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Tins DAY.—Morning, lh. 55th.—Afternoon, 2h. 12m, I.‘o-3108.R0w.-Morning, 2h. 32m.—Afternoon, 2h. 50m, Aft? y 4, 1 c i'o 4, IS wigit di‘ *um LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 4, 1867, Mr. STUART MILL'S inaugural address at St. Andrew's, where he has been installed as Rector of the University, is sure to attract attention. What ever opinions may be entertained of the peculiar views of the hon. member no one can deny his intellectual powers and his vast attainments. His speech was received with great applause, and appeared to give satisfaction to his hearers. Re ferring to education, he said that it was a wise custom which called upon the Rector of a Univer sity to deliver his opinion on that subject, for it is one most intimately connected with a seat of liberal education ; and, besides, is one of the 44 most inexhaustible of all topics, being still as f r osh to those who come to it with a fresh mind as it was to its first explorers." Thi s i s strictly true, for what man of an elevated mind or comprehensive character can fail to find more than enough to say on this fruitful theme of controversy, and question of interest and importance to the commnnity. In describing( the functions of a University- in national education, the learned Rector said t hat lie should treat of education as " the culture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its successors, in order to qualify them for at least keeping up and, if possible, raising the line of improvement which has been attained." In pursuing this course he mentioned the real end and aim of University training. "jt is Dot intended to make profe>lonal tnen, but it is meant to send forth capable and cultivated human We commend these reflections of Mr. being,s, [HE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1867. on a University career. They will show them the the Confer' aerate struggle too strongly. Under all real meaning of their training, and elevate their these Ciro' umstances, it is not surprising that trade is thoughts from the mere practical routine of every- much de' )reseed. day life inte the higher regions of an upright and useful life, besides showing them how best to fit themselves for the race that is set before them. "Men are men," he says, "before they are lawyers, physicians, merchants, or manufacturers, and if you make them capable and sen sible men they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers and physicians." Thus the :power which professional men should seek to derive from University training is how to direct their professional knowledge, and thus bring the light of general culture to illuminate the technicali ties of a special pursuit. Mr. MILL devoted some of his time to considering the vexed question of the day relating to general education as to whether or not it should be classical. He said that we are not obliged to ask ourselves which is the best to know — the languages or the sciences. "I am amazed at the limited conception which many educational re formers have formed to themselves of human beings power of acquisition." Perhaps the best solution that has yet been arrived at of this complicated question may be seen in this discourse, wherein it is stated emphatically that there is no reason why our scholars should be ignorant of the laws and properties of the world they live in, or our scientific men should be without poetic feeling or destitute of artistic cultivation. Mr. MILL soon scatters to the winds the arguments of those who are con stantly making attacks on the classical mode of cul ture. How absurd, exclaim those educational re formers, to waste the whole of boyhood in learning dead languages. " Absurd indeed ; but is the human mind's capacity to learn measured by that of Etou and Westminster to teach ?" It does, indeed, seem very idle for people to clamour after this fashion, and to talk as if edu cation must be bounded and restricted to suit their narrow views of the matter. Scotland, as the learned Rector of St. Andrew's took occasion to observe, has been more fortunate in this respect than England ; and the reason he gives why more is done within a given period is that classical education is given in a far more efficient manner in that country, and the common schools teach more successfully than ours do. Reason is now he admits, however, beginning tomain tain a contest against routine in the English schools, and hence we may hope hereafter to gain some good results from the changes it works and the improve ments it effects. Some of the remarks here made as to the capa bility of the human mind to receive instruction are admirable, and may well draw the attention of the scholar and the philosopher. "It is not the utmost limit of human acquirements to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things." As for modern languages Mr. MILL thinks that too much time should not be given to them, and that a few months in the places where they are spoken would be better than putting them prominently forward in a university education. History and geography should be left to private reading, he considers, which is indeed very true, for mere book learning will never impart a correct understanding of them. " What an utter failure a system of education must be if it does not give the pupil a sufficient taste for reading to seek for himself those most attrac tive and easily intelligible of all kinds of know - ledge." It is a satisfaction to find that Mr. MILL would preserve to the study of Greek and Latin the position which these languages now occupy in the curriculum. After the many attacks made upon this course, it is well that so eminent an authority should ,stand up for them, and indeed we question if those who so fiercely attack them would do so if they were well acquainted with The rec ent transactions in the London shipbuild ing trade have not unnaturally excited a good deal of attention, especially as owing to the recent severe weather and the depressed state of trade thousands of men bay e been suffering the severest distress from want of er - iployment. A deputation from the Lon don ship's rights waited last Friday upon the Lord Mayor lot the purpose of offering some explanation of their re fusal to work at reduced wages for the Thames Ironwork Company, and the Lord Mayor gave thon a patient and courteous hearing. The facts of the case are familiar to the public . The com pany having completed certain contracts, and being: unwilling in a time of general distress to discharge. some hundreds of workmen, endeavoured to obtain. a contract from a foreign company, which would at least serve to keep their hands together. To do this they were obliged to abandon all idea of profit, awl solow was the rate of remuneration given that to carry out the work without actual loss it was necessary to reduce the men's wages sixpence a day. Even with this reduction the shipwrights would have earned 7s. per diem, a sum, one would suppose, more than sufficient to avoid actual want. The men, as we all know, in obedience to the dic tates of their unions refused the work, and, though they subsequently offered to take it under various conditions which would raise their wages, at least nominally, to the required sum. The arguments used before the Lord Mayor the other day do not materially affect the case. The men do not maintain that the wages are insufficient ;o live upon, or that the position of the trade would ustify giving more. It is the old story of prece- dent, which does a good deal of mischief among others than working men, but while they are ap- plauding their orators in denouncing the prejudice and red-tapeism of the aristocracy and the ruling classes they appear to be by no means sensible that they are repeating the very same blunders in their own affairs. Common sense would tell them that as trade is liable to considerable fluctuations, so the rate of wages must fluctuate too. No man pretends that his employer can always make the same rate of wages? Indeed every intelligent mechanic knows very well that a master must sometimes carry on his business at an actual loss, for the sake of keeping it together, and keeping his position in the great race. Is it then fair and reasonable to demand that he must pay his men exactly the same whether his returns are at par or at premium? The result of all these arbitrary regulations is that capital gets into other trades, or gets its work done abroad, because no man can force another to employ him or to carry on his business at a constant loss. The fixed laws which the working classes perceive readily enough to be so damaging in large national questions, such as Protection and the Currency, are accepted by them heartily when applied to their own affairs. This is a striking inconsistency, and we do not wonder that the inferior workmen who are compelled to live on charity themselves to gratify the pride of the shipwrights find it difficult to understand their doctrines or to approve their practice. Affairs in America still wear the same threaten ing aspect, and the Radical party, so far from learning moderation by experience, appear deter- mined to proceed to the wildest extremities. They are wantonly endeavouring to throw away the whole hardly-won result of the civil war. During the struggle the preservation of the Union was the great object aimed at, and no one seriously believed that the South, however harshly treated at the time, could be held permanently under subjec tion, and ruled by force as a conquered country. But the Radical party, so far from carrying out the theories of the war, have gone on step . by step until they have framed quite a new code of their own, and it is difficult to under stand what the more rational and thoughtful members of the party are really aiming at. They can, one would imagine, scarcely believe that the Northern States can endure the continual strain upon their resources of keeping the South under armed rule. Supposing it were even possible what a source of weakness and loss to the whole States would be such a possession ! So far from strengthen- ing and consolidating the power of the North, such a dominion would inevitably tend to the break up of the American States. The Radicals could hardl y propose a more violent and arbitrary system of Go vernment if the Southern States had been the scene of continuousplots, insurrections, and intrigues since the conclusion of the war. The leaders of the secession movement, both military and civil, accepted the in evitable change with dignity and forbearance. General LEE, whose personal character is as high as his military reputation, set an example which undoubtedly had great . weight with his countrymen ; and since the conclusion of the war the Southerners have waited with marvellous patience for the dawn of better days. Those days Messrs. SUMNER, STEVENS, and their followers have determined shall not come, and accordingly their last movements show undiminished hatred to the Southerns. Reso lutions, we learn, havo been introduced in the House of Representatives, declaring that civil State Governments do not exist in the South, and that the South is not entitled to a voice in ratifying constitutional amendments. What be comes then of the Union ? The war was carried on under false pretences, for no one can pretend to call that a union of States in which one party holds the other in forcible subjection. If eleven states are to be governed at the point of the bayonet, wo had better not hear any more about American liberty. Civil State Governments are part of the fun damental principles of the Old American Con- stitution, and no part of that Constitution is more highly valued than in the South. Every man feels his State his country, and regards it with the same affection and devotion as Europeans do their particular country. The Union includes such a wide range of national peculiarities and customs that its seems to be rather a federation of different countries than one homogeneous nation. This old cherished association with the .Mother State is to be suddenly broken, the State rights no longer exist, and American blood and treasure and statesmanship have only, according to the Radicals, resulted in the abandonment of CiYil government, and the resort to the old despotic doctrine of forcing an unpopular form of government upon a reluctant people. A significant message reaches us from one of the Southern States. The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that Alabama was de facto a Govern ment under the Confederacy. The Radicals had better take heed lest they stir up the memories of the interior Exhibition and the Exhibition in the Park. Seven moujicks or peasants, whose pic turesque costume will excite curiosity, have arrived LITERATURE. from the environs of Moscow, accompanied by an interpreter, who will give