B playa Mar friend own name. phenomena of the Deluge have but a very slight and indirect bearing began with the ancient inhabitants of our island. The the time for writing it began, as Mr Jamison informs us, on the great truths of religion. But we allude here to this point, name cruth, whence the more modern crowd, was originally "at about the gloomiest period of the great struggle solely, to show, by an example of great power, the progress which has been made in criticism by divines of the orthodox school, and the applied to all instruments of this class. In the thirteenth "between the South and the North, when Fort Donelson impossibility that men, who avail themselves to this extent of the and fourteenth centuries, when first we get sufficient infor- "fell and Nashville was occupied by our enemies. The liberty of discussing the records of Scripture, should deny to others mation touching the musical achievements of the medieval "times to me were then too sad to inquire into the history the same freedom. In the same volume we may refer to Mr Twis minstrels, there were many varieties, each known by its "of the past-the present absorbed all my thoughts; and tleton's article on the Books of Samuel' as a masterpiece of critical sagacity, equally remarkable for learning, ingenuity, and indepenThe crwth proper appears to have been a "now, if the prospect is less gloomy than before, I have dence of judgment. We believe that there is nothing in the laws short, thick instrument, with five strings, a tail-piece and "no leisure from my public engagements to carry out my and articles of the Church of England opposed to the exercise of this two round holes, but no neck or bridge. The bow was "design." Therefore, the book as it was was sent to run freedom: we believe that the attempt to narrow the interpretation of short, like the modern double-bass bow, and the left hand the blockade, and present itself to English readers as eviScripture to a standard adopted in the twilight of former ages, will had to pass through the hole at the lower end to manage dence of what we may look for when the intelligence and fail; and that the Scriptures themselves, being eternal, are destined the strings. The fythele of the Anglo-Saxons was more skill of the South are allowed to expend themselves in betto witness the revolutions of the human mind in all its varied phases. But be this as it may, within the jurisdiction of the Church itself we like the modern fiddle in shape. It had a long neck, a ter work than murderous fighting for an end which may be have direct evidence before us that literature, which is at once the double curve of the body, and generally four round holes, long delayed but cannot be frustrated. those before us-this is what we owe to such writers as the Dean of guardian and the ornament of the Church, claims a freedom which with three or four strings stretched across a clumsy bridge. Bertrand du Guesclin, a thoroughly representative man she will not forswear. This is the greatest merit of such works as The Normans altered its shape about as much as they of Europe in the fourteenth century, had something in St Paul's and the Dean of Westminster, whom we gladly welcome altered its name from fythele to vielle, and viol; and in due common with the bold champions of liberty in the America under his new title and his well-deserved honours; this is that price- time they introduced other varieties, whose peculiarities are of to-day. He was born near Rennes, in Brittany, about less right of free writing and free thought, which even those who not easily to be understood, known as rotes, gigues and the year 1320. The eldest of several children, he was, contest its conclusions are well content to share with their anta- ciphonies. The rebec or rubeb was an Arab variety, intro- during his boyhood, made the butt of all, because of his ugly gonists. The Dictionary of the Bible' is a colossal undertaking, which has duced by the Crusaders, and the cittara, whence cittern face and boorish ways, and when he was eighteen he could been executed with extraordinary learning, research, candour, and and gittern, was an adaptation of the Roman instrument, only prove his knightly worth by going in disguise to a boldness. It combines in three massive volumes the theological often with eight, sometimes as many as twenty strings. tournament at which his father promised to be the most libraries of past ages, with the theological researches of the present The psalterion from the Egyptian sontour, and the cymbal, excellent jouster, and there showing himself to be still day. It deserves a far closer examination than we can give to it on were played with the fingers. These and other instru- better entitled to admiration. "Fair son," exclaimed the the present occasion; and we hope shortly to enter upon a review of it in detail. At present we refer to it simply as the measure of theo- ments are repeatedly referred to in the literature of the conscience-smitten father, as soon as the disguise was relogical opinions in the Church of England at the present time, and middle ages. Lydgate speaks of we infer from it that modern criticism has not only reached the point adopted by Dr Milman more than thirty years ago, but that it has, in some respects, gone beyond it. In the The next article, on 'Scottish Religious Houses' abroad, is a pleasant tracing of the remains of that old Celtic Church which really preceded that of Rome in England, and which first Christianised Northumbria, the old head- that quarters of English intellect. An article upon the Negro Race in America,' sets forth the grounds of the writer's belief that an unexpected but assured result of the American civil war will be Emancipation of the slaves. Harphys, fythels, and eke rotys, Romance of Sir Degrevant,' we read of the hero, He was a fair man and free, And geterne full gay; And Hawes, in his 'Pastime of Pleasure,' says, moved, "I assure you I will never again treat you so "vilely as I have done heretofore. You shall have "horses, silver, and gold, at your desire; and for the gal"lantry you have this day shown, you may go whitherso"ever you will to acquire renown, even if I have for a long "period to mortgage my lands." He had not to go far, however, for renown. After a few years spent in knightly exercises, he took a prominent part in the quarrel then growing between the Count de Montfort and Charles de Blois, rival claimants of the duchy of Brittany. The former was supported by Edward the Third of England, as a means of furthering his designs for the subjugation of the French Crown; but the latter appears to have had more right on his side, and to him Bertrand du Guesclin boldly declared allegiance. In a lawless way, not thought strange in his own generation, he wandered about with a few picked followers, slaying and plundering wherever he could. The booty did not suffice to pay his little army, and he was therefore driven violin, including under that name the varieties to desperate expedients for obtaining money. On one alluded to, was the favourite instrument of the min- occasion he secretly entered his mother's chamber, broke strels of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the open her jewel casket, and appropriated all its contents to sixteenth the name came to be applied exclusively to an his own use, repaying the stolen money as soon as he had instrument closely resembling that still in use, and not the chance of despoiling an English knight, travelling with inferior to it. By the Amatis of Cremona, and the other treasures to the alien camp. In 1354, after joining in the makers whom their fame encouraged in skilful work, Battle of Cressy, and doing his utmost in all possible ways "everything connected with the instrument was calculated to defend the tottering realm of France, he was knighted. "on scientific principles, and it possessed the power and tone He was made constable of France in 1370, and in 1380 says "which, after the lapse of three hundred years, have not he died, "an earnest, loyal, and brave man," Mr "been surpassed. Some alterations have been made in Jamison, "who found work for him to do in this world, strengthening the centre, mostly of the upper vibrating" and did it with his might." It is scarcely possible to conceive a more remarkable example of that power which "shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will," than this result of the American Revolution, opposed alike to the original intentions of the seceding States and of their antagonists. If it be true that the object of secession was to extend and perpetuate slavery, that object has signally failed; nay more, emancipation has been its direct consequence. If, on the other hand, we are to believe that the seceding States are fighting not for slavery, but for their own independence, then it becomes their first interest to accept and complete the abolition of slavery, for it is that which cuts them off from the sympathy of mankind. Of this their own statesmen are But the time is past when they had any option on the subject. We hope with heart and soul that the end of slavery in the Southern States is as near as the writer believes that it is. However the war ends, the hold of the curse of slavery upon the land is weakened, though it may not yet for some years be struck loose. aware. A review of Mr Froude's new volumes, which includes some points of friendly objection, and a sketch of the present social and industrial state of Ireland, completes the contents of the number. The article on Ireland founds its consideration of schemes for improvement on a belief. "that in Ireland the ordinary rule of capitalist farmers "renting their farms from the owner of the soil promises "to be somewhat extensively varied by the presence of "cultivating proprietors." The matter "plate, a stronger sound-bar has been applied to resist the Mr Jamison's book is full of interesting "increased tension of a higher pitch; and trials have been for those to whom the charm of history consists "made without any sound-posts or bars, and with short