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This carefully-collat e d selection of facts, testimonies, and opinions in favour of Abstin ence i s admirabl i suited for circulation amongst persons of to and intelligen c e. who may for the first time be induced to investigate the claims of the Temperance Movement. Cloth, lettered, price ls. 6d. Post fret; for stamps. _ _ _ 14011404—W. TWZEDIE, 337. Strand, OPERAS, THE • - Olk ati o.*lce • LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST $O, 1870, nounced for France, and that immediately, the phrase of the new French Premier will be nothing less than supremely ridiculous. At the best there is a rashness almost reprehensible in these predictive mots uttered in great crisis by men occupying positions of immense respon sibility. The most effective, astounding, absolutely electrifying mot ever uttered by M. RounEn— literally a " mot," for it consisted of a single word, had reference to the declaration as to the period at which Rome would be delivered up by France to the Revolution—"Jamais !" How about that fine phrase now, M. ROUHER-with the 5,000 men withdrawn from Civitta .Vecchia ? The oracular utterance dwindles down, now, into a mere piece of clap-trap and braggadocio. THE student of the war who is puzzled to account for the rapid collapse of the French military resources, will find one clue to the mystery in the proceedings at Paris during the last few days. Just after the defeat of Woerth, when thefirst outburst of indignation at the incompetence of the French generals and the want of properpreparation, had subsided, the impression. became very general that the nation would unite in face of the danger, and that all party differences would be set aside for the time in order to combat the victo rious foe. Any delusion of this kind must have dis appeared ere now. The politicians of various creeds who compose the French Administration and Par liament are all sincerely anxious to drive the invader from France; but they find it im possible for this object to forget their animosity to each other. The men who have hated and opposed the Imperial rule, hate and actively oppose it still. Each side endeavours to accomplish two simultaneous designs. The Imperialist desires to keep the Liberal in subjection, and to repel the German as well. The Republican is sincere in his wish to defend the capital, but he is none the less anxious to seize the present op portunity of overthrowing the Empire. For in truth a moment so favourable will probably never occur ag ain. There is no semblance of union between the two parties ; and in this fact is to be found one of the chief causes which have led to the speedy collapse of the French military resources. Otherwise the rapid success of Germany would have been inexplicable. It is true that the Germans were well prepared for the combat, whilst the French found themselves, to their astonishment, quite unprepared. The first possessed a real and numerous army ; the figures and efficiency of the Gallic host existed only on paper. The German generals are of a very high class ; whilst nothing worse than the strategy of the French has been known even in Austrian annals. The Germans are educated sol- diem; the French, on the other hand, are ill-trained in some particulars of the first moment in modern war—such as careful firing, for in stance. The French supply system has broken down wretchedly, and it turns out that the money which ought to have been expended in making ready for the field has gone into the pockets of officers and favourites—the creations of that despotic system which it has been the fashion with some English kivers of freedom to admire so much. Very serious are all these disadvantages; but, granting the full force of each, they do not quite explain the present position of affairs. One French army is shut up in a fortress as securely as Mack at Ulm, another is flying on a con fessedly hazardous errand to release these prisoners; Paris is told by the Government to expect a siege a once; and the German armies have marched without opposition through the centre of France, and have taken possession of some of the best points of defence where no Frenchman was found to fire a single shot. Generals may blunder, armies may be defeated, but the nation remains. It is as nutne- rous as all the German peoples allied with Prussia, Its military spirit is undiminished, and it has at all times of need produced men who were equal to the emergency. In 1792 the people rose and expelled the invaders; in 1814, though utterly exhausted USEMEN TS. QUEEN'S-At Seven, gy Wife's Dentist. Axe sad Crown. VArDEVlLLV,—Ciitibottfd Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. Ostaistt 31INstaki.s, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls. on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from II a.ra. till 30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. MORNING EDITION. STRIKING phrases have not been wanting among he incidents of the Franco-German war so far as it has yet advanced. "Dead or victorious "—that is the most notable saying of the EMPEROR'S, since the campaign commenced, when he was urged to return to Paris from head-quarters. "If they come, they will find me here !"