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Nothing, indeed, was actually accomplished, but it is evident, from the list of notices, that in spite of the lateness of the session, and the heat of the weather, the energies of our politicians are not altogether exhausted. A good many troublesome questions were brought up, and the new Ministry had, as usual in such cases, to answer as best they could a number of sugges tions and appeals, entreaties and warnings. The inconveniences of place and power were, how ever, last right divided between the two parties, since a great part of the evening was occupied in a dispute between Sir ROBERT PEEL, Mr. LowE, Sir G. GREY, and Mr. GLADSTONE respecting the Char ter of the Queen's University. A long and some what angry discussion took place on this head, the independent members charging the ex-Government with neglecting to fulfil their pledges, and Sir G. GREY and Mr. GLADSTONE defending themselves from the charge. Ireland, indeed, occupied a pro minent place in the consideration of the House last evening, for Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE took occasion to criticise the Irish legal appointments at some length, and with great severity. He complained that the new Lord Chancellor was 85 years of age, and that the Lord Chief Justice of Appeals was as deaf as a post. He declared that these appointments were highly disadvantageous, and strongly advocated the claims of Mr. BREWSTER, to whom it is understood there were some party objections in Ireland. Mr. OSBORNE I further alluded to Mr. DIsRAELI's speech at Ayles bury and his remarks upon Irish emigration, declaring that it was highly prejudicial for the Irish to believe that some great public measures were going to be brought forward for their special benefit. He did not succeed in extracting from the Chancellor of the Exchequer a full exposition of the Irish policy of the new Administration, though he admitted that they contemplated, under the present circumstances of the sister country, proposing a loan to assist her railways--a measure which was designed by their predecessors, and of which, therefore, they could not claim the whole merit. In spite of Mr. OSBORNE'S alarming anti cipations this plan is a just and wise one, since the condition of Ireland is exceptional, and requires exceptional treatment. Employment is the grand panacea for discontent, poverty, and crime. The influence of railways, which traverse the wild and lonely parts of the country, carrying business and civilisation along with them, in breaking up coteries and places of rendezvous, is another advantage to be considered. Irishmen are well qualified by nature to work, and in other countries they turn their capacities to good account. Why, then, should not our statesmen endeavour to devise some scheme which shall give Ireland —and England through her —the benefit of those strong arms and quick wits which are continually recruiting the population of other countries. As for the Irish legal appointmen s Mr. DISRAELI, with his usual readiness carried, the war into the enemy's camp by fully admitting the merits of Mr. BREWSTER, and innocently expressing his surprise that a Liberal Government should so long have overlooked his claims. He admitted the deafness of Mr. NAPIER, but believed that it would not in capacitate him for the performance of his duties, though we should imagine that it must prove a serious drawback. A.s for the complaint about the age of the Irish Lord Chancellor, Mr. DISRAELI remarked that it was only three months since he had been appointed Judge of Appeal, so that if he were competent to revise the decisions of the Lord Chancellor of Ire- land, there was no apparent reason why he should not be Lord Chancellor himself. Ireland and the .rish are seemingly about to engage a good share o public attention, to atone, we may hope, in some _ . . degree for some long previous neglect and in difference. The great interest now taken in the breech-load. ing gun has already produced some animated dis. cussion in the House. Captain VIVIAN brought up the subject, and predicted that the introduction of breech-loaders would lead to various alterations in our military system. He was followed by Mr. J. B. SMITH, who gave the House a little informa tion as to the manner in which the efficiency of the public service is maintained. In 1851 his attention was drawn, while abroad, to the superiority of the Prussian musket, and he learned from an English engineer, who had settled in Prussia, that it car ried four times the distance of the common musket, and was loaded much more quickly. He subse quently received a letter from this gentleman giving full details of the musket, which he handed to Mr. Fox MULE, then Secretary-at-War, as he sat on the Treasury Rench. Mr. Fox AIAuLE read it, and banded it back, saying " We know it all;" but, from hat day to this Mr. SMITH heard no more of the needle guns. So that, fifteen years ago, our Whig Administrators had full information as to the supe- riority of this gun, without making the slightest effort to obtain the arm for our men. Mr. Fox MAL'LE, who " knew all that" fifteen years ago, now, with increased years and added dignity, has gained a little additional knowledge. lie knows now that the Prussians have gained important thadat vantages by the a id o f th e n eedle gun, and Englishmen are asking pretty loudly what the heads of their Military and Naval Departments have been about of late years, since the enormous expenditure of our enormous estimates has left the Americans in advance of us with ironclads, and the Prussians with musketry. The last accounts from the Continent seem to consist of a series of contradictions. In the first place, it is declared that the Emperor of the FRENCH will not interfere in the war, a 3 had been expected, but will limit his efforts to the work of mediation. In Berlin We And the official Shots ditzeiger assert- Prussia is too adverse to