The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-28 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28, 1866. It is well known that since the great successes he met with in the summer Count BISMARCK has not been so fortunate at home, and ever and anon sinister remarks have appeared to the effect that his long career of unbroken triumph was drawing near to its close. After the lapse of some time there carne a sort of denial from the semi-official and other journals in the interest of the Government. The North German Gazette declares that it affirms most positively that the rumours afloat as to the illne s, and alleged disgrace and resignation of Count BISMARCK, are devoid of foundation. It is, however, very much to be doubted if this emphatic statement is true, and at any rate it shows that there was some occasion for the said reports to get about , all. From what was said some time ago we should have been justified in believing that all was fortunate with the land for the time being, but we now think that there is more truth in all these assertions than people would have us believe. The most dangerous phase in the career of the Prussian Minister is that he depends upon chance for support. He has no foundatio n to rest upon ; no goodwill and respect to fall back upo n in case of emergency, and if once the tide of popularity turns he will not be able to withstand its adverse encroachment. Perhaps in a few months he may be in a very different position from that which he now holds, and he may find out too late that honesty is the best policy. There is no more contemptible character than a fallen favourite, an d BISMARCK is not likely to b e a very bright exception to the general rule. " Whero'er he turns ho meets a stranger's eye, Ills suppliants scorn him, and his follower's exclaimed the poet, in criticising a greater man than BISMARCK can ever pretend to be, and he may yet realise the truth of this description in his own fall. Another agkward feature in Prussian politics is the matter of the Budget, and although the North German Gazette seems to think that it will soon be settled in a satisfactory manner, we are scarcely inclined to think that their sanguine anticipations will bo fulfilled. The truth is that the Deputies are beginning shrewdly to suspect that they have been imposed upon, and therefore they are by no means prepared to yield a ready assent to all the propositions that are put before them. We shall no doubt find that seine sharp recriminations will now be the order of the day at Berlin. Prince CHARLES opened the Chambers on Monday, and announced that they would respect the sovereignty of the Porte within the limits of the Treaty of Paris. So far as we can judge from appear ances he seems to have acquitted himself in a very satisfactory manner, and the very arduous task of making this address under the present cir cumstances of the case. There was a debate in the Lower Austrian Diet on the address to the EstrE non, in which one of the members declared that the exclusion of Austria from Germany could not pos sibly prove a permanent reality. Perhaps this opinion may not hereafter prove so erroneous as many now think it to be. 11 e have yet to see what the French will do when the Paris Exhibition is ' over, and they can turn their attention to military matters. The arrangements for the Reform demonstration next Monday are progressing very favourably. The Managing Committee have set to work in a prudent and business-like mAnner. They have found, by unpleasant experience, that it is useless to rely on the undoubted respectability and steadiness of the mass of working men to prevent those dis turbances so likely to arise from large meetings or processions through crowded thoroughfares, because the e.te9.dy and orderly portion or the aSseanny naturally disperse quietly and retreat to their own homes, while the turbulent and mischief making spirits who find no pleasure equal to " a row" are left upon the ground to make what dis turbance they can. The committee being anxious that the gathering of next Monday shall be an actual representation of popular feeling, and not a mere discreditable riot, have therefore adopted two wise precautions. They have endeavoured to come to a preliminary arrangement as to their place of meeting to put their right of assembly be yond doubt or dispute, and they have waited upon the authorities to come if possible to a dis tinct understanding as to the assistance which they might expect from the police in maintaining order. It is not a little remarkable, as evidencing the mutability of popular feeling and the changes which time works, that whereas after the last meet ing the officiousness of the police was the subject of complaint, Sir RICHARD MAYNE'S reluctance to undertake any extra responsibility on this occasion is the difficulty. However, we have no fear but that all will pass off peacefully and satisfactorily. The anxiety of the committee to preserve order has been proved by their waiting upon the Home Secre tary, asking permission to swear in 1000 special con stables from among the artisans of London. Mr. WALPOLE explained to the deputation that he had no power to appoint special constables, but that if any person apprehended a " tumult or felony," they could make a deposition to that effect before a jus tice of the peace, and apply for the appointment of special constables. But he did not see that any one could make such a deposition at present, and therefore that question was disposed of. With re gard to the assistance of the police, Sir R. MAYNE, though he declined to interfere with the usua traffic of the streets, said that the force under , his control were bound to do all in their power to preserve order. Mr. WALPOLE'S language was perfectly plain and straightforward. " The Govern ment," he said, " had no desire to prevent any peaceable procession or meeting, but they felt it right, at the same time, to state that such assem blages might lead to disorder, or to obstruction of the public traffic, or to injury to person or property, and in any such case it would be the duty of the police to interfere; but while a meeting or proces sion continued to be of an orderly character it would be the duty of the police to see that those engaged in it could move about as freely as could, under the circumstancas, be expected." This declaration the deputation regarded as being on the whole satisfactory, and they under took to let Sir RICHARD MAYNE know as soon as possible their line of march and place of assembly. The difficulty respecting the place of assembly has also been happily settled. Application having been made to Lord RANELAGII for permission to occupy the Beaufort House Rifle Ground, Old Brompton, that nobleman has frankly and kindly granted the request, telling them that though he has always belonged to the Tory side of politics, he would " extend to all ranks and grades the utmost rights and privileges consistent