known as the butcher of the Hungarians into the Hungarian patriot is certainly not one of the least remarkable!

audible to the extremities of Europe and America, has denounced the iniquity of these miscreants. Mr. Gladstone, calm and circumspect, has laid open to Our readers may recollect that Haynau, when the world the island-prison in which the most sanoffered a part of the confiscated property of Batthy-guinary and most cowardly of despots chains down any, prudently declined the gift, and that the Aus- the faithfulest and bravest of his people. Their trian government afterwards rewarded him with a only crime is, that they are witnesses to the making dotation of £40,000. A large part of this sum and breaking of his oaths, his vaporing and his Haynau expended in the purchase of an estate in fright. Hungary, in the very centre of Magyarism, and In regard to the victims which the Holiness of he has since actually taken up his residence there. our Lord shuts up for sacrifice, it is probable that Every one likes to be well with his neighbors, and a few words of our most gracious Queen, addressed Haynau spares no pains to make himself popular. to the President of the French Republic, would Among the peasantry he lavishes money with no release them. One gentle breath might remove sparing hand, gives them exorbitant wages, and the tarnish from his glory, and moderate in some pays their taxes for them-the peasant pocket-degree the animosity that rankles in the Roman ing the money and hating the German none the heart. On the barbarian who rules at Naples there less. Among the nobility, some of whom were is no other agency but force and fear. Policy condemned to death by his courts-martial and then might induce the Americans to liberate his capamnestied, he pays assiduous court, though he is tives from their pestilential dens. A single ship, met generally with cold looks and closed doors. with a few broadsides and a few boarders, would The tobacco monopoly which Austria is attempt-effect it. The island would be as fairly won by ing to introduce has met with such strenuous op- them from this inhuman monster as ever slave-ship position that peasants who have grown gray with was by the bravest of our cruisers. And surely the pipe in their mouths deny themselves what a those hosts of heroic men who have fought for the year or two ago they would have held not less same cause in Hungary and Poland will be prompt necessary than meat and drink; and Haynau is as to embark in this most holy of crusades; in a crueager in this moral rebellion as the best Magyar sade at the outset against a dastard and fugitive, among them, swearing "the man's a rogue who and ultimately against an infidel who assumes in smokes Austrian tobacco." We will not tell our mockery the crown of Christ, who calls himself readers all the tales we have heard of this man's God's vicegerent, subverts His attributes, effaces eccentricities; they are so incredible that we fear His laws, and stamps upon His image. we should lose credit for the rest by repeating these. It is, however, certain that he speaks of himself as only the instrument (werkzeug) of the Austrian government; that there is no country of which he thinks so highly as England; and that he speaks of "that affair when I was beaten in London" without the slightest rancor, declaring that he does not consider it as any insult to himself, but as a demonstration against the Emperor of Austria.

We leave our readers to determine whether this is a case of mere madness, or the effect of disgust at scurvy treatment received from Austria, for as to its being the result of any good feeling on the part of such a personage, that is quite beyond the range of possibility. Still it is no small proof of the extent to which misgovernment has reduced the respect for the power of Austria even in the minds of her former slaves, when a Haynau openly exposes her policy and endeavors to ingratiate himself with her sworn foes.

NAPLES AND ROME.

August 16.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

From the Spectator.

NEWS OF THE WEEK ENDING 9TH AUG. FRANCE is not at this moment the paradise of newspaper editors. In the beginning of the week no fewer than eight of those gentlemen were inmates of Concièrgerie, and a ninth was expected to join them on Thursday. The different treatment experienced by newspaper editors in France and in England, is owing less to difference in the laws of the two countries, or in the conduct of the individ-uals concerned, than to the temper of the public.. England may be said to have had since the civil wars of the seventeenth century such a newspaper press as France has had only since her first revolution. England has had more time to learn the extent and nature of newspaper influence, and the best means of checking its excess or abuse, than France. England is, therefore, less nervously apprehensive of that influence, and less ready to resort to coercion. It is not long indeed that even England has been so judicious; as those persons can witness whose memories carry them back to the period of the Regency and the first years of George the Fourth. France, too, will learn in time that silent contempt is in most cases the best way of dealing with mischievous and unquiet spirits, and that hard words seldom break bones.

