sending home, say a by any one who lifts his chin for a gape over, say one volunteer, who shall have met with some mishap. of the clever manager's dull conversations with his The sense of the final vanishing, and of the tears that Colonel de Coin, of North Carolina, dedicates to the horse in that tedious and incomprehensible farrago of follow it, is here exquisitely rendered by the actress. Queen of England a book just published in this country imported rubbish which goes by the pointless title of The As Lady Macbeth Miss Faucit is less successful than as upon the cultivation of cotton, soils, &c., founded exclu- King's Butterfly. Some of the men whose names are on Imogen; for the passion is more violent, and, in the early sively upon personal experience during a large portion of that ceiling have written scenes through which the best part of the play, she does not represent the character as more than thirty years in the Southern cotton-growing actors might well aspire to stir the blood of Englishmen. having that self-control of a strong will which, with its States of America, and written in a practical man's plain At the Lyceum it may be a pleasant mockery to stick their subsequent ruin, was so remarkable a feature in the language without reference to books. names in ill-decipherable characters upon the roof; at character as played by Madame Ristori, with whom Drury Lane we shall expect to see their genius astir again alone of her own day, in such a part, an actress like upon a London stage. Miss Faucit, whatever her shortcoming, can properly be Nearly all that is best from the worthy days of our own compared. We must reserve until next Saturday, by which drama still is actable, with help of no more labour of adapta- time we shall have seen the play again, a full account of her tion than is spent in trimming, washing, and disinfecting-acting in this part; and of the Macbeth of Mr Phelps, one always more or less imperfectly-the rotten morsels that we of the few of his Shakespeare characters that have not yet steal from Paris. We wonder at our small translators, who been described in the Examiner. Of the general quality of now take the name of dramatists in vain, as Hamlet wondered the representation we have only the best report to give. at the queen who could leave her fair mountain to batten The scenery supplies a series of pictures admirably fitted to on the barren moor. In most essentials below the average the action of the play, but not strained to produce extravaof intellect―else how could they take to such work-these gant and showy stage effects. There is no patent ghost of mere trimmers of French plays are, indeed, not the men who Banquo, but the substantial Banquo sits and stands for his should be allowed to touch a line of English poetry or wit; own ghost, his appearance and disappearance being well conbut our theatres are also catered for by men quite capable trived, but simply and without claptrap effects of any kind. of quarrying in the true English mine, and who would The only concession to bad taste is in the engagement of a large gladly do so if it were clearly understood that desecration of corps of witches for that "variety of singing and dancing," a full-length regal photograph, just as, in one of those dramatic genius in great men of the past consists rather in by which Macbeth was recommended to the fine wits of churlish moods which lead him not seldom to behave wholly neglecting it than in adapting it to modern humours the Restoration. Macbeth was accounted a poor play when with a contemptuous violence to ladies of every degree, and preserving for it an undying honour on its proper Sir William Davenant whom some thought to be Shakeit pleased His Majesty the sun to paint her. Whether stage. Let any adapters with a sense of literature in speare's natural son, but who was a most unnatural son in he owes ladies a grudge for the special insult offered them use their wits freely on such plays as have been left this, rhymed it and polished it and brought it as nearly as to him by their sex in fencing him off with parasols, to us by our Marlowes, Fords, and Massingers, by Beaumont he could into the form of an operatic entertainment for which whether, as poets used to have it, he sees rival lights and Fletcher, or Ben Jonson; let them strike out what Mr Locke supplied the music. Choice dancers used to be in their eyes, or however else we may account for it, cannot now be said or shown, strengthen their work by engaged for the ballet in the cauldron scene; but while the there is no doubt that whenever the sun has a lady to transferring from any other play any fine scene that can be music remains, the ballet is now reduced to a little modest paint he goes at his work viciously, doing his best, cleverly worked into it, piece together the best scenes with capering, and Macbeth, except the burden of the too-much or worst, to take her beauty out of her, and yet make glue, thin though it be, of their own wit, into a new plot music, as now acted at Drury Lane is almost Shakespeare's, it appear that he has produced a faithful image. Mr of their own finding, let them do what they will, in short, is Shakspeare's as restored by Garrick, with a few of Graefle has so dealt with his sitter as to take an artist's so long as they bring out of the grand old quarries true Garrick's "improvements," Macbeth's long dying speech, vengeance on the sun; he has had eyes only for all that is masses of our own dramatic poetry fairly shaped into an for example, duly extirpated. Mr A. Hughes, of Bath, who publishes incidents "from "the Note Book of a Chief of Police," professes to draw on his experience alone, and to tell stories without any admixture of fiction. FINE ARTS. The Queen. 