listen to reason, and it might be well with the whole of her advisers to ad vocate the necessity of prudence and moderation. It is often found that those nations which gain much by the sword lose their advantages when peace en sues, and make most undesirable treaties; and while we know that Prussia is not likely to let any prize escape for want of grasping at it, she may yet fall into the equally fatal mistake of attempting too much instead of too little. As for the notion of her annexing so many States and small king doms it is quite preposterous, and cannot fail in the end to raise up enemies against her. If she really wishes to benefit by her late exertions, and to reap the fruits of her victories, she must exhibit a spirit of fairness, but that unfortunately she is not likely to do. A careful management now might avert much future evil, but if the victors, who are to declare terms by the walls of Vienna, if not in the city itself, are to appear only in the form of conquerors, and to rule by the right of might, then there will be an end of all hope of reconstruc ing the affairs of Germany upon a better foo ing After the first excitement of the change is over jealousies will arise and difficulties appear, and it will be one continued series of petty strifes and bitter recriminations until the irritation of all par ties finds vent in a general war, from participation in which who shall escape ? Russia is not likely to be a perfectly indifferent spectator of the strange scenes and striking changes now taking place in Germany ; and no doubt she is only biding her time to put in her word. At any rate, if France and Russia keep aloof now from the struggle, they will not be unmindful of the position of affairs, and, before long, Prussia may find these Powers allied against her if she use not her oppor tunities more manly than she has hitherto done. Austria, who is really most concerned in this lamentable business, seems generally found in the background while the pros and cons. of the warlike manoeuvres of other nations are considered. Per haps the truth is that she is considered devoured by all. Partly from bad management, partly from unfortunate circumstances, and partly from the great skill of her opponents, that hapless Power is indeed plunged into sore straits and difficulties. We must reflect, now that Hungary and Venice are such important subjects of discussion, how much better off the Emperor FRANCIS-JOSEPH would be if he had hearkened to wise counsel some time back, and done justice to others while he also served himself. If Venice hadbeen given up, the Italians would not bave made the treaty with Prussia, which has turned ou' so disastrous to the interests of the Imperial troops. Had he likewise given a free constitution to Hun- gary, he would now find himself surrounded by devoted followers, instead of being in constant doubts as to the state of things in that kingdom. It is quite certain, however, that whatever be the faults and shortcomings of Austria, those of Prussia are far more numerous, and of a far more graver character. It is a sad falling off from the proud expectations of the Austrians to have to dread the approach of the enemies within their gates ; and _ . Prussia, now so triumphant, may see the day when Berlin shall undergo a similar ordeal, and find that her long day of success is over, and her many opportunities lost. It is not likely that such an unscrupulous course as that which she is now pur suing can long continue unchecked. The arrival of the Moravian, from New York, on the 7th, tells us that Justice BOWIE, of Mary land, has decided that the Civil Rights Bill has abrogated the State law, which excludes negro tes timony from the Courts. Thus we may reason ably hope that this crying injustice will no longer disgrace the administration of American civil law. The negroes, however, are getting on badly, being very apt to take part in riots. Two fights between whites and blacks occurred on the same day, the one in Tennessee between citizens and negroes, the other in Georgia between freedmen and soldiers. Neither of them seems to have led to serious consequences, but they show the difficulty there is in dealing with a mixed population. Cholera is happily leaving New York, and we hope it will be long before it revisits the city. Subscriptions have been opened throughout the country for the relief of the sufferers at Portland from the late ter rible conflagration. There is little news from Con gress, excepting a proposal of a tax of 3 cents per lb. on cotton. There is a lull in the excitement of the political world, which we may suppose will be revived at the assembly of the National Con vention. • LIE GROUSE ON THE YORKSHIRE MOORS.—The reports from the moors of Swaledale and Wensleydale augur ill for the coming grouse season. The brooding hens, the watchers report, have been dying for somo time past in scores, and tho mortality is still continuing at a frightful rate. Tho accounts from the Westmoreland and Durham moors, we regret to say, are nearly as unfavour able. The disease which is so fatal in its results is locally termed a distemper ; but the cause is supposed, and it is believed accurately, to be duo to the sovere weather in May last, which chocked the tender shoots of the heather, upon whi c h th e bi r d s so much depend for subsistence at that period of the year, and alao for some time subse quently. ing that tore is no foundati on i n th e report o f Prussia seeking for the c ess i on o f B o h em i a an d Mora via as conditions o f peace. Th e reason given for this extraordinary moderation on her part ,is that their possession would not conduce to national interests. The declarations of the Berlin papers as to the prevalence of revolu tionary symptoms in Hungary a re d en i e d i n Vi enn a ; and, on the contrary, it is said that many volun , teers have enrolled themselves in the Imperial army, and that preparations are being made in Hungary for a levy en