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Seldom, indeed, has so strongly marked and wide-spread a manifestation of popular feeling been exhibited, and to render it more remarkable it is in direct opposition to the temper of the so-called popular representatives. ,The fact is, that the Con gress for the most part represents the extreme policy of the war time when the Southerners were looked upon as natural enemies, and when any abuse of them was sure to pass current. The offi cials, especially belong to this category, having been chosen at the height of the war excitement, and that the Americans are an excitable nation no-one who reads the account of the proceedings during the last week in February can doubt. The great majority of the people fairly gave up their business and thronged the streets; organising monster meetings, and declaring their approval of the PRESIDENT and their disapproval of the Radicals by every means in their power. These means were not always pacific or orderly ; but if the Radicals and their organs did not always encounter due respect at the hands of the mobs, they were bound to remember that such prac tice was only in accordance with their own preach ing ! After the news spread abroad that the veto on the Freedmen's Bill was sustained in the Senate the excitement was increased. There had been Considerable doubt on this point, and the Democratic party thought it advisable to telegraph to Baltimore to summon REVERDY JOHNSON, an old and in fluential membe r of their party. He was, it is said, arguing a case in the Baltimore Court when the message reached him, but roused at once to the importance of the occasion, he flung down his brief, after the fashion of on , ono t Tr w heroes ra 's ilway in ed •Y - aun tlet," and rushed off t o statio l n, to learn to his consternation and that of t his attendant train that no train left for w ashin gton for some hours. An American, however, not easily daunted, and ver y soon Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON alight have been seen en route f or t h e capital mounted .on an engine, which safely ac complished the 1 miles in 40 minutes. T his little 4 fe • incident is an indication of t he intensity of ding among politicians of both si des, and indeed the issue was rightly felt to be a momentous one. More was at stake in the trial of strength be tween the PRESIDENT and the Radicals than a mere temporary measure. It was the question whether the great States of the South were to be ruled despotically or constitutionally ; whether the past, with its sins, its errors, and its sufferings, was . to be healed and forgotten, or whether the old wounds were to be re-opened, the bitterness of civil discord intensified, and pauperism, degradation, and discontent were to take the place of the old national pride and prosperity. A clear sighted and equitable man than much less JOHNSON .A.N 7 D might have recognised t he im p ossibility of keeping so vast a territory u nder military rule, unless the n o Americans, who us ed to boast having standing army, w ere p re p ared to make their m ilitary organisation the first question of their finance and their population. Conscription and taxation in the North would have, in some measure, avenged the degradation and wretchedneF 4 s which such a system must infallibly have brought upon the South, but the picture in every aspect was appalling. The celebration of WASHINGTON'S birthday on February 22d, with the general holi day accompanying it, arrived opportunely for: affording the people a chance of showing their sen timents. The public feeling was unmistakeable, and in almost all the State Legislatures resolution& were passed endorsing the veto. All day long tele grams were received at Washington telling the same story, and in the evening came the PRESIDENT'S speech in 'Washington itself to crown the enthusiasm of the nation. The Radicals were completely paralysed. Mr. JOHNSON had followed up one blow by another, and had rendered the effect of his veto the more overwhelming by his open denunciation of the plots and policy of the Radical faction. No further pretences could avail them in the face of such direct changes, and as the current of public feeling was dead against them, and the enthusiasm on behalf of the PRESIDENT was raised to the highest pitch, Messrs. STEVENS, SL'MNER, PHILLIPS, and their followers were thoroughly and unexpectedly discomfited. We learn by the Allemn,nia that the same feeling continued to manifest itself a week later. Numerous delegations had waited on the PRESIDENT tendering him their support, and Mr. JOHNSON, in reply to them, reiterated his determination to pursue his course unshaken by threats or taunts. He spoke hopefully of the future, and pointed out to his hearers that by the early restoration of the South ' her products would be again brought into commerce whereby financial disaster might be averted. We may hope that the commercial classes, who must long ago have appreciated the importance of this consideration, will exert all their influence on the side of peace and civil govern ment, for they need not be told that commercial enterprise can never flourish under military rule. President JOHNSON is not allowed to suppose he has altogether silenced his adversaries, for a Radical has just made a furious speech de nouncing him, and declaring that he meditated a coup d'etat, for which he ought to be tried by both houses and disthissed from office ! So much for difference of opinion. The Fenians have made a modest application. They think that the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act gives Ireland the right to be treated as a belli gerent by the American Government. This idea shows ingenuity worthy of a better cause. Street accidents are constantly occurring nowa days, and it has become an important matter of consideration how best to guard against their fre quent recurrence, and thus prevent the loss of life and serious injuries to which all classes are exposed. During this busy period of the year these casual ties increase to a considerable extent, and scarcely a day passes but we hear of some fresh disaster. Mr. G. CLIVE, M.r., while returning from the House, a few nights since, was run over by a cab I and seriously injured. Of course the inadvertence of foot passengers, and the recklessness of drivers, occasion many accidents which might otherwise be avoided, but still it cannot be denied that while the present state of things continues, it is almost impossible for those whose business or occupation takes them constantly along our crowded thorough fares to avoid meeting with some accident of more or less consequence. Any change must be for the better that affords security to pedestrians, and it really, seems very strange that more of these attempts should not have been made before this, in order to secure a greater amount of safety. A praiseworthy effort is being made in this direction at a very dangerous spot : two stone halting-places are being erected in Wellington-street, at the east and west ends, which will