Mr. eling in the region on the Upper Waters of the der our notice was delivered by Mr. E. P. | perished.-RALPH WALDO EMERSON is travWHIPPLE before the authorities of Boston. He spoke upon Washington and the Principles of the Revolution, holding up the former as a model of greatness, combating the popular notion that he was not a man of genius, and dwelling upon the fact that our revolution was fought, not on abstract principles, or in the assertion of abstract rights, but for the redress of practical evils and the attainment of practical ends. It was a timely, able, and judicious address, and was marked by the peculiar vigor of style and of thought, injured by an occasional straining after effect in expression and phrases, which characterize the writings of Mr. WHIPPLE. Senator FOOTE, of Mississippi, delivered an address before the Washington Monument Association at the National Capital; it was a strong appeal on behalf of united and harmonious councils, and was both timely and effective. Hon. J. W. EDMONDS, of New York city, delivered the address at Washington's Head Quarters at Newburgh, which the Legislature of New York, very properly and creditably, took measures at the last session to preserve as a permanent monument of the revolution. E. A. RAYMOND, Esq. delivered an address at Rochester, which was a skillfully condensed summary of the growth of the country, and especially of its political development. A new Historical So-York, are now constructing a press which will ciety of the Episcopal Church has just been work from 15,000 to 20,000 per hour. It will formed at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., of be thirty-three feet long, with eight printing which Bishop BROWNELL has been chosen Pres- cylinders, and will cost about $21,000.—A ident.The inventor of the Ramage printing newly invented locomotive engine, intended for press, which, until superseded by subsequent im- use in the streets of cities, has just been put provements, was an important step in the pro- upon the Hudson River Railroad at its termingress of printing, ADAM RAMAGE, died at Phil-ation in New York. It consumes its own smoke, adelphia on the 9th of July. He was a native of Scotland, and was nearly eighty years old at the time of his death.- -MARGARET FULLER, well known in this country as a gifted and accomplished lady, and author of several works of marked value and interest, perished on the 19th of July, by the wreck of the ship Elizabeth from Leghorn, in which she had taken passage with her husband, the Marquis d'Ossoli, and her child, in returning to her native land from Italy, where she had been spending several years. Her loss will be deplored by a large circle of personal friends, and by the still larger number of those who knew her only through her writings. She was the eldest daughter of Hon. Timothy Fuller, formerly a lawyer of Boston, but more recently a resident of Cambridge. She was remarkable for her thorough intellectual cultivation, being familiar with both the ancient and most of the modern languages and their literature-for the vigor and natural strength of her mind-for her conversational powers, and for her enthusiastic devotion to letters and art. She was at Rome during the recent revolution, and took the deepest interest in the struggles of that day. She had been for some time engaged upon a work on Italy, which it is feared has perished with her. Her husband and child were lost at the same time. Mr. Henry Sumner, of Boston, also and is entirely inclosed from public view-presenting the appearance of a simple baggagecar. The engine is of ninety horse power. News from LIBERIA has been received announcing that the government has at last been able to effect the purchase of the Gallinas territories, including the whole from Cape Mount to Shebar, except a small strip of five miles of coast which will soon fall into their hands. The chief importance of this purchase springs from the fact that Gallinas has been for many years the head quarters of the slave-trade-an enormous number of slaves having been shipped from there every year. The government paid $9500 for the territory, and further agreed to appoint commissioners to settle the wars in the country, and open trade with the interior tribes, as well as to settle among them and instruct them in the arts of civilized life. This may prove to be an important step, not only toward the suppression of the horrible traffic in slaves, which the united efforts of England, France, and the United States have hitherto been unable to effect, but also toward the civilization of Africa, a result to which no philanthropic mind can be indifferent. In ENGLAND by far the most important event of the month is the sudden death of Sir ROBERT | subject, Mr. ROEBUCK moved a resolution dePEEL. On the 29th of June he had called at claring that the principles on which the foreign Buckingham Palace to pay his respects to the policy of the government had been regulated Queen, and was riding away upon horseback, were calculated to maintain the honor and dig. when his horse swerved slightly and threw him nity of the country, and in times of unexampled to the ground; he fell sideways, striking upon difficulty, to preserve peace between England his left shoulder. He was at once raised up by and foreign nations. The motion was warmly several gentlemen who rushed to his assistance, opposed by Sir James Graham and others, and and said that he was very much hurt indeed. was