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ATESSE'S. JAY and CO. ha ve now on show IVA_ the it ost unique and perfect assortment of BONNETS, which their Itan ager has selected in Paris, and brought back with he r to this EstAlishment. 247, 249, 251, Regent-street. BONN:Yff'S SILKS a LYON.—Every Article of commerce takes Its title either from the inventor or manufacturer, and the more perfect the production the grater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England; but the fallacy of such an assertion i s ex pos dby the v ery trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by 3lessrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The fol lowing interwoven mark may be seen at the end of eac h piece Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Ci e ., i t Ly on et it IRjul ieux. (Pear guaranteed. ROYAL ENGLIS.II OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyae and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS. EVENING, Will ice's Romantic Opera, THE pESEAtT FLOWER: Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Itlessrs. W. H. Weiss, H. Corri. A. Cook, and W. _Harrison. Conductor, Mr. A- Mellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven. commence at Eight. rrEIEATRE ROYAL DRUItY- LANE. - Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the nertormances will commence with an by .1. Oxenford, E sq., ent i t l e d BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. Principal characters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, Spencer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss E. Leclerq. At rer which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRND. Messrs. i- helps, Ryder, Rayner, M , -agreson, Ware!, Spencer ; Miss Heath, MISS E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss hitter, Miss Cicely Not;, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with a New and Original Farce, by Messrs. IV Brouoll and A. Halliday, entitled MY II NART'S I.N THE HIGHLANDS characters by Mr. J. 'Ne , Yille, Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warde, Mr. J. Mares ; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Hat tleur. THEATRE ROYAL HAY NIA RKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, .31r, Buckstone. THIS EVENING (4th time), LIT rix DA A ISY. IN A After which, at half-past 7 (sth time), BULL CHINA SHOP. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Clark, Rogers, and Gordon; Mesdames Lindley, Wright, Fitz wildam, Hill, &c. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE Messrs. Charles Mathew,f, Compton,Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews, L, Keeley. Griffith, &c. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DEMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Eventing until further notice. THIS EVENING, the Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, entitled UNCLE BABY: Mess's' Widdicombe, J.G. Shore, Charles; Miss P. Leclercq, and Carlotta Leclercq. After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DESroNI-o,calhtaaljrial9F Story, in Twelve Tab leaux, taken from Stendhal's 7 C h ron icles," by Mr. J ohn Brou g ham. Pr incipal ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles B rou gham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith , Clifford ': C o llett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. L ayenue, Mrs. L ee , and An Elsworthy. Doors open at half-past 6—commence at 7. DEMONIO ; a LOVE STORY , in Twelve 3UP Tableaux. NEW THEATRE-Ito YALE ADELPHL sole Proprietor and Manazar, 'qr. B. Webster. S THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TR AGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. tirling - . bit 8, the New Drama of LEAH: Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billinolon, Stuart, .A. Wood, }Marne, Miss 11. Simms and Mrs. Billing -ton. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss Woolgar , And Mr. A. Wood. MISS BATEMAN.—LE A H.—The triumphant and enthusiastic success of the great tragic artiste, *Liss BATEMAN, on her first appearance in the character of LEAH, in the new five act Drama of that title, having been nightly repeated, and even exceeded during the last four weoks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences, and trieprofound impression created upon all who have wit nm•ssed the touching impersonation by Miss Bateman of the heart-broken Jewish maiden, belly , confirmed by the unani mous verdict and critical approval of the entire press, the Managerof the NEW AD EL ['III THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss BAT EMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEA El EVERY EVENING till further notice ; and in order to meet, as far as possible, the increasing demand for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously existing. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE ManaLrer, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Simpson. After which, Mill CRDIE. Messrs. G. Honey, Parselle, Beltord, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders. To conclude with FAINT HEART NEVER WON iAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray. CoMmence at 7. riE THIRD EDITION OF ." THE '' SUN, Coqtaining the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ,;an be had Every Evening of G. R. GLIc.NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connauzlit-terrace, Ilyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Moruing, 211. 24m.—Afternoon, 2h. 40m. To-woßnow.-Morning. 2h. 59,n.—Afrnrnoon, 311. 20m. Th© Weather—Sun Office, Nov. 12, 1863, - TITERMOM ETV. R. This (lay at Two o'clock Burorneter-29.79. . . Wind—North• West ; moderate, and very fine. -2 _t:;e_:!‘*,l t Zfi LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1863. Every mechanical invention that in any way affects our naval and mercantile interests is deserv ing of prompt and careful attention. We are glad to find that the new improved rudder called " Lum ley's Rudder" is being adopted with very general success. The improvement effected by this rudder is simple and eminently practical, and the benefit conferred by it is at the rate of not less than 50 per cent. This is accomplished by making the rudder in two pieces (the tail and the body) —pieces which are joined together in the same_ . manner in w hi c h th e ru dd er i s attac h ed to the ship. In addition to this, there are two chains fitted on the outer edges of the "tail" on opposite aides These chains cross each other through diago "'' 'lots in the body of the rudder, and are then at tached 4 o u t 4 he stern post. I n ' working 4 the rudder in the 11 , the way the " tail" part makes angles to makes a;els t othe same way in whi c h the body" formed anq the ship ; t h us a recessed surface is angle of a Z t ter steering p ower o b ta i ne d— an equal to 20 degree e s es with the new rudd er b e i ng result of such alt eration is obvious. Th e with the old. Th e b ene fi c i a l getti time saved i n an i g the till er f rom 10 to 20 degrees is collisions are immi nent u1 " 83 advantage when ° rocks are a h ea d . The hand of the steeraca aiii r double with with double power, the rudder has vessel is rendered more man Purchase, and the ageabie and easy t o guide. The different action o f the two rudders, th e . q .. o ld and the new, is somewhat snalo e double reins, the curb and sn affle of th : °118 to th ueatrian e The benefit of the a l t eration mu st be ob v to the inexperienced. 