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To-Monitow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m. • gal 1 111 •4 7 ...41 41 ./OP PLI A UM 4 ,,. _ LONDON, 172.11).4Y, FEB. 15, 1867. The Speech of the EMPEROR, on the occasion of the opening of the French Legislature, is always one of the most noticeable events of the political year, and, as it might be expected, the one of this session is neither deficient in interest nor excitement. So many events have occurred since this ceremony took place last year that it was only natural people should wonder how this difficulty would be got over in the EMPERORS' speech, or that dilemma satisfactorily explained. On the whole we may say, confidently, that the EMPEROR has extricated himself with his usual dexterity from the snares and pitfalls which were around him, and despite of failures abroad and distress at honte, despite also of the irritation experienced by many influential Frenchmen and a large portion of the population at the course of in action pursued by their Government, this master of politics has contrived to make out that France has only abstained from entering into the stormy arena of war to suit her own purpose, and that even thus she has not been disregarded or is treated with contempt. In the first place, the EMPEROR falls back upon his old doctrine of fatality to explain the startling and sudden changes that have taken place in Germany ; and hence he illustrates that they have realised the predictions of the First NAPOLEON at St. Helena, when he said that, sooner or later, by the force of circumstances, the agglo meration and concentration of the same nations must take place; adding that, after his fall, and the disappearance of his system, there could be no other great adjustment possible but the confederation of great nations. The present EMPEROR thinks, then, recent events in Italy and Germany have paved the way for the realisation of this " vast programme of the union of the European States in one single con federation." How far this may hereafter prove to be correct or not it is as yet impossible to deter mine altogether, but so far as circumstances haire hitherto taken place it seems as if there was some truth in the prediction. Certainly the changes and alterations that have been going on of late in nations of the Continent bear out partly, at any rate, the notion of old things passing away, and of the introduction of special forces and changed rela tions ; but the real question at issue is how far these works are being done in a right spirit. We do not believe that the Prussian Government are sincere in their profession about the fulfilment of the great plan of unity, but perhaps it is not to be wondered at that the French EMPEROR should be more sanguine in his expectations as to the result, since the present Prussian policy is all that meets the approval of the French in its fundamental principles, and promises to fulfil some of their old ideas of national regeneration, and other similar schemes. The Emperor NAPOLEON appears to be quite satisfied at the part he played ' in the recent struggle, and declaring most emphatically that " they have been impartial wit nesses of the struggle which has been waged on the other side of the Rhine," and yet so strong was the power of France that she had influence enough to arrest the conqueror at the gates of Vienna. Al though some may think that is merely the bom bastic utterance that may look well in a discourse, it contains,, nevertheless, a good deal of truth in it ; and we make no doubt that, had not the influence alluded to by the EMPEROR been exerted, the Aus trians would have fared far worse. The French may also congratulate themselves that they have been mainly instrumental in effecting the great work of the completion of Italian independence. The Mexican Expedition was the bete noire of this Speech, and it was speedily disposed of in a few sentences, which did not betray any symptoms of hesitation or useless regret. The idea was an elevated one which inspired him and his people to undertake the task, but an untoward concurrence of circumstances made it advisable to extinguish the scheme in question. Neither does the • East seem to offer any likelihood of disturbing the serene state of things upon which the EMPEROR holds so much self-complacency, and such happy anticipations for himself and his people. Rome even does not daunt the courage of this de- termined politician; and the French, he informs his bearers, have faithfully executed the Convention of the Fifteenth of September. He does not see any danger which is likely to accrue to the Government of the Holy Father in this new phase into which it has entered, but considers it will be maintained by its own strength and the veneration which is felt by all. The Convention between France and England is all that can be desired, and it becomes " daily more intimate by the similarity of our policy, and the multiplicity of our commercial relations." All the other Powers of Europe are in a state of com plete amity and good understanding. We now come to the most interesting part of the discourse, so far as French sympathies are con cerned, and the EMPEROR seems to surpass himself in the zeal with which ho enters upon the consideration of the changes whicl-- he has deemed it advisable to make in French Insti tutions. " Assured of the present, confident of the future," he thinks that the hour has arrivod when he may fulfil the dearly-cherished expectations of his people, and to inaugurate those changes which have been so long and so anxiously looked for: He thanks the Senators and Deputies for their confidence in leaving to him the direction of the right moment at which to introduce these changes, and also for their good faith in waiting for their fulfilment. Their profound devotion to the institutions of the Empire has determined him to adopt the " liberal measures which lay in the minds of the Senate, and to meet the aspirations of the Corps Legislatif." The influence of a nation depends, says the EM PEROR, upon the number of men it is able to pay under arms, and neighbouring States impose upon themselves heavier burdens than any which the French are