cuando dejó de ser virey de aquel reino; made at Acapulco, on the 2d of August, 1607, and inserted in the 26th volume of the Coleccion de Documentos inéditos."-Trübner's Record. A new periodical, under the title La Civilization, has just been started at Paris. It is conducted by Charles de Labarthe, well known through his ethnographical works, and devoted to the ethnography of America and the Eastern nations. Subscription price, four shillings a year. was owing to the large sums expended in public works, which in due time will be greatly remunerative. For eight years the revenue has steadily increased at the rate of above £1,000,000 per annum. For three years before the mutiny, 1854-57, the revenue averaged £31,980,000 a year. In 1861 it was £43,000,000; in 1863, after remitting £1,300,000 of taxation, it was £44,000,000. For 1865 the revenue was £46,500,000. The whole taxation of India was estimated by Mr Laing at an average of 4s. per head; and, as half of this may be viewed as rent of land, the taxation per head is not more than 28. In Great Britain the taxation per head is £2 6s. 8d.; in France £2; in Italy £1; in Russia 16s. 8d. The revenue of India is, therefore, in a safe and sound condition, and the resources of the country unlimited, as cultivation and commerce extend. Mr. Cobden's First Speech in Parliament.-Mr. Cobden entered the House of Commons in the year 1841, two years before I became a member of that House. I believe I was in the gallery of the House on the night when he made his first speech. I happened to sit close to a gentleman not now living Mr. Horace Twiss- who had once himself been a member of the House, but who was then occupied in the gallery writing the Parliamentary summary of the proceedings which was published morning after morning in the columns of the Times newspaper. Mr. Cobden had a certain reputation when he went into Parliament from the course he had taken before the public in connection with the corn-law out of doors. There was great interest as to his first speech, and the position he would take in the House. Horace Twiss was a Tory of the old school. He appeared to have the greatest possible horror of anybody who was a manufacturer or calico-printer coming down into that assembly to teach our senators wisdom. As the speech went on I watched his countenance and heard his observations; and when Mr. Cobden sat down he threw it off with a careless gesture, and said: "Nothing in him: he is only a barker."-Mr. Bright. Brahmaism. The parallelism which has often been observed between continental and Indian thought on theological subjects has lately received a remarkable illustration. A Calcutta paper gives the summary of a lecture, which would have been considered striking and able in England, delivered by a Bengali gentleman of fortune to an enthusiastic audience of more than two thousand of his countrymen. This gentleman-Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen-is an accomplished English as well as Sanskrit scholar, but we have no idea that he is acquainted with either French or German literature. Yet, if he had been brought up at the feet of Renan, the identity of his views with those of the great French writer regarding the place of Christ in Christianity could hardly be more faithful. There is the same passionate attachment to the character of Jesus and the spirit of his teaching, together with a disregard of all pretensions to a divine personality on his behalf. The chief difference is that, whereas M. Renan is, above all, literary and scientific, and addresses himself to scholars and critics, Baboo Keshub Sen has the temperament of an orator and apostle, and is devoting himself with tact and untiring fervor to erect his theory into a popular religion. And his success has been far from contemptible. He is the head of the sect of Brahmaists, or Vedic Unitarians, which is moderately estimated to number fifty thousand disciples, including a large proportion of the most respected, the best educated, and most energetic natives both in Bengal and Bombay. The principle of Brahmaism, and its connecting link with Christianity, is self-sacrifice for the sake of mankind and in The Old French Court Supping in Public.-I duty to God, in imitation, as its noblest example, was present at the King's public supper, or what of Him who "went about doing good." The the French call le grand couvert. The room was progress of Brahmaism and the character of its small and excessively crowded. In the middle chief missionaries are attracting keen interest was a horse-shoe table, covered. The king enamong those best qualified to judge of the com- tered about nine o'clock, preceded by several parative depth and force in the various currents noblemen and great officers of state, and the of modern Indian thought. Anybody disposed royal family followed him. When he got to his to pursue the subject will find an exceedingly in-place he put his hand in his pocket, out of which teresting article upon it, entitled “Christian Civilization in the East," by M. Emile Burnouf, in the Revue des Deux Mondes for June 1st.-Pall Mall Gazette, July 21st. Indian Revenue. The revenue of India amounts to £46,547,483, and, after defraying local charges upon it, to £36,985,318. The cost of administration, including interest upon the public debt, amounts to £29,814,211. There is, therefore, a surplus of no less than £7,000,000. For public works in 1865, £5,685,817 were charged, and £1,395,285 for interest on railway and other stock guaranteed by Government. The slight apparent deficit in revenue over expenditures, little more than a quarter of a million, in 1865, he drew three long rolls, and laid them upon the table. When he was seated, the Dauphin placed himself on his right hand, but much below him; the Count de Provence next, and the Count d'Artois lowest. Opposite the Dauphin, on the King's left hand, sat the Dauphiness, then the Countess of Provence, and the mesdames of France, who, though young, are very fat and far from handsome! There was a large piece of roast beef before the King, of which he ate very heartily; and I thought the beautiful Dauphiness played her part very well, and showed she had an excellent constitution, if one might judge from her stomach. When the King chooses to drink, a taster calls out with