The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

nOUSES.—Messrs. TOIPUS mid ROBERTS have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, buourban, aad Country RESIDEN OES to LET or SELL. Yarticular6 upon application forwarded for two stamps, upon stating requirements and rental. Offices, 2 f Conduit street, Regent-,,treet, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. SOUTH KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornwall, Princes and Beaufort Gardens, Elvaston-place, Cromwell-roid, Onslow and Thurloe Squares, Boltons, Sic. Messrs TO PLIS and ROBE ItTS have n.: .41 DEN CES to SELL and LET in these and surroundiug localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. LIFEBOAT SEItVI C ES. —1) uring the storms of the past year the National Lifeb4at institution, by its life boats and oilier mewls, contributed to the savin! of 711 persons from Aillinent wr€cks on our coasts. The lnsti luton also expended .£23,248 in the same peri..d on its iite boat of tabllThinet , ts, in addition to granting £4,0t0 for re wards for saving life, and exer.nsing toe lifeboats. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A i'PEAL to the public for ASSiSTAE to enable them to meet the Nc con ti n ued heavy demands on the Institution's 1(2 lifeboat stntions. the London Contr ib u tions are received by and country rd Lew is, b a nkers ; and by the Secretary, Richa Esq., at the Inst itution, 14, John-street , Adelphi, London. The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Institution will be held at the London Tavern, is ops,gate-stfeet, on TUESDAY NEXT, the 13th inst , .at Two o'clock precisely. The Right _lion. Earl Percy, r.c., in the chair. Mann 7. BANK OF ENGL A N D, Gth Mancif, 1866. The counT of DIRECTORS of the GOVERNOR and COMPANY o f the BANK of ENGLAND give notice T hat a GEN ERAL COURT will be held at THE BANK." on THURSDAY, the 15th inst., at 12 o'clock pre y, to c onsider of a Dividend. c Also that another GENERAL COURT will be held at th 3 BANK on Tuesday, the 10th April next, from 11 o'clock in the Forenoon until 4 in the Afternoon, for the Election of a GOVERNOR and DEPUTY-GOVERNOR for the year ensuing (which will be declared that evening); and the same Court will be continued by adjournment, and held at the same place, and during the same hours on Wed nesday, the 11th April next, for the Election of Twenty four DIRECTORS (which will also be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter), and the Election of the Twenty-four Directors will be declared as soon as the scrutiny is over. Printed Lists of the Proprietors having Votes will be ready to bo delivered at the Bank on Monday, the 19th March. 11_111310ND CITUBB, Secretary. N.B.—By an Act passed in the Seventh year of the Reign of George 111. no person will be entitled to vote at the said Election who shall not have been Six Calendar Months posssed in his own right of the Stock for which h e s hall then give his Vote, unless the said Stock shall have been acquired, or shall have come by bequest or by marriage, or by succession to an intestate's estate, or by the custom of the City of London, or by any deed of settle ment after the death of any person mho shall have been entitled for life to the Dividends of such Stock. TII EAT R E ROYAL, DR URY-LANE.- Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Sir Edward Lytton itulwer's Play of RICHELIEU. Mr. Phe!ps ; Messrs. 11. Marston, Raynor, E. Phelps, M'lntyre, Merl;reson ; Mrs. llerman Vezin, Miss E. Falcouer, Sts. After which, the Pantomime, LITTLE KING PIPPIN ; or, Harlequin Fortunat us and the Magic Purse and Wishing Cap. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— sole Lessee and Manzgar, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT. Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Compton ; Miss Ada Cavendish. To be followed by BROTHER SAM : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton; Mesdames Nelly Moore, Snowden, &c. After which, ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKF,T Messrs. W. larren, Fisher, Bartleman, Weathersby, ; Mesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Woolgar, Doward, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Prevot, &c. Concluding with MY HUSBAND'S GIIOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the Bole Management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER Mr. 11. Widdicomb. Alter which, TILE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mr. F'chter; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomb, Vezin, .1. 11. leitzpatricß, EVans ; Aiesdames Ternan, Etsworthy, Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELP HI . Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, a new farce called PIPKIN'S RUSTIC RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole and P. Bedford. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 157th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington, t'. Bedford, It Phillips, lelix 'togas, Ashley, lsburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Billingtor, &c. To conclude with LEHIND TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Eburue, C. J. Smith ; Miss A. Seaman, &c. -ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS. After %Odd], at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO 3IEND. Characters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, S. Calhaern, F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, 11. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart; Misi L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers. 110YAL SCIRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, a new and origi• nal Comady, THE PLY,:AND THE WEB. Messrs. Par belle end Price; Misses Swanborough and Raynham. After which the Grand Burlesque, IVANHOE. Messrs. Stoyle. 'I horne, Jame, Fenton : Mesdames Swanborougb, Raynham, Simpson. Johnstone, and Hughes. To conclude with LENDING A HAND. Messrs. Belford Turner; Misses Simpson and Hughes. TE "SUN" NEWSPAPE I7- G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught terrace, Ed.tware-road, is specially appointed AGEN e to deliver the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. He Is able to deliver copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the Country at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by 9 o'clock. rip lIE "SUN" NEWSPAPER. - -11-, G. R. GLENIE delivers t',e LA LT EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40 ; Kilbu:n, 8 ; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30 ; Uxbridge, 9.20 ; Watford, 8.45. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Eveninir, by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish-street, Oxford-street. THE LAST EDITION of " TIIE SUN " supplied as FOOll as Published, containing all the LA VEST NEWS and. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by 11. W. HARRIS, Neo4ipaper Agent, 4, Blacktriars-roacl, Loudon, S. THE LATEST EDITION of " TIIE SUN." .1. HOLMES begs to inform his friends, and the public g enerally. that he supplies the LATEST Eorr.ti,N of • niE bUN" as soon as published --No. 16, Hampstead road, N.W. QP RTING.--J 0 lIN ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of "TII} SUN" as suoa as pub liahEd —f, City-road, E.C. HIGH WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morniug,7 sii. 28m.--Afternoon, sh. 45m. T a-Mordtow.