ing what may be done in the multiplication of ples, etc.; and vegetables, among which a caulifood-resources. M. Magnin of Clermont-Fer- flower is as plump and bright with bloom as if but rand, has been so successful in converting the just brought from the garden. What renders the common red hard wheat of Auvergne, once process the more remarkable is, that no pains are thought useless, into vermicelli, macaroni, semo- required to exclude air from the things preserved, lina, etc., that in the country around Le Puy there a wire-screen alone being necessary to keep off are not fewer than 1500 mills, and the quantity flies and other insects. A three-years' trial may produced is reckoned by millions of kilogrammes. perhaps be considered decisive; and now there In 1837, France imported 1,000,000 kilogrammes remains to see whether place or climate affect the from Italy; now the importation is described as result. If not, the discovery- if such it benext to nothing. may be regarded as one likely to prove highly There is also the process for preserving vege-beneficial. One of our most eminent savans was tables; and another by which fresh meat may be offered a leg of mutton on his departure from kept, perfectly sweet, for perhaps an unlimited time. Paris, that he might convince his friends in EngThere are legs of mutton, loins of veal, poultry, land of the reality of the process for preservation. etc., in the Exposition, which were prepared three What the process is, remains a secret; but we years ago, and are still as good as on the first day have heard whispered by a distinguished chemist of their treatment, and show no signs of altera- that it consists in nothing more than brief imtion. They have all the odor and appearance of mersion in very weak sulphuric acid. The acid, meat recently killed, no taint or shrinking being it is said, so coagulates the albumen, that a coat perceptible. There are fruits, also, preserved in is formed on the surface of the joints, impervious the same way-bunches of grapes, melons, ap- to the air, and without affecting the flavor. VOICES OF THE DUMB,-It is a curious fact the triangle, as to produce the notes of which that many animals which are naturally dumb, in the grasshopper's song consists, and which is so the widest sense of the word, are possessed of a loud, that a single insect hung in a cage has alpower of producing sounds, by the use of some most drowned the voices of a large company.external organ or foreign instrument, that forms John Mason Good. a very convenient substitute for a natural tongue. I have observed this of the goat-chaffer, which, whenever taken, utters a shrill shriek of fright, SUN-FISH OF BASKING SHARK.-Some twenby rubbing its chest against its wing-shells and ty-five years since, the capture of this valuable the upper part of its abdomen; and of the death-fish was prosecuted very successfully from Innis watch, that produces its measured, and, to the Boffin and the vicinity of Westport, at which superstitious, alarming strokes, by striking its town, as well as Newport, there were works horny frontlet against the bedpost, or any other erected for frying out the oil. About that date, hard substance in which it takes its stand. The as much as five pipes of oil of 120 gallons were tick-watch is an insect of a different order, but received by one Dublin house alone per season. armed with a similar apparatus, and makes a It has much decreased of late years, which is at noise by the same means, like the ticking of a tributable rather to the decline of the means of watch, from the old wood or decayed furniture pursuit than to the absence of the fish, as it is in which it resides. And it is a singular circum-seen every year in large numbers on the distant stance, which I shall merely glance at in pass- banks, and occasionally close to the shore, in ing, that some species of the woodpecker, in the packs of twenty-five or thirty, in very fine weathbreeding-season, in consequence of the feebleness er. There were four taken at Galway this year, of its natural voice, makes use of a similar kind and many were seen in the vicinity of the Arran of call, by strong reiterated strokes of the bill Islands. The average size is about 25 feet long against a dead sonorous branch of a tree. The by 18 feet in circumference in the largest part, most astonishing instance, however, of sound ex- the shape resembling a shark. The liver has cited in this manner, is that made by two species hitherto been considered the only valuable part, of Italian grasshoppers-the Cicada plebeja and averaging thirty hundred weights, and containing C. orni. The music of these insects, which is about 180 gallons of fine oil, second only to confined to the male, is produced by a singular sperm, and sells from 4s. to 5s. per gallon. The apparatus, that consists of several winding cells carcass, which may be estimated at from four to under the body, separated by different mem- five tons, is of a gelatinous character, consebranes, and opening externally by two narrow quently of great value: it is now thrown away as valves. In the centre of these cells is contained useless. Neither skill nor courage is required in a scaly sonorous triangle, and exterior to them the capture; it being of a sluggish nature, and are two vigorous muscles, by the action of which literally presenting its most vulnerable part to the cells are supplied with air through one of the the harpoon.