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Oct. 31 ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- G AUDEN. - (Opera Company, Limited.) IHIS EVENING will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand. Opera, L'A FItICAINe. Miss Louisa Pyue, , Madame Lem mens-tzherrington, and Mrs. A. Cook ; Messrs. Alberto Lawrence, Henry Corn, A. Cook, E. Dussek, J. G. Patry, C. Lyall, ~nd Charles Adams. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mel:on. Commence at half-past 7. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- jt. Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVE SING the performances will commence with the Farce of HUSBANDS BEWARE. sir. G. Belmore; Miss flaziewood, Miss E. Leclercq, dkc. Ai ter which, Shakspere's Tragedy of JULIUS CIESAR. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. T. Swinbourne, Raynor, G. Beimore, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt • Miss Atkinson, Airs. Hodson, &a Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THREE WE ,:KS A 'TER MAR RIAGE. Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippendale, Miss Snowden, Bliss IN elly Moore. After which, USED UP. 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In spite of the facilities offered for the pur pose by the magnificent rivers which flow through various parts of the country, and in spite of the zeal and ability which Englishmen have shown in other parts of the world in carrying out works of this description, these great and important under takings have been hitherto very much negatived. Yet there is the less excuse for this negligence and delay, because .the Indians themselves were long remarkable for the construction of their tanks and other works of the kind, since it needed very little of intelligence or civilisation to show the natives the advantage of conveyin g water through t h e dry sand arid plains, whose inhabitants perished with famine, while the residents in happier localities had plentiful supplies. If any further inducements were needed to prosecute the irrigation works with energy, it would, one would think, have been found in the extraordinary success and consequent profit of the Godavery works. The Government of India, as usual, thinks differently on this matter from the general body public, and whether they think that too great energy would reproach their own previous inaction, or whether they have a rooted ob jection to all improvement and reform, it is certain that the supreme authority in India has never looked with favour on any of these national undertakings. Sir ARTHUR CorroN, an engineer of high standing and long experience, whose name is well known in connection with the Godavery and Kistuah works, has recently addressed a letter to a contemporary respecting the remodelling of the Ganges Canal, in which, as usual, he finds reason to complain of the management of the India Office. The Ganges Canal has been by general consent a comparative failure. The Calcutta press has spoken decidedly on the subject, one journal having stated that it has "to a very small extent fulfilled the objects of irrigation for whichit was mainly designed, while for the purpose of navigation it has been next to useless." It has been said, in answer to this, that the canal was never intended for navigation, but there can be no reason why a properly constructed canal should not perform double duty, and, whilst it enriches the country through which it flows by watering the soil, serve also the ends of commerce and facilitate the transit of heavy goods. The two ends have been attained in other parts, and there is no reason why the Ganges Canal under efficient management should not produce equally satisfactory results. The Government, indeed, according to the official Blue Book on the matter, professes to be satisfied with what has been done. "We believe," it is said, " that very few engineering works of equal novelty of design and magnitude would be found to bear the test of actual experience with a more favourable result." These are not days in which to talk of the magnitude of engineering diffi culty, unless it is something very serious and per plexing ; but Sir ARTHUR CorroN is ready to deny the assertion that there is anything stupendous about the Ganges Canal. He says, "The extent of irrigation provided by several Madras projects far exceeds that provided by or projected for the Ganges Canal. The latter is only intended to irrigate about 1 million acres of wheat, and is not yet supposed to have reached one-third of that number. The Tanjore project is actually irrigating 11 million acres of rice, and the Godavery and Kistuah pro jects together provide for two million acres of rice, which requires four or five times as much water as wheat." Sir ARTHUR COTTON distinctly shows that the results of the Ganges Canal are by no means so satisfactory as the Government professes to believe. The canal has been, he says, instead of a source of profit, a heavy charge on the tax-payers, the inte rest on the capital invested having been nearly all raised by taxes. The Madras works, on the con trary, are paying 80 and 180 per cent., while the whole neighbourhood of the works has reaped great benefits from them, although the works are not yet fully carried out. The engineer is positive that when the water is fairly distributed in these dis tricts the increase shown in the revenue (already 80 per cent. in some parts) will be doubled, and the same results must, he believes, follow works of irrigation and navigation properly carried out in every part of India. The effects produced by in creased fertility in the soil and by increased wealth and comfort to the people, besides the means afforded of cheap and easy transmission of heavy goods. and raw material, liverywhere, the same, and as they all tend to trie national wealth of the country, one might suppose that the Govern ment would be only too glad to avail itself of so easy and certain a means of benefiting itself and the people. Such, however, does not seem to be the case. The Ganges Canal is unsafe, and the Government is prepared to go to a great outlay to repair and improve it, but the plan which Sir ARTHUR COTTON submitted has been entirely put aside. This is to be regretted, as that gentleman has the advantage of forty years' experience, and has proved his engineering ability by the con%truction of many successful works in Indian irriga tion. But Sir ARTHUR COTTON believes that the deficiencies of the Ganges Canal are not due to any natural difficulties of the situation, but to the projection of the work on wrong principles. He proposes to construct a new head to the canal, and taking the canal along a route which