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This amendment, having been opposed by Sir C.
Wool) and Lord J. ltussw., Wad lost on a division by
139 to 79.
On the clause imposing an oath on the assumption
of office by directors,
Mr. Heim moved the substitution of a declaration
in lieu thereof.
After a discussion, which merged into a general
argument on the subject of oaths and declarations,
the amendment was 1414 by a majority of 131 to
The clause was then agreed to.
Clause 13 was WHlall'aWl).ll,io 11 was agreed
to, after some discussion.
The CHAIRMAN 601 11,1Nated progress: the cola•
mittoe to 61 resume4l ou Monday.
The other orders were then disposed 01', and the
house adjourned.

LERTERS FROM TURIN RAIR*III that. the Grand Duke
Leopold of Tuscany is about abdicating in favour of
his son. The first act of the new Sovereign, it is
reported, will he a general amnesty in behalf of
Guerazzi and of the insets' refugees in Piedmont,
France, and England.
Tie Ming EVENINUr JOURNAI, the Estofette, of
Thursday contains the following curious paragraph :
—" We blame the Government for not having made
public what we are assured was decided upon in the
last Council of Ministers—namely, that, in the event
of any misfortune happening to the Emperor, the
pregnancy of the Empress }hull be immetliately de-
clared, and Prince Jerome litegent."
Tut: ASIATIC CHOLERA has reappeared in an epi-
demic form in Copenhagen, where eases of it have
existed, proving rapidly fatal, ever since the middle
of June. From the first appearance of the disease
there have been registered in all 270 attacks and 142
deaths, KO that this formidable pestilence, which ter
several months has been lingering in St. Petersburg,
has now approached to within less than S(NI miles of
the coast of Norfolk.
A Tm.mottArtne DEsmen of July 10, from Corfu,
states that a bloody outrage had been committed by
some political refugees. Two of them killed an
Englishman. They were both arrested, tried, and
sentenced to be hanged on the 11th.
A TEMORAPHIC DESPATCH announces the arrival
of the India overland mail at Marseilles. It will be
delivered in London on Monday next.

THE CAMP AT C 11441111 A brilliant field day on
Saturday was aliniptly te * AM by a set.' s aeeident to
Colonel Itentinek, commander of the brigade of tluards.
Ilia horse going at a rather sharp pace stumbled into one
of the narrow holes with which the I.llllllnon abounds, and,
the rider pulling him up sharply, he reared, and fell back
upon him. Colonel Itentinek!was removed at ones on a
!stretcher to Highant lodge, Lord Seaton's residence, in
the neighbourhood. In COUSIIIIII,CIIee of thin melancholy
occurrence, the troops were mitered hack to the camp
before the evolution* through which they were to have gone
hail lawn completed. The reports which were first circu-
lated regarding the injuries reouived by the gallant colonel
were of a very alarming character, but happily proved to be
much exaggerated. Ct done' Bentinek has since progreseed
favourably towards recovery, and has liven prolloUll.C44 out
of all danger. On Tuesday, being the laid field day for the
troops which had hitherto been encamped at Chobham, a
variety of evolut' were gone through, under the corn-
mold of the Duke of eatnbridgc. The Prince of Wales
came over from Windsor to witness the military spectacle.
Wednesday was occupied in making preparations for the
break-up, and on the following days the camp was cleared,
everything belonging SAP the departing regiments being
earned away, soul nothing left but the ground intersected
with trendies, drains, and other works, and a few sentry-
boxes for the benefit of tlw new comers. The changes now
of are as follows :—ln the household Brigade: The
2nd hattaliints of the 4 irenadiers, Scots Fusiliers, and t
st ream 4 tutuvls respectively relieve the let of each regiment.
In Oenend Fane's Brigade : The 79th Highlanders will
relieve the 42nd in the new camp, the Stith will relieve the
:With, and the 97th the With.• In tlw brigade of General
sir te Lacy Evans : The 2itil battalion of the Rifle Brigade
will be relieved by the 19th Regiment. The cantonments
of the 9:led Highlanders will he occupied by the :14th Foot,
and those of the :Istli by the 7th Foot. Cavalry :—The
Royal Horse 4 'Wax ( Blue) Will take up the quarters of
the Ist Life Own*, the !impious ( beets l ireys) those
of the Lancers, the 4th Light Dragoons those of the Cara-
hinters, and the Sth Hussars those of the 13th Dragoons.
The camp equipage wail aceimtrements of the cavalry
have been minutely inspts•ted by laird Seaton, with a view
to thud suggestions as to diminution in their weight. The
total weight a horse has to carry in the dragoon regiments,
exclusive of the rider. is oaths, This is made up of
horse appointments. sheepskin, cloak, corer-sack, and a
Imp, so of horseshoys, Albs.; accoutrements. including
belts, carbine, or plat& I holsters, helmet, sword and
ammunition, 211bs. ; soldier's kit, •211bs. ; camp equipage,
including blanket. canteen, mess tin, and haverstwk, this.
The average weight of the dragoons—light and heavy—is
about 11 stout I lbs. ; thus making the total burden for the
horse equal to about 19 stew, or 2241 Ilan. It it' expected
that einisidendde reductions will be proposed in the accou-
trements of this as well as of the other bnuieltes of the set-
vier. and, if the encampment of eltoliliain shall have dime
no more than call attention to this hots ou point of
military ei-ononty, it will have elected great whoa.
The members of the Polish Historical Society in loin-
don ',Wet:Witted their palm,. Prince Adam Czartoryski,
• :It aiuntr, tin Numbly last, ut the Thatvbvtl-h‘rusc
Tavvrn.

