as may still be seen in his correspondence | struck all Christendom with consternation, preserved at Simancas, what revelations and the battle of Mohacz, which sealed the could he not have made of events and per- fate of Hungary and his own sister Mary, sons had he been so minded? or what auto- are not even mentioned. Not a single trait biography so rich, when retired from the of the character or personal appearance of world he dictated to his secretary, Van any one of his contemporaries, great or Male, at Yuste, the rich lessons of his long small, seems to have fastened on his imagand varied experience? Surely, a man of ination or his memory. He is, indeed, the less busy life and less stirring ambition than central figure of his own narrative, and the Charles V., in his sombre solitude, as he most important, but that is by wiping out of looked back upon the breathing world which his canvas all others, and throwing them he had left, amidst "his gardens of lemon into such an immeasurable distance, that no and orange trees, and sparkling fountains distinct impression of them is made upon and basins," could not have failed to have the spectator. In fact, from beginning to left some impressions in his memoirs of end, the book is full of the emperor's marches those noble scenes-" sad, high, and work- and countermarches, of what he might have ing full of state and woe," in which he had done and didn't do; how he got into a wood once played so important a part. If, how- and got out again, marched up a hill and ever, in the work now before us, which pro- marched down; and the marvellous minutefesses to contain his autobiography, the ness with which these points are insisted on, reader expects to meet with any such reve- bears a ludicrous disproportion to their want lations, he will find himself miserably mis- of importance. We know of no parallel to taken. If these are the incidents he would it in reality or romance, except it be in naturally look out for in the life of Charles Foote's farce of "The Mayor of Garratt: " V., he will look in vain for them here."Oh! such marchings and countermarchKatharine and her divorce, and all its mo-ings! From Brentford to Ealing; from mentous consequences cannot draw from the imperial narrator a single passing expression of regret. Luther and Wolsey may as well have never been, for any notice they receive in his pages. The fall of Rhodes, which

Ealing to Acton; from Acton to Uxbridge! The dust flying, sun scorching, men sweating!" Such a chronicle of flocci, nihili, parvi, is this Autobiography of Charles V., only not one-half so amusing.

for freedom, and treats as a question of epidemic emotion what we look upon as one too sacred and solemn for the proffer of foreign sympathy and counsel.-Spectator, 4 Oct.

GARIBALDI has written a rapturous political love-letter to Britannia; and Britannia, much as she admires the man, feels a little bashful and awkward in the unexpected situation. She is to arise with "uplifted brow," and point to her sister France the road of happy revolutionary freedom. She is to call to Helvetia-the Vestal Virgin of the Alps-to aid America, A NUMBER of operatives, trained in the difher daughter, who has so recently gone forth ferent branches of flax manufacture and the from her bosom and is engaged in struggling power-loom weaving of linen, have been enagainst the traders in human flesh; and when gaged at Belfast to work in mills in Prussia she has aided that daughter to conquer them, and Belgium. They are chiefly women, and to call her back to her side to aid in the great have entered into arrangements to work for Congress of liberated nations, whose judgments stipulated periods. are to supersede war over the whole earth. Britannia is really embarrassed how to reply, and feels a little inclined to answer General Garibaldi like the fascinating child when told by its father to kiss the kind lady,-" You do it, pa; I so shy." The letter is couched in that peculiar tone of noble but hectic sentiment which scarcely realizes the heavy weight of personal responsibility attaching to national efforts

STREET railways are to be immediately introduced in the cities of Hamburg and Altona. Herr Muller, a civil engineer, has also devised a system of city railroads for Berlin and Vienna, and it is considered likely that the latter will accept the proposition.

GARIBALDI TO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. men should be as brethren? Yes, call her!

A WORLD'S CONGRESS SUggested.

