The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-31 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. During the storms of the past year the National Lifebsat Institution, by its Lifeboats and other means, contributed to the savin.; of 698 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Insti tution also expended £19,5(0 in the same period oas n its lifeboat establishments, in addition to granting £1,539 rewards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A ?PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 150 lifeboat establishments. Contributions are received by the London and country Institution and J ohn- the Secretary. Richard Lewis, Esq., at the , 14, street, Adelphi, London. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- ALTERATION OF TRAINS FOR NO VERBER, It 65. On and after WE ONFSDAY, the lst of Novemb .r. a NEW TRAIN, tat and 2d Class, will leave PADDINGTON at 10.15 p.m. for WINDSOR, call , ng at all intertnedi to sta tions.—For other alterations. sce time bills. J. GRIERSON, General 3linag,er. Paddington, Oct. 30. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- G A RDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) 7 HIS EV ICNING will be p. rib - med Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, L'A Fit ICAINK. Mss Louira l'yue, 31adarcie Lem mcns-Sharrington, and Mrs. A. Cook ; Messrs. Alberto Lawrence, Henry Corn, A. Cook, E. Dussek, J. G. reel, C. Lyall, and Charles Adams. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at half-past 7. riIIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- 33 Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with the Farce of HUSBANDS BEWARE. air. G. Delmore; Miss Hazlewood, Miss R. Leclercq, &e. Alter which, Shakspere's Tragedy of JULIUS CIESAR. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. T. Swinbourne, Raynor, G. Delmore, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt ; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. Hodson, Act. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THREE W E AMER MAR RIAGE. Mr. W. Farren. Mr. Chippendale, Miss Snowden, kiss ;Sell) , Moore. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Howe, After which, USED U P. Miss Nelly Dlocre, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by TIIE GOLDEN FLEECE. Mr. and and Mn.i C. Mathews, Jrc. Concluding with THE BALLET. Messrs. Arthur and Char:es Leclercq. Miss Fanny right, Miss C. Adams, and the Corps de Ballet. Commtncc at Seven. L Y CEUM TREATRE.- Under the sole Management t,f Mr. Fechter. This Theatre will OPEN for the SEASON on MONDAY. November 6th. The performances will commence at Seven o'clock with a Drama, in one ace, entitled THE VETERAN AND HIS PROGENY. Fhillfp Garbois, aged 102, Mr. D. Widdicombe. Alter whicb, at 8 o'clock (for the first ti . e), a New Drama, entitled Till , : WATCH CR I, in which Mr Fechter will perform the principal character, supported by .stessrs H. S. Emery, C. Horseman, A. llbymond, S. Fitz patt ic , and Miss Elsworthy. Box Office open daily from Eltven till Five. Acting Manager, H. Barnett. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI . Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, GOOD i'OR NOTHING. 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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 conveying water through the dry and 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 COTTON, 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 which it 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 tr 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 1i 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 CorroN 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, aro 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 tho people, besides the means afforded of cheap and easy transmission of heavy goods and raw material, will be everywhere the same, and as they all tend to the 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 construction ' 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 CorroN 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 sib - cruelty frittered a w ay. It m ust be rememb ere d, 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 b e c ompletely averted by means of an efficient canal. Sir ARTBU R COT TON mentions as a proof of the f a il ure 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, w e s h ould 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. serv Th at e iv m es an o y f meetings g ap a p th e e a r r in at gs o l a f s t t h t e o C h o a n v countrygs and e inspired the opposite side with activity. 00tyt.Ak p At Chatham iace last night a grand entertainment 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. Ile 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 JANIES GR.AHAM, Sir G. C. Tylvis, Mr. Sunirr HERBERT, the " honcuted" 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 CHARLES 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, Parna les aveugles les bornes sort rois. Another mistake by Mr. BASS was, that he went on to szy 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 that house." It is 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 LDrd PALMERSTON, 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 be 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. OTWAY 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 the noble lord, but he con 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. 