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slacken his efforts, but go on in his praiseworthy
endeavours. The French people have many things
to contend against, and in some respects the
stern decrees of past years may have been
beneficial in keeping back those who seek
to interfere with the peace of the country.
We think, however, that it is high time
for some alteration to be made, and for more con-
fidence to be reposed in the nation at large. The
EMPEROR'S power is not so secure, and his Govern-
ment, to use his own term, is not so " consolidated"
that surely-he might in all safety be more advanced
in his views, and more liberal in his policy. It will
be all the more desirable for such a beneficial course
to be pursued, because the state of Germany is very
significant, and it will never do for the Emperor
NAPOLEON to allow it to be said that the Prussians
have stolen a march upon him, and are even in name
more advanced in national prog,ressand development.
With one thing and another this last year has not
been a favourable one for France, and no one can
better feel this than the EMPEROR,; but he may
more than redeem the, drawback of the past if he
now inaugurate a Liberal poliey,which, as time goes
on, will increase in strength and win the respect
and confidence of the people.

The news which the Atlantic Telegraph transmits
to us, bearing date January 18th; is of the briefest
possible extent, bat it is, nevertheless, highly impor-
tant. " The Supreme Court," soruns the message,
" has decided that the test oath.is unconstitutional."
This is a most significant step; and it confirms Mr.
JOHNSON'S anticipations of the sapport which he
would receive from the judicial authorities. It is'a
severe blow to the Radical- party, "a;nd deprives
_tjiem of many of their most speciouspretexts. It
remains to be seen what step will be next taken by
•
the dominant party. If t eir awn proceedings
are declared upon unquestionable authority to
be unconstitutional they can , hardly censure the
PRESIDENT for having refused to endorse them.
The illegality of legislating in thee name of the
United States, without any reference whatever to
the wishes of eleven of those States, has always been
apparent to unprejudiced observers. Even supposing
the proceedings of Congress had been in accordance
with the tone and temper of American legislation, it
would have been unconstitutional ,and unjust; but
when the Radicals boldly and openly endeavoured to
rule a large proportion of the great free country by
force, it was quite evident that all respect for consti-
tutional law and for the safeguards of national liberty
was gone, and that the people had nothing to look
for from those who should have been the best guar-.
dians of their rights. President JOHNSON long ago
declared that
.the road upon which the Radicals
were entering would lead to centralisation and
tyranny. At that time he was in more favour with.
the party Who elected him, but he did not fail to
perceive the dangers which threatened the States
through their means. Some of the motions which
Mr. JOHNSON most strenuously resisted tended, as
he pointed out at the time, to the increase of his own
power, and, therefore, to a curtailment of the rights of
the people. The subsequent conduct of the Radical
party, both in and out of Congress, has fully con-
firmed his opinion, and they have made it only too
manifest that the liberties of the people are their
last thought. What steps the leaders of the party
will think fit to take under thiS rebuff is as yet un-
certain. They can hardly proclaim their indiffe-
rence alike to the Constitution. and the Supreme
Court ; if they do they will be showing very plainly
how little they are to be trusted, and to what dan-
gerous lengths they will hurry their followers if
k still supported.

