The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AN o COMVIEB,CIAL INTP.T.T.TGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Bank of England weekly return of liabilities and assets, completed to the 7th inst., is of a rather unsatisfactory character. The bullion shows a de crease of over a quarter of a million sterling, and the reserve of notes has been trenched upon to the extent of about half a million. The other securi ties, however, show a satisfactory feature, having decreased to the extent of about a quarter of a million. In the private deposits there is an im portant increase consequent upon the payment of the April dividend, and the public deposits, for the same reason, show a corresponding decline. The active circulation has slightly increased, and in the other items of the balance-sheet there is little change of importance to notice. They are as sub joined Active circulation Increase Bullion Decrease Rest Decrease Public deposits Decrease Other deposits Increase Eleven-day and other bills Decrease Government securities Increase Other securities Decrease Notes unemployed . 4 Decrease . £20,145,340 194.590 18 311,398 317 519 3,123,736 773.879 6,988,972 641,791 13,733,515 742.461 815,817 24,348 9,953.978 51,985 16,620,004 237,433 11,849,205 480,430 Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton Market yesterday closed steadily, and former values were fully maintained. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken for speculation and for export. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about 407,5511., and the exports 10,9001., exclusive of the following shipments direct from London to the Continent during the week ending Thursday last : Gold C o i n —B ou l ogne l2O oz. 17 —Belgium ~ Bars—Hambro' —Boulogne 4,500 Silver Coin—Boulogne 1,600 Pit —Rotterdam —Hambro' /, - Belgium „ Bar s—Hambro' 312,000 ~ Boulogne 5,500 The Money Market remains in an easy position, and bills are discounted as low as 24 per cent., but there is no longer any expectation of another re duction in the minimum quotation. The Bank of England Return published last evening shows that the tendency is rather likely to be in the other direction, owing to the calls which will periodically fall due on the Indian loan. Besides the amount 'which will be absorbed for that purpose, other financial measures may be introduced, which will give employment to capital ; and these, together with the sums required for trade, which is likely to iroprove, will remove from the market a large pro- Portion of the accumulations of available means Which have existed during the last few weeks. Considerable satisfaction is expressed at the advices from America yesterday, which show a recovery in the exchange upon London. The rate was still 107 11,—a point which will admit of shipments of specie being made from this side at a small profit, but exporters will be loath to forward large quan tities, when at the time of their arrival such a rally blight have taken place which would entail a loss Upon the operations. Very little alteration has taken place in the English Stock Market to-day. It opened firmly but has since been flatter. The Bank of England retur n and the approaching Budget have promoted a heavy tone, but as business is dull the fluctuation ill unimportant. Consols have been 961 1 for transfer, and 961 4 for account. The New 3 per Cents. are 954 i ; the Reduced also 954 1 ; Ex chequer Bills are about 355. to 40s. premium, and India Bonds 21s. premium ; Bank Stock is 220, a nd India ditto 223. The Loan Debentures are firm at 981 i. Business in the Foreign Stock Market is quiet and prices remain unaltered. Turkish 6 per Cents. a re 100 to 1004 ; and the 4 per Cents., 104 to 1041; Mexi can,... 3 per Cents., 191 ; Portuguese 3 per C ents., 451 1 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 1094 to 1104; Ditto 4i per Cents., 100 to 1001 ; Spanish New Deferred, 26a ; Ditto Passive, 7 ; and Austrian 5 Per Cents., 814. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign kooks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 54 6 ; Mexi tan, 191 20 ; Peruvian 44 per Cents., 81 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45 46 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 109 111 ; ditto 44 Per Cents., 99 101 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 434 44; ditto Deferred, 264 a• dark The busi ness transacted in the Railway Share i!t et to-day has been small, and prices have fur ther declined about *to 4 per cent. Manchester, S heffield, and Lincoln declined 55., Groat North ern, Lancashir e an d Yo r k s hi re, B r i g h ton, N orth Wester n and Midland, 10s. ; Great Western, 15s. ; 1141 d Caledonian, 11. ; Eastern Counties improved a bout 55, The Foreign and Colonial lines are very quiet, 4 nd show no change of importance in prices. J oint Stock Bank and miscellaneous shares h ave been dealt in to a very limited extent ; o ttoman Bank have declined 55., and Australian Agricultural improved V. 'lt 'TIM FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. (Pram the Official List:) il l 0.4 k St oc k Business done. 220 a Per k , etit. Reduced Aucuittee Per vent. Console Atltialtleb lud. per Cent. Annuities 9si 14,,Et Stock. 223 t ii , E4 Loa n ~ rsouds 4100 U ditto. nad i er £lOOO 2l p sobs for Ace E cunt (May 6th) 96i '44 hegner Bills, 20. March. June. CI.OOO 134 P -- .......... E:560 • 4O 135 k e P RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. e zlean 3 per Cent Dc'rtuguese Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1853 li itto Account Di tto, 4. per C en t. 11 'D ,nth ,souds 6 100 Deferredper 4;ent. ...... Ditto New, 3 per Cent — . Oitt k , P assive 7 4tltkieh bonds, 6 per cent Ditto Guaranteed, i per Cent. .. lO4 Ditto Account lO/ Dividends on the above payable in London. Atatrialt Bonds, 10 Guil., 5 per Cent, £ 81} Coneol s , TWO O'CiAn K. money Console account (May 6) 1 964 t The Duk e an d Duchess of Beaufort will return to tr'n early next week, from Badminton, where they , 1 1 ) 17 e bee n en t erta i ning a select circle of visitors during 'holid a y s. T he Countess Dowager Grey and L a dy G eorg i na 1.6 3 1 will return t o town, on Monday, from a tour of The Countess of Longford a, d Lady Louisa Paken nani have returned to Bruton -street from Brighton. THE CAGLIAIII.—We have reason to believe that the Present law officers of the Crown have come to a decision ° l l the ea.e of the Cag iiari, and that it is opposed to that arrived at by their p redeces sors.-21forning Herald. Oa the 24th of March, at St. John's, New Bruns wick, °be-third of the flooring of the suspension bridge ac ross the P ails near that p l ace, together with the stringers, 114 41 1ve w ay. . e ASI OF THE AMEEIt ALI MOORAD.