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He stands charged with coming to this country for the purpose of promoting the Fenian conspiracy, which he has made great efforts already to further in America. His capture is the most important thing that has yet taken place, and it is certainly a conclusive answer to those who denied that the American agency was very active in this matter. Mr. BARRY, in his speech on the prosecution, declared that many of the statements he had made at the outset of these trials would no doubt be substantiated before the close of the investigations. One portion of his remarks has already been verified to the letter. He stated that " trained military leaders were promised from America to take the command of the insurgents in Ireland," and-while ho was making this statement Captain O'CONNELL was on his voyage to Ireland. It appears that documents were found upon him that proved his complicity in the conspiracy, and not being forewarned he had not thrown them away, as was the case with some others coming over from America. Some of those papers in question bear the signature of OITAHONEY, the New York Head Centre, and thus the collusion is clearly proved. In one of these great confidence is expressed in the ultimate success of the Fenian movement, both i n " The America and in Ireland. Irish spirit," it is said, " is thoroughly ar*sed from Labrador to the Gull of Mexico," and care intuit be ........i--- taken that the cause does not languish in Ireland. It appears that the Irish expect great things in the way of subsidies from the organiza tion in America, and indeed O'MAHONEY de clares that the question of success depends upon money. This letter is dated January, 1860, so that we may judge how long the movement has been in course of formation. Mr. BARRY'S affirmation con cerning the Irish People newspaper being the recog nised organ of the Fenians is also proved abun dantly in these documents that have been brought into court. O'MAHONEY states that a subscriber to this paper is as good as an actual member of the F. B. So the profits derived from it go to support the organisation at home. In another letter allusion is made to the fact of assistance being afforded in America for the train ing of leaders to support the cause in Ireland. One of them, dated Fenian Headquarters, New York, contains special reference to the matter. It is writ ten by O'.IIIAHoNEY, and he states that the death of General CORCORAN is a sad blow, but that he did not depart until he had " made some hundreds of excellent young officers of the true Fenian creed, pressing closely upon his heels in the race of renown, and the army of Ireland's redemption will not want, in any case, enough and plenty of able officers to fill every possible grade." Such language proves that it is now high time some strong measures were adopted to crush this move ment, and it is sad to find how much mischief has been done already in compromising those who have hitherto borne respectable diameters, and filled stations of some importance. One of the Queens town Commissioners has been arrested on a charge of high treason, and great consternation was thereby created in the locality. At the same time another arrest was made in the person of a young man, who was seized on board ship, having taken his passage for America. It is impossible to overrate the misery thus pro duced in households by these numerous arrests, and in many cases the prisoners are the victims of craft and cunning, and the agitation that is so grandiloquently called a national movement is, in fact, nothing but the working of certain evil spirits, whose restlessness and love of mischief induce them to mix themselves up in the affair, and drag many down with them to ruin and misery. Upon the accounts received Mr. BARRY asked the Court to send Captain O'CONNELL for trial, and again re marked how correct he had been in his allusions to commercial interference. These documents, he might well say, " threw light as to how the organisation was carried on in America, and that the subsidising of the Irish branch of the Associa tion appears to have been carried on by the trans mission of various sums of money, small as com pared with the resources of England, but consider able, having regard to the class of life of the persons who appear to be principally engaged in this con- spiracy." In fact the revelations which have been made by the discovery of these documents is by far the most important event that has taken place since the commencement of the Fenian prosecution, and the corroboration thus afforded to Mr. BARRY'S statements is indeed surprising. The way is now made much clearer for those who have to investigate these matters, and some decided rules have been laid down for their guidance. It is now some time since such stringent measures were adopted as the authorities have wisely deemed it necessary to take in order to meet the emergency that has arisen. No doubt it will take some time, under the most favourable circum stances, before the angry feelings engendered by these prosecutions are done with, and it is the more unfortunate that this mischance should have barn ea Tral nil tuna 11Porimin ft rnnre tranquil, and the people less disaffected than had been the case for some time. What strikes us more forcibly than anything else, however, is the intolerable impertinence and extreme incon sistency of the Americans. Had our Government acted with promptitude and decision during the last few years we should never have heard of Fenianism, but it appears to be the fashion on the other side of the Atlantic to rail at everything English ; and the extraordinary latitude thus given has been a grand opportunity for the degenerate and unworthy sons of the soil who have left their native land, and carry with them no better regard for its welfare than to foment discord and to encourage strife and discon tent. The affair is trifling in itself as a conspiracy, but its consequences will not be so easily got over, and many will curse the day when they first heard of the Fenians. Among the most salient points which distinguish the American national character, a degree of as surance has always been reckoned. This may not altogether arise from the unenviable quality of self-conceit, but partly from that strong self-reliance and independence of character which have raised the American nation to its present high position. If we wished, however, for an instance in which confidence passes into effrontery, we should cer tainly not have very far to seek. The correspond ence between Mr. ADAMS and our Foreign Secre tary, if it