The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

The Napoleon Dynasty. By the B-rkeley Men.
Cornish, Latnoort, and Company : New York.
John Chapman : London.
A magnificent work has here been produced, and
one which had long been needed by the population.
It is a curious circumstance that the first complete
"History of the Bonaparte Family" yet published,
should have first appeared upon the opposite shores
of the Atlantic. There was a sort of half prediction
to that effect long floating in society, and the correct-
ness of that prediction has, in the noble volume lying
before us for consideration, been to the full verified.
It consists of ten books, and is a species of prose
epic, very eloquent throughout, and, admirably dis-
tinguished in the most essential particulars by the
attribute of impartiality, recounts the rise and gra-
dual stabilitation of that great house which is now
about the most popular dynasty in Christendom.
Twenty-two portraits illustrate the letterpress, but
for the most part these engravings although
somewhat ostentatiously referred to by the
New York publishers reflect but litttle credit
upon the progress of art in the United States.
Scarcely one amongst them bears any resem-
blance whatever to the original paintings which
may be seen by any visitor to the historical galleries
of Versailles. Several indeed of the lithographed
heads before us are little more meritorious than
fantastic and frivolous caricatures. One portrait, for
example, that of Madame Mere—Letitia, the Empress
mother—affords not the faintest idea of that noble
form and queenly countenance which betokened in
the painting of David the parent of Casa'', and in the
statue by Canova the mother of the Gracchii. The
" beautiful Hortense," again, to judge from the Ame-
rican likeness of her, must have been graced with not
a vestige of loveliness. The handsome Prince
Eugene, the graceful Empress Josephine, the youth-
ful and blooming Empress Maria Louisa, but, above
all, Joachim Napoleon, the King of Naples, with
those glittering eyes, and ambrosial curls, and exqui-
site Italian features, which rendered him the very beau
ideal of a chevalier, one whose mere aspect might
have inspired the lay of even the most fastidious of
the troubadours—all of them are delineated in the
volume under notice, with a pencil as false as it is
manifestly grotesque. Even Napoleon himself, as
First Consul—a face one might reasonably conjec-
ture, about which there could be no possibility
of mistake—is depicted with a sneer upon his lips !As
likenesses there are only three of the engravings in
any respect entitled to commendation—Eliza, the
eldest of Napoleon's sisters, a majestic countenance
worthy of a woman of the house of Bonaparte—
Charles, Napoleon's father, a face possessing all the
rounded beauty without any of the weakness of the
old aristocratic Bourbon type—and a sketch, very
vigorous and thoughtful in expression, of his Highness
the Prince Louis Napoleon. It is to the text of the
work, however, that we would here particularly refer
in the language of deserved admiration. As consti-
tuting an epitome, at once biographical and historical,
of the extraordinary achievements of the Emperor
Napoleon, the volume is in many respects very re-
markable. It is singularly eloquent in style as it is
also philosophical in purpose and picturesque in de-
scription. Whoever the author may be—for we
cannot but conjecture that the soubriquet is of " The
Berkeley men," is no less simply a mere nom du
plume than Banim's famous pseudonym of " Tne
O'Hara Fansily,"—he has evidently conned in no
euperficial menner the history of the three French
Revolutions. He recognises the tendency of the grand
movement which was commenced in 1789 byMirabeau,
developed in 1830 by Carrel, end still further advanced
in 1848 by Lamartine. He says, truly, almost in the
opening sentence, that, connected with that great move-
ment, influencing it in every impulse, impelling it more
steadily and boldly along the groove of civilization-
-4: something greater than stars watched over the birth
of Napoleon ; and a power, higher than fortune, guides
the destinies of the Bonaparte family." As more
clearly indicative of his meaning, he observes that all
the energetic endeavours of the allied sovereigns of
the Continent, although aided by the gold and the
prowess of England, have proved ineffectual in staying
the march of events in Paris—in disarming the dy-
nasty of Napoleon—or, in baulking the aspirations of
the Revolution. Everything that man could attempt has
been attempted, but to this day in vain 1 Europe com-
bined her armies, and in her prolonged and desperate
struggle against the Emperor became exhausted
and impoverished. Coalitions were made, one after
another, and one after another were crushed under
the weight of his victories. By an enormous con-
centration of all the forces of all the nations of
Christendom, however, the one dauntless race was
at last, for a time, vanquished, and the one daunt-
less man her hero and her ruler dethroned.