—Further car ,.k""Pundence on the C3BB of the Atneer Ali Moorad of 1 ; 1 1*Pore, an d t h e p ro tests or dissents of individ ua l c e Mbera t .f th e Court o f D irectors relating thereto, have eep Publi.h e d, on the motion of Sir Harry V e rney, M.P. an Th e detail s of this case are dry and comp licated, IP i hardly i n t erest any b u t th e parties mmediately ktar ested. eland mining market shows more bnoyan n eL , in comparison with former weeks, a good business been transacted in several mines since ou last. n Quares also have an upward tendency, are stea di er i n ,Ze, and show less of those violent fluctuations so often tasrked upon. During thepast week the greatest demand `T al eeon for Great A fred, East Russel, Hingeton Down, Tetn„°f Co nso l srambler and St. Aubyn, East Basset, shar e -r , Redmoor, and Herodafoot. Buller 44te have been enquired after, at 295 t ) 305 ; South ; are flatter, at 210 to 2ls.—Mining Journal of Th, 1 /It3 t . weekly Register to-clay announces the reception s on u Pe Roman Catholic.. Church of Lord Norreys, eldest r the Earl of Abingdon, and by his mother grand : o i er l t o e tthbealtate Archbishop of York (Vernon Harcourt). stated was received by Cardinal Wiseman. It is a marriage is on the tapis between Lord Y 8 and the daughter of Col. TowneleY. we of a' out grand 13( Me back ; B• r . la du k her. THE SUN, SHA.R.E MAIt&E - PS This Day). RAILWAYS. Closing Prlo®. this day. Business done this day. RAILWATP. A.mbg. Nottng. Bost. di Eastn. June.... Belfast & BallPilo' Btrmng. Wolverh. 6 Stour Valloy Birkenhd. Lancsb. Cheshire Juliet...- Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol di Exeter Caledonian Chaster & Holyhead (Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall De. A Do. B Dnblin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. &Aber. Junc East Anglian Eastern Counties lEasternUnion,A. stk Do. Do. ' New A ...... East Kent ••••• East Lancashire East Suffolk St. St. St. St. St. st. St. 11. St. St. t2l, 100 100 100 all all all ti 100 100 100 3 100 100 17i all all 100 [ I Do. ' Edinburgh& Glasgow ' Edinb.Prth.&Dundee Forth and ClydeJunc. Furness . Glasgow & S. Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern ' Do., A. Stock ' Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth.&West.(lre). Great Western. Do. Str.V.R. gna.St Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds... Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F £l6 Do. Do., £9 Do., Wst. Riding Un Do. Southport. London & BlacXwall Do. New, iss. 51. 10% Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. London &N. Wester Do. Eighths London & S.Weatern Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lincln. Metropolitan Midland Do. Birming. & Derb , Midland G.West.(lr. ' Do. Shares ......... Newcastle & Carlisle Newpt.A berg.&Hrfd Newry & Armagh N ewry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk. Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail & Dock Stock Do., A Stock ••..•• ••• Do., B Stock N. Eastern Berwick Do do. G.N.E.Purch. Do. Leeds Do. York North L0nd0n........ N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire.. North Western .. N. & S. Westrn. June . Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton..... Peebles Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central x lOO I Scot. N. E. Abrdu St 100 Do. Scot. Mid. Stock 100 Shropshire Union 8 ,Sitingbourne &Sheer 'lOO South Devon 100 ',South Eastern 100 !South Wales.... all IS. Yorksh. RivsrDnu 14 IDo. Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & Darling Do. do., 1854 Do. do., 1855 Stockton & Hartlepl ' Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. Thames Hay. D. &R. Vale of Neath i Waterfd. & Kilkenny, Waterford&Limerick IWest Col nwall.. West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London ... Do. First Class Do. Second Class RRITISH Pi Atian. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. Do. Do. Additional A Buffalo di Lake Hur Bud., Brnt. & Godch 6 p.c.bds. , 1 Aug.,'72 Do, do., 1 July, '73 Do. do. , 1 Juno '74 Calcutta 'and S. East.' ;Central Dude (Lim.) Ceylon A abarea Demerara. Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do. E. do. Do. 4 p.c. Buds. ,'5 9' Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. Gd. Trunk, of Canada Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In. Pen, g. 5 per c Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Westn. of Canada Do. New Do. Bde., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p.'60... Do. do., '73, do. ... Do. do., '73, without option Madras, guar. P.C Do. do., 5 per c Do. 4i p. c. Exten Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c Do. 4th Ex., do. Oude (Limited) Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do 5/ - 6 7i - 8i 69 - 71 9 .- 10 24 - 27' 8 8 - 90 362 84i - 38 ••• ••••• ... ..d 7i 81 16i —17 i 58 59 44 46 29 31 14 - 16 86 - 88 ••• ••• . • D• 62} 0 271 -28 i 89 - 91 94 - 10 101 - 1024 87 - 89 125 - 127 98 - 100 564 - 57 56 -- 58 83 85 10 12 10 -- 12 p' 87i 871' 1. d lhd - 6 —s6 :105 - 107 93i - 944 - • ,92 - 93 ••• '". ,•. 351 -36 i 911 -91 i 63 - 65 i• - 13 59 - 61 3i - 3 5 - 91 92 2 1 d 47 48 73 74 92 94 4 1 1 —48 d 8 9 8 9 30 - 32 7 3d 107 - 109 26i - 27 78 - 80 45 - 47 2i - 1 3 5 ,3: - 364 69 -69 i 82 - 13 - - 15 7 - 5a 9 - 11 35 - 36 via = IC;i • • ••• •• 2i - 3 6i - 611 IsSESSIONS. I - ip k - OP 9 - 10 185 - 90 79 - 82 77 - 80 4 = ii 110 - 111 29 —20 i 46 48 814 —82 i 214 21 1p 19 194' 2 lid 106 - 111 106 - 111 105 108 191 191 20 21 4cl par ip I 61) i -1 • pl St. 100 At. 100 St, 100 25 16i St. 100 St 100 St. WO 10 131.1 FOREIGN. 10 all Antwrp & Rotterdam 6 —6/ 20 all Ardennes . • ••• 20 3 Bahia & Fra- dna. 5 all Belgian East. Janet. 1 I/ 20 al 1 Beziers to Graissessac ..• 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 31 3i 20 15 Dutch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of France 271 —27 i 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 all Gt. Central of France ... • 20 all Great Luxembourg 7l 7i 16 6 Italian Junction 20 all Lake Const. & Bale ..• ••• 20 all Lierre and Turnhout , „A 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 4 iP 5 all Lucca & 20 all Lyons and Geneva 251 261 33, all Maria Antenis. 10 all Do. New 20 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref 2l 211 16 all Northern of France 37. 374 ) 20 8 Do. New 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 81 91 20 all Paris and Lyons 32i —32 i 20 all Ditto New 3l 311 20 all Paris and Orleans 50 52 20 9 Recife & San Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7p. c• 1 id 20 I. } Riga and Dunaburg ... • - 1 1 10 all Rome and Frsuliesti 2U al Royal Danish l5 17 5 all Royal Swedish 1 A 4 all Do. 7 per cent, ••• 2(, all Sambre and Meuse._ 8 8i 8 1 10 all 70, 51 per cent. pref. 81 9 Bfi 20 all Southern of France 2ll —21 i 8i all West Flanders 4i 5 10 all Do. 51 per c. Pr.. 4 9 94 20 all WALIi.W. of France 241 251 20 6 Western of Austria._ ••• 20 all WeA. of Switzerland ••• 6 all W tesladen 6 all L)o. B p . cen t . prof. ••• 20 , aL Zealand.....,, ••• JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 50 Agra & United Serv. ••• 40 all Australasia B4 85 i 85 1 14 00 2500000 a50:0111011 City Bank 25 all Bank of Egypt nritish : k . .. :t d .. 14 . u n . n . .4 American. 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Caledon... 100 - 102 25 all Col.Stour Vy E.U.&E.O 13 15 £t. 100 E.lan. g. 6 iv , Gt.Northn 139 141 5 all E. Un. 11. Sh. E. Count. 4 44 St. 100 Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils.Direet. R. 100 Do. New Do ••• ••• 25 all Glatr.