be of great advantage, and they have long been in requisition in these places. In consequence of the great traffic to and from the South Western Railway, and the numerous vehicles which went down the steep incline from the North, besides the constant stream passing east and west along the Strand itself, we may fairly conclude that some protection is rendered absolutely neces sary. The accidents have been very numerous I through the difficulty incurred in passing to and fro in this direction, and one a short time ago terminated I i fatally. It is to be hoped that this plan of erecting halting-places will be carried out through the me tropolis at all the most dangerous places, as the results cannot be otherwise than satisfactory, for much time will be saved by those who now wait a considerable time in the hopeless effort to cross with safety, besides the more important desideratum of security from accident being gained. The ex pense of erecting such places is very trifling, con sidering the usefulness they answer, and no excuse can be made by those whose duty it is to look after such matters of want of knowledge, for it is the constant topic of conversation, and the ever-recur ring theme of complaint that the serious and fatal accidents to pedestrians should be so much on the increase. It is a scandal to society at large that so much time and money should be spent on railways and other modes of facilitating traffic, and that the far more important question of providing for public safety should be neglected, and indeed almost ignored. We have certainly never very long to wait for fresh instances of the intolerance and arbitrary de meanour, of Prussia, which enviable qualities seem to be on the increase. General Von MANTEUFFEL, Governor of Schleswig-Holstein, has published a decree of the King of PRUSSIA, which is most sig nificant. Any attempt to establish, by forcible ' means, another authority than that of his MAJESTY and the Emperor of AUSTRIA in the Duchies is made punishable by imprisonment with hard labour for a period of from five to ten years. A sentence of imprisonment with hard labour, from two to five years, is to be passed on those who commit acts which can be regarded as directed to such objects, such as establishing relations with foreign Powers to cause their intervention, abusing official authority for the purpose of causing a change of Government, and enlisting and drilling men. It is also declared in the decree that any " instigation to rebellion," in Word or writing, or designating any other person as the rightful Sovereign of the country except the King of PRUSSIA, or the Emperor of AUSTRIA, will be treated with prisonine n t for 4e Yerity, and th e offender sentenced to irn five years. Surelayptielrisioicsl g of oin fr g oi r n ati t i l e ir r e f e a r months een f o t r o Berlin autocrats, and it speaks ver future welfare of th e D y badly for th e uchie s if they are to be consigned to the tender mercies of the Cabinet that can send forth such decrees as the one we have just alluded t o . It shows at any rate that those assertions are false which have been so often been made by llerr BIS3IARCK and his friends and followers, to the effect that the inhabitants of the Duchies were almost unanimous in desiring to be annexed to Prussia. such were the cue where would be the necessity for the adoption of these stringent measures, and tivl ly should all these threats be uttered ? The fact is th lt these wise men have reckoned without tht host, and they find that they are an 3 thing. but popular in those Duchies where they are thought to rule so easily. The inhabi talitEt are now beginning to find cut their mistake, but they have let the lion in, and they will discover it . a more difficult task to turn him out again. We have not yet come to the end of this strange and scandalous affair of the German usurpation of the Duchies ; and before Prussia can be the sole ruler there, more events may come to pass there un dreamt of in the philosophy of Herr BISMARCK and his Sovereign. Curiosity is naturally excited as to the course which Austria will adopt in this matter ; but, of course, she is too deeply pledged to the scheme of annexation, either partial or general, to draw back now. The diplo matic correspondence that has been going on so briskly of late between the two countries has slack ened a little, and the only demand on the part of Prussia has been to request the extradition of Dr. MAY, it is to be hoped that nothing will induce the Vienna Government to give him up, and if they do they will show themselves quite unworthy of their position and character, and totally unmindful of the claims which honour and justice have upon those who are in high authority, and presume to dictate laws affecting the rights and liberties of States. LITERATURE. The New Historical Romancist. Dion and the Sibyls. A Romauce of the First Century. By Miles Gerald Keon, Colonial Secretary, Bermuda. Two Vols. Bentley. A very noble and affecting book—let us say it at once—is this Classical Christian Romance of " Dion and the Sibyls." We have read it through out with the truest and in many respects with the very highest admiration. It is a literary work of art, coming within the category of which we take Sir Bulwer Lytton's exquisite " Last Days of Pompeii" to be the most conspicuous, and, on the whole, the matchless specimen. Major White Melville, it may be remembered among English readers, only a very few years since, brought out a kindred fiction, kindred that is to say in some of its particulars, a tale about the antique gladiators, a narrative that, as it chanced, hit, and deservedly, the public fancy of nowadays, immediately upon its publication by the Messrs. Longman. Several years prior to this, moreover, Miss Eliza Lynn had produced her charming story of the Days of Pericles, entitled " Amymone," a narrative suffused with the tender graces and the delicate colouring born instinctively from her womanly sensibility and feminine imagi nation. " Dion," however, is of a far higher typo, assumes to itself a place by right upon a far higher plane of thought, than either of the tales last men tioned. Refreshingly enough, in these days of doubt, 'if not of absolute unbelief, in this age of Comte and of Mill, of Renan and of Colenso—it is the work of a profound and earnest believer, not alone in the grandest and simplest elementary truths of theology, but in the eternal vitality, solidity, beauty, and beneficence of the Divine Scheme of the Redemption, of the whole superstruc- ture, so to speak, of Christianity built up two thousand years ago on the primeval and primordial foundation prepared for it in those same everlasting truths. It is the work, besides this, we would here add, as for that matter the composition of it evidences clearly enough throughout, of a skilled and practiced man of letters—of a ripe scholar—of a thicker who can martial his ideas at pleasure, even the subtlest among them, with the ease of an accom plished dialectician. As a historical romance, the work is in many ways