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LITERATURE.
A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MOL-
LUSCA. By Mary Roberts, author of " The
' Conchologist's Companion." Reeve and Benham.
In the cumpilation of this work Miss Roberts has
evidently endeavoured to please both the student and
the general reader. The former is furnished with a
summary of the newest writings and researches of
Mr. Reeve and other naturalists, with well-designed
and beautifully coloured representations of all the
latest discovered mollusca, their habits, &c. To those
who do not understand such things, and who would
throw asiue a book full of Latin names and scientific
terms, the authoress has provided much information,
which must interest all. Much light has been lately
thrown upon the Molluscs, the fish which inhabit
those curious and gigantic shells which adorn our
mantelpieces, and at which, although many look with
attention, they little think what cares and privations
its owner once underwent to provide for his wants
and guard himself from his enemies. Paley was
wofully at fault when, in his " Moral Philosophy," he
cited the oyster, limpet, and othershellfish as examples
of those whose only happiness was found in peace and
quiet. Of the fallacy of that supposition the follow-
random extract will give a sufficient proof :
" The animal inhabitant of the Finns marina is a blind
slug, surrounded with numerous enemies, and parti-
cularly obnoxious to the Sepia, or cattle fish, who
watches the motion of the Piuna, and no sooner does
the latter open his bivalve shell, which occasionally ex-
ceeds two feet in length, than he rushes upon him like a
lion. _ _

"It will naturally be asked how such a blind de-
funcelesa creature can either procure food or protect
himself from the attack of his implacable enemies?
Nature uniformly redoubles her exertions in favour ot
the weak; or rather, it may be said, that the God ot
Nature offers, by this new and affecting compensation, an
additional reason for unreserved confidence in Him. A
k►nd of crab-ffsh, naked like the hermit, and:very quick-
sighted, is the constant companion ot the Pinna marina.
iney live and lodge togethe.. in the shell which belongs
to the latter. When the:Pinna has occasion to eat he
opens his valves, and sends out his faithful purveyor to
procure food. If any foe approaches, the watchtul crab
returns with the utmost speed and anxiety to his blind
protector, who, being thus warned of danger, shuts his
valves and escapes the rage of the enemy; when, on the
contrary, the crab loads himself with booty, he makes a
gentle noise at the opening of the shell, which is closed
during his absence, and when admitted the two friends
least together ou the fruits of his industry. This curious
fact, although well known to the ancients, escaped till
lately the observation of the moderns. Aristotle tells
113 that the Pinna kept a guard to watch for him; that
there grew to the mouth ot the Pinna a small parasite,
having claws, and serving as a caterer, resembling a
oral', and termed the Pinnophylax. In like manner
Pliny mentions a singulr animal called Pinnotheres,
which, he says, is liable to injury, and therefore }.ru-
dently bides himself in the shell of oysters. He also
speaks of vie Pinna as belonging to a genus of shell
fish, produced in muddy water, and constantly attended
by a companion."
Of the existence of this fish Pliny wrote some
eighteen hundred years ago ; but the story was treated
as a fable. The knowledge of its existence was for-
gotten, and only lately revived. Such anecdotes are
to be met with throughout the volume. The history
of how the ancients concocted their dyes, from the
shells of fishes, and the labour and enormous expense
that it required to dye but a small quantity of wool,
is very interesting. The book is rendered still more
attractive by the number of beautifully coloured plates
representing the various specimens of fish of which it
treats. It is also handsomely bound.

ANCIENT AND MUDERA INDIA. By W.
Cooke Taylor. Revised by P. J. Mackennu, Esq.
James Madden.

This work cannot but prove a most useful one to
those who desire to know the history of British India
from the commencement, without going through
many volumes and having to read a great deal of
matter which is not required for the occasion. Here
we have a complete history of Hindostan from the
earliest ages, its conquerors, feuds, and the different
nations that composed that portion of Asia. It will
be interesting to those who have read Moore's
" Leila Rookh" to find that the originals of Selim
and Normahal, in the Feast of Rose, flourished in
Hindostan in the early part of the seventeenth cen-
tury, and that Moore has rather underdrawn the
influence that Normahal exercised over Selim. He
became so deeply enamoured of her that he named
her Normahal, or " light of the harem," and spent
every hour he could spare from the affairs of state in
her company, In his autobiography the Emperor
declares—
" At the period in which this is written (about four-
teen years atter he began to reign), I may say the whole
concerns of my household, whether gold or jewels, is
under her whole and entire management. Of my unre-
served confidence indeed this princess is in complete
possession, and I may allege without a iallacy that the
whole fortune of my empire has been consigned to this
highly endowed family. The lather being my finance
minister, the son my lieutenant-general, with unlimited
powers, and the daughter the inseparable companion of
my cares."
The author gives graphic and interesting accounts
of all the Dutch, French, and native wars in which
Great Britain has been engaged since the commence-
ment of her Indian trade, with strictures or apologies
for the backzlidings of the various governors and ge-
nerals during this eventful history. The accounts of
the principal battles and memoirs of the more im-
portant personages are interesting and concise. The
compilation of this work is excellent, for besides a
full index of each chapter, by the side of every page
are small notes stating what each paragraph contains,
so that the reader by glancing his eye down the mar-
gin may know the contents or where to find the para-
graph required.

