MEMORIES OF BETHANY. By the author of MORNING AND NIGHT WATCHES. New-York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 530 Broadway. Pp. 268. THE Christian pilgrim who would love a visit to Bethany and its hallowed scenes and cherished associations and to walk in the footsteps of the Son of THE THREE GARDENS: EDEN, GETHSEMANE, AND God on his memorable errand of sympathy and af PARADISE; OR, MAN'S RUIN, REDEMPTION, AND fection, will find in this neat and charming book a RESTORATION. BY WILLIAM ADAMS, D.D., Pas-rich repast for a hungry mind. The children of be tor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, reavement will find in it elements of consolation to New-York. Charles Scribner, 377 Broadway, cheer their sadness and dry up the springs of sorrow. Publisher. Pp. 284.

invaluable collection of MSS. used by Handel in conducting his own works which have lately come into his possession. The names of the English committee in aid of the Halle Commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Handel's death have been published.

ALEXANDER DUMAS AND HIS PUBLISHERS.-Alexander Dumas commenced some months ago a suit against his publishers, Messrs. Michel Levy and Brothers and the journal Le Siècle, which may well be classed among the curious. According to the details of the trial as published by the journals, it appears that the Siècle and the publishing house of Michel Levy have brought out in five years 265 volumes of the works of M. Dumas. Two hundred and sixty-five volumes! Voltaire is eclipsed, and M. Dumas is still writing! He reclaims the price of ninety volumes on the two hundred and sixty-five, or a sum of 736,345 francs.

But in this enormous parade of volumes, it must be recollected that M. Dumas' diluted style leaves more white paper than black, that his paragraphs are single lines, his single lines are exclamations, and his exclamations monosyllables. As he grows older he puts more and more white paper on his pages, and it is a curious but perhaps not a remarkable coïncidence, that his ideas, also, are undergoing the same process of increasing transparency. The utter and deplorable failure of his two last dramatic efforts shows this exhaustion of intellect.

A REPORT of the Russian Minister of Public Instruction shows that, in 1855, 1148 original works, and 91 translations were published. The imports into Russia, in 1855, amount to 1,191,745 volumes, that is, 305,230 more than in 1854; 22,608 works, numbering in all 71,908 volumes, were imported

WHILST J. MICHELET'S charming work on the "Life of the Birds" is making the round of the Continent in the form of translations, and is winning golden opinions everywhere, no English publisher appears as yet to have placed it on his list. We would not exchange those agreeable pages for many a ponderous tome on ornithology, and invite to it the earliest attention of the purveyors for our literature, who would no doubt find a grateful public for it among the ladies.

THE important MSS. of XAVIER HOMMAIRE DE HELL, who died at Ispahan in 1848, are now being printed at Paris, and the great album illustrating his travels, and containing upwards of one hundred plates, is in course of publication.

DERBY & JACKSON issue "The Merchant's and Banker's Register, for 1857," edited by J. Smith Homans. It contains a great variety of important information concerning Banks and Banking; articles on matters pertaining to commerce, and much valuable matter to all who are engaged in mercantile pursuits.

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QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES The monument to the memory of the daughter of Charles I., which the Queen of England commissioned Baron Marochetti to execute, has been erected in St. Thomas Church, Newport, Isle of Wight, where the princess, who died in captivity at Carisbrook Castle, lies buried. The monument represents the figure of a youthful female reclining in a recess, resembling the cell of a prison. The pillow on which the head of the figure rests is an open Bible, in which can be seen the following words: "Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The following inscription is on the monument: To the memory of the Princess Elizabeth, Daughter of King Charles I., who died at Carisbrook THE American Publishers' Circular and Literary Castle, on Sunday, Sept. 8, 1650, and is interred beGazette is published every week at $2 per annum, neath the chancel of this church. This monument is payable in advance; and claims the favorable consider-erected as a token of respect for her virtues and of ation of all individuals, companies, and associations, who take an interest in the making, selling, buying,

into Poland.

or reading of books.

Every number contains the title of books issued during the week, with their SIZE, PRICE, NUMBER OF PAGES, and PUBLISHER. Appleton's Buildings, NewYork.

A MANUSCRIPT of about one hundred pages, written by the philosopher Kant, and which has hitherto remained unknown, has just been discovered in Berlin. Attempts are about to be made in the Royal Library of that city to photograph old manuscripts.

