The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-11 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS, Fabien and Louis dei Franchi. By Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. IS7W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. 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. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Mr. W. Smith's Benefit on Thursday, iugus;lB. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENDTG, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M. Wilton. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Bwanborouzh, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'cloc* 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 course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Oonsistinz of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc: 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 Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENDM, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, ArGtsT 11. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 62—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER --30.09. WIND, South-Easterly; light, with fine weather. Two o'CLock.—A thick haze has come over the hori zon, portending a thunder storm. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 23m.—Afternoon, 12h. 52m, To-MORROW-Morning, lh. 14m.—Afternoon, lh. 35m, The spectacle presented to us by one Election Committee after another is certainly anything but satisfactory. It is peculiarly unsatisfactory as re gards the supporters of the powers that be—those who but yesterday were so loud in their pharisaical denunciation of corruption, but who have to-day such reason to be crestfallen under the exposure of their own evil-doings in the way of bribery. The decision of the committee appointed to inquire into the validity of the charges made by certain peti tioners against the two members returned at the last general election down at Beverley certainly brings to a climax the disgrace of the Accusing Party in the House of Commons and the triumph of the Accused. Of the two members returned for Bever ley at this general election, one was an Advanced Liberal—the other was a supporter of Lord DERBY and an avowed Conservative. Recollect all that had been said about the enormous sums subscribed at the Carlton for Electioneering Purposes !—for distribution, of course, as every one supposed, by "safe men," men who might be Frail in name, but were certainly not to be frail in nature ! Recollect it had been asserted, with a brazen particularity, somewhere down in the direction of Carlisle—[Was it not, by the way, asserted thus by some right hon. baronet who, at some time or another, was in someway or another distinguished—creditably or otherwise, our readers may perhaps remember—as a Man of Letters ?]—Recollect at any rate that it was asserted by somebody somewhere that the Prime Minister himself had subscribed a good round lump of money—variously put by the promoters of the canard at £lO,OOO or £ls,ooo—to swell the gross amount gathered together at the Carlton for the express purpose of bribery and corruption ! These accusations, moreover, were not simply whispered in back parlours on' the sly—they were roared with stentorian emphasis from platforms in Birmingham and elsewhere—they were flashed along electric wires at midnight, and repeated in leaded-out columns in newspapers printed at cock crow. The general election came on in the midst of this roar of malignant imputation ! Possessors of household suffrage, possessors of the borough franchise, in any way, potwallopers, anyt - ody, everybody who dared to vote for a Derbyite at that time of universal temptation was liable to be regarded, was invery many hundreds and thousands of instances regarded, as a corrupt and venial vendor of votes, having his pocket crammed, not actually with blood-money, but with something in its way quite as abhorrent to a free citizen, namely, with conscience money—the chinking gold or the crumpled bank notes having been passed covertly from palm to palm in the midst of the guttling and guzzling in cident to times of corrupt electioneering ! The ev. impression (there is no doubt of it) was confirmed in the minds of many when the returns were summed up at the close of the general election— when it proved that the Derbyites had really thereby' increased their strength so very consi derably, that from being a very powerful section in the House of Commons they had become, be- yond all further possibility of dcubt upon the matter the most powerful " party " in the new Parliament ! Assurance was soon yet further made doubly sure in the judgments of those accus tomed to place implicit reliance upon the assertions of men like Mr. BRIGHT and Sir JAMES GRAHAM— - when it was eventually proved, upon the very first division, that, with all the parties, and sections of parties, on the then side of the Opposition, massed together [not by any means by a factious combina tion, but simply, to borrow a memorable phrase, used by Lord PALMERSTON upon a previous occa sion, simply by a " fortuitous concurrence of atoms") —what was ebon black before became blacker than Erebus now, when it was found that, even with this extraordinary combination of parties and sec tionsthe majority gained over the iso lated Derbyites, in the largest house upon record, amounted to no more than that extremely unlucky number, Thirteen ! There could be n o f urther doubt upon the matter. It was as clear as anything could well be, that all we had heard &bout the fund provided by the Carlton was, alas ! only _ too true. Bribery—gross and monstrous beyond all precedent—had been employed here and there during the general election, in all directions, by the agents of the outgoing Government. Of course petitions came pouring in against this and that return of the Conservative candidates. That again —was only, in reason, what was to be expected. Wait a while —wait only for just a brief interval— until these petitions could be examined into before the Committees of Inquiry ; and then-0 for the exposures of Bribery! 0 for the revelations of Corruption ! The monstrous, the gross, and flagi tious corruption indulged in systematically and wholesale by the electioneering agents of the gone Government ! That there were petitions sent in against the opposite party was a fact that only breathed of powerless spite, of an innocucus attempt at retaliation. " Wait a wee"—and then —we should see, what we should see ! Well, the sequel has come—but it is a sequel that has partaken somewhat of the character of an anti climax. To our grief, as Liberals, the tables have been wholly turned. The thirteen have long since disappeared altogether—the majority that changed the Ministry with a Presto has clean vanished. Liberal after Liberal has been unseated by succes sive Committees of Inquiry—the grossest bribery and corruption having been proved against the agents of each of them individually. Conservative after Conservative has been confirmed in his seat as having been duly returned as the free choice of his respective constituency —the charges of bribery having broken down upon scrutiny as trumped up or as groundless. And now, so to speak as the climax to the anti-climax—comes this last decision of a committee—the committee appointed to in quire into the election at Beverley ! There one of the two members returned is declared to be unseated (because of bribery proved)—and this un seated mem ber is down in Dod as an " advanced Liberal." The other member returned for Beverley is declared by the report of the committee to have been duly so returned, and is confirmed in his seat