THERE is little hope that, in any nation of Europe, is the energy or the will to deliver from bondage those Romans or those Neapolitans, who at this hour are groaning under it. Africans the most barbarous claim our pity and intervention. To exempt them from violence we snap asunder old For the last ten days, however, politics of every alliances, and unite our forces with other govern-kind have been at a discount in Paris. The festiments of doubtful faith. Portugal has been coerced, vals in honor of the Commissioners of the Industrial France has been trusted, every power has been de- Exhibition of London have thrown all other social fied. A perfidious Pope, meanwhile, and a revenge-movements into the background. In some respects ful and remorseless gang of Jesuits, are allowed to inflict on the most virtuous and the most enlightened citizens torments more intolerable than the hardest labor, indignities more cruel than the most cruel death. The Times, with an angry voice, a voice

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our French neighbors have displayed more taste in the getting-up of their festivities than has been witnessed on this side of the channel. On some occasions the assembled guests have evinced a good deal of the same rude selfishness as here. The sensation

his usual force of eloquence. He explained, that, in the matter of the Papal aggression, he had been in favor of a simple declaration of the law, and he was decidedly opposed to the bill as it stood; but he should also have regretted its rejection by the House of Lords, and therefore he abstained from voting at all. On the subject of Convocation, he expressed great delight at the progress made by opinions which, years ago, he advocated alone, but which now receive the advocacy of many, the respectful attention of all. On the subject of the oath of abjuration, he lent to many of the usual arguments for the abolition of religious tests the power of his lucid and nervous diction; putting one in a very striking light

created by the visit of a "Lord Mayor of all Eng-ters, with his usual force of logic and more than land" to Paris has been such as became the occasion. The worthy gentleman who now fills the civic chair of London, has been the lion of every fête. The only noteworthy incongruity in the festivals of Paris was the preeminence given to the great sham battle in celebration of the most essentially pacific event of the century. Lemoinne and others of the leading French political writers have expressed in strong and felicitous language their sense of the absurdity; and it is possible that their remarks may help to spread through France a distaste of these childish relics of despotic æras. An invitation to be present at the military display is said to have been addressed to a leading member of the Society of Friends and the Peace Congress, the empressement of which savored of irony slightly tinged with malice. The gentleman in question appears to have made a precipitate retreat from the scene of action.

THE reinstalled governments of Germany are driving back to the "status quo ante" of the beginning of 1848, with railway speed. The Diet at Frankfort has decreed the nullity of the "fundamental rights" enacted by the Parliament at Frankfort as the common law of Germany, and has issued a mandate for the repeal, in all states of the confederation, of any laws recognizing those rights as the groundwork of local constitutions. The tiniest states, such as Anhalt, have been the first to obey or avail themselves of this mandate.

While civil laws are thus summarily repealed, the exercise of military authority is pushed to the uttermost. The Hamburg Senate has remonstrated against the prolonged occupation of the city by Austrian and Prussian troops, and against the number of Austrian troops in excess of the number named in the convention. The Senate is coolly told that such questions are for the decision of the military, not of the civil authorities; and all the reclamations of the Hamburg minister in the Diet are unavailing.

