The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1864.

HERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE
Vir PANT4IMINIES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup
at EVANS', Covent-garden.

IIINAHAN'S LLBRIAVNIDiIySKY v. COGNAC,
This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest
FRENCH BRANDY,
It i Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and v,:ry Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by
the Agents in the prinnpal towns in England ; or wholesale
at

R, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
"Kinahan's LL Whisky."

MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO.
execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the
year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and
Westminster Bank. Post-0111:e Orders payable at Camber-
well-park.
N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup.
Address—BoTT and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine
Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London.

17 THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any
JIL one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or
Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS.
Tncir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit.
Of all medicine vendors at Is. 1 d. and 2s. 9d. ; or free by
post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist
Lincoln.

rz E A TING'S PALE NEWFOUNDLAND
n_ COD LIVER OIL. The Finest Imported this Season.

THIS VALUABLE ME i)ICINE having of late years
come into such general use, and being, moreover, so exten-
sively prescribed by the most eminent practitioners both in
town and country, Mr. Keating can with the greatest
confidence recommend this Oil as being perfectly pure, nearly
tasteless, and free from adulteration, having been analysed,
reported on, and recommended by Prof. Taylor, of Guy's and
St Thomas's Hospitals, Dr. Scott. M.D., L.R.C.P., F.L.S.,
&c., and Dr. Edwin Payne, ➢I.D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., who,
in the words of the late Dr. Pereira, says that "The best Oil
is that which is most devoid of colour, odour, and flavour, cha-
racters this will be found to possess, being purely of hepatic
origin, a point of great weight with regard to its therapeutic
value.
Sold in half-pints,- Is. 9d. ; Pints, 3s. ; Quarts, ss. 6d. ; and
Five-pint Bottles, 12s. 6d,, imperial measure, by THOMAS
KEATING, Chemist, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London.

4ZPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
►7 Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, di,n, and defective vision.—S. and B
SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

BUSINESSES. - MR. ANDREW HIND'S
JANUARY LIST,
Containing 503 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, Lc.,
Gratis.
Letters, enclose stamp. Particulars entered free.
Offices—Corner of LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S.

HOUSES—Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
SALE a Corner SIJOP, at Holloway, and Three Pri-
vate Houses adjoining, producing £94 per annum. Ground
rent £25. Price £715, or separately. Also the following :
Chelsea, four. 1,000 guineas; ditto, £5OO and £850; Camden-
town, two, £1,201; Holloway, two, £570 ; Homerton, six,
£135 each, /cc. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St.
Paul's.

FARM WANTED to rent,'from 50 to 200 acres,
with moderate-sized dwelling-house and outbuildings.
Particulars to be sent to A. H., 15, Godliman-street, Doctors'-
commons, London.

ITOUSES.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to LET
a spacious HOUSE, at Brixton Hill, cons ainintz nine
Led and reception rooms, with usual office 4, large pleasure
and kititen gardens, &c. Rent, £lO5. Also a large house,
furnished, and the following* : —Lewisham, rent ZS() ; II arrow,
£3O, &c. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Pail,

ESIDENCE.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to
14 9, LET or SELL an ex:ellent Detached HOUSE at
Hackney, containing 16 ro .ms, basement, .tc. The neigh-
bourhood is pleas int and healthy; soil gravel. Rent, £9O.
Price, freehold, £1,600. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane,
St. Paul's.

IRELAND.-Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
SALE the Lessee's Interest in a convenient Small
RESIDENCE and 7d Acres of prime LAND, pleasantly
situate near the City 01 Cork, and commanding beautiful
views of the harbour and surrounding country. Good shoot-
ing and fishing. Term of lease. 91 years; ground rent, £72.
Price, £7OO. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

TEETH,--Mr. ESKgLL'S INVENTION in
the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the
following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work-
manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the
most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without
pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes
of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without
wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the
gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option
of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad-
just these teeth 0 many changes of the mouth without the
aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always
useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea-
tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps.
Inspection of specimens and consultations free.-B,Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir-
mingham.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the past year the boats of the National Lifeboat
Institution saved 417 persons from different wrecks on our
coasts. The Inst itution has also expended £13,819 3s. 2d. in
the same period on lifeboat establishments, in addition to
granting £1.351 6i. Od. as rewards for saving 714 shipwrecked
persons by its lifeboats, and other means.
The Committee of the Institution earnestly AP PEAL to the
public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the con-
tinued heavy demands on the Institution's 125 lileb,at estab-
lishments. Contributions are received by all the London
and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adolph'.

