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

LITERATURE.

of an imperial prince, and the homage of the very
peculiar and comprehensible interest due to the last
surviving brother of the Emperor Napoleon. Eliza,
the eldest of his sisters, who was born on the Bth of
January in 1777, at Ajaccio, was in 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 Dere, 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- 1
harnaht, 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. I
Joachim 'Murat, the Hero- King of Naples, who was
horn on the 25th of March, in 1767, at Bastide-
Frontoniere, 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 verse 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 regime, who received military and public
honours at his birth. Along the lines of the Grande
Armee, from 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 regime, and whose
birth was welcomed with like honours, was the sun of
Napoleon himself—the King of Rome. Immediately
upon the death of the Duke de Reichstalt, Louis
Napoleon was left therefore the legitimate represen-
tative cf the Emperor. A circumstance very curious
and worthy of remark, but one which is not usually
born in remembrance. A copious supplement. en-
titled, "Historic Illustrations" (p.p. 609 624),
describes successively the Tombs of the Bonapartes
and of the Beeuharnais, besides enumerating the
members of the former family still living and giving
to the public a very scarce and remarkable document
showing their genealogy. As already intimated, and
as could alone have been conjectured, the conspicuous
portion of the volume is t 3 narrative contained in it
(pp. 5-219) of the career of Napoleon himself, the
Founder of the Imperial dynasty. Although the his-
tory of the Emperor here given is necessarily brief
and condensed, it is nevertheless really admirable in
its character, constituting indeed, perhaps the most
perfect epitome of his life ever penned,--one, more-
over, peculiarly eloquent and singularly impartial
"In an age of heroes he became the first of soldiere,"
says the writer,—" in an age of kings the only mo-
narch men feared,—io an age of a hundred sovereigns
the only throne-maker." In Corsica,
~whtle still a
ng stripi, he was toll by Paoli,—" apoleon you
ere modelled after the encients—you are one of
Plutarch's men !" And he was. At Toulon, which
he eapotired by a master-stroke of strategy on the
19th of December, 1793, he wes twenty-tour !At
the defeat of the Sections in Paris, where he succes.
tulle defended the Convention cn the sth of Oct,
1795, by sweeping the streets with cannon, he was
t enty-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 wnuuded and the dead, and drenched with their
blood "—a triumph as complete as that achieved on
the 2d of December, 1851, 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 !" At the completion of the famous treaty of
Compo Formic) in 1797 he was twenty-eight! It
was Barras 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 be secured peace with England
by the Treaty of Amiens, and with Austria by the
treaty of Luoeville, he was thirty-two! When in
1802, declared Consul for life, he was thirty-three!
Vs' hen in 1803 there came the rupture of the Treaty
of Amiens he was thirty-four ! When in 1804 be
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—
he was forty-four when, in 1813, he gained the battles
of Lutz?n and Bautzen, and lost that of Leipsic—he
was forty-five en the occasion (1814) of his first ab-
dication, and forty-six (1815) on the occasion of his
see ind, when ha closed his wonderful career at Wa-
terloo, and claimed the hospitality of his enemies, like
Toemistocles. After a captivity of nearly six years
in St. Helena, he expired when fifty-one years, seven
months, 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.
At no period could an accurate record of his history
be more peculiarly welcome to the population than at
arllioure by junctu"e like the present, when thirty-seven years
after the close of his reign as Emperor and King, the
representative of the Imperial family is hailed once
the people of France, as the supreme head
of her democratic Government.

