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148 LITERARY. WILLIAM W. MANN, Editor. The Southern Field and Fireside IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATUBDAY. TERMS—SIOO a year, invariably in advance. All Postmasters are authorized agents. SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1859. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. * We do not send receipts by mail for subscriptions re mitted. The reoeipt of The Southern Field and Fireside, after the money is remitted, will be evi dence to each subscriber that his money has been re ceived and his name duly entered on the mail book. i«i ■ BACK NUMBERS. Persons subscribing to the Fitld and Fire-tilde can be supplied with all the back numbers. TERMS TO NEWS-DEALERS. This paper is mailed to news-dealers at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per one hundred copies. s ■ i TERMS OF ADVERTISING. For each insertion of ten lines or less, one dollar; and for over ten lines, at the rate of ten cents per line. — — TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. Wo acknowledge the reception of two poems: “ Over the Hill,” and “ A Reminiscence.” We recommend the young gentleman who sent us the lines commencing “ The hand that liens,” to send them immediately in manuscript, and by mad, after the young lady to whom they are ad dressed. He will thus gratify her more, we are sure; and save himself the mortification (if wo should insert them, as he requests) of seeing them preserved on the files of the Field and Fireside. He will write by and by, we are confident, verses that we would gladly publish. The “ Reveries of a Pedagogue,” are received, and respectfully declined. “ The Old Chestnut Tree,” we decline with much regret. The lines abound in poetical sen timent, but really the writer must practice at rhyming some time longer before we can accord admittance into our columns. “ A Highway Attack ” must, also, be declined; it does not possess the attraction of style, or of graphic incident, that would entitle it to accep tance. The writer of the article entitled “Washington and the Indian Chief,” would doubtless prove a valuable contributor, but the spaco which that pen would occupy, is already quite engaged. >»i FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. Paris, Sept. Bth. 1859. Italy has again the privilege of absorbing public attention. Victor Emmanuel’s reply to the Tuscan deputation, who brought him last Sunday the solemnly declared wish of the Tus can people to make part of an Italian kingdom under his constitutional rule, is the topic of gen eral talk. Its first reading raised in many a feeling of disappointment: they had been ex pecting. quite unreasonably, a full acceptance or an absolute rejection. Such persons overlooked the fact that accepting the otter and taking pos session of the thing ottered were, in this case, by no means the same tiling—between the two acts there would probably have been a war with Austria, who still holds the fortresses that com mand the Lombard frontier, and keeps an im mense army in Venetia—or they overlooked the other fact, that Napoleon’s “ programme” was not entirely renounced because one part of the prom ised performances was not given just as laid down in the bills. I have not an implicit faith in the % promises of Louis Napoleon—though he has broken as few as any of the Continental Mon archs in the last ten years—we may except the King of the Belgians. But Louis Napoleon’s tenacity of purpose and eminent ability may be counted on. It was he who effectively dictated to his Ally the sentiments of his last Sunday’s discourse. A very sensible, politic, and deeply significant discourse it is. You will probably find a place in your columns for this important document, and will observe that it is a condition al acceptance of the wishes of the Tuscans to clear their country of the last vestiges of foreign domination by the constitution of a strong Italian kingdom, capable of defending the indepen dence of the Peninsula. But the speaker re minds them that their wishes can only be fully accomplished by future negotiation; in the con duct of which he will, in virtue of their solemn ly expressed desire and of the rights it confers upon him, act as their attorney with the Powers of Europe, and with the Emperor of the French. Awaiting their result with well-founded hope, he exhorts them to perseverance, which, in the end, assures the triumph of just causes. I was saying that the purport of this speech was dictated by