" They chained the Eagle to the bold cliff of a
volcanic rock of the ocean, among the clouds," says
' the writer of the work here submitted to the balance
of criticism; "and six years England kept a fleet to
watch him, and see him chafe and die ; and then
they opened his bode, and took out his vitals, and
were sure be was dead—and then they excavated a
grave in the rock, and welded his coffin in by strong
bars of iron, and then they watched the place for
twenty years. And when at last, Europe was no
more afraid of the dead Eagle's ashes, she let
France take them back to the banks of the Seine.
They had stolen the young Eagle from the parent
nest, and carried him away among strangers, where '
he pined, sickened, and died. Europe then thought
she could breathe again. But a Bonaparte still rules
France." Yes—so much for the national debt of
England, increased to £800,000,000 ! So much for
the 22,378 allied troops, killed, wounded, and missing,
on the terrible day of the crowning carnage at
Waterloo ! So much for the rupture of that solemn
pledge made to Napoleon after his wonderful
triumph over two Emperors, on the battle field
of Australitz, when Francis avowed he would
never again make war upon his future
son in.law, saying " No, I promise you I will
not—and I will keep my word ! " So much for the
falsehood of Alexander, who had bound himself to
Caesar by the pretended bonds of an indissoluble
friendship ! So much for that old, unwieldy, gout-
tormented, dinner-loving, Horace-reading Louis, who
had twice been owned back to the Tuileries by
foreign bayonets, over 500,000 of the corpses of his
fellow countrymen ! The sequel of all is visible
enough at this present day. Atter the Bourbons had
been twice driven away from France, the elder branch,
in 1830. in the person of Charles X.—the younger
branch, in 1848, in the person of Louis Philippe :
after so many campaigns, so much bloodshed, so much
money exp.ncled—the postscript to the history of the
Emperor Napoleon is sufficiently terse and signi-
.ticant. It may he written in five words, in the
October of 1852 —" A Bonaparte still rules
France." Precisely at this juncture, therefore, the
volume before us comes to hand as a welcome sou-
venir. It contains a brief memoir of Charlea
Bonaparte— the father of the Emperor who
was born on the 29th of March, 1746, at
Ajaccio; and who died, at the early age of 38,
in 1785, at Montpellier. It describes in greater
detail the more extended and remarkable career of
his spouse, Letitia Ramolini, who was born on the
24th August, in 1750, at Ajaccio, and who died at
the advanced age of 86, on the 2d of February, in
1836, at Rome—the Mother of Napoleon being
buried in the Eternal City, "in the imperial soil
which holds the ashes of the mother of the Graccbi."
It recounts the life of her half-brother, Joseph, Car-
dinal Fesch, born on the 3.1 January, in 176:3, and
who died on the 13:h of May, in 1839, at Rome.
Thereupon follows the grandest portion, of course, of
the whole n irrative—the life and history of Napoleon
the Great, from his birth on the 15th of August, in
1769, to his death on the sth of May, in 1821, at St.
Helena, together with a supplementary account of
his ultimate exhumation, and of his interment with
imperial pomp on the 15th of December, in 1840, at
IParis, in the Hotel des Invalides. The career of his
first wife, the Empress Josephine, nee Merie-Joseph-
Pose T ' is
4 -- vener, delineated with every token of
sensibility in the appreciation of her noble
character—Josephine having been born on the
231 of June, in 1763, at St. Pierre, it,
M trtinique, and having died on the 29th of May, in
1814, at Malmaison. The brilliant destinies of the
Emperor's second wi'e, the Empress Maria Louisa—
who was born Archduchess of Austria on the 12th of
paaensher, in 1791, at Vienna, and who died, Grand
Duchess of Farms, on the 15th of December, 1847, at
the capital of her Italian dominions—are then re-
corded with special mention of the year (1810) when
she became the spouse of Napoleon, and of the year
(1811) when she became the mother of his son, Na.