Tap Napoleon. Dynasty. By the Berkeley Men.
Cornish, Lamport, and Company: New York,
John Chapman : London.
A magnificent work has here been produced, and
lone 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 hul prediction
to that effect long floating in society, and the correct-
ness of that prediction bas, in the noble volume lying
before us for consideration, been to the full verified.
It consists of ten books, and is a species of pros
epic, very eloquent throughout, and, almire.bly dis-
e
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 boars 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. Oce 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 Caesar, 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 Meria 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 cf
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, es
First Consul—a face one might reasonably conjrc-
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 Highnets
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 ie many respects very re-
markable. It is singularly eloquent in style as it is
also philosophical in purpose and picturesque is de-
scription. Whoever the author may be—for we
cannot but conjecture that the soubriquet is cf " The
Berkeley men," is no less simply a mere nom du
plume than Benien's famous rseutionym of " Toe
O'Hara Family,"—he has evidently conned in no
euperficiel manner the history of the three French
Revolutions. He recognises the tendency of the grand
movement whieh was commenced in 1789 byMiraheeu,
developed in 1830 by Carrel, end still further a:Nance('
in 1848 by Lamartiee. 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—
" 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 ! 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 at 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 hod!, 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 I3onaparte 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
Weterloo ! 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 carried 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 Philippe::
after so many campaigns, so much bloodshed, so much
money expended—the postscript to the history of the
Emperor
tN
mayapol e obne
isav rsiuttlencieitnitlyfiveterwseoradns,d
insigtohie-
October of 1852 —" A. Bonaparte still rules
France." Precisely at thin juncture,
a )u
therefore' the
volume before us comes to hand as a welcome
venir. It contains a brief memoir of Charles
Bonaparte the father of the Emperor who
was born on the 29th of March, 1746, at
Ajaceio ; 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 Gracchi."
It recounts the life of her half-brother, Joseph, Car-
dinal Fescb, born on the 31 January, in 1763, and
who died on the 13th of May, in 1839, at Rome.
Thereupon follows the grandest portion, of course, of
the whole narrative—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
v aria, in the Hotel des Invalides. The career of his
first wife, the Empress Josephine, nee Marie-Joseph-
Rose-Teacher, is
delineated with every token of
sensibility in the
appreciation
of her noble
character—Josephine having been born on the
23d of June, in 1763, at St. Pierre, in
Martinique, and having died on the 29th of May, in
1814, at Malmaison. The brilliant destinies of the
Emperor's second wife, the Empress Maria Louisa—
who was born Archduchess of Austria on the 12th of
December, in 1791, at Vienna, and who died, Grand
Duchess of Parma, 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-
poleon Francis Joseph Charles, born on the 20th of
March, in 1811, King of Rome, and who died on the
221 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 Sarvilliers. Lucien, who
was born in 1775, at Ajaccio, and who, after writing
an epic in 24 cantos on Charlemagne, and another in
12 cantos on Corsica, died, is P. ince of Canino, on
the 29th cf July, in
was born on
tnei 84who
01, ,at Viterbo. Louie,
September in 1788, at Ajaccio,
and who, having reigned some time as King of Hol-
land during the supremacy of his imperial brother,
died on the 25th of June
1846, at Leghorn, under the
name of the Count de Saint
young-
est of the five brothers, who Jerome, the o Leu.
December in 1784, at Ajaccio, was""" the
15th
of
a, -Keel of Westphalia, end n,w raisedt .to a throne
year of his age, partakes still in the conduct of the
affairs of France, in his capacity as President of the
French Senate, while he enjoys once more the honours

A BARONET CONVICTED OF ASSAULTS UPON RAIL
7A.Y OFFICIALS.—The Bath magistrates sere employed
for some time on Tuesday in hearing two charges of
assault preferred against Sir James Francis Rivers,
Bart. by two 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
fined 50s. 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 W. 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
he indicted at the sessions, and committed for two years'
imprisonment. For a person of his rank, such conduct
was most discreditable. The fines having been paid,
since Sir
sup thereioprrietysenotf
courtisfonrot furiouslong driving,
Jamest hed defendant
was nda nt
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AQUATICS.--T. MACSINNEY AND CANDLISH.—.The
verySC elll a
lengthenedt iefetllnf O osfeainsotenr:sits,
thewh winds-upich
disputed
T. Mackinney, of Richmond, and Candiah, of the north.
A great diversity of opinion as to the rival pretentious
of these men having for a length of time existed, pro-
posals were made for a match between them, but the
ques;iou arose as to whether it should take place on the
Thames or on the Tyne, to which rivers the men re-
spectfully belong ; and as neither was disposed to give
way, althengh both were willing to give the necessary
expenses for travelling, etc., it was mutually determined
that in order the better to test their merit 3 by what is
termed a home-end-home match, that two races should
take place between them for 100 i. each—one on the
Thames, the other on the Tyne. The first o: these is
fixed for Thursday next, the 28th instant, on the
Thames, over the usual aquatic course, from Putney to
ii
andriver.contestanticipated,
inactivetraining,unequivocally
London
is First
att
opponent of the renowned Henry Clasper. and Mackin-
nu as the candidate for the championship of the
Thames against the celebrated Robert Coombes.
Messrs. , Serie have
chartered a fast steamer for the con-
veyance of respectable company. Betting is about 7 to
4 en Mackinney, bat the Londoners are shy at such
long odds.
AL FINE OPENING FOR EDIIGRANTS.—In the westward
plebes of Port Philip, n'-or Geelong, there is q dirriet of
200 rnii,s of lend, by ""' 't
-r° I,rca-, h . f tr: HI f, -f
, ',:i.: :, : . •
dive r.tifiad, clo;hed with park-111w tlinber, well ratercd,
and has been called tiy experienced English agriculturists
equal to the finest garden lands of Kent. This land ili
as yet unoccupied by the emigrant,

