The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-06 00:00:00

FRENCH PLAYS.—BIJOU THEATRE.— At HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Haymarket, (Grand Entrance.) Directeur—M. Talexy. THIS EVENING, , ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR. Adrienne Lecouvreur .lirst time) Mdlle. Periga ; Michonnet, M. Chaumont. Commence at 8 o'clock. ROYAL ENGLISH ' OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.--lldder the Management of Miss Louisa ?yne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. The Production of Balfe's new grand legendary opera will take place THIS EVENING, Dec. dth, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE. Supported by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. A. Lawrence, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. H. Sort% Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Lyall, and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Orchestra of Bighty Performers ; Chorus of Fifty Voices. Doors open at 7 ; commence at half-past 7. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT ` t GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA DYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. A. Lawrence, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. St. Albyn, &c. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. And a DIVERTISSEMENT. Doors open at Sewn. Commence at Half-put. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING the pertorroanoes writ commence with Sheridan's comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Mr. Buckstone, Mims Amy Sedgwick, &c. After 'which, J/INNT LIND AT LAST. Jenny (her 2d appearance), Miss Rose Howard. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances win oommenee with SUSAN SMITH. To be followed by RUT BLAS. Supported by Mr. Pechter, Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leelereq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM, Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, THE PE TS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, Misslindspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Co - Hinson, and Miss Lydia Thorapsen. After which, a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers, Butler, and John Drew (hislOth appearance) ; Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SIECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry 'Seville, Mr. John Rouse Mr. H. Butler , Mr. Villi ers , Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of the entertainments. A DELPHI, NEw THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Belt Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes obertson and Mr. Dion Bond:atilt, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of "Tile Colleen Bawn." TIIISEVEPTING. THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BASIN. D. Bandeau% D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolglr Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. , To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J, L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington,: Mrs. Chatteriey, Miss K. Kelly, &c. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. rivat boxes, £2 2s. Famil Boxes, £l. Orchestra P Stalls, e ss. ; Baloony, ; 4s. ; Fr o nt Circle Stalls, Zs. • Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; A mp hith ea t re, i s ; Gallery, 6d'. - • • -- Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. A . STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Evening. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION CONQUEROR ; or, The .Death J ung l e , ex p ress l y f or th e introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J.Croekett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unequalled performers, &c., including the incomparable Young Charles Duerow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Conelndinv, with THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGI MENT. Marie, Ries Rebecca Isaacs. Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. THE CATTLE SHOW AND CANTERBURY HALL. 3 I O P4TON begs to inform visitors to London that the above HALL, with Its Magnificent Galleryof Modern Paint ings, 13 - f all the best masters, is OPEN EVERT EVENING at 7 o'clock. GRAND SELECTIONS FROM BELLINI'S NORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA. PRINCIPAL ARTISTES, MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARIA MISS TYRREL MISS WILKINSON • Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD. Conductor Mr. JONGHMAT4S. The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollings worth, W. T. Critchfiell, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley Vox. and E. Marshall, fn his transformation song, "THE DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters. THE WEATHER.—SuN 077104 Disc. 6, 1560. , THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon.? BAROMETER-29.30. WIND—South-Westerly; light, with dull rainy, mild weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tine DAY.—Morning, 7h. 13m.—Afternoon,:7h. 46m, To-mottnow.-Morning, Bh. 20m.—Afternoon, Bh. h6m LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 6, 1880. The Hereditary Bondsmen are actually at it again! Another Repeal Meeting was positively holden on Tuesday in the Rotunda at Dublin-- THE O'DONOGHITE in the chair, and the audience in a high state of what the late Mr. BRAHAM was wont to pronounce entoozzimuzzy ! It was certainly enough to rouse poor TOM STEELE from his grave, and almost (one might think) enough to engrave deeper and deeper on the granite slab upon the tomb of DANIEL O'CONNELL the epitaph he aspired to have inscribed over his remains : HERE LIES ONE WHO DIED A REPEALER !" Who would have thought it ? A Repeal Meeting in the December of 1860 ! The old war-whoop ringing again in our ears—when the war-paint has long and long ago been washed off " entirely !" When the aboriginal Repealer, like the aboriginal Australian in CHARLES READE'S Never Too Late to Mend, had, one might .not unreasonably have imagined, subsided into the civilised and humanised and wholly amiable and harmless form of simple-hearted Jockey, lo ! the tawny, grimly tatooed chief of old strides forth again in his shells and feathers brandishing his boomerang, dancing his war-dance, whoop ing • his war-whoop, the lithe and sinewy, the deadly and t errib l e V —ALINCIAETJNGA of the Bush ! 0 111 Y—in the instance of this transformed Jackey of Ireland now once more [let us hope, " for one night 0n1y,,, and that " by particular de sire," as they S ay in the playbills], the Kalinga lunga of Repeal only that (we say) in this instance the shillelagh brandished for a boomerang is no more formidable a weapon than an overgrown carrot, and the war paint, and the war-dance, and the war-whoop are, just in two w ords—simply ridiculous. Let us just glance (with a view to s.e Wh e th er it is really as we have said or not) down the reports dropping in upon us of this long medi _ fated demonstration of Repeal Redivivus ! L ook _ ing down these reports quite dispassionately, one can't help feeling that somehow it is not merely a " Revival Meeting" of Repeaters, but, to a consider able extent also, a sort of genuine Donnybrook Resurrection. All through the proceedings there was, really so to speak, somebody or other's coat being trailed defiantly to and iro upon the platform. There were " yells" and " screeching," " great cheering," " loud cheering," "hisses," "groans," cries of "no, no," cries of " never," single voices howling "no gammon," " uproarious applause," " prolonged acclamations," and so forth, mingled with occasional " waving of hats," and once also of "grey cloths" (duly provided for the occasion) in- honour of