'The next thing i 3 tong ev.re en how the plan works when reduced to pra Z e ~ the most wonderfully satisfactory theories p , e , ing sometimes quite illusory when a practical test i s applied to them. In this instance the result app ears D to be very satisfactory. During the ten or eleven months that have elapsed since the invention wile - first patented, it has been applied to ten vessels of various kinds. Among them are three in the Royal Navy, namely, the Bulfinch gunboat, the Colum bine steamsloop, and the Locust. Of these the Columbine, a steamsloop of 609 tons and 150. horse power, has recently returned from a cruise of several niontha on the coast of Scotilnd, where she has been Protecting the fisheries. On the vessel being examined in doek,it is said that the rudder (a Lumley Rudder) Was found to be exactly in the same condition as when it se t -4 fitted out several months previously. When Nv e:h t i l : n k b e ; l , : e ou et a i ecou n t the severe w ea th er w hi c h th e oalitered during this cru i se , so severe that duri ng one ,- gule 8" l os t a part of her b ow an d eutwater, the result highly re gard, the ne w ru dd er i s satisfactory. this rudder is to be affixed to the screw ships no , in course b consta uctio n at P ort - Glasgow, vessels svhicheanr a u d i destined for Chin a . Th e ow ners say they will be enabled to build these screw ships 100 tons larger i n een . ecio. facility of navigation afforded b ace of the greater le new rudder. Th e vessels are intended for the i Ti en - sin River, w hi c h, being very narrow and intricate, only admit s vessels of moderate dimensions ; but o great is the improvement effected in the steerin g p ower by the Lumley Rudder that the main difficulties of the navigation are overcome. Facts such as these are better than a hundred arguments, and we cannot doubt that when a farther experience has v,Esuee4 t hem to be more generally known, the adoption of the " improved rudder" will become general. The attention of the Government should be particularly ( lirected to such improvements ; and, after the 'satisfactory experience of the Columbine, the new ;rudder, here noticed, ought, certainly, to be affixed :to every vessel in course of construction. Mr.VILLIERs has been trying to set forward the claims of her MAJESTY'S Ministers to public ap proval with the best possible grace. Perhaps all may not concur in the validity of his arguments, and may even go so far as to assert that he has spoken with the prejudices and prejudging of one in the Ministry, and not with the deliberate sur vey and unbiassed opinions of one who regards the transactions of the day from afar. It might have been very satisfactory for Mr. VILLIERS to draw inferences from the favourable reception accorded to the ntimes of the Ministers, as to its representa tion of the sentiments of the country, but it is to be questioned if such really were the case, and if the general verdict of the nation would coincide with the flattering testimony of the Wolverhampton c'n stituents. In the first place, the right hon. gentle man was highly elated because the opponents of the Government were not desirous of displacing them. This idea may be carried too far, and some day the country may evidence a wish to displace a Govern ment that contains even men of such " extraordi nary talent" as Mr. GLADSTONE, and also " men of such large experience as Lords RUSSELL and PAL mERSTON.” Too late they may find out that they are mistaken, and the courtesy of their political opponents, while it does them honour, cannot re dound to their credit in a particular manner, and is aconvenient m o d e o f settling awkward affairs. In his remarks on America, Mr.VILLIERs displayed the weakness of his cause, and showed how the interior affairs of the Cabinet are being arranged. It is something rather peculiar to listen to such argu ments as these, even when it is considered that they may be uttered by a man who is in a position that requires some ingenious explanations. When we are told that the pledge of neutrality to each conflicting party in America " has been strict'.y and honourably observed," we are tempted to inquire if the conveyor of such information has studied the public events of the day. How does this compre hensive statement coincide with the question now in dispute in the courts of law —how does it accord with the redoubtable affair of the rams in the Mersey. It is really astonishing to find a gentle man in Mr. VILLIERS' position put forward so un tenable an argument in support of the Ministry, when all the facts of the case are patent to the world, and are in diametrical opposition to his views of the matter. When it is notorious that one of the chief members of the Cabinet has announced his intention of altering the laws of the land in order to forward the interests and carry out the intentions of one of the belligerent parties, of what avail is it to declaim and declare that nothing is to be done, or is doing, to suit the wishes of either side. It is really quite absurd, and, like all very extreme measures, can but militate against the cause that it professes to serve. The general topic of conversation, and the chief subject of discussion in the newspapers, has been the extraordinary favouritism shown by Ministers to the Federals ; and now we have a member of the Cabinet coming forward to say to his constituents that a strict and honourable neutrality has been maintained. After this we may expect anything remarkable or incom prehensible in the way of confidential disclosures, that are only uttered to be widely circulated and extensively spread about. The allusions to the "spirit and success" with which the honour of the British flag has been vindicated seem very purpose• less, when we call to mind the insults received and the injuries inflicted on our vessels, and the almost total stoppage to our commerce in some localities. When unlimited power is given to a bullying Government like that of Washington to issue mecret orders,.and to make public decrees by which they may waylay and cap- ;ure the vessels of a nation that was once the mis ,ress of the deep ; when the flag that " braved a ,housand years the battle and the breeze" is to be no protection from ignominious capture and over weening insolence of inspection, it is a waste of time and a loss of words to attempt to exonerate, still less to extol, the conduct of affairs which have brought things to such a pass. When we reflect on what is now and what has been, the natural exclamation must be, tempora mutantur et nos mutanum in illis ; and, therefore, these grandilo• quent asseverations regarding the vast benefits and blessings that accrue from the present system seem at the best to be rather out of place. It is all very well to say that the Americans are to settle their affairs as they please, and no one has a right to interfere; but that immunity Cannot apply to their persistence in meddling with our affairs, and it can. not indemnify our Government for coming forward in so marked a manner to render their assistance, and to propitiate them at all hazards, even when the issue turned upon the forfeiture of political support and of offence given to important interests in the community. If the only claim to