Sr*, fJO-:NtliON, titenStsAY lEVtNING, OCTOI3ER 21, 182.

it was, ha should mark his snns© of the outrage, and
inflict a penalty of 21 days' imprisonment.

LA MBE 113.—SINGULAR CASE OF PIGAMY.—List
evening, es Mr. Elltutt was al; eit to leeve the bench,
Mrs. Sarah Hensman alias Smith, was brought to the
Court in custody on a charge of ntgemy, by intermarry-
ing with Mr. Joseph Liensmen, her farmer husband be-
ing still alive.
From the evidence it appeared that so far back as 26
years ago, the peisoner, who is at present a fat j t
,lly old
woman, nearly 60 years of age, was married a Tun-
bridge, in Kent, to Mr. John Smith. Th 3 parties lived
together for some years and then parted. end had since
lived separate from each other. On the 26th of January,
1841, she got married a second time to toe prosecutor at
Newington Church, and bed lived tolerably happy from
that time until a short time eince, when it was said the
prisoner gave way to drink, and the prosecutor having
disenvered 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 merriresee of her brother and the
prisoner at Tunbridge in 1816. Some time after they
separated, and her (•viutess's) brother. was still living.
and resided at Maidstone,. The witness in crnis exami-
nation, was asked if her brother was not meeried since
his separation from the prisoner, but her reply was
that she did not know the fact of her o.en knowledge.
The prosecutor deposed that previous to his marriage
with the prisoner in 1841, she represented herself a 3
widow, and he was a widower, and on the 26th of
January in that year he was marrie4 to the prisoner at
Newington Church. The witness denied that he was
aware at the time of the marriage that the prisoner had
another husband living, and declared he had not re-
quested that person's sattetion to their marriage.
The solicitor who attended on behalf of the accused
said that the fact was that the prisoner's fi:st husband
hd a wife when she married him, end thie should be her
defence en a future day, when the first husband could be

found.
The prisoner was ultimstely reminded, but was ad
mittei to bail.

n
York
-row,
o—adC,hcrwrlae
ss Gsuu
mnnmel tradesmansii
.'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 be went to
the defendant's house to execute a warrant against him,
arising out of proceedings in the Southwark County
Court. On entering the house he exhibited the warrant,
when the d,-fndant sked him what it was for ? The
reply was that it was at suit of Chillengmer, hut that he
(witness) did not know whet the debt was for. The de-
f,,,ndant then said th,:l if he could not tell him what it
was for, he should kick him out of the plat', and then
proceeded to lay hold 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 blsw he received knocked him down, and ho bad
not yet rcovered from the effects of it.
Henry Hardinge confirmed the complainaneg account
statecomo:nunsrti
tidotiwnlr:elhdt:hhbeihumetwsaea t
wentarjouukt
justified
broker,
flea
xeceeedner ofe
thetll e
of the transaction, and said that ho heard him distinctly
f
warrant.
The defendant endeavoured to show that he was not
aware that the complainant was an officer of the court
County
d
trader who had no business there.
beexapelslolinagsshlmtedastahaat
ihne
Policeman 65 M admitted Elan-, ho did not interfere
when called upon by the complainant to t.ko tho de-
fendant into custody for assaulting him.
Mr. A:Beekett said the policeman had no right to
refuse his assistance when called upon ty the County-
cour officer on the occasion, and tnat his (the police-
,fian's) conduct oueht to be made the subject of inquiry.
Toe magistrate then inflicted a penalty of 51. isod costs
on the defendant, and in default of payment committed
him for one month.

