The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-02 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE Miss Thirlwall and Mr. A. Corr'. After which, at Eight o'ciock, RUY BLAS. Miss Louisa fle, Mesdames Susan Pyne, Thirlwall, Jessie M`Lean ; essrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Patey, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No chargé for booking, or tees to Box-keepera. Stage-Manaszer, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. - iv OPAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 11. Manazer—ffr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, A ROUGH DIAMOND. Atte , * which, at o'clock, the new and success ful comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World. (,hsracters by 3ressrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomp son. 1:.) conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE', in which Miss Lydia Tilemp , on will danee a New Volunteer Quick Step. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. "~YIisOI'AL PRINCESS'S THEATR E.— , l 1, Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. T HIS EVENING. JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Barris and Mr. A. Widdicomb. A iter which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WIT FIRE ; chsraoters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Ryder. Mr. H H. Wid dicombe, Mr. G. Jordan, Miss R . Lelolercq, Miss An g le, and Mrs. Weston. To conclude with a new Transatlantic Extravaganza, PO-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John Brougham, Mr. A. Harris, THEATRF•LefiROYAr . J L, H ks AYMARKET, nee, M. B. Blactone. THIS F,VENINn, the uertorniances will commence with RIC lIELIEU. Richelieu, Mr. Edwin Booth; Julie, mtg. Charles Young. Followed by LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. And THE TIAPPIEST DAY OF MT LIFE. Commence a 7 N Ew THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATE! CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K.. Kelly and Laidlaw. Atter which (267th time), TFIE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr D lioucicault, D. Fisher, Billinaton, S. Emery, Stephenson, C. 1. Smith, Romer. Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss liVnolzar, Mrs. Billinzton, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Tolonclnde with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. C INTERRU RY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Great MileCeßS of r. SAM COWELL'S New Song, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," which will be repeated every evening, Grand Selections from STRADELLA, LA TRAVIATA, and DINORATI By Miss Russell, 3liqWErnst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chores Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned perteryter lir. LEVY. - The Comic department comprise% Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr. Marshall, Megarg. 'Harvey and French (the Nerves), and Miss Harriet Coveney ' Musical Director, Mr. Jong,ihm ans. Admission —Hall, 6d.; Stela and Balcony, is. T HE 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Auber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoocanef,)ra," by the entire Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame En derssohn (composed expressly for them). Mr. Levy's Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertain ments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randal:, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. 64:1. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tilts DAY.—Morning, 12h. 56m.—Afternoon, lh. 18m. TO-MOnuow.-Morn'ng, Ih. 42m.—Afternoon, 2h. Om. THE WEATHER.—Sint OFFICE, NOVEMBER 2, 1861.1 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45- I dighest - since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.30. WrNp.--North-Westerly ; fresh and cold. There was a heavy fall of snow this morning ; the flakes were very large, some of them showing a diameter of two inches, and even larger. * • -IR , 7 , 1 94! e ,• 7 4 • b 74, • • • t• L -I, m) IC THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 1861. What a windfall is America to our Autumn speakers ! Perhaps they will return the compliment, and tell us that Autumn editors too are not sorry to have a standing dish of which all their readers are disposed to taste. Well, be it so—but it must be owned that our Tory speakers seem to relish the American quarrel amizingly. It is a text for harangues without end on the blessings of English Institutions and the dangers of democracy ; nor do we wonder they should preach from it at such length seeing that their most dreaded radical opponents have been wont to laud American democracy far beyond what it seemed to merit, even while the thirty-four States were a Union: There may, indeed, be little in it, yet the Tories have at least a capital stone to pelt with, and we see how gladly they avail themselves of it. At Worcester, for instance, Sir JOIIN PAKINGTON and the Earl of SHREWSBURY had it all their own way. It was the meeting of the Conservative Association. The Tories had been making unusual efforts to turn the scale in their favour on the Register. They have so far succeeded, that they think they have now a fair chance. They have fixed on their candidate, and he was present with all the modest and hopeful blushes of the preliminary wooing, while looking forward to a happy marriage at the next election. Of course, at such a time, the failure of American democracy was a most seasonable topic. When the Earl of SHREWSBURY responded to the toast of " The House of Lords," after all the scarifying wounds left by Mr. BRIGHT, it must have been as soothing as Holloway's ointment itself to apply the American unguent, and to tell his Conservative supporters that " in America they saw Democracy on its trial, and they saw how it had failed. He was afraid the result would show that the separation of the two great sections of that country was inevitable, and those who lived long enough would, in his opinion, see an aristo cracy established in America; he would not say an aristocracy of dukes and earls, but an aristo cracy of some sort or other, so great was the neces sity of h taring a middle state between democracy and despotism." Was it modesty:or pride, or intellectuality, that neralised th e future class which is to save Ame ricaaribtocracy of some sort or other." It is philosophical to N iew things under theire a b most it general aspect, and perhaps erhap; the Earl may b of a philosopher It set forth th e English aristocracy would be modest too, not to blelone, and to suppose th as the only possi claims to the high poiBitionatoftere might be other h forming a part of the Legislative balance wheel than that of being their fathers' sons. We suspect, howe ver kind of mingled pride in Titular A'nitht at it was a ocr recollection that such a thing would n:r 13 , and ginated spontaneously by people in their sobere poli ticaler senses, which called forth t he remar kA great French infidel declared that if there were no GOD it would he necessary to make one ; and the Earl's creed is of the same cast—if there be no aris tocracy you must create one somehow, or all w ill go to rain. Now in America it was plain enough that Dukes and Earls could never come into exist ence, except indeed by the Darwinian process of development—the political gorillas of democracy dropping one hideous feature after another, till at length the perfect earl or duke, came forth from the man in the course of ages. That, however, would be a distant time to wait for; so, some kind of aristocracy America must produce, if it would exist as a nation at all. England, however, enjoyed the great blessing already, and, • according to his lord ,3lllP 9 a ccount a • a ioxise a ppreciated it, as she ought. "The Lords (he said) was an institution highly THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY E VENIN - t;, NOVEMBER 2. 