-Symonds's Observations on the Fish valves, and so powerfully reverberate it against eries of the West Coast of Ireland. From The Economist, 6 Oct. ture of Sebastopol, or for that permanent "ahd material security to which the possession of Sebastopol is only the stepping In another article we have pointed out indi-stone and the means? Did we fight for shadcations of an incipient intrigue to wrest from owy glory, or for real safety and enduring the country the fruits of its hard-won victory peace? Do we wish for victory merely, or by a combination between such of the regular for those solid fruits of victory without which opposition as follow Mr. Disraeli and such of victory by itself is only a costly and bloodthe occupants of the cross benches as obey the stained laurel ? impulses of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright, for the purpose of urging the Government into premature negotiations. We have now to explain how little really pacific is the policy which these singular allies would recommend. Mr. Bright and his friends may be satisfied with words. The nation will require some better equivalent for their expenditure and their exertions. We don't want rest, we don't want a pause, we don't want an armistice-we want We are as truly members of the Peace Party a PEACE. We don't wont a cessation of hosas the honorable representative of Manchester tilities: we want a termination of them. or any of his colleagues nay, much more so. Now, is there any man, capable in the slightWe have depicted the horrors and the mis- est degree of calculating probabilities and estichiefs of war as earnestly and nearly as often. mating causes, who can believe that, if we We have denounced the unequalled sin of now make overtures to Russia or show any unjust or unnecessary wars as sternly as anxiety to receive them, we shall obtain a Mr. Bright. We have calculated the cost peace which will endure one instant longer of strife even more closely, and estimated it than it is the interest of Russia to observe it; at a yet higher figure. We, like him, are ad- -or that, if we hand back the Crimea to that vocates for peace. Nay we, like him, are ad- power on any terms, we shall not even within vocates for " peace at any price: - only we the life-time of the present generation be callare anxious to have the article we bargain' for; ed upon to do our work over again? It is bewhile he, as it appears to us, is either indiffe- cause we desire peace with the whole thirsty rent to this, or blind as to the true means of longings of our soul-it is because we depreobtaining it. Our ground of quarrel with him cate war as wasteful, because we loathe it as and his friends- the discrepancy between brutal, because we detest it as sinful, and their views and ours- lies here that we in- above all because as economists we especially sist upon the substance, while they would rest shrink from feeling that its renewal is perpesatisfied with the shadow; we long for a real-tually hanging over us, that we protest in the ity-they would put up with the hollow hush-name of the country and with all our force money of a sham; we want solid and enduring against the suggestions of those parties who rest-they aspire only to a temporary breath- would patch up a hollow and delusive truce,ing-time and a delusive lull. In fact, the title and dignify it with the name of peace. they claim that of the Peace Party — is an arrogant misnomer, to which we utterly deny their right. They are not advocates of PEACE at all; they are simply thirsty idolaters of a brief, armed, uneasy, unsound, and worthless TRUCE -a truce which could not last, because it would be based upon no natural arrangements, and would include no self-supporting force. We have not enlarged our terms with the progress and successes of our arms. We have not in one iota changed our estimate of the object for which the war was undertaken or of the means needed for securing that object. We demand now nothing which we did not always demand. We entirely agree with the Press and with Mr. Gladstone that we ought to consent to peace as soon as the purpose of What did we go to war for? Was it to the war has been accomplished. We only depunish an adversary or to secure a peace? ny that that purpose has been accomplished Did we undertake it to show our courage and by the capture of Sebastopol. All which that appease our honor, or to protect the menaced great feat has achieved is to place in our and to beat back and disarm the aggressor? hands the means of accomplishing that purDid we "go out," like pseudo duellists, to ex-pose, if we choose to use those means. change shots, declare ourselves satisfied, and parties to whom we refer speak as if the rego home to breakfast? If we did, we were duction of the great Muscovite arsenal was in great sinners and greater fools. Or did we itself the object of the war, and not merely commence hostilities, tardily and reluctantly, one of the operations, perhaps the most impor not