The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-01 00:00:00

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Address—BoTT and JACKSON, " Man of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. THE VINTAGE WINE COMPANY Supply the Public, at a small advance on wholesale prices, with every description of Wines and Snirits. Terms, Cash. THE VINTAGE COMIDA SHERRY .. at 18s. per doz. THE VINTAGE CH A MPAGNE. THE VINTAGE CLARET , I s. „ 'TIE VINTAGE PORT from 20s. „ Medical and Cleric tl Testimonials, together with the Illus trated Vintage Almanac, containing full detailed Price List post free on application. Four Dozen Wire sent Carriage Free. 14, Bloomsbury-street, 4 doors south of New Oxford-street. A RGYLL ROO KS, Windmill-street, Hay market. NOTICE. —M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS will be continued at the above elegant rooms. Admission le. Conductor—M. JULLIEN. Solo Performers—Messrs. Mosca, Tyler, Horton, Snelling. rrogratski, &c. Doors Open at 8, commence at half-past. Manager, M. GRENET. T 0 X F 0 R D A, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, by Sir H. Bishop; also, from LA FORZA DEL DES I INO—Verdi ; by the fol lowing talented artistes .—Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz- Henry, S' elmsley, Tyrrell, and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS. the cele brated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randsll,W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, George Hutchen son, and the marvellous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and Foster. THIS EVENING, will be produced, supported by the entire company, a new and original Cantata, entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and com posed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the establishment. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. o'clock. ROYAL ALHAMBRA. —The Great Bare back Rider, JULES PEREZ, EVERY EVENING. "THE GHOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, throu zh the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN— TERBURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re_ peopling of the Haunted Houses of London ; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real lite, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best wr'ters. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be rapidly replace tby others. The pages of Shakspere and the ebler Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., &c., wi 1, in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musicat and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. RO YA L ALHAMBR A.—FRANCONPS CIRQUE IMPERIAL at Two, and half-past Seven 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One Shilling tor Gentlemen only). DS DO ;e. ,ti 3 ,3$ 1$ .1a ed il' ire of cr. ios BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir cassian Bloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison. —Can be had only at Madame RACH s4,'S, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All Communications are strictly confidential. THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indizestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at Is. lid. , nd 2s. 9(1. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. PRIZE MED AL-INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., To the Queen and the nince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manutazture. A disti./guished Diznitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:-- " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Platted. Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb Ordinary quality .. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. .. ls. sd. per lb. Second quality ls. 3d. per lb. Third quality Is. id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.. 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax. Candles for the lige of the Altar. TEETH, —Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations iree.-B,G rosvenor street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. N OTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard street, Lond on, P erfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to th - 3 public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restu , ss the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at why.: age. The A gua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals t undoubted respecta bility, may be seen on application. -- ; Messrs. John Gosnell and co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales. It tPT w Li „.. I? ,, R_E , S. —IIY ROYAL LETTE 118 PATENT. 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'" 6 ls. 10d Poet-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, So., for Caricose Veins and all oases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, atc. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on 12 can ordinary stocking. Prior 48. 6d., 7e. 6d., 10s., to 16s. ca4h. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Blanulacturer, 22 FicotdlU7. SHORTHAND. -PITMAN'S PHONOGRA. PHIL; ➢IANUAL. Free by post, ls. 6d. H OR THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO GRAPIIY forms an exceedingly efficient -probably the Amu efficient - system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir Rowland Hill. NO. 22 314 KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. C OGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Ohl 11.131 l WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BIZANDY, It i Pu.e, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. td , at the Retail [louses in London ; by the Agents in the prinlipal towns In England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STRE KT, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky." WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. CRA WLEY FUND —Those who desire to aid Colonel CRAWLEY in his heavy expences may Pay their Subscriptions to the above F'und at Messrs. Ilerries, Farquhar, and Co., Bankers, 16, St. James's-street, London, S.W. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., BARBARA'S HISTORY. By AMELIA B. EDWARDS. " This story will take rank among the very best produc tions of its class. We have met with nothing of equal power or merit since the decease of Charlotte Bronte."—Messenger. llurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, crown Bvo., with Illustrations, 6 5., T HE LAST OF THE CAVALIERS. A NOVEL. Also, uniform, Th, INITIALS. By the Author of "Quits" and "At Odds." EAST LYNNE. By Mrs. Woon. Os. The CHANNINGS. By Mrs. WOOD. Os. MRS. HALIBIJRTON'S TROUBLE 4. By Mrs. Woon. Os. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for JANUARY, 1864. No. DLXXIX. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. Captain Speke's Journal. Tony Butler. Part IV. Tne Mind and the Body. Chronicles cf Carling ford : The Perpetual Curate. — Part VIII. Winchester ( °liege and Commoners. Letter from Poland. No. IV. A Song of Proverbs. The European CrisiA William Blackl; ood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Now ready, price 365., 155., and 10$., with ➢lap, Pon'. OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for 1861. (iixty-fifth year.) _ The smallest edition, price 10s., with newly engraved large Map of London, is by far the cheapest Directory ever published, and comprises, in two alphabetical lists, the " Commercial " and " Court," which contaiq no less than 149,0:,0 names and addresses of persons residing in London, whether carrying on business or occupying a private resi dence. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, ,TANUARY_I, 1864. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING DEC. 31, 1863. No. I.—An Abstrac CUSTOMS EXCISE STAMPS TAXES PROPERTY TAX POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS MISCELLANEOUS TOTALS No. 11. of the Gross Produce of the Revenue of with the Corre the United sponding Pe: :..ingdom, in the undermentioned Periods ; .ods of the Preceding Year. ended Dee. 31, 1863, compared ___ ______ _____ QUARTERS ENDED T EAR 1 QUARTERS ENDED YEAR ^- ----, ended , ended Siarch 131, June :30, Sept 30, Dec. 31, Dec. 31, March 31, June :10, Sept. :30, Dec. 31, Dee. 31, 1863 1803 1863 1863 1863 1862 1862 1862 1862 1862 --- X £ £ £ £ X £ £ £ £ 5,722,000 5,857,0 03 5,8 72 , 000 ' 5,970,000 23,421,000 5,724,000 5,791,0( 0 6,201,000 6,320,000 21,036,000 CUSTOMS. 4,665,000 4,405,000 3,922,000 4, . 53,000 17,745,000 5,014,000 4,886,000 3,604,000 4,000,000 17,534,000 EXC I SE. 2,374,k 00 2,394,0 0 0 2,191,000 2,293,000 9,252,000 2,293,945 2,253,000 2,180,0 00 2 ,1 87 , 000 8,9 i 3,915 STAMPS. . 357,000 1,390,000 176,000 1,285,000 3,208,000 355,000 1,357,000 166,000 1,270,000 3,1(8,000 TAXES. 3,890,000 2,918,000 866,000 2,132,000 9,806,00 4,427,000 2,772,000 974,000 2,931,000 11,101,000 I'ROPERTY TAX. 955,000 v 50,001 902,000 990,000 3,80',,000 905,000 850,000 895,000 950,000 3,6 0,000 POST OFFICE. 79,100 68,500 68,000 87,000 302,500 , 77,521 65,000 67,000 86,000 298,521 CROWN I. AN DS. • 1,1 71,740 107,701 411,504 808,166 2,899,120 780,148 432,901 513,983 634,928 2,361,..!6:3 MISCELLANEOUS. ----- 19,213,746 18,490,204 14,411,501 18,318,166 70,433,620 19,606,614 18,409,904 14,604,983 18,37 •i!,928 ~ 70,996,429 TOTALS. • .—lncrease and Decrease in the Pericds ended December 31, 1863, as compared with the Corresponding Pe: the Preceding Year. riods of Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863. , Nine Months ended Dec. 31, 1 863 . Year ended Dec. 31, 1863. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. ------- x £ £ £ £ £ CUSTOMS 350,000 • • 613,000 615 , 000 CUS T O M S. EXCISE 735,000 • • 590,000 .. 211,000. • • EXCISE. STAMPS 106,000 • • 2 58 . 000 • • 338,055 .. STAMPS. TAXES PROPERTY TAX 799,00 0. .. 761,000 1,29 . 8,000 PROPERTY TAX. POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS MISCELLANEOUS 173,238 .. 145,559 • • 537,157 .. MISCELLANEOUS. TOTALS 1,088,.2.38 , 1,149,000 1,204,059 1,37 4,000 1,350,191 1,913,000 . TOTALS. Also, now Publishing, price 365., with Maps of the Counties, corre_t,d to time of publication, the Fifth Edition of The POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY of BIRMINGHAM, STAFFORDSUIRE, WARWICKSHIRE, and WORC ES TE SHIRE. Net Decrease .....£4,762 Net Decrease 4369,941 Kelly and Co., Old Boswell-court. Strand, W.C. ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; and all booksellers. Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1803, viz.:— Net Deereaie....£562,809 Great Britain Ireland ... 457,580 •--- 457,580 Income received in the Quarter ended Dec. 31,1863, as shown in Account I. .... 18,319,166 DEDICATED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863, In redemption of Exchequer Deficiency BillB for Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1863 — Total Deficiency Deduct—Redeemed by Sinking Fund A R T-J O U RN AL (Price 2s. 6d. Monthly). The JANUARY NUMBER (now re9.dy) commences a New Volume, ano contains the following interesting articles the most important of which will 'be continued throughout the year : On the preservation Of pictures painted in Oil Colours. By J. B. Pyne, he National Gallery. 'rhe Pro: o-Madonna. Attributed to St. Luke, Illustrated. Almanac of the Month. From designs by W. Harvey. Il lustrated. Art-Work in January. By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A., &c.&c. The Church at Ephesus. By the Rev. J M, Bellew. British Artists : their Style and Character. By J. Dafforne. Illustrated. The Houses of Parliament. T H E Amount received in the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863, in repayment of Advances for Public Works, &c. Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Services, in the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863 Progress of Art-Manufacture :—Art in Iron. I lustrated. Portrait Painting in England. By Peter Cunningham, F.S.A, Hymns in Prose, Illustrated. Lays of the * 4 cottish Cavaliers Illustrated. History of Caricature and of Grotesque in Art. By T. Wright, M.A., F.S.A. Illustrated. New Hall China. A History of the New Hall Porcela , n Woks at Shelton. By Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. Illus trated. The Department of Sci , nce and Art. William Blake the Artiwt. New Method of Engraving and Multiplying Prints, &c. Early Sun-Pictures. &c. &;.1. &c, Also three Line Engravings, viz.:— " Alice Lisle." By F. Heath. From the Picture by E. M. Wart, R.A. " Venice : from the Canal of the Giudecea." By E. Brandard. From the Picture by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. " A Vision. By R. A. Artlett. From the Bas-relief by J. Edwards. £19,203,708 Balance, being the Deficiency on Dec. 31, 1863, upon the charge of the Consoli dated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends, and other charges, payable in the Quarter to March 31, 1861, and for which Exchequer Bala (Deficiency) will be issued in that Quarter 899,051 .£20,102,852 Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863, viz. : Interest of the Permanent Debt £6,290,691 Terminable Debt 333,448 Principal of Exchequer Bills Interest of Exchequer Bills Interest of Deficiency Bills — The Civil List Other Charges on Consolidated Fund Advances for Public Works, &c. Sinking Fund 101,270 688,615 3:16,972 510;492 Engravings will be given during the wear 1864 from Pictures by E. M. Ward, R. _l., W. P. Frith, R.A., T. Faed, A.R.A. O'N A.R.A., J. I'hillip, RA., Noel Paton, R.S.A., S. R. Herbert, 8.A., A. Elmore, R.A., D. Macii,e, R. n., P. F. Poole, RA., John Linnell, F. Goodall, A.R.A., C. R. Leslie, RA., J. C. Hook, R.A., &c. &c. Of works in Sculpture, the " Reading Girl," M agni the " Finding of Moses," Spence ; " Ariel, ' Lough ; " Monu ment to Nicholson," Foley ; **Religion," Fdwards ; "Prince Leopold and Prince Arthur," Mrs. Thornycroft ; &c. &C. Selecti ns from the Turner bequest to the nation will also be continued. Examples of the works of Newton, Mulready, Penry Wil liams, Muller, IC. Crowe, Mrs. E. M. Ward, Miss Osborne, W. J. Grant, and others, will be given during the year. London : James S. Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane. •. . _ .' . ''"••-., , `r. , _ ,„...... •iorlpt.:... ~ •,.., •.,,,...„,...,, „ . I . ~ , .. • • . '' ' „,i., 0 • . OVA" ''' --W.4' ilki N i • -- li lr ... - , . . ,_ , Ai i , _---S 'lf' rat Al.l' . , . _ . " : , ..'", • -- 4 ;, -- ,. m'S "."... ' ' "-.,. ...m.• ' 4 :,1P . ,. ~,,,,,, y ill WN * - . ........... 1 \\; '. ' ,4 t 4 ='` 2 o I . 1.- , ...,„ :. _E 2+ . A . ~. • 1 4.0 ~,„,,,,,i , , ~. „, 1.;.. % .e . ...11 ~4 . , . : ~ I , 7, - --" , "" 4.., -- - DIE ,-, ~, 4/4 17 ' . 