means of a tap on the exterior skirt, communicating with the" Samuel Johnson did IRENE." We have touched only terms and the impression thus insensibly given that citation series of tubes in the interior, which serve the desired purpose upon the original part of Lord Campbell's introduction. In in each case ceases not because there are no more passages of expanding her drapery à la mode, she is to have the power of the more direct speculation upon Shakespeare we find no-to quote but because more are unnecessary. discharging the contents over her person when she discovers herWe quote the whole of Lord Campbell's legal comment self to be on fire, in such a manner that every flounce and frill thing more than any person carelessly might put into a letter after having read the life of Shakespeare prefixed to the on Love's Labour Lost: editions published by Mr Dyce and Mr Collier, or Mr Collier's memoir, and what his lordship admires as "that "most elaborate and entertaining book, 'Knight's Life of "Shakespeare.' a of which her dress is composed shall be speedily saturated. In Act 1, Sc. 1, we have an extract from the Report by Don Adriano de Armado of the infraction he had witnessed of the King's proclamation by Costard with Jaquenetta; and it is drawn up in the true lawyerlike, tautological dialect,-which is to be paid for at so much a folio: surveyest, and seest. in an attorney's office. * We now pass to the citations which it is the main pur- Then for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and most preposterous event that draweth from my snowpose of Lord Campbell to exhibit to the public. He says, In 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona,' 'Twelfth Night,' Julius white pen the ebon-coloured ink, where here thou viewest, beholdest, Him I (as my ever-esteemed duty Cæsar, Cymbeline,' 'Timon of Athens,' 'The Tempest, King pricks me on) have sent to thee to receive the meed of punishment, Richard II, King Henry V, King Henry VI, Part I,' King by thy sweet Grace's officer, Antony Dull, a man of good repute, Henry VI, Part III,' 'King Richard III,' 'King Henry VIII,' [Our correspondent has sent us with the above letter a capital 'Pericles of Tyre,' and 'Titus Andronicus-fourteen of the thirty-carriage, bearing, and estimation. The gifted Shakespeare might perhaps have been capable, by seven dramas generally attributed to Shakespeare-I find nothing intuition, of thus imitating the conveyancer's jargon; but no ordipen-and-ink sketch of the self-extinguishing apparatus she pro- that fairly bears upon this controversy. Of course I had only to poses to substitute for the common crinoline, which it perfectly look for expressions and allusions that must be supposed to come/nary man could have hit it off so exactly, without having engrossed resembles, except that the hoops are tubular. The tap, which from one who has been a professional lawyer. Amidst the seducing resembles that of a bottle of Seltzer-water, is placed near the beauties of sentiments and language through which I had to pick my Mr Rushton certainly has not made this exceedingly top of the frame, a degree or two of latitude below the waist; way, I may have overlooked various specimens of the article of remarkable discovery, but he has called attention to such and at the opposite point of the compass the saving jet is sup- which I was in quest, which would have been accidentally valuable, legal phrases as the distinction between common and several posed to issue in a water-work, very pretty to look at, however although intrinsically worthless. it might work in practice. We regret our inability to illus- However, from each of the remaining twenty-three dramas I have and the technical use of the word replication. He founds trate so pleasant a device with the author's drawing.] made extracts which I think are well worth your attention. These also on a passage in the same play this comment, illustraextracts I will now lay before you, with a few explanatory remarks, ting it as his manner is, with parallel passages taken in -which perhaps you will think demonstrably prove that your corre- this instance from two other plays, in neither of which has spondent is a lawyer, and nothing but a lawyer. Lord Campbell observed the phrase in question : COSTARD. "The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta. The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner. By John THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Were we to put faith in circumstantial evidence, and give no weight to evidence of character, we probably should find Lord Campbell guilty upon the charge of having robbed a mare's nest. Robbery of a mare's nest by the Lord Chief Justice is, however, an impossible offence. We I thought of grouping the extracts as they may be supposed to 66 references to Lord Campbell misses Timon's BIRON. "In what manner. COSTARD. "In manner and form following." Love's Labour Lost, Act 1, Scene 1. PRINCE HENRY. "O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen We glance over the discoveries here published, and find years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since thou hast blushed extempore." the following among the phrases that "must be supposed First Part of King Henry IV, Act 2, Scene 4. Good counsellors lack no clients," (p. 36); the simple "to come from one who has been a professional lawyer."- CLOWN. "If you had not taken yourself with the manner." Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3. use of the word "testament," (p. 41); the simple use of the hand, or in the work. The old law phrases, to be taken as a thief Mainour, old French manoevre, meinor, Latin a manu, from the word "bankrupt," (p. 41); the use, in two places, with the mainour, signifies to be taken in the very act of killing of the word craven," (p. 55); the use of the phrase venison, or stealing wood, or in preparing to do so; or it denotes the are content then simply to remark upon the accidental "between party and party," (p. 96); with more being taken with the thing stolen in his hands or possession. fact that for all pertinent citations produced by the Chief of the same value. His lordship is content with The chief use of Lord Campbell's book perhaps may be Justice from Shakespeare's plays in confirmation of Malone's such discoveries as these, and can find nothing in the Two that it finally destroys the argument for which it offers evitheory that the poet picked up law in an attorney's office, Gentlemen of Verona, whence Mr Rushton picked a men-dence. Two legal investigators have been through the works his lordship, when he wrote his letter to Mr Collier, might tion of possessions out by lease (Act 5, Sc. 2); nothing in of Shakespeare, making their distinct and independent have referred to the then extant pamphlet of a Liverpool Twelfth Night, whence Mr Rushton picked the strictly scrutinies. The result is but a small handful of law phrases, attorney. Mr Rushton's little publication was already in print when, on the fifteenth of last September, Lord Camp-legal phrase (Act 4, Sc. 1) "unjust extent against thy and by citing these under the head of the plays which con bell dated the first lines of the argument which he now peace; " nothing in Cymbeline, whence Mr Rushton picks tain them,-one, two, or three law terms to a play, and in publishes. In Household Words about three months ago 1, Sc. 5) the phrase " art thou a feodary for this act covenants" and "articles betwixt us" (Act some plays none at all,-Lord Campbell shows very dis(Act tinctly the slight base on which the argument must rest. attention was directed to the argument of Mr Rushton in an article that, under the head of "Mr W. Shakespeare, and forfeiters in Imogen's speech upon opening a letter (Act lawyer by such evidence as would prove him a butcher when 3, Sc. 2) and a combination of the ideas of seals, and bonds, Many of the passages prove Shakespeare to have been a "Solicitor," treated it with friendly ridicule, and coupled it 3, Sc. 2). he causes Shylock to talk about flesh of muttons, beefs, or with the contemporary pamphlet of a clergyman who had 3, Sc. 2). goats. Now that the fact is a piece of antiquity it may been picking Shakespeare through to prove "the vastness seem clever in Shakespeare to have known in his day what "of his Bible lore." Unluckily the existence of the prethe law was in the matter of crown wards (pp, 57, 58). But vious publication, which contains all his discoveries, did not the law was in common operation throughout all the country, become known to Lord Campbell. could then have known of its existence, it is probable that and if we are at this hour to suppose that only a man of law future generations will take every man to have been an accurate historian who now knows that the first grandson of Queen Victoria was born at three o'clock in the afternoon on January 27th, 1859. Much law talk that looks erudite to us was once familiar among the people. There was a time when the ness of his father's circumstances, was withdrawn from school, Mr Rushton found a legal use of the word premises in the surrounded by a current of contemporary literature loaded From the Tempest, which is blank to Lord Campbell, whole nation talked about feoffees. Shakespeare lived also his help being required at home. Other men have dis- phrase "that he in lieu of the premises of homage." with pedantic parallels. Metaphor and simile derived from covered that he was, in those years, woolstapler, butcher, In Richard III, another blank, Mr Rushton found a law and science was his common diet when he read the schoolmaster, attorney's clerk. Lord Campbell argues that phrase of Chancery bills: "Humbly complaining to your publications of his day. Moreover, Shakespeare was a man Shakespeare could not have been a schoolmaster because highness." he has but three schoolmasters in all his plays, and those Lord Campbell, Mr Rushton found three law phrases, and cerned himself about matters of tithes, bought house and land, In Pericles of Tyre, which yielded nothing to of business who took pains to acquire a competence, conin King Henry VIII, his lordship overlooked so capital and had practical experience of the observances of munipation in which it is well possible to imagine that Shakespeare could a bit of evidence as Shakespeare's use of the legal phrases cipal law. Especially, however, let us remember that in be engaged during the period we are considering that of an attor- in a writ of Præmunire. We extract from Mr Rushton's Shakespeare we have a Poet who must have been gifted Crack the lawyer's voice passes over the talk of Richard II about land possessed in His lordship in a prefatory letter treats of Shakespeare hand sealing it. York's distinction drawn in the same play His lordship in a prefatory letter treats of