there out of work, and their presence keeps up the constant dread of a socialist outbreak. The subject of the greatest excitement has been the Report of the Committee on the previous insurrections; a vast mass of evidence taken by the committee has been published, which lays bare the proceedings from the first declaration of the Republic in February last. This is proved to have been the work of a few individuals, chiefly connected with the National and Reform newspapers, assisted by persons of the lowest orders of society. The revelations regarding the expenditures of moneys raised by the Provisional Government, by means of loans and taxes, exhibits the greatest corruption; and it is shown that the celebrated Commissioners sent by Ledru-Rollin into the provinces to spread the republican doctrines he was desirous of disseminating, included tailors, shoemakers, liberated convicts, and persons of the worst character. Madame George Sand, celebrated for the immorality of her life and writings, appears to have been regularly engaged by the Provisional Government to enlighten the nation, and her addresses sent out under their sanction were submitted for revisal and approbation to each member in rotation. Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, and Caussidière, are all seriously implicated by the report of the Committee, in the late outbreaks. On the presentation of this report, a debate arose which was characterized by considerable tumult. The three persons above mentioned made long addresses in exculpation of themselves, and highly recriminatory on their opponents, after which the President read a requisition of the Procureur General of the Court of Appeals, demanding authority to prosecute Louis Blanc and Caussidière, for the affair of the 15th May, which was granted by the Assembly. Application was also made for leave to prosecute Caussidière for the insurrec tion of June, which would have had the effect of delivering him over to the council of war, but this was refused. Both of these persons immediately fled from Paris. Louis Blanc is in England. In Lombardy, the Austrians, under Marshal Radetzky, followed up their previous successes, and the army of Charles Albert retreated from place to place, until they concentrated in the neighborhood of Milan, the infantry greatly disorganized, but the cavalry and artillery in good order. The English and French ministers at Turin endeavored to prevail on the Austrian general to grant an armistice for a few days, but he peremptorily refused, and stated his determination to enter Milan at all hazards. On the 5th of August a sanguinary battle was fought, in which the Piedmontese were defeated, and Charles Albert retired to the city of Milan, where he determined to capitulate. On this becoming known the populace were furious, and, headed by the Committee of Public Safety, attacked the palace where the king was lodged, and seized his person, and he was with difficulty extricated by his guards. An armistice of forty-five days was afterwards established, according to the terms of which the territorial divisions were settled as they were before the war, the former frontiers established, and the fortress of Peschiera and the city of Venice were to be given up to the Austrians. The Austrians entered Milan on the 6th, and the Piedmontese retired to their own country in a complete state of disorganization. Peschiera has been delivered up to the Austrians, but the inhabitants of Venice refuse to fulfil the stipulation for the cession of that city. Charles Albert has again made a formal application to the French government for assistance, and the French army of the Alps is being increased but Gen. Cavaignac has declared his intention not to embark in war until the result of a me diation undertaken by the French and Engust governments shall be known. The basis of which it is proposed to reconcile the be gerent parties has not transpired. In Rome the ministerial crisis ended in Mamiani re-entering the cabinet, having compe.. the Pope to consent to the closest alliance wit the princes of Italy, and to authorize reinforce ments being dispatched to Charles A without delay. The populace were gresty excited against the Pope, through the rep sentations of designing men, who made the believe that his Holiness was supine in opposition to the Austrians; and the pe went in procession to the French ambassa to claim the intervention of France. 2 The central administration of Germany un the Archduke John is busily engaged in ganizing the new federal administration various propositions relative to the inter arrangements, as also the Italian and Se*, wig-Holstein wars, and the difficulties betwee the Hungarians and Croatians, are under sideration; but up to the present time if anything has been effected. The Eng of Austria has returned to Vienna, where ters appear to be in a very unsettled state. J the same is the case in Berlin, where a s outbreak occurred, but which was proc put down. The federal system of unite many seems likely to meet with cons opposition in both of these kingdoms, a Frankfort the difficulties to be appreac from the possessions of the Austrian and Pr sian monarchs out of Germany are bec subjects of serious discussion, several representatives expressing their fears tha barrassment must arise from this cause. Schleswing and Holstein war is at a and negotiations for a settlement, under ation, are attempted. Amongst the recent deaths we find the lowing: Berzelius, the celebrated chemist, aðst í years' application to science, died in the 69th year of his age. He was born at Vafversunda in Ostrogothland, 29th August, 1779, and in 1806 he succeeded Spaurnau as Lecturer