The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-11 00:00:00

LONDON, 7HURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1866. - The West India and Pacific Company's steamer Hayti has arrived with dates from Colon to the 9th and Kingston to the 18th. A bill had been read a first time in the House of Assembly, which pur ported to transfer the colony of Jamaica to the Home Government on the 12th of December. A despatch from Mr. CARDWELL to Governor EYRE was read, which expressed the concern experienced by Her MAJESTY'S Government at the rebellion, and, after deploring the barbarities and loss of life, "the a l acr i ty with recognised with satisfaction which the au th or i t i es , nava l and military officers, the police, the volunteers, and th e citizens had combined for the preservation of or d er. " The despatch also praises the conduct o f the Ma roons. Can anything be more absurd and incon sistent than such a comm unication being re a d i n the House of Assembly, and immediately after wards for the Governor to be suspended? Such a course of proceeding is not at all calculated to raise the character or increase the influence of the Ileum Government in th e co l on ies ; and it will, on the contrary, confuse the judgment and perplex the minds of people. The truth of the matter must be that Mr. c ARDWELL expressed his own opinions, which were mostrational, butwhichwere afterwards most unfortunately overruled by the Premier. Were:the subject not one of so much importance, it would be curious to 11%404 holy completely the tame LIFEBOAT SE RVI C ES. --1) uring the storms of the past year the National lifebaat Institution, by its t.ifeboats and other means. contributed to the savin of iO7 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Insti tuon also expended .£21,374 in the same period on its life boatit et tablishmeuts, in addition to gran nog £4,950 for lie wards for saving life and exercising the lifeboats. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A ePEAL to the vublic for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 150 lifeboat stations. Contributions are received by the London and country bankers and by the Secretary. Richard Les t.sq. at the institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London.wi ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GA EDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING (Thursday), Mr. Charles IN Mill's new opera, in one act, CIIRI6TMAi EVI. Madame F. Lancia, Madame E. Ili ywood ; Mr. A. Cook, and Mr. D. Miranda. Conductor, Ur. Allre i Mellon. After which. r.t 8, the grand comic, et e.tacular, and ope ratic Ci.r! s mss Pan oinime, entitled A I .AD I A N '1 HE WO , WERF Li 1. LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Flyn.g Paine?. (Exe t.th;:r advertisements'. Commence at 7 o'clock. THE ATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE._ Managers, Messrs. B Ealanner and 14% B. Chatterton. THIS EV ra7NG, the Farce of HUSBANDS, BEWARE, Mr. G. Eelmore, Miss Hazlewood, &c. 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HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blacktriars-road, London, S. THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN." begs to inform his friends, and the pubic J. 1101,21 ES J. ; 4 1 - .4.t as he soo su n pnbe p s uthlrshtz . -rtBol2l6E, l II ITI P; N teac ° I I road, .N. W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 20m.—Afternoon, 9h. 53m. TO-MonitoW.-31(5rning, 10h. 26m.—Afternoon,iih . Gm. • a l ? , I l i 0 J-V , ' Salto THE SUN, LONDON, TEITTESIJAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 18C6. of this despatch contradict the statements made any assurance that he would refrain from interfe and the assertions put forth by the alarmists and rence. Certainly the specimen he has had of the agitators at home. The intelligence which reached Radical intentions is not likely to give him much this country, and which filled the minds of the Anti- confidence in either their humanity, their judgment, Slavery Society, the Radical members, thepeaceparty, or their patriotism. Bent on the immediate attain and others with horror, scorn, and indignation, ment of an extreme object, they endeavour to place was that which called forth those recognitions of the the uneducated negro not merely on an equality high service rendered by the authorities, officers, with the whites, but actually above him, so volunteers, &c., of Jamaica, made by Mr. CARD- far as the Southern States are concerned. WELL in this despatch. The accounts of the trans- It is obvious that such a course would actions in Jamaica assumed a different aspect, and be alike disastrous to the interests of both were seen in a different light by the several parties white and black, since while it would degrade and who read them. irritate the one it would thrust the other into a re- In fact, we cannot find any particular point upon which the faction at home expressed themselves with violent indignation and vehement abuse that is not here spoken cf in terms of the highest appreciation by Mr. CARDWELL. It is true that the right hon. sponsibility for which he is totally unprepared, and while inflaming his vanity and encouraging his idle ness, really leave him in the same position as before. The first duty to the negro at present is to care for his physical wants, to guard him as far as possible gentleman has been so far consistent that the other day at Oxford he recorded a similar opinion of the merit of the authorities, and also declared that we owed the speedy suppression of the outbreak to the skill and alacrity displayed by them at the outset of the affair. But what is the use of this we may well ask, when the words of the Colonial Secretary are contradicted in toto by the acts of the Ministry ? It is insulting the common sense of the country for the Government to go on like this. There cannot be that concord and agree ment which ought to exist among the leading members of a Government when such contrary opinions are given, and such a game of cross purposes is being played out. How can we reconcile this despatch of Mr. against the inroads of want, disease, and even actual famine? The best and most effectual means of do ing this is to provide him with suitable employment, work to which he has been accustomed, and for which he is naturally gifted, not such as will demand long and tedious application. If once the great truth can be impressed upon the negro's mind that, whether free or slave, every man must work if he would eat, a great step will have been gained to wards the elevation of his race. Let him by all means be protected by watchful legislation against the tyranny or cupidity of unscrupulous whites, but do not let him think that his colour gives him a right to be supported at the expense of other men's labour. The admission of negro evidence in courts of