a loud voice, "Drink for the King!" Fens, dated Norwich, 1658, sold for $18; and a letter from Queen Mary I., January, 1553, on Wyatt's revolt, went for $21. A letter from George Washington, Mount Vernon, 5th May, 1772, to the Rev. Mr. Boucher, was bought by Mr. Appleton for five guineas, and one from Lawrence Sterne ("Tristram Shandy"), dated Rome, April 19th, 1767, was run up to $23. Among the ancient documents disposed of was the charter of King Stephen, granting to the Church of St. Peter of Eye and the Monks there all valuable possessions which they held in the time of Robert Malet, and before the King (Stephen) came to the throne, free from all exaction, dated at Eye, 1137. This fetched $150. The gross proceeds of the sale have not been stated, but must have been large. on which a salver is brought him with an empty | covered glass, and two decanters, one with wine, the other with water. The taster hereupon takes off the cover of the glass and turns it upside down in a small flat silver cup, then places it again on the salver; after which he pours a spoonful or two of the wine into the silver cup, and a little of the water with it. Then another taster divides it into another cup, and each drinks. After this the first taster presents the salver to the King, who mixes and drinks. This ceremony is repeated as often as the King is thirsty. I observed he drank no wine by itself, nor was he served on the knee. I do not recollect any sovereign but the King of England who is so served. When the Dauphin or his brothers drank, his attendants called out, "Drink for the Dauphin!" etc.; but they had no taster as the King had. Old Louis did not seem cheerful, but sat in his arm-chair without speaking more than two or three words to the Dauphiness: to every other person he was silent.—Sir G. Collation of Homer, begun many years ago, and lier's "France before the Revolution." Monthly Periodicals.-The Shilling Magazine, edited by Samuel Lucas, M. A., literary critic of the Times, has ceased to live. Miss Braddon's new magazine will soon appear, it is said, and Mr. Pitman has issued the first number of the Shorthand Magazine-a Miscellany of Original and Select Literature, Lithographed in Pitman's Phonography. Several years ago one of the Pitman brothers commenced the publication of a weekly journal called the Phonetic News, every word of which was spelled exclusively as sounded, Thus the paper itself was called the Fonetic Nuz. It was short-lived, but had become such a curiosity that a large sum has occasionally been paid for a specimen number. Lace Made by Caterpillars-A most extraordinary species of manufacture, which is in a slight degree connected with copying, has been contrived by an officer of engineers residing at Munich. It consists of lace and veils, with open patterns in them, made entirely by caterpillars. The following is the mode of proceeding adopted: Having made a paste of the leaves of the plant on which the species of caterpillar he employs feed, he spreads it thinly over a stone, or rather flat substance of the size required. He then, with a camel's-hair pencil dipped in olive oil, draws the pattern he wishes the insects to leave open. The stone is then placed in an inclined position, and a considerable number of caterpillars are placed at the bottom. A peculiar species is chosen which spins a strong web; and the animals commence at the bottom, eating and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined with some strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring twenty-six and a half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grains.-Babbage on "The Economy of Machinery." The Paston Letters.-This very curious collection of manuscript letters, and other autographs, collected by Sir John Fenn (who edited the Paston Letters), has been distributed by auction, in London. Five letters from Sir Thomas Browne, author of Religio Medici, relating to the tumuli in Mr. Gladstone's Homer.-It is said that, during the parliamentary recess, which will probably not terminate until next February, Mr. Gladstone will finally revise, for early publication, his trans lately kept back from a desire not to be considered as being in rivalry with the Earl of Derby's, which, by the way, has reached a fifth edition. The profits already realized to the author, amounting to nearly $8000, have been presented by Lord Derby to a public benevolent institution connected with literature. As our readers know, his lordship has only dealt with the Iliad as yet. It is believed that he had made considerable progress in a blank-verse translation of the Odys sey, which, perhaps, he may be able to complete during his next six months of comparative political idleness. Von Bismarck's Bed on the Night of the Battle.-M. de Bismarck arrived in Horzitz on the night of the great battle. No preparations had been made for the accommodation of the headquarters, which were established in the morning at Gitschin. He was hungry and weary, but all the houses were closed. There was no bread, and all the straw that could be had was used for the wounded. In this state of things the President of the Council lay down on the pavement of the Place of Horzitz, and, without a pillow, slept that pleasant sleep which the soldier who has won a victory knows.-Correspondence of the Siècle. The Koran.-Sale's translation of the Koran (Al Koran, the Book, as we say the Bible) is so very carelessly executed that it is surprising a better has not been published, long ago. The Rev. J. M. Rodwell, rector of one of the great parishes in London, has brought out a new version, which is well spoken of by the critics across the water. He has closely rendered the Arabic into English, appended notes and an index, and given an introduction which gives the dates of the different parts of the book, with a history of the manner in which it grew into existence. Mathematical Wind.-The late Professor Vince, one morning (several trees having been blown down the night previous) meeting a friend in the walks of St. John's College, Cambridge, was accosted with "How d'ye do, sir? quite a blustering wind this." "Yes," answered Vince, "it is a rare mathematical wind." "Mathematical wind!" exclaimed the other; "how so?" Why," replied Vince, it has extracted a great many roots." 66 46 |