the French Emperor: I do not come to that conclusion solely from the internal evidence it offers, nor from a priori reasoning. Beside several probable things looking that way, this one thing is certain: that in the interval of time between the appointment of the Tuscan delegation to bring the vote of the Assembly to Turin and their departure for Turin, the Count d’Arese went from Turin to St. Sauveur. The relations of that personage with the Sardinian king, and hiS peculiarly intimate personal rela tions with the French Emperor, are well known. It is certain, then, that this otherwise unaccount able delay in the movements of the Tuscan mis sion, gave the Emperor abundant opportunity to edit Victor Emanuel’s reply. We all know that Louis Napoleon is not a man likely to neglect opportunities. No man better than he understands the wis dom of “ waiting on Providence.” He will have his European Congress. Your columns have recorded my constant belief in its probability. Public opinion is now regarding it as a necessity. Let me play the oracle here. The case is a se riously complicated one. The probability is, perhaps, strengthened by the phrases of Victor Emmanuel’s speech and the apparent incompe tence of the Zurich Conference to do the work it set about. But Austria has the strongest reasons for objecting to the Congress—cannot, with any respect for the principles of its exis tence as an Empire, well submit to the discussion, much less tlie sancti n in full European court, of the right of a people to cast off one ruler and choose another. Hence a powerful motive for her to seek a private arrangement with France and Piedmont, to whom she might make large sacrifices of realities for the sake of preserving appearances. And thus there may be some foun dation for the rumors which pretend that she will give up Mantua and Peschiera—will consti tute an independent kingdom in Venetia—nay, XKK g©WS?KJSM KX&XtU MMX BIEKBXJWS. ! will give up Venetia —for certain valties received in monies and forms —rather than submit to the humiliation of relinquishing them under force of a Congress vote. And so the rumor gains cre dence that Franz Joseph has proposed and Louis Napoleon accepted a personal interview in Queen Hortense’s old Chateau of Arenenberg, in Switzerland, where Captain Louis Bonaparte, Captain in the Swiss Artillery, formerly dreamed foolish dreams of French Empire, and wrote Reveries Politiques and a Manuel d'Artillerie a ' f usage des officiers de la Republique Helvelique.anA of American Republican Students at West Point This rumor runs that Franz Joseph will renounce the old Austro-Italian policy—now be come highly expensive and unprofitable—for the sake of an intimate Austro-French alliance, and a fat slice of to-be-dismembered Turkey. This would undoubtedly be a good bargain for the party proposing it. The Frenchman wou'd not accept it, if it probably has not been proposed by any but newsmongers and journalists, whose imaginations were set agog by Richard Metter nich, the Austrian ambassador at Paris, his last week’s journey to St. Sauveur. The personal interview, however, is barely possible. Louis Napoleon's ambition would not object to a single handed settlement of some of the more thorny difficulties of the Italian question. And many of them must be settled, if at all, by negotia tion, for, according to public law of Europe, they would not fall within the limits even of right to decision' belonging to a Congress: the office of such a body being rather to consult, regulate, sauction. Meantime, and here is the essential point, Tuscany is, and the other Duchies will be pres ently, provisionally annexed to the Kingdom of North Italy—and every day of this provisional state of things tends to its final confirmation, and makes the diminished chances of a return to their deserted thrones of the runaway Dukes, beautifully less. There is good ground of hope, also, that the Romagna has secured for itself a partial liberation from Papal misrule, whose “paternal” and “mild” qualities were so sig nally illustrated the other day in the sack of Pe rugia. There, as in the other States of Central Italy, the movement goes on with a singular, calm steadiness, displaying so little of the wonted extravagances of European revolution, that none but the extravagant Legitimist and clerical fac tionists he e give it that name. There, as else where, the National Assembly is composed, in large majority, of the aristocracy of birth and talent —of men who have large material interests in the