The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

Marriages.

B A.T N—MATNARD.
thurOn the 11th inst,, at St. Mark's,
EmA
Hamilton-terrace, Ar, second son of Wm. Bateman.
Esq., of Hamilton-terrace, and Old Broad•streat, city.
to Alice Consett, second daughter of the late Herbert
Buc
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ksnard, Esq., of the Bengal Army, and Embertont

CHILD--WILLIAMS.— On the Oakley-square, John, the only s Bth inst.,
J. at St. Matthew'Flt
on of Child, Esq., 211:
Harrington-square, to Amelia, youngest daughter of
Esq.

BOTPIELD.— Deaths.
On the 7th inst., at his residence, GrOSVCDOT:
56.
f•quare, Beriah Bolfield, Esq., M.P. for Ludlow, aged

BUTLER —On the 9th inst., Mr. Charles Butler,
of Lower
Sussex place, Olti Kent-road, and Horselydown, aged
48.
FIELD.—On the 11th inst., at Balham-hill House, SurreY7
J °shill Field, Esq., C.E., F. R.S., aged 77.
FRASER.-0a the 21st May, at Theyat-hlyo, Burmahl
Alsjor James Fraser, 60th Rifles, only son of the late
Colonel Hugh Fraser, R.A., aged 40.
HaLvi.R.—On the 10th inst.. at Plymouth, Henry Richd.
Vansit tart, eldest son of Captain H. Id illyar, R.N., u. a.,
aged seven years.

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THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
(Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, by which the
Liability of each Shareholder is strictly limited tothe amount
of his Snares.
Capital £'50,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
(With power to increase to One Million Sterling.)
First Issue 12,500 Shares, wher,of a portion will be re served
for India.
Deposit £1 per Share on application, and Li on allotment.
Calls not to exceed £2 per Share, with an interval of not less
three months between each calL

DIRECTORS.
Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.8., Chairman, late Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal.
Colonel Anderson, C. 8., Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail-
way Company.
Firm of Henderson and Constable,
George Constable. Esq.,
Cannon-street, E.C.
Sir Frederick Currie, Bart Member of the Council of India.
Colonel French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda Rail-
way Company.
Colonel Holland, Director of the Agra and United Service

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John Stewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com-

any.
Jophn Robert Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the London and
South African Bank.
James Henry Young, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service.

AUDITORS.
T. R. Walker, Esq., 21. Hanover-square, and
A Shareholder, to be elected at the First General Meeting.

BANKERS IN LONDON.

The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon-
street, E.C.
The London and County Bank, Hanover-square, W.

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imbers, Cornhill, E.C. 78, Lombard-street and 13 and 14,
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ALFRED MELLON'S PROMENADE CON-
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EVENING, at Eight o'clock.

Vocalist—Mdlle. CARLOTTA PATTI.
Band of nearly 100 performers. Admission, One Shilling.

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e, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, dm, with full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c.
Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, E. Righton, and A. Lloyd.

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wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
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The HALL Ms just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

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Nine and a quarter-past Eleven o'clock ; other Evenings at
Eleven only; and produced with all the newest improve-
ments by Mr. A. Silvester, which can be seen only at this
establishment

Dramatic Readings by Mr. Graham, in addition to Grand
Operatic Selections, Cantatas, Glefls, Songs, Comic and
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In the contest between " The North and South of
Forth" (a challenge cup given by Major Moir, of
Lockie), shot for by eight competitors on each side
—selected for the North by the Master of Lovat,
for the South by Major Moir—distances 800, 900,
and 1,000 yards, 10 rounds at each, any position,
and any description of rifle not exceeding 101 b, in
weight—the South were the victors. The total
cores stood thus :—South, 568 ; North, 550. The
Montrose battery carried off the artillery honours.