niaae in the event of a Prussian inva sion. Respecting the first of these items of intelli gence, it is so far corroborated by the announce ment that the levy, which was ordered throughout the whole maritime registry of France, has been countermanded, and the arming of the fleet has been suspended. For the present, then, at all events, we must presume that Austria is left to herself, and will have to continue the war, making what terms she can at its close. We have not come to the close of the chapter yet, however, and Prussia has not yet attained the object of her wishes, which may take place before the French Government may deem it expedient to interpose. Perhaps they think besides, that by holding back now they may avert the necessity of a war altogether. So far as we can judge from appearances, it seems as if a timely intervention now might prevent loss of life, ani put a stop to the intolerable arrogance and unbounded pretensions of Prussia. Each nation knows its own policy the best, and can the most accurately define the state of its affairs, but it needs not to be behind the scenes in Paris to know that Prussia, at the head of Germany with half a dozen States annexed to her, and Austria incapable of offering a dangerous resistance to her, will be a most formidable ally or a most dangerous enemy. Surely then it would be wise to deal with this treacherous power before it consolidates its strength and confirms its successes. It appears that the Emperor NAPOLEON has decided to wait and see what terms of peace will follow on the sanguinary war which is now desolating Germany, and so the expectations of a contest between France and Prussia which a few days ago were so rife are now giving place to other affairs of an immediate interest and importance. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. (FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Monday Evening, The news received to-day includes accounts three military operations of importance—the defeat of the Federal army at Aschaffenbourg, the entry of the Prussians into Brunn, the capital of Moravia, and the arrival of Cialdini at Vicenza. The following account of the first step taken to procure the armistice is to be relied on. When General Gablenz went for the first time to the head-quarters at Horitz consent was given to the following conditions—the line of the Elbe and the surrender by the Austrians of the strong places of Josephstadt and Koniggratz. Aus tria would not agree to these conditions. Now that the Prussians have passed the Elbe, that they are masters of that line which could not maintain a defence upon anypoint, and that they have taken the necessary measures to disarm the garrisons of the two fortresses, General de Gablenz has thought it right to make another claim of an armistice for three days to be concluded on the same basis. Austria, however, made the demand that the garri sons of Josephstadt and Koniggratz should be al lowed to pass through the whole Prussian army with arms and baggage to join the Austrian army. Prussia, in her turn, categorically and firmly refused to agree to this proposal. Thus it will be seen from this account, and other circumstances show, that there is much to be achieved before an armistice can be arranged. Prince Frederick of Augustenburg and his bride (the Princess Helena) have arrived in Paris. They landed from England in the Royal yacht at Cher bourg, where great preparations had been made, and their reception was very enthusiastic. Their Royal Highnesses, I believe, have their temporary residence at the English Embassy in the Faubourg St. Honore. The Mbniteur says :—" According to our infor mation from Munich the Bavarian army has not made any fresh attack, and has turned upon Wurtzbourg. M. de Pfordten has left Vienna. An engagement took place near Aschaffenbourg be tween the troops of Hesse Darmstadt and the army of General de Falkenstein. The Hessians were compelled to surrender, and the Prussians advance upon Darmstadt, which the Government had left. The Grand Duke proceeds to Munich. The head quarters of the King of Prussia have been established at Brunn since the 13th. A portion of his troops had arrived at Iglau. The army has arrived at Znain. There are accounts of an engagement there. Austrian troops, under the command of General de Gablenz, are concentrated at Florisdorff, near Vienna, where an entrenched camp has been formed. The Emperor declared to the burgo master of the capital that the city would remain open, and that the defence would only take place at the passage of the Danube. The reception given to the Empress and the Prince Imperial at every town on their progress to Nancy was affectionate and cordial in the extreme. At Chalons her Majesty went to the cathedral. The keys of the town were presented to her Majesty at the entrance, and the bishop, at the head of his clergy, made a speech, in the course of which he said that the cathedral was now a:ruined temple, although it was formerly so magnificent. "In 1864 the foreigner, irritated by the energetic and patriotic defence made by the inhabitants of Chalons, encamped in this church, mutilated its ornaments, profaned its sanctuaries, and pushed sacrilege so far as to feed their horses at our altars, and to break the windows of the church to allow the escape of the smoke from their bivouacks in it." The Bishop then complimented the young Prince—" the heir of so much glory and so many virtues." The Senate closed its session on Saturday, after agreeing to the Senatus Consulte. The Marquis de Boissy made one of his usual demonstrations, attacking everybody and everything, but he was mildly rebuked by the President, and it is not worth while to repeat the orator's senseless puerilities and absurdities. The Session separated after reiterated cries of " Vive l'Empereur." One of the letters from Vienna says that " Austria, reduced to her own strength and tenacity, has de termined not to shrink from making the most