advocated with equal zeal. Lord PALMERHe was taken to his residence and received all STON defended the foreign policy of the governthe attention of the highest surgical skill, which, ment in a speech of five hours, marked by great however, was less effective than would have ability and eloquence. After going over the been anticipated on account of the intense pain whole ground fully and in detail, he concluded which he suffered. He lingered until near mid- by challenging the verdict of the house, whether night of the 2d July, when he expired. A the principles which had guided the foreign partial examination of his body showed that one policy of the government had been proper and of his ribs had been broken and was pressing fitting, and whether, as a subject of ancient upon his lungs. His family declined a public Rome could hold himself free from indignity by funeral tendered by the government, and his saying, "Civis Romanus sum," a British subject remains were interred at Tamworth. Both in a foreign country should not be protected by houses of Parliament adjourned, and demonstra- the vigilant eye and the strong arm of his govtions of profound regret and respect for his ernment against injustice and wrong. The decharacter were general. An outline of his life bate was then adjourned, and had not been reand political career will be found in the preced- sumed at our latest advices. The ministry seems ing pages of this Magazine. His death is justly very firmly to have taken the position that Enconsidered an event of great political import- gland can be governed without the House of Lords, ance. It was generally anticipated that he and that its foreign policy is not to be shaped would soon be called upon to resume the office according to their wishes, but according to the of prime minister, and universal confidence was popular will, as represented by the Commons. felt in his large experience, his eminent ability, This position indicates the strong tendency which and his intimate acquaintance with the condition prevails in England even, toward popular and and events of the United Kingdom. democratic government. Lord John Russell, on the 20th, also remarked, in reply to the intimation that the foreign policy of the government was calculated to foment differences between England and other nations, that he could answer for it that Lord Palmerston, so long as he should continue in office, would act not as a minister of Austria, Russia, France, or any other country, but as the minister of England. The declaration was received with great applause, not only in the house but throughout the country. It is understood that the diplomatic misunderstanding between France and England, growing out of the Greek question, has been settled. to the The Greek question was still under discussion at our last advices: it has led to events of no small importance in connection with the politics of England and the fundamental principles of the British constitution. On the 17th of June, in the House of Lords, Lord STANLEY moved a resolution censuring the government for having adopted coercive measures to enforce claims against Greece, doubtful in point of justice or exaggerated in amount. He supported his motion at great length, entering into a detailed history of the whole matter, and accusing the government of having, through its foreign minister, insisted on exorbitant demands, oppressed No other business of general interest in this the weak, and endangered the peace of Europe. country has been before Parliament during the He was sustained by the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord month. Inquiries were made in both Houses as Brougham and others, and was answered by the Cuban expedition, and the ministers Marquis of LANSDOWNE who, with others, de- stated that it was fitted out against the most fended the government. The resolution was car-strenuous efforts of the American government, ried by 169 to 132, showing a majority against the government of 37. On the 20th, Mr. ROEBUCK called the attention of the Commons to the vote of the Lords, and desired to know whether the government would adopt any special course of conduct in consequence of it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that they should not alter their course in respect to foreign powers at all, and that they did not feel called upon to resign because the House of Lords had passed a vote of censure. That house did not represent the nation: whenever the House of Commons should adopt such a resolution the ministry would quit office. On the 24th, for the purpose of enabling the Commons to express their opinion upon the which has, nevertheless, been very strongly censured for its inability to prevent it.The government has issued orders restricting very considerably the posting and delivery of letters on Sunday, which has elicited very clamorous complaints in every part of the country. Lord BROUGHAM in speaking of the matter in Parliament, doubted the power of the government to issue such orders, and said that it was causing a vast increase of Sunday travel and work throughout the kingdom, as messengers were now dispatched to obtain indispensable intelligence formerly received by mail. Lord Ashley had carried a motion in the House of Lords to suppress Sunday labor in the post-office, by a danger, and that continued means of subsistence were accessible.The Steamer Orion, plying between Liverpool and Glasgow, was wrecked June 18th, off Port Patrick, in a smooth sea, by vote of 93 to 68.