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Wm.—Afternoon, lb. 16m. 11)11 0 Z) s It LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 18G6. The interval between the division of last Monday and the Ministerial explanations this evening has been spent by the Reformers of Manchester in orga nising a Reform Conference. It was held at the Free-Trade Hall, Manchester, and wasvcry numer ously attended, delegates from some GO or 70 towns and districts being present ; and these did not repre sent alone the feeling of the immediate vicinity, but came from the neighbouring counties, and even from the Principality. Mr. GEORGE WILSON, the veteran Reformer, presided over the Conference, as also over the public meeting which followed it, as the most suitable occupant for the post. The speeches delivered on both occasions were very much of the ordinary style which we have heard for a good many years, and which we fail, after submitting them to the test of practical experience, to put much faith in. It is so easy to abuse - the Tories, to declaim about the virtues and successes of the great Republic of the West, to declare that the working classes are maligned by the papers that circulate among the governing classes, that the aristocracy are tyrannical, the middle classes selfish, and, in short, every one is wilfully wrong ex cept the speakers and their immediate audience, and everything badly managed in any old-fashioned country, while America and Australia rejoice in political perfection. Unfortunately we have heard all this a good many times before, and the language does not fit so well to the present times as it did of old. When We find Mr. JACOB BRIGHT, for in stance, descanting on the 6 ' overwhelming claim of fitness" for the franchise, we cannot help remem bQ.ring that he and his party refused to support Mr. CLAY'S Educational Franchise, which gives a vote to every man who can read or write. Is it be cause they fear that if the Reformers of Manchester arc ready readers they will extend their knowledge of : foreign affairs, and so refuse to accept their B4IGHT doctrines unreservedly ? Again, when we are told by Mr. JEFFEnv of Liverpool that " Eng land's Tozies are Enryi „ and s BISMARKS," and that a Conservative Government wouldinvolve the country in a foreign war in a month, we are reminded that we have to thank Earl ItussELL and his frier.dship for Prussia for the whole European eir:broilment which threatens eventually to draw us in, A Conservative Government might possibly have done the same, but Earl RUSSELL cannot boast that he has preserved peace. " The beginnin g of strife is like the letting out of water," says the v i se man of old, and the beginning of this Europe an commotion has the tacit permission given to the German Powers to dismember Denmark. If we are to accept the Honourable Mr. STANLEY as the spokesman of his party, we find him putting forward the ingenious excuse of the American war for the delay in introducing a 17.eform Bill. " Our whole interests were bound up in.. that momentous struggle, which.was far more important to the cause of freedom in England than any local agitation ab ou t a £6 or £ lO rental or nth .mere Really we cannot see what the American war 1 *lad to do with English freedom, except so far as to show our people that civil liberty cannot always be safely trusted in the hands of professing demo crats. But Mr. STANLEY goes further in his American views. lie considers that the " forbearance and generosity" of the United States in their victory have shown the humanising and ennobling effect of democratic institutions 1 The Americans, whatever their political virtues or fail ings, certainly do not want for " cuteness" or common sense, and would be the first to smile at such an elegant tribute, especially if they had just been bearing a discourse of Mr. THADDEUS STEVENS. Why, " the forbearance and gene rosity" so highly praised is, however, con genial to the feelings of the majority of American citizens, the work politically of one man against whom the Radical party in the States have exhausted every effort of abuse, calumny, and intrigue. If Mr. STANLEY had favoured the Manchester audience with a few selec tions from recent debates in Congress they might have thought that " the reformation of home insti tutions" might with advantage be conducted on a different plan. As for Mr. STANLEY'S Canadian and Australian proclivities we advise him to turn over a few pages of colonial history before he holds up the management of the Australian land question as a model to Englishmen. As for his advocacy of the rights of Dissenters, which we have always been the first to acknowledge, we would remind him that it is no part of English justice to give one man the right to control another man's property, and that if Dissenters are to manage Church funds, Churchmen with equal right may claim to meddle with Dissenting institutions and endowments, a quid pro quo which, we think, few Nonconformists would relish ? But the speaker's name unfortunately reminds, us that the "people's friends," as represented by the Whigs and Radicals combined, have been in office during the last six or seven years, and that Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY has been a member of a good many successive Cabi nets, without any marvellous results for the public good ! We have had quite enough of this party declamation on the hustings, and this dolce far niente when in power. It is not necessary to denounce every man who opposes us as a traitor and a tyrant. Let us have all parties, all creeds, all ranks, all interests, fully and fairly re presented in the English Parliament. The agricul turists have a right to be heard as well as the towns men ; the interests of the professional man should be consulted as well as the interest of the merchant and manufacturer. Let us not bind ourselves to general principles, or rather prejudices, or to any in dividual policy. We may, indeed, h • hesitate to plunge the country into war lightly or wantonly ; but for Englishmen to declare that they want nothing but peace, regardless of the interests of humanity or freedom, is alike unworthy of their past and of their future. We may admire and respect the American people and rejoice in their successes, but to attempt to fashion our Political institutions upon theirs would be simply preposterous. If it were even possible to transport Washington to Westminster Englishmen would not tolerate the system a single day. We have good reason to prize our constitution, and be cause some matters of detail may need reform we must not believe that others are more ex cellent. An old house may need repair, but he would not be a wise man who would pull it down so as to build a new one on its ruins: It is this sort of