The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

ENSON's WATCHES, " Perfection of mechanism."•—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 31, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Bend 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison THIS EVENING will be performed THE TROVATO RE. Messrs. Henry Haigh, Sautley, Walworth ; Miss Parepa, and Miss Pilling. - Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement. Doors open at hslf-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENIN(4. the perinrmnnces will cornmene. with THE CONTESTED ELECTION. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &c. =With THE CRITIC. Mr. C. Mathews and Mrs. Fitzwil 11am. And JACKS RETURN FROM CANTON. • Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the nertormanees will commence , with a new drama, entitled THE MASTER PASSION. 3ressrs. Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, It. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C. Lec ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. Atter which, PUSS ; or, Iletempysyeiosis. Miss L. Keeley. To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. R. Planche, tsq., entitled LOVE AND FOR ['UNE. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Sole Proprietor and :11ana.zer, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben. Webster; Hulks, Mr. D. Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford. _ . Followed by (first time) a piece of extravagance, called DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Took, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. After which, the new farce, entitled A ROW ON I'HE PREMISES. Mr. David Fisher, I'. Bedford, C. Selby, Miss H. Simms, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington. Doors open at half-past six —Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. • The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson. Followed by MAGIC TOYS, support ‘d by Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINILIS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AItPIIITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke. Every Night the successful Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., entitled GARIBALDI, supported by Mr R. Phillips, Bel more, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson - Powerful Company— Full stud of trained Steeds—Great Military Tableaux — Scenes in the Circle by Ma•llle. Marguerite, Signor Isacihi, the wonderful Italian Equestrian, Miss itosina and John Henry Cooke—Clowns, Messrs. Croueste, Rowella, and the Parisian Grotesques—terminatino• with an exceedingly droll Ballet entitled LOVE'S VAGARIES. Stage Manager, Mr. It,. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETII (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Seeetion from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists --ltessrs. Georze }To lson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critclifield, and E. W. Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant eights of the metropolis. RoSA BONI' E UR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is ope t from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. TILE WEATHER.—SyN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 6. THEILMOMETER., IN TIIE SHADE. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 56 —lowest this morning and during the night. 58—this day at noon. BAROMETER—down to 29.40 ; now 29.49. WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with fine sunshiny weather. Rain in the night and in the evening. Nov. 7. THERMOMETER, IN TIIE SHADE. 59—highest linee noon yesterday. 55—lotvest this morning and during the night. 56—this day at noon. BAROMETER--29.73; a rapid rise. WIND, Westerly; fresh, with fino weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 48m.—Afternoon, Oh. Otn To-Monnow-Morning, 12h. 9m.—Afternoon, 12h. 23m -RA v.) , :; ,- -rk-•=. - , —4,:,, , i .; , 1 ,_, k•" - •,,- • -. , -A;• , ,s , -.1.•- ,, ... , •. , ...: ,-., ~,,:—• •;•,,, , ,-.7 , 73 6- , L, t . • i, , • r f.1,,Tir.,, , ,:.. , • ~ 0 ••_eettr, , t.. a;,,..2 .5 i,,,,,„ *. de __:, , ,PA , / ,r, 4.-•: , ''‘ ' .1 ''' ,-4-,,... THE SUN. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1859. Do British Catholics believe, or do they not, in the independence of nations ? This is the plain question we put to them, after reading the resolu tions of their Dublin clergy, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday. If they do not, then let them give up at once all title to the name of Britons. Let them openly avow that they wish for the re turn of the days of King JOHN, or of THOMAS A'BECKET, and that they think it fit and proper that this kingdom, or any kingdom, should take for its ruler some one whom it detests and whom it longs to shake off, at the bidding of a combination of other na tions. Let them avow that they have not the same love for national independence as the French, or even the Belgians, who have both got rid of the monarchs and dynasties given them by the Holy Alliance. But if they do believe that England did nobly and well by asserting those liberties in 1688, in virtue of which Ctitholics have a home in Eng land, and by the expansion of which they stand on a level with all other British subjects, then let them blush . for their prelates and their clergy who ask them, in effect, to make a tyrant of their Pope, and slaves of his subjects. To Popery, as a religious system, it is not ours to object. We hold each man's faith sacred. Roman Catholics are Roman Catholics for exactly the same • reason as. Mahommedans are Mahommedans, and Protestants Protestants ; they were born and brought up Roman Catholics. It is not with them in the slightest degree a matter of investigation, or conviction ; they have been industriously pre cluded from that by priests and confessors who bad the absolute command of their mothers' faith, and they are no more culpable for be lieving in what appears to others supersti tion, than English Churchmen are for believing in the Church Catechism, or Scotchmen for pinning their faith to the Assembly's Catechism. Nine -tenths of us, at least, account for it how we will, believe as our mothers did, and for this rea son in addition to all the more religious and meta physical ones, we think it no merit that our tolera tion to religious differences is absolute and corn plete. But let it remain a religious difference. let the difference between us and the Catholic be that he thinks CHRIST has a Vicar on earth, and that . we acknowledge religiously, no master at all on earth, but one in Heaven only. With that difference we can shake hands with him as cordially as with a Protestant. It is no concern of ours whom or what he believes in ; to his own Master he standeth or falleth. But, all is changed if he bring his religion f or th " as an instrument of civil oppression. While we th o roughly believe that no man's religion should interfere with his own civil p osition, we equally - huld that no man's religion should interfere with ( m o ther's civil position. It is to this converse of their o Nn demand that Catholic prelate and priests exhibit an insensibility which rouses the indigna tion of every sincere lover of civil and religious li berty. If Roman Catholic soldiers and sailors, felons and paupers; do not enjoy the same religious advan tages at the cost of Protestant taxpayers which are accorded to Protestants, we hear no end of outcry against religious oppression—against their treat ment being worse because they are Catholics. But when Catholic States forbid Protestants to worship at all in their dominions, or