—that is, the utterance of the EMPRESS to the wounded Colonel, when he cried out to her from his sick bed, " They shall not come here "—that is, to Paris (mean ing the Prussians)—" I swear it." Asking after the Cuirassiers upon the morrow of Reichshoffen, "There are no more of them" was the answer of MAcMAIIoN. Among all these memorable phrases, however, the most startling and the most electrifying was that snot of PALIKAO, "If I could tell what I know, Paris would be illuminated !" The peculi arity of each of these remarkable exclamations, with the single exception of the one attributed to Marshal MA CMAHON, is this, that, to perfect them, they require justification. In the Marshal's instance the mournful justification beforehand of the affecting words uttered by him so laconically, was unhappily only too appa rent. But in the instances of the Emperor NAPO LEON, of the . Empress EUGENIE, and of the Minister of War, Count PALIKAO, the words spoken, in order to have the true ring in them, for once and for ever, require to be justified, or, in other words, fulfilled, by after occurences. Granted that the EMPEROR does but return to Paris " dead or victorious " the saying is herioc and will become his torical. Otherwise they will be forgotten as a mere idle specimen of imperial garconading. In a similar way the utterance of the EMPRESS REGENT will live or die in the popular remembrance accordingly as her Majesty is true or not to her declaration. As for the War Minister's dazzling remark, fbr it is really nothingless than that, it may be said that ufton its justi fication by events, or not, the Count PALMA() stakes the whole future of his Government. Unless some astounding piece of good fortune be an IHE SUS, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, A UG'tWT 30, 18M. with twenty years of war, they seriously hampered the allied forces by rising in insurrection around them. Now the people remain helpless in the provinces, . and Paris wastes its time in political squabbles. It is true that the conditions of war are now very diffe rent; but it is highly probable that an armed people might have offered such resistance as would have delayed the German march. A gain of time is all that could have lee❑ expected or needed. The Government might then hive drilled new levies, and opposed a succession of fresh fronts to the ilk- . vaders. No attempt of the kind, however, has been made. THE THRONE OR THE COUNTRY. It is impossible for a nation to properly put forth its power whilst its leaders are disputing respecting the control of that power. The result inevitably is that great part of the national resources are wasted and lost. In France it is no secret that if the Republicans got the people armed they would take care to tolerate no disarming so long as the Imperial throne stood erect. The Government, on its side, is not willing to sacri fice the throne to save the country. It does not ankl will not arm the people: The defensive measures hitherto adopted are not nearly equal to the occa sion or the means at command. It is notorious that at the outbreak of the war the Garde Mobile were found imperfectly drilled, and not armed at all, be cause the Imperial Government had reason to distrust these fervid and revolutionary young men, and even now the Mobile force under arms is comparatively small. It is not possible that the best available defence can be made under such conditions. At the same time this unhappy system of despotic Govern ment holds out little hope of any more effective dis play of ptitriotism. It is all very well for the Standard to hector the Republicans and tell them that they are playing into the hands of the invader, sacrificing France for the purpose of promoting their selfish ends. But they may not unreasonably ask how, with every wish to defend ,their country, they can keep silent at a time when the Imperial Government has brought the nation into terrible adventures, and when, through fear of ultimate consequences, the same Government refuses to avail itself of all the means of defence in its power. If they were to be quiet, and help the Government at the present crisis, they . would gain nothing if the danger were tided over. There would be another lease of the Imperialism they hate so much—that is all. It is scarcely in human nature that men of strong feeling should bury all their - animosities and act like lambs when they know that not one atom of Libe ralism will they get as their „reward from a man who has ever played the cause of Liberty false, and who, obviously, is not tc be trusted. Ifthe Imperial Govern ment were meeting the Republicans and Constitu- tionalists half way, leas excuse could he pleaded for these parties. But we have it on the high authority of the French correspondent of the Times that all the old practices, the shameful system of deluding the populace, is again in full swing amongst the Imperial officials. Everywhere the French peasant is being told that the whole Opposition—Republicans, Legitimists, and Orleanists—are conspiring together to sell France. They hare aunt money to the Prussians, and their only ears ie to overturn the dynasty. With a foe that stoops to such devices ' there can obviously be no terms. It is difficult to entertain the slightest hope of a cause which is ruined by such influences; it is equally difficult for the outside observer to pronounce judgment on such Quarrels. But he may with safety form one conclu sion—that if the arming of the people will do aught to drive away the Germans, the arms ought to be served out. Let the future take care of itself.