1864. Painted by A. Graefle. by William Holl. Published by Command, cated to their Royal Highnesses the Mitchell, Old Bond street. Engraved and dediPrincesses. This let us accept now as the portrait of the Queen. Her Majesty has been represented of late to her subjects in COVENT GARDEN. soft and tender in expression, and has shown the Queen interesting play. No doubt they may feel at first something as they see her who know and understand her love. The like men in a churchyard who are to remove the dead, and On the first night of the Drury Lane Macbeth there was portrait, painted this year, and exquisitely engraved by have a double sense of desecration when the bodies do not produced Mr Macfarren's new opera, Helvellyn, which we Mr William Holl, is published by command, dedicated to come up whole. But the sense of graveyard work is more have not yet heard, but we may clear the way for our the Princesses. It represents the Queen in widow's cap in the anticipation than in actual contact with the warm life notice of it next week by disposing of the Masaniello with and mourning dress, seated beside the image of the husband of the past that glows throughout the proper English drama, which the English Opera Company, Limited, has hitherto towards whom her heart still yearns. The folds of ermine contact that is ill pictured by images drawn either from been recreating the public. We certainly must allow, while we are desirous to have robe on the back of the chair conceal its formal lines, stones of the quarry or the churchyard dead. "May all love His love unseen, but felt, o'ershadow thee; and put grace of outline and beauty of texture in the place Meanwhile it is something to have Shakespeare again music of an English type and character presented to us, of stiffness. The Prince Consort's marble bust is delicately at Drury Lane honestly attracting playgoers, who go that our composers are singularly infelicitous in the plots treated as a white ideal close to the mourner, whose face is rather to see some of his best characters well acted than of the pieces they select to please the public, and that the by the pure spirit of woman's love made beautiful. The to wonder at the skill of the scene-painter. The re- translations of foreign operas as musical dramas are vastly painter has done his work as if throughout he had in his appearance of Miss Helen Faucit brought us Cymbeline, superior to any we can boast of indigenous growth. Take heart the lines of Tennyson from which the motto to the for Imogen, the most beautiful of Shakespeare's female for instance the Marriage of Figaro, and the Barber of picture is supplied : characters, is that in which this lady seems most to Seville, Der Freischütz, Masaniello, Fra Diavolo, La Dame delight and to excel, and with this she desired, in return- Blanche, and Jean de Paris. The two last beautiful ing to the London stage of which she was some years operas never have had justice done to the music, all since a chief ornament, to make her first impression. the principal songs, trios, and duets having been omitted The play had been formerly acted at Drury Lane with in both; but Jean de Paris actually carries itself very good scenery of its own, so that on its recent revival through by its merit as what the Adelphi play-bills it was found to be in all respects well mounted, and call a screaming farce. As for Boieldieu's chef d'oeuvre, the acting did not greatly impede the sense in fol- La Dame Blanche, Madame Vestris thought her legs could lowing the exquisite freedom of the poet's fancy walk into the audience and through the tenor part, and so and Roman camp and royalty of man in savage moun- The English Opera Company, limited, have given us Matain life. No mortal actors, perhaps, can fitly speak saniello with an indifferent caste, Mr Charles Adams the lament of Guiderius and Arviragus over the body of undertaking the part of Masaniello. This gentleman has THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE LONDON STAGE.-NO. XII. Fidele. There was inevitably much that jarred in the a light tenor voice of not first-rate quality, and as the The winter campaign, 1864-5, is now fairly opened at representation. But Miss Faucit was on the whole well management has judiciously selected Mr Weiss, whose the London theatres, and although in one or two respects, supported, and she had Mr Phelps for Posthumus and legitimate powerful bass has excellent quality, to enact the and those not slight ones, the condition of our stage has Mr Creswick for Iachimo, parts that no living actors part of Pietro, the consequence is that the Brobdingnagian altered for the better since, in these articles, we began to could have better filled. In its tenderness and grace of powers of the one form anything but a pleasant contrast join a special, sustained protest to our criticism, yet in womanhood, in the simple piety that looks to the Gods with the Lilliputian weakness of the other. Mr Charles other respects change has been for the worse, and we have, when Imogen commits herself to rest or is about to Adams, however, is really a good actor, and we have no THE THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL through the swiftly changing scene of British court the great master's music was ruined and his harmony upset. EXAMINER. MEXICO: Sept. 21.