called upon to make ; and hence an ear nest hope is expressed that there will be no objec tions raised to the bill about to be laid before the House on the subject of the organisation of the army. Particular stress seems laid upon this by the EMPEROR, and, no doubt, many will draw their own conclusion from it and the energy with which the attention is called to it. " The conditions of war being changed require the in crease of our defensive forces, and we must organise ourselves in such a manner as to be invulnerable." Such are significant expressions at the present time it cannot be denied, and Prussia will, no doubt, interpret them as such. The concluding words of this remarkable Speech are very much to be ad mired, and it is especially worthy notice that the EMPEROR says that " Hitherto in France liberty has only been ephemeral:, He now trusts, however, that he and his Parlia ment may be enabled to make a broader applica tion of great principles, and to increase thus the glory and greatness of France. He invites them to march with him with a firm step in the " path of civilisation," and that their progress there may be a safe and a satisfactory one, will be the ardent desire of all the disinterested nations of Europe. It was naturally to be expected that in both Houses of Parliament Ministers should be called upon last evening to give what information they could furnish respecting the latest development of Fenianism. The alarm excited among the sober citizens of Chester had scarcely subsided when news arrived of fresh disturbances of a more serious nature in Ireland. In reply to the inquiries made by the Marquis of CLANRICARDE last evening in the Upper House, Lord DERBY stated that the infor mation which the Government possessed was meagre an d'unsatisfactory, having been received by telegram, but professed his readiness to communicate whatever he knew. It seems from the accounts given to the Lords by the noble earl, and to the Commons by Mr. WAL POLE, that the telegraphic wire between Malow, Killarney, and Valentia, were cut on Wednesday afternoon, but that they were subsequently repaired, and watched by a patrolling guard. At 11 o'clock on Wednesday night came the news of an attack upon the coastguard station near Cahirciveen, and of a mounted policeman, with despatches, being shot at and robbed of his arms and his horse. It was further stated that the mob were marching upon the town of Killarney, which is about 40 miles distant from Cahirciveen. Upon receipt of this alarming intelligence orders were immediately telegraphed for the movement of troops by express trains from Cork, Tralee, and the Curragh, for the protection of Killarney. The arrival of these troops naturally gave great relief to the inhabitants of the town, who had previously been under great apprehensions, owing to their defenceless state. The authorities have succeeded in arresting oae of the supposed Fenian chiefs, who was proceeding t) take the lead of the insurgents, with strongly criminating papers —a piece of indiscretion of which Fenians, it would seem, are often guilty. Under these circumstances Lord NAAS thought it advisable to proceed at once to Ireland, which he did yesterday morning, a movement which will no doubt greatly facilitate the speedy repression of the disturbances. Lord DERBY, it is satisfactory to find, has no reason to believe that the outbreak is more than local, though directions have been given for increased vigilance in every direction. It is encouraging to know that there has as yet been no outbreak in any other part of the country, neither has any sympathy been shown for the proceedings of the insurgents. AB we hear the inhabitants of tho towns manifested great uneasiness, and there seems to be no disposition to favour the malcontents. We trust that Lord DERBY'S anticipations of a speedy repression of the outbreak will be realised, and that these mischievous conspirators may before long reap the reward of their reckless and dangerous folly. It was only to be expected that the House of Re presentatives would carry the Nebraska Bill over the PRESIDENT'S veto, and accordingly the intelli gence to that effect, transmitted by the cable, will not take any one by surprise. The Radical party, with their customary inconsistency, are admitting as States districts with no more population than an English town, while they are excluding provinces of the size of all England. Colorado, numbering no more inhabitants than Carlisle or Chester, is to send two Senators to the Upper House, while the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and all their neighbours, are to be left totally unrepresented. The PRESIDENT could hardly have been expected to sanction such flagrant inconsistency even without, the negro suffrage condition, to which he justly took exception. It is quite possible, however, that the very extravagance of the Radical policy may end in defeating itself. The Tariff Bill has just passed through the Senate after au excited session of 15 hours. The numerous amendments made to the bill as it left the Lower House have nearly all greatly increased the import duties, which were already heavy enough as the bill originally stood. As the Senate has improved it they are almost prohibitory in some instances standing at 250 per cent. An attempt was made to reduce the duty on coffee, tea, and sugar, and also to place on the free list books printed in foreign languages, and books, maps, &c., published previous to 1840, but all such efforts were fruitless. The Protectionists carried everything before them, to the serious damage of American trade and commerce, and to the intense mortifica tion of the Western representatives. It is this significant fact that augurs ill for the Radicals, since one of the Western members expressed the truth when he said " the West did not want that tariff, and would not remain quiet under it." Not content with their victory, the Protectionists have arranged that the bill shall become law at once instead of wait ing until April as at first arranged, and the Western men are unable to cope with the New England interest. It is evident, thee, that the Eastern mem bers, by their greed, are offering the Western