united the two races, simultaneously threatened by forcible expression, "into the ground"—the poem, Slavonism and the court; and the people rose to however, contains so many excellent hits, that this prevent regiments being sent against the Hunga- is but a trifling fault. The metre is that of Leigh rians. This popular demonstration, a mere burst Hunt's "Feast of the Poets," which it also resemof feeling, ended in an insurrection, which minis-bles in the general outline; but its range is much ters had not the sagacity to prevent, nor the tact wider and more varied. The language is at times or courage to resist. Vienna then fell into the as blunt and homely as the genuine Yankee dialect, power of the students, the mob, and the German rising again to a sublime pitch of lyric enthusiasm. members of the Assembly, the Slavonians having With the judgment which Apollo passes on the withdrawn. authors who are made to march in review before him, there will of course be a variety of opinions; yet they contain many true things, told with admirable point. We were somewhat at a loss what portion of the book to quote, but, opening at random, we find the following description of Whit

There is Whittier, whose swelling and vehement
heart
Strains the strait-breasted drab of the Quaker apart,
And reveals the live Man, still supreme and erect,
Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect;
There was ne'er a man born who had more of the
swing

The more recent events, the march of Kossuth, the withdrawal of Auersperg and Jellachich, are known. Austria is divided into two camps, the emperor and all the Slavonian soldiers and regiments in the one, the German and the Magyars of the valley of the Danube in the other. The peas-tier :antry have risen in the Landsturm, and, instead of their old loyalty, show their abhorrence of the Croats and their cause. In such a state of things a sanguinary triumph would be almost as fatal to the imperial house as defeat. For the army is fast dividing. The Croats and Hungarian soldiers in Milan can scarcely be kept from coming to blows, and the late conquerors of Lombardy threaten to make it a field for battle among themselves. Amidst all this the Archduke John is said to have intervened, as the chief of the central government of Germany, to mediate between the popular party and the court, between the Slavonian and the German. Let us hope that he will succeed, and prevent the terrible slaughter, the cruel action and reaction, of the alternate for

tunes of civil war.

From the N. Y. Tribune.

A Fable for Critics: or, A Glance at a Few of our
Literary Progenies. By A WONDERFUL QUIZ.
G. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway.

Of the true lyric bard and all that kind of thing.
Our Quaker leads off metaphorical flights
For Reform and whatever they call Human Rights,
Both singing and striking in front of the war
And hitting his foes with the mallet of Thor;
Anne hæc, one exclaims, on beholding his knocks;
Vestis filii tui, oh, leather-clad Fox?
Can that be thy son in the battle's mid din,
To the brain of the tough old Goliah of sin,
Preaching brotherly love and then driving it in
With the smoothest of pebbles from Castaly's
spring

Impressed on his hard moral sense with a sling?

A well-known reviewer and theological contro-
versialist is thus sketched :—
Close behind him is Brownson, his mouth very full
With attempting to gulp a Gregorian bull;
Who contrives, spite of that, to pour out as he goes
A stream of transparent and forcible prose;
He shifts quite about, then proceeds to expound
That 't is merely the earth, not himself, that turns
round,
And wishes it clearly impressed on your mind
That the weather-cock rules and not follows the
wind;

THE whole of the title of this book (which, as well as the preface, is very good prose-rhyme) is rather too long to be copied. After getting through it, the reader is prepared to expect something unusually rich and spicy from the poem, and he will not be disappointed. The author-who, by the by, shows his hand plainly enough to be recognized without much trouble-exhibits none of that malice, a touch of which is deemed indispensable to genuine satire. He does not lay on the lash-Proving first, then as deftly confuting each side, where he seems to use it-with an intentional With no doctrine pleased that 's not somewhere destroke, but rather, like a mischievous school-boy, nied, amuses himself with hearing it crack, even though it should strike the shins of a playfellow now and then. You think, sometimes, that he has knotted his lines, from the curious way in which he throws them out, but as you look again, they always unravel, though retaining all kinds of odd twists. He seems to be as fond of displaying his dexterity in words, as Michael Angelo was of his knowledge of anatomy. The number and variety of his grotesque combinations fairly out-Hood's Hood; yet he mostly contrives to get out his meaning with distinctness. One cannot help thinking that he has run this peculiarity, to use a common but the best of them :

And then-down beside him lies gravely himself.
He lays the denier away on the shelf,
He's the Salt River boatman, who always stands
willing

To convey friend or foe without charging a shil-
ling,

And so fond of the trip that, when leisure's to

spare,

He 'll row himself up, if he can't get a fare.

