sident has made a specious pretext for all this by an appeal to the people, including the army. Proclamations for restoring

Patchwork quilt, in 13,500 pieces of cloth, the sole work of the exhibitor; it has occupied his leisure hours for eighteen years.

Canister of boiled mutton, supplied to Arctic Expedition in 1824, and found by Captain Sir John Ross, in Prince Regent's Inlet, in 1849, in a perfect state of preservation.

Self-acting calculator of surface. The area of any figure drawn on a plane, is found by moving the tracer over the outline, however irregular it may be.

A second watch, made of ivory, with gold screws, and steel moving powers. It works in ten rubies, and weighs, glass and vase included, half an ounce.

An octagonal table of inlaid wood, containing 3,000,000 of pieces; the arms of England alone in a space of three inches by two, consisting of 53,000 of these pieces.

A watch going one year.

A Berlin wool carpet, executed by one hundred and fifty ladies of Great Britain. The dimensions of this carpet are thirty feet in length, and twenty in breadth.

The foreign news by the Europa is full of interest. The advices, which are to the 6th instant, report to us another revolution in France, of a novel and startling character. For some months past, the despotic measures of Louis Napoleon have been deemed ominous of a revolt on the part of the people. The anticipated event in the present instance, however, seems to have been forestalled by an adroit movement on the part of the President; for, at the precise moment when measures were being taken for his impeachment and arrest, the plans were interrupted by his immediately dissolving the Assembly, arresting the leading opponents of his policy, taking the reins of government in his own hands, and declaring Paris in a state of siege. The Pre

system of government, were printed at a private printer's in the Elysée, and posted throughout Paris before daylight. Copies of these, and of circulars from the ministry, and the Prefect of Police, printed in like manner, were dispatched to all the Provinces, announcing what had been done-appealing to the nation at large, and conveying stringent orders and instructions to all the officers of the government throughout the country.

The President declares himself to have been forced into this measure, and it is ascertained that Changarnier, Lamoricière, Thiers, and others of his opponents had decided to demand his arrest and impeachment on the 2d inst.; and were gathered, and in the very act of confirming this decision, when they were themselves arrested and conveyed to Vincennes.

Barricades were erected in the more turbulent quarters of Paris, but were all broken down by the troops. At one of these, two members of the Assembly, taking prominent places, were killed in the conflict.

A section of the Assembly contrived to meet together in Paris on Tuesday, and had decreed the deposition of the President, and his impeachment for high treason; but the meeting was dispersed by the troops, and the decree ridiculed and disregarded on all hands.

In addition to arrests, troops were placed in the houses of some of the exofficers of the Assembly, who were exempted from arrest. Amongst others, that of M. Dupin, President of the Assembly, was occupied by troops, and he himself placed under a sort of durance, although not actually arrested.

The full rigor of martial law had been proclaimed against all persons concerned in barricades, and they were accordingly shot without delay.

From the latest advices, bearing date

the 5th of December, there had been a bloody combat in the streets of Paris, the particulars of which cannot be obtained, but in which the troops, commanded by men in the interest of the President, were successful. There is news of risings in the provinces and a general disquiet. The end is not yet-but for our part we can anticipate but one result, sooner or later, to this usurpation-the disgraceful flight of the President, or the loss of his head.

The best comment we have seen upon the present anomalous condition of France, is in the Evening Post of the 22nd instant, from which we take the following extract :—

"The pretence of an election of President by universal suffrage, is but a shallow device, easily seen through; no popular election is intended; the army is to vote with the people, and the President looks to the army to see that the people confer upon him the supreme power. In this contest, all the citizens of France who take part in favor of liberty, will be on the conservative side, on the side of order, and in opposition to changes by violence. The insurrection is an insurrection of the Chief Magistrate against the constitution and laws of his country.

"Important results, however, may flow from this rebellion of one of the departments against the rest. If the President shall be able to sustain himself awhile in the struggle, he will beyond doubt, find it necessary to recall the French troops from Italy. If he should be put down, leaving the government of France in the hands of men who administer it with a becoming regard to the public opinion of the nation, the French troops will be recalled from Italy as a matter of course. In that case, Austria will have to herself alone the hard task of keeping Italy quiet.

"Amidst these new relations of the countries of Europe, who shall venture to say that the fetters of absolutism, just rivetted upon the nations, will not again

be broken? Hungary, even now ready to rise, will assuredly throw off the Austrian yoke the moment Austria is occupied alone with securing the submission of Italy. Russia will be expected to interfere, but Russia may find herself checked by a prudent fear of France." It is said there is an intention among the Arctic officers in England, to propose a national testimonial to Mr. Grinnell, for his noble and humane conduct in fitting out, at his own private expense, the expedition to the Arctic Ocean in search of Sir John Franklin.

The Cooper Testimonial is postponed, in consequence of the engagements of Mr. Webster. It will not take place on the 24th instant, as announced, and the time and place are to be hereafter designated by the Committee who have the matter in charge.

The Georgia arrived on the 22d instant, with $3,000,000 in gold dust, from California. In consequence of a freshet on the Chagres river, which raised it fifty feet above its level, the Georgia landed her passengers and mails at Navy Bay, thus making the first trip over the Panama Railroad.