success, and the highest tribute to the merit of this Govern went when it departs, is, according to this dis course, their advocacy of the nonintervention prin ciple, then they stand but a very sorry chance, and are likely to come off very badly indeed. Mr. VILLIERS has made a❑ agreeable and interesting speech, which doubtless delighted his hearers and will be highly applauded by his colleagues, but as regards the soundness of the arguments of the address it is otherwise, and more difficult to discourse of it. Great allowances are always to be made for these speeches, and of course no one dreams of attaching the same import to them as they would to the same things said in another place, but still these state meats are more or less the exponents of the policy and th e ep i tome of f the plans of action desired by ' 2 " in authority. It is then certain that our Minist ers are leaning on a reed if they hope that the tim e ourst and spiritless course now adopted in American '' it lirs will be their road to honour, or a complicated those statesmen tthieg ap proaching satisfaction. Nothing "''nest and energetic conduct in such vphroectiadrions series of events, and much, but°h:oteaeutrimid n w o i l l i l cy d: w bil i QY l l ne v er ad ei e and shuf fl ing elded spirits who love more and despise and condemn all treatment of the great' questions of their tileir vciouuwnst'rythe bold and a na ti o n with the petty an views of a pr(judice . d class of politicians, din. m:tairniganconverts to The condition of the cotton tr a d e i, doubt, a serious c onsideration to the psl:itil°" owners of the South ern States. Thei r chief turner, suddenly depriv ed of the accustome d s upply, is forced to look elsewher e for the raw material, and the Confederate cotton cultivators may justly feel uneasy at the prospect of flourishing cotton, markets opening up in other quarters. They have long been accustomed to contribute nearly the whole amount required by our mills that they find it difficult to realise the possibility, now confidently talked about, of a sufficient quantity of raw mate r. t b ial being derived from o th er p l aces . Neither can any supposed th a t th ey w ill l oo k ver y kindly on of the efforts now making to extend the growth and cultur e o f the cotton plant, and we must be 'Miss THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1863. prepared for discouragement and gloomy anticipa tions if we mean to accept the dictum of a Southerner on this important topic. It is with some reflections of this kind that we read the opinions of a Southerner lately published in a substantial volume." Unwilling or unable to believe the actual state of the case, this gentleman takes refuge in pooh-poohing every attempt to im port the treasured staple from other countries, and quietly tells us that—" To the minds of many per sons it is quite clear that the people of England must consent to abandon the cotton trade, or agai❑ turn their eyes westward for supplies." He talks of the " trifling amount" to be imported during the next twelve months, totally ignoring the calcula tions that have told us that four and a-half days regular work at the mills may be looked for all through next year. He disposes of the supplies from India, Queensland, Jamaica, Egypt, and 1 Turkey with indifferent contempt, and cheerfully enough anticipates a further increase of the already exorbitant price of cotton goods. The idea, he says, now entertained in many quarters, that the world is not so dependent on the Confederate States for its supply as was supposed, is entirely fallacious, but he is probably loath to believe such unwelcome tidings. There can be no denial that the great body of the cotto❑ consumers were, at the breaking out of the war, almost exclusively dependent on Confederate cotton—a fact on which North and South alike reckoned for our speedy interference and succour. The experience so dearly bought, however, can hardly prove altogether fruitless ; and we may reasonably hope that even in the event of a restoration of the status quo we should never again consent to place ourselves at the mercy of a foreign power. Mr. M'HENRY's remarks on the position of the British market at the commencement of hos tilities are more accurate. The crops of the few years immediately preceding had exceeded the cur rent demand, leaving on hand a surplus of about three million bales at the outbreak of the war. Most of this quantity, according to Mr. M'HENRY, had been converted into manufactured goods, owing to the spinning force of Europe and America having increased in a few years 30 per cent., which gave a fictitious, not an actual consumption to the extra production. It was the fact of these large supplies being on hand which has kept up the sale of cotton stuffs, and has thus in some degree put out the cal culations of many politicians not versed in the pecu liarities of the trade. Mr. M'HENRY, though, is by no means the first to tell us that the American catastrophe saved Lancashire from another kind of panic, and rescued the manufacturers unexpectedly from the consequences of their own rash and im provident speculations. In ordinary times " there is always two years' supply of cottons in the crude and manufactured state at the consuming points ; at the fall of Fort Sumter there was a sufficiency for three years' requirements." Such a state of the market was favourable to us, as helping to fill the void until we could draw our supply from other and more secure sources. But Mr. 'AP:HENRY tells us that it is useless to rely on India 83 a loca lity to occupy the place of the American States in the production of cotton, and that to accomplish such an end the climate and the systems of labour and trade would have to In altogether revolutionised, and he proceeds to support this theory by a num ber of statistics—all, however, based on the state of affairs two or three years back. When we know the amazing increase which has taken place since then, and when every mail brings reassuring parti culars respecting the crop of the present season, we shall not be contented to go back two or three years and measure our prospects by the results of the half hearted and indifferent cultivation then going on. We might as well accept the statistics of Indian pro duce i❑ 1850.51 given by Mr. M`HENRY, in which tea, now fast becoming one of the chief staples of India, figures as nil, as take the £7,342,167 set down as the value of cotton exports i❑ 1861 as a sample of the exports of 1863-4, and subsequent years. When an unprejudiced observer reflects for a moment on the different state of affairs hitherto existing in India and the Southern States of America, the diffi culties put in the way of the former by the land tax, the laws of waste lands and the ignorance or indifference of the people owing to the former de pression of the trade, he will only wonder that in so brief a time so much has been accomplished, and instead of anticipating the necessity of revolution ising the climate and changing the habits of the na tives he will readily admit that all that is required is a few years of careful cultivation, The States themselves did not produce the same amount of cotton some years back, as they have done since the vast increase in the trade, and a certain market Is necessary to the development of any branch of commerce. Neither can the