TEE DUTIES, RIGLITS, and LIABILITIES
of JUSTICES of the PEACE. By Thomas
William Saunders. John Crochford.
In this little volume Mr. Saunders has endeavoured
to enable justices of the peace to be independent to
to a certain degree of their clerks, who, in nine
cases out of ten (where the justice of the peace holds
his office solely because he is a landowner) perform
all the duties of their superiors. The author of this
work has collected all the principal Acts which regu-
late the conduct of justices, with many useful rules
to guide them.

DISCOURSES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS,
Read before Literary and Philosophical Societies.
By Samuel Bailey. Longmans.
Tuis work consists of nine of Mr. Bailey's dis-
courses, which he has read at various periods before
certain societies. Although, perhaps, the majority of
the public will not feel a great interest in the whole
of the essay, still, owing to their extreme variety, the
reader is sure to find some of them to suit his taste.
They consist of a " Treatise on the Mutual Relation of
Sciences ;" " An Account of the Discovery of a Mam-
moth The English Language " Political
Elephant. in the North of Siberia, with Geologi-
cal Stotrstic„s;" "
f the
rheyttsl
cuadleof Eng
;Gen"eritael foPrrininactiiPillesof
lEacnodnry„
Investiga-
tion "The Mechanical Causes of Thunder ;" " Pa-
radoxes of Vision ;" " The Theory of Witt,,, sce.
From all these, which are well written, the reader
cannot fail to find employment. The account of the
discovery of the fossil elephant at
the mouth of the
Lena, a river in Eastern Siberia, is told by Mr.
Bailey as though
he had been an eye-witness. The
monster was first discovered 1 ,
in
799 by a Tungusian
chief while hunting, entirely encased in the
ice. Three years afterwards, the ice having
given way, the body of an enormous elephant
in perfect preservation, was found lying on the sand
bank, but before any active measures were taken for
its removal, it was much mutilated by the natives and
wild animals. The remains were subsequently re-
moved to St. Petersburgh by Mr. Adams. Mr. Bailey
gives a full description of the monster, and gives an
able discourse on the varims surmises which arose as
to how it ever got to Siberia. The other two die-
courses have equal interest in their way, and are
di-
versified by various anecdotes.

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NOTES ON NORILI
AMERICA, Agricul-
tural,
Economical, and Social.
Rll'azood and Son. By James T. W.
Johnston. 2 Vols. W. —a° ' We con ratulate Mr. Johnston on the independent
concerning
stand which he has taken as regards his r
America, its inhabitants, and produce.
He
g
has acted up to what ho has stated in tli i preface, vz ,
that, although a "Britisher" he has endeavoured to
vi
speak fairly and with candour of the states and pro-
get aces through which he has travelled. It is alto-
her an uncommon book ; for instead of the tourist
who carries his sketchbook with him to depict the
beauties of scenery, Mr,
hook w
Johnston has taken his noteith him, an order that he may give his coun-

trymen a true account from personal observation and
inquiry of the produce of the land in the North
American provinces, its market prices, and the profit
that the farmer makes on it. The author describes
his travels throughout New Brunswick, St. Law-
rence, ac., in an off hand manner, evidently more in-
tent upon agricultural pursuits than anything else ;
nevertheless he finds time to look into the, universi-
ties, and to describe the timber trade and other
institutions of the country. He remarks "that in
America, as with us in general, the most zealous im-
provers are those who retiring from commercial pur-
suits come fresh to the tilling of the soil, untram-
melled by prejudice, and open to weigh fairly the
chances of profit from this or that mode of husbandry."
This work must prove very useful to those about to
emigrate to America.

JOINT-STOCK AND PRIVATE BANKS
DIRECTORY. Part I. Groombridge and Sons,

Paternoster-row.

The editor of the Bankers' Magazine bas emi-
nently entitled himself to the thanks and gratitude of
the banking community by the publication of this
valuable work, which will henceforward form an in-
dispensable adjunct not only to every bank, but to
every great commercial establishment throughout the
entire country. The collection of the lists of joint-
stock shareholders, and the description of the several
partners i❑ the private banks, although taken from the
official returns, have involved much labour in pro-
ducing the accuracy without which it would be
worse than useless. The present part contains all
the requisite information respecting the banks in
England and \Vales. It also comprises a digest of
the Acts of Paliament now in force relating to the
constitution anti privileges of the Bank of England
and joint-stock banks, and a digest and analysis of
cases decided under these Acts, and also of the law
affecting joint-stock bank shareholders, and of cases
decided under the winding-up Acts. There is also
a great variety of useful information, all of which
exhibits unequivocal evidence of the extraordinary
care and attention bestowed in its collection. We
trust that the indefatigable author will receive many
substantial marks of the gratitude that should be
bestowed on the author of that which will, we have
no doubt, prove for several years a standard book of
reference in all matters relating to banks and
banking.