The London Athenæum of the 22d November contains an interesting description of a curious fall of snow from a clear sky, which happened in London on the 18th of that month. This occurrence took place at half-past nine in the morning, the sun shining brilliantly at the time. A keen wind from the N. or N. N. W. was blowing, and small masses of that particular variety of cumulus known as scud, were drifting with considerable rapidity across the otherwise clear blue sky.

The London papers continue to publish fresh details of the extraordinary gold news from Australia, where the richness of the auriferous is said to exceed anything yet heard of in California. The accounts received in London from Sydney, relative to the extent and probable productiveness of the Australian mines, are such as to lead to the belief that gold in

There will be six eclipses the coming year-three of the sun and three of the moon. Those of the sun will be invisible. The first one of the moon will be total throughout the United States.

Six thousand railway carriages have lately been ordered by the Emperor of Russia, to facilitate the transportation of troops from the centre to the frontiers of his vast empire.

The famous old Westminster bridge over the Thames is to be removed, and a magnificent structure erected in its stead, to accord with the increasing splendor of the neighborhood.

In Genoa, out of a population of 120,000, there are 14,000 monks, friars, nuns, and ecclesiastics of various kinds.

The play of Hamlet has just been performed at Copenhagen with great success after a lapse of 21 years.

Haynau and Radetzky are both ed to be lying dangerously ill.

A curious specimen of patient industry, sent by a working man of the name of Wood, is to be seen in the Fine Arts Court, by the side of the model of the statue of the late Lord George Bentinck. It is an engraved nautilus shell-the only instrument employed being a small penknifé. The shell is dedicated to the memory of Nelson. The designs are most artistic, and the execution remarkably fine. The same ingenious artisan, a short time since, presented to her Majesty a similar shell, on which were engraved, with the same rude graver, the royal arms, the Prince of Wales's feathers, the Great Britain and the Great Western steamships, with a full description of the same; also several verses from Pope, amounting altogether to about 1500 words, which were tastefully engraved in German text, Old English, Roman, and Italic characters. On the occasion of presenting the shell

Schools in all parts of the city. This is truly a noble use for their great wealth.

Two Aztec children, supposed to be almost the last of their race, are on exhibition in New York. They resemble Gnomes rather than human beings. These Aztec children have precisely the physiognomy of the figures sculptured on the remains of the ruined cities of Yucatan, a flattened and receding forehead-almost obliterated in fact-long aquiline noses, and receding chins. Their height is that of children five or six years of age.

A message from Paris to England, and an answer returned in a minute and a half, was lately achieved by the submarine telegraph.

It is said that Lord Brougham is preparing for publication a work entitled, "France and England before Europe in 1851."

The Leipsic Michaelmas book-fair list shows activity in the German trade.

From the end of April to the end of September, 3860 works were published, and 110 maps, atlases, &c. Nearly 1150 new works are announced as on point of publication, about half of them on scientific or useful subjects.

At the suggestion of Douglas Jerrold, a penny subscription has been entered upon in England to present Kossuth with a copy of Shakspeare's works, in a suitable casket.

The extraordinary popularity of Walter Scott in France is witnessed by the fact, stated in the London "Critic," of a Parisian announcement of the twentieth edition of Defauconpret's translation of his novels and of another entirely new translation.

A treaty for the suppression of literary piracy has been signed between Great Britain and France.

M. Arago has presented to the Library of the Observatory attached to the Paris Academy of Sciences, a set of thirty manuscript volumes, containing the observations of the celebrated astronomer, Jérôme Lalande. Lalande was for many years editor of the Nautical Almanac, La Connaissance du Temps, and also compiled a catalogue of some 50,000 stars, &c., besides leaving to his heirs the vast mass of astronomical observations, which form the contents of these MS. volumes.

The latest foreign literary announcements are the following:

DEN;

"The Martyrs of Russia," a Translation from the French of Michelet; "The Lansdowne Shakspeare," a new edition of the Plays and Poems, in 1 vol. sm. 8vo., with the names of the characters and stage directions in red ink. "A New London Quarterly Review and Digest of Literature," and a "New Penny Magazine," with illustrations, published by the Religious Tract Society, are both to be commenced with the New Year. Mr. HUMPHREY's new work, with twelve colored lithographic illustrations, entitled "Ten Centuries of Art," (the 9th to the 19th), is announced for speedy publication. Also a new work by Phiz-"Illustrations of the Five Senses."

For the literary novelties of our own land, especially the embellished new books of the season, we refer our readers to the copious announcements in the daily papers, or rather to the richly stored shelves of the booksellers. Our space will only permit us to refer to Dr. WAINWRIGHT'S stately book, entitled "The Land of Bondage; its Ancient Monuments and Present Condition." It is embellished with twenty-eight exquisite engravings on steel, and is elegantly printed and bound. As a work of literary art, it is of eminent merit, and cannot fail to become one of the leading favorites among the higher class of presentation books of the season.

We have no space to do justice to Ik Marvel's admirable work, "Dream Life," in this number.