language that alarms the timorous and disgusts the moderate, so that in the end it is pre judicial to the interests it would advocate. The Reformers have good right to denounce the Liberal party who have 'failed to fulfil their pledges, but their conduct serves the more to prove to us that we must not trust in names and bycwords, but judge men by their acts. Whether Earl RUSSELL'S Ministry resign or retain office is a matter of comparatively little moment. The great point to be understood is that the people expect a Reform Bill, and will look to the merits of the measure rather than to the men who bring it forward. They wish for no violent changes, no social convulsions ; they only ask that Parliament, which professes to represent our ever-growing and varying community, should expand with its require ments, that its increasing intelligence and its rival interests shall be fairly represented, and that some security shall be provided not only that the votes of the member shall represent the constituency, but that the votes of the elector shall represent his own political opinions, not his pecuniary necessi ties nor his personal apprehensions. Neither Whig nor Tory has yet offered such a bill, but the present erisis may teach them that it will have to be done before any new Reform Bill will receive cordial and general support. The news from the Continent which reached Lon don yesterday is very important, but not at all satis factory in some respects. A great battle was in progress yesterday between the Austrians and the Italians, near Verona, and both wings of the Italian army had been repulsed. So far this looks favour able for the Austrians, and we hope that their good fortune did not desert them. It is indeed high time that some decisive advantage should be gained by the Austrians to set off against the many successes of the Prussians, and the Italians deserve a defeat, for they had no right to interfere in a dispute that did not affect their interests, and there was something very mean in their manifest desire to take advantage of their enemy's difficulties. Such tactics are un worthy of success ; and the Italian policy had another great drawback to its consistency, inas much as it was in union with Prussia, who is the sworn foe of all freedom, domestic and foreign, just now. It would ha v e bee n b a d enoug h h a d th e Italian s combined with the army of a free country to ,attack the Austrians, but to side with a Govern ment that had incurred the just censure of Europe for its reckless abuse of power and violation of all constitutional rights was indeed a des picable act, and all defeat and disaster that may accrue to them will be their just portion. There w as no particular cause for dispute between Austria and Italy until the differences between the two great German Powers assumed a serious aspect, and therefore the c ourse p ursued b y Italy is the more remarkable and the more reprehensible. The Austrian course of proceeding may indeed puzzle the most astute, and bewilder the most clear headed. Much valuable time is being lost by their extraordinary dilatoriness, which the Prussians are making the most of in all kinds of ways. The last news concerning the Hanoverian forces is most vexa tious. It is stated that they had capitulated with the Prussians * The officers are to be permitted to withdraw r n a w with all the honours of war, together w ith their arms horses, and a free choice of a future residence to be left to the K IN G and CROWN PRINCE of li r lan right the officers have to the honours warvieeare quite at a loss to perceive, and so will any one The only consolationhei s w t h h o a thsaus ch t f u o te e d s t c h a e nn a o ff t a b ir e . of much avail to any one, but still of course it is a loss to the Austrians for the Prussians to have succeeded in cutting o ff the junctions of these troops with those of the Federal army. Why, it may well be asked, in the name of common sense, did not the Hanoverian force 3 make m ore haste to join their allies? They should have gone on at once, without waiting for anything, and if THE SUN, LONDON, MON DAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1866. they had failed after all, at least we might have paid a tribute to their skill and enterprise. As it is, it really looks as if they did not care much about the matter one way or the other. This tame conclusion to the affair is very inconsistent with the grand declarations that were made the other day relative to the independence of Hanover. If no better stand than this could have been made, or was intended to have been made, it would have been better not to have made any demonstration at all. Unless the Austrians subsequently come to the rescue, they will be in a far worse position than if they had decided upon acquiescence to the Prussian proposals. Nothing great or decisive would now take place in war if soldiers followed the example of these troops of Hanover. The movements and plans of Marshal BENEDEIi are quite unknown to us, and it really seems idle to conjecture why they can be, for he has left the enemy to take one advan tage after another. If the Austrians were not more prepared than this, they should not have been in such haste to make their proposal in the Diet that the Federal army be mobilized ; it was a grave error on their part,which will cost them a deal to retrieve. It has precipitated matters, and forced the Prussians to proceed, or, at any rate, has furnished them with a capital excuse for doing so, while it has placed the minor states in a most awkward predicament. Having once taken this decisive step, they should have set to work in earnest, and at all hazards have come to the relief of their allies. Prussia should not have been allowed to occupy so large a portion of territory as she has done, and the States of Saxony and Hano ver should have been communicated with, so as to avoid all risks of interference. We may presume that by this time the Prussians have had enough of having the field to themselves, as they are provoking them to attack now in two or three directions. They are advancing into Austrian territory, having passed across the heights of Nolledorf. They are also proceeding into Silesia. Surely the Austrians must soon come forward in some direction or another, for their delay is quite inexplicable. If it were possible to believe that the Prussian Government could be ashamed. of themselves, we might fairly conclude such to be the case from the report of the official ,Staatsanzeiger relative to the transactions of Prussia in Electoral Hesse. had the Elector accepted the terms of the alliance offered by the Prussian Minister, his throne and his sovereign right would have been guaranteed to him. Judging from the accounts given of these terms, however, it