186 L valued, and if he might be allowed to say so, de- ... servedly esteemed by the nation. It had often i been said by noisy Democrats and 01amonus Re publicans that the House of Lords /MI of no use. True, they were Not at liberty to tax the people, but they were in their places to protect their rights and to preserve the institutions of the country, and he would remind them that the Barons of England were the first to grant liberties to the people." The Earl should have said the first to enslave the people, and the first to grant them franchises when by so doing they could enlist their services against the Monarch, or obtain from them much needed supplies of money. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, who came forward in rather high spirits, since he was inclined to believe that the Conservatives had an actual majority in the House at the present time, also had his lessons from America. They might have fought there, if they had been so disposed, on the grand issue of liberty or slavery ; but the North, if it had not held slaves, had sanctioned slavery, and was not fighting now to put an end to it. Then as to reunion, " his be lief was that, from President LINCOLN downwards, there was not a man in America world venture to tell them that he really thought it possible that by the force of circumstances the North could hope to compel the South to again join them in constituting the United States. It was altogether hopeless, and it was shocking to see a war waged with so little cause, for it was his sincere belief that the real in stigation for this terrible tsar was the shame they felt that the world should witness the disruption of tAat great experiment." citizens as Churchmen—can prove their religion to be as good as ours—can show that they have done as much for social order and improvement as Churchmen, and therefore demand to stand on an equality with th em in the treatment they receive from the State. Wh en c h arge d w ith b e i ng political Dissenters, the:y ask whether their opponents are not political Churchmen ? And, certainly, when they see all the clergy of the land bestirring them selves at the call of Mr. DISRAELI, and responding to his precise demand—" political support"—they may justly return the compliment, and name their adversaries political Churchmen. The simple truth is, that neither party can effect their object but through political action. The Church has entrenched her self in a politica:l position, and if the law is to be altered Dissenters must 'een see to it that Members of Parliament will vote as they wish them. On the other hand ,if Churchmen will not surrender the power of coercion, they can retain it only by mustering power in the Legislature. However, an Owner's rate would sweep the Parish Vestries of the objectors to Church rates, by whatever name we chose to call them. The owners, it is argued, are too few and too respectable to oppose a rate. It is also contended that they now in reality pay the rate, that they would therefore incur no hardships by the change. This may be theoretically true in the case of land, but in a majority of cases we believe it to be practically untrue ; and in the case of the vast number of houses built as an investment for money, it is also not true—if the occupiers paid the Church-rate they would not get a shilling more rent from their tenants. The amount is one which eould not be added to the rent of any respectable house, and on the lower sort the landlords pay the rates already. We strongly suspect that to press an owner's rate on the House of Commons will be the best pos sible mode to pass Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S Bill, or a measure like that proposed by Lord EBURY. We may be mistaken, but whether such arguments find expression or not, the reasoning of honourable members, so many of them landlords, will be this—We are few, and form a small part indeed of the worshippers, for whose benefit the rate is levied—we shall receive no ac cession to our rent, through our tenants being relieved from the rate—the burden of maintaining their Church and worship would be a small charge individually to them, to it would be a heavy one —they are the persons really benefitted, if they are churchmen—let them, therefore, pay for their own worship. Just the conclusion of the Volun taries ! The Reviewer says a good deal on the advantage of a Church to owners of house property—he might say the same of the advantage of a dissenting chapel in the suburbs of any large town—and might add, with equal truth, that it is for the interest, pecuniarily, of any builder in our suburbs to subscribe to the erection of either a good church or a good chapel on his property. Either would bring him a good class of tenants—a convenient place of worship on Sunday being generally an object with families. Mainly for this very ignoble reason, we think the proposal of an owner's rate will fail. Whether they avow it or not, the numerous "owners" who compose the House of Commons will instinc tively feel the weight of the Dissenters' argu ment that they shall be made to pay for other persons' worship. We must protest, however, against the reviewer's comparison of Church and Dis senting liberality. We do not believe in his repre sentation of the niggardly nature of the majority of Churchmen. While the rate has met the charges of parish worship their liberality has not been fairly appealed to. While the rate legally exists Churchmen do not feel that their worship is cast unreservedly upon them. Abolish the rate. Tell us that all now lies on us as it has so long lain on our dissenting neighbours, and we affirm and are sure, that Churchmen's liberality will be more than equal to the occasion, while the scandal of religious coercion will be removed from the Church. This is somewhat of a novel statement of the case—yet the silly attempts of the PRESIDENT and Mrs. STOW E, followed by a host of new celebrities, to represent the war as one to show to the world that free institutions can maintaim themselves, really warrants Sir JOHN'S rather severe remark. Sir JOHN adverted to what even Conservatives have often admitted, that this civil war might have bro ken out under any form of Government—but this only drives him to what he holds to be firm ground. He argues that American institutions were a failure before the war, a view in which Mr. FAY, the Ame rican, whose letter we remarked on yesterday must concur. "Let them," said Sir JOHW, " ask any intel ligent" American citizen what were his views on the subject. Had democracy succeeded ? Had ex treme democracy contributed to promote the happiness of mankind ? What had been the work of American institutions ? Had the ad ministration of justice been pure? Had the Government been free from corruption ? Was liberty of person secure for the minority ? Ask in telligent American citizens, and they would tell them that which was within his (Sir JoHN's) know ledge, and which they had told again and again to Englishmen in America and at home. ' Take warn ing from this country,' they had said: beware of what you are doing in England—beware how you copy that democracy which unhappily we have adopted.' Did not these facts speak to them in terms which they as intelligent citizens of a great State were not at liberty to disregard ? Did it not say to them in words as plain as the handwriting on the wall—' Happy England ; cherish the institu tions you have; support your monarchy; guard your pure religion ; maintain your liberties.'" Thus far, we doubt not, our Conservative friends are right enough—America will serve their pur pose. The first appearance of things is as if democracy had been at the bottom of the failure ; of the double failure—the one before the war, and of the war itself. A more careful observation will show, however, how little there is in it. The South is the aristocratical half of the States—yet it was amongst the aristocracy of America that the fright ful evil was nursed which has now split up the Union ; on behalf of this hateful institution the aristocracy of America corrupted the Bench of Justice ; bullied, and even half killed, independent men like Mr. SUMNER ; bribed and hired democracy to override the intelligence of the North, and surrounded the late President with jobbers. It is aristocracy rather than democracy which has depraved America and broken up the Union. If Northern Democracy has been mischievous, it has been as the tool of Southern Aristocracy. We corn mend these facts to the consideration of Sir JOHN PAKINGTON and the Earl of SHREWSBURY, and to their Conservative auditors at Worcester. His Excellency the Belgian Minister has left town to join Madame Van de Weyer and family, at New Lodge, Windsor Forest. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are entertaining a succession of visitors at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. The Earl Granville arrived in town yesterday from Berlin. The Countess Fortescue gave birth to a son on The Quarterly _R ev i ew , i n it s recently published Thursday last, at Castle-hill, Devon. number, has a somewhat racy article on Church The Earl and Countess Manvers have arrived Rates. Its object is, however, practical, being an at the Clarendon, from Thoresby Park, Notts. elaborate attempt to show that the only practicable Them Countess Berkeley-square, u of , Jfersehas Brighton. arrived on n rom at her plan is to make the Church-rate an owner's rate, Viscount and Viscountess yga Palmerston have left with an exemption for Dissenting owners, on caro- Cambridge House for Broadlands. fully adjusted conditions. This is, of course, a Lord and Lady Rokeby have left Montagu House, plan to throw the rate on Churchmen solely. The Portman-square, on a Continental tour. Lord and Lady Colchester arrived at their resi owners of property, especially in country parishes, dente in Berkeley-square yesterday, from Normanton are almost exclusively Churchmen. Mr. WALPOLE, P ar k, R u tl an d s hi re , where they have been staying on a in 1859, procured a return from 9,853 parishes, and visit to Lord and Lady Aveland. The noble lord and her ladyship will leave town early next week for Brighton. in 8,803 of them the owners were Churchmen; in Lord and Lady George Quin have arrived in the remaining 1,050 parishes there was a proper- Belgrave-square, from visiting Lord and Lady Aveland at tion of Dissenting landowners. Thus the mere Normanton Park, Rutlandshire. change of direct ineidence of the rate would be Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duke and Duchess Constantine and suite will arrive f r o m th e I s l e o f almost Equivalent to placing it entirely in Wight to-day, at Claridge's Hotel, where apartments have the hands of those who belong to the been prepared for their reception. Established Church ; and, adding the proposed The Bank of England have given notice that, in order to prepare the dividends due on the sth o f J anuary , exemption, it would do so completely. 1862, the balances of the several accounts in the following The writer lays down as the test of any success- funds will be struck on the night of Monday, the 2d of De - ful proposal that it must ensure peace. Parish war cember—viz., NThr d Th ll re l e f per Cent Annuities, Consolidated l Annuities, is the grand nuisance of the present rate, and unless per Cent. I‘T New Five A An this per w Cent. Annuities, n it•rw r Two 4 -and-a-Half this be got rid of nothing is achieved. The volun- nuities, Annuities for terms of years, India Five per Cent. tarp rate, or Lord EBURT'S plan, which he terms Stock; b nand above-named at d on s wi T ll ue b s e da t y, ran t , h f e era 3 b d le o v f it D h e a ce t m t b h er, e d. the vi the only possible compromise, namely, to abolish dend due on the sth of January next. The old East India the power of legal enforcement of the rate, would Stock will shut on the 13th of December, 1861, to open on obviously make matters peaceful enough. But the the 7th of January. reviewer dreads "the hat." He draws a deplorable APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following gentlemen passed their examination in the science and practice of picture of the parish clergyman at the head of a medicine, and received certificates to practis', on Thursday, pro-rate party in his parish, exposed to all the Oct , ber 31 :—Woodruffe Daniel, Ipswich, Suffolk; William suspicions as to his motive, and to all the annoyances Richard cle Grove, enAnnastre t e T t ao l rte ast r . , S j t o a h ffdh n or ß a ee i s re • Sidney Hayward, &okerlslington of a candidate at an election. But against this William Hood, York ; Henry Goode, Derby ; Thos. Poyntz he sets the picture of the Birmingham begging Wright, Tiverton ; William Holmes Walker, Marskh!s. first The clergyman, who declares that his time is quite efoxlalomwininagtiognentleraamnesalHso T n odd the Con me nor, day passed iae Kin g 's College. swallowed up in raising money to keep his church THE ENOII3IOUS ARMAMENTS OF EUROPE. — a going. Neither voluntary rates nor rates collected Some correct statistics have been collected respecting the by getting a majority of occupiers will do. One number l of men employed rt in the armies ofE of u t r h o e pe p , ro an oT d es i s t keeps the parish and the clergyman in constant hot of ls mankind y to almost e find that something ke one ething like despair,ooo,ooo of men, at water, and the other leaves him, in the clerical sense, the lowest computation, are under arms. Here is a list : to " shill penury," freezing the religious;curren tof Army of Austria, 738,344 ; Prussia, 719,092; Russia, his soul. 850,000 ; France, 626,000 ; Great Britain and India, 534,827; Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and Italy, Hence the necessity of a media via—one which 303,497; total, 31,77,760. The cost of maintaining, cloth shall get rid of the troublers, but not get rid of the i h n g' cl payingald lso t he, o ge men, n at the b l n ow t th av a e l r o a s g s e is of na X t 4o ta p b e e r e eno a r n m u ou m s - as rate. Now who are the troublers ? Not, we are it is, for we must also measur is ed by 'oOthis' 00 sum per , told, the religious Dissenters, the descendants of the reckon what would be gained were this mass of labour pro ancient P ur it ans, b ut t h e pol i t i ca l di ssenters. Th e ductive, instead of unproductive. The labour of 3 ,77 1 ,760 former are " sincere narrow-minded able-bodied men cannot be calculated as producing less but th e , and fanatical " ' than £120,000,000 per annum, so that virtually between the y did not begin th e ag , itation against Church cost of their maintenance and what they ought to produce Rates. Th ey are used by the political Dissenters as the catspaw was used by the t fox for the chestnuts, were their labour utilized, there is a difference of something like £300,000,000 a-year. We are quite sure this sum is nuisance—the Philistines but it is the latter who are rather under than over the mark. The worst feature of all clergyman. whol2heeirforever assailing unmanageable parish tshis isince t t h hat e wecansee no termination . to this expenditure. characteristic stt is breakdown of popular institutions in America, the peace-loving clergy that they aim to pull down Church, and the outbreak of the savage war which the Republicans and Democrats of that country are waging against each d e, House other, we may turn in vain for consolation . from the Old to of Lords —everything indeed—and to hand of Dio r the the New World.