party, who will suffer heavily by this tariff, a strong in ducement to favour the re-admission of the South to Congress, because they now realise the fact that the national assembly, as at present constituted, is no representation at all. It is an irrespon sible body, whose acts have no reference to the prevailing interests of the general public, and so far from reflecting the various sections of opinion and feeling which must exist in every large body politic, it is composed only of one narrow and intolerant faction, which ap pears incapable of enlightened legislation or of the smallest exercise of that forbearance and conciliation demanded from all rulers and legislators. lt is reported that the PRESIDENT and his friends are preparing a new scheme of reconstruction, which will admit the South to representation with out giving them too much weight in the adminis tration. It is designed to meet the views of the large middle party, and is said to be intended for the Conservative platform at the next election. The Radicals are in a very awkward position with re gard to this important question, as STEVENS'S elaborately prepared scheme has failed, and ASH - LEY'S intolerant effort has been equally unsuccess ful. The facts are against them, whatever their ingenious excuses of leaving the Southern States in a condition of destitution and misery which is absolutely appalling. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARTS, Thursday Evening. The Emperor to-day has had " Queen's weather" for the opening of the Session. It has been really splendid. A beautiful midsummer sky, a shining sun, and almost summer temperature. Accordingly the concourse of spectators near the Louvre was immense. Indeed all Paris was out of doors. The Speech (sent to you by telegraph) was published at an early hour this afternoon. It seems to have been t w wh i ee s r h ep e u d bhll f oi oecrkpewl blocked e t iehspmaonrde where t b h t eh a se n i eeg u v e s ed u o e l agndp eagerness, for all a pe pe o rs ple ar a e lm so o l s d t fought for them. This anxiety was displayed not merely by the readers of the upper and middle classes, but it may be mentioned as rather a remarkable fact that there was such a crowd of working men round the office of the evening Moniteur that it was necessary for police officers to clear the way. It seemed evident that the working men of Paris expected to find something to their advantage in the speech. The Siecle contends that it was not the question regarding the right of meeting which brought on the Ministerial crisis in Italy. That was only of secondary importance. What induced M. Ricasoli to resign was that the President of the Council saw in the vote of the Chamber a serious indication that the law for the separation of the Church from the State, in the form in which he had prepared it, would be rejected. He preferred to resign at once rather than wait a few days, when a hostile vote would make resignation certain. The King of Italy, it is said, hesitates as to the course which it is desirable to adopt, and the resig nation is not to be considered as definitively ac cepted. Perhaps the Government will try the chance of a dissolution. At all events there is nothing in the circumstances to give uneasiness to the friends of Italy. Whether the Ricasoli Ministry should definitively retire, or whether it may appeal to the electoral body, either result will only prove the Parliamentary ogthe Go p v r e o r p n r m ieth en r t s . of pro T pe he r r o e pe is ra a tionof movement among the provincial newspapers with a view to induce the Government to make a similar reduction in a the stamp duty upon the departmental journals as may be proposed for the newspapers of the metro polis. It is another anomaly of the present system that a higher stamp duty is required for a country forapaperthanCouncil w i?aper publishedasheld in ye t s h t e ery metropolis. daathe t A Cabinet Tuileries, the Emperor as usual presiding, to agree definitively to the terms of the Speech to-day. I am told that the Speech was read aloud by the Emperor. The Empress was present. The diloniteur gives the following opinion in re gard to the Resolutions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; " The proposals of Mr. Disraeli, relative to Par liamentaryßeform, appear to have excited a favour. able impression among the English public, and it appears to be generally believed that he will be able to carry them." A telegraphic despatch from Suez, addressed to Paris, on the 11th inst., by M. de Lesseps, who is inspecting the works of the Isthmus, in company with Admiral Clarence Paget and the British Go vernor of Bombay, announces that the waters of the Mediterranean have now been carried to the Sera peum. A hundred bales, containing articles for the Universal Exhibition, had been sent from Siam by the maritime canal. A letter from Corfu in the Moniteur says :—" A frightful catastrophe has just taken place in the lonian Islands. A terrible earthquake has over thrown the Islands of !Ithaca and Cephalonia. Great fears were entertained for St. Mauro, from which no news had been received. The towns of Agostoli and Lixari, in Cephalonia, are in ruins. Several villages have also been destroyed. The number of killed and injured is not known, but it is very con siderable. The population has no other refuge now than wooden huts constructed from the frag ments of the houses which have been overthrown. Asylum was given to many in tho ships in the roads, but the misery is extreme. The destruction has led to a scarcity of food. The first shock took place on Sunday, the 3d of February, about six o'clock in the morning. It was experienced simul taneously at Patras,l Zante, Ithaca, Cepha lonia, Paxo, St. Maure, and Corfu. On the 6th, the oscillations continued at Cephalonia, and completed the destruction of the few houses which then remained. The Etendard affects to have exclusive informa tion relative to a secret treaty between Prussia and Saxony. Saxony is to preserve its Ministry of War, and is also to retain the power of appointing the Generel in Chief of the Army as well as to the command of the fortresses. On the other hand, Prussia will have the right of