The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-28 00:00:00

E A KWEEK. ‘..., PART 1., Price One Shilling, will be published on Saturday next, July 30. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverte-street. jEtOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management .f Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, DYING FOR LOVE. After which, Twill be revived Shakspeare's Tragedy of HEN 1 11 RY V. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen Katharine, T. C. Sean. To conclude with IF THE CAP FITS. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. , T UGHTER HIS ETENING TO the performances will commence with DA THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with NEVER DESPAIR. Mr, and Mrs. Henri Drayton. And (7th time) a new comic drama, in two acts, entitled AN OLD OFFENDER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Eburne, and Miss H. Simms. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Welly. And a Grand Ballet by the Celebrated Spanish Dancers. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Moe open fromlo tos —no charg e e for booking. No fees to !servants permitted. A registry pt of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, QUIXOTE, JUNIOR. Mr. J. Clarke. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock: VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the, remaining three acts being in oourse of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, eons istang of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and SIGHT years. The perfect exhcution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France . and Beum They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JCLY 28. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 79 —highest since noon yesterday. 69--lowest this morning and during the night. 77—this day at noon. Beßommiza,--30 . 18. WIND, Southerly, inclining to West ; rather fresh, with dull cloudy -weather, and close. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T H IS DAY. —Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 22m, To-Moagow-Morning, 12h. 53m.—Afternoon, lh. 22m, According to the announcement in the Moni teur of this morning, there is to be a reduction both in the French army and navy with the least possible delay. Good, very good, if true. But why is all this compound reduction ? Is lit a blind to back up the advic3 of the Moniteur the other day that there was no necessity for the English to increase their armaments in such red-hot haste — or is it a necessity to make some show of modera tion in compliment or in deference to our assumed disbelief in the sincerity of our gallant neighbours ? Take it as we may, there is no question that the position of neutrality declared by England, and hitherto so deliberately acted upon, has quickened the sensibility of NAPOLEON, who now finds that our national distrust is not to be trifled with. This apparent or professed reduction of the Army and Navy comes with a strange look at the very moment when the present state of Europe is taken into account. The Italian war is not ended, if we may judge by the state of irrita tion so prevalent throughout Italy. Besides—the Emperor of the FRENCH has his army so com pletely in hand that he might affect to disband one-half to-morrow, and recal them again in a week. As for the navy, why, the ships are even now all but ready, and we know that it is only to sound the bugle and the conscription will pour in its myriads in a week ! Still, let us be thankful that our determination to be " all right" in case of any unprovoked enter prise on the part of our neighbours, has brought the Emperor NAPOLEON to respect our position, and by appearing to pay homage to public opinion he has so far shown that our friendship is better than our indifference. We wish the French people well, but they will believe us when we tell them that we do not love our own independence the less.' Another good round sum—amounting this time to very nearly £l6,ooo—the House of Commons voted last night in Committee of Supply for the current year's expenses of the National Gallery. Not however until after there had been two divi sions—one upon a very moderate, the other what we can only rightly designate a very " slashing" amendment. The former of those two amendments --defeated by a clear majority of 131 in a com mittee of 211, as many as 171 having voted against, and as few as 40 in favour of the proposition—we owe to the rational and energetic opposition to the mismanagement of our national art collection, the resolute and unflinching opposition still persevered in to the very last by the hon. gentleman, the member for Brighton ! " Than whom"—and we commend Mr. STIRLING'S attention particularly to this emphatic expression of opinion volunteered last evening by the Right Hon. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—" Than whom, said Mr. GLAD STONE, no one was more competent, in his opinion, to deal with the subject before the Committee." That, recollect, was the volunteered estimate of Mr. CONINGHAM'S qualifications as an art-critic, an estimate of his abilities spontaneously offered yes terday to the House when in Committee by no less dispassionate and unthoritative a witness than the Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S Exchequer. The hon. gentleman the member for Perthshire thinks differently upon the matter however and takes e specially good care moreover to tell the house he does so. Yet the manner in which Mr. STIRLING pronounces his opinion of the powers (or rather, according to his view we should say perhaps, the weakness) as an art-critic of Mr. CON INGHAM, evidences in every syllable such uncalled-for acer bity, and petulance, and irritation—that we find ourselves irresistibly reminded at the close of the hon. member's remarks, of an extremely old pro verb, common, we should imagine to many coun try's—a proverb which runs thus, " Two of a t ra d e c an never agree," in our own homely ver nacular. Mr. STIRLING talks of course quite ex cathedra. That is we may presume upon the strength of his " Annals of the Artists of Spain." And he appears to be particularly wroth that the hon. member for Brighton should presume for an instant to have any opinions at all upon art—Mr. CONINGHAM, forsooth, being only a pamphleteer ! " The hon. member," said Mr. STIRLIN G, in the course of his ill-tempered observations last evening, " the hon. member had indeed published a pamphlet on the subject, but so far as he (Mr. STIRLING) could Pee, that pamphlet, as well as the speeches of the hon. gen tleman, was made up almost entirely ° assertion s." Really, so far as we can see, Mr. STIRLINO 4 own remarks yesterday in committee mi ght be 'I -Wit accurately d' escribed in that very same identical phrase—they were, beyond all manner of doubt, from first to last, made up entirely of asser tions, and as it appears to us, moreover, of extremely loose, and even it might be added of extremely ridiculous assertions. According to Mr. STIRLING, for example, in the matter of that Holbein portrait, Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE stands acquitted, if we are to follow the preposterous logic of the member for Perthshire, precisely because Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE " had himself the candour to confess that he had been wrong in purchasing it as a genuine picture." A mode of reasoning, surely, to say the least of it, absolutely, in its way, quite ludicrous. As to the pictures of the Spanish school, which had been purchased for the National Gallery, under Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE'S