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116 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY LITERATURE. A Jody Holiday in SazoNy , B ohemia, and Silesia. By Wettca Wu;tr. London: Chapman and HuthWi a stroeg pair of walking shoes on a strong pair of legs, a quick • eye, a cheerful heart, and a tolerably ready pen, • man ma/ write ea readable book about a journey from Lon on to Ipswich. It requires but one thing to give it a flavour—the man must like his subject. "The Natural History of B•lbonse," and the " Journe y Round m y Room," are examples of what may be done with what the aupe cial observer calls common-place materials; and while a certain class of used-up tourists visit the great works of Nature, and find nothing in them, publishing " Journals" whose style partakes of Ecclesiastes and Sir Charles Coldstream ; others, like the author of the book before no, give a' pleasing vitality to the picture of a sixth-rate Baton town; or a touch of nature to a Bohemian wilderness. We hive met White before, n a " Londoner's Walk to the Land's End," and we t ad no falling off in the present volume. We quote es we progress. William Palmer seems to have easel an excitement even in Wiierhurg But the arch-pothener was the prevailing theme; and eager invasions on the Incidents or his trial and emcutlem showed how wile-spread was the excitement he bad occa sioned. Even is hill, towns I saw I'rozeta tryett falser fir sale in tho try/sellers' windows. The Gersans i however. thought tLeirs the best law, ea it inflicts imprisonment only, mot not death, in rams where tgpo r t 7 " on is not discovered ta the body of the victim ; and they would by no mama ogres that to hang • villain out of the way, whether or no, was the preferable alternative. While the talk wss going on, some ono was sure to tel of what took places when the news of the execution was tubed from Eng land rd.! , is Minya, was the brief yet (metal despatch. The clerk who received it, by some strange fidelity, read Palmier ma an abbreviatio n of :I:dfireerstra, and within en hour all Germany was staztthl by the news, and bewil dered with peculation.. as to the causes wbi.h had induced the exemplary English nation to get id of their prime mi shits, by so annemsry a yeoman. faleterstett hanget !" @ejaculated one after another. with a chuckle. The following is an amusing description of a Oer man newspaper: I amused myself diving breakfast with the Ervelirp isest r Attuiper, a small quarto newspaper, published sl Bchnesberg thrice • wax; the price twelve ortipeseeten (about hileespence) per quarter. Beer and anumeeneate occupied • large spate among the advertisements ; for every village and every Wirttehaea is the forte!, of any notoriety, promised mute or deaths, an Sundays—sometimes both; end fortunate use the that could announce the military band. Double Layer beer, • penny the pet, waa offered in abundance sufficient to satisfy the thirstivet. Stewed meat and torah sewage' next Fri day," is tho inducement held out by one ambitioue littlealekonse: mut an enterprising refeetioner &mimes, " la my garden it gives fine weather." And, as the Death., dirt:eiger shows, they do simile things in the metropoEr. A coffee-house keeper, "up four stem" sap " My most honoured sir. I permit myself the freedom to in vite you to a cup of coffee next Sunday afternoon al three o'clock." Certain young men publish their sentiments cis awning their hostess, beginning with nowt. mull now tumble Men and so on. A fortunate inalend and father thanks Madame lirantel for the "happy Entoisistrof" of his wife, and pub lishes hie wife's maiden name. Parents 111100=1,0 the death of a child, and invite their friends to "quiet sympathy.' A stray Berlin parer raakes it clear that a like practice prevails ha the nyital id Prussia. A faithful sketch of the invalids at Carlsbad: A remarkable throng, truly : Some with sec air highly dignified and aristocratic', but the greater part somewhat grotesque in appearance. Graceful ladies with those an graceful sprawling irmnets not maxentson in Germany . , mm, lanky end angular, and short and round, and square sad awkward, wearing astonishing wide-awakes. Such a variety of lave, baggy trousers, magnificent waistcoats, end gauzy gowns, that leek impalpable almost art • cloud ! Here comes • Polish Jew with manifest signs of having remained nn- I clean beyond mote tin one evening ; here a Czechish count, ! who leas sot &aprons Lis military paces ; here • apectsclol professor, with hoots turned up peak-war, and toes turned badly ; hers a group of Retrieve glittering with jewel lery; and lime a mis.cllancow crowd from all th e countris of Dnepr, bat Germans the most nouvrous. Of English way few. There is nothing cliff or foamed about than; to sake things pleasant seems to la a tacit understanding, fur dew has brought them ill to one common level. All are =basted by the hope of cure, and find therein an inspiration towards gluey, But who shall be gay in as hospital, among sallow, hag• gad faces, sunken oyes, and gb “tly featured? Some you see who, preyed upon by disease for yearn, have well nigh that all Guth in the smiler wle: lingers so long at the bottom of the box; some afilkted by hypechondriosie appear to won der that the sun should ether, that others can be heppy while they theiniabres are so miserable. The lively MEd., and twanging Imps, and jingling tambourines—the Tyroter minstrels—the glib conjuror, all fail to bring a lush of joy hack to their diadem - 4 eye; to win for mirth one responsive thrill. I have never been mere thankfully sensible of the Moving of robust health, than while strolling un the Wit.. at Carlsbad. Tho following smacks of Tcnicrs; a Bohemian tavern interior : I walked unite the moue, and tried Dee H rya, gat, and es opening the >a , met whit a rare surprise. The lugs room woe crowded with some threere%e guests, in. lading • few soldiers, seated at narrow table* along the sides and arras the middle, every wan witu hi* tankard of beer before Win. In nne corner • party ei gijoies played wild and let ely music, nuking the room oho again with the sounds of 1 - pole, violin, nod bass, and el , etrifyingthe company with their trissrd harmonies. Some, unable to contain themselves, chanted a few bars of the inspiriting tueuture ; Where beat time with hands or feet, and joined in a whop at the emphatic pae esees; e nd ell the while a gruff outpouring of talk ettieggled with the bass for the mastery. There wax • c latter of lmives and forks, • rattling of pewter lids by imyatient tipplers, end hasty cries for pieces of hyad. And over all hang a cloud of smoke, rolling broader and deeper duo pugs and awls went keen tiny pipes. - - - Here follows a true but rueful Slavonic picture : This septet of Nen Brackets, the next village on our way, rows low we se. gra" Into the heart of the country—the lead of the Creche. 'A ide streete, which mike the low wisitewsged hewn look atoll ire: than they ate; • great, seven owns, patched here and there with ragged gra busters with rough logs of timber, nrnamented .1 ens side by s sew sit sciptinsis, intim» looking, es if pining for the ✓isk of was; on the other by a status of St. John Newmark. Vary Mem I De 'merry 1010111 et children in summer even ing gambols ; se lair sr mother. chatting in the cool lengthening starleses. The only living creatures ere a man, a woman, and a dog, ell three as tar apart as parbis. The.. I. nothing stirring evenartaind the & zirhmaai or the chards Blued windows an few ; en opening in the wall, with a hinged shutter, suffices fur rat of the ILOILO.. And for door they have a Lig archway cloned Ly heavy warden gates, looking very inhospitable. Mere end there one of these sat., standee a little open, and yon may get • peep at the interior, IL square court, 1111e10P.4 by stable, lam, and dwell ing, heaped with manor. and ugly rubleir. No notion here, you will say, of the lieu,. of things , . Look at the waggon—a basket on wheel e —the wheelbarrow, the rakes, huddled away anyhow, as if they were Pr as well in one pier r smother. Perigee they are. Quaint oil Fuller says of the Devonshire coder , o, Lie day, .