6 ' 9 . " • ~ , • tig , ,V V.. •; No. lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863 ; the Application of the same ; and the Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Deficiency upon such Charge. X 1,081,640 8,777,292 siuplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863, viz. : Great Britain Ireland went of railways tons of them were often employed in manuring the land. Fishermen are sometimes not alive to their own interests when they thought lessly permit fry to perish on the beach after hauling in their nets, and it is to be feared that most of the oyster beds off our coasts are now suffering from over-fishing, and want of attention to their renova tion. Yet it is just as easy to cultivate a bed of oysters as to grow a crop of turnips, and there are hundreds of bays along our coasts admirably adapted to their habits which now lie fallow, but which in time we hope may be utilised. Various reasons have of late years directed public attention to this inte resting subject of the increase and preservation of fish, both for sport and the table, and the results have been a better acquaintance with their modes of life and a gradual improvement in the condition of our rivers. Much, however, remains yet to be done. It may be safely asserted that ten times the number of our best sorts of fish now to be found within the limits of these islands, including salmon, trout, grayling, and perch, might with ordinary care be produced in our fresh waters. Some rivers require stocking with a proper selection of our most approved species ; trees and weeds might be judiciously planted on the banks of lakes and streams, where required, for the purpose of breeding insects ; and we are persuaded that when owners of property in fish shall have become thoroughly alive to their own interests they will pay more attention than they have hitherto done to their preservation and increase, thereby benefiting themselves as wel. as the general public. The immense resources of our fresh waters have been sadly neglected in times past. Let us hope that a better time is coming, and that, with the help of the improved modern methods of stock ing waters, they may, in the course of years, become as productive of food and sport as they were in the olden time. TIMES.—Nut withstanding the great dispropor tion between the numbers of the free population of the Confederate States of America and of the Fede ral States, there can be little doubt that, had the struggle been fought out with the resources of the American continent alone, the North would have been defeated for lack of men with whom to continue the struggle_ The Southerners made war like one of the States of antiquity, in which the names of freeman and soldier were almost synonymous, leav ing the cultivation of the land and the management of the ordinary business of life to their wives, their children, and their slaves. The time that was spent in amusement, in the sports of the field, or in the listless enjoyment of life in a half tropical climate, was devoted to war, and the motives to exertion being extremely passing, and opinion vigorously supporting. the conscription, it has been found pos sible to maintain under arms a number of men ex tremely, we might say unprecedentedly, large as compared with the gross amount bf the population. To be sure such an army cannot be efficiently re cruited. It pays the penalties of all aristocracies which dare not put arms in the hands of the labour ing classes. Sparta, from the smallness of the num bers of her privileged class, could not recover from the single defeat of Lenctra, and there is someth in g touching in the calculation of the Southern news papers that every year a number of youths grow up to an age at which they can bear arms, and so sup ply the otherwise irreparable gaps which every conflict leaves in the ranks of the Southern armies. Still this resource, feeble as it seems, has not yet been exhausted. The Southern armies have been less numerous than the Northern, but they have been almost uniformly victorious, and there is no reason to suppose that the resources of the South would, even if the men had been forthcoming, have enabled them to support and bring into the field armies much larger than those which have hitherto offered so stubborn and so successful a resistance to invasion. In the North, on the other hand, the case is very different. There is in every free community a cer tain number of men who, ,from idleness, from the love of adventure and excitement, from the want of regular means of subsistence or of settled habits, are always ready to swell the ranks of an army. With this kind of material America was particularly well supplied, as having been so long the city of refuge for all the unquiet spirits of the times. But when that material began to be exhausted it was found exceedingly difficult ; even by the most extravagant inducements which could be devised, to supply its place. The very causes which have made the _reat ness and prosperity of America fought, and continue to fight, powerfully against the maintenance of a regular army. The dream of the nation is conquest and foreign war, and yet this is, perhaps, the only phase of national life for which its splendid destiny does not fit it. The causes of its prosperity—the abundance of land and the high appreciation of labour—are the most powerful counteractors that could be devised to the maintenance and replenish ment of the waste of a great standing army. These things, for ever bidding against the Government, and exposing it to a ruinous competition with its own citizens for the soldiers that it requires, are the most serious impediments to long and destructive wars. Even now the resources of the North in men would have been utterly exhausted had not the high wages of labour, and the enormous amount of bounty on enlistment which the Government has been, forced to pay in order to compete successfully with the native capitalist, drawn over from the poorer countries of Europe a supply of men suffi cient hitherto in some degree to fill up, though not completely, the tear and wear of war, of disease, and of intemperance. In the first year of the war the South confronted the resident population of the United States. Those levies are now replaced by men of whom America is the stepmother—the children of other lands, whom she tempts into quarrels not their own—mercenaries who go to shed their blood for no other consideration than their bounty, their pay, and their allowances. Having mortgaged the labour of generations yet unborn to pay for the war, and secured the souls and bodies of people whose lives they consider as so much dross to fight and bleed for them, no wonder that the Americans at the present moment feel entirely at their ease, and believe that to morrow shall be as to-day and much more abun dant. Surely with such advantages as these they might reasonably rest satisfied ? Agents for ima ginary railway companies have been long engaged in Ireland, sending men across the Atlantic, who find on their gni* the musket put into their hands instead of a mattock, a knapsack laid upon their shoulders instead of a hod, and their strength directed to destroy their fellow-creatures, and be destroyed by them, instead of to revolutionise the surface of the harmless and impassible earth. Surely with all these advantages, the Northern States ought to be content ? They have got so much by these means that it is really inexcusable in them to seek for more. But, according to the report of a case heard before the bench of magistrates at Queenstown a few days since, it seems that the American navy at any rate is not content to conform to the municipal laws of this country so far as to abstain from enlisting the subjects of her Majesty within the jurisdiction of our courts, but that an American vessel of war called the Kearsage has been, without, it should seem, any very great at tempt at concealment, shipping sailors in no less public a place than the harbour of Cork itself. The men so shipped were committed for trial at the assizes, and we purposely forbear from a discussion of the details of the case from a wish not to preju dice pending proceedings. But at any rate there can be no harm in recording that John Sullivan stated that he passed the doctor of the ship at Brest ; that Edward Pyburn states that he was examined