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Sole Agent for the celebrat.d Opera, Race, and Field Glasses made by Voiwtlander, Vienna. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 25m.—Afternoon, 11h. 52m. TJ-Moßßow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 20m. I s LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1866. -- $ As might have been expected, the subject of the proposed Congress was alluded to in the House of Commons last night. Mr. DISRAELI asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if her Majesty's Go vernment had not any communication to make to the House respecting the important transactions now going on at Paris. The right hon. gentleman wished to know two things—first, if the Ministers had acceded to the invitation made to them, and agreed to join the Conference; and next, if it was true what was stated in a semi-official organ, to the ' effect that 4 , the three Courts seek conditions of agreement in territorial compensation, which would offer indemnities and satis faction to the claims of Prussia, Austria, and Italy, and the difficulty in the present state of com pensation suitable in aff sirs consists in finding ea ch case." Mr. GLADSTONE stated, i n reply, that he had not received any communication from the Foreign Office on the important subject during the day, and that he did not think that there was any _ thing material to add to the short statement recently made in another place by the noble lord the Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, however, that her MAJESTY'S Government had been trying to procure a Confer ence of the representatives of the Powers of Europe, but that no very " sanguine hope s " were entertained of [iuccen as yet, " still it was thought the chances of arranging matters presented by such a course are such as should not be passed by, in view of the ex treme calamities which • it is sought to prevent, and which before the proposal of a Conference were made to appear as certainly impending over a great portion of Europe." Th e ,• preuse terms of the bases of the Conference are not yet finally determined upon. As for the extraordinary by Mr. DisuAELI, mr. , ALADSTON l : aragraph quoted thought beyond the actual facts, which,it went indeed, appeared only too probably when we f i rst Perused it. As Inua!, in some cases, the right hon• gentleman went on to say that in the present state of things it would be dangerous to describe precisely u pon what foundation these reports rested, but it was better t o wait until all the documents .relating to the aff a i r were before the House. This is always the way with official individuals, the " old, old story,,, dill of « waiting and not precipitating matters ;" but of course the curiosity and ex citement of the country is such that members of Parliament would ill dis charge their duties to their constituents did they not seek to obtain some information from headquarters. tinder the circumstances of the case, Mr. GLAD STONE could not have given a better answer, and the right hon. gentleman seems to have gone out of his way as far az, isozzible to answer the ques tions asked of him. We presume that very little rests with our Government of the responsibility of the affair, and that France and Russia will have far more to do with the affair. Her MAJESTY'S repre sentative will of course take part in all the doings of the Conference, but we may be quite sure before hand that the Cabinet of Berlin will not care much for anything that is said or done by this country. England has by this time pretty well lost all in fluence with foreign Powers, through the mismange ment of several important affairs by her statesmen, and we are now regarded as little better than non entities by those foreigners, who look with eager. ness for any enunciation of opinion from the French EMPEROR. As for the foreign intelligence received respecting the Congress, there is-not very much that is new to be gleaned from the last telegrams. La France states that Austria has asked for a modification of the programme of the Congress. A fresh draught will therefore be drawn up, and the question of the means to " guarantee" the security of Italy will be the only one raised in con nection with the Austro-Italian question. As the neutral Powers have adopted this formula there is now considered to be no obstacles to the assent of Austria to the proposed Congress. If this be true, which is not certain, no doubt the expected meeting will take place. Again, however, there still remains the doubt as to whether it will answer the desired end. It is said from Berlin intelligence that France, England, and Russia have agreed not to raise the question of the temporal power of the POPE at the Congress. This is a very wise re solution, because there are quite enough dis puted points already to submit to the conference without adding another one of such difficulty, and subject to such a difference of opinion. As we generally hear the political situation isagainde clare-1 to be " warlike," and military preparations are the order of the day in Austria. The Due de Austria,GßA3loN Th, FasbreenenchsuAmmmboansesdadtoorpaartis,thwehiCchouervtenotf has naturally given rise to all sorts of rumours as to whether it relates to the Oongress or is in consequence of approaching war. It is said that Russia has resolved to take " decisive action " against the Power that first com mences hostilities ; but this is not very likely, because why should the Imperial Government in volve itself in a costly and vexatious war on account of matters which do not immediately concern it. In yesterday's sitting of the Federal Diet the pro position of the Middle States, that the Diet should request Prussia, Austria, and all other German States, who have lately increased their armaments, to reducethem to a peace footing, was unanimously adopted. So far nothing definite is said one way or the other, but the position of affairs is anything but satisfactory, whether we look to immediate pro jects, or to the ultimate consequences of these disputes upon the countries concerned. Mr. HUBItAItD'S speech, last evening, respecting the reduction of the fire insurance duties deserves some attention. The terms of the hon. gentleman's resolution declared that " the present duties on fire and marine insurances are unjust in their incidence on