PROFESSOR FRANCESCO ORIOLI, who recently died in Rome, at the ripe age of seventy-five, was a man of vast scientific knowledge, but he had principally devoted himself to political economy, archæology, and the history of the Middle Ages. He was for many years Professor of Physical Science at the University of Bologna, and has written in the course of his long life an immense number of reviews, pamphlets, and books on various subjects.

LONGFELLOW's poem "Hiawatha" has attained the honors of translation into German at the hands of the well-known poet, F. FREILIGRATH. It will appear shortly, with a frontispiece designed by LEUTZE of Dusseldorf.

sympathy for her sufferings, by Victoria R. 1856.

CHARLES V. AND HIS TABLE.-"A Venetian envoy at this court, in the latter part of Charles's reign, tells us that, before rising in the morning, potted capon was usually served to him, prepared with sugar, milk, and spices; after which he would turn At noon he dined on a variety of to sleep again. dishes. Soon after vespers he took another meal, and later in the evening supped heartily on anchovies, or some other gross and savory food, of which he was particularly fond. The invention of his cooks was sorely puzzled how to devise rich and highseasoned dishes to suit his palate; and his maître d'hôtel, much perplexed, told his discontented master one day, knowing his passion for time-pieces, that he really did not know what he could do, unless it were to serve up his majesty a fricasse of watches.' The reply had the effect of provoking a hearty laugh from the Emperor-a circumstance of rare occurrence in the latter days of his reign."-Prescott.

ENGLAND. A Parliamentary paper just issued, gives an account of the national income and expenditure during the two years of the late war, namely, from March 31st, 1854, to March 31st, 1856. In 1854-5, the income from all sources was 64,091,000%, and the expenditure 70,236,000l. In the following year, the income, by means of the increased property

tax, was increased to 70,552,000%., and the expenditure rose to 93,149,000l., being on both years a gross excess of expenditure of 28,747,000, which was mainly provided for by loans. Among the items of increased expenditure, comparing the latter with the former of the years specified, we find charges of collecting the Revenue increased from 2,724,000l. to 2,863,000, which is rather less than the proportionate increase of the sums collected; the interest on debt increased from 27,864,000l. to 28,112,000l.: but the great items of increase were of course for War Services, in which we find, in the two years respectively, the army expenses set down as 8,380,000l. and 17,395,000%; the navy, 14,490,000l. and 19,654,000%.; and the Ordnance, 5,450,000l. and 10,411,000%.

servatoire des Arts-et-Metiers, 20,000 volumes; and the Conservatoire de Musique, 8000 volumes.

LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.-There are in the United States 122 colleges, with more than 1000 professors, and having more than 12,000 students. They have extensive laboratories and astronomical instruments, and libraries containing more than a million of volumes. There are about 40 medical schools, with about 250 professors, and 5000 students. There are 44 theological schools, with 127 professors, and between 1300 and 1400 students. There are 16 law-schools, and about 600 students.

ONE of the earliest proceedings of the next session of the British Parliament will be to ask the country for a sum of money for the outfit of the SIR SNOW HARRIS'S LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.-A shape of a dowry. The Prince of Prussia, for the Princess Royal, and something handsome in the dispatch has reached the Admiralty from Rear Ad- present, has nothing more than the fortune which miral Bruce, commanding the squadron in the Pa- his father settles upon him, although he must naturcific, stating that on the evening of the 22d October ally inherit the throne, and the vast wealth of the last, in lat. 18 23 N., lon. 105 24 W., his flag ship the king, ere many years are over. The Prince of Monarch, was struck by lightning. The ship is Wales will, early next year, enter into possession of fitted with Sir Snow Harris's system of electrical Marlborough House, and have his separate houseconductor. The electrical discharge fell on the spin-hold, though that will not be very large at present, dle of the main royal mast, and passing down the and mainly consist of his masters and tutors; and conductor went clear into the sea with a tremendous he will, to a great extent, be still under the care of crash, without any damage being sustained. Such his august parents. The experiment with Prince was the excited state of the air, and so numerous Alfred at the Home Park seems to have answered and vivid were the electrical sparks all around, that the ship at first was thought to be on fire. There is rambles about alone, and is well known and much After the duties of the day are over, he very well. little doubt but that her Majesty's ship has been sav-liked by the people of Datchet and Windsor. He is ed from partial destruction, and the lives of many men preserved, through the instrumentality of the capacious electrical conductor permanently fixed in the masts and hull of the vessel.-London paper.