&Dn.Fr. Gt.Westn ••• 50 all Hull & Selby. Y. & N.M lOB 110 25 all Do.. Shares. Do 123 all Do. I Shares. Do — 12i all Lon.&Greenw S.Eastern 1 2 .3 131 20 all Do. Preference Do 24 25 St. 100 Lon. Til., &S.' Peto &Co 94 96 10 10 Do. Bark. Sh. Do • ••• 53 all Manch.Bxton. Ln.dlN.W and Matlock & Midld 2a 28 St. 100 Mdld. Bradfd. Midland 94 96 6/ 54 Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. E. Count p - 3p I p 50 all N • drEst.s p.c. Do 57 59 50 i all Do. 6 per et.. Do 50 I all Do. Fixed sp. c Do 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &11. W ... 123 all Do. 3 Shrs. Do • ••• St. 100 Roystn. dr Hit. Gt. Northn 135 133 10 all Shrews.& Her T. Brassey 8 83 12 all ;S. Staffordsh.. M. MClean 10 103 50 all WearVaLg6pc Stk.drDar. 25 all Do Do 32 33 St. 100 ;Wilts&Somrst Gt.Westn BB 90 LITERA.TUR'.I. • Biographical and Critical !:s3ays. 2 vols. By A. Hayward, Q. 0. Longman and Co. Mr. Hayward has long been known and appre ciated as au able contributor to the "Edinburgh," " Quarterly," "North British," and other first class Reviews ; and many of our readers are, doubtless, familiar with the articles reprinted in these volumes. It is scarcely necessary to say, that we cordially welcome them in their new firm, as valuable additions to our library shelves; for the masterly and lucid style in which the author min gles thefacts of interesting biography, with the com ments of sound criticism, is attractive alike to the educated scholar and the one who merely "dips into a book" for casual amusement. Mr. Hayward gives us brief, but comprehen s i ve , records of Sydney Smith, Samuel Rogers, J ames Smith, Lord Ches terfield, Lord Eldon, The Countess Hahn-Hahn, and numerous other celebrities connected with Literature, whose characteristics and principles are discussed with free and impartial treatment. Lord Chesterfield's fall :cies and errors are judiciously exposed, and his reputation for taste, elegance, and refinement appears t o b o mere superf i c i a l po li s h on a very inferior sort of "Brummagem" moral metal. His method of training his son evinced no great depth of judgment, or acuteness of perception ; and his endeavours to create a diamond out of a pebble, was attended with just and salutary disap pointment. Mr. Hayward's opinion of the Ches terfieldian system of human cultivation is thus ex pressed— It is clear, however, that his lordship fell into what strikes us to be a great error regarding the attention to be paid to natural character or genius, and the possi bility or prudence of controlling it. He has an unlimited confidence in education ; he thinks that the human mind and body may be trained to anything; that it is our own fault if we do not obtain the supreme control of our passions, the entire command of our faces, and the complete mastery of our limbs ; that, if we will but take teeing, we may possess mo s t of the good qualities, and avoid all the bad ; that we may be as learned, eloquent, graceful, and agreeable as we please ; that any young wan may take his degree in the art of pleasing as regu larly as in the classics, and become in duo course the darling of the women and the envy of the men ; or, without the least reference to natural aptitude, may confidently set about making himself a courtier, a diplo matist, or an orator—in short, anything but a poet ; which, possibly out of respect for the old maxim, is allowed to form an exception to the theory. Yet some thing may be done even with poets. —" If Shakspeare's genius had been cultivated, those beauties which we so justly admire would have been undisguised by those ex travaganciee and that nonsense with which they are fre quently accompanied." Acting on these principles, Lord Chesterfield devotes his best energies, during a series of years, to the task of qualifying young Stanhope to play the very part of all others for which he was palpably unfit. A heavy-look ing, loutish lad, with good dispositions and a taste for solid acquirements, is to be manufactured into an easy, graceful man of faAhion ; to be endowed invita Minerva with all the superficial accomplishments, and inoculated, in his own despite, with all the lighter vices ; in the hope (too often vain) that they will polish without hardening, and be abandoned at the proper season for the graver cares and higher duties of society. Lord Chesterfield might just as well have told such a son to be six feet high as to be eloquent, to have a Roman nose as to be graceful, to write like Pope as to how like the Due de Richelieu ; and we strongly suspect that the donkey playing lap-clog, was a fair type of the neophyte in the boudoir of la petite Blot, if indeed he ever got so far. The tenacity wiih which the Earl clung to hie plan long after every ene else bad seen its hopelessness, is won derful. The scales grew thicker and thicker, instead of dropping from his eyes ; his son must and shall be a modern Alcibiades ; all his old friends and former mis tresses are adjured to make him one; and by way, we suppose, of putting the youth entirely at his ease, he is expressly told that a hundred eyes are watching him and that, if he eventu a lly f a ll s short of the ideal etan; dard, he may lay hi s account with finding all fatherly favour and affection at an end for ever. The result is well known. The only one of his father's favourite accomplishments which young Stan hope acquired and improved upon, was dissimulation ; and the skill with which he managed to conceal his private marriage during so many years, shows that ho was no mean proficient in it. But we do not found our judgment on the result. The scheme was absurd from the beginning : the whole theory is radically wrong. The poet Rogers receives all, if not something more, than he has a right to. That he was felicitous in rhythm, fastidious in phraseology, and correct in style, we readily admit. That he possessed the vigour, originality, and condensation essential to constitute a " real poet," we strenuously deny. Poems that are intended to endure the " wear and tear" of ages, must have a portion of the strong, hempen coil of Genius in their weaving, and not trust en tirely to the pretty, delicately-tinted silken fili ments of Fancy. There is much aptitude in these remarks on his "Epistle to a Friend :" The " Epistle" is a vehicle for conveying, after the manner of Horace and (in parts) of Pope, the writer's notions of social comfort and happiness, as influenced by residence, furniture, books, pictures, and companion?, —subjects on all of which he was admirably qualified te, speak. His precepts are delivered in a series of grace ful couplets, and enforced by authorities collected in the notes. Of course, he is all for moderation, simplicity, and retirement,—what poet or poetaster is not l—with about the same amount of practical earnestness as Grattan, when he declared he could be content in a small neat house, with cold meat, bread, and beer, and plenty of claret; or as a couple from Alay Fair, who, when they talk ( , f love in a cottage, are dreaming of a cottage like the dairy-house at Tayoeouth or Cashiobury. All Rogers wanted, was to be able to enjoy every pleasure or luxury he really cared about ; and as he did not care about a numerous establishment or a large house, the model villa to which he invites his friend is of retricted dimensions— " Here no state chambers in long line unfold, Bright with broad mirrors, rough with fretted gold; Yet modest ornament with use combined, Attracts the eye to exercise the mind. Small ch e a s ng u e s Who leads a life of otfoscbe".