-Sir Edward Buxton on the Nor would this appear to be impossible, assum31st of June, moved a resolution against exposing detention in the ice to have been the only ing the free-grown sugar of the British colonies to unrestricted competition with the sugar of slave-trading countries. It failed, however, by 275 to 234.- -A bill prohibiting intra-mural interments, has passed the Commons. The re-striking upon a rock, and over two hundred maining transactions of Parliament have no general interest. lives were lost. The baptism of the infant prince was celebrated June 22d, the Duke of Wellington being one of the sponsors, and the ceremony being performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who named the royal infant, The Queen while riding with the Prince in an open carriage, on the 27th of June, was struck across the face by a respectably dressed man, armed with a small cane. Her bonnet" Arthur William Patrick_Albert.” was cut through, and a severe wound was in flicted upon her forehead. She attended the The English LITERARY INTELLIGENCE of the opera, however, in the evening, and was re-month is summed up in the Household Narraceived with great enthusiasm. The assailant tive, from which mainly we copy. It remarks proved to be a discharged officer, named Robert that the class of books which has received the Pate, subject to attacks of insanity. He was largest additions, is that of biography. Mr. tried, convicted, and sentenced to transportation Edmund Phipps has published extracts from for seven years. Very shortly, fifteen screw the diaries and literary remains of the author steamers will ply between Liverpool and various of Tremaine, with biographical and critical comports in the Mediterranean.- -Meyerbeer, the ment, under the title of "Memoirs of the Politiccomposer, has received the degree of Doctor al and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward;" from the University of Jena.- -Dr. GUTZLAFF, | and the book has been made more interesting who is preaching at Berlin and at Potsdam, on than the subject would have seemed to promise, behalf of the Chinese mission, expresses a confi- by the fact of Mr. Ward's intimate connection, dent hope that the Emperor of Japan will be both in private and public life, with the leading converted to Christianity.-Mr. CORBOULD, tory statesmen of the administrations of Addingthe artist, has received the commands of her ton, Perceval, and Liverpool. The political Majesty to paint a large picture of the grand and administrative characteristics of the Duke coronation scene in the opera of "La Prophete,' ," of Wellington have probably never had such as represented at the Royal Italian Opera, Co- vivid illustration.—————Mr. Leigh Hunt has pubvent-garden.Mr. GIBSON, of Rome, now in lished his “Autobiography, with Reminiscences England, has received an order for a colossal of Friends and Contemporaries," of which very group, in marble, of figures of her Majesty, copious extracts were given in the July numQueen Victoria, supported on either side by ber of this Magazine. It will be issued in a Justice and Clemency. The figure of the few days from the press of the Harpers. Some queen will be ten feet in height; the side figures, of it is the republication of a former work, but eight feet. This group will occupy a place in the greater part is original, or at least so changthe new Houses of Parliament. The Duke ed by interpolations, recantations, or additions, of CAMBRIDGE died on the 8th of July. He as to produce the effect of novelty.The Revwas the seventh and youngest son of George erend Mr. Field, an enthusiast for the separate III., and was seventy-six years old at the time and silent system of imprisonment, has published of his death. a new Life of Howard, dedicated to Prince Albert, of which the design appears to be to counteract the evil tendency of a recent memoir of the philanthropist, remarkable for what the reverend enthusiast calls “the advocacy of democratic principles, and the aspersion of a godly prince."-Each in a goodly-sized volume, we have had a sort of general biographical notice of Celebrated Etonians, and of Speakers of the House of Commons, the first by an able man, quite competent to the subject.Miss Pardoe has edited the first volume of a series of Memoirs of the Queens of Spain, of which the author is a Spanish lady, resident in America. An ingenious northern antiquary has published memorials of one of the old border mansions, called Dilston Hall, which amounts in effect to an interesting Memoir of the Earl of Derwentwater, who suffered in the Jacobite rebellion.— And, finally, Mr. Andrew Bisset has done good service to both history and biography by a very careful publication of the Memoirs and Papers Many accidents to vessels in the Northern Atlantic have arisen during the season from floating icebergs. The ship Oriental, of Liverpool, was lost, with all her crew and cargo from this cause, on the 27th of April; and on the 29th of March, the English ship Signet, with all on board, also foundered. Eighteen or twenty other vessels are known to have been lost in the same manner, their crews having escaped. New hopes of the safety of Sir John Franklin have been suggested by these reports. It is supposed that these vast fields of ice are portions of the slowly released masses, the growth of many preceding winters, which were first broken two winters ago by the strong southwest and