prosperity of the country. Aong the names of deputies recently chosen to the Parman Assembly, you will notice that of Verdi, the celebrated operatic composer. He is a man of sense, property and moderation, “ al though an artist,” as Joseph Prudhomme would say. The real cause, however, of his nomina tion and election to an Assembly which every one knows will vote for the annexation of Parma to the new Italian kingdom, is perhaps to be sought, not in his musical reputation, nor in the supposed statesmanlike qualities of the man, but in tiie mere letters of his name. When the famous New Year’s Address of Na poleon to Baron Hubner, last winter, raised the hopes of the Italians, Austrian laws, police and bayonets were there to check all utterance of them in speech or print, barring and crossbarring every conceivable outlet to patriotic feeling. That is, every outlet conceivable in the blunt, brutal sense of the “ Tedeschi." The theatre was under severe censure, to guard against the known Italian readiness to catch at remote allusions and translate them to a present application.— Music alone was left free—excluding, of course, patriotic airs. And yet the subtle-witted people found one unguarded point where they could break through the triply barricaded silence. When Macbetlo, I Lombardi, or any other opera by the same author was announced, it filled La Scala, and from pit to ceiling there was a loud enthusiasm for Verdi, long inexplicable to the Austriau portion of the audience: Erviva Verdi, Erviva Verdi! Erviva VERDI! Potz-tausend! Donnerwetter! ist es moglich! at last ex claimed the policemen, slowly pricking up their long ears, slowly opening their heavy eyes. Victor Emmanuel, Re D’ltalia! Scuheigen, Sie still, Lumpengesindel! If two-thirds of my letter are taken up with talk of Italy, it is because I am your correspon dent from Paris, whence talk now drifts mainly toward Italy. After the war was over, public interest turned away somewhat from that direc tion. We were occupied with gathering in the new crop of glory brought home by the army, who brought with them the large part of our pretended Italian sympathies, which now revive again, less noisily indeed, but more healthfully, and to us more creditably, than ever. To change the theme. The suicide season has begun in Paris. Half a dozen cases are recorded within the past ten days. A gentleman passing the bridge of Solferino a few nights ago, noticed a girl apparently much agitated, leaning over the parapet. He suspected something was wrong, questioned her, and learned that she had arrived from her home in the country that day to visit her old grandfather, whom she had not seen for many years. The grandmother had refused her admittance: hinc illae lachrymae. The gentle man offered her money, if that was needed, to pay her passage back to Laon; and so comfort ing the poor creature with more friendly words, went on. Before lie reached the end of the bridge, he heard a heavy splash in the water— he cried for help—it was too late. Next day the body was exposed to the gaze of strangers curious to see the sights of Paris, on the stone table at the Morgue. A man went home the other evening, a rentier in comfortable circum stances, and was vexed to notice that the stair case had not been well waxed that day. He proposed a game of piquet to his wife: she re fuses on the score of a tooth-ache: lie pettishly exclaims, “this life is intolerable —everything goes wrong—l have made three calls to-day, and found no one at home—l wish I was dead,” and left the room. An hour later he was found dead; he had hung himself like the Duke of Penthievre, (if the Duke did hang himself f) to the espagnolette of a window. Shall I go on with the list ? It will number 4,000, more or less, in France, 600 in the department of the Siene alone, before this time next year. The whole number in 1857 was 4,189 in France, of whom 675 in this department, say 600 for Paris alone; and this among the gayest, wittiest peo ple, in the gayest capital of the world. The morose, spleeny English, furnished but a third as many suicides in the same year. These facts provoke to various comments which your read ers may make. I offer but this one, that women have more wisdom, more courage to endure life’s ills, of which they certainly have their full half share, than men. At least, their names occupy but a quarter of this list of fools and cow ards. The number and extent of fires, and the ac companying loss of property and life—which our national vanity is apt to claim as