— Western Morning News. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND VICTOR EMMANUEL. When Prince Napoleon visited Florence the other day, he was closeted for a considerable time with King Victor Emmanuel and his Minister. The object of his mission was to urge the King to send a large contingent to France to take part in the war. When Napoleon made the request to the King a short time ago, his Majesty replied, " I will never go back from my promise, and I will cross the Cenis with 100,000 men if the Emperor desires it, but warn him that I shall never return to Florence if do." The Emperor upon that•occasion did not press the point, but is said to have renewed his efforts. It is also said that England and Italy have been asked to propose a mediation between the belligerents, but in the present state of affairs such a step could not succeed. THE FRENCH SOLDIERS IN ROME. Our correspondent* from Rome states that the French soldiers in the Pope's own army are most anxious to leave, and have with great difficulty been restrained from making a demonstration before the French Embassy, desiring to be sent back to France for the defence of the capital. Fifteen were arrested in the act of carrying a tricolor flag to the Piazza Colonna and singing the " Alarseillaise." It would be far more politic to disband the regiment at once, as the few officers who remain will soon be utterly incapable of resisting the current which calls imperatively for every able-bodied Frenchman at home, and although the regiment is per fectly well-affected to the Popo, it is becoming discontented at being kept out of action. The situation of the Pope in the event of any sudden commotion would be most critical, as he would be virtually a prisoner. With Civita Vecchia he would lose his communications with France. Only one small brig remains in port to protect French subjects. The Italian fleet is cruising between Corsica and Livorno, and may appear on the Roman coast again at any moment. PERILS OF RESIDENCE IN FRANCE. The English chaplain in Marseilles writes to ex plain the difficulties which beset those unfortunate strangers who find themselves at the present moment in France. Too great reticence is looked upon with as much disfavour as too great loquacity, and it is extremely difficult, it not impossible, to keep the juste milieu which may convince the authorities that you are not a Prussian spy. The Marseilles chap lain merely entered a café and asked for a cup of coffee, remaining ten minutes without speaking. He had scarcely left the place when he was followed by two men, who arrested him on the charge of being a Prussian spy, and insisted on his accompanying them to the Prefecture. He was enabled to give satisfactory proof. of his innocence, and sheaved that he had resided in the place upwards of a year as an English chaplain, when he was set at liberty. The men said they arrested him believing him to be a stranger, and that from his silence in the café, and his quiet and hurried way of leaving it, they supposed he was a Prussian spy who wished to escape observation. The moral which the writer draws is that in the present excited state of feeling which prevails throughout France, it is the duty of foreigners who wish to escape even the possibility of such annoying treatment to avoid all places of public resort. It understinds that an Englishman is now in custody through losing his pas!ports. OUTWITTING ENGLAND. An uneasy feeling is said to prevail in political circles respecting Belgiuli. Under the terms of the New Convention England is bound to assist either belligerent to drive the other out of that gallant little State, and consequently neither of the com batants would be very sorry to see their adversary infringe the treaty and outrage Belgian neutrality. Prussia, with all her needlegtins mid her Landwehr, France with all her high spirit and her indignation a _ainst "perfide Albion," are both of them very well aware, that England is a very formidable foe and a very p9werful ally. It is, therefore, suspected by some persons that there may be a mutual design to drive the enemy on to Belgian ground. A few d tys since it was thought that the Prussians in tended to aim at doing this, but it is now believed to be, more probable that -the -French desire to bring about the