Shakespeare reversion, Bolingbroke's heart making a covenant and his generally; his main purpose being to call attention to the period between his removal from school and his settlement by the phrase "his charters and his customary rights" with in London, which is in Shakespeare's life the pleasure- the further knowledge of law in the lines: ground of the ingenious theorist. As to the employment of this time, the first statement seems to be the best. Rowe tells us that the young poet, in consequence of the narrow ridiculous. He then at once adds, By the process of exhaustion, I now arrive at the only other occu Call in the letters patent that he hath, ney's clerk-first suggested by Chalmers, and since countenanced by little pamphlet Malone, yourself, and others, whose opinions are entitled to high SUFFOLK. "Lord Cardinal, the King's further pleasure is, respect, but impugned by nearly an equal number of biographers and critics of almost equal authority-without any one, on either side, having as yet discussed the question very elaborately. His lordship goes on to support this argument by showing that there were attorneys at Stratford, and that Burke eloquently descants upon the improvement of the mental faculties by juridical studies; and Warburton, Chatterton, Pitt the Because all those things you have done of late with an accuracy and completeness of perception such as mortal man never before had and perhaps never will bave again, who sounded depths and threaded intricacies of the human heart, who allied his intellect to the great mysteries of nature, and solved problems of philosophy that we are only now interpreting. Remembering this, let us ask ourselves whether it was impossible for an observant man with Shakespeare's intellect to pick up the meaning of a score of legal phrases and make occasional use of such words as seal, younger, Canning, Disraeli, and Lord Macaulay are a few out of A Præmunire (so called from the words of the writ Præmunire facias, many instances which might be cited of men of brilliant intellectual or Præmoneri facias, signifying the writ and the offence on which bond, and indenture, without having had it all dinned into career who had early become familiar with the elements of jurispru- the writ is grounded) is an offence whereby one shall incur the same him during a six years' service under an attorney. punishment which is inflicted upon those who trangress the 16th Lord Campbell has no doubt that when Shakespeare was Richard II, chap. 5, commonly called the Statute of Præmunire, twenty-three years old, "like our Scottish BURNS, his mind which enacts that "If any purchase or pursue, or cause to be pur- The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Edited "must have been richly cultivated, and that he had laid uption, process, sentence of excommunication, bulls, instruments, &c., chased or pursued in the Court of Rome, or elsewhere, any translaby Peter Cunningham. Now first Chronologically "a vast stock of valuable knowledge and of poetical imagery which touch the King, or if any do bring them within the realm, or Arranged. In nine volumes. Vol. IX. Bentley. "gained from books, from social intercourse, and from the receive them, they shall be put out of the King's protection, and their Mr Cunningham completes in this volume his standard survey of nature." The parallel with Burns, however, lands, tenements, goods, and chattels forfeited to the King." edition of the Letters of Horace Walpole. In it the letters does not seem to his lordship to throw so much light We attach no weight to these citations, and call attention formerly collected are arranged in the best manner, illusupon Shakespeare's character as a comparison of him with to them for the simple purpose of observing that while the trated with the best of the old notes and many new ones. Doctor Johnson. Shakespeare was educated at a grammar unpretending pamphlet of the Liverpool attorney published Thirty-five of Walpole's letters printed in other books, but school. "Samuel Johnson said that he acquired little at several months ago contains every passage found by Lord not hitherto included in the collection, are now referred to "Oxford beyond what he had brought away with him from Campbell except some insignificant expressions, the quota- their places in the series, and one hundred and seventeen "Lichfield Grammar School, where he had been taught, tion of which tends only to weaken the whole argument, letters are in these volumes for the first time printed. "like Shakespeare, as the son of a burgess." Might that little pamphlet also contains evidence which the Chief Many of the new letters are short and trivial, but there are Shakespeare have been a schoolmaster? There is one fact Justice has been unable to discover. There are not only none wholly without significance, and many are of considerable tending to encourage the opinion that he might have been. these passages from plays in which Lord Campbell found interest. In a preface to the volume which completes his "Being a schoolmaster in the country for some years (as nothing, but there are some additional passages drawn from undertaking the editor acknowledges the assistance he has "Samuel Johnson certainly was) his mental cultivation, &c." the plays that his lordship cites. Also that "grouping the received from possessors of unpublished correspondence to But once there is a failure in the parallel, for Lord Camp-extracts which Lord Campbell "thought of" and "found which he has had free access, the Duke of Manchester, the bell acknowledges concerning Shakespeare, "I do not impracticable" was found practicable by Mr Rushton. Countess of Waldegrave, the late Mr Croker, Mr Forster, "imagine that when he went up to London he carried a That gentleman's argument, indeed, acquires much greater and Mr Bedford. He also briefly sums up his own esti"Tragedy in his pocket to be offered for the stage, as force by the cumulation of phrases in each class of law mate of the letters themselves and their writer. แ London dislike,, was his favourite drink. The scent of the dinner was Horace Walpole's was, according to his own estimate, "a hands as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm; knees bent, "life of letter-writing," and Mr Cunningham reminds us of and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His summer dress of his saying that his letters are to be looked upon "in their aimel ver, usually a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour, partridge silk "proper character of newspapers." There is an essential stockings, gold buckles, ruffles and lace frill. In winter he wore truth in that suggestion. Among the greater social changes powder. He disliked hats, and in his grounds at Strawberry would consequent on the development of public journalism there is even in winter walk without one. The same antipathy, Cole tells none more certain and complete than the extinction of the us, extended to a great coat. art of letter-writing. Any man who should in these days by a fat and favourite little dog, the legacy of Madame du Deffand; His appearance at the breakfast-table was proclaimed, and attended, jot down, as Walpole did, the points of a clever letter to a the dog and a favourite squirrel partook of his breakfast. He dined generally at four."I am," he writes in 1789, "30 friend, and then sit down elaborately to compose his epistle, would only get credit for the unusual pains he took to make antiquated as still to dine at four, though frequently prevented, as many are so good as to call on me at that hour, because it is too soon himself ridiculous. All the public news we care for, or for them to go home and dress so early in the morning." His dinner believe in, is laid daily in legible type on our breakfast- when at home was of chicken, pheasant, or any light food, of which tables. Of the letters that we find beside the newspaper he eat sparingly. Pastry he disliked, as difficult of digestion, each comes with its distinct private purpose, fulfils that though he would taste a morsel of venison pie. Iced water, then a purpose, and does nothing more. The foundation on which removed by a censer or pot of frankincense. Horace Walpole thought that letters should especially be built was a pleasant union of intelligence with tattle. "Nothing," he says, "is so pleasant in a letter as the "occurrences of society." But here again the public journalist lays waste the province of the private correspondent. The newspaper does not indeed in our day often supply its readers with the small-talk upon men of note that once gave much of its relish to a letter. The taste for such gossip in letters still existed when some years ago our newspapers supplied it, but has been almost extinguished by the development of journalism into a maturer life. It is now a system by which the nation takes into discussion and discasses earnestly and deeply the essential principles concerned in the events of the day's history. The habit of participating in what really is a philosophical as well as practical discussion of contemporary history grows upon the nation with the healthy growth of a free press, and with this habit the old relish for tattle is no longer compatible. The complete art of letter-writing is now therefore a study mouldering beside the dialectics of the middle ages. It was a true art in Horace Walpole's day, and Walpole was a master in the art. There is absolute certainty that these letters will not be rivalled by anything of the same kind hereafter to be written in English, or indeed in any other language. In their very nature as in their details they are a lively illustration of a bygone time. The wine that was drunk was drunk during dinner. After his he said, "the Castle of Otranto' in eight days, or rather nights: thanks to Mr Cunningham for the care he has taken to Index.. Lenox-Conyngham. Longman and Co. Mr Cunningham is strongly inclined to believe that Hora Poetica: Lyrical and other Poems. By Mrs George ten at divers times in divers moods, by an acccomplished child that Sir Robert had by his wife; in every respect he was unlike Thus when she tells a ghost story, and for a poetical And yet it had some beauty; the beauty of a fiend Triumphant, to the bedside of the youngest and the last; She had no power to call out, being struck dumb by the shock; In the poems of the Fair Rosalie and of the Spinning Spectre there are other excellent examples of the author's skill in expression of the supernatural, which is so much the greater because she makes no effort to be more than natural in her way of expression. The same truth of expression gives its certainty to the effect of nearly all the other poems; whether narrative, didactic, sentimental, or satirical, they are the thoughts of a well-disciplined and sensitive