The Bristol Channel Shipping Ports,

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The returns of the trade of several of the principal porta
in the Bristol Channel for the financial year and for the
past month of July have just been published, and it is satis-
factory to find therefrom that there is a steady and satis-
factory increase, notwithstanding the continuance of the
American war and other events which materially interfere
more especially with the shipping trade.
BRISTOL.-The financial year of the Docks' Committee
has just ended, and the annual report has been published,
and, notwithstanding the extraordinary advance which the
port made during the years 1860.61, there has been a still
further advance upon the financial year just completed.
In June, 1861, a very large reduction of tonnage rates was
made, the estimated loss of revenue therefrom being set
down as about £6,000. It is gratifying, however, to be able
to state that, compared with the income of 1860 (the year
previeus to the redaction of tolls), the returns of the past
year show but a decrease of £BOO, and there is every reason
to believe that the present financial year of the port will
show returns quite as large as any previous to the reduc-
tion. The total income of the Docks' Committee for the
year 1862 is £42,457, while the ordinary expenditure was
only £29,366; but some extraordinary amounts swelled the
item of expenditure to £31,666. The committee report that
they had a balance in hand at the close of the year of no
less than £16,540; and they therefore felt justified in re-
commending a large reduction of the dues on goods brought
in coasting vessels, which it is expected will tend materially
to develope the trade and prosperity of the port. Referring
to the tonnage statistics, we find an equally satisfactory re-
sult; the tonnage of shipping from foreign ports which
entered Bristol during the past year being 277,329 tons,
as against 262,327 tons of the previous year. Altogether,
the report of the committee is most satisfactory, and there
is every prospect of the trade steadily increasing.
CARDIIT.-This by far the largest exporting port in the
Bristol Channel has had a great impetus to its average trade
during the past month, consequent upon the extensive de-
mand for iron and coal for exportation. The two previous
months-viz., May and June-were more than ordinarily
dull, but the past month of July has been more brisk than
any previous month of the present year, or, in fact, of any
month in the history of the port. The total quantity of coal
shipped during July was 136,259 tons, and of iron 23,237
tons ; while for the former month of June they only
amounted to 95,108 tons coal, and 15,649 tons iron, showing
an increase in favour of the past month of nearly 40,000
tons of coal, and upwards of 8,000 tons in iron. The ex-
ports of iron during the past month were upwards of 20,000
tons more than the average exports of the previous six
months. The trade of the first seven months show a total
export of 719,442 tons of coal, and 111,970 tons iron ; the
quantities exported during the corresponding period of 1862
being 734,461 tons coal, and 113,468 tons iron, and for 1861,
628,652 tons coal, and 77,719 tons iron ; the increase of the
present year over 1861 and 1862 being 170,790 tons and
64,991 tons coal respectively. The great increase during
the past mouth has been in the coasting trade.
NEWPORT.-Whatever may be said to the contrary by
interested parties, we are very much afraid that both the
import and export trade of this port is slowly but surely
falling off, and certainly the empty appearance of the docks
during the latter part of the past month fully guarantee this
assertion. Trade, however, has materially improved of late,
and there has been a certain degree of activity manifested,
but nothing like that which existed some few years ago,
when Newport was justly reckoned one of the, if not the
most prosperous ports in the channel. We have no hesita-
tion in saying that the policy of the harbour authorities in
keeping up the present high dues upon goods and shipping
is most suicidal, and until these dues are reduced, no great
increase of trade can be reasonably expected. We have no
official statistics of the exports of the past month, but, from
calculations and inquiries made, we may state, in round
numbers, that there has been between 50,000 and 60,000 tons
of coal, and 16,000 or 17,000 tons of iron, being somewhat
above the average. The trade coastwise has been more sa-
tisfactory during the past month than for some time pre-
viously.
SWANSEA.-The financial year of this port has just ended
and the statistics of trade were brought forward at the an-
nual meeting of the trustees held on Monday last. From
these returns we find that the rates on shipping received
during the past financial year was £15,890 7s 6d ; the rates
on goods, £8,634 lls 8d; bridge tolls, £2,015 ; ballast rates,
£2,946 15s Bd-which, together with other minor receipts,
made the total income of the harbour for the past year,
£31,304 19s 10d; while the expenditure was £25,931 6s 6d.
Within the past two or three years, however, the Trust has
taken possession of the South Docks and estate of the Dock
Company, and the proper facilities to bring this into profit-
able operation not being yet developed, there has been consi-
derable loss thereon. The total revenue derivable from the
South Dock estate during the past year was £4,988 19s 10d,
and of the harbour railway leading to the docks £2,770 13s •
making a total of £7,759 12s 10d, while the expenditure
amounted to no less than £14,580 10s 6d, or an excess over
income of £6,820 18s 4d, and the profits on the general har-
bour being deducted therefrom, leaves a clear loss of about
£1,350 for the year. It is only right that we should again
remark that the whole loss accrues on the South Dook
estate, which is as yet undeveloped, but which is expected
to be fairly remunerative now that the Swansea and Neath
mineral line is brought down thereto, and when the Dun-
went Valley line is complete. Referring to the trade of the
port for the past month we find it one of the most prospe-
rous in the history of the port. The total number of vessels
entering the port were 591, with an aggregate registered
tonnage of 60,121 tons, and the total shipping rates received
amounted to £1,346 13s 9d, and the receipts arising from
the rates on goods, the bridge tolls, ballast rates, rent of
harbour, railway, &c., made the total income of the Trust
for the month £2,929 16s 6d. Classifying the trade, we
find that there were 349 vessels, of 29,809 tons, engaged in
the coasting trade; 224 ships, of 24,360 tons, in the Euro-
pean trade; and 18 ships, of 5,952 tons, in the foreign
trade. Compared with the corresponding month of last
year, there is a large increase in every department. In
July, 1862, the number of vessels entering the port were
513, with an aggregate registered tonnage of 52,710 tons,
the shipping rates received amounted to £1,204 lls 7d.
These were classified as 307 ships, of 25,682 tons, coasting ;
193 ships, of 22,380 tons, European; and 13 ships, of 4,648
tons, foreign trade. Although the special returns of the
exports are not given, it is expected that there have been at
least 70,000 tons of coal and other general merchandise
exported.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 11.—There has been 13. large
business in yarns of all descriptions at a rise of fully
id. per lb. on the rates of last Tuesday. The buy-
ing has been very general, but the greater propor-
tion for India, China, and the Mediterranean. The
home trade have been buyers, but have not operated
nearly to the extent they would have done in con-
sequence of the high prices required. The yarn
market closes very strong, with o decided upward
tendency. In cloths there is also a demand, which
is only checked by the higher prices required by
manwacturers. Our report of Friday stated the
improvement which, having commenced last Tues-
day, had led to some heavy purchases, and Messrs.
Pender and Co., in their semi-monthly circular (via
Marseilles) of the Bth, confirm that report, stating
that the business of the week " has included a wider
fora e
extenteeonf buyingbrou gh considerablebrought within
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siderable , which :remains at nearly the con-
advance which it attained the week
btfleuleoirjecelaosft.
manufacturers,
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t
orce up prices, so as to cover the increased
price of cotton
sellers report that they could
still do a good busi-
ness, but that the advance has checked, though it
icnlg otth o ,
has not suspended, operations. The chief business
doing is for India in the lighter makes of skirt-
ings, madapollams, long-cloths, and jacconets, but
there is also some itquiry for the home trade, and
for various smaller foreign markets. The im-
provement has caused a more cheerful feeling in the
market generally. It appears that the prospects of
increased employment have for the present received
a check, as shown by Mr. Farnall's report to the
Central Committee yesterday, and in fact this was
to be expected. The consumption of cotton has
already reached, probably, the limit which the
supply is likely to afford for sometime to come, and
this alone would stop more mills resuming work for
the present. There is another indication of the
limit being reached also in the fact that the demand
for cotton goods probably already exceeds half
what it did before the cotton famine, so that in
reality fully as much or more money is turned over
in the trade as in 1860—a limit which the best in-
formed commercial men have all along expressed
, an opinion was not likely to be much exceeded.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of the cloth-
. market :—" The better feeling in the market re-
ported on Tuesday last continues, and we have a
steady demand for nearly all descriptions of goods,
and the full prices of last week are readily obtained.
Yesterday and to-day sellers are generally asking
an advance, but this only serves to stop business."

