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Lord Palmerston's resignation was not definitively accepted by the Queen ; and after a week's consideration, it was announced by the Times, on Monday last, that Lord Palmerston would "retain" his office as Home Secretary.

"Explanations," said thatjournal, "honourable alike to all the parties concerned in this transaction, have been exchanged; and, as the difficulties which bad arisen between Lord Palmerston and his colleagues were limited, as we have already stated on a former occasion, to the question of Parlia- mentary Reform as dealt with by Lord John Russell, it has been found pos- sible, without any sacrifice of principle, to place the Government again on a united, and we hope a permanent basis. To be candid, there had been too much precipitation on all sides in this matter. Lord Palmerston expressed his intention to resign as if some vital principle of the constitution were in dispute, and the provisions of the new Reform Bill were irrevocably settled ; neither of which suppositions was true. This difference of opinion was thought to be more serious and more fatal to the union of the Cabinet than it has since proved to be by those members of the Government who alone were in full possession of the ease. " But no Cabinet Councils were sitting at the time; and the step appears to have been taken without a distinct communication on a question of such extreme importance to all the Ministers of the Crown, several of whom were not in London. Upon a fuller consideration of the whole subject, and an explanation of the condition in which the projected measure of Reform now stands, it was found that no imperious dictates of conscience and of duty, by which alone such a step could be justified, did, in this instance, require so great a sacrifice. The zealous mediation of the Duke of Newcastle, the saga- cious and patriotic advice of the Marquis of Lansdowne, and, we must add, the excellent temper and public spirit shown by the Ministers most nearly engaged in this discussion, have led to this satisfactory result ; and it would have been utterly unworthy of the:high position and motives of these states- men if they had hesitated for a moment to retrace a step taken under some misconception of the cause to which it was alone attributable. . . . " We readily believe—and for the honour of this country and of its states- men we dare assert—that throughout this transaction both Lord Palmerston and the colleagues with whom he is again united have been actuated by higher motives of public duty. So far is it from the truth that Lord Pal- merston resigned on the Foreign policy of the Cabinet, that we cannot doubt the position of our Foreign relations at this moment is the cause of all others which chains him to the helm. He is a great master of diplomatic subjects; he brings to them an extraordinary amount of political experience, combined with great fertility of resources and natural energy. He contributes to the service of the Crown not only the advice he may tender in the Cabinet, but his eloquence and popularity in Parliament, and the confidence he has ob- tained from the nation. We may say of him, as Sir Robert Peel observed in a memorable debate, with the courtesy due toe great antagonist, that we are proud of him even while we oppose his policy. But are these forces, are these powers, are these energies to be turned against the service of her Ma- jesty's Government when they are most needed and most useful ? Is this empire, at the moment when it is about to stake its honour and its power on the hazards of war, and reluctantly to take up arms for the first time these forty years against one of the greatest states in Europe, to exhibit to man- kind the weak and pitiable spectacle of a commonwealth divided and weak- ened at its very heart ? . . . . Lord Palmerston's return to office is not the triumph of one section of the Cabinet over another, nor has it been pur- chased by concessions or arrangements which can produce any alteration in the course of public policy ; but it is the triumph of union and public spirit over a partial dissension, and it gives a fresh security for the duration of a Government which is identified with the best interests of the country."

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing Joseph Burnley Hume, Esq., Barrister-at-law, John Simon, Esq., and John Frederick Bateman, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the causes which have led to and have aggravated the late outbreak of cholera at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead, and Tynemouth.—London Gazette, December 27.

We have reason to believe that Dr. Bowling will succeed Sir George Bonham as Governor of Hongkong and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China.—Globe.

It is rumoured that a new fleet is about to be formed, intended for service in the Baltic, to be commanded by Sir Charles Napier. Another rumour says that the Emperor of Russia has ordered a screw fleet to be constructed, the number of which is variously stated at fifteen ships and at thirty ships.

The Agamemnon arrived at Malta on the 16th instant, and proceeded on the 19th, for the fleet in the Bosphorus.