the. Chairman aforesaid, the gallant chieftain, The O'DONOGHUE of the Glens. All this, however, might have been taken for granted as a mere matter of course—just as one is conscious there must be " the Kentish Fire" at an Orange Gather ing —the ripping sound of " scratchbacks" audible at intervals perpetually all through a Greenwich Fair—and that mingled clamouring in the parterre of a French theatre between the acts, Des Orange:, Les Oranges, La Patric, La Patrie familiar to the ears of every Paris playgoer. The hubbub throughout this meeting on Tuesday, in the Rotunda, appears in truth to have been eminently national and characteristic ! The Charivari there was from first to last intensely and essentially Irish using that phrase in no invidious sense whatever, but in the best humoured significance of the word imaginable. It was a tumultuous demonstration worthy of Repeal, worthy of Dublin, of the Rotunda, of the ghostly and faded memories of the old irritating Hall of Conciliation ! Bow charac teristic it all was, let two little incidents, noted quite at random, serve to illustrate ! That incident in the first place of a casual reference to the sympathetic people on " t'other side of the Channel"—not of St. George's, but of the British Channel —eliciting a rapturous shout of " Viva la Franskay in Exquisitely remi niscent of the WOLFE TONE and the Shanvan voght ! And, in the next place, that crowning incident of the night's demonstration—thae eminently characteristic circumstance that the whole of the proceedings " wound up," according to one of the reporters, with " a savage attack upon a young man who ventured to address the meeting after the chairman had retired"—the demonstration, in fact, ending, as such a demonstration ought by right to end, namely, with a skrimmage. It is like the last scene in the historic contest between the miller, the collier, and the brickdust man, commemorated by the pen of PETER PINDAR— " Black, white, and red, in wild disorder tossed, Till in the cloud they raised the combatants were lost." The ultra-extravagance of this amazingly after • timed demonstration on tie part of the Irish Repealers cannot, however, be more instantaneously displayed, for any one's instant appreciation, than by the mention of the significant circumstance that, as a Demonstration in favour of Repeal even Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN has the good sense to give it (by letter) the cold shoulder ! So that after all there was wisdom of some sort obtained in the widow's cabbage garden by the lath-sworded Revolutionist! Yet, in truth, there was actually a live M.P. or two in attendance at this meeting in the Dublin Rotunda. The Repealers there assembled —no doubt with the intention of making all things square in the round room of that orbicular building [a task about as facile to a Repealer as the squar ing of the circle to a crack-brained mathematician] —the "awkward squad" of the Repealers there assembled, including among them, besides THE O'DONOGHUE in the chair, another M.P., FRANCIS MAGUIRE, one Parish Priest, the Rev. Mr. MUL LIEN, one of " the patriots of 1848 !" JOHN MARTIN, and with this miscellaneous concourse of ardent sympathisers in the cause, a species of life-in-death Repeal Omnium Gatherum! Whoever got the demonstration up—we can't help looking upon as a kind of political resurrectionist. After this we shall surely have long accounts furnished to us, in a week or two hence, from one or other of our English agricultural districts, of a grand, bran new Protectionist Demonstration, with the shade of Mr. BUSTIELD FERRAND in the Chair, supported on either hand by the portly goblins of divers defunct Farmers, who had " died the death"— through a plethora, mistaken by them for atrophy —under a craven panic of the ruin deemed by them " inevitable as the one certain result of the downfall of Monopoly! Nor, for that matter, we might as lief look now for a meeting next in the Egyptian Hall, not of the Mansion House or of Piccadilly, but at the British Museum, a meeting of all the mummies now reposing there in the national collection, presided over, let us say, by the empty urn still to this day visible to all sightseers at the British Museum, the empty urn that once held the dust of ALEXANDER the GREAT. Judging from the record now now given us, how ever, of the sayings and doings of these mummies of a select few of the long past legions of the Repealers, they were mummies most effectually galvanised into a portentous semblance of vitality. They could " Groan for the Castle Hacks"—with a momentary oblivion of all the amenities and amiabilities that one might have imagined would have been necessarily suggested by the mere thought of the amiable Earl of CARLISLE. They could screech " No more English Famine " with a total oblivion (very noble and impressive under the circumstances) of the frank hand of brother hood held out to the seven million Celts by the twenty-eight million Saxons when that awful scourge descended upon a whole people by the inscrutable will of the Omnipotent God! They could howl forth " Three Cheers for JoHN MIT CHELL"—though one might h ave i mag i ned that the name of that repealer at least would by this time have been regarded upon the opposite shores of St. George's Channel with a mingled sense of scorn and execration. They could by almost every word and cry that arose from their lips render themselves utterly ridiculous, as though each in turn at this meeting strove to see how broadly and impotently he could possibly grin at England through the old horse-collar of Repeal. Spain has lately shown some ambition to regain a higher position among European States. She made a war, of which the only object seemed to be to show that she could make one. She even paid us some money which she owed us, and which we began to think had followed the usual course of debts from Continental States to England. But neither making wars nor paying debts will make a first class nation of Spain, unless she emancipates herself from the leading strings of her intolerant hierarchy. There is not, we believe, such another in Europe. In Rome itself more liberty is con ceded to Protestants than in Madrid, or in any town in Spain. For a long time it was impossible to obtain sepulture for a Protestant in Spain ; he could not be buried with Catholic rites, or in a Catholic cemetery, and neither a cemetery nor service were allowed to any other creed. Things are a little better in this respect now ; for since by British aid ISABELLA was placed on the throne, a regular cemetery near Madrid was conceded ; but still, we believe, Protestants resident in Spain can hold no public service ; .nothing may be seen or visible Which shall let the multitude know that there is any faith b ut the favoured onc, and all Protes tant worshi p must be strictly private. Such bigotry is incompatible with national greatness. No nation in which the rights of conscience are not protected can ever be an people. Repression of thought energetic, on the vigorous sub ee t which at some time of almost every man's life f or ces itself on his att ent i on, and demands the f r eest scope, must have a paralysing effect o n hi s energies. Indeed, it is remarkable that the most enterprising, industrious, and thrifty popu lations have always shown a strong tendency to religious discussions and religious liberty. It may • • • 071 i- 4 - • L, f to: • ' • t 7 « 4„, THE SUN. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1960. seem a curious fact, but it is one, let the philo sopher explain it as he may. The case just now before the British public, because just brought before our Foreign Minister, is one of persecution of native Spaniards, not of in terference with British subjects, and it is of course a more delicate matter for our Government to intervene. The whole question is understood to be one of internal government, and if England inter fere in favour of Protestants in Spain, it will of course be said to countenance Russian and French intervention in Turkey in behalf of co-religionists. But diplomatic delicacy may be carried too far. It is not, that we know of, Russia er France using fair moral influence that was ever objected to; it was threats and coercion which were felt to be unfair towards an independent but weaker power. There would seem to be no more reason why a Government should not reason and remonstrate with an independent Foreign Government, than one independent private gentleman with another. If a Catholic gentleman saw the Catholic servant of a neighbouring Protestant gentleman hardly used by the latter on account of his religion, a respectful and friendly representation on the case would be held rather creditable than otherwise to the Remonstrant ; and would not be resented by a well-bred man. It must be the same between two such countries as England and Spain. Sympathy with sufferers for holding the same general religious views as ourselves, could not be ignored as unna tural, it must be rather felt to be praiseworthy, even by those who persecuted the professors of the creed because they thought it erroneous. The re monstrance might not be relished; ISABELLA'S clerical advisers might wish that English ministers would allow them to persecute without bringing their doings before the whole of Europe, still it must be acknowledged as reasonable in itself, and must exercise some restraining influence. Of course, in Lord JOHN'S hands i , od a question of religious liberty, every English man will be sure that he will do all that may become a Minister. His intervention in the case of the MADIA!, with the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, proved ultimately successful; and what is more, as was remarked by the deputation, the worthy couple were living peaceably in a city the Sovereign of which had been driven from his capi tal. Would that all intolerant Sovereigns might follow him. In these days they had better not despise the warning. The cases adduced by the deputation were cer tainly most disgraceful to a civilised Government, It seems that just now there is a spirit of religious inquiry in some parts of Spain. As a necessary .4 consequence of inquiry, there are renunciations of the old faith and adoption of what may be called Protestant sentiments. The Bible is sought for, and read, and this seems to be considered the greatest offence of all. Twelve persons are mentioned as being in prison for their religious opinions; six as having fled to Gibraltar, the families of many being, in consequence, reduced to deep distress. Many prisoners have been released, but two appear to be specially obnoxious to the priests, and are suffering a " cruel imprison ment." They have been guilty of "diffusing the Gospel amongst their countrymen." Three courts were struggling for the privilege of trying one of them—a man of excellent character, named MANUEL MATAMOBAS ; and he was to be "forced in consequence to travel 700 miles on foot, bound with a gang of criminals and associated with murderers and other felons." Numbers were in consequence in great terror, and had fled, or were preparing to flee with their families. There is not even the pretence that the sufferers have been guilty of complicity with any political organization. The head and front of their offending is that they have done, what any Englishman, whether he perform it or not, thinks it his duty to do—they have judged, in religious matters, for themselves. We hope Lord JOHN RUSSELL may do something towards convincing the Spanish Government that the time is come in the progress of civilisation, that civil Governments must renounce all right to take the place of the Inquisition, and to become, in the hands of the clergy, the tools of an ecclesiastical despotism. We have, on similar occasions before, given utterance to the wish that English Catholics would do themselves the honour of standing forward as the advocates of religious liberty. What a noble addition would it have been to the merits of the late Duke of NORFOLK, as enumerated the other day by Cardinal WISEMAN, could he have added to his exertions for the religions liberties of children of his own creed in workhouses, more dis interested, and, therefore, higher deeds of religious charity towards Protestant sufferers in Catholic, countries. An English Cardinal and English Nobleman, enjoying the fullest liberty their hearts can wish in this country of Protestants might be expected to show their sense of it by pressing on foreign Catholic Governments the fairness of conceding in their domains to Protes tants what is so freely granted to Catholics here. We can hardly suppose gentlemen of their educa tion and presumed English spirit do not view with abhorrence the compulsory prevention of inquiry, the imprisonments and penalties for their religion's sake endured by Protestants in Spain—or that they do not strongly feel that Protestants ought to be as free to make converts there as Catholics are to make converts here. If so, let Cardinal WISEMAN, himself a Spaniard by birth, and all the most influential English Roman Catholics, put in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S hands a memorial to the Queen of SPAIN, expressing their sense of the religious liberty they enjoy here, and their grief for the scandal brought on their faith by the pereecu- Lions going on ix its name in Spain. Such a memorial would be worthy of their position—it must have weight with the Spanish Government, and it would do more than anything else to con vince the British public that Catholics shared to the full the love of religious as well as civil liberty which is the characteristic of true Englishmen. As long as Catholics make a great stir even about Catholic workhouse children while almost entirely supported by Protestant ratepayers, but show themselves callous to Protestant sufferings abroad, they will not easily convince the public that they , care for any liberties but their own. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey are about to entertain a select circle of friends at Beaudesert, Staffordshire. The Earl and Countess of Mountcharles have arrived in town, from the Marquis Conyngham's seat in Ireland. Viscount and Viscountess Barrington have, during the past week, entertained a select family circle on the occasion of the marriage of their daughter, the Hon. Adelaide Barrington and Mr. Belfour. Lord Edward Howard, M.P., passed through town yesterday, from Glossop, Derbyshire, on his way to Arundel Castle, to attend the funeral of the Duke of Norfolk. THE LATE DUKE OF NORFOLK.—The funeral of the late Duke of Norfolk is to take place this forenoon. A new chapel has been recently erected, adjoining the Baron's Hall, now forming the principal entrance to the castle. A new family vault has been constructed expressly for the late duke and the members of his family. Yesterday the cere mony of lying in state took place with unusual pomp. Lord and Lady Ashburton have arrived at the Grange, Hants, and are about to receive a succession of company. Major-General the Hon. Thomas and the Hon. 7161 . A 4 hburnham hare left tom for Torquay. Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot have arrived at Knowsley Park, near Liverpool, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby. Lord Loftus, the English Envoy, according to a Vienna letter of the 3d, having received important despatches, has postponed, for a week, his departure for London. The Government has refused to sanction the formation of Rifle Corps by members of secret societies — Foresters, for instance. THE GREAT EASTERN.