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 theHouso of Commons too difficult. Such men as now possess the confidence of the . SOVEREIGN must succeed, as Mr. OTWAY 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. fill] SUN, LONDON, UUESDAY BVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1565. The Oxford Music Hall. This hall is keeping up its prestige for the perfcr 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. Thii 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 thet 1: e main atage bodyafter givingoftlicvocalists, who do not leave " 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 thi:3 composer's well-known strains. This " Enfranchiser of Thought" is in one continuous flow, but some of the lines are sung as and Messrs. Williams and by the full choir. B o th in vocal execution and orchestral accompanime n t solos Evaus by au Miss the cantata has justice 'doneit i t ss hen ß t a a rr k i e e n up by the practised artists. The next musical novelty of magnitude 1 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. 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. Bulgaris thereupon declined to form a new Ministry. POR 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. P.A.MS, OCT. 31. The Marquis de Lavalette, Minister of the In terior, accompanied by M.. liaussmann, 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, sensibly touched 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 Dieu, 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 Saturday continues in the market to-day, and the improvement in quotations is general. Three o'Clock.—The following are the last quotations : ti t per Cents 96 70 150 and month Ditto Threes — Roman 74 50 Mexican Loan 4Bl Do. Bonds v.- 317 50 Russian - Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred 3 per Cents. 6B 17} Do. end month 6B 2U Credit Mobilier B9l 25 Do. end month 890 --- Bank Shares 3675 -- Credit Foncier 1325 Italian Loan 65• 40 Do. end month 65 45 Cash. Amt. ••• 816 25 •••• ••• - ... 1092 50 ---- • a 845 -- .." Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 'Roman 560 530 - - - ... 533 75 - - ... 222 50 ••• 400 - - ... 430 - - ... 201 25 260 - 177 50 The Meeting of the National Verein. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) FRAItKFORT, 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 " 1. The National Verein adheres to its 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 largo room of the Board of Works, Burleigh-streot, 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. Smirko, at the expense of her M ajesty. 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 that 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 he 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. (Badman, seconded by Mr. Edwards, a cordial vote of thanks was accorded't o th e R ev . Henry White for calling the meeting and maki ng his statement. ARREST OF A FE NIAN . —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 rarely 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 prisonei gave him the Fenian grip, and the sergealit then httuded him over to the police. 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 Agnes 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 Stahfield is an original creation, and throughout the whole narrative his chatacter remains true to its primitive simplicity and single-heartedness. Here is the authoi-'s description of him : 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 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 ho 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 ho 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. He was the sublimated honest man, brave honane 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 been 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 mese 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 c,f little book-learning, no reading to speak of, and altogether of an unitltellectual 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 AGNES. She went away from the window where the red sun shine came low 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 stop 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 coloiti, 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 wont and came, a blush too sweet and faint to be kept steady, or identified as com plexion. Last of all, her eyes, which young Trevelyan found it so difficult to see, but which, when ho did see them, opened up to that careless young soul two wonderful avenues into the unspeakable and unrevealed ; they were 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 were sad without meaning it, without knowing why. This was the handmaid that moved about in her beauty before the young squire, setting on tho 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 which 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 We: minster 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 practical difficulties in the way of the scheme would be so great as to piit 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 the fair dames who Yen-, ture into the arena receive such courteous and care ful criticism. The critic by no means awards them unqualified praise, which, like complimentary lan 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 Eschylus, Giiethe, 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 tempti,tion, sorrow, sin, and care. Miss Cobbe may iireach 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 enthusiaona 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. Au 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 thou Sand 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 Caesar. The epitaph that Caesar 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 Caesar. 