The Welshman

COURTS OF LAW. i THE SEYMOUR AFFAIR.—The curious political fact dis- closed in the reoent trial in the Queen's Bench, of Seymour v. Butterworth, is too remarkable to be passed over, In 1854 Mr. Digby Seymour (then member for Sunderland; had a namesake and friend in the House of Commons who was member for Hull, who always voted with him in all political matters-a veritable pair ot Siamee twins. Both j were pledgpd to vote against the Foreign Enlistment Bill, lutboth voted for it. Had their votes been pi-en against it, it would have been lost by a majority of one, but with their assistance it was carried by a majority of three. Lord Palmerston (then Home Secretary) said that if it had not been carried the government must have resigned, so that it was really the voting of the two Seymours that kept the ministry in office. From Mr. Seymour's cross-examination in the Court of Queen's Bench it cm hardly be questioned that his vote was in some degree influenced by the prospect of the recordership of Newcastle, which was given him the next morning. If this be so, the Home Secietary of that day, with the assent, of the then Attorney General, who is said to have been a party to tho proceediusr, allowed a judical office to be battered away for a party vote. In roriner years such a proceeding would have subjected the offender to penal consequences, and we hear that steps are likely to be instituted with the view of bringing the matter under the investigation of some competent ^tribunal. —John Bull. IMPORTANT QUESTION UNDElt THE DIVOHCE AND MATKIMOMAL CAUSES ACT.—At the Clerkeuwell Police Court, on Saturday. Mrs. Matilda Barrington, a respectably attiied elderly female, applied to Mr. D'Eyncourt, under the 21st section of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, for an order to protect her earnings and her property ac- quired since the desertion of her husband, from her hus- band and his creditors. The applicant stated that she had been married to her husband, Charles Barrington, upwards of 30 years. They resided together for some time, when her husband, without giving any reason, deserted her and co- habited with a loose woman, by whom he had had two children. After he bad been away for some time he re- turned, and, in July, 1842, they lived together at Exeter for about nine months, when he sold all the furniture and she was left destitute and without a home. She then went into serdce, but though he knew where she was he did not write to her or call upon her, although he was in the same town. She heard from her son that he had seen his father in town and that he wished to return, and as she had sup- ported herself and family without receiving a farthing from her husband, she wanted the order to protect her furniture and her earnings from him. She was afraid that if he found out her home that he would again sell it off.—Mr. D'Eyncourt inquired if the applicant left her husband's house of her own accord, or did he desert her.-The Appli- cant said she went because there was no furniture in the house. Mr. D'Eyncourt.—Did he tell you to go? -The Applicant replied in the negative. He did not tell her to go to service, but she went, because she wished to support herself and the family. Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was im- portant that it should be known that when a wife left her nugband of her own accord. or when they separated by mutual oonsent, the magistrate could not grant an order for the protection of the wife's property. This case appeared to be a hard one, aud he was sorry that he could not grant the order, but he should advise the applicont to apply to the Divorce Court. The applicant left the court in tears. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. ETHERIDGE.—THE RAMS- GATE BAPTIST CASE.—In the Court of Chancery, on Monday, the Vice Chancellor gave judgment in this case, which has been for some weeks before the Court, and has excited much interest amongst the Baptist body through- out the country. The relators and plaintaiffs were Miss Mary Spencer, Messrs Thomas Hodgman, George Tyson, and others, the defendants being Mr. B. C. Etheridge, the minister of the chapel, Mr. Flint, and others the trustees. The question in dispute was the right of the defendants to admit to holy communion and church membership persons who have not been baptised when adults by immersion. It appeared that in 1834 the Particular or Strict Baptists, who hold that it is not lawful to admit to the Lord's Supper any person who has not when an adult been baptised by immersion, founded a chapel in Ramsgate, which was called Beulah I Chapel, and in 1837 the Rov. Mortlock Daniel was ap- pointed as the minister. The congregation increasing, it was determined in 1839 to sell Beulah Chapel, and to build a new one. This was done at a cost of some I- 4,80 0, and it is alleged that the greater portion of the money was contributed by the strict communionists, Miss Spencer alone giving £ 3,200. The trust deed of the new chapel, which is called Cavendish Chapel, and which was erected in May, 1841, takes no cognisance of the former chapel, and the trusts were, that the trustees for the time being should, from time to time, and at all times thereafter, permit the said chapel to be used, oc- cupied, and engaged as a place of public religious wor- ship and service of God, by the Society of Protestant Dissenters at Ramsgate, of the denomination called Par- ticular or Calvinistic Baptists, and by such other persons as should thereafter be united to the said society and admitted members thereof, and should attend the wor- ship of God in the said chapel; and should permit such person, of the denomination of Particular or Calvinistic Baptists, as two-thirds of the members of the said society present at a meeting should from time to time elect and choose to be their minister, or pastor, to preach and expound the Holy Scriptures, and otherwise officiate in the said chapel according to the usual order and customs of societies of Protestant Dissenters of the denomination aforesaid. About 1840 Mr. Daniel, who had up to that time been a Strict Baptist, changed his opiniou on that subject, and he proposed to admit to the Lord's Supper unbaptised believers; but the great majority of the church disapproving of that proposition, it was aban doned, land the subscriptions for the new chapel, as alleged by the plaintiffs, went on on the understanding that the chapel was to belong to the Strict Baptists. In 1844 Mr. Daniel again mooted the subject of open com- munion, and proposed to the church to admit unbap- tised" persons to the Lord's Table. The effect of that proposition was at onco to induce Miss Spencer, the relator, and some other individuals, to request their dis- mission from the church, and they were accordingly transferred to a strict communion church at Broadstairs. This state of things continued till 1846, when, in the month of December, a resolution was unanimously passed at a church meeting to the effect that the Lord's Table be restricted to baptised believers Mr. Daniel resigned immediately after this, and the church worshippers at Cavendish Chapel remained without a pastor until December, 1847, when Mr. Wills was elected to that office, and continued to hold it till Sep- tember 1853. During the whole of his pastorate the communion was strict, and on the 5th of May, 1848, a declaration of faith was agreed to at a church meeting, in which they re-affirmed the principle of strict com- munion. After the resignation of Mr. Wills, Mr. Etheridge was elected the minister, and the practice of strict communion was continued to December, 1859, when Mr. Etheridge proposed a resolution at the church meeting to open the communion to unbaptised believers. A vote by ballot was taken on this resolution, and it was carried by a large majority, and at a subsequent church meeting the resolution was confirmed. After some endeavours on the part of the strict communionists to induce Mr. Etheridge to revert to the practice of strict communion, this suit was instituted, and the plain- tiffs by their bill asked the Court to restrain the defen- dants by injunction from permitting the chapel to be used by any other persons than Particular Baptists; and for a declaration that on the true construction of the trust deed none but Particular Baptists were entitled to the benefit of the trusts or participation in the Lord's Supper. The Vice Chancellor went at great length into a consideration of the confessions published by sections of the Particular Baptists at delegate meetings, from which he came to the conclusion that they had held strict communion to bo an essential or fundamental article of doctrine. Reviewing the trust deeds of Caven- dish Chapel, he found that it was never the intention to restrict the communion in the way desired by the plain- tiffs, and he therefore dismissed the bill.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Chancellorship of Lincon cathedral has been con- ferred upon the Iter. F. C. Massingberd, M.A., ltector of South Orwsby and Proctor in Convocation for the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln. Tho Lord Chancellor's Rectory of St. Anne's, Lewes, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Stroud Green, M.A., formerly of Christ Church. Oxford. The rev. gentleman was head master of Lewes Grammar School, The two present archbishops, and at least 17 other bishops-, were formerly engaged in tuition. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Yen. Henry Law, MA., the Deanery of Her Majesty's Cathedral Church of Gloucester, void by the death of Edward Rice, D.D.— Gazette. During tl lccturp on Monday nlÍ,,}-d: by the Rey. Dr. Taylor, of Liverpool, it was stated that Mr. M'Naught, who had left the incumbency of St. Chrysostom's Church for conscientious reasons, was seeking to re-enter the national establishment. WESTMINSTER Sciiooi,. The Rev. C. Alfred Jones, M. A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, hasbecu appointed Senior Mathematical Master of Westminster School. "Presbyter Anglieanus," writing in the English Clitti-ek- man, recommends the olergy to cease to demand fees for marriages, churchings, &c. He says that" Dissentino ministers are often receiviog f50 to XGO a year from gifts, on ccrLdn occasions of this character, while the clergyman of the same place, charging the fee, secures the name of being greedy for fees, makes his legal demand, dri,es away the poor, and perhaps receives in answer to his demand not one-third as much as the Dissenting preacher." PREACHING IN PULPITs.-In the course of a lecture de- livered by Mr. Spurgeon in his Tabernacle, last week, the gentleinan, in speaking of Harmes.a celebrated Ger- man pastor, said—He was an eloquent and impassioned preacher, who walked about from side to side while preach- ing He ('he lectuier) had very little opinion of those ir,g. He (,,he  wooden boxes called pulpits. (There is no pulpit at the Tabernacle, but a gallery or platform railed in, of some 25 feet or more square, which the preacher occupies while ad dressing his congregation, and where he has ample room to move about.) The only use he could imagino for pulpits was to remind the people of their latter end by keeping be- fore their eyes the whole time of the service a man hall- buricdinawot.denbox. (A laugh.) He thought they must have been invented for the benefit of some one whose legs were deformed. (Laughter.) He believed the power of oratory lay very much in the leg, and he likd to see a man when preaching walk about, as Harmes did, and roar out the truth like a lion. WATER INSTEAD OF WINE IN THE LORD'S SUPPER.— The following extract from it letter of the Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand, is published as having been read at a meeting of his friends lately at Merton College, Oxford :—" I came purposely to administer the Holy Communion (to a dying native), but I looked round in vain for the means-there was no wine nor any bread, but I could not go away with- out an endeavour to show the Lord's death' in some way as near to the Lord's own appointed way as circumstances permitted. I therefore made vessels of the beautiful mus- sel shells which abound on the sea beach, filling one with water and laying on the other a piece of travelling biscuit, softened with water, and in this way I proceeded to cele- brate the Holy Sacrament of the body and blood of our crucified Saviour, not doubting, but earnestly believing, that he was pleased to grant to that truthful partaker as full a share in all the benefits of his passion as if a eathe- dial had been over our heads aud golden vessels on the altar.

LIT E H. A TU R E. I BLACKWOOD opens this mouth with a severe and caustic review of Victor Hugo's account of the Battle of Waterloo, in the third volume of Les Miscrables." Whether reviewing Thiers' History or Hugo's Romance, Maya is fully per- suaded that the problem of problems to a French- man is, How to explain away the Battle of IVater- 100." Logic and scholarship are called into requisition to disprove the facts arrayed by Thiers, while sarcasm and irony are unboundedly lavished on Hugo. Whether truth docs not lie midway between is a question that does not seem to be suspected for an instant by the reviewer. The fol- lowing extract will give an idea of Victor Hugo's style, in which he is indulging in speculations on the Battle, and also that of the reviewer commenting on it- Was it possible," he asks, that Napoleon should gain the battle ? We answer no. And why ? Because of Wellington ? because of Blucher ? No. Because of God." This, though full of piety, is perhaps not so intel- ligible as might be wished. lie therefore hastens to ex- plain. Bonaparte, conqueror at Waterloo, that did not come within the law of the nineteenth century. Another series of acts was in preparation in which Napoleon had no place. Events had long since declared their hostile dis- position. It was time this vast man should fall. The excessive weight of this man in human destiny troubled the balance. This individual counted alone more than the universal group. These plethoras of all the vitality of humanity concentrated in a single head, the world mounting into the brain of one man,—this would, if it lasted, be fatal to civilisation. The moment was come for the supreme incorruptible equity to con-ider the matter. Probably the principles and elements on which depend the regular movements in the moral as in the material world, complained Smoking blood, gorged graveyards, the tears ,,or,- d -,r,,ve y ar d s, the tears of mothers,—these are terrible pleaders." i Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite, and his fall was settled. He troubled God." Here, then, we have the explanation of the phenomena of Waterloo. As a Homeric deity conceives a jealousy of a Titan or a demi-god, so is the ruler of the French moral world disturbed by this tremendous earthly potentate. The matter was evidently getting serious. The Prussians thrown into the Rhine, the English impartially cast into the sea, the whole world at Napoleon's feet, Fate naturally asks, What next ? The conqueror and his army must find employment-and, if not on earth, the inference is clear. Destiny, on seeing him, in opposition to her decrees, escape from Elba, at once goes into training during the Hundred Days, and bethinking herself that he must be encountered somewhere, and finding herself in first-rate oondition. boldly enters the ring at Waterloo. Knowing then how, under such circumstances, an earth- born champion must fare, the reader of M. Hugo finds the interest of the event lost in the foregone conclusion. The odds are so great that it becomes a hollow thing. Not but that M. Hugo now and then hints that, if Napoleon had had any luck, he might still have got the best of it. Destiny receives several facers, and about four in the after- noon is decidedly groggy. At ifve, things look very. queer for her, and her backers are beginning to hedge. But the judicious bottle-holder Blucher administers a suck of the lemon at the right moment, when she rallies, and, stepping briskly in, knocks the Emperor out of time. We give, too, an extract from the close of the article, in which the critic shows that the French system of romancing and speculating upon historical events might be turned against themselves. A German writer, for instauce, might compose in this fashion an entirely new version of Marengo He might begin by asserting that, if the peasant who conducted Napoleon over the St. Bernard uad only pushed him into a crevasse of the mountain, there would have been no battle at all, which would be indisputable; and not only no bdtle, but no Consulate, no Esnpire, no Austerlitz. no Waterloo, and the history of the century would have been quite dif- ferent. He might then state that Destiny was getting alarmed at the progress of the Austrians in Italy, and bad therdore decreed the downfall of .\?ias who commanded them and might represent the hostile power as giving signs of displeasure, varied, of course, for the sake of avoiding t')o close imitation thus, instead of rain and mud, there might be a hailstorm and a sharp froHt; ills"¡d of muttering thunder, we might have the whistling of an easterly wind and a derisive wi;,k might be substttutt.d for the frown that was seen in the depths of heaven. Next the features of the battle-field might be brought into play a great many of the Austrians were actually checked and destroyed by a rivulet, the Foutunone the singular pheno- menon of a rivulet existing on a battle-held might he descanted on, and, t > increase the ominous effect of the circumstance, it might be mentioned that an old woman had been drowned in it oae dark night in the year 1337. Bonaparte might be slightly alluded to as a second-rate general, the real antagonist beinu; Destiny; and it mignt be shown how, by pushing him into the Po anil Suchet into the Gulf of Genoa, nobody knows what might have happeued but that certainly Lonato, Car.tigli&ne, and Arcola would have been avenged, and the mail of Marengo would have blotted out llivoli. As a series of papers Caxtoniana" arc singularly unequal, wliile some are pre-eminenely readable and suggestive, others arc, notwithstanding their graced of diction, wearying. The essays this month Hi Jon I Faith and Charity," and upon the Efficacy of Praise," bear out this opinion, the latter being written with clearness and force, the former  by no means a favourable specimen of Sir E. if. Lytton's writing. We give an extract from the essay on the Efficacy of Praise"— A certain man of learning and genius with whom I am acquainted, bein.: frustrated in the hope of a distinguished career by a disease which compelled his physician to inter- dict all severer taskwork of the brain, centered the ambition denied to himself in his only son, whom he educated at home. To him, brilliant and quick, this bov seemed the most stolid of dunces. A friend to whom he complained of the filial stup.dity which destroyed his last earthly hope, and embittered the sole occupation which sustained his interest in the world, said to him, Let the boy stay with me for a week, and at the end of that time I will tell you what can be done with him." The father consented. When the week was over the friend came to him and said, «• (;our. age! your boy has one faculty, in the natural strength of which he excels both yon and niyseif. It is iru" that he can only learn a very little at a time, aud that with a slow- ness aud difficulty which must be tenderly consulted. But the very slowness aud diaicult3, with which he acquires an idea, impresses that idea lastingly on his mind, unless you confuse and efface it by sending another idea to unsettle it before it be fixed. if when he bring you his exercise of six lines, blurred and bungled, you cry 'Bioc\d..l(,ad!' and give him a box on the ear, certainly you give him something to remember which is not in his letioti-you give him a hox on the ear Place before him one idea at a time—associate it with pleasure, not pain; he will keep that one idea firmly, and that one idea will lead on to another. In a word never scold him for the slowness of his aplrehension; ¡ praise him cordially for the tenaeiousness of his memorv Instead of six lines and blame, give him one linu aiid I praise." The father mused. Now you mention it," Silij j he, the boy has a good memory, though not in his lessons He is never at fault in a date it it be not iii hii Ili"t,) I.y and never forgets a place if it be not in his Latin gram. mar. h. "'d th f. d And what is more, said the friend, uo you not find i that, while he cannot learn by heart any abstract maxims of ritibt and wrong which you extract from the Spectator' II or Blair's Sermons,' he is as honest as if he had digested a whole library of Essays and Sermons ? You leave your shillings loose on your table, ready to his hand, if he wished to buy a kite or a trap-bat but he never takes one, dors he ?" Certainly iaot-it is bad enough that he should be a dunce Heaven forbid that he should be a thief!" Well, then, the boy has acquired for himself an idea of scrupulous honour—even under temptation that idea came to him insensibly, and without being confused by other ideas of pain—came to him partly through the silent influences of your own living example, of your own careless tal k when you are not teaching, and partly from the unconscious senti merit ot pride and pleasure in knowing that he is implicitly trusted. Now, do you not think that, with the gifts of a tenacious memory and with a strong sense of the point of honour, you shouid as little fear that your boy will remain a dunce ;s that he will become a thief? Lead him upward to learning so gradually, thnt you do not create the necessi- ties for blame which are stumblinghlocks in his way. Y,, u Cteate those necessities if you ask him to do what you know he cannot do. Quick and brilliant like yourself you cannot make him, but you can easily make him solid and t judicious. Look rounct the viorld for one man who wins high place in it through quickness and brilliancy,do you not count twenty men who have achieved positions more enviable through solidity and judgment? Now, let me call in your boy you shall hear him repeat a fable which he has learned by heart in less time than he could learn two lines of the I Propi,ia qua3 maribus,' and you will at once, when you hear him, divine the reason why." The boy ii called in. lie begins, at first hesitatingly and shyly, to repeat the fable of The Hare and the Tortoise. But scarcely has he got through three lines before the friend tries out, Capital well remembered;" the boy's face legms to brihtell-bis voice gets more animated —the i friend shows the liveliest interest in the story, and espe- cially in the success of the tortoise, and at the close ex- dals, Boy, if I had your memory, I «otil>i master all that is worth the rememberine. Think, aa long as you live, of the hare and the tortoise, and-let the hare jeer, the tortoise will win the race." I f'on flatter him, you see" whispered the friend to th, e lather I don't tell him that he is the hare-I tell! him frankly that he is the tortoise, anrl can't afford to lose an iieii of the way. (Alotiti)-And now, my boy, if we are to beat the hare, We must get through the Propria quae nianbus, but we must get through it, like the tortoise, inch by inch your father will not set you more than one fine at a time, and will give you your own time to learn it; and as 1 know that a more hone.t honourable boy does not exist, so we trust to you to say when you find that one line is too little-that the pain of learning more is not equal to the pleasure of getting on, and catching up the hare and by the end of a month we shall have you asking to learn a dozen lines. Meanwhile fasten your whole mind upon one line. The boy smiled the father saw the smile, and embraced him. The hint was taken-and though, certainly, the boy never ripened into a wit or a poet, he took honours at the University, and now promises to become one of the safest and soundest consulting lawyers at the Chancery bar. May his father, who still lives, see his son on the road to the W,, olsack The Chronicles of Carlingford" are continued with unabated interest, the scene in the Salem school- room, where the minister's fall is discussed, and the revulsion in the feelings of the minister's mother who has stolen to the meeting with a thick veil over her face, when, after the meeting had com- with a sti-oii- n lonced with a strong feeling against her son, rises and brings the people of the chapel i- i scs round to the side of the minister amid cheers iiid clapping of hands, being well described, :rom a genial review of Mrs. Gordon's Life of John Wilson, we give the following extract, show- ing the mode in which Blackicood commenced its -uccessful career:— But in the beginning of the year 1817 occurred a memo- •»bU event,, which i" not to b" spoken of in these paxes ■vithout respect and a certain d'gree of solemnity. In the noble Princes S'reet of Edinburgh, 'he nnin arterv of the lowu, William Blackwood, the originator of this Maga- z ine, a man of rare adrninis-rati-io power and sound juJg- ,,¡edt, clear-sighted and prescient of the necessities of the time, had established himself as a publisher. The Edin- ourg Review' was then in all its earl y force, uii iii-Giuisiied hy time. a triumphant periodical, the beginning of a new i-ra and the Quarterly' ha 1 also coine into existence, a less forcible, but sufficiently promising opponent. Though ta of a publication akin, yet different, were slowly formiug in the mind of ollr publisher, when he concluded au agreement with two literary gentlemen of moderate contemporary fame, to be^in a magazine, of which they sh uld be the joillt editors. The experiment was begun in March 1817, and the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, miluly literary, gently local, amiably free of all personality, entered, like a lamb, the field in which it was shortly to appear as a lion. Sad though it is to confess as much, anything more utterly taine and respectatile than the first six numbers of our venerated an.! beloved Maya were never put in print. One of the editors was Thomas Pringle, African Pringle, a name not unknown to fatie the other a Mr. Cleghorn, of whom we know nothing. These excellent men pottered through their six months issue, doubtless much to the impatience of the practical and sagacious intelligence, which saw further than they did, and percei'ed what inieht be made of this undeveloped or^an which the editors called "our humble miscellany." Mr. Blackwood himself was young, strongly political, and as ready to defy the world and set everybody rig >t, as were the unemployed young wits of the Parliament House, now idling the summer days at Loch Awe, or yawning in Edinburgh over briefs which they could not tell" what the devil they were to do with." The publisher chafed in his office over the dulness of the new periodical, the capabilities of which were so manifest to his mind, but did not scorn to ^et his hand into practice, and master the details of the new undertakine, to which, in the dearth of other modes of communication between wjiters and readers, various valuable Contributors," not un- remarked by the wise and clear eyes which bided their time behind, began gradually to drop in. Of these Hogg was one of the first; and the brilliant young advocate, already well known to Edinburgh society, the author of the Isle of Psalms, the Highland tourist, angler, sportsman, and generally incomprehensible personage, had also made a mild approach to the veiled prophetess, in papers and poems bearing the signature of Eremus. Such was the state of affairs until six months had elapsed from the first founding of the uew periodical. By that time, happily, the editors and publisher had become mutually disgusted with each other. With a quaint ebullition of literary jealousy, which is amusing enough when we consider the after history of this Magazine, "they formally wrote to Mr. Blackwood, letting him know that his interference with their editorial functions could no longer be endured." The consequence was, that the two worthy litterateurs were bought off, and relieved of those functions, in which the clear eye of the publisher perceived by intuition a fit field for his own energies; and that in October 1817 Maga made a new beginning, dashing wildly, with shouts of savage glee and frolic, into the astonished world of literature, and celebrat- ing her owu new birth and f, eedom in a furious Bacchic dance of headstrong youthfulness. After the calm respec- tability of her previous appearance, it is not astonishing that the public should behold, with amaze, consternation, and excitement, the sudden bound upon the stage of this wild and fearless champion. No thought of the consequences troubled the minds of the youthful writers, all delighted to get utterance for themselves, and a mode in which to deliver their dauntless assault upon the world in general; nor of the young publisher, who stood responsible for any mischief, but who had his full share of the ardour and .iugtia-ity which distinguished the band. They seem to have leaped together by in-tinct in the immense crisis and cert liuly it would be difficult to find any two parties who had more need of each other than hau the ,oung, ambitious, enterprising, and practical adtninis:rat >r of liter- al y affairs in Princes Street, who was not himself, in the first instance, an author, though his judgment in literary matters was notably swift, clear, and almost unerriri, and the little party of wits then afloat and aimless upon Edin- burgh society, who abounded in the necessary power of utttranee, but were wasting themselves in Parliament-House jokes and convivial meetings, unaware what use to make of their talents. Great was the fervour of the onslaught with whict- wlieti called together suddenly to support the falling b urner, the young men rushed into the breach, and, throwing prudence to the winds, charged forth in a wil l sally upon the spectators, who, doubtless, had come to assist at the burial of the feeble periodical, whose recognised conductors had forsaken it. The sally was wild, furious, and sudden, almost beyond precedent, but it was irresisti- ble. The bauner that had been drooping was set tip again with shouts, and the public became aware of a new, in- individual, and remarkable org.ui of opinion, about the sayings and sentiments of whieii it was impossible to be indifferent. The whole hibtor y of this singular literary puenomenon is interesting. The best account of it, per- haps, is to be gathered from the famous Clnltiee J[r¡;iU5Ci"ljA, which appeared in tie first number under the new manage- ment, and i,ilich set Edinburgh at once by the ears. Through the dim and (U1!ch-pfa¡Jol"al"d fun of this notable f,¡ble we discern darkly the Publisher left with iiis Mga. ziue, courageous out deserted, aiming to make of it a rival to tu" great neighbouring Review, which Wp.s then trium- phant in the world of literature, but provided as yet with no material for this purpose save his own indomitable deter- mination. Thpll, tlirmgh tile mist of unknown names and persons whom lie calls to bis aid, appears the Leopard from the valley of the palm-trees, whose goin* forth was comely as the g-reyho ind, and his eyes like the lightning of fiery flame," and the Scorpion which delighteth to sting the faces of men" — emblematical portraits, each drawn, no douot, by the hand of the other, of the two brilliant young intelligences, Wilson and Lncithart, to whom the call of the forlorn and daring Editor opened up a new world. Both of the young men seem to have started to the summons with a perception, if not that their own future lay in it, yet of its wonderful capabilities, and the matchless frolic and delight of such an undertaking. They met together in joyous con- clave when the first sound of the call to arms came to their ears; and. assembled in a room in Queen Street in the hou-e of Wilson's mother, read o-er the first part of this Chaldee Manuscript, which had been written by Hogg, and compo,cd the remainder of the same in intermittent bursts of fell atid laughter. The ladies in the drawing-room above, Mrs. Gordon tells us, he >ring the echoes of merri- ment below, sent to inouire int > the joke, doubtless without getting much satisfaction. So thoroughly did the young writers enjoy their own wit, that—the same authority in- forms us—Sir Wiiliam Hamilton, tho future philo-opher, who had the privilege of adding a strophe to this joyous performance, was so amused that he fell from his chair in a tit of laughter. The fun which was to convulse Edinburgh, convulsed with mirth, in the brst place, its own perpetra- tors, who bore no man any malice, but were bent, with the natural instinct of youthtul wits, upon an universal s/cri,li- ning e with the world. Thus inspired, they rushed to the rescue. Number VII oftbc 'Edinburgh Monthly Maga- zinc' blazed up. ri the firmament as that of Bh.ekwood; and startled Edinburgh fell into such a buzz of uiingled rage, laughter, and interest, that the languid publication was quickened into i ^mediate vigour, aiM the new era began. A very able and interesting article on British North America urges upon the Government the necessity of making an inter-oceanic railway. The other papers arc of subordinate interest, and serve only to make up the magazine. FRAZER, as a whole, this month, is not up to the mark. The best article is that entitled Laurel and Cypress," being a notice of Burke's Exploring Expedition in Australia, the account of the melan- choly end of Burke and Wills, the leaders of the party, has been often told, yet we cannot refrain from an extract. The last simple and manly entry made by "Tills in his interesting diary reads very mournfully. Eriday, 2(ith June (sic).-Clear cold night, slight breeze from the E., day beautifully warm and pleasint; Mr. ijurke suffers greatly from the cold, and is getting extremely weak He and King start to-morrow up the creek to look for the blacks, it is the only cbancc we have of being saved from starvation. I am weaker than ever (sic), although I have a good appetite, and relish tne naruoo much but it seetas to give us no nutriment, aud the birds heie are so shy as not be got at. Even i: we got a good supply of fish, I doubt whether we could do much work on them and the nardoo alone. Nothing now but the greatest good luck can save any of us and as for myself, I may live four or five days if the weather continues warm. My pulse is at forty- eight, and very weak, and my legs and arms are ii ( ilrly skin and bone. I can only look out, like AIr. Micawber, I for something to turn up but starvation on nardoo i by no means very pleasmt, but for the weakness one feels, and the utter inability to move oneseif, for as far as appetite is concerned, it ,ins me the greatest satisfaction. Certainly, fat and sugar would be more to oue's tiste in fact, those seem to me to be the great stand-by for one in this extraor- dinary continent not that I mean to depreciate the farina- ceous food, but the want of ugar alld fat in all substances obtainable here is so great that they become a l most value- less to us as articles of food, without the addition of some- thing else. (Signed) W. J. WILLS. What an attitude a Frenchman, if he had retained pluck enough to write at all, would have stiuck on paper in such a position. We must leave the gallant young Englishman to die alone, quietly cheerful oven when face to face with death. It was with great reluctance Burke and King left him. Eight days' supply of pounded vwtfooseed, water, and tie- wood were placed within his reach; and then, having buried his re olit illill., field-books near his gur.yah, and taking with them his watch and a letter for hIs fatoer, liurke and King staried with heavy hearts in search of a black fellow's camp. Burke's strength soon failed, He gave King his watch for the Exploration Committee, and ;l pocket-book, in which he wrote a little, for Sir William Stawell, the Pre- sident of the Victorian ltoyal Society. «He then said to me' (we quote from King's narrative), ,I hope you will lemain with me here till I am quite dead-it is a comfort to know that some one is by but when I am dying, it is my wish that you should place the pistol in my right hand, and that you leave me unburied as I lie. That night he spoke very little, and the following morning I found him speech- less, or nearly so, and about eight o'clock he expired.' Poor King, as he says, with simple pathos, felt very lonely.' He went back to the gunyah in which Wills had bidden him goodbye, and wished him good speed, and found a corpse. Some of the scanty clothing which NYills had all when he died, the blacks had carried off. King covered up the corpse with sand, and Boon afterwards fell in with the blacks who had stripped it. When they discovered from his duplication of a ai&rl for death which he had learnt from them—the coferin* up of a finger with sand—that he was the only white man left, th-.v manifested great co-npassion but after four days' kindness, they gre-v tired of him. He would not, however, t ike tti 'ir broa 1 hints to leave them. By an application (iC eiuitic to the sore ar:n of a gin,' he secured the good opinion ani services of herself and her husband, which he recognised by shooting for them every now and then a crow or hawk. At last the tribe cstne to understand that Kin" wished to become one of themselves, :ind supplied hitn regularly with fish and nrwd0,1.. They •vere very anxious, however, to know where Nlr. Burke lav, and one day when we were fishing in the water-holes close I tiok them to the spit. On se-ing his remains, the whole partv wept bitterly, and cov.red then with bushes. After this they were much kinder to th u: ¡',>[ore.' ing encouraged this kindness hv iutim iting, as as he eouhl, ba" tri-y would soon be rewarded, since wb te men would speedily arrive in search of him. Lwing with this t:ilJe, King "as found bv Mr. A. W. Howitt, son of Williim. (yuided by King, Howitt proceeded to Wills's gnve, read over it the fifteenth chapter of the first of Corinthians, neaped more sand upon it, covered it with branches to make the blacks respect its sanctity-that, as we have seen, being the mode in which the Cooper's Creek nKtives show honour to the dead. Shirley has a very pleasant readable paper called Autumn Days." The article on Tne Reaction in Naples" is too violently partizan, the writer can see nothing but harm in the prolonged residence of Francis at Rome, and accuses the Pontifical Government with more than connivance in the brigandage, now so unfortunately prevalent in Naples. A. K. H. B. is not as usual appended to one of the quaint, gossipping essays which has made that signation welcomed at every fireside, this month our old friend is decidedly prosy. LOXDOX SOCIETY, following the example of All the Year Round" and other serials, has a Christmas number brimful of Christmas fun. The paper on Christmas Charades, by an old Manager, will be in request and of service in the approaching holiday season. The other papers are love tales, gho-t stories, &c., 6cc. The illustrations, as usual in London Society, are remarkably well done. The following extract will give an idea of the book— I who write have delivered many a lecture in many a city, and hope to deliver many more, and yet confess that during the first five minutes I am always in a horrible fright, and terrified at the very eoho of my own voice, thin k- ing the five minutes to be as many hours, and feeling a heartfelt conviction that I have been talking the arrantest rubbish ever palmed upon a deluded public. It is curious to notice how differently this feeling operates on the two sexes. A man, when struck by stage fright, always stands still, with bis face to the audience, says nothing, and looks like a fool. A woman, on '-he contrary, twists her head aside and begins to giggle. The audience are apt to appreciate both according to their seeming—to set down the one as a dunderhead, and the other as an affected coquette, while, in fact, the one may be a peculiarly intellectual man, and the other a very quiet and sensible woman, their misfortune being tint they cannot act, and are better in the boxes than on the stage. Sometimes, this utter failure of the powers may be rurned to good account. I once sent on' a young medical student in the character of a lover, who had to make a declaration, be accepted, be surprised by a rival, challenge him on the spot, declare that he would not stir until this green sward was stained with the be-lood of one if not of both, order parenthetically pistols for two at once and coffee for one in ten minutes, and, in fact, go through the greatest amount of bombast compressible into a short time Of cnurse, the lovetnaking was to be of the most high-fla«»n character. On he went, and at the sight of the audience aud the lady seated at her work-tabie. subsided immediately into a very abyss of fear Instead of rushing frantically towards the object of his affections flinging himself on his knees, and bu rsting into a tremendous rhapsody, as he ought to have done, lie simply stood and looked at ii, r, twist.ng his hat feebly in his hands. Not one word could he say, but in dead silence crept across the stage, slo .vly tooii up a chair, set it exactly opposite the lady, put his hat under the chair, offered to sit do-vu, looked behind hici to make sure if the ch,Lir was really in its place, ba down on the extreme edge ofit, looke I at the ground, rubbed his knees slowly, and now and then glanced up at his intended bride, much is a dog looks up when it hId stolen something and knows it is going to be whipped. The audience were in ecstaeies. They all thought that it was pure acting, and that tiie part was that of a bashful lover. Certainly, any one who could act half as we'll ought to make his fortune. He had been in possession of the stage some seven or ei,(ut minutes withoat speaking a word, when he opened his mouth once or twice, ruhbed his knees asrain, and at last said, in a broken and huskv v,,ice, I How's your IDO- ther ?' A perfet shriek of laughter burst from the audience, anti gave the opportunity for getti: g Luna oif the stage. The rival rushed forward, pounced on him, hauled him off by tiis collar, fiung himself on bis knees, did all the rhapsody himself, aul we bad to patch up the scene as we best could. Although so complete a failure on the part of the individual, the scene was the best of the evening, and is well remembeied to the present da% ART JOURNAL.—The proprietors announce that having completed their contract with their sub- scribers by continuing to give, during the time the International Exhibition remained open, an Illus- trated Catalogue, they now purpose continuing the Catalogue, but" how far into 1863 it is diriicult to say, for the treasures exhibited are not easily exhausted." This," the proprietors say, can be done only by a large increase in expenditure." It is for the public to determine whether such liberal conduct shall meet with the encouragement it deserves. The large engravings this month are Maclise's "Origin of the Harp" and Turner's "St. Michael's Iount,admirably executed as usual. The letter-press is varied and interesting.

THE WEEK ABROAD. I It is said that the ex-King of Naples was exceedingly desirous of having an interview with the Prince of Wales j during his late sojourn at Home. His ltoyal Highness, | however, firmly declined the honour. A distinguished physician in Paris, Dr. Robert De Latnbelle. announces that a shock of electricity given a patient dying from the effects of chloioform immediately counteracts its influence, and restores the sufferer to life. The late cotton crop in Algeria has not been as produc- tive as was expected. It was estimated at '2,«i00 bales in the province of Oran, and the produce fell short of 1,200. A shrivelled finger was recently found ill the Wash- ington Post office, sent by a wounded soldier to his rela- tions. The population of the Hussian empire in 1722 was 14,000,000; in IS')3, 26,000,000 and at present it amounts to 65,000,000. Ihe cxtr.iCtion of the ball from Garibaldi's foot has given rise on the continent to sundry pleasaritties about English eccentricity, one of her Britannic Majesty's subjects being reported to have offered a thousand pounds sterling for the ball. A Greek journal observes a singular coincidence. The deputation charged to offer the crown of Greece to Prince Otho arrived in Munich on the 13th Oct., 1832, and it was on the 13th Oct., 1862, that King Otho left Athens to return no more. According to the latpst returns, the population of British India is as follows :—Under the Governor General in Coun- cil, 14,165,161 bengal, 41,S9S.G0S North-West Provin- ces, 30,110,41-7 Punjaub, 14,794,011; Madras, 23,127,Soo Bombay, 11,937,512 making a grand total of lo5,634,244 human beings. The papers mention that the English company which proposed to cultivate cotton in Algeria has withdrawn, in consequence of the valley of the Tafna not having been im- mediately placed at their disposal. The representative of the company has quitted Algiers to examine some land in Southern Italv. All I wrote 'on the subject of the Queen of Naples is con- firmed. Whatever may be said. she does net wish to return to her husband. She will turn Protestant in order to es- pouse Prince Nicholas of Nassau, whom she loves with a consuming passion. The legitimate press has already given her up.- TVeekly Review Correspondent. From Toulon we are informed that the iron-clad" ar ship Gluire, when taken into dock, revealed the operation of the galvanic fluid on such portions of the hull as brought cop- per sheeting into contact with iron plates. Not ouly waS the stock of wine, 20,000 litres, turned into vinegar, but a new species of mollusca was generated on the shIp s bot- tom. Du Chaillu, the gorilla finder, defends the statement in iiis b''oks against Mr. Head's attacks, and offers ti lay flOOD to E2000 of Dr. Gray and his friends that he w; 1 kill five or six gorillas in two year, ana bring t \;eir skit:8 nd skeletons borne preserved with a preparation to le given him by tboB" gedlemen. Da Chaillu invites the bravest of his opponents to accompany him in the ex- pedition. It is understood in Paris that Prince Alfred's candiclature to the throne of Greece has been decided against by the English Cabinet, but as yet no official intimation to that elect has t>een made to the French Government. The rra ce say3 tne Eugltsh Government will not make their refu«-il known until the vot» in favour of the Prince hap t'iken place, and growlingly complains that the object of ? uoh a course is to induee the Greeks then to vote for a candidate who would be a tool in the hands of perfidious Aloion. It is remarked, aftrr the experience of eighteen months of warfare, that the smooth bore ride is generally preferred by tue Southern soldiers to the Enfield or Springfield. "The Con;edetrite8 do not beli-'ve in long shots, and Sfldom fire until within two hundred yards of their enemy. At this distance the coustant tend- ncy of the rifled musket is to throw its ball too high. It is asserted that in the battles around this town traces of the musket balls fired by the Confederates indicate an average height of from 3ft to 6ft. above the ground, whereas the Federal bullet- rdngp at a height of from 6ft to 9ft. Ttiere is not a question that the vast majority of the Federal bullets go so high above their opponents' heads." AMERICAN RAILKOAD Accll)ENTS. -Part of a train Wall destroyea on the Algiers railroad on the 7th ult. by the ex- plosion of ammunition in a car behind the tender. The ac- cident is supposed to have been caused by a spark from the cigar of some imprudent smoker. Eleven persons were killed and 17 wounded. On the 21st, a dark and foggv morning, when the passenger train to Boston reached the Charlestown-bridge the draw was found to be open. The eUitine and tender plunged into the river, and were soon submerged out of sight. The smoking car, in which were a number of passengers, was thrown forward with all the passengers in a heap. The remaining cars were uncoupled in time to avoid taking the plunge. Many of the passen- gers in the smoking car succeeded in making their esca; e by jumping from the windows and saving themselves by swimming, while tb others were thrown planks taken from the bridge. Four per spot were killed, and several more or less injured but ¡1out#4>f them very severely. The train happeued to be oin.! very slowly. England, says M. Forcade in his brilliant account of the Gret'k situation in the current number of the Revue des Deux jlfondes-" Englaod, up to the present day, in her efforts to track the Eastern labyrinth, had but one leg, Turkey; the other-Greece is now offered to her. She may, perhaps, find it more convenient to run on two legs than to hobble on one." But it is evident that the remark is only made in order to hold a painful alternative over the French diplomatists, for M. Forcade clearly shows his ex- pectation that England would decline the offer of the Greek throne to Prin'e Alfred. And it seems now to be well understood that this will be so,-La France amiably attributing to us the motive of terror lest, with an American war hanging over us, we should forfeit the advantage of Napoleon's friendship. The English Cabinet has, in all probability, never felt the slightest disposition to seize the prize. Besides the excellent disinterested reasons for wishing to see a matuie statesman on the throne of Greece, and tne also excellent interested one of,fear lest so young an English Prince should fail, as be efcsily might, and the future recuil on England, there are too many prejudices in the minds of cur present statesmen against the change of Eastern policy which such a choice would involve. Lord Palmerston would prooably rather hobble on the old Turkey leg all his life with his Austrian crutch to keep him from falling, 'han accept a second leg that would not co- operate heartily with the first. The multiplication of legs inspired by antithetical sentiments is a doubtful benefit. Even Russia, wnich, in the Eastern question, is a sort of political centipede, is sometimes embarrassed by the centri- fugal tendencies of her various diplomatic extremities, which are yet almost in harmony as compared with the divergent legs of Turkey aud Greece. La Frana. in an article on tbe "candidature" of Prince Alfred, lays down a doctrine which may on a future occasion be remembered by Europe. By a law, it says, of the Im- pr-ti-il House, every member of it possesses something of Imperial rank, and if be aucepts a foreign throne must oeeupy it as the Lieutenant of the Emperor He can hold no otuer position, and must either carry out the Emperor's policy, or be crushed." A British irince, on the other the instant he has been elected ceases to belong to the British House, and becomes for all political purposes a foreigner. Had Prince Napoleon, then, been elected to the Neapoli.an throne, he would have been a mere nominee of the Ernpewr-a fact worth remembering. Mr Chase has raised a new loan of 13,500,000 dols. The biJs amounted to 30,000,000 dols., and the loan w.s assign d at all average of 31 per cent. premium. The success tJÍ this request has emboldened the New York banktre to propose ti.at all "green backs," or inconvertible notes, should be called in, and replaced by United States bonds, belrinm, interest, to be made a legal tander, and paid off iu twenty years. The merchants believe this device would bring back gold to its level; forgetting, apparently, that the deprecia- tion is due entirely to ti.e inflation of the currency, and that one kind of legal tender paper inflates it just as much as anot hEr. There is a curious silence in France on the Mexican ex- pedition. It is known that the French army has arrived, thar Juarez has resolved to resist, and that General Forey is marching at some exceedingly slow pace up n the capital, but no drttails are published, favourable or the reverse. The American papers uflirm tbat the vomiio is committing ravagts in the army, and remind the invurieis that of 30,000 men who accompanied General Scott to Vera Cruz only 9,000 reached the capital. The rest were in hospital or dead of disease. The latest theory in Mexico is that the Em- peror would gladly make peace could he obtain S-cnors, Chihuahua, and Lower California, the three provinces to be formed into an Algeria on the Pacific. FRANCE. — PAKIS, Dec. 5—The Moniteur of yesterday, in its summary of uews from New Orleans of the 2nd of November, bus the following passage from a letter from that City :—" Aumirai lievnaud, commanding trie station of the Autilles and he American coast, arrived at New Orleans on the 26th of October, on board the frigate La Guerriere. The frigate was joined the next morning by the despatch boat Renaudin and the corvette Catinat. The presence of these three vessels was hailed with lively satisfaction by the popu- lation of New Orleans and the French residents felt happy at this fresh proof of the solicitude of the Emperor's Go- vernment for the interests of French subjects." That the presence of French ships of war has produced lively satisfaction" among the people of New Orleans who have recorded their hostility to the Federal Government and Geneial Butler is no doubt true but the aunouncements of the fact in be official journal is likc-ly to produce anything but lively satisfaction" in Mr. Seward, and may be fol- lowed by a demand for explanations either here or at Washington. The presence of Admiral Iteynaud at New Orleans will appear to indicate a determination on the part of France to seek an opportunity of intervening in some way in the American quarrel; otherwise, is it asked, why is it set forth in a quasi official form that a disaffected popu- lation is elated at the presence of Freiuh ships of war, coin- ciding, as it does, with the note or the French Government illviti[Ig meliitttiuil ? Admiral Iteynaud was not long ago at fishiugtoii, and appeared at first to have shown no great inclination to precetd to New Orleans, thinking, perhaps, that his mis-ion was mure of a diplomatic kind than other- wise. Whatever objections he may have had were removed by the instructions given to him by M. Mercier, the French Minister. Before M. Drouyii de Lhuys's note appeared the relations between the Governments were Dot of the most cordial kind and the next advices may inform us that they have become much less so. The Moniteur that gives the pas.-sge 1 have quoted, does not r- peat a statement which appeared in the other papers, that Admiral Reynaud's pro- ceeding to New Orleans was not objected to by Air Seward. PARIS, Dec. 7.—The inauguration of the Boulevard Prince Eugene has been celebrated with great magnificence. The Emperor and Empress were well received by the people. Immense crowds were present. Prince Napoleon accom- 1 panied the Emperor on horseback. Nothing of an unusual ("hal acter took place during the ceremony. The weather was foggy, but without rain. La France of this evening publishes the following par- ticulars of the inauguration of the Boulevard Prince Eugene N-l. I)u.%as having addressed the Emperor in the name of the municipal commission, his Imperial Majesty replied in terms which we would not presume to summarise. It is sufficient to state that the speech of the Emperor was enthu?iastically received. Two portions, however, of the address especially attracted the attention of the audience. The Kmperor touched upon the question of the baking trade of Paris as regards its bearing upon the interests of the po- pulation, ana thIn continued, It was at first intended io bestow upon the transverse boulevard the name of Queen liort, rise, but I have no desire to monopolise for my family il,e tribute of popular homage, which ought to be reserved fer our national glories.' The Emperur stated that he shoulti give a new boulevard the name of Richard Lenoir, who, from a simple workman, became one of the most emi- nent manufacturers in Europe, and who, after l aving given iiis workmen food in times of distress*, transformed them iito soldiers and marched at their head at a period when the country was in danger. His Imperial Majesty, in conclusion, dwelt upon the in- stitutionbyLenoiruftoans to labour,' and s; ,d that his proceedings falsified the proverb that it is only the i ich who are able to borrow (' on ne prete qu' aux ncbe). Numeious erie, of' L'jng live the Emperor and Fmpr ss' follon-eu the speech of his Majesty. i ITALY.— TUKIN, Dec. 7 (Evening).—The Gazetta di Torino of this evening says ;_h \Y e are able to state that the Ministerial crisis is at an end. The members who are to enter the Cabinet are decided upon, and nothing remains to be done but to distribute the portfolios." The Italia of this evening publishes the following list 81 composing the new Ministry President of the Conncii (without portfolio) — Signer Farini; Minister of the Interior Signur Peruzzi; Miuister of Justice-Signor Cassinis Minster of Public Works—Menabrea Minister of Murine — Signor Longo; Minister of Coinmerce-Sigtior Auuinot. Sig'ior Petitti .'( clire,! t(, acc,[,t th" post assigned to him. The reply of Signor Della liovera is still awaited. It is asserted that S'.gnoi passolitii refused the office of .Minister of Foreign Affairs. GREECE.-ATHENS, Dec. 3.—The Provisional Govern. ment has ordered that the ejection of the future King should take place by uni rersal suffrage. The reason for this order is stated to be that the English Minister had declared Prince Alfred would not accept his election. The choice of Prince Alfred by universal suffrage appears certain. ATHENS, Dec. 4.—Demonstrations in favour of Prince Alfred continue to take place. Voting for the election of the King commenced to-day and will continue throughout the country for ten days. ANTHENS, Dec. 5.—The process of taking the popular votes has commenced. Up to the present time 2,500 signa- ture- have been received, ail, without aceeption. in favour of Prince Alfred. The Prince's election is considered cer- tain. MEXICO—NEW YORK, Nov. 25 CETelliug).-Mexican news tecened here states that the French will not advance from Orizaba before the first week in December.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.—SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.— The polling took place to-day, and, after a most ex- citing contest, terminated in the return of Mr. Rose (Lord Mayor of London,) the Conser, ate candidate, by a majority of 68.—TOTNES, TUESDAY.—The election has ended in the most unexpected manner. After gaining the show of hands at the nomination, Mr. Dent's com- mittee found, on a final revision of their lists, that the promises made to him were not enough to ensure his success, and he retired in the course of the evening. The polling, however had been announced, and it was therefore opened yesterday; but the voting was a mere formality, and Mr. Pender, the Liberal, was returned as successor to the Liberal Mr. Mills.—EAST KENT.—> There is every reason to suppose that the vacant seat for East Kent will be warmly contested. Two or three gentlemen are spoken of as probable candidates in the Conservative interest, namely, Sir Norton Knatchbull, Bart., Mr. A. Beresford Hope, and Mr. Gathorne Hardy, who is at present M.P. for Leominster. Amongst the moderate Conservative party there seems to be a disposition to invite Mr. Henry Hoare, the banker, of Fleet-street, who has a considerable estate near Staplehurst, to become a candidate. On the Liberal side Mr. P. Wykeham Martin, the father of the member for Rochester, will in all probability be invited to stand, although the name of Sir Edward Dering has been freely mentioned. AXDovER The ex-Lord Mayor has nearly completed his canvass, and received i unanimous support from his numerous friends in this borough. All idea of an opposition is now aban- doned. A shocking affair has occurred at the Somerset Hotel, Strand. Mr. Leigh, a gentleman reading for the bar, and Hugh Morris, a orter at Dane's Inn, had dined together, when they beJan to play with the cheese-knives. In fen- cing the knife of Morris caught Mr. Leigh in the abdomen, and the unfortunate man died almost immediately. Morris was arrested, but admitted to bail, THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—The work of removal at the International Exhibition is proceeding so rapidly and satisfactorily, that it is fully expected that the main build- ing will be empty by the middle of December. The western annex will require more time but even here, by the aid of numerous steam-cranes, the ponderous engines and machinery are being quickley moved out. The question what will be done with the building now presses on the attention of those concerned in its future. That it will revert to Messrs. Kelk and Lucas is certain; but meetings that have been held to ventilate the question have not led to any definite plant. — Parthenon. MATRIMONIAL DISPUTES.—At an ordination soiree held in Alloa last week, Dr. Johnston, of Limekilns, spoke as follows When Sir David Baird was taken prisoner in India, the news of that event was brought to his mother. They told the old lady that her son had been taken prisoner, and was chained to another man. Oh!' she said, wae's me for the man that's chained to bim'-(Loud Laughter.) Sir David and his companion were bound by an iron chain. Other people were sometimes bound by what is called a silken chain, and I am afraid there is sometimes a little difficulty even in these pleasant bonds. It is strange you cannot bring two persons together and bind them by al- most any kind of tie without exciting them to light. -(Laughter.) A worthy lady that lived in Kincardine in the house where Mr. Gardiner now resides, said to me thirty years ago—' I've heard husbands and wives saying that they never had a word in their lives. In my opinion that's a great lee. -(Laughter.) My man an' me live as weel as maist ither folk, and we have a cast out f/ey often.' but,' said her husband, 'you forget the reconcilia- tion.'— (Laughter.) I had occasion some time ago to visit West Linton, to examine the session records. Going to the minister's house he told me several anecdotes relating to one of the earliest 01 our ministers—Mr. Miir. He was rather short-tempered, and had a wife, named Rebecca, whom, for brevity's sake, he addressed as 'Becky.' He kept a diary, aud among other entries this one was very frequent-; Becky and I had a rippet (laughter) —for which I desire to be humble.' I went to Ed.ngburgh the same day, and told the story to a minisfr and his w.fe there, and the lady replied Wed, he must haoe been an excel- lent man, Mr. Mair. My husband and I sometimes, too, have I rippets,' but catch him if he's ever humble. — (Loud Laughter.) The PATENT CAZELINE OIL is not only welcomed to the homes of the operative, but is found admirably adapted for drawing-room use, and especiaily .0 when burnt in theCaze line Lamp this Oil will however burn in any Paraffin or Hydro-Carbon Lamp. Its great recommendations are clean- liness, freedom from offensive smell, brilliancy of light, and is guaranteed to be non explosive, therefore perfectly safe in use. Agents for its sale are now being appointed by Messrs. CASSELL, SMITH, & Co., 80, Fenchurch Street, London. Professor Roscoe, of Owens College, Manchester, has the credit of originating, in conjunction with the Rev. W. Gaskell and Mr. A Ransome, a scheme for relieving the forced leisure of the unemployed operatives by gratuitous evening lectures in five different parts of Lancashire, Pro- fessor Riscoe gave the first of these lectures to an audience of between 800 and 1,000 working men, in a large room of Lamb's Mill, Bengal-street, Ancoats, on Wednesday uii»ht, on The Air we Bre.ithe." The audience were delighted, attentive, and grateful. On Friday Dr. Morgan is t. lecture at Gaythorn on the Sun and the Stars," aud at the same time Air. Meiklejohn will be in Hulme, yiving "neaGias from Dickens." Mr. Gaskell promises A Talk about the Lancashire Dialect Professor Greenwood, the Principal i of Owens College, A Tour in Switzerland," and so forth. The effect will be to show that the undistressed classes are anxious not merely to alleviate the physical sufferings, but to express their hearty sympathy with the mental sufferings of the distressed cla,ses, and to relieve them as much as lies in their power. The bread and soup are essential, but devices of this kind lend all that grace to the gift which can alone cemeut the ties between class and class. MH. BUXTON, M P., AT MALDON.-Tlie third anniver- sary dinner of the Maldon Liberal Independent Club was held on Thursday evening at Maldon, Mr. T. B. Wes- tern iu the chair. The principal speech of the evening was made by Mr. C. Buxton. M P., who returned thauks for the Liberal members of the House of Commons. He sai l, in the year which had since intervened, that progress, al- though chequered, had been steady, and in some parts of Europe rapid. In Italy it was remarkable how quickly people had caught the spirit and adapted themselves to the forms of constitutional Government. In Austria, lately so despotic, the Government had actually reduced the army in accordance with a decision of the Di, t, In Prussia, al- though for the moment despotism appeared to be trium- phant, the magnificent stand made by the nation again-t the King—a stand so temperate, so thoughtful, and so wisely managed-yet indicated the ultimate victory of freedom. In Greece, above all, which had so often been pointed at as an example of the at surdity of giving a con- stitution to a people before they were ripe for it, a revolution had taken place which showed, in a most strikiu*; manner, not only the determination of the people to govern them- selves, and not to allow their liberties to be trample.1 on, but also their fitness to manage their own affairs (Hear, hear.) It was painful to turn from these cheering signs of the future in Europe to the awful struggle which was taking place in Noith America; but he thought the time had come when all ought to be making up their minds as to what we ought to wish for with regard to that great struggle. He heard people saying that they were on the side of the Norrbffuer6, or on the side of the South but he did not think that we ought to be content with a vague partisan- ship like that. 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His father always regarded them as having a strong claim to con- sideration, and the Quarterly Review itself owned that it was entirely due to him that the proposal to com- pecsate the slaveowners was accepted by the anti-slavery party, who were at that time omnipotent, He did not think, then, that he was a traitor to his father's principles in acknowledging that he hhould look with abhorence upon a military subjugation of the Southerners, and he could not wish well to the North in its attempt to subjugate the South by force of arms. Weighing all the contending con- siderations of the case, it seemed to him that he ought to wish that the North should own herself that the Union was gone for ever, and should offer independence to all that portion of the South lying between the Mississippi and the Potomac. Could that be attained, Texas and all the vast teriitory lying beyond the Mississippi would before long be freed from the curse of slavery. 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