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i5 EXULISIZ AFFAIRS. ait A galas ie rrrUtr of ike 111 swtraued Bw-ataswrt Lrat Hyrnk (iin Btbm- Wsuai lev VUUfr-MlMi- Zrm Oar On Crmpadnu. 1mi, Friday. Dee. 19, WA.

The town talk, to-day, is divided between 'ths verdict gien by a Jury, yesterday, azaioat II f. HtRStST 1Ram. and the speech addressed to his constituents, at Kidderminster, by Mr. Hubert Lows, If. P-.

af ainst reform. Mr. Isobam has. for many year, been well known a the proprietor of the IUuttrmted AVtra, by whlchas well a other undertakings connected with journalism, he Is believed to have made a considerable fortune About three years ago he was returned to Parliament for his native town, Boston, in Lincolnshire and, act withstanding his deficiencies of manner and edit. cstiow, be was welcomed as an acceaaioa by the jiepnlar party.

Unfortunately for himself he appears lo have become entangled in various wars with the late iJons Sadletb, whom he was induced to assist; in some of his manifold schemes, Vith hi advice and purse. Amongst the rest, lie was beg ailed by that versatile swindler into lend ing? the sanction of hi name to purchases in the Irish Encumbered Estates The beautiful domain of Castle-Hyde, on the banks of the River Black stater, was purchased st an exceedingly low price by Mr. BadleIr, as Mr. Tmcwr Sccllt, fate M. avers for him.

Boon afterwards, when desiring to lake legal possession, he was surprised leara that the purchase had been made for lir. Imobam and an action for damages has now been trought by Mr. Stilly against the latter, on the ground of fraud, inasmuch as Mr. Ixcram concur red in representing himself as the bona jCfr pur chaser, when In reality he was not entitled to call himself so. The evidence of the parties on the trial was wholly irreconcilable.

Lord Cami-bell is considered lo liars tried the case with' his usual ability, and with strict impartiality. The Jury, at rat, sermon inclined to disagree, but after two boms deliheratiofinroriounred a verdict against the defendant, whkrvint stands uturscrrsded, will cause sincere and general regret, destructive ns as It would be of the reputation of a highly popular and enterprising self-made man. I understand that notice has been served, to-day-, however, to set aside the verdict, but upon what grounds hsve not heard. The harangue of Mr. Lowi would attract comparatively liuie importance, if it were not supposed to be the opening demonstration of the Palmerston party against Reform.

The member for Kidderminster is one of the rough and ready tahreurt who would in sll likelihood be pit forward to perform such a duty. lie is one of the most unpopular, and generally deemed one of the least scrupulous adherents of the late Government and his speech is eminently calculated to rally the drooping spirits of those ho of late seem to have began to despair of reaction. His ersona! history is not devoid of interest. The youngest son of a clergyman in one of the midland shires, he early distinguished himself at Winchester school and University College, Oxford, by his classical attainments. Being electee's fellow of Magdalen College, he devoted several years torthe duties of a private tutor at Oxford.

In 12 he was called to the bar hot conscious of some painful personal defect, and being without professional connections, he despaired of obtaining business, and resolved on emigration to Australia. Partly by the pursuit of the law in New South partly by laud speculations, ha aeon lied a moderate independence, with which, not being contented, he returned to England in 1860. Through the influence of the Duke of Newcastle he obtained the support of Lord Ward, who possesses great influence, derived from property, at Kidderminster and at the general election was returned, after a short contest, for that borough. He held office under Lord Absboceb, as Secretary to the Board of Control during 1853 and 1854, and on the formation of Lard PaluebsTOs's Administration became Vice-President of the Board of Trade. Throughout this period he was generally believed to have been constant writer in the Tisws and as that jour sal was, during the Crimean war.

fierce in its de nunciations of Government Incapacity, bitter tannts were frequently hnrled against him for the incompatible functions ha was supposed to discharge. It was to him the sarcasm of Sir James Graham was understood to point, when he assigned as one of his reasons for auditing the Government after it had agreed to Mr. Roebcck's committee of inquiry In 1853, about the army at SebastopoL that there would be a whispering-gallery between Westminster and Printing-House-square." Mr. Lowx'a trenchant powers as a debater, though of the coarse and vulgar sort, commended him to the occupants of Downing-street, and he continued to hold office until Lbs vote of censure of February last put an end to tho administration. He has since then been nearly, ailent but now, when it seems necessary to take sip some definite ground of attack on the min istry, Mr.

Uwi comes forward, and, at the risk of Joeing his aeat next election, declares point blank that he, and those who think with him, are utterly opposed to the enfranchisement of the working classes. Ha accompanies this announcement with vehement protestations of unshaken attachment to Lord Palmxrxtox, and confidence in his preeminent judgment, patriotism and ability. If this manifesto bo not repudiated by the conservative Whigs, parties will Inevitably change places, or talker standards and wa must prepare for a resumption of sharp party conflict during the coming jeer. The city doea not believe in the danger of any disagreement with Frasce the funds continue firm, and the Bank of England has reduced the rate of discount to Si per cent. Among politicians, however, there are increasing rumors of disquietude and uneasiness icspectinj- Italy.

