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It will be recurred to not only for its beauty of description, but for its pure and elevated philosophy. The reader will note not only the atmosphere in which the chief figure moves, but also the full and appropriate details which enrich the picture. The high and varied merits of the book ought to insure its popularity. '—Athemeum. " Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of ' The Sun,' ranks very high as a poet."—Publishers' Circular. "The versatility of styl e , an d th e f res h an d vigorous writing in these poems, lend a charm which we seldom find in the poetry of the day."—Examiner. " Poems marked by grace, feeling, and strong love of nature, and a cultivated and genial spirit."—Daily News. " The poems which appear for the first time in this volume are not unworthy of the author's earlier productions."—Daily Telegraph. 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Sala against Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, the publishers of a recent book by Mr. Hain Friswell, which has given offence in many quarters. In this book Mr. Sala is made the subject of personal remarks, and he intends to vindicate himself. Mr. Serjeant Parry and Mr. Montague Williams are re tained for the prosecution, and Mr. Serjeant Ballantine for the defence. The case is expected to create a good deal of interest and amusement, as the extracts to be read in court are certainly of the liveliest description. At one time a criminal action was also contemplated against the author, but we believe Mr. Sala will content himself with the result of a civil process.—Orchestra. INJUNCTION AGAINST THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE.-Mr. Glasse, Q.C., applied in the Court of Vice-Chancellor Malins, for an ex parte injunc tion against Lon Gambetta, Jules Favre, and other members of the Government of National Defence, under the following circumstances :—On the Ist December last the French agent in London concluded a contract with Mr. Frear, of Brighton, for the supply of ten million cartridges for Remington rifles, and a similar number for Chassepot rifles, for three million francs, the understand ing being that 500,000 should be delivered at Cher bourg within one week, and one million per week afterwards, the whole to be delivered by the 28th February. The money was deposited with Messrs. Gooch and Morgan, bankers of London, to the credit of Mr. Frear, who assigned his contract to Mr. Lariverre, merchant, of Cannon-street. One million five hundred thousand of the cartridges were properly delivered ; but the interruption of communication occasioned by the ex tension of the war subsequently created a delay, where upon the Bordeaux Delegation repudiated the contract. Mr. Lariverre, convincing them, however, that the delay was not attributable to any fault of his, the Delegation again acknowledged the contract ; but as the decrees of the latter had since been superseded by those of the Paris Government, the plaintiff sought the injunction for the purpose of preventing the money being paid to the Government, and having it declared that Messrs. Gooch and Morgan were holders of it in trust for him. The Vice- Chancellor granted the injunction. A Cincinnati paper tells of a charitable man in that city who keeps a pair of dogs chained at his front door, so that poor people who stop to " get a bite " can be accommodated without taking the trouble to go in the house. In addition to the drawiny-rooms to be held by the Queen on the 23rd instant, and on the 28th March, the Prince of Wales will hold levees on behalf of her Majesty on the 25th instant, and on the 22nd March at St. James's Palace. THE STAMP ACT AND FOREIGN SECURITIES.— We are glad to be able to say that Mr. Lowe has con sented to relinquish the duty which the late Act imposed on foreign securities, and that the law on this subject will now be reduced to a rational, simple, and satisfactory state.—Economist. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. — This celebrated and most delicious old mellow spirit is the very cream of Irish Whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure, and more wholesome than the finest Cognac Brandy. Note the words, " KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY "on Seal, Label, and Oink. New Wholesole Depot, 6A, Great Titchfieldstreet, Oxford-street, W. The Saturday Review says that the German Govern ment has not yet intimated in any way what it really means to insist on—further, perhaps, than to let it be known that it will ask for Metz as well as Strasburg, and for a large sum by way of indemnity. If once the con tending parties get so far as to reduce the negotiations to a bargain about money, it is very improbable that peace will be rendered impossible by the exorbitancy of the German demands.. German statisticians may amuse them selves with calculating every item of an imaginary bill they can run up against France ; and the friends of France may justly urge, on the other hand, that, if territory is taken, an abatement of the indemnity ought to be made in proportion. But when once a serious effort to arrive at an understanding is attempted, the question must be, not what France can be shewn to owe, but what it can be shewn to be able to pay. Unless the sum fixed on is moderate, France will be simply unable to pay it. France, even if peace is concluded now, has to face immense finan cial as well as political difficulties, and the Germans will be strangely imprudent if they kill the goose to get at the golden eggs. Whether peace will be desired by the new Assembly it is impossible to say at present. It must be remembered that we know a great deal more of what is going on in that part of France which wishes for peace than of what is going on in the large area which is as yet untouched by the war. The machinery of election in two-thirds of France is in the hands of men who, even after the resignation of M. Gambetta, may still take their inspiration from him. The majority of the Assembly will probably consist of men who will vote for going on with the war if they see a chance of raising a popular cry against the terms of peace which the Germans may pro pose ; and Paris, which will be heartily for peace, will have lost its accustomed ascendancy, because it will be thought to be speaking under Prussian dictation. Pos sibly, however, the Assembly may be so far undecided that the influence of, the neutral Powers may tell on it, and it is, therefore, sincerely to be hoped that the Ger mans may be so far moderate that England and her neutral allies may be able honestly to recommend France to close with the offer that is made to it. The Spectator says that what with the vigilance of the Germans in keeping Paris for the present secluded, the prevalence of rumours circulated to deceive, and the dis organised of the French Press, England remained on Fri day in almost complete ignorance of the results of the elec tions. The drift of