We

There are beautiful images in the following extract from a deserved tribute to Mrs. Child. wish we could copy the whole of the four pages · devoted to her, but as we have not room, we take

Not only for these she has solace; oh, say,
Vice's desperate nursling adrift in Broadway,
Who clingest, with all that is left of thee human,
To the last slender spar from the wreck of the

woman,

Hast thou not found one shore where those tired drooping feet

Could reach firm mother-earth, one full heart on
whose beat

The soothed head, in silence reposing could hear
The chimes of far childhood throb thick on the ear?
Ah, there's many a beam from the fountain of day
That, to reach us unclouded, must pass, on its way,
Through the soul of a woman, and hers is wide
ope

To the influence of Heaven as the blue eyes of
Hope;

Yes, a great soul is hers, one that dares to go in
To the prison, the slave-hut, the alleys of sin,
And to bring into each, or to find there some line
Of the never completely out-trampled Divine;
If her heart at high floods swamps her brain now
and then,

'Tis but richer for that when the tide ebbs again,
As, after Old Nile has subsided, his plain
Overflows with a second broad deluge of grain;
What a wealth would it bring to the narrow and

sour

Could they be as a Child but for one little hour!

We take a few lines, containing two good hits, from the portrait of Willis:

No volume I know to read under a trec,
More truly delicious than his A l'Abri,
With the shadows of leaves flowing over your book,
Like ripple-shades netting the bed of a brook;
With June coming softly your shoulder to look

over,

Breezes waiting to turn every leaf of your book

over,

And Nature to criticize still as you read-
The page that bears that is a rare one indeed.
He's so innate a cockney, that had he been born
Where plain bear-skin 's the only full-dress that is

worn,

He'd have given his own such an air that you'd

say

"Thad been made by a tailor to lounge in Broad

way.

We conclude with the following running comparison between Emerson and Carlyle, which is exceedingly terse and descriptive:

There are persons,

mole-blind to the soul's make

and style,
Who insist on a likeness 'twixt him and Carlyle;
To compare him with Plato would be vastly fairer,
Carlyle 's the more burly, but E. is the rarer;
He sees fewer objects, but clearlier, trulier,
If C. 's as original, E. 's more peculiar ;
That he's more of a man you might say of the one,
Of the other he's more of an Emerson;

C. 's the Titan, as shaggy of mind as of limb-
E. the clear-eyed Olympian, rapid and slim;
The one 's two thirds Norseman, the other half
Greek,

C.'s generals require to be seen in the mass-
E.'s specialities gain if enlarged by the glass;
C. gives Nature and God his own fits of the blues,
And rims common-sense things with mystical
hues-

E. sits in the mystery calm and intense,
And looks coolly around him with sharp common

sense;

C. shows you how every day matters unite
With the dim transdiurnal recesses of night-
While E. in a plain, preternatural way,
Makes mysteries matters of mere every day;
C. draws all his characters quite à la Fuseli-
He don't sketch their bundles of muscles and thews
illy,

But he paints with a brush so untamed and profuse,
They seem nothing but bundles of muscles and
thews;

E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe,
And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear ;—
To the men he thinks worthy he frankly accords
The design of a white marble statue in words.
C. labors to get at the centre, and then
Take a reckoning from there of his actions and

men;

E. calmly assumes the said centre as granted,
And, given himself, has whatever is wanted.

"LITERARY WORLD."-This excellent literary weekly, which has attained a wide-spread popularity under the able editorial management of Mr. Hoffman, passed last week into the hands of Messrs. E. A. & G. L. Duyckinck, by whom it will hereafter be conducted. We are glad to perceive, howits columns until the end of the year. He says in ever, that Mr. Hoffman is engaged to contribute to his valedictory :

The writer of the present paragraph, in relinquishing his charge as editor, cannot but congratulate the readers of the Literary World that it will hereafter be owned and conducted by those who have the mental accomplishment, the ability, the zeal, and the resources to carry out its objects, until it becomes all that its best friends could wish. Albeit, he has felt conscious that its columns were often too literary to meet the varied taste of the day; yet the course of the work, in widening the scope and lifting the tone of this species of journalism, has not been wholly unrecognized in Europe, as well as in this country.

