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Arand ball was given at the 'Tuileries on Tuesday
'evening, which was most numerously attended. The
Iwh"le of the galleries between the Salle du Trone and
the theatre, and also the Hall of the Marshals, were ap-
propriated to dancing.
Goth The Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-
a, with the young Prince, their son, have arrived
at the Tuileries on
a, visit.
A Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday, at
one o'clock, at the Tuileries, at vs hich the King pre-
aided,
dirthe report of M. Saglio on the Customs Bill has been
tibuted to the Deputies. The Committee has adopted
The
the protective system as the basis of its conclusions.
tats credits to be demanded this year
for the French
credits
in Oceania amount to 2,034,800 E, of
which tho sum of 1,056,000 f. is to be applied to salaries,
Paqt troops, &c., and 988,800 E to various stores.
triennial report on Primary Instruction is shortly
__,t° thepublished. This document had been already far
ISCIVR
it, need when M. Villemain's illness caused it to be
--813"ded• The report speaks of important improve-
Illtltta that
truction. have been effected in this section of public
tze
ealth The fullovving favourable account of M. Villemain's
l'
appears in the Si( cle :—" One of the topics of
conversation at the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday,
_ Maya letter from M. Villemain to the Duke Decazes,.
mina lets
for sound sense, delicacy, and elevation of
rliti4nt• In it the ex-Minister makes allusion to his
Zlnoval from his functions, ' which,' he remarks, ' was,
Zt-rhaPa, somewhat too hastily determined on.' He. also
,Praesases his gratitude for the kind consideration evinced
aeli:gr" him in proposing a pension for his family, but.
NI %he ish to see the proposition withdrawn. Ilis
to ystiLrit', says, without being considerable, is sufficient
kittg,4ee his wife and children beyond all fear of want,
ts,:l'e (I,oes sot, he declares, renounce the hope of being
Zt theful to them."
itet'ae Minister of War, finding that the majority of the
aies. of insubordination in the army arise from drunken-
4i, ' Has sent a circular to the commandants of divi-
,f 11, directing them to use tot the severity the rules
toa`,liltsteioilLiine warrant against soldiers found in this
The ',I
am works on the Boulogne railroad, between Amiens
r Abbeville, are advancing rapidly The prepare-
'l°4 for thel.4,4,works on the other part.of the line are
ThJe completed.
Nnie 1 Urrter du Gard states that the south of France,,ean
after thl ar.lY the parts adjacent to the Mediterranean,
seine' "mg been for some time past visited by heavy._
at present enjoy fine spring weather. The cold
,con.),,
•anin r‘vwly disappeared, and vegetation was ad-
he4,,llipidly.
Dtieb , t;tnperor of Russia has appointed the Grand,
Eliz 138 Olga Nicolaiewna to the post of Colonel of the
,arlitheth Grand Hussars, which regiment is hencefor-
A lettert°assue the name of her Imperial Highness.
part from Trieste of the 19th states, that the Cotp-
-441 which was formed a short time ago, at Vienna, for
terstng with the East Indies, reckons amongst its mem-f
that some
ef 'the wealthiest bankers and merchants o
to
..., 4)144, and that several houses of Trieste are about
, ,Filtteel;triares in the concern.
tastaeh ajaaw journals announce the death of
.Prince
Go,ertl ' oanguszko on December 2, at Slawuta, in the
f
Jeron„llletit of Volhnia, aged 77. He was son o
Coll, v Sangnsako last P l tine of Volhynia, and the
t. 8% Ala •
Co , rta Petocka.
thijPoi n vAlward Raczynski, a noble Pole, inhabiting
i. ' etnntnitted suicide n the 19th inst. The cause of
ash act il not known°.
In th „ 344:9, AVID Pozacis.
