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TURKEY.

The British Consul-General at Belgrade has been
attacked and severely wounded by two Turkish
suldiers.

A Russian frigate is coming to Ragusa.
The Turkish Government is fully resolved to
oppose by force the insurrection of the Christians in
Caudis.

There is much agitation among the people of the
island.

Many families are emigrating.

AMERICA.

Two New York regiments have tendered their
services to the President in case of war with this
country, and an additional appropriation of 50,600
dollars for the Brooklyn navy-yard had been made.
The Minister of Marine had given orders for the
armament and departure of all the ships of war;
the steamers Artic and Waterwitch included.
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EPISTLE INTERROGATORY

TO A SIMPLE-MINDED FRIEND, WHO " HOPES TO SEE A
LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION CONSTRUCTED ON A

BROAD BASIS."

No ! dear Euethes—bid me not resign
A sober hope for such a dream as thine.
For men, for measures, I have blame or praise,
But cannot idolize a senseless phrase,
Tho' peed abroad in laudatory chimes
By ever-tedious Post or Protean Times.
What is " a Liberal ?" Ask yon leader sage,
Brisk in the freshness of a green old age,
Prompt in manoeuvre—pungent in retort,

Frank in

in sport.
Thus might he answer—" What's 'a Liberal r —Oh !
" Much like a Tory forty years ago;
" He knows his business—keeps his party in
" Works by

for kith and kin—
" Reforms when forced—deals tenderly with jobs,
" And, save at chairing, keeps aloot from mobs."
Thus Palmerston, betwixt a smile and sneer,
And green expectants shout a cordial " Hear."
But see ! where Hayter comes—l catch his eye—
He knows the party, what is his reply ?
" A Liberal? bless your heart, I know them all—
" Reform Club—Brookes's—ready when I call—
" Vote as they're bid, and take what they can get ;
" I don't half like your Independent' set."

Lord John is "Liberal," for his soul delights
In Magna Charta, and the Bill of Rights;
He quotes Whig Peers from Somers down to Grey—
An earnest Oligarch, tho past his day ;
Speak of Reform, he shows his last new Bill,
But Roebuck sneers, and Gibson likes it ill.
Friend Bright is " Liberal," but his battle-cry
Is ever "Down with Aristocracy."
He loves to roast a Whig, and deems a Lord
The nation's bane—a thing to be abhorr'd.
One views in cotton cheap and imports free
The leading star of " Liberality ;"
Another tests its more advanced degrees
By hate for Kings and love of Refugees.
One weak, vague word embraces in its range
Each old abuse—each newest form of change.
Say then, Euethes, ere we hope to find,
In such materials, howsoe'er combined,
A stable fabric, let its type be known;
Shall Pam's Corinthian once again be shown ?
Bright's simple Doric ? or, in lieu of all,
The modern Gothic due to great Ben Hall ?
Or must all orders and all styles unite
To form a new and motley Composite ?
You boggle shrewdly—but suppose it done
(Hope lending courage for the risks we run) ;
Put Smith in Stanley's office—let us greet
Returning Cranworth back to Chelmsford's seat ;
Nay, bid Clanricarde reassume his part,
To " show" our Sov'reign's " eyes and grieve her heart ;"
The " broad-based Ministry" becomes a fact,
Yet prudence hints the question, how twill act.

Which is the tail, Euethes—which the head ?
Can Russell arbitrate? will Bright be led ?
Must Pam assert his dictatorial sway,
And crush improvement by a ruthless " Nay " ?
Or must the State, while rival pilots strain
To grasp the helm, and seamen toil in vain,
Drift widely forth, with breakers on her lee,
O'er the vex'd billows of Democracy ?