Ac stria is evidently alataued at tlie unrestrained tone of the French Government press against her, coqcnrreQt aa it is with the presence of the Grant! Dub Cox-ETAKTLKB at Turin, and the UDVLTjaI activity in the cm nan oocas ana arsenals. She is hastening re inforcements of her Italian garrisons from Germany, and Lfce mission of tho Arckduke Cuabxk Locis to Borne Is truly stated, I believe, to have for Its object the establishment of more intimate relations between the Vatican and Vienna, Count Boot Is earnest Id his endeavors to indues England teenier into a triple alliance with his own Govern ment and that of Prussia, to resist any hostile movement on the aide of France la conjunction with Sardinia. Lord Dkejit is lured Into this trap, he will not be in office six months. Hatred to Austria Is a sentiment in this country which leef from time to time but never dies. On the nth st head, relations with France, no mat tev how much we abuse the is a universal desire and the minister who wduld rub bis Itead against both these powerful national impulses, would Infallibly be deserted by the Hoase of CVxnmoua.

Nothing could so effectually tend to the retrieval of the Cambridge House Whigs as each a mistake on the part of their rivals. is amusing to find that, after all, both French mad FaglUh journals were in error respecting one af the meet resnarkable visitors said to have been art Cuoopiegue. Lady Palberstob was not then the contrary, aha did not conceal her regret at the proceeding, and positively refused to go. When staked the other day why she bad not accompanied 3itr lord, she replied "That it waa all very well for st young ma Like Palmuwtoji, but for her part Je waa growing old and did not like at this season 4 the year going into comfortless -hstesus. or exposing herself to drafts." One of the most distinguished beauties of English society has been prematurely snatched away fcy death within the last few days.

Lady Clxbex. nA Villus, the second daughter of the Earl Jxbset, has been for several years the moat ad-Sniredud sou after of the daughters of the aristocracy. The greatest fortunes, and some of be greatest ttUes, in the United Kingdom have 3 ren at hex feet ae is well known, she re in her inflexible resolution not to accept any Her affections were 'said to have been art v. c'er-TKian possessing but aa incooV nd not likely by talents or sin mora prominent position in the Church. Her worldly and fashionable pamt's refused their antent lo suck match; and unlike her sister Lady Aksla, who ten years age eloped with Captain IdbotTsob.

she coottxued to reside with her parents and to accompany her mother in the incessant round of society in which the old lady lives. Kor was her amiability limited to the too faithful performance of filial obligations. When her brother, the late member for Rochester, be came so embarrassed as to be obliged to leave the country, many of his outstanding engagements were bought up by his root bar, who, as the heiress of Mr. Cm lb, (he banker, still posneas rennet of her' once splendid fortTme. The liabilities soon exhausted Lady personal resources and Lady Clkmbmtiha spontaneously resolved to devote many thousands of that which bad been settled on herself to liquidate her brother's debts.

Those who observed her gradually attenuated form and slowly-fading beauty, aa year after year eae returned to the joyless haunts of aristocratic frivolity and fashion, could not but perceive that. however care might succeed in preserving the lineaments of loveliness, the spirit within was perishing of 14 Love's sweet want." The ast time I stood near her was at a densely-thronged assembly at one of those mansions in PiccadHly famed for the brilliancy of iu receptions. She dressed em sutle in bright blue, and wore upon her head, which was of exquisitely rr. juldod form, a wreath of roses of the ssme color placed perfectly horizontally, as you may sometimes see them worn bv the Tyrolese pesssnts at their village festivals. The grace and geniality of her demeanor as she swam lightly on trom room to room with the passing recogfcition of a little word for those she knew, was as exquisite and ap parently effortless as ia the sunniest morning of her lite.

But the gaiety of girlhood had passed away, snd the ambition of womanhood had not CKine and it seemed to inc as often as slie pointed, awaiting an opening in the sometimes 1m- lenefrable crowd, her eye acquired the abHtrarted ook, and her statue-like form the air of immobility which belongs rather to a state of trance than to that of active life. Her eldest sister was married some years ago to Prince Nicholas Estrr-iiazy she lived not very happily, it is said, for ul out two years, and then died after a short ill ness. And now another is addud to the series of bliclited hopes with which the haughty, selluth and worthless house of Jersey has liecu vioited. The Dean and Chapter of frt. Paul's have at length been taualcd and twitted into opening, or affecting to open, the great metropolitan caihedral for the use of the public in general on Sunday evenings.

Bat. to the disgrace of the Churdb be it said, the affair has been hitherto perverted from its legitimate purpose by preference tickets having been issued to the wealthier classes of the curious in search of novel excitement while the poor for whom the Gospel was preached have been forced to stand without and knock without gaining admission. It is all very well for Mr. Hpckoron to divide his spiritual clients into clssses, according to their ability to pay for better or less agreeable seats for his place of worship can only be maintained at a very large cosUsod it is evident the people do not grudge paying for that which they not have the means of hearing otherwise. But that cathedrals and parish churches, in a country where there is au establishment, should be jobbed and penfolded in the manner St.

Paul's is now, ia a piece of inconceivable folly and injustice. By the way, I am reminded of sn anecdote I lately heard, on good authority, of the eloquent Baptist Another pulpit star, though of lesser magnitude, wished to relume his light from that of the Surrey Ganlens Hall. Mr. Spi'Rokox, from the vrindojw of his study, saw his brother preacher approaching his houe. For some reason, unexplained to me, he did not entirely believe in the professions of respect he had been in the habit of receiving from the gentleman in question, and he made up his mind to decline the iuterview.