presents very few obstacles to the engineer, and he believes this could be done at a very small cost. He com plains that his plans have been submitted to an in experienced officer, and that, consequently, they have not received fair consideration. Sir AR THUR COTTON founds his works on the prin ciples which have proved so successful in the undertakings of the native engineers. The fact is, that the Anglo-Indian authorities have never shown themselves willing to give a fair hearing to any comprehensive scheme. When forced by the necessities of the time, or by the voice of public opinion, to do something, they set about it in a hesitating, unwilling manner, usually at great expense. Instead of consulting the ablest and most experienced men in the profession and undertaking of work that is to last for generations, and to affect millions of people in a large and enlightened manner, they go on in the ordinary routine fashion, and leave the decision of affairs in the hands of any official whom chance may have placed for the moment in command. It is not surprising that an old and experienced engineer like Sir ARTHUR COTTON, who has so often seen his views prove correct when put_ into practice, should experience some irritation in seeing public money and time so cruelly frittered away. It must be remembered, too, that the question is not merely one of property, since the too frequent famines in the North-West, and the consequent loss of life, would be completely averted by means of an efficient canal. Sir ARTHUR COT TON mentions as a proof of the failure of the present Ganges Canal, that between 100,000 and 200,000 persons perished of famine in the very districts which it traversed in 1861. If public questions were only dealt with in a public spirit, we should soon see these matters very differently arranged. As it is, there is so much prejudice, ignorance, and routine to combat that independent reformers have but a poor chance. The many meetings and gatherings of the Con servatives of the country appear at last to have inspired the opposite side with activity. At Chatham last night a grand entertainment took place to celebrate the return of Mr. OTWAY at the late election. Mr. TRIBE, the Mayor of Rochester, and an elector of Chatham, presided. Mr. BAss, M.P., responded on behalf of the House of Commons, and made an energetic speech, in which he advocated the claims of his party to the respect and confidence of the country.. He deplored the many serious losses which had befallen the Liberal ranks of late, and mentioned the names of those who had departed. The deaths of Sir JAMES GRAIIAM, Sir G. C. LEWIS, Mr' SID SEAT, the "honored" COBDEN, and the late Prime Minister, make great gaps in the places they once filled ; but, as Mr. BASS ob served, the people of England were much the same as the Sovereign of England. The King is dead ; long live the King ; and so it is with the Parliament of England. " Parliament died, and Parliament lived again,' and when great men died others suc ceeded to them, so that the success and safety of our commonwealth is secured. Mr. BASS highly approved of Earl RUSSELL being selected as Minister, and in energetic terms endeavoured to show that an able body of men would support the Premier. As for the talent of the Opposition, he said he had sat' for eighteen years in the House but had not seen it, with the exception of its leader. Indeed, he seemed to think that the gentlemen referred to were too sensible to think they were superior to those on the Ministerial benches. The hon. member did not make out his case very successfully, however, for he bestowed the chief praise upon Sir CIIARLES WOOD, which was, indeed, extraordinary. If the right hon. gen tleman is the best of the set, it must be on the prin ciple of the adage, Parini les aveugles les bonzes sont rois. Another mistake by Mr. BASS was, that he went on to sly that he regretted Lord RUSSELL had not more of his colleagues in the Lower House, but, upon reflection, he did not know where the mate rials "for any other Cabinet were to be found in the Liberal ranks of thathouse." Itis scarcely consistent with the foregoing declaration of the excellence and strength of the Liberal phalanx. Mr. OTWAY was enthusiastically received, and spoke at some length on the public questions, of the day. He paid a tribute to the memory of Lord PAL3IERSTON, whose loss England now mourns. Although he did not at all times concur with that eminent statesman, Mr. OTWAY declared himself anxious to express his admiration and appreciation of his high qualities and the great services he had rendered to his country. "As a Minister he was truly patriotic, setting before himself only the power and the honour of England ; as a man he was kind, generous, sympathetic, incapable of rancour, possessed of marvellous tact ; he combined the geniality of the Irish, with the solidity of the English character ; during fifty years he was en gaged in the conduct of public affairs, and he was the foremost actor in the political drama of our day; yet it can with truth be said that, during all that time, he never deserted a friend or quailed before a foe." Mr. OTWAY mentioned an anecdote which had been told him of the late PREMIER, which was characteristic of his high sense of rectitude. He had expressed a desire to be buried at Romsey Abbey, by the side of his parents, but he was told that the recent Act prohibited any inter ment in churches, yet it was suggested that in his case an alteration might be made. The noble lord, however, decidedly declined to accept of the privilege, and said that the Act re ferred to was passed during his Ministry, and that be ought to be the last man who should seek to in fringe its statutes. Passing on to the more immediate subject of the day, Mr. OTwAr inquired what was to be come of Liberal principles, and what their majority was to do. He did not think that some of the criticisms on Lord RUSSELL were very fair. The hon. member indignantly demanded if Lord RUSSELL was not " the Minister of her MAJESTY'S Government that carried the Reform Bill?" He seemed to forget, however, that those services were rendered to what may be called a past generation, whereas the present one cannot admire or applaud the shuffling schemes and tortuous policy to which the man who was erst the champion of Reform has resorted, and to which he owed his last succession to power. Mr. OTWAY endeavoured also to defend the foreign policy of tlio noble lord, but ho tended against too powerful odds to'be successful, when he said that the country was not disposed to go to war either for Denmark or Poland. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) GREECE. ATHENS, OCT. 31. The Ministry has resigned. M. Bulgaris, having been summoned by the King to form a new Ministry, declared that he would only accept the task on condition that Count Sponneck should quit Greece. The King has refused this condition, stating that Count Sponneck does not occupy any official posi tion. M. Bulgaria thereupon declined to form a new Ministry. POItITGAL. LISBON, OCT. 31. Four cases of cholera, two of which were fatal, have occurred at Oporto. The sanitary state of Elvas is improving. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 30. The Nyanza and Mongolia left here with the above mails at noon yesterday. The former may be expected at Marseilles about the 4th, and the latter at Southampton about the 11th November. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL OF 12-18 OCT. The Jeddo left Suez at 10 p.m. on the 27th inst. FRANCE. THE CHOLERA IN PARIS. PARIS, OCT. 31. The Marquis de Lavalette, Minister of the In terior, accompanied by M. Haussmann, Prefect of the department of the Seine, and M. Boitelle, Pre fect of Police, visited yesterday the Hotel Dieu and the Hospital Beaujon. The Minister of the In terior announced that the Emperor, sensiblytouched by the indefatigable zeal of the house surgeons and students in the cholera hospital, and desiring to re compense their entire body in the persons of two who had particularly distinguished themselves, had named M. Legros, surgeon at the Hotel Die; and M. Lelion, of the Hospital Beaujon, Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour. The Minister of the Interior presented the Cross of the Legion of Honour to M. Legros and M. Lelion in the cholera wards. BOURSE, Oct. 30.—Two o'Clock.—The buoy ancy exhibited on Satu:day continues in the market to-day, and the improvement in quotations is general. Three o'Clock.—The following are the last quotations : 4i per Cents 96 TO Do. end month 3 per Cents. 6B 171 Do. end month 6B 20 Credit Mobilier Ditto Threes — Roman 74 50 Mexican Loan 4Bl Do. Bonds 317 50 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Do. (lid month B9O Batik Bhares 3675 Credit Foncier 1325 Italian Loan 65 40 Do. end month 65 45 Acct. 816 25 - ... 1092 50 845 - - 560 - - ... 530 - - ... 533 75 - ... 222 50 - 400 - - 430 201 25 - 260 ... 177 50 Mr. GLADSTONE'S name, the hon. member for Chatham considers to be a tower of strength, and a true earnest of the new Premier's success. In this he is very sanguine, because many sapient judges have prophesied that this eminent man will not agree with Lord RUSSELL, and may find the task of leading the House of Commons too difficult. Such men as now possess the confidence of the SOVEREIGN must succeed, as Mr. OmAv believes, against all opponents. It is as well to be candid, however, and when the hon. member declared that the Conservatives were found wanting, he should remember that those who declared them to be so did nothing themselves to show that they were more proficient. As for India, the present Govern ment has nothing to plume itself upon. Mr. OTWAY mentioned that the Opposition, when in office, brought in two great measures only, the one on India was " laughed out of the House,' the other he did not dwell upon. Perhaps it was not convenient to refer to a passage in Lord RUSSELL'S career which was so very inconvenient. The noble lord will soon reap very unpleasant consequences from his insincere career in 1859, because upon him will rest the onus of bringing in a Reform Bill; and, with the unsettled state of his party, it will be very difficult for him to steer his course successfully, and to keep in office while he conciliates so many adverse opinions. The people of this country do not wish to see any great question of the day made a tool of merely to suit party purposes, as the question of Reform has certainly been. Lord RUSSELL has not shown himself of late years so zealous in the cause of Reform as he has been anxious to secure office, and he must turn over a new leaf if he expects to succeed in gaining the con fidence of his countrymen, or in being at the head of a strong Government. His " rest and be thankful" policy must be superseded by a vigorous course, worthy of the reputation of a new Parliament and of the credit of a Liberal Government. Mr. OTWAY deems it advisable for the electors of Chatham to " sleep with their armour on ;" and perhaps he had better extend his caution to the gentlemen who still occupy high places in Downing-street. THE SUN, LONDON, TEMESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1865. LITERATURE. Agnes. By Mrs. Oliphant, author of the " Life of Edward Irving." Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. " The story of a sad woman's life ;" so the au thoress, in her dedication, designates the history of Agnes ; and it is with subdued and sorrowful emo tions that the reader closes the third volume of the tale. It is no sensational story ; it is rather a truth ful history of a human heart disciplined by circum stances of peculiar painfulness. We are inclined to regard "Agnes" as Mrs. Oliphant's most successful literary achievement. It takes a higher rank as a work of art than any of her other productions, ex cellent and interesting as they are. We could only wish that its tone had a little more of cheerfulness, and that the dark clouds which overshadow the heroine displayed a little more of the silver lining. The anguish of a mother's bereavement is indeed portrayed with heart-breaking truthfulness ; but we could have wished that the same faith which schools the mother to endure had also afforded her some gleam of consolation. There is a sweet but tearful poem of Longfellow's, " The Reaper and the Flowers," which breathes throughout the tender consolation of Christian philosophy. Not such are the religious sentiments of Agnes. The picture of her anguish, so eloquently and powerfully portrayed, is painful to read, and because we cannot but regard it as a truthful description, it is sad; unutterably sad to remember. The character of Agues is very beautifully portrayed, but before we speak of her we must introduce her father, from whom she inherits the finest points of her character. William Stanfield is an original creation, and throughout the whole narrative his character remains true to its primitive simplicity and single-heartedness. Here Is the author's description of him : The Oxford Music Hall. This hall is keeping up its prestige for the perfor mance of music of a classical order by a very effi; cient rendering of a cantata composed by the late Meyerbeer, in celebration of the Schiller Centenary. The cantata is now performed for the first time in this country. This is another feather in the cap of the Oxford management, which has so