accordingly —and this duly elected M.P. for Beverley is a Derbyite, is a Conservative ! To be bribed by the Earl of DERBY and his party really seems to be about as substantially beneficial as it might be to dine with Duke HUMPHREY. The £60,000 subscribed by the Carlton has certainly been made away with very mysteriously. There is no tracing it anywhere. As for the £lO,OOO of the ex-Premier he must surely have been deluded by some one most infamously. Or—there is an alterative—the Earl and Club must have dis covered some extraordinary means of rendering money more illusory than Fairy Gold. It is con tributed here to the tune £lo,ooo—it is subscribed there to the gross amount of £60,000, if not to the monstrous aggregate of £lOO,OO0 — when—lo ! there remains in the grasp of the agents not even a handful of dead leaves. It is very mysterious what can have become of it all. Can't Sir JAMES GRAHAM help us in our bewilder ment at this annoying disappearance ? Or Mr. BRIGHT—or any other brother-in-law of a Quaker Banker unseated for bribery of the grossest kind through his agents ? We pause for a reply. And in the meanwhile, as Liberals, heart and soul, we turn with unaffected dismay and anguish from these most lamentable revelation!. Ourreaders of the working classes know that there .s one point on which we have been old advocates of their claims ; we refer to the right of suffrage, and we may naturally be supposed sensitive respect ing anything which shall enable our Conservative antagonists to retort, " See what sort of fellows you would put in power." How often have we been told, " You might buy hundreds of them with a pot of beer," and the habits of some of their order has made it not easy to refute the charge. And, we must confess, when we saw this morning the address of the " Central Association of Master Builders," and its opening appeal to their operatives, as to how their present proceedings would affect the lowering of the franchise in a new Reform Bill, we were not surprised. The same thought had occurred pre viously to us. As counsel for the unenfranchised, we would not be the first to raise the question, but seeing it is raised, we may acknowledge that we had several times been thinking of the answers we must furnish if asked, " Will you put on the register men who can tyranise in this style over both their own fellow-workmen and their masters ?" Now, what could our answer be ? Ato quoque might be easy. We might show how the now en franchised classes had once been Protectionists in every mode, and endeavoured to impose their prices on the community at large. But the reply would be,—" True, but we have unlearned that, and are we to give power to those who have not yet learned the laws of supply and demand." And tho reply would be responded to very generally, and would tell strongly against operative enfranchisement, Could we refute the charge of tyranny ? We fear not. Allowing, for argument's sake, that it may be fair (wise we cannot think it) for any body of persons to combine to fix a minimum price for iron, or for labour, or for anything else, it is not fair for them to make rules, and enforce them by every kind of social penalty and vexation, as to the manner in which any artisan shall do his work, or the number of hours he shall be permitted to work the price he shall charge for over time—and even how many bricks he shall put on a hod —,or as to the use he shall make of his hands and his trowel. A skilled artisan is not to lay down his trowel—not to move a part of the scaffold, although he may have to wait half an hour for a labourer to do it ! Such regulations are, it seems, enforced by the Trades Union—enforced to prevent the skilful and industrious workman doing more than the stupid and indolent. Now, it is this class of regulations which strike us as peculiarly objectionable on the workmen's own account. There may be with a few unthink ing men a plausible reason to allege for them. They suppose that by thus restricting each others LIBERTY OF LABOUR they are benefiting a large number who would otherwise get no work at all. If they can compel a clever hand to do less than he is able, of course what he leaves undone makes work for an inferior one, and the iWerior one is the better for it. But there is quite another side of the subject. What right have the inferior men to deprive the better hands of the legitimate profits of their superior skill ? Workmen have as great diversity of ability among them as other classes. They reap the ad- vantage of one tradesman or manufacturer being cleverer than another and furnishing them, in con- sequence, with cheaper clothes or bread —and why should not the public reap the advantage of there being hundreds of bricklayers or carpenters cleverer ;han their fellows, and the clever bricklayer er carpenter reap his share of it too. To us, the class of rules we refer to appear very much like a confederacy of the more indolent or awkward majority to prevent their more skilful fellows rising in the world. The ablest masters often rise from the ranks in every department of trade and manufactures. How is this to be accomplished if a man of, what we may call genius or talent, in his line as an artizan, is to be doomed never do more, never to earn more, never to lay by more savings to become his first small capital, and never, in fact, with his better brains and more dexterous hands,:to hold his head higher than the commonplace man. Talk of aristocratic exclusiveness, indeed ! why this tyranny of the many over the aristocracy of their own class is infinitely worse. Shall work men really be jealous of the ability and talent as conspicuous in their own ranks as in other grades of society ? We would not ourselves entrust those with the electoral franchise who, we thought, were envious of the rising men of their own class. We need not say much respecting combination mdbnatrt tthioant to raise wages. We feel perfectly eon through the inevitable laws of commerce it must work mischief in the end—mischief to the workman himself. It may procure him a transitory advan tage; but as long as the consumption of the article he produces, be it a cotton gown or a house, depends on its price ; he cannot ultimately prosper except by cheap production, whether he achieve that by his own personal dexterity, or by his working in combination with machinery. In proportion as houses are better and cheaper will they be in demand. The great majority of us live in as good a house as we can afford; and what is more, most of us would spend a few pounds more in house rent, if we got more conveniences than we now can by increasing our rent. The workmen must aid iri cheapening houses if they want the house trade to be a flourishing one. Each artisan knows, himself, that he would spend more on a house or lodging in proportion to what he got for his money. It is useless to kick against a principle which masters both masters and men. We have looked carefully at the claims put forth by Mr. T. MARK' NELSON, who writes strongly in favour of the working men. But though it is un likely, indeed, that there should be no bad masters and individual grounds of complaint, we cannot understand how those he chiefly insists on can be redressed by combination. It is utterly impossible for a master to surrender the right to appoint his own foreman, and he alone can be the judge whether he deems any of his men competent to fill a vacated foreman's post. As to the charge of paying men off on the Friday, to avoid paying for the short-time day (Saturday), though it seems to be a very ungenerous act, yet it is one which must bring its own punish ment, by good hands seeking masters who do not