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Year after year, with praiseworthy per severance, Mr. BERKELEY has stood forward on be half of this substantial reform, which, as Mr. COBDEN very truly said many years ago, is the primary step of all reform. Year after year argument, abuse, and ridicule have been heaped upon the measure, whose very merits naturally make it extremely un popular, and the sarcasm which has been levelled at the motion has often been extended to the indefatig able but, apparently, hopeless efforts of the promoter. But in spite of all difficulties, Mr. BERKELEY has continued his efforts with unflagging zeal, and if his arguments could not possibly be new every year, neither could those of his adversaries. He had, be sides, the ever strengthening evidence of fact in his favour, since the years that have elapsed since he first begun his annual motion have shown no change for the better in our mode of elec tions, but have proved how manifestly incompetent the opponents of the Ballot are to deal with election reform in any other manner. It is true that in many cases there is unwillingness as well as incom petence, and a pure and genuine election is the last thing wished for, but in many instances men of ability and sincerity oppose the Ballot on principle, who yet fail to suggest any practical remedy for the existing state of things. Mr. BERKELEY'S perseverance is now beginning to reap the reward that perseverance in a good cause is sure to win. There was no more hope of his motion being carried on Friday night than there has been •of similar success being achieved in other years—but the laughter is dying out. The common sense of the country is with him, and if neither House of Parliament is as yet willing to sacrifice private interest to the public good, his opponents are beginning to occupy a very embarrassing posi tion from their persistent refusal to give the Ballot even a partial or limited trial. Nothing could be weaker than Lord PALMERSTON'S answer to Mr. BERKELEY on Friday ; but, in fact,„ a good many of the noble lord's reasons told entirely in favour of his antagonist. Truth, said Lord PAL MERSTON, is not new, and nothing is stronger than truth ; and this indisputable aphorism may give en couragement to the friends and supporters of honest, if secret, voting. Lord PALMERSTON falls back upon his old argument, that the elector's vote is not a personal privilege, but the exercise of a trust reposed in him by the community for their benefit. But why is a trust for another to be fulfilled less faithfully than a personal right? If Lord PAL MERSTON means that it is a trust reposed in the tenant farmer for the benefit of his landlord, in the tradesman for his customer, in the clerk for the he a d of his firm, in the working man for hi s employer, the present mode of securing the fulfilment of the duty is certainly the most efficacious. This would appear to be his real meaning, for he quietly observes that " there must be influence by one or another, and it is a natural thing that there should be harmony between the pro prietor of land and those who carry on their o ceupa _ s lions under them." This is a very clear and simple argument, and Lord PAL3IERSTON carries it a little further. He says " Whether it is territorial influ ence, or the influence of mercantile wealth, or of commercial engagements, you cannot divest man kind of those influences which are inherent in the nature of things and must influence the conduct of men." Why, then, have a Corrupt Practices Pre vention Bill, why have a Reform Bill in 1832, why talk of the elector's vote as a public trust? It would be better to say at once that the Tote in boroughs is a mere question of money, in the counties a mere question of influence. But Lord -PALMERSTON'S ideas of public virtue are somewhat peculiar. Ile thinks the Ballot would be highly immoral in, its effects, because a man would be tempted to promise his landlord or employer that he would vote one way and really vote the other. If the friends of the Ballot believe that such a promise would be broken, they pronounce, says the noble Premier, the strongest condemnation of the voters, because they would promise one thing to-day and do a different thing to-morrow. But Lord PALMERSTON is troubled by no such scruples about the sudden change of opinion occasioned by a sudden change of landlord, as in the case of the worth Riding, where the habitue's of the clubs are now betting five to four on Milhauke against Morritt, and that from no failure of duty on the part of the present member, but because the late Duke of CLEVELAND was a Tory, and the present Duke a Whig, so that a change in the opinions of the electors may be confi dently expected. A similar change has actually taken place in the political views of the electors of Ripon, but such transitions as these give Lord PALMRESTON no uneasiness. They are merely part of the inherent nature of things, and quite consistent with political honesty and the British Constitution. The whole truth of the matter was very briefly and forcibly stated by Mr. COBDEN in a speech he made in favour of the Ballot many years ago :—" I look upon the Ballot," said that honest and straight forward statesman, " as the primary step of all reform ; but of all the points of what is termed the People's Charter there is none so odious to the aristocracy and the moneyocracy who govern the elections as the vote by Ballot." If, as Mr. BERKELEY said on Friday, we could believe that the upper classes have become politically virtuous and the electoral classes politically honest; we need not trouble ourselves about secret voting ; but so long as human nature is what it is, so long will it be necessary to provide men with a protection against temptations which are likely to be too strong for unaided morality. The present House is not likely to be convinced by any argument ; but the electors, thanks to Mr. BERKELEY, know their real friends, and will not fail, we hope, to remember them on the hustings. The close of the Prussian Chamber is significant of the course which has been so eagerly pursued by the Government since the commencement of the session. No scruples of conscience, and no fear of future consequences, seem to deter these self-willed politicians from pursuing their reckless way. The Speech from the Throne was read by Herr BB MARCK to the Chambers, and its tone is anything but conciliatory. On the contrary, the Minister seems to go out of his way to inform his hearers of the unsettled state of affairs, and the misunderstand ing that continues to exist between the Sovereign and the Chambers. A more gloomy and ungracious discourse could hardly have been concocted, and