The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY 7 TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is now a very active demand for diz,couoi accommodation in the open m•+rket at 4 per cent. and the inquiries at the Bank of England are also more numerous than of late. The commercial classes are now providing for their requirements in anticipation of the holidays, which, together with the necessary preparation for the 4th of the month, when, as usual, a considerable number of mercan tile securities will arrive at maturity, exercises an influence. About £35,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. Messrs. Louis Cohen and Sons, the agents for the South Italian Railway Obligations, have notified that in consequence of the great demand for these obligations, they have raised the price from £9 2s. to £9 55., which will pay an interest of 61. per cent. per annum. The following sums have been received by Messrs Baring Brothers and Co. on account of the New Grenada Dividends :—Santa Marta, £3,46811s 11d; Cartagena, £700; Sabanilla, £283 19s 3d—total, £4,452 lls 2d. This sum, with £Bl5 10s received from San Jose de Cuenta on the 17th inst., already announced, makes £5,268 is 2d for the month of March. According to the Board of Trade retains, the exports of gold into the United Kingdom, during the months of January and February last, amounted to £3,068,185, against £1,765,602 in 1862, and £2,789 762 in 1861 ; of silver the exports in the two months this year were £2,103 677, against £1,735,803 in 1862, and £2,196,724 in 1861. The imports of gold in January and February last represented £3,117,467; in 1862, £2.068,316; and in 1861, £1,870,413; of silver the shipments were £1 817 305 in 1863; £1,160,560 in the same period of 1862; and £1,313.916 in 1861. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this day, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 69f. 50c. to 69f. 55c. very firm. Owing to the atttactions of foreign stocks the market for the English Funds is still neglected, but although there is a paucity of business no dimi nution is apparent of the firmness recently exhi bited by the quotations. The advance is ex ceedingly well maintained, the latest prices of Consols being 92* g for money. 928 I for the account, and 921 for the May settlement. The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are firm at 919, but Exchequer Bills are depressed at ss. to 2s. discount. Red Sea Telegragh Annuities have been dealt in at 21 7-16. India 5 per Cent. Stock is steady at 1081 1. and an advance is shown in the Bonds which a. e quoted 14-., In the Foreign Market, the principal movement has been a rise of fully 2 per cent, in OrFek Bonds, viz., to 291 e ; (quo Coupons, 131 to 138'1; Spanish Passive, to 281 29 ; ditto Certificates, to 109 Mexican, to 32.1 331 ; Egyptian, to 97 98 ; to VI B ; Danish Scrip is prem.; and the Con federate Loan 1 4 prem. ; Turkish Consolides, 48',1, 8, In the Railway Share Market t h.) operations have been limited, prices, however, have, in most instances, shown increased fit mnEss. South Western and South Eastern have improved 10s.; and Lan cashire and Yorkshire 15s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings generally are at slightly enhanced quotations. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were, in some instances, at improved prices. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 a New 3 per Cent. Annuitie s Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880., Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 7-16 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent .. 1081 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1861 100 Dirt. bonds Cl.000 Ditto under £l,OOO l6 pm Consols for Account, April 8 92a Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 5 4 dis Ditto £500 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 — Ditto Scrip, £4O paid Equador New Consolidated l6 1, Egyptian 7 pet C e nt 9B 7 1 7 8 7i Ditto, Second I ssue .. 971 7 Greek 5 per Cent,, 1824-5, ex-Coup wns.. Ditto Account 2Bl 8 i 8 91 8 Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 324 3a t New Gr ana d a Ditto 2 per Cent ~.. 33 4 21 Ditto D e f erre d Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) .. 6 i Po ,••• . n 41 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent ~ 1862 .. Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 :•itto Account Ditto 1862 Ditto Scrip, £3O paid 3l pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860.. Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Sa +man 5 per Cent. Ditto Accoun t .. 841 5 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto New D e f erre d - Ditto Account .. 47 Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turxish 6 per Cent. 1858 I Otto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1832 Ditto Account 7Ol Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lO2 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .. 591 9 1 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. iiitto Account.. Consols, M THREE O'CLOCK. oney a Ditto Account _ 921 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, April 1, Steady, firm. Sales, 8,(1)0 bales. No import, The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about d per raille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.224 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is n arly 2-10ths ler cent. deal er in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4_4 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.:4 per £1 sterling. standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 5-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at days' sight is about 171 per cent., and the premium on gold is 55 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the mportation of gold from the United States. SHIPPING —This Day, PLY3IOI7TH, Wednesday Morning. The screw steam gunvessel Vigilant, 4, Com man d er William R. Hobson, which l e ft t hi s port on t i l 4e ie 15th of March for the East India station, and ineu r r e d her starboard Lulwarks, &e. when crossing n'llge to Biscay in a heavy gale from south-west, Put th into L ' is y bo o n f on the 20th, left on the 25th, and returned to the Sound this morning. She will require repairs. Wh en the vig,_ lant left there were no ships of war in the Tagus. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND Wedneslay Morning. Arrived, March 31 —Mary Catherine, from ; Fandli 13, from Lut vig ; Borneo, trim Callao; Roseau, from St, Vincent, Arrived, April I—P 411 Frederick, from Wismar ; Dart, Latnantan, Friends, and John, from Bruges; Jean Bart, tram Gravelinf-s; Intrepid, from Belize. Falreus, from Bluaqels; Hand of Pr , vidence, John end Jwie, and Nor man,l.e, from DuAiik. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Pas. , ;Pd—Carleton, for Calcutta ; Radiant, for Mauritius ; Luchana, screw steamer, and Frank and, for Cardiff—all from London. .ur 1 Stuck 4 took eock 100 10.. 