The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

LATEST INTELL MENGE.

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THE ABYSSINIAN EXP EDITION.
ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 9.

Advices received here from Annesley Bay to the
29th ult. announce that Sir Robert Napier had ar-
rived at Senafe.

The Punjaubees landed yesterday.
It was reported that a skirmish had taken place
between Abyssinian freebooters and a British recon-
noitring party in the direction of Antalo.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Feb. 11, Evening.

The Report of the Committee on the Budget of
Count Cambray Digny proposes an increase of
the amount demanded by the Minister, from

649,040,264 lire to 736,228,344 lire. • This differ-
ence arises principally from the expenses attending
the conversion of the ecele.iiastical property. The
Committee also propose a reduction of 1,109,818

lire in the administrative expenses, and an increase
of 1,250,090 lire for supplementary circulation of
Treasury bonds. The value of the remaining eccle-
siastical property is estimated at 1,027,000,000 lire.
The Committee propose the institution of an Agri-
cultural Credit Establishment, based on the mutual
principle, and the abolition of pensions, substituting
for them a system of private assurance banks. It
is stated that Count Di Passeranno has been ap-
pointed Prefect of Turin.

FRANCE.
Bour►SE, Feb. 11.—Three o'clock. —The market
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 por Cent
End of mouth 6B 65
Credit Mobilier

Bank Shares 3230
Itaban Loan
• End of month 43 40
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 34
Deferred —

End of month... 190
Credit Foncior ...1400
Bud of month-4383 75

Account
Orleans
000
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern__ 5531
Western
Eastern
••
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

RAILWA'

535
365.

75
911
4U

THE MAGAZINE:. Z INE

THE STUDENT—A new andluable accession to
the number of our scientific, literary, and artistic
periodicals has, with this first instalment, been very
ably inaugurated. It assumes the office of an
" Intellectual Observer." That, in effect, is its
second or sub•title—its distinctive name, as " The
Student," being borrowed (unconsciously, it may
be, but still borrowed) from the title of Lord Lytton's
earliest collection of Essays, before Edward Bulwer
had dreamt of merging himself as an essayist in his
assumed individuality as Pisistratus Caxton. Two
coloured plates adorn this initial number of
the new periodical, which is an eighteenpenny
magazine—one illustrating the Screw-Pine Pan-
danus, a tropizal plant remarkable for leaves four-
teen feet long and four broad, branches shaped like
those of a chandelier, and roots of au aerial charac-
ter the other plate illustrating the Rocky
Mountain Goat, which animal is pronounced by
that mighty huntsman, Mr. I. K. Lord, one of
the most difficult creatures to get within shot of in
the wide world. Mr. Heaton winds up an account

of Ozone with the highly satisfactory assertion tha
we know nothing at all about the effects,
for good or evil, that important part of the
atmosphere is designed to produce, or, in other
words, produces ! An introductory paper on " The
Miscroscape in Education" gives fair promise of
leading toothers of greater interest. Thomas Wright
contributes the first of a series of chapters on
" Womankind"—rather oddly selected as a subject,
and one rather oddly illustrated, too, for a student's
magazine. The Astronomical Notes for the current
month are of singular ability and attraction. " The
Student's" First Number, as a first number, is more
than merely satisfactory.
THE FORTNIGHTLY—contains the last instalment
of Whyte Melville's " White Rose," already re-
viewed by us in The Sun at some length, as a sepa-
rate publication. Professor Henry Morley's paper
re-
ference rcrelltroe thatOlci
Yorkshire
Saxon biblical poetry of
Poems" has especial re-
Caelmon, to which the Count de Montalembert, in
the latest volumes of his great work on " The
Monks of the West" made such eulogistic allusion.
ancient
Professor Morley seems to regard Cielmon as a
Poet with as high an admiration as the Count
de Montalembert himself. Frederic See-
bohm's paper on "The Christian Hypothesis,'
should be read by every reader of Mr.
Gladstone's criticism on " Ecco Homo." In
one part the writer h says—"-:ae reality of the
phenomena of the lives of Abraham, Joseph, Moses,
Joshua, Samuel, David, the Hebrew prophets,
John, of Christ, of Paul, of the thousands of
Christians who have lived and died since during
eighteen centuries,though not all of them altogether
with the same degree of certainty, rest like those of
the lives of other men—Zoroaster, Homer, Socrates,
Alexander, Cae3ar, Charlemagne, Napoleon—upon
historical testimony." In another part the writer
remarks—" The Christian sacrifice has, during
these 1800 years past, been put to the test. It has
reconciled thousands and thousands in every Chris-
tian generation to God. It has more than reconciled
them. It has kindled in the hearts of Christians
from St. Paul's downwards during eighteen cen-
turies, and is kindling still a love of Christ so tender
that the very mention of his name will sometimes
bring a tear into the eye of the strong and the
brave ; a love not confined to his beloved disciple,
or to one or two of his nearest companions, but so
Widely felt amongst Christians that there have
been thousands in every age who would at any
moment have been ready to die for him ; a love,
both in depth and extent, unique in the history of
mankind. It the sacrifice—has kindled this love.
As a matter of fact in the lives of Christians it has
been so. As iron can only be melted by heat, and
is so melted every day in the forge, so the set fish
heart can only be melted by love, and is so melted
every day bf the love of Christ." 'There are no
less than two political papers on Ireland in The
Fortnightly for February.
CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL—for the past month in-
augurates Mr. Cyples' serial talc of " A Change of
Luck ;" besides which there is a life drama in three
acts called " Making their Game," together with
the usual variety of prose and verse of a most mis-
cellaneous kind.
CassELL's—The piece de resistance, here, is still
" Poor Humanity." The author of " A Night in a
Workhouse" gives three instalments of his new
series of London sketches, called " Grim Realities."
The rest of the magazine is of average merit.
TILE QUIVER.—The prettiest trifle in the number
of The Quiver for February is the opening paper by
the author of " Mary Powell"—relating ‘‘ Another
Story of the Queen," and, it should be said also, of
Prince Albert.
THE SUNDAY.—Edited by Dr. Guthrie—has
more chapters of Edward Garrett's " Occupations
of a Retired Life," and more of " The Seaboard
Parish" by George Macdonald. its other contents
are rather of a religious than of a literary character
—its illustrations being throughout very excellent.
THE ART JOURNAL--besidea continuing its won-
derful catalogue of the late " Paris Exhibition,"
profusely and appropriately embellished, is re-
markable for two first-class engravings from origi-
nal paintings--one of these paintings being from
the hands of two Royal Academicians (T. Cres-
wick and F. Goodall)," The Wayfarers"—the other,
a beautiful and interesting picture, by E. Crowe,
depicting "De Foe in the Pillory." Looking at the
latter, it is some consolation to see that the author
of " Robiuson Crusoe" is having votive flowers
scattered before him by the populace, the pedestal
or platform of the pillory being festooned with gar-
lands, a nosegay held towards the victim's face at
the end of a pike-staff, and libations of wine poured
forth at his feet in homage and sympathy for a
great author who was there being punished as one
of the earliest champions of the Liberty of the
Press.