and caused a terrible fracture of his skull, which
produced almost instantaneous death. Nothing could be
more heartrending than the spectacle presented by the
mangled features of the child. He lay upon the floor
of the car, with his skull fractured in the most frightful
manner. The cap which he wore had fallen off, and
was filled with his blood and brains. This was the
horrid sight which met the eyes of Mrs. Pierce when
she returned to consciousness. She sprang towards the
body of her boy, but was restrained by the General and
his friends, who endeavoured to soothe her. She
sustained no visible injury; but the shock occasioned
by the destruction of her son, added to her previous
debility, had a serious though not dangerous effect
upon her. The unfortunate lad was named after his
grandfather, Governor Benjamin Pierce. Throughout
the whole of this horrid scene General Pierce preserved
the most admirable presence of mind."
During the year 1852 no fewer than 299,504 immigrants
and 39,052 American citizens landed at New York. In
1849, the total of immigrants was 220,603; in 1850,
211,796; in 1851, 289,601. Of the immigrants in 1852,
the Irish constituted 115,537; Germans, 118,126;
English, 31,275; Scotch, 7640; Welsh, 2531. The
remainder were natives of no fewer than twenty-three
countries; the numbers varying from 4 from Turkey to
8778 from France. The largest immigration was in
June—49,225.

The New York papers report that the Ericsson caloric
ship has made a most successful experimental trip. She
did a measured distance of nearly eight miles in little
over the half-hour; which gives a speed of fourteen
miles an hour. The consumption of fuel is ascertained
to be only six English tons per twenty-four hours; a
saving, as compared with steam-ships, of more than
80 per cent. As the ship draws 16 feet 10 inches on an
even keel, this performance at a first trial, we are told,
has astonished all concerned in the enterprise.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

The past month's literature has been of a very
miscellaneous kind, so that any classification of it would be
difficult. Leopold Ranke's Civil Wars and Monarchy in
France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries has
been translated by Mr.Garvey. The Private Life of Daniel
Webster has been published by the private secretary of
the deceased American statesman, Mr. Charles Lanman.
A very striking episode in Russian history, written by
Prosper Mérimée under the title of Demetrius the
Impostor, has been translated by Mr. Scoble. Mr. Collier
has filled a thick volume, supplementary to his edition of
Shakspeare, with a series of striking and for the most
part satisfactory suggestions, emendatory of Shakspeare's
text in more than a thousand disputed passages, taken
from manuscript corrections to a copy of the second folio
made in the handwriting of the time, and now published
as Notes and Emendations to the text of Shakspeare's
Plays. Mr. Joshua Major, a practical gardener and
surveyor, has published a quaint and curious quarto
on Landscape Gardening. Mr. Simpson, an Edinburgh
advocate who wrote a graphic description of the field
of Waterloo immediately after the battle, has now given
to the world some equally clever sketches of Paris after
Waterloo, from notes taken at the time and hitherto
unpublished. Lord Mahon has commenced a new and
cheap edition of his History of England. Sir Charles
Fellowes has condensed into a single volume the
principal portions of his various books of travel into
Asia Minor, Lycia, &c. Mr. John Phillips has collected
into a portable book all that men of science would be
apt to feel most interested about in The Rivers,
Mountains, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire . A new and very
beautiful pocket edition of Byron's Poetry has been
issued by Mr. Murray. Mr. William R. Greg has
collected his Essays on Political and Social Science
from the Edinburgh and other reviews. Mr. Stocqueler
has completed his Life of Wellington. Mr. Humphreys
has put forth, very curiously as well as richly illustrated,
a History of Writing. Mr. Mariotti has compiled an
historical memoir of one of the earliest and most earnest
of Italian reformers, under the title of Fra Dolcino and
his Times. Mr. Trench has published, in a very
thoughtful little volume, the substance of some
lectures On the Lessons in Proverbs. Mr. Donald
Macleod, an American writer, has put together an
interesting summary of the facts strictly biographical
in the Life of Sir Walter Scott. Lieut, Col. C. Gilliess
has translated, as an antidote to Victor Hugo, Mons. A.
de la Guéronnière's puff of Napoleon the Third.
A new volume has been added to Niebuhr's Life and
Correspondence. In two unpretendingly written
duodecimos has heen comprised the Autobiography of an
English Settler in the United States Army. A small
and very intelligent book on Kaffraria and its
Inhabitants has been published by the Rev. Francis
Fleming. A treatise on the Fine Arts by M. Guizot
has been translated by Mr. Grove, and nicely
illustrated by Mr. Scharf. And to Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's
Poems and Dramas, and Lamartine's History of the
Restoration, the second and the fourth volumes have heen
added; the former containing nine books of King Arthur,
and the latter completing the history.

It is hardly possible, not is it necessary, to present
more than a selection of the principal books of fiction
that now mark the busiest season of the year at the
circulating libraries. Lady Georgiana Fullerton's
Lady-Bird, Mr. Frank Smedley's Fortunes of the
Colville Family, Miss Drury's Light and Shade or the
Young Artist, the story of Ruth by the Author of 'Mary
Barton.' Lady Catharine Long's First Lieutenant's Story,
Miss Macintosh's Alice Montrose, Mr. T. Gwynne's
School for Dreamers, and Mrs. Gore's Dean's Daughter,
are among the most recent attractions of this department
of literature. The author of 'Quakerism', too, who now
avows herself as Mrs. J. R. Greer, has written another
novel supplementary to her first, calling it The Society of
Friends. A very pretty edition of Grimm's Household
Stories has also just been completed, with illustrations
by Mr. Wehnert excellently expressive of their humour,
poetry, and fanciful invention. And with this may be
connected a series of designs and etchings on steel very
charmingly executed, with illustrations in poetry and
prose, issued by the same publisher with the title of
A Children's Summer.

To Mr. Bohn's Libraries several useful additions
have been made, and prominent among them a
collection of Yule-Tide Stories, edited by Mr. Thorpe.
Messrs. Ingram and Cooke have commenced a publication
intended to comprise masterpieces in every department
of standard literature, to be issued in a very
cheap form, with woodcut illustrations, and to be called
the Universal Library. Among the first batch sent out
are selections from Scott, Alison, Goldsmith, Walton,
and Sterne. Of pamphlets (not mentioning several
Dirges and Odes to Wellington), the chief have been,
Messrs. Cole's and Redgrave's Addresses to the classes
now formed for the promotion of Practical Art; a useful
compilation by Mr. Yapp on Art-Education at Home
and Abroad; a Letter on the Nature of Miss Sellon's
Establishment, by the Rev. W. G. Cookesley; two
treatises by men practically conversant with the subject
of which they treat, on Recruiting and Recruits, and
on National Defences; a treatise in Italian and English
On the Portrait of Vittoria Colonna, Marchioness of
Pescara; and a translation by Mr. Forbes Campbell of
M. Michel Chevalier's interesting Remarks on the
Productions of Precious Metals.

A Comedy in Three Acts by Mr. Douglas Jerrold,
called St. Cupid, was performed for the first time before
the Queen and the Court on the 21st, and the
following evening at the Princess's Theatre, with complete
success.