-21/ - oriey Market Renew. l t a h boia t rule to the Sovereign Mob. On this point wenrust THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE.—The Scotch say that, having seen and heard not a little Commission b of Inquiry into certain matters connected with t tin ia gs utr l tu i n a ate fi marriage, t and d which commenced . its si.ts t Major Yet:ero:tiOn, centers, in consequence of our own hearty opposi.. seful r t a o , ,B tio a close ouronTu Wednesday,s ay an m d oirtniisng, understoodbrought t h a t t tion to rating them for our worship—we ha-re clNiflathnicushester suit. denee The t n e nadt are which concerned,vwill be anything but satisfactory to always found them very much like Churchmen—a . now be far distant, as the evi hteidmttintalthceanfunratth,esraanfacre as sf thehis Scotch courts set of people enough, but rather so . ?e e about what would make us sore enough reasonable were th / conditions reversed. They are, they say, as good i n Major Yelverton's proolerst now is the last to be given T m - ;1 • ir•r, BERLIN, Nov. 2. The Preussische Zetung of to-day says:— " In consequence of the I:;.ing of Prussia and the Crown Princess being slight'.y indisposed, the in tended journey to Breslau will probably be post poned for a few days. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 27 (via KUSTENDJE.) The Moldavian Ministry, under the presidency of M. Fano, which recently resigned, has been suc ceeded by one composad of members of the ultra National party. A riot took took place among the Armenians at Constantinople during the election of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Troops were called out to quell it. According to news from Erivan Dost Mahomed was marching on Bokkara. Cholera is prevalent at Bagdad an Jabuez. The emigration of Bulgarians to Bessarabia is extending. The provincial news of the week is good. THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 2. LITERATURE, The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tyne, Cap tain Wooloott, with the Brazil and River Plate mails, arrived this morning about 4 o'clock. She brings 97 passengers, specie value £119,238, nine packages of diamonds, 1,536 bags of coffee, 512 rolls of tobacco, 255 barrels of tapioca, and 140 packages of sundries. The Tyne brings dates from Buenos Ayres to Sept. 28 ; Montevideo, 30 ; Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 9 ; Bahia, 13 ; Pernambuco, 15 ; and St. Vincent, 22. On the 19th inst. the Tyne spoke the Commerce de Paris bound from Rio to Havre, and on the 23d the Augustin Granger, bound from Bordeaux to Singapore, 24 days out. BUENOS AYRES, SEPT. 28. We have positive news of a splendid victory for the Constitutional party of the Republic. The arms of Buenos Ayres have given a death-blow to the barbarism which has so long desolated this coun try. The revolution of May, 1810, is ended, and, for the first time in history, the Liberal party among the Argentine people is rriumphant. Our dry goods market has "felt the state of war 'severely. Business continues at a complete stand. The local trade is completely paralysed ; the rivers being closed, nothing has been done with the inte rior. Importers in general will not sell for currency, owing to the great fluctuation in specie among the dealers. There is a manifest unwillingness to buy for silver. Our produce markets have been very dull during the month, owing chiefly to the few arrivals of produce, all the native peons being in arms. Present stock of hides amounts to 75,006; sales have been limited. Prices of ox 47 to 48. Prices of wool are nominal, and no buyers. Colburn's New Monthly. Mrs. Henry Wood's new story, " The Shadow of Ashlydyat" proceeds with interest. The " shadow" seems to be hanging over the Godolphins in several directions. Where the stroke is to fall we are not, however, yet told. A new family is introduced to us, one of whom is the betrothed wife of Thomas Godolphin, and certainly the most attractive lady, whose acquaintance we have yet made. Sir Nathaniel gives us a paper on the Emperor Joseph H., son of Maria Theresa, who is less known than he deserves to be. :Cyrus Redding, the veteran con tributor to the New Monthly, furnishes a paper worth reading on Rome and Italy. The country and the people of Siam are the subject of another article which is entertaining. Those who seek amusement, however, had better turn to the account of the adventures of " A Cara van of Parisians in the Desert," which begins merrily enough, but ends with exciting perils, " Granville de Vigne" has reached the eleventh part in its author's accnstomed style, and its hot-tem pered and ill-trained hero is preparing trouble for himself and others. W. C. Kent's interest ing series of Stereoscopic glimpses of the poets in their homes has reached the nineteenth number, which gives us a graphic descrip tion of Falconer at sea—the author of " The Shipwreck" being more truly represented on the scene of his great poem than on any spot on terra firma. The lines before us show a vivid pic ture of the images floating through the sailor's mind, while gliding over tranquil waters he sees the horrors of the shipwreck— Exchange on London, 635. 6d. ; Pais, 80 to 801 BAHIA, OCT. 13. Sugar.—Although the present crop doubles that of last year, it is considerably below the average of former years. Expectations for the coming crop are favourable, but arrivals are on a limited scale, and consist mostly of ordinary descriptions. Small lots of regular quality in cases have changed hands at 1,900 dols. to 2,000 dols. per aroba with abate ments, ordinary having sold as low as 1,600 dole. per aroba for browns, and 2,500 dols. to 2,600 dols. for whites ; superior qualities are inquired for, but there are none in the market, with exchange at 251 d ; brown costs 15s 3d to 17s 9d, and whites, 22s td to 22s lld per cent. free on board, exclusive of freight. Cotton has almost ceased to be an article of importation from this port, not more than 146 bales having been shipped of last crop. Coffee—Caravellas have been sold at 6,300 dols. to 6,900 dols. per aroba for washed, and 5,400 dols. to 6,200 dols. for unwashed. Sup plies from the interior are mostly contracted for. No sales of importance have transpired. Cocoa continues neglected, and has been disposed of at 4,100 dols. to 4,500 dols. per aroba ; hides, last sales, were at 175 to 180 reis per lb. ; for drysalted, stocks in hand unimportant ; rum con tinues at 45,000 dols per pipe. Freights for the Channel, 45s per ton ; Liverpool, 40s ; other British ports, 455. Exchange closed at 25,1 d and 251 d 90 days. PERNAMBUCO, OCT. 15. Sugar—The prospects of a good supply in the present crop appear verified; the entries by land and water since the Ist have been greater than dur ing the same period for the last four years. Channel browns are offering freely at 1,900 dols per arroba, but the scarcity of vessels prevents exporters ex porting to any extent at present. White qualities of new crop have advanced in price, the entries since the Ist are 1,172 tons against 63 ditto in same time last year. Cotton.—Prices have varied from 9 dol. 400 to 9 dol. 800 per arroba for fine quality. Paraiba and Maceio Cotton.—Sales of former have been made at 10 dol. 500 to 10 dol. 600, latter 10 dol. 200 per arroba, both free on board. Hides. Drysalted, 175 reis per lb. Freight.—Vessels have been wanted. Charters. — Two to Liverpool; sugar, 20s, and 225. 6d. per ton; cotton, Id. per lb. Exchange.—Transactions, per Tyne, amount to £140,000, about £90,000 at 25d. to 251,d.; £40,000 at 251 d., and £lO,OOO at 264 d. Transactions on Paris trifling, at 378 to 380 reis per franc. Discounts.