by the doctor's mate, and that Thomas Leary went on board at Kingstown, and did not come on deck till he reached Brest. Why were they on board at ali? Why were they examined ? Why were they kept below ? Whatever be the case of each of these men, it seems abundantly clear that this ship of war has employed herself in taking on board seamen just as if she had been a merchant ship. When we consider the manner in which the sur inim3 (for nothing like proof was ever offered) that the English Minister was privy to attempts to enlist American citizens in the service of England during the Crimean war was visited upon this country, we think we have some right to ex pect that the Northern States will content them selves with the recruiting of emigrants on their arrival, and not employ their commissioned officers on board their vessels of war to violate, in the face of day, the well known provisions of an Act of Parliament. We have heard and read the most furious denunciations of our own Government, be cause they did not interfere when they were not furnished with sufficient evidence to arrest the de parture from their ports of vessels which were subsequently armed and equipped for the service of the Confederate Government. It is not too much to expect and require that they shall weigh themselves in the same balance as they weigh us, or, if this be too much to ask, at any rate that they shall not employ their vessels of war, and officers bearing the commission of the United States, in the direct and open enlistment of sailors within the mite of British ports. Robbery of Five Hundred Pounds in Bank Notes. About half-past 4 o'clock yesterday (Thursday) afternoon a respectably dressed man, between 30 and 40 years of age, accosted one of the G division of police while on duty in Shoreditch, and in great tribulation made known to him that he had been robbed of ten £5O Bank of England notes under the following circumstances :—He stated that about nine months since he kept a tavern near Buckhurst-hill, in Essex ; that his wite recently had come into possession of about £2,000 , and that being desirous of taking a London house he came to town for the purpose of purchasing one. While pursuing inquiries with this object he noticed a pub lic•house in Shoreditch, entered it, and after a few preli minary remarks offered the landlord £350 down instanter for the house. This sum was refused, and he was told that the property was not in the market. When on the point of leaving a man, whom he had not before observed, followed, and stated that he knew a house to be disposed of which would exactly suit, and they both repaired to a beer-shop near the City Theatre in Norton Folgate, where they par took of some ale, and then his new acquaintance accom panied him to another beer •shop up and down some turn ings, but where he could not afterwards find out. home more ale was called for, several other men joined company, all respectable-looking and behaving, except one, and he remarked to him " Why, you have not money enough to pay for beer in my opinion." The reply was by the pro duction of a canvas bag from the left side outer pocket of his great coat, and which bag contained the notes mentioned; he at the same time saying " Here's enough to pay for more than beer." He thrust the whole quickly back, and while drinking and leaning on the counter soon found him self alone, the others having left the house ; very quickly he discovered his loss, and sought a police-constable. He produced his card as authority of his being the person mentioned, and his story,when inquired into by the officer, proved correct. A huge balloon is being constructed in Paris, to be called the Eagle, in honour of the Emperor, with whose arms it is to be decorated. Four gigantic eagles are to extend its wings over its ♦ast circumference. The wings of each eagle measure 61 feet in extent. The circular wicker car is 12 feet in diameter. A stove six feet in diameter is placed in the centre, which is to heat the air by which the balloon is to be raised. Twenty people may sit at ease in the car which is to be attached to the balloon by chains and not by ropes. The seams of the balloon are not less than 17 miles long, and 100 women have been employed in stitching them for two months. The balloon is to be exhibited at the Palais de l'lndustrie, but it cannot be fully inflated there as it would be twice as high as the building. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Consumption, all nervous, bilious, liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag gravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfecay curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which nad been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914. Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration-- exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks, emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Commissaire de Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No. 54,816. Ihe Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 28 9d ; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, Ils ; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Landon ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all grooere and *embus in every town Qt the Iluiteci iiingdom. S H ORTHAND.-PITM AN'S PHONOGRA. PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those mad by ELSTOB, of 60, New Bond-street. They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy purchasers. "in medio tutisimus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER PAIR. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe eases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptibLe, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. pIGS! PIGS! PIGS!-INDIAN PIG MEAL without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor, and in every county in England, 10s 6d per cwt. ; one cwt. equal to 1 cwt. barley or any meal. Delivered free in Lon don. Established 1858.— THOMAS PEARCE, Manager, 66, Lant-street, Southwark. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre ,ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. -cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who uffer from bilious and dyer complaints, indigestion, wind. , palms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. ALGERIAN ONYX MARBLE. Messrs. HOWELL, JAMES, and CO., respectfully solicit an in.pection of their Onyx Salon, which contains upwards of 1,00) objects, consisting of Clock , Candelabra, Lamps,Vases, Jardinieres, Inkstands, Pen-trays, and a variety of smaller articles of taste, at moderate prices. This beautful marble is perfectly translucent, bears a very fine polish, presents a diversity of pleasing tints, and can be turned or chiselled into any form necessary for utility or ornament.-5, 7,9, Regent-street, Pall-mall. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the recent heavy gales some of the boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theoph.i lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17;• schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 ' • pilot boat, of St Ives, 7 ; schooner Anon, of Workington, 4 ; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, I ; barque Marietta, of Lisbon, 1 ; fishing boat, of Filey, 2 ; Tenby fishing boat, 3 ; and barque Providence, of Dantzic,7. Total lives saved, 55. The lit eboats also assiste.l in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig Camoglinn, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, the schooner Guilia, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am sterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of distress on fourteen occasions, but their services were not ultimately required. The amount of reward p yid for all these services was £216. The Committee of the Institutionearnestly AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to :enable them to meet the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 Mel:. , at estab, lishments. Contributions are receiv, d by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, J ohn-street, Adelphi, London. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.—Statistics show that 50,001 persons annually fall victims to Pul monary Disorders, including consumption, diseases of the chear, and the respiratory organs. Prevention is at • , 11 times better than cure ; be, therefore, prepared during the wet and wintry season with a supply of BEATING'S COUGH L , , ZENGES, which possess the virtue f averting, as well as of curing a cough or cold ; they are good alike for the young or for the aged—they soothe bronchial irritation ; and for im proving the voice, the preacher, statesman, singer, and actor have long patronised them. " St. Paul's Cathedral, 30th November, 1849. " Sir,—l have much pleasure in recommending y cur lozenges to those who may be dletressed with hoarseness. They have afforded me relief on several occasions when scarcely able to sing from the effects of catarrh. I think they would be very useful to clergymen, barristers, and public orators. "I am, Sir, yours faithfully, " THOMAS FRANCIS, Vicar Choral. "To Mr. Keating." Prepared and sold in boxes, is lid, and tins, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, and 103 6d each, by Thomas Keating, chemist, &0., 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Retail by all druggists and ate nt m edicine vendors in the world. SPIRIT OF THE PTJBLIO JOURNALS. POST.—Political economists tell us that the num bers of the inhabitants of a country must, under the ordinary conditions belonging to human life, de pend mainly on the quantities of food within their reach. The consequences of population pressing on the means of subsistence have often been pointed out and acutely felt during the Irish famine, and now also in the cotton districts. Yet this theory of food determining the number of human beings which may be supported within a given area would only partly account for that stream of emigration of the Anglo-Saxon race which since the time of Raleigh to the present day has continued to flow to other lands where great communities now live and flourish in every quarter of the globe attached to the British Crown, displaying the peculiar characteristics of their ancestors. In spite, however, of exhausting wars, bad seasons, emigration, and other circum stances, the people of these realms have significantly increased during the last century ; and although the land has retained its ancient boundaries, it has been better cultivated than formerly ; its prodace in some degree has kept pace with the public re quirements, and the industrial energies of the people have enabled them to command the superabundant supplies to be had in other quarters. Immense progress undoubtedly has been made in the cultiva tion of the soil, and in the development of the best breeds of our domestic animals. Can the same as sertion be made respecting the mode in which we have managed our sea and river fisheries, which, if properly regulated, might furnish almost inexhaus' tibia supplies of good, wholesome food to every class of the community ? We fear not. Interested part ies persisted in thinking that there were as good fish in the sea, and as many of them, too, as ever were caught ; proprietors of salmon rivers—either forget ful or ignorant of the habits of the king of fresh waters—pursued what they termed an " economi• cal," but, in reality, an exhaustive plan of taking fish, and what are called free waters were infested night and day with the nets and other engines of destruction of the poacher. These facts became so evident of late years that everybody acquainted with them declared that something must be done, and accordingly Parlia• ment facilitated the adoption by Scotch proprietors of arrangements about gaps, close time, nets, weirs, and the rights of the owners of upper waters, which hava resulted.in a steady increase in the supply of salmon ; and on the west coast of Scotland the great herring fishery there has had all the advantages which the visits of Commissioners and gunboats could give it in the maintenance of close time and the prohibition of trawl nets, even those tha' sweep inshore. Two years ago the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries in England and Wales began their exami nation of the chief rivers to which salmon resort, and their annual reports are replete with vakuable information, and contain useful hints about the management of salmon property, which, if adopted by those chiefly interested, cannot fail to produce some improvement in the condition of our rivers. Commissioners appointed by Parliament are now busily engaged in taking the evidence of the fisher men residing at the principal stations along the English coast, in order to attempt a solution of the difficult problem whether the use of trawl-nets is injurious or otherwise to our sea fisheries, and dur ing the last session Sir Robert Peel's Salmon Act for Ireland was passed, which, by means of a com promise, proposed to reconcile conflicting interests; and commissioners are now at work in that country , inspecting the obstructions that had gradually accu mulcted in tidal waters, and ordering the demoli tion of many of them, on the ground of their being impediments to navigation. In reviewing, then, the efforts of Parliament to increase the supplies of food to beifound in British seas and rivers, it cannot be justly said that it has been inattentive to the wishes of the public when it complained of the errors that were being committed in the suicidal methods which were adopted in the management of those streams especially frequented by tae sal monidee ; and, strange to say, most of the late im provementeeffected therein have been simply returns to the rules and traditions of our ancestors, as pra3tised centuries ago. It is satisfactory to know that we shall, in all human probability, have for the future continually increasing quantities of this magnificent fish and its congeners, and it may not be out of place to re mind owners of rivers that they should cultivate salmon in preference to all other species of the finny tribes, as its numbers can be limited only by the extent of the breeding grounds to which it has ac cess. It attains its rapid growth in the sea, and invariably returns, after a certain time, to the same river whence it sprung, either for its own pleasure or for other natural purposes. With reference to our sea fisheries, there is little doubt that much dif ference of opinion prevails as to their present condi tion, The fact, however, is certain that the supply is not equal to the demand, Turbot, soles, cod, and all the commoner sorts and shell-fish, oysters espe cially, are both dearer and scarcer than they used to be. Probably an increased consumption for this article of food, stimulated by railways, may partly ae ,sount for the diminution in this supply, and the ente voiced price of sea fish may lead to destructive me th, Ids of capture. From ascertained facts con nected with the natural history of our river fish, especially salmon, trout, and grayling, it is found that they' deposit their ova on shallow gravelly beds, and their fscundation ponds mainly on their re ceiving the influences of the light and heat of the sun, and those of a running stream. Arguing then from analogy, .'t seems reasonable to suppose that the fish of the se,‘ deposit their spawn in those sandy bays which abouk Ad off every coast where they can conceal tl iem from ,`he depredations of their enemies, and at ST tell a model 'ate depth that the heat of the sun can reach and via ify them. There is abundant evidence to be had in . F avour of the probability of this supp osition, and sh ould it turn out to be founded on fact, i t may tend to modify the use of trawl-nets, which ct n'tainly rake the bottom, and perhaps ulti mately r as prohibit their working with a certain dis tance of: the shore. Unfortunately it is difficult, for ob vioms reasons, to ascertain accurately the habits of the denizens of the salt water, but surely enough known of them to discontinue the practice catchin g sprats (which may be the young of her ring) iu such quntitiee, , ,thitt Pefere the establibh. 