The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-04 00:00:00

ARMY.

PARIS, JUNE 2.

The Paine states that a despatch has arrived to-
day asserting that a capitulation had been signed
on board the Hannibal between General Lanza
and Garibaldi and the revolutionary committee.
According to the despatch the capitulation stipu-
lates that the Neapolitan army, 25,000 strong,
should quit Palermo with all the honours of war,
and embark with their materiel on board the
Neapolitan squadron.
When Garibaldi arrived at the Strada di Toledo
he shammed a retreat, but resumed the offensive
when the inhabitants revolted. A terrible and
desperate fight then ensued, in which many women.
participated. The troops were at last repulsed,
and immediately afterwards the bombardment
commenced.

It is asserted that the English admiral having
assembled the officers of all the foreign vessels of
war (including those of Austria) off Palermo, they
unanimously resolved to request the commander of
the Neapolitan squadron to cease firing on the

.own.

It is asserted that Signor Carafa, in reply to com-
plaints of Mr. Elliot, has declared that he had no
intention of accusing the English navy of having
assisted at the disembarkation of Garibaldi at Mar-
sala! he only wished to justify the conduct of the
Neapolitan naval officers.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Petrie asserts that the capitulation of the
garrison of Palermo has been confirmed. The eva-
cuation will commence to-morrow morning.

The Pays and the Constitutionnel say that the
triumph of the insurrection at Palermo is decisive,
and that there is no doubt of the capitulation of the

garrison.
The only question for consideration is, whether
the tr3ops surrender at discretion, or obtain per-
mission to return to Naples.

PARIS, JUNE 2.

It is asserted that Signor Carafe. has demanded
a guarantee for the territory of the Two Sicilies,
and has also Oemanded the intervention of the
Maritime Powers.

Piedmont, it is said, has protested against any

ntervention.

NAPLES, MAY 30 (vIA TURIN).
The following news has been received fvm

Palermo :

The barracks of San Giacomo have been taken
by the people. Several houses in the Strada di
Toledo have been burnt down. The people have
opened a breach in the houses surrounding the
Custom-house. Political prisoners have been set at
liberty. A park of artillery has been captured.
General Salzano is a prisoner.

CAGLIARI, JUNE 2.
The Utile, from Genoa, has disembarked arms at

Marsala.

The 2iToniteur publishes the following telegram

" NAPLES, June

" On the proposition of General Lanza an armis-
tice has been concluded between the Royal troops
and the Garibaldians. The Neapolitan troops are
concentrated in the Royal Palace and Castle, which
are situated at the two extremities of Palermo.
Garibaldi demands that they shall evacuate these
positions."

VIENNA, JUNE 3.
The Ostdeutsche Post contains the following new
from Constantinople :

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3.

The royal mail steamship Asia, Capt Lott, which
left New York on the 23d ultimo, arrived in the
Mersey this afternoon, bringing 154 passengers and
120,510 dols. in specie.
The steamers Persia and Edinburgh had arrived
out.

A crowded meeting of Democrats was held at
New York on the 22d ult., at which resolutions
were passed in favour of the nomination of Senator
Douglas.
The steamer Wave, freighted with arms for
Juai•ez, sailed from Berwick's Bay on the 20th ult.
General Wheat was a passenger.

" The French and Russian ambassadors have
made a declaration to the effect that their respec-
tive Governments fully agree to an independent
inquiry by the Porte into the condition of the
Christians in Turkey, and that they have received
instructions to express the satisfaction of their
Governments therewith."

The ceremony of exchanging ratifications of the
treaty with Japan took place to-day at the State
Department. It consisted merely of comparing
and certifying the correctness of the copies.
The Japanese were still the objects of much at-
tention. On the 25th ult. the President was to
entertain the Ambassadors at dinner, to which a
number of distinguished gentlemen were invited.
NEW YORK, MAY 22, EVENING.