law is an indispensable condition of a better state of things, CARDWELL'S with the speech made by Earl RUSSELL to the deputation which waited upon him. Here we have, on one hand, the Colonial Secretary's despatch read to the House of Assembly, which commends the conduct of the authorities of Jamaica, during the outbreak, and goes so far as to praise all those concerned, in a remarkable manner, in the suppression of the outbreak; and, on the other hand, we hear the Prime Minister declaring, to an im portant and influential deputation in England, that he cannot wonder at the strong feeling of indignation which the news from Jamaica had in spired in this country, nor at the meetings which had been held to denounce the course pursued. and this must be insisted upon in all the States, if the negro is to be really protected. But, undoubt edly, as Mr. JOHNSON observes, the readiest and most suitable means of providing employ ment for the negro is on the Southern plantations, where his work will be beneficial alike to his master and himself. In some parts of the South large numbers of negroes have already gone back to their former masters, to the advantage of both sides. Such a course would tend to restore American commerce to its former condition, since the now desolated States cannot possibly be made productive without labour, and the landowners are too poor to import men at high wages from the That course being the very one which Mr. CARD WELL in his despatch alludes to and recognises with satisfaction. To crown all, the Governor is suspended before the corn mendatory expressions about his conduct are read to the House of Assembly in Jamaica. If this is to be the course pursued by her MAJESTY'S Ministers, if this is to be an indication of their policy and an illustration of their purposes, their North to do the work formerly done by the negroes. When once the physical condition of the black man has been cared for, and he has been put in the way of independence and comfort, the next great work will be to educate him, to admit him to a full share in that public education so liberally enjoyed in America, and by the gradual cultivation of his faculties to fit him for the comprehension of those great questions of political and national interest existence will not be one of a very prolonged dura tion. Their party will shrivel up to nothing, and their power vanish into thin air, if they change about according to the manner in which they have done in this Jamaica business. which an elector may fairly be supposed to under stand, at least in some measure. If he does not the vote can certainly be of no use to himself, as it will be of very little good to his fellows, since he will be at the mercy of the loudest and most emphatic Earl RUSSELL has compromised himself so much that we can hardly see how he can get out of 'the affair with anything like credit. Had he expe rienced the feelings which he expressed to the depu tation upon the receipt of the intelligence of the Jamaica outbreak, why did he sanction Mr. CARDWELL'S commendatory despatch, and why did he not instead declare that it was the duty of Her MAJESTY'S Government to suspend the Governor? If, as was most probably the case, he did not attend to the matter particu larly, but left it in the hands of Mr. CARDWELL, why did he afterwards interfere is a question which he mob orator who addresses him. Political equality will follow slowly but surely on the social indepen dence and mental cultivation of the tegro, and when he has in these important particulars reached the level of the white man it will be quite time enough to give him the suffrage. To indiscrimi nately bestow political power on the millions of half starved, idle blacks, just set free from the bond age and restraint of a lifetime, would be as foolish as unjust, for it would not benefit the negro, but really add so much to the strength of that extreme political party which finds scope for the exercise of political tyranny even in free America. will have to answer, and how he can do so in a As for the Mexican question, it is currently re- manner at all creditable to himself, or to the satis faction of his country, might well puzzle the most astute. If he refuz , ‘ ..:11 house to decide whether such a course is the one for the Minister of this country to pursue. The Government is always too prone to fall back upon the excuse of its not being advisable to esta blish a precedent in such and such cases, and this is certainly an affair which it would be most disastrous for us to allow to be construed into one. While one thing is said one day, and another the next, without any reason being given, or any new circum stance occurring, to justify the charge of procedure, the lookers-on have every right to draw their own inferences, and in this case they are conclusions ported at Washington that the French Government has assured the United States that the French will withdraw from Mexico nrovided tha.t. +hp vad,,rni Government will give an assurance that they in their turn will not interfere with MAXIMILIAN'S occupancy of the Mexican throne. This is not official, but it would be really the simplest and most reasonable method of settling a very troublesome matter. If the French troops are withdrawn the Congress will not be able to complain of the ob noxious pressure of a European force, while the Mexicans may very fairly be left to settle their own affairs in whatever fashion they may think most conducive to their interests. which throw great discredit upon the Ministry, and The year of grace 1866 is certainly making a stormy entrance, and the loss of life and destruc tion of property have made the new year but a sad epoch for many. North, south, east, and west have the agents of destruction been busy. The sheltered streets of the metropolis have been visited by gales which have unroofed houses, injured spires and steeples, and inflicted very serious damage on the more exposed and fragile establishments. At Woolwich the pavilion of the new Herbert Hos pital for Invalids is converted into a scene of ruin and disaster. Broken beams, shattered glass, smashed stoves and fittings, all testify to the violence of the wind. All round our coasts the story is still sadder, and every day brings fresh reports of wrecks and loss of life. Even the brave crews of the life boats have nut escaped, as the melancholy catas trophe at the Lizard gives evidence. There seems little prospect of any immediate amelioration in the weather. The Coast-guard at Weymouth received orders to hoist the storm signal drum again on Tuesday, and certainly the weather since then has certainly confirmed the prophecy. cast great obloquy upon them. It would have been inconsistent enough, in all conscience, for an in- quiry to have been made into the conduct of the Governor after a despatch had been forwarded by the Colonial