property, and injurious to the national industry." Mr. HUBBARD made out a strong case for the remis sion, or at least the reduction, of these duties which are certainly most injurious and oppressive in their nature. Mr. GLADSTONE calls the fire insurance duty a tax on property, but he might more truly call it a tax oh prudence. It is a pity that the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not take a hint from the Post-office, and consider the large revenue which is now made in consequence of the reduction of postage. The tea duties have given him a similar lesson, one which will be more strongly enforced next year when the reduction will have been longer in operation. Even the fire insurance itself told the same story, the effect produced by the reduction to Is. quite confirming the anticipations of the Reformers. It is no secret that a large proportion of the valu able property in the City warehouses and other places is insured in Hamburg, so as to avoid the excessive duty hitherto charged in this country. Men would naturally prefer to insure in their own country, and so the business of insurance would be greatly extended. A legitimate source of profit is, in fact, withdrawn from the English offices which will now, we hope, be gradually regained. Mr. HUBBARD proposes to bring the duty down to sixpence, a very just and moderate proposal, in the course of time bringing it down to I.d. for a registration fee. At that price he believes that it would produce an im mense amount of money. No doubt this belief is well founded, and it is likely enough that before ong something of the kind will be tried with Mr. HUBBARD complained of the SUCCCSS. time which Mr. GLADSTONE had chosen for dealing with the National Debt, but the scheme of terminable annuities seemed to find favour with the House, and justly so, being as good an arrangement as could be devised for the purpose. Mr. HUBBARD'S motion was negatived without a division, but it deserved consideration, nevertheless, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his care for the interests of the future, might well give some thought to the wants and the grievances of the pre sent. • The meeting held in the City yesterday, for the purpose of devising some means of doing honour to the munificent American citizen who has so greatly benefited the poor of this Metropolis was, as might have been expected, very numerously at tended. The Lord Mayor opened the proceed ings, paying, as he did so, a cordial tribute to Mr. PEABonv, whose friendship he had, he said, enjoyed for many years. After his Lordship came Mr. FOWLER, who moved the first resolution, which pro posed that apublic statue of GEORGE PEABODY should be erected on some conspicuous site inthe city of Lon don. Mr. FOWLER observed that the erection of a public statuewas so high an honour that it ought not to be lightly given. They had two public statues already in the City, statues erected in complitpent to one of the first soldiers the world had ever seen, and to the man whose name would go down to pos terity in connection with the inauguration of free trade. Inside Guildhall there were statues of the WO PITTS and of NELSON, but in no case had they the statue of an eminent man belonging to another country: The man whom they now desired to honour had not taken part either in war or in politics, but he was a man who had nobly served his gene ration. Mr. FOWLER, after expressing the interest which Englishmen felt in the great country to which Mr. PEABopr owed his origin, concluded with a few words, which, we hope, will not be without their effect on his audience. they could not all,he sa id, i m itate the unparalle led munificence of Mr. Pi:Anew ; they could not c ontribute hun dreds of thousauds of pounds for the ,relief of suffering m ethng withinso i humanity ; but they c:,suld a ll do of the their special spheres fo r the prom o ti on of n whoth yesterday the same great movement object, and for the succ ess which Mr. PEABODY had inaugurated. If the compa n y o f wea lthy and in fluential Mansion-house were t o - gathered together at the ra e take the hint, what they could by means of and each do money, infl uence , per- Ban—al_CEertion, and character te to the condition cf our litouring classes, especially in this practical and sensible matter of hea. 1 very -I,y a n d decent TILE SUN, LONOON, FIiIDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1866 dwellings, how much lasting good might be effected in a very short space of time. The whole tone of public feeling would be changed, the prevailing in- difference roused into interest and energy, and all classes would gradually reap the benefit of the im ' proved condition of public health and morals. Mr. Alderman WATERLOW, who has good right to speak on the subject, observed yesterday that if any one wished to see the good that had been done, he had only to pass from one of our crowded alleys to Peabody-square, Islington, in which such admirable accommodation was provided for many hundreds of the working classes. They had as yet, however, only begun to spend the money of Mr. PEABODY, and all the sums to be derived from the rent of the buildings is to be applied to the extension of the work. Before the meeting broke up, having resolved upon the erection of a statue, Mr. FILLINGIIAII, a carpenter, made a very excellent suggestion, which was that a penny subscription should be opened, to which the working classes themselves might con tribute. The proceeds to be devoted to the erection in London of an asylum of the nature of the Sailors' Homes, in which American workmen would find shelter while they were out of employment in this country. We hope this idea will be carried out, since it cannot fail to gratify Mr. PEABODY, while doing public good. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR 01 1 TN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. The Moniteur has not any news to-day in refe rence to Germany and Italy except the items fur nished by the telegraphic despatches, the authenti city of which it generally takes care to say it does not guarantee. It mentions that there was another Cabinet Council yesterday at the Tuileries, at which the Empress was present. Dr. Nelaton, the eminent surgeon, who, it will be remembered, went to attend upon Garibaldi after he was wounded at the battle of Aspromonte, has been appointed surgeon in ordinary to the Emperor. The assembly of a Congress is not treated as an accomplished fact. It will meet as soon as the official answers to the proposal shall have been re ceived from Austria, Prussia, and Italy. The sons of Abd-el haler, Sidi-Mahumedin and Sidi-Mohammed have arrived in Paris from Damas cus. Their object in coming is to study European manners and customs. They have been very gra- ciously received by the Emperor, and were at the ball at the Tuileries on Monday night, an entertain ment which appeared to surprise and delight them very much. These two young men are at present among the prominent lions of the capital. There are some striking anomalies in the juris prudence of France, some of which, too, are absurd, unjust, and dangerous. For instance, the man Aspe, accused with murdering his servant girl Merie Guillonet at Toulouse, and afterwards cutting her almost into pieces, has been found guilty, but, strange to say, the jury have discovered " extenuat ing circumstances" in the case, so that this atrocious criminal will not expiate his crime with his life, but is sentenced to perpetual hard labour. He can even appeal against this sentence, so that there may be a commutation of its severity. The form in which the jury deliver their verdict is somewhat curious. The foreman rose amidst solemn silence, and placing his hand upon his heart said—" On my honour and my conscience, before God and before man, the decla ration of the jury is—Yes—the accused is guilty." The same reply was then given to other questions put by the judge, and the foreman of the jury con cluded by saying " W find by a majority that there are extenuating circumstances in favour of the accused." It will thus be seen that a jury in France are judges of the law as well as the fact, for their verdict materially influences the sentence. When a simple verdict of guilty is given in cases of murder, the criminal is executed as a matter of course, unless the Court of Appeal or Cas sation should think fit to decide some point in his favour and save his life. The jury can do so, how ever, in their own proper discretion or judgment, and the judge has no power to overrule the verdict which saves a murderer's life. It is important to remark, too, that it is not requisite for the jury to be unanimous. Aspe's life is safe, because "the majority" have discovered " extenuating circum stances." It is, I think, impossible that an English jury could form such an opinion from the proved facts of the case. This was a " murder most foul, as in the best it is. " Aspe is a vulgar and brutal villain. lle is married and keeps two wine shops, one or both the resort of the worst characters. The murdered woman had charge of one of these shops. Being in embarrassed circumstances, for, as it ap pears, the profits arising from his haunts of vil lany were not great, he borrowed money from time to time from the woman to pay his acceptances, and when she began to be a little importunate for the return of a portion of her savings he murders her, and resorts to various artfulful devices to throw suspicion upon other persons. Not content with the murder, he severs the head from the body, throws it into the canal, cuts the limbs into pieces, and buries them so effectually that some of the portions have not yet been discovered. With this woman, too, the married murderer had lived on terms of criminal friendship. Such are the acts of Monsieur Aspe, of Toulouse, and such the circumstances which the jury of Toulouse are far-seeing enough to con sider susceptible of " extenuation." Aspe, on hear ing the verdict, we are told, hid his face with his hands, and, under a deep convulsive movement, his sobbings redoubled. He then exclaimed, " I am innocent !" and fell down insensible. The Court deliberated upon the sentence for a few instants. The judge, like the jury, seemed to be impressed with the force of the " extenuating circumstances," for he at once consoled the prisoner by telling him that he was allowed three days to appeal against even the inconvenience of imprisonment for life. It appears that six men received serious injuries at the great fire at Pantin, which I mentioned yes terday. The loss is estimated at 800,000 f., but all the property was insured, so that there will not be any pecuniary loss to the proprietors. Among the many valuable demonstrations in Italy is the composition of a martial hymn by M. Brofferio, it is said, at the express order of the King. Tbis hymn is said to be as inspiring and exciting for the Italians as the " Marseillaise" is to the French. A scientific journal says that an engineer of Paris, M. Lotz, has made such improvements in locomotive steam-engines as to have the steam un der immediate control. Thus omnibuses can be driven on level roads with perfect ease, and it is in contemplation to begin the system by organising a number of them to make the journey along the boulevards for the Madeleine to the Bastille. A fearful accident has taken place on the Vin- cennes Railway. M. Joseph Douet, a merchant at Varenne-St.-Maur, took his seat at the top of the carriage from the Paris station. The train had just reached Trou-a-Sable when M. Douet changed his place in order to light his cigar. lie did not take notice that the train was entering the Rcuilly tun nel, and his head was dashed against it with such violence that a portion of the skull was dashed off. Death was instantaneous. I did not see anything about Stephens in the last New York papers received in Paris, but the Sicle says it has received private letters from North Ame rica stating that he arrived in New York on the 10th inst. The letter adds that Fenianism is in a rapid state of dissolution in America. O'Mahony and Ro bcrts mutually reproach each other with being the cause of the failure of the Eastport expedition. The Etorie d'Orient, a French paper, published at Constantinople, which arrived in Paris to-day, gives some curious , pa bn r a ticußlaaii-rsual. I respectingtwas on the l g v r e e d at: Turkish fetes of GQ,ir nesday, April 25, that these fetes were inaugurated by the Sultan. His Majesty went first to the p w e r h i e a r l e p h r e o e o e ff s e e r i o e n d cannon and trumpets, then repaired, to the soun d ofnulpostliewmoofrtnliiengSupaylrtaneArl.ohTamhemeldm, I Lii With his " august had been