On the hall door being opened, the servant was desired by the visitor to tell Mr. Spi'Rgkok that a servant of the Lord desires lo speak with him." The reply she was desired to communicate was, Tell the servant ef the Lord I am just now busy with his Master, and cannot be disturbed." This week has brought to town great numbers of agricultural folk to be present at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, held as usual at Bate-street Bazaar. There was nothing very new or remarkable in the specimens of either snort-horns or other breeds of the bovine species. The show was an average one, no more the principal topic of remark and criticism being- the undeserved award of the first prize in two of the classes of steers to Prince A Lbxkt. It does seem inconceivable how any one in his position jnhould think of taking advantage of the inveterate flunkeyism which taints all ranks more or less in this country, to grasp at 25 prizes, which in all common sense and common justice ought to be freely snd fairly distributed among real cattle breeders.

It is not the first time that similar complaints have been loudly heard. The judges are all men of estimation and character, and some of them men of rank. Of course they all declare that they were not told the names of the owners before they decided. But the awkward part of the business is that the steers of His Royal Highness stand every year in the same stalls, and the Committee find it impossible to persuade people that they have a magical power of i'orgtt fulness. AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.

Return ef the Baueerer te Parts Sheetteg sut Coaaeelsjee The MeBtaJesaberc Affair X. am art 1m sisls-Mlsetllssssas. r' From Our Own Correspondent. Paais, Thursday, Dec. 9, lsM.

She tri-color once more floats over the Palace of the Tuilerles, and the town is now supposed to be ia town. The Court arrived from Com-peigne on Sunday, and made an entry which was not exactly triumphant, and yet not without a certain degree of pomp. The hour of arrival at Paris was announced in the journals, and the route of entry was crowded with the curious, and with the new set of strangers which each week invariably brings to the city. The Jitea of Compeigne were not favored this year on the score of weather, but they seem, nevertheless, to have been brilliant and satisfactory. With, an exception in favor of the English, the guests were almost exclusively French.

The shooting soema to have been good, for we are told that one day the company bagged 1,100 pieces, of which the Emperor shot hc almost jucredihU of If 9, as follows 54 pheasants, 60 rabbits, 28 Imres, 36 partridges, 8 woodcocks, snd 3 fawns These figures will sp-pear less incredible, however, when it is recollected that the game of the Imperial parks is raised almost by hand, that it never bears the sound ef a gun until the arrival of ths Emperor in the Fall, and that his Majesty ia aided by several domestics who load his guns ss fast as they are discharged, and drive up the game for him. Nevertheless, his Majesty Is a first-rate shot. The first object of the Emperor, after arriving at the Tuileries, wss to visit the modifications of the garden, executed since he last resided there. It is said that these modifications do not meet his approval but, on the other hand, the public find them not only in good taste, but less detrimental to their comfort than had been anticipated. The amount of ground withdrawn trom the public promenade is not much, and with this the most possible show is made.

The project of restoring the Palace itself is not abandoned, and will perhaps be commenced in the Spring. It is intended to give to it a style of architecture in conformity to that of the new Louvre at the other extremity of the Place CsrroUsel. It will be recollected thst last Spring the Legis lature voted an appropriation of 180 millions of francs 58 millions ef dollars for the embellishment of the city of Paris, ef which the state was taxed for fifty millions, and the municipality for the helanrs. Ten years was fixed aa the limit in which this sppropriation was to be consumed but this limit is only nominal, and will probably be changed by subsequent legislation, for the money will be exhausted before that time at the rate at which new' works are now being organiaed. In effect, the work of demolition and reconstruction goes on with the greatest activity.

The people of Paris are becoming nomadic by force of taw. Borne naaOkis base been expropriated as many as four times in the course of two years. At the present moment the largest proportion of. work is hud out in ths west end, a part of which constats In the work about the TriuaupW Arch and the eight Boulevards which are to radiate from it. A new street just ordered, the Rue de Eouen, will destroy more new snd valuable houses, and cost snore money in proportion, for damages, than any read jet opened, since Us whole course is laid through (la tew and fashionable Quarter of the Chaussee d'Antin.

It begins at the terminus' of the Bouen railway and tuns angularly towards ths Bourse, slopping for the present at the Boulevard des puctnes. At this latter point it has been for soma time a question of building a new grand opera. The ground on whioh stood the ancient 'Hotel "Osmond, now entirely vacant, has ia fact been held reserve by its proprietors for thst object. But a semi official paper denies that this ground will be selected by the Government. According to this journal the Rue Basse de Bempart, which forms ths north side of the Boulevard, is to be sup pressed, and if the opera is to be built in this neighborhood at all, it will be located further to ward ths Madeleine.

A report got into circulation last week that st the point of junction of the new Rue de Rouen with the Boulevard, which joins in such a way as to leave a square at the corner of the Chanssee d'Antin, a public promenade of a new kind was to be constructed. The whole square was to be covered with glass, it was to coo tain fountains and flower-beds, seats for loungers. and around the two sides, not open to streets, elegant stores, restaurants, resding rooms and places of amusement. This project, however, will hardly be realized, at least in this spot, owing to the great value of the ground and the free circulation already afforded by the Boulevards. Another improvement which will strike strangers on arriving from London and the north, will be the new depot of the Northern Railway, to be commenced early in the Spring.

This building is to cover the whole ground from the Faubourg St. Penis to the-hospilal LariboisUre, and is to have a monumental front of twelve hundred feet, divided into. seven buildings. It will be three times larger than any railway station on the Continent, and constructed with a view to architectural effect as well as convenience. The Government will clear away the fine new buildings erected in front, and open up a new square with wide streets for outlets Thus houses, squares, whole streets, are displaced and moved about like men on a chess board, anil, what is more remarkable, in all the new quarters these houses are six and seven stories hipb and built of solid stone, with sculptured fronts and gilded interiors.