compel them to do so under annoying restrictions and supervision, or al low no burl ing place or monument for their dead, or enact laws for kidnapping Jews' children—all suck things are " good Catholicism !" It is only religious liberty that Catholics in Eng land should propagate their views and cele brate their worship as they please ; but it is very wicked and revolutionary, " dam nable" we believe is the favourite word, for Protestants to enjoy the same rights in Spain, or Italy, or Austria ! The Vicar of CHRIST being the most perfect exemplar of this intolerance ! If, however, there be one case in which this unendurable one-sidedness comes out with more offensiveness to free Britons than another, it is in the conduct of British Catholics in regard to the sub jects of the Pope. So blinded are the former with the conceit of making the elect of the cardinals and the religious head of their faith a temporal prince, that they deny to the unfortunate descen dants of the ancient Romans the common rights of mankind. They onlylof all the nations of Europe may not govern themselves as they please ! While all other free Britons assert the right of the Romans to depose even a good Sovereign if they wish it, and to instal a better, British Catholics deny their right to get rid of the worst government in Christendom, and to arrange their temporal affairs to their own sa tisfaction. They brand as calumnies the accounts we have of Papal maladministration from every source which can be relied on. Not a decent Government in Europe has yet denied that the POPE'S government is the worst in this quar ter of the globe ; yet British Catholics profess not to believe it ! We have, how ever, one broad fact which settles all con troversy as to what is the real state of the case. The Pope cannot keep on his throne without the aid of foreign bayonets. Let the Catholic clergy twist and turn that fact as they please, there it is. French, or Austrians, or Neapolitans, or Swiss, or some foreign help, is indispensable to the support of the temporal reign of the Pope. He must hire foreign dogs to worry his flock, as at Perugia, or his flock will not merely run away, it will trample his temporal power under foot. It is willing to have him for its shepherd, but not for its butcher. Let the French go to-morrow, and his Holiness must be off, too ! Now, we ask all British Catholics what right have they to require these Romans to submit to the will they detest ? Is their religion one which necessitates the political enslavement of a nation ? Were there no popes before they had temporal power, and was their Church less efficient, less a Church for the first eight centurion than it is now ? Is the abuse implied in making a priest into a Sovereign, the better because it is an old one ? Because it is so old. that it has become utterly rotten and corrupt ? There is a great deal of nonsense talke I, about affronting 200,000,000 of Catholics by interfering with the rights of their Head. We know not how numerous Catholics arc, nor do we care. Truth and right do not depend on numbers; and a very large part, nearly all the educated part of these Catholics in France, Germany, and Italy, are infidels, while a very large part of them indeed— perhaps the larger part—sympathise with the freedom.loving Romans, and not with their bishop despot. But even were not this the fact, as it most certainly is, what rightwould. the 200 millions to be affronted by our demanding for the " Patrimony of St. Peter," as they style it, that its inhabitants should be free men ? Did the superstition of a foreign Prince, in giving that territory to an elective Bishop, deprive its inhabitants of the rights of men for all time? Did that superstitious dotation really elevate the position or improve the character of the Bishops of Rome ? Did it even render them more independent ? Ilas the Bishop of Rome been more independent just because he has had a small terri tory to be anxious for, for the safety of which he has had to be by turns dependent, now on a king, now on an emperor, and at this moment on the ten der mercies of the man whose uncle whirled about his predecessor as he pleased ? But we refuse even to entertain the question—whether it be for the advantage of Catholics that the Pope should have a little kingdom of his own. As free Englishmen, we assert the right of the Romans, and of all nations, to have Governors of their own choice. Whether the Popes have governed well or ill, whether the people or sovereigns of other na tions would like the Popes to have a kingdom or not, have nothing to do with the matter. The Romans have the same right to resist the nomina tion of a monarch for them by 200 millions of Catho lics;as they would have to resist the nomination of 200 millions of Protestants. Surely the Catholic Laity of England and Ireland will have the good. sense to put an extinguisher on these proceedings of their ' clerics ; if not they will make half the country re pent of emancipating those who use their own civil liberties to clamour for the enslavement of their fellow Catholics in a foreign land. Let Catho lics in Rome choose their own Sovereign, as well as Catholics in England Ireland. There are two wars now upon the eve of vigorous comencement at opposite extremities of the old or eastern hemisphere. To the generality they have the aspect of direct conflicts between barbarism and civilisation. Yet, among all the various belli gerents involved in them, there are nearly trace able degrees of civilisation. An Anglo-French war with China, a Franco-Spanish war with Morocco, might rather be termed, either of them, a collision between ancient civilisation, or Pagan civilisation, and Christian civilisation, or modern civilisation. It were as preposterous for us to talk of the Chinese as barbarians as it is for the Chinese to employ that ridiculous term of derision or deprecia tion in regard to ourselves. And in some degree also it comes nearly as . absurd for the citizens of the French empire or of the Spanish monarchy to sneer at the Moors as a race but one removed from savages. The difference be tween them and their African antagonists is no more than a difference between the degrees of civilisation. It is not only thus under a purely historical aspect, under the remembrance, namely, of those monuments scattered far and wide over the land of the Cid, attesting the glory and pomp and the influence of the ancient race of the A ben carages. It is visible hare, we maintain, in the actual condition of the Moors in their own country. Granted that they have long been and still are to a certain extent notorious and infamous in the eyes of the nations of Europe as par excellence among all the robber hordes of the old world, the pirates of the Mediterranean. Granted that, as a recent annalist has written upon this subject, "the his tory of the throne of Morocco, of the dynastic re volutions of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, is Ns - ratio with blood"—yet as a people the Moors of this present day are far, very far indeed, removed from a state of barbarism. As the same writer has re marked, by a significant reminder, at the Great Ex hibition in Hyde•park but eight years back, the Moorish Department, as many may remember, contained many articles of utility and of luxury, which were viewed with wondering admiration — the taste and skill of the Moorish artisans being world-famous in dyeing, in the fabri cation of swords, of saddlery, of earthen ware generally, and of gold and silver ornaments. We read of them upon reliable authority, " They are temperate in their diet and simple in their dress, except