Secretary, eulogising his conduct and congratulating him upon its results ; but for the inquiry to be preceded by his suspension is such an extraordinary and unprecedented occurrence that we may ransack the archives of colonial history in vain for its parallel. Ignorant of the real state of the case, uninformed as to the meaning of martial law, the faction took things for granted when it suited them to do so, ignored entirely what they did not think favourable to their arguments, and set out on a course of vituperation, slander, and misrepresentation worthy of the darkest days - _ of intolerance and the most benighted rule of pre- judice. So far as they are concerned such conduct mattered little ; they would soon have been put down by the all-powerful expression of dissent with which the country would have met their vitu- perations ; but it was quite otherwise when they gained for an ally the Prime Minister himself. The prosecution of Governor EYRE, the This morning Londoners witnessed an unusual spectacle, whose beauty at first sight almost made them forget its inconvenience. The dark and dingy metropolis seemed suddenly converted into a fairy world, so bright and pure were its snowy robes. Before the inexorable shovels sent .the white coating from the roofs, and the busy feet and busier spades cleared the pavements, the sight was really beautiful owing to the extreme deptk of this sudden fall, which averages from four to five inches. It ap pears from various accounts, and from the meteoro logical signals, to be very general over the country, and, indeed, is supposed to include an area of a thousand miles square. Such a change in the face of nature is not without its beneficial uses, even though the sparrows flying round our houses re mind us that to the hungry and houseless the soft white flakes bring tidings of cruel hardships. aspersions cast upon those who assisted him, changed their tone and character from being a party and sectarian affair ; they assumed an in fluential character, and invoked the reputation of the rulers of the land. Inasmuch as the Govern ment under the auspices of Earl RUSSELL have pandered to the mean and mischievous schemes of those who originated the movement against the authorities in Jamaica, they have shown themselves unworthy of their high position and unmindful of - - the lofty trust reposed in them, and it is incumbent upon the members of the Legislature to demand from them an explanation of their conduct, and then to decide if such a course as that which they have pursued entitles them to the confidence of the House, and whether the partisans of a faction are fitted to administer the affairs of the country in a right spirit ? AIR. GLADSTONE AND REFORM.—In the course of last week the Norwich Political Union transmitted to Mr. Gladstone copies of resolutions in which confidence was expressed in the Government of Earl Russell, and a hope that the forthcoming Reform Bill would extend the franchise to every industrious and intelligent working man On Tuesday evening the following reply from Mr. Glad stone was read at an adjourned meeting of the Union : " Downing-street, Jan. B.—Sir,—l am directed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d inst., and to inform you that he is sure that his colleagues will be gratified by the expression of confidence by the Norwich Political Union.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. B. GURDON.-C. J. Bunting, Esq." The Damascus brings us news from New York to the 30th ult. The progress of the PRESIDENT'S reconstruction policy seems to be satisfactory f at least so far as the general interests of the country are concerned, though very possibly the Radical party would be better pleased if it were less suc cessful. It is said that Senator WILSON, a member of the extreme Republican party, had an interview with President JOHNSON ou the :subject of his re construction policy. • Mr. %VILsoN informed the PRESIDENT that the Radicals disapproved of it, and would not support him if he interfered with Congressional legislation on the subject; that is to say, if he used his influence or authority to secure the just and equitable representation of the whole United States in the national assembly. Happily for himself, and for the whole body politic, Mr. JOHNSON is not a man to be influenced by party threats or manceuvres. He replied in characteristic fashion by expressing his confidence in the present and Xuture =COM of his policy, and ).efused to give HER MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION.--The leader of the Conservatives in the House of Commons has just issued the following circular to his supporters : " Hugh enden Manor, Jan. 4, 1866.—The meeting of Parliament is fixed for the Ist of next mouth, when the members of the House of Commons will proceed to elect their Speaker, and then to take the oaths. Her Majesty's speech will bo delivered on Tuesday,. the 6th of February, and I beg leave to request your attendance in your place on that day, as business of great importance may be under consideration. —I have the honour to remain, your faithful servant, B DISRAELI." The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has just been on another visit to his Suffolk estate, Eldon Hall, for a shoot ing lowkirg vxcurgou, CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. (FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday E v e n i ng . . _ The insurrection in Spain is not yet over as the Paris papers told us two days ago. The Monteur again publishes despatches announcing movements against the insurgents, whose numbers appear to increase rather than diminish. There have been some riotous proceedings at Barcelona. The Congress of Deputies have voted an address of loyalty and devotion to the Queen, similar to that adopted by the Senate. The communications of Marshal O'Donnell to the latter body con firm my information as to the gravity of the movement. The Marshal does not attempt to conceal the fact. Many arrests are daily made at Madrid, and the domiciliary visits continue. A shocking murder has been committed in the Rue de la Ville l' Evegne. On Monday night an indivi dual residing in the same house as a girl of immoral habits went down from his room to pay her a visit. At the moment when he opened the door an indivi dual rushed out suddenly and pearly knocked him down. On entering the girl's room a shocking spectacle presented itself. 