ating considerations are admitted and even | aggressive force against which we are proexaggerated, a large residuum remains. It viding ?-what is the defensive force with would be unfair to call this the charge of in- which we intend to resist? Nothing is so ternational hatred, but it undeniably is the idle as to vote, like Mr. Disraeli, for enorcharge of international distrust. We spend mous expenditure, and then to raise a nugamuch because France spends much; Mr. Cob- tory cheer by talking in a singular metaphor den says Frauce spends much because we of "bloated armaments." A statesman spend much. Undeniably, each expenditure should beforehand define our danger, and tends in the long run, and special instances and beforehand specify our preservation. We particulars apart, to augment the other. All can economize in but one way-the world nations borrow excessively solely because can economize in but one way, by seeing they spend excessively. Let us, therefore, see what is the real risk we run from our neighcarefully what our danger is. We do not bors, and then reducing our defensive armaagree with Mr. Lindsay that because we are ments to the sufficient minimum. friendly with France, therefore we need no armaments on account of France. In business we keep a reserve fund, not against existing dangers, but against possible angers. We provide not only for what we expect, but for what we do not expect. But do we know against what we are providing? The defensive outlay of a nation should be similar: we should know, not with pedantic accuracy, but in a general sketch, what is the

Lastly. One pleasing observation may be drawn from all these unpleasant figures. The only nation which has gone through the last few years without greatly increasing her debt is England-the only nation which has real free trade. The industry of the year has only been sufficient for the wants of the year in the one country where industry is uncrippled and unfettered.

"FORTY WINKS" is the title of a small | sellor Huber, of Vienna, has been sold by piece recently produced at St. James' Theatre. Messrs. Sotheby & Wilkinson, and produced It is a mere duologue, taken from the French, about £3,000. A silver didrachm of Camarina, and constructed with uncommon neatness. The in Sicily, brought £42,-another variety, though two characters represented in it are performed by Mr. George Vining and Miss Herbert. The still rarer, brought only £29.-A tetradrachm former, as Mr. Peregrine Poppyfield, is a coun- of Syracuse, with full-faced head of Arethusa try gentleman to whom a London party is "a (probably a copy from a picture or statue), the weariness to the flesh," and who falls asleep work of an artist of the first merit, brought after supping with the hostess, and continues in £136.-A beautiful and unpublished tetrathat state long after every one else has left. drachm of Chalcis in Macedon fetched £16 16s. The lady herself discovers him at four o'clock-Amyntas the Second or Third in silver (only in the morning, and is at a loss what to do. two known), bought for an eminent collector, She requests him to remain as if asleep until £14 14s.; the other specimen is in our British the servants get up; but Mr. Poppyfield takes a Museum.-Monunius, the King of Illyria, £18. different view of the matter, and creates a diver--A tetradrachm of Etolia, £15.-A gold sion to serve an ulterior purpose. The lady is didrachm of Athens (one hundred and thirty alarmed, lest, after all, the gentleman should grains), £51 10s.; it was found near Thebes. have intended to rob the house, and is therefore The high prices which the gold coins of Athens induced to continue the conversation, during command in the market are due, not to their which she is made to feel that she is compro- beauty of fabric, but mainly to their great mised to a certain extent, and therefore becomes rarity. The only gold coin of Cius yet known, willing to listen to her visitor, who, when once of beautiful fabric and graceful design, entitled awakened, is evidently "wide awake" to his to a high price, was keenly contested, and ultiown interests. The incident ends with a court-mately secured by the British Muscum for £142, ship in real earnest; and the curtain falls on the well-grounded expectation, on the part of the audience, that the next morning will witness the marriage of the fortunate interlocutors. This little drama was well received.

and thus saved from future changes.-A rare copper coin of the Bythinian or Mysian city of Hadriana, brought £6 1s. Its workmanship was good; contrary to what is usually seen upon the coins of that period.-A tetradrachm of Arsinoë the First (whose portrait in this instance is a jewel of workmanship) was purchased for £61,-a gold drachma of Berenice GREEK COINS.-A collection, comprising the Second, from the collection of Schlederhundreds of unpublished coins formed by Coun-hauss, and found in Alexandria, £37.