tail- in romantic details of battles and wonderful records "pieces, and varied positions and number of sound-holes, but of knightly prowess. He has mastered the pages of "there has been no permanent or essential change since the Froissart, and of poets and chroniclers less familiar than "latter part of the sixteenth century." The rest of Messrs Froissart, and put together a very graphic story of his Sandys and Forster's volume consists chiefly of anecdotes hero's adventures. We see du Guesclin fighting in The Quarterly opens with a sketch of the present social concerning the leading performers on the violin and of biogra- Brittany and Normandy, in southern France and Spain, and economical condition of China; adds to this a paper of good-natured and amusing comment on such American phical notices of the principal makers. "The greatest care is with cavaliers of all nations, but never more stoutly than necessary in the construction of these instruments; to with those of England. The record is interesting and views of England as are to be found in the Old Home' ensure the proper elasticity of the vibrating plates, to settle useful, as showing what was the state of society, or that of Mr Hawthorne and the English Traits' of Mr Emer-"the model or form of the body, the position of the sound-holes; small part of it which was supposed to be the only part son.' Mr Forsyth's Life of Cicero,' just published, and "and, in fact, the whole structure is the result of long experi- worth thinking about, in the fourteenth century. Of boors Captain Speke's Nile journal are then reviewed. There "ence and skill." Therefore much credit is due to the two and peasants Mr Jamison has very little to say, and it is is a paper on the pressing subjects of Guns and Plates, by a writer better satisfied than we can be with the achieve- artistic enough to produce really good instruments; although among many of the worthiest in England, and especially or three manufacturers of each generation, scientific and likely that Bertrand du Guesclin thought still less. If ments of Sir W. Armstrong, and more ready than we few, perhaps, who are not violinists will care to read through among that party in the nation comprehensive enough to think quite reasonable to congratulate the country "that, the two hundred pages in which their successes are recorded. include both Chaucer and Wiclif in its number, there was "if we have not the best artillery in the world, no other Much pleasant information, however, is scattered through a philanthropy that sought the enlightenment of even the "nation has better." There is a capital subject, well these pages. It is interesting, for instance, to learn the lowest and humblest, such thoughts were little shared by handled in the Quarterly paper on Eels. The other papers are a review of Gregorovius's Rome in the Middle component parts of an English orchestra at different the knights and feudal lords who lived in the gaiety of the periods. Thus we are told that, in 1789, the orchestra of court and the turmoil of battle, and in medieval France the Ages,' and an article well setting forth, with some points the Academy of Ancient Music consisted of one organ, four-mischief of a rotten feudalism was much more apparent of detail and comment as to which bias of party will teen violins, four violas, three hautboys, two trumpets, two than in England. The men who figure in history as brave produce diversity of thought, that general view of the case horns, one drum, four violoncellos, two double basses, and knights and gallant courtiers cared nothing for the common of the Danish Duchies upon which all England is agreed. three bassoons. Much better ordered is the company of folk who constituted the real strength of the nation. They As a whole, the number is a very pleasant one. the Musical Society of London, comprising, last year, treated them with scorn and harshness, as nasty though thirty-two violins, ten violas, ten violoncellos, nine double necessary means of obtaining money to be spent in The History of the Violin, and other Instruments Played basses, two flutes, one piccolo, two oboes, two clarionets, luxurious living and wanton extravagance. And this on with the Bow, from the Remotest Times to the two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, selfish policy was apparent in all their other relations. Present. Also an Account of the Principal Makers, one ophicleide, two cornets, one drum, one bass drum and English and Foreign. With numerous Illustrations. cymbals, one side drum, one triangle, and two harps. By William Sandys, F.S.A., and Simon Andrew Forster. John Russel Smith. A little more attention to the rules of composition and a little more tact in avoiding irrelevant matters would have made this a very good book. Messrs Sandys and Forster are well up in their subject, and the subject itself is quite full enough of interest to justify a bulky work upon it. The Life and Times of Bertrand du Guesclin. A His- Among themselves we read of nothing like that firm friendship and mutual support which makes half the happiness of modern life; and their fidelity to King and country came far short of the patriotism which got a name and a reality in later times. They lived in dark days, and must not be blamed for want of the light they could not have. But we may rejoice that the world has grown, in many respects at any rate, wiser and worthier. Exeter Hall Lectures. On more accounts than one this is a notable book. It Our authors do not follow Jean Rousseau in saying is a very good piece of historical writing, anecdotical but that, as Adam was acquainted with all arts and sciences, accurate, neither too antiquarian to be dry reading for the and as the viol is the most artistic instrument of music, he general public, nor too popular to be unworthy of attentive must have been a proficient in its use; but they consider perusal by the professed student of history. To these solid that its origin is at any rate to be referred to Jubal, "father claims to notice, moreover, is added the interest arising There are many who will look for nothing particular to all them that sing in the organ or in the crowd," accord- from the fact that the volume comes to us from Charleston in a lecture delivered at Exeter Hall to the Young ing to the Old English version of the Scripture narrative. as the first solid contribution to literature made by the Men's Christian Association. But the Christian young Certain it is that in very ancient times the Egyptians and Confederate States of America. After seven or eight years men of these days manifested a desire for knowledge Ninevites had instruments closely resembling the Celtic of close study, it was almost ready for publication three beyond their ordinary limited range of subjects when cruth or chrotta, although it is probable that these were years ago. An introductory sketch of European society they invited Professor Owen to discourse to them upon the played only with the hand, and that the use of the bow during the fourteenth century had yet to be written. But Animal Creation. The Professor was at first unwilling to QUARTERLY.-The North American Review.' No. 202. Crosby and Nichols. London: Low, Son, and Co. MONTHLY.-Blackwood's,' 'Fraser's,' 'The Cornhill,' and 'Macmillan's' Magazines. London Society.'-Every Boy's Magazine.'These are slight remembrances; but it is to little familiar things Dalziel's Arabian Nights.' No. 2. (Ward and Lock.)-Cassell's suggestive of the voice, look, manner, never, never more to be en- Part 8.-The Quiver.' Part 27.- Cassell's Bible Dictionary.' Part Illustrated Robinson Crusoe.' Part 3.- Cassell's Illustrated Bunyan.' countered on this earth, that the mind first turns in a bereavement. 11. Cassell's Illustrated Bible. New Edition. Part 1.-Cassell's And greater things that are known of him, in the way of his warm Popular Natural History.' New Edition. Part 3. and his munificent hand, may not be told. affections, his quiet endurance, his unselfish thoughtfulness for others, If, in the reckless vivacity of his youtb, his satirical pen had ever gone astray or done amiss, he had caused it to prefer its own petition for forgiveness, long before: I've writ the foolish fancy of his brain; The aimless jest that, striking, bath caused pain; gratify them, having, as may well be supposed, enough his standing for Oxford, from which place he had dispatched his Murray. In Three Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 320, 320, 311.) Hurst and of useful labour otherwise to occupy his time; but being agent to me, with a droll note (to which he afterwards added a ver- Blackett.-Anne Cave.' A Tale. In Three Volumes. By Kenner bal postscript), urging me to pressed, he consented. There was something in the tell them who he was, for he doubted whether more than two of the 286, 275.) Newby-Passages in the Life of an Old Maid. By I. C. K. come down and make a speech, and Deene, Author of The Dull Stone House,' &c. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 305, character of the invitation, addressed, as it was, to a man electors had ever heard of him, and he thought there might be as (Post 8vo, pp. 303.) Saunders, Otley, and Co.