the richer classes in the principal towns, where the ladies literally cover themselves with silk, gold, and jewels, while the men indulge to excess their love of fine horses and splendid arms." It being further related of them as a nation that while there are, of course, amongst them many wandering tribes—" they generally lead a settled life as merchants, mechanics, or agriculturists." The civilisatiop of the Chinese is a fact more noto rious in Western Europe, though more remotely situated, namely, at the opposite extremity of the eastern hemisphere! Among other illustrations of the high degree of Chinese civilisation, it is well known that they have for centuries enjoyed as a people the advantages accruing to a community conducted, from the highest to the lowest, upon a grand and nobly-organised system of = Competitive Examinations! It is well, we conceive, to have facts like these in vivid remembrance, when we are about to embark upon a new contest of any mag nitude with a race in all respects alien from our own, but one that it would be simply folly to re gard, for that reason, as little else than semi-bar barous. The recurrence of wars like those once more imminent, there with China, here with Moroc co, is in a great measure attributable, we can hardly help suspecting, to a frivolous depreciation of the pa gan wars we are periodically called upon to combat again and again. For ourselves, at any rate, it were advisable, now that we are upon the eve of embarking in another Chinese war ; it were, to say the least of it, advisable to bear in mind that wise saying of the Duke of WELLINGTON—that England should never embark upon a little war. Less than ever should we embark upon a little war with a people numbering a vast aggregate of from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000. Now that we are called upon once more to combat the Chinese, let us do so at least energetically—for once and for all —estimating aright the greatness of the enter prise upon which we have adventured. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1859. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERIES. (From the Athenream.) RUNCORN, CHESHIRE, Oct. 24. May I be permitted to lay before your geological readers some account of a phenomenon recently brought to light in a quarry of red sandstone in this neighbourhood? Twelve years ago footprints were discovered on the surface of a stratum of red argillaceous earth, about eight inches thick, which, to a considerable extent, intervened between two nearly horizontal beds of the sandstone rock. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that the impressions were in relief on the under surface of the rock immediately overlying the stratum of earth. They attracted some notice at the time, and I believe the quarry was visited by Dr. Buck - land and other geologists. Since then thousands of feet of the impressions have been disturbed in working the quarry, the stone of which has been extensively used in the construction of public works ; and it is only recently that attention has again been at tracted by the discovery of footprints of a much larger character than those previously observed. Learning that impressions "resembling a man's hand" bad been found induced me to visit the quarry. I am not sufficiently versed in palienotology to de termine to what animal these foOtprints should be attributed. It is said to have been the cheirotha rium, an animal whose footmarks have already been observed in the new red sandstone near Liverpool, and in other places, But it is not in reference to these footprints— important as they are—that I am induced to trouble you with this communication. My purpose is, more expressly, to call attention to an object found among them, which has excited the astonish ment of those who have seen it. Lying horizon tally in the clayey stratum of earth intervening between the beds of rock above referred to was dis covered what has every appearance of having formed part of an ancient Gothic window. It is k composed of stone, but the stone is of a closer ;rain than that of the surrounding rock, and consists of a mullion 20 inches long, springing perpendicu larly from tracery a foot in length. This, how ever, was longer when found, a considerable portion having been irrecoverably broken. Sur mounting the mullion are two arms extending right and left, in a direction slightly upwards. The one on the right is 14 inches, the other 21, in length. These form, at the point where they join the mul lion, an obtuse angle, which corresponds with the angles formed by each limb, severally with the mul lion. Again, from the upper surface of these arms proceed, at right angles to them, two other arms, dichotomously, one eight, the other nine, inches in length. The height of the entire fragment is three feet, and the distance from the extreme points of the arms two feet seven inches. The mullion and tracery are quadrilateral. The side to the front, or the upper side as it lay when found, measures 34 inches across, and this surface has the appearance of having been rudely "tooled," as by the hand of some primitive mason—two grooves or fillets, separated by a nose one inch wide (to use the lan guage of the craft), being distinctly and continu ously traceable throughout. Fully aware how inconsistent it is with the teachings of geology to believe in the possibility of evidence of the existence of the human species being discovered in any of the earth's strata of earlier formation than the diluvial, I feel, in submitting the above particulars, that anything so startling as the supposed discovery of a work of human origin in a locality so extraordinary and unexpected will be received with doubt, if not with incredulity. But whatever the result of further investigation, which I desire, whether it be that we have in this fragment a human production, or simply the effect of some freak of nature, there is still the question to be solved " How came it to be placed in the si tuation in which it was found ?" Of the fact of its having been so found the proofs are unexcep tionable. The foreman, or clerk, of the works, Mr. J. Widders, an intelligent young man, was present at the time' and superintended the removal— which, however, was not effected without its being unfortunately broken into several pieces. Ile like wise has in his possession apiece of rock, on which are footprints, which was removed from imme diately above—in fact, overlying it, and which formed part of the under side of a bed of superim posed rock from 20 to 30 feet in thickness. With respect to the nature of this rock, it will be scarcely necessary to say that it is understood to be regarded by geologists as of the new red sandstone formation, being continuous, for many miles distant, with the Sandstone now being quar ried in various places, and associated with the celebrated salt rock of this county—a characteristic of the red sandstone system. HENRY WILSON, F.R.C.5.72 ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.- The following distinguished visitors have lately honoured the Royal English Opera with their presence :—The Duchess of Wellington, Countess of Abingdon, Baron and Baroness Brunow, Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Georgina Grey, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Lawley, Lady Emily Cathcart, Lady John Somerset, Lady Mary and Sir Charles Wood, Hon. Colonel Biddulph, Miss Ponsonby, Lord Arthur Hay, Count Corti, Lady Clara Cavendish, Lady Molesworth, Lady Stafford, Sir William and Lady Clay, Lady Shelley, Sir George and Lady Army tage, Sir 'William De Bathe, Bart., Sir Frederick ,Roe, Bart., Sir William Curtis, Bart., Earl of Lisburne, Viscount Exmouth, Lord Carington, Sir John Rennie, Sir Frederick French, Bart., Sir C. Rowley, Bart., Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart., the Hon. Mrs. Stanley, Lord Somerset, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Admiral Ryder Burton, General Steele, Lieut.