"He would be only making a legitimate use of that right of free choice which he was willing to impart to his neighbors. But the removal of unnecessary restrictions on liberty, strongly as I am opposed to them, is not the principal object I have in view. I am far more anxious for the removal of what I regard as a discredit to Christianity, and a departure from the principles of its Divine Author, who declared that his kingdom is not of this world,' and charged men to render to Cæsar,' the idolatrous Roman Emperor, the things that are Cæsar's, and to God the things that are God's.' And his apostles, in all their preaching and in all their conduct, explained and confirmed his doctrine. Can any one imagine those apostles secretly enjoining, or permitting, their disciples to enact, whenever they should become sufficiently powerful, laws to exclude the emperor from his throne, and the magistrate from his bench, and the senator from his seat, unless they would make a declaration on the true faith of a Christian?' If I could believe them to have entertained a secret design (for there certainly was not, nor could have been, any such design avowed) to convert hereafter Christ's kingdom into one of this world, by fortifying it with secular penalties or disabilities inflicted on all who would not profess their faith,' I could not regard them (considering all that they said and did) as other than base dissemblers. To my mind, therefore, the whole question of the truth or falsity of the gospel is involved in the decision of the point now before us. And this is a matter of far more importance than the freedom of elections."

THE "regular" London oyster season commenced on 4th August; but the ancient limits of time for enjoying these delicacies have been quite destroyed by the discovery of the vast oyster-beds between Shoreham and Havre, from which London is supplied by rail all the year round.

The propagandist efforts of the Ultramontane Roman Catholics, and the counter-agitation of the Protestant divines, are creating a ferment in Germany. This excitement is a chronic one in the Prussian territories; the passion of the king for legislation in matters ecclesiastical having stirred it up there long ago. The entry of the Austrian troops into Hesse-Cassel was immediately followed by an invasion of Roman Catholic missionaries. The most active scene of hostilities at present is the Grand Duchy of Baden. In Heidelberg-a locality which occupies a prominent place in the annals of the Reformation and the wars that arose out of it-the Protestant and Roman Catholic pulpits are almost exclusively employed to promulgate THE experiment of flax-growing at Glen Urqucounter-denunciations. In Germany the purely hart, in the far North, is expected to prove successpolitical element of this controversy preponderates ful. Twenty-one Scotch acres are under crop, and to a much greater extent than in England; the Popish missionaries are countenanced mainly as counter-agents to political liberalism, and the extent to which neological views pervade the Protestant divines has almost stripped their prelections of a theological character.

MUCH attention has been attracted by a charge from the Archbishop of Dublin to his clergy, delivered at his annual visitation in St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Tuesday. Dr. Whately discussed the subjects of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, the Jewish question, Convocation, and some minor mat

look well.

THE herrings caught in the Wick district alone in two days of last week realized in hard cash to the fishermen engaged no less a sum than £10,000 sterling. What treasure there is in the mighty deep!-Greenock Advertiser.

AT the Hôtel Gibbon at Lausanne, half a franc is charged for awakening customers in the morning: "A Traveller" indignantly sends the bill containing the charge to the Times.

THE Spanish Court has varied the refined delights of the bull-fight by "assisting" at Aranjuez at

combats in the bull circus between divers animals. | Emilys" was also by Harriet, not by Sophia Lee, There were fights between a wolf and dogs, a it emphasizes our praise. Miss Lee's further title hyena and dogs, and a bear and dogs; and then to mortuary honors is a play, or plays, acted with came the most exciting part of the spectacle, a fight small success, and which has or have gone the way between a fine lion and a bull. The lion sprang of Hannah More's triumphant "Percy" and on the bull's rear, clung to him for a time, and bit off his tail; the infuriated bull then turned on his foe, and tossed him in the air. The king of the forest gave in, lying down dejected and moaning with pain. Driven on by the biped brutes outside the palisades, the bull unwillingly continued his attacks on the vanquished lion, and finally killed him.

Madame d'Arblay's withdrawn tragedy. In her youth, we believe Miss Lee joined her sister in keeping a school at Bath. Harriet Lee survived her sister Sophia twenty-seven years, Sophia having died at Clifton in 1824.

