The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-05 00:00:00

fu ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING. WM be performed Li SONRAMPULA. 'Tharairters by Messrs. Elliot Osier, H. Braham, and J. Halford; and Miss Lucy Escott. To be followed by THE SLAVE. Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. 6d.; second circle of boxes arid pit, ls.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; rta la, 43.; private boxes to Admit two persons, 103. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office spen from 10 to 6 daily. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstene. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS. After which, LE GEGARRERA DE SEVILLE. Pere Nena. Followed by COURT FAVOUR. After which, THE SPANISH DANCERS. To he followed by OLYMPUS LN A MUDDLE ; or , Wrong People in Wrong Places. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C.Asa.se KRAN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha rine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE BATAL ADELPHI; Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directreas, Mulams Ueda. THIS EVENING, Will be performed VICTORINE. After which, HOW'S YOUR UNCLE ? To conclude with NORMA. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of lfr; Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be performed VICTORINE. Characters by Messrs. Kin loch, Ashley, Shalders. &c. ; Mesdames Summers and Bummer. Followed by EL TONADOR, After which, FOUNDED ON FACTS. To which yrill be added trisTA NOCHE DE FIESTA EN SEVILIA. To conclude with the WATER WITCHES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Lord Evron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE, with all its original effects and splendid spectacle arrangements. After which, the Equestrian EXERCISES in the ARENA, in vented by Mr. William Coeke. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Rog-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, 'fr. W. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tiu J)AY—Morn. 17 min. aft. B.—Evening 1 min. aft. 9 TO-MORROW—Morn. 47 min. aft. 9—Evening 31min. aft. 10 Hg WEATHER—boa Ovrwa, Sept. 5. THERMOMETER, IN THE SEAM 68 highest since noon yesterday. 56 —lowest this morning and during the night. 68 —this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30. Virrvrt •• N E —Sliaht breeze, with d u ll weather. 7:4 1 .1 • j • .4.4,119‘ dor , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1855. Are the Allied armies new in the Crimea the besiegers or the besieged ? This is a question of considerable importance at the present moment, and the answer may not be altogether satisfactory to the British community, or quite in accordance with our preconceived notions on the subject. It is true that a demonstration has been made against Sebastopol, that it has been repeatedly bombarded, and sundry attacks have been made on its outer defences. But the chief condition of a siege has been wanting. It has never been completely invested. From the very commence ment of the attack it has maintained communica tions with a relieving army and the open country, which have never been, even for a single hour, interrupted. The garrison were thus enabled to receive constant supplies of men, ammunition, and provisions. All the resources of the Crimea and of Russia were available for its use. Relays of fresh soldiers were ready to take the place of those exhausted by over-fatigue, and 'ample rations were supplied, at least, until the operations in the Sea of Azoff blocked up the principal channel by which they could be obtained. They still, however, although nominally besieged, keep up their communications with the army stationed on the Mackenzie heights, and can receive from it assistance of any descrip tion that may be required. Both may be united at any hour either within or outside the town, wherever combined action may be considered ad visable, and bear with all their force on any chosen point of attack. On the other hand, the allied troops are at pre sent cooped up within their lines. They have the complete command of the sea, and can therefore receive reinforcements at pleasure. But they can not venture into the open country. They are, in fact, more completely hemmed in than the garrison of Sebastopol; and that, although their forces far exceed those of the enemy—and they have nearly 200,000 men in the aggregate to oppoa,e to less than 150,000 ! The numerical superiority is, however, of but little practical advantage, when they cannot so arrange their operations as to prevent the co-operation of the relieving army and the garrison, or, what would be better still, cut off the supplies from both, and besiege not Sebastopol itself, but, to a certain extent, at least, the army which recently ventured to attack the allied position on the Tchernava. We have already indicated how this important operation may be accomplished. A junction could easily be effected with the Turkish troops at Eupatoria, and a sufficient force established to meet any attack of the Russians, and place their army on the Mackenzie heights between two fires. Half the men now in the trenches could maintain the operations against Sebastopol, while the resi due, if despatched to Eupatoria, would not only be able to defend themselves against any Russian attack, but could themselves assume the initia tive, and commence offensive operations against the Russian army. But if this is to be done, it should be done quickly. The favourable season is rapidly wear ing away. A few weeks only rennin during which it would be possible for an army to take the field, and operate in the rear of the Musco vites. Every hour is precious. It is a golden opportunity, which, if neglected or misapplied, cannot possibly be retrieved. " The light cloud" is passing o'er the moon, and the result may be of a very serious description, if we still display a degree of apathy and indifference similar to that for which we have already obtained so unhappy a notoriety. But, even if such a diversion should not 'be attempted, something at least may be done to block up the freedom of communication between army and the north s id e of Se b astopol. the cove r i ng While that is maintained ,pomplete success cannot be anticipated. Even though the Malakhoff should yield to our repeated onslaughts, and we should be thereby enabled to destroy the scanty remnant of the Russian Fleet, and to drive the enemy from the South side, our task would not yet be accomplished. We should merely find heap of ruins, which would be just as untenable by ourselves as by the enemy. The northern. forts would still command the position, and until they had been silenced and destroyed the labour and expenditure should be continued, without cessation or intermission. The fleet might cer tainly render im..Tortant services —but we do not, and cannot, ente; 7tain any sanguine hopes of naval triumphs while F_4ir C. WOOD remains at the head of the Admiralty. However daring may be our Admirals, tli ere is that paralysing influence at head-quarter s that will Flynt the possibility of any great exploits by the British Navy. That they will repel any attack is certain. But some thing of a more active description has been looked for by those who place confidence in our "wood en walls," and are accustomed to indulge in the fond delusion that Britannia really " rules the waves." A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-offi ce , D own i ng - street. I t was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panmure, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, and the Earl of Hari owby. The council sat three hours. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yester day to the Governors of the Australian colonies. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester will remain at the Ranger's Lodge, Richmond Park, until the Ist proximo, when the Royal Duchess returns to Gloucester House for a short period, after which her Royal Highness will repair to Brighton for a residence of three weeks or a month. Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, accompanied by her youthful family, will close her visit to the Duchess of Cambridge in a few days, and take her departure for Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton have left Hamil ton Palace, Lanarkshire, for Brodick Castle, Arran, where the noble duke and duchess will entertain a suc cession of distinguished visitors during the shooting season. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, who have been on visits to the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, at Car ton House, Maynooth, and the Earl of Carlisle, in Dub lin, arrived at Woburn Abbey, Beds, yesterday, from Holyhead. Next month the noble alike and duchess commence to see company at Woburn Abbey, and will receive a constant succession of guests until after Christ mas. We shall then look forward anxiously for news from the Crimea, and for the indications at home whichmay enable us to f orm to l era b ly correct gues s ea as to the nature of the coming intelli gence. To permit the operations above alluded to, to be properly carried out, ample reinforcements should be despatched from France and England. The exertions made by the Russian Government to meet the exigencies of the war should be ri valled by those of the Allied Powers. No means should be spared to conquer the peace that is so desirable, if it can be obtained on honourable terms, and with a reasonable prospect of perma nency. If the clergy, and we include the ministers of every creed, had their own way we should have a prettily governed country of it. Accustomed to pronounce on subjects of the highest moment, and, in most cases, to meet with unqualified as sent, the delusion of individual infallibility too often steals over them, and leads them to pronounce with equal confidence on matters in which the laity are better judges than themselves. And it is remarkable, when they do so, how ready they are to look to the secular power for the enforce ment of their views—views which, generally speaking, lag far behind the spirit of the age. This, for obvious reasons, has been peculiarly observable in the clergy of the Establishment, and as a case in point, we would call attention to the deliverance of a Committee of Convocation on the question of Church Rates. Now, this impost is generally deemed impolitic, as everybody knows has no sanction in Scripture, and, as many be lieve, is opposed to its spirit. This much is cer tain, that it has disturbed the peace of a thousand parishes, and occasioned an infinite amount of ill will, while its actual enforcement has hauled many an honest man to prison, confiscated a vast amount of hard-earned property, brought misery to many a well-ordered home, cooled the zeal of many a Churchman, and s•wn an iiveterate hatred among others to the establishment whose interest the impost was designed to serve. It is hardly possible that the clergy, as a body, could be ignorant of all this. The Duchess of Buccleuch has arrived at Montague House, Whitehall, from Carlsbad, in, we are happy to learn, greatly improved health. The Earl of Dalkeith, M.P., came to London from Scotland to meet the duchess on her arrival from the continent. The duchess, accompanied by the earl, leaves in a few days for Dal keith Palace, near Edinburgh. The police books show that 741,374 foreigners visited Paris during the Queen's stay. Mdlle. Rachel and her troupe have arrived in New York. The Grand Opera, it is said, contemplates the revival of Roeini's Moise, in honour of the illustrious composer, now in Paris. M. Billetta's new opera, the rehearsals of which were for some time interrupted, have been resumed at the Grand Opera, where it stands for the first novelty. Among other marks of consideration of which Mme. Ri3tori has been the object in Paris, lshe bad the honour to receive a special invitation for the late ball given to her Majesty Queen Victoria at the Hotel de Ville. Mme. Plessy is suffering from indisposition, happily slight, but yet sufficiently severe to retard her appear ance at the Frangais for some little time. M. Thalberg, says an Italian paper, is at present at Rio Janeiro ; where by the last advices he was about to give a series of six concerts. The Piedmontese Gazette states that the soldiers of the Anglo-Swiss legion have sent 300 f. to the authorities of the canton of Valais, for the relief of the sufferers by the earthquakes. REMINISCENCES OF HANoo.—Many of the shot and shell thrown into the fortress of Sweaborg were marked " Hancro" by the sailors, who were bent on revenging that unlawful massacre. The cholera is so violent at Cataneo, in Sicily, that there is a regular panic. Every one is escaping into the open country or woods, and trade is completely stagnant. The Midland Counties' Illustrated News, a newspaper started in Birmingham a few weeks ago, price 2d., ceased to exist on Saturday last. THE VACANT PROVOSTSHIP OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.—It is rumoured that the Rev. W. Thomson, M.A., Rector of All Saints, St. Marylebone, is likely to succeed the late Rev. Dr. Fox, in the Headship of Queen's College, Oxford. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—Yesterday morn ing (Tues lay) intelligence reached Oxford of the awfully sudden death of the Rev. George Riggs, M.A., and late Fellow of Queen's College, who expired at the rectory, Charlton-on-Otmoor, near Oxford, on the previous day. It is stated that a guard of honour from the Royal Perthshire Rifles is to be despatched to Balmoral, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to her Highland resi dence, and to be stationed there during her stay. THE CONVICT HACKETT._lnformation was received on Monday, in the City, of the execution of this notori ous convict, for stabbing the turnkey at the gaol in New York, where he was undergoing a long term of imprison ment for burglary. GRAVESEND REGATTA.—Some thousands of persons assembled yesterday at Gravesend, to witness the annual contest there for a handsome new coat, and other prizes, given by the nobility and gentry, inhabitants of Graves. end, Milton, and its vicinity. The coat was won by Thomas Marshall. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK.—A large quantity of arms has very recently been forwarded to Sir James Brooke, K.C.8., Rajah of Sarawak. It may be inferred, there fore, that something of importance will soon be heard from that quarter. The Hon. Adolphus Chichester died a few days since, at the early age of thirty. He was the brother of Lord Templemore, and grandson to the late Lord Anglesea. THE NEW NAVAL UNIFORM.—We understand that no decision has as yet been come to in reference to the new naval dre-s, but it is thou g ht th a t a very extensive change will take place. There will be a reduction, if not a total abolition of lace, as in the army. OUR AMBASSADOR AT VIENNA.— Voss',3 Gazette of Berlin, under date of Berlin, 29th ult., says :—" The Countess of Westmoreland returned here the day before yesterday from Ischyl. The- Earl has given up his in tention of retiring from public life, and will shortly re sumo his post at Vienna." The cost of the lighting of Versailles during the splendid fete given to her Majesty was 6,520/. The ball given at the Hotel-de-Ville cost 12,000/, A MORMON "SAINT" AND HIS WlVES._Orson Hyde, one of the Mormon saints, was lately in St. Louis for the purpose of marrying 12 more wives to whom he is affianced. DEATH OF SIR RICHARD BURTON.—This venerable knight died on Monday last, the 3d, at his re-idence, Sackett 's-hill House, Margate, in the Isle of Thanet. Sir Richard Burton was son of Sir S. Burton, Knt., of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was born in 1773. He mar ried, in 1802, the only daughter of the late R. Cr dts. Eeq., of Dumpton House, near Broadstairs, Is!e of Thanet. A FRANK REQUEST.—On her reeent visit to France, one of the very first things Victoria asked the Emperor was, to enable her to visit the ruins of Neuilly, and also the Chapelle St. Ferdinand, containing the tomb of the Due d'Orleans, adding, frankly and nobly, that it was a promise she had made to Queen Marie Ainelie before leaving England. The desire was of course acceded to, the Emperor himself accompanying her to Neuilly. MR. JUSTICE WlLLES.