would seem that he was wise in refusing them. Here, again, is an instance of the folly of the Austrians. Why did they not prevent this usurpation of the Prussians and protect the Elector? Nothing official is known of the communications made by the French , Ambassador to Count MENSDORFF; but it is said he has declared that there is no sort of agreement between France and Prussia or Italy whereby France could be compelled to participate in the war. The only event that might change these tactics would be if Austria encroached on Italian soil. France will do her best to bring about a settlement between Austria and Italy, when the war is concluded, it is further stated, provided that the present limits of Italy are re spected. Of course all these arrangements cannot be considered conclusive, and must depend upon the state of affairs as the war progresses. Russia has also professed a strict neutrality during the war. CORRESPONDENCE FBOA PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The Emperor held a Cabinet Council yesterday at the Tuileries, but there is no indication of im portance to be drawn from this fact, Cabinet Councils having been held regularly on Saturdays for some time past, and frequently on Thursdays also. A letter from Berlin, dated June 20, in the Siecle, says : —" Fifty thousand Prussians will shortly be ready for operations in Hanover and Electoral Hesse. In Saxony there is no longer a single Saxon soldier. The Prussian authorities govern there in the name of the King of Prussia. Up to this time the hostilities have been limited to firing upon patrols or the guard on their rounds. At Kline bentel, on the route from Toppau to Ratibor, the Austrians crossed the frontier. Prussia has placed in the hands of the advance posts a declaration of war similar in terms to the declaration of war from Austria. The da,dvanceyrussian posts occupy in Saxony the frontiers of Bohemia." The Government has at length turned its atten tion to the many fabrications manufactured every day to represent news. The Moniteur says—" Cer tain persons seek to affect public credit at one time by circulating false news respecting the war, at another by giving false reports of the imminent failure of societies of industry and credit. Some journals do not hesitate to give circulation to these rumours without verifying them. The Government has its eyes upon such acts, and will not hesitate to order the prosecution of the propagators of false news." Were the matter not so serious these fabrications would be ludicrous. One day the telegraph gives a statement ; the next clay it flashes the contradiction. For instance, for several days the account was given that the King of Prussia and M. Bismarck had left for the army ; next day a telegram from Berlin said, "The King and M. Bis mark have not yet left Berlin." The following, from the Itfoniteur, is in further elucidation of the fabri cation system:.—" One cannot be too much upon one's guard against the rumours without consistency which the telegraph itself continues to propagate. Thus it is that we continue ' under all reserve' to publish the information which reaches us. Some days must elapse before the armies of the two par ties can be regularly in presence before each other in Germany. It is, therefore, not probable that a battle of any importance can take place immediately. The Prussians, who have taken with remarkable energy the initiative of strategic operations, are oc cupied in insuring the formation in a compact mass of all the countries in the line which they have conquered since the commencement. The delay of three days has expired, and the telegraphic communications presage the immediate com mencement of hostilities. At his head-quarters at Cremona the King of Italy, commanding in person his principal army, is opposite the Mincio, which separates the Itali an possessions from the country occupied by Austria. The line of the Mincio is defended by the celebrated Quadrila teral, which forms the fortresses of Peschiera and Mantua in front, and of Verona and Legnano in the rear. The attack in front, which the King of Italy will at t empt upon a po i nt b etween M an t ua and Peschie ra , will coincide with one not less daring of the corps d' armee o f Cialdini, posted at Ferrara. This will be t o f orce the throw himself i n t o the Polesp in a e ss o a f g i e lo o v f gtoh,e marching below Ig below the Quadrilateral towards Padua. To the north the free corps of Garibaldi will make a diver sion, evading the Quadrilateral by the mountains. If the general movements of tlfe Italians should suc ceed, the march of Garibaldi may give some uneasi ness to the Bavarian; threatened with being taken in their rear by the corps emerging from the Tyrol. The co-operation of Garibaldi may become, under certain hypotheses, very valuable for the Prussians, but this eventuality is distant. The Prussians retire from the advanced position which they had taken to the south towards Zittau. The Austrians follow them closely, and appear to have had the advantage in some combats which they comprises provoked. Benedek's army comp 300,000 men." The Bourse is still not materially affected by the grave position of affairs. Indeed, at the opening on Saturday, there was a slight rise in prices. At the close of business, however, there was a decline of 25c., both in the 3 per Cents. and the 44. The last price of the former was 62f. 90c. ; of the latter, 92f. 25c. No importance was attached to the events in Spain, particularly as the Moniteur announced that the insurgents had been completely checked. There was, however, a report that General Prim was coming back to Spain to reorganise the insurrection, which at present is confined to a portion of the troops in the garrison at Madrid. Au ordonnance of Police permits the use of horse flesh for human food under certain conditions. Restaurateurs and eating house-keepers who pro vide horse-flesh must exhibit a notice to their cus tomers. Every precaution will be taken to exclude the use of the flesh of horses which were diseased. During last week some boats large enough to contain 12 persons manceuvered on one of the lakes of the Bois de Boulogne, and attracted much atten tion, the motive power being electricity. This, I believe, is the first instance of the application of the principle to purposes of navigation. These boats have paddle-wheels. The experiment is considered to be quite successful. There is one great advantage in the use of this motive power, there is no danger of explosion. The heat is still on the increase. Reaumur's ther mometer reached, at two o'clock, two degrees higher than it has yet attained. The temperature was aboVe 90 deg. of Fahrenheit in the shade. There was'a printer's error in the figures I gave the other