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It is truly said that most men • receive more from social order than they render to it, and yet it is a fact that is very likely to be over looked by those who are intent upon pressing their for ward their individual inte rests, and in urging h own claims forget the rights of others. It is arg ue d by some that the claim of the patentee is a failure, inasmuch as it is almost impossible for him to esta blish his right in an exclusive form. The Professor explained the purport of a patentee very impressively in this passage :—" lie takes possession of some natural power or force, the process and possible value of which has not, we may assume, been in fringed before, and secures the whole right of using such a power and force." This is very true, as is also the remark made further on as to the nature of such an appropriation scheme :—" Now, a title that is asserted to the qualities of mat ter, or the powers of the mind, is one that can not be admitted without gross partiality to one person, and manifest injury and misery to many others." This statement is a perfectly orthodox one, and it seems strange, indeed, that it should not have struck people before during all the con fusion and controversy that have taken place upon the vexed question "of patents." Subjects, how ever, are almost always more impartially treated and more justly analysed when they are dwelt upon calmly at a distance, as it were, from the arena of contention, than when taken up in the spirit of controversy, and the disputants on either side are actuated by jealousy or incited into exaggeration. Professor ROGERS presented his hearers with a very elaborate account of the workings of the system, and described a patent as a race that is run between two persons, each intent on arrogating rights to himself at the expense of the other, and to the detriment of society at large. The simultaneity of inventions has now become an acknowledged fact, • and the strife and discord that rage therefrom fill our law courts and distract our tradesmen. With • notices, injunctions, and pending cases, trade is very much injured, and serious losses inflicted upon many, who are so puzzled and confused by con flicting evidence that they hesitate how to act. The road through practical science has justly been described as that of " BUNYAN'S pilgrim through the valley of the shadow of death, with a ditch on one side, and a gorge on the other, full of snares, traps, gins, and nets on the one hand, and of pits, pitfalls, deep holes, and slidingsdown on the other, to say nothing of the satyrs, hob goblins, and dragons by which the region is in fested." The position of the public is very apt to be overlooked in all the hubbub that is raised about patents, yet surely it is one that ought to be consi dered, and the Professor rightly discoUrses upon it here. " The public is mulcted by the system," it is here emphatically observed, and those who have studied the subject carefully will coincide in the re mark, unsatisfactory as it may sound, and errone ous as at first sight the uninitiated may believe it to be. The immense sums that are now spent in de fending and securing the right add greatly to the difficulties of the undertaking, and seriously dimi nish what profit there may be in the affair. What can be more true than is here stated, that the aboli tion of the patent laws, at the worst, would only lead to " secrecy ;" and even now we may find that, whenever it is convenient to do so, such a course is invariably followed in the " processes of produc tion." It is almost impossible to over-estimate the advantages that would accrue from the annihilation of the spirit of " gambling" which at present flourishes to a great extent, and by the stoppage to litigation, the evils of which need scarcely be commented upon, and by the stimulus that would be given to invention, nor so restricted and hampered by fetters and hindrances of all kinds under the name of patent privileges. As the lecturer remarks, people may think that the " machinery of the law is di rected against the producers, but it is inevitably paid by the consumer." Liberty of action is required, and it is precisely that liberty which is checked by the law as at present constituted. Professor ROGERS explained the causes that existed for the tolerance the public afforded to this plan, and wound up by declaring that a privilege of monopoly was not necessarily a right. The system of patents has been advocated with great vehemence, and there fore many persons have been fain to believe what they have been told. The wisest plan, however, is undoubtedly to pause and consider a little how such and such a system works in its immediate results, instead of hurrying to a conclusion by fol lowing the arguments of partial and prejudiced commentators. The Professor went on to analyse the matter, and showed how many of those who have most benefited humanity have not received patents. The inequality of our present vaunted mode of conducting the matter is thus well de scribed :—" A man may invent or discover a new method of agriculture and geological stratum of national importance, a method of medical treatment, a course of public policy, a mode of education, a system of banking ; in short, an infinity of things, and processes of universal benefit, and receive no pro tection." In alluding to copyright it was truly ob served that it is next to impossible that two authors should hit upon the same thought, and give expres sion to them in the same manner. In this manner the advantages are overrated, for means are found to alleviate the inconvenience of exclusiveness. Cir culating libraries are rightly designated as " na tional remedies to high prices of the pro tected works," and it is worthy of consideration if the authors really gain more by such a plan being adopted than if competition were allowed. There is certainly much to encourage thought in this ad mirable and comprehensive paper of Professor ROGERS. It will offend prejudices, and raise up a host of detractors ; but there is much soundness in its arguments, and much truth in its inferences. What suits the views of the few may not be for the advantage of the many ; and we very often find that the abolition of a long cherished scheme does not bring with it half the dangers and difficul ties that are predicted by