'SATURDAYS

WAlt-01110E, JULY 10.
(From Last Night's (harette.)
6th Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant Honourable
Hercules Langford Bole Rowley to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice l'owell, who retires ; l'oritet Richard Henry
Currie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Itow le) „tidy l?.
7th Light Itragrous--Coruet John Titidall-de-Veulle low
been permitted to retire from the service by the bale of his
commission, duly lA.
11 Kit Light sins--A ss i Attu t- Surge•on Alexander
Mackay Macbeth, from the 33rd Foot, to he Assistant-
Surge.m, vice James Macbeth, who exchanges, duly 15.
Nth Light Inugoons—Lieutenant Andrew Gammen,
flout the intli Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Fuller, who ex-

ohdy
Ist or I ireuather Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
awl Captain George tiley Runs to be Captain and Lieute-
nant-Colloid, by purchase, vice West, who retires ; Ensign
and Lieutenant William Gordon Cameroun) be Lieutenant
awl Captain, by purchiu.c, vice Rous, July 15.
12th Foot—Ensign and Adjutant lures Colin Munro to
have the rank of Lieutenant ; Ensign F. C. D'Epinay
Barclay to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gamer, who
retires ; James Hutton Clutterbuck, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Barclay, July 15.
13th Foot—Richard Nugent Clayton, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Tyacke, appointed to the' hul Foot,
July IS.
Isth Foot—Arthur Scott, tient., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Fitanaurice, appointed to the 72al Regiment,
July 15.
•2•sad Foot—Ensign Walter Macpherson to be Lieute-
11fUlt, by purchase, vice George Ouslow Deane, who re-
tires; Ensign Thomas 'l'yacke, front the 13th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Macpherson, July IS.
93rd Foot—Lieutenant Augustus Applethwaite, from the
411th Foot, to be First Lieutenant, vice Dickens, who rya
changes, July 15.
21411 Foot—Lieutenant William Gandy, from the
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, who exchanges,
July IS.
31st Foot—Captain Robert Hole Walters, from the 73rd
Foot, to be Captain, vice Barry, who exchanges, July 15.
33rd Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Macbeth, M
from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice A. M. Macbeth, who exchanges, July 15.
44th Foot—Lieutenant George Savage Wilson, from the
.28th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gandy, who exchanges,
July 15.
47th Foot—Ensign Henry .Tames Buchanan to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Nangle, who retires; Alfred
Henderson White, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Buchanan, July IS.
53rd Foot—Captain William Frederick Adams Colman,
from the 844th Font, to be Captain, vie° ;eorge E.
Hillier, who retires 'llion half-pay of the 80th Foot,
Jody 15.
00th Foot—Lientenant Edward Rawlings Hannan,
from the Bth Foot, to he Paymaster, vice FitzGenid,