The Sidon, 22, paddle-frigate, was ordered on Monday to leave Spit- head for the Mediterranean with all possible despatch.

Last Tuesday week, Sir James Graham met a committee, including Sir Baldwin Walker and Captain Denman, at Portsmouth, to decide on the construction, power, and dimensions of the Queens new steam-yacht. They decided on the following dimensions and capabilities— Length of keel, 300 feet ; length on deck, 315 feet ; beam, 40 feet ; depth of hold, 22 feet; diameter of paddle-wheel, 30 foot 6 inches; stroke of pis- ton, 7 feet; diameter of cylinder, 84 inches; tonnage, 2340. The revolu- tions of the engines have been estimated at from 25 to 28 ; which will yield, it is calculated, a speed of from 15 to 16 knots per hour. The engines are to be manufactured by Penn, upon the oscillating principle, but which to obtain the speed calculated upon must be worked upon high-pressure gauge.

The Fellows of Brazenose have elected the Reverend Edward Hartopp Cradock, Canon of Worcester, to be Principal of that College, in the room of the late Dr. Harington. Mr. Cradock was elected a Fellow of Brazenose from BalliOl. In 1844 he married Miss Lister, sister-in-law to Lord John Russell.

Dr. William Hodge Mill, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University( of Cambridge, Canon of Ely, and Rector of Brasted, died at Ely ou Christmas Day. Dr. Mill came to London on Monday week, to attend a meeting of the Foreign Translation Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge ; and it is supposed that " the extreme cold of the day brought on an obstruction, which no medical skill could counteract," and, lingering until Sunday, he died " without pain." Dr. Mill had been a Fellow of Trinity College; in 1820, he went out as first Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta ; returning in 1838, he received the appointment of examining chaplain to Archbishop Howley, and sub- sequently the living and professorship above mentioned. Dr. Mill les., an influential and respected member of the Church.

The well-known Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, Dr. Taints Gillkrest, died on Christmas Day. He entered the medical department of the Army in 1801, serving in the West Indies. Throughout the Pe- ninsular War he was with the famous Light Division; and for his services he received a medal with twelve clasps. Dr. Gillkrest has been equally well known in civil labours ; having served against the cholera with in- defatigable zeal both at London and Gibraltar, in 1832-'33-'34. He was the author of many valuable papers on cholera ; and a work on yel- low fever, presented to the French Academy of Medicine, of which body he was a member.

Dr. Grottefend, a learned Orientalist and philologist, died at Hanover on the 19th instant. Dr. Grottefend was wall-known in English literary society.

Izzet Pacha, the brave and determined Governor of the fortress of Bel-. grade, died on the 12th December, the anniversary of the so-called inde- pendence of Servia.

Lord Elphinstone arrived at Cairo on the 5th December, after a stormy passage. He visited Abbas Pacha the next day ; and on the 7th Ihanii Pacha, Minister at War, and eldest son of the Viceroy, returned his visit. Lord Elphinstone visited the Pyramids.

The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier arrived at Madrid on the 21st. instant.

General Prim is on his way from Constantinople to Madrid.

The marriage of Prince Napoleon with the Princess Pauline Sophia. Mary of Baden is said to be definitively arranged, by the Grand Duchess Stephanie.

The Emperor of the French has ordered Messrs. Orsi and Armani, merchants in London, to pay 700 francs into the funds of the Dread- nought, hospital ship, moored off Greenwich. It is stated that Louis Napoleon subscribes to many of our charities.

The Jesuits were ordered on the 18th December to quit Freiberg within a week from that date. The Government disregards their certi- ficates asserting that they have taken no part in the pending dispute.