‘vthisafitecl small space his home requires, Partridgede s i desires." es. ' iggtrikLike t hePr e e f sb h terian divine who, after pray ingwould call a non sequitur. Ti that all the lady e manor's desires might be virtu ous, —Rogers, after l. gratified, judiciously.added, "provided they be virtu desires implied a aying down that a life of satisfied ~ contractedprovided they sphere of action, should have added who complained they be li m it e d." The spend thriftthere wa s no li v ing in England like a gentlem an un d er f have led a lif e o f satisfiedo desired, thousand a-year, would not with small change of scene, or small s p ace to disportgeirign, The Countess Hahn-Hahn, ;hose works, like those of George Sand (Madame Dudevant), moral doubt, with jectsfor a fre quently form the subjects here very question of their accompanying denunciations of thoroughly the writer'; is fairly digested, and evi dently4tphe does not understood. We are told that says s your hearts are desperately us to wicked, but she 1 instead of tellingthat they are desperately fickle; she, expressly tole us obey their capricious impulses, i inculcates the du e dischargeto bridle them ; and she as the best sedative for of the domestic duties degreef restlessness." It is pro bable that some —'oprejudice may be dissi pated by Mr. FT aYwards declaration that "she is j ust the sort of write r who in ca refully, to be aPPraciated ' " ust be read, and read The sterling inte gr i ty and brilliant talent of Syd ney Smith are vivid].) pourtrayed, in an article cal culated to stimulate the - honourable ambition, and elevate the intellect of th e aspiring living; while it renders a just tribute to the Wit a gifted dead. The second vo l u me commences lengthy paper on "A m erican Orators a n d Statesmen," in which, ex cellent writing and acute discrimination are pro minent. In connection with an an anecdote of illustration of the ora t o ry of Daniel Webster, Rowland Hill, which we Ivfind believe to be less hack neyed than most of the stories relati • ng to that ec centric preacher : The late Rowland Hill understood human nature well. His chapel having been infe sted by pickpockets, he took occasion to remin d the con gre whom mg l that there was an all-seeing Provide nce, to all hearts are ; , open, and from wham n o secrets were hid ' but lest," he added, " there may b e an y p resent w ho are insensible to such reflection ', I beg leave to st atethere are also two Bow .street officers o n the look-out . ,, " Journalism in France," and "Parisia n Morals and Manners," are equally instructive and enter taining, strongly tempting us to copious extracts, did not want of space fo rbid the indulgence. E deal of amusing inform ation is afforded •in " Bri tish Field Sports ;" and a couple of paper "Manners and Etiquette," and ~ The Art on t of Dining," will find numerous and interested readers. Earnestly recommending these volumes to the no tice of the readily: , public, we conclude our notice with a trait of the Great Napoleon, showing up the " lion" at " feeding time : The habit of eating fast and carelessly is supposed to have paralysed Napoleon o n two of the 1110 occasions of his life—the bat tles of Borodin o and L gritica • l On each of these occasions he is known to have eiPsic been suffering from indigestion. O a the third d ay of too (as the German novelist Hoffman, who was in the town, asserts), the Emperor's ener g ies impaired by the Were effects of a shoulder of mutton stuffed with onions. There can be no doubt that Napoleon's irregularity as to meals injured his health a nd shortened his W The general order to his househo ld was to have ' cutlets and roast chicken ready at all hours, night and day, and it was observed to the letter by hi s maitre-d ltotel, D un who bad been a celebrated c ook. In his more dignified nd, capacity, he contrived to fall in with th e h umours ofhis Imperial master, and, by so d oin g , to be of essential use at critical emergencies, when an hour of prolonged or a flurry or irritation might have cost a province throne. On one occasion, when matters h ad gone wrong in some quarter, Napoleon returned from the C ons eil d'Etat in one of his worst tempers a nd most discontented aa moods. A dejeuner ala fo urciutte, co mprising his favourite dishes, was served up, and Napoleon, who fasted since daybreak, took his seat. Bat he bad hardlyv Alo m swallowed a mouthful, when appa r e ntl y 40 • oppor. 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Merci biers, mon cher Dunand. , and one of his inimitable smiles showed that the hurricane had blown over. Whether Napoleon was a hero to his valet-de cltambre we will not pretend to say, but he was certainly a hero to his mail re-d' The Timely Retreat ; or, a Year in Bengal. By Two Sisters. Second Edition. 2 vols. Bentley. These volumes contain a very lively and pleasant narrative of the adventures of two sisters, who paid a visit to their brother in Bengal the year before the mutinies. The fresh and animated style of the work, and the novelty of the proceeding, combine to give an air of interest and vivacity to its pages, which will afford entertainment to many readers. The entire absence of pretens on, and the avoidance of all serious or instructive details, add to its re commendation. It professes to be nothing more than what it is—the sight-seeings and doings of two light hearted and adventurous maidens, whose faithful return at the promised time was the means of their escaping imminent peril. Having all their lives hoard of India as a household word, and having many members of their family established out there, the two sisters were suddenly seized with the idea of forming a personal acquaintance with the land of their dreams, and paying a visit to their brother, who held a judicial appointment at Dhoorgur, better known as Meerut. Their mother having made the journey several times her alf, saw no objection to the plan, and off they started, fully resolved not to exceed their twelve months' leave of absence. They started in high spirits, and quite prepared to put up with any uu avoidable deficiencies or inconveniences of the route with a good grace. Their journey up the country, however, presented some formidable difficulties. The writer was attacked with lever, and had scarcely recovered when her sister succumbed to the same evil influence. They had allowed them selves to be driven on in their ";harries" dur ing the heat of the day, and the fatigue and sun wore too much. Added to their troubles, their conveyance broke down in the mid dle of the Midst, when the opportune arrival of their brother to meet them, relieved them from their dilemma. Their arrival in their brother's bachelor establishment excited great astonishment