its whole tenour seems to imply that the powers that be are glad of the opportunity thus afforded them of having the last word. The speech begins by stating that the combined efforts of the representa tives of the Government could only have led to satisfactory results if the supreme object of all par ties had been the welfare of the country. "This has not been the case," however, we are informed, and it remains, therefore, to determine whose fault it is that such a sad and shameful state of affairs should have supervened. Of course Herr BB ltio.cx and his coadjutors will say that it is all the fault of the Chambers, and yet impartial judges may well inquire if some large share of blame may not be laid to the charge of those unscrupulous Ministers who have held fast to their own determi nation, despite all obstacles that interposed and all counsels that wisdom suggested. It is important to study this speech, in order to glean therefrom some notion of the meaning of the Government, and to catch a faint glance of the ultimate wishes of the authorities. After a preamble of platitudes we come to something of import, for we find this pas sage, that is replete with intelligence, " The clearly expressed intention of the majority of the Lower House to place difficulties in the way of the Minis try has proved detrimental to the material welfare of the country." Allowing, for the sake of argu ment, that such a disastrous result has followed u pon the constantly recurring strife between the Government and the Chamber, why have not the former made some greater efforts to put a stop to the altercations, and shown some disposition to meet the disputants half-way ? Far from this being the case, we find that on every possible occasion there has been no lack on the part of Ministers to exhibit their determination not to yield an inch of ground or to swerve one hair-breadth from their predeter mined course of procedure: It would almost have seemed in some cases as if they had gone out of their way to produce discord and occasion strife. However, it is, of course, very convenient just now to give all the blame to these obnoxious members who have made patent to the world that Prussia is not a household at unity with itself, and who have rendered, what should have been a sort of triumphal march of foreign and domestic policy, a period of angry debates, and an episode of angry, unwelcome plain-speaking, and the delinquents are informed of the special vices that are laid to their charge in the most grandilo quent manner and would-be impressive style. The Chamber of Deputies has refused " demands which the Government were compelled to make," then the Chamber has completed the measure of its iniquity by " adopting resolutions which the Government cannot carry out." The list of these offences seems to comprise nearly all the Government measures which the audacious Deputies have dared to reject. It is a melancholy computation for a Ministry to make at the close of a session, and surely it may be said to point a moral to other unscrupulous states men. Among the rejected measures we find the " Bill for the Expenses of the War with Denmark." This is a very suggestive and significant item, and speaks trumpet-tongued to tell of the insincerity of the course planned and practised last year. While all the world was told of the wondrous unity that existed respecting this Dane-German affair, lo and behold there was rottenness at the core of the transaction, and now we find that the winners cannot agree, and the spoilers are not of one mind. For some reason or other this Speech from the Throne is singularly explicit. It doubtless sets down a great deal in malice, but it certainly extenuates nothing, and the wondering world is informed of the astounding fact that, "in stead of the desired understanding having been arrived at, the session closes with the impression of mutual estrangement." This is perfectly true, but why is this put forth ? Perhaps some more daring and desperate schemes are in concoction, and the Government wishes to pave the way for their com ing - attack on the Constitution. At any rate, be the matter what it may, we are listening to plain speaking with a vengeance, and see not through a glass darkly, but find ourselves face to face with the mighty and momentous charges that are being o i f n aan t e e a l t lig c e o n un t p tr:r o , pl a e n interestswrought a n f f o e l c v t i a n n o o - d the for f d or hereafter. The Government it seems are quite equal to the emergency that has come up)n them, and in this dearth of patriotic politicians th e y can and will supply the deficiency, aud, Atlas-like, support the entire weight of the Constitution themselves. Very earnest and energetic is the programme briefly but emphatically sketched to the recalcitrant members. " The Governmemt will continue to conduct public affairs according to the wants of the country, and will vigorously represent the interests of Prussia both at home and abroad." What can be more definite and decided than this intimation. But the speech closes with another impressive passage. It hoped that the day is not far distant " when the nation, through its representatives, will express to the KING its approval and thanks f.)r the course which has been pursued." This is adding insult to injury, and no mistake. The Prussians have de teriorated greatly of late years in public spirit, but they have not yet fallen so low that such a depth of degradation should be expected of them as this last expression implies. Herr GRABOW, the President of the Lower House, made a short speech after the ceremony was over, in which he very properly reviews the circumstances of the case as regards the altercations existing be tween the Chambers and the Government. Thus, he says that what the Government requires is " the submission of the Chambers." Can any thing more effectually sum up the epitome of the affair than this explanation of it. The efforts to transform a constitutional into an absolute police and military state have, says Herr GRABON, " reached their utmost liirit, but they will wreck upon the loyalty of the people to the constitu tion, manifested by thrice electing their re presentatives." Altogether a more gloomy or ominous ending of the session could hardly have been arrived at ; it has more than ful filled the worst fears of the doubtful, and com pletely dashed to the ground the hopes of the more sanguine concerning the fair prospects of Prussian politics. For a brief period Herr BISAIARK may proceed on his way, proud of his triumph over the rights and liberties of the people, but his success will be short lived, and his daring and defiant career must eventually come to grief. It