the sages who treat of the matter. At any rate it is worthy of attention, that the patent laws, as at present followed, are anything but a success, and, therefore, it cannot be such a very treason , able or treacherous affair to criticise their origin, progress, and effect. This has been done in the paper now under consideration, and it was with confidence we recommended it as a study for those who are anxious to find out the truth for themselves, and not take garbled accounts as gospel, or become too easy converts to doctrines speciously set forth. All should see and judge for themselves, in cases where important social inte rests are concerned, and rival claims are instituted. The interest which England feels in Danish affairs partakes a good deal of pain and mortification. Nevertheless we cannot see without interest the open progression of attachment to their old country which has just been made by the Sohleswigers. The cor diality of their reception by the Danes, and the warmth of the declarations that, however separated outwardly from the old associations, Schleswig is still Danish in heart, are convincingproofs how little the real wishes of the population were consulted in the arbitrary interference of Prussia. Nationalities and independence were good war cries, and secured as high-sounding pretexts for Prussia to carry out her own aggressive and dishonest designs, but how far the feelings of the Schleswigers were regarded may easily be seen from the recent display. Great festivities have been held in Copenhagen in honour of the unwonted guests, and they were brought to a close by a gran d b anquet at K lampen b org, at w hi ch very open expre ss i on was g i ven to t h e general feel ing. Th e proceedings opened by a song set to a popular Danish melody, after which Professor CLAUSSEN delivered an address, in which heobserved theirn aand that, although the Danes and an guests ers d we s r p e ee n ch o l on ger fellow-subjects, yet in m they had features in common. One of the Schles wigers followed up this speech by giving as a toast " The Common Danish Fatherland." The speech made by the aged Bishop GRUNDTvic t in the course of the entertainment was still more decided in its tone. He openly declared that no one would eventually succeed in keeping men of the same views and sympathies forcibly apart, and that his last wish and hope was the reunion of Schleswig to Denmark. Other addresses tended to the same effect, and one :speaker charged those present to consider themselves Danes, both north and south of the Konigsan. A further demonstration of the feeling of the duchy was given in the telegrams which were received by the Reception Committee in the course of the last day of the festivities from various parts of Schleswig. From•Fleuclsburg the THE SUB, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENIAG, SEPTEMBER 12, 1865. telegram bore the words, " All cordially unite with you from our inmost hearts in the wish that what is now severed may speedily be united." Such demon ' strations can hardly be very acceptable at Berlin, and if Prussian statesmen had not too much effron tery to feel abashed by open evidence of their in sincerity, they might be mortified by such plain de clarations how little the Schleswigers appreciate the result of their amiable and disinterested interference. In striking contrast to the proceedings at Klampen borg, ;:though nearly simultaneous in date, is the memorial drawn up by the members of the Holstein Estates and addressed to the Federal Diet. The Holsteiners are awakening to their mistake but a little too late. They refused the political liberty which the Danes offered to them, the regulation of their own internal affairs and a voice in the general administration of the kingdom. They were dazzled by the ambition of becoming a separate and inde pendent State, and probably thought in their igno rant conceit that the Duke of SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN would be one of the foremost princes in Germany. They have now learned too late that in place of rising in dignity and importance they are to become a mere Prussian province, their identity to be merged in that agglomeration of discordant ma terials in which individual tendencies and charac teristics, whether Polish, Austrian, or Danish, are likely to meet with very little consideration. Per haps, too, the Holsteiners reflect too late that political liberty and civil rights do not attain their highest and most prosperous development at Berlin, and that some very uncomfortable disputes have occurred between rulers and ruled, in which the strong hand of power has been used unsparingly. A free press, one of the blessings which Holstein might have possessed under the sovereignty of the Danish Crown, is a luxury too to obtain under the paternal sway of BISMARCK and his master ; and the existence of a Prussian fleet is not suf ciently interesting to the people of Hol stein to make them willing to sacrifice their independence to that end. Under these circumstances, then, the only resource they can think of is a very hopeless one—to appeal to the 1 Federal Diet, which has been as much the dupe of Prussia as themselves. The Diet has gained very little in honour or in material advantage, and the only thing that now remains to its members is to put a good face upon the matter, for certainly very little is to be hoped from their remonstrance or in tervention with Prussia. Prussia has the " nine points of the law" in her favour. She has superior strength, and a cunning and audacity which have proved more than a match for Austria, as well as for the humble though prosy little body of the smaller States. She knows she has little to fear from the combined action of those whom petty jealousies and local rivalry will always keep apart. If the Diet were hearty in the cause of the Duchies there would not be much to hope from its action on their behalf ; but the Holsteiners, at any rate, prefer to make public their appeal and their protest to giv ing a tacit consent by silence. After a preliminary flourish about their joy at the overthrow of the Danish tyranny, the memorialists declare their hopes to have been bitterly deceived. " Many a year" they say, " has passed since the Vienna peace, but the Duchies are still without their legitimate sove reign, and without a representation of the