regulating the move ments and the garrisons of the Saxon troops. Saxony will have to pay the expenses of her army, and consequently will not participate in the military contribution of the other States of the Union. Some other racing fixtures have been made. Vin cennes Races will take place March 24 and 31 ; Bordeaux, April 25 and 28 ; Bordeaux, May 2 and 5 also ; Angers, June 16 and 18 ; Le Mans, August 18 ; Tarbes, August 18, 20, and 22. The Constitutionnel says that there is no further news respecting the Ministerial crisis in Italy in ad dition to the fact of the prorogation of the Italian Parliament until the 28th inst. The same paper says it maintains its previous views regarding Mr, Disraeli's resolutions after seeing them in extenso, adding, however, that, " as is the case too often, the telegraph did not give a faithful account of the sentiments of the Chancellor of the Exchequer." According to the latest account of the cattle disease at Hasselt, the number of infected animals was 927, but two-thirds of the meat were found to be fit for consumption. There was an intention to slaughter about 400 more. No other cases of cattle disease in any other town in Belgium was reported. M. Tonello is still at Rome. Re has had another interview with the Pope, which lasted some time. His Holiness received him very graciously. The proposed statue to Voltaire has given rise to some pleasant answers to the question " What's in a name ?" In former days a speculative ship owner fitted out a piratical vessel and called it Voltaire. In 1837 a journal of Brest announced the arrival in that port of the Duchess de Bern, with a cargo of guns and ammunition, and a Paris paper sounded an alarm as if the Duchess had really come to raise up civil war. Only yesterday the naval news of one of the journals announced that the Virgin Mary had left port with a cargo of anchovies, and that the Empress of Austria had arrived with a cargo of oysters. Here was an announcement calculated to astonish the natives. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S THLEGRA MS.) TILE BRAZILS. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) ARRIVAL OF THE HAVANE. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 14. Exchange on London, 501 ; dollars, 25 ; wool 50 to 90 ; tallow, 14f ; lumber, 34 to 37 ; sugar, 19f. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 24. Exchange on London, 23 to 231; on Paris, 397 to 400. Coffee, 6,300 to 6,500. Shipments of coffee since the departure of the last mail, 83,000 bags, of which 46,562 are for the North of Europe and the Channel, 14,142 for the Mediterranean, and 22,296 for carious ports. Sales, 20,000 bags ; stock, 30,000 bags. Freights, 365. to 37 5 . BAHIA, Jan. 29. Exchange on London, 24 to 231; sugar, whites, 2,900 to 3,000 reis ; brown; 2,100 to 2,300 reis ; cotton, 13,500 to 14,500 nix. PERNAMBUCO, Feb. 1. Exchange on London, 24i to 24 ; sugar, whites, 4,200 ; browns, 2,050 to 2 , 1 50114 s ; cotton, 15,000 to 15,400 rein. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 14.—Two o 'clock. —Little business is being transacted, speculators being occupied with the Emperor's Speech. The tone of the market, however, is firm, and prices are generally higher. Threes are 7kc. better, at 69f. 65e., and Credit Mobilier shares have improved 2 f.--50e., the price being 525 f. Credit Foncier shares have reached 1,535 f., an advance of 10 f. Italia n Fi ves, as au io have firm.The receded7c" viz., t o 54f. 40 c . close has taken place e ß x a c i e l p w t ay n s , har as follows : 41 per Cents 99 55 Do. end month per Cents . 69 60 Do. and month GO 55 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foncier Do. end month 1540 BAIL Bank Shares 3580 Italian Loan 54 35 Do. end month 54 80 Mexican Loan 2l 50 Do. Bonds 142 50 Spanish Threes Home Debt 32 Deferred 'ATS. For Account. Orleans 920 Northern 1205 Lyons and Mediterranean 922 50 Southern — __ Western rn _, Eastern 550 Sardinian . Austrian — 406 25 Lombard 405 North of Spain llB 76 Saragossa l3l 25 Ditto to Barcelolled" — Boman. 9O LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.) HODGKINSON V. HODOKINSON AND SOYEDIGN. This was a suit instituted by the husband against the wife for dissolution of marriage. From the evidence it appeared that for some time after the marriage the parties lived happily together, when an op portunity occurred of the husband bettering his position by accepting a situation to go to Monte Video. It was arranged that the wife should follow in the event of . cir cumstances turning out favouratle, but in the meantime she would reside with her relations near Leeds, who kept a public house. After the arrival of Mrs. llodgkinson at the place, the co-respondent by accident became acquainted with her, and then his visits to the house became very frequent. He visited the house as often as three times a day, until at last an intimacy existed between them, that on coming to the knowledge of the husband led to the institution of the present suit. The learned Judge, in summing up the evidence, told the jury th e question for them to consider was the amount of damage sustained by the petitioner by the loss of his wife. The co - respon d ent, it appeare d, was a person com ing from C ana d a as t h e agen t o f a petent, but as he had made his appearance in the Bankruptcy Court ho was not in a very flourishing state as far as money matters were concerned. However that was not for them to decide; they would have to estimate the peti tioner's loss and give him ample compensation. The cir cutnstances of the respondent were not to be taken into consideration, because sometimes after a verdict a person might become possessed of property, and then bo in a position to pay. It was also not to be taken into their consideration, because where a person could not pay with his purse he would have to do it by personal punish- ' ment. The wife, it appeared, was in possession of pro perty of her own, which brought her in IGs. a week, and this also must be taken into consideration, because the husband naturally participated in that income, and there fore, to a certain extent, he was a loser on that point also. The jury, after a short deliberation, found the adultery proved, and gave a verdict for the petitioner with £5OO damages against the co-respondent. The Judge Ordinary also gave the cods of the suit agaiot filo co-respoladeut. 