retained, called into existence in virtue of the principle of absolute" and the Icelandic gull." Then the sea receded, the former Nuestra Senora de la Sabdad, Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Nuestra solidarity,-belonging to the United States as an organic whole, islets appeared as mountain tops, and the intervening depth Senora de Guamatanga, and ten thousand other Our Ladies. which cannot be divided, which none of its constituent parties can A Chilian woman will not hesitate to say, with perfect conviction, claim as its own, which perish out of its living frame when the wild became dry land, laden with a rank vegetation, the abode of that she is devoted to Nuestra Senora de la Sierra, because she is far forces of rebellion tear it limb from limb, and which it must defend, huge elephants, twice as large as the largest existing in more powerful than Nuestra Senora del Carmen, and so on with the rest. or confess self-government itself a failure. Africa or Ceylon, and, with proportionate size, the other We remember hearing one day in the church of Nuestra Senora We are fighting for that Constitution upon which our national animals now found in its company. More than five thou- de la Merced, at Pilar, a worthy Nacendro praying to God the Father existence reposes, now subjected by those who fired the scroll on sand years ago the last elephant must have died to make to intercede for him with Nuestra Senora del Pilar, so as to obtain for him a good harvest! chances which the necessities of war entail upon every human room for more modern inhabitants, and at length, as in the arrangement, but still the venerable charter of our wide Republic. reign of David the First, begun in 1135, the district became We cannot fight for these objects without attacking the one mother"ane gret forrest, full of hartis, hynds, toddis, and sic cause of all the progeny of lesser antagonisms. Whether we know "like manner of bestis." which it was written from the cannon at Fort Sumter, to all those the system that has proved the source of all those miseries which the -"with that ill band Of angels mixed, who nor rebellious proved, "Fame of them the world hath none" the half-buried form of the unchained bondsman whose dusky bosom country's sacrifice! Novenas are kept and masses ordered for the slightest pretext. If a Chilian lady be deserted by her lover, quick a mass to bring him to her side; if a man wish to avenge himself on one of his fellowmen, quick a mass that his revenge may be carried out! it or not, whether we mean it or not, we cannot help fighting against Edinburgh has grown out of three old towns or hamlets. and that is by making a vow. A young man who wishes his beloved There is also another way of insuring the protection of any saint, author of the Declaration of Independence trembled to anticipate. "She had her military centre in the grand old Castle, lady to give him a meeting, never fails to pledge himself by a vow And this ought to make us willing to do and to suffer cheerfully."whose first ages are lost in the obscurity of the pre-historic addressed to San Francisco, or San Antonio, to perform some pious There were Holy Wars of old, in which it was glory enough to die," periods; her ecclesiastical centre in Holyrood, with its deed, if the saint will consent to advise the lady in his favour. And wars in which the one aim was to rescue the sepulchre of Christ from attendant village of Abbey Hill, and burgh of Canon- these practices must not be taken for juggling; the people who the hands of infidels. The sepulchre of Christ is not in Palestine! He rose from that burial place more than eighteen hundred years "gate; and her commercial centre, of at least five centuries accomplish them do so in perfect good faith. Such is the way in which the Catholic religion is understood in ago. He is crucified wherever his brothers are slain without cause; he "standing, in the port of Leith." South America. lies buried wherever man, made in his Maker's image, is entombed It is more than probable that the Castle Hill has formed the site of a In all the ex-Spanish colonies members of the clergy swarm, and in ignorance lest he should learn the rights which his Divine Master gave him! This is our Holy War, and we must fight it against that stronghold ever since man took possession of the island. Its fortifica- we are not afraid of being taxed with exaggeration when we assert tions would have at first consisted of a few grassy mounds, topped, like that in Chili they form at least one-fourth of the population. Now, great Ger who will bring to it all the powers with which he the hillforts of New Zealand only an age ago, by lines of palisades; the clergy are composed of an infinite number of monks and nuns of fought against the Almighty before he was cast down from heaven. it would then possibly take the second form of fortress, known in every possible form, species, and colour. Franciscans, Benedictines, He has retained many a cunning advocate to recruit for him; he has Scotland as that of the vitrified fort; and then walls and towers Genovevans, Barefooted Carmelites, Brothers of Mercy, Augustines, bribed many a smooth-tongued preacher to be his chaplain; he has would encircle it, and a town would grow up on the sloping talus, and many others whose names have escaped us. As will be easily engaged the sordid by their avarice, the timid by their fears, the almost under its shadow, to share in the protection which it afforded. understood, these religious communities, owing to their considerable profligate by their love of adventure, and thousands of nobler natures Every succeeding age would witness new changes; there would be number, are not paid by the Government, whose resources would not by motives which we can all understand; whose delusion we pity as changes in the towers and ramparts, and changes in the gradually nearly suffice for their support. Hence they are compelled to create do. Against him or for him we are all called upon to declare our-than half a mile in length by little more than a quarter of a mile in able to exist. we ought always to pity the error of those who know not what they growing city below. In the year 1600 Edinburgh was little more a thousand trades, each more ingenious than the other, in order to be selves. There is no neutrality for any single true-born American. breadth. It has since become what we now see it, a great metropo- ing this-the clergy are excessively tolerant, for the very simple In these countries-and there will be no difficulty in understandIf any seek such a position, the stony finger of Dante's awful muse lis, for which man has done much, but nature more. points them to their place in the antechamber of the Halls of Despair,The ecclesiastical portion of the place grew up long after its mili- reason that they have need of everybody, and if they committed the tary position. At the distance of about three quarters of a mile from mistake of alienating the inhabitants they would die of hunger in a the hamlet under the battlements, there rose far adown the sloping fortnight. It is worth while seeing in Chili the extension given to talus, as early as the year 1200, a second hamlet, separated from the the trade in indulgences, Agnus Deis, scapularies, blessed crosses, and first by open fields and thickets of brushwood, and which had grown miraculous images; everything has its price, everything is sold. So around the ecclesiastical centre of the place. The old chapel of Holy- much for a prayer-so much for a confession-so much for a mass. rood was founded, in fulfilment of a vow by David I., on the spot A Chilian sets out on a journey, and in order that no accident may Nor suffers; mercy and justice scorn them both. where he narrowly escaped being destroyed by a furious hart at bay. happen to him on the road, he has a mass said. If, in spite of this Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by." On the third day after the cel. bration of the mass, the King, yielding precaution, he is plundered on the high road by the Saltendars, he We must use all the means which God has put into our hands to to the solicitations of his young nobles, set forth from the Castle, it is, does not fail on his return to go to the monk of whom he ordered the serve him against the enemies of civilisation. We must make and said, to hunt, notwithstanding the earnest dissuasions of a holy canon mass, and bitterly complain of his want of efficacy. The monk is keep the great river free, whatever it costs us; it is strapping up the " At last, quhen he wos comyn threw the veil that lies to the eist fra accustomed to such recriminations, and knows what to answer. forefoot of the wild, untameable rebellion. We must not be too nice the said Castell, quhere now lyes the Cannongait, the staill past threw "That does not surprise me, my son," the Franciscan, or the Benein the choice of our agents. Non eget Mauri jaculis,no African the wood with sic noyis and dyn of buy illi, that all the bestes wer dietine, or whoever he may be, as the answer is always the same, bayonets wanted, was well enough while we did not yet know the raisit fra their dennis." The King, separated from his train, was replies, "what the deuce did you expect to have for a peso? Ab, if might of that desperate giant we had to deal with; but Tros, Tyriusve, thrown from his horse, and about to be gored by a hart with awful you had been willing to pay a half-ounce, we should have had the -white or black,-is the safer motto now; for a good side, like a and braid tyndis," when a cross slipt into his hands, at the sight of beadle, the cross, the banner, two choristers and eight candles, and good horse, cannot be of a bad colour. The iron-skins, as well as which the hart fled away. And the King was thereafter admonished then most assuredly nothing would have happened to you; but how the iron-clads, have already done us noble service, and many a mother in a vision to build the Abbey on the spot. "The account is curi- could you expect the Virgin to put herself out of the way for a will clasp the returning boy, many a wife will welcome back the ous, remarks Mr Daniel Wilson," as affording a glimpse of the city peso?" war-worn husband, whose smile would never again, have gladdened at that arly period, contracted within its narrow limits, and encircled Leon Delbès, the Smuggler Chief, who is the hero of this his home, but that, cold in the shallow trench of the battle-field, lies by a wild forest." story, was by birth a Frenchman. A destitute adventurer sheaths the bullet which would else have claimed that darling as his That extract is taken from a short essay on mediaeval in Chili, he saved the life of a half-breed