an American specialty—has been equalled, if not surpassed, this summer, as in preceding summers, in Eu rope. Reliable documents now before me prove But I think I gave my word of honor, last week, to treat of cheerful themes, and here l am talking about deaths and conflagrations! V ell, speaking of women and their sense and courage —they are always pleasant subjects—let me say a word of Ernestine Drouet. She is a school mistress, lives somewhere up in the Faubourg de Temple, in a small apartment —very neat and prettily arranged, I fancy: no, very neat and prettily, I am sure —with an old father and mother, whom she helps to support. Now here is the singular proof of her sense and courage. When she was a mere child, she wrote verses, and was taken to Berauger, who read them and applauded them. With his praise, the wise old poet gave counsel. [I open a parenthesis here, to slip in a remark, the truth of which you may find confirmation in his autobiography: that the poet Beranger, apart from his poetic faculty, bore wonderful resemblances to Ben. Franklin— not in the accidental fact that the poet was a printer as well—but in the thorough practical ity of his practical philosophy. If your read ers do not find proof of this in the work I have indicated, they will at least find a most agreeable pastime in the search for them through its inter esting pages.] With the praise, then, was pre sented this counsel, “ Eemember my child,” said the old man, “that my best songs date from the time when I was earning 1,200 francs by the most distasteful sortofwork. I sangthatyouth is hsppy, in a garret. Genius has an eternal, talent a long youth. Talent or genius then, do not be afraid of the garret; do not be afraid of labor: Pegasus carries to the hospital none but those who will not dismount to attend to the re quirements of every day life.” The girl took the praise with the advice. Nine young men out of ten would have taken only the first, let their hair grow, spoiled a great deal of good paper in wailing and railing against a common sense world for not losbg its common sense in their behalf, ruined tleir stomachs with bad brandy, and closed the r useless career in the Hotel I)ieu or the Seiie. Madamoiselle went on to fit herself for a t.acher, and earned and earns an honest living—meantime cultivating and mattiring her poeti.'al faculty, which grows and ripens, like all other good faculties, nowhere better than hard by the path of duty, through this “ God's garden ” <f ours. The result and recompense of all whiei are, that two weeks ago, the French Acadeny alloted to her, over 130 competitors, the prze offered by tjjat body for the best poem, haviig for its subject “ The Sister of Charity in fie Nineteenth Century." The MS., No. 131, bor- tlie fitting epigraph: “ Come unto me, all ye liat labor and .are heavy laden, and I will give yiu rest.” Having passed the severe ordeal of Academic criticism, and re ceived the eulogy its merits so well deserved, from tlie mouth of one if the most eloquent and elegant of modern critic: 1 authors, M.Villemain, it was read in the annial session of the Acad emy, two weeks since, lefore an audience such as Paris only can furnish on such an occasion— an audience composed of those standing highest in social and literary creles of the metropolis, whose attentive silence, more than once inter rupted by warm applause, confirmed the Acad emic decree. As you wculd guess from the title of the poem, it deals somewhat with grave themes. The Sister of Charity in the Nineteenth Century passes her life by and at the bedside of the sick and dying. The better glories of the Crimean and Italian campaigns belong to her. It is she that illumines, by her holy helping pre sence, the dark side of war, of which bulletins and newspapers and triumphal processions down the decorated Boulevards, show only the tawdry facings. Amid the physical and moral woes But I am on parole to be cheerful, and, in spite of myself, keep falling into these lugubriosities. Well, ’then, read this: The French mints of Strasburg and Paris are coining gold with the utmost activity—at the rate of four millions a day. Under the reign of Napoleon 111., they have already struck off 2,000,770,864,775 francs in gold, and 176,908,251 francs in silver. If that is not a cheerful bit of information, what Could be? How it chinks down musically on the mind's acceptance—billions and millions rattling, rolling, roaring—golden, gorgeous, daz zling—like the grand finale of the fifth act. the orchestra at its