were not upon a matter of very grave and serious import, would be almost amusing from the high and injured tone adopted by the representative of the United States. In the coolest and most decided manner Mr. ADAMS informs Lord RUSSELL that his Government " cannot avoid entailing upon the Government of Great Britain the responsibility for the damage," inflicted by the Alabama, the Stonewall, the Shenandoah, and others. We might almost be excused for taking these statements as so many empty words but for the fact that it appears very probable that the United States Government will make political capital out of the matter on the assembling of Con gress. The idea of humiliating the Britisher and of making a handsome profit out of the affair would no doubt be very well received both in Washington and New York, for since the termi nation of the war, the Americans of the Northern States, at least, probably believe themselves suffi ciently powerful to compel submission on our part. The latest intelligence from America informed us that the persons who had suffered from the depredations of the Confederate cruisers were noti fied to give particulars to the authorities, in order, we presume, that the little bill may be presented in due form to the British Government. Every argu ment, answer, illustration, and remonstrance falls powerless against the shield of Mr. ADAMS'S stubborn reiteration of his claims. He is open to conviction, but convince him if you can. Lord RUSSELL is no mean autho rity on points of constitutional law, and h as certainly experience enough as a diplomatic corres pondent. With great industry and pains he cites examples, taken from American history itself ; he quotes the decisions of American authorities ; he tries plain English common sense, and draws con clusions that to an unprejudiced observer appear indisputable, but all in vain. If beaten, like the English soldier, the American advocate does not know it, and when argument and eloquence have been exhausted on the subject he starts up again with the same formula—England has built the ships, the ships have injured American 'commerce, England must pay for the injury. It is calif just to Earl BussELl 4 to say that he re- THE SUB, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 186 E. fuses to acknowledge any claim upon the English Government for losses incurred through the Ala bama or other Confederate vessels, though that he should propose a commission for the decisionof all chin is arising during the late civil war is, to say the least of it, inconsistent. The tone of Mr. ADAMS, all through the correspondence, is arrogant, and in parts! almost insolent. He evidently considers that there is no evil which the English dread like war, and by scarcely concealed threats he hopes to inti midate them into the payment of the indemnity de manded. We cannot but regard Lord RUSSELL'S pro posal of the commission as a very great mistake. If he denies the claims in toto, why appoint a commission to try them? Any ordinary claims on either side arising from the ordinary course of war can be surely settled by the regular tribunals. It is not necessary to appoint a joint commission, unless the affair has passed from a mere individual matter to grave national importance. Lord RUSSELL denies every charge. He points out that the recognition of the Confederates as belligerents, of which so much has been said, was in reality made by the Washington Government itself when it established the blockade. He cites Ame rican authorities in flat contradiction of Mr. ADAMS'S interpretation of international law, and mentions instances in which American statesmen have justly resisted such a claim, and yet he con cludes by a most uncalled-for and unwarrantable concession. It is surprising that the Foreign Se cretary did not see what a serious mistake he was committing in proposing a commission. No de cision of English authorities would satisfy the Americans ; and are we to submit to the dictation of American judges against the verdict of our countrymen ? To agree to such a silence is merely to keep up the irritation, to encou rage fallacious hopes, and to pave the way for further misunderstanding and dispute. When will Lord RUSSELL learn the value of a prompt and de cided negative ? Had he shown anything like firm ness or resolution at the outset of this war, no Ame rican ambassador would have dared to address such language to a Minister of the British Crown as he does in this correspondence. Mr. ADAMS IS, of course, quick to see the flaw in his adversary's armour, and does not lose a moment in taking advantage of it. He awaits the instructions of his Government before he can reply to it, but he does not abate one atom of his pretensions, and it is very evident from his concluding sentences that he believes his threats have produced their due effects. The " coldness and apathy," of England, the " strong sense of in jured feeling" in the United States, are forcibly dwelt upon, and even his forced courtesy bears the appearance of a wonderful effort of magnanimity towards those who have deeply injured him and his country. It is such language as we might suppose JEFFERSON DAVIS and General LER might have held had the fortunes of war been different, though even then no foreign statesman has a right to dictate to the English Government what course it shall pursue. But if we ask ourselves in what degree these injured Federals were indebted to the assistance of this country for heir success their conduct in this matter becomes as inconsistent as it is outrageous. Men and arms are usually considered the two in dispensable conditions of war, and to what extent was America indebted to England for both ? The tide of emigration pointed in a steady stream west ward. Irishmen filled the ranks of the constantly diminished armies. When the patriotism of Ame rican citizens was principally represented by bounty jumpers, their place was supplied by Irish emigrants. As for the ammunition it is shown by statistics that the number of small arms manufactured t Birmincham never reached to so great a height as during the American war, and. these were conveyed direct to the Northern States. How, then, in the name of common consistency, can the Ameri cans accuse us of favouring the South when we sup plied the one with unarmed ships and the other with guns reckoned by tens of thousands ? The extravagance of the claim would be absurd. Coming from any other nation but from one who has pro fited so largely by the laxity and partiality of our Foreign Office, it is really intolerable. The great cause of offence is the looks of sympathy shown