condescend to it. Mr. NELSON praises the Trades' Unions for their moral rules and discipline. So should we. But if they assume to dictate the rate of wages, and the time and man ner of work, we must think that they step very much beyond - moral objects, indeed, that they be come guilty of an immoral interference with the LIBERTY OF LABOUR. On this we insist, as the right of every individual master and man Nothing can be more degrading than for the arti zan to sell his freedom to the dictation of Unions ; as, on the other hand, nothing could be more op pressive than for the masters to combine to take away the individual liberty of workmen. Austria, and her friends here, may well shrink from a Congress. The more iniquity is discussed the more unendurable it becomes. The mighty paddlewheels of the Great Eastern on Monday, though revolving but slowly, rendered the fecu lence of the Thames nearly intolerable ; the cham pagne and the stench had almost a drawn battle. And the late short war has only served to disclose more plainly what was well known before, the universal odiousness of Austrian rule, and even of the sub-despotism of its agents in the Duchies. The fields of Montebello, Palestro, Magenta, and Solferino demonstrated the inferiority of Austrian soldiers or generals, or of both, to those of the French ; but the speedy cashiering of the dukes and cardinals, as soon as Austrian regiments were gone or checkmated, and the exultations of every town where the two Monarchs or GARIBALDI arrived, published, to all disbelievers, what Austria was to her Italian subjects. HAPSBURGS, like CATALINES, are past blushing, or we might expect that they would retreat for very shame from the soil which loathes their rule. Still, even they feel exposure too much to like to provoke it. They have had enough of it through the war. They will avoid that of a Congress if they can. To Make as sure as possible of staving off this unwelcome possibility was the real object of Lord ELCHO'S motion. He quite well knew that no English Minister would step in at the eleventh hour and help to adjust the odds and ends of a peace with whose preliminaries he had had nothing to do. He did not intend the motion to be carried, nor did he even wish to ask leave to put in a form suitable to be carried. He only desired to do all he could to save Austria from a Conference. There was indeed the subsidiary design of commending the " strict and impartial neutrality" between the contending powers of the late Government ; but that was no longer a practical issue. We must add, it was one which the less its friends say about it the better. Neither Government is strictly and impartially neutral, nor can be. The two Whig lords lean strongly to France, Sardinia, and Italian liberation from Austrian " influence." The Tory leaders lean as strongly to Austria, and the main tenance of her power over the Italians, whom they treat as incapable of self-government. A view, now, happily proved to be a wrong one. Not only has the Sardinian constitution worked admirably, but, most remarkable of all, the duchies and lega tions, after turning out their Austrian or Penal deputy governors, have preserved a measure of public order which leaves nothing to be desired. It has been questioned whether our municipalities in England would, under similar circumstances, have been equally successful. It would be but honour able henceforth to drop this unworthy calumny— the invention of their oppressors. It is strongly suspected by many, both of their friends and of the Opposition, that our Government, though professing to see "more objections to a con ference than reasons for joining in one," as Lord JOHN stated, has really not a little desire to get one convened into which they could, honourably for England, enter. If it really be so, they must surely wish it in opposition to the Court. Prussia, while even envious of Austria, seems to consider the Italian possessions of the latter as, in a sense, German possessions. We know what the other States of his Royal Highness the Field Marshal's Vaterland think. It is presumable, therefore, that our Minist2r's must find the service to her MAJESTY of advocating Italian liberty rather than Austrian domination, not a very acceptable one in the eyes of her MAJESTY'S nearest and daily adviser. He would think that in Italy " constitutional Govern- ment" was, indeed, yet "on its trial." We need . . hardly suppose that he can approve of Austrian - - stick-rule, but sword rule he may not deem so bad. Should, therefore, a conference be ever assembled, and our Plenipotentary ever go there, we only hope he will take his instructions neither - at first nor at second hand from Germany, but "go to represent the wishes of the country which sends him ; and especially,:thal he will not go at all, unless he have a clear and reasonable prospect of effecting something for the Italians, leaving the Germans to take care of them- selves on this side the Alps. The truth is, that we have but one honourable course before us—to accept any opening which presents itself of using our national influence in favour of Italian liberty. Happily, this may honestly be combined with urging on Austria the desirableness, for her own srke, of retiring as much as possible, indeed altogether, from Italy. Austria and her Tory friends do not, of course, like such advice. It touches their pride, and it is adverse to their natural ideas on the blessings of coercive rule; but it is, nevertheless, sound advice. Austria will be stronger without Venetia itself than with it; stronger, if she leaves the Duchies to them- selves, than if she imposes her viceroys on subjects whom those petty funclionaries make her enemies. , — A ..-'4%•:0:,•-;—;,. „- 4011 fr , n ii. ' .." 0 4,0,h,. RO -- n:,"; . h . i "' '''''• 1 . ~,4 ?•',„..- " V.' THE SUN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1859. France, as matters now stand, has her credit asso ciated with the utmost possible independence for Italy, and more influence to hope for by procuring that independence than by acceding to any plans for its covert suppression. At present, therefore, our support of French views would be no real injury to Austria, if the latter could but think so, while we might do great service to Italy. Under the circumstances, much as we distrust the pro bable doings of any English plenipotentiary in a Conference, we could not tie up our hands for the future. If Austria and France cannot agree over the arrangements consequent on their peace— if they frankly show us the conditions they have agreed to, and those conditions are such as we cannot object to— if, in what remains unsettled, they agree to accept as the basis of action, Italian independence of foreign interven tion, and to hold us to be assenting parties to nothing which does not receive our explicit sanc tion, then of course we may co-operate with ad vantage to the land we desire to see free. Austria retaining Venetia is indeed a bad beginning, though the Tories think it a good one, that cannot be helped. We can protest against it as an injury to the Italians, and to Austria too ; but it is, accord ing to the arrangements of 1815, legal. War has not changed those arrangements in Venetia, and hence leave it as it is, we must, if Austria remain, as she doubtless will do, pertinacious. For the rest, whether by diplomacy or by conference, we ought to do what we can for the freedom of Italy. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : BERLIN, AUG. 11. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. The symptoms of congestion of blood on the brain, which his Majesty experienced yesterday, have diminished a little, and they did not increase to wards evening in the same degree as the day before. The state of his Majesty's health is, in fact, much the same. Sanssouci, 10th August, 8 p.m. Dr. GRIMM Dr. Ba✓GER. TURIN, AUG. 10. Besides all the Ministers the following have been elected :—MM. Masi, Torrigiani, Rubieri, Ginori, Zanetti, Peruzzi, Franchini, De Rossi, Vannucci, Cini, Capponi, Strozzi, Montanelli, Bartolommei, Ruschi, Del Re, Garzoni, Galeotti, Caselli, Fabrizi, Giorgini, Malenchini, Adami, Romanelli. The inhabitants are full of confidence. Another telegraphic despatch from Turin of the Bth says :—" The new elections of deputies which have taken place in consequence of the change of Ministry have been nearly all Ministerial. M. Ratazzi has been re-elected at Alexandria, and General Garibaldi has been nominated at Stradella.' PARMA, AUG. 8. King Victor Emmanuel having withdrawn the mandate given to the Sardinian authorities at Parma, the Piedmontese governor informed the municipality that he was about to leave. On his departure, the governor announced that he should transfer the sovereign powers to his secretary general, M. Manfredi, of Piacenza, to govern in the name of the people. This measure, from its ille gality, has produced a bad effect on the public mind. ' MARSEILLES, Auo. 10. . Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 3d inst. The squadron which had accompanied the Suttan on his cruise returned yesterday from Chio to Constantinople. The Constantinople papers announce that the last earthquake has entirely de6troyed the town of Erze roum, and has even demolished the ramparts of the town. ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 10. The Invalide Russ publishes an article insisting that a Congress be assembled for the settlement of the Italian question. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The Washington, from New York on the 30th ult., called at Queenstown at midnight. She has 1,214,000 dols. in specie on freight. On the Bth inst. she passed a steamer, supposed to be Saxonia. The steamer Indian, from Quebec on the 30th, has arrived, also the Great Britain, from New York on the 28th. The latter brings 300,000 dollars in specie. By the former we have telegraphic advices from New York via Farther Point to the evening of the 30th. Political news is unimportant both from Canada and the States. The papers give lengthy details of the rescue from a convent of a daughter of the Hon. J. Leander Star. This had occasioned considerable excitement. Adkvices from Mazatlan, Mexico, of July 5, state that the authorities there had chartered the steamer Santa Cruz, and despatched her to San Bias to cap ture a conducta of four million from Guadalaj ar, the object being to enforce the payment of the usual export duty. The British frigate Calypso was lying off San Blas waiting the arrival of the conducta, and a collision between her and Norton's forces was re garded as inevitable. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA FARTHER _ _ _ POINT. NEW YORK, JULY 30. The European adviees by steam-ship Anglo-Saxon reached here yesterday, via Farther Point, in nine days after the vessel's departure from Liverpool. The money market is without essential change. Sterling exchange is in moderate demand at about former rates ; bankers' bills quoted 1101 Cotton has been firm and active, but to-day the market became dull, and prices declined 110ic. Flour has been in good request and quotations have advanced 15c. to 30c. per barrel during the past two days. Sales of superfine state at 4.60 to 4.90 dols.; round hoop Ohio, 5.25 to 5.60 dols. Wheat scarce, and 3to 5 dearer. Corn heavy and dull. Mixed Western, 76 to 80c. Mess pork heavy. Prime firmer. Lard, quiet at 101 to 101 e. Spirits of turpentine quiet, 45 to 451, and taken for Liver pool at -1 to 3-16 f. NEW ORLEANS, JULY 29. Cotton firm a t 12c. for mig. Two bales of new crop of cotton were received here on the 27th from Texas. MONTREAL, JULY 30. Advices f rom a ll parts of the provinces speak of a bountiful wheat harvest. The damage done by the fly is only partial. Keith, late of the Grand Trunk Railway, is said to have resigned his situation as general manager. He had an engagement for three years at £2,000 per annum, and it is said he is to have £4,000 as compensation for giving it up. Our flour market to-day was rather better for all descriptions. There is no wheat on the market. THE DEBT OF INDIA.--A return to the House of Lords shows that the grand total amount of the sums bor rowed in India since May, 1857 (down to June last), is 10,86,90,564 rupees, or £10869,056. Another return shows that in 1858 the debt in India amounted to £60,704,084, and the interest payable to £2,666,275. The amount of home bond debt outstanding in 1857-58 was £8,894,400, and the interest payable £155,776. ®THE PERTHSHIRE MOORS.—According to reliable accounts, fair sport may be expected this season on most of the moors of Perthshire, which for some years back were not in a very satisfactory condition. The coveys are re ported as being numerous and generally strong on the wing, and no trace of the "disease" has yet been observable.— Edi)lbiwgh Courant. The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday says that the judgeship vacant by the death of the Hon. Patrick Plunkett has beeu conferred upon Mr. David Lynch, Q.C. The appointment is likely to be popular. Mr. Lynch is a Roman Catholic, .but has never taken a prominent part in politics. Tho chairmanship of the county of Louth, vacant by the promotion of Mr, Lynch, was this day conferred upon Mr, Leahy, Q.C. LITERATURE. A Cruise in Japanese Waters. By . Captain Sherard Osborne, C. 8., author of "Leaves from an Arctic Journal," " Quedah," &c. Blackwood. Many will before this have become familar with this work in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine, in which periodical its several chapters appeared. It is, however, gratifying to meet with it again in a collected form, and it will, there is no reason to doubt, obtain a favourable reception. It possesses the advantages of treating of a most important topic, and it is also to be considered as a most in teresting book, from the pleasing manner in which it is 'written, and from the varied information it imparts concerning a place and people not often chronicled in the pages of travellers who record their wanderings. The various descriptions given of the Japanese are very entertaining, and the reader who commences the voyage with the amus ing narrator will not be likely to part from him till he has said his last farewell to Japan. Captain Osborne may be congratulated in having contri buted so valuable an addition to the experiences of foreign lands as the present remarkable work, in which we meet with a most graphic account of im portant events, and a delightful description of the sights seen, and the adventures encountered in his momentous voyage. American Photographs. By Jane M. E. Turnbull and Marion Turnbull. Two vols. Newby. One of the most remarkable changes in the lite rary world of late years has been the great increase of feminine authorship. The reign over the world of fiction has long been disputed by female sove reigns, and they are now proceeding to compete with the travellers' tales which modern enterprise has made so common. Many ladies have recently given us their impressions of various parts of Europe, Asia, and Australia, and two adventurous sisters have now added to the list a fresh and viva cious account of their visit to the great continent of the West. Five years' wanderings in the various States of America enabled them to gather much information respecting the manners and habits of our transatlantic