would be well if the mischances went no further than the fall of a reckless and unprincipled statesman, but before Prussia can at all regain the ground she has lost many must be sacrificed and great the sufferers. The alliance with England, from which so much good was acquired, seems to have been only pro vocative of evil, for instead of our influence pre vailing in the right cause, it appears that our German ally believes she can sin with impunity safe under the shelter of our lame acquiescence, and secure in the conviction that neither in thought, word, nor deed will we presume to interfere. with their designs. At length all the elaborate and anxiously pre pared arrangements are completed, and the great work of laying down the Atlantic cable is to be commenced on Midsummer day. That it may prove successful, and serve to maintain that prompt and rapid communication between the two hemi spheres which has been so invaluable between the different parts of Europe and Asia, is the universal wish, although the difficulties of such an undertak ing are commensurate with its importance, and although one failure has taught us to shrink from over-confidence. There is good reason to hope that this time the great work will be carried to a successful termination. Every danger that could be foreseen has been avoided ; every risk that could be anticipated has been guarded against, and every possible precaution to secure the highest standard of excellence in the cable, the paying-out apparatus, and every other department, has been taken. The only thing to be feared is the occurrence of a vio lent tempest, which is extremely rare at the mid summer season ; and, in fact, the present time has been selected on the authority of Captain ANDER SON, whose lengthened experience in Atlantic navi gation gives great weight to his opinion. It is of course quite within the range of possibility that a violent hurricane may disarrange all these well-laid schemes ; but, as far as human wisdom and foresight can guard against disaster, they have done their part. Should no catastrophe of the kind occur, we may hope for telegraphic com munication with the great continent of the Western World by the end of next month. A good deal of valuable information respecting the submarine route of the telegraph has been gained since the last attempt. The steep decline a hun dred miles off the west of Ireland has been proved to be less dangerous and sudden than was feared. The change from 300 fathoms to 2,000 occupies nearly 60 miles, so that the rapid descent which gave so much alarmis nowhere steeper than Holborn hill. The route of the cable varies in depth from 1,500 to 2,500 fathoms ; but it must be remembered that if the difficulties of laying down a deep-sea cable are great, and any accident almost irreparable, when it is once down it is far less liable to damage than those in shallow water, unless the ocean bed is liable to volcanic disturbance, which is not the case in the Atlantic. The line from Malta to Tripoli in the deep sea has never given an hour's un easiness, while that in the shallow water near Alexandria is constantly needing repair. So that the doctrine of compensation finds its way even to ocean telegraphy. The successful termination of this vast work is a consummation devoutly to be wished, and its influence upon the political and social relations of the two great peoples will be most important. We hope that the news of its arrival will be conveyed by itself without let or hindrance. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The usual Saturday after noon concert and promenade took place at the Palace on Saturday, and was attended by upwards of 9,000 persons. The screens which have been erected across the Transept for the Handel Festival added greatly to the dis tinctness with which the voices of the solo singers were heard. After the concert the whole of the great fountains were played. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—At a meeting of the Council of this Corporation on the 17th inst., the Diploma of Associate was granted to Mr. P. F. Stalker, of Paris.. The following gentlemen were elected members of the college :—Mons. A. Blouet, Christ College, Finchley ; Mr. T. A, Blyth, Commercial School, Bedford ; Mr. G. K. Courthorpe, A.C.P.. Grosvenor-park, Camberwell; Rev. J. G. H. Hoernle, 8.A., Brunswick-road, Brighton. It is stated, with what truth we cannot precisely define, that England will lose and America gain two addi tions to the force of the stage. Mr. John Brougham and Mr. Widdicombe are said to be leaving this country for the New World.—Orchestra. THE NEW COURTS OF JUSTICE AND OFFICES.- On Saturday a return was issued showing that the total estimate for the purchase of land and houses for a site for the new courts of justice and offices is £703,000. The sum required to be voted for the year ending March 31, 1866, is £200,000. THE NEWSPAPFR PRESS FUND.--A meeting of tho committee of this fund was held on Saturday. The Duke of St. Albans, the Earl of Cardigan, Lord Taunton, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole. M.P. ; Sir John Hay, M.P. ; Professor Owen ; Mr. Silaolefleld, M.P.; Mr. David Keane, Q.C. ; M. Octave Delapierre, Mr. T. 11. Allen, Poynder, Mr. J. Laird, M.P. ; Rev. Charles Merivale, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P. ; Mr. S. Butler, M.P. ; and the Rev. Herbert Randolph, were elected vice-presidents 'of the fund. Several members were admitted, and additional honorary agents appointed throughout the country. CHARLES LAMB, LEIGH HUNT, AND GILBERT ATECKETT.—Some more autograph memorials of Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt have been disposed of during the week by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, together with a very extraordinary gathering of heraldic and topographical MSS., formed many years by the Rev. Dr. Wellesley. Next week, the library of Gilbert Abbot a'Beckett, famous as one of the first contributors to Punch in its most flourishing days, and as the author 'of those humorous books, the " Comic Histories" of Rome and England, Till be sold by the same gentlemen. LITERATURE. Mr. Hepworth Dixon's New Work. The Holy Land. By William Hepworth Dixon. Two volumes. Chapman and Hall. Frankly—let us acknowledge the fact at once—we can hardly contrive to speak of this work dispassion ately. For—because of his having written it—we owe Mr. Dixon a debt of gratitude. And we do so for a simple reason enough, for a reason, as it appears to us, that is pretty plainly indicated by the very title selected by our author for this his honest, manly, earnest, eloquent record of his recent wan derings through the plains and cities of