result. If by any means they could get the Prussians into Belgium, and so secure English assistance in driving them out, the uninterrupted successes of the Prussians might receive a check. COTTAGE HOSPITALS. One of the most important sanitary movements of the time is the establishment of what are now 'be coming known as cottage hospitals. The design of these admirable little institutions is to extend to every village in the country the advantages of careful medical attendance, and trained and systematic nurs ing in cases of accident and disease. The hospitals wherever started, it is hoped, will be sustained at but little cost, but it is probable that the expenditure might be much diminished if willing minds were -to occasionally engage to help the practitioners and regular nurses in the work of caring for and saving endangered lives. A t each cottage hospital, for instance, wily one regularly trained nurse might be employed. Her assistants in such a case should be the ladies of the village or locality in which the hospital is situated. Of course, women's help could only under certain circumstances be accepted, but there is no doubt but that in women's and children's wards much charitable good might be done, and much cost saved to the carrying on of the philanthropic undertaking. At a time when the call on women's work in life is said to be small, -and shamefully out of proportio ton the good deeds women . have it in their power to accomplish, here 18 an' opportunity of extinguishing the slander of the imputation, and of inaugurating a blessed course of bettering humanity in a way that would not be derogatory to womanly dignity or self respect. The labour of tending the sick is pecu liarly a woman's duty, and in no age has it been so possible to claim that this duty may be rendered as i. this one. MR. EDMOND BEALES ON THE WAR. Mr. Edmond Beales is anxious that some efforts should be made to have the Franco-Prussian war brought to a conclusion through the instrumentality of arbitration. He has seen that the heroism dis played by both French and Germans in this terrible struggle has been marvellous, and rarely equalled in the history of the world; but he regrets that such exertion, fortitude, and energy should be all employed in working mutual destruction, instead of promoting mutual prosperity and happiness. De Quincey argued in an admirable essay that wars tended more than anything else to bring about good feeling between nations, to forward civilisation, and lastly, to render the repetition of them less probable after each fresh struggle. Mr. Beales, however, does not sympathise with De Quincey's odd theories, and so he calls upon Englishmen generally (the working men are about to make an effort, but why should the task be left to them ?) to seek to bring about amicable intervention and to procure terms for arbitration. Mr. Beales has hopes that ultimately wars will be rendered unnecessary for the adjustment of international disputes, if principles of arbitration are once fairly inaugurated and rendered useful. He does not enter into any consideration of the chances of efforts for peace in this way, however gentle, being peremptorily declined by Governments who have had, first, to consider the lives of thousands of soldiers and the honour of a cause. With his usual equanimity of disposition, and allowances for the softer feelings of nature, Mr. Beales thinks that armies, though even on the verge of gaining all they desire in a war, will leave the bowels of the enemy's land when once the banner o the arbitration brotherhoods is unfurled. FRENCH PATRIOTISM. In the extreme dullness of the London season just at present, it is refreshing to find instances where the housholders of certain fashionable streets have not yielded to the general rule of allowing their residences and shops to look dusty and miserable. It 3s particularly enlivening to come across a street where cheerfulness so predominates in some of the houses, that flowers are even cared for on the window sills, and doorsteps and panes of glass are kept remarkably clean. There is one building in New Bond-street, Messrs. Piesse and Lubin, which seems to redeem that street, not only by its general tidiness, .but also by the additional ornamentation of a huge French banner hung from the roof. Night and day, since the opening of the present war, this banner hag' been floating in the breeze, evidencing that, however prosperous a home the tenants of this particular New Bond-street house have found in Englan3, their sympathy with their native land in a time of peril has not diminished. Of this fact, the tricolour is not the only evidence. Messrs. Piesse and Lubin have already collected large sums for the benefit of their sick and wounded countrymen, and the energetic and patriotic manner in which they have endeavoured to raise supplies for the French is highly creditable. In the last appeal of Messrs. Piesse and Lubin, for instance, it may be observed that they assure those who are willing to offer assistance that they themselves will undertake to pack and transmit every article, even " pale ale," that may be offered to benefit the soldiers of France. It may here be stated that although Prussian sympathy is believed to be very strong in London, in no single case has a Prussian firm exemplified its devotion to the Prussian cause by elevating a handsome banner over its portals or making it known that within those portals " anything useful" to relieve German combatants will be thankfully received. THE DRILL OF OUR ARMY. A new edition of "The Field Exercise and Evolu tions of Infantry" has been ,issued for the British --- army. Nearly eighteen months ago a c o mm itt ee of _ ...