—Yesterday Mr. Justice Willes "sat the chambers, and, as on t h e other days of his at tendance, disposed of a good many summonses. Mr. Baron Martin was the vacation judge, and was relieved by Mr. Justice Willes on the termination of his circuit. Although this period of the year is called " the long s a,cation," there is a good deal of common law business, and the summonses taken out related to causes in pro gress. Mr. Justice Willes will take his seat on the bench at Westminster Hall, for the first time, at the commencement of the ensuing Michaelmas term. The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Mus4e Napoleon, at Amiens, took place on Sunday. Count de Beaumont, senator, had been deputed by the Emperor to preside at the ceremony, at which were also present the Prefect of the Somme, the Bishop of Amiens, the authorities, the members of the Society of Antiquaries 'of Picardy, and a number of the principal inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood. Several appropriate speeches were delivered on the occasion, after which an inscription, commemorative of the event, and a number of coins of the present year were sealed up in a leaden box, and placed beneath the foundation stone, which received the usual benediction of the clergy.—Galignani. THE LATH MURDER AT THE BRISTOL lIOTWELLS. BRISTOL, Sept. 4.—A rumour was current this morning in several quarters of the city, that the police had suc ceeded in tracing out the author of the murder of the unfortunate girl Melinda Payne, of whose melancholy and mysterious death we have already, from time to time, given particulars. The statement of the arrest of the murderer is premature, but it is true that a circum stance has been brought to light which, although in it self comparatively trifling, will, it is hoped, lead to im portant results. UNION OF MALTA WITH THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA BY MEANS OF THE SUBMARINE ELECTRIC WIRE.—A pro ject has been submitted by Signor Bonelli, of Turin, to his Excellency the Governor of Malta, and by him to the British Government, to execute in two months, at the expense of 10 ,0001., the junction of Malta with Cagliari by one of the telegraph cables of his own con struction. Lord Panmure has received the proposal most favourably, and has requested the governor to be informed, without loss of time, what portion of the esti mated amount would be contributed by the island Trea sury, in the event of the proposal being sanctioned by the authorities at home. Signor Bonelli has also pro posed a more extendtal plan of operations by continuing the chain to Candia, and from thence two branch lines —the one to the Dardanelles, the other to Alexandria in Egypt. This latter course would, it is estimated, re quire 60,0001., and 6 months' time. ATTEMPT TO UPSET A MAIL TRAIN. —Yesterday (Tuesday) William Cooper, a platelayer, in the service of the Midland Railway Company, was brought before J. G. Cottingham, Esq., one of the magistrates for the county of Derby, at the Municipal Hall, Chesterfield, charged with having maliciously attempted to displace a rail on the above line about 300 yards south of the Ches terfield station. It was shown in evidence that on Fri day afternoon, about ten minutes past four o'clock, the prisoner went into a siding box on the line occupied by a pointsman named George Gilberthorpe, and obtained possession of a connecting rod, a bar of iron perhaps 6 or 7 feet long, with which he went up the line and shortly afterwards returned it, not being applicable for his pur pose. He then got possession of a long iron crowbar used for raising the sleeper 4, and prooeeded up the line with it. He was shortly afterwards observed striking at the rails by the pointsman Gilberthorpe, who called out to a labourer who was working at the Wingerworth iron works, and they both went up to the prisoner, when the b r e a r i t i s h o to r p t e h , e w s - h l e o e pe r s l observedlying s o e n v e t r h a key el ground, n d, which asked tastes the prisoner what he was doing, the other man (Hall) seizing the crowbar from him. The prisoner said he wanted to tthhee keys e t y a s k c e od n u i d n i t t bh o e custody.ou replaced i and it permed over the rails at full . T kn h o e e m k a a il t p r o a i i n n t ca o m ut e . s ' to be done." The thing ; I only wish I bad, but it . beforeuplie was for this outrageous only reason the prisoner could give dent. The prisoner afterwards s h a a id sP ` le l have done no thingaccident casting reflections on him, and that an oc curred,re in an improper state, the attempt to upset a train was that the . gauger had been and the rails we blame would rest on the gauger and not on him. The Let us see how they are affected by the know ledge, and what the recommendation of a Com mittee, which may fairly be taken to represent Convocation, is on this matter—one, let it be re membered, that does not merely affect church people only, but the entire community. Graciously limiting the scope of church-rates to the mainte nance of the fabric and the church-yard in decent orderand substantial repair, the committee, having " bowels of mercy" of course for all men—with apostolic simplicity and charity, pronounce that— " In order to enforce the payment of rates so limited, it is expedient to adopt the course of pro ceeding recommended in the Report of the Royal Commission appointed in 1830." Enforce ! of course by kindly persuasion and the authority of apostolic devotion and self-sacrifice. Not exactly. The churchwarden was to make his estimate, and ask for his rate, and if the vestry refused it he was to appeal to Quarter Sessions, who might make it in spite of the vestry ; and if the vestry made the rate, any ratepayer might appeal against it, the ultimate fixing and ordering of the rate ii, , any case resting on Quarter Sessions, on whose authority it was to be collected on the same assessment, and enforced by the same means and remedies as poor-rates ! Everybody knows what these are. Well might Sir GEORGE GREY refuse to grant the canon necessary for the reconstruction of the Lower House of Convoca tion with such a prozf of the utter incompetency of that body for wholesome legislation ! Justice, conscientious scruples, the expression of popular feeling, the BRAINTREE case, all the mischief, spoliation, and misery hitherto inflicted and likely to ensue, everything connected with the impost— that by Christian men and patriotic citizens ought to have been regarded—coolly ignored, and an invidious and more compulsory law recommended —one that will convert a recusant into an offender against the State ! From such a spectacle we turn away in almost as much pity as disgust, those memorable words all the while ringing in our ears, " My kingdom is not of this world," and "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves." HEAVEN save us from Convocation and all parsonic legislation ! A FRIENDLY LOAN OF ONE .HUNDRED MILLION RUBLES TO RUSSIA. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, in hie letter dated yesterday evening, says :—" Having drainer the country by every means, direct and indirect, the Government of St. Petersburg has despatched agents v. get up a sort of secret loan of 100 millions of rubles. The headquarters of those agents appears to be at Berlin, and, if my information be correct, the' loan will be assisted by certain Governments friendly to Russia. Royal personages, it is said, have contributed from their nriv ate purse. This is not remarkable, for the cause of Russia is the cause of many small European Sovereigns. who see their own destruction in the fall of Russiar, prestige. DEATH OF THE " BELFAST CHRONICLE."" —This old paper died on Friday last. It will have been noticed that Prince G-ortschakoff, while admitting in his report that the loss upon his side on the 16th was severe, omits to return the numbers. The Military Gazette of Vienna, a journal not likely to overstate the Russian reverse, says that besides the three generals killed, the Russian army lost 1,451 killed, including 45 officers, and 4,875 wounded. THE QUEEN AND THE LAPDOG.-011 leaving Boulogne the Queen suddenly perceived she had left behind a fa vourite little lap dog, and expreved her very great re gret thereat. No notice was taken apparently beyond sympathy, but electricity and steam were made to per form their seemingly impossible feats, and, when the Queen entered her boudoir at St. Cloud, the first thing ,h e saw was her lapdog, that jumped forward to meet her. _ Sr. BARTHOLOMEW'S FAIR.