The Literary World fills a vacancy in our periodical literature, which had long been felt, and we are glad to see, in the spirit with which the new proprietors have taken hold of it, the strongest internal evidences of its success. Mr. E. A. Duyckinck was, as is well known, its original editor. His abilities as a writer are well known, and he is especially fitted, by study and literary sympathies, for the post he has chosen. The last number of the World contains, among other good things, the first of a series of racy sketches on the "Out of the Way Places in Europe," and an admirable essay

Where the one's most abounding, the other 's to "The Editor"-by C. F. Hoffman.-Tribune.

seek;

CORRESPONDENCE.

Paris, 26 October, 1848.

of

translations from the Anti-Slavery Reporter n the great probability of a successful insurrectio in the island of Cuba. The Journal des Débat Friday, furnishes the Eighth Study of M. Michel Chevalier on the Constitution of the United States; its title-How liberty is understood and practised in the American Union. He pursues this inquiry with very gratifying favor and intelligence; ex

any great name in American history is emblazoned in Europe; it afflicts me when your journals dis parage the living worthies who possess a European reputation like that of your two principal candidates for the presidentship. Abroad, we are jealous and chary of every particle of American renown.

On Friday last, we passed nearly four hours in the hall of the National Assembly. We went at half past eleven, and the president took the chair at a quarter past one; but the house was not filled before two, and no business was heeded until M. Barrot entered the tribune to discuss a topic of in-plains the Habeas Corpus, as understood and conterest. The hall is sufficiently well lighted and ducted; and derives salutary lessons for his cwn warmed; it has not the style and elegance of the country, yet far behind in some essential particulars. old Chamber of Deputies, but it answers for the La Réforme has a long editorial article on Washmultitudinous convocation. In the galleries there ington, to exemplify what the president of a teis great difficulty in hearing what is said in the public should be. A version is included of Mr. tribune and on the floor, even for acute ears; the Jefferson's portraiture of Washington, in his letter survey, however, is nearly complete. Monsieur of the 2d January, 1814, to Dr. Walter Jones. Marrast presides with dignity and spirit; he is not The French commentator thinks that Washington sparing of severe reproofs, the necessity of which and Adams represented, unconsciously, the monaino one denies; he is sometimes accused of partial-chical tendencies of the government, and that true ity, but I have never had occasion to remark any democracy was established by Jefferson and his twe other conduct than prompt correction of all dis-immediate successors. Emphatic homage is paid turbance in what quarter soever. The Mountain to the memory of Jefferson. It rejoices me when makes the most noise, and most frequently interrupts the orators in the tribune; every division of the Assembly exposes itself to be called to order often during every sitting. On Monday, some of the members appeared to be writing letters; not a few were asleep; the minister of finance, a fat man, has taken sound naps while the constitution was under discussion. He gets very little time for re- An interesting pamphlet, with authentic details, pose elsewhere. On Friday, some of the cabinet has just been issued on the cultivation of the delta were absent; General Cavaignac was in his place; of the Rhone, extending from Tarascon to the he kept his corner the whole afternoon, with a Mediterranean Sea, and embracing a surface of quiet, modest, attentive air. The Abbé Fayet, more than a hundred thousand hectares. (A hectare Bishop of Orleans, sat beside him, intent on a is about a hundred acres.) This year, a thousand pamphlet. On the whole, the appearance of the hectares have yielded four millions pounds of rice, Assembly is quite respectable; the members are and occupied fifteen hundred laborers. The pamgenerally well-dressed, and their faces of the best phlet says that, if the proprietors had adequate French mould and expression. Thiers is as viva- capital, the delta, in less than ten years, would cious and bright as ever; the moment he entered have fifty thousand hectares in rice, yielding two the hall, he was surrounded by a number of his hundred millions of pounds; and with the aid of colleagues, with whom he engaged in earnest dis- the government, would supply enough to feed course. All business and oratory underwent a twelve hundred and fifty thousand individuals. sudden suspension by the apparition of the repre- The government is petitioned to appropriate five sentative of Guadaloupe, Monsieur Louisy Mathien, millions of francs to the object. The Carolina a negro, jet black-d'un beau noir-who excited planters have some competition to fear. American a commotion over the entire floor, such as the tobacco has not yet suffered much from the growth irruption of a fox or a rabbit into a large school- in Algeria, nor our cotton from the efforts in Britroom might produce among the pupils. Every eye ish India. Twelve French Sisters of Charity are was directed to him as he stalked up the aisle; about to embark for the Sandwich Islands, in order the president rang his bell and struck his desk with to found their beneficent order at Honolulu. On his ruler in vain. When he reached the bottom the 24th inst. there was a remarkable scene in the of the hall, nearly under the clock, he deliberately Faubourg St. Antoine, which I happened to witexamined the house with his lorgnette. A mem-ness, while on a visit of business in that quarter. ber of the Mountain descended, and, as soon as he reached the black gentleman, took him by the hand and led him in triumph from bench to bench, until he seated him in the midst of the Red Republic, next to the Abbé Lamennais, who gave him the fraternal hug-l'accolade. Others embraced him fondly. He will vote with that party. A decree of the Portuguese government indicates that it is preparing to abolish negro-slavery in its colonies. Some of the Paris Journals contain