the few facts known is undoubtedly towards peace and some compromise between the Mode rate Republicans and the Orleanist party, but then the facts known are very few. The vote in the North, at Bordeaux, in Cherbourg, where the Prince de Joiuville has been returned, and the rumoured election of the Due d'Aumale, all tend in the same direction ; but as yet there is no return from the South, no news from the Centre, no evidence as to the extent to which the peace party is pre pared to go, and no statement of the governing datum of all, the terms on which the German chiefs intend ulti mately to insist. Nothing has appeared on this subject during the we, , k of the slightest official value, and it is clearly the belef of all correspondents in Verailles who reflect the opinion of the German Staff that the war will in all probability continue. That impression may be spread on purpose as an instrument of terror, or it may be real, and result from a belief that the Kaiser will make no peace with a Republic, or it may be -due merely to a military feeling sure to be overruled by the political Cabinet. Its existence, however, is certain, and so is the fact that the Assembly, once elected, will be subject to influences the force of which cannot be predetermined, to oratory, to popular passion, and as it may chance to im pith% engendered by horror at the terms to be imposed. No popular assembly is ever a mere Committee of Regis tration, and no French Assembly, fairly elected, has ever been wholly beyond the influence of ideas. All that can be said with any confidence is that the general drift of all intelligence as yet received from French sources leaves on the mind of impartial observers a pacific impression, slightly increased, perhaps, in this country by the appa rent official confidence in the result of the negociations. THE DOWRY AGITATION. The Economist, in referring to the opposition to the royal dowry, says :—We do not price domestic or national honour ;we do not price our territorial integrity. There is no party in the nation, however small, who would really grudge all they thought necessary to defeat invasion, or to keep a solemn national contract. Directly we begin to cavil about comparatively small sums, and weigh them against the advantages of a throne, we may be sure a current of opinion is setting hi, which, if it continues, is pretty certain to be fatal to the throne in the long run. And this is far more clearly true if the party which at tempts to depreciate the value of Royalty is also found to be weighing the Queen in the same sort of scales as they would any other salaried officer of the nation, and asking how she does the work for which she is paid. Now this has been one of the favourite lines of disquisi tion at these meetings. The Queen's comparative retire ment from public life has been repeatedly commented on, and it has even been intimated that her income ought to have been reduced in proportion to the saving effected by her seclusion from the world, and her avoidance of all official pageantry. That seems to us a very sure sign of the rise of a spirit which, if it spreads. must be fatal to the Monarchy in the end. A Constitutional Monarch, whose appearances in public, and whose displays of Royal hospitality, are carefully scrutinised and overhauled as the work of a paid official, is hardly likely to sit on a very secure throne. It will be seen, then, that we by no means underrate the importance of this movement. We do not regard it as at all the less, but rather as the more import ant, that, so far as we understand it, this particular cry is thoroughly unjust, and a little contemptible. In relation to more substantial parts of the Sovereign's duty, it is quite certain that no Monarch who has sat on the English throne since the Conquest, has deserved better of her people. In strict and even scrupulous regard for consti tutional duties, in the firm good sense which she has dis played, even on occasions when some Sovereigns might have made great difficulties, as, for instance, in relation to the terms of the Coronation Oath on the occasion of the Disestablishment of the Irish Church—in the dig nity and simplicity of her life, in the purity of her Court—Queen Victoria has established a strong claim on the gratitude of her subjects. And it is worse than bad taste—it almost amounts to a want of moral discri mination—to select one of the wisest and most honourable acts of her reign as the occasion on which to appraise the pecuniary value of the throne, and to beat down its demands on the pockets of the English people. If a throne is worth keeping up at all, it is worth keeping up in a certain majesty al -, 1 , •nlendour. And to proclaim that we grudge to the m's daughters a suitable pro vision out of the public purse, is a very bad mode indeed, because an indirect, irresolute, half-convinced, and almost cowardly mode, of proclaiming that we grudge the expense of the Crcwn itself. Information has reached Sunderland that the Titian, new steamship, had- been burnt at Jamaica. The vessel belonged partly to Sunderland owners. THE LATE ARBITRATION IN THE Rh? award TRAD E. of s —Mr. Hughes, M.P., hassupple mented Monday last with a statement giving the reasons upon which he grounded his decision, from which it would appear thatthe wages question is settled till March, 1872, subject to one appeal after July next, which will have to be made without another inquiry such as that which took place last week, but which will have to be made by a written statement, which Mr. Hughes can consider with out attending the Arbitration Court. The award made by Mr. Hughes affects the wages of nearly 20,000 workmen. At the same time, Mr. Hughes makes some very im portant suggestions which are equally applicable to the whole iron trade of the country as to the north of England, and which, if they can be formed into a system, will have the effedt probably of not only preventing all strikes, but of restricting the work of the Arbitration Court to the narrowest limits. Mr. Hughes remarks that a custom would seem to be acknowledged within certain limits by both employers and workmen that for every rise of £1 in the selling price of manufactured iron, wages would be advanced 10 per cent. in mills and forges, and is. on pud dling. 11€ suggests that the board should formally ac knowledge this scale by a resolution, declaring that it is to be adopted in future. He suggests that an independent accountant should be employed to examine the masters' contract prices, and if it should appear that iron had risen or declined during a half or quarter year, as the case may be, the wages should be made proportionate upon the basis suggested —a certain and self-adjusting scale. Mr. Hughes concludes—" I cannot but fear that, unless some such system is adopted for relieving the board of this part of its work, the great experiment which it is now working out may prove a failure, which would be a seri ous misfortune to the country." etary to of