country summoned to co-operate in shaping their pre sent and their future." The first indica tions that a sense of the injustice which they have done to Denmark is beginning to dawn upon the leaders of the national party is given in this memorial. Even under Danish rule, they say, the Estates were regularly assembled, but the law has not been heard since it passed into German hands. " Its boundaries have been altered, different Governments have been given it in rapid succession, violent attacks have been made upon its administra tion, and the hitherto existing order of its institu tions. Its financial means have been disposed of ; but it has not been considered necessary to take the sense of its representatives." To all these subjects of complaint the Holsteiners declare they have sub mitted with patience, believing them to be only temporary, but they have now a fresh and more important grievance —the separation of the Duchies. The Gastein Convention has shown them very plainly that they have exchanged King LOG for King STORK, and unluckily for them JOVE has no mind to listen to the new complaint and depose a second king. The members of the Estates can no longer conceal their apprehension that the two great German Powers intend to act very much as they like without consulting the Duchies, whose self-importance led them to suppose that the various German Powers, great and small, were willing to take any trouble in their interests. But it is now somewhat late in the day to discover their error, or errors, which they are likely to repent more and more. It is not often that we see such signal justice ad ministered so swiftly. Prussia herself is hurrying on the road to her punishment, which, when it comes, may be as great as her deserts. England too, has sinned grievously in this matter, and it may be that before long she may have good cause to lament the evils produced by the bad faith and ' selfish pusillanimity which dictated her Danish • policy. A Cry from One of the Fallen. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Exactly as it has just now reached our hands, we print in ipissinta verba, the following communication in reference to the dreadful subject of infanticide : Mx. EDITOR, - Happening to see your paragraph in Thursday evening's paper about the mothers of illegiti mate children, I hope you will excuse the liberty I take in thanking you for the sympathy you point out towards that most unfortunate class of fellow-beings. Your statement, Sir, so exactly corresponds to the writer's feelings. She was once a kind, loving mother, in a married state ; death deprived her of her partner. Since then she has become the mother of an illegitimate child, and is not ashamed to own that trouble alone has steeled her heart against her illegitimate offspring, and she would freely give it away to any one who wanted it. Is it then to be wondered at when she has herself and two little ones to provide for, and the cruel seducer not to yield to her entreaties by rendering her the least assistance. Yes, sir, I repeat, your statement is perfectly correct, and would to God there was more pity shown to this unfortunate class ; then infanticide would become more on the decrease instead of increasing. The agony and derision she is sub ject to is not only sufficient to cause her to make away with her child, but even enough to commit suicide herself. Again thanking you for your humanity—l am, dear Sir, your humble servant, and ONE OF THE NUMBER. HYDROPHOBIA• LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 12. The extra Inman steamer Edinburgh, from New York on the 30th ult., has arrived. She brings 151 passengers, and $16,876 in specie. She landed 49 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 10.20 a.m. ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN. ( Viet Greencastle.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 1 (Evening). The New York Times asserts that General Butler, in conjunction with the Attorney-General, will take a prominent part in the prosecution of Mr. Davis. A meeting has been held of the creditors of Ketchum, when it was voted to accept a dividend of 60 per cent. —5O per cent. to be paid by Ist No vember, and the remainder in three months. The liabilities are said to be $4,000,000, and the assets 153,000,000. The firm of Thomas Ketchum will resume busi ness, but no provision will be made out of the assets for the payment of E. B. Ketchum's forged cheques. MEXICO. (Via Francisco.) GUAYMAS, AUG. 20 The Imperialists occupied Hermansilla on the 12th, throwing open all the roads into the interior of Sonora. The Republican army commanded by Pesquiera has joined the Imperialists. Pesquiera fled with 200 men. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SEPT. 12. An Imperial decree has been published to-day, dissolving the old Transylvanian Diet and convok ing a new Diet on the 19th of November next. The exclusive and only subject to be discussed by the new Diet is the revision of the Ist article of the law of 1848 on the union between Hungary and Transylvania on the basis of the common interests of both countries. Field-Marshal-Lieutenant Count Creneville is appointed the Government Commissioner of the Diet. The Delialle of to-day denies the rumour that the Government intends to institute repressive measures against the Press. The same paper states that in addition to the Gastein Convention, the text of which has already been published, a special protocol has been drawn up, wherein the two contracting parties engage to negotiate within a stated time on the definitive solution of the Schleswig-Holstein question. SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 12. The Wpoca of to-day says : " Prince Humbert must marry before Prince Amadeus. The state of European politics is not sufficiently consolidated to permit of a certain rumoured alliance. It is also to be considered that a marriage between the Bourbon and Savoy families would cause a rupture with the Monarchical party, which, in that case, would throw itself into the arms of Don Carlos." LITERATURE. The North British v. Miss Braddon. THE NORTH Marisa REVIEW, in its latest in stalment (No. 85), contains one article so ex ceptionally unfair throughout that we cannot but regret its appearance in the pages of this very able northern quarterly. The other half-dozen contributions, making up the