concluded, tlw - thoy ere g tcv. , ara where after. the usual formalities hand (so says the account) and with a golden knife, killed the sheep, which the Prophet has ordered to be offered as a holocaust to God at a certain period of the year. Such is' Turkish fanaticism, that a soldier tranquilly cut his throat on the bridge of Karakani, crying out suddenly just at the moment that he did so as a sacrifice to the Padischah. Cellier, the convict, at the House of Detention at Rion, who murdered the keeper and a fellow priso ner, under the circumstances which I described, has just been found guilty before the Court of Assize for the department of Puy de Dome, andwas sentenced to death. On receiving sentence, he heartily thanked the President and the jury. When he returned to the prison lie joyously sang a song about the guillotine and his fellow-prisoners joined in the thorn:. An individual has just died from hydrophobia at Aubagne, near Marseilles, forty-eight hours after being bitten by a mad dog. He was taken to the hospital, but refused to have the wound cauterised. His wife was also bitten by the dog, but has not experienced any ill effects from the occurrence, but a surgeon attended to her wound immediately. The King and Queen of the Belgians are expected in Paris early next month, on a visit to the Em peror and Empress. The critical state of affairs in Germany, it is said, will probably detain their Ma jesties in Paris for two or three weeks. There is a sensible rise in the temperature to-day, but it is still very windy, cloudy, and unusually dusty. A storm seems im pending. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) THE WAR CRISIS. TRIESTE, MAY 24 (Evening). It is reported here that an Italian patrol appeared to-day on the frontier, on the Caffaro, and took away the half of the bridge on the Italian side of that river. VIENNA, May 25. The Neue Freie Passe asserts that Austria has consented to the discussion of the Venetian question by the Congress on the basis of territorial com pensation. The withdrawal of the prohibition against the exportation of corn was ordered by the Emperor at the request of Saxony. BERLIN, May 25. In case of war Prussia intends to convoke a German Parliament to meet in Berlin, and to which will be admitted all representatives from the dif ferent German States who are returned on the electoral basis of the number of inhabitants. POTSDAM, May 25. At the baptism of the infant princess, which took place yesterday, the royal infant was held during the ceremony by the King of Prussia and the Princess Marie of Hohenzollern. The Prince of Hohenzollern, father of the Roumanian Hospodar, was not present. his ab sence, it was stated, was caused by the fact of his preparing to take his departure for the Principalities at the invitation of the Roumanian deputation. BRUSSELS, May 25. Prussia has confidentially proposed to Russia a marriage between the Prince of Hohenzollern and the Princess Eugenie Maximianovna Romanovska of Leuchtenberg. It is doubtful whether Russia will accept the proposal. DRESDEN, May 25. The Saxon Chambers will meet to-morrow, and will be formally opened by the King in person on Monday, the 28th inst. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, MAY 23. Prince Charles of Hohenzollern delivered the following speech on the occasion of his visit to the National Assembly : " Elected to the throne by the free act of the Roumanian people, I have forsaken my country and my family. Henceforth lam a Roumanian. My election by the plebiscite lays upon me important duties, which I trust I shall fulfil. I bring you a loyal heart, sincere intentions, a firm determination to do good, unlimited devotion to my new father laud, and an unalterable respect for your laws. I am resolved to share the good and evil fortune of Roumania, and wish that between us everything may be in common. Let us strengthen each other by union, and endeavour to surmount every diffi.- culty. "Providence, which has hitherto protected me, and has removed all the obstacles in my way, will not leave its work undone. " Long live Roumania !" BUCHAREST, MAY 24 (Evening). A new Ministry has been formed, composed as follows : President of the Council and Minister of the Interior M. LUSCAR CATARDJI Foreign Affairs War JEAN GHIKA. Finance BRATIANO. Public Worship ROSETTI. Justice JEAN CANTACUZENE. Public Works DEMETRIUS STOURDZA. CHINA. SHANGHAI, April 9 (Via Trieste). Six thousand more Imperial troops, in addition to 2,000 from Pekin, have been sent from Shanghai to the province of Shantung to meet the rebels, who are assembled there in large numbers. The Government is said to be offering Mandarin buttons to the rebel chiefs, upon condition that they swear allegiance. The ice at Nevahans (?) has broken up, and the port is now open. Petty disturbances have occurred there, in con sequence of which the English Consul has re quested settlers to be constantly armed. Two thousand boxes of tea have been shipped by the overland steamer. The coolies on board the Italian ship Napoleon Canivers revolted, and fired the vessel ; 620 coolies were burned. Advices from Japan announce the arrival of the left wing of the 9th Regiment. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA• QUEENSTOWN, May 25. The Inman Company's steamer Etna, from New York on the 12th inst., arrived at 9 a.m. to-day. She brings the mails, $477,731, and £2,000 in specie, and 219 passengers, 54 of whom she landed, and proceeded at 9 10 a.m. Her telegraphic advices have been anticipated. ARRIVAL OF THE MISSISSIPPI. SOUTHAMPTON, May 25. The - .N orth AmeriCan Lloyds steamer Mississippi, from - Sew York on the 10th inst., passed the Needles at 9 40 a.m. to-day. Her news has been anticipated. sensible rebound in the quotations of all the prin cipal Securities. The following amounts are posted up for " discounting" to-day, viz —285,000 f. Three per Cents. ; 105,000 f. Italian Fives; 300 Mobilier Shares; 200 Lombards, &c. Threes, for the Accouct are being dealt in at an advance of 40c., viz., 63f. 75c.. Italian Fives, at first quoted below 39f., and afterwards reaching 40f., are now doing at 39f. 50c., or an improvement of 45c. Credit Mobilier Shares are 101. better, at 515 f. ; Spanish Mobilier 3f. 75c., at 248 f. 75c. ; Credit Fopcier 10f., at I,llof. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte 10f., at 682 f. 50c. In the Railway Department, Lyons show an advance of Bf. 75c., to 895 f. ; Austrian of 5f., to 300 f. ; and Lombards of 2f. 50c., to 292 f. 59c. Immo biliere Shares have improved 6f. 25c., the price being 376 f. 25c. Three o'clock. —The market has closed on the following quotations : 4 per Cents 92 75 Do. end month 3 per Cents. Do. end month 63 85 Credit Mobilier 515 Da. end month Credit Foncier — end month, Bank Shares..., 3370 Italian Loan 39 80 Do. end month 39 85 Mexican Loan 32 Do. Bonds 233 75 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - rAYS. 1115 For Account. Orleans 797 50 Northern 1055 Lyons and Mediterranean.... Southern Western 520 Eastern Sardinian — Austrian Lombard 292 50 North of Spain ll5 Saragossa 147 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman — LITERATURE. Miss Braddon's New Novel. The Lady's Mile. Three Vols. By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret." Ward, Lock, and Tyler. Miss Braddon has yet to write a dull book—if she can ! She has yet to write one, the fate of which shall be other than successful almost upon the in stant of its appearance. Call this luck, if you will, but there the fact is, and, to say the least of it, it presents to view a very remarkable coincidence. No one that has ever read any one among her eight three-volumed novels—a very library of fiction in itself, extending now to two-and-thirty volumes octavo, volumes written, bear in mind, by a single hand within the lapse of a very few years in deed—can complain that he or she, as the case may be, has been wearied in their perusal by even a passing sense of tediousness. That, surely, is much of itself to begin with, but that is not all. Miss Braddon, in undertaking to build up for her self a reputation as a Popular Novelist—and that she has done so no one will care to deny, even the most captious and carping of the cavillers by whose depreciative criticisms she has been assailed at times with, as it appears to us, a sort of vulgar acri mony very ludicrous to see, because so absolutely uncalled for and unprovoked—Miss Braddon we say, in building up for herself her reputation as a Popular Novelist, has looked first of all, in the writing of every one of the Eight famous three-volumed Stories she has now penned, to the telling of her story, to the construction of some plot that shall be inte resting throughout, to the enthrallment (so far as may be in any way within her capacity as a tale teller) of all the readers, young or old, coming to her pages for entertainment. The " story" with her, in other words, is her first consideration. Sup plementary to that comes every other consideration. The delineation of character, the display of her descriptive powers, the manifestation of her sense of the humorous or of the pathetic, of the terrible, or of the beautiful—all these things are purely subsidiary. A tale-teller she is, and feels her self to be, above all—a bas blue never Her evidences of reading, her revelations of a delightful familiarity with the literature of her own country, and of other countries, are all apropos, are all casual, parenthetical, purely by-the-way—arc never once, so to speak, dragged in by the head and shoulders from any feeling of affectation, still less of ostentation. It is precisely because of all this, and because she can relate a story worth listening to, and in language that it is a pleasure to read—so clear and diaphonous is it in its lucidity—that, one after another, she has, in a manner, taken the town by storm, season after season, with one or two tales that every reader of novels feels somehow constrained to read, and that every one of those readers, once beginning, reads on until the end—delighted with, by a sort of easy captivation. So it has been with her eight well-thumbed fictions —one after another—Lady Audley's Secret, and Aurora Floyd, and Eleanor's Victory, and Only a Clod, and Henry Dunbar, and The Doctor's Wife, and John Marchmont's Legacy, and now last, and not by any means least, of the well-known series, this newly-completed novel of The Lady's I Mile. The mere enumeration above of the title of its seven predecessors will have reminded those who are already acquainted with Miss Braddon's capa bilities as a novelist that she has hitherto written not one dull book among those seven. Having said which, we may premise at once in regard to this eighth that it is a book to match those seven predecessors, for inasmuch as it is the pleasantest reading throughout—for inasmuch as it is never dull for inasmuch as the story is interesting in itself, and, besides that, is told interestingly. It is only fair to Miss Braddon herself, however, and to her readers also, that we should add immediately, thereupon, that in writing it our authoress may be said to have turned over a new leaf. In " The Lady's Mile" she is hardly at all—nay, we don't think she is in any way at all— what people have long since come to speak of, and know as, Sensational. The incidents flow on in a manner equably, so to express it—never once in jerks and spasms. Golden - haired criminals, black-eye-browed bigamists, slangy grooms, and blackguard dog-fanciers, no longer people her chapters cheek-by-jowlwith more respect able specimens of our mixed society in thes e modern times. But instead of all this—we have, as the title might lead one to anticipate before opening the first volume —ladies and gentle men ad libitum, artists and merchants, bar risters, and country gentlemen, officers in the . army, and members of Parliament, just the class of people one may see at this time of the year in the saddle or rolling in their carriages along the well watei.ed sweep of " The Lady's Mile," Hyde park, midway between Knightsbridge and Bays water. The Lady Cecil Chudleigh, orphan daughter of Lord Aspendell is the heroine of the story— a fair exemplar enough of your high aristocrat, one wanting sadly no doubt in a certain mysterious quality called " go ;" but having, we are told, a pro file like a cameo and a style in its way unexception able. Speaking of her, in fact (that is, of the Lady Cecil) we are informed by our authoress that a gen tleman of the genus Swell was thus heard to re mark about the heroine of " The Lady's Mile" upon one occasion :—" If polygamy were admis sible," quoth be, " I'd marry Lady Cecil to-morrow. She is the woman of women to sit