—On Monday, after an existence of many centuries, the once renowned fair of St. Bartholomew expired. No.proclamation took place, nor was the ancient court of peed pouclre for the hearing and determining disputes arising in the fair held ; the " Saints' Bell," in Old St. Bartholomew's Church, which has for time immemorial sounded only on the proclama tion of the fair, was silent, and its occupation is now gone. ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF CANDLES, SUGAR, &c.—A general metropolitan advance in the price of white and brown sugar, and also candles, took place on Monday. For the latter article, which has hitherto been at 61d. per lb., an advance of ld. has taken place, and for brown and white sugar the increase has been ld. per lb. ; added to this, intimation has been given to shopkeepers that an advance will take place in that most valuable commodity—salt. Tui MAlLS.—Southampton, Tuesday. —The Peninsu lar and Oriental Company's steam ship Euxine, Captain Joy, left this day with the East India and China mails, a general cargo, and 72 passengers, amongst whom were Major Tapp, Col. Lage, Brigadier General Mayne, Lieu t. Colonel Ryle, Capt. Smith, Ensign Hunter, &c. Tip Euxine takes out the following amount of specie—for India and China, 524,4611. ; for Alexandria, 25,1201. for Malta, 50,000/.—Total, 599,5811. THE CIOLERA IN SOIITHWA.RIC. —ln consequence of several cases of bowel complaint and diarrhcea, the first symptoms of Asiatic cholera, having been made known to the guardians of the St. Saviour's Union, yeste:- day bills were posted throughout the whole of the Union, notifying that medical g en tl emen h a d b een appoint e d i n eac h di str i ct, to whom all persons were earnestly such( symptom, to apply o n th e fi rs t appearance o f without th e s li g ht es t d e l ay. UR NAVA L AND M ILITARY EXPENDITURE IN 1854.—A return moved for by Mr. Wilson gives detailed accounts p tandex p s e e n rv d i i c t e u a re fn f r o navy,r the ea army, r t my t , h commis 3i. t g o a f r t i a h t e c , r a e n d e i ordnanc ef March, 1854. It s h ows that the ex y pendi o ture e for s the o navy amounted to 7,197,8041., being 77, 09 91- in excess sef the estimates ; for the army, - 6,503,750/ , bein g 218,290 1 . under the estimates ; for the commissariat serviced, 617,0271., and f or the ordnanceservices 3,053,5671., being 61,582/. leas th an the sum granted.' The items of these accounts in detail cover a space of nearly 90 pages. prisoner has also stated that he was drunk, but this was not believed. The prisoner was committed for trial at the ensuing county sessions at Derb in October nest. TRE SUN, LONDON, WED NES A Y SEPTEMBER 5, 1855 sidered as a thing decided on. It is stated that before his marriage the Prince Regent will be invested with all the rights of his elder brother, who continues ill, and will also take the title of Grand Duke of Baden. The negotiations which have been going on for years past at Rome fur the purchase of the Caffarelli Palace for the Prussian Legation have just been concluded. It is intended to construct in this building a chapel for the use of the Protestants sojourning at Rome. The young Prince Frederic-William of Prussia, the heir presump tive to the Crown, has just been made a Colon?l. The mancvuvres of the guard having terminated to-day, the men who have accomplished their period of service are about to be dismissed ; but this will make ❑o difference in the effective strength of the army, as those who are discharged will be immediately replaced by the new re cruitment. The Prussian cloth manufacturers of the province of Saxony have lately received extensive order■ on account of the Ottoman Government." LITERATURE. The Chemistry of Common Life. 2 vols. By James F. W. Johnston. Blackwood and Sons. Professor Johnston we have come to look upon— (luring the course of our attentive and delighted perusal of these two beautiful volumes of popu larised philosophy —with those mingled senti ments of admiration and gratitude which are the meed of a national benefactor. For, as to our view, it is peculiarly to works of this elevated and instructive character that we may look the most confidently, as to the surest means for the more general diffusion of knowledge among the population. The learned author, of what he has happily designated, upon his title page, " The Chemistry of Common Life," has as sumed, in truth, by this single publication, a prominent position among those emi nent men of whom we took occasion to speak only the other day as sages deserving well of their country— philosophers who have de scended from the porch into the marketplace for the purpose of scattering broadcast among the multitude, the largesaof wisdom, those pearls and precious stones of Truth which have fallen to their possession from the lips of the Divine Goddess, as of old, around her footsteps, from the fabled mouth of the Arabian Princess. Illustrious among these self-appointed instructors of the people are men of mark and genius, no less distin guished in their several departments than those eminent masters of learning whose names have become, as it were, synonymous with one or other of the higher branches of erudition—names associated indissolubly with one or other of the loftier among the fruit-bearing boughs of the tree of knowledge. In this manner, Electricity has by no one been more signally advanced as a science than by Michael Faraday, while by no one have its abstruse prin ciples been brought home with more exquisite lucidity to the grasp of the popular apprehension. Precisely the same may be said in reference to the intellectual labours applied by David Brewster to the study of optics—by John Hind to that of astronomy—by Richard Whateley to that of logic —by William Whewell to that of mathematics— by Richard Owen to anatomy—by Charles Lyell to geology—by Southwood Smith to pathology— and so likewise by other celebrities yet happily numbered in the ample catalogue of still surviving contemporaries. Conspicuous in this catalogue may now be ranked the name of James Johnston, as that of the writer of these charming and brilliant chapters upon chemistry—" The Chemistry of Common Life"—henceforth, we conjecture, to be regarded as the recognised and authoritative manual upon subjects either chemical or physiological. Nothing could well be more singularly felicitous besides than the scheme of the whole work, as it has been here planned out by the hand of Professor Johnston. It assumes no lofty tone as an esoteric medium for exoteric instruction. It undertakes to speak of some among the more extraordinary of the wonders of nature, not grandiously, not didacti cally, but with the utmost simplicity, and, so to express it, even colloquially. In one chapter, for example, it tells us of "The Air we Breathe, and the Water we Drink;" in another Lf "The Soil we Cultivate, and the Plant we Rear" ; in another of " The Bread we Eat, and the Beef we Cook" ; in another of "The Odours we Enjoy, and the Smells we Dislike." Several distinct chapters again, re lating to " The Beverages we Infuse"—ac quaint us with the multifarious peculiarities of i the teas, the cocoas, and the coffees. "The sweetswe Extract," refer successively to the grape and cane, the manna and milk sugars. " The Liquors we Fer ment," to the beers, the wines, and the brandies. " The Narcotics we indulge in," to coca, and to bacco, to the poppy and the lettuce, to the hop and its substitutes, to the betel nuts and the pepper. worts, to Indian hemp, the thorn apples, and the Siberian fungus, to sweet gale, and the rhododen drons, to common henbane, the emetic-holly, and the deadly nightshad Apart from all which, or rather perhaps it should be said more accurately, in continuation and direct elucidation of all which, our author explains to us with incomparable luci dity—" The Body we Cherish," in all its involved and complicated mechanism, defining with infinite precision " What we Breathe and what we Breathe For," as well as " What, How, and Why we Di gest," crowning his high intellectual labours with a masterly solution of the great problem