-A telegram from Shanghai, which reached Bombay on the 14th ult., says: "The Allies have successfully attacked Prince Nagato's forts in the Straits of Shimonosaki, with trifling loss. The Japanese have sued for peace. It is reported that they will agree to open the Straits." The following news has been received at the Admiralty: Straits of Simonosaki are open, the passage having been forced by Admiralty, Nov. 4.-By telegram from Paris we hear that the sixteen vessels of war after three days' fighting. All the batteries have been destroyed, and sixty 24 and 36-pounder bronze guns have been embarked. The loss of life has been small, considering the result, and no officers have been killed. The Japanese have asked for peace. English tenor so well up to the business of the stage. Mr This is good only as a promise to try for good acting, not 13.-The Confederate cruiser Florida is captured in the harbour Weiss never was an actor and never will make one, but he for good matter to act, and that is at present the extent of of Bahia by the Wachuset. Great excitement has been created by this is by far the best bass we can boast of. The first female the performance. The theatre itself has been completely alleged breach of faith on the part of the American Consul, Mr Wilson. character in the opera of Masaniello is the dumb girl of renovated, and is as elegant and comfortable as decorator Sept. 25.-The French occupy Matamoras.* Portici, and there the judgment of the directors has been and upholsterer could make it. The staple entertain- JAPAN: limited, but we are afraid their liability to loss has been ment is the Hidden Hand, a French melodrama of increased. Fenella ought to be a pretty or attractive well-poisoning, called L'Aïeule, adapted into four acts, made girl, she is continually in action, and her pantomime with the scene laid in a Welsh castle in the reign of is of the nature of ballet, and has to speak by help of all James the Second. It is a play of a bad class, remarkher limbs; the proper costume is a short dress. The ably well adapted for acting throughout the second and Fenella selected is a diminutive plain French woman, third of its four acts, and cleverly acted by Miss Terry, who wears a dress to the ground to conceal her frightful who, emancipated now from the Lyceum panorama, gives legs, and although her action is good and expressive, evidence of a dramatic energy that may secure, even for the audience care about as much for her describing some the Hidden Hand, a long lease of the public favour. The "hair breadth" escape as they would were she de- acting of the play is, indeed, in parts so good that we soribing the action of darning a stocking or churning shall have to speak of it more fully than it otherwise. butter. The part of Elvira, the soprano of the piece, was deserves. given to Madame Parepa. If crinoline may be thanked for anything, it ought to earn the gratitude of portly ladies, for the circumference below renders much less remarkable the width above. Madame Parepa has this advantage, and we must say that she has made the scena, the only piece indeed in which she has a chance of distinguishing herself, completely her own. We never heard the beautiful quaint melody, susceptible as it is of any amount of fioriture, better sung; her rendering of the difficult passages in which the song abounds, and which she embellished, was marked by good taste and the neatest execution. Her lover, Mr Herbert Bond, has a thin high tenor voice; he has not much to do, and perhaps he can do better in a better part; we hope so. The opera was well put on the stage, with Mr Gye's scenes, properties, and stage effects. In the scene of the outbreak of the rebellion there was a great deal more powder than usual burnt, but as there was no apparent object at which the fishermen were firing, and as their muskets were all aimed upwards, we think clever Mr Harris might have come to the rescue with advantage. Mr Costa's band, composed mostly of English artistes, is unequalled; but we have heard it play better. We missed Sainton, and don't think Mr Thirlwall a substitute; Pratten with his perfect flute, Lazarus prince of clarionets, Trust with his unerring harp, Howell's strong double bass, and Doyle's violin, still grace the orchestra. The ballet boasts of much attraction; the chorus however, in women's voices, is reprehensibly weak; we have seen some of the old ladies, who are now representing young fish-wives, employed in that self-same undertaking thirty years ago. Mr Mellon, a confirmed steady conductor, occupies Costa's seat. Another incident of the week has been the opening of the OLYMPIC, on Wednesday evening, under the management of Mr Horace Wigan, with two farces and a drama, all adapted from the French. After the drama, Mr Wigan expressed managerial intentions in the following address: At the HAYMARKET Mlle. Beatrice has exchanged French for German sentiment, and is appearing in the Stranger as the sainted adulteress, Mrs Haller. There is actable matter in the diseased sentiment of that very German study of problem of Misanthropy and Repentance, and the play has never of late years been so well acted in London as it is now at the Haymarket. But here we must close to-day, with our argument and record not even half complete. Next week we must endeavour to say what we unwillingly leave now unsaid. CURRENT EVENTS. COLONIAL. INDIA: Oct. 20.