mind taking exactly their own shape in rhyme, affecting no false elevation, and descending to no mock familiarity, always exactly natural in sequence, all of them also consistent with each other. Whoever speaks or writes in this fashion pleases with ease, and whatever gain is in this way made of credit or good-will is a secure and permanent possession. Of the shorter pieces in the volume we quote one that is not better or worse than the rest. In days gone by, alas! we two O'er one, but chilled the other heart. Or joy or sorrow at thy name? I neither love nor hate thee now; I care not where thou dwellest-thou, I know not how the change was wrought, Sometimes I try to conjure back He has not trod for many a day. Recur, and bring old thoughts of thee, Glances across a frozen sea. Sympathies with the true and noble, strains of high coun sel and pure aspiration abound in the book. In the heart a Walpole, and in every respect, figure and formation of mind, very ghost story her relish is obviously keen, Mrs Lenox-of it we find the religion that it thus defines. like a Hervey. Lady Mary Wortley divided mankind into men, com women, and Herveys, and the division has been generally accepted. Conyngham avoids all artificial stimulants for Horace hated Norfolk, the native county of his father, and delighted the glory departed with his father. "I saw Houghton," writes his friend Lady Hervey, "the most triste, melancholy place I ever beheld : 'tis a heavy ugly black building, with an ugly black stone." Fare ye well! When next ye rest, Horace's two brothers were as little to his liking; the eldest, heir Each prayed that she might be the victim, and that the common. We add Mr Cunningham's personal sketch of his hero, That evening, close and tenderly they all together clung; drawn from a collection of the hints derived from sundry But not a laugh was laughed, and not a song was sung. Sources. And sometimes they imagined the tapers burned quite blue; His walk, for more than half his life, was enfeebled by the gout; So, they went to bed, reluctantly, and soon fell fast asleep. & M8. memoir now before me) "of a tender delicate constitution and It showed the sleeping sisters, as they lay there like shut flowers, at Eton, when in the fifth form, I presumed to make English verses And it showed besides an outline, at first shadowy and dim ; To be the thing we seem; To walk in faith, nor dream Our hearts to measure: To trust, although deceived; To pardon when aggrieved; With love no wrongs can chill, The weak from falling: Mrs Lenox-Conyngham has not, indeed, added or designed to add another book of Poems to our standard literature, but she has given us a genuine work, cheerful and earnest, which though a book of rhyme, is in truth more reasonable and entertaining than the greater portion of the prose which is accepted for light reading in the present day Eminent Men and Popular Books. From the Times. This is a cheap reprint of some of the critical essays which have appeared in the Times during the last three or four years. The essays discuss some of the chief literary topics raised by publications of the day; they treat of Mr Macaulay's History, Mr Thackeray's Sketches, Mr Kingsley, Mrs Stowe, Miss Bronte, Moore's Memoirs, the Career of George Stephenson, and the views upon England propounded three years ago by the Comte de Montalembert, in his book, De l'Avenir de l'Angleterre, a book to which the Englishman now turns with a fresh interest. Upon such topics, about which every man can say something, the writer of these essays provides commentaries that are as much narrative as critical, at all times sensible, and often subtle in discrimination, cunningly enriched with anecdote, and built on no shallow foundation of sound knowledge. Essays like] these collected into volumes for the million serve the interests of literature by helping to increase the number and to educate the wit of sensible and healthy readers. Warfare and Work, or Life's Progress. By Cycla, ་ This is the title of a very attractive little volume, treating much of school-boy life, and addressed to the consideration of youthful readers. But among the incidents that teach what schoolboys should shun and what pursue, there is interwoven the story of a well-born child, stolen from its mother at an early age, and brought up in extremest poverty, whose quiet resignation and earnest piety are described with a pathos and simplicity that must interest. all classes of readers. The work is calculated to render service to the rising generation. THE BURNS COMMEMORATION AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. This long-expected event came off on the 25th inst., the centenary anniversary of the Scottish poet's birth, and upwards of 14,000 per. sons assembled at the Crystal Palace to commemorate it. Soon after the doors were thrown open visitors began to arrive in considerable numbers; and long before the hour appointed for commencement the trains, both from Pimlico and London bridge, were pouring in their hundreds without cessation. Nevertheless the Palace was by no means inconveniently crowded when the first part of the entertainment took place; though the shouts of satisfaction which hailed the uncovering of the Bust, and the " Court of Relics," were something to remember. The Bust (modelled and executed by W. Calder Marshall, R.A.), was elevated on a pedestal in the centre of the "Court of Relics," and in front of the Handel Festival orchestra. The interval between the ceremony of unveiling and the time for the concert to begin was busily employed in examining the various objects of interest which had been industriously brought together for the occasion. Among these were the Nasmyth, Taylor, David Allen, and Stewart Watson portraits; the desk at which Tam O'Shanter was written; a variety of manuscripts, including, among the rest, that of the famous war-song, "Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled;" a lock of the poet's hair (" Bonny Jean"); a silver snuff-box, made out of a Charles I ten-shilling piece, &c. The most unremitting attention, however, seemed to be attracted by the autographs; and the glasscases in which they were deposited were at all times difficult to approach. Meanwhile the band of the Caledonian Asylum, the band of the Scots Fusileer Guards, and the pipers of the same regiment alternately played spirited medleys, composed of well-known Scottish tunes. In another part of the building (the lecture-room) the poem of Tam O'Shanter was recited at appointed intervals to overflowing, but attentive audiences, the principal "situations" being illustrated by dissolving views photographed from the subjects by Mr Faed, R.S.A. This was decidedly one of the most popular incidents of the day, so much so, indeed, that scarcely more than a third of those who were desirous of attending the recitals could at any period obtain admission. Lastly, the military bands, after playing in the great Handel orchestra, repaired to the galleries above the proscenium erected for the Italian opera concerts; and from that elevated point their strident harmony was heard reverberating through the edifice in a well-varied series of performances, terminating with God save the Queen.' At two p.m. the concert began, and (says the Times correspondent) this feature in the day's amusements must, in strict justice, be condemned as utterly unworthy the Crystal Palace and the occasion. We forbear, consequently, from entering into the details thus stigmatised, and proceed to the event of the day-the opening of the sealed envelope containing the name of the author of the Prize Poem. Breathless was the attention with which the short preliminary address of Mr Phelps was listened to. The popular tragedian, with lungs of Stentor, said: "I am requested to break this seal, and to announce the name of the author of the poem I am about to read to you." Everybody understood what was to follow; and, in order to elicit the desired attention, there was no necessity whatever for hanging out that large red cloth over the balustrade of the orchestra, with the word "Silence" inscribed upon it in staring white capitals. Mr Phelps deliberately broke the seal, and as deliberately pronounced the name of "Isa Craig"--a communication hailed with reiterated plaudits. Mr Phelps then declaimed the following ODE ON THE CENTENARY OF BURNS. "To Nature's feast,- "Of a love warble, from the linnet's throat. "The array for battle, and the trumpet blows. "Grim gathering host of sorrows and of sins- "And Fame her trumpet blew "Though he may yield "His regal vestments soil'd; "His crown of half its jewels spoil'd; "He is a King for all. "Had he but stood aloof! "Had he array'd himself in armour proof "So yearn the good ;-so those the world calls wise, "Of martyr-woe "A sacred shadow on his memory rests; "It might not be ! "That heart of harmony "Its silver chords, which any hand could wound, "Save by the Maker of the instrument, "And from profaning touch His heavenly gift withdrew. "Regretful love "His country fain would prove, "That He so little at her hands can claim, "To her his life-bought gift of song and fame. "Hath now become a place of pilgrimage; "The hoary hawthorn, wreath'd University, R. Dalglish, Esq., M.P.; J. Tennant, Esq. of St Rollox; The Scottish newspapers have been filled with accounts of the FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS. FRANCE. RELATIONS WITH SARDINIA.-The Moniteur of Monday contains the following: "The intimate relations, which have for a long time existed between the Emperor of the French and the King of Sardinia, and the mutual interests of France and Piedmont, have induced the sovereigns of the two countries to draw closer, by a family alliance, the ties which unite them. For more than a year, negotiations with this object in view have been carried on, but the youth of the princess delayed the fixing of the period of the marriage until now. Yesterday General Niel officially demanded the hand of the Princess Clotilda in marriage with Prince Napoleon. The King gave his consent, and the ceremony will shortly take place at Turin." The Moniteur also "The Union contradicts a current rumour in the following terms: has not scrupled to republish the following lines of the Independance Belge: It is affirmed that King Victor Emmanuel only consented to the marriage of the Princess Clotilda with Prince Napoleon on the condition that an offensive and defensive treaty should be signed between France and Sardinia. It is added that this treaty was signed the day before yesterday.' We regret to have to point out and contradict such an assertion in the columns of a French newspaper, not less because the statement is completely false than because it is insulting to the dignity of the two Sovereigns. The Emperor must desire that his family alliances should accord with the traditional policy of France; but he will never make the great interests of the country depend upon a family alliance."