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and it is tie business of life to observe facts and
phenomena as they are." Those who have taken
anything mere than a cursory glance at the pre-
vailing state )f literature and art must agree in the
truth of this criticism, and fully appreciate the sad
consequences of such a tendency to lower rather
than to elevate the tone of thought and feeling.

There can be no doubt whatever that the next
thing to do is to seek to alter this state of things
by all means in our power. And how is this to be
done ? is a question easier asked than answered.
Notwithstanding the truth of all this, people are
very apt to forget the importance of it if they are
not continually told ; and an address, like this
one beforo us, is worthy of especial notice
and consideration, on account of its importance,
both intrinsically and relatively. There are
two ways of regarding things, one of which tends
to promote religious feeling and the other to destroy
it, and hence it follows that the right course to adopt
is to strengthen all that is in the direction of the
former without dragging religious topics in un-
aware; and at unnecessary seasons. In, works of
fiction especially it is necessary to draw a line, if
we would select the profitable from the undesirable ;
and it may well be asked what profit is there in
perusing them, while we must think how far these
delineators of the strong sensation school fall short
of the real vocation of the art they uphold. It
is truly said here that there is no true in-
terest in these sad pictures of fallen humanity,
and that they teach nothing. " Unfold for us some
struggle of a moral being like ourselves, fallen, yet
with a power of choice, and capable of good ; give
us as spiritual beings something worthy of the sym-
pathy of spiritual beings, something to quicken our
souls as well in true knowledge, true reverence, and
true love, and you will do what the masters of your
art have always arrived at." It is well that we
meet occasionally with a protest of this kind against
the prevailing tendencies of the ago we live in, in
art and literature, for it is easier to fall back and
to deteriorate than to keep up to a high standard or
to recover the position when lost.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.

Nothing has been received from Italy to-day by,
telegraph or otherwise of any interest. If the Gari-
baldian insurrection be not extinct in the provinces,
at all events it does not progress. One of the let-
ters from Rome announces the arrival in that city
of two French prelates with some mission from the
Government of France, and adds that they have
had several interviews with the Pope and also with
Cardinal Antonelli. Garibaldi's son, Menotti, is
stated to have traversed the province of Viterbo,
disguised as a priest. He was accompanied to the
frontier by the Deputy Nicotera, who is now at
Naples. Menotti is said to bo now in
command of a column of 600 young men
picked up in the province, but it is a regiment
as ragged and as miserable as that of Falstaff, very
few of the men, indeed, having even the distinguish-
ing feature of the red shirt. The number of the
Pontifical troops now encamped in the environs of
Rome is about 8,000. In spite of this force, how-
ever, some of the accounts emanating from the in-
surgents pretend that the idea of their marching
upon Rome is not abandoned.