• Veda It is for any to reach their homes being week beneath the pains of • rural, sad rove the power of coy conatable." - You will, perhaps, my the same hens bed: in-doors the same sloverser remits. The room mad' be just eornfott• able, or rather uncomfortable, if chairs on ' table changed pleas; if the higgledy-piggi Ay at cue rm.t were chi od to the other. The condition of rho etten-be ie by an mama un impeachable; and repelled by the pervaeng odour, you will not be less thankful than proud that your lot is not east among the Czechs. We conclude our quotations with the following Silesian sketch: The road continually Tiers, and by-and-by you cannot tell the main track from the byeways macaw toe cottages. Still rending, however, you come out a ..hot distance Ise. r on the brow of • precipitous hill, where pm are agreeably surprised by another Salmi= view—breed, rolling hells of good red land, bearing vetches, clover, ins, and barley, th.• little town of Schoenberg in their midst, and ulwaye tulle on the brier. From the Len., a deep kW and a pth through the lie-wood on the cliffy hill-silo lead you down to the real, where finger-poets, painted black and white, indicate that we have exchanged the Anatrian esslo for the Perron. I roust have cursed the frontier two or three times yenterday and to-day, but I saw no enrtouplionee anywise», and no guards ezoept at Grenzbauden. Other signs showed me on nearing Schoenberg that I had loft Bohemia. The men ere tall, of 'allow eremple sir, and angular fare. They wear long dark blue roam and bunt, up to their knee., and stiff Line era with n Lend elver, and they tarry pink or blue temWel.W. l 1,10 •01114.4 won, the same colour, and do not Look attrattire ; and tiler] is an Y rgoleehe Kircher, In arid' the preaching is of protestant f- . th and doctrine. The town has two thousand inhabitants some of whom dwell hi hoar that are a pleasure to look upon, around the marks-pare. The gable. —no two alike—are peLutod pals green, white, grey, or yellow ; and whet with the ornaments, the broken outl in es, and areadea of wood WO brick the great square makes up a better pinion than is to be seen in many a freer city. Although fta day, the mill turned by the line/arch clacks briskly ; there're Malls of frail, breed, and toys under the arcades, and by the Ale of two or three wrognos in the centre a group of Llue-coded men. They look slate, and talk very quietly, am it they felt the day were not for work. Leonora IY Orro. A Historical Romance. By 0. P. R. ItYlin. London: Newby. Again the familiar task falls to us of noticing a novel of the prolific Mr. 0. P. It. James—s man capable of performing the fast, if he would but sandertake it, of producing a thousand maccessive Dayslettaa in a thousand eucvessito boon. This time we are taken to the sunny south, and treated to a large slice of early Italian history. Although we move in an atmosphere of warlike, savage men, and our lot is cast in stirring times, we are introduced in person to Leonardo des Vinci, who was probably at the time painting his masterpiece upon the walls of the Milanese monastery, for the stupid monks here after to cut a door through. We are disappointed with the conversation of such men as recorded by novelists ; whether it be Bulwer, James, or even the writers of " Imaginary Conversations." The picture is always a fancy sketch, drawn from the author's brain, and dimly—very dimly—lighted by the lamp of history and tradition. Mr. James's descriptions of scenery are always well written: - • That pass was well fitted to efford • scene fur many of the dram, of thee or these days. There the robber might lurk perfectly concealed in the dark nooks and crannies of the rooks, to spring forth upon the unwary traveller when least peepsreal—there a handful of men might defend the lower Wing we entry — there. the Pg, happy party might mem um wild echo of the mammies to their Joyous wage— wed there the Neat might 'anger for Long hours, studying the Mites& shales into which the ground hie been thrown. sad Ines vow the shadowy reossee with tones such as Raw loved le drew. Ter wasawbat than two miles the road, which, ewes In them dap, wee good sad wAbeoneteucted highwey, pew* between two ranges of rocke. On one side—the left beak Ong seed—e stream ran by the side of the path, one tweedy et below its level, but the bank itself could be may descended to the river, and the stream, though dory in some was easily to be crossed at ethers, where it out over fallen rocks and stone*. But what was the nes of craning It ? On the other side was no path, and nothing but tall, ragged elide, in some places upright and flat as if they bad been cut with a knife, in other. swooning the mod wild and en forme. Alen was a evangel grinning face, of gigantic eine, starting forth in stone from the sarfsee of the Mid ; there a whole statue standing out from the rocky mass, es if •scutinel guarding the pees; then would come a castle with towers and keep, ballium, and bar bican and all, end yet nought but mere rock, wrought by no hands but thew of time, eartheurke, and tempeet. But every here and there, from pinnacle and point, or out of dell sad cavern, would spring a dark pine or light green ash ; sod the eight of oven vegetable life would harmuniee the scene with human thought.. The average width of the bottom of the valley, including river and road, might be a hundred yards; but there was ono place, nearly at the middle of the gorge—mb ibly where, in ages far reauge, before hietury or even tradition begun, the stream, rushing new-born from the mountain., had paused in its course to gather strength ere it forced its way through the rocky barrier opposed to it—in which a little amphitheatre appeared, the mountains receding on either hand to let the river make a circuit round a low knoll and its adjacent meadow, some three hundred yards across. A clump of treat had gathered together on the top of the little hillock, the turf wee short end smooth ; the stream, though still rapid, and fealties at the fallen stones in its way, had less of the torrent-like turbulence which it displayed where the pus was narrower; naw sad then, too, it would hips. into a quiet, deep, unruffled pool, where the many-coloured reeks and pebbles at the bottom could be seen, glazed and brightened by its crystal waters; and the white rloudei, floating over the deep blue Italian sky, would stem to pause, with curious {denim», in their eight, to look down for a moment on that fair spot, amid so much stony rug gedneas. We cannot congratulate Mr. Newby upon the material quality of the book. An old favourite like Mr. Tames ought to have something a little better than sugar-paper as a medium of communi cating with the public. Tie Infant Drama. By ROBERT PEMBERTON, FILS.L. London: Infant Euphonic Institution. The great problem of education, which has Fizzled the world for porno centuries, and which has only recently given rise to a prolonged discussion before an eminent council, where every theorist had an op portunity afforded him of ventilating his theory, not by the " dry, useless medium of the written book," which our authar is so prejudiced against, but by his favourite organ—the ever-glorious, divine, all-power ful, human voice, is here disposed of with delightful self-complaeeney in the compass of a small octavo book of alit) pages. To state our "philosopher's" theory in a few words—the " infant," front the earliest age, is made the recipient of a fearful amount of instruction; the "home " is made the theatre of this introduction, and the " mother" is made the sole instructor. llis estimate of the powers of the infant is very high. Ile states: First, that infant men he entirely an initatire being of the highest order—that he is a living inimical instrument, mu pseeing all musical ingruments ever invented—that he is a perfect organ with a natural bellows, of constent motion, with a musical larynx, and a tongue the most marvellous —easceptible of million. of variations of sound, and her. monies, that no Persnini could possibly come up to I So far there is not much novelty in the idea; but the peculiarity consists in the manner in which it is earned out. The infant, when it wakes, is taken from its cradle, and while the ordinary avocations of the nursery are proceeded with, it is lectured upon the different parts of its body,—the things about it, —a perpetual object lesson is carried on by the un flagging instructor, the mother, who night and day is never to lose the opportunity of improving the occasion. And that the senses may be equally cul tivated with the mind, a self-acting organ is placed in the nursery, which, at intervals, plays appropriate music. This theory is set forth in a drama. We quote a scene: Per,ilt It. JOSEPIIIIMeII Apartment in the Gardener's Cottage. Keening. Joi.vrittsz an d the 11MAXT PRINCE. (The dock strikes ate; Inszettota takes up the baby.) J IpierlttNa...