cousins, and to witness some of those marvels of Nature which so amply repay the traveller's toil. The work does not enter upon the vexed political questions of the day, but in a series of photographs gives us a view of American life and scenery as they appeared to the quick observa tion and lively spirits of the two adventurous authoresses. They speak throughout in cordial terms of the people with whom they mingled, and thus repay their hospitable reception. A few ex tracts will give the best idea of the vivacious and entertaining style of the work. Here is an account of a shopping expedition which one of the party undertook in company with an American lady, very shortly after their arrival : " The day was very cold, and the streets were as slip pery as glass, and just as I was going out of the door the American lady said, take cane how you go down the stoop' (steps), for I see you have no creepers on. ' What are creepers ?" Why, rubbers to be sure I' If you attempt to walk in such weather as this without them you will fall, so we will buy a pair as we return. Now, my dear, we will drive down Broadway to the principal dry goods store in the city. Never having heard of a dry goods store, I con cluded in my own mind that it meant a store house, packed with groceries —a sort of wholesale place; but judge of my surprise when we stopped at a most magnificent building of pure white marble, with all the blinds down, and on entering found, instead of groceries, a second Howell and Co. on a more extended scale ; for the enormous size and splendid exterior of this shop is extraordinary. It is called Stewarts,' and everything of the best description, for ladies' and gentle mens' wear, or for furnishing a house, can be here procured . After we had walked all through this really wonderful shop, the lady said she wished to make a few little pur chases. The first thing she asked for was to see some ' bed spreads.' What did you ask for ?' I said. ' Bed spreads.' Not liking to ask again what she meant, I quietly waited till they were produced, and they turned out to be counter panes. A white sun shade' was the next article—that was a parasol. My curiosity was again excited by her asking for paper cambric,' and twelve yards of cotton batting.' I began to despair of ever being able to make my self intelligibly understood in the shopping line. These latter articles were common glazed muslin, and wadding, which is sold by the yard instead of sheets, a great conveni ence. Our next visit was to Ball and Black, the great jewellers; to look at some brooches, bracelets, and rinds , when, to my astonisment, she asked for I breast pins,' wristlets,' and 'finger rings.' We now went into Thompson's to have luncheon. She asked me what I liked best; but thinking that perhaps the eat ables might be called by names I knew nothing about, I enquire of her what was best, to which she replied, ' let me order what I think will suit you.' Her orders were as follows Waiter, will you bring stews with crackers, soft shell crabs, squab owl, with Irish pota toes and fixings—and waiter, don't forget some cold slaw, and squash pie. It was with the greatest curiosity that I waited the appearance of viands with such outlandish names, and it was not long before the waiter appeared with our wonderful luncheon. The stew' was a sort of oyster soup, which is eaten with biscuits, and is exceedingly good. The 'soft shell crabs' were fried, and about the size of a person's hand Squab owl' meant game out of season. Irish potatoes were simply our own sort of potatoes, but they invariably put the paddy' before it. I [may also enlighten you as to what the fixings' are —fixings means vegetables, relishes for the meat; and biscuits, or bread for soup; in fact, any of the little e cmteras that are required. Cold slaw' is the hearts o raw cabbage cut fine. The squash pie and cabbage I de. dined. We now set off to finish our shopping, and went into a fine boot shop to get my creepers, where I succeeded in obtaining a very nice pair of what we should call over shoes, with rough soles. Here I must again confess my ignorance in understanding what the lady wanted, when she said she wanted to try on a pair of gaiter boots,' and also a pair of congress gaiter boots,' with paper soles.' Well ! I thought, I had heard of American ladies wearing very thin sales to their shoes and boots, but never understood that they were made of paper. These boots I immediately inspected, and found them to be what we call thin single sole boots, with elastic sides ; and the other pair were made to lace, with rather a thicker sole, in every respect the same as ours, except in their Americanised name. On our way home, she said, " now, I have nothing more to buy except some' spools' of silk and cotton, and to order a ' shingle.' " On hearing this, I fairly gave up the idea of understanding the American language without a vocabulary. We soon purchased the spools, (reels) but the 'shingle' was the thing that I was anxious about. We stopped at a shop, and she said, will you come in, or remain in the carriage?' 'Oh 1 I said, I will go in;' for I was determined to know what a s hi ngle was. Imagine my astonishment when she ordered a door plate, with her husband's name on it I after this, I really did thi n k it was ti me t o go home." The travellers give an enthusiastic description of their visit to Niagara, but on this, as on many other occasions, the sublime was not far from the ridiculous Almost all our evenings at the Clifton House were spent in wandering about the grounds, and sitting or walking on the spacious verandahs, listening to the continued and everlasting roar of the cataract. The evening before our departure for Toronto we entered the public parlour, and there in one corner sat a woman strangely attired, with her black hair streaming over her shoulders, and in her hand a dirty-looking little small-tooth comb, with which she was combing her hair at a furious rate, a most unusual proceed ing in a drawing-room I As she was evidently a character from whom we thought we might extract some amusement, one of us walked up to her and said— "l suppose you are travelling ?" " I guess I am." Have you come from a considerable distance ?" " Well, I guess I have, for I've rid in the hot thirty mile to see Niagara Falls, although my people 't hum told me it wern't worth the trouble; but you see sometimes I heard it a roaring and a roaring at nights,'and I thought I should like to see what sort of thing it could be, and I tell you it's real nice and elegant, and worth the trouble, anyhow." This was almost equal to the tailor who thought Niagara would be " a fust rate place to sponge a coat in." During their stay in Boston the travellers became acquainted with all the beauty and inconveniences of an Americen snow-storm : The last winter we spent in Boston was an unusually severe one ; and the snow in the streets in some places was upwards of six feet in depth. The streets presented a most curious appearance; the people who lived in the houses had thrown the snow up into the middle of the road from the flags, and when walking on the pavement you might see carriages and houses above you, on the road. Oxen were used to tread down the snow, and after a few days the streets became almost impassable, having become one mass of corrugated snow. The Bostonians call these corrugations " cradles," and every person who went out in a closed vehicle came home sea-sick ;it was exactly like being at sea, and the sleigh appeared to ascend and descend waves with the greatest regularity. • The city authorities were obliged to have the streets ploughed, and the work was so heavy, that oxen had to be employed instead of horses. After the streets were ploughed the huge lumps of frozen snow were carted away and thrown into the harbour; the road was then made as smooth as they could under the circumstances by the use of the pickaxe and shovel ; hundreds of men being employed night and day in this manner, at an immense expense, to keep the streets in a passable condition. One day some of our friends came to us, and advised us to go and look at the common. ,When we arrived, the common presented a most splendid appearance. The heavy snow had melted on the branches, and then a sudden frost had come, which froze the snow as it dripped from the branche s , leaving every tree laden with heavy icicles, some more than a yard long, every trunk, branch, and twig being clothed in a transparent robe of ice. The ground was covered with the pure white snow, out of which rose dozens of glittering frozen trees, with their crystal branches glistening in the sun. The wind among. the glassy' branches emitted a peculiar creaking and whistling seund, Ebb and Flow. A novel. 