The Express. — London, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

LITER ATURE. A Woman*. Story. By Mrs. 8. C. Haw— Loudon Hurst and blaekett. This " Woman's Story" of Mts. Hall is a novel in form, being published in the orthodox, time-ho noured, three volumes; but for that it would stand very . well for the " Memoirs of Miss H —," or any gompping, observant old lady, who had moved in the literary sad artistic society of the early part of the present century. Of all the bores that fiction introduce us to—msd their name is legion—there are few so intolerable as the known celebrities—the great men—who move upon the scene in obedience to the command of the author for the time beim/ ; Ad who endeavour—painful struggle as it is—to thernee:ves with becoming dignity, mad not took the selaseholy marionettes which they really are, Mrs. Hall, with a want of her usual tact and skill, please. before us many of those assemblies which We ea livened by the wit of Thomas Moore, the TOW talent of Braham, graced by the artistic reuses 011 Sir Thomas Lawrence, dignified by the company if Sir Walter Scott, and bored to death br the of Wordsworth. All this, if it had any Tit:kW; it, would be very readable in the pages of Weary history, bat in fiction it is out of place; it alwayebm been a failure, and it always will. The design which Mn. Hall baa chosen is not favourable in other re spects. To create a character that shall be the per fection of literary genius, to write whole chapters of enthusiasm about this shadowy wonder, to give rap turous critical accounts of works that never saw the begrimed bands of the printer's devil, and to endea vour to work up the reader of all this to a kindred pitch of reverence with the writer, is a task of no common magnitude, and it is not to be wondered at that so many fail in it. There is generally a tone of insincerity to such writing—a sign of want of faith in the idol of the minute, that communicates its contagion to the reader. The specimens of litera ture usually given to justify the faith in the shadowy genies—the play within a play—are amongst the weakest things that authors lay before us. Mrs. Hall's story is not without action and interest, and if the characters are not very vigorously drawn, the style is my sod plowing ; there is an interest run ning tam* the bosh, although delayed at times by long ef =re description, which, how ever in emodites, interfere with the curtest of the story. We iteselstie by quoting a couple of passages: 1111 DRAWING-ROOM. U the kall-Isser Wert dither is provethay elvepid, the boar—cirois 'am) used to be in the death' dqs the hees--efler, were, in mirth very veal • sons. Yew thow lathe; young or old, thaw who pet co eth "ceethey sic se they do their conthey isms —he a corpse, meth take the trouble toeeth in their hilew-wiessa in the drawler room. Easconcei in sob thews, re teethed to a way that would spud the rat of Ask 'reed wi th out the aid do efsee-serchse —they Ind in the eery jar neerd* to their bouts' cenioth led will y take the trouble to notice the meat intheseing "driestexerit, or dome the moot lovely draperies. Thee who on sing will nutty sing until the "cathode came up, End a EthODT like who bee Salast MY eer 11•110•11% to•rery, insatiably Ws aegis time far the " wriesig," newt than rtheithe which Moth those in the dewy itheire of the lanarkies withdrisith' reue U the lady de of louse be very good-naturedthe will "he es • asd, or biewilie •kW hen the tips of tingle's', same the room; nog se matter ear dull Hook the will my, " Alt I I es, renting yawed' es weal, we never mind you." The wasigaterower are. If a penes der.* be ...3 eritit his eau fry znittsr-10 Yr pie • ; it is gas awful to Mar the parts ewer by the pespla, la west askaprelowed awl era =cram arra; le ere thew (is we stampbol• with dr t t sod sewlissed wore impure by the Elwin tem tr t ell. at Oa sdll more peraidess ipe) wry gietre past eight, baskreltag their Wog& dir the tret in le ere : Ire the tottering eswasy, lytag bm.gr ig se *aging eat of its aka la es es stelkkaleg r.alrpielitsown,retrlithe thitherl War, whirl al sight it showeley . Meg a war r eels imbst it iota! ropes ks a eight& wheat a away skylight permits to sna-bisms Is winder se ths wire awe ; a ire, besides es it s.ly seep by the inews et ths perkerer awl mews& with " swig Is a baps Priori hire* • biteW - with bush* wessi& Onia MN a sore et wrirlihr Ite which, at wlght, rum who wirrairee see sisijklb le ear piewer DPI ospooil WIND way pore is egret lg imes whkl try actor knew. It was awareing to me hew well they resweetered that, per% errihsing the short tire they had radar ter; and dell are se. hew they coda rod them with so ads ',al. pay ; sad I re prier to lad that ail the earreg OD and grin el, "WWI lard* dictated by lb. lsMna d tbe ressio, vas Ined and laid ".Lou briare"—yot hew arra it slew seard whir era Imo the anew of Priviselbe boa; 'while the rem*, arpod nomealt ; wog sod are *Mir table wadi—. eying re er . I fir washer gter m ariel li—eshis I whilst *Mk wr at all what stir& sr as the west singehr rig ot ell,ws i lrirtre particakir eist=ll=ee k t r ily so ssa l td iaillimu lly tris7 2 so ibrighing r reseyed by their new drama Ths mover Irk we hi what he called "a wig," and alt Mat erre et sore slily diatoms Pawl= mil NM Debra% he hared that Wardwg bit," es disimiligily wslll.y at. so kindly WINK tr the bag, Egg orgy am es‘ am Madams would net elm ap pm 'Mau ibe deg% wore abed ID my sare r bet I reed is te wpm " If lasenite abgested,"l strwed, nein riagele. "blies Dread* anti taw hr Part, le wield he 11 mach brke." ISM be petwhis it a ribbed grams le dem the rarger id are at re. "I her jest got Ihe goilsrmirs bits soh res lewpw," le lei/ • .• and now Ms ell pot as :TIAI bow smilsnid elnedy, for whir Maier boat as . she ilhererte ea alt." " Bihar ban eat," I prided. " Yea erre rander the pahlie," he said; "no play wfil go ebbed ban Obi la w Krug es whit she has kw. dish Is lam* hirer *ea what she Y Attar • arra pried, we Ira ear nwitistires ; she toe ere • saikagr hoe by lir ire Is hiss mart Ilk•• pretty e h ilitt rim trot; nay yew west essaibir her ildly, you ere." I; l m: sw irls ; only let the stsge-ressager Mks oat Mir ape t o " 14~ r I BAK Ibriy.si TM maw bard er. " Tliss prole the der dew le be cheesed. Let her speak to ewes is. de• se that i red not ear i ths da*ligiste at the roe roe r Maier win ersolt the arra " I grind. "15 "be I wanyou, es • frier that era theyiir p ipY rt xi air et the play would not miry it ems\ velmut Lif. a. Ching. By the Bee. WILLIAM C. KM" M.A. Lades: 0. Roetledge and Co. After the personal sensitive' of flue and Partunk any 'bock a bowie In China geode at an imam, disadvantage, only in some measure countertuLuised by the attention which is Jae now being directed towards that peculiar country. Mr. Milne, ens et the enisaionaries of the London Society—bee the merit of being • conscientious writer, who ean be relied upon as never describing any habits or cus toms except those he has seen, and taking nothing upon hearsay. This is a quality rare amongst tra vellers, and especially valuable when applied to the teak of removing many absurd delomons about • people who are held up to horror and ridicule be cause we know so little about them. No doubt many persona consider the Chinese very infatuated