Francis Joseph Charlee, born on the 20th of
March, n,inlB 11, King- of Rome, and who died on the
22,1 of July, in 1832, Duke of Reichstadt. Subse-
quently, accounts are given of the Emperor's four
brothers and three sisters—most of them receiving dia-
dems from the affectionate generosity of the last king-
maker whose authority has directed the destinies of
Christendom. Joseph, who was born on the 7th of
January, in 1768, at Corte, in Corsica, and who, after
being first King of Naples, and then King of Spain,
died on the 28th of July, in 1844, at Florence, under
the title of the Count de Serviliiers. Lucien, who
was born in 1775, at Ajaccio, and who, after writing
an epic in 24 cantos on Charlemagne, and another an
12 cantos or. Corsica, died, as Prince of Canine, on
the 29th cf July, in 1840, at Viterbo. Loui', who
was born on the 2d of September in 1788, at Ajaccio,
and who, having reigned some time as King of 1.101-
land during the supremacy of his imperial brother,
died on the 25thvCeobrothers, who was.
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of an imperial prince, and the homage of the very
peculiar and comprehensible interest due to the last
surviving brother of the Emperor Napoleon. Ehaa,
the eldest of his sisters, who was born on the Bth of .
January in 1777, at Ajaccio, was 1805 created
Princess of Lucca and Piombino, and in 1809 advanced
to the dignity of Grand Duchess of Tuscany. She
died on the 9th of August in 1820, at Trieste, leaving
two children to her widowed husband Bacciochi.
Pauline, born on the 20th of October in 1780, at
Ajaccio, died on the 9th of June 1825, at Florence,
having first married, in 1801, General Le Cierc, and
afterwards, in 1803, Prince Borghese. Caroline,
who was born on the 26th of March, 1782, at Ajac-
cio, and who died on the 18th of May, in 1839, as
the wife of Joachim Murat, became Queen of Naples.
The other personages of the Great House whose lives
are here recounted, are as follows :—Eugene Beau-
harnais, the Viceroy of Italy, who was born on the
3rd of September, in 1780, in Brittany, and who
died on the 21st of January, in 1824, at Munich.
Joachim Mutest, the Hero-King of Naples, who was
born on the 25th of March, in 1767, at Bastide-
FfOritoniere, and who died on the 13th day of Octo-
ber, in 1815, at Pizzo, as the victim of a military
execution. Appropriately enough the narrative
closes with the chequered history of the present
Chief Magistrate of France, as he is here oddly, but
it is impossible not to acknowledge somewhat in-
geniously termed, " the Emperor of the French
Republic"—Louis Napoleon, a Prince who has passed
through so many marvellous vicissitudes, and who
now in the possession of supreme authority is greeted
in his triumphal passage through the provinces with
acclamations hailing him as Napoleon 111. ; accla-
mations which were, on Saturday last, so loudly re-
sponded to by the enthusiastic cries of the Parisians.
It is known very generally by this time, we
presume, that the Prince Louis Napoleon, the
son of Louis King of Holland, and of the
beautiful Queen Hortense, was born on the
20th of April in 1808 in the palace of the Tuileries.
But it is not so well remembered that he was " the
first prince of the Napoleon dynasty, born under the
Imperial v•egime, who received military and public
honours at his birth. Along the lines of the Grande
Armee, fro m one extremity of the Empire to the
other, his birth was announced by the thunder of can-
non and the waving of the tricolor." The only other
prince born under the Imperial rigime, and whose
birth was welcomed with like honours, was the son of
Napoleon himself—the King of Rome. Immediately
upon the d eath of the Duke de Reichstadt, Louis
Napoleon w as left therefore the legitimate represen-
tative of the. Emperor. A circumstance very curious
and worthy' of remark, but one which is not usually
born in rem embrance. A copious supplement, en-
titled, " His toric Illustrations" (p.p. 609 —624),
describes successively the Tombs of the Bonapartes
and of the Beauharnais, besides enumerating the
members of the former family still living and giving
to the public a very scarce and remarkable document
showing thelr genealogy. As already intimated, and
as could aloe e have been conjectured, the conspicuous
portion of t 1 e volume is the narrative contained in it
(pp. 5-219)a of the career of Napoleon himself, the
Founder of tbe Imperial dynasty. Although the his-
tory of the Emperor: here given is necessarily brief
aed condensed, it is nevertheless really admirable in
its character, constituting indeed, perhaps the most
perfect epitome of his life ever penned,—one, more-
over, peculie rly eloquent and singularly impartial.