-Quebec despatches state that the Conference has decided on Confederation, which will be submitted to the existing Parliament without direct reference to the public.* HOME. THE QUEEN AND COURT. HER MAJESTY and the Royal Family returned to Windsor Castle on Saturday. The Queen held a Privy Council on Tuesday, at which Lord Wodehouse was introduced and appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. At the Council Parliament was further prorogued from the 11th inst. to the 13th of January next. Sir A. Buchanan was also presented on his appointment as Ambassador at St Petersburg, and Senor Aranjoiz, the Mexican Minister, was also presented, and delivered his credentials. On the same day a telegram from Darmstadt [A mark () is attached to the Events discussed or more fully announced the safe delivery of the Princess Alice of Hesse of a AMERICA: November elections.* FOREIGN. Oct. 15.-The Democratic Presidential electors of Tennessee wait burned the Roanoke off the harbour. Afterwards Lieutenant Brain Oct. 29.-The Emperor arrives at Toulon and proceeds to the 30.-The Emperor arrives at Lyons and reviews the troops there. The Czar arrives at Kehl from Nice. Advices from Algeria state that several columns are to take the offensive about the 5th inst., to make simultaneous attacks upon the insurgents of the South from different sides, and thus to cut off their retreat. This plan is expected to produce decisive results. RUSSIA: Nov. 2.-The Invalide Russe replies to the article of La France Oct. 29.-The Metropolitan Board of Works, including the chairman (Mr J. Thwaites), his secretary (Mr Creasy), Mr Freeman, Chairman of the Main Drainage Committee, and about twenty-five members of arrive at Carlisle to inspect the works in operation there for the utilizathe board, and accompanied by Mr Bazalgette, their chief engineer, tion of the sewage of the city. The Board express themselves much pleased with what they see, and leave for Edinburgh in the evening, and close. Müller is found guilty and sentenced to death.* purpose extending their tour to Glasgow. The trial of Müller for the murder of Mr Briggs is brought to a The trial of Mr Odell, the Irish barrister, who shot a bailiff's messenger that had come to take his goods in execution, is concluded before the Criminal Court in Dublin. The prisoner is acquitted on the ground of insanity. agreed to end the strike, which has been continued for seventeen weeks. At a meeting of South Staffordshire colliers held at Coseley, it is One exception is made. It is determined to keep out the 4,000 men at Oldbury and West Bromwich till they get the 5s. a day which they demand, but in all other places work will be resumed. Death of Mr John Leech.* 30.-The new Birkenhead theatre is opened under the management of Mr A. Henderson. 31.-Summonses are issued for a Cabinet Council on the 15th inst. at the Treasury. The election for Carmarthen takes place. Mr W. Morris is returned without opposition. Nov. 1.-The new act on chimney sweepers comes into operation. There is a restriction on the employment of children under ten, and sweeps entering houses to follow their occupation are not to bring with them persons under sixteen. In lieu of penalties hard labour for six months can be awarded for infringing the law. Further inquiry into the cause of the late explosion at Erith is resumed by the jury, and is again adjourned. 2. It is announced that arrangements have been completed for the erection of a bishopric at Lahore. 3. The Benchers of the Middle Temple grant the use of their splendid old hall, in which they lately entertained the Prince of Wales, for the dinner to be given by the English Bar to M. Berryer on Tuesday next. ashore in the Mersey, and after discharging the greater part of her cargo The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's mail steamer Jura runs is abandoned. The passengers and the mails are safely landed. Ladies and Gentlemen,—“Good wine needs no bush," and if I did not feel in the position of a landlord whose tap is as yet untried, I should think it an impertinence to intrude upon you to-night. Promises, you may tell me, are rash-regrets disagreeable-reminiscences tedious; and I am fully aware that the credit and capacity of a manager, even more than that of most speculators on public support, will assuredly be tested by performance and not by profession. But when everything except the wall is new in front of the curtain, and a good many things and people behind it, including your humble servant in his managerial capacity at least, I thought our housewarming would be hardly complete if I did not offer you, first and evening, and then bespeak that indulgence for myself as a manager foremost, my hearty thanks for your acceptance of my invitation this which you have often extended to me as an actor. Coming after predecessors so deservedly popular in the double character of actormanager as Mr Alfred Wigan, and the admirable favourite who so lately adorned these boards, and whose permature loss all England deplores, I should feel despondent were your kindness less certain or my determination to deserve it less strenuous. In these days of dramatic free trade all managers are at liberty to cater for all tastes ; patents so called, I suppose, from their closing all but certain theatres to all but certain entertainments-are no more. In theatrical matters I own myself a Benthamite, and my managerial motto will be Jeremy's principle, the greatest happiness to the greatest number. But actor-managers have sometimes been accused of considering that the greatest number is number one, and so long as they secure good parts for themselves the public were bound to be pleased. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I disclaim this view of the subject altogether. It is your pleasure I shall consult, and if I can but secure this by carrying a banner or a message, I shall have no objection. As for the style of entertainment in store for you, I think that the word "mixed" will be the best general description. I shall not exclude any dish from our Olympic spread, provided it be wholesome, pleasant, and welldressed, from the whipped cream of burlesque, very good in its proper time and place, to the piece de resistance in the shape of drama, with removes of comedy, vaudeville, farce, and comedietta. I shall not even be frightened by the name of sensation, so long as it mean strong interest, exciting incident, and powerfully conceived situation. But I never intend to put the cart of Thespis before the horse, or in other Count Rechberg the ministerial crisis has come to an end, and every suggested that the inhabitants of Erith should take immediate mea words to consider the scenery, dresses, and decorations as of more Nov. 2.-The Minister of Public Works leaves Turin for the purpose 3.-The Committee on the Convention Bill recommend its adoption Nov. 1.-The Neue Freie Presse says: "According to the stipulations 2.-The General Correspondenz declares that since the resignation of Oct. 30.-The Treaty of Peace with Prussia and Austria is signed. 31.-By Royal letter patent, the Rigsraad is convoked for Nov. 5. Oct. 29.-General Espartero writes a letter declining the presidency Nov. 2.-General Espartero approves the Progresista policy of THE PROFITS OF CORPULENCE.-Mr Banting writes to the Times, stating that in furtherance of his pledge to the public to devote any profit resulting from the sale of his pamphlet on this subject to benevolent institutions, and having sold above 50,000 copies, he thinks it of such distribution, and says he shall be delighted to be able to make desirable and prudent now to publish the result as the first instalment a similar report hereafter. It appears from the statement he makes that his profit as an author was 1711. 3s. 2d., which he has distributed as follows: To the Printers' Pension Society, 50%. to the Royal Hospital for Incurables, 501.; to the British Home for Incurables, 50%.; to the National Orthopaedic Hospital, 10. 10s., leaving a balance in hand of 10. 13s. 2d. for future distribution with future profits on the further sale. THE EXPLOSION AT ERITH.-The vestry clerk of the parish of Erith, Mr Reeves, has received a communication from the Home stance that a public thoroughfare passes on the top of the river Secretary, to the effect that his attention has been called to the circumembankment, and crosses the landing stage close to the door of a powder magazine, being literally not more than a couple of yards from it, and on the same level. Also that persons have frequently been seen walking along this thoroughfare smoking pipes. Sir G. Grey, therefore, sures to divert such thoroughfare. This communication has been considered at a vestry meeting, and it was the general opinion that this public way should not be interfered with, and that the proper mode to prevent accidents was the removal of the powder magazines. The river-wall still requires constant attention, and forty men are daily employed on the spot to strengthen the repairs already effected, COMPULSORY DIGNITY.-Among the latest news from Mexico, given by the Moniteur, is the rather startling fact that General Castagnythe same who, when a colonel, made the famous offer to the Emperor to invade England to hunt for accomplices of Orsini-on taking possession of the town of Monterey, the capital of the province of New Leon, appointed a number of natives to various civil employments, and issued a decree enacting that any one refusing to accept the place provided for him should be punished by six months' imprisonment, have omitted to give the date and the text of the very curious law on "according to law." The Temps regrets that General Castagny should which his decree professes to be grounded, and adds that "the author of this marvellous law, whoever he may be, has paid a charming compeople; in France it would certainly never be necessary to imprison pliment to the primitive simplicity of the manners of the Mexican people in order to make them accept salaried places." But the key to this compulsion is to be found in the fact that, however the "places " Oct. 8.-The Ministry is completed by the appointment of Senhor may be offered, the "salary" in all probability will never be forthDias Vieira as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Intelligence received at Madrid, from Montecristi, San Domingo, to Nov. 1.