The municipal journal before referred to, states the astounding far that since the improvements of Paris have commenced, the daily bill of mortality has been reduced from to 40! This result is so extraordinary and so encouraging that the authorities cau well afford to go before the people" with the issue of improvements 'or no improvements. The fact in, the superior civilization of the Japanese and Chinese, as exhibited in the sanitary construction of their cities, has set the governors of European cities to thinking. It is dcrwnrigLt barbarism to build such a city as Paris was ten years ago, where light and healthy air were alone the boon of the smallest numlier. Ten years more, however, will five such an impetus iu the proper direction that there will be no fear for the future of Paris. With the entry of the Court at "the Tuileries will commence the gay season.

The usual series of balls will take place at the Palace, commencing at New-Year's. Strauss again wields the baton for the Winter at the Grand Opera, and announces the first masked bell for Saturday, the 18th of December. He is to play through his album of new pieces, however, st a grand charity ball at the Grand OperaTon Saturday evening next, the 11th, at hich tho Emperor and Empress will perhaps bo present. The situation of the wealthier classes is considered better than it was last Winter, and on this account the season will no doubt be a gay one. The American colony has lost some of its older saloons, but new ones will be thrown open this Winter to compensate for their loss, so that in this portion of the fashionable population of Paris the equilibrium will be maintained.

There will be a large increase, however, on the side of the Rus sians. The Montaleuibert affair continues to attract the attention of the public. No two Frenchmen meet without coming to hard words on this exciting topic. It is generally conceded that the Gov. emmcnt made a mistake in a point of law in pardoning him before the decision had become definitive.

In France, as in the United States, a cer tain number of days are allowed after the decision in an inferior Court for an appeal to a higher one. This delay had hot expired when the Emperor pardoned M. Mobttalkmbebt, whereupon tho latter immediately wrote a letter to the Moniteur. re fusing the pardon and denying the right of the Executive to pardon him till the judicial decision was definitive, and this he contended it could not be till he had carried his esse to the last and highest Court. M.

Montalembest is evidently right in the point of law, and it ia believed that now he will be permitted to carry his case to the Superior Court, and then if he is agsin condemned, or, in other words, if the decision of the lower Court is confirmed, the Government will allow the judgment to lie executed. The Count has, however, somewhat damaged his cause by a letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, in which it ia clear he sets himself un as a martyr and as a greater than the power which punishes him. This will do to think, but not to think aloud. M. Dt Mostalxmbkrt had heard that the Archbishop, in the interest of the Church, had taken etepa with the Empress for his pardon, and he wrote to the Archbishop to enga.se him not to compromise his (Montalkmbkrt's) dignity by such a course.

In this letter he declares that he wUhes the decision of his jndges to take its course, and that he would regard as an insult the least favor emanating from the Imperial power." It is only a matter of surprise that this letter was admitted into the Paris journals. It ia said that all legal means were exhausted to prevent the appeal to the higher Court, but that it was at last granted. If this be true, we may expect another contest, and perhaps some new incidents of an exciting character, for the Count is a man not easily headed," and he, as well ss his friends, are thoroughly aroused. The public, too, take a deeper interest in this struggle than in any political event which has occurred within the last few year. The copy of the London 7 'rmc which contained the trial of M.

Moxtalem bert, was so rigorously excluded the passage of the frontier, that at Valenciennes copies were taken from the persons of passengers coming from Brussels to Paris. An American friend, however, who had a copy on this route, bad the ssgacity when he left his seat in the cars to show his passport, to slip the Timet under, the seat, and as the psssengers do not change cars in crossing the frontier, it ws per-fcciiv Jbl the 7f been so much sought slier in i'aris that the owner has been actually obliged to inscribe the names of applicants. From this circumstance you can very weld judge the extent of the repressive power which is still exercised by the police of Paris. The details of a trial which took place in one of their own courts can only be known by such a roundabout and tedious process as that detailed above. We shall be curious to see whether the New-York papers are admitted with such details as they may happen to publish.

The Vesse continues hs harangues on Nicaragua, and V. Meet has even written some very tptrUnel French-Latin poetry on Maillacd and his project of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific waiters. But the Jress now announces to the French world that the United States has come to an agreement with France and England in regard to the neutrality of the Isthmus, and that there is no longer any obstruction to the execution of the Belly Canal. There is great rejoicing at Frasca-tis M. dk Lamaetixk has this week published a long letter to the public, which he heads, A Frank Explanation.

In this document he gives an exposition of his affairs a refutation of the calumnies of his enemies a puff for new sulteeri-bers to his monthly journal and terminates by a call for money to tlie Lamartine subscription, in which he cries to the people of France, I helped you in your hour of peril, now help me Captain Ran alp. ef the Afssrricr, who saved the passengers of the AkstYm, has been decorated by the Emperor with the ribbon of the. Legion of Honor, and bis oflicers complemented with mods Is of hutrar. -i i XI. HAnawrra, the distmguished chess-player, desirous of healing his damaged reputation, ia going to try Pacl iloarHT' great feat of playing against eight boards at once blindfolded.