with a free and united monarchy." His lordship at the same time humorously reminds the committee that he is " Conservative" of his park fencing as well as of his politics, and prefers them to wooden palings. We have no doubt that the hint will be taken, and that the managers of the meeting will take every care to avoid doing damage or creating unnecessary disturbance; and we hope that the whole affair may Pass off quietly, since anything like riot or turbu lence would do much injury to the cause of Reform, and be on every ground greatly to be regretted. The weekly return of the Registrar- General gives satisfactory evidence of the improved condition of the public health. The deaths registered in London during the week ending Saturday, the 24th inst., were 1,435, being 173 less than the estimated num ber. This shows an encouraging contrast to the returns to which we have lately grown accustomed, in which the mortality has constantly exceeded the average. The deaths from cholera were but eight, and from diarrhoea twenty-six. The Registrar does not fail to point the moral. "It mu s t b e a l lowed, " he says, ",that the circumscription of the most dan gerous epidemic of the year in London has been very glitch due to the measures by which it has been combated ; and the time has now come for the ex tension of similar measures to the extinction of other zymotic diseases, such as typhoid fever." The Registrar knows too well the numbers that are annually stricken down by this more stealthy but not less dangerous enemy. Typhus in all forms is ever busy among our fever-laden courts and over crowded alleys. It cuts off the strong men, it lays aside the busy, striving mother ; it mows down the ill-fed, half-clad little ones. Yet though it is more preventible, more controllable than cholera, though its causes and origin can generally be distinctly traceable to unhealthy sani tary conditions, we fold our hands, and let the fever rate of London go on annually increasing. Surely it is quite time that our public authorities took this matter vigorously in hand, and the least that we can do to show our gratitude o PRovi- DENCE for the removal of the dreaded epidemic is to use all possible endeavours to remove from our poorer fellow-citizens this terrible and ever-increas ing scourge of Typhus in all its branches. The Royal Geographical Society held its second meeting for this session last Monday, and the pre sident, Sir R. MURCHISON was in he chair, and twenty-five new Fellows were elected. A letter from Dr. Livnicisiaz was read by the Secretary, in which the traveller said that be had penetrated thirty miles further than his furthest point in 1861, and be was then preparing to advance to the un known northern extremity of Lake Nyassa. Some very interesting details were given of the adventures he had met with in the course of his wan derings. Whatever else may or may not be said as to African travels and explorations they are always replete with adventures, and those who sit at home at ease and peruse the exciting chronicle may well marvel at the zeal and courage displayed by those daring pioneers of civilisation and Christianity to the wild and waste places of those dreary regions. It was found that the natives --the Makonde tribe—were willing to work, and assisted in - clearing paths for the men and animals, and the chief was most friendly at the junction, so that Dr. LIVINGSTONE has, on the whole, fared better this time than on former occasions. It is interesting to notice that Colonel MAY FAIR, her MAJESTY'S Consul at Zanzibar, said that the harbour at which Dr. LIVINGSTONE and his party had disembarked had only lately been discovered. Dr. MANN read a paper on the physical geography of Natal, and in the course of it he gave many details of the mineral and the vegetable pro ductions of that country ; he said that it could never be a wine-growing country because of the cloudiness and moisture of the summer. It is curious to notice that the summer season there is wet and the winter one dry ; the Dr. showed by his map and diagrams that the peculiar climate and fertility of Natal del ended upon its physical con figuration. This Society is well calculated to in crease the study and knowledge of geography, and nowhere is such learning more useful than in this country, or more interesting eitner. SALE OF PROVISIONS, &c., at GOSPORT. Admiralty, Somerset House, Nov. 27, 1866. The COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the 4th Dcember next, at 12 o'clock at noon, the Captain-Superintendent will put up to SALE in her Majesty's Victualling Yard at Gosport several Lots of PROVISIONS, &c., consisting of Cook's Fat, Suet, Beef, Pork, Biscuit, Biscuit Dust, and other Victualling Stores, Staves and Headings, all lying in the said Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Super intendent for notes of admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may ba had here and at the Yard. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. -- -A- Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CIIATTERTON. THIS EVENING, Nov. 28, Lord Lytton's Play of THE LADY OF LYONS. Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Helen Faucit; Claude Meluotte, Mr. Walter Montgomery. To conclude with the Comedy of KATHARINE AND PETEUCHIO. Petruchie, Mi. T. Swinbourne ; Katba rinP, Miss Isabel Adams. Doors open at half-past six; performances commence at seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, THIS EV4.I , IINU, A GAME OF t7:PECLJLATION. Messrs. C. 11la hews, Chippendale, Kendal, Rogers, lark, Braid mac. ; Mesdarnt s Fitzwilliam, Laws, Wright, Sidney. Followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. Compton, Mr. Rogers, lir Clark, &c ; Mes dames C. Mathews, Hill, Wright, Colman. Sidney, &e. TO conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. Mr. Compton. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fcchtcr. THIS EVENING, BRUTUS A.ND CLESAR. fI curade. At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Acts, THE LONG STRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Scenery by Mr. T. Greive and assistants. Messrs. S. Emery, H. Widdicomb. Fitzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson, Diewbound Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL COAT. Acting Manager, Mr. IL Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL A - DELPHI. bole rruyri.tor and 1.1...m0.ger, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7 precisely (3rd time), a New Drama, A SISTER'S PENANCE. bliss Rate Terry, Miss Hughes (her 3rd` appearance in this theatre), Miss Emily Pitt; Mr. Herman Vezin (his 3rd appearance here), Messrs. Billington, Ashley, J. A. Shaw, Stephenson, Eburne, and R. Rom...r. To conclude with HELEN ; or. TAKEN FROM. THE GREEK. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Furtado. Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, R. Phillips, F. A. Shaw, Ashley, Eburne. OY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 8. a Drama, in 4 Acts, founded on the popular tale by Charles Dickens, Esq., entitled BARNABY UDGE, adapted to the stage, and expressly for this Theatre, by Messrs. Watts Phillips and Vining. Characters by Mrs. John Wood, Miss Augusta Thomson, Mrs. Henry Vining, Dire. Chm. If orsman, and Miss Katherine Rodgers ; Messrs. 8. Calhaem, F Villiers, J. 0. Shore, H. Forrester, Charles hlorsman, E. Shepherd, H. Mellon, C. H. Fenton, W. R. Robins Cnapman, &c. ACt let, The Mystery ; 2d, The Re cognition; 3d, The Riots; 4th, Caught at Last. Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, and Music by Mr. Charles Hall. The Drama produced under the stage direction of Hr. Vining. Preceded by a Farce. • - Commence at Seven. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, FAMILY JARS. Mr. Sef ton Parry; Miss C. Saunders. After which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Belmore, Blake, Garden,Vollaire ; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, Raym nd. THEATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S. Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation. In consequence of the enthusiasm with which it is nightly greeted THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN will be repeated for positively THREE NIGHTS MORE. T lIIS EVENING (Wednesday), Nov. r.:B, and every evening during the week, THE ORIGINAL Dramatic Adaptation cf Charles Dickens's latest Work, "Our Mutual Friend," as produced by Mr. W. H. C. Nation at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, June 16, 186', entitled THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN, with Ne v cenery and Striking Situations. Messrs Fer nandez, Atkins, W. H. Stephens; Mesdames F. Gwynne and Nelly Nisbett. Concluding with Frank Talfourd's sparkling Burlesque of ATALANTA, with additional Rhyme to suit the Times by W. H. C. Nation. Misses Nelly Nisbett, Polly Marshall, Louise Laidlsw, and Fanny Howard. To prevent disappointment seats should be secured in ad vance. No charge tor bills or booking. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, NEIGHBOURS. Messrs. I'arselle, Belford, and G. Murray ; Misses Swanborough, Johnstone, and Hughes. After which, will be produced a Grand Burlesque of DE at FREISCUUTZ ; or, A Good Cast for a Piece. Mcs.rs. 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St 3 • 4 , 4 02 tt je °4--Ikif PIL. !tt 4fr 444 a, "NI UAL Miss THE SUN, LONLON, WEDNESOAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1866. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The following is from the Bulletin of the Illoni teur " General Koucheleff, aide-de-camp to the Empe ror, has arrived at Copenhagen, bringing to the King and Queen of Denmark the official notification of the marriage of the Princess Dagmar with the Heredi tary Grand Duke of Russia. There was a grand dinner on the occasion, and the King presented to General Koucheleff the grand cross of the Danebrog set in diamonds. The time for the departure of the Prince Royal from St. Petersburg is not yet fixed. His Royal Highness, on his return, will pay a ♦isit to the Prussian Court. " A private telegraphic despatch from Venice announces that the results of the elections for the Italian*Parliament, as far as they are known, are favourable to the Moderate party. A private letter from Ibraila, dated November 15, gives details of the enthusiastic reception of the Prince de Roumania, Charles the First, after his recognition by the Porte, in the cities of the Lower Danube. The Consul of France, in the name of the other Consuls, presented an appropriate address to him, in reply to which he said that the development of the commerce and industry of his country would be the object of his constant care. On leaving Ibraila the Prince was cordially greeted by all classes. He was to leave Galatz on the 17th for Ismail." There is nothing in the Moniteur in reference to Mexico, and in the meantime several of the Paris papers continue to doubt the truth of the alleged abdication of the Emperor Maximilian. They abound in speculations and contradictory reports upon the subject. The six transports now at Cherbourg destined to bring back the troops from Mexico will, it is said, return with the enormous number of 9,000 men, without reckoning the crews composed of 1,128. Thi3 is the estimate of the number to be brought by each vessel. The Aveyron, 2,299 passengers ; crew 226. Ti e Garonne, 2,340 passengers ; crew 211. The Calvados, 1,456 passengers ; crew 211. La Nievre, 1,344 passengers; crew 180. La Gironde, 800 passengers ; crew 150. La Durance, 800 passengcrs ; crew 150. The Siecle says :—" The most curious spectacle presented in Germany at present, where Prussia is forgotten for the moment, is the labour of the Cabinet of Vienna with a view to conciliate herself with Hungary. These efforts up to this time have been attended with only relative success. Three parties still exist—the ultra Magyars, whose head quarters are at the hotel of the Archduke ; the centre left, who hold their sittings at the hotel du Tigre, and the Deakists, who meet at the hotel de l'Europe. Each party has the designation of the locality where it meets. The Deakists have consti tuted themselves into an independent club, with the title of the Deakist Club. A letter from Caux gives an account of the loss of the French fishing vessel, the Aigle, of that port, which was engaged on the herring fishery on the English coast. The Aigle is supposed to have struck on the Crossand sand, about four miles from Yarmouth. •The crew consisted of twenty-eight men of St. Valery, all fathers of families, and the whole crew are supposed to be lost. The vessel made signals of distress, but the sea was so heavy that it was impossible to render any assistance. The disaster has created great consternation in the town. The weather continues wet and stormy, but not cold. The bulletin of the Observatory records a considerable fall in the barometer, and strong winds off the French coast. The Adriatic and the Mediterranean are much agitated. The Seine con tinues to rise, and more inundations are feared. By the mutual consent of the English and French Governments the treaty of extradition which would have expired on the 6th of next month has been re newed till next September. The figures showing the expenses of the City of Paris speak with a certain degree of eloquence. In 1852 they amounted to 66 million of francs. In 1861 the amount was tripled, and reached 192 million. In 1865 the amount was 215 million, and for the present year they will exhibit a considerable increase. In 1852 the amount required for the payment of the interest of the debt was but seven millions and a half. In 1866 the City of Paris pays for the interest of its debt 16 million and a half. M. Ferme, editor of the Courier Francais, con demned by default to six months' imprisonment and to pay a flue of 50f., for " exciting hatred and con tempt among the citizens to