loudest, and everything blazing magnificently at the back of the stage—then down falls the curtain—Virtue is not rewarded after all —You go out as poor as you came in. But the momentary vision is pleasant to the im agination. The Antique “ Victory ” of Brescia. —The following interesting details relative to the fine antique bronze of “Victory,’’ at Brescia, of which the municipality of that town are about to present a cast to the French Government, are condensed from the Gazette de Lyon : In 1852, a learned Bresciau archaeologist dis covered some remains of a temple, dedicated to Vespasian, opposite the forum of the ancient Brixia. Aided by the authorities, he cleared away the rubbish, aiid found in the middle of the building, which had been evidently destroy ed by fire, a bronze statue, about eight feet high, in excellent preservation, and representing a Victory or winged Muse writing on a shield. The most remarkable feature of this is its perfect resemblance to tlie famous statue known as the Venus of Milo, which had been found about four years before m an island of the Archipelago.— The likeness is far too close to be accidental; it is evident one was copied from the other, or both from some common original. The only differ ence between them is found in tne drapery.— The bust of the Brescian statue, instead of being nude, is covered with a close tunic most admi rably executed, its light and delicate folds con trasting strongly with the heavy tissue- of the pepluu. which envelopes the statue of Milo.— The head-dress, features, expression of the coun tenance, and attitude are exactly alike in the two ; but tlie foot is broken off in the Venus of Milo, while in the Victory of Brescia it is per fect, and rests on a crushed helmet. In the left hand the latter holds a shield, while the right is writing or pointing to a name written on it.— In the bronze folds of the Brescian statue a bronze statuette, about twenty inches high, was found; but what it represents, or why it was concealed there, the antiquarians of Brescia have not been able to explain ; perhaps those of Paris may be more fortunate. — The Charleston Marine School. —“ A friend” sends us a pamphlet containing the “ Rules of the Trustees of the Charleston Marine School, and says that a notice going the rounds of the papers, and copied into the Field and Fireside, speaking of this School as similar to the “Float ing School” at Baltimore, is erroneous. He says that the C. M. S. is the first and only regular Marine School in the United States ;” that in it “ the boys live on board of the vessel in the river: are bound as apprentices, and receive an English as well as a Nautical education —being practiced occasionally by sailing about the har bor. At present the vessel is undergoing a regular overhauling by the boys.” • NEW BOOKS. [We publish, weekly, under this head, a list of new publications, carefully selected from all our exchanges. The list embraces all works, Foreign as well as Domes tic, which we think may be valuable, or to which cir cumstances may give general or special interest, wheth er Literary or Scientific, History or Fiction, Prose or Poetry, Religious, Moral or Political. The notice simply gives the title of the hook, name of the author, pla e of publication, and name of Publisher.] Religious. —Historical Sketches of Hymns ; uieir writers and their influence. By Joseph Belcher, D. 1). New Tork: Sheldon A Co. Christ in His Ordinances. A Sermon, preached in King's Chapel, Boston, the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, July 11, lssS,by the Right Rev. Horatio Southgate, D. D, New York : Daniel Dana, Jr. “ Stone Him to Death or, the Jewish and Christian Dispensations. Compared and Contrasted with the Fourth Commandment New York : W. A. Townsend A Co. An Explanation of John's Revelations. By a Sadducee. Pamphlet. Paterson, N. J.: Yanderhover, Irish & Co. Sacred Poems. By N. Parker Willis. With more than one hundred engravings on wood, executed by N. Orr A Cil, from original drawings by Darley, Ehninger, Chapman, Eytinge, etc. New York : Clark, Austin & Smith. Miscellaneous.