The annual meeting of the Sheffield Chamber of
Commerce was herd on Friday last, and the pro-
s
ceeilings derived some interest from the presence of
the, borough member, Mr. ROEBUCK. That gentle-
man, who had gone down on pitrposa to take part
in thet'meeting, was elected an honorary member of
the Chamber, and received a vote of thanks from
his constituents for his constant attention to their
affairs. , The trade of Sheffield,
_however, is im-
portant and interesting enough. to attract the atten-
tion of those not so immediately connected with the
town, and the various commercial questions of the
day were brought upfor consideration in the report.
Stretching beyond the 4ctual condition of prices and
markets, the report entered upon a wider range,
and dismissed the possible and
_probable effects of
the great political changes of the. time upon the
inhdiuestrynitoeftehmeiro
stt oaNpv np
a. r
eßn
ty .the, wonderful links
which unite th l y
discordant agencies,
the military conventions of Germany,
the political
rivalries of America, exercise their influence on the
manufacturers and factory hands of Sheffield. The
American trade forms a very important part of Shef-
field business ; the value of the steel alone ex-
ported last year was more than £700,000. During
the last three:years the exports of all kinds have been
constantly increasing, having risen from £782,226
in 1864 to £1,545,878 last year. It is therefore
very much to be lamented that the protectionist
policy of America threatens such evil -to the trade
of Sheffield. Mr. ROEBUCK, as a -staunch Free
Trader, spoke strongly of the 'evils of the protective
system followed in most countries. The Canadians
are happily making a move in the right direction.
Mr. ROEBUCK, amid the laughterpf his audience,
declared his belief that there would be, in conse-
quence, so large a smuggling trade to Canada to
escape the protective tariffs of America that Shef-
field. would ultimately benefit. As for America
itself, Mr. ROEBUCK said, truly enough, that it
was not simply the desire for protection
which brought about the tariff. " There 'are
many parties in that country, and every
party fights for their assistance. -There are
large bodies of men who want protection, and in
order to gain their help as part, tnen protection is
established throughout the Unitecil:ptates." Of the
Canadians Mr. ROEBUCK spoke strongly and some-
what harshly, though having paSped a good many
years in Canada perhaps he . thinks he has
a Tight to criticise them as a countryman. lye
cannot agree with him that - -ti England has
no earthly benefit from her colonies except
the due which she might derive from them as reci-
pients of her manufactures," which, according to
his showing, they have done their bet to exclude.
A large proportion of our trade is with our depen-
dencies, while the politicians who are continually
declaring that. England woti!d be as well without her
colonies appear to forget that such an opinion is
entirely a matter of theory, since England when she
had no colonies was very different from what she
is now. Her colonies have helped to make her
'what she is, and they help her now to preserve her
position as a first-rate power. Austria, as might
be expected, comes very low in the list of Sheffield
customers, being actually the thirty-fifth. But the
President of the Chamber declared his conviction
that the educated classes of,Austriawere for free trade,
and we may hope that the, recent Changes intro-
duced into her commercial policy are only preludes
to a thorough revision of their statutes. Mr. ROE-
BUCK, in speaking on this subject, very sensibly
said that free trade was all-important for Austria
and would be one 'means of keeping the Empire
together. " The largest portions of Austrian ter-
ritory are producers of raw produce. - They want
. cheap manufactures, and the best thing the

EmrEllon can do as regards the largest part of
his possessions is to introduce as far as possible
Free Trade." Mr. ROEBUCK entered at some length
upon the Bankruptcy Law, which he declared
stood in great need of thorough change altogether.
The meeting was an interesting one, and very sug-
gestive of many important and much-needed re-
forms. In reference to the trade of Sheffield, we
may mention that it was estimated the recent
strike in the file trade has cost the town £200,000.

L, " ".." 1 1 T.ri
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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

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AMERICA. •

NEW Jan. 17, Evening.

Gold, 137. Sterling exchange on London, 109 a.
Five-Twenty -United States Bonds, 1074 ; Illinois,
.120 ; Erie, 6-1-1. Cotton—Middling Upland, 35c.
Jan. 18, Even►ng.
The Supreme. Court has decided that the test
oath is unconstitutional.

Gold, 137. Sterling exchange on London, 1091.
Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 108 ; Illinois,
120; Erie, 631. Cotton-11.111dling Upland, 35c.

NEW YORK. Jan. 19, Evening.

Intelligence received here from Mexico announces
that General Bazaine, has informed the troops under
his command that those who are desirous of enlist-
ing in the service of the Emperor Maximilian, are
at liberty to do so.
The Royal Mail steamship Asia has arrived out
at Halifax.

Gold, 137. Sterling exchange on London, 1091.
Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 108 ; Illinois,
119,-I'.'; Eric, 6.31., Cotton—Middling Upla,al, 353

PRis.-NCE.
"'Anis, Jan. 20 (Evening).
All the Ministers placed . their resignation in the."
hands of the Emperor yesterday.

M. Rouher retains hig .functions as Minister of
State, and is, moreover, appointed Minister of
Finance, in place of M. could, whose resignation is
accepted.

Marshal Niel is appointed Minister of War.
Admiral Rigauld de Genouilly is named Minister
of Marine, and M. de Forcade la Roquette Minister
of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works. M.
B(ihic, who held the latter post, has been made
Senator and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
The Emperor has not accepted the resignation
of the Ministers of State, Justice, the Imperial
Household, Public Instruction, Interior, or Foreign
Affairs, nor that of the Minister President of the
Council of State ; and these Ministers, therAorc,
retain their respective portfolioes•

LITERATURE.

Scott's Poetical Works. Complete, in One Volume.

