—though to some of them, who had never before seen
the ocean, the discomfort must have been considerable.
The English sailors extended their hands to the French
infantry to help them on board our vessels of war; and
excited by the high spirits of the "Mounseers," their
national antipathies were fairly overcome, and they
cheered the troops most heartily. The French soldiers
returned the compliment with an energy that astonished
the British tars. The embarkation of troops and stores
was continued for several subsequent days.

A military insurrection has broken out in Spain,
which, though at first it appeared unsuccessful, now
promises to terminate in the subversion of the unpopular
government. It began on the 28th ult., at Madrid, when
a large body of troops, under Generals O'Donnell, Dulce,
and others, assembled. The leaders issued a proclamation,
admitting the Queen's sovereignty, but calling
on the people and the army to put an end to the reign
of tyranny and immorality. The Queen put herself at
the head of the garrison of Madrid, and some fighting
took place, with loss on both sides. The insurgents left
the capital, and retired upon Toledo, followed by a
superior royal force. But affairs took a new turn; the
insurrection spread to Barcelona, and other important
places; the popular cause gained the ascendancy in
Madrid, and Espartero, who was living in retirement in
the country, was summoned by the Queen to form a new
ministry. The announcement of this measure has tended
to calm the popular excitement, and tranquillity for
the present has been restored.

Accounts from St. Petersburg state that more than
three hundred young men, nobles, students, and
merchants, have been arrested. They have been told that
there is no charge against them; but that their opinions
were known, and that the government was resolved to
omit no salutary precaution. Some explosion of
popular discontent is apprehended. The Russian
government carries out a system of forced loans, in a
manner not gratifying to its subjects. General Rudiger,
the commander-in-chief of Poland, has intimated to the
ecclesiastical authorities, that it would please him
greatly if they would lend him hard cash, gold and
silver ornaments, and jewels, "to be restored at the end
of the war." The mode of contracting a loan is to fill a
church or convent with soldiers, and take with due
form what can be got. The towns have also been
forced to pay a fixed assessment.

Abbas Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt, died on the 14th
July, of apoplexy. Said Pacha immediately assumed
the government. The son of Abbas Pacha, who was at
Malta, when tidings of his father's death reached that
island, at once left with his suite for Alexandria. That
capital was tranquil on the 19th.

The intelligence from the United States is not of political
importance. The cholera had broken out at New
York. Madame Anna Thillon and Madame Maretzek
were suffering from slight attacks, and the opera had
been closed in consequence. The authorities had
marked their sense of the alarming progress of the
disease by issuing the usual notice of its prevalence. At
Boston, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, the epidemic was
extending; 207 deaths in a week had occurred at St.
Louis. The commercial circles at New York had been
shocked by the discovery that Mr. Schuyler, President
of the New York and New Haven Railroad, had over-
issued nearly two millions of dollars of stock. It is
surmised that he intended to make it good, but
that the tightness of the money-market prevented
him from so doing. It is not yet clear whether the
directors were not cognisant of this fraudulent
transaction. Mr. Schuyler was well known in London,
Paris, and the commercial capitals of Germany. He
had made an assignment of his property; and the
company is liable for the redemption of every dollar of the
hypothecated stock,—much of which, it is said, is
circulating in England.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

THE past month has been more than usually barren
of new publications of any mark or prominence. Old
books reappear in new and cheaper editions, but, with the
exception of an occasional contribution derived from
America, a new book is fast becoming a great rarity in
"the Row."

Our present list will soon be told out. It comprises
a third volume of Mr. Bancroft's History of the American
Revolution; a new volume, by Mr. S. Hill, of Travels
on the Shores of the Baltic, extended to Moscow; a
collection of Lettsomian Lectures on Insanity, by Doctor
Forbes Winslow; a narrative, by General Sir H. Bunbury,
of Some Passages in the War with France from
1799 to 1810; a History of the Papacy to the Period of
the Reformation, by the Rev. J. E. Riddle; a journal,
by Lieut.-Col. Stuart, of a Residence in Northern
Prussia and the Adjacent Provinces of Turkey; a new
translation, by Mr. Scoble, with important corrections by
the author himself, of M. Guizot's History of Charles the
First and the English Revolution; a translation, also
from the French, of a very pretty and graceful
treatise by M. Rio on The Poetry of Christian
Art; a volume of researches in ethnology, made
chiefly by an American physician now dead, but very
ably edited by Doctor Nott and Mr. Gliddon, called
Types of Mankind; the seventh and last volume of
Lord Mahon's History of England, closing at the Peace
of Versailles in 1783; a volume on Church Patronage,
considered in connection with the offence of Simony; a
treatise, by Mr. Tate, on the Philosophy of Education;
a Handbook to the Peak of Derbyshire and to the use of
the Buxton mineral waters, by Doctor Robertson;
several additions to Mr. Bohn's libraries, but none of them
comprising new books, with the exception of the volume
of Hungary and its Revolutions, which contains a very
full memoir of Kossuth; some letters of An American,
edited by Mr. Walter Savage Landor; a volume, by
Mr. Hannay, of Lectures on Satire and Satirists; a
treatise on Sound and its Phenomena, by Doctor
Brewer; a Military Tour in European Turkey, by
Major-General A. F. Macintosh; a volume, by Doctor
Granville, on Sudden Death; a collection of remarks
printed from the papers left by the late Sydney
Walker, on Shakespeare's Versification; some
interesting antiquarian collections, by the Rev.
Joseph Hunter, concerning the The Founders of New
Plymouth, the parent-colony of New England; two
octavo volumes of scriptural comment, by Mr. William
Atkinson, published with the title of The Church; two
volumes of Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, by
Mrs. Beecher Stowe; a reprint of the papers in Household
Words written by a Roving Englishman; a translation,
by Marian Evans, of Fauerbach's Essence of
Christianity; two volumes, for the use of invalids in
search of milder climates, on Malaga and Nice, by Mr.
Edwin Lee; a collection of the Dramatic Works of
Mary Russell Mitford; a second edition, greatly
enlarged, of the Life of Bishop Ken published by Mr.
Murray; an account of Utah and the Mormons, by the
late secretary of the Utah territory; two volumes of
French history on the Reigns of Louis XVIII., and
Charles X., by Mr. E. E. Crowe; and three works
by the Chevalier Bunsen (his legacy on that departure
from residence amongst us which all intelligent Englishmen
deplore), comprising a new edition of Hippolytus
and his Age, three volumes of Analecta Ante-Nicœna,
and two of Outlines of the Philosophy of Universal
History applied to Language and Religion.

The principal new novels have been Crewe-Rise, in
three volumes; Matrimonial Shipwrecks, in two;
Lewell Pastures, also in two; and three volumes by
Mrs. Trollope, of the Life and Adventures of a Clever
Woman.