On looking over the German papers to-day I find
that the organs of M. Bismark are not at all pleased
with the speech of Prince Hohenlohe, the President
of the Council of Bavaria. They consider it as a
first manifestation against the annexation projects
of the Confederation of the North, and per-
haps are not wrong in believing it is intended
as a protest against the annexation to the
Prussian Confederation. It may be remarked
that Prince Hohenlohe represents in Bavaria
the party the least inimical to the policy of M. Bis-
mark, and it therefore assumes a greater degree of
importance. The Democratic party, however, sup-
port the views put forward by the Prince. With-
out pronouncing too decided an opinion upon this
manifestation, it is pretty evident that Bavaria is
not ready to submit blindfold to the aggressive
domination of Prussia. It is a fact of important
significance that the German papers begin to urge
the necessity and urgency of some manifestation on
the part of France against Prussian aggression, with
the view of convinding her that " the victory of
Prussia over Germany is not yet consummated."
According to the gossip of theatrical circles, a
young lady, whose name at least is celebrated, will
shortly make her debut at the Odeon—Mdlle. Elise
Montes, the daughter of Lola Montes, once the
favourite of the ex-King of Bavaria. The eccen-
tricities and doings of Lola Montes are, no doubt,
in the recollection of all.
Foreigners who cannot speak French often come
to grief or difficulty in Paris. This was the case
with a young German who late at night could not
find his way back to his hotel in the Place de la
Bourse. He asked a policeman, who with difficulty
understood that he wanted to go in the direction of
the Bourse, and indicated the way he should go.
The German, however, took a wrong turning, and
about midnight found himself in the Rue des Mou-
lins, always a deserted spot at that hour. Seeing a
gentleman pass, however, our young German ran
up to him, took his arm, and called out ear-
nestly "La bourse, la bourse." As the word
alaasrmed, thinking that the
well as the Exchange,
thebour sgentlemaneineans purse,
wa
intention was to rob him, and called out for assist-
ance. The police hastened up, and the supposed
robber was taken into custody. He, however, had
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the card of his hotel in his pocket, and satisfactory
information was given there about him, but at first
the more ho tried to explain the more were the
suspicions of the police excited.
An interesting religious ceremony took place on
Wednesday at Chateau du Loir, the glorification of
Mons. Berneux, a native of that town, one of the
martyrs of Coree, who was beheaded there in 186 G.
A dozen prelates and about 400 Ecclesiastics were
present. The Archbishop of Tours presided.
Mons. de la Bouillcrie, Bishop of Carcassonne, and
formerly a pupil of M. Berneux, pronounced an
affecting allocution. There was a beautiful pro-
cession, and the town was ornamented with flags.
A platform was raised in the square, from which the
bishops pronounced their benediction on the faith-
ful, after which the procession passed the house
where the martyred bishop was born.
An old woman died a few day ago at Carrouges,
near Alencon, whose supposed state of misery
always excited the sympathy and compassion of her
neighbours, who supplied her with food. She oc-
cupied a wretched room, with scarcely an article of
furniture, and slept upon the floor without a bed.
When the authorities searched her room soon after
her death, they found concealed in several parts of
it gold to the amount of 45,600 f.
A woman, named Baylotte Chamarre, has just
died at Auribrail, in the department of the Haute-
Garonne, aged 104. Up to the day of her death
she was in full possession of all her faculties; mental
and bodily. Only a few days previously she walked
to market and back, a distance of about 10 miles.
The dearness of bread is beginning to excite un-
easiness in the provinces as well as in Paris. In
several towns the mayors have issued orders for the
re-establ:shrneut of the system of taxing the price
of land, which for some time had been temporarily
suspended.
There is a truce in the stormy and tempestuous
weather. It has been quite calm to-day, and the
temperature was agreeably warm. It was, however,
very dull, with prospect of rain.
It is stated to-day on good authority that the
Legislative Session will be opened on the 18th of
November.

A remarkable incident has transpired, the truth of
which may. be relied upon, connected with the death
of M. Fould. his brother-in-law, M. Furtado, the
banker, was seriously indisposed with gout on
the morning of M. Fould's death, and, it
was feared that the disease would attack his

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lungs, and of course prove mortal. M.
Fould, who was very uneasy upon the subject,
wrote a letter on the morning of the day he died to
Madame Furtado, his sister, begging her to send him
full information respecting her husband without
delay. M. Fould added, in reference to his own
health, that he never felt better in his life. The
letter was sent to Madame Furtado by post, but the
telegram announcing M. Fould's death reached
Madame Furtado before it. Au intimate friend of
the Furtado family, who was anxious to know if M.
Furtado was better, had sent to inquire about him,
and his messenger was at the house at the moment
when the telegram from Tarbes arrived in Fuji,
and the answer sent by him to his master was that
M. Furtado was out of danger, but that M. Fould
was dead !

ARRIVALS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL
GARDENS.

The grand acquisition of the past week has been
a great ant eater (Myrmecophaga jubata). There
has also been received a coypu (Myopotamus coypu),
an aquatic rodent, something like a gigantic water
rat in appearance, but which is more nearly akin to
the porcupine ; and another wapiti fawn has made
its appearance. A pair of common wood pigeons
have been added to the collection; also a West Indian
snake (iopedonotus), and a number of Hippo-
campi, commonly known as sea horses, which are
very interesting objects in one of the aquaria in the
fish house.

The great ant-eater is kept in the house opposite
to the kangaroo enclosures, in the cage in which the
three-banded armadillo was formerly exhibited, and
appropriately next to that containing the sloths
(Bradypus). Our readers are well aware that this
most remarkable animal is not now exhibited for
the first time. There was a very fine one some years
ago, which has been admirably represented by Joseph
Wolf in sundry characteristic attitudes, as may be
seen in the neighbouring picture gallery near the
reptile-house ; and during last winter a particularly
large specimen was offered to the society, but at a
prohibitive price, and it was afterwards taken to
Antwerp, where it expired very recently.
The order Edentata, to which this curious animal
appertains, is exclusively American, with the ex-
ceptions of the genus Mania or pangolin in Asia and
Africa (and very anciently in Europe), and the
genus Orycteropus in Africa—the aardvark (or
" earth-hog") of the Dutch colonists in the south.
With those two exceptions, the Edentata arepeculiar
to South America at the present time, where they
are exemplified by three principal groups—the
sloth, the ant-eaters, and the armadillos. At no dis-
tant date, geologically, the present wholly arboreal
sloths (Bradypus) bad their exceedingly gigantic
ground representatives in the extinct genera
Megalonyx and Megatherium, as the very
curious three-banded armadillo (Tatusia) of the
present day—which; is a very different animal from
other armadillos—had its less gigantic, though still
enormous, relatives of the genus Glyptodon, which
probably stepped on the points of the great claws
of their fore-feet, in like manner to the diminutive
Tatusia. Another most remarkable genus, akin to
the armadillos, exists in the diminutive Chlamydo-
phorus, of which most of our readers will have seen
both skin and skeleton set up in the bird gallery of
the British Museum, placed over one of the shell
cases. But little is known of thel habits of that
singular little animal, except that it is em-
phatically a burrower, as indicated by its struc-
ture, and it inhabits certain districts of the Andes.
The Priodon, or gigantic armadillo, is another
remarkable animal, which is a great desideratum for
the gardens, but it does not appear to have even
been brought alive to Europe, although there should
be no difficulty in introducing it. Of the ordinary
type of armadillo (Dasypus) two or three species are
generally to be seen in the collection, one or two of
them, indeed, being commonly placed along with
the lemurs and monkeys, by which animals they do
not appear to be molested.