Pp. 559. Macmillan and Co.
As a companion to the one-volumed " Globe
Edition," as it is called, of Shakspere, published not
long since by Macmillan of London and Cambridge,
we have here the whole of the Poetical Works of Sir
Walter Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford—the Shaks-
pere, the Moore, the Boccaccio of Scotland. A more
comprehensive collection of the metrical productions
of the true Wizard of the North, of the Great Un-
known, of the Author of Waverley, of the Minstrel
of the Scottish Borders, of the Illustrator of Scot-
tish humour, of Scottish heroism; of Scottish His-
tory, and of Scottish Life and:Manners, alike ancient,
modern, and mediaeval, has never yet been pub-
lished in a form so compact and beautiful. Every-
thing worthy
of taking rank as among the Poetical
Works of Walter Scott, the reader will here find.
From his lengthier masterpieces " The. Lady of the
Lake," and " Martnion," and the " The Lay of
the Last Minstrel"—from " The Vision of
Don Roderick," and " RokebY,"
and " The
Lord of the Isles"—from " The Bridal of
Trie,rmain," and " Harold the Dauntless," and
" The Field of Waterloo"—through all the seven
Ballads translated or imitated by Sir Walter from
the German, in:chlding among them Gtithe's
King" and B tirger's " Leonora"--- do wit to the briefest
of his own original. Ballads, hiS Songs from the No-
vels, and hisScings•from the Plays and Minor Poems
—definable these latter only under the vague heading
of Poems of aMiScellaneouit Character. Among these
last how eversuch world-famous piecesas Helvellyn,
and Wandering-Willie, and Macgregor's Gathering,
and Jock of Hazcldean! There are poems hero in
this volume—yet who needs be told this ?—that are
just p.anks..;, pr1;;213, nitt3hic..9s in their way !
Young Lochinvar, for example—that daintiest of
love ballads, moving, in the elastic rhythm of it,
to the step of the gay galliard, and ending with a
bound into the saddle preparatory to the well-re-
membe-red gallop into an elopement ! Or, there is
Bonny Dundee, again, that most inspiriting of war-
songs, at the clanging chorus of which who is there
but is ready to draw sword, and shake bridle, and snap
pistol at the beck of Claverhouse? A worthier com-
panion volume to the Globe Shakspere the Messrs.
Macmillan could not well have devised than this
charming gathering together of the Poems, Songs,
and Ballads of the great Sir Walter of Abbotsford.

A NEW YEAR'S STORY.—Under the title of " A
Girl at a Railway Junction's Reply" [every one will
know to what!] has within these last few days
made its appearance as from the hand of " Lyulph."
As a good-humourei literary skit—occasionally
verging, as Mr. Brass might express it, upon the
confines of impertinence—the tale is prettily told,
here and there, too, with a sense of the humorous
that in its way is really delightful. Lamps reappears
as Grease. His immortal " rounder" (of lubrica-
tion to head and face)—comes back to us (with the
gloss off it as a phrase) as a " header." Barbox
Brothers reappears (absurdly), as Bandbox Bother.
Lamp's invalid daughter gets transformed here into
Grease's gouty-legged mother. And Polly?—well,
Polly becomes transmogrified into a fearful sharp
little "gal," by name D uddy—a creature with red hair
and a dirty pinafore--Lwho thus:evidences her pre-
cocity after dinner when playing cards with Band-
box Bother and the landlord, and Duddy's own
particular partner " Dummy :"
"prow much do we play for, landlord 2" inquired Band-
box.
,‘ Whatever you please, sir —twopenny points, if you
like." . _

" Don't be shabby," interposed Duddy, passing the cards
from ono hand to the athor itt a shower, like a conjuror.
"Let's have sixpenny points and short whist."
The landlord and Bandbox could hardly help laughing
at this innocent precocity of the child.
"I'll trouble you to lend me four shillings to mark with,
Bandbox," exclaimed Duddy, getting quite familiar, " and
to pay my shot if I lose, you know."
The landlord frowned, but Bandbox laughed heartily, at
the simplicity, and gave her four shillings, and an odd one
for luck, as he facetiously said, which Duddy at once spat
upon, , and jerked into tho air, a mystic proceeding, to
Bandbox at least. . .

The cards were cut, and it fell to Duddy to deal. This
she did in a scientific shower not less able than the ono
which precoded the dealing. It was done like a master,
and the landlord rubbed his nose now harder than ever,
and ventured an exclamation, which was, "My eye,
you're a rum 'Lin !"
Duddy turned up an ace, and held eight trumps beside
in her own hand.

The game was hers, and she sipped her brandy and took
her money with composure.

The landlord dealt, and turned up a three. Duddy
played as'skilfully as a veteran. Duddy know every card
our, and held good ones herself. She won every game,
and she or her dummy always had a court card for her
trump card, and a goad show of trumps besides.
"You shuffles the cards in a rum way, my little gal,"
said Bonifaee, after he had lost one pound five and his
temper. " Are you all on the square ? How old aro
you r'

As a farcical bit of comicality the " take off," on
the whole, is capital.; though, it needs hardly be
said that, on the whole, " The Girl at the Railway
Junction" is by no manner of means up to " The
Boy at Mugby."

THE LATE OCEAN YACHT RAC E.—On Thursday
evening a dinner was given at the Grand Hotel Paris, by
a number of American gentlemen, permanent residents and
temporary sojourners there, to Air. Jas. Gordon Bennett,
jun., the owner of the Henrietta, .and the winner of the
recent ocean yacht race • •