Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1873, Page 7

THE BATTLE OF THE MASTODONS Agnsslz on the DDevelopment Theory. Jpsence of Evidence for the Evolution Theory in the Admitled Facts of Embryonic Simifarity. Creation the Work of ¥ind, and Not a Product of ‘Law. ass. (June 16), Correspondence of the New i, St e 3 fhe following lecture was delivored by Prof.- 7. before the Muecum of Comparative- n the 20th of May : z«;al;ngli:d this closing lecture of the prosent course to bo 8_gEmmary of the preceding ones, od st the esme time an introduction tc the course 1 hope to give next Autumn on the suc- cesion of organized boings in past geological times, Allow mo to ey that these lectures have sotbeen compiled from established sources of Juowledge. T bave tried togive you tho fresh- etrecults of investigation not yet incorporated intext books and manusla. In so doing I have grwn largely from my own resources, and inap- ing the subject to-dsy I am forced to say cpe more word of myseH, It was my good for- taze early in my scienzifio career to reach certain izations which are generally accepted 2o by scientific men, and which sre used, gagalarly enough, considering my own position <itlireferenc to it, to support the transmuta- {oa doctrine. I read, in order to show yon that donot make this statement loosely, some ox- {rcts from & pamphlet entitlod. De I'Origine du Hoado Organique, just publishod by Prof. Mar- tins, the Director of the Botanical Garden in Aontpelier, and of the lesding scientific men of Frocs. Speaking of those who have laid the fomdstion: for the present state of the science of Natural History, he names in succession the inent investigators of the beginning of our Ratary, cnd thon coming to more recent times, beesys: Anciher of theee precursors of modern sclence is = Enlarging and fertilizing the results proved that palmontological deyelo Whil s dur- Y NN —— GE————— e Lo 16 has g,;‘f;{,; be compared to that of the embryo, o+ animals now living rise through many sf irgthelr growth, the foseils have followed a similar 1o in past oges. The oldest foreil forms have s eimpler organization thax: the later ones. and repre- sestsome siage of the embryouic development of the Luer, Thistruth, established by Agassiz, has more {2 goy other enlightened the history of creation and prepared for the ganeralization by which the whole sy be comprehended. Ta ezother placo the writer says: 7y ruz up the question, we may stato that, whether we follow, with Baer, the growth of the animal in the wazbof it mother, orrige with Darwin end Hoekel from thelowest to the highest liviug being, or trace with Agwsis the fosails scattered through the whole series o grological formstions, we etudy parallel phenorz- e, the investigation of which lasda to concurrent re- suis motually explained. And more especially : Te oldest fishes known are all, more or leos, re- sl o the sharks and akates; their tecth and i emsall portions of their have preserved. Their form, sildy different from that of the living species, thut of the embryo of our living fishes. Tisis & truth which Agessiz was the first to proclaim ® the scientific world. He. confirmed it when itttowed that the young garpike, Lepidosteus, that wuge fish of the fresh waters of North Americs, has . auilstrikingly similar to that of the fossils of the De- veisnage. Hers we touch as it were tho parallelista Eaween the palmontological and the embryonic series. 4n sdult fish of thie Devonian perlod s the embryo of aliviag species, both derived from identical eggn. Only that in the first zges of our globe the fossil fish ‘bas mopped in its development. It has preserved its exbryonic form, while tho living Ash has continued u evolution and risén many degrees in the scale of saimal life, As you perceive, my results are here sdmitted vithout reservation, but thoy are presented as forming an eesential part of the very fonndation of the transmuiation theory. IMERYONIC LIEENESS NO PROOF OF DERIVATION. How docs it happen then that there is 80 com- plete an sntagonism between my views and those of the adheront of this very doctrine? _Simply beeause their interpretation of tho facts is based upn & fancied identity between phonomens which, 80 far 28 we know, have not, and in the witwe of things cannot have, any material con- necion. Tt1a true-that, as ftated in the work aiare quoted, the eeries of transformations ob- #eved in ihe egg corresponds in & general way to the Buccession of snimals in geological fines. Embryonic conditions of the higher ver- tebrates to-day recall adulc formns of lower ver- trates in the earlier geological times, From this fact the transmutationists infer that torohas been some materinl development in thslong sequence of ages of the one out uf the cher. But.the embryonic conditions of the tigher vertebrates recall adult forms of lower Yenchrates now living, their own cotemporaries, jetssmuch, andin the same wWay, ns they re- clithe fossil forms. Shall we infer that be- aweschickenor & dog in ourownday,ina certain phase of its development,. resembles, in ceriin aspects, a full-grown skato, that there- fozechickens and dogs nowadays’ grow ont of £hes? We lmow it is not s0; and et the ovi- dexe g exactly the same 8a_thaf which the tnamatationisis nse so plausibly to enpport ter theory. The truth is that while a Ruiial presentstion of the facts seems to futain this theory, when taken in their free connection and fzirly stated they destroy it Ir proving too much. ’Isney show that the rela- tions vetween foseil animals supposed to provs ent, exist alg between living animals, where | Lerhave nothing to do with descent liistrue that {be series of growth (that is, £ succensive changes in the egg), and the se- Tetof timo (the succeesive introduction of ani- in'the goolcgical ages), cover the same £uand; they correspond remarkably. But there Teother like meries in nature, parallel with L, and of cqual importance. Of one I have {8 spoken—th eerios of rank among T2g animals. By this I mean that, taking Tebrates ag they at proscat exist, W recog- Lisgradation among them. Wo sce that fishes hyest, that reptiles are higher, that birds e mperjor organization fo both, and that Bumls, with man at their head, are highest. D4phuses of development which s guadruped Simes, in his embryonlo gromth, Tecall this Dittion,” He has a fish-like, s reptile-like, Habefore he shows unmistabable mammal-like fsins, e do not on this account supposs La quadruped grows ont of s fish in our times, fzthis gimple ressom, that we live among irupeds and fishes, and we kuow that no F4 thing takes places. But resemblances of U wme kind, separated by geological sges, Wow play for the imagination, and for inference cked by observation. s Difter e APATION OF ANTMALS BY BANE. . 2% of structural growth provails ‘gfqumm- animal kingdom, both in larger Diminor groups. We have it in the animal e e —— e —— e t—— {2tion 18 & wLole, and in cach smaller divis- 12 Lebme explan this gradation first in its i, Sente. Ko ono has ever considered the A’fi sf.:fl;fi.sg on a lavel with‘éhe.vel;the- 'mn"“’:‘high ts agree in considering the X est type. All place the Artic- i :’!"»'?;:‘nb.l&aka betmeon tl):::;wo{;h soms o equality, whilo others ce oluzks Belonr . fhe Anicuumf or {es below the Mollusks, s t0 different ostimates of their i creation all Bt let us go_a step further. ticn among Radiates as com- s, or lowest below_th ; 5:1‘: . ow the stony corals; an ..m‘ souy corals the madrepores stand g m! her than the other groups. ¢ Acalephs or jelly-fishes—the seoond lein it o5 e have tho Hydroid, so sim- tmmh"‘ $bat did we not_see the Acaleph the 4 ¥ should rather sssociate it ol Polyp than with soy higher x the “Discophores to which the Xo jelly fishes belong, or 2uimals of exquisite delicacy and ory meh%ntlod strocture ‘hf.;n or Polyps. Above ] tho Echinoderms, or star-fishes, ichog "0 holothurians, relatively dis: e ’-’:;x-uch otker by a progreesive th ” (iracture from the Crinoide i} Wizggy .° , OPhisurians, Asteroids, ‘and : theyrne Holothurlans, Tho same is % “M:l-l“_huwulxtbe Radiates. We “eiorit relative soporiority or tr ot felructure. Loweet stand the Aco 82 oy llglmn, 2ad all the bibalve shells k) ey 28 Gumm})od.l or univalves, Ry yor 0dless vavigly of ghella | i § Conhgors 0068, or flst “disks; and then 3 e 7§ = B \....w...?