The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-30
EOIgizM Items,

The Lost Tales OF Mlletus Is TO be the
title of new book by Sir Edward Bulwer
LytUOn- 1t IS shortly 10 ne pupilshe' III
London.
A new financial institution is about to go
into operation in London. The English
and American Bank" with a capital OF / :
100000 II is intended, in concurrence with
two other banks, to transact all their large
American business, which has hitherto been
conducted through various mercantile firms
at New York and New Orleans. Of the 3d.
600 shares, 1000 have been already taken
A monument has been erected to Thackray
in Westminster Abbey. 1t was uncovered
the 2lst of last month. 1t consists OF bust
upon base OfTed serpentine, mounted on
bronze support, bearing the dates of birth
and death 1t is i'll the South transept be-
hind the statute of Addison.
The Gentlleman's Magazine" (England)
completed its hundred and thirty-tifth year
last month
A decimal currency is adopted in Mexico
by decree of 27th Oct. ult and was to be
put in practice lSt inst, by coming ehmes
and haltdimes, cents and halt-cents. Here
tofore the coinage under a quarter OF a dol
lar, was eighths; sixteenths and thirty second
parts of a dollar, or the respective value OF
l21, G4 and 3t cents, called reals. medlos,
and courtillJs.
1t is asserted that not person has been
/ killed by railroad accident in Germany since
the origin of that mode OF travelling.
I The assent of Queen Victoria to the be-
/ throthal of the Princess Helena and Prince
/ Christian of Augustenburg Prussia, is Off
} cially promulgated. The Princess Is tie
! third daughter of the Queen, and Is Ill her
( twentieth YEAR while her future husband Is
/ in his thirty-fourtb The London Morning
! Post observes that. from the anxious and
motherlv care which the Queen bestows on
all matters affecting the happiness OF her
/ children, we may safely presume that IN
character and disposition he IS all that every
/ loval heart can wish to find in the husband
of a daughter ofEngland." 1t is considered
tv be no slight advantage in this royal
match that as the Prince has no principality
OF functions which would require his resi-
dence abroad the Princess will be able to re-
side in England, and to continue those tilial
attentions on which the Queen, like every
good mother, sets SO high an estimation.
The London Morning Advertiser contains
the following official announcement of the
order of proceedings at the opening of Par
lament:
On the Ist Of February, 1866, the Lords
Commissioners will formhlly open Pallia
ment when her Majesty's faithful Commons
. will appear at the bar OF the House OF Lords
The head of the Commission will then, i'll
the name of her Majesty, direct the Commons
/ TO retire ana choose IDeT speaker. L 1T
members of the House of Commons will re
; tire accordingly, and the election having
taken place, the Speaker will forthwith come
to the table and take the oath.
On the following day the Speaker will ap
pear Mt the bar of the House of Lords, wher
her Majesty's approval of the choice OF the
| House of Commons will be siguifed to the
right honorable gentleman Honorable
members will then retire, and the Speaker
, having taken the chair, the ceremony o
swearing in members will be proceeded with
; This will occupy some four or five days
when the Commons will be again sum
moned to their Lordships' bar, and her Ma
. iesty's most gracious speech be delivered.
Should the health OF her Majesty allow 0
| her being present, his Royal Highness, tn
: Prince of Wales, will take his seat on tn
> right of her Majesty, and occupy the chai
known as the "The Princess Chair"
: Miss Braddons stage adaptations from he
5 own novels, are sharply criticised by tn
q London critics. who mingle her drama
and novels in indiScriminate condemnation
I'VE could object to stage adaptations o
{ Miss Braddon, if on no other account thai
. for the reason that they force us to read he
> Objectionable novels. And how false ant
unreal are they! What an utterly wrong i'll
: | sight into the purposes of life do they Civ
!. us; what fallacious motives do they oher a
, the handspring of human action; in wha
: false perspective and false coloring are thei
social pictures painted! Her books have
! hollow physique and morbid morale
: Given the two delineatOrs of fashionabl
/ Iite-Mr G. w NJ REYNOLDS and Mis-
/ Braddon, we prefer Mr.. Reynolds He is tn
;, more rampant vulgarity, and for that reaso1
u he is less dangerous. But Miss Braddo
/ viii be dramatizsd for spell, and will b
! taken in large doses for some time to come
/ both by the literary subscribers and tn
y theatre goers. Clever men take her in han
: to fit her for the stage. Writers as high a
4 Mr. Tom Taylor do not disdain to moul
. her unhealthy plots into dramatic form
II even while they do disdain to atfix the
names to the result As a dramatic tasl
i even, Mr.. Tom Taylor might have hesitate
4 to give Henry Dunbar, produced at I'll
y Olympic on Saturday, his imprimdtar as
o reekdgte of Miss Braddon's novel we think
u was perfectly justified in Withholding it,
;" Most people have read the story; if the
have not so much the better" @