Itillv e -Ilse of Ambler V. the Lancaster and Carlisle
junetia3, the Master of the Rolls has just granted an in-
their it?il restraining the defendants from deviating from
in-
!Juthe of railway which passes through the plain
l uatlnsisuch injunction to continue in force. until the
cat in theurnarY- with libert • to move fur its dissolu-
Atp.io"we.nstreeaentt,irin)::
it'R b
rick Carroll was charged with hav-
-44, 'Nally as -,
.E 159 (not on
b... y) i sau ea. policeman Alen,
thig 4-str
41. I' 4 the house of Mr. Wright, the Bull's Head,
e
W4'l°p„.eet, Bloomsbury between four and five o'clock
48 evening, wes'committed fe r a month.
it Wo "I ieck, described as a horse-johber, was chargedrom
it <<
I,3litslll.iPostreet with having obtained a horse t
41, willaiterep,exet,er, a livery stable-keeper, in George-
" Priso ""P I, under false and fraudulent pretence s.
exch._ tier had obtained the horse by giving a bill of
treo_pre7egtt'tt.'aer,n,
00,n.a person named S ddttrt whom he
os. The ','l, n Wing an official situationt° in' the Cus-
inaseit st not was dishonored and an old man calling
4-- es oddart, was introduced as the acceptor, who
kyr; .
opted
himself as
Wth4„ltni hip) Since,
__ I,vol-th 10,090 k N hi g had been
tr the
+.4 young
na and
..ai.r. Stod .art., of the Customs,
an, tadignantly denied all knowledge
an e
e. ‘ralisaetioll. The prisoner was rem d d for a
Thom
/I
Ah .serirr
tanaa j -, the Lambeth magistrate, has discharged
aspieio °nes, who has been
atirk,o,sn of h.

some time
i's wilia,ving
I,_ - .11'lasing caused the death ofieh
-eifett t,! Made the post mortenz examination,
causes,
cust.ofedy
thonu
at her death was occasioned by natural The e 4 C0174%.-----114.1saroarteleae.:
le
Zreed c2lreesis and Marchioness of Westmins r,gave a
the teete4.4l °ll Monday last at Eaton Hall, to celebrate
otiri -,arl of Listoweil,
Tie D43' of Earl Grosvenor.
1 anions
list ,t, , Perrnoy the Noble Earl's seat in Ireland,e
• ri, is e • who did not come to town from
Kingston llous ,
teßbtsbri , xpeeted in a few days at .
er,„:The earl"ge, to attend the elpening of Parliament.
~_ ~ and
is,v4e:it toLublin, unless of Huntingdon and taint 3 have
Ind, I,k`i',.4r,ehihald St. Maur, L, rd Gardner, Mr. Coke,
staying at
140.t0n.. Surtees are among the party now
i tord Q_
h4tth eoccieil en cy
°tests r,"andya has arrived at his Lordship's seat, Om
liYe:°°rt, Worcestershir from a tour of visits.
Baron Bruen'now has returned to Ashr-
thiso44l "u,e from visiting the Marquis and Ma
_-,
4111,4101 am litt3.
Ind th:,Of P.xeter, at Burghley House, near Stamford
bit bpnke of leutland, at Belvoir Castle.
Cl
a-
to join the Duke of Beaufort's circle
Stanley, Bart., has left the C aa;
, 4 ll_
1-le 4
4411r8layra!tille 111144kuar li!,4llltOlt*.'the benefit of the
tiaCleta-4;nCer3' annual
ttllnstitaution took
Ce ,ii ravern, when
Party of its friends
stet PPortere a nuemerons .
has at pre-
-4 eb,3l,
.assembled. The institution
ors
place at the,
tea 44 f 0 thirty pensioners decayed cheesemong ,
l,else. mutill,l_3; (iniah r.eceivin 24/. per annum.
- nd
U nhee Q"1. ceting of the Islington Literary
,sirles u`;'oetety took Place on Thursday
`aair q„_"°odward fe pl2 ' p -Went, in the
%tie ' 'tie ' —sq.' —IS"
President
of the undevi-
tt t
socet,_ ,Port presented an evidence
evening,
e
e, kneel,:tinding the efforts made for the
.diffusion.e.
i 4:o,.oaittee 14', in that populous neighbourhood by L
41:ptctl ; itbd that the exclusion of all controversialte.