A LETTER from Widdin says: "We have this morning heard a sound which the people of Bulgaria have not heard for ages-the sound of a bell calling the Christians to church, in order to thank God that the Sultan has been pleased to restore us our liberty of worship." Widdin is the first Bulgarian town that has received a bell. The Turks have complained to the Pasha about it, but he has referred them to the Sultan. We ask whether an appeal like this could equally be referred to the Queen of Spain or the Pope, in favor of the Protestants, or any non-Catholics?

MR. WILLIAM BROWN, the distinguished member of Parliament for South-Lancashire, has undertaken at his own expense, to erect an edifice for the Free

Public Library of Liverpool. A sum of $150,000, it is thought, will be sufficient for the purpose.

PARIS at present possesses 35 large libraries. Some are public; others only partly so; and the greater number are exclusively devoted to certain establishments. The public libraries are: The Bibliotheque Imperiale, with 1,400,000 printed volumes, about 300,000 pamphlets, and 80,000 manuscripts; the Arsenal, 220,000 volumes and 6000 manuscripts; Sainte Genevieve, 150,000 volumes, 4000 manuscripts; Mazarin, about 120,000 volumes, 5000 manuscripts; the Sorbonne, 80,000 volumes; the City of Paris, 65,000 volumes, 300 manuscripts; the Ecole de Medicine, 40,000 volumes; the Museum of Natural History at the Jardin des Plantes, 35,000 volumes; the Invalides, 30,000 volumes; the Con

cricket, at which he joins the young Etonians. a manly, frank, open-faced lad, and a great hand at The Prince of Wales will, of course, not entail any expense on the country in his new establishment, his revenue being ample for a young gentleman in his teens, though not equal to what is generally supposed, as, after the deduction of the expenses for the management and control of the Prince's estates, mines, fisheries, etc., about £45,000 remains.

M. TOLLENS, the great national poet of Holland, died at Ryswick, on the 27th ult., aged seventyseven. His poetry enjoys extraordinary popularity among all classes of his countrymen, and is remarkable for its ardent patriotism. One of his most admired works bears the title of "The Dutch at Nova Zembla," and his popular song, "Wiens Neerlands Bloed," will, in the opinion of the Dutch, last as long as their language.

AMONG the notabilities at the Mozart festival, held Karl Mozart, son of the immortal composer, and last at Salzburg, was an old silver-haired man, called of the name. He was the greatest living object of interest present. He had gone all the way from Milan to enjoy the fête; and, although things were not cheap, there was not the slightest danger of his lacking a dinner or champagne, although his father might have wanted both. The only fear was that the poor old fellow would be killed with kindness.

THE valuable collection of classical antiquities formed by the late Sir Wm. Temple, during a long residence in Naples, has been left by the deceased to the British Museum.

THE "Investigator," Captain Cook's discovery ship, Thames Police ship, lying off Somerset House, has been broken up.

tion of discovery, a few American philanthropists have equipped two expeditions in search of the noble Captain and his devoted companions, who may yet be living prisoners within the crystal strongholds which they scaled.

THERE is no brighter page in the annals | even than the love of science or the ambiof civilization than that which records the history of Arctic discovery. England may well be proud of the sacrifices she has made in such enterprizes of danger, and may justly boast of the valuable results which, in the interests of science, she has achieved. While new and extensive regions have been explored, and added to the map of the world, and new forms of humanity studied in their subterraneous retreats, new depths of science have been sounded, and new laws developed, which promise to connect the physics of our globe with agencies, in daily operation, throughout the planetary system to which we belong. In these researches, which the philosophers of all countries have warmly appreciated, our friends in America have, in some respects, been our rivals as well as our associates. In the Antarctic zone, Commodore Wilkes carried the flag of the United States along its ice-bound continent; and under an impulse more noble

*Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853,1854,1855. BY ELISHA KENT KANE, M.D., U.S.N., Illustrated by upwards of 300 Engravings, from Sketches by the Author. 2 vols. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1856, pp. 921. VOL. XL-NO. IV.