among the native servants, who peeped and spiel everywhere. Three ayahs always sat on the floor of their roem to watch the progressof their toilettes, and the cushions for the fashionable arrangement of the hair produced the greatest excitement. ' Their experience of Indian life was not at all agree able. They found the tedium of it insupportable, notwithstanding the civility of the neighbours to the new corners. The monotony and lassitude of a country life in India is thus described : It is nearly impossible to give people at home the slightest idea of the monotonous sameness of a lady's life in the hot weather even in a large station ; but I can never hope to describe anything like the utterly dreary existence of ladies at an out station (as I have heard it done), the complete stagnation of all amusement, almost of employment, the utter lassitude and exhaustion of the body, and the perfect depression and prostration of the mental energies. Suppose you are (as is often the case) the only lady at the station, your husband goes out to office about ten o'clock. Now, if you have any children, fortunate, indeed, are you ; those untiring little mortals will always give full employment to any one who chooses to take much trouble about them. Their powers of life are fresh and young ; there is an unending spring of vital energy about them, which even the hot weather cannot subdue. In the simple fact of dressing them up for their morning and evening drives, the languid mother may find some occupation and exercise for her taste at least; but supposing you have no children, or they are in England, what remains to be done ! LiteraMynothing. Until about 7 o'clock you know no single event (with the exception of tiffio) will occur to break the monotony of the day. The piano is too much out of tune to be bearable ; besides, the exertion of touching it is too great; you have written up all your correspondence, you have read all the amusing books in the house, and have not energy enough to begin any others, you cannot possibly sleep any more . if you look out of the wi n d ow the glare blinds you ; and if you could bear it you would see nothing —no moving creature to break the stillness. Just as the Indian poet observes-- Nothing comes by day But shadows on the wall ; Nothing comes by night But the grim jackal. If a woman has a highly-cultivated mind, and many resources within herself, she may battle more bravely against the adverse circumstances around her ; but when failing health is added to all the rest, there are few people who will not at least deteriorate very much, it they do not altogether succumb. When 7 o'clock comes at last, and you get into the carriage, there are, perhaps, only two drives to choose from, both of which you know so well and are so wearied of. When you are out you see no one save two or three exhausted gentlemen, driven out by ennui to take a breath of air, such as it is, hot and glowing. You return to find your husband too tired with his day's work to speak, almost to listen to you. After existing in this way for five or six years, can you be t urprised to hear a lady say, as I once did, after de scribing the dreary stagnation of her life as being agree ably diversified by a dangerous fever, when she over heard the attendants saying there was not the elightesi hope of her recovery—her only sensation being extreme thankfulness. " Here, then, is at last an end of this weary existence altogether." No doubt it was very wicked of her, and she ought to have had diffirent thoughts in her mind at such a time ; but I cannot help thinking it was exceedingly natural. Probably military men suffer as much from ennui as ladies do ; but then they base generally some kind of mess to resort to, and a bibia ill table, as well as the solace of smoking. Besides, I naturally pity my own sex the most. The sameness of their lives was most unplea santly varied by the dangerous illness of Netr, ono of the sisters, who felt ill of a fever, and who was given up by the doctors. for despairing re latives insisted on moving her to the fresher air of the hills, despite their threats, and after a most t painful and anxious journey they arrived in safety, and were rewarded by her gradual recovery. They remained for some time on the La,ndour hills, just above Mussoorie, " perched upon a little promontory 7,000 feet high." The author thus describes the rainy season in the hills : As the season advances the rain is something astonish ing—a perfect torrent pouring on day and night, without cessation; so you can scarcely hear yourself speak in the house from the clatter of the drops on the roof. Down it comes, till you believe every atom of soil and vegeta tion must inevitably be swept away, and all the houses be carried down in the flood. In England there is a fall of about 30 inches of rain scattered throughout the whole year, but here 106 inches must fall in three months ; consequently, no wonder it comes down with a will, as if it had no time to spare. At Cheeunee, higher up, lam told there is a fall of 600 inches during the rains ; but I see no object to be gained by going t i such a place, as one could easily stand under a waterfall at home, and so realise the sensation to perfection. But when the rains begin to break up, what language can describe the marvellous beauty and endless variety of the Himalayan sunsets ! No word-picture, however truthful, no artist's hand, however skilful, can hope to approach their sublime magnificence. You may talk of glowing gold and flaming scarlet ; you may picture the small floating clouds, looking quite black against the fiery crimson behind, and the dark, palpitating, purple mountains, rearing their solemn heads high into the soft paly green of the sky around—all this may give you a vague, soothing idea of grandeur—but the reality f you cannot imagine it ; you must go there to see for your self, and feel awed by the mysterious immensity of God's world. Our adventurous heroines subsequently accom panied their brother on a shooting excursion to the Himalayas, which filled them with delight, and gave them the most agreeable recollections of India that they possessed. They submitted to all sorts of strange conveyances and modes of transit with unshaken equanimity, though, to judge by the representations given, some of them were sufficiently alarming. They re turned to their former quarters in safety, how ever. The numerous illustra'ions to the work must not be omitted in the catalogue of its merits. They were taken chiefly on the spots sepre sorted. Of the extravagance and roguery of the servants of an Indian establishment, who ne cesaarily, have almost unlimited power in their hands, the author draws a mournful picture. The waste and cheating seem almost inevitable, and when the victims endeavour to check it in one way they feel morally certain it is made up iu another. One lady told the writer that she found the expense was the same whether she kept company or not. Another family had an old Khansameh who had been thirty years in their service, and who acknow ledged having saved 30,000 rupees out of a salary of 14 rupees per month. Surely some