8,362,701 978,212 £20,102.852 g........., ~...„; ..,...., :.,pAT.I4, Tharally find Ehort rueuloriss sery es Ls e oiliZ*Vit_l l „ 2 :.\-t ) judgment of posterity" is on these mat "s i , j:;•Airlilt 4 ' V Z% to the cheek of toe " future Englishma "f p F 4:l4.iitt. ,-, g lx ., be in favour of Messrs. Seward, Russell iiiii#MWL:c-- - e j s.s 104 f ,..._ . s / ~,,, THE VICTORIA.—This number ITT 1 4"/ essay on " The Queen as a Ruler," • ----1 • 1 :- truly and simply the debt of national oiatitlile S which we owe to a sovereign who has restored to the English throne the love and confidence of the people ; has helped to 'preserve her country un shaken by the social convulsions and political csnspiracies which have agitated continental Europe during her reign, and has fulfilled ire their highest sense those difficult and delicate duties of a constieutionel monarch which have rarely been adequately performed. Mr. Thomas Adol phus's story of " Lindisfarn Chase" proceeds with consider able interest. This instalment chronicles sues very im portant events, and displays the characters of the two sisters in very strong light. The two r ffor Bof marriage, feared by the one, and courted by the other, 1 .he place on the same day with opposite rceults, although the rmx,ive and ne gative are both prompted by the weighty scent of the unknown heir. Kate's honesty and Margaret's eratftiness are differently affected by the bidden knowledge that they are no longer the heiress , s of Lindisfarn. tThe reader may reasoriably hope, hswever, that the mystery may be cleared up, and that the course of true love may finally run smooth, even if it entails the dise comfiture of the ingenious Margaret. " The Difficulties of Domestic Service" touches lightly upon a very important social question, and hin ts that toe p revalent complaint, that 1 "good servants cannot be had," might in some degree be echoed by the other side, Miss Frances Cobbe gives us another of her pleasant papers of travel, and Mr. Dicey contributes an ace unt of the rights and wrongs of Schles wig-Holstein. Those who wish to understand a little of the subject had better read his brief and clearly written paper, in preference to studying Mr. Punch's historical summary of the case. He inclines somewhat to the German side, aril omits all mention of the moving spring of German ambition —the desire to possesiliiel—but, on the whole, his essay is i m partial and satisfactory. It appears but too probable, as he observes, that a question of orthography—Schleswig, or Sleswig—will plunge Europe into a war of which none can foretell the issue. TEMPLE BAR.—The author of " Lady Audley's Secret," &c., is determined not to rest on laurels already gained, for before one story is completed another is commenced. Thus we meet with the conclusion of " John Marchmont's Legacy" side by side with the opening chapters of " The Doctor's Wife." As might have been expected, the gentle Mary had passed through too much suffering to be able to recover her strength, and scarcely was she re-united to her husband before a still more insurmountable but less terrible separation divided them. It was a message of mercy that removed the stricken heart and gave the wearied spirit rest. There is more pathos in this story than in some of the writer's earlier productions, and after the sad fate of the fearful Paul, it is soothing to turn to the descrip tion of the latter end of his victim. The closing scene or this eventful story is very effectively related. There seems a calm sunset evening to a day of storms and tempests, and if the brightness of life is for ever dimmed to the hero, the picture is the more true to nature, for the mind never really recovers its tone after such fitful struggles as those which Edward Arundel had gone through. After the description of his second marriage and the renewed measures which spring up around him, the never-dying link which bound him to the past is thus touchingly referred to :—" I leave him, above all, with the serene lamp of faith for ever burn ing in his soul, lighting the image of that other world in which there is neither marriage nor giving in marriage, and where his dead wife will smile upon him from amidst the vast throng of angel-faces, a child ever, and ever before the throne of God." " The Doctor's Wife" begins in a very spirited manner, and has already introduced the reader to some very mysterious movements on the part of its heroes and heroines. " The Trials of the Tredgolds" still continues its dismal record, and in this number the blow seems to strike home to the guilty man. Doubtless there are many Mr. Giffods in the world of living men, and it would be well if retribution thus overtook them in the eleventh hour of their iniquity. " The Streets of the World," by Augustus Sala, has for subject "Pall Mall." This aristocratic locality is aptly sketched by this ingenious delineator, and many will be interested to notice their familiar haunts in print. " The Millers and their Men" refers to the fight for the Championship. " What Ralph Hallsett Did "is a very entertaining sketch of a supposed mystery. "The Lady of Belmont" gives a description of the strange story of the origin of " The Merchant of Venice." Various short poems diversify the contents, and there are altogether seve ral subjects to attract the notice of the reader. ST. JAMES'S.—The author of " Sackville Chase commences a new story in this part, under the title of " The Man in Chains," which promises to show us some of the intricacies of our London society, and to exhibit the skeletons that sometimes hide in a rich mania cupboard. The Rev. T. G. Wood, whose name is pleasantly known through the medium of some works of popular instruction, draws us a sketch of "Fairy Land"—not the dominions of Oberon and Titania, but a veritable fairy land, within easy access of mortals. A picture of German home life and social manners is given in an account of " Society in the Schwarzwald," from which it appears that our estimate of domestic life in the Father land is somewhat too high. The third part of "The Science of Good Cheer" discourses on some of the ameni ties of the table, and a pleasantly written paper on "Penny Readings" sets forth the merits of a scheme which we wish could be more extensively carried out. "Miss Primworth's Butler" is a story for dark nights and lonely houses, but it has a moral, nevertheless. We have also a narrative of " A Trip to Athens," an account of " A Tour Round the Sun," and a further instalment of the story of "Madeleine Graham," GOOD WORDS.