8 vols. Newby. This story has certainly variety to recommend it, if it cannot lay claim to anything remarkable in the way of ability. Some of the incidents are of a painful nature ; indeed, the author seems to delight in the details that border on the horrible. The most awful scene described here is the railway train passing over the carriage of Mr. and Mrs. Elmsley, who were most imprudently crossing the line. The only really pleasing character in the book is Mr. Smith, who never pretends to be other than he is, and whose spirit and energy are powerfully exem plified in the struggles he had to make in the cause of his oppressed wife and sister-in-law. The wrongs of Julia are enough, indeed, to arouse the deepest indignation, and it is quite a satisfaction to learn that her cruel betrayer meets the fate he so truly deserves. The humiliation was the more com plete, as the period was then fixed for his marriage with an heiress. The story will serve to amuse those who like to find something out of the usual even tenor of a novel, and to such it can be fairly recommended. and every now and then some huge limb would suddenly break like glass from the weight of the ice, and fall to the ground, scattering myriads of sparkling fragments in the air. An amusing description of Saratoga, the fashion able watering-plaee is given. Like other such loca lities, dress and etiquette are much studied. One lady arrived with fifty trunks ; she had one hundred dresses, and when each dress had been worn once she left for some other place. This being known to be the habit of some' ladies the probable length of their visit v4ts frequently reckoned upon from the number of dresses they appeared in, and when one of these belles was seen in a dress she had previously worn, her speedy de parture was anticipated. Of their numerous steam boat voyages some amusing anecdotes are told. One of the passengers on going into her cabin once saw a strange man covered up in her berth. She called for assistance, and on inquiry he proved to be a political refugee who had escaped and had suc ceeded in entering the ship unobserved. Fortu nately for him none of the officers of the ship were near, and his secret was preserved by his dis coverers. On another occasion voyaging from New York to Newport, a day boat was substituted for the regular steamer in consequence of an accident. The travellers had therefore to submit to various inconveniences, but expecting to arrive speedily at their destination retired to their beds, which were ingeniously manufactured by stretching sacking on upright poles. They were aroused by the steamer coming to a standstill, and asked if they had arrived, " Arrived ?" replied the man, they asked, " Why it is only half-past one, don't you see it is storming ? We have run into New London Harbour and here we shall remain till daylight," adding as consolation, " This boat is not fit for this work, it has hard work to live in a sea like this. I guess, we may be lose!" Fortunately the predic tions of this Job's comforter were not fulfilled. There is not much said on the painful subject of slavery. An interesting account is however given of an attempted escape after a novel fashion, " During our residence in the south, a negro man, who is now free, and the head waiter of one of the principal hotels gave us a very interesting little account of his at tempt to escape. " This man and a friend of his had saved about 200 dols. (D 10), and with this sum they were determined to find a means of escape. They at last came to the conclusion that they would consult a white man whom they knew upon the best means of arranging their escape. He said if they would give him 150 dollars, he would manage everythinc , for them. After a short time the man informed them that everything was in readiness. The men met him at the ap pointed place, and there the negroes saw two large wooden boxes, with some small holes arranged,* such a manner as not to be visible. The poor creatures were ordered to get in, and the white man, before nailing the boxes up told them they were to go in these boxes by railway, and that when they arrived beyond the Slave States, a friend of his would be there to convey them to a place of safety. They were now nailed up and put on a cart and conveyed to the rail way station. _ _ _ ‘-‘ The officials at the station thought the boxes had p suspicious appearance, and the man who had nailed them up seeing this, did not wait to see them put in the luggage van. Instead of putting the suspicious boxes in the van, they were placed on a truck and ma l ved a considerable dis tance down the line ; some time after the truck was brought back to the station, as the head officials wanted to look at the boxes, in order to find out, if they could, what they contained before they were sent off. One of the men, with his knuckles, began tapping against the box, and to their astonishment a stifled voice from the box exclaimed— " have We arrived ?" As may be supposed, the boxes were broken open in a moment, and there were the two poor men so stiff from the cramped position they had been in for the last four hours that they had to be lifted out; but their disappointment may be imagined when they saw where they were, and not, as they had fondly hoped, in one of the free States. However, poor fellows, if they had arrived in a free state packed up in those boxes, it would have been with the loss of life, for if they had been placed in the luggage van they must have' been suffocated, as it is almost air tight. The white man was pursued, and made to deliver up and return to the negroes the greater portion of the money he had obtained from them. " These negroes belonged to two different masters, and one of them as a punishment was sent to New Orleans and sold ; the other, after being reprimanded, was forgiven, and he has by great care and saving, purchased his own freedom. Masters who are kind to their slaves generally make a reduction in the value when the slave is going to purchase his or her freedom." The enterprising authoresses have illustrated their own work in a manner creditable to amateurs, and we doubt not, many will derive entertainment and information from their vivid and life-like photo graphs. Lord Byron's Poetical Works. Part VII. Boswell's Life of Johnson. Part VI. Murray. These two commodious reprints are rapidly ap proaching completion. Lord Byron's Poems have reached the seventh part, and will be concluded in two more instalments. The one before us contains the Occasional Pieces and the commencement of "Don Juan."