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And she, forgetting that she is temporarily under the dominion of the Genius of Evil

if not to-day, to-morrow-if not to-morrow, later-will reply as she ought to your generous and regenerating appeal. Čall, and at once, the bold sons of Helvetia, and clasp them firmly to your breast! The warlike children of the Alps-the vestals of the sacred fire of liberty on the continent of Europe-they will be with you. What a host! "Call the great American Republic, for she is in truth your daughter, and is strug

which you have already so nobly proclaimed. Help her to escape from the terrible strife waged against her by the traders in human flesh. Help her, and then place her by your side at the great assembly of nations-that final work of human intellect. Call to your side all those people who would be free, and lose not an hour. The initiative which belongs to you to-day, may to-morrow concern another. May God forbid such a calamity! Who ever more gallantly than France in '89 assumed that responsibility? At that solemn moment she held up Reason' to the world, crushed tyranny, and consecrated free brotherhood. Now, after nearly a century, she is reduced to combat the liberty of nations, to protect tyranny, and over the altar of Reason to erect the symbol of that wicked and immoral monstrosity which is called the Papacy.

GARIBALDI has addressed the following remarkable letter to the people of England :"TO THE ENGLISH NATION: It is while under the double pressure of bodily and mental pain that man can most truly and most acutely appreciate good and evil, and, leaving the authors of his misery to eternal shame, devote unlimited affection and gratitude to his benefactors. And that to you, O people of England, I owe a heavy debt for benefits bestowed, I feel in the inmost re-gling now for the abolition of that slavery cesses of my soul. You were my friends in prosperity, and now you continue the precious boon in the days of my adversity. May God reward you! And my gratitude is the more intense, O worthy people, inasmuch as, rising as it must do beyond the mere level of individual feeling, it becomes sublime in the general sentiment toward those nations whose progress you represent. "Yes! you are deserving of the gratitude of the world, because you offer an asylum for misfortune, from whatever part it may come; and you identify yourself with misery, pity it, and relieve it. The French and Neapolitan exile finds in your bosom shelter from his tyrant; he finds sympathy; he is helped, because an exile, because unhappy. The Haynaus-the hardened instruments of autocrats-find no rest in your liberal land, and fly terrified before the bitter scorn of your generous sons. And, in truth, without your noble bearing, what would Europe be? Tyranny seizes its exiles in those other lands where virtue is unnatural, where liberty is a lie; but they are still safe on the sacred soil of Albion. I, like so many others, seeing the cause of justice trampled under foot in so many parts of the world, despaired of human progress. But, turning to you, my mind is calmed-calmed by the contemplation of your fearless progress towards that end to which the human race seems called by Providence.

"Proceed on your way, O calm, unconquered nation, and be less tardy in calling your sister peoples into the same path of human progress. Call the French nation to co-operate with you. You two are worthy to march hand in hand in the vanguard of human progress. Yes, call her! In all your meetings let concord between the two great sisters be your cry. Yes, call her! Call to her always, and in every mannerwith your voice, and with the voice of her great exiles of Victor Hugo, the highpriest of human brotherhood. Tell her that conquest is, in this age, an anomalythe emanation of an unsound mind. Why should we covet the land of others, when all

"Arise, then, Britannia, and at once! Arise with your undaunted brow and point out to the peoples the path they must tread! With a Congress of the world to decide between nations, war would be an impossibility. No longer would there exist those standing armies which make liberty impossible. What weapons! What defences! What engines of attack and defence! And then the millions squandered in implements of destruction would be employed in fostering the industry and diminishing the misery of the human race. Begin, then, O people of England; and, for the love of God, initiate the vast human compact, and bestow this great gift on the present generation! Besides Switzerland and Belgium, you would see other nations, urged on by the good sense of the people, accept your invitation, and hasten to enroll themselves under your banner. Let London now be the seat of this Congress, which shall in future be agreed on by a mutual compact of arrangement and convenience. Once more, God bless you. May he repay you for the benefits you have heaped so prodigally on me. With gratitude and affection, yours,

"Varignano, Sept. 28."

"GARIBALDI.

SHORT ARTICLES.-Follow my Leader, 370. The phrase "A Violation of Nature," Circular Panoramic Prints, 375.

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