EXAGGERATION.
BY ELIZL COOK.
We wonder what would be thought of a person who
deliberately loaded and fired a forty-pounder to kill a
bluebottle, or who begged the loan of a sack to carry
home a pottlo of strawberries in. What would be our
opinion of any one who employed a sledge hammer to
drive a tack, or who purchased a quarter of oats to fill a
nose-bag; why we should undoubtedly believe him to be
in no state to make a will, and question the propriety of
his going at large. Yet we find greater innovations of
consistency committed every day as regards the purpose
and meaning of language, without our conceiving any
direct notion that the parties indulging in such are fitting
candidates for election at St. Luke's.
The habit of exaggeration in language is a charac-
teristic in many people, which appears to us to afford a
truer index of their general qualities than is ordinarily
observed. A great depth in any faculty, or acute in-
tensity of any feeling, is seldom possessed by those who
invariably use the most imposing words they can find to
express their opinious and sentiments. The stereotyped
grandiloquence and florid warmth of tone used by them
in discussing simple matters, or relating simple incidents,
are, to our matter-of-fact organization, little beyond the
flourishing of drum and trumpet, which upon close in-
vestigation is found to be the issue of sheepskin, brass,
and common atmosphere. Some people's tongues are
eternally emulating the frog in the old fable, and always
straining into an ox—a state of verbal inflation alike
ridiculous and false. There are those who never expe-
rthieenycespaeamhondferiattaes
spolcicttaiseig9ahleaddeagerhene,
aonfd pain but "
awful"
spasm, or "dreadful" torture. If they meet with a
slight incision of the skin, they have "cut their finger
to the bone;" the application of a mustard poultice for
five minutes never fails to "flay them alive;" a common
cold is mentioned seriously as a" most violent influenza;"
and a week or two of fever is recorded as a " severe and
frightful illness." The " superlative" is the reigning
mood with them; skim milk becomes Devonshire cream,
glorious,” "horrible," " tremeonndothues,i;
and small beer uinness's stout; " superb,"
a:ttneegnx.qwtioisnidtee,r','
dweolnicdieorufs°,l4'''' ‘‘
charming," " beautiful," " terrific," " a' 3.
lipss
ah
si as-
tonishing," ,'
plentifully' an d s uacsh
conjunctions, extreme adjectives,
while gauging the narrow calibre of brain whence the
big torrent issues, how such large furniture could be
found in such a small house. Let these people repeat a
story or circumstance, and you can hardly detect the
original, they see everything through a magnifying glass
and kaleidoscope blended. Talk of painting in veritable
colours, the foreground and outlines, often given in mere
words, beat the pre-Raphaelites by notches; a Dutch
garden all tulips and peacocks, or a summer sunset all
purple and gold, are soft and unimposing compared to
the limning power of one of these fluent sign-painters.
We once kept account for a lady, during a three miles'
walk through rather sandy lanes, who declared herself
" halt dead" with fatigue every few minutes; and we
found that she had died exactly eleven times and a half
at the end of the journey, when she swallowed cider and
sandwiches in a most vital fashion, considering her mul-
tiplied state of demise. We met a cottager's child,
which she rushed up to and pronounced to be an " an-
gelic little cherub;" but our near sighted eyes could only
perceive about as average a bread-and-butter-devouring
little biped as over plagued a mother: then she informed
us that the view to the left was "grandly sublime,"
though there was nothing to elicit rapture beyond a
broad common fringed with a plantation, barely relieved
in the foreground with a very yellow pond, and still yel-
lower goslings.
We chanced to tell this lady of a visit we had paid to
the Porcelain Works at Worcester, and mentioned
among other things, that a part of the materials used
was ground animal bones; shortly afterwards we were
told that we must have made a mistake in our recital,
for Mrs. H. had repeated our account, and impugned
our veracity by declaring, that cups and saucers were
made of ground human bones, and saying that we had
assured her of the fact. We informed her one day that
a marble figure just put up in a friend's hall was three
hundred weight, and were laughed at soon after for hav-
ing told Mrs. H. that it was three tons. We have never
talked much to Mrs. H. since these florid mistakes.
An elderly gentleman amuses us very often by his de-
scription of his only son. The young man, according