full explanations in re gard to all the varied products from Russia. On entering from the Avenue Suffren a good idea may now be formed of the beautiful aspect which the park will present. Here there will be the isbah or peasant's house, and further on the tent of the desert. The isbah will be a very remarkable build ing, very complete and convenient, and built with great regard to salubrity. In one angle will be the red corner (red and beautiful are synonymous terms in Russia), where there will be a figure of the Ichou of the Virgin Mary, embellished with dazzling ornaments. This is the sacred corner. The isbah is executed principally in wood, by M. Gromoff, one of the richest timber merchants of Rusia. Stables will contain forty horses chosen from the present races produced in Russia. So com pletely characterisic will be the ensemble of Rus sia that if only a little snow could be added the visitor might fancy himself to be in that country. Some of the furniture and painted windows to form part of the Rusian exhibitions have arrived in Paris, and many workmen are now engaged in arranging the various articles. Last, but not least, among the alterations will be the Russian Restaurant, which will enable people to form an idea of the state of the culinary art in Russia. Spain seems to be going ahead in regard to seve rity against the press, at least it is stated that the principal editor of the Discusione, a Madrid paper, has been condemned to death for a "political crime." La France, which objects to have authentic in formation in regard to the new law upon the press, persists . in stating, in spite of contradictions from other journals, that the new law will abolish the prohibition now existing against the publication of a new journal without previous sanction from the Government. This important concession, it states, is approved off by the Emperor, and by the four Ministers charged with the task of drawing up the new bill. Another important difficulty will also be solved by this law. Printers and publishers now have a patent which gives them a monopoly. The new legislation will destroy that monopoly, and the liberty of printing and publish ing will then become the corollary of the law upon he Press. Montalembert's New Volume. The Monks of the West. By the Count de Monta- lembert. Vol. 111. Authorised Translation. William Blackwood and Sons. Another portion has here at length been given to the world, of what has already come to be very generally recognised—though the work is still far from its completion—•as the most remarkable of all modern contributions to the annals of Christianity. A work that, if it shall please God, will, even yet, be happily brought to its conclusion, in spite of the alarming illness which, to the anguish of his more intimate friends, and to the grief and dismay of his admirers, has long been threatening to terminate the labours upon it of its illustrious author, so abruptly and prematurely. We cling tenaciously to the belief that in Les Moines d'Occident, we are not destined to see repeated once more the sudden inter ruption midway, of a luminous as well as of a volu minous history, as here in England we have twice of late years been fated to witness, in the instance now of Lord Macaulay, now of Sir James Mackintosh. If the cherished hopes and prayers of his appreciators can avail, the author of these noble volumes about " The Monks of the West" has fair prospect of being spared for the completion of what is already, long before its completion, obviously recognisable as as his masterpiece. The additional instalment of the work here issued from the press in this third volume of the authoriled translation of it into English is— though in itself a mere segment of the circle as origi nally designed and foreshadowed in the author's "In troduction "—one, to ourselves in this country, of exceptional interest, of extraordinary, we might even say, of paramount importance. How it is so, may be readily enough understood, without the necessity for Another crinoline accident is recorded, not a very serious one, but one that may be attended with great pain and inconvenience. As an elderly gentleman was proceeding along the Rue Dauphine he became entangled with a lady's crinoline, and he was thrown with great violence on the pavement. His leg was so bruised, if not fractured, that he could not walk, and it was necessary to take him home on a litter. M. Franck, of the Institute, contradicts the re port that Victor Cousin has left him a legacy. Rossini:has just entered his 79th year. His health is much impaired of late, and he is rather infirm. He generally takes a carriage drive for an hour or two in the course of the day. After several days of warm weather it has sud denly became extremely cold, and this morning the fields around Paris were covered with white frost. Soon after the sun had risen, however, the frost was melted, and at mid-day with a bright unclouded sunshine the warm temperature returned. It has been a splendid day, and all Paris is abroad. Every vehicle was filled. Thousands went to Versailles, and hundreds to see the preparations for the exhi bition at Billancourt, near Sevres. another word being read, when the component por tions of the volume come tobe simply enumerated. It comprises within it, then, this third volume of " The Monks of the West," three additional Books—the Eighth, the Ninth, and the Tenth—relating (in Book viii.) " The Christian Origin of the British Isles," recounting (in Book ix.) the Life and Death, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY. VIENNA, Feb. 3, Evening. The resignation of Count Belcredi is attributed to his being unable to concur with the views of Baron von Beust, who proposes that the arrange ment with llungary should be submitted to the Lesser Reichsrath as an accomplished fact. the Career and Achievements of " St. Columba, the Apostle of Caledonia," and (in Book x.) the win ning of England to the Faith between 597 and 633 by St. Augustin of Canterbury and the Roman missionaries. Two brief appendices dose the volume, which is inscribed in elegant Latin and in very enviable terms to the author's friend and co religionist, the Earl of Dunraven. Not one syllable of Preface, by the way, being introduced in expla. nation of the reason there has been for the length ened postponement of this and of the still unpub lished companion volume (Vol. iv.) —an additiona instalment of the work