Indian, who Edinburgh, and two or three other re-printed papers from became his firm friend, and helped him to organize a band Even Dr Holmes in that last passage rather forgets his the Witness deal with the social history of the city. But of fifty bold smugglers, ready to secure for Santiago merbrotherly love for the poor negro. But we do not misin-nearly all the interest of the book lies in its geological chants the illicit passage of their silver to the coast and its terpret him; he means all that is generous, and since information, and this is as it should be. A pleasant essayist delivery on shipboard; ready also for any enterprise to the war must be, may the dark records of it that reach the war must be, may the dark records of it that reach and a good Christian, Hugh Miller best deserves to be which they might be led, or on which they might be sent by Europe be often relieved by such glimpses as this volume remembered for his thorough study of the world's life before Leon their captain. In Valparaiso, during procession of gives us of the noble striving of brave hearts that lies man had any share in it. He is to be remembered also for the Purissima Conception, Leon's horse runs wild and carhidden among its smoke and clamour. his noble, hard working life; and we are glad to learn that ries him among the nuns, who fly in all directions. One Mrs Miller is now busy, in conjunction with one "com- young nun in the path of his horse kneels terror-stricken 'petent to the task, in telling the story of its latest and and awaits her death. But Leon makes the horse leap over Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood, Geological and Histo-"busiest years." her, and falls in love with her upon the spot. The "developrical. With The Geology of the Bass Rock. By "ment of the character" of this heroine, Maria, consists in Hugh Miller. Edinburgh: A, and C. Black.. making her also fall passionately in love with him, and scarce fifteen years of age, and her face was ravishing, suffer the usual agonies. "She was a delicious creature, This, the twelfth volume of Hugh Miller's collected works, and the sixth that his widow has given to the world, is the last of the series. In a large part of it we have the latest &c., but she is to take the veil, according to a Chilian custom, for the benefit of the dowry of her elder sister work done by its author. The Geology of the Bass Rock, Blackett. Inès. Now Inès and Maria were the daughters of Don standing by itself and occupying a third of the whole Anne Cave. A Tale. In Three Volumes. By Kenner Juan de Dios-Souza y Soto-Mayor, and the Soto-Mayors, volume, is reprinted from a book, the joint work of many Deene, Author of The Dull Stone House,' &c. from the first coming of the Spaniards into America, had hands, published in 1847; but the rest, composed of two Newby. been deadly focs to the Indians and deadliest in enmity lectures read before the Philosophical Institution, of two Sir Lascelles Wraxall, its translator, vouches, in a short through every generation with the Indian family of the papers prepared for the Royal Physical Society, and of preface, for the Smuggler Chief as "the most powerful Tahi-Maris, Leon's friend the half-breed turns out to be several brief essays collected from the pages of the Witness, story which Gustave Aimard has yet written," and the last of the Tahi-Maris. If Maria loves Leon, he shall have is the utterance of Hugh Miller's latest thoughts on the because he considers him here to have paid "great atten- her unharmed. Tahi-Mari promises him that, on condition subjects to which he himself was so much attached, and "tion to developing the character of the heroines," while that Leon will help him to work what vengeance he will on which he knew so well how to make attractive to others. heretofore the ladies introduced into his works are too the rest of her family. The "noble hearted" Smuggler "Whilst residing at Portobello for the last four years of subcrdinate," he is inclined to think that this story Chief consents to this. But he is obliged to break with his "his life," says Mrs Miller, "he frequently left his home will become a greater favourite with readers than any of friend after all, though the Indian retains a romantic fidelity "about mid-day, and spent his time until late in the evening "its predecessors." of friendship for him, notwithstanding that he scalps alive "in exploring the shores of Leith, and the nearer towns The scene of the tale is that Chili to which all minds Maria's father, brutally ravishes her sister (as M. Aimard, "along the margin of the sea, giving his exclusive attention have been turned this week by the terrible calamity arising in each case, circumstantially sets forth), and gives rise to "to the formation of the coast lines, and endeavouring to from the mummery associated with the worship of the "sensation" incidents of the most highly seasoned school "extract the secret of the boulder and brick clays." Out of Virgin. Its heroine is first introduced as a young nun of of French romance, all agonies, raptures, and electric these afternoon studies grew many shrewd and valuable the Purissima Conception, and the story opens in Valpa- shocks. Even a drawing-room, richly furnished, is said reflections touching the geological history of Edinburgh raiso, with an incident at one of the pompous Chilian to contain articles which "would of themselves have ground, and of all the localities resembling it in the arrange celebrations of that festival of the Conception which at "absorbed any European fortune, owing to their inment of rock and soil. The history goes back very far in Santiago will henceforth be an anniversary of mourning in "estimable value." Leon offers a cigarette of his own deed. Tens, perhaps hundreds, of millenniums must have so many households. Thus M. Aimard, whose story with rolling to Donna Inès. Her betrothed, Colonel Don Pedro, elapsed since the present site of Edinburgh was under water, all its faults of extravagance is rich in a manifest truth of is jealous," but at the moment when he was about to the dwelling place of subarctic animals and plants, of like local colour, writes what it will interest us now to read of "light the cigarette which he held in his hand, Inès offered nature to those now found in the coldest Scandinavian seas, the superstitious and religious ceremonies of the Chilians: " him the one Leon had given her, and which she had and with its rocks slowly grooved and furrowed into their The Catholic religion, which substituted itself for all the rest, has "half smoked, saying-Shall we change, Don Pedro present condition by the long and steady action of icebergs been, and still is, subjected to the action of the temperature of those "The Colonel gladly accepted the exchange proffered to and glaciers. Handled by a skilful painter, as our author countries into which it has penetrated, and which it has fecundated." him, gave his cigarette to the young lady, and took hers, observes, this primitive condition of things would certainly In Chili it is, so to speak, entirely external. Its worship is com- which he smoked with rapture." Maria speaks of make an interesting picture. In front, a solitary group posed of numerous festivals, pompously celebrated in churches glitter- herself, sent young to the convent, as "a poor creature "of islets, familiar in their forms, but strange in all their processions performed under a rain of flowers, and clouds of incense "hurled within the walls of this Convent at the tenderest 'adjuncts, would rise, shaggy with the Scandinavian flora, which burn uninterruptedly. In this country, beloved of the sun, "age." But at the prospect of a life of love she says, "over an ice-speckled sea; in the background the blue religion is full of love; the ardent hearts that populate it do not "they are laughing pictures of an existence of pleasures "Pentlands, snow-streaked at midsummer, and with the trouble themselves at all about theological discussions. They love and joys which flash and revolve around me in an infernal "glacier gleaming blue in their sloping hollows, would impulse which they displugins with the adoration, self-denial, and whirlwind." The Indian who scalped alive, &c., &c., is "stretch along the horizon their undulating line; while in Catholicism is changed with them, though they do not at all suspect credited with "the sublime self-denial of virgin natures." "the submerged valleys of what is now the Scottish capital, it, into a sort of Paganism, which does not account for its existence, We owe to the Persians the only true name for this order "the whale would blow, and the seal would raise its round although that existence cannot be contested. Thus they tacitly of literary architecture-Bosh. But with all its French "black head; and on some drifting sheet of ice the lazy accord the same power to any saint as to deity; and when the majo- extravagance the Smuggler Chief has interest in its own rity of them address their prayers to the Virgin, they do not pray to "morse would lie stretched in the sun, amid the screaming of Mary, the Mother of our Saviour, but to Nuestra Senora de los frantically artificial way, and as we said before, there is "a scull of subarctic birds, the arctic skua, the snow fowl, Dolores, Nuestra Senora del Carmen, Nuestra Senora de Guadaloupe, some truth of local colouring to recommend the book. 66 The Smuggler Chief. NEW NOVELS. A Novel. By Gustave Aimard. In Two Volumes. Maxwell and Co. The story of A Young Artist's Life is a novel in one volume not in the least frantic or sensational, and with even less than the usual supply of incident; the slight narrative seeming, in fact, to be little more than a contrivance for the pleasant expression of a certain amount of educated thought. The poor artist, Leonard, excites interest in a liberal amateur, who visits him in his city garret, where he finds lodged under the same roof two poor and - Laws of Nature, the Foundation of Morals. By David "continually distinguishes itself from itself to form its Rowland, Author of A Manual of the English of itself, in order to use this other as the means of its "own object, setting itself over against itself as the other Constitution.' John Murray. "own realization," but pleasantly illustrated in an The Analogy of Thought and Nature. Investigated by orderly examination of the characteristics and conditions, Edward Vausittart Neale, M.A. Williams and Nor- the development and process of thought, inductive and gate. deductive, subjective and objective. This is followed by a Small and modest in appearance, these are two very very brief but interesting review of the history of thought gentle orphan girls, one