southerly gales over all the North Atlantic and North Pacific; but which, in consequence of their bulk and extent, were again eondensed before they could be fairly swept into the Atlantic, and thus offered continued obstruction to the release of Franklin and his ships. of Sir Andrew Mitchell, Lord Chatham's embassador at the court of Frederic the Great, and one of the very ablest of English diplomatists. Considerable interest was excited by the unswathing of an Egyptian mummy at the resi dence of Lord Londesborough, at which Mr. To the department of philosophy a somewhat Birch of the British Museum, describing the remarkable contribution is to be noticed, under embalming process, and following in this the the title of The Progress of the Intellect as ex- narrative of Herodotus, said the subject had emplified in the religious development of the evidently suffered from the use of bitumen and Greeks and Hebrews. The writer is Mr. Robert the application of heat, as the bones were charWilliam Mackay. Its design is to explain by red and the muscles calcined. DR. CORMACK a rationalistic process all the religious faiths has published a letter in the Athenæum expressand beliefs which have exerted the greatest ing and sustaining the opinion that all mummies influence over man, and to refer them exclusive-were prepared in this way.A recent number ly to moral and intellectual development. In of Galignani contains an interesting item of inthis design the writer may, or may not, have telligence. It may be remembered that GOETHE succeeded; but it is certain, making all draw- in 1827 delivered over to the keeping of the backs on the score of what has probably been borrowed from German investigation, that the book has high pretensions to eloquence and research, and reminds us of a time when publication was less frequent than now, and a single book might embody the labor of a life. For its antidote in respect of opinion and purpose there has been published, not inopportunely, after a peaceful slumber of nearly two centuries in the library at Wotton, A Rational Account of the True Religion, by John Evelyn. Here the design is, by all possible arguments and authorities, to confirm our faith in Christianity. Government of Weimar a quantity of his papers, contained in a sealed casket, with an injunction not to open it until 1850. The 17th of May being fixed for breaking the seals, the authorities gave formal notice to the family of Goethe that they would on that day deliver up the papers as directed by the deceased poet. The descendants of the poet Schiller also received an intimation that, as the papers were understood to concern their ancestor likewise, they had a right to be present. The casket was opened with all due form, and was found to contain the whole of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller. We must speak very summarily and briefly It is added, that these letters are immediately to of the publications in general literature. Of be published, according to directions found in the books of travel and adventure, the most attract- casket. A new society has recently been formed ive and interesting in point of subject is, Five in London for the investigation of the laws and Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of nature of epidemic diseases, of which Dr. BabSouth Africa, by Mr. Roualeyn Gordon Cum-ington has been chosen President. Another has ming, a kinsman of the Chief of Argyll, in whom been instituted for the collection of facts, observa love of deer-stalking seems to have gradually expanded into dimensions too gigantic to be satisfied with any thing less than the stalking of the lion, the elephant, the hippopotamus, the giraffe, or the rhinoceros. The book is filled with astonishing incidents and anecdotes, and keeps the reader very nearly as breathless with excitement as the elephant and lion-hunter himself must have been. Copious extracts from the work will be found in the preceding pages of this number.Mr. Aubrey de Vere has published some very graceful Picturesque Sketches of Greece and Turkey; and the brave and highminded old General Pepe has given the world, A Narrative of Scenes and Events in Italy from 1847 to 1849. Mr. Johnson, the distinguished geographer of Edinburgh, has issued the most complete General Gazetteer of the World that has yet been comprised in a single volume; and as part of the republication of the treatises of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, in separate and portable volumes, we have to mention an interesting volume on Greek Literature by Mr. Justice Talfourd, the Bishop of London, and other accomplished scholars.In poetical translation, a new version of Eschylus by Professor Blackie, of Aberdeen, has been issued; and in poetry, with the title of In Memoriam, a noble and affecting series of elegies to the memory of a friend (son of the historian Hallam), from the pen of Mr. Alfred Tennyson. ations, &c., in Meteorology, of which Mr. Whitbread is to be the first President.ROGERS the poet was severely injured by being knocked down by a cab in the streets of London. Being 87 years old his case was considered precarious, though at the last accounts he seems to have partially recovered.