Spanish consul to return to New Orleans; to bring him
in a national vessel, and to salute the Spanish flag over
him; and, farther, to restore the value of the property
of the consul, and of the Spanish citizens of New
Orleans, which was destroyed by the rioters. In case
this proposition should be rejected, the minister was
instructed to demand his passports and return.

The expected arrival of Kossuth appears to create
general interest.

There are advices from Buenos Ayres to the 5th of
September. The most intense excitement prevailed as
to the progress of the war. It appears that Urquiza
and the Brazilians have made a junction, and that the
Buenos Ayrean General had lost 6000 horses and the
baggage and artillery of one of the divisions without
the firing of a gun. Oribe, driven to extremities, had
requested the French Admiral to receive on board his
vessels the Argentine troops, and convey them to
Buenos Ayres. This was refused, and all the Oriental
troops of Oribe's army have deserted, and even the
Argentine troops refuse to fight, saying that they
have had enough of it. The French and English
admirals, after a conference, declared that they should
not interfere, and it was feared that Buenos Ayres
might be blockaded.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

AN important step has at last been taken in the direction of international copyright. A treaty has been
signed between this country and France, which will extend its protection to all books, dramatic pieces,
musical compositions, designs, paintings, sculpture and other artistic works, produced in either country
after the present date. By this treaty all piracy in either country against the subjects of the other is
absolutely prohibited; the importation, from other countries, of the piracies of the works of either country,
is guarded against; and translations of original works published in either country, when made on account of
or by the author, as well as translations, in either language, of works published in other countries, are
proposed to be protected. The movement is said to have originated with the French, who, in these matters,
suffer from their Belgian neighbours much more even than Englishmen from their transatlantic cousins; and
who are now also bestirring themselves in equal earnest, and not less successfully, with Berlin and Hanover,
and with Portugal, Spain, and Sardinia, in the hope of shaming Belgium at last into a place in the honest
confederacy. Englishmen have, of course, the same motive to exert themselves in regard to America, but
it is to be feared that the government of the Union is subject to influences which will prove stronger than
either the wisdom of her statesmen, or the interest of her more intelligent citizens. Still, the arrangement
which has just been made is the most decisive attempt to advance this great question which we have yet
been called upon to record, and it would be difficult in that sense to overrate its importance.

In the department of general literature we have had
some interesting publications during the past month.
Sir James Stephen has collected his first two courses
of Cambridge Lectures, delivered in his office of
Professor of Modern History. The subject chosen is
the History of France; the transition from feudal to
absolute monarchy being traced out in the first course,
while the second exhibits the peculiarities which
attended the administration of that monarchy. Mr.
Edward Arthur Litton has published a volume with
considerable claims to attention on The Church of Christ,
having particular reference to the controversy on the
subject between Romanists and Protestants. The
object of this book is to explain, at once with learning
that shall satisfy the scholar and so popularly as to suit
the general reader, the fundamental differences between
Romanism and Protestantism as opposite systems
of dogmatic theology. A smaller volume, by Mr. Isaac
Taylor, on Wesley and Methodism, a companion to the
same writer's book on Loyola and the Jesuits, will be
not less welcome to religious readers. We have also to
mention Mr. Anderson's interesting Reminiscences of
Doctor Chalmers; a book of curious political Notes and
reminiscences by an octogenarian baronet, Sir Robert
Heron; a volume of clever military criticism and
character on the Russian Suwarrow, by the late Major
Macready; a small volume on Elementary Physics by
Mr. Robert Hunt, of which the design is so far to give
accurate information on every important fact and
experimental inquiry connected with physics as to render
all its great deductions from observation and experiment
satisfactorily clear, without subjecting the reader
to the difficulty of mathematics; a condensed History
of British India by Mr. Mac Farlane, brought down to
the close of the last Sikh war; a much more important
work on a branch of the same subject, and which has
had the advantage of the best authority now attainable
in the papers of those who were chief actors in the
scenes it relates, entitled a History of the War in
Afghanistan, by Mr. Kaye; and finally, a new Translation
of Tasso, by the Rev. Mr. Lesingham Smith.

Sir John Richardson's Boat Voyage through Rupert
Land describes the result of his unsuccessful search for
his friend Sir John Franklin, and is of course a valuable
contribution to our knowledge of those coasts and
seas. Lieutenant Walpole has published his travels and
discoveries, some of which deserve to be called remarkable,
among the Ansayrii, or Assassins, the same book
including Travels in the further East, and a visit to
Nineveh. Upon the latter subject, Mr. Layard has
also popularised his own account of his researches by a
delightful condensation of his larger work on Nineveh.
Mr. Edmund Spencer has published his travels in
European Turkey, which contains a somewhat glowing
account of the rich resources of Servia as a field for
European emigration. And Mr. George Mely has presented
us with an account of Khartoum, a small Nubian
city built at the junction of the Blue and White Niles,
to which very few English travellers appear to have
hitherto found their way.

In the way of fiction, a small and thoughtful tale
called Visiting My Relations is worth mention. The
author of the Two Old Men's Tales has also added
Ravenscliffe to her now lengthy series of very earnest
novels and romances. To a new and promising story
teller we owe the Fair Carew; and from an old circulating–
library acquaintance, Miss Crumpe, we have
received another fiction of Irish history, under the title
of The Death Flag.

The Haymarket Theatre opened for the season, on
the 17th; and the Princess's on the 22nd inst. The
Haymarket continues to be to a considerable extent, an
English Opera-house, the musical strength of the
establishment has been increased, the principal singers being
Mr. Harrison, Mr. Weiss, Mr. Durand (a promising
debutant), Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Pyne, and Madame
Macfarren. The operas produced have been Macfarren's
King Charles the Second (a work which does honour
to the English School) and The Beggar's Opera. Mrs.
Sterling has proved very attractive as the heroine of The
Ladies' Battle, a version of Scribe's pleasant piece, Un
Duel en Amour; and a farce called The Two Bonny-
castles, by Morton, has been produced with immense
success. At the Princess's, Bartley has been performing
Falstaff in The First Part of King Henry IV., and in
The Merry Wives of Windsor.