and self-aufticicnt peopls in their rigid exclusiveness, and their pallid ence in refusing the "civilisation" of the yentern nations ; but we ought to feel less contempt fw their assumed ignorance when we reheat that they bars before them, in the adjacent esdretry at Ms, • specimen of what English "a'en • ma= tint, beginning as peaceful seerebnis spa the coast, and afterwards is the whelp serniehy ladle t rule of s i,v = hag l'id o t he i the Chireme—se &n die not such shut all. lfr. Nam& book is well worth reading. bet ear apse se only allow us to epritet_ . purr shrift hew generally the feeling sr ravasy first]fac i a is spread over the esentry. Ms. Mane wen travelling with a carded angsise: thaiswww, the Isal at my Massa disguise isitsd ar it Pftimus. whisk we maid at this. p.m. MyMsss wan hued Let, ash Asa I sit shoat awmag ssyssW la the ebb la the minima aim attY ceentry,—• issail-hirit rim it, • smith& jail * aim imam Wieser are, g ay as pink light isw ism • pen to asis Iragoa raeiasia ia the sear, awl • risk lsairechist wp Ma ism. Thus soossid I bail DM I hi se crag, Ist wq hat as the teak wham • tie assr no shoats& sat la is psis snits slam,. His.* sa u s tia.ar Oat item Amer • mere Ism ths tits la ths 'aims, habis ban, Or% sad ~rim; It the Warier. Tortiststy 1 bed preames of vial St Mks as spice attires. awl Ist ts tit wq pcs, awl &tag ivies le sermals mai atells wldealari u taraw Masima ism illsMir llsola. Ms Is ibis is sem We es * wee trial the Ord at Mimi luggage MI WIMP glebe Si the egailt 111 i it the tries Masai pisity pat se Is melt sr. nointois Om yeenerbilheirjearry. I weakling* killenall nil Ode Difoleil the vale% "II" vw lam' three tweets al • idle in Wen; bet, t i t se, Lled awn difficulty la eseestag deer el the rosy of Mame sat at their deem finning nenselme their days tog. Althea& in ph mid swagger I Wed Chinamen peen will, at least as well as I weld, yet many sa eye era sat at ins si It 1 soma ism nit specimen of • W Inn, end ad seibelaaft kart* eta a lank Wlllll7 Dr lorkinnepielling len • lbebmerwager, which he re mised with essiseleniewastory. Triaewp thea aseend Wel at Pfkkwan, ended a my IBM Wargonnen elnpoian where my ese. yens IMO Inonlig in an I went a ushered into an nem is indi Wee IWO user Inn the cans to make - ir kr • weep he fibmiesking. TM innkeeper k lee, and pipes, be. There were several otber lemellwe in the as sperineeM, wee lying asleep on the Makers; while evade, the Ma as etunning—what with prengers swift Se and fese, the lamikird shouting and willen emsnieg Ms ert mil • awl of idlers winter ing enweeleeming et Illei. g. Herr Meekly] did I feel Wl* skis le leis mew b • quiet huh new i Per the hat bait-hear I bed beim newebet set ellen el enehre = d knew net bat emnisien bed been criewerli--peneeps lire atit arm, then delenaion try the pollee, sait par melien Nara WWI ley wish kill of ear- Mem and an them I seend waif aside the ems ef timberline ewe, bag.* that I might, by • short net end •liille Ida mew new the am end isle isle wadi I hal hen aims es lastad. Os Wet ing the yew, I heft my slew Int en sey ha. sad, la ere gay me idea era idea re, I ales thew ray air over =VP = a ss a rearthiary nommee—theadvmdege whisk willipmemily wpm. I bed not entom wren miwynimeeitennekliewersibedin I sumetranthemilweemieneigbeinimetolthe The intruder Isobel sear* se ms, and in in we asked me einem is WIN& " Who is that there r The am replied, " I nay tilseltimiew. He has jog dweller Ninon NA semi be • .salient lanued for the f a aw a r.," The - boar thin as. up, end, pledge himself Were as. demanded, " Take Minn list al rms." I nods so reply. He repeated Ms Homed. I ea i ask Magee keep Mew ad inemeed, " Dat yea d +ry Mend, tint I an very warm • ad men th is UM, I met take it off till% ma • little sealer I you IA hamar. buiall y ill, down ad WM my yierere, I shed as ft a by sod I wee $ rise dierread at his iseleetty agassay open the had. Ilea he arweerri a wain aea the ipfewles pekile:—. When year seisemet Newer Wire de yea mere dent What ere yea idea aria Whoa re yw irk. te r floe quakes he ameba Is rain ea adalearres. Perceiving this, I nimeneell the reel rift ride aria by his countrymen In their inisemense Min ieeywa, and taking courage Mr I la me et vaplekfm6 him by politeness and eti quette), I sepia to his successive wins is the *l. towns wassisr:—. My vulgar aulllnnhe is —" Web f the earn I la area fa ray travels). -4 . lay wiling new is —. The low and harabiej= whisk I lam amee is be biennia inseesepinries ' emi Omni that I could gint lilt =eV eiviimely Mon I. ke l . rather maw M learnisil lima Detecting the Mew lees I hid Pal as a, apelike inquisitor, ned, r= le maw Sew wry as. as to arra" I la dr ermatisastisa areeday et the wow fey:—"Alippm dr, whel inery Ise yaw enedient mis meet hmenieW name/ anew as visor 110.; le ell win& tin Maw pas Tear la a Sew setaida whirl ea la rect i a l ae baba He Sahel UMW , sin se I ir Wei be raw Tery asupla. Ila eberied that, Sea is et hie aeries, he intelied my . sar .1,11 &all dandle; esi, pas* eraspaetreg it to be Wee or early la es aeries /ri des a la Oa het, he bed, with a view et ryas eat sesoles• we to take a the ha. Haft prei le atli kis ael. wia I di eau, ad aswpwaskthe that the athisrtualty at essikwaikaphim bad sump I petty relsed - this straw arse athe a weed, ad w i th a heriketaiet wiped die aay ham& But the tit is q ra t feean awl " Paul Per, new the end enkwined. Ile he as from hie chair, lewd haw bly, ward ef eel se are appeared. Than meek he my tWd to l k this aka The iterating diresd, in Europe, Asia, and Ana. trahh. A min of Letters. Ily GEORGS FRANCIS TRAIN. Laudon: Sampson Low and Co. New York : 0. P. Putnam and Co. The counting-house tourist is either a very maw stag and instructive companion when he commits the account of his travels to paper or he is a self-snM.- cient tedious bore. He has not the art of the trained I writer in choosing his materials and skilfully ar ranging them; but, on the other hand, we get a new of interesting details upon business and sta tistical matters which a professional author would either pass over, or treat in an incomplete and tal ltd. tisfaetory manner. The attempts at fun and bril liant writing in the books of the business man arc, we admit, frequently painful in the extreme; but where he has the courage to be easy and natural, re cording his experiences, without aiming at undue etre, his productions are always something more than readable. The author of the book before as is a business man, and an American to boot, and his tone is flippant sometimes, and confident throughout. He went from Boston to Australia in 1833, and es tablished a Imams of business, with which he is still connected. His observation is not confined to the southern continent, for he extended his travels to Java, Singapore, China, Egypt, the Holy Land, the Crimea, &c., about all of which places he has some thing to say of more or less value. His remarks upon China arc interesting, as showing the American point of view: The feet is, the Western nations think bat preoloos little el Chimney way. They drink the to and rase the silks, sad aware' read the neerepaper intelligence, bit aside tam them taereitail la the persona welfare and in the him et the taw hap= est has, England and the Vast Slaw wee la Me whether the country is opened 's