very remarkable. It is realistic of the whole epoch of which it treats— that epoch being, moreover, the most momentous of all in the annals of the human race. Opening in the eleventh year of Our Lord, it closes in the thirty-second, it might even be said, in the thirty-third, the latest incident recounted occur ring at a date subsequent to that of the Resur rection. Again, opening upon the road to Rome, it closes in the immediate vicinity of Jerusalem. It introduces us, among other historical personages, to Caesar Augustus, to Tiberius, to Caligula when a malignant little imp of seven, to Claudius and Ger manicus, to Sejanus, and Velleius Paterculus, and Charicles the physician, and Livy the his torian, and Strabo the geographer. It makes us acquainted with a variety of imaginary beings of the writer's own creation—beings that before the tale is half told are little less to us than historical personages themselves. Foremost among these the young hero of the narrative, Paulus Lepidus .tEmilius, first known to us as a slender stripling—but before the close of the book, though even then but in the glory of his manhood, a veteran Legatus or full General in the Roman army—Paulus, tamer, at the outset of his career, (after the fashion of Alexander and Bucephalus) of the mighty Sejan horse—Paulus, rescuer of his fair sister, Agatha, from the toils of Sejanus and the lust of Tiberius—Paulus, outwitting all the villains of the Suburra in the safe conveyance by a mere handful of men of a ponderous treasure of gold from the heart of Rome to the distant camp of Germanicus—Paulus, who wins so much love and admiration from us at every turn, now by his dazzling parry of the murderous blow aimed at him by the assassin Lygdus, now by his faithful love for the Jewish maiden, Esther Maccabeus, now by his in genuous ardour, his dauntless valour, his inflexible determination, and the very nobility of his whole character, temperament, idiosyncracy. Associated with him and inextricably bound up with his for tunes are—his mother Aglais, his sister Agatha (al ready mentioned), his old freedman Philip, his uncle the ex-Triumvir Lepidus, his brawny, noble-hearted follower, Thellus, sometime of the arena—together with Crispus and Crispina, the worthy tavern keepers at the Inn of the Hundredth Milestone. But, beyond all else in their enthralling interest, immeasurably, ineffably beyond all the other person ages, whether historical or purely fictitious, here introduced to us, are the various characters who are mentioned, either with horror or with veneration, in the Sacred Narrative. For, strange to tell, there are to be recognised, here, among the throng of those already hinted at or above enumerated, as peopling the pages of this daring Historical Romance of the First Century, of the very dawn of the First Century—there are to be recog nised here among them Herod Agrippa, the Tetrarch of Judea ; Caiphas, the High Priest of Jerusalem ; Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor ; Herodias and her unblushing daughter ; St. John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist. The writer of this extraordinary narrative—extraordinary in the all but unexampled audacity of its delineations, deli neations that would be profane in the mere idea of them, but for the profound reverence prompting every touch of their treatment—the writer of " Dion and the Sibyls " shrinks not even from recounting— towards the close of his narrative—How, while Paulus, is meditating one day upon the Mount of Olives, there passes by him, silently, in the solitude of the landscape, a Holier One than the Beloved Disciple, a Holier One than John the Baptist, than that "prophet, yea, more than a prophet," than John the Angel of God ! Here is the passage (vol. ii. pp. 316-319) now more immediately referred to, and one that we give at once precisely as it stands in the book (merely italicizing one brief sentence of the extract by reason of our sense of its exquisite beauty) so as to corroborate upon the instant our assertion that in the consummate daring of these imaginings on the part of the writer there is not only not one iota, or tittle, or scintilla, or molecular atom of profanity, but directly and absolutely the diame trical reverse of profanity, the sense of a profound and adoring reverence : As Paulus thus mused, half pronouncing now and then in words the thoughts we have sketched, and hundreds upon hundreds of similar thoughts, which we spare to re cord, some one passed him, going ilown the Mount of Olives; and in passing, looked at hini, and until Paulus diud, h e never C"/ 94 t 9 AO that glance, and in dying he THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIISG, MARCH 16, 1866 saw it yet, and with a smile thanked his Maker that he saw it then also—especially then. The person who thus passed our hero was more than six feet in height. He was fair in complexion. Hie hair was light auburn, and large locks of it fell, with a natural wave and return, upon his neck. His head was bare. His dress was the long flowing robe of the Jews, girdled at the waist, and, as Paulus afterwards fancied, the colour of it was red. He was in the bloom of life. Our hero could see, as this person passed, that Ho was the very perfection of health, beauty, vigour, elegance, and of all the faculties of physical humanity ; and even the odd, and strange, and wild, and somewhat mysterious thought flashed through Paulus's mind : "My God," thought he, "if there were a new Adam to be created, to be the natural, or rather the supernatural, king of the human race, would not his appearance surely be as the appearance and the bearing of this person ?" And the person who passed was moreover thin, and a little emaciated. And He would have seemed wan, only that the most delicate, faint blood-colour mantled in His cheeks. And He looked at the hero Paulus, with the look of Him out of whose hand none hath power to take those whom He picks from a vast concourse and elects. And Paulus felt glad, and calm, and without anxiety for the future, and free from all bitterness for the past, and firm, yet grave ; and when his mind went actually forth to look upon the things that were around it, he saw nothing but the face and the glance. And now I come to the strangest particular of all. Paulus felt that this beautiful and vigorous new Adam, fit to be the natural and even supernatural kiag of the world was ono who never could have laughed, and probably had never smiled. But no smile was so sweet as His gravity. And Paulus remembered another extraordinary and unparal leled circumstance : it was this—those beautiful and be nignant eyes were so full of terror, that it seemed they could scarcely hold in an equal degree any other expres sion in them except that which shone therein with what seemed to Paulus a celestial and divine lustre ; I mean, first, love, and next unconquerable, and everlasting, and victorious courage. As though there was a work to do, which none but He (from the creation to the day of doom) could over accomplish—a dreadful work, a work unspeak