''t4i or led every class of thinkers to avail ts m
Ailhe t P advantag, a it holds out.
era,• '''°l'ds of the Treasury having had under con
tt`se,,l°ll a tr, 1,. ‘ -etio,,, ~ -.Port tram the Commissioners of Customs,
4ste4l i.e wie introductions of the Customs agents licencehave
tttlthebieleral of the out Ports, their Lords p
4ttsett; the Commissioners to direct that the agents
or it .rig bun,
gcn,el, riy il) oilleBs Which shall relate to the clearance,
li es at 4:4' of any goods or baggage, at the Custom_
e-
di„,. e under tnentioned ports and places, b
orh4 '1 eke manner as those in Loudon, viz., Dover,
(.1 t•Q' Volkstone, Brighton, and Southampton.
tc4te ridttY the -
tc._ nt tr,iBsi_
~ re e as a
1 orth, to
tjo"c leave °,,u-, held at the Zion Chapel, ‘ a
raj,.
meeting of the friends‘,_w of Pro-
ett!ttis, I,°_i the Rev. Mr. Newbiegin and other
tleseee
0141')utst to depart for Western Africa.
Tett the oxf" Publication of the days at which the assize!
ito Kiri rd Circuit would be held, the day appointed
1411,herR,„tlhe commission of Stafford has been altered
,7
t(1
... ossal fi ur fK.
do" orkt,tlaY, the 13th, to Friday, the 14th of Match.
tor" the col are now actively, employed in cleansing.
throw the bttl„,g eO. ing i
IN 'lliarn
statue
)),,e _u open to
„uing being removed, and thebase
will
IV., prepare
~ nt Aver Loe View/ ot the public. The . .
it being
tro'44taensed
wYi.°l.°"el and Pleasing appearanceL
The four
fizitt foet.paths`u, nuMerous naval trophies.
ths .g!ts lain 0 leading., to the figure will be lighted by
1,131.101 e cork ° Inassive granite pillars. Inaf.ew days
/tooted by 1,..r.'„w11l be
plete when it will be ir.
4.6,1,1 Ilizh '''' alajeaty the Queen Dowager, and his
le,gaving?„eB
'rinse Albert, those illustrious persuni-
Ns4 kieie"tirn4kd their desire to view it when fiished.
le 11,t It'eed Scary dinner of the united Clickers' Bene-
uttleorils,
eociete ,-,,,
' "I" held on Friday, at the Assens-
Port 4 loy 4, r'z'wn 'r uvern Clerkenwell. The chair was
ilea, ;dor,b;y eiwlitlirci• Berrail, Of Ilarylebone,
Meet, ety. ThereB of one bundled leading memeers et
who was sup-..
tilt 4 the "eo were many excellent speeches made
theeispleNth, eviecing not only an extended feel-
,.-ItY end ) ?ft the part of the masters but increased
e°lto ob 11°Acri among the workmen.' It was satis-
-1),
tPhrteetii:erve that previously to the termination of
cesq,,,lt'pesBegs. uPwards of five hundred persons showed
tho,e"' progrensce the warm interest they took in the suc-
s korißi,itit.' of the in
which being one of
111,
the Raid i tug. with the sv, rkinig classes themselves,
1..,Np1t,,e,.`° 4serve the support and countenance of
tt,,f,Al.st a',ll: atid the employed.
sse,:)ttra e''ei:.ta numerous meeting of the Westminster
tv,th, . Cove„,Y was held at St nnard'e Ilotel, Charles.
lag 4:I-garden, Me, Keamp in . the chair. Mr.
oitiN
,37ate4 etiaottri_Y, read the rvport of the committee,
,g ,i‘,thet fact
thatlll :Cou.ntry at large was becoming
ti:!i ki,,
_, a
1, ins interest depended upon , ffect
41'13' ejt"il, fr
e'e,, great principles of commercial, as
Rthat 4 foo d '''kull, upon which Principles that s
411 t, 4t flit) ir! ed. Thr, . r
R. , wh., i
,e_i ‘ . otnrnatee was happy to !ay
J('ne Ile th g
.