INTERNAL ARRANGE:VIE,NTS OF THE
NEW CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENHAM,

The distribution of objects of fine art and manufacture
in the new Crystal Palace at Sydenham will be as fol-
lows:—Entering the building in the centre of the b s
!meet on the eastern side, and aseendme to the ;round
flier, four large courts, of 72 feet by lie dc:;.oun
the nave northward and southward. The' fif.xrls:;,l3towalaTdigs
the north, is the Italian and revived classical court, in
which be exhibited a fine collection'oa statues,
and other classical subjects. Further on, towards the
north, is the second court, containing Bee:l* , Frei ch,
and Flemish art manufactures of theree'laCesson. ce period,
in which a central tomb and statues will als
o occupy
conitrienous place. The next court northwar'cletipy a
s the
ested:mval court, which will be furnished with
appropri-
ately designed cloisters. In this court there will be
several tombs and fonts of a remote perioe, a collection
of the great seals of England, and scene cases' of French
ivories and enamels. The By a inane court is the next
and last court in that direction, and will contain part.
mans and Norman art.
mens of Byaintine,
Fnts 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; end of printed fabrics in the fourth.
Entering the ground floor from the west, we have the
Nineveh and Egyptian courts immediately on our left,
and occupying together a space equal to twenty-one
squares of twenty-tour feet each way. The bulls and
lions of Layard's Nineveh, and en ample display of
Egyptian antiquities, will be displayed here. Next to
this court, atilt 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. Ad
court
devoted to
o
Roman antiquities is the next ; und then follows
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 for 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 compluvium, end several little cuticula, 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 taireases an proceedin
norteward, we find very considerable spacdes 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 he exhibited every variety of substance used
for human food, and to the musical instruments. En.
tering the gallery by the staircases on the west, the
central portion is filled with china and glass. On the
north side we find leather, fur, and sundri, s ; on the
southern, musical and philosophical instruments ; anti
in the extreme southern gallery the cutlery. Several
open galleries, partly separated from the great lines of
counter, occur at frequent inte ry als, and pleasingly vary
the general arrangements. On the ground floor, too.
there are some open corridors of enormous length,
which will have an exceedingly elegant appearance.
Along the great central nave will he a variety of works
of art, as in the old Ex'ei hition. Telesis will include an
Egyptian obelisk and a Greek column.
A considerable space on the ground floors will be
tastefully laid out as gardens, ire which trees indigenous
to many countries will be shown, together with a greae
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.
There will be a large central and two side entrances
in the basement, an entrance in the north and another
in the south side of the ground floors, and three on the
western. Considering tos he generalmope desirable dis-
of the under-
taking, it is scarcely psible
tribution of parts 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 and Son.

THE NEW Yottie CRYSTAL PALACE.—Tbe 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 the spring of the arch, 63 feet ; to the
crown, 118 feet. The arches will be of the northern or
semi-circular style. The building will cover 2i 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 sn 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:ae., 40th•st., and 42nd-at. The whole cost of the
building is estimated at 200,000 dols.
MARRIAGE OF A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER:7
Amongst the various expedients to which parties desir-
ous of contracting this sort of alliance are baving 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 ire
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 cf 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 necenumssity, make
the necessary provision ; but a far greater ber, 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.
ATTACK UPON A FINERAL.—IIIfOrMatiODS have
been ordered by the magistrates of Portadown, against
sixtcen persons engaged in a riotous attack made on a
funeral procession in that trighbourbood on Sunday
week. A number of persons attending the funeral
CJ,iti.olie 1)1160 cO-".)
~i ttimrerd with gt.,eo j they were att.l.wki.c.
with stories by a nii.b if yGung mme of t!piosite
partT, who CAM to th, aq.au4 h-:utlf,g the usual com-
pliments paid by the Orangemen to the Papa and
, Popery.

PRIC.