—This excellent serial begins 8 new year with fresh spirit, and if any doubts o its varied merits and popular attractions, they had better procure this January number as a sample. It opens with an essay from the pen of A. K. H. B. on "The Sweetening of Sour Grapes," followed by " Personal Recollections," by Isaac Taylor, and a Pape; entitled " Meadowside House," by the author of " Johi Halifax," which describes an admirable institution lately founded in Edinburgh for poor, sick, and desolate children. Mrs. Henry Ward, authoress of " East Lynne," begins with a new domestic story. Sir John Herschel commences a series of articles on weather prophecies. Principal Forbes has a sketch of the Admirable Crichton. Mr. Gosse begins the records of " A Year at the Shore." Alexander Smith discourses on the attributes of "Winter," and Jean Ingelow tells us the story of the first Eddystone Light house. More serious topics are touched upon in other papers, and the amount of really good reading in this un pretending serial is remarkable at the price, and sufficiently accounts for the immense circulation it has attained. CORNIIILL.—" The Small House at Arlington" is continued, but without much incident. The Earl and the Squire prove themselves but clumsy match makers, and Lily is determined to have nothing to do with the affair. This is unsatisfac tory, for Bernard Crosbie is not at all deserving of being the ideal of any heart through life, and the sooner such an image is displaced the better. The poor Squire is very melancholy in his well meant en deavours to serve his nieces, for Bell engages herself h Dr. Crofts, and thus loses the chance of an excellent mate] with her cousin, who will inhereit the Squire's property. Th very unattractive mansion in Bruton-crescent becomes th arena of a tragedy, after so long being the centre of comi enactments. One almost feels pity for Mrs. Roper, with al her objectionable qualities, as she mourns over sad fortunes and depicts her sombre picture. " Publishers, before th age of Printing," brings some curious things to our notic, and it is truly remarked that the chief cause of the defec tiveness of old tests proceeds from the works being pre pared from dictation, and copied by those who joiner errors of the eye to those of the ear. " Sermons'' is 1 paper that deserves attention, alike from the tone whirl pervades it, as from the tenour of its remarks. The con eluding passage is an exemplification of the style:— " The highest form of a sermon is not oratory. If th message be anything, it is a Divine message. No flower of rhetoric can exalt, and may ignominiously degrade it Intellectual dignity of style it should have--neither commo: colloquialisms, nor slipshod expressions ; but a certai. solemn musical flow, which springs naturally out of th high beauty of the subject. That, and no more. Th simplest sentences, terse and succinct—the fewest illustra tions—the most careful avoidance of all claptrap appeals t/ the sentiment, fancy, or emotion of the audience : in fact a style pure, noble, and severe at those discourses which are chronicled in Holy Writ—tbis is the perfection of a sermon." " Cousin Phillis" is proceeded with, and there is some thing very pleasing in these simple details of :an unevent ful career. Phillis herself is a simple girl, who is yet as good a heroine as any stately dame or love-sick damsel, who substitute sentimentality for feeling. " Respecting Asses," is a: paper on that much despised quadruped, which goes far to remove the stigma that has been attached to the species. In some parts it may provoke a smile from its extreme notions, but the general purport is a good one and has for its object a very important thing to establish, the claims of a useful animal to protection, instead of its being a drudge and a victim to tyranny and caprice. " Shylock in London," may prove of service to some as f warning from the facile approach, but difficult extrica tion from debt. " Yorkshire" relates the peculiarities or that part of the world with a genial spirit that divests satire of its sting, and imparts a raciness to description. " Money and Money's Worth" is an analysis of an im portant question, which it is requisite to call attenti on to occasionally, or in the hurry of pressing affairs it is apt to be put aside and neglected. " MargaretDenzil's history" is continued. This is a very strange story that ~.,a nnot b e called pleasing, nor is the heroine attractive with her ex traordinary peculiarities and strange adventures. 1. RINGING THE OLD YEAR OUT —Last night, ac • cording to ancient custom, the departing knell of the year 1863 was tolled on the bells of the several churvbea through out the metropolis, and at midnight mem . , peals heralded and welcomed the commencement of the, 'resent year. PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. MAGAZINE DAY, BLACKWOOD.—There is an article on " Captain Speke's Journal," which is, of course, one of the most interesting features of this number. It would be difficult, indeed, to find a theme more sugges tive in its style, and more attractive in its associa tions, than this one referred to, The peculiarities of this subject are alluded to in the prefatory remarks, when it is said that this river unites the past and present. "At one end it belongs tol.lloses and Herodotus, the Sphinxes, and the Pyramids, at the other the different notable points are named after our Gracious Queen, the Emperor Louis Napoleon," &c., Captain Speke has entered into the details of his exciting adventures, and recorded his remarkable ex ploits with an earnestness that imparts to them a double zest, and a descriptive power that adds to the exciting nature of the narrative. The " undramatised simplicity" of the work is made special mention of in this criticism. and doubtless its readers will coincide with the accuracy of the remark, when its pages are scanned by eager students throughout the land. This work is not a book made up after reflection, but a journal of events set down as they occurred. As such it is far more valuable, and imparts to us more of that inner life of adventure and peril than any record of abstract criticism and occurrence, and embroidered sketches of facts could possibly have afforded. There can be no doubt that this journal of the discovery of the Source of the Nile will be one of the famous books of our day, and in its subject, and for its chronicles, it seems one of those rare works which will equally excite and interest other and distant generations, pre senting, as it does, a record of what belongs not to our age, but to all time. " Young Butler," is very amusing. In this instalment it relates the hero's adventures in town, which for rashness, inconsidera tion, and absurdity may rival any provincial escapade or extravaganza on record. In farce or novelette, all comes alike to this energetic spirit, whether he is bullying the porters at Government offices, or frightening the respect able inhabitants of a suburban district from their propriety. His money spent, he returns home, having done little in the way of advancement for his future life. "The Mind and the Body," by Pisistratus Caxton, is a quaint, gro tesque, even in parts a broadly comical dialogue : full, how ever, of a profound significance It appears to be a sequel, or rather pendant, to " The Boatman." Though—in a strain, how marvellously different I " Chronicles of Car lingford ;" The Perpetual Curate is very exciting in this portion. The various dangers that sur rounded the unhappy Mr. Wentworth seemed to cul minate, and the result is most oppressive to the be wildered young man. The disappearance of Rosa El - worthy, and the death of Mr. Wodehouse, continue to render the whole place in a confusion, and Mr. Wentworth is, of course, much mixed up in both affairs. 