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because they only care for the quantity, and not
for the quality of their conquests. To infuse a
gradual improvement among their own possessions,
and to soften down the harsh outlines of conquest
into something more genial and gracious, is quite
beyond the ken and above the wishes of the nation.
The humiliating position that is occupied by the
largest country in Europe is aptly alluded to in
this reply. After stating that it is three-quarters
of a century since the nation have advanced with
great steps towards fr,:edom, the speakers earnestly
declare—" You alone have remained encrusted with
the rough barbarism of ancient times and the Tar-
taric wildness of the steppes." This is plain speak-
ing, at all events, and, if it answers no other pur-
pose, it may take down the pride of the assuming
dictators who presumed to lecture the patriots
struggling for their birthright and the citizens
pining for their social rights. It is melancholy to
dwell on the passage that refers to the suffer-
ings that have been endured for the cause
of liberty on the soil of Poland. The in-
domitable energy that has held up the patriots
and the sublime endurance that has maintained its
ground despite all obstacles, and notwithstanding
all attack, are illustrated in this rely—" a spirit
stronger than the sword, and mightier than
despair" has animated and informed these heroes
and martyrs, and now the sentiment shines
through these words, and imparts to them a life
and lustre. The stirring memories of the past
arouse these men when they declare to the Rus-
sians that finding it impossible to make them
adopt a civilisation far inferior to their own, they
have perpetrated heathenish cruelties against
them, and by endeavours to annihilate them, have
planned to call their native land their own. There
is the prescience that a long course of injustice
and deceit generally imparts to the oppressed
when it is said, " We mark a satanic smile upon
the lips of our oppressors when they hail us as
brothers." Considering the circumstances of the
case, the term is an insulting one, and it is not
surprising that it should be rejected with scorn
and contumely. Of what avail iE it that a tor-
tured and tyrannised people should be made game
of, which they certainly are when the represen-
tatives of the soil of their oppressors thus salutes
them with the sacred title of affinity bearing
evidence of cordiality and goodwill. It has failed
in making the Poles think they were being ad-
dressed by those keenly alive to their welfare.
It will fail in making any of the nations of
Europe believe in the sincerity of the framers of
the appeal. "We shall never be decoyed again
by the honey of your deceptive words," declare
the Poles in their reply. For often has the fatal
mistake been made for the lesson to need learn-
ing again, and forewarned is forearmed we may
be sure in this instance. The absurd proposition
that was made by the Russians, that the Poles
should join them in attacking their natural
enemies, the nations of Western Europe, is scouted
with the scorn it deserves. On the contrary,
they distinctly declare that if they occupy any
position it will be to join the enemies of Russia,
not the other nations, who are their friends.
Then, as to the prospect of culture held out in the
appeal, it is shown how the devastators have
crippled education, suppressed schools, and stolen
the treasures of art and of science. Finally, they
say, " Not unto us, then, but to your CZAR, call
loudly. Bow to the unalterable course of history.
Of one thing let him bs assured, only lie can obtain
peace who is willing to leave others unmolested ;
and only then will the Russian people be happy
when they permit us to enjoy our happiness undis-
turbed." This is a worthy conclusion to a noble
address, that deserves to represent the nation of
patriots whose mouthpiece it professes to be. A
more uncalled-for and inconsistent thing than this
appeal of Russian patriots to the Polish people has
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scarcely been heard of, and it is most sat'sfactory
messages, and it is creditable to those who framed
the reply that it in every way enters into the ne

cessary detail, and aptly represents the spirit of the
nation. At ad events it cannot be said that this
arduous struggle, this unequal conflict, and this
dreadful suffering has been all in vain. Through
the gloom of the reign of terror which is established
oa her soil, Poland has beheld some signs of a
brighter dawn and a better day of freedom near at
hand. The Russian EMPEROR cannot for shame
accord privileges to that nation that he IN ithhoids
from his own people, and hence it may yet turn out
that the Russiane themselves are benefited by the
noble efforts made by the patriot sons of Poland.
It is a tribute to courage and constancy of which
history can record no more signal instance or strik-
ing example. Those who have perished on the
battlefields, or who endure the harder lot of a
foreign prison, might rejoice if they knew that in