-' A Young Artist's Life.' of science by a body making a special profession of religion, many as six or eight who had heard of me." He introduced the lec-(Post 8vo, pp. 274.) Hurst and Blackett. SERMONS. Sermons preached to Congregations chiefly composed of that he felt he could not overlook. It was a confession ture just mentioned, with a reference to his late electioneering failure, Working Men. By John Robertson. (Post 8vo, pp. 280.) Whitfield. that there could be no discrepancy between true science which was full of good sense, good spirits, and good humour. VERSE. Old Saws, newly set.' Fables in Verse. By George and true religion, and he was called upon to say something them. I remember his once asking me with fantastic gravity, when He had a particular delight in boye, and an excellent way with Linley, the younger. (12 mo, pp. 112.) Newby. ANNUAL.The London University Calendar, 1864.' Taylor and on the relations between them. Nor did he think he had been to Eton where my eldest son then was, whether I felt as Francis. sufficiently to discharge this duty by merely pointing out he did in regard of never seeing a boy without wanting instantly to Boston: a few of the innumerable and marvellous instances of give him a sovereign. I thought of this when I looked down into design in the formation of animals; though this he did in shoulder of a boy to whom he had been kind. his grave, after he was laid there, for I looked down into it over the a very interesting manner. But he well conceived that something more might be expected of him, and that on points where religious minds had found a difficulty they had a right to be informed of the conclusions of religious scientific men. Accordingly, in the most reverential spirit, he proThe 'Statesman's Year Book' is designed to aid the ceeded to discuss a number of points in which science is reader of contemporary history in the newspapers of the at variance with the received interpretation of the history day with "a book of reference giving an account, so to of Creation and the Fall of Man, and showed that biblical "speak a portrait, of countries and States, in the same mancommentators had erred, "knowing only, or believing "ner as a good biographical dictionary would give a sketch "that they knew, the Scripture, and 'not knowing the "of individuals." Sir Robert Peel more than fifteen years "Power of God.'' He pointed out that, according to the ago, says Mr Martin in his Preface, frankly confessed testimony of geology, the serpent is not a transmuted In no pages should I take it upon myself at this time to discourse that he often felt the want of a hand-book presenting in a species suffering penal degradation from its original of his books, of his refined knowledge of character, of his subtle accompact shape a picture of the actual condition, political form, and that it is not compelled to eat dust any more playfulness as an essayist, of his quaint and touching ballads, of his and social, of the various States of the civilised world. A quaintance with the weaknesses of human nature, of his delightful than it used to be,-that death existed in the world ages mastery over the English language. Least of all, in these pages, first attempt to supply this want is now made by the pubbefore it was the habitation of man, and that the age enriched by his brilliant qualities from the first of the series, and lication of the Statesman's Hand-book.' Of each State of the earth according to past interpretations of the Mosaic beforehand accepted by the Public through the strength of his great of the world there is described the reigning Sovereign and records is immeasurably insufficient to account for all that family, wherever there is a ruling house-constitution and has been done upon it. These truths do indeed interfere But, on the table before me, there lies all that he had written of with the popular interpretation of Scripture, but they are that it is inexpressibly so to a writer-in its evidences of matured ture-army and navy forces-population-trade and comgovernment--church and education-revenue and expendihis latest and last story. That it would be very sad to any onetruths and cannot be set aside. Nor is it only in our designs never to be accomplished, of intentions begun to be executed merce, and the colonies where there are colonies. The days that science has refuted what men had imagined and destined never to be completed, of careful preparation for long aim is to produce a well-arranged statement of accurate to be the literal and necessary truth of Holy Writ. roads of thought that he was never to traverse, and for shining goals facts clearly set forth and divested of political theory. Kepler, in denying the fixity of the earth, took courage however, that I have felt in perusing it, has not been reper than the that he was never to reach, will be readily believe The pain, The last of the Hakluyt Society's contributions to from the example of others before him who had been conviction that he was in the healthiest vigour of his powers when history of travel is almost sufficiently described in its opposed in declaring what they knew to be the truth. he wrought on this last labour. In respect of earnest feeling, far- long title. The Travels of Ludovico di Viarthema,' "Holy," he said, "was Lactantius, who denied the earth's seeing purpose, character, incident, and a certain lovag picturesque translated by one learned man and annotated by another, "rotundity; holy was Augustin, who admitted the earth ness blending the whole, I believe it to be much he best of all bis is as amusing and instructive a book as one could wish to "to be round, but denied its antipodes; sacred is the works. That he fully meant it to be so, that he b d become strongly liturgy of the moderns, who admit the smallness of the in almost every page. It contains one picture hich must have cost" attached to it, and that he bestowed great pa s upon it, I trace read. A part of it, "conteynyng many notable and straunge thinges, both hystoricall and naturall," was incorrectly "earth, but deny its motion; but to me more sacred than him extreme distress, and which is a master ece. There are two given by Richard Eden in his History of Travel in the "all, is truth." children in it, touched with a hand as lovir, and tender as ever a West and East Indies,' published in 1577; but this is the is some young love, as " construction! name. father caressed his little child with. The The practical advice with which Professor Owen concludes is so admirable that we must quote a part of it: pure and innocent and pretty as the tv b. And it is very remark- first proper giving to the world of the quaint narrative able that, by reason of the singular c struction of the story, more hitherto to be accurately studied only in the rare and Beware, therefore, of logically precise and definite theologies, than one main incident usually bele ing to the end of such a fiction badly-printed original of 1510. accounting from their point of view for all things and cases natural is anticipated in the beginning, d thus there is an approach to In a volume uniform with Mr J. Russell Smith's adand preternatural, claiming to be final and all-sufficient. Systems of completeness in the fragment, to the satisfaction of the reader's Doctrine, Schemes of Christianity, Dogmatic Formularies, are of mind concerning the most i resting persons, which could hardly mirable Library of Old Authors,' Mr Thomas Wright, one human fabrication, the works of man's brain, of which he is as proud have been better attained ne writer's breaking-off had been foreseen. of our pleasantest writers upon early English literature, and jealous as of the works of his hands. They, forsooth, must not The last line be te, and the last proof he corrected, are among has edited the autobiography of his grandfather, Thomas be meddled with; any ray of light exposing a hole or a bad joint in these papers thr on which I have so sorrowfully made my way. Wright, of Birkenshaw, set forth originally for the amusethem must be shut out, the light-bringer, perhaps, anathematized: The conditiof the little pages of manuscript where Death stopped they must be the exception to the common lot awaiting all mortal his handows that he had carried them about, and often taken them ment of its writer's children and descendants. Yorkshire his pocket here and there, for patient revision and interlinea- in his day was a stronghold of Calvinist nonconformity, Has aught that is essentially Christian suffered-have its tru on. The last words he corrected in print, were, "And my heart and against this Thomas-familiarly known as Tommyceased to spread and be operative in mankind, since ysical throbbed with an exquisite bliss." GOD grant that on that Christmas Wright, who had a small farm at Lower Blacup, and also doctrines, supposed or "declared contrary to Holy W, have been Eve when he laid his head back on his pillow and threw up his arms made cloth, battled as a local chief of the party that was established? Cease, then, to take alarm at each w ray of light that as he had been wont to do when very weary, some consciousness of In its defence dawns upon a field of the Divine Power now dark to our com- duty done and Christian hope throughout life humbly cherished, may upholding the Arminianism of Wesley. prehension: for, be assured, there reaín many others to be illu- have caused his own heart so to throb, when he passed away to his he wrote in verse a 'Modern Familiar Religious Converminated by His predestined instruments. The light, bright as it is, Redeemer's rest! sation,' published in 1778, his advocacy winning him contrasted with the darkness it has dispersed, penetrates but a short He was found peacefuily lying as above described, composed, un- the friendship of Wesley himself and of Fletcher of way into the illimitable theatre of the operations of Infinite Power. disturbed, and to all appearance asleep, on the twenty-fourth of Madeley. The autobiography is regarded by its editor as December, 1863. He was only in his fifty-third year; so young a man, that the mother who blessed him in his first sleep, blessed him "a remarkable historical record, which gives us a curious in his last. Twenty years before, he had written, after being in a "and striking picture-I may, perhaps, add almost unique white squall: The known is very small compared with the knowable. Allay, then, your fears, and trust in the Author of all truth, who has decreed that it shall never perish; who has given to man a power to acquire that most precious of his possessions, with an intellectual nature that will ultimately rest upon due demonstrative evidence. W. M. THACKERAY. The following tribute to the memory of William Makepeace Thackeray is signed "Charles Dickens," and opens the February number of the Cornhill Magazine: And when, its force expended, A prayer at home for me. "-of domestic life among a very important class of Eng"lish society during