The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

MINERALOGY, KING'S COLLEGE, London. 1 —PROFESSOR TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a COURSE of LECTURES on MINERALOGY, with a view to facilitate the study of Geology, and for the application of Mineral Substances in the Arts. The Lectures will begin on FRIDAY, October 5, at Nine o'clock a.m. They will the be continued on each succeedi F, Wednesday and Friday at Same hour. Fee, £2 2s. B, W JELF, D.D., Principal. BENSON'S WATOHEs. " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold .......................... sto 100 50 guineas. Silver .......................... 2to guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all p a rts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 13 an , l 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1741 1.) OVAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT '. - to GARDEN —under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYN E and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.—THlS EVENING will be presented the opera of LURLINE ; characters by Messrs. J. Wharton, H. Corri, G. Kelley, and W. Harrison ; Miss Lefli2r, Miss Albertazzi, and Miss Louisa pyne.—Condutor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Eight. D o ors open at Half-past Seven. THEATRI?,-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leelereqs. Followed hy DOES HE LOVE ME? Messrs. Howe Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg wick, Slits Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FIrZSM.YTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. Followed by A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM . Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. MONDAY, October 8, First Appearance in England of the yountr and celebrated fo r Comedien Ms J number GOUGENHEIM, who is engaged a is limited number of nights. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CE LESTE.--- The Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, having been newly Decorated and Embellished, is Now ()PEN for the Winter Season TIIIS EVENING. Oct. 4, with a Comic TE G ROUND. Drama, entitled DELI CA Afttr which a New and Original Drama, written by Tom , Taylor, Es q., entitt e d T E BRIGAND AND HIS BANKER. Principal characters by '3lr. George Vining (his 4th appear ance here), Mr John Rouse, Mr. Villiers, Mr. H. Watkins (th e popular Am erican Comedian, his 4th a pp earance in ng l a nd), Mrs. ICeeley, Miss 31. Ternan, and Madame Celeste. To conclude with MAGlCValentine Miss Lydia Thompson. The talented Comedienne Miss Josephine Goughenheim, of the principal Theatres in'America and Aus tralia, is engaged, and will make her first appearance in England on Monday, October 8. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, 2 - 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by . Dion Bourcicault, Esq., " The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even- ing. THIS EVENING; THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss W oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boureicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes:11. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.; Front Circle Stalls, s.; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6 d. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery I ed. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. War. BATTY. Last Six Nights of " Mazeppa." Notice.—Speedily will be produced, with great splendour, a Grand and Original Equestrian Spectacle, in Three Acts, written expressly for this Theatre by the popular author, E. FITZDALL, Esq., entitled " ROBIN HOOD," with entirely new Scenery, Costumes, and Appointments. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippb-drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, Introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—M. Felix It- volti. CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ....... . , Adaltdsa .. . . Madame MARIA, (Her first apoearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting, of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes. Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIIMANS. Balcony, is, ...Hall, 6d. THB WEATHER,-BUN OFFICE, OCT. 4, MO, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—this day at noon. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 54—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-30.43 ; WIND—North-Easterly; fresh breeze. Fine sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning, 3h. 56m.—Afternoon, 4h. 11m. To-mounow.-Morning, 4h. 28m.—Afternoon, 4h. 45m, , ‘, • N.., 4. , • "r If •NI 0 • V 1.011 )) 1 i's- .ttk THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 4, 1860. France is the greatest military nation in the world, as England is the greatest maritime power. France holds this pre-eminence by reason of her geographical position, and by reason of the numeri cal strength and the discipline of her armies. She has an effective force of 600,000 men of all arms— infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers. Her empire is singularly compact and consolidated. It is situ ated in the place of vantage, in the very centre of European civilisation. It forms a solid square within which, as within the quadrangle of a giant' fortress, the bulk of her force is massed together. She is almost without colonies —so that her troops are not necessarily scattered. Algeria is the one solitary possession requiring from her a constant and organised system of military occupation. Situated exactly opposite the coast of the mother country—occupying that particular portion of the southern shores of the Mediterranean—Algeria, in that respect, however, is to France a positive ad vantage rather than the reverse. It will be so, obviously and incontestibly, so soon as the electric cable shall have bitught into instantaneous com munication with each other—Oran and Marseilles —Algiers and Paris ! Knowing all this—knowing that France is with out the necessity of having her troops widely dis tributed over distant colonies—knowing that she possesses a navy and transport service second only to those which have accorded to England her undis puted and indisputable maritime predominance— knowing that France has this enormous,concentrated, and highly disciplined army of 600,000 men, tie supreme command of which army is held within the grasp of one irresponsible chief—knowing all this, we ask is there not something peculiarly and start lingly significant, we might almost say sinister, in the disproportion of the forces sent out by France and by England for the subjugation, or at any rate, for the signal punishment of the Chinese? Recol lect the war undertaken against Chiaa is a war against nearly one moiety of the human race—it is a war directed against an empire, barbarous if you will, and efete and powerless when opposed to the might of Europen civilization, but still an empire, peopled by from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 Asiatics! It cannot in any point of view be re garded, therefore, as that especial object of abhor rence to the Duke of WELLINGTON —a little war. Yet to ":put down" the insoleneo of the Chinese, to bring under the heels of the Allies the Imperial Government, representing at Pekin this stupen dous population of nearly 400,000,000 Chinese, 'Wha t is the extent of the contingent furnished by France to the united Anglo-French expedition ? Imperial Prance, out of her gigantic army of 600,000 soldierNcontributes to the expedition against the Chinese Empire-5,000 men altogether ! We send as many as 11,000 --and France sends actually less than 5,000 ! We have despatched thither to the mouth of the Peiho upwards of 1,000 cavalry, as splendidly mounted and equipped as even poor Captain NOLAN could have wislid to see all the horsemen of the British army—and France, in con trast to these 1,000 English cavalry, has sent out to the same rendezvous—how many horsemen does the reader suppose ? Why, just four Spahis, and four Chasseurs d'Afrique ! Again, they (the French) have out there in those seas " thirty-nine" ships of war, while we have there absolutely not less than a noble aggregate of " two hundred." The disproportion is almost equally remarkable between the French and English artillery —they having " three " batteries of eight-pounders, we having " six" batteries, twelve-pounders and nine pounders, the former Armstrongs ! And while Imperial France has been sending 5,000 men yonder, to a distance of 15,000 or 16,000 miles, to the conquest of the Chinese, she is assembling at Rome a force of 25,000 1 What is the meaning of all this—what does it all imply—what is its one manifest signification ? Why, it is clearly and ob viously an indication that the Chinese war is to France more a show or pretence than a reality— it is an intimation that her heart is only half in it-- it is, above all, a glaring token of the fact that France, for reasons, re serves the bulk of her army of 600,000 men near at hand, close at home, in readiness for what may occur in Europe. If she expatriates any con siderable proportion of her army, say to the num ber of 25,000 men, or thereabouts, it is to send them to the Tiber—not the Peiho ; it is to give them 'vantage ground in the very heart of the Ro man peninsula ; it is to encamp them upon the summits of the Seven Hills as the warders of the Eternal City, as the bodyguard of PIUS IX., as the immediate arbiters of the destinies of 25,000,000 talians ! At length we have some account which is per fectly authentic, as far as it goes, of the progress of the Chinese rebels, of their religious notions, and of their sentiments in regard to Christian foreigners. They have been visited by a party of five, chiefly missionaries, of whom Mr. EDKINS seems to have been the principal—to him, at least, we are indebted for the account of the visit which we printed yes terday. He is, we believe, in the service of the Independence Missionary Society; and his disposi tion to find in the views of the Tai-pings as much of Christianity as he could, if it may have slightly, and it can be but very slightly, coloured his repre sentations in one respect, yet tended to engender the mutual confidence which enabled him to ascer tain more than he would otherwise have done. Bat very few of our readers, we suppose, know or remember much of the geography of the vast and singular empire, which is large and populous enough to maintain a war with us in the north; another vast civil war in its central parts ; to carry on commerce with us at Shanghae and southwards, and all as if it were a quite natural, or at least a kind of normal thing, and, we must frankly confess, that we who are supposed to know everything, if taken beyond Canton or Shanghae, or Pekin, or anywhere far from the coast, are obliged to resort to our maps, which do not seem to have been always prepared with a special regard to the district we would sur vey by their help. Mr. EDKINS' short journey, however, did not take him far from the coast ; the Shanghae river, and the grand canal, being his chief highways. It was, indeed, the fact of the rebels becoming near neighbours to Shanghae, and endangering the passage of the uew silks from the two centres of the trade in that part, Kiahing and Nantsin, which led to the exploratory journey. The missionaries wished to ascertain the quality of the reputed Christianity of the Tai-pings, and the merchants to see what hope there was for trade. And on both points the expedition appears to have fairly succeeded. It is but recently that the Rebels have been sue cessful. They have this year defeated the Imperial army which lay at Tanyang, a place between Nan kin, their head-quarters, and Shanghae, one of the Imperial generals bein g killed, the other having killed himself, and the numerous remains of the Imperial army having joined the Rebels. As a consequence several large cities fell quickly into their hands, and placed it in tilt:4r power to intercept altogether the supplies of silk from the country beyond these cities. At Soochow, the most important of these cities, the " Faithful King," CHUNG-WANG, had taken up his quarters, which he had at least enough of our " common Christianity" to take care should be of the best the place afforded. In their inter view with him, the Missionaries naturally—and it was good policy also—introduced their religion first— "The conversation commenced by his asking in good Mandarin dialect, with a Kwangsi accent, whence we came and for what object ? Answer. Faithful King ; may you live a thousand years. We come from Shanghae and be long to the great English nation. We have heard that your religion is Christian, like our own. We worship like you, the Heavenly Father. We have therefore come to make inquiry respecting this.' " ' It appears, then, that your honourable country also pro fesses, like us, to believe in Jesus, the Saviour of the 'World. We are of the same religion and are brethren. At present Hien Fung's empire is approaching its end ; we have one half of the mountains and rivers' for the celestial dynasty. Having now only recently taken Soochow, we have not erected a c h urc h, o th erw i se y ou m i g ht e n ter it with us and join in worship. " After such a pleasant commencement, and some other religious conversation, a question from CIIUNG-WANG enabled Mr. EDRINS to introduce the important postscript on commerce, and the peculiar position of the Foreign Christians, whom the Tai-ping Christians could now deprive of an important part of their trade— H a ve you any other matter on which you wish to speak?' " ' Our nation carries on trade with China ; our country men are now desirous to obtain the new silk just ready for the market, from Kiahing, Nantsin, and other places. The forces of the new Celestial Dynasty are now there. It wou ld be highly satisfactory if, in these circumstances, commerce should not be interrupted. If by some arrangement it could continue, both natives and foreigners would find it bene ficial.' " The Celestial Dynasty also desires that there be no obstruction to trade. If it continue , the Celestial King will levy customs upon goods which pass.'.” The deputation were dismissed with " Thanks," " Thanks," and the information that " Brother" LIEU had been ordered to provide them with beds and a supper; hot of course. And, if CHUN G WANG'S tariff be but a little more moderate than that of our distinguished Ally's, Shanghae may congratu late itself still on doing a good silk trade, and in having found in the intelligent missionary a suc cessful rival for Mr. COBDEN. We are naturally curious to know of what cha racter the Christianity can be which evidently awakened something like " brotherhood" of feeling towards us European Christians. It is certainly something new, after all, to find Chinese, not merely polite about religion, but evidently dis posed to think that we have really more light than they. After the complaisant introduction, the account of which we have quoted above, the con versation went on : " " The most of mankind worship images of wood and clay. The disciples of Jesus know that it is right only to worship God. " It is this wicked idolatry that we found prevailing hero and in other cities. God has sent his Son Jesus to save the world from these their sins, and the younger brother of Jesus is our chief.' " ' We desire nothing so much as that idolatry may be uprooted from among men. We know the Kan-wang. He reacted with for geyeral montlm at Shanghae, AftQr• wards he proceeded to Hong• kong, where he remained still under the proteci ion of our missionary friends there, till he decided to go on to Nankin. He is well acquainted with LA T E S. our religion.' " ' What day do you keep as a day of worship ; and what four stars in the cycle of 28 denote the day ?' " ' Fang, liii, Mau, Sing are the four days on which the worship day occurs.' " ' And what day in the week is this, then ?' " The second after the day of worship.' " The day, then, is the same in your nation as in The following telegrams have been received at Mr, Reuter's office : TURIN, OCT. 3. In to-day's sitting of the Chambers a committee was appointed to examine the project of law pre sented by the Government. The members of this committee expressed full confidence in the policy of Count Cavour, but de sired that all dualism with Garibaldi should cease. ours.' " Their chiefs have had some considerable inter course with Christian teachers. TIENWANG, their head chief, who is now ascertained to be still living, received elementary instruction from an American missionary; and a confused reading of the Chinese Bible appears to have given their characteristics to the visions and revelations which he fancied were given him. A relative of his, however, now second in command, and bearing the title of KAN WANG (Shield King), about five years ago spent seven months with the late Dr. MEDHURST, and actually wrote out from his instructions a commen tary on the New Testament, and was baptised by a German missionary in 1853. Mr. EDEINS observes, in speaking of the " Book of Visions," written by their leader : The Espero of Turin states that a rumour is gain ing ground in that city of the meeting of a congress to settle the Italian question. The same journal adds that it is the Emperor Napoleon who has made the proposition to that effect. MADRID, OCT. 3. The Official Gazette announces that the Cortes will assemble on the 25th October. The Espana asserts that the principal Carlist chiefs are disposed to recognise Queen Isabella IL ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 4. The Empress of Russia was yesterday happily delivered of a Prince at Sarskoselo. The Emperor will leave on the 12th inst., and arrive at Wilna on the 13th inst. "The curious and authentic statements made in this book are our best lights on the early history of the rebellion. They vindicate satisfactorily its religious origin, and show that, while the founder has erred in regarding himself as the subject of immediate Divine revelations, he is a sincere believer in Christianity. The advent of his relative after several years of instruction under the Protestant missionaries may produce a painful influence upon his mind in leading him back to correct views of Scripture truth." Of course, there is much in what we hear of them that would make us smile ; much that seems to us sober Westerns—Protestants, too—blasphemous; and much in the propagation of their faith by the sword, and their Chinese indifference to the suffer ings and lives of others, which is truly horrible. Yet how much may we say for people whose whole ideas of life and religion have been so utterly in contrast with our own. People who need the most careful elementary teaching and training, but who are almost entirely self-trained, and who have lived by the maxims which guided the conduct of Com missioner YEH. When we remember, however, with what sentiments the judgment of the POPE is regarded by Catholic Christendom, may we not forgive a Chinese of ardent temperament who has been reading the Hebrew prophets, for thinking himself, too, inspired and infallible? And when we remember Perugia and LAMORICIERE'S free lances, can we wonder that the Tai-pings should take Jositua and the Hebrew judges for their models? We know not indeed whether, after all, the lan guage of our missionary informant be, not merely appropriate from Min, but most appropriate to the whole case : " In all this Providence is at work, and we believe that God will cause the result of the war to further His wise designs, and in the end to promote the real happiness of he Chinese people." CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, Captain Evans, has arrived here with the above mails. She brings 124 passengers and a large cargo, including 2,246 bales of silk value upwards of £200,000 sterling. It was officially announced from Tangiers that the Sultan had permitted the exportation of wool and grain for one year. The Milazzo from London with excursionists to Italy put into Gibraltar on the 25th ult. The brig Christiana Carnell arrived at Gibraltar on the 18th ult., totally dismasted. The Ripon left Gibraltar for the East on the 26th ult. GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 29. Exchange on London, 501, to 50Z ; on Paris, 5.23; on Marseilles, 5,34; on Madrid, at par.; Cadiz, discount ; Malaga, 1. premium. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 186 () THE MAGAZINES, Dublin University Magazine. perpetual oscillation between the two. As Voltaire says of Charles the Twelfth, we are apt to carry our virtues into their kindred vices. Obstinacy is much easier than rational firmness, extravagance or parsimony are much more practkable than a wisely regulated expenditure, and in all things the medium course is not only the safest but the most difficult. The writer asserts that for the leading idea throughout the article. he is indebted to Archbishop Whately, though his own pleasant style is easily recognisable in its treatment. He begins by . recording how a little girl being lectured on the evils of daintiness, announced, with the triumph of conscious virtue, that she had " eaten the grounds of the tea," and he finds many older and wiser examples to keep the youthful and zealous but mis taken martyr in countenance. He thus describes what he calls a secondary vulgar error : One class of the errors into which men are prone to run under this natural impulse are those which have been termed Secondary Vulgar Errors. A vulgar error, you will understand, my reader, does not by any means signify an error into which only the vulgar are likely to fall. 'lt does not by any means signify a mistaken belief which will be taken up only by inferior and uneducated minds. A vulgar error means an error either in conduct or belief into which man, by the make of his being, is likely to fall. Now, people a degree wiser and more thoughtful than the mass, discover that these vulgar errors are errors. They conclude that their opposites (i.e., the things at the other extremity of the scale) must be right ; and by running into the oppo site extreme they run just as far wrong upon the other side. _Mere is too great a reaction. The twig was bent to the right—they bend it to the left, forgetting that the right thing was that the twig should be straight. If convinced that waste and sauciness are wrong, they proceed to eat the grounds of their tea; if convinced that self-indulgence is wrong, they conclude that hair-shirts and midnight flog gings are right ; if convinced that the Church of Rome has. too many ceremonies, they resolve that they will have no ceremonies at all ; if convinced. that it is unworthy to grovel in the presence of a duke, they conclude that it will be a fine thing to refuse the duke ordinary civility ; if convinced that monarchs are not much wiser or better than other human beings, they run off into the belief that all kine have been little more than incarnate demons ; if convinced that representative government often works very imper fectly, they raise a cry for imperialism ; if convinced that monarchy has its abuses, they call out for republicanism ; if convinced that Britain has many things which are not so good as they ought to be, they -keep constantly extolling the perfection of the United States. There is one point of taste on which we must differ from our essayist. lie never misses an opportunity of sneering at the author of " Childe Harold." Thus he says, "You enthusiastically admired Byron once; you heartily despire him now. You once thought Festus' finer than ' Paradise Lost,' but you have swung away from that. But for a good many years you have heard of Wordsworth, Shake speare, and Tennyson, and this taste you are not likely to outgrow." Of course tastes and critical judgments must materially differ, but for any one deliberately to profess contempt for all the poetry of Byron shows either a remarkable deficiency of appreciation, or an absurd affectation of singu larity. " A Last Word on Lord Macaulay " is a carefully written article, which, while withholding extravagant eulogy, passes a high enconium on the