-Colonel Meyrick, Baron Aldenburgh, Capt. Mildmay, Captain Clayton, Sir H. Buncombe, Sir Geotge Pocock, Colonel Da Bathe, Captain Macqueen, Captain Brent, Captain Read, Hon. Otway Toler, Napier Sturt, Esq., M.P., Captain Giffard, Lady Chantrey, Capt. Cave, Sir John Liddell, Lady Meux, A. C. Billing, Esq., Mr. Banbury, Mr. Delafield, Mr. Vansittart, Capt. Goad, &c. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The following fashionables have honoured this theatre with their present-e during the past week : —Earl of Mounteashel, Sir G. Womb well, Lord Clinton, Lady Panmure, Hon. G. Knox, Hume,.M.P., Colonel Foley, Lady Meux, Baron Greene, Captain Sinclair, Captain Gough, Sir W. Anstruther, Sir F. Roe, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett, llon. Bathurst, Mr. Scebell, Captain Parke, Lord Lincoln, Captain Carlton, Sir W. De Bathe, Horace Claggett, Major Lyons, Earl of Munster, Hon. W. F. Campbell, Mr. Rawls, Lady Jenkins, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Captain Bernard, Dr. Hastings, T. Baring, Lord Vane Tempest, Hon. Mr. Toler, Colonel Charlton, Hon. T. Stoner, Colonel F. Sey mour, Sir B. T. Phillips, colonel Townsend, Admiral Courtney, Hon. Mr. Blythe, Mr. Cathcart, &c., &c., &c. THE TEMPLE GARDENS.—The show of chrysan themums in the two Temple Gardens is now open to the public (free) every day from ):Line till dusk. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have, been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, Nov. G. It is stated on reliable authority ; that the Con gress - will meet in Paris, and not in Brussels. MARSEILLES, Nov. 5. The Italian mail packet, which had been delayed four days by the tempestuous weather, arrived this afternoon. She brings advices from Naples to the 29th ult. The army of the Abruzzi will go into cantonment during the winter. Sicilly is more tranquil. Large public works are spoken of as about to be commenced throughout the king dom. It is asserted that the principle of an amnesty had been decided on. The Austrian Correspondence publishes an article which commences by stating that some foreign papers had given an incorrect and partly a false account of certain events connected with the meeting between a high Austrian functionary and several Hungarian magnates. The article then expresses regret for the con troversy on this subject in some home news papers, as the principal need at the present moment is moderation and the strengthening of the moral peace between the different nations comprising the Austrian empire; and concludes by expressing a hope that this conviction will soon become general. TURIN, Nov. 5. The Piednzontese Gazette publishes a decree trans ferring the Court of Cassation to Milan. The subscriptions to the loan continue ; the ap plications are very numerous, and it is asserted that more than the amount required has already been subscribed. The four Assemblies of Central Italy will be called together to receive from their Governments communications on the subject of the present situa tion of public affairs. A convocation of the States of Parma and Modena will take place on Sunday. It is supposed the King of Sardinia will be asked to grant a regency. GENOA, Nov. 5. Rumours are current that an Assembly wi shortly be held, in which Modena, Tuscany, and the Romagna will take part ; and it is asserted that the object of this meeting would be to present Count Cavour as a candidate for the Dictatorship of the provinces of Central Italy. GENOA, Nov. 6. The Assemblies of Central Italy will, it is as. serted, confer the regency on Prince Carignan. ZURICH, Nov. 5. The Sardinian Plenipotentiaries have received orders from Turin to sign the treaty of peace. It is believed that the treaty will be signed to morrow, and that the convocation of the Congress, to be held at Paris, will follow immediately. In the last Conferences held the working out of the treaty of peace has been entirely completed, and all that now remains is for the Sardinian Plenipo tentiary to receive from Turin the official order to sign the treaty. ZURICH, Nov. 6. Yesterday the French,. Austrian, and Sardinian Plenipotentiaries assembled in a general conference, which lasted three hours. The treaties will be signed to-morrow or Tues day next, and the Plenipotentiaries will leave the day after. The Austrian Minister Baron Menshengen, having consigned the Austrian steamers into the hands of the Swiss commissioners, has returned to Zurich. The submarine telegraph communication be tween Corsica and Genoa has been re-established. CASSEL, Nov. 5. In the secret sitting of the Second Chamber to day, the proposal of M. Herrleins to present an addresss to the Elector, in favour of the re esta blishment of the Constitution of 1831 has been de finitively agreed to by 38 against 5 votes. MADRID, Nov. 5. An official decree has been published appointing General O'Donnell Commander-in-Chief. ALEXANDRIA, OCT, 28. The English General Malcolm has presented a rich present from Queen Victoria to Said Pasha. The English authorities are making preparations there for the transport of troops to China. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. THE BounsE, Nov. s.—The market has been rather more buoyant, and the Rente and the princi pal railway shares have been in demand. The cou pons of 20f. have been deducted from the Lyons and Strasburg shares. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 80c., improved to 70f. Mobilier varied frcm 780 f. to 795 f. ; Austrian, 546 f. 25c. to 550 f. ; Lom bard, 518 f. 75c. to 551 f. 25c. , Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,375 f. ; Lyons, 887 f. 50c. to 900 f. ex div. ; Stras burg, 653 f. to 660 f. ex div.; Northern, 940 f. to 945 f. The following were the last quotations:— 4f per Cents 95 45 Do. end month 95 25 3 per Cents ' 70 Do. end month 70 15 Bank Shares 2835 CrSdit Mobilier Do. Account Credit Fonder 690 Belgian 4} Piedmontese (5) Roman B4 Austrian B2 Spanish Threes Home Debt 42 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. 825 .. 825 Lyons and Mediterranean 896 25 .. 898 75 Geneva , .. 530 Southern Western 567 50 .. 567 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian ' Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months , paper, 24f. 971 c. ; money, 24f. 95c TUSCANY. A letter from Florence, dated October 31, says : The great news of to-day is the journey of General Garibaldi from Rimini to Turin, whether he has been summoned in great haste by a telegraphic despatch. What does this sudden call 'portend ? Was the King or his timid advisers afraid that the rashness of the veteran guerilla chief might provoke a con flict with the Papal troops on the frontier, or does rather the King, taking counsel from the natural impatience of his generous soul, seek, in his intercourse with a kindred spirit, the courage and resolution he needs to break through the toils in which diplomacy has encompassed him ? Time alone will answer these questions. In the mean while, it is my duty to inform you that the patience of most Italian patriots is as utterly driven to its end as I suppose that of Victor Emmanuel to be. It is now evident that Na poleon has given in to the demands of Austria, not merely on such weighty matters as Venetia, the Alincio line, the fortress and territory of Mantua on