'I his writer gene- rally contrives to get her heroes into some inextricable con fusion before the conclusion, and the Perpetual Curate is now in that predicament. " Winchester College and Commoners" is a very readable sketch. The article fur nishes a fund of entertainment, with its varied accounts of historical reminiscence and anecdotal details. "Letter from Poland" refers at some length to the pro tracted struggle that has taken all Europe by surprise for its pertinacious spirit. It has been rather the notion lately that that all attempts to free P oland are unavailing, and therefore it is better not to think about an unpleasant sub ject. This is, however, a strange kind of political morality, and one that can hardly be suitable to the standard of right. It is well at any rate to have the matter brought forward occasionally, and in this instance it is done very effectively. It is justly observed that the attempts made by the great Powers have placed matters on a worse footing than ever, since the various remonstrances afforded that stimu lant from without that increased the ardour of the insur gents at first, so that afterwards, if a more threatening tone had been adopted towards Russia, that nation might have yielded to their demands. " A Song of Proverbs" is a lively strain that brings in many homely sentences in an ingenious form, and is suitable to the present season for its mirthfulness. A paper on " The European Crisis," that enters into the vexed questions now looming in the distance with a portentous aspect brings to a conclusion this number of Naga, which inaugurates the year with very varied contents. FRASER.—Fraser begins the new year with a discourse on " The Highway of Nations," which treats on those points of international law which have been engaging the attention of the writers, speakers, and thinkers of England and America for the last three years. It is followed by the con tinuation of the story of " Late Laurels," which proceeds with interest. Poor little Nelly's happiness trembles in the scale through the crafty malevolence of Florence, but she is rescued by the firmness and courage of her sister. Mr. Stephens's recent work on Criminal Law receives a careful and favourable notice, and those who in cline to that critical argument and analysis now so much in vogue will be attracted by the essay which follows it. " The Poetry of the Eighteenth Century" is the subject of an article which is mainly devoted to the consideration of the works and genius of Pope. Of the merits and gifts of that eminent poet the writer speaks strongly, paying him the tribute so especially due to him of refining and correct ing the style of the literature of his day. "In the highest qualities of imagination he confessedly felt that there was little more glory to be reaped. Bat what he did see was this—that the straggling and rather lumbering metre in which poetry was then written might be girded up and disciplined with advantage. This was the task he took in hand. He gathered up the loose threads, he re-wove it, as it were, and tightened our whole metrical system, and cast it in such a form as remained dominant for a hundred years, and educated a school of poets." The singular story of " Nala and Damayanti" translated from the San scrit, is continued, and apparently concluded. It is a curious production, and chiefly interesting as introducing us to one of the standard works of that Oriental literature of which we know so little. Japan, which, after being un thought of and unnoticed for years, has suddenly risen into such conspicuous importance, is the subject of an article of some length. The most interesting paper in the number is, however, to be found at the last. Our old friend A. K. H. B. reappears under the familiar heading of " Concerning Ugly Ducks," and gives us his reflections on mis placed men, whom he illustrates by Hans Christian Ander sen's immortal story of " The Ugly Duck." It is easy to guess what sharp insight, what kindly philosophy, what playful sarcasm, what varied experience the essayist brings to bear upon his subject. He finds examples of his Ugly Ducks in John Foster, Archbishop Whately, Dr. Arnold, and Charlotte Bronte. The essay is not among the writer's best, but it is, notwithstanding, a pleasant conclusion to a somewhat heavy number. MACMILLAN.—The talented author of " Ravens bee " continues his new story of " The Hillyars and the Burtons ' with marked interest. The double thread of the narrative is a little perplexing at first to the reader, who is uncertain as to the connection between the dates of James Burton's story and the love tale of George Hillyar and Gerty Neville at the antipodes. Still this point will probably be very soon cleared up, and meanwhile the plot is thickening, the incidents crowding closer and closer, and all the fascinations of the author's brilliant style combine to attract the reader. The Rev. F. I). Maurice gives us his Christmas Thoughts on Renan's "Vie de Jesus," in which he comments on the marvellous inconsistency of that celebrated work, and finds in it a parallel to an ancient allegory in which the dead were represented as crumbling into eternal dust while the little children raised the pathetic cry " Have we no Father ?" to be answered in an appalling negative. The eighth part of the "Letters from a Competition Wallah" discourses on some of the peculiarities of the Hindoo char acter. "It is not too much to assert," he says, "that the great mass of Bengalees have no notion of truth and false hood," yet he considers the case by no means hopeless "Bengalees who have receiv ed an English education, and who mix much with Englishmen, have learnt to appreciate the English feeling about veracity." The love of gain and the aversion to work are two other prominent points in his portraiture. The love for where by cleverness and industry, and lost by carelessness and stupidity," is another. A very able and interesting article on the seventh and eighth volumes of Mr. Froude's History of England will gratify the reader. " The many are no believers," says the writer, " in the theories of Mr. Buckle, They have a strong and wholesome belief that mankind is not an abstraction, but signifies the men and women who have lived or do live, and that the history of England is the history of the men and women of Eng land, not of its soil, plants, and animals, and therefore they crave for a history of the hearts and characters of those same men and women, and not a mere history of statistics, events, and principles. The statistics must be set forth in the weal or woe of the human beings who were the better or the worse for them , the events in the deeds of the men who acted them ; the principles in the lives of those who worked them out, fought for thorn, died for them. The things did not do themselves, the men of old did them, and therefore the men of to-day must see the men doing them." The editor continues his "Recollections of Three Cities," and the story of " A Son of the Soil" proceeds with interest. A careful criticism does full justice to Mr. Wool ner's new poem, and it is followed by an a rticle by Profes sor Cairnes on an American wo rk on English neutrality. Author and critic alike, while they agree in denunciation, remonstrance, and argument respecting the wickedness of England in allowing the escape of the Alabama, find it very convenient entirely to forget the enlistment in Irish coast towns, the arms and ammunition shipped for the Federal government from English ports. Such reasoners BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK OF BEAUTY By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. is. 12. 1. 29. 2. lon. W., wife t lie of a .M. . - r of ken son, reet, .bog OX' ount r ro' ;olia 10132' 3riS' ••••••• ----' 11 , ; tv