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lutionary committee. The men were to have been
tried for high treason, but after the preliminary
examination had been made the judges declared that
the charge could not possibly be upheld. " After
this," says the correspondent, " it is to be expected
the prisoners will be set at liberty." As 'the "bail"
system is not known in this country, it rarely hap-
pens that a person who is accused of an offence or
crime is allowed to enjoy his liberty until his trial
comes on.

The fortresses of Verona, Lagnano, Mantua,
and Peschiera are now almost as strong as they
can possibly be made, but there is reason to
believe that they have very few rifle guns. The
Austrian troops on the Po and Mincio are now
moving into their winter quarters.
There is no truth in the report that the Grand
Duke of Tuscany has " indirectly" received an in-
vitation from the Emperor Napoleon to go to Paris.
Baron Hubner had an audience of the Emperor
yesterday, but it is not yet known whether he will
take office.

The Second Chamber at Cassel, in the Electorate
of Hesse, yesterday declared that it should insist on
the restoration of the Constitution of 1831. Only
five members out of 48 were in favour of the Con-
stitution of 1852.

Baron Rothschild is said to have won four-fifths
of the!great prize-300,0001—in the State Lottery.

LITERATURE.

Dauntot .Manor House. 2 vols. Hurst and

Blackett.

There are three stories in this book, one of the
inhabitants of Daunton Manor, and the other two
are tales that are written by the young ladies of
of the Manor House to entertain their friends, and
also to serve as a charitable purpose, afterwards to
make up a volume publishing by a French lady for
the purpose of defraying the expenses of her
daughter's education. Of these the latter is
by far the most pleasing, it is a simple
village tale called, " All's well that ends
well." The chief person mentioned is a
smart little widow called Mrs. Pritchard, who is
most amusing in her various manecuvres. Having
failed to secure the object of her first plans, she is
at last obliged to put up with old Dr. Dodds, who
proves a very suitable match for her. The clergy-
man's family is interestingly described, and Alice
is a gentle gracious young girl, and a fit inmate for
a country parsonage. Arthur is a very unfortunate
hero, and he was placed in a most cruel position
by the extraordinary and inconsiderate conduct of
his father. When this wretched man at last died
it was a positive relief to all parties concerned.
The first tale, called " The Guardian," is well
written, bat not at all a pleasing style of story.
The idea of father and son being in love with the
same person is not at all a nice notion, and, alto-
gether the arrangements are not so agreeable to
the reader. Aunt Ryan is quite a contrast to the
others, and her straightforward plans are quite an
advantage, after the dawdling and the vacillating
of the others. The family of Mr. Holborough is a
very pleasing one, and there is much to entertain
in what we see of them. There is every variety in
the composed Ada and vivacious Ella, the sprightly
sportive Katie Dalton, and the solemn Madame
Dupre. Charles and George Holborough, Henry
Dalton, and Captain Bryanston also afford some
striking contrasts, and with one thing and another
there is ample scopejfor some hours' agreeable en-
tertainment in these two volumes, as from their
several styles of narrative, and for the adroitness
with which some of the persons are described, there
is much to amuse and not a little to interest.

My 717 fe's Pinrnoney ; or, The Marriage in Ex-
tremes. By M. E. Nelson. Saunders and Otley.
This is a very curious page in literary history,
and well deserves perusal. It is described in a
graphic manner, and the wits of the day seem to
live again before us as we dwell on that strange
scene in Windsor Cottage. The old comic poet is
indeed a remarkable devotee at the altar of Hymen,
and adverse as such a proceeding is to one's tastes
and repugnant to one's principles, there is some-
thing melancholy and affecting in the manner in
which he addresses her. The subjoined passage in
whichWycherly makes answer to a royal messenger
who comes to offer him in the King's name the
Order of the Bath, provided he furnishes him with
the antiquity of his family and the nobility of his
extraction, is very eloquent and dignified :

" I am the son of my works, sir, and if I am tainted with
the ♦ice of pride, that vice is at least good, as it regards
what is of some real value. In short, I have no wish to
resemble my ancestors, and I have nothing in common
with that nobility which ruas in the spine and the hump,
the respectable froth of whose grandfathers might make a
sort of popularity. No I venerate and I admire the vir-
tues of my fathers, and I shall for ever retain a tender and
profound admiration for the Wycherley who saved the life
of his king on the battlefield of Browhill ; and for that an-
cestor who fed the peasants of his county during the civil
wars of the red and white roses. There, sir royal messenger,
is what I have to tell you; thank his Majesty's Minister
for me ; take to the King himself the expression of my
gratitude, of my devotion, and of my fidelity. Besides that,
assure his Majesty that the poor Wycherley is quite ready
to rejoin the shades of his illustrious and magnanimous
protectors of former times, to take with him to the tomb his
gratitude and loyalty. Tell him—tell him, above all—that
my last desire, and my last prayers, shall be for the glory
and the independence of Great Britain, fbr the prosperity
o f the United Kingdom, and for the happiness and welfare
of the Prince in particular, that England has called to the
throne of Elizabeth, of Charles H., and William III."

The Etnalgrant's Daughter, A Novel, Historic and
Moral. By M. E. E. Nelson. Saunders and
Otley.
This is a very interesting little sketch of an
episode in the reign of Catherine 11. of Russia, and
it affords glimpses of Russian life that are well
worthy of regard. There is something very im-
pressive in the character of the great Empress
here described, and the young maiden who ar-
rives a homeless refugee to her Court, attracts
greatly by her beauty and misfortunes. As an
evidence of the style one cannot do better than
peruse the following account of the private room
of the Empress, called