horrible! Has she a false eye? Has she false And so the day sped on-sunshiny and brilliant overhead, but all over clouds for Harry and Maria. He saw nothing: he thought of Virginia: he remembered how he had been in love with Parson Broadbent's daughter at Jamestown, and how quickly that business had ended. He longed vaguely to be at home again. A plague on all these cold-hearted English relations! Did they not all mean to trick him? Were they not all scheming against him? Had not that confounded Will cheated him about the horse? looked appealingly in Harry's face. He re- At this very juncture Maria gave a scream marked, with his usual brilliancy and original- so loud and shrill that Madame Bernstein ity, that he was very glad her ladyship was bet-woke, that the coachman pulled his horses up, ter. Why, at the tone of his voice, did she and the footman beside him sprang down from start, and again gaze at him with frightened his box in a panic. eyes? There sate the chief inquisitor, smiling, perfectly calm, eating ham and muffins. poor writhing, rack-rent victim! Oh, stony inquisitor! Oh, Baroness Bernstein! It was cruel! cruel! Oh, Round about Farnham the hops were gloriously green in the sunshine, and the carriages drove through the richest, most beautiful country. Maria insisted upon taking her old seat. She thanked her dear aunt. It would not in the least incommode her now. She gazed, as she had done yesterday, in the face of the young knight riding by the carriage side. She looked for those answering signals which used to be lighted up in yonder two windows, and told that love was burning within. She smiled gently at him, to which token of regard he tried to answer with a sickly grin of recognition. Miserable youth! Those were not false teeth he saw when she smiled. He thought they were, and they tore and lacerated him. Monthly UNITED STATES. "Let me out! let me out!" screamed Maria. "Let me go to him! let me go to him!" "What is it?" asked the Baroness. It was that Will's horse had come down on his knees and nose, had sent his rider over his head, and Mr. Harry, who ought to have known better, was lying on his own face quite motionless. Gumbo, who had been dallying with the maids of the second carriage, clattered up, and mingled his howls with Lady Maria's lamentations. Madame Bernstein descended from her landau, and came slowly up, trembling a good deal. "He is dead-he is dead!" sobbed Maria. "Don't be a goose, Maria!" her aunt said. "Ring at that gate, some one!" Will's horse had gathered himself up and stood perfectly quiet after his feat. Harry gave not the slightest sign of life. Record of Current Events. and expect to accomplish their unwarrantable ends Congress little apparent has been only violence. The report concludes with I made toward a decision upon the leading meas bill, reciting that the people of Kansus have, by ures under discussion. In the Senate the Presi- their representatives in Convention, formed a Condent's Kansas Message was referred to the Com-stitution and State Government, republican in form, mittee on Territories. A motion to instruct the Committee to inquire into the number and legality of the votes cast in Kansas, and authorizing it to send for persons and papers, was lost, by a vote of 28 to 22. On the 18th of February three reports from this Committee were presented. The majority report, presented by Mr. Green, of Missouri, states that the Abolitionists in Kansas have sought power by acts of violence, and not through the peaceful agency of the ballot-box; that while they claim to have a majority of voters, and are therefore able to elect a Legislature and Convention, they ask Congress to wrongfully do for them what they may, at legal times and in legal places, do for themselves; that is, to change or abolish their Constitution; and unless Congress will do for them what they profess to be anxious to do for themselves, but which they willfully refuse to do, they threaten to plunge the country into civil war. This conduct forces upon the mind a conviction that they are conscious that they are in a powerless minority, and that the Convention has, in their name and behalf, asked the Congress of the United States to admit the Territory into the Union as a State; and that the people of Kansas have a right to admission into the Union, in accordance with the Constitution, and in virtue of the act of cession by France of the Province of Louisiana: it is therefore declared that Kansas shall be admitted into the Union, with its boundaries prescribed, and with the usual regulations relative to grants of public lands; and that until the next census and representative apportionment, the State shall be entitled to one representative in Congress. In the course of the debate which ensued, Mr. Green gave notice that he should present a substitute for this bill, providing for the admission of Kansas and Minnesota together, as had been done in the case of Florida and Iowa. The object of this was to expedite the business before the Senate, so that other important questions might come up for consideration. Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, gave notice that he should offer "It an amendment to this substitute, to the effect that | for a change in the Constitution which might pass the people of the States of Kansas and Minnesota the Legislature would be vetoed by the Governor. may alter or abolish their form of government as In this case the people of Kansas could change their they may think proper, so that it be republican and Government only by a revolutionary movement, in accordance with the Constitution of the United against which the President would be bound by States. Two minority reports from the Commit- his oath of office to employ the army of the United tee were presented. One of these, signed by Sen- States; or if the question were brought before the ators Collamer and Wade, asserts that the Terri- Supreme Court of the United States, the Court torial Government of Kansas was framed by the would be compelled to decide that the Constitution usurpation of a foreign force; that the Lecompton must be obeyed until changed or annulled in purConstitution was the result of this usurpation, and suance of its own provisions.Both the minority is contrary to the will of the people, legally ex- reports in the Senate complain of the delay of Mr. pressed; and that for Congress to consummate this Calhoun in announcing the result of the election outrage would be a violation of the principles of of January 4, and officially deciding which candirepublican government, and could not produce per- dates are chosen. He has published a statement, manent peace. In the late Territorial election the in which he says that he has received and openpeople had reclaimed their rights, and the Terri- ed a return from the Delaware Crossing precinct, torial Government was now, for the first time, mov- which gives to the Democratic party a majority of ing peaceably in its legislative sphere.-The other 379 votes, which would secure a majority to the minority report, presented by Mr. Douglas, takes Democratic legislative ticket for Leavenworth the ground that there is no satisfactory evidence County, and a majority in the Legislature, upon that the Constitution framed at Lecompton is the joint ballot. But he had been informed that it act of the people of Kansas, or embodies their will. could be proved by the sworn testimony of the The Convention had no power to establish the Con- judges of election that only 43 votes were polled stitution, but only to frame one to be submitted to at that precinct. If such should be the case, he Congress, with a memorial for admission, which should become a party to the fraud if he declined should be granted or denied according as the Con- to be governed by the oaths of the judges. stitution embodied the will of the people; that the is," he says, "a question going to the legality of proceedings of the Convention should have been the returns. Of that I may judge and determheld in strict obedience to the authority of the Ter- ine. I shall do so; and in my determination I ritorial Government; while, in fact, the Constitu- shall be governed by justice and truth, and the tion was declared to be in force in defiance of the right. If it shall, as it probably will, place the Territorial Government, as well as without the as- government of the State of Kansas in the hands sent of Congress; and that the only lawful election of my enemies, no one will regret it more; but upon the adoption of the Constitution was that held yet no one, not even a Black Republican, could on 4th January, which was in accordance with the perform the duty with more of the consciousness of law passed by the Legislature. The report of Mr. right than I shall feel in the honest discharge of Douglas discusses at length the question whether, my official duties. I have written to Governor in case the Lecompton Constitution should be sanc- Denver to procure the sworn statements of the tioned by Congress, the people would have the pow- judges of this controverted precinct, and to have er, should they see fit, to alter or amend it, as sug- them taken under such circumstances as will segested by the President in his Message. It argues cure a free and unbiased exhibition of facts. By that, in case Congress admits this Constitution to sworn statements so procured I shall be governed be the embodiment of the will of the people of Kan- in giving the certificates of election to the memsas, it has no right to annul or set aside the provi- bers of the Legislature from Leavenworth County." sion which forbids any alteration to be made pre-In the House, the Special Committee on Kanvious to 1864; for in prescribing a certain manner sas was composed of eight members in favor of the in which amendments shall be made, the Consti- Lecompton Constitution, and seven against it. tution must be held to exclude every other man- The majority of the Committee decided that it was ner; and when the Constitution has once become unnecessary to send to Kansas for testimony, and the fundamental law of the State, there can be no prepared a report, which at the date when our Relawful manner of altering or abrogating it, except cord closes had not been presented to the House, in accordance with its provisions. But, continues having been delayed in order to give the minority the report, which throughout assumes that the ma- time to prepare their report. It is understood, jority of the citizens of Kansas are opposed to the however, to indorse fully the views of the Presi Lecompton Constitution, suppose that the policy dent as developed in his Message, and to recomindicated by the President should be pursued, and mend the immediate admission of Kansas, as best Congress, in the act of admission, should