current number for September, are of varied merit. But this one paper, against which in the interests of fair criti oism we would here resolutely enter our protest, is of a de-merit un-varied--namely, the sustained and monotonous demerit, as it appears to us, of a singu larly perverse disingenuousness. " Mr. Mill's Exami nation of Sir Wm. Hamilton's Philosophy" having in its turn been subjected to another reviewer's exami tion—by way of contrast and relief, we presume, after so much solid reading, we have an entertaining essay on " Burlesque Poetry," flavoured as thickly as a Christmas pudding is with plums and other con diments, with very seasonable and relishing quota tions. After a notice of " Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great"--that is of Frederick com monly so called, though we can't ourselves recognise, and we wonder very much that the author of " Hero-Worship," and the biographer of Cromwell should (of all men) ever have recognised Fre derick's right to the title in any one particular ! —we have an interesting, and, on the whole, a ju dicious survey of the life, writings, and reputation of one of the greatest surgeons of modern times, "Sir Benjamin Brodie." Between an ichthyolo gical paper about " Mr. Russel on the Salmon," and a very elaborate analysis of " Frost and Fire," by Mr. Campbell of Islay, already favourably known among literary travellers by his " Life in Normandy"—midway between these two papers in the September number of the North British there appears the article to which we have here already taken exception, as one in almost every respect quite unworthy of the exceedingly clever periodi cal in which it makes its most incongruous appearance. Interesting, this article could hardly fail to be, under any circumstances, that is to say, no matter what the spirit in which it might be written, no matter what the animus of it might be. For, under the title of " Sensation Novelists," it is all about Miss Braddon ! Therein, in point of fact, lies upon the very surface of this soi-disant criticism—upon its very threshold, so to speak, at its very out set—its coarse, and almost vulgar ungraciousness ! Before another word, however, has here been put forth by ourselves upon the subject-matter of this particular paper about Miss Braddon and her writings, it will be only fair, alike to herself, and to us, if we take occasion to remark at once very distinctly, though quite cursorily, and simply en passant, that we know of the lady solely through her books, that we are personally total strangers to each other, and that, therefore, we may be presumed to think and to write upon the North British Reviewer's conduct towards Miss Braddon, quite diSpassionately. A very few years ago (the North British writer himself says "three") the name of M. E. Braddon upon a titlepage was a name unknown—was a name in fact unrecognised and therefore of course wholly unattractive. And yet it is, by this time, as thoroughly well known, as distinctly recognised, as unquestionably attrac tive, as that of almost any novelist that could be named. Again the North British exaggerating things by way of invidious preamble as serts it to have become "as familiar to every novel reader as that of Bulwer Lytton or Charles Dickens." According to the North British Review's own account therefore—three years ago a lady previously unknown, as a writer at all, in the world of letters, began building up for herself—what she has certainly within this very brief interval built up for herself—a wide and brilliant reputation. Already, within these three years last past, she has produced seven distinct works of three volumes each—otherwise twenty-one volumes in all! And works that are, every one of them, known not only thoroughly well by name, but known thoroughly well also by having been read and thumbed and cir culated through all the circulating libraries of the United Kingdom ! The mere enumeration of the names of these Seven Novels, already completely written by Miss Braddon—to say nothing of those she is either just beginning or fast drawing to a conclu sion —will, as it appears to us, suffice of itself, in a great measure, to justify the scope and the brilliancy of Miss Braddon's reputation as a Novelist. Here are their names—these names with which the reading public at large have perfectly well familiarised them selves-4. Lady Audley's Secret, 3 vols., 1862-2. Aurora Floyd, 3 vols., 1863-3. Eleanor's Victory, 3 vols., 1863-4. John Marchmont's Legacy, 3 vols., 1863-5. Henry Dunbar, 3 vols., 1864-6. The Doctor's Wife, 3 vols., 1864—and 7. Only a Clod, 3 vols., 1865. Now, in the carrying out of the evident intention of the reviewer at starting —an in tention formed by him manifestly from the very outset, if not with what is called malice prepense, certainly with a very cold-blooded deliberation— the intention, that is, coute qui coute, of cutting Miss Braddon and her writings up piecemeal in the course of what is vulgarly termed a Slash ing Criticism—the North British (as often falls out in these cases) will be seen to have missed its aim by the very simple means of over doing it ! The animus is too apparent through out—and whenever that animus is recognised, as it is at every turn, it proves to be one in itself so dis tressingly little 1 And the folly of it all lies in this-- that among works so rapidly written as Miss Brad don's, there are faults, enough and to spare, that in fair criticism might very reasonbly have been taken exception to ! Errors of art—slips of the pen even— evidences of actual forgetfulness on the part of the authoress in the rapid working out of her narratives —such, for example, as where, in " Henry Dunbar," the hero of the tale, midway in the story, meets, apparently for the first time in his life, one of the partners in the great Banking firm of which he (the hero of the tale) is supposed to be the head partner—Miss Braddon having already described their first interview in one of the earlier chapters of that modern-life romance ! Or again—also in " Henry Dunbar"—where the ring of the murdered man is (upon the disinter ment of his remains towards the conclusion of the work) found upon the bony finger of the skeleton— although, when the coroner's inquest was being held upon the body, immediately after the murder, the said ring was allowed to pass unnoticed by every one who