100 100 100 tOO 100 stock stook 204 *O4 100 100 4tOck itock stork .4to,k e cock et I St OCk A corrcepondeot, of the D bats writing from Turin on the 28 h ult.. says: People bPgin to say that Garibildi is s riously indisposed. This time it is no longer his wound which occasions alarm, but the gene ral state of hie health. A low lever is feared, it is said." A letter front E . ypt by M. Mr)riette, etatte that I Ylk - cv Vinei-0 5 ttilLht,lied pro ti eor o' Iha art.. On tt very day of his instatation, M Mal iettu , was sent fur by Ism -11 Pacha, •c•hn informed him that he tight consider ns decided on the c , Aastructi-n of a large building for a museum at Cairo. In addition to a museum of Egyptian antiquities, there will also be one of Greek articles collected in Egypt, and also an Arab museum, objects now sod a t C a i ro—such as destined to preserve the obj lamps for mosques, vases with inscriptions, articles of fur niture inlaid with mother of pearl, Scc , in a word all the remnants of thl old Arab civilisation, which has left bril liant traces in Egypt. To the Museum of C a i ro w i ll also be united the Egyptian Institute, and AS Vail:Labia library. SHARE MARKETS—This Day. fare! itai;ways. • Str. Val.! Blythe and Tyne. Boat.,Sleat.,andllitiA;o 1 Bristol and Exeter 8 8i 7 8 85 87 112 113 ICaledonlan Corr and Bandon 'Cornwall , A C A p - ets no (liN i Do. 1)." B ti II Cpc.n been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,l'erth,& Ab. June. ;Edinburgh & Glasgow. 131asg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do 'Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall I Lon., lirip.•,ht.,& S. Coast Won., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western) Lon. & South Western. Man., Shet., & Lincolo.l Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares Metropolitan Midland I Do New 6.4.0 Do Binning. & Derby \lid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. i shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle .... 'North London 9.16.4 Do New North Staffordshire !N. and S. \V. Junction IScottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool ,Shropshire Union 'South Devon South Eastern ,South Wales 'S. York. and River Dun staines, Wok.,and Wok ;Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860. 'Taff Vale: Do 8... Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall VV. Hartlepool Har.&R. West Midland Oxford Do Newporr Do Hereford all all all ;all ei 7 40 13 14 86 88 107 109 99 50 45 47 24 25 1201 1211 120 122 134 136 101 103 66} (6t 108} ICBf 71 ;6 114 115 39 40 974 98 10 i 1014 444 154 121 12i 123! t 24 11 lip 91 93 50 51 24 25 98i 061 54; 65i 85. f6i 118 118 1 1 I, 16 It} 114 14 119 121 42 43 98 100 48 tO 32 33 911 821 "7 69 99 101 7 8 37 38 9 10 7 1 7 1 P 149 151 ci 5 4 3 i P 79 81 150 160 28 30 oWI.,ARY AN'D STOuf 491 I 47 6i 32i 9262} Closing BLlSirlet+.4 "'. Price. BRITISH P at lwave I !antic Ai St Lawrent. tom., liarodadt.Cent ID. Gu. 5 per Dent....... Do. New Do. E. Shares.. ... liutiaio awl Lake Win.. Du. Preference .... • 3,111 alo, BrantacGodriel p. bds. Aug. 1, Uo. do. July 1. 1r,7: 0, Ut A t - ,ock s'o7 - Eailn. Bengal go. 6 P. I,amt Inchon. go. 5 p. c. Po. do. (-1 Ext... Do. do. II do. .. Grand frunk of 'ana.l.. Ist . Bonds Do. deferred...... .o. 24 - 1 Pro. Bon a.. DJ. do d fer ed...... Do. 3d P ef. stock Do. do. d lei r d.... Do. 4th l'ref. e o k... Do. au def err, d...... Gt.lnchaPenin.gha.sp.c Do. New o-ua 5 p. 0... Do. Januiry, 1862 Gt. South.ol Indla(Lini .!uaranteed 5 per (sem. Gt. W. 01 Canada Sharer Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. 0. Do. 4f p. C. Extension De. 4 Do. Fifth Extension. p. cs. Bad- Nlelb. & Hobson's IV. 'IDo. 7 Bds. cw Br unsvnok x Cand Class A pn t B. T.ll.l.C'dafi pc Ist pt bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Punjaub Do. Do. • Do. Indus.gt. 1)LO:slf A 1. GuV ER 43 44 37 39 99 101 i~IUN Closiu. Price. 62 i 4 116 107 41 6 k 7§ ri 1 , 5 1( 7 6 , 0 , 7 i 07 8 " 8 !ng 11 'IP 19i 0 63 66 8 51 54 57 42 , 5 42 33 P 6 24 27 20 22 1071 iust i ' 4 110111 e. don. 105 107 12i 3 8 74 100 102 93 ,5 1 1 P 105 it,6 99 101 95 7 47 49 3 5 0 2 U 7 jiB 1(5 100 4 tP 1.5 i Ic6i 99 101 1061 tOB 9 8i I 1074 $ 4 105 ! I 11:1-:‘; tofu} 1074 5 7 I 5 117 ti 7 9S 95 P 7 IC9 ill 113 115 ::4 rift 112 114 IV} 61 97 t 111 112 111 112 196 107 101 102 1004 1011, 10uf Ilu 112 064 107 i 1 113 1 113 1 0 8 110 08g iod 1001 100/ 11 1081 i 1 id '4O 'z2 515 23 :8 82 id 426 43i 91 91 4} 4 14 16 41 a 6, 7 5i 51 46 18 2 2i I 34 3 , , 71 q 1 110 140 26 3 44 3 4t 4 2 14 30 400 3 4 874 926 37 39 I I 22 23 12 13 32 34 , 65 275 75 80 (0 65 6 6I 15 6 16 45 255 17 18 5 5i ti p.e.Ja Do. p. c. Feb. ! Do. d p.c.Mar.ct Sept - j Do. p. c. Jan.&July. Do. o Inscribed stoci. —' ape G. Hope, p Do.Ap & Oct. 1,54: , Do. IDo. .Jan. & July, 1841. - evlon. ,C0v.1 8 61. M u itius ' ter cent - Na a G v. 6 I.er cout —o. dp. c.Ap. & Oc- , S.W. (i °v..` p Do. f; p. to 1 ' Do. d0.,1888 &upwcb. New Zealand 6 p ,ent. iNova Scotia Gov. Bp. ! Ater:int.!, 1875 Queensland Gov. ap. c ft. Aurs (1,1p.c.1870.& - Vin.Oov. Ap.c..ia..tJul , Do. n ~ ambrian Consol. Gold iihuru Amalgamated levon G. Cone. ;Rat ilassett(lllozan East Clogau Gold Ltd. East caradon ...... East earn Brea... 'I Russet Cravist (1-a m .4 zSt.AubyinGwen reat South 'rolgus Wheal Vor(llelstoi IGrenville ......... . t I erod' s- Foot_ ttngston Downs Lady Bertha 11.trg - aret (tiny Lehr,' , larke Valley.. •!, ndv Iron Ore (Um New Seton •• :North Downy • vc;,'l tlasePtt 1110 at; • ttrtfi Wheal Croity ; . tr Consols (51. Blazey rovidence(liny Len South Carstion(St.Cleer S. Carn Brea (Illogan) Wheat Fran. (Illovut Stray Park 'T,tmar Silv.& Lead Min. Pin Croit Nest Basset (Illogan) N Carzdon (Liskeard , VVest Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan :.heal Buller (Redruth; Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) NhealLud ott heal MaryAnn(Men ) Wheal Seton . heal Tretawney Wheal Union iTISH \ll 2.0.8 2.10.8 8 58} 7 3.17 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 116 Gt. Western ( erks & Hants Ext.), 4A per cent. red.. 914 9 North Eastern (G.N.E. 4 per c.•nt. pret), e 7 North Eastern, York. H. and Selby purchase, 10 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, per cent, pf., 1.31 London, Brighton, &0., 4• per cent., 18.5 4 , 102 /North British (r.din., Perth, and Dundee) 4 percent., 81 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Sambre and Meuse, 11, San Paulo gua. 7 per cent., 9} Ditto (all), 23k West Flanaei s, 5i per cent. pt., 101 FOREIGN MINES. Bon Accoid Copper (lim.), Din Pedre, Nor h Lel Rey, k Port Philip, 11 St. John dcl Rey (Urn.), 54:6 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 3 1 41 JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Agra and United Service (lira.), 93i Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 2 31 Anglo , ortuguese (lira.), 2f Australasia, 74 Bank of Egypt, 28 7f 81 Bank of London, 116 ) 16 Bank of Wales, British and American Exchange (lhm), 9 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, e ::::::: d a c n o k u o h l tv l , n 4 d ..: , : lustr a li a , and China, 23j 41 5, Cl- ;: °t ±: l o . 9 n i n t j - h l u Nts t e : r u, rtettodhhe Mock, k a of Australia, 28 London and National Provincilaelwo, London and c li a ra n , \ 26 4 / 4 f 1 n EnAand, new, 212 7i 7 tittoman Bank, Provincial of Ireland . 4 I South Australia, 37 I Union of Australia, 52 fa Union of Ireland (lim.), MISCIiiLLANEoug. Berlin Water Worizs, 7/ Electric r, lepjaph, 10 Joint ato,k Discount, 21 Nerbinida Coal and Iron, GI ii Oriental Inland steam (lim.), 617 Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 78 71 Ditto, new, 471 8 Rio de Janeiro Ci , y improvements (Um.) (x 2), 3 Royal Mail Steam, GO/ A Paris ,e'ter in th,. Salut Public of Lyons says —I - An incident 'hat has made some noise has just taken place at the Cafe de if/. Porte-St.-Martin. A writer in the Figaro-Ptogramme, M. St. Koning, in a theatrical article, spoke of the actor Br ndeau as being "enor mous." The latter meeting M. Koning at the above cafe two days back knocked him down. The actor and critic were separated, hut later in the day M. Koning went to a restaurant where Brindeau was accustomed to dine, and there gave him a box on the ear. The adversaries were then both taken before the commissary of police, and will probably appear before one of the tribunals in a few 'days." MEN 4. ',1.() ?.19.0 4_ 7.01 2.0 6 4.3.1, 19 1P5.1 P 28.9. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1863. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. CARDIFF RACES.-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGARPH. PRINCE OF WALES STAKES. Zingari 1 Sweet Willie Mountain Doe Three ran. HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. Butterfly Weasel Biscuit 3 CITY BETTING—THIS DAY. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 5 to 2 agst Physalia colt (taken) 10 to 1 agst Attaruan (taken) 12 to 1 agst Canace (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 12 to 1 agst Adventurer (taken) 12 to 1 agst Oberon (taken) 16 to 1 agst Merry Maid (taken) 40 to 1 agst Misfortune (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 2to 1 agat Hospodar (taken) Bto 1 agst Saccharometer (taken) 14 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken) 100 to 1 agst Early Purl (offered) THE DERBY. 7to 1 agat Lord Clifden (taken) 10 to 1 agst Hospodar (taken) 15 to 1 agat Saccharometer (taken) 20 to 1 agat Melrose (taken) 30 to 1 apt Tom Fool (taken) 100 to 1 agst Early Purl (offered) POLICE INTELLIGENCE,---This Day. BO W-STREET. POCKET -PICILING AT A BAPTIST CHAPEL.—TWO men named Baker and Bentley were charged with picking pockets. Mrs Kelloe said, last evening she had been attending a meeting at the Heppel-street chapel, and on leaving the building she found the prisoner Baker close by her side. Immediately after she saw him put his hand in her pocket, and she then told him he was a very bad man to attempt to rub hPr in a chapel. Bentley, who was close behind her in the crowd, then pushed between them, and accosting her said, "What do you mean by saying I had my hand in your pocket ?" She told him he was not the person, and that be knew it, but he became highly indignant at being sus pected of picking pockets under such circumstances. She persisted in her statement, and then another person who had been watching the men came up. Mr. Barton said he was an engraver, and as a great num ber of robberies had taker, place as the congregation were leaving the chat el, he watched the prisoners, with whom there was another man in company. The way they carried on their operations was somewhat original. Baker went in front, and on coming near the door he made a sudden stoppage, winch caused a block, while Bentley, who was behind, pushed the people forward in great confusion. This arrangement enabled the third man, who was in the centre of the crowd, to test the pockets of the ladies with the greatest security, and he had no doubt several robberies were then committed. On coming up with them he placed his walking-stick across the entrance, and then accused the whole of the party with robbery, which of course they denied. A Police-constable of the C division said be was watching the prisoners at the same time as the last witness, and he distinctly raw them trying tie pocke , s of the congregation. At the particular moment Baker put his hand in Mrs lielloe's pocket, he could not see him in consequence of the confusion made the one man pushing the peop e back and the other pushing forward. He knew them as bad charac ters, and he thought if time were allowed he could prove a former conviction against thew. The third man escaped. The magistrate remanded the prisoners. B.,ntley, es he was leavirg the deck, said, " he had no doubt a policeman would be able to prove anything he wished, as they we'rnt at all particlar." MARLBOROUGH-STREET. OBTAINING WATCHES BY FRAUD--Robert Nerris, a young man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with ob taining some silver watches by means of a forged order from Messrs. Cox and Co., pawnbrokers and silversmiths, 43, Frith-street, Soho. Mr. Charles Cox said that on Monday last the prisoner brought an order purporting to be signed by Mr. A. Jones, manager at Mr. Longman's, seal engraver, Waterloo place, for three silver watches. He told prisoner that he had not the sort required, and he left, hut in about a quar ter of an hour he returned with another order for four Geneva watches. Not liking the appearance of the order ho told the pi ibouer that he would nend them to Mr. Jones, but the prisoner said that he was told to take them with him, as a teen►leman was waiting with Mt Jones to see them. He then packed up the watches and gave them to the prisoner, who left, but took the precaution to send an assistant atter she prisoner to see that he really went to Mr. Longman's. On the way there, however, the prisoner managed to give the assistant the slip, and on his (Mr. Cox) afterwards sending to Mr. Jones he disocvered that he had never sent the prisoner for the watches. Ho then communicated with the police. Mr. William Augustus Jones, manager at Mr. Longman's, seal engraver, Wacelloo-place, said neither of the orders produced were signed by him, nor by his authority, and he never Pent the prisoner for the watches. The prisoner had been in Mr. Longman's t mploy, but was discharged in , 860. Sergeant Achison, A 1, deposed to searching the prisoner and finding upon him a watch (identified by Mr. Cox.)i The prisoner said he would tell the truth and said, " This is one of the watches, and the others I have pledged at different places." Prisoner said he had no questions to ask of the witnesses. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded him for a week. STEALING A VALID ABLE FIRE SCREEN.--Florent Rollens, a Belgian, was charged with stealing a beautifully executed needlework fire screen, the property of Mr. An. till, 37, De sn street, Soho, cabinet maker. Prisoner denied stealing the screen, and said he met a man who gave him the screen to put feet to it, he (prisoner) being a cabinet maker. Prisoner was committed for trial, the evidence having been read over to him by Mr. Albert, the interpreter. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, OXFORS), MARCH 31. Congregations will be holden for the purpose of granting graces, and conferring degrees, on the following days in the ensuing term,— viz , Wednesday, April 8, and Thursday, 23d ; Wednesday, May 13, and Friday, 22d. Candidates for degrees are required to enter their names in a book kept for that purpose, at the Vice-Chancellor's house, on or be fore the day preceding the day of Congregation. CAMBRIDGE, STARCH 31. The museums and lecture-rooms, which it is proposed to erect without delay, are arranged about a quadrangular court, 138fL. from north to south, and 114 ft. from emit to west, and occupy about three-fifths of the old botanic gar • den in Pembroke-street. The south front will be between 170 and 180 ft. from the street, leaving space sufficient for a future building. The general distribution of the building is as follows : The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and the Lown dean and Plumian Prof.Esors of Astronomy occupy the central portion of the south front; the western wing of the front, and the building on the west side of the quadrangle are allotted to the Professor of Mtany, the Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, and the Professor of Mineralogy. The corresponding buildings on the east side will be occupied by the Professor of Com parative Anatomy, and by the Museum of Z ology, in close proximity to the building at present occupied by anatomy, chemistry, and botany, which will be altered for the recep • tion of human anatcmy at d chemistry only. It was origi nally intended to place geology on the unoccupied north side of the quadrangle, whenever it might be required to remove it from its present position beneath the University library. At present, it is thought that it will be more con venient to place it in the large buildin -4 hereafter to be erected in front, tcgether wi. h a curator's house, and any other apartments that may be required. The space assigned to the profe - sors, respectively, has been arranged in conformity with written reports of their requirements furnished by them to the architect, and, therefore, this building will differ from all others of its class in being designed by th'se for whose use it is in tended, and in securing to the students easy access to the museums. The style employed will be Italian, but, as the funds at present in the hands of the University do not ad wit of any expenditure on architectural decoration, the architect, Mr. Saivin, was requested rather to display his skill in the pet feet adaptation of the various apartments to their use. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862 have recently received costly and appropriate gifts from their Majesties the Emperor of the French and the Etap eror of Austria, as souvenirs of the Exhibition. These Royal pre- ents, which consist of many exquisite specimens of modern, ornamental, and Fine Arts, were for mally presented to the Commissioners, on behalf of the Im perial Commissions, by M. Le Play. on the part of France, and by the Chevalier de Schwarz, on the part of Austria. At the opening of the Exhibition, in May last, his Royal Hi g hness the Crown P r i nce of Prussia, President of the R o y a l Prussian Com mission , also presented to each of her Majesty's Commissioners beautiful specimens of the manu facture of the Royal establishment at gerlim MAGAZINE DAY. B 1 ickecood's Magazine. In the absence of any distinct political article so called in Maga for April, there is a very able and readable Riper on " Sir James Graham," that may stand, for the nonce, as a capital substitute for it. As a matter of course, it is apropos to Mr. M'Cul loch Tcrrens' recently published biography of Sir James—a statesman of whom it has been wittily said that " he narrowly escaped being a great man !" Although assuming merely to be a criticism upon a memoir, this contribution to Ebony is a miniature memoir in itself. Of Sir James Graham's last ap pearance as a Cabinet Minister, the writer says— with how much truth all who read his remarks will very painfully remember—" When Lord Aberdeen formed his Coalition Cabinet, Sir James Graham returned to the Admiralty, where the Crimean war took him by surprise, as it did all the other mem bers of the Administration. Sir James, however, put a bold face upon the matter, and having selected Sir Charles Napier to command the worst-found and worst-manned fleet that ever quitted the Eng lish shores, he sent hint, at the worst season of the year, to try what could be done for the destruction of Russian power in the Baltic. It was unfortu nate, both for the First Lard and for the Admiral, that the Reform Club chose to give the latter a dinner. The speeches uttered on that occasion, and especially Sir James Graham's speech, resem bled more the pee ins of victors after the strife, than the statemen►s of men about to incur the hazard of a campaign; and the abortive issue of the expedition covered both with ridicule. It did more, however, than this. A bitter quarrel en sued, which was prosecuted not very decorously, sometimes in the House of Commons, sometimes through the press, and which had no other result than to damage both parties very seriously in the estimation of the public." Speaking of Sir J times himself as he looked towards the close of his life, the reviewer observes in one brief but sufficient, because eminently graphic sentence— " Our latest recollection of him is in church—a tall, handsome, yet shattered man, earnest in his devo tions, but bearing upon his brow the cloud which was never to be raised on this side the grave." As a morsel of light reading, very interesting of its kind, the lovers of Maga will find pleasant enough to their literary palate, the second portion of the tale called " Mrs. Clifford's Marriage." How well a work, intrinsically about as buoyant as a blue-book can be turned into a lively magazine paper, every one who cares to know may learn upon scanning the review of Sir R. Alcock's " Capital of the Tycoon"—this said review here leading off the April number of "Black wood" under the apparently affected but very lite ral title of "Sensation Diplomacy in Japan." The April number of Maga is for the most part a clus ter of criticisms. Another of these being dev. ted to an examination of " Spedding's Life of Bacon"— a contribution likely to be more welcome to Mr. Spedding than to the Philosopher's arch apologist —(the vindicator, br fore that, of Pen n)—Mr.Dixon A curious paper of its kind entitled " The Yeang-tai Mountains and Spirit Rapping in China," we are almost disposed to attribure to Mr. Oliphant. Just as we half suspect Mr. Warren's loyal pen to have written the brief but graceful allusion to the 10th ult., with which the April number of Maga closes, under the pretty memorial heading of " Marriage Bells." There is a fifteenth instalment of Sir Bul wer Lytton's thoughtful, humorous, philosophic, carefully written series of Essays 'yclept " Caxto niana." The twentieth Essay being "On Self Control," the twenty-first on" The Modern Misan thrope." In the f rmer of these, it is interesting to mote the comments penned by the author of" Riche lieu" upon what Sir Edward regards as the as tounding evidences of a hack of self-control so often manifested by the great Cardinal. " The Inex haustible Capital" is the felicitous title accorded to Rome this month by another of Maga's reviewers. It is the title also of the contribution that thus sig nally applies it to the Eternal City : a paper in which the critic recognises the merits of Mr. Story's "Roba di R)ma." Referring to the Vexed Ques tion of the Age, the writer observes very forcibly and very truthfully " Remove the Pope, and of course there is an end to the grand solemnities in which he is the most prominent figure; to the magnificent funzions of the Holy Week, to witness which thousands annually fleck to Rome, filling to the roof every hotel and lodging-house; to gorgeous cere monials, b illiant processions, and high festivals ; to the chairing of the Pontiff and the feeding of the beggars; the washing of feet and the sounding of silver trumpets and the benediction from the balcony, with its magnificent scenic effect, with the golden chair and the peacock fans, and the rest of the sumptuous and dazzling paraphernalia. All this must of course depart whenever the Italian Go vernment takes its seat at Rome, unless there should then be found some member of the college of cardinals willing to accept the Pontiff's spiritual heritage without his temporal sway, and to restrain his chair at the Vatican whilst a King of Italy thrones it at the Quirinal. The installation of a commonplace lay Government could hardly fail to dimi nish Rome's present attractions for foreigners." Referring, however, later on to the book itself, and to its author—and not to the theme of the two— Maga 'remarks that—" Nobody who visited the great Exhibition of 1862 will have failed to observe and admire two pieces of sculpture which the most competent critics declared to be second to none, even if they were equalled by any of those there collected together. The author of Roba di Roma,' the foreign and fantastical name of a very English and sensible book, might have placed upon its title page, had it so pleased him, 'by the author of • Cleopatra' and the Lybyan Sybil,' and the ad vertisement would have been no bad one ; for every- body who had admired the sculptor's beautiful statues would have been curious to see if he was as clever with the pen as he was cunning with the chisel. Mr. Story, however, was above seeking any such side•wind of popularity, and