—In this paragraph, says the Paris correspondent of the Times, there is no denial of the fact of the treaty. It is interpreted rather as a confirmation of the statement that such an instrument really exists, and probably was signed at the same time with the formal acceptance of the demand in marriage. Many persons who doubted before seem now to be convinced of it. The Moniteur may talk as much political sentiment as it pleases, but no one believes that the "consideration" for a matrimonial alliance between the house of Savoy and the Bonaparte family is not very great. On the same subject the Paris correspondent of the Daily News observes: "The oracular words of the Moniteur have naturally been very closely scanned, and the observation is in every mouth that they do not deny the existence of a treaty offensive and defensive between France and Sardinia, but merely that such a treaty was the price of the marriage. The scornful reproof administered to the Union for citing the paragraph from the Indépendance Belge does not, therefore, touch the real point which excites public anxiety. Nobody doubts that the negotiations for the marriage have been conducted with sufficient skill to save appearances as much as possible." PEACE OR WAR?-The pour et contre on the war question continues to divide public opinion, but the general impression in Paris remains unfavourable to the continuance of peace. Considerable sensation was created at Marseilles on Thursday week by an announcement that the Minister of Marine would receive sealed proposals on the 25th inst. at the Navy-office in Marseilles for the supply of 50,000 kilogrammes of wheaten flour, 50,000 kilogrammes of rye flour, 20,000 litres of vinegar, and 195,000 litres of red wine de Campagne. This announcement caused the greater surprise as a large contract had been concluded a few days since at Toulon by the Minister of Marine for the supply of similar articles. Letters received from Marseilles during the present week continue to speak of preparations for war; 1,200 mules have been lately purchased, and thirtyfive new storehouses are ordered to be built. The Journal de Cherbourg contains the following news: "The Minister of Marine has just informed the authorities of this port that the necessities of the service require that the line ships Arcole, Alexandre, and Donawerth should join the Mediterranean squadron as soon as possible. These three vessels will accordingly leave Cherbourg almost immediately. The steam frigate Sané, now completely armed, is coaling, and will probably sail for Toulon at the end of the week. The fast-sailing steam frigate La Souveraine is actively arming. It is also said that the mixed vessel St Louis is to be armed.- -Leading articles in the Siecle and the Débats have excited an unusual degree of attention. In the first-named journal M. Havin, the political director, while uttering a faint hope that diplomacy will be powerful enough to avoid war, expresses a clear opinion that if Austria will not voluntarily give up her Italian provinces France must drive her out of them, and he undertakes to guarantee the enthusiastic approval by all fractions of the democratic party of a war for such a purpose. In the Débats M. de Sacy, one of the most experienced editors, reviews at undoubtedly "Miss Craig, the successful competitor for this prize and poetical length the various circumstances which constitute an distinction, is a young Scotchwoman-a native of Edinburgh, and for complicated situation," and while strongly advocating a congress, two years past resident in London. Early left an orphan, she was concludes by an emphatic denial of the assertion that if war should reared and educated under the care of a grandmother not in affluent be necessary, it would fear or regret the success of the French arms circumstances. With praiseworthy industry, and self-cultivation of under the Imperial flag. The Presse warmly approves of the above her intellectual powers, she early resolved to work out her own articles, and evidently considers them as a confirmation of its own pecuniary independence. By occasional poetical contributions to the belief that war is inevitable. As to a congress, the Presse considers that Edinburgh Scotsman she gained the notice and kindness of Mr John it would only" postpone a difficulty which would soon revive, under Ritchie, the oldest and principal proprietor of that journal, and for more embarrassing and terrible circumstances." It also ridicules the some years she was employed by this early patron and friend on its idea of Austria consenting, without a fight, to withdraw her troops literary department. In 1856 Messrs Blackwood published in a small from Lombardy on the condition of placing the "iron crown" on the volume a collection of Miss Craig's fugitive metrical compositions, head of the Archduke Maximilian. under the title of "Poems by Isa." The author has also been a con- PROPOSED CONGRESS ON THE ITALIAN DIFFICULTY.-The Indétributor under the signature of "C." to the poetry of the National pendance Belge of Wednesday evening publishes a statement to the Magazine. In August, 1857, on Miss Craig's first visit to a London effect that the British Cabinet has addressed the French, Austrian, friend, Mr Hastings, the hon. secretary of the National Association and other Governments, with the object of reviving a project proof Social Science, engaged her services in the organisation of the posed by Austria herself in 1848 to Lord Palmerston for satisfying society, and to this association Miss Craig is still attached as a the requirements of the Italians. The scheme establishes the admiliterary assistant. The published transactions of the association owe nistrative separation of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces from the much to her talent and good judgment. At the Liverpool meeting other parts of the monarchy, and in consideration of certain financial in October last Miss Craig attracted general notice and commendation conditions, assures them a quasi independence and self-governby her unobtrusive conduct and tact in the management of some ment based upon constitutional principles. The Indépendance adds departments of the business. Miss Craig was absent at the Crystal that Russia and France are willing to accede to this proposal; but a Palace meeting, really ignorant of the success of her literary com-reply has not, as yet, been received from Vienna. The following are petition and of the award of the judges. It had happened that she the comments of the Paris correspondent of the Indépendance, on the had not seen the mottoes on the successful peom made public some foregoing information: "In this condition of affairs a possibility of days since. The chances of a young Scotchwoman against 621 peace is left open to us, since, if Austria agrees altogether and commale and female competitors did not tempt her to attend the adjudica-pletely to this proposal, all fears of war for the ensuing spring are tion, and she was not informed of her success till late after the termi-dissipated as by enchantment. It is true that Austria, while unwilling nation of the meeting at Sydenham Palace." to keep under her direct and absolute dominion populations so hostile "The arch blue eyes,- "Of Scotland's daughters, soften at his strains; "And sister-lands have learn'd to love the tongue a "For doth not song, "To the whole world belong? Is it not given wherever tears can fall A demand was then made for the successful candidate to appear, but The commemoration ended with another concert, all the songs to her authority as those of Lombardy and the Venetian provinces, being the most popular productions of the Scottish bard, and thus. and unable to do so without the most determined measures and the says the Times,ended the Centenary celebration of the birth of most rigorous system of oppression, cannot at the same time easily Robert Burns." The Times adds:A curious comment on the reconcile herself to the idea of renouncing possession of her beautiful proceedings of the day is contained in the following, which was con- transalpine provinces. Again in presence of the growing opposition fided to us by some one wholly unconnected with the Crystal Palace of so many powers, the Court of Vienna will seriously reflect upon in general or the Burns Festival in particular:-Subscriptions for the consequences of, before engaging in, a war in which she will enMrs Thomson, Pollockshaws, the only surviving danghter of Robert counter France and Piedmont as adversaries fighting against her, Burns. A committee of gentlemen, comprising the Principal of the with, in a great measure, the consent of Europe. The fact of such months." conference being proposed by diplomatists is one of the highest impor-address in reply to the speech from the throne, his Majesty announced Orleans. The joint resolution, reported to the Senate by Mr Mason, tance, since, if the question is answered in one way, peace is at once the approaching marriage of his daughter to Prince Napoleon, and recites that by reason of the distracted and revolutionary condition of obtained; and, if in the other, if Austria considers it inconsistent said that he hoped the alliance would be a source of prosperity in Mexico, of certain of the States of Central America, and occasionally with her dignity to submit at once and without a struggle to the loss future eventualities. To the deputation from the Chamber of Depu- of those in South America, the lives and property of American citi of some of the finest districts in her possession, the question is con- ties, his Majesty observed that the year had commenced well, and he zens are subject to lawless violence, or otherwise placed in peril; siderably narrowed, and all fear of a coalition against France disap- added: "I have confidence that it will so continue, and that it will all redress in the usual diplomatic forms being in vain; and, it being pears. The French army fighting in favour of an order of things in terminate better still, and I do not doubt the support of the Chamber the indisputable duty of the Government to protect the lives and Italy in complete accordance with the wishes and wants of that in all the necessities that may arise." M. Ratazzi replied that he property of our citizens against lawless violence, therefore it is procountry, will cross the Alps with the consent and approbation of believed he was interpreting the feeling of the Chamber and of the posed to authorise the President to use the military and naval forces, England and Russia. A negotiation of this kind therefore will country in congratulating his Majesty upon the alliance; "I hope," and interpose in such cases where he may deem it necessary.