-11 , 1erning, Gil. Om.—Aft erno on, 6h. 20m. Vgit, tri4A.E?"' %,.„11,1t LONDON, .WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1866. It must be a satisfaction to all lovers of improve ment that the House of Commons should have passed the second reading of the City Gas Bill. Of course there was a considerable opposition to its progress, as there always is to the introduction of such measures. Mr. CRAWFORD, in moving the second reading of the bill, declared that the interests of the gas consumers, not only in the City, but also of the whole metropolis, were concerned in this endeavour; and this was strictly true in all respects. The hon. member entered into a detailed account of the gas arrangements in the City, and showed how necessary it was for some change to be made. Com mittees of the Home of Commons in 1858 and 1859 investigated the subject, and consequently an act was passed, by which the whole supply of gas is now regulated. This measure, however, did not affect the City BO a , to confer advantages upon it, but after it became law it was found out that it annulled the arrangement made between the authorities there and central consum ers of the gas companies. As m ight have been surmi se d this company imme diately c onfederated with others, an d the prices were raised to 48. 6d. per 1,000 feet, whereas before it was not more than 4a , ., with a promis e of furthe r re d uc tion. Th e inhabitants very naturally Com plained, and the Corporation continued to seekm _ cans of redressing the grievance. The result has be en that the bill has been introduced into the house to allow the manufacture of gas for the use of the City. The Corporation have not acted hastily, for they have conferred with the chairmen of the gas com panies before introducing this measure, and they stated that it was impossible for them to reduce the indefinite time of gas just yet, but spoke of s ome time when they could do so. Mr. CRAWFORD met the objections that had been raised in a very suc cessful manner, and stated that Parliament had already sanctioned the principle of this measure, for in many instances good water was supplied to the inhabitants of different places by corporations. to us. fit of The hon. member also proposed for the bane i the rest of the metropolis that an inquiry made to ascertain whether the r equiremenshtsollortbhee I L or d CRANBOURNE moved Act of 1860 had been compeldiedthwaitthe.l:b bill be read a second time that day six months, on the ground that to sanction the measure would be to brea in f a ith with the gas companies. Mr. ADAIR, seconding the amendment, spoke very strongly against the proposition, and declared that the Corn mon Council of London had " shown a weak and spasmodic activity" in bringing this bill before Par liament instead of going to the Home Secretary. This is a curious description of the affair to begin with, and it must be evident to all well-informed and experienced persons that it is a very poor re source to apply to the Home Secretary, or to any of the Ministers, if it is desired that a particular inconvenience should be put, a stop to speedily and effectually ; and the City authorities are greatly to be commended for the discernment which they have shown in this af fair. It proves the difficulty that always attends the introduction of this class of alterations, when we consider the excitement that is displayed in their discussion. The City authorities have so far gained their point, but it has been at the expense of a great many rude hits and questionable compliments. Mr. _ADAIR inquired of the House, "If they looked at the Corporation as traders, was there ever a more conspicuous example of civic torpor and admi nistrative incapacity ?" Mr. AYRTON was also very satirical in his observations. He said that the Corporation of the City of London took no part in the inquiry that had been made in this matter ; " in fact it never took part in anything that was for the benefit of the inhabitants. But if the City Corporation now proposed to spend its resources for the benefit of the inhabitants, it was to be hoped that it would be permitted to do so, for it was the first time that it had passed from gastronomy to gas." The bill was referred to a Select Com mittee, and instructions are to be given to in quire into the operation and results of the Metro polis Gas Act of 1860. This is so far satis factory; and we may consider it a triumph against monopoly, and a victory over pre judice, the more to be rejoiced at as the welfare of the community is at stake, by the undue toleration given to these companies, who for the most part look to individual interests before seeking to promote the general benefit of the pub lic. Mr. ROEBUCK wisely remarked that there were several very large gasometers in the City, and from the disastrous accident which occurred on the south side of the river some time back, it would be well for the committee to inquire how far the existence of gasometers was consistent with the safety of the City. The hon. member's remarks before the division were very appropriate. He denounced the course that had been taken respecting this measure, and declared that, instead of disposing of it in the unseemly way which some desired, they were bound to send it to " that tribunal which the wisdom of Parliament had long since appobited for the consideration of private bill legislation." Sir G. GREY put the question very fairly when he proposed that an inquiry should be made, because it disposed of the chief difficulties of the case, and gave a fair promise of justice being done to the rest of the metropolis. The public have often of late been disgusted at the accounts received of the in tolerant and arbitrary way in which the gas com panies have managed things. Those who made complaints concerning the quantity of the gas sup plied have often been told to pay up what they used, or else their gas would be cut off, instead of their grievances being redressed, which is not at all ' a suitable way of conducting affairs, and one calcu lated to promote the advantages of those concerned. The fuller details which we continue to receive from the United States respecting the political situation do not remove the impression created by the telegraphic summary. The firm and resolute action of 'the PRESIDENT respecting the Freedmen's Bureau Bill appears to have startled the Radicals, while it pleased the people, who are always ready to applaud any bold and decisive measure. It is somewhat unusual to find an American statesman acting independently of party considerations, with out any regard for the opinions or wishes of his immediate supporters or of his own prospective interests. What with the periodical election of the PRESIDENT, and the payment of the members of Congress, which makes them in a manner depen dent on their constituents, and is totally destructive of public spirit, politicians in America are very much fettered. The PRESIDENT pro tem. is, in fact, almost the only man who, as Mr. JOHNSON observed the other day to a deputation, can afford to do what he thinks right, but that must be on condition that he is indifferent to abuse and opposition, and not de sirous of re-election. At the present crisis Mr. JOHNSON has a hard battle to fight, since the ele ments of discord and convulsion are unusually strong, aLd the questions he has to de cide are exceptionally difficult