satisfaction and gratitude at being at length able to | ranean-the doubt of France, the dislike of Spain, speak in a Neapolitan court of justice with perfect the Ionian troubles, the progress of the Lesseps freedom. He eloquently contrasted the old Gov- canal, and the Syrian occupation-England is largeernment of suspicion and tyrannous exaction with ly in need of an ally whose ships shall command the the new one which symbolized freedom and pro- Adriatic. The Suez Canal project has latterly comgress; but exhorted all Italians to use their liberty manded a new share of attention. In the British with discretion and charity. "The press," he said, House of Lords the Earl of Caernarvon violently at"was one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and tacked the scheme, and called upon the Government should be guarded with the utmost scrupulousness; for explanation; to which Lord Wodehouse replied but there were limits to its action, when it violated that Turkey, in obedience to advices from England, public decency and insulted the religion of the state had never legally given its sanction; and furtherand of the great mass of the people; then it was for more, reiterated the old reply that the project was a the law to interfere, and the articles of the Pietra commercial, and so a political, absurdity. Yet noInfernale, now indicted, had been guilty of this of- thing is more certain, as we learn from French and fense. He did not come there to argue theological Italian papers, than that the managers have secured points, or to question the right of individuals to be- most ample funds; that the Pacha of Egypt has lieve as they chose, but to enforce the law and re- given it his sanction, besides rendering himself spect for public opinion. The law had declared the largely responsible pecuniarily; and that some thouRoman Catholic religion to be the religion of the sands of laborers have been for a considerable time state, and it must be respected." actively employed upon the work. M. Lesseps himself, the adroit and indefatigable manager, promises that in less than six months the "New Bosphorus," which is to divide the Isthmus of Suez, shall be complete.

THE political relations of the various countries of Europe, each with the others, are just now in a somewhat anomalous condition. Thus Russia and France, which have been growing into a very tender and confidential alliance, are just now set at variance by the suspicion shrewdly entertained at Moscow, if not at St. Petersburg, that French influence has not been silent in provoking the recent national demonstrations in Poland.

Again, England and Spain, which maintain a kind of ex-officio alliance, are just now manifesting more coolness, not to say hostility, toward one another than for years: partly by reason of the old sore of the Spanish dues, and partly-and more particularly just now-by the rigid adherence of Spain to her intolerant Popish prejudices, which persist in denying all favor and all grace to British Protestants.

A further indication of the present good understanding between England and Austria may be found in the fact, that an action recently brought by the Emperor of Austria in the English law-courts against Louis Kossuth, for the issue of Hungarian paper money, has been decided in favor of the Imperial plaintiff, and the Court has ordered the condemned bills, amounting to a very large sum, to be given up. Of course the British journals declare it to be a strictly legal decision, under which the Emperor has received no more favor than if he had been a ditch-digger of Lincolnshire. This is certainly a pleasant view of it, and we hope it may be true; but we can not escape the belief that if the action had been brought when Austria was playing fastand-loose during the Crimean campaign, that the decision would have been different.

Canadas, and Lancashire, and London; and we Americans may be assured that it always will.

England, too, is having its quarrel with Prussia, specially fostered by the Captain M'Donald case, which, from the newspapers, has now reached the dignity of an inter-state quarrel. This quarrel is too old now for us to sum it up except in a half doz- UPON the whole, perhaps, English justice is surer en lines. A British captain, traveling in a rail-car than the justice of any other country; but it is none on the Rhine banks, makes claim to a privilege the less true, that in all that regards her external which the station-master denies. The captain is policy, the action of Great Britain is measured untesty and choleric; the station-master brutal and swervingly by her interest, with a magnificent disinsistent. But the captain proves to be connected dain of sentiment of whatever sort. The Governin some way with her Majesty's household. Yet he ment of Victoria looks with a very maternal fondgoes to jail. There is protest from the British resi-ness after the good of its children of India, and the dents of Bonn, indignantly worded; and the protestants are treated even more harshly than the captain. All the British action is in strict conformance with Great Britain is religious and Christian and sends British pride; and all the Prussian action, though missionaries to India; but all the while her Governbrutal and uncourteous, is in strict conformity with ment humors and protects the Hindoo superstitions, Prussian law. The affair reaches diplomacy, which which her private enterprise seeks to undermine. expresses itself in a roundabout interchange of notes Great Britain is a friend to the poor crushed Poland, that mean nothing. Next it reaches Parliament, and chants sentimental regrets for the martyrs of where Lord Palmerston gives a smart slap at the Warsaw; but her Government (through Lord John boorishness of the Prussian ally; which the Prussian Russell) does not send any diplomatic protest against Foreign Minister resents by declaring it rhodomon-imperial cruelty. "If I were to write a dispatch on tade, and by asserting that England is too dependent the subject to the Court of St. Petersburg," says Lord on her Continental alliances to bandy insults in that John, "I have no doubt whatever what the answer manner. So the affair stands; England weaned of that Court would be: that the Emperor of Russia away from Prussia, and disposed just now to culti- had made the most liberal concessions to his Polish vate particular amity with Austria. Indeed she subjects, and that all he required was that tranquilfinds a fair excuse for this new love in the fact that lity should prevail in the country, but that he meant Austria has now put on a semi-constitutional form not to withdraw those concessions or to go beyond of government; and furthermore, is earnest in de- that which he thought necessary for the preservaclaring, with England, against the continued French tion of peace in his dominions. There would be a occupation of Syria. The truth is that, in view of dispatch, and there would be an answer, but is there the new complications on the shores of the Mediter- any party in this country, is there any Government