to extort an apology, but to obtain a guar- tant, by which that object might be sought. antee? If we did, how can we dream that What was the object avowed very early in we have accomplished our task, when that the day by our Government as that which guarantee is as far off as ever, and only a di- they proposed to themselves when they enterplomatic parchment is offered in its place? ed on this strife,-and the magnitude and imIn a word, have we been fighting for the cap-perative importance of which they held to jus The tify the having recourse to so severe and grave and a standing announcement of Muscovite a measure? We do not say what were the supremacy to Asia, that Russia clings to it so terms they spoke of asking, but what was the passionately, and it is precisely for all these object they spoke of attaining? Was it not reasons that it must never be restored to her the rescue of Turkey from the position in again. which she then was, of being perpetually me- No! Give us the objects for which war was naced by Russian ambition, overawed by declared-give us the prospect of a peace that Russian supremacy, disturbed by Russian in- would not contain within its terms the germs trigues, of lying, as it were, every day and and occasions of future, of certain, and of every hour under the guns of Sebastopol! speedy war-and we will jump at it as eagerDid not Lord John Russell say that Sebasto-ly as any one; as earnestly as Mr. Brightpol in the Czar's hands was "a standing me- far more sincerely than the inspirers of the nace to Turkey? And did not the whole Press. Give us the freedom of the Danubecountry hail those words as about the first navigation well secured; give us the liberaplain out-spoken utterance which rescued us tion of the Principalities from the equal curse from the feeble inanity of diplomatic phraseo- of Russian or Austrian occupation, and the logy? What did we officially proclaim as the establishment of a decent and guaranteed aim and justification of our course? Was it government therein;-give us Turkey really not to secure "the independence and integrity rescued, not briefly respited, from the strangof the Ottoman Empire?" And who does not ling grasp of her self-constituted "heir; feel that the possession of the Crimea by Rus- give us the Caucasus as the Southern boundsia gives her the command of the Black Sea, ary of Russia; give us, finally, some reasonand that her command of the Black Sea is in- able proof that Russia has abandoned her compatible with the "independence and integ- ancestral projects of inadmissible aggrandizerity" of Turkey-makes the second a hazard ment, or that she is incapacitated from purand the first a sham-enables Russia at her suing them;-give us, in a word, any real pleasure to undermine the one and to choose security, any decent probability even, that we her own time for assailing the other? Again, shall not be dragged into a fresh war at the was it not our design and our desire-a pur- first conjuncture which is convenient to our pose early expressed, and forced upon us by enemy and inconvenient to ourselves,-and the unveiled and almost avowed policy of ag- none would be more anxious than ourselves gression so ceaselessly and pertinaciously pur- to see preliminaries signed to-day. Those sued by the colossal despot of the North-to who would be satisfied with anything less than put a stop to that course of encroachment and this, or with a mere futile appearance of this, aggrandizement which made him a peril and a we must hold to be either men who will not plague to Europe, to tie his hands, to forbid look facts in the face, or children who are his future? And did we really dream that silly enough to stop in the middle of a painful we could do this merely by destroying his operation which yet they know must be comships, by razing his fortifications, by burning pleted on the morrow. Those who counsel us his military stores-leaving him to build the to give back in the foolish magnanimity of first, to restore the second, to renew the third, victory the substantial gain for which that on a grander scale and in a better style? victory was won, we cannot but consider to Was it not the aggressive policy of Russia that be as real traitors to their country as any who drove us into the war? Was it not her ever sold her to a foreign foe. Those who aggressive tendencies that we designed to fancy that Russia has as yet sufficiently realcheck? Was it not her aggressive power ized her own defeat, or is sufficiently conthat we determined to diminish? And vinced of the stern and persistent resolution was not the possession of Sebastopol and of the Allies, to offer such terms as alone we the Crimea the special instrument the could prudantly or decently accept, must be, mightiest weapon of aggression-which Rus- to say the least, unwarrantably and extravasia owned? She needed that peninsula with gantly sanguine. Those who, in order to faciits splendid harbor for no other purpose. litate their own recovery of office, would furShe valued it for no other merit. She does ther a hollow compromise on any terms less not require it for defence; since no power righteous and less clear than those we have would dream of assailing her