able in shame, and in pain, and in horror, and yet a work entirely indispensable, and the most important and real and momentous that Ito.a. cy.ar Awd. the sub ject or hero of this tale, Paulus, wondered how in the same look and eyes, and in a single glance of them, two things so opposite as ineffable terror and yet God-like adorable courage could be combined. But, nevertheless, they were both there ; and with this mighty and mysterious mental combination, Paulus also saw a sweetness so inexpressibly awful that, at once (and as if he had heard words formed within his own heart), the reflection arose within him : "How much more terrible would be the wrath of the lamb than the rage of the lion!" And the figure of this person passed onward, and was hidden from poor Paulus beyond the olive groves. Because of the nature and bearing of this most re markable passage of all in the work now under re view, we have purposely and, as will be readily understood, not very surprisingly, reversed the natural order of things when treating of its contents, by thus giving the foregoing extract at once as our earliest quotation from " Dion and the Sibyls." Doing so among other reasons because, as it seems to us, it affords the very readiest clue of all to the significance, the aim, the purpose of the whole book. For the work as a whole, by the way, it here occurs to us that the very aptest motto might have been culled from the clos ing verse of the opening stanza of the " Dies Ire." By no more than the change of a single name that verse would have indicated to a nicety the significance alike of the narrative and of its title. Relating, in fact, as the narrative does, immediately before its conclusion, to that earlier dies irce— referred to by our author himself (ii. 340) as " the most awful day the world has known," that " over memorable and tremendous Friday"—the device thus suggested for inscription upon the title page might have run-- " Testa Dion cum Sibylla." Dionysius the Athenian—the Dion of the title and of the tale—meaning that early convert of Saint Paul, the Saint Denis of France, the first Arch bishop of Paris, ho whose preaching-place among the Gauls was on the spot now consecrated during many centuries as the site of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Dionysius of the Areopagus, Dionysius the last of the great Greek philosophers. Whatever erudition has been scattered through the pages of these two volumes by their author—and there is much at uncertain intervals that he has lavished upon them beyond a doubt—it is only fair to him that we should add, while thus referring to it, that it is never dragged in, so to speak, by the head and shoulders, out of any mere ostentation of scholarship. It is always apropos or, otherwise expressed, it is always directly to the purpose then more immediately in hand, in the way of furnishing to the context a clear, and elegant, and in many cases an absolutely conclusive elucidation. A happier instance of this could hardly be adduced than that afforded by the portion of the narrative having especial reference to that mysterious sibylline acrostic beginning— " ISpcocrL te Xecov KpL.:mos ovActow Or' co-at"— the mystical acrostic identified by Lactantius with the one discussed by Cicero before, the birth of our Lord—the acrostic translated by St. Augustine, and commented upon by Origen, by Eusebius, by Natalia Alexander, and by a crowd of others ! The most renowned and awe-inspiring prophetic acrostic surely that was ever penned—penned (this one) by the Sybils long before the Birth at Bethlehem, discussed, as has been but just now remarked long before then by Marcus Tullius Cicero. That acrostic the initial letters of which " spell our blessed Lord's two names all down the lines like a golden fringe," as the author of " Dion" says here very beautifully— " liprovr Xptcrros eeov Yu's, acorrip—" the mystical verses of this acrostic relating in the body of the text, dimly and briefly, it may be, but, when coupled with the initial letters thus spelling out the Holy Designation, very distinctly and very prophetically, the Life and Death of the Redeemer of Mankind. Nothing superfluous is here introduced—nothing is said but what is, in the fullest meaning of the words, thrice-welcome to the reader as luminously illustrative of the force and significance of the mo mentous subject touched upon so delicately yet so firmly with a hand of loving veneration. Scarcely anywhere can we detect the author in error in his lore—once only to our remembrance, at this moment, on glancing back retrospectively. It is where, in his powerful description of the formidable aspect of Tiberius, the man in purple-black raiment, the man with the brick-dust coloured complexion, is spoken of as small-eyed instead of, as Suetonius Tranquillus describes him, with eyes proportioned to his huge bulk and lofty stature. All the stranger, this mo mentary slip of the pen is, coming from one who, so to speak, seems in a manner saturated, through and through, with the anecdotal data of the biographer of the Twelve Emperors. Turning, however, from this romance of "Dion and the Sibyls," to the author of it himself, thus does he prepare the way for his narrative by a sort of personal exordium I have no technical, norprofessional, nor doctorial claims of any kind to advance," h e sa ys. "I am not a recluse, nor yet a strange, odd sort of person. lam no preacher, nor teacher, nor lecturer, nor projector, nor promoter, nor agent, nor missionary, nor martyr, nor saint, nor censor. I have pursued honour, not wholly in vain, in some corn mon, open arenas. I have taken my part—and I suppose it is not over yet—in the battles of life. On certain occa sions I hare struggled victoriously against very consider able odds. Better, abler, more gifted men have succumbed around me, and I have trembled for myself when I saw them sink. Inferiority shuddered to witness all their strength, vigour, genius, and courage overwhelmed at its side. Some famous men have teen, and are, my friends, and some great men, both in the true and the false sense of the epithet, I have seen, known, anti studied. I have mixed with many classes in various and large communities ; have sojourned in four continekts ; have conversed in the lan guages of those whose ideas reflected, contradicted, or enlarged my own ; have watched the rage of modern busi ness with infectious suspense and sympathy; and amidst the monuments, the arts, the traditions, and the literatures, where so much human passion and human intelligence have spent their noblest toil, have experienced my share of emotion. 