the latter half of the last century, in "what has since become one of the greatest and most active "manufacturing districts in our island. Moreover, it pre"sents a very remarkable view of the effects, even on the "relations of the domestic homestead, of those violent re"ligious party feelings and contentions which raged more "in this part of England than anywhere during the last It has been desired by some of the personal friends of the great broke that saw their father lying dead. In those twenty years of Those little girls had grown to be women when the mournful day" century.' English writer who established this magazine, that its brief record companionship with him, they had learned much from him; and one The Dean of Ely has written, and publishes this week, of his having been stricken from among men should be written by of them has a literary course before her, worthy of her famous name. dedicated to the Bishop of Oxford, a life of one of the the old comrade and brother in arms who pens these lines, and of whom he often wrote himself, and always with the warmest laid in his grave at Kensal Green, there to mingle the dust to which African mission,-Dr Mackenzie, who was consecrated On the bright wintry day, the last but one of the old year, he was victims of Dr Livingstone's disastrous zeal for a Central generosity. in her infancy, years ago. the mortal part of him had returned, with that of a third child, lost missionary bishop to the Zambesi, and lies buried among fellow-workers in the Arts, were bowed around his tomb. The heads of a great concourse of his the savages by the river Shire, dead for want of necessaries. I saw him first, nearly twenty-eight years ago, when he proposed to become the illustrator of my earliest book. I saw him last, shortly before Christmas, at the Athenæum Club, when he told me that he had been in bed three days-that, after these attacks, he was troubled with cold shiverings, "which quite took the power of work out of him "-and that he had it in his mind to try a new remedy which he laughingly described. He was very cheerful, and looked very bright. In the night of that day week, he died. The long interval between those two periods is marked in my remembrance of him by many occasions when he was supremely humorous, when he was irresistibly extravagant, when he was BOOKS OF THE WEEK. Macmillan and Co. "I had been with him," says Dr Goodwin, his biographer, described this week in another column. Messrs Sampson Low and Co. add this week to the softened and serious, when he was charming with children. But, by Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. of Shakespeare's monumental bust, the Chandos Portrait, Shakespeare publications of the day a series of Photographs none do I recall him more tenderly than by two or three that start 1503 to 1508.' Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510, with out of the crowd, when he unexpectedly presented himself in my a Preface, by John Winter Jones, Esq., F.S.A.; and Edited, with Notes the Droeshout etching, the Stratford Portrait and the room, announcing how that some passage in a certain book had made and an Introduction, by George Percy Badger, late Government Chap Jansen Portrait, Shakespeare's house, Anne Hathaway's him cry yesterday, and how that he had come to dinner, "because he lain in the Presidency of Bombay, Author of The Nestorians and their cottage at Shottery, and the Chancel of Trinity Church, couldn't help it," and must talk some passage over. No one can ever Rituals,' &c., &c. (8vo, pp. 464.) Printed for the Hakluyt Society. have seen him more genial, natural, cordial, fresh, and honestly im- BIOGRAPHY. Autobiography of Thomas Wright, of Birkenshaw, in Stratford-on-Avon. Mr J. Hain Friswell has supplied pulsive, than I have seen him at those times. No one can be surer the County of York, 1736-1797. Edited by his Grandson, Thomas text to the pictures. The author of a little book or than I, of the greatness and the goodness of the heart that then dis- Wright, M.A., F.S.A., &c., Corresponding Member of the Imperial Inclosed itself. stitute of France. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 344.) J. R. Smith.Memoir of pamphlet on Shakspere and Jonson' seems to be the We had our differences of opinion. I thought that he too much svo, pp. 439.) Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co. London: Bell and book called 'The Footsteps of Shakespeare,' noticed in a Bishop Mackenzie.' By Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Dean of Ely. (Post same finder of mare's nests who produced a very absurd feigned a want of earnestness, and that he made a pretence of under- Daldy. valuing his art, which was not good for the art that he held in trust. But, when we fell upon these topics, it was never very gravely, and places. By Major Evans Bell, Madras Staff Corps. (Crown 8vo, pp. men so absurdly wise in discovering how the Elizabethan POLITICS. The Empire in India: Letters from Madras and other former number of this journal. There can hardly be two I have a lively image of him in my mind, twisting both his hands in 412.) Trübner and Co. his hair, and stamping about, laughing, to make an end of the discus- LITERATURE.— Life Portraits of William Shakespeare: a History of dramatists quarrelled together and pilloried one another the various Representations of the Poet, with an Examination into their through the characters of their plays, how their plays were, When we were associated in remembrance of the late Mr Douglas Authenticity By J. Hain Friswell. Illustrated by Photographs of in fact, pugnacious pamphlets, strong in personality; Jerrold, be delivered a public lecture in London, in the course of the most authentic Portraits, and with Views, &c., by Cundall, Downes, Shakespeare's King Lear, for example, being his reply to which, he read his very best contribution to PUNCH, describing the and Co. (8vo, pp. 158.) Low, Son, and Marston. Shakspere and the Volpone of Ben Jonson, who in that play had ridiculed grown-up cares of a poor family of young children. No one hearing and Fletcher, Marston, Decker, Chapman, and Webster. (Fcap. 8vo, Shakespeare as Sir Politick Would-be, and described himJonson. Dramatic versus Wit Combats. Auxiliary Forces: Beaumont him could have doubted his natural gentleness, or his thoroughly pp. 122.) J. R. Smith. unaffected manly sympathy with the weak and lowly. He read self as Peregrine, a gentleman traveller. "In King Lear," paper most pathetically, and with a simplicity of tenderness that the FICTION. Bella Donna; or, the Cross before the Name. A Rosel tainly moved one of his audience to tears. This was presently after Bentley.-Ella Norman; or, A Woman's Perils. By Elizabeth A mance. By Gilbert Dyce. In Two Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 329, 331.) says this writer, "Jonson is marked out most clearly and "unmistakeably as Edmund. As Gloster loses his eyes sion. Two of the five novels of the week, Ella Norman' and Bella Donna,' we have reviewed in another column. The previous tales of Mr Kenner Deene will secure attention to his Anne Cave;' the other two novels have the great merit of being each limited to a single volume. There is one new volume of 'Sermons.' Their writer, Mr John Robertson, preached at the request of Mr Samuel Courtauld, a gentleman who is well known as a helper of the working classes, in the Essex village of High Garrett, and it was meant that his sermons should not be doctrinal; but the preaching represented by these sermons led to the forming of Unitarian congregations at High Garrett and at Halstead. The one volume of verse, published this week as Old Saws Newly set,' is a fresh rhyming of a few old fables in the measure used by Gay. "through the treachery of Edmund and by the hand of PROCEEDINGS OF THE FRENCH LEGISLATIVE there were many great families of the old régime who wished to make Mexico a second Brazils. "Cornwall, the latter must be Marston, and Albany, The Brazils instead of going for a republic CHAMBER. had stopped at constitutional monarchy-a word not in favour, but "Dekker; which opinion is confirmed by the first sentence THE DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS was continued in the Corps Légis- he could not help speaking his own language. Under the con"in the tragedy: Kent: I thought the King had more latif on the 25th inst. Paragraph 5 was adopted, after the rejection, stitutional monarchy-(some murmurs)-Brazil had found order, "affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.' The by 225 to 16, of the amendment of the Opposition requiring education liberty, and growing prosperity. But to procure similar beatitudes "faithful Kent represents Chapman, who was born in 1557, to be gratuitous and obligatory. Paragraph 6, relating to distant for Mexico was a work of difficulty. In the first place they had had "I have years on my back forty-eight;' and Gloster must expeditions, was next discussed. Three amendments were brought to look out for a prince. Had analogies been followed, Spain would "be Lyly." Who can conceive the effect of King Lear forward referring to Mexico, all demanding the termination of the expe- have been asked to furnish one; but recollections of the war of indedition and the recall of the troops. pendence had left in Mexico a great repugnance to the Spaniards. Then upon a man who reads it in this idiotic way! M. Guéroult made a forcible speech against the continuance of the a somewhat arbitrary, not to say fantastic, choice of a candidate had French occupation. He gave a sketch of the circumstances which had been made. They had fixed upon a prince who had certainly no parserved as a pretext for the occupation, and significantly pointed out tisans in the country.... The Conservative party had for its allies a that it was not until the present struggle in America between North Catholic clergy which was wanting in the virtues and intelligence of and South had been maintained for several months that active interven- the clergy in Europe. That clergy had been very wealthy and was tion by