the two sovereigns being firmly resolved never to accept,
in the person of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, any other
than a supreme elective chief of the Republic, and to
oppose by all the means in their power the pretension
of establishing the actual President of the French
Republic as Emperor in the sense of an hereditary
transmitter or founder of a Napoleonian dynasty. They add,
that Louis Napoleon Bonaparte not being the issue of a
sovereign or reigning family, cannot become a real
sovereign, or assimilate himself to reigning houses."

Intelligence from New York reaches the 10th inst.
The political news is unimportant. The steamer
Saluda, bound for Council Bluffs, exploded her boilers
at Lexington, on Monday, April 9. She had on board,
besides other passengers, a large number of Mormon
emigrants. All the officers of the boat were killed,
except the first clerk and mate. About 100 lives are
supposed to have been lost. The navigation of Lake
Erie is still suspended in the vicinity of Erie, and a
large number of emigrants, who have been for a long
time prevented from going beyond that point, are
reported to be suffering dreadfully for want of the
necessaries of life. Several vessels are still ice-bound
and in a very dangerous situation, on the lake, off Erie.
A sanguinary riot took place on the 5th inst., at the
election in St. Louis. A few Germans took offence at
some cause not stated, and fired with guns, from one of
the houses in the vicinity, upon a crowd at one of the
polls. The latter became infuriated, and tore down the
house. The alarm soon spread, and a mob was speedily
collected, who were also fired upon from the windows of
three or four other houses, which in their turn were
demolished. A large number of persons were either
killed or wounded during the melée. Fortunately, the
larger portion of the great German population of St.
Louis are intelligent, and generally well educated.
They do not seem to have mixed in this murderous
onslaught, and hence the riot did not become more
general. Kossuth had arrived at Charleston from
Mobile. His presence there is said by the local papers
to have produced no sensation.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

The month in which Easter falls is not generally
favourable to publication, and this year its issue of new
books has been more scanty than usual. Setting aside
pamphlets and new editions, our summary must be
brief.

The overthrow of Rosas gives interest to an enlargement
of Sir Woodbine Parish's account of Buenos Ayres and
the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata. Mr. Fortune has
described the results of a recent mission to China to
obtain varieties of the tea plant, in a volume entitled
A Journey to the Tea Countries of China, which is
interesting for its notices of Chinese character and
natural products, as well as for the information it
affords of what progress the East India Company are
really making with their tea-plantations in the Himalaya
mountains. Mr. Day has given to the world two
volumes on a Five Years' Residence in the West Indies,
noticeable chiefly for the cordial abuse they pour out on
every class in those islands,—gentry, doctors, divines,
lawyers, whites, creoles, mulattoes, negroes,—on which
latter race, in especial, Mr. Day lays all his blacking.
Madame Pfeiffer, a German lady who made circuit of the
world the other day, has written a volume on Iceland,
and Travels in Sweden and Norway. Mr. Bonomi has
collected into a compact and well-illustrated volume
a number of such notices of the discoveries of Botta
and Layard as are most applicable to the elucidation of
Scripture history, under the title of Nineveh and its
Palaces. The widow of a French physician who had
emigrated to Algeria, has published a Residence in
Algeria to show how unfit for all purposes of emigrants
is that ill-managed colony; and from Mr. William
Curtis, a roving American, we have a lightly-written
cheerful volume called The Wanderer in Syria.

Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy are
a fresh contribution to that science, by Mr. Senior, which
all thinkers will receive with respect. Mr. Hill Burton
has selected a number of Narratives from Criminal
Trials in Scotland, of which the design is equally to
interest the general reader by their curious details, and to
give employment to the more reflective and philosophical
by their illustrations of history, society, and manners. An
anonymous writer has made public, in a thin octavo,
containing ten imaginary dialogues, to which he gives the title
of Alastor, or the New Ptolemy, some new and startling
speculations on electro-magnetism, in which he appears to
think that he has found a solution for the mysteries and
forces of nature, which the Newtons and the Herschels
had missed. One of the commissioners under the act
for the regulation of employment in mines, Mr. Tremenheere,
has published Notes on Public Subjects, made
during a Tour in the United States and in Canada,
relating chiefly to education, voting, and the present
condition of the English North American colonies. The
latter he holds to be most encouraging and satisfactory.

Mr. Peter Cunningham has related and collected, in
an elegant and entertaining volume, the Story of Nell
Gwyn, and the Sayings of Charles the Second. In two
duodecimos, the Poetical Works of David M. Moir (the
Delta of Blackwood's Magazine) have been collected and
edited, with a brief memoir, by Mr. Aird. With the
title of the Eclipse of Faith, or a Visit to a Religious
Sceptic, we have an argument for faith in revelation
under the guise of a quasi-theological fiction, of which
the design appears to be to exhibit the impossibility of
believing that the Scripture evidences are impossible
of belief. A Guide to English Composition is an
attempt to teach boys, what perhaps only nature and
habit can be expected to teach them effectually, how
to write English themes and essays.

Kossuth's late aide-de-camp, Sigismund Wekey, has
published a very interesting Grammar of the Hungarian
Language, the first that has been written in English,
containing a clear and simple exposition of the structure
and principles of the language, appropriate exercises,
a copious vocabulary, and curious specimens (with
translations) of Hungarian poetry. A translation into
English by several learned American scholars, in one
large volume, of the celebrated Lexicon of Dr. William
Freund, has been re-issued from the American stereotype
plates with the title of A Copious and Critical
Latin-English Lexicon, edited by Dr. E. A. Andrews,
and containing additions and corrections from other
famous lexicographers and philologists.

The novelties in the department of fiction are a
novel called the Melvilles, by the author of 'John
Drayton;' another by Mrs. Margaret Sunniside's
biographer, called Adam Graeme of Mossgray; a third,
Aurelia, descriptive of social life in Italy; and a
fourth, The School for Fathers, of which the period is
laid in the days of red-heels and periwigs.

The two Italian Opera-houses re-opened after Easter;
but neither has as yet produced any remarkable
novelty, except Donizetti's opera, I Martiri, which has
been performed with success at Covent Garden. The
possession of Mademoiselle Johanna Wagner, as will be
seen from our narrative of law, is a subject of dispute
between the two theatres, the fair prima donna having
involved herself in engagements with both.

The only English theatrical novelty of the slightest
moment has been a three-act comedy, called Mind
your own Business, by Mr. Mark Lemon, and performed
with great applause at the Haymarket.