Euxine coasts sketched out, are politicians whose principles unless driven to do so in retaliation. It is be- we do not care to characterize, but who cause Sebastopol is such a critical and com- assuredly will find that in taking a tortuous manding position, because it is at once a sym- and miry, they have taken a mistaken, path bol, an earnest, an instrument of domination, to power. because it is "a standing menace" to, Turkey EOLOPEOSIS, American Rejected Adresses, I went for improvement, when firm on my legs: now first published from the original manuscripts. But there's reason you know in the roasting of Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. These are the addresses supposed to have been prepared for the opening of the Crystal Palace in New York, and are of course imitations of the manner of the writers whose initials they bear. Some of these are very successful; if there is a fault, it is that the parodies are so long. The writer or writers who could do the work so well, should have known how to stop in time even as the sensible diner leaves untouched the second plate of Marlborough pudding. "Blouzelinda" is the title of a Poem by H. W. L. The story is an abridgment and caricature of Evangeline, and closes in the following man ner: In the far North-west, on the utmost bounds of Where nature is prodigal of gifts to all, that may ask her, With every convenience to make its inhabitants On the bank of a Lake stands the thriving city of It is well laid out, with streets at regular angles, It has mines and springs, and of water powers any number, And saw-mills that toil day and night to cut up the lumber; With a future hotel, of which you perceive the Capacious enough to take in the next generation; newspaper, And six railroads chartered all by the last legis lature. With red-cheeked children running round rough, ragged and frisky, And red-faced Indians, that barter coon-skins for Outside of the town, in the rural new cemetery,- were people to bury Are seen two graves of exactly equal dimensions, (Showing here at least, that the grave permits no dissensions ;) And a broad slate stone, procured it would seem by subscription, Spans both turfs at once, with the subjoined The grateful citizens,wishing always to deal right, eggs, And I cannot quito follow the creed you esteem There are too many mills both of cotton and wool- There are too many stocks to entrap a green fool in; You have too many railroads-if this you should doubt Ask those that are in, how they'd like to get out. You have too many ships, and you've too many banks, And too many landsharks at work with their You have cities on paper, beyond what are proper, Which poor Richard has told you put out kitchen Though your shirt may cost less, yet your din ner costs double. You obtain too much credit; for he who goes borrowing, Poor Richard says also, will find he goes sorrowing. You have too many presses, and type loads of Which inundate the country with poor balder- Some of the other imitations are very good, and the reader will find amusement in turning over the leaves of the volume.-Daily Advertiser. MR. GORDON CUMMING'S DIORAMA OF AFRICAN WILD SPORTS.-A brief mention of Mr. Cumming's "Exhibition" may perhaps be permitted in this place, since it is little more than a selection of the incidents told in Mr. Cumming's book on Wild Sports in Africa, illustrated by landscape and animal pieces painted on a large scale (the painters are Mr. Haag, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Leach, Mr. Harrison Weir, and other known artists), exhibited with dioramic effects, and acIcompanied by the viva voce description of the veritable sportsman himself. Mr. Cumming's formidable theme is farther illustrated by an exThe Spirit Rappers to their mediums by J. R. traordinary collection of skins, horns, and skulls, L., is spirited and witty, but is too long; Job, the spolia opima of his wanderings; in the midst Julius Caesar, Richard III., Torquemada, Robert of which leonine and other trophies the lionStephenson, John Gilpin, Warren Hastings, killer delivers his lecture, in a manner not at all Talleyrand, Don Quixotte, Benedict Arnold, calculated, we must say, to confirm any truculent Franklin and others are called up, and reply sensibly and characteristically to the questions pp. 45, 46, 47. put. impression which his book may have conveyed to its readers. The wild sportsman appears to be a very mild and gentlemanly kind of man. and his narrative is less exciting than a less real storyteller might have made it. But the artists make up for any deficiency on the startling side, | markable first effort. The artist has chosen the and present certainly a series of very uncommon moment when Galatea droops with grief for the beasts in anything but common situations. The loss of her lover, Acis, whom the cyclops, filled Times critic anticipates, therefore, and we dare with jealousy, have just destroyed. The face say with perfect truth, thatoverflows with grief, and we almost expect to see the tears come from under the drooping lids. Galatea being a water nymph, the artist has most appropriately confined her hair with a fisher's net and concealed the bust about with long willowy flag