Another consideration which should influence in an important degree the decision of England upon this question is the feeling with which she is regarded by the American people. Vulgarity is not confined to Europe; and to envy, disparage, and vilify England is characteristic of American vulgarity. But to any one who will look a little below the surface, and take his impression of American opinion from other sources than rowdy newspapers, it must be evident that the great heart of the nation— the aggregate of thought and feeling which have made her what she is yearns for sympathy and amity with ours. There is in the people of the United States a reverence, an admiration, even a filial affection, for the nation from which they have never forgotten that they sprang, which long years of mutual misunderstandiug, recrimination, and suspicion have been unable to subdue. The people of the United States believe, rightly or wrongly, that we have inflicted upon them a grievous wrong, for which, by some means or other, it is incumbent on them if they can to obtain redress; but whoever has had an opportunity of observing them at all must see that it is by a sense of justice, and not by an impulse of vengeance or hostility, that their course is steered; and that if this dispute could be settled by arbitration, they would, though the decision of the arbitrator should be in our favour, welcome it with satisfaction as that which would obtain for them, without sacrifice of national rights or interests, the long sought and intensely valued friendship of England.

should stand firm on its pedestal or be petrators of wrong, is under the firm imshivered into fragments at their feet. Sur- pression, whether well or ill founded, that prised and betrayed, disarmed and friend- it is bound in justice to itself to demand less, the nation never faltered. For long reparation for certain acts of a foreign months it encountered with raw levies Power. Upon this reparation, however, it the disciplined forces of the South: - for does not insist; it only asks that some aulong months there poured from every loyal thority should be named by both parties State the flower of the American youth, who may pronounce upon its justice. The abandoning home, comfort, and prosperous character of the position and of the proindustry to meet almost certain destruc- poser alike seem to counsel compliance. tion in their country's cause. In ever-increasing numbers the untrained soldiers of liberty pressed forward at her call to fill with their lives the deadly interval required to redress the balance of the strife. When at last the tide turned, and victory declared for numerical force submitted to gradual discipline, no vengeful exultation marked her advent. Calmly, firmly, and thoroughly the great work was done. And when it ceased, the passionate excesses which have been the usual retinue of such triumphs were looked for by the world in vain. The people which had satisfied so grandly the test of adversity passed still more grandly through the terrible ordeal of success. Not one drop of blood was shed in revenge for treachery and rebellion more pernicious and worse-founded than any which the world has seen. In sadness rather than in triumph, when the fight was done, the nation set itself resolutely to grapple with the difficulties which the fight had bred. No lust of military glory, no intoxication of military success, ruffled the steady current of that beneficent toil. Having saved their country, the vast triumphant hosts were hosts no more. The transformation was complete: the fierce and daring soldier became at once the quiet, industrious citizen; the Government, full armed for desperate resistance or majestic conquest, became the peaceful, conscientious labourer for a people's good. Now it is of course possible that a nation may have shown itself to be the possessor of so much wisdom and nobleness, and yet act unjustly towards a foreign state. But a claim, not destitute of all foundation, and persistently put forward in a temperate and conciliatory tone by the unanimous The object of this paper has been, first voice of a nation such as this, cannot be to explain as clearly as possible the present set aside as the product of mere arrogant position of the controversy; and, secondly, impertinence, malignant hostility, or per- to inquire what ought to be the course verse self-delusion. It may be a claim, in taken by Great Britain as respects the the opinion of those upon whom it is made, solution which, or something like, it seems quite inadmissible; it cannot be one which necessary for her either to accept, or to is no fit subject for impartial adjudication. reject without hope of a final understandThe American people, thus calm in judging. It is hardly to be imagined that the ment, moderate in self-assertion, just and proposition for renewed negotiation, which humane in spite of every temptation, zeal- must come from the United States, will be ous for the right yet merciful to the per- long delayed. And there is ground for

confident hope that the fairness and mod-contains the most astounding revelation eration which have marked the recent con- of a forgery, planned by some unfortunately duct of the case by the English Govern- too fanatical antiquarian (in support of his ment, aided by the good sense and en- theories), and executed by Schäffer, who, lightened patriotism of the English people as represented by a reformed Parliament, will before long bring about the consummation so ardently desired on both sides of the Atlantic-the reconciliation of great and kindred nations too long estranged.