either side of the Po, the restoration of the Central n cd atles)eilfox. ltalian ttostlaclevtlete vrebeponrioyfttf; 7s l ibrf ' tbaay r si rLunie appellation oipo e nmmep e_ elL s oibyr , nnlocanlv a tli n e, dtwthori d yhosnai ile t naroi h dicns: e htood: cn• such mere of the Papal a t , bi - gtoeat i eir f I rldavyd e boueo s uoinp_ebr saidlt,asayeoe irEr.thebarbarict anegai inm i liai i s o aehw oo e tt tabr olL k ae ana , olbrnsm i egit kingdom it should suggest ideas of that national mission of which Piedmont was for the last 11 years the standard-bearer. It is the obvious com bined drift of France and Austria absolutely and completely to destroy the real strength and in fluence, the prestige of Piedmont and of her King; with it, as they flatter themselves, to give a death-blow to the national aspirations of Italy. In this it will be found in the end that they labour under a great mistake, for only men pass away, and nations and their tendencies remain. Europe has, for the last tenth of a century, been able to see the difference between an Italian na tional and free State like Piedmont and the other provinces of the Peninsula, either subjected to the immediate sway of foreign Powers, or obeying the rule of princs who based their governments upon the terror of foreign bayonets. The contrast be• tween the calm, dignified, and intelligent debates of the Turin Parliament and the regicide and daily assassinations at Parma, the outrages by bandits at the gates of Bologna, the robberies in the streets of Rome by daylight, under the very nose of the French garrison, and the endless attempts at in surrection in Naples and Sicily, ought to allow no doubt to linger in the mind of any rational being. AUSTRALIA. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Melbourne to the 17th of September, and from Sydney to the 13th of September. The following gold ships had sailed from Mel: bourne since the departure of tne August mail : Aug. 23, Orwell, for London, 42,220 oz. ; 26th, Royal Charter, for Liverpool, 68,404 oz., and 49,130 sovs, ; Sept. 9, Red Jacket, for Liverpool, 39,737 oz. ; 12th, Swiftsure, for London, 73,499 oz. The following is the summary of the Melbourne Herald of August 17:— POLITICAL. Since the date . of the previous mail for Europe the country has been absorbed in electioneering business. In thirty-three districts out of forty-nine the polling has already been taken, and the remain ing elections will be completed in a few days. The Ministry, for a self•evident purpose, ar ranged the elections in two series, separated by an interval of nearly a month. Of course the first series included the whole of the districts for which they themselves were candidates ; so that, if de feated there, they might fall back on those remain ing. On the 26th August the polling was taken in the metropolitan districts. Five of the Ministers awaited their fate with trembling anxiety, and four out of the five were defeated, some of them igno miniously ! The Treasurer, Mr. Harker, was re jected by his old Collingwood constituents. Mr. Chapman was utterly beaten at St. Kilda, and Mr. Ireland was driven out at Castlemaine. Dr. Evans was repudiated by a majority of his old supporters in Richmond. Of the five Ministers only Mr. O'Shanassy, the Chief Secretary, gained his elec tion, but not without extraordinary exertions on the part of his very zealous friends. In Colliugwood, a working stonemason named Don,—a loud mouthed advocate of what ho terms " working men's rights," whatever those may be,—was placed at the head of the poll, several hundreds of votes above the Treasurer. At St. Kilda, again, Mr. Michie and his colleague, Mr. J. S. Johnston, polled sixteen hundred votes each, whilst the Attorney- General, Mr, Chapman, could only secure four hun dred; and this immense majority was avowedly due to the unreserved way in which the two former candidates denounced " this nefarious govern ment," as they named it. At Castlemaine the Solicitor-General was placed so far below the lowest of the successful candi dates that his rejection by his old constituents was as emphatic as it could well be. There is something quite unexampled in these circumstances. Already, then, we may speak of the second O'Shanassy ad ministration as a thing of the past. A retrieval of its fallen fortunes is as entirely out of the question us would now be the constitution of the adminis tration which preceded it. OUR GOLD FIELDS. Since the date of our last summary, the Govern ment Escorts have brought 177,876 oz. to Mel bourne, showing a decrease on the corresponding periods of 1858 and 1857 of 19,219 oz., and 30,529 oz. respectively. The shipments for the month were 171,601 oz., showing an increase of 37,971 oz. over 1858, and a decrease of 7,903 oz. under 1857. The following statements show the quantities of gold transmitted by escort and shipped during the periods referred to : Escort Returns for the four weeks since last sum mary, compared with corresponding weeks of years 1858, 1857 : 1859. 1858. 1857. Week ended. Oz. Oz. Oz. August 20 1 , 27 Sept. 3 10 17 Totals Shipments for same periods : Week ended. Oz. Oz. Oz. August 20 1 9 27 Sept. 3 )1 10 Totals 171,601 133,630 179,504 he total amount shipped during the year is 1,710,927 ounces. The reports from the various gold-fields during the past month exhibit some satisfactory results to those who are steadily watching our progress. New quartz reefs of undoubted richness are ever and anon rewarding the enterprise of the miner ; and the conviction is daily gathering strength in the public mind that, in the numerous new and old public puddling and quartz companies, there lies a solid basis for the profitable and permanent investment of almost unlimited capital. An immense number of mining companies have been brought before the notice of the public during the month. Some of them had their capital promptly sub scribed, while the shares of others could not be dis posed of. By far the greater portion of the new undertakings have been launched with perfect good faith ; and there is little doubt that they will prove amply remunerative to the shareholders. By the old mode of working small patches of ground, and sinking a shaft on each claim, a vast amount of labour and expense was incurred, which will be obviated when large areas are worked in a systematic way by public companies, and when science and machinery are brought to the aid of labour. We anticipate a bright future for this colony, now that capitalists are beginning to be alive to the advantages of investing 'their money in gold mining. All that is required is that capital should be protected by legislative enact ments, and that no unnecessary impediments should be thrown in the way of public companies leasing large tracts of ground. The days of the tin dish and puddling tub have passed away, and it is as absurd to try and prevent machinery from being employed on the gold-fields, as it would be to insist that instead of powerful machinery and the division of labour being introduced into nail-making, every one of these useful articles should be wrought by the blacksmith out of the bar of iron. The largest cake of amalgamated gold ever pro duced, has just been turned out at Sandy Creek. It is the result of a portion of 60 tons of the first quartz crushed from the Corfu Reef. It weighs 1,040 ounces. The crushing was done at Mr. King's machine, and the gold retorted off on Friday even ing. All the following night the lucky owners of the claim kept watch and ward over it, armed to the teeth. It was amusing to listen to the various re marks of the speakers as they inspected the dazzling yield from a