You know that it was, during the three or four worst years of the first French revolution, one of the two faubourgs that sent forth the most savage hordes; and that, in the four days of June last, it reässerted its bad preeminence in ferocity and obstinate blind rage of insurrection. There the saintly archbishop fell a martyr to his intrepidity and holy zeal in the cause of peace. On the 24th inst., after a solemn service in the cathedral, in commemoration of his fate and merits, his successor in the see repaired

Lamoricière, and now seized the opportunity of indulging his griefs. He began by disputing Lamorcière's theory for an army; he soon passed to personalities; he talked of generals in office who owed their elevation both military and political to chance and favoritism, and abused their stations by lavishing patronage on their old comrades and mere protégés. Cavaignac took fire at this attack on his friend and dear fellow-combatant in Africa; he expressed his surprise that Lebreton, who had served in the same expeditions, could venture to utter suggestions or insinuations injurious to the well-merited fame and advancement, and the just, patriotic administration of the minister of war; "What no less surprises me," he added, pointing to Lamoricière with a look of deep respect and affection, "is that that man should be second, and I The generosity and inexpression had an elec

in full pontificals, accompanied by his three grand and made many campaigns with distinction in vicars, on foot, first to the precincts of the house Algeria, had quarrelled with the minister of war, in the faubourg, near which the prelate received the fatal shot, and then to the humble shop for the sale of second-hand furniture to which the victim was first borne. The new archbishop resisted all instances to perform his pilgrimage in a carriage, and to divest himself of his purple, for personal security. There was nothing, indeed, for him to apprehend, except being stifled nearly by the immense throng giving way to the strongest emotions of reverence and, what I may style, repentance, from the sobbing and kneeling of both sexes, and the deep and pious attention and manifest awe with which they listened to his beautiful address on the spot of the martyrdom. A prodigious shout of Long live our archbishop! Long live our father !— Most welcome, my lord! issued from the mass of the common people, most of whom had been fierce barricaders. At the shop, the mistress exhibited first, here or anywhere." a pair of sheets, stained with spots of the archbish-tensity of the feeling and op's blood, and received for herself and her family trical effect on the whole audience; most of the a benediction, which the multitude at the door seemed to witness with the liveliest sympathy. Thence, the visitor went to the dwelling of the curate of the faubourg, where the last sacraments were administered to his predecessor; the host of followers quickly filled the neighboring church; he was compelled, in a manner, by their call to place himself at the altar and deliver a short discourse; seldom had a larger portion of so large an audience shed more tears. The pilgrimage lasted for nearly three hours; the military presented arms as the procession passed; all vehicles stopped; the men and women of the working classes brought chaplets, medals, and small coin, to be touched; babies were thrust forward for an imposition of

hands.