of " The Circulation of Matter," a problem here solved through the medium of the two concluding essays entitled "A Recapitulation." It would be difficult for any one but the merest, dullard to peruse the thirtieth chapter (vol. ii.) of " The Chemistry of Cctuunon Life," beginning with page 359 and terminating with page 364, without acquiring from those few graphic sentences a per fectly clear appreciation of the whole of the elabo • rate process of digestion, and through that an accurate notion of the great leading points to be borne in mind by the physiological investigator. Any one, so inclined, may afterwards extend his knowledge upon the subject of our human ana tomy, very readily and very delightfully, by an ex amination of that exquisite little anatomical treatise, published originally, we believe, in the United States, but reprinted by Messrs. Parker and Son, of West Strand, in the accessible and portable form of a cheap little pocket-volume, quaintly entitled, " The House I live in." As a preliminary to the perusal of that charming treatise, however, commend us, and let us in our turn commend others, to the chapter already mentioned as adorning the second volume of Professor Johnston's "Chemistry of Common Life," a chapter preceded and followed by others of a kindred character—from the reading of which may be derived a mass of valuable and cu rious information. Regarding bread and meat as the staples of oar ordinary nutriment, it will pro bably be matter of surprise to the uninitiated to know that from each of those apparently very dissimilar substances the same kinds of nourish ments are extracted by the organs of digestion—the bread consisting of gluten, starch or fat, and salin e matter, the beef of fibrin, fat and saline matter— both of them being gradually reduced, after bei ng swallowed, first of all to a greyish, gruel-like, slightly acid food-pulp, called chyme, and ultimately to a milky fluid termed chyle, the material employed for the reparation of all the wear and tear con stantly going on, more or less rapidly, throughout the whole of our intricate framework. Conveyed down the gullet or oesophagus, after being duly im pregnated with the warm saline liquid expressed from the salivary glands by the muscular move ment produced in the process of mastication, th e food, whether animal or vegetable, is known to be prepared for the more important organs of diges tion by the influence of a peculiar organic com pound contained in the saliva, a compound called the property of changing ptyalin, possessingthe starch of the food into sugar. Constituting as it does only 1-500th part of the entire weight of the saliva, not more than from fifteen to twenty grains of this subtle and potent ptyalin are swal lowed within the twenty-four hours. Neverthe less, so important an element is it in the process of digestion, that too much stress can hardly be laid upon the advisability of careful mastication, so that every mouthful of nourishment may be pro perly saturated with this wondrous mixture of saliva and ptyalin before its passage down the oesophagus. Conveyed - by means of this channel into the stomach, the food already prepared by mastication, broken up by the teeth and softened by the saliva and ptyalin, is still further advanced in the process of digestion by the solvent influence of the gastric juice, which is to the stomach itself what the saliva is to the mouth, and which contains within it a peculiar organic substance called pepsin, analogous in its action to that carried on as we have seen at an earlier stage by the ptyalin. About 60 or 80 ounces of this gastric juice mixed with its proportion of pepine, are presumed to be poured into the stomach of a well-fed grown man within the 24 hours. Reduced by its action to the greyish pulp already mentioned as chyme, the food in that form passes out of the stomach through the aper ture named the pylorus into the first portion of the intestines, a portion designated (from its length being about 12 inches) the duodenum. Here the chyme becomes perfected into chyle by admixture with bile conveyed through a small tube from the liver into the intestine : with the pancreatic juice conveyed thither by a similar means from the sweet bread : and with a half liquid slimy mucus exuding from the surface of the intestine itself, a fluid exudation called the intestinal juice, or suc cus entericus. Intermingled with these three liquid s Yniee as it passes onward fr om th e stomac h , I t , l e ie c o chyme, metamorphosed from a gre yi s h pu l p i nto c m a milky fluid, the chyle, which is then carried on from the duodenum into the jejunum, and along the whole intervolved channel of the smaller in testines --during its passage along which its nutri tive portions are taken up by a multiplicity of absorbent vessels, the lacteals, and the lymphatics. The lac teals, or milk-bearers gradually uniting together as they ascend, terminate in the thoracic duct—a vessel, in man, about as large as a goose quill—emptying their pearly contents through the thoracic duct into the jugular vein, where the chyle, united with the blood, flows into the right auricle of the heart (an organ acting neously as a pump an d as a c h ur n, as a main spring simulta neously as a pendulum) whence, passing into the right ventricle, it is forced into the lungs for the purpose of purification by being brought into direct contact with the oxygen of the atmo s p h ere. Returning from the lungs, the newly oxygenised Flood passes into the left auricle, thence into the left ventricle, and so through the grand channel of the aorta, on from the heart to the extremities. In a full-grown man the blood weighing from LAT EST NEWS. The following telegraphic despatch has been received at St. Petersburg from Prince Gort- schakoff : SEBASTOPOL, Ara. 20 (SEPT. 1). The fire of the enemy continues as before. There is nothing new. VIENNA, TUESDAY EYENING, SEPT. 4. The following news bas been received here, dated Constantinople, August 30 : Mehemet Ali has been appointed Capudan Pasha, in the stead of Halil Pasha. Other changes are expected. Lord Stratford de Radcliffe has returned from the Crimea. Omer Pasha leaves on the Ist of September. There is no news of importance from Anatolia. The Contingent, under General Vivian, re mains for the present at Constantinople. BERLIN, SEPT. 3, EirsmNo. In the morning of the 27th all the remainder of the allied fleet before Cronstadt weighed anchor and stood out to sea. HAMBURG, SEPT. 3. Three sail of the line, a. frigate, and two steamers, forming part of the allied fleet before Cronstadt, weighed and stood out to sea on the 26th, It is thought that the remainder of the fleet will soon follow. MADRID, SEPT. 3. A report that General Zapatro was to be re placed is unfounded. The Government is satis fied with his services. The receipts of the Trea sury during the month of July were good. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, 10.30 A.M. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Indus, Captain Soy, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, has arrived in the river. Her mails, passengers, ac., will be landed about mid-day. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. BOURSE, SEPT. 4.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. e. End of Vonth. 