1 have erred, and suffered, and blundered; en countered checks, and afterwards looked back upon them ; received directions and given directions. I have striven and been beaten ; have strived and prevailed ; have missed my turn and had my turn. I have known both kinds of disappointment, that of failure and that which better de serves the namo—l mean the disappointment of success. "Now, lam not a superior person ;' Iwish I was. I am no reprover of others, Officially or officiously. I n fine, I am anything you may please to conclude , except traitor, • coward, or liar. I would much rather be something better ; but such as we are, we are. _ . "And now," says he, by way of close to this strang Preface, " And now:while you pass, will you listen to me, friend, for a while ?" Whereupon, there followB, immediately after this fashion, the real commencement of the narra- tive : It was a fair evening in autumn, towards the end of the year eleven of our Lord. Augustus Caesar was a white haired, olive-complexioned, and somewhat frail-featured, though stately man of more than seventy-three. At the beginning of the century in which this is written, the face of the first Napoleon recalled to the minds of antiquaries and students of numismatic remains the lineaments en graved upon the extant coins of Augustus. Indeed, at this moment, there is in the Vatican a beautiful marble bust in excellent preservation, representing one of these two em perors, as he was while yet young ; and this bust almost invariably produces a curious effect upon the stranger who contemplates it for the first time. " That is Certainly a beautiful artistic work," he says, " but the likeness is hardly perfect." "Likeness of whom ?" replies some Italian friend. "Of the emperor," says the stranger. " Sicuro ! But which emperor ?" asks the Italian, smiling. "Of course, the first," says the visitor, "not this one." "But that repre sents Augustus Omar, not Napoleon Bonaparte," is .the answer. Whereupon the stranger who, a moment before, had very justly pronounced the resemblance to Bonaparte to be hardly perfect, exclaims not less justly, What an amazing likeness to Napoleon 1 That sort of admiring sur prise is intelligible. Had the bust been designed as an image of the great modern conqueror, there had been some thing to censure. But the work which, at one and the same time, delineates the second Caesar, and yet now after 1800 years recalls to mind the first Napoleon, has become a curious monument indeed. The second Roman emperor, however, had not a fore head so broad and commanding nor so marble smooth as Naploeon's, and the whole countenance, at the time when our narrative begins, offered a more decisively aquiline curve, with more numerous and much thinner lines about the mouth. Still, oven at the age which he had then reached—in year eleven of our Lord—he showed traces of that amazing beauty which had enchanted the whole classic world in the days of his youth. Three years more, and his reign and life were to go down in a groat, broad, calm, treacherous sunset together. How in that broad sunset the grand old Sybarite Emperor passed away like a stage-player on the final closing of the curtain upon his performance, is no more than just faintly hinted at in the text—the second emsar exclaiming as in a death cry to those who were assembled around his couch, "If all be well, lift up your voices with joy in resounding plaudits to the actor's honour," meaning to his own —'EL Si ray Ixet KaXios (these were his words) rip ratyvica &ire xpOrov, Kai ravrer vµeir µfrit xapas Kruricrare. Long before his disappearance in Death, however, Augustus Caesar passes almost wholly from our ken in the unfolding of the later inci dents of the plot of this narrative, so that a mere casual mention at last of his final exit is perfectly in keeping with the due arrangement of the pro portions of the story as a work of art. The invo lutions of the winding plot of the tale here told, we shall not venture merely to number up and, as we number them up, dully to epitomise. Let the romancist have the full benefit of the varying and (not unfrequently) the long-sustained interest he contrives to awaken in regard to the linking together, turn by turn, of the salient incidents of his chequered narrative. The mastering of the ter rible and gigantic horse Sejanus, for example, or that earlier parrying of the wondrous blow aimed at Paulus by the eunuch Lygdus, or the extrication of the pay of the legions of Germanicus from the toils of the scum of the Suburra, or the baulking of Plan cina's deadly device for the poisoning of Paulus with the drugged potion, the baulking of that deadly device by the last of the Sibyls at the very moment when Paulus is raising the chalice with the " leprous distillment" to his lips, or, the extrication, again, of Agatha from the jaws of death, or of far, far worse than death, at the latest moment, by fire and by sword, by the mighty arm of Thellus, and by the mightier fraternal love of Paulus, and by the serried ranks of the Praetorian Guard marshalled at the beck of the puissant finger of the chief minister Sejanus. The epoch in which the story opens is thus radiantly pencilled with a few easy and rapid touches, indicating the writer's familiarity with the age of which he treats, lit up as that whole epoch is by the golden sheen of its immortal literature : Ovid had just been sent into exile at Temesvar in Tur key—then called Tomos in Scythia. Cornelius Nepos was ending his days in the personal privacy and literary noto riety in which he had lived. Virgil had been dead a whole generation ; so had Tibullus ; Catullus half a century ; Propertius some twenty years; Horace and Maecenas about as long. The grateful master of the curiosa filicitas ver- Lorain had followed in three weeks to—not the grave in deed, but the urn—the patron whom ho had i►umorLaliaod in the first of his Odes, the first of his Epodes, the first of his Satires, and the first of his Epistles; and the mighty sovereign upon whose youthful court those three charac ters—a wise, mild, clement, yet firm minister, a glorious Epic poet, and an unsurpassed lyrist—have reflected so much and such enduring lustre, had faithfully and unceas ingly lamented their irreparable loss. Lucius Varius was the fashionable poet, the laureate of the day ; and, Maecenas being removed, Tiberius sought to govern indirectly, as minister, all those matters which he did not control directly and immediately, as one of the two Caesars whom Augus tus had appointed. Volleius Paterculus, the cavalry colonel, or military tribune (chiliarch), a prosperous and accomplished patrician, was beginning to shine at once in letters and at the court. The grandson of Livia, grandson also of Augustus by his marriage with her, but really grand-nephew of that emperor —we moan the son of Antonia, the celebrated Germanicus, second and more worthy bearer of that surname—a youth full of fire and genius, and tingling with noble blood—was preparing to atone for the disgraces, and to repair the disasters which Quintilius Yarns, one year before, amidst the uncleared forests of Germany, had brought upon the imperial arms and the Roman name. Germanicus, indeed, was about to fulfil the more important part of a celebrated classic injunc tion ; he was going to do things worthy to be written, " while the supple courtier of all Caesars, Paterculus, was endeavouring to write something worthy to be read." Strabo had not long before commenced his system of geo graphy, which, for