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LITERATURE. ‘THE ENGLISH STAGE, wp, Roseasoe or ain Esotred, B0, DET INCY FiZ4Ens7n, Of. Aw Se Eine oe” B. Lim! . ‘Tho author of this work poorly fulfills tho promite of his peeuliarly-attractive title. The iruth Is, all that could bo gloaned of the hven of the great actors, or of those wlio, by reason of caeoptiopal experiences, can worthily move oar eyrapathios, has boon sought out and spyropri- sted by industrious writers long nga, and only thoy who Lavo personal obrervations to record chu, at this date, furnish fresh and interesting facts of tho past history of the niaxe. Mr Fitzgerald bas dono hitQe moro than compile » yolume from existing autobfographics aud me- mojra of noted players, and hus not exercised the best taste in making his ecloctions. Tt would have entailed upon Mr. Fitzgorald the honest Isbors of an author, to be sure. if, for iustance, instead of taking newly 7 pages bodily from the rambling, 1~ termnabte autobiography of Tate Wilkin son, he had given s condensed and come plete history of that eccentric yot not very clever individual; but tho reader would, we may hope, ‘ave got something like # coborent idea of the gman and the actor ,and been duly grateful. The eames may be said of most of the personages: whom Mr. Fitzgerald introdnces, If no chauco to pave known them before, ho.docs almost nothing to further @ur acquaivtauce with them ; nud, if they are elrangers, fue mostly leaves us sith a vory vague opinion of them. ‘the contente of the volume ara indicated hy the followtug heads of chapters: ‘The Story of George Anno Beitamy; ‘Tho Advonturos of Lato Wilkingon; ‘The hi-Katod Mossop 3, Mrs. Tobin Ho scny Geolge Frederick Cooko: Elliston; Goi- ald Grifin; and Tho Young Roses, Tho mest interca:ing story m_ the book, al- though it haw been told befvre in their mom. ita, relates to the dobuts in London of dirs, Siadons aud Edmund Keaa, | Mrs. Siddous iad made a signal failure on ber Grat apposrance at ‘Drury Laue ‘iheatro, in 1775, and was oblized to reuume ber carcor in the proviuces. In 1732 she wag offered « re-engagement at Dittry Lang, and her anxiety over the auccess of the fitnt night was agouizing. ‘No wondes,” eho saya; “ for my own fate, nnd that of my litte fanitly, hang upon it, J bad qnitted Rack, where all my ef forts had been successful, and I fearcd Jost o second fatlura in Loudon might juduonce the publlo miud greatly to my projudica, in the evept of my return from Drury Lane, disgraced as [had formeriy been.” 1 During ths fortnight provious to her debut, ‘the seirces could ecaely eat or elocp from . nervous exciiament, On the oveatfui day, bor father, Roger Kemblo, camo to give her the wup- part of bis preaouce during her trial. “ ife ace Eompanied mo to my dressing-room at the theatre, ‘There ho lefs mc, and J, in cns of hat T oall my dospersto tranquilities, whick aaually unpiess ine under tormfic circumsts ners, there completed my dress, to tho, astonishment | of my stiendants, without uttering one word, { though often sighing most profoundly.” Ar. / Siddous bad not courage to enter tho theatre, ; » bat walked the atreets io the vicinity uutil the \ | bi 412, Philadsipbia: J. seo play was over. Tho houso was crowded, aud rnany of the best actora of the day wero noted m the audience. As Mrs, Siddons enterod on the gtago, “ the artful consciousness,” sho aftewards said, * that ove is the solo object of attention tu that immense space, lined aa it ware with Jhuman intallect, it may be imagined, but can mover be described, and by mo can never be for- go;ten)” Tier tiamph wan immonse, and, at tho Inst, bursts of applause interrupted’ neerly every epecch of hers, “Lreached my own quict fire- cide,” ale relates, on retiring from the couse of reiterated sbouta and plaudits. I was half- doad, and my joy and thankfulness wero 6f too ecolemn and overpowering anaturo to adinit of swords or even tears, My father, my husband, and myself, sat down tos frugal meat-fuppor in aailouce ainterropted except by oxclamations of giainesa fiom Mr. Siadons. My father on- joyed bie refreshments, but occasioually wtoppod abort, and, laying down hia kaife aud fork, lift- ing up his venerable faco. and throwing back his eilver Lair, gavo way to teaca of happiness, Wo soon partad fcr the night, and J, worn out with continually broken rest ad Iaborious exertion, after an hour's getrospectton (whocan conceive the intenscnose of tho roverio?) foll into a swoot and profound sleep, which lasted to the midstic of the Qoxtday, Iarose alert in mind and body." + Tu 1814, aftor acarcer of desperate xtrugele and miserable privation amid the proviticist theatree, Edmund Kean was engaged to appoar + at Uiury Lane. When the manager of the Lon- don theatre, who bad witnessed bis playing ono évoning at Dorchester, sought an introduction, and offered Kean the opportunity on his stuga, * tho actor was so overpowored that, in his own ag graphic words, “J ataggered ns it] had been ") shot.” Tho same week Kean batiod bis oldest The jor I felt three days siuco at tue flatter prosper of future prosperity is now obliterated by the ‘unexpected loss of my child, Howard, sir, dlod on Mocday morning Inst. . . . ‘This hear fending ovent muut delay mo longer in Dor- choster than I intended. Immodiatoly I reach London I will again, 1 hope with moro fortitude, address you.” ‘Ou reaching London and beginning rebeareale, tho actors treated nim coldly, and tho stage- manager declered lia failure certain. On tho day of his debut, ‘tho rehearsal couclidod, Kean returned home to enjoy with hie wife the 4 unusual Juzury of @ diner." As the bour of tho ovening-performanco drew near, * suatchini { up aemall bnadle containing the for necessaries sys with which he wag bound to provide himeolf, lio | Kiesod big wife and infant aun, and burriedly loft thehoure, ‘I wish,’ bo muttered, ‘that f was going to bo suot.’ With bia well-worn boots soaked with the thickly-inonmbered slush, ho ielu.k in at the stago-door, as if dosirous of as- {gaping observatio ‘© Pbo curtain rose on xn empty, cheortess honne; #eibut, cro loug, the few poraous present were mada io{janare that a great genius trod tho stago, and tho ‘theatre resoundod with vbeir acclamations, Tho getors now began to crowd ebout the debutant, offering him their congratulatiuns; but, with a ‘gg sore epinit, be sbrank sway from them. "At the s close of his triumphant performance, “trem- { bling with agitation and excitement, he took off # the Jew’s drees, aud resumod bis old, old, thread: i Dare suit, tumed dsdamfully from ‘the genuiwe appl ee of his fellow-actors, and loft the house, ‘nrongh tbo wet and slush he rushed home, flew up stairs and clasped his wife in his acm, “Mary,” ne cried, ‘you shall ridoiu your car- riage] And Charley, my boy,'—and he tumed to his infant—tyou shall go to Ktonl’ Hore hig olor faltered, and ho murmured thoname of tho ebuld he had recontly lout.” JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Mexoms or Jounx Qvovcr Apaus: Comptia Postions oy His Dany ¥nou 195 to 3848, Edit ef by Cnantxa Fuancis Apaue. Vol, IV. Byo, pp. 33," Philadelphia: J, B, Lippincott & Co, Tho portion of Mr. Adama’ diary contained in this volume extends from Aug. 6, 1817, lo Feb, R17, 1820. On tho firot-named doy Mr. Adams landed in Now York, aftor an eight-yoatw’ 2+ gence in Europe, where he haa realdod ay Minis- tex to the Court of Russia, aud aftorwards to the Court of St. James. In little more than a month following bis arrival ia America, bo pro- ceeded to Washington, and was inducted into the office of Secretary of Stato, under Pranidant Monroe, Ig journal contsina a minute account of bis official actw from day to day, and is, theres fore, of much value to atndents of American pul Some siight intimations of the tenor of his homenlife and of nin domestic atfairs, that creep ‘Bow and