power ful efforts to maintain her position as a great Power in Europe." The Ost Deutsch Post says —" Since we have known the conditions which the Ring of Prussia has had the courage to propose totheEmp of er a o r r m o s f . Austria, we have lost all hope of the p romp t con sclnueshioneoonf daintioangsreeamreenotnly proposed fortheto an enemy suspension whom it is desired to destroy complet e l y, an d who is supposed to be already overwhelmed. B ut as this lastwill itak e bel ie belief i s place fa r u from nder being another r commandereallseci realised, in order a g ran d b attle to try to save the Empire." l M. Arnaud, who represented the department of the Var at the Constituent Assembly, h as j ust died produced great and the ri g h ts of the people. at Brignolles, in that department, age d 70. M. Arnaud was well known in France as t h e constant In defend erformer o democracyf days his speeches sensa tion. He never changed or abandon e d hi s principles. The thunderstorm which has b een threatening sinc since Saturday came early as six in th e morning the heat upon us to-d ay in good ear nest.was very oppressive, and it was almost insupport able till mid-day. About that time the rain came down like a deluge. The thunder and lightning were frequent and violent. There were several claps public establish ments the ga sharp, loud, and sudden, exactly lik e the report of a cannon. It became almost as d ar k as a winter's night,and is was nth s ecafes and lighted. The th un d er really seemed to shake the houses. As to th e rain, I heard an old gentleman remark that he had not seen such rain in Paris for six-and-thirty years. Some of the peals of thunder, as I have said, were quick, like a cannon report. Then came others, violent, ram bling, and crushing, for the duration of a second. Indeed the thunder was so peculiar that it excited unusual alarm, and there is every reason to fear that it has led to danger and damage. The storm lasted for several hours. An old officer writes to a .Paris paper in reference to the needle-gun, and says it has been in use by the Prussians for at least 18 or 20 years. He says that in 1849 and 1850, when the corps francs committed such excesses in the Grand Duchy of Baden as to necessitate the intervention of Prussian troops, the fortress of Rasladt, which was occupied by the corps francs, was taken by the Prussians after a few days siege, and that this assault was mainly attained by means of the needle gun. MARKETS.' —This Day. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, £4 Os to .C 6 6s new do., .£3 108 to £4 15s ; ° - C'over, £5 Os to 17 Os Od e ; new do., X , l Os to £5 ss; and straw, .C 2 Os to £2 lOs per load Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, £4 Os to £6 10 8 Od; new do., £3 lOs to 4115 s ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 7s Od ; new do., £4 Os to £5 ss; load. A good demand. and straw, WHITECHAPEL.—OId mead()w, hay, £ 4 Os to £6 6s; new do., £3 lOs to £4 15s ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 Os Od ; now do., £4 Os to £5 5 s ; and.£2 Os to £2 lOs per load. Trade firm. straw, £2 Os to £ 2 10 s per TEA.—Business has reOLmained very CONIAL quiet without any change to report i n pr i ces. A small quantity of In di an and Assam is a nnounced for public salt) to-day. SUGAIL—A moderate b usiness has been d one , a nd late rates are in mos t i nstances well maintained. In refined goods there h as b een a fair amount of business r e p orted, at steady rates. COFFEE. —Thom has been a good demand for both Plan tation and native Ceylon, superior qualities of which have brought full rates. SALTPETRE.—Th ere RIM — Only a limited business has been transacted in soft grain description; at slightly reduced prices. the private market quotations are unaltered. TALLOW. —The market has remained very inactive, and prices in all on the spot is quoted 445, August and September 43s 6d, and last three months 46s 3d per cwt. have been slightly given g p i u v b en lie w s a:. ; Pan.Yd.Cin. CHILD MURDER. --At the assizes held at Salisbury yesterday, bef ore M r. Justice Bylcs, Emily D i mmer, 21, describ e d as a servant, was indicted for the wilful mur der of her ill eg i t i mate infant, by throwing it into a river at Salisbury o n th e 3d Nov. last. The jury returned a ver vict of guilty, accompanied by a strong- recommendation to mercy. Sente nce o f death was passed, warded to the prop er quarter but the learned judge said th e recommendation of the jury should bo for- With o ut delay. LATEST INTELLIO-ENCE. (REUTEn's TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN GERMANY. PRUSSIAN HEAD QUARTERS, BRUNN, July 15, 9 a.m. The 6th Division left here at 4 a.m. to-day, to occupy the railway junction at Lundenburg, in or der to break off the communication between Olmutz and Vienna. The sth Division attended Divine Service this morning, in presence of the King. This division will remain here for the present. The Second Army is following the Austrians from Olmutz. The latter are falling back on the other side of the river March, in the direction of Presburg. The Army of the Elbe, advancing from Iglau, has already arrived at Znaym. The 7th Division is now following the 6th Divi sion to Lundenburg. EISENACII, July 17. According to details received here, the Darmstadt Division attacked the Groben Division on the 13th inst., near Lanfach, but was repulsed with great loss by the Wrangel Brigade, which had come up to reinforce the Groben Division. The Goben Division was vigorously attacked on the following day by the united Austrian, Darmstadt, and Electoral Hessian forces. The Prussians, however, stormed Aschaf fenburg, and the Federals were driven back across the Maine. Many Austrians were taken prisoners. The Prussian loss was small. BRUNN, July 16. Since the 13th inst. the Austrians have been withdrawing, hard pressed, behind the Taya, towards Vienna. They are evacuating Moravia without attempting to make