by "an influential section" towards the North. The English could not be made to see that what was white in the reign of GEORGE 111. was black in the reign of Queen VICTORIA. Had the right of secession been claimed by the New England States, we apprehend that the verdict would have been different. As it is those same states are discontented because the rich fields of the South are not partitioned amongst them. Perhaps Mr. ADAMS thinks that a diplomatic commission may end in some nice little compromise, such as that mislaying of the map which lost us the State of Alaine, and he relies upon extorting a good deal from the Whig love of peace and dread of war. Her MAJESTY'S Government probably hopes to tide over the winter by their imprudent proposal, but temporising is always short sighted. England will, we hope, never refuse to recognise her just liabili ties, but the Yankees might with just as much reason ask us to clear off their national debt as to compensate them for the damage done by the cruisers. Will they compensate us for the damage done to Lancashire by the blockade ? Will they repay us for the cost of putting down Fenianism, which they have openly supported and encouraged ? • Happily, though the Foreign Secretary holds the pen, the House of Commons holds the purse ; and, in spite of electoral deficiencies, the public spirit of Englishmen is too surely represented at St. Stephen's - to admit of the liquidation of any such preposterous demands. DISCOVERY OF A WRECK IN THE TYNE.—FINDING OF AN OLD BREECH-LOADING GUN.—On Friday last, while the River Tyne Commissioner's dredger No. 4 was at work above Messrs. Leslie's iron shipbuilding yttrd, Hebburn, the buckets met with an obstruction, and upon an examination being made, it proved to be the wreck of an old clinker-built vessel, which appeared to have been embedded a considerable depth in the water for a number of years. Upon portions of the wreck being brought up, there was discovered among it an old wrought-iron breech loading gun, of about 6 feet in length, and having a 2-inch bore of a conical form. A portion of the breech was, upon examination, found to have been broken off. THE WAY TO HEALTH.—I have suffered more from illness than most men, and have only found two medicines, two physicians that never failed—the desert and the lofty mountain. The dry air of the upper Alps is as the life-giving breath of a purer and higher world. No doubt much must be ascribed to the good effect of the ex ercise that one takes in Switzerland ; but the very fact that that country affords so many incentives to exertion, may be set down among its medical advantages. Mr. Michie bears similar testimony to the effect of a similar atmosphere in Russian Asia. " The constant exposure,' he says, " to the clear bracing Siberian air was certainly most beneficial ; and I am convinced of this, that with all its ice and snow, there is no finer—that is, more salubrious—climate in the world than Siberia." In the Alpine zone, from about 5,000 to 7,000 feet, in which trees end, where rhododendrons, gentians, ranunculi, and anemores are found, and which impinges on the region of eternal snow, the appetite rapidly improves, digestion be comes easy, the blood is purified, the breathing is fuller, the nerves aro now strung, muscular force increase; the heart beats oftener and stronger, the blood is thrown more upon the lungs and skin, the processes of chymification and chylification are quickened, there is an increase of red arterial 'alood, and the spirits rise in a corresponding degree. Many of the victims of too sedentary or luxurious civilisa tion soon find among the Alps that they are approaching the physique of the guides themselves, though a long inter val may still remain. Pale faces become ruddy and brown, the breast expands, fatty degeneration gives place to firm muscle, melancholy to liveliness, and nervousness to nerve. —Blacktocrocre Magainefor October. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ROX E . ROME, OCT. 11. Yesterday a party of 10 PontifiCal gendarmes encountered a band of brigands near Spurgola, and effected the release, without any payment to the brigands, of a prisoner for whom they demanded a ransom of 12,000 crowns. that the malady will not have the same intensity as even in 1854, when far fewer victims were carried off than in 1849 and 1832. The sanitary returns from the South of France continue to be extremely favourable. At Marseilles on the Bth there were 20 deaths, 8 from cholera ; at Toulon, on the same day, 18 deaths, 7 from the epi demic ; at Aries, 10 deaths, 7 from cholera ; at Aix, no new case had been declared ; and at Nismes, on the 7th, only one had been registered. The sub scription opened at Marseilles in favour of the fami lies attacked has reached the sum of 103,826 fr. The Mayor of Marseilles has published a notice to the effect that, in consequence of the decrease of cholera, both in that and in the neighbouring towns, and of the general amelioration of the public health, the ten medical dispensaries hitherto kept open during the night will henceforth cease to be so. Marshal Canrobert is continuing the inspection of the military establishments and forts in his com mand. Two days back he visited Vincennes and the Fort of Nogent, and afterwards the Hospital St. Martin and the Fort of Aubervilliers. The Journal de Rennes has received a first warn ing from the Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine, for an article in which " the writer persists in making unjust im putations against the Administration, and blames in very reprehensible terms the exercise of a right which it holds from the constitution and the law of May 5, 1855, such attacks being of a nature to ex cite discontent amonst the population, and lead to contempt of the Government." The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric situation yesterday : " The gale of Monday, arrested by the strong pres sures which prevailed in the north of Russia, still remains on the western coasts of France. It con tinues to exercise its influence over the British islands also ; at the same time it threatens the Channel and the North Sea, and afterwards the Baltic. The gales which blew on the coasts of Pro vence have invaded Italy, where storms are signalised at Rome and Naples. They are likely to.continue." In Paris yesterday the sky was cloudy in the morn ing, but no rain fell, and later in the day the weather was fine and bright. At three in the afternoon the thermometer marked 19 8-10 Cent. (67 4-5 Fahr). In consequence of the sudden change in the weather the orange trees of the Tuileries gardens are now being removed to the conservatories for the winter. M. Bougeard, condemned to four months' impri sonment for his book " Marat ;" and M. Guillot, responsible editor of the Rive-Gauche, sentenced to two months, have constituted themselves prisoners at Ste-Pelagie. BOURSE, Oct. 11.