the three Powers was determined upon. M. Guéroult concluded mixed up in all the political troubles of the country. Its property had in the following terms: "Be sure that we shall obtain nothing from been confiscated, and now its great object was to get it back. M. Mexico; be sure that if France obstinately determines to remain there Thiers then came to the struggle between Miramom and Juarez. The to cover the expenses of the expedition, she will make as bad a bargain first was a courageous, but not very wise young man. The second as she did in spending three hundred millions to obtain payment of was an Indian by birth, a lawyer by profession, and, though now the sixty millions. Obstinately continue now, and you will not be let off enemy of France, it was only just to say that his countrymen did not under a thousand millions. It is not an easy thing to occupy Mexico. look upon him as a dishonest man. He had shown remarkable strength I read in the newspapers that Maximilian, before accepting the crown, of character. Miramon was installed in Mexico, and at the head of requests that the Mexican people may declare themselves by universal the public force, while Juarez was at Vera Cruz without a piastre ; and suffrage. To arrive at that Mexico must be mastered; it must be yet by patience and perseverance he succeeded in the course of a few occupied. Now, permit me to tell you that we do not possess the months in making his entry into Mexico, and Miramon took to flight. intersected by plains almost uninhabited, often uncultivated, in which checking his congress, in which the most radical opinions prevailed. twentieth part of it. (Contradictions.) Mexico is an immense country, Juarez founded a moderate government and showed great firmness in everything, even water, is wanting. If you wish to have a permanent When the treaty with M. de Saligny, the French minister, was broken, army of occupation there, it is not 30,000 men that will do, nor even the right and prudent thing to have done would have been to take pos100,000. Recollect that in Algeria, the surface of which is only about session of Tampico and Vera Cruz, and receive the customs duties at a third that of France, we had for a long time 100,000 men to chase those ports until the debt had been liquidated. That was the English THE TRIAL OF BISHOP COLENSO. Abd-el-Kader without catching him, and to keep down the Arabs.system in such cases. Not a very brilliant one, indeed; not one by (A Member-He was caught.) He was caught at last, but it was at which much glory could be acquired, but safe and effectual. After The trial of the Bishop of Natal was concluded on December 16. the end of seventeen years. Now, if we remain in Mexico, if we wish referring to the deceptive reports spread by the clerical party in Europe, The news by the last mail brought down the report of the trial to the to occupy it in a permanent manner, we must have garrisons in all the that the Mexican people were so tired of Juarez's Government that evening of Thursday, November 19. On the morning of the following large towns, and we must have flying columns. The Mexican people they would rise as one mau on the first appearance of an invading flag, day the Archdeacon of George, one of the accusing clergy, resumed are accustomed to partisan wars. Long years of civil war have created and acclaim the European prince proposed to them, M. Thiers reviewed his arguments in support of the accusations, by considering the alleged errors of the Bishop of Natal as respects the Holy Scriptures. His a population perfectly familiar with this kind of business. If you enter the original negotiations with London and Madrid, showing that Engupon such an affair, I don't know how you will get out of it. Let me land steadily declined to interfere in any way whatever with the inaddress occupied nearly the whole of the day, and in the course of it add, that if the civil war ceases in the United States, the American ternal government of the country; and that Spain, while prompting he discussed with great minuteness the bearing of the church formularies Government, without declaring war against you, without engaging in a France to establish a monarchy, wanted to set up a Spanish prince, upon each of Bishop Colenso's views as set forth in the extracts from direct struggle with France, may allow 50,000 volunteers to slip into which France would not consent to. The zeal of Spain in the affair his writings referred to in the citation. This closed the case for the Mexico, filibusters that peace will set at liberty in North America; it being thus cooled, she consented-but not, as he (M. Thiers) thought, prosecution. The registrar then read a letter from the Bishop of Natal, is impossible to foresee the number of regular troops that will be neces-without an arrière pensée-to the English convention of Oct. 31, 1861. which was put in in his defence. The letter was dated Bishopstown, sary to keep the field and maintain the security of the country before That convention was in reality but a negation, for England only inAugust 7, 1861. It is very voluminous, occupying nearly three bands of this kind. There will be, in my opinion, the most serious tended to take possession of Vera Cruz and Tampico. Spain wanted columns of small type in the local journals. With great closeness of danger in prolonging the expedition. The object it was desired to to found a monarchy for the benefit of a Spanish prince, and France argument it categorically went through nearly the whole of the attain I consider has failed, as I said just now. We ought not conse-liad in her mind a monarchy with an Austrian sovereign. Under such impugned extracts. The tone of the arguments being clearly shown quently, if you will believe me, to be particular about the conditions of circumstances the treaty, though in form obligatory, could only in in their exordium, which said, "I have no doubt whatever that the the evacuation. We will leave to the Government all necessary time for point of fact be negative. The Spaniards were the first to set out on canonical books of Scripture do contain errors, and some very grave preparing it, for doing it worthily, honourably, for protecting those the expedition. They sailed from Havannah, and arrived at Vern ones, in matters of fact, and that the historical narratives are not to be who have confided in s, and in the choice of whom we have unfortu- Cruz on Dec. 1. General Prim, their commander, and who had been depended on as true in all their details. I have never stated this nately not always been sufficiently rigid, and then we will beg the Govern-accepted by France as generalissimo of the expedition, was a brilliant publicly; but surely in this age of critical inquiry every intelligent ment to recall our troops to France. As to the questions of indemnity, soldier, but full of Castilian pride. He closely observed the state of student of the Scriptures must be aware of the truth of what I say as to the benefits you may derive, believe me, do not ask for any; if the country, and soon found that Europe had been altogether deceived It is vain to deny what is patent to any careful and conscientious with the 200 millions we have paid this year we have only 100 or 200 when it fancied that the monarchical party would rise as soon as the reader who will set himself to compare one passage of Scripture history more to pay, we shall have made a relatively good bargain; for if we European troops landed. About three weeks later the French force, with another. And I must say I had supposed that there were very few remain, I tell you it will not be by hundreds, but by thousands of under the command of an able man, Admiral Jurien de la Gravière, in the present day, except in a very narrow school of theology, who landed also. He agreed with General Prim that it was prudent to would contest this point." The Metropolitan asked Dr Bleek if he M. Thiers said that he would not discuss this or that amendment, wait for the promised demonstrations. But they waited and waited in desired to say anything on behalf of Bishop Colenso. Dr Bleek said but treat of the question of Mexico generally. Having a great deal to vain; no monarchical movements took place. The forces could not, he came there for two purposes-first, to protest; and secondly, in the say on this important subject he had been anxious to speak early in however, remain much longer, at Vera Cruz, disease making great event of their lordships, notwithstanding that protest, assuming the debate, lest at a later moment the attention of the chamber should havoc among them. The Spaniards had 2,000 sick. How many jurisdiction, to give notice of appeal. He had no instructions to do be exhausted. He was not without hope that after hearing him they French were sick had never been stated, but the number was known anything further. The court then adjourned, and on re-assembling on would forgive him for having thus pressed himself upon their notice. to be large. The English force was only 700 strong, and of that Nov. 21, the Very Rev. the Dean of Cape Town delivered a long reply. As to the different amendments of which they had the choice, he would number 150 were in hospital. The three commanders, French, This closed the case. The court then adjourned, and re-assembled by notice on Dec. 14, when the suffragan bishops, as assessors, delivered prefer that one which might be thought to lay the truth at the foot of Spanish, and English, agreed that it was impossible to remain any their opinions. The presenting clergy had accused Dr Colenso of the throne in the most deferential and respectful way. If they had longer in Vera Cruz. They marched a few leagues into the interior heresy on nine counts. 1. His disbelief in the Atonement. 2. His only to pass judgment upon facts gone by, he would be very happy to of the country, where the troops found themselves a little better; and belief in justification without any knowledge of Christ. 3. His belief imitate the conduct of those merchants who write off unlucky affairs to then, as it was felt necessary to do something, they issued a proclamain natal regeneration. 