appointed to the 3ntli Foot; Lieutenant Richard Bar.
court Robinson to be Adjutant, vice Kenny, promoted,
July IS.
94th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Vaughan Dickies, filen
the •23rd Foot, to be Lieutenaut, vice Applethwaite, who
exchate,es, July IS.
72nd looot—Lieutetiatit Arthur Wade to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Cavendish Spencer Boyle, who retires; En-
sign Oswald Burton Feilden to be Lieutemuit, by purchase,
vice Wade ; Ensign the Honourable Alexander Temple
Fitzmaitrice, from the ISth Foot, to be Ensign, vice
I'eilden,July IS.
73rd Foot—Captain William Henry Barry, from the
31st Foot, to be Captain, vice Walters, who exchanges,
July IS.
74ith Foot—Lieutenant Charles Francis Fuller, limit
the llth Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Gatemen,
who exchanges. July IS.
85th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Sitwell to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Keyt, who retires; Ensign Montagu
Barton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sitwell; Rolwit
Kirkpatrick Taylor to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barton,
July 15.
89th Foot—Lieutenant Riehard Francis Holmes, frion
the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dawes, who ex-
changes, July 15.
97th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Alleyne Dawes, front.
the skit Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Holies, who ex-
changes, July 15.
Hosetrat STMT.-3.4m Ogilvy, 111.8., to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces, vice Deny Carr Lucas, deceased,
July 15.
rommissioNs 510511, Br THE LORWLIEUTENANTS.
Leicestershire Militia—James Palliser Costobadie, Esq.,
be Adjutant in her Majesty's Leicestershire Militia lona
the Ist July, vice Hawker, April 12.
The Essex Rifles—Second Lieutenant Frederick Wil-
liam Kirby to be First Lieutenant; Second Lieutenant
Octavius Rawtree to be First Lieutenant; Walter Holly-
wood, Esq., to be First Lieutenant, July 7.
Royal Denbighshire Rifle Regiment of Militia-4 iodfrey
Fitzhugh, tient., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Wynne,
proluoted, July
Queen's own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia—Lieutenant George Humby to be Captain,
vice Annstning, who retires, retaining his rank, July 9.
Kent Militia Reg' 49. of Artillery—Robert Matthew
Isaac, EM., to be Captain, July 10; John Joseph Wells,
Esq., to be Captain, July 11.
To be First Liententints—Jolui Lubbock, tient., July
7; ('harks Powell Leslie, Gent.., July ; Robert Hay
Murray, tient olitly 9 ; John Kirkpatrick, Gent., July 10
Henry Grace Wilson Sperling, tient., July I I.
To lie Second Lieutenant—Walter Thorium Waring,
8.
The Lake of lamcastel 'a own Regiment of yeomanry
Worsley Troop—The Honourable Arthur Edward
thdland thvy Egertou, (son uunily Yibcoura Grey de
Wilton, to be Curutt, July t.

JULY 16, 1853•

THE CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENHA3I.