management, or as we should always prefer to call it, mismanage ment pictures which the member for Perth shire took occasion last evening to remind the house, then in Committee of Supply, "it was the opinion of the honourable gentleman (Mr. CONINGHAM) were altogether unworthy of that institution"—Mr. STIRLING went on imme diately to add—" But upon that point he begged leave to differ from the hon. gentleman, and to express his belief that those pictures were highly creditable to the taste of those by whom they were bought." After which oracular opinion, of course nothing further remains to be said upon the mat ter. It is the author of the " Annals of the Artists of Spain" who has said it—not one of your mere art pamphleteers. [Though for that matter, by the way, it would be well for Mr. STIRLING'S modesty in future, if the hon. gentleman would bear in mind that the greatest of all the art critics of our day, and—making allow ance for a few whimsies and crochets of his own — one of the greatest art critics that has ever lived, JOHN RUSKIN, the Oxford Graduate; is now, year after year vindicating a peculiar right to that very title as one of his most honourable designations, that of an art pamphleteer !] But Mr. STIRLING, as we have seen, pronounces (in opposition to Mr. CONINGHAM) such and such pictures purchased for the Natianal Gallery at the instance, or at any rate, with the consent of Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE—to be " highly creditable." Wherefore, of course, they are highly creditable. Mr. STIRLING has said it, and we must accept as meekly, as thankfully as may be, Mr. STIRLING'S authoritative pronunciamento ! Mr. STIRLING is necessarily right in his opinion. Mr. CONING HAM is necessarily wrong in Ms opinion. Yet the very man who talks in this haughty, arrogant, dictatorial tone, had the coolness only a few minutes previously to remark with a sneer of Mr. CONINGHAM —" He condemned the purchases which had been made for the National Gallery, but something more than mere assertion was re quired to demonstrate the justice of that condem nation." Surely his words may be echoed back upon him—surely we may say en revanche to himself, that something more than mere assertion is required to demonstrate the justice of his appro bation ! It might naturally be supposed from the acri mony of the opposition made by the member for Perthshire to Mr. CONINGIIAM'S amendment, that that amendment was characterised in some way or another by remarkable extravagance. Yet the member for Brighton, it will be found, merely proposed that the decision arrived at last ses sion by the House of Commons—namely, that the absurd item to defray the charge for a travelling agent should be struck out of the esti mates—should not be evaded this session by the surreptitious insinuation of the same charge in another way. The amendment, in fact, moved by the member for Brighton was couched in these simple words :—" That the vote for the National Gallery be reduced by £650 charged as travelling expenses." It was not therefore a very monstrous proposition that a trifling item like this one of £650 should be struck out of a " little bill" amounting in all to the tolerable sum total of £15,985. Supposing the proposition had passed in Committee, there would still have been voted £15,335 for the National Gallery. But no—the House of Commons, after deciding in 1858 that we should no longer have to pay the expenses of a travelling agent like Herr MUNDLER, or Herr MUDDLER, or Herr BUNGLER, or however else he may be designated—consistently rejects Mr. CO NINGHAM'S proposition in 1859 that they should ad here by that decision—and resolves by a clear majority of 131 in a house of 211 that .£650 shall be paid for travelling expenses, and that the vote shall pass undiminished to the full tune of £15,985. Not, however, until another division has been taken —this time upon the bold and sweeping proposition of the member for North Warwickshire—that that total should be at once reduced by no less an amount than £lO,OOO. The clear majority upon this division, it is worth observing, had dwindled down to seventy-two, in a house of 200-64 voting in favour of and 136 against Mr. SPOONER'S amendment. Here, again, as in almost every other instance—the old Whig consolation is held out to us ostentatiously. According to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, " next year" we may have an oppor tunity for improvement. It is the old " put off,'' no doubt of it—but still really and truly it does so happen that, next year, we shall have such an op portunity. The Treasury minute having been arranged for five years in 1855—it follows that in 1860 the whole subject must come again under the consideration of Parliament. Then, obviously, will be an opportunity—and what is more, a very excel lent opportunity. " Die game " should be Mr. NEWDEGATE'S motto. It required, certainly, no little assurance to come forward in the face of a house which, by the large majority of 73, following upon a majority as large in the previous session, had doomed Church rates to die, and propose to restore them in another form. Indeed, hardly in another form ; for there was to be a rate still—a rate collected with the county rate, and which did not depend on the will of the parishioners. He accepted, he said, the deci sion of the house that Church-rates should be abolished, and incontinently proposed that it should levy a Church-rate which no Dissenter could evade. - Wherever for seven years the rate had not ceased to be collected, he proposed to levy a rate of 2d. in the pound on the property, to be paid by the occu pier, who should be entitled to deduct it from the rent. The proceeds were to be entrusted to the care of the Governors of Queen ANNE'S Bounty , and many complex provisions were to be framed for the collection and administration of the rate. The sum of all, however, was a rate on property generally, with the exception mentioned, and a rate fixed in amount by Act of Parliament for ever ! Mr. NEWDEGATE doubtless thinks himself, like the followers of GEORGE FOX, " raised up to bear a testimony," only one directly the opposite of theirs. GEORGE and his friends " testified" against all ecclesiastical taxes when it seemed as hopeless to abolish them as it would have been to abolish the ecclesiastical DE GA T E and taxes,hi s even disciples ve n to ' testify" C ' onstituti i o n n. fa isti vo r u . r N oEfw the most odious of them, and that at a time when t h e re is a decided majority for abolition. In some respects, Mr. NEWDEGATE'B martyrdom I is certainly a much more p leasant one than the old Quaker's. He has not to go to prison for upholding Church rates, as Fox had for denouncing them ; we may even venture to question whether he would pre serve them at such a personal cost. But he has to face the infliction of certain defeat ; he has to act the part of folly, by gratuitously wasting the time of the House of Commons in the last week of July and it requires somewhat of the spirit of martyrdom to stand up thus before such an assembly, and bid it " write him down bore." Possibly, however, Mr. NEWDEGATE had nothing to overcome. Bigotry has little sensation. It could walk, like the Esqui maux, on broken glass, and not wince, because it felt nothing. " Doing God—that is its God—ser vice," is a shield and armour against all the ridicule of common sense ; and we have little doubt that a minority of 92 did not trouble Mr. NEWDEGATE at all: probably he regarded it as one of his title deeds to honour in that happy place where Church rates are never refused, because they are never asked. Mr. WALPOLE