dtoeehdishipaa?,in portraying, is an " immense
,genius,"...sig.
his abilities
are in fact so great that they do not know what he is fit
inspiration in a wonderful degree;"
papa's portraying,
is too much for his body;'
for; he "plays divinely," "sines exquisitely," and ps-
s ife hs o livesn "pos-
sessions
long enough
the poet's
"do something very
grand;" and withal, he is "so delicate in cunstitution
hewill
that he can hardly bear the wind to blow ea him."
These are the doting sire's own words, but we should,
in giving a candid opinion of the youth, use less elevated
language, and say that he is nothing more than a spruce
fir, entered and labelled in his pas grand conservatory
as a cedar of Lebanon; and as for his "delicate consti.
tution," it seems to stand pretty well under an unlimited
amount of large dissipations and " small hours."
Now these people are but types of a class.
We met with these inflated exaggerations in manifold
shapes—from the Prime Minister to the potboy, from
the political leader writer to the last-dying-speech-and-
confession inditer, from the continentally-educated
duchess to the A-B-C-less scullery-maid; there seems [4,
natural tendency in many to verbal apoplexy, and wo
wonder some imaginations are not found dead in their
beds, Our public press teems with this exaggeration as
much as our private parties. We should like to know
how many " great national crises," bow many " awful
and eventful epochs," how many vergings on " desperate
revolutions," and how many " most serious and fatal
consequences to the country," have occurred in the
newspaper columns during our recollection? Yet, St.
Paul's stands where it alw
ye did, and exiled royal foxes
seek old England as the safest cover they can run into.
We should like to know how many reviewers have held.
up the "coming genius of the age," and pointed atten-
tion to the " most distinguished writer in English lite-
rature;" how many volumes have been pronounced a
"the finest work that has appeared for many years;"
and yet we offer come across some of these sterling
productions in partnership with the trunk-maker's
paste. We should like to have the sum total of domestic
byp.rb 'les, such as being "as hot Z 46 fire,'. as black as
a coal, being " delighted and charmed" to see a tenth-
Tete acquaintance, and being " deeply distressed" to hear
that M: R )binson's seventh child has fallen sick of too
much pudding. What a census of illuminated "figures"
we elicited have to wade through, and what outrageous
fibs. We have no great objection to a respectable
•• white lie" now and then, such a judicious bit of colour-
ing often gives valuable relief to a bit of domestic Rem_
brands," and dispels the gloom of a household " Salvator
Rasa;" but we do not admire the silly and super fleeus
indulgence in lies that bear all the tints of the rainbow.
Not that we are advocates for drab-coloured sermons
or pale grey philosophy solely. We can enjoy the true-
blue love-letter, and participate in the deep scarlet burst
of enthusiasm, as much as any Parnassus-climbing idiot;
but we certainly quarrel with the general mode of Spec ch
adopted by those who deal so widely in the big 6` words.
of the dictionary, without attaching to those words the
slghtest portion of their meanings. The " flowers of
rhetoric" are only acceptable when necked by the ever-
greens of Truth mud Sense. The habit of exaggeration
in language should be guarded against; it misleads the
credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us
would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in
the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull
promising what it cannot pk if ,rra, end we have often
wand the most glowing declarations of intended good
on we could name,
service end in mere Irish vows. Those who, when we
ask a favour, affirm they will do it, " cost what it tray,"
exaggeration iu everydey
and though they may have to " move heaven and earth,"
are never found by us to be so likely to confer it as te
certain steady per
vino says h 3 will
"do it if he can." Sirens*
language should be avoided, we think, as being mentally
unhealthy, and conversationally wearying. A straight-
forward intention in speech is as grateful to associates
as well ordered dress, and we feel as much doubt and
aislike in talking to one who, with very inferior intellect,
flings all sorts of loquacious yeast in our ears, us we
Should in graspine unwashed, coarse hand, covered
with paste rings, Now, kind reader, we have filled up
the "hoar before morn" with our pen-and-ink dreaming,
s
and if we express an
earnest hope that it is for your
amusement, pray don't accuse us of Ex.
Eliza Cook's Journal, aggerstion.—