What, no reply? Farewell then, and repent,
Awake to truth, and learn a wise content.
He feels but little of the Patriot's care,
And little reeks how England's sons may fare,
Who bids them choose, by compromise or lot,
lie knows not whom,—gyp do he knows not who,
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molts of his countrymen by frequenting horseraces
and theatres on the Sunday ; added to which, his
recently published book on the Revolution of 1848
proves that he was utterly incapable of discharging
the duties of his office w.th advantage to his country;
though his business was to collect information, and
that he knew no more—nay, not so much —ot what
was passing as the meanest newspaper corre-
spondent.
M. de Pene, the gentleman who was wounded in
the late melancholy duel, has been a good deal worse
during the last few days, and his recovery after all
is by no means certain. I hear that the judicial
anthorities, after making an investigation into all the
circumstances of the duel, havo come to the conclu•
sion that no ground exists for prosecuting M. Ilyene,
the military officer, De Pene's adversary; but their
conclusion is net yet official.
The Emperor leaves for I'lombieres on the 20th,
and the Empress for Biarritz on the same day. Their
Majesties the other evening did Count \Valewski,
Alinister of Foreign Affairs, the honour to attend a
lite given by him at his chateau near Fontainebleau,
where their Majesties are still staying.
The Conference has held a new sitting to day. It
is believed that the plenipotentiaries are still very far
from agreed, but as they observe profound secrecy,
nothing positive is known on the subject.

jartiga ad 6alattial ',lntelligent.

FRANCE.

The Moniteur has the following :
The Emperor has had the pious idea of securing to
France the posvession of the habitation where the Emperor
Napoleon I. entled his days, and of the tomb where his
ashes reposed. Associating itself with the august solici-
tittle of his Imperial Majesty, the Legislative Corps has
voted an extraordinary credit of 1130,000 francs to be
placed at the disposal of the Department of Foreign
Affairs. The acquisition of these precious ruins is now an
accomplished fact. On the 18th of March last a decree
passed by the Legislature of St. Helena, and ratified on the
7th of May following by an order cf the Queen of England,
conferred upon the Emperor of the French, and his heirs
for ever, the absolute right of property in the domain of
Longwood and of the tomb of Napoleon I. Thus, thanks
to the willing intervention of the Government of her
Britannic Majesty, those sacred localities where incom-
parable destinies were fulfilled belong henceforth to
France.
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MORE JEW BILLS.

WE have received the two new " Oaths Bills,"
or "Jew Bills," or whatever else they may be
called, which are now before the House of Lords;
and we have read them with some astonish-
ment. We had formed no expectation of any-
thing so absurd.

1. Lord LIICAN'S Bill assumes, at once, that
the Bill which lately passed the House of Com-
mons, and was amended in the Lords, was a sham
That Bill contained several enactments, altering
the old oaths, in a manner which, to both
Lords and Commons, seemed reasonable and
desirable. It then dealt with the Jews, in favour
of whom it made a special exemption. This
special exemption the Lords struck out. But
the Bill, without this special clause, was a good
Bill, and it was one on whose merits there was
no difference of opinion. All this, however,
Lord LUCAN entirely ignores. He treats the
body of the late Bill as if it had been a mere
sham or delusion, meaning nothing. He had
proposed a new clause, in relief of the Jews ;
and now he proposes a new Bill, simply consist-
ing of that one clause. But why—if Parliament
means to legislate on the Parliamentary Oaths—
why not do what the late Bill, agreed to by both
Houses (excepting the Jew clause), attempted
to do, and succeeded in doing ? To turn a mere
amendment
for the whole

2. Lord L
open to this o
it complies

mences with

LUCAN, in

It then proceeds
three Oaths

of a single clause into a substitute
le measure, seems a plain absurdity.
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LEADERS.

The attention of the Conductors of the Conservative Press, and the Publishers of Illustrated
Periodicals, is especially requested to the following announcement. The Proprietor of a Series of
SEVENTY highly-fwished STEEL PLATES, being Portraits of the great Conservative Statesmen,
including Lord DERBY, Right lion. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Baron CHELMSFORD, Bishop of EXETER,
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he will furnish impressions for any one or more. They are peculiarly suitable for Presentation Plates
to accompany Local Newspapers advocating the politics of the present Cabinet.
These Plates are all engraved in line ; are in excellent condition; have in every case been taken
from the best sources, and in many instances copied from Portraits in the possession of the Families
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1)011tItal.