SHORT ARTICLES.-Metric Prose, 211. Photographs of Indian Mutiny and Chinese War, 220. Publications in Germany, 222. Muscular Christianity, 232. Balloon Telegraphing in Battle, 236. Possession Nine Points of the Law, 240.

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From The Examiner. little more settled! I am too giddy; this The Leadbeater Papers. The Annals of is the bane of my life; it hurries me from Ballitore. By Mary Leadbeater. With my studies to trifles, and I am afraid it will a Memoir of the Author. Letters from hinder me from knowing anything thorEdmund Burke, heretofore unpublished; oughly." "God gives me good resolves and The Correspondence of Mrs. R. Trench and Rev. George Crabbe with Mary Lead-sometimes," he says elsewhere," and I lead beater. Two Volumes. Bell and Daldy. a better life; they last for a time or so, sometimes more, sometimes less, and then, through the fickleness of my temper and too great confidence in myself, I fall into my old courses; ay, often far worse. You see my weakness, dear Dick, and my failings; plead and pray for me; we will plead and pray for one another." Subjects of every sort are discussed by these friends. In one letter Burke argues fully and learnedly respecting the amount of reason with which animals are endowed. In another he discusses the scholastic question, "Whether God can sin." Shackleton had argued thus; "God cannot lie; to lie is to sin; therefore God cannot sin;" and Burke, without denying the conclusion, shows the incompleteness of the syllogism.

IN the year 1726 Abraham Shackleton, a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, "a learned and good man, straightforward in all his dealings, and sincere in his converse with God and man," migrated to Ballitore, in the county of Kildare, and there established a boarding-school, destined to flourish through a hundred and ten years, and to send out some famous pupils. Most famous of all was Edmund Burke, who, with his brothers Garrett and Richard, entered the school in 1741, and upon whose early history some light is thrown by the sixty letters and more for the first time printed in the volumes now in our hands. It may be thought strange that Richard Burke, the father, a churchman so far as he was anything, and his Roman Between the friends arose in 1770 one Catholic wife, should have sent the lads to a misunderstanding. To please one of his Quaker's village school; but the choice was acquaintances, Shackleton had written a happy. Edmund learnt much from his schoolmaster's gentle teaching, and found in his schoolmaster's son, Richard Shackleton, a worthy friend for life. In 1744 Burke passed to Trinity College, Dublin, and thence proceeded to be a lawyer, author, and statesman in London, while Shackleton abode quietly in Ballitore, inheriting his father's school, and remaining steadfast to the traditions of Quakerism. But to the last their affection held.

biographical sketch of Burke (then grown to be a leading man in the House of Commons) and of his family. The document found its way into the newspapers. Burke was naturally aggrieved. He wrote to his friend, saying that he cared little for the gross and virulent abuse heaped upon him by avowed enemies, but that the professed apology and panegyric of one intimate with him hurt him not a little. "A rough public man may be proof against all sorts of bufRunning over with fun, and we should fets, and he has no business to be a public think rather trying to the seriousness of a man if he be not so; but there is as natural Friend, are Ned Burke's earlier letters to and proper a delicacy in the other sex, which his "Dear Dicky;" the naughty words will not make it very pleasant to my wife to like Sauvaßhv in-being written in Greek. be the daily subject of Grub Street and Earnest thought, however, shows itself in all newspaper invectives." Shackleton was the correspondence. Burke as a boy is dil- overwhelmed with regret. "I have used igent and painstaking, high-spirited and thee and thy family grossly ill," he said in impetuous. Boys do not often write relig- reply. "It was done in the simplicity of ious cant to one another; and there is no my heart; I mean the writing of it. The cant in Burke's fierce condemnation of his giving a copy of it I will not call indiscreown failings and yearning after greater ex- tion, but madness and folly." Burke was cellence, as expressed in his letters to Shack-more than satisfied, and heartily sorry at his leton. "I know what is good, like the severity. "A little trifling, mere impruAthenians," he says in one place; "but dence at worst," were his words, "did by no don't practise, like the Lacedæmonians. means deserve anything like a reproof, much What would I not give to have my spirits a less so harsh a one. Pray forget it, as the