116 light was burning. The unfortunate girl was stretched upon the bed. Her throat had been cut with a razor and the head was nearly severed from the body. The murderer is supposed to be a soldier, as the girl was seen with one shortly before her return home. LITERATURE. A Noble Life. By the Author of " John Halifax," " Christian's Mistake," &c. Two vols. Hurst and Blackett. We cannot but think that the earnest and elo quent author of " Christian's Mistake " has here herself committed a mistake, a grievous mistake, as an artist and as a tale-teller, in the choice of the subject of this " Noble Life." The story is in teresting and it is beautifully written, and the noblest moral lessons are most earnestly enforced —it could not be otherwise in a book from the author of " John Halifax." The mistake to which we allude is this. The hero of this " noble life" is one truly noble not by birth alone, for he is born Earl of Cairnforth, but by the possession of every high and heroic sentiment that can ennoble human nature. This noble spirit is enshrined in an earthly tabernacle that can hardly be dignified with the name of human. In order to enforce the worth of the soul irrespective of the body, in order to show the difficulty of the spirit encumbered with more than the ordinary share of " the ills that flesh is heir to," the author might have described her hero as blind, or helplessly invalided, even the cripple and the hunchback come within the range of our common sympathies, but she has, with a re finement of cruelty (cruelty to the reader of her work we mean, for every description of the hero's infirmities inflicts new pain on the beholder)—with a refinement of cruelty she has selected as a hero, gifted with every pure and ele vated sentiment, a miniature deformity, resembling some anatomical curiosity preserved in spirits in a surgical museum ! Such beings may be, but they are rare, almost to the verge of impossibility. Why, then, select such a theme for close study and minute investigation? The object at heart might have been enforced far more powerfully and far more touchingly by bringing the Earl of Cairnforth within the ordinary limits of human suffering and affliction. Lest we may be supposed to exagge rate, let us give our readers some idea of this dis tressing object : THE LAST EARL OF CAIRNFORTII. He did not succeed to the title ; he was born Earl of Cairnforth ; his father having been drowned in the loch a month before—the wretched Countess herself beholding the sight from her Castle windows. She lived but to know she had a son and heir—to whom she desired might be given his father's name : then she died—more glad than sorry to depart, for she had loved her husband all her life, and had only been married to him a year. Perhaps, had she once seen her son, she might have wished less to die than to live, if only for his sake ; however, it was not God's will that this should be. So, at two days old, the " poor little Earl"—as from his very birth people began compassionately to call him—was left alone in the world, without a single near relative or connection—his parents having both been only children ; but with his title, his estate, and twenty thousand a-year. The day after the death of the countess Mr. Card roes, the parish minister, is summoned to the castle by the earl's lawyer, and is introduced to the new earl : Mr. Cardross followed upstairs towards the magnificent nursery, which had been prepared months before, with a loving eagerness of anticipation, and a merciful blindness of futurity, for the expected heir of the Earls of Cairnforth. For, as before said, the only hope of the lineal continuance of the race was in this one child. It lay in a cradle re splendent with white satin hangings and lace curtains, and beside it sat the nurse. The minister shook hands with her silently—she had gone through sore affliction—but the lawyer addressed her in his quick, sharp, business tone, under which he often disguised more emotion than he liked to show. " You have not been dressing the child ? Dr. Hamilton told you not to attempt it." " Na, no, sir, I didna try," answered Janet, sadly and gently. " That was well. I'm a father of a family myself," added Mr. Menteith, more gently : " I've six of them ; but, thank the Lord, ne'er a one of them like this. Take it on your lap, nurse, and let the minister look at it ! Ay, here comes Dr. Hamilton !" Mr. Cardross knew Dr. Hamilton by repute—as who did not ? since at that period it was the widest-known name in the whole medical profession in Scotland. And the first sight of him confirmed the reputation; and made oven a stranger recognise that his fame was both natural and justifiable. But the minister bad scarcely time to cast a glance on the acute, benevolent, wonderfully powerful and thoughtful head, when his attention was attracted by the poor infant, whom Janet was carefully unswathiug from his innumerable folds of cotton wool. Airs. Campbell was a widow of only a month, and her mistress, ,to whom she, had been much attached, lay dead in the next room, yet she had still a few tears left, and they were drooping like rain over her mistress's child. No wonder. It lay on her lap, the smallest, saddest specimen of infantile deformity. It had a largo head — larger than most infants have—but its body was thin, elfish, and distorted, every joint and limb being twisted in somo way or other. You could not say that any portion of the child was natural or perfect, except the head or face. Whether it had the power of motion or not seemed doubt ful ; at any rate it made no attempt to move, except feebly turning its head from sido to side. It lay with its large eyes wide open, and at last opened its poor little mouth also, and uttered a loud pathetic wail. " It greets, doctor, ye hear," said the nurse, eagerly ; "'Deed, an' it greets fine whiles." " A good sign," observed Dr. Hamilton. " Perhaps it may live after all; though one scarcely knows whether to desire it." " I'll gar it live, doctor," criod Janet, as she rocked and patted it, and at last managed to lay it to her motherly breast ; " I'll gar it live, ye'll see ! That is, God willing." The child does live. The first ten years of his life are passed in seclusion in Edinburgh, in the house of the physician, and then, all hope of effecting any physical improvement being at an end, he comes home to Cairnforth. The Sunday after his arrival the magnificent family carriage is brought out to convey the Earl of Cairnforth to the parish kirk. Here is the description of the hero at ten years of age : The weather at Paris continues to be very tem pestuous, and various minor accidents are recorded arising from the tremendous wind prevalent last night. Branches of trees have been carried away, and great damage has been done to the roofs of houses. I do not hear of any injury to per sons. Accounts have arrived of casualties at sea. The Antelope, -a screw steamer, serving the line between Havre and Antwerp, on leaving the mouth of the Scheldt, ran into the Panthene, which had just arrived at her destina tion from Havre. The crew were saved, but the engineer of the Parthene was seriously injured. Both vessels were much damaged. The Parthene was sunk, hut was insured for 115,000 f. Another English lady thief has been arrested. While an