—Two o'Clock.—The market has been well sustained since the opening, and an advance has taken place in many securities. Threes, for the Account, are doing at 67f. 85c. Italian Fives are unvaried. Credit Mobilier Shares have gained 7f. 50c., viz., 850 f. Lombard Shares have advanced 6f. 25c., viz., 436 f. 25c. Saragossa Shares are offered at 262 f. 50c., with a fall of 7f. 50c. Mexican continues in favour, with a further advance of per cent., the present quotation being 49. A rise of * per cent. in Consols encourages buyers. Three o'Clock.—A retrograde movement has taken place, and the market has closed At the following lower prices : 4 per Cents 96 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 774 Do. end month 67 75 Ditto Threes — Roman 741 Mexican Loan 4Bl Do. Bonds 317 50 Russian - Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Credit Mobilier 842 50 Do. end month 843 75 Bank Shares 3600 Credit Foncier 1315 Italian Loan 65 20 Do, end month 65 15 RAIL Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean. WAYS. Cash. Acct. ... 817 50 • ... 1087 50 • ~. 857 50 562 EO ... 530 - ... 533 75 ... 512 50 - 402 50 435 201 25 256 25 SOuthem Western Eastern Sardinian. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman FIRE AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY.—Yesterday morning at 11 o'clock a fire broke out at Albert Gate House, Knightsbridge, the residence of the French Embassy. Being such an extensive establishment, it pro duced the greatest alarm in the neighbourhood. The fire originated in a store-room on the third floor, immediately adjoining the bed-rooms, which was stored with very valu able carpets. Fortunately the fire was confined and kept under by the inmates of the house till the arrival of the Fire Brigade engines, under the direction of Superinten dent Swanton, and by a plentiful supply of water the fire was soon extinguished, but not before several valuable carpets were destroyed. The French Embassy and the contents are insured in several offices to a very large amount. PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.—NearIy 120 bills, public and private, were passed in the recent session of the Parliament of Canada, which closed in September. The number of private bills has increased remarkably. Among the public bills passed was one to provide more fully for the punishment of kidnapping ; a bill for the pre vention of contagious diseases at military and naval sta tions in the province ; a bill to provide against the intro duction and spreading of disorders affecting certain animals; a bill to impose a tax on dogs and to provide for tho better protection of sheep. The most important measure passed was a bill for the codification and consolidation of the civil law of Lower Canada—a work, of which the Speaker said in his address to the Governo-General, that it will assuredly obtain for the jurisprudence of Lower Canada the approba tion of the learned profession abroad. Mr. Speaker pre sented a bill for granting to her Majesty certain expenses of the civil Government for the financial year (June) 1865-66, to which the royal assent was signified; "In her Majesty's name his Excellency the Governor-General thanks her loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence, and assents to this bill." A short speech from his excellency closed the fourth session of the eighth provincial Parlia ment. ACCIDENT TO MISS MENKEN AT ASTLEY'S THEATRE.—Last evening an accident, which might have been attended with serious consequences, happened to Miss Menken while she was performing in the second act of the " Child of the Sun," at Astley's Theatre. In this act she has to ride across the stage upon a " dummy" horse through heavy seas which are represented as beating against a rocky shore, and when she had passed about half way across, sometimes appearing and then disappearing in the surf, herself and the horse fell through an opening in the boards down a descent of about ten feet. There was a scene-shifter below upon whom both alighted. This broke the force of the fall, otherwise she must have been seriously injured. As it was, however, her side and back were bruised. Tho curtain was immediately dropped, and great excitement prevailed among the audience. Mr. Dodd, surgeon, of Westminster-road, was at once sent for, and he having, applied such remedies as were necessary, Miss Menken was enabled, in the course of about 20 minutes, to reappear upon the stage and to resume her part in the per formance. The scene-shifter received a shock to his system which will probably be felt by him for some weeks. DESTRUCTIVE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening an accident occurred on the Great Western Railway at Hoo Brook, about a mile and a quarter from Kidderminster, which occasioned a great destruction of property, and it was only by a miracle human life was not lost. ' The sidings near the station are higher than the spot where the accident occurred ; and by some mischance several trucks laden with flour escaped feom them and ran down the incline and over Hoo Brook viaduct, no one being cognisant of what had occurred. The up Landon goods train passed through Kidderminster station at 7 25 p.m. It was drawn by a fine powerful new engine, which recently cost £3,000, and was regarded as one of the best the company possessed. It careered onwards at a rate which, when it came in contact with the escaped trucks, probably amounted to between 30 and 40 miles an hour. The night was dark, and unexpected as the crash was, it was most terrific in its character. Away at Kidderminster station the dull reverberation of the shock was heard, although more than a mile distant, and the apprehensions it occasioned were soon afterwards confirmed by a gentle man who resides near the scene of the collision galloping into the station with the unpleasant tidings. The wreck of a train was never more complete. The ponderous engine was nearly buried in the ground at the side of the line, and above it was an irregular pyramid of broken trucks some 20 feet or more in height. The engine-driver stoker, and guard escaped serious injury. The broken trucks were about 15 in number, and the chaos into which the line was thrown was bewildering: Telegrams were sent to Worcester and Dudley for assistance, and a large body of men were soon on the