The stock-market is heavy. New York Centrals
have declined t- to I ; the last quotation was 82/ to
82Z. Most Western roads are to 1 lower; Illinois,
611.
Money easy. Exchange on London, 1094.
Cotton steady. Sales, 2,000 bales. Middling
upland, 11-775 c.
The receipts of State and Western flour are large.
The market is in consequence heavy. Some descrip-
tions have declined se. per barrel.
Provisions dull. Sugar steady.
Freights higher.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott,
from New York on the 23d ult., has arrived at this
port. Mr. Lincoln had accepted the nomination of
the Chicago Convention. The Japanese treaty had
been ratified.

QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAT.

The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, Captain
Ririe, arrived here at 11 a.m., embarked mails and
passengers, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston
at 6 30 p.m. ; all well."

THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood's Magazine.

There is an excellent article entitled " The
Balance of Party," which can hardly be too highly
recommended to general attention at the present
juncture, and although it naturally displays some
party predilections, there are no overdrawn state-
ments and no exaggerated remarks on public affairs.
The paper has particular force at this period, when
a grand Conservative triumph has been obtained,
and when an almost unparalleled majority in the
House of Lords has proclaimed the great influence
there possessed by the Earl of Derby. This success
seems for the Opposition like the poetical justice
at the end of a romance, a political compensation
for the scorn and contumely that has been heaped
upon them by the Ministerial forces rampant with
success and inflated with triumph that, after all,
was obtained on false pretences, without fair dis-
cussion, and founded on fallacious principles at
the outset. One chief object of the writer
of this article has been to vindicate the
leader of the Opposition, and this in every way
an effort that redounds to his credit and reflects
honour on the periodical in which it appears. If
there is an instance more flagrant than another of
political injustice and party ingratitude, it is
exhibited by those Conservatives who seek to decry
the abilities and discredit the services of Mr.
Disraeli. There is no public man of the present
day who has done so much for his party under
such enormous difficulties as that statesman whom
it is the fashion with some unfair opponents and
false friends to style an adventurer, an enthusiast,
a man of no principle, and so on. If these wise-
acres would condescend to give one appellation and
explain it, the public in general would be the
wiser ; but a string of unmeaning phrases and
high-sounding expletives only take in those whose
understandings are purposely misled. It is truly
stated here that sueh criticism is "the malignant
yell of a faction." " The man whom they paint, a
wretch without principle, without feeling, without
a single good quality, if he is not an absolute im-
possibility, is certainly an impossibility at the head
of the proudest party in the State. All the abuse
that has been directed against Mr. Disraeli has
not succeeded in displacing him from the leadership
of the Opposition, and it is worthy of inquiry whe-
ther the man who occupies such a position m 9.37 not
possess at least a few estimable traits, whether in
intellect he is not something more than an intriguer,
and whether in aspiration he is not something
better than a place-hunter." Towards the conclu•
sion of this article we meet with some forcible
remarks on, and some admirable descriptions of,
the debates in the two houses on the paper duties.
It is said of Mr. Gladstone's reply :
" It was a reply that could not hold water, and was as
fallacious as the assertions of the penny papers, that it is
beyond the power of the House of Lords to throw out a
money bill sent up to it by the Lower House. Mr. Baring
disposed of the Chancellor's subtleties in a few words, and
then Mr. Disraeli rose to finish the debate. It was'a most
telling speech, the most eloquent delivered in the present
session by the Tery leader. Ile showed, in the first place,
that the facts were undisputed and undeniable, that in
consequence of uncertainties which must enter into the
calculation of every budget, and which were developed into
painful realities sooner than usual in a budget framed so
ambitiously and speculatively as that of Mr. Gladstone, we
had a deficit staring us in the face ; and then he proceeded
to attack Mr. Gladstone generally as a financier, as an ora -
tor, and as a despot in the house. He exposed the absur-
dity of his great rival's pretensions, and gave one of those
philippics for which he gained his earliest celebrity.
Glancing at the state of Europe, he asked, is this a time
when the country can afford to trust a finance minister
who indulged so palpably in clap-trap, and whose schemes
had all ended in failure."

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS AND CALCUTTA
AND CHINA MAILS.
The Valetta with the above mails arrived at Mar-
seilles at 8 a.m. this day.
Mails leave for London at 10 a.m.
The Nubia, with the Calcutta and China mails,
arrived at Suez on the 28th May.
The Emeu, from Australia, had not arrived
on 29th.