-The Constitution definitively passes the Assembly, and the coming. COMMERCE. HOME. CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-IMPORTATIONS Into London from the 31st of October to the 3rd of November, 1864, ... ... Malt. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks, 910 580 2000 100 39940 Flour. 560 100 RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC COMPANIES. From the List of Messrs Holderness, Fowler, and Co., Stock and Share notice is given that a petition for the winding up of the West Central Horse and Carriage Repository Company (Limited) is to be heard before the Master of the Rolls to-day. It is notified that the National Bank will in future be associated with the Alliance Bank as bankers of the Bank of Hindustan, China, and Japan (Limited). THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS for the past month show the -The half-yearly meeting of the Trust and Agency Company of declared value of our exportations to have been 14,687,9421., or exactly Australasia (Limited) is convened for the 14th inst., "when the English and Scotch 1 per cent. in excess of those of the corresponding month of last year, directors will recommend the declaration of an ad interim dividend Irish while compared with September, 1862, they present an increase of on the 25,000 shares of the 1st and 2nd issues."-Provisional shares Foreign more than 28 per cent. Of cotton goods our total shipments as regards in the Lemberg-Czernowitz Railway Company are to be ready to value were about 23 per cent. over those of the same month last year, day for delivery, in exchange for the scrip certificates.-A second but 14 per cent. less in quantity. Compared with September, 1862, extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the London, Hamburg, they were 62 per cent, more in value and 11 per cent. more in quantity. and Continental Exchange Bank (Limited) is to be held on the 15th Of linen manufactures the value of the shipments has been 22 per cent. inst., to confirm the alterations in the articles of association, in order to more than in September, 1863, and 59 per cent. more than in 1862. enable the directors to convene the future ordinary meetings in the Of iron they have been 8 per cent. less than in the corresponding month months of July and January in every year.-A general meeting of the SHARES of last year, and nearly identical with those of September, 1862. In Eastern Bengal Railway Company is called for the 23rd inst.-A general the exports of copper, lead, and tin there has been an increase. Silk meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Queensland (Limited) is manufactures show a decrease of 14 per cent., but woollen manufac- convened for the 16th inst., when a dividend is to be declared.-A tures figure for an increase of 19 per cent. over September, 1863, and general meeting of the Indian Tea Company of Darjeeling (Limited) is 110 per cent. over September, 1862. For the nine months of the called for the 10th inst.-At the annual meeting of the Colonial Life Stock present year ended the 30th ult., the total value of our exports exhibits Assurance Company, at Edinburgh, on Tuesday, the new assurances an increase of more than 18 per cent. over the corresponding nine for the year ended 25th of May last were stated at 501,2617., yielding months of 1863, and of 31 per cent. over 1862. in premiums 17,440. The annual income is 144,8247., and the accuTHE INTERNATIONAL BANK held a meeting on Wednesday, when mulated fund 555.7531. The subsisting assurances amount to upwards Stock a statement was made respecting the losses which the London and of 3,000,000l.-The Western Fire Insurance Company (Limited) has Colonial Bank had made prior to the date of its amalgamation with the just appointed a local board in Dublin, consisting of the Hon. J. P. British and American Exchange Bank (both those undertakings being Vereker, late Lord Mayor of Dublin (chairman); Mr R. G. Collis comprised in the present combination), and of the extent to which (Messrs M'Birney, Collis, and Co.); Mr E. R. D. La Touche; Mr those losses are covered. The losses have all arisen upon the account Councillor Maclean; and Mr P. Tait, manufacturer, of Limerick. of Messrs J. Gladstone and Co., in the American trade, who recently Messrs La Touche and Co. are the bankers, and Mr T. Hodges is the failed, and one of whose partners, Mr T. H. Gladstone, was chairman local manager. The branch will shortly commence business.-Mr J. of the London and Colonial Bank. The meeting, having heard expla- Campbell, of the firm of J. Campbell and Co., of London, has joined nations on the subject, exonerated the other directors of the London and the direction of the Bank of Queensland.-A petition to wind up the Colonial Bank from any complicity in the origin of the losses. It was East Botallack Consolidated Mining Company (Limited) has been preresolved that the amalgamation between the two banks shall proceed, sented to the Court of Chancery by Mr Pulbrook.-An extraordinary on the understanding that each body of shareholders shall bear a moiety meeting of the Garnett and Moseley Gold Mining Company of America of the loss, amounting to about 21. per share. On this subject the City is called for the 15th inst., to receive the second report of the liquiarticle of the Daily News of yesterday has the following: "Much dators.