then into the narrative, give it x per~ onal, aud therefore more lively, interest. It is amusing to see, all along the record, evidences of the petty envyings, aud bearteburnings, and Dickerings, that continually grew out of quer tions of etiquette and precadent af the Repub- dican Court. Mrs, Monroe made it a rulo io pay Porn to the lust teaver of tho prevent record, Washinton sociebs wag cunvalvad to tho contre by eotilieling pretetaione to the tight, tn Gehan, Mreand Mrs. Adama adisered otendily ta thee orisinal co which wad perfectly 1 harmony wich goad eeusa aud Reoubitcau pri a before. upl a. My 1818, Me. Adame sat lo Stunt for hia por- trait, and fies Joft thin interesting note on tue Ap, earanco of tho artists "1 sat to Rtoware | foro and attor beeaxtant, and found bis ovnvers tian, as it had boen ab every nittiug, vary euter- taining. Waonu fire ts biehly pictirasqie, with bis dreen always disordered. and tabi: putt ftom a large, round, tin wafer-box, holding: Perhaps balt ny ound, which te rauet uso wn in a dav. Jio consideta kimscl?, beyond all question, the tira: porsrait-namnter of the ope, aud tells fiumbers of auccdotes ouncorning bimsel€ to prove it, with tha utniost simpticaty and uncou- eciousners of ridicule. Tis conchisioa ta not very wide of the truth.” Bir. Adains mivnpoiled the patue of the painter, as will be obgerved. A ROMANCE, A Tusntma Bronx. Hy Mant Cowpens Crane, ‘Author of “The Complete Goncurdsuce to Skike peave,’? tld. Mmi0,, Lp. 620. raters, ‘This chaste and quict story will intoreat young reeders who havo not gotfar alongin their tena, Tho Uterary etyla is, of course, graceful and refined. ‘Tho well-known high cnituro of the author is guarantce for that. Itmagioation, too, lends its charm to the work, olovating tho comsnow and tho prosaic into the region of tho Moai, It ia uot a strong or sptirring novel; but it is prettily concetved sad polished, and, as we havo said, will bo amusing to the young. ‘Vie throad of the story rans thus: A young artist, nemo Sidnoy Hamilton, rescues fiom tho poril of being tramplod under foot by & fractions herae, as suets attempting to enter her cartiege at Kensington Gardens, Landon, & beautiful and bigh-borm maiden, ‘The affair resutts iu a desporate cave of love at first eight, and both parties cherish faihfuly the image of tho other during o long time of severo frist. ‘Tho artist waite, and hopes, and bunts, througs weary mouth, for a claw to theuame, home, sud condition of his soul's idol, sud is plovly To- wanled by finding, now in rural woodain England, now in by-wavs on the Continoat, bit by bit, the information Le ongerly craves. The Jady ia Lady Gerirnde Vivian, an orphan hoiro:# and ward of Joaious uncle, Who gaa ds her hke adragou. Sho has mistavon the namo of Signey fur dat of a felluw-artint, Maurico Daiwin, and, when she reads of the marriaze of the latter in the Times, 1s inconsolable. At last, in Venice, tha lovers moet. Sidney is employed to paint the portrait of Lady Gerirido, aud tho Taost dolicious epportunity poseibie is offered Yor mutual doclarstiona and explanations, In the absence of tha stern gustdian, tho convlo aro privately maitied; but, alaa! on tho ovoning of tharnme day, tho bride is carriod off hy a villainous Baronet whose enit she had in hor miaidenhoot ropeatediy relected, Diemal aro the exporionces through which tho wutappy tusband and wife pass before tho formor is abe to reveue the latter, first from the Barouet’s clutches, and theo from s company of bandits bo captitre tho beautitul lady, But, when ail fiery obstacles bare been over- come, do not tio bitssful par enjoy the da'lghia of Elysium for 5 wholo year in a vills by the sea, and then return to England with their }ovely ia- fant Lillian, and dwell thorealter as they do whom Heaven faa blessed with wealth, and rok, aud wedded love ? ‘Wo have omitied mention of the minor charac: tors of the little drama; but there aro xeverat Boston: Roberts ‘under-currents of fova ‘and romance running uniler the main tide of the etory, wluch sensibly well its yolume of interest. WOOD-CARVING, Faer-Sawing axp Woop-Canvina ron Awatruns, By Guoaoz A, Kawyee, Hluatrated Scom Original Drawinga by the Author, Square 12mo,, jp. C3. Boston? Lee & Shepard. Thore is a positive fascivation in wood-carving for every iudividual of the Yankee genus. Wit- ness the fonducss of the American boy fora jack-knife and a pinc-stick. Thego are the tools with which the incipient stage of tho passiou in quieted, aud an simleas, useless pzoduction of shavings is tho solo result. But, whon the in- etinetive predisposition to cut, aud chip, and shiver, has talen an artistic turn, and bcon di- recled to a usefal snd beautiful purpose, the ploawure of drawing the keon blado acros# tho yielding fibre of the wood isenbanced a hundred fold. ‘fhen brackets, aud jictnro-frames, and kuickknacxeries of various sorts, grow under the fashioning tlugers, out of old vigar-boxes aud pine-alineles, fo the intonse doligut of the workmen—and of the favored ono whose walls are embellished with the tipiahed articles. Young people take # world of comfort in wood- earviug, though thoir whole kit of enttmg im- plemoiiis is comprised in a peu-kuife. But mul- liply the tools, and tboir tiold of entorprise and eujoymeot is proportionally enlarged. Knowing, from long piactice, juat what 18 needed com vlotely to equip the carver, Mr. Sawyer has given the fruit of tna exveriencs in the hitle book before ua, for the beneilt of thoss who would bo glad, when tho mood of whittlivg is on them, to make tt apply to some pretty purpoas. Parente loosing about for mnocont means of anjusement for their pos, for attractive pasties that will call them in trom tha streot, cannot do Letter than to get this volume, togethor with a arco) of instruments for carving, and some it of suitable wood, all of wlich can be pars chased for an amount Which most can alfurd, aud Whivk will yield o profitarie rotura, ESSAYS, Maroue ann Ccuronn, By Haaver Ton, : Pp. #09. Boston ¢ Lee & Shopurd. Tims A half-dozon casaya, treating tho toptca: Na- tare and Her Lessona; Woman and Her Sphora; Education and Its Ertora; Amorica and Mer Future; Life and Its Aspirations; Mission Moniment and Its Dedication, comprise the volume whose title is cited above. The author ling been a carcfal reader of the science and literature of the day, and baa formed, generally, intelligent opinions upon the great questions thot enguge wodern thought. Ho ie olar- Jy iu bis use of lauguage, with eome art in mak- ing brave flouriwbes in rhetoric. Yot he bas costributed no new ideas to the aubjects under covsideration, aor hau ho put forth the old onea in a freeh 4 ticularly-pointed manner. ‘The multitude of discrimiuating roadare like himealf will not feel advanced by anything be has said, and yot the malutude who Yocdula with books but little will be apt to pronounce bis ewaya good reading and inatrnctive, KEW BOOKS. Guarp TnaxsronMation Bornza m tne Onrrep Srargs; ou, Grampars op Home Avten THMTyey yeane panodny ot, H. Fucurn, Ealltor of the Cus~ Garietera abe 0,, PP. Bil, New York: G. W, Lep Asruay; om, Ls Prsrre Comte Tre Spmivx ; of" Sut pe Tarocn.” “ Detpax," By Octave Fuuruier, —‘Tranulated from tha Latest Yaria Fdltions by Q, Vinwuy, 14 mo, pp. 412. . ANovol. By Mee, 2.8. MAcguor, the Author of Patty” W: Ps Seen Dea tan Wit, tuusleations. Paper, Parnicis KEMBALL, A Novel, By ¥. Lrxw Lazo, Greyring.” 