4. His disbelief in the endlessness of future profit and loss in order that they might think no more about them. tion to the Mexicans, telling them that they had not come to conquer But merchants only acted thus with regard to affairs which involved or revolutionize their country, but merely to claim pecuniary indempunishments. 5. His denial that the Holy Scriptures are the word of God. 6. His denial of the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. 7. no further sacrifices. Unfortunately this could not be said of Mexico. nities due to French, Spanish, and English subjects. The form of an They had heard that the expedition cost twelve millions of francs per ultimatum was given to this proclamation, and therefore exact sums His denial that the Bible is a true history of the facts which it professes month, and months rolled away very rapidly. They were operating in were stated. England claimed 85 millions of francs, Spain 40 millions, to describe. 8. His denial of the divinity of our blessed Lord. 9. His depraving, impugning, and bringing into disrepute the Book of a country 3,000 leagues off, and which required a voyage of fifteen France 60 millions, and 20 millions were demanded on behalf of some Common Prayer. The Bishop of Graham's Town said he considered days to reach. They had in that country 40,000 soldiers and 8,000 other nations. The total, amounting to 200 millions, seemed rather all these charges proved, and painful as it was to him to arrive at such sailors; and what was the object of that great and costly force? They high in regard to the capabilities of the Mexican budget, but when, in were informed that in a very few days the prince destined to reign addition, the Jecker bonds, amounting to 75 millions, were brought a conclusion, he considered that by the false teaching proved against over Mexico would pass through Paris to embark for Vera Cruz. They forward, the Mexican Government was startled and hesitated to pay. him the Bishop of Natal had wholly disqualified himself for bearing had therefore undertaken this distant expedition for the purpose of He would only say of the Jecker bonds that they had a very bad rule in the Church of God, and for the cure of souls therein. The Bishop of the Free State announced that he had come to a similar founding a great empire in the new world. He had, perhaps, been reputation. However, it was agreed that the question should be conclusion. The court was then adjourned to Dec. 16, when, on its brought up in narrow ideas, but he must confess that such an enter- referred to the three European Governments. But meanwhile three prise in the present state of the world, and without any useful purpose, officers were despatched to the city of Mexico with an ultimatum re-assembling, the Metropolitan pronounced judgment, depriving Bishop that he could see, utterly confounded his reason. After a passing which could not have been very peremptory or precise, because no Colenso of his see, unless on or before the 4th of March next the bishop observation enjoining the chamber to imitate the example of England, amount was fixed. These officers were most politely received, shall file a full, unconditional, and absolute retractation in writing of which patiently suffers every subject whatever to be discussed, he said and told that if the European troops had come for justice they all the objectionable extracts, in London, or a like retractation by he proposed to inquire by what series of ideas France had been led from should most assuredly have it, and that General Doblado, a most April 16 in Cape Town. Dr Bleek handed in a protest against the the first act of protection of its citizens established in México, to that distinguished man, would go and treat with the plenipotenlegality of the proceedings and the validity of the judgment, and gave most considerable enterprise of founding a monarchy in that country. tiaries. The plenipotentiaries, finding that the number of sick at notice of appeal. The Bishop of Cape Town said he could not What connexion was there between the two things? Was there any rea- Vera Cruz increased every day, that they could have no answer recognise any appeal except to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, sonable hope of success; and if perchance they did succeed, what good from Europe for two months, and that the generals were only and he must require that appeal to be made within fifteen days from would they get by it? M. Thiers then described the great difference at the head of six or seven thousand men without means of between North and South America in respect of relations with Europe. transport, negotiated with General Doblado, and agreed that their that time. millions we shall have to reckon." In the north Europe found an immense trade, and, in general, perfect troops should occupy the healthy heights of Orizaba, on condition that TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN CHILI.-TWO THOUSAND LADIES BURNED security, though of late, owing to the civil war and democratic rough-they should retire from them if the negotiations came to nothing. TO DEATH.-The mail steamship Atrato, which arrived at South- ness, there might have been some slight ground for complaint. But in The Mexican flag was again hoisted at Vera Cruz, side by side of the ampton yesterday, brings intelligence of a most terrible calamity at South America, with the exception of the Brazils, there was nothing flags of the allies, but the custom-houses were still kept as a pledge. Santiago, the capital of Chili. Since 1857, the year of the promulga- but anarchy. When the southern populations of America separated Here was the history of that famous convention of Soledad, which had tion at Rome of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, the church from the European countries which had colonised them and held them been regarded as so dishonourable. It was a convention which had of La Campania, in Santiago, has been the shrine of the devotion of in subjection, they, like the North, proclaimed republican government. saved the three little armies, for they would have been destroyed by a large number of ladies of that city during the time of the celebration, But the inhabitants of South America were turbulent and idle, and the vomito at Vera Cruz.-M. Granier de Cassagnac: We should not lasting from the 8th November to the 8th December. On the evening their republics did not succeed. These states were always in difficul- have stayed there.-M. Thiers: When would you have gone away ?-of the latter day over three thousand ladies and several hundred men ties, ever borrowing and never paying. In consequence of continual M. Granier de Cassagnac: Immediately, sword in hand.-M. Rouher: had crowded into the church. The ladies were mostly young, and agitation, the towns, the villages, and highways were insecure. Rob- We should have gone to Mexico.-M. Jubinal (a member of the belonged to the higher classes of the capital. Twenty thousand lights bery was frequent and murder not uncommon. The police was good majority): How could that have been, when we had not a single horse in long festoons filled the church, which was also hung with drapery for nothing, and justice weak. The custom with these states when to draw a gun?-M. Thiers, resuming, said that for his own part he of every description. The service had hardly commenced when the they broke treaties had been hitherto to follow the English system, viz., gave great credit to Admiral Jurien de la Gravière for having concrescent of lights, at the foot of the image of the Virgin over the altar, to punish them severely when they could be got at by sea, but other-cluded the convention. (Applause on several benches.) If anybody communicated fire to the drapery. The fire spread rapidly to all parts wise to wink a good deal at their delinquencies. It might perhaps be was to be found fault with, it was those who had fancied it possible to of the building, and a terrible scene of horror ensued. The congrega- said that such a mode of dealing with them was not very haughty, but conquer Mexico with a few thousand men. It was right that justice tion endeavoured to escape by the door which was blocked up by the national honour itself must brook a check in the face of physical im- should be done to a brave officer. (Several voices- Hear, hear.") multitude outside. Most of the men escaped, but the ladies fell in all possibilities. As illustrations of his meaning, M. Thies cited the case M. Thiers then showed that Almonte's party in Europe had succeeded directions; their arms were wrenched from their bodies, and the of some Riff outrages which Prussia thought it not expedient to avenge in getting the French Government to decide that it would not treat at passage became a crushed heap of mangled bodies. From the roof a by an expedition; of Bonpland (the companion and friend of Hum- all with Juarez, and to espouse the project of making Archduke rain of liquid fire poured on the people below, and in fifteen minutes bolt), who was made prisoner in Paraguay by the dictator Francia; Maximilian Emperor. He regretted that the Government had never upwards of 2,000 ladies were blackened corpses, mostly of the richest and also an affair at La Plata, where French citizens had been tortured published the minutes of the conference of Orizaba of April 15, where families in Santiago. Upwards of two hundred cartloads of burned by that "abominable little tyrant" Rosas, Well, French ships had these things clearly appeared, from what M. de Saligny and Admiral gone to Buenos Ayres and Montevideo and demanded severe repression, Jurien de la Gravière said of their instructions. Well, the war had but, not being able to obtain it, they put up, by way of satisfaction, gone on. After a year taken to repair General Lorencez's check before with a treaty which was not so advantageous as might have been Puebla, the gallant Marshal Forey had been sent out with large reinMENDELSSOHN'S BIRTHDAY.