any resistance. The Burgomaster of Brunn has addressed a tran quillising proclamation to the inhabitans, in which he draws their attention to the severe discipline pre vailing amongst the Prussian troops. The Austrians commenced a partial evacuation of Olmutz on Sunday last. The vanguard of the Elbe Arley occupied Zuaim on Saturday without meeting with any opposition. To-morrow the whole army will cross the Taga and occupy Lundeyburg. The royal head-quarters will remain here. (OFFICIAL.) BERLIN, July 16, The enemy has destroyed the communication on the Dresden and Prague and Zittau and Prague Railways between Turnau and Kralup, but it is now being re-established. The bridge over the Iser near Podol has been re stored. The Prussians found 20 locomotives and 2,000 railway carriages at Prague. M. Benedetti, the French Ambassador, and the Count de Barral, Italian Minister at Berlin, have accompanied the King to the Prussian head-quar ters at Brunn. Negotiations arc in progress for a truce of three days, and not for an armistice. PRUSSIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, BEUNN, July 16. A successful engagement took place yesterday before Olmutz between the Prussians under the command of the Crown Prince and the Austrians and Saxons. The Prussians captured six guns. Other engagements are expected to take place to morrow between the First Prussian Army Corps and the Austrian forces now withdrawing from Olmutz. General Benedek, who has been relieved from his function as Commander-in-Chief of the Nor thern Army, remains Commander of an Army Corps. An attaché of AL Benedetti, the French Ambassador at Berlin, left here on the 14th for Vienna. The railway between Prague and Bruun is being employed for military transports. PRUSSIA AND THE NORTH SEA PORTS. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. The North German Lloyd steamer Hansa arrived early this morning from Bremen, and leaves on Wednesday, with mails for New York. She brings intelligence that the Prussians took formal possession on Saturday of the Hanoverian port, Geestemunde, near Bremen, in the presence of Prussian and Hanoverian Commissioners, and it is supposed that Geestemunde will at once be made a Prussian naval port. ITALY. FLORENCE, July 16, Evening. The Ministers Ricasoli, Depretis, and Borgatte have been re-elected members of the Chamber of Deputies. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, July 17. The Union Company's steamer Briton from the Cape has arrived here. Her dates are—Cape of Good Hope, 13th June ; St. Helena, 21st ; and Ascension, 25th. She brings 90 passengers, 1 pack age of specie, 1,300 bags of copper ore, 980 bales of wool, 800 hides, 150 cases aloes, 31 tusks ivory, 12 cases ostrich feathers, 12 casks of wine, and 1 case rhinoceros horns. At the Cape the principal political event of the month had been the election of the new members of the Legislative Council in accordance with the pro visions of the Annexation and Representation Act of last session. Messrs. J. C. Chase, D. H. Ken nelly, and R. J. Painter were returned for the eas tern province, and Messrs. Hare, Barry, and Dr. Abercrombie for the western. There was a strong feeling evinced in the colony by these elections for responsible government. The Kaffrarians still regarded their annexation with great disfavour, but were gradually adjusting themselves to the order of government. Her Majesty's ship Valorous returned to the Cape on May 18th from taking formal possession, for the Imperial Government, of the unclaimed guano islands at the northern extremity of the colony. Penguin harbour, the Mercury islands, and Ichaboe are now in the absolute possession of the British Government. The peace between the Orange Free State and the Basutos was being faithfully adhered to on both sides, but the Basutos were dissatisfied on the ground that too much of their territory had been ceded, and that they had not sufficient left to live upon. The Norseman had arrived out June 11th. Capt. Kidsdale, of the Natal, was drowned, having fell overboard as his vessel was going into Table Bay. STRANDING OF A LIVERPOOL SIIIP.—(ARKLOW, IRELAND, Saturday.) —At 8 R.M. this day (writes Dr. L'Estrange) . a vessel was observed to be aground on the Glasgorman Bank, six miles south of Arklow. The life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution was immediately manned and launched, and proceeded to the ship, which she reached about 10 a.m. The vessel proved to be the barque Colonist, of Liverpool, 594 tons, John Gifford master, bound for Liverpool from Quebec, with timber. On the arrival of the boat the vessel's crew was found not to be in immediate danger, but her captain handed to the coxswain a telegram to the owners for tug assistance, which was duly forwarded to Liverpool. The boat returned to Arklow at 2.15 p.m. She is named the Arundel Vonables, the cost of the boat having been bequeathed to the insti tution by the late T. A. Venal)les, Esq., of Worcester. A swimming match for £25 a side took place on the Serpentine yesterday morning between David Pamplin coaci Henry Coulter, the former winning by four garde. LITERATURE. Charles Lamb; his Friends, his Haunts, and his Books. By Percy Fitzgerald. One vol., pp. 229. Richard Bentley. Anything relating to Charles Lamb is dearly welcome to us. He is one of those delightful crea tures whom we don't simply admire, but take into our very hearts—yea, as Hamlet has it, into our heart of hearts All his little whims and oddities have a value for us. A stray anecdote, in any way, how ever remotely, having reference to him—we snatch at as at no mere unconsidered trifle. Quips and cranks of his—quaint odd sayings dropped by him, quite casually, and picked up (happily) by some body else (it matters not by whom)—are for us as might have been some of that treasure trove that we may suppose to have been littered in the trail of the delectable princess in the fairy tale, who was in the habit of prattling