" In an age of heroes he became the first of soldiers,"
says the writer,—" in an age of kings the only mo-
narch men feared,—in an age of a hundred sovereigns
the only thr one-maker." In Corsica, while still a
stripling, he was told by Paoli,—" Napoleon you
are modelled after the ancients—you are one of
Plutarch's men !" And he was. At Toulon, which
he captured by a master-stroke of strategy on the
19th of Dees tuber, 1793, he was twenty-tour t At
the defeat of the Sections in Paris, where he succes-
fully defended the Convention on the sth of Oct,
1795, by sweeping the streets with cannon, he was
twenty-six ! "In less than forty minutes the victory
was complete, and the 40,000 insurgents had fled,
leaving the streets where they stood, barricaded with
the wounded and the dead, and drenched with their
blood "—a triumph as complete as that achieved on
the 2d of December, 1651, by his representative.
At the commencement of the Italian Campaign in
1796 he was twenty-seven ! He was still twenty-
seven when he addressed his army in that immortal
bulletin, " Soldiers ! in fifteen days you have gained
six victories, taken twenty-one stand of colours, fifty-
five pieces of cannon, several fortresses, and conquered
the richest parts of Piedmont. You have made
15,000 prisoners, killed or wounded upwards of
10,000 men. You have provided yourselves with
everything of which you were destitute. You have
gained battles without cannon, crossed rivers without
bridges, made forced marches without shoes, bivou-
acked without strong liquors, and often without
bread 1" At the completion of the famous treaty of
Compo Formio in 1797 he was twenty-eight ! It
was Bares who said to the young hero on his return
to Paris when in the presence of the Directory,
"Nature has exhausted all her powers in the creation
of Bonaparte." At the conquest of Egypt in 1798,
he was twenty-nine ! At the 18th Brumaire, when
in 1799 he was declared First Consul, he was thirty !
When in 1800 he gained Marengo, he was thirty-
one! When in 1801 he secured peace with England
by the Treaty of Amiens, and with Austria by the
treaty of Luneville, he was thirty-two I When in
1802, declared Consul for life, he was thirty-three !
When in 1803 there came the rupture of the Treaty
of Amiens he was thirty-four ! When in 1804 he
was created Emperor, and crowned by his Holiness
Pope Pius VII. in Notre Dame, he was thirty- five I
He was thirty-six at the battle of Austerlitz (1805)
—thirty-seven at the battle of Jena (1806)—thirty-
eight at the battle of Friedland (1807), followed
by the treaty of Tilsit—he was thirty-nine at
the conference at Erfurth (1808) when he
received assurances of a romantic and indissoluble (!)
friendship from Alexander—he was forty at the battle
of Wagram (1809), a year rendered still more me-
morable by his divorce from Josephine—he was forty-
one when he annexed Holland to his empire (1810)
and married the daughter of the Austrian Emperor—
he was forty-two when in 1811 he was gladdened by
the birth of his son, the King of Rome, and when he
made his renowned campaign into Russia, the most
triumphant of all his campaigns, according to Lord
Brougham, although in its close the most disastrous—
he was forty-three, when in 1812 he followed up his
terrible losses in Lithuania by creating a new army—
ha was forty-four when, in 1813, he gained the battles
of Lutzsn and Beutzen, and lost that of Leipsic—he
was forty-five on the occasion (1814) of his first ab-
dication, and forty-six (1815) on the occasion of his
second, when he closed his wonderful career at Wa-
terloe, end claimed the hospitality of his enemies, like
Thetnistocles. After a captivity of nearly six years
in St. Helena, he expired when fifty-one years, seven
mouths, and twenty days, had completed the span of
his existence—an age very remarkable for its brevity,
considering the grandeur of his destinies, the splendour
of his achievements, and the variety of his vicissitudes.
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after the close of his reign as Emperor and King, the
representative of the Imperial family is hailed once
more by the people of France, as the supreme head
of her democratic Government.