—" Boswell's Life of Johnson" is now at the sixth part, and will be terminated in four more numbers. We are glad to see such a work as this biography brought out at a price that puts it within the reach of most readers. The English Cyclopedia of Arts and Sciences. Conducted by Charles Knight. Bradbury aria Evans. The fourth section of this valuable work is fully equal to its predecessors. The time and labour which must have been required for its com pilation render the publi c l arge l y i n d e b ted to its indefati gable conductor. Mr. Charles Knight has added another to his many claims on the public by the successful continuation of the most arduous of the , four divi s i ons o f hi s great undertaking. No lib r ary should be without a wor k so aut h ent i c i n it s charac ter and so comprehensive in its information. The Art Journal. ' The principal plates in this month's number 14 from Scha e ff er ' s p i c t ure o f " Th e N un " in the l' ° 3ll collection ; from a picture of Drachenfels, lb. Hammersley ; and an engraving of a statue 4 Maidenhood, G. T. Hancock. The prose tits are as usual full o f ar ti s ti c i n t er est. Mr. a nd , llrs. C. Hall continue their narrative of South Wales,", with spirit, and describe the 01 1 . rons of Tenby. Some of the vignettes are l'ery pretty. The fourth number of the late Mr, lti __ pingille's " Personal Recollections of Great k tist ;,, " ExcursioN in treats of David Wilkie. " Rome and her V 1 °tics of Art" has reached the third part, Which de scribes the columns and sculptures of the Etern,) Lit City. The engravings of these illustrated„ -r" . n t l i. el ts add greatly to their attractions. The expo- Manufactories" detail the impressions dition to the Royal Porcelain Works at lit. orccster. () I C 'S to Art Subjects of artistic interest and art t l l met with, and the number fully maintacii ;the high n reputation of this journal. s m s are MISCELLANEOUS MAG.A.ZINS* Tait's Edinburgh Magazin e has an awt Peace, arriving at the conclusion that on the and the War are alike alarming and Og h t , the Pehce with danger. A paper on " Going '. I Y hound Cape fraught Horn," forms the seventh of the seri Austra lian Sketches, by the Hon. T. M'Cotoiei. of le, and will repay perusal, ' as it treats of a vane including the Law of Stor ms and t ie questionof subects, of Penal Settlements. An essa y o. "poets and Poetry" discusses the merits of t rival Burns' . Centenary odes, gives cop ious a e go- a cts from the Laureate's new poem, and P wa Ys rvi l tribute to the ability displayed in the Trer. "Middle Class Men" is a brief pape r on a fruitful subject, recording the names of sono of those who have achieved eminence in spite of th e Pbstacles of birth and fortune.—The Eclectic ha topics. A paper entitled, i ! som ,:% interesting k ero Woi:!thip of recent historians," criticises r.l Froude for their partisansh i p i Carlyle and Mr. rick of Prussia and Henry the `lefence of Frede tion not altogether untnerit ''ighth, an accusa writers. "Town and ForZd by those eminent , 1 7, the interesting I story by the author of " Afar t' con tinued, and narrates the des ..Y' Powell," is missionary, who falls a victj tii of the heroic city exertions among the crovi to his indefatigable dwell ings of Hopkinsville.---7, and unhealthy variety of articles, and " G etting4in contains its usual with. Another tale, entiti On" is proceeded ed. 6 4 In and Out," i s brought to a conclusion. ' kekuni er ous extracts from new works of interest the Philosophy of Lit g iven. An article on Forgeries is worth perusal.—The National Zan" z i ne p attractive table of conten t s, la resents a very seeks entertainment wiii and the reader who find much to gratify him. The woodcuts are so ke w ho,t improved in style. The animated story Of i ' Miles Ca ssid y' s Contract" is continued.—Le poi let displays its usual array of elegantly-attired 1 aclies, and furnishes its fair students with full , in the mode._fiele'tieul ar s of the recent changes , le _L o ndon Journal of Arts and Sciences recor4 gives a list of all ti the pro gress of invention and a rece nt patents. Tbs opening paper is on the hli Port nt topic of The Fiscal Re forms of Great II • a , titain --Ihe Freemasons' Maga zine is a publican ' ti : on w hose size and style mony to the . 1 1i -ofthe bear tes timony bas commencedi new and enlarged series, and has Papers on se l :eki su bjects of general interest as well as on toPts ~„_tnore immediately. connected with freemasonry'. l'he .Knapsack is a new serial chiefly intended for country gentlemen. It has papers on g s ro, . 0. a 0 sho oting, on elephant shooting in India, jibbio, .., „b; 6 horses, the recoil of fire-arms, and similar 0- get s. A, new penny weekly family a-- paper has appeared the title of under The Parlour Journal. It does not appear to differ much from the others Of its class , havin g the usual amount of tales allci sketches , answers to corres p onden ts , paragraPqa , , a n d jokes. "The Mermaid's Lament" is a Pa thetic lamentation b y the naiad the r i`ltries in which sh e deplores having of lost her Com b in the mud, and asserting S a brirla ha d ta ken up her abode in similar that if waters, instea d of knitting her hair with twisted braids of Elie s,e would have donned an oilskin cap. . . . " Sketches of `Remarkable Women " are worth reading.—Plain or Ringlets, by the author of " Sponge's Tour," is continued in its author's usual style. The illustrations by Leech are among its chief attractions.—Tales from, Bentley proceed with spirit, and the cheap reprint of M. Thiers's History of the Great French Revolution will No acceptable to all who wish to become acquainteil with foreign classics, as well as to improve theix knowledge of a most eventful epoch.—Routledgeo Illustrated Natural _History proceeds to describo the habits and characteristics of the feline racc. The illUstrations are large and numerous, an d some, of thd anecdotes given respecting the comma= cat may induce some readers to treat the m in future with more consideration.—The Trild Flowers of England are continued in monthly parts. All who admire these little denizens of field and woodland should avail themselves of tb.is opportunity of obtaining a popular description. of their classes and qualities. CHARLES DICKENS'S; NEW WORK• A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens. Nos. 1., IL, and 111. Chapman and Hall. A cordial welcome 'is at all times certain to be accorded to any work from the hand of Mr. Dieken 4B It is his due. He has ea rne d a r i g ht to this wel come by volumes upo n vo l umes th a t have bees I nothing less than benefactions to his generation-- volumes that are more truly H ouse h o ld Words than the nineteen volumes of his lately discontinue d) periodical. But a peculiarly cor di a l w elcome is th e , due, we cannot but think, o f th e new r omance, o f which these three numbers before us form the .ex quisite commencement. Alth oug h on ly . threei number, these instalments than in reality more, considerably more, than what by ordinary acceptation might be regarded as a commencement. They complete, indeed, more than one third of the entire production. According to the adve.r tised announcement the s t or y w ill e nd 1n . eight monthly parts—less than half the CUfr tomary dimensions of the serial novels by Bot So that in estimating the val ue of 'the N en re• now, we cannot be regarded as in any w ll .l pronouncing an opinion upon its merits turely. As far as it has yet, gone, it gives ever f promise of taking high rank among the happi"gt masterpieces from the pen of our great novels sty It is not unworthy of him as incomparably tbe greatest of all our great English h umour i s t s . It