only forced a passage, but completely beat our enemies."
After a short pause he added—"If it be the will of
God that our Prince of Peace shall be the Sovereign
of China, he will be the Sovereign of China; if not,
then we will die here." Nankin was occupied by the
insurgents, and well defended. The rebels were awaiting
reinforcements from the south before marching on
to Pekin. While returning from Nankin, Sir George's
ship, the Hermes, was by mistake fired on from a fort.
In all other respects these "Christians" treat foreigners
with great friendliness. Mr. Interpreter Meadows
met with no abuse in a ride of ten miles through the
midst of the rebels at Nankin. They are described
as regarding "foreign brethren" with a frank friendliness
difficult to comprehend in a Chinese; and in
their army moral duties are strictly enforced.

Advices from Havannah state that large numbers of
slaves still continued to be landed on the island of
Cuba. The number of slaves imported during the
present year were, in January, 640; February, 803;
March, 1820; April, 997; May, 2007; and June (in
fourteen days), 2732. The famous slaver. Lady Suffolk,
had arrived and landed 1160 slaves on the south coast.
She sailed from Africa with upwards of 1300 on board,
but the vessel was so crowded that they were glad to
throw the sickly and dead overboard. Upwards of 100
more died while marching from the place of
disembarkation to Julian Zulieta's estate. Advices from
Nassau, N.P., to the 28th of May, state that a slaver
had been captured a few days previous near Key Sal by
one of her Majesty's vessels. A Spanish slaver had
landed a cargo of 600 slaves near Matanzas.

     NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

At ordinary times this would be the most active
period of the publishing year, but, though a few
important books have appeared during the past month,
there has been no material interruption to the dulness
so long prevalent in Paternoster Row and elsewhere.
Indeed, the actual number of books issued has been
scantier than ever.

Mr. Forsyth has at last given to the world, in three
large octavos, that History of the Captivity of Napoleon
at St. Helena which has been for so many years
announced as in preparation from the papers of Sir Hudson
Lowe, and of which the principal (if not the sole) object
is, to clear the English Governor from undeserved abuse
heaped upon him by friends and advocates of his
world–famous captive. The defence comes somewhat
late in the day, but if it does not entirely clear the
reputation of Sir Hudson, it very convincingly exposes
the worthlessness of his chief assailant. In three
smaller volumes Mr. Tom Taylor has compiled and
edited, with great care and tact, from a large
autobiographical mass of papers, letters, and journals left
behind him by the unfortunate painter, a Life of
Benjamin Robert Haydon. Professor Browne of King's
College has published, in a companion volume to his
sketches of Greek authors, a History of Roman
Classical Literature. Mr. Bankes, the member for
Dorsetshire, has written a Story of Corfe Castle and of
Many who have lived there. The daughter of the good
Doctor Henry Bathurst has published a life and some
letters of her father in one very unpretending but very
interesting volume, entitled Memoirs and
Correspondence of Dr. Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich,
by Mrs. Thistlethwayte. Another lady's biography,
more ambitious in manner and less interesting in matter,
but at least of reasonable length, claims mention, as the
Life and Times of Madame de Stael, by Maria Norris.
Dr. Madden has written a new Life of Savonarola,
and Lord John Russell has given us a fourth edition of
his admirable Life of William Lord Russell, in one
compact and elegant volume, with a new letter from
the Barillon correspondence; those Paris archives which
were so resolutely closed to the noble biographer so
long as the old Bourbon dynasty kept the throne,
having been opened to him after the accession of Louis
Philippe.

A good translation has appeared of the recent and
very valuable Narrative of a Journey round the Dead
Sea and in the Bible Lands, by M. de Sauley of the
French Academy, who settles several disputed points in
the localities of New Testament history. A very
interesting selection has been made by Mr. Kaye from the
papers of Henry St. George Tucker, to which he gives
the title of Memorials of Indian Government. "A
lady" has published her Adventures in Tartary,
Thibet, China, and Kashmir; and "a gentleman" has
published his Adventures in Search of the Church of
England. A Railway Reader has put together a somewhat
useful Companion to the Railway Edition of Lord
Campbell's Life of Bacon, pointing out its extraordinary
errors; and with a repetition of his former title of
Meliora; or, Better Times to Come, Lord Ingestre has
collected a second series of papers on subjects of social and
sanitary reform. Lieutenant Hooper has described the
incidents of a very striking Arctic boat expedition in
search of Sir John Franklin, under the title of Ten
Months among the Tents of the Tuski. Mr. Lockhart
has contributed to Mr. Murray's Railway Reading a
new edition of his admirable Ancient Spanish Ballads,
and Mr. Robert Fergusson contributes to Messrs.
Longman's Railway Library a lively little tract of
travel on Swiss Men and Swiss Mountains. An
enthusiast in family and national lore has undertaken to
prove the Royal Descent of Nelson and Wellington
from Edward the First. An unauthorised edition of
Macaulay's Speeches has appeared in two octavo volumes.
Mr. James Augustus St. John has expounded what
he holds to be the true philosophy of travel, in a
series of impressions derived from experiences in Italy,
Greece, and Egypt, or, as he calls it. There and Back
again in Search of Beauty. His son, Mr. Bayle St.
John, has offered his solution of the Eastern question,
in a descriptive disquisition on The Turks in Europe,
of which the object is to show that they must shortly
yield and make room for a new Greek empire; and
the Rev. G. S. Faber has more decisively settled the
matter by adducing what he holds to be the infallible
authority of Scripture for The Downfall of Turkey and
the Return of the Ten Tribes. Lady Louisa Tennyson
has published in a handsome volume her experiences
of travel in Castile and Andalucia, very charmingly
illustrated with drawings in tinted lithography. Mr.
Fitzgerald has translated Six Dramas of Calderon;
Mr. Charles Macfarlane describes the Campat Chobham;
Mr. Csink has compiled a Complete Practical Grammar
of the Hungarian Language, to which he prefixes an
intelligent 'historical sketch of Hungarian literature;
and Mr. Ruskin has treated of what he calls the
"sea–stories" of Venetian history and architecture, in
a second volume of his Stones of Venice.

A mention of the most recent works of fiction will
complete our sketch of the leading publications of the
past month. The mysterious "Lord B" has
written another social romance on the very fertile
theme of Wealth and Labour. Mr. Felgate has translated
the Marquis d'Azeglio's novel of the Maid of
Florence. A niece of the late Duke of Wellington has
written Lady Marion, or a Sister's Son. From Mr. D.
T. Coulton we receive Fortune, a Romance of Life.
To "a distinguished writer" we are indebted for Charles
Delmer, a Story of the Day. The author of Rockingham
gives us another "story of modern times" under
that very ominous title of ancient times, Electra. Mr.
Talbot Gwynne has published a third of his single–
volume romances, calling it The Life and Death
of Silas Barnstarke. And (most welcome of our
announcements) Mr. George Cruikshank has commenced,
with a delightfully illustrated shilling edition of Hop
o' my Thumb and the Seven League Boots, a new and
complete FAIRY LIBRARY which is to profit by the best
exertions both of his pen and his pencil.