had to do with the inquiry, even including the 'cute London Detective ! While flaws and blunders; of this really obvious kind, are scattered here and there over the radiant pages of Miss Braddon's Seven very brilliant Romances, it seems almost ludicrous to note the petty and quibbling manner in which trifles light as air, trifles, admitting, in truth, of no serious objection whatever, are singled out with a sort of spiteful alacrity—mere butterflies to be broken upon the wheel—are not only singled out but are care fully made the most of ! Ex. gr., where referring to the well-known description of Audley Court at the very commencement of Miss Braddon's first and perhaps most famous work, the North British Reviewer captiously writes-- "Upon everything about the house peace is said to have laid her soothing hand ;" ay, even upon the stagnant well, which, cool and sheltered as all else in the old place, hid itself away in a shrubbery behind the gardens, with an idle] handle that was never turned, and a lazy rope so rotten that the pail had broken away from it, and had fallen into the water.' The foregoing passage forms, as it were, the key-note to the work. From the outset every thingis mysterious. It is certainly puzzling how a well could hide itself, and a rope be lazy and rotten !" Than which, we ask, could anything very well be more feeble or ridiculous in the way of serious critical objection ! A well hide itself ! A rope lazy and rotten ! What in the name of fortune, we can not but conjecture, would this writer have had to say in the event of his having to criticise Coleridge's " Ancient Mariner" on coming to such a line, let us say, as— " The silly buckets on the deck !" Why, to all poets (or creators), whether in prose or verse, the idealisation, the individualising even, nay, as it might be termed, the actual sensitising of inanimate objects, is to our mind not only a license perfectly allowable in itself, but a right immemorial and imprescriptable. Supposing any serious objec tions against it, as a right, as a license, as a privi lege (valid as privilege or right ever could be) really to be admissable—adieu to Honor de Balza, to Walter Scott, to Charles Dickens, to Bulwer Lytton, to all the great masters of fiction who have ever lived ! Adieu to de Balzac's bloodybesom—each clotted twig bristling with horror ! Adieu to Scott's rusty grate prancing into the room in the miser's house in the " Fortunes of Nigel !" Adieu to count less touches of humour, of grotesqueness, of terror, of pathos scattered abundantly through the works of the two great living masters of fiction, but just now mentioned—each already a classic authority, though still in his prime, at his very best ! Again—speak ing of Sir Michael Audley's subjection to the charms of Lucy Graham—saith the reviewer with a derisive quotation— " Sir Michael could no more resist the tender fascina tion of those soft and melting blue eyes, the graceful beauty of that slender throat and drooping head, with its wealth of showering flaxen curls, the low music of that gentle voice, the perfect harmony which pervaded every charm, and made all doubly charming in this woman, than he could resist his destiny. Destiny ! why she was his destiny !' It was not beauty which alone attracted Sir Michael : he loved without being able to help it. lie but fulfilled his destiny. Miss Braddon teaches us to say, with the folio wers of the Prophet, 'lt is tate.' She has W ex plain, however, wherefor, if it were Sir Michael's destiny to fall in love, it was necessary to depict Lucy Graham as having been so very fascinating." Surely ! The destiny, that is, there spoken of by Miss Braddon—namely, the perfectly comprehensible destiny—of being fallen in love with usually accompanying the possession of good looks ! Sup posing the previous extracts taken by us almost hap hazard from this curiously spiteful but perfectly innocuous criticism (so called) on Miss Braddon and her writings, not already to have quite made out our case against the reviewer—namely, that he is, for some incomprehensible reason, at once spiteful and innocuous, let the following, by way of climax, suf fice. It has reference to Robert Audley, the young briefless barrister, wbo is really the hero of Miss Braddon's earliest fiction. "It was his custom," says the reviewer, with all-too-manifest a sneer— "lt was his custom, when the weather was very hot, and he was very tired, to stroll into the Temple Gardens, where, 'lying in some shady spot, pale and cool, with his shirt-collar turned down, and a blue silk handkerchief tied loosely about his neck, [he] would tell grave benchers that ho had knocked himself up with over-work. The sly old benchers laughed at the pleasing fiction.' That Robert Audley should have chambers in Fig-tree Court, should live there on his income, and spend his time in smoking German pipes and reading Balzack's novels, is very likely ; but that ho should meet sly old benchers' in the Temple gardens, who took any interest in his welfare, is as incre dible as that a private soldier strolling through Hyde-park on a summer's evening should be accosted in familiar terms by tho Duke of Cambridge. It seems difficult to con ceive anything more ridiculous than the foregoing pas sage"—and so on ! We should very much like to know what possibly can be the reviewer's ideas as to the sanctity and the grandeur appertaining to the Benchers of our Inns of Court 1 To all appearance, he seems to look upon them as somewhere about upon the same level with the Grand Llama of Thibet. He evi dently regards them as mysteriously august crea tures, in no way like unto common mortals ! As mighty beings removed into far higher regions than those inhabited by the ordinary run of man kind ! Yet—incredible though it may seem to the North British Reviewer—we speak from our own personal knowledge when we assert that we actually have known certain of these mighty beings, whom he appears to regard with so much awe—that we positively have known certain of these amazing men, called by the iroXXot Benchers of the Inner and Middle Temple, consorting with Barristers, even, let it be added (astounding though such con descension must appear:to the reviewer in the North British Quarterly) with Briefless Barrister as fond of smoking German pipes and of reading French novels as ever could have been Robert Audley