Palestine. Thither he went, thence he has returned, with a sense above all things that it is, essentially and unmistakably, the HOLY LAND. A region sacred alike to Jew, and Moslem, and Christian. A country consecrated to the veneration not only of the People of God, but, yet more peculiarly, yet more essentially, to the veneration of the whole human race, of the chosen Peoples of God, under their one comprehensive title of the Gentiles. From the moment of his disembarkation upon the shores of Palestine, down to the moment of his re-embarkation upon his return voyage homewards, Mr. Dixon has so far trodden lightly, by reason of his ever-present consciousness that it was indeed a sacred region he was traversing, that his narrative breathes through out a spirit of profound and unaffected reve rence. Lightly though he treads, however, he treads firmly. As if adopting (might we so express it) the Oriental token of respect by the doffing of the shoon or the sandal upon the very threshold, he permits us here to note, not once, as it were, the mere conventional outline of either shoon or sandal, but, in lieu of that, step by step, as we follow him in these wanderings of his to and fro upon the sacred soil of Palestine, the delicate and sensitive in dentation of the human footprint. He has written in his time many works more highly elaborated. He has written none more beautiful. He has vindi cated the character of Bacon the Philosopher. He has vindicated the character of Penn the Philan thropist. He has contended in the lists of histori cal controversy with a literary athlete as redoubt able as Lord Macaulay. But he has done nothing worthier of his powers, he has achieved nothing more honourable to his nature, to his heart as a man, to his brain as a student, to his soul as a Christian, than the composition of these two noble volumes about the Holy Land. The spirit, moreover, in which he has penned them is nothing less than exquisitely refreshing to us in this age of Kinglake and Renan. Diametrically opposed, in the general tone of it, to the detestable cynicism of " Eiithen," the work here under review is, rather than that, conceived somewhat after the charming manner in which "The Crescent and the Cross" was penned by the graceful and scholarly hand of Eliot Warbur ton. With thit difference, however, that far more distinctly than is anywhere recognisable in that picturesque record of travel in the regions peopled promiscuously by the Aloslem and the Christian, Hepworth Dixon's record of his travels in the Holy Land are coloured, are suffused, flavoured, saturated, are, in a manner, radiant throughout with distinct evidences of his earnest sincerity as a Believer. Nevertheless, it should be premised at once, if only in simple justice to our author, that in all this there is no ostentation of devotional fervour on his part. There is, so far as we can appreciateic, no affecta tion whatever of a sense of religious awe, such as in writing about the localities, such as in visiting them, he has not actually himself experi enced. In one word he has penned these pages not by any means as a zealot. While, let us add, in another word or two, that he has returned from Palestine to describe to us all that he has there seen and visited and thought in that Holy Land as a Christian—not the least atom in the world, so far as we have read his pages, not for one single instant, as a Controversialist. Throwing aside for a while his " Bradshaw" and his " Murray," he has, so to speak, taken with him into Palestine as his single but all-sufficient guide- Book, the Bible—the Old and the New Testament. At every turn, too, he shows himself to be perfectly familiar with its record, with all those sacred words of Holy 'Writ about the Holy Land. So far as we have been enabled to estimate, through these volumes, the author's general character or temperament as a believing Christian, not as a Christian merely by name, but as a thoroughly believing Christian, wo have been unable to detect in him anywhere the in dications of his being in any way a bigoted sec tarian. Far asunder may be our views—far asunder, most probably, are our views—upon many points of a purely doctrinal character, upon points, too, the majority of them of the most vital im portance as affecting the whole framework of our common Christianity. Yet, seizing upon those other grand root-points of belief which are acceptable, so to speak, to all Christians indiscriminately, our author reveals an almost instinctive aptitude in theavoidance what of those who are might otherwise have the avoidance of what might otherwise have outra ged the susceptibilities o f not precisely or absolutely of the same way of thinking as himself—telling us, for the most part, all that he has to tell us, less as a Protestant, less as a member of the Church of England, than, purely and simply, in a far larger and more comprehensive sense, as a Christian. It is this sedulous avoidance of all controversy in these volumes, coupled with their earnest sincerity throughout, that will, or we are much mistaken, tend to render them very widely acceptable. Together with all this, more over, the work is wonderfully realistic as a delinea tion of the Holy Land. It is full of word-painting. Its pen-and-ink sketches of the sacred localities visited are in truth like so many mental photographs reflected - upon page after page, from the retina of the author's clear, minutely observant, exquisitely sensitive organ of vision. As if bent upon carrying out literally the old Horatian precept, he plunges — and with the grapple of an anchor too—in medias res. The monosyllable " Plash," is in effect the first word of the first sentence of the first page of this goodly book of his about the Holy Land. That word being simply the intimation of the droppin? of the anchor off Jaffa, the ancient Joppa, from the Austrian boat, with the Ragusian captain, the Smyrniote crew, and the Italian name (11 Vapore); the boat that had carried our traveller from. the shores of Europe to those of Palestine. As signifi cantly indicative at the very outset, it might be . said at the very 'threshold of that Morning Land, of his keen-witted observation of" everything about him—of things at once so old and yet so new, so old to the knowledge and yet so new to the sight—we would direct attention to the casual mention upon page 20 of the first of these two volumes, to the purely casual, and yet, as it seems to us, the especially significant mention there made of the Aga who sits at the Water Gate of Jaffa, the gate that faces the sea, watching with imperturbable gravity all the odd sights, scenes, faces, and figures that pass in through that narrow entrance, through that mere