—Bank rates have ruled at 9 per cent. per annum for four months' bills, and higher rates for longer periods. " Death in the wave and horror in the air, And in each tar's unveiling heart despair." There are two papers on ladies eminent in French history, though of very opposite characters and fortunes—Gabrielle D'Estrees and Queen Hortense. There is also the first part of a history of the French army, which extends from Francis I. to Louis XIV. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Vectis, with the above mails, left Malta for Marseilles on the 30th ult. at 9 p.m. The Euxine, with the heavy portion of the mails, left Malta on the 31st Oct., at 1 p.m., and may be expected at Southampton about the 9th inst. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AUSTRALIA AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Valetta, from Marseilles, with the above mails, arrived at Malta, and left for Alexandria on the 31st ult., at 9 a.m. Temple Bar. The striking tale of " The Seven Sons of Mam mon" is proceeded with, and this division of it is in all respects a most lugubrious one, as it contains, first of all, sn account of the great failure of the "millionaire," and the sad descent from the pin nacle of luxurious affluence to the depths of the scale of wretchedness ; also, we find the late all powerful, but now for ever fallen, Florence Army tage in all the horrors of her gloomy incarceration, and awaiting the audit of her judges, who are to mete out the award of her direful deeds. " Shot in the Back' , is a most unplea sant story; and it naturally occurs to the reader that is a great pity for writers to waste their powers of composition in compiling such horrible fictions, when they might present us with some so much better with the same amount of trouble. " With Mr. Gorilla's Compliments," is a paper on that subject which has awakened so much curiosity, and attracted so much atten tion during the last season. The tone in which the great work of M. Chaillu is criticised is a totally unbecoming one, and we had hoped that this absurd warfare against the merits of the French naturalist was over. It is also ridiculous to insinuate that Mr. Murray has been entrapped into taking the leavings of sharp American pub lishers. Altogether it is not likely that the writer will make any converts to his views by the perusal of this exaggerated and illogical notice, and when he descends to say that " the voice of the inferior animal was recognised in spite of the lion's skin," he forgets that " abuse is no argument." " The Second Time of Asking" is a simple little sketch that is written with feeling. " The Mys tery at Fernwood" begins a romance that:promises to be very exciting, and "My Tutor's Cousin," by Thomas Hood, is a ludicrous piece, half comic half sentiment, that will create laughter, if only from its swift gradation from tragedy to comedy. " Blanche of Mine," by Alfred Austin, is the title of some verses that certainly do not waste words, as the same one has to do duty several times, the word breeze appears no less than 25 times in 16 lines. " Notes on Italy" is a paper that is very pleasantly written, and while it imparts intelligence, it con veys agreeable reminiscences. In the remarks on the swallow we find the following suggestive thoughts :—" If, as some traveller's affirm, he has visited Northern Africa in his six months' absence. what pleasing scenes of travel he must have left behind not a very short time ago. Perhaps within a week or so from now he was skirting the desert sands, and snapping at the locusts whilst taking a turn round the black tent of a wandering Arab. After rest ing for a moment on a millenarian obelisk, or may be twittering from a corner-stone of the Great Pyramid, he may have cooled his sunburnt wings in the sweet waters of the Nile. A little later and he may have viewed the splendid palaces on the shores of the Bosphorus, have supped off mosquitoes on 4 the Golden Horn, and after perching for the night 1 on a minaret of old Stamboul have been disturbed by the Mussulman's early call for morning prayer. Since then he may have closed his wings for a few moments on the crumbling walls of the Coliseum, and after a short survey of the old Roman Forum, may have sped with light heart and rapid wing around the Castle of St. Angelo and the great dome of St. Peter's." Another good article is on Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is written in an appropriate manner, and is one of those themes always welcome to meet with, elevating one above the dull cares of life, and lifting the thoughts beyond the dreary ways of business to the bright realms of imagination and the spheres of ideality. At the conclusion of this interesting sketch we find this eloquent peroration :—" Eminent men may be broadly divided into two classes—the men of their age, and the men whe are before their age. The former are usually men of action. They are the men who frame Magna Chartas and Bills of Right, who pass Reform Acts and conquer our enemies. They may not all, however, be engaged in war or politics ; they may make it their concern, to set in order and rationalise the beliefs of their epoch, and to confute the errors of their time, such were the Warburtons and Butlers of the past age. These men mostly reap honour in their life time, and they deserve their reward. The other class are usually men of contemplation and retirement, They early discover that the world is not ready to accept their principles or appreciate their inspiration. During their life only a select company of disciples console them by cultivated appreciation for the loss of popular sympathy ; but as time widens converts grow more and more numerous, until by a late canonisation they are admitted among the teachers and minstrels of mankind—dear sons of memory, great heirs of fame. To the number of these last belongs the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley." THE MOAT OF URR.—The Dumfries Courier, in reporting the sale of the lands of Milton or Stepend of Urr, says •—" The beautiful Moat of Urr, the largest and best in preservation cf any similar ancient moat in Scotland, is situated on the property ; and in ages long gone by was the principal place in Galloway where justice was dispensed by the ancient kings of the province. The lands also possess a traditional interest from the following circumstance. King Robert Bruce, during his early struggles for the throne, encountered a body of English from Buittlo Castle near the moat. The Southrons were defeated, and after a personal conflict their leader, Sir Walter Selby, was taken prisoner by Bruce. The lands were then occupied by a person named Sprotte, whose wife provided water to wash the blood from Bruce and his prisoner, and invited them into the cottage. The King had taken no food for nearly two days, and he asked if the woman could givs them any thing to eat. She said she had nothing but oatmeal, and would make a cog (a wooden dish) of brose, which she did. The King asked what reward she would have, when sho replied, as much of the land her husband occupied as she could run round while the brose was being eaten. The re quest was agreed to by the King, and she, kilting up her dress, started off at full speed. The brose was scalding hot, and the woman only left one spoon, so that b 3 the time the dish was emptied, and the King and Sir Walter bed gone outside the cottage, the woman, with agile speed, had made the circuit of nearly the farm. The Sprottes held the pro perty for many generations. The tenure was a dish of but tered brose presented to the King when he visited the neigh bourhood. Should our beloved Sovereign, on her next visit to the Green Isle, pass through Galloway, she would be entitled to demand from