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London, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

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FOREIG.

7NTION,

The Nord of Brussels publishes in prominent
type, and draws particular attention to the sub-
joined article, which appears in the journal de
Frankfort as a communication from Vienna :
"It is clearly one of the fundamental principles of in-
ternational law that the sovereignty of every indepen-
dent State ought to be respected as sacred ; that, conse-
quently, other States have not the right o prescribing
the course of its internal policy—of exacting that it
should follow their counsels, and especially of accom-
panying their demands by threats, or of having recourse
to measures of compulsion.
" The only exception to this rule ie the case when
the internal policy of a State threatens in an evident
manner to disturb the internal tranquillity or the ex-
ternal peace of other States. In that case, the States
really threatened have the right to demand, and as a
last resource, to obtain by force the removal of that
danger.
" T h e
an inc i
independentpl of the s asctraetrel chh, ara
applicable,c t
without
distinction, of
distinction, to every form of government, to monarchies
ae well as t) republics. All States are therefore equally
interested in the actual proceedings of the Western
Powers towards Naples. Should they, in this instance,
violate the fundamental principle above cited, they
would inaugurate on our continent a new national law,
making the internal policy of States subordinate to the
will of Powers strong enough to exact it.
"General and indefinite wars would be the inevitable
result. The different States are therefore—for the des-
tinies of all are equally at stake—justified in devoting
their full attention to the proceedings of the 'Western
Powers towards the legitimate Sovereign of the King-
dorn of the Two Sicilies. The question is not to ascer-
tain whether the internal policy of that monarch is de-
serving of praise or of censure, but to ascertain whether
that policy threatens to disturb the internal tranquillity
or the external peace of France and of England.
"If it does not threaten them—and surely there is no
manifestation of such a danger—those Powers have not
the slightest right to exact a modification of that policy,
still less to acquire it by force.
" Yet if those Powers, because it is their good pleasure
to declare as dangerous the system of Government of Fer-
dinand 11., or to see therein the germ of a revolution
which might extend over all Italy, have made exactions,
and now use threats (for every demonstration is a threat),
which they are to put into execution should they not be
complied with--which is probable—they thereby lay
down at once a principle incompatible with the indepen-
dence of States, and, further, set an example the conse-
quences of which equally threaten the latter, because it
makes the fear only of possible events a legal motive for
intervention.
"Thirty-six years ago there was also question of in-
tervention in the internal affairs of this same kingdom ;
but it was asked for by the legitimate Sovereign, the
grandfather of the present King. Although that fact
alone justified the assistance given by Austria with the
consent of France, of Prussia, and of Russia, the Aus-
trian Government nevertheless, in its diplomatic docu-
ments, referred to the 'immediate danger which threat-
ened it.
"Thus we find in Prince Metternich's circular despatch
of the 25th of July, 1820, the following passage :
"`The interests of his Majesty the Emperor are
especially compromised in these sad events in conse-
quence of his political and persocal relations, of his
near relationship with different princely houses of
Italy, and of the geographical position of his own
States.'
"Austria possessed, moreover, the right by con-
tract of exacting that the Constitution of the Cortes
should not be introduced into the kingdom of Naples,
for it is said in a secret article of the treaty con-
cluded on the Ith of June, 1815, with Austria :
"`As the engagements which their Majesties take
by this treaty with a view to insure the internal peace
of Italy make it their duty to preserve their States
and their respective subjects from fresh reactions and
from the evil of imprudent innovations which might
occasion their renewal, it is agreed between the high
contracting parties that his Majesty the King of the
Two Sicilies in resuming the government of his king.
done (of Naples) shall not introduce any changes
which are not in keeping with the ancientmenbayrciliiiis-
cal institutions or_ with the principles adopted
Imperial and Royal Majesty in the internal system
of his Italian provinces.'
"Austria had, therefore, positively the right to exact,
and even to obtain by force, a modification of the Con-
stitution of the Cortes promulgated at Naples, although
no one knew it exactly, even if the former Kiug Ferdi-
nand had published it freely, and bad not been compelled
to do so. Prussia, France' and Russia, as allies of Aus-
tria, had fully the right to lend her their moral cud ma-
terial support against the revolutionary Government of
Naples.
"At the Congress of Troppau, Austria, Prussia, and
Russia went very far in principle, as appears from the
circular despatch addressed on the Brh of Dec., 1820,
by those three Powers to their representatives at the
Courts of Germany and of the North. In the
precis which accompanied that despatch the events
of Spain, of Naples, and of Portugal ore designated
as objects of the same alliance concluded against
the French Revolution, and the hope is therein