A BARONET CONVICTED OF ASSAULTS UPON RAIL•
WAY OFFICIALS.—The Bath magistrates were employed
for some time on Tuesday in bearing two charges of
assault preferred against Sir James Francis Rivers,
Bart., by iwo of the officials in the employ of the Great
Western Railway Company. The complainants were
Isaac Crew, a railway porter, and Samuel Haines, a rail-
way policeman, the latter of whom appeared with his
hand bound up. For the first offence the defendant was
tined 506. and costs, or in default to be committed for
one month; and for the second assault, which was more
serious, he was fined in the full penalty of 51 and costs,
or in default to be committed for two months. His
worship also said he must warn him, that if he went on
committing assaults of this kind he would be liable to
be indicted at the sessions, and committed fur two year.'
imprieoement. Fur a persons of his rank, such conduct
was most discreditable. Tho fines having been paid,
the defendant left the court. It is not long since Sir
James was fined in the same court for furious driving.
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AQUATICS.-•••T. MACLINNEY AND CANDLISH.--The
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T. Alackinney, of Richmond, and Candish, of the north.
A great diversity of opinion as to the rival pretentious
of these men having for a length of time existed, pro.
pOSei3 wore made for a match between them, but the
queslion arose as to whether it should take place on the
Thames or on the Tyne, to which rivers the men re-
.'peatfully belong ; and as neither was disposed to give
way, although both were willing to give the necessary
expenses for travelling, &c., it was mutually determined
that in order the better to test their merits by what is
termed a home-and-home match, that two races should
take place between them for 100/, each—one on the.
Thames, the other on the Tyno. The first of thesei a
fixed for Thursday next, the 28th instant, on the
Thames, over the usual aquatic course, from Putney to
l'elortlske, and creates the most lively interest. Cand-
lish has arrived in
ei town, and is taking bis exercise over
ttLondonriver. Mackinney is also in active training,
and a first rate contest is anticipated, both men being
Unequivocally
first-raters—the former as the gallant
opponent of the renowned Henry Clasper, and Mackin-
ney as the candidate for the championship of the
lhames against die celebrated Robert Coombes.
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loog odds.
A FINE OPENING POE EIMICIRANTS —ln the westward
plains of Port Philip, near Geelong, there is a district of
200 miles of laud, by an average breadth of 25 milt s of
the finest and richest land in the world. It is beautifully
diversified, clothed with park-like timber, well watered,
and has been called by experienced English agriculturists
equal to the finest garden lands of Kent. This land is
as yet unoccupied by the emigrant.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKitUPTCY.—Oct. 20,
(Before Mr. Commisioner Foublanque.)
IN RE H. MOPSEY.

The bankrupt was an ironmonger in Union-street
East. This was a certificate meeting. Mr. Lawrence
supported; Mr. Hall appeared for the assignees.
His Honour said the bankrupt should have the benefit
of his book-keeping, having been exceedingly good.
But for this, there would have been a suspension of the
certificate, The bankrupt would receive an immediate
certificate of the third class.

IN RE W. IL L. F. TOLLEMACIIE, O)3I3IONLY CALLED

LORD HUNTINGTOWER.

Lord Huntingtower was made a bankrupt in 1342, as
a hone-dealer. This was an audit meeting. It ap-
peared that a sum of 1,4001. bad falle❑ into the hands of
the official assignee, under the will of a Mrs, Toome.
The costs attendant on the prosecution of the fiat had not,
however, been previously paid, and no dividend could
therefore be declared.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 185 2.

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inflict a penalty or 21 d,ys' imprisonment.

LANISE -M.—SINGULAR CASZ OF BIGASIF.--LV3t
evening., as Mr. Elliott was about to leave the bench,
Mrs. Sarah Bensman alias Smith, was brought to the
Court in custody on a charge of Bigamy, by intermarry-
ing with Mr. Joseph Ilensman, her former husband be-
ing still alive.
