Byzantine in style, and the exterior is faced with coloured stone. The temple, which rises to a height of 85 feet, contains 3000 sittings, and is now receiving frescoes on its walls, and stained glass throughout. A novel mode of lighting by gas has here been adopted; a space of about a foot has been left between the outer plain glass windows, and the inner stained glass; this space has been provided with the necessary ingress of fresh and egress of hot air; and the gas burners are here placed after the manner of transparencies, thus avoiding the glare and heat produced by gas. The light diffused by this means is said to have a magic effect, and might, perhaps, be worthy of imitation.

OCTOBER 25TH.--TUESDAY.

The New Declaration.-It appears that efforts are still being made by certain "students in science to procure signatures to the declaration against free inquiry. Since Sir John Herschell's letter appeared in the Athenæum, it has been no easy work. Professor Owen has refused to sign. Many others, scarcely less eminent, have followed Herschell and Owen. The value of a scientific protest, in which the great chiefs of science-Herschel, Owen, Faraday, Whewell, Airy, Lyell, Murchison, Tyndall, Sabine-refuse to join, may be imagined. The Davenport Brothers Outdone.—The Culcutta superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, writing under date September 22, says:"One of the greatest curiosities of the day-a somnambulist stewardgoes home in the Mooltan. No matter how securely he may be bound with cords, he undoes everything, and walks about while fast asleep. Last night we fastened him to the ship's butcher, but he loosened himself without awakening the man, got on deck, and was very nearly overboard. The man is a constant source of anxiety to all on board the Mooltan."

OCTOBER 26TH.-WEDNESDAY.

News by Telegraph.—Several of the Paris journals speak in severe terms of the very careless and unintelligible manner in which the Agence Havas performs its duty towards the Paris journals, at the same time that it makes them pay an exceedingly large sum for the imperfect information given. In the present instance, the adjournment of the sittings of the Italian Parliament was so announced as to cause great alarm, and to produce a considerable fall in securities in Paris after Bourse hours on Tuesday.

The Italian Postal System.-The Turin correspondent of the Morning Post, writing on the subject of the Italian postal system, says :-" What a blessing it would be for both residents and visitors, if Italy, in the course of her rapid progress, would develop a Rowland Hill, for at present the postal arrangements are sometimes very harrowing to Saxons accustomed to getting their letters. I went daily to the Post-office at Naples for my letters, but was told there were none; when I learned afterwards there were not only letters and papers, but a telegram of the utmost importance, lying there for three days, whilst they were telling me there was nothing for me.

OCTOBER 27TH.-THURSDAY.

Chain Armour for the English Navy.-An official order has been issued from the Controller's Office of the Admiralty, directing that all such of Her Majesty's ships in the several dockyards that are not fitted to carry armour-plating shall be at once fitted with eyebolts on the outside of the ship's hull, three feet apart, in the wake of the ship's boilers and engines; so that, in the event of the ship going into action with an enemy, Her Majesty's ships may sling their chain cables over their sides in imitation of the Federal American frigate Kearsarge in her recent action with the Confederate American corvette Alabama. On this order the Times remarks:-" If the British Board of Admiralty had no experience to

guide them in such matters, this order might pass without further notice; but with the facts before them that chain armour for ships has failed beyond all other armour, tested by Her Majesty's ship Excellent at Portsmouth, and on other testing grounds, this order to copy from the American navy is totally inexplicable. The order received at Portsmouth directs that the three-decked screw steamship Victoria is to be fitted with these eyebolts for chain armour cables previous to commission."

OCTOBER 28TH.-FRIDAY.

Mr. Herbert, R.A., left England for the East on Saturday last, to remain there some months, with a view to collect materials for the execution of other works of a similar character to that which has excited so much admiration in the Peers'

Robing Room. Mr. Herbert is accompanied by his on, Wilfred, who is an artist of much promise.

OCTOBER 29TH.-SATURDAY.