spot. The wreck of the trucks was burnt to afford light for the men to work by. With great exertion the down lino was cleared soon after midnight, and the passenger trains, which had long been delayed, were at length allowed to pass. The engine of the goods train was dragged out by main force with the aid of another engine, and the pile of trucks and their contents were gradually removed. The up line was not cleared till mid-day yesterday. The damage done is estimated at between ,£3,000 and £4,000. The yardsman has been taken into custody for negligence. LITERATURE. Charles Dickens's Serial Story, Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No. XVIII. Chapman and Hall. Such a dressing as we very much fear no scoundrel ever yet received in reality —a drubbing to a t—a thwacking finished off to the minutest weal in a very trellis-work or embroidery of weals upon the recipient's back and shoulders—we have here described, in refreshingly vivid cha racters, as having been administered to Pubsey and Co., in the person of Mr. Fledgeby by the avenging muscular energies of Mr. Alfred Laramie, late of Sackville-street, and still of the gingerous whiskers and the too-much nose ! " A Few Grains of Pepper," the chapter, containing an account of this most exemplary punishment, is significantly entitled. The cries of the vic tim—that Tingling - Tossing - Aching - Screaming- Scratching-Smarter, as Miss Jenny Wren calls him with a sort of gusto—still ring very pleasantly in our ears, as we think of it—" Ugh ! Ow ! ow ! ow ! Oh my eye ! Oh Lord !" Nay, we yet seem to behold him, as Jenny beheld him at the very last, " plunging and gambolling all over his bed like a porpoise or dolphin in its native element !" Re membering, too, with a chuckle of satisfaction the artistic sprinkling of a little pepper, just a few grains, all over the six large plasters of brown paper steeped in vinegar, applied to his excoriations by the hand of the Dolls' Dress-maker ! And disposed to regret, with little Jenny, after all, that those few grains of pepper had not been mingled with a taste of cayenne and just the least suspicion in the world of chopped pickled capsicum. However—barring those two slight oversights—this trouncing of Mr.Fledgeby of the Albany, otherwise of the Messrs. Pubsey and Co. of St. Mary Axe, is accomplished, it will be found, to the reader's very heart's content—almost, we had said, to just absolute perfection. In the very next chapter to the one containing the record of this fitting close to the usurious career of Little Eyes, we find the good old Jew Riah—Fledgeby's agent and hight by him " that Dodgerest of Dodgers" —driven forth into the streets by that same amiable young man his late employer, with a curt and brutal " Get out !" Wandering thereupon through the streets, hand in hand, with the poor little crippled golden-haired Dressmaker of the Dolls, Mr. Riah and Jenny Wren, meet by chance with the dead body of poor little Jenny's drunken old dog of a father then and there borne by them upon a stretcher. The whole of this portion of the story is wonderfully written—written as Boz and Boz alone could write it ! The " solitary members of the drunken tribe" hover ing about the purlieus of Covent-garden Market, at the small hours of the morning, are depicted here with the marvellously realistic pencil of the Author of the Sketches. Their finding companion ship—these wretchedest of all the wretched waifs and strays of intoxication about the metropolis— may be in the beer and gin " slopping about among the carters and hucksters," maybe in the trodden vegetable refuse, " so like their own dress, that, per haps, they take the Market for a great wardrobe !" Their presenting to view, as the very acme of such obscene spectacles of misery, "dozing women-drunk ards" that you will seek for elsewhere in vain !—it is altogether a terrible picture! " Open to the day no where else," says our great delineator of the London Streets and their motley population, " open to the day nowhere else are such stale vapid rejected cab bage-leaf and cabbage-stalk dress, such damaged orange countenance, suchsquashedpulp of humanity !" And here, among them, he tells us—(this gentle philanthropist, who, with the lightest touch of his pen as a novel-writer, has often before now effected more practical good in the amelioration of crying abuses than one half the Lords and Commons inParliament assembled)—here, among these miser able creatures, " there is a swarm of young savages always flitting about this same place, creeping off with fragments of orange chests and mouldy litter— Heaven knows into what holes they convey them, having no home !—whose bare feet fall with a blunt dull softness on the pavement, as the p 0.... n• oanzan hunts them, and, who are (perhaps for that reason) little heard of by the Powers that be, whereas in top boots they would make a deafening clatter !" By them it is that that Bad Child Mr. Dolls—through " the Hor rors" and " the Trembles," and drunken dozings, and all sorts of foul laespatterments, is hunted through the last phases of the deadliest intoxica tion ! Until, under the appearance of a mere bundle of torn rags, strapped down upon a stretcher, the degraded creature is borne (dead) into the Doctor's—" the window becoming from within a wall of faces, deformed into all kinds of shapes through the agency of globular red bottles, green bottles, blue bottles, , and other coloured bottles." A horrible interior, painted with all the minuteness of one of the old Dutch painters! Then comes the final ceremony of alf—the funeral of Mr. Dolls the Drunkard—the wretched old fellow, after that previous carrying of him through the streets, seeming (we are told) to be twice buried. Half-a-dozen blossom-faced men taking him on their shoulders, and shuffling with him to the churQhyard, preceded by another blossom-faced man, "affecting a stately stalk, as if he were a policeman of the D(eath) Division, and ceremoniously pretending not to know his intimate acquaintances as he led the pageant I" Finally—the troublesome deceased being at last got into the ground, to be buried no more— we have a glimpse of the stately stalker stalking back before the one poor little mourner, the solitary dressmaker, "as if she were bound in honour to have no notion of knowing the way home"—When—" those Furies the conventionalities, being thus appeased"—he leaves her ! The exquisite scenethat follows in the next chapter where the Dolls' Dressmaker (having been summoned by Mortimer Lightwood to the seeming deathbed of poor mutilated Eugene Wrayburn) "discovers a word" is so full of