proposed allowing his literary labours to stand upon their own merits." And these, says the reviewer, they are well able to stand upon. As they are undoubtedly. The Dublin University Mayarsne. M. Octave Delepierre's amaaing volume of " Macaronies' . has again become the theme of a very entertaining paper by a magazine contributor. The criticism, interspersed with a variety of laughter provoking extracts, leads off the "Dublin University Magazine," not inappropriately, upon All Fools' Day. For macaronies are just next door to nonsense verses—the writer of macaronies in a manner, as one may say, plaTing the fool with fun! Among all the specimens of macaronic literature what san be funnier than the following by GILBERT A'BECKETT—ON THE POLKA. Qui nunc dancere vult modo, Wants to dance in the fashion 0, Discere debet—ought to know Kickere floor cum heel and too, One, two, three, Hop with me, Whirligig,twirligig, rapide, Polkam jungere, virgo, via? Will you join the polka, miss ? Liberius— most willingly, Sic agimus—then let us try. Nunc vide, Skip with me, Whirlabout, roundabout, celere. Turn laevft cite, turn deata, First lo the left, and then t'other way : Aspice retre in vultu, You look at her, and she looks at you, Das palmatn, Change hands, ma'am, Celere—run away—just in sham. The new serial romance of " Bella Donna" is con tinued this month to the extent of four chapters additional—scarcely yet, however, compenaatively in interest for the .11).4erice any longer from the pages of the "Dublin University" of that enthral ling narrative of the " House by the Churchyard" re cently completed so very effectually by Charles de Cresseron, otherwise J. Sheridan Le Fenn. A delightful paper has been suggested to the next contributor by the unwonted combination in a witty and humorous group of " Gresset, La Bruyere, and R )chefoucauld"—names sparkling like brilliants of the rarest lustre in the emblazonry of French literature. As a sturdy English contrast in every way, comes the sterling biographical com memoration immediately afterwards of the rise, genius, and career of the Great Founder of the Railway System—" George Stephenson la Next We have a fourth part of the other serial story now appearing from month to month in the Dublin University, namely, " Little Flaggs, the Almshouse Foundling," and somewhat later on a further, continuation of the third book of the exhaustive memoir slowly being com piled (we nave botnetimes thought by Mr. Thorn bury) in regard to " Sterne and his Day." A. gar rulous Octogenarian, who appears to have a well stored memory enough, discourses with no little animation upon " Old Recollections and Modern Contrasts." There is an excellent, and, for the most part, very judiciously discriminative omnium gatherutn criticism in this number, it should be observed, weighing justly and carefully in the balance the pick of recent specimens of " Modern Novel and Romance," such as "No Name," " Bar rington," " Orley Farm," "Aurora Floyd," "East Lynne," and the "Chronicles of Carlingford." Other varied articles there are : about the most noteworthy among thosa not yet particularised being the very last in the number, a paper upon Niccolo Macchia velli. Fraser's Magazine. Those who have acquired a relish for the strong flavoured, racy, and vivacious fictions which have for several years past adorned, in a serial form, the pages of Fraser, will welcome eagerly the new tale commenced in this April number, and entitled " Late Laurels." As the initial instalment of the narrative we have three chapters, headed respec tively—the first, " Foreshadowing ;" the second, "La Belle Dedaigueuse ;" the third, "Defeat." Even from these three preliminary chapters of the story, its character can be tolerably well appre ciated, so to speak, in anticipation. For its purport, or tendency, is pretty plainly hinted at in the "Foreshadowing !" The heroine that is to be, can be distinctly enough recognised in Florence Vivian, other wise " La Belle De laigneuse !" While as to " Defeat," there are few readers of one of the most animated among our modern schools of novel• writing but will understand very readily that it is a kind of defeat leading, in all probability, to divers unmistakable victories—per haps the victory of all most coveted by the momen tarily defeated, to wit, Mr. Erie. the hero of the tale. this temporary defeat of Mr. Erle being, as a mat ter of course to those familiar with the style of such lotions, his refusal by Florence Vivian, "La Belle De daigneuse." Mr. Ruskin pursues the devious, rather than the " even tenour of his way" in his thought ful but occasionally somewhat eccentric " Essays on Political Economy"—here continued in Fraser, as a s€quel topapers which appeared not long ago, from month to month in the pages of the Cornhill. From A Chapter on Notables" we extract the following vivid little vignette sketch of one of those colonels in the Grande Armee whose memory of tt e Great Emperor survived his Downfall and his Exile as tenderly as the passionate remembrance of the dead lives on in the heart of a bereaved lover There was another notable who used to frequent the same cafe as ourselves. We see him still as he enters, and passes madame with a bow and a smile ; a tall, erect figure, with the cross of the Legion of Honour on his breast. His entrance creates a certain sensation, for it is known to all that he i 4 a relic of the Grande Armee, one of those who followed Napoleon through every change of climate and fortune, till he fought his last battle at Waterloo. He takes his usual place at the little table which is always re• served for him, and orders his cup of coffee and his small glass of brandy. These despatched, he is ready for a game at dominoes with any Englishman present, and if we allow him to win (which we take care to do), he is supremely happy. 'lt is the only way I can beat you now,' he says, with a sort of triste gaiety. And then the old colonel, con- tent with his victory, begins to tell us of other victories far more severely contested; and when he comes to speak of the heroic qualities of his great leader, and the sufferings he endured in his sea-girt prison, his old eyes grow dim, and tears may be seen trickling down his withered cheeks." In this same contribution the writer is guilty of a flagrant error when ho describes M. Guizot as present, side by side with Lamartine and others, when, shortly after the triumph of the Revolution of February, Mademoiselle Rachel electrifli-d the Parisians by her memorable singing of the Marseillaise. At that time M. Guizot was away in London, as unmistakeably in exile as Mr. Smith, formerly Louis Philippe, Gr any of the ex- King's sons. Several fragments of verse are scat tered among the prose contributions making up this current number of Regina. None of these however are of any particular worth. " April" is one, " Castelrovinato" enothor, m; er hty Throe," another: the longest and moat elaborate being a sixth portion of "Lawrence Rioinfleld in Ireland," a portion descriptive, as will be tound, of L )ugh Bracc:m. Besides which the best of all the tnetri • eal effusions in this April number of Fraser, is a most charming and me'olions translatio❑ oy Sir Edmund Head, of the last Elegy of Propertius. Half-a-dozen other contributions there ate among the contents of this very varied number, one of which half-a-dozen alone, have we time or space now to particularise. This being another of those gossipping Essays which have, in a few years, built up a reputation for A.K.H.8,, placing him almost upon a level as an essayist with the gifted Clerk of the Privy Council. " Concerning the Estimate of Human Beings," such is here taken as the theme or text of A