leaves. "The entertainment is of a character which must prove interesting to all and instructive to many. Mr. Cumming relates with extraordinary gusto his adventures with the sublime monarch of the forest and with other gigantic beasts of prey. He speaks, for instance, of certain lions which were well known to all the native population as "men-eaters; " but, he adds, that he was equally known as a "lion-killer," and therefore he felt it his duty to search after these scourges of the natives. He speaks of his "good fortune," while hunting in the Carpathians, in meeting with a wild boar of immense stature; and tells you coolly, in a subsequent part of the entertainment, and quite par parenthèse as it were, "this was about the 50th lion I had killed; you will see his skin, No. so-and-so, about three yards from your right as you enter." One of his best stories is an explanation of illustration No. 10, descriptive of a nocturnal encounter with wild dogs; but altogether his tales are so full of stirring incident and life, though so fatal to the quadruped inhabitants of the sterile regions of southern Africa, that they cannot fail to interest and amuse.-Examiner. ANOTHER LADY SCULPTOR. A special friend has requested the publication of the following tribute to a lady artist, to us personally unknown.-Com. Advertiser. Miss Lander has also just completed her first work in marble. It is a fine likeness of her father, and beautifully executed. She neither possessed nor knew of the ordinary implements in use, but employing such tools as she supposed might be adapted to her purpose has thus succeeded in the production of a work so creditable. With a soul full of the true love and aspirations for her art, and a self-sacrificing devotion to it-with an enthusiasm almost beyond her strength-we not only hope for but are sure of her taking a high place among her fellow sculptors when the facilities for the execution and pursuit of art are laid open to her eager soul and skilful hand in Italy, whither, we are glad to learn, she is about to go. We can only express our hope that those who deem such purposes worthy of encouragement will determine whether some patronage might not have a generous influence upon the noble studies of a young countrywoman in a foreign land. THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.- A short poem-one of the many which Frances Browne "It is with no little pride and pleasure, as a has contributed to the pages of the Athenæum' lover of art, that we notice in the list of passen-tracted the attention of the Marquis of Lans (Living Age No. 594.) "Is it come," having atgers, to leave in the Baltic, to-morrow, the name of Miss Lander, of Salem, who is en route for downe, his lordship applied to the editor for some Italy, in order to perfect himself in the most the difficulties which have so long beset her, the information regarding its author. On learning glorious of arts. She has already overcome obstacles of magnitude, and we hope her health will noble marquis, with that large-heartedness and prove adequate to the laborious task she has im-true love of letters which have always distinguished him from the common wearers of coronets, posed upon herself, and that her noble enterprise will be crowned with success. From our own observation, we should judge this lady to have attained great proficiency in her art, and our opinion is fully justified by the following notice, written near the field of her labors, and publish ed in the Boston Transcript: requested the editor to say that he would be happy to place 100l. at Miss Browne's disposal; and it gratifies us to add that this generous tribute to unfriended genius was accepted in the spirit in which it was offered. "While all cyes turn to Rome seeking there to gratify their tastes in the chefs-d'œuvres of even MOVEMENT OF A GLACIER. - Assuming, modern art, while all lips move to chant the roughly, the length of a glacier to be twenty praises of those artists of whom we are justly miles, and the velocity of its progression (asproud-of our Powers, Crawford and Rogers sumed uniform) one-tenth of a mile, or 500 feet, there; while Greenough and Billings receive the block which is now being discharged from its their well earned homage here; we would call surface on the terminal moraine may have startthe attention of the lovers of art to young lady ed from its rock origin in the reign of Charles sculptor of marked genius. Miss Louisa Lan-I.! The glacier history of 200 years is revealed der, of this state, has recently completed an ideal in the interval; and a block, ten times the vohead of the water-nymph, Galatea. It was de- lume of the greatest of the Egyptian monoliths, signed and modelled without aid or instruction which has just commenced its march, will sce of any kind. It has not yet been put into mar- out the course of six generations of men ere its. ble, but in spite of the dead mortar, the living pilgrimage too be accomplished, and it is laid conception appears beautifully simple, harmoni- low and motionless in the common grave of its ous and in perfect proportions to all eyes. Upon predecessors. From Forbes's Tour of Mont Blanc. close examination we pronounce this to be a re |