in fiery outlines. The avenue of the Champs Elysée
looked like an interminable ball-room. The garden of
the Tuileries and the Place de la Concorde were full of
light. Nearly a million lamps were blazing altogether.
All the reports speak of the scene as unexampled.
Later in the evening, some very grand fireworks were
exhibited at the Invalides. The chief piece, however,
was the "apotheosis" of Napoleon the Great; who
stood in Imperial robes with his feet on the globe, amid
the fiery columns of a gigantic temple of Immortality.
Some idea may be formed of the scale of this piece by
the fact that the figure of Napoleon was sixty feet high.
The scene closed with the sudden illumination of the
dome of the Invalids with red Bengal lights. It has
been remarked that everywhere the fête was for the
people. Neither in the theatres, nor in the Champ
de Mars, nor at the boat-races, nor at the fireworks,
were any places reserved. This is the first time
of such an occurrence even in the annals of Paris.
The Emperor and Empress left Paris for Dieppe on the
17th, intending to stay at that watering-place for a
fortnight. A full and complete amnesty is granted to
all the National Guard in France, for all offences
against discipline, or in respect of any sentence of the
correctional police. Five hundred and four soldiers
under sentence in Africa to the "boulet" or hard labour
have the whole or part of their punishment remitted,
15 individuals having belonged to the army, and now
in central prisons, and 327 others in penitentiaries or
military prisons in France or Algeria, are also pardoned
wholly or in part. The Moniteur announces that other
propositions for pardons to individuals of the above class,
as well as to persons sentenced by courts-martial for
insurrectionary acts, will shortly be submitted to his
Majesty.

An alarm of a revolutionary demonstration at Rome
has been followed by a great number of arrests. The
movement was expected to take place on the evening of the
15th, when the Piazza Colonna would be crowded with
people to witness the illumination of the French Casino,
and to listen to the music in honour of the Emperor
Napoleon's festival. The vigilance of the police
prevented any such attempt from taking place, and on the
night of the 14th the principal leaders of the intended
movement were arrested and conducted to prison, to the
number, hitherto, of twenty-nine persons, almost
exclusively Romans, or belonging to the Roman States.
Of these the principal is the advocate Petroni of
Bologna, formerly president of the Mazzinian Committee
in Rome. Amongst the other persons arrested are
Signor Ruiz, the first computista or accountant in Rome,
together with his sister, the government being resolved
not to except the softer sex from the rigours of a political
prison; Castellani, son of the well-known jeweller
in the Corso; Casciani, son of Major Casciani of the
Palatine Guard; Pretti, clerk in an assurance office;
Taddei, mosaicist; Cocchi, idem. Some of the Genoese
emissaries were also found in this man's house, in the
Borgo, near the Vatican; Francois, clerk in the salt
and tobacco office; Guglielmetti, baker, and several
more shopkeepers; but it is expected that revelations
will now be extorted day by day from these prisoners
sufficient to warrant the arrest and persecution of
hundreds more throughout the state.

The marriage of the Duke of Brabant, the eldest son
of the king of the Belgians, to the Archduchess Maria
Henrietta, of Austria, was celebrated at Brussels on
the 22nd inst. The princess had previously been married
by proxy at Vienna.

The advices from New York are to the 10th instant.
They contain no political news of importance. The yellow
fever continues to rage dreadfully at New Orleans, and
has also appeared at Mobile. Accounts from the Great
Salt Lake describe the Mormon Settlement as prospering.
Chief Justice Reed had arrived at the Great Salt Lake
city, on the 5th of June, and took the oath of office,
administered by Brigham Young in person.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

The month which generally is one of the dullest of
the literary year, has not been at all enlivened in the
present year by the number or character of the books
that have appeared in it. The very few that may
claim mention are of the most miscellaneous kind,
and none have possessed so much interest as the
translation of an enthusiastic Frenchman's volumes
on Louis XVII. and the Captivity of the Royal
Family in the first revolution. The appearance
of this book, and the sensation it has made in Paris,
may serve to mark the strange re-action since the
time, so little distant, when Lamartine's Girondins
excited a similar (yet how different!) storm of sympathy.
The second volume of the new edition of the Encyclopædia
Britannica has been completed. Mr. Hannay has
collected some magazine and other papers, chiefly
nautical, under the title of Sketches in Ultra-Marine.
Mr. Austin and Mr. Ralph have compiled in a single
volume brief outlines of Lives of the Poets Laureate.
Mr. Albert Smith has told in print, what he has told to
so many audiences vivá voce, his Story of Mont Blanc.
Mr. Robert Carruthers has put together a very agreeable
and well-informed Memoir of Pope, for the National
Illustrated Library. Doctor Lyman Beecher, the
brother of Mrs. Stowe, has collected a volume full
of Lectures on Intemperance; and another brother
of the same lady, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
has done the same by certain lectures of his to
young men on The Vices. Mrs. Moodie has
pourtrayed Life in the Clearings as a contracted
companion to her less agreeable Roughing it in the Bush.
Mrs. Colin Mackenzie has published her journal and
letters during a six years' residence in India, with the
title of Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana.
Mrs. Percy Sinnett has written a Child's History of the
World. Mr. David Urquhart has explained his views
of the Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South,
which have only reference however to recent events in
so far as these have been governed by traditional Russian
policy. Mr. John Sherer has described his experiences
as a Gold Finder in Australia, which are illustrated as
abundantly by the pencil as the pen. Mr. Eyre Evans
Crowe has written a mixed volume of travel and politics
called The Greek and the Turk, or Powers and Prospects
in the Levant. Mr John Francis Maguire, M.P. has
devoted a useful practical volume to the Industrial
Movement in Ireland as Illustrated by the National
Exhibition of 1852; and Mr. W. B. Webster has in
a somewhat similar volume treated Ireland as a
Field for Investment or Residence. Of books more
immediately suggested by the season, a handsome
volume descriptive of A Summer at Baden-Baden
with illustrations by Tony Johannot and other French
artists, an Antiquarian Guide to Killarney, and
another of Mr. Murray's Hand Books for Travellers,
of which the subject is Southern Italy and Naples,
may be singled out. To the Messrs. Longman's
Travellers' Library additions have been made of a
popular disquisition on Turkey and Christendom,
and of a translation from Emile Souvestre of the
Confessions of a Working Man. Three importations
from America deserve also to be named; Mr. Tuckerman's
Mental Portraits or Studies of Character,
sketches of life and scenery from The Old House by the
River, and a wonder-book for children by Mr. Hawthorne,
called Tanglewood Tales. Our brief summary closes
with the mention of another translation from the French
which, under the title of Private Trials and Public
Calamities, describes the early life of a Frenchwoman
of noble family during the troubles of the first revolution;
and of two English stories, Charles Auchester
and Christie Johnstone, the former in three volumes,
and the latter (which is by the author of Peg Woffington)
in one.