K.H. B. And pleasantly do those initials discourse about it—descanting, for example, thus upon the Pro: and Cons in regard to Smith : "For instance," he says, " the things counting against Smith may be these : " 1. He has a red nose, "2. He c =les an extremely baggy cotton umbrella. "3. He wears a shocking bad hat. " 4. When you make any statement whatever in his hear ing, he immediately begins to prove, by argument, that your statement cannot possibly be true. "6. He says tremencluous when he means tlemendous ; and talks of a prizenter when he means a precentor. "6. He is constantly saying 'How very euri,us I' also, Goodness gracious I' " Whereas the three things making in Smith's favour may be these : " 1. He has the kindest of hearts. "2. He has the clearest of heads. "3. He is truth and honour impersonate." How the ballance is struck by A.K.H.8., in re gard to Smith, in this matter, may be conjectured rom the humorist's very way of putting his case. Bentley's Miscellany. Mr. Ainsworth's historical romance is full of in cident this month. Book 11. relates how Philip, with some four and-twenty noble guests, dined at Arthur's Round Table, in Winchester Castle. The scene is quite in Mr. Ainsworth's favourite style. Here is a pieuresque glimpse of LING ARTIIVR'S ROUND TABLE. " Mindful of his promise to the Duke of Norfolk to feast his grace at Arthur's Round Table in Winchester Castle, Philip appointed tho day before his departure for the ban quet. Twenty-four guests were invited, half of whom were English nobles, and the other half Spanish grandees. In the midst of the great hall of the castle, which was more tban 150 feet long, and with a lofty roof of open rafters, richly sculptured, was placed the pride of warlike years, Old Arthur's board— in other words, the tamous Round Table, at which King Arthur and his illustrious knights had often feasted. " Framed by Uter Pendragon, Arthur's royal sire, who fi , ,urisl2ed early in the sixth century, or more than twelve hundred years ago, this wondrous table was given by him to King Leodegraunce of Camelyard, who held it in high esteem. When Leodegraunce bestowed his fair daughter, the lovely but erring Guenever, upon Arthur, he sent bim at the same time, as the richest present he could bestow, the royal table, causing it to be conveyed by a hundred knights. Er.chanted with the gift, Arthur forthwith in stituted the order of the Round Table (the earliest military order of knighthood), and had the places appointed for himself and his twenty-four knights blessed by the Arch bishop of Canterbury. So runs toe legend. But by whom soever fashioned, the Round Table was at least remarkable for antiquity in the time of Henry VIII., who had it h painted for use at the banquet given by ror Charles V. It still exists, as we have already int.l - to the Em . pe: mated, and is constructed of stout oaken planks, painted in parti-coloured rays, on the borders of which Some thitish pen has sketched the names renowned, In marks obscure, of Arthur's deathless peers. "Obscure as an the characters, the names of Sir Tris tram, Sir Launcelot, Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, Sir Gawaine, Sir Ector, Sir Bors, and other peerless knigbts, may be read upon this scroll of fame. In Cromwell's time the Round Table narrowly escaped destruction from the Parliamentary soldiers, who never list an opportunity of committing sacrilege of some kind. They set it up as a target, and perforated it with bullets. In the centre of the board is the Tudor rose, and the sovereign's place is indi c ared by a full-length portrait o f H enry VIII ., sea t e d un d er a cano py with an ermine mantle over his shoulders, and holding the orb and sword. .; The great hall in which the Round Table was set was hung with ancient and somewhat faded arras, representing in one place the interview of the twelve Roman knights with Arthur, and in another the renowned British king re ceiving his sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, Five and twenty snits of armour of colossal size were placed on stands against the walls, while the intervals were filled with trophies composed of shields, spears, awcrds, battle axes, mac,s, and other weapons. The cushion of each chair was embroidered in letters of gold with the name of its occupant. A curiously carved oak chair, in which bluff King Hal had sat, was assigned to Philip. On his right sat the Lord Chancellor, and on tee left the Duke of Nor • folk. the place next to Gardiner was allotted to the Duke of Alva, while Norfolk's neighbour was the Duke of Me dina Celi. In this wise were the twt my-tour guests dia -1 posed—English and Spanish nobles alternately." After these and many other festivities in honour of the Royal marriage had taken pla ce, Putty and Mary made their public entry into London. A scene, vividly portrayed in the gorgeous colouring of three ceLturies back, which will recall to many a reader the public entry only the other day of another Prince and Princess, a Royal bride and bridegroom. Queen Mary, splendidly attired in cloth of gold, blazng with jewels of inestimable value, sat in a gilt chariot, drawn by six horses in housings of white satin embroidered with gold, ridden by pages in crimson satin ; while her Royal consort, mounted on a fiery Andulasian barb, trapped with black taffetas and silver lace, rode by her side, attended by fifty horse men in trappings of crimson velvet. Gorgeous as the spectacle may have been, we doubt if the num ber and interest of the spectators could in any way compare with that marvellous gathering of the 7th of March, which has for ever immortalised that day in the annals of London pageantry ! The chief feature, however, in this instal ment of " Cardinal Pole," is the arrival in England of the Cardinal himself as legate from the Holy Sea. Here is an apparently life-like por trait of— 121 20i 661 108; 75 1141 14 97; ; 101 1001 1; 12; 13 121 I 981 d CARDINAL POLE. The noble cast of the cardinal's countenance, proclaiming his royal descent—his reverend air, increased by the long grey beard that descended to his waist—the benignity and sweetness of his looks—the stateliness of his deportment — all produced an indescribable effect on the spectators. Lofty of s'ature, and spare of person—the result of frequent fastings—Pole, notwithstanding the ail ments under which he laboured, carried himself erect, and ever maintained a most dignified deport • went, To complete the picture we desire to present, it may be necessary to say that his garments were those proper to his eminent ecclesiastical rank, namely, a scarlet soutane, rocket, and short purple mantle. his silk gloves and hose were scarlet in hue, and from his broad red hat depended on either side long cords, terminating in tassels of two knots each. These garments became him well, and heightened the imposing effect ot his presence. " A Brush with the Brigands," is the alliterative title of an article by one who was an eye-witness ot some of the skirmishes of the "so-called Briganti," as he designates them in another place. " Queen Dagmar, the Sea-King's Bride," is a moat attractive paper at the present day. It details to us that favourite romance of the Danish people—" beloved as fable and believed as truth"—the story of Queen Dagmar. "Solitude in Crowds," by Monkshood, " The Channel Islands and their Legends," " Saunterings in S'amboul and its Suburbs," and a brief poem on Astrolenka. ento ie " A Voice from Poland," are among the other con tents of Bentley's Miscellany for April. The United Service Magazine. An interesting and valuable political article opens the narrative apropos to " The Army and Navy Estimates." After a brief treatise upon "Navy Timber," wr accompany another contributor, without budging from our armchair, however, upon " A Trip to Vancouver's Island and British Columbia." A passing but searching glance at "Military Studies," leads the way next to a timely and well-reflected disquisition upon ‘. Mili tary Stations and Convict Labour." C,..pital themes for professional contributors to the United Service, have been selected by the writers of the next two contributions, the one relating to " Military Orga nization," the other descriptive of " Greenwich Characters." Here is one of them : "Mr. Cheeseman was one of the then old school of mas ter's mates worn a long pig-tail, chewed tobacco, and used plenty of stimulants. He was forty years of age I should think, and had been before the mast. He had been preseed into the service from a merchant ship, and knowing how to work the ship's reckoning, and take an altitude of the sun, had been offered the rating of master's mate. He was a tall, raw-boned fellow, a good fighter, and had no deceit about him. He had a rs•.