day. To-day's range of the thermometer will en able your readers to judge of the heat in Paris. M. Daubree has made an interesting communi cation to the Academy of Science relative to some meteorites which fell on the 30th of May, near St. Mesmin, in the department of the Aube. The sky was very cloudy, and at half-past four in the morn ing a luminouslight was seen. The loud detona tions like the report of cannon were heard. Then a rumbling noise wss heard like that made by a shell striking the ground. The surface of the spot was removed, and a black stone was found in a hole which its entrance had formed. This stone weighs about eight pounds and a half. Not far from the same spot another meteorite was found, which weighed about eight pounds. A third was also discovered weighing more than three pounds. Some aerolites have since fallen near Calais. The trial of the sailors for the murders on board the Fcederis Arca is concluded. The jury found Lenard, Oillic, Th6paut, and Carbuccia guilty, and they were sentenced to death. The jury acquitted Pierre, Tessier, Leclerc, and Chicot. The sentence directs that the convicted men shall be executed at Brest. Chicot was seen at the theatre in the evening. _ . At the second day's races at Montauban, the Prix de la Societe was won by Orelie ; the principal prize by Radamah, and the Railway Prize by Auburn. Jokes are sometimes perpetrated at the Paris police offices as well as in those of London. A pick pocket, asked for his defence by the President of the Police Correctional, said he was innocent. The judge told him that two witnesses had seen him take the purse out of the complainant's pocket. " That is a very small proportion out of 40 millions of Frenchmen," replied the prisoner. The General Omnibus Company of Paris are about to introduce a plan which will save trouble and delay in taking change during the journey. Tickets will be delivered either by the dozen or hundred, at the usual price, to be used according to convenience. This arrangement is useful, but not novel. It was adopted by the omnibus propietors at Liverpool some fifteen years ago, and may pro bably be in effect at the present time. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) GREAT BATTLE NEAR VERONA. VERONA, June 23, 10 p.m. At two this afternoon the Austrian Pulz brigade reached the outlying forts of Verona without loss, having been pushed back by a greatly superior force of Italian cavalry, which, however, did not charge. The Italians advancing upon both banks of the Mincio towards Peschiera were repulsed by a short cannonade from the outer forts of that stronghold. Judging from the preparations upon the Lower Po, Cialdini will throw bridges across to-night near Polesella. VERONA, June 24, 2 p.m. A great battle has been in progress since the morning, between the Italians and Austrians. Both wings of the Italian army have already been repulsed. The battle still continues. ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, June 24 (Evening). A desperate engagement has just taken place in front of Verona, lasting almost the whole day. The first army corps, which was intended to occupy positions between Peschiera and Verona, did not succeed in the attack. The second and third army corps were unable to deliver the first corps from the assault it had to sustain against an overwhelming force. The two latter corps are almost intact. BRESCIA, June 25. The Ist Italian Army Corps attacked the Aus trian positions near Peschiera yesterday. The Cerale division suffered very heavy losses. General Cerale was wounded. , The engagement was prolonged, and the defini tive result not unfavourable, the Italian corps having maintained their positions. Prince Amadeus was slightly wounded, and has arrived at Brescia. LITERATURE. --- --> George Eliot's New Work. Felix Holt, The Radical. By the Author of Adam Bede. Three Volumes. Blackwood & Sons. As Xavier de Maistre somewhere remarks that at the mere act of cutting a lemon, one's mouth waters with an anticipative relish of the acid—so may it be asserted quite as truthfully that upon the mere an nouncement of a new story from the pen of George Eliot, one has a foretaste of a very rare intellectual enjoyment. A very eminent position among our novelists she has long since assumed—this whole somer Georges Sand of our imaginative literature here in England. A foremost place, indeed, not only among our Novelists, but better still among our hu morists—among our happiest delineators of the middle and lower classes of society (as those classes actually are) of the men and women and children of this our own time, in this our own insular fatherland. Neither Buhl er Lytton nor Charles Dickens but would admit and recognise, we may rest perfectly well assured, George Eliot's right to assume to herself a place in their immediate neighbourhood upon our modern bookshelves. The creator of Mr. Pick wick and Mrs. Gamp, of Tom Pinch and Dick Swi yeller, of Mrs. Lirriper and Doctor Marigold, could not but acknowledge a thoroughly congenial contem porary, one gifted with the very rarest powers of hu morous delineation, in the creator of Mrs. Poyser, of Tom and Maggy Tulliver, of the Gleigs and the Dob sons—that delightfully original tale-teller, to whose radiant dreamings we are indebted for the Rev. Amos Barton's Sad Fortunes, for Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, for Janet's Repentance, for Adam Bede, for the Mill on the Floss, for Silas /1. Jarner, for Romola, and, last not least, for this new story of hers, but just now published, the tale here told with all her wonted skill, power, drollery, tenderness, subtlety, and pathos about " Felix Holt the Radical," and about those others (those all but living and breathing fellow-creatures of Felix) peopling, in company with him, the old familiar scenery of "Adam Bede"—the market town, the rural homestead, the sylvan parks, the grimy collieries, the high places and the back slums of George Eliot's favourite haunts down in Loamsbire. -Happily, here, in her latest fiction, we are back again in the Midland Counties of England nowadays—not spirited away, as in Romola, as far back from this nineteenth century as the fifteenth, to the unfami liar streets of Florence, at the time when . those streets were trodden by the sandals of Savonorola. Sketching-in her English landscapes, here, with the same radiant colouring as of old, George Eliot can hardly be said to have equalled, to our thinking et least she can certainly not be said to have in any one particular surpassed, what we must still regard as her incomparable masterpiece, the story of Adam Bede. Having said thus much, as we feel in a manner constrained to do, in distinct deprecation of any direct comparison whatever, being invidiously attempted to be