é: JIRBRRIN B ¥ fpaas 2 R E =) e 7 g 4ot op0d—all the Nautili, 'chambered 3 102 ey fish. 80 with the" Artioulstes. Safygy 222eless chaervor will notico the grada- i«. “fima #impler worm, the moro com- iy l'n, and the sfill more oighly lasect,” The comparative eianding of THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUN JUNE 29, 1R difforcat clarses in the Vertabrate type is so well kaown that I need not recall it to you, and, if we tako any one of those classes separately, wo put tho gradation just as marked with each class, That_ is, fishen, reptiles, birds, and mammals may be subdivided accordiag to dotails of strao. ture by which they stand rolatively higher or larcg. 'I‘hxsl'ean}m of rank, determined upon re:ative complicaiion of siructuro, is recogniz by all zoolcglsts, and in, a8 T have showet pas simple serics, but involvos endlces minar sorice, pneed in tho £amo Way upon etructural charac: ors. * GRADATION OF RAXK: PARALLELED IN GROWTI. _In what I have called series of rank or grada- tion I allude only to animals in the adult condi- tion, taking a8 & standard of comparison the complication of their structure when full grown, But wo have something of the sumo kind in the ecries detorinined by growth; that is, by tho changes which animals. undergo. from tho time when the whole mass of substance is nothiog but a2 accumulation of yolk colls, prosently combin- ing to form the merm layer rezting on the yolk, and guccessively passing through phases which develop the cutline of a new being and finally léad to the formation of o perfect, full-grown, living animal. Thero is, as we have socn, 2 mode of development in ench type which may be looked upon 2s'a unit. All Radiates, all Mollusks, all - Articulatos, all Vertebrates, are doveloped ench within its own type, eccording o a given pattern of growth, and, up to a certain point whero class featurea, ordinal features, family foatures, make their appearance, they show only typical charscters— that is, what belongs to thém as moembers of their type, but not what characterizes thom as members of any pafticular group within that trpe. But within each such genoral series cof growth are minor serics, dotermining specinl characteriztics, The Vertobrates have & mode of development peculiar to themsolves, and 8o similar that, 83 we have seon, it is difficalt to distinguish the human embryo ‘from that of a0y quadruped. But within that general Ver- tebrate series of giowth, we have minor and more epecial series; those upon” which the dog, tho deer, the guinea pig, aud any given group of Vertebrates aro developod. Boin th8 Dirda ; their growth as a whole reminds us often of the quadruped strikingly; but they have their un- Iariable and untatly spocifismodes of gromth determining their final character as belonging to 8ome particular gronp of birds. In those ani- mals whose ombryology has been carefully studied, the investigator is not misled by general resemblences, for we can anticipate the final re- sult by its connection with antecedent phases ; andin each case the skillful embryologist re- cognizes the peculianties which are the pro- cursors of the ultimate complication of struc- ture. Looking upon all these serics of Verte- brate growth as & whole, in tho same way that wo look upon the type of adult Vertebrato, as a whole, wo seo both sets of phenomens as single é)ic‘nmu; all the minor sories of rank and growth melting into one simple scries which includes them all. Looking upon them both in this comprehensive way, ws. can. fairly compare them. There is a time when the human embroyo is sb like the fish embroyo that it is hard to say what is specifically human and what is specifically fish ; later it may be compared to the reptile "and to the bird ; and its own char- scteristics are saperinduced upon those which it bas in common with the lower ropresentations of the'type. Such aseries of growth, corros- onding with & series of rank or gradation, we ey among _Vertebrates, among Articulates, smong Molusks, and among Radistes. I you will carefally compare its different phases of de- u]opmant,ul"on will find that an insect during what we its metamorphosis reprosents, first, the lowest Articulates, the worm, in its caterpillar condition; then the crustacea in its chrysalis state, and only takes on its insect features when it is full grown. GENERAL FACTS A8 TO STEUCTURAL GBADATION. In a certain sense the structural history of every individual member of the highest class in y Eype may be said to be the structural history of the whole type. It isa littie more legible to the common observer in the Articulates then in any other type, because the highest class under- goes its growth ua the distinct chapters of a con- nected metamorphosis; but it is equally true for all. IfIhad time I could show jou in detail that the Echinoderms, for instance, when form- ing in the egg, have, first, polyp-like, then acaleph-like foaturos, and thaf when thoy finally assume the teristics of their class (supposing that they belong to tho higher spe- cies of Echinoderms), they pa&s through pheses of the lower familivs before they attain their own- specific features. In short, we may say that the classes within every type, the orders within every class, the families within every or- dor, the goners within every family, and the spocies within each genus, presont a structural gradation more or less marked. The embryol- ogy of the higner animals in each type belps us to understand thia gradation by showing it to us in s progressive development. I do not moan to eay that sny embryology corresponds in all. its details to the struotural relations Bat when we find of “full-.grown sanimals. that a raptile is fishliko before it as- sumes s reptilian character; that birds <ud quadrnpeds are fish and roptile-like be- fore they dovelop their class features, and that even the human embryo passes through phascs resembling all theso lower groups, we may be quite suro that the rank in which we had ar- raged them before we knew their embryology Ia'tha carract one. eings: thets ode of develop- ment confirms it, The same kind of cor.e- spondeuce preveils between embryological de- velopment and geological succession. That is, fish were the first vertebrates introduced upon cu.!("thl Then came the greli‘x’t:gci;ls:, Lhelx; ‘birds, and Istest, mammals, quadrupeds, ind man. We 'do not yet know how far these cor- respondences " may be carriod, for we are not familisr with the embryologi- cal history of a great many animals. But o far as science has gone in this kind of investigation, the results are everywhers tho same. Take, for instance, the Echinoderms; the earliest ropresentatives of that class of Radiates wero the Crinoids (star-fishes on stems). Now, the Echinoderms of the preseht day pass through a distinct crinoidal phase of develop- ment, and I may add that there is among the present Echioderms a lower group, the mombers of which tre alwsys atiached to a stem (the Pentacrinus and similar genera), so that in this instance the sories of geological succession of embryological development, and of structural rank smong the -living agree remarkably. I could give yon various instances of the-same kind; but all these facts belong proper- 1y to_my comrse on geological succession and palzontology, next term, and I should only confuse your minds did I attompt to present them now. I only bring forward enough to show this basia_ for the ardent disoussion going on among naturalists during the Iast ten or twelve ears as to tho real nature of these relations, 6 ovolutionists, as I have shown you in the extracta with which I have e&emyd this lecture, use the parallelism between the series of embry- onic growth and geological successicn as sup- orting their theory. _But even wero the paral- Ful.iam as complete as they would have it, the evi- dence is vitiatod by the fact that it extands toa seriea of rank among living animals, and, 2s I could show you,slso to & series of the same kind controlling the geographical distribution of animals. But even wors the correspondence confined to the successive appearance