The Board of Trade Department of Science and Art has issued a circu- lar to the masters of schools thrmighout the country on the subject of elementary drawing, with the view of obtaining evidence as to the best modes now practised of affording such instruction. The circular points out that the Department views the acquirement of the power of draw- ing, "much less as related to fine art or for the encouragement of artists, decorative or otherwise, than as promoting accurate observation by the eye, a habit of seeing correctly, and a rapid means of explanation where writing fails, useful in every relation of life." Examples are wanted; and to this end the circular requests masters to furnish specimens, for which they are prepared to pay five shillings for every example selected for publication. The masters are also requested to state the processes by which they teach, with the view of determining on the best.

Inquiry having been made of the Poor-law Beard, whether cheeks drawn by Guardians of the Poor upon their treasurer were liable to a stamp under the new act, the Poor-law Board stated in reply, that Poor- law Unions are expressly exempt from the operation of the act, other- wise the Guardians would have to give the ordinary stamp.

A letter from Hongkong states that there was a mutiny on board the ship of Admiral Pellew on the 8th November. The men, who had not been at liberty for eighteen months, petitioned for leave to go on shore. Admiral Pellew replied by ordering .the ship to prepare for sea imme- diately. When the drums beat to quarters, some of the men refused to come on deck. The officers were ordered to compel them at the point of the sword. Several men were wounded.

There has been a controversy in the Times respecting the accuracy of a statement made by Lieutenant-General Sir William Napier, to the effect that Sir Walter Scott wrote a song for the Pitt Club while Fox was dying, ending "Tally-ho to the Fox." Lord Holland, in Moores Diary, is made to deny the story as a "calumny. " Sir William Napier has this week written a letter stating that be made the assertion from his own recollections and the collateral authority of Mrs. Dngald Stewart, whose husband so resented the song that he broke off all intimacy with Sir Walter Scott. "Senex," however, seems to set the matter at rest, in a subsequent communication to the Times. "The song in question " he says, "was written for the celebration of Lord Melville's acquittal, and sung at a dinner given in Edinburgh for that purpose on the 27th of June 1806. Mr. Fox at that time was not known to be ill, nor did his death take place until the 13th of September of the same year. * * • '` The words of the song to which Sir William alludes are these-e

" In Grenville and Spencer, And some few good men, Sir, Great talents we honour, slight difference forgive ;

But the Brewer well hoax—

Tally ho to the Fox !

And drink • Melville for ever' as long as we live."

[The song was sung by James Ballantyne, at the Melville dinner.]

This week we had a taste of an oldfashioned winter—abiding snow and in- tense frosts at night, while the noon-day sun lighted up the landscape without perceptibly softening its crisp crust. Skating was commenced in the London Parks at the earliest moment—indeed too soon, for.the adventurous who got duckings could be reckoned by scores; but there was no loss of life. Yes- terday morning, after a fall of snow, a thaw set in, followed by some rain; then snow, and a temperature varying with the aky. The Ranger of Hyde Park has recently caused fresh notices to be affixed to the various gates of the Park, in lien of the former ones, on the subject of the use to which the carriage-drives and rides are to be appropriated. The uthuission of hackney-carriages of all kinds is prohibited, and no laden carts or other vehicles of the kind are to be allowed to pass through the Park. No horses ridden by stablemen and others, for the purpose of exercise only, are to be admitted for that purpose.—Globe.

the week ending on Saturday last. Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for

Ten Weeks 'Week of 184342. of 1563.

Symotic Diseases 2,308 ....

230

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat

454 ....

60 Tubercular Diseases 1,623 ....

202 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,235 ....

131 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 400 ..,,

45 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,297 ....

316 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 648 ....

67 Diseases of e Kidneys, &e 126 ....

13

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &e

138

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &e 77

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Marne, &c 20

• • • • • •

Malformations.. 33

Premature Birth 240

Atrophy 194

Age 567

Sudden 221

Volence,PrIvation,Cold, and Intemperance 641

. Total (including unspedfled ceased 11,244

1,399

Among the Christmas visitors to the Duke of Richmond. at Goodwood, are the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar.

The funeral of the Countess of Eglinton took place on Friday sennight : in accordance with the deceased lady's wishes, there was no display.