1200, p: New Oo, uthor of st Lizzie Lorion elpuia J, 3, Lippiueott d Co, Tue Reaviio Onya any Tiikoe Sega: Dara BELOTIONA IN Phicus any loxsey ron Rvabiiog AND HECITATIONS. Whdlted by Gronos M, Bare, No.2, limo, pp. 0d, Boston: Lee & Shepard, PERIODICALS RECEIVED, Penn Monthly pe Febrnary (Philadelphta), Contents ational Edacation” * Fy f nod Ltchers;” "The German. Protest Again Slavery in 1688." “ Acieliug’ History of New Sweden ” Chili Exposition of 1875;" © Parke usn's Old Renin tn Counda.” weak Pontemporary Reviee for Janua & Rogein Seve comes \t, Lit York). Cilla Potter's. meric, fant for (dol B, Potter & Co., Philadelphia, Fobrnssy ‘The Wastern for Fouruary (st. Louie). Chicago fournal ap Nervous and Bental Dise eares—danuary (edited by Dre, J. 8. Jowell aud . Bannister), ‘0 visite, in order to avoid occasion for offenss ¢ sod Mre, Hoge, her daughter, would haya no aH- sociation whatever with the wives of foreien repre on account of ther refusing her cor- iy ip ceremoniala of respect which sho held due “aL f relationship to the Provident, Mr. Adaws = oly fale that-oMicial etiquette whould not ba « §Rtried into aociety, aud that—save fu the caso of be ie Went, whose high position should ba pce Lampe ged by sil with w frat viet—members of the Cabinet and of Congress, with thelr wives, ‘ ould manage the business of visiting accord. Ing to their custom aa private citizens, d. nernely Mie. s never pald a first sit Lo strangers, but made 6ret ts among hor acquaintance, and returmed fettapgers and friends No’ cad Mi tious arose ia the matter. Genstcra wives demanded 9g first vielts from all except the President's wife, and many resented with acrimony slat thoy were plessed to consider the neglect of thelr claim by Mrs. Adame, ‘The Loads of Do- fartmente wore ually udvised by the President to hold a formal consultation over the subject copsudively wl Bod Geelde couclusively wo abowia te antivied ‘hey could come to no ey remained ag feet however, and tue H Heath- Reformer for Tanuo: (Health! form en Battle Crook, Miedo ea es United States Medical Investigator for January (Chicago), aartaeet Bambers, ot Ells Edaing A (Lite Yay, Bostov), and Applefon's Jor (D. Appleton & Co., New Yori srreat LITERARY ITEMS. A magazine, davotod to the interests of **bi- ovciing,” is about to ba published in Zngland, THe hahiod hone ne eae Douglas Jerrold used to say of feminine writ ers, *2f you once dip o woman's finger in the ink-po:, sho will go on writing forever.” The London merase 6 finds in Lord Lytton’s Speachion: just published, abuudant evidence that tha great novelist was by no means a good LE: glish scholar, James Martinesu’s new book, Roligi Mtscied by aoa a pare reigiee is aaued by the Putuams. Iti palypi: Not. ears deorrien ww. It is an analysis of I'l. The literataye of Darmiviom bas received a frean contribution from Prof, Gobmidt, of the Birsaboura University, in while the gsound ip inno perasual God, and that the ciogtisen of whan) evolujn aro xcaoalil= cally estublisined. ‘Sha publicatton of the third yohime of the LOr7 of tho Countde Pacis ia now dotecred til apeing, phon bio volurses will appear together. ‘the Count in raid to 33 @ very cult -crontians dit~ crary watkman, Bs far bac aa laut August he Int alroady corsacted tao proof-theeta of this votuma no levs tiny th:eo times, aud did nob thon talk of quiblishing for several months. ‘A now ‘sok by Mr. Darwin, cated +! Inrectiv- crous ‘od Climbing Plants,” te aunaaneed far tho “muing aensou. Te will conaint of two parts, Up aret of which fy davoted tas discussion of +s sensitivonces of the leaves of Drosera Dio- save, Pinguiciting e., to certaln stinitants, ard of their poser of digesting wid aleathig autaal matter ; the rocond, to the habits and movements of olimbing plaute. It ts aononnced that Victor Huao bas aont to the printer the first and socond para of Lis new poem, which isa aequel ty the y Legendo fies Biecles.” Itisontitied “Les Quatre Vouts de VEaprit,” god 16 divided ino pa! the “Vent du Drame,” the “ Vent do FOrdr e do ta Satico,"” and the "Vent de Ja Comedie, ‘The first part containg shires anpuablisbed dramas in verse. M. Michelet provided by his will tuat the com: plete cdition of his wornK, of which be had jever sold the conyrigut, chauld bo prepared by hus wife, who had giveu him much literary an- niotanceduring ha life. fome of lie herd ob- jected, and brought the subject hefore tho tcihunnt at Paris, stating thst ie nas to be ap- prehonded that Mdme. Michelet would publish with the edition writlugs of ber own a8 her late Inaband's. ‘The triuuual dectared this abjection to bo nnfounded, and decided that Mdme. ‘Micholet is ta wropare the complote edition of the works which taust be publiehet uninter- ruptodiy, and that tuo copsright for the next forty years isto be put up for sale at the price of 159,000 franca, whieh, it ia ornsidered, wil be considerably expected by the bidders, In the conrse of uext month Messrs. Bothsby, Wilkinson & Hndze will sell oy auction the fi mous Antiphonatium, presented in 3438 to the Cathedral Church uf Lodi, by 8. Churl.a Marquis Pallavicinl, Dishep of the Divcure, whoss fife is commemaratea by an inscription engravod on inarbla within the Cathedral, ‘This splendid manuscript, anti! Intely the pride of 1.03), 19 written in Inrge eharactore cn abeots of yellam, ineasuring 22 inches by 14, and is Eound in ris huge. volumes, the binding bomg heavy onk hoards, covered in morocco, protected by brane rims, corners snd bosser, with the arins of tho Wishop traced thereon. Ths manuscript is gor- eonnly decorated with numerous magnificent i1- iminations in gold and colors, ‘The miniatures aro, it is alleged, by Catitto Piazza, usnally called Calisto of Lodi. Charen of the Incoronata at Lodi—London Adherent, “OBITUARY. Lord Ste connrcs, From thy New York Evening Post, The death of Edward Bartensbow Sugden, Dotter known ag Lord St. Loanarda, which oc- cnired in England, Jan, 20, removed, at the axe of Yt years, & Tuan Who through bis own iu- duetry and merito had iisen from an obscure position in society to the cliaf place in the lecsl profession, and to an honorable porition among ths Peers of Groat Britsiu, Bugden, like harloa Abbott, Lord Tenter- don, was the son cf a wigmaker and Dairdreraor. ‘The eon of this Tonterdon repre- sonted Groat Britain in the segotistion of the ‘Troute of Washington, and afterwerd took part in the Arbitration procecdings in Gonova. Ten- terdon became Chief Justice of England, and Guzden Lord.Chaucellor, and their career affords another snd striking Mustration of the reswn open to Uritieh enbjects of superior, meri whatever rank of soc.cty they may bo born, Who adopt the profession of the law. Richatd Sugdon, tho fathor, prrated bis dnel- ness in London. Edward Dwtousbaw wos bis necand gon, and waa born in 1791. Ho studied Inwy as a member of Lincoln’s Inn, and was ad- mitted to the Bar in 1997, For ten years ho Practiced am @ convevancing counsel, and at- tained x sory Ligh ravk in that branch cf law. Uis advancement was very greatly accelerated hy bis ability asa law writer, Befora ho was Qi yenrs old “ho had writtea the swell kuown ‘Practical Treative on the Law of Vendors and Purchacers of Estates,” work which raa through two aditions, before his admiseion to the Tar, has since been reprinted in more than twenty odi- tlons, and {a nuili nasurpaared aa an authority, ‘his was followed in 1803 by his ‘* Practice! Troaliso on Boon afierward his ‘Sorles of Lotters Maa _ of Property, on Buyiag, Bolling, ate. Ee- tates,” aepeatod, of which flty years later be iraued s seventh edition uuder the title of “A Tandy Book on Pronerty Law. In 1311 bo insted a masterly edition of ‘Gilbert's Law of Unes and Triste.” Theae and othor ainular works gave him ea highn reputation that few large purchavers felt their title good nntoes thoy woro submited to bis revision, and Ia was overrnn with business, 80 burdensome did ine Practice hrcame that, notnithetanding its profit- able nature, he determinod for the future to coittine himself to court buxinses. In 1817 ho went Into the Court of Chancery; but briefs soon beset him there an absiracts bad formoriv, and he was aw much pressed to plead for litigants os formerly to advise for purchas- erm, In 182% he received the silk cown, and raven venrs