From the evidence it appeared that so far back as 26
years ego, the prisoner, who is at present a fat jolly old
woman, nearly 60 years of age, was married at 'fun-
bridge, in Kant, to Mr. John Smith. The parties lived
together for some years and then parted and had since
lived separate from each other. On the 26th of January,
1841, she got married a second time to the prosecutor et
Newington Church, and had lived tolerably happy from
that time until a short time since, when it was said the
prisoner gave way to drink, and the prosecutor having
discovered that her former husband was living, she was
given into custody.
Sarah Wilson, the sister of the former husband, said
she was present at the marriage of her brother and the
prisoner at Tunbridge in 1816. Some time after they
separated, and her (witness's) brother, was still living.
and resided at Maidstone. The witness in cross exami-
nation, was asked if her brother was not married since
his separation from the prisoner, but her reply was
that she did not know the fact of her wen knowledge.
Tee prosecutor deposed that previous to his marriage
with the prisoner in 1841, she represented herself as a
widow, and he was a widower, and on the 26th of
January in that year he was married to the prisoner at
Newington Church. The witness denied that he was
eware at the time of the marriago that the prisoner had
another husband living, and declared he had nut re-
quested that person's sanction to their marriage.
The solicitor who attended on behalf of the accused
said that the fact was that the prisoner's first husband
had a wife when she married him, and this should be her
defence on a future day, when the first husband could be
found.

The prisoner was ultimately remanded, but was ad-
mitted to bail.

SOUTHWARK.—CharIes Gunnell, a tradesman in
York-row, Kent-road, was summoned before Mr.
,'Beckett for violently assaulting John Whitroe, an
officer of the Southwark County Court, in the execution
of his duty.
The complainant stated that on Saturday he went to
the defendant's home to execute a warrant against him,
arising out of proceedings in the Southwark Cou❑ty
Court. On entering the house he exhibited the warrant,
when the defendant asked him what it was for ? The
reply was that it was at suit of Chillengmer, but that he
(witness) did not know what the debt was for. The de-
fendant then said that if he could not tell him what it
was for, he shotild kick him out of the plat-,, and then
proceeded to lay held of him, and then struck him a
violent blow on the chest. He (witness) called for a
constable, who refused to interfere. The witness added,
that the blow he received knocked him down, and he had
not Set recovered from the effects of it.

Henry Hardingo confirmed the complainant's account
of the transaction, and said that he heard him distinctly
state that ho was an officer of the Southwark County
Court when he went to execute the warrant.
The defendant endeavoured to show that ho was not
aware that the complainant was an officer of the court
mentioned, but a broker, and he also asserted that he
considered himself justified in expelling him as an in-
trader who had no business there.
Policeman 65 M admitted that he did not interfere
when called upon by the complainant to tako the de-
fendant into custody for assaulting him.
Mr. A'Beckett said the policeman had no right to
refuse his assistance when called upon by the County-
court officer on the occasion, and that his (the police-
man's) conduct ought to be made the subject of inquiry.
Tile magistrate then infl.cted a penalty of 51. and costs
on the defendant, and in default of payment committed
him for one month.

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ately designed cloisters. In this court there will he
several tombs and fonts of a remote period, a collection
of the great seals of England, and some cases of French
ivories and enamels. The Byetuatine court is the next
and last court in that direction, and will contain speci-
mens of Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman art.
Fonts and sculptured figures, mosaic tombs and statues,
will also be prominent here. On the lett of the same
entrance from the basement, the arrangements include
the exhibition of silks, shawls, and lace, in one court; of
woollen goods in the second; of flax and hemp in the
third; and of printed fabrics in the fourth.
Entering the ground floor from the west, we have the
Nineveh and Egyptian courts immediately on our left,
cisntaneoeonrnuridtinhhrh gaee,lrn occupying
squares of twenty-four feet each way. The bulls and
lions of Layard's Nineveh, and an ample display of
Egyptian antiquities, will be displayed here. Next to
this court, still proceeding northwards, is the Greek
court, in which some fine bas-reliefs will be shown, a
large model of the Parthenon, and classified specimens
of early and late Greek vases. A court devoted to
Roman antiquities is the next ; and then follows a
Moorish court, in the style of the Alhambra, which will
include the " Alhambra refreshment room," the Hall of
Justice, and the Court of Lions, with its fountain.