some measure their work was not profitless, nor
their labour thrown away. The fact is that the
Poles have held out so bravely, and resisted so in-

cessantly that the whole of Europe joined the cry
of their wrongs. If unable to assist by armies, the
voice of public opinion, and the concurzent testi-
mony of witnessing nations is sometimes more
powerful than armed hosts. One urges and excites
to opposition, the other overawes and impresses.

If only good result accrue to the heroic nation that
has been so long the shame of her tyrants, and the

grief of her friends, it will be one of those world
wide blessings that attract universal acclamation,
and form the source of thanksgiving to all be.

holders in divers nations and of many races.

OUR IMPORTS.—The imports of foreign and
colonial goods into the United Kingdom are of four
classes. The first comprises articles of food. The cora-
puted real value of these in the returns for 1b62 was no less
than £93,027,988, a sum equal to three-fourths of the value
of the entire export of British and Irish produce and manu-
factures. By far the largest item is for corn and flour, the
imports of which in that year reached the enormous amount
of £37,755,060. The import of grain, meal, and flour never
reached 12,000,000 qrs., until the bad harvest of 1860, in
which year it was 14,494,976 qrs., but in 1861 it was
16,094,914 qrs., and in 1862, 18,441,791 qrs. The average
price on which the value of the wheat imported was
computed in 1862 has not yet been stated • in 1861 it was
538 9d for Russian, 60s 2d for Prussian, 39s 9d for Egyp-
tian, and 558 2d for American. There were otherim-
ports of food of astonishing amount. Not to speak of strong
drink, nor of tea, coffee, and sugar, we imported in 1862
cattle, sheep, and swine, and salted meat and lard, to the
amount of more than £5,000,000 (the oxen and bulls were
put in 1861 at an average of £l7 lls, and the sheep at 455);
butter, nearly £5,000,000; cheese, £1,500,000 ; rice,
£2,400,000; eggs, £600,000; poultry, £85,000. A second
class of our imports consists of raw materials of manufac-
' ture ; and the value of these arrivals in 1862 was
£96,513,530. In 1860 the amount was £91,981,804. The
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In 1866 the computat ion was on American cotton at 60s. 40.
per cwt.; in 1861 at 725. 50. A third class of imports con-
sists of articles used in manufacture or agriculture, not being
raw materials of manufacture; and these articles reached
£16,643,572 in the year 1882, The chief items in this class
are wood, sawn or split, planed or dressed ; oils, guano,
copper partly wrought, and iron in bars. The remaining.
class comprises manufactured articles, and the import of
these in 1862 amounted to £17,196,463 ; a few unenume-
rated articles bringing the whole amount of the imports of
1862 up to £225,716,974. The chief manufactured articles
imported were silks of the value of more than £6,000,000;
woollens, £1,574,218; cottons, £899,738 ; leather goods
(chiefly gloves), £851,256; clocks and watches, £464,000;
'factures of hair and goat's wool, £397,454; and glass/
£408,',;88.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REI7TER'S TELEGRAMS.)

GERMANY.

LITERATURE.

CHAMBERS'S HANDY GUIDE TO THE KENT
AND SUSSEX COASTS.
One Vol. pp. 172. W. and R. Chambers.