Inter, ia June, 1829, jnst a year be- fore the doath of Geore IV., he succeeded Sir Nicholas Conyngham ‘Lit. lal xe Bollcitor-Gan- eral in the Duke of Wellington's adminis. tration, and received the order of linight- hood, > In 1890, when tha Wings camo inta pawer in the antomn, he resigned his offices, but still revainod the undivputed lesd in tho Coutt of Chancory, Four yoare Inter, when the Coneorvativen roturned to power, Sugdan was at conco appointed, nnder Sir Robert Poel’s admin- iatration, Lord Chancellor of Izeland. ‘The Cou- servatives remained in power only from Decem- Ler, 1834, until April, 1835, 0 that bis term of oficea was very brief; but suck sbility lad he ehown, ‘oven in this vbort time, that in Aeptamber, 1841, when the Conservatives ower under Peel, ho was at onco Powers.” again obtaing rapleded te tho head of the ifigh Conrt of Trish Chancery, Upto this time he bad been an active momber of Parliament, roprosenting suaccensively Woymonth and Molcombo Regis, St Mawes and Iipon. We retained bis sen onthe Irish Bench with the bighert repu- tation for nearly four yeart, until the change of parties in July, 18/9. Wor the next five years ho atteudod clasely to his pri- vate business. ila rotiremont, however, was due to the politioul condition of England. Whon hig political friends came into power once more, andor Lord Derby's first administration, their opinion of hi billy wad shown by bls anpoint- ment 8 Lord High Chancollor of Great Brilain, the higheat office ia the Jaw. ‘tho appointment was dutod Feb, 27, 1852, and tha day after ho wag made a Pear of England by the title of Baron St. Leonards, of Slaugham, in Susvex. IIi5 term aa Lord Chancellor lasted only for ten months, whon he wept out of oftice with his party. ‘Luis ocourred on the 2th of December, 1852, In 1658, when Lord Derby again became Prime Minister, he waa desirous to rosppoint Sugden as Lotd Chancolfor, but.the latter declived tho ollice on acconnt of his advanced age, and Sir Frederick Thesiger received it and way raised to the Peoraze as Baron Chelmsford, Lord 8t. Lconarda, however, continued ¢o participate in public affaira, both in the House of Lords and a8 Smembor of the JIndicial Commnttes of the Privy Conncil, In 1933, ho received tho degres of 1.1. D, from the University of Cambridge, Mis wife was the daughter of Mr. John Knapp, and ho hau toft several children. His age exceed- ed that of Lord Lyndhurst, his predecessor as Lord Chaucellor, wlio diod In 1863, at tho age of OS vers. Without wit or greut accomplirlments sside from bia logal pursuits, Lord St. Leonards pore sessed a mind which baa been almost uuequated in this cuatury for acutences, and oxhibiied an industry which bas rerely beea surpassed. Itie ity that such talents au bis should not Lave beon exercivod in helping to modify the potitical as well as tha legal system of Hngland, in con- formity with the domauds of »hboral era, But ho died a9 ho lived—an unilinching Tory. ee DAS VEILCHEN. Sia From Goethe, nely and swect a violct grew "The meadow-wenie among. One morn s rosy ehepherd-mald, ‘With careless heart and {lle tready Catne by, Came b; ‘The mesdow-lauds, and eung. 4 AbI" said the violot, would I were Home stately gurdeneflower t ‘Then { might gathered be, and pressed One title Dour to her awest breast: i» we aby met Only one tittle hour 1” On cams the rosy shepherd-tasa ‘Witu Leart thas tdly beal, And crushed the violet iu the grasa Hab at ea sng mom reat 1 wit m GET mst dle, toda sloua Bar dr foot” mong Fad a the pupil and imitator of Titian, | who asalated Cabsio in bis paintings for tho | courtegate in large commuvitios, sud SPARKS OF SCIENCE. owts STRIGIO“. During the heavy snow-storm of Jan. 1%, ap owl ast all day, tuczed mp in its thick downy | polene, ona tree just by oar window. How it had ventured 80 far withlo tho city-lmiia, or on woat strange errand it bad come, wero quericn that might rise in the mind, but whieh could find no possitlo eolution, Yet there sat the bird, till and avlltary amtd the tolck-fa'liog snow, — making no movemcnts ad wo tratched it through the cat, except when, disturbed by passers-by, iv once cz twice apread its great wings, and nolaclearly flapped from ono treo to another eloce athand, Whea nizht camo on, the ow) qnietiy atuleawey; but where was ho to find bird, or inaect, or monee, iu all the dreary waste of snow, to fill that empty, bunyry maw which be autely cattind with him? Perbaps all night long be would continue # fruitless wearch, keoping ou tho wing without panse uott broad daylight, Owls are atropz-piulone] gud csnabie of pro- tracted fight. One ratoralet tclates that be ‘once wan the butrowing-owl hover for two hours ahont 20 feot atiave the groun:t, nover changing position in atl that timo, exces)-t cecaslonaliy to rine or fall a little distance in the air, Owls havo not tho narrow, pointed wings of thoro buds which perform awift and rapid flights. On the contrary. their wings are wide and rounded, aud the feathers ara broad-webted, with tho packs separate at tho cnds, aad with the ahatte covered nich fine balr, and edged with 1030, nulky down, to mufile every sound when in mo- tion, ‘The light, etealthy tread of the cat ia not more noiseless than the flitting of the owl, which § clooyea the air withont interrupting the mos: profound stillnoss. Audubon tel's of their often gliding by within a fow yarda of blw, but ro | nilontly that thelr presence was betrayed only by j, their shadow falling in the moonlizht, How profoundly sage is the luox of this bird! With ite big head, ereat syce, houked beak, and etnid Donavior, it really bas an air cf wonderful wisdart,—o8 Hf ali the laowedae 1p. heaven and caith wero comprehended in its philosophy, Lut it could never coudescend to betray any of ita nocrota to phifml humanity. Is is not strange toat Minerva chose the lird se he: embiem, or that the Hindoos and Mongols ebould pay it diving houora. Nor is dt siugniar that “tho supo stitions soud reraid rt wb fesr, from ite expraenion of unearthly aspiance, snd, more than ull, from ste fouduess for the mgut and ines, alid pulitude, iia uneanny way of haunting ghostly ruins and tha deoreat recoxsea of the forest, aod from its éoleful, lugubiions cries, that startle the lovely night-nir a» with the ! yelts’aud moans of evil spirite. ‘Where aro 200 species of owla known to tho ornithologists, sovenceen of whlch inhabit Norsk ‘America, aud Hfteen the Continent of Europe. ‘Shey aro to most cosmopolitan of Lirds, aut thoir Jrabits ara wnuch the same tho wovld over. At tho Poles cr the ‘Lropiies, they ate invariaoly distinguished by an appearance of superior m- | tolligenco aud an exiragrdinary phlegm of character, They are all poor a:chitecta, building that, rudo nesta of a tow eticks or festters, ov buntes, hair, aud refuse; and, as wo misht ex- pect from thia indifferenco to tho comforts ots anbstantial home, they bave very litile social or dumestio fooling. Most specios prefer to live solitary at a) wengove, oxclus.ve of the fox weeks necessarily devoted to the rawing of & family, The great bored awl, Bubo Virgini- anus, afec.ivn, apathy. Indeed. an tnstancs ie on record woere ‘par of theso unfeoling birds wore kept in can: ; fisemant, aud the fomaleactually killed andate up her husband, It is ispossiole to tame the tierce Hace, ‘Though takes young and treated wih § teuderness, 10 spark of gratitude or alloction ; ean bo kindl-d ia its beart. Nome others of the xpocies submit gracefully | to the cund.tions of eavtivity, and ecoine amnus- iug and ngreoabls domestic companions, Sno inottled awl, or serooc's owl (Scops asia). is ¢8- pecially amenable to tha iutluenccs of eiviliza- tion, It will notebanss ics nature,—laying off its nocturnal and rapacios habits and taking ie food greased and cooked after tho manner of a Christian,—but it manifests considerable regard for ite owner, will