pre cious stones —pearls of fancy and diamonds of wit pattering and sparkling about her skirts as she moved. A more pretentious life of our beloved Elia, than any that has hitherto made its appear ance is understood to be just now upon the eve of publication. In the meanwhile, here, in this really charming volume compiled by Mr. Percy Fitz gerald, we have a work of no especial preten tion, it is true, but for all that one that is very heartily to be greeted, even as though it came to us heralded by a well-deserved flourish of trum pets, by way of reawakening our interest in the various personal belongings and social surroundings of one of the most innocent-hearted and bright eyed humorists that ever adorned our national and indigenous English Literature. Young though he is, Mr. Percy Fitzgerald himself has already done good service to the reading public in more than one department of that same chequered world of our English Literature. As a Novelist he won his spurs sometime since, it may be remembered, with the device of " Belladonna" upon his shield, and with her colours fluttering at his crest. In " Never Forgotten " he justified our hopes in regard to his rising reputation by the felicitous conception (so admirably well realised !) of that fribbling captain —Captain Fertnor—who was the hero of that narrative of " Never Forgotten" at its commence ment, and its victim at its close. "Without par ticularising one after another the various books Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, we already penned by must at least indulge ou r selves with one passing reference, here, to the tale he has last been telling us all with such really admirable effect in Charles Dickens's All the Year Round—the tale that is there, we now regret to remember, fast drawing towards its conclusion—meaning his story about " The Second Mrs. Tillotson." While in Tillotson himself, we can't, for the life of us, help recognising somehow a good deal of the weak whimpering nature that is throughout the scorn even of that sullen cub of a fellow Ross, we cannot but accord the highest praise to Mr. Fitzgerald's creation of another character, another Captain, the Captain—that dear old Torn, in the " shoeperfine double-milled frock," and the shovel hat, with his " well-rayshured " chin, and his whiskers curled into barrels by his French irons, and his delicate consideration always for " the creatures," as he tenderly calls the women generi cally —a charming character, that is most charm ingly and consistently sustained throughout. Turn ing, however, from this purely incidental re ference, by the way, to the purely imaginative works already produced by Mr. Percy Fitz gerald, turning from these to other works by him of a biographically anecdotal character, we would here content ourselves with remarking, at once, in regard to the latter, en passant that precisely as " Dr. Dodd" was ill c h osen by him, Charles Lamb has been admirably well chosen as the subject of one of those memorial portrai tures. Passing by the Unfortunate —or, as we would far rather call him, theNotorious--Dr. Dodd, the once fashionable macaroni-parson, who for the crime of forgery died the death towards the close of the last century by the hands of the common hang man—passing by that wretched Dr. Dodd as a per son wholly without, or apart from, our sympathies, we cannot but turn our regard at once with eager readiness towards the widely contrasting theme here chosen—that is to say, to the Friends, the Haunts, and the Books of Charles Lamb—a very small poet, but a very great humorist. His Friends were all of them choice ; so, too, were his books—a goodly proportion of which may be set down as black-letter. What in effect was it that once upon a time remarked one of Elia's friends (Leigh Hunt) about one of Elia's books (Chapman's " Homer") ? Mr. Fitzgerald has chosen this remark of Leontius for the motto to his present volume--" And thought," quoth Leigh Hunt, " bow natural it was in C. L. to give a kiss to an old folio, as I once saw him do to Chapman's H omer ." Unique and delightful being, Elia is called by his new celebrant in the very first line of the very first page of this his latest celebration. And precisely that, was Elia—namely-_" unique and delightful." Hardly anything, by the way, that is perfectly new, in illustration of Charles Lamb's his tory and character, will be found in these leaves dedicated to the pleasant task of delineating both by the genial hand of Percy Fitzgerald. The great majority of the facts here grouped together, indeed, we were already perfectly familiar with. Nay, the best things in the whole volume, and we say this without any disparagement at all to the bulk of the narrative as it has been here penned by Mr. Fitzgerald, the compiler borrows (with all honourable acknowledg ment, it should be observed) from other sources. Instance this the subjoined koh-i-noor of fun-- fun running into the most deliciously ridiculous ultra-extravagance—borrowed from another book, (and a book, too, that Mr. Fitzgerald takes occasion rather ungratefully to depreciate) —this exquisite morceau being in point of fact simply an off-hand letter scrawled by Charles Lamb on the spur of the moment, and addressed by him to P. G. Patmore. Read it—every word of it—those who love a laugh ; and read it without laughing —if you can ! " Dear P.," writes Charles Lamb, in this wonderfully absurd letter, under date (ridiculously) " Londres, July 19, 1827" : "Dear P.—l am so poorly! I have been to a funeral, where I made a pun, to the consternation of the rest of the mourners. And we had wine. I can't describe to you the howl which the widow set up at proper intervals. Dash could, for it was not unlike what he makes Dash is frightful this morning. He whines and whines and stands up on his hind legs. He misses Becky, who is gone to town. I took him to Barnet the other day, and he could'nt eat his victuals after it. Pray God his intellects be not slipping. Mary is gone out for some soles, I suppose it's no use to ask you to come and partake of 'em ; else there's a steam vessel . . . . Oh, I am so poorly! I waked it at my cousin's the bookbinder's, who is now with God; or if he is not, it's no fault of mine. We hope the Frank wines do not disagree with Mrs. Patmore. By the way, I like her. Did you ever taste frogs ? Got them if you can. They are like Lilliput rabbits, only a thought nicer. Lord, how sick I am !