the superior of the lands a dish of buttered brose." _ Macmillan's Magazine. Chapter 37 of " Ravenshoe'" furnishes some of Lord Welter's antecedents. As we predicted some time ago, it was he who seduced Ellen from Raven shoe. Lieutenant Hornby having met her at Welter's house, where she passed as his wife, acting as mistress of his establishment, and enter tained his guests, fell in love with her, which was not, of course, checked by the marriage of Welter with Adelaide. Being rejected in the proposal which he deemed good enough to make to one in her situation, he took Charles with him one night to Welter's house, who, while lying in the hall, has strange revelations. He sees Lord Welter and Adelaide quarrel, and sees Hornby make an honourable proposal to his supposed sister Ellen. He is, however, again rejected by her, although she admits that she loves b im, stating as her reason that she could not disgrace him, and leaves him. Then Charles rising explains all, and goes into Welter's room to have an explanation and quarrel with him, but they do not fight as Hornby had expected. Welter expresses regret, and Charles, with his usual good nature believing him, forgives him. Poor Hornby receives no hope from brother or sister, and rides moodily home. The conversation between Charles and Welter is very good, the quiet mournful tone of the one and the forced calmness of the bully contrasting admirably. Charles's opening words with the man whom a few months before be could have killed were, " Welter, Welter, why have you been such a villian P " Lord Welter found that a difficult question to answer. He let it alone, and said nothing. "I say nothing about Adelaide. You did not use me well there ; for, when you persuaded her to go off with y,m, you had not heard of my ruin." " On my soul, Charles, there was not much persuasion wanted there." " Very likely. Ido not want to speak about that, but about Ellen, my sister. Was anything ever done more shamefully than that 2" Charles expected some furious outbreak when he said that. None came. What was good in Lord Welter came to the surface, when he saw his old friend and playmate there before him, sunk so far below him in all that this world considers worth having, but rising so far above him in his fearless honour and manliness. He was humbled, sorry, and ashamed. Bitter as Charles's words were, he felt they were true, and had manhood enough left not to resent them. To the sensation of fear, as I have said be fore, Lord Welter was a total stranger, or he might have been nervous at being locked up in a ro , na alone, with a desperate man, physically his equal, whom he had so sham fully wronged. He rose and leant against the chimney piece, looking at Charles. " I did not know she was your sister, Charles. You must do me that justice." " Of course you did not. If—" " I know what you are going to say—that I should not have dared. On my soul, Charles, I don't know; I believe I dare do anything. But I tell you one thing—of all the men who walk this earth, you are the last I would willingly wrong. When I went off with Adelaide, I knew she not care sixpence for you. I knew she would have made you wretched. I knew better than you, because I never was in love with her, and you were ; wbat a heartless ambi tious jade it was ! She sold herself to me for the title I gave her, as she tried to sell herself to that solemn prig, Lord Ilio n ault, before. And I bought her, because 0. hand some, witty, clever wife is a valuable chattel to a man like me, who has to live by his wits." " Ellen was as handsome and as clever as she. Why did you not marry her ?" said Charles bitterly. " If you will have the real truth, Ellen would have been Lady Welter now, but----" Lord Welter hesitated. He was a great rascal, and he had a brazen front, but he found a difficulty in going on. It must be, I should fancy, very hard work to tell all the little ins and outs of a piece of villany one has been engaged in, and to tell, as Lord Welter did on this occasion, the exact truth. " I Am waiting," said Charles, " to hear you tell me why she was not made Lady Welter." " What, you will have it then ? Well, she was too scrupulous. She was too honourable a woman for this line of business. She wouldn't play, or learn to play--d--n it, sir, you have got the whole truth now, if that will content you. ,, " I believe what you say, my lord. Do you know that Lieutenant Hornby made her an offer of marriage to-night?" " I supposed he would," said Lord Welter. "And that she has refused him ?" "I guessed that she would. She is your own sister. Shall you try to persuade her ?" " I would see her in her coffin first." " So I suppose." " She must come away from here, Lord Welter. I must keep her and do what I can for her. We must pull through it together somehow." " She had better go from here. She is too good for this hole. I must make provision for her to live with you." " Not one halfpenny, my lord. Sho has lived too long in dependence and disgrace already. W e will pull through together alone." William comes out in the new character of a gen tleman, in which he acquits himself successfnlly much to the satisfaction of Lord Saltire, who takes a great interest in him, chiefly on account of his past connection with Charles. In fact, William felt that notwithstanding the grand reception he met with at Lady Hanault's, it was after all a reflection of their love for Charles, and he rejoiced at it. With the exception of a chapter by Herbert F. Hore, on'the salmon, in which the preservation of that fish and its peculiarities are minutely described. Lord Derby once remarked that he never remembered a session of Parliament without three bills about salmon ; and a thrilling narrative of a shipwreak at the Brissons, on the coast of Cornwall by Cecil Horne, there is nothing of interest this month. There are three biographies of Hugh Macdonald— Alexis Toqueville, and the late Herbert Coleridge. A sketch of a re-visit to Paris, and a chapter on State Education ; its past and future. Some pleas ing verses, entitled " Day by Day," by Miss Muloch, and last, not least (in length), "The Vic tories of Love," by Coventry Patmore ; and certainly if quantity can compensate for want of quality, this poem, of which this month's contribution of fourteen pages form only the second part, and which is to be continued, it stands a chance of going down to pos terity aided by the trunkmaker. Zhu Cornhill Magazine. The " Adventures of Philip on his way through the World" is continued, and although Phillip's cracked boots are introduced on every posible occa sion, his bold and independent character is brought out in contradistinction to the cringing of his cousin young Twisden. There are some clever sketches of official character at the Ambassador's office in Paris. Likewise, the hyaena mother of poor little Charlotte (Phillip'sfiuncee) is come out a well defined type of her race. "A Week's imprison ment in Sark" is a long description of that small dependency of Great Britain, in which all the attractions of the place are noted, and, seeing that the writer had wet weather all the time he was there, and was imprisoned in his hotel the greater part of the time, not being able to leave, no boat being able to put to sea, the island must have great attractions, for a man so situated to be able to find a good word for it at all. THE ISLAND OF SARK. We reached Sark after two hours' sail ; but the little har bour not being very convenient to reach, or at least not the best for our cutter to start from on her return to Guernsey, we were landed at a place where there were no means of reaching the upper world of Sark without a somewhat dan gerous climb over wet rocks and up a steep cliff. This dif ficulty being happily overcome, we made