of animals ip time, and their successive phases of growth, 8oes it prove s common descent? Does it give us any ational explanation of the means by which the present diversity among animals was brought about? Doesit give us any reason to believe that the process of evelution in organic life has ever been different from what we now soe going on abeat us ? ¥ 'BESEMBLANCES THAT EZEM TO BE REMINISCENCES. In the first place, is the parallelism between these serious relations, so curionsly repro- duced under various circumstances, bat always with tho samwe general significance, 80 exact 2a to justify us in ssying that all are but differ- snt phases of the same thing? It is aresem- blance of the same kind as that which we ex- ress by the idea of unity, harmony, coberence. t is the utterance of the same truth by the same mind at different times, or- the utterance of the ssme thought in different langusges. It is an intellectual unity, not a material connec- tion, We montally perceivé theso relations and unite them into a single picturs. That picture ia the product of our own power of recognizing combinations. . We ourselves lift the broken facts into & mirage which, looked upon_from a distance,- seems & perfectly connected whole. But while thess general correspondences are undoniable, the details fall spart the nmo- ment we try to test thom by any ma- terinl connection. It Is true, for instance, that the embryo of the present garpike resem- blea the fish of the Devonian period. But, after all, this resemblancs is noihing more than o reminiacence, s it were, of & pattern in- troduced years ago. The embryo of our garpike has s norm of growth as fixed and invanable as that of ray other specics. It faintly recalls the old fish giants, but it never develops into any- thing- bnt the fish from which itis born—s species of very marked and nnmistakablo spacific cglmcu:r!, sod very unlike this old type of the Devonian era. The esaential differeuce is that the Devonian fish grew to colossal dimensions, 0d the othor condition only the embryonic stago of the growth of the otlier fish ? Ing:way. % NO SUCCESSIVE XVOLUTION OF TTPES. Then whilo it may be said on the whole in a general senso that the lower forms haye ceded hllfhar ones, and that embryonic develop- ment follows the s3mo progress from the simpler to the more complex structure, it is not true in detail thatall the oarlier animals wero simpler than the later. On the contrary, many of tho lower animals were introduced under more high- ly organizcd forms than they have ever showa siuce, and have dwindled afterward. Such ate the types -which I have called syn- {thetio typos, combining oharacters which ‘wero soparatod later and found expression in distincs groups. That presontation of palmon- tological phenomonn which would make it appear thatthe whole animal kingdom has bean mrar- shuled in a consecntivo procession beginr.ng -with the lowost and ending’ with the highest, is 1alse to nature. Thore is mo inevitabla repeti: tion, no rechanicel eyolution in tho goological succession of organic life. It has the corre- spondenco of connecied plan. It has just that kind of resemblance in the paris, so much and Do more, 88 always charecte:zés intellactual work proceeding from the same source. It has that freodom of manifestntion, that inde- pendence, which characterizis “the work ‘of mind as compared with - the work of law, Sometimes, in_looking at this great epoch of organic lifo in_its totality, carried on with such ease and vari aod even playtul- noss of expression, ono is reminded of the great conception of the poot or musician, whore tno undertone of the fundzmental harmony is heard boneath all the diversity of rhythm or of song. So groatis this freedom, so unlike the mechanice] action of evolution, that we find end- less incongruitios, appalling avachronisms in tho would-t:e uninterrupted series of progress- ive evontsas advocsted by the supporters of the transmutation dogme. Animals that should be ancestors if simplicity cof structure is to characterize the first born, aro known to bo of later origin; the more complicated forms have frequently appoared first, .and the simpler ones latar, and this in bundreds of instances, Any one doubting my statoments noeds only compare tho lcading treatisos of -palmontology wlth the best systematic works on Zoolo, @ assertion does not bear sorious 6xnm§:y It is just ona of thoss fancied re- sults following the disclosure or presentation of 8 groat law which caplivates the mind, and leads it to take that which it wishes to be true for truth i I mzy soem to have mnds only nssertions with- out ‘demonstration in facts. It istrue that I bave hed timo only for a gonoral illustration, and have been unable to present to you the crowd of examples which present themselves to my mind. This I hope to do later. Meantimes I think I have done something to show you that the intorpretation I put on my own facts is moro correct than that which ths transmutationists put upon thom. I believe that all those cor- respondences between the different aspects of animal life are the manifestations of mind aot- ing consciously with intention toward one ob- Joct from beginning to end. This view is in ac- cordance with the working of our minds; it is an - instinctive recognition of a mental power with which our own 1s akin, manifesting itself in nature. For this reason, more than any other, orhaps, do I hold that this woxld of ours is not 0 result of the action of unronscious organio forces, but the work of an in'- ;ligent, conscious power. e UNBEST. The mind's & battle-fleld, Where fortressed doubtings yield To phalanges of stronger doubts, Whoe boist'rous jeers and skeptio shouts More oft annoy Than vouchsafe joy. Yet, 17 with faith I pray, Lo that same hour and day, Tith oqual aich, my biter foo 3y sak my great hope's overthrow.— * Onefaithful prayer No frait will bear. As well pray, “ Shine, O Bun 1" o A2, Lot Thy il bo'done 1" cry for even atrength fo bear s in fteclf spocific prayer— Besoeching God : Bes g God : “ Lot me bo God 17 If wo aro thoughtless hurled Tpo: this frowning worl - Clanking with manaclos of sf Furged are our sorry lives begin— With flosh and mind To wrong inclined—" Phen it is truly base To broed the hapless race;— L aless from instinct men rebel, There'll not be standing-room in Heli When Matter crumbe And Time succumba. Docs the grost God permit A brutal fiend to sit In rival state, to rack the ghasts ©Of countless, helpless, humsx hosts Whose earthly all Was pain and gall 7 1f we could comprehend Boul-burning without end, Our utterance would have one sound— Tirat we might 'scape the pit profound ‘Where Satan rules Midst impe and ghouls, But thought unbidden delves, Aud men still ask themselves : # Ie't~intuition or conceit ‘Which makes our lives seam incomplete Unless there be Futurity 17 The swectest joys alloy, And our content destroy— Beem waspish satires flerce with barbs, And fienda in satiafying garbs— Hollow at best. As hell-fool's jest. 1 iay upon my ‘And wondered if the dexd Are tortured with the hopea and fearr, Tise beary hearts and burning tears, That weigh on us, And proy on ua. JoEN McGOVERN, One Mundred and Forty Miles in Two Hours. - From the Central City (CoL) Coach, Clear Creck is s miniature river that runs through tho canon of the same name. It de- sconds upon a down grade of 400 feot per mile, with here and thore & fall over & mckygaeipicu fifteon or twenty fect in height. Lurga bouldors, forty and fifty feet in diameter, and weighing thousands of “tons, impede its_dashing progress every two or threo hdndred yards, while its curves are 80 sharpand 8o froquent that the stream can nowhere bo seen for a distanco of a thousand feet. Granite cliffs two and three miles high project over it on either side, and gives frightful, romantic, and dangerous ap- pearanca to the rushing torront beneath, Just below Black Hawk, on the side of the stream, & small reservoir has been constructed, inwhich is kept an ordinary skiff. Last Sun- day two little sons of Martin F, Walker, aged re- spectively 10 and 12 yoars, got into the boat and were splashing the water with s stick, when the ith what we know to- be only Fansient features