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—The Bisarelis (last week pre-
vious to their departure for the Continent)—The Brothers
Conrad— Les Petit Monstres—The Francesco Family, from
La Scala, Milan, &c. Grand Operatic Selection
M'Gregor. Albert, Georgini, supported by Chorus and Band
of Sixty Performers.
Notice.—The Proprietor has much pleasure to announce
that he has an engagement with Mdlle. Taccani, from Her
Majesty's Theatre, who will appear every evening.

HARPER TWELVETREES' GLYCERINE
SOAP POWDER makes its own Soap, and saves
one-half of time, two thirds of Soap, and tnree-fourths of
labour ! Patentee : Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by-Bow,
London. Sold by Grocers, Druggists, and Oilmen.

DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER
INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in-
vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into
the ear, not perceptib'e, removes singing noises in the head,
and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at
public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly.

PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE
MACHINES, for hand, horse, or steam power, are the
most simple and efficient extant.—Ful: particulars and prices
obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co., Laurence Pountney
place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C., where
they may be seen in operation daily.

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to 35. 2d. ; Souohong, reduced to 35. ed. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d.
to 38. lid. per lb.
MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C.

MONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a
Private Gentleman upon FURNITURE (without
removal). Leasehold and Freehold Property, or Reversions,
&e., in sums from £2O to £500.-31r. Howard, 18, Queen-
street, Cheapside.

TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town
or CASH GENTLEMAN Is willing to MAKE
ADVANCES of , without delay, to respectable persong
(male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy
can be relied on —Apply (if by letter enclose four stamps) to
Ar., at Mr. Robertson s, Accountant, 40, King William-street,
London-bridge, E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Warrants.

IMMEDIATE CASH ADVANCES.—Persons
requiring. Capital, repayable by instalments, to enable
them to increase or commence business, or for any other
pu-pose, can readily obtain Advances on application at the
Offices of the ST. GEORGE ADVANCE FUND ASSO-
CIATIONS, HS, Pall-mail, S.W.
Prospectus and forms sent free.
E.U. GILBA.RT, Manager.

KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY-
ING POWDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded
to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862,
This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un-
rivalled in destroying; Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches,
Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other
species of Insect.
Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy-
ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs.
Being the original importer of this now invaluable article,
which has found so oreat a sale that it has tempted others to
vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to
observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the
autogTagh of THOMAS KEATING
Sold in packets, ls., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for
14 or 38 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St.
Ps urs-churchyari, London, E.C.

ANEVER FAILING REMEDY.-
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, Ime-
vared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
,cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, Sm. For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated
PATRONEsQueen.
s_i er
Most by
Gracious Royal
MC hija
er ts
te )
the.
PRESIDENT—Tice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G.,
Cif AIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., RMS., P.P.
OrptiTy-CnAntlizAzi—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
'lie beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,c00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-can iages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi h can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions:—

LEEDS, Ang. 11,—There has been a satisfactory
market in the cloth halls today, as was evidenced
by the attendance of buyers, end the spirit with
which they made purchases. Considering the
amount of really seasonable goods on offer in the
halls, a more than ordinary quantity for a Tuesday's
market changed hands at the full current rates.
Diagonals, meltons, witneys, and tweeds are the
main kinds of fabrics in request, and in them are
found considerable variety, as well in pattern as in
quality and make. Considerable orders for fine
white meltons have been given out, and of such,
to be afterwards dyed and finished according to
taste and demand, the market is rather bare. Not
only is there a good business doing in the home
trade, but large shipments are making by some of
the German houses, and fair ones are still making
for Canada and America.

NOTTINGHAM, Aug. 11.—At this exchange-hall
to-day there was an average attendance of dealers
in lace yarns, but only few buyers were present,
and a limited share of business was done at late
prices. There was rather more doing in hosiery
yarn, and full rates were obtained. No material
change in the value of silk. For brown nets the
demand was fiat, buyers having already purchased
stocks for the Leipsic fair to be held in September.
ROCHDALE, 10th.—Both at market and in the
warehouses an excellent spirit exisits. Buyers have
been somewhat numerous, and the number of actual
transactions proportionately large. There has been
perhaps less doing in the finer qualities of goods,
bat medium sorts, and also such as can be bought at
low prices, met with a rather brisk sale. There is
a good spirit also with regard to fancy goods. From
such a demand as has been witnessed to-day manu-
facturers may expect more business, as at the pre-
sent moment they have nothing like stocks sufficient
to replenish the market. The Yorkshire goods
branch has been as animated as the other, and the
supply being smaller than usual it rather tended to
dearness. Sales of wool are not very easily effected,
though there is an average business, considering
the prevalent dearness.

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Antoine Galland has the merit of introducing a portion
of this work to the European world. Like most Oriental
scholars, he was induced to investigate the treasures of
the East by a pure love of the subject. When young he
underwent much privation, and was very nearly compelled
to earn the means of existence by some petty trade. He
managed, however, to surmount all difficulties, and died in
Paris in 171.5, having filled the office of Professor of
Arabic for several years.
The manuscript which he used still exists in the ImPe-
rid Library at Paris. It consists of three small quarto
volumes (a fourth having been lost.) We may here mention
that Galland added several tales which he procured
from other sources. Among these are " Aladdin, or the
Wonderful Lamp," "Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves," and
several others. These are excellent stories, but form no
part of the genuine "Arabian Nights." The manner in
which Galland's translation was written is open to serious
objections, for in striving to make everything in the book
agree with European taste, he very much injured its origi.
nal character. This defect is of course still more apparent
in the English translation, which possesses no particular
merit, and was probably executed to order for the book-
sellers.

—FTom time to time various portions of the original were
obtained,but the work was very imperfectly known in
Europe
until good fortune threw a complete manuscript
copy into the hands of the celebrated Orientalist, Joseph
von
and at Hamthe mery
moment when his wishes were accom-
very
accom-
plished, his literary ardour saved him from the most im-
minent peril. One or two intimate friends pressed him to
join in an excursion on the water. After considerable hesi-
tation, his zeal for Eastern learning prevailed, and he re.
fused to delay the perusal of the cherished manuscript. An
those who went perished within sight of the shore, and he
was thus saved by his enthusiasm from an almost certain
death.