-A reduce the difficulty to two distinct alternatives-peace if Austria he said, "that it will be propitious for the Royal Dynasty, the revolution at the capital of Mexico, which resulted in the overthrow consents to the proposals made by the Cabinet of St James, or war country, and Italy." of Zuloaga, took place on the 23rd ult. General Echegaray, a partisan certain, but war confined to Italy, and made with the consent of THE ITALIAN QUESTION.--The Vienna Gazette has published a of General Robles, and who had been joined by the Constitutionalists Europe, for the attainment of a specific object. The statesmen of remarkable article on the Italian question. It purports to be non- of Jalapa and Cordova, advanced upon the city. Zuloaga tried to comEngland have been induced to adopt this course by the knowledge official; but the editor of the Gazette announces that he received it promise with Echegaray, but failed, and was afterwards captured and that the intentions of the Emperor are very decided, and that they from the hand of a most honourable person. Here is an extract sentenced to death at Puebla, but a revolt in the city of Mexico saved will soon be followed by deeds. They know that France has been declaring the views and opinions of the Austrian Government: him. General Robles had released all political prisoners, and it was concentrating troops in Algeria, which only await orders to embark," Austria does not desire to deprive any Italian prince of a single supposed that Juarez would be placed at the head of the Government. before proceeding to reinforce the garrison in Rome; that force could inch of territory, or of any right of sovereignty. She only wishes All parties, including the Liberal, were rejoicing at Vera Cruz at the very easily be concentrated in the south between the Alps and to preserve her own country and her own right; but, in order to do turn affairs had taken. Toulon; that the Government is not granting any more leave of that, she cannot suffer any foreign influence, any foreign excitement THE RECALL OF LORD NAPIER.-A Boston newspaper publishes a absence; that continuous leave is not being renewed, and that the in the country, any violation of her good right. The Emperor and letter received, it says, "from a source which gives additional imMinister of War has been buying horses, and has just issued a signi- peoples of Austria would have the courage and strength to repel such portance to its statements, as the writer speaks of that which he is in ficant order for the purchase of 1,200 mules, to be collected in three a violation without being frightened. A war would be a great mis- a position to know." We make the following extracts:-"London, fortune for Austria and Europe. The Emperor and people of Austria 10th December, 1858.-The sudden recall of a British minister is an THE EMPEROR'S MONEY-MATTERS.-A lawsuit of no ordinary in- do not desire it; but were it inevitable, we should show to the world event of so rare occurrence that it cannot pass without its motives terest is expected to occupy the attention of one of the civil courts that young Austria, as formerly old Austria, is capable of a serious being fully canvassed. That of Lord Napier has attracted much next week. All the money-lenders of London will remember that struggle, and is ready to make it. No one will pretend that Austria attention here, in diplomatic and parliamentary circles. When its some twelve years ago Prince Louis Napoleon, when desperately in 1809 was stronger than she is now, and yet Austria, perfectly cause and its consequences are fully understood in the United States, hard up, was continually endeavouring to raise the wind upon a isolated then, rose with courage, strength, and glory against the it will be a source of real gratification to every lover of the American mortgage of alleged claims upon the French Government in respect greatest warrior in the world. For the rest we are convinced that Union, and to every true lover of mankind; for it removes all doubt of the property of his mother, Queen Hortense. Prospectuses setting this rumour of war will disappear as quickly as it came. It has not as to the position which the British Government intends to hold forth his title to countless millions, which he offered to the public in been unattended by any result. We do not speak of the panic on towards the friends of disunion and the extenders of slavery in the shares of convenient amount, were profusely circulated, but met with Exchanges, which has been merely an act of public opinion in United States." After some observations of a retrospective character, small favour from the monied interest, either in Houndsditch or Europe, but of the general movement that has been manifested the letter goes on to say that "British travellers, returning from the elsewhere. It is, however, now stated by MM. de Cock and Ter- throughout Germany. This movement proves the feeling there, that United States, have spoken with much feeling of the language and wangue, bankers, of Antwerp, plaintiffs in an action brought against in shaking the right on which repose the frontiers of Germany as well course of Lord Napier at Washington-of the adoption by him, in his Majesty Napoleon III in his own courts, that, in 1847, one M. as those of Austria, it was for the power and might of Germany to speaking of the republicans, of the low slang of the Southern members Aristide Ferrère obtained from Prince Napoleon, for valuable consi- enter the lists with Austria in defence of this right." Notwithstand--and of the almost offensive manner in which he made himself the deration, an assignment of all his (the prince's) rights and credits ing the passage above cited respecting the discontinuance of warlike gratuitous advocate of the Lecompton Constitution, and necessarily, against the French Government, as the representative of Queen Hor- rumours, the Vienna correspondent of the Times says: "A letter from therefore, the upholder of the fraud and violence in which it was tense, his mother. Pursuant to this assignment, title deeds valued a personage for a long time past officially resident at Vienna speaks conceived. This last fact has caused deep, and, I believe, universal at 10,000,000 fr. were deposited with M. de Prima, a French notary of war as being a mere question of time, and all but inevitable sooner regret, and has led in high quarters to expressions even of indignation. in London. M. A. Ferrère, in order to render his security readily or later. He says that such is the opinion of the Vienna Cabinet; that Lord Napier has found able friends to sustain him in his course, they negotiable, divided the ten millions into 100 shares, of 100,000 fr. Austria has made up her mind and is preparing seriously for it; that asserting that he has only followed the popular current and taken each. Two of these shares were deposited with the plaintiffs by way she will not begin; but that she will not allow herself to be intimi- the strong side. That the one, all-controlling policy of the present of mortgage, for money owing to them by Ferrère. Ferrère has dated by the threats or demonstrations of France." American Government, is that of slavery extension, and that as a never paid his debt, and now Messrs Cock and Terwangue, availing DEFENSIVE PREPARATIONS IN LOMBARDY.-The following are minister, seeking to maintain friendly relations with that government, themselves of the French law, which allows the sovereign to be sued extracts from a letter, dated Milan, Jan. 21: "Within the last few it was expedient in him to flatter that policy. To this the reply has in the civil courts, like any other citizen, bring their action. One days 30,000 fresh troops, of whom one regiment only was German, been:-that it was all very well for a British Minister to court the difficulty in their way is that, in 1852, the Prince President when he and the remainder Hungarians and Selavonians, have arrived in Lom- government to which he was accredited, provided, in so doing, he did confiscated the property of the Orleans family declared in the Moni-bardy, accompanied by powerful trains of artillery, and abundant not misrepresent his own country by sacrificing any of the great teur that he would release the State from all his claims to his munition of war. The journey of the troops and stores was performed principles which it cherished; that the crimes in Kanzas were of so mother's fortune. The plaintiffs contend that this release cannot be by rail, and the entire distance between Vienna and Milan was atrocious a nature that no British Minister could in any way become binding upon them as purchasers for a valuable consideration; but accomplished in seventy hours. The men, whose bearing and ap- their apologist, without degrading his own government; and one that, at all events, the Emperor having cancelled the shares which pearance could not be better, have been quartered on the towns and distinguished statesman-himself a maker and unmaker of ministers were negotiated with his sanction and privity, is personally liable to on the frontiers of Piedmont and Switzerland. In Milan no instance-declared that in the whole course of British diplomacy no parallel them. On the other hand, the validity of the assignment to Ferrère has occurred of soldiers being billeted in private houses. The could be found for the conduct of Lord Napier; that to find one it is contested by the Emperor. strictest discipline is maintained, and no cause for complaint has been was necessary to suppose a case-and that his course in regard to ABANDONMENT OF THE FREE IMMIGRANT SCHEME.-The Moni- given. The officers keep aloof from the populace, and endure with the Kanzas atrocity was, as if Walsingham, the Ambassador of teur de la Colonisation contains a Ministerial decree of Prince stoic indifference the marks of hatred and contempt manifested Elizabeth in Paris at the time of the St Bartholomew massacre, also Napoleon, dated Jan. 6, prohibiting all recruiting of immigrants on towards them. The detached fort at Milan called Portatoja, which a measure of court policy, had, instead of making his hotel a place of the eastern coast of Africa and Madagascar. was built in 1848, and overlooks the railway from Venice, has been refuge for the Protestants, gone about visiting the leaders of the MISCELLANEOUS FACTS.-The Moniteur of Thursday contains the mounted with cannon. The flotilla on the Lago Maggiore has also assassins, hobnobbing with them, and jeeringly telling the victims following: "The men-of-war Napoleon and Algesiras, and the fri-been assembled, and the Castle of Laveno, which was in a ruinous whom he met that it was after all but a small matter to have their gate Impetueuse departed on the 26th of January from Toulon for condition, has been fortified. Besides this there is a report afloat throats cut. The recall of Lord Napier will, it is believed, show Genoa." The vessels are probably intended to accompany Prince that the Emperor of Austria intends to repair in person to Lombardy that the British government has no part with those who are seeking Napoleon and his bride.