-
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—llls Royal Highness the Prince of WALE F,R.G

President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

The numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad-
mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the
affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged
to treat as out-patients many distrea-ing cases which, with
more adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wards.
The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500
beds. _ .

The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on
voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by
the Treasurer. Edward Mas rerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also
by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and
Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith,
Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and C 0..; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay
and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Mame, Deacon, and Co. ;
Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ;
Masterman and Co. ; I. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at
the Hospital, from 10 till 5.
STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary.

Smith London Working Classes Industrial
Exhibition.

An event took place in Lambeth yesterday which will
form an interesting epoch in the annals of the industrious

classes of that locality, being no less than the opening of the

National Baths in the Westtninster-road as the South Lon-
don Working Classes Industrial Exhibition, far the exhibi•
tion of the handicraft of the working men of Lambeth. The
idea of such an exhibition was started some few months
since by Mr. G. Murphy, the well-known temperance lec-
turer, and has been successfully carried out by him, in con-
junction with the Mission Society and others. From the
success which has attended this attempt, which was looked
upon in the light of an experiment, it will no doubt be the
forerunner of many similar exhiLitions, though probably on
a much larger scale, not only in Lambeth, but in other
London localities, and in many of the larger provincial
towns. Ihe committee of managementikply all working
men, who have laboured gratuitougly, strictly confined the
exhibitors to being bona fide working men, obtaining their
living by daily labour—and so well seconded has been the
efforts of the committee by the working men of the locality
that there are 231 exhibitors, comprising men of all
trades--masons, shoemakers, gardeners, painters, carpen-
ters, engineers, printers, labourers, porters, and even chim-
ney sweeps. The articles exhibited are of great variety,
and upwards of 500 in number, and are principally the pro-
ductions of the owners in the hours after their daily toil
has terminated—many of them are most skilfully con-
structed, and display considerable ingenuity. Some of the
working models of machinery are beautifully finished ; and
when it is considered that they were made in the workman's
own home. with the limited means at his command, and
deprived of most of those applianCes belonging to a large
workshop, the result is really highly creditable to the
industry, skill, and intelligence of the workmen. There
are, indeed, many articles exhibited that would have
attracted notice even at the Great Exhibition. Amongst
some of the principal articles exhibited are a model of
Windsor Castle and the royal train approaching, a steam
printing press, a steam engine and threshing machine, a
suspension bridge, a model of Yeovil Church with a com-
plete peel of bells, &c.—all the productions of John Perry,
an ironfounder, in his own house. These models are all set
in motion by a halfpenny being dropped into a box attached
to each. There are also five cases of stuffed birds, executed
with the utmost fidelity to nature, the production of John
Hankins, a druggist's porter. Two miniature models in the
shape of pillars—one to Wellington, 2ft high, and the other
to Napoleon, lift high—the work of Isaac Thomas, a mason,
attracted a large share of attention from the visitors. The
Wellington pillar contains 600 pieces of stone, and the
Napoleon pillar 550 pieces, all beautifully polished, and so
put together as to present to the naked eye, but one solid
mass of stone. In the Fine Arts department are some well
executed large paintings on historical and religious subjects,
by Charles Machers, a carpenter; several paintings, exe-
cuted with a common halfpenny paint brush, aro marvel-
lously well done, by Thomas Nash, a porter ; and three
plaster models, by John Levy, a hairdresser, the subjects
being "Moses breaking the tablets," "Eve," and a " Child
with grapes"— the two latter being original designs. In
short, nearly every article exhibited is worthy of commen-
dation, while many are of a high order of merit. Another
noticeable fact is, that in the majority of cases the articles
made by the exhibition are not those in any way connected
with his trade ; thus a blacksmith exhibits a model of an
aquarium, a carpenter paintings, a musical instrument by
an engineer, and so on. Among the articles lent for exhi-
bition is an elaborate wood carving, containing 4,000 figures
and heads, representing the history of the human race,
executed by a Greek monk of Mount Athos, and now the
property of Mr. G'adstone, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, by whom itas been kindly lent to the committee.

The opening ceremony took place at 3 o'clock, at which
hour the Earl of Shaftesbury took the chair, supported by
Sir M. Peto, M.P., Mr. John Bright, M.P., Mr. Warner,
M.P., Mr. J. I. Briscoe, M.P., Mr. S. Morley, the Rev.
Newman Hall, and a large number of the parochial clergy,
vestrymen, and leading inhabitants of Lambeth. The large
area cf the hall was occupied by from 700 to 800 working
men and their families, admitted by Is. tickets.
The proceedings were commenced by singing a version of
the National Anthem written by the Rev. Newman Hall
and given out by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, after which the
Ray. S. Eardley read the 111th Psalm, and the Rev. New-
man Hall offered up a short prayer. Mr. Murphy, as sec-
retary to the committee of management, then gave a short
and interesting account of the origin of the exhibition which
the meeting now saw before them. He also read a letter
from the Chancellor of the Exchequer regretting his in-
abilited, from pressure of business to attend the mee ing as
he had promised.