English gentleman and his wife were walking in the Palais Royal the latter was pushed against violently by a young woman going in another direction. The lady at the moment felt her pocket, apd found that her purse was gone. On being stopped the purse was found upon her. She ingenuously admitted that she had only arrived at Paris from London the previous evening, and said that a young girl, her cousin, a skilful pick pocket, had induced her to come, by assuring her that they could live in style by the profes sion, which she said she would teach her. The adroit pickpocket, of course, declined to give the address of her obliging cousin. The death is announced of an Italian lady, the Countess de Millefloii, of a cancerous tumour. The lady is better known in Italy as Madame Rosina, and gossip ascribes to her the power of exercising much political and other influence over the King Victor Emmanuel. She was 42, and leaves two children. The countess was about to take up her residence in Tuscany, where a splendid mansion had been prepared for her. There was what is called a morganatic marriage between this lady and the King of Italy, who hastened to be present at her last moments at Mandria. The Moniteur of this evening contains a list of regulations relative to the Great Exhibition of 1867, to the effect that the historical gallery will receive productions from the most distant period to the end of the 18th century. Objects connected with the history of each nation will be placed in a distinct portion of the gallery. The exhibition of the foreign nations will be under the care of the commissioners charged with organising the participation of each country at the Universal Exhibition of 1867. A special commission is charged with organising for the French section the exhibition of products characterising the different epochs of the history of national labour, and to submit to the approbation of the Imperial Commission the rules and instruc tions to be published with this view. The President is M. Nieuwerkerke, Superinten - _P I - AT Pfn - Clt a,, M. de Longperier, M. de Sommerard, M. Lartet, M. Alphonse de Rothschildc-, A Commission may be aided by special commit tees to be named by it. THE DEPUTY RECORDERSHIP OF THE CITY OF LONDON.—Some little misunderstanding has arisen within the last few days in City circles, it having been stated that Mr. Forsyth, Q.C. and M.P., had been ap pointed Deputy-Recorder. The facts are that Mr. T. Chambers, Q.C. and M.P., the Common Sergeant, has been appointed to act as Deputy-Recorder pro tem., and that Mr. Forsyth only acts for the Recorder in the Lord Mayor's Court during that gentleman's temporary absence on the Jamaica inquiry. MR. JUSTICE LusH.—Last evening upwards of 125 members of the Home Circuit met at the Albion in Aldersgate-street, to do honour to the appointment of Mr. Justice Lush as one of her Majesty's judges of the Court of Queen's Belich. Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., presided, and was supported by the presence of Mr. Jus tice Willes, Mr. Baron Bramwell, and Mr. Baron Channell, all of whom were formerly members of the Home Circuit. There was also a large attendance of the leaders of the bar upon this circuit, amongst whom may be numbered Mr. Denman, Q.C. ; Mr. Bovill, Q.C. ; Mr. Wordsworth, Q.C.; Mr. J. Brown, Q.C.; Mr. Sergeant Dowling, Mr. Sergeant Robinson, Sir George Honeyman, Bart.; Sir G. Young Bart. ; the Hon. Dudley Campbell, Mr. Alfred Thesiger, and all the more distinguished members of this honourable association of gentlemen. The evening was passed in the utmost hilarity, amidst reminiscences of former gatherings, when Sir W. Sherman, one of the judges of the Queen's Bench, and Sir Joseph Arnold, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, were the subjects of similar ovations on the part of the members of the Home Circuit. The dinner, provided by Mr. Staples, was of the most recherche description, and well sustained the reputa tion of the Albion, of which he continues to be the liberal host. CHILD MURDER AT HALIFAX.— it the Leeds Assizes on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Shee, Jane Currie, 30, servant, was charged with the wilful murder of her female child, at Halifax, on the 10th of December. ,Cfn the 9th of December she was engaged as cook at Mr. North's eating-house, and when her master went down stairs, between six and seven o'clock in the morning, he heard something underneath the stair steps, and, on re moving a rug, found the body of a newly-born child. Mr. North had some conversation with the prisoner, who was then running about the kitchen attending to her work and she acknowledged that the child was hers. She asked him to call a cab, and he did so, telling her "to do what was right" with the infant. The following day, at Bath Parade-bridge, she was seen to throw a child into the water. The body was recovered the next day. The jury found the prisoner not guilty, after being in deliberation nearly an hour. SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.-- Yesterday an inquest was held at the village of Cholsey, near Wallingford, before Mr. A. D. Bartlett, coroner for the lower division of Berks, on the body of a young un married woman, named Harriett Ann Sawyer, whose death created a great deal of excitement in that neighbourhood, as it was supposed to have resulted from a very severe beating she received at the hands of a soldier stationed at Aldershot, where Sawyer led a dissolute life for eight or nine weeks. The deceased returned hale soon afterwards complaining very much of pains in the bowels. Evidence was given by the mother of the deceased, and also by Mr, Breach, surgeon, of Cholsey, who had been unable to find any external marks of violence. The jury found a verdict —" that deceased died from inflammation of the bowels, but whether from violence or not there was no evidence to show ; at the same time, however, they thought it a very suspicious case." Mr. Inspector Johnson, of the Berks constabulary, who bad made every possible inquiry into the case, was presont at the inquiry. FATAL OMNIBUS' ACCIDENT. Yesterday Dr. Lankester held an inquiry at the Middlesex Hospital rela tive to the death of John George Barker, aged 11, who was killed on Monday by being run over by an omnibus . It appeared in evidence that a Bayswater omnibus was proceeding along Oxford-street at the rate of about three miles an hour, and going in an opposite direction was a cart laden with furniture. The carriage-way being densely crowded with vehicles the decaased got behind the cart, and when as he thought a good opportunity offered for crossing darted forward to do so. He was immediately caught by the wheels of an omnibus, both of which passed over his body, fracturing his ribs, and crushing his liver to pieces. His death was instantaneous. Tho Coroner remarked that it was a