slit in the wall, through that small cut ting in the rampart, through which everything coming into Palestine from the West, from all the countries, and climates, and peoples of Europe must pass, after being hoisted up from the canoes bringing them to land from ship-board ! Articles as miscel laneous, we are told, as pachas, bitter beer, cotton cloth, negroes, antiquarians, dervishes, Mus covite bells and Circassian shoes, French clocks and English damsels, monks and Jews and Bashi- Bazouks ! After having described very whimsically the manner in which all these motley things and per sons are hoisted up from the canoes into the gateway, in the sight, under the very nose of that imperturbable Aga, our author mentions his having, one hot and idle day, witnessed a Seraskier's hareem hoisted thus out of the boat into the town, adding thereupon—" If yon Aga in the white turban and flowing skirt had been blessed with any sense of humour, he would have died of his duty, perhaps years ago." The significance of this incidental morsel of whimsicality lying simply in the fact of its betokening so very plainly, at the outset, that, while our author goes there, so to speak, with his head uncovered, he goes there, too, with his eyes wide open. He sees and notes all the things around -him just exactly as they are. He puts no adventitious gloss upon them. He beholds them, he describes them, exactly as they ap pear to him, invested with all their ineffable and divine associations—yet he observes them and depicts them, at the same time, fox all that, exactly as they are in themselves. The squalid, the gro tesque, the ruined, the arid, he has a glance for, quite as watchful, as any directed by him to the fertile, the beautiful, or the sublime. His descrip tions are uncompromisingly truthful, while, added to all this, his mere manner as a narrator has a freshness of its own. Depicting one of his Oriental followers, Yakoub, he speaks of him as he knew him, first of all superficially and then afterwards when he " came to know him worse." Just as, later on, in the same whimsical fashion he makes mention of his cavalcade winding across the desert—" man, horse, ass, and camel forming a caravan about seventy weak." So un compromising is he in his honest outspeaking that he blurts forth, in despite of his own loyal Protes tantism--after mentioning the circumstance that in Palestine equals salute each other, if MoSlem, by the soft Syrian phrase of " Peace be with you ;" if Christians by " the sign of the cross"—adding thereto, " This salutation (the sign of the cross) is made with singular grace by the beggar in his rags" —he blurts out, we say, the blunt acknowledgment —" An English traveller making no sign of the cross when he greets a brother, is commonly supposed by the Syria ns.to be a Turk." It is, however, when he comes to the delineation of the principal scenes of the Holy Narrative that the vivid and picturesque eloquence of his manner attains its most obvious excellence. At his earliest mention of Jerusalem he observes very impressively that that ancient capital of Judea is a holy place to nearly all the children of men ! " The Jew," he there writes, " is going up to Zion that he may die in the city of his fathers, and mingle with the dust of patriarch and seer ; the Christian that he may kiss the stone of redemption, and light his taper at the sacred fire ; the Moslem that he may gaze on the seat of judgment and write his prayer under the dome of the Rock." By a single phrase sometimes he pictures a whole region—as where he talks of the city of Ramleh, in the sandy wilderness, as " surrounded by empty cisterns and teeming cemeteries." Occasionally, too, he casts down for a er into the dust, simply by proving them to be erroneous, some of our most dearly cherished imaginings in regard to the East. Instance this, his mention of the native Syrian as no horse man ! We hear so much, he says, of the Arabian horses, and we know so well about the Bedouin's flights that we are apt to consider those Orientals as a nation of horsemen. All which, he tells us, is in truth no more than a dream. The Bedouin rides for his safety in the Desert, and depends on his speed ; but the Arab of towns and of settled life never mounts a horse. When he does not care to walk he mounts an ass." Yet we cannot but think that Mr. Dixon goes just a trifle too far when he adds, almost immediately after this, that even " the warriors of Pharaoh, though they yoked their horses to chariots, never (sic) got upon their backs !" Surely that immortal chaunt of exul tation, " the horse and his rider are thrown into the sea" is proof positive to the contrary, in reference to those very warriors of Pharaoh, those haughty squadrons of the cavalry of the Egyptians ! Some among his intimations of surprise, again, as an European traveller in Palestine have been already notified by earlier excursionists from the West into the East. Eliot Warburton, we think it was, who anticipated Hepworth Dixon's humorous naivete in marvelling over the reversal of all our national con ventionalities, yonder in Syria, by reason of all the women there wearing the trousers, while their hus bands and sons wear the skirts ! Stranger, however, than even this to the later traveller's eyes was the fact that yonder in Palestine the prettiest and youngest damsels might often be seen with their faces covered to the eyes and their bosoms naked to the waist—the yelek being worn open while the chemisette beneath it was often cut away from the bust completely ! Many a time by the simple apt ness of a comparison, our author brings home to our western apprehension, upon the instant, a truth that could hardly have been so vividly realised by any more lengthened or highly elaborated description. Speaking of the glory of Babylon when in its pride, he says that a poor Hebrew loitering then and there through its streets was like a Savoyard in the Rue Royale or a Shetlander at Charing-Cross. Just as immediately before that, he has enabled us Lon doners to form some proximate notion of the mag nificence of the Babylonian architecture by observing that there are ruins there of palaces, to which St. James's would be a kennel for dogs and lions ! Or, again, when discriminating among the various sects, or castes, or classes, or however they may be the more correctly designated, among the Jews of old—does he not realise them to us, instantaneously, by the touch of one felicitous com parison ? Likening the Pharisees to the early Puritans, and referring, in so many words, to those staunch old Hebrew Tories, the great body of the Sadducees ! It is seldom that Mr. Dixon permits his forcefulness of manner, we mean in the mere empha sis