often fore stalled musical institutions of greater pretensions by introducing foreign musical productions to the notice of the English public. Distributed amongst the main body of the vocalists, who do not leave the stage after giving " No. 66," the Cantata is sung out with admirable effect•. The music, allied to words which extol Schiller as one of: the apostles of intellectual freedom, and the leader of " that grand train of Thinkers' that teach the rights of man,'" is of a stirring mar tial character, with a strong Meyerbeer colouring, and reminiscent of . the composer's well-known strains. This " Enfranchiser of Thought" is in one continuous flow, but some of the lines are sung as solos by Miss Barrie and Messrs. Williams and Evans, and then taken up by the full choir.' Both in vocal execution and orchestral accompaniment the cantata has justice done it by the practised artists. The next musical novelty of magnitude announced is a selection from " The Market Girls," an operetta by the perennial Offenbach, which is said to contain musical effects and situations of a highly attractive character. ItALLWAYS. Cash. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern g ••• Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Bareolona Roman The Meeting of the National Verein. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) FRANKFORT, Oct 29. The following is the full text of the resolutions telegraphed as having been almost unanimously adopted to-day at the meeting of the National Verein . g, 1_ The WatiorplilVe-roin adheres to itst original constitution, by which it at the same time strives for the unity and freedom of Germany ; to the pro gramme of 1860, in which it declared as its object a German Federal State with a single central autho rity and Parliament ; and to the programme of 1862, when it settled the constitution of the empire (Reichs- Verfassung) as its aim. The National Verein also maintains the clause of its programme of 1860, in which, upon condition that the Prussian people was also prepared to subordinate itself to the German central authority and popular repre sentation, and, that the Prussian Government would uphold the interests of Germany in every direction by acts, and take the indispensable steps for the establishment of German power and unity, the transfer of the central authority shall take place by the German people to the chief of the greatest German State. The Assembly likewise simultaneously adheres to the resolution of 1864, passed in accordance with the constitution of the empire, by which the decision as to the holder of the central authority is reserved for the collective nation represented in Parliament. The national Verein lastly repeats the expression of its conviction that the speedy victory of a really liberal national system in Prussia is the first condition towards a successful solution of the German question in the way of reform. " 2. In accordance with the resolution of Nov. 1, 1864, the National Verein again declares it to be the duty of the German people to watch over the right of self-disposal of Schleswig-Holstein. It is to be limited only by the interests of Germany. In default of a German central authority Prussia alone can at the present time efficiently and last ingly carry out the defence of the coasts in the frontiers of Germany upon the north. With re ference thereto the National Verein recognises the Berlin agreement of the 26th March, concluded be tween the Prussian deputies and the lesser committee of the Schleswig-Holstein clubs as sufficient basis for mutual understanding and satisfaction of the national interests, so far as such may be possible prior to the execution of the German constitution of the empire. The convocation of the representation of the Duchies must no longer be delayed." THE CHAPEL ROYAL IN THE SAVOY.—Yester day evening a meeting of the inhabitants of the precincts of the Savoy was held in the large room of the Board of Works, Burleigh-street, in anticipation of the approaching opening of their new church, which was de stroyed some months ago by fire, and which has been re stored, under the direction of Mr. Smirke, at the expense of her majesty. The Rev. Henry White, the chaplain of the Savoy, presided. He said that although no day had yet been definitively fixed for the opening service, he was anxious to take the opinion of the members of the congre gation on the allotment of seats and the nature of the services. These matters had lately been taken up by the public newspapers, and they had consequently assumed the character, of public questions which could not be ignored. The Savoy Chapel in its restored state was not to be a free and unappropriated church in the ordinary meaning of the term, for although the seats would all be free, they would be appropriated, but would not be re served a moment after the commencement of the service. The offertory would, as usual, be adopted, so that all per sons might contribute to the expenses of the church ac cording to their means. With regard to the choir, it had been strongly pressed upon him tfiat it should consist of men, but he was greatly afraid that such a body of men would be unmanageable, and that they would be unsuit able to the simple services which must be observed in their small chapel. On this and other matters ho wished the members of the congregation to communicate with him prior to the opening of the chapel. With that view, he would have a series of questions printed, which he would circulate among them. Several gentlemen offered their opinions on matters of detail ; and, on the motion of Mr. Gladman, seconded. by Mr. Edwards, a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to the Rev. Henry White for calling the meeting and making his statement. ARREST OFI A FEthAN. —At Quebec, a tailor, named Dwyer, has been sent to gaol, charged by a sergeant of the 7th Fusiliers with attempting to entice a private of the Fusiliers into the Fenian organisation. It appears that he entered the canteen at the Jesuit Barracks, where civilians razely enter, and commenced a conversation with a private, who reported the matter to a sergeant. The sergeant took Dwyer into a side room, when the prisoner gave him the Fenian grip, and the sergeant then handed him over to the police. THE HONEST BLACKSMITH. William Stanfield, the blacksmith of Windholm, was per haps of all men in the village the most respected and looked up to. He was well-to-do, which of course had some share in the general regard, and had come of people well to-do from the third and fourth generation. The clergy man himself was not a greater authority in the parish. It was not that his sagacity was extraordinary, for he had been