—There was a rumour , yesterday in the city that an agent of the French Govern ment, now in this country, has been deputed to make an offer for the purchase of the Great Eastern. MR. SIMS REEVES.—It is confidently expected that our celebrated English tenor will resume his profes sional duties at her Majesty's Theatre oa Tuesday next. The sudden death of his father is the cause of Mr. Reeves' non-appearance. THE ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—Last night a full dress ball in aid of the funds of the Royal Dramatic College took place at the St. James's Hall, and we are glad to say it was an agreeable gathering. It was rather late when the ball-room assumed anything like an animated aspect, arising from the too early hour appointed for the commencement of dancing. On a future occasion no doubt those gentlemen controlling the arrangements will select a later hour. Shortly after eleven o'clock dancing commenced to Coote and Tinney's unrivalled band, an excellent selection of the most fashionable dance music being performed during the night. At one o'clock a choice supper was supplied to the company, at that time amount ing to close upon 500 persons, including the majority of the stewards, the list of whom comprised many influential names. Dancing was resumed after the midnight repast with increased spirit, and with every prospect of being sus tained up to an early hour this morning. All the arrange ments were most successful. ALLEGED SLANDER.—In the Exchequer Court, yesterday, an action for slander—Gooch and wife v. Bell and wife—occupied a portion of the day, but the case terminated amicably by the withdrawal of a juror. In the case, Newall Y. Elliott, Vice-Chancellor Wood yesterday granted an injunction restraining the latter from using an apparatus for paying out telegraphic cables, the apparatus being held to be an infringement of the plaintiff's patent. INJUNCTION.—Vice-Chancellor Wood, yesterday, granted an injunction against Mr. Maxwell from publishing Mr. Mayhew's story, "The Wedding Ring," in any ether shape than that in which it had already appeared in the Welcome Gutst in 1858. SEDUCTIGN.—An action for seduction was brought in the Exchequer Court yesterday by a person named Hatherley against a man named Genge, for damages for the seduction of his step-dauhgter. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £25. THE LATE ISABELLA BANKES.—In the Probate Court, Thomas Smethurst, who was convicted of the murder of Miss Isabella Bankes, and afterwards par doned, applied for probate of the will of Isabella Banks', which was dated May 3, 1859. The application is opposed by the next of kin of the deceased. Yesterday some formal proceedings took place, but the day on which the case will be gone into is not yet known. GURNEY V. GURNEY AND TAYLOR.—An appli cation of a formal nature was made to the Judge Ordinary, in the Divorce Court, with respect to the answer put in ty the respondent, Mrs. Gurney, by the counsel for the peti tioner, Mr. Gurney. The application was granted.• The case will be heard without the aid of a jury. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN NORFOLK.—This case appears likely to prove a serious one. The injured woman, Emma Ragner, was too ill to give evidence against the prisoner, Robert Ward, on Monday. She has nearly lost her eyesight, has swimming in the head, and is in a dangerous state. 'Under these circumstances the prisoner has been again remanded. THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE TONNING.— When the evidence in this case was concluded the jury re , tired, and, after a deliberation of a quarter of an hour, re turned the following verdict :—" That the several deceased were killed by the explosion of the boilers on board the steamer Tonning, but there is not sufficient evidence to show the cause of such explosion." The steamer is still lying at Lowestoft, but will be removed to the Thames for the purpose of being repaired. The Cumberland Parquet of Tuesday last says " A farmer in the vicinity of Ennerdale-bridge finished his barley harvesting only on Thursday last, and we are in ' formed that as late as Sunday last a number of stooks of grain were still out on a portion of Whillimoor. These are indeed somewhat startling• proofs of the protracted and unfavourable nature of the harvest of 1860." INVITATION TO GARIBALDI TO ENGLAND.—The Newcastle Chronicle says :—" Mr. Craufurd, M.P., Mr. J. Cowen, jun., Mr. W. J. Ashuret, and Mr. John M'Adam, have been appointed a deputation to go to Caprera, and in vite the illustrious general to visit this country. Mr. Craufurd is member for Ayrshire, and brother-in-law to Signor Saffi, the colleague of Masaini in the Roman trium virate ; Mr. Ashurat is the treasurer of the London Gari baldi Fund; while Mr. John M 'Adam has been the most active man in raising the Glasgow Fund." The suspension has been announced of Mr. Wm. Moxon, largely interested in contracts for public works. It is understood he is at present engaged upon one of £90,000 for the fortifications at Dover, and another of upwards of £lOO,OOO on the north level sewer in London. It has also transpired that one of the oldest and most respectable houses in the building trade—that of Messrs. Thomas Piper and Son, of Bishopsgate—is in difficulty. The creditors will doubtless be informed forthwith of the circumstances, and it is hoped that some arrangement may be practicable which will prevent a stoppage of the opera tions of the firm, and enable it to recover its old position. The Manchester letter mentions the suspension of Mr. Harry Hiller, an export merchant, principally in the Levant trade. The total liabilities are reported at £200,000, of which about £50,000 is for debts on open accounts. ARRIVAL FROM AUSTRALIA.—PLYMOUTH, Wed nesday Afternoon.—The ship Suffolk, Capt. J. B. Martin, belonging to Messrs. Money Wigram and Sons, 68 days from Melbourne, with 80,000 ounces of gold, 170 passengers, and a full cargo of wool, was off Plymouth this morning for London. She left Melbourne Sept. 28, doubled Cape Horn Oct. 22, and crossed the line Nov. 13. Spoke, Oct. 21, lat. 67.8 S., long. 72.40 W., the English ship Marion, from Callao for Bourson Island, 27 days out; Nov. 4, lat. 23.12 S., long. 24.16 W., the American ship Beaver, from New York for Sydney, 47 days out; Nov. 12, lat. 2.12 S., long. 25.30 W., the English ship Constance ; Nov. 24, lat. 35.20, long. 36.13 W., the English barque Isabella Ridley, from Harbour Grace for Pernambuco ; Dec. 1, lat. 45.28 N., long. 18.14 W., tt large black ship under Bremen colours, No. 16 ; and Dec. 3, lat 48.61 N., long. 10.53 W., the Nor wegian. brig Augusta, from Bergen-op-Zoom. SIR BALDWIN WALKER.—The resignation of Sir Baldwin Walker, as Controller of the Navy was announced yesterday. Sir Baldwin has now for a period of nearly 13 years satisfactorily discharged the duties of Surveyor and Controller of the Navy. He succeeded the late Admiral Sir Wm. Symonds in 1848, having been sent for by the Government of the day from the Pacific, where he was in command of the Constance frigate, to take the post vacated by that gallant and able officer. Sir Baldwin at the period of the Russian war was anxious to resume the active part of his profession, and tendered his resignation of his place, which he, however, was induced to retain, at the ex press desire of the First Lord of the Admiralty. When Sir Baldwin entered upon his office our navy, with the exception of somepaddlewheel steamers,was composed of sailing ships, but under his auspices the screw has been introduced into the service, and the exception now is to find a yes& I un- provided with this most important auxiliary. As an acknowledgment of his valuable services, Sir Baldwin Walker was created a baronet in 1856. Sir Baldwin has, for some time past, been desirous of a more stirring employ ment than that afforded by a seat at a desk at Whitehall, and has accepted the command of the Cape of Good Hope, rendered vacant by the removal of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, K.C,8., to the Brazils station, who, in his turn, superseded Sir Stephen Lushington, K.C.8., whose period of service has expired. Sir Baldwin will probably hoist his flag on board the Enryalus, 51, screw steam frigate, now fitting at Portsmouth with a poop for - - the reception of an officer of his rank. WRECK 4 t THE AMERICAN SHIP ALICE.