RES

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER. COM-
PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENT G•
L',i14.1)0/i, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

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Dividend Amoun *
Name 01 Co npany. per ol Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-------- --- -- _
Z 8. d• A s. d.
A istralasia ••••• • • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0
Britsh North American 61. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 57
Commercial of London 16/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
Colonial .••• • • • • ••• 131. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 16
lonian •••••• •• • • • • 1 6/. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 _
Lond. Char Bk. of Aus• . i 20 0 0 210 0 ),
London and County • 6/. per cant. 50 0 0 20 0 0 25
uonnn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 1100 0 0 20 0 0 33s
Condon Joint-Stock . 61. per cent.
50 0 0 10 0 0 193
Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100
0 0 25 0
0 0 0 0 _
Ditto, New. •.•• .. 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 1
National of' Ireland .. 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0
Ditto, Now. ••••• .. 61. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Oriental Bank Corpora. 81. p. ct. & bs. 25 0 0 25 0 0 AS'
south Australia •• •—• 6/. p. ct.& bs. 25 0 0 25 0 0 26
Unions); Australia— —6/. p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0
10 035 0 0 50
Ditto •• ••.. • • ...... 6/. per cent. ^ 2
Onion of London... 71. percent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 17
Union of Madrid .•• • • 40 0040 0 0

I SSURANCE COMPANIES. 8
Dividend Amount
Name of Compniy• per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
- -------- --- -- ----- -
X 8. d. £ a. el.
Anion •• •• •• •• •• •• ••31. 105. \ 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
&Bianco Brit. and F0r.171. 145. 6d.b51103 0 0 11 0 0 23%
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. p.c.& be. 100 0 0\ 25 0 0 -
Anchor .. ••.••• • • - •• 6per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
Aries . • ••
Argue Life •• •• •• •• 41. per rent. 100 8 0 16 0 0 -
British Commorcisl •• 75. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 7
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.& be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20%
4/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 102
Crown •• ••••••• • •• •• 14e. 50 0 0 15 0 0 17'
Eagle •••• • • • ..... •• • • ss. 50 0 0 50 0 7%
Eqity and Law •• •• •• 4% percent. 100 0 0 50 0 5%
European Life ••• • • 15e. 20 0 0 All paid. 14
General •••••• •• •• •• - 5 0 0 Pt 5%
Globe ••.••••• • •• •• •• 61. per cent. Stock. 149
Guardian •••••• •• •• •• 51• per cent 100 0 0 45 '1; 0 58l
imperial Fire •••• •• • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 256
Lnperial Life •••• • • • • 125. 100 0010 0 0 19%
ladomnity Marine •• •• 11.511. & 85. 100 0 0 20 0 0 53
f.aw Fire . •••• •• - - 2s tc 2s. be. 100 0 0 210 0 4%
be.w Life .••••• • • • • • • - 100 0 0 10 0 0 47
Legal and General Lift, - 50 0 0 20 0 5%
London Fire .• •• - -10 s. & be. 25 0 0 12 10 0 30f,
London Ship ••..• - •• 103. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 30
`Urine •• •• • - ...... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 17%
qed. Inviid&Gen.Life 04/. per ct. 50 00 ' 20 0 [2
Minerva •••••• - • . . . sp. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 20 0 6
Monarch ••••••. • .. . • . - 5 0 0 1 0 0 265.0 d
N'ational Lean Fund- U. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
'illadium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 27,,
Pelican .• . • • • - - - 45
PAenix •.. • • .... •• . • - - - -
Professional Life.. •• .• 51. per cent 6 5 0 010 0 155.0 d
Provident Life •••• •• .• 11. 55. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 40
Rock Life •••••• • • •• • • ss. 50 0 010 0 8%
Royal Exchange 6l. p.ct. & be. Stock. all 235
••un Fire • - „. 6/. 10s. -
Ditto Life ..• .. ..... 11. 65. f t 55
-
United Kingdom •.... 4/. p. ct.& bs. 20 0 0 40 0 4%
' Tniversal Life.... - -2/. ss. per sh. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45
Victoria Life, .... • ... 51. per cent. - 412 6 5%
BRIDGES.
___.-----------
\ Dividend Amount
Paid. Price.
Name of Company. per of
N
Annum. Share.
.------ -----. --- -.....---
X. 8. d. X. 5. d.
1 I:Lingerie rd ••.••• • • • • - - - -
- •,nuthwrk •• .. .•• •• • - 100 0 0 - -
\
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 70e. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
aterloo .. ••••. • •• • • - 1100 0 0 - 3
l'
. Ditto Old Ann. of 81. V. Bs. Od. - 60 0 0 241 A
' Ditto NA, ditto of 71. , 21.25. Od. - 40 0 0 223 i
,
d Valaall •• •• .•• AT. 1 21 70 10 3 - 20
nz. !--_-----
IVA.TER-WORKS.
______----------
i Dividend Amount
T• Name of Company. Annum. per of raid. Pilo
1 Share.
----------'...-......- ---.-- _.
:I', 1 X a. d. X 5. d.
1- East London. ..... •• •• 6/. per cnt. Steck. - 123
D. Grand Junction .• •• •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 69
dent- ••••••- - - •• 41. per cut. 100 0 0 - 83
id Lambeth •••••• - •• •• i - 100 0 0 - - -
ig New 90 ew River Company• • 21. 10s. - 60
'ls Southwark & Vauxhall Si. per cot. 100 0 0 -
in West Midoilesex •••• •• 6/.os. pr cat. - -
110