expressed that that alliance will also be able to
put a check upon a new domination, net less tyrannical,
not less horrible than that of revolt and of crime.'
" The following passage then occurs :
" ' The Powers have exercised an incontestable right
by taking together common measures of safety against
the States in which the overthrow of the Government,
offectt d by revolt, if not considered as a dangerous
example, would have for result a hostile attitude against
all legitimate constitutions and Governments. The
exercise of that riglt became a still ;more urgent neces-
sity when those who placed themselves in such a situa-
tion endeavoured to extend to their neighbours the evils
they had drawn down upon themselves, and to propagate
revolt and confusion around them. Such a position, such
conduct, is an evident infraction of the compact which
guarantees to all European Governments, because the
inviolability of their territory, the enjoyment of peaceful
relations which exclude any recriprocal onslaught upon
their rights. The fact is incontestable, and is the
point frem which the allied Courts etai Zted. The Mi-
nisters at Troppau, who were possibly provided with
full powers from their Sovereigns, consequently con-
certed together upon the line of conduct to follow rela-
tive to the States the Governments of which had been
violently overthrown, and upon the pacific or coercive
measures which might bring back those States into the
circle of the European alliance.'
" Although this precis expressed the hope that Eng-
land would join the other Powers responding to the in-
vitation of the King of Naples, conformable to treaties,
and although Lord Castlereagh, then Foreign Secretary,
had always shared the views of the three allies, he could
not do so on this occasion ; and in a despatch dated the
19th of January, 1821, he had to declare that the King
declined participating in those measures, which he con-
sidered diametrically opposed to the fundamental lams
of England.
" But (continues Lord Castlereagh in his despatch),
even did not this decided objection exist, the British Go-
vernment would not the less be of the opinion that the
principles which serve as basis for these measures cannot
be admitted with safety as a system of laws between na-
tions. The Government of the King is of the opinion that
the adoption of those principles would inevitably sanction
and might eventually lead, on the part of less well inten-
tioned Sovereigns, to an intervention in the internal
affairs of States much more frequent and more extensive
than that which he is persuaded it is the intention of the
august personage to exercise, or which would be in
keeping with the general interests or with the real
authority and dignity cf independent Sovereigns. The
Government of his Majesty does not think that, ac-
cording to existing treaties, the allies have the right to
assume any general powers of this description, nor does it
think that they can arrogate to themselves such extra-
ordinary powers in virtue of any new diplomatic transac-
tion between the allied Courts, without attributing to
themselves a supremacy incompatible with the rights of
other States, or, even on acquiring those powers by the
isnpteoc i al
ucroonpsee nof those same
at
federal, oppressive
States,
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woulduc
ing
not only be inefficacious in obtaining its object, but
might lead also to the most serious consequences.'
"These are words of wisdom, full of real respect for
international law, for Lord Castlereagh and his colleagues
the
dnsyipa Governmenttby fortherev
i Naples.andolcution did
Butn the force
not favour
revolutionary
of truth made the British Government alive to the dan.
gerous consequences of a principle incompatible with the
independence of States, and made it reject it.
Stuarto March,
1823,
British " In like manner, in 1323, England refused to parti-
cipate in an intervention in the internal affairs of Spain.
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between France and Spain, his Government could not
form an opinion upon what foundation the Cabinet of
the Tuileries thought of a possible rupture of diplomatic
Franco
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the SpaAilnil
affairs of
w
tion an event was feared apparently so improbable as a
relations with the Court of Madrid, or
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the French territory, of any attempt to tamper with the
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her political institutions ; and as long as the discussions
and troubles of Spain were confined to her own terri-
tory France could not be allowed by the English
Geyerement to plead in favour cf foreinu t„tert
en-
tion. If the end of the last ecntery and the
commencement of the present one saw
all Europe
leagued against France, it N:11$ itot en account of inter-
nal cbanY,os which France teought eceessary for her
own political and civil rolormatioD, but because she
first at ernpted to propagate her I rine: •ph ,
is,
and then
her (lontioation, by force of arm?.,
"I),,es the King of the Two_Siciliee, it might be
,
asked, seek to tamper with the Airitigh troops, or to
undermine the political institutions of England • or does
be endeavour in the slightest degree to spread his prin.
ciples and extend his dotnination by farce of arms ?
"And if he does nothing of all this, and if in 1823
rig an inter vention in the in-
ternal how can elm in 1856 justify
Great Britain strongly disapproved of intervention in
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terms! affairs of the kingdom of Naples ?”

TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAY.
Although the subjoined list of quotations show several
important changes in the betting on the Cesarewitch, yet
the range of speculation was limited, and the investments
for the most part were in only trifling sums. Middleton,
who at the commencement of lag week was under con-
siderable suspicion, but in whose favour a reaction set
in before the termination of the Newmarket meeting, was
brought with increased force into the market, and at his
closing price-15 to I—he was spiritedly supported, 100
to 6 was taken freely about Merlin. At one time 20 to
1 was booked about Barfleur ; but at last five points
more might have been obtained without difficulty.
The prices on the Cambridgeshire were merely nominal.
DEREY.-16 to 1 was taken to some money about Mr.
Bowes's lot, and 1,000 to 20 was booked five times about
Colonist. The other quotations do not require comment.

CLOSING PRICES.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Fulbeck (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Middleton (taken)
100 to 6 agst Cotswold (taken)
100 to 6 agst Merlin (taken)
25 to 1 agst Homily (taken)
25 to 1 agst 13r-fleur (taken)
25 to 1 agst Alice Wentworth (taken)
30 to 1 agst King of Scotland (taken)
500 to 15 agst The Earl (taken)
40 to 1 agst First Fiy (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 agst Lance
20 to 1 agst Pohnoodie
Offers to take 25 to 1 about Cotswold
DERBY.

16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's lot (taken)
1000 to 30 apt Athlete (taken)
45 to 1 agst Saunterer (taken)
50 to 1 agst Colonist (taken)
50 to 1 agst Adamas (taken)
50 to 1 agst Kent (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Laird Duff (taken)
The room will be opened on Saturday for the compar,
ng of bets on the Cesarewitch.

AQUATICS.

PRINCE OF WALES' AQUATIC CLUB FOUR

OARED RACE.
A very capital four-oared race took place yesterday
amongst the members of this newly-established trades.
men's club, which did great credit to those concerned
in it. Notwithstanding the state of the weather, it was
witnessed by a number of spectators, and at the time
fixed upon to start, half-past three, it was fortunately
dry. The race was for four silver oars and a rudder,
and the distance from Westminster-bridge to .Battersea
ditto. The following was the result :
White
Mr. J. M`Guire I Mr. J. Blanshard
Mr. G. Giammer Mr. T. Jackson
Mr. T. Rapley, coxswain;

Red 2
Mr. J. Matthews Mr. C. Iwaacks
Mr. G. Blanshard I Mr. A. Green
Mr. W. Dineen, coxswain.

Blue
Mr. J. Jones 1 Mr. C. Scott
Mr. B. Guilland 1 Mr. J. Jackson
Mr. E. Jaffries, coxswain
It was a capital start, all going off well together.
Blue took the lead, followed by Red, White close up.
White then began to pass Rcd, and was soon up to
Blue, and, after a good race, went by them at Vauxhall-
pier, and were through Vauxhall•bridge first by half a
length. Red now overlapped Blue, and an excellent
race went on to Thames-bank, where Red began to
leave their opponents, and at the new bridge were
clear, but after this they were never more than a length
or two ahead. White won by four or five lengths:
Red second by one length.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, 00T. 6.
Charles Henry Pilkington was this day admitted an
actual Fellow of New College, after two years' probation
as scholar.
A Convocation will be holden on Wednesday next at
12 o'clock, when the present Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Cotton,
will resign his office, having 'widen the same for four
years. At the same time the appointment of Dr. Wil-
liams, who has been nominated by the Chancellor to
succeed to the office, will be read to the house.
A Congregation for granting graces and conferring
degrees will be holden o❑ Friday morning at ten o'clock,
being the first day of Michaelmrs term.
The visitation of the Bodleian Library takes place on
Saturday.

LITERATUj.

PROJECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

(From the Timm.)
The architects of all nations are invited to com-
pete for a work of as great importance and as great
difficulty as ever fell within their province. At
last, after enduring every inconvenience and in-
curring the utmost ridicule, the British Govern-
ment has been forced and ashamed into seeking
what may be called a new habitation. It is of no
use to run for parallels to any actual amount of
private absurdity in order to do full justice to the
condition of our present public Government offices.
We should have to suppose something quite out of
the way, for the fact surpasses all .fiction. Of
twenty principal and subordinate departments not
one has the least pretensions to an office adequate
either in scale or in arrangement. There is not one
official residence that can be called either dignified
or comfortable, not one suite of rooms capacious
enough for an ordinary reception. In the princi-
pal suite props are necessary to prevent a catas-
trophe as fatal as that planned by Guy Fawkes.
What foreigners might suppose to be the most im-
portant (Alice in our Government, as the centre of
our naval power, is divided into two halves three-
quarters of a mile apart, one of them being only a
small section of a building, which it shares with
other occupants. The Government of India is in a
back lane, not unfrequently under water. The
other offices are scattered here, there, and every-
where. Intelligent Londoners of thirty years' ex-
perience in the ways of the metropolis would be
puzzled to point them all out on the map. Some
departments rent houses, a single house, or two
together • and others are so fortunate as to possess
the freehold of residences that still are but indif-
ferent private houses.. The rents of wbo'e streets
have risen because Government was hiring house
after house for its ovn uses. The Ordnance-office
has lately encroached on the neighbouring linen-
draper; the Treasury has an appendage over
the way in Gwydyr-house ; the Records are, or
were till lately, some in a chapter-house, some
in a stable, and some over a magazine of gun-
powder. Meanwhile, we have gene on patching
and piecing, adding a storey or a front, as business
increased or self-respect might require. The Trea-
sury has been once raised and twice fronted within
the present generation. The very sanctum sane-
toratm of the British Executive is a so-called street,
but really a small court of houses of the class
usually devoted to lodgers, and from time imine.
morial with a large acre of rubbish before it.
Meanwhile we are consolidating offices, increasing
business, multiplying clerks, accumulating papers
—crowding, in fact, every room, every passage,
and every shelf. At last there is no choice left ;
we must find more accommodation, and do it on a
somewhat better system than we have done before.
It is not to be supposed, however, that what has
always been difficult when taken piecemeal should
be otherwise than difficult when taken altogether.
In fact, a new constitution for this country would
be hardly a more serious undertaking than a new
set of public offices.
The first object proposed for the competition of
the architectural world is vast, and, we must add,
rather indeterminate. It is the concentration of
the principal Government offices ou a site lying
between Whitehall and the New Palace of West-
minster. The site itself is more accurately defined
in the plans which accompany this invitation by
a red line, which includes the Home-office, passes
along the boundary of St. James's Park to Storey's-
gate, along the north side of Great George-street,
includes both sides of Bridge. street, a large pro-
posed embankment of the Thames, passes along
the south wall of Richmond-mews, and crosses
Parliament-street, the whole of which it includes,.
excepting only the end of Richmond-terrace. Thus
it appears that the whole of the large square
bounded by Downing-street on the north, Great
George-street on the south, St. James's Park on
the west, and Parliament-street on the east, is
doomed to destruction. So also is the rectangular
space between Parliament-street, Palace-yard, the
Thames, and Richmond-mews. The area is im
mense, and the cost of buying. up the houses,
indifferent as they are, will be considerable. For
our part, however, we should have been disposed to
go further. Why not take the whole area compre-
hended in the magnificent design of Inigo Jones f
At this moment the purchase of the eight houses
in Richmond-terrace, of Montagu-house, and of
the three mansions in Whitehall-gardens—viz., the
Marquis of Ailsa's, the Duke of Northumberland's,
and Sir R. Peel's—is a mere question of, money,,
there being no public sentiment, and to the best
of our belief, no personal feeling likely to be
offended by the purchase. With these residences
Government would be able to acquire more than
half as much area from the Thames. Again, after
all the talk there has been about throwing open the
Abbey, and after the desire so generally expressed •
to clear the neighbourhood of the public offices and