Sir MORTON PETO, M.P., addressed the meeting, and
expressed the pleasure he felt at witnessing the scene before
him. He had for many years been connected with Lambeth
as a large employer of labour. lie felt bound to congratu-
late the working men in the locality on the rapid progress
they were making in elevating themselves in the social
scale. On behalf of the firm he represented he begged to
present the committee with a donation of £5O towards fur-
thering the movement they were met that day to celebrate.
(Cheers.)

Mr. JOHN BRIO fiT, M.P., next addressed the meeting.
He congratulated the working men of Lambeth on the suc-
cessful manner in which they had carried out this exhibition,
and trusted it would be the precursor of still more ex-
tended efforts. Working men were too low in the social
scale; they might do much to raise themselves by tempe-
rate and provident habits, and it was the duty of the Go-
vernment to lend them a hand by clearing away all obstacles
from their path. He dwelt on the necessity of a closer
connection and co-operation between the different classes of
society, and contended it was the duty of all men who de-
sired to elevate the masses of the people to help to bridge
over the gult which now so widely separated them from
their richer brethren. (Cheers.)
Mr. Warner, M.P., Mr. S. Morley, the Revs. R.Robin-
son. S. Eardley, and Newman Hall, having severally ad-
dressed the meeting in the same spirit,
The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting at some length.
He said, when he entered the building that day he was
both astonished and delighted to see the large number of
articles ranged around, many of them displaying high
mechanical skill and artistic taste, and all the production of
his humbler fellow-countrymen. He felt proud of them,
and it was only another proof of the rapid strides making
by the working man in social progress and self-respect.
Let any one contrast the working man of 1864 with the
working man of 20 years back, and he would at once
acknowledge the great improvement that had taken place.
There was ample room, however, for further improvement,
and such a movement Its that at which he was now
ssin the right direction. The noble
chairmanaisting was a re
then dweltgat stop
slonpg and eloquently upon the duties
working men owed to themselves, their families, and
society, and concluded by saying that no amount of political
power that could be conferred upon them would benefit
them unless they were determined at the same time
socially to reform themselves. (Cheers.) He then declared
the exhibition to be opened, amidst considerable cheering.
The visitors then circulated throne% the spacious build-
anaerv,
no
less
build-
ing inspecting the various articles, until six o'clock, when
the doors were opened to the general public, and the
building became crowded. The charge for admission is
fixed at the low term of 2d. each person, and the exhibition
will
ill remain
doubtless inclusive. It
w
from its novelty than from its ingenious. useful, and oma-
doubts open
attract untilract a Stu
large rday,
u, Mtubchr of 12
ioitara
, mental contents, so highly creditable to the working men
of South Loudon.

SIGNOR SIVORI, who is now
with his usual success, is announced to, be coming to Eng-
land on the Bth April. HEA JoAcu R playiug in Paris
tm is to be here on
the 21st May. M. VIEVXTEMPS will play only twice more
at the Popular Concerts.
SCHOOLS OF DESIGN.—" The Collection of watches
shown byMr. Benson is a large, and at the same time an in-
teresting one, and considerable attention has been paid by
the exhibitor to the decoration of the cases. Many of them
arc extremely elegant in the design, and were the results of
prizes offered by Mr. Benson to the pupils of the South Ken-
sington Schools of Design."—Morning Post,
Sept. 29, 1862.
Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeaters, centre
seconds, keyless, split seconds, and every description of
watch, adapted to all climates. Benson's illustrated pam-
phlet on watches, free by post for two stamps, contain,a
short history of watchmaking, with prices, fro; 3 to 203
guineas each. It acts as a guide in the Aland enables those who live in any part of the world to select
Ardiase of a watch,
a watch, and have it sent safe by post. Prize medal and
honourable mention, classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, 33 and
34, Ludgate-hill, London. Established 1749. Watch and
clock m ,ker, by special warrant of appointment,
the Prince of Wales. to 11. R. H.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Consumption, all nervous, bilious,
liver, and stemach complaints, in every stage, are only ag-
gravate i and accelerated by drugs of every description, but
perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta
Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had
been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914.
Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had
abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of
pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration,
exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks,
emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly
healthy, blooming,
fleshy gill.—.N. Lange, Commissaire dc
Police. Cure, No, 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley
Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver
derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss
Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion,
gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No.
64,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk,
of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted
all medical reatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 51b,
118; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Cu., No. 77,
Regent-street, Landon ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all
groom and amigo la every town cit.the United litagdOl•

THE MAGAZINES.