drawn between what we cannot but regard as the rare and peculiar merits appertaining respectively to each of her three principal fictions, to " Adam Bede," the " Mill on the Floss," and " Felix Holt"— [for we set " Romola" apart as in an eccentric region, while we set apart as upon a lesser level than any one of those three chief fictions of our novelist, but just now particularised, both " Silas Marner," and the earliest of all George Eliot's books, the three " Scenes from Clerical Life," already specified by name, in our foregoing observations]—we ould here make a clean breast of it, at once, in regard to whatever we have to say in the way of fault-finding in our consideration of "Felix Holt" as a work of art emanating from one whose productions admit (by reason of their intrinsic excellence, in spite of all the blemishes that may be detected in them) almost, we might say, a scrutiny as severe in its way as an examina- Am under the lens of the oxyhydrogen mi croscope. Frankly, then, let us say at once that the chief incident of the story is utterly abhor rent to us, as one of the ino3t repulsive surely that ever entered into the imagination of a writer of fic tion. That incident, we mean, through which Harold Transome, the comely squire of Transome Court, first discovers who his father is—immediately after he has struck over the mouth with his riding whip the detested Jermyn, and while yet he (Harold) is glaring with a look of the deadliest hatred upon that sleek attorney of Treby Magna. Nothing, as it ap pears to us, could ever justify the mere imagination 1 of an incident so utterly revolting in its character any more than aught that might be urged in its favour or extenuation could ever justify a certain detest able incident branding as with an outrage upon all humanity one of the latest scenes described in Field ing's masterpiece of " Tom Jones." The equivocal position of Mrs. Tran some, Harold's mother, becomes, moreover, thereupon too odious for us to contem plate without a repugnance estranging her alto gether from our sympathies. Lesser flaws of art than these are discernible, to our thinking, in one or two of the other incidents of " Felix Holt." For example, nothing whatever of the smallest import ever comes of that most elaborate, but most con fusedly-arranged, account of Mr. Christian's shuf fling and dodging exchange of placards with Tommy Trounsem, the half-witted bill-sticker—the whole being simply, we are left to conjecture, a clumsy device on the part of the author to bring about a confabulation of some sort between Tommy Troun sem and Maurice Christian. Again, there is—what we cannot but regard as thoroughly inartistic—that (to ourselves at least) utterly incomprehensible jumbling together of— " Hopes and fears that cherished hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes, long subdued, Subdued and cherished long"— in the loVe scene that takes place between Felix and Esther, as that love scene may be found described in chapter thirty-two. The time in which the story is placed, by the way, is thus happily . hit off at its very outset by our authoress where she says— In those days there were pocket boroughs, a Birmingham unrepresented in Parliament and compelled to make strong representations out of it, unrepealed corn-laws, three-and sixpenny letters, a brawny and many-breeding pauperism, and other departed evils ; but there were some pleasant things too, which have also departed. Non omnia grandior (etas gam fugiamus habet, says the wise goddess : you have not the best of it in all things, q youngsters ! the elderly man has his enviable memories, and not the least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid-spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube, by atmospheric pressure from Winchester to Newcastle: that is a fine result to have among our hopes ; but the slow old-fashioned way of get ting from one end of our country to the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube-journey can never 'lend much to picture and narrative ; it is as barren as an exclamatory 0 ! Whereas the happy outside passenger seated on the box from the dawn to the gloaming gathered enough stories of English life, enough of English labours in town and country, enough aspects of earth and sky, to make episodes for a modern Odyssey. As for the delicious colouring still recognizable in George Eliot's descriptions of rustic scenery, the subjoined might almost of itself suffice as a most charming illustration—where she is de picting " the neat or handsome parsonage and grey church set in the midst—There was the pleasant tinkle of the blacksmith's anvil, the patient cart-horses waiting at his door ; the basket maker peeling his willow wands in the sunshine ; the wheelwright putting the last touch to ablue cart with red wheels ; here and there a cottage with bright transparent windows showing pots full of blooming balsams or geraniums, and little gardens in front all double daisies or dark wallflowers; at the well, clean and comely women carrying yoked buckets, and towards the free school small Britons dawdling on and handling their marbles in the pockets of unpatched corduroys adorned with brass buttons," Here, as a match to the foregoing let us give our novelist's luxuriant delineation of that dis tinguishing and characteristic glory of an English landscape, our hedgerows ! Everywhere the bushy hedgerows wasted the land with their straggling beauty, shrouded the grassy borders of the pastures with cat -kined hazels, and tossed their long black berry branches on the corn-fields. Perhaps they were white with May, or starred with pale pink dog-roses ; perhaps the urchins were already nutting amongst them, or gathering the plenteous crabs. It was worth the journey only to see those hedgerows, the liberal homes of unmarkeablo beauty of the purple-blossomed ruby-berried nightshade, of the wild convolvulus climbing and spreading in tendrilled strength till it made a great curtain of pale-green hearts and white trumpets, of the many-tubed honeysuckle which in its most delicate fragrance, hid a charm more subtle and pene trating than beauty. Even if it were winter the hedge rows showed their coral, the scarlet haws, the deep-crim son hips, with lingering brown leaves to make a resting place for the jewels of the hoar-frost. Such hedgerows were often as tall as the labourers' cottages dotted along the lanes, or clustered into a small hamlet, their little dingy windows telling, like thick-filmed eyes, of nothing but the darkness within. As to all the countless little touches of realistic grace, humour, subtlety, lighting up these pages —just as the give and take of animated conversa tion are lit up by momentary freaks of wit and fancy —what better can we do or say in regard