claim, a sixth share of which a few months ago could have been purchased for a score of pounds. Even after gold was struck, £lO,OOO, we believe, would have bought the clam, —a splen did purchase, considering that the first 60 tons will yield fully half the amount. Most of the companies formed for working our gold-fields, especially those at Bendigo, arc pro gressing satisfactorily. Engines from ten to sixty horse power may be seen on the roads, and many are in course of erection. In the Forest Creek dis trict, the workers on the reefs are showing a dispo sition to proceed with greatly increased energy. There are now at least 30 steam crushing mills within a radius of five or six miles from Castle maine, with an aggregate horse power of about 420. MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday some members of the Chamber of Commerce had an interview with the Chief Secre tary on the defences of the colony, and he commu nicated in detail the steps that had been taken. Six vessels of war, varying from six to 26 guns— the whole armament comprising 82 guns and 1,000 men--are to be stationed in Australian ports. The Military Volunteers and Police will furnish an affective force of 3,000 men, irrespective of militia, to organise which a bill will be introduced. Three batteries will be erected in Hobson's Bay, mount ing 30 guns. Three martello towers and two forts are to be erected at the heads, mounting Armstrong guns, and an ample supply of arms has been or dered from England. Tho first outlay will be £140,000, and it is proposed to continue further defences annually, to be accelerated in case of war. A person named William Gardiner, a commis sion agent, residing in Melbourne, made an unos tentatious exit from the colony by the Royal Charter, taking with him property worth £4,000. He shipped in the name of Garden. He has since been declared insolvent. The wool shipments have commenced. The Or well has on board 535 bales; the Royal Charter, 461 bales ; the Red Jacket, 16 bales ; and the Swift sure, 493 bales—in all, 1,535 bales. AMUSEMUNTS. The principal topic of conversation in theatrical circles is the contemplated der a-ture for England of Mr. G. V. Brooke. On the 18th of last month he took his benefit at the Theatre Royal in the cha racter of " Virginius "—a magnificent impersona tion. At the conclusion of the tragedy he appeared before the curtain in response to a call from the audi ence, and after expressing his thanks for the patron age bestowed on him, he announced his intention of sailing in the October mail ship. He stated that he had received many munificent offers from English managers, which he did not think in justice to him self he could disregard ; besides, he was anxious to pay a short visit to his family. However, having made up bis mind to live and die in Australia, he promised to return as speedily as possible. He is now playing at Sydney. The Wizard of the North, Professor Anderson, took a farewell benefit at this establishment after giving a round of dramatic entertainments at the Olympic Theatre. Being about to leave the colony for San Francisco, he availed himself of the op portunity of delivering a valedictory address, de tailing his career in the colony. At the Olympic, Mr. Coppin has been drawing large audiences by a series of performances in aid of certain proposed new charities. The Melbourne Argus gives the following list of the passengers on board the ill-fated Royal Charter : AUG. 25.—The Royal Charter, for Liverpool. Passen gers :—Mr. and Mrs.. Edwin Fowler, Misses Fowler, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. James Murray, Miss Murray, and Master Murray; Mr. Hugh Bethune, Mr. Joshua M'Evoy, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, infant, and servant; Mr. F. T. Hut ton, Mr. Charles Hodge, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jenkins, and four Masters Jenkins ; Mr. Mellor, Mr. Welsh, Capt. Withers, Mrs. Tweedale, Mr. 11. Beamer, jun., Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Pitcher, Miss Pitcher, infant, and servant; Mr. W. H. Morse, Mr. and Mrs. J. Grove, Mr. Molineaux, Mrs. Nahmer and child, Mr. and Mrs. Garden, Dr. Hatch, Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Miss Davis, Miss L. Davis, Walter and Derwent Davis, Mrs. Fenwick and infant, Miss F n wick, Master Charles and Miss Rosa Fenwick, Mr. Rufford, Mrs. Foster and servant, Mr. G. Watson, Mr. Walter Lafargue, in the cabin. It also gives the following list of o th er vesse l s :- AUG. 18.—The Salsette, Royal Mail steamship, for Suez, Passengers—Mrs. Oliver, Mr. W. Robinson, for Kangaroo Island; Messrs. Carey, Stokes, and James Rains, for King George's Sound ; Mrs. Edward Mellish, infant, and ser vant ; Mr. and Mrs. Webster, and three children ; Colonel Martin, and Kong Mcng, for Mauritius ; Mr. Henry Gage, for Bombay; Rev. Thomas and Mrs. Binney, Mr. and Mrs Charles Morgan, and Messrs. Yeoman and Samuel Martin, for Marseilles ; Mrs. Foatt, and Messrs. James E. Davys, James Bell, Lambe, for Southampton. AUG. 22.—The Orwell, for London. Passengers—saloon: Mr. and Mrs. John Mason and child, Mr. and Woolhouse, Mr. and Mrs. Brade, Mrs. and Miss Ditmar, Mrs. Brooks and five children, Messrs. Beaumont, Kinchart, Phillips, Simpson, S. Crosby, and F. W. Delamaine. SEPT. 10.—The Red Jacket, for Liverpool. Passengers —Mrs. and Miss Sarah Richmond, Miss Isabella Berger, Captain R. White, Messrs. Henry Rendell, Thomas Lind, Charles Johnson, James Matheson, John Hamilton, George Richmond, Thomas Clarke, and Francis H. Reichard, in the saloon. SEP r. 12.—The Swiftsure, for London. Passengers— Mr. and Mrs. Leach, Miss Leach, Miss Afoul, Mrs. Heath cote and two children, Mrs. Busson, Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Blow and servant, Messrs. John Atkins, J. Crosby, J. Meldrum, John Ross. William Piper, James Mackay, and Master Bernard Wardell, in the cabin. LITERA2'U.RE. Macmillan's Magazine. Edited by David Masson. No. 1. Macmillan and Co. The appearance of a new competitor, in the world of serials is always a matter of some interest to the general public. It is not,however, always possible to form a fair estimate of the ability and character of the:new miscellany from its opening number. The inevitable difficulties attending the commencement may frequently interfere withthe opening parts. Still a promise of ability and success may generally be discovered if it exists, and such a promise may readily be discerned in this introductory number. It opens with a general survey of "Politics of the Present, Foreign and Domestic," by the Editor. There is nothing very striking in this article, not withstanding its comprehensive title, and it ex presses few decided opinions. It takes a rapid glance over the general questions of the day at home and abrOari. It is followed by the first instalment of a new tale, " Tom Brown at Oxford," which will probably be the most attractive feature in the magazine to many of the readers of that hero's scholastic experiences. It describes his first impres sions of the college and college life; it narrates his first ambitious attempt in a solitary skiff, and the dire ful results thereof; also, it gives some account of his friends and associates. An essay on " Paper, Pen, and Ink" is well worthy of perusal, though the subject is• capable of further extension. The following brief extracts give some idea of the writer's style and treatment of the topic : "A friend has described to me the speechless amazement with which a wild Arab chief of the desert watched, in a tent near Cairo, the development of the photograph of the Great Sphinx. When in the faint light, the