In London, on the 4th, died Lady Louisa Stuart, aged nearly ninety-four; the youngest daughter of the Minister, Earl of Bute, and grand-daughter of In Bavaria, the priests have frightened the peo-Lady Mary Wortley Montague; the lady to whom ple into considerable alms-giving by telling them we owe the charming Introductory Anecdotes" the eclipse might be the beginning of the end of prefixed to the late Lord Wharncliffe's edition of all things. At the entrance of the Church of the Lady Mary's Works. Lady Louisa remembered Minories, in Vienna, the following Christian to have seen her grandmother, Lady Mary, when invitation" was posted: The 27th July being the at old Wortley's death that celebrated woman reeve of a great phænomenon of nature, processions turned to London after her long and still unexwill be made by the faithful to the shrines of our plained exile from England. Lady Louisa herself Lady at Maria Zell and Klein Maria Teferl, to was a charming letter-writer.-Athenæum. pray for the intercession of the Queen of Heaven, that no harm may happen to our beloved city of Vienna. The faithful assemble at the convent of the Carmelites at six in the morning, and are requested to bring with them female children clothed in white, to attend the Cross."

From the Spectator.

NEWS OF THE WEEK ENDING 16TH AUG.

THE last news from British Caffraria presents Sir Harry Smith obeying the drill injunction, "As IN 1821, 124,893,405 pounds of cotton, of the you were. "He is still, as he was six months ago, value of more than twenty million dollars, were waiting for reinforcements to begin active operaexported from the United States; in 1849, 1,036,- tions against the Caffres. Meanwhile, all bonds of 602,269 pounds, valued at sixty-six millions of dol-law and order appear to be dissolving in the colony. lars. Last year the weight was less by four hundred million of pounds, and the value more by upwards

of five million dollars.

IN 1839 the number of letters that passed through the Post-office was 75,907,572; in 1850, 347,069,071. Gross revenue in 1839, £2,339,737; cost of management, £687,768 in 1850, revenue, £2,264,684; cost of management, £1,460,785. Last year no less than £400,964 was paid for the conveyance of mails on railways; in 1839, only £1743. The money order system has vastly extended in 1840, the number of orders issued was 188,921, for £313,124; in 1850, the number was 4,439,713, and the amount £8,494,498.

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from which the governor is detained by the Caffre war, having left no legitimate organ of government behind him. If the accounts of the Hottentot disaffection and insurrectionary movements be true, the colonists are on the eve of losing their laborers, and industrial operations in the colony of being everywhere paralyzed.

The latest intelligence from Australia, though less disastrous in what regards the settlers, is equally ominous of evil for British ascendency. Delegates from Tasmania and Victoria, sent to Sydney to invite the accession of New South Wales to the Anti-Convict League, had been warmly received, and completely successful. The three provinces are now united to resist the further transportation of convicts to any part of Australia; and large sums of money (the resources of the colony considered) have been subscribed to keep up and extend the agitation.

AUSTRIA and Prussia have been attempting to persuade the other members of the resuscitated Diet to concur in the establishment of a general system of police for Germany, under the direct control of the Diet. In so far as the operation of such a system would concern the people, the minor sovereigns had no objection to it; but their jealousy of encroachments by the two great powers on their independence was strong enough to make them reject the scheme.

THE obituaries of the week announce the deaths at very advanced ages of two remarkable ladies honorably connected with English literature. At Clifton, on Friday the 1st instant, died the patriarch of English authoresses-we might add of English authors-Miss Harriet Lee, at the age of ninety-five. To most of the generation now busied with fiction, drama, and poetry, this announcement will be a surprise; so long protracted was Miss Lee's life, and so many years have elapsed since her last appearance in the world of imaginative creation took place. To readers of our time, Miss Lee is best known as having in her "German's Tale" of the "Canterbury Tales" (a miscellany of little romances by herself and her sister) furnished Efforts are still made to bring about a greater Lord Byron with the plot of his play of "Werner." harmony of action between Austria and Prussia. More old-fashioned novel-readers, who are given to The Queen of Prussia, who is understood to exerweary at the philanthropy, philosophy, and preach-cise, on the one hand, a powerful influence over ing, which threaten to turn our thousand-and-one the mind of her consort, and, on the other, to be tales into something more like " Evening Services" than "Arabian Nights," will find in her vigor and clearness of invention a merit which of itself deserves to keep the name of the novelist alive. Most of the "Canterbury Tales" possess this character; and if, as we think, "The Two