tenderness and tears that we shrink from marring its effect by anything like deliberate and minute analysis, even by an attempt at illustrating its intrinsic beauty by means of any mere fragmentary quotations. " Effect is given to the Doll Dressmaker's discovery" in the final chapter of the number—this happy effect of a subtle discovery, being nothing less, after all, than the marriage, by the Rev. Frank Milvey, of Lizzie Hexam and Eugene Wrayburn, to the ulti mate astonishment, we may presume, of 0. R. F., to the complete satisfaction, we may rest perfectly well-assured of every reader of 0. M. F., and to the pure and unselfish delight of that dear fellow, Mor timer Lightwood, one of the most charming cha racters in the whole story, and that simply because so utterly unselfish in the warmth and depth of his self-abnegatory friendship. Bradley Headstone's dropping down in a fit upon the railway platform as the train speeds off with Mr. and Mrs. Milvey on their way to this same marriage ceremony, is noticeable among the graver incidents recounted in this October number—as, among the very liveliest portions of it, there stands forth, in laughter-proving vividness of verisimilitude - that arch representative of the genus SPRODGKIN, as it must infallibly come to be called henceforth—simply by reason of her appropriately ridiculous name•—Mrs. Sprodgkin to wit ! Speaking of the Rev. Frank and Mrs. Milvey as being just then upon the eve of st3ting post haste to the suddenly-improvised mar riage of Eugene Wrayburn, saith our Novelist of what we have but just now called— THE ARCIITYPE OF THE GENUS SPRODGKIN. That worthy couple were delayed by a portentous old parishioner of the female gender, who was one of the plagues of their lives, and with whom they bore with most exemplary sweetness and good humour, notwithstanding her having an infection of absurdity about her, that com municated itself to everything with which, and everybody with whom, she came in contact. She was a member of the Reverend Frank's congregation, and made a point of distinguishing herself in that body, by conspicuously weeping at everything, however cheering, said by the Reverend Frank in his public ministrations ; also by applying to herself the various lamentations of David, and complaining in a personally injured manner (much in arrear of the clerk and the rest of the respondents) that her enemies were digging pitt falls about her, and breaking her with rods of iron. Indeed, this old widow discharged herself of that portion of the Morning and Evening Service as if she were lodging a complaint on oath and applying for a warrant before a magistrate. But this was not her most inconvenient characteristic, for that took the form of an impression, usually recurring in inclement weather and at about daybreak, that she had something on her mind and stood in immediate need of the Reverend Frank to come and take it off. Mau a time had that kind crea- s..~+ turn got up, and gone out to Mrs. Sprodgkin (such was the disciple's name), suppressing a strong sense of her comicality by his strong sense of duty, and perfectly knowing that nothing but a cold would come of it. However, beyond themselves, the Reverend Frank Mul vey and Mrs. Milvey seldom hinted that Mrs. Sprodg kin was hardly worth the trouble she gave ; but both made the best of her, as they did of all their troubles. This very exacting member of the fold appeared to be endowed with a sixth sense, in regard of knowing when the Reverend Frank Milvey least desired her company, and with promptitude appearing in his little hall. Conse quently, when the Reverend Frank had willingly engaged that he and his wife would accompany Lightwood back, ho said, as a matter of course,—" We must make haste to get out, Margaretta, my dear, or we shall be descended on by Mrs. Sprodgkin." To which Mrs. Milvey replied, in her pleasantly emphatic way, " Oh yes, for she is such a marplot, Frank, and does worry so !" Words that were scarcely uttered when their theme was announced as in faithful attendance below, desiring counsel on a spiritual matter. The points on which Mrs. Sprodgkin sought elucidation being seldom of a pressing nature (as Who begat Whom, or some information concerning the Amorites), Mrs. Milvey on this special occasion resorted to the device of buying her off with a present of tea and sugar, and a loaf and butter. These gifts Mrs. Sprodgkin accepted, but still insisted on dutifully remaining in the hall, to curtsey to the Reverend Frank as he came forth. Who, incautiously saying in his genial manner, " Well, Sally, there you are !" involved himself in a discursive address from Mrs. Sprodg kin, revolving around the result that she regarded tea and sugar in the light of myrrh and frankincense, and consi dered bread and butter identical with locusts and wild honey. Having communicated this edifying piece of in formation, Mrs. Sprodgkin was left still unadjourned in the hall, and Mr and Mrs Milvey hurried in a heated condition to the railway station. All of which is here recorded to the honour of that good Christian pair, representatives of hundreds of other good Christian pairs as conscien tious and as useful, who merge the smallness of their work in its greatness, and feel in no danger of losing dignity when they adapt themselves to incomprehensible hum bugs. With which exquisitely ludicrous sketch of another, not individual, but entire class of our fellow-creatures, hitherto overlooked, but here at last touched off to the very life, serio-comically, by the pen-point of our great Humorist let us close our notice of the Eighteenth Number of " Our Mutual Friend:" now, according to the bookseller's announcement, within less than a fortnight from the date of its complete publication. Already—before the close of it has made its appearance—we may with confidence pronounce it to be one of the most remark able among the more highly elaborated and thoroughly artistic productions of Charles Dickens as a Novelist—a book that upon the whole is fully upon a level, as a work of art, with the majority of his world-famous fictions. .; .111 -ffeNFT- 7 , Li* Tat The Royal Family in the Highlands. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Helena and the Marchioness of Ely, left Balmoral on Tuesday morning in a four-horse coach, on a three days' visit to the Dowager Duchess of Athole, at Dunkeld. The royal party passed Braemar at 11 a.m., and proceeding over the Cairnwell and by the Spittal of Glenshee, taking luncheon about a mile south of Spittal. The Duchess of Athole was expected to meet the royal party on the road. The servants and luggage passed through Blairgowrie on their way to Dunkeld, with more appearance than the royal party, who, it is understood, wish to travel quietly. The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, travel ling under the title of the Count and Countess Staufenberg, arrived at Inverness on Saturday, on their way to Balmoral. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are enter taining a large party at Dunrobin Castle, Suther landshire. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have joined the party from their seat in the north of Ireland. The Duke Vallambrosa, Lord and Ladyßagot, Lord Albert and Lord Ronald Leveson-Gower, Mr. LascellAs, and other friends have assembled there. On Tuesday and Wednesday last the Annual meeting of the volunteer rifle corps took place at Dunrobin on the lawn between the castle and the sea shore. The duke and duchess and their friends were present both days. The great prize was carried off by Cer tain Peacocke. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland is staying with the Duke and Duchess of Argyll at Invorary Castle, Argyleshire. It is not the intention of the Duchess to g° to Dunrobin this autumn. The Duchess Dowager of Athole arrived at Dunkeld on Friday last, from visiting Mr. and Lady Anne H. Drummond-Moray at Abercairny, their seat in Perth shire. The Marquis of Carmarthen and Sir Joseph and Lady Bailey have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square. The Countess of Lucan has arrived at the Alexandra Hotel from Harrogate. Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea have w ithin the last few days left Ashdown Park, where they had been staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess Craven, for tour in Norfolk. Viscount Falkland has left the St. George'B Hotel. Lord Edward St. Maur is about to leave town for a tour in India. It is expected his lordship will leave in the course of the week. The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth VilHeil left town on Tuesday to join the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey at St. Loonards-on-Sea. Lady Augusta Poulett has left Thomas's Hotel for Eastbourne. Lady Grant, Mrs. and the Misses Appack have arrived at the Alexandria Hotel, Hyde-park-corner. The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson left town , yesterday for Theberton House, Saxmundham. Sir John and Lady Harington have left Tor rance's Hotel for Scotland.. •••• PRINCE AMADEUS OF SAVOY.—The intended visit of Prince Amadeus to Aldershot was yesterday Pu t off. His royal highness and suite, accompanied by his Excellency the Italian Minister and Count Maffei, visited Windsor Castle and the home farm, dm. His Royal High" mess the Duke de Chartres called at the Italian Legation yesterday, with the view of paying a personal visit to Prince Amadeus, but after staying nearly an hour, owiog to the prince's absence at Windsor, returned to his real - : deuce at Ham-common. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—Messrs. Hurst and Blackett announce in their List of Works in preparation :- " The Memoirs and Correspondence of Field Marshal Vie count Combermere."—The second and concluding volume of Miss Meteyard's " Life of Josiah Wedgwood," with 300 Illustrations.—" From Cadet to Colonel ; the Record of e Life of Active Service," by Majoi-General Sir Thomas Seaton.—" Religious Life on the Continent," by Mrs' Oliphant.—The third and fourth volumes of the Soy' Grantley Berkeley's "Lif e an d R eco ll ec ti ons ."—" Sport and Sportsmen," by Ch ar l es St re tt on , E sq .—" S oc i a l Life in Florence," by Count Arrivabene. Among the sam e Publisher's forthcoming New Novels are "Agnes," by Mrs' Oliphant.—"A Noble Life," by the Author of Jobs Halifax."—" Heater's Sacrifice," by the Author of " St' Olave's."—" Fides, or the Beauty of Mayence," by Si' . Lascelles Wraxall, Bart.—" Chronicles of Dartmoor," bl Mrs. Marsh.—" The Clyffards of Clyde ;" and Works by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, the Rev. J. M. Bellew, Mark Lemon' Walter Thornbury, the Author of "No Church," the Author of " Grandmother's Money," eze. A BALL IN A BEER BARRELL.—In the garden of a restaurateur at Vienna there had existed since 1853 011 enormous beer-barrel, the capacity being suet, that the m y terior had been converted into a room for dancing. Thre e nights back a ball took place there, which visitors did sc 4 leave till three in the morning. At half-past four, 10 20 , all was quiet, an alarm of fi re was g i ven , an d th e bare . ' was found to be in flames. In the course of two hours, i g spite of all the efforts of the proprietors, it was reduced t ° ashes. The loss is estimated at 40,000 f. CHOLERA AT EPPING.—A local corresponden t sends the following report, but we have as yet 0° evidence that the cases referrdd to are of the Asiatic tyP e of cholera:—" The inhabitants of Epping and the neigh : bourhood are now in considerable alarm in consequence of the outbreak of cholera at Thoydon, a village about a sca le and a half distant. Dr. Elliott, the medical officer to th e West Ham Local Board of Health, at the usual ordinal meeting, called attention to the subject. He said he h e received a communication from Dr. M'Nab, who, deria ct ' the past few days, had been attending a family that had been attacked by cholera. The house in which it P o raged was situated on a hill. The lady of the house, W I L had just returned from a watering-place, was the first P i , tacked. The husband then fell ill and died. The (laugh°, was next seized by the disease ; and afterwards the e° , l was attacked, and died. The groom was also attacked and died. He had further heard that two children b i l ., been attacked by cholera that day, and also that the s e geon attending had been seized; and it was even ruraollr;,, that he had died. From inquiries made yesterday rs ° d o t ing, however, the alleged death of the surgeon is corroborated. The other deaths are, however, rep or 7 o p The Westham Board of Health, on the recommeuc let of Dr. Elliott, at once appointed an extra inspector nuisances." I TA L Y. MANIFESTO OF THE PREFECT OF TURIN. TuRIN, Oct. 9. Count Torre, the new Prefect of the Province of Turin, has published the following manifesto : "Fellow-citizens,--The King's Government has confided to me the honourable office of directing the administration of this illustrious city and province. In accepting it I did not disguise from myself the gravity of the undertaking, so much the more be cause my predecessor was a man worthy of all honour and enjoying a universal •reputation for unparalleled talent. But if I mistrusted