more modestly asked, for the land lords, power to charge their estates voluntarily with a sum equal to the present amount of Church-rate paid by their occupiers. Mr. NEWDEGATE is much bolder. He would fix on them, whether they liked or not, a tax for all generations ; their only hope of relief to be a Landlord Church-rate Abolition movement. It seems wonderful he could, after Mr. WALPoLE's moderate proposal and its rejection, and after the affirmation, so emphati cally, of Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S thoroughgoing bill—that he could have the audacity to offer his resolution to the House. He got, indeed, 99 sup porters. We question whether he would have got half-a-dozen, had they not been perfectly sure of being outvoted. The " Noes," Mr. DISRAELI him self among them, we are pretty confident, went together into the lobby in exemplification of Mr. DISRAELI'S recent and eloquent defence of " party" Government. Mr. NEWDEGATE belonged to the party. He must be encouraged when encourage ment could do no harm; but we feel as certain as we can be of anything of such a kind, that Mr. DISRAELI would never, in a Government, lend his sanction to anything like a permanent Church rate on property, and one placed beyond the con trol of the ratepayers. As if Mr. NEWDEGATE had not exhibited enough of folly on the subject, Mr. CROSS must try how time could be wasted by a factious amendment in committee, and he succeeded in the commendable object of talking against time. He merely revived some of the old exploded schemes for enabling dissenters to " sign off," and for limiting the purposes to which Church-rates may be applied. Of course, these antiquated crotchets will be kicked out with the contempt they de • serve, when the talkers for talking's sake will allow a division to be taken, which we hope the good sense of the leaders of the Opposition will compel their followers to submit to, soon. Mr. DISRAELI will not allow his " party" to disgrace • itself by merely vulgar obstructive tactics. Hi will teach them the difference between party, and faction. The question ought now to be considered settled. The Select Committee of the House of Lords is like the two proposals adverted to, a mere factious trick of the Evangelical Duke to gain time. He knows, and we all know, all that can be known about Church-rates. The Lords will be foolish indeed if they allow the Church-rate Saints among them to lead them into another Jew Bill contest with the Commons. This is a money question. The Commons, to whom such questions fairly belong, have decided by repeated majorities, that the money shall no longer be raised compulsorily. It is unconstitutional even for the Lords to resist on such a question. They have not even the pre text that it is the imposition of any new tax by which they as landlords are affected. They will be relieved, if they please, not taxed. In fact they, and all good Churchmen, will be left to their own generosity and liberality, which will most certainly provide ten times the amount now raised by rates. The country is impatient for a settlement; the House of Commons shares its impatience —it has told the Lords so again and again, and it is now time for th© Peers to do what they must do soon, whether they will or not. dt 4e ~,. r ; -:----r--gi,'--, „r - , ~;,, I. 4, ' -Ameto- i 4,1":0• 1, , A ' 07 , .•4,;..". , v.:o* i • , . \ , r, A .,,,.- .- A -, ..- ..: •frgptior --.7.1 5 ,,,,„,":!.. ;I r., •„„ , . ..:1,...• ~,, D r — 0 ,„ ...., ~,...—,;,,,,,:,,,,,, ~..,.,.......t irtii, .... 1, . 1 , 0 .., ~,„,„,,h, :.. Ro a ... , ml - - - ~, , ~.0.- - . -.„ THE SUN. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1859. HER MAJESTY'S LATE SLOOP HERON. ADMIRALTY, JULY 28 The Athens, Cape Mail Packet, has arrived at Devonport. Left Cape 21st June, and Ascension July 4. The captain reports that Mr. Blair, mate of her Majesty's late sloop Heron, and 39 men, of whom 25 are Europeans, have been picked up, and are believed to be now on board her Majesty's steamer Vesuvits. ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY-LANE. Another remarkable novelty, in the shape of Signor Verdi's grand serious opera, " Les Vepres Siciliennes"—un der the Italian title of " I Vespri Siciliani"—was produced last night, for the first time in this country, with incon testable success. The " Vepres Siciliennes," brought out at the Academie Imperiale in 1854, is the only work which Signor Verdi has written for the great national Opera of France—his " Jerusalem" (1847) being one of his earlier compositions (I Lombardi), with alterations and additions for the occasion. The part of the heroine—the Duchess Helen—was composed expressly for Mademoiselle Sophie Cruvelli, to whose magnificent voice and means it was ad mirably suited. Others have attempted it since (including the promising Mademoiselle Moreau Sainti), but none with anything approaching the same effect. Last night, how ever, Mademoiselle Tietj ens, by her splendid dramatic energy and brilliant execution, proved that Signor Verdi might have done worse than select her for his prima donna. Her performance was remarkable throughout. Signor Mongini won fresh laurels as Henri Arrigo, Helen's lover, and the victim of Giovanni di Procida (Signor Vialetti), the Sicilian patriot. Signor Fagotti exhibited his accustomed talent as De Montfort. The famous ballet divertissement, entitled " Les Quatre Saisons," including the Sicilian national dance —in the music to which Signor Verdi has been so sparkling and happy—was perfectly executed by Madlle. Bosohetti (Autumn) and her companions ; and the raise en scene was complete and splendid throughout. Madlle. Tietjens and the principal artists were more than once recalled, and after the fourth act, in obedience to a unanimous summons, Mr. E. T. Smith came forward and was loudly cheered. The general execution of the opera was creditable to all con cerned. Signor Arditi presided in the orchestra. Mr. Pease and Mr. Ingram were among the mem bers who were prevented voting with Sir J. Trelawny by the non-ringing of the division bell in the committee rooms. THE H. P. C. NUISANCE. —The present Duke of Wellington has done one thing which his heroic father never did. He has made an unsuccessful attack upon a French column.—Punch. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HALF-CROWN DAY, Wed nesday, July 27.—Admissions on payment, 3,098 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,240 ; total visitors, 4,338. PALPABLE.—Two men were convicted, on a re cent Friday, by Mr. Broughton, of having endeavoured to obtain money from the Marquis of Westminster. The poor demented wretches have been sent to a criminal prison. Where is the Lunatics' Friend Society ?—Punch. THE FIRE AT THE LONDON DOCKS.—The extent of the damage sustained at the brandy vault by the fire we reported yesterday, is now pretty well ascertained, and is found to be very moderate considering the nature and vici nity of the danger. THE MAlLS.—According to a Post-office notice just issued, mails for America, India, Spain, and Port u g al will be made up in the General Post-office to-day ; for America on Friday ; for the West Indies, Pacific, and Canada on Tuesday next ; for America and India, Aug. 3 ; and for India and China, Aug. 4. Aritils from China, India, Alexandria, Malta, and Canada will be due at the General Post-office to-day ; from the Hoes Indies, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and Cape of Goodp on Monday next ; from India, Alexandria, and Malta en Tuesday next ; from i d a ri t a o , tak Canada, Aug. 3 ; from . New Zealand, Australia, Mauritius, Malta, America, and Bahamas, Aug. out the Bombay mail, and the Tagus the Peninsular mail, the the Arabia the Ameri can mail of Friday ; the Atrat . o West India mail next BcomTbhaye,, Tuesday ; the Indus , the India mail Aug. 8 ; the Phoebe the Care mail Aug. o ; and the Tyne the Brazil mail Aug. B A eh le r 9. Ship mails are to be . despatched by the steamer Warrior Aug. 1, for Lisbon, Cadiz, Mogador, and Canary Islands. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Yesterday, want of space compelled us merely to record the success of Meyerbeer's new opera, " Dinorah" ; to day we are enabled to give an outline of the plot. It is as follows : A young goat-herd Heel (Signor Graziani), and Dinorah (Madame Miolan Carvalho), a year before the action takes place, were on the eve of being united in marriage when the ceremony was interrupted by a tremendous storm, and a thunderbolt falling, destroyed the cottage of Dinorah's father. Hoel yielded up all his worldly possessions to en able the father of his betrothed to rebuild his cottage, and was persuaded by a village sorcerer to' hide himself in a neighbouring forest for the space of a twelvemonth, believ ing that immense wealth would be the immediate conse quence of his temporary concealment. The year has just elapsed, and the action of the piece commences. The sor cerer has been summoned away by death, but not until he has betrayed to Heel the place where the money is concealed, and informed him of certain conditions annexed to the recovery of the treasure, namely, that he who first touches the stone under which it is hidden will die before the expiration of a year. This is a decided poser for Hoel, who now, after the fashion of Caspar in " Der Frieschutz," looks about him for a substitute and a victim. Corentino (Signor Ciardoni) is an artist who displays his talents by performing on the bagpipes. Moreover, he is the nephew of the deceased sorcerer, and, to conclude, the veriest coward in the canton. Notwithstanding his timidity, Corentino is as fond of money as the bravest man who ever lived, and when Heel acquaints him with the secret of the treasure, only concealing the appended formula, he is ready to face the devil himself, provided there is no danger. Corentino, directed by his friend Hoel to the secret spot in the " Accursed Valley," is just on the Point of removing the stone, when he hears a voice in the distance singing a romance in which the legend of the treasure, and the fatal consequences to the discoverer are related. The state of Corentino's mind may be imagined, and nothing but cowardice prevents him from taking signal vengeance on his friend Hoel for the trick intended him. He does not, nevertheless, forego his idea of the golden prize —so much does cupidity overcome faintheartedness— but determines to select as his victim the singer of the legend, who proves to be Dinorah, who, on the desertion of Heel, has lost her reason, and has become a wanderer among the mountains. It is not easy to instruct one who has got no understanding. Corentino, however, contrives, by great ingenuity and reiterated teach ing, to lead Dinorah to follow his directions. The mo ment arrives ; the young girl is about to remove the magic stone, when the tinkling of a goat's bell is heard, and Dinorah, diverted from her purpose, follows the goat, whom she recognises as an old favourite. She is overtaken by a storm, and carried away, by the overflowing of a torrent, to seeming destruction. Her life, however, is not sacrificed, as may be imagined. She is rescued from her perilous situa tion by her lover, whose voice brings back her reason. Finally, she is conducted with groat pomp and splendour to the chapel, where she is at last in reality united to Heel. Madame Miolan Carvalho, from the Theatre Lyrique, is a singer of the same school as Madame Marie Cabel, essen tially French in voice and manner, with less individual charm but more dramatic intensity than her eminent con temporary, an organ of much the same compass, hardly so sweet in quality but perhaps more flexible and more com pletely at command, a demeanour and familarity with stage discipline in no respect inferior. Signor Grasiani has rarely sung with greater care and general cor rectness than in the part of Hoel, but it is only in the last act that he makes an attempt at his trionic expression. Signor Gardoni astonished every one—not so much by the artistic excellence of his singing, which, being an acknowledged musician, might have been anticipated from him on such an occasion—as by the sus tained animation of his acting, if not absolutely comic, so near to it as almost to be admitted for proxy. The chorus was unexceptionable, and the band beyond praise. When it is remembered that three months' rehearsals were found requisite for the production of the " Pardon de Ploermel" in Paris, and that something less than three weeks' preli minary study, with only two full rehearsals, enabled Mr. Costa (under the personal superintendence of M. Meyer beer) to insure such a remarkable performance as that of the Italian opera on Tuesday night, under the title of " Dinorah," or, " Il Pellegrinoggio di Ploermel," some idea of the value of that gentleman's services may be ob tained ; and M. Meyerbeer would, we are sure, be the first to allow that no one after himself, the composer of the work had a juster claim to the enthusiastic approbation of the public. THAMES GRAVING DOCK COMPANY. A large company connected with the commercial and scientific world assembled yesterday at the Victoria Docks, to witness an experiment carried out under the auspices of the Thames Graving Dock Company for testing the efficacy of Mr. Edwin Clark's patent process of raising ships for the pur pose of examination and repair by hydraulic pres sure. Under the old plan of graving, careening, or repairing docks it was necessary to excavate each dock to a depth sufficient to float the largest ship intended to be repaired, and to construct at the entrance of each dock a flood gate, or pair of gates, to keep the water out. For ships of the size now in common use the depth of a repairing dock must be about 24 feet, causing a heavy expense for exca vation and retaining walls of masonry, indepen dently of the cost of the tidal gates. An entry into docks of this construction is effected at, or soon be fore, or after, high water. The gsite is then closed, and at lower water, on a .tidal sea, the water is allowed to run out until the ship is left dry for exa mination or repair in a sort of pit, always damp, and, in winter, soon dark. In tideless seas a graving dock must be emptied by the slow and expensive process of pumping. The new process obviates these difficulties and delays. A floating stage or pontoon is placed in a basin or water-way, and the vessel requiring examination or repair is floated upon it, and by the application of hydraulic pumps the stage, with the vessel upon it, is raised, and be comes a working platform, upon which the vessel, lifted up high and dry as in a dry dock, may be caulked or coppered or repaired as her necessities may require. The hydraulic lift consists of two parallel rows of 16 cast-iron columns, each 5 feet in diameter, and 60 feet in length, sunk into the ground, under the water, about 12 feet. These columns are 20 feet apart in each row, and the clear space be tween the two rows is 60 feet. Each column con tains a hydraulic press 10 inches in diameter, and of 25 feet stroke, the top of the press being at the ordinary level of the water. The ram of each press carries a small cross-head, from which are suspended, by means of descending rods two wrought-iron girders 60 feet in length, which