-What I is my little angel awake, opening his beautiful, sweet, blue eyes, looking for his dear Jose phine? Coma, this, my hale sweet one, he shall have some comikel (puts lin le the breast)—(J visit me eaters.) Jeanargley l e 16 get verily th e bath ; let the water bs ealy Jag awl beim ersege,. and a piers of old Windom = 4 sans nowldes well aired, and warm the towels kir baby; awl be ea quick as you can, dear, ow lbws a dui to le, so that eveis e minute is procions. Exit JEANNETTE. Jraetrem Treaters with things. Jatearrrr.—llother, here is the bath, just tepid, the the soap, sad sea Mir-brutal: the towels quite hot, q mi s d% septette rosy wall sired, and the powder-box. lovertitien.—Thank you, dear, that is all I want. Now, my sweet baby, I meet take off the pretty nightgo w n en d nightrip, and put baby in the bath. (Josephine washes the loiryoawl tells Jeannette to turn the organ, which plays “Orssw Owen," the national Irish air ; takes the baby out of the lath, and dries It very tender)y, talking to it so feat as ohs or upon the different parte of its body, quite in the Lamp of endearment, and counts all its toes and fingers in the email nursery way.) Jeannette dear, take away all the bath eppuatne. rinse out the bath, end put it by care fully ; pot everything bark in its place, and hang the wet towels to dry, and pat the wet napkins in a pail of water, and then coma back Immediately. [Exit Jciltirgren. J see rri r re-enters. Give are baby's clothes new, Jeannette deer; you can band them to me as I want them. We mist first put on the roller or bandage, to support the bark and protect the um bilical cord; next, kb little linen shirt. After the physical necessitice of the infant arc cared for, whith we are happy Lo ace that the phi losopher it, his system dots not neglect, a httic agreeable recreation is provided for the young pupil, aged fourteen months, by the mother troting long pr. , ages from no such puerile absurdities as " Cock Robin " or " Jack and Gill," but from no less a work than Pope's translation of Homer. M tRY.—Why, sanely yea don't mean to read poetry of that difficult nature to a baby Jos FPI! INP.—Yett, indeed, I do; the philosopher says it makes no oiiirerence whet 14111[11114011 Or what kind of poetry you repeat ; one is just Sc ready imbibe:lea the other. 't here fore you may just as well read the best as the worst poetry. Both wience and literature come under the head of language, and all haywire* are just the seine to a baby; it imbibes any nee, or all of them, with wmal facility. %RT.—Welk I we now, clear enough, that the Euphe nic syetere will do wonders, as it appears, from your explana tions, that philosophy has thoroughly developed its power and moose. Although we do not consider that our amiable enthusiast has quite attained the solution of the greatproblem of infant education, wo are bound to say that there are many remarks and suggestions of coosiderable value scattered through the volume; but while he advocates his " system." in the form and manner he has choeen, we fear that it will alwoys encounter some such reception, as, with delightful simplicity, ho describes it to have met with at a public meeting. Anil the author of this new discovery even went so far ea to enneutee to the awendAy, that he was ready to show and die set the natural apace, of leeching foreign languages ' infant andienson„ reviled the miserably would subscribe the insane to telabliat the new institution. This seemed to take them quite by eurpriee; but after a short silence, there sass • genorel whiepering conversation, and the member* of the seeembly began to ',nip together In small putts., and then left the meeting. party after party, till there were bat few remetning; and then the prewident perceived that he could not put the author's proveiltion to the vote, ea there was not a sufficient number of members left to repeated the en semble, ei that the proposition fell to the ground. Bat the few who remained, seemed to take greet Wendt In the pre positive made to the assembly by the anther el this newly- ay/OmA pbil 0000, mien illy in that gni of it Mating to the nottual w at trains forvign laninous to &Adm. - - Messrs. Chapman and Hall have just issued a cheap edition of Mr. Thackeray's Irish Sketch Book, in which,under the non' de plume of M. A. Titmarsh, &c., he first inoculated the reading public with a love for that quiet observant humour and trenchant satire which have since been so appreciated by them. During the fifteen years that have elapsed since the publication of the book, the aspect of the country has entirely changed, and the traveller of the present day would look in vain for the proto types of most of the writer's characters; but the genius of the author is as brilliant as ever, and stands out in bold relief among the heap of dull journals and books of travel with which wo now are inundated. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday R. ,icte thinks there is no question that fir the failure of the Jew Bill we are it debted in a great measure to the general impression that the present adminis tration will stand quiet under any rebuff. " Somehow or other, we certainly du nut appear to bo getting all the advantages we were promised from a strong governmont. Considering the gender provision of legislation with which the ministry tact the parliament, the defeats and enforced compromises which it lics had to undergo have been extra ordinarily numerous; an I, indeed, on the whole, OUCOC33 does nut seem to have been greater than that of administra- lions which had to litter a dittiVult course amid the map and sawyers of broken-up faction. In the present inatence, the obligation of carrying through the Jew Bill weighs the morn heavily on Lord l'almerston, because there is one part of his policy which has directly contributed to ha rejection. The Cabinet gained the not very impres- aye adhesion of Lord Shaftesbury, and it had, of eouracy the Whig vote of Lord Clarendon's episcopal brother, but the Bishop of Ripon, the yremiees most signiqoant appointment, divided against the bill. The theolo gical partnianahip of Lord Palmerston has, in fact, been a heavy blow and severe discouragement to the cause of religi ous liberty. It ie impossible to promote with impunity the extreme members of on extremely bigoted party. People have . . a diflically in persuading themselves that the patron of Dr. Bickenteth is really sincere in his hostility to a grievance which would been removed long ago but for the Scree oppo sition of Dr. Ilickerstetb's school ; and thus while Ministo enlists feel themselves at liberty to hesitate ' as they dearly did in the instances signiGeantly alluded to by Mr. Ifor , mon on Thursday, the opposition is templed to make the most of the equivocal situation." The exhibition of Sir James Graham, says the rum, at the meeting of members of the House of Com mons, in Palace-yard, on Thursday, was highly character istic of the man. "It was a regular ease of ' Criekbe in search of a party.' He recited all his vote. in favour of 'religions liberty,' but he took no notice of his conservative votes from 1831 to 1845, of his bitter allusions to death's head-and-emu-hone denunciations, and more flowers of rhetoric in the IMMO vein. Ile disclaimed having had com munication with Lord J. Russell ' —a point apparently uppermost in his heart—and he spoke of the ' very liberal opinions of Sir R. Peel's later years.' Sir lessors Graham then, in a set style, talked of yarning the House of Lords, and assumed a menacing air. We must pretext against any stiecieuan taking such a tone to either branch of the Legislature. It wee the tone used in the Sebastopol committee by Sir Jainee Graham, but the House of Commas laughed at his threats, and his imi tation