—In addition to Mdme la Roucière le in order to place himself at the head of his army." to break up the American Union-that it wishes, as the British Nourry, as lady of honour to the Princess Clotilda, Mdme Niel is ENGLAND AND ITALY.-According to a letter from Turin, England people do, to see that Union prosperous and happy, and that its spoken of for a similar post. The grand mistress of the new imperial has despatched two diplomatic notes on the present situation-one to sympathies are with the men of pure character and noble views, who princess's household will be, it is said, the Duchess de Padoue.. Sardinia the other to Austria. The Turin correspondent writes: " I are labouring to revive the sound doctrines of Washington, Jefferson, Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte has been named member of the St believe I can confidently announce to you the despatch of two diplo- and Franklin upon the question of slavery, and to emancipate their Petersburg Academy of Sciences.- -A French political offender, matic notes, both of them by your Government. One was sent to country from the slave-holding minority which has so long excluexiled to Cayenne, who escaped six months ago, was on Saturday Austria, the other to Piedmont. In this second note, it is said, that sively controlled its policy." arrested in a coffee-house at Brussels, on the charge of bearing a as the sincere ally of Sardinia England feels it her duty to divert her false name. -M. Roger de Beauvoir, the well-known poet and from the dangerous path she seems willing to follow. She reminds dramatic author, and M. Bache, the actor, have been acquitted by the Piedmont, amongst other things, that her true and noble task in Italy Court of Correctional Appeals of a charge of having conspired to is to exalt and improve the other Italian Governments by the efficacy represent M. Bache as a police-agent, for the purpose of extorting a of her own example. Lord Malmesbury's other note, to the Count signature to a deed from Mdme Doze, M. R. de Beauvoir's mother-Buol, is a warm exhortation to the Imperial Government to remedy in-law. The court below had found them guilty, and sentenced M. the serious grievances of Italy, thus destroying the causes and prede Beauvoir to one year's and M. Bache to three months' imprison- texts of the threatened war. I think I can affirm with accuracy AFFAIRS OF ITALY. ment. that specialities are not entered into, unless it be concerning the THE SARDINIAN MARRIAGE.-On Sunday last, at noon, after mass INDIA AND CHINA.-The India and China mails reached Suez on the 14th inst., with dates from Calcutta to Dec. 23; Madras, Dec. 28; Galle, Dec. 31; Hongkong, Dec. 15; Shanghae, Dec. 16; Aden, Jan. 8. In addition to the news received last week we learn that the force of Feroze Shah was again dispersed on the 23rd of Dec. by troops from Poonah. Nana Sahib was reported at Churdah, in Oude, with 1,500 men. Two Rajahs with him have solicited Government for protection when they may be able to escape. Their messenger also appeals an behalf of the Nana himself for clemency to his family.Nothing authentic had been heard of Lord Elgin's trip up the Yang-tse-kiang. The Chinese report that the Ambassador's ship exchanged fire with the rebels in passing Moohoo. The Laplace, with Baron Gros on board, got on shore on one of the Chusan Islands, and was towed to Shanghae by her Majesty's ship Inflexible. His Excellency then proceeded to Hongkong by the Aden. Mr Reed, United States Commissioner, returns to America. Canton was quiet. Affairs at Ningpo were bad. An alarming fire occurred in a central part of Hongkong on the 5th December. PROGRESS OF AFFAIRS IN INDIA.-The Calcutta correspondent of the Times writes on the 23rd ult.: "Lord Clyde, by three forced marches, reached the Gogra, at Byram Ghaut, on the 6th, whence Bainic Madhoo, who had taken up a position in the neighbourhood with 10.000 men, somewhat precipitately retired. The chief intended to follow, but the river is 400 yards across, and the Engineers could collect only about half-a-dozen boats. Lord Clyde, therefore, left the panin to the vacant post. Another letter of the 25th says: "The Under-Engineers to prepare a floating bridge, and pushed on for Fyzabad, Secretaries of State, Ziranorick and Nikolich, together with Kneze- where one has been constructed. On the night of the 11th the whole riech, Counsel to the Court of Cassation, and Major Zack, have been force crossed, and by the 14th had arrived in the ruined cantonment banished (proscribirt)." Further dismissals and fresh appointments of Secrora. Thence Lord Clyde pushed for Bareitch, beyond which are expected. place the Begum has fled to Churda, the jungle village in which the Shah, being unwilling to abandon his treasure, and, it is said, his Nana is said to have remained so long. He did not cross with Feroze women. He is reported to be negociating for their safety, but he must be perfectly aware that even in a case like his Englishmen do not hold the family responsible. General Sir H. Grant meanwhile is advancing towards Bulrampore, while Colonel Rowcroft holds a position across the Raptec, and further towards the hills. From Fyzabad to Seetapore the line is held by a regular chain of small corps, behind which movable columns traverse all the territory between Lucknow and Futtehghur. On the other side Mohumdee, Powayne, and Shahjehanpore are held by columns strong enough, if affirmative, and added that he felt proud at his eldest daughter marry- UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.-The America has brought necessary, to assume the offensive. I am told,-and this is the best ing a prince of the Bonaparte family. It is said that the Empress accounts to the 13th. A Bill had been introduced into the Penn- sign of all, better even than the certainty that the Chief will break Eugénie has written a very affectionate letter to the young princess, sylvania Legislature to provide additional means for the extinguish-up the last force in arms in Oude,-that the peasantry beyond the in which she says: You will find in me more than a friend, you ment of the State debt by raising the rate of discount by banks to 7 Gogra show a different spirit from those in the hither division of the will find a mother. These words are said to have deeply affected the per cent., and requiring them to pay over 1 per cent. to the Common-province. They have had quite enough of the rebels, who have princess. She was also much moved when on Thursday last, which wealth. The only business of interest transacted in Congress was the oppressed and squeezed while pretending to defend them. That was was the anniversary of the death of her mother, Queen Marie Ade-passing by the Senate of the French Spoliation Bill by a vote of 20 all very well while plunder was coming in, but for the past six laide, the court having retired to Montcaliers, Prince Napoleon had a to 26. It appropriates 5,000,000 dols, to satisfy the claims of Ameri- months the Begum has succeeded in nothing, and the army lives at mass performed in the chapel royal of Turin for the repose of the can citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the 31st free quarters, and spends nothing. It is said she is treating; and, soul of the Queen, at which he was present with the persons of his of July, 1801. A resolution had been adopted in the House, calling though her requests for terms' will probably be refused, the fact suite. After the service the prince gave a sum of 300fr. to the chap- for all the correspondence of the United States with France and that she saved Englishwomen will not be forgotten. Besides, she is lain to be distributed to the poor." On Sunday the presidents and Great Britain having reference to the cession of Cuba to the United no subject of ours, and has never acknowledged our sovereignty, deputations from the two Chambers had an audience of the King. States. The House of Representatives, for the first time in fifteen On this side the Gogra the rebellion has ceased. The leaders are all After the Marquis of Sostegno, President of the Senate, had read the years, refused to adjourn for the celebration of the battle of New gone, the armies are all defeated, the forts all coming down, and the HEALTH OF LONDON.-It appears from the weekly return of births up. Feroze Shah's rush into the Doab carried him at least out of knowledge, civilisation, and social progress. Can any statesman ima- and deaths in London for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 22, that Oude, and his career, which excited hopes from Allahabad to Agra, gine for a moment that the creation of an Upper Chamber and a Mi- the deaths in the metropolitan districts during the week were again has been summarily cut short. On the 8th he was met by Mr Hume, nistry responsible to the vote of the National Assembly is likely to numerous, though they were not equal to the number produced by the active magistrate of Etawah, who hearing that a faithful native- remove existing difficulties, calm the agitation that has been excited, the high rate of mortality of the previous week. The present return the Zemindar of Hurchundpore was in danger, rode out to his or in any way prevent or defer that demand for union with Greece contains 1,380 deaths, which exceeds the estimated average by 58. assistance. He had only four European officers, 250 foot police, which now occupies the thoughts of the members of the Ionian Par- The deaths from scarlatina and diphtheria are 111, and exhibit a and 150 horsemen, all just raised, and all men who had never seen a liament? If these changes were effected to-morrow, the first act of slight increase on those of the previous week when they were 102. battle. Feroze Shah, quite aware of the British force, stretched his the Legislative Assembly would be to pass by general acclamation a Six of the 111 occurred in the sub-district of Regent's park, 5 in Bow, own cavalry across the route, outflanked Mr Hume, and came down vote in favour of immediate annexation; and how, under such cir- and 5 in St Paul, Deptford. Diphtheria is returned as the cause of from the left at a gallop. Captain Doyle, aware that the police cumstances, could a Ministry so responsible do otherwise than agree death in 22 cases, and 13 of these occurred on the south side of the would be alarmed if surrounded, charged with the Sowars to check to the united wishes of the representatives of the people?" The same river. Four deaths from scarlatina occurred within eighteen days in this advance. He was killed midway, and his followers, who looked writer adds: "Mr Arthur Gordon, who accompanied the mission in a family in Roundtree Cottage, Bow. The registrar states that "the only to him, turned and fled. Twenty-five, however, to his credit as the capacity of Secretary, has just sent in his resignation, on the disease is attributed by the father to a black ditch flowing at the back well as theirs be it spoken, leapt down and fought over Doyle's dead ground, it is said, of a difference of opinion with Mr Gladstone as to of the house. He called the attention of the Poplar District Board of body against tenfold odds, till half their number had been slain. the course he has pursued. This fact is significant, as Mr Gordon Works to the nuisance last summer, but the only answer he received The enemy, encouraged by the flight of the Sowars, now attacked may be fairly supposed to represent the views of Lord Aberdeen, was, that probably the Metropolitan Board of Works would at some the foot police. Five times they charged up to the muzzles of the whose name is even now held in grateful remembrance by the future period bring a sewer near the premises." The number of deaths guns, and five times they were driven back. At last Mr Hume began Greeks."