(From the Second Edition of the Morning Post.)
PARIS, SUNDAY, 7 P.M,

Several important despatches have reached Paris
to-day from Naples. The Neapolitan forces are
rapidly embarking on board the vessels prepared
for their reception. A demonstration has taken
place at Naples, and it is expected that the city
will be placed in a state of siege. It was on the
demand of the naval officers of foreign vessels stk.-
tioned at Palermo that the useless bombardment
of the city ceased. The conduct of the Neapolitan
forces on this occasion was just what might have
been expected—many women and children were
killed by the royal troops. The Neapolitan Govern-
ment has ordered its generals in Sicily to hold out
at Messina, and promised reinforcements. To-day
the telegraph was entirely occupied with despatches
from official sources. Great and important events
are taking place ; but all is mystery.
The Journal du Loiret, and afterwards the Pays
—neither one nor the other open to a suspicion of
feeling partially towards the insurgents—give an
account of facts communicated by an eye witness.
They say:—" The troops of General Lanza are said
to have sacked three churches and 36 country
houses. An English lady, whose husband is a
Sicilian and a Neapolitan functionary, found on
returning home that her house had been pillaged,
and saw three Neapolitan soldiers engaged in car-
rying off her property. One of them had some
cashmere shawls under his arm. It appears that
the calumniators of Garibaldi have applied their
epithets to the wrong parties."
The Patrie of this evening says :—" We are
assured that General Lanza, whose moderation is
well known (?), sent on the 22d a detailed account
to Naples, in which he has not attempted to con-
ceal the gravity of the situation. If we are well
informed, the general has exposed in this document
that conciliatory measures have no chance of suc-
cess, because all the important persons in the island
are on the side of the movement. He adds that after
the capture of Palermo the island will not be tena•
able, because the insurrection is about to generalise
the partisan warfare already commenced with suc-
cess, and that in presence of such a war the Nea-
politan troops would be reduced to Messina alone.'
General Lanza is likely to be recalled if he has told
the King so man; truths. We have no official
despatches from Napl( sto day. How is this ? Is
Neapolitan invention dead?

Equally happy are the following observations on
Mr. Bright :

" When it was first announced, indeed, that the house of
Lords was likely to oppose the abolition of the Paper
Duties, great was the fluttering among the penny dema-
gogue>, and so firmly did they imagine that what was all-
important to the proprietors of a few straw-I aper journals
was all-important to the people of England, that they
hoped to be able to get up an agitation sufficient to intimi-
date Lord Derby and the whole of the aristocracy. A very
large meeting was held in St. Martin's drall. Large meet-
ings can be held anywhere if a great gun is in a position on
the plat form, and promises to go off with a mighty detona-
tion. It is well known that on a platform Mr. Bright is the
greatest of all guns. Where there is nobody to contra-
dict him, who can speak more 1 iudly than he? In any
large city there aro thousands who would be glad to hear
the successful orator, even though they have not one
spark of sympathy with his peculiar ideas."
_ _ _

6 F.M.

The ea,gles of diplomacy are swooping about the
bleeding limbs of Sicily already. Crowned heads,
too, sniff prey. The Moniteur, however, this morn-
ing, does not go further than register the news of
Naples, which tells us how an armistice had been
agreed upon, and that the royal troops were con-
centrated en the seaboard of the city. The French
Government, I presume, must be in possession of
litter news than this. All the journals of Paris
print, and apparently from more than one: source,
the telegraphic news I sent you last night,
which declares the Neapolitan army, consisting of

It is plausibly stated that the criticism of Mr.
Gladstone came `Kith more force from Lord Derby
than from either Lord Monteagle or Mr. Disraeli,
as people distrust the criticisms of rival financi(\rs
It is said that, unluckily for the prophets
of ill, the "speech was as clear as crystal,
and Lord Derby proved that he could,
when he chose to take the trouble, make a