— A History of the Whig Party, or some of its main features, with a hurried glance at the formation of parties in the United States, and the out lines of the History of the Principal Parties of the country to the present time, etc., by K. McKinley Ormsby. Boston : Crosby, Nichols A Co. Parties and their Principles, A manual of Political intelligence, exhibiting the origin, growth and character ol' National Parties. Withan Appendix,containing val uable and general statistical information. By Arthur Holmes. New Y'ork :D. Appleton & Co. British Novelists and their Styles; being a critical sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. By Da vid Masson, M. A., author of “ The Life and Times of Milton.” Boston : Gould & Lincoln. Camp's Philanthropic Letters to the Million. Dedicat ed to Father Dayman. No 11, on Natural Happiness, The Spirit of Washington. Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto. By F. F. F. lamp. Pamphlet, pp. 16. New York : F. A. Brady. 1559. Popular Sovereignty in the Territories : The dividing line between Federal and Local Authority. By Stephen A. Douglas. Pamphlet, pp. 46. New York : Harper A Brothers. The Life and Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt. With an introduction from the pen of Bayard Taylor, Esq., by R. 11. Stoddard. With anew steel portrait, from the original photograph in the possession of Mr. Bayard Taylor. New York: Rudd and Carleton. Mr. A. Reynolds of Mobile, has just completed a work entitled “ Calhoun and his Conteiujioraries,” containing a full biography of the great statesman, and sketches of some of his contemporaries. Dr. J. W. Palmer, the reputed translator of Michelet's L'Amour, has in press a translation of “The Moral His tory of Women,” by Legouve, a lecturer in the College of France. The Wheat Plant, Its origin, culture, growth, devel opment, composition, varieties, diseases, etc., etc., togeth er with the history, culture, and varieties of Indian Corn, etc. By John Klippart, Corresponding Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Cleveland; Honorary Member of the Western Academy of Natural Sciences, Cincinnati,etc. Illustrations. New York ; A. O. Moore A Co. The Devon Herd Book, edited by Sanford Howard, editor of the Boston Cultivator. Boston: Blown, Tag gard & Chase. Educational— Elements of lienee, designed for use in Grammar, and Primary Schools. By George Moore. New York : Mason Brothers. Moral Philosophy—lncluding Theoretical and Practi cal Ethics. By Joseph Haven, I). J)., late Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in Amherst College.— Boston : Gould and Lincoln. The Universal Speaker, containing a collection of Speeches, Dialogues, and Recitations, adapted to the use of Schools, Academies and Social Circles. Boston: Brown, Taggard A Chase. A Treatise on Elementary and Higher Algebra. By Theodore Strong, LLD., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. 8 New York’: Pratt, Oakley A Co. The Science of Education ; and Art of Teaching. In two parts. By John Ogden, A. M. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstaek, Keys A Co. Another number of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Ger man Dictionary, the seeond of the third volume, has ap peared. The publisher, 8. llirzel, Leipzic, announces at the same time that the seventh number of the seeond volume, and third number of the third volume, will soon leave the press. Life for a Life—by the author of “John Halifax'” My Third Book—A collection of Tales. By Louise Chandler Moulton, author of " This, That and the Other.” Walter Thornley ; or, A Peep at the Past. By Mrs. Sedgwick. The Old Plantation, and What I Gathered There in an Autumn month. By James Hungerford, of Maryland. Fobeign.—What Will He Do With It ? By Pisis tratus Caxton. A Novel. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart. Love me Little, Love me Long—a novel, by Charles Reade, author of “ Christie Johnstone.” My Lady Ludlow—a novel, by Mrs. Gaskell, author of “ Mary Barton.” Adam Bede —a novel, by George Elliott, author of “ Scenes of Clerical Life.” The Romance and its Hero—By the author of “Magda len Stafford.” Gerald Fitzgerald, “ The Chevalier.” A Novel. By Charles Lever, author of “ Charles O’Malley.” The Bertrams—A Novel. By Anthony Trollope. The Laird of Nurlaw —a Scottish story, by the author of “ Margaret Maitland.” Messrs. Saunders, Olley A Co., London, are about to publish translations of Balzac's works, and announce as forthcoming " A judicious selection, suited to the English taste,” the work to be performed by Mr. J. Haw kins Simpson, author of “ Poems of Oiscn.” The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Machine called the Mule By Gilbert J. French. London : Simpkin, Marshall A Co. Walton's Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson. A new edition, to which is now added a Memoir of Isaac Walton, by Win. Dowling, Esq., Bar rister at Law, w ith illustrative Notes, numerous Por traits and other engravings, index, etc. London: Bell A Daldy. Memorial and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John Graham, of Claverhouse, Viscount Dun dee. By Mark Napier. London : Hamilton A Co. “ Shelley Memorialsedited by Lady Shelley.