of them doomed to die by con- valuable contributions to philosophical literature. Mr among the most thinking nations of the world in ancient sumption, their lives vexed by a reprobate brother, and Rowland's little book, an extension of one still less, pub- and modern times. "Greek thought began by ascribing Boothed by Leonard's brotherly kindness. A generous Dr lished in 1856, undertakes, as its title implies, to find in "reality to the objects of sensation, and sought a principle Manley is told of their case, and puts them into a cottage the laws of nature "the elementary principles from which "of physical unity beneath their variable appearances. of his at Sydenham, where the sick girl dies. Leonard "morality springs, and by which the practice of it is "By developing this conception, it attained to the opposite goes to live with an old sailor uncle on the coast of Corn-"enforced upon mankind." Mr Neale treats of mental," conception, of a spiritual essence manifested through wall, where he falls in love with, and is fallen in love with not of moral, philosophy, but in the same line of thought."these objects and constituting a reality transcending the by, a young married lady, whose father and middle-aged "The motto of modern science," he says, "is the corre-" shows of sense, With this conception modern European husband are rich partners in commerce, and whose husband "lation of forces;' in other words, the unity of the "thought began. After a series of developments, answer is abroad. Taken a sea voyage in the yacht of his friend the "powers which affect our senses. The present investiga- "ing step by step to the older series, and occupying nearly amateur and art-patron, Leonard learns accidentally that the "tion is an attempt to carry that conception one step "the same time, it has arrived at the conclusion that this husband who stood in his way died on his passage home; "further, by showing the unity between the power mani- "spiritual essence implies a sensible body through which the yacht, therefore, speeds back towards England, but on "fested in the phenomena of sense, and the power exercised" it may manifest itself. In each case the true subjectthe way there is a collision, and a man overboard. Leonard "in the operations of thought." "matter of the successive philosophical systems has been ments of Hobbes, laid the foundation, according to Hallam, What is Your Name? A Popular Account of the is the man, and he is drowned. In telling this story the That moral philosophy is but a development, in the "the action of our own thought;" and the result of all, author has given free play to his mind, and he finds place for highest provinces of life, of the immutable laws of nature according to Mr Neale, is the verification of that Hegelian many carefully-written passages that might have previously is an old dogma, held by thinkers of very opposite character. law of thought which we have already quoted. The third existed in a commonplace book of reflections, or a diary, Grotius urged it, more than two centuries ago, in his De part of the book treats of the relation of thought to the and have a fair chance of being copied into angular MS. by Jure Belli et Pacis,' and Hobbes, to whom Mr Rowland world outside it, to inorganic being and organized life, to some fair gatherer of elegant extracts. There are ancient is by no means just in the two pages that he assigns to human intelligence, and to so much as man can hope to classical quotations, quoted scraps also from good old him, in an altogether different way taught a like doctrine, know of the Divine nature. No part of Mr Neale's book English authors, or from the French or Italian classics, and while Cumberland, setting himself to withstand the argu- for thorough treatment within the short space of his is altogether satisfactory. Its range of subject is too wide the whole effect is very pleasant, for the substance of the book is sensible and kindly, and the manner of it that of a " of the system afterwards taught in our universities, and volume, and one is disposed to think that, had the volume thoughtful, well-read gentleman, who writes for recreation of the books which have had most influence in this been larger, the treatment would have been more hazy. It for example, only tells that on a November day the art- Stuart Mill being, with wide differences of opinion among is a thoughtful and thought-suggesting book, and one well enough to amuse others than himself. One chapter," country," Hutcheson, Paley, Bentham, Austin, and John is too German in its style fully to accord with the blunt straightforward character of English philosophy. But it patron, wishing to send help to the sick girl, walked across themselves, some of his avowed or unconscious disciples. Hyde park, to his charitable friend Dr Manley, in The last-named philosopher, in a masterly treatise published worthy of very careful reading. Grosvenor street. That is the whole action of the chapter, a year ago, laid it down as the basis of his teaching,-that and it is told by opening with a parallel drawn from rivers is, of Utilitarianism uttered in the noblest and most in the East and other meditations upon early recollections, eloquent way possible,that happiness is the chief end of then Hyde park in November suggests to the writer Hyde human action, and therefore the standard of morality, and park in May, which he describes with due honour to that this standard is defined by those rules and precepts Rotten row; that done, he describes Hyde park in for human conduct which aim at securing a happy existence.. November, and through charitable Dr Manley he proceeds Mr Rowland, on the other hand, urges and with no little It is unfortunate for Miss Moody's book, written a year lastly to say some things very well upon the subject of force of argument, that "happiness is not the ultimate end ago, that it has been anticipated in publication by Miss charity. The book is elegantly printed, but whether of human action; for, underlying man's desire of happi- Yonge's much fuller and more elaborate work, now some the author did or did not correct the press for him ness, there are principles deeper in the system of nature, six months old. There are many readers, however, to self, there are misprints that a good printer's reader "and, as deeper principles, they have precedence to whom the short sketch will be more welcome, perhaps more should not have allowed to pass unnoticed. To cite only happiness in the moral government of God. "happiness in the moral government of God. These instructive, than the longer history. Judged by its compeer," one or two, the character of the book makes it impossible fundamental principles, again, may be guarded and pro- it is incomplete and sometimes frivolous; but it abounds that the author should wilfully have misquoted the poet "tected by laws, to be observed and obeyed as the con- in welcome information given in an interesting way, and Gray as Grey, although he might have written Elliott,«ditions on which happiness must be sought, and without with just enough anecdote and humorous comment to which we find written for Eliot, Warburton. Certainly, obedience to which it cannot be obtained. If it be so, make it easy to read and hard to forget. Miss Moody is again, it was not the author who, in quoting Bacon's Essays, "then these laws, and not happiness, are the standard of mistaken if she really sees in such names as Christopher made nonsense of two sentences by putting a full stop "morality." Columbus, signifying Christ bearing dove, and Angela five words too soon, and giving no stop at all where the full stop should be in the sentence: "A crowd is not The dignity of these laws is not impaired by their being Burdett Coutts, anything prophetic or anything conducive " company, and faces are but masks, and talk is but a referred to the nature common to both men and brutes. to the good deeds of their bearers; but in these days, when tinkling cymbal. Where there is no love"-running those Both men and brutes find themselves endowed with certain names almost as ill-sounding and ill-meaning as many last words of one sentence into the beginning of the next. appetites that need to be satisfied. The difference between quoted by her-Anna Maria Julia Statira Johnson Thomson Anne Cave, the heroine of a novel in three volumes, them is that, while all the humbler animals are ruled by Kettleby Rundell, and Joyful Moses Lazarus Solomon, for by Kenner Deene, is a governess, and the romantic story instinct, the last created and noblest has to choose for him- example are given by the hundred in every year, it is of her love for an elder son, Robert, hated and plotted self, and is morally responsible for the goodness or badness well that an earnest protest, none the worse for being against by a step-mother, who desires the inheritance for of his choice. This moral responsibility is the foundation a little exaggerated, should be made. It would certainly her own elder son, George, a handsome, dissolute Guards- of ethics. Out of the primary appetite of man's nature be unwise for us to study euphouy, and court the favour man, abounds in incident that keeps attention active to springs the primary law of labour. He needs food as much supposed to come with happy names, as zealously as did. the end. It is an orthodox novel of the old school, full of as do the lower animals; and in a savage state he can the parents of the Portuguese princess, yet alive, who was unlikely heroine business, but not too extravagant. The acquire it about as easily, and in ways as rude as they. christened Maria José Beatrix Joanna Eulalie Leopoldina step-mother is rather expected to attempt murder, but it But as population increases, a more elaborate system is Adelaide Isabel Carlotta Michaela Raphaela Gabriella turns out that her game is to fasten on her step-son an old necessary, and the institutions of labour, properly so called, Francisca Paula Inez Sophia Joaquina Theresa Benedicta family taint of insanity, and shut him up in a madhouse. and, from it, of property, trade, manufactures, money or Bernarda; but it is well that name-givers should be urged. He is, in fact, seized and ironed, rescued by the heroine in exchange, and government, arise perforce. Out of the to choose for their children agreeable names, with pleasant disguise as a gipsy, and finally established happily in all other appetite shared by men and brutes springs the insti- sound and meaning. The urging of this occupies some two hundred pages of Miss Moody's book; the remaining hunhis rights by the honest treasons of an Italian physician. tution of families; and of all those extensions of social or So he is married to Anne