each other," has ap pealed to the 6th Chamber of Correctional Police against that sentence, but that Court confirmed the sentence. All well disposed men thank the Govern ment for repressing these silly but mischievous attacks. Baron de Watteville, who died a few days ago, was the author of numerous useful works connected with the public establishments of Paris. A singular case has been tried at Caen. A man named Martin, 30 years of age, was accused of selling his wife and a cupboard to Pierre Vautier, a neighbour, for five francs. The trial took place with closed doors. The seller was convicted and sentenced to eight years' hard labour. Vautier, the purchaser, was condemned to five years' imprison ment. The details involved some terrible acts of immorality. The G'onst itutionnel states that the overtures made by the Austrian Cabinet to that of Prussia for a re vision of the Austro-German Treaty of Commerce have been well received. The Prussian Govern ment, in reply to the propositions, said it was ready to enter into negotiations upon the subject, and that the Ministers of Commerce and Finance were charged with the arrangement of a new treaty, having for object the development of the principle of free trade. The Mediterranean squadron of evolution will shortly go through various manoeuvres, in order to test the tactics proposed by Vice-Admiral Count de Gueydon in regard to iron-clad vessels. A letter from Florence, dated November 24, says --" General Fleury, the envoy from the Emperor, has been received in diplomatic and military circles with the honours due to his raik. The day after his arrival King Victor Emmanuel gave him a pri vate audience, and on the same day he had two long interviews with Baron Iticasoli and M. Via coat) Velloota, Miuiatero# EQreigu Affairs." LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 28. Queen Isabella leaves for Lisbon on a visit to the King of Portugal on the Ist of December, and will return on the Bth of that month. Her Ma jesty will be accompanied by the President of the Council of Ministers. MALTA. VALETTA, Nov. 27. Quarantine restrictions have been removed on all arrivals from London and Liverpool with clean bills of health, and on arrivals from all French ports excepting Algeria. HUNGARY. PESTH, Nov. 28. The Left has agreed in principle that the Hun garian Diet shall vote an Address in reply to the Royal Rescript, provided the Address states that the Diet will suspend its labours until a constitu tional state of things is re-established in Hungary. TURKEY AND ALBANIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27. The Levant Herald of to•day announces that the insurgents have obtain6d a fresh victory in Candia, and says :—" Strong agitation exists among the Christian inhabitants of Albania, said to be headed by a priest. A Turkish Commissioner has left for Albania to act as mediator." ROUMANIA. .'tUCTrafr•_ST. Nov. 28. Prince Charles gave audience yesterday to Al D'Avil, the Consul-General of France, who pre sented his credentials. AME RICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) NEW YORK, Nov. 27. General Dix has left for France to assume the post of United States Minister at the Court of the Tuileries. The Inman steamships City of Washington and City of Cork have arrived out. THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 28. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Tanjore, Capt. Brooks, which left Alexan andria on the 12th inst., Malta 16, Marseilles 20, and Gibraltar 23, has arrived. She brings 75 pas - sengers (among whom are Mrs. Thomas and family, Capt. Roberts, Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Gamble, Capt. Walrond, Mr. J. E. Watson, &c.), £4,976 in specie, 28 bundles and 29 pieces of ivory, 71 cases of shawls, and sundries. She left Marseilles :.n a very high gale from N.W., lasting 24 hours ; otherwise she had gene rally fine weather during the voyage. The meteoric shower was observed from the Tanjore on the morning of the 14th inst., between 2 and 4 a.m., when the vessel was in lat. 33.3 N., long. 22 E. The whole heavens were illuminated by thousands of meteors, shooting in a S.W. direc tion. At the time the weather was fine, but shortly after it blew a fresh gde from the N.W. On crossing the Bar at Alexandria, on the 12th, the Tanjore spoke the hark Mark, of Whitby, and on the 24th, off the Tagus, she passed an American man-of-war (name not known), standing in to Lisbon. Her Majesty's ship Psyche was at Alexandria ; the Prince Consort, llibernia, Gibraltar, Royal Oak, Enterprise, Cruiser, Cossack, and Magawa at Malta. The steamships Persian, from Liverpool; London, from London ; Cairo, from Liverpool ; Odessa, from London ; Pera, from Southampton ; Genova, from Glasgow; Fanny Lambert, from Cardiff ; Gibraltar, from London ; and Luxor, from Cardiff ; and also the brig Pro Tern. and the brigantine Sketty Belle (both from Swansea), had arrived out at Gibraltar. Exchange at Gibraltar—London, 491 to i ; Paris, sf. 23c. ; Marseilles, sf. 24c. ; Madrid, 1 dis. ; Cadiz, i to / dis. ; Seville, I to i dis. ; Malaga, I dis. FRANCE. BREST, Nov. 27. The Transatlantic Compagnie steamer Pereire, from New York on the 17th inst., arrived here last night. She brings 183 passengers and $250,000 in specie. BOURSE, Nov. 27.—Two o'clock.—Business is very dull and a remarkably quiet market. Where a few transactions have taken place, quotations indi cate a decline on yesterday's prices. French Threes are worth 69f. 60c., with a loss of 'lie. Italian Fives lose 15c., at 56f. 10c. Credit Mobilier Shares have fallen again below the much-disputed price of 600 f., and are row only quoted at 597 f. 50c., 6f. 25c. lower. Nothing doing in Credit Foncier Shares. Turkish Debt Five per Cents. is better sustained at 34f., an aivance of I per cent. Im mobiliere Shares have declined below 400 f., to 396 f. 25c., or 3f. 75c. lower. Railways are likewise dull, with lower quotations, but there is scarcely any thing doing in any securities. Three o'Clock.—The market has closed as fol- lows:— 4} per Cents OB 30 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 6) Do. end month 69 65 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Fonder — Do. end month 1370 - RAIL' Bank Shares 3620 Italian Loan 56 15 Do. end month 56 15 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Throes Home Debt - Deferred 'A1(8. For Account. Orleans Northern llB5 Lyons and Mediterranean 905 Southern 583 75 Western — Eastern — Sardinian — Austrian Lombard 406 25 North of Spain Saragossa l3B 75 Ditto to Barcelona — Eoman . 65 FENIAN UNIFoRms.--Yesterday the Liverpool de tectives seized a large box recently arrived from America, which, on examination, was found to contain a very handsome Fenian officer's uniform—to wit, a rich tunic of green cloth, elaborately braided, and with gold lace on the collar, a dress waistcoat with harp buttons, and a cap of green silk, with the Irish harp in gold on the front. The box also contained three revolvers, a dagger, leathern belt and cartridge-box, and a book of " official regulations." THE WINDSOR STROLLERS.