inferiority of Indian cotton be accepted as a permanent drawback, for it has be en ascerta i ned that Cotton of a fine quality will, if planted from American seed, readily grow in many parts of India. But one great reason why Mr. M i IIENRY clings to the preservation of the old form of the cotton trade is to be found in his pro slavery sentiments. He reckons among the superior advantages of the Southern States, " their excellent system of slavery, which, if discontinu3d, would ruin them and England 'too;" and again he speaks of the negro on the Southern plantations as " the happiest labourer on the face of the globe." This is a view of the case hardly likely to find favour with the British public, whose resolute re fusal to accept either extreme of the case, has occa sioned so much displeasure on the other side of the Atlantic. Because we do not believe in the disinte- rested virtue of President LINCOLN'S proclamation, or sympathise with Mr. BEECHER'S unreasoning ranting, we are not going to change our firm con -• victions on the subject of slavery as a principle, and on such conditions as those above stated, Eng land will he less willing than ever to submit to Mr. M'HENRY's assertion, that " the whole cotton ques tion after all depends upon the production of the American States." Many other aspects of the case are discussed in this volume, to which we shall return at an early opportunity. * " The Cotton Trade : its Bearing upon the Prosperity of Great Britain and Commerce of the American Repub - lies." By George I \l'lleary. Saunders and Otley, AN AWKWARD LAUDATION.—When Carlos in the "Duenna" is presented by Little Isaac to his affianced, Carlos, of whom some handsome speech is ex pected, whispers to his friend, " Isaac, your mistress is very difficult to compliment." The Lord Chancellor appears to have experienced the same sort of difficulty in his address to the new Lord Mayor (who is, we believe, a liberal and thoughtful man, of more than average ability), and he could not, like Carlos, escape from his embarrassment by singing a song. So he floundered on is this awkward fashion.— "Noticing can be more gratifying to any than than to feel that the tenor of his antecedent life has been such as to win fur him the esteem, the regard, and the confidence of such a distinguished body of men as the citizens of Lon speech. namely, 1101 . 1 ." The personal merits of Alderman Lawrence had, then, recommended him to his fellow-citizens. Not at all. your fell() His claims are almost hereditary. lie is his father's son, ° , 4 a, 137 t hat, and nothing more. graced by the" My lord, there is in your wheicantohther circumstance rarely to be found. It is that to h e Com mon-Sergeant has adverted in his eloquent of London. w-citizens has been almost hereditary, for it is that with you the title to the esteem of recollectiona that your father received a great Lord Mayor not very l i l a 1118 mark of their the city rence. Why hold forth ,?nce in being elected a magistrate o was certainly letting down the the tenour a b out t the esteem, regard, and con any human life other than ante4ce il a t s° nlely—tho fall of the St. Law "ntecedent life (is there fidenee won by ?) to show that such was not the Lord Mayor's case, b d i e e u t t • almost en tle b e i ng tirely a a different character 9 namely, hereditary I Eminincr., LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] INDIA. BOMBAY, OCT. 29, (By Telegraph from Suez.) There has been a great storm on the Western Coast of India and in the Bay of Bengal. The ship Wings of the Wind has been totally wrecked at Cochin. extremities, as being sufficient for the accommodation re. quired." " Many persons," says the Siecle, " have received the proposal of a Congress as a generous dream, as a Utopia, the realisation of which was to be desired but must be ever adjourned. We have ourselves called attention to the obstacles which opposed the execution of the project. According, however, to the numerous despatches which succeed each other, it appears that in a fa.v days, upon an autograph invitation, which has hardly arrived at its destina tion, the accord will be established as if by enchant ment ! There must consequently be a great neces• sity tc., remodel the map of Europe, and to solve problems which become more complicated being prolonged !" BOURSE, Nov. 11.—No material change has taken place in the market, which continues firm, but with out making any material upward movement or in creasing in animation. Threes are now'at 671. 10c. Mobilier have also slightly improved. Railway Market quiet, with prices well maintained, The market improved towards the close, and left off as follows : 4t per Cents. 95 Do. end month 3 per Cente Do. end month 67 20 Credit Mobilier 1691 25 Do, end month 1005 Bank Shares 3355 Credit Fonder l2BO Roman RAIL Italian Loan 72 85 Do. end month 72 70 New ditto Do. end month.... Russian Austrian .. B4 Spanish Threes.„ Rome Debt .. 5l 50 Deferred - - YILYB. Cash. Account. 970 .. 977 50 982 50 .. 981 25 Orleans *** Northern New ditto Lyons anu Mediterranean 950 .. 953 75 New ditto Geneva 497 50 .. Southern 692 50 .. 693 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian - .. 407 50 Lon. Inv] North of Spain Saragossa 615 .. 620 Ditto to Barcelona PRUSSIA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) BERLIN, Nov. 10. After the task comes the pastime ; and accordingly the King and a gay and numerous party of Princes, Generals, and Ministers, are off for sport to Letz lingen Forest, leaving the ChamLer and Berlin to muse upon yesterday's Speech. They have left but a discontented capital behind them. The Speech has given the utmost dissatisfaction. It can hardly be said to have caused much surprise, for nothing good was expected. There is no chance of an Address to the Throne being voted, and indeed to do so would be suicidal on the part of the Chamber. Re-perusal of the Speech only confirms the bad im pression it at first made. The intimations it contains of respect to the Constitution are looked upon as the merest mockery, when in one of its very earliest paragraphs the country is informed that a bill will be brought in to regulate the rights of the Govern ment with respect to budgets the Deputies may re fuse to vote. After this it is quite in vain that an appeal is made with respect to the reorgani sation of the army.. In vain does the Sovereign urge the Chamber to address itself to the question of domestic differences with the earnest will to come to an understanding. The existing breach has been widened by this Speech, generally pro claimed, notwithstanding its affectations of consti tutionalism, to be worthy of a despotic Government. What will ensue it is impossible to say, but the public mood is not favourable to approaching peace. The Speech announces a great deal of busi ness for this session; but how much of it will be transacted? Many bills are to be brought in, but the Opposition laughs at the idea of their acceptance by the Lower House. As regards the press ordi nances, Government will neither get absolution for the past, nor modification, in the sense they desire, of the existing law. In short, to-day things look gloomy, and the word is War. It is the effect of the first impression, but it is doubtful whether this will be much modified by reflection. With respect to the rumoured mediation and compromise, semi