during the _dwarflsh early days of our garpike. Bupposing thera were po other difforences, doe: tho re- semblance account for the fact that one of the conditions embraces the whole life of the one, Inatnninfis gave way and tho boat went drifting toward the rapidly-running current. The little boys soon discovered their danger, but wero powerless to avert it ; they clutched hold of the sides of the boat, and, with pallid countenance, awaited thoir doom. Soon the boat waa caught by the current, and began drscending at & fear- falrate. On she woni, the boya' hats blew off, and their bair atood straight up; over Black Hawks Rapids they went like an arrow, clear- ing » distanco of sixty fest at s single dash. Lighting sgain on the torrent surface the boat ssemed to have gained a new impetus, and shot by the bomlders and arourd the rocky points with the celerity of & sunbeam. Ata distance of about six mifes be- Tow the starting point, Conductor Gibbons, who waa standing on the rear platform of the down 0. C. train, sow tho boat coming, and immedi- ataly swmeod the train. All hands repsired to the “water's edge, and did everything in their power toassist the fiying boat, bus past them she went like a bullet from a rifle, and was out ofgight in & moment. The conductor then or- dered the cagineer to put on a full head of steam and follow a8 rapidly as possible, which he did, constantly !onmf‘:ng tho alarm of danger. He did not gst another glimpse of the boat, but the alarm_brought the employes at Boaver Crock Btation to the look-out, and quickly making a slip-noose sought to throwit over the bow of the boat &s she came under the bridge. This_they succeoded.in doing, but could no more hold it thaa they could have held » thunder-bolt, and over Boaver Creek Falls she went with the nti:red of the lightoning. The fells are abont thirty feet high, and at the foot are anumber of large bouldors, but the “velocity of th boat was such that it cléared them easily, and struck the water somo twenty feet beyond. From here no morial eye saw the bost or its living freight until it had reached a point 100 miles below Denyer. Through Golden into the Platte River, and under the Denver bridges she went, unnoticed, nor slackened her pace until she Jodged in & drift at the distanco below Denver above mentioned The Platte does not' run very rapidly, but the boat had jred such s wonderfal speed in its descent from tho mountains that it 1ar outrodo the current.” A Mr. Walsh, who lives on & farm near the drift where the boat lodg: discovercd the boys still in tho boat, which was pearly full of water, and took them to his home. They were restored to their overjoyed parents the following evening, after ha: ed the most perilous journoy, time over mrde by any human being who escaped alive. The distance traveled .was 140 .miles in two hours ; but how it was ever done, or how tho boat escaped being dashed upon some of the huge boulders or rocky cliffs which every- whore intercept tho course of Clear Creck is nothing short of a providential miraclo. Proba- Dly not again in a thousand sears could the jons- ney bo made with the best sppliances and by the most skillful marinors. ing accomplisn. in tho quickest e THE SHAH OF PERSIA. A Troubiesome Guest-=Costly JFewels ~New Notions of Etiquette-=A Round of Fetes, BY WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL, LL.D. *Berlin (June 6) Corregpondence of the New ¥ork Times, In & letter posted hora three days ago I gave some account of t‘lxa'u'n'\'nl of the Ruler of the Medes—if there be any of them left—and Per- sians, To-morrow L: leaves Borlin, aud, you ‘may take my word for it, they aro not sorry to Jose nins. At the reception of the diplomatic body the other day, his Imperial Majosty was very grave till ho came toAlr. Bancroft, and then he smiled for tho first time—not at the vencrabla diplomat ehd historian, but at a romark he made. Having paid eomo compliment to the American Minister on the importance and great- ness of the Republic, the Shah was asked ** whether ho had not botter extend his journey end pay a visit to tho United Btates.” The idea reemed to amuso his Majesty, who, although he was the only one of the Persians who was not sick on the Caspian, has not & perfect confidenca in the sea, and who, sccordingly, declared it was too long a voyage. There are thirty-five perons in atteadance upon him. They have thirty-three servants to waiton them—eiglity-nine Persiang inall. That iy an invasion, & horde to let looso ona plece. Somo of the genilemen are littlo better than lackoys, but they give themseives airs, a8 if they woro poers of tho realm, at lonst, and call thomselves **Kahn,” na if they were to the mavner born. There are some intolligent, highly-cultivated men among them, but, on the wholo, there is not much to be kaid for s Majesty's entoarage, except those of foreign ex- traction, Americans, Europoans, etc. He has a French physician, and also Dr. Dickson, of the English Mission, to look after his health. Tho jewels of the Shah have -quite surpassed the reports of their sizo and value which pre- ceded their owner's arrival. The Treasury of Persin, we all know, was rich, to an incrediblo richness, with accumulated wealth of the sort ; but no one was prepared to see mortalibus ocu- lis, ‘& diamond nearly twico the''size of tho Koh-i-noor, or * Mountain of Light,” (now in the possession of the Queen of England, once Runjeet Bing, the Lion of Lakore's greatest glory,) stuck 1 front of a man's sword-belt, and five diamonds, each larger than thai jewel of jewals, en. echelon, up his cozt from waist to shoulder. These stones are scarcely out and do not show as they ought, but they are of surpass- ing purily. Tho Bhah's sword-belt is & troasuro- house in itself. The sheath is studded with rubies, omeralds, and diamonds, which shame their setting of purest gold, Tho front of his coat is garnished with rows of brillisnta instead of Iace. The collar and sleeves are crusted with them, and his _orders are of the most precious jewels. His epurs flash liko sunbeams. “All this ou the persorof s man who has nothing noble in mien or face, although he is above the s&ver- age height of the Indian Mussulman noblesse. "But ix spite of his jowels and external splen- dor, the Shah-in-Shak js, according to Europesn notlons, s savage in' many respects—proud, willfal, sensual, snd arbitrary. If punctuslity be *‘the politencas of princes,” as it is s~id to be, the Baah would, in consoquencs of bis atter indifference to engagements, ba one of tho most ill-mannered men in the world. Ho kept the parade at Potsdam, ordered by the Kaiser, waiting a couple of hours. He kept the Queen for hlfi an hour at the railway station waiting for him. He would not go to breakfaat when it was announced, at the timo of invitation, but walked about in the garden, and then, seeing an arbor which pleased him, desired to have his breakfast brought there. When ho sat st dinner yesterday he put his fingors in his plate and ate with them, and if he came on & piece of some dish which he did not liko, he took it out of his mouth and threw it dowm—not on the E—ound, but on the Queen’s (Empress’) dress. {reo from the more horrid vices at- tribated to Persians by travelers, he is quite without shame or scruple in his disregard of what is called morality by Christians and good Mussulmen. I csme home from Potsdam in the Bamo carrisge with some of his suite—very fins gentlemen as far a8 thoir lace and clothing went—but with all the frivolity and arragance of ignorant and uueducsted men. Their talk was of their own prowess and of clothes ; how thoy could ride botter than any people in tho world, because they 'could back a horse from the desert and ride him, whereas Europeans rode only horses_which wore already broken in,—a Prussian officer dryly remarked, ** The difference is that we dircct the course of -our horsee, aud that your horses follow .their own.” They all #poke French, and the Shah-in-Shah knows it much better than he would bs thought to do from his mode of speaking it, 88 when ho is uite at his esso he can talk it pratty fluently. Titho Tanotmich Gthis e it European barbariaps, and it is Indicrous to see him stand- ing