—The first perform ance of the eighth season of this gentlemen amateur company at the Windsor Theatre took place yesterday evening. Every part of the house was crowded, the dress boxes and stalls being filled with the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood, every sitting having been taken immediately on the announcement of the annual visit of this distinguished corps. The receipts, after deducting expenses, will be handed over to the Windsor Royal In firmary. Among tho old and popular favourites in the bill were—Mr. Palgrave Simpson, W.S. ; Mr. Lincoln Lane, W.S ; Mr. W. Hartopp, O.S.W.S. ; Mr. C. P. Pembleton, O.S.W.S. ; Mr. Honywood, W.S. ; Mr. C. Peel, W.S. ; Mr. Stracey, W.S. ; Mr. Bolton Rowe, W.S. ; Mr. Fremantle, 11W.W.S. ; Mr. Hozier, W.S. ; Mr. Blunt, W.S. ; and Mr. T. K. Holmes, O.S.W.S. Tho ladies engaged on this occasion were—Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss Milley Palmer, Miss Ada Chester, and Miss Willard. Mr. Craven offi ciated as stage manager. The performance consisted of " The Lighthouse," a drama by Wilkie Collins, followed by a farce " Christmas Boxes," and concluded with the farce of "My Dress Boots." The orchestra consisted of the band of the Royal Horse Guards, under the direction of Mr. Boosey. The second performance will take place on Thursday mat. LITERATURE. Mr. Charles Reade's New Novel. Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy. By Charles Rea& Three Volumes. Chapman and Hall. There are several circumstances connected with the publication of this romance, which impart to it a particular interest and attraction. To begin with—it is the last production of one of the most remarkable among living Novelists. Added to this—it is, avowedly, in his own opinion, his masterpiece. But —more than all— even now (while the paper compacted together in these three volumes is yet damp from the printing press from which it has but so very recently issued) the book itself has not only become the subject of a stormy controversy between the author of it and we won't say his critics, we will rather call them honestly at once (what they most certainly are, in our own dispassionate estimate of them) his malignant traducers—but it is already giving rise to one or two law-suits upon either side of the Atlantic—law suits that must almost immediately come on for trial simultaneously in the courts of justice of the United States and of the United Kingdom. Into the merits of the discussions in which these actions at law on the part of our author—first of all against his American libellers, and afterwards, and it can hardly be said under lesser provocation, against those amongst his own fellow-countrymen who have not disdained to traduce him vicariously—into the merits of these discussions, we say, in which all such immediately pending actions for libel have originated, we care not here to enter with anything at all like particularity. For one thing—merits (in the literal sense of the word) they have none—so far, that is to say, of course, as relates to the aggressors, to those who have aspersed the author of " Griffith Gaunt," as we at any rate conceive them to have done, so very flag rantly and gratuitously. Tracing back the libels complained of by Mr. Charles Reade complained of by him not very surprisingly it may be :divvy ea, and, certainly, thanks to his own ample voca bulary, in about the strongest and most vigorous terms of which the English language is in any way capable—it may be as well to remark at once that they appeared originally in a New York weekly periodical, called The Round Table, and that they have since then been echoed, more or less distinctly, by piece-meal quotation, in one or two of our own immediate con temporaries. Indecency, Immorality, Impurity, Immodesty, and we know not what all—are the charges directed—not in sprinkles, as it were, but as if with a scavenger's shovel—against Mr. Reade, as the narrator of this imaginative history of " Griffith Gaunt." Adultery and Bigamy, together with Nameless Social Crimes, were said by these trans cendental transatlantic purists to have been, here, in this flagitious production of Mr. Reade's, not merely described as with a hectic bloom upon them, but shamelessly inculcated, or it might rather be said audaciously championed by the novelist for some inconceivable reason prompting him to that most demoralising course. The wonder; ful circumstance all the while, being this, in regard to " Griffith Gaunt"—that, month after month, during the lapse of one whole year, in fact ever since the December of 1865, the story thus declared by these American Moralists to be most noxious because thus revoltingly indecent, had been appearing in instalments in a popular Eng lish periodical entitled The Argosy, besides being regularly reprinted on the other side of the ocean in another periodical equally well known in the Ame rican market as The Atlantic Monthly! The readers both of that publication and of The Argosy being all the while utterly unconscious that there was any thing at all wrong about it, much less recognising anything whatever of that coarse and brutal de pravity at once of influence and of incident de nounced in set round terms by The Round 7 able after so long an interval, or it ought rather to be said, after so long a series of intervals, in fact only when the tale was at length just drawing towards its close. Happily for his readers in both hemispheres—for those readers of his, both male and female, who had been innocently revelling in descriptions thus odiously denounced happily, we say, for their own sense of satisfaction, for the vindication, so to speak, of the chastity of their imaginations, no less than of that of their author—Mr. Charles Reade was not precisely the man by nature likely to sit down meekly under any such disgusting imputations. He has shown more than once that he can wield a scourge of words at pleasure—and, to judge from the very intensity of each blow directed by him against the victims of his lash with pleasure, no less than at pleasure —a scourge of words more lacerating in the thud of its descent than either Russian knout or British cat-o'- nine tails. Conscious to himself—no doubt agree ably conscious—of this same natural capacity or aptitude of his for the inflicting of what may be described as intellectual flagellation, our author appears to have summarily taken his aspersers in hand flagrante delicto, and to have laid on the lash with a will, having all the while an arriere pensee for the securing of swinging satisfaction after wards, by aid of the strong arm of the law—any previous punishment inflicted by himself with the knotted scourge of irony just now alluded to, to the contrary nevertheless notwithstanding ! " The Prurient Prude" was the title of the retaliation with which he thus indulged