Major Allen, of the Madras service, will report on
military matters. Dr. Forsyth will make observations
and furnish a report on the physical geography of the
country. Professor Oldham, who has been directed to
join the mission, will report on the geological features,
military resources, and coal-mines of that region; and
Mr. Grant, an eminent artist, will take sketches of the
most interesting objects and localities. The mission will
be in every respect complete, and we shall probably
have a more correct knowledge of the country on the
Upper Irrawaddy than we have of many provinces
which have been half a century in our own possession.

The most important political intelligence from France
relates to the loan. The facility with which it has been
accomplished has excited general surprise. The sum
required was £30,000,000; the sum subscribed is no
less than £144,000, 000. The number of individual
subscribers is 310,000; and a third of the sum actually
required has been subscribed in small sums, of fifty
francs Rente, or a capital not exceeding £50. As a
tenth part of the whole sum tendered by subscription
was at once deposited by the public, no less than
£14,000,000 were paid into the Bank of France. But
as it is the policy of the government to accept all tenders
for less than 50 francs Rente in full, and to complete
the loan by a rateable proportion on the larger sums, a
large portion of the deposit will be returned. Nearly
£40,000,000 were subscribed in the departments; and
£24,000,000 in foreign countries.

At Naples, the administration of the government is
getting more and more tyrannical. A merchant of the
city who was guilty of some disrespectful observations
upon the police and of resisting its agents—an offence
for which the severest sentence in any other country
would have been forty-eight hours' imprisonment—was
lately sentenced to receive "100 blows from a stick."

On the 22d July, De Cesare, lately deputy to the
Neapolitan parliament, died, and a crowd of friends
publicly attended his funeral. The police were furious.
The canon who read the service, and several noblemen
and gentlemen who followed the coffin, were banished
from Naples, and others from their estates. The
punishment of the stick is in vigorous operation.

"The present," says a correspondent of the Times,
"is a time in which the most savage and brutal excesses
are committed; the common humanities of life are
violated, the privacy of families invaded; men are
treated like beasts, imprisoned, flogged, and knocked
down in the street, whence they are hurried off to a
hospital and thence to prison, and my great fear is that
the people may be goaded into acts which the more
prudent do all in their power to prevent. I sometimes
ask myself, too, are the police authorities secret enemies
of the King, attempting to undermine his power? If
so, they are doing their bidding well."

Advices from Madeira give an unsatisfactory account
of the prospects of that island. The vine, it is said, may
now be considered as almost completely gone. The
disease continues, and more than half the vines are
dead and rooted out. No wine has been made for
three years, and there will be none this. Attempts
are in progress to introduce the sugarcane as a substitute
for the vine, but it is believed by many that only the
lower grounds suit it, and that it will be impossible to
compete in point of price with Brazil, Cuba, or the
West Indies.

The advices from the United States are to the 16th inst.

At Louisville election, which took place on the 7th,
there were great riots. There were several persons shot,
and twelve houses burnt.

The Mormons in the valley of the Great Salt Lake
were anticipating a famine. All the crops were being
devoured by insects, and flour was very scarce at the
price of six dollars per 100 lbs. A person of the name
of Young, who has commenced lectures among the
Mormons, advises his brethren to take short excursions
throughout the country with their families. This
Mormon acknowledges to the possession of ninety wives
and a multitude of children.

At Buffalo, persons charged with enlisting recruits
for the British Foreign Legion had been committed to
prison in default of bail.

Five men were Drowned in Niagara Falls. They
were rowing a boat, when one of the oars snapped,
leaving them helpless. The boat was carried down the
stream into the whirlpool and broken to pieces.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART

New books are never abundant in the summer
vacation, but within our remembrance we can recall
no list so scanty as that of the past month. The
Poet Laureate has published Maud and other Poems;
the war-letters of the correspondent of the Times have
been republished in a volume, with the title of The
War from the Landing at Gallipoli to the Death of
Lord Raglan; Mr. Forester has filled a portion of the
Travellers' Library with Rambles in Norway; Mr. Bell
has issued the first volume of an edition of Butler in his
Annotated English Poets; the first volume of a collected
edition of Professor Wilson's works, being also the first
volume of his republished and annotated Noctes
Ambrosianæ, has appeared under the editorship of
Professor Ferrier; Mr. Ernest Jones has published
a small volume of poems, not political, entitled The
Battle Day, and other Poems; Dr. Neil Arnott
has published the result of his researches into
various means, old and new, of obtaining healthful
warmth and ventilation, in a volume he entitles The
Smokeless Fire Place; Professor Pillans has published
First Steps in Classical Geography, and Doctor
Macauley an enlarged edition of his Dictionary of
Medicine for Popular Use; Mr. Charles Duncan has
described very amply, in two volumes, the disastrous
incidents of the late Campaign with the Turks in Asia;
Mr. Martin has translated, from the French of M.
Guizot, an essay on the Married Life of Lady Rachael
Russell; Lieut. W. D. Arnold has collected some essays
on the Palace at Westminster and other Historical
Sketches; a practical treatise, with a number of
curious specimens of paper, has been published
upon Paper and Paper-Making, Ancient and Modern,
by Mr. Richard Herring, to which Mr. Croly prefixes
an introduction; the author of "IX Poems by V," has
written Paul Ferrall, a Tale; the Hakluyt Society
has issued a curious Collection of Documents on
Spitzbergen and Greenland; Mr. Leone Levi has
illustrated in a brief treatise The Law of Nations and
Nations as Affected by Divine Law; Mr. James
Heywood has translated, from the German of Peter Van
Bohlen, that remarkable piece of biblical criticism, The
Introduction to the Book of Genesis, with a Commentary
on the opening portion; Colonel Sabine has
superintended a translation of Meteorological Essays
by François Arago, with an introduction by Alexander
Von Humboldt, which forms the first complete portion of
the works of the great astronomer; The Roving
Englishman has published a small volume on Embassies
and Foreign Courts, which comprises a popular
illustration and history of diplomacy; the French edition
of the very interesting Memoir and Journal of Lieut.
Bellot has been translated and published in English;
among the additions to Mr. Bohn's various libraries has
been a new translation, from the lately published and
only correct French text, of the Heptameron of Margaret
of Navarre, a new translation by Mr. Boylan, of
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and a selection of
scenes and incidents from Beaumont and Fletcher with
an introduction by Leigh Hunt. With which, and the
mention of a new novel by Mrs. Trollope called
Gertrude, or Family Pride, our list of the leading
publications of the month must close.