alone in acrowd, witha cloar space round hiny, and no ons +to talk to, for he balances first on one leg and then on another, ‘'like s hen on a hot griddle,” and does not know what to do with them or his hands. When Le turns his back, and the spectator calmly surveys his ex~ terior, freed from the distracting influences of hia diamonds, the Bhah does not present an im- posing appearance. I sdmit that the backs of most people fail to impress one, but his Majes- ty's tailor has rendered his “ revers” quito sb- normally ridiculous by making his frock-coat with & multitude of fine plaits like those of a Highlancer'a kilt or of a lady of Quecn Bess’ time over the hips, and soall round. ' His face is seldom arimated, and there is something in- congruous in the position of his respectablo gold spoctacles, a Iz, Thiers, on his :l?nilinu nose, undor a Persian cap, and, over alf these, dia- monds. . . . . They made some lgpea.lu to the enormous old Colonetl of Police, who is famous for the rigidity of his manners and the severity with which he ds the morals of the city, to re- ax his code in their favor, and were not at =ll sucoessfa). The Bhah has, however, some resson for thinking that the high tone of the Police Diroctor is not maintained uniformly, for he hns, as I think I told you already, added to tho number of his wives hers, if report be true, aud espoused & girl of 15 whom he saw by accident, and im- medistely “proposed” to by a representation to her mother, which that good lady sccopted, oa there was a provision mads for her daugh- ter's future In Persin. - There has been some trouble in teachiog the Shah and his followars that women are to be treated with respect, oven though they go about with their faces nncov- ered, and one of the most usoful lessons they will carry back from Europe' is that which will teach them to consider their wives their equais, and not their slaves—if they learn it. Therc is :‘Frant ““if,” for they do not at all approve of they see here. The wives who were sent back for high reasons of Btate from Rusais to Teheran bore their ill- fate—for what woman is not anxious, and what wife, aven though she be one of three, likes to 2ee_her husband lot loose o the wide, wide world—without the least rosignation. They wero simply furiously clamorcus and turbulent.. Their grief touched the Imporial heart, and he special telograms sent to and fro st every stage, raporhngnhow they were till they wero safely back at Astrakhan. ‘When the successor of Cyrus firat came toBer- lin, it was supposed it wodld prove easy to pro- vide amusement for him during his stay, but it soon became npgn—ent that there was great man- agement to be observed. Hehates & programme of any kind, because it looks like dictation. He cannot bear to see a written or printed paper, for it looks as if his freedom of action were controlled. When he was.in Russia e thought he was ill-treated by the immenso pa- rades which were ordered for his honor. They seemed intended to humiliate him; and 38 one morning hé'refused to attend an inspecticn sspo- cially ordered for him, and kept tho Czar waiting till it was announ:ed ke would not come at all. He detests Chamberlains, has no notion of en- gagements and obligations of rendezvous and the like, but he is learning to return the saluta- tions of people in the satreet, mstead of answer- ing them by a stars through his spectacles. . . . ‘The miall:(; thsn:li;‘m o here, and one w?icl: aggravates the rhapa, is the constani motion to which he is fiugfi' to submit. He would like to have some hours every day to ‘himself to dine alone now and then in T0O] where he could git on the floor crose-leggod an catont of the dish with his fingers aud be happy. The plessantest country-honse Lnown in Englind is one in which the owaer never inter- feres with his guests. They do just as they please. Breakfust Legina at a certain hour, and 1s 1aid till 11 or 11:30, if any one wanta it ; lunch is put on the table, and is renewed from 1 till 3; dinner, of ccurse, is at a fixed hour, 8 o'clock. In the moming you are asked if you want to shoot or to bunt, to: ride or to fish, if it bein season ; to join the ladies in an excursion, or to drive, and you do exactly as pleases you—and ‘Bhah never bas such happy fresdom. he Now the | he nothing, which is often best of all. To-night thero was & gala theatre in his honor. It is only in such an absolute Stato as Prussis that a gala theatre cat be ordered, and it is only in such a military State that a gala theatre can be properly filled and d.ressedg ont. On such &n occasion as & galn vorstellung the theatra be- comes the private proporty of His Majoaty, and DO money can get 3 man or wouan into i, In- vitations are sen! ont, and the embassies and legations are provided witha certain number of cards for.their staff acd a few distinguished strangorn of the rotinues of each. Tho gallery is filled with eoldiers aad officials of the lower clasges 1o the households. The upper boxes | aro appropriated to o Ligh order of theatrical persons and their familica, and the next tior is occupied by a more elevated order in the burean- cratic hiemrchlv. ‘It was nearly half ap hour behind the time when the Lord Chamberlain, Von- Husen, all in £0ld, with somo cloth visible ontside it on the edges, advanced to the frout of ths Imperial box, aud gavo three thumps with his great cane— which is like that of & drum-major—on the floor, wihereipon all tho company rose, and the band —that of the Guard Cuirassier Regimont, which haslearnt the ** Shali'’s March "—struck up that now-fangled compoaition, a8 Nasser ed Dini ad- yanced, loading the Empress Augusta to the {ront, and eat down plumply on his’ chair, leav- ing Her Imperial Mzjesty to do tho bowing and arrango her floances beforn she took herseat on his right. The ballot bogan—** Sardanapzlus "—which was solected porhaps on account of the colenr local, and which, following *Morgana” the otler night, must lead the Shah to think we have extraordinary notions of the manners and customs of the East. If he made much ont of tho pieco—s bellet d'action—he was more clever than most of those prescnt, who conld only seo that there was s fiue gontioman in quasi Ofion- tal robes, dwelling in a templo afler the mennor of the drawingy in Leyard's Nineveh, and sur- rounded by an immeuse number of youn women in’ muslin and tights, who danced an. coutorted themeelvos to the scund of music. There waa o hugh sun of gold leaf in the back of the templo to which :ho dissolute monarch, combining piety wita pleasure, madt an W cal in of offeriug of o light:d candle, which nat- urally enough went ont and threw the | I dancing-girls' _info sn agony of petits | Bl pas, whereupon he offered another candle, which was also_extinguishod, and s dance ectase d'hor- reur ensued. The Shoh all {his time used hia opers-glaas with alille, dirusting it {rom tho 8tage Lo the loges of the femalo diplomatists, and now and thon turding o the Empross to ad- dress & few words, which were trauslated, no doubt with all noedful reserves, to her by the Grand Vizior who stood behind his chair, only inferior in radiancy to his master. At the end of tho first act, as the curtain foll, tho Bhah rose, and, instead of offering his arm to ho Emprees, bo caught hold of her arm just above the 6lbow and gave the Imperial lady a very porceptible shove ; but, as her stately move- 0ts did not suit him, he cast off lus tow-rope ¥4 forgod on shead, followed by Her Majosty, who hauled up alongside as he entered the ira- porial saloon, preceded by the marshals and mas- ters of cercmonios and bigh chamberlains of the court, to hold a reception. The Imporial valetsin Stale uniform brought round ices, cakies, sherbets, and in half zn hour or 50 tho Shah waa led off by the Empress and Chamborlains to his box, and bad to witaess an- other phase of the life of tho dissolute Baby- Ionisn, whom his sncestors vexed 8o horribly. Rappily, the Shah is not a classical scholar, of he would have beon shocked by the introduction of satyrs in leopnrd sking—Pana and Fsuns—in 2 fote of fire-warshipors, and, perhaps, he is not much of & moralist, and given to abstract phil- osophy, or he might be led to conclude from the