From The Pall Mall Gazette.
THE NENNIG INSCRIPTIONS.

it would seem, is now to bear the whole brunt of the offence by himself. It appears that the lapidary inscription was not made until the genuineness of the mural inscriptions had become the subject of contest; and, worst and clumsiest of all, Schäffer actually predicted the day of the discovery of the former, and actually invited a company of gentlemen to witness it. All these things, as well as the chemical agencies applied by Schäffer to the wall paintings in order to give them the necessary dirtcoverings of two thousand years' standSOME of our readers may remember a ing, had already become known in the controversy which commenced to rage course of time. A new and more startling about four years ago, and which went on fact, however, remained for Professor ever so long after, regarding certain Roman Aus'm Werth to discover viz. a letter inscriptions discovered at Nennig, a small written by Schäffer to one of his antiquaplace on the Upper Moselle, about seven rian patrons on the day before the discovery hours' distance from Trèves. The first ex- of the lapidary monument, already concavations on this since famous spot are said taining the whole inscription in question! to have been undertaken- without result This fatal anachronism finishes the matter -in 1819. In 1840 the property in ques- as far as science is concerned. It will be tion, a Roman villa, to wit, passed into the another question whether the authorities hands of a Trèves antiquarian society, but will take any further steps regarding the it was not until 1852 that the first real dis-authors of the fraud committed "under covery, consisting of a mosaic floor of great Government." value, was made. Four years later the State acquired the ground, and by some extraordinary jobbery or neglectfulness the local Government of Trèves entrusted the further excavations to a Mr. Schäffer, about whom the least said the better. This gentleman, himself no "scholar," so well ac-[London Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune.] quitted himself of his task that he first of THE Life and Letters of the Rev. Richall found four painted mural inscriptions, ard Harris Barham revives the career of and next another sculptured, all vouching an English clergyman who has certainly for each other, and clearing up with mar- left no parallel in the leading characterisvellous lucidity certain points which had tics of his mind. The author of the Inlong been the stumbling-block of antiqua- goldsby Legends was a strange bird among rians, and which had formed the principal the divines. Even his private correspondbattle-ground among certain Trèves anti-ence, never given to the world, is devoted quaries. But no sooner were the inscrip- all but exclusively to stories of Theodore tions made known than they were con- Hook, anecdotes of actors and actresses, demned by the highest palæographical and the lightest chit-chat of the green authorities of Germany Brombach, room. Three-fourths of the letters are Mommsen, Hübner among the number-written to the grandmother of Tom as clumsy forgeries. Whereupon the "lo- Hughes ("Tom Brown" Hughes). It was cal patriots" of Trèves arose to defend with the grandfather of the present M. their genuineness against all comers, and a P., Dr. Hughes, canon residentiary of St. whole pamphlet literature on the subject Paul's, that Mr. Barham first became acwas the result. Both parties standing quainted, and between him and the son strongly by their opinion, the Government and widow a warm friendship sprung up. at last took the matter in hand, entrusting Mrs. Hughes possessed surprising activity Professor Aus'm Werth with a thorough of mind and body. She is mentioned by and exhaustive investigation of the circumstances connected with the discovery itself. His report has just been published, and it

THE "INGOLDSBY LEGENDS."

Lockhart as the frequent correspondent of Sir Walter Scott and Southey, and for nearly a quarter of a century she kept up