An account of the last of these expeditions, under the command of Dr. Kane, has been recently published, and though, as in that which preceded it, its main object has not been accomplished, yet from the dangers which it braved, the scenes through which it passed, the events which befell it, and the additions which it has made to our knowledge of the nomadic tribes which it encountered, our readers cannot fail to be interested in a popular extract of its more important details. Dr. Kane's work "is not," as he himself tells us, "a record of scientific investigations." His sole object has been "to connect together the passages of his Journal that could have interest for the general reader, and to publish them, as a narrative of the adventures of his party."

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geon, Lady Franklin is said to have urged him to undertake a new search for her husband. Having been led, like many others, both from theory and observation, to infer the existence of an open polar sea communicating with Baffin's Bay, Dr. Kane readily consented, and "occupied himself for some months in maturing the scheme of a renewed effort, either to rescue the missing party, or at least to resolve the mystery of their fate." As sanguine in temperament as he was intrepid in spirit, "his mind never realized the complete catastrophe, the destruction of all Franklin's crews. He pictured them to himself broken into detachments, and his mind fixed itself on one little group of some thirty, who had found the open spot of some tidal eddy, and under the teaching of an Esquimaux, or perhaps one of their own Greenland whalers, had set bravely to work, and trapped the fox, speared the bear, and killed the seal, and walrus, and whale. I think of them," he adds, "ever with hope. I sicken not to be able to reach them." Such a man was preeminently fitted for the task which he undertook, and the American Government, as well as the generous individuals, who were to furnish the means for equipping the expedition, gratefully accepted of his services.

well considered and announced beforehand, were agreed to by the crew, and rigorously adhered to through all the vicissitudes of the expedition. In these regulations there was no room for ambiguity, and neither a judge nor a jury were required to administer them. Absolute subordination to the officer in command, or his delegate-abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, and the habitual disuse of profane language, constituted the brief code which bound, in fraternal unity, the heroic band that courted dangers more calamitous than those of war.

The "Advance," though built for carrying heavy castings from an iron-foundry, had been afterwards strengthened with much skill and at great expense. She was a good sailer, and easily managed, and had been thoroughly tried in many encounters with the Arctic ice. With five boats, one of them a metallic life-boat, the gift of Mr. Francis the maker-several carefully-built sledges, some of them on models furnished by the kindness of the British Admiralty-the usual stores of provisions, woollen dresses, and a full supply of knives, needles, books, and instruments, the "Advance" left New York on the 30th May 1853, escorted by several noble steamers, and saluted by the cheers and adieus of all around them. In eighteen days, Dr. Kane reached St. John's, Newfoundland, where Governor Hamilton presented him with a noble team of Newfoundland dogs, the essential instruments of Arctic research, and without which he could neither have reached his destination nor returned to his country.

Mr. Grinnell placed at Dr. Kane's disposal the Advance-the ship in which he had previously sailed; and Mr. Peabody of London, "the generous representative of many American sympathies, proffered his aid largely towards her outfit." The Geographical Society of New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Philosophical Society, and a number of scientific associations and private friends, made valuable contributions to the expedition, and Dr. Kane was thus enabled "to secure a better outfit for purposes of observation, than would otherwise have been possible to a party so limited in numbers, and ab-ity of the place. Mr. Lassen, the superinsorbed in other objects."

Although Mr. Kennedy, at the head of the naval department, gave a formal sanction to the expedition, and desired to have reports of its progress and results, yet the Government did nothing more than contribute ten out of the eighteen volunteers who embarked with Dr. Kane, the rest being "engaged by private liberality, at salaries entirely disproportioned to their services." In an expedition thus constituted, the rules for the government of nautical ships were not enjoined; but regulations,

After a run of twelve days, the expedition reached Fiskernaes in South-Greenland on the 5th of July, and by means of special facilities from the Danish Government, they were supplied with abundance of fresh-dried codfish, the staple commod

tendent of the Danish company, entertained them as his guests, and "hospitably proffered them everything for their accomodation." Through his influence Dr. Kane obtained an Esquimaux hunter, of the name of Hans Christian, a boy of nineteen, who was peculiarly expert with the kayak and javelin, and who had previously exhibited his prowess by spearing a bird on the wing. This "fat and good-natured youth," who performs an important part in the history of the expedition, stipulated, in addition to his moderate wages, that a