— “ Through Norw ay with a Knajisack by W. M. Wil liams. “ Twenty Years in the Church by the Rev. J. Pic croft. “ Nicholl’s Literary Anecdotes and Illustrations of the Eighteenth Century,” the last volume of which lias just been issued. Secret History of the Austrian Government; and ofits Systematic Persecution of Protestants; compiled from official documents—by Alfred Mlchlels. London: Chap man A Hall. Journals of Proceedings connected with the Siege of Sebastopol. Plates. London: Longman. The Invasion of Britain, by Julius Ciesar. By Thom as Lcwin, Esq. London : Longman. We find the following In the London Critic —“ Mr. Bohn is shortly about to publish a new edition of the complete works of Lady Mary Worticy, Montague, edit ed by Mr. Moy Thomas.” Letters from Alabama (U. S.) chiefly relating to Nat ural History ; by Philip Henry Gossc, F. K. 8., author of “ A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire coast,” etc., etc. London : Morgan A Chase. Tuscany in '49 and '59. By Thomas Adolphus Trol lope. 1 vol., posts vo. London: Chapman A Hall. The Duke of Devonshire has just issued, under the su perintence of Mr. John Payne Collier, a sac simile of the 1604 edition of Shakspeare’s “ Hamlet.” This is the edi tion published while Shakspeare wasalive, which profes ses to be, not incorrectly, “newly imprinted and enlarged to almost ns much againe as it was according to the true and perfect copie.” An interesting work has just left the press of MM. Firmin Didot. Paris, it consists of letters from Mary Qnecn of Scotts to Bothwell, and documents regarding the murder of Darnley add the execution of Mary,—let ters anil documents accurately printed after the original text. The book forms a sequel to the collection of Prince Labanotf, and is edited by M. A. Tculett. International Copyright.— According to Mr. Gris wold. the acknowledged inferiority, is chiefly, if not al together, owing to the absence of'a law of international copyright. The system of legalized freebooty—that right of border-foray—which enables an American pub lisher to appropriate the labors of an English author, and him of his hire, has been, by a most just retribu tion, the bane of American literature. THE GREAT EASTERN. V The English papers by the Arabia contain full accounts of the sailing of the monster steam- , ship Great Eastern upon her trial trip. The correspondent of the Times , writing from Pur- i fleet, September 7th, after describing the busy scenes connected with the closing preparations, the stationing of the officers at various points, 1 Ac., says: Then was the order given to go ahead slowly, V and for the first time the Great Eastern started into motion, and with the slow, majestic beat of , her huge paddles moved grandly down the river. Then ensued an extraordinary scene. Thous- < ands upon thousands of people were seen rush ing to the river side from all points. Boats of every kind and size were launched, crowded to t the water’s edge, and the stream and its banks seemed suddenly instinct with life. There were > not so much cheers as continuous shouting—a genuine outburst of enthusiasm and delight.— , Even the wan and sickly inmates of the Sea men’s Hospital ship turned out upon the deck i or crowded the ports with their worn lhces to give one shout or wave a cap to the vessel which swept so grandly by. ) The noble vessel now seemed to be instinct with life. She had cast off her little incum- V brances, and was gradually putting forth her own powers in cleaving the waters. The screw ( now worked thirty revolutions a minute and the paddles nine and a half, the force used being j about two-tliirds of her maximum power. Under these circumstances she gave thirteen and a half knots; so that, taking into consideration her in- 1 sufficient immersion, and the consequent -imper fect working of the paddle and screw, her maxi- t mum speed may he calculated at nineteen knots, or twenty three measured miles an hour, being double , the average of any of the subsidized steamers. During the time that the vessel was going at i the speed of thirteen and a half knots, or fifteen miles, the engines worked with an ease that, when their size and power are considered, was 1 perfectly astounding. There was scarcely any vibration on the vessel, and, as fur as could be ) gathered from outward objects, one might much ' easier have imagined one’s self writing in a Pa- , risian saloon than in the'state cabin of the Great Eastern, flying down the Nore. One thing con- * nected with the vessel is as remarkable as her other characteristics. Even when going thirteen knots an hour there was an utter absence of ) “swell” in her wake —even less, as far as could be judged from the deck, than is made by the ) ordinary penny steamers, and not one half as much as was thrown up by our own tugs.