to those than simply cull a few of the more salient as afford ing evidence, at once delightful and conclusive, in themselves, as to their surpassing excellence ? In stance the mention casually made of the rich farmers met on the highroad " sitting heavily on their well groomed horses, or weighing down one side of an olive green gig." Among the pictures at Transome Court, the " large Flemish battle-piece, where war seemed only a picturesque blue and red accident on a vast sunny expanse of plain and sky." That charming vignette glimpse of Harold when a baby, conjured up to the mind's eye of his dejected mother in her old age, when she sees him once again in her reverie as—"the little round-limbed crea ture that had been leaning against her knees and stamping tiny feet, and looking up at her with gurgling .laughter." The incidental mention, again, immediately after this of a mother's love as "an expansion of the animal existence." Then, too, those delicious little infinitessimal touches of humour noticeable in George Eliot's inimitable manner of sketching off her many whimsical characters. As instance— Lyddy, the old woman-servant of the Dissenting Clergyman—Lyddy, who found an answer as she found a key by pouring out a pocketful of miscellanies" —Lyddy, who, when accused of having overboiled the eggs, groans out " there's hearts are harder"— Lyddy, who, on been accosted jocularly by Esther, can't help crying out " Dear me, don't you be so light, miss, we may all be dead before night." Then, too, there is that wonderfully tedious person Mrs. Holt, the mother of Felix—a sort of a mixture of Mrs. Nickle by and of a certain " - Wearyful Woman" familiar to the readers of " The Tales from Black wood "—Mrs. Holt, who when enlarging upon the fulfilment of her own lamentable prophecies about Felix, treats the sad history " with a preference for edification above accuracy and for mystery above re levance worthy of a commentator upon the Apocalypse," and whose self-justifying piety indulges in such ejaculatory remarks as these— " I've done my duty and more if anybody comes to that ; for I've gone without my bit of meat to make broth for a sick neighbour ; and if there's any of the church members say they've done the same, I'd ask them if they had the sinking at the stomach as I have." Then, too, there is Denner—the kind hearted old waiting-maid of Mrs. Transome—who has come to look on life as she does upon her rub ber-of-whist of an evening—" I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards' well, and see what will be the end of it." Better still, there is that sketch of Mr. Chubb, the politic landlord of the Sugar Loaf at Sproxton, who " was known to have one fundamental division of all opinion my idee' and humbug.'" Better even than whom is Dredge, the collier of that same benighted locality of Sproxton—Dredge, who in reference to the " Wednesday Preachins" is reported to have said, " I've been aforced to give my wife a black eye to hinder her from going to the preachin'. Lors-a-massy, she thinks she knows better nor me." As a fair specimen of the ready fun and spontaneous comicality of the homelier conversational parts of " Felix Holt," vide the following humorous account of a conversation that takes place one evening in the Steward's Room at Treby Manor, the country mansion of Sir Maximus Debarry—the interlocutors being, the great Mr. Scales himself, the House-Steward and Head Butler ; Mr. Christian, Philip Debarry's factotum ; Mr. Crowder, a rather dull-headed tenant on the estate ; Brent, the gardener ; Sir come, the miller ; and Mr. Filmore, the surgeon's assistant : " Why," said Mr. Crowder, an old respectable tenant, though much in arrear as to his rent, who condescended frequently to drink in the steward's room for the sake of the conversation ; " why, I suppose they get money so fast in the East it's wonderful. Why," he went on, with a hesitating look towards Mr. Scales, " this Transoms has p'raps got a matter of a hundred thousand." " A hundred thousand, my dear sir ! fiddle-stick's end of a hundred thou§and," said Mr. Scales, with a contempt very painful to be borne by a modest man. "We 11,." said Mr. Crowder, giving way under torture, as the all-knowing butler puffed and stared at him, " perhaps not so much as that." " Not so much, sir ! I toll you that a hundred thousand pounds is a bagatelle." " Well, I know it's a big sum," said Mr. Crowder, de precatingly. Here there was a general laugh. All the other intellects present wero more cultivated than Mr. Crowder's. "Bagatelle is the French for trifle, my friend," said Mr. Christian. "Don't talk over people's heads so, Scales. I shall have hard work to understand you myself soon." "Come, that's a good one," said the head gardener, who was a ready admirer ; " I should like to the hear thing you don't understand, Christian." "He's a first-rate hand at sneering," said Mr. Scales, rather nettled. " Don't be waspish, man. I'll ring tho bell for lemons, and mako some punch. That's the thing for putting people up to the unknown tongues," said Mr. Christian, starting up, and slapping Scales's shoulder as he passed him. " What I mean, Mr. Crowder, is this." Here Mr. Scales paused to puff, and pull down his waistcoat in a gentle manly manner, and drink. He was wont in this way to give his hearers time for meditation. " Come, then, speak English; I'm not against being taught," said the reasonable Crowder. " What I mean• is, that in a large way of trade a man turns his capital over almost as soon as he can turn him self. Bless your soul ! 1 know something about these matters, eh, Brent ?" _ _ " To be sure you do—few men more," said the gardener, who was the person appealed to. " Not that I've had anything to do with commercial families myself. I've those feelings that I look to other things besides lucre. But I can't say that I've not been intimate with parties who have been less nice than lam myself ; and knowing what I know, I shouldn't wonder if Transome had as much as five hundred thousand. Bless your soul, sir ! people who get their money out of land are as long scraping five pounds together as your trading men aro iu turning five pounds into a hundred." " That's a wicked thing, though," said Mr. Crowder meditatively. " However," he went on, retreating from this difficult ground, " trade or no trade, the Tranuomes have been poor enough this many a long year. I've a brother a tenant on their estate—l ought to know a little bit about that." " They've kept up no establishment at all," said Mr. Scales, with disgust. " They've even let their kitchen gardens. I suppose it was the eldest sou's gambling. I've seen something of that. A man who has always lived in first-rate families is likely to know a thing or two on that subject." " Ah, but it