which, although held still for awhile in reserve, is understood to be all but ready for immediate publication. The reticence thus ob 7 served by the Count de Montalembert in regard to the lamentable cause there has been for this long delay in the periodical and piecemeal develop ment of his undertaking, has in itself for us an eloquence, more affecting than any words could possibly have articulated. Accepting this new volume for precisely what it is, for what it assumes to be, namely, as another portion of a com prehensive work now in process of formation or com position, we have read it from the first page to the last with enthralled attention. Reading it thus we have seemed to breathe the while the atmosphere of the sanctuary. The smell of the incense has been in our nostrils. We have been back in the Ages of the Faith. We have traversed the Irish seas in the osier boats covered with leather, rowed from Derry to lona by St. Colomba and his companions. We have followed the print of the sandals of St. Augus tin and his brother missionaries from Rome across the same Kentish beach trodden six centuries before by Car and his legionaries. The Gregorian chaunts of those earliest of the Papal missionaries have echoed around us from the distance of the twelve centuries dividing that remote epoch, the epoch of the primeval forests, from these present times, from this oar own era, the age of steam-engines and electric telegraphs. The hero of the book, of this third volume of "The Monks of the West," it ma.y be said at once, is--not St. Gregory the Great, not St. Augustin his Emissary—but, to our think ing at least, St. Colomba, the Apostle of Caledonia. It is his form, it is his memory, it is his august presence, that is brought before us like a beautiful apparition. Or rather, it should be said, like something far nobler, more real, more sub stantial, more perfectly appreciable, than any mere apparition. It is the man himself—not alone the Saint, but the very man himself, as though in actual flesh and blood—who appears to view, summoned back to life by the revivifying pen of Montalembert. The lofty stature,the noble bearing, the handsome features, the sonorous and harmonious voice, the grey glit tering eyes, the impulsive movements, the impas sioned gesticulations, the alternate impetuosity and gentleness, the burning patriotism, the profound and utter self-abnegation, the flaming wrath against all wrong, the tender pity for the weak and injured, the love of solitude and the zeal for souls—all are brought out with a wonderful distinctness, not merely for our recognition, but for our admiration and our reverence. The desolate wastes of the holy islands of the llebrides are repeopled. The ruined fanes are reconstructed, as we turn these pages, in which the monks of Icohnkill throng back upon the scene with their canonized leader in the midst of them. Turn by turn, reading the text of this third volume of Montalembert's history of the Monks of the West, we are in the sylvan solitudes, among the savage hordes, in the hostile camps, at the royal courts, in the midst of the feuds and battles of Angle, Saxon, Pict, Scot, Briton, Celt, with Augus tin, with Columba, or with one or other of their companions, beholding at their best and noblest, in the midst of their historic labours, those dauntless Monks of old, of whom, and of whose virtues, and of whose heroism the Count de Montalembert, has thus h a ppily aspired to become the annalist and celebrant. Those champions and propagators of the Gospel, who were called by St. Augustin .31ilites Christi, who were designated Chevaliers de l'Eglise by Charlemagne. Those knightly promoters of the spread of Christianity whom St. Francis of Assissi termed his " Paladins of the Round Table"—of whom Pascal spoke as of souls "perfectly heroic," the passion of whose whole life was the advancement and vindication of the Chevalerie de Dieu! Re membering what--as the very title-page of each suc cessive volume of this last and greatest work from the hand of the Count de Montalembert continually serves to remind us—has been from the very outset the scope of the author's original design—namely, that this is intended to be a history of " The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard" — but remembering, above all, that the first object of the writer in undertaking its composition was the delineation of the great monk and great man last mentioned, meaning St. Bernard, and that consequently all that has hitherto been written, and much that has even yet to be written, of the work, is in a manner only, as it were, the introduc tion or preamble to what must still remain in effect the one great root-idea of the whole, namely, the commemoration of the genius, the labours, the sanctity, the glory, less for earth than for heaven, of the Monk St. Bernard—there is no one surely among the readers of the three volumes already published, no matter whether he be Protestant or Catholic, within or without the pale of the belief of the author of the book, but will long for the full and deliberate completion of the design as ori ginally sketched out for himself by the hand of Montalembert. During five-and-twenty years, during one whole quarter of a century, the author has sedulously held that design in his contemplation. During all that lengthened interval he has been labouring indefatigably, as at a labour of love, towards its conscientious realisation. Gradually, stone by stone, pillar by pillar, arch by arch, it is ris ing like a fane consecrated to the glory of God, as an attestation of the author's homage for the memory of those whom he himself believes to have been conspicuous among the human instruments for the propagation and dissemination all over the world of the divine truths of Christianity. Springing originally out of a wish formed by him on the completion of his beautiful limning of the angelic features revealed to view in his Histoire de Sainte Elizabeth—namely, to de- lineate a companion picture by means of another history, the history of a great monk—in other words, through the Ilistoire de Saint Bernard, the thought has expanded, as we have seen, from the notion of one picture to that of a whole series of pictures—from a single work of art to a whole gallery—from one isolated statue to what has already grown, or is now growing, as before re marked, into a spacious and comprehensive fane peopled in the niches, crowned on the altars