'EBRUARY 15, 1867. LITERATURE. The Essays of Elia. By Charles Lamb. A New Edition. With a Dedication and Preface Hitherto Unpublished. One volume. Pp. 436. Moxon and Co. The exquisitest edition of an exquisite book is this, the cheapest yet published, of our dear delightful Elia. In itself—in these 436 pages—what a world of wit, and grace, and humour, of quaint conceits, of overflowing tenderness, of charming newborn thoughts, of whimsical old-world recollections ! There is hardly any book in the language that we know more thoroughly by heart than Elia— having known it thus, too, by heart for more years than we care to number up. And yet, knowing it thus by heart though we do, there is hardly any book that can be named iu (so-called) profane litt:rature that we can at any time take up more eagerly for re-perusal—to dip into once more hap-hazard, wherever the leaves may chance to open—than this one from the hand of our Peerless Essayist. Yes, we hesitate not for a single instant so to designate Charles Lamb—our Peerless Essayist. Not—one of the best of them, but— the Best. And this, moreover, bearing perfectly well in mind, how rich beyond all other litera tures is the literature of England in Essayists. Remembering vividly and gratefully, as we ought, the labours of love in that department adorning our bookshelves, from such master-hands among others as Addison, Steele, Johnson, Hunt, Hazlitt, Lytton, and Macaulay. Who that knows Elia, and who that has once quaffed from the flavorous and sparkling current of these delectable effusions of his genius, has resisted the inevitable inclination thereupon acquired to drink from them to their very heart's content, and by consequence to know their writer intimately in all the turns, and chinks, and angles, and crevices of his most quaint and most original idiosyncracy. Who that knows Elia at all, who especially that knows Elia as we do and have done for years past—as just now acknow ledged by heart (enshrineing him in it)—will deem it any derogation whatever to even the most gifted among the brother Essayists of Charles Lamb-=our according thus . the pas to ELIA, when hinting, in regard to them all, at anything like a definable order of precedence ? Without any disparagement whatever, without any suspicion of depreciation of all the rare distinguishing excellencies discernable in such books as the Spectator, the Rambler, the Indicator, and Caxtoniana, we set apart, - as a some thing perfectly sui generis, as a thing unique, as a lusus literaruni, as astillrarerpearl of price than them all, as a peculiarly exceptional phenomenon in literature, the Elia of Charles Lamb. The mere manner of it—what a charm it has ! The very diction he employs—what a flavour, what an aroma there is about it It is antiquity talking to us afresh, reborn, rejuvenescent---and yet for all that, still, to the last, ingrained, ineradicably antiquity ! Not "bald antiquity," as one might say, but antiquity flowingly hirsute as it were—with a bloom upon it the while, and yet venerable withal. Employed by any other writer than Lamb, the obsolete words used by him habitually, the fantastic turns of expression, the discarded or forgotten idioms, would have degenerated by necessity into a mass of affectation. Here, however, in Elia, there is not one particle of affectation anywhere discoverable. Writing thus, he was thus—it might be said, and said with perfect truth—to the manner born. Could he, we will even go so far as to say, have dropped upon any rare occasion the distinctive style in which he spoke as well as wrote habitually—then, not otherwise, there would, if you will, have been risk of his degenerating into affectation. No—the manner with him was not assumed, as a raiment, so to speak, with which he clothed his thoughts —it was no mere mask, or husk, or superficies—it was, as we have said, ingrained, it was as the very substance of him, it was part and parcel of himself, a some thing inherent, integral, ineradicable. It is no more reasonably to be taken exception to in his instance, than it would be reasonable to charge a man with guilt, or affectation, or responsibility, be cause of the natural colo,urof his hair, the contour of his features, or the shade of his complexion. In order to recognise how literally true all this is, which we are here insisting upon, in regard to the utter ab sence of anything at all verging even towards the merest tendency to a liking for affectation of any kind at all, either in style or e diction, in Charles Lamb's mode of putting his thoughts into written lan guage—it is only necessary to examine any thing and everything his pen is known to have ever put upon paper —even at his most careless moments—the merest scrap of a note, let us say, jotted down with careless ease upon the spur of the moment in scribbling to a friend ! Examining which —his correspondence that is—not Elia, but his familiar Letters to his intimates—Charles Lamb is still Charles Lamb throughout : in other words, he is still Elia—and, when most careless, he is often, often, at his very best. To see this, one need only turn to Mr. Fitzgerald's pleasant little volume about " Lamb and his Books and his Friends," in which there is given at length (would only that it might have been ever so much longer, for fun like that is just simply priceless) Charles Lamb's gossipping helter-skelter, rattling mis sive to one of these his intimates, a letter brimmed full of side-shaking, irresistible, frolicsome drollery ! And yet all through it, in the manner of it, in the diction, in the old world idioms, as quaint, odd, whimsical, antiquated, fiavorous of Elia, as anything among the very choicest among these inimitable and incomparable Essays. Among even, we have said, the choicest of them all—and what choice ones there are among the number! Beginning with Elia's Recollections of the cloistral solitudes of the " South Sea House," and of his schoolboy experiences obtained five-and-thirty years (ono whole generation) before the penning of the essay