learn to come at call, recor: niaing its name, and will suffer itacl! to be stroked aud petted by familiar hands, Qysls are nt heart by no moana the wtolid creatures they look to be by dayaght. When night saprosches the period of tasir activity, they a:6 as keen. aid bhrond, and quick in their movemonte, ay almost any other of tho feathered raco, Aluniers who camp oat in the forest, or tray. | olera passing through wooded districts after qughtfall, have an opportuuity of witnessins the odd, unrostrained anticn of tho bird. When darkness shute down on tbe world, it holds hiz catnival, and on noiseless wing flite through th gloom, coureing with averring pro-ision dim snd devious warn that are lighted wolely by fires burning witbio its orbs of vision. Attracted by tho red flames, tt often swoops down by sha Lnnter’s tent, and, whh gtrange bowinze, and catvingfacd cranings of he bead and neck, trice tu peer into the mystery that onvelops the novel eltuation, ¥ “ How cft.n,” saya Audubon, of tho hoot-ont (Syrnitaa nebulosum), “whoo snugly settled under the boughs of ny temporaty eacampment, and preparing to roast ® veuison-«icak, or the body cfa aqiticrel, on a woodau wpit, have I been saluted with tho exuiting burate of thig uightly distucbar of the poazo, that, had it not beoa fcr him, would bave prevailed arvund mo,'as well as iv my louoly retreat! How often bave Tween this noctucnal maraadar alight within a few yards of mo, exposing bis wholo body to tho glare ef my fire, aud eye me in such a curios minacr that, bad ‘it been reasonable to do 40, I would gladly have invited bim to wall in and jou mo im my repaat, that [might havo oajoyed the ploasure of forming a better acquaintauce with him! ‘fhe livelmess of his mutionn, joined to thelr odduoss, hve often mado me think thut bix soctety woutd be at Icart 03 agieorble as tuat of many of the buifoons we nicet with in the world. That, as such opportunities of forming acquaint- ance have not existed, be coatout, kind reader, with the imperfect information which I can give yon of tha Lab.te of thi Sancho Panza of our woods.” A very curios habit of the owl is that of cast- Ing up the gudigevted portions of ita meale fotho foim of targe, rounded pelicts, It is the piace {lee of mout of tha ayecioy ta awallow mico, and Dirds afler they hava plucaed out tho longest wing aud tail-fosthors, whole; then, after the digestible parte have been cousumed by the in- termal organs, the bones, hair, aud featbors, are ejected from the mouth, in hard, dry baliv. be found in sbundsice around the lurde and the places they ustally haunt, e Clara Pegrotty's buttcus, whick were continually dropping in the track eho tray- cled, theao pellets swerve to point out to the hoo- tor the trait of the owl. ‘Au all the epecies eubsiet principally upon mice, iusects, and noxious yermin, owls should bo chetisted by the farmer as usetul collabora~ tors. Yet, with tat perverue blinduess that too largely characterizes bumauity, the sgriculturixt refuses to acknowledge tho services of one of his best friewds, aud persecutes the bird with » vindledve hatred. It is ¢rue that some of the larger epecier, liko the great horned owl, and perhaps tho hoot owl, do make havoo of the villryeyard on getting access to it, but depro- Motions of this sort aro not oflen perpetrated, and, when tay are, there ia no doubt that the farmer's lova is more than made up by the in+ ercate of hatveut Le owes to the failhful tabors of theea very satu pillagers im cicaring his field of mice, aud moles, aud {nsects. Tho plumage ot the various species of ovls ie the eame iu Doth sexay, and shore Is no variation of dints or markings with the ob: Pages or (he advaucing years of tho bird, No adult ow! betray the secret of ita age or ils sex by any distinctive poculiarity in the atyle of ita dress, ‘Thoy may not be able to hide ‘from the uharp eyes of each other the interosting cient stauees of youth or decropitude, femiminity or masculinity; but they most effectually cau from tho human raco, No gray baire grow in thelr polls as timo goca on, nur do their speckled robes: get (aded and soiled with the wear and tear of succeneive yeare, “he eges, too, of all tho species, aro immacu- lato white, ‘boy differ somewhat i shape and size, end in tho hue of their whiteness, being sometimes delicately flushed with » pivk. ora blue, or # yellomiad tage; but they never bear aepot or eplauh of color on any partof their eurface, , ‘Their nests are built on the branches or in the hollows of trees, iu the taaures of rocks, in the deseated neats of other birds, on the xeound, oF even in burrows uudor the ground. ‘The rame species will vary cunously in tho locality of their tones, Lut all are alike careless and slovenly builders and nutidy honsckeepers. Filthy rofune is allowed to accumulate about ther «dwellings, and feat and other vernuu, awerming w the reeking debiis, seomingly occasion them no d.e- vorbauce, Uve of the most interesting of tho family. the burtawing owl of the Western prairies (Spheotylo cunicularga, var, hypogwa), Coutary to she babit of moxt of the tribe, those owls live and breedin burrowa undetgrouud, They sro suid to excavate their own buastation whou forced to it, but generally they take possceslon of the deneried bolee of badgess, marmow, squirrels ‘seonta to be frenpatlo of evan mental” and rogards ita inate wilh cold-blaoded « rt and otaer— burraxery, and vite old noyltors in trendy ro- Querr lone ara totd of the eo:- dwelt Tauion, | Panionabips they sometimes form, At opnerver 4076 funnd, in the samo burcow, & formalin owl with ty eege, 9 teuale craund-squireel (Sper- tanprizes Douglass’, aud a racerenako, ‘lie is.tic-suake ix often an inmate of the baoitation fusred in common by this ow) and tae prairie dor, wna all acem to Ive tozetber iv hartoony. Dd either display a dicposit-on lo moiert the others, there world 6a nu eugus a dinsvlation of theses communiniic torietion ; bub they appear to fAuntiny totus esusfaction of ell parties ccn- cer Whon a:eimed, cho burrowing owl c tmences bowing, and gostculating, and chatter: dug, ju 6 most fudicrons tasnion ; or it tirat taken to ita wings, Byrne ewiltly along the yround co a mors distant tocality, sud there breaks out into excited exprosnions of dieapprobauon. —Near- sighted neopie have the key to the queer bow- fngs and twistings of the head characierstin of the owl famils. ‘They are made in the effort to adjust the focus of vielon correctiy, aud Avawer to tho syuutaz and ecrowng of the eyes in yolmntanly practiced by tho short-eighted, ‘Lhe pnowy owt isa noble bird. its home is witbin tho Arctic Circls, and it is never met with in the United states, save im midwinser, sud tien expert fisher, and, crouctsing on the edges of ar-boics in the ice, liphtuing-lixe ceterity avery Linny vent comer to the aurfaco. It slay feeds on hares, agnitcrels, rats, &c. “‘Lhero aie several diminutive species of owln inbabiting the Pacific States. ‘Lhe Califcra.a pigmy owl (Ulancadium passerinum, var. Cali« Jornicum) ia not iarger than ® eparron, and is Wiarnal io its habite. "Its nozea are repreeented as clear and suft, like thoso ots flato. Ita ford ia entirely innectivercua. Whitney's owl (Afi- cS mist inentioned, ‘and iu the ematlest known on cur Continent, The red-tailea owl (Gcancict- um fenugineun) is aleo a diminutive species, contined to the Southern Lerritories aud Mexico, and theuce ranging itto South America. Of tho seveutead Epecics Axelling in North Ameri- ca, tro—the barn owl (Sfriz jlammea) and the marsh ow! (Olus brachyotus)—aro found in xl party of tho world; mine zane trom shore to hore of our Contiver.t; andtwo-—the burrowing owl and tho great Lormed owl—aro neculiar to the Weetern Hemisphere. On accouvt et the secluded kabita of the cwls, théir nesta ere not frequently met with, and tucir eggs are rare [raatures in the eabinets of