with the effigies or presentments of the great leading Monks of the West, representing all the various religious orders ranged by him under their four categories. First, those whom he speaks of as The Monks, properly so called, the religious brethren of St. Basil, and of St. Benedict, of Cluny, of Grandmont, and of Fontevrault, the Cainaldules, the Chartreux, the Celestines, and the Cistercians. Secondly, the Regular Canons, following th Rule of St. Augustine with the two orders attached (for the redemption of captives), that of La Merci, and that of Pr6montre. Thirdly, the Religious Mendi cants, or Brothers (Frati), comprehending among them the Dominicans, the Carmelites, the Angus tines, the Servites, the Minimes, and the Franciscans, including, among these, all their various sub divisions, as Conventuals, Observantines, Recol lets, Capucins, and so forth. Together with, Fourthly and Finally, the Regular Clerks, such as the Jesuits, the Theatins, the Barnabites, et cetera —the Lazarists, the Oratorians, and the Eudistes, being, as he tells us, simply, like the Sulpi ciens, secular priests united in congregation. It would not. only be idle to dream here, for an instant, of following the author of these elo quent and scholarly pages through the course of his narrative, so far as that narrative has already advanced—but, remembering that what is set forth thus in a public newspaper is, as it were, spoken in the market-place—the detailed examination in these columns of a record of this particular charac ter would amount almost to an indecorum. It is only, in fact, as illustrative of our national history that these records of " The Monks of the West" can is this place, with any reasonable regard to the fitness of things, be taken into consideration. Commenting at all upon it, therefore, we would do so in our capacity as critics, simply from the point of view in which we might be reasonably expected to regard it more as a purely lite rary performance than as a contribution to hagio graphy. So regarded, namely, as a literary performance, we are constrained to speak of the work only in terms of the highest admiration. It is the result manifestly of profound research in the archives of our old monastic institutions, and among the records of our earliest and almost for gotten chroniclers. But the researches, here, are those in which a ripe scholarship has been aided by a radiant and sympathetic imagination. Under the dry bones of erudition, a soul has been kindled by the genius of a Poet and a Believer. The ancient annals that our author has called in to his aid in his scrutiny of the past, have been so brought into combination by him that they have cleared his vision rather than obscured or obstructed it. They have been to him as the combination of lenses in a telescope. They have brought distinctly to his own view the far-off epoch he was bent upon delinea ting. Looking through them, down that immense perspective, the hitherto blurred outlines of forms until then scarcely perceptible have resolved them selves into distinctness under his gaze—to the microscopic distinctness almost, one might say, as of photography. Clarified thus, as his sight has been, in his own capacity for scrutinising the Past, what he has seen himself so very clearly he has described with corresponding pre cision and accuracy. The Saints and Monks of Wales, of England, of Ireland, of Scotland, of the Hebridean Archipelago, and of Armorica, have lived, and breathed, and moved, and preached, and prayed, anew, as if restored to life, upon its pages. Columba, if that be possible, more distinctly than all the rest of them combined. Insomuch that— closing the book—we seem to have been listening ,o the sound of his footsteps— amusingly written, and may serve to create enter tainment. " Colonel Gordon's Chinese Force enters upon a detailed account of the chief events of that memorable time, and may refresh the mind of the reader as to certain occurrences which are apt to be forgotten in the constant changes that take place around him. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.—The present is a right royal naval number, for we have no less than four articles on the Navy--its expenses, can they be reduced ? its reconstruction, by the chief coil __ structor himself; and the quarterly list of the Navy. The whole of these subjects are very fairly bandied. The bugbear of ZIO,OUONO yearly being devoted to rebuilding ships is at (mea dispel of, by the. fact that about .£1,172,0)0 are required for seaiwn's wages, victuils, an 1 clothing, including inariws, while aaother million goci f9r half-ply pensbas and sualries ; sa that -- taking othrJe iu ttto - r3_ iutJ account little more than two millions au I a half are used for shiphuilding, das:kyards, ant int.lhinary. Still it is admitted that some £lOO,OOO, or tho,r(37 abouts, might be saved by closer and more efficient manage►nont. As to the Navy of the future, Mr. Reed makes out a glowing prospectus, not forget ting due praise for what he has effected up to the present. He is, doubtless, a man of genius in his department, but appears to overlook the same qua lity in rivals. Progress is the ordsr of the day ;it is, in fact, the necessity of our position. But it may be questionable if size alone be the one thing needful in ships. We want fitness in all things — mind and matter—and a due adaptation. We arlY have too much of a good thing, and repent the cost just too late to repair our error. We ara not satis fied with the cavalier disposal of our wooden fleet ; if they cannot go to sea at a useless cost they may be useful at home at a far less figure. We admit that wood decays with age ; so does iron, and so • - does poor human nature. There are some other good papers, particularly " Tha Adjutant's Story." COLB URN'S NEW MONTHLY.—The Mexican PTO vinces of the Union form the topic of the opening paper, which contains a good deal of information. Crawford Ramadge continues his narrative of researches in Italy,and Lieut.