rare gifts and marvellous in dustry of the great man we have lost. The calm ness and cultivation of Lord Macaulay's intellect were, in the opinion of the writer, of great service to the literature of his generation. Even the ab sence of that ardent creative genius which was not in the possession of the historian, the essayist, and the critic, was, in some degree, beneficial, according to his theory. " Lord Macaulay's elaborate polish," he says, " has proved, we think, exceedingly valua ble to our rapid, perplexed, and somewhat inco herent age." In another place he writes as follows, after referring to the extravagant length to which some of Mr. Carlyle's followers carried their leader's theories—" Against such feelings, which were in deed the natural product of an age of intense men tal excitement, remarkable scientific progress, and strongly developed egotism, an antidote was found in Lord Macaulay. It was an immense advantage to have at the head of our literature a-man who spoke moderately, who wrote fastidiously, whose enthusiasm was never intemperate, whose judg ment was never excited. This great potentate in letters opposed to the license of speculation and the riot of the imagination, a simple theory of morals, a simple system of politics, and a simple code of criticism. Many new men and things he did not recognise, that were both good and true ; that he did not recognise them arose, possibly from some men tal defect ; but this very narrowness of intellectual sympathy enabled him effectively to stem the current." Further on, he adds, " Macaulay, with his historic culture and his English associations, could not become a political dogmatist. He re garded with hearty admiration the rough adjust ments, the intricate compromises, the balanced inconsistencies, which are so unmeaning to the strictly scientific intellect, but on which old and historic societies must rest." Those who have not met with the volumes comprising the miscellaneous writings of Lord Macaulay, will read with interest and admiration the poem quoted at the close of this article, written in August, 1847, shortly after the illustrious author had lost his seat for Edinburgh by his consistent advocacy of the Maynooth grant. As the writer of the article before us justly observes, the verses should be taken as a warning that it is dangerous to expose ourselves to the shafts of the immortals. Doubtless some of those whose eager ness for the great man's defeat has hardly been atoned for by their subsequent welcome, will look back on that occasion, as they read these lines, with less satisfaction than they then experienced. The story of "Ida Conway" proceeds with interest, and leaves its fair heroine in distress and perplexity. Another story from the pen of of G. Whyte Melville, recounts the adventures of the aspirants to the hand of the fair Clothilde, daughter of the Emperor Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy, whose name has been so conspicuous in history and romance. " Gryll Grange," by the brilliant but eccentric author of " Headlong Hall," proceeds, and recounts the success of the Greek play. A criticism on Professor Owen's recent work on Palmontely will interest the scientific reader ; and there are also papers on the financial condition of Turkey, a subject of some importance to modern politicians; and the " English Pompeii," as the Roman remains of Uriconium, in Shropshire, are called. " The Chronicle of Current History," a new feature in this magazine, is continued, and - gives an able summary of passing events. Blackwood's Magazine. This number of Blaclavood is not so brilliant as usual. The first article is called " Seeing is Be lieving," and it contains some judicious reflections. It remarks that, in the arguments on this subject, both sides are wrong in many cases. " Seeing is believing), and he that distrusts the evidence of his own sight will find a difficulty in bringing forward evidence more convincing. The fallacy lies in con founding vision with inference, in supposing that facts are seen which are only inferred. There can be no mistake in trusting to the evidence of sense as far as the eye goes ; the mistake is in supposing it to go much farther than it does. It is one thing to believe what you have seen, and another to be lieve that you have seen all there was to be seen." Another very true observation is made regarding the tendency that prevails among certain people to take things for granted concerning which they have no proof, and then to insist upon the accuracy of their unfounded and unsupported statement. " You cannot step into an omnibus, or chat with an acquaintance at a club, without hearing distinct positive and important statements respecting the intentions of public men—statements involving their personal honour, perhaps the national safety, and uttered with an air of conviction which would be ludicrous were it not so sad; yet if you happen to ask on what evidence the speaker relies, you find, perhaps, that there is nothing better than the sur mise and gossip of our Own Correspondent, or of some ignorant ape walking about in breeches,' who undertakes to supply a newspaper with his in terpretation of the motives of persons he has never seen, and whose characters he cannot know." There is a great deal of truth in this, unpalateable as it may be to some folks, who are always rushing about, after the fashion of the actors in " The School for Scandal," slaying reputations, and laying low those rivals they could not have encountered in open combat. " The Papal Government" is the name of the second subject. It criticises a work on Catholic Italy, written by Charles Hemans, son of the renowned poetess. This writer, himself a Catholic, is in favour of a separation of the temporal and spiritual authority of the Popo. These remarks on a question of great importance, which is now so frequently discussed in all quarters, cannot but be acceptable to many readers. " Tickler 11. among the Thieves" is a humorous sketch by a celebrated writer, which is sure to afford general entertain ment from its smart style and witty anecdotes. gg The Reputed Traces of Primeval Man," as may be supposed from the title, is one of those strange subjects, that are of interest only to a few. " The Romance of Agostini " is the second part of a very complicated and romantic tale. Doubtless, as it proceeds it will become very exciting in its de tails, and effective in its general style, The Irish nurse, Madame Marguritta, is a very clever sketch, aptly described, and altogether introduced into the story with very great dexterity and finish of execu tion. There is an interesting article on the " Fresco Paintings of Italy," which is well worthy of per usal. The following passage will explain the pur port of the Arundel Society, and the general ad vantages to be derived from the fresco painting the most appropriately in its own forcible and eloquent language : " Once more, reverting to the projects of the Arundel Society, we find abundant cause why the fresco art of Italy should be brought to the knowledge of the English public. Fresco-painting was, to the Italian artist, the ready lan . guage by which he rapidly expressed his thoughts and emotions. Easel Tictures were by comparison but subor dinate and occasional productions. And it is well known that the greatest masters, from Giotto down to Raphael and Michael Angelo, executed their most important works through the medium and material of fresco. Fortunately for Italy, but unhappily for England, these wall-pictures admit of no ready removal. Our National Gallery, as we recently took occasion to show, has become richly endowed with a consecutive historic series painted upon panal or canvas ; but the grand contemporary Italian frescoes in convents and churches, in loggia and stanza—works which, in fact, constitute the glory, and evince the power of Italian art—must ever remain, in legal phrase, attached as fixtures to the freehold. The untravelled Englishman can become acquainted with these master productions only through the intervention