Lord Palmerston left town for Broadlands on Tuesday, for the holidays.

The Marquis of Londonderry has granted the Wesleyans of Newtownards a beautiful and valuable site for a new chapel in the town, at a nominal rent.

On Thursday week, the day appointed for the sale of the confiscated estate of the Prince de Joinville at Igancy, no bidder appeared, and the sale was adjourned.

The Count de Chambord has contributed 200 francs for the purchase of furniture for the establishment of Sisters of Charity at Mont, in the depart- ment of the Loire et Cher.

Marshal de St. Arnaud, who has been lately engaged in-organizing the French army on a war footing, has been elevated to the rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

The Archbishop of Paris has granted a dispensation to all the inhabitants to eat meat on Fridays, "owing to the hardness and insalubrity of the tunes."

The oldest of the clergy of Rennes, and probably of France, M. Delannay, cure of Iloinagne near Fougeres, died lately, at the age of ninety-six. He had exercised his sacred profession seventy-one years.

The Bey of Tunis, who has the reputation of being one of the four best chess-players in the world, has challenged the .Touffroy Passage Club, at Paris, to a rubber game for 10001. The first game has begun.

It is said that Count Ernest Esterhazy is about to marry the daughter of the State Councillor Zengoboraki, at St. Petersburg.

Thore Petre, the well-known iron-founder of Sweden, died lately. He was, as a private gentleman, a merchant, and a member of Parliament, always the friend of freedom, toleration, and advancement. His wealth was unsparingly devoted to the support of literature.

The Boston Daily Advertiser mentions a report that Mr. Soule, American Minister at Madrid, has purchased a splendid estate near Castillon, his birth- place, in the French department of the Ariege.

A nephew of Robert Burns is a ;Free Church minister at Dunedin in New Zealand.

The farm of Cassius M. Clay, the well-known American Abolitionist, who emancipated his slaves eight years ago, is now yielding him handsome returns, whereas it used to run him in debt.

When Martin Kossta arrived at Washington, he had interviews with the President and some of the Cabinet.

Sir George Gore, when journeying to Texas on a hunting excursion, was robbed of a draft for 5000 dollars and 300 dollars in gold and jewellery.

The Russian Ambassador at Berlin, on the occasion of the Emperor's fete- day, gave a grand ball, at which he ostentatiously exhibited a telegraphic announcement of another victory in Asia. " The display of the despatch was intended to add to the lustre of the evening ; it only contributed to the entertainment."

The Petersburg Court Gazette publishes a violent attack upon the French Government for allowing a play called The Cossacks to be performed at Paris.

During this month no fewer than 16,000 men have been conscribed in the "kingdom of Poland "-8 in 1000 of the whole male population: they will be sentto the Caucasus.

M. De If aupas, the French Ambassador at Naples, has been instructed to require the restitution of the 3furat diamoids and carriages' and to ask permission for the passage of a detachment of French troops through the licqapolitan territory to Pontecorvo and Benevento. The Papal treasury is said to be in a very bad condition. The deficiency of the present year amounts to 2,700,000 scudi, about a quarter of the Pope's net revenue. A fresh loan with Rothschild is talked of ; but there are difficulties in the way.

Four young Egyptians have recently taken out their degree of doctor of physic at the University of Munich.

By the literary convention concluded between Prance and Spain, it has been agreed that the press of neither country shall publish the works of the other. A stop has been put to the trade carried on between Paris and Ame- rica in Spanish books, and between Brussels and Madrid in French books. Mr. Bentley, the publisher, states that his experiment of publishing new novels at a greatly reduced price per volume has not been sufficiently sup- ported to warrant its continuance. The Belgian Chamber of Representatives have adopted a bill on patents, which fixes their duration at twenty years. Among the propositions recently laid before the Swedish Parliament, is one for the introduction of the decimal system into the coinage of that kingdom. The Paris bakers sell their bread at 40 centimes the kilogramme; the na- tural price according to the cost of wheat is 49 centimes : to make up the difference, Government had to pay to the bakers for the first fortnight of No- Vember, no leas than 671,000 francs. The electric telegraph between Stockholni and Upset' is se much employed