himself— absolutely conversing with them, actually going so far as to jest with them on terms of intimate fami liarity and personal friendship ! Enough, however, and for that matter more than enough, to our own thinking, must surely have been said in evidence of the utter futility of this onslaught upon Miss Braddon and her writings—an onslaught manifestly designed by the reviewer to be completely destruct tive in its effects upon her reputation, yet one, according to our view of it, that really amounts, in its way (indirectly if you will) to a highly olnhoratod pan.ty6crie genius as a Novelist. LESSONS FROM A SHOEMAKER'S STOOL. By John Kerr, H.M's Inspector ofSchools—(Strahan, pp. 32) is the reprint from Good Words of good words very well worth reprinting. The Old Shoemaker-School master, James Beattie of Gordonstown, has had a long life that is quite as interesting to hear about as that of George Murray, the shoemaker who started the Union Industrial Schools at Peterhead : or as that even of old John Pounds, the famous cobbler of Portsmouth, whose glory it is to have been the founder of all the Ragged Schools now existing in England. Honour, to James Beattie, to George Murray, and to old John Pounds—proofs positive, proofs living and breathing (each of them in his way and in his day) that there are exceptions, now and then, to be taken to the old golden axiom which saith ne sutor ultra crepidam! • A DUTCHMAN'S DIFFICULTIES with the English Language—(Strahan, pp. 30)—is another reprint from Good Words, chiefly remarkable as an amusing philological disquisition. CASSELL'S PUBLICATIONS.—The Illustrated Don Quixote, Gulliver, Shakspere, Natural History, and the Quiver, are this month profusely adorned with beautiful wood engravings. On completion each will forth a very valuable addition to the many attractive works which have been published by the enterprising firm of Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. SEVERE GALE.—ACCIDENTS AT LEITH.—The wind on Sunday was blowing a gale from the north-west. So severe a storm has not been felt in this neighbourhood since last equinoctial. So far as we have heard no acci dents of serious importance took place in town, though several narrow escapes from injury by falling tiles or slates are reported. As usual in the case of such storms, con siderable damage was sustained in woodyards and other places where property is unsecured by wall or roof. At Leith, and in the Firth of Forth, the full force of the gale was felt, and several accidents took place. The Activ, a brig belonging to a German port, broke away from her moorings in Leith-roads, about a couple of miles off the pier, about mid-day, and drifted down the Firth towards Inchkeith. Her critical position being observed from Leith, the Garibaldi (steam tug) went out under the com mand of her owner, Mr. Jamieson, to render assistance. Mr. Jamieson found the vessel close upon the island, dragging three anchors, but unable to bring to. He got a tow line on board, and was tugging the vessel into the harbour, when the line gave way, and there being no other on board either vessel, the Garibaldi was obliged to return to Leith for another rope. While the Garibaldi was communicating with the Activ an accident happened to Mr. Jamieson which had nearly ter minated fatally. After he had brought his vessel as near as possible to the Activ Mr. Jamieson was engaged signalling her commander as to the best means of saving his ship, when the tiller, near which he was standing, broke loose, and knocked him off his legs, and in consequence he fell overboard. He at once disappeared, and not being seen again for some time, he was given up for lost, when, to the surprise of his crew, he appeared on deck from a small door on the paddle-box. On falling into the water he had got hold of the paddle-wheel, which was fortunately stationary at the time, as otherwise he must have at once perished, and succeeded in making his way step by step, and every step at the imminent risk of his life, in the narrow space between the wheel and its wooden covering, the box, to the level of the deck. As it is, the bravo fellow received two severe cuts on his head, in consequence of which he was disabled from further duty. Having been equipped with a stout rope and reinforced as to its crew, the Garibaldi again put out to the brig, which was again drifting fast on the island, and threatening every moment to be driven on the rocks, on which the breakers were dashing wildly, casting the spray 100 ft. into the air. The Garibaldi's voyage, not without danger, was-witnessed from the pier by a large number of spectators, who having heard of the accident flocked thither to learn the result. The Garibaldi was closely followed by the Victor, belonging to the same owner, and the two vessels succeeded in establishing a connection with the apparently doomed vessel, when only a short distance off the rocks. She was brought into Leith about an hour afterwards amid the cheers of the beholders. About 4 o'clock a sloop which was moored in the harbour dragged her anchor, and drifted from the West to the East Pier, where sho was boarded and taken care of. Towards evening the gale moderated, but the Firth continued very rough. The train from the north, due at Scotland-street at half-past 7, did not arrive till a few minutes before 9, in consequence of the very rough crossing at Burntisland.— Scotsman. SHOWS HE WAS WANTED.—It is stated that the fees of the health officer of New York will amount to about $lOO,OOO for the year. N I r t ;• 4 1 o ; Af p Lem II br HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 11. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, drove in the grounds of the Castle this morning. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended by the lion. Horatia Stopford, went out walking. Count Gleichen visited her Majesty. Lord Lyons arrived at the Castle, and had an audience of the Queen. Her Majeety the Queen, with their Royal High nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left the Castle this evening, at a quarter before seven o'clock for Bal moral. The suite consisted of Lady Churchill, lady in waiting (who will join the royal party at Oxford), Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Mrs. and Miss Grey, Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros, Dr. Jenner, and Mr. Buff. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The Times has alluded to this subject recently, in consequence of a letter from one of its numerous corre spondents, and it appears that, according to the dictum of our leading journal, in the case of an attack by one of the many unmuzzled dogs which are allowed to prowl about the streets of London and of other towns, the unfortunate victim must remain in a state of doubt for an indefinite time, respecting the extent of the injury which he may Lave received from his canine adversary ; but he may console himself with the statistical knowledge that, in the majority of dog-biting cases, no evil result will ensue. It is not probable that the leading journal would insert a letter from myself, with respect to "the astrological non sense ;" and, therefore, I desire to trespass upon your space so far as to state that, in my " Curiosities of Occult Litera ture," noticed by you two years since, while recording the disastrous history of the Glamorgan Coal Company, I alluded to a case of dog-biting in the following language (see page 68): — " At this time (May, 1853), by means of the astrological science, it appeared that a man was re lieved from the painful idea that he was liable to hydro_ phobia, having been bitten by a dog supposed to be mad." tied by a letter in my possession, I ask you, pro bond public°, to publish it in your journal. — l am Now, sir, as this is a fact c a p able of p roof, and to be v eri - L9ndon, Sept. 12. , CIIR. COOKE. yours faithfully, FRANCE. MEETING OF THE FRENCH AND SPANISH SOVEREIGNS. BIARRITZ, SEPT. 11 (Evening). The Queen and King of Spain, accompanied by the Prince of the Asturias and the Infanta Isabella, arrived here to-day on a visit to the Imperial family. The Emperor and the Prince Imperial went at 3 p.m. to meet the Queen at the railway station. The route taken by the Imperial and Royal party was thronged with people. Upon arriving at the Villa Eugenie, the Spanish Royal family were received by the Empress at the bottom of the staircase. After having rested a short time, the French and Spanish sovereigns went to Bayonne to visit the Cathedral, when a Te Deum was sung, after which a review took place in the Place d'Armes in presence of the sovereigns and a numerous suite of both nations. The streets were decorated with French and Spanish flags, and much enthusiasm, prevailed. At 6 p.m. the Imperial and Royal party returned to Biarritz to dinner, after which there was a dis play of fireworks. The Spanish Royal family left by the half-past 10 train, being accompanied to the railway station by the Emperor and Empress. Prince Amadeus also paid a visit to the Emperor and Empress to-day. The death of General Lamorioiere is announced to have taken place last night at his chateau at Pransel. Prince Amadeus arrived here this morning, and was recived at the railway station by the Chevalier di Nigra and the personnel of the Italian Legation. Tho Prince alighted at the Grand Hotel and after wards started for Meudon. BOURSE, Sept 11.—Two o'clock.—The atten dance of speculators is very limited, and quotations prevail lower than on Saturday. Threes have de clined to 69fr. 20c., and Italian Fives 69fr. 30c. Credit Mobilier Shares are now quoted at 815 fr. New City Bonds are quoted 470 fr. English Con sols show a fall of per cent: Three o'clock. — The market, having shown no signs of improve ment, has closed with the following quotations :- 4.1 per Cents _ 96 25 Do. and month — Ditto Threes — Roman 74 50 Mexican Loan Do. Bonds 336 25 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 4O Deferred 3 per Cents. 69 22+ Do. end month 69 20 Credit Mobilier BlO Do. end month Bl6 25 Bank Shares — Credit Foncier 1330 Italian Loan 66 25 Do. end month 66 30 rAYS. Cash. Aeut. Orleans — ... 851 25 Northern — ... 1092 50 Lyons and Mediterranean — ••• 87 6 25 Southern — ... 570 Western — ... 550 Eastern — ... 537 50 Sardinian Austrian — ... 412 50 Lombard — ... 465 North of Spain — ... 220 Saragossa ... 321 25 _ _ _ Dittci to Barcelona 2lB 75 Roman By the death of Gen. Sir Jas. Fergusson, Colonel of the 43d Light Infantry, the following promotions will take place in the higher ranks of the ser vice :—Lieut.-Gen. Sir C. Yorke, G.C.8., colonel of a bat talion of the Rifle Brigade, to be general; Major-General Montague Cholmeley Johnstone, colonel of the 88th Foot, and commanding the troops at the Mauritius, to be lieut.- general; Colonels H. S. Stephens, J. M'Queen, C. Smith, F. Westenra, and Edgar Gibson, to have the rank of major general; and Col. E. Last, late of the 21st Fusiliers, to be a Major-General on the fixed establishment. —Army and Navy Gazette. DEATH THROUGH SMOKING.--Dr. Birt Davies held an inquest on Saturday afternoon, at Birmingham, respecting the death of Thomas Smith, a builder, 58 years of age, who resided at 299, Bellbarn-road. On the 15th of August last the deceased went out into his garden. He had a long pipe in his mouth, and as he was opening the garden gate it came in contact with the bowl of the pipe with such force that the end of it which he had in his mouth went through his tongue. The deceased, overcome by the pain, fell to the ground. His daughter, who was in the house at the time, heard the deceased fall and went out to him. She assisted him into the house, and sent for Mr. Barrett, surgeon. That gentleman was soon in attendance, and continued to attend the deceased. He went on well for a fortnight, when an abscess formed under his tongue, and he died on the 7th inst. from the effects of the injury. The jury returned a; verdict of accidental death. Departure of Her Majesty for Scotland. Yesterday evening, shortly before seven o'clock, her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Princesses Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Lady Churchill, Mr. Buff, &c., left Windsor Castle for Balmoral. The Royal party drove to the Windsor Station of the Great Western Railway, where the prospect of seeing the Queen, prince, and princesses, had in duced a large number of the inhabitants to assemble. Her Majesty, on arriving at the station, was re ceived by General Hon. C. Grey, Colonel Dudley de Ros, 11r. Grierson, the general manager, and Mr. Tyrrell, of the Great Western Railway, Mr. W. Cawkwell, the general manager, and Mr. G. P. Neele, the out-door superintendent of the London and North-Western line, Mr. W. R. Harris, mayor of Windsor, &c. The Royal train left the Windsor Station of the Great Western Railway at 6.55 p.m., and proceeded, via Slough, to Oxford, and so on, as was stated by the special train table published yesterday. Her Majesty is expected to reach Balmoral about four o'clock this afternoon. Earl Russell, as Minister, will, it is understood, join the Court at Balmoral. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Prin cess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau, arrived at Marl borough House, from the Continent, at noon yes terday. In attendance on the Prince and Princess of Wales were the Hon. Mrs. Harding, Major Tees dale, and Mr. Holzmann. Baroness de Schenck and Baron de Nordeck Rabenau are in attendance on the Prince and Prin cess Louis of Hesse. The Prince of Wales and Prince Louis of Hesse rode out on horseback. The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Hilda of Anhalt, took a carriage drive. The Hon. Mrs. W. Grey has succeeded the Hon. Mrs. Harding° as lady in waiting to the Princess of Wales. Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel has succeeded Major Teesdale as equerry in waiting to the Prince of Wales. Arrival of the Prince and Princess of Waleß from the Continent. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Woolwich and disembarked at the T Pier at an early hour yesterday morning. The same regulations as to strict privacy were not observed, and numbers of visitors were allowed to remain in the vicinity of the pier to obtain a glimpse of the royal party. Shortly before ten o'clock the Prince of Wales steam yacht Osborne, Staff-Com mander d'Arcy, with a steam tender, arrived off the pier, and were received by Commodore Hugh Dun lop, C. 8., superintendent of the dockyard ; Com mander Towsey, of the Fisgard, flag-ship ; major- General Wardc, C. 8., commandant of the ga rrison ; and Staff-Colonel Shaw, Captain Gordon, and other heads of departments at the Royal Arsenal. Imme diately after the vessel was in position at the land ing stairs, the royal party, comprising their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau, and suites, walked front the yacht to the pier, and were received by the offi cers named. Their royal highnesses appeared to be in excellent health, and repeatedly acknowledged the loyalty and respect exhibited by those assent' bled. Their royal highnesses and suites, in accord ance with previous arrangements, remained about one hour to breakfast at the Royal Arsenal, which they left about 11 o'clock, in open carriages, by the Woolwich and Charlton-road, and through Green wich to Marlborough House. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.—A letter from Ostend states that the health of King Leopold is so im proved that his Majesty had expressed his intention to make a short excursion out to sea on board the Belgique steamer. It is also stated that his Majesty will pass the winter at Nice. PRINCE AMADEUS OF ITALY.—His Royal High.. ness Prince Amadeus, second son of his Majesty the King of Italy, is expected to arrive at Southampton under the name of Count of Pollengo, and the officials of the custom house and docks have received instructions to give facilitie 3 to his royal highness and suite on their arrival. His Serene Highness Prince George of Solms at the close of the past week had two days' deer -stalking 5 Beuley, Lord Lovat's shooting-box in Inverness-shire , t h° prince, with a party, having gone from Beaufort Cas tle ' His serene highness killed three stags in the two days. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Sale' Weimar has left Gordon Castle, the Duke of Richmon d's seat in Scotland, for the South. The Duke of Montrose and Lady Emily Foley' Mr. and Lady Charlotte Montgomery, and a distinguis hed company will meet to-morrow at Powis Castle. The Duke de Bouffaumont has left Claridge ° Hotel for Doncaster. The Duchess (Dowager) of Cleveland has arriv ed at Claridge's Hotel from Brandon, Suffolk. The Marquis of Exeter has arrived at ()stoic! from staying at Homburg. The marchioness and La" Victoria Cecil are expected to meet the noble marquis t.o; day from Kissingen, where they have been taking ti 4 waters. The Earl and Countess Spencer will lea' o Althorp Hall, for Creak°, their seat in Norfolk, for shoot" ing. The noble earl and countess will stay there for month. The marria e of Lady Lucy Herbert, sister of ,g the Earl of Powis, with Mr. F. Calvert, brother of Si t Harry Verney, M.P., is to be celebrated by a large faisiir party at Powis Castle on Thursday next. The Earl of Denbigh has arrived at Beauf° l4 , a Castle, N. 8., on a visit to Lord Lovat. The countess staying at the family seat in Flintshire. The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey purposes t° leave Osterley Park early in the ensuing week for Leonards. General Fleury, aide-de-camp t o his P e rt,. Majesty the Emperor of the French, accompan ied by Baron Burgoing and M. Charmet, have arrived at Cl aridge Hotel from Paris. The Hon. Francis and Mrs. Stonor came to to yesterday, expressly etxhpe marriager esslytog e iv f give the Countess ewedding ef b jreearkeefaystel:ol: oft. Bra T n H dli E n Nvi g. E rri ,," - RIDE IN ST. JAMES'S-PARE. --1- ride from St. J ames ' s P a l ace , a l ong the Mall alla t side of the Green-p ar k t o Constitutional-hill,lnow °5 urea f of formation u n d er th e di rec ti o n of the Commission n v" the Woods and Works, is rapidly advancing towardsecrol pletion. The road, shaded by trees, which will be Beef „re" for the use of equestrians ; is in a very forwa rd stateeo'fertio partition. The stonework for the fixing of the ir° _Od is already laid throughout the length of th e route, very considerable extent of rails placed in position• that ANOTHER FORTH BRIDGE.—We have he re the Caledonian Railway Company contenV ,Allo* viving and extending the railway traffic at Soul.' r t he and in connection with this to t hrow a bridge °ve Oyet Forth near to Alloa Ferry. The project of a bricr l7 co ed the Forth at this place is no t a new idea. It was lio°o_oo. in 1817, and in 1845 a prosp ectus was issued for th i eo, struction of a bridge ; capital, £lOO,OOO, in £ 2O ° , :a o 4 Th oug h these efforts proved failures, the sche me is ao4 f eas ible one, and if rightly gone about certain to be ‘" fitable one.--Alloa Advertiser.