— , Even a pail of water standing on one end of the paddle-boxes did not show the least symptoms l of vibration. It appears that to the latest moment an en deavor was made by Mr. Lever to secure the / charter for the first trip of the Great Eastern, and that although the terms offered were ad- > vanced to £30,000, the directors considered it desirable to decline the proposal. ( On the afternoon of the 9th, when the Great Eastern was oft'Hastings, a feed pipe casing in { the forward funnel, which had been introduced on the ground of economy in heat, and to keep the heat of the funnels from the cabin, exploded t with terrific force, blowing the funnel into the air, and tearing to pieces the grand saloon and > lower deck cabins, through which the funnel ' passed, and otherwise doing great damage to ( the internal fittings. Three firemen were found in a dying state, and soon expired, while eight { others were injured, two of whom subsequently died. One fireman was lost overboard, having fallen into the water or jumped into it to escape } scalding. The injured men were generally pro gressing favorably, although two or three of > them were in a precarious condition. The nu- * merous guests on board had only quitted the grand saloon, through which the funnel passed, and in which they had been dining, a few min- j utes before the explosion took place. But for this the consequences would have been me st serious. The explosion is stated to have proba- } bly been one of the most terrific which a vessel has ever survived, and which none in the world V could have withstood, save a structure of such ® marvelous strength as the Great Eastern. She not only resisted it, her frame sustaining no in jury whatever, but it made so little difference in j the movements of the vessel that the engines were never once stopped till she reached Port land. It is asserted that great objections had ; been made to the casing around the funnels, but the Directors persisted in adopting the plan, v notwithstanding it had been tried and abandon ed in the Collins and other steamers. The Great Eastern. —Asa matter of curios- l ity, we append the tonnage of the Great Eastern, as compared with the principal vessels of the United States Navy: J) Names. Tonnage. Pennsylvania 3,241 y Columbus 2,480 Ohio : 2,757 North Carolina 2,633 Delaware 2,633 t Vermont 2,633 New Orleans 2,805 Alabama 2,683 f Virginia 2,633 New York 2,633 y Total 28,131 Great Eastern. 26,000 Her tonnage is nearly as great as the combined t tonnage of the ten tremendous line of battle ships—including the once unrivalled Pennsyl vania—that are registered on the United States p Navy list. —[Richmond Dispatch. ——— y The Real Planter and the Politician who Plants. —A friend communicates the fol lowing to the F. and F.: c Mr. P. R , of Alabama, is well known for t his industry and very successful planting. His brother, G. R , after devoting most of his life to law aud politics, has taken to talking / about raising stock, and making hay. Some years ago, Solon Robinson called the v political planter the model Farmer of the South, on account of the hay which ho made, and the multitude of his ploughs. The old gentleman of Alabama, taking it in dudgeon that his broth- l er, who had never made a pound of cotton nor full supply of corn, should enter the field of his triumph and carry off the palm, has lately sent / him a quantity of corn, upon hearing that liis crib was empty. The politician succumbed at v once, by writing to his brother, “ I acknowledge 1 the corn.” II > ; r The Roll op Honor.—The following is a list t of Revolutionary soldiers on the rolls of the State • 3 of Georgia and Alabama who are regularly re ceiving their pensions, and their age in 1859: a GEORGIA. Names. County Residence. Age. J Micajah Brooks, Polk, 98 years. \ Wm. Coggin, Gordon, 104 “ John Hames, Sr., Murray, 107 “ c John McMillon, Habersham, 99 “ * Jon. Nicholson, Union, 96 “ 3 ALABAMA. Reuben Stevens, Chambers, 97 years p