as to be paving. A line is about to be laid clown to Hilsiaberg, to the i

Danish in Elsinore. ,

The success of experiments at Nancy has dn ced the French er of

War to recommend that linen in all mill hospitak . shall be washed

by steam, The Emperor has issued a decree tocitocereolt the'experilqnt. A letter from Athens states that a German sciillite? nateYSNitltas dis- covered the long-lost quarries of the red and green antique marble: ; the red antique on the Southern part of the chain of Taygete, and the green on the Northern side of the island of Tinos.

Six million francs have been expended this year on the Louvre : the Em- peror wishes to lay out eight millions more in 1854, that he may astonish the Exhibition visitors of 1855.

The Panama Star of 26th November states, that after the 20th of Decem- ber travellers would be able to make the trip " from ocean to ocean in one daylight."

The gold-miners in California are said to be making from four to ten dol- lars a day. On the 4th November an eleven-pound nugget of solid gold was taken from a claim at Minesota.

A company has been formed for the building of a railroad between Sacra- mento and Nevada : a large portion of the stock has been taken, and little doubt is entertained that the work will be speedily completed.

A large bed of chromate of iron, the largest known in the world, has been discovered near Nevada.

The value of property in San Francisco city is assessed for taxation at 30,000,000 dollars.

In 1852, the population of New South Wales was 288,254 ; an apparent increase of but 11,086 over the preceding year. But in the year some 20,000 persons had emigrated to Victoria. The amount of land cultivated was 22,000 acres less than in 1851.

The general revenue of New South Wales in 1852 was 376,081/. ; the territorial, 238,6021.

A monster nugget of copper, weighing about a ton, has been dug out of the Summerhill mine, in Australia. The miners there earn about 51. a week.

The consumption of cigars in the Austrian states is said to have increased from 28 millions in 1841 to 800 millions yearly at the present time.

The customs receipts in France for this year, up to the lot December, ex- ceeded by 2,201,023 francs those of the same period of last year.

Cholera has made its appearance at New York : during the week ending I4th December, nine deaths had taken place. At New Orleans there had been 128 deaths from cholera in one week. The emigrant-vessels from this country to America have suffered greatly from the same epidemic. The Ma- rathon, from Liverpool, had had 64 deaths on board ; the Victoria, from London, 58 deaths.

Another great fire at New York ! In this disaster the publishing-house of Harper Brothers and fifteen other buildings were consumed, and the lose is estimated at upwards of a million dollars.

Something very like a famine prevails in the Northern districts of the Madras Presidency, owing to the want of rain. Rice has risen more than a hundred per cent in Cuddapah.

During the performance of the " Dusah" at Cairo, on the 10th instant, the Sheik's horse which walks over the prostrate Moslems struck one on the head ; killing him, says the Times correspondent, though the devout denied it, as impossible.

By violent storms in the Black Sea, eighty grain vessels are said to have been lost. The price of wheat at Constantinople rose, in consequence, from 25 to 50 piastres.

Captain Laporte, a French officer who shot in a quarrel Count de Neuilly, whose wife he had seduced, has been acquitted by a court-martial. Tho public is indignant that he should have been tried by such a tribunal ; and it is whispered that even the court-martial was influenced from "a high quarter." M. Vatel, formerly director of the Italian Opera at Paris, has brought an action for damages against the present director for his having caused /Puritans' to be performed without permission, and also to prevent him from performing that and certain other operas in future.

The heirs of M. Birchey, a Parisian dentist, lately brought an action against the Princess de Craon, as heiress of the late Countess du Cayla, fatuous for her beauty and wit, to recover 20,000 francs ; the value of twelve sets of teeth, supplied to the Countess from 1841 to 1852. The Civil Tri- bunal dismissed the case, on the plea that the plaintiff had allowed more than a year to pass without making a claim.