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A DUEL IN A BALLOON.—The Co urraer des
Etats Unis is responsible for the following extra-
ordinary story,
which appears in its issue of the 18th July :
—Two mronauts recently arrived at New York, Messrs.
John Lewis, from England, and Tarteiffer, a native of
Prussia, met about throe weeks ago at John's Wood, where
both intended to make public ascents, and at the end of a
dispute produced by professional rivalry one of them gave
a challenge to the othE r. The choice of weapons was debated
for a long time ; then, after an animated discussion, a con-
clusion was come to which was generally considered as a
joke; it was agreed that the two champions should fight in
balloons without parachutes, each one firing, not at the
person, but at the balloon of his adversary. Farther, as a
pistol ball could not produce sufficient effect, it was decided
that each should be armed with a blunderbuss loaded with
four grape-shot. As we have said, the belief was that this
affair was a pure comedy, or, as the Yankees say, a humbug
inspired by the atmosphere of the country. It was, how-
ever, perfectly serious, so serious that the denouement has
just proved a veritable catastrophe. Thursday last week
two balloons exactly alike, made at Boston, was taken out
and inflated in a field near the village of Sallisburg on the
frontier of Vermont, and each asronaut took his place in
the boat of his balloon. Four others accompanied them to
the ground, and shook hands with them cordially before
their departure. At an agreed-on signal the ropes ware
cut, and the two asrial skiffs rose parallel to each other in a
perfectly calm atmosphere. The balloons had been started
at 84 paces distance from each other ; the same distance
was preserved till they reached an elevation of about 100
yards. A rocket was then let off as a signal at the starting
place, and a minute after a double report was heard in the
air. One of the balloons continued its course majestically,
and soon disappeared in a Westerly direction. The ether
whirled round a moment and then descended, slowly at first;
but the rapidity of the fall constantly increasing, it ended
by falling violently and heavily on the ground like an inert
mass. Mr. Lewis, who was found in the boat, was insen-
sible, with an arm broken and his body dreadfully bruised,
and these is some hope of his life being saved. As for M.
Tarteiffer, no one knows what has become of him.

Von Hammer translated the portion of the manuscript
which Galland did not possess, into the French language.
This translation was, however, unfortunately lost before
arrangements for its publication could be made. A Ger-
man version by Professor Zinserling had fortunately been
already completed, and was published in three volumes in
1823-4. From this a French translation was made by M.
Trebutien. Both these works have now become scarce,
and can with difficulty be procured in this country.
The first edition of the original text was published at
Breslau, the capital of Silesia, under the superintendence of
Professor Habicht, and after his death, of Professor Fleis-
cher. The text does not agree with that of the manuscript
of Von Hammer, and is said to be full of vulgarisms. The
manuscript was procured for Professor Habicht by a learned
native of Tunis, Ic is printed in 12 small volumes, and may
be considered a handsome book. The first volume was pub-
lished in 1824, the last in 1843. Tha concluding portion of
the Breslau edition differs materially from the editions of
Cairo and Calcutta. For those who are curious in these
mat tors, it may be as well to state that the last 118 Nights of
the Breslau edition may be found in a German translation
of the " Arabian Nights," published at Breslau, in five
volumes (1840), under the care of Professor Habicht and
others.

About the same time, that is to say, about 1839, two other
manuscript copies were printed, one at Cairo, the other at
Calcutta. The Calcutta edition was edited by W. Mac.
naghten, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, better known as Sir
Wm. Macnaghten, who was murdered in Affghanistan. some
years afterwards. Both the Cairo and Calcutta editions
agree in the main with the manuscript of Von Hammer,
and with each other. The Cairo text contains more poetry,
and is supposed on the whole to be the best.

We must next take notice of the translation of the " Ara—
bian Nights" published by Charles linight, in three v 015.,,
royal Bvo. (1839-41). This translation was executed by Mn.
Lane, who is acknowledged to be one of the best Araii3O
scholars in Europe, and is the only faithful representat-',on
of the original. Several objections which were mad eby
critics to Mr. Lane's plan proved rather their own igur Rance
of the subject than any fault in the author. Numerer rR wood
engravings, by Harvey, embellish the text. Some ti me since
a second edition was published, which is very itfe ,rior to the
first in beauty.—Social Science Review,