ballet that it is not a good thing for a Syba- nite to put on armor and go out to fight for his country, 85 the end may be that ho has to sit on all his clothes and treasures, and burn himself with all his wives, instead of submit~ ing quietly to the conqueror. At the end of the socond act the _Imporial people retired to their ealon, but this time thers was 5o reception. While the Shah was away he complained that ho was too far from tho stago and could not ses the young la- dies, 5o the occupants of one of the boxes nest it wre politely warnod to leave, and His Majesty sd the Crown Prince, with a fow of the Cours, migrated to the now point of observation, but the Empross did not reappear, and went to the Palace. The last scene, which was very clover and well devised, represonting: Sardanapalus and his wives surronnded by flazes and massos of the burning ruins of the glory of his capital, absorbed tho Shab’s attention, and as the sank to the inferno of the wader-ground flat, amid a crash of music, he scemed inclined to clsp his hands in dolight or wonder, but ro- frainod and bustled out with the Crown Prince as the curtain foll, His Majeaty has made some little progress in tho arts of European monarchs. It ia not etiquette for the Shahs of Persia to take the least notice of any salutations or ex- pressions of homage or respect. To the obeis- ances of the grentest Lhe{_honly make the ac- knowlodgment of a look. That is enough. Now tho Bhaw has been told that he ought to raise his hand to his forohead when peopls uncover in the stroots. Sometimes he docs so—in & hasty, balf-angry fashion—at times ha does not, and looks only. When tho Shaw looks, people ought to cast their eyes down. Hero they stare all the more. This fnust all be very tryiug. the of le THE GERALDINES. = is Thro’ the long lapss of years, s proud nime still ap- pears; Immortal'and glorfous it shines ; Remomberod by 2lt, both in cottage and hall, Are the high, princely Geraldincs, No shadow of shame ever sullied that name; Thro' danger, temptation, it shone; No blush of disgrace dyed a Geraldine's face, While ages rolled silently on. Lord Edward Fitzgerald, proud star of the world, Pagsed off in the prido of his bloom, And the sweot birds of spring a sad requiem alng Abuve our young warrior's tomb, Defiont he fought ; then, inspired by one thought,— One heavenly foeling divine,— 2 Who'd question his right wao beheld on that Aight The death of that brave Geraldine 7 No trophy of glory to tell of hia story, Of chivalry, honor, renown ; Oh! friendless and cold lics that chioftain so bold, Who in Liberty's rights was cast down. Then, Irishmen, weep o'er our hero's cali aleep, a And garlands of glory entwino, To wresthe o'er the gravo of the young and the brave, The spirited Lord Geraldine, On the tablots of fame, that {llustrious name, To Erin, to Freedom, so dear, Far brighter than even'the light of yon Heaven, As time's ido rolls o, *torill appear. Esch draught they drank up from sdversity's cup, In the hight of thoir glory’s decline, When for Erin they died, in their valor and prids, ‘Was aweat to each Geraldine, ‘Then blest ba the sod where, watched over by God, So honored, so hallowed, they lie ; And you, Irishmen great, weep t):;iGerAldinu' fate,— o it ill in, in in o For your country be willing to Txrrs BrnzET, CHICAGO, Dusy, . Wales and the Columbian Orator. From ths Cincinnati Commercial., The Prince of Walos is o ghginrlst. The other day ho made a speech at Bolton which was so much like Grant's speeches that we are sure the Prince must have been reading up the Presi- dent's efforts when swinging on the circles. Tho Prince said at Bolton : ““Wo_regret that our visit has been 8o short, ‘but during the short time that we have been hers wo shall carry bock with us grateful reminis- cences of what we have seon.” ‘That has a familiar sound. Again: T gincerely fia};&xoiaferity to this town, and I thank you again, Mr. Mayor, for all your cor- @al wishes, and hope that you will take evory opportunity of expressing o your fellow-towns- men how grateful we are for the roception we have received.” Now, nobody ever received s reception that way until Grant did it; and if the Prince of Wales must borrow it from the Columbian orator, we hope to make ' 'ighness acknowl- edge it. e0) ke Pl -evi by A Tiger’s Exploit. Enthusiastio tiger-hunters throughout Indis have mco:lgf been led to take fresh precantion, though hardly to let the ferocious animal alone. Bome officers of an English regiment, attonded. by the usual native attendants, recently went on & tigor-hant near the Mansir River,and at a spot sbont fifteen miles from its junction with the Godavery they succeeded in bringing out one of the fierce animals from his lair. - He was break- ing back toward the beaters when a shot'from a shiktary turned him, and he then galloped direct toward & tree in which one of the officers, Lieut. pe of Giles, snd- an sttendant, were posted, ten foet above the ground. 'wo shots were aimed without effect. He reached the tree, bounded into it with the sgility of & wild cat, dragged the gunbearer to the ground, and then at once returning brought down in the same way the unfortunata officer. During the seconds that elspsed while thin terrible acene was being evacted, the friends of Lieut. Giles wero not 1dle ; they fire d repeatedly, but some were eap shots, and two of the offcers could not even eee what was going on. They then de- scended from the trces and ran towards ths tiger, who at once released his victim and wae quickly knocked over and killed. Lient. Giles bad strength to get np and walk a fow paces, but 28 ve died. Cricaco, June 22, 167 and maps and photogr mon whoge historios an has introdaced to the world of letters are given. The countries between Eashmir and Badakshan are treated of in his last publication, which gives us a translation of the songs and legends edifices, Pealteriums, Breviaries, tory, besides fine’ bindings. some hundreds of works printed before 1500, and among his other tressures is » copy of “Purchas, His_Pilgrimago,” ‘1625, bound by Bradford, in which the fourth volums, ordinarily |- full of holes, has the holes filled up With paper pulp, the missing”lottering eupplied by hand, and t] Turkis] khanates of Khiva, Bokhara and Ktokan, and this task he lived among Turks in Constan nople, and became & proficient in all their religi ous traditions and ceremonies; indeed, he mo absolutely transformed himself that he deceived even the pious, prayerfal thieves of- Bok] But if the journey was wonderfal, the cause for which it was undertaken scoms atill mors won- work of one whose hard, c with the the no —Gan?en Low Wallace. tation in predictin Byron, that *he woke u found himself famons.” be a translation from an old Bpanish aathor cun- tomporary with s0me of the actors in the it reports, and the pretense might well deceive the ordinary reader, 50 vivid snd resl ars its pio~ tures of the vanished Aztec world. We look for- ward confidently to the appearance of this book hnd been frightfully manglod, and althongh retained his conaciousncss, death anpor- ned two days afterwards. The gunbearer also, e AFTER THE SHOWER. An Angsl, besond the Dark River, Heard the tired Earth's pitiful cry, Left her placo in tho bowern zupernsl, And passed through the deepening rky And Lier tears; as she wept at uen's 8Orrow, Fell down from on high; - Fell gently and aweot likoa birasing, Over woodland, and movatatn, z5d plsin § Tame down ike balm to the heat of tha city,— Tao bountiful. mercifal rain; C-ue with infinite comfort and healing To sickness and pain. Nex fragrance tud beanty swaken From every leaflot and flower; And the world is purer and brighter, Transformed aud renewed L3 an fhonr | 0k, Wo thauk Thee, our Father in Heaven, Thank Thee for the shower ! Trro. CanrrnTER. —— - LITERARY NOTES. Mr. 8. C. Hall's new book.is *The Stately Hzllsof England.” —The Academy of St. Potersburg has elected 3r. H. W. Longfellow and Mr. W. C. Bryant as honorary members. —Mr. Richard Proctor, author of * Other orlds than Ours,” and other popular scientific books, and Secretary of tho Loudon Astronomii- l Bocioty, will lecture in the -United States from October to Fobruary