recog-for that State and essential to the peace and harnize the right of the Legislature already elected to mony of the whole Union. submit to the people the question, whether they would have a Convention to amend their Constitution, it would be of no avail unless Mr. Calhoun should see fit to set aside fraudulent returns, in some cases, and go behind the returns in others, in order to insure a majority in the Legislature favorable to a change; and even should there be such a majority, it would be of no avail, since, in consequence of a large number of Anti-Lecompton votes having been returned to Governor Denver instead of Mr. Calhoun, it was well understood that the Lecompton ticket for Governor and State officers was to be declared elected; and any bill The bill for the increase of the Army, prepared in accordance with the recommendation of the President, elicited a long debate in the Senate, and, after having been modified by various amendments, was finally rejected, by a vote of 25 to 16. The most noticeable feature in respect to the proceedings upon this bill is that Mr. Seward spoke and voted in favor of the Administration, while a number of the leading Democratic Senators opposed, upon various grounds, the Administration measure. -A bill has been reported in the Senate authorizing the President to settle the difficulty with Paraguay. Some eighteen months ago the United States steamer Water Witch, Commander Page, conveying the Expedition sent out to explore the La Plata and its tributaries, while ascending the river was fired upon from a Paraguayan fort, under pretense that it was violating the territories of Paraguay; and no reparation having been offered for the outrage, it has been determined to send Commander Page to that country in command of an adequate force to secure indemnity.-Senator Houston offered resolutions in favor of establishing a protectorate over Mexico and Central America, which after debate were laid on the table. In the House special committees have been appointed to examine into several reported cases of bribery and corruption. The most noticeable of these grew out of an alleged payment of $87,000 by Messrs. Lawrence and Stone, a prominent manufacturing firm of Boston, to secure the passage of a bill concerning the importation of wool. As yet no facts of importance have been developed. Mr. Wolcott, a witness summoned before the Committee, refused to testify, and was committed to custody.-In the Senate a bill has been introduced by Mr. Toombs from the Judiciary Committee for a general and uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States. It will regulate voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy, provide against frauds and preferences, and compel an honest division of the bankrupt's property among all the creditors. From Utah we have intelligence to January 4. The main body of the army was encamped at Fort Bridger, sufficiently provided with food and clothing, and comfortably sheltered under tents. Captain Marcy had been sent to New Mexico to procure mules and horses for the army. He left Fort Bridger on the 28th of November, and reached Taos, in New Mexico, on the 24th of January, having suffered greatly during the journey. "For two hundred and fifty miles," he says, "I encountered snow from two to five feet deep, and I thought for two weeks that we should never get through. We only made about three miles a day for about ten days. We exhausted our provisions long before we crossed the mountains, and had to live exclusively upon starved mules for eleven days. One of my men perished, and many others were badly frozen. I also lost forty-four mules out of sixty-six." It is reported that the Mormons have made arrangements to intercept him on his return. Colonel Johnston writes to the War Department that he has no doubt that the Mormons are resolved to try at least one engagement. The Grand Jury of the United States District Court have found bills of indictment for treason against Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and eighteen others specifically named, besides a great number of persons whose names are not known to the jury. The Legislature of Utah met on the 14th of December, Heber C. Kimball being chosen President of the Council, and John Taylor Speaker of the House. Brigham Young sent in a long Message, reciting the alleged wrongs inflicted upon the Mormons, denying that they had ever violated any principle of the Constitution, and inveighing bitterly against the President for sending the army to Utah. Upon learning the approach of this army-or rather mob, as he designates it-he had issued his proclamation forbidding all bodies of armed men to enter the Territory under any pretext whatever. This proclamation had been disregarded, and he asks the Legislature to take such measures as they may deem necessary to protect the rights of the people of Utah. The Legislature, in reply, unanimously passed resolutions endorsing all the sentiments advanced by Young, and declaring that "neither the present nor any other administration of the General Government should enforce profane, drunken, and corrupt officials upon them at the point of the bayonet." SOUTHERN AMERICA. In Mexico the movement against the dictatorship of Comonfort has proved successful. As noted in our last Record, the fighting in the capital was recommenced on the 19th of January. In the course