-The fifty-fourth anniversary of wished. Later, an insult in Mexico had been punished by a vigorous forcements, and, as was to have been expected, he had taken the city Mendelssohn's birth will be celebrated on Wednesday, 3rd of coup de main by Admiral Baudin. But as for equitable and dis- of Mexico. He would, after these indispensable preliminaries, come to February, by the National Choral Society, at Exeter Hall, under the criminating repression in these countries it could only be obtained the immediate and practical question. They were in Mexico, and direction of Mr G. W. Martin. The oratorio " Elijah" will be by a good understanding with the Governments. M. Thiers then ex-what ought they to do now? Why, he would say, treat with Juarez, performed on the occasion by the National Choral Society's band and plained the present situation in Mexico, observing that the country was as they ought to have done long ago. General Bazaine, who was chorus of 700 performers. Principal singers-Madame Rudersdorff, divided into two great parties-the conservatives, called by their ad-reputed to be an able negotiator as well as a good general, had already Miss Emma Heywood, Mr Sims Reeves, Mr Suntley, Miss Annie Cox, versaries clericals and reactionists; and the liberals, called by their quarrelled with the Archbishop of Mexico, who represented the old Mr G. A. Carter, &c. Organist-Mr John G. Boardman. adversaries anarchists and revolutionists. In the conservative party régime, and had admitted that the liberal party was in the right as to corpses were removed from the ruins. CURRENT EVENTS. At the petty sessions Sittingbourne, the county magistrates investigate two charges against Mr William Rumble, engineer and machine inspector in her Majesty's dockyard at Sheerness, for having infringed the Foreign Enlistment Act, by assisting in the equipment, &c., of the Confederate ship Rappahannock. Rumble is committed for trial, but allowed to put in bail.* the national property. That fact showed that the liberal party could commends a conciliatory policy to the South, and declares emancipation, | postal committee, and will form matter for discussion at the annual not be such very great barbarians. It was no doubt disagreeable peace, and the reconstitution of the old Union should be the sole object meeting of the chamber on Feb. 1. to treat with Juarez after having protested so long that they of the war. A national democratic convention for the nomination of 26.—Mr Bright delivers a remarkable speech to his constituents at would not do so; but that was the only rational thing to do, as it had a candidate for the Presidency will be held in Chicago on the 4th of Birmingham. been quite ascertained that he was at the head of the strongest party July next. The New York Times has come out for the renomination Mr J. H. Erskine Wemyss, M.P., is appointed Lord-Lieutenant of in the country. If they did not do so, the prospect was a permanent of Mr Lincoln to the Presidency. Fifeshire. army of 40,000 men in Mexico, and a drain upon the budget of 13, 14, or 15 millions per month. As to the notion of setting up the Latin against the Anglo-Saxon race, he did not think it worth the consideration of serious men. The Archduke was going out, they were told. He would arrive in April, just in time to receive congratulations before the wet season set in. He would admit that he would be well received; he never knew of a new prince who was not. But the rains would prevent any military operations between May and September or October. During all that while the new monarch must be protected, for they could not be so ungenerous as to take him away from his family and country, and leave him to himself in a state of fearful embarrassment. They must recollect that he would arrive there Prussian Army Corps to advance upon Slesvig. The President of the Jan. 27.-Orders received at Kiel for the Vanguard of the Austro-his seat. without a piastre. Mexico was greatly indebted, and did not pay her Danish Council declares to the Landsthing that no Danish Governdebts.. England and Spain held the custom-houses as a security for ment can submit, unless compelled by force, to German aggression upon Slesvig.* FRANCE: [A mark (*) is attached to the Events discussed or more fully narrated in this week's EXAMINER.] DENMARK: FOREIGN. 200 millions, and nothing could be got from that source till they were Jan. 23.-The Paris papers publish_news from Japan, received by Mexico. its amendment. M. Chaix d'Est Ange defended the expedition as being just, affirmed that it was impossible to treat with Juarez, and expressed a hope that tranquillity will soon be re-established in Mexico. Then, the speaker said, "our troops will be able to return." M. Berryer, in reply, said that France had been misled. He maintained that the Government was unpopular in Mexico, and ought to retire. The Left then withdrew The debate was continued on the 27th. M. Thiers explained the amendment of the Opposition upon paragraph 6, referring to the Mexican expedition, and supported the necessity of negotiating with Juarez when vanquished.-M. Rouher replied. He declared that France would neither treat with Juarez nor with Almonte, the one being conquered and an enemy, the other devoid of any official position, but only with a ruler elected by universal suffrage.-M. Jules Favre dwelt upon the strange and difficult position in which the Archduke Maximilian will be placed, and compared the Mexican campaign to the campaign in Spain under the First Empire.-M. Rouber warmly defended the expedition. He said-"Our presence in the Gulf of Mexico is the safeguard for the prosperity of our maritime commerce, which will be Jan. 26.-The Correspondencia states that the Finance Minister has 27.-A meeting of merchants and bankers in the city of London takes place at the Mansion House, to open subscriptions for the interior decoration of St Paul's Cathedral. Mr Walker, M.P. for Beverley, announces his intention of resigning Messrs Jones and Wilding are charged before the Liverpool magistrates with infringing the Foreign Enlistment Act, by aiding in shipping men and ammunition on board the Confederate steamer Georgia. They are committed for trial, but admitted to bail. A further correspondence on the Townley case is published. It is an explanation on the part of the magistrates who signed the certificates of insanity.* THE POLISH INSURRECTION. Letters from Lublin describe several engagements as having recently taken place in that palatinate. On the 31st ult. the Polish cavalry, including Szydlowski's regiment, which according to the official Dziennik had been "completely cut to pieces at Kozuchowka" a month ago, gained a brilliant victory at Ossow, near Hansk. After the battle of Kock, the Russian leader Heins sent the whole of his cavalry in the direction of Wlodawa. Hearing of this, the Polish leaders assembled their troops and so harassed the Russians by their manoeuvres that most of the horses of the Russian uhlans perished of fatigue. At length, having occupied an excellent position in a wood at Ossow, they accepted battle, and after two hours' fighting the Russians fled with precipitation, leaving upwards of seventy of their dead on the field. The Poles captured some horses and ammunition, and their loss was insignificant. The Russians seized the horses in the villages as they were retreating, and afterwards sold them by auction, saying they had captured them from the insurgents. The last transport of prisoners from Warsaw to the interior of Russia consisted of 500 persons. The Jan. 28.-The Swedish officers who had asked permission to take detachments of Poninski and Wroclewski, which had proceeded on s service in Denmark are refused by the Government, on the ground foraging expedition to Lithuania, have returned to the Kingdom reinthat Sweden herself requires them. The Norwegian Minister of War forced by several hundreds of Lithuanian volunteers. Ejtmanowicz has arrived at Stockholm. The King and Royal family of Sweden and Leniewski gained a victory on the 6th ult. at Uscimow, which was have given a considerable sum of money to the fund for the support of however dearly purchased with the death of the gallant insurgent the families of Danish soldiers. leader Ejtmanowicz. TURKEY: Jan. 23.-The Turkish Government is strengthening all the defences THE PRINCIPALITIES: Rembailo, defeated three companies of Russian infantry at Daleszyn, CRACOW, Jan. 23.-On the 16th inst., the insurgents, under Cracow district have been sent out to operate against them. Meannear Kielce, in consequence of which all the Russian garrisons in the while, Rembailo is said to have united his force with Wagner's cavalry corps. Jan. 27. The question of the monastic property which has been 24. A sanguinary engagement took place on the 18th inst., between INDIA: British forces,* COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: lost if we withdraw. The Government desires to evacuate Mexico as THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. Dec. 16.-The local mock trial of Bishop Colenso is concluded by a sentence of deprivation.* HOME. THE QUEEN AND COURT. HER MAJESTY, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, arrived at Windsor on Saturday from Osborne, and immediately visited the Prince and Princess of Wales and their infant son at Frogmore. The visit was repeated on Sunday and Monday, when the Queen returned to the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty, though dressed in mourning, looked more cheerful than has been noticed for some time past. The health of the Princess of Wales and her infant leave nothing to be desired. 25.-One thousand five hundred insurgents under Bosak are said to have been victorious in an engagement with the Russians at Sieuna, in the neighbourhood of Zawichost, in the government of Radom. A fresh cavalry detachment of 300 insurgents has shown itself in the vicinity of the frontier railway station at Losnowice. 27.