4l per Cents 95 25 95f. 25c. 3 per Cents 66 80 66 95 Credit Mobilier 1425 Roman Credit Fonder — Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes...... Piedmontese — Home Debt — RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. tr. C. Orleans Western 827 50 Strasburg Cette 760 Havre — Mediterranean 1335 CtherburQ Northern Lyons_ lllO Austrian C0in....... 742 50 RUSSIA. A letter from Warsaw of the 28th ult. says :-- " According to Russian accounts, the corps of Gre nadiers forming the reserve has not yet entered the Crimea, and will only go there to take part in the first offensive operation of the Russians. It is an error that the garrison of Sebastopol has been doubled, and it is scarcely possible that it should be, inasmuch as for several months the garrison has been 60,000 strong. The corps of Panuitin no longer bears his name ; it is at present called the corps of Ofrosinoff, from the name of its new chief. The report that two divisions of infantry of the guard are proceeding from Poland and Lithuania towards the Crimea, and that they are to be replaced by militia, gains credit. Public opinion in Russia demands that the troops d'elite of the guard and the grenadiers, which have not yet seen the enemy, shall be employed in the war. The people imagine that the allies cannot resist these corps united to the militia." TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople, of the 25th ult., says :—" The Turks are to day celebrating the fets of Courban-Bairam. The Sultan, surrounded by his high dignitaries, went this morning in great state to the mosque of the Sultan Achmet, and with his own hand offered a sacrifice of three rams. He then returned with the same cortege to the Palace at Seraglio Point, where the cere. mony of kissing the fringe on the throne took place. In former days it was the foot of the throne that was kissed, but the present Sultan has changed it to kissing the fringe, which is held up by some attendants for the convenience of those who are admitted to pay this compliment to their sovereign." A letter from Jerusalem, of the 18th ult., in the Moniteur, says : " The civic discords which for several years have constantly desolated Palestine lately assumed such a serious character as to call for the employment of force. Certain powerful Cheiks of the cantons of Napolose and Hebron broke out in open revolt and committed deplor able excesses. Fortunately, however, there was to ensemble in their movements. The mountain of Napo lose was promptly pacified, and Kiamil Pacha was able to concentrate all his efforts against the Cheik Abdur rahman-Amer, who kept Hebron, as it were, besieged. The governor took the field with 300 regulars, some hundreds of horsemen,' 1,00 Arab contingents, and four pieces of artillery. The insurgent Chalks retired before him, and fortified themselves in Idhna, one of their principal villages, where they threw up entrench. ments. After a week's useless negotiations during which time numerous reinforcements were preparing to come and take part in the revolt, Kiamil Pacha was obliged to use his artillery against the -entrench ments, and, in spite of an obstinate resistance, to carry the village by assault. Seventy of the rebels were taken prisoners, 22 were killed, and a great number wounded. The village itself was destroyed. The effect produced by this vigorous act has been very great on the half savage inhabitants of the country. The great majority of the insurgent Cheiks came immediately and made their submission, and paid the arrear of the tribute which they had refused to pay for the last three years. On leaving Hebron, Kiamil Pasha was to pass along the plains be tween Ghazza and Kamleh, where considerable outrages have been committed and some blood shed. He will, it is said, reach Jerusalem in about a fortnight. AUSTRIA. We read in a letter from Vienna of the 30th ult., ,n the Constitutionnel : " Baron de Bruck undertook in the month of March last the Ministry of Finance, vacant by the resignation of Baron de Baumgartner. With a well-arranged budget no one would have administered better, or with more probity and strictness, the public revenue than the latter. But in presence of a constantly-increasing deficit, and when recourse to bold combinations was necessary, Baron de Baumgartner could only employ palliatives, and by means of them he had nearly rendered the evil incurable. With a courage which cannot be sufficiently appreciated, Baron de Bruck, after having carefully examined the situation of the treasury, avowed frankly to the Emperor that Austria, by persisting in the system which she had followed, would inevitably become bank rupt. He was of opinion that, in order to promptly re-establish order in the finances, it was necessary to reduce by more than one half the effective force of the army. However, on taking into account political cir cumstances which prevented the employment of such a radical measure, Baron de Bruck undertook, by the aid of other measures and financial reforms, to provide for the current and future service, provided the War budget was immediately reduced by about 60,000,000 florins (150,000,000 fr.) Such is the sole and veritable cause of the partial disarming which the Emperor of Austria, before undert a ki ng his journey to inspect the army on the Russian frontiers, was obliged to sanction." A letter from Vienßa, of the 30th ult,, says : " For some days past there has been great activity in diplomatic relations. M. de Bourqueney and Prince Gortschakoff have passed the whole of the afternoon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The reply of the Imperial Cabinet to the last Russian circular was sent off to-day to St. Petersburg. The Ambassador of Austria at Berlin, Prince Esterhazy, is to return to his post to morrow. The Russian privy councillor, Count Tengo barski, who has been here for some days, is to leave to morrow for St. Petersburg. In a few days the new councillor of the Russian legation, M. de Balabine, who is to replace M. F enton, is expected here. I t i s aga i n said that M. de B ourqueney will take t h ree wee k s holi day in the course of September. New plans of finance continue to be discussed by the government ; the idea of completely re-organising the bank, and of getting rid of the obligations to it, gains favour. M. de Bruck proposes, besides, t o se ll the ra il ways an d m i nes o f all the provinces, and to increase the taxes." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the Ist, in the Debats, says : " The marriage of the Prince Regent of Baden with the only daughter of the Prince of Prussia is now con• EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria of the 25th ult., in the Moniteur, says:— " Quiet has not been restored in Upper Egypt. The insurgents having retired into the desert at the approach of the Viceroy, his highness again took the road to Alexandria, and since his return here things have be come much worse. Some of the tribes have, it is true, laid down their arms, and the troops, left on the princi pal points in the valley of the Nile, are sufficient to pre vent any aggression ; but from the last accounts re ceived, the Bedouins are far from having given up the struggle. The main body of the insurgents are in the Oasis of Dahkel, about seven days' march to the west of Lyout. This Oasis, which is one of the most fertile on the left hank, may be readily defended. The Bedouins are said to be about 7,000 strong; but supposing this number to be exaggerated, and that they only muster the half of that number, it is very doubtful whether, in presence of that force, the Commandant of the Egyptian troops would assume the offensive at the risk of losing his army in the Desert by hunger and thirst. According to recent letters from Massoah and Khartoum, all the missionaries in that part of Abys sinia have received orders to quit the country imme diately. Father Just d'Urbin was pursued by the agents of Abonna-Salatne, and it was only by the greatest chance and after undergoing the severest privations that he was able to reach the frontiers of Sennaan, and at length arrived at Cairo in safety. It appears that the Mussul mans are not better treated than the Roman Catholics. Persecution is general against all who refuse to adopt the Copt faith. Mgr. Mazloum, the Patriarch of the United Greeks, died here on the 22d, after a short illness, at the age of 76. His reputation is European from his eloquence and his works, and he exercised great influ ence both in Syria and Egypt." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have ar rived. A band of armed men, supposed to be smugglers, bad appeared in the Sierra del Paular, province of Segovia, at a short distance from the palace of San Ildefonso, and an armed force had been sent in pursuit of it. The Minister of Public Works is engaged in 'preparing a bill on canals and irrigation. A - letter from Madrid of the 30th ult., in the Constitutionne/, says :—" The French in this city, having inserted a few days ago a malevolent article on England, on the occasion of the visit of the Queen to Paris, Mr. Otway, English Charge d'Affaires, complained to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the subject ; but the matter has been dropped, in consequence of the journalist having yesterday published explanations in which he dis avows any intention of offending the Queen or the people of England." THE ITALIAN LEGION. TURIN Sept. I.