and momen- Happily for all parties, the PRESI DENT is a man of singular firmness and decision. Having once made up his mind as to the wisdom and advisability of his reconstruction policy, he has fully resolved to carry it out in face of all opposition, being convinced that the exceptional legislation in favour of the negro was as injurious to himself as it was inconsistent with the rights and interests of others. Mr. JOHNSON has deter minedly opposed it. At the same time he has not only openly declared that he wishes to give the negro every chance, but he has consistently sup ported all reasonable measures on his behalf, and has been the first to solve the difficulty of providing for his maintenance by proposing his re turn, under the guidance and protection of the law, to the old familiar work of the plantations. The division of opinion between the PRESIDENT and his quondam supporters has been long known, and it was easy to foresee, from the extravagant and do mineering tone of the ultra-Republican party since the meeting of Congress, that a trial of strength must come before long. The PRESIDENT, like a good general, has, however, taken his adversaries by surprise, and by selecting one of the least objec tionable of their bills for his open disclaimer has boldly declared war. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill has notwithstanding a great many objectionable fea tures, and would be liable to grave abuses. It rendered the State laws nugatory where the negroes were concerned, it placed eleven States under permanent military government; it encouraged the freedmen to idleness, to which every one admits they are already too prone ; it involved a serious and con tinual outlay of public money at a time when the finances were already embarrassed ; while it would to a certainty foster those antagonisms of race and locality which it should be the first object of every patriot to mitigate and remove. By one clause a Southern magistrate who attempted to enforce the laws of his State would be liable to be summoned before a military officer and imprisoned for a year, so that we may easily perceive the chaos and anarchy into which the Southern States would fall, and the ready excuses that would be found for maintaining a species of martial law throughout them. B y th e term of the bill, too, the military courts THE SUN, LOApoN, WEDN ESIJAY EV ENING, MARCH 7, 1866. were empowered to provide, when necessary, for of the blacks—a fatal knowledge the for the l n a t z e y n a t i n , e :gro. The Bureau was to be autho rised to pure haze or rent estates for their benefit, to build schools or asylums for them, and although the confiscation of some white men's lands was expected to defray part of the expenses, the estimated amount, zas Mr. JOHNSON took care to inform the Senate, would bo £5,000,000 a year, no light burden on. an over-taxed Treasury. The - PRESrDENT had, besides, another objection to offer, and one that concerned his own office. The establishment of the Bureau as a permanent institution would be equivalent to the creation of a new Department of State, and give a corresponding amount of patronage into the hands of theP RESIDENT, besides an amount of actual and direct influence, which is, in Mr. JOHNSON'S opinion, inconsistent with the public interest. In his usual straightforward and plain-spoken manner, Mr. JOHNSON sums up the matter :—" The query presents itself whether the system proposed by the bill will not practically transfer the entire care, support, and control of four millions of emancipated slaves to agents, overseers, or taskmasters, who, appointed at Washington, are to be located in every county and parish throughout the United States, containing freedmen and refugees. Such a system would in evitably tend to such a concentration of power in the Executive which would enable him, if so dis posed, to control the action of a numerous class, and use them for the attainment of his own political ends." There is already far too much of such in fluence and agency in American public life, and Mr. JOHNSON deserves great credit for boldly exposing the danger instead of yielding to the temptation of increased patronage and power. CDR.RESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The long discussion yesterday in the Corps Legis latif upon the subject of Algeria did not present anything of sufficient interest for your readers to require a summary. M. Jules Favre and the other Opposition orators condemned the policy pursued by the Government in regard to that colony. Their objections were refuted in a few words by M. Rouher, the Minister of State, who said that the object of the Government was the development, the improvement, and the support of progress in Algeria. The Opposition amendment was negatived without a division. When the President, Count Walewski, said ho should put to the vote the amendment of M. Jules Favre " and his friends," M. Favre exhi bited much displeasure at the expression. M. Favre said—" I beg your pardon, sir. I cannot thank you for using that word. We are here all colleagues ; we ought to be all friends, and we certainly are so apart from politics and without distinction of opi nion. Only I think the words were not Parliamen tary." The President did not make any reply. The point of the amendment was the declaration that a great development of colonisation was the only mode of insuring in Africa the triumph of civilisation after the triumph of arms. My letter of yesterday mentioned tho dangerous illness of M. Parisis, Bishop of Arras. I regret to say that news has been received of his death. The 3[oniteur of to-day states that the condition of the Imperial Prince is satisfactory. The disease is in full decline. M. Quetaud, an eminent barrister of the Paris bar, has just died, after a very long and painful illness. The news from the Pacific in the London papers to the 20th January, states that there were then only two ships of war on the coast of Chili, the English corvette Shearwater, and the American gunboat Waterer. This statement is officially con tradicted. There is a French corvette l'Egeria at that station, now anchored before Valparaiso, which has rendered an important service to foreign commerce by obtaining from Vice-Admiral Castro- Mendez, who succeeded the late Admiral Pareja in command of the Spanish squadron, frequent con cessions and privileges. There was no account of the Chilo-Peruvian squadron, which, according to report, had sailed with the object of raising the blockade of Valparaiso by force. The Minister of Agriculture has published an official document supplied by the authorities in the various Departments of France, which gives a much more favourable report of the position of agriculture than that supplied by the blue-book presented to the Chambers at the opening of the session. It was then estimated that the produce of wheat for the year 1865 would be deficient to the extent of 10 per cent. The real deficiency is only 2 per cent. The produce last year was 95,400,000 hectolitres, and the average produce of the ten preceding years was 97,000,000 hectolitres. The average consump tion of wheat for the whole of France is 90,275,490 hectolitres, viz., 75,391,240 hectolitres for the con sumption of the people, 14,197,490 for seed, 1,409,608 for cattle, and 277,152 hectolitres for mis cellaneous purposes. France, for agricultural