----SOUTH AMPTON, Wednesday.—The British barque Faithful, of Ipswich, Captain Allen, arrived at Cowes at 2 p.m. to-day, having on board Captain Murphy, and the officers and crew of the American ship Alice,of Bath (Maine),abandoned at sea a few days since. The Alice encountered a fearful gale in the chops of the Channel, and the barque stood by her four days and nights, the crew of the former being ultimately rescned and taken on board the Faithful by ropes, the tem pestuous sea preventing any other communication between the two vessels. The ship, which was dismasted and lying on her beam ends, was then abandoned, and is supposed to have sunk soon afterwards. The poor fellows suffered much before their resuce, being out of water, and they speak in the highest terms of the bravery and kindness of Captain Allen and his crew. Mr. W. Thomson, United States Con • sul for this district, happened to be at Cowes at the time, and has brought Captain Murphy and his crew to this port in a :mall steamer, arriving here about 6 p.m. The captain goes to Liverpool to proceed home to America by Saturday's steamer, and the officers and crow will be sent on by the earlietat opportunity. The Alico was bound from New York to London, with a cargo of wheat, flour, and sundries, con signed to Mr. W. S. Lindsay. THE ACCIDENT TO THE TASMANIAN STEAMER.--- SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The Oneida left here this afternoon with the West India mail, instead of the Tas manian, the screw of which was fouled. Some portion of the cargo of the Tasmanian was left behind, for want of room on board the Oneida. Several London underwriters and their agents who had insured the cargo have been dowi looking after their interests. The Oneida took out a sup- plementary mail, consisting of nearly 40 bags of letters and papers, for the West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific, Central America, the Spanish Main, and Guiana. All letters and newepapers for those parts posted in or which reached London this morning were Hilt out in the Oneida. LArlEtaIT NEWS (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) BRUSSELS, DEC. 6. The negotiations at Paris for a commercial treaty between France and Belgium are progressing favourably. When terminated, negotiations for a commercial treaty between the Zollverein and France will be opened at Berlin. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Moniteur publishes a circular, addressed by Count Persigny to the prefects, on entering upon his functions as Minister of the Interior. In this circular he draws attention to the generosity of the act of the 24th November, which, he says, prepares the country for the peaceful exercise of liberties whose development the popular throne of the Napo leons is bound to protect. Count Persigny recommends the prefects to neglect nothing to complete the work of reconcil ing parties. TURIN, DEC. 6. It is expected that King Victor Emmanuel has taken his departure from Palermo to Naples. The Sicilians have made extraordinary manifes tations of their sympathy for the King who was very well satisfied with his reception. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 28. The Marquis de Lavalette insists on the extension of the French occupation of Syria. The Porte refuses to accede to this demand. The other ambas sadors maintain an apparently neutral attitude. Fuad Pasha will remain in Syria during the winter. The Galata bankers express a desire to have a share in the new French loan on contrac tors' terms. News from Syria to the 19th has been received. A Christian Sheikh had been appointed the new Caimacan of the Lebanon. PESTH, DEC. 4. News from Szegedin, Nagykoros, Ketskemet, Arad, and Csongrad, state that demonstrations against the Government officials had taken place. In consequence of disturbances at Waitzen a serious conflict had taken place between the military and the people in which numbers were wounded on both sides. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. s.—The arrival of the English funds with an advance tends to maintain the firm ness of this market, but prices remain about the same as yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 65c ; Mobilier, 782 f 50e ; Orleans, 1,388 f 75c ; Northern, 987 f 50e ; Mediterranean, 911 f 25c; Austrian, 516 f 25c; Lombard, 490 f. The following are the last quotations:- 4i per per Cents 96 30 Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 60 Bank Shares .. 2940 Credit Mobilier 777 50 Do. Account 730 Credit Foacier 920 Belgian 4± 99 Piedmontese Fives BO 75 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 49 75 Rome Debt .. 4BA RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1385 .. 1386 Northern New ditto 896 50 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 908 75 .. 911 25 Geneva 397 50 .. 397 50 Southern 523 75 625 Western .. 562 50 .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard AMERICA. LONDONDERRY, DEC. 6. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North American, Captain Aiton, from Quebec, on the 24th, has arrived and landed all mails, except those for Liverpool. She brings 59 passengers. The telegraphic communication with Father Point was uninterrupted when the North American sailed, consequently the New York advices are no later than those received by the Prince Albert. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 6. The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen, Captain Wessels, from New York on the 24th ult., arrived off the Needles at 5 20 a.m. Her mails aro not yet in sight of this port. The weather is thick and rainy, with a strong south-east wind. QUEENSTOWN, THURSDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Kangaroo, Captain Brooks, from New York on the 24th ultimo, has arrived here. The steamships Africa and Palestine had arrived out. The State of political affairs had not changed. The Banks of Philadelphia, Washington, Balti more, Trenton, and Pittsburg had suspended specie payments. NEW YORK, Nov. 23, EVENING. The banks discounted to-day 6,000,000 dols. to 8,000,000 dols., or double the amount of paper maturing; money was consequently easier and the pressure mitigated. 820,000 dols, is en route from California. Exchange is dull. Bankers ask 103 to 105 for sterling bills. Stocks are higher. New York Centrals, 771 to 9 ; Erie, 311 ; Illinois Central, 591 60. The flour market is buoy ant, and quotations firm. Stock, 16,000 barrels. Wheat and corn firm. Oats better. Cotton steadier, and in better demand ; sales, 3,000 bales. Middling upland, 101. An average good demand for provisions. Sugar nominal. Coffee quiet. Freights dull, and lower for England. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The North German Lloyds steamer Bremen, Captain Wessels, from New York, on the 30th ult., has arrived. She brings in all 90 passengers, 6,000 dols. in specie for France, and 2,000 dols. for Bremen. The Africa arrived out on the 23d ult. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov 23. Sterling exchange dull; bankers ask 103 to 105. All railroad shares are in better demand. The closing prices are—New York Centrals, 77/ i ; Erie, 31 I ; Panama, 116 117 ; Illinois Central, 59! 60. On receiving the deputation of the congress on the 28th to present their congratulations on the Prince of the Asturias completing his third year, the Queen of Spain, taking hor son by the hand, led him up to the deputies, and made him repeat these words one by one :—" I accept the congratulations of the congress this day, and I will endeavour to be worthy of the affection which the nation professes for me." PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BETS.—A merchant in Portland has paid a singular . election bet. He peddled 40 bushels of charcoal about the city, was dressed like a charcoal man, and had the honour of being photographed in his bizarre costume. A similar folly comes off in Mont. gomery County, Ohio, where a Douglas Democrat, a Mr. Black, is to wheel a barrel of flour from Miamisburg to Carrolton. The regimental band and a martial band are engaged to attend, and a large crowd will line the road for three miles which Mr. Black has to travel. THE MAGAZINES. Blaekwood's Illagazzne. The first article is a second treatise on " Iron- Clad Ships of War," of which the first part ap peared in last month's number. It is sensibly written, and contains some truths that those who are in authority would do well to take into consi deration. Great care has been taken to render the various explanations as clear as possible, and it is said truly that it is difficult to be understood by the general reader without descending into minute technical details. There are diagrams given which will be of great assistance to those wishing to study the subject attentively, and altogether this paper is worthy of notice, offering as it does a circum stantial essay on one of the great questions of the day. The following remarks, in conclusion, are spirited and to the point, and breathe of that zeal and tell of that energy which should— " Still through our navy send its vital power," if we aspire to be a match for all open and con cealed foes : "Do not wait for a war, to do things in haste and re pent at leisure. Pitch secrecy to the French, call in the mechanical and engineering skill of England and America openly in the face of all nations, and let others match us if they can. For our part, we have faith in the genius of our sailor race ; and though England be slow to adopt innova tion, it will assuredly be no easy task to preserve the lead ag tinst her government and people, when earnestly labour ing for a common and holy end—defence, safety, and the commerce of the world. We beat France in our Enfields and Whitworths, we beat her in our breech-loading Arm strongs ; it will be strange indeed if wo do not match be fore long that fleet of 300 rifled cannon iron-clad vessels of war which she is straining every nerve to produce, and, it is averred, will put in the water, by May, 18611" "The Romance of Agostini" is concluded. It is a very exciting narrative, and ends more happily than do many of the tales of the southern lands. Francisco deserves success no less from his injuries than his courage and constancy, and it is eminently satisfactory to leave him in his ancestral home united to the fair being who appreciated him in the dark days of poverty and neglect. Teta is a very well drawn character in her honest zeal for the cause of the oppressed. In this she contrasts strongly with her mother, whose natural sympa thies were clouded and overcast by the pernicious influence exercised over her faculties by the long apprenticeship she had served to the cold and selfish Duchess. " A Visit to the Tribes of the Ryhanlu Turkmans" is a short sketch that will repay peru , sal. It commences by observing that " Amongst all the wild nomade tribes that range about the plains and mountains of Syria and Asia Minor, there is none more remarkable as differing from the rest of the Bedouin family save only as regards pilfering and lying than the Ryhanlu Turkmen, who spread themselves over mountain, and valley, and plain in one almost uninterrupted line from the defiles of Latakia and Antioch, to the perpetually snow capped Taurus range." The various incidents of this tribe are most interesting, and there is always something to arrest our attention in these records, however trivial, of those races of men who dwell in tents and wander in tribes over the earth, recalling the primeval times to the memory of the scholar and the antiquarian. This instalment of "Nor man Sinclair" is a momentous one. In the first place it describes a satisfactory meeting with Carlton, which the perplexed Norman calls ' a sun glimpse after storm. The second chapter is named False Play Somewhere," and treats of a fraudulent trick which caused an immense sensation on the Stock Exchange. Ruin is evidently impend ing over Mr. Beaton, and in the next number of the story he will probably have fallen from his high estate to be classed among that most wretched rank who have seen better days, and passed from the pinnacle of sovereign affluence to the lonely depths of pecu niary embarrassments. The last chapter com mences the history of a clever man, and in a few sentences we are given a sad tale of one who might have done well had he not become imbued with fatal notions of levelling theories and revolutionary topics that were insidiously set before him. The last article is a very able and interesting one; it is entitled, "Alexander Carlyle, of Inveresk," and refers to a work lately published containing the autobiography of that remarkable man. It is re freshing to meet with a subject of this kind in the pages of a magazine, and one gladly leaves for awhile the vexed questions of the day to contem plate a character of departed excellence, one who in his day exercised an influence over his fellow men, and left behind him a bright remembrance and an honourable mention. A curious incident is told of his early days, when ho first displayed his powers of oratory by mounting a tombstone, and reading to a dozen old women, who had not found room in the church, the whole of the Song of Solo mon. One of the old ladies, delighted at this ex traordinary exercise of eloquence, exclaimed, " Ye'll be minister of Prestonpans yersel' some day." " No, no, no," said the boy, " not Preston pans, yon's my kirk," and pointed to the tapering spire of Inveresk." When many years had passed away, and some people were against his being pre sented to that living, the survivors of the audience remembered the saying as prophetic, and repeated it about till many of the parishioners became re conciled to their youthful minister, whom they regarded as their fore-ordained and divinely announced instructor. This article is in every way worthy of perusal, and it gives a very fair account of the interesting work of which it treats. The following is the concluding passage, which elo quently closes with some forcible remarks on the series of the biographies of last century : "This work, though latest published, forms, in fact, the commencement of the series of biographic and anecdotic reminiscences of the last century with which our cwn day is enriched. The admirable ' Recollections of Lord Cock. burn' begin nearly where Carlyle leaves off. Sir Walter Scott was 33 at Carlyle's death, and the wondrous strain is carried on till the gentle ripple of the Tweed sounded on that September morning into his dying room, in 1832 In many respects the earlier revelations are superior to the rest. In personal interest wo cannot, of course, place them on a par with the records of the man who would be acknow