wasn't gambling did the first mischief," said Mr. Crowder, with a slight smile, feeling that it was his turn to have some superiority. "New-corners don't know what happened in this country twenty and thirty years ago. I'm turned fifty myself, and my father lived under Sir Maxum's father. But if anybody from London can tell me more than I know about this country-side, I'm. willing to listen." " What was it, then, if it wasn't gambling ?" said Mr. Scales, with some impatience. "I don't pretend to know." "It was law—law—that's what it was. Not but what the Transomes always won." "And always lost," said the too-ready Scales. "Yes, yes ; I think wo all know the nature of law." " There was the last suit of all made the most noise, as I understood," continued Mr. Crowder; "but it wasn't tried hereabout. They said there was a deal o' false swear ing. Some young man pretended to be the true heir—let me see —I can't justly remember the names—he'd got two. He swore he was one man, and they swore he was a aother. However, Lawyer Jermyn won it—they say he'd win a game against the Old One himself—and the young fellow turned out to be a scamp. Stop a bit—his name was Scaddon—Henry Scaddon." Mr. Christian here let a lemon slip from his hand into the punch-bowl with a plash which sent some of the nectar into the company's faces. "Hallo ! What a bungler Iam!" he said, looking as if he were quite jarred by this unusual awkwardness of his. "Go on with your tale, Mr. Crowder—a scamp named Harry Scaddon." " Well, that's the tale," said Mr. Crowder. "He was never seen nothing of any more. It was a deal talked of at the time—and I've sat by ; and my father used to shake his head ; and always when this Mrs. Transom© was talked of, he used to shake his head, and say she carried things with a high hand once. But, Lord ! it was before the battle of Waterloo, and I'm a poor hand at tales ; I don't see much good in 'em myself—but if anybody'll tell me a cure for the sheep-rot I'll thank him." Here Ur. Crowder relapsed into smoking aid silence, a little discomfited that the knowledge of which he had boon delivered had turned out rather a shapeless and insignifi cant birth. " Well, well, bygones should be bygones ; there are secrets in most good families," said Mr. Scales, winking, " and this young Transome, coming back with a fortune to keep up the establishment, and have things done in a decent and gentlemanly way—it would all have been right if he'd not been this sort of Radical madman. But now he's done for himself. I heard Sir Maximus say at dinncr that he would be excommunicated; and that's a pretty strong word, I take it." " What does it mean, Scales ?" said Mr. Christian, who loved tormenting. "Ay, what's the meaning ?" insisted Mr. Crowder, encouraged by finding that even Christian was in the dark. " Well, it's a law term—speaking in a figurative sort of way—meaning that a Radical was no gentleman." "Perhaps it's partly accounted for by his getting his money so fast, and in foreign countries," said Mr. Crowder, tentatively. "It's reasonable to think he'd be against the land and this country—eh, •Sircome 2" Sircome was an eminent 'miller, who had considerable business transactions at the manor, and appreciated Mr. Scales's merits at a handsome percentage on the yearly account. He was a highly honourable tradesman, but in this and in other matters submitted to the institutions of his country; for great houses, as he observed, must have great butlers. He replied to his friend Crowder senten tiously. • "I say nothing. Before I bring words to market, I should like to see 'em a bit scarcer. There's the land and there's trade—l hold with both. I swim with the stream." " Hey-day, Mr. Sircome ! that's a Radical maxim," said Mr. Christian, who knew that Mr. Sircome's last sentence was his favourite formula. " I advise you to give it up, else it will injure the quality of your flour." "A Radical maxim !" said Mr. Sircome in a tone of angry astonishment " I should like to hear e you prove that. It's as old as my grandfather, anyhow." "I'll prove it in one minute," said the glib Christian. "Reform has set in by the will of the majority—that's the rabble, you know ; and the respectability and good sense of the country, which are in the minority, are afraid of Reform running on too fast. So the stream must be run ning towards Reform and Radicalism ; and if you swim with it, Mr. Sircome, you're a Reformer and a Radical, and your flour is objectionable and not full weight—and being tried by Scales, will be found wanting." There was a roar of laughter. This pun upon Scales was highly appreciated by everyone except the miller and the butler. The latter pulled down his waistcoat, and puffed and stared in rather an excited manner. Mr. Christian's wit, in general, seemed to him a poor kind of quibbing. " What a fellow you are for fence, Christian," said the gardener. " Hang me, if I don't think you're up to every-- thing." " That's a compliment you might pay Old Nick, if you come to that," said Mr. Sircome, who was in the painful position of a man deprived of his formula. " Yes, yes," said Mr. Scales ; "I'm no fool myself, and could parry a thrust if I liked, but I shouldn't like it to bo said of me that I was up to everything. I'll keep a little principle if you please." "To be sure," said Christian, ladling out the punch. "What would justice be without Scales ?" The laughter was not quite so full-throated as before. Such excessive cleverness was a little Satanic. "If joke's a joke among gentlemen," said the butler, getting exasperated ; " I think there has been quite liberties enough taken with my name. But if you must talk about names, I've heard of a party before now calling himself a Christian, and being anything but it." " Come, that's beyond a joke," said the surgeon's assis tant, a fast man, whose chief scene of dissipation was the Manor. "Let it drop, Scales." " Yes, I -daresay it's beyond a joke. I'm not a harlequin to talk nothing but jokes. I leave that to other Christians, who are up to everything, and have been everywhere—to the hulks, for what I know;, and more than that, they come from nobody knows where, and try to worm them selves into gentlemen's confidence, to the prejudice of their betters." There was a stricter sequence in Mr. Scales's angry elo quence than was apparent—some chief links being con fined to his own breast, as is often the caso in energetic discourse. The company were in a state of expectation. There was some behind worth knowing, and something before them worth seeing. In the general decay of other fine British pugnacious sports, a quarrel between gentle men was all the more exciting, and though no one would himself have liked to turn on Scales, no one was sorry for the chance of seeing him put