of composition, to run him into anything like extravagance, as where in depicting the almost mad dening thirst produced by the drought of a journey through the desert, he would have us believe that " a gulp of fresh water, even though it be warm and putrid, cools the burning tongue !" In him we have no untravelled Cockney relating to us his foreign experiences with evidences—at every turn (of the leaf) —of what might be termed a wholly unsophisticated bewilderment ! Calabria, Granada, Morocco, the wild regions above Smyrna, have already been traversed by him before this his latest excursion abroad into the holy regions of Palestine. Whither soever he goes among those sacred localities, he is always equally alive, as it seems to us, to their natural peculiarities, and to the lovely and awful sanctity of their sublime associations. The village of Emmaus, described by him as one of the most beautiful spots in the hill country of Judea, he passes through, as a matter of course, with the thought that there it was that the Master walked with Caiphas and His disciples. When he pauses before the convent of Ain Karm, it is to remind us that it is built upon the site of the dwelling-place of Elizabeth and of the birth-place of John the Baptist. Nearer and nearer as he draws towards the Holy City—" Rock," he tells us, "white and blinding, rock broken into frag ments, rock burnt into powder, stretches before and behind !" We are tempted, however, to give the whole of this picturesque paragraph complete, pre cisely as it is written, as it will then afford the reader some juster notion of its strange and weird impressiveness : The road goes zigzag over the limestone rock, the waste and stones increasing as you approach the Holy City. Vegetation almost ceases ; in a cleft you may find a bramble, and in some happy hollow you may descry an olive ; but the rule is otherwise. Rock white and blinding, rock broken into fragments, rock burnt into powder, stretches before you and behind. At length, when the long reach of wall, twining gloriously rugged and picturesque round the bases of cathedral, synagogue, and mosque, appears in sight, the eye clings fondly to the figure of a single palm, shooting gracefully up from a garden in the city near the Bethlehem Gate ; and on the right, in a deep natural trough, to an olive plantation, in the midst of which nestles the Convent of the Cross. The aspect of the land is stern and desolate, and the great city itself seems to spring from the centre of a rolling plateau of stones and graves. In this awful manner it is, that first breaks upon the Pilgrim's vision the holiest spot in all that Holy Land, the City of the Judgment, of the Passion, of the Redemption, of the Crucifixion. Conspicuous —austere—venerable—Jerusalem there reveals itself to the eye in the midst of a region to all appearance scarred, and riven, and withered, and blasted into an everlasting sterility by the stupen dous and portentous events of which it was the arena, events removed from us now by a distance very nearly two thousand years. In touching upon themes like these, our traveller writes—it is high praise . to say so, doubtless, but it is praise that he eminently well deserves—always befittingly. With the solemnity of a believer, with the fervour of a Christian, with abundant evidences of his familiarity with the biblical history, and beyond all this with the eloquence of one who shows himself to be throughout completely master of his own language. Sometimes, and not unnaturally, his style seems to be coloured by that of Holy Writ, or by that, again, of the inhabitants of the Orient regions he is traversing. In this mood it is, for example, that he remarks upon the fact of no law being acknowledged in the vast countries lying between the Jordan and the Euphrates, countries, as he te- THE SU - Y, LOINDON, MONDAY EVE.NI 0, JUNE 19, 1865.1 minds us, larger than France and Italy—no law " save that of the stealthy' hand and the smiting sword." Whatsoever may chance to be the varying mood in which he writes, our traveller's gaze, whithersoever his footsteps wander over the Holy Land is always calmly but keenly upon the alert —vividly conscious of all the aspects of the scenes around him, of all their remote antecedents, of all their manifold and most affecting associations. Nature and art—nature in all her barrenness and fertility, art in all its dreary disfigurement and desolation— appeal with about an equal force to his interest and his sensibilities. The vine, the figtree, and the olive, those fruits and plants that, as he ex presses it, " love " the holy soil the green figs that have a flavour, as he tells us, " that they who once eat them will remember as an Egyptian is said to recollect the Nile"—the palm and the oleander—the cedar and the anemone—not a flower that blows, 'not a tree that overshadows the land, but he notes with a tender eagerness of appreciation, by the wayside, to the right hand and to the left, as he passes onwards. In his descrip tion of the Birthplace of the Redeemer he particu larises with au especial emphasis its ancient title Ephrath, meaning the Place of Fruit, and its newer name Bethlehem, meaning [a name fraught, as it appears to us, with a truly wonderful signifi cance] the House of Bread ! That beatified hill of Bethlehem, is described by him as—in yonder torrid clime, in the midst of those wild, arid wastes—" almost green !" Scattered hither and thither over the face of Palestine he describes to us those groups and clusters of " white cubes, called houses," that still to this day denote, as they or the like of them were wont to denote, centuries upon centuries ago, the chosen scenes where, among the motley nomadic races around them, the ancient population were wont to take up their abode, some in open towns, others in walled cities, others in mere vil lages like this one, originally founded years upon years gone by, on that lovely and still verdurous and efflorescent hill of Bethlehem. In the delineation of the chequered aspect of the whole of that thrice consecrated region, known in both hemispheres dis tinctively, as by a household word, as the Holy Land, the writer of this work shows an equal atten tion to vividness of colouring and minuteness of detail, whether his particular theme at the moment chances to be animate or inanimate, botanical or archaeological, the human beings immediately around him, or the fauna and the flora of that alternately fruitful and sterile soil of Palestine. Simply taking pen in hand—writing and not painting or draw ing—he nevertheless so writes about all that passes before his actual or his mental vision—in his medi tations upon the past, in his observations upon the present—during those recent wanderings of his in the Holy Land that although his impressions are revealed to us as merely in black and white, they are manifestations on his part—manifestations very readily appreciable as it appears to us—of the feeling of an artist, of the colouring of a painter, of the facile pencilling of a skilled and practised draughtsman. His scenes, in other words, are realised to us almost as vividly in their outline, in their colouring, and in their movement, as any of the magical pictures, palpitating with life to all ap pearance, upon the disc of a camera obscura—the leaves quivering in the wind, the tides rolling in upon the shore ! Take, as an instance of this, the passages relating more especially to Nazareth and to the Blessed Virgin, in Mr. Dixon's ex quisite chapter about the Holy Family—passages which, we will admit (while giving them thus as apparently mere haphazard illustrations) are among the most beautiful in the whole narrative, as for that matter they ought, in truth, to have been if only by reason of their respective subjects. Of the chosen home of the Holy Family, during very nearly thirty years consecutively—thirty years complete, saving only for the interval of the sojourn in the Land of Egypt, thus writes this latest and not least among the reverent delineators of the Holy Land : "Four miles south of the strong Greek city of Sephoris, hidden away among gentle hills, then covered from the base to the crown with vineyards and fig trees, lay a natu ral nest or basin of rich red and white earth, star like in shape, about a mile in width, and wondrously fertile. Along the scarred and chalky slopo of the highest of these hills spread a small and lovely village, which, in a land where every stone seemed to have a story, is remarkable as having had no public history and no distinguishable native name. No great road led up to this sunny nook. No traffic came into it, no legions marched through it. Trade, war, adventure, pleasure, pomp, passed by it, flow ing from west to east, from east to west, along the Roman road. But the meadows were a-glow with wheat and bar ley. Near the low ground ran a belt of gardens, fenced with loose stones, in which myriads of green figs, pome granates, and golden citrons ripened in the summer sun. High up the slopes, which wore lined and planted like the Rhine at Bingen, hung vintages of purple grapes. In the plain, among the corn and beneath the mulberry trees and figs, shone daisies and poppies, tulips, lilies, and anemones, endless in their profusion, brilliant in their dyes." _ _ Thus tenderly, too, as with a sense at once of the lovelyand the venerable, does he write about the Virgin Mother of the Redeemer—who bore Him at the age of fifteen—" That she was fair and comely," he says, " was a constant tradition of the early Church; a girl having a style of beauty like that of David and Solomon, which is rare in hot countries, and when it occurs is most highly prized. If the Church tra ditions may be trusted on such a point, backed by such evidence as the Byzantine mosaics and the early missals, the Virgin had blue eyes, a pale skin, low colour, a sweet oval face, with abundance of golden hair." Her household life, there, at Nazareth, during very nearly thirty of the three-and-thirty years of His sojourn upon earth, is thus picturesquely and vividly realised to our imagination : " In her ways of life, she would act no otherwise than like the young Hebrew woman of her time and of all times. She would rise early in the day, and going with her creel into the market-place, fill it with melons and fresh figs, with green cucumbers and grapes. At the third hour she would recite her shoran, and at the ninth hour sing a psalm of David. In the evening she would go down with her pitcher to the well and fill it. On the Sabbath, after washing hands, she would go up to the synagogue on the hill top, where she would sit among the women behind the screen, and hear the Sheliach repeat the lesson set apart for that day. For the rest of her simple and homely life, like the women of her class in these Syrian villages at the present hour, she would boil her pottage over a wood fire, lay her maize on the fiat roof to dry, spin thread for do mestic use, sweep the dust from her lewan at dusk, and expecting her husband and her son to come home, spread her mats on the floor and set her viands for them in the shadiest nook of her little court." Immediately afterwards—as if by way of affording, very beautifully, as it seems to us, an accumula tion of evidence of the exact fulfilment of the pro phetic declaration of the Mater Dei Genitrix in the "Magnificat," mimes . generationes beak& me dicent—we find here, too, in this central portion of Mr. Dixon's work upon the "Holy Land" the following exquisite commemoration of the love and veneration lavished throughout all ages, throughout all parts of Christendom, upon one whose distinctive glory it is among women to be Mater Christi sed semper virginum : " Our western fancies, working through an instinct of nature safer than half-knowledge, have made of this simple life a pastoral full of grace and beauty. Hearing that the years of her youth and womanhood were spent, before she yet knew grief, on this sunny hill slope, her feet being for ever among the daisies, poppies, and anemones which grow everywhere about, we have made her the patroness of all our flowers. The Virgin is our Rose of Sharon, our lily of the valley. The poetry, no less than the piety, of Europe has inscribed to her the whole bloom and colouring of the fields and hedges. May is her month. Gardens are trimmed in her service, and all her chapels are decked and garlanded with nosegays. The favourites of our meadows, some of them unknown to the Flora of her own Galilee, bear names which are derived from her:—such as lady grass, lady slipper, lady's key, marigold, and maidenhair. ,But the rose and the lily—the rose for its lustre, the lily for its sweet ness [surely, rather for its purity ?]—afe, more than any others, considered as the Virgin's own. These flowers belong to the landscape of Middle Galilee no less than to the poetry of the Christian world." With this crowning extract—a passage in its eloquent simplicity like a very garland of flowers— we must now, however, close oul already over lengthy notice of these two beautiful volumes upon Palestine. Volumes they are of such rare and genuine excellence—as surely we have had an op portunity above of very clearly demonstrating-- that upon the production of them we may cor dially and most unaffectedly proffer to the author our most earnest congratulations. It is something, surely, to have written so goodly a book as this upon the Land of the Redemption, LATEST INTEL LIGENCB. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JUNE 19. In consequence of the receipt of a telegram from the Austrian Consul at Marseilles, that two persons suffering from cholera had arrived there by the last mail steamer from Alexandria, the Minister of Marine has ordered a temporary quarantine of seven days for all vessels arriving in Austrian ports from Egyptian provinces. In pursuance of this order the steamer Brindisi , which arrived yesterday at Trieste from Alexandria, was not allowed to disembark her passengers o r unload her cargo, and was subjected to quarantine. ITALY. FLORENCE, JUNE 19. The King left yesterday for San Rossori. A meeting has been held at Palermo for the pa' pose of protesting against the convention between the Italian and Russian Governments. Yesterday a meeting of working men's societies took place here in order to elect a committee 111 view of the approaching elections. FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE .1 9 • The Portuguese Minister has delivered to the Emperor Napoleon the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. James of the Sword. Prince Wittgenstein, Aide-de-Camp of the Ein peror of Russia, has remitted a letter to the Emper or Napoleon from the Czar, together with the insignia of the Russian orders which have been conferre d upon the Prince Imperial. BOURSE, June 17.—But few transactions hav e taken place since the commencement of business to day, and the same inexplicable inactivity which has been the ruling feature in monetary transaction s during the week still maintains in nearly all the departments. French Three per Cents., whi ch opened at 661 r. 32c., have since recovered the rates current at yesterday's close, viz., 66fr. 40c. (wi th coupon detached) ; and Italian Fives, after having been done during the earlier hours at 66fr. 52c., are now quoted at 66fr. 50c. The Stock of the Ne vi Mexican Loan has regained the ground it lost yes terday, and is again quoted at 320 fr., whilst that of the Old exhibits no change. The market has eon" tinued without any material change, and closed as follows : 41 per Cents 95 75 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 66 45 Do. end month 66 421 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 740 Bank Shares — Credit Foncier 1250 Italian Loan 66 571 Do. end month 66 65 RAILV Ditto Threes 4l -- New Mexican Do. Bonds 321 25 ..-- Russian -- Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt _.- Deferred Roman WAYS. Cash. Acct. e ... 817 50 818 7L' Orleans Northern 100 75 ... 106 . --- Lyons and Mediterranean Southern ... 835 - ..; 835 -- .... 572 50 ... 575 --- Western . Eastern Sardinian Austrian 503 75 ; ; 505 --",„ 308 75 302 , 0 ", 422 50 • 423 " _ - _ Lombard , 485 490 North of Spain lB7 50 187 50 , Saragossa 315 316 2 ° Ditto to Barcelona 152 50 ... (Canal HER, MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 17. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal 165 Princess Helena, drove in the grounds yesterdaY. afternoon. His Royal Higness Prince Arthur went out riding , attended by Major Elphinstone. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Buff, took a carriage drive. Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High; nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, an; Princess Beatrice, left the Castle to -day for, , Buckingham Palace, attended by the Countess of Caledon and the Equerries in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Pince r Leopold, attended by Major Elphinstone and g r. Buff, also went to London by an earlier train. Her Majesty visited the Princess of Wales a t Marlborough House. In the afternoon the Queen held a reception at Buckingham Palace. After the reception, the Duke and Duchess of Brabant visited her Majesty at Buckingham Pal ge b e• Viscount Palmerston had an audience o f the Queen. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Hell!: Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, left Buck' ingham Palace for Windsor Castle in an open Car a riage and four at 20 minutes past six o'clock, sn _. drove through Hyde-park to the Paddington Statl.o: of the Great Western Railway, attended by tD Equerries on horseback. e• c Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and P IO ft r Leopold returned to Windsor Castle shortly 3e the reception. Lidd ell Lord Cremorne and Colonel the Hon. A. Li— arrived yesterday as Lord and Groom in Waitiog• JuNJ Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses P: cess • cess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess B eattie arrived at the Castle last evening at 25 minutes r seven o'clock from Buckingham Palace. The Countess of Caledon, Lord Charles Fittl and Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros were in attendall . c ce Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Pir o Leopold, attended by Major Elphinstone and . Buff, also returned to the Castle. •nce ,s4 The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Fri-, co Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Pri" o Arthur, and - Prince Leopold, and the Ladies the Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine servic e ver f morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The Prince of Wales. c tor" The Prince of Wales rode on horseback on Pa' day, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel• The Prince of Wales gave a dinner POI of Saturday evening to the Duke and Duches4 Brabant. The following were invited to meet their '",;rcl highnesses :—His Serene Highness Princ e VW of of Saxe-Weimar, his Serene Highness rri llc Ap- Teck, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess do ponyi, the Belgian Minister and Madamell3llo Weyer, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester' t os Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, th e Con° oo of Macclesfield, the Earl and Countess Spen eer f ,,dl Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord an d Ca st, Proby, Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Ed ward th e the Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gl a dston e ' ° tor Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, Major Teesdale, Cipr, tess Grune, Count de Lanoy, M. Brewer, 50 of Smith (in attendance on the Duke and D c" a e : inD el Brabant) Lieut. - General Knollys, and Lieut. "-1 Keppel. IC pe! The Prince of Wales, with Lieut.-Colonel -,bePael in Waiting, attended Divine service at the LI Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. a the The communion service was read by the re ' O. subdean, the Rev. J. C. Haden, and the M. Birch. 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