CABINET CouNcrLs were held on Saturday and
Wednesday at the official residence of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, in Downing•street. The Ministers
present were—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Salishurv, the Earl of Hard-
wicke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secre-
tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. B.
Lytton, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, Lord
Stanley, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord
John Manners.
THE STATE PRESS PROSECUTIONS Of Mr. True•
love and Mr. Tcherwiski for alleged libels on the
Emperor of the French are fixed for Friday, the 18th
instant, before Lord Campbell and a special jury, in
the Court of Queen's Bench. The Attorney-General.
the Solicitor-General, and Mr. Welsby will conduct
the prosecution for the Crown. Mr. Edwin James,
Q.C., Mr. Phinn, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins, and Mr. Simon
are retained for the defence.
Ir is stated that Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. Jones,
of Pantglas, Mr. Christopher, and Sir Charles
linightley, are to be raised to the peerage.
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3rtIRA

A CORRESPONDENCE has taken place between Mr.
John F. Maguire, member for Cork, and the Earl of
Eglinton, relative to the refusal by the former to be
placed on the commission of the peace. Mr. Mac-
guire assigns as a reason the fact of having political
motives attributed to him. He concludes his letter
to the Lord Lieutenant in the following words .-
1 enure your Excellency I appreciate your unlooked-for
courtesy the more from the fact that the application of the
Town-council of this city, over which I presided as major
in 1853. was refused in 1854, from motives of hostility, the
result of political animosity—the application being made
with a view of further rewarding one who, with all his
faults, had been sn active chief magistrate.

SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON died on Thursday morning,
at his residence in Dublin, after a long and painful
illness. The deceased baronet, who was a Doctor of
Medicine, a Fellow of the Royal Society, Surgeon-
General to the !Forces, and Surgeon in Ordinary to
her Majesty in Ireland, was born in 1779, and mar-
ried in, 1802, Selina, daughter of Mr. Patrick Hamil-
ton Cannon, of Littleton, county Westmeath, late of
the 12th Light Dragoons, by whom he has issue.
Sir Philip Crampton is succeeded by his eldest son,
John Fiennes Twisleton, late Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States,
and now Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg,
who was born in 180 f.

571

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" THE PARTY OF PROGRESS."

WHOEVER has frequently travelled by cab or
omnibus from the Great Western Station to the
more central parts of London, must have been
struck by the inevitable shower of little yellow
volumes injected gratis through door or window,
in defiance of the paper-duties. Every month
presents the nuisance under a new and imposing
title. The " Temple of Taste" is succeeded by
" The Emporium of Elegance," which in its turn
gives way to the more majestic alliteration of
"The Monster Mart." If the reader is curious
enough to pry beyond the title blazoned without
in capitals, he sees a variety of appeals to public
confidence, and boasts of public support—prosaic
some, and some in not unmeasured verse, illus-
trated by sketches of divers " men and
measures ; " a wondrously multiform system of
puff, yet by some fatality invariably ending to
the honour and glory of " Moses and Son." And
doubtless that ingenious and enterprizing firm
have derived some substantial advantages from
these everchanging appeals to the caprice or the
credulity of their customers and the public.
Even should the " article" prove unequal to the
description (Moses forgive us for hinting such a
possibility !), the gay deceiver may once more
beguile an " unprotected female" by the help of
an alias, and the rustic who has been sold at the
" Palace of the People" may yet be induced to
buy in the " Warehouse of the World." It is
not for nothing that the Poet of the Minories
exhausts the alphabet in fresh appellatives.
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Secretary.
London, England, 1858-12-25

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ptlanb.

THE BELFAST ARRESTS.
IN the Belfast Police court on Monday, Mr. John
Rea, solicitor for the persons under arrest, applied to
the stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Tracy, to know when
there would be a public investigation into the charges
preferred against the seventeen prisoners now in
Antrim gaol, and auggested that Friday would be a
convenient day. Mr. Tracy, however, declined firing
any particular day, and would make no promise as
to time. The following conversation ensued :

Mr. Rea : I hope the magistrates of the county or
the petty sessions district will get notice of the time
of bolding the inquiry, for I should consider it my
right to address them, for the purpose of showing
that these persons should not be returned for trial.
From all I hear I do not think there is evidence to
warrant it.