glass taken, as it seemed, unchanged from the camera, an)l subjected there after to a simple baptism, began to reveal line by line the well-known featuresof the mysterious sculpture, the Arab turned to my informant, and, pointing to the photographer, exclaimed, He is the eldest son of eaten " With the Arab's wonder we should profoundly sympa thise, although it is not from the hands of the Prince of Darkness that we will take the pencil of light. It speaks for itself as one of the choicest gifts of God reserved for us in these latter days. With this feeling I have found my self in a dream of the night, among the spirits of the great dead in the silent land, myself clothed in flesh and blood, a visitant for the briefest space from this upper world. There could be no speech between us ; but to their longing looks for information regarding that world from which they had come, and to which they could not return, me thought I replied by laying before the pale conclave the shadowy photographs which were in my hands. And the ancient Egyptian saw that the Pyramids would waste no more ; and the Greek was consoled that the ruin of his temples could proceed no further, and knew that at length a Prometheus had come, who with the very fire of heaven had made each marble form immortal ; and the Italian painter ceased to sigh at the fading of his frescoes ; and the media3val architect mourned no longer over his cathedral falling before those fierce Iconoclasts, the light ning and the north wind, the snow and the rain ; and the ancient Christian who, in the scriptorium of his convent, centuries ago, had reverently copied, letter by letter, every jot and tittle of the venerable Evangel before him, felt that the days of faithful copying had come back again —nay, were exceeded in faithfulness—and realised that to the end of time his labour might not prove in vain. And over all the spiritual faces a gleam of shadowy sunshine passed, as I awoke and beheld it was a dream." "Any coloured liquid, however, will suffice for ink ; any flower-juice, any dye-stuff, the blood from any vein, a multi. tude of chemical compounds. They are not equally good, but any one is sufficiently so for an emergency ; and if the paper and pen are secured, the ink is certain to be forth coining. But whatever its material quality be, how little this strikes us when our he ar t s are s ti rre d, an d the words we have written stand before us, no longer thoughts which we can recall, but each a spirit-child with an independent life of its own, proclaiming •' Litera scripta menet.' The functions of the paper and pen in producing this result are forgotten. We feel as if we directly thought out the words we see. The ink in which they stand is not charcoal, or galls and iron, Lut the very anger, or sorrow, or gladness we felt fixed on the paper for ever. "Think of a queen's first signature of a death-warrant, where tears tried to blanch the fatal blackness of the doom ing ink I Of a traitor's adhesion to a deed of rebellion, written in gall ; of a forger's trembling imitation of another's writing, where each letter took the shape of the gallows ; of a lover's passionate proposal written in fire ; of a proud girl's refusal written in ice; of a mother's dying expostulation with a wayward son written in her heart's blood; of an in dignant father's disinheriting curse on his first-torn, black with the lost colour of the grey hairs which shall go down in sorrow to the grave—think of these, and of all the other impassioned writings to which every hour gives birth, and what a strangely potent, Protean thing, a drop of ink grows to be.. All over the world it is distilling at the behest of men. here a despairing prisoner is writing tri - h a rusty nail his dying confession of faith on his damp dun goon wall. There an anxious lover is deceiving all but his bride, with an ink which only she knows how to render visi ble. Beleaguered soldiers in Indian forts are confiding to the perilous secrecy of mi T water or innocent milk their own lives and the fortunes of their country. Shipwrecked sailors, about to be engulfed in mid ocean, are consigning to a floating bottle the &intro il-m emorandu ea of the spoewhere they will swiftly go down into thejaws of death. Everywhere happy pairs, dear husbands and wives, affectionate brothers and sisters, and all the busy world, are writing to o°l l other on endless topics, with whatever papei comes thusm whatever pen, whatever ink I The varied stream or ever flowing is the intellectual and emotional blood of the world, and no one need visit Egypt, or summon an Easte r l magician, to show him all the acts, all the joys an d woes ° men reflected from the mirror of a drop of ink. A poem on Cobbett, selected from a small volume of the joint compositions of the late Henry usl,: ington and George Venables, printed, but not pup lished, some years since, is quaint and vigorous; though somewhat diffuse. An article, entitled " Cheap Art," is also well worthy of perusal. Till, description of two designs, by Alfred Betlrs " Death the Friend" and " Death the Enemy,' is vivid and picturesque. In the first Death, in the form of a pilgrim, comes 1 _ relieve an old man, in a lonely church watch -to T he bringing a peaceful termination to a peaceful life. 'ln c : companion picturek'xepresents the first appear °ll . s . pari of the Cholera, which was at a masquerade in The grisly spectre has donned an Eastern robe end mingles among the dancers, striking agony an e r pietuto, terror to the hearts of the wild revellers. A Pg is on the " Moral Aspects of Idylls of the Ring of written in highly eulogistic terms ; we have 11 4 seen any among the many criticisms on this 114 seen which have not spoken of it with more enthusiast than we suspect would have greeted its apPear all o r had its author been unknown. " The CollocrlY the Round Table" is apparently intended to bF u l t p , the style of Christopher North's recrea tions ; if so, it falls as yet far short of its famous Pr ° type. The Universal Review of Politics, Literature, and ia There is an article Soc on l the ence " Defences of sae, land," in which many sensible remarks are rag at t and the perusal of which cannot but be useful age the present crisis. it is said that we se mi in the state in which fifty years ago we he ard had tidings of the mighty armament which France collected on the heights of Boulogne,::::e i ci ii which three centuries ago our forefathers 0 01 . es the coming of the Armada. From these Prete° tat o the writer argues that it is of vital that we should be prepared, and at once, for e IS exigencies that may arise. It is argu bat that the only safe policy for England is to hey , of the Roman who treated his friends its i f t ies might one day, become his enemies and his ene i7a l b. as if they might prove friends. In connection wl f d s of these results it is truly said that the Mee our Louis Napoleon are for ever twitting us Icl t l i fiet ilc unworthy distrust against him. "If we Inu al :: re unkindly of him and his intentions, w e 9- an d quested to speaklow. He may lose his teelPern'nse he is powerful eneugh to make us rue the trite quence of such a loss. His Ministers raitY oi o us insolent despatches, his officers muy threatelistB with speedy chastisement, his official jour are may abuse and insult us till their hen r oan tired of scribbling. But Englishmen are to g. b t mig and bear because he is so strong and a grew,,, e ss. tempt him to take - advantage of their Nvel' e mi The following remarks on the subject of the en erg are worthy of attention. There are other piothe that present attraction for the reader , an u n d it story of the " Great Mistake is continued, • h loses none of its interest in this instalment vfhin is a very amusing one. the "It is the fashion to say that 'steam has brico' Ted Channel. If true at all, this can only be true to t ot limited extent. Steam-power depends much on coals stand s machinery, and in these two requisites En g le If alone, compared with any European country. . 