Males ...
Females ...

DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. A per oouf Paid. Prig
nnum. Share.
------- -- --- —...--. _
• £ e. d. £ e. d.
Commercial .• .• • • .... 41. pr cent. Stock. 105
East and West India... 6%1. pr cent. Stock. _. 168
East Country •-• . ........20e. 20s. per eh. 100 0 0
London .• ••• • •• ••.. 5/. pr cent. Stock. 130
__Ditto Bonde•• • • •. ••4/. per cent.
St• Katharine •• • • .... 4 per cent. Stock. 97
3,itttrupton •• •• .. .. 1/. per cent; 50 0 0 50 0 0 34
Victoria .. ••••• • • • • • 20 00i 2 0 0 7

CANALS.
---.
,1 dDividend
Names of
1,34 2.), I
Dividendl Names of 4 „„
Companies. per Price.
Annum. .
Companies.
------ ---1— —.--. 1---.
X \ 2 \Allure. Priem.
Ashtn& Oldh 98171. p. ct. 140 Macclesfield. 100\ 21.105. 50
3arnsley •• • • 160 _ Neath ••• • • • 100 161.
2rkult&Abr l5O 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 ' 13!. 135
3irmingham 40 41. 101 Peak Forest. 78 , 31. 18s. 70
Coventry.. •• 1001 25/. 200 Regent's •• ... 331 11. Os. 17%
Derby ••• • • 10.01 61. 63 Rochdale..•• 851 21. 42
EllsrnrettChs 69 2ii p. ct.' 33% Somrset Coal 1501
ClrandJunctn 100.31, pr. ct. 50 Do.LkFdSt 12
281. 405
_
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. ct. 12 Stffrd &Wore 140
Grand Surrey 100, 21. 10s. Shrewsbury.. 125
;rand Union 1001 11.10 s. 24 Stourbridge..
Kenna; Avll 3921.05. 24
6s. Od. 7% Severn and 1451 201. 290
Lancaster • 100 Wye Rail. 526
Leeds&Livrp 100 251. 522% Warwick& I
Leicester .. • . 100, 51. 66 Birming. j 100 41. 40
Leicstr &Nth 831 41. 44% Warwick& 1
Lcrighborogh 142, 701. 510 Napton..3 100 31. 28
ifonmonthsh 100' Worcstr IQ
Nintgemrysh, 100 Birming,s 78 31. 33
1 Meltn/Awbrylloo Wilts & Brks —10 s. Od. 71,

GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
...--------
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
A. s. d. A. s. d.
British • • • • • • •• • • • • • •
Ditto rrovincial•• •• O. 81. 20 0 0 20 0 0 19
Brighton •• •• •• •• •• •• 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 16
City of London ...• •• 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 125
lontinental (Third Cap.) 41. 75 0 0 43 10 0 67
',,ittit able —•• • • ...... 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 26
Great Central:— •• •• • 10 per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Imperial •••••• .. El.& bonus. 50 0 0 50 0 0 86
independent ......... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
i.ondon •••.••• • • • • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0
Do., Parl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25
:•heenia •••.. •• ...... 341. per cent. 50 0 0 49 0 0 26
Ratcliff ••• • • ...... • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0
rJnited General .. •• 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 211.
Westminster Chartered 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 86
Ditto, New •• • •