nest. —Frederic Hurrison, the London Positivist, has given Stophen’s “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” an excoriating reviow in the nightly, accusing Stepben of using bricks to build his own castle, and then hurling all sorts of mussiles from tho wall at the grest Unpopular. Stophen is as thin-akinaed as most ‘other English suthors, and rushes at his critic Fort~ Comte's rage in & long lettor in the Pall Yall Gazelle. —Mrs, Blancho Loe Clilde, wifo of a nephew Gen. Robert E. Lee, has & memoir of that officer in the June number of the Revue dés Deuz Mondes. She says Loa was far from ap- proving the revols of the Southern States. ** Had ‘millions of slaves,” he said to_Aontgomery air, sent to offer bim the virtual command in nowinal subordination to Scott, **I would sacri- fice them to the Union; but how can I draw my eword against Virginis, where I was boru 7 —Holt & Williams will issue immodiately, in oir ¢ Leisure Hoar Series,” Gustav Dore's’ Dovel of ¢ Tabelain," snd alio roprint in that style his Around a Spring.” Bpie story, “ what the Swallow Sang,” transiated for the same series. en's now 38 bean —3rs. Mary Cowdon Clarke, the author of thi) famous Shakspearo Concordance, has receutly written a book called *The Trust and the Re- mittance; Two Love-Staries in Metred Prose,” with tho following peculiar dedication : * To the Tover-Husbead of €5, these love stories are dedicated by the Lover-Wife of 67.” —The discoveries of Dr. Leitner. in Central Asiz are proving still more important than at itner's forth- 5. announced. Ina list of ming publications, eleven languages of a firs cor heretofore terra incognila are accounted for, 3pls of tho couatries snd Isngusge Dr. Leitnor the races of Dardistan. —There never was_but ons complete library. 838 the Cincinnati Commercial, and that was owned by the man who wished for but two books—the Bible and Shul Library is a misnomer. The comes, the greater are its wants and incomplete- ness. The British Museum, with its million vlolymes, Was neyer 80 restléss asmowin sup- 55?; o, of Paris, with ita two millions, has its g which would shamo & circulating library in eare. A complete arger & library be- its deficiencies. The Bibliotheque Im- amilion County. Harvard Collsga Libraty a fowr voars ago had no copy of the works of Dan- iel Webster. —Capt. G: of tho British army, hao translated a very important historical work bear- m&on the history of Indis. ) al 1t is the “ Mun- Tawarikh, by Abd ul Eadir of Badaun.” which iain threo volumeo. The first contains the general history of Mohsmmodan Indis. from Mahmud of Ghazni to the death of Humayun; the second, the history of Abiar to the fortieth year of his Teign ; tho third, lives of the differ- ent holy and lesrned men who flourished during tho period. —A Ssmaritsn_inscription, in large mural characters, has recently been discovered on s stone about half a mile from (tazs. Particulars regarding tho stono have not yot been received, but & sgueeze was sent by Mr. Charles Hamilton to the Rev. Dunbar Heath. read by tho laiter gentloman, by Mr. Vaux, Prof. Palmer, aod others, and thers scems to be but little doubt of its boing & gennine inscription, taken from Deuteronomy iv., 29-31. Its date bas not yet boen determined, but steps have been taken by the Palestive Exploration Fand, on the information piver them by Mr. Heath, to The stone had baen secure, or at least to oxamine fally into all the circumatances connectod with, $ho stone. : —The Publishers' Weeklysays: * Mr. Pro- basco, who has one of the most interestiug col- ctions of books and art objects in Cincinnati, baa Iately had printed st the University Press, Cambridgo, 8 arge peper cataloguo of his library, whi Only seventy-five copies wero issned. The book is a beautiful spedimen of typography, a royal octavo of 411 pages, and catalogues fine senes of rare editions of the Bible, the Fathers, Dante, Shakspesce, the .Aldine, and Elyevir classica, booke printed on vellum vol- umes supposed to be tnique, those owned b Biblical 8als, and ustrated worksin Beionce and Natural His- Mr. Probasco_has stinguished and royal personages, o old and elenzy paper stiffened with siz- g. Mr. Probasco is Tomarkably good-natured howing hia library to his fnends. He is now Europe.” —Vambery, who has become the great au- thority of Europe on Central Asian questions, is Huogarisn by birth, and in the disgulss of a dorvish has”travalod Al _tieough the ify himselt for vealed their secrots. To q rful. Vambery was & pilzrim to the shrine of is ancestral language; willing to Tun the risk of becoming & philological martyr in order to de- termine whather the Hungarian longs to the Finnish or the Tartaric Lnb of the Altaic stock. aod the el tion, resd like tho wildesfiction. | —When Etienne Dumont, in a work hublishod language be- His sufferings_sud sdventures, erness with which he evaced détecs me forty years ago, claimed to have aided Mi- rabeau in the composition of several of the most memorsble speoches which the great orator do- livered from the tribune of the National Assembly, his pretensions were generally scout-~ ed; but & discovery which proves that his statementwas correct, A has recently been made eper of the Geneva Librery, M. Philippe an, has lighted upon a series of unpublished documents and letters written by M. Mirabean himself, which scem to put-the matter bayond doubt. These manuscript col J Euacd into the possession of the Geneva Li- rary. ' Mirabesu's letters.to Reybaz make it apers were found among the lfection of Reybaz, which hss ident that the former, in many instances, ro- ceived speeches ready prepared, which he learned o AR heart, and deliver the fire and pas- aion of improvisation. —The Literary World gives the following firat- class “puf” to Gen. cowing mnovel in ‘manuseript & novel that can hardly fail to take rank with the great romances of a sto ing of Cortez, the feeble amiability of Monte- zums, the lofty patriotism of Guatamozin, and the almost superhuman loyalty- of the Aztec Lew Wailace's forth- * We have recently read i time. It is of the Conquest of Mexico—of the com- le to their gods and their country. It is the icuously familiar sword, exhibits 3 grisp of loga resolute and -maaterly We have no hesi- that “it will be said ly than of any writer since one morning and 6 book p: rta 30 him, mors truthf: to one of the most brilliant events in Ameri- can literary history. It is entitled ‘ The Last of tho "Tzins,+ and il bo published by J. B. Op- —The annial report of the British Deputy- Keeper of the Becords, just published, of which the Pall Mall Gazelle has a condeneation, con- tains an interesting sub-report from Mr. San- dern on the tdvance made last year at the Ord- nanco Survey Office, Southampton, in photo- -f-reign zincographing the national maauseripts ¢f Tre- ‘land. “The intention is to_print these volumes of fac-similes uniformly witk: those of Scotland ; tho first to range with the earliest period of the Avglo-Norman invasion in 1170; the eecond to come down from that date to the end of the of Henry VIL, and the third to continue the serics to the accession of the House of Han- over. The oarliest manuscript of the Berios is the famons *Silver Shrine,” rhaps tho oldest copy of the Gospel n the .world, and traditionally = belioved to have boen the private book of deve- tion of St. Patrick himsslf, and to I:ve beon given by him to St. Barthainn, when he conse- crated tho Iatter eaint Bishop of Clogher. The manuscript is undoubtedly of the fifsh centary, .and s, unfortunately, &0 injured byage and dampness to make inspection of its contents im- posible, the leaves being all stuck together, and the whole of about the consistency and appear- ance of apiece of brick. The next manuscript isnot less carious than the preceding. It is knownas “The Book of -Battles,” a name ob- tained on account of the desperate eirife to which it gave rise. - The legend is -that St. Columba, “being on a 7isit to St Finnen, gratified his ineatiable passion for man- uscript-collocting Ly furtively . copying his host's famous collsction of -psalms. !