(I'rorn a ('orrespondr•nf.l

July VI

I t seems but yesterday that we looked upon the glittering
arch of glass that seemed to rise light and airy as an
exhalation above the elm-trees of Hyde Park ; and now, as
though it were some gigantic bubble, we tied it wetted
miles away to a fair sloping hillside in Surrey. The top-
most branches of the tall elms it lately imprisoned, see it
glistening in all the glory of the morning sun, almost as
perfect as when it hived in its pellucid walls a hundred
thousand people. The central transept alone requires arch•
ing to complete this stupendous removal. From the
railway, as the traveller flies past in the express train, all
seems fair and finished with the exception of the central
gap, which would have been completed ere this but for the
unfortunate fall of the scaffolding. In the interior, how•
ever, things wear another aspect. Planks and hanging
scaflelds seem suspended from every inch of the building,
and the view down the vast nave, surmounted by its light
arch, is quite extraordinary, the suspended scaffolding
round the vast concave looking like the twigs in a jackdaw's
nest, while at the extremity the great head of the Genius
of Bavaria looks calmly on upon the dusty ways of men.
The improvement in the interior of the building by the
substitution of the arch (194 feet. from its crown to
the ground) for the flat roof in the nave is great and
striking. It makes the grand avenue look double
the size of the old one, although it is, in fact, 240
ket shorter. Another improvement is the advancing a
kw feet into the nave of every third column, which breaks
lip the monotonous perspective of the rank of pillars. The
full effect of this irregularity will only become apparent
when the pillars and ribs of the arches are clothed with
creeping plants : the contrasts of light. and shade on the
emerald-tinted walls produced by this artifice will have
a most charming effect.
The courts for the exhibition of sculpture are very fast
progressing. The refreshment,room, to be decorated after
an apartment at Pompeii, is already beginning to glow
under the pencils of careful artists, who work from
transcripts freshly taken from the buried city. The
Egyptian court is nearly finished and furnished, with its
congregation of gods tremendous in their silence. As I
walked through yesterday, the most gigantic of these
deities, armed with the scourge and the key of life, was
having his upper half fitted on to his etenial•looking legs,
with a calmness and serenity the more striking on account
of the gabble of the Italian artificers who surrounded him.
Methought, also, that all the assembled gods, especially
those protecting the Temple of Abousimbel, wore upon their
countenances an air of ineffable compassion, as they
watched the workmen engraving the hieroglyphics on the
walla. The Greek court, also, is complete, and full of rare
copies of ancient art—some in marble. The gallery just
above this court is likewise full of statuary, among which
the spectator should notice the figure of Lorenzo
de Medicis by Michael Angelo; and many more tine works
of Italian contemporaries. The Nineveh court is not vet
completed : Mr. Fergusson has here to revive all the glories
of colour of the Assyrian chamber. The winged bulls and
lions are thrown about the apartment designed for them, in
disjointed portions, and here also are to be seen casts of
the Assyrian statuary in the possession of the Freud' :
these works of art are probably of a later age than those
t'ound by Mr. Lewd, and they undoubtedly are of a more
refined and artistic character. Not the least interesting
portion of the space devoted to sculpture is that ap pro.
priated to busts of eminent men, both native and foreign.
The directors contemplate, we suppose, a kind of Wal-
halla, such as that in Bavaria. Huge blocks of boxes, in
which arc latent statues, testify to the industry with which
Europe has been ransacked, and assure its that we
have here the finest. sculpture gallery in the world. With
the exception of this small collier of the building, it is
entirely empty, the galleries in some places being not yet
complete.

A fresh feature in the Sydenham building is the open
balconies in the recessed ends of the three transepts.
A new sensation is a rare thing fur an obtaccustomed
sightseer; nevertheless I experienced a perfectly new sen-
sation as i leant over the balustrades of the Crystal Palace
yesterday, and saw the rough sketch of the most magnifi-
cent garden which possibly the world has ever seen, lying
spread out a hundred feet beneath my feet—saw the paint ial
richness of terraced walks, gigantic fountains, and gardened
hills fade gently off into broad and verdant 101ngland, com-
passing full thirty miles on every hand. There must he a
natural meanness in a man's own sonl not to feel every inch
imperial whilst he gazes from a building to which Layard's
Nineveh Restored is a toyshop, upon a landscape such us
uo palace ever yet possessed.

THE PRESS.

The laying out of the grounds is in itself a gigiudie
work: and the masonry of the terraces, flights of steps,
and fountain basins, a very great undertaking. The spec-
tator can in imagination till up and colour the neigh out-
line Sir Joseph Paxton has already drawn. Supposing hint
to be standing at the open balcony of the centre transept
(not yet built), he will see immediately beneath him a
terrace, full half a mile in length, supported upon arches,
from each recess in which water flows from a dolphin's
head. Some two hundred yards down the hill runs a pa-
rallel terrace ; and between the two an Italian garden, rich
in fountains and quaint devices, variegates the ground. A
very broad walk leads right through, and at nght angles
to these terraces is the central fountain, the middle part
of which will throw its flood VA feet in the air. Past this
jet &eau the terraced walk falls gently down the hill, and on
each side the flood from the fountains is discharged in
leaping cascades, until it reaches, far off, the lake, with its
central island, inhabited by extinct animals and reptiles of
gigantic size. Still hurrying on, the water at last reaches the
highest jet &eau, which casts its flood full two hundred
feet in the air. Such will be the waterworks of the garden,
as far surpassing those of Versailles as they did anything
before in existence. What the landscape-gardening will