25,000, would be allowed to quit the city of Paler- financial statement unsurpassable in lucidity and
a
mo. So ended the negotiations between Lanza and accuracy." Lord Derby's remarks on the practice
Garibaldi. of " double or quits" are thus commented on :
.
" A period of financial difficulty, says Mr. Gladstone, is
The Contitutionnel adds to the already known the period for the country to make experiments which may
despatch—" with arms and baggage returning to retrieve all deficiencies. If the experiments succeed, so
Naples." At all events the diplomatic people here much the better; if they fail, we shall not be much worse
off than before. 'My lords, said
Lord Derby, ' I say that
is in Paris, one and all, look upon Sicily as lost. Per- not the policy of a statesman—it is the policy of a despe-
haps even the old Neapolitan Minister here at rate and improvident gambler.' There was a Chancellor
of the Exchequer who, on account of his wonderfully pro-
Paris (Antonini), who is reported to have got into sperous budgets in a period of great national suffering, was
bed ouhearing of Garibaldi's success, thinks so as named by William Cobbett, Mr. Prosperity Robinson. Mr.
well. But never was such an amount of mystery. r Gladstone is the legitimate successor of that gentleman,
dit will not b, son forgotten. that h.e was described by
Whispered interrogations are the orders of the day. Lord Derby as a desperate and improvident gambler. No
Dip!omatists ask each other "Will the great description could be more true, and the name will stick.
, ) Tt,sosrkd t Derbyo
fulfil. hadHeannootthmeerrealnyd
put p e ?hasp
Budgets a mo more important
Powers permit Sicily to be annexed to Sardinia ?igpeogeant
The Russian Ambassador, as far as I can make he put Mr. Gladstone himself into the same furnace. He
out, is the only representative of a great Power in showed Mr. Gladstone's contradictions. He set speech
against(laondstspe eech, proposal against proposal, and showed Mr.
Paris who sincerely advocates the cause of Franciscontradicting himself in the most barefaced way
11. The Chevalier Nigra, the Piedmontese whenever it suited his purpose."
Minister, is reported to have left Paris incog. for The reader will find much more that is worthy. of
Turin in order to speak with Count Cavour and notice in this particularly lucid and expressive
, article. The other papers present a great variety.
report the views of Napoleon 111. on the annexa- " Norman Sinclair" is continued, but it must be
tion question. I still hold to the information I confessed is rather heavy. " Captain Speke's Ad-
gave your readers some days ago, and believe ventures in Somali Land" furnish an object of in-
France will not throw any difficulties in the way o'f terest to all who seek to inform themselves of the
Sicily becoming a part of the kingdom of Pied- peculiar nature of the unknown regions of which
it treats. " The Schoolmaster at Home" is one of
moat. The Emperor has always said there is to be
those learned and thoughtful disquisitions that
no foreign intervention in Italy. That is the most abound at the present day, and prove how much atten
valuable feature of French policy towards the tion is paid to that important branch, the education of
Peninsula, and as France may be said to dictate in the young. As the author of " Sybil" happily re-
Italian Affairs, it is of the utmost value to know marked, " the youth of a nation are the trustees
that France has made such a resolution and kept of posterity," and it is of vast importance that they
should be well trained. The most striking subject
to it, and that further France has shown and is
here met with is the "Battle of the Belt ;" and,
showing every desire to withdraw herself from the considering the excitement that has prevailed
Roman States. M. Thouvenel having declared to about the combat, it will doubtless be hailed with
foreign Ambassadors the Emperor's intention to acclamation by many a fierce disputant and many
call home his forces from the Roman States imme- an eager debater on the all-important topic of the
diately, General de Lamoriciere informs the French Championship. It is not often that so much wit
and humour are met with, joined to versatility of
Ambassador that he is prepared to maintain tran- style,ediscoverflowing
in
measure, and animated allegory, as
w quillity and protect the person of his Holiness.this excellent poem, and the
This is Italy for the Italians—Napoleon lll.'s pro- author, whoever he may be, has certainly achieved
gramme—and you may depend upon it it will be a most signal success. We subjoin a few of the
applied to Sicily. most striking among the verses :
THE FIGHT FOR THE BELT.