pur poses, is divided into 10 geographical regions, in cluding Corsica. In 1864 the total produce of wheat was 111,274,018 hectolitres. In 1865 the produce was but 95,431,028. The average price in 1864 was 17f. 58c. the hectolitre. In 1865 the average price was 16f. 41 cents. The imports, which in 1861 amounted to 10,272,314 quin tals, have successively declined to 265,620 quintals, the amount of the exports of 1865. The exports, which amounted to 922,585 quintals in 1861, rose in 1865 to 3,583,836 quintals. Tho customs receipts in 1859 amounted to 111 millions of francs, in 1865 the amount rose to 123 millions. The second day's steeplechases at La Marche were more numerously attended than on the first day. The Franc Picard (Handicap) for 2,500 fr. was thus disposed of—Count de la Bigne's bay mare 11. AI. D. first, Sentence second, Magenta third. Marnes prize, 1,500 fr., Niger first, Perle Fine second, M. Walsh's bay mare Marie third. The Avener prize, 1,500 fr., M. Lunel's Milton first, Vancressor second. The interest of the race was concentrated upon these two horses, which ran in magnificent style. Vancressor won only by a head. The amount of bets on the race was very consider able. There was never probably a more stormy and re markable literary meeting than that of the Gens de Lettres. This second meeting, however, produced as little result as the first. Alexander Dumas, sen., and some of the most eminent literary men of the day were present. As I have already explained, the apple of discord is the Tresor Litteraire. The opposing party demanded a committee of nine members to revise this book, which was published under the sanction and authority, and in the name of the society. You may judge of the interest created by this work when I tell you that the Empress has accepted a copy of it. Lemardelay's rooms in the Rue de Richelieu resembled a bear garden. The noise and confusion could have hardly been greater in the Tower of Babel, or at the Bourse about two o'clock in the after noon. The President, M. Paul Feval, vainly en deavoured to quell the storm. The motion proposed by the dissidents was one imputing blame upon the Committee by nominating nine members to revise the Tresor Litteraire. The amendment was to pass purely and simply to the order of the day. On a scrutiny the numbers were—For the order of the day (the Conservatives), 74; against it, 75 ; white balls, 2. Much cheering followed the announcement of the register of the order of the day, but the President explained that the votes did not sanction the proposal for a Committee of Revision. An exciting scene ensued. The Presi dent put on his hat and said the meeting was over. An appeal would be made to the Tribunals. This increased the uproar. The result may be explained, .in other words, by stating that the accounts are not approved, the two proposed members of the Com mittee are not elected, and the Tresor Litteraire is still triumphant. In the meantime three members of the Society—Messrs. Ernest Hamel, Alphonse Duchesne, and Jules Claretie—have been charged to demand further explanations. Tho Chairman compares the Society to Louis Phillipe, who granted Reforms demanded when it was too late. I had almost forgotten to say that many ladies were present at this turbulent sitting. A member wittily remarked to one of the ladies, who was almost frightened at the violence displayed, that she might have quelled it instantly by rising to speak, for calmness and anxiety to hear her would have in stantly prevailed. The lady, however, perhaps be lieves in the Chinese doctrine—Speech is silver, silence is gold. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY. VIENNA, MARCII 7. Telegrams received here from Constantinople state that the corps of observation, stationed by the Porte on the Danube, consists of 18,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, and one regiment of artillery. A reserve corps of 18,000 men will be stationed at Schumla. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 7, Evening. The Crown Prince of Denmark left this city to day for an extensive foreign tour. He was accom panied to the railway station by the King, the Ministers, and many other distinguished personages. His Royal highness will first proceed direct to Paris. they fear to strike. If my blood is to be shed because I vindicate the Union and the preservation of the Govern ment in its purity, let it be shed ; but let the opponents of the Government remember that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. The Union will grow, and continue to increase in strength and:power though, it may bo cemented and cleansed with blood." A densely thronged meeting was held at the Cooper In stitute, where all classes of politics were represented. An address and resolutions were adopted urging the admission of loyal Southern representatives to Congress, approving the veto, endorsing Mr. Johnson's policy, and recommend ing the call of another meeting whenever the exigency demanded it to promote harmony in the public councils of the country. Mr. Seward made a speech, in which he said that the country was in no peril, no matter whether the Congres sional or the Presidential policy prevailed. This confi dence arose from the conviction that there never was, and never can be, any successful process for the restoration of union and harmony among the States except that with which the President has avowed himself satisfied. Loyal men from the Southern States will sooner or later, during this or some other Congressional term, be received into the National Legislature. The restoration will then be com plete. Territorial government would require greater im perial powers than Napoleon possesses. Maximilian's task, though he engages two Emperors and two Imperial orga nisations with their forces, it is not thought the most wise or hopeful political enterprise of the day. The Congres sional policy was impracticable and vicious. The Presi dent considers the present Freedmen's Bureau Bill suffi cient, because it remains in force for ono year after the termination of the rebellion, and no official announcement of the termination of the rebellion has yet been made. A committee of influential citizens of New York will proceed to Washington to confer with the President upon the best means of sustaining the measures of his Adminis tration. General Sweeney has submitted to the Fenian Congress at Pittsburg the details of a military plan supposed to be for invading Canada. A military committee of Fenians from each State has approved the plan. Mr. Seward telegraphed from Washington yesterday as follows :—" It is all right. The Union is restored. The country is safe. The President's speech is triumphant, and the country will be happy." A Radical Republican caucus was held in Washington last night, at which moderate counsels prevailed. A reso lution admitting Tennessee into the Union was offered and favourably received, but was not pressed to a vote. Considerable political excitement prevailed in Congress yesterday, but no particular course of action was taken. Tho Senate determined, by a vote of 26 to 19, to call up the report of the majority from the Reconstruction Com mittee concerning the admission of Southern representa tives. Mr. Fessenden spoke in favour of the report. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill extending the operations of the present Freedmen's Bureau Bill for two years. It is be lieved that the President will acqui4ce in this. Ex-Vice-President Stephens delivered an address to the Georgia Legislature on Washington's birthday, in which ho said : "The whole United States is now our country, to be dearly cherished by all hearts and arms." Ile ap proved President Johnson's reconstruction policy. The steamers Cuba and City of Baltimore have arrived out. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, MARCH 6. The law authorising the Government to conclude a loan has been promulgated. The Turkish corps of observation has been con centrated at Roustchouk. The bill for the organisation of a National Guard has been presented to the Chamber by the Government. BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA MAILS. (By direct Overland Telegraph.) BOMBAY, MARCII 2. Shirtings, 71b. Br. ; cotton declining. Oomra wattee, 420 r. Shipments of the week, 14,000 bales. Exchange on London, 2s. lid. Freights to Liver pool, 425. Gd. The latest London date is the 25th ultimo. CALCUTTA, 111Ancll 1. 7lbs. grey shirtings, Br. Exchange on London, 2s. I id. SUEZ, MARCH 6. The Mooltan arrived at 3 a.m. to-day (correct date.) OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, MARCH 5. The Nyanza, from Southampton, Feb. 27, arrived last night, and leaves at 2 p.m. to-day for Alexan dria—all well. MARSEILLES, Mancir 6.= The Pera arrived at 6 a.m. :o-day. The mails leave for London at 11 30 a.m. RUMOURED REVOLT IN SPAIN. PARIS, MARCH 6. The Avenir National of to-day publishes intelli gence stating that military revolts had broken out in Spain. The garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo is said to have rebelled, and afterwards withdrew into Por tugal. Attempts at sedition are also reported to have occurred at Alcala, and sGveral sergeants had been arrested. The same journal asserts that Spain has demanded the extradition of the Spanish soldiers who have taken refuge in Portugal, on the ground of their being deserters. The Portuguese Government hesi tated to comply with this demand. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 6, Three a'clock.—The market closed at the following quotations :- 41 per Cents lOO 25 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 69 671 Do. end month 69 80 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3647 50 Credit Fonder — Italian Loan 62 55 Do. end month 62 75 RAM Rcman — Ottoman Fives — lb/dean Loan 4B Do. Bonds 303 75 Russian — Austrian Slanish Threes Mine Debt — Doferred 'Ars. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern — ... 1132 50 Lyons and Mediterranean — ... 915 Southern — ... 557 50 Western — ... 566 25 Eastern — ... 547 50 Sardinian . — ... 145 Austrian — ... 410 Lombard — ... 422 50 North of Spain — ... 177 50 Saragossa — ... 240 Ditto to Barcelona — ... 100 Roman - ... 115 AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN. (Via Greencastle.) NEW Yen; Feb. 23 (Evening). Meetings were held throughout the country on Wash ington's birthday to support President Johnson's policy. The meeting held at Washington passed resolutions commending Mr. Johnson's course. The meeting then adjourned to the White House, where the President ad dressed an immense concourse of people. He reiterated the announcement that "ho would pursue the policy declared in his late Message. The Union, he was resolved upon, should be preserved. He stood where he did at the com mencement of the rebellion to vindicate the Union and the Constitution against disunionists from the North or South. On assuming office he found 8 ,000,000 of people who were, in fact, condemned under the law, the penalty being death; but he would say, let the leaders, conscious and intelligent traitors, suffer the penalty of the law ; but for the masses leniency, trust, and confidence. The South struggled to destroy the Government, but before the war is hardly over the country finds itself in the midst of another rebellion. War was made to prevent a separation of the States. Now there is an attempt to concentrate the power of Govern ment in the hands of a few, thereby bringing about a con solidation equally dangerous and objectionable with sepa ration. He denounced the appointment of a Congres sional Committee to decide the claims of the Southern States to representation. The executive military power and public judgment have decided that no State has power or the right to go out of the Union, and you turn round and assume that they aro out, and shall not come in. lam not prepared to take any such position. I have found trea son at the South, and now when I turn to the other end of the line I find men still opposing the restoration of the Union. President Johnson, replying to the call for their names, said.—l regard them, as President or citizen, as being equally opposed to the fundamental principles of this Government, and believe they are as much labour ing to prevent or destroy them, as were those who fought against us. Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, and others of the same stripe are amongst them. They may vituperate, traduce, slander mo, that does not affect me. .1 do not intend to be overawed by friends nor bullied by enemies. It has been said in high places if such usurpa tion had been exercised two centuries ago it would have cost a certain individual his head. The usurpation I have been guilty of has been standing between the people and the encroachments of power. In connection with his sub ject the same gentleman explained. We were standing in the midst of earthquakes; he trembled and could not yield. Yet ! there is an earthquake coming—there is a ground swell of popular judgment and indignation. When lam beheaded I want the people to witness it. I do not want it done by innuendos and indirect remarks in high places to be suggested to men having assassination breeding in their bosoms. Others explain this presidential obstacle must be got out of the way. What is that, if I may make use of a strong term, but inciting assassina tion? Are those who want to destroy our institutions and change the character of our Government not satisfied with the blood already shed ? They have not the honour or the courage to obtain their ends otherwise than by as- Salssino' halide. 1 kllow they an Willing to wound, but COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (Evening).—Money tight. Gold, 136 i. Exchange on London, 148 k; do. Paris, 380. Stocks steady. Now York Centrals, 91i ; Illinois, 113 f ; Erio, 81 ; 5-20 Bonds, 102 i. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 45. Flour and wheat declining. Corn steady. Provisions dull. Coffee steady. Sugar dull. Molasses quiet. Pe troleum depressed. Crude, 27k. Refined, 46. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 21.—Cotton steady. Middling, 46. MOBILE, Feb. 20.—Cotton active and advancing. Middling, 46. To-day sales 3,000 bales. NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (Evening).—Money tighter. Gold, 136 k. Exchange on London, 148 ; do. Paris, 381 i. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 00i ; Illinois, 114: Erie, 80i 5-20 Bonds, 1021. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 45. The receipts of cotton at New York since September amount to 580,000 bales. THE MONTHLY PERIODICALS. BLACKWOOD.