ledged the greatest of modern poets, if he were not un• dot& adly the greatest of:English novellists but as a re production of a distinct individuality we hold them not to be inferior even to the masterpiece of Lockhart. Follow ing no master, moulding himself on no model, the charm of these pages is their originality. They are not Boswellian, nor Johnsonisn, nor Colley Gibberish, nor traceable to any source. Yet in their liveliness of description, sly touches of satire, and vigorous analysis of character, combined with the naturalness of incident and surprising variety of inte rest deduced from ordinary adventures, we are constantly reminded of ' Gil Blas.' " Dublin University Magazine. There is a good article on Thomas Becket, which contains some just remarks, and furnishes one with very correct notions as to the general character of that remarkable man. It criticises the works recently published of his life, and adverts to the striking difference that exists between them. The one by Canon Robertson is described as a " fair sample of English good sense and manly dealing." It speaks to us in a language ringing with the life and lustiness of the present day. On the other hand, in the life of Becket by Canon Morris nearly everything seems to remind us of a quaint, half legendary past. Further on the writer thus ad verts to the difficulty that exists in forming a cor rect opinion regarding Becket:— If truth always lay in the agreement, or could bo drawn from the collision of many witnesses, we should by this time have gained a satisfactory insight into the character of Becket and his ago. Many indeed are the pens that his memory has kept at work upon him from the day of his so called martyrdom until now. Clerks of his household, faithful secretaries, intimate friends, some of whom had basked in the sunshine of his earlier, and shivered in the darkness of his latter days, born witness briefly or at length, with many flourishes or in simple terms, to the high talents, the striking virtues, the pomp, the learning, the personal charms, the stern enthusiasm of their departed friend and spiritual father. Their lead was followed by a long line of simple chroniclers who, dating from the splendid reign of Henry 11., discoursed and fabled about many things and persons, until the Wars of the Roses and the dawn of a later literature put out their feeble lights for ever. But modern history took up in her turn and handed on the old familiar tale, with divers changes demanded by the spirit of an age which had little faith in the marvellous, and still less in the saint whose shrine had been plundered, and his bones burnt at the suggestion of that self-willed iconoclast Henry VIII. Becket's fame, however, survived the rough handling of his fercest assailants, ° re g in these days, through the kindliness, the crotchets, or the n _ religious sympathies of some able writers, n otrifling s h are of its olden fragrance. But the truth regarding Becket is near_ly.oam. From sehardto reach as the truth regarding the early days the oldest accounts of him, chieflypenned by his d Unlike T 011atnesyt worshippers, themselves men of middling capacity, of th e narrowest culture, grossly superstitio us even in that age of gross superstition, we only shape out a n ima ge as normal commixture of flesh and spirit, as the fi rs t toy you give a baby is unlike aught se en in books of naturalhi s tory. Between their discrepancies, mistakes, contradictions, their statements often doubtful, sometimes transparently untrue, their wilful reticences and w ild exa ggerations, their lov e of fancifully profane comparisons,rlother the, the feeble proseibnlge sophistries c rie o e f one, the childish gossip of another, and grovelling morality of almost all, the real story of Becket's life fades, o newhile into a s er i es of nursery tales, anon transforms itself into a dull didactic romance for pious young ladies. This epitome of the career of a noted character in our early English historq is lucidly explained, and the arguments are logically carried out, while there exists no prejudice in the manner in which this excellent article has been done. " A House Divided against Itself" is continued in this division, and the interest is of a painful nature. The enthusiastic partisan for the cause of the King, Courtenay North,:sets out on her perilous mission. She Cis, however, outwitted by a Round head in the disguise of a Cavalier, and she gives up the precious packet. However, the deceiver can not read it, and on her refusing to do so she is ordered out to execution. It is not yet known whether the threat is carried out, as the 'story leaves off at the critical juncture when the signal of execution is about to be given. The paper on " Old Maids " is a very amusing and edifying chapter on human life in various phases of society,- At times lively, at others serious, it is written in an earnest tone, and breathes a lofty spirit, while it holds up to just ridicule those who make them selves conspicuous by their follies. At the same time the writer observes that while some are absurd the greater number of single women in England are of great advantage to society. It is true that those who are the comforts of many a home and the kind watchers over the poor and needy will be passed over, while many will criticise those who are in any way remarkable in absurd attempts at juvenility, and extraordinary notions of wo men's rights or wrongs. The cause is thus ably taken up : What nuns and Sisters of Ckarity do abroad, our old maids do in England ; and I am not joking when I say, that old maidism is a greater boon to this country than is generally supposed. For every one who is a gossip, a match maker, or a pedant, there are half-a-dozen who are good honest workers in the right direction. It is with our old maids that so much remains. Non others can undertake the care of our hospitals, the reclamation of those wretched women whose very existence brings a shudder to the Christian, and the proper training of the daughters of our poor. None others, therefore, can properly replace the conventual establishments of the Continent. The prison, the workshop, the reformatory, the hospital, and the back slums, all want women to bring them round, gentle female influence to recall them to God ; and there are none more fitted to the task than old maids. While, therefore, I glory in this British Institution, so appropriate to a Pro testant country, I would, in the humblest spirit of which an old bachelor is capable, suggest to all our old maids, what ever their age, to give up morbidness, blighted recollections, fast fancies, idle monotony, intense love of gaiety, devotion to curates, high or low, and even their scientific pursuits ; and since the primary office of woman, as wife and mother, is beyond their reach, to take cheerfully and heartily to the next best work, the effusion of that gentle spirit with which the Maker has gifted the better half of our race—decidedly the better half, I say it, though an old bachelor. Jael, Judith, Boadicea, Joan of Arc, and Charlotte Corday, may be very grand scenic specimens of womankind, but they are unlovable. Let old maids make Tabitha—good, kind, gentle Tabitha, who worked her fingers for the widow and the orphan—their patron saint, and call themselves, not their cats, by her quaint name. " Shan Buie" is a very strange sketch, which exem plifies a curious life, and is in every way characteris tic of Ireland. " Old Paris" is an account of the memorable points that deserve attention in the old parts of the town. It is a sketch that will be of service to many, and affords information not always to be obtained. " Notes on New Books" contains a smart summary of some recent publications, and