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE•

Mr. Balfe took last night his well-merited ben7
and was greeted by a full and brilliant house. /he
performance may be considered as the first of the
farewell ones, as it was at play-house prices, and two
evenings' entertainments of a combined character are
to be given upon Thursday and Saturday on the same
terms. Mr. Balfe's claims upon the musical public are
so perfectly known and appreciated, that there is no
need for a single introductory word of panegyric upon
the present occasion. The warmth of his reception
upon his appearance in the orchestra, and the repeated
acknowledgments which he received at the hands of
the audience, formed the best and most practicalin-
terpretation of public opinion. The entertainments
were long and varied. They opened with the ever fresh
Don Giovanni—its first performance this season—and
introduced two ladies new to the boards of her
Majesty's Theatre. Mrne. Erneline Garcia, the late
prima donna at Drury-lane, was the Elvin', and gave
the music with musician-like appreciation and effect ;
whilst Mdlle. Toccani, who is known to concert
goers, as Zerlina, won encores in " Batti, batti," and
the " Vedrai carino." Mme. Fiorentini was the
Donna Anna. The part of the hero was in the hands
,
of Signor de Bassini, who played and sang it with
manly straightforwardness. Caizolari as Octavio,
sang the famous " mio Tesoro" with great finish
and tenderness, and, as a matter of course, Lablache
was Leporello. The opera went swimmingly. Then
came a short concert, in character costume, in which
Signor Gardoni, with Mme. De la Grange and Mme.
Charton, appeared, the latter singing the " Ab non
giunge." The entertainments of the ballet depart-
ment included a pas by Mdlle. Guy Stephan, and
two divertissements, embracing the whole strength
of the mute part of the company of her Majesty's
Theatre

HAYMARKET
THEATRE.
The Adelphi company have moved hither for a
month, and opened last evening with a new three
act piece from the Mortonian mint, entitled The
Writing on the Wall. There is an ancient country
family with a murder twenty-five years old in its
annals. Next there is a grasping, sinister neigh-
bouring proprietor, who is the murderer, and who,
rdth comic villain, a village fiddler,. But there is also a sort
o
by the spoil which he carried off on the occasion, lays
the foundation of a fortune, and ultimately comes to
force on a marriage waidthvantthaegeshorfinhkisincglahimeisreusspoonf
er
herthf
whoe c oshpnho
esaucnisideebinehtebri
been an
asa:
takingb
accomplice in the murder, and who
is the thorn in the principal criminal's side. It
appears that the dying man, to the knowledge of the
fiddler, wrote his murderer's name on the wall in
bis own blood before his death. This terrible piece
of evidence the fiddler concealed, by pushing a screen
against it, and the room has since been closed up, and
of course haunted. Now, however, the musical acces-
sory before the fact threatens to disclose all, in case
his demands for money are not complied with; and
so the murderer determines, as he has access to the
house, to break into the room where the crime was
committed, and efface the implicating lines. He ac•
cordingly forces the door, when he is confronted with
his intended bride, who had taken refuge in the de-
serted room, and who denounces the bridegroom—
pointing to the terrible " writing on the wall." The
bride elect is restored to her real lover, and finds a
father in the sudden re-appearance of the murdered
gentleman's brother, who has been falsely accused of
the crime. The comic element is contributed by Mr.
Wright, in the character of a cockney who comes
down to the country to establish a " model farm,"
and who falls in love with the fiddler's sister, who
has been an equestrian lady in the hippodrome, buc
who captivates the model farmer as an unsophisti-
cated country girl. The scene in which the economy
of the " model farm" is displayed is capital. All the
labourers, male and female, are dressed in a species
of rural uniform, with " model farm" inscribed upon
their smockfrocks and pinafores. The former are
discovered asleep, each man on a truss of straw.
When Mr. Wright awakens them, they go to din-
ner—when he tries to thresh the corn himself, he hits
his own head—when he goes to quiet the dog, he is
chased round and round the stage by st• fine New-
foundland, capitally trained; and when he goes to
feed the pigs, he lets them out ; when two of the
young porkers, to the vast delight of the audience,
jumped into the orchestra. Finally, after having
been most outrageously swindled on all hands, and
ill-treated by his model labourers, who get drunk
and disorderly, the model farmer gives up agriculture,
and his rural sweetheart re-appears as his bride, in a
fascinating riding habit. Mr. Emery, as the villain
of the piece, played with great care in the rugged and
earnest style which characterises him; and Mr. Paul
Bedford was admirable in the passages in which he
recalls the circumstances of the murder to the perpe-
trator. Mr. Wright was as droll as usual, and created
just as much merriment. Miss W oolgar's assumption
was as clever as is her wont, and Miss Chaplin and
Mrs. Leigh Murray, in their small parts, were as
efficient as need be. The applause at the close was
uproarious. _