^^t oost.f.sv‘pi t.a. kid gloves ano cleat shirts, but he was a first-rate schooner sailor, and that virtue in these days have covered a multitude of faults." As a matter of course, at such a criais as the pre sent in European history, the United Service c'uld hardly remain dumb upon "The Polish Revolution iid the Attitude of the Greet Powers." What here said by the monthly organ of the and Navy of England is —as every on , might have felt sure beforehand would be the case—perfectly in keeping with all that is thought and felt upon that momentous sub ject by the English People, if not by the Ertglisi Government. "A Month on tee Overland Route" is the last contribution to this April number, end ing, like its predecessors with the customary addenda, in the shape of scraps from the " Editor , . Portfolio," correspondence, critical notices, and obituary—together with the usual enumeration of the Stations both of the British Army and the Royal Navy in Commission, as well as a full and authentic catalogue of the past month's Promotions aud Appointments. The Cornhill .2lfagaztne. We cannot even now induce ourselves to regard Miss Evens' intolerably long and tedious midieovai tale about "Romola " as the serial story in the Cornhill. Although it has reached its fifty-firs! chapter; although it has been appearing with E dreadful persistency during many consecutive months; although it has had while so appearing always accorded to it the honour of leading off each successive number ; although it has the reputation of having won for itself at starting the noblest remu neration in "very hard cash" yet accorded by the munificence of a publisher as tribute to the fame of a living fictionist ; although (to sum up every good reason in one, embracing them all) it is the last and most elaborate production of the gifted author of " Adam Bede," the creator of Mrs. Poyser and of so many other inimitable originals, but that the best of them all—we can not accept " Rorrola" even now as the seri-1 in the Cornhill. And for this one all-sufficient reason, that Romola is an immense failure. Better far to us—incontestibly, to our mind, the serial of the golden-coloured magazine—is the light, spirkling, careless, delightful story now being told from month to month, by him whom Punch dubbed so humorously in his Almanack the Author of Most of the New Novels—to wit, Anthony Trollop°, here as pleasant as ever as the author of "The Small House at Allington." Mr. Crosbie, in d this new instalment of the narrative, gets deeper and deeper into his love difficulties. He is—unli k e to Beverley, "two gentlemen at once" —en gag ed gthaegLady two ladies at the same time, Lily Dale and avnery cleverly Alesandrins! Mr. Millais so d illustrates n ero really so pealcifiseor,.atnhgeiumparalinadmenLtaadryy the interview—ipparent l y incouciante! Cen any frivolous, between Mr.. and diocre than Mirch prig, heir to the pug D thing a ,b b e l e l o m , the ore lovely Winds," at pa ge 4 6 .? ? Well ; yes ! perhaps, let us , • aj a r) Pirates," at page 630. From Mr. say, the Sic Thackeray's charming paper " On Alexandrines," vaehleyrate we hav e already in a recent impression of our journal given a quotation now going the round of the newspapers.. From an excellent paper descrip tive of "Life in a Barrack," we take the following extract ; With bounty-money in his pocket, the recruit has not jpined his reeiment an hour before he finds himself sur rounded by friends. True, when the money is gone, the friends also disappear; but 1 have heard that this result follows just as naturally amongst men who are not soldiers, and in places which are not barracks. I doubt, however, if anywhere else the hypocrisy is so daring, or the catas trophe so sudden. There is little or no attempt to hide the spring of the deep interest your comrades take in you; it is the tap at the Royal George or the Duke of Wellington, by you to be set flowing for the entertainment of the gallant fellows who so warmly greet a new, raw comrade. Their impatience to be reward.d is wonderful. The recruit, it should be known, is not allowed to go into the town before he has got his regimentals. But he has already got his bounty-money (in many cases), and there it lies idly in his stupid civilian pocket. Delay is unbearable. What the regiment has not yet furnished in the course of public duty, his comrades hast en to lend him out of i private benevolence. One COlllO3 with a OaP, another with a jacket, a third with a pair of trousers, and so on. They do not fit, these garments, but that is nothing to the purpose. Appearances are disregarded. The capitalist is to be got out into the town, guy or no guy; and he is got out accordingly. He behaves in almost every instance like a man ; that is to say, he freely gets drunk, and es lib;:rally spends his money for the gratification of his new found friends and their new-found wives. Small sums are borrowed of him with the affability of friendship and the bonhomie of brethren in arms; and not till the young sol dier refuses, or till his inclination to "stand a drain" can no longer be stimulated, is he allowed to perceive thathiscom panions are all the while laughing at him as an innocent, es a greenhorn, as a chaw-bacon. It is not an uncommon thing for a comrade more friendly than the rest to leave the recruit at last in the hands of some female acquaint ance, who manages to clear his pockets out quite before he returns to barracks. Presenting himself there next morn ing, penitent and approbensive, he is forthwith placed un der arrest, for "stopping absent," while the obliging com rade goes off to share the spoils of victorious Beauty. Besides the foregoing, there are, in the Cornhill for April, a curious chapter on " Corpulence," a rapid " Run Through the Southern States," by an English officer, the usual groups of startling " Notes on Seielce," a reprobation of "Oaths" and a tribute of admiration and sympathy to the people of Poland. Macmillan's Magazine. Although it is one of the briefest papers in the current number of " Macmillan," Dr. Hamilton's 111,erginalia of Lard Macaulay" is one of the most valuab!e, as it is certainly also one of the most amusing. It has reference to the marginal notes discovered in the pile of shabby books, which BR recently as the Ch of Mitch was scattered under the auctioneer's hammer, books constituting, as the advertisement intimated, very attractively a portion of Lord Macaulay's library. "Whatever," says the writer, "may be the gratification of individuals in thus obtaining personal relics of our great histo rian, we cannot help regretting that some of the best materi,ls for elucidating his own mental his tory are thus