most dangerous practice to cross the street behind a vehicle. A great many street accidents occurred through the carelessness of ppople in crossing the streets. He thought that if bridges were placed in the centre of streets many accidents would be prevented. He strongly condemned the practice of putting passengers down from omnibuses in the middle of the street. A verdict 0 "Accideutal Death" was returued. A DISMAL PICTURE. The horses pawed the ground for several minutes of delay, and then appeared Mr. Menteith, followed by Mrs. Campbell—who was quite a grand lady now, in silks and satins—but with the same sweet, sad, gentle face. The lawyer and she stood aside, and made way for a big, stal wart young Highlander of about one-and-twenty or there abouts, who carried in his arms, very gently and carefully, wrapped in a plaid, even although it was such a mild spring day, what looked like a baby, or a very young child. " Stop a minute, Malcolm." At the sound of that voice, which was not an infant's though it was thin and sharp, and unnatural rather for a boy—the big Highlander paused immediately. " Hold me up higher—l want to look at the loch." " Yes, my Lord." This then—this poor, little, deformed figure, with every limb shrunken and useless, and every joint distorted, the head just able to sustain itself and turn feebly from one side to the other, and the thin white hands piteously twisted and helpless-looking—this, then, was the Earl of Cairn forth. " It's a bonnie loch, Malcolm." " It looks awfu' bonnie the day, my Lord." " And," almost in a whisper, " was it just there my father was drowned?" " Yes, my Lord." No one spoke, while the large, intelligent eyes, which seemed the principal feature of the thin face that rested against Malcolm's shoulder, looked out intently upon the loch. At last Mr. Menteith suggested that the kirk-bell was beginning to ring. " Very well —put me into the carriage." Malcolm placed him, helpless as an infant, in a corner of the silken-padded coach, fitted with cushions especially suited for his comfort. There he sat—in his black velvet coat and point-lace collar, with silk stockings and dainty shoos upon the poor little feet that never had walked, and never would walk, in this world. Tho one bit of him that could be looked at without pain was his face, inherited from his beautiful mother. It was wan, pale, and much older than his years, but it was a sweet face ;—so patient, thoughtful —nay, strange to say, content. You could not look at it without a certain sense of peace, as if God, in taking away so much, had given something—which not many people have—something which was the divine answer to the minister's prayer over the two-days'-old child— " Thy will bo done." Although he lives to reach man's estate, and his head and features become matured, he never grows beyond the size of a child of ten or twelve ; he is never able to move or to use his hands even with out the greatest difficulty. It is in selecting such a distressing physical unfortunate for the subject of our continued contemplation (for we are never allowed to forget the useless feet or the poor crippled fingers), that we think the author of a "Noble Life" has, indeed, been sadly mistaken. The moral of the tale is, of course, excellent, and the descriptions of the workings of the mind and heart of the " noble" hero are very forcibly portrayed, but the story is likely to have an unpleasant effect upon many readers ; and we are sorry to say so, and very sorry to think it, for the perusal of a work by the hand to which we owe the sweet, loveable Christian, the " gentleman" John Halifax, the charming Agatha and her husband, the self-sacri ficing Ninian the devoted head of the family, and so many others equally admirable and equally de lightful, is to us almost invariably a matter of espe cial interest and gratification. ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS. - -4 , - (SECOND NOTICE.) The Atlantic Telegraph. By W. H. Russell, LL.D. ; illustrated by Robert Dudley. (Day and Son, Limited.)—A magnificent commemoration is here made of a very wonderful enterprise. An en terprise the hair-breadth failure of which is beyond a thousand of the successes recorded in the History of Science—and for this reason that it was a failure auguring the all but certainty of eventual triumph in the accomplishment of one of the most daring undertakings ever adventured upon by civilised man. " One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin," said Shakspere. And in the flash of the electric current we actually have the axiom of the great Poet very wondrously realized and magically illustrated. For, there, literally, is one touch of nature that, in the twinkling of an eye, can make, has made, is daily, hourly, momentarily making, the whole world kin! Across continents— under the depths of the ocean—along the fibrous thread of a copper wire—at the thrill of an acid— at the click of a needle--men, separated from each other by the intervening distance of many thousands of miles, converse with one another at pleasure by that one touch of nature, vouchsafed to them through the marvellous agency of the Electric Telegraph ! Among all the astounding wonders worked by the agency of science, those embraced under the sugges tive title of Submarine Telegraphy are incom parably the most surprising in their character, are the most completely captivating to the im agination of the civilised multitude. First and foremost among the victories achieved by the pro moters of Submarine Telegraphy being, beyond all possibi.ity of contradiction, that achieved in the successful laying down of the Atlantic Cable be tween Europe and America, between Ireland and Newfoundland ! For, let it never be forgotten that the Miracle of that astonishing Victory of Science has actually been accomplished ! It does not yet remain to be accomplished for the first time—it has absolutely been accomplished. Communications have passed under the depths of the Atlantic from Shore to Shore, to and fro, audibly in the click of the needles, visibly in their rapid deflections to the right hand and to the left. The President of America and the Queen of England have exchanged courtesies and assur ances of amity through this novel medium of com munication. And, although the channel of inter course thus marvellously opened for a while be tween the old world and the new was but sustained for a very brief time intact—that channel, no matter for how short an interval, has been opened. Along it from shore to shore, from east to west, from west to east, that most wondrous Touch of Nature has made the Whole World Kin—will yet once more make it kin anew, and the next time permanently, with God's good blessing on man's resolute perseverance! Another and a giant step towards that end is here recorded with a luminous pen by the most gifted and renowned of