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
--__,--------
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1
_;aledonian Bank ..
RI. per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 32/.0 16s.
City of Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10%
nydesdale Lank -• •• •• 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12/ 12s
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 180%
Eastern Bank •••• •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10
Edinb.kGlasgow Bank 31• per cent, 50 0 50 0 4/4
Exehangeßnk of Scot.. - 100 0031 5 0 9s. Od
gational Bank •• • ..... 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1614
sorthof Scotlandßank bl.per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 314
Royalßank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 136
(Jnion Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 92%
Western Bask- •• •• - 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
Alliance Fire and Life 830. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21%
British Guarantee .. - 41. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 18s 9d
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
City of Glasgow Life.. 1. per cent. 50 0 0 r 0 oer cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41.
2%
15s
Colonial L 6/.
Life .• • • .... 5
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 23%
Eng. St Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 3%
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/.per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 31.25 d
17s
National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 3.e
North British Ineur. •• 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 34%
ScottishUnionlnsrnce. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 32..6d
•tandard Life •••• - • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 12%
United Dee•j""u"ce".Puml
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Pahl. Price.
Annum. Share.
------- ----.
-
X. 11. d. £. s• d.
Assam Tea •••••• • • .. - 50 00 0
0 20 0 0 19
21. 55. 50
Auction Mart • • • • • • .• 26
.11 35 0 0
kustralian Agriculturl 32
100 0 0
Australian Trust •• •• 61. per cent. _ 85 0 0 ___
Australian Royal Mail - 10 0 0 20 0
~,,nglo_Brrealcan Mint.. 11150 e. 10 0 0 10 0 n 31,i
•• 22
British American Land s. - 38 10 0
Canada .••••• • " • • • • 6/. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 50
Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. per cent. _ - .-
Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 61. percent. - 114%
_
City :Navigation Bonds 31 per cent. -
- 97
Electric Telegraph (A) - 25 0 0 20 0 19)11
Ditto.. •• •• •..• (B) - 25 0 0 710 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 51 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 119
' Ditto New -.•• • • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
i Gen. Revers. &Invest. sp.c.kbe,2l 100 0 0 100 0 0 100
Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 28%
Hudson's Bay.. „ •• • • -
Stock. - 220
Ilungerford -•••• • • •• 21. ss. 100 0 0 100 0 0 47
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 5
- London Reversionary Al
-.. Per cent. 15 0 0 15 0 0 15
R assell Institution.... - - 12 10 0 -
Price's Patent Cand. Co. 101, per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 25
e Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106
O Royal Mail Steam.... 41 share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 78
O gouth Australian .....
51.. ppe'r shar. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25
Trust and Loan Comp. %
t 1 of Upper Canada..., - 20_023 ° G 37';

Totrcl

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•••• 825

hien LAW REFORMS.._—It is semi-officially stated
that the law officers have not been idle during the long
vacation, as some persons might imagine; on the con-
trary, several comprehensive measures of legal reform
have been matured, and will be ready to be submitted
to Parliament on its re-assembling. Among those mea-
sures wit! bo one for the consolidation and reform of the
law of 1 sndlord and tenant in all its branches, and the
set,lement of the landed ieterest in Ireland upon a more
Bats and satisfactory basis as to the respective rights,
privileges, and duties of both classes. Another of the
promised panaceas is a measure for the reform of corn- ,
mon law yrocedure and pleading of the superior courts,
' in order to simplify and improve its forms, and render
its administration more speedy, certain, and economical.
All parties will heartily wish Mr. Napier a " safe de-
livPranc ."
, j,.„...... :•,- rrt_ ENTS/tritri:.—Tt,e f..!)1,0 capital re-
\erl.,---k: to 1,1-'i %'. j' iil:-.15 ek c •mpacie.s ilieitiOug
gold, railway, ban!sing, and mining undertakings, pro-
jected during the pres',ut yaar, is estimated to amount
to 30,000,0001., independent of the usual supplies in the
I shape of calls and loans for established companies,

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