• picked officers began the revision of the old code, and the work now published is the result of their labours. The chief alterations in the old method of drilling now ordered relate to the order in which infantry can best confront an enemy, armed as enemies now are with far more destructive weapons then when the last " evolution " book was issued. Skirmishing, for instance, is made simpler and more effective, but, although the 1866 campaign showed that no troops, in anything but broken order, could get within three hundred yards of the enemy, the authorities still seem determined to retain " the thin red line" system, so well remembered in the Crimea. '1 lie practice, it is believed by some officers, will lead to the annihilation of the line on the first occasion that skirmishers are placed side by side in front of the foe, and then, probably, but not till then, the admiration for the time honoured institution will diminish. Henceforth the captains will occupy in the field positions in rear of the centres of their companies where they can see the men, and not places as before at the flank, where they could not. This is unquestionably an intelligible improve ment, as also is the regulation which orders the shortening of all words of command and cau tious. No longer will it be matter of painful suspense to the rank and file to know the full extent, or the most important portion, of the order issued to them. Volunteers will especially be grateful that their colonel in future shall simply say "Halt !" where he before used to say, "First Administrative Battalion Blanlishire Artillery Volunteers, Halt !" OUR LITTLE WARS. The select committee of the House of Commons found, in examining the consular charges of 1868-9, that there was an item of £1,741 for incidental ex peuses in West Africa. It was stated that we have had a consulate at Lukoja, a town in the territory of King Massaha. The British Consul's duties were left very much to his own discretion. Mr. Macleod held a sort of double vice-royalty, as he depended on King Massaha for protection against the pirates who inrest the Niger, and the British subjects considered bin her Majesty's representative. Mr. Macleod got into serious difficulties with the pirate chiefs on account of his having rescued the Bishop of the Niger, who had been kidnapped by one of them. He was compelled to erect batteries and stand a regular siege. The expenses of this undertaking amounted .to £1,741. The bill when it arrived at the Foreign Office was refused, but when Mr. Macleod's graphic account of the siege came the Government felt that under the circumstances they had no choice but to comply with the demand. They paid the bill and abolished the consulate at Lukoja. LORD WILLOUGHBY D'ERESBY. Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, the Hereditary Grand Chamberlain of England, died at Richmond on Saturday. He was in his forty-ninth year, and the title becomes;extinct, as he leaves no legitimate issue. The peerage of Willoughby. d'Eresby is one of the oldest in the Kingdom. The first Baron was sum moned to Parliament by writ in 1313, in the seventh year of Edward the second. In 1779 the barony fell into abeyance and the hereditary Lord Grand Chain berlainship became vested in the sisters of the Duke of Ancaster. Georgiana married Lord Cholmondeley carrying the hereditary Grand Chamberlainship into the Cholrnondeley family, and the abeyance was de termined in •1780 in favour of Priscilla, who married Peter Burrell, first Baron Gwydir. The title has again fallen into abeyance. Lord Willoughby was a Conservative, but seldom took an active part in politics. Of late his name has been prominently brought before the public in connection with an action brought against him by the Countess d'Alteyr ac. LAW REFORM IN INDIA. ' Legal reform in England gets on but slowly, but in Anglo-India its progress is still more tardy. It is true that the concentration of our law courts, which has been talked about for a generation, is still a vision of the misty future, but we are better off in regard to the practical administration of the law than our fellow subjects across the Pacific. Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, the law member of the council at Calcutta, is busy endeavouring to remedy the defi ciencies of Indian law by a supplement to the penal code and a scheme of reforming the judicial establishments. The first of these measures is very much wanted, if we may judge from the list of omissions in the exist ing code. There is no punishment for manslaughter by negligence, none for seditious language, none for treasonable conspiracy. It is said to be a fact that Sir Barnes Peacock forgot• the clause about sedition, and it was left out of the code by mistake. This was rather an awkward oversight in a country like India, and it is quite time that it was remedied. Then, again, a bankruptcy bill has been ion; wanted. 'the changes proposed in the judicial establishment will be very comprehen sive, and appear to be most desirable. The separa tion of the service into judicial and executive departments will be suggested. by which means a di vision will be effected between the system of civil and of criminal procedure. It would be surprising that such reforms had not been carried out king since, were we considering any country but India. QUEENSLAND AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The last accounts from Queensland state that the northern gold-fields are rapidly developing, and the mineral wealth of the colony appears in greater pro portions every day, more especially as regards gold and copper. It is anticipated that the diggings at Ravenswood may rival the famous Thames diggings in New Zealand. The Queensland limes states that the cotton crop will be a very indifferent one this year. Tobacco-growing appears likely to be one of the permanent industries of the colony. At the Gympie diggings recently 140 t ons o f stone from the New Zealand reef yielded 1,842 ounces of gold. The stone was taken from a level of 150 feet from the surface. In South Australia the Government is prosecuting the project of carrying a line of telegraph across the centre of the continent. Three parties are to start forthwith to Mount Margaret to form a line 75 miles north of Central Mount Stuart, where they are to be met by a party working southward from Port Darwin. The Commissioner of Crown Lands has tabled in the Assembly his land regula tions providing that all lands available for agricul tural purposes be surveyed in blocks of 640 acres, offored for selection at is. Per acre, and payable in ten yearly instalments of 2s. (II Du t _ HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, AUG. 27. In the morning the Queen went out, attended by Lady Churchill. In the afternoon the Queen drove round by Gairnside, accompanied by the Princess of Wales and Princess Louise. Prince Arthur, attended by Colonel Maude, joined the Prince of Wales's shooting party. Prince Leopold drove out in the morning and after noon. Viscount Halifax had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday. SERIOUS FAILURES. There was a meeting at the Liverpool Counts Court, on Friday, of the creditors on the estate of Henry Moore and Co., when a statement was presented shewing the liabilities to amount to £22,120195. 9d., and the assets to £10,717 17s. 3d. Debts were proved to the amount of £19,612, Mr. Harmood Banner was chosen trustee, and Messrs. George Arkle and Patrick Keith were appointed the committee of inspection. The Bth of October next was fixed f r the public examination of the bankrupts. The creditors of Messrs. Kynock and Co., percussion cap and cartridge manufacturers, of Aston and Birming ham, met on Friday at the latter place. A composition of 10s. in the pound was offered, payable in three, six, and nine months, and was unanimously accepted. The cause assigned for the failure was the falling away of Russian consignments. The liabilities were sttted at £61,351145. 7d., and the assets at £41,363 2s. 9d. CRYSTAL PALACE.—(One Shilling - Day, Monday, August 29.)—Admission by Season Tickets, 1,484 ; ditto on payment, 3,408 ; total, 4,892. WORRAIEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGIU. CULTURAL HALL- ISLINGTGN.—The number of visitors , exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others on the 29th instant, was 9,847. A TALKING MACHINE.—On Saturday an exhibi tion of quite a novel character was opened at the new building called the Palais Royal, Argyle-street, Oxford circus. It is an exhibition of a talking machine, which by mechanical appliances is made to give forth utterances z esembling those of a human being. It is the invention of Professor Faber, of Vienna, and has been constructed and patented by him, and is certainly a wonderful speci men of human ingenuity. It is true, the question may arise, where is the utility of it, seeing that every man, woman, and child possesses a talking machine, more or less perfect, of his ( r her own. But the machine has its utility nevertheless, for it illustrated a much neglected science of acoustics. Moreover, it is highly interesting as showing how far ingenuity may go. The machine has a mouth, with tongue and lips, which are set in motion by a mechanical apparatus which sets free a portion of air from a large bellows, and so controls it as to produce the sound required. It pronounced, with great clearness every letter of the alphabet, many words, and a few sen tences perfectly ' • not merely set words, but any words th e audience chose to name. It also laughed, and uttered other cries expressive of human passions, to the astonish ment, apparently, of every one who heard it. DEINVI I,LE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand, . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. QUotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Iri s h Di e fineries, Belfast ; or at thei Loudon Oces, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand, W.O. T IT.ERATURE, Ancient Classics for English Readers. Ctesar and Virol. Wm. Blackwood and Sons. Five volumes of this charming series have now aP peared. Three of these five volumes we have already noticed—namely, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" of Homer, and the " History," by the father of that science, Heredotus. As the four h and fifth instalments of the classical library thus in course of being issued for the amusement and instruction of English readers, we have now before us the " Caesar " of Anthony Trollope and the " Virgil "of the Rev. Lucas Collins. In the latter—the last of these ancient classics done into English for non, classical readers, each classic in turn being very lucidly and succinctlY epitomised. We have described to us in sue"; cession the poet himself, his pastorals. his Georgics, owl' the master-work of his genius, the iEneid—that, in olio sense, Iliad and,Odysseyrolled into one, an epic poem sug gested by Augustus, not perfected when Virgilius Maro died. The original scrolls on which the golden verses of it were inscribed in its author's caligraphy being only just saved from destruction by his own unsatisfied scorn for its merits, through the intercession or the poet's more, appreciative friends. As for the Caesar of Anthony Trollope, it possesses for the general run of English* readers of course a double attraction. Coming from the hand of one of the masters of the popular literature of our own day, it is, if regarded only in that point of view, eminently attractive. That, however, we may be quite certain at once, is not the point of view from which Mr. Trollope himself would have any one regard it. In another sense than ordinary he would say, with dverY different application of the words—Aut Caesar, aut nullus. Save only on the title page, he would here drop his own individuality out of view altogether. It is of Caesar, more than of what he has to say of Cxsar, that he is thinking throughout. TWO thousand years have elapsed since the days of Caesar, and yet that wonderful story of his life and actions, of his victories and his oratorical triumphs, of his Dictatorship , and his assassination, preserves as dominantly as ever its old, but perennial fascination. Nearly 100 years before the Christian Epoch, Caius Julius Caesar was born. Ire was the descendant of an old patrician family of Rome- - but he was also the nephew by marriage of Marius, wino sprang from a race of plebeians. Sylla, regarding him as a trifler, spared his life when the rest of the kith and' kin of his dead rival were remorselessly swept out of existence. Already when a stripling of 17 Caesar' was a Priest of Jupiter. Already, before then, he had been married. He subsequently became Quzestor, 'and . after that YEdile. At 37 he was -nominated Pontifex Maximus. At 38 he was Praetor ; at 39 Pro-Prwtor in Spain. At 40 he was decreed a triumph, but abstained from taking it, ambitioning a rise from which he would have been thereby precluded. Afterwards, at 41, lie attained the object he was aiming at—to wit, the dig nity of the Consulship. Compared with this the rise of Napoleon to power was far more wonderful in its rapidity. At 27 he was commander-in-chief of an army and Con queror of Italy. At 30 he had taken possession of Egypt. In his 31st year he was supreme in authority over France under the title of First Consul. At 34 be was enthroned as Emperor of the French, and crowned as King of Italy in the Cathedral, at Milan, with the iron crown of Charlemagne. During the 15 years of his reign the last 11 as Emperor, he overran Europe with his in vincible troops, he conquered one after another the leading powers of the Continent, he entered in triumph one a fter another its principal capitals. Emperor and King him self, he made one brother, Joseph, King of Spain, another Louis, King of Holland, another, Jerome, King of West phalia, his brother-in-law, Murat, King of Naples, his infant son he created King of Rome. Ifn was one of the greatest of the world's law-givers—instance . the Code Napo'eon. He was 3 master of oratory, as his speeches attest, and as Lord Brougham has signally notified. Regarding him as a poet in action, BEranger has said of him "il etait la plus grand° pobte du monde." An Englishman who knew him per sonally an Englishman no less famous than Charles James Fox—declared of him emphatically " I believe him to be One of the best as I am certain he is the greatest of men." As a soldier there is only one other to be brought into comparison with him, and that is Hannibal—it remaining still, with the greatest military writers, a ques tion whether he was not greater even as a soldier than Hannibal. Sir William Napier spoke of Napoleon as-- what ?