all Newspaper Correspondents 1 By him whom we remember to have dubbed in these columns of The Sun " CAPTAIN PEN," when he was first making his reputation as The Times' Military Correspondent out in the Crimea. Dr. William Henry Russell has often before now written of great events in a manner worthy of them, has written of them nobly, graphically, eloquently, as befitted the hand of CAPTAIN PEN in proprid persona —but he has never written more nobly, more graphically, or more eloquently as the recorder of Great Events than he has here done when recount ing the history of the last endeavour to lay the gigantic cable of the Atlantic Telegraph. Reading it, we cannot but most earnestly trust and pray that the man who wrote this history of the all but successfulachievment of that greater enterprise is yet destined, within a very few months more, to wit ness with his own eyes and to record with his own hand, the triumphant accomplishment of what has twice been adventured upon with such magnificent audacity. That that deed will yet be done, and done securely, we cannot but rest perfectly well assured. Its accomplishment is simply a question of time. If any doubts had still lingered in our mind upon the matter before Dr. Russell's book was issued from the press, those doubts, thanks to this book, Dr. Russell has completely dissipated. The narrative penned by him is, as a matter of course, the dominant charm, attraction, and glory of the volume. But the written narrative itself so intrinsically alluring to the reader will be found by him to have been enhanced in interest and fascination by the adornments lavished upon it in the issue of the work in the form •cf this splendid volume by the combined assistance of the subsidiary arts of the illustrator, the lithographer, the typo grapher, the paper manufacturer, and the very bookbinder. It is a book worthy of its theme and of its author—a gift-book not unworthy of the timbre affixed to it as another of the splendid volumes emanating from the Messrs. Day and Son's establishment. ./Esop's Fables. Illustrated with One Hundred and Ten Engravings. (Frederick Warne and Co.) — In the mere getting of it up this little volume could haraly have been rendered more charmingly at tractive than it has been by the combined ingenuity of printer, bookbinder, and embellisher. As to the letterpress contents of the book, however, we can only regret that less pains had been taken. We mean in the touching of it up, so as to " point the moral," if not also to " adorn the tale," of each successive fable. If only these " Fables of .2Esop " had been translated literally, verbatim et literatim, nothing added, nothing modified ! Instead of which, we must needs have the suggestiveness of the little narratives utterly spoilt in some instances, very considerably marred in others, by being com mented upon, or morally enforced in (heir applica tion, and all this, as it certainly appears to us, most unnecessarily. It is as if the editor of the volume, while recognising in the immortal Fables of the greatest as well as the oldest of the Fabulists—that wise and witty JEsop who was the precursor of our more modern Gays and Lafontaines—that the editor, we say, while recognising in these world-famous " Fables of lEsop " so many Wise Saws, must needs take it into his head that they would be comparatively worthless unless very pointedly applied, or enforced, by the tacking to them so many Modern Instances. We regret the superfluous labour thus . devoted to the literary adornment of the present volume, be cause we cannot but see in it as a whole one of the loveliest editions of lEsop for a long while given to the world—the loveliest edition of all in a form so popular and accessible. Beast and bird, and fish and reptile—symbolised externally in the four cor ners of the binding—lion, dove, eel, lizard, horse and ass, wolf and lamb, frog and ox, dog and cat, snake and peacock, ape and fox, here they all are vividly brought before us in the prettiest little vignette wood-cut embellishments—croaking, quacking, hissing, bellowing, warbling, bleeting, roaring, twittering, cooing, screeching, lowing, gib bering, neighing, barking, purring the wit and wis dom, breathed to all time, to all countries ) to all generations through their wonderful Imaginary Conversations ! Upon the whole, this charming Illustrated Edition of 2Esop's Fables command—in spite of the exceptions to it we have here felt con strained to take almost in spite of ourselves—our heartiest admiration, constituting, as it does, as ele gant an epitome as could reasonably be wished of the sage and shrewd imaginings of the world's most renowned and cherished Fabulist. Illustrated Book of Trades. (George Routledge and Sons.)—Having examined very carefully the whole of this goodly volume, we hesitate not one instant to pronounce it, in our opinion, the most instructive and entertaining " Book of Trades" ever published. Through its pages we take a survey, a rapid but by no means a superficial survey, of the industrial labours of the great workers in the hive of modern civilisation. Turning over its pictured leaves, we note successively the tools and occupa tions of— " Butcher and baker And candlestick-maker !" One after another, we are introduced to all the more important and essential toilers and moiler in the workshops and factories of the world. Besides such all-important personages as the Black' smith and the Carpenter, as the Bricklayer and the Farrier, and so forth—almost we had said, in the words of the old nursery rhyme— Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Apothecary, Ploughboy, Thief! Only that the jemmy, the centre-bit, and the crow bar, familiar to the skilled hands and secretive pockets of the Burglar or Housebreaker hardly, of course, fall within the category of the industries here illustrated and explained for the delight of our more inquiring youngsters. Hardly an adult amongst us, however well instructed in regard to the varied °on' pations of our working population, but might---lin t without delight to himself—extend the range of his knowledge by a glance through the, " Book of Trades," as those trades are herein revealed to us) lucidly explained, and profusely illustrated. Cervantes' Don Quixote. Illustrated. (George Routledge and Sons).