extend entirely across the dock to the corresponding column and press on the opposite side. There is thus a series of 32 suspended girders extending entirely across the dock ; and when the presses are lowered, lying at the bottom of the dock in 28 feet of water, these form a large wrought-iron gridiron, which by means of the presses may, with a vessel upon it, be raised out of the water or lowered at pleasure. The vessel to be docked is not raised directly upon the grid iron, but upon a wrought-iron pontoon, propor tioned to the size of the ship to be docked. This pontoon is first placed on the gridiron, and sunk with it to the bottom of the water. Then the ship is brought between the columns and over the pontoon, and a 50-horse engine working the hydraulic presses, raises the whole pontoon to gether. At this stage of the proceedings the pontoon empties itself of water through valves provided for the purpose; the valves are then closed, and the gridiron being again lowered to the bottom, the pontoon, with the vessel seated upon it, is left afloat on the surface. The shorinc , of the vessel (a work of difficulty and cost under the old plan) is accomplished by large moveable frames or slidinr , wedges, which, while under water, are drawn into close contact with the vessel, so that she sits on a large timber cradle without possibility of being strained. In less than 40 minutes a ves sel drawing 18 or 20 feet of water is thus left afloat on a shallow pontoon, drawing only 4 or 5 feet. At the Victoria Docks the lift consists of 16 columns, which give a working length of more than 340 feet. Perfect horizontality while lifting is secured, by arranging the presses in three inde pendent groups. According to the statement of the company, the general advantages of the new system may be summed up under the following heads :-1. Independent of tides, and at all times, whether by night or by day, vessels of the largest dimensions, whether empty or loaded, may be raised out of the water for examination. 2. The vessel thus raised is transferred by floatation, without rails or slip, to suitable docks for its repair, where it lies high and dry on a convenient timber plat form, on the same level as the repairing shops with which it is surrounded. In painting vessels, the free exposure to the air is a most important advan tage. 3. One single lift or apparatus for raising is sufficient for docking an unlimited number of vessels. 4. The method employed in raising and transporting vessels renders it impossible to damage them by asy unequal strains. 5. The sup port of the vessel by cast-iron columns affords means of constructing such docks either in open water, in tideless seas, or in almost any locality, independent of the character of the soil. As confirmatory of thi ; statement the experiment of yesterday was a perfect success. The vessel ex perimented upon was a fine ship of 870 tons regis ter, and some 1,200 or 1,250 tons burden, the Jason, an Aberdeen clipper, which was floated upon the stage, and by the application of the hydraulic pumps was in about twenty minutes brought up out of the water, and handed over to the manipu lative ingenuity of some 'two or three score of ship wrights, caulkers, and coppersmiths, by whom her defects were in a very few minutes verified, and by this time probably—owing to the facilities which this new species of graving dock affords—are remedied. Amongst the company who werepr,sent to wit ness the experimeat, which was eminently success ful, were Sir J. Paxton, Sir S. M. Peto, Lord C. Paget, Lord C. Hamilton, Messrs. R. Long, M.P., Hume, M.P., Crutchley, E. H. Stanley, Cooke, Reid, G. F. Young, Crayshaw,_ J. Clarke. Lee Stevens, A. Brett, Gen. Wylde, Col, Hume, P. Le Neve Forster, &c. &c. LATEST NEWS. REDUCTION OF THE FRENCH ARMY AND NAVY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JULY 28. The Moniteur of to-day contains the following : . - —" The Emperor has decided that the army and navy shall be restored to a peace footing with the least possible delay. (Que armees terre et mer seraient dans le plus bref delai remises sur le 'pied pair.)" Yesterday the Emperor presided at a united sitting of tha Privy Council and the Council of Ministers. TURIN, JULY 27. The official Piedmontese Gazette publishes a Circular of the Minister of the Interior to the Go vernors and Intendants-General of the provinces, of which the following is a summary : " The change of Cabinet does not produce any serious variations in the character of the policy of Sardinia. The new Ministry will continue to favour as largely as possible the development of the great principles which are the basis of our public right. " The Minister goes on to ask the support of his subordinates in the tranquillisation of discouraged minds, in strengthening belief in the right to liberty, and in preparing the annexed provinces for liberal institutions. . " The circular concludes by promising reforms in the extension of communal and provincial liberties,' According to a telegram received from Florence the Tuscan Minister of the Interior has published an official report. The result of deliberations on the question of annexation of Tuscany with Pied mont has been made known from 141 places, in cluding Leghorn and Florence. This result shows 809 affirmative, against 15 negative votes, repre senting the wishes and interests of 1,135,863 in habitants. The result of the elections of members of a special assembly is also favourable to the in dependence of Tuscany. When the assembly shall have received the numbers from the other towns it will give its vote. MARSEILLES, JULY 27. According to advices from Malta, Admiral Fan shawe left on the 18th inst. for Naples, with five men-of-war and one frigate. Vice-Admiral Mundy has left, with one ship and one frigate. The ship Cressy and two gun-boats have also sailed. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 20th. Official orders have been given to suspend the departure of the reserves, peace having been concluded. The settlement of the question respecting the double election of Prince Couza has been deferred until the arrival of M. de. Thouvenel. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. A project of confederation for Italy, drawn up by Count Walewski, has, it is said, been already communicated to all the Governments interested. It contains a provision for a federal army, and ap pears to resemble the Germanic Confederation in certain points. It is stated that, as soon as the troops have re turned to France and resumed their previous quar ters, a great number of temporary furloughs will be granted, which will afterwards be made defini tive for all those men who have only a year or eighteen months to serve. The administration of the marine, also, is said to have received the ne cesssary instructions for preparing the definitive discharge of all sailors who, having already served six years, have been called out to join the fleet within the last six months. A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" It is not correct, as certain journals have stated, that any of the French troops are to occupy the duchies. Those only who are at Rome will remain, for the present, where they are. Nowhere else will there be any military intervention in Italy." PARIS BOURSE, July 27.—A fall of -Z- per cent. in English Consols caused some heaviness at the com mencement of business, but there was afterwards a little rally. Threes, which had been done at 67f. 80c. and 67f. 70c., recovered to 67f. 90c. Mobilier varied from 782 f. 50c. to 792 f. 50e; Lombardo- Venetian, 551 f. 25c. to 560 f. ; Austrian, 555 f. to 560 f. ; Orleans, 1,335 f. to 1,342 f. 50e. ; Lyons, 852 f. 50c. to 857 f. 50c. ; Southern, 505 f. to 507 f. 50e. The following were the last quotations : _ 41 per Cents. 