-Advices received here from the Kingdom of Poland announce that several engagements have taken place in the vicinity of Cracow (government of Radom). The Russians attacked the insurgent chief Danilowicz, at Dombrowa, near the Prussian frontier, but were repulsed. On the 19th and 20th inst. unimportant engagements occurred near Maczki and Malkowice. Rembailo attacked the Russians, who were advancing on all sides to surround the strong position of the St Croix Mountains. BRESLAU, Jan. 24.-According to news received here from Poland, General Berg has ordered that every insurgent captured shall be shot. Two strong insurgent detachments are encamped in winter quarters in the neighbourhood of Zendrzejow, in the government of Radom. announces the formation of fresh corps of insurgents in that province. KONIGSBERG, Jan. 26.-Intelligence received here from Lithuania of political prisoners, consisting of 600 persons, has been sent away to BERLIN, Jan. 26.-Advices from Warsaw state that another convoy Russia. Numerous arrests have recently taken place in Warsaw. the Dziennik publishes an order of General Berg, according to which 28.-Advices received here from Warsaw to the 25th announce that Poland is to be governed in future by martial law. The military and political news brought by the Bohemian, which reaches to the 16th inst., is unimportant. The following are all the Jan. 22.-At an inquest held at Leamington on the body of Mary the fortress of Zamosc, in which the insurgent leaders Poniuski and LEMBERG, Jan. 28.-The news of the engagement at Silaniec, near particulars worthy of notice: Chattanooga despatches of the 11th inst. Ann Walker, who was found dying and covered with blood in a field Wrobleuski were victorious, has been fully confirmed. The insurrecreport that General Longstreet has been reinforced by twelve thousand on the 18th, T. Watkins, her husband, suspected of murdering her, tion is on the increase in the government of Lublin. Fresh detachinfantry. His entire force consists of thirty-four thousand infantry is committed for trial. ments, principally of cavalry, have again made their appearance. The hospitals for the wounded, erected near the frontier by private subscription, have been closed by order of the Austrian Government. The wounded Poles have to be sent to a longer distance in a temperature of eighteen degrees of cold. and twelve thousand cavalry. He is fortifying himself at Bull's 23.-An inquiry is opened at Hayle, in Cornwall, respecting the Gap. It is expected that he will shortly resume the offensive. A death of Mr J. C. Millett, who it is alleged was poisoned by his heavy cavalry fight occurred on the 10th, near Strawberry Plains, brother Mr R. O. Millett, a surgeon. The case is adjourned, and in eight miles from Knoxville; the Confederates being repulsed with the mean time bail is refused. serious loss. General Johnson has been largely reinforced by extra The Lords Justices of Appeal give judgment in re Hooper-Baylis troops, and maintains a bold front at Dalton and Tunnel Hill. General v. Watkins, arising out of proceedings in the Divorce Court, as follows: Grant is making a tour through his department. Two blocks of To confirm the certificate, no costs to either party up to the date of buildings and several large warehouses are reported to have been their Lordships' order, viz., the 10th of December, 1862; the appellant INDIA. We take the following summary of news from the Bombay destroyed in Charleston on the 20th by Gilmore's shells. The city to pay all costs from that time, but by the consent of the respondents Gazette of the 29th of December: "The Commander-in-Chief of India was almost deserted by the military. It is rumoured that Stuart has the appellant was to pay costs out of pocket only. has his head-quarters at Rawul Pindee. Sir W. Mansfield, Commade a raid into Leesburg, the Federals falling back to Fairfax. The 25. The Rev. E. H. Browne, Norrisian Professor of the mander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army, has returned to the Presidency. guerilla leader Morgan has had a public reception in Richmond. University of Cambridge, is nominated to the vacant bishopric of Ely. On the morning of the 5th inst. a party of the enemy on the frontier General Burnside has been appointed to recruit and fill up the 9th The Rev. F. C. Cook, prebendary of St Paul's and preacher of Lincoln's made a raid on our outpost about fifteen miles north of Peshawur. Army Corps, of which he is commander, to the number of 50,000 men. Jinn, succeeds to Bishop Browne's canonry in Exeter Cathedral. They were driven off by the Irregular Cavalry, but unfortunately General Meade has made a speech in Philadelphia, stating that as soon The Leeds Mercury says: "The electors of the borough of Ponte-Lieut. St. G. M. Bishop, of the 6th Bengal Cavalry, was killed while as the weather moderated, and the season allowed, active operations in fract are raising a subscription for the purchase of a piece of plate, charging at the head of his men. Further intelligence has been Virginia would recommence. The war would have to be ended by which is to be presented to Lord Houghton, their late representative. received from the head-quarters of his Excellency the Commander inhard fighting, and he trusted peace would be restored by next summer. Sir J. B. East formally announces his intention of retiring from the Chief, at Rawul Pindee, stating that affairs on the frontier had become General Lee is being reinforced by conscripts, and is organizing his representation of Winchester on the opening of Parliament. much more pacific. The villages of Lalloo and Umbeyla were taken cavalry for the spring campaign. of It is At the weekly meeting of the Lancashire Distress Committee Mr without any officer being killed or wounded, the enemy suffering An animated debate has taken place in the Senate on the resolution Maclure reports that 401. 17s. was received during last week, and severely. The Buneyree tribe seem inclined to adhere to their engage to expel Senator Davis, of Kentucky, for submitting treasonable reso- that the balance in the bank was 203,173l. 17s. 5d. Mr Farnall's ments, and the Bajonries and others who had come to their aid have lutions. Davis defended himself, declaring that if expelled he would report states that on the 16th inst. there was an increase in the fled. General Chamberlain has left the camp, and is improving in go home among the people of Kentucky, and raise a cry of oppres-number of persons receiving parochial relief in the twenty-seven unions health. Letters from the North-West frontier contradict the report sion, usurping tyranny, and revolution against the faithless men having of the cotton manufacturing districts, as compared with the number so the death of Lieut. W. Battye, of the Guide Corps, who was severely charge of the Government. There were men in the Administration relieved in the previous week, of 5,313. The cost of out-door relief wounded when combating the enemy in the Umbeyla Pass. recreant to their trust, trying to subvert the Constitution. In the con- this week is 7,0021. 10s. 7d. less than that of the corresponding week reported that the Camp of Exercise that was to have been formed at dition of the States he had a right to call a convention, and do away of last year. Mean Meer will most likely assemble at Rawal Pindee, and that Sir with the best Government on earth, and he called for such a convention An inquest is held on the body of a dressmaker named Priscilla Hugh Rose will superintend the manoeuvres in person. The ship that the people might take the war into their own hands and recon- May, aged nineteen, who was greatly frightened a few days before by Marian Moore has arrived here with a portion of the Persian Gulf substruct the nation upon the principles of a compromise and a liberty, a servant in the house where she was working, who personated a ghost. marine telegraph cable, and is taken to the Government transport upon which Washington and associates acted. It is not believed that Death was the consequence of this practical joke. moorings to have some fittings made ready prior to being taken in tow the resolution for expulsion will pass. Senator Lane has introduced a S. Wabey, accused of robbery on the body of a man found near by the Bombay marine steamer Victoria for the Gulf. The trial of the bill into Congress prohibiting the sale of gold at a higher price than Hitchin, is committed for trial. His companion, a boy of fourteen, first Armstrong gun in Bombay, at the new battery, under the Lightthat paid in New York for United States' Six per Cent. Bonds, except named Harman, who was accused of being his accomplice, is discharged. house at Colaba, was successfully made on the 15th inst. A Kurraclies for exportation to pay debts. A bill has been introduced in the Con- The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce take under consideration a paper gives out a report to the effect that Kurrachee has been fixed federate Congress to tax outstanding Treasury notes at 50 per cent. communication from the Liverpool Tradesmen's Guild, advocating the upon as the head-quarters of the Persian Gulf and Bagdad line of teleThe Governor of New Jersey, in his message to the Legislature, re-adoption of a farthing postage scheme. The matter is referred to the graph." the manager COMMERCE. HOME. Lawrence (Lawrence and Fry) has joined the direction of this cor- CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-IMPORTATIONS Into London from the 25th of January to the 28th of January, 1864, both inclusive. RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC COMPANIES. From the List of Messrs Holderness, Fowler, and Co., Stock and Share Brokers, of Change alley, Cornhill. OF £ Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Caledonian Stock London and Blackwall 70 100 72 Stock Stock London, Chatham, and Dover ICO ICO 1071 1061 102 103 100 1024 129 North Eastern, Berwick 59 Ditto Ditto Leeds 60 90 911 THE METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL BANK held a meeting on MISCELLANEOUS.-A special meeting of the National Discount Com- MISCELLANEOUS. 812766 174 38 Stock 19 21 All 79 81 100 32 334 15 General Steam 14 80 80 |