on Natural Philosophy at Stockholm. His works were extensive in nearly every department of experimental science: he was connected by honorary election with eighty-eight of the scientific societies of Europe, and Charles John, King of Sweden, conferred on him the title of Baron, to mark his sense of the services he had rendered to his country. Captain Marryatt, the popular novelist, died on the 9th of August in his 56th year; he was son of a London anker. George Stephenson, the civil engieer, died at his establishment in Derbyshire m the 12th of August, at the age of 67. He vas born near Newcastle in April, 1781. His ather was a workman in the Wylam colliery, nd he commenced his career in the same umble employment at a very early age. He fterwards removed to Killingworth colliery, There he married his first wife, by whom he ad one son, the celebrated engineer, Robert tephenson, M. P. The first indication of his enius for mechanics was shown in repairing s own clock; soon after he was allowed to y his hand at repairing a condensing machine which was out of order, and which he repaired; this was followed by his repairing and improving the engine at the colliery, and this so satisfied his employers that it was at once put under his entire charge. He was engaged in making experiments on the safety lamp at the same time as Sir Humphrey Davy, and, as a remuneration for his services, a subscription of £1000 was raised, which, together with a piece of plate, was presented to him at a public dinner at Newcastle in 1818. From that period his advancement was rapid, and if not the actual inventor of the railway system, his discoveries and ingenuity did more than that of any other man to its establishment and success. He was engaged in the Stockton and Darlington Railway (the first locomotive railway used for travelling) in 1825, and in 1829 gained the premium of £500 for the best locomotive engine for the Liverpool and Manches ter Railway. He was subsequently employed in the construction of most of the principal railways in England, and also in constructing lines in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. His attention to the mental and temporal improvement of his workmen, who numbered more than a thousand, could not be surpassed. CRITICAL NOTICES. RTRAIT OF HON. MILLARD FILLMORE. Engraved by A. H. Ritchie, for E. Anthony, 205 Broadway, New York. The portrait that embellishes the present nber does equal credit to the artist with that ich preceded it. These and the plate of neral Taylor, are for sale by Mr. Anthony, proprietor, at 205 Broadway. The followare sufficient testimonies to the accuracy he likeness of Mr. Fillmore : Albany, Sept. 20, 1848. IR-On my return from the West yesterday as presented with a beautiful miniature en ing of my husband, Millard Fillmore, from self, for which you will please accept my ere thanks. consider it an excellent likeness, by far the I have seen, and shall preserve it as a chermemento of the original. Respectfully yours, ABIGAIL FILLMORE. Albany, Sept. 22, 1848. ANTHONY, Esq.-DEAR SIR-I have been England; Anecdotes of the Early Painters:" an attractive variety for old readers as well as young. We are glad to see among the heaps of trash circulated by the cheap literature system, some books which tend to spread intelligence and promote the love of knowledge. Works of Washington Irving. New Edition Revised. Vol. 1. Knickerbocker's NewYork. New York: George P. Putnam, 1848. Every one of the least pretension to literary taste or knowledge, has read Knickerbocker; but every one does not know how much new matter is contained in his new edition, for Diedrich, with his usual modesty, has said nothing about it in his "apology," nor permitted his publisher to say anything in his advertisement. But not content with "revising," the worthy historian has made very considerable additions to his labors. There are some entire chapters, treating chiefly of Kilian Van Rensselaer and his settlement; and many rich morceaux introduced here and there of which we lay one before our readers as a specimen. A blundering dominie has recorded that the Dutch discoverers of our city bargained for so much ground as a bullock's hide would cover, and then cut the hide into small thongs, so as to take in a considerable quantity of land and the Indians into the bargain." Diedrich now gives the true version of the story, viz. that "Oloffe Van Kortlandt bargained for just so much land as a man could cover with his nether garments. The terms being concluded, he produced his friend Mynheer Tenbroeck as the man whose breeches were to be used in measurement. The simple savages, whose ideas of a man's nether garments had never expanded beyond the dimensions of a clout, stared with astonishment and dismay as they beheld the bulbous-bottomed burgher peeled like an onion, and breeches after breeches spread forth over the land, until they covered the actual site of this venerable city." Excellent! If all Washington Irving's are to be revised after this way, his readers and admirers (under which term we believe is included all the white population in the United States except Mr. P. Benjamin,) will have a rich treat. to her subject, the last results of those vast Ex generally accurate investigations into physica nature which so distinguish modern times Commencing of course with geology as the foundation, she traces the proximate causes of those external features which characterize ca globe, and then proceeds in a most striking and masterly manner to depict those features as they present themselves to the eye of the scientific traveller. The Great Continent is first described, with its magnificent mountain