SA gel ling nis ow, esiterprics, of tour-e. is relay peenlyea; Ma &pa of electric wire, net a foot etniwy, net um • amen marine telegraph at Hong Siam or any of the wenlimparts to toll you of the arrival de skip ; most of the lbw have a largo itpy glass, and the meneet a sail heaves in dila, each is competition an I the dean S. sOlnlenhing new, then • doses telsopes ere at ewe *WI at the sew arrival, and clipper boats rest on their as. le weave the perm Hsatitul bongs or hows Inn boa bellt i , kW a Mime bad, and some of the places hies a • bOWIIm any or billiard trusts, bet, sew a a tees st Misidpa se Meagher, foreigners can trerhem• aMe enterprise of the owe. Can abates's* _ _lied radar set. If the government deal eilk Minna nee nine Se ley • band at .t. One Or $110111.10.84111 MN a 1611 MIES, and dm owners are Irma teat esselhad a the laird rivers. let an one' get lad diessally rid NOM al right. Chinamen like our me Illieeftet are brought in contact with us mirth setlenn this those in the interior, who have warsll aelti s ig en ese llis am a" tat the not far off when ameba all he a ea dean the canal. and new. we ir to the delight of the Chiseenno sear the P. and 0. steamers from Hoeg SI Mil an nernandl with Chineme weangen, when I Oinelen dyer full of living freight, an la Ilia ghee a taste for ouch travel WI imillippir Ills Mee fin seaboats in the interior, and what • SE Istt RSZO IN SIFT:Seine ef f herivers and email. in the ,flows.what I hay° been in of lesdinx merchants that rite silk ran he nenstimared by British workmen, and S l / 4 ipint r i a the Chinamen on their eins As ter the it done with our ret ina% lefe Si IRV inonbillialivenrea. cheep beer, ad catil L sow tee writ gar se ; and if too much kg us, Chios 'tile Meaty. The some thing loss been E la lade. sada elestearmaassaie win mbus!, railietasaiss lir Salm wersee. we email wen to maid &MN the _ emafeely if demi sni genius Mgt illei in* nereesi4 et sake rata Asa itsdass of his desthiptive style, we quote a I pled= a tat Cesree-- the rlyule-park and Rotten er, deans : Os wirsailhiessh sae of the military male, I found as erialie seeriel with atagant equipages, and evening dm maim I as elm along the Brim, watching the akeselleg eperesta—sew Isaias in long rows, and now Is Matta) leratr Matta) earks, carriage behind au ompois east as he • bell. Yon we all trine BM in the spiel' ad wry are the romantic dries el lea a te; lima while see told you, if your =the a ad of shaft adventure and hair- 1 am it das ether is. Way • eriamity =l_lll se wetal it s he .4 444 . .....1741.1 at the llear " se_ . awe a rt t be Emmy Wawa I peas sasewil et Ihe veriree al wawa a Isla life. awe a dee airrklarra wait set blest te he era in Haw pa. may a the Ara !war es the wadi , alert again la liakeraw. The hed Nee a the eta& eaure la ear le =thelr ad arra wraps te the ef ate see i r time es dry as Nadia The derreeiniewe is Ind deli dee arastare t_ . _ . prbertheare make their war eseilid the MalesSw4 .a-Mast the army, the may bre Ow Onsill._slie maim dry Sawa dear presaisad! am hddi ahead alien of the da w as Neale= lease via the leseeleat ealwaspme el Mae vie lead lien well Id less i :Ce. D'ollit. bh Ili It dakedi - Ile hos bier he lutes theswas a lapel ale a e matere, ear le he ao maths Is Dermil ado ease a war Oda hat yeah, a hie Mere ma pilaity. These as he ails Idea is he vela de lik r isa is lia, as lie as tee sederbie fee air . _The Bare lailids re she tote link spina ea I are es saw saw "flay' a a dew York baggy; ad are is Gaeta Mehra a a liesetiki Salk reseig- , as Mr by te the hie et Waft the bretileiltir the Las dile Ms etas the ear der bar ark, ma the lake tha !eve apisled am tad llama ea i Maglllg a her lagali has Mahan a hlsh teak, Sawa la their atiestre sal a new edema Mil limairs don It THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1857. Yon= hes Ara made them brae is war • Tejon with a pries. en prinessiwine smith e men b, isosmi• . aloft lakes who ewe wen peelfts .cad lesime&eal thew who law saw ris afte. Themes/ awe geefte, Ind MO Im a r a 4tesanes, en • line way se vett see a taw langles, es ten eat el the Anthem ay- Ewe bribie I Si MI eilt sage mbrolial the disisweethat seemed et bei=aireen Osisetie), nese dipper is the thswir Wa r eon math—she is inn ..set sad tidy ; awl ekes eking the or nth ids ens trades looks ea pal as the heat of thin The that nimble parts of the bock to an Eng lish ruder are the letters describing the state and pecepeab of Victoria, for, although Australia has been described over and over again, the more information we get the better for the intending colonist, esp eci ally front one who writes with American energy ohod feelings. The jocose* the eireekm, an the letters which fln the tail age et the Minn win thew yea Vida* ea die is, and se the bite Wen s kr Wean wake the usury of • yen The paws see den with pain mean an of width ensistain the shwa st IYe warms sal the gems an; nib th e eke bas deg hefty with the awine, en the haws laidepard the way gmasolly. Onetime sad erne= et • 'o ph ft ew er waft on oho h:ol ih E the macaw el the en. If be is be &Winder &see et the ohm se dos ted, sad you bed lath had shammi den te ran en me to thee a pse ns idea se the comply _is nil be hen bray The one writes didefeny, wine the ether a the hfif gins" her yea waive by this mai • aristy el nhdiens reprein ese wain p • weitirity of width I limey, will cense es missy s t ows Masa a the swan ; for it would be mein ft as te ,lout Owe ere buidreds who ere deeppehen I used gin se lean Sc , thesis pent te senen that ace hose • lood, way pilot lehlt i i ze ls ologhoot of sad wend in prieftwa. el thew hew wet and p nen spa; bet mistily bra amen plislext aotkeig o cl = with Sim usftwastie ho.- eons et we Is bet, I dont If thew who arrive en we sad calms the mt, nine giving tl , ll • Meth, weft en b e awe swifts . Writhed at ham Path peens ere ti - r7t be; bet seed ee per hoeddliol labourers— th• berm lbw of Os hool—tol,z u Wild kr it, this is the pion Mime to Imp their esektios. If Um? NIS Oa aohlog the tetra to de, thse pe ins the 1 corirjr, oh pith *Or hot an wow week a the oi= beatholl el oho when they pet rot, week, an their wen Ye mehlng sad =he Ink les silliest a day; Ode they ten the classes et Wising ewes neater • alasited M Want It was •1). wad hot no gmmt too ho 100 l I a sassiOry having se wow food is ot Wood loolel—o ottohy whew- Well to Mt lir sielost gell hold as the leo oif tin totaby ant goolisst polio Of Oil kr ower ass the Iwo el skid was Wks bow whet loarame way Issa op wfts the awkwe boo pissed his *Odor Is the hullo? It woo to ow wry some Sot am el the seintille and icsaisn, who have ice sees boa is wards et sink to Wm Lads, should ear bra thew* the is -Ithist of IYY _hsMl sentry waft des expelitios. Time te book mar pion in Cabin= w meek air hal la Mt ~peal se oar ono hind cootry. I hoo it at MONO Iloy, one el your eawyrkkg gesiegiew, setewilas, ed wand the Nags Tot asap, may Seni • esanny, oh so what the plc Is mit K en us the manes of dr Mt wind thst Y hooka oy too to the aka of s tareywd. Bet kr the leiserieg thew it piny of land that bee boa hliorwoui,ll gootirlat woad only give it away to the wool older, OD they is is the United Sates. Piano Ora the pee* Owe room pay out lone heath Op jo WE he most of • outlasts and a ham, • W W wen anft