of the Houses of Parliament from the presence of
inferior buildings, no plan will be satisfactory
which stops short at Great George-street, and does
not go right down to the Abbey. This would in-
volve Westminster Hospital, the Sessions-house,
and the new Stationery-office ; but, apart from the
question of money, these buildings have no claim
to preservation ; and the question of money is only
a question of time. The work is to be spread over
a series of years, only it is desirable to know at
once all that is to be done.
We shall be charged, perhaps, with extending a
scheme already expansive and indeterminate
enough ; but the terms of the invitation are far
more comprehensive and vague. Indeed, they
amount to a rearrangement of the whole of that part
of the metropolis on both sides of the Thames, and
up and down ever so far. "The design is also to
represent any improvements which the author may
suggest in the principal approaches to the New
Palace of Westminster, as well as in the com-
munications with the Surrey side of the
river Thames, especially with reference to the
situation of the now Westminster-bridge, the ulti-
mate position of which must be considered in con-
nexion with this design." We beg to submit that,
in mere compassion to the foreign architects who
may be tempted to spend their time till next Easter
in arranging our 20 Government offices ou the
350,000 superficial square feet surrounded by the
red line, that some batter instructions ought to be
given as to the much larger objects also in con-
templation. When the foreign architect has been
slavishly adjusting his design to the immediate
neighbourhood he may possibly find, to his disgust,
that the prize has been carried off by an English-
man who has included Charing-cross, Scotland-
yard, Abingdon-street, both banks of the Thames
from Hungerford-bridge to Horseferry-road, and
an immense portion of Lambeth, in his plan. He
may find that in order to make his design agree-
able at head-quarters he ought to have swept away
Westminster-bridge altogether, and thrown another
across the Thames in a straight line from Charing-
cross, and another opposite Lambeth Church. He
may find that, little as he knew it, he was at liberty •
to encroach as much as ho pleased on St. James's-
park, to surround the abbey and its college with a
green field, to transplant St. Margaret's Church to
the entrance of Victoria-street, and, in a word, to
make any suggestion recommended by its grandeur
or its convenience. British architects, or perhaps,
we should say, one or two favoured British archi-
tects, may know how far they may safely go ; but
foreign architects will be apt to know nothing but
what they read in the terms of the invitation and
what they see in the plans. They ought, we humbly
suggest, to be more largely or more exactly in-
formed.
Three designs aro invited ; the first we have
described, the second and third are respectively
for a Foreign-office and a War-office, both to
be included in the rectangular space between
Downing-street and Charles-street, the block
of buildings 'between King-street and Parliament-
street being marked for destruction. A paragraph
in our columns has already stated the immense size
of the buildings wanted and their various require-
ments. They are to be commenced as soon as el.
sible on ground now occupied by streets of awsw:
class, and without interfering with public husines
face St.
When they are finished it will only
renalathteolerses-
of the
fare. The
re-
move into them the staff and the material
two departments. The Foreign-office l
:fames's-park, and the War-office to occupyh
to the purpose,_
eligible position in the noisy thoroughfare.
specifications are sufficiently exactas
the rave .00ms
• rer-
oi et
other florid
Ita-
lianhenumber, size, and distribution of_
in the neigh-
_n given as
nittoorfolslomeow t
haps however, some hint migh
to the style—whether it
of the Treasury
the two ()faces to
bourhood. Again, are ,bear any •
numerous and discordant examples.
another • iseyond the areas of
resemblance to one
the rooms, which are given, the architect is left to
_
. -
make out by a difficult calculation in what ratio the
two offices are to divide the given rectangle ; and
t the tw
it is
quite possible tha o successful designs, if
Bibles may not eby different exactly fit the space.
It is very desirablethat every doubt should be re-
moved, and that) all the competitors should start
perfectly fair. Tat:Te are but two many instances of
professional heattl;urriiaga
produced by the suspi-
cam of private information, or at least of greater .
licence being given to ono architect than another.
Thus far there is D o sign of favouri.i en; and, on the
wise principle ltimittm 915 creole nu ornamen-
tal drawings are to be allowed_only models 011
the same scale as the plans. This looks like justice.
But justice itself, in its sternest moods, is often,
defeated, and iu no trials so much as in those or
architecture. So, without meaning any offence) we
only entreat that there may be no mistake as to the
nature of the designs allowed to come Auto eompeti-
thou....4Times.