about the haunts, and purlieus, and pre cincts of " Christ's Hospital !" Among his brother clerks at the South Sea House—Evans chirp ing and expanding over his muffin—Plumer rattling, rattle-headed, and obstreperous—Henry Man, terse, fresh, epigrammatic—John Tipp, the accountant, so formal in his life that his actions seemed ruled with a ruler—Thomas Tame, conde scending in the aristocratic bend of his figure by reason of the remembrance of his high lineage, a remembrance sweetening and ennobling his poverty, in spite of his being endowed merely with an intellect of the shallowest order, so that " a sucking babe might have posed him," his mind, as Lamb characteristically puts it (in his bookish way), being " in its original state of white paper." Among Lamb's brother blue coat boys, again, who does not remember the ghoulish gag-eater who turns out to be (instead of either ghoul or gag eater) a young human stork nurturing his parents by stealth, getting obloquy first of all for doing so, and silver medal afterwards ? Who, again, that has once read about them—in that delightful Essay about " Christ's Hospital"—can have lost all re collection of the Rev. Matthew Field, the easy going Lower Master, or of the Rev. James Boyer, the grim and inexorable Upper Master, of whom when he was dying, ono of his quondam pupils, in still tender remembrance of his switching birch, ejacu lated—" May all his faults be forgiven, and may he bo wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities !" Conspicuous among the wearers of the yellow tunic, and the yellow stock ings, and the blue gaberdine, and the red leather bolt—Le Grice, and Leigh Hunt, and " the in spired charity-boy" —Logician, Metaphysician, Bard—Samuel Taylor Coleridge! Advancing, how over, beyond the mere threshold, or outer courtyard, or inner vestibule of this Fairy Palace for Medita tion, built up by Elia in his one-and-fifty immortal Essays, supplemented by his sixteen expositions of what he serio-comically declares to be so many " Popular Fallacies"—and penetrating deeper and deeper into the tortuous labyrinth, and yet, with all the windings of which (tortuous though the labyrinth be) we are and have been for years upon years so perfectly familiar—what delectable friends of old do we not come upon? Among them Ho-ti, the Chinese swine-herd, and 80-bo, his lubberly boy—licking their fingers, burnt by the crackling of the first pig that (so happily for all after gourmets) wasroaated to death accidentally ! Mrs. Battle, again—." old Sarah Battle (now with God), I who next to her devotions loved a game of whist" —Mrs. Battle with her celebrated wish, " a clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game !" And —among others of Charles Lamb's especial favourites—the Quakers and the Quakeresses : the Quakeress a lily—the Quaker, whose very raiments seem incapable of receiving a soil—cleanliness in them being something more than its contrary ! And—cheek by jowl (oddly enough) with that band of Shining Ones—the Chimney Sweepers, especially the little ones with their early notes like the " peep, peep" of the young sparrows —not grown sweepers, mind you—but tender novices blooming through their first nigritude—those young Africans of our own growth, those almost clergy imps, dim specks, poor blots, innocent blacknesses. Then, too, be sides all these—who can ever forget " The Chapter on Ears," beginning, "I have no ear—Mistake me not, reader, nor imagine that I am, by nature, destitute of those exterior twin appendages, hanging orna ments, and (architecturally speaking) handsome volutes to the human capital." Who that has once luxuriated in the reading of them, bears not still cherished -in delightful recollection, the reverie on "Dream Children"—the dissertation on " Grace be- fore Meat" the complaint in regard to " The Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis " the reminiscences of " Some Old Actors" the definition of " Imperfect Sympathies"--the celebra tion, one while of " Valentine's Day," another of " Day"—the whimsically contrasted deli niation of " The Two Races of Men" (the Borrowers and the Lenders)—the comparison of " The Old and the New Schoolmaster "—Elia's sketch now of his " Poor Relations," now of his " Distant Cor respondents "—his dream •f " The Child Angel " —his exquisite limning of "Barbara S"—his gossip about " Old China," about " The Margate Hoy," about "Books and Reading," about "The tombs in the Abbey," down at Westminster ! What pen cillings, too, are those—and with whatsubtle touches in them—here of " The Superannuated Man "—here of " The Convalescent I" - What dramatic tid bits, too, are—" My First Play"—and " Stage Illusion"—and " Ellistoniana !" Could anything be better, either, as Essays, than those setting forth the " Sanity of True Genius," and " The Genteel Style in Writing ?" Saunter with Elia, again, among the " Old Benchers of the Inner Temple," or travel with him down to " Mackery End in Hert fordshire"—and learn how well his antique prattle befits alike the old city haunts and the green coun tryside. Whoever comes to the perusal of these "Es says of Elia," by the way, for the first time, or, in other words, distinctly as a novice, would do well, as it seems to us, to open the charming volume as nearly as possible in the middle of it, at page 230, and there, reading merely three pages of the little book—pp. 130-132—obtain their first taste for the Elian humour from that one brief essay "On the Acting of Munden." We warrant them it will give them a relish for Elia for life Ex. gr.--The suggestion of a Munden Gal lery (to rival Hogarth) the declaration that Almaden has to face that you can properly pin down and call his—the comment upon his inexhaustible battery of looks, his unaccountable warfare with your gravity, his suddenly sprouting out an entirely new set of features like Hydra—his being not one, but legion—not so much a comedian as a company— the grave assertion that if his name could be multiplied, like his countenance, it might fill a playbill—the statement that he alone literally makes faces, dipping for faces as Suett did for wigs —the defiant inquiry as to whether any man can wonder like him ? can see ghosts like him ? can fight with his own shadow? can, like him, throw a preternatural interest over the commonest daily-life objects ?