with unflagging vivacity a regular inter-ley Thorn." Several of the anecdotes in change of letters with Mr. Barham. To the volume contain sayings of Theodore her he was indebted not only for a large Hook. Among other things which the proportion of the legondary lore which latter told of his early life, he said that forms the groundwork of the "Ingoldsby" the day on which he was first sent down poems, but also for the application of a to Harrow school Lord Byron, who was stimulus that induced him to complete there at the time, took him into the many papers which would otherwise have Square; showed him a window at which been left unfinished. The original letters Mrs. Drury was undressing; gave him a are in the possession of Mr. Tom Hughes. stone and told him to "knock her eye out At one period of his life Mr. Barham with it." Hook threw the stone and formed the plan of a novel to be called the broke the window. Next morning there "Modern Rake's Progress. The story was a great row, and Byron, coming up to was to be vigorously tragic, and the hero him, said: “Well, my fine fellow, you've was to die miserably in a hospital. This done it! She had but one eye (which was outline was to be filled up with various the fact), and it's gone!" Hook's fright earls. Mr. Barham was to furnish the was indescribable. The Bishop of London opening chapters, in which the birth and told Barham that at a service at Camearliest days of the young heir were to be bridge, at which the Duke of Cambridge described. Mr. Hughes (father of the (predecessor of the present duke) atpresent one) was to describe his life at a tended, he (the bishop) was appointed to public school, and to Lord W. Lennox was preach, and had no sooner commenced to be entrusted his introduction to the with "Let us pray," than the duke rose Guards and Crockford's. Barham took up in his pew below and exclaimed, with up the design very warmly at first, and great fervor, "Certainly, by all means.' with a lively chapter or two by way of The duke used invariably to read aloud introduction. Mr. Hughes went more all the services, including the absolution. steadily to work, and the portion of manu- When the King of Prussia visited St. script forwarded by him was supplied by Paul's, the duke put him sadly out by his the present Tom Hughes, who was then at officiousness in finding the place for him in Rugby. Many of the illustrations were the prayer-book. All had been properly drawn by Leech, who was at that time no marked, but the duke took the volume more than a boy. The story was event- from him, began turning it over, and ually handed over- - to be dealt with as finally left the king in much greater mystimight seem best to him—to Mr. Cockton, fication than he found him. and is preserved in a novel called "Stan

can hardly conceive the difficulties into which we should have been plunged had a return of the exact social status of each unit in the community been demanded. Who would be able to decide where the narrow line which divides the

drawn; or whether the grocer who occupies the chapel pulpit on Sundays is entitled to the style of "reverend"? Caste among us is an institution venerated by society, but happily has hitherto been exempt from public recognition.

THE officers employed in taking the census in Madras have to contend with a difficulty far more formidable than that which the British householder experiences in his decennial attempt to ascertain the ages of his domestic servants. It appears that an impression prevails through-gentleman" from the "esquire" is to be out the presidency that the castes have been wrongly rated, and one highly sensitive sect in Roya pooram has applied to the Census Committee for all the correspondence on the subject. The answer returned was that the caste of the applicant had no place, high or low, in the returns, and the indignant sect has now determined to refer the matter to the Legislative Council. Had the demand for a religious census in this country been acceded to, it is not unlikely that we should have heard a good deal about this sort of jealousy. Each section of Baptists would have proved itself Particular, and even the Peculiar People and the Wesleyan Reform Glory Band would have contended with each other for precedency on the lists. But we

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M. KOLB, the well-known Bavarian economist, has published a work, in which he shows that by the accession of Bavaria to the confederation the military expenditure will be increased to 5,552,058 florins a year, and consequently direct taxation 55 1-2 per cent.

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NEW YEAR'S NIGHT-THOUGHTS.

FALL, snow flakes, soft and silent, white and
cold-

From sunless skies muffled in one grey cloud,
Fall, till the ravaged face of earth you hide

As with a shroud.

FILIOLE DULCISSIMÆ.

BY HENRY ALFORD.

SAY, wilt thou think of me when I'm away,
Borne from the threshold and laid in the clay,
Past and unheard of for many a day?

Wilt thou remember me when I am gone,

That smooth the shroud may lie, and folded fair Further each year from the vision withdrawn, Above the horror of the thing below,

Lest unwashed gashes, bones of rent flesh bare
To heaven should show.

Beside the stillness of the white-swathed form
Let us a moment try to put aside

Thou in the sunset, and I in the dawn?

Wilt thou remember me, when thou shalt see,
Daily and nightly encompassing thee,
Hundreds of others, but nothing of me?

Thought of the blood, the hideous wounds, still All that I ask is a gem in thine eye,

Sitting and thinking when no one is by.
Thus looked he on me thus rang his reply:

'Tis not to die, though the path be obscure;
Vast though the peril, there's One can secure;
Grand is the conflict, the victory sure;

But 'tis to feel the cold touch of decay,
'Tis to look back on the wake of one's way,
Fading and vanishing day after day;

This is the bitterness none can be spared;
This, the oblivion the greatest have shared;
This, the true death for ambition prepared.
Thousands are round us, toiling as we,
Living and loving whose lot is to be
Past and forgotten, like waves on the sea.

Once in a lifetime is uttered a word
That doth not vanish as soon as 'tis heard-
Once in an age is humanity stirred;

Once in a century springs forth a deed
From the dark hands of forgetfulness freed,
Destined to shine, and to bless, and to lead.