The game is to be played the ISth of this month at the Csie de la Regence, against whoever may be pitted against him. It is now hoped kf. Axdkh4kn uay arrive in Paris by that time. Malakoht. i i a PveMesn res- Ssurireismaw 1 -r at Xsttsr A JVrw-rsr Itsu i In 1840, the ratio of.

deaths to the population in this City, was 1 teas tin let. ltS7t U1830, 1 te i mm aow ta Jbaad to be about to 17. AsssundJ tag ssterutee of precious Ufc t. Will the friends of sanitary Improve meat, who meet at the Cooper lastl-ulisxfaiatascauAeSfaad fell us ta remedies I NEW IlOOtfa; rRANCATZIxrt COOKE ar. Ptu'aderphla i Ps- tssmsst Brno, There nothing more puzzling ia tvt econo my of human affairs than the distribution ay Providence of the natural gifts, by which one people shall excel another in some particular art.

VTby should Italy alone be endowed with the geaius for vocalization why should Germany excel all other nations in the art of musical instrumentation why should Eng'snd overtop the world in poetry snd seamanship and why shoild France alone be blessed with genius for cooking 7 man is a cookinar animal, the necessities of Frenchmen are no greater than those of- other men, and as thee is but one edible product upon her soil which msy not be found in as great per fection in many other countries, it is not essy to discover why the art of eating ahou.d, in France, have been elevated into the region of Science, while in all other countries it is debased among the ignoble arts. But the fact is indisputable. France has produced a score or two of illustrious cooks men whose names are as familiar as those of the gTeat heroes of history, or the poets and philosophers whose productions have encircled the ages in which they lived with a halo of glory. England can boast of her Bhakespeares, her Ba cons, her Kewfons, her Marlborough, Nelsons, and Wellingtons, but she has never produced a cook whose deeds snd msxims have been grate fully remembered by mankind. Yet one little province in France produced the immortal Tress fiires, whose fraternity, by the way, wa not of biocd, but of genius and country only.

Of our own blessed country we wLU not pretend to speak. in this connection. We have our Franklins, our Washington and our Jeffersons but we are con- teut to import our culinary artists, in their crudest ar.d rawest possible state, from Skibbereen and other delightful places in the Emerald Isle, where, having nothing to cook, we conclude with'adinir- ablp logic that they must be prolific of good cooks. But, if we are in a condition of culinary darkness in this country, which would have Wen considered a shade deeper than the gloom of Egypt about the time of the flesh-pots, it is not for the want of an abundance of "eood works upon the eubiect of dressing food for the table. A collection of the co kery bocks published during the past thirty-five years, commencing with the elaborate treatise of UnE, who, we may be pardoned for remarking parenthetically, was nof the highest order of genius, would form a very respectable library, so far as mere numbers go.

We saw but a few days since a surprisingly large collection of works on this subject, on a bookseller's shelves, which consisted only of books published during the past ten years, and among them were the imposing tomes of the great Sover who has now gone where there will be no more cooking. How he will bestow himself where there are no saucepans nor braisers it is difficult to conceive. But there are compensations, no doubt, for the disemliodied spirits of cooks, as for the test of us, in the next world. Since the "Gastronomic Regenerator" of this good genius of the kitchen appeared, no important work on the science of cookery has been given to the world but a Philadelphia publishing firm, T. B.

Petehsox A Br.o., have just conferred upon the dinner-givers and diners-out of the United States, the boon of a handsome edition of Fra.ncatelli's great work, The Modern Cook, whose author, Charles Elme Fkaxcatelli, was a pupil of the great Caekme. Fbancatelli has an Italian sound, and he boasts that, though bearing a foreign name, he is happy in being an Englishman. But he is a Frenchman in art, in spite of his Italian name and his Anglican boast He had the good fortune of being chef to the Earl of Chesterfield, and "Jlaiire de Hotel to Her Most Gracious Majesty the and he dedicates his book to bis high-born patron, Lord Ebrol, the premier Earl of Scotland. Of course a book on cookery by such an artist is not intended for the lower, or even for the middling classes, and we have not seen a more significant indication of our growth in luxury and wealth than an American edition of this work. At the commencement of the work we have a formidable catalogue of no less than ninety-two "special sauces," every one of which is an absolute necessity in a well-ordered kitchen then follows a small list of 22 purie for garnishing, after wliich comes a catalogue of gravies, 21 only in number.

The ragout are but 25 the soups and broths are in proportion to the sauces and gravies, they number but 163. We cannot undertake to give anything like an analysis of tlie volume, or even to criticise any ef its receipts, lor a very excellent reason we are utterly ignorant of the subject, and could not tell whether Mr. Fsaxcatklli's directions for compounding a timbale of maccaroni," or a puree i ra Cclestine," be right or wrong. As work of useful information, though it may not be of any special value to American housekeepers, it will be fruund very serviceable to the class of diners-ouvwho, by examining its pageswill be able to form some idea of the nature of the dishes which they sometimes eat at great ceremonial dinners, which is a kind of knowledge they could never gain frpm eating the dishes themselves. CnARITT GREEN Or.

Varieties of Love. TRXOBSl MOBTOK. Tridmii Habtmass. New-York: loam A noTelist wrho desires the attention of his readers, or who hopes to find readers whether at tentive or otherwise, should not commence his story with a morality, nor confess iu his preface that his characters are actual personages, and his incidents taken from real life. People who read novels have a perverse disposition against reading sermons, or listening to any incidents of real life.