them et ionoto, our rulers may so OM WWII el ads- tram W shot the doer before they lece this porditlot. A west of war le • drawback te sok • colony, sad I whet that sanplie riven would he. glom it a tooderhd impetus. ft whet a the me of annerieg over what we have nut not Tine are some Cl;.pow o where the 11104 wheat in the we grown; for went ef le* for want of fa mots we are now paying North and South America 451. per tea for flour, that we ought to produce ouregves. But if we go on so we have since we found the gold, we should not do in fifteen year! what California has done in five—raised her own b,eadetufs, which she is now sending over to us. lire or six years since we despatched vowel after mead to tam lraorloco with vegetables. Now the tables are turned, for lately several crafts have strived hoes that port bringing out some nix hundred toes of potatoes, for which we have to pay the handsome price at 211. per ton. It is the ISM with hay and oat*, and all hard food and vegetables; and what is more important, breadatuffs, we hove to import them ell ; when the English farmer, the stout active man of your mid land counties, might mini them all, and keep this impoitent source of wealth within the Inuits of the colony, instead of paying it away to the foreign producer Let your farmers being with them capital, for it may be uphill work fur a while, and I doubt if they are disappointed. We conclude our quotations with a joke at the expense of the Australian Aborigines : A few days gore I was trying my veil, preparatory for the cloud of duet that severe along Caine-street, lattatas Queen's and Stmaston, when Loy old eyes were made glad by the appearance of a real old Boston water cart in full operation. The streets were bring watered, ad 'lnas amusing to see the astonished natives on each side gaping incredulously at the watering machine. No wonder, poor Isnightei rare. It was something they never dreamed of ; they ovoid nut nnderstand how that water, which they were pqimr two dollars a cask frr, should be scattered up and down the street. Ow man, ;nom intelligent than the re t, had presence of mind enough to climb up on the wheel and toll the clover, amid a shout from the knowing ones, that the water was all leaking out of his cart 1 Poems. By EDWARD WILBERFORCE and EDMUND FORSTER BIANCITARD. London : Imngm "He who would be read with ease," says Boileau, "must be content to write with labour:" that the rhymester who would he read at all must write with a alight notion of rhythm is a fact of which the authors of this book appear scarcely conscious. Mr. Wilberforce, who is simp ly dull, contributes a continuation of "Lon Juan ' : some bad blank verse, and some love Banns, which combine the passionate fervour of l hi. Watt with the descriptive power of Della Cruses. Mr. Blanchard is more readable than his confrire, indeed some stanzas of his, called "At First Sight," might pass muster in an annual : but throughout his entire contributions, there is a Brummagem Tom Moore-isliness, which 1; offensive. 7HE AUG UST MAGAZINES. TEE MATIOMONIAL EMPORIUM AT CONSTAM rimorxr..—The far-meeing slave-dealen who provide the • Turkish market with eireaseian wares bad no difileulty in fortelliug that the treaty of Paris would abandon to their • fete those gallant mountaineers of the Cancans who have • so lung and or manfully straggled for indepeedenes from the Ruse= yoke, and that Donn they most bid an eternal fare- • well to their lucrative traffic in Ciremeian be oily, and the* judicious .apply of wives for the Pashas of Conetantinopk. An-foalingly, ere the treaty came into operation. and the government of the Cur wise authorised to forbid the export of ids sow subjecte, they preceeded to hey up, far and near, every digibie young lady of Ciremalan origin, and forward her, se ray as poiaallo to the emporium of matnmany at Conalsaksigh. Nee was this tar hard a lot for there mountsliseisisim se it any at ant sight appear. They are taught to leek arra the sine-market of the Turkish *vital os ths sewn la witch they are to cont m,l f,e the plum of life—namely, sesalbrtable quartet...do:curious Intim a bones full of AMOS, mil a rich master. To be deprived of her maim at donaheal is • blear disoppointinent to a Cimme rian belle. We la Bird Cannot understand this. Our fair Anglo-Sateen ire is London through the dog-days simply and salbely per fks esquisite delights of its MUM. menu and its tredief. Who ever heard ut an English girl going to a bfill with way ulterior view hat that se &Ws. : We. env aweisld lareAl•fli her rasa rod to to elderly (of the U Mom) for the rho of marsh, and amber, and AY waling sod .dewy taws) 1 , Who ever bows rues of Jess dist have made tho norm of Ms to Irosnr sal changed his shimmy krill( to a bower of Novak bemplanted by her Olen dais to es Whorls of Dirk than to queen It for a doto ow rag n,l Me pinta sad entice, and then pine neglenednd wYkerfare away P No, no, we know Whig of wit lona, but the trade flou rishes losedessesly la the Bast, and courequeinly the =ger i d ammo of 'IS row Onedationple literally In reek Isr Os wood advisedly, for an Odaki ordsrp b des Wargo of Hook Is "a lure who Wsass of abms,"smd a prike_penbasus his wife as be for his onssk by ths posse. Now, fosord and supply, like sedan sal wadies, sr 'oral art =i„; ` nor is worm soon dim my other irrholdis zompt from the formislio lo w; so whir this roars ab...d, sow porky Ms Os rigs the odor ors of a Cir soodosdosossrl Welk la sir s l usy s, tie s trowid ad. in dr ram days of gallantry, word bar fetched a hswinol owl My pew* etardeg, woe sow to be bandit oworowisi" it Ord link the asqueL Lamy wept is saO~tths bow dims. Tb peer Todd* Wean, ass • Olesaniss kik add him look Ms od —nay, his frh=l bat whso—es pram Imo Wound-of Waning, The poor rips wars IMO `cad meld into the Werts. Who was ho WI for Os? D. oho worst period of the rob, Writ worm wan arllklgL Owastaatioople at a dialog fross.—hower Morwskor, tor Aosist. CONIIILMATION DAY. —lt MO loidf-put nine dark la the rooshr, _The allarawastr ma was already wires on the we WI wonehenesibe of Mak. The church- I bag wow 1/6141, NNW arnillle were Onneeinue of daaday sses, chiefly raltreallis to the fact that the daughters loall cone dome to braddast in their beet frock,, owl with their bar psstioulsely well doe-ed. For it wee gag ends, flat Wednesday; sad though the bishop was 0 gig le bad a confirmation, sod to deride whether or not 0 Mess shield be a Sunday-ens* lecture in Millby, the r snalwess hod ths anal working-day look to the har t makers already keg oat in the a, diet, and to ',nerd weavers jut Wing op" Heir week'. `• piece," The notion of its v a r e as the strongest la yang laths like Miss satosaanyousm4yskiter to fast war a• korprwit lionorrotahost hiders co ths searirs, tars ansras late relief the suitable of bar ate@ Odra wits of comet, to wpm • ther flasthi: se is ths pupils at Mir Townley 4 waro wi t rata tree an imass, sod were grog to to see as Wye, ad to Mar the Ilensorabis Revered Mr. Porargast, the tersr, rot pespes—s Idist lntslleettrl Wit, so Ma Torok, woad tea. It sand csly natu ral Oat arra; who ussarstsolio, aril sod hitter than • Mr. Oars, rho as sea watt, art ast bsooorable ; Ns/ lidisCres astir var gal rhos dararee onstresrors non saterost, lOW lanistt sornol gar with past weirs, Ml it was tab dr lbws um ries were obasslista dawskirrialtvotprin g lo boorarsd. She wee asr.fair, pimp ea via Ws oyes sad =My hair, whisk tam des waft reingsli lo Wier mom curls then musk ths vorilso et tirsphospi burollidso, and tome ▪ dis yews loan amen bittiathe=d Psi in the said; bat ethics pre the woo as I • bar rival, Mesta Gardner_ , who was ma „ sad bed a lovely /a Yin sl ththi bi ; it hrowl e ykswa,..Ti s b lot% ban a it t higi ef abeir bap tf.a, albs sod Mad her = m a m a= ewe. As shs Irma at tbs Townley Wow. le Morse as week cod* her crop ex- I cited so stray( sardeo thrl lam mamma was at haigth impelled to i s at than/ =Oa sowsord but bitter saremee, "Is ant Itree s WWI" yes," raid Marla, amiable sail oath/Nth&eel as mask tor Ellen in retest; " Th—th—this is sky Visa I don't sl oth* it at al!" was dr wain edible/ of Men, tot lowed by a raveasse et approval rang bar Meath. Youog Indies, I mappene, adroit their am et thrum ha this way at achool.