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that could be formed in this country that likely to take up arms in behalf of Poland, and to endeavor to restore her nationality? and if we are not prepared to do that, although we might sympathize with Poland, I do not think it is a case for diplomatic dispatches or diplomatic exertion. What had happened lately was no doubt very lamentable."

of such men as Mr. Layard in the House of Commons. We are prepared to see a very decided expression of the public sympathy in favor of the maltreated East Indians, and a very sagacious and diplomatic entertainment of the "unfortunate business" on the part of her Majesty's ministers. About the well-ordered household of our friend Mr. Bull there are a great many small dogs that bark; but the mastiff, which only bites, is chained very close.

A SIGNIFICANT episode in connection with the unfortunate Polish outbreak has just now excited largely the wonderment of the curious in Paris. It was half believed that men high in the confidence of the Emperor (shall we name Walewski?) were privy to the late outbreak of Warsaw; but it is none the less certain that Paris diplomacy expresses regret at the rupture, and expresses confidence in the good intentions of the Muscovite Emperor. Well, the Polish sympathizers who live in Paris asked authorization of the government for a funeral ceremony

condition that there should be no political demonstration. The committee of arrangement appealed to the Père Lacordaire for a commemorative discourse; the Franciscan orator declined, but suggest

And it is very lamentable that Venice should writhe as she does under the heel of the Austrian ally of England; and Great Britain pities her with her great, far-off pity. That is all; and the Government of England will do nothing for her until such time as the Austrian alliance is worth nothing to her. We can never forget the bitterness with which, upon a time, we heard the late sincere patriot, Daniel Manin, express his loathing for what he called the selfish policy of England in the days of 1849. "We had heard so much," he said, "of her friendliness; there had been such outspoken declaration of sympathy, such hearty greetings, as we met the brunt of the storm; and when we held the tyrant at bay-the world looking on, we faint-in honor of the martyrs. It was granted, upon the ing from weariness, and imploring aid in the name of humanity, in the name of Christ-England hesitates, measures cost of interference, sinks her brave sympathies, leaves us to desolation and slaughter." And yet, what is a Government for if not to looked the name of a brother of his order, of Toulouse, after the temporal interests of its subjects? Is it part of the role of a good government to make war for an idea? France says yes! France has tried it over and over; but France has left deep traces of her outside heroism in the spilt blood of a million children. Has a Government any right to be heroic if the heroism is to sacrifice the interests of those specially under care? What is the end of Government except to look singly, persistently, unfailingly after the interests of those who fashion it and endow it? England represents, perhaps, more than any country in the world Christian civilization, and the office of its Government is to secure the blessings of that civilization to its own people-but not to all AMONG the things of city interest in Paris must peoples. And if the prosperity or growth or well- be mentioned the Art-exhibition of the World Palbeing of any great class of her population is main-ace upon the Champs-Elysées. You enter it from tained at the manifest expense and damage of any gardens upon gardens. Chestnuts and lindens, and foreign population, does the British Government con-wide sweep of carriage-way without. Within, great sider it a duty to abate straightway the home pros-blaze of garnished glazing, and fragrant exotics, with perity for the sake of ending the harm accruing to miniature streams that counterfeit the dash and frolic outsiders? Does it forbear export of opium when of the waters of the Bretagne hills. Birds singing as opium is brutalizing the Chinese? Does it forbid they sing on the meadows of Nancy; flowers breakthe coolie-trade when it is manifest that the coolie-ing cover as they burst into blossom at the Luxemtrade involves incredible hardships and cruelty? Does a world-wide humanity invariably direct and control the policy of the Government? The popular sympathies of Great Britain may be always in favor of liberty and progress and religion; but its political sagacity does by no means always keep step with its sympathies. Has Great Britain ever proposed to give a bounty on free-grown cotton?