deceived now and then like other people, and had never concealed the fact ;—nor that he was clever above his neighbours, for the public of Windholm was thoroughly aware that to get the "rights" of any business fairly into William Stanfield's head required a degree of perse verance and patience difficult to attain ; especially in re gard to all kinds of chicanery, tricks, and meanness, nothing could exceed the obtusity of the blacksmith's in tellect—and he nowise prided himself upon his powers of mind, or indeed upon any powers whatever, though he had a gratified half-consciousness of his own influence in the little community. His strength, however, lay, not in his talents, but in his character. Ho was the sublimated honest man, brave homme galantuomo, of Windholm. In him the transparency, the manful single-mindedness and pure honour of an ideal Englishman had attained realisation. There was nobody within 20 miles, good or bad, who would not have trusted house or land, widow or orphan, to William Stanfield with the most utter certainty of his truth to the trust. No squire or gentleman of the district came within a hundred miles of him in this respect. To doubt the blacksmith would have beet the same as to doubt whether the pillars of earth stood fast, had any daring sceptic ventured on such a notion ; but no such in fidel had ever yet appeared at Windholm. Ho was slow in many things, this worthiest man of the village ._above all slow to wrath, all but impervious to suspicion, slow to be lieve anything that it was shame or sorrow to hear of. The mild broad light of his eyes scarcely ever quickened out of that repose and tranquillity which made you think instinc tively of the large, silent, unspeakable orbs in some dumb creature's face, and of the grand ox-eyes of the heathen queen of heaven. His, too, were ox-eyes—large, soft, brown, impenetrable, full of silent thoughtfulness, that never found expression except in that good life which was more elo quent, a thousand times, than any words. Had Paul and Barnabas been afloat on the world in our day, they would have been brought unanimously, by universal consent of the crowd, to William Stanfield's door, had they gone to Windholm—whose house being worthy, they would not, have departed from while they remained in the place— who would have washed their feet and spread their board and listened with reverence and candour but slow convic tion, saying little while the Divine message worked slowly in his heart. But he was a man of little book-learning, no reading to speak of, and altogether of an unintellectual development; though there were thoughts in him such as few have—delicacies which few people understood—and a certain poetic element in the worth which was so practi cal and real. Such was the blacksmith, the ideal man of Windholm. And here, a companion picture, is our first glimpse of AGNES. She went away from tho window where the red sun shine came IoW and level through the blind, treading with light feet over what seemed to be a heap of ruddy gold on the carpet, and went about her simple busi ness with no other consciousness than that it was her business, and with still the thrill and cadence of the poetry, and of something still more urgent than the poetry, hanging about her like vibrations of, music. She was of a light low figure, perfectly dressed—that is, dressed just as was suitable for the blacksmith's daughter. Her gown was dark grey, of a fine and light woollen fabric, taking folds which a painter would have loved ; and her little collar and cuffs were spotless and dazzling in their simplicity. Her step keeping a kind of visionary time to that music which enveloped her still, had all the grace of unconsciousness and preoccupation. Her small head drooped upon the delicate throat as if all that mass of hair overweighted it ; hair matchless in Windholm, black without a tinge of any invading colour, folded in magnificent braids round the little head, which recovered size without losing delicacy by means of that investiture. She had no colour except when- she was moved, as at this moment ; when it went and came, a blush too sweet and faint to bo kept steady, or identified as com plexion. Last of all, her eyes, which young Trevelyan found it so difficult to see, but which, when he did see them, opened up to that careless young soul two wonderful avenues into the unspeakable and unrevealed ; they wore blue of the deepest violet colour, totally unlike her father's yet taking from his a certain breadth of pathetic simplicity which it would be hard to describe—sweet serious eyes, which wore sad without meaning it, without knowing why. This was the handmaid that moved about in her beauty before the young squire, setting on the table the many coloured teacups. He could not have told whether she was the blacksmith's daughter of Windholm or an en chanted princess —either or both, what did it matter ? It was she—and there was not, so far as young Roger was concerned, though he scarcely knew it, any other in the world. We are loth to spoil the interest of the story by quotations from some of the many admirable scenes. The interview between the young Squire and the Blacksmith when the best points of the cha racter of each come vividly to light—the embar rassing visit of the fashionable Lady Charlton to the uninformed Mrs. Trevelyan, which is a perfect little comedy in its way, the return home of the for lorn travellers and the varied emotions which re spond to the Blacksmith's generous greetings—these and many other passages bear witness to the de velopment of Mrs. Oliphant's powers as a novel writer. Animated by an earnest purpose, and written in eloquent words, the story of Agnes may take high rank in the world of fiction. We have only one fault with w hi c h to charge it— . it is clouded with a sadness that is altogether tinged too heavily with gloom. The Westminster Review. October, 1865. The opening article, on Personal Representation, • is one which very characteristically represents the peculiar views of The WeEtniinster in politics, in clined to democracy, yet shrinking from the actual government of the masses ; willing to push to the utmost the favourite theories of the enthusiastic supporters of untrammelled liberty, yet enlightened and temperate enough to be aware of the dangers to which the practical embodiment of such sentiments invariably leads. By way of reconciling the logical deductions from the doctrine of the Rights of Man with the actual position of thought and feeling in this country, the Westminster Reformer adopts Mr. Hare's method of settling the problem of Parlia mentary Representation. This gentleman's plan would, in the opinion of the writer, avert the