about thirty years yet to come, was to engage his attention and dictate his travels. Livy, of the " Pictured Page," who doubtless may be called, next to Tacitus, the most eloquent, without being set down as quite the most credulous of classic historians —I venture to say so, pace Niebuhr—was over 86 years of age, but scarcely looked 60. Ho was even then thoroughly and universally appreciated. No man living had received more genuine marks of honour—not even the emperor. His hundred and forty-two books of Roman History had filled the known world with his praises, a glory which length of days allowed him fully to enjoy. Modern readers appreciate and admire the thirty-five books which alone are left, and linger over the beauties, quasi stellis, with which they shine. Yet who knows but these may bo among the poorest pro ductions of Livy's genius ? A very simple sum in arith metic would satisfy an actuary that we must have lost the most valuable emanations of the Paduan's great mind. Given a salvage of five-and-thirty out of a hundred and forty-two, and yet the whole of this wreck, so marvellous in beauty! surely that which is gone for ever must have included much that is equal, probably something far supe rior, to what time has spared. As superbly indicative of the rhetorical power pos sessed by the pen of our novelist, we are tempted here to give yet one other extract from his pages, one affording the reader what we cannot but regard as a very noble taste indeed of the writer's quality. It is a passage descriptive of the apparition of the demons to the haggard and wondering eyes of Plancina, the evil-hearted wife of Cneius Piso— "Some forms were like the human, with red fire in the veins instead of blood, and white fire in the bones instead of marrow ; eyes they possessed that had no comfort in thorn. They had the air of being utterly without interest in anything, only that their eyes were filled with fear ; yet it seemed to me with knowledge, too : unspeakable fear, immense knowledge: wells and pools they appeared, full of fear and knowledge. When they glanced upon you, there were pale rays of hatred strangely combined with an expression of indifference, fear, knowledge, and hatred. If you looked at the eyes, when they looked not at ycu, you saw nothing but an expression of fear and knowledge ; but when they did look at you, you saw fear, knowledge, and hatred, too. All these faces mocked without smiling, and scoffed without enjoyment. Something, I thought, was dripping down the wan cheeks, and there was a look of fixed surprise long ago, of long past astonishment—the trace left, and the feeling gone. The emotion of boundless amazement had once been there ; the signs of it were left all over the countenance, but, if I may so speak, petrified— an immedicable scar, an ineffaceable vestige. The character of the countenance was that of a dead astonishment—the astonishment was dead ; it was no longer an Active sentiment. it had been some boundless wonder ; the greatest which that creature had over experi enced, and the event which had caused it had apparently been the most serious which that being had over known." Apart from any more highly elaborated descrip tive passages such as these, there are little incidental phrases, moreover, of infinite grace and beauty scattered with a lavish hand all through the two volumes—such phrases, let us say, as that descriptive of the arcaded impluvium of the Mamurran Palace, with its central:fountain " smitten into a sorcery of tints, as it shed into a large basin of green marble the drooping sheaf of waters, of which the materials were perpetually changing, and the form and outlines perfectly maintained or instantly and per petually renewed." Altogether the impression left behind it by the work, as we close the two volumes and lay them by for after reference, is more than simply favourable. It is more even, we would say, than merely satisfying. It is elevating and ennobling. Towards its close, we often read it with pro found emotion through a brimming haze of tears. Finally, we would yet further say of this romance of " Dion and the Sibyls" that it is not so much a remarkable addition to the plentiful store of fiction constituting the charm and treasurer of our circulating libraries, it is—what but a very few indeed among the countless volumes passing through those circulating libraries ever chance to be—a contribution to literature. As such we hail its ap pearance with peculiar satisfaction, according henceforth an honourable place to Mr. Keon among the ranks of our more highly cultivated writers of imagination. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 15. The Novedades of to-day states that the Minister of Finance has concluded an arrangement with Messrs. Rothschild for a loan of 80,000,000 reals, guaranteed by hypothecated notes. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARCH 16. The postal treaty, concluded on the 9th of February last between Austria and Russia, was promulgated to-day. The Convention with Mexico in reference to re cruiting in Austria for thy Austrian Volunteer corp in Mexico, was signed yesterday by Count Mensdorff and the Mexican Minister. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. MALTA, MARCH 15. The Syria, from Southampton, on the 4th inst., arrived here on the 13th at 8 a.m., and left at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. The Pera, from Marseilles on the 12th inst., arrived at 11 p.m. on the 14th, and left at 6 a.m. on the 15th for Alexandria. TEE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 16. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Seine, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 53 passengers, $240,695 in specie, ani 1,648 pack ages of cargo, chiefly consisting of cochineal, bark, coffee, cotton, and cocoa. The Seine left St. Thomas on the 2d inst. She experienced fine weather throughout. On the 15th she spoke the British vessel Salsette. The Tas manian, with the outward mails of the 17th ult., arrived at St. Thomas, all well, on the 2nd inst. The news of the offensive and defensive alliance of Peru with Chili against Spaiu was received at Valparaiso with much enthusiasm. Trade at Valparaiso was paralysed, but shipping business at all the other ports was active. Admiral Denman, the British commander-in chief on the west coast of America, arrived at Val paraiso in the ship Sutlej. Charters in Chili were numerous, and the rates were advancing. Exchange on London, 47d. to 481 d. Bar copper per quintal, $l7 50c. Tranquillity prevailed in Peru. The entire coun try was unanimous in favour of General Prado, who was introducing reforms daily for the country's good. Business was dull and money scarce, provi sions, &c., bringing exorbitant prices. Exchange, 90 days, had fallen to 3521 per dollar. Ecuador had allied itself to Peru and Chili, and a declaration of war was signed at Quinto on the 30th by the Minister of the three Republics. The Chinese labourers engaged upon the Chincha Islands had risen en masse and attempted to murder all placed in