We may depend upon it that, in all that concerns British relations with the two American parties in the field, the English Government will be guided purely and thoroughly by what it shall count the best interest of the mass of the British people.

M. Minjard. M. Minjard accepted the office; but, to the great scandal and discontent of his Polish mourners, counseled complete submission to the fatherly government of Russia, and rounded his funeral oration with an eloquent anti-Imperial appeal in favor of the temporal authority of the Pope. Poland is Popish, without a doubt-which Russia is not; and the drift of the theological plea seemed to be this: Let the Poles and all who suffer stand by the Holy Father, and see first to his reinstation in his old sovereignty, and the Holy Father will then stand by them.

bourg. It is altogether a rich twin-array of nature and art that makes the flowers cheat our passion for the pictures, and the pictures cheat our passion for the flowers. It is a show of living artists, the Exhibition Triennial. There are those we miss since the last. Decamps, and Ary Schaffer, and Delaroche. But Art marches, though dead ones strew the Of the old heroes of the brush Ingres is still alive, and so is Horace Vernet; of the new ones a host contribute to make the galleries gorgeous. But the particular art-attraction of the spring in Paris has been the exhibition and sale of the famous "Soltykoff" collection, made by a Russian millionaire and prince, and enriched with the rarest objects of porce

way.

APROPOS of the humanities of the British Govern-lain, carving, enamel, armor, furniture, manuscripts ment, much attention has been called within a short dating from the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirtime to the frightful persecution of the native pop- teenth centuries. Unbounded means and a severe ulation in Bengal, in prosecution of the indigo cul-taste, added to very large and accurate historic knowlture, through the instrumentality of the ryots. The subject elicits the very warm treatment of such Anglo-phobic prints as the Nord of Belgium, and has received the earnest attention and reprobation

edge of the times put under contribution, had made this collection the most complete and valuable ever brought to public sale. The Emperor of Russia secured all the armor drawn from Eastern countries

write, they would fill the Drawer with the stories of their new and exciting life.

coolly inquired of him if the track was getting too fresh?' The Captain not understanding what was meant, the Colonel told him his military career reminded him of a California hunter, who started out with his gun in the morning upon the track of a grizzly, and pursued it hard all day. When it be came evident he had nearly overtaken his game, he turned aside into a miner's shanty, very much excited. The miner inquired what was the matter, as he looked agitated and alarmed. The hunter replied that he had been pursuing a grizzly all day, but the track was getting too fresh, and he didn't think it safe to follow it any further!"