-A telegram from Corfu of the 25th states that Sir J. Young placed to the order of pulmonary diseases is 302, the corrected average moving off towards Hurchundpore, and Feroze Shah threw his last had left the island, and that Mr Gladstone had opened the Ionian of corresponding weeks being 290. Of those bronchitis was fatal in stake. His whole body of cavalry, 1,500 strong, almost all disci- Parliament. 190 cases, the average being 151, while pneumonia (inflammation of plined soldiers, came down on the 250 police. The latter halted, THE CIVIL SERVICE.-At the Audit-office Mr Peter Cunningham, the lungs) was fatal in only 76, the average being 94. Besides these, turned, and received the charge in line with a fire so heavy that the F.S.A, a senior examiner of the first class, is about to retire from the phthisis, which stands in the tubercular order, carried off 176 persons, troopers, thrown into confusion, halted and retired. Next day, the service. In the Law Department Sir W. B. Riddell, Recorder of the average being 150. Smallpox is manifestly increasing, and it was 9th inst., Brigadier Herbert, from Cawnpore, came up with a few Maidstone and Tenterden, has been appointed County Court Judge of fatal in 20 cases, half of which occurred in the east districts. Of five Europeans, Angelo's Horse, and some few more, and pursued the North Staffordshire, Circuit No. 26, in the room of Mr R. G. Temple, persons who had attained the age of 90 years and upwards, the respecflying cavalry to the Jumna. He was just too late. Feroze Shah deceased. The distributorship of stamps for the district of Derby is tive ages were 90, 91, 93, 96, and 100 years. Last week the births got across as he had got across the Gogra and the Ganges, nobody can now vacant. The value of this appointment is nearly 1,000l. per of 928 boys and 923 girls, in all 1,851 children, were registered in tell how, and struck into the regular Mahratta track towards Central annum. Mr Chicheley Plowden has retired from the Board of Con- London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58 the India. He reached Ranode, a place 150 miles S.W. of Calpce, when trol, where he has served upwards of forty years, having been ap- average number was 1,613. The mean temperature of the week was was met by Sir R. Napier from, I believe, Gooriah. He was pointed by the late Mr Canning in 1818. On the changes which took 43.3 deg., which is 6.8. deg. above the average of the same week in compelled to give battle, and in a few minutes was flying, his troops place under the new Indian Act, he was transferred to the secretary- forty-three years. pursued by Hill's 14th Dragoons with immense slaughter, all his ship of the Marine and Transport Department of the India Office. Mr elephants carried off, and his force as a force broken to pieces. The Mason, who was formerly superintendent of the Marine Department remnants are supposed to be moving westward, on Tantia Topee's to the East India Company, succeeds Mr Plowden. track, but we have no further details. The blow saves the columns in Central India, most of which have been overworked and overdriven since October. This clearing of Oude. which will be finished by the arrival was an event quite destitute of political significance (!) his ob15th of January, terminates the campaign. The remaining work, though harassing enough, is strictly police work, and will be accom- Northwick, and the consequent elevation of Colonel Rushout to the secuted on the site of Carthage. The Prince was received very corject being merely to inspect the works of excavation now being pro.. plished more by organization than fighting. There are about 140 Upper House, causes a vacancy in the representation of the eastern dially by the reigning Bey, who had the City Palace prepared for the regiments of the new and old levies, and the task will be mainly division of this county. The Hon. F. W. Calthorpe has come forintrusted to them. The Government is said to be anxious to reduce ward in the Liberal interest. Mr Pakington, son of the First Lord vest Prince Alfred with the badge of the reigning family of Tunis, a use of his Royal Highness. The Bey also begged permission to intheir number, but they increase, and under the General Order just of the Admiralty, has consented to stand on the Conservative interest. diamond only worn by princes of the blood. Before leaving Tunis published cost 12,000 rupees a mouth, or, in the whole, two millions -Enniskillen.-There is a contest threatened for this borough. Prince Alfred honoured the Consul-General by accepting an invitation sterling a-year for pay alone, without carriage, ordnance, or commis- The candidates are Mr Collum, a former candidate, Mr P. Dane, and to a ball, which was got up with all the magnificence possible under sariat. If they can be gradually reduced after doing their work we Mr Rea, the Young Ireland attorney of Belfast.-Ipswich.-Mr J. Tunisian circumstances. On the 19th the Euryalus returned to Malta, shall have escaped cheaply, but this point of military expenditure King, proprietor of the Suffolk Chronicle, is persevering in an effort and on the same evening Lady Le Marchant gave a ball at the Palace, is the most serious difficulty with which Lord Stanley will have to to secure one of the seats for Ipswich on independent Liberal prin- but his Royal Highness did not honour it with his presence, Major deal. If, in spite of all that you have pointed out, we are to keep this ciples. Cowell, his governor, having, as the Malta Observer gives out, deemed huge native army as a permanent establishment, and 80,000 Euroit most essential that the Prince's studies be not too much broken into peans to watch it, the expense will not be less than four millions by ajsuccession of gaieties-a hint which seems to have been borrowed a-year in excess of the average of 1850-1856." from the comments made in the Times and Examiner. Preparations however, were being made for a grand ball on the 27th of January in honour of the Prince by the garrison, the officers of which subscribe several days' pay, and the name of Lieut-General Commanding, Sir John Pennyfather, heads the subscription list. arms, if I may believe my letters from Lucknow, being all delivered ourselves has been the growth of ages, and concurrent with diffused FOREIGN GLEANINGS. The latest advices from Frazer's River inform us that the Governor had issued a proclamation, authorising a duty of three per cent. on merchandise of British Columbia, but declaring Victoria a free port, and allowing goods for Vancouver's Island free. Real estate at Victoria thriving rapidly. Foreigners to be protected in their rights of possession for three years. The report of Sir Macdonald Stephenson, on the result of his personal inquiries in Smyrna and Constantinople, has been received, from which it appears that the first section of the railway of forty miles out of Smyrna will be opened in September next. From Lisbon we learn that the indemnity claimed by the French Government for the capture of the Charles et Georges has been paid without comment by the Portuguese treasury. The amount was about 14,0007. On Monday the Prussian Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted the address in reply to the Prince Regent's speech. Accounts from Naples state that the King's health is progressing favourably. The Diritto of Turin states that the Marquise Letitia Pepoli Murat, mother of the ex-King Joachim of Naples, has just had a stroke of apoplexy at Bologna. It is believed, from a telegram received by the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company, that electrical communication between Cagliari and Malta will speedily be resumed. The despatch is dated on board the steamer Elba, off Maritenio, near Sicily, and is worded as follows, viz: " Expect to have you through to Malta in twelve hours. Fine weather; all going well." STATE AND CHURCH. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.-East Worcestershire.-The death of Lord Obituary. The next examination for direct commissions in the army by the council of military education under the presidency of MajorGeneral Cannon, Major-General Portlock, and the other members of the council, takes place on the 7th proximo, and four successive days, at Burlington House, Piccadilly.Captain Goldsmith, the superintendent of Chatham dockyard, has received directions from the Admiralty, authorising him to inform the heads of the departments and officers connected with the several establishments of the dockyard that under no circumstances will they be permitted to be in any way connected with any political patronage committee that might be in existence in the neighbourhood, and that dismissal from her Majesty's service would follow any infringement of their lordships' order. The various officers have also received orders not to interfere in the slightest degree with the votes of any of the artisans or workmen. MR HALLAM, the historian, died on Saturday, in his eighty-third year. Mr Hallam was the only son of Dr Hallam, Dean of Bristol, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He afterwards settled in London, where he generally resided. In 1830 he received one of the two fifty-guinea gold medals instituted by George IV for eminence in historical composition, the other being awarded to Washing- MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.