Cave after a swift and complete domestic ties included in the idea of society. These insti- dred or so contain two lists of names, the one arranged disenchantment by marriage with an early idol, who dies tutions are necessary to the well-being and happiness of according to signification and nation, the other alphabetical. soon enough to be not at all in the way of the consum- mankind, but Mr Rowland's argument is, that instead of Miss Moody finds four broad classes of names. The first, mation which the reader is taught to desire. Anne Cave is, being, according to the doctrine of utility, institutions set having religious origin, are either the titles of deities in fact, a clever circulating library volume, very good of its up by man himself as means to the obtaining of happiness, assumed by men and women, as Cymbeline, Lord of the sort, with a story that keeps moving, plenty of characters, they are the essential outgrowth of the appetites or in- Sun, and Phoebe, the Moon, or names relating to the Deity, some of them well, some of them ill, some of them roughly voluntary tendencies belonging to man's purely animal as Daniel, God is my Strength, Elizabeth, a worshipper of sketched, plenty of scene-shifting and a clear ordering of nature. If this be true of the two laws out of which God, Godwin, beloved of God, and Angelina, a messenger incidents. The step-mother's own son, George, runs to have been constructed the fundamental institutions of from God. The second are derived from abstract qualities, tell his mamma on divers occasions, in a way peculiar property and marriage, it is also true, as Mr Rowland and signify life, as Ambrose, immortal, and Zoe, life, perhaps to himself among dashing life-guardsmen, and the shows at length, of two other laws, not constructive but virtue, as Simon, obedient, and Anne, endowed with grace;" story is advanced too often by the artifice of making protective, the one for the protection of human life, the love, or that which awakens love, as Edwin, happy, and somebody overhear something; now little Elsie follows other for the production of truth; and this being proved, Adeline, noble wije; uprightness, as Albert, all bright, and a dog into her mamma's closet and overhears an "the university and ubiquity of the four moral laws of Katharine, spotless; sincerity, as Roger, a man of his word, important dialogue, which is repeated to her dear friend and "nature, and the comprehension within their jural con- and Gertrude, a maiden trusted and true; help-giving, as governess; now Elsie lies awake in bed and overhears the "ceptions of all the laws which human society requires Alexander, a brave protector, and Bridget, succouring; dialogue between two lady's maids; now Anne Cave is in "for its moral government, suggest the belief, indeed the courage, as Richard, valiant, and Matilda, brave; wisdom, bed at an inn with the curtains drawn, and Robert's "fact, as a logical sequence, that the Great Legislator, as Gregory, vigilant, and Sophia, wisdom; power, as mother-in-law and brother George, mistaking the room for "when He prepared mankind for receiving those laws into Henry, a mighty lord, and Magdalene, magnificent; gentleGeorge's, come in and hatch villainy against Robert and "their minds and hearts and thus enacted them, determined ness, as Solomon, peace, and Mildred, sweet spoken; grace, against herself too, within her hearing; the chambermaid "that they are sufficient for the moral government of the as Rebekah, one who draws; and joy or good fortune, as comes at a convenient time to explain the mistake as to "human race in all the relations of life." Isaac, laughter, and Edith, blessed. The third class of the room, and mother and son thereupon quietly depart, We have attempted to show, in a few sentences, the names owe their origin to personal characteristics, and the heroine, probably, having gone to bed in her ball- nature of Mr Rowland's book, full of noble thoughts well signify either beauty or youth, as Naomi, beautiful; comdress and crinoline, so that the room happened to contain expressed, and much in need of enforcement now-a-days. plexion, as Maurice, dark complexioned, and Blanche, no traces of her occupation. Another time Anne is in It would not be possible, within the same limit of space, white; or personal defect, as Claude, lame. The fourth a cottage and gets out of the way upon the mysterious to give anything like a fair notion of the purport of the class is a miscellaneous heap, referring chiefly to animals, entrance of Emily and the curate, with whose secrets she other work, whose title we have quoted. Mr Neale's plants, and places, as Nimrod, a leopard, and Penelope, a thus becomes acquainted; and besides such incidents as volume is divided into three parts. The first is explanatory silent worker. This classification is far from complete, and these there is a maid, Christine, who has eaves-dropping of Hegel's law of thought, not very intelligible in Mr here and there its details are erroneous; but on the whole reckoned among her duties. If we say more of defects we Neale's formal definition-to the effect that "the action of the book is very carefully written, and there is no lack in must go on to balance them with merits, for with all its "thought consists in producing a unity of subject and it of interesting matter. faults the novel is not bad, and it is certainly not tedious. "object through a perpetual process, wherein the subject BOOKS OF THE WEEK. TRAVEL.Forty Years of American Life.' By Dr Thomas L. Nichols. In Two Volumes. (8vo, pp. 408, 368.) Maxwell and Co. and America.' The Alexandra and the Rams. By Vigilans. (8vo, pp. 124.) Saunders, Otley, and Co. " LAW. "he foresaw its dangers from the beginning, and laboured discovered traces of the National Government in Warsaw reduces LITERATURE.-'Shakespeare Jest-Books: Reprints of the Early and Hamilton," he adds, "we trace the progress of the Con- copies of a notice from the town captain advising persons not to be incessantly to guard against them." "In the career of itself to this. A boy was arrested having in his possession fourteen very rare Jest-Books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare.' I. present at the ball of the General Ritkowski. A piece of paper was -A Hundred Mery Talys, from the only known Copy. II.-Mery "stitution, from its first germ in the mind of the young also found on the boy, on which were written fourteen initials, probably Tales and Quicke Answeres, from the rare Edition of 1567. Edited, with "soldier, through all the difficulties of its establishment, of the names of the persons to whom the notices were addressed. Introduction and Notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple, "and the trials of its early years, until its administration After being bastinadoed, the boy confessed the full names of those Barrister-at-Law. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 129, 162.) Willis and Sotheran. BIOGRAPHY. Alexander Hamilton and his Contemporaries; or the "passes from the control of its authors, to fall into the persons, who were thereupon arrested. The Russians have definitively failed in their attempts to surround and destroy Bosak. Colonel Rise of the American Constitution.' By Christopher James Rieth-" hands of the champions of an absolute Democracy. But, Suchonin has been wounded. Rembajlo is dead. müller, Author of 'Teuton,' a Poem; and Frederick Lucas,' a Biography. (Post 8v0, pp. 452.) Bell and Daldy. apart from all political speculations, the story of Hamilton "himself, his character, his service, and his fate, are well "worthy of record, and ought to be better known than BRAZIL. The Brazilian Chambers were opened on the 1st of INTERNATIONAL LAW. The Foreign Enlistment Acts of England they have been-especially in that England which he January The following are the principal passages of the speech "understood with the instinct of genius, and loved with the delivered by the Emperor on the occasion. I feel it my duty to com THEOLOGY.-English Biblical Criticism and the Pentateuch, from a "enthusiasm of a high and generous nature." municate to you that our diplomatic relations with Great Britain are German Point of View. By John Muehleisen-Arnold, B.D., Hon. Sec. to the Moslem Mission Society. (8vo, pp. 181.) Longman and Co. The two octavo volumes by Dr Thomas Nichols, entitled interrupted. The Brazilian Government was with regret forced to this resolve, as the British Government had refused to give us the satisfac Palmoni; or, the Numerals of Scripture a Proof of Inspiration. A Forty Years of American Life,' consist of sketches of tion and indemnity demanded on account of the conflict with the LegaFree Inquiry. By M. Mahan, D.D., St Mark's-in-the-Bowery, Pro- different towns and districts in the United States, of tion at this Court. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, to whose fessor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary: American institutions, and of points of American character arbitration one of the questions respecting that conflict had been sub(Post 8vo, pp. 176.) New York: Appleton and Co.-Broken Lights: an Inquiry into the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Religious and customs, all serving as contemporary evidence to help mitted, was pleased to decide that in the execution of the Brazilian Faith.", By Frances Power Cobbe, Author of an Essay on Intuitive Englishmen to the understanding of the present Civil War. laws on the officers of the frigate Forte there was no premeditated Morals,' &c. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 192.) Trübner and Co.-Reason and offence, neither was there any offence to the British navy. The Revelation.' By Robert S. Candlish, D.D., Principal of the New ColA sketch of the proceedings in relation to the Alexandra, Government of his Most Faithful Majesty offered its mediation in order lege, and Senior Pastor of Free St George's, Edinburgh. (Post 8vo, pp. and the question of the Liverpool Rams, is given from the that the diplomatic relations between Brazil and Great Britain might 186.) Nelson and Sons. point of view that best satisfies the Liverpool shipbuilders, be renewed. Much as the Brazilian Government might and do wish EDUCATION.