of copies ; and hence the special and important service whibh the Arundel Society seeks to confer upon the general public. . . . What the directors of the Na tional Collection have accomplished upon the walls of the Gallery itself, the Council of the Arundel Society will attempt for the portfolio of their subscribers, The private libraries of our country gentry may now glow as with the fresco art of a southern clime, and men even of moderate means may possess, as in a developed history, illustrations of the rare Italian masters. By such means the choicest works become diffused and popularised, and are brought, as it were, to the very door of every English man. The dissemination of such productions may be deemed an important, if not, indeed, an essential part of that general education, that extension of cultured taste which has for some years been among the most happy re sults of the art revival in this country. These fresco-pictures we have seen are now threatened with destruction. But this, the calamity of Italy, may be Eng land's opportunity. We are endowed with wealth and power, and we must be ready to save and to seize the trea sures offered for our use. We must wait, ever eager on the watch. Dynasties are overthrown, and old families have fallen, and heirlooms, the riches of art, may in sore need be put to a bidding. Democracy, which sold in our own coun try the gallery of a Charles, may not always in Florence conserve the pictures of the Pitti. The authorities of our National Gallery, we say, must be upon vigilant watch. The autonomy' established in Tuscany may yet, like mi.ny o ther grand conceptions, fall short of money; nobles, who have still something to lose, may yet be glad to fly from pillage, with pictures rolled in their portmanteaus. But some works cannot be carried into safety ; and therefore it was a happy thought which led the Arundel Society to secure by copies those frail and fadding frescoes which now, almcst at any moment, a cannon-shot may destroy." "Norman Sinclair" is continued, and this instal ment is more lively than some of the previous por tions of the story. "The French and English Armaments" is the first subject treated of. It refers chiefly to the writings of M. Clarigny on the English and French navies. The remarks here made appear to be very sensible, and entirely confute the strange statements made by the French writer. An ap propriate compliment is paid to Sir John Paking ton, of whom it is said the Deke of Wellington remarked, "never heard of him," when told he was Lord Derby's Colonial Secretary. " Yet," it is said, " when subsequently transferred from the Colonial-office to the Admiralty, the adminis tration of this midland county baronet won golds opinions from the entire service. His energy in having raised the materiel of the navy from an improperly depressed state to nearly the required standard was rendered homage to by the present Secretary in a statement made to the House of Commons last session, when the augmentation effected in a single year was pronounced marvellous and prodigious. Such a tribute is alike meritorious to the giver and the recipient, and it should be ever held in grateful recollection of Sir John Pakington that he took up the cause before any general ex citement prevailed, and insisted on providing a sufficient force before the popular opinion had been expressed as it has since been so energeti cally. In the conclusion of this article it is said :—" The true national political tradition is this—the British Fleet should be maintained superior in number to any probable combination of other fleets against it. This precaution, while insuring against being overwhelmed by sudden coalition, also leaves in case of war, sufficient squadrons for protecting British commerce in every sea round the world." A few pages are devoted to the consideration of some clerical works recently pub lished, and especial attention is directed to the new book by the author of the celebrated work "Twenty Years in the Church," which is called Elkerton Rectory. The remarks on this clever and good-inten tioned work, are well written and evince an entire comprehension and thorough appreciation of the motives and plans of the author. The very excit ing and interesting narrative of the Count of Elsi nore again appears to attract the attention of the readers of this periodical. The portion here met with is very remarkable, concerning no less an event than his escaping the ignominious death that had been designed him. The way in which this skilful subterfuge was effected is very strikingly narrated, and fully establishes the reputation of LarsVonved as to being one of the most distinguished characters of his time. The scene is very vividly described in which the renowned sea Captain is restored from the gates of the grave to the midst of his devoted band. Believing him dead, the governor of the prison had relin quished the body to the friends who petitioned to bury it, and they, hastily returning to the ship, eluded discovery ! Nearly every man of his devoted crew by this time were thronging around him in the great cabin, and the sternest old sea•dog of them all wept like a nervous woman for unutterable joy and thankfulness. " Blown off Land" is a very melancholy reminiscence of an old sailor, who narrates to his sorrowing auditors how, in long past years, lie had lost his three sons by a calamity that had befallen them in a perilous fishing excur sion. It is related with simplicity and pathos, and can hardly fail to impress the reader with its genuine feeling. Our "Political Chorus" contains an epi tome of events, which is well arranged, and gives a good general idea of affairs to those who may not have had time or possessed inclination to study them in detail at the period of their occurrence. Bentley's Miscellany. Victor Gouache, of the Outremanche correspon dence, tires of England, and has taken a step with the rest of the world over to Italy, where he criticises everbody and everything ; but his letter does not come up to some of his former ones when treating on the British Constitution. The adven tures of Bel and the Dragon, by Dudley Costello, is clever in its way and amusing. " The Story of Francesco Novello da Carrara," is continued. There is a statistical paper on New Zealand, but which for brevity deserves a place in a geography rather than a magazine. " Recollections of an OH Salt," is a review on a work written by Ad miral Jurieu de la Graviere, entitled, " Souvenirs d'un Amiral." To use the phrase of the reviewer, he canters through the two volumes, and we think that any reader who takes the trouble to accompany him in this ride will feel repaid for his pains, and feel a desire to read at length the gallant French man's straightforward narrative, although it be not over complimentary to perfidious Albion. The first two chapters of a tale entitled " The House Blaswick" are published this month, the merits of which we shall be better able to judge as the story progresses. Part the third of " Once a child, never a child, and always a child," by Mingle Mangle, is equal to the first two parts and is written with the same feeling and ability which usually characterises the writings of Monkshood.A chapter on Voltaire at Ferney, and one of Onida's long send-you-to-sleep stories, bring us to the con clusion, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. A lengthened paper on "Northern Africa " is the first that meets the reader in this number. It gives us full particulars as to the natural products and animal tribes, and i$ founded on a recent French work from the pen of Jules Gerard, the famous lion hunter. The writer of this article, in conclusion, expresses his opinion that many years must elapse before Algeria becomes a source of profit to the French Government. This conviction seems to be very generally felt, but nevertheless there is as yet no reason to despair of its ultimate success, although, as the writer before us observes, the French do not seem to be naturally adapted for colonisation. Th e interesting but melancholy story of "East Lynne" is advancing rapidly. Aluch progress is made in this instalment. The ill-fated Richard Hare recog nises the Capt. Thurn, for whose misdeeds ho is suffering, in the treacherous Francis Le v i son. Archibald Lady Isabel, weakly and wickedly believing Carlyle Levison's false assertions respecting her husband Capt. b es lo t, w le w a t e el g t thus unexpectedly husband and Barbara Hare, flies from East Lynne o w v i e t i h wy t i l l i e e im fa! d th b le y ss th g e u ' rie li f career of Don falls Note worthies," o o r n t h t .