official writers seek to weaken the effect produced by recent newspaper paragraphs. Without attach ing too much weight to the contradictions in ques tion, whether insinuated or positive, we yet must admit that the tenour of the Speech isnot favourable to the realisation of such well-intended projects. In the short sitting which bo►h Houses of the Diet held yesterday afternoon, Count Stalberg Wernigerode was re-elected President of the Upper Chamber. In the Lower Chamber, M. Taddel, as the oldest Deputy present, took the chair, and the four youngest Deputies were appointed Secretaries provisionally. Lots were drawn for the division of the Chamber into Committees or sections; which to-day are engaged in the examination of the elec- oral returns. As soon as more than half of the elections have been approved, the choice of the President and Vice-Presidents will be proceeded to. Until Friday or Saturday it is not likely that there will be anything of interest to record. Meanwhile, the principal political parties are holding their evening meetings. The Left Centre musters in greater strength than was expected, and will reckon, it appears, 100 members. The party of progress still counts on 150, so that these two fractions together will compose five -sevenths of the c'hamber. In yesterday's sitting, a number of the principal members of all parties were present. The right of the house, a world too wide for the Conser vatives—in front of whom sat Schwerin, Simeon, and the remnant of the Liberals of the Centre—was invaded by the mcn of the Bockum Dolffs, or Left Central fraction. M. Von Heydt, who was pre sent at a recent meeting of the Feudal party, has seated himself in the Chamber in front of them and behind the old Liberals—a place significant of his political position. From what I hear, the question of the two Poles who have been elected deputies—they being at the time in prison on a charge of treason, is not likely to give rise to a conflict. It is more probable that the matter will be treated in a purely constitutional way; that the Government will supply the Chamber with documents showing the grounds on which those two gentlemen were arrested, and that the Chamber, on finding those grounds sufficient, will not insist on their release. It is expected that one, if not two, of the Conservatives who have been returned at this general election will be unseated in come-. quence of the illegal practices that it will be proved were resorted to. If investigations were rigorously carried out, it is probable that more would share the same fate, but I am informed that in this matter there is no intention of displaying a vindictive animus towards Government and its supporters, On the eve of submitting to the Chamber the press ordi nances, and a modification of the press law and penal code, the Government does not seem disposed to vie with its adversaries in forbearance. A third warn ing was yesterday given the Berlinger Allgemeine, for the concluding paragraph of a leading article in which it was declared that, in presence of Austria's recent attempt, Prussia found herself fettered in the display of her power by the fault of her present Government, and that although, in spite of the shortcomings of the present Ministry, Austria had suffered a defeat, no victory could be claimed when the power was wanting to derive the smallest ad- vantage from the adversary's reverse. For these remarks, not very violent, but unpleasantly true, the Berlinger Allyemeine receives a third warning, which, according to the Ordinance of the Ist June, should be a suspension, but certain pruden • - - tial considerations, spoken of in A former letter, make the authorities unwilling to proceed to such The arrival of the Crown Prince, to be present at the opening of the Chamber, took Berlin by sur prise. It is said his Royal Highness was sum moned rather suddenly by a telegram from the King. He is not expected to return to this capital after the hunting party to which he has amnia • - panied his father, but to proceed from Magdeburg to Coblentz to visit Queen Augusta, now staying there, and then to go back to England. A large party of Princes is to-day assembled in Letzlingen Forest. There are, besides the King, four mem bers of the Royal family of Prussia, Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Duke of Brunswick, Duke William of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Prince of Auhalt-Dessau, and others, pf the Miniature then are—Messrs. Bismark, Bodelschwingh, loon, Selchow, lizem plitz, Soh lein itz, &o. Marshal Wrangel, of course, is there, and sundry other high civil and military functionaries swell the Royal train. While the hunting party lasts, telegraphic communication is provided for with the forests. There is a report that numerous vacancies which exist in the Chamber of Lords will shortly be filled up. Under a Government of liberal tendencies the opportunity would be a good one for strengthening the minority, and so facilitating the ultimate re form of that retrograde and impracticable assem bly. As it is, no great penetration is necessary to conjecture what political party will be reinforced by the new creations, should they presently take plan. A nowspiper estimates; at 3,000,000 thalers (L 450,000) the cost incurred by the military mea sures, concentration of troops, &a., made to cover the Polish frontier in consequence of the insurrec tion in that kingdom. The subject of the European Congress proposed by the Emperor Napoiton receives, notwithstand ing the meeting of the Chambers, a great deal of attention here. People cannot believe that it is proposed without some assurance of support having been previously secured, and whence, they ask, can that have been obtained except from Russia ? At any rate, if Russia accepts, Prussia, there is a strong disposition here to think, will surely follow in her wake, Two or three days ago the prevailing opinion here was that an execution in Holstein was almost inevitable, but people now speak of it with less certainty, and there is a report of propositions hav ing been made by Denmark to Prussia and Austria. It is generally thought that nothing less than the suspension of the patent of the 30th March and of the promulgatio❑ of the new Denmark•Schleswig constitution will induce the Federal Government to stay the execution. Schiller's old play of "Kabala und Liebe" afforded opportunity for a political demonstration a few nights ago at the Theatre Royal in Berlin. One of the female characters says to Ferdinand, "It was the Prince who gave you that sword ; to whin the young officer replies, "It was the State gave it me by the Prince's hand." The audience applauded so vehemently that the actors were fain to sus pend their performance until the burst was over. Another passage in the same play has been struck out, for fear, one cannot but suppose, of unpleasant applications. The President, who has attained to power by no clean paths, exclaims, "An oath ! what avails au oath, blockhead To which Warm, the secretary, replies, " Nothing with us, gracious Sir. Everything with that sort of men." Whe ther the audience had already taken this up, I cannot say, but a person who was present assures me that at the last performance of the play it was omitted. Although the country in which the action of Kable und Liebe passes is not stated by