of the day the pronunciados gained a decided advantage, and a panic ensued among the Government troops, who deserted in large bodies to the enemy. Comonfort, rendered powerless, left the city on the 21st, with the small body of troops that remained faithful to him. On the 2d of February he issued, from Jalapa, a proclamation detailing the events that had taken place, justifying his conduct in acceding to the plan of Tacubaya, as the only means to prevent civil war, and in accordance with the solicitations of influential persons from all parts of the country. A full understanding and agreement, he says, was entered into between him, Zuloaga, and the other leaders, which was violated by them. After hostilities had broken out on the 11th of January, he had made various propositions designed to prevent bloodshed, all of which had been rejected. He then details at length the proceedings in the capital which had resulted in his defeat; in consequence of which he had resolved to expatriate himself; but should always be ready to answer for his conduct. Comonfort then proceeded to Vera Cruz, whence he embarked for the United States. After celebrating his victory with great rejoicing Zuloaga convened a Council of the Notables, who elected him President. In his proclamation Zuloaga promises to watch that order and tranquillity be not disturbed, and that scenes of bloodshed and carnage shall no longer afflict the public conscience. The capital and the whole nation, he says, shall soon behold realized those principles which decided him to accept the Plan of Tacubaya with its subsequent modifications. Among the first measures of the new Government were decrees annulling the laws for the confiscation of Church property. The interior States of the republic seem disinclined to acquiesce in the summary overthrow of the Constitution, and various leaders are in arms against the new Government. There is a strong probability of a war between Brazil and Paraguay. The dispute between these countries relates mainly to the right claimed by Brazil that her back provinces should have free access to the sea by the River Paraguay. This had been conceded by the Argentine Confederation, holding one bank of the river. Should Paraguay, which owns the other bank, persist in its refusal, Brazil has determined to go to war, having raised a considerable force for the purpose. The Paraguayan Government is also likely to be called to account for firing upon the American steamer Water Witch, while ascending the river, some months since. GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament met on the 4th of February. Lord Palmerston asked leave to bring in a bill to amend the law in relation to conspiracy to murder by making it a felony. This proposition was made in consequence of the recent attempt upon the life of ty, conspirators and assassins." The 19th Military Division is "indignant against those who become the accomplices of these sanguinary anarchists, by giving them an asylum." The 82d Regiment beseeches, "if his Majesty wants soldiers to get at these wretches even in their den, that he will choose this regiment as part of the advanced guard of that army." The 1st Regiment of Engineers ask, "Is your faithful army destined to remain forever, with its arms crossed, a peaceable spectator of those frightful plots, which, tolerated to-day, may be subsidized to-morrow?" These addresses, being published in the Moniteur, were considered to possess a semi-official character, and to indicate illfeeling on the part of the Emperor against England. Several repressive measures have been adopted by the Imperial Government. The army is to be or the Emperor of France, which was the result of a | with their protection, under the name of hospitaliconspiracy formed in England. This was opposed by several members, especially by Mr. Roebuck, who in a very sarcastic speech alluded to the addresses from the French army published in the Moniteur, in which England is designated as a den of conspirators. The French Emperor, he said, by whom these charges were made, had been a refugee in England, and while there had acted the part of a conspirator against the government of Louis Philippe. Lord Palmerston said that the offensive addresses in the Moniteur were not in the official part of the paper, and that the Emperor regretted their publication. Leave to bring in the bill was granted by a vote of 299 to 90. Before the bill came up for a second reading, a dispatch from the French Government was published, which was held to imply a charge that the English Government sheltered assassins who had placed them-ganized into five divisions, each under the comselves without the pale of humanity. Upon the mand of a Marshal devoted to the Emperor. Gensecond reading of the bill, Mr. Milner Gibson eral Espinasse, one of the Imperial aids-de-camp, moved an amendment, that while the House heard is appointed Minister of the Interior. The press is with concern that an attempt upon the life of the watched with increased vigilance. An addition Emperor had been devised in England, and ex- has been made to the penal code, punishing with impressed its detestation of all such guilty enter-prisonment those who have carried on any intrigue prises; and was also ready to remedy any defects or correspondence at home or abroad with the obthat might exist in the criminal law; yet it re- ject of disturbing the public peace, or exciting hagretted that Government, before recommending an tred or contempt against the Imperial Government; alteration, at the present time, of the law of con- and those who without legal authority shall have spiracy, had not made some reply to the dispatch made or sold any destructive machines, or fulof the French Government. This amendment, in- minating powder of any description. Another arvolving a censure upon the Ministers, passed by a ticle provides that any person implicated in the vote of 234 to 215.