-An Elementary Grammar of the Greek Language: containing a Series of Greek and English Exercises for Translation, in the publication of this week on 'The Foreign Enlistment the successful issue of so benevolent a proof of friendship and interest, it could not take advantage of that noble and valid offer so long as with the requisite Vocabularies, and an Appendix on the Homeric Verse Acts of England and America.' there did not exist on the part of the British Government any explicit and Dialect, by Dr Raphael Kühner, co-Rector of the Lyceum, Hanover. Towards our own Colenso war, Mr John Muehleisen acceptance of that offer. Our friendly relations with all other Powers Translated by S. H. Taylor, LL.D. A New Edition, Revised and Edited, Arnold contributes, as a German in England, trained at continue unaltered. with numerous emendations and additions, including upwards of a Thousand Examination Questions, by Charles W. Bateman, LL.B., German Universities and holding a German degree that sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin. (Feap. 8vo, pp. 663.) qualifies him for office as a German divinity Professor, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Dublin: Kelly.The Aldine Virgil.' Virgil the Æneid. Books I to XII, complete with English Notes, Ex- his own view of "English Biblical Criticism, and the THE COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE has been engaged twice planatory and Critical. The first six Books by Robert Campbell, Esq., 'Pentateuch." His opinion is that "if there be no history this week with the case of O'Kane v. O'Kane and Palmerston. On Head Master of the High School, Waterford; and Books VII to XII," there can be no truth in the Pentateuch," and that "the Tuesday Mr Wells, the petitioner's solicitor, presented an affidavit, with a Metrical Analysis of the Eneid, by Roscoe Mongan, A.B., ex- "historical veracity of the Pentateuch is so intimately Classical Scholar, Trinity College, Dublin. (Feap. 8vo, pp. 327.) Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Dublin: Kelly.-A Handbook of Rhe-" connected with the Gospel, that both must stand or toric, for Schools and Private Students: based on the Works of Stirling" fall together." Here we may point out that among the and Holmes.' Revised and Enlarged by the Rev. Professor Barry, of Allhallows' College. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 87.) Dublin: Kelly. pamphlets of the week is a duodecimo of 405 closelyESSAYS.-Soundings from the Atlantic.' By Oliver Wendell Holmes. printed pages of doctrine and argument, containing all that "47 Moorgate street, City, Jan. 16, 1864.-Myself v. Palmerston (Post 8vo, pp. 468.) Low, Son, and Marston. Boston: Ticknor and was set forth by the accusing judges at the nominal trial of and O'Kane.--Dear Sir,-Yielding to the advice of my friends, I have R. McNab, Author of Body, Mind, and Spirit.' (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 287.) Palmoni explains its purpose in its second title "The young children, and not from any inability to establish the allegations EXTRACTS.Thoughts, Past and Present, on Life and Love.' By D. Dr Colenso before the Bishop of Cape Town. Dr Mahan's decided to drop the above suit; and I hereby instruct you to stay all further proceedings. I adopt this course solely for the sake of my "Numerals of Scripture a Proof of Inspiration," and its name contained in my petition, or to prosecute the suit to a successful conin its motto: "He created Wisdom and saw her and clusion, as the letters I submitted to you, and the other evidence laid "numbered her, and poured her upon all His works. Why before you, offered prima facie every probability of success. On these FINE ART. Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.' Illustrated" else is He styled PALMONI (Dan. viii, 13) which is letters and correspondence, fortified by the opinion of counsel, you by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A. (Art Union of London.) undertook the suit by my instructions, and I feel perfectly satisfied with QUARTERLY.The Fine Arts Quarterly Review.' No. III. (Chap"rendered in the margin of our English Bibles, The your professional conduct as well as that of your managing clerk, Mr man and Hall.) "Numberer of Secrets, or. The Wonderful Numberer. Weston, who were not deterred from undertaking the just cause by the MONTHLY.The Art-Journal. No. 26. New Series. Can You Bibliotheca Biblica, iv, p. 8." Another theological frantic howl of a venial and corrupt press-the cause of right against Forgive Her? By Anthony Trollope. No. 2. Chapman and Hall Luttrell of Arran.' By Charles Lever. No. 3. (Chapman and Hall.) book of the week, the Broken Lights' of Miss Frances might. I beg to give the most emphatic contradiction to the assertion The Gallery of Geography, a Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the Power Cobbe, sets forth as the three fundamental canons ployment of either of you-my own resources and those of my friends made by some of the London and other papers, that I was in the emWorld. By the Rev. Thos. Milner, M.A., Author of The Gallery of of the Faith of the Future the Absolute Goodness of God, having enabled me to live independent of such aid. I was lawfully Nature, &c. Part IV. (W. and R. Chambers.)-Homes without Hands. By the Rev. J. G. Wood. Part II. (Longmans.) Watts's the Final Salvation of Every Human Soul, and the Divine married to my wife, the respondent in this suit, by a Catholic priest Dictionary of Chemistry.' Part XII. (Longmans.) Good Words. Authority of Conscience, and looks for the development of regularly ordained, and acting with full jurisdiction, and celebrating Christian Work. The Victoria Magazine.The Rose, the Sham- this faith not to dogmas, but to prayerful advancement in rock, and the Thistle Magazine.'-Colburn's New Monthly.'-"The Nautical Magazine. The Boy's Own Magazine. The Boy's Monthly a life of sympathy and labour, with completer acceptance of Magazine.' No. 2. (Beeton.)The Englishwoman's Domestic Maga- the fundamental duties, love to God and Man. Dr Candlish's zine.- La Mode Illustrée.' (Grevel, 84 Cambridge street.) The Mu-Reason and Revelation' is a reprint with a controversial sical Monthly,' No. 3. (Office, 32 Fleet street.) MONTHLY AND WEEKLY. All the Year Round. Chambers's preface, in which the author replies to strictures on his PAMPHLETS.Germany versus Denmark: being a Short Account of views expressed in the Duke of Argyll's speech at Glasgow consistency made by Dr Colenso, and to impressions of his the Schleswig-Holstein Question. By a Liverpool Merchant. (8vo, pp. 24.) Liverpool: Daily Post Office.Thanksgiving. A Chapter of on the 11th of last January. Religious Duty. By Frances Power Cobbe. (12mo, pp. 40.) Trübner A new edition of Dr S. H. Taylor's Translation of and Co. Sketch of the Life and Labours of Robert Gray Mason, Tem- Kühner's Greek Grammar,' a new School Eneid, and perance Advocate. By William Logan, Glasgow, Author of 'Sketches of the Temperance Labours of John Dunlop, William Collins, Joseph small Handbook of Rhetoric' explained in rhymes and Livesey,' &c. (12me, pp. 40.) Tweedie.Trial of Dr Colenso, Bishop illustrated with examples, are the educational books of the of Natal, before the Metropolitan Bishop of Cape Town,' (12mo, pp. week. 405.) Street, 30 Cornbill; Bell and Daldy, Fields Pitman. FICTION.' Heart or Head.' By Philip Wharton, one of the Authors of The Wits and Beaux of Society,' &c. In Two Volumes. (Post 8vo, pp. 345, 336.) Skeet. Journal. Once a Week.' i a Of Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes's 'Soundings from the I sworn by himself, of a very extraordinary character, referring to pretended "negotiations for a settlement of the cause," alleging his belief letter from O'Kane himself, instructing him to drop the suit. This that "the petitioner had a good case on the merits," but followed by a letter is worth giving. It was in these words: the marriage with all the rites and essential formalities of the Catholic church. This could have been satisfactorily proved had the case gone into Court. As to the alleged acts of adultery the correspondence and other evidence would leave no doubt had the case gone before a jury. am, yours truly, (Signed) "T. J. O'KANE." Mr Horsley, the respondent's solicitor, also filed an affidavit stating discussion on account of certain formalities, the case stood over till that no compromise of the petition had emanated, directly or indirectly, from himself or had been sanctioned by Mrs O'Kane, and after a long Thursday, when the Court dealt with the whole case. That Lord Palmerston had not consented to any compromise, was shown by the following singular conversation between the petitioner's counsel and his attorney is a confirmation of the statement that there was no comthe learned Judge:-Mr Browne: The letter of my client (O'Kane) to plicity between the parties in the arrangement of the suit.-The Judge Ordinary What do you mean by "arangement?" The Court has nothing before it to lead to the conclusion that there was any arrangeThe Hundred Merry Tales,' out of which Shakespeare's ment. If there was, you had better state it.-Mr Browne: There is Beatrice heard it said that she had her good wit, was a lost The one new novel is Philip Wharton's Heart or Head.' parties.-The Judge Ordinary: What is the meaning of an arrangean allegation that there was an arrangement, but not one between the book till the unique fragment of it, now extant, entitled The Art-Union of London has issued among books of ment not between the parties?-Mr Browne: It may have been made A. C. Mery Talys,' was picked up by the Rev. J. J. Cony- the week its handsome volume of Coleridge's Ancient with third parties.-The Judge Ordinary: Oh, is that the meaning?— beare at an old bookstall. The leaves of more than one copy Mariner,' with Mr Noel Paton's Illustrations, the guinea's You mean that your client made an arrangement with some of the once popular book, first printed as a folio of twenty- worth of art prepared for the subscribers of the current other party that the suit should not go on ?-Mr Browne: Yes.-The Judge: That is a very improper mode of speaking of it. A term four leaves, about 1525, by John Rastell, were used by a year, We shall speak fully of this work, for it seems to should not be used which would lead any one to suppose that it was an binder when the book was new as material for the pasteboard us the best fruit we have yet had of Mr Paton's genius, arrangement between the parties to the suit.-Mr Browne: I have all of another volume. In that state Mr Cony beare recovered and forms a volume immeasurably better than the Art along disclaimed anything of that kind.