chains and sab clouds, its low lands and deserts; and then the corresponding features of the American Coo tinent, beginning with South America and through Central to North America. Greenland and the regions of the Antarctic Circle, incint ding the new "Victoria Continent," follow, 2 the continent of Australia with the surrounding islands. The ocean is next treated of, and the various river systems and lakes. A chaper follows on the atmosphere. The vegetation of our planet forms the next branch of the subject. Taking up in der the great geographical limits, she gives a ~ condensed account of the flora of each reg Ascending from the lower form of vegetable ganization to that of animal, she describes distribution of insects, fishes, reptiles, birds, so up to the mammalia, concluding the w with " the distribution, condition, purpose, t prospects of the "Human Race." Thi ple synopsis of the contents of this work w. Zł sufficient to indicate its value and interest. must command a wide circulation, from *** known accuracy and great scientific at ments of the celebrated authoress. Euton Hastings, the hero, or one of the roes of this tale, is a sad dog, and we cal young ladies who may read it against f love with him; first, because no sto could possibly exist in the actual work second, because if there did, he world very last man worth loving. He has and deep set eyes," "firmly compressed which tell of an indomitable will." and high forehead," and "a noble pos the head, and consummate ease and gra every movement." He had spent fifteen abroad in consequence of some early appointment, and returned at the opent the tale in company with Mrs. Mabry was a fashionable woman. They we stantly together, and extremely intera it was only a contention which would be p est that held them thus. They were thought | can one do? Here is a crowd of similar offendto be engaged. Our first objection to the book arises from the position of these two parties. They were ogether daily, alone and in company-they rode, talked, walked, danced, sang together, ach in a most peculiar and superior manner. They were as intimate as intimate can be, and little more. Now it is disagreeable to the fancy to picure a passionate couple, such as these are repesented to have been, living in that manner for long space of time, neither married nor bound n duty to be married. The thing is against ature and reason, and therefore to contemplate tends to corrupt and unrefine. Faults of the ame sort are so common in modern lady novIs, that we have been compelled to consider xtreme false sentiment as their special vice. ut one is not called upon to reform the whole orld, and we shall therefore leave this depart tent to others. ers. There is a divided duty; truth says "smile!" politeness says "puff!" We avoid the dilemma by singling out the least guilty, and letting execution issue against that alone. Such is our clemency. Mirabeau-a Life History. Philadelphia: LEA & BLANCHARD. 1848. (Reprint.) We have, in this biography of Mirabeau, a palpable imitation of Carlyle, in the form of the book, the method of treating the subject, and the style employed. The author is evidently one of those who have been carried captive by the power of that great writer. But what seems natural in the original, in the imitation is pure affectation. In addition to this defect of the work, the author, as might be expected, is a Hero-Worshipper. All wor ship but one being idolatry, the literature and history proceeding from it must bear the impress of the sin; and the judicious reader will find palpable evidence thereof in the volume before us. With these truths kept in mind, however, we may safely recommend this work as a graphic, and in the main faithful portraiture of the greatest of that "large and increas ing" class of men, the revolutionists of France. The selections from the speeches, reports and addresses of Mirabeau are made with judgment, and convey a very high idea of his genius. His vices and crimes, however, are too much attributed to circumstances. Recent events have added interest to the subject of the work, and it is a pity that some one with sound moral, political and philosophical principles would not give to the age a true estimate of the life of that extraordinary man. The same defect here noticed mars the whole ory. The characters love and quarrel, and ow good or bad, etc., all out of their heads, d this makes them all unlovley, theatrical, id impossible. They explain all their motives. The heroine easily forsakes her first love, r the mysterious, irresistibly fascinating Hasgs, who marries her for his own pleasure rely. They quarrel, and he finally runs ay and rejoins his former flame, Mrs. Mary, who had gone abroad. It appears he ly travels and talks with her. His wife runs ter him and finds him out in Rome. He kes her back on condition she shall live with n not as a wife, but as a mistress, (which, behis lawful wife was a mere technical form, words to gratify his pride.) He is taken th a fever, which causes her to consider the ormity of the crime she is committing, and olve to leave him. Then finally, he runs er her instead of she after him; he who was origiaal Charmer, has found the Counter- Grantby Manor. By Lady GEORGIANA FULarmer the most powerful. (N. B. Before ding this we had supposed the ladies most osed to counter-charms. Vide Stewart's, k's, etc.) Thus in the end they turn out a The authoress of this book wields a powery exemplary and happy couple. ful pen, and we can commend her tale as of Let us not however be too severe upon the much interest and great purity of purpose. fortunate little volume. It is really written The horrible effects of religious