—Blaishweitir• Magazine. the MADAME DI SABLE.—MattlMPATLlkilelfeleefleritli standing her equanimity of temper, We Ism* el thwature, her religion. trollop, and her high-Med ir m a r moonier, I via not without strong selfishness, , put on impacts en puerile and ridiculous ea to w rfrre as worse harm then to excite plamthley at her agora as bad an ex °wive feu of deems, awl would ass emikit Ilea bore of a skit Mend, though aka wore Is Ism Mr Witatta of all the knew. Not only would she net fan aspr bet as would sot suffer the approach of any one whis bog hiss lathe house where a pick friend lay. The lentlerliatlslmilleilbeeddremed to her by a feeble hand, or et the dada of • trembling vrire, were required to be pseud thesnab a disideeting pro em., se if they had Mimed from Ys lonti of plague. thie who trembled for her health seeded as nosh the conetent attendance of a physialso as of a salami director. But drown could oak sa ass plies ems she the moot crodolons sad twat Irsogiving h Doctors want ryas the seam Ibsen with in =ln Ste tryes= ba mbelledlies,emmui by fiehionable vallkop. Meth Men, pus. Doctor.' &Om me Nth these of any sidith pun, Infrafroa might mods is dis etas io which lay on the bead east iron ftelt the pahs. The eon himself might live ilks a salamander, in hot air with mortal othelations, but his now that wee asamplible ; or, if old, so much th e stet Alike ha rmsel try liar of death end of Ile luster the per frightened women would let the physisien advance ne teethes than the bed-room door, and thorn, la the purify ing draft from which she herself lay see descri be her symptoms through an Interpreter allay midway between than, and who, after the duster la, WWI horrelf go through a modified purificatko trans has salmi to re mise. her attend race —Defter Ureiwwwitg ifergetire, for August. A MILITARY OriglON.—ln holding acountry like India, peopled by won of nations creeds and habits, religious roseate. must over be expected. A mends against mad dugs will muse excitement and turbulence among the money making ere-worshippers) • biography of Mohammed, eiu- Whaled with his tre., will have the unpleasant effect of clewing hie direiplie to rush about frantically howling and screaming "Been, dem:" (religion, religion !) the eacred war-cry; and the highsceste Hindi., who would not waste a peeing thought on the destruction of mein& of the low caste, will weep with deeper pathos over the corms of aa emeeseinated monkey than over the remains of his wife, and rouse himself to deeds of vengeance at eight of a murdered bull or peacock. We should he ever prepared fur such ma tingericiee, turd have a sufficient force to put them down with • high hand, at the same time scooting and punishing ft verely any wanton insult to religious feelings.— roiled &it rice Majorioe, for August. eiItARLEs DieKEes.—When the turmoil of the present century, with all the virulence of its political debate, and all the petty jealousies of its literature shall have pemed away, when thous who penned the stinging epigram or the caustic mare shall be weak, or dead, or dying—dying, end &mime to give worlds to cancel may a bniliant injustim which their hasty pens have put upon record, then, and nut till then, shall we arrive at • calm estimate if the value of the writings of Charlie Dlckens. Even now I love to pitturo him far from the din of the critical Rawl, surrounded by those delicate sad beautiful (nations of his fancy, that ideal &mile, the children of hie pen. There, in the twilight of his study, do I are hue sitting with his ores around Nell, the favourite child. Her free seems worn and rad, but when she looks up in hie eyes, it then becomes sewed with hea venly light. At hie tout rest little Demise; and his sister, hand in hand, and nestling to the father who bee called thew into birth. Poor Joe is there, the fungus of the emit., crouching like a dog beside the fire, grateful for food and wanuth and shelter. I hear the clumping of a little crutch upon the stair., and in hops Tiny Tim, the crippled child. Above Abo them hover the shadowy forma of other children, children who on earth were poor and suffering drudges, workhouse outceete that the world had turned drift, bat *hick are cow on high a bleed band of angels. And yet this man, groat critic., only a mere " buffoon," and no. thing more ? Truly • lit romping. fur that low player of the olden time, who wrote King Leer, end acted ut the (Mole. —The Train for August. How TO COOK VENISON.--Grent sculptor as he Ws, the late lamented Sir Francis Chaney, who could them anything, did not dirdt. n te torn his gifted hand to a Writ el retiree. Nn one ever handled that luxury better, es tea ever made the skier...es walk go farther, preserving with skilful eye and hand the well in the middle, for the Wend gravy which followed hie masterly iucisione. Tide will, we doubt not, be considered awful in them snobbishly superfine days of dreary dinner perforneuge et a table with sot (tithes. to which thme doomed to the social treadmill ere enedennied. We am of those Wee old-fashioned folks who thought, end Mill think, that a savoury Mice on a hottest of Metes acquired additional flavour when dispensed by the friendly hand of such a man as Chimney. Astor the the only tolerable mode—which would now be universally I *tented as " low "—in to place the clear gravy that mulleins with an additional sanely made from venison meat only, without % particle of fat, over the spirit lamp of the oilver hash dish which with the cold haunch and neck mutt be on the table. Cnt the Mime youreelf, and when the gravy is about to bubble put in slice alter slier, till the fat poem Mm the open uet° the tramp..., but, so you value your peitle, don't let it boil. Your Piker plate, if ynu are a pub lisher, ehould have a lamp under it to, whether fur the heck or the mutt. Our inimitable llogarth knew this. Look or the indefatigable pillar of the church with his wig in one hand while he mops the calvarium et his senenium with the other, in the first print of the four Election immortelitlee. "The vales are coming into season just now, air," mini Laurie Linklater to Imed Olenvarloch—" and there is a pleiteure in looking at s hart of grease. I always think when they are bounding at blithely pest whet a pleasure it would lie te broach their plump haunch.s on a epic, and to embattle their tweets in a noble fortification of puff mete, with plenty of black pepper Appetising that emus pepper; end Laurie's "plenty " was doubtless not more than enough; but it le not every co: k the is to le Dueled with the 'Tyc ho.. The piety when well made and with real veneer gravy poured in just before it le reread, is highly &stirrer tory ; and we have reen a poi judge leave the haunch for it—when he knew his cook. But, early in the mason, when the horns are in velvet and not too for gene, commend as to a vmiwm yearling, composed of the numbles snit trimmings from thejoiebt and basset, Ste., hot., not forgetting trim, vete sheer of the rich and giutinoue horn. One of the principal wen n. in preparing this delicious dish is to use deer suet only in milking the paste. It should be 'Unuttered long and gently; and if reasoned with a light discriminating hand to the proper point, concentrate.' more of the flavour than any other form of cookery. If properly minium& the hot dry dish no which it rests will, alien it et ant, be flooded with gravy of the highest 'aroma,—Fcaccr's Montane, for August. GETTING UsED TO IT.