—The Times, in a sec on d e diti on , says :—Despite the opposition of despots and re publicans the Anglo-Italian Legion promises to succeed, and perhaps none the worse for the oppo sition offered by parties which moderate men have learned to distrust. The Reds pretend to fear the Legion may be turned against the interests of liberty. The Blacks share Mr. Bowyer's appre hensions of the countrj being overrun by a licen tious soldiery at the end of the war. Both make it a hardship that on attestation the men should engage to serve in any part of the world, without designating the particular enemy they are to be employed against ;_ and, as an instance of fr. c what should be done in such cases,. it has been quoted that the Swiss in the King of Naples ser vice invariably stipulate that they shall not bear arms against Switzerland or its allies. Such objec tions, on the part of the Retrogrades, can be easily understood ; and it would he perfectly natural for the Pcedniontese to stipulate that they should not be called upon to serve against their own country; but in no other State of Italy is there the slightest regard for the present form of Government or reigning dynasty, and it would be strange indeed if the It , -publicans should knowingly try to save the despots from retribution by the hands of those they have most offended, although it is by no means the first time they have proved their best allies. The Board of Officers, under the presidence of General Percy, for organising the Legion, consists of Colonel 'Cavana, of Ferarra, who in the Papal service was distinguished for suppressing brigandage in the southern parts of the Roman States, and has been employed in the Sardinian Government in forming a Gi tardia Civile ; and Colonel Ribotti, a Piedmontese by birth, and originally in the Guardia Nohile of this country, but a political emigree in 1834, and who since then has served in Spain and Portugal, and spent upwards of four years in a Neapolitan prist m for assisting in the Sicilian re volution in 1818, This Board has now nearly brought its prelimi nary labours to a close. There were at first some doubts as to the leoality of a foreign Government exercising its own military law in this country, without a special corr-vention to that effect, so that it was neceAsary to hi tve legal opinions on th e sub ject, and the result i 4 , it has been decided that the British Governme lit, in accordance with inter national law, may act upon its own military laws and system in al 1 cases where the punish ments correspond with those inflicted in this country, and that for ()flier special cases, as the re claiming of deserters or in-. dealings with civil courts, a commissioner sho.tild be appointed by the Sardinian Government, who will fulfil the duties of prosecutor or bail as the laws of Sardinia may require. There has also been some delay in enrolling caused by the want of barrack accommodation. The barrack at Novara, which had originally been lent to our Government for the use of the Swiss Legion, but which was never taken ad van t age o f , i s now under repair, and there are so few disposable quarters in eligible positions throughout the king dom, that there has been much difficulty in fixing on a place as central depot- Chiavasso, a town about an hour from hence, on the Turin and Novara Railway, has at length been chosen ; and as it possesses some large buildings, and is within short distance of the Plain of San Maurizio, where the Sardinian Government usually has a camp o f instruction every y ear , an d where there are perma.uent hut barracks, th oug h not i n very good repair at present, it app ears i n every respect well adapted for the purpose, and there fore it may be expected that recruiting will com mence actively forthwith. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa remarks that all the clerical journals of Piedmont, such as the Patria, the Arnioria, and the Catholico, display their opposition to the existing Government by either magnifying the losses of the Piedmontese in the battle of the Tchernaya, or speaking disparag ingly of their valour in the field. TI ie Giornale di Roma states that Prince Palavi cini has sent 1,000 scudi (G,ooofr.) to the Marquis Da Via, senator of Bolog-na, for the relief of the widows and orphans of the victims of cholera. sChe King of the Belgians came to Brussels on Stu aday, from Laeken, and gave an audience to Vic ;count de Kerchove, who delivered his letters ace. rediting him as resident Minister of the Sultan to i;lie Court of Belgium. The Minister of Foreign Affitirs was present. Ti ie Cardinal Archbishop of Prague, Prince Schi var zen b erg, i s at present at Enghein, in Bel- g 1, on a visit t o th e D u k e d ' Arenberg. uilt TE E AUSTRALIAN. MAILS,---The royal mail ship Ugh tning, Captain Enright, sails to-day from the Mer sey for Melbourne, with mails for the Australian cob 'cies, 450 passengers, and a full cargo. • 3 6ETROPOLITAN REGISTRATIONS. Mr. J. F. Mac que cn, the Revising Barrister, has appointed the follow ing times and nieces for holding his courts to revise the -, ropolitan Lists of Voters :—Westminster —On Fri day, Sept. 21, at eleven o'clock, at the Lord Justices' Cou rt , Westminster. Marylebone—On Tuesday, Sept. 18, at eleven o'clock, at the Court-house, Marylebone, for th e parishes of Paddington and St. Marylebone ; and o: a Wednesday, Sept. 19, by adjournment, at the board -room of the Workhouse of St. Pancras, for that parish . Tower Hamlets—On Monday, Sept. 24, at eleveno'clock, a t th e Court-house, Wellclo se-square. Finst ury---On Wednesday, Sept. 26, at eleven o'clock, in thf ) Lords Justices' Court, Lincoln's Inn. TE .E PROBABLE COMMANDER OP THE MAMMOTH STE I.l4Ell.—We have heard upon good authority that Car Itain William Harrison, of the Cunard royal mail ute Amer Africa, bas been offered the command of the g leviathan" steam-ship, now building by John Sc ott Russell and Co. , of London, for the Eastern Steam N avi. gatior Company. The rumoured amount of remu n'D'al ion to be paid is 1.2001., with other advantages. T bia , although apparently a large stn, is not more than a. dec 'nate to the amount of responsibility incurred in tp,ic 'log charge of such an enormous property; and there c A,7 I be no question of Captain Harrison's fitness for the (41 ice.—Liverpool Randard. og twenty to thirty pounds ! the lungs h °l s t• (of this) about half a pound ! the heart ing upon an average s i x ty or seventy 110,0,1 in a minute ! each throb driving RI 1 , 0 10 about two oun ces o f the vital-fluid ! the I°n/4 twenty or thirty pounds weight of blood rill; onwards at the rate of one hundred and Olio a minute ! so enabling the whole blood to eir9 .n u t i s through the enti re system every two m inutes IJ half ! or twenty times every hour ! or very 0 .7_, 0 five hundred tim es i n th e t we nty-four ! o boe indeed, du r i ng momen t s o f exc it em ent, the 01 , ° , t he of the blood b e i ng so acce l era t e d as to enah"hso whole to compl e t e it s c i rcu l a ti o n in lel t ro or minute 1 Such are among th e many won" e- c cOr folded by Professor Johnston to the poPtn er sei te prehension. Ex uno di sce omnes —every su cce f chapter of the work c ons tit u t es a revelatio n ir portant facts, abounding i n almost every stance in the pu re ly marvellous. ''7 tc lia lour, for example, is it t o l ear n that, necis4lb. to the estimate of Quetelet, a man weighing., dal consists of only 381 b. of dry matter, srl" many as 1161bs. of water. These 38 110. r : ob, matter, comprising 241 b. of flesh and fat, of bone, or 281 b. of organic matter, whiff 1 1 i s bustible, and 101 b. of mineral matter . , w,ne",ietli combustible. Enough, however. The L'' e t : s of Common Life must itself be studied in the lila tirety, not superficially glanced at through ' O O of merely fragmentary quotations. Consei ell ,„ - t aes 4l ;snd very cordially we may and hereby do et to tte the volumes under consideration, not sin 3 Pv 00 1 ' casual perusal, but