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ineffaceable. M. OLLIVIER two or three years ago Con-
ceived the idea of converting the Empire into a Consti-
tutional Monarchy; but M. ROIIMER out-u'anceuvred
him, whilst the Republicans finally lost trust
in their old leader. At the last election M. OLLIVIER
was rejected by the Paris Democrats. He found a
seat in another part of the country, and became the
leader of the great party of the 110—the Moderate
Liberals. Yet even in this position, where
with patience and principle he might have com-
manded France, he did not abandon his old habits.
His conduct during the last few months has been a
discreditable exhibition of insincerity. He made
advances to the EMPEROR ; then retreated
again to the Moderates; and, finally, he has
gone over to Imperialism. His latest acts
in the Chamber have been his votes in favour
of ✓some of those very official candidates
whose corrupt elections he was formerly the first to
condemn. Rejected by the Republicans, distrusted
by the Moderates, he finds himself amongst a new
party on his accession to power. Had he
adhered to his principles and to his old friends
—the men who will tolerate the Empire only on
condition of thorough reforms, he might have been
the secure Premier of France, certain of a Parlia-
mentary majority which the Emperor himself could
not resist. As it is, his Ministry is composed of the
most ordinary materials, and has no certain following.

THE MAGAZINES.

OVERBECK.

No one who saw him could fail to be struck with his
appearance. Henry Crabb Robinson, in his recently pub-
lished " Diary," says at the date of January 7,1830 : 'This
evening at Bunsen's, I was struck by the appearance of a
tall man with lank hair and sallow cheeks. I pointed him
out to a German as the specimen of an English Methodist.
He laughed, and exclaimed, "Why, that is the Roman
Catholic convert, Overbeck—a rigid ascetic and melan-
choly devotee." So superficial and flippant a view was
not often taken of him, even by the staunchest Protes-
tants. Many a book of travels records the deep impres-
sion made by Mil spiritualised countenance and venerable
figure. Tall and thin, scarcely at all bent by age even so
lately as 1365, when I ast saw him, his face, though pale
and habitually serious, gave one no idea of melancholy, but
rather of a calm and peaceful serenity; whilst his clear
and steady eye, like a mirror,reflected the light of frequent
and holy contemplation.—The Month for January, 1370.

" BLACKWOOD'S " TRIBUTE TO " BUI.WER."

Not one of those fairies who can make or mar a mortal's
career was forgotten in sending out the invitations to Lord
Lytton's christening. There was no powerful malignant
hag who stayed aloof from the festival, nursing her injury,
and withholding her gift, the absence of which would be
as fatal to prosperity as the loss of a linchpin to the pro-
gress of a triumphal car ; or who, coming uninvited,
neutralised the beneficence of her sister fairies with a
baleful offering. All those potent and capricious sharpers
of destiny whom it is so easy to estrange, so hard to pro-
Vitiate, thronged to the ceremony, lavish of their smiles
and prodigal of their benefits. On their protégé they
showered invention and wit and wisdom, knowledge of
man, knowledge of the world, and capacity for the world's
affairs ; and to these was added that versatility, rare in
any case—most rare in combination with solid excellences
!--which has found such multitudinous issue in novels,
poetry, essays, oratory, and the drama. All was completed
by the bestowal of the untiring industry which keeps
these powers in brilliant action, and which, (dropped
commonly enough in the cradles of those to whom other
favours aro denied, and often, unhappily, lending to dul-
ness such a tremendous power of afflicting mankind) is so
seldom associated with high and various capacity. No
patient conscientious founder of a name out of nothing; has
ever shewn a more constant energy, a more cheerfulDwel-
coming of toil, than the author who started in life already
endowed with so large a share of what generally forms
the allurement and reward of exertion. Throughout his
career he has seemed to seek repose only in variety of
labour : the recreation of the statesman has been the
writing of novels; the novelist has sought relaxation in
the Parliamentary arena and the Cabinet; and the odds
and ends of leisure, which most busy men are content to
devote to such pleasant distractions as lotos-eating, have
been given to the production of essays, translations, or
original dramas—his success in any one of which minor
paths would have sufficed for a respectable literary repu-
tation.—Blackwood's Magazine.

A WRECK ON' THE COAST OP
CORNWALL,

The Western Morning _Yews contains a description of the
wreck of the brig Konisberg, near Cape Cornwall. The
Konisberg, of Konisberg, Halb master, IS7 tons register,
from Buenos Ayres, with a crew of eight men includingthe
master, struck on the rocks at Priest Cove, to the south of
Cape Cornwall, about seven o'clock on Thursday night.
In the tremendous weather then prevailing, and with the
Longships Lighthouse constantly buried in water and
foam, it is not surprising the Konisberg failed to sight the
land. Captain Hail and his men did all they could to
attract attention, and at length one of the seamen, named
Grese, volunteered to attempt to land. He jumped over-
board for that purpose, but was immediately ca:.Tied
away by the sea, and drowned. Nothing daunted Thomas
Horton, of Runcorn, offered to try to carry a rope ashore.
The rope was attached to his body, and in the darkness of
the night he sprang into the sea, not knowing where he
went. Partly carried by the waves and partly swimming,
he gained the rocks, and scrambled up them, the miracle
being that he was not washed off again and dashed
to pieces. It was net, however, until nine o'clock that any
available help was at hand, when the people at work at the
mines on the cliff had their attention aroused by the cries
of the despairing sailors. As soon as possible lanterns were
obtained, and with great difficulty the rope was fastened,
end one by one the poor fellows get ashore more dead than

THE WELSH EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

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The Welsh Educational Conference is to be held on the
25th and 26th inst. at Aberystwith. On the first day
education generally will be considered. In the morning
papers will be read on " The ground on which
Nonconformists can accept a general system of
education ;" "The system of education that will
fairly meet the wants of the principality ;" "How
best may a national system of education be made to
embrace the young of all classes in the community;"
" May compulsory power be granted to the State,
and may children be compelled, under any cir-
cumstances to attend denominational schools ; " "A
national system of education being adopted, how
best to provide adequately for the religious education of
the young. ;" "How to deal with existing State-aided
schools equitably to the State and to the managers of
such schools ;" " The principles and objects of the Na-
tional Educational League explained by an executive
of the League." At an evening meeting these will
be (liscused freely. On the 26th, the " Univei sity College
fur Wales" will be discussed, the points keing—the com-
pletion of the fund, the application to Government for a
grant, the constitution of the proposed college, the expe-
diency of adopting measures for opening the college in
October 1870. The secretary will make a statement on the
present position of the college.