95 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents 67 80 Do. end month 67 95 Bank Shares — Credit Mobilier Do. Account Credit Foncier .. — • Belgian 4f — • Piedmontese (5) - Roman B6 - Austrian Spanish Threes - Home Debt 4l - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 920 .. 920 New ditto BO5 .. 810 Lyons and Mediterranean 857 50 .. 857 50 Geneva 522 50 .. 520 Southern Western 550 .. 550 Eastern Sardinian 405 .. 401 25 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. Tic. ; money, 25f sc. ; three months, paper,24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 94c. ITALY. A letter in the Nord says :—" I have already spoken to you of a combination which would give Tuscany to the Duchess of Parma in case that prin cess should be called for by the people. The duchess, however, refuses, it is said, to accept that compensation, unless there be a voluntary renun ciation on the part of the Princes of Austria and Lorraine. But the Grand Duke Leopold 11., in abdicating, has transmitted his rights to his son, so that the plan falls to the ground. The latter prince, it is said, has engaged to give a constitution to Tuscany, and the Duke of Modena and the Duchess of Parma make the same promises. By means of these concessions some hopes are entertained that the people of the duchies will in the end decide on receiving them. In the plan of a Confederation for Italy, all the States will have the Italian flag." AUSTRALIA. We have been favoured with a copy of the Syd ney Morning Herald of the 22d of April, brought by the Omar Pasha, which ship has arrived from Sydney in 90 days. The news is about a fortnight later than the last New advices . T in here was no thi ng par ticular stirring South Wales. We extract the following : (Front thee. Sydney Morning Herald of April 22.) Messrs. Mort and Co. held to-day their weekly produce sale. The quantity of wool catalogued was 114 bales, the whole of which, with the exception of three bales of New Zealand wool, was sold. The wool market is Without any f Iteration, and the prices obtained to-day were fully equal to those of last week. The quantity of wool now being of fered is so small that the market cannot be fairly tested, and until the arrival of the Engli ;h mail we do not anticipate antipate any alteration in the prices now ruling. The highest rates obtained were for a lot of 32 bales of scoured wools marked " Mo r'nish," which brought 231 d. per lb. ; and a lot of 33 bales of fleece marked " B and II," which was bought in at 23d., and afterwards taken at that price. The following were the rates at which the several lots were sold: —Fleece, 151 d. to 23d.; scoured, 201 d. to 231 d.; mixed, Bd. to 181 d. ; grease; Bd. to 121 d. ; lambs, 191 d. ; New Zealand, 201 d. , locks, 63-,d. "MELBOURNE, APRIL 21, 6, P.M. " A great demonstration was made to-day in hon our of the anniversaryoft he triumph of the eight-hour movement. The procession was a very brilliant one with banners and scarfs, extending over a mile in length. Twenty bands of music are now celebrat ing the fete at Cremorne. " From this evening to Tuesday morning is pro claimed a public holyday, and great preparations are being made for spending it. " The Convention had an interview with the Chief Secretary respecting the registration.. The latter declined to promise that the existing As sembly should be called. together to remedy the defects in the act. " ADELAIDE, APRIL 20. " Flour, £lB 10s. per ton. "The Melbo - urne steamer delivered the mails on board the Y...alta at Kangaroo Island at 11.20 last night s P ile detention did not occupy an hour. APRIL 21. " Wheat market not so firm. Quotations, 7s. 10d. to 7s. 11d. " Flour unchanged. " No auctions worth noticing. " Trade is generally very dull. " The Burra Burra Company held their half yearly meeting yesterday. The 14th annual report shows that the yield of copper ore for the last six months was 1,119 tons in excess of the preceding six months. Profit on six months' ore, £21,329. Total undivided to the 31st March last, £93,930, of which £24,640 is set apart for two dividends of £5 per share. " The Parliament is to meet on the 29th of April. "The Governor opens the Glenelg jetty on Easter Monday. " GUNDAGAI, APRIL 21, 5.10 P.M. " The Tumut escort arrived to-day with 1,617 ounces of gold and £l,OOO in specie.' THE NAVY. On Tuesday evening the Fairy, with the royal standard at the main and the Admiralty flag at the fore, with the Elfin paddle yacht in attendance, steamed up to Spithead from Osborne on a visit to the fleet. Her Majesty was received with a royal salute and manned yards from each ship as the royal yacht steamed slowly past, the Russian frigate Polkan joining in the demonstration. After steam ing from east to west of the outer line of the fleet, the Fairy passed down the inner line and round the Polkan, after which her Majesty returned to Os borne. The fleet is now anchored at Spithead in two divisions. The outer line or division commencing from the west part of Spithead, is anchored in the order named :—The James Watt, Hero, Algiers, Royal Albert, Edgar, and Neptune. The inner line is formed with the Emerald and Mersey ; commenc ing from the westward, with the Flying Fish, 6, and Pioneer, 6, anchored rather closer inshore in shoaler water. The Russian squadron, consisting of the Retvizan, 90 ; Gromoboi, 50 ; and Polkan, 44, are brought up to the eastward of the squadron. Signal was made yesterday from the Royal Albert for one-fourth of each ship's company to have 48 hours' leave ashore, which has been accordingly granted. Rear-Admiral Pelham, C. 8., and Capt. Frederick, two of the Lords of the Admiralty, were at Devon port on Tuesday, inspecting the ships of war in Ha moaze. They visited the screw steamship Royal George, 102, and several gunboats attached to the steam reserve. Their lordships landed in the even ing from the tender Sylph at Devonport. They were attended by several naval officers, among whom was Capt. Robert S. Robinson, of the guard ship of steam ordinary Wellington, 72. The hired troopship Celestial, which sailed from Woolwich-pier on the 9th of May last with troops for Bermuda, returned to Woolwich yesterday morning, having on board Lieut.-Colonel Michel, Lieut. Maude, and Lieut. Hill, in command of 80 non-commissioned officers and gunners of the sth battery 2d brigade Royal Artillery, and Lieut. Armstrong, in command of 17 invalids belqnging/to the 26th Regiment of Infantry (the Cameronians), in medical charge of Assistant- Surgeon Richards. The whole of the troops having landed at the Arsenal pier, the detachment of artil lery proceeded to join the head-quarters of the brigade recently stationed at Dover, and the in valids and officers of the 26th were conveyed to Fort Pitt, Chatham. The Celestial left Bermuda on the 25th June, and was 32 days at sea, having experienced a succession of head and light winds. On the first night, after sailing from Bermuda, a man of the Royal Artillery, being found absent from the muster roll, was supposed to have fallen overboard in a state of intoxication. During the disembarkation of the troops yesterday, one of the Artillerymsn, who had lain in a state of torpid idiotcy during the whole of the voyage, on reaching the deck of the Celestial for the purpose of being conveyed to the infirmary, suddenly rushed to the ship's side and plunged overboard into deep water. Fortunately one of the military storekeeper's men, named Wilmot, engaged ow - the pier, leapt into a boat