-The Judge Ordinary then to literature the fragments of the jest-book to which Union's prize illustrations to the Idylls of the King.' said: The result is that the suit must be dismissed. The petitioner Shakespeare so familiarly referred. It was reprinted at We shall speak separately also of the Fine Arts Quarterly any imputation upon either of the other parties to the suit, and without a came into court with his complaint and he now retires from it without various times in the 16th century, but the copy thus Review, of which an excellent third number has this week suggestion of an arrangement between himself and either of them, on partially rescued was the only one extant till it was been published. The February number of the Art Journal grounds best known to himself, and in consequence of what he by his reprinted some years ago, together with the 'Mery Tales contains a steel engraving from the popular statue of the counsel calls an arrangement with his friends. It is no doubt much to and Quicke Answeres, for private circulation by the late Reading Girl,' and is otherwise particularly rich in text be regretted that a man should be able to attack the character of a Mr Singer. Of the Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres' and pictures. woman whom he calls his wife, and to hold her up to public censure only two old copies are extant, one printed about 1535 in without cause. Owing to the publicity which happily attends every 4to by Thomas Berthelet, containing 114 anecdotes, the case in our courts, that evil is unfortunately aggravated, but the remedy is to be found in the same publicity. The chastity of the respondent, other in 12mo, printed in 1567, by Henry Wykes, and THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. who has in vain challenged inquiry into and proof of the charges containing twenty-six new stories. These old jest and The movements of the Russian troops in the palatinate of Cracow, against her, has received no tarnish from this ordeal; and as for the story-books of the people are now reprinted and for the in compliance with orders from St Petersburg, to surround and crush petitioner, he retires from the suit with the evil words still upon his the corps of General Bosak, have been without result, and only gave lips, and will probably meet with the censure of some and with the first time illustrated with notes as an elegant little volume, the Poles an opportunity of gaining several victories. published this week, and having Mr W. Carew Hazlitt, a Suchonin, the Russian officer in command during the engagement with word respecting the co-respondent. It is a matter of great satisfaction Colonel contempt of many. The Court cannot part with this suit without one scholar well acquainted with old English literature, for its Rembajlo, on the 17th January, has died of his wounds. The bands to the Court that a name never mentioned in England without just editor. It may be worth while again to remind our under Lewiecki, Marecki, and Gozdawa are now operating between pride should have passed from its annals without a stain. readers that in this place we only tell what the new books the rivers Bug and Wieprz; Wroblewski's corps has gone into ship uttered these words with great emphasis, and they were followed look like, and what they profess to contain, reserving criti-under Roditnicki; and Szydlowski, after an expedition to the Galician Later in the day Mr D. Seymour said he had omitted to ask for costs, the interior, where it has been joined by that of Komorowski, now by expressions of applause from the persons who crowded the court. cism except in the case of a few works that can be read frontier, has returned into the interior of the palatinate of Lublin. On and he understood that a formal order was necessary. The Judge quickly and admit of a decision on their merits both im- the 14th Marecki, with about three hundred infantry and cavalry, was Ordinary: Certainly. The man who has presented a petition to this mediate and brief. We shall speak critically of this attacked by the Russians while encamped in the woods near Wola Court and has voluntarily abandoned it ought to pay the costs. The volume of Shakespeare jest-books in the series of notices and, after beating back the enemy, retired to the village of Pozarow. Skromowska. Though taken by surprise, the Poles formed in line, petition is accordingly dismissed. for which we have been reserving the whole body of recent Here they were again attacked, and the Russians received a second Shakespeare literature. repulse, the Poles continuing their march to the village of Tarkowice, The Parliamentary Session of 1864 promises to be one of great Mr Christopher James Riethmüller, whose poem on the where a third engagement took place, and the Russians finally aban- interest, and, contemplated together with the expected return of her Germanic Race and Life of Frederick Lucas have esta-Alexander Kuczewski was hanged at Szawle. On the 21st Mouravieff Families who are returning to town and intend refurnishing and doned the pursuit. Letters from Lithuania state that, on the 12th Jan. Majesty from her protracted retirement, a brilliant season is anticipated. blished for him the character of a refined and thoughtful issued a decree ordering schools to be erected only in the vicinity of decorating their residences should pay an early visit to the immense writer, now sketches the story of the Rise of the American Greek churches; and the Greek prelate, Siemiaszko, has directed the show-rooms of Nosotti's decorating, carving and gilding, and lookingConstitution,' in connexion with the life and opinions of Russian popes to take particular care that the people of Lithuania glass manufactory, 398, 399, and 3994 Oxford street, where may be inAlexander Hamilton; "the remarkable man," says Mr should pray out of Russian prayer books. Any neglect of the fulfil- spected a magnificent stock of gilt furniture and glasses, and a new Riethmüller in his preface, "who did the most to call it Lithuania is to be severely punished. ment of the rites of the Greek Church by the Catholic population of gallery of decoration most artistically and exquisitely finished, con "into existence and to bring it into working order, while taining some superb specimens of this work, for which Mr Nosotti's CRACOW, Feb. 8.-The news that the Russian authorities had house is in so much repute. His lord THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. The Military Situation. Advices from New York to the 23rd ult. state that all is quiet in General Meade's army. Deserters from the Confederates continue to come in, and it is said that General Lee has doubled his line of pickets to prevent desertions from his army, in consequence of the effect of Lincoln's amnesty proclamation among his troops. The Washington Government is taking measures to get that document more generally circulated at the South. The Confederate cavalry encounter a serious difficulty in the scarcity of forage. There is nothing further from Chattanooga or Knoxville. General Schofield has been ordered to the latter place to supersede General Foster, who retires on account of ill health. There are rumours of heavy reinforcements having reached Longstreet, but they can be traced to no reliable source. Advices from Texas to the 6th of January state that the 13th Maine Regiment disembarked on the Matagorda peninsula, driving in the Confederate pickets, who were soon supported by about 1,000 cavalry. The Federals fell back to the cover of a range of sand hills, and, aided by the gunboat Granite State, succeeded in repulsing several attacks of the enemy, who finally retreated at dark. The Federal troops then embarked for operations elsewhere. The Confederate gunboat John St Carr was burned, to prevent her falling into Federal hands. The Confederates are reported to have four "cotton clads" in Matagorda Bay, and General Magruder promises the people that they shall soon have a repetition of the Galveston affair. The coast is strongly fortified by the Confederates, and they have formidable works at the mouth of the Brazos River. Political Matters. In the Maryland House of Delegates, on the 22nd, resolutions were offered endorsing the administration of Abraham Lincoln, and renominating him for the presidency. The resolutions were adopted. A disloyal resolution, denouncing the administration, was laid over. Mr Murphy, of Baltimore, submitted a resolution providing for the expulsion of any member using disloyal language. The Speaker declared this resolution out of order. The Diplomatic Correspondence with England. The correspondence was laid before Congress on the 20th ult. The following is a summary of its contents: In April last Mr Seward requested Mr Adams to inform Earl Russell that the negotiation of a Confederate loan brings to an end all concessions made by the Federal Government for mitigating the rigour of the blockade in regard to the shipping of tobacco or cotton, nor will the Federal Government respect the title of any person, whether a citizen of the United States or a subject of a foreign Power, to cotton or merchandise, when such title is derived through insurgent authority, or agents hostile to the United States. Such proceedings as a negotiation of this loan have come to be regarded by the people and the Government in America as tending to complicate the relations of both countries in such a manner as to render it difficult, if not impossible, to maintain and preserve friendship between both countries. is disposition to intervene forcibly in Mexican affairs, whether to establish [points to an approaching general attack, but was attended with no less WAR IN DENMARK. Invasion of Slesvig. " Convocation of the Rigsraad. At Copenhagen, on the 30th ult., the President of the Council announced the speedy assembly of the Rigsraad. He said: "The best proof of the policy pursued by Prussia is afforded by the following fact;-Herr von Bismarck tells Denmark Prussia takes Slesvig as a pledge to compel the fulfilment of the agreements of 1851-52. On the other hand, he tells the Prussian Chambers that in taking possession of that pledge, Prussia pursues plans calculated to overthrow those agreements." The provisional law for the convocation of the Rigsraad conOn the morning of the 31st ult., Field-Marshal von Wrangel sent tains the following passage: "As circumstances may perhaps render a despatch to General de Meza, the Danish Commander-in-Chief, an earlier assembly of the Rigsraad necessary than is provided for by demanding the immediate evacuation of Slesvig by the Danish troops. the electoral law, the elections to the Folksthing are to take place General de Meza, in reply, stated that the orders of his Government upon the 5th of March, and to the Landsthing upon the 29th of March were totally at variance with such a demand, and that he was ready to next." A provisional law was published on the 1st inst., enabling the resist any act of violence by force of arms. A proclamation to the accelerated assembly of the Rigsraad. A royal patent was issued at people of Slesvig was then issued by von Wrangel, in which he said: the same