-A bill has been introduced for disturbances of 1848, '49, and '51, whose presence transferring the government of India from the East may appear dangerous to the public peace, may India Company to the Crown. It proposes to abol- be transported to Algeria or banished.-The Emish the Court of Directors, and in their stead to ap- peror has issued letters patent appointing the Empoint a council to be mainly composed of persons press as Regent in case of his own death; she who had been in India, or were well acquainted failing, the Princes in the order of hereditary sucwith Indian affairs-the council to consist of eight cession are to be regents. A Privy Council is persons, to go out in rotation every two years. named, consisting of the Duc de Malakhof, Counts The President of the Council to be one of the Sec- De Morny and Persigny, MM. Fould, Troplong, retaries of State, and be appointed by the Govern- and Baroche, with the two Princes nearest to the ment. The marriage between the Princess Roy- crown, who are to form the Council of Regency in al of England and Prince Frederick William of case of the accession of the Emperor as a minor; Prussia was celebrated on the 25th of January. they will in the mean while be consulted in all The royal couple left England on the 2d of Febru- great affairs of state, and are to prepare themary, and proceeded to Prussia, where they were re-selves for the important task which may devolve ceived with great enthusiasm.-The Leviathan steamship was at length launched on the 31st of January, after some months of constant effort and many failures.Dr. Livingstone has set out on another expedition to the interior of Africa. He is furnished with every means to facilitate his journey. A sum of £5000 has been placed at his disposal; competent assistants are provided for him; and a steam launch is to be employed to convey his party as far as possible up the River Zambesi. FRANCE. It appears certain that the plot to assassinate the Emperor of France was formed by refugees residing in England, where the bombs were manufactured by a mechanic who supposed them to be intended for some new experiment in warlike projectiles. The attempted assassination has called forth addresses from the army expressive of attachment to the Emperor, and plainly hinting at a war with England, on account of her alleged protection to conspirators. Thus, the Army of Lyons declares itself "ready to shed its blood in all places, to reach and annihilate the partisans of regicide." The 5th Lancers are "afflicted that powerful friends, whose brave armies so lately combated by our side, should cover upon them in the event of the Emperor's death. In Naples the trial of the prisoners implicated in the attempted insurrection of last July is in progress. As noted in our Record for September, the insurgents seized upon the Genoese steamer Cagliari, while on her voyage from Genoa to Turin, and forced the captain to land them upon Neapolitan territory. The crew of the vessel, including two English engineers, are also on trial, although the conspirators declare that the captain and crew had nothing to do with the plot, but acted under constraint. Some of the accused complained bitterly of the treatment they had received, and of having been robbed of all their clothes and money; and one declared they had been buffeted and knocked down with hatchets. They also stated that many of their companions had been massacred in cold blood after their surrender; that thirty-five had been murdered in this way at Padula, and twentyseven at Sanza; that the bodies of the wounded were rolled over the cliffs, and their existence thus finished. Others complained that, though brought to the prison in carriages, to create the impression that they were well treated, they were dying of cold in the prison for want of bed or covering. THE EAST. From India we have news to January 26. Dispatches had been received from Sir Colin Campbell exonerating General Windham from all blame on account of his defeat near Cawnpore, and recommending him for a higher command. On the 24th of December the commander-in-chief set out from Cawnpore at the head of 10,000 men; he proceeded westward, clearing the country as he advanced, meeting with no opposition that was not easily overcome. He writes to the Government that "the neck of the business all over the country is broken. The Doab, which for so many months was abandoned to rebel chiefs and lawless soldiery, has been swept clean of the enemy. The petty rulers and landholders, if still at large, are fugitives in Rohilcund or Oude, and their lands have passed from them forever. The mutineers under Bahadoor Khan have next to be attacked, and here some resistance may be met with; but neither from them nor from the hordes whom Sir James Outram is holding in check at Alumbah, and whose destruction will be the latest event of the