0 the steamers would now be able to ave their harbours 'ciao, teeth of an adverse wind, English steamers coul giNie with a fair chance of overtaking them A ding-6 "' tit might steal out unnoticed and baffle pursuit afterwilds'jf a whole squadron would soon be brought to a stall'', that French fleet got away from Toulon, the chances ox-fere' an English blockading fleet would come u in time to sure 010. stall its junction with ] he fleet at Brest. up ships the needful supply of coal at the right Laaae-tetie of matter not so very hard to arrange--and the adva,nunriteli steam to the enemy will be reduced to something conk small. Should he, trusting in hpowe s r for I:iewsccanellr'eeo;oi:obilf; out to fight us in the open sea, the result, think, would prove that pluck and seamanship needful for a success thereon as the were in the day s, re- Nelson and Dundonald. We , have yet to wait for that volution in land-warfare, which rifles and the new a r b r ing rere pronounced by sanguine admirers so certain ste m about. Nor have we yet been able to discover that ch s ot. could ever turn machines into men or sea-sick Frefvet diers into first-rate sailors. Certainly it has 11° ' ' l a t' : ; duced the demand for able-bodied seamen, e ither ha s navy or the merchant service of this ntrY, 11°r elf rag,: is' lessened the value of that stubborn daring and reliance for the want of which no amount a theoretiVn_ivo ing can atone. On the contrary, its virtue as all ° ''t,; t he dGalf ske agent iflelnc andseemse. resourcesl It seems s l e i e k m el s y toof t out those s b ot eim wt oshrceoi science maynthcrten, havel like e u n fto t or e .t r uu a sn c e t e e i ! I. * the boldest and most enudring. While our s ailors ,ttr,°. of such stuff as those who brought the Terrible soici.'hurri from the rocks of B a l a kl ava i n the teeth of a fearf u e lciog cane, while E ng li s h gen tl emen can pull a fastt ;1 1 teolt eight-oar as the men o f Cambridge did this year a ? fre sh and English wa t ermen can win race after race ae insw be some el/ crews of French rowers asof them have la teY cony doing („o at Paris and Dieppe, we cannot indulge Toles; in l en om t y forebodings as to the issue of any futurf,ro7. sby sea between the nations on either O a rt ° Channel. Only let us have fair play, and ctal,o 3 to reason why England should n a o l t r b p e again strong meet a continent in arms." , - The Art Journal. m o nth this - Sir so Thomas a a s s L u a s w ua r l e . nre T s ;raved ea T v h es e cdafrrcoe mly engravings Princess Charlotte, the second represents Green'kea with _ Hospital, while the remaining plate 1 5, 130 t ilom a picture entitled " From the iqoors. cos, the pictorial department is hardly of the il vv e ork tomed excellence, the prose contents of th e tra ted. are fully equal to the average. Tbe illes'iions. papers are, as usual, among its chief attraegalrS , T , e eleventh number of Mr. and Mrs• S. C ,: eir mitig vignettes of Tintern Abbey. The . Excursion in South Wales" has sonie e"'" .tish pa pers on n ri r of artists si give us a sketch of the brilliant careedeats r Thomas Lawrence, accompanied with w° ° _ a re h p e 9 r firs tra i t t o i sftehlle The% ote of some of his most fa ' mous portraits. many other articles distinguished 1 1 th eir 4 ' 1419 and ability, and every way °attractive to t reader. e a enkdl Once a Week. joins attractive This ns y en p te u r b t l a i i c n a i t n io g n th i a n n its th w e magazines, and it is frequent'Y i nb . ev t eral chapters of general advice on s tous publications. A story by Charles 1 / 1 su b- J o c f sc t s l by Harriet Martineau, and a varzed call_ e b ine to a es, sketches, prose articles, and poeras t he ' form a very attractive miscellany, d other f tic pencils of Leech, Millais, fenniel, an e , ors o known artists lend the aid of their pow - c har° fascination. a:o nr more h o yr e ft ! r ocieo : If it continues to preserileraicttise: ter, it will be in many households a Ile weekly and monthly visitor. MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINE S. joi e- Tait's _Edinburgh Magazine is of a vere i g e ab ility rest, without having anything of rema rkab less . eel o f or attraction. Papers on " Our eolonialPosse iro% as and on " The Legislative Price List," discu ss s i O n h our political difficulties. A lengthened P,„l,:ifeP more ambition than poetical excellence. J"" to 0 ' come Guest will very probably be w electrie , o f good many readers of chea - • 1 lire eia-lidi p sena s or discover anything distinguishing it from 0%, by the character of these publications. A s ter " t uost e t. editer, Mr. Robert Brough, is one of the 0.00 of f o l icable features. The commencement ef, i1 „:„ 1 bi Lady on etiquette, professing to be va"„ s iog' Chesterfield to her daughter, from the ~,sl l3-t uo's pen of Mr. G. A. Sala, is entertaining.. , i .-ivr ts ; 9 for London Journal has Patent Law Reformers " extended list Patent and an exten The recent inventions and improvements. . full. scientific_nz. notices are given, as u sual, la c i o g A t ght's Popular History of England is ficiv il° t he steadily. The forty-seventh part commeOriesorge romcle of the long and eventful reign of `-'„ e t he 111. The _English cyclopedia, conducted L'../ o jar same able writer to whom the cause of Pl a i g h literature owes so much, fully maintains its A r e a reputation. This fourth division will be, V_ all completed, invaluable as a work of referenceyA°olloog t matters connected with art and science. ' peo hese serial publications we may mention th i s nosy pie's edition of Moore's National Airs, w hich is l u iiii g being issued by the Messrs. Longman in s hl t ho parts. It is e'lited by Charles 11. Glover, ilar sprightly composer of g , The Cavalier," and sn u a ac . songs, and being arranged with symphonies al l r 8 11 companiments for the pianoforte, it is s uited are too well amateurs. The melodies theinselv,e.stion well known and popular to need commen""rtiale The _Eleatic opens l / 4. with a comprehensive art the on an abstruse subject. It is a criticism ' 131 ;; a nd ev. Braden Powell's " Order of N a ture , o f regie ll „ it plunges at once into the uninviting folios': o f theological speculation. A paper which with an equally alarming title, " The na lane c of Nature," - is more attractive. It discusses sornho the great physical laws which lona habit . 0 - ° i's contin,, is m . ade us regard with indifference. tion of Mary Howitt's pleasingPictures.'ioe, r op c of tile most agreeable features in the wag ° di • Ihe attention which has recently bee ° de o rected to Alpine rambles will attract rea 150 to h paper on " Avelanches." There are , g io d es says of some ability on " Trollope's TuseanS; er s T . hc Italian Crisis." —Titan has several PaPI., of interest : among them one on Sermon Literatu of t rendeling. due honour to the Christian teachiuggt he late Mr. Robertson ; and another on Life in c " d Petersburg. The story of "Getting On Precieliag with interest ; and there is another tale, te . ot s the trials and successes of a governess. a At;r,3orc tfr.oom new books are selected with rare an "•,'" or io contains n. The eighth part of Moore's poetical Is ar . the remainder of his satirical and b uy° ous poems.