50,,, e
,r.srtf.a.tion they sustained 120 claim-
tcqturij Enstairim' 4.,', 3 ",11Y sustain kd 9 ; that the
1,. it,,,_e 231. At__ uY tine's were 172, end by
'l!ss
ornst per6o'''',.3., 0.1 the Tory objections were found
It' h 44 who 'e'er d
not,Q,,
verist' While e ead, or who had been
N4lnde IN read "ue whole of the 120 claimants on
tt
~ by dir ,
~31 to record their votes. The
.report
ps„, ee b tesinve the .
el,,:t of
~ y all th_
_i) . v
*attention of the society to
" eq totoie wirldou",..l. means in their power to obtain the
ce pririted)tit"x• The report was received and
kfilpik,,, _, _ °d the Meeting separated.
e‘%'4& di 1'44 ei h - -----
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411 4 crR t, between
'4l all CI ()a tb • nine and ten o'clock, a
st, 44,
~ (1111.,,
:43 premsses in the occupation of
etlttk 03, kf)n,,to 4" tailor and dr ,
e; F
,
11
t thy,
telal-r,, , al
er,
at
. o. 2„yt .
ktil/telt . ti)t, d, a,,tl ad Ea,t. The engines having
tse., efil . el- " there h •
Ne tad„ ° Was being an abundant supply, of
4,k,1• ~, 4blA da. 8°( xtinguished not, huwrver,
41111 It',lo tilt,- nb'tlag rahad been duties to the stock in
qmg. The origins of the fire is

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACK If OOD'S MAGAZINE.
There is no mistaking the fine " Roman hand
that appears in every page of the criticism on Dry-
den in this Number. As it is announced under the
title of " North's Sp-cimens of the British Critics,"
we presume we shall have a regular series of articles
on this prolific subject, and we care not how many of
them we have, should the succeeding ones have only
half the point, emphasis, and discrimination, that cha-
racterise the present specimen. There is no man of
the day better qualified by his high appreciation of
the poetic in all its phases to play the critic on "glo-
rious John Dryden,' as his contemporaries loved to
call him. True, the poet of King Charles's day was
more remarkable for the vigour of his reasoning
powers than the wildness and fervour of his imagina-
tion; like Pope, he professed to "stoop to truth and
moralise his song," while the Professor, who is " of
imagination all compact," has dwelt from his youth
upwards in fairy land, haunted by such visions of the
wild and wonderful as no English poet has seen since
Spencer. Still, though fancy predominates over the
pure understanding in the poems of Professor Wilson,
none can better feel the force of Dryden's various
intellect, his simple and straightforward powers of
argument, which, however, are by no means wanting
in subtilty when occasion demands, as in his " Hind
and Panther," the incomparable ease and majestic
flow of his versification, the fertility of his illustra-
tions, which in the striking poem of "Theodore and
Honoria" absolutely make the reader's blood freeze in
his veins. For some years it has been the fashion to
underrate the school of Dryden and Pope. That
school was certainly not the highest in English
poetry ; still it was a noble one, and we hope that as
Professor Wilson has led the way, others will not
hesitate to turn their attention to these undeservedly
neglected members of the British classics. The
`Tower of London" is from the pen of Mr. Thomas
Roscoe. It contains one or two striking historical
allusions, such as that to Wallace, but, as a whole, it
is rather monotonous in the turn of its thought and
the flow of its rhythm. " Spain as it Is" furnishes
us with some curious particulars respecting the state
of Spain since the overthrow of the Carlist faction.