—" the greatest of all soldiers." Lord Byron dubbed him "the greatest nor the worst of men." His public career was over before he was 47. After six years of cruel exile, he was in his fifty-second year when he ex pired at St. Helena. He was greater than Caesar. He was in action what Shakspere was in thought—unrivalled, inimitable, incomparable, unapproachable. M r . Trol lope has marred this little disquisition of his upon the next greatest conqueror and leader of men' by coupling the name of Caesar and the name of Napoleon, with such preposterously incongruous names as those of Knox and Luther. He has marred it still more by such absurd puerilities as an incidental allusion to Billy Taylor in the comic song. Otherwise the book he has written about Caesar is in parts really charming. The editor of the series has paid the penalty for entrusting a theme like this, one requiring the ripest scholarship, to about the oddest person he could have selected—one who is known wholly and solely as a popular novelist. The Rev. Lucas Collins, however, has immediately afterwards compensated for this same rash ness, by himself writing the next volume of,the series, a sketch of Virgil ; as clearly and delicately defined as the outlines of a cameo. C URIO - US CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—The Glasgow Daily Herald has the following :—" With refe rence to a paragraph in a contemporary, which states that his Grace the Duke of Hamilton has, during the last few days, enjoyed excellent sport at Arran, we have it on the best authority that his Grace has not yet reached Scotland, and is not expected sooner than on Monday or Tuesday next. It is possible that the mistake has arisen from a case of mistaken identity, several gentlemen who were visiting the island having been under a lively impression that they were saluting his Grace, while they were only paying that honour to his Grace's chief gamekeeper, who, we are informed, returned the salutation in a manner which tended even to increase the pleasing illusion." VISIT OF THE QUE . aq AND PRINCESSES TO it HIGHLAND FARM. —Since the arrival of her Majesty at Balmoral Castle, it appears that she has conferred unex pected honours upon a few of the residents upon the north side of the Dee, fronting the palaile, by making personal visits to their homes, and conversing familiarly with the owners by the " cosy ingle side." Such in particular was the case in a visit the Queen and the Princesses paid to Mr. Donald Clark and his wife and family at Aberarder, on the afternoon of Mon day last. It may be mentioned that a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark occupies a position of some trust in the Royal household, and one of the daughters is likewise in service at the castle. Her Majesty and the Princesses drove on to the north side of the Dee, along the Aberarder road, to a point opposite the farm of Bel liemore, where Mr. Clark resides. Ponies, with a staff of gillies, were here in readiness from the palace, and her Majesty and party proceeded on horseback along the rugged, sinuous hill road to the farm-house, where the royal visitors were cordially received and welcomed by the patriarch and his venerable wife. After making a short stay in the house, the royal visitors were escorted on their return by Mr. and Mrs. Clork a great part of the way back to where the royal carriage was in waiting.—Dundee Courier. THE DISESTABLISHED IRISH °HUH CH.—A sort of middle party (a Dublin correspondent writes) is springing up among Irish Churchmen, who deprecate any immediate attempt of the Convention, at its October meeting, to engage in a revision of the Prayer-book. Un like what is called here the High Church party, how ever, they do not oppose revision as unnecessary. They are merely afraid of its being carried out under the influence of popular dictation, and in a manner to meet the views of one party in the Church only. They propose, consequently, that when the Convention assembles a special committee should be named to take the subject into consideration, with the understanding that changes in certain points are necesary, and that this committee shall define what these should be, to assist a future Synod in finally determining the matter. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills. — The Female's Friend. —The wonderful cures effected by these Pills have alone entitled them to withstand the keenest opposition. They are valued at the humblest hearths, as well as in houses of comfort and wealth. Holloway's Pills work a thorough purification of the whole system, without disordering, weakening, or otherwise in terfering with the natural action of any organ. They are admitted to be the best restorer of appetite and strength to the most delicate constitution. 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