¢ The Book of Battles ” was preserved 1,800 years by the O'Donnels of Tirconnell, the saint's clan. The two next manuscripts—** Tho Book of Durrow ” and “ The Bock of Kells "—aro also attributed to the same saint. Of * Ths Book of Kella " Mr. Sanders speaka a¢ follows : “ It ig'impossible to_exaggorate the elaborate ornamentation of this rematkable volume, or the quaintness of the grotesjne eubjects intro- daced intoit. Tho mgantic initial latter, which ia given a8 an oxample in this volume, is filled in with an zImost incredible interlacing of ex- travagant impossibilitics; serpentine ~ fgures with human hoads ; intertwined pictures of men spotted like leopards, in sttitude of carnest cor- versation ; rats sitting on the backs of cats, who are holding other rata by tha tails, the rats bein| eogaged in cating a cske ; human figures wit impossible combinations 'of their own and other creatures' limbs ; strango shapes af birds and fishes ; geomotrical desizns and intricata nrabesquo tracerics, all woven together in tho wildest dreamliko way, and having an effect that fills the mind with amuzement at the faney that designed and the hand that executed them.” In addition to thee four manuscripts, there is a gréat mass of othars, scarcely inforior to them in antiquity, sud quite equal in artistic and his- torical into; fac-zimiles from which it is in- tendod to giv © volame now in preparation at Sonthamypton. These menuscripts are of all kinds, religious, Listoricai, poctical, and fictional —and'are full of illustrations of the customs, mannere, modo of life, and costume of tha in- habitants of ancient Ireland. ] —_—— EHUMOR. Nataral slippars—Eels. -Patrons of Husbandry—Mothers with mar- riageablo daughters.. —It is surprising how qnickly men who dislike red bair will fall in love with a Ted heiress. —A noted English clergyman recommends to people to urn their dead. Wouldn't ho do better %0 show them how to earn their living ? —Tha locomotive of 3 Western express train collided with a band-car, and smashed the head- light. The conductor was equal to the occasion, just stuck bis dizmond bresstpin in the cow- catcher, and the train moved right along. —A young lady who lately gave an order o Ler milliner for & bonuet, s2sid: ** You arego make it plain, but at the saine time smart, as I gt in a conspicuous place in church. —The Missouri Editorial Convention was opened with prayer by Elder Berrg'. and the Troy Chief eays that ** It may have been opened by elderberry; but we'll wagarit was clased by * junieat«hnrry nd old rye. —What 18 that from ‘which, if you take the whole, some will remain? Wholesome. —Josh Billings says that * The lion and the 1amb may possibly sumtime Iay down in this world together for a fu minutes, but when the lion knms to get up the lamb will be missing.” —What is higher when the hexd is off > Tha illow. . ¥ —Buchis theforce of habit. A reporter writes & love story, in which the hero *‘clasped the prepossessing girl to his bosom, and spoke sub- tantially as follows.” - —Some time since a Greoaficld farmer and his wife came into thecity, and the man'had the woman's life insured for $5,000. Laat week she was thrown from n buggy and badly hart, and yeslerdsy the agent cainé across the husband on the street and inquired how tho wife waa gt- ting along. Tho farmer heavod a sigh, looking put out, and replied: *“Well, I'm_afraid shs is Boing to get well I"—Delroit Free Press. —There is 8 boy 11 years -old in Detroit who foigna death so perfectly that the Coroner has offered him $1,000 & yoar to let him have the use of his corpse during that timo.” —A strange incident.—4 Pennsylvania wom- an, who has for years been afilicied with ca- tarth, and hos been treated by eminent physicians without obtaining relief, dreamed tha% a stranger came to her house aud gave her some medicines, ssying that they would effesiually cure her. Next dey, on going to the door and looking ont, she saw the identical man of ker dreams approaching tk:e houso. He of- fered her s bottle of medicine to cure her ca- tarrh. She taok it, followed his directions, and is now—as bad as ever. —The Titusvil'e (Pa.) Herald says : * A young 1ady whose * pa struck ile’ a fow years ago, snd who hias since been et boarding-achool, recéntly returned, and a party was giveu for her bonefit. Upon the bottom of ker invitasion-cards sho caused to be inscribed * R. 8. V. P.," and one was sent to an illiterato rich fellow, who has also made his money by boring. Ho did not come, but zent a card _with the letters ‘D. 8. C. C." Meeting bim in the street, she acked him what tho lettors meant. *Toll me firat what yours meant?” ‘Oh! mine was French for ‘ Respond if you cannot accept.’’ *Well, mine was kng- Esh for ‘ Damu sorry I can’t come,’’” —Hence These Size !—Blancho (to her brother) —4 Charlie, you lonk very misorable. You promised me you wouldn't bet heavily. Hava you lost much ?” Charlie—'‘ Ya-a-8 ! Bet halfa dozen pairs of gloves with Mrs. Furlong.” Blanche—*‘ Nonsense! that's nothing.” Char- Tie—** Aw| beg y pardon—I'm thinking how a fellah is to go and buy the gloves withcut sacri- ficing his seil-reapect. Why the woman weare s —The following are from the *‘ Drawer" in Harper's Magazine for July : Bob —— ia woll known about Quincy, Mich., as's great trader, and one of the woalthiest men in thie township. Ono day he was endeavoriug to trade an old gold watch for a horse, swhen tho party of whom he propused to get the weather- gauge asked him how many carats fina the watch- case was. Bob, thinking to enhance the valae, Baid he believed it was seventy-five. * That cau't be,” replied the man, “ for twenty-four carats is tho standard for gold.” * Well mebbe there ain't,” #aid Bob, *‘but the watch has el the carrals they 1s I" - —Having been appointed (eays a Wisconsin man) to ister on the esiato of & neigabor recently_ decossed, I was greatly annoyed by solicitations for an order for the grave-siones for the departod. After soms three or four weeks, a very gentlemanly “ marble man " introduced himself, told me his business, and asked for “the job.” I replied that as soon as it was known that a person was dangeroualy ill, “a grave-sione man” made his appearance, de- mandod ““the job,’; aud asked for the inscrip- tion for the headstone. He replied that ho koew it was 8o, and added, *‘ 1 dou't do it, and I won't, for it isn't decent ; But oftsn find myself in the same. ‘fix’ that Deacon — was in.” *¢ How was that?” I asked. ‘‘Why,” said he, “old Descon B— had long bad his eye on Mry. W—, whose husband had for several wacks lingered on the borders of the grave. A™Ww days after the funeral of Brother W—— wno Deacon made & friendly call on the widow, and in the course of the conversation remarked that after a proper time had elapsed he proposed to offer her the consolation of his hand and heart, which ho hoped would not be nnacceptable to her.' *Oh, Deacon,’ ehe replied, ‘¥vou are too Iate; Euler C— spoke o me at the grave " —The negre and mule (wntes a friend in Clin- ton, La.)are inseparable companions ic the Bouthern cotton fields, and, like the Hiawathan string and bow, useless each without the other. The indifference and careless cruelty of the one, and wonderfal powers of endurance of savere labor, bad treatment, and noglect of tke other, complete the compatibility of ths two Taces necessary for the production of 4,000,000 of bales. . A characteristic anecdote may be relish- ed by those who have had experience of the ‘The spectator had taken refuge from thie sun's, perpendicular :rays under the shade of a sproading beech, sub tegmine fagi, and lay ro- cumbent, enjoying the fitful breszes and the sombre frotainess of the country newspaper. Aloug the daaty road which pnmn? by this ro- treat camo jogging a negTo, mounted on a malo, both apparontly fast asleep. As the sownolent pair approached the spot, some wicked apiite of the piace gave the paper a flirt, which sa8 no sooner seen and hieard than the mulo, 2a mules r swapped ends,” and, lenying the negro sptan.iug it the dirt, took hin doparture, under full eall. The negro, half raising himsalf, and wiping the dust frrom eves and mouth, whiched the retreatiing mule for some time in silence, but at lengh, unconscious of an auditor, gave exprossicn -to- this philo- sophic soliloquy : * Dat's what makes ma 'spise a mule !