-At Rosewarne Consols meeting, on Wednesday, the accounts attention has been excited by the disclosures made at yesterday's showed a profit on the quarter's operations of 7121. 19s. 8d. meeting of the London and Colonial Bank and the International Bank of the serious losses which have been incurred through the proceedings of the chairman of the International Bank. The chairman, it may be useful to explain, was Mr Thomas Hall Gladstone, of John Gladstone and Co., of London, a firm which has lately failed, and which has no connexion whatever with the Gladstones of Liverpool. It seems almost incredible that so much control could have been given to a bank chairman as was apparently possessed by Mr T. H. Gladstone in the present case, the result being that the chairman is indebted to the bank to a total amount of 124,0007. The affair will doubtless yet undergo a great deal of sifting, and it is apprehended that disclosures of a striking Character will be made. Strict investigations in a matter of this sort are a public duty, in the interest alike of bank shareholders and of the commercial community generally." Great Northern 100 134 136 Ditto A 100 Stock Great Eastern 46 - 47 100 46 Stock 75 Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1151 -116 1154 100 1031 London, Chatham, and Dover 100 40 96 98 ... 100 Stock North British ... 54 55 54 Stock North Eastern, Berwick 111 681 981 85 South Eastern 854 85 BY THE GOVERNMENT has thrown a great chill over the bonds of this country in the British market. General J. R. Pachano, Secretary of Legation at Paris for the Government of Venezuela, has addressed the following letter to Messrs Baring Brothers and Co., with reference to the unjustifiable act just committed by the agents of the Government in seizing the funds due to the bondholders at the La Guayra Customhouse: "London, Oct 31, 1864.-Messrs Baring Brothers and Co.Gentlemen,-I arrived here from Paris on Friday night, on my way to Venezuela per packet of the 2nd Nov., and was painfully surprised on reading yesterday in the Observer your notice of a temporary suspenTHE JANUARY DIVIDENDS.-The following notice was issued on sion having taken place in the La Guayra Custom-house of the payTuesday by the Bank of England: Notice is hereby given that in ment of the 55 per cent of the import duties to your agents on order to prepare the dividends due on the 5th January, 1865, the account of your loan. I deem it my duty as Secretary of Legation of balances of the several accounts in the following funds will be struck Venezuela to submit to you the information I possess touching an event on the night of Thursday, the 1st December, 1864, viz.: Three per which I do not hesitate in characterizing as most untoward and lamentCent. Consolidated Annuities; New Five per Cent. Annuities; New able, whatever the pretexts adduced, whilst I entertain every wellThree-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, 1854; New Two-and-a-Half founded hope that it will be rectified and compensated immediately on per Cent. Annuities; Annuities for Terms of Years; India Five per the arrival of General Guzman at La Guayra on the 3rd proximo. I Cent. Stock. On Friday, the 2nd December, the above-named funds expressed myself as painfully surprised at the step alluded to, because will be transferable without the dividend due on the 5th January next. from the notice respecting Venezuela in the papers of yesterday, fully East India Stock-Shut, Friday, 9th Dec., 1864. Open, Friday, 6th confirmed by the private correspondence from all quarters, I had Jan., 1865. accepted the news from the country as most favourable and reassuring, FAILURES.-The suspension took place on the 28th ult. of the as it undoubtedly is, excepting at that deplorable point of the 55 per respectable firm of Messrs J. C. Cole and Co., merchants, chiefly in the cent., which I can only look upon as unfortunately a more open and Spanish trade, in consequence of the stoppage of Messrs Hartley and effectual blow than that which, in analogous circumstances last year, Co., of Seville. The liabilities are computed at about 100,000, and was attempted by political and personal animosities, availing themselves Stock the liquidation is expected to be satisfactory, there being, as stated in of the absence of General Falcon from the seat of government, and the circular to the creditors, "available assets to a considerable pending the momentarily-expected arrival of General Guzman to amount." The partners intimate that they could not delay the present assume the executive power, whose well-known views on the subject step, however painful, without injury to their creditors generally. would prevent any such attempts, and who will most assuredly take The suspension was announced on Tuesday of Messrs Arthur Houre effective measures to prevent its recurrence. I expect to find, on my and Co., in the woollen trade, with liabilities believed not to exceed arrival in Venezuela, that all my reasonable anticipations regarding this 25,000l.-The suspension is announced of Messrs John Leisk and Co., affair have been fully realized, and that in the meantime every proper merchants, of 17, Gracechurch street, whose drafts were returned a few consideration and indulgence will be shown us here.-I remain, &c., days since. The liabilities are expected to be large, but they are not BRAZIL. THE LAST REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE yet ascertained; the assets are also presumed to be considerable.