our way to the little hotel, and soon began to examine the curiosities of the place. Sark is not only remarkable for the difficulty of reaching it and escaping from it, but also for numerous objects of real interest. It may be worth while to describe some of these for the benefit of futare travellers, should any venture into so dangerous a place. The coast of Sark is singularly wild and bold. A lofty wall from two to three hundred feet high, with numerous outlying rocks and islands, is all that is seen from the sea. Here and there are small bays, where the sea washes over pebbles and large boulders reaching rocks covered with sea weed at the foot of inaccessible cliffs, and in one or two places having a sandy beach ; but none of these would be selected as giving access to the interior. So completely is this the case, that the island might be sailed round in calm weather without a single place being discovered which a stranger would venture to land at in a small, boat. . . The island is very nearlydivided into two unequal parts, called Great and Little Sark, and the coast is not only in dented with small bays, but surrounded by numerous rocks. Wild sea-birds scream ; the waves are white as they betray the sharp points of rocks covered treacherously by a few feet of water; gloomy caverns gape and yawn in every direc tion, and if it were not for a few small boats moored by long ropes to rocks that seem equally difficult of approach by land and water, one might readily fancy the whole place uninhabited. As the extreme length measured from a point of land almost detached from Greater Sark, on the north, to the last rock that stretches to the South in Little Sark, is barely three miles and a half, and the greatest width is certainly not more than a mile and a half, the tourist accustomed to do Switzerland in a fortnight, including the journey there and back, and perform other feats by aid of steamboat and railroad, naturally imagines that a day, or a couple of days at the most, must be sufficient to ransack the whole place, and leave no place unvisited. But if our little island is per verse in keeping against their will those who come to see her, she is not deficient in charms, and, small as she may seem, will tax the powers even of Alpine travellers to ex haust her stock of wonders in a short time. The struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson are continued, Robertson experiencing great opposition from his partners in all his wild attempts at wholesale advertising. The story is clever in its way, and is intended to show up the present wild and reckless mode of trading carried on by many at the present time. Under the head of the " First Principles of Physiognomy," the cha racters of certain noted individuals are described to explain the writer's meaning. Plate No. 8 of " Bird's-eye Views of Society," is equal in excel lence to many of its predecessors. In fact, you may look at any of the plates for half-an-hour, and the longer you look the more will be found to look at. " National characters," compares the various peculiarities of different nationalities. A paper on " Cooks" must have been written by one of themselves, such a nigh position is given to them in society. " A Description of the Manu facture of paper" gives a full account of the process. Chapters 14 and 15 of " Agnes of Sorrento," com plete the number. Baily's Sporting. The frontispiece represents George Lane Fox, Esq., which is, of course, well executed ; a biography is also added of George Lane, who, for a long time, had been master of the Branham-Moor Hounds. The remarks of the gentleman in Black are clever, and his remarks, on many subject, sen sible. Number VIII of Wild Life is a continuation of Australian Life ; but the author takes good cares not to define his locality, which might be hard to find, for it combines all the luxuries of civilised life with more game of every kind than is to be found in any one known place. His descriptions are, nevertheless, truthfully and well written. In " Farming and Fox-hunting," from the able pen of Scutator, the author dilates at some length on the connection and mutual interest which should exist between the Farmer and Fox-hunter, and shows how, if each party would act in good faith towards the other, that it would be to the advantage of both. He also gives a history of the farmer and squire of olden times, and the rise of the present class. " The Old Country Squire" furnishes, by way of a change, a Highland legend, in a running mnsical rhyme, entitled— A LAY OF GLEN LOCHAY ; 011, THE LEGEND OF COILLICH WOOD. I will sing you a lay of Glen Lochay, The tale of the Coillich Wood ; Of the fearful affiright, of the weaver that night, At the tree were the bogie stood. Good Duncan MTherson, a weaver by trade,. Tried to keep Donald Brown from evil; But Donald the farmer, quite deaf to the charmer, Surrendered himself to the devil. For Donald's black heart was as hard as the door Which he shut in the face of his friend ; Though known to be rich he was hard to the poor, Neither morals nor manners he'd mend. " Our Jockeys" is continued, and we have a paper on " Our Eleven in Winter Quarters," and their proposed Australian voyage. " Our Van," and other sporting news, conclude. Orley Farm. We are introduced to Felix Graham's intended wife, whom he is bringing up or "forming" for himself; it is evident, however, that they are not to be united, each party being in love with some. body else. Felix Graham, in spite of himself with Madeline Stavely, and Mary Snow' with some unknown lover whom she endeavours to shun as a matter of duty. Mr. Furnival looks for assistance, feeling certain from all he hears that Lady Mason is guilty, although he will not acknowledge it even to himself. H e see k s ad vice from an old friend of his, an Old Bailey counsel named Chaffanbrass, and they consult. Down at the Cleeve Love was still the lord of all, Sir Peregrine proposes, and is accepted by Lady Mason against what she thel. struggle which considers right. In this chapterfeefeelingly in desc goes on in her breast is very contention,ri described, wishes, duty, and interest all b' the lastchaptershows the differ eing Mason and young Peregrine Orme eutw viewa i nwk: h n l i f t c t i e u r g , both objecting to the match from pride, but of two different kinds, of his grandfather, Young Orme, for the charac teran old man marrying a corn paratively young woman beneath him in station, and Lucius because his mother removes herself from his injurious guardianship. Both characters are well defined. aunders, 01ley, and Co.'s Literary Budget for England, India, China, Australia, and the Colo- nies. No I. This is a successful commencement of a new series of publication, to appear monthly with the magazines, and to give a resume of all matters connected with literature. It will, no doubt, prove attractive to the reading public, as they will thus be enabled to glean important information and interesting intelligence on a subject of which no one would willingly be ignorant in these days of advanced intelligence and extended knowledge. The plan on which this serial is carried out seems a very excellent one, and it is really surprising to mark the extent and variety of its contents. There are notices of all the books recently published that at all deserve to be called of consequence ; there are short recognitions of the smaller class whether good, bad, or indifferent, that are always lying in heaps on the library tables or crowding the shelves of all in any way concerned in crit:cising the current ema nations of the press. We find also entertaining accounts of the progress and prospects of literature abroad, and the followieg fact is mentioned which is truly said to be sufficient to make English contem