The author assures us that in some of the large
southern towns a growing shyness is being evinced
towards English travellers, which we do not at all won-
der at, when we hear in mind the immense deal of
nonsense that certain recent tourists have scribbled
concerning that country. There is not a blockhead
who gets on board a steamer, and leaves England for
Spain for only a few weeks, but thinks himself per-
fectly qualified to discuss the social and political
state of the Peninsula. From an article entitled
" The Overland Passage," we quote the following
amusing description of the passage of the desert near
Alexandria :
"At length they reached the gulf of Suez, with the blue
peaks of Sinai in the distance, and continued running up
the gulf, which was one hundred and sixty miles long,
until Suez came in sight. Here all is dreary : deserts
and sand-banks form the whole landscape. Arab boats
came alongside, and conveyed the passengers from the
steamer. The town looked dismal; its walls and forti
fications were in decay; the landing place was crowded
by sickly- looking creatures, the evident victims of ma-
laria, and the chief ornament of the place was a large
white-washed tomb. This condition of things was not
much improved when the party found themselves in the
hotel of Messrs. Hill and Co. Mosquitoes, and every
species of frightful insect, made war against sleep ; and
when their reign had passed away, and the travellers
rose, crowds of flies continued their persecution. The tra-
vellers made a bad bargain in paying their passage-money
at once from Suez to Alexandria; and it is described as
the wiser mode to pay only to Cairo, and then take the
choice of the several conveyances which are sure to be
found there. The Arab drivers and carriers seem to
have fully acquired those arts of extortion, which
flourish in such abundance wherever English money is
to be found. They cheat, and lie, and cajole, with extra-
ordinary assiduity ; and the majority of the passengers
on this occasion seem to have been detained unnecessa-
rily on the road, and treated badly at the station-houses.
The first part of the desert is rather rocky than sandy,
and the road seems to have been formed chiefly by
the carriage wheels. It is covered with great
pieces of stone and rock, which sorely tried the patience
of the travellers. Hundreds of carcases of camels lie in
the way ; the flesh is soon eaten by the wolves and rats,
while the bones bleach in the sun. Little troops of
Arabs were met from time to time, sometimes on camels
and sometimes on horses. They were armed to the
teeth, as black as negoes, and looked ferocious enough to
make any party of pacific travellers tremble for their
goods and chattels. But they were the patrols of Mo-
hammed Ali, and guardians of the goods which in other
days they would have delighted to plunder. There are
eight stations on this road through the desert, all built
by that man of wonders, the Pacha. Of these, four are
only stables ; but four are houses for the reception of
travellers. They are generally from twelve to sixteen
miles apart. The station. No. 6, though by no means
possessing the comforts of an English hotel, must be a
miracle to the old travellers of the desert. It consists of
two chambers, a kitchen, and servants' room, with a large
public saloon occupying the whole end, and completir.g
a little centre court. Three sides of the saloon were fur-
nished with divans. There was a long table in the
centre, with several chairs, and a glass window at each
end of the room. But this was unluckily the season of
flies, and they were the torment of the travellers ; table,
wall, ceiling, and floors swarmed with them. They flew
into the lace, the eyes, and the mouth. Thousands of
musquitces were also buzzing round and biting every
thing. The breakfast was no sooner laid on the table
than it was blackened with flies. The beds were hiving,
and intolerable. No. 4, the halfway house, was rather
better. It is the largest of them all, and has
a long row of bed-rooms, and two public saloons. It
has a large court-yard, is which were turkeys, sheep,
and goats for the use of travellers."
We must pass on to notice the next article, entitled
"Mesmerism." This subject, although in some de-
gree hackneyed, is still of more than ordinary in-
terest, and we are glad to see it handled in the com-
mon sense manner in which it is now presented to us.
The aim of 'Mr. Townshend's book, of which this is a
review, is first to present us with, to him, well
attested facts, and then to suggest explanations,
mostly on natural grounds, of these " wonderful facts."