Mr. Tracy : You cannot have heard anything of the
case. Nobody knows anything about it except
myself and the parties with whom I have communi-
cated.

Mr. Rea : I would not address you now, only that
it is the current opinion that the Crown has had
sufficient time to investigate the matter.
Mr. Tracy : They are not prepared at present to
investigate the case. I cannot. be hurried into it,
and there is time enough between this and the
assizes. It is in my power to remand them day
after day as long as I consider necessary for tha
ends of justice. I cannot have any personal interest
in the matter, one way or the other.

Mr. Rea said, be was sure his worship was just as
much opposed to the Orange system as to the Ribbon
system.

Mr. Tracy replied that the Orange system had
nothing to do with it.

Mr. 110 a saidhethought it was a counterpart of
the Orange system, and was surprised to find that it
hOid iloy connection with the Phcenix Club.
London, England, 1858-12-25

CHRISTMAS, 1868.

yLESSRS. MAPPIN invite attention to their
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Silk Velvet Case, containing Four Pairs finest Scissors 1 5 0
Lady's Morocco Scent Case, with Silver-capp'd Bottles 1 0 0
Lady's Rosewood full size Dressing Case, completely
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Gentlemen's solid Leather Dressiug Case, fitted 1 0 0
Gentleman's solid Leather Dressing Case, more com-
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A Set of Three Papier Mackie Tea Trays
A costly Book of Engravings, with Prices attached, forwarded
by post on receipt of t.N elve *lamps.
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1259

was brought before Lord Belper and the county
bench of magistrates, at Nottingham, and remanded.
No cause for the perpetration of this malicious act
has been ascertained.

Obituarg.

THE PRINCESS DORIA, the eldest daughter of John,
Earl of Shrewsbury, expired on Saturday last at her
residence in Rome, after a lengthened illness,
leaving a family of live children—three daughters
and two sons. The Princess's death will be a severe
blow to society in Rome, of which she was one of
the brightest ornaments.
THE COUNTESS DE LATRADIO died at the Portu-
guese Legation on Wednesday morning, after a brief
illness. The Countess, win was highly and de-
servedly esteemed by a numerous circle of friends
for her amiable qualities, was very much attached to
this country, having been always received by her
Majesty the Queen with marked attention, and
having also enjoyed the intimate persoual friendship
of the chief members of the Court and aristocracy
of St. James's.

LORD BOLTIMORE died on Saturday, at his seat,
Poltimore park, in his seventy-third year. This
nobleman was the son of the late Sir W. C. Bampfylde,
Bart., whom he succeeded in 1823, and in 1831 he
was created a peer. His lordship was married twice—
first, to Emma Penelope, only daughter of the Rev.
Ralph Sneyd, precentor of St. Asaph, by whom be
had one daughter, and a second time to Caroline,
eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Buller,
of Pelynt and. Laureath, by whom he had the present
son and heir, Augustus Frederick George Warwick
Bampfylde, who was born on the 12th of April, 1837,
and who succeeds to the family estates and title.
The hon. baronet attained his majority last April,
and a short time ago he married the second daughter
of Richard Brumley Sheridan, F.sq. Lord Poltimore
has been a lord in waiting to the Queen, an office
which be resigned in 1841.
SIR lIENRY JOHN LAMBERT, BART, died at Aston-
house, Oxfordshire, on Friday last, in the sixty.
seventh year of his age. Sir Henry was born jilt
1792, and succeeded his father in 1802. He married
in 1821 Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the late
Hon. Edward Foley, granddaughter of the first
Lord Foley.
London, England, 1858-12-25

TURKEY.

A despatch from Marseilles of Dec. 23, says :
The courier who left Constantinople on the 15th
has just arrived here. Letters from Pera report that
the Grand Vizier refused to carry out the reforms
promised by Fuad Paella at Paris.
Aali Pacha had tendared his resignation, and ftiza
Pacha was preparing to follow him into retirement.
Fuad Pacha had not yet accepted the office of Grand
Vizier.

The Caimacans repudiated the blamo attached to
the Conference, and had sent in a memorial in
theirjustification, accompanied by a threat of resig-
nation.
London, England, 1858-12-25

A NF.W DEPARTMENT FOR YOUTH, &c.