— Messrs Terry and Burch, the manager and secretary of the Unity Bank BANK OF BRAZIL shows that its paid-up capital is 3,300,0001.; its -a concern since merged into the London and Middlesex Bank specie then in hand was 1,400,000l.; its notes then in circulation were (Limited), which is now itself being wound up under very disastrous 1,250.0007.; its average rate of discount for the half-year was 8 per circumstances were on Thursday charged at the Mansion-house cent.; and its dividend 9 per cent. This cannot be regarded as by Police-court, at the instance of the liquidators of the Unity Bank, with any means an unsatisfactory position to face a crisis. The bills dishaving been concerned in the concoction and publication of a fraudu- counted in the previous year had reached 13,300,000l. In this report lent balance-sheet, and were remanded, bail being refused. The pro- the President answered the complaints that the dividends are not ceedings had an important bearing upon the responsibilities of the higher, and that smaller banks are more remunerative, by appealing to the fact that state banks cannot do what other banks do; and that the officers of banks and other joint-stock companies. Banks of England and France pay lower dividends than other banking J. R. PACHANO." establishments in those countries. WEEKLY TEMPERATURE: 8 a.m. M. 45°, Tu. 44°, W. 40°, Th. 42o, F. 34°. THIS WEEK. United General Do. 274 5344 24 124 80 126 112 -115 137 66 - 68 135 39 81 83 ... ... MEETING OF CREDITORS.-At an adjourned meeting of the creditors of Messrs J. Fletcher and Co., in the corn trade, held at Manchester, on Saturday, it was decided to accept a composition of 9s. 3d. in the pound, payable in three, seven, and ten months. An amended balancesheet, prepared by the inspectors, showed liabilities to the amount of 140,686, and assets 67,270.-At a meeting at Huddersfield, on Monday, of the creditors of Mr H. Ledyard, woollen warehouseman, METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The arrivals of Do. October Account whose suspension was announced about the middle of last month, it was resolved to wind up the affairs under an assignment. A statement live cattle and sheep, &c., into the port of London from the Continent 3 per Cent. Reduced of affairs showed liabilities for 51,0697. against assets valued at during the past week have been moderate. The Custom-house official 3 per Cent. New 19,712, but subject to contingencies of realization. At a meeting return gives arrivals of 3,943 oxen and cows, 279 calves, 5,082 sheep, and Bank Stock at Leeds, on Thursday, of Messrs J. and T. Brayshaw, cloth manu-369 pigs, against 20,311 in the corresponding week of last year, 14,006 in India Stock facturers, of Leeds and London, the liabilities were stated at 1862, 16,218 in 1861, 7,673 in 1860, 5,071 in 1859, 3,356 in 1858, and 5,930 in 27,017, of which 23,0367. will rank upon the estate, while the total 1857. The creditors were assets are 9,148, or 7s. 11d. in the pound. desirous the firm should make an assignment, but, acting under the advice of their solicitor, they declined to do so, and a committee of five creditors was appointed to investigate and to report on the 8th inst. MISCELLANEOUS.-We are requested to mention that the AngloItalian Bank is in no way engaged or interested in building operations Beef 38 to 5 4 in Italy. At a special meeting of the Egyptian Commercial and Muttn 3 6 to 5 8 Sheep and Trading Company, held on Monday, it was resolved to purchase the Lamb business of Messrs Briggs, Ross, and Co., at Alexandria, for the sum of 55,254, to be paid in shares at par. This represents three years' purchase on the average profits of the last six years.-The directors of the International Land Credit Company have made a call of 21. per share, payable at the London and Westminster Bank, or at the Banque de Crédit Foncier et Industriel, Brussels, by Nov. 28.-The appointment of Mr Turquand as liquidator of the Leeds Banking Company, which was made provisionally by the Vice-Chancellor during the vacation, has been confirmed.-Messrs Crawford, Colvin, and Co. have notified that they have opened an establishment at No. 5 The Albany, Liverpool, under the management of Mr Gilbert Cowie, late of Bombay.-The Carmaux Mines Company have announced a first dividend of 7 francs per share (less 20c., the French tax), on account of the profits of 1864, payable on the 2nd November.A call of 21. 10s. is to be paid on the shares of the City Offices Company (Limited) by the 24th inst.-A call of 11. is to be paid on the shares of the Bank of Otago (Limited) by the 22nd inst.-Formal Clover, £5 0s. to £6 158. Straw, £1 6s. to £1 12s. to Veal Wheat, English Foreign Beasts BANK OF ENGLAND.-An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2nd day of Nov., 1864. Nov. 3, 1864. 35 383 35 38s Proprietors' Capital ... 38 47s 38s 478- Foreign 348 36 34s 36s 27s 348 27s 34s Peas, English 348 40s 34s 40s 35s 37s 35s 37s Oats, English Rest - Exchequer, Savings' Banks, HAY MARKET.-Per load of 36 trusses: Hay, £3 158. to £6 10o. Nov. 3, 1864. Government Debt W. MILLER, Chief Cashier. BANKING DEPARTMENT. - 3,777,941 - 13,848,428 552,480 £36,003,040 Government Securities (including Dead Weight Annuity) Other Securities Notes Gold and Silver Coin £9,384,542 - 19,699,477 6,177,310 742,311 |