moans ' should be found to check such an abominable sys tem. The following affords a somewhat melan choly picture of an Anglo-Indian life : " A civilian's duties are so varied that it would take a long time and a clear head to make them at all cora -1 prehensible to English understandings. In the North ! West Provinces, in addition to the whole judicial busi ness arising from the crimes and misdemeanours of some 1,200,000 human beings, he has the revenues of a dis trict of perhaps 2,500 square miles to collect. In many instances the roads of the district are under his orders ; he has to superintend and often supply the engineering work of all the bridges required ; any public buildings come under his supervision ; any extra work, boweve incongruous, is always thrown on the shoul derscivilian'susac. ; and I assure you the amount of business I th . _ era , cumulated forms no light weight for a man of day in t a e Fanghealth and average abilities. Fan tihotve the utc p h er ya,n punkah crowdedA over to yourh sad just sitting su ffocation_ o w v r i e n e a k b n a g r n e lay- sufficient circulation of air to allow European lungs to perform their vital functions. The whole clay is °can picci by hearing native OritnesBe3 for various cues, who are all, you &flaw, striving t o prevaricate, intrigue, and tell untruths to the best of their power. * " My brother used to leave home about eleven (hav ing generally got through a number of audiences in his private office), and remain bearing eanqe3 in Kutch, - Y till about seven, without the slightest interin:s-non for' t:ffin or rest. Sometimes he would be much later, and when I asked him what had detained him, the usual reply was, "Oh, such a busy day, and even now I h are left seventy witnesses unheard, who must go on in addi tion to to-morrow's woik." I am sure the whole time we were in India, Keith did not accompany us six times on our evening drive. After Kutchery, he bad always to go down and visit his prisoners in gaol; at the close of this day's work, was it any wonder he should be too tired to read, almost too exhausted to eat his dinner, or too languid to converse. "Of course, in cold weather, all miseries are more endurable ; but after some years of this kind of life you meet with depressed and saddened men, with earnest hollow eyes, who tell you they know they have given the best energies and years of their lives to a land that can repay them nothing, and that for all these long, weary years of patient toil, they can never hope at home for even a word of credit, much less fame ; the mot enviable lot they can look forward to is respectable on vion. You may strive to answer these moody thoughts with some old stereotyped consolation as `du'y is its own reward,' but the common-place truism dies on your lips, for the man does not complain, he only states an undeniable fact ; and though, doubtless, every man should do his duty without hope of re ward, still, who has not sometimes dreamed that the sweet breath of Fame had touched his name and made it glorious ! Aud then their appa:ently high salaries are far more so in name than iu reality. Nearly every civilian I saw was in debt—perhaps a debt contrac'ed during his griffinage, and which, like an incubus, follows him throughout his career ; be sides, a civilian has to keep up a better establishment than a military man, and, as he gots on its the service, lee pays proportionately more f or every art i cle he requires. Many civilians' wives have told me, when their husbands rose to higher positions, their increased salaries were in reality no saving, for their utmost efforts only showed them more fully how en tirely they were in the hands of their servante, who always expect increased wages, and succeed in making the Louse-bills increase in proportion ; and what cau one helpless Englishwoman do, when opposed to a whole brotherhood of natives 'My coachman left me when my husband was made joint ruagi,trate,' said one lady, 'because I refused to raise his wages ; but he is a very good coachman, and I advise you to t,ka him ; but as your brother is collector, of course you must give him more. On their return route the travellers visited D. lhi and Agra. At the latter p!aco they, of course, directed their !steps to the Taj Muhal, which they describe in the following terms : Who may attempt to describe the TAj I It is utterly hopeless, and no picture, unfortunately, can approach it either—ltalian refinement grafted on Ori ental imagination. It is certain that many Italians, probably prisoners, were carried up here by the great Shah Jehan, and either compelled, or bribed, to aid in decorating this colossal gift to posterity. The exqui site inlaid work—of flowers in their natural colours— which decorates the whole building inside and out, is precisely like the Florentine work of to-day ; and the marble ornaments now manufactured in Agra are very similar in character to those of Italy. After all, it is the grandest monument in the world of a love which death could not subdue. Offerings of fresh flowers are daily laid on the tomb of Murntitz, and I gathered some fading rose-leaves from her last resting-place with more reverence, and treasured with far more care, than I did a flower from the tomb of Abelard and Heloise at Pere la Chaise. We visited the Taj again at night, and saw it under all aspects, brilliantly illuminated with pink and blue lights, when it looked very like the clos ing scene of an extravaganza at home, and you felt dis appointed that the little fairies in silver tissue did not appear; then the tall minarets at the sides were lighted up with different coloured fires, and flsn; weird effect.; of light over the building, till at last the natives had exhausted all their devices, and the moon was allowed unchecked to pour her glorious radiance over everything, and made the Taj appear softer and larger, till it looked like a vast pearl, whose glowing hues every inctaut grew more lovely and transparent, its exquisite outline every moment more unearthly and ethereal; the broad river sleeping quietly by, with its banks doted by nu merous Musjids (temples), and fairylike pavilions close at hand, where happy people who have time to spare may live for weeks under the shadow of the Tdj, and imbue their souls with the spirit of its beauty. Such was not our favoured lot ? we were to return home to dream intoxicating dreams, and wake next morni ng t o have our devotion to yesterday's idol shaken by a visit to the Motee Musjtd (Temple of Pearl), a numberless collection of arches, firmed entirely of white marble, the effect of which it is impossible to describe ; and the only picture I saw doing it a shadow of justice is one I have by a Delhi artist, in which the intricacy of detail has been followed with a faithful earnestness and a laborious patience that would an Englishman sorely to imitate. After undergoing all sorts of miseries during their overland route home, they brought their adven turous expedition to a successful cloie, barely in tim-, for within a month after their return the mutiny broke out. The author has pur posely avoided alluding to any of the recent tragedies enacted in the spots they so cheerfuly visited, wishing to give a picture of what India once was, before the storm of desolatio❑ and mutiny had swept over the land. The recollection of those dreadful scenes are present with the reader, and throw a mournful shadow over the lively pages ; but ho cannot do otherwise that peruse with plea sure a record so unpretending and so animated. The Netherwoods of Otterpool. 