down. But the amazing Christian was unmoved. He had taken out his handker chief and was rubbing his lips carefully. After a slight pause, he spoke with perfect coolness. " I don't intend to quarrel with you, Scales. Such talk as this is not profitable to either of us. It makes you purple in the face—you are apoplectic, you know—and it spoils good company. Better to tell a few fibs about me behind my back—it will heat you less, and do me more harm. I'll leave you to it ; I shall go and have a game at whist with the ladies." As the door closed behind the questionable Christian, Mr. Scales was in a state of frustration that prevented speech. Every one was rather embarrassed. • " That's a most uncommon sort o' fellow," said Mr. Crowder, in an under-tone, to his next neighbour, the gardener. " Why, Mx. Philip picked him up in foreign parts, didn't he 2" "He was a courier," said the gardener. " He's had a deal of experience. And I believe, by what I can make out —for he's been pretty free with me sometimes —there was a time when he was in that rank of life that he fought a duel." "Ah! that makes him such a cool chap," said Mr. Crowder. " He's what I call an overbearing fellow," said Mr. Sir come, also sotto voce, to his next neighbour, Mr. Filmore, the surgeon's assistant. "He runs you down with a sort of talk that's neither here nor there. He's got a deal too many samples in his pocket for me." "All I know is, he's a wonderful hand at cards," said Mr. Filmore, whose whiskers and shirt-pin were quite above the average. " I wish I could play ecarte as he does; it's beautiful to him ; he can make a man look pretty bluo —he'll empty his pocket for him in no time." " That's none to his credit;" said Mr. Sircome. The conversation had in this way broken up into ate-et tete, and the hilarity of the evening might be considered a failure. Still the punch was drunk, the accounts were duly swelled, and, notwithstanding the innovating spirit of the time, Sir Maximus Debarry's establishment was kept up in a sound hereditary British manner. The interlocutors in the foregoing conversation, it will be readily understood, of course, are all of them, even Christian, to be regarded as merely among the minor characters of the work—the principal personages in which, besides Felix Holt, the Radical Hero of it, are, it may well be believed in regard to any book from the hand of George Eliot, stamped indelibly upon the reader's recollection, long before his perusal of the work has come to be completed. Conspicuous among these are of course Harold Transome, the wealthy squire of Tran some Court; and his mother, old Mrs. Transome ; and that sleek sixty-year-old attorney-at-law among the Trebians, Mr. Jermyn ; and poor lamenting widowed Mrs. Holt, the " Wearyful Woman" of Loamshire, as we are fain to dub her henceforth; and shock-headed, bright-eyed, cravat less Felix Holt, her son, by trade a watchmaker, in opinion a Radical; and queer little, large-headed, big hearted Mr. Rufus Lyon, the Dissenting Minister of Malthouse Yard—who is almost as wearyful to us, by the way, as the melancholy, maundering Mrs. Holt herself ; and that beautiful, bewitchingly, lady-like Esther, Mr. Lyon's reputed daughter, who is in reality, however, as the event proves, heiressof the house of Bycliffe ; and Johnson, again, Jermyn's electioneering Jackall ; and little red haired, curly-pated Job Tudge, Felix Holt's adopted pet. These, with a whole throng of others, quite un necessary here to be enumerated, not only people Treby Magna and its precincts most amusingly, but lend fresh human interests of an enduring kind to that goodly portion of the Midland Counties which is certain to be known henceforth, perennially, among the lines of geographical demarcation familiar to all true lovers of whatever is best in our imagi native literature, as Loamshire. Carlyle's Address as Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh: with Memoir and Two Portraits. One Vol. pp. 96. John Camden Hotton. v This is another of those charming little volume o that Mr. Rotten, of Piccadilly, not only publishes, but himself compiles, and that he appears to take delight in compiling. A collection not of , g uncoil" sidered trifles," but of carefully and well- selected anecdotes apropos to some incident of interest that has recently occurred. Incidents of general inte rest are, in fact, the pegs upon which Mr. Rotten hangs his lucubrations. Mr. Carlyle's installation as Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh is j ll4 one of these after the heart of this our late Horne of Piccadilly. Reprinting the Times' Report of the Nov Lord Rector's Inaugural Address—Mr. Rotten has accompanied that report, thus reprinted, in a read able form with a memoir of the author, and one or two illustrative articles about him. As a sort of doubi frontispiece, there is a page facing the title-page the volume under notice, containing upon it a couple of woodcut sketches of Thomas Carlyle as he was in 1837 and as he is in 1866, the earli er D'Ors portralf ait pencilled in profile by Count Alfred (OFFICIAL BULLETIN.)] AUSTRIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, June 24. The Archduke Albrecht has forwarded the fol lowing despatch to the Emperor : " The Auitrian army, while advancing towards the Mincio, was attacked to-day by the forces under the command of King Victor Emmanuel. Our army carried i\iontevento by assault, and Cus tozza at the close of the engagement at 5 p.m. " Our forces took several cannon and many pri soners, and behaved with extraordinary valour and endurance. " The King employed in the attack the three corps of the army of the Mincio and the reserve. " Prince Amadeus and many generals were wounded. The enemy appears to have brought all his troops in succession under fire." CRACOW, June 25. The town of Oswiencin in Galicia was attacked yesterday by two battalions of Prussian infantry and two divisions of cavalry, which retreated after a loss of eight killed and several wounded. No loss was incurred by the Austrians. MILAN, June 25. An Austrian detachment has descended from the Stelvio Pass, and occupied Bormio in Lombardy, last night. PARIS, June 25. The Moniteur of this morning, in its Politica Bulletin, says : . _ " The Italian army passed the Mincio yesterday morning, and has occupied Goitz Valeggio and Curtabone. " The Italian volunteers who were at Como have passed through Lecco, on their way to the Tyrol." The Moniteur also says : _ . " The Hanoverians have succeeded in reaching the territory of Meiningen, after having eluded the different Prussian corps by which they were sur rounded." DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, June 25. The betrothal of the Czarewitch to the Princess Dagmar took place on, the 221 inst. ~~ 111 0 81