•
BLACKWOOD.--" The Fleet of the Future" is the
first subject that eLgages attention, and the im-
portant question is treated in an appropriate
manner. It is mentioned as a curious coincidence

that when the first sea voyage was made by a
steamer, Lord Palmerston was Secretary at War, and
that now, when our iron-clad leviathans aro almost a fleet,
the same statesman is at the head of the Government. After
a careful analysis of the different modes of ship. building,
and the new discoveries in the way of attack and defence
which have recently engaged so large a share of public at-
tention, the writer concludes by urging the Government
to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself,
and not allow foreign nations to take the lead of us in
the adoption of the striking inventions of the day. There
is great sense in this advice, and no reason whatever to doubt
the truth of the concluding observation, that if our Govern-
ment will thus avail themselves of the chances offered to
them, and " maintain the British navy in its traditional
position as the first navy in the world, the future history of
this country will contain records of achievements as bril-
liant and successes as decisive as the annals of the past dis-
close to us." " Tony Butler," is continued with some
spirit in this instalment. Not that the hero himself does
very much, but some other of the personages met with are
very entertaining, and Maitland comes out strongly in
his arrogant self-assumption and impertinent foppishness.
The Commodore, with his vulgar brusqueness, is really
quite a relief. The style of living at Mrs. Maxwell's is
very aptly sketched, and we are shown how the excess of
freedom allowed to the guests provoked some of them to
tyrannise, and others to give themselves airs. " Louis
Napoleon as a General," is the subject of an article of some
length, and will doubtless attract considerable attention just

ow,when political affairs Are so momentous and the most far-
seeing are afraid to divine what will next occur. There are
some striking remarks on the peculiar position which is
held by the French Emperor, which are well worthy of
attention. It is observed that " there is only one man
living who knows what the feeling is of having the whole
civilised world intent on his words and gestures." Further
on the vast military resources of France are mentioned, and
a tribute to the zeal and efficiency which has constructed

this huge machine, "thus complete, it is moved by the will
of one man, and this it is which causes all nations, great
and small, to watch, as Swiss peasants might watch a
?oiled avalanche, as villagers on the slopes of Vesuvius
watch the aspect of the volcano, the signs from which they
may divine the intentions of the French Emperor."
" Chronicles of Carlingford" brings the curate before us in
a sea of troubles, but he does not succeed in ending them,
although he offers the most vigorous and determined oppo-
sition to the attacks of those around him. The author is

fond of sketching very complicated situations for the heroes
and heroines of the tale to figure in, and Mr. Wentworth's
situation is about as unfortunate as any of the ill-fated
individuals previously sketched before us. Events are
approaching a climax in the little circle of Carlingford, and
the sad fate of the Misses Wodehouse ex3ite3 general pity
and indignation. Mr. Morgan's conduct is very ably
described, and the manner in which he takes up the affair
is likely enough, considering the prejudice he entertained
against Mr. Wentworth. The Perpetual Curate only adds
another to the long list of victims, who are crushed by the
manoeuvres of the suspicious and envious. Thomas Wode-
house is a clever delineation of one of those selfish natures
who are continually working for their own ends, and care
not whom they offend, so long as they carry out their own
devices. "Cornelius O'Dowd upon Men and Women, and
other Things in General," is very well written, and afford
some lively sketches of divers adventures, and sundry
scraps of intelligence are imparted in a novel fashion. " A
Letter from Schleswig. Holstein" treats of the question of
the day, and animadverts upon the present course of
British foreign policy.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.—The editor's story
proceeds with its usual animation, and chronicles
some of the vicissitudes in John Law's eventful
career. Love and finance divide the interest of the
story, and a whole orowd of characters and incidents
serve to gratify the reader who likes to watch an
historical panorama. Dudley Costello continues his story
of " Mr. Grimehaw" in his accustomed style, and the in-
defatigable Mrs. Bushby begins another tale. The editor
is determined not to spare his readers political discussions,
for " The American War" and " Denmark and the
Duchies" are both subjects of articles. Monkshood enters
upon a " typical consideration" of Mr. Micawber, and un-
fortunately finds only too many of his class in life as well as
in fiction, "At the Play" is the title of a plearfint notioo
of our theatres as they now are; and the first part of the
narrative of a ramble among the peaks and dales of beau-
tiful Derbyshire provides some agreeable reading.