3 vols. Bentley. This novel is evidently the production of a young and unpractised writer. There is considerable in genuity in the plot, and the characters are diver sified, and occasionally well drawn. Its chief defect is die great number of events and characters, which are so crowded into its pages, and follow each other in such rapid succession, that the reader becomes almost confused by the profusion of inci dents and intricacy of motives. The earlier portion of the work is more successful than the latter volume. The chief point of the story is the rival claims to the succession to a large estate, claims not in law but in equiy. Philip Netherwood, is the owner of the extensive property of Otterpool. He is a widower, with a son and a daughter. The son forms an attachment to the daughter of a neighbouring baronet, between whom and his father a feud existed. After various inop portune occurrences, Philip Netherwood disin herits his son, who immediately marries his be loved Lucy, and after some years of difficulty and struggle, succeeds to his uncle's property and be comes independent. Meanwhile Philip Nether wood's intention of making his daughter his heiress is frustrated by the determined opposition of her self and her husband, and is finally pr3vented by their early deaths, his daughter not long surviving her husband's fall at Waterloo. They leave one child, a daughter, Annie, who becomes her grandf ither's idol and intended heiress. She is very fond of her uncle, whom she often meets at the house of her father's sister, and is still more so of her cousin Philip. She grows up a thoughtful and high principled girl, and is much distressed when she is told of her uncle's exclusion from the family estate. Her impressions are still further confirmed by a letter from her dead mother, who charges her to follow in her footsteps. Henceforth the great aim of her life is to see Otterpool restored to her uncle ; and after many endeavours and much persuasion, her grandfather at last consents to receive Philip into his favour, though he obstinately refuses to be reconciled to Philip's father. Annie is obliged to be contented with this for some time, and her grandfather devises what he thinks an excellent plan for setting all to rights—the marriage of Philip and Annie, when thelatter is eighteen. Annie would have preferred the restitution of her uncle, but she is much attached to Philip, so agrees to the plan. Philip, however, thoegh outwardly consenting, has taken an unreasonable dislike to Annie through her unintentionally supplanting his father. Affairs proceed in this manner till a severe illness re duces Mr. Netherwood to the brink of the grave. After a long period, he at length agrees to see his son and forgive him, signing at the same time a revocation of all his former wills. This Frank Netherwood keeps secret, not wishing to deprive his niece of her property. Me inwhile Annie is miserable enough, being convinced that Philip does not like h er , an d y e t not daring to draw back from her engagement, thinking that the only way in which justice can be done. Her dis tress at length induces her uncle to brine forward the testament that restores the estate to him. Annie is delighted, and immediately dissolves her engagement with her cousin, who, however , changes his mind as soon as he finds he is rejec t a e n d , Annie, however, is deaf to his persuasioLiz her finally, that she may not be persuaded better judgment, leaves her uncle situation and comes to London, where she obtains and his as governess. Meanwhile, lter's 11799a:secretly, a nd commence a family are distracted with anxiety n Y nie he lrs of their fruitless search. Whence-I: eor leaves her situa , approach, she changes hoeurfora;: considerable period. tion, and so matters go ppi:iyarranged, with the trifling shot on the barricades of At length all is ha drawback of Philip bergvolutiou of 1830. However, Paris during "' and a merry wedding closes the seen that part of the story is very he finally f t r w e i c i o l t e ll i e rs, worh• impro-s• ble• If the author h a d Contented herself • Iv i t h the development of the story as regarded Frank and his father, or Philip and his bride, it would have been better. The flight and pursuit of Annie would have been better omitted, and a gra dual or eventual reconciliation with Philip substi tuted. The great crowd of minor characters should also have been diminished, and the episode of Lady Elizabeth is, to say the least, not very likely. Some of the chief actorsare ablydrawn, particul.arly ' Neth.q . wood and his grand-daughter, and many of (the feminine .characters are very pleasing. The author is so manifestly a new comer iuto the fields of literature, that indulgence must be accorded to her faults and deficienee3. No doubt with practice and experience she will learn to moderate her schemes and conceirrate her powers, giving us one group of vivid and striking figures, instead of two generations of extended connections that might puzzle a genealogist, and a network of plots and motives it would require a Richelieu to unravel. Nevertheless, these very faults may render the pre sent work acceptable to a large class of novel readers. Those who seek the excitement of love and hatred without being very critical as to the manner in which they are introduced—those who wish to while away an hour over the pages of fiction, with out seeking the skill of a practised writer in an early effort, will no doubt derive as much enter tainment from the records of " The Netherwoods of Otterpool" as from many a wiser and more laborious work. The Old Palace. By Julia Tilt, author of "May Hamilton," "Laura Talbot," a ac. 2 vols. Bentley. In these volumes we are presented with a most~ pleasing narrative, which is without any effort or pretence. It is the record of the early y ears of a young girl most singularly situated, and whose adventures are well calculated to form an exciting passage in the chronicles of a life. The plot is most ingeniously constructed, and after a long series of mistakes and mischances, all former suppo sitions are shown to be erroneous, and all previous calculations are proved unreal. The truth is simple enough when it is at last revealed, but at the same time all felt that it ought to have bean declared from the first. No motives of expediency, and no kind intentioA could justify actions that cast a slur on the eh iracter of the innocent, and no causes could sancion the Effect that produced such feelings on the mind of Theresa. Her old attach men ts were uprooted, her earliest ideas of relation ship subverted, her notions of right and wrong confused, from not knowing to whom she should render obedience, or where she could establish a claim for assistance. Finally, sh