—not of the world, but of the widow's shrub. She was sworn under £6,000, but I think she perjured herself. She howls in E la, and I comfort her in B flat. You understand music ? If you haven't got Massinger, you have nothing to do but to go to the first bib liotheque you can light upon at Boulogno, and ask for it (Gifford's edition), and if they haven't got it, you can have Athalie, par Monsieur Racine, and make the best of it. But that Old Law"s delicious. No shrimps' (That's in answer to Mary's question about how the solos aro to be done.) I am uncertain where this wandering letter may reach you. What do you mean by Posto Restanto, God knows. Do you mean I must pay the postage? So I do, to Dover. We had a merry passage with the widow at Doctor's Commons. She was howling—part howling and part giVing directions to the proctor—when crash ! down went my sister through a crazy chair, and made the clerks grin, and I grinned, and the widow tittered—and then I knew that she was not inconsolable. Mary was more frightened than hurt. She'd make a good match for anybody (by she, I mean the widow). 'lf ho bring but a relict away He is happy, nor hoard to compIain.'—SIIENSTONE. Proctor has got a won growing out at the nape of his neck, which his wife wants him to have cut off ; but I think it rather an agreeable excrescence—like his poetry—redun dant. Hone has hanged himself for debt. Godwin was taken up for picking pockets. Becky takes to bad courses. Her father was blown up in a steam machine. The coroner found it insanity. 1 should not like him to sit on my letter. Do you observe my direction ? Is it Gallic ? — Classical ? Do try and got some frogs. You must ask for grenouilles' (green-eels). They don't understand frogP,' though it's a common phrase With us. If you go through Bulloign (Bou logno) inquire if old Godfrey is living, and how he got home from the Crusades. He must be a very old man now. , If there ie anything new in politics or literature inFrauce, keep it till I see you again, for I'm in no hurry. Chatty Bryant (Chateaubriand) is well, I hope. I think I have no more news ; only give both our loves (' all three,' says Dash) to Mrs. Patmore, and bid her got well, as I am at present, bating qualms, and the grief incident to losing a valuable relation." Can anything be more ridiculous ?—particularly in the irrelevancies ! As a compilation, the volume, into which this letter of Lamb's has been (happily) quoted, is altogether delightfully acceptable, and no less delightfully readable all through. As a col lection of reminiscenses of Charles Lamb, it is more over worthy of preservation. It is a book of Eliana. And it is none the less interesting as such, because of the sprinkling of illustrations to be found sparsely scattered among the letterpress. The frontispiece, for example, is a ludicrous facsimile of that absurd caricature-likeness of Charles Lamb, " scratched on copper from life in 1825 by his friend Brook Fulham," the original being now in the possession of Mr. J. C. Ilotten of Piccadilly. Opposite p. 128, again, there is another facsimile— but this time it is a facsimile of Elia's handwriting. Two other engraved portraits of Charles Lamb, there are in the volume besides the caricature fron tispiece. Opposite p. 28 there is a comely plump profile of him as he appeased in 1796. Opposite p. 170 there is another profile of him, of a later date, with a noble head and face—a face, that in our eyes is nothing less than acquilinely handsome. The fault of the book—for one great fault it has, and a fault that we are especially anxious to particularise, because it is one that might very readily be eliminated from a subsequent edition—is the result apparently of either the exceeding haste or the excessive careless ness with which the materials accumulated by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, have been afterwards by him grouped or strung together. Tho fault we allude to, is one of perpetual repetition. 'What we read on one pare we read (often in precisely the same terms) upon another, and another, and another. For example, not content with giving on p. iv., as a motto, Leigh llunt's remark about the kissing of the folio (already specified) Mr. Fitzgerald must needs tell us again as soon afterwards as on p. 11, "That was a very charming trait of Charles Lamb found in one of Hunt's ' Indicators,' and worth whole pages of descrip tion: 'thought how natural it was in Charles Lamb to give a kiss," &c.,—the same words all over again. Similarly— having remarked in Preface, p. vi, S o with Lamb. His is a character about :which we should love to know everything. There the species is nearly the genus." Mr. Fitzgerald must take oc casion no later on than p. 2 to observe, " of writ ings so unique of their kind, where the species, as he himself said of a book, is the whole genus"— and, not content even with that enforcement of the same text, he must actually reiterate it at p. 25. — "It (the original edition of Elia) was scarce in 1834 when Lamb was alive, and even then the species was almost the genus.' " At p. 2, again, we read of Lamb's folios —" My midnight darlings,' as he called them so pathetically—' those huge armfuls.'" And no further on than p. 24 we have those same folios alluded to all over again as " a good armful notion." At p. 3we have mention of " dear silly old angel Fuller—at p. 74 we have mention again of the " golden works of the dear, fine, silly old angel Fuller"—and yet again at p. 166 of Fuller—the dear, foolish old angel !" 