irretrievably scattered. Not only do these books throw light on his studious habits—on the heroic industry and lynx eyed watchfulness with which he ranged over all the realms of litera ture—but they reveal the sources from which his own wondrous wealth was gathered, the nidua where many a gem was found, now speaking in is own matchless mosaic. And, with his habit of marking the day when he began and finished a volume, had they been kept together, these books might in some degree have supplied the place of a literary journal." It is a lost opportunity, now ever, that it is vain now to lament over, for it is past recovery. How "spicy"—to use a vulgarism that would have been reprobated as slang by the fine lady mother in Caarles Reade's novel of " Very Hard Cash"—how spicy these marginal notes of Nlacaulay's are, at times, may be conjectured upon our quoting just one of them. It is a verdict upon the portrait of Bishop Horne—"A a ile countenance ; the face of an imputient buffoon." With all pos sible respect for the Dean of Canterbury, we would hope that that learned divine may henceforth eschew rhyming, if " Be just and fear not," is in any way to be regarded as a favoure)le specimen of his rhythmical powers. The fourth line in the sub joined quatrain will be recognised as an almost exact plagiarism of the second m one of Campbell's stanzas in his poem on the Rainbow. Show thou thy light. If conscience gleam, Sat not the bushel down ; The smallest spark may send his beam O'er hamlet, tower, and town. Here follows Cdtripbelt's— Rnw glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrornd in the ocean vast A thousand fathoms down. What, possibly, Dr. Bowring can be about in writing such antiquated twaddle, as the little paper of his entitled " A Bewitched King," we cannot for the life of us conjecture. The rest of the April number of Nlacmitlan's is very various—John Ruf fini giving three more chapters of his clever serial story, " Vincenzl, of Sunken Rocks "—the piece de resistance of David Masson's Cambridge Magazine ! Thomas Hare des.ants soberly upon a certain " Ideal of a Local Government for the Metropolis." \lr. Goldschmidt tells very agreeably a Danish story anent" M 3 Uncle and his House." While Miss Muloch presents us with a strange paper about a school, under the fantastic title (the paper not the school) of " Children of Israel." Besides which a Servian Senator has something here to say about his own country, and Dr. Abdy something else fully , s appropriate, and still more impressive, under the tircumstances, about Poland and the Pules. London Society. Ephemeral though the letter-press of London Society is, for the most part, it is innocent and amusing from first to last. While as an illustrated chilling periodical it is really and truly sme lling marvellous. "Most of the embellishments are :harmingly well done—the eff:ct of each number, IA whole, being absolutely brilliant. Few will reel any surprise, however, at the fact being as we ere put it quite truthfu:ly, when it is found, as in : he April nuruber bilore us, the " Court Number" as t is appropritely called, an artist like Edward Cor muld has contrihu'ed the first and the last picture ' , tit of a throng of bnuliful illustrations : the first ')eing a p strait of the Queen, the lest f the Princess Alice. Both most gracefully 'rown ; and each of them an admirable .keness. Besides these, there are in this " Court -umber" of London Society portraits of the Prince find Princess of Wales side by side (very in iifferent likenesses, these), and—upon opposite pages— portraits of the Prince and Princess 'hristian of Denmark. Besides which engrav ings apropos to the late royal marriage, there are ethers more or less directly associated in subject with it. There is an interesting drawing of the wedding gift from the King of Denmark to the Fair Young Bride the already famous Digmar cross and necklace. There is a ketch of the interior of St. George's Chapel, it Windsor, as it appeared during the breath ess interval of expe cta ti on when the Bride :;room was " Waiting for the Bride." Kenny Vleadows has a ridiculous little picture—full of mannerisms at every touch—and entitled, without !ny apparent meaning whatever, "The Sea Kings' Daughter; or, Bridal Greetings." An oddly-ima .4ined, boldly-drawn jumble of horses and men is the one called "My First Court Suit." While "Going to Court—How I went," both the writer with his pen, and the artist with his pencil may be 'escribed as good humouredly poking fun at the Fashionable& Good Words, Daring though the title is in its assumption, it is still ~o t unworthy of its name. The literary contents for the most part continue to reflect honour upon the ditorial discrimination of Dr. Norman Macleod, and upon the abilities of his skilled and many of them eminently gifted contributors. In this April num bar alone there is an "Essay for Sunday Reading"-- an admirable substitute for a sermon, written by Dr. John Caird, the author of the far-famed and beautiful discourse upon " The Religion of Common Life." Dr. Caird's subje ct in this fourth essay of hie in Good Words is— withncss to the segson, the incident it refers to having paper The Alabaster Box of Ointment." There is a paper also in thi s immediately precededtheaPn the Parables one after r worthy of the mßster-f.and that wrote it—a paper penned in fact u an u o t t h h r e ie r: number upon "The Sun "—a by Sir John Hernhel. Dr. Henry asesxiognis7 aPPropriate- Rogers gives us a learned disquisition upon " Coat," D ri • comments, this time, upon the ever-lovely parable of ~ The Good Samaritan." Mr. John Ho!lingshead, as becom es so practised a man of letters, writes currents edam() and with 1 exhilarating ease a g enuine magHzine tale, d Pettie, called " Not Aboverolly illustrated by John his Business." Among th, illustrators of G no+4lll , -.A name , _••‘‘ Good Words still we find the J E. miitais. stilt we recognise the notable hand of "I.ittt . The Scotch Collier-Poet's ode to his • e Wile"—we mean David Wingate's, of Blackwood—has qu it e . . manifestly suggested the re train of the petty stanzts about " Cousin Winnie :" to which T. Morten—apparently makingsketched his design with a blunt slate pencil—has a rough but gracetul embellishment. BEETON'S CHEAP PUBLICATIONS. As usual, every mond - , COMES forth this varied bundle of popular literature in the cheapest form, and of the wholesomest character. S. 0. Beeton, of 248, Strand, being the name and address upon each welcome serial. Let us glance through this pile of goodly periodicals appearing in due course flow upon the commencement of this present April. Here, then, is the 53d sixpenny part of Beeton's Dietionary of matters appertaining to Scierce,.Art, and Literature. Here is No. 4of the Boy's Penny Magazine. Here is No. 36 cf The _Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, published for sixpence. Pde o e Xll. and XIII. of Beeton's (threepenny) Books f Home Games. One on " Whist," the . otheris P art " Whist, Loo, and CLibbage." Here aga z g ary,re. two 24 (price sixpence) of The Boy's .../. azzne, also price o wning b the studio' sixpence, for that swan sum fgfivaeost, fiction, hi l s 2l tilt)); , No. this 4 ... 0 id The i , t J3 O o t y h . s e 0:0 Bob o.2trilaog, Own ie . s u t B.i va g e youngster a delightful midley o . all, price - shillings, there is Part 20ot a w P . e completed for ,and adventure. Finallv,croo in 24 Parts, a Work for preservation and never ending reperusal, Beeton's Illustrated Family Bible, printed in colours, and illustrated 'with impressive aartoons by Julius Schnorr, and with graceful one. mental initials ; headings and borderings by Noel ilumpbreYE. I ~. {+,, Paitl.l 41 4}