be like can only be rudely guessed at. The very beautiful
undulations of the falling ground are, however, capable of
anything. Of this map, as yet only in outline, one corner
is, however, coloured and finished, and the walks and
flowers of this remote portion contrast singularly enough
with the parts yet in embryo.
If we turn now for a moment towarda the palace itself,
we see at once how much the old design is improved opn.
The side has now become the front of the building, and
the rapid falling of the ground has necessitated the addl•
tier of a ground story. Thus it hag gained in eleva-
tion—the very feature it missed before. The addition
of
the two transepts at the ends gives force and terminations
to the building ; anti the recessed arches allow twenty-four
feet of shade, anti therefore of repose, to the vast well of
glass—a most happy improvement, which would have been
carried out with great advantage at the ends of the nave ;
• at the southern termination especially, as, in its present cow
dition, it looks too
this defect is the more to be deplored, us this portion of
the building is the only one to be seen as we ascend the
inn. The vast circular roof to the nave is cer-
tainly a most noble addition; but, to carry out
the idea and make it complete, instead of square towers
*a the interseetion% of haves anti transepts, glass domes
should have been substituted. Imagine, good reader, a
vast dome springing from the centre of such a building
and revealing itself every sunset as an aspiring globe of
guild placed high upon the horizon, to delight the eye of
the far-off Londoner!

STRATEGICAL PORTION OF THE DITSHIAN ARMIES.—
Baron de Meyendortf has transmitted to the Austrian
Cabinet a note, in which he points out the position of
the Russian army at the present time. If war were
to break out, the importance of this position would
appear in a still stronger relief. By the position of
the Russian lines between the Vistula and the Nanny,
as well as by the line of fortifications, whose extreme
points are defended by the fortresses of IVarsaw and
Nowogi-cosgiewseka, Russia commands strategically
all the country lying between the meridian, and cuts,
so to say, Austria and Prussia from each other. It
is interesting, moreover, to observe the triple concen-
tration of troops at St. Petersburg (corps of the
guards and grenadiers), at Kowno, and lin the Pritt
the armaments and movements of the military cob'.
nies of Russia, and its two fleets in the Baltic and
the Black Sea. The Baltic fleet consists of three
divisions—that of the white flag is moored in the

Baltic ; that of the mil in the offing of Cronstatlt;
while the blue flag division occupies the docks of
Cronstadt itself.—Hamburyer Nachriehten.

THE PRUSMAN .MARINE.--WO copy the following
from the Berlin Zeit (Timex):—" According to the
news received from our naval evolution squadron,
it had arrived at Barbadoea on the 19th of \lay,
after a protracted voyage, occasioned by contrary
winds. It will thence proceed to Venezuela, where
its arrival will be greeted with delight by the many
Germans established in that city, who have been
subjected to some acts of injustice by the llepubli
can (;overnment. As l;ennan colonisation is now
actively pursued on the coast of Central America,
Commodore Schroder will visit those ports, after
having been at Carthagena. Prussia thus not only
guards the interests of her own subjects, but also
those of many flame citizens, ;tc., residing in those
parts.'

Tables of the cab fiir payable miller the• new net will
be 1111 l •diately hooted by the Con 111 l of Polies.
These are to be posted at the various standings in the
nu•trolsdis, and it will henceforth Is• in the power of every
one to ascertain. without the least difficulty, the vsact hue
to be paid for any givvu dibtaucv

255

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, Jot, 11.
BANKRUPTS.—If EN BATES and eIIARLEII lIITCRISAN. of
Ailtile•street. City, and of Itrilitol and Itirmitighluo. otraw-plait
dealcra—l'As A\ S r RKET. of Poole, eoul-userelosut—rasui.au
11u.t.. 01 12, Otvltant•oitroot. Portioniposquaro.builder—Wit.t.ma
ti, Vt rioutliatuiden, builder—l REOERICK FRANI*II4 FOIL
of 7:1, Cortilall, WINTER. of It. khurat, Neut.
lualder--losurst or 28. seurbru%street, Teuter•ground.
toilor--Tuoas% licar and EDWARD lib:MP, of
SI IMI binl-upiai•A‘ on and rillertou I ill-Rey, Warvick,lliro, •
er*---I)Avio FsituAu BORER. of Itaibtliffo, Yorkmbire, As),
peoteher---.10ta:1.11 A onorr, of ItctltliNh, Nlaueliester, grocer—
ts 141•LLE. of Liyinool. ptoto.notsofk.