time, ordering the elections to the Rigsraad. King Christian, We come to protect your rights. The Civil Commissioners of accompanied by the President of the Council, left to join the army at Austria and Prussia will assume the administration of the duchy of midnight. Large crowds assembled at the railway station to witness Slesvig, and you will follow their orders." The proclamation con- the King's departure. His Majesty was continuously and enthusiasticluded by advising the inhabitants to abstain from any party agita- cally cheered. tion, which would not be suffered by the Commander-in-Chief, in the interest of the Slesvigers themselves. As the immediate consequence of these pourparlers, the Prussian and Austrian forces commenced hostilities on the 1st inst. The former crossed the Eider into Slesvig, in the direction of Gottorp and Eckernförde. The Austrians entered the Kronenwerk at Rendsburg, and the Danes retired from it, after a Slei and occupied the works of Missunde. The Austro-Prussian Ultimatum. In July Mr Seward, referring to the Alexandra decision, writes Mr light skirmish between the outposts, and took up a position on the the 1st January, 1864, would ere this have been annulled. That hope Adams that if British law must be left without amendment and be construed by the Government in accordance with the rulings of the Chief Baron, there will be left for the United States no alternative but to protect themselves and commerce against armed cruisers proceeding from British ports as against the naval officers of the public enemy. They will also claim and insist upon indemnities for injuries committed by such expeditions. If the Federal naval force is not sufficient for the emergency, the United States must employ a private armed force afforded by the mercantile marine. As these piratical vessels are received in British ports to obtain supplies and land prisoners, can it be an occasion for surprise or complaint that, if this condition of things receives the deliberate sanction of the British Government, the Federal navy will receive instructions to pursue these enemies into the ports which thus, in violation of the law of nations and the obligations of neutrality, become harbours for pirates. The President perceives the risk such a naval conflict will bring to commerce and even the peace of both countries, but he is obliged to consider that, in the case supposed, the destruction of American commerce will probably amount to a naval war waged by a portion of the British nation against the Government and people of America-a war tolerated, though not declared or avowed, by the British Government. If, through the SLESVIG, Feb. 4, 1 p.m.-The attack was continued to-day without Battle before Missunde. by Austria and Prussia on the 30th ult.: The Governments of The following are the terms of the ultimatum addressed to Denmar Austria and Prussia had hoped that the joint constitution for Denmark and Slesvig, sanctioned on the 18th of November of last year by his Majesty King Christian IX., and which was to come into operation on tution came into force, and thereby the incorporation of Slesvig was has not been fulfilled. On the 1st of January of this year this consticonsummated. The Royal Danish Government has thus undoubtedly broken the engagements which it entered into in the year 1852 towards the German Diet, and especially towards the two German powers, and has called forth a state of affairs which cannot be considered in accordance with treaty stipulations. The two powers are, in consequence of duty bound, both to themselves and the German Confederation, not to the attitude they took up during those negotiations (the result of which was approved of, on their recommendation, by the German Diet) in allow such a state of things. They address, therefore, once more to constitution of the 18th of November, 1863, which does not rest on any the Royal Danish Government an express demand to withdraw the just basis, and thereby at least to re-establish the status quo, as being Danish Government not comply with this demand, the two powers the necessary condition for all further negotiations. Should the Royal would find themselves compelled to apply the means at their disposal to re-establish the status quo and to secure the duchy of Slesvig against the unjust incorporation with the kingdom of Denmark. The undersigned, hitherto ambassadors of the two powers, although not formally accredited, in this case acting by special order of their Governments, withdrawal of the constitution of the 18th of November of last year, employment of such means of national defence, such partial war shall made by 9,000 Prussian troops and two batteries of artillery. The have been instructed to demand to to leave Copenhagen if a decla of the strong position of Missunde. The attack was begun at 10a.m. become a general one between both nations, the President thinks the On Mexican affairs Mr Seward wrote to Mr Dayton in September that the United States held in regard to Mexico the same principles as towards all nations. They have, he said, neither the right nor the CURRENT EVENTS. the two things, rights and duties, hang together. It is impossible to from Mexico, which contains an extract from a letter addressed by the Swedish Sympathy with Denmark. A letter from Stockholm of the 26th ult. says: "The ultimatum presented to Denmark by Prussia, and the prospect of its resulting in an invasion of Slesvig, have called forth here manifestations of the liveliest sympathy for the oppressed nation. Up to the present this sympathy had only been displayed with a certain reserve, because the Government had expressed itself throughout in a sufficiently clear and evident manner; and the public knew well that its actions would correspond with its words. But now, in face of such imminent dangers, public opinion has declared itself in all its force. The most distinguished ladies of this city, among whom may be cited the Baroness Geer, wife of the Minister of Justice; the Countess von Manderström and Madle Frederika Bremer, whose reputation is European, have formed a committee for the collection and despatch to Slesvig of warm clothing and other necessaries of great utility. This committee has already sent some considerable parcels, and every day brings them abundant donations. Similar committees are being formed throughout Sweden, and the ladies ardently seize these opportunities of manifesting in a practical manner their sympathy for their Scandinavian brethren. Another committee has been formed in Stockholm composed of the highest personages, such as the presidents of the royal courts, the delegates of the estates charged with the administration of the National Bank and of the bureau of the public debt, the ProcuratorGeneral of Justice, generals, admirals, &c. This committee has published an appeal to the Swedish people, and opened a subscription for the families of the Danish soldiers. Austrian Loss in the Attack upon Jagel. RENDSBURG, Feb. 5.-In the attack upon Jagel the day before yesterday the Austrian brigade Gondrecourt lost 400 men, with many superior officers. Two persons named Hardesvogt and Blauenfeld offered themselves as guides, but conducted the Prussian troops against the Austrians. Both parties fired into each other. FRANCE. [A mark (*) is attached to the Events discussed or more fully narrated in this week's EXAMINER.] DENMARK: FOREIGN. Henry Linguard, the actor whose case was recently reported, is tried in the Central Criminal Court for obtaining goods by false pretences, and being found guilty is sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. Feb. 1.-The Austrian and Prussian armies invade Slesvig." The Faedrelandet states that the mission to Stockholm of Mr Jan. 22.-General Schofield supersedes General Foster at Knoxville. The Maryland Legislature nominate Mr Lincoln for the Presidency.* 3.-The Patrie publishes, under reserve, the news that the Italian Jan. 30.-The bill for the suppression of brigandage in the Feb. 2.-The result of the elections is generally favourable to the Feb. 1.-The resolution brought forward by the Opposition a short Jan. 31. The project of law abolishing the tobacco contract is In the case of O'Kane v. O'Kane and Lord Palmerston, in the Divorce Court, the petition is dismissed.* MEDICAL DECLARATION OF TOWNLEY'S SANITY AND In consequence of the representations made by the Visiting Justices "Gentlemen,-I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey, with reference to previous correspondence with you as to the case of George Victor Townley, to inform you that, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, he requested Dr W. C. Hood and Dr J. C. Buckhill, visitors of Chancery lunatics, together with Dr Meyer, the medical superintendent of the Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, and Dr Helps, the medical superintendent of Bethlehem Hospital, to examine into Townley's state of mind, and to report thereupon. Sir George Grey has received from these gentlemen a report, a copy of which is herewith transmitted to you. While the letters (copies of which were sent to you on the 23rd and 25th ult.) from the magistrates who signed the certificates of Townley's insanity leave no reason for doubting that they were convinced of his insanity at the time when the certificates were signed by them, the present report from four medical gentlemen of great experience in mental diseases appears to Sir George Grey conclusive as to Townley being of sound mind. A certificate to that effect, as required by the Act 3 and 4 Vict., c. 54, has since been received by the Secretary of State. I am further to inform you that, taking all the circumstances of this case into consideration, her Majesty's Government are of opinion that it would not be right that the capital sentence should now be carried into effect, but that it ought to be commuted to penal servitude for life. This course has therefore been taken, and the prisoner will be dealt with accordingly. I am to add that it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to propose an amendment of the act under which the certificates of insanity in this case were given.