—This honour had been drown to Mr. Trysts, not at all became Mr.. Jerome had any high appreciation of his doctrine or of his exemplary env.y as a pastor, but pimply because he woe a church clergyman," and as such was regarded by her with the Rene met of exceptional respect ea a white woman who had married a native of the Society Islands might ho nipper.% to feel toward. a white-skinned visitor from the land of her youth. For Mr.. Jerome had been brought up a church woman, and having attained the age of thirty before the wee married, had felt the greatest repugnance in the trot instance to rennuuring the religious forms in which she had been brought op. " You know," she said in confidence to her church arquidattiners, " I wouldn't give no ear at all to Mr. Jerome at lust; but after all, I begun to think me there woe a maeny Were woes nor goin' to chapel, an you'd better do that nor not pay your way. Mr. Jerome bed • very pleasant manner wi' him, se' there was never another so kep a gig, an"tel make a manicotti. en me like him, chapel or no chapel. It embed very odd to me for a lung while, the preechin arrant book, an' the elannin Up to toe lung prayer, fetid o' (hearths' Tar poster. But lal there, within' as you mayn't get mod to I' time; you can ',Eye sit down, you know, *fore the prayer's done. The mi nisters ray welly the mime things so the church parsons, by whet I could iver make out, an we're out o chapel i' the mornin' • deal sooner nor they're eat o' church. An' as for perm, oum's a deal menfortabler nor may Millby church."—Blackwood's Magazine, for August. The senate at the London University hallo adopted the fullowing resolution .—" That the senate, alter consitter- the the thrioua .• mode or forwarded to them by the colkgee afillipted to the univerrity, by graduates of thenzdvertity, and by other puttee, respecting Clause 36 of tits new Draft Charter, or the principle embodied in that clams ass no reason for departing from tbedecii•ion to which they have already come in adopting that chum." The cape now rests with the Seavtary of State, to whom the whole make has been submitted. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Bpeetde► obeeem of the propowd royal aimiolsa err Talk that we ere arrived at a turning- per. at wale► the plod object is w have the meet the vweet, complete, ass eatesuirated surrey of the whole state or India, European as well am Native. "It would be extremely impolioic to limit the survey to any mere branch of 'grievances,' when the very things an which me denim to be inform. d aro—the extension of our empire, the treaty or actual relations with native suites in scrub: indepeadesee, the feeling of the natives civil ea well sa military, tie desirable proportion and distribution of European troops, the expediency of expediting certain reams end retnniingothers. The commtesion should take even the Qovernor•Ocneralahip into it, surrey; but how can the Governor-Gemeral iesue a 00MIlliMiUll to _ _ inquire into Mine& ? It is a ckrklike mistake in Mr. Ver non Smith to suppwe that wo only want the opinions of able men on specific question.; we want a judgment formed fur end on behalf of Engl did , and the cominiasion should be composed of men who can rice above tho present entangle• went.. They are to be found Loth in India and England. A commiasion addressed to such men as Sir George Clerk and Sir Patrick (Irani. would bespeak public °madame; and probably neither executive nor public would object to such a &r.retary as Mr. Dseby Seymour." The Economist remarks that besides the import of article. from Indit and the eoporto of our thither, we oleo send to India of foreign and colonial produce . . . and maaufacture to the value of nearly 400,000/. a year— . in 1854, 403,7521. ;in 1856, 404,32 U. Lexie quantities of silver, too, are continually sent to India, as no have of late had frequent occasion to notice ; and if they sometimes occaidun alarm in those who regret the lose of bullion, they are additional proofs of o. large and to sane persona • palatable trade. Moreover, India carries on a con siderable trade with other countries—the United States, Fr•mw, Chien, Australia, andsll the islands of the Indian _ . sad Pacific Oceans. The total value merely of our trade, impost and export, with India in 1856 was something more then 23,033,0301. At present, we way expect that the com motion will be, for a time, ilijurious to trade. Merchant. will not readily send out orders as long as there is a great pmlis bility that they will not be executed, nor good s which may - - . not he sold. The lute telegraphic despatch tell.. us that at Madras the import market had continued brink, but at Calcutta and at Bombay business had come to ► stand. The exchange, however, was further against UN and a large ex portation of silver fur some time may be anticipated." The Saturday Reciew presumes that " the most patriotic opponents of the ' ignominious tyrant of Leaden hall-street, would, in these Home, hardly venture to sug gest that the total extinction of the titular sovereignties of Delhi and Oade is not now imperatively demanded, both on the wore of pultcy ►nd of humanity. We have swept away, righteously or nitrighteoualy, wisely or unwisely, many of the great Hindoo and Mohomodan sovereignties; and it ham been but a mistaken kindnete to leave to any ono of these deposed princes the miserable, but still dangerous sham of • recognised royal title. What are these names bit rallying points for dieiffection Y Of what use are they but to rates deltutive hopes, and to bring the unfortunate title bearer, perhaps midere: Iva, to perdition We hope that we bare now Peen the last of these kings Saws-tae, and that there will be no more 'patios*: into the re:eases of which the ordinary promises of the law cannot penetrate within tho territories subject to the British Govcrn . meat. What hove they ever been—what are they ever likely be—but great slyer of pollution i The soul sickens at the thought of the number of women and children now impel s mr.l in the Delhi pekoe; and of the terrible seenee that may he enacted if tho retributive European army, in but blood, enters that COOrIWILIS brothel. It almeet makes ono dread to receive lion tidings of the fall of Delhi. But