to the careful study o f th.; is h ligent masses of our reading population• production to be resort e d t o con tinually nit iteels dard work of reference. It may assume / I A by right a permanent pl ace u p o n our rae s c oio diously-selected bookshelves—among O f repertories of solid and alluring inforrastie rl ' They are only Cousins. A n ove l by Cho" Mt° 3 vols. Newby. l a tecr t° This is a light c he er f u l s t ory , we ll calen- The while away an hour in this holiday season' bit" is a great variety in the dramatis per s e ll93 foe duced to our notice. Indeed the reader is o o' times puzzled to remembe r th e di s tinctive, C b b 1 ters, but the individuality i s never lost sight,tsnd the author, each her o an d h ero i ne , is , /• separate in conduct and disposition. lad het Clare Wilmington is th e mos t pl e asing with ; gentle and yet firm there seems Ihitlei serene and gracious about h er . Frederica „ a est , was too bold and dazzling at the comine nc „; c ll 4l° and though afterwards softened and stinuii• e rs° . , never competed with her friend. Gertrude fe efe l is not so prominently put forward; she is VoiOr and pleasing. There are many others ° s old importance. Among the elder ladies Leclihnies is is conspicuous. A great deal of skill is e", - ,0 0 ; the description of this vulgar yet clever,: bur, She contrived to obtain all her vrie'Zfb!,, she had not the grace to make the best " 1 gee: her ingenuity had gained for her. n 1 9 . - leet scene that in which she had to preside a t fOt r at her own table. Her guests were B ° Ule r d she, diously fashionable people, and every w o goo . uttered was some offence to th e ir code °f t o, manners. The story of the Marquis of Av ia ( ? 0 10 1 " is romantic ; but few can sympathise wit h ,7 l 4.olill bid fancies, and he evinced a wan t of right or y in keeping up such devoti o n t o the mein Ginevra when he had contracted a second til- fi e The heroes do not appear to such a dvantsg e hnti glt heroines ; for Noel Vernon w as se lfish andt7oefe w less before he went to India, a lth o ugh he L-icalo , at last, and Lord Leyburne was exceedingly J ) 9 and even mean in his suspicious conduct', Vernondale is a very charming person, 19 .s ti. ' 0 tht not met with often. A melancholy epis°,u l niell_A' of the young and beautiful Amy's eL (3 .,tesiu, The scene of misery that her little home Pro is very naturally described. Altogether , t a , s o ' gaiety of Gertrude, the vivacity of Frederl'r s the sweetness of Claude, a fair assemblse , 10 1 0 sented ; and, although there i s no thing origitat_, the characters or circumstanc e s, a great anili o 0 8 . interest is conveyed, and the t a lent evinced the numerous actors who pass over the scene/ ' - ep teal energy with which the scenes are relat es ' claim attention and regard. 51 0° Post-Office Directory of Derbyshire, Leicesterioll Nottinghamshire, and Buttandshire. and Co. A second edition, superior to the first, on g accuracy and extent of information. additions will be found a list of magistra` f e th,e of principal seats throughout the counties , with the nearest money-order office to ever!" be; not having one. The cl ass ifi ca ti on a l s o °Li ) , w' improved, and the maps, engraved exPr'„ t3 lO the Directory, have be en correcte d up to 0 " of publication. __A Tait's Edinburgh Magazine opens with t t i l ;0 1 1 instalment of a review of " Some few .Of l , B obJ ec o i Monuments of Our National Literature,' lc s tit t of the writer's consideration being " th e "peiff ) ,"6 character as it is expressed in booksL te d didactic nor historical, but which have 1 ' 0 " to;, taste and humour of the people so trilif u oe ' e prized in every age since they were PrL r ,l l f " The poets selected are Ch aucer and o°7 - Sit lived during a period the even t s o f which:, the re o adduces in justification of his taking for '', l "f commencement of modern English history't P of _ io e.- influences by which Cha ucer , the ear" es d his 1 great English poets, was surrounded, au se :, to stamp his mother tongue " with envy 10 classical authenticity and give it currrootiPP polite world" are pointed out in all, ; in ' witta lb , sketch of his career; the paper termina,7,ssef brief notice of Gower, who patriotieaw - "according to his measure of wit," "In our English for to make The A book for E nge ll an d e ' s sake. d A " Telse Wollersien," from the Danish, 9111 , d Path of Roses" ar e continued—the for of war, deep en i ng i n t rag i c i n t er est. ifg o s Rails" is the heading of a not very Ma yd ,; 1 • humoured review of T enn y son 's " Ma ll it Owl e he the writer justly regards as a blunder. Woman's Pamphlet" relates to Mrs. s°rw r esP ee i title ironically indicating the writer's ija W f j on s 113 1 0 ing it. Among the remaining contributl o t ati be noticed an interesting paper on " The Brittany." ti r The Churchman's Magazine. Pi: an a g e "to A monthly review of Church prog.re,,P - ro tiog ral literature, and likely to be in' Churchmen. Evangelical Christendom• mo d , ?W-b b A monthly journal, in which the ate M —, ~u g las o f pects of Evangelical Christendom are ' r e - /o ber° fore the reader, under the auspices ° f l3a the Evangelical Alliance. Newton's London Journal. A record of the pr ogress o f invention, a d 00 1/3 ' to the arts, illustrated by g en ravingo , a , ll oat° . panied by useful information of a scientog.l - The Merchants' Magazine. to The second number of a serial clev °w nnge tb :l interests of commerce, and containing, ,alu, useful matter, an article on Limi ted blia which the commercial and gene l.4 w „ l h P v g 3 blic pointed out to them the way in vla — hp f il ray"' ill panies, under the new act, should be `-' order to avoid error. Contains its usual variety of Sharpe's London Magazine..giraent Jicl en tertal' . , Ta ll ‘ may be recommended to those who the lovers of light literature. cc Tea M i l o ad r elish ktf o consequently care to know how that bele" '` il maligned on its introduction to this count r cd ''' Visit to the Granite City " (Aberdeen), a nd Pc Midnight Adventure on the North Cnasb over land" will well repay perusal• `Dr•roalisif," Maid " is a welcome instalment a a . 11). fil Co• g g 0 ,11._ t o story. "Lorimer Littlegood " and The l a tt er verdale's Courtship " are continued. -" has entered on a 59th chapter. Vessels engaged in the herring fishery II" 1 1 -t g is in ed ° ...........__r_..----- - •''_ . pi a ii to ,e_c re a t in u p ro w t i o th F s r s en o c ca h spkosrotsifisOh.o Friday one ' 4 i Wt., * public meeting, convened by the Mayor 0f I L e ti r 'ol 19.° THE RESTORATION OF POLAND. --OR Mon day li by If 31 held at the Town-hall. The object of the p a tio , fill the restoration of Poland and her etoen,,,,3cleitig Russian tyranny. Mr. de Chylinski, a pile, , of " b the meeting at some length, and in the coortab, folio . speech inveighed in good set terms spill. pol,,icet adventurers," Association, which he says is composed ° b oo : r t i venturers," of "Russian serpents,'_' 1/ 11° ;t6 pi°' .., 1 ",, ganised in England a garrison of Mueo°_.f",,-d to P", 1; agents." A petition to the Queen was egrr a to' take agents." her Majesty to direct her Governmen) arms' 07, proper steps to call the Polish nation t ° ~,c j es. • render it every assistance to regain its ial u e nteet ilig After a vote of thanks to the chairman, th e separated. THE MURDER AT CUMIA.M.—LATEST P v :::::i:e :::if l . .! BROMLEY Tuesday Tuesday Evening.- .Every doubt in tP ?v it& the police, in reference to the person the brutal murder at Cudharn, on the morning of ° i o of day , the 25th ult., has been removed, a long t r : e rper circumstances having convinced them that it // 141 . 1 ,,, r 015 e . trated by Robert Peeling, after whom they are 1 1 1 pill pursuit, and who, they seem to entertain no d e , p ill look -uP ' be shortly captured and lodged in BronileY ten d° Mr. C. J. Cartar, the coroner for West Sent , In t he holding an inquiry into the circumstances attericliogo, death of Mrs. Jane Bigley, at the Hare and fil lo . Cu(lham, on the 18th inst., prior to which titoe,.,ted, ever, it is to be hoped the murderer will be coret,r No reward of any kind has yet been offered for sac prehension of the murderer. "1I( ~1