and the branch mints, 4,700,000 dollars. The export of
cotton last year amounted to 87,935,732 dollars. The
exports of tobacco were worth 10,031,283 dollars; of
rice, 2,470,029 dollars; of bread-stuffs and provisions,
25,836,337 dollars. The exports of domestic merchandise
and produce show a decrease of 24,349,585 dollars,
as compared with the previous year.

The American papers contain a reply "to the Duchess
of Sutherland and the Ladies of England," by Mrs. Julia
Gardiner Tyler, widow of the late President Tyler. The
main ideas in this very long document are, that it was
an impertinence in the ladies meeting at Stafford House
to address the ladies of the United States at all on the
subject of slavery; that it is the only one subject on
which "there is a possibility of wrecking the bark of
this Union;" that England introduced and perpetuated
slavery against the wishes of the colonists: and that, if
they look around, enough will be found to do at home
in the way of ameliorating the condition of their fellow-
creatures. Mrs. Tyler concludes by saying that
"America might love England, if England would
permit her."

A revolution broke out in Buenos Ayres on the 1st of
December. The pretext was a dislike of Alsina, the
Governor. He resigned in consequence, and a new
government was formed; but that did not stop the
revolution. The town was besieged by the Gauchos
under Colonel Lagos, and was put to great straits; but
just before the mails were despatched, the Buenos
Ayreans sallied forth and drove the enemy from several
positions. It was conjectured that the country
population desired to make a diversion in favour of Urquiza,
and restore him to power. Sir Charles Hotham was at
the capital of Paraguay. The British and Americans
stood prepared for a self-defensive neutrality.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

PUBLICATION during the past month has gone much
in the direction of fiction and travels, but there have
been also several contributions to general literature
more or less important.

Messrs. Clowes and Spicer have added a fourth volume,
more abundant in illustration than any of its predecessors,
to the Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of
1851. Mr. Prentice has commenced a History of the Anti-
Corn Law League, of which the first volume is out. The
Rev. Derwent Coleridge has republished, with many
additions, his father's Notes on English Divines. There
has been a reprint of Pope's Homer, with small wood-
cut designs reduced from Flaxman. A new Life of
Toussaint L'Ouverture has attested the increasing interest
now shown in everything connected with the negro's
claims and capabilities. Military publishers have taken
advantage of the interest inspired by our national
defences to send out Militia Manuals, or Fighting
Made Easy. Mr. Frederick Hill has published a
volume on Crime, its Amount, Causes, and Remedies,
a subject on which his many years' experience as one of
the inspectors of prisons entitles him to speak with
authority. The same all-important subject has had
further illustration in a volume by the chaplain of the
Pentonville Prison, the Rev. J. T. Burt, descriptive of
Results of Separate Confinement at Pentonville; and in
a collection of facts and suggestions respecting Juvenile
Delinquents, by Miss Carpenter. An eighth edition of
Mr. Wilderspin's Infant System has also appeared, and
the Messrs. Blackwood have published an intelligent
treatise on Dwellings for the Working Classes. In a
volume professing to describe what are called the "spirit-
rappings" in America, a believer in those manifestations
has done his best to call attention to Sights and Sounds,
the Mystery of the Day. Mr. Edward Miall, M.P., has
elucidated those more intelligent and intelligible Bases of
Belief on which the nonconformist community rest
their theological opinions. Mr. James Heywood,M.P., has
abstracted and condensed the most important points of
evidence from the Oxford University Report into a
volume of practical results or conclusions, entitled
Oxford Recommendations and Subscription Tests. A
second series of Lectures on the Results of the Great
Exhibition of 1851, has completed one of the most useful
of the publications suggested by the Crystal Palace.
An elaborate treatise has appeared on Language as a
Means of Mental Culture and International Communication,
which seems designed as a manual for teachers
as well as students. Two more volumes have been
added to Mr. Taafe's History of the Order of St. John
of Jerusalem; and the Duke of Buckingham has
published a fresh selection from the Stowe Papers, later in
date than those of which his ex-librarian was the editor,
and principally illustrating, with the title of Memoirs
of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, those
differences between the Shelburne and other sections of
the Whig party, which led to the famous coalition of
Fox and North.

In fiction, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has given us
My Novel, or Varieties in English Life. Currer Bell
has added Villette to her series of tales of modern life.
Miss Julia Kavanagh has written a novel called Daisy
Burns. Mr. Longfellow's Hyperion has had the
compliment paid to it of a series of original illustrations, from
designs sketched in the localities described by the
romance. Scottish history has again furnished a subject
for romantic fiction, in a story of Jane Seton, or the
King's Advocate. Mr. Francis Drake has attempted a
philosophical novel under the title of Memoirs of a
Metaphysician. And an American lady enters the lists,
so thronged by our countrywomen, with a story in three
volumes, called Amabel, or the Victory of Love.

Lares and Penates, or Cilicia and its Governors, is
one of those books which Layard, Fellowes, and other
scholars have made of late so popular, in which modern
travel and enterprise are enlisted in the service of ancient
history: the author is Mr. W. Burckhardt Barker, who
has the advantage of a very intelligent editor in Mr. W.
Francis Ainsworth. A brief and interesting summary
of the Franklin Expeditions has been published as
Franklin's Footsteps. Mr. Warren Adams has described,
also briefly, A Spring at the Canterbury Settlement.
The recollections and campaigns of a distinguished
Prussian officer, who served under Wellington and
Blucher, and transacted delicate offices between them,
have been translated by Colonel Philip Yorke, with the
title of Passages from my Life, with Memoir of the
Campaign of 1813 and 1814, by the Baron Von Müffling.
An elaborate Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald
during 1845-51, under the command of Captain Kellett,
which included a circumnavigation of the globe and
three cruises to the Arctic Regions, has been written by
Mr. Berthold Seemann, who joined the ship in 1847 as
naturalist to the Expedition. Mr. Gisborne has
published a volume on The Isthmus of Darien in 1852,
including a journal of the expedition of inquiry. Colonel
Arthur Cunnynghame has written his Recollections of
Service in China; and Mr. Andrew Dickinson, an
intelligent working printer of America, has described
his First Visit to Europe.

Among the pamphlet publications for which a word
may be spared, have been The Deluge, a rhymed
attempt at satire by Lord Maidstone; a letter on the
formation and management of The National Gallery, by
Mr. Dyce, R.A.; a scheme of Direct Taxation for
1853, by Mr. Jelinger Symons; several more Pulpit
Estimates of Wellington; a letter to Lord Malmesbury
by Mr. Hume, M.P., On Sir James Brooke; several
plans and suggestions for the committee now sitting
On the Affairs of India; and another Letter to Lord
Mahon by Jared Sparks.

Ordinary compilers of Peerages boast of the "patronage"
of the nobility, but the Chronicler of Fashion for
the Morning Post, Mr. H. R. Forster, claims for his
Pocket Peerage and Baronetage for the Present Year a
higher distinction. He sends it forth labelled as having
been "revised by the nobility."