♦ LAY SUNG AT A FEAST IN PALL-MALL,
The Fancy of Araerica
By all creation swore,
A British champion round his loins
Should gird the Belt no mores
With strange great oaths they swore it,
And chose a m‘m straightway,
And felt his arm, and saw him hit,
And loafed, and chewed, and cursed, and spit,
And sent him to the fray,

Sooth was this picked American
Of Irish parents born,
As like Columbia's progeny
As wheat to Indian-corn ;
But 'tis the boast of that free land
To take the stranger in,
And, be he any tint but black,
To own him for her kin.

I do not know that great men
Avail them of her grace,
That shining merit makes her shores
Its chosen resting-place ;
But the persecuted burglar,
Or the man of many wives,
Or he whose quick ingenious wit
With legal maxims doth not fit,
Still seeks that land, and thrives.

America's step-champion
Went forth upon the wave,
High hopes pursued him from the shore,
And prophesyings brave,
" Dollars to cents he wins it;
Yes, sir, I guess he's spry ;
He'll whip the cussed Britisher,
Our prime Benicia B'y."
Three years against all corners
The Champion keeps the Ring,
Keeps it against what fistic might
The universe can bring ;
Three years the mystic girdle
The Champion's strength hath graced,
Pelides' belt, or that which spanned
The sinewy loins of Hector grand,
No braver heart embraced.

And in three years no foeman
Had dared dispute the prize ;
All feared the crashing iron fist
Whose blows not Pollux might resist,
Though trained amid the skies.
But now the loud defiance

Across the Atlantic hurled,
Warned Sayers he must guard his fame ;
Quoth Tom, " All right, my boys, I'm game ;
Old England 'gainat the world!"

For deep in English bosoms
A germ pugnacious lies,
And skill to combat still calls forth

The people's sympathies :
They love to see men daring,
Yet temperate, cool, though bold;
Who shows no fear they love to cheer
As in the days of old.

And with the crowd came veterans
Whom well the arena knows,
Acute observers of the hug,
The rally and the close :
The noted Quaker bruiser
From Manchester had come,
Who, as he passed a gentleman,
Still scowled and bit his thumb ;

Beneath one arm a bludgeon,
Cut from an olive bough,
Was tucked—the other linked his mate,
(Mate new and strange, I trow),
The Flashy Chancellor, who bore
Dark marks of punishment,
Where Ben with might put in his right,
And left him stunned and spent.

By none so much as Heenan
Must that mischance be felt,
Who back to those expectant shores
Returns without the belt ;
For, though exalted office
No doubt awaits him there,
Yet, beltless, he will scarcely gain
What, conqueror, he might well attain—
The Presidential Chair 1

Meanwhile there swelled through London
Vague rumours of the fray,
No man, whate'er his own affair,
Thought much of it that day—
Swells at club-breakfasts, pausing
In gastronomic jays,
And little boys who, going to school,
Met other little boys,

And patriarchs old and hoary,
And matrons grave and staid,

• And the sick with his physician',
And the swain with blushing maid,
Fair penitents conferring
With parsons Puseyite,
And clients with their men of law—

associate with it. The intervening epoch of de-
clining middle life, before the fact of being old is
openly acknowledged or the energies and powers
of youth are willingly resigned, is the saddest. On
this branch of his subject our author writes as fol•
lows :