illustrates anew, and in a remargable manner, Ads extraordinary command over our emotions as: pathetic narrator. It yields additional avd startling evidence of his rare and comparative ,ly speaking but recently developed genius as master of Terror. The Tale of Two Cities—mes si ing Paris and London—opens at a period already brought vividly to light by the luminous track of the same radiant imagination. "The Epoch" hi !re depicted, in Chapter One, by a series of rapid 1 rot masterly touches, is, as nearly as possible, the epoch. of " Barnaby Rudge"—the time of the powdered peruke, the gold laced coat, the lon g -fl a pped a nd embroidered waistcoat, the shoebuokle, and the " old cocked hat like a three -cornered spittoon." :It is familiar ground both to Mr. Dickens and to his readers—and they enter upon it together with 'en instant and agreeable sense of its familiarity. But the historic turiloil attracting them again in t bat direction is no t nger the din and hubbub of the famous Gordo.7 Riots of 1780—it is a sound far wilder, and me.e solemn in its nature—the stave and clangour of that grand and awful French 3E:e volution. Thefirst of the Three Books, into wh inh the narrative is subdivided, begins, it is true, i five years earlier ban the date at which Lord Geo- ege raised that ft atical cry of "No Popery," w hich led, in Londpn, to so much bl oo d s h e d an d to so many disastiens conflagrations. But this first book _impressivtly and, at th e outset, enigmatically entitled, "Recalled to Life "—is very brief ill itself, is co m prised; indeed, entire, in the first monthly ilbtalment ; it is the merest introductioni, but a verj essential introduction. It is a pictu resque relinder that history i s littl e b etter t h aia a se ries of repetitions—that' our vaunted progres, so s m rl eh e :wds but very little progress, indeed, after all.- Thi (saith the very first page of the narra' tive) in that year of our Lord, 1775—"Spiritua revelatiihs were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this." Apart from Mrs . Southete, for example, then but recently arrived at her,;five and twentieth bles se d bi rthday " " Ever the ~qck-lane Ghost had b een l a id on l y rounudozen of years, After rapping out its mes sages) as the spirits of this very year last past (supern a turally defficient in or i g i na lit y )" o b serve s gr. Dickens in one of his delightful little pare:ce thesi, " rap p e d out theirs." England—then ruled bry it a t i ng w ith a large jaw, and a queen with a pleb a face4 as France yam? _simultaneously ruled by " 11. k i k with a large jaw, and a queen with a fair fan_was receiving from the opposite shores e f tie Atlantic " messages in the earthly order Cof e 'ents" which,' says th,..1 writer humorously, 'strange to relate, have proved more important to Clihumant race than any comunications yet TV' ved o through any of the chickens of the Cock an e brood." As to the " situation" on the other (de of the channel we would gladly here—but for is length—give Mr. Dickens's vivid, grizzly, ug ionic De Balzac portraiture ! With the Wood'.- m an, Fate then marking probably trees some /where in the woods of France and Nor wa y, trees that were "to come down an d b e sawn into boards, to make a certain move able framework, with a sack and a knif e i n it t e rrible in history." With the Farmer, Death setting apart "likely enough in the rough out houses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris," rude carts sheltered there from the weather, " bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultery"—setting them apart already "to be his tumbrils of the Re volution." In the midst of this memorable epoch, when so many dread ev en t s were secretly, but rapidly and inexorably in preparation—the Tale o f Two Cities opens in a dense fog surrounding the mail coach and itS team of horses as they toil up Shooter's Hill, on the road to Dover, upon one Friday night late in November. The vividness of this introductory description would be matter of surprise to us, but that we remember who it is we have as the narrator. And so we follow, quite as a matter of course, the four horses as " they mash their way through the thick mud, with drooping heads and tremulous tails, floundering and stumbling between whiles as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints." Occasionally (with a touch of equine individuality even in this team) the near leader "vi o l en tl y s h ak i ng his head and everything upon it—like an unusually emphatic horse denying that the coach could be got up the hill." At last they do get up to the top of it never theless. And then while they pause there in' the darkness for the approach at a gallop of some horseman, who turns out to be a messenger, but who may, for aught they know, be a highwayman— what a master stroke that is, realising the whole incident to us so vividly l—" The stillness conse quent upon the cessation of the rumbling and. labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed— the pant ing of the horses communicated a tremulous 2nation to the coach, as if it were in a state of agitation." The messenger proves to be Jerry Cruncher—one of the genuine Boz creations. Here is a characteristic description of a bit of him. Jerry has just taken his hat off to scratch his head, which has "stiff black hair standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad ;lint nose." " It was so likz?, smith's work," writes Jerry s historian, "so much more like the top of a strongly-spiked wall than a human head of hair, that the beet of players at leap-frog might have declined him as the most dangerous man in the world to go over." Jerry is one of the hangers-on at Tellson s Bank, near Temple-bar —of which esta blishment we read' no less whimsically than we have done but just now in regard to its retainer— " Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of incon venience. After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy, with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellion's down two steps, and came to yourself in a miserable little shop with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower bath of mud from Fleet-street." Not to loiter over the minute touches of humour which are as usual scat tered abundantly about him by our novelist—bring ing out localities and individualities with all the distinctness of photography when viewed through the stereoscope—let us, before we close this notice of the three first instalments of this charming Tale of Two Cities, enumerate briefly a few of the inci dents already depicted in it, and the "pick" of some among the principal characters introduced. The incident of Book the First —intimated by its mys terious title, " Recalled to Life,"—is the release of Dr. Manette from the Bastile, where, as one of the victims of the infamous lettres de cachet, he has en dured, before the story opens, the awful torture of eighteen yea rs solitary incarceration. " The Wine Shop," and "The Shoemaker," the two chapters in which the unfortunate prisoner is restored to the world, and drawn, at last, to the recognition, and into the arms, of his young daughter, are among the most exquisite things Charles Dickens has ever yet written. We read words like these through our tears—we have for them no less spontaneous a tri bute of appreciative admiration. Scarcely less pathetic, or less beautiful, in its way (though the pathos is here i n a lesser degree) is the incident de scribed in the third number—the number for this current month—" The Stoppage at the Fountain!' Besides these Parisian incidents there are others THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1.8b9. L ~1