Friday, July Ito.
joomrst I)l4•KrAtox, ga•E•lane, lieettito.l victualler--
NITA AiQtl% In 1.4111her.1.111.., Mitchel, .104 No K
Pin gltaut, builder—Hit:HAlM I .ATKIII.IIIT. BlIrW11•11p0U•7rOtIt.
gttieel

,lEsstr. °Lon/Lis whose name has for many
years been before the public in connection with the
celebrated Mr. Cobbett in •arious Chatwery suits,
has been killed by a melancholy accident. He left
Croydon late on Thursday night in a chaise for his
residence four miles otl. Not arriving at home,
search was made next morning, the horse and chaise
llama in a lane near troy don, and not far off the
body of the unfortunate gentleman, the skull being
dreadfully fractured, other severe injuries received ,
HMI the clothes saturated with rain.
A PARTY OF NEARLY THIRTY MEN are to be tried
at the forthcoming assizes in Fermanagh for being of
an armed party that assembled at. night on Garden
bill, and entered into a subscription for the purpose
of having Mr. Hill, land agent, shot.
Tits: MEmsEtts or THE N iv CLUB entertained
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the !tight Hoti. Sir
James Graham, at dinner, on Thursday evening, at
the Thatched house Tavern, St..lanuses-street. Vice
Admiral Sir Thomas Cochnine, K.C.8., presided.
M R. 11 irti's proposal to explore Australia has been
favourably reported upon to the council of the Royal
Oeographieal Society. It is believed that the great
unknown interior of this eontinent can be most safely
reached by making a starting point from the mouth
of the groat navigable river the Victoria on the north
roast, where Captain Stokes, of H. M. S. Beagle, so
far explored it. as to arrive within about hllO miles of
the centre of the continent. The different explore-
s' • of King, Wickham, Stokes, Owen, and others,
have shown that several of the rieent on the north
coast Ore 1111.% some 'listen's, up, and that rich
and fertile 'dim ials extend along the banks of the
Victoria, Albert, Liverpool, Aligator, and Adelaide
rivers ; and Igichardt's first expedition greatly added
to the number of streatua around the southern basin
of the t tall of Carpentaria. As yet, however, no ex-
plorer has successfully passed over the coast range to
the south, where Mr. Haug hopes to tlnd large
grassy fields extending far towards the interior. The
proposed expedition may thus not only solve the
mystery of the interior of Australia, but, traversing
the only hitherto great unknown portion of this con-
tinent, will furnish the means of making a rough
map of the whole, determining to the colonists of the
east, south, and western prminces whether or not
the interior is to remain to them and to the rest of
the world an impassable territory and a " waled
hook."
A grand national meeting of toxophilites, at which the
members of 'shout fitly archery societies competed, took
place Ht. Leamington lust week. The champion's, medal
was again NW anted l 4 Mr. IL A. Ford, of the Hovel Toile
philites. It is expected that the next meeting will be held
su Manchester.
An nisheard.of murder has been committer at Konigse
lam.: on the person of .lislge Meyholer de Ileydekrug. who
was shut by II 1110/0011 while fulfilling his judicial finictions.
The assassin is supposed to lie insane, as no motive is
known tOr his eommitting such an Net.
iiiernizzi has declared his intention to appeal RQIIIIII4
the jitdgment just pro iiiiiii teed Main him by the Turin tri.
bona The expense% of the trial, which the elltlllllllllled
11551ii'sordered to pay at 11111 l gst them, do not amount
to less than 4151,11011 f.
The hop plantations in the neighbourhood of Maid.
stone shim some increase of fly ; but, although the line
ill %sane places looks very sickly, it hale branehed out
considerably during the papa week, and gees fair promise
for the crop. The vermin are also partial in several other
plums.
The ralsdriveris Inv assuming in many instances a pas.
site resistance to the new Het, out of rrvologe to the injury
whirls they think it. to hive inflicted on them. (In Tiles.
clay night otecc the risiogoof the house, when then, was a
great demand for cabs it; Palstes-yard, the entire stand
drove I,ll'. littering jeers against the hon. gentlemen who
wished to altgligr their. " I'l.l* waists rip ride fur sixpence,
•es ye *."' says one. " Let 'ens walk," said another : and 14.•
the membeis were compelled to find their way Nino. 65
they best cool& On Wednesday night, while the rain was
Galling with incessant isplence, and people from the
theatres and other places of public amusement wow
anxiously seeking refoge its a lusektiey.calt, the driven,
a 1111 l sell themselves in 'wading their empty vehicle% up and
down the St rittiii mid 'ether I lit Orl nigh fill*Pl4, deaf alike to
threats and entwaties,
li, the vicinity of Bangor, howl whieh about five years
ego, befi,re the t %ester and Ilohheasl Hallway wasopened,
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yittrature.