and rescued the poor fellow from being drowned. His first exclamation, on finding him , self again secured, was " They are going to take me to the hospital and kill me ; I'd rather drawn myself." One of the seamen, hearing the cry of " A man overboard," was quickly in the water, and the poor lunatic was promptly relieved without suffering any injury or inconvenience beyond a thorough wetting. . The transport :vessels Stella, Annie, and Whaleys have arrived at Woolwich Arsenal laden with re turned military stores. The Whaleys is under orders to reload with shot, gun carriages, &c. The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., is filling up her coal at Spithead. The screw steam frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. Moor son, C. 8., sailed from Plymouth on Tuesday to join the Channel squadron. The paddlewheel steam-sloop Gladiator, 6, was appointed to leave Plymouth yesterday (Wednes day) for the West Indies. On Monday her Majesty's ship Ajax arrived in Belfast Lough from Kingstown, for the purpose of receiving volunteers for the Navy. The Ajax has for some time past been engaged in her pre sent service as a Coastguard vessel and receiving volunteers for the navy. She mounts 60 guns, and carries a complement of about 500 seamen and ma rines, but is not filled up to that complement a t th e present time. The Wellington cutter also arrived at Belfast on Monday for the same purpose. The Russian screw frigate Gromoboi, 50 guns, Rear-Admiral Istomin, and the screw line-of-battle ship Retvizan, Capt. Baron Taube, arrived at Spit head yesterday from Cadiz and Cherbourg. The Grand Duke Constantine is at present at St. Peters burg, but is expected to arrive at Spithead on the 4th of August. It is also expected that several other Russian men of war will call at Spithead on their way to the Mediterranean from the Baltic. Mr. John D. Rogers has been appointed master additional to the Minotaur; and Mr. Cecil Cawdell, surgeon, to the Sidon. THE ARMY. The Ist battalion of the 16th Regiment, stationed in Dublin, are under orders to proceed to the north of England, and to be relieved at Dublin by the Ist battalion of the 22d Regiment, from Manchester. The 13th Light Dragoons are in readiness to pro ceed to Scotland, and the 15th Hussars are to re lieve them at Dublin. It is probable that more moves will shortly be ordered. Col. Gardiner has lately taken command of the 76th Regiment at. the Curragh Camp from Lieut.- Col. Lloyd, who exchanged into the 68th Light Infantry a short time since. By direction of the Director-General of the Medi cal Department of the Army, a report has been prepared by Dr. J. R. Taylor, C,8., Deputy In spector-General of Hospitals at Chat h am , an d D r . A. Maclean, principal medical officer at the Garrison Hospital, of the result of the trial of Major Rhodes's newly-invented hospital tent, one of which, of large size, has been for some time in use by the patients attached to the Garrison Hospital at Chatham. The result of the trials to which the tent has been sub mitted is deemed to be of a satisfactory character. Captain J. M. Lyle, commanding the depot com panies of the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment, at Chatham, has received orders for the depot to be held in readiness to proceed from that garrison on the arrival of the service companies of the regiment from India, from which they are now on their passage home. The 29th has been seven teen years in India, having quitted England in 1842. On the arrival of the headquarters, they will, it is expected, be quartered in Fulwood Bar racks, Preston. The following officers and troops embarked on board the freight ship Seabreeze for the Mauritius, at Spithead, on Tuesday :-2d battalion sth Foot, Capt. Mason; Ensigns Longburne, Knox, and Beas ley ; 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 31 privates, 1 woman, and 2 children ; Royal Artillery, Surgeon Prothero, wife, and female servant. The Seabreeze sailed for her destination at 3 p.m. yesterday. The Royal Berkshire Militia assembled at Read ing on the 15th inst. for 21 days' training. They , muster 600 strong. Recruits continue to offer them selves daily. The orderly conduct of the men is worthy of especial remark, and reflects great credit on the battalion. The East Norfolk Militia were inspected by Col. Bloomfield, Commandant, at Colchester on Friday last. The'regiment mustered about 500 men. Col. Bloomfield complimented the regiment on its ap pearance and steadiness under arms. The men re turned to their homes on Monday, the 25th, and in the evening the officers of the regiment gave a fare well entertainment to Col. Mason, who retires from the command of the regiment, in which he has served upwards of 48 years, 35 of Which as Lieut.- Colonel. LITERATURE. Cousin Stella ; or, Conflict. By the author of " Violet Bank and its Inmates." Three vols. Smith and Elder. This is a peculiar work, which will be welcome to some for its unusual style. The heroine, Stella, is a very interesting character, and her varied ad ventures form an entertaining subject for our atten tion. She is first met with when in her girlhood. She is living with her grandmother, who is a very strange old lady, and one nu way calculated to train a young mind, or render a home happy for a girl like Stella. She early discovered that some mystery•vas attached to her life, but she was not able at that time to fathom it. After her grand mother's death she resided for some time in the family of her aunt, Mrs. Dashwood, who %N as the very opposite to her mother. This lively and pleas ing lady contrived to fascinate her niece at first, but soon Stella discovered that she had found no home even here. While manifesting delight at having her domiciled under her roof, Mrs. Dash wood privately wrote to her father to have her removed from her care. As Mr. Joddrell had just married again, he arranged that his daughter should remain under the care of some friends till she had completed her education, and then join him in Jamaica. Another era of Stella's life was passed among strangers, and then she once more bade adieu to all familiar faces, and departed to a strange country. She found much to try her in this new existence. Her father, whom she had forgotten, proved in every way undesirable ; her stepmother was very unlike what Stella had ex pected from the members of the family she had seen in England. She found only one object of interest in her cousii, Louis Gualtier, whom she had seen before, and whose acquaintance she gladly renewed. Even here, however, misfortunes in truded. There was a sister of her mother's staying in the house of Madame Gualtier and her son, and the devotion of both to this strange woman was absurd and scarcely credible, except when Louis' excited nature is taken into consideration. On account of his Quixotic devotion to the cause of the injured Madame Olympia, he forgot the claims of his cousin, to whom he was really attached, and even resolved on sending her to England to satisfy the wishes of Olympia. This was after the death of Mr. Joddrell had rendered him one of Stella's guardians. Before the ship sailed on its homeward voyage many events occurred, some of a most pain ful nature, which finally occasioned the postpone ment of Stella's journey. The period to which the story refers was prior to the abolition of slavery in our colonies, and therefore ample scope is given for the relation of some of those horrors which were only of too frequent occurrence at that time. Cer tainly the families here mentioned were witnesses of its evils, for Mr. Joddrell and his two sons perished, victims to the