himself (and his readers) in answer to those by whom he had been at once reviled and vituperated. And whilst it was, as we have said, the title of his retaliation, it was such simply as the name applied by him to those who had been endeavouring to defile with the taint of their own evil fancies this last vigorous product of his thoroughly original and creative imagination. In saying which, however, we must not be supposed, of course, to affect anything whatever so extremely ab surd as an inclination to assume towards the author of " Griffith Gaunt" the position of one champion ing or vindicating, however indirectly, the purity of his reputation as a man of letters. Single-handed he is himself perfectly well qualified to hold his own against all corners. Buckler, vizor, defensive armour, indeed, of any kind, one would say, he disdains utterly and with a sort of scorn. Nay, one might go so far as to assert that if—apart from his pen— he were called upon to select some weapon of at tack, to judge from the very manner of his rhetoric, his choice would for certain fall by instant prefer ence upon a good stout cudgel—upon just such , another cudgel, par exemple, as that memorable one handled by old Martin Chuzzlewit in his Temple chambers—the stick that Mr. Pecksniff had reason to believe had knobs upon it I Already the correspondence which has suddenly sprung up in re " Griffith Gaunt" between the author of that book and its assailants—those Prurient Prudes, as he has pitilessly dubbed them, whether of America or of England—might furnish another supplemen tary chapter to the next new edition that may per chance be forthcoming of the Amenities of Literature. Passing it by, however—that correspondence or discussion between Mr. Reade and his Ataligilers-- passing it by merely with a look askance, and henceforth restricting our attention in this notice of " Griffith Gaunt" to the work itself rather than to its malignant traducers, to the author of it rather than to his preposterous calumniators, -we would here simply deprecate, en passant, anything like over-blame being attached to Mr. Charles Reade for whatever heat of temper he has displayed in the repulsion of his assailants. It was only the other day that public opinion was very pain fully outraged by the dismissal from her Vajesty's service of a gallant officer and gentleman ► (Cap tain Jervis) whose sole crime was this—. that he had repelled with a flame of indignation charges of the most disgraceful kind—charges shan lefully directed against him, but from which he was after wards cleared, utterly and absolutely cleared, as the result of a long and searching investigation of the facts of the case, when that case came t o be scrutinized, under court-martial ! Yet, having been cleared thus absolutely and completely by co, 'Art martial from those same most unjust and shame. ful charges—for having, when they were first directt against him, repelled them with an outburst o f surely comprehensible indignation, that gallant officer and honourable gentleman—Captain Jervis —4WiteAd Of being convenoated for tho indignities so shamefully and iniquitously put upon him before his character could be vindicated upon inves tigation, has been, as we have seen, most cruelly and most wrongfully dismissed from the service of his Sovereign. Instead of an apology being offered to him—as it might have been not so very extra vagantly—his sword has been virtually broken over his head ! Instead of his traducers being compelled to bite the duit before him, the spur has been shorn from his heel ! Estimating the probabilities from the course recently pur sued towards his assailants by the author of " Griffith Gaunt," we should feel very much in clined to conjecture that, supposing hint to hive stood in the position of the gallant officer but just now alluded to, his assailant, whether he had been Commander-in-Chief or Sutler of the army in In dia, would have run at his hands, a pretty con siderable risk of receiving, sooner or later, a good sound horse-whipping on parade. As it is --a horse-whipping has virtually been adminis tered by him to the Transatlantic mud pelters of the English work of art now before us, this newly completed tlirc-voluined novel of "G.iditii Gaunt, or Jealousy." So far from the story itself having any taint what ever of indelicacy about it, it is to our thinking re markable for the boldness with which its broad current sweeps—unsullied, though ru flied at times to absolute turmoil—through an epoch, through scenes and through incidents that, to a less pure imagination, might very possibly have been sugges tive of impurity. The time of the novel is the time of " Tom Jones," the time of Henry Fielding. The hero of the tale is a Bigamist--nowadays, surely a circumstance in itself not so very surprising. " Jealousy," remember, is the second title of the narrative ! The rival heroines of it are—th e one a Catholic the other a Puritan—the former, that is the Catholic, being the daughter of a country gentleman—the latter, that is the Puritan, being the daughter of a road-side tavern-keeper. Griffith Gaunt himself is a hot-blooded, impetuous, boozing, strong-armed, fox-hunting young Squire of a hun dred years ago. Conspicuous aiuoug the other dramatis persona are a half-witted half-brother of Griffith Gaunt's—a designing Abigail of his wife's, one Caroline Rider—Sir George Neville, a neigh bouring baronet of most accommodating tempera ment, Gaunt's rival first of all in the affections of Catherine Peyton (who really becomes the wife of Griffith) aud, eventually, the chosen spouse of Gaunt's bigamous second wife, Mary Vint of the roadside tavern. Besides these, there are two priests— Chaplains at Hernshaw Castle—Father Francis and Brother Leonard—both of whom the reader of the book learns before its close to recognise and to revere as pure-souled and gentle-hearted, nay as wholely unsmirched by sin, notwithstanding their passing through all the turbulent fluctuations of the story, and in spite of all the warm-blooded passions of the more worldly personages of the narrative, with whose lives and fortunes their own are more or less intimately as sociated or interwoven. There is one pecu liarity, indeed, which is eminently noticeable in regard to the genius of our novelist, effec tually securing him, as it does to our thinking, from the hazard of ever allowing his narrative to degenerate into a mere series of impure or lascivious delineations. He is too manly in his nature for that—too bold, out-spoken, vigorous, and masculine. If anything is alien to him—it is surely effeminacy. If there is any one species of adornment he would disdain more than another as a writer—it would most certainly be the meretricious. His previous works, in truth, attest all this—proving what we are here insisting upon, to absolute demonstration. Whatever other faults they may have, at least those works have not that one—they have not the one damning fault of