ie oologet Among the choice poeseerions of the Binitase- trian Inutinte a:e fous eyes of tho anory onl, whieh Cayt. C. f. Hall took from a nest on the and eent, packed in on old mcocasin. to the na- tional atcrelouso of rcicutific curice tien, Owls aro eometitces expored among game- birds in the market. relish by the vegroes apd ligian tribes, Audu- Lon tostifies that the tleah of tue sacwy owl has : ) a dainty avd palatable flavor. VULTURES. An interesting d.scussion bas been conducted io tha columus of tho London Times upon the nature of the instinct which informa va:tures of tho presence of objects of prey. Strong evi- } dence has been brought by three aeveral corre- epondents egainet the docirine that the earve which guides the valture ts th f emell, Vul- tures are altracted even Lefore the desth of the creature which into become taeir prey. They are siso attracted in the desert, where the heat is so dry that thero is vo smell, and befme decay has begun in the dyieg or dead auimsl to which thoy are drawn. The herdsmen of the Andes colored atocy, that they may not be devected by tio coudors that scour ihe beavens in gearch of ‘oy. Tha rasal organ of the valcure is far lees tinely orgauized than bis ote. which ably fg 8 far-sighted armed wita a tcletcop:, while it commands, when the Lird in aloft, afar wider ficld. Iho weight of testimony brought fur sard 10 the con- tovo:ey also shows thn$ zie, yultara kas 8 facul- ty for measuring the angle’ with the Lorizon st ‘hich another vu'ture is dying, —since the Hight of agreat nuraber is found to converge aceu- rately, wiihout the lesst deviation, on a single | point, (hough many of them fly from s beight | too einall Lo cdmit of thoir Lying guided by thoir | own vision. — Their course in rach cases seems, in afl probability, to be directed esmply by obser- vatiau of the apgla and lice of thght of their tuure olovatad comnrade “UNTIL THE DAY DREAKY” Will it pain ma thero forever, WU leave me bsppy Ruta weary, weary gu: {WH the soet yet nitter That at my heart is Durtisn | Throb on 6312 ‘on forever, aud forever be in vain ? O weary, weary longing} O ead, aweet nie vosiow Luronging: From the ansetliguies woodiaude of the desr and { holy pat i undying? Ob hinge aad fi } Buall I never cease froin sighing ? Bhall 1 never sce the glory ‘aut the Carist-cargus of old story, Sir Galabad, my Lero, saw folded round bia sleep? "The fail, completed veaut With which God gilda dull dnty For leatts that buck toward heaven from the everlast- tug det From that confiiet eesring never, Prota tha to. sucreasing ever ? { Prom the vsrd aud Litter battle with the cold and eal- lous word 7 Wiilihe e&y grow never clearer? Will the hilly draw nover nsiror Where tue golden city glitters In Ma rainbow-miats ina peatled 7 Au Ime, thet golden city t Cat Gad then have no [ly 7 Thaye sought it with auch yearniog for 9 many bitter are And yet, tac bills’ bine atimmer, ‘And ibs porini’s colin snnamer Fade ever with te evenlug and the distance never estat O weary, weary living O foemen unforgiving t Oenetlen iat moct me in the esrth and tn theatr! O Aca that clogs my yeuriing t © weskners ayo returuing 1 Will yo nover cevse to trouble? Will ye never, never spate? Will my soul grow never purer? Will my hope bu wever auret ? Will the mnlutvwreathn and tho cltff-gates from my path ‘be never rolled 7 Bball I nuver, never gain it, ‘Thut lust ccatatle minute, When the journsy’s guerdon waits me behind those bills of gold 7 Alaa t the clouds grow darker, ‘And the bills loon ever starker, Acrosa the leaden mist-szreen of the heavens dull and gray. ‘Thou must learn to bear thy burden, ‘Thou munt wait (o win thy guerdon, Totil the slasbreak cometh and the y ast, Paul's, adows flee —— an ¥dyl of a Stone Sug. Fram the St, Louds Repub.tean, Mrs. South, who livew on Oliva a:rent, is trou~ bled with cold foot, as is alao Mr. Smith, and not for tLe world could we revaal the numvar of the Smiths’ hovec—not that any cuch little personal peculiarity 16 diegracoful, but becaves, on fon- eral principles, the domestic circle should not ba ruthlesely invaded, Having cold fect, Mrs, Smith devised a remedy, and resolved, wuen the recont id gpeil o° weather came ou, that she aud hor lord suould dream the heppy hours of nigut away rogardiess of the tomperatury. Sho got a two-galloa jug and Glled it with warm water aud tucked i¢ in at the foot of tbe bed. It proved an admirable thing, aod neither Mrs. Smith nor Mr. Smith were troubled wich cold feet for soveral nights, In fact, all would prou- ably bava gone well to the ond had it not been for the miserable obtuseneas of the servautegirl. ‘She sorvant-girl Lad never become fully scquaint. ed with the properties of steam, aud one day lust week she heated the water too much, The cork of the Jug was ariven in a8 far as it would g0, and then the jug was sob upon the eave, and when the water bogav to boll was carried ups glairs aud placed beneath the clothes at the fout ofthe bod where dir, and Mra. Smite were al- ready oneconced. The Smiths, husband and wifo, cuddled their fest szainat tho Jur and wero happy—it was ev warm and tho bed was xo cold, Sweet sleep was just about casting ite mantle o'ce the couple, we to speul, when thera camy widdenly from the foot of tue bed « report uke that of # bhot-guu, and dirs. Smith, hit with awful force by the cork of the jug, leaped eorearmlog to the Hloor, shiicking for the pol.ce, Almost at the game instant Sauth himself was nearly killed, A volume of bot wator sirivk him fairly, then, raking up bie back, literally plowing ® scalding Surrow through the whi Hin yell us he bounded from bed were fearful, and & patting aqitirt from the jug, which lett hie joft log parbuiled. brought forty even more idoous soundy. ‘The Swithe capored around the roota im consternation and aguny uati the girl came runniag in with a lamp, and wurveved the rainy she had wraught by gettivg up too muchsteamins jug. Finally tho Sinitueretired gaiu, all bound up in cotton-batting aud sweet oll, buvthe jug wae emosbhed by Smith in bis force wrath, and, siuco the might of the cates trupby, cold feet Have been mude @ specialty 10 that family, canhens Wiutneyi)is lees in size than tha apecies | bare ground while on rome Arctic exnedition, | ‘They aro eaten with great ‘ breed their cattle from biscs rutber than light prot ' as a human eyo | Must iy Lut auiong tue suudons forevermore be oust? ‘ FAMILIAR TALK. RUCENS AND VANDYSK, ‘Tho fame of Iiubens as cat has eimort effaced bi reputation rae jomatiat ; yet toe creat painter Lad a decid.d taleat for political negotiation, Which was, on eovecal importnot vecaioue,cailadl into tao rervica of crowned beads, Whens young man of 23, be was ceut by hia native Bt:to on 8 mission to Spain ; and again, in 1023, he a9 dispatched by the widow of tho Archduke Aloert, Guverpor of the Nethor- Jnvle, to the ame country, on & similar um- bassy. Tio following soar he waa deputcd by the Conrt of Brussels to condact negotiations at fhe Court of Charley I. tur the close of the war of the United Provinces with Spein. His suc: cose in tho delicate enterpries may be inferred from the fact thas, two daya after his urrival ab Groenwich, the seat of the Eugheh Court, peace wan proclaimed with Flantere, ubens remained in Eugland from May 25, 1629, uatit Fob. 22 of the follomiug year, and, While eojournisg in the couniry, was treated situ great honor. Lot as diplowatist and arti hy the Kings and hia lego subjects. Cambridgo invited bim, with a note company, to partaky of ite honpitshty, and gave lum the title of Maorter of Art hie ths f dubbad hito iuight op his aepaitare from Lualand prracat- ing Lim with the ewert—in who-e hilt giicteved tua lustre of diamouda—with which aa been delve. ad the Buyat accolade, While in Loctand, Jiubenu had executed some cemgos for Whi:o- havl. end a piosere of "Peace aud War” for tho Kiug's coilestion, Mie Majesty gracefully Knosledged the wore of tio pliner be giv iim » cordon of diamonds for 4 Lat-baad, and o yeineb were valued at £50, He etul Frince of Wales, Charles bad par- chased several wo.ds of Rube d ho ws: éngased bim to paint a setied Of pictures for thi Lanqueting House far s consideration of £3,0v0, Yao canvass wore cowpleted in Antwerp in asuty of the hing was tien ny low, & oo wot transmitted to Eozland until Octoi«, 1635. ‘lwo yeara aud « Lat eiapscd before ‘the entire sum acroed for thes was lignidsted, aud then ‘hing :Cnaries imade gonersus smends for the delay by roudine the happy painter a gold ehein of nearly 7 pounds troy weight, Tn. 14d, while nexotistiona wets Lending with Rubens fur the doc. ration of tie catinet of Men fie ts Mora, ac Greenwich, the arent patuter died, nt the age of Gs. 50 pat OeniOUs belind bim, anoug va 369 valuable painiings.