herself subject in an almost equal degree to the influence of the Archduchess Sophia, has had an interview with the emperor; and a personal meeting between the emperor and the King of Prussia is expected to follow. There is, however, an utter incompatibility between the aims of the two gov

ernments and the characters of the populations they | bell rung at a quarter to nine. The effect of this conrule, which even a more entire sympathy between tinued ringing was to cause such a confusion and noise the king and the emperor than is, from their very in her master's house that they did not know what different characters, ever likely to exist, could not

THERE is considerable activity among the military in Italy. The Austrian garrisons and stations are strengthened along the whole line of frontier, especially towards Piedmont. Radetzky is understood to have applied for reinforcements from Germany. Connected with these movements-perhaps arising out of them-are numerous but rather vague reports of plots and contemplated insurrections. The Court of Saxony, long_notorious for its zeal in propagating the Roman Catholic faith, has offered to mediate between the King of Sardinia and the Pope. The intimate family relations which connect the Courts of Saxony and Turin have prompted this step it appears to be contemplated not without alarm by the Italian liberals.

they were about; and they could not hear when the house-bells were rung. The plaintiff is an elderly gentleman; and his family consists of a daughter, two sons, and three grand-children. The daughter is in ill health, and she has been removed to Uxbridge. The largest bell was the worst of all; it made a very dreadful sound. She only heard this bell twice a week. Her master had a bell, which was rung by hand, to give notice at meal-times; this bell did not annoy her at all.

The Chief Justice-"It was much more likely to annoy those who were probably fasting next door.” Mr. Chambers-" Did the holy brethren ever make a complaint of your master's dinner-bell?" Witness" No, sir."

the bells are generally regarded as a local nuisance, Many witnesses gave evidence to the effect that and Mr. Gadsden, of the firm of Musgrove (Lord Mayor) and Gadsden, gave his professional opinion that the value of the plaintiff's house would be depreciated by the bells, on a new letting, from the present rent of 1301. a year to the reduced rent of 801. a year.

Chief Justice Jervis summed up, with an explaA CURIOUS action was tried at Croydon on Wednesday, by Chief Justice Jervis and a special jury. nation of the law, and suggestions tending to secure Mr. Soltau, a city merchant, residing in New Park an impartial verdict. By the common law, churches Road, Clapham, sought damages from M. De Held, and it is a vulgar error to suppose that there is any of every denomination have a full right to use bells, the superior of a Roman Catholic society called the Redemptionist Fathers, which has a religious house distinction at the present time in this respect. close to the plaintiff's residence, for the annoyance such a manner as to create a nuisance; and in that Bells may, however, undoubtedly be made use of in and injury to his property caused by the perpetual noise of the bells used by the society in their reli- case a Protestant church and a Roman Catholic one gious observances. A bell was put up in 1848, are equally liable. The mere fact of ringing bells which was tolled so frequently from morning to so many times in the day does not in itself constinight as to be a serious nuisance to the plaintiff. tute a nuisance; the nuisance must be of an endurRemonstrances were politely received but disre-ing and substantial character, not such as would garded. But afterwards a regular belfry was built, give offence and annoyance to a nervous mind, but and a whole peal of bells commenced a daily clan- such as is calculated to cause permanent inconvengor, which turned the plaintiff's house into an un-ience and disturbance to men of ordinary mind and bearable purgatory. Renewed remonstrance pro

nerve.

costs.

duced the information that a reference had been The jury considered two hours, and then returned made to Cardinal Wiseman; and that it had been a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. damages. The considered, as religious considerations were in-judge gave his certificate entitling the plaintiff to volved, that the bells could not be stopped unless by the law. The parties were formerly on very friendly terms, but the bells have raised a local ferment; the question of nuisance or no nuisance, injury or no injury, was therefore now referred to a jury.