What they want is not facts which are so vehemently demanded by persona of the Gradgrind species but fiction. For a novelist to inform his readers thst his story is all true, is just as impolitic as it would be in a historian to announce that his history was all a fable. All that is required in a novel, is that it be true to nature, or at least true to the kind of nature which the author attempts to delineate. The author of Charily Green exposes his purpose first in the ded ication of hja book to Charles Kuisht anl Floeexc Iflfcim.vGALE, then in las preface, and again in the first page of his It is to bring men to a more christianlike observance of Christmas that the story of Chtriy Green, making a volume of 601 pages, has been written. The object is every way laudable, and if the author, like DiCKKKft in his Chrintma Carol, had left it to the ingenuity of the reader to discover it, or feel it, he would doubtless hsve been more successful When a reader knows that he is going to toe entrapped into the perusal of a sermon, by having a pretended novel placed in his hands, he will hardly consent to be made a tool of, to his own damage.

When a man is invited to ball, he naturally resents it as an affront if Le discovers ho has been entrapped into a prayer-meeting, let him be ever so religiously disposed. We must do the author of Ckmrity Green the simple justice to state, however, that his story is not very "preachy," but, on the contrary, notwithstanding its obvious purpose, very rollicking, discursive, snd extremely coarse, with a good many dull poems, and an inordinate quantity of negro minstrelsy, besides a three-act tragedy smuggled into- the middle of the volume, The story flies about from one part of the world to another in a most surprising manner. It opens at the Christmas dinner of the Honorable and Reverend Alphonso Bush wig. Rector of Richmanstown and Tjerperoal curate of Sloppery," and so continues for IIS paaes, in England, when we are sud-rk-nly transported to Long Island from Long: Island are taken to Feather River in California, then to .1 Ban Francisco; -back again to England, then to Illinois, next to Charleston, South Carolina," and after crossing the Atlan tic two or three times more, we 'are taken Into a Broadway a champagne, cellar," then up tbe Hudson, sud iioelly dismissed ia The alorr Is 'rather incoherent, the characters are' coarsely fa rather 4han vigorously drawn, and tbe description' a little too violent to be characteristic. Novels with a pioct purpose are too apt to be so refine in lanpusire anil mn in siMttlmsn mm ceedingly dulL But this is not a fault with the book before be, which is coarser than most roman eee of tba yellow-covered school, and as full of bustle and rapid movement as one of Harrison Ainsworth's robber sforiea.

TDORXDALB; Os, THE CONFLICT OF OPIN IONS. By Whaxam 8am, Boston: Tkisoi A rraus. Cur publishers would render a Tery great service to the cause of literature, and entitle them selves to the gratitude of all intelligent readers, if in republishing a new foreign work they would add to the title page the time and place of its first pub lication. In this hsndsome volume, for examplp, there is nothing except the absence of the notifica tion of copyright to indicate that it is not an Ameri can work. The reader will soon discover that it must have been the production of an Englishman, but even when he has made that discovery he will still have a natural desire to know when and where it first appeared.

Thorndmle has created some excitement in London, and been favorably noticed by most of the British critical journals but very little Is known about it, we presume, among American readers. Of course it is the work of Will! Aat Smith, whose name is on the title page but he chooses to invent a very clumsy story by which he becomes himself tbe editor of his friend, Charles TnoKsOALE's literary remains, to which ere added, "The Con fesskm of Faith of an Eclectic and Utopian Philosopher, A. 18o0." But the confession of tbe Utopian is nothing' more than a continuation of tlie speculations on the mystery of human existence by Thornoalk. Charles Thorn dale Is a very common character, a well-educated, well-to-do, philosophical consumptive, who having nothing in the world to do, but to live until he dies, gives himself up to thinking and as the. next step to thinking is writing, ho writes what he thirks, in a large common-place book, but has neither courage nor energy enough to attempt to publish what he writes.

Feeling that his disease is he leaves England, hires a rilla on Mount Porsilipo, and goes to see Naples and die. He takes with him his common-place book which hs continued to write in up to the last, interspersing his moralities and philosophical reflections with little personal histories and sketches of character; He dies, ssd his friend, William about the vicinity of Naples, by mere chance walks iato the deserted villa which Tborndale had inhabited, snd discovers a box coatain-ing the manuscript, which makes up the bulk of the volume. There is not mnch invention or ingenuity in this introduction, nor anything ia it to add importance or interest to what follows, which will be foi nd to possess infinitely more merit than the reader will be prepared for. As the book does not reauire continuous readimr. and the longest essay or story in itcinay be disposed of at a is excellently well adapted to the family circle, for the centre-table, the library, or even- a railroad car.

But it is not a book for the thoughtless or uncultivated. A considerable amount of preparation by independent thinking will be re quired hi the reader fully to appreciate and enjoy it A MEMORIAL, OF TITE FTJTTEHGCRII "MIS SION, AM) HEK MARTYRED MISSIONARIES: WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE MUTINIES IN INDIA. By tbe Rev. J. Joss-tToa Walsh.

Philadelphia: Jos bps M. Wnsos. The author of this volume waa the sole sur viving member of the Futtehgurh Mission of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, all the other members of the mission, with their children, hsving been put to death in Cawnpore by the demoniacal New a Sahib, on the 13th of June, 1657. Mr. Walsh being absent from the mission at the time of the revolt, was spared to publish this memorial of his martyred fellow laborers.