Tlll3 NEW MONTFILY.—The many various aspects
of nature, animate and inanimate, in those African
wastes lately trodden by the foot of the adventurous
English explorer, have already given rise to a good
many essays and articles. In the New Monthly we
find a careful analysis of the information we have
gained respecting the vegetation of that part of the world,
and the writer concludes by observing that from the new
and useful plants indigenous there. as well as from the rich
additions held out to floriculture, there is enough attraction
in the Lake districts of Eastern Africa to induce any hor-
ticultural or botanical association to send out a collector
and explorer on their own account. Sir Nathaniel discourses
of the fortunes and misfortunes of that hero of Highland
romance—Bonnie Prince Charlie. This writer is never
very original in his papers, but ho has a whole tribe of
authors and authorities at his command, and he continues
to compile very readable papers. Sir J. E. Tennant's
" Story of the Guns" is the subject of an interesting notice,
and "The Last Aldenburgers" gives the outline of a his-
tory of same importance. Three stories are going on in this
serial, none of which deserve very high praise. Of
"Strathmore" we need only say that in high-flown descrip-
tions, fervent love scenes, and questionable morality, it
eclipses '' Granville de Vigne," its author's former pro-
duction.

FRASER.—A lengthened article on the " Congress
Correspondence," will attract the political reader i❑
opening this ❑umber. Those of literary tastes will
prefer to pass over M.Drouyn de L'huys's despatches
and Earl Russell's replies, to the ensuing paper,
" Tha Campaigner at Home," which discourses on
the various aspects of memorial poetry of which we have of
late years had several specimens. Dante's tribute to
Beatrice, Tennyson'a " In Memoriam" and Mr. IVoolmer's
" Beautiful Lady" are the most prominent of the memorial
works brought under consideration in this essay. It:is justly
observed that early death is usually ono of the incentives
of these poems--.a fact duly remembered by Edgar Poe in
his wonderful pourtrayal of the sorrow for " the rare and
radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore." Miss
Cnbbo scarcely does justice to a well improved and sugges-
tive paper by calling it "Hades"—an unattractive title
whose meaning is not immediately perceptible. The essay
recapitulates the various beliefs current among
different nations respecting their future state.
From the opposite ends of the ,earth," says
Miss Cobbe, "from remotest time till now, from
the Drahmin to the Greenlander, from the contemporary of
i mammoth to the civili,ed man of to-day—all have borne
the same testimony. The faith of immortality is vritten
on the heart of humanity. There is but one Hand which
could b,avo engraved it there, and that Hand writes no
falsehoods." The account of " Village Life in Oudh " is
continued, and gives us some particulars respecting the
official programme to be observed at births, deaths, and
marriages. The weddings aro a most serious affair, and
their absurb ceremonials are productive of crime and disas-
ter, being the primary incentive to female infanticide, from
fear of the marriage expenses, The difficulty of dealing
with the deep-rooted and fanatical superstition of the people
in some parts is clearly demonstrated. " Jem Nash, the
dull boy," is a picture which, though highly coloured, is
unfortunately true to life in its leading features. The cruel
mistakes so often made by parents and teachers in con-
founding natural dulness with wilful inattention, or lazi-
ness, have produced much domestic mieery ; and irrepa-
rable mischief is sometimes done to a boy's subsequent
character and career by forcing upon him a lino of study for
which he is naturally unfitted, and in which he is certain
to reap nothing but discomfiture and disgrace. " The
land tenure question," and other papers, aro also worth
reading, though the number is hardly up to its usual
standard.

MACMILLAN.—The chief attraction in Macnii/hiii
is still Mr. Henry Kingsley's tale of "The Hilly ars
and the Burtons," The author appears to be draw-
ing the tangled threads of his story together, and
the plot is gradually thickening. As yet the reader
cannot unravel it, but doubtless before long ho will
get a clue to the discovery of the double mystery which
links George Hiliyar with James Burton and Reuben Bur-
ton with the hidden " pigeon fancier," whose advent cer-
tainly bodes no good. The " Competition Wallah" con-
tinues his letters from India, discussing this month the
views of what is styled the Anglo• Saxon Party. his
letters are generally characterised by good sense and shrewd-
ness, while he fully recognises the claims of the natives on
our consideration. Archibald ➢laclaren of the Oxford
Gymnasium contributes a very useful paper on Private
Schools for Boys. There is mach sound sense in what he
says, and it would be well if parents paid a little more heed
to their children's physical training as well as anxiously
watching their mental advancement. A want of phYsco-
logical knowledge is often the real cause of much apparent
unkindness or neglect, and the were the Jaws of health are