"On a New Method of Extracting Gold from Auriferous Ores." By F. C. Calvert.This method was based upon the fact that gold is more readily attacked by nascent chlorine than by free chlorine. The gold ore, reduced to a fine powder, was to be mixed with about one per cent. of peroxide of manganese, and then either salt and sulphuric acid or else hydrochloric acid was to be added to it. The author anticipated that one of the advantages of his method would consist in the recovery at the same time of copper and silver as well as gold. "On a Chemical Photometer for Meteorological Observation." By Professor Roscoe.

By means of this instrument the daily curve of chemical intensity of the sunlight at any spot is obtained, the whole apparatus being of a very simple description.

"On the Present Aspect of the Discussion respecting the Telescopic Appearance of the Sun's Photosphere." By the Rev. W. R. Dawes.-A communication passing under review Mr. Nasmyth's various assertions, and much of the recent work undertaken with an object of proving or disproving them. Mr. Dawes does not accept Mr. Nasmyth's statement as any new discovery, especially if the "willowleaves" are identical with Mr. Stone's "rice-grains," and considers the discussion to be reduced to these alternatives :-First, That the objects described by Mr. Stone as like "rice-grains," are not identical with those Mr. Nasmyth has compared to "willow-leaves," and therefore can afford no corroboration of Mr. Nasmyth's assumed "discovery;" or, secondly, if they are the same, they are so easily seen as to have been well-known to Sir W. Herschel seventy years ago, and to others more recently, and are therefore no new discovery at all. The Children of Lutetia.-The Empress of the French has, through her private Secretary, thanked Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, for his studies of the poor of the French capital. Mr. Jerrold is preparing a similar work on the poor and charities of Belgium and Holland.

OBITUARY.-Mr. John Leech, the chief illustrator of Punch, died this evening. Like so many of his literary friends, associated with him in the same work-Hood, Gilbert a'Beckett, Jerrold, Thackeray-Mr. Leech has been cut off in middle life, being only 47 years of age. By his friends he was much loved and esteemed; with the whole community he was, through his works a favourite and a friend. "Men of the Time," says Mr. Leech was of Irish extraction; he was born in London in 1817, and educated at the Charterhouse school under Dr. Russell.

OCTOBER 30TH-SUNDAY.

OCTOBER 31ST.-MONDAY.

Statue to Leech and Thackeray.—Both Leech and Thackeray, were educated at the Charterhouse, were schoolfellows there together, and both ever showed remarkable attachment to their old school. On the last Founder's Day they sat side by side in the Great Hall, where they were warmly greeted by many attached friends and old Carthusians. It is proposed to erect a monument to their joint memories within the walls of the Charterhouse, and the Rev. Dr. Currey of the Charterhouse has consented to receive contributions for this object. Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society.-The Rev. C. D. Ginsburg, V.-P., in the chair.—Mr. Thomas Jevons, Mr. J. K. Smith, Mr. Wm. Fearneside, and Mr. Wm. Bromham were elected Members, and the following gentlemen were elected Associates :-Captain Thompson, ship Admiral Lyons; Captain Edward Berry, ship Charmer; Captain Alexander Browne, steamship Agia Sofia; and Captain Whiteway, ship Annie Chesshyre.-Dr. Nevins explained, and illustrated by some curious sections and drawings, the remarkable form assumed by the stems of tree-ferns, whereby, although they only grow by their summits, they appear to be thicker at the base or commencement of growth than higher up the stem, owing to the accumulation of ramentum about the base to afford support to the superstructure. Mr. Moore exhibited a specimen of the Hippocampas, or seahorse, in spirit. At the conclusion of the miscellaneous business, the Rev. C. D. Ginsburg, LL.D., read a paper, "On the Ancient Versions of the Bible."

SHAKESPEARIAN MUSEUM.