—9i of wi Lesitex a coliccticu of autigacs, Rem, €: he bensures Tell bey ‘ y ef Gi | the Kings of Spain and Polsud, the Elector of Layarin. end Cardinul Richouuu. ‘Two years afer Rubene returned to Autrerp fron bia mitmiou (o Engiaad, Varayel, tue early pujil of Kubeus, andar val of bis celetiacd muster, was iuvied by Charles [. te yet Loo- don, ‘there is some evidenco that Van then evouth of 21, nad appeared at the Court of Jamey 1. iu tho year 1422; bie the testimo- ny is not altogether eslauasaed, Howe ever, ip 1692, lu wax gracivuely welcomed to the Cuurt of Charts L, was made * Panter jin Ordiary to Ely Blajesty,” wita a slurs £200 per sear, and wae sumptuously ludsed in Biackiriars, For uing yeara Yaodyek prolonzcd his stay in England, doanwhilo receiving to honor of Keiyuthood from tho King, aud tio haud of Mery Ruzaven, Maid of Houor to Queen Heunetia Maria, aud daughter of Patrick Butue ven, filth con of the Earl of Gowrie, The Inxutiour biwiicof Vandyck iv Blackfriars was atavority loupcug-piace of the Rug ante lus lusurious 02) “yck Way & oon of eicga.$ mune; 3 his caee iu ine _ aoe ety. This f er, but the famils had cowuid tue painter had fom youh be | mingie iu Bigh cizeses, to whtew his a i ducea him, “But the tempis' ions of 5 Loudon uid not suflucnco bia to nox caacl, Re worked ouligently at hie be apd produced a tuczce.:on of plosious p.c.uses, winch are the pride ot Lugheb galleses. Within a fos montha of is arrival, bo painte a large family pictuso, inslatuz tue Kaas, Queou, Prpco of Wales, and Priv Mary, far which he received £109. Le also executes portxaits of the King, tac Lrench lituy’s bro.her, the Arcbduch*ee leabelia of the Ne.heriands, nnd the Psiace ana Vrlueeas of Orange, for £24 cack, ‘ne merit ef these picturca was scl nowl- edecd wot oulr by tho payment of thelr pzico, hat.by tho gift from tho King of Kright- Laod and a gold chain, wha bis portrait \ | 1 i fet iz giamonda, Amoog iho finest wort which Vandyex accunt.tehed in En7! wero the poriraite of Venetia tsven after death, and of Aone Carr, the be {ul daughter of ‘the Earl of Souesot Lady Venetia, the lovely wifsuf Sir Kenelin Digty. died oo May-day, 163), and Vondyes, who ‘bas painted the eelenrate? lady peveral times in Lite was called pan to teks ove fact fiuprees of her exiuivite Lace, with Ihe calm, sublime expreseiou | {wath desta bad loit upon it. The artist, iu , nd by tho august ecene, traueforred ty bis ‘canvas tho soley majorty watca exalted the | gtiil, fixed features of the yuune and lamented i tady, and sehicved uno of tio gsandest works that ever issued frum lis band, Yoo portratol Lady Aso Carr now hougiog in tho White sod Guld Ioan at Petworte. patscs by the namo of eUhie Lad d,s Lesllo said ut in: “Sue lyoxs pertectly ba. py When be puted her; veriectly Lappy wun you lou Vand ela pencil was conssanily employed trac- ing the tincaments of tha nuplosi represonta: tives of English arietacracy, suc be was bimse:t ay honored associate of tiv best fammitios in the queet of new fields for his amuition, tn 1040, be left big «plend.d studio in Blact- {rare aud went co Faris to wolicit s commission for decorating tho uutiniehed galleries of the Louvre. relurued to London to resutie the eplendi career which had beea tous unavailingly jute: raptad, Dut tho fortunes of tho King were r sapidly growing overcast, and, agit the senei #) int Oo: the painter telt the impending cata tro phe ond nas crashed by it bis host suddeuly gave way, aud a wickness pre. ff Ueath carne apoo bin, “I would give Jo: d.ccor who conld save Ins life, Kiog; but the giim monarch with whom ho coa- tondod was pot ta be bribed, and. on the 9b of Docember, 1041, the artist Lacetbed bis last in his caambor at Blackiriars. Hm lifo wos pre~ maturely cat off, fer Lo Lad not by above threa mouths completed hia 42 yeur, ‘ns widow was left wita an infant daaghter, named Juntiniana. ‘To them he bsqueathed bis property ia England ; butt is said bis oststo perlehed daping the war between the Kang aod Parliament, Hia daughter married Nir Jonn B.epuey, of Prendergust, and, becoming a widow, wedded to Ma:tin Do nel), Eeq. ‘To bis illegitimate daughter, Maria Theresa Vatdyck, of Antwerp, the artist bo jueatned tho snm of 14,000. ‘Tho pauntings whica Yandyek executed dating the twenty yeara that intervened between hia departure from the stud.o of Stubens and Ine deash, are reckoned at 950. Lis iwduaire muat have been prodigious, notwithstanding bia foudners for a life of pleasure, FISH-SHOWS. * Yish-shows are becoming a popular apecuis- ion acroge the water, We are not accustomed torcgard the vast and interesting aquaria that aro establisbed in various groat European centres in the tight of puroly commorcial enter- ptises ; but eo it sectox we should. to uudor- standclearly the priuciple upou which thev sro constructed. Thay aze not built for the purpoce of educating the people und benefiting science, although these objects aro necessarily furthered by their oxtutence ; but they aro simply **monoy- making rhows, origimated by joint-stock cor- panics, with s view of profit only." Meantino ecleveo can but be gratetul tbat capitol has em- barked ina speculation whose vuccoss must ree snl in a gradual gain to the world of most uso ful aud deeirable luformstion concerning fishe lite. Exteneive aquaris are in succesufil operation at tue Cryctal Palace, London, at Brighton, Mamburg, Berlin, Paris, Naples, etc., while new ones are in jrocess of tO, OF BY6 12 OGile towplation, at Rotheeay, Southvort, Ramwezate, Norgute, Great Yarmouth, Birmingham. ete, eto, It ty extimated that not less than £700.00 will saan bo invented in these great “fish-cliows” in England, Irelaud, aud Scutland, sie. W Lloyd, of the Crystal Palucs Aquarium, a-acrta that no structine of tha wart cauting over £15,000, and with annual expenses above €2,60, will pay ita way, oven in» populous city, if unconoected with other attractions, 3 Tn the cage of the Crystal Palace Aquarium, which cout 960,000, association wil (ho pseacer building hea jusured the success of tue veutura. Phe aquarium in the Juha WAcelisoatracon, in Parts, cost upwards of 620,000. aud, aituough Hew visitors average 130,000 aunually, it bas never paid a dividend. ‘Tho Mrizuton Aquarium ook about €60,0U0, and r¢ uas au excellent dividend to the sbarcholies#; wat tg both a Asheshow, coucort-room, aud gonetal lounge. Tue Aquer um at Hamburg pyld back the sum ts cost, 15, Qu0, 1 ix Yours; Dut it ia situated in attrectlve ha. py, aud Vanuyck must have beea ;orfectly | fuF she giakOa you | ‘at avave | Tan.J, hie rostiess epiris turned toward Branco ia | But bis soit was aasaccessful, and bo * J Wat LP, Oi, inthe Gary rardenr, which have besn visited by as many a® 2.1.90 persons (4 umber equal to the copulee ton of te city) in thy courro of a single Weck, ‘Tho organization and managemaot of au ium isa matier of covaderania diflonity. sive food health among its varied done aid provide them with suitable