Tender and True. By the Author of Clara Mori-
son. 2 Vols. Smith and Elder.
This is a pleasing and interesting domestic story,
attractive also from some originality in plot and
locality. The authoress, it may be remembered,
has previously published a story of colonial life,
and her present work is called "A Colonial Tale."
The hero, Robert North, is a man of excellent
principles, and great strength of mind. He has
received a stern and limited education from his
uncle, a Dissenting minister, and all deficiencies in
his knowledge or his fortune be has had to supply
unaided. We are introduced to him as he is taking
possession of a deserted paper mill in a quiet Eng-
lish village. He has always longed for a home and
some gentle-loving companion, who would rever-
ence his opinions and bend to his wishes. He
meets with the realisation of his dreams in Mary
Lancaster, the eldest . daughter of the owner
of the mill. She returns his affection, but her
parents oppose it. After some time they are
induced to consent, and the marriage takes place.
The chief interest of the story, however, only be-
gins here. Mary looks up to her husband' with
reverential affection, she believes him to be "Ten-
der and True," in the words of a favourite old
ballad. But somehow their happiness is not quite
what she expected. North having been accustomed
to much solitary study and thought continues his
old habits, and never makes his wife a sharer
in his projects and ideas. She is not• gifted
with any brilliant talents or great powers of
mind, and soon abandons the attempt to com-
prehend his subjects of interest. She has
been a most devoted and useful . member of
her own family, and being much missed she is na-
turally glad to pay frequent visits to her old home.
But her husband, to whom his wife's affection is all
sufficient, cannot understand why it is not the
same with her, and a feeling of jealousy and dis-
content arises in his mind. Ho never attempts to
enter into her thoughts and wishes, and a want of
confidence exists between them. Suddenly Mr.
north meets with severe losses, and though he
might have overcome them, he seizes the oppor-
tunity to insist upon emigrating to Australia.
His wife is in the greatest distress, but he assures
her it is necessary, and they sail. He prospers in
the colony, and likes the life there, but his wife
pines for sympathy and companionship. She has,
before this, arrived at the conclusion that her hus-
band is true, but not tender. After a few years
her family follow her, and she is dismayed to find
that her husband does npt share her pleasure. She
is still more dismayed when, shortly after, she ac-
cidentally hears that he might have succeeded in
England had he chosen. She bitterly exclaims to
herself that he is neither true nor tender ; and
while he is thinking her perfectly happy she is in
wardly fretting and desponding. Her sister Rose
comes to live with them. She has been always
Mary's favourite and companion; she is possessed
of many admirable qualities and is devoted to her
sister. But Mr. North begrudges her her share
of Mary's affections. Added to this, he is always
disputing with her father, and does not harmonise
with her mother, for he is harsh and unbending, and
will takeno pains to conciliate them, owing to his jea-
lousy. At length the storm breaks out, and Mary
charges him with being neglectful of her, indif-
ferent to his children, and neither tender uor true.
Poor Mr. North is dismayed ; he had never ima-
gined his wife could doubt his affection for her,
and he leaves home in perplexity. Ho meets a
friend, who persuades him to accompany him on a
visit to the diggings, and when there he falls seri-
ously ill from an epidemic fever. Meanwhile Mrs.
North had arrived at the conclusion that she had
been in extremes, and became alarmed at his ab-
sence. At length all is happily re-adjusted, and
each is determined to fail no more in synipathy or
confidence. Mary learns that there may be deep
feeling with very little demonstration—Mr North
that sympathy and consideration are due from the
husband as well as the wife. Besides the domestic
adventures of the chief persons in the story, there
is an interesting chapter of romance about Rose
Lancaster's love affail3. She is one of the most
attractive of the dramatis personce, and the dif-
ference of character between her and her sister is
very skilfully drawn. The authoress is, it is to be
presumed, well acquainted with colonial life, as
she informs us that she has followed the advice of
the poet in selecting her subject—" That is best
which lieth nearest"—and, consequently, the
sketches of life and manners in Adelaide may L 3
considered portraits. Notwithstanding the some-
what sentimental title of the work, it is written in
a very simple and straightforward style, and evi-
dences talent and experience. It enforces its
practizal lesson silently but impressively, and no
doubt some of the many readers of " Tender and
True" will derive from it as much profit as plea-
sure.

ORIGIN OF SMOKING TOCACOO.
(From Willies Current Notes.)