her evaporated with the heat, and the sun, rising clear
and cloudless, formed a perfect rainbow out of the mist
from the ship. At nine o'clock she had burnt to the
water's edge. It is estimated that the total value of the
property destroyed by this fire is 940,000 dollars; of
which 735,000 dollars' worth are insured. The
destruction of the Great Republic is regarded as a national
calamity. She was quite new, and loading for her first
trip.

A lady in Virginia has been convicted of the crime of
teaching negro children to read and write, and sentenced
to six months' imprisonment. Information having
been received by the Mayor of Norfolk of a school for
the education of blacks being in successful operation
in that city, under the superintendence of Mrs. Douglas, a
warrant was immediately issued; and on repairing to
the residence of Mrs. Douglas the officers found some
eighteen or twenty black children engaged in literary
pursuits, all of whom, with their teacher, Mrs. Douglas,
and her daughter, were taken into custody. At the
meeting of the Grand Jury a true bill was found against
Mrs. Douglas. On the part of the defence, the lady
examined several gentlemen, members of the Church,
for the purpose of showing that the practice of teaching
blacks prevailed in the different Churches in the city,
which had Sunday Schools exclusively for that purpose.
It did not appear from the evidence that they had
actually seen negroes taught from books in any of the
Sunday schools; but the facts stated by them, that
nearly all the negroes attending the Sunday schools
could read (says the editor), 'gave rise to a violent
suspicion that many of the ladies and gentlemen of our
city, moving in the higher circles of society, had been
guilty of as flagrant a violation of the law as could
be imputed to Mrs. Douglas and her daughter.' At the
conclusion of the evidence Mrs. Douglas made her
appeal to the jury. She disdained to deny the charge
made against her, but gloried in the philanthropic duties
in which she had been engaged, at the same time
denying any knowledge of the existing laws upon the
subject, and expressing her confidence that the jury
would not pronounce her guilty. The attorney for the
commonwealth having replied, and the jury being
unable to agree, the case was adjourned till the next
morning, when the jury found the defendant guilty,
and fined her one dollar. The judge has since sentenced
her to six months' imprisonment, being the shortest
period allowed by the law.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

THE new books of the past month, which it would be
difficult to arrange in any other than the order of their
appearance, have comprised a high-class School History
of Greece to the Roman Conquest by Doctor William
Smith, drawn up from the latest authorities, and most
pleasingly illustrated; a third edition of Larpent's
Private Journal; a story somewhat strikingly depicting
colonial slave life, edited by Mrs. Jameson, called the
Slave Son; the appearance, in Routledge's eighteen-
penny Railway Library, of the first of Sir Edward Bulwer
Lytton's series of novels and romances; a little volume
on Memorable Women by Mrs. Newton Crosland; the
Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, drawn
by the witty and fanciful pencil of Richard Doyle; a
volume by Lieut.-Col. A. Cotton on Public Works in
India; the first half-crown volume of Mr. Robert Bell's
Annotated Edition of the English Poets; the
commencement of a newly-illustrated cheap edition of
Thiers's History of the French Revolution; a collection
by Ludwig Bechstein of popular German legends, with
the title of the Old Story Teller; a volume by Mr. Finlay
Dun on Veterinary Medicines, their actions and uses;
a translation, by the author of Emilia Wyndham, of
The Song of Roland, as chaunted before the Battle of
Hastings, by the minstrel Taillefer; Two Prize Essays
on Juvenile Delinquency, elicited by a prize very
liberally offered by Lady Noel Byron; a volume on the
fortunes of Christianity in China, The Cross and the
Dragon, comprising notices of the missions that have at
various times gone out there; a new poem called Balder,
by the author of a poem (The Roman) which attracted
attention some year or two back; a fourth edition of
Mr. Phillips's excellent Guide to Geology; an elementary
treatise, by Hugo Reid, on the Principles of
Education; a remarkable report, drawn with great
labour and ingenuity from the tables of the census, on
the Statistics of Religious Worship in England and
Wales; two large and well-illustrated volumes of
Scandinavian Adventures, by Mr. Lloyd, describing the
residence of a skilful naturalist and sportsman for
upwards of twenty years in that interesting region;
commencements of new editions of Miss Strickland's
Lives of the Queens, and of Evelyn's Diary and
Correspondence; the first shilling volume of Mr. Charles
Knight's Stratford Shakspere, containing his animated
sketch of the poet's life; the conclusion of the
illustrated edition of Pope's Works, by Mr. R. Carruthers;
a small volume descriptive of a journey into Sweden a
year and a half ago, by Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, with the
title of A Brage Breaker with the Swedes; a prettily
illustrated edition of a very popular German book,
Krummacher's Parables; the fourth volume of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton's Poetical and Dramatic Works,
including the least popular and most popular of his
plays; a Defence of the Eclipse of Faith, being a
rejoinder by the author of that book to Professor Newman's
notice of it when first published; the commencement of
Mr. Murray's proposed series of BRITISH CLASSICS, or
handsome yet cheap library editions of standard
authors, containing the first volume of a new and careful
edition of Goldsmith's Works edited by Mr. Peter
Cunningham; a translation into literal English blank
verse, by Mr. Frederick Pollock, of Dante's Divine
Comedy, with illustrations by Mr. George Scharf; a tale
called Hester and Elinor; a useful School Elements of
Physical and Classical Geography, by Professor Pillans
of Edinburgh; the commencement of a series of cheap
and popular weekly expositions of scientific subjects,
entitled the Museum of Science and Art, under Doctor
Lardner's editorship; a small volume of Illustrations of
Scripture from Botanical Science, by David Gorrie; the
publication, in Bohn's Libraries, of a volume of Goethe's
Minor Novels and Tales, of Hurd's edition of Addison,
and of Mrs. Howitt's Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons;
a little story called The Little Duke, by the author of
the "Heir of Redcliffe;" two novels, Mabel, by Emma
Warburton, and Florence the Beautiful, by Mr.
Baillie Cochrane; a collection of Mr. John Roby's
Legendary and Poetical Remains; a second volume of
Lord Holland's Memoirs of the Whig Party during my
Time; Wanderings of an Antiquary, by Mr. Thomas
Wright, chiefly on the traces of the Romans in Britain;
a little child's book of practical lessons drawn from the
lives of good men, called Sunlight through the Mist;
a timely little description of the Russians of the
South, by Mr. Shirley Brooks, in Messrs. Longman's
Travellers' Library; a family history of Rome by Miss
Jane Strickland, with the title of Rome Regal and
Republican; a complete and illustrated edition of M.
de la Gironière's Twenty Years in the Philippines; a
volume by Doctor Payne Cotton on the Nature,
Symptoms, and Treatment of Consumption; an Essay,
drawn up by practical engineers, on the Steam Engine
for Practical Men; an illustrated edition, by Mr. Aris
Willmott, of the Works of George Herbert; an edition,
also prettily illustrated, of that charming book White's
Natural History of Selborne, with additional Notes by
the Rev. J. G. Wood; an Essay, by the head master of
Winchester School, on the Law of the Love of God; a
new edition, with original extracts from the diary of a
Silesian knight of the 16th century, of Mrs. Percy
Sinnett's Byeways of History; Reminiscences of a
Huntsman, by Mr. Grantley Berkeley; the London
University Calendar for 1854; and a new History of
Yucatan, by Major Fancourt, from its discovery to the
close of the seventeenth century.