A Shilling Guide-Book, capitally illustrated,
admirably well compacted, gossipping but not
garrulous, instructive in regard to what we want to
know, and interesting throughout—has just been
published by the Messrs. William and Robert
Chambers, of Edinburgh and London. It conducts
the reader or consulter of it, as its very title shows,
along those pleasant coasts so delightfully familiar
to us all—the coasts of Kent and Sussex. A beau-
tifu' little, delicately coloured, folding map (all the
better it would have been if backed by linen) is pre-
fixed to the volumette as a sort of frontispiece. A
map skirted along its northern margin by the
meandering line of the River Thames from beyond
Reading in the west, circuitously eastwards past
Gravesend, the Medway and Sheerness, until its
fresh waters are lost in the rolling salt waters of the
Channel and the German Ocean. A map skirted along
the south quite as waveringly from Portsmouth in
the west, to the Forth Foreland in the east, confront-
ing the terrible Goodwin Sands. As to the interest•
ing character of the various scenes traversed by the
tourist who may take this Handy Guide Book
as his circerone that may perhaps be
the most readily indicated by a passing
reference to the subjects selected for the twelve ex-
cellent woodcuts distributed among the letterpress.
Here Tilbury Fort, here Earl Amherst's lovely
seat of Knole near Sevenoaks. Yonder grand old
Rochester Castle, looking down in ruins upon the
stately old Cathedral. Yonder, again, at one while,
Fort Pitt, Chatham, and at another Kit's Coty
House, ;he hughest Cromlech in all England. Mar-
gate is the subject of two illustrations, one of the
town, one of the pier. Canterbury Cathedral meets
our glance, a little later on in the ♦ery readable nar-
rative or description here put together by one evi-
dently no novice at these kind of compilations. After-
wards we have a peep, successively, at Dover Castle
and at that other airy castle overlooking Hastings.
Near the latter fashionable watering-place, we are
led, not unwillingly, back, infancy, by the draughts-
man, to Lovers' Seat, at Fairlight. The closing
illustration, making up the round dozen, showing
us the well-known bit of Brighton, seen from the
Chain Pier. In the form of an appendix there
will be found grouped together, also, in this little
Guide Book, all kinds of use ful information, such
as the names of the owners of the bathing machines
at the different watering-places—the dates of the
various local races—the principal angling streams
in the two counties, and a mass of useful statistics.

Zadkiel's Almanac for 1864.
Among the curiosities of literature in this
later half of the nineteenth century, Zad-
kiel's Almanac holds its own in the oddest
way imaginable—actually coming forth now, in the
34th aunnal issue of it, with a circulation of no less
than 50,000 copies! At sixpence a-piece, that is,
according to the not very recondite calculations of
Cocker, a round sum of 25,000 shillings, or eleven
hundred pounds sterling—expended upon a little
astrological pamphlet in an age not only of railroads
and electric telegraphs, of steam-printing and pho-
tograph, but one io which spectral illusions are
patented. Bat then, as indubitably, it is an age also
in which Mr. D. D. Home has held his seances, not
only in the middle-class drawing-rooms of Eng-
land, but far and wide in most of the palaces
of continental Europe I An age when
Mr. William Howitt quite confidently avows his
belief is spirit-rapping, as well in various other
kinds of eccentric phenomena—attributable, he tells
us, to the influence of a power ridiculously dabbed
by one of that gentleman's friends, by a couple of
female names, tacked together by a hyphen—names
applied by the discoverer of this unseen influence,
in affectionate tribute (we are left to imagine) to
some fair friend or relation, say his sweetheart or
his aunt. Cheek-by-jowl with these wonderful
wonders-ot-wonders, Zadkiel Tao Sze, professing to
be skilled in a science once the vogue among the
world's greatest philosophers, amongst intellectual
giants like Kepler and Brahe, like the poet Milton
and the Chancellor Bacon, appears upon the scene
autumn after autumn, quite as an ordinary, almost
as a commonplace, personage. Here he is, however,
a little earlier than is his wont, putting forth
his almanack in the beginning of September,
instead of, as hitherto, towards the close of
October. Propitiously calling 1864, upon his title
page, The Year of Hope ! And yet upon the opposite
side of his pamphlet, upon the very last page of it,
p. 84, " frighting the isle from its propriety," with
the most ominous and appalling of hieroglyphics ?
Britannia upon the sea shore standing by a broken
column, her anchor snapped asunder, her banner of ,
the union jack lowered, and trailing in the dust .
Captain Morrison, R.N., for the mask, has be-
come transparent by this time, and the features
of Zadkiel are distinguishable through the
interposing veil of his disguise, has a word or two
to say quits apart from his usual wont, in regard to
the late trial, in which he appeared as
plaintiff. Another gallant and learned officer
in. the royal navy, confronting him, as defen-
ant, in the Court of Queen's :Bench, before the
Lord Chief Justice of England. A full true and
particular account of this strange trial will be found
appended this year to Zadkiel's Almanack. In it
the authentic record of those proceedings will be dis-
covered, given at length and in the minutest
parti-
culars. That trial relating, as may ba very well
remembered, to the Crystal Globe, scanned, among
others, by a Bishop of the English Church Esta-
blishment, to say nothing of numerous Lords and
Ladies perfectly well known among the
tUpper Ten
Thousand ! The most noticeable peculiarity
isy of all,
however, in this new issue of Zadkiel's i
one to be found upon page 80—LETTERS FROM
H.R.H. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT, addressed by
order of H.R.H. to Z otherwise Captain
Morrison, R.N. " Thanks" from H.R.H. " for the
horoscope of the Princess Royal"—for Zadkiel's
Almanack for 1841—for another copy of Zadkiel's
Almanack, conveyed to His Royal Highness by Lord
,
Robert Grosvenor . To say nothing of that noble lord's
pro •in one of these letters (a promise we take
itfomrisge ranted afterwards fulfilled) to endeavour to
obtain the exact moment of the Prince's birth, toge-
ther with the expression of a hope that it might
be made known under a happy influence to his
correspondent, the
Astrologer! Under any circum-
stance, but particularly after the notoriety of the
late proceedings in the case of Morrison v. Belcher,
it is perfectly comprehensible that Zadkiel should
exult (as he,
evidently and quite naturally, does)
in being able to give publicity, just at this time, to
the particulars of this really extraordinary corre-
spondence.