impurity or of impure suggestive ness. Take them and see whether it is with them as we are insisting ! Take them and, scrutinise them, so to speak, under the lens of a sort of moral oxy-hydrogen microscope, for the revelation thereby, if there sitould chance to be there latent anything whatever admitting of being so revealed in the way of the smallest atom of impure sug gestiveness ! " Hard Cash," say,— " Christie Johnstone"—" Never Too Late to Mend !" And so on with the rest of them. Faults he has, but not that one. Of him at least Thackeray could never have said, as he says of Sterne, that after the antic tumbles on his bit of carpet in the street, he sneaks up to you and from behind his hand whispers a dirty story in your ear. He is too masculine in nature for any such degeneracy of taste or oven of inclination. And, unsullied hitherto in this way, he has certainly not allowed himself to become tainted after such a fashion, while delineating the incidents of this last fictitious nar rative of his about Griffith Gaunt. In some re spects it is, as he himself deems it to be, his masterpiece. It is so by right of his, the artist's claim upon our admiration for the easy sweep of every seemingly chance and careless line in the pencilling of this beautiful and varied picture, in the limning of these mobile races, in the grouping of these all but living and breathing fellow-crea tures, in the delineation of their familiar haunts, whether in-doors or out of doors, and of the widen ing expanse, beyond, of all the surrounding land scape. It is the ease with which all this is ac complished that proclaims the writer's mastery over his art. Altogether, perhaps, we should scarcely feel disposed to instance our novelist as a master of style qualified in any way to be implicitly followed or imitated. Even though he has written, time and again, passages of unrivalled excellence and often of great brilliancy in their way as isolated descriptions such passages, let us say, as those in " Hard Cash," in which he des:ribes the incidents of the sea-fight with the Pirates—than which Fenimore Cooper, or Basil Hall, or Michael Scott, never wrote anything finer of their kind, as nautical descriptions. Or take, again, from the same novel, that wonderfully graphic sketch of the boat-race up the river Thames —as fine as any sporting sketch ever dashed off in one of his happier moments by "Nimrod," meaning thereby Charles Apperley. Always excepting, of course, inimitable passages such as these, Charles Reade would hardly, we repeat, be instanced by us as a veritable master of style—his manner very often being to our notion of it, curiously jerky or spasmodic. Less apparent, however, than anywhere else is that same peculiarity of manner with him in " Griffith Gaunt," than in any of Griffith " Gaunt's" predecessors. He is therein at his ease. He is in the vein. He is less than ordinarily self-conscious. At starting, his reader is, side by side with him, in tho saddle, careering helter-skelter, with the hero and the heroine, over hedge and over ditch, in the hunting field. And here at once, by the way, comes one of his won derfully graphic little fragmentary descriptions : "But, when they came near the brook, lo ! it was 20 feet wide, and running fast and brown. Boma riders skirted it, looking for a narrow part. Two horses, being spurred at it, came to the bank, and then went rearing round on their heels, depositing one hat and another rider in tho current. One gallant steed planted his feet like a tower, and snorted down at the water. One flopped grayely in and had to swim, and be dragged out. Another leaped, and landed with his foot on the other bank, his haunches in the water, and his rider curled round his neck and glaring out be tween his retroverted ears." Generally speaking, however, here, in " Griffith Gaunt," he runs into no such minuteness of delinea tion. A touch is enough. Here, for example, is a gleam of human nature at a glance ! Griffith upon one occasion is painfully alive to some fancied reprehension. And what says our author? "We go and fancy," quoth he, "that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not : he is like us; he is thinking of himself." It is, for all the world, like a thought of Xavier de Alaistre, of La Bruyere, or of Roche foucauld. The simplest words are enough for him— no matter what the risk run while so employing them of laying himself open to the charge of pla giarism. " The gentle bosom heaved and heaved," he says, speaking of Catherine Peyton, " and tears began to run." Though Dryden had sung, " and tears began to flow," more than a century and a half since in his Ode to St. Cecilia ! No matter — the words are apt—the thought is his own, and he says it. His writing, again, throughout, has about it in a really surprising manner the charm of in genuousness. An ingenuousness so outspoken as I . r' often to have in it, somehow, almost the effec t of wit. Whatever he thinks he says—and say's' moreover, not by halves, but right out. His c itvil epoch—either sex—no matter which or what : be has at it" quite frankly, quite outspokenii . " What in this age of cant"—quoth he, at one Par t —" I suppose we should call her mission.' " An other while, he remarks— ,, The monstrous custom of forbidding ladies to follow their dead.had nat , yet occurred even •to the idiots of the nati° ll. Another—he refers to " what the canting dunces of the day call a ' sensational' novel." n is little incidental touches of gallantry, too, have 33 ineffable charm of honest bluntness about theln measurably beyond that of mere conventional suavity —as where he says, " Women seem cleverer than me n in this that when they resign their wills, they do it graciously and not by halves. Perhaps they a r° more accustomed to knock under ; and, you ka°'''' practice makes perfect." His pathos, again, is tb° simplest and directest well imaginable. It would b° difficult to give a notion of th e excee di ng t e ndernes' 4 for exa.urle—a tenderness eloquent even to tears -- vibrating in those few words of Griffith at the close of the tenth chapter of the first volume—" Kate, you are crying." Then, too, his (that is II " say Griffith's) explanation or ex p os t u l a tion wi th the old Squire at p. 230 of the same volume"; " Merry ! My arm it worr i es me , m y head It aches, my heart is sick to d ea th." O r , ag ain, t ua account of Kate's " Multiform Ciy," as our and w . r calls it—describing that same M u l t if orm Cry 11 : the manner following :—" Alth oug h s h e had but one fit of crying—to the naked e y e —y e t a person °f her own sex would have see n th a t a t on e mome nt she was crying from agitat e d nerves , at anoth er from worry, and at the nex t f rom p ity, and th e„ ; from pure grief." Occa s i ona lly, i n the course his narrative, Mr. Reade makes a slip as 1 seems to us—as where he represents Brother fi1l; nard (so improbably !) p er f ec ti ng w ith a l touch or two, in the