from that day the palace will maw to exist as a royal refuge ; and we can hardly doubt that it will be the last privileged home of unutterable mime which the British Government will ever sera to ho reared in any part of its Eactisn dominions." The Press thinks that it is a singular proof how open the arictouscy of England is by lie eonctitution, to tind that then, see now throe ennobled families of the 11.20 of Canning.. •• At Eton, newly eighty yearn a:co, young Jenkinson (afterwards the second Earl of Liver pool) had to deliver en oration in preaenoe of Mr. I'itt, then Prite Minister, and, with great good nature, Jenkin son gave his plata to his friend young Canning, who first attracted Mr. l'itt's notice on that day. His school ex penses were defrayal by a relative enga,- - ed in commercial life, and Mr. llookhani Freru'oaffeeting epitaph truly record., that Canning was ' Horn of rot ancient own, of l!cee orartS, Aral d.oi Antrital before Iwo birth. The son of an Unfortunate Irish gentleman, Georg* Canning rose to be prime miniskr. His widow was made a vis countess; ho raised one of his Irish cousins to the peerage (Lord 0 krvngh) ; another kinsot m he advancod in diplo matic ureic° (Lord Stratford de Red life) ; and the son of ' the Ludlam orphan' (u deacribed by Mr. Ifookham Frero) is now Governor-General of India: At Ina farewell i dinner tau, noble rismunt uttered a generous and truly filial aspiration that he might show that ha was worthy of wearing his hereditary coronet. We cordially echo that prayer. Some of his advisers hero broken down; but in each vircum atanees a man of inherent vigour would rise with the emer gencies, and we sint•croly trust that Lord Canning will prove • brilliant exception to the general rule that the sons of fa mous men are failures. He is of Anglo-Irish extraction, and Anglo-Irish names, like those of Sir Eyre Coote, Lord Macartnoy, the two Wellesleys, the Marquis of Hastings, and (Ahem, chino brilliantly in the eventful annals of our Indian empire." The Record has no doubt that one of Mr. Wal pU,.'s amendments in committee on the Matrimonial Causes Bill will be conceded by the government. " When a civil menisge is as valid an one sanctioned by the Church, no elergyinun ought to be co:veiled to solemnise the merriage of those who have been divorced fa adultery. We are there fore happy to 'CAM that there is no prospect of thin hardship being oaf .reed on the clergy. 'rho matter should be left to their own option, and them publicly convicted of adultery have no right to denoted in regard to marriage that any public revegnition of it should be made by those who may entertain scruples an to its propriety:" To create a secretary of state for Indian affairs is a suggestion which we (Leader) think the Boum of Commons could not for a moment entertain, mince it is • proposal which would invest a corrupt cabinet with a power of despotic patronage eufficient to taint every pouree of legislation. Tho salaries at the disposal of tic" premier would suffice to secure him—so long ae politicians are to be bought and amid—an 'mount of influence which could be tolerated in no constitutional country. Of what use destroying Old Serum if corruption is to riot in Bengal" A hundred golden prizes would be entrusted to the premier of the day, end this we conceive is not a desirable result. Yet there must be a responsibility, there must be patronage, and it appears to many who bane stuttiud the exigencies of our Indian empire, that rho Board of Control might be merged in a court similar in constitution to that in Leadenhiell-street, but appointed by parliament, and retiring by rotation. An idea of :bin kind should be taken for what it ire worth; but it is obvious that the exist ing system hes foiled. The Weekly Dispatch says :—A "claw me claw thee" measure has been concocted between the corporation and the government, which bus ended in a Thames Con fervency Bill, whereby, among other things, one-third of the whole taxes, fees, rents, and licewse paymenta to bo levied by the bill on the what ea and shipping of the Thames, are to be paid over to the Queen and her family for their private use, as part of the hereditary revenues of the crown ! The Treasury, it is said, promote the bill, while it is entirely die reliAlled by the Woods end Forests. Coroner Wekley has agitated the principal member. of the government god opposition. lie asks if the conservancy of the greet metro politan river is to be handed over to a parcel of tailors and cobblers, when at this moment a frightful pestilence is threatened by the revolting foulness! of the stream, polluted by their past mianuinegenient. The /tenth at present Is literally horrible. Coalheavers and lightermen daily sicken with the smell. " That Sir Henry Barnard had not yet attacked Delhi," says the United &Trice Gazette, "will awaken no surprise. The mutineers are in much greater force than hinmelf, and are led by men who have 'set squadrons in the field, and something of the division of a battle know.' The Native commissioced officers, bad as they generally are, have risen with the occasion, and Its their new capacity of leader, of revolted Sepoys are exhibiting the fruits of their experience in the Sullej, °leafier, and /With. campaign., The Native Sapper. and Miner. and Native Artillery, who are within the walla of Delhi, know something of the defence as well as the attack of fortified pLece, and we may expect flat, in their utter desperation, they will employ every atom of their gained knoe ledge te belle the efforts of their &umlauts. Sr H. Barnard hag shown his prudence in *grafting reinforrerneuta and era:gent log himaelf with the repulse of the sorties of the Win tar n . IMO. These sortie. are evidences of the dryrveti•m of the mutineers. They will make a fens more, cud Own perhaps endeavour to eecapo. Sir Henry most have enough to do q keep theplair invested. A town, several mile* in cirrus ference, standing on the beak of a firer, can snip be surrounded by a consideraLle and a very vigilant force. It is true there are four main gates of Delhi, end high roads conducting to them, which may be bluekadol eff,rtually, n a g the intermediate spans can be traversed and the titer crused at so many points that the meet incessant patt,lliag s ip be necessary to enmesh the enemy. For all this, by th e w accounts, General Barnard had but 4,000 men." THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. Alhambra Photographs. Clifford, Pitch&lly, A series of views, conbisting of twenty carefully executed photographs, taken from Herr Carl Werner's water-colour drawings of the Alhambra lately exhibited at that gentleman's atteller, in Pall-mall, and whiik, at the commencement of the present leave; were favourably so. deed by us. The photigrapba are by If. Bingen), of Paris and, bring handsomely mounted in portfolio, fume a very desirable addition to the library or drawing-room table. The 'erica is dediented (by permission) to Prince Edward d Saxe Weimar. The subjects, with but owe exception, are taken from, or closely connected with, the Alhambra, a m give a very satisfactory representation, in its variorm aspects, of that " architectural paradise," the grand old paLice of the Mohammedan kings of Granada, interesting Loth from its wondrous beauty and from its being the last place where the