pecu liar dangers of democratic government, while sup plying the pressing wants of the time. We fear, however, that the prac4ical difficulties in the way of the scheme would be so great as to put it entirely out of the category of possible changes, and that, were it even adopted, it would result in confusion instead of in order, in a very limited representation, and a very incomplete Parliament. " The Capaci ties of Women" are considered in an essay, which proves the writer to be not only chivalrous, but perfectly fair and candid in his dealings with the feminine celebrities of the day. It is certainly not a time to depreciate or disparage feminine intellect, but it is very seldom that tb c fair dames who ven ture into the arena receive such courteous and care ful criticism. The critic by no Ineans awards them unquidified p ra i se, w hi c h, like complimentary guage, often serves merely to veil contempt. He examines carefully into the merits and defects of their several productions, expressing hearty approval of the general scope and tenour of their efforts, while pointing out some minor defects, inaccuracies, or blemishes. The three ladies, of whose works the essay in question especially treats, belong to three very different schools of thought and literature. Miss Bessie Rayner Parkes, in her " Essays on Woman's Work," has come boldly forward in the character of a practical social reformer, and in deal ing with one of the most difficult social problems of the day has shown an amount of clear judgment, ready sympathy, and sound common sense which does her honour. Miss Swanwick adopts another line, and by her translations of /Esehylus, Goethe, and Tasso, translations so faithful as to call forth the encomiums of no less a judge than the late Baron Bunsen, she has added fresh laurels to the wreathes already won by Eng lishwomen in the fields of classic literature. Miss Cobbe, perhaps, more ambitious, though less satis factory in her attempts, plunges into metaphysics, history, social science, politics, ethics, and religion, all in turn. Her talents are undoubtedly very great, as well as versatile, and few ladies might be more appropriately cited as specimens of the power and range of the feminine intellect. But we would remind Miss Cobbe of a truth which, in her enthu siastic veneration for the principles of truth and right, she is apt to overlook. Humanity at large is not up to her moral or intellectual level, and after all it is with humanity at large that he who would raise or benefit his kind must deal. He must not restrict himself to a circle of philosophers in their studies as theorists at their writing desks, especially, as . if we were to believe these gentlemen they are above all mortal frailties and temptations. A cold impersonal religion, a vague creed of generalities and metaphysics, will never lift the working men and women out of the pitfalls, the snares, and the abysses of daily temptation, sorrow, sin, and care. Miss Cobbe may preach a moral theory of disinterested virtue by the hour, but she will touch no human heart and save no struggling soul from degredation and despair. From the height of her intellectual aspirations and her moral enthusiasm she may despise those who cannot enter into her views, but they are men and women with brains that think, and hearts that feel, and bodies and minds that suffer, nevertheless, though succumbing to the influence of passions that she despises, and swayed by motives that are sordid, selfish, and mean. Let her tell such every-day hearers of " the unbounded power of growth in the human soul, its capacity for endless progress," as a consolation under some of the dire afflictions that befall mankind, and she will be but an unwelcome guest. Let her speak instead of the Father before whom no sparrow is forgotten, and she may own that all metaphysics are not the best medicine for suffering and sinning humanity. " Palgrave's Travels in Arabia " receive an intelligent and well-written criticism, and Lady Duff-Gordon's delightful " Letters from Egypt" are discussed and quoted from at some length. An essay on the " Holy Roman Empire " discusses the rise and fall of that vast institution which, traced from its first origin to its final extinction, stretches over a compass of well nigh two thousand years." Its foundations were laid by the greatest constructive genius the world has ever seen. It was finally destroyed by one who, to his contemporaries, seemed the very archangel of destruction. Yet his contemporaries are our con temporaries, while the contemporaries of its creator were the companions of Cicero, of Sulla, of Marius, and of the Gracchi. Inquire into its extinction, and you meet the great name of Napoleon. Inquire into its origin, and you meet the yet greater name of Caius Julius Cmsar. The epitaph that Cesar uttered over the aristocratic government of Rome might have been with equal truth pronounced by Napoleon over the empire erected on the ruins of that government by Cmsar. The never-ending question of Schleswig-Holstein reappears in an essay, under the head of " The Doctrine of Nation alities." It is remarked at the outset that, with the single exception of the Belgian question, not one of the many questions which have agitated Europe during the past half century has yet received a final solution. The question of the Duchies cannot cer tainly be ranked among those that have received a definite solution, and although the who'e story is almost tediously familiar to the reader, he will not perhaps object to a resume taken from the standing we have now reached, when the Gastein Conven tion has so openly proclaimed the unscrupulous de signs of the great German Powers. Articles on " Mr. Grote's Plato," and on " Rationalism in Europe," are written in the characteristic vein of the Westminster, while the Notices of Contemporary. Literature, in which as usual Theology and Philo sophy figure largely, occupy a considerable space. Professor Masson. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In the remarks made in your leading article of yesterday evening, on the dinner given to Pro fessor Masson, in anticipation of his departure for Scotland_ to enter on the Professorship of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh, you re-. present that gentleman to have said, in acknow ledging the complimentary toast of the evening, " that from beginning of time until now, never had there been a precedent for what was about to occur in his person ; for at last a Scotchman was going back again." If this interesting statement was made more for the pleasantry it might create over the wine than from ignorance of its error, I would consider it almost a pity to disturb the conceit of the Professor, who is about "to smash and reduce to extinction" " all previous prophecies" in the example thus set to his countrymen ; but I beg to inform him what is about to occur with him is not a precedent, insomuch that within a recent period the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis, when Home Secretary, conferred the Chair of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow on the present distinguished Professor, who was for many years attached to that science in London, and whose distinction in it was acquired under the illustrious Airy. And yet I think another could be added in the person of the eminent Professor Syme, of Edin burgh. Did he not "go back again" from Uni versity College of London?--I am, yours obediently, October 31. A SCOT. [Does not our correspondent remember Doctor John son's half-sly, half-surly taunt in reply to Boswell, when they were first introduced to each other by Davis, the bookseller, in the back parlour behind the shop ? When— Boswell, stammering out in his confusion that he came from Scotland, but that —he couldn't help it !—" Sir," says -Johnson, " That happens, I find, with many of your countrymen." "'A SCbt" might also recall to mind the old Doctor's all-but extenuation else where of that same national habitude on the part of Scotchmen, that ho was so fond of railing at thus, in season and out of season namely, where, be fore the close of his Tour through the Hebrides, he declares that the finest view of all in Scotland is tho road leading out of it! Our correspondent, one might think, ought long since to have got accustomed (as the eels to skinning) to the flinging of this gibe by jesting Englishmen in the teeth of Scotchmen generally. It was a joke old and thread bare long before Professor Masson had begun to dream of making himself a reputation. It was one of the earliest hits of pictorial fun that came, at the turn of the century, from the pencil-point of young George Cruikshank now our veteran Colonel Cruikshank of the Rifle Volunteers. Ex. gr., that comical sketch of his representing the canny Scotch trespasser, just met, in the act, after clambering over the garden wall, on his way towards the fruit trees, and answering, in reply to the Gardener's indignant inquiry, "Rollo, Sandy ! where are you going ?"—" Bock again !" says Sandy, coolly retracing his footsteps ! Long before that, even, w e may conjecture, the witty paradox had been penned— by whom we wonder ?—iu that wonderful list of paradoxi cal witticisms, which says among other things while touch ing off the various National Characteristics, and, by the way, we should like to know where the complete catalogue may be discoverable : The Englishman is never happy unless he's miserabl e. The Scotchman is never a t home unless he ' s abroad. The Frenchman is never at peace unless he's at war. And so on, by a like whimsical definition, through the whole of the Nationalities of Christendom.—ED. SUL] NEWHAVEN HARBOUR OF REFUGE AND DOCKS. —A public meeting has boon convened by the high con stables of Lowes for Thursday noxt, upon a requisition of the inhabitants of Lewes, to recoive tho address of Capt. Julius Roberts, jt.M.A., and a detailed description of plans for a harbour of refuge and docha at Newhaven. fr : 71 : eu 44' 4 , „Mug-- e,11111! 1144, • HER MAJESTY• im. WINDSOR CASTLE, Oct• 30. The Queen went out in the grounds this morn ing, accompanied by herßoyal Highness the Princess Louise. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena rode in the Home Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with their Royal Highnesses Princess Victoria and Princess Elizabeth, arrived at the Castle from Scotland. Baroness Von Schenck and Baron de Rabenau were in attendance. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Henry and Priaco Sigismund of Prussia, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, went to London this morning and re turned in the afternoon. Lord Camoys arrived at the Castle yesterday Lord in Waiting to the Queen. - - Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Knowsley. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, Lieut.-General linollys, and Major Grey, left Marlbo r o u gh House Yest er ; day morning on a visit to the E a rl and Countes s °. Derby at Knowsley. The Royal party reached Knowsley at 5.10 P• 11 1. and at 8.0 p.m. dined in the banquetting hall oath _about twenty other guests, the Grenadier nand attending. The Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau took len e t of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and le Marlborough House for the Continent. TLIE CROWN PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF v TrSSIA•s of —Yesterday morning the Crow n P r i n c e and Prince ` s made several visits in one Of her Majesty's carriagel His Royal Highness the Duko of Cambridge called on S tin 'day to pay his respects t o th e i r roya l highnesses at the Prussian Embassy. In the evening the Prussian Ala ba . sador and Countess Bernst or ff h a d th e h ono ur to enter tain the Crown Prince and Princess at dinner at the Pr ussian Embassy on Carlton-house-terrace, together wi th Countess Hohenth.al (lady in waiting), Count Eulenburg (aide-de-camp), and Captain de Normann, in attenduace on their royal highnesses. The Earl and Countess Graul ville, the Count an d C oun t ess Gl e i c h en , a nd 3 1 . Madame de Katte had the honour to join the dinner circlei; Later in the ev en i ng th e i r R oyal Highnesses th e Cr °vi d Prince and Princess, acccompanied by the Count an d Countess Bernstorff, and attended by their suite, 1 1012°11 the performanCe at her M a j es t y ' s T heatre by their Pre sence. ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS morningS ° LOI 3° RESSE AT WINDSOR CASTLE. ormorn ing —yst theirßoyal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louise of Ife ss° ', with their children and a limited suite, arrived a t N\ 7 1 05 % on a visit to her Majesty and the royal family. The and princess, on the termination of their trip to Fi°% .- Castle, proceeded to York, which station their royal h i a nesses left in a special train, provided by the directors of th o Great Northern Railway Company, at half-past 4 o'o o % a.m., one of the North Western saloons used on the Quell, journey to and from Scotland having been placed at 0 14 royal highnesses' disposal. The royal train travelled t o t il l° northern suburb of London, and th ence by way of Copenhagen tunnel, and along the North London En"",, - ; to the old Kew station of the South Western line. -1 ' royal train arrived at Windsor at ten o'clock. Their K g highnesses were conducted by the officials in attendance t,, the suite of pritate waiting-rooms on the south side o f til t ; terminus, where they waited for the carriages whic h been sent for. THE KING' OF BAVARIA.