before the public sale commenced, at the price of two hundred thousand francs; the armor of the Western nations was taken by Napoleon at two hundred and fifty thousand; while the balance sold for something "PREVIOUS to the breaking out of hostilities at over two millions of francs-making a total of half Charleston," a Wisconsin correspondent writes, "we a million of dollars. Among the high prices we had in our county three companies of United States may instance an early book which was purchased by militia, fully armed and equipped, composed altothe eminent publisher Didot at twenty thousand gether of our German fellow-citizens. Upon refrancs. A carved "toilette" brought thirty thou-ceiving the requisition of President Lincoln for volsand francs; and a ewer and bowl of early Limoges unteer troops, the Governor called upon these commanufacture brought the enormous price of twenty panies to join the regiment, whereupon they very and odd thousand francs. promptly and unanimously surrendered their arms and equipments back to the State, as did also their IN French literature there is just now particular- officers their commissions. Among them was one ly noticeable a history of the Revolution of 1848, by Captain Jahns, who had figured largely in times of M. Garnier Pagés-a man fully competent to give a peace as Chairman of the Military Committee in the just record, and as willing as competent. As yet Legislature of the State, and in other ways had for only the first volume has appeared, which treats al-eight or ten years been laboring to establish for himmost exclusively of Italy, and shows the author's self a military reputation. Soon after resigning his ardent love for Republican institutions, and his un-commission he was met by Colonel Teall, who very abated faith in them, as compared with the weakness of all monarchical ones. He does not pardon the late Savoyard King, Charles Albert, for not embracing and defending the Republican opinions of the insurrectionists of Milan, and he artfully excuses the republicanism of revolutionary Venice, which periled their city and freedom rather than succumb to the monarchical opinions of Sardinia. Had there been more unity of purpose, whether republican or monarchic, among the states of Italy, in 1848-49, they might have achieved the conquest (Venice included) which they wrought eleven years later by favor of the Emperor of France. M. Garnier Pagés was an active and enthusiastic member of the Provisional Government of Paris in 1848; and he tells his story with the earnestness of a man who feels keenly the great glory and the great failure of his life. There is something pathetic almost in listening to the story of a man who has so long outlived the great epoch of his life. We remember well when the portrait of M. Garnier Pagés, in lithograph, was in all the shop-windows upon the Boulevards. We remember when our neighbors, in the parquette or the orchestre (as the francs were plenty or few), nudged us, and said, "Le voici, the man yonder with the mole on his cheek and the straight hair, that is Monsieur Pagés, of the Provisional Government." But nobody has pointed at him these many a day. If you had asked (before this book) is he alive, or is he not alive? nine in ten would not have known what answer to make you. It was the same thing with poor Marc Caussidière, who one time held the " top of the street" hereabout; but the times tumbled him out of sight. We knew of him as a fat fellow in a steeple-crowned hat in a red sash, who had thousands in just such steeple-crowned hats at his bid-gotten. ding, but he vanished; and we never saw his name again, until one day in New York it flashed upon our vision, in gilt, with the affix of "Wine Merchant." In Paris it was never known again until he died.

DURING the war of 1812, as the Northwestern army was engaged in one of its toilsome expeditions, a private soldier sunk down beneath the hardships of the march and died. General William H. Harrison was careful to arrest the progress of the forces, in order to give this man a Christian burial with coffin and funeral. As some of the military carpenters were engaged in preparing the coffin, he entered the shop and paced the floor in silence, watching the progress of the work, evidently with his feelings aroused by the circumstance. One of the soldiers, presuming perhaps on this exhibition of humane feeling, asked the General as to his plans for the future operations of the army. Pausing in his walk, and elevating himself to commanding height, Harrison asked,

"Are
you a soldier, Sir?"
"Yes."

"Then, Sir, be one!" was the reply; which, with the tone and eye of the speaker, gave the daring soldier a lesson in subordination doubtless never for

"A FEW weeks ago, being on a visit to Elizabeth, New Jersey, I was the guest of Captain Blank, who has become famous in consequence of his connection with the first attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter. He is the proud father of a very intelligent little girl of some six or seven summers, who is remarkable for her smart little speeches. On one occasion, at the dinner-table, she was in her usual happy humor, when her little brother, a lad several years her senior, ventured to tease her a little. He said: "Tillie, doesn't your head feel as if it were cracked, or not altogether right, when you knock upon it in this way?' at the same time tapping his forehead with his fingers, and looking around mischievously, thinking he had quite silenced her. She looked at him a

SAYS a young correspondent:

has been published in Dr. Holland's History of Western Massachusetts,' and was furnished him by a successor in the ministry of the reverend gentleman spoken of, but will bear repeating. I give it in his own words:

"Amusing stories are told illustrative of the "I am a clerk in a country store in the wilds of character of some of the pastors who have lived in Michigan, in a locality where a railroad is being New Salem, and among them the following: Rev. laid. Of course Irishmen are plenty. A Patlander Mr. Foster was a facetious man, and usually ready and his Biddy came in to make a few purchases. at joke and repartee. He had a parishioner, a carTheir attention was at last called to a piece of flan-penter by trade, pretty well stocked with ready wit, nel which I offered at cost-seventy cents-it being a remnant. After bantering some time Biddy said, 'And faith, Sir, we will give yees jist six shillin's, and not a cint more, ony how.' My first impulse was to laugh; but I kept straight, and told her it was almost giving her the goods; but I would not stand about a few cents, and she might take it along. Paying the money, they left chuckling over their good bargain, and saying, 'Be jabers! and we know how to dale wid the blatherin' Yankees.'”