at the bead of a fellow's table and do him credit in society ; but if I were going home half-seas-over after a four-in hand club-dinner at Richmond, I'd as soon have Lady Macbeth sitting up for me as Lord Aspendell's daughter. Not that she'd be coarse or low, like the Scotchwoman, you know—not a bit of it She'd receive me with a stately curtsey, and freeze me to death with her claSsic profile. Egad ! when you come to think of it, you know, old fellow, there must be a hitch somewhere in the matrimonial law- Society doesn't confine a man to one horse; society doesn't compel him to ride his park-hack across country, or harness his racing stud to his drag ; and yet society limits an unhappy beast to one wife ; and if he marries a nice little indulgent creature who won't look black at him when he goes home late or smokes in the dining-room, the odds are that she'll freeze his marrow by dropping her h's and talking of her par—who was something in the soap-boiling way—at an archbishop's state-dinner." Her lady ship's ancestral home in North Devon—Chudleigh Combo by name—is perfectly in keeping with the portraiture of her own fair self—Chudleigh having among its adornments, we learn—besides " a handsome collection of Oriental china, and a good deal of quaintoldfurniture ; brass-inlaid chests of drawers, wherein Evelina and Cecilia might have kept their finery; Indian secretaires, at which Cla rissa Harlowe might have written her famous let ters ; high-backed chairs, on which Sir • Charles Grandison might have sat, gentlemanlike and un bending." As for the hero of the tale—Hector Gordon—when we are first introduced to him, Cap tain, afterwards Colonel of his Regiment—he is a tall, handsome, accomplished specimen of what an officer and a gentleman ought to - oe, and - withal a charmingly fresh illus tration of those rare graces discoverable in your high-bred Scotchman, graces that our autho ress asks, with seeming surprise, "Has any one ever sung ?" Adding, thereupon, to her own inquiry— " What words can fairly describe the nameless fascination which has a dash of the Irishman's insi (Vous flattery, a spice of the Frenchman's brilliant vivacity, but which has a tender softness possessed by neither, a patrician grace not to be equalled by any other nationality in the world ? In all the his tory of modern Europe, the two people who, by manner alone, have exercised the most powerful influence upon their contemporaries, have been Mary Queen of Scots, and her great-grandson Charles Stuart. Of all the poets, who has ever so enthralled the hearts of women as George Gordon, Lord Byron, whose maternal lineage was Scotch ? Of all lovely and fascinating women whose names will be remem bered in the future, is there any fairer or lovelier than Eugenie Marie de Guzman, Countess of Teba, Em press of the French, and scion of the Kirkpatricks of Closeburn ?" Mention might here also have been made by Miss Braddon of that paragon of paragons, the Admirable Crichton, about the noblest specimen of all, surely, of your high bred Scotchman ! It is with the old well-born, thrifty aunt of them both— by the way (that is, of both hero and heroine)—Mrs. Maclaverhouse— that Lady Cecil is living as companion when she first makes the acquaintance of Captain Gordon on his return from India on sick leave ! A curious old dame whose love of economic arrangements, not to talk of her appetite for the paring of cheeses or the skin of flints, is happily indicated among other similar remarks by the following : "Don't tell me that I've known them for years and never known them rob me !" exclaimed the widow. [She is talking of her attendants.] " They may have robbed me without my knowing it, or they may not have robbed me because I never gave them the oppor tunity ; and they may begin to rob me to-morrow if they get the chance. Look at the Bishop of Northlandshire's butler, who had lived with him thirteen years, and ran away with five hundred pounds' worth of plate in the fourteenth. Look at Sir Harry Hinchliffe's vallet, who was such a faithful creature that his master left him an annuity of two hundred a year ; which he would have en joyed very much, no doubt, if he hadn't stripped the house while his benefactor's corpse was lying in it, and had not been transported for life in consequence. Don't talk to me about honesty, Cecil. If Mrs. Krewson is an honest woman, why do her eyes sparkle so when I order a large joint, and why are two quarts of Bisque barely enough for six 1" Other heroes and heroines there are of course whose histories are related in the ravelling and unravelling of the thread of the narra tive of this new story of Miss Braddon's, hight "The Lady's Mlle"—others, we mean, besides the two principal ones just now particularised, to wit, Lady Cecil and Captain Gordon. There are, for example, Philip Foley, the young artist, and Florence Crawford, the coquettish daughter of William Crawford, the great academician. Again, there is this very father of Florence's, Mr. Craw ford, R.A., and the fastidious and elegant young widow, Mrs. Cha - mpernowne. Neither Hector and Cecil—nor Philip and Florence make a match of it, as it happens ! Hector marrying in India—Lady Cecil espousing a big Irish barrister—and Florence taking as her husband what an English dealer in slang would call a " Cad," and what a Yankee dealer in slang would term a "Cuss," one Mr. Lobyer of Lobyer cotton mills, Lancashire. Further than this we will afford no clue whatever through the winding labyrinth of the plot. We are tempted to give, however, in extenso, as perhaps the most touching incident of all in the narrative, the fol- lowing : it was the middle of August, and the picture wanted little more than a week's work for its completion, when the painter yielded for the first time to that languid feel ing in the eyelids, and abandoned his work in order to in dulge in a brief siesta. All the clocks of Kensington had just struck three, and the vibration of the different chimes came floating across the painter's garden. It was an al most. insupportable summer day—sultry and oppressive— the day of all others on which the hardest worker is apt to be seized with a distaste for his labour. " It's no use," said Mr. Crawford, as he gave a last look at his canvas ; " I can scarcely see the colours lam using. I can't stand against this drowsiness any longer." He