all that they possessed to the hands of strangers, and
have arrived at Sendestad, stripped of their all.

The Milan Gazette of the 20th publishes a proclamation
from Marshal Radetzky, announcing that the
Emperor of Austria, considering that the persons most
compromised as chiefs in the prosecution for high treason
at Mantua have suffered already the punishment they
deserved, has resolved to relinquish the prosecution, and
to grant to all the other persons compromised, under
whatever charge, a full and entire reprieve from the
sentences which they have incurred, without any
distinction, provided that they were then under arrest, and
excepting only the refugees en contumace.

The island of Sicily is in a very disturbed state.
Accounts from Palermo state that the police authorities
declare that a wide-spread conspiracy exists throughout
the island. More than 100 persons of respectability have
been thrown into prison, and the greatest alarm exists in
all classes of society. Military commissions are forming,
with extraordinary powers; and the garrisons of Palermo,
Messina, and Catania are kept on siege duty. An order
has appeared obliging all students to leave Naples within
twenty-four hours. The town is to be placed under
military authority.

The last accounts from Constantinople lessen the
apprehensions of a rupture between Turkey and Russia.
On the 13th inst. Prince Menschikoff had his first
audience of the Sultan, and all passed off in the most
friendly manner.

The dates from New York are to the 13th instant.
President Pierce delivered his inaugural address at
Washington on the 4th. The new cabinet is thus
composed: Mr. Marcy, of the State of New York, Secretary
of State; Mr. Caleb Cushing, who was a military
comrade of the President in Mexico, and is now a judge
in Massachusetts, Attorney-General; Mr. Guthrie, of
Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. Jefferson
Davis, another Mexican officer, Secretary at War; Mr.
Dobbin, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy;
Mr. M'Clelland, Governor of Michigan, Secretary of the
Interior; Mr. Campbell, of Pennsylvania, Postmaster-
General. These gentlemen are highly spoken of both
for their abilities and integrity; all are distinguished in
the Democratic party.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART

SEVERAL miscellaneous publications of the past month
have possessed great interest. A posthumous Private
Journal of F. S. Larpent, Esq., who was attached as
judge-advocate to Lord Wellington's head-quarters
during the last two years of the Peninsular war, who
witnessed the battles of Vittoria and Toulouse, was for
a short time prisoner to the French, and had intimate
opportunities of observing the habits and manners of
our great military chief, has given us a picture of
Wellington more striking as well as pleasing, because
taken by one to whom he was not sitting for his picture,
than any we have had. Mr. Layard has published, in a
noble volume full of learning, adventure, character, and
descriptive power, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh
and Babylon, being the result of a second expedition.
Professor Newman, of University College, has translated
into unrhymed metres The Odes of Horace, in which,
though it is impossible ever to hope to naturalise such
forms of verse to the English tongue, the delightful old
Latin poet is made sufficiently intelligible to those who
know nothing of his language; and, even for those who
do, the information as to his personal history, and the
circumstances in which his writings were composed, is
most curious and ample. Mr. Kennedy has judiciously
compressed into one small volume a Narrative of the
Second Voyage of the Prince Albert in Search of Sir
John Franklin. Mr. Henry Shaw has published a
Hand-book of Mediæval Alphabets and Devices, in
which the rich treasures of his more gorgeous work on
that subject are popularised and made accessible. A
touching and impressive memorial of one of the last of
our heroic travellers in Africa (unhappily not the
last, for even since his death, two years ago, another
has been added to the illustrious list headed by the
names of Park and Clapperton), has been made in a
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa in 1850-1
by the late James Richardson. Mr. Horace St. John has
compiled a History of the Indian Archipelago. Colonel
Mure has added a fourth volume, occupied chiefly with
Herodotus and his writings, to his History of the
Language and Literature of Ancient Greece. Lord Grey
has published, in a series of letters to the Prime Mini-
ster under whom he directed the Colonial Office, a
defence of The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's
Administration. Mr. and Mrs. Pulzsky, have favoured
the world with their Sketches of Society in the United
States, to which they prefix the not very intelligible
title of White Red Black. Mr. George Campbell has
enlarged into a bulky octavo the contents of some
pamphlets he had directed against abuses existing in the
government of India, under the title of India as it May
Be. Mr. Cayley has made another step to the completion
of his proposed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy,
in the metre of the original, by issuing his version of
the Purgatory. The first huge volume of a very elaborate
treatise on practical horticulture, called the Book
of the Garden, has been put forth, with no less than a
thousand and seventy illustrations, by Mr. Charles
McIntosh. A book of travels, comprising the Narrative
of a Journey Round the World which occupied five years,
and not the least attractive part of which relates to South
Australia, California, and Australia, has been translated
from the German of the traveller, Mr. F. Gerstaecker.
And Mrs. Stowe has published, in A Key to
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a most impressive and sufficing
answer to those who had accused her of exaggeration
and falsehood in her world-famous book.

To this list we have to add one of other books of less
importance, but some of them not uninteresting. Among
these minor births of the last month have been An
Englishwoman's Experience of America, a sensible and
entertaining little volume; an abridgment (a very tiny
but pretty pamphlet) of the Bishop of Oxford's edition
of Evelyn's Saintly Life of Mrs. Margaret Godolphin;
a small volume of poetry, Tamerton Church Tower,
and other poems, in which Mr. Coventry Patmore has
placed beside his new verses carefully corrected copies of
the best of his old ones; the second and concluding part
of Mr. Samuel Warren's Law and Practice of Election
Committees; three novels, entitled respectively, Harry
Muir, Nelly Armstrong, and the Longwoods of the
Grange; some additions to Mr. Bohn's various Libraries,
to the Messrs. Chambers's Tracts and Miscellanies, to
Messrs. Ingram & Cooke's Universal and Illustrated
Libraries, to Mr. Routledge's Popular Library, to
Murray's Railway Reading, to Chapman and Hall's
Reading for Travellers, and to Longman's Railway
Library; a cheap edition of Mr. Thackeray's Vanity
Fair; a pleasing little volume called Life by the Fireside;
a volume by Doctor Ihne, of Liverpool, of Researches
into the History of the Roman Constitution;
a fanciful little book by Hans Christian Andersen, of
A Poet's Day Dreams; a supposed autobiography of a
journeyman printer, under the title of The Working-
man's Way in the World; and finally a translation, by
Mrs. Percy Sinnett, of M. Von Rochau's Wanderings
through the Cities of Italy in 1850 and 1851.

Pamphlet literature has also supplied us with several
additional tracts on Indian affairs, with a couple of
replies to Mr. Cobden's disquisition on the relations of
England and France, with sundry anticipations of the
coming Budget, with plentiful considerations for and
against the claims of the Jew to sit in parliament, with
sensible arguments for a Colonial penny postage, with
information from the continent on modes of Industrial
Instruction, and with views of the most opposite
character as to the claims and probable fate of the now
reeling Ottoman Empire.