revenge of a cook, w hom the irate master had ill-used. Louis Gualtier him self became a cripple for life. It is very unsatis factory to reflect that this misery was occasioned by the actions of Olympia, who was truly the evil spirit of the home that had sheltered her. It is some relief to find that this designing woman was at last induced to leave the unfortunat e v i c tims of her manoeuvres, and that what peace could exist for such afilicted, individuals was then the portion of Stella and Louis. Notwithstanding some points in the story that are rather exaggerated, the reader, will find much to attract in its vivid s k e t c h es and powerful delineations. There are scenes of pas sionate feeling and vehement action, that are de tailed in a vigorous and glowing style, and there certainly cannot be laid to the charge of the author that he has produced a spiritless ' narrative . " Cousin Stella" can be recommended to those who seek in works of fiction for excitement and variety. Millicent Neville. A Novel. By Julia Tilt; Author of " May Hamilton," " The Old Palace, &c. 2 volA. Booth. This is a very interesting story, and one whie h is gracefully described. Millicent, the heroine, " one of those unfortunate beings who make an IA" happy marriage, and •the sad scenes of suffering through which she has to pass outweigh in miser,' the fitful passages which attend the loves of all' tracted maidens in the old style of romance. 34 '; licent's character is a fine one ; a t fi rst s h e d oe s Or appear to much advantage, but gradually as h er dangers threaten and hertrials multiply, the innat e force of her disposition becomes developed, and he r remarkable self-control is strikingly displayed. Sh a e had not to complain of ill-usage, and her husbao, was not what is called a badman, but the re remained ample scope for intense sufferings in one of MiT ; cent's loving heart, and keen susceptibility. add to the complication of her trials, her mothe r ►. who was well-meaning, but n o t o f her daughter; refined nature, perceived that some thi ng was aali 6 , and persisted in inte r f er i ng till Milli cen t insisted on being left to herself, rightly judging that as sh e had been mistaken in marrying Neville before sh e was certain of his character, domestic interferenc e could not rectify matters. Eu s t ace N ev ill e is we' depicted, as a man who was rather weak than wicked, and who, had he been subject elb good influences, would have done He was, unhappily for himself,- thrown among undesirable associates, and the connections thus formed clung to him through life, and exerte d a baneful impression on his career. He really' love Millicent, and regar d e d h er w ith very thfr e rent i sentiments to those which animat e d hi m i n regal' to former objects of attachment. His pride, how' ever, forbade him to own himself in the w r ong, ~,"e to make the least advances towards one whom had so deeply injured. The best part of the Fite% is the passage which relates the ruin which eil r fa with a sudden blow upon the prosperous man, an reduced him in a day, with no word of w arning; and no shadow of preparation, to a condition worse than that of a beggar. In thi s d ar k h ou r ther was one light in the alict e d mans i on ; th os e w ho in the days of sunshine held a l oo f f rom eac h other in sullen pride and offended dignity, came togetwi r at the sound of the sto rm w hi c h uprooted the,: stronghold and scatt ere d f ar an d w id e t h e i r sures. Millicent, haughty in her just indignatl e o l would not desert in peril one whom she had n io left in wealth. F or th e sa k e o f appearanc es s to remained in her joyless home, an d s h e re fused a , desert it in poverty. The succeedi ng even t s pro v ,„ e r . however, that people cannot mak e th e i r o wn 1 . .," 0 tunes and arrange their lives a ft er th e ir An fashion. Eustace and Milli cen t retired into obscurity, but there the avenger f o llovie d them. His character, which had b een sufferent to pass in the halo of prosperity, could 11 , withstand the evil day, whi c h t r i es as w ith a 14 ; finer's fire, the deeds and wor d s o f ; he d i s t re sseu . His sad death was th roug h a m i staken id en titfi but had his previous course been clearer he w° ll a not have been deserted in the hour of need, a n d shunned by all around him. Millicent was fa te to be in sorrow. She grieved over her desertion, till she lamented at their disastrous wreck df tune, and hardly had she accommodated herSeJ . , to altered circumstances when she had to mourP, over her husband's death-bed. Her subseque nt marriage with her cousin Hermann is not so irrelf; vant as such unions so often•are in stories for 11' attaching herself to Neville it was more the ide7 than the real character she loved, and in be a h er anguish at the last it was more the sorrow ol , a kind nature at suffering, tha n th e sympa thy c u i i , kindred spirit which influenced her. The deserw tion of Mrs. Vere is a good one. She is fairly r i : presented as a va i n , o ffi c i ous woman, who is a ri mated by feeling s o f revenge into actions that are apparently incompatible with _her disposit i f et There is som e thi ng a l mos t l u di crous in .`l 9 retaliating up on M r . B ar t on t h e i n j ur ies om e. imagined she had rec e i ve d f rom Eusta. Could m an y i n hi s p os iti on over h ear convpeitrs sations as he did, it is probable the resu jo might be equally enlightening. The little that i s said of Norman Austin is satisfactory, and ther e co something noble in the mann er i n w hi c h he re ll c iia himself, after his bitter disappointment. He d,cl not waste in idly regrets th e ti me which w°,-itt never return, but he m a d e f or hi mself a na me the world, and a position which was afterwards a, signal service to those to w h om h e was a ttacile ce He entertained no j ea l ousy towards Enstnre , and had he not been ab roa d at t h e t i me of hisoi-is verse he would have willingly assisted him. story may be considered successful in its endeany , ttwootiotpho often u ev r t e r r a yt y r ho a do psbea by many fm p a a t n h y in happiness wholif anantndedr onwhich new cess. The varying scenes of trial through yv bi o r Millicent passed impart a sombre tinge to the the t, native, but a mournful interest attaches itself te " il f r record of the struggles bravely borne, an d the i x sui f T e i r i t • eN i ev n rto g eors s tiphe n eyd o r nobly eac endured. cnseyos ms novel eor vpteoi lc rows will be pleased with the appearance °I attractive d s novel. n f ae t wn- k p i e tee l: . io s l ohs l p yeea e s c i N : Neni 1 1 ° 1,00, 1 , 0 1e. x_ S sf boa-aer °r sire 171; thetreadersMillicentpicture works e isll,o°W-1:15 It is said that the forthcoming dividend o .c e th ift London and North-Western Railway Company wi ll TAW the rate of 41 t o 4i p er cen t . per annum ; that of the io r cashire and Yorkshi re C ompany 4/ to 41 per cente'ot. annum ; and that of th e G reat W estern 2 to 2 1 per - per annum. re" The French Telegraph Administration ha s at ioo ported the re-establi s h ment of telegraphi c co mmuni e to with Lombardy. F or a l ong time past despatches • ba posted at certain points for the chief Lombard cities' an ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF PORTSMOUT O ., Friday morning, as the Earl of Portsmouth was driclne t to company with some other gentlemen, at H urs tbourn l e _4 l jelt Horses becam e ungoverna bl e, overturn i ng the ve hi c le, f rtg vas shatte re d t o pi eces , an d ser i ous l y i njuring some ° we' wcupants. The noble earl, we are happy to say, e s cmparatively un.higt.—Salisbury Journal.