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Yesterday those charming little American prodi.
gies, Kate and Ellen Bateman, took their farewel
benefit at the St. James's Theatre prior to their
departure for the United States. The event was alto-
gether very brilliantly successful. The audience
was numerous and fashionable, being under the
patronage of her Grace the Duchess of Somerset
and of their Excellencies the Austrian and Turkish
Ambassadors. After the cornedietta of Perfection—
delightfuly enacted in the principal parts by Miss
Rebecca Isaacs and Mr. Walter Lacy,
the
always one of our especial favourites—the real busi-
ness of the evening commenced. Often as the Bateman
children have been applauded in London before, they
never met with a more cordial reception than greeted
them on their last night's appearance. We acknow-
ledge ourselves at once to be among those who enter-
tain a feeling of particular dislike to the generality
T
stage-struck precocities.
•• e have as instinctive a
horror of this kind of lucis natural as Nioh°l"
and contortions of that abominable little W latter
of
of
Nickleby had when he first witnessed the squeakings
brat a
Crummel, called on Mrs. Grundy's playbills a he
Phenomenon." To this day
that there was anything very wonderful after all in
the Young Roscius as a juvenile tragedian—
though we are ready to admit that Mr'
William Henry Betty as a grown-uP per"
sonage is a very respectable
and intelligent gen',
tleman. But the little Batetnans stand entirely apart
of the cock
from the mass of these premature wearers
and the buskin. They are as unequalled in the his"
Chatter to.n
trionic art, as children, almost as the boy
was in poetry, or as the infant Mozart was as a
musi-
cian. Their abilities appear to be e.s unforcedh t!s
T. Their
under any circumstances could be expected.
we are not quite sure
spontaneous merriment is one of the most contagion
ebullitions of fun imaginable. When the
tures laugh the whole audience laughs with ?Ir,
and this laughter often becomes a roar of unmistak-
ablehic
approbation. We don't precisely know W
__
to prefer of the two—perhaps little Kate Bateillan!.!
the most childlike, and, therefore, the most naturalthe
but then little Ellen Bateman sometimes bears away• To
palm triumphantly by her astonishing clevernekew—
see these children in The Old School
and the
boy of
Kate as Frank Mountain, the scapegrace (a
the Old School), always in mischief, with the curliest
little flaxen little crea-
tures
and the prettiest little features
childhood—Ellen, in ada little the joint
suit,
pper
iloby, with
production one might fancy of Stultz and
bit, the
an eyeglass about the size of a foureeneY. e
tn shirt-
trousers well strapped down over the boots' fitting
collar unexceptionably starched and the cravat. •
/4 A nalf, in
to a nicety, in stature seemingly a foot-an----
•n manners
vuice shrill, in bearing self-possessed, 1
the Hon.
drawling, not to say affected, in characterspecimen of
George Augustus Walme4 a perfecteYlen
r
the ' •
- -islng generation !To hear little Bateman
Ell
—we beg her pardon—Mr. waimesley (aged
fved-
seven years, but with the carriage o . th
n -
inse e an
most
thirty) appealing for corroboration.
is valet John•
negligent way conceivable to h his exquisite
son, or J-a-n-s-e-n according to" y
-e-s,
a-n-d
pronunciation—to hear him
~say„ t eia-en—b-u-t
J-a-n-s-e •n g-o-t h-i-s h-e-a-u c---i.n i-t—w-a-s
t-h-e-r-e w-a. s n-o- tall-i-n-lf. ten to this and
t-h-e-r-e, J-a-n-s-e-n ?" To
listen
untenance,
watch the little creature's impertur
abTheco mere con-.
the while was something delicious•
trast
of the boys representing the
old school and the
After this dramatic
newi Was worthy of admiration-
,in which the sketch came The Young C"` le' celebrated b
Bate-
man children have rendered themselves
tions ; and th Y us,
upwards of two hundred represen a,ta as b
, benen wbrought
with other amusements, the '
The house was
to a most successful conclusion.
crowded,
and the audience—what they ought to
have been—enthusiastic.
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tnhees
sp
te
hr performances rAi nr
Madlle. Straudmann,
sd
bTyheatre with their pre.
HER MAJETY% TaBATa73.--Her Imperial High-
ness the Archduchess Catherine of Russia and his Royal
Highness the Duke George of Mecklenberg Strelitz honoured
pre-
sence yesterday (Monday) evening. Her Imperial High.
achucdeuschatesHs
werasMaatjteesntdye'
maid. of honour in waiting, and M. Kroutichief, gentleman
in attendance. His Excellency the Russian Mster, the
013faraness Brunnow, and Madlle. de Brunnow had the honour
accoranlnyi her 1 erial Highness and his Ro - l
High F. -ng ITIP . c tary of the • "
~ ness the Duke. The firs, ~,ecre . Russian lain_
(AL de Berg) was in attendance upon her Imperial
ighness and the Duke George. AMOngSt the fashionk.bla
company also present at the theatre were the following :___
_Lord Ward and party, Lady Mary Bentinek and party, the
Viscount Clifden, the Viscount Ranelagh, Sir George Armi-
tag arid Lady Armitage, Colonele., Lady Sarah
"aPpel, Colonel Freestun, ;IL P., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun,
~Lady Jane Cole, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Mr.
1 distlethwait Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Bur-
-1 ton, &e. el
- -•-

crowd of
aulihs_ admirers,
. _
Mr. Daniel Webster, who is named for the Ameri-
can Presidency, being recently visited at midnight by a
and serended,.tyrewil his bed-room
4 made tinin a speech in 413 shirt