my strength, I remembered that I should be among a generous-hearted people, distinguished for real and pure patriotism, always obedient to the laws and profoundly devoted to our glorious King and the free institutions that govern us. " Admiring your exemplary virtue, I have long learned to honour a population that, by abnegation, an iron will and indomitable valour, could achieve the independence of Italy. I have therefore reason to be confident that in the difficulty of the moment, and the severe trial of the transformation of this illustrious city, you will not belie your ancient virtue. This will certainly animate you to reach the highest place in industry and commerce, and thus, always true to yourselves, you will preserVe immaculate your proud name to transmit it to a glorious future, blessed by a grateful nation. "In assuming my administration I do not in tend to make a parade of promises, intemperate declarations, or vague proposals. I shall do my duty with earnest will and tenacious purpose. " I trust that when we come to know each other better we shall be agreed, as naturally results among those whose intentions are good. " With this faith I invite the co-operation of all willing, intelligent, and honest men, the authorita tive concurrence of the persons of consideration holding honoured place in the Provincial and Municipal Councils, and the valid support of the National Guard, admirable for their discipline and other estimable qualities. " Citizens !—Let us, therefore, unite in confidence and harmony. In mutual faith we shall find the surest means of reaching through a more or less benignant fortune that economic prosperity to which this noble province has the right and the virtue to aspire, and to which it is both the interest of the wholellnation and the earnest wish of our magnanimous King, that it should soon attain. Viva it Re. " THE PREFECT, Torre. FLORENCE, OCT. 12. " Viva l'ltalia. " Turin, Oct. 2, 1365." Yesterday the Ministers of Finance and Com merce, and the agents of the Banks of Sardinia and Tuscany, signed a contract for the formation of a Bank of Italy by the fusion of the above-named banks. A Florence letter of the Bth in the Salut Public says : "I can give you some news. about the elections. At Naples success will be divided between the ultra- Liberals and the Moderates ; the choice is not yet made, but that is of no consequence, as in Italy peo ple willingly wait to the last hour to decide. Sicily will name perhaps one or two clerical deputies nevertheless, that is not certain, for the Liberals are also in force there. The Florence candidates are pretty well designated. M. Ricasoli will certainly be elected, and also M. Peruzzi, one of the signers of the Convention, a circumstance which does not injure his popularity here. About the two others there is no agreement. M. Cipriano, who represents Radicalism, has come chances, hut they are balanced ; he may, however, be re-elected through respect for his parliaMentary services. The Marquis de Pepoli and M. Minghetti will succeed at Bologna. Lombardy will send Liberal members ; there, as well as in Piedment, the Cleri cals are sure to meet with a check. The deputies to be named by the old provinces will perhaps be of a deep red shade, but since the transfer of the capital that has been expected. At Turin, for example, the known candidates are M. Bottero, editor of the Gazette del Popolo, the Advocate Ferraris, and the Marquis de Rora. The fourth deputy is not yet named ; some pretend it will be Garibaldi. I do not believe this ; the illustrious hero of Caprera does not appear willing to quit his retreat, and he is quite right. Men of his stamp are only useful and well placed in the hour of action, and that hour has not yet come. M. Ciornini, the editor of the Dritto, has also been spoken of for the same college. Ido not think that this estimable journalist has much chance of suc ceeding in that quarter ; not only because the journal he edits has followed the Government to Florence, which is a fault in the eyes of the Piedmontese, but because he is a native of Pisa, and the electors of the old provinces will pertinaciously elect their own countrymen to the exclusion of all others. M. Boggio has some serious competitors at Cuneo ; his recent visit to Rome has rather injured him in the minds of his fellow-citizens. M. Brofferio, of the pure red shade, offers himself at Drouero, and will probably succeed. The principal candidate for Ales sandria is M. Ratazzi ; his re-election is certain, and he knows it, as he remains very quietly at Florence, whilst other candidates are busy canvass ing the electors. At Genoa, General Bixio is actively combated by Rear-Admiral Serra-Cassano. In the first and third colleges of the same city, the two Marquisses Vinconzo Giovanni Ricci have a good chance. The college of Biella will re-elect General Marmora ; that of Cossato, M. Sella ; and that of Vignale, M. Lanza. On the whole, and as far as my information goes, I think the elections will pro duce a satisfactory result almost everywhere." FRANCE The Emperor hat just conferred on the eldest son of General of Division Count de Goyon the title of Duke de Feltre. His Majesty at the same time has allowed the title of Count, possessed byGeneral de Goyon, to be transferred on his death to his youngest son. The ilioniteur du Soir has the following : conformity with the conclusions of the commission charged by the Empress to examine the penitentiary system adopted for the young prisoners of La Ro quette, the Minister of the Interior has ordered the prison to be evacuated. The inmates have been dis tributed, according to the provisions of the law of Aug. 5, 1850, amongst a certain number of agricul tural colonies. Attention has been paid in that dis tribution to the aptitude of the children, their age, and their family position. The Administration is now actively occupied in drawing up a set of rules calculated to complete, by an organisation of em ployment under proper persons, the legislation rela• tive to youthful prisoners." The Abbe Bourayne has been designated to fill the post of chaplain of the naval division on the western coasts of Africa, in the Zen abie. ." In The Gazette des HOpitaux and the Union Medi cale gives the following information on the sanitary state of Paris :—The lowering of the temperature, which took place in the days of Wednesday, Thurs day, and Friday last, had notably diminished the number of deaths from cholera. But the thermo meter having risen again during the day after, there had been a slight increase. 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