insurrection, do we look to receive any thing more than a momentary obstruction to the re-establishment of the benign and just rule of England." General Outram, who, with 4000 men, holds the post of Alumbah, between Cawnpore and Lucknow, was attacked on the 12th and 16th of January, but the assailants were repulsed with severe loss. It is reported that Nena Sahib was taken prisoner by General Outram on the 2d of January; that the insurgents proposed to exchange him for English ofcers whom they had taken; that Outram referred the matter to the Governor-General, who replied that no ransom would be received for him. Various engagements of minor importance have taken place, in all of which the British were victorious. Mohammed Bahadoor Shah, the ex-King of Delhi, has been put upon trial. The charges against him are, "that being a pensioner of the British Government," he had aided and abetted the officers and soldiers of the East India Company in the crimes of mutiny and rebellion against the State; that he had aided and encouraged his son, Mogul Mirza, a subject of the British Government in India, and others, to rebel and wage war against the State; that, "being a subject of the British Government in India, and not regarding the duty of his allegiance, he did, as a false traitor against the State, proclaim and declare himself the reigning king and sovereign of India," took possession of Delhi, and waged war against the British Government; that at Delhi he became accessory to the murder of forty-nine persons, chiefly women and children; encouraged the murder of European officers and others; and issued orders to different native rulers to murder all Christians in their dominions; "the whole, or any part of such conduct being an hein ous offense under the provisions of Act 15 of 1807 of the Legislative Council of India." Hostilities have been vigorously resumed in China. The English and French plenipotentiaries sent in their ultimatum to Governor Yeh. They demanded that the treaty should be carried out; that Canton should be put upon the same footing as the other treaty ports, its gates being open to commerce; that compensation should be made for the damage to British merchants; and the occupation of the island of Honan, of which possession had been taken, should be acquiesced in, as a material guaranty, until all matters were settled. The Governor replied that the treatment of foreigners had been settled by decree of the Emperor, and advised Lord Elgin to follow the example of Sir John Bonham, who was made a baronet for respecting that decree; and as for compensation, he had himself demanded of the British Government indemnity for losses suffered by China. Mr. Reed, the American Commissioner, had just before solicited an interview within the city, to which Yeh had replied, that he would meet him outside; but that no foreigner should set foot within the walls of Canton.-The attempts at negotiation having failed, the English and French made preparations to attack Canton. On the 24th of December the city was summoned to surrender: this having been evasively answered, notice was given to the inhabitants of the intended operations, recommending them, in case the city was taken by assault, to remain within their houses, promising them protection from plunder and outrage, as far as was in the power of the commanders. The bombardment was opened on the morning of the 28th, and the town was soon on fire in several places. Five or six thousand troops were landed the next day, who succeeded in taking possession of the forts in the rear of the city, the Chinese making an obstinate resistance, but fleeing as soon as the Europeans effected an entrance. The English and French escaladed the walls, and entered the city in spite of the opposition of the Chinese and Tartar troops. When the steamer left the firing was still going on, the Chinese suffering defeat in every quarter.-The bombardment seems to have been mainly directed against the walls and fortifications, sparing the dwellings as far as possible; but the letter-writers add, that as the Chinamen were shooting at the troops from the tops of the houses, it would probably be necessary to treat the city less leniently. From the North, the Chinese officer in command upon the Amoor River sends to the Emperor an account of the measures he has taken to carry out the Imperial order to furnish gunpowder to be used "to protect the Amoor Territories against the encroachments of the Russian barbarians." This, having been published in the Pekin Gazette, is regarded as equivalent to a declaration of war against Russia. Literary Notices. A Text-Book of Church History, by Dr. J. C. L. | public for the diligence and good judgment with GIESELER, edited by Professor HENRY B. SMITH. (Published by Harper and Brothers.) The revised American edition of Gieseler's standard Church History, by Professor Smith, is continued by the publication of the present volume, which forms the third of the series. The accomplished and faithful editor is entitled to the thanks of the American which he has performed his responsible task. In addition to numerous corrections of the English translation, he has carefully revised the text and notes of the original, which bristle with a formidable array of recondite learning, and enriched the bibliography of the work with frequent valuable suggestions of the most recent authorities. For the |