altogether this month's number presents much to attract the reader. Fraser's Magazine. It is with feelings of deep regret that the nume rous readers of Fraser will turn to the brief paper in this number headed "In Memoriam," which pays a mournful tribute of affectionate respect to the memory of its able and accomplished editor. It redounds to the credit of author and publisher, contributor and editor, when such kindly and genial feeling exists between them; and the public at large will readily acknowledge, when they recall the variety and excellence which has, of late years, delighted them in the pages of Regina that the loss to periodical literature is one not easily replaced- The magazine before us, however, shows no dimi nution of interest or ability, but contains many excellent papers. The first is from the pen of A. K. H. 8., whose admirable essays have long since attained the wide-spread popularity they deserve. The article before us bears the curious title, " Concerning screws : being Thoughts on the Practical Service of Imperfect Means; a Consola tory Essay." It begins with the assertion that almost every man is what, if he were a horse, would be called a screw, that is to say, a being in whose mental, moral, or physical constitution there is some unsoundness. It is of course with the deficiencies apparent in the two former conditions that the writer before us deals, and the reader, familiar with his style, may readily imagine with what shrewd sense, what keen perception, what pleasant humour and kindly sympathy he treats his subject. It is, as he calls it, a consolatory essay, and though he stoutly maintains the truth of the axiom he starts with, still he bids us bear in mind how much good, honest, and even noble work is accomplished by " screws." Although, as he can didly assures us, " there are human beings whom, to manage into doing the simplest and most obvious duty, needs the tact of ta diplomatist, combined with the skill of u driver of refractory pigs ; " yet he brings forward compensatory reflections. " Just as a horse which is lame and broken-winded, may be made to get creditably through a wonderful amount of labour, so may a man, low-spirited, foolish, prejudiced, ill-tempered, soured and wretched, be enabled to turn off a great deal of work for which the world may be the better." The passage in which he cites the names of illustrious " screws," from James Watt to the great Napoleon, is one of the best in the essay. The instances, general and particular, of individuals and classes which he afterwards adduces, contain portraits whose prototypes, we apprehend, can be discovered in most circles. The true and kindly moral which he draws from these reflections, is the necessity of gentle management and forbearance with ourselves and with others. "If a young horse," says our moralist," has a tendency to shy, how carefully the trainer seeks to win him away from the habit. Bat if a poor little boy has a nasty temper, you may find his mother taking the greatest pains to irri tate that temper." On one point, however, we cannot coincide with his theory. He says that often in the case of great geniuses it is because of their unsoundness they have done their great things. "In poetry, and in all imaginative writing, we look for beauty, not for sense ; and we all know that what is properly disease and unsound ness, sometimes adds to beauty." We trust fel,' readers will subscribe to a theory so derogatory' to the noblest of the arts, so directly contrary to all rational experience. We might as well say that the grotesque figures in an Egyptian temple were as worthy models for the painter as the canvas showing the wonderful precision of Michael Angelo's anatomical science. The gorgeous colouring cannot redeem the falsehood to truth and nature, and no affluence of imagery, no elo quence of words will serve the turn of the poet alone and unaided. It is because he deals with the great realities common to us all, because he awakens the touch of nature which makes the whole world kin, that he is a poet, and in proportion as he is false to that vocation, unsound and unreal in his sentiments and sympathies, he falls short of the perfection of his art. Leaving this delightful paper we come to the conclusion of " Gryll Grange," in which the troubles of the -vari ous lovers are brought to a happy termination. The reader, however, has not been painfully anxious on their account, as most of their perplexities were of their own manufacture, and in no way con nected with want of fortune, hard-i;earted parents, relentless guardians, or any other old-fashioned difficulties. The plot of the story, indeed, is of the slightest character, and only serves as a connect.. ing link for the witty and sparkling convefsation, repleto with classical quotation and reference. Shirley contributes an able and thoughtful paper upon Ruskin's last volume. He makes a careful analysis of Mr. Ruskin's capabilities and achieve P ments, and discusses the objects which the great art critic proposes to himself, and the directions in which his strength seems most to lie. The writer before us considers that his great success is, " that he has translated into words the wordless beauty of skies and leaves and streams." His failure the critic asserts to be in the character of theorist. The want of logical precision, and the readiness with which he mseumrreenntd,erasre t f s. the Neverth e l ess , the .t. h ranked to a t o h n e g i h m i a tch.rieibesufstide°enofs o defects. f c enthusiastie a d m i ra ti on critic o te renders drea the tribute beauty of styl e or passionate earnestness of decla mation with which Mr. R us ki n c l o th es id eas an d theories, sometimes grandly original, often splen didly unsound. Th e article. before us shows all the writer's wonted ability, and the passage on success and failure has in it much truth and justice. An interesting paper entitled " Re collections of Ceylon" gives us an account of a visit to the pearl fishery of Aripo, in the spring of last year. The fisheries always take place in the lull of calm weather, between the ter mination of the north-east and commencement of the south-west monsoons, and the paper before us gives numerous though somewhat disenchanting details of the method of gaining the gem of the sea. Alas for the romance of poets ! we are shown the divers as stout, healthy men, and the pearls, themselves, so often cited as the emblems of purity and loveliness, in most unpleasant circum stances, The seaboard for some distance down the coast is raised several feet in height by the accumulated oyster shells of ages. The oysters are divided into four equal lots, three of which are claimed by the Government, and the other allotted to the divers as their reward. This share is generally sold at once by them by auction in lots of a thousand, the buyer taking hi s chance of the number or quality of the pearls. The singular and unsatisfactory life •of the English opium eater is the subject of a brief and sensibly written paper. It is a painful record of talent of a high order, combined with a peculiarity of mental and physical constitution, no less fatal to the indi vidual welfare of its unhappy owner, than inimical to his prospects of literary success. Dr. Tyndall's recent valuable contribution to the Alpine Club forms the subject of au able paper, written by one who is evidently well qualified to discuss the ques tions which arise from it. The variou s an d con flicting theories respecting the movement of glaciers are analysed and considered ; and the writer is solicitous to bestow honors where honour is due by awarding the distinc tion of discovery or experiment to whichever vo] e at: hi g Ti extra Nap] ;tee°, Jot do, !lit