On the southern or right-hand side of the western en-
trance, are courts tor the exhibition of furniture, car-
pets, paper-hangings, bookbindings, stationery and fancy
goods, and Birmingham and Sheffield wares. South-
ward of all these in the same direction, a rectangle,
equal in area to 12 squares of 24 feet each, is applied to
the formation of summer apartments on the classical
model. We found in it a tricluvium refreshment room,
a tablinum, a compluviunt, and several little cubicisla, all
of which, no doubt, will be very inviting on the return
of hot weather.
The gallery arrangements are also very extensive.
Ascending by the eastern staircases and proceeding
northward, we find very considerable spaces devoted to
the display of the precious metals, articles of clothing
and unclassed objects. Proceeding southward from the
same staircases, we come to a series of long tables, on
which will be exhibited every variety of substance used
for human food, and to the musical instruments. En-
the gallery by the staircases on the west, the
portion is filled with china and glass. On the
side we find leather, fur, and sundries ; on the
musical and philosophical instruments ; and
extreme southern gallery the cutlery. Several
open galleries, partly separated from the great lines of
counter, occur at frequent intervals, and pleasingly vary
the general arrangements. On the ground floor, too,
these are some open corridors of enormous length,
which will have an exceedingly elegant appearance.
Along the great central nave will be a variety of works
of art, as in the old Exhibition. These will include an
Egyptian obelisk and a Greek column.
A considerable space on the ground floors will be
tastefully laid out as gardens, in which trees indigenous
to many countries will be shown, together with a great
number of birds. The basement will contain Sir Joseph
Paxton's tunnel, running the entire length of the build-
ing. Here also will be arranged all the machinery sent
for the exhibition.
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tribution of pins could have been devised, either with
reference to public convenience, enjoyment, or to those
purposes of instruction and study which the place so
eminently conduces to. The plans have been beauti-
fully executed in colours, by Messrs. Day sad Son.
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TETE NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE.—The building
now in course of construction in Reservoir-square is
being carried forward with dispatch and steadiness. Its
architectural form will be that of a Greek cross, each
diameter 365 feet, width of arms 149 feet, surmounted at
the intersection of the arms by a central dome 100 feet
in diameter, each entrance 47 feet wide. The height
from the floor to t'ee spring of the arch, 6S feet ; to the
crown, 118 feet. The arches will be of the northern or
semi-circular style. The building will cover 2f acres on
the ground floor ; adding to which the galleries on the
inside, we have a space of 4 acres square. The angles
of the cross will be filled up, so as to make the building
on the ground floor an octagon, thereby securing much
additional space, without at all destroying the architec-
tural beauty of the structure. The contract for masonry
amounts to nearly 13,000 dollars. The building, when
completed, will present three similar fronts, facing on
6th•ay., 40th-st., and 42nd-st. The whole cost of the
building is estimated at 200,000 dols.
MARRIAGE OF A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.--
Amongst the various expedients to which parties desir-
ous of contracting this sort of alliance are having re-
course, the one most in favour is that of tying the
nuptial bonds in Denmark, where the facilities are
greatest. A trifling impediment, however, stands in the
way of candidates for hymeneal honours. They must
be provided with certificates of having been vaccinated,
or the ceremony cannot be performed ; such is the
Danish law. Now, to the majority of middle-aged
gentlemen and ladies, whose boyhood was spent in good
old times before vaccination came into fashion, the ob-
taining of this certificate is impossible except they, in
anticipation of the difficulty that will hereafter await
them, cause the operation to be renewed. Some of the
knowing oaes, duly admonished of the necessity, make
the necessary provision ; but a far greater number, on
their arrival in Denmark, learn for the first time the
conditions on which alone they can be united, and sub-
mit to the operation on the spot, thus furnishing an in-
teresting case of ardent lovers bleeding for each other's
sake.
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riotousaqrtatack made on a
funeral procession in that n, ighbourhood on Sunday
week. A number of persons attending the funeral
belonged to u Roman Catholic burial society, and who
wore scarfs trimmed with green ; they
with stones by a mob of young m were attacked
en of the oppesite
party, who came to the assault Acuting the usual com-
pliments paid by the Orangemen to the Pope and
Popery.