-Colonel Miles re counts a further stage of his Egyptian travels. " Idalia" is brought to a conclusion, and the troubled fortunes of its hero and heroine find an unexpectedly peaceful close. Among the other papers are " About Consuming One's Own Smoke," an essay on " Concealed Sufferings," by Francis Jacox ; and " Christine or Common-place People," by Janet Robertson. " . . le grand bruit de ses pas dans to monde." The clarion note of his melodious voice rings back to us across the silence of the intervening centuries. The halo, or aureole, or nimbus of celestial light surrounding him towards the close 'of his ;ong life dazzles our vision. We breathe with the reapers coming back from the harvest fields in the evening, the delicious perfume wafted from the Abbot's cell, as if all the flowers of earth were there collected together, odoris fragrantiam ac sE universorum forum in 111111711 sensio collectorum. We are beside him there when upon the eve of his death the old white horse, albus caballus, putting his head lovingly upon his aged master's shoulder, caput in sinu ejus ponens, seems to bid him farewell as if with human tears of grief—ceepit plangere über uinque quasi homo fundere et valde spumeas flere lacrymas. At the sound of the midnight bell (on the 9th of June, 597) ringing for matins on the Sunday Festival—we follow him in the darkness as he hastens for the last time to the foot of the altar steps in the church at lona, hearing the Monk Diarmid call to him in a sorrowful voice, "Where art thou, my father?"—flebili ingeminat voce, Übi es pater ? Beholding him there for the last time when the lights are brought—dead—but with visible beatitude upon his features--Facies rubens et minim in nwdum angelica visione exhilarata, in tantum remansit, ut non quasi mortui, sed dormientis videretur viventis. And so the beautiful vision passes from our own view, the vision of this beatific and beneficent life, as it has here been delineated for the admiration of all, but for the edification especially of England, by the luminous and rever ential pencil of Montalembert. FRASER.—The editor of Fraser is apparently de termined that its readers shall not begin the new year too lightly or thoughtlessly. Last month they were called upon, among other light and entertain ing subjects, to consider the relations between Labour and Capital, to recall the records of the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, and to study the influence of Arabic Philosophy ; but at least the literary bill of fare presented some less solid dishes. In the Feb ruary number, however, but little indulgence is vouch safed, and, with the exceptions of a paper on Cornwall, and some chapters of a serial story, the articles are all weighty in their subjects if not in their style. Opening with the " Land System," they proceed with a fragment of Elizabethan history, an analysis of the principles of banking, a discussion on the doctrines of penance and absolution, a chapter on American politics, and a paper on the " Grievances of British Merchant Seamen." We are far from saying that several of these are not readable as well as instructive; but the list of contents might show a less ponderous selection with advantage. The historical fragment will in the eyes of many readers present the most attractions, for it is from the pill of the late Mr. Buckle, and possesses in consequence a melancholy interest as a token of the unfinished labour of a too brief life. It is needless to say that the Virgin Queen is painted in the brightest colours. Very excellent is the paper on " British Merchant Seamen." It is a subject which we have often dis cussed in these columns, and which can hardly fail to attract the notice of Parliamen t. Mr. Conway's article on " The Purpose and the President of the United States" is no doubt written conscientiously, though it is difficult to understand how any one looking on the P resent position of American parties can scarcely believ e that the Radicals are animated by pure, disintereste d regard for the welfare of the negro. BENTLEY'S.—The Editor's Novel, " Old Cour t," still wends its animated way through thes, pages , and the present instalment is by no means unim portant. There are two stories which have been continued from month to month, one of which " Briars and Thorns," comes to an end in th is number. " The Shenandoah Valley after the War" is a melancholy picture of the ruin and de vastation left by civil war in that once fertile and prosperous district. Shakspere's memorable blunde r about the sea coast of Bohemia furnishes Francis Jacox with the text of an amusing dis course upon the mistakes in, geography made by all sorts of notabilities. CORNRILL.—." The Claverings" is now approach" ing its conclusion, and is becoming more excited as it proceeds. The skill of the author is well shown in the manner in which the character of Sir thig h is described. His intense selfishness pervades a ll his acts, and makes his whole life a mockery and a delusion, so far as honesty and good feeling are con cerned. Mrs. Burton takes a bold step, which proves her spirit and energy, while Lady Ongar betrays her innate unworthiness in her conversation, though it was eloquent. " The Village on the Cliff" is finished in this number, and it is completed in a suitable manner. There is something touching in the way in which this story is told throughou t. It is natural, and told in an impressive manner. 0 ° ladies of the story have the advantage over th e hero, certainly, but there is plenty to gain attention in all the dramatis personz encountered in these stirring pages. Part I. of " A IVeck in a French Country House" is a very amusing account of ad" ventures in that place, that brings us face to f se° with strange customs and adventures. " cences of au English Cadet in the Austrian Servi,ce._ is continued, and the " Old English Chroniclers an interesting sketch. " Our Old Pictures" i° paper that contains some useful suggestions , " Spain and the Spaniards" is worthy of notice• is truly said that our interest in that nation has 'l erp i: much gone down of late. The account of wander-.ings in that beautiful land here met with is, bona WS' ever, tempting enough to make any one fo re g o prejudices and depart thence. • re' TEMPLE BAR.