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 whole 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. Cin rt itan Dirt HER MAJESTY• 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 Rabcnau were in attendance. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Henry and Prince 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 as Lord in Waiting to the Queen. - Wales Visit of the Prince and Princess of to Knowsley. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended 11 the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, Lieut.-General Knollys, and Major Grey, left Marlborough House yeste r ; day morning on a visit to the Earl and Countess 0 ' Derby at Knowsley. The Royal party reached Knowsley at 5.10 pull and at 8.0 p.m. dined in the banquetting hall with about twenty other guests, the Grenadier Band attending. The Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau took leave of the Prince and Princess of \Vales, and lef t Marlborough House for the Continent.' THE CROWN PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. —Yesterday morning the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia made several visits in one of her Majesty's carriages . His Royal Highness the Duko of Cambridge called on Sun day to pay his respects to their royal highnesses at the Prussian Embassy. In the evening the Prussian Ambas sador and Countess Bernstorff had the honour to entertain the Crown Prince and Princess at dinner at the Prussian Embassy on Carlton-house-terrace, together with th e Countess Hohenthal (lady in waiting), Count Eulenbur s (aide-de-camp), and Captain de Normann, in attendance on their royal highnesses. The Earl and Countess Gran" ville, the Count and Countess Gleichen, and M. a" Madame de Katto had the honour to join the dinner circle. Later in the evening their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess, acccompanied by, the Count an d Countess Bernstorff, and attended by their suite, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre by their Pre sence. ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LOUISg OF HESSE AT WINDSOR CASTLE. —Yesterday Morning theirßoyal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louise of Hesse , with their children and a limited suite, arrived at Windsor on a visit to her . Majesty and the royal family. The princ e and princess, on the termination of their trip to Floors Castle, proceeded to York, which station their royal high nesses left,in a special train, provided by the directors of th e Great Northern Railway company, at half-past 4 o'clock a.m., one of the North Western saloons used on the Queen's journey to and from Scotland having been placed at their royal highnesses' disposal. Tho royal train travelled to the northern suburb of London, and thence by way of the Copenhagen tunnel, and along the North London Railwl t Y. to the old Kew station of th e S ou th W es t ern line. Ithe, royal train arrived at Wi n d sor a t t on o ' c l oc k . Th e i r roys' highnesses wore conducted by the officials in attendance to the suite of private waiting-rooms on the South side of the terminus, whore they waited for the carriages whigh had been sent for. THE KING' OF BAVARIA.--The young King of Bavaria is suffering froma disease of the right f o ot, brought, on by too rapid growth. He is obliged to bo carried in a litter up the stairs leading to his apartments, and has b °c° ordered out of Munich by his physicians, and desired to remain for some weeks at his residence in the mountains' He enjoys perfect health in every other respect, and w 3° present at several theatrical performances during his Lis t stay in his capital, at one of which the Queen mother mad e her first public appearance since the death of her husban d King Maximilian. His Excellency Baron Bentinck, Minister of the, Netherlands, has left town for th e con ti nent on l ea ve ° 1 absence. Chevalier Mazel will act as charge waffaires duringhis Excellency's absenes. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings hav ° left the St. George's Hotel. • • Viscount and Viscountess Royston left town . y.O - - torday to join the circle invited by the Earl and Countess of Derby to Knowsley during the visit of their. Royal gigh" nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. _ _ Viscountess Grey de Wilton left town yesterday to join Viscount Grey de Wilton at Viscount and VS' countess Chelsea's seat, Woodrising, Norfolk. The marriage of Lord Howard with Miss Boyer was celebrated this morning at St.. George's Church, 'W • over-square. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town last evening for Scotland. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell left town yo' terday evening for Oxford. Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday an d yesterday at the Foreign -office. The Ministers present °Il each occasion were E ar l R usse ll, th e L or d Ch ance llor, Var i Rig ht Granville, the D u k e o f A rgy ll , Si r G eorge G rey, th o Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl De Grey, Sir Charles wo ° 7 the Chancellor of th e E xc h eque r, th e Duke o f Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of AlderleY7 the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The private secretaries of Earl Russell are t he Hon. G. Elliot, and. Mr. C. G. Barrington. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MINISTRY.