HJ. and D. NICOLL recommend for an Out-
side Coat the Havelock and Patent Cape Paletot, and for
oraivary use the Cape Suit, such being well adapted for Young
Gentlemen, on account of exhibiting eonsidereble economy with
general excellence. Gentlemen at Eton, Harrow, Winchester,
the Military and Naval tichoola, waited on by appointment. A
great variety of materials adapted for the Kilted or Highland
Costume, as worn by the Royal Princes, may be seen at
WARWICK HOUSE, 142 and 144, Regent•street.
London, England, 1858-12-25

THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN.

The relations of the United States with Spain
form perhaps the most important topic of the present
Message. The President says :
With Spain our relations remain in an unsatisfacto►y
condition. The mission to Spain has been intrusted to a
distinguished citizen of Kentucky, who will proceed to
Madrid without delay, and mike another and final attempt
to obtain justice from that Government. Spanish (Arial',
under the direct control of the Captain• General of Cuba,
have insulted our national flag, and, in repeated instances,
have from time to time inflicted injuries on the persons ant
property of our citizens. These have given birth to
numerous claims against the Spanish Government, the
merits of which have been abl; discussed for a series of
years by our successive diplomatic representatives. Not-
withstanding this, we have not arrived at a practical
result in any single instance, unless we may except the
case of the Black Warrior, under the late Administration ;
and that presented au outrage of such a character as would
have justified an immediate resort to war. All our attempts
to obtain redress have been baffled and defeated. The
frequent and oft•recurring changes in the Spanish Ministry
have been employed as reasons for delay. We have been
compelled to wait again and again, until the new Minister
shall have had time to investigate the justice of our
demands.
The claims are of fourteen years' standir.g, in which
about one hundred American citizens are interested
for duties illegally exacted at Cuba are brought for-
ward, and it is complained that instead of a just resti-
tution of the original sum extorted, with interest,
about one•third of the amount is offered, and that as
a special favour. The President also points out as
an intolerable grievance that while injustice is freely
done at Havannah, Americans demanding justice are
referred to Madrid. Then comes the following
important passage :
The truth is, that Cuba, in its existing colonial condition
is a constant source of injury and annoyance to the
London, England, 1858-12-25

VIE EXPEDITION TO PARAGUAY.

Nothing new is said about the expedition to Para.
guay. A hope is expressed that the commissioner
who accompanies the naval forces will convince the
Paraguayan Government that it is bound to make,
voluntarily and promptly, atonement for the wrongs
done to American citizens, in connection with the
attack on the steamer Water Witch. Should this
hope be disappointed, force must be employed to
obtain "just satisfaction " (these words are thus
distinguished by inverted commas in the. Message )
from Paraguay. But the President repeats his hope
that this will not be necessary.
London, England, 1858-12-25

PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News
Agents ; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remittance .
tdvertiseinents also must have a reference or remittance .
Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFItED IVE, 110 ,
Strand, London.
London, England, 1858-12-25

CHRISTMAS EVE.

THERE are spots on earth still radiant with a
glory that will not fade. These are the Peniels
and the Meccas of mankind. Days, also, there
are on which, as they turn up, falls a sunshine
that clears away cares and wrinkles from many
a brow, and warms with the festal fire of Heaven
many a cold heart. Christmas-day is one of
these—the homeliest, the holiest, and the most
welcome. It is a break in Time's troubled sky—
a summer in many a soul where all is winter
outside—an interval of rest or refreshment amid
the toils and travail and heavy burdens of this
world of ours.