food, takes. the ke+t eciantifio skill. ‘Che mortailty in some aquaria is very great, ccanioalng coutinual loes and trouble. [tis an important fact that aqua. ha can n¢ nustatned hundreds of mites trom the tea, the water boing conveyed by iailway from the coast. It tn thus that the aquariam at the Cryrtal Pataco ig supoiied, Tt ix in inland cites that they word prove most altractivo and im- part mort less ire, from the outiro novelty of BL objects exhibited in them, Chicago Is not prone ta be belund the world in eny sort of en- erpriee; hen yall some of ita capitalists place gt aqnarina in ono of ils extensive parks? No~ where 1 te world should a well-managed aqua nium psy a better profit, : ANT-TAEASURES, The rina of tho ancient City of Rome have lately yiclded up an act-treasurs that ia satd by competent critics to be one of tho moat valuable that havo como dosn to us from the pslmiest dayn of “Greece. It ina piece of sculpture come rarable to the Venus do Modic: in ita oxquisite boanty, Itis, according to the London Times, winch baa an eutbusiastio description of the work, fhe statue of “a lovely girl of 17; and might not inappropriately Le callea a Peycho, did not tho style of art engcost an oariler perio! than the dato of the fable. Bae atands with both fost upon tho ground and close togather, tho left a couple of iuches farthar baci, with the heel very ihagbtly ramed. A moment bofcre she wag erect, Lut she has Gron;e. ito an easier position, nith tha fort e bent forward and inwards sealnat the rigat, Hes lott haad ty resting .on tho kaos of hair at the back of hor head. while er oright holda the ful sho pheady ~ pasecd = seresad mes. pone fa doing, thin sha bat swayed erand vown tothe ight, bringing the ‘The shoulders aro well not Lack, aud tha face is mrued to the tight and & at quite thtec-quarter view.” ‘Tha modeling iv to be per! the conto have that duis ons roltocss given by the greltdly-ine-enaing Zall- neds of abprorchiag development, together with, allthe beanty, cua:ms, and mwvectuess of youth, virgiuily, and nocence.” Ou the ground beads the Ugure 1g 3: parently n porfumne-box, anvevad with flovers, wlito a slender baluster affords a tuppert for her draperv. Lapturous as a8 tho praise excited by tho neuli ture. th is acknowledged thas the exceatoa 14 unequal, and inferior tothe beauty of the cone erption snd the modeling. Henes it 18 coucluded that "the etatue 18 a cans froin & master piece.” Itis s'xo in a mutilated state. © broken acrosa the neck, Leiow the left and above tho right koe nd above the left aukle. The nese ia slightly broken st the tip, and the right nea bas uot vet beew found.” Orler valuable trereurea have also beon ree rently dizcovered in the samo fruitful lyealicg, Among tie-e are a remarkable bust of Cone modus, 4 Btatuo of Bacchus, two Tritons. tio draped portiaicatatnes of women, and the head of's Veuns. Ali ara ina more of less dilapidated condition, The statue of Bacchus revins the head, tho right arm. and the flout. of ths body gosn tothe nips, Evidently the back nas cut down at the tina tha work sas. eculp tured, {n order to adapt it te tho drapery, which wae probsbiyef bronze, The Jeftarm, oroken asthe snauider. lan not been recoveras, ‘Lhe ‘Tritons ato complo'e to the termivation of the human portion, —thit down to the hips. They wore rot broken. bat s> fuished at tas Teint as to levi tet.e tmteeucs tat the tads Were Ouiztially of bs n NEW FDITION OF SHAKSFFARE. J. Payne Collier snnonnces tho plas of anew edition of Shakspeare, to complete which ba asks the co-operation of a Lmited number of fibrenbers, ‘Che edition will bo in the original E {be ctrictty confined to. to coat uot more thau othe while smouns ‘up prt aad — paper. qrect Uva cxprma, an acvanco ar ivcn is requested of ccch subscriber. Colic devires to nviks Ro Fecumary prons be inchided with Shavspeere’s plays, aud for tho frttine in any collecud edition. Tho repra- duction of tha trio languize of the poet fs Mr. Colner’s Suze atm in this edition, ¢nd ue will m- stipe nutce ia every cage to a couple of nog, “ avoiding all coatroverry.” THE ACCRN. Ao s-orn ewung, ‘On on osk-trea bough ¢ Bo leng it had nua, Tr would fain fal) bow ‘To tho Eindly earth, Thit fs germ within ‘Mijzot inst into birth, ‘Aud its ite begin, And the Antnmn rome Wien fa imening handy And each orf grew a fame, ‘And each bongs a brand} And a warm ciie uD hegun to et Tnrcngs the bird, dry cap To tlle acorn aweet. And the scorn thought, “TY chal s9001 Koo DOW The fe T have earght,, hen J fall frei the bough g arm ghar through Each tendon right, That about me ‘Aud Lound mo tit And with eying di Came t And tha Neu m: Dut Sta germ was quae by tha worm's charp teats And the gravn Jit had won, is eruvota death, oe A Colorndo Jurys Fram te Puebla Chiefiain, Two of the witnewes pave testimony {0 etch 8 manner as t2 cant sovere retlactiona nou each otuer's voracity. After they had given their evie douce thoy adjourned outside, and, after 8 lively diypute. conel sled that tho best way to establish their soveral claima to tinth would be to Ogos the matter out ta ood, old-fashioned, rourhe and-tumtlo atylo. So at it they nent, and just as H.C, Tuateher waa addreeving the jury, sone body yelled “fizbt,” aud out ran the Conetanle and jurors, despite the romourtrancss of the Court aud ‘attor.icy—the latter, having Just ar- rived from the States, being decidedly astoniened atthe abrupt deratture cf those *peory™ uv0g whom he bad been lwvinhing tho flowera of thet. onic. ‘The sceve oncwido of (bo Conrt-Hoces wag acurious ove, Qao of the puyiliste--the oye on top—was a frlend of Consisule Joa Cox, and thas werthy would call out: “Lcommand ths peace!" and then, stooplaug don, be would nar to his friend, inn low tous: ‘Give him bet!" Tois state of affairs continaed for some time, nuti Hoally Joe's Iriend was turned by Ris Bor at; And then it occurred to Josanh that he to put av end to thie outraxeous violation dignity of the Court, and the peace and quiet of the community. Accordingly, ho callog uroa George Chapman, who was standing dy, to part the combatants, wLick George proceeded todo, though several of the jury were Bo Als. gusted at the atrupt termination of the fun that they pulled of thoir coata and threatened to thraan him for bis efforts in discharging bis duty ca acitizen, oug! of the a Denth of n WarriorePrice Tye Madvid Gaceia records the ond of another Carhst Icader of the sama clerical profession 2g the dreaded Padry sanclio, after 9 carecr in the eentsal pravanced longer oud toro varied than tuat of the later in the woctb, | Thie wae the former cure vf Alcobaa. who hore arms from tue beginning of tho war on the Pretender’s sida as o eabecilla, or leador of » Land of partixang, Until, beving unfortunately bee ovliged to visit Madrid on private business, bo way recognized in cre of the principal thoraugh~ fares aud arrested, Moro tortenate than Lozaoa when fonnd within tho postilo hos be was ot sent Lefore & court-martial, but got rid of by being summarily trausported to Havana with other political prirouers. Hia friends about Don Curlos, hosever, bore hig fate ip wind, and after somo mcniba pot bin exchenge ed ageimet @ Republican officer of rauk; seu, returning to Madrid under a eafe conduct, the cure spent wnino thine there peacezully. Neatleaas pos, however, again ecized Lim, "1 waa bora a eoldier, and inesu to dis one,” he said pot lous wince to's friend who remoustiared with bin ou the strong Carhst uympathies which be made a point of pubicly doclaiug: and soon efter this he dieapreared from the Qapi- ia}, and was hesnd of at the heed of ove of the tomi-brizand paities in the centre. Bury rived gud surrounded Jately at the Village of Roa: where he tay with thirty mon, this soldier-vries lta surronder, aud was shot with the er part of bls fullowere in the attemnt to ther way out ¢hrough the iepubLoun