THE FISHERIES QUESTION WITH THE
UNITED STATES.
(From the Correspondent of the Times.)
NEW YORK, MONDAY EVENING.---The excitement
on the subject of the eastern fisheries has been
greatly increased by the speech which Mr. Webster
delivered last Saturday on the occasion of his public
reception by the people of Marshfield, where he has
for twenty years reside-3, and to which place he has
resorted at every interval of leisure for the practice
of rural amusements and agricultural pursuits. As
you will, doubtless, transfer the entire speech to your
columns, it is not necessary to make any quotations
in my letter ; but you may judge fromethe language
the Secretary uses how decided his own opinions are
on the subject, and how irrevocably the Government
at Washington is pledged for the protection of our
fishermen and fisheries. I should in my last com-
munication have surveyed the whole question, had
I not supposed that publicity had already been
given in England to the strange policy of
Lord Derby's Government on this subject,
and it could hardly be doubted here what course
The Times would take in a matter of such great im-
portance. No rightminded or intelligent man can
suppose that any sufficient cause has existed, or
ought to exist, for hostilities between the two nations.
And yet there seems to be a fixed determination on
the part of the Government, the Congress, and the
press of the country to repel any aggression upon our
citizens, who have been suddenly interrupted in those
pursuits which they have followed peacefully and
I with impunity for a period of 30 years. The report
of the Inspector. General of Massachusetts shows
what interest that State has in the fisheries. Mas-
sachusetts alone has 858 vessels of 54,040 tons in the
aggregate, navigated by 9,174 men and boys. The
value of those vessels and their outfits is 3 532,000
dolls., while the an value of the fish they take
amounts nualsum
to a nearly as great. The
inspector estimates the value for the rest of
New England at nearly the same as that of Mass-
achusetts, and remarks that with all the pains he has
taken he has only approximated to the true figure,
since many
.vessels are employed in the cod and mac-
kerel fisheries, of which no proper register or reports
are preserved. It appearsnthlaBtslthe mackerel-men of
Massachusetts caught in ibarrelslBB 336 barrels in
in those waters
now American waters, and t
141,000
claimed as the exclusive British right by Earl
Derby. The Boston Times, which is considered, par-
ticularly in this matter, as
of New England expressing the popular feel-
ing et men, says .
One half of the mackereamen are now in the waters,
where Earl Derby proposes
voyage to oust them by an armed
success
force. The
of each vessel depends on
her ability to fish °
ut the season by following the fish
2 vessels and
till they are full.
Probablnow expoy sed,o tooo the cannon of a 30,000
men and and boys are
cruelties and horrors of British prisons,
tish fleet and
whatthecr
hove for 30 years been accus-
tomedtor doing just t molestation. The anxiety and can
tress to do
.fvaera__ilies o,f all our seaboard people can
tress among vitilite
easily be conceived—their d their traditionary recollections of
British prisons and courts not being very happy,"
The remarks of Mr. Webster are a singularly
striking confirmation of t e statements and opinions
whihle it is most earnestly to be
of the Boston Times,
hoped, as ee
Afl' Webster says, that the subject of the
late dispatches
from the Colonial-office had not at-
tracted a sufficient
degree of attention from the prin-
cipal Minister of the Crown; yet he sees matter in
them quite inconsistent with the arrangement made
Earl of Aberdeen and Edward
in 1845 by' the
Everett. Mr. Webster lays the greater stress upon the
fact that the Earl
of Der by was at that time Colonial
Secretary under the (xovernment of Sir R. Peel, and
consequently the definitive arrangement with Mr.
Everett could not well have taken place without
Earl Derby's knowledge, and, in fact, without his
concurrence or
sanction. Our Secretary, therefore,
could not but think that this arrangement had been
overlooked as an inadvertence. It is generally sup.
posed in this country that the elections in England
will have terminated
fatally for the Protectionists,
and that,consequently, Lord Derby will be obliged
Government; in which case his suc-
cessor may, with great
propriety, give a different in-
terpretation to the question of the fisheries, and take
occasion, in doing
it, to tohr.
j ow the onus of this contre-
temps upon his predecess.r.
The more wise and uuicious among us anticipate
this mode of relief from the present embarrassenen,
that British and American statesmen are labouring
under; because it is not to be supposed that any
American whatever,
much less any American states-
man or journalist, would attempt to arrest the torrent
of popular indignation that would burst out from
every hill-side on the continent, if the news should
come that the smacks of our New England fishermen
had been sunk in the Bay of Fundy by British can•
non. The course of Lord Derby in this respect may
nave got him and the two countries into more diffi-
culties than he anticipated.
Another subject of excitement at the moment is
the extradition of Kaine. If Kaine had been an
Englishman, or a Scotchman, or a Welchman, there
would have been very little trouble about it, be-