—" Lady Adelaide's Oath" ls r. og ceeded with at some length, and it is very ex&- hick in this instalment. It is a powerful scene, in ex` the deceitful heroine finds herself face to f ace the man she so shamefully deceived in past a the The next portion of the tale will probably be or end of it, and thus we shall have a grand de S bio g ment. "From Vienna to Pesth" is an interesting account of travels in that direction. It is obscro" tool ° en passant, that " perhaps of all the popular ells 0 , and habits peculiar to each of the capitals of Burt he Viennese life and manners are most adapted, to s , b e tastes of an educated and refined Englishman. lity Old Tale with a New End" has the merit of origin a for to recommend it, and it might be all the better ye many lovesick heroes if they underwent the s..eer, metamorphosis at an earlier stage of their ca'rro, " Maurice Craven's Madness" is an exciting n . s ue d, tive, that is well described. " Gup" is 0 0°1 ~ Is and presents us with news of Indian existence. or , He a Spy ?" is an amusing incident of the lateatised when Count Bismarck's strategical reasons The Prussian soldiers to pervade all places. November Meteors" is a poem that is exPr es ioter written. " The Story of a Coquette" ends On the than such tales often do in real life. Yorkshire Hills about Haworth" contains so ns teresting reminiscences of the BrontO 11 c LONDON SOCIETY.--This magazine, as lls u r ent iee tains an interesting repertoire. " St . I ra , nn orie ° Day" is an appropriate paper. What lu ll le does not the name of the dear old saint s ore what memories not all undashed with regre t :0 con curious anecdotes are related of old c ustoms neetiou with this period. " The Forgotten T of t he tine" is rather a peculiar tale, but non% ffair• parties concerned figure very creditably ill sketch 0!_ " Before the Footlights" is a well-drawn u Uncle playhouse society. "An Evening with mY CO unt a furni*hei the uninitiated reader with au 3° THE MAGAZINES. o -- BLACKWOOD.—" The Army" is the name of the first article met with, and it contains some very sensible observations on that very important and inter:sting topic. A comprehensive and practical scheme of Army Reform is indeed most requisite at the present time ; and we agree with the opinion here expressed as to its being of more consequence to us just now than anything else in the way of im provement and attention that the Legislature may deem it necessary to suggest. The consideration of this matter will again be taken up in a future num ber. " Ayrshire Curling Song" is an appropriate poem for the present time : it is spirited and lively. " , The Gay - Science" takes us back to the Trouba dors, and presents us with a pleasing commentary on Mr. Dallas's work on the subject. " Eaves dropping at Biarritz" is an imaginary report of some political speculations that is very ingeniously put forth. "The Turretships of England and America" is another subject that may well engage attention just now, and a hope is expressed that the present Administration may deal with the whole question in a fair and liberal spirit. It is truly said that " mountains of prejudice are in the way of the in ventor nowadays in England, and thus foreign States often get the better of us." " The Working Classes" forms the title of an article which treats of the matter in a comprehensive spirit. It is correctly said that of late years a new cant has arisen, to the effect that the " special class of men who labour with their hands for their daily bread are the best class in the community ; that they are unjustly de prived of representation in Parliament; and if such deprivation be longer continued the consequences may be perilous to the peace, if not to the stability, of the State." This is not the true way of arguing the matter, and it is only done for a purpose, as all experienced politicians are aware. It is curious to notice that in America, where manhood suffrage is the rule, there is not a single mechanic in either House of Congress. " Brown lows," the new tale in this periodical, is continued in a second part, and promises to be an eventful narrative ; already the descriptions are in teresting and the characters well drawn. Some of the scenes are almost dramatic in their vigour and variety, and the prospect before the family seems a charming one, to judge from the particular sketches here drawn. " Democracy in America" refers to the famous passage-at-arms between Blackie and Jones, in a manner that engages notice from the ability with which the subject is treated. " The Union Realised ; or, the True Regimen for Irish Evils," is the title of some verses which are very FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 2.—Two o'clock. The principal occupation to-day is the monthly settlement for Railway shares, foreign, and miscellaneous securi ties. This operation is being carried out with great facility, and rates for "continuation" are very cheap. A deport exists for many securities. The charge on Italian Fives has varied from sc. to par, and on Credit Mobilier shares there is a deport varying from lfr. to 75c. The market is firm. French Threes are at 69fr. sc. Italian Fives are in request at 54fr. 80c., an advance of 30e. Credit Mobilier and Credit Foncier shares are firm at 506 fr. 25c. and 1,465 fr. respectively. The Railway market is also strong, with but little variations. Austrian shares have reached 400 fr., a rise of 2fr. 50c. The cours de compensation has been fixed as follows :—ltalian Fives 54fr. 60c. Credit Mobilier shares 535 fr. Credit Foncier 1,465 fr. Comptoir d'Escompte 780 f. Gas 1,595 fr. Mexican Sixes 21fr. 75e. Turkish has taken place towards Fives 30fr. Bank of France 3,565 fr. Orleans 910 f. Northern 1,195 fr. L y o ns 9 12 fr. 50c. Austrian 297 fr. s )c. L ombard 395 fr. T hre t Three o'clock.—Great c e 1o c closek. —; G o e b a t o buoyancysubjoined are final quota the tions : , 1} per Cents 99 05 Do. and month 3 per Cents. 69 25 Do. end month 22i Credit Mobilier 508 75 Do. end month 508 75 Credit Foncier Do. end month 1490 Bank Shares 3505 Italian Loan 55 Do. end mouth 55 15 Mexican Loan 2l 75 Do. Bonds l4O Spanish Threes Home Debt ....... Deferred ,wial. For Account. Orleans Northern 1195 Lyons and Mediterranean...... Southern 565 Western — Eastern Sardinian — Austrian 4OO Lombard 395 North of Spain — S &rags:J.B E a Ditto to Barcelona — Romau. ERNST SCHuLZ.—We are glad to learn that this clever artiste, who gave a private soiree in the Dudley Gal lery a few weeks ago, has secured the large room at the Egyptian Hall, P iccadilly, for the purpose of giving a series of his extraordinary and novel representations duringthe season. His seances ar e qu i te or i gina l , h um orous, and artistic studies of character, pourtrayed with an amount of dexte rity never before realised by any artiste in this class of en tertainments. ESTIMATE FOR THE NEW LAW COURTS.