—a table or joint-stool, in his conception, rising into a dignity equivalent to Cassiopeia's chair, being invested with constellatory importance, so that you could not speak of it with more deference if it was mounted into the firma ment Munden's gusto, according to Elia, anti quating and ennobling what it touches ! His pots and ladles being as grand and primal as the seething pots and hooks seen in old prophetic vision. " A tub of butter contemplated by him," exclaims Lamb at last, " amounts to a Platonic idea I lie understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. Ile stands wondering amidst the common place materials of life, like prinneval man, with the sun and stars about him." After which—enough, and more than enough, has surely here been said by us in the way of any commentary upon this Peerless Edition of our Peerless Elia—of all editions of Elia that we have ever chanced to see, the completest, the corn pactest, the most beautifully got up, both inter nally and externally, iu the binding of it, that is, and in the printing—an edition worthy of setting forth anew for the delight of the world of his admirers, those choice and exquisite Essays of Charles Lamb, which are not only his own masterpiece, but among the masterpieces of English literature. Emanuel Swedenborg; his Life and Writings. By William White. Two Vols. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. The author of this very interesting work, seeing that the name of Swedenborg has grown familiar in English literature, with but few definite ideas attached to it, has set about remedying the evil by providing for all who may care to inquire into the subject a full andll comprehensive account of Emanuel Swedenborg, his history and his writings. This work, which occupies two large quarto volumes, has been accomplished in the most complete and satisfactory manner compatible with the peculiar nature of the theme. The first volume opens with an account of the father of Swedenborg, Jesper Svedberg, Bishop of Upsala, and many readers will feel a personal interest in this earnest, pious, God fearing man, so bold and fearless in the presence of Princes. When he was chaplain to the royal regiment Svedberg was a great favourite with King Charles XI. of Sweden, and he availed himself of this privilege with a singular conscientiousness. Shortly before hia death the Sovereign observed to this confidential friend, "I have ruled Sweden twenty-three years. When I first became King I trusted everybody, now I trust nobody." To which Svedberg replied " That is not right ; to trust everybody is foolish, for there are many wicked and silly people." " The world is full of them," interposed Charles. " But to trust nobody," con tinued Svedberg, " is very bad, for there are many good, honest, and wise men." " Ah, it is now too late," said the dying King. Another scene which forms an 'interesting contrast to this interview be tween Charles XI. and Jesper Svedberg records in interview between their far more celebrated sons, Emanuel Swedenborg (so called when later ad mitted to the council of nobles) and Charles XII. When Swedenborg had been appointed assessor in the College of Mines, he, in company with M. Polhem, the engineer, was presented to the young King, who, conversing on mathematics and mecha nics, asked several questions, in order, as his hearers supposed, to acquire some easy information. The learned men soon discovered, however, that the King was a better mathematician than themselves, for while they had recourse to figures and symbols, in order to arrive at results, the King says Sweden borg "did not require them, but after a few minutes' reflection, he told us without any other aid than his own superior genius in what way our examples might be solved, which we always found to agree perfectly with our calculations." Among Swedenborg's works notwithstanding his flights of imagination, practical studies, such as mechanics and chemistry, occupy a prominent place. In alluding to his theory of chemistry, his biographer (who endeavours in every possible- way to render his work attractive), intro duces the following happy anecdote :—A school master was once asked, " Why are cream and sugar put into tea ?" and he answered, " To render the acute angles of the tea more obtuse." This reply (says the narrator) reveals and illus trates Swedenborg's theory of chemistry. llis doctrine was that " the invisible atoms with which the chemist deals are geometrical forms, and that chemical phenomena are to be explained by geo metrical laws." We do not here propose to con sider the works of Swedenborg, all of which are set forth at length, and their contents are briefly but thoroughly analysed and explained. After the " Philosophical and Mineralogical Works," which occupied three folios, and the Economy of the' Ani mal Kingdom," and the "Spiritual Diary," and the " Arcana Cmlestia," comes what his biographer describes as Swedenborg's " most readable book," " Heaven, the World of Spirits, and Hell Defined." The second volume of this elaborate work is fully occupied with further particulars of Swedenborg's spiritual revelations and theological compositions. Carried away by the interest of his subject, by what Macaulay happily calls the lues Boswelliana, the biographer attaches more importance to these out pourings of his hero than they are likely to meet with at the hands of the reader. Attacked by apo plexy on Christmas-eve, 1771, the Swedish Philo sopher (?) expired on the 29th March, 1772, in ob scure lodgings iu Coldbath-fields, London, aged 84. On the title-page of the second volume the author appropriately quotes from Andrew Fenwick, 44 He is not without foibles, but is wise exceedingly, versed in much strange knowledge, and fami liar with the intricacies of the human heart ; you'll live long and go far ero you find such another." In the truth of this latter assertion, the reader of this biography will very heartily con cur, but a mere glimpse at the amazing extrava gances of Sweienborgianism will induce him to re gard the isolation of such an