poraries very naturally envious. " Victor Hugo has just sold the copyright of a novel to a Belgian house (Lacroix) for 400,000 francs, in other words for £16,000. This novel is in eight volumes, and is to be entitled "Les Miserables." This is the most signal proof we have yet had of the rising value of literary workmanship." There are some smart verses interspersed among the contents which serve to enliven and animate their pages. One of these is called " The Strand." There's not a street that's worth comparing With that from Temple Bar to Charing— The Strand, the Strand I For Balmoral boots set hearts a-flutter, And various journals nonsense utter, In the Strand, in the Strand I 0 how I love the Strand, boys 1 I do, I do. At noon or night 'Tis my delight To stroll along the Strand, boys? Learning there is in gretivariety— King's College and the Royal Society, In the Strand, in the Strand 1 And what a treat 'twill be when men are all As wise as her Majesty's Registrar-General, In the Strand, in the Strand 111. For gold the Westminster or Coutt's— Milo's or Bewlay's for cheroots is In the Strand, in the Strand I And if you walk its south side thorough You'll find two uncles—Attenborough— In the Strand, in the Strand! Two theatres its sides are built on; Who's for a night with " saucy Wilton" At the Strand, at the Strand ? If in perfection you've never seen tea, Try Antrobus for black tea, Twining for green tea, In the Strand, in the Strand I The Globe each evening pleases one set, And the only Sun that will rise at sunset, In the Strand, in the Strand I The Press comes out to praise the Tories. Bell's Life with lots of sporting stories, In the Strand, in the Strand I If you want cheap news there are journals many— Why, the famous old Chronicle's down to a penny, In the Strand, in the Strand I While if for a monthly you would pay, sir, There's worse magazines by far than Fraser, In the Strand, in the Strand I The Lowther Arcade with its toy shops glorious— Exeter Hall with its oratorios— In the Strand, in the Strand I And if so many excitements fool you, Why, there's lots of IN enham Lake ice to cool you, In the Strand, in the Strand I 0 how I love the Strand, boys! I do, I do. At noon or night "Es my delight. To stroll along the Strand, boys I The others are named "The Beast and his Image," and Mr. Bellew's Novel." They are good specimens of the satirical and dashing style of verses, and are sure to gain numerous admirers, as this sort of thing when at all fairly executed invariably proves popular. The article on " Sensation Literature" is very well done, and contains some useful hints to writers, and some good advice that may prove a word in season to some inexperienced or mistaken authors It is justly observed that "A proper infusion of excite -Anent is not only pardonable but essential alike to drama, novel, and epic; it enters largely iuto the composition of the very best models of each class, let us say into " Hamlet," "Ivanhoe," and " Paradise Lost." But excitement is not the sole aim or the sole merit of the noblest produc t:ono, though a low class of mind may seek them greedily for that alone Authors and readers should remember that the taste of a generation, and the art of a generation, are mutually informed, and are bastard or legitimate, false or correct, flagitious or respectable, alike and together. If art be too didactic be sure that the age is too stolid, if art be too pictorial the age is sensuous and vain. The first conjunction makes a fault only in national temperament, the second promotes social levity as well. But faulty temperament social levity, and moral delinquency are one and all embodied in that worst of all artistic characteristics that an author can cultivate, or society require, "sensation." There are the following remarks met with in the comments on the literary promises of the month : " It is surely most justifiable to attach some public im portance to the prospects of our general literature. Books, like other consumable commodities, have now become sub• ject to the laws of general supply. Month by month and year by year the average of demand increases or slackens from causes precisely analogous to those which regulate production in other directions. Society is, to s ay the least of it, fully as m uc h i n t ereste d i n t h e qua li ty or quan ti ty o f its literary harvest, as it is in the fortheomihg supply of any other article of mere luxury. Books, if no more, are among the most desirable elegancies of life to all—to many they are well-nigh one of its necessaries ; and it is hardly too much to say that after good food and good raiment, good books rank next, both from their intrinsic v a l ue , an d in virtue of the exteat of their consumption." On tfie whole, considering the variety of the sub jects brought forward, and the vigour and vivacity that for the most part pervade their tenour, we must congratulate the managers of this new Serial on its excellext arrangement, and on the superiority of the greater portion of its contents. If it is car ried on with at all the same spirit and energy as mark its outset, there will be no cause for them to fear it will have other than a favourable recep tion, or not fulfil its promise of being a Literary Budget on an extended scale and an elevated principle. The National Magazine. Although not equal to some of the new serials published at the same price, this magazine has a good deal of pleasant light reading and plenty of amusing or affecting tales for the lovers of romance. One of the most attractive features in this number is a beautiful photograph of New Westminster Bridge, of which there is also a brief and in teresting account. Cassell's illustrated Family Bible. Superior edition. Part -XI. This beautiful edition of the Holy Scriptures is continued with unflagging merit. Many of the illustrations are beautiful in design and excellent in execution. We heartily commend it to all who wish to secure a superior copy of the Sacred Volume, and whose means might not allow of their procuring it in a complete form. It is issued in monthly shilling parts, and is thus placed w ithi n the reach of a very large circle. The Sixpenny Magazine. _ _ In the Hzpenny Magazine the burlesque on the Greek robbers and gend armes, entitled " The K i ng of the Mountains," is continued. It is certainly original. " The Round of Wrong" is a clever French novel under another name. "Pen and . Pencil Sketch es " are d escriptions of various places in England. " Trips after IL alth" is continued, and several papers on various subjects are to be found, some of no great pretensions, but good i enough in thei r way . B u t t h e b ea t ar ti c l e n the number, as i n f act it h as b een i n f ormer ones, . " Animal Life in the Ocean," in which much curious informatio n is to be found of the monsters and mites of the deep. The Eclectic. This serial - contains;;;;;Yinietesting articles, and Is much improved under the new management. A lengthened paper on the Rev. Alfred Vaughan's "Hours with the Mystics," is the first to meet the reader, and will well repay him for perusing it• Montalembert's " Monks of the West," and two of our new poets are also subjects for criticism; and a very attractive paper entitled " Alter Icebergs," founded on a recent account of northern voyage and adventure. Other articles of various merits arc also to be met with. Cassell's Publication s. Thie indefatigable publish er cont i nues to main tain his various serials with undiminished spirit comesand down The to lllustrated 1 utr termination atFdHistory o f of England" Napoleon's career, and is adorned with the portraits of several of his marshals. " The Popular Natu ra l Hi s t ory " has many excellent illustrations, and is published do tie Ca Ba 3 r Ne a