—" A Religious Novel" is the title of the first article met with, and it is stated that the literature of an age does not always represent the manners of that age. The work here under consi deration is Miss Wetherall's new book, called " The Old Helmet," and those who have not read it may gather a good idea of its purposrt from this paper. The meaning of the title of the book is a " patronising synonym for the helmet of salvation," and the young man who is the hero of the tale wears a figurative armour, which makes him safe under all circumstances. An unfavourable opinion is entertained by the writer of this criticism as to the effect likely to be produced by this book. " We are happy to think," he says in conclusion, " that it does not describe all young ladies as they are, but does it foreshadow what any circlo amongst us may come to ?" " Sir Brooke Fossbrooke" is pro ceeded with, and the infamous Colonel Sewell goes on with his plots, and pursues his schemes with the most perfect sang froid and recklessness. Lucy is a very pleasing girl, and shows much sense and dis crimination in the difficult position in which she is placed. The peculiar old man who is the hero does not figure in the pages of this instalment, but will doubtless return speedily to appear in the denoue ment of the strange story. " Memoirs of the Con federate War for Independence" are still continued, and in this portion we find a chronicle of the great battle of. Fredericksburg, which is sure to he very interesting to readers. Au article on " Reform of the Bank of England" may be especially commended to notice, and it would be well for the prosperity of the community if its terse arguments, solid sense, and practi ca l observations were duly attended to by those in high places. This periodical has the credit of tak ing up this subject of bank reform with spirit and energy, and we cordially concur with the conclud ing remarks of this excellent paper. It is said that the commercial classes are beginning to awake to the disastrous consequences of combining a fossilised monetary system with an ever-expanding trade. The great question of monetary reform, it is said, must be satisfactorily settled as surely as the waters of a river will in due time reach the sea. "It may be opposed, and it will be opposed ; for to many powerful parties the worship of the Bank Act is as productive of gain as the worship of the statue of Diana at Ephesus was to Vemetrius and his fellow craftsmen, but sooner or later the opposition will fail, and the principle of freedom and fair competi tion will replace in banking, as it has already re placed in all other forms of trade and industry, the present pernicious system of restriction and mono poly." " Miss Marjoribanks" is continued in a very interesting part. Lucilla is equal to the emer gencies of comparative poverty, as she was to the responsibilities of wealth, and determines to stand her ground, which is the wisest thing she can do. The character of this young lady is very well de picted, and her decision and energy stand her in good stead when she has to settle her own course, for though many-wishers and officious advisers spring up in this crisis of her life, the heroine of Carlingford found, as many have done before her, that she must act alone and be the arbiter of her own destinies. " Cornelius O'Dowd on Men and Women, and Other Things in Gene ral " furnishes us with the usual dissertations on affairs public, political, and domestic. " The Position of the Government " is the last sub ject dealt with, and no very flattering or favourable views are entertained of its prospects. Certainly it does not require the subject to be treated by an opponent, for the mistakes and misfortunes of the Ministers to be set forth and exhibited, for no one who knows anything of affairs but can recognise looming in the distance, if not actually present, dark clouds which presage evil days for those in office. The conclusion arrived at from the unpromising state of affairs is that a " Government so feeble, so entirely distrusted by its own friends, cannot long go on. Let us hope that it will not leave behind it, when it relinquishes office, such a legacy of troubles as must render good government, under the consti tution as it now is, impossible in this country." FRASER'S MAGAZINE.—A lengthened article on " The Jamaica Problem" opens this number, and enters very fully into the consideration of the West India question, which has created so much commo tion during the last few months. Leaving the fierce dispute as to the conduct of the Colonial Governor and his administration during the suppression of the re bellion, the writer examines carefully the whole con dition of the island and its people, especially as regards the black population. In conclusion, he remarks that it is quite possible, and even probable, that the negro race in the British colonies—possibly in the United States also—is doomed to die out in degradation, " because in our passion and our pre judice we refuse to recognise patent facts, to acknowledge and proclaim that the negro is a child and must be taught as a child, governed as a child, coerced for his good as a child, borne with as a child; because, in fine, with a great responsibility towards him, entailed upon us by our ancestral sins and our sins against him, we have quietly thought to discharge the one and free ourselves from the other by giving him his liberty and set ting him adrift. . . By generations of servitude we utterly unfitted him for self-government and self-guidance ; we then suddenly and without pre paration threw him on his own resources and his own control. If our prognostics should unhappily be realised and the Creole negro shall disappear, his ruin and extinction will lie at our door, and may be about equally divided between those who were his masters and those who claimed to be espe cially his friends." Our old friend and favourite A. K. H. B. resumes his pen, and gives us thoughts on " Beards in the Pulpit," as a type of the gradual relaxation of the extreme rigidity of the Scotch Kirk. We have recently heard some thing of the change going on in the minds of some of the leadingmernbers of the Presbyterian Church, and judging from this paper, by one of the initiated, the movement has extended further than was sup posed on this side of the Tweed. " The Minister's Sandy and Jess" us carries again to a manse in the North, but this time it is a pleasant though touching story of domestic life, chequered by that great, though common, trouble of a son's inclinations not tallying with his father's wishes. However, all comes right at last, although the fair gentle mother sleeps in the grassy kirkyard before the family reconciliation comes about. A paper on " Clubs" will find more favour with gentlemen than with ladies. " Such a community," it says in conclusion, " is also useful for clearing the brain of preconceived opinions, for interchanging k now l e d ge, for testing impressions, for verifying facts; and it constitutes a standing censorship, with the power of executing its decrees. Its equalising effect, by ele vating, not lowering, is another unqualified good. Thanks to railways, a man of limited means can travel as comfortably as a man of ten thousand a year ; thanks to clubs, he can dine as well, and in society to which the man of ten thousand a year is eager to belong." " The Domesday Book of Hamp shire" will interest the antiquary, and there are among the remaining articles a "Memoir of Admiral Smyth," and a paper on " British Conchology." TEMPLE BAR.