A temporary SHAKESPEARIAN MUSEUM, to contain old editions of the Poet's Works, or any tracts or relics illustrative of them, has been formed at Stratford-onAvon. Mr. HALLIWELL is actively engaged in collecting for this object, and he will be glad either to receive as presents for the Museum, or to purchase, any articles suitable to be preserved there. Persons owning any Shakespeariana, would much oblige by communicating with "J. O. HALLIWELL, Esq., No. 6 St. Mary's Place, West Brompton, London, S. W.":

THE ROSE, THE SHAMROCK,

AND

THE THISTLE.

JANUARY 1865,

66

BITTER SWEETS:

A LOVE STORY.

BY JOSEPH HATTON,

AUTHOR OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JACOB MORRISTON," ETC.

CHAPTER XVIII.

JOE WITTLE DISCOVERS THAT "THINGS IS NOT EXACTLY AS THINGS

OUGHTER BE."

"SUPPOSING I Were to turn out to be a very bad man, Anna," said Paul, after he had sufficiently recovered to be enabled to take exercise ; “supposing you should discover that you had married a man of infamous character?"

"You alarm me, dear," said Anna, bending her clear bright eyes upon her husband, half fearful that the delirium of fever might be returning.

"Don't be alarmed, my love. Suppose, I say, you should discover, or it should be discovered, that I, Paul Massey, your husband, had been guilty of a great crime?"

Anna, who was standing by Paul's chair, before the bright fire which blazed the library chimney, laid her arm fondly upon his, and nodded for him to proceed with his question.

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"Should you love me then, as dearly as you do now?"

"I shall always love you, Paul; but the supposition you put to me is altogether out of my power to imagine, much more to think about;" said Anna, her open countenance, full of confidence and love, endorsing every word she said.

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"But I wish you to try and realize it," said Paul, looking into the fire.

"Don't frighten me, dear," Anna said gravely.

"Suppose it, Anna. Just suppose it, for the sake of supposition, love," said Paul, taking her hand in his.

“Well, then, if I must humour you, Paul, I should love you then more than I love you now; I should pity you so much, knowing that if you had done anything wicked, your hot fervent nature had been to blame, and not your kind loving heart."

"God bless you, Anna!" said Paúl, taking her face between his two hands and kissing it.

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Why did you ask such a strange question, my pet ?" Anna asked, looking up at the pale, handsome face of her husband.

“You say I said such strange things when I was delirious, Anna; that I prayed so earnestly for forgiveness, for your sake; that I— that I-"

The remembrance of what Anna had said, with regard to his ravings during the fever, overcame him: he covered his face with his hands and threw himself back into his chair.

“You are weak, my love; you should not excite yourself in this way. I am very very sorry I told you about what you said; but you were so anxious to know, Paul-so anxious. Don't think of it, dear. Surely you do not think I believed you had done anything wicked. Dear Paul, I have heard that when the mind of a man is burdened with some dreadful weight of guilt—which is not your case, my love,” said Anna, smiling lovingly upon him-"I have heard that, when such is the case, a man does not disclose it in delirium. Oh, Paul, Paul, dear Paul, I know your soul to be unsullied, and your love to be the truest, the best, the fondest."

Paul removed his hands, and looked up at his wife, as though he had just awakened from a dream.

"How foolish I am, Anna dear; I have been asking some silly question-I am not quite well yet, love, and my thoughts are a little wandering. How the wind blows! It must be a stormy night at

Anna had knelt down and laid her head upon her husband's knee, and Paul stroked her fair brown hair, and patted her head with his hands.

"However foolish I may be, Anna, and even if I were very wicked, I love you truly, do I not?”

Anna turned her face towards him, and kissed the hand that caressed her.

A few minutes afterwards they went arm in arm to the drawing-room, and Anna lulled Paul's unhappy thoughts to rest with that exquisite melody, the sprite's song, from "Oberon," which rose and fell like the gentle murmur of an inland lake, when a summer breeze moves it with