„ discusses Sir N at Nathaniel, e b l his "Notes on John of Austria, whose inheritance of the military genius of his father broughtAvleiirm more empty fame Id Frenchy t pleasant o%vn of Arles,pape r tohna,nthseoliqduapinrtofito. "cite there au poete, al 'artiste, nu reveur," will entertainold Gallo the ll 0 o an. Thehistoric read er. ried. as H so e ci w at a io s n p s a o r t the city forcibly impressed the vivid imagination of Chateaub ticularly struck by the Alscamps, or necropolis illust • as tams Pagan remains." have not met in my wander ings,",‘„l generations had reposed upon so temnted me said the author, " any place that Nicholas Michell gives place to die in as Arles." gives us a traveller's reverie on a mummy of Thebes, expressing the thoughts that Fraser's lifitgazine. Fraser has as usual several papers worth reading, promiment among them being one of A. K. H. 13.'s delightful essays. His title will probably perplvx the reader, for he .calls it " Concerning Scylla and Charybdis; with some thoughts upon the swing of the pendulum." A few sentences, Lowever, eluci date the mystery. His real subject is the prone ness of human nature to run into extremes, if convinced of or.e error to rush into the opposite one, and by the swing of the pendulum he means our FRANCE. Five special trains on Monday left Lyons for Marseilles, with the troops destined for Rome. The steam frigates and transports which were prepared at Toulon to convey the troops to Civita Vecchia, were ordered round to Marseilles, as more con venient for the embarkation. Cardinal Riaro Sforza, Archbishop of Naples, who was ordered out of the country by Garibaldi, has arrived in Paris. BOURSE, Oct. 3.—The English funds having arrived with a rise of a I per cent., has given a buoyancy to this market, and a fair amount of business has been ',transacted, at improved quota tions. Threes are now at 69f 15c ; Mobilier, 710 f ; Orleans, 1,407 f 50c; Northern, 975 f; Strasburg, 642 f 50c; Mediterranean, 922 f 50c; Austrian, 492 f 50c ; Lombard, 491 f 25c. The market continued improving to the close. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 80 Do end month.... Credit Fancier 9OO Belgian 41 — Piedmontese Fives 79 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 47 75 Home Debt 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 25; Bank Shares 2850 —! Credit Mobilier 720 — I , Do. Account 720 —; RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1407 ._5O .. 1415 Northern New ditto BBO .. 885 -- Lyons and Mediterranean 917 50 .. 920 Geneva 362 50 .. 362 50 Southern Western Eastern . . Sardinian Austrian Lon-bard SARDINIA. The Official Gazette of Turin publishes the fo . lowing decree : " Victor Emmanuel, &c., " On the report of the President of the Council of Ministers, and on hearing the Coancil, we have ordained, and do ordain as follows :-- "Our well-beloved cousin Prince Eugene de Savoie, Carignan is appointed our Lieutenant during our temporary absence from the capital. He will, in our name, on the report of responsible Ministers, conduct current affairs, and, in cases of urgency, sign the royal decrees, which will be countersigned and vised in the usual manner. He will ordain that matters of high importance shall be transmit ted to us. "We ordain that the present decree, provided with the seal of State, be placed in tht3 collection of the acts of the Government. (Signed) " VICTOR EMMANUEL. " C. CAVOUR. " Turin, Sept. 29, 1860." The Moniteur of Bologna announces that M. Valerio, Commissary Royal in the Marches, has transferred his residence from Pesaro to Ancona. RUSSIA. A St. Petersburg letter gives some particulars concerning the new passport system just established in Russia :—" To travel in Russia it is not enough to be provided with a ticket for a railway or a mail, but the passport must be en regle. Hitherto the formalities for obtaining these documents and getting them vises were complicated, especially for foreigners ; but several of these formalities have just been abolished. Tha new regulations adopted, which, however, are only provisional, are these:—Every foreigner coming into Russia by mail or railway, is relieved from the obliga tion of exhibiting his passport in the great towns through which he passes, but must do so on arrival at his destination. There, on the presentation of the document which must bear the vise of a Russian Legation or Consulate, a permission to reside, valid for a year, and costing 2 roubles (8 fr.), is to be given to him. To return to his own country, he will have to present his permit at the office of the Governor of the province, accompanied by a certifi cate of the police, declaring that ho has no debts, and that no legal obstacle to his departure exists, and then a new passport will be given to him. Persons coming by sea, on commercial business, and staying for less than a fortnight, will not be re quired to obtain a Russian passport, but will have permission to reside inscribed on that they bring." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Washington, Captain Jeffrey, from New York on the 22d ult., has arrived here. In consequence of the telegraphic communication with Ireland having been interrupted yesterday, her arrival at Queenstown could not be announced. She brings about 15,000 dols. in specie. On the 24th she passed a Cunard steamer, and on the 30th ult., the City of Baltimore, bound west. A great fire had taken place at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The loss was estimated at 200,000 dols. The commercial news by the City of Washington has been anticipated via Father Point. GALE.—SIIIELDS, WedgeSday, 1 p.m.—A fierce gale is blowing from the N.W. It came on before day light, and has continued with tremendous violence. If it had been blowing upon the coast, instead of off it, serious consequences might have resulted. As it is a schooner is stranded on the Herd Sand, at the mouth of our harbour, and a steamer is upon the Insand. The schooner was well blown up by the force of the gale, and the crew were res cued. Not much damage is likely to arise to the steamer. Some anxiety prevails with regard to a very large fleet of laden vessels that loft the Tyne yesterday and Monday. They have an offshore wind, however, and can run before the gale; so that their position is not very alarming. Down to the time of sending off this despatch no serious accident is reported on land, or as having occurred in adjacent ports. Half-past I.