charge of them. Several were brutally murdered before the rebellion could be put down. Twenty-six of the Chinamen were shot. Sugar-making at Jamaica has commenced. The crop is expected to be much larger than that of last year. In general the peasantry on the estates are working well. Business is dull. Pimento scarce. Native corn abundant. Rum, 33d. to 36d. proof 18. Sugar, 15s. to 20s. Exchange, 1i prem. 60 days. At Demerara produce is in little demand. weather wet. Freights on London and Liver pool, 2s. The manufacture of sugar is progressing —qua lity good. Cotton crop encouraging. Weather fine. At Grenada the wet weather had retarded opera tions on the estates. The health of the island was good. Cholera still lingered at Guadaloupe. Sugar making had commenced at Martinique. The weather was wet. The harbour was full of shipping waiting for produce. Business was dull. The weather at Barbadoes was fine, and the estates were busy. The sugar crop promises to reach 50,000 hogsheads. At Trinidad the weather was unsettled, and crop operations progressed slowly. JAMAICA. (Per the Seine.) KINGSTON, JAN. 24. The Royal Commission has been sitting daily hearing the evidence of all brought before them as to the cause of the disturbance and the means em- ployed for its suppression. The proceedings have been watched by Messrs. Gorrie, Payne, and Phillips on behalf of Dr. Under hill, Mrs. Gordon, and other sufferers ; and by Mr. G. AV. Walcot on behalf of Governor Eyre. The Commission has been most studious in the prosecution of their work, finding many witnesses in the Bath district. Commissioner Gurney went to Morant Bay and Stony Gut to take evidence there. It has been proved that during martial law several women were flogged at St. Thomas-in-the- East. All the political prisoners, tried by the Special Commission for seditious language and writing, have been guilty and sentences of from 20 days to 12 months' imprisonment have been pronounced. Mr. Levien, proprietor of the County Union, has been sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months for libellous articles against the Government. The Colonial Standard feels assured that the re port of the Royal Commission will completely vin dicate Governor Eyre and the military and naval authorities for the course adopted towards the rebels in St. Thomas-in-the-East, and that the evi dence produced proves an organised insurrection in that locality, whilst the attempts made to bolster up charges of cruelty on the part of the soldiers and sailors have completely broken down. Mr. Eyre continues to receive addresses expres sive of sympathy and approbation from the various bodies in the island. Major O'Connor also receives his share of public sympathy. The Morning Journal says that there is no altera tion from the good order ,which prevailed at the departure of the last mail. " Abundant testimony bas been produced before the commission proving tho crueltico practised by the authorities ; that many were hanged and shot upon far less evidence than that which executed Gordon ; thht some were disposed of without trial of any kind ; that men and women were flogged in discriminately, and that houses of unoffending Per' sons were burnt, and property destroyed." Several addresses have been presented to Sir Henry Storks from the evangelical missionaries of Jamaica, welcoming his arrival in the island. The charge of murder has been preferred agains t Ramsay, but he is allowed his liberty on bail to the amount of £2OO. Many persons have yet to take their trial• THE MAURITIUS MAILS. MARSEILLES, MARcfl 1 5 . The Messageries Imp er i a l es s t eamer P e l u se, wi th the above mails, arrived here at 5 p.m. to-day. ' AP,,/ rfut 1 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR. CASTLE, March 15. The Queen went out in the grounds this morning, attended by the Duthess of Roxburghe. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MAncH 15. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS AMENDMENT BILL. In the Committee.—Clauso I.—Another amendment pro posed, "After the word 'subject,' to insert the words ' And I do f ur th er so l emn l y declare that her Majesty is, under God, the only supreme Governor of this Beal ra ' and that no foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate bath any jurisdiction or authority in any of the Cou rts That those the same."—(M r . Disraoli). Question put, " , those words be there i nser t e d . " Th e C omm itt e e divide , ' —Ayes, 222 ; Noes, 236. AYES-222. Adderley, C. 13. Fleming, J. Morgan, O. Annesley, Col. H. I l o y er J . Mowbray, J. 1 , " Archdall, Capt Forester, Gen. Naas, Lord ~ ji Ark,.. right, It. F res hfi eld, C. K . Neville- G r enville Aytoun, R. S. Galway, Viscount Newdegate, G. I3a,_ ge, W. Getty, S. G. North, Col. il. Bagnall, C. Gilpi n , C o l . N ort h co t e . Sir P. Bailey, bir J. Gotdney, G. Norwood, C. Baillie, 11. J. Godson, J. O'Neill, E. Baring, A. H." Gore, J. R. 0. .Pacret R. H. , Barnett, B. . Graves, S. R. Pa; et, 0,- ~,, Pakington, 0.,,,, Barrow, W. H. Greenall, G. Parker, Major rr • Barttelot, Col. Greene, E. Peel, Sir R. Bateson, Sir T. Gray, Lt-Col. Peel, Gen. Bathurst, A. A. Guinness. B. L. Pennant, Col. Beach, Sir H. Hamilton, Lord C. Percy, harl Beach, W. liamilton,Lord C.J. Powell, F. S. Beecroft, G. S. Hamilton, L 1... Read, C. S. , Bcnyon, it. Bernard, Col. Hamilton, Visct. 'lepton, G. W. 4: . Hardy, G. Ridley, Sir M., Biddulph, H. H ar d y, J. Robertson, P. x • Bourne, Col. Hartopp, B. B. Rolt, J. Bridges, Sir B. W. Harvey K. B. Royston, Vise t. Bromley, W. D. Hervey, Lord A. Russell, Sir C. ... Brooks, R. Heath cot , , G . H. Saudford , G.A ., '" Bruoe, Major C. Reathcote, Sir W. Schreiber, C. ~,. Bruce, H. A. Henl e y, J . W . S e l ater -Booth. u. utiekley, E. Henniker, Lord Scott, Lord H. Bulkeley, Sir R. Herbert, P. E. Seiwin, H. J. Burghley, Lord Hesketh, Si: T. Selwyn, C. J. , Burrell, Sir P. Heygate, Sir F. Severne, J. 14i, H. Cairns, Sir H . Hogg, Lt-Col. Seymour, G. ll Campbell, A. H. Holford, R. S. Simouds, W. B. Cartwright, Col, Holmesdale, Vis. Smith, S. G. Cave, S. Hood, Sir A, Smollett, P. B . Cecil, Lord R. H oisia ll , T . B . St an h o pe, J. l3 ' Chau,bers, T. H Aham, Lord Stanley, F. Tv. lif. Clive, Capt. G. W. Howes. E. Stirling-Sir. T. J i . x. Cobbold, J. C. Ilumphe r y, W. Stronge, -s ' IW. Cochrane, A. D. B. Hunt, G. W. Stuart, Lt.-Co • Cole, Hon. H. Cole, lion. J. L. J j oli i if fr e e , H. Stunt, W. Stueley, sir G. S Stunt, H. G. Coll , 'ie., C. It. Kelk, J. Sturt, Lt.-C01.. , " • Conolly, T. K e lly, Sir F. S urteei, F. Courtney, Lord Kendall, N. Surtees. 11. B• Cooper, E. H. Kennard, R. W. Sykes, C. Cox, W. Ker, D. S. Sykes, Col. Cranbourne, Vist. King, J. K. Tho, o,cl ' J. IL Craufurd, E. 11. J. Kinnaird, A. F. Thynne, Lord $• Curzon, Viscount Knightley, sir R. Torrens, It. Dalkeith, Earl of Knox, 1..0l Treeby, J. W.... 17_ Dawson, R. P. Knox, Major W. S. Tretusis, C. id' De Grey, Hon T. Lacon, Sir E. Trevor, Lord A. Dick, F. Laird, J. Trollope, Sir J ' Dickson, Major Lamont, J. Turner, C. Disraeli, B. Langton, W. G . Tyrone, Earl or . I:',u Cane, C. Leroy, A. Walcott, A.dtnir a !,- Duncombe, A. y!ajor . Duncombe, W. E. Lindsay, Lennox IL Du Pre, C. G. Lindsay, Col. R. Walpole, S. Dutton, R. H. Lopes, Sir M. Walsh, A. Dyke, W. H. Lowther, J. Walsh, Sir J., Dyott, Colonel Lytton, Sir E. B. Lord G. G. 11, W .,a a a lue e g r, raye:L e ,i, o 7 Eaton, W. H. Mackie. J. Edwards, Col. M.'Lag - an, P. Westropp. 