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THE COURT.
THE COURT. --+-- HE ft Majesty the Queen continues at Balmoral and enjoys excellent health. THE Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, and the Princess Dagmar, and Prince Frederick of Den- mark, left town last week and arrived at Sandringham- hall, in Norfolk. THE King of the Greeks has also left London, and is being feted in Paris. THE King of the Belgians is expected in November, on a visit to her Majesty, and will probably remain at iGast two months. THE King of Denmark returned to Copenhagen last week. His Majesty's return is said to have been hastened in consequence of the gravity of the political situation, and the arrival of important notes froxi France and England. IT is understood, says the Court Journal, that the Prince and Princess of Wales will stay at Sandring- ham for about six weeks, and the attention of agricul- turists is attracted more especially to the Prince from the fact that his Royal Highness has identified himself ivith them by taking the Hall Farm under his own im- mediate care. Henceforth it is hoped the Prince of Wales's name will become as familiar in connexion with agriculture as was that of the Prince Consort. AN Aberdeen paper gives the following additional particulars connected with the accident which hap- pened to her Majesty's carriage. Three of her Majesty's jillies, who were out with ponies on Wednesday, and were surprised at the Queen's carriage not coming up M them on their way home, began to conjecture the muse of the delay, when one of the party rode back, accompanied by another, to find out the reason. Not meeting the carriage, they went on to the place, when bhe Queen, whose pony the gillie had, ordered the )ther two to be brought up, and her Majesty and the Princesses having been seated in the saddle, rode home to the Castle, refusing to enter a carriage which aad been' sent forward to bring them home. Next morning, on the arrival of the gillie who had acted so well, an order was given him that her Majesty wanted ;o see him. On obeying the order, his astonishment may be surmised when the Queen presented him with i splendid watch in token of her appreciation of his issiduity.
POLITICAL GOSSIP. --
POLITICAL GOSSIP. THE King of Italy is shortly about to visit Tuscany, where he will have some hunting parties, and will receive, among other guests, Sir James Hudson, our Late representative. THE appointment of Mr. Odd Russell as First ) Secretary of Legation at the Court of Turin has not baken place, as was rumoured the present Secretary continues to hold his post. MB. MASON, who has been for some time in Paris, has now returned to London, accompanied by Mr. Slidell, who has had an easier task to fulfil at the Court of the Tuileries than Mr. Mason found his to be it the Court of St. James's. THE new treaty of commerce between Italy and Russia is described by a Turin correspondent as very Liberal in its character—the most so which Italy, has yet effected or Russia has yet granted. LIEUTENANT CAPSAL, of Richmond, says the Savannah Nevjs, has been commissioned and sent as commissioner to Ireland, to represent the Confederate cause in that country, and counteract the influence brought to bear by the Lincoln Government to induce them to enlist in the Yankee crusade. LORD COWLEY is not expected to return to Paris till the end of the month. His son and daughter-in- law, Lord and Lady Dangan, have arrived, having re- turned early in the week. Lord Cowley is at present staying at Draycot-house, Wiltshire. IT is stated that Captain Seales has made official application to the War Department, through his solicitors, that an additional charge to those promul- gated shall be preferred against Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley, in connection with his evidence on the Mhow court-martial. It is also reported that the case of the illegal imprisonment of Sergeant-Major Wakefield has been taken in hand by Messrs. Biggenden, the eminent solicitors. To appreciate how completely people's wishes change with time and circumstances, says the Court Journal, one has but to look back to the year '49, when in Hun- gary the desire was to be under Russian dominion,, in preference to French now tliat lias all changed." The Poles are ready to swear allegiance to Austria, in order to be free from Russian thraldom; but this is not difficult to understand, when one reads the account of the Russian atrocities. ADVICES received from Athens state that the National Assembly has decided to recall to the capital the troops sent to, a distance for acts of insubordina- tion. This determination has produced a bad effect among the people. Several accidents occurred at Athens on the occasion of the fetes given to celebrate the annexation of the Ionian Islands. The arrival of the new King is eagerly expected. THE Government of Denmark has ordered that a large body of troops shall be massed upon the southern frontier of Schleswig. The Swedish minister has re- ceived within the last few days full powers to sign the treaty of alliance between Denmark and Sweden. The Berlingske T'idende of to-day, alluding to the statement of the Independanca Belge, that England, France, and Russia had agreed upon a peaceful solution of the con- flict between Denmark and Germany, declares that the Danish Government has received no proposal relative to mediation. THREE elections took place on Saturday, and in all of them there was no opposition, and Whig candidates were returned. The Attorney and Solicitor General were returned for their respective seats of Richmond and Plymouth, and Mr. Lefevre was returned for Reading in place of Mr. Serjeant Pigott, now Baron Pigott. There is, therefore, no change in the political representation of these boroughs, as two of them con- tinue to be represented by the same men, and all three by politicians of the same hue. THE New York Herald says that, in addition to the the political parties known as "Copperheads" and Niggerheads," there is a new faction, with Greeley and Wood for chiefs, known as the "Soreheads." Greeley is a nigger sorehead, and Ben Wood is a copper sorehead. They ought to be allowed to butt out their brains, if they have any, against each other. THE Emperor, since his return to Paris, has appeared much in public-as some persons insinuate, to ascer- tain, from personal observation, the state of public feeling with respect to him. The vivas which have greeted him on every occasion show that, whatever may be the feeling of the people with respect to the French treatment of the Polish question, they have lost none of their loyalty. A better index to the state of public feeling in the country will, however, be given upon the assembling of the Corps Legislatif, when the great question of war or peace will be discussed and determined. IT is said that a telegraphic correspondence has just passed between the Porte and her Majesty's Foreign- office, through the Turkish Embassy in London, on the subject of the arrested iron-clads in the Mersey. The Ottoman Government is willing to purchase these vessels,at Mr. Laird's price—, £ 130,000 each—and Earl Russell, though unable at present to give effect to this wish, has expressed his readiness to promote it at the earliest moment the existing embargo can be re- moved. It is not, therefore, improbable that, instead of defending Charleston or devastating New York, these formidable ships may, before many weeks have passed, mount guard in the Bosphorus or the Darda- nelles.
THE ARTS, LITERATURE, &e.…
THE ARTS, LITERATURE, &e. STUD AHMUD is preparing a full answer to Bishop Colenso in his next volume. We live in strange times, says the Court Journal. Who could have thought to see a Christian Bishop impugning, and a Mahomedan in reply defending, the inspiration and authenticity of the writings of Moses. MANCHESTER, ia to take part in the national move- ment now in progress for doing honour in some sub- stantial form to the memory of Shakespeare. In April next three hundred years will have elapsed since the birth of the great poet; and an influential com- mittee has been formed in London for the purpose of taking steps to raise a national memorial to the Bard of Avon. At a preliminary meeting held at the Town- hall, Manchester, on Friday, a committee was ap- pointed to consider the manner in which the tercen- tenary should be celebrated. Mr. Bazley, M.P., suggested, in addition to a national monument in London or Stratfo d-upon-Avon, that Shakespeare scholarships might be founded at Owen's College and the Grammar School. THE necessity of increasing the dimensions of our great national repertory, the British Museum, is again attracting attention. The proposal to augment the present building seems to meet with most favour. In almost all departments the collection is the most com- plete in Europe. Professor Owen, when he proposed to erect halls capable of receiving stuffed specimens of the largest whales, frightened the economists. It was concluded that nature was inexhaustible, and that the Museum might expand, as Kensington has done, till it filled all London. The more recent calculations, how- ever, show that the number of species is limited-that the best part of the globe has been explored—and that any great addition to the number of those we are already acquainted with is not to be expected. The utmost extent of the natural history museum, when it is complete, according to the present views, may be calculated, and it is found that there is ample room for it in the heart of London. UNDER the title —" The most Dangerous and Memorable Adventure of Richard Ferris, one of the Five Ordinary Messengers of his Majesty's.Chamber, who departed from Tower Wharf on Midsummer Day last past, with Andrew Hill and William Thomas, who undertook, in a small Wherry Boat, to row by Sea to the City of Bristowe, and are now safely returned. Published by the said Richard Ferris. London, printed by John Wolfe for Edward White, and are to be sold at his shop, being at the little north door Df Paul's, at the sign of the Gun. 1590"—Mr. Payne Collier has added to his Illustrations of Early English Popular Literature, an account of a trip from London, round the Land's End, to Bristol,.in a Thames wherry, nearly three centuries ago. This trip seems to have excited universal enthusiasm. But the wherry, in those days, was large enough to carry a sail and a gun; and moreover Ferris, who was not a mariner, with his. two nautical companions, consumed two months in the voyage, creeping along the shore, land- ing often, and tarrying in hospitable houses, on one occasion seventeen days, till the foul weather had given place to fair. They encountered some perils, but their greatest was off the Land's End, from a pirate of foure tunnes," from whom they escaped by rowing for dear life up an inlet. Long subsequent to this period Tunisian and Algerine corsairs troubled this coast, and even the coast towns. Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel, was one of their places of resort. MR. SALTER, whose Waterloo Banquet" obtained a world-wide fame, has sold his picture of Charles 1. raking Leave of his Children," and which .attracted so much attention at the Suffolk-street Gallery, to Mr. Barbour, of Boldesworth Castle, Cheshire. WE may remind competitors, says the Aihenwum, for the two prizes offered by the Architectural Museum for the most successfully executed miserere seat carved in wood, that the time for completing their work is the 2nd of November next, when the objects must be delivered at the South Kensington Museum. The subject is to be a profession, trade, or occupation, treated in modern costume, the composition not to consist of more than two figures, or one figure and an animal. Competitors for the prizes for coloured decorations, as offered by the Ecclesiological Society and Mr. Beresford Hope, will have one or both of the miserere seats to which the above-named prizes may be awarded, for themes. Casts from the miserere seats will be supplied for five shillings each, on application to the Hon. Secretary of the Architectural Museum. The time for sending in the coloured works will be the 1st of March next. In addition to the above prises, certificates of merit will be awarded in deserving cases. THE path taken by the Sovereign on state occasions when proceeding to the throne in the House of Parlia- ment leads through the Royal Gallery, where Mr. Maclisehas painted one of his great pictures, "The Interview between Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo," and where the same artist is now engaged upon the subject of "The Death of Nelson." It has been the custom, on the occasions referred to, to have a double range of seats fitted up for the accommodation of persons witnessing the ceremony. These seats are kept in store ready to be framed for use. They are so nconsiderately constructed that the backs of the sitters hide, if they do not even touch, the surface of the pictures upon the walls. It is obvious that there is great risk of damage being done to the works upon which Mr. Maclise has spent some of the best years of his life, to a result wholly admirable. These pictures, moreover, were intended to form, so to say, integral parts of the ceremonials, as the scene of which the Royal Gallery itself was especially designed. It is surely desirable that the works should be delivered from, even the oha.zice of damans, and that they should be seen as they were intended to be seen. We are quite sure that the responsible authorities need only to be informed on the subject to induce them to take isteps to the desired end. If the authority of the late Trinoe Consort is needed in the matter, let us say that it may be found in the sha.pe of a sketch, made with pencil by his own hand, upon the framework of mouldings surrounding the picture first named above. This sketch shows an arrangement suggested for the purpose by his Royal Highness. la order to preserve the sketch it has been covered with water-glass, so that it will remain safe from injury, unless Sir C. Barry's extraordinary expedient of painting tha solid stonework be repeated.
SPORTS AND PASTIMES. -+-
SPORTS AND PASTIMES. -+- AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.—The following table of the doings of the Australian Twelve during the year 1863 may prove interesting :— „ No. of No. of Most in Most in a matches, innings, an inning. Kiatch. it' Anderson 30 50 82 85 691 Csesar 29 48 59 94 660 Caffyn 38 61 70 77 854 Carpenter. 38 56 78 78 1,074 Clarke 34 53 50 61 551 Grace.. 50 79 163 178 .3,074 Hayward 33 55 112 112 1,149 Jackson 38 51 100 100 578 Loekyer 28 38 76 76 551 parr 21 34 43 56 490 Tarrant. 34 61 64 74 7.69 Tinley 35 43 43 43 473 UNSEASONABLE FISH IN THE THAMES. — James Meads, of Sunbury, was charged before the Hampton magistrates last week, on the information of river- keeper Cowdery, of the Thames Angling Preservation Society, with taking a trout at Sunbury on the 5th of October, out of season, under rule 23 of the orders and ordinances of the river. The defendant pleaded guilty of taking the trout, but without knowing he was doing wrong. Mr. Briggs attended upon behalf of the society, and urged upon the bench the import- ance of punishing offenders taking ^fish full of spawn, especially after the exertions made,, by the society to breed and preserve trout, &c.; but in this case, as the man had done it in ignorance, and was in poor circum- stances, he would withdraw from the prosecution, and leave it in the hands of the bench. The magistrates, after commenting upon the handsome way in which the Thames Angling Preservation Society had left the matter with them, strongly admonished the defendant, stating that if anyone else did the same thing again they would enforce the full penalty, and spoke in the highest terms of the society and the good they believed that was done by it. PROSPECTS OF THE SHOOTING SEASON AT SAND- RINGHAM.-His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales commenced the shooting season on his sporting estate at Sandringham last week with every prospect of abundant sport; and though, with the Prince Christian, Prince Frederick, and their respective gentlemen in waiting, there will be six or eight guns, there is evi- dence of there being plenty of game to afford their Royal Highnesses a successful season. The weather has been very favourable for the rearing of game, and the Prince's gamekeepers have been very assiduous in their preservation, having been seconded in their efforts by the tenants on the estate. What the royal estate lacks in extent is fully made up in variety, both of landscape and game. In addition to there being plenty of hares, pheasants, and partridges, it is reported that there are blackgame and woodcock, whilst on the marshes on the Woolverton side of the estate, wildfowl are said to be very plentiful. There are also several foxes in the coverts, so that a blank will not dis- appoint his Royal Highness, as was the case when the meet" was at Sandringham last year. SOUTH TIPPEBARY BOWMEN.—The members of this society, says the Field, have closed the season with a brilliant entertainment at Knockloft, the demesne of the Earl and Countess of Donoughmore, where 200 ladies and gentlemen were entertained to dinner. Previous to the banquet shooting had taken place at six targets, which were intrusted to the super- intendance of the following "oaptaina"—Col. Eveleigh, C.B., Mr. F. P. Tydd, Mr. Edmund Power, and Mr. Osborne. After dinner Lord Donoughmore distributed the prizes, remarking that such was the progress made by the shooters in the art that scarcely anything was now thought of a score which but a couple of years since was looked upon as a really wonderful per- formance. The highest gross score of the day (246) was made by Miss Fanny Quinn, who received a beautiful suite of ornaments which the bachelors of the club had purchased as their prize. Miss Power made the next best score of the meeting, 220, but, owing to her having this year at a former meeting won the first, prize, she had to submit to a deduction of 26 for outer whites, and Miss Grubb came in for the first club prize (a beautiful gold bracelet set with emeralds) with a score of 218. i, Miss Fanny Gough having made 217, won the second club prize. Miss Mary Gough and Miss Lucy Quinn made the very respectable scores of 212 and 204, but received no prize. Miss M. Mansergh and Miss A. Perry tied for the best gold. In dis- tance from the centre of the target those two last- named ladies were precisely equal, and both, therefore, received equal prizes. Miss F. Gough's prize consisted of a necklet of fine gold, with rich carbuncle pendants. The gentlemen contended for two prizes,, in addition to the best gold one, one being the usual club prize, and the second a consolation prize, given by Lady Donoughmore to the best score of the day, not having won a prize at any former meeting of the year. A silver goblet (the first club prize) was won by Mr. Charles Wise, who scored 250. Major Mansergh, having made 157, was declared entitled to Lady Donoughmore's prize. Mr. Percy Gough, jun., who was re-elected secretary, obtained the prize for the best gold. The following are the correct scores giving the totals above 100 -Miss Quinn, 246; Miss Power. 220; Miss Grubb, 218; Miss F. Gough, 218; Miss M. Gough, 212; Miss L. Quin, 204; Miss L. Gough. 200; Miss M. Mansergh, 200; Miss A. Perry, 186; Miss E. Mansergh, 167; Miss R. Mandeville, 156; Miss G. Gough, 141; Miss M. Grubb, 132; Mrs. Mansergh, 122; Miss Sankey, 120; Miss Mansergh, 106; Miss Morton, 104; Miss F. Perry, 102. Gentlemen's scores above 100:-Mr. Wise, 250; Major Mansergh, 166; Mr. H. Gough, 114; and Mr. T. Perry, jun., 114. General Gough having been elected president for the next year, and other gentlemen chosen to supply the usual vacan- cies on the committee, the business meeting was dissolved, the candles were lighted, and an adjourn- ment made to the drawing-room, where dancing soon began, supper upon a grand scale being served about midnight. A PEDESTRIAN MATCH BETWEEN TWO OFFICERS. -One morning last week the running match, of 100 yards for X200 aside, made at Brighton during the Sussex week, between Captain Machell, of the 59th Regiment, and Mr. Chadwick, formerly of the 9th Lancers, came off on the Bury-road, Newmarket, in the presence of Lord Cardigan, Lord Stamford, and the Marquis of Hastings, as well as a numerous con- course of spectators. Just before the start 100 to 8 on Captain Machell was accepted. The gallant captain, however, was put back a yard for having made a false start, but when the final start was effected he speedily made up the lost ground, for he went away, and won, according to the decision of Mr. Clark, by six yards. LORD MIDDLETON shot during last week a number of fine fat stags in the Applecross Forest. The weight of one of them has been tested and found to be 20 stone 2 lb., clean, with a fine long-tined and beau- tifully formed Royal head; span 34t inches. A few days ago Lord H. Bentinck shot two stags right and left in the forest of Glenavon, and two on each of the following days. On a previous day he shot three stags at one stalk. All were in good condition, averaging about 15 stone. His lordship has now left for the forest of Loch Errocht, and will finish his deer-stalking for the season by returning to Mar Forest through Glenavon, thus hunting three exten- sive forests in one season. LORD FITZHARDINGE'S hounds have killed upwards of thirty braces of cubs this season; in bygone days the average number of foxes killed during the whole season scarcely amounted to that number.
TOPICS OF THE WEEK. --
TOPICS OF THE WEEK. THE DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP WHATELY. s'ast falls the October rain, and dull and leaden Stretch the low skies without one line of blue; ind up the desolate streets, with sobs that deaden The rolling wheels, the winds come rolling too. Faster than rain fall tear drops-bells are tolling: The dark sky suits the melancholy heart; From the church-organs awfully is rolling Down the draped fanes the Requiem of Mozart. 3 tears, beyond control of half a nation, 0 powerful music, what have ye to say ? Why take men up so deep a lamentation ? What prince and great man hath there fall'n to-day ? Only an old Archbishop, growing whiter Year after year, his stature proud and tall, Palsied and bowed as by his heavy mitre; Only an old Archbishop-that is all! Only the hands that held with feeble shiver The marvellous pen-by others outstretch'd o'er The children's heads-are folded now for ever In an eternal quiet-nothing more! No martyr he o'er fire and sword victorious, No saint in silent rapture kneeling on; No mighty orator with voice so glorious, That thousands sigh when that sweet sound is gone Yet in Heaven's great cathedral, peradventure, There are crowns rich above the rest, with green Places of joy peculiar where they enter, Whose fires and swords no eye hath ever seen. They who have known the truth, the truth have spoken With few to understand and few to praise, Casting their bread on waters, half heart-broken, For men to find it after many days. And better far than eloquence—that golden And spangled juggler, dear to thoughtless youth- The luminous style through which there is beholden The honest beauty of the face of Truth. And better than his loftiness of station, His power of logic, or his pen of gold, The half-unwilling homage of a nation Of fierce extremes to one who seem'd so cold. The purity by private ends unblotted, The love that slowly came with time and tears, The honourable age, the life unspotted, That are not measured merely by their years. And better far than flowers that blow and perish Some sunny week, the roots deep-laid in mould Of quickening thoughts, which long blue summers cherish, Long after he who planted them is cold. Yea, there be saints who are not like the painted And haloed figures fixed upon the pane, Not outwardly and visibly ensainted, But hiding deep the light which they contain. The rugged gentleness, the wit whose glory Flash'd like a sword because its edge was keen, The fine antithesis, the flowing story, Beiaeath such things the sainthood is not seen; Till in the hours when the wan hand is lifted To take the bread and wine, through all the mist Of mortal weariness our eyes-are gifted To see a quiet radiance caught from Christ; Till from the pillow of the thinker, lying In weakness, comes the teaching then best taught, That the true crown for any soul in dying Is Christ, not genius, and is faith, not thought. 0 wondrous lights of death, the great unveiler, Lights that come out above the shadowy place, Just as the night that makes our small world paler, Shows us the star-sown amplitudes of space! 0 strange discovery, land that knows no bounding, Isles far off hail'd, bright seas without a breath, What time the white sail of the soul is rounding The misty cape-the promontory Death! Rest then, 0 martyr, pass'd through anguish mortal, Rest then, 0 Saint, sublimely free from doubt, Rest then, 0 patient thinker, o'er the portal, Where there is peace for brave hearts wearied out. 0 long unrecognised, thy love too loving, Too wise thy wisdom, and thy truth too free As on the teachers after truth are moving They may look backward with deep thanks to thee. What measure shall there be to Ireland's weeping ? What are her best ones to so dear a head, But clouds their faint light after sunset keeping, But ivy living when the oak is dead ? By his dear Master's holiness made holy, All lights of hope upon that forehead broad, Ye mourning thousands quit the minster slowly, And leave the great Archbishop with his God. —Spectator. THE MAORI RISING.—The criminal folly of Gover- nor Browne has borne its natural fruit, and we are in the midst of ,11: bloody Maori war. It seems but too probable that both we and the Maoris shall be com- pelled to pay a' fearful price for the act of injustice by which these troubles were commenced. It was a sad misfortune that, at the most difficult moment in tho history of our relations with these savage tribes, the conduct of affairs should have been in the hands of a man so little equal to the difficulties of his post. The passage of a race of warlike barbarians to a condition of peaceful civilisation is necessarily a critical period. There are many influences to provoke them to disaffec- tion. Their chiefs cannot bear to pari; with their old authority. They themselves cannot see without a pang authority. They themselves cannot see without a pang of wounded national pride their lands gradually ab- sorbed by an alien race, whose power and wealth throw them into an inferior position. At such a time it is in- cumbent upon the new Government to exercise the most anxious vigilance that no substantial cause of discontent shall mingle with these sentimental regrets. Such a time it was thatGovernorBrowne chose for cutting the issues of a disputed title to landed property with the sword. The effect upon the native mind was violent and irremediable. The enforcement of Teira's disputed title, by marching a troop of soldiers on to the land in question, was in effect a notice to all the tribes in the island that they held their land by favour, not by right, and that they might be dispossessed of it at any moment, not by the judgment of a tribunal, but by the simple fiat of the governor alone. Such an im- pression, once conveyed, can naturally never be effaced. All subsequent efforts at conciliation were looked on by the natives merely as evidences that, in the judg- ment of the English Government, the moment for spoliation had not yet come, and that the inevitable struggle was to be delayed by stratagem until the Maoris were a little weaker and the English a little stronger. With such feelings, they were naturally in- accessible to all Sir George Grey's attempts at concilia- tion. They looked on them as part of a deep-laid plan of extermination, which they could only foil by pre- cipitating the conflict. We cannot regret that those attempts were made; for they were becoming alike to the stronger race in its dealings with the weaker, and to the race which had done the first wrong in its baaring towards those whom it had wronged. But they have failed, and failed probably for ever. What the causes are which have brought the contest upon us just at this moment is still unexplained. But the con- test is one which it was hardly possible, the first great mistake having once been made, that any judgment or any patience could have averted. In the interests, then, of humanity to the natives, not less than for the sake of the future well-being of the colony, it is to be hoped that the Government will show neither tardiness nor parsimony in the steps they take at this conjunc- ture. A rapid and imposing display of force may terrify the natives into submission before a sufficient number of them are implicated to give the fearful character of a war of races to the strugle. A liberal expenditure at this moment may save the necessity of a tenfold outlay later. The thorny question of Imperial liabilities and local obligations must be settled afterwards. The vigorous conduct of this war to an early issue will be an important step towards placing the colonial relations with the mother-country upon their right footing. When we have fairly crushed out the danger which the errors of the Imperial representative have created, we shall be in a position, without injustice or discredit, to insist that for the future the colonists should have the unre- stricted management of their own affairs, and shall bear the costs of their own blunders. They are not free from blame in regard to the particular act of op- pression from which these troubles take their rise; in fact, it was chiefly the pressure of their importunity which hurried the weak and incapable governor into the policy of violence which he adopted. But the moment of danger like the present is not the moment in which such matters should be remembered.—Satur- day Revieiv. HER MAJESTY AT ABERDEEN.—We remember reading a few years since a book entitled Half-hours of Existence," in which the author gave an account of his feelings on certain eventful occasions of his life- such as the first death in his family circle, the first marriage of a child, the first guinea earned by his own exertion, the first loss of property, &c. Every life, however even and monotonous, must every now and then experience a shock of deep emotion concentrated into a comparative short space of time, and which can never again occur, and can never be forgotten. One of these throes of heartfelt concentrated feeling's must have impressed itself on the memory of our Most Gracious Sovereign on her visit to Aberdeen to witness the inauguration of the statue erected in that town to the honour of the late illustrious and much-lamented Prince Consort. The sudden unveiling of a sculpture representing in life-like reality the features of one so nearly allied to her and so truly loved the presence of so many of her children, sharing her sentiments of sad and affectionate devotion the solemn and affecting attitude of that vast multitude, anxious by their cheers and congratulatory acclamations to show their joy at the visit of their Sovereign, so long secluded from their sight, and yet restrained into silence in respectful sympathy for her feelings of sorrow the associations connected with the place itself as the theatre on which her late Royal husband delivered one of those speeches treasured by the nation as the surest testimonies of his worth and wisdom all these circumstances must have united to induce such a variety and concentration of emotions as can never be erased from the memory of her whs, on this occasion, prompted by a sense of gratitude for the public ap- preciation of the virtues of the departed Prince, overcame her resolution of a temporary seclusion, and took part in a ceremonial which, in words written by her command, was declared to be at once "painful, but most gratifying to her feelings." The nation at large will rejoice at this re-appearance of her Majesty, even for a brief interval, among so large a gathering of her subjects in the sister kingdom, and will hope that at no distant day their beloved Sovereign will so far overcome her deep sentiments of grief as to re- assume the public discharge of the duties of her j exalted station. The noblest memorial the Queen could give to the excellency of the departed Prince would be to unite with a continued regard for his en- deared memory, the endeavour to emulate his example in a diligent promotion of the welfare Of the destinies of the people committed to her august care, and in an unrepining submission to the irreversible decree of a mysterious though all wise Providence.-The Press.
OUR MISCELLANY. --
OUR MISCELLANY. Florence Nightingale .—Feeble as Miss Night- ingale's health is unhappily known to be, her views have lost none of their distinctness-her pen none of its power. In her commentary on a recent Indian report, we find in perfection the consummate good sense, the keen irony, indicating subdued sensibility, the wide range of understanding, and the all-pervading generosity and courage which, to my mind, make her writings one of the strong interests of our time. From the few pages of this commentary we learn more of the interior of life in India than a dozen books on India from the circulating library could convey; and we see in a wholly new light, as c¡ear as the day, how much may be done for the life of everybody there by such means as are perfectly at command.-Once a Week. A Tournament in Chea,pside.- Soon after the suppression of this emeute Bow Church was rebuilt. In 1329 a grand tournament was held in Cheapside for the entertainment of the French ambassador and his suite. Imagine, 0 reader, if thou canst, a vast tourna- ment now in Cheapside for the gratification of Count Flahault! A wooden scaffolding was constructed for the accommodation of the Queen and her ladies, but in the midst of the sports it unhappily gave way, to the great alarm, but not the bodily injury, of its fair occupants. King Edward immediately ordered the carpenter to be hung, but on the intercession of good Queen Philippa rescinded his cruel sentence. To pre- vent a recurrence of mishaps so unpleasant a large stone gallery was erected on the north side of Bow Church, from which brave lords and noble ladies often looked down upon the revels of the citizens in Cheap- side.-The Churchman's Family Magazine. Epicurean Dishes.Ants are eaten in many countries. In Brazil the largest species are prepared with a sauce of resin. In Africa they stew them with butter. In the East Indies they are caught in pits, carefully roasted like coffee, and eaten by mouthfuls afterwards. Mr. Smeathman says: I have eaten them several times, dressed in this way, and think them delicate, nourishing, and wholesome. They are something sweeter, though not so fat and clogging as the caterpillar or maggot of the palm-tree snout- beetle, which is served up at all the luxurious tables of the West Indian epicures, particularly the French, as the greatest dainty of the Western world." A Curry of anfsf^ggs is a vcry costlylaxuryin Siam; and in Mexico the people have, from time immemorial, eaten the eggs of a water insect which prevails in the water lagunes of that city. The Ceylonose, ungrateful wretchesl eat the bees after robbing; them of their honey. The African bushmen eat all the caterpillars they find. A bushman w ould be a valuable acquisition for a market-gardener's cabbage-field. The Austra- lians are notorious as maggot-eaters;"and the Chinese, who waste nothing, ea,t the chrysalis of the silkworm after they have wound the silk from its cocoon. It is said that the North American Indians used to eat. locusts. The African bushmen and the savages of New Caledonia are very fond of spiders roasted. This singular taste is not unknown even in Europe. Reaumur- tells of a young lady who, when walking in her garden, used to eat all the spiders she could catch. Lalande, the French astronomer, was equally fond of them; and a German, immortalised by Rosel, used to spread them on bread instead of butter.—The International Ma-gazine. Rosecransbefore the Battle of Chicamunga, -The General, who had been up all night, though seriously ill, indefatigable as ever, had donned what his staff call "his fighting coat"—a great-coat of the style in common use among the private soldiers. He had early slung the canteen of his orderly around his. own neck, and this, said his staff, who had watched and studied his manners, meant" fight." He was to me that morning an interesting study, for I had found him in a new character. He has three distinct cha- racters, which it requires three distinct eircomatanoes to reveal. In garrison, as at Mnrfreesboro, lively, good-natured, pleasant, and agreeable, fond of social games and conversations, he had grown painfully less to one who approached him with reverence for him as a great warrior, for he could see no traits of it. In movements—during his manceirrres I mean—quick, lively, yet severe, his nerves strung to their greatest tension, and somewhat disposed to be excited over his plans and calculations, he creates in the beholder a curiosity as to his real nature, and one gets bewildered' in seeing the opposing traits of the man. But on the morning of the 3.9th, when it was evident that every- thing was narrowed down to an engagement, his man- ner assumed a frigid dignity that was painful. He spoke in low tones, neither soft, nor pleasant, nor harsh, nor rough. His nerves become solidified, and he is a man of iron. He sees everything, and notices nothing. He stares, and says nothing. You speak, and he looks at you for a moment, and then turns away. AH. instinctively felt on that morning that Bosey was not in his approachable humour, for, like the oracles, he talked with fate."—Neiv York Herald. Slang.—In the present day slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition of parliamentary wit; it helps to point the style and enforce the arguments of writers in the press.- People now are not courageous—they are "plucky." Nothing is ever long—it is "lengthy. We form resolutions not immediately, but "right away;" we enter into engagements "on our own hook." The desire to write in a popular style is the cause of this, and the public enconrage it. Slanginess is considered smart, and indicative of a knowledge of affairs and society. It is amusing to observe the com- placency and quiet self-esteem with which most men will utter a cant phrase of the day, as if they had themselves invented it on the spot, and it were some- thing superlatively brilliant and felicitous. "Neither- you, nor I, nor any other man," has induced many a foolish fellow to think himself a born wit. How's your poor feet ? a year ago cheated half the natives of Cockaigne into the belief that they were gifted with a special genius for repartee. The heaviest face kindled with unwonted delight, the dullest voice chuckled with conscious fun, as the words came forth. And every one laughed, and was rally persuaded that he had heard the sarcasm for the first time, and was delightfully surprised at its readiness, point, and appli- cability. This, however, is a habit of the uneducated, and has not yet infected the higher classes of our peri- odical literature, though it is unpleasantly conspicuous in the cheap comic journals.—BlcJcev.s's All the Tear Round." Photographic Effects of One Leaf upon A lie tiler.— On the window-sill of my laboratory, which stands rather high, two very huuriant nettle- geraniums are growing, and my attention is sometimes arrested by the beautiful anatomy of the leaves of my pet plants. The aspect of the window being southerly, the sun shines upon the geraniums with all its force and when I stand up I see the leaves only by the light that is transmitted through them. A few days ago I was forcibly struck by observing that where one leaf produced a shade upon another, the under leaf pre- sented a very marked and beautiful photographic image of the upper leaf, its serated edge and form being beautifully defined on the lower one. Con- tinuing my observations for a few minutes I found that wherever the shade was cast that portion of the leaf was of a dark green, while the unshaded parts became rapidly of a pale sea tint. This brought to my recollection how exquisitely the rose blossoms are shaded, the outer edge of the petals being sometimes nearly white, deepening into a coral blush towards the pistil, while many flowers in their deep recesses, "where the bee sucks," are of a rich deep tone, the- outer portions being always of a paler hue. This delicate shading or finishing of Flora's beauties is then, I infer, produced by the exquisite photographic touchy of the sun.- Piesse' s Laborcdm'y of Chemical Wonders A Worsted Tradesman.-A man some six feet three inches in height, and of herculean build, went into an hosier's shop in Worcester the other day, and asked whether they had any whirlers," that is stock- ings without feet. No," said the shopkeeper, but we have some famous big and strong stockings as will just suit such a person as you." Let's have a look at- them," said the man. The counter was immediately covered with a quantity. The working Hercules- selected the largest pair, and said, What's the price of them ?" Four shillings and ninepence," was the rejoinder. Can you cut the feet off them?" was the next query. "Oh, certainly," said the shopkeeper, "Then just cut them off," was the laconic direction. No sooner said than done. The long shop shears were applied, and instantly the stockings were foot- less. And what's the price of 'em EOW? asked the- "customer," with all the composure imaginable. "Price of them now?" echoed the "worsted" mer- chant, surprised beyond measure at the absurdity of the question; why four shillings and ninepence, to be sure." Four shillings and ninepence exclaimed the purchaser; I never gave but one shilling and sixpence for a pair of whirlers' in my life," and he laid down the amount upon the counter. Well," re- plied the tradesman, chopfallen and fairly outwitted,: and throwing the mutilations at him, take them, and be off with you! You've whirled' me this time, but I'll take good care that neither you nor any of your roguish gang shall do it again as long as I live." The George and Blue Boar.-A relic of old London is now fast disappearing-the Blue Boar Inn, or the George and Blue Boar as it came to be called later, in Holborn. For more than two hundred years this was one of the famous coaching houses, whence stages went to, and where they arrived from, the northern and midland counties. It is more famous still as being the scene (if Lord Orrery's chaplain, Morrice, may be credited) where Cromwell and Ireton, disguised as troopers, cut from the saddle-flap of a messenger a letter, which they knew to be there, from Charles I. to Henrietta Maria. They had previously intercepted a letter from the Queen to her husband, in which she reproached him for entering into a com- pact of reconciliation with Cromwell and his party. The letter was sent on, and now they intercepted the reply, in which Charles spoke of them as rogues, whom he would by-and-by hang instead of reward. Accord- ing to Morrice this sealed the King's fate. Such is the legend connected with the Blue Boar, Holborn, which is described in Queen Anne's reign as situate opposite Southampton-squ are."—Athenwum. Proposed Bishopric in the Channel Islands. —A scheme is on foot for obtaining the erection of the Channel Islands, which are now in the diocese of Win- chester, into a separate bishopric, the seat of which shall be at Jersey or Guernsey. In each island there is a dean-the Dean of Guernsey having powers which equal in many respects those of a bishop. The diocese of Winchester extends from the remotest portion of the Channel Islands to the Southwark end of London- bridge, containing 1,598,568 acres. It originally com- prised only Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; but tho county of Surrey was added to it after the Norman: Conquest, and the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, which had been previously at- tached to Exeter and Salisbury, were transferred to it by Queen Elizabeth in the year 1568. The Channel Islands at present contain about forty incumbents { of churches, and twenty-two or twenty-three assistant | curates.