-I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, H. WADDINGTON. Reply of the Emperor to the Address of the Corps Législatif. The Moniteur publishes the reply of the Emperor to the address of the Corps Legislatif. The following is a translation: "Monsieur le President, The address which expresses to me the approbation of the Corps Legislatif deeply moves me. The discussions upon the verification of powers and the address have been long and profound, and although "To T. W. Evans, Esq., M.P., and W. Mundy, Esq., M.P." they have occupied nearly three months they have not been without Bethlehem Royal Hospital, Jan. 28, 1864. utility. In all impartial minds, in fact, what are the definitive results "We, the undersigned, having been requested by Secretary Sir of these debates? Accusations cleverly disseminated reduced to George Grey to examine into the state of mind of George Victor nothing; the policy of the Government better appreciated, a majority Feb. 4. In the Chambers a debate takes place upon the reorgani-Townley, a prisoner under sentence of death in Bethlehem Hospital, and more compact and more devoted to the maintenance of our institutions. zation of the gendarmerie. An amendment demanding the establish- to report our opinion as to whether he is of unsound mind, report as These are great advantages obtained; for after the sterile attempts of ment of a National Guard in the towns is carried by a majority of six. follows: We have carefully considered the copies of papers supplied to so many different regimes the primary want of the country is stability. Several speakers belonging to the coalition declare the establishment us, and on the 26th and 27th days of this month we have had two Upon a soil without consistence, and which is continually shifting, of such a force indispensable, to counterbalance the too absolute lenghtened interviews with the prisoner; and the conclusion we have nothing durable can be established. What have we seen during the devotion of the army to the Prince. unanimously arrived at is that George Victor Townley is of sound last sixty years? Liberty in partisan hands become merely a subver- CHILI: mind. The demeanour of the prisoner during each interview was calm sive weapon. Hence incessant fluctuations; hence, by turns, power Dec. 20.-The Government decree the entire demolition of the and self possessed, with the exception that at the commencement of the succumbing to liberty, and liberty succumbing to anarchy. This ought remains of the Church of the Campania, where upward of 2,000 ladies second interview he displayed and expressed annoyance at the repeated not to be, and the example of the last few years shows that what so were burnt to death. About 1,700 of the burnt bodies were recognised, examinations to which he was being subjected. Neither in mode of long appeared irreconcileable may be reconciled. Really fruitful pro- and between 400 and 500 more were found to be beyond recognition. speech nor in look and conduct was there any sign of insanity observ gress is the result of experience, and its advance will not be quickened At least 3,000 persons were in the church when the fire broke out.* able in him. His prompt apprehension of the purport of our questions, by systematic and unjust attacks, but by the close union of the Govern and the manner in which he replied to them, indicated the possession of ment with a majority inspired by real patriotism, but never seduced by good mental intellectual capacity. The opinions which he avows that vain popularity. Let us await from concord and time the ameliorations INDIA: men, as the creatures of circumstances, are not justly respon that are possible; do not let the deceptive hope of chimerical improveJan. 12.-Sir John Lawrence arrives in Calcutta. The war on the sible for their actions, are opinions at which he appears to have arrived ment unceasingly compromise the present good that we have at heart frontier is at an end, and the force employed against the hill tribes has sible for the commission of crime is made clear by his own words used by ordinary processes of reasoning. That he knows that he responto consolidate together. Let us each remain in our right place, you been broken up. enlightening and controlling the progress of the Government; I taking to us-I expected to be hanged because I killed her, and am not such the initiative in everything conducive to the grandeur and prosperity a fool as not to know that the law hangs for murder. I did not think of France." of it at the time, or I should not have done it.' We think that his statement that he killed Miss Goodwin to repossess himself of her as his property was an afterthought adopted to justify his crime. He acknowledged to us that he had come to this opinion after the deed was done. The supposition that he killed Miss Goodwin under the influence of the opinion that in so doing he was repossessing himself of her as his property is inconsistent with his own repeated statement to us that, without forethought of any kind, he killed her under the influence of sudden impulse. He explained to us that by killing Miss Goodwin to repossess himself of her as his property, he simply meant that he took her out of the hands of his enemies and placed her in a position where she would wait, and where he would rejoin her when His Majesty's remarks (says the official journal) were received with shouts of "Vive l'Empereur !" THE FRENCH IN MEXICO. COLONIAL. HOME. THE QUEEN AND COURT. HER MAJESTY held a Council at Osborne on Wednesday, at which the Royal Speech on the opening of Parliament was submitted for her Majesty's approval. It is stated that the christening of the infaut Prince will take place at Buckingham Palace on the 10th of March, the wedding day of its Royal parents. The Princess of Wales was The advices received in New York on the 22nd ult. reach to the churched on Tuesday at St George's Chapel, and has driven out several 6th of January. They state that Uraga, with 8,000 men, was pre- times during the week. The Queen of Denmark and the Princess pared to make a stand in the mountains leading to Bolima. It was Dagmar are expected to arrive in this country at the close of this reported that General Bazaine intended to open a way to some Pacific month, in order to be present at the christening of the infant Prince. port. The French had occupied La Potelin. Negrete had been despe- It is authoritatively announced that levées will be held by the Prince rately defeated in trying to recapture San Luis. Juarez was at Zaca- of Wales, for the Queen, before Easter, and probably a Drawing-room, he died. The prisoner endeavoured to represent the catastrophe to us tecas. Advices from Matamoras report that the Mexican factions in by the Princess of Wales, on behalf of her Majesty. Levées and as due to the influence of sudden impulse, but the details which we Tamaulipas had united, and were about to march, 1,500 strong, against Drawing-rooms will likewise be held by the Prince and Princess after elicited from him show that he used threats of murder for some time Tampico, which was occupied by 500 French troops. Easter. The Queen is still unequal to the performance of State The following is the latest news bout the Archduke Maximilian ceremonies, and her Majesty's physicians have declared that any such and his Mexican adventure: The deputation commissioned to lay exertion would be prejudicial to her Majesty's health. before the Archduke Maximilian the ratification, by eighteen states out Feb. 1.—The Rev. T. R. Birch is tried in the Central Criminal of twenty-three, of the vote of the Assembly of Notables of Mexico are expected at St Nazaire, by the packet Vera Cruz, on Feb. 15. The Court for publishing a defamatory libel on Mr F. F. Taylor. He is deputation will immediately proceed to Miramar. The Archduke will found guilty, but being recommended to mercy is sentenced only to six leave his residence towards the end of February or the beginning of months' imprisonment in Newgate. March; he will then pay successive visits to the King of the Belgians, Sir G. Grey informs the members for Derby that, in compliance with the Emperor of the French, and the Queen of England; and afterwards the request of the visiting magistrates of that borough, he has ordered he will embark for Mexico, where he may be expected to arrive early a medical inquiry at Bethlehem Hospital as to the state of the murderer in April. The Archduke has already selected the officers of his staff. Townley's mind. The result is a declaration of his perfect sanity and It is very positively stated that his principal aide-de-camp will be the commutation of his punishment to penal servitude for life.* General Woll, a veteran of the Mexican army, who is universally Mr H. Moor, who announced himself as the Conservative candidate This," says the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, for Brighton, and who some days since retired from the contest, has is a paragrapha emanating from a source inspired by the Almonte issued an address announcing his intention to go to the poll, and to committee in Europe. The Archduke does, I believe, intend to go keep it open until the last moment. before he struck the first blow. We think that his clear memory of the events attending the crime, and also the attempts which he has made to misrepresent the state of his mind and memory at the time of does not entertain any delusion on the subject of a conspiracy against these events, are evidence of his sanity. We are of opinion that he him, but that he uses the term conspiracy to express the real opposi tion which he has met with from the members of Miss Goodwin's family to his engagement with her, and also so express the feeling that they are hostile to him. We have considered the evidence of hereditary predisposition to insanity given in the papers supplied to us and our opinion of the state of the prisoner's state of mind has not been altered thereby. We examined the apothecary and also the hief attendant of Bethlehem as to the conduct of Townley since he has been in detention at the hospital-both of them have had him under daily and special observation-and they assure us that neither in conduct, manner, or conversation, had they been able to observe in him any of the peculiarities which they are in the habit of remarking out, but I observe that the time for his departure is constantly deferred, At the weekly meeting of the Lancashire Distress Fund Mr among the insane. Signed, W. CHAS. HOOD, M.D., Visitor of Chanand new preliminaries are continually turning up. Of one most indis- Maclure reports that 1,2937. 45. 1d. was received last week, and cery Lunatics; JOHN CHAS. BUCKNILL. M.D., Visitor of Chancery pensable preliminary, however the raising the wind to get funds to that the balance in the bank was 195,8027. 1s. 2d. Mr Farnall Lunatics; JOHN METER, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Criminal start with we hear nothing." reports that on the 23rd ult. there was an increase in the Lunatic Asylum; W. HELPS,' M.D., Medical Superintendent of the number of persons receiving parochial relief in the twenty-seven unions Royal Bethlehem Hospital." esteemned. PARIS, Feb. 5.-The Moniteur of to-day publishes a correspondence |