That extraordinary African animal, the oyrc-
teropus, and again the several species of Manis or
Pangolin, inhabiting Africa, with south-eastern
Asia and its principal islands, are like wise great
desiderata in the Regent's-park collection. We
heard of a living example of the former, which
was kept for several months in South Africa,
fed chiefly upon blood from a slaughter-house,
for which scraped meat might doubtless be
substituted, mixed with the yolks of eggs; and
we have seen two species of pangolin kept upon
similar food in India, so that we need not despair of
yet seeing both of those genera alive in the Zoolo-
gical Gardens. No creature has been more carica-
tured in the representations hitherto published of it
than the pangolin. The huge claws of its fore-
feet are bent upwards in walking, precisely as in
the great American ant-eater ; its back is much
arched, and the limbs are stout and pillar-like.
On the tripod of its hind feet and massive tail
it can swerve the body about in every
position, reminding the observer of the move-
ments of certain caterpillars ; and it has a clam-
bering propensity, as observed in captivity, with
considerable prehensility of the tail, enabling it to
hold on by the very tip, which can thus support
the whole weight of the animal. It is capable of
exceedingly prolonged abstinence, so that it can be
brought several days' journey without suffering
from want of food, and with assiduous attention
might doubtless be made to survive the voyage to
this country.
Of the American ant-eaters there are three
genera, viz., Myrmecophaga, to a living example of
which attention is now called ; Tamandua, with an
evenly prehensile tail, i.e., not specially so at its
extremity, and which is clad with short close hairs ;
and Cy clodurus, the diminutive two-toed ant-eater,
which is something like a sloth with a long prehen-
sile tail, the extremity of which coils like that
of an opossum or chameleon. Both of the
latter genera are arboreal, and the last ex-
clusively so, the singular little animal preying
chiefly on the nymphai of hymenoposterous in-
sects, which it seizes adroitly by means of the two
nipper-like claws of each fore-foot. The Tamandua
we may hope some day to see alive, but scarcely the
Cyclodurus. The Myrmecophaga jubata attains to
the magnitude of a small bear, and can use its
powerful anterior limbs, with their huge and for-
midable claws, with effect, it is said, even against
the jaguar; but the ordinary employment of these
powerful implements is to tear open the hard diy
nests of termites, or so called white ants, for, pro-
perly speaking, the ant-eater does not prey on ants,
but on the termites, which belong to quite a differ-
ent order of insects. We were struck with the
resemblance of the eye of the great ant-eater to that
of the pangolin ; but the latter cannot strike with
its fore paw, and can only passively defend itself by
rolling itself into a compact ball, which a tiger might
pat and toss about without injuring the animal.
The skull of the Myrmecophaga is so remarkable
that, bad it only been known as a fossil more or less
imperfect, anatomists would probably have been
puzzled even as to the class of vertebrata to which
they should assign it.—Land and Water.

TILE QUEEN'S THEATRE.—It being found impos-
sible to complete this new theatre by the 17th inst., the
opening of it has been postponed until the 24th.
MISS BATEMAN AT LIVERPOOL.—For the third
time this week the Theatre Royal was last night crowded
with a fashionable audience. The enthusiasm with which
Miss Bateman was received as "Leah" on Monday night
is still elicited by that gifted lady, whom the audience con-
tinuo to call to the front at intervals during the progress
of the play. Such manifestations of popularity as those
which are still evinced by the crowded houses at the
" Royal" are sufficient to induce Miss Bateman to prolong
her stay in this town beyond the short period of a fort-
night. which she contemplated, or at all events cause her to
take an early opportunity of revisiting Liverpool, if her
present arrangements prevent an extended sojourn at this
Ulna—Liverpool Courier.
The Duko of Larochefoucauld is entertaining an
immense hunting party at Gaudiniero. The chateau,
built in the time of Louis XII., stands in the midst of a
forest teemieg with grouse and pheasants. The stables
contain 120 horses. The guests who go out with the duke
wear a special dross, as in the days of the Grand Monarque,
when every great house had its own distinctive hunting
costume. A band of thirty musicians is engaged for the
months of October, November, and December; after
which the Duke's Parliamentary duties compel him to
break up this cstabli§hhicht.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Oct. 11 (Evening).

The Official Gazette corrects the news published
in the I?iforma, but confirms the statement that
Garibaldi attempted to leave Caprera on the 2d inst.,
but was prevented so doing by the Italian steamship
Sesia.

The telegraph lines between Viterbo and Villetri
were cut by the insurgents, but are now restored.

ROME, Oct. 11 (Evening).

Nearly the whole of the garrison of Rome left
the town yesterday, but have now returned. The
cause of this movement is not known.

Reports are current of encounters in various
localities, but up to the present these have received
no reliable confirmation.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Oet. 11, 6 p.m.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing Prices.—Gold, 144 ; Sterling Exchange
on London, 109 f. Five-Twenty United States
Bonds, 1121 ; Illinois, 1221 ; Erie, 70f ; Cotton
(middling upland), 19. Gold firm. Cotton dull.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11.
Standard white petroleum, 36.