Its return reminds those who, like ourselves,
are absorbed in the literary and political discus-
sions of the day, that there arc times when
passion should be laid and controversies healed,
and the excitement and the incidental hasty word
should all be forgotten and forgiven beside the
manger in which the SAVIOUR lay, and amid the
music which the angels sung.
At such a season it becomes us to leave for a
little the low levels of this life's interests, and to
ascend in aspiration, if not in fact, to that sunny
tableland which neither the clouds nor the tides
of Time can touch. Breathing thus a purer
atmosphere, we can look down and see more
accurately how transient arc the things that most
occupy our thoughts, and how weighty and lasting
are the themes and thoughts and events which
Christmas-day brings within our horizon. There
will be to-morrow many sweet, and some very
sad, home-scenes, in which merry Christmas
feelings will be tempered by sorrowful reminis-
cences. Faces so happy that the door opened
almost of its own accord to admit them have
passed away into the shadow of death ; voices
that used to sound so musical are hushed in the
silence of the grave; forms once so welcome and
familiar have fled like shadows from the dial-
plate of Time ; footfalls that used to start a
thousand welcomes will no more echo in the de-
serted hall, and the chair that is a family history
and heirloom is no more occupied. These recol-
lections will solemnize what other thoughts will
sweeten. Changes of another kind will also
appear on the pages of memory in the light of a
Christmas fire. I'overty, long in pursuit, has at
length come up with some. Youth has ripened
into manhood, and brows once smooth are covered
with grooves and wrinkles, like the brown sea-
sand from which the tide of life is ebbing. It is
on such occasions that the words of the poet
CAMPBELL occur to us, and give just expression
to human experience :

The more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages;
A day to childhood seems a year,
And years like passing ages.
When joys have lost their bloom and breath,
And life itself is vapid,
Why, as we reach the falls of death,
Feel we its tide more rapid ?
London, England, 1858-12-25

dLettion 3ntelligenct.

THE REPRESENTATION OF HEREFORDSHIRE.
Tax election of a member for the county of Hereford,
in the room of Mr. Booker Blakemore, deceased,
took place on Saturday last, at the Shire•hall at
Hereford, Lord William Graham, who came forward
on Conservative principles, being the only candidate.
The Ilion SHERIFF, itr. Richard Sneyd Cox,
having addressed the electors, and, before passing
to the business of the day, referred with mach
feeling to the death of Mr. Booker Blakemcre,

Admiral Sir THOMAS HASTINGS came forward to
nominate Lord William Graham as a candidate.
Having expressed his concurrence in all that had
fallen from the High Sheriff with reference to the
late respected and lamented gentleman whose death
had occasioned the present election, the gallant
Admiral proceeded to say :—He had been a supporter
of the lace Administration. He had seen the country
in great danger and the vessel of the State among
the breakers, and he had seen Lord Palmerston
step forward, and with bold resolution take the balm
and conduct the vessel into the haven of an houonr
able pesos, and he thought him entitled to his
London, England, 1858-12-25

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
ROOKS.

Kslly's Post Office London Directory.—Kelly and Co.
Four Months in Algeria, With a Visit to Carthage. By Rey
Joseph W. Blakealey.—Macmillan and Co.
A Metrical Translation of the Psalms, from the original
Hebrew.—Rivingtons.
A Metrical Translation of the Song of Solomon.—Rivingtons.
Canadian Cruse's: a Mk of the Rice Lake Plains, By
Catherine Parr Traill.—Hall, Virtue, and Co.
Father and Daughter. By Fredrika Bremer.—Hall, Virtue,
and Cu.
Yesterday; or, Mabel's Slory.—Ssninters and Otley.
The English Boy in Japan. By William Dalton.—Nelson.
Dust and Foam; or, Three Oceans and Two Continents,
By T. Robinson IVarren.—Sampson Low, Son, and Co
The History of Moses Wimble. Wtitten by Himself—.
Skeet.
Outlines of Scripture History. By Rev. J. E. Biddle, M.A.
Longmans.
History of the Reign of Philip IL, King of Spain. By
W. H. Presc At. Vol. II I.—Routledge.
The Boy's Book of Modern Teurel and Adventure. By
Mereuith Johnes.—Kent and Co.
Relics of Genius. By T. P. Grinsted.—Kent and Co.
John Halifax, Gentleman. By the Author of "A Woman's
Thoughts about Women."—Hurst end Blacked..
Deborah's Diary. A Sequel to " Mary Powell."—Virtue

and Co.
The Poets of the West.—Sampson Low, Son, and Co.
Recollections of a Literary Life. By Mary Russell Mitford.
New Edition.—Bentley.
The Town: its Memorable Characters and Events. By
Leigh Hunt.—Smith Elder, and Co.
The Fairy Tales of Science. By John Cargill Brough.—
Griffith and Farran.
Lays of Middle Age, and Other Poems. By James Hedder-