Cruker's ecklaated pair's, in the Reform- Bill debate about Creswell and ' that bauble, the mace.' Oa that occarden Sir Jam. Graham was told that 'he wan • groat proficient in the oratory of terrer,' and it is a style of eloquence not calculated to away Englishmen of any rank. A politic= injures his eau= by employing it, as was found by Roused tha Anti-Corn-Law League Legislators, who mewed to use it as they acquired more experience. Sir James Graham has many talents, but to improve by ago is not amongst his qualities. His displays have always something of that heedlessness which was a reproach to him in early =ye For ono who prepares his speeches, ho is singularly incautious. We like to ass a public man improve, and we call to mind what pleasure was felt, even by avowed edversaries, on seeing the late Sir Williams Ittleto. worth improve every year up to the time of his early and I regretted death. Bat Sir James Grebe= remains hard and =rah in his tone; he does not mellow with time, and his ability is depreciated by his acrid air and mina( ious mintier. It is the peculiarity of this eminent person to damage any eat= which ho takes in hand. Nobody has so often contradicted himself ; ho la eternally fighting a bard struggle against the ghosts of his former acts and speeches. After his 'actual' with so many menthe= of the Howe el Commons, from the O'Gorman Mahon to Mr. Thomas Dm combo, it is possible that Sir J. Graham would wish to dose Lis public carter by getting up a' tot= own glorifica tion with the lieu= of Lords. But we trust that he will be disappointed; sad we feel assured that, while the peas of England will always remain open to conviction from argu ments of real ability, they will disregard such a peculiar tone as that employed with sinister effect by Sir James Orallala in his ill-expressed speech at Palace-yard." The Economist stye there is great danger of Eng lish opinion becoming unworthily suspicious as to aced partiality and patronage. There is • very natural disgust at the administrative blundering and dull spirit of routinewhich has Mane to light in the public service during the last few years. But what is the true moody Y "Certainly not the subatitution of one sort of mechanism for another sort—the mechanism of cram aurainatiens for the mechanam of official patronage; but the infusion of a higher spirit of respotudbility into the management of public affairs. The excessive reliance on the competitive es dis tinguished from the comparative principle, tads to leaven this sense of =Tenability. It exempts our higher authorities from all influence in appointments, and so tends to diminish their answerability for thu result If • mere system, if the Maria' given by examiners are to make the appointment, the system—the marks—will be alone responsible. The end is likely to be as gross a failure as before, while there will bo less personal responsibility than before for that failure. Our adminiatrative system cannot be saved by any mechanism. There must to indi vidual responsibility far the nomination of cendidetee an well as free competition amongst the notninees, or we =all lose half the cheviot on improper selections and half the sense of responsible authority in our riding men. There is no better example of this than the army. It has been inn state of atagoation from the absence of all healthy emulation and competition. But no man in his senses would regard aura= in examinations as the polo and suf ficient matron for the promotion of an ordinary regimental officer. Other quidihmtions far more than oullalanee in his moo the qualifications of knowledge and literary diligence. An officer who could prove the binomial theorem or find the horizontal range of • cannon bell in a resisting medium, would not, perhaps, be necessarily fit to command In the field. The absurdity is visible in this case, hut is certainly exista, though in a leas degree, in the civil service, and wo believe it will be found that the principle of ' limited com petition,' es It iscalled, involves a far less limited comparison of the real qualifications of candidates than its more boastful rival." We read in the Weekly Dispatch The alight put by the House of Lords on the Commons by the seventh *seeks of the Parliamentary Oatbs Bill, begins to do its work. The minority of Peers and majority of Commons are both very indignant. There is' a very pretty quarrel uit stands' between ' Derby and Dim.' The former threw out a taunt about a Jewish Chancellor of the Erchequer. which the latter neither forgets nor forgives. Lord Granville takes ory good care to work upon the 'raw' which that taunt has begun. Sir John Pakizigton begins to inured that Derby is 'no statesman,' but only a leader of faction. Sir Fitzroy Kelly is of the mine mind; and Lord Stan ley ban bees heard to declare that, ' for a man of genies, his father is the most ignorant man he ever knew.' Up wards of a hundred members of the House of Commons have gone to Lord Palmerston and told him ho enact either give a pledge to make the seating of Baron Rothschild • government gees time, or they must look to another minister ; and Lord John Russell stands by, playing the part of ' judicious bottle. holder.' Well may men exclaim,' Woe unto you, ye law yers; for ye will neither go in yoarrelves, nor let others enter.' There is a very large majority of the Hours of Commons ready, even anxious, to seat the member for London by a reso lution. The Government lawyers, who really do not un derstand the Nee, and declare that in the fare ad the &deka of the Cowl of &soberer ea Salmons' case, such a step would be illegal, hays fairly 'stopped the administration, and Lord Palmerston declares that the thing can't be dons' Meanwhile Lord John Russell brings on a motion imme diately, the purport of which is to have it found and declared AM sham Bow of Parliament shad are power to seat its EVENING, JULY 18, 1857. writhes on whittover oaths and terms it pi'''es, end the hones seems inclined to ray Pam,' give us tills, or s resolu tion, or out you go. Others look to the sow Reform Bill for a wham of the 1910418. We shall me." and Chins which is likely to affect this queetion ? In India the demand for British goods is said to have received a serious cheek in consequence of the disturbances in Bengal and the demand for the moment is suspended. But the demand for the products of India, the stocks of which are very small, will continue as large so ever in this country, while the feel ing of insecurity which prevails in India will incr.se the ansiety of the holders of produce to make shipments, and to hoard the coin received for them. If, therefore, our exports to India are checked while our imports receive a new impulse, it is certain that the state of the exchanges must be still more adverse to England, and that lerger shipments of silver will take place. Again, it may be necessary for the East India Company to send out remittance., or to suspend their drafts upon their Indian treasuries, which will be the same thing, in order to furnish ample means to conduct the extensive operation, which have become necessary at the present crisis. In this way, therefore, the shipment of silver will be further promoted. In China matters are in much the acme condition. The unsettled state of our relations must tend to diminish the de mand for our goods. But the high price of tea and silk, and the largo supplies coming down to some of the Chintee ports, must tend to increase our imports, and le add to the quantity of silver required to adjust the tabuice of the trade. There does not, thmefore, appear to be any ground fur be lieibig that the demand for silver for the East will be less in the autumn of 1A57 than it was in the autumn of lfts6. The main considerations which may tend to modify the position of the money market in the latter part of the present year, as compared with liti6, are, first, that we may fairly look fur some inductive from the returns fur the extensive exports of last year, and next, awl chiefly, the diode of • most promising harvest throughout Europe as well as in the United States. From all tho accounts that reach us, we be lieve that a better prospect has not existed for many years, so far se this important element of general proeperity is -turned. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" AND MR. CHAS. .DIC'A ENS. (From the Lad. ) The Saturday Iteciewers attack Mr. Dickens, not because he is a popular writer, but because, being so, he makes him elf, as they lay, a kgislator " and philosopher," and thinks himself at liberty to speak on the most important eubjeets. This, they consider, "little less than a crime." It may wall be asked, Why': Wby is Mr. Dickens, or any other diutinguiahcd writer, to be prohibited from speaking seriously on tbo public question of the day I That bemuse a man writes interesting books, he should Sofia the common rights of a citizen is a dogma of the Saturday Reviewers, which very aptly illustrates the way in which they Train at • gnat and swallow a camel. "We do not think, they say, in grave censure, on our Laving written a distin guished name without the usual prefix, "that • man forfeits the rights of society by writing books ;" but it appears that he duos forfeit the ordinary privileges of • citizen and • patriot, if he is unhappily guilty of writing interesting ones. But, in reality, the charge is altogether unfounded. Mr. has not come forward as a public man, or offered himself in the character of a legislator and political philoso pher at all. With the exception of ono or two speeches, the list of which was delivered some years e g o , he has taken no . . active part in public affairs, and atoadily declined rem:led invitations to do so. If ad he offcred himself, like Mr. Thaukeray, as • candidate for a seat in parliament, there would have been at boat memo colourablo ground for tho charge of dr, Saturday reviewers. We are far from saying that he is not at perfect liberty to do this without violating any law except the capricious one framed by the Reviewers; Lot as tho earn monde, their charge in utterly totseicas. Mr. Dickens has strictly confined himself within the limits of hi. art, in pleasantly aatirixing some of the admitted ehorteomtngs of government oilicirds. The Saturday Reviewers, however, seeing much deeper into • niillstone than their neighbours, discover crime and treason, a deepdaid con piracy to undermine the constitution, and destroy the country, in those humourons sketches. They altogether deny the right of • popular author to touch upon such subjects., which arc, it would appear, sacred to Saturday Reviewers. This is mother of the critical term= elaborated by the painful industry of our contemporary. Fortunately, it is as nossl as it is irrational and unjust. From tho days of Aristophunes till now, the linos and vices of men in authority have born recognised so thu legitimate objects of satire fur the poet, wit, or ,htunorist of the day. With . . us such sketches have berm specistly pornior, nori nor literature contains an amusing gallery of official M ap:Mies, from Justice Shallow and honest Dog berry downwards. But our contemporary decides that such sketches are no longer tolerable, and having laid down the law, proceeds to make an example of Mr. Dickens as a notorious offender. Notwithstanding, however, the lard words, the weak, prolix reasoning, and "damnable itera tion," with which the new doctrine is enforced, we continue to believe that a hurnourint in at perfect liberty to satirist*, in a pleasant spirit, the weak points of existing institutions. Ito allay do it well ur ill, and that is a proper question for criticism; but he 6 not to be condemned as ► criminal for doing it at all. And our indignant contemporary may rest assured that justice will be done by the critics and the public, without the andstanco of the policeman, which it scouts disposed to mem:amend. But the most mousing part of our contemporary's aasault on Mr. Dickens is the point at which it is chiefly made. His pleasant fiction of the Circumlocution Office Is, in the eyes of the Saturday Reviewers, the head and front of his offending. It is here that the true Dogberry spirit comes out—the amus ing official gravity, the stolid official real, the utter inability to perceive a joke. They look upon the Cin undoeution Office not only as a complete failure in point of art, but as a moral and political offence of the gravest magnitude. They smell treason in that " How not to do it," and think it flat perjury to call a prince's brother a barnacle. Can it be that they have a latent sympathy with honest Doglmery Y The evidence for such supposition is purely internal ; but the zeal with which they insist, by implication, that they are not only wise men, but "what is more, officers," who know the law, and wish to be correctly written down in the record, memo almost to justify such a surmise. Supposing this to be the ease, it may, per haps, explain the total absence of humour they evince. During the French Revolution the Girondists were accused of federalism, the signification of which the judges themselves did not well understand, and one of them, on being asked what it meant, replied, "He was no grammarian, but it mounded like a very heinous crime." So the Saturday Reaiewers being no Inanaristaand not exactly understanding tho Circu mlocution Office, decide, in the same way, that it sounds very liko a crime. On the strength of that amusing chapter, en titled " The whole Art of Government," they solemnly de nounce the author as hostile to the institutions of the coun try, and as the great corrupter of youth within the realm. The only parallel we know to such ► solemn farce is Lord Donoughmere's motion in the peers to bring the publisher of the Erentito•r before their lordships' bar for broach of Wo don't know whether his lordship belongs to the staff of our contemporary, but from the speech ho delivered on that occasion we strongly suspect ho moot. Surely none but a F.tuiday Reviewer would have thought a pleasant ironical .ketch on a living peer a St subject for parliamentary inter fermate. lIOOCITtL FOR IMSARLED MERCHANT SEAMEN.- At the meeting yeaterday in the Egyptian-hall, the Lord Mayor having adverted to the implrtance of the object M view, Lord Henry Choluintuleley read a statement from the Board of Management of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, going at come length into the sub ject, and recommending that there should be a hoepital founded for five hundred men, and that a plan should be adopted for giving out-pensions se part of the institution. Captain the Hon. F. Maude, It:N., then moved a netolution in favour of the formation of such a hospital as was contemplated. The resolution won carried, and it was also agreed—' • That • building be raised on the banks of the Thames, within the poet of London, to be called (with her Majeety's permission) 'The Royal Hoe pital for Worn-out and Dtsabled Merchant Seamen.' That the said building be prepared for the reception of 600 persons seloeted from the ditferent grades of the 'percentile marine, and that it be commenced as soon as there is • fair prospect of 60,00 W. being subscribed, and that u pl in of out-pensions bo grafted on the institution." Mr. W. Phillips moved the nest resolution, to the effect that the meeting viewed with much satisfaction the donation o_f 600 W. from the corporation of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society in aid of the movement for the foundation of tho pro pearl boapital, and pledged itself to use its utmost endive vows to carry out MO noble and important an object. The motion woo seconded by Mr. Montagu Gore, and carried. Other revolutions of a businese character were vreetl to, and thanks to the Lord Mayor concluded the pro.egs. lIOT.II, AGRICULTURAL SOCIFTY.