Schiller, certain passages of the play are considered to indicate it as Electoral Hesse, It is not, however, on account of the obnoxious Sovereign of that petty State that Berlin audiences applaud and censors ply their scissors. The applications made are to persons and circumstances nearer home. We do not any longer approve his Hessian High ness for unconstitutional proceedings, but Kladclera datsch, sadly at a loss latterly for topics whereon to exercise its pencil, is still left at liberty to exhi bit him, watching from his opera-box the pirouettes of the ballerina, while his Ministers await in the lobby their Sovereign's leisure for affairs of State. CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW. Yesterday a Chrysanthemum show was opened al le Agricultural Hall, Islington, and it is to be con- tinned throughout to day and to-morrow. The pro moters of the exhibition, with a view to draw a large number of persons, offered other attractions besides the show, consisting of performances by the Scotch Fusilier Guards, and the brothers Shapcott and the infant drummer, in the day, and a vocal and instrumental concert in the evening, which was fol lowed by the presentation of prizes to the 20th Middlesex Volunteers. All those attractions, how ever, failed to obtain a fair attendance at half-a crown a-head, but this and to-morrow being shilling days greater success is looked for. The show of flowers is excellent. In the hall itself are arranged the plants. Many of these are beau tifully trained, and exhibit some rare and elegant kinds of bloom. In the other gallery, however, is a display of cut flowers, and amongst them there are some extraordinary specimens, Many are larger than very fine dahlias, and others are in the form of a perfect ball. Such elegant varieties have never been exhibited before, and they seem to leave no room for improvement on them in future years. All cultivators of chrysanthemums should see the show, and no admirers of flowers can tail to be charmed with it. Several stalls for the exhibition of useful and ornamental articles are also fitted up in the hall. Prominent amongst these is one by Messrs. Mappin Brothers, of 222, Regent-street, on which is dis played some elegant plate, from which successful competitors may select prizes if they do not elect to take them in money, the prizes offered amounting to £3OO. Miss A. Brunies exhibit some artificial flowers made of paper, and so natural are they, that they . required very close inspection to detect that they are not cut flowers. This lady displays the greatest skill in this pretty art, which she has acquired by her own perseverance without the aid of an instructor. On the whole the show is a success, though the attendance was not so numerous as was desirable. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 12. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Hammonia, from New Yolk on the 31st ult., has arrived at Cowes. She brings 105 passengers , 56,200 dols. for England, 40,000 dols. for France, and 400 dols. for Hamburg. The Hammonia spoke the steamer Teutonia on the 9th inst., bound for New York. Her news has been anticipated. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 12. The Journce ds St. Petersboury publishes an imperial rescript to the Grand Duke Constantine. The Grand Duke being convinced, by the con tinual increase of the insurrection in Poland, of the incompatibility between the condition of affairs in that country and the feelings of good-will for its pacification which induced the Emperor to entrust him with carrying into operation the institutions which had bee: decreed, the Emperor consents to relieve the Grand Duke of his functions as Lieute nant and Comm&nder-in-Chi e f in Poland, and trusts that after the re-establishment of order he will resume his task. VILNA, Nov. 7. The Wilnaer Courier of to-day says :—" The Abbe Antony Gargas, vicar in the parish church in the district of Telche (Government of Kowno) , brought before court-martial, has been found guilty of having taken part in the operations of insurrec tionary bands, clf having fought arms in hand against the troops, of having administered the oath to insurgents, and published revolutionary mani festoes in the villages. He has therefore been con demned to death This sentence having been ap proved by General :Mouravieff, Abbe Gargas was shot on the 19th ult. in the town of Telche." The same paper contains a circular of the Gover nor General of Wilna, addressed to the Governors of Kowno, Grodno, Minsk, Witepsk, and Mohilew, which says :—" Considering the necessity of having a complete account of absentee land owners, as well as of their sons or relations residing Upon their estates, I desire your Excellencies, Ist—T o send in to me a list of all landowners of Polish origin in foreign countries who do not return at the expiration of the term fixed by their passports, that I may at once pro ceed to confiscate their domains; 2d—To designate those among the landowners, their eons or relatives, who, after having received permission from the military commandants to absent themselves from their estates, have not returned thither by the ap pointed day, as well as those whose residence at the present moment is not known to the local authori ties, being careful to specify the names of individuals known to be among the bands; 3d—To send in to me detailed information of all the nobles, Catholic clergy, employes, and administrators of State lands of Polish origin. And all this with the least pos • sible delay.—General of Infantry, MOURA VIEFF II." ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8. The mercantile class here is in despair, because the Bank upon the one hand almost entirely refuses discount, upon the other pursues the well-known practice in the 158416 of specie, which amounts to a dental. It is said now that the first business houses are agreed upon sending it to the Finance Minister, Baron Stieglitz, the Governor of the Bank. The petitioners will hardly encounter better fortune than the merchants who visited Poltowa fair, and discovered, to their alarm, that the branch establish ments, customary during the fair, had not been opened. Telegrams were at once despatched to the Finance Minister, who sent for Baron Steiglitz. Half an hour later a privy councillor at the Ministry received orders to telegraph to Poltawa to ascertain if the affair was quite correct, and the Bank had acted rightly. Here also the Baron is reported to have said—" A crisis was impending, and the Bank considers it its duty to hasten its outbreak." This would be a bold judgment, even Were it in every respect correct. But the truth is, that the Bank is deficient in funds. It cannot make use of its bullion for discount operations, and noes are the less available as their emission has ceased, and the Bank cannot get rid of its 4 per cent. metallics, when money is as high as 10 to 12 per cent. WARSAW, Nov. 8. The impatience with which the public has awaited the Emperor Napoleon's speech may very easily be conceived. It was believed that the Rus sian Censor, Pawlis zezew, who is also in virtue of his office chief editor of the official D . Ziennik, Pews Zcitung, would have no hesitation in permitting its publication, and the editors of the various local papers hastened to get the speech into type. Greatly to the general