;vicii
Agnes Hopelouses School Holidays. By Mrs. Oliphant.—

Macmillan.
The Life of John Milton: History of his Tim,. By David
Masson, M.A. Vol. 1., 1608 to 1639.—MactniRau.
Provelbs, wills Pictures. By C. H. Bennet.—Chapinau
and Hall.
Musings on Guard. By Frank Felix.—Hhtchard.
London, England, 1858-12-25

dourt afar I asilion.

THE CouRT has returned from Osborne to Windsor,
where her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the
junior branches of the Royal Family, are all in the
enjoyment of good health.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF \VALES has returned from
the Continent, and is at present at Windsor.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER and Mrs.
Disraeli returned to town on Monday from a visit to
the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley-hal!,
and on Tuesday morning left Grosvenor•gate, for
Torquay.
THE RIGHT HoN. J. W. HENLEY returned to town
on Tuesday from Brighton.
London, England, 1858-12-25

THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS.

The Commercial Crisis of last winter is thus ad•
verted to :

When Congress met in December last, the business of
the country had just been crushed by one of those periodi-
cal revulsions which are the inevitable consequence of our
unsound and extravagant system of bank credits and
inflated currency. With all the elements of national
wealth in abundance, our mentifectnres were suspended,
our useful public and private enterprizes were arrested, and
thousands of I,tbourers were deprived of employment and
reduced to want. Universal distress prevailed among the
commercial, manufacturing, and mechanical classes. This
revulsion was felt the more severely in the United States
because similar causes had produced the like deplorable
effects throughout the commercial nations of Europe. All
were experiencing sad reverses at the same moment.
Our manufacturers everywhere suffered severely, not
because of our recent redaction in the tariff of duties on
imports, but because there was no demand at any price
for their productions. The people were obliged to restrict
themselves in their purchases to articles of prime necessity.
In the general prostration of business the iron manufac-
turers in different States probahly suffered more than any
other class, and much destitution was the inevitable con-
sequence among the great number of workmen who had
been employed in this useful branch of our intlust-y.
There could be no supply where there was no demand. To
prest.nt an example, there could be no demand fur railroad
iron after our niagniticient system of railraittls, extending
its benefits to every portion of the Union, had been
brought to a dead pause. The same consequences have
resulted from similar causes to many other branches of
useful manufactures. It is self-evident that where there is
no ability to purchase manufactured articles these cannot
be sold, and consequently must cease to be produced. No
government, and especially a government of such limited
powers as that of the United States, could have prevented
the late revulsion. The whole commercial world seemed
fcr years to have been rushing to this catastrophe. The
same ruinous consequences would have followed in the
United States, whether the dnties upon foreign imports
had remained as they were under the tariff of or had
been raised to a much higher standard. The tariff of 1857
bad no agency in the result. The general causes existing
throughout the world could not have been controlled by
the legislation of any particular country. The periodical
revulsions which have existed in our past history must
continue to return at intervals so long as our present un•
London, England, 1858-12-25

AFFAIRS IN UTAH.

A considerable portion of the Message is devoted
to the histcry of the course pursued towards the
Mormons. Ha praises the army, the commissioners,
Governor Canning and Colonel Kane, the volunteer
pacificator ; and, as a result of the measures take.n,
says :
The Governor and other civil officers of Utah are now
performing their approprilte functions without resistance.
Tho authority of the Constitution and the laws has been
fully restored, and peace prevails throughout the territory.
A portion of the troops sent to Utah are now encamped
in Cedar Valley, forty four miles south-west of Salt Lake
City, and the remainder have been ordered to Oregon to
suppress Indian hostilities. The march of the army to
Salt Lake City, through the Indian territory, has bad a
powerful effect in restraining the hostile feelings against
the United States which existed among the Indians in that
region, and in securing emigrants to the far west against
their depredations. This will also be the means of estab-
lishing military posts and promoting settlements along
the route. I recommend that the benefits of our land laws