cause in this case England is so manifestly in the
right that it is preposterous, after reading the Ash-
burton Treaty, to dispute it. But the cause of all
the " fuss " that is being made lies upon the very
surface of our party polities. It is well known that
the Irish vote in this country sways a complete
balance of power between the two political parties, and
consequently the leaders and demagogues of these
parties resort to every trick and deception to win the
Irish sympathy. Hence a numerous and tumultuous
anti-extradition meeting was held a few evenings ago
in Tammany-hall, the head-quarters of the democrats
of New York city. Speeches were made by a con-
siderable number of well-known public characters.
but the two principal speeches of the evening were
those of Mr. Brady a popular stump speaker, and
lawyer of New Yell, of Irish extraction, and a dis-
tinguished member of the democratic party, and
Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune.
Mr. Greeley gives us, in the report of his speech, the
following clause, which we cut from his own journal :
"He (Kaine) is not an ordinary criminal, but a mat;
impelled to violence by a sense of wrong—not of indivi-
vidual hardship merely, but of political injustice. His is
one act in a long drama of violence, having its origin in
the conquest of Ireland and the confiscation of its soil to
the use of tile conquerors. Admitting that Kaine is
guilty of the act charged, his is not purely a moral of-
fence, but partakes of the nature of a political one."
The New York Herald exposes the revolutionary
tendency of such doctrines in the following lan-
guage :
" According to this precious doctrine every man who
feels himself impelled to violence by a sense of wrong'
is justified in committing murder, and ought not to be
brought even to trial! We scarcely ever knew an in
stance of murder that the perpetrator was not driven to
it by some 'sense of wrong.' Following up this princi-
ple, and applying it to the United States, let us see how
it would work. According to Greeley, the coloured po-
pulation of the south suffer greater wrongs at the hands
of their masters than the white serfs of Ireland ever
suffered at the hands of their landlords. Impelled, there
tore, to violence by a sense of wrong, a black slave is
justified in committing one act in the long drama of vio-
lence having its origin in the introduction of slavery into
this country by the British—he is justified in perform-
, ing his part in the play by the murder of his master,
land when he flies to New York he is not to be surren-
, dared for trial. In his case killing is no murder—it is
not a moral, but a political offence. And, to follow up
the idea, suppose the blacks of a whole state conspire
and murder every white man in it, not leaving so much
as one to tell the tale, all this would be no crime against
human or divine laws—it would be a mere political
offence. Such is the atrocious, murderous higher law
doctrine proclaimed by Greeley, and if some of the co-
loured race do not' better the instruction' the fault does
not lie with him."
When the first judicial decision in the case of
Kaine was given some days ago, by which the Judge
of the District Court of the United States decided
that, under the Ashburton Treaty, the prisoner was
to be delivered up to the British Government, another
issue was made, and to-day the case was brought
before Judge Bosworth, of the bench of the State of
New York, on a writ of habeas corpus. The Hon.
J. Prescott Hall, United States District Attorney,
appeared for the Marshal, by direction of the Go•
vernment, and, in compliance with the order of the
Judge of the State of New York, produced the pri-
soner. Mr. Busteed, counsel for Kaine, and Mr.
Edwards, counsel for the British Government, were
both heard at length by the Court, when Mr. Brady,
the popular orator before alluded to and the principal
counsel for the prisoner, stated that application had
been made to Judge Nelson, of the Supreme Court
of the United States at Washington, for the purpose
of bringing the matter before the highest tribunal of
the nation for a final decision. He also stated that
Judge Nelson had replied to the effect that
the case in issue presented a novel ques-
tion, and some days would be required for the
deliberation. Judge Bosworth remarked, that where
the liberty of the subject, and the reputation
of the Government in the execution of the
laws were at stake, it was imperatively necessary to
proceed with all due deliberation ; he therefore ad-
journed the Court until next Wednesday, and re-
manded the prisoner again to the custody of the
United States' Marshal. We shall see what tbte,e,
result will be ; but thus for we can
ourselves. Mr. Greeley and some other editorsf lade
I done what they Pa
could to inflame the congratullaa
hs,si°.rteao t the,
Irish population, and things had gone the of
Marshal exposed come alarm lest, intim
court-roorn,
the prisoner from his confinement to the
a rescue would be attempted. Thr-', Irish
ever
Justice
was surrounded by a large crowdoe%
twhatever was
tion during the day, but nn,,,enfrom the court
made until the prisoner was tr.solice, But it soon
room, when the mob attackfedae the , ;
P
rioLers, who
ended in the arrest of .
are now in prison awaltshr;Ltyleeir
e 28, 10 O'CLOCK A.M.
WEDNESDAY,
Yesterday, the great nig gathering took place
at Niagara Falls. .-id and suppued, that
It was ,s 4 ,