7 wice we have mention of Elia's sitting on a doorstep with a friend's little girl to see Punch performed—the friend's little girl, at first men tioned thus vaguely, being explained on the re petition of the story at p. 213 to have been a daughter of Sheridan Knowles. Thrice we have reproachful reference made to the later editions of Burton's Anatomy as mere winding sheets—at p. 6 " Old Burton in a winding sheet of the latest edition"—at p. 25 (about old Burton) 64 What need was there of unearthing the bones of that fantastic old great man to expose them in a winding sheet of the newest fashion"--at p. 200, " What need was there"—&c., &c.—all over again ! Nay, not less than Four distinct times do we find mention made, literally usque ad nauseam, of Charles Lamb's dis taste for the octavo editions of Beaumont aal Fletcher-Ist, at p. 6, where we find him ex pressing his humorous repugnance to the octavo editions of Beaumont and Fletcher-2dly, at p. 24, " I cannot read Beaumont and Fletcher but in folio ; the octavo editions are painful to look at"—after wards, at p. 74, " ' I have no sympathy with them,' he might have added, as he did in the instance of of the octavo Beaumont and Fletcher"—and after wards, actually the fourth time, at p. 200, " I can- not read Beaumont and Fletcher but in folio. The octavo editions are painful to look at." Until we become—and no wonder—heartily sick of read ing identically the same thing over and over again in identically the same words. The book wants careful revision, in fact,—and, while that revision is being accorded to it for the Second Edition (the appearance of which, it is to be hoped, may not long be delayed), we would strenu ously urge upon Mr. Fitzgerald the advisability of obliterating, together with these and all similar bluffs and blots in the way of repetition, the whole of the comparison instituted by him between the " Essays of Elia" and the " Essays by Boz." Exquisite and inimitable, as our beloved Elia is—" unique and de lightful" as this latest celebrant of his geniushas hap pily designated him—it is simply ridiculous to insti tute any direct comparison whatever between him .• _ and the greatest of all our English Humorists, between Elia and Boz, between Charles Lamb and Charles Dickens. The " Essays of Elia" were Lamb's opus magnum. The " Essays by Boz" were a mere off-shoot of the redundant and multi- form genius of Dickens. They were the mere pre liminary manifestations of that (in his day, also, but in a far larger sense) " unique and delightful" genius —the mere tuning of the instruments, so to speak, that were afterwards to gather so much strength and compass to themselves in their more highly-elaborated and artistic performances. The comparison here alluded to, in point of fact, is quite out of place, and is, besides that, intrinsically in itself (we can't help saying it) simply ridiculous. Otherwise than in these exceptional instances in the way of errors of taste, of judgment, and of executive skill on the part of the writer of this, on the whole, delightful volume about Charles Lamb, his Friends, his Haunts, and his Books, the work has a charm or fascination of its own• We close it reluctantly —putting it by very carefully on our book-shelves for after reference. The Tragedy of Charles Lamb's Life. From a charming paper in the newly-published number of the Edinburgh Review—[published sub sequently to our writing the foregoing criticism] from a paper in this new number of the Edinburgh commenting, by anticipation, upon Barry Cornwall's " Memoir of Charles Lamb," a memoir not yet published, it is true, though already announced as finished and preparing for immediate publication-: we extract the following painfully interesting parti culars. Before giving them, however, we would premise, as especially interesting to the general reader, that the scene of the dreadful tragedy thus referred to was one of the houses on the left hand side going from Holborn down Little Queen-street, if we remember rightly, at No. 7 : " The story of his great misfortune is now for the firs! time wholly told. All whom it would affect are gone, and there is no further ground for reticence. About the end of 1795, three years after he obtained his appointment, hi° mother was ill and bed-ridden, his father almost fatuous , and he himself the inmate of the asylum at Hoxton, whore, as ho wrote to Coleridge, his head rau upon him, as much almost as on another person who was the moro immediate cause of my frenzy.' Who this was is unknown; she re mains only the Alice WT.' of his poems, the object of e passion which might have blossomed into happy fruit but for the incidents of the next year. He returned home sane. and the family life went on as usual till the September of 179 G. On the 23d of that month his sister Mary, who had been for some time ill and meody, was seized just before dinner with a burst of madness. She seized a case-knife lying on the table, pursued a little girl (her apprentice) round the room, hurled about the dinner forks so as to wound her father in the forehead, and, before Charles could snatch the knife from her hand, she had stabbed her mother to the heart. The sad publicity of a trial Nvas somehow avoided. After the inquest Alary Lamb was re moved to an asylum. She rapidly recovered her senses, and the question came what was then to be done. It seems to have been easier then than it now is to obtain the libertY of a dangerous lunatic, for no opposition to her release seems to have been made by the authorities. When be coming sane, Mary said, she knew she must go to Beth lehem fox lifo QUO of lig brothers would have it the P c re, cc] tbor c two i Ulan N'4lll fashii of it s Rowe tie s a S ever 4 egt; b ut 0: diti o/ th a t i f Yot ~) disti,, VI TA, Penal Thi Which to_lno Th E 'neat Dr. lir( lo ni, „ , di With e( Il escla - 3 ; boct( fl ay be of wh( of desed6 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1866.