Elizabeth Adams, the plaintiff's servant, gave evidence as to the extent of the grievance.

The small bell originally put up was rung all the year round at five o'clock in the morning. It rang for five minutes, loud enough to awake everybody in their house; and it was a long time before she got used to it. This bell was also rung at five other different times, and sometimes sever, during the day-at five, at a quarter to seven, a quarter to nine, at twelve, at seven, and sometimes at three in the afternoon. On Wednesdays and Saturdays it was also rung at half past six and eight. She remembered the new belfry being built. The first peal of bells she heard was on the 13th of May. They were rung at six in the evening. They were also rung the next day, but she could not say how many times; and sometimes they had been rung continually both on Sundays and week-days. Chimes were also rung on the Sundays. The small bell was rung at five in the morning, and then a larger bell was rung at a quarter to seven. At half-past seven the small bell was rung again, and then the large

From the Spectator, 16 Aug.

THE AMERICAN PRISONER IN HUNGARY.

hearing in the voluminous records of the Austrian AMONG the political trials set down for future courts, is that of Mr. Brace, who was arrested while travelling in Hungary; and if the trial should proceed, it will be watched with very peculiar interest. It will be a lesson for many parties.

It is well known that the United States sympathize with the Hungarians; and that, in spite of Jefferson's precept of non-intervention, backed though it was by Washington, they do not always confine their sympathy to words. Mr. Brace is a young gentleman of literary pursuits; he spent the last two years in the University of Berlin; a republican, a traveller, a student, he is naturally acquainted with the active men of many countries and of different political views. He formed the desire to travel in Hungary, for the purpose of studying its political institutions on the spot; and he went accordingly. Several exiles had requested him to see their relations, that he might bring some news from their home; and amongst his luggage he

had a card conveying the briefest possible introduc-| from hour to hour; actors and singers were pressed tion from General Czecz to a friend, a letter from into the service; theatres and concert-rooms were Eugenius Boëthy to his brother, Dr. Schütte's fitted up for the occasion; the "grandes eaux" at book, and Madame Pulzky's at Grosswardein, Versailles astonished the visitors with their magopenly, in reply to an open question at a table d'hôte, nificence, their ingenuity, their beauty; the poetry, he expressed some admiration of the character of as it were, of the turncock; and the Londoners General Ujhazy, whom personally he did not know. were quite abashed, as the Olympian forms of those At Pesth he was arrested; and then he found that fleeting nymphs of the waterworks rose before them, the order for his arrest had been given six hours when their thoughts reverted to Trafalgar Square. after he crossed the frontier. He was examined by But the French gave more, it has been justly said, the police; his very candor excited suspicion; his even than these great feasts and fine arts in water; knowledge of persons opposed to the patriot party they gave their attention, their time, their zeal. was pronounced to be "a screen;" the brevity of All this involved a vast amount of expense in time, General Czecz's introduction disguised "a com- money, and ingenuity. The whole was marked plot ;" and carrying out this spirit to the Commis- with a certain lavishness; and abundance, says sary of Police continually gave to Mr. Brace's Thackeray, "is the charm of hospitality"-be answers an interpretation the exact opposite to careful to have plenty, "though it be but of beer." that which they affirmed. He was lodged in How much more immense the charm when it overprison. powers you in the shape of champagne, Molière, and the world-famous visions of Versailles !