representatives rose at once, and caused the hall to resound with bravos. Some lost ground is thus gained by the executive chief. Some of the journals, however, resenting still his suppressions and his firm stand against the red republic, revile him profusely and without intermission. For instance, La Presse, 25th inst., says, “Cavaignac is now unmasked; he is the mere docile instrument of the animosities, the ambition, the intrigues, and the rapacity of the National." He remains, however, the preferred of the majority of the Assembly for the office of president under the constitution; they continue to dread the election of Napoleon Louis, and have no "available candidate" except the general.

On the 23d inst., the Assembly got through the Since the date of my latest epistle, the debates constitution, having huddled up the work the preof the Assembly have not been wanting in conse- ceding fortnight. The Journal des Débats, of quence and animation. The most important and that date, attempts to account, in a long article, for impressive related to the question whether substi- the indifference with which it was generally voted, tution in the military service should be interdicted five or six of the provisions alone excited concerr or sanctioned in the constitution. Thiers surpassed and elaborate controversy. So many French conhimself in an ample exposition of the evils which stitutions have perished, observes that journal, that must result from a universal obligation. The great we all lack confidence in the duration or efficiency majority of the Assembly sided with him, and of any such instrument. The sitting of the 24th heard with pain the speech of the minister of war, had an uncomfortable sequel. A committee had who argued that substitution should not be sanc-been charged with an investigation of the accounts tioned, and threw out the common-places about of the provisional government. Its report tended equality, democracy, and the benefits of the soldier-to a rigid prosecution of the inquiry. The minisship to youth of every class and vocation. He ter of finance, Goudchaux, wished either to rescue failed because men of sense and reflection think his old friends, or to spare himself official trouble, that France is already martial enough, and requires doubly oppressive at this crisis, by stifling the no additional military array and exaction. Ca-whole business. A very large majority refused to vaignac held the same opinions as his brother gratify him; he took their decision in dudgeon, general, and when the latter reached his seat, em- and at night resigned his post, notwithstanding the braced him to testify how much he was edified by most vehement and anxious expostulation of his the reply to Thiers. Then came an incident, as colleagues, of Cavaignac, and many of the modusual, fitted to obliterate all argument and beget erate republicans of the old school. The Monithat vive agitation which every public meeting in teur of this day announces that Trouvé-Chauvel, this country expects and requires before it sepa-the prefect of the Department of the Seine, is rates or at the moment of separation. An old transferred to the administration of the treasury, general-Lebreton-who rose from the ranks, The successor is an honest and capable person, un

the citizen Louis Napoleon Bonaparte of having
M. Napoleon Bonaparte.-No one can accuse
encouraged revolt; but, in fine, we- -(Tremendous
noise; interruption, which lasted some time.)
A voice. Who is "we?"

M. Napoleon Bonaparte.-I persist in believing that we have done our duty as good citizens—and, as a proof of it, I can refer to the reiterated attacks made on my cousin Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and myself (Much agitation.)

M. Clement Thomas.-The fault of my character is to go too decidedly to the bottom of things; and, perhaps, I am going again to-day to fall into my usual mistake. (Laughter.) A member of this Assembly was called on to come forward, and explain himself in the tribune, and another did so in his stead. (Noise.)