example as no cause for lamentation. Nina Balatka : 2be Story of a Maiden of Prague. Two Vols. Blackwood and Sons. Those who have not already perused this story in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine will be in terested in the brief history of " Nina Balatka," and even those already familiar with the tale will be glad to welcome it in its present portable and attractive form—two little volumes of large type and dainty appearance, with the per sons of the story enumerated in a preliminary page, as is customary with a drama, and the secret of Nina's history revealed in the first lines of the first volume. "Nina Balatka was a maiden of Prague, born of Christian parents, and herself a Christian —but she loved a Jew; and this is her story." The Christian maidens who turn over these pages will very naturally wonder at Nina's taste, or want of taste, for Anton Trendellsohn is not only a Jew, but a singularly repulsive 'Jew, selfish and suspicious, suspicious even of his beloved. Love being proverbially blind, these matters may be easy of explanation ; but what still more amazes the Christian reader is Nina's singular indifference as to the slight obstacle of her lover's faith, and the absence of any attempt on her part to effect his conversion. We could sympathise with the Jewish Rebecca who loved the Christian Ivanhoe, but we cannot say that we appreciate the tenderness of the Christian Nina for the Jewish Anton Trendellsohn. Be that as it may, the story is interesting and well written (for did it not appear in Blackwood's Maga zine?), and its appearance in its:present form is ele gant and attractive. MO XON'S STANDARD PENNY READINGS surpasses, not only in the general getting of it up—in the typography espezially, which is large and beauti ful—but in the choiceness of the selection made, the best among its predecessors. And we can say this, in no way inviduously—that is, without implying the slightest depreciation of the efforts made in a similar direction by other publishing houses. Some of these efforts we have ourselves commended as they deserved to be commended. But the best among them must now give the wall to these Standard Penny Readings from Dover-street, Piccadilly. They consist of twenty of the choicest morceaux, from writers as gifted and as varied as Robert Browning, Tom Hood, Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, Alfred Tennyson, Praed, Shelley, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. Such famous " pieces "—prose and verse—being among the number, as " How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix," all through which Mr. Browning carries us away with him on his Pegasus at the stride of full gallop—as the eirie, eltritch, murderous, midnight ballad of " Mary, the Maid of the Inn"—as Coleridge's in comparable celebration of " Love" in the wooing and the winning of Genevieve—as the Laureate's Lady Clare," and his predecessor's " Phantom of Delight." For fun and frolic—as irresistible pro vocations to laughter—commend us to the pick here made from Hood's Own—as " Our Village (By a Villagery—as " Mary's Ghost," as "111isappro hension," or as " Moro Hulla-Balloo." If Read ings like these won't do, we don't know what will. s trart fax • • • HER MAJESTY, Occ. OSBORNE, Feb. 1 4 . Her Majesty walked and drove this morning/ accompanied by Princess Christian. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also We nt out. Viscount Halifax and General the Hon. Ala ander and Mrs. Gordon had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family yesterday. Lord Halifax left to-day for London. THE PRINCE OF WALES. Tho Prince of Wales presided yesterday at meeting of the Council of his royal highness, held at the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Bucking" ingham-gate, St. James's-park. There were pre sent :—The Lord Portman, Lord Warden o f Oa Staunaries ; Sir William John Alexander, Attorney' General ; &c. Mr. Bateman, the Secretary, At tended as Clerk of the Council. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Feb. 14. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Feb. 14. fr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 Profits in addition to lr fr a . b. 7. c. 182,500,000 -' capital (Art. 8, Law, 776 June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 2 7,044,7 76 R of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105, 750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at 2i sight 13,520,118 52 14,17 6 , 812 Treasury account cur- g 66 rent creditor . 142,705,368 38 140,033,37,, a Current accounts, Paris 231,036,814 72 228,468, 8 1... Do. branch banks 30,407,791 --31,525,794 75 Dividends payable 2,063,283 75 2,436,636 ' Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last 2 6 94 six months Surplus of receipts not • distributed Sundries - ----• 93 7,163,150 53 7.326,677 Total -...,." . 0 1,685,403,207 42 1,682,319,6 CREDITOR. Feb. 14. Feb. T c• Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. 0 45 70 Branch banks Commercial bills over- 256,76 1 88 due Commercial te bills dis- 08 5 " cound, not yet due 305,695,019 89 306,078*0 ••••• Do. branch banks 816,055,043 328,1 51, Advances on deposit of bullion 33,328,900 Do. branch banks 8,726,900 Do. on French Public Securities ,6, Do. by branch banks ,46 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 25,901,850 Do. on Credit Foucier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con- • vention, Juno 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock ro- -- 34,2 86,8 00 ''' 8,522,8 13,614,600 - 13,79 3,9 ,1 ------ 7,357,400 - 7 7 38,0. 6 :8,0 86 5 :4 1 0 0 0 0 5 377 500 725,180 - 72 2 ,° 5° 719,050 - 60,000,000 •-• 12, 36: 36,027,237 91 07 980,750 14 12 80, 7 31 9+ 0 tf serve Do. disposable [lentos Inunobaliseos (Law, Juno 2, 1857) 100,000,000 -- otel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches 8,337,8 91 Expenses of manage- 100,000,000 8,337,700 --„ 2 OS 263,705 93 243, 63 G'" • 12,383,144 52 8,928,40:> Total ------- - -------- 6 4 12 1,685,403,2 07 41 1,682,319, 6 ' c, e. Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of Fra n (Signed) RQT:I,A=iD• Mont Eimadries ci th tat tal, tit ta, GI) ktel (iro er( Gr ( 131 117 Ch 102