—" Land at Last" is continued, and t is a relief to find that the wetched wanderer is at rest, and the career of the ill-starred Margaret over. Annie Maurice comes out as a true friend in the emergency, and so also does the eccentric William Banker. Lord Caterham is startled by the appear ance of the downright visitor who breaks in upon his selfish epicureanism, and, in reply to his invec tives against his ill-used wife, tells him that there is one who breaks up marriage ties more effectually even than the Divorce Court, and that one is— Death ; adding that the dread guest was now pass ing the threshold of the refuge where Margaret lay. The wicked young man might have derived a useful moral from the news which assailed him when, arriving at the spot indicated, he found her gone whom he had come to seek. " The Lodgings at Knightsbridge" is concluded, and is a very interest ing sketch. The manner in which so many dif ferent characters arc connected in the lodgings is very ingenious, and it would be well if all deserving ladies were as fortunate as Winifred. " Archie Sewell" is continued in its usual eventful style. " A True Bohemian"; is a sketch of one who led a sad career, but whose brightest moments were his last in some respects. Robert Green, with talents worthy of a better fate, led a wild life, and came to a wretched end prematurely. All his gay apparel gone, and even his clothing vanished, all but a ragged shirt, " patient and penitent the poet, successful author, dramatist, prepared for death. lie died at the house of a poor shoemaker, whose wife crowned his pallid brow with a wreath of bay leaves, and payed four shillings for a winding sheet and six-and-fourpence for his interment. In a note which Greene wrote at the foot of a bond which he gave the shoemaker, he begged his wife to settle the amount due, because he would have died in the streets had it not been for the timely succour thus received from these poor people. "In and about Drury-lane" contains some curious anecdotes of theatres and theatrical celebrities. " A Real Casual on Casual Wards" is a sketch that is very appropriate at this time, and we find many sad de tails concerning the treatment of the unfortunate casuals. It is truly stated here that many remedies are proposed for the unsatisfactory - state of work houses, but only one solution can be found, and that is to rectify the inequality of the metropolitan parochial burdens. " Give London a uniform poor rate and the rest follows ; withhold it, and jobbing will be perpetrated ; charity misplaced, and clamorous rogues lie and fatten, while the honest poor languish and starve." "The streets of the World" have again Glasgow for their locality. " Sonnets of Sorrow," by Mortimer Collins, have two subjects, calm and stormy. The last lines on the advent of the brighter season are pleasing and hope ful— Nor otherwise to those whom endless care Weighs to the earth, await the bridal feast, Even to the mourner summer shall return. This popular and by this time firmly-established Magazine, published henceforth by its new proprie tor, Mr. Bentley, of New Burlington-street, gives evidence not only of sustained but of increased vigour under its new management. DUBLIN.—" The Folk Books of France" fur nishes its usual summary of lively and peculiar composition. " Not wisely, but too Well" becomes more exciting in this instalment. Kate meets her old acquaintance, and is imprudent enough to pro mise to do so again. A third part of " Garrick" brings before us some notable theatrical anecdotes. " Number Five Brooke-street," introduces Mrs. Lefel to the intimacy of the Hall, and she pursues her career of flattery and dissimulation with great ad dress. An interesting sketch appears of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his life and character, which will please the reader. "All in the Dark" is continued, and the chief point of this month's part is the quar rel between William Mowbray and his aunt, which produces eventful consequences. There is an article on the " Rinderpest in England," in which it is said very truly that things often fall out differently from what is expected, and the Reform Bill, which was supposed to engross all notice at the commence ment of the session, was put aside for the discus sion on the apathy of i 'therabinet respecting the cattle plague. The writer of this paper truly states that the principle of compensation has been agreed to after a struggle against theories, preju dices, and selfishness. A great many details are here given, and anecdotes recorded respecting the nature and progress of this fatal disease, and the conclusion arrived at is that "isolation and slaughter are the only steps to be taken with safety." We may write now as the classic poet wrote of the same pest-- The learned leeches in despair depart, And shake their heads, desponding of their art, Till warned by frequent ills the way they found To lodge their loathsome carrion under ground. LONDON SOCIETY.--This entertaining periodical is as pleasing as ever, and furnishes abundant mate rial for thought, study, and amusement. The first subject met with is a very interesting sketch of Cambridge life, and tells of the struggles which a poor sizer had to encounter before he could com plete his preparation for the examination, which resulted in placing him as the senior wrangler. An undergraduate less richly endowed with the gift of learning, but better favoured by capricious fortune, insisted upon this weary, worn-out youth assisting him in his efforts to obtain a degree, and in return for the kindness he declared he would provide him with fire and light, the dejected student having to pursue the studies that were to bring him fame and fortune by the lamp that lit the stairs of his col lege, y ou xolled by alter the days when these • court HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR. CASTLE, March 6 ' eso The Queen, accompanied by he r Royal Wei n m. the Princess Hele na , w e n t ou t d r i v i n g this raoruinb7 attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe. ril° Th© Princess of Wales took a carriage A yesterday. prim a In the evening their Royal Highnesses the 0 and Princess of Wales, acco m pa n i e d by their S ere ii n e Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Hoheul° went to the Prince of Wales's Theatre. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S LEVEE (This DaY)' o Ms Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, acting tho behalf of her Majesty the Queen, held the first levee of t season, to-day, at St. James's Palace. As so long 5 till'of has elapsed since the last levee, and as many dial:el importance have taken place in theinterim in many d e l ) : °f ments of the Stat© tho names of a very large nutal)°,ith gentlemen anxious for presentation have been lodg ed . „ . a ry tho Lord Chamberlain, in compliance with the ctistn";flee regulations. Amongst them are many gentl em en who j the last last levee of the season of 1865 have been eleceDcl to seats in the House of Commons, officers of the army" ° na vy who have obtained promotion, clergymen ii1)0 w h o m ecclesiastical preferment h as b ee n c onferred, a n ir ",,j tl) o new sheriffs for the various counties of Englandand ti who entered upon their official duties last month• be arrangements for the reception of the gentlemen n o t o presented have undergone some b ene fi c i a l changes , ll confusion is likely to oc cur a t an y o f the levees 11'1.g may be held this year. His R o y a l Hi g h n ess Will 11°1d t the next levee on Monday, the 19th inst , at which , as 3 0 - i ba levee hold to-day, all pr es entations . to the Prino considered equivalent to presentations to her Aisi° personally. rer: THE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE.- - - 11e formances at this theatre were honoured last oVelI, , 7 0 a the Frince presence of their Royal Highnesses the it o Princess of Wales, who were accompanied by her r soD ° Highness the Princess Hohenlohe, the Hon. 31 1 ' 6 . and Colonel Keppel. Ge THE NEW ROYAL APPOINTMENTS. Major-l; Sir Thomas Myddleton Biddulph, K.C.8., been appointed one of the keepers of her Majese 0 - Purse, in the room of Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles "I;ior mont, was formerly connected with the 54th or W re6t folk Regiment of Foot. He was created K.C.B- a He has been for some time Master of the Housell°''.46:o. Extra Equerry to the Queen. Lieut.-Genera l the ""vor, l rie Charles Grey, who is associated with him in the ene'et. ship of the Privy Purse, is the brother of the ttr and heir presumptive to the earldom. Ho wasarYie 1836 to the eldest daughter of the late Sir Thou' father Farquhar, Bart. He was private secretary to hi S An d the late Earl Grey, when First Lord of the TreseurJo' tig had a seat in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1 , 0 , member for High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. 11°06 came a major-general iu the army in 1854. F or s°ll' h ° e was private secretary to the late Prince Consell'e jor-General Sir John Clayton Cowell, K.C.8., 0 ° co n Sir T. V. Biddulph in the royal household, has I)° `',/• — .. 13. fleeted with the Royal Engineers. He receiv ed his P.. . _ last year. GALLANT CONDUCT.—Yesterday, a t t, e 133 9 o i - salty Court, Dr. Lushington awarded one -third of •"";oci t ( o a number of men who put off in higg ers an d 5: had 3rovernment and other stores to that a mount ill e , called the Venus, which was on her voyag e to S 11- of and saved the crow and passengers, at t he groat their lives. Our facetious contemporary, Fun, may n d it gratulated now, not only upon the secure st 3-0 it has taken, but upon the really b r illiant sli cee f has achieved. Its number of to-day (N 0 .4 3 , 0, la' New Series) completes its First Vol ume an d niences its Second—with Tom Hood a s its fiu'be, with Bruton and other congenial c i r olls - ° f t u jel pencil as its illustrators, with the Brothers P3g3i as its engravers, and with a throng of capit3le%air cal contributors clustered about the editorial c their shooting the folly of the hour as it flies With flying goose-quills. events took place, and the 'generous youth who had been a friend in need was immersed in the cares of a small living when a new rectory ap peared before him, and he found in this head of the Church in his diocese the Smith o f f orm er days, the sizer, who had outdistanced all competitors. The nar rator of the adventures was befriended in his turn, for his friend promoted him to a good living, an d thus furnished an admirable illustration of the mu tual benefits that people can confer on each other: " The Operations of Lawrence Reeve" is concluded in a more satisfactory manner than might have been anticipated from his previous exploits in the non' cial line. He had the good fortune to possess sensible wife, and her providence saved him froul an impending calamity, so that he was able to weather the storm. " Pattey's R eveng e," a story i n three parts, is commenced, and promises to be entertain ing in its progress. The character of the heroine is very strikingly described, and the scenes of the commencement of the tale are animated and vi vacious. " The Merchant Princes of England," ' ll this mouth's instalment, h as an acco unt of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, of London." It is very interest ing, altho e ugh it seems a waste of power thus to concentrate so much time and thought on mere money-making. The poems are entitled " Amy Secret" and the " Ides of March." The first i s 3 pleasing sketch, and the latter a spirited com Poi" tion. There is also " Lily," a lively retrospectiv,e, love-song. " Up and Down the London Streets continues its comprehensive details of the doings A of the olden time. A sketch is given of " Clubs and Taverns," and an account of a " German Athle tic Festival." " A Glance at the Life of Lauren ce Sterne" is a melancholy paper, that records the uPs and downs of that ill-starred career. The remain ing articles are " Apollo in Great Russell Street, " Hot Weather Life of a Magistrate in India," and " Art in the Auction Room." _ GOOD WORDS.—The contents of this attractive little serial are as pleasantly varied as usual. 3111 ' Oliphant's new story of " Madonna Mary" pro coeds with interest, and chronicles the widow's fist attempt at establishing herself and her three bels, in England. The experiment as yet meets with hn c l doubtful success, and the horror of the nervou s ° I Jilletante bachelor when the sturdy young urchins handle his Etruscan vases and break his r° .. .„, °°e° chairs is amusingly described. " Quaker nery" is brought under discussion in no unfair ° unfriendly spirit, the writer professing all through' out great respect for the Society of Friends, tho u g h he is not insensible to the absurdities of their COsci tume. The second part of " Health of Body Mind" is no less worth attention than the first. 0. sketch of Cowper's mournful story cannot fail to bit e ' rest, though the paper which meets us is little more than . the outline of his career. Professor Challis contri butes a scientific paper on the sun's aimospherei and Mr. White an acco un t o f the peculiaritie li ° spiders. William Gilbert writes a very impres sive history of the ruin and disgrace produced in af: v . spectable house by that fatal striving after gen t ',' which mars the happiness and honesty of so ma n y' It is the great vice of the present day leading o countless others. There are some pleasant and nilg geetive verses written "In a Cathedral," and tening to the chime of bells, so that altogether it a very agreeable number. THE ECLECTIC.—" A very Old Lady," the t itle of the first paper, will naturally lead the reader to guess its subject--the memoirs of Miss Berry. F°i lowing a long and animated article on that Pal l° : rama of the society of the generation before las , ti o we find an able criticism of Sir Bulwer Ly tton new volume, which renders the poet an apprec istn :, honour. " The Sixth Work" describes the effor; recently made for the regeneration of prisoners an ,, criminals of various kinds. " The Old Booksellers h is a pleasant chapter on Charles Knight, while ceo rest of the number is taken up by actin polemics. NEWTON'S LONDON JOURNAL.—A very imp (yrtln subject is treated of in the monthly essay, Future of our Working Classes. The regula r co' s tents refer to the patents and scientific proceeding of the month, giving all the newest informatio n. SCIENCE GOSSlP—Hardwicke.--A pleasant tittle journal of popular science, just learned enough suit the amateur who has neither leisure nor In c ''' nation for very profound research.