-We have already announced that there ton Irving. He was at an early period engaged as a regular contri- will be a considerable increase in the navy estimates for the years of butor to the Edinburgh Review, contemporaneously with his friend 1850-60, and it is now stated that the increase in the surveyor's deSir Walter Scott, and bore an active part in Mr Wilberforce's great partment alone will be upwards of one million.Captain the Hon. movement for abolishing the slave trade. Mr Hallam's works are-S. T. Carnegie, C.B., has been appointed to the vacancy at the Board The Constitutional History of England,' 2 vols. 8vo; The History of Admiralty caused by the removal of Captain the Hon. J. R. Drumof Europe during the Middle Ages, 2 vols. 8vo; An Introduction mond, C.B., to the commodore superintendentship of Woolwick dockto the Literary History of Europe, during the 15th, 16th, and 17th yard.- -Rear-Admiral James Hope, C.B., has been appointed to Centuries,' 3 vols. 8vo. A paper in the Times notices the domestic succeed Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour as Commander-in-Chief in the sorrows which saddened the latter days of the great historian. It was East Indies.Sir J. W. Hogg has reserved two Indian cadetshipe his bitter fate to outlive those who should have come after him, to see for the scholars at Wellington College, to be at the disposal of ths two sons of rare promise, who should have preserved his name, go Prince Consort and the governors of the college, and it is his intenbefore him, the pride of his life snatched from his eyes, the delight of tion to reserve at least one every year for the same purpose.-Mr his old age laid low in the dust of death. One of these was that Arthur W. Morris, Deputy Military Storekeeper of Woolwich Arsenal, after Henry Hallam, who died in 1838, and to whom Tennyson dedicated the a continuous service of upwards of forty-four years in that departremarkable series of poems which have been published under the title ment, left Woolwich on Monday to enter on the duties of his new apof In Memoriam.' The bereaved father was broken-hearted for his pointment as Principal Military Storekeeper at Chatham.-The son, and spoke of his hopes on this side the tomb being struck down large stone dock at Chatham dockyard is now ready for the reception for ever. His second son, Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, was taken of any line-of-battle ship required to be fitted.The finished model from him shortly after he had been called to the bar in 1850, and the for the statue of the late General Neill at Ayr was sent to the foundry poor bereaved father buried him in Clevedon Church, in Somerset- last week, and the casting of it in bronze will be completed about the shire, by the side of his brother, and his sister, and his mother. He middle of April next, when the granite pedestal will be also ready. selected the place, as he says in his memoir of the elder son, "not only from the connection of kindred, but on account of its still and sequestered situation on a lone hill that overhangs the Bristol Channel." ANNE CHARLES LEBRUN, DUKE DE PLAISANCE, one of the first Napoleon's generals, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, and senator, died last week, in his eighty-fourth year. He was the eldest ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRUS- son of the arch-treasurer of the empire, to whom he succeeded as SIA. Her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William was duke and peer in 1825. He entered the army after the 18th Brusafely delivered of a Prince shortly after three o'clock on Thursday maire, and rapidly advanced. As aide-de-camp to Desaix, he was afternoon. Both were doing well. The Regent and his Consort ap- named colonel of the 3rd Hussars at Marengo; general of Brigade at peared on the balcony of the palace, and, amid vociferous cheering, Eylau, in 1807; and general of division, with the title of count, at thanked the populace for their sympathy. The joyful intelligence the commencement of the campaign in Russia in 1812. He adhered was instantly telegraphed to Windsor Castle, the Queen receiving the in 1814 to the re-establishment of the Bourbons, but having in the telegram within six minutes after the delivery of the Princess. A Hundred Days accepted a command in Champagne, and the post of bulletin of yesterday morning says: "The Princess Frederick William deputy for the Seine-et-Marne to the Legislative Body, he was put has passed a most favourable night, and is, together with the new- en disponibilité after Waterloo. His name figures on the Arc de Triborn Prince, as well as can be expected."-The Berlin correspondent omphe de l'Etoile, but after the period just mentioned he did not form JOHN SADLEIR'S TRANSACTIONS AGAIN.-The Clonmel Chronicle of the Nord, writing on Sunday, says: "The Princess Frederick part of the active army. states that a gentleman named Walker, receiver over the Earl of PorWilliam drove out to-day in her carriage. She appears marvellously COUNT DE HATZFELDT WILDENBURG-SCHAUENSTEIN, the late Prus- tarlington's estates in that county, in which situation he succeeded well. Her face looks fresh and ruddy. A good story is told of the sian Minister in Paris, died on the 28th inst., at the age of forty-five. John Sadleir, is engaged in searching through the accounts of the Regent relative to the anticipated event. The colonel of artillery He commenced his diplomatic career in Paris in 1838, and remained years during which the latter held office. For the purpose of assistwho received the Prince's orders as to the number of salvos to be in France ever since that period. In 1844 he married Madlle de ing the investigation, Mr Walker asked and obtained from the board of fired on the occasion, appeared to hesitate before he withdrew. Castellane, daughter of the marshal. At the time of the Revolution guardians a loan of two hundred and eleven books of rate collectors' Well,' said the Regent, you seem to have something on your mind. of February, the count was attached as first secretary to the embassy warrants for the divisions of Shronill, Lattin, Emley, and other parts Why-yes-your Royal Highness. I know how many salvos are of Baron Henri d'Arnim. In consequence of the recall of that diplo- of the Tipperary union where the Portarlington estate is situated. to be fired for a prince, and how many for a princess; but if her matist, Count de Hatzfeldt received in March, 1848, the title of Busy rumour hints that in one division, where the poor-rates were royal highness should give birth to a prince and princess? Then, chargé d'affaires, and the year following was raised to the rank of but 51., Mr Receiver Sadleir took credit for 1181. If this and similar replied the Regent, we will remain faithful to our motto-Suum Minister-Plenipotentiary. During the war in the East, and after- tales prove true, the result of the present close investigation will Cuique."" wards at the Congress of Paris, and in the last Conferences, he con- form another chapter in the giant swindle. Serious doubts are enMR GLADSTONE'S IONIAN APPOINTMENT. It has been semi-officially maintain favourable relations between Prussia and the French Go- given as compensation by the Great Southern and Western Railway tributed by his conciliatory character and straightforward efforts to tertained whether John Sadleir did not actually pocket the large sum announced that Mr Gladstone has accepted the Lord High Commissionership of the Ionian Islands, though his tenure of that office will vernment. Company for traversing a portion of this estate while under his mabe of extremely short duration. He was to open the session of the This celebrated woman was born at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, in 1785. MADAME D'ARNIM, Goethe's Bettina, died at Berlin last week. nagement. Ionian Parliament on the 25th inst. About the beginning of the She leaves behind her several works, of which the best known is her 300 emigrants from the celebrated Gweedore district, chiefly persons THE GWEEDORE EXODUS.-The Derry Guardian states that nearly second week in February he will be recalled, and his successor ap- correspondence with Goethe, published under the title, "Goethe's whose ages ranged from eigteen to twenty-four, left that city by railpointed, so that although his temporary acceptance of office vacates Correspondence with a Child.' Mr Gladstone's seat for the University of Oxford, he will be re-eliway for Coleraine on Friday morning, on their way to Belfast, and gible by the time a fresh election can take place; while the primary square, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He entered the service GENERAL RICHARD SECKER BROUGH died last week in Onslow proceeded thence per steamer for the emigration depot at Birkenhead. measures connected with the better administration of the islands will in 1794, and was at the capture of St Lucia in 1796. He also served Mr W. S. O'Brien will leave Ireland for America via Galway in a MR W. S. O'BRIEN FOR AMERICA.-The Nation announces that be introduced with greater advantage by him than by any successor at the capture of Guadaloupe in 1815. to his office. The Times' correspondent at Corfu, writing on the 18th few weeks. His stay on the American continent will probably last inst., says: "The exact nature of the reforms about to be laid before day week, at Exton park, Rutland, the seat of his brother, the Earl place of interest in the States. THE HON. WILLIAM MIDDLETON NOEL died suddenly on Thurs- for a few months, during which time it is his intention to visit every this august assembly is necessarily a matter of conjecture, but their of Gainsborough. general tenour is pretty well understood. As, however, their rejecABANDONMENT OF THE LANDLORD MEETING.-The following tion by the Ionian Parliament is more than probable, the public inte- school, died somewhat suddenly on Tuesday, at Liverpool, at the age Landlord Meeting to the Lord Lieutenant, and of the consequent MR BASIL BAKER, one of the last remaining actors of the old authorised account of a private deputation of the projectors of the rest connected with the subject is necessarily greatly diminished. It of fifty-four. Mr Baker was for several years a most useful actor in abandonment of the meeting, has been published under the signature is probable we shall be favoured with an attempt to implant English the Lyceum Theatre in London during the regime of Madame Vestris of the hon. secretaries in the columns of the Evening Packet of the institutions among a people wholly unfit for the exercise of that and Charles Mathews. His death was caused by rheumatism of the 22nd inst.: "The committee for convening the meeting at the Ro liberty and self-government, the attainment of which among heart, tunda, in this city, on the 27th inst., having received hundreds of IRELAND. |