—A f ore i gn vesse l h as ca psisod in the Northumberland Dock, and several keels have been sunk in the TYII9. A w h erry l aden w i t h goods has also been LYCEUM THEATRE. If the neighbourhood of Athens is in the condition that Mr. Tom Taylor would have us believe, by his production of Monday evening at this theatre, there would be a justifi cation of the philosophy expounded by the Greek Brigand, Hadji Havros (Mr. George Vining). This amiable indi vidual, whose first introduction to a British audience was made on the present occasion, is brought before our notice as a gentleman of very peculiar views ; carrying on busi ness upon the broadest scale of way-laying and plundering certain innocent English (and for the matter of that, any other) travellers who may fall in his way. Hadji Havros is, however, a philosopher, and not only a philosopher, but a King, for he is called the " King of the Mountains," and exercises a rude and severe sovereignty over a band of law less brigands, with a latent moral conviction that if the whole world would only fall in with his policy, a saving might be effected of nearly 50 per cent. on the amount now levied by direct and indirect taxa tion. The audience are introduced to this gen tleman in the piece before us, upon the occasion of those captures which have become familiar to the readers o travels in Greece, and Mrs. Keeley (as Miss Penelope Porcupine), Miss Maria Ternan (Mary Ann Melton), with their footinan (Mr. Rouse), ara discovered in the gorges of the mountains near Athens, a scone admirably painted, and reminding one of the well known picture of the Corsair. It is indeed impossible to speak too highly of this charming representation. With the English party we find a German naturalist, and a young lady whose education was being matured at Paris, who afterwards turns out to be the daughter of the brigand chief. It would be idle to attempt to follow the author in the various incidents of this " comic drama." They depend entirely for effect upon the admir able talent of the actors, and it must be admitted no author was ever more indebted to this talent than Mr. Tom Taylor, for the piece itself is " thin" beyond description. Madame Celeste, who represented the Brigand's daughter, a part totally unworthy of her, played with her usual taste, feeling, and energy, and certainly made the most of one of the weakest characters we ever saw allotted to her. Mrs. Keeley sustained her reputation. Miss Ternan made a most interesting Greek girl, but had nothing to do. Mr. Rouse exerts himAelf to his utmost in a very common place character; and Mr. George Vining, though last not least, deserves the highest credit for the very admirable manner in which he acquitted himself as the Brigand Chief. It must be observed that the piece, much to its improve. ment, has been considerably curtailed. The scenery by Callcott is magnificent, and indeed all was worthy of a better production. We have already recorded our opinion of the appearance of the theatre, which is in the highest degree splendid. STEEL-PLATED IRON STEAM VESSELS. The first of a class of steel-plated iron steam vessels, of somewhat gigantic proportions, which the Government has decided on having constructed for the British navy, is to be laid down at Chatham Dockyard as soon as the necessary preparations have been made at that establishment, and com pleted with all possible despatch. The vessel which it is intended to be constructed will be rendered as nearly as possible shotproof, and this will be ac complished by covering her above her water line with massive steel armour plates. She will be of a size never yet witnessed in the English navy, the intention being to construct her 400 feet in length, or about double the length of many line-of-battle ships, and about two-thirds the length of the Great Eastern. She is to be furnished with engines of corresponding power, which will drive her through the water at a high rate of speed, and her arma ment is to consist exclusively of Armstrong guns of the heaviest metal and longest range. She will be one of the most formidable vessels of war yet built for the Government. The Assistant-Surveyor of the Navy, Mr. Large, has paid a visit to Chatham Dockyard, in order to ascertain if either of the docks at that establishment are sufficiently large to admit of the proposed vessel being built. The largest of the docks is that known as No. 2, which has been only recently finished, the Admiralty having that dock built in order to receive the largest vessels belonging to the navy. Its length is only a very little less than 400 feet, but an addi tion of several feet will be made by the removal of the caisson at the entrance and erecting in its place a dam, by which means the r equired length will be obtained for the construction of the vessel. The dock is at present occupied by the steam floating battery Trusty, 14, which is under repair, and as soon as she has been completed it is intended to commence building the new iron vessel. 'TIE B_RuMung thenriTON.—A letter from RECORDER Barrister saysF :—.Luring a Practising the Recorder of our borough (Mr. Ed w i n J ames ) , h e h as b een attacked in our local journals, and comments have been made in the London papers for his delay in holding his autumnal session. It is due to the learned gentleman that the facts should be known. At the assizes held at Lewes on the 20th of July last, every borough as well as county prisoner was tried, and the gaol, as is usual, "delivered." The Recorder has fixed the 12th of October inst. to 11)1c1 the next session. The first prisoner awaiting his trial was committed on the 21st ( f July last. By the Municipal Corporation • Act a Recorder is bound to hold four sessions in each year, and they are invariably fixed, as nearly as conveniently can be, at the end of every three months from the preceding session. It will thus be seen that there has been no unusual delay. POLICE MAGISTRATES. —Mr. J. Leigh, now sti pendiary magistrate at Wolverhampton, will succeed to the vacancy on the metropolitan bench caused by the death of Mr. Jardine. Mr. Leigh will sit at Worship-street Police court, in the room of Mr. Barker, who will be transferred to Clerkenwell, in succession to 31r. Corrie, who has already taken Mr. Jardine's place at Bow-street. Mr. W. Par - tridge, of the Oxford Circuit, has been appointed stipen diary magistrate at Wolverhampton, in the room of Mr. Leigh. The Recordership of Bath, vacant by Mr. Jar dine's death, will be filled by Mr. T. W. Saunders, of the Western Circuit, now Recorder of Dartmouth, The intelligence from Rio (le Janeiro regarding the failure of Mr. Mello e Souza for £500,000, which was announced by the last packet, is to the effect that his pro posal to pay in three years and nine months, without inte rest, had been agreed to by two-thirds of tho creditors—a majority §ll.4lcieut to give it legal forces must arise, in most reflective minds, when viewing these mournful relics of humanity, but with nothing very original. A love story, entitled " Mary Dynevon," will attract the readers of romance. A paper on " Margaret de Valois," wife of Henry the Fourth of France, gives a brief sketch of the career of that weak and unworthy, but unfortunately situated princess. There are other articles of vary ing attractions, and two poetic contributions of more than ordinary merit ; some pleasing anony mous verses entitled " tinder the Snow," and a graceful love lyric by W. C. Kent. United Service. Tho first article in this magazine is well worthy of perusal, it is upon the all-important subject of naval reform. The writer endeavours to impress upon the Lords of the Admiralty that although an officer may have been a dashing and meritorious lieutenant 20 years ago, it does not follow that in his old age he can, after passing years of inactivity on shore, prove a good admiral. The plan laid down for the wholesale reformation of naval administra- tion is straight forward; commencing at head quarters, and making the position of First Lord of the Admiralty independent of party influence and political opinion. " Fifty-five Years Since" is a sketch of the state of preparation in which Great Britain stood at that period to resist foreign inva sion and to support her supremacy. There is a paper condemning the fortifications and breakwater of the harbour of Braye, in Alderney, founded on the grounding of the frigate Emerald, 51 guns, on an unknown rock inside the harbour ; the writer maintains that the surest defence for Alderney would be the want of fortifications, which would be the cheapest and most certain, as no enemy would care to surprise a barren rock. We are not quite so sure about this, but certainly if we pretend to fortify the place and expend large sums of money to build a breakwater the fortifica tions, both against the enemy and the sea, should be of a first class order, or it is worse than a waste of money. The writer of th e ar ticle, entitled " Campaigning in New Z ea l an d," th oroug hly un derstands his subject; he is severe, but by no means too severe—that were impossible—in