a was a f ra id to appear to institute inquiries regarding the asser tions she had heard, and ashamed of herself on account of the slur cast on the memory of her imam ; while all the time she was the member of a family that received, and meritod all honours, to whom spotless fame had descended as their most precious heirloom, down a long line of honourable ancestors, and the clear lustre of whose renown had never been darkened by the shadow of suspicion. It was au undoubted fact that what occasioned such a result was wrong, and th e aut h or has achieved a brilliant success in delineating so forcibly, and ex pressing so clearly, the evils that result from false hood, deceit, and subterfuge, and showing fcrth the necessity of leaving truth alone, in its majesty anti glory, to defy all enemies and triumph over every snare. In describing some of the im portant scenes, and the chief characters, great skill is displayed. Mrs. Rosenburgh, in par ticular, is a very successful sketch ; her cun ning, adroitness, and her subtle spirit, are depicted in a masterly manner. Envy, hatred, and malice were the predominant features of of her disposition, and her conduct may therefore be supposed. The heroine interests not alone from her romantic adventures and strange position, but from her unworldly nature and high spirit. It is true she had many faults, pre-eminent amongst which may be ranked pride, but this was redeemed in a measure by her sincerity and uprightness, and she was always ready to own her faults and see their evil tendencies. On the whole, the various events that took place under the shadow of the Old Palace are well calculated to afford an agree able subject for perusal. The tale goes back from the familiar fashions of the present day to the quaint devices of an older generation, and a "glimpse of the days that are o'er " may not be unwelcome to those whose eyes-are weary of gazing on the facts and fictions of the present time. The reader also meets in these volumes with a "Passage from Real Life," which is a simple story that is told with earnestness and simplicity. The chief point on which it turns is not a pleasing one, but it is de scribed with force, and, at the same time, ruled by a sense of propriety. None can help sympathising with the misfortunes of Walter Linwood, nor ad miring the heroic spirit that actuated him in his difficult position. The manner in which the manoeuvres of the elder Linwood are discovered is very exciting, and it is satisfactory to find that the cloud which for so long has obscured the virtuous hero, possesses a silver lining, and that he was not so unfortunate as ho had at first supposed. Many of the ideas expressed in these pages are of a lofty order, and the general purpose of the author seems to be to uphold that course of life which vindicates the truth. A Lover's Quarrel ; or, The County Ball. By the author of " Cousin Geoffrey," " Married for Love," &c., &c. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This story will, doubtless, be welcomed by those who are pleased by the romantic, and who like startling incidents introduced; but, at the same time, the careful and discriminati ng reader will find cause to be dissatisfied with some of its features. There is much that is exaggerated in its composi tion. It is hardly likely that a lady so impressed with the sense of the dignity of her family as was Mrs. De Vere, should have allowed her daughters to visit a total stranger to her, and still less probable that she would have sanctioned an engagement with one, of whose character she was so ignorant as that of Courtney Claverhouse. It must also appear that the scene at Frost's Hotel is overdrawn ; and the circumstance of the first husband rushing forward to claim Mrs. Claverhouse in his repulsive costume, and still more repulsive habits, as she issued forth iu the gay attire of a wedding guest, is unpleasing without being effective. In one pas sage, however, the author achieves a triumph in the description of the startling and exciting. It is the scene at the altar, when the betrayed con fronts the betrayer, when the guilty Courtney beholds her whom he believed in Australia, stand ing before him to denounce him in the sight of God and man. He had deceived her by a false mar riage, before he had met the beautiful daughter of the Da Veros, and by the aid of a friend as base as himself he bad persuaded her to depart for Australia, promising that he would follow goon after. The death of Cecile's father delayed the wedding fer a year, and thus the news followed Violet over the seas, and while the arch deceiver fancied that earth's extension intervened, between the two fair beings he was sinning against, he was suddenly disc )vered, on the eve of success, for if the ceremony had been completed Cecile would have been his only wife in the eyes of the law. It would bo well for the peace of many if such exhibitions occurred in the annals of humanity, as well as in the pages of fiction. The quarrel of the lovers is ingeniously depicted, and the excitement into which Cecile worked up her passionate nature, and the calm and severe conduct into which Dudley's overstrained dignity led him, are exactly the ex tremes into which such characters would run. The mistake that occurred about Dudley's engagement to Eveline is a skilful contrivance, and furnishes another proof of the ability that distinguishes this author for intricate and elaborate construction. It is to be desired that in a future production we may meet with the same skill of design that here at tracts our admiration, with the omission of those exaggerations and extravagancies that detract from the merit of a story, which on other grounds may mot be undeserving of regard. --- The Voice and its Management. By Frederick Kingsbury. Cocks and Co., New Burlington street. Mr. Kingsbury commences his instructive brochure with a full description of the mechanism of the vocal organ, and illustrates by diagrams the various parts and actions necessary to the perfect rendering of au "auld Scots sonnet," or an Italian &ens. he management of the breath is carefully con- Tr i sa Luost important attainment. Modu sideed and explained ; proving that " economy') expounded in its physiological principles, and and the nieth,d of uniting the different Registers ' of Voices ; the acquirement of Fl ex ibilit y, t h e die can sr‘i): Articulation, and th e di vers i f i e d ac :a of the Shake, are repeatedly dilated on, a t i i n i n a c t t izu ctsti n o erous note lessons given for the student's Pr Th ct e work ice. is, unquestionably, a clever comp oun d of physiological science and artistic taste, but we think the information contained in it would have been moregenerally appreciated, had it been g simplifi e d. more Agents of the British Government are in Baltimore for the purpose of purchasing three million feet of ship timber, which will he cut from the mountainous regions of the Baltim')re and Ohio Railroad. DEATIt OF Miss. DONALD KING.—We have to re• card with regret the death, at a comparatively early age, of this acco oplishrd lady. 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