" 1:o not laugh, thoughtless folk, at the poor old maid,
who persists in going bareheaded long after she ought to
have taken to caps. You cannot know how much further
away that change would make her days of childhood seem :
how much more remote and dim and faint it would make
the little life, the face, the voice of the young brother or
sister that died when they both were children together.
Do not fancy that it is mere personal vanity which prompts
that clinging to apparent youth : feelings which are gentle,
pure, and estimable may protest against any change from
tha old familiar way. Do not smile at the phrases of the
house when they are gray-headed boys, and girls on the
lower side of forty-five : it would be a terrible sacrifice, it
would make a terrible change, to give up the old names.
You thoughtless young people are ready to deride Mr.
Smith when he appears in his new wig. You do not think
how, when poor Smith went to Truefitt's to get it, he
thought many thoughts of the long-departed mother, whom
he remembers dimly on her sick bed smoothing down her
little boy's hair, thick enough then. And when you see
Mr. Robinson puffing up the hill with purpled face and
labouring breath, do you think that poor Robinson does not
remember the days when he was the best runner at school ?
Perhaps he tells you at considerable length about these days.
Well, listen patiently : some day you may be telling long
stories too. There is a peculiar sadness in thinking of ex-
ertions of body or mind to which we were once equal, but
to which we are not equal now. You remember the not
very earnest Swift, conscious that the decay at the top'
had begun, bursting into tears as he read one of his early
w3rks, and exclaiming, Heavens, what a genius I had
when I wrote that 1' What is there more touching than
the picture of poor Sir Walter, wheeled like a child in a
chair through tho rooms at Abbotsford, and suddenly
Come, this is sad idleness,' and insisting on be-
ginning to dictate a new tale, in which the failing powers
of the great magician appeared so sadly, that large as its
marketable value would have been, it never was suffered to
appear in print. Probably the sense of enfeebled faculties
is a sadder thing than the sense of diminished physical
power. Probably Sir Isaac Newton, in his later days, when
he sat down to his own mathematical demonstrations, and
could not understand them and follow them, felt more bit-
, terly the wear of advancing time than the gray-headed
Highlander sitting on a stone at his cottage door in the sun-
shine, and telling you how, long ago, he could breast the
mountain with the speed of a deer ; or than the crippled
L soldier, who leans upon his crutch, and tells how, many
years ago, that shaky old hand had cut down the French
cuirassier."

The story of " Wheat and Tares" continues, and
narrates some extraordinary events. Reginald's
devotion to the absent Ella is considerably shaken
by the attractions of the fascinating Grace.
Another romance is pending between Wynne and
Rachel, though the Shaksperiaii proverb does not
seem likely to be contradicted in either case. " A
Raid among the Rhymers" is the title of a criticism
which makes a fierce, but not undeserved, onslaught
on the ranks of our numerous versifiers and poet-
asters. The papers on Twickenham, under the
head of " The Literary Suburb of the Eighteenth
Century," are continued. Pope's villa, and Lady
Alary Wortley Montagu and Fielding are the sub-
jects of the chapters before us. Those who occupy
themselves in social questions should read the
paper on the "Rochdale Pioneers," which gives a
very interesting account of the co-operative socie-
ties flourishing in that neighbourhood.

?he Dublin University Magazine.

The number before us Commences with a
lengthened article of a somewhat abstruse and
serious nature. It is entitled "An Analogy sug-
gested by Essays and Reviews," and discusses
the characteristics and tendencies of the volume re-
sently published under that name by members of
the universities. It is followed by the concluding
part of the vivid but painful story of " Utrum
Horum ; or, The Revenge of Shane Roe." The
chief point of the tale is the capture of the two sons
of the chief M'Mahon by his deadly enemy, who
has the :barbarity to send a messenger to
the 'father, telling that he may choose which
shall die, but that if he does not do so at once
both shall perish. The distracted parent is unable
to make so terrible a selection, and his hair turns
suddenly grey from the agony he endures. Fortu-
nately his sons are both saved by the devotion of
his foster brother, and their inhuman captor reaps
the reward of his crimes. "The World's Two
Tribes ' • for, the Worker and the Thinker," is the
title of a poem which displays more thought and
greater poetic ability than we ordinarily find in
periodical literature. The author answers in turn
the mutual disparagement of the two rival classes,
and upholds the claim of each to honour in its own
vocation. We quote the concluding verses, which
assert the poet's right to rank among the bene-
factors of his kind.

Taunt not thus—the value of deep thinking,
Not in carat nor broad piece is told—
Well for thee, oh world, that some are drinking
From the rare Platonic cups of gold.

