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London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

away in a corner, and then to set fire to it. The
cavern and buccaneers are Jill blown up, while Jin
her father, 10141 friends, of course escape unhurt.
'the Paris critics speak rapturously of Itosati'a
dancing in this ballet, and especially of her various
pas in the buccaneers' den. The Emperor and Em-
press have visited the Opera-house during the week,
to see her performance m the character of Jorita.
THE riEbm.,Nrrmr. IioVERNNENT has directed
that all articles intended for the Exhibition of Genoa
shall be conveyed free of expense. Moreover, all
those sent from foreign countries are to be admitted
free of duty ; but they cannot compete for the prizes,
and, if sold in the country, will be liable to duty.
A JUNTA has been formed in Madrid for pro-
moting a subscription fstr erecting a monument to
the memory of Senor Mentlizabal.
A FuENett AEItioNAVT, M. Arban, who made an
ascent front Barcelona more titan two years ago,and,
not having since been heard of, was believed to have
fallen into the sea and been drowned, has male his
appearance again. Au Alicant letter says that his
balloon went over to Africa, and that he was seized
and made a slave, and continued in that state for
two years, when he effected his escape.
M. VEnox, the ex-proprietor of the Constitution-
nei, has had a partial attack of apoplexy, from which
he will not completely recover.
ills noun IllonNEss THE PRINCE OP PIIIIIIBIA
has lately been occupied with the reorganisation of
the military music in the Prussian army. The
Austrian system is to he adopted. In Austria each
military band consists of alt musicians, and is dis-
tinguished by its number of brass instruments. The
reorganisation has commenced with the Ist Regiment
of the l;nards.
I,Asnot.rr, physician to the King of Naples'
Professor at the University, and director of the
principal hospital of that city, ham discovered a
new method for the cure of cancer, when not in its
worst and last stage. It is expected that he will
speedily publish a work on the subject of his dis.
covery, which will be an inestimable boon to suffer-
ing Ittunanity in one of the severest shapes of
disease.

Tuff Elxeritie Timr.4ll‘eit between Stockholm
and Upsala—the first construeted in Sweden—was
opened to the public on the Ist inst. This line will,
doubtless, soon be continued to tiothenburg.
A Rovm. 114:eitr.i: has appeared authorising the
erection of vast buildings at Turin, to serve as
.dwellings for the working classes.
Iln. I.o.lrmen, physician to the King of Sweden,
has published a most interesting pamphlet on "the
necessity for fresh air in barracks." lle shows that.
the enormous mortality of the garrisoned troops in
the chief European armies, that of England in
eluded, is largely owing to the small quantity of•
fresh air allowed them, especially by night. The
quantity of pure air required by each soldier he es
timates at 44 cubic metres, which no European army
even approaches. The Swedish army regulation is
based on only ILO cubic feet, or $ collie metres per
matt, one-sixth of the quantity imlispensable for
health. The consequence is that the soldiers are
poisoned by carbonic acid gas. The European
soldiery are the flower of their youth, but in France
11l in 1,000 of these men die annually, while of the
gross nude population there is only a mortality
(between and :10 years of age) of 10 per 1,000. in
England the mortality in the Foot linards, from
consumption, is 141 per 1,040, which there is three
tittles the average of the general population.
Tux Parlament° or TVRIN states that a motion
has been made in the Communal Council of that
city to the effect that the Piazza San Carlo shall be'
called the " National Pantheon," and adorned with
the monument of tholterti, and those of other illus-
trious Piedmontese.

Set.exton Ltnnutv of the late Mt. Frederick
Wm. Conway, proprietor of the Deb/in Evening Poet,
is about to be sold by public auction in Dublin. This
is admittedly the finest collection in point of literary
value in Ireland. The late Mr. Conway was a highly-
aceomplished and extensively-real scholar; but,
great as was his passion for the perusal of works of
merit and strange import, it was far surpassed by his
passion for accumulating books. The collection
about to be scattered by the auctioneer consists of
upwards of 16,000 volumes, of which there are few
that are not worthy of a line in a catalogue in any
public library. Mr. Conway was not only a first-
rate judge of the contents of a strange looking book,
but of its market or auction value and few temark-
able auctions of libraries have taken place in Eng-.
land or Ireland during the past :10 or .14) years at
which lie had not an agent buying fur him. His
library contains a great number of exceedingly ram
books of all European languages, from the produc-
tions of Guttemherg and Claxton, from the "Nn-
renilinn; Chronicle" and the " Hoke. of Cashell," to
the richest illustrated works of the present year. Of
Shakspeare alone there are upwards ,if eighty editions.
It will require some weeks to arrange this collection
for sale.

SATURDAY,

AN 17NIN*111.MIET) LF:rrErt OF Loan ltvitos has
transpired through that rather singular channel for
literary productions, the Vice-Chancellor's Court. It
WWI written to Leigh Hunt on June the 214th, 1s2:1.
The earlier part of the letter related to private
matters, after alluding to which his lordship pre.
ceeds

" I am sure there is no such intention on my plot, nor
ever was, in anything which had passed between us,
although there are circumstances so plausible, and me,„„,.
drels PO ready in every corner of the earth, to give a colour
of their own to everything. The last observation is
tated by what you told me to-day, to my utter astonish-
ment; it will for ever teach me to know my company
better, or not at all. And now, pray do not apply, or mis-
apply, directly or indirectly, to yourself any of these 1/b.
knew you long before Mr. H. knew either
you or toe, and you and two more of his friends are the
only ones whom 1 can at all reflect upon as men whose
acquaintance was honourable and loveable. 1 hate one
thing more to state, which is. that from this moment I
must decline the office of acting as his executor, in any
respect, and also all further connection with his family in
any of its brunches, slow or hereafter. There was some-
thing about a legacy of 2,000/. which he had left me ;
this, of course, I decline,
.and the snore au that I hem his
will is admitted valid, and I state this distinctly, that, in
case of anything happening to me, my heirs may be ire
strutted not to claim it.—Yours, ever and truly, "N. It."
The ease in which this letter was produced related
to the claims of certain incumbraucers upon the resi •
due of the noble poet's estate, chiefly in regard to
interest and costs. There were seventeen claimants,
awl twenty-one learned counsel appeared for the
several parties to the suit, which under such circum-
stances of course, still in course of argument
when the court rose.

NoT very long ago, says the Atheneum, a person
well known for his large and accurate knowledge of
the sources of English history found himself by
accident in one of our great dockyards. In one part
of the yard he noticed some preparations for a bon-
fire, and, with the instinct of an antiquary where old
papers are in peril, be ran off to the scene. " What
arc these bundles'," he inquired of the ready minis-
ter of destruction. " Nothing but rubbish," Raid the
man. The very tie of the parcels told the antiquary
that they were letters, and of old date. " Where do
they come from ?" he asks. " Oh, they have been
lying here no one knows how long : we want the
room, and we are going to burn them out of our
way." The antiquary took up a bundle of the
doomed parrs, opened the first letter, and found ,
that it was the original despatch announcing to the.
tiovemment, with all its details, one of the most im-.
portant events in the reign of Charles 11. Com-
manding the dockyard men not to set fire to the pile
until superior others could arrive, the antiquary
posted to London, repaired to the Admiralty, stated
the fact, and saved the papers. When carefully
examined they proved to he as interesting a series of
State documents as any in our national archives.