In short, to show us that miracles are not miracles,
that the laws of nature are but imperfectly known,
and that there is much in heaven and in earth not
vet understood. We are glad to see that there is
springing up an air of something more definite in
this science, or whatever term we may apply to it;
it is becoming more tangible, and there is more of
theory broached than in the vague and unphilosophical
speculations that have lately issued from the press.
It may divert our readers to read the following ex.
tract, in which a man beomes a mesmeriser in spite
of himself:—
" In the Christmas of the year 1842, we dined at a
friend's house with a party of eight (numeric perfection
for a dinner-party, according to the ingenious author of
the Original). In the evening Mackay's book on popu-
lar delusions being on the drawing-room table, some one
asked if the author had treated of mesmerism. Upon
this, one of the party who had recently returned from
London—a man who had lived a studious life, and of a
highly nervous temperament—said he had lately wit-
nessed a mesmeric exhibition, and would undertake to
mesmerise any one present. Upon this, two or three
ladies volunteered as patients ; and he commenced ex-
perimenting upon a lady of some twenty-five years old,
whom he had known intimately from childhood, clever,
and well read, but rather imaginative. To make the
thing more ridiculous, he Knelt on both knees, and com-
menced making passes with both hands slowly before her
eyes, telling her, whenever she took her eyes off, to look
fixedly at him, and keeping a perfectly grave face when
everybody around was laughing unreservedly. After
thii had endured for some .three minutes, the lady's eyes
gradually closed, she fell forwards, and was only pre-
vented from farther falling by being caught by the mes-
meriser. He shook her, and in rather a rough manner,
brought her to her senses; then, suspicious lest she had
been purposely deceiving him, questioned her seriously
as to whether her sleep were feigned or real. She as-
sured him that it was not simulated, that the sensation
was irresistible, different from that of ordinary sleep,
and by no means unpleasant ; but that the only dis-
agreeable part was the being roused. Upon this the
gentleman declared that he knew nothing of mesmerism,
and that, had he believed there was anything in it, he
would not have attempted the joke. Another lady pre-
sent, married, and having a family, was now most
anxious to have the experiment repeated upon her. She
said she had before sat to an experienced mesmeriser,
who had failed, and she was still incredulous, and be-
lieved that M— had merely given way to an imaginative
temperament. It required considerable persuasion to
induce the gentleman who had before operated to try
any more experiments. lie protested that,he knew nothing
about it, that he had once seen a person said to be in the
mesmeric state, but that if he succeeded again in in•
diming coma, he knew not at all how to awake the pa-
tient. Curiously enough, he was instructed in the mani-
pulation by the sceptical patient, who had previously
seen public mesmeric exhibitions. After some further
persuasion, and with the permission of the lady's hus-
band, who was prt sent, he commenced again the same
passes as with the former patient, the only difference
being, that he was in this case sitting instead of kneel-
ing. The patient kept constantly bursting into fits of
laughter, and as constantly apologising, telling him that
his gravity of face was irresistible. Of the other persons
present, some laughed, others were too much terrified to
laugh, but they kept wp a constant running fire of com-
ment, satirical and serious, upon the mesmeriser and
mesmerisee. lii four or five minutes, the fits of laugh-
ter of the
latter assumed a rather unnatural character.
It was evident she forced herself to laugh in spite of the
strongest disinclination, and in
aminutethoor
e 3
yne-os morewide
she fixed into a state of ghastly catalepsy,
`open, but the lids fixed, the features all rigid (except the
lower lip, which was convulsed), and pale as a corpse.
The bystanders, now much frightened, interfered, and
laid hold of the mesmeriser. After some time, water
being given her to drink, she came to herself, and ap.
p-ared not to have suffered from the experiment."

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
The author of the gos,iping collection of amusing
anecdotes entitled " Diplomatic Doings," seems
tolerably enough acquainted with the political on dits
of the Club; and alluding to the changes recently
made in the etiquette of the Court at Windsor, says
that " formerly every representative of foreign Powers
was in tura invited once in the year to the royal
_ .