The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-09
Literary and Art Items.

MIR. Henry Huth has just printed in Lon
don, privately, fifty copies of Narrative of
the Journey of an Irish Gentleman through
England in the year 1862" 1t is lively ac-
count of the Cork narrator's trip to London
and back, sketching his companions in his
coach rides, saying that the English women
were handsome but not vivaoious, that the
stage coaches had no windows to look out of,
that the roads were awful, Miss Burchell at
Vauxhall inimitable, etc. The manuscript
Gays the Athenaam) was well worth putting
into print. We suspect that it is by the same
writer as the Additional Manuscript, u. 95l,
lately added to the British Museum collection,
thou gh this latter, consisting of four rough
little MOTEL books, is in the writer's own hand,
while Mr.. Huth's seems to be in that of a
COPPER. The Museum Manuscript is called
'The Journal of an Irish Clergyman on his
Visits to London in 1853 6172;" and the first
note book in the packet begins with visit to
and description of Windsor and Eton. In
London the writer met Sheridan and other
persons of note.
Mr.. T. Duffus Hardy writes from the Rolls
House to the London Atheneum, under date Of
February 3d.
"Duripg my official inspection, in the year
1865, of the Archives at Venice, made by the
direction of the Master of the Rolls, my atten-
tion was called by Mr.. Rawdon Brown, WHO'S
employ ed in compiling calendar OF venetian
|
! to a volume containing the dispatches OF
Michel, the Venetian ambassador at the Court
| of Queen Mary. These dispatches appeared
to me to be OF such an important character, 30
lar as / was then able to Judge OF tnen,
that ventured to call the attention OF tne
Master of the Rolls specially TO the supJect
in nv report, published by order or the
Treasury in the year 1866. take the liberty
| of sendipe YOU an extract from the report
in question: .ho E.or; e
a volume containing the dispatches OF mlcniei,
the Venetian ambassador az tne Cour. Vi Vi
Oneen Mary. OF these, about one-sixth part
is written in a cipher that has hitherto pained
the skill of every one who has attempted 10
explain it. Several of these letters are only par
TALLY written in these secret characters; tue
remaining portion is in the ordinary Wrlting
OF the period. The context shows tnas many
of the secret passages evidently relate 10 the
release of the Earl of Devonshire from the
Tower, and of the Princess Elizabeth from
Woodstock. should recommend that copies
or photographs of these letters be sent to
England in order that steps may be instantly
taken to decipher them, which will, in all
= probability, throw light on the events OF the
, reign OF Queen Mary. That they are matters
ofgreat secrecy may be inferred from the fact
that the despatcLes in cipher Of the Venetian
am bassador from England are of rare occur
renee
LORD homllly adopted my buggestlon. fhO
I tographs OF the dispatches, MADE by POnti, o.
= Venice, were sent TO the Public Record Office
I and have been shown by me to variou;
scholars, but without any successful result
/ am happy to announce that received this
morning from Mr.. Rawdon Brown a letter
! stating that, among discoveries lately made a
, Venice part of the missing correspondence o
Giscomo Sorspzo, ambassador in London in
l 1853, has just been discovered. These letters
5 are in cipher throughout, and they contain al
inclOsure~ Of q contemporary decipher, de-