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dom publishes any thing new ; but younger 

 men have carried on the labor of their master. 

 Among the various publications of this kind 

 some are undoubtedly of great worth. We 

 have, first, a new volume of the valuable 

 " Antiquarisk Tidskrift for Sverige," with a 

 remarkable article not yet finished, by the 

 younger Mr. Hildebrand, about the develop- 

 ment of the earlier forms of the fibula (" Bid- 

 rag till Spannets Historia "). Then a book 

 of the same author, "The Swedish People 

 during the Time of Paganism " (Svenska folket 

 under Hedna-Tiden "), is worthy of perusal, 

 because of the new ethnological system which 

 the writer tries to establish regarding the old 

 inhabitants of the Scandinavian countries. 



Further may be mentioned " The Antiquity 

 Sweden " (" Sveriges Forntid "), first part, 



of 



with excellent engravings, newly published by 

 Mr. Montelius; the continuation of Mr. Stjern- 

 stedt's Numismatic Eesearches. History is 

 somewhat poorly represented. The most con- 

 spicuous productions are, the concluding vol- 

 ume of Mr. Cronholm's " History of Gustavus 

 Adolphus," the forty-first part of Mr. Fryxell's 

 " Tales of Swedish History," treating of the 

 years 1765-'70 ; and two very laborious his- 

 torico-statistical treatises, " Sweden in 1571." 



As to modern statistics, a new edition of 

 Mr. Fahraeeus's Handbook has left the press 

 ("Statistisk och Administrativ Handbok for 

 Sverige"). Besides, the public authorities 

 since the middle of the last century have 

 published very exact tables concerning the 

 growth of population and other statistical 

 topics. Such researches even, now are en- 

 couraged by the Government. 



LONSDALE, Rt. Hon. Sir WILLIAM Low- 

 THER, F. R. S., Earl of, born July 21, 1787; 

 died in London, March 4, 1872. He was edu- 

 cated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he 

 graduated M. A., in 1808. In the same year 

 he was elected one of the members for Cocker- 

 mouth in the Tory interest, and represented 

 that and another borough until December, 

 1832, when he was elected both for West 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland, and, having 

 selected the latter, he represented that county 

 until he was called to the House of Peers in 

 his father's barony of Lowther, September 6, 

 1841. He held several inferior posts in the 

 administration under Lord Liverpool, was First 

 Commissioner of Woods and Forests in the 

 Wellington administration of 182S- 1 30, Privy 

 Councillor in 1828, Vice-President of the Board 

 of Trade in Sir R. Peel's first administration 

 in 1834-'35, Postmaster-General in his second 

 administration in 1841-'45, and Lord President 

 of the Council in Lord Derby's first adminis- 

 tration in 1852. He succeeded to the earldom 

 March 19, 1844. He maintained throughout 

 his long public career a strong and consistent 

 attachment to the Conservative party, with 

 whom he uniformly acted. 



LOUISIANA, the contest between the ad- 

 herents of Governor Warmoth aud the follow- 



ers of Geo. W. Carter for the control of the 

 Legislature of Louisiana, which is alluded to 

 in the preceding volume of this work, was kept 

 up amid intense excitement through the great- 

 er part of the month of January, 1872. On the 

 third day of the session, Carter descended from 

 the Speaker's chair to defend himself against 

 charges of corruption and extravagance which 

 had been brought against him, and to denounce 

 the conduct of the Governor. As soon as he 

 had resumed his seat, a motion was made, that 

 the Speaker's chair be declared vacant, which 

 he decided to be out of order, as a vote of con- 

 fidence in him had been adopted the day be- 

 fore. Charges of fraud were then brought 

 against Mortimer Carr and E. W. Dewees, for- 

 merly Speaker of the House, and chairman of 

 the Committee on Contingent Expenses re- 

 spectively, and, while a motion was pending 

 for their investigation, the attempt was re- 

 newed, amid great disorder, to unseat the 

 Speaker. This failed, and the charges against 

 Carr and Dewees were indefinitely postponed. 

 On the next day, January 4th, a report of the 

 Committee of Elections was adopted, excluding 

 from their seats four members, on the ground 

 that they did not reside in the parishes which 

 they claimed to represent, and contesting 

 claimants in the Carter interest were admitted 

 in the places of three of them. The seats of 

 three other Warmoth men were also declared 

 vacant, and immediately filled by adherents of 

 the Speaker. Authority was also given to the 

 Speaker to keep the metropolitan police about 

 the hall, and to appoint as many sergeants-at- 

 arms as he might consider necessary to pre- 

 serve order. 



Meanwhile the halls of legislation were sur- 

 rounded by an excited crowd, kept under con- 

 trol by a large force of metropolitan police, 

 called into special service by the Governor. 

 In the midst of the excitement, it became 

 known that Governor Warmoth and several 

 of his supporters in the Legislature had been 

 arrested by United States officials on a charge 

 of interfering with the organization and con- 

 duct of the House of Representatives. They 

 were taken before the United States marshal 

 at the custom-house, and released on $500 bail 

 each, to appear when cited, and answer the 

 charges. The Governor immediately issued a 

 proclamation, calling an "extra session "of the 

 Legislature, to meet at once, on the ground that 

 a conspiracy had "developed itself to over- 

 throw the government by unlawful and revo- 

 lutionary means." The Senate assembled the 

 same afternoon, but, no quorum being present, 

 it adjourned after the reading of the Govern- 

 or's proclamation. Fifty-six members of the 

 House also assembled, chose temporary officers, 

 and adopted the following resolutions : 



Whereas, At a meeting of the House, at 12 o'clock 

 to-day, several of the Representatives of the people 

 were unlawfully and unconstitutionally arrested, by 

 certain parties styling themselves deputy United 

 States marshals ; and whereas, these outrages were 

 committed alone for the purpose of breaking down 