intolerance h much ability, and is, with all its faultiness, are very strikingly illustrated; and the herosustained and interesting. If the reader ism of her heroine, in holding to her faith allow himself to be transported into a re- under the most powerful temptations, is exhiwhere the young ladies manage every-bited with great force. That there is much g, and the young gentlemen are the most ruse, funny creatures imaginable, a good of amusement may be derived from it. To ly severe criticism to it, would be like bringa Paixhan gun to batter down a Macbeth's le as it stands upon the stage. erhaps it will be thought severe even to nothus half seriously the work, as it appears he title-page, of a lady author. But what LERTON. New York: D. Appleton & Co. special pleading for that faith we will not venture to say, as we rise from the perusal of the book uncertain whether the author is of that faith or has only that rare charity which gives to opponents the full benefit of their own reasons for the faith that is in them. Some of the characters are beautifully portrayed, and the story is, on the whole, one of the very best of its class. THE DRAMA. The natural tendency in man to continue to love what he has long loved, and to feel an attachment to or repugnance for certain places according to the associations with which they may be connected, is one which, in these days of electricity, it does no harm to encourage. It is a disposition which promotes quietness and a propensity to prefer the established order of things. There is always plenty to claim our attention in the novelties that are perpetually springing up around and before us without our particular care; they force themselves upon us and rest simply on their merits-indeed they are so many and various in a city like New York that those who go about to enjoy themselves have much ado to prevent being quite carried away by them so as to lose their personal identity and the power of reflection. It seems wisest to keep an eye as much as possible to old times; the present will take care of itself. Hence it is not weakness but wisdom, to cherish feelings of kindness towards "Old Drury," and to be gratified at seeing it re-opened under auspices which promise success. With in its walls old times were pastimes, and to sit there now and enjoy good acting restores the sensations of youth. There is more of illusion connected with its stage than with any other; in its boxes the fancy is more docile than anywhere else. Moreover, we experience there more of the delightful sense of the sinfulness of stage performances than in any other theatre; in witnessing plays there we have superadded the sweet reminiscence of stolen pleasures the recollection of college days, huge cloaks, false whiskers of enormous proportion, Shakspeare carried under the arm, and tears at Booth's Iago. We can enjoy tho other theatres in their way; the tawdry Broadway, the merry Olympic, the beautiful Opera House; but none of them inspire the old Park feeling; | none of them, if we except the musical associations of the Opera House and those of its brilliant audiences, awakens the peculiar elevated state of mind with which we wish to sit and see MUSIC. Mr. J. L. HATTON, an English pianist who has recently arrived, has give several musical entertainments during t month, which ought not to pass without favorable notice. Mr. H. is one of the neatest and most fluent pianists we have ever heard; be uses the pedal and wrist less than the latest players, but his touch is delicate, and his ex>« cutive powers very great. To hear him play | from MENDELSSOHN is a treat which our musica readers here and in other cities (should he make the usual tour) must not neglect. In addition to his merits as a performer be is an excellent singer-not with great power of voice, but with admirable elocution, and the ease imparted by true feeling and thorough education. His song from Handel, “ Oh, reddier than the cherry," was the best in it way we have had an opportunity of hearing But it is as a singer of comic songs, and pieces mixed up of song and recitative, that t chiefly depends for making his performances successful. In this respect he is worthy c great praise; his singing is characterized by true humor, and his command of the keyboard: enables him to produce the funniest acca niaments imaginable. Besides, all that ar does in this way has the merit of not being low or common. He is witty, humorets laughable, yet he does not transform him. into a buffoon; he does nothing, in sh which a singer may not do, and still give impression that he is a gentleman. This is a difficult matter to accomplish a it is one not always attempted or required. were never able to admire, for the absence it, the comic songs of the Hutchinson faxThere was a sneakingness in them, whis though no one born and bred in the New E land country could help understanding, ve z which it seemed degrading to give way. a Yankee song on the stage, and in ar priate costume, is well enough. There is an a congruity in seeing a well-dressed man as a clownish voice and manners; in cost this is avoided; the singer leaves his o character, and takes the one he sings & Then we see not one of ourselves, but 130′′ sort of person. Sir Walter Scott, in the preface to t tion of his novels, published after his c sion of their authorship, compares himse certain harlequin, who, on being en suaded to appear without his mask. reputation, and could never perform We have those who are able to as manners and outward guise of vulgany in the concert-room only, but on all occas without the defence of any mask, exce! thin one of hypocrisy, which they are a should be seen through. |