disgust, however, M. Pawliszezew prohibited the Warsaw papers from publishing the document, but issued it himself in the Government journal. The IY Ziennik of the day before yesterday pub lishes a proclamation stating that the issuing of passports has. been transferred from the department of the Interior to the charge of Gen. Trepow, chief of the gendarmerie in the kingdom. From 1831 until two years ago the management of the pass ports Was in the hands of the military Governor, of whose office the present gendarmerie chief is only a successor, and Polish subjects have now, there fore, to go through a long series of tedious formali ties before they can obtain a passport good for from eight to fourteen days for Warsaw, and for four weeks for the provinces. Yesterday's D . Ziennik contains the Russian ver sion of Komorowski's and Rochebrun's inroad from Gallicia into Volhynia upon the 2d inst. The offi cial paper states that the insurgents suffered great losses—numbers not given—and transported dead and wounded across the frontier. Eleven insur gents are reported captured, with 30 horses and 7,000 cartridges. The insurgents are said to have been pressed back into Gallicia, where 400 were disarmed by the Austrians. FRANCE. A Paris letter in the Journal du Havre says : " The representatives of the Powers resident in Paris have been informed that M. Drouyn tie Lhuys is engaged in drawing up an explanatory docu ment, comprising the programme of the different questions whi c h th e E mperor intends to submit to the Congress. It i s on ly, as is generally be lieved, after the d e li very o f that document to the different Governments, that the latter will reply to the invitation of Napoleon 111. Meantime, so little doubt appears to be felt in high adminis trative regions of the realisation of the Congress, that the question of residence is already unde r consideration. The Tuileries, the Palais-Royal, the Palace of the Elysee, the Great and Little Trianon, and the palaces of St. Cloud, Fontaine.. bleu; Rambouillet, and Metidon are mentioned COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHS, We lately mentioned a dispute which had arisen between a M. Ricco of Modena, and Col. Baratti, Director of the Camera Oscura, a photographic journal published at Milan, about priority of in vention, both claiming to have found a method of producing photographs in the natural colours of the originals. We now find, from a number of the Camera Oscura, that the invention is fur from being so important as was at first supposed ; still it is worth describing as a decided improvement. Sap pose it be required to colour the photograph of a man in a black coat, whose hair and beard are fair, and whose figure is projected on a white foreground, slightly shaded off. The process of the inventors is as follows :—The photograph taken by daylight lies in'a basin full of water ; it is dark, and the subsequent operations are performed by candlelight. Two solutions are at hand, one A, consisting of one gramme of chloride of gold and 10 of acetate of soda dissolved in 1,000 grammes of water ; the other B, consisting of 20 grammes of hyposulphite of soda dissolved in 100 grammes of water. There are besides two more basins with water, and a quire of blotting-paper. The photograph is taken out of the water, and put between the leaves of blotting paper; it is then laid flat on a pane of glass, and the whole surface except the face and hands re ceives, with a water-colour brush, a coating of solution A. By this means the parts subjected to the action of the gold soon change their tints into black. The photograph is then put into clean water again, and left there for a few minutes, during which the operator prepares a second photograph, if required. The former one being taken out, is put into solution B, where it stays for a few minutes, and is then washed and rinsed as usual. Now as the time of immersion Ns i'.l influence the depth of colour, by successive i mmer sions an orange-coloured cravat will be ob tained in one minute, a coffee-coloured great co at in five, violet coloured trouseis in 10, and a black coat in 30 minutes, while the hyposulpbite of soda, or solution B, gives colour to the flesh and hair. Hence cer tain colours though, not quito the natural ones, may be obtained, which is a decided step i n advance. GOOD SPor.T. Doke of. Cambrid ge , L ord George Manners, oR T . he — G T en i eral Hill, Colo ne l M acdonald, an d Colonel Newton have shot this w ee k over the Links P pre serves, n ear Newmarket, and m a d e a b ag of 636 head— viz., 332 pheasants, 256 hares and rabbit s , an d 48 partridges. On a secona day the same party shot in three hours in CneveleyPaik 100 pheasants, 60 hares, 23 rabbits, two par tridges, and one woodcock. The Duke of Cambridge has also shot over the covers of General Hall at Weston Cul. vile, in the same neighbourhood, with the Duke of Beau fort, Lord Mount Charles, Lord Stamford, the Marquis of Salisbury, and Colonel Macdonald. In two days 1,260 pheasants, 324 hares, 101 rabbits, and 10 partridges were shot, ratikipg a total of 1,695 head. oio q t f rillrtof 61° :v 414 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 11. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness the Princess Helena, drove in the grounds this morning. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal) arrived at Windsor Castle from Sandringham in the afternoon. Lord de Tabley and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Bentinck have succeeded Lord Rivers and Colonel F 6eyraour, C. 8., as Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales. SANDRINGHAM, Nov. 11. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, drove out this morning. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with Major Teesdale, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppal, Gene ral Knollys, and Mr. Fisher, went out covert shoot ing to-day. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia, attended by the Countess Hohenthal and the Count Furstenstein ; hii Royal Highness Prince Frederick of Denmark, attended by Captain. Lund; and his Serene Higness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, left Sandringham Hall this morning at half-past ten, for Wolferton station, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, who were attended by Lieutenant-General Knollys, Major Teesdale, Lieu tenant-• Colonel Keppel, and the Countess of Morton. The royal party left Wolferton by the ordinary train at 11.57. The Crown Princes proceeded to Windsor on visit to Ler Majesty, and Prince Frederic k of Den mark returned to Oxford to continue his s: tidies at the university. The Crown Princess of Prussia, Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia, who left Sandringham yesterday morning, arrived in London by the Great Eastern Railway rc.t a quarter to four, and immediately proceeded to the Great Western Railway in one of the Court car riages, which was in waiting at the station. Her royal highness left Paddington station by the ex press train at five o'clock, and arrived at Windsor at 5.40. There the royal traveller vas received by the railway officials and conducted to her carriage out side the Queen's private waiting-room. On reach ing the castle, the Crown Princess was received and welcomed by her Majesty and other members of the royal family. Her royal highness, during her stay at Windsor Castle, will, it is expected, lay the foundation. stone of the new district church which has been com menced at Windsor on the Lammas. This cere mony will probably take place on the 21st inst., the anniversary of the Crown Princess's birthday. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—A. matrimonial alliance is arranged between Lord William Pitt Lennox, son of the fourth Duke of Richmond, and Misa Molyneaux, daughter of the Rev. Mr, Molyneaux. A marriage is also arranged between the Rev. Canon Stanley (now Dean of Westminster) and Lady Augusta Bruce, sister of the Earl of Elgin. DEATH OF LORD CHESHAM.—We regret to an nounce the death of Lord Chesham, which took place on Tuesday night, at his residence, in Grosvenor square. His lordship had only been ill a ehort time, but his family were fully aware of the nature of his disease. The late Charles Compton Cavendish was the youngest son of George, first Earl of Burlington, by Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Charles, seventh Earl of Northampton, and was born 28th August, 1793. He married in June, 1814, Lady Catherine, eldest daughter of George, ninth Marquis or Huntley, by which lady, who survives him, he leaves a. son and two daughters, namely, the Hon. William G. Ca vendish, M.P. for Buckinghamshire; than Hon. Sarah, marded to Lord Deere; and the Hon. Harriet, married to the Earl of Strafford. His only son, who succ.icds him in his title, is married to a daughter of the late Hon. Wm. S. Lascelles and Lady Caroli'ne Lascelles, a niece of the Duchess Dowager of Sutherlar.d, and the Earl of Carlisle. Tae late lord sat in the House of Commons from D.:20 till his creation as peer under the title of Baron CheshaLn, of Chesham, County Bucks, in the early part of 1858. is 1320 and 1826 he represented Newtown, Hants, in ,the House of Commons, and in 1831 the borough of Yarmout.y• At the general election in 1832 he was returned member for East Sussex, for which division of the county he sat till 1847, when he was elected for Buckinghamshire, in conjunction with the Right Hon. B. Disraeli and N. Duprai. vest THE BLACK-LETTER SAINTS OF THE ENGLISIJ PRAYER-BOOK were every one excluded from the first Prayer-book of Edward VI. (1549). In the second. Prayer-book of Edward, three were introduced—St. George, the patron saint of England; St. Clement, contemporary of the Apostles ; and St. Lawrence ; and to these names was added, for the Ist of August, Lamoas-day—so called, it is supposed, from Loaf-man—the feast of the first fruits of the harvest. In queen Elizabeth's Prayer-book, as printed in 1559, no additional saints appear; but those afterwards printed in her reign, the list is nearly the same as at the present day. Eunurchus was added in the revision of James 1,, and St. Alban and the Venerable I:ede in that of the reign of Charles 11. The movement from ,the reign of Edward to that of Charles was in a degree re.lctionary ; but that only proves that some strong reason must' have ex isted for reintroducing names which before theßefo rmation were in common use—that they were social necossities which called for their reinstalments. Bishop Mant tells us that they were partly retained because the returns of the courts of law were commonly made with reference to those days, such as Fest Martin, Crest Martin, and Vigil Mar tin ; one of our law terms, we know, is called after St.. Hilary, Another reason he gives is that mechanics and artisans could not dispense with their patron saints ; the shoemakers would not part with St, Crispin, of whom it is told that, with his Brother Crispianus, on his missionary tours, he worked at his trade like Paul and Apollos. Welsh men would have St. David. Again, churches had been dedicated to these saints, and fairs and wakes hold near them on their festal days; therefore, it became necessary to retain their names in the calendar. Also, histories written. before the reformation dated events from these festal days, as, for instance, Lammas, Martinmas,—and,, therefore, again some guide to the days of the month on which these festivals fell was necessary.--London Review. . - TIER MEANING OF FRACTIOUSNESS OF CHIL DREN.—AII children, says a Saturday Reviewer, have thoughts which exceed the powers of exprextion. Parents know by painful experience, that there is a ce, - tain age at which children become fractious, ill-tempered, 41nd difficult to manage to the most unpleosant degree. It is the age at which they have learnt more or loss to think, but not to speak. They know perfectly ." e ll what the y want, try in vain to explain themselves, an d al ' e as irritate d. and angry at not succeeding as a certain des.lription. Englishman is apt to be with the stupid brutes of foreigners who, as he observes, cannot speak a word of an y rational language. A child at this period is not a plc . asirtg creature, but it is a very odd and instructive. IVh at is passing in its mind ?. How does it think ? Does it say to itself, in words, I want this or that—what a fool my nurse must be not to see what I want, and give it me ? If: it does not say this, what does it say ? It certainly says or thinks something, it' gestures, expressions of countenance, g u il ld ifi s c o a l l ; c e e th a e t a cl l e l eine A st and halfe-aarntsic;l:tteo sthoteisnedsghneasvteinanusywsni comp of all problems respecting human knowledge. Such answer is probably not to be had—yet there is a strong rei son to believe that at this troublesome stage of its life a is the power of thinki ng i n c hild is, for the first time, l earn i ng to exercise the distinc tively human faculty, whatever its proper name may be. It general terms power of speech i s the outw ar d an d visible' of which Ole siom Many animals, stnuechmeare sp n a r r t r i o n ts :in an ti d on s o t e arl s i o n n g na as ,cgannessp—eabrrap.tehreferectliy; us far no instance of an inferior animal which ever learnt the m:t u ning of a single word of the commonest kind, such as "r " dog," Human beings—even if they are idiots, and, what is still more curious, if they are (lest: dumb, and blind—arc capable of learning to communicate with their fellow. creatures by vocal or other signo c:vre.3s• ing general abstract meanings. PET MARJORIE.—An article in the current num ber of North British Review, so entitled, is the , production, we believe, of Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh.. author of Rab and hi. Friends." The heroine of the article, "Pet Alutjorie," or Marjorie Fleming, was an ex traordinary child, who was born on the 15th of January, 1803, and died on the 19th of December, 1811, at the ago of eight sears. She was a little prodigy in Edinburgh, and a pet of Sir Walter Scutt's, who was a friend of her family, and used to spend hours in prattling with her and _hearing her recite poetry. From the age of six to her death she was in the habit of writing little letters , and j otting down scraps of verse and prose; and amusing extr acts from these childish and ill-spelt remains are given in Dr. Brown's paper. They gleam with sense, humo ur, and, in short', precocious genius; and, with them and with Dr, Browns setting of thew, the article is very strikigs.l ail bu et( hil po pa Con Ind Ex( Bra Coll D ar AQ', 1?,, g1 -- Ital 31e: 3110 :N e~ E e a "'I) D Pie, 4 Of Sp,~ \Are "Ttir 1 in Tor A.US Bel but D Free Ital C )