—Tho annual exhibition of thia society commences at Salisbury on Tues day n. ; and the South-Westem directors have made littoral arrangements for the accommodation of the public on their line, en slant trains running between London and Sa lisbury throughout the day at reduced fares; whilst return tickets will be issued, available from the 20th to the With July. Armagoinents kayo also been made for giving constant com munication between Ilasingetoke and Salisbury, Winchester and Salisbury, l'urtemouth, Gosport, and Southampton. &c., In etch CM* the return tickets pain available from the Mon day to rrlday. YURTIIRR MEASURES FOR INDIA. (Firm the Spectator.) So far as one can trust the accounts of an olien race with whom our sympathies are almost a. imps i fact as our information has been, we are able to arrive at something like a proximate aka of the revolt in Bengal, both se to ita character and extension. The morn the movement has . . developed itself, the more it bears the aspect of being es it has hen celled, a " greet Brahmin conspiracy of the Bengal may." It hes probably not been without allies among the Musselmiuts, from a sympathy with the Modal Natives splint the preeelytism of Christian officers; Out the more we see of the diadbeted fore, the larger appears the proportion of the Bruhntioiad element, and the more distinct the fact that the insuneetion has taken effect only ;- in the army. This i, remarkable, since tho nkishs and nemindarn eliped.illy in the outlying proving:Go, have nut unfrequently shown a diapoeitien to contumacy spinet British authority; and yet, with one or two ex ceptions that warmly merit attention, they have not taken opportually of throwing off their allegiance, but rather tber•Velle. Been new that the quondam cunquerors appear as heaves and outinets, rajahs and semindars have auted an protectors; as if their natural shrewdness enabled them to perceive greater advantage. in speculating upon future re wards from the British (tun in any pees.iblu success of the Brahminicul rebellion. This negative evidence is almost _.„ more important than the positive evidence afforded by the address from the inhabitants of Calcutta, " breathing the utmost loyalty,' and so forth. The ineurrection, then, is confined to the ikagal Presi dency, and within that presidency to the army being insti gated principally by Brahminiciad ides. as hostile to Chi isti anity and proselytism. It is nit impossible that there may have been all kinds of intrigues macaw the disaffected; but the incidents which preceded the outbreak, the conduct of those ringleaders who have been seized, and the behaviour of the soldiers, all indicate that the mutinous departure of the Brahmin soldiers from the British flag is a species of protest against interference with their religious usages ; for it some have set out for Delhi, others seem simply to have departed, dispernd. Even in these brief accounts we 100 many confirmations of the belief which we have derived from Anglu-indiane, that the It indsio is a tract able animal when he is managed with intellirence, intract able when his European manager. are negligent or indis creet. We are not now trusting to assuranom—they ire of . . little worth. The last mail but two was preceded by SIZIUSIIIeI that the native regiments were loyal; the last mail but one, by asuren , re that tho mutiny would bo confined to two regiments; the hint mail, by aesur.mces tnat ' the rebellious city of Delhi would be captured. In confirma tion it wee observed thst the public oecurities in the Indian ' markets, end specially at Bombay, had not been effected by the intelligence from the Nor'.': we now flud something like a money-limit% panic at Bombay. Nor do we rater only to there regiment. which remain loyal, but we observe how much the conduct of the men taken its form and course from the conduct of their superiors. Sir henry Lawrenceseems effectually to hero eat abort the revolt in Lueknow by the vigour end decision of his conduct, al other eftleers I have done In some other places. The distinctions between the individual regiments in Bengal are cenlirmed by the still broader distinction between the *rely of that presidency and the armies of Madras and Bombay ; the men of the latter, especially, having at some pants of rollout resisted every temptation to mutiny or dome. Thus reviewed, we find the movement to be a revolt of oemidarbarien sectaries against European mismanagement. A correspondent expreeses it cal :eilly by raying that the men, who are half-children in understanding, are actuated by the same spirit that animates !schoolboys in a " laying out." The more the character of the outbreel ia known, the more clearly we perceive tho nature and probable extension of the ineariuren, counteractive and preventive, for the future. The European forces have to be fin -mewed in number. At the same time, wo aro justified by the opinion of many Anglo-Indians, that a wavniful con sumption of Europs-au soldiere is not ueomeary, if the Ewe peens be properly distributed among the Natives and if the Natives be property managed. The mauling out of 25,000 soldiers will net calumet the measure* to be taken on this Me, The reinfereenient of the staff to equally uere.eary, and must be equally prompt : end we most include the civil as well as the military ntalf fur it in clear that • greet num ber of active, able, and intelligent ofIl! ids, will be required to manage and preteet European interests in the disturbed provinces. In their working, however, all these measure threaten to be !dower than the march of carafe box been hitherto. Even if Delhi be retaken, s considerable time will be required to cure or tout out the &teased portion of the Bengal army. The meet trying PUII , IIIII of the year were cowing on, and we have yet to ascertain how far other regimeuta may not have waited for that opportunity. Meanwhile, we foresee that wo shall be called upon to pay a heavy bill, although we have no enlightenment u to the practical nun curve taken, or centemplated, to prevent the incur ring of such bille for the future. We shill not learn much even about the Hest stage of l'ailiament will be diepereed for the reees. Our ritresentatives will leave Indian affairs at the wary of the mutineers, the Indian seasons, the In lian eydem, and the executive in both coun tries, which bee brim so far surprised. Wo are but at the beginning of • course of expenditure which will probably proceed at an accelerating rate and on an enlarging scale. The trucot economy would oonsist in laying out the public money effectually at the commencement. Some part of the causes which have led to the present Mate of affairs hive been ascribed to the divided authority, and tbo oonsequent weakening of administration. Allu sions have been made to &theorem between the and tho laf C. though we were amend by ministers in parliaut. nt that they bad not differed more then gentlamen shoula. Whoeo counsel prevailed—that of the civil governor, or that of the military Commastler Y What securities have been taken that there shall be no ohs:meting or enfeebling differences of counsel between t'm Governor-General and the new Commander whom be has just ail...cited in &Algal? What position does the East laths Coutputy occupy in these councila? How far will it reams a voice to moist, or to for bid? Them ere questions which concern the future as much as the present ; and in separating at so critical a period, Parliament might well expect to have a distinct esplanution. REDUCTIOX IN TUE RAVE RATE OP DISCO [-VT. (From the Ecomemi+l) There is nothing in the published state of the bank amounts, which would appeu to justify the reduction which kas been uwdo by thu bank in tho rate of diwount, and looking to rho neknovnodged madame and ability with which the affairs of the bank have Lea couduvted for a long time past, it is fair to roppose that during the week the bullion has comiderahly increwcd, while the demand fur accommodation Las Menem leer urgent. . _ . -- The accounta publiabcd t hie day made op to the abuse of hat week, as compared with thoseol till preceding week, alma - nen increase of bullion to the amount only et 75,000!., while the reserve of 110iCA chows a der reuse of 421,56:4. It is true that the amount advanced upon privute aceurities shown &decrease in tho week of no leas than 2,660,0001., caused by the repay ment of short loans maid in anticipation of the payment cf the dividends. It is, therefore, a fair inference that the con dition of the bank woo considerably improved during tho present week —and this again furnishes another proof of the advantage which the public would deriea from an earlier publication of the accounts. After the experience of last year, it would however be somewhat premature to conclude that the reduction which the present state of the market appears to justify, will be permanent. At the corresponding period in 1850 to that when we aro now writinv,, tho bullion in the Baal was 12,331.030/. and the mauve of notes 6,321,6001., while the