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THEXTIIE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole 3.essee and Manager, Mr. F. Chatterton. THIS`E`-ENING, '('HE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, .1 - nelps ; Messrs. E. Phelps, Barrett, T. mead, F. Barstiy, C. Warner; Mesdames Hermann Vezin, and Hunispetli. To conclude with the Pantomime, entitled NUMBER NIL" • or Harlequin and the Gnome-King of the Giant Mountain. Commence at a Quarter to Seven. rirEATRE YAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bucks one, TO-NIG lIT, A LESSON FuR LIFE. Messrs. Eothern, Chippendale, Com pton, Howe, Rogers, Clarke, Braid, ht,ndal, Gordon, Vincent, & . c.; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, trill, Wright, Laws, &c. Atter which, LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONNA FOR,. Messrs. tiothern, Boger, Gordon, Clark, We,:tliersby, Whire, &c. To conclude with JENNY LIND AT LAST. Miss lona Burke. Commence at Seven. oYAL LYCEUM 'filEA.'fßE._ O Sole Lessee anti Manager, Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, ROUGE E NDIR. Maurice D'Arbel a Gambler), A., r. Feebter ; Messrs. 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Ta-Alonatow.-Montiu g, 11h. 10m.—Afternoon, 11h. 50m. 4 mit e)4l THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1867. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1867. It is very satisfactory to find that the bill for the Confederation of the North American Colonies was read a second time last night in the House. It is desirable in every respect that this should be expe dited as much as possible, and we are therefore glad that so much despatch has been used. Mr. ADDER LEY made an interesting speech in bringing forward the bill, and those who are still unfamiliar with the details of the measure will do well to peruse his re marks with attention. It is another source of gra tification connected with this scheme that it has been settled by the colonists themselves, and so there is no need for any one to fear that proposi tions adverse to their wishes have been forced upon them, and they have been over-persuaded to agree to changes which they had rather not have encountered. The immediate result of the QUEEN'S proclamation is of itself quite enough to recommend the measure to our approval ,without dwelling too much upon minor points. Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia will form one dominion, under the common name of Canada. The arrangements in connection with the Parliament seem also very well planned, and, so far as they can be judged of in principle, without experience of detail, they are calculated to meet the requirements of the case, and to overcome the diffi culties that must necessarily be encountered in such a comprehensive change. The main object which the framers of the scheme have set before them seems to be to make provision in the arrangements as far as possible "in the power of Government, to give the necessary unity and strength of action to the Central Government." We are glad to find that a clause is introduced in this Bill to bind the Provinces to proceed at once with the great work of the Intercolonial Railway, which has been most truly considered to be the " actual backbone of the whole scheme of union." Mr. ADDEIILEY pointed out to the notice of the House as the main feature of the Bill the scrupulous adherence which had been manifested by the colonial draughtsmen to the features of the Home Constitu tion. We think that is at once important and interesting, and it should reassure all who have surmised that the introduction of this scheme would result in the severance of these Provinces from the mother-country. The description given by the right hon. gentleman of the causes that have led to Federal Union, we would point out to the serious attention of those studying this question. " It was simply," he said, " the consequence of the absolute necessity of the adjustment of inveterate local interests and the balance of mutual compro mises between the Provinces." It obviously re quired some external body or authority to give effect to Federation. We consider that the present Government, as well as their predecessors in office, have taken a broad and comprehensive view of this matter, and exhibited the chief qualities of states manship in their dealings with the question. As it was aptly expressed in this speech, the time has gone by when the Parliament and the Government can teach colonies like these their own interests, for they know them much better themselves. Taking into account all the peculiarities of the case, we do not think that the subject of the Federation of the North American Provinces could have been brought before the House in a more efficient manner, and this was evidently the opinion of the House. It was, he said, a great undertaking in which we are now engaged, that of liberating to its natural destiny, one of self-reliance, a large portion of the fairest part of the earth; and when we remember "with what rapid strides America has taken her place among the Powers of the world, and when we reflect that the vast extent of these Provinces is as yet inhabited by not one-hundredth part of the life that will soon replenish them, it will be seen that it is a serious occupation to be taking even a share in their future destiny." Mr. CARDWELL expressed his satisfaction at the motion before the House, and his share in the great work now being consolidated will not be forgotten by any one who watched his labours of last session. He arrived at a very just conclusion when he said that " the colonists had not acted as they had done with a view to future separation from this country, but had been, on the contrary, animated by a loyalty to the British Crown, and an attachment to British institutions, which cannot be surpassed even by the Assembly which is about to ratify their act." Mr. BRIGHT made some remarks which were quite uncalled for, and did his best to show how thoroughly un-English are his sentiments, and how widely he differs from all who take national views of such im portant questions. We may safely infer from the tone of his observations that he is unwilling to have any scheme propounded which may tend to the increase of the power of Canada ; and very likely he would not object to have the North American Provinces finally become merged into theGoverument of the United States. Be this as it may, the bitterness of his speech was most remarkable, and he was nearly wound up to the pitch of virtuous indig nation which actuates him in making speeches on Reform and the misdoings of his political opponents. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the early part of the evening, spoke as if the matter was one of extreme urgency, but Mr. BRIGHT cannot see that there was any urgency at all. It is pretty well known by this time that Mr. BRIGHT has not much faith in the sincerity of others, and that he can be positively unjust and decidedly unfair when he gets excited and irritated upon any topic ; hence it is not surprising that he should have given utterance to the extraordinary remark that " there are persons in this country, and there are also some in the North American Provinces, who are ill-natured enough to say that not a little of the loyalty which is said to prevail in Canada has its price." We look upon Mr. BRIGHT'S speech as quite unworthy of the occasion, and as expressive of mean and paltry sentiments. " The time has come," says this sapient judge, " when it should be clearly un derstood that the taxes of England are no longer to cross the ocean to defray the expenses of any kind within Canada or within the Confederation which is about to be formed. It, is really ludicrous to find Mr. BRIGHT charging the Government with being deficient in " tenderness, generosity, and consideration" in their dealings with Nova Scotia. A more complete refutation of Mr. BRIGHT'S declaration could not have been given than is found in the news from America yesterday evening. The hon. member for Birmingham waxed very wrathful at the notion that the American Government, or that any one in America, wished to interfere with Canada ; and we find that a resolution has been pro duced in the House of Representatives, asking the PRESIDENT for information as to the estab lishment of a Canadian Kingdom, which it declares would be hostile to the safety and peace of the Republic of the United States. This intelligence assorts very ill with the vehement asser tions of Mr. BRIGHT, that it is quite an " halluci nation" to suppose that there is any risk of American aggression or interference. Sir J. PAKINGTON'S ob servations were very much to the point, and he very justly addressed himself at once to the objectionable remarks of Mr. BRIGHT respecting the state of feel ing in the colonies. The right hon. baronet said that he did not know whether or not the hon. mem ber for Birmingham stated it as his opinion, but it left a very painful impression on the House, and hews sure that in the colonies " a very painful impression would be created if it went forth that the House of Commons for a moment believed that the loyalty of Canada had its price." We have not forgotten, as Sir J. PAKINGTON truly says, the events in which the loyalty of Canada has been so strikingly dis played. We entirely agree with the right hon. baronet that there is nothing so noticeable in the career pursued by Canada in this matter as the de votion she has exhibited towards this country. This again, however, attracted the notice of Mr. BRIGHT, who in his speech took care to ridi cale that portion of Mr. ADDERLEY'S discourse which alluded to it. Certainly no one need apply the expression which amused him and his friends to himself, for under no circumstances could he be charged with exhibiting too much " filial , piety" to the institutions of England, if he took up Ihis sojourn on a distant shore. With the excep tion of Mr. BRIGHT there was no opposition worthy of the name made to the Bill, and we congratulate alike the House and the Government upon the suc cess of the scheme, 9. l he best interests of the Colo nies are concerned in its adoption, and all our in terests are indissolubly connected with all that is connected with their progress and prosperity. Notwithstanding the many exciting subjects which are just now engrossing public attention, both at home and abroad, we are glad to find that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution does not lose its hold on popular favour. It is an association of which Englishmen have good reason to be proud, being not only the first which carried the general desire of saving life from shipwreck into a science, but also one of the most efficient and successful of our public institutions. Its influence has been felt more or less throughout the whole of Europe, and its endeavours have stimulated other maritime countries to similar exertions, while the constant and indefatigable endeavours of its managers to discover the best means of diminishing the inevitable risks of a seafaring life have popularised some important improvements, and thus the number who are indebted to its existence for life and safety is far beyond the amount stated in the annual returns. Even taken at the actual figures, however, the result is very encouraging. The total number of lives saved in the year 1866 by the lifeboats of the institution was 426, and during the same period 495 rewards for saving life by fishing and other boats have been granted, thus making a grand total of 921 lives saved by means of its direct or indirect agency. The society is far from wishing to appro priate to itself the credit of independent effort and self-devotion ; but they cannot help feeling that they have given great encourage ment to all such exertions, besides diffusing a general knowledge of the best means of proce dure. The Coast Guard, which acts in cordial co-operation with the Lifeboat Institution, has this year saved 350 lives, independently of