- 11 '.; have reason: to believe that at the Cabinet Coutl e ' held on Saturday no opposition was offered to Earl Russell'S proposals for the reconstruction of the Ministry. If lre' aro correctly informed, Earl Russell will assume the ofnc ° vacated by the death of Lord Palmerston, Lord Clarendon will be the new Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and ) I , l ‘' Gladstone will consent t o con ti nue i n the Cabinet as Cha'' cellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House o f Con mons. In other offices, even to the Irish SecretaryshO we believe there will be for the present little or no chang e ; Her Majesty' s pleasure on these arrangements was , suppose, taken by Earl Russell yesterday, as we obser ,: l ' from the Cou r t Ci rcu l ar t h at t h e new P rem i er h a d an once of her Majesty at Windsor.—Times. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Their Royal Ilig h t ; nesses the Crown Pri nce an d P r i ncess o f Prussia honou red the •performances at Her Majesty's Theatre yesterday c" 31 1 ing with their presence. In attendance upon their 11 °P a Highnesses were his Excellency the Prussian Minister s°, the Countess Bernstorff, M. de Katte, the Countess d e Hohenthal, the Count de Eulenburg, M. de Kusserow, ° ll Captain Norman. DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE 'CROMPTON.—Mr. J llBtiee Crompton died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, - his residence, Hyde-park-square. The deceased ja tlse ; who had been very ill f or some ti me past, was mad° -f judge in the year 1852, an d t oo k hi s seat i n t h e C o urt - r Queen's Bench. He was previously without silk. - 11 • Ite , the last circuit his health became impaired, and WWI" assumed a very serious character. - Mr. Justice Byles tioned, a fortnight back, at the Judges' Chambers, that complaint was very serious, and that he was about to resig ii ; The learned judge, however, lingered until yester a % morning, when his death resulted from inflammation of t 11; intestines. Mr. Lush, his successor in the Court of Qae e° Bench, was yesterday sworn in before the Lord Chancellor' OTTER HUNTING IN THE VALE OF ITCHEN. few days since the lovers of otter hunting and theil. h o unds met at Bishopstoke a t 6 o ' c l ock, and, working the valley, soon found traces of an otter. After a I°9 ; hunt up and down ,a watercourse the animal was dr lNr. ,, into a hole under an as h stump. From this it was s O ' il t , turned out by the h oun d s and killed. It proved to De it bitch otter, and we i ghed about 181 b. The spot Whe re was taken was as near as posSible that where the first et' was discovered last year. How the existence of the o tt° ,, in our vall e y s h ou l d have remained un)mown for so 101)9 years is indeed strange.—Hants Advertiser. , NEW DIVISIONS OF POLICE.—A change .I°- : contemplated by the Commiisioner s o f the Metro, politan Police came into effect yesterday morning. 111 4 . 1 ,,. new divisions, name l y, W , X , an d Y , h ave b een crew °r, The W divi s i on, un d er the super i ntendence of Mr. Frg°ete will take all that part of the metropolis from Olaplot n o Banstead ; tho X divisi on , un d er M r . E cc l es , Paddiag ,„ ' -. 0 to Uxbridge ; and the Y division, und er M r . W e bb, f r° o - Kentish-town to Cheshunt. Other alterations are in gross, one being larger police-stations, erected in Wi l lie parts of the metropolis, in which it i s propose d to I°oo a great number of single and married men attached t ° force. FRIGHTFUL AMOUNT OF D RUNKENNESS IN „, 11' POOL—JUVENILE DEPRAVlTY.—Yesterday t o ing there were no fewer than 112 cages of drunkonne sS el9 the charge-list of the Li ve rpool Police-court. Thoug li number is not above the average on a Monday l ' I°fli f f l oo ) yet yesterday's charge- s h ee t was th e more no ti c eablo 1 9 the fact that there wore an unusual number (20) of U t pK and girls under the a ge o f 17 , a ll o f w h om were found a " 1 1 64 in the public street s on S un d ay, an d i ncapa bl e of care of themselves. T OO' he managers of the New York places of a p ij moat, with the exception of four minor ones, hai r° t ita meeting, and resolved to withdrawall patronage froP" New - York Herald. 'AYS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In the remarks made in your leading article of yesterday evening, on the dinner given' to Pio iessor 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 Scotchinan 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?—l 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 ho came from Scotland, but that —he couldn't help it !—" Sir," says Johnson, "That happens, I find, with many of your countrymen." " A Scot" 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 he 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 the 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 ono 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 aro 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 ?—in 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 ma y bo discoverable : The Englishman is never happy unless he's mis era bl e. The Seotchman is never at 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. S tm i J NEWI,IAVEN HARBOUR OF REFUGE AND DOCKS: —A public meeting has been convened by the high con stables of Lewes for Thursday next, 'Toil a requisition a the inhabitants of Lewes, to receive the address of Capt.' Julius Roberts, R.M.A., and a detailed description of plans for a harbour of refuge and docks at liewhayen. c o . m fe vo