The Honourable Mr. Swift has been trying an experiment on the Liffey, at Dublin. By means of two air-tight tin floats, twenty feet long, joined. together with iron bars, and a long double-bladed oar, worked wind-mill fashion, he made way through the water at the rate of five miles an hour, while standing erect on the floats. Tho scheme was pronounced to be suc- cessful.

Robert Walkinshaw, a miner belonging to Cowdenbeath in Scotland, has fabricated a coat without seam—buttons, button-holes, pockets, &c., all wrought with pins or wires—not a needle-stitch in it ; and the fit is com- plete. There are about 200,000 loops in the coat. We are not informed whether this garment is either more useful or more ornamental than a com- mon coat.

A journeyman printer in Auburn, New York, states that he has in his possession a stone about half an inch in thickness, out of which another stone of the same shape, about the size of a pea, has grown during the last nine years.

The Nem York Freeman's Journal, in announcing the election of Mr. Peter Dawson, the Democratic Member to the Assembly for the Twelfth dis- trict, says—" We congratulate Mr. Dawson on his election, though we there- by lose a most reliable and excellent carrier of our paper."

John Mitchel, the Irish exile, intends to publish a Republican journal in New York, to promote Republicanism all over the world, and especially in Ireland and England. The Roman Catholics of New York, who swear by their own paper, the New York Freeman, are not favourable to the refugee, as ho is a Protestant. An operative in Newcastle, who had availed himself on the thanksgiving day of his master's offer to pay the day's wages to such of his workmen as chose to attend divine service at church, called upon him towards evening, and inquired whether, if he went to chapel at night, he would pay for over- time !

A woman at present an inmate of Ballyenglish Workhouse, in the North of Ireland, has had seven husbands, all weavers, and who all worked at the same loom. Mr. Driesbach, a "lion king," while exhibiting at New York in a den of wild beasts, was attacked by a tiger, which sprang upon him, knocked him i down, and fastened its teeth in his breast. A lioness is said to have sprung

to the assistance of Driesbach, but struck him instead of the tiger. The

r king was dragged out of the den, and his wounds were pronounced not gerous. The tiger was a pet with the beast-tamer, and usually very tame and docile.

While Wombwell's menagerie was at Stockton, recently, a boa-constrictor was wrapped in flannel to protect it from the cold, and two young crocodiles were also placed among the flannel. One morning the keeper missed a cro- codile—the boa had swallowed it !

Our old friend the sea-serpent has turned up again: this time he has been killed near Wick.

The number of tigers killed in Java, last year, amounted to 717.

The remains of some gigantic animal have been dug up in Algeria. The head is not less than 85 centimetres from the teeth to the nape, and 48 across the bone of the forehead. The front part of the upper jaw has long teeth, and also tusks, similar to those of a wild boar. The legs of the animal are about the size of those of a horse, and from the bend of the ribs it is supposed that its size must have been about four times that of an ordinary ox. Its head somewhat resembles that of the hippopotamus, and its mouth must have been of extraordinary power.

The Cape Town Mail states that no less than 501. has been received for a crop of arrowroot grown upon half an acre of land at Port Natal. The soil in that neighbourhood is said to be remarkably favourable to its cultivation.

Since the discovery of gold in California, 600 vessels have gone round Cape Horn and never returned. A few of them have been lost, but the greater number have been employed in the Pacific trade.

The demand for seamen at Quebec is so great that wages have risen to an extravagant height. As much as 301. has been offered for the voyage home, and refused by common sailors.

From the 1st of February to the 1st of December, the revenue of Canada, from customs, public works, and other sources, was 1,009,197/. ; in the cor- responding period of last year, one of great prosperity, it was only 742,9331.

The Northern Bee, a Petersburg journal, says the population of Russia, according to the recent census, was 65,170,598.

Travellers from St. Petersburg state that in the shops of that city maps of Constantinople are sold in which the Turkish capital is divided into Rus- sian police districts.

The Prussian Prayer-book enjoins that the whole of the service, including the sermon, shall not exceed an hour.