rate of discount wee 4} per cent. Thu continued drain of silver to tho East, and the consequent drain of gold from this country to the continent in exchange for silver throughout the autann, led in the month of October to a reduction of the amain' of bullion to 9,638,0061., and to a rise in the rate of discount to 6 and 7 per cent. In the present year that drain has continued, and in a greatly aggravated form; and the most important question at this moment, is whether it will continuo for the reatafsalte of the year. If it does, there is no rum why a similar result should not happen as was experienced In ISM. The other great causes for an Increased demand fee capital appear equally strong now as than. Speculation may be temporarily chocked in France, but the trade of this country requiring a constantly increa sing capital seems to be progressing eo feet eu it dill a year ago, What, then, is the probable courai of events in India THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. On Monday next the models contributed by the sculptors of Europe for the Wellington monument in ss. the public a Paul's Cathedral, will be thrown opru Westminster Hall. A new attraction hoe been added to the National Collection of Pictures in a rep'ira of Itotribrandes "Niglg. Wide h." The original picture ie at Atu-terdaol. Tye now secured for tho nation is a beque.4 frau the Imo X I% Ho'ford, of Hanover-vinare, and has Foluotitoes ucribed to Gerard-Dow. A general meeting of the London and Middleaq Arany,logical Society will he held on Tue.lny, at the lowa of London, on which ocs , ion the Whits Tower, with s t John's Chapel, &c., the carious towers, the at no, a 6 e , ke : will be shifted and examined, and brief dee riptire notiots the historical asnociationn, the tortifbaitiLni, the en Sa kum and the armouries of thin celebrated Cativo will Le Owe hf some of the leading ntemberr. It ie pr . dto hold oteeti ii i of the rorioty, early In the autumn, At VA AJA q and at ll.unptou Court. The British NI useum is, we L:terary Geatio understand, soon to be enriched by a new i oltsetion of saw. guides. These, the fruit of the reward.* instituted g 13udrun, the ancient Haliearnamus, by C. N. wtou, Majesty's consul at Mitylene, have alewidy left 1144 i e steamer Gorgon, and arc expected to arrive in this cont,, in the course of a few days. They all bcletir to the rea o y a d sepulchre of King Blatimlus ; many data of *w e b , f , A* worked into the walls of the modern town of halm , U m already been for sonic years in the nation now acquisitions are said to be both numerous and sided*, and particular mention is made of a coloaaal steno of ak a % weighing nearly seven tone. The Botanical Society of France has just held ita annual congress at Montpellier. It ekotei Masker is Tchihatchef, who, ss our renders know, has distinguiew himself by his scientific explorations of Asia Minor, its 'Meet, and it made excursions to Port Juvenal, Msge e t emp , Aoluexwates, Cette, Apple, the Path of :What Loop, other places in the neighbourhood, I °Liaising every* e with interest. In addition to ate excandons, the society kg meetings, at which locturcs en botanical eubjects an, livered and discussions took plat*. A tonsiderabk Nth* of l'aritiian students and of strangers attended the pats* logs of the society. The Entomological S xiety of rum joined the Ixdanirts at Montpellier, and tiecunikaugd the in many of their excursions. SINGULAR PHENOMENON. Tho following letter, from the Hon. (harks Auras Murray, H.M. Envoy to Persia, has been handsel to al (Literary Gmettc) for publication by Sir Charles Lyell, I " Baghdad, Msy 23, 1827. " My dear Sir Chsrlea,—We have lately s imaged hats phenomenon as strange, that a brief description of it nay net be uninteresting to you. On the 20th instmt, a few minutes before 6 p.m. (which a here about an 18 us lefore anal), I was sitting with my mina reading ia me Itrsixa letters, when on a sudden I became eentible of an muted °Decoration of the light on the paper. I jumped I% and going to the window, saw a huge hark clout approaching from the north-west, exactly as if a pall were being drawn over the face of the heavens. It mut have travelled with considerable rapidity, for in leas the. three minutes we were enveloped its total darkness, a tint. new more intense than an ordinary midnight when Dada stare nor moon are visible. Groping my way amidst choke and tables, I succeeded in striking a light, and then fee* assured that a simoom of 601110 kind watt coming oe, I called to my servants to come up and shut the windows, which were all open, the weather having teen praiocely very sultry. While they wen doing so, the wind inertia; and born with it inch a dense volume of dust or sand, the before they could succeed In dlo,ing the windows the room was entirely tilled, so that tho tables al furniture were speedily covered. Meanwhile a pea aetoed the whole city, the Armenians and ode Christian sects rushed through the gloom to on. fen and pray in the churches ; women shriekel and boat their breasts in the streets; and the met of clans prostrated themselves in prayer, believine Until* end of the world had arrived. After a abort time the Eck darkness weti Fuermled by a red lurid gloom, suthrat never saw in any part of the world, and which I cancel, liken in imagination to the effect that might be produatil all London were in conflagration in a heavy November 11; to me it wax more striking (I may alm•st ay fearful) Ma the pros iota utter darlusea, and reminded me id' tat "darkness visible" in which the poetic genius of Milan placed the demons and horrid *hopes of the infernal mink This lurid fog was doubtleas occasioned by the rays of the western sun shining obliquely on the dare . . . . minas of red sand or dust which had Lou, raised from woo distant desert, and was borne ;dung upon the blast. ler close you a specimen of the dust. The Arabs here dirk that it came from the gejd. The storm seems to haw me welled in a circular direction, having appeared first from the south, then eoutL-w.utt, then west, then north-west. Afta about two hours it had so far passed away, that we was shit to open the windows again and breathe the outer air. 1; cannot have boon a shooont, for during those which I haw experienced in Arabia and Egypt the wind is hot and stilkm. On the 20th the wind was high ; but only oppressive km the dense num, of duet that it carried with it.—l weed. &t, Cu. A. Ml RUT." .. 9 Prot . ..seer J. Quekett, of the Royal College of Ste geone, haring kindly examined the sprimcn of red duet km Baghdad, which accompanied Mr. Murray's letter, has it. formed Sir Charles Lyell that he could detect, under th microscope, only inorganic particles., such as quartz-watt, a the duet. There are no relics of Diatomaccre apparent; as: though a small portion of calcareous matter was prwatt the sand, yet he could observe no microscopic atolls or otbe organic matter. DR. WAAOEN'S CHRONOLOGICAL EPIDEMR.—It the Royal Berlin Museum they have endeavoured to arrepl the pictures in chronological order which can towhee le obtained, however, in perfection—iertainly not bere,seht l2 scanty means at our divoad. Tho division of the picma into vehoob neither improves the student, nor gives a c;,e view of the rise and fall of art, nor does it leave an instram , or agreeable improesion. This " chronological epi4euo has produced great and ridiculous blunders. Frightful 424 have been exhibited because they were old and filled up cures noloaleal gaps. Of what use ran it be to see that in tht of }';mole, Francis. Raphael, Itubena, and Van Dr.ili, taP were daubers also at work, who in their time were no =1 esteemed to be artists than our auriege end bouse Gaulle of this description abound in the Royal Berlin Nos= —Dr. liraagen't l'irtura Baptista. TIMELY ENCOURAGEMENT.