THE following singular circumstance occurred in this city some time ago, and was duly reported in the Drawer. It seems to have happened again in Boston. A correspondent writes:

"Near the Revere House, in Boston, is a block of several fine houses, all having their street finish precisely alike. One of these houses is owned and occupied by Mr. Fusilbury, who has a cheerful round of friends living in the country; and when they visit Boston Mr. F. is usually invited to 'make one' for a few hours at the Revere. One night, not long since, he had been making one till the clock had made two or three in the morning; and soon after he was in a dream of philosophy, bucking a lamp-post, and gazing intently at that block of houses. A woman soon appeared at an open window, to whom he put the anxious inquiry,

and withal somewhat given to boasting. One day, while at work for his minister hewing a stick of timber, the carpenter was boasting, in his usual style, of the marvels that he could perform. The pastor, to put an extinguisher upon him, said: "Governor" (his nickname), "do you think you could make a devil?"-" Make a devil?" responded the Governor; "why yes, oh yes" (his broad axe moving a little more rapidly). "Here, put up your foot! You want the least alteration of any man I ever saw!" It was rare that the minister came off second best in an encounter of this character, but he did this time.'"

"OWN cousin to the boy, in April's Drawer, who wanted to know 'Where is the shop?' must be our five-year-old Eddie.

"He attends Sabbath-school, and has learned, from Genesis and the Catechism, that the principal ingredient of humanity is dust-a material which he delights of all things to work in.

"On week-days the dining-room sofa serves as a milk-wagon, with a chair for horse; but on Sunday he turns it into a pulpit, and preaches, extempore, for the benefit of the assembled chairs and sister Lillie. On a recent occasion his subject was cruelty, and the discourse ran as follows:

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"What a wicked, wicked boy he was, to catch "Marm, will you tell me where-in which-Mr. flies and pull off their wings and legs! How would Fusilbury lives?' he like to have his arms pulled out and legs cut off? Then he was sorry he had treated the poor flies so.

"Why, you are Mr. Fusilbury.'

"I know that, Marm; but I want to know A bad man threw him right into the river. He was where he lives.' so lame he could not get out, but he went right to

"He lives here, and I am his wife. You better heaven.' come in quick!'

"Mr. Fuşilbury went in."

"Careful, careful, Eddie,' says mamma, who had been quiet but observant.

was finished, with an emphasis and a flourish, in these words: And there he saw how folks are made and they've got a lot of dust up there!'"

"A pause ensued, during which he seemed to be "WE have with us in Wisconsin a lusty Hiber- trying to realize the scene to which he had intronian of corpulent dimensions, who, like most manu-duced the lame boy. Soon, however, the discourse factured Yankees, has a strong desire for official position. Having gained the important office of constable, he received an execution for collection, and was directed to levy upon a cow and calf in a certain field. He accordingly proceeded to the place "OUR little Johnny, going to dine with his granddesignated, and having succeeded in driving the cow mother on his birthday, partook so freely of the good into a corner of the fence, laid his execution upon things on the table that a second piece of pudding her and read it aloud, at the same time informing became an utter impossibility. The old lady, seethe cow that he had levied the execution upon her. ing his eye dwelling on the tempting object, said, He then proceeded to secure the calf, but the young-Johnny, don't you think you could manage another ster was too active for him; and after having pur-piece?' Johnny looked doubtful for a moment, but sued it at full speed several times around the field, a light breaking over his face, immediately exclaimreturned in an excited and heated condition to his ed, Perhaps if I was to stand up I might eat anothemployer, and informed him that he had levied the er!" execution upon the cow, but the calf run so he could not levy it upon him."

A MASSACHUSETTS correspondent writes: "As you indulge the readers of your Monthly with a few pages of anti-hypochondriacal matter, I send the following; and if you think it worthy of a corner in your Drawer, you are at liberty to use it. It

"My father tells a great many old Scotch stories," says a correspondent in Ramapo, "a few of which I here send you:

"The family of Mr. Torrance were about leaving the town of Strathaven, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, for America. Tibby Torrance, an old maiden sister of Mr. Torrance's, was to accompany them. Before

they left some of the neighbors were talking to Tibby of the dangers of the 'great deep,' when she suddenly exclaimed, "Aweel, aweel, it's been a gae dry simmer, and pay him on Saturday next if his life was spared till I think the sea 'll no be very deep!'