fortunately without experience or repute as a never enter into any arrangement with the insurfinancier. Stock fell yesterday, at the exchange, gents-(Interruption.) when the substitution was reported. Goudchaux A voice. Whom do you mean by "we?" understood the difficulties and resources of the exchange, and how to manage the Assembly in relation to them. In the course of the debate, he remarked-" By loans and additional taxes, we have contrived to meet the enormous, unparalleled budget of eighteen hundred millions of francs for the year 1848; it will be doubly hard to get on next year; you must beware of any extraordinary demands; your ordinary receipts may fall far short of your ordinary exigencies." The ex-minister of finance, Garnier-Pagès, defending the fiscal career of the provisional government, drew an awful picture of the calamities and confusion that immediately ensued from the revolution of February; he asked for that government indulgence and credit, not so much for good done as for evil preM. Clement Thomas.-I can very well speak in vented. Yesterday afternoon the Assembly ex- my own name; neither the cabinet, nor any of my perienced a paroxysm of disorder and uproar-a colleagues are implicated in what I say; I take the sort of Bonapartist explosion. The new minister responsibility on myself. (Laughter.) This is of the interior, Dufaure, delivered an admirable not the first time that, at the moment when quesspeech against the proceedings and sentiments of tions of the greatest importance are brought forthe banquets which the red republic had systemat-Louis Bonaparte. (Interruption.) ward, the Assembly remarks the absence of citizen ically undertaken throughout France, with the A voice on the Left.-He is never here. (Laughobject of a new and Jacobin revolution. You must allow me to extract for you a column from an abstract of the debate, which will afford your readers a faint idea of what passed, and of the position of the Bonapartes, to whom two thirds of the Assembly and the executive are mortally hostile.

M. Pietri.-What is that to you?

ter.)

M. Clement Thomas.-There are in this Assembly persons who are about to present themselves to the country as candidates for very exalted and very

serious functions.

M. Napoleon Bonaparte.-That is no concern of yours. (Interruption.)

Numerous voices.-Order, order! President do your duty!

The President.-I shall call M. Napoleon Bonaparte to order, if he persists. I request him to be silent. (Hear, hear, from all sides.)

M. Dufaure alluded to the letter published by M. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte relative to disturbances being projected in the name of his cousin, M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. The hon. minister expressed A violent tumult here prevailed in the Assembly. his regret that the hon. gentleman had not, in pub- M. Clement Thomas vainly endeavored to make lishing his letter, also given his (the minister's) himself heard, and MM. Pierre and Napoleon reply, that there was no such thing in contem- Bonaparte and Pietri addressed him in a very aniplation. He concluded, by repeating the assur-mated manner. A numerous group was formed at ances, which he had already given, of the intention of the government to put down with firmness all attempts of disorder. (Loud applause.)

M. Napoleon Bonaparte ascended the tribune, but could not obtain a hearing.

Numerous voices.-The other! the other! (meaning M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.)

M. Napoleon Bonaparte, after waiting for some time, was at last able to make himself heard. If the hon. minister he said, had read the journals, he would have seen that I wrote a few words to precede the letter alluded to, explanatory of my reasons for publishing it. As to the publication of the note, I will tell the Assembly why it was decided on-(Interruption.)

A voice.-Oh! Every one knows that! (Laughter.)

M. Napoleon Bonaparte.-If the Assembly desires it, I can name an honorable general, a member of the Assembly, to whom I mentioned the report in circulation, that there was an intention to again take up arms, and who replied to me, that the report was well-founded. (Noise.)

General Baraguay D'Hilliers.-It was I, who said so.

M. Napoleon Bonaparte.-I declare that we will

the foot of the tribune, and, at length, by dint of ringing his bell, the president succeeded in restoring a little order.

M. Clement Thomas again proceeded. It is not by absenting himself at the moment of significative votes that he can gain the esteem and confidence of the country. (Interruption.)

M. Napoleon Bonaparte, in a very marked manner.-Hear, hear.

The president.-M. Napoleon Bonaparte, I call you to order; your interruptions are unwarrantable. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear;" and "Bravo.")

M. Clement Thomas.-Since M. Napoleon Bonaparte is so well disposed to answer in this place for his cousin-(Interruption.)

M. Napoleon Bonaparte.-Everywhere and at all times. (Loud noise.)

M. Clement Thomas.-I will ask him whether it is not true that his agents are going through the departments of France-(Interruption)-proclaiming the candidateship of his cousin; I ask him whether this fact is not true, and whether he is not for that purpose addressing himself to the less enlightened part of the people. If such is the case, that candidateship is most singular. (Noise.)