Through an Englishman, however, he managed to convey a knowledge of his situation to Mr. M'Curdy, the American minister; who immedidiately demanded his release. Prince Schwarzenberg hesitated, and tried to get off with excuses; but Mr. M'Curdy insisted, and threatened to demand his own passports. The prisoner was given up. He had been imprisoned thirty days, lodged among felons in almost Neapolitan filth; the Austrian ministers showed every disposition to keep him there; but the influence of America prevailed. The affair is not ended yet. Mr. M'Curdy accompanied his demand with the offer of a condition-that if Mr. Brace had violated the law, he should appear to take his trial. This trial will be watched with interest. It will take place in the sight of Europe and America, and also in the sight of Hungary. The oppressed subjects of Austria will see the right of personal freedom vindicated, in the person of a gentleman whose own government will do no more than insist on the strict fulfilment of the law, but will not be content with less. Austria will be obliged to submit to the law, and will be forced to that hateful submission at the dictation of a distant state. It will be brought to that submission, that dictation, before the eyes of Europe, even before its own subjects. It will be a very instructive trial.

We do not see how Austria can evade the lesson except by one course-that of not proceeding with the trial. But that would be almost as instructive.

From the Spectator, 16 Aug.
ENGLAND'S FOIBLESSE "TASTE."

Coming back, the visitors are mortified to see the ill-kept banks of the Thames; so more than homely-so ugly, so squalid. The sight of the Mansion-house recalls its hospitalities-profuse enough in one way, but so supine, so uninventive! London would fain emulate Paris; but would the aldermen take the trouble? would the common council vote the money? Would not any æsthetical alderman be assailed with a storm of sarcasms about "gewgaws," waste, and unproductive expenditure?

They go to the Exposition, that world-wonder, and are mortified to notice the slovenly, neglected, waste-ground state of the Park around it. It is almost as bad as Irish slovenliness; but, then, the Woods and Forests stand in fear of the jealousy of Parliament, and are ostentatiously stingy.

In view of these contrasts, the Times calls to recollection an ornament that might be in London-the obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle, won for England by the arms of Abercromby, and presented to George the Fourth by Mehemet Ali, but still lying in the sands at Alexandria. It could be brought to England for 25007.; it is going to pieces under the rough usage of every vagabond that comes near it.

Lords, that the opinion of Sir Robert Peel, stated to The Marquis of Westmeath stated to the House of himself, was, "that it was a monument which ought to be brought to London and erected as a memorial of Sir Ralph Abercromby and others who had fought and died in Egypt.' The answer of the Earl of Carlisle was "that he apprehended there were certain mechanical difficulties in the way.' Of course there are! There are mechanical difficulties in the way A SENSE of mortification in matters of art appears when a minister desires to raise a spoonful of soup to to have seized upon the public mind: the journals his lips; but by a judicious application of the princiteem with strictures, denunciations, and defences; ples of the pulley and lever such obstacles may be odious comparisons, exhortations, and hopes of im-missioner of some public board does not determine to overcome. For our part, we wonder that some comprovement. From the agitation kept up, you would immortalize himself by the performance of the great infer the English mind to be struck with the strongest desire to become artistic; and yet you find the most tangible evidences of indifference.

People who went to the fêtes in Paris were amazed at the superiority of our neighbors in festive graces. London city is great in its hospitality; but east of Temple Bar, hospitality means plenty to eat and drink in the first style of cookery. The Paris corporation does not appear to have been behindhand in its eating and drinking munificences, but it gave a great deal more besides; there was a continued series of festivals; the hospitable exertions were kept up from day to day,

feat. What a thing it must be to go down to posterity in company with Thothmosis III., Cleopatra, and Sir Ralph Abercromby, when one can gain so much glory by the exertion of a little energy and common sense!

But that is the whole question-it is "energy and common sense" in matters of art; and let the National Gallery test the degree to which we can command either. We cannot even be just. A beautiful statue is brought over to this country and lodged in the Exposition, of course on the faith of English honor; it is accidentally broken, through some official irregularities; and then the commis