his strictures on the mal-administration of that colony. He shows how, owing to the stupidity of our com manders, the Maoris have begun to despise the British. He goes back to by-gone times ; and we have lately a still more glaring case of culpable neglect and incapacity, to use the mildest term, on the part of Colonel Gold in the late affair in New Zealand. The Home Government is responsible for sending out to important posts, because they are lucrative, favourites, incapable of performing the duty entrusted to them. It may be an error in judgment, yet a gallant admiral was shot for an error of this nature. A visit to the King of the Cannabal Islands is amusing and instructive. The modes practised by certain savages to propitiate the gods, to procure a good harvest, are novel, though brutal and sanguinary in the extreme. " A Rus sian Account of the Campaign in the Crimea " is concluded ; and, in taking leave of Capt. Anitsch kof, we must pay the just tribute due to an impor tant historian, that, as far as we have observed, he has treated the subject with great fairness, and en deavoured, irrespective of the contending nation ality, to give a true unbiassed account of that me morable campaign. " The late Syrian Massacre," " The National Guard of New York," " The Sar dinian Army in 1860," are treated upon ; and a chapter on " The Southals Raj-mahal Mountains," together with the usual naval and military infor mation, concludes the number. The Congall Magazine. Those readers who quarrel with the Cornitil Magazine for its uniformity and absence of variety will be gratified to observe that no less than three series of papers reach their termination in this num ber, and that, consequently, some change must be perceptible in November, even through its characteristic fogs. Mr. Thackeray's lectures on the Georges, which have not attained the success in print that their popularity as discourses might have seemed to indicate, have terminated with the half-scornful, half-mournful portrayal of the court of the First Gentleman in Europe. "Phy siological Riddles" have reached their conclusion, with the fourth paper; and the somewhat prolix essays on the life, work, and time of our great Eng lish humourist and teacher in colours, William Hogarth, are also brought to an end. Much labour and research are revealed, but more condensation and simplicity would have greatly enhanced the merits of the articles. The effort to be witty and to preserve a smart style is fatiguing to the reader no less than to the writer, but there is much that will be new to many in these records of one of our country's celebri ties. " Framley Parsonage" is continued through the perplexing gaieties of a London season. The meeting between Lady Lufton and her aversion to the Duke of Omnium is the subject of a graceful picture, where the figures are lifelike and the scene admirably arranged. The Lufton-Grantly treaty is broken off, so there are hopes for Lucy Roberts. There is an able and interesting account of Chinese Pirates, and "England's Future Bulwarks," is, as its name implies, a treatise on our national fortifica tions. Mrs. Browning contributes some verses on a forced recruit in the Austrian army at Selferino, far superior in poetic merit, as well as simple pathos to any of her late enthusiastic effusions. Bailey's Sporting Magazine and Racing Register: A portrait of Lord Derby represents one of the staunch patrons of the turf. The engraving is well executed, and the editor remarks that he hails the ready condescension of the Earl in sitting for his portrait for so young a magazine, as a symbol that their conduct has been sucli as to merit his patron age and that of the order to which he belongs. A chapter on sporting and pheasant rearing in France will be perused with interest. " From Oxford to St. George's" is continued. In " Angling Haunts" the Professor treats on Rowsley, and expatiates on the gentle art in general. " The Experiences of Sydney Godolphin" have little or no interest this month. A sketch of Tom C r ibb' s training is in fact just a hint to the public gene rally to take a little more exercise and a little less et ceteras for dinner, thereby avoiding a doctor's bill. We have full details of the gentlemen of the bat and other sporting intelligence. 0720 of Them, by Charles Lever, is drawing to a close, and although the climax is not yet reached, we can pretty well see h ow ma tt ers w ill conclude —Quackinbogy and Young Layton having arrived. at New York, The Yankee, who is what his coun trymen term a cute shaver, contrives to find out Mr . Troyer who is bound to the south, and suspecting that he is up to no good, and on the same "lay" as himself and his friend, he determines to out-wit him, and, having obtained a reluctant consent from Layton, starts of to carry out his meditated sch eme . Layton, left to himself, proves himself by no means a match for the Yankees ; but by good fortune, when in a complete fix, he deseovers his long-lost father in the person of the professor wh o i s lectur ing, building, and doing everythin g f or an Ameri can speculator and innkeeper. Some of the native character i s ti c s are well described, though rather over -drawn. But , be this as it may, the Ame r i cans have no cause t o complain, for if he shows up their shortcoming he does full and ample justice to their virtues. POLICE INTELLIGER CE-( THIS DAT .) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DYING rot; GIN—A DARING TRlM—Mary Ann Morris, a low-looking woman, was charged before Mr. Beadon with stealing some silver from a boy under the following circumstances : Richard Nash, an errand boy, living at 2, Henrietta street, Cavendish-square, said on the previous night about 8 o'clock he was returning along the Bayswater-road, having been on an errand for his master, and having a purse in his hand at the time, when the prisoner came up to him and said " My dear boy, have you got a halfpenny ?" He asked her " What for ?" and she replied, another female having come up, "We are dying for half a quartern of gin, but have not got enough owing to the rise in price." He had a purse in his hand. The other woman came behind him and he felt his watch go from his pocket. He sai 1. " You've get my watch," and took it from the prisoner's hand, and while doing so she took the purse from his hand, emptied it of its contents, and on his calling " Police," the purse other inte womanhi his hand, off, e n d the a In d e r o u p p p e and d e e et detained the prisoner till a constable (Woodman, 45 D), took her into custody. The constable said he knew the prisoner as hanging about the Bayswater-road nightly. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Beadon said nobody for a moment could doubt it, and it was a very bad case. The prisons, who there is no doubt is one of the worst class of thieves, was then committed fur six months, with hard labour. ECONOMY OF EXPERIMENTS.—In all that needs doing there is no need of great expenditure of the public money, but only of our economically putting in practice the system of trial and error. When a thing can be demon strated to be right, and cannot be demonstrated to be wrong by the use of the English language, it ought to be tried, if probably useful, and not too costly. The costly thing lis the obstinate avoidal of trials, and the rushing into large manufactures without the trials, discovering what is wrong only on a large scale, making a nine days' wonder at the cost of £lOO,OOO, where a single £l,OOO would suffice. There is, it is true, no royal road to originality, but so also there is no royal road to the selection of judges;_ only a judge in a condition of ignora nc e is much more damaging to the public than a pretended originator who turns out to be a quack. Better blunder over a hundred mistakes than mis take the one right thing when it starts up. In this matter of war •tools lies physical salvation. When war-tools shall have culminated war -work will be at an end. Men will cease to fight wheD, destruction shall In rendered certain, —QIIQQ a IRO, V