The Turks in Europe. A Sketch of Manners
and Politics in the Ottoman Empire. By
Bayle St. John. London : Chapman and
Hall.
Tux problem propounded by the author of this
treatise, and which he professes to solve, is no
less than the momentous one—" Can the Otto-
man
empire any longer exist as a European
power ?" He answers, " No," and supports his
view by an elaborate exposition of all the
faults—mural, social, told political—cif the
Turkish organisation. But, though anti-Turk-
ish in his policy, Mr. St. .John is equally anti-
Russian. He rejects the ordinary idea, that
the integrity or the partition of European
Turkey are necessary alternatives ; and pro-
poses " Hellenic association," or independent
Christian empire, of Greek origin, as the basis
of a new nationality. He assumes that the
Court of Constantinople cannot be kept in ex-
istence ; that it is sinking under the weight of
its own maladministration ; that " statesmen
" must soon set about the task of finding a
" successor to it '." and that, as a matter of self-
d efence,i io less than of treaty obligations, Russia
must be inhibited from becoming mistress of
the Bosphorus, and thereby obtaining the
command of the Mediterranean. So far the
judgment and the sympathies of most English-
men will go with him. But the turning-point
of his theory is the capability of the unenfran-
chised Greek population of Turkey to govern
itaelf; turd here we find much assertion indeed,
but a lamentable lack of evidence. He tells
us that " the imagination contemplates with
" pleasure the idea of some form of freedom
" substituting itself, under the prestige of an
" ancient name, to (qy. for?) the brutal tyranny
" of a horde of Asiatic barbarians ;" and argues
that no nation can learn to fit itself for liberty
under despotism—which is true enough. But,
with a convenient ambiguity, he avoids defining
the limits or explaining the nature of the
government which ho proposes to establish ;
leaving to less imaginative politicians the
question whether it shall be republican or
constitutional —whether united or federal—
whether it shall absorb the present kingdom
of Greece, or leave it intact—and what is to
be done with the present Turco-European
population, numbering about a million, which
is not very likely to submit without resistance
to the spoliation of its ancient privileges. Nor
does he do more flow, notice casually, and as
it were in passing, the extreme danger of such
to government falling within the power of
Russia, under the threefold influence of terri-
torial proximity, material force, and sympathy
of religious creed. In a word, Mr. St. John's
theory is a theory only, and chiefly valuable
as it serves him for a frame in which to set
and display his varied stores of information
respecting Turkish men and manners.
The most startling fact contained in his
pages is that which ho lays before us at the
outset. The Turks, he says, are dying out—
the breed is becoming extinct—and nature will,
at no distant period, accomplish the revolution
which he proposes to anticipate :
The Christian races are rapidly rising into importance;
and the Ottomans are dying away of themselves. Many
causes conspire to produce the latter result. Setting aside
the prevalence of libertinage of a gross character, the ens.
tom of, polygamy, with its neoeasary coalman' , bachelor.
ship, prevents the Turks from supplying the 'daces left in
their ranks by death. The army, too, until very recently,
his been recruited entirely from the Muslim population,
who are, moreover, from their carelessness and ignorance
of the art of medicine, more liable to be swept away by die.
cam.. It has already been said, that in a given time the
Sultan will tind himself without a single subject in Europe
of Asiatic origin ; and that, if we possessed accurate sta.
tistieal tablea, we might tiz that time with precision.
Why not, then, it will naturally be asked,
wait patiently for this result? Why, on the
above hypothesis, precipitate, probably tat the
cost of munch bloodshed, a reform which is in
proet'ss of peaceful development ? The very
argument here used in favour of the di:imem-
lierment of Turkey seems to us the strongest
plea for its preservation. To attempt, at a
moment when external violence is threatened,
the pulling down and remodelling of all her
internal institutions seems an insane, and al-
/nest a buicidad, policy. To give entire: