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a declaration of war on a future contingency. | late wealth and bully the world; which is an exShe is positively adverse to Prussia, but nega-pensive policy. Yet, had they higher aspirations, tively amicable; only the negative transcends the what examples might a true model republic set positive just now in Germany. The Prussian to Europe just now! what lessons teach! border is neighbored by a great Russian army; the disputed dutchies of Schleswig-Holstein are filled with troops, and the Prussian commander manifests no eagerness to conciliate the Danish party. War is threatened all round, and Prussia herself seems prepared to brave it. The obstruction to it consists in the fact that no party is paramount. The sequel, therefore, is to be determined less by what is possible than by the combination of impossibilities. But as those elude observation and calculation, the sequel is not only more difficult to foresee, but also more difficult to prepare it must happen, as it were, peradventure, according to the balance of these complicated impossibilities; and although watched by all, will probably take all by surprise. Hence the great armies which all parties keep up, although they do not assert any positively hostile policy. They wait to see which way Germany shall fall; and are making themselves strong, governments as well as mobs, for the scramble among her ruins.-Specta

tor.

In the court of Queen's Bench, Westminster, on 10 December, an action was tried on behalf of Emma Quelch, a girl about eleven years of age, brought in formâ pauperis, in the name of her father, against Thomas Henry Wakley, one of the consulting surgeons of the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn Lane, to recover damages for alleged negligence in the treatment of a fracture of the thighbone, for which the plaintiff had been a patient in the hospital. The most remarkable feature of the case was the endeavor made by Mr. Wakley, and also by his father, the coroner, to prevent the public trial. It appeared from the evidence, that the plaintiff had taken the scarlet fever from a fever patient who was admitted into the same ward; and this ease was communicated to her by impure bandages. had seriously retarded her recovery. Another disThe jury returned a verdict for the defendant; several medical witnesses attesting that he had done for the particular illness of the girl all that was possible under the circumstances. [Mr. Wakley had been elected a Fellow in the College of Surgeons a few days before the trial.]

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.-The most recent advices THE Earl of Albemarle has long been in a state from Constantinople represent the position of Turof ill-health, and the fact has at last come before key and Russia as being anything but settled. the public in the shape of a commission de lunatico As to the extradition question, the reports fluc- inquirendo; which was held on 12 December, at tuate so that it is impossible to come to any cer- Farrance's Hotel. From the evidence it appeared tain conclusion upon its actual state: suffice it that that Lord Albemarle had been in the Asylum of the question is still kept open; a fact in itself of Dr. Sutherland. Several medical witnesses were no small significance. Meanwhile, Turkey ex- under which the patient labored. He thought that examined, with others, who described the delusions tends a marked hospitality to the refugees; and he could make watches of dirt; that he had lived the ambassadors of Austria and Russia are so in the time of the Apostles, and had died three impolitic as to testify displeasure. In short, the times and risen again; that he had been to heaven feeling between Turkey and Russia is evidently to baptize fifty thousand persons, one of them a one of hostility. A writer in Constantinople ex-speckled child; that he had fought at Bunker's patiates on the favorable condition of Turkey for Hill with Captain Brown, who had cut off his entering upon war-her increased army, her head, but who afterwards put it on again, as firm menting resources, her immunity from debt, her as ever, with the exception of its being a little shaky; that he had been called the Fire King, and known sympathy with Hungary. It might be had performed at the Lyceum, four thousand years added, that she has shown not less sympathy ago; that he was Jesus Christ, and had been cruwith the Italians in the revolutionary service of cified after the Flood, &c., &c. The jury found Hungary. Curious, if Turkey should unite with that Lord Albemarle had been of unsound mind the champions of "progress" in the Mediter- since the 23d July, 1849.

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Ar the Liverpool Police-Office, Patrick M'Cafferay was charged with being found secreted on board CHINA. The English war-ships in the waters an emigrant-ship, under suspicious circumstances. of China have been busy in castigating the "pi- Mr. George Bennett, a gentleman employed in the rates" that infest those regions, under circum- establishment of Chapman, Bowman & Co., stated, stances that imply a connection between the pirates that on Wednesday he went on board the ship and the Celestial government. Are they pirates, Albert Gallatin, then in the river, she being about in the European sense of the word, or an irreg-to sail for New York, and, on rummaging, he ular navy in Chinese pay? In either case, it is no doubt more convenient, diplomatically, to treat them as individual outlaws; besides, to do so evades the reproaches of the peace party in England, since the castigation of pirates is not called war."

found three women secreted in flour-barrels. On a away in a small box, not more than three feet long further search, the prisoner was discovered stowed by about eighteen inches broad. The box had to be broken open before the prisoner could be got out, and he was then much exhausted by his confinement; had he remained there much longer, the consequences must have been fatal. The prisoner UNITED STATES.-The Model Republic is was discharged. In a short time afterwards he manifestly at a loss for some national mission: it appeared in court, and created much amusement has nothing for its citizens to do but to accumu- | by asking if he might have his box. Mr. Rushton

refused his application; adding, "Go along with you; it is well you were not smothered in your box."

AN explosion of fire-damp having occurred in a pit near Wigan, the colliers, twenty or thirty in number, hurried to the shaft, and were drawn to the surface in batches. As the first basket left the mine, a youth attempted to spring into it; a man caught hold of him, and thus hanging out of the basket, the ascent was made; but the descending basket struck the unhappy youth; on reaching the surface, his head was found in the basket: his mangled body had fallen to the bottom of the shaft, minus a head, a leg, and an arm.

A FATHER, mother, and daughter, have perished in succession, by a singular accident, at Wednesbury. John Pettifer occupied a small house erected on a mound of refuse from a mine. The daughter was sent at night on an errand; she did not return in reasonable time, and the father went to seek her; he too returned not, and the mother hastened in search of both daughter and husband; hours passed, and no one returned to the house. At length a boy aroused a neighbor, and a search was made. A large hole was discovered near the house, the crown of the pit having fallen in; and into this chasm the unfortunate people had successively fallen. Two or three days elapsed before the bodies could be got out. It is supposed that the sufferers perished from foul air before they reached the bot

tom of the mine.

THE Hereford Journal mentions an inquest at Leighton, near Buildwas, on the body of Thomas Lloyd, a Mormonite, who perished in the Severn while baptizing a young woman by moonlight.

AN association, entitled "The Bach Society," has just been formed, for the purpose of cultivating an acquaintance with the works of the illustrious John Sebastian Bach.

miles, and been digested and printed off in the office of a London journal.

An iron warehouse for California is now in course of being constructed at Liverpool, of very considerable dimensions. It is 60 feet long, 40 wide, and 36 feet high at the most elevated part. There will be three ranges of rooms. It is lighted by 60 windows, and will weigh rather more than 30 tons.

"LATELY travelling in the Welsh Principality, I met a French gentleman, travelling in his own carriage, with post-horses, who, in conversation turnpike-gates cost him from 10 to 12 francs a day; with me, complained that the 'passports' at our and observed that Englishmen in France had nothing to pay for travelling on the roads of the French republic.

THE Society of Arts has concluded contracts with Messrs. James and George Munday, the public works contractors, for carrying out Prince Albert's projected exhibition of arts and industry by all nations. The Messrs. Munday undertake, without any security, to carry out the exhibition on their own responsibility, and to indemnify the Society of Arts for all expenses and liabilities; to erect the necessary buildings, at a cost of some 50,000l., and to provide 20,000l. for prizes. From the funds received Messrs. Munday's expenses, with five per cent. interest, are first to be paid; and if any surplus remain, Messrs. Munday are to receive two

thirds of it.

AT a late meeting of the Ashmolean Society, Oxford, Dr. Daubeny mentioned the progress of arrangements for a steam-vessel to proceed from Edinburgh to Iceland, which will afford an opportunity for persons so disposed to visit that interesting island. It is intended to leave Edinburgh about the time of the next meeting of the British Association in that city, and to return in time to give an account of the visit before the meeting terminates.

A LETTER from Upsala, of the 24th November, MR. SIDNEY HERBERT'S FEMALE EMIGRATION states, that the Dukes of East Gotha and Dalecar- SCHEME.-For the furtherance of this object a comlia, now students at the University of Upsala, being mittee has been formed, of which Mr. Sidney desirous of seeing the mortal remains of Gustavus Herbert is the chairman, and Lord J. Russell, Lord the First, (Gustavus Vasa,) which are deposited in Carlisle, Lord Ashley, the Bishop of London, and a one of the vaults of the cathedral of that city, the great number of noblemen and gentlemen, are memmarble sarcophagus containing the body was opened, bers. The advertisement announcing this fact says: by virtue of a special authorization of the king. OfIt is proposed to take immediate measures for the body of the great monarch nothing remains but the skeleton; but all the clothes (of the ancient Spanish costume) are intact, and preserve a certain freshness. These garments are of velvet and silk, with gold and silver brocade. The crown, the sceptre, the globe, the ornaments of the scabbard enclosing the royal sword, and the buckles of the girdle and shoes, are of fine and massive gold, and partly adorned with precious stones.

M. VERBEYST, the most celebrated book-collector in Europe, has died at Brussels, at an advanced age. He had founded a very curious establishment, consisting of a house of several stories, disposed so as to contain about 300,000 volumes, arranged according to their subjects.

ON Tuesday last, the deputation of the Boulogne and Amiens Railroad Company reached Paris from London in eight hours, carrying with them the Times of the same morning. The express forwarded from Paris with the French intelligence of Monday was thus tossed back to the Parisians for their own information almost by noon on the next day; having, in the interval, been carried 600

Promoting emigration to the British colonies on an extensive scale. Assistance will, in the first instance, be extended to the class which, as the poorest and most helpless, has a reasonable claim to early consideration-the needlewomen and slopworkers. Offices will be immediately opened, at which such parties may register their applications. Care will be taken to select such persons only as are well recommended, and whose age and habits render them fit subjects for emigration. Such arrangements will be made as will secure for them every possible safeguard and care during the passage out. Communications will be opened with the colonies, with a view to the proper reception of the emigrants on their arrival; for their temporary themselves in respectable positions." The Protecassistance and to afford them facilities for placing tionist economists have fallen foul of Mr. Herbert's project, but it has been received in the country with general approbation.

THE Exhibition of Manufactures at Birmingham closed on Saturday. It was opened on the 2d September, and has during the time been visited by

more than 100,000 persons. In the last week there were 19,000 admissions.

HIRING NEWSPAPERS.-In the Bloomsbury Co. Court, a newsvender residing at Hampstead, named Moss, brought an action against Mr. Barnard Gregory to recover a debt due for the hire of newspapers, amounting to 21. 18s. 10d. The defendant pleaded by his solicitor-first, that no one had applied for the money; and, secondly, that by the Act of 23 Geo. III., it was illegal to lend newspapers, and therefore defendant could not be compelled to pay. The plaintiff, however, was prepared for this line of defence, and produced a subsequent Act of Will. IV., cap. 76, which repeals the whole of the former Act relative to newspapers, and consequently the Judge immediately decided that the debt and costs should be paid by defendant.

THE" Athenæum" says that a proposal has been made by the Keeper of the State Papers to print a series of calendars or indices of the valuable historical documents in his custody, which has been agreed to by the government, and that the work is to be commenced immediately. It is stated, moreover, that the several volumes will be produced in a neat and comparatively inexpensive form, which will render them accessible to all classes of historical inquirers.

STREET lamps have recently been introduced in the European quarter of Alexandria.

A GENERAL order enjoins the officers at all outports to use their utmost vigilance, and bear in mind that a seizure has just been made in London of a quantity of compressed snuff, made up in the form of oilseed cake, and packed together with genuine cakes of that article."

It is reported that Madlle. de Luzy, who was governess in the family of the Duc de Praslin at the time of the murder of the duchess, and who was arrested and examined on suspicion of having been accessory to the crime, was married lately to the nephew of an Irish peer.

THE total population of Belgium, according to the report presented by the Minister of the Interior, amounts to 4,337,196. Another table, not less interesting than that of the population, is divided under the heads of masters or principals of manufactories and workmen. From this it appears that there are 756,747 masters and their families, including 1,185,424 persons; workmen, 1,301,353, their families comprehending 1,093,672 persons.

THE aquatic contest between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge took place last Saturday, and though the latter came in first, victory was adjudged to the former in consequence of a foul on the part of the Cambridge boat, when the Oxford men were evidently winning.

month was decapitated with the sword in the market-place of Herisau. This fact is itself a startling one, but the details are just as strange. For two hours the woman was able to struggle against four individuals charged with the execution. After the first hour the strength of the woman was still so great that the men were obliged to desist; the authorities were then consulted, but they declared that justice ought to follow its course. struggle then recommenced, with greater intensity, and despair seemed to have redoubled the woman's force. At the end of another hour she was at last bound by the hair to a stake, and the sword of the executioner then carried the sentence into effect.

The

JENNY LIND.-Mr. Barnum thus corrects (in the "New York Herald") the erroneous statements of his recent offer to Jenny Lind. 1st. Jenny Lind has sent no agent to America; but I have sent two to her, one of whom recently returned from an interview with her, and has now gone to meet her in Stockholm with my proposals; 2d. As regards terms; I understand and believe that Mr. Knowles, manager of the Manchester Theatre, who engaged Jenny Lind to sing in the provincial towns of Great Britain, paid her 4007. sterling per night. I understand, also, that it was no unusual thing for Mr. Lumley, director of the Queen's Opera in London, to receive 1,800l. to 2,000l. sterling on Jenny's nights. It is absurd, therefore, to suppose that I could expect to engage her 200 nights for 50,000 dollars-only 250 dollars per night. Now, the truth is, I have offered her more than four times that amount per night, besides paying the expenses from Stockholm, and during her engagement of herself and a companion, a financier, (probably her father,) at her disposal, and paying every description of and two servants, besides placing a carriage always she may sing; and I have offered to place 10,0007. expense attending the concerts or operas in which sterling in the hands of her banker in London, to secure the fulfilment of my proposition. I am by no means certain of her coming, even at the offer made; but if any gentleman supposes there is gammon in this business, and that a less compensation would induce her to visit America, I hereby pledge my honor to sign bonds to any amount, whenever called upon, to give any person 50 dollars for every 100 dollars per night that he will obtain her services for me less than 1000 dollars per night, besides all the expenses before named.

FREDERIKA BREMER AMONG THE FOURIERISTS.—

We are allowed to copy the following from a letter received from the North American Phalanx, in New Jersey. "Miss Bremer paid us a visit last week. She seemed quite pleased, and entered very genially into all that was going on-mixed a batch of bread, sewed hominy bags, and would have gone TORTURE IN SWITZERLAND.-A strange circum-out to dig potatoes, if it had not rained. There stance has just taken place at Herisau, the capital was an old Swedish officer with her, whom we of Inner Appenzell, in Switzerland, showing how liked mightily; he came to compile some of the much in these countries of old liberties civilization | beauties of our republican customs for home use; is behindhand in some matters. A young girl of nineteen, some months back, assassinated her rival. Her lover was arrested with her, and as she accused him of the crime, both were put to the torture. The girl yielded to the pain, and confessed her crime; the young man held firm in his denial; the former was condemned to death, and on the 7th of this

the king, he says, being inclined to anticipate revolutionary tendencies. Miss B. charmed all by her musical gifts. The girls cried and laughed like wild creatures, as they are, under the influence of the delicate magic of her notes, as she played the Sea King's Bride,' and other national airs."Boston Chronotype.

deeply regretted by a small circle of attached
friends, to whom his private worth had endeared
him. It is the boast of England that she numbers
among her citizens private individuals, who, in
every department of science, literature, and poli-
tics, are the unpaid advocates of what they believe
to be the truth. David Vipan was one of these-
It is the
the peculiar growth of free institutions.
duty of the public press not to let such men pass
from the stage unnoticed.

MY GARDEN GATE.

BY CHARLES MACKAY.

STAND back, bewildering politics,
I've placed my fences round;
Pass on, with all your party tricks,
Nor tread my holy ground.
Stand back-I'm weary of your talk,
Your squabbles, and your prate;
You cannot enter in this walk,

I've closed my garden gate.

Stand back, ye thoughts of trade and pelf
I have a refuge here;

I wish to commune with myself;
My mind is out of gear.

These bowers are sacred to the page

Of philosophic lore:

From the Examiner. fellow-laborer in the same cause for the last time AMONG the deaths of the last week we see re--and on his favorite subject. On the 29th he corded that of DAVID JENNINGS VIPAN, of small-sickened. Twelve days afterwards he died prepox, at Tunbridge Wells. This gentleman had maturely in the forty-fourth year of his age, in the not attained public notoriety, but he had neverthe-full possession of his vigorous intellect, and most less worked silently, and not ineffectually, for what he considered to be the public good-and we hold it right that merit of this kind should not pass away without a public acknowledgment. The son of a commercial gentleman of Norfolk, educated first at Dr. Valpy's Grammar School at Norwich, then at Trinity College, Cambridge, he carried to this university the practical views of the class to which it was ever his boast to belong. It was here that he laid the foundation of those rare classical attainments, which afterwards, during a long residence in Germany, introduced him to the notice and friendship of such men as the Grimms, Thiersch, and Müller, as one of the first scholars of his day. Yet he was no scholar of the old English schoolit was the constitutional and commercial history of Greece and Rome that attracted him, and it was here amongst these early struggles after freedom and good government that he endeavored to seek a principle and a guide for the present. This love of free institutions and their progressive development from ancient times led him, in the years 1838 and 1839, to visit Hungary; a country which he always regarded as evidencing in its history his favorite political maxim, that liberty is ancient, despotism recent. Versed in the Magyar language, he made the constitution and laws of Hungary his peculiar study, and became the friend of its most eminent statesmen and citizens. We need only mention amongst these the names of Szechényi, Casimir Esterhazi, Palffi, Andrassi, Georg Karolyi, Odeschalchi, Zichi, with whom, and with all the other chiefs of the constitutional opposition, he was in habits of daily intercourse. At the Hungarian Parliament he was received under the title of " the English deputy." Ill-health alone compelled him to leave a country to which he ever remained most fondly attached, and to whose cause he devoted the latest energies of his life. In 1840, when reviewing his friend Paget's work on Hungary in the "British and Foreign Review," he was one of the first English travellers who pointed out to his countrymen the existence of a system of constitutional law very similar to their own-the possible nucleus of a future free state in the centre of autocratic government, and the great frontier post of European law against the inroads of Russian barbarism. In 1848, when Hungary raised the constitutional banner against Austria, Mr. Vipan was one of the first to use his pen in her defence, and to unmask from time to time the ignorant or wilful perversions of a portion of the press. No one in England was so well qualified for this task, for no one was so well acquainted as himself with the antecedents of the late struggle. His unequalled knowledge of the subject, his incorruptible integrity, his moderate but independent means, rendered his evidence as valuable as it was disinterested. The fall of Hungary in the unequal struggle shocked him, but did not paralyze his exertions; for he never could believe that the history of a thousand years, indelibly impressed on the habits and feelings of every man, woman, and child of the country, could be extinguished at a blow. On the 27th of November last he wrote to a friend and

Within these bounds no envies rage;
I've shut my garden door.
Stand back, Frivolity and Show;
It is a day of spring;

I want to see my roses blow,

And hear the blackbird sing;
I wish to prune my apple-trees,
And make my peaches straight;
Keep to the causeway, if you please;
I've shut my garden gate.

I have no room for such as you;
My house is somewhat small.
Let love come here, and friendship true,
I'll give them welcome all;
They will not scorn my household stuff,
Or criticize my store.

Pass on-the world is wide enough;
I've shut my garden door.

Stand back, ye pomps, and let me wear
The liberty I feel.

I have a coat at elbows bare ;
I love its dishabille.

Within these precincts let me rove,

With nature free from state;
There is no tinsel in the grove;
I've shut my garden gate.

What boots continual glare and strife?
I cannot always climb;

I would not struggle all my life;
I need a breathing time.
Pass on-I've sanctified these grounds
To friendship, love, and lore;
You cannot come within these bounds,
I've shut my garden door.

CORRESPONDENCE.

five and four dollars, making nineteen, which was sent to Mr. Burritt to be added to his next remittance. And it was with great pleasure that we

THE article on the Position of the Colonies deserves the attention of the highest minds. It fore-received a visit from him in acknowledgment. shadows the independence, or equal rights, of the various portions of the Anglo-Saxon race, and thus the creation of a satisfied, vigorous, federal nation, spreading over the whole world.

Could our friends who have not yet sent anything for Dr. Dick, have heard Mr. Burritt's touching account of the extreme economy which this good man has long had to practise, (the particulars of which we dare not print,) they would hasten to his relief.

NEW BOOKS.

In order to carry out this great idea, the writer opposes the separation of Canada from the mother country. We heartily wish him success in his In thus doing good to an eminent British author, ultimate object, although we differ a little as to Americans are drawing more closely the bonds of the order of future events, and desire to go further brotherhood between dear old Scotland and Engthan he has proposed. Looking upon the Anglo- land and ourselves. We hope that more of our Saxon race as the only one which is greatly grow-readers will honor us by sending their gifts through ing in numbers and power; bearing in mind the this office. promises of a time when "wars shall cease;" pondering the inestimable benefits which our blessed Union has given to us, in peace and free trade, the effects of which have far surpassed the sanguine hopes of our forefathers;-we cannot but look upon the development of our constitution by the admission of Texas, as affording to us a near hope of such an extension of its benefits as shall include Great Britain and all her colonies. The rapidity of our greatness will soon make the probability of this more manifest. In 1840 our population was 17 millions; in 1890 it will be 70 millions; in

Poetry and Prose Writings, by Richard Henry
Dana. New York. Baker & Scribner.

kind. In reading the tale of Paul Felton, among the prose writings, almost as remarkable in its way as the Buccaneer, we are almost as irresistibly led to wonder that he who had shown such a capacity for that kind of composition had not continued to practise it.

These are all the writings of Mr. Dana hitherto published, now collected in two handsome duodecimo volumes, with the author's careful revision, and some additions. Of the contents of the greater part of this collection we have more than once expressed our admiration, and have nothing new to say. We cannot help, however, expressing a regret that the genius which could produce such a poem as the 1940 it will be 300 millions. Buccaneer, so full of poetic solemnity and strong How the difference of government is to be recon-emotion, so original in style, with imagery so ciled, we do not see yet; 20 years may make it directly copied from nature, and delineated with easy. The treaties by which England is connected such rapid and bold strokes, should not have emwith the continent of Europe will become obso-ployed his eminent powers in other works of the lete, and thus remove another obstacle. The national debt, even, which has appeared to us to be the greatest difficulty, may be soon and honorably disposed of. Let us look at this for a moment in the light thrown upon it by Mr. Gurney, whose remarks were so effectively quoted at the late Peace Congress. Since 1815—that is, in 35 years of peace-the expenditure of Great Britain for war purposes has been 15 to 20 millions a year. This sum, directed to that purpose, would have paid off the whole debt! Now if Great Britain and her colonies and the United States can be so united that an attack upon one of them would be an attack upon all, such an attack never would be made. And it would require but little faith for Great Britain to cease her war expenditure and apply the saving to the payment of her debt-the interest of which is five times as much as the whole revenue of the United States.

We commend this great subject to Mr. Burritt and all the members of the Peace Congress. It will be hard work to induce England and France to join in a court of nations; comparatively easy to draw England and the United States more closely together. And when this shall be done, it will almost have accomplished the whole object.

The appeal in behalf of the venerable Dr. Dick, which we copied from Mr. Burritt, has already produced some effect. We have received ten and

The second volume contains Mr. Dana's reviews, some of which date as far back as the year 1817, and were published in the North American Review. They are examples of subtle analysis, an unerring critical judgment, and perfect independence in its expression. We had no such criticism in American literature at the time, and, we were about to say, we have had no such since; but it is not necessary to attempt to exalt its merits by comparison-a mode of criticism which Mr. Dana has himself condemned. It was for these articles that Mr. Dana was deprived of the conduct of the North American Review, in which he had engaged with great spirit. To that work, if it had remained in his hands, he would have imparted a character of originality and decision in its critical articles, which no literary man of the country was at that time qualified to give it.

In republishing these articles, Mr. Dana has made no material changes, but he has added to their value by some additional paragraphs in the same spirit.

There has for some years past been a demand on the literary world for a collection of Mr. Dana's writings. The previous collection was imperfect, and it has been long out of print. There is no part of the present volumes more valuable than the matter which has been added from the earlier critical writings of the author.-N. Y. Ev. Post.

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