- -Several meetings have been held at the house of Mr. Justice COLERIDGE for the purpose of initiating a subscription to do honor, in some form, to the memory of Wordsworth, and have resulted in the formation of a powerful committee, with the Bishop of London at its head. The objects which this committee have in view are-to place a whole length effigy of the deceased poet in Westminster Abbey-and, if possible, to erect some monument to his memory in the neighborhood of Grasmere. The list of subscriptions is headed by the Queen and her Royal Consort, with a sum of £50.- -Some singular decisions have recently been made by the Vice Chancellor. It seems that a Mr. Hartley deceased in 1843, left directions in his will that £300 should be set apart as a prize for the best Essay on "Natural Theology," treating it as a substantive science, and as adequate to constitute a true, perfect, and philosophical system of universal religion. It was ruled by the Vice Chancellor that this bequest was void, on account of the evident tendency which the essay so described would have to demoralize society and subvert the church. Another decision, arising out of the same trial, discussion in the Second Chamber on an address is yet more curious. Mr. Hartley had left £200 for the best essay on Emigration, and appointed the American Minister trustee of the fund. This bequest was also declared void, on the ground that such an essay would encourage persons to emigrate to the United States, and so throw off their allegiance to the Queen! The race of Justice Shallows seems not to be extinct. In FRANCE, after the passage of the electoral law, a bill was presented for increasing the President's salary to 3,600,000 francs per annum. Its introduction created considerable feeling. The committee to which it was referred reported in its stead a bill granting 1,600,000 francs to defray expenses incurred at the President's inauguration and this was afterward modified so as to grant 2,160,000 for the expenses of the President, in which form it was adopted by the Assembly, by a vote of 354 to 308, a majority of 46 for the government. This is regarded as a government triumph, but it was not won until after a sharp struggle, and it has increased very considerably the public disaffection. New laws for the restriction of the press have also been brought forward. The amount of caution money which newspapers are required to deposit is increased, and the system of postage stamps is introduced. During the discussion of these laws on the 8th of July, a scene of some warmth occurred in the Assembly. M. Rouher, in the course of a speech, spoke of the revolution of February as a great catastrophe, for which he was immediately called to order by Girardin, recently elected a member by the department of the Lower Rhine, as well as by others. The President refused to call him to order, but rebuked those who had interrupted him. The laws in regard to the press have been declared "urgent" by a vote of 370 to 251. -A man named WALKER has been arrested, on his own confession of a design to assassinate Louis Napoleon, for which purpose he had waited several hours for him to pass out of his gate. He proves to have been insane.- -M. THIERS has been on a visit to London, where he was received with distinction. He visited Louis Philippe, whose health is said to be failing. to the sovereign, expressing dissatisfaction with the conduct of the government on the German question; and the Second Chamber broke up in solemn silence, withholding the usual cheers for the king. The Wurtemburg Diet, for a similar reason, was prorogued on the 4th. The German senate has given its consent for the meeting of the Peace Congress at Frankfort, and its sessions will commence on the 23d of August. It is to be a New World's Convention of the Friends of Peace. The King of PRUSSIA has recovered from the wound inflicted by the assassin Sefeloge. A royal decree has been published at Berlin, curtailing still further the Freedom of the Press. The system of "caution-money" is re-established, with the government powers of canceling the license to sell newspapers, and of refusing conveyance by post to obnoxious journals; and certain offenses against the press laws are "withdrawn from the competency of a jury." Among the journals affected by the decree is the London Punch, which has been proscribed in the city of Konigsberg and its province, and placed on the list of journals that are no longer permitted to pass through the post-office. From PORTUGAL we have intelligence of difficulties with this country, growing out of claims on that government which have been in existence for many years. The amount claimed is about $300,000. The principal one grows out of the destruction of the American ship, the General Armstrong, during the war of 1812, by a British fleet, while lying in the neutral port of Fayal, and therefore entitled to the protection of the Portuguese government. According to the law of nations, Portugal is responsible for her failure to protect her; and although Great Britain is the party in equity responsible, the United States have to look, in conformity to law, only to Portugal. The claims have been unsuccessfully pressed for a number of years; but the administration of General Taylor demanded an immediate settlement. Our Chargé, Mr. CLAY, under instructions, had required an answer to his demands within twenty days, and an American squadron had meantime arrived In GERMANY the settlement of the Constitution in the Tagus to enforce them. Some uneasimakes little progress. The Saxon chambers ness was felt as to the issue, but it was believed were suddenly dissolved on the 1st, to evade a that the Portuguese government would yield. |