—Whenever Ton Kt young man's work bold or slovenly in execution . , snack 5 firmly. If his work is bold, it is insolent ; if slovenly, irri , lent. But if the young man deserves our praise, kt te 4 sure to give it. It is only the young that can weirs cta reward from men's praise ; the old have got too brio as what we think of them. We may urge them nu sith rit• rathy, and surround them with acclamation; bet AO al doubt our pleasure and disbelieve our pease. We wiP have cheered them in their youth, but now we em 1 41 them pleasure no longer; their ambition is in here. their pleasure is in memory. It is possible. in vu' noble natures, that the warmth and affeetioes claidlimal may scounin onehilled, arid that old nicas beel are still earable of gladness when long-withheld Fyne? is at lest given. But in three noble natures it always happens that their chief motive of earthly ambit has not been to give delight to themselves, but to Ile parents. Every noble youth looks back, as to the dirf . . 4 joy which this world's honour ever gained, to the more when first ho saw hie father's eye flash with pride, dud mother's head turned away lest her testes sheald be taken those of sorrow. It is with the pure hope of gir mg dc' pleasure that he comes and tells theta what he bus 81 ° I. what has been said of him. But his rarest and Deed r wards we keep from him if we can. We feed hue n tender youth with ashes and dishonour ; and then Pe to him obsequious, but too late, with our sharp laurel with the dew all dried from elf the leaves, end we du i " his band. He looks wistful. What can he du bat lay it cl his mother's gravo.—(Mr. Ruskin at Manchester.) , AWARD By THE FRENCIf GOYEENREFf 70 SCOTCIIIIAN.—Some to years ago Mr. John Kyle, view, Petrick, near Glasgow, propounded as • perau'- '. and cure for the grape dia.:lase, which about that ttne s '"'i messed its ravages m France and Spain, the sulphur to the plant. The subject was warmly tam France, end a report has just been presented to the VI: government, mentioning that the cure of the diem , . ,e 7, propounded by Mr. Kyle in 1848, is the only ens_Tt; Las proved successful in not only destroying, but r!"7.3 t t K ho heyle d sue l•ease tittroce , l an nFd d rue t t lie tr‘echm. F ua renc , ,"w h hs giii . e w m kard m a en edro t, i i mo n l e ...,i n v ej r . s u put nchca :m t. fog it, being also recipients of a portion of the same lor Mr. Kyle, we understand, never even dreamt of su ch St,' Dour, until his attention was drawn to the fact in the Jo° newapaper.—.ll - orflt British Daily Nail. beA WanEttam (save one of the local papers) nu nearly emptied by die proceedings of the election eoh cosh end on Sunday morning the yongregalion not raise a tune, as the organist was among the For some moments after the psalm hat been gtverr- ... congregation sat in the most perplexing silence, shuck at length broken by the sonorous voice of gall lain, who said," I wish I knew the tu ne, but I'm teerf,' lbi not." Some adventurous voice gave the key-noin,la' taw was taken and sung. MUSIC 4:VD TILE What is termed the subscrif tainate tonight (Saturday) at He Verdi's Trariata ; but next Month Oentatinen will be commenced, to to KOnle• None di Fiy•tro and Reath boned as works to be ;Awn for the ti At the Royal Italian Op Halfe't Loria will b 3 the next 1 Daivenally allowed to be one of the mentations ever witoosrol. Next I will be given with Goldoni's eon Km,. Ristori. _ _ . It is said that Miss Louisa 0, th e , (Ip e e. .• hick is to be Theatre during the winter Fraulein JAannah Wagner 1 departure free save until the engagement in Petlin ceases, and place. We learn wit), regret that I. slangy in in Franco ; and that, th Do boa been obliged to give up an ern for St. Petersburg. The PRINCE , ..N (bays the Ern with its wealth of earn • illustratica the unwillingness of Two* to fore without for th° atmosphere of ruin and the autttr.ees have hardly a nuntern ally. . . The HAIN \RN rT Ilia brought Victims a little lower in the pragrot visitant to enjoy its Pprokling writita . . . . The A DEI.OI I I is ...al relying upof hire. Bartley who hare • of • few yeare bark, the bill, the wb the bill. " " The Ot.rmrt( has an attraction potent in Mr. Rolisctis admirable and can affort to let a revival of a prefix to the programme. At Pet ItY-I. %NE tit- breezy mo% are more in harmony with the n seeker at tki. time, aod the &cotton to be generally appreeLted by the fi At AsTLEY . ., Um, the spectacle In the arena are ht torict accordiuto mer pastimes. The St "MEV ha= added Mr. Ho company, and Mr T, , ,,yr tore is sari the vocal and dramatic troupe that diversity of taste. At 801Ltit's WELLS Pell, the band of balf-a-doren Ethiopia] attempting to furnish of themselve Those place', of cat-door recrec can be majoyed durdtanconsly w. afford, ban had thin week the dec and at CREMOWNE and its kinder' are now reaping that peettniary hni become' as uncerttin a matter of crops themaelves. HERR REICIIARDI This concert Wag given by day MOTaillit, at the Motley Gail( of the celebrated Martebner, wh country. Our musical nesters do that Diarcehni r is one of the gem the modern German school, and especially Ikr rampyr an attained a degree of popula to that of the works of Weber a in its English dress, had a get stage in the days when we had or when the Lyceum Theatre, undm Arnold, was "The English Ope and in fact, in which the bent opt foreign schools, were perfonu xl of a musical country. Dr. More • visit to thin country, would b production of ono of his own stage, if we had piesecced the musical artiste and m are able to do it to receive hint we believe, both our musician intimate mark the cooped and 4 The concert of ye-t ,day wee on the crowded and distinguinhed ar together showed how well the genuine German ergot —has boa Dr. Marecbucr i. a &ennui. character that be tie. earned his artiste, he is a catholic artist, ai Lis art in which he has not orchestral cytupbonies ; his Q chamber compositions; his little very numerous, of the highest r out Germany. Heir, moreover, we may add, his better halt. M the most accomplished vocalists Dr. and Matasue Marceline? a day, and centributel their talent company. The overture to arranged for eight heeds on by himself, Mr. Onborne, Benedict. One of hie gee violin, and violoncello, was Herr Idoliejue and Stpnnr Piatti fal vocal pweec were performed. Maarten." was charmingly en and Male. Westenttrand. lierr "Der Htlaa,“ which wan entbut German cones. " Die Minnie Sclunetterling," sung by Madm reception. Madame tgalde sang severa particularly a brilliant air from a comic duet (with M. Jules Li CAnyelle. ThiA last was on lig ably sang and acted on both si tumult of applause. Another I wee a song, D. &Lifers Lies expressly for Roicberdt, and a time; an admirable compositio woe done by our accomplished concert—and we cannot pay it worthy of the oecimion. NEW Clltnell AT ALui liojeey inspected the new trot has ;been ewe tod for the ace soldiers. It is a handsome iron, and will seat several hie the course of a few weeks by N Weedy and sm ite appeared to ftilding and its o rrangement /. RETIRED OP CICERS 0/ YON/.—There are fourteen pen slices and compensations fur le with the House of Commove, v table, 1,9584 • a principal of II of' the fees, 1,3001 ; three r another, 338/., and a third 1001 chief clerk of the Enevossing-o a principal doorkeeper. 6001.; a vote office clerk. VOL ; a n others of smaller amounts. allowances and compensation' Commons is 8,624/. RATTING IN THE Hood early sitting yesterday. a rat tr across the floor of the House of to the ministerial side, armee vigilant eye of the Sergeant-at AUSTRALIAN AGRICUL meeting of the Australian Agi Mr. Itarenshaw, the governor to the proprietors on the 11 dividend declared of 10s. per discussion ensued, during wh the company are under no made by their late mans from any other cause. S made respecting the state t man said that the amount fo Lion by Mr. Coleman. and th laid before the proprietors in 1,200!. for the Warden of the direetore an amendment was 1,0001,, but after some linen amount granted in preview' , dirertors being twelve, instep RAILWAY EXCYRSION the last County Court hol Ball& Cartwright, freemen Railway Company for the it an alleged under the folio time ago the Brest Nadir trip to Hall end back at a 1 gem. Thu plaintiff took t himself, his wife and the On returning to New Roll Humber, the plaintiff and beg and confusion, and the carriage of an inferior clam by the premiere of the passel repletion. The plaintiff it had contracted to convey I back in a firet-clarts carriage do so he was entitled to rem Mr. Justine. who appeared Bd. which had been paid tweet fleet and mooed dm The judge considered that got safely home he ought tc by the defendants. N erdic