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London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

willingness to find society for the time which will notprove
troublesome in the future.
But I am disposed to give our cousins over the water
more credit for kindred affection. I have always found
them cordial, warmhearted, frank, and hearty companions
and friends. I was, perhaps, fortunate in those whom I
met, but they were many, lords, spiritual and temporal,
soldiers, sailors, and shopkeepers; and 1 found the name
of American a pass to their hearts. Some had friends in
our new country, and perhaps I had seen and known
them—and once or twice I had—all had an idea that we
were a race of brave and active men, given to boasting,
but goodnatured at that, nearly related to them in blood,
and allies of England as champions of freedom against the
despotisms of the world.
This last idea was one of new and atartling force to me,
as I looked back from Europe and the East to England
and America. The line between freedom and tyranny
runs up the British Channel. It is not the broad At-
lantic. Our Constitution is of English origin, based on
English law, and the boast which we inherit from our
revolutionary patriots was, that Britons would never be
*ayes.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED-SEPT. 10.

BOOKS.

Sister Anne. Groombridge.
Katherine Evering. Groombridge.
A Lord of the Creation. Groombridge.
The Stay of my Girlhood. Mrs. Henry Lynch. Longmnns.
Soyer's Culinary Campaign. G. Routledge.
The Refugee- A Novel. Hirschfeld.

The I.;lt.irsqf Horace Walpole. Vol. IV.

R. Bentley.

Four Shades of Love.

G. Routledge.

Journal of a Bashi Bazouk. Groombridge.
The Revolt of Hindoston. E. Wilson.
The People's Blue Book. G. Kou'ledge.
The North-West Coast. Illustrated. Sampson and Low
Davidson's Elementary Drawing. Chapman and Hall.
Kiana. James J. Jarves. Sampson and Low.

Two Letters on Girl's Schools. Chapman and Hall.

PERIODICAL.
' The Commercial Traveller's Magazine. Kent and Co.—
The Wee of Scotland Magazine. Hall and Virtue—
Journal of the Statistical Society. J. W. Parker.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The autumn flower show this
week has been a great success. Though London was
empty, and the weather as bad as if it were a fete.
day at Chiswick, the Palace was crowded with a
brilliant company. The show of flowers was mag-
nificent, that of fruit superb ; and the comfort of
being cheered with the sight and scent of each, safe
from the pelting showers overhead, and perfectly
dry underfoot, enhanced the pleasure of this most
agreeable lounge. Altogether the fete was a triumph
worthy to be recorded.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM bas been opened to the
public, after being closed for the usual period for the
cleansing of the galleries and rearrangement of the
contents. The general department of Antiquities,
Natural History, &c., is now open from ten to five
o'clock. The new reading room is open to readers
now from nine a.m. tc, five p.m.
A PORTRAIT OF THE FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA,
William Penn, has just been added to the collection
of historical figures at Madame Tassaud's. This
portrait, we understand, is intended to form part of
a group of American benefactors. The figure has
been modelled from a celebrated bust by Oudon.

SOME CORRESPONDENCE between the Rev. Mr.
Jones and the Earl of Harrington which preceded
the late trial for slander, in which the Countess of
Harrington was a principal, has been recently pub•
fished. The curate appears anxious to explain how
he came to repeat the remarks of the countess :
"Since I have been at Elvaston, my lord, I have
had to acknowledge repeated acts of kindness from
both your lordship and Lady Harrington. But, on
the other hand, many and fearful and severe charges
have been uttered by Lady H. against the character
of Mr. Highmore. This induced me to make a
searching inquiry into Mr. H.'s character, which I
found to be far, very far indeed, from the colouring
Lady H. had given it. This so surprised me that I
long felt a difficulty as to my course ; but when it
came to the charging of Mr. H. with keeping the
Sacrament money and the like—so serious was the
charge—l honestly and plainly asked Mr. H. how
he disposed of this money, and I found nn agreement
between his statements and those of the recipients
of the money in the parish. All this, my lord, you
may well conceive greatly surprised me." Lord
Harrington replies :—" Dear Sir,—l know nothing of
Mr. Highmore, except as our parish priest. You
were received at my board as a friend. You listened
to the discourse held, and you now tell me that you
have divulged what you heard there, find it to be
incorrect, and hold out to me 'the olive branch.'
Ask the first gentleman you meet what he thinks of
my conduct and of yours." The correspondence is
continued, but it is of the same character on each
side throughout.

THE Ost Deutsche Post expresses " astonishment
and regret " at the Prussian Government not having
sent a delegate to the Statistical Congress at Vienna,
though twenty. seven other Governments, and
amongst them Turkey and even Russia, have
done so.