11 . f. Egerton, Sir P. Mainwaring, T. Whalley, G. 11 Egerton, A. F. Waterhouse, o l u v s . e v , S. Manners, Lord J. Whiteside, J.. Egerton, E. C. Heller, W. Williams, C 0 1. .... Egerton, W. Miller, S. B. Williams, F. .31. Pane, C )1. Miller, T. J. Wise, H. C. Farquhar, Sir M. Mills, C. it. Feilt.en, J. Fellow US. E. TELLERS , Mittord, W. T. Yorke, J. . V fi. It . 3L Montagu, Lord R. Fergusson, Sir J. Montgomery, Sir G. Taylor, colonel Ferrand, W. Mordaunt, Sir C. Noel, U. J• NOES-230. Inland, T. D. Gibson, T. M. Neate, C. Adair, H. E. Gladstone, W. E. *tool, J. D. Agnew, Sir A. Gladstone, W. 11. O'Beirne, J. Akroyd, E. Glyn, G. C. O'Brien, Sir r. Anson, Major Goldsmid, Sir F. Ogilvy, Sir J. a Anstruther, Sir R. Goschen, G. J. O'Loghlen, Sir Armstrong, ft.l Graham, W. 0' I , eilly , t.a TT • • Ayrton, A. S. Gregory, W. H. Otway, A. Bagwell, J. Greville Col. F. Padruore, R. Baines, E. Gray, Sir J. Paget, Lord C . Baring, T. Grey, Sir G. Palmer, Sir R. Barnes, T. Gridley, H. G. Peel, A. W. Barron ' sir HW. Grosvenor, Earl Peele, J. Barry, G. R. Grosvenor, Lord IL Pelhaiu, Lord Baxter, W. E. Grosvenor, Capt. IL Fender, J. ...,. Bazley, T. Grove, 'l'. Phillips, K. ll. Beaumont, W. B. Gurney, S. Pim, J. Biodulph, M. Hadfio,d, G. Platt' Urquhar J. art IC Blake, J. Potter, E. Brecknock, Earl of Hankey, T. Poster, T. B. Hanbury,Hamilto n, R. E. W. T. Pollard Bouverie, E. P. • Bright, Sir C. T. Hardcastle, J. A. Power, Sir J. Bright, J. Harris, J. D. Price, W. P. Bruce, H. A. Hartington,MarquisPrYse, E. L. Buller, Sir A. W. Hartley„). Pritchard, J.„,., i s. Buller, E. Hay, Lord J. Rawlinson, Du Butler, C. S. hay, Lord W. Reardon, D. J• Buxton, C. Hayter, Capt. A, D. Rebow, J. G• ~ A. Buxton, Sir T. F. Headlam, T. E. Robartes, T. J. `' Calcraft, J Henuerson, J. liobertson. E l : Calthorpe, F. H. Henley, Lord Roebuck, J. 2 '.,„ 0 14 . Candlish, J. Hibbert, J. T. Rothschild , Ba Cardwell, E. R. Hodgkinson, G. Russell, A. Carnegie, C. H 1 itn, 1. Russell, 11..,„ Castlerosse, Viet. llorsman. Z. Russell, F. rv• Cave, T. Howard, Lord E. G. Russell , Sir W. Cavendish, Lord E St. Aubyn, J. 0 Cavendish, Lord F. Hurst, It H. Balomon g,A#della i, ui L an Cavendish Lord G. Hutt, W. barnuda. J. cileetham, J. Ingham, R. Samuelson. B. Childers, H. C. E. J arcane, R. Saunderson, ,• rtr. Cholmeley, Sir M. Kearsley, Captain Schneider, IL Clay, J. Kennedy, '2. Scholefle,d, W. Clinton, Lord A. P. King, P. J. L. Shafts, BeSeymour,ym o u r . Ali t; D. P .: Clinton, Lord E. P. Kinglake, A. W. Sheridan, R. H. Cogan, W. H. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. L K a n b a o t u cl e i h b e u r T H Ll . ugess Collier, r..tir R. P. Layard, A. H. Sh.aiff, A. Cowper, H. F. Lawrence, W. Simeon, car . 1 . Crawford, R. W. Lawson, J. A. Smith, J. A. Crosland, Col. Leader, N. P. Speirs, A. # Dalglish, R. Leatham, W. Stacpoole, C a P" Davey, K. Lee, W. Stansfeld, J. Dawson, Captain Lefevre, G. J. S. Steel, J. Dorfman, G. Lewis, 11. Stock, 0. Dent, J. D. Locke, J. Stone, W. ~., Deverw.x, R. J. Lowe, R. Stuart, Col. C. Uilke, Sir W. Lusk, A. Sullivan. E. Dillon, J. B. MacEvoy, E. Synan, B. Duff, M. E. M - Kenna, J. N. Taylor, r. 0- ,.' ,CO l . Dundas, F. 111'Laren, D. Tottenham, .u• Dunlop, A. M. Magu re, J. F. Enfield, Viscount M ar j or ib anks, D. c 7 Erskine, J. E. Marsh, 31. H. Villiers, C. P. Tracy, ,revel y 1.,: t . n 8. , 6 1 • . 3 Esmonde, J. Martin, C. W. Vivian, H. H. Evans, T. W. AIM bank F. Warner, E. „ r. Ewart, W. 31111 , J . S. Wir eguelin, T. ' Ewing, H. E. C. Mill er, W . Fawcett, H. Mill s, J . R . wnatncia n S o j Fenwick, E. M. Mit c h e ll , Whitworth , ,A. W hite, J. _ Fildes, J. Mitchell, T. A. h D. ~. lc Fi . znatrick, J W Moncreiff, J. 'Willi a mson, 0,;',. f . Fitzwilliam, C. W. Monk, C. Winni n g ton, Forster, C. Mons e ll, W. Woods, IL Western, T. Forster, W. E. Mo o re, C. wyvill, M. Fort it. More, R. J. Young, A. Fortesoue, D. F. Morley S. YounZ, R. . French, Col. Morris, W. E Ga , elee, S. Morrison, W.H•Ltv P. Gavin, Major Murphy, N. D. Adani, ~ • Brand,TL" a Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, having cor a P' et to their transatlantic engagements, are about returning England. They will leave New York on the 18th of .11-Phfl' and are to appear at the Theatre Royal, LiverP° °llc w il e t t e n 2d, 3d, and 4th of May. From Liverpool they co the Lonlon, and will make their first a ppearance at Princess's Theatre on Thursday, May 17, in " genryy T MENDICITY AT ITS SOURCE. So the Mou' e- t o Society refuses to provide for its worn-out servants'iorn: render any assistance to their widows and surving '9—bil lies! The Mendicity Society is supposed to be a Ch arits o - v; association, but charity, in this instance, does not foll its usual rule. The mendicity, and not the charity, ° f t Mendicity Society begins at home. —Punch. CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY.—Th e er c oo ge city Treaty expires on Saturday, the 17th inst., in. quence of the notice give n by th e United St ates' Gov .3'_o ment on the 17th o f M arc h, 1865, t o t e rminate it at tba to t expiration of 12 months from that day, on the grninl s to "it is no longer for the interest of the United Sta'e continue it in force." The treaty came into operation e°r.. the 16th of March, 1855, and was made for 10 yor s _ o c , ;eo tain, and further until the expiration of a year's n" from one of the contracting parties. T 1 a IE —REATMETROPOLIS.—TheR e g istrar-General estimates as follows the population of the eight inetropolit boroughs on the Bth April, 1866, midway, between the . census of 1861 and that of 1871 :—The City, 104,908 Westminster, 261,389 ; Southwark, 204,872 ; 473,091; Finsbury, 423,560 ; Tower Hamlets, 710,1i9 ! . fo r Lambeth, 319,403; Greenwich, 160,086. The estimate , the whole is based on the assumption that the progress 0 population is the same as it was between 1851 and 1861.. LAW REPORTS. —An announcement, signed by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Chairman of the Council of Law ReP" ti/16 ,1 has just been issued, stating that the Council have decide to close the subscription list to the Law Reports, includiog the Weekly Notes and an authorised edition of the pub Statutes, on Saturday next, the 17th, after which they 1 garylebot...lo, only be had at publication price. The number of 611 ' 1- scribers, we aro glad to bear, already exceeds 3,000. ow tie pr( we rat cc/ ap] the f ull dis Act £2' circ COu i 44 bin Tiax eon Ga l cent day stea an i /par 87 ~ du i dis. blab a sli I YeE decli ( 8 Der 1 )0 Np©r Ne w ew Do Annt Do tzei, ua,, 1 ,k Arg er 4 ustr ura z t Do. D o D0. 13 4e1a bo D. Co D u o V b °• ' , 4 '; 4 3z, C, • D 4 114 Iltcha , 1) o 4e, 1)01 e,„ 01 oc,,i