They were eight in number, and all of them Americans, the youngest of them, the Rev, Bobebt McMcLiax, having been in India but three months at the time of his. death. Futtehgurh is not a distinct mission, but station of Furrukhabad mission', including Agra, Mynpoorie Futtehgurh, Futtehpore, Bands and Allahabad. Futtehgurh is on the west bank of the Ganges, and about seven hundred miles from Calcutta. Peculiar interest is attached to this station in the religious world.

from the circumstance of its being the birthplace of the Rajah Dclkkp Siosh, the first convert to Christianity from among the native princes of India. On the outbreak of the Sepoy revolt the missionaries there suffered greatly from the lack of protection, from the bigoted hatred of the natives, there being no European troops stationed there, and but one native regiment. On the 4th of June, 1857, they all em barked in a boat on the Ganges, with their fami lies, hoping to find place of safety at Cawnpore but they were arrested by the emissaries of the merciless Nena Sahib, taken to Cawnpore and shot on the parade-ground. The martyrs were the Rev. John Exxiab Feeemax and wife, the Rev.

Datib Elliott Campbell and wife, the Rev. Albert Opbormk Johrsom and wife, the Rev-. Robt. McMfllim and wife, and two children of the Campbells. Biographies and portraits of the martyred missionaries are given, and dispassionate view of the causes which led to the great revolt.

The memorial ia written in a very clear and unambitious style, without any attempt to exaggerate the horrors of the events which are narrated, or to unduly exalt tlie characters of the suf ferers. Like most of the Americans who have visited India and remained long enough to become acquainted with the people, Mr. Walsh entertains a favorable opinion of tho Influence of the East India Company, and gives its officers the credit of having greatly improved the condition of the country. Mr. Walsh has now returned to India to resume bis missionary labors, leaving his six children behind him, and never expecting to come back to his native country.

FAVORITE PRESCRIPTIONS OF AMERICAN PRACTITiU.Mius. By uoaAca usaa, MJ LL.D. New-York: Wllet Haute. Dr. Grxex has a valuable habit, for which great many physicians will thank him.

His rooms have been visited by thousands of medical men, from all parts of the Union, principally drawn by a curiosity, to observe his method of treating certain diseases, for tlie curs of which his success, professional jealoueyVf him, abuse snd praise, have conspired to 'make him famous. Freely communicating his own theories and observations, he has with equal freedom called upon his visitors for such prescriptions as were favorite with them for combating iseases with which they were especially familiar. In time he had collected, a very large number of formula). Cor every one of which some distinguished body had a particular affection. Many of these he had tried in his own practice many rnore of them his friends and students had tried at his Rejecting all that failed to sustain the good name given them, the rest he haa arranged in chapters, and published in the pages of the Anurie Medic! Monthly of this city.

These hsve been extensively copied st home and abroad, and the solicitation, of those who wished them compacted Into more handy form, induces him to issue them revised and enlarged In the book named at the head of this notice. The prescriptions are placed under natural beginning with Narcotics and Bedatives," and ending with The therapeutic effects of the simples of which they are are described under each, and the modifications of those fleets which compounding them causes. A copious index brings the whole within ready reference. The book brings a valuable eontribotioa te the Stock of practical medical knowledge, and will be bo less grateful to the old practitioner, puzzled over a complicated case, than to the young and beginner who pauses, utterly at av loss' which of the ten thousand, combination of tbe Pharmacopeias he shall choose to quell a symptom and remove its' cause." Choosing the right medicine is as much of a job Sot- youag doctors as se-' leeting a houee" Out of the ten thousand that are offered for" Tent about the first of 'February. The house-hunter owes a thousand thanks to the experienced citizen who lakes a walk with him, and rtfrlafns why this Is a disreputable localify, that a auspicious one, and the other desirable.

Dr. eeer jji performs a-like good offiaS for ths -dSsculapissi novice. His book a model College of PhyeJ. caa giving the. buyer a thonjhtful ntK siocv- tor emergencies.

(- COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES. OnaVaiBlag rFtaa. e--ad a TrvZ tueeaScbooi-bouaa By JabssJs. Bosses, New-York: IviaaaA PkumiV- Probably (here are no more atriking evMen. ces of the gTeat advance which the art of architecture has msde in this country during the past twenty years, than the internal md external appearance of our school-houses, both in towa 'and country, exhibit.

The author 4tf Ik, WwL wmm uDiuia '-UUHSvS USftt OUT- oral improvement in architecture haa been manifested in our school-houses. However that may be, it is very certain that there haa most decided improvement, and that the present rising generation ill be most essentially benefited by it. Many of Mr. JohobbotIb designs are sr tremely good, simple in style and economical la -spste as well as In cost The directions for heat-ing, ventilating and lighting are also judicious, aa are the lesser plans for desks, and formay Ths only attempt at architectural design external- i ly, of an ambitioua nature, forms the rontis piece the book, and we cannot accord' sa it the praise which belongs to the other parte, 4... does not possess sny points of merit fw Wis the placing of two large flanking towers of eansl lieiglit to a small portico.

Is in violation of evsrv -v rule of architectural taste, and very offensive te the eye. A school-house, of all other bmldiaga, should be wholly free from Incongruities and meaning appendages. THE J(EW AMERICAN IT. ArpLSTos A New-York. fourth volume, of this Dooulax ww The' commences with a biographical sketch of the ae centric Orestes Browmson, who announced ht the last number of his Reviae that he had written one article for the Cycloptrdvt, but that he should not write another, as he rerarded the work as un sound and unsatisfactory In its treatment of .1 olic subjects.

But this announcement will probe- biy do the CydopttdU much more -good tana harm. The biography of Mr. Browhsob is the best that we have seen, but it mlcht have been belter, if It had been written with a little less re serve. The letter is exhausted In this volume! and alphabet continued to Presi dent Bucbakam is favored with fourteen columns of mography, very candidly and fairly written, considering that he is a cotemporary President, and that the editors are his political opponent: We imagine that Mr. BcchaBas- will never agaial fill so large a space in the paces of a cyclopssdia.