A CHURCH OR A SUB-EDITORSHIP !—An adver.
tisemeoZ,
appeared the other day in one of the
morning paper, s says the Saturday Review, that may serve
to indicate the kind of speculation which may soon become
Common :---
" Wanted, a Church of Progressive Thought,
by a Young Minister, accustomed to a large Congregation
in one of the first Provincial Towns. No objection to a
Sub-Editorship.—Address, Alpha, &O." This modest pe-
tition for pulpit or paste-pot was cruelly thrust down into
obscurity among• the unfurnished apartments, second-hand
billiard-tables, washing, nurses wet and dry, cream-coloured
cobs, and gentlemen of the highest position wbo would be
obliged by the loan of ten pounds fur twenty-four hours.
We presume poor "Alpha" indulges in the hope that his
advertisement may catch the eye of some heretical deacon
as it wanders down the column of notices "To Mas-
ter Pork-butckers," "To Grocers' Assistants," or
‘, Eligible Milk-walks." But we fear his hop is
ill-founded, Persons of this sort like to keep busi-
ness apart from pleasure, • and would be sorry to turn
their eyes, when once fixed on the shop till, to anything
connected with the edifying pastime of badgering :pastors.
Besides, we would gladly think that even the most ignorant
and stupid of deacons has too much intelligence to be taken
in by so transparent a piece of impudence as a newspaper
advertisement for a church of progressive thought by a
person who has no objection to take a sub-editorship. And
what is a Church of Progressive Thought ? An assembly,
we presume, of half-educated tradesmen, who, under the
sage guidance of the advertiser—himself probably a person
with no pretence to any education beyond'such as could be
procured at a Dissenting theological collego—would begin
by a little mild Colensoismovould advance to some sort of
mysticism, would tumble into atheism, and finally (the
majority of them), after about five years of progressive
thought, would make a violent progress back again, and
become the most orthodox of churchmen or narrowest of
chapelmen, while their leader would be forced to insert an-
other advertisement in the daily mere, or perhaps take to
touting for a photograpker,