For the icy air of these abstractions
Is by birds of strongest pinion cross'd,
Ever dropping earthward seeds of actions
In the soil of history never lost.
And the setting in a ring poetic
Of some kingly Koh. i-noor of thought,
Of some pearl, pale, precious, and pathetic,
From the sea of human suffering brought ;
And the art that sheds a flush of beauty
On the sad and solemn face of truth,
Subtly winning to the side of duty
All the passionate pulses of our youth ;
These are things that Adam's sons and daughters
Cannot spare this work-day world of ours—
Cannot spare the bread upon the waters
Cast, returning after many hours.
O Two Tribes 1 ye shall have peace for ever,
—But n .t here—and harmony untold,
Workers pacing by the hill and river,
Thinkers singing to the harps of gold
Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne's forcible romance of
" Transformation" is the subject of an able paper,
which contains much original matter. The re-
markable story of " Vonved the Dane" proceeds
with interest. Captain Vinterdalen concludes his
exciting narrative of the Counts of Elsinore, and
ends by revealing to his agitated wife the secret
that the reader has before suspected—that he him-
self and the outlawed rover are one and the same.
Ho has hardly made this startling avowal to
Auralia, when he is arrested by the soldiers of
King Frederick. We leave his devoted adherent
Mads Neilsen plotting for his rescue. An essay on
" Palceontology " traces the rise and progress
of that curious and interesting science
which owes so much to the scientific profes-
sors of our day. " Our Foreign Courier "
discusses some recent Continental publications,
and an article headed " Politics at Home and
Abroad," will entertain the reader by its citations
from some animated Parisian pamphlets. "My
Greatest Fright" narrates the miseries endured by
the writer, who travelled in company with an in-
toxicated man in a stage coach by night. Before
the journey's end his fellow-traveller was dead,
and a frightful suspicion took possession of the
survivor that his death had been occasioned by an
impatient push he had given him. He spent a
terrible night of suspense, but his anxiety was
happily relieved at the inquest. A lengthened
essay on the prospects of French agriculture will
attract the attention of the political reader.

Bentley's Miscellany.
The" Outremanche Correspondence" is continued,
and maintains the same sarcastic tone in its review
of our French negotiations, which rendered the
first chapters so amusing. The cool way in which
the supposed Frenchman chuckles over the Eng-
lish freetrader is worthy of repetition :—" It was a
notable idea certainly, and as fertile in happy
consequences, as another idea which Europe has
heard of, to select an unlettered man, who, for the
best of all possible reasons, enjoys an English news-
paper far more than a page of Thucydides, and pit
him against the combined talent of French diplo-
macy, to negotiate a treaty of commerce with a
nation like ours, which, with your permission,
mon cher, is always ready to take what she can get,
but never gives away anything she can possibly
contrive to keep. And the result of this selection
on the part of Lord Sohn Russell has been what
everybody now sees—a second visit to Paris by Mr.
Cobden, to ask the French Government to take
pity on his ignorance, and allow him, at the
eleventh hour, to make a better bargain." The
eighth part of "0 vingdean Grange" commences this
month. Charles the Second appears in person on
the scene rather prominently, and the interest of
the tale is kept up. We have a sketch of " The Life
and Doings of Marshal O'Donnell, and his War in
Morocco." Dudley Costello's story of " Gurney, or
Two Fortunes," is continued, and the chapter on
" Naples and the Neapolitans" will be read with
interest at the present juncture. " A Lay of St.
Stephen's" is cleverly written, but the chef d'ceuvre
of this month is the wonderful tale of " Guy Vil-
liers ; or How the Major Shot his Tiger and
changed his loves." 'We do do not expect that
any man is to be found who could read the story
from beginning to end, and we should be sorry for
any one to risk the attempt ; but a cursory glance
through it will amuse the reader by its absurdity. We
would suggest to Mr. Ouida for the future to copy
his quotations and not trust to memory, which will
prevent similar misquotation: " With, a wet sheet
and a flowing sea." Again, if he got some practi-
cal friend to correct his proofs the following extra-
ordinary passage would not be preserved to the
public—" And away went with lots of coals in the
boilers," &e. If this be a now mode of getting up
the steam, why has not Mr. Ouida addressed a
paper on the subject to the Society of Civil Euoi-
neers. Gentlemen who try to catch fish over the
taffrail of steamships :under weigh may fish for a
long time without success, and it is not much proof
of tile cleverness of the hero of this tale to set him
at such fool's work. To expect to find one sensible
remark in this ridiculous story would not be natu-
re 1, and the author shows in the concluding chap