This volume probably haa more geography in it than any other of the series will have, aS it in cludes the whole fanuly of Capes. PALESTINE, PAST AND PRESENT: WITH Bnt X.IIAL., LiitoAKl AMI SCIENTIFIC NOV TICES. Bv the Rev. Hsssr 8. Ojsoa.

PJiijI, delphia Jambs Cballob 80s. The author of this Urge and elegantly printed oluroe is Professor of Natural Science la na Roanoke College, Salem, but he does nof understand the natural science of book-makinrt Opening a volume entitled Palestine, Ptut east Pretent, we are treated to the common-place incU dents of a voyage from New-York to Liverpool and then without a break in the narrative are taken over iuiglaud and the continent and suddenly, find ourselves taking a view of Beirut, of which a wretchedly bad 'chromo-tlnteC lithographic picture is given. We ere then taken through Palestine by the usual route, and re" embark at Joppa for Malta, and so back home. Prof Osbobb mingles up with bis accounts of Pales tine a good deal of personal gossip, which Is not st all unpleasant, but it seems somewhat it tnp in a book of so serious sn import. Ths volume is very beautifully printed on fine paper, with a meet liberal margin, and illustrated with a great namber of wood engravings but is defaced with sis; wretchedly-colored lithographs, that do not serve to illustrate anything.

POPE OR PRESIDENT Starling" TMsclosurw 'ef Humanism as Revealed by its own Writers PaoSs for Americana. New-York R. L. Dsussaaw IBM. The title page of this volume so clearly Indl-' cates its character, that we might spare ourselves the trouble of adding anything by way of explaining Its design.

The author, whom we should suppose to be a lady, has undertaken her task of wriliag down the Pope, under the serious conviction that it becomes very importsnt that some one shouloT dsre assume the responsibility of revesting ths ss- founding mysteries of the A copious appendix is sdded to the volume, in which ail the, recent events that have occurred to bring thai Vatican' Into greater discredit with the Protes-v tant world, and among them, of course, our eld, er rather young acquaintance, the Mortara child, has a conspicuous place. .1 st SHELLS FROM THE 6EA-SnORE OF LIFE, Gathered bv Psablv Sbbllt. Illustrated by Lsm-ur. New-York: W. K.

C. Class. 4Ce. a Here, in a little volume of 162 PJa, there are no less than fifty-six chapters eacuNUyoted to a separate-subject, and most of them illustrated with a spirited wood cut. All sorts of things anal people are satirically sketched under the commas1 name of shells, but there is no attempt whatever' made at conchologlcal impersonation, and the rea-v son of the adoption of such a name, for suck a.

work is not very apparent. The sketches evinces considerable ability ia the author, but they are altogether too brietjand slight to possess any special value. i 3. .3 THE POOR GIRL AND TRCE WOMAN Ob Elements of Woman's Success Drawn from Is' Life of try Lyon and Others. By WnxiAsr at.

Tbatbb. Bosteat CknuaLnwssvK This is not a work of fiction, bat the nlstory-of a true whose life was devoted to the" cause of making others happy and it I in such narratives ss these, which illustrate poatihiii-, -ties of human character in the tendency to do geesV'. that the most valuable lessons of life msy be learned. There are ho false lights ia such hist-, ties as this to mislead youthful enthusiasm, ana" give the mind an unhealthy longing for unattaiaa- tie excellencies, 6r saintly demeanor. TRYING.

TO BE USEFUL. HOWARD ANDl HIS TEACHERS. By Mrs. Wins Lrsa I stiTr BsAou BaATAaa, Class Bsswaw 1 These axe two neatly printed Tolomes of tbv' ligious stories, designed for the benefit of 'children, and well calculated, we have no doubt jto give a serious tone to the minds of the young people who read them but whether be a kind of reading that is best adapted to the needs of the -young mind, to impart to it that healthy vigor which will enable it to resist evil influences in the; more advanced stages of lift, we think admits oT considerable doubt. -THE DAILY COUNSELOR.

Br Mm. H. Hartford, 1859. The design of lira, Sigocrxxt in this volume is not one from which a genuine poetical iaspirs- tion could be anticipated. It was to write a -poem for every day of the year on some text of scripture, of which the poem Is but little more than an extended paraphrase.

THE EVENING OF LIFE Or, Light and CetatCwt Amidst tbe 8badows ef Deetintnsj Years. By JtasaoAS Cbapub, DJ. Boston: Com ssLai-; CVLB. Thia ia Very excellent Elite volume, eon- posed chiefly of admirable selections from the di" dactic and religious writers of England of the last -century, with a few selections from cotemporary American THE: PIONEER BISHOP er tbe Life and Tljaesef i Fbascis Asbvbt. By W.

P. Stsk-ilas. Us toe IntreducUr.n by Natbas Babss, DJ). Nevr-ietE, Caeltob Pobtsb. This Is not simply Iife: of the good Bishop AsBrnr.

but a history of the rise snd spread of Methodism In the United States. THE MINISTRY OF" LIFE. By Mabxa Lasts 1 CHASisswoavm. New -York: D. Ameses as Ce i Another tengtous novel from an EnlA Rectory, Illustrative of English Jlfe and, thaugV a story, only a prolonged sermon.

BarfW PiRiopiCALSLiOR-in Scorr' 'make, la "our columns, their ahaouncemcnt for twu, new year. They couUrme ta reprint the leaiisf.