was burnt to the water's edge soon after leaving Genoa,
with the first detachment of the Sardinian contingent
on board. The troops were saved, as well as the crew,
with the exception of three sailors.

Another case of religious persecution has occurred at
Florence. Domenicho Cecchetti, employed in the
tobacco-manufactory of Fenzi & Co., bankers, who
farm the tobacco monopoly—a widower with four
children, a trusted and sober workman—possessed an
Italian bible and two new testaments, which he read to
his children at home. This fact came to the knowledge
of a young man living in the same house, and employed
by a vintner. He casually mentioned it to his master;
adding, that "the bible could not be such a bad book
after all, seeing that it produced such happy fruits"—
as in the instance of the Cecchetti family. The vintner
confessed what his apprentice had said about the Italian
bible, and the priest at once suspended the confession
and refused absolution. Next day, Buratti, a
persecuting priest, met the vintner, much depressed in
spirits; and inquiring the cause, found that it was
because absolution had been refused. Buratti at once
confessed and absolved him, and thus learned that
Cecchetti was a protestant. The consequence was,
that the police suddenly entered his rooms and seized
the bibles. The matter rested here for nearly three
months; but at last, on the 14th March, Cecchetti was
ordered to appear before the chancellor of the
delegation of Santa Maria Novella. This he did, and was
subjected to a close examination respecting his religious
belief; in the course of which he denied that the pope
is the head of the church, and declared that he knew
"no headship save that of Jesus Christ." He declined
to answer any questions involving others. The
chancellor sent a paper, containing the evidence, to the
council of prefecture; and on the 25th March, without
further trial, Cecchetti was seized and taken to the
penitentiary of Inbrogiano, there to suffer imprisonment
for one year.

Advices from New York are to the 9th inst. The
intelligence is not of much interest. The proposition to
raise a foreign legion in Nova Scotia had caused some
excitement in New York. No sooner was it known
that foreigners would be enlisted at Halifax, than an
enterprising Scotchman, Angus M'Donald, advertised
the fact in the New York journals, and opened an office
avowedly for the purpose of assisting persons desirous of
passing from New York to Halifax, really for the purpose
of turning a penny by trafficking in recruits for the
foreign legion. But he did not go far in this line.
Seeing the advertisements, "John M'Keon, United
States District Attorney," forwarded a letter to the
United States Marshal, stating that an office was open
for the purpose of recruiting men for the British army,
and calling his attention to the following section of the
Act of Neutrality, which he desired the Marshal to
enforce. "If any person shall, within the territory or
jurisdiction of the United States, enlist or enter
himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter
himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the
United States, with intent to be enlisted or entered in
the service of any foreign prince, state, colony, district,
or people, as a soldier, a mariner, or seaman on board of
any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, every
person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a high
misdemeanour, and be fined not exceeding 1000 dollars,
and imprisoned not exceeding three years." This, of
course, has stopped the Scotchman's speculation; but
the notoriety given to the whole affair will probably
send thousands of unemployed persons to Nova Scotia.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

The unfavourable and repressive influences of war
continue to be nowhere more manifest than in the
character and number of new publications. During the
past month Mr. Torrens Mc'Cullagh has published
Memoirs of Sheil. Mr. Maurice has collected his
lectures delivered at the Working-Men's College into a
volume called Learning and Working. The Bishop of
Natal, Doctor Colenso, has described the strange
experiences and religious wants of his distant diocese in
Ten Weeks in Natal. Mr. Sydney Godolphin Osborne
has pourtrayed Scutari and its Hospitals, in a thin octavo,
with illustrations taken on the spot. Mr. James
Robertson has recorded briefly his impressions of A
Few Months in America. Professor Baden Powell has
contributed a sort of judicial summing up to certain
arguments that have lately attracted much attention, on
The Unity of Worlds and the Philosophy of Creation.
Mr. Johnston has issued the seventh division of his
invaluable Physical Atlas. The first volume has been
completed of a careful translation of Tegoborski's
Commentaries on the Productive Forces of Russia. Mr.
Oxenford has translated and edited an Illustrated Book of
French Songs. Mr. James Sheridan Knowles has
published a treatise to prove that The Gospel attributed to
Matthew is the Record of the whole Original Apostlehood.
Mr. John Young has published a treatise on
The Christ of History. The Dean of Ely, Dr. Peacock,
has written The Life of Dr. Thomas Young; and, in
conjunction with Mr. John Leitch, has edited Doctor
Young's Miscellaneous Works. Mrs. Loudon has
described My Own Garden for the help and advice of
those who have similar small possessions to attend to.
In a little volume called The Yester Deep Land-Culture,
Mr. Henry Stephens has given a detailed account of the
method of cultivation which has been successfully
practised for several years by Lord Tweeddale at Yester.
Mr. Stainton has compiled for 1855 The
Entomologist's Annual. Mrs. Everett Green has completed
her Lives of the Princesses of England. Mr. Tracy
Turnerelli has told the world What I know of the late
Emperor Nicholas and his Family. The present
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Cornewall Lewis, has
published An Enquiry into the Credibility of the Early
Roman History. From Mr. Samuel Irenæus Prime
we have had Travels in Europe and the East;
America and the Americans has been the subject of a
volume by Mr. W. E. Baxter, M.P.; and two
translations have appeared, the first by Mr. Russell
Martineau, and the second by Mr. E. J. Morris,
of a recent Tour in Corsica, by Ferdinand Gregorovius.
Mr. Henry Curling has published Recollections of the
Mess Table and the Stage. Captain Rafter has
compiled a brief military history of Our Indian Army.
Mr. Connolly has written, with some elaboration, a
History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners,
illustrated with coloured engravings. Under the editorship
of Dr. Lindley, the first part of a description of the
Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland has been published,
to accompany a series of illustrations "nature-printed"
by Mr. Henry Bradbury. There has appeared an
illustrated Narrative of the Cruise of the Yacht Maria
among the Feroe Islands, in 1854. A brief description
of the services of Sir Charles Richardson, under the
title of A Tar of the Last War, has been published by
the Rev. Mr. Armstrong. An interesting memorial of
an original and eloquent preacher has been presented
in a volume of Sermons preached at Trinity Chapel,
Brighton, by the late Rev. F. W. Robertson. The religious
houses in France have been described in A Glance
Behind the Grilles. Mr. Leigh Hunt's Stories in Verse
have been collected into one attractive little volume. The
first number has been published of a Quarterly Journal of
Pure and Applied Mathematics. Mr. Robert Potts has
compiled, under the title of Liber Cantabrigiensis, an
account of the aids offered to poor students in the
University of Cambridge, and of the exhibitions and
scholarships connected with both universities. Lord
Brougham has republished, with many important
additions, his Lives of Men of Letters of the Reign of
George III.; and from an Irish biographer, Mr. W. J.
Fitzpatrick, we have received a volume on the Life and
Times of Lord Cloncurry.