—Newly translated into Eng lish by Charles Jarvis, and very humorously illus trated by John Gilbert, the immortal masterpiece of Cervantes Saavedra is here issued anew from th e press for the delight of all the lovers of extravagan t comicality and innocent irony who care, for half 3 dozen shillings, to adorn their bookshelves with really exquisite version of one of the greatest works in imaginative literature. Translated into allmoder u languages, published in every conceivable forint printed ono while for the value of a mere song , another while in an edition de luxe not unworthy 0 f being swathed in silk, velvet and morocco, eni" blazoned with gold, and encrusted with precious stones the history of Don Quixote of La Mancha, has within the last three bun dred years achieved for itself a world-wide re nown and popularity. Among the most renowne d creations of the fancy in all literature are the gau nt figure of the Don himself, the podgy form of his almost yet more ridiculous Esquire, Sancho Pao to wit, and the scarecrow anatomy of the Peerles,s, Knight's destrier Rosinante. Among the most we ll known incidents in fiction, are such incidents a° those related of Don Quixote in regard to 1 1 laughter-moving assault upon the Wine-skins, an t his equally laughter-moving battle with the Win d ' mills. The statuary and the painter in various ag es and in different countries have vied with each oth er in realising, in regard to Don Quixote and his a d.. ventures, the breadth of their humour and th e height of their extravagance. But among all th e tributes that have thus abundantly been offered t ° the genius of Cervantes, as that genius is want fisted in his immortal masterpiece, the most pre " cious to his fame, as a ff o r di n g a ppreciah i guarantees for its perpetuity, are the pePul 3fl cheap, and elegant reprints of D on Q u i xo te, tha t have of late years been following each other fr° lll . the press with such marvellous rapidity. ConeP t i cuously taking its place among the cheapest a% most elegant, as also, we doubt not that time w prove, among the most popular of these one volumed reprints, when it comes to be known , is the one volumed edition here given to the public' at what might almost be called a mere nonlin' price, by a firm of popular publishers ecitin li t well-known and appreciated as such, upon bn t sides of the Atlantic. Baron Munchausen's Adventures. Illustrated Gustave Dore. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin).- - °, magnificent an edition of Baron Munchausen believe has never before made its appearance. its splendour and in its very dimensions it is upoll. par with the Baron's own adventures. Domi lse Sampson, and no one else, might define it ad e :„. qnately in a word—speaking of it (as it deserves be spoken of) as—•" Pro-digious 1" It takes us back to the almost forgotten age of folios and q uart° s : l It is, in the mere binding of it, glowing with gold an clad in scarlet. Its own narrative, as we all knol is written currente calamo throughout. But author, whoever he was, has here at length folio' his match in his illustrator—that indefatigable, in exhaustible, bizarre, outré, wierd, fantastic, gr °- tesque of the pencil, M. Gustave Dore to wit. W 1 1: killed Cock Robin ? is a query the answer to whi ch is much better known than that other far we t° problematic question as to Who wrote " . 1331.° , 11 Munchausen ?" Whoever he was h e certain l y evidences such a marvellous capacity for pulling td, long bow, that he at least, if no one else cou l d, must surely have been able, h a d h e t a k en it in hand, to have bent the bo w o f Achilles as easily as though it had been the merest willow-switch! Dando have been matchless as an eater of oysters—bu t ) 1 : the author of " Baron Munchasen" there 20 °, 0 Crammer, if you will ! Surely in one sew() r o greatest Story-Teller in the world! A writer 'isq' must, beyond any doubt of it, have drawn his l 0 guage—among all our lexicographers—not fr u ° o Johnson, or from W e bste r , or f rom Ogilvy, 'l li , (exclusively) from—Walker 1 If only as symb e . t • tally suggestive in the sound of it, his favoa r/ e. musical instrument must certainly have been the 1 / 1. 0 If any wanderer over the earth ever came hc 111: : 1! again with what is called Travellers' Tales, he di d If any voyager over the seas ever evinced a cap ac i ty for spinning yarns, here was the man ! Such P °r so tentous mendacity the world has never witnessed bio thab which enables Baron Munchausen to take . _ On stand, like a Colossus, upon the bo r d er land betvm" the Sublime and the Ridiculous. Court tirtlor. HER MAJESTY• OSBORNE, WednesdaSL•iie The Queen, with Princess Hermann of Hoheziw and Princess Leining en , d rove out yester d a y 1 1 i carriage and four, attended by Colonel the ll° l3 ' Hardinge. „ l ied Princess Helena ro d e on horseback, accoraPa by Prince Arthu r an d P r i nce Hermann of tt"o, henlohe. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinst? ll li e l returned to-day t o th e R anger ' s H ouse, Green-111c park. The Prince and Princess of Wales aS Bolkham. HOLKHAM, WednesclaP, The efforts of the Earl of L e i ces t er an d his elf fo r cient staff of keepers to p r o v ide excell en t sport i 4 the Prince of Wales, supplemented, as th e y vver e ' l , o equally strenuous exertions on th e par t of a tenantry, have been very successful, and such a he : of game as there was yeste r d a y morn i ng i n the 13 .; serves was never know n a t H o lkh am on all Pio; vious occasion. The sho o ti ng was arranged: g Tuesday and Thursd a y ; an d on Tuesday raeri!'lln.ii when the sport was opened, o n ly th e exceech l3 %/ high wind militated against the sport, and th i l eo course told against the statistics of the bag I v d. made up ; still the shooting was exceedingly h , ge ° : The shooting party comprised his Royal 11 `f or , ness the Prince of Wal es , th e E ar l o f LeiceS y the Major G. H. Grey, the D u k e o f R ox burghe, of o f Marquis of Bowmont, Earl Sp encer , the Ear" Dunmore, Lord Suffield, Viscount Powerscour., Viscount Hamilton, M.P., Hon. T. D e Grey / 31 , : no . Hon. Edward Coke; Hon. C o l one l Coke, Captain Elphinstone, Admiral Sir Henry - I , 3P j. Sir Edward Kerrison, Captain Stephenson, 'n o Powell, and Mr. E. T re d cro ft . Aft e r 1 11 ° 11 0e her Royal Highness the Princess of li r al es „-,' tidy Countess of Leicester, Lady Anne Coke, "'liises Gertrude Coke, the Countess of M or ton, the Pl e " , Ar of Roxburghe, the Countess of Dunmore , , countess Powerscourt, and Lady Suffield joilaeu rts: royal and distinguished sportsmen in the c oy and remained until the close of the day. g sse % The West Norfolk hounds w ill meet at t OA f Farm, Burnham, on Friday, an d it is expected 0 o the visitors at Holkham will j o i n i n the pleas ure the chase. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador a n j r the Countess Bernsto r ff entertained last evening at dirl ao ,i the Lord Ch an cellor and Lady Cranworth, the aivero, Countess de Grey, the Right Hon. Charles P. we e, M.P., the Hon. W. and Mrs. Ashley, the Hon. Mrs. P'l c j: Sir James and Lady Hogg and Miss Hogg, g r. L'' ' ' ,l B. so" M.P., &c., at the Prussian Embassy, on Carlton-h° - 1 G t terrace. Tho Count and Countess Bernstorff Dad 3 °'.(' party after dinner th e to a the be e ; vide 4,0 c th at Way Co i , Gen of Ori, of had ti oni Wa s the Or L~ So bae rti 110 t (