threw himself upon a sofa, a noble couch of strictly classic form, upon which had erst reclined Aspasia the wise and beautiful, or at any rate the dark-haired mcdel who had sat for the Grecian beauty; that maligned en chantress who sinned against poetry by descending from a Pericles to a cattle-dealer. The painter fell asleep almost immediately ; but for some time after he had lain down he had a dim consciousness of pain above his eyebrows. By and by, however, the slumber grew deeper ; he no longer heard the bees humming in his roses, the subdued roll of distant wheels. He fell into a long dreamless sleep, from which he awoke at last very suddenly, with a feeling that he had slept for many hours. He had slept for a very long time as it seemed, for it was quite dark when he awoke. "No more work to-day," he thought with a sigh. " I counted on getting an hour between five and six. Why hasn't Dimond lighted my lamps ?" The painter groped his way to the bell and rang vio lently. "What a night !" he muttered ; " there must be a storm brewing. I haven't known it as dark as this all the summer." He stood by the mautlepiece waiting. The window was opposite him, and he felt the warm summer air float ing in upon him where ho stood. But he could not even define the broad opening of the window through the pro found darkness. "Lights, Dimond," he said impatiently, as the man opened the door. " Lights, sir ?" "Yes ; of course. Why have you left the lamps till this time ? Why isn't that passage lighted ?" " But it's so early, sir—not much after five--and such a bright afternoon. I didn't think you'd like me to light the gas yet awhile," " Not much after five o'clock !" repeated the painter in a tone of utter stupefaction. " No, sir ; just a quarter past by your own clock, sir." " And a bright afternoon ?" he asked in the same tone. " Well,—of course, sir, I don't presume to say as re gards paintin' ; but in a general way a very bright after noon." " 0 my God !" cried the painter suddenly. The servant ran to his master, alarmed by that sudden exclamation, which sounded like a cry of agony. "Is anything the matter, sir ?" "No ; go—go and get me a cab —immediately—l must go out—and I shall want you to go with me." " Me, sir ?" " Yes, you, sir ! Go at once man, for God's sake—and lose no time about it." The servant departed in bewilderment of mind, and William Crawford groped his way through the outer dark ness to the nearest chair. He sunk into the chair, covered his face with his hands, and burst into tears. " Blind!" he cried ; " blind ! blind ! I said I had nothing but my art, and now my art is lost to me." He sat with his head bent forward on his breast, staring hopelessly into the darkness. Strain his eyeballs as he might, they could not pierce that darkness. He saw no Psyche and the Zephyrs, no lovely images created by his hand, no bright glimpseof summer sunshine on the smooth green lawn, no changing light upon the summer flowers, no tender shadows from the grand old cedars—only dark ness, utter darkness ; beyond which it might be that his eyes were never again to penetrate. "Cab, sir," said the man, presenting himself in the door way. Come here, Dimond," William Crawford said very quietly ; "come close to me, and give mo your arm, please. I beg your pardon if I was impatient just now, but I have had a great shock. I have been working too hard lately, and have injured my sight. God only knows whether the injury is to be a lasting one ; but for the moment I am quite blind. I think perhaps I shall manage better if you give me your hand to lead m,e to the cab. I must go at once to an occulist, and I shall want you to go with me." Our authoress herself acknowledges (p. 149, Vol. I.) that " there is no finer tonic for the true worker than adverse criticism" ; observing, moreover, that whereas " the friend's lavish praise may enervate : the foe's hardest usage braces and fortifies." Wherefore we would here, before closing these !marks of ours upon " The Lady's Mile," throw out the hint (not as foe. be sure, but far rather as one among the many friends she has won to her self by her writings) that the capital portraiture she has given here in this new book of herself of the burly boisterous Irish Advocate, Mr. O'Boyneville, would have been much more humorously pencilled to the life, if she had not so unnaturally made him upon any and every occasion, do—what bar risters, as a rule, never do—talk shop ! It is an error of art on the Novelist's part, - as a delinea tion of her contemporaries. Again—while that odious " Cad" or " Cuss" as we have called him, Mr. Lobyer to wit, is rather too distinctly sugges tive of a combination of Toots and the Game Chicken—Mr. O'Boyneville is after his fashion sug gestive of a rolling into one and the same person of Mr. Boythorne and Mr. Striver. It seems very cap tious, however, to take even these exceptions to The Lady's Mile—seeing that this last among Miss Braddon's eight brilliant three-volumed novels is , as a pictare of every day life, not only to our thinking delightful throughout, but, as a whole, true, both in its outlines and in its colouring, to that mixed society of which its gifted artist intends it to be another life-like delineation. ' • VI/art 4.R Lc-- erntbr HER MAJESTY. - 0 WINDSOR CASTLE, Thursday.. This day her Alajesty completed her 47th yeir. The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon and walked and drove again this .morn ing, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Arthur also walked and drove. } Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, and Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, arrived at the Castle this morning, and remained to luncheon. Count Gleishen also arrived and remained to luncheon. Prince Arthur arrived at the Castle yesterday's attended by Major Elphinstone. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanie d by Prince Alfred, visited the Queen at Windsor Castle yesterday morning. Their Royal Highnesses dined with the Puk e and Duchess of Sutherland, at Stafford House, iu the evening. Her Majesty will leave Windsor Castle to-dal for Cliveden, the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland's seat, near Maidenhead, where her Majesty will pass a fortniglit, surrounded by her family. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and rrinCeSs of Wales will leave Marlborough House on Monday ne t , for Titness, near Ascot, for the race week. The prince en" princess return to town on Saturday, the 2d proximo. Prince and Princess Cellinci are expected to day at Cataldi's Hotel, Dover-street, from Rome, for the season. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty, will give a full-dress dinner to-morrow evening at the Admiralty. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings, a nd Sir Piers and Lady Mostyn have left the St. George 'S Hotel. the Marquis d'Andigne has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Paris. The Earl and Countess Granville are expecte d to arrive at their residence in Bruton-street to-day from Walmer Castle. The Earl Russell will receive a select party f ° peers at dinner to-morrow in celebration of h©r Majes t y birthday. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 24, Two o'clock. —In proportion as the belief in the ultimate success of the pending negotiations to assembl e a C ongress gains ground, the market appea rs t o assume a firmer position . This is the impres s i on wh i ch generally prevails in the market to-day, an d t h e open i ng has in conse quence taken place a m id s t to l era ble activity, and a Mr. Woodin's Entertainment. To-morrow afternoon Mr. Woodin will repeat) for the fiftieth time, his double entertainment en titled " Baden Baden," and " Up in the Air," on which occasion a very brilliant audience Will as semble to participate in the enjoyment. There is .1 ‘. peculiarity about Mr. Woodin's entertainment which distinguishes it in a very special manner from those of other public entertainers who have in some i ll ; stances appropriated many of his " notions." a s ° ll Yankee cousins call them. Yet, notwithstand ing this, there is one and not a trifling matter, that secure s to Mr. Woodin the full possession of his own, his originality. Imitators may appropriate idea s ' but the realisation of them is quite another thing' and thus the natural and innate talent of lair" Woodin keeps him in - his right position. T he entertainment of Baden Baden, ever since its first production, has attracted crowded and de*. lighted audiences; and, speaking from actual ob servation, we should imagine there is quite enough wit and fun in it to attract the pleasure-se eker° of the metropolis for months to come. The Apparent y Drowned. Dr. Porter, of Godshill, Isle of Wight, 11 0 l us t reported the successful treatment by him of a r a vf, remarkable hd case, of the restoration of a child 1 "; " a A been apparently dead some time from drowninb; f poor child (says the Doctor), about three (3 .1 1 Head, ryears old, was extricated from the Shide 311 a near Newport, Isle _of Wight, where it ha f been immersed in water more than six feet de ? or upwards of 10 minutes. The child was idea diately brought to me to all appearance quite des'7c in truth, so far so, that not the slightest Oda . ' 9 ; one hour and forty minutes' anxious and the heart was perceptible by auscultation. A fte p a increasi v attention, I had the great satisfaction of perfect 5 restoring the child and handing it safe and sc;ei to its previously agon i ze d p aren ts. The inetheoa adopted were those of Drs. Marshall, fla il fee Silvester combined. This was done in the p res : o l... of 'a large crowd of people who ultimatelrilor lected. Many years ago I performed a si v3 s , important service when an assistant at Salis blir lia . o We may add that these valuable instructions 0%00 restoration of the apparently drowned, on the P i er ofiDrs. Marshall, Hall and Silvester, have been t i, tensively circulated by the National Lifeboat iu o re tution ; but we trust that they will be still , widely disseminated, and that mayors of ewolo tio o and other official persons, will assist the institti true in_ every way in their power in making these ius erg, e tions generally known on the coasts, banks of tea s of canals, docks, and such places, as some huil cir t er. persons are drowned every year in fresh waana The instructions are thoroughly practical/ a do are the result of extensive inquiries which were tae two or three years ago amongst medical nlen„.; ite d dical bodies, and coroners, residents in the ul3ciy.. Kingdom. These directions have been largelYit, culated by the Lifeboat Society in the Bio r U er Isles and the Colonies. They are also in use 11.1 z, Majesty's Fleet, the Coast Guard Service, all' d. Stations of the British Army at home and a hr i ° ' o o We may also state that the instructions, prinnted large placards and well illustrated, fur merely the price of the paper on whic h i t io are printed, viz., 6s. per 100 copies, on aPPl ica _ ne t, to the National Lifeboat Institution, John-sis' Adelphi. ANOTHER SUBURBAN CONTEMPORARY .'.oe, Norwood Post, a weekly newspaper and magO i e o. price twopence—on Saturday last made its first (1 1 1 1 Do ance; and, so far as any periodical publicatio:a elt o . eau be obtali joy for judged of by No. 1, it gives every promise of NviPti' t itself a success that it will certainly deserv e if coil it 10 19 continued with anything like the ability with wla Oli been commenced. THE COMMERCIAL DEPRESSION IN LIVEI4,O °ore' Yesterday was one of the gloomiest days of: t h , ' w ere sent crisis, and several more failures of largo hcns e d yes' spoken of. At the meeting of the Mersey Dock I'o3,l'on°4 terday, two members resigned their seats, on di° vropa" that their respective firms had become involved in t o will rary difficulties. It is understood that the same e be adopted by several members of the town council. „ large shippin g of 5 mend oned on 'Change yesterday th a t the liab i l itie* i firm which hao recen tl y suspero amount to about X 2,000,000 and upwa rds. C O. INFLUENCE OF WAR PREPAR ATIONS ON TO ,4100 9 TRADE.—It is a significant fact th at the Europeav n'are at which are involved in the present war complicatio,os 010 present large purchasers of c oal. So great has alx3 east c tw i export from this country to I tal y for the Italian re tv.t a great advance has taken pl ace in freights from tbo coast, and vessels can scarcelyby the contracts. Pitch b e o btained to cov..,loii coal within the time speci fiedr Russia, and France are als o extensively importl_n! A ar o 4 and large supplies have also been pu rchased for I.ll° triau navy. N , roux D 0 cTou ?O_II.ORIS .