pulpit, hi s p enc ill e d likeness ° Mrs. Gaunt ! Here and there a telling Pb rasB has about it a thoroughly delectable terseness' , 4 Sobriety," for instance, gays he—one while—speak ing of the then prevailing vice of i n toxication -- ; " Sobriety had not yet been in ven t e d." Anoth er while he probes human nature t o th e quick a n t that too with the lightest touch of his pen-P bl , —as in his reference t to Mr. Peyton's bea n ' " a person, who, notwithstanding a certain SuP er• ficial good nature sees his own side of a cl ues ,: tion very big, and his neighbour's very littl Altogether, " Griffith Gaunt" is a noble wor k : a work dashed off with a few vigorous, almost c ar ; less, touches by a master hand—a work, 11 , 110 worthy of aspiring to take its place among " classics of our imaginative literature. . rt Cy, I liar. HER MAJESTY, &c• WINDSOR CASTLE, Tues d *„ s s The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Iligh Princess Christian, wa lk e d an d d rove yesterc l3 l afternoon. Her Majesty, with P r incess 1 43uis drove out this morning, atte n d e d by the Hon. Fl ora Macdonald. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Chris; tian drove to Kew and visited her Royal Ilig hnes , s the Duchess of Cambridge and hi s S er ene Uig llll 7f and her Royal Highness the Prince and Princes s " Teck. tit The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieut eli3 Haig, also visited the duchess and the princ e 311 princess, and afterwards went to London. Princess Beatrice drove out. Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Sahl and fir. Legg, went to London last evening, and was P i r fa i sent at a concert at St. James's Hall. his r c) . 7 highness afterwards returned to Windsor Castle' ROYAL VISIT TO WO_LVERHAMPTO X• Yesterday afternoon a special meeting of the Wolverhampton Town Council was held, at wb' e t £l,OOO was voted to the mayor as an instahneu towards the expenses of the preparations for roc- 4 ' r ; ing the Queen and Yoyal family ; it was also resolve': that the Recorder be requested to prepare an 3d dress ; and the Town-clerk gave the result of ~i 6 interview with General Grey yesterday, at 1 311 co ingham Palace. The Queen has consented to the arrangements of the corporation ; and the TO w , e clerk expressed his belief that, in addition to t; members of the royal family who are already kilo to have promised to accompany the Quee n ' Duke of Edinburgh would be present. Tu e " t ic noun cement was received with enthusiaS applause. 40. e el The Duke of Devonshire is entertaining a party at Chatsworth, Derbyshire. oof The 60th anniversary of the birth of the D u ", Buccleuch and Queensberry having fallen on a ` l l , l ' s- ;t3 the event was celebrated in Dalkeith on Monday Kith customary rejoicing. ha ve The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbu r Y left town for Savernake Park, near Marlborough. ic ed The Earl and Countess of Cove n t r y have l a rr. at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. w ere The Countess Cowper and L a dies Cowpe r „ . fo re to leave Wrest P ar k yes t er d ay, t o pay some visits '- taking up thei r res id ence a t P ans h anger f or the wi nt a er iot We understand that the day is not yet B se , ,,iii) the marriage of Viscount Dunlop and the LadY Hervey, sister of the Marquis of Bristol. grs• The Chancellor of the Exchequer an d o af' Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for Strathfields a Y e ' visit to the Duke and Duchess of her Wellinve gton. e Sir Henry and Lady Fletcher ha left Farr- Hotel, for Spratton House, Nottingham. , if eeo A marriage is arranged to take place b e " 1 0/ 0 Miss Emilia Gordon-Cumming, youngest daughter 19*nd late Sir William Gordon-Cumming, Bart., of Al ts3l :;rs' Gordonstown, and Captain Sergison of th e 4th .., a Y only son of Mr. Warden Sergison, of Cuckg- old - 6r Sussex. JO / PROPOSED NEW JUDGES.—The conll ll ° - ,,t Ito judges, it is said, have approved of the suggestion that additional judge should be appointed to each - of th° three courts ; and it is rumoured that at the wall:ollo'33°P co the session of Parliament the Government will ifi t l as tent dace a measure on the subject. Mr. Grove Q.C a .,i c the first of the new additional judges, n ll Po Dc e cases to be referred to him, ho having had great €3l )er , i l in such matters. Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., is me ntioned new Solicitor-General in partibus. - Of Two OF THE GRAND CROSSES OF THE ORD- f erre d THE STAR OF INDIA, now vacant, are likely to be C °9- s r er . on Lord Napier, the Governor of Madras, and on' -11% mour Fitzgerald, the lately-appointed Governor of 1300 8 Their predecessors, Sir George Clerk and Lord BAr iL l i it :jsif more recently, Sir Bartle Frere, received from he r the same mark of distinction. 110 ROBBERY WITH BRUTAL VIOLENCE.---.-- ,eh' r named Joseph Grady was on Monday charged at 11 Ai 3 n Thiel ter with highway robbery. On Sunday nig ht : tt oOg M'Carthy, coachman to Colonel Mayne, was pae 3sll4 °: l r 9it Nicholas-street on his way home, when he was ~Seh-i4Oll, by three or four men, and felled to the ground. the ground he was beaten and kicked about the he recognised the prisoner as one of his asssil an t , ° ; ffe re o men robbed him of his watch, and separated in directions on the alarm being given. The prison committed for trial. held FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was , ji ,DO Penton-place, Goodwin, aged K 2 e 2 n o s p i years,ntai Kennington-road, cbheaein.geinwatsheh moving' g forat o n-r f o r a a d c , t on d th l e body d o : , : flielic i l li all i?: 1 1 , again fractured his leg. ab drayman . The deee . . s e V ionpertlaiteionlimabiheu u t a n o f n a vcoruuurtrcaehbeles,esgNsy't and l' e " c ., Oa ptonls .', I v Holdsworth, was jur a y mputated, but he did net snr`ll;eoatli• It . was stated in Liver that 1,00 pool yesterday t w hos e cerned le in ia ma F t i t 'a er n s ce c . onn i t i t d e mf I r i so e stoiuohrnandeadbgeaeennvteoorf offered, ei Liverpool,r c: d o , f ba acdcibdoeofuntalu arrestso aaltTLesitl a rewa a rd co o Severn. s d wo r withth , thiteisscuaitlieligt scuttling oi: MADONNA MARY. By Bins. ODIFONI'vo, ~ VoLs.—" From first to last," says the 11101.16,0vr, ' Madonna Mary' is Written with evenness and li torici and overflows with the best qualities of its w riter as it o and humour. The story is thoroughly original, o'S f A die its plot and leading incidents are concerned, nn - ",,,,y strength of the narrative is such that we question s " li i j i reader will lay it aside, notwithstanding the fullnes.l 1 throat and the construction of his heart, natil,,l: shared in the happiness which is liberally assign e " :, r tAin' actors of the drama before the falling of the green e" o btio But the principal charms of the work are the I .. i iell• humour, fineness of touch, and seeming ease With phi Mrs. Oliphant delineates and contrasts hor villi' characters,"