Mourn mado their unsuccrasful stand for empire against the chivalry of Ppain. The photographs are oil good, but we select for spend notice " The View of the Alhambra, from the &nonlife," a which the palace has a fitting framework in the sunburnt landscape. "The Gidlery of the Court of Li01:10." with Its many slender and graceful columns and exqohitely gniiLal arabesques. " The Puerta del Sol "(Gate of the Son). "Ty Entrance to the Hall of the Two Sisters," the anginal a charming drawing of Herr Werner's, hue been well rendend by the photographer. Thereon may be said of " The Hall of Ambassadors," in which all the marvellous architeettuni detail and wealth of ornament with which the roof owl weal was literally to drip ix reproduced with microscop i c minute. rasa. The figure subjects, of whick "The (iipey Donkey Driver "is the best, are all macceasful. And we have meth *mum in recommending the whole of theme %jean e+ nitatd• ing many a pleasant reiniuiKence to those forion.te enough to have visited this world's wonder, and to those who travel only "by book," with slippered feet before the parlour fee, forming an almost indispensable companion to filo histoiyea legend that treats of the noble worth and "stately grandeur" of the bygone Moors of Spain. AMERICAN EXIIIBITION OF Malls!! Ant —A project has been hatching for some while fur holding an ex hibition of British pictures in Awake, the first of a miss annually renewable. Mr. Tons Taylor, Mr. Gandart, Mr. Madox Brown, and Mr. Miller, of Liverpod, are ea the committee. On Friday evening a meeting, at which many leading artists attended, was held at the Gallery, N 0.121, Pall-mall, for the promotion of the undertakiug. secretary, Mr. W. M. Rossetti, entered into explanations( the origin and conduct of the scheme ; and Mr. Crumbles speech, which followed, calling upon the painters for disk I support, was very cordially received. Mr. S. C. Hall, while expressing his entire concurrence in the general object, sug gested some points for consideration, which were satirise tardy answered. Thu pictures are to be exhibited in New York and Philadelphia, any net profits remaining applicable le the advancement of our art in America. Mx. Augustus Ruston will accompany the pictures to the States as director. Mr. J. D. Harding moved, and the meeting carried unani mously, a resolution, "That the objects of this meeting ob tain the reedy and cordial support of the gentlemen and artiste present, who not only are ready to afford it their combined support, but, considering the important interests involved, will do all in their power to win the general sup port of the profession." Mr. Westmacott, R.A., has been elected Pro. fewer of Sculpture to the Royal Academy. The closing soirée of the Royal Academy drew together • company more numerous and brilliant than is usually found in London at so late a period of the year. Lord Palmerston was there, fresh from a ministerial debit in the less maiible society in Westminster, "but,' says the thentrion, " debonair as ever. Nearly all the ministers were present; and the rumours, current for the last few weeks, of contemplated summits on the dignity and standing of the Royal Academy seemed to melt away in this cor dial companionship of cabinet councillors and royal scads. Mr. E. W. Cooke, the well-known marine painter, is on board the Agamemnon, with n view to sketch the nasal incidents of the voyage. Oat of Mr. Cooke's sketches we may obtain some historical cartoons of high pictorial and ble terical interest. MUSIC .4ND THE DRAMA. ROYAL ITALI kN OPERA.—Lest night terminated the opera seam at the Lyceum. La lararita VW migrated to a full and fashionable bowie, end sent off with great Wat s (iris' and Mario being in magnificent voice, and exerting themselves with the happiest effect. After the opera, Madame Ristori appeared in the little comedy, La alleries. This lady's performances are to be conftnued for four nights nest week. HER NlAJr.sry's THEATRE.—There arC to be feat additional performances next week, at the reduced prices. In consequence of tho ~access of Le No.lee di Figaro oa Thursday, it is to be repeated this evening and on Weds*. day next. On Thursday the wean will come to au end. ITALIAN OPERA AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRIL —Arrangements hive been mode for a swiss of Italica operas at the l'iincestes Theatre, under the direclien of Me. Beale, commencing on the 24th of August, immediately agar the dome of the prerent dramatic season. The company include Madame Orial, Madame Alboni, Madame Gassier, Signor Mario, Herr Formes, Herr Reichardt, and other favourites of the two opera house., in London. Amongst the operas to be produced will be La Trariate, Norma, Bigoletto, Leerre:ia Borgia, La Sonnambuto, It Zortzers, 6elairomide, II Borbiere di Segiglia, LlVirt di LOllll7l l roma, Loa Gioraani, &.. The bend and chorus will be selected from thew of the Royal Italian Opera and Iler Majesty's Theatre, and each performance will be marked by that arid attention to scenic detail which the occasion demands, and which has latterly won for this establishment so large a dun of public approbation. Miss Louisa Pync and Mr. Harrison will noteota. me= their provinei.d tour until after their forthcoming season at the Lyceum. where they will shortly appear ie English opera, supported by a good working company. Drury-lane Theatre will be to let from the 4th Of this month until the let of October. an engage. The veteran T. P. Cooke meat for eix nights at the Haymarket, on Monday even*, in his original character of William, in Bbrek- Er Be will be succeeded on Monday, the 10th of August, bp Mr. Charles Mathews, who, previous to his departure ix the United States, plays a round of his popular characters here for eight nights. Mr. and Ire. Barney Williams left London for Paris on Thursday. lat. Mr. Henry Drayton hes taken the Theatre Royal, St. Helier's, dewy, where, with Mrs. Drayton, he periwig to perform three Idle operatic proverbs which have bees so much admired in London. They open on the 10th of August. The director of the Bayonne theatre having lately, when getting repairs effected, enlarged the size of the boost the ladles in the habit of frequenting the house sent bin the seat day a magnificent bouquet with this inscription •••• "A. M. Zerato, lea crinolines rezoondesantaz CRYSTAL PAI - - —A CONCERT DAY.--A 6 IItNINON SEVEN SHILLING* AND SIXPENCR.—FILIDAY , Juic 31.—Admimiens on payment, 1,118 ; ditto by NW tickets. UM—Total visitors, 3,604. UNITED KINGDOM BENEVOLENT ANNUITY FUND, —Yesterday the annual meeting of the friends and supporta' of thia institut io n au held at the Leaden Tavern, Diohar gate-street. The 11ev. G. Pocock, LL.D., incumbeat of St. Paula, Mervlebnne, occupied the chair. The stuted that it had Iron found advisable to cornice the front Moorgitte-atreet to No. 5, Cannon-street West, and watt onto say that the committee had made ouch arrangementethe t all present and future annuities were *.'cured in en ofßot Ina a large proprietary, giving ample guarantee for the payroll of all annuitice on account of the fund. The financial der meat showed the receipts for the pale veer (in-luting • views balance of 62f. 1 le. 3d.) to hay,. Leen 1.172'. I and the expenses 1,170/. 65., thus leaving only the mall bs lane of 2i. 7e. 3d. in hand.