In an appeal to the Privy Council from Madras, this was given as the name of an estate in litigation—" Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira."

The population of California from immigration has only increased 21,000 this year up to the 1st November. The arrivals by sea exceeded the de- partures by only 6781.

A large warehouse at Bradford, occupied by Messrs. Berwick brothers and Gillies, and Messrs. Broadbent and M'Corbin, was consumed by fire on Thursday. The loss of the former is estimated at 23,0001. (insured) ; that of the latter at 10,0001. (insured to 20001.); the building, not insured, 5000/. The public broke into adjoining warehouses, and recklessly threw out many of their contents, thus doing great damage.

NEGLECTED EDUCATION.—" Common things" are quite as much neglected and despised in the education of the rich as in that of the poor. It is won- derful how little a young gentleman may know when he has taken his Uniiersity degree, especially if he has been industrious, and has stuck to his studies. He may really spend a long time in looking for somebody, niece ignorant than himself. If he talks with the driver of the stage-coach that lands him at his father's door, he finds be knows nothing of horses. If he falls into conversation with a gardener, he knows nothing of plants or flowers. If he walks into the fields, he doesnot know the difference between barley, rye, and wheat ; between rape and turnip ; between lucerne and saintfoin; between natural and artificial grass. If he goes into the carpenter's yard, he does not know one wood from another. If he comes across an attorney, he has no idea of the difference between common and statute law, and is wholly in the dark as to those securi- ties of personal and political liberty on which we pride ourselves. If he talks with a county magistrate, be finds his only idea of the office is that the gentleman is a sort of English Sheik, as the Mayor of the neigh- bouring borough is a sort of Cadi. If he strolls into any workshop or place of manufacture, it is always to find his level, and that level far below the present company. If he dines out, and, as a youth of proved talent, and perhaps University honours, is expected to be literary, his literature is confined to a few popular novels; the novels of the last century, or even the last generation, history and poetry, having been almost stu- diously omitted in his education. The girl who has never stirred from home, and whose education has been economized, not to say neglected, in order to send her own brother to college, knows vastly more of these things than he does. The same exposure awaits him wherever he goes, and wherever he has the audacity to open his mouth. At sea he is a landlubber, in the country a cockney, in town a greenhorn, in science an ignoramus, in business a simpleton, in pleasure a milksop--everywhere out of his element, everywhere at sea, in the clouds, adrift, or by whatever word utter ignorance and incapacity are to be described. In society, and in the work of life, he finds himself beaten by the youth whom at college he des- pised as frivolous, or abhorred as profligate. He is ordained, and takes the charge of a parish, only to be laughed at by the farmers, the tradespeople, and even the old women, for he can hardly talk of religion without betray- ing a want of common sense.—Times.

RISE OF THE YOUNG ENGLAND SCHOOL.—The year 1844 is remarkable as that in which a new school of English politicians was fully formed. In the Tory party there was a considerable number of young noblemen, who never having been in office, and being blessed with imaginative minds and san- guine temperaments, were far from approving of the system of expediency which the Government was pursuing. Like the young patriots in the time of Walpole, their watchwords were—purity and principle. Mr. Disraeli persuaded them that there was some profound meaning in the word Toryism, and that he was the man who understood it. They were to be the saviours of the nation. They were to redeem the age from its latitudinarian character. The youthful energies of the country were to be appealed to, and England was in future to be governed by its youth. Mr. Disraeli taught his asso- ciates to regard Lord Bolingbroke as the father of modern Toryism, and of course Mr. Disraeli was the acknowledged interpreter of Lord Bolingbroke's doctrines. The young Whig patriots, of whom Pulteney was the leader against the Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, believed themselves peculiarly the champions of the cause for which Hampden and Sidney died. The young Tory patriots, who followed Mr. Disraeli in opposition to Sir Robert Peel, became eloquent about the cause for which Bolingbroke suf- fered.—Benjamin Disraeli, a Political Biography.