—The cubical contents of the building at ls. per foot cube give £1,253,626, exclusive of figure scuplture and figure painting. One shilling per foot is taken on the ground that the Foreign Office is being built at ls. Old. per foot, and that the stone fronts there boar a larger proportion to the whole mass th an would be the case at the Law Courts. The contract for Gl asgow Un i vers ity, a less expensively finished buildi ng , gives 7 2 -d. per foot cube ; both materials and labour, however, are cheaper there than in London.— The Builder. DOCKYARD MANAGEMENT. The present Adminis tration is not a whit better satisfied with the manner in which the business is conducted is the Royal dockyards than the one which preceded it, and we cal state that a committee consisting of Lord Henry Lennox, M.P., Chair man, the Comptroller of the Navy, the Accountant -Gone -- rid, and Mr. H. W. R. Walker has been ordered to assem ble with a view of ascertaininc, t h e possibility of not only rendering the accounts more simple, but of saving the public money.—Army an/ Navy Gaz4te. THE SUICIDE AT TUE SALISBURY HOTEL—This morning th e d epu t y - coroner for t h e c ity of London hold an Inquest on the ',body of Mr. Davenport, the gentleman who committed suicide by precipitating himself from out of the third floor windows of the hotel. The domestics of the hotel were ex am i ne d , an d t h e i r ev idence went to show that the deceas e d arr i ve d at the h o t e l the night previous to the melancholy eventobserved about him. H e , and nothing very peculiar was was shown his room , and after giving directions f or th e f o ll ow i n g morning he ret i red for the night. The next thing that was heard of him was his standing outside the third floor win dow. Every effort was made to induce him to return to his room, but without effect. It was stated at the inquest by a brother of the deceased, that he had but lately re turned to Englaad from South America, and that he had while in that country suffered severely from brain fever brought on by the climate. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The bureau of the Chamber of Deputies of Florence have commenced the examination of the project of law for the complete separation of the Church from the State in the kingdom, for the liquidation of the. Church property, and relative to the treaty projected between the Italian Govern ment and a Belgian banking house,. It is expected that a very animated and searching discussion will take place upon those important measures. The official Gazette of the kingdom of Italy pub lishes a decree which annuls all penal action for political offences committed in the kingdom, pro vided that they are not complicated with crimes against the person, property, or the military laws. Prince Napoleon Jerome and the Princess Marie Clotilde yesterday received at the Palais Royal Excel:ency Djemil Pacha, Ambassador from the Sublime Porte ; Baron Pergler de Perglas, Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of Bavaria ; M. Mauvel Monquera, Minister Pleni potentiary from the United States of Columbia ; and M. Taixera de Maceda, Minister Plenipotentiary from has Majesty the Emperor of the Brazils. The Maison Neude of M. Sardon, about which there was so much excitement at the time, it having been hastily withdrawn by the author in consequence of anticipatory criticisms which displeased him, has at length been produced at the Vaudeville. The Emperor and Empress were present at the first re presentation. There seems much diversity of opi nion respecting it among the critics. On the same evening the young Imperial Prince went to Robert Iloudin's theatre. The Emperor has granted `theren actress. an annual pension of 600 f. to the gra n dd aug ht er o f Madame w Dorval, as another the eminent bit e ca Council on Friday at the Tuileries, being the second held last week. The Emperor presided. The Governments of Saze-Altenburg, Schwartz bourg, Rudolstadt, Reuss (younger branch), Lubeck, Hesse Darmstadt, Lippe-Detriold, Hamburg, Mecklenbourg-Strelitz, and Oldenbourg, have an nounced that they consent to the Parliament of tho North being convoked for the 24th of February. The Prussian Government has drawn up com munal regulations for the territory of the ancient free town of Frankfort. These regulations embody the laws which govern the most favoured cities of the kingdom. A letter from Berlin states that the commercial flag of the Confederation of Northern Germany has been definitively fixed upon, and that it will be composed of the colours black, white, and red. The black and white repretieut the colours of Prussia, and the white and red those of the Hanseatic towns. In the middle of the flag the Prussian: eagle will be emblazoned. Colonel Marechal, Baron of the Empire, has just died at Chalons-sur-Saone at the age of 103 years. He gained all his ranks upon the field of battle, and was engaged on several daring and gallant enter- prises. A despatch from the Isthmus of Panama states that on the 27th of December, while the transport The Rhine, of the French Imperial Navy, arrived at Panama, on the Pacific Ocean, for Acapulco, with the soldiers belonging to the expeditionary corps of Mexico, the Imperial corvette Roland was preparing at Aspinwall, in the Atlantic Ocean, to receive those troops which had crossed the Isthmus by railway, so that they might be brought back to France by the shortest and most economical route. A few brief particulars are given respecting the new comet discovered at Marseilles in the constella tion of the ram. It is nearly round and has a brilliant nucleus, which almost neutralises the lightof the tail. It could not be seen on the night of the 23th in consequence of the bad weather. On the nights of the 26th and 28 th of J anuar y regular observa tions were made at Marseilles, when the coiuet appeared to be increasing in brilliancy. At Paris the state of the atmosphere has hitherto prevented any observation, but there was a slight view of it on : he night of the 31st. A range through the Exhibition building even now repays the trouble, for it presents much to attract, amuse, and instruct. The portion destined for the exhibition of the fine arts of Belgium and the Egyptian Palace is nearly finished. The Russian building prominently attracts the eye. It is under the direction of M. Paul Benard, architect, assisted by M. de Gregorovitch, one of the most eminent literary and archaeological men of Russia. This Ex hibition will be composed of two distinct parts, which may now be appreciated by the visitor—