—The young Ding o , f t Bavaria is suffering from a dis ease o f th e r i g ht f oo t, broug - i , on by too rapid growth. He is obliged to be carried en litter up the stairs leading to his a p ar t men t s , a nd has "",. o ordered out of Munich by his phy s i c i ans , a nd desired bs. remain for some weeks at his residence in the mountain lie enjoys perfect health in every other respect, and s i v :t present at several theatrical performances during his — de stay in his, capital, at one of which the Queen mother ni3 her first public appearance since the death of her hag° King Maximilian. His Excellency Baron Bentinck, Minister of ° Netherlands, has left town for the conti nen t o n leave) absence. Chevalier Mazel will act as chargé d'affaire6 duringhis Excellency's absence. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings 113c° left the St. George's Hotel. Viscount and Viscountess Royston left town Y CS; terday to join the ci rc l e i nv it e d by tho Earl and Count of Derby to Knowsley during the visit of their Royal Tub nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Viscountess Grey de Wilton left town yesterda to join Viscount Grey do Wilton at Viscount and V is ' countess Chelsea's seat, Woodrising, Norfolk. The marriage of Lord Howard with Miss Boy er was celebrated this morning at St. George's Church, ligu over-square. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town last evening for Scotland. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell left town Yeg terday evening for Oxford. a nd Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday 3- n yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Ministers presen t i each occasion were Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, E'llllt Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Hon. Edward Card we ll, E ar l D e G re y, Si r Charles W oo 4 . the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Sonierso't the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley ofd idel the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. -V 2. l :ftho The private secretaries of Earl Russell Hon. G. Elliot, and Mr. C. G. Barrington. y y e v • THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MINIsTR--- have reason to believe that at the Cabinet COUller, held on Saturday no opposition was offered to Earl Ru ss ' e proposals for the reconstruction of the Ministry. If NB are correctly informed, Earl Russell will assume the vacated by the death of Lord Palmerston, Lord Claree" ° r • will bo the new Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gladstone will consent to continue in th e C a bi ne t a s Ch 3 "' cellor of the Exchequer and Leader of th e H ous e of Cl i ; mons. In other offices, oven to th e I r i s h S ecre tarit' weer m belie ai v e e st t y h ,s erepwleialslule on these be.forthepresaerrntanligttelme arrangements r t n s is oe , ll o 7; Her suppose, taken by Earl Russell yesterday, as we °l)sel.ll° - from the Court Circular that the new Premier had an a ` . enco of her Majesty at Windsor.—Times. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Their Royal 00; nesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia ho notec o , the perform ances a t H er M a j esty ' s Theatre yes t e rday o f° .1 ing with their presence. In attendance upon their 11° Y - a Highnesses were his Excellency the Prussian 3fin iater the Countess Bernstorff, M. d e K a tt e , the Cou ntess ilohenthal, the Count de Eulenurg b, M. de K us serowl $ll as de t Captain Norman. DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE CROMPTON.—MT. Ji Stiee t Crompton died yesterday morning ai 10 o'clock, g his residence, Hyde-park-square. The d e ceased l u l d6e l : who had, been very ill for some time past, was linwt: of judge in the year 1852, and took his seat in the Cn g A r i t e Queen's Bench. He was previ ous ly w ith ou t s ilk. P ; r if the last circuit his health b ecame i mpa i re d, and fa' t ' e ,o , assumed a very serious character. Mr. Justice Ryles N h id tioned, a fortnight back, at the Judges' Chambers; ti ni ci t complaint was very serious, and that he was about to re- ok The learned judge, however, lingered until Yes ter morning, when his death resulted from inflammation ° ' i o 'o intestines. Mr. Lush, his successor in the Court of a llee ] r• Bench, was yesterday sworn in before the Lord Chalice" ° A OTTER HUNTING IN THE VALE O F 1T00 14 . -- ;,i r few days since the lovers of otter hunting and hounds met at Bishopstoke at 6 o'clock, and, worki n g io g, the valley, soon found traces of an o tt er . After 3 hunt up and down a watercourse the animal was into a hole under an ash s t ump. F rom t hi s it `vas " 17 0 turned out by the hounds and killed. It proved t ° it bitch otter, and weighed about 181 b. The spat was taken was as near as possible that where the ,*st„-t,tter was discovered l as t year. How the existen of the y in our valley sh ou ld h ave remained unknownce for ts° years is indeed strange.—Hants Advertiser. Pg NEW DIVISIONS OF POLICE.—A change 7 4 . 4: . • contemplated by the Commissioners of the g ro e ;: cl ef politan Police came i nto e ff ect yesterday morning new divisions, name l y, W , X , an d Y, have bees cre s s ors r The W divi s i on, un d er the superintendence of gr• ~ r • tc; will take all that part of the metropolis from Clap i r t a toll Banstead; the X divisi on , un d er M r . E cc l es , radaalloot to Uxbridge ; and th e Y di v i s i on , un d er M r. Webb, "o' Kentish-town to Cheshunt. Other alterations are pr gross, ono being larger police-stations, erected in parts of the metropolis, in which it i s p ro posed t° ;:tl 3° a great number of single and married men a ttached - force. rrs lo' FRIGHTFUL AMOUNT OF DRUNK ENNE SS IN -1-1 • or ° POOL.—JUVENILE DEPRAVlTY.—Yesterday -1 4 s 00 ing there were no fewer than 112 cases of drunke nne i ; tbi' 4 the charge-list of the Liverpool Police-court. Theug .. ; ipp number is not above the average on a Monday' fro yet yesterday's charge-sheet was the more noticeable poi ° the fact that there were an unusual number (2 0 ) ° ,' . d r ao and girls under the ago of 17, all of whom were foua" in the public streets on Sunday, and incapable food care of themselves. ' f 9,0 111"- The managers of the New York places 0- bold o ment, with the exception.Of four minor ones, 115 ' r - 4a tP „ meeting, and resolved tdl withdraw all patronag e a. " ewYork Herald. • Austri trazili Do. Do. Bueno Do. Do] Colom.l Cuba, Danish Do. 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