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Steamship The France. This fine ship, just completed, belonging to the National Steamship Company's line of Liverpool Steamers, has just made her first trip to New York. She is thirtyfive hundred and seventy-two tons burden, three hundred and eighty feet long, forty-two feet beam, twenty feet deep, has three decks, and twenty-two feet draught. She is furnished with seven bulkhead compartments, water-tight, class A. No. 1, Lloyds. A large company of merchants and business men were invited on board the France, to view her magnificent proportions, and partake of a sumptuous dinner in her spacious saloon, during her stay at the wharf in New York. F. W. G. Hurst, Esq., the gentlemanly New York manager, No. 57 Broadway, presided, and proposed the toasts of the occasion. We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers who may have occasion to cross the ocean to this noble line of steamers, in which they will find good accommodations and a pleasant passage.

Philharmonic Society of New York. The music-loving public may be congratulated on the rich programme prepared and offered in a series of rehearsals and concerts for the coming winter, by the Philharmonic Society of New York, at the Academy of Music.

Dr. R. Ogden Doremus, so well known in the medical world of science, and equally well skilled in music, is the honored President of the Society, who, with his able associates in the Board of Directors, have engaged one hundred performers for the season, thus surpassing all previous arrangements to gratify the public in this department. We commend the Philharmonic Society to the generous patronage of the public, and for the information of our readers out of the city, we subjoin the programme of concerts, that they may avail themselves of this rare musical luxury when visiting the city.

The rehearsals and concerts of the present season will take place as follows: 1867, Friday, October 25, afternoon rehearsal, 2 o'clock; Friday, November 1, do. rehearsal, 24 do.; Friday Nov. 15, general rehearsal, 24 do.; Saturday, Nov. 16, first concert. Friday, Dec. 6, afternoon rehearsal, 24 do.; Friday, Dec. 13, do. rehearsal, 24 do.; Friday, Dec. 20, general rehearsal, 24 do.; Saturday, Dec. 21, second concert. 1868: Friday, January 17, afternoon rehearsal, 24 do.; Friday, Jan. 24, do. rehearsal, 24 do.; Friday, Jan. 31, general rehearsal, 24 do.; Saturday Feb. 1, third concert. Friday, Feb. 21, afternoon rehearsal, 24 do.; Friday, Feb. 28, do. rehersal, 24 do.; Friday, March 6, general rehearsal 24 do.; Saturday, March 7, fourth concert. Friday, March 27, afternoon rehearsal, 2 do.; Friday, April 3, do. rehearsal, 24 do.; Friday, April 17, general rehearsal 24 do.; Saturday, April 18, fifth concert.

Imperial Travelling.-The special train in which the Emperor Napoleon went with his suite from Paris to Salzburg is described as exceeding in comfort and elegance anything of the kind that has hitherto been known. The train consisted of nine carriages, communicating with each other by tastefully decorated bridges. In the middle was a handsome sitting-room, furnished with chairs, ottomans, sofas, mirrors, pictures, clocks, and chandeliers. On one side of this room was the diningroom, and on the other the Emperor's study. In the middle of the dining-room there was a table

capable of being extended or contracted at pleasure, with easy-chairs placed parallel to the sides of the carriage. The Emperor's study contained an ele gant writing-table, a clock, in the style of the renaissance, a thermometer, a barometer, and a telegraphic apparatus, by means of which telegraphic communication was established with the apart ments of the various court officials travelling with his Majesty. Next to the study was the bedroom of the Emperor and Empress, with two beds placed transversely against the sides of the carriage. Two dressing-rooms were attached to the bedroom. The remaining carriages consisted of a kitchen, a wine cellar, and the apartments of the Emperor's suite. There was also a conservatory filled with the choicest flowers.-Pall Mall Gazette.

Dr. Livingstone.-Though he did not directly employ himself in his expeditions of discovery in preaching the Gospel, he always regarded himself as the pioneer of Christianity and civilization. It was not merely to add another province to our geographical knowledge, or to trace a few more lines upon the blank spaces in the map of Africa, that he bore the hardships and faced the perils of an unknown country. His great aim and object everywhere was to bring fresh light and knowledge and happiness, here and hereafter, to miserable and perishing tribes of men and women. How they could best be brought into contact with the European races, where missions could be planted and on what principles conducted, above all-because in his mind it was the first and most necessary step to all the others-how a check could be given to that accursed slave-trade, which he has described so vividly, and which seemed to him the one grand obstacle in the way of all improvement, these were the topics which chiefly filled his mind, and which give life and animation to his pages. Fully aware as he was of the infir mities and vices of the negro, he has never for an instant acquiesced in those anthropological theo ries so much in vogue with some travellers, which would condemn him to remain forever a member of a hopelessly inferior race, whose trea and natural place in the world was only to be found in a state of slavery. He held firmly and proclaimed emphatically that the African tribes are composed of men and women like ourselves. ground down by oppression, misery, and ignorance, but whom we are bound by the common debt of humanity, as well as by the higher obligations of religion, to assist in raising, purifying, Christianizing.-The Guardian.

Pascal and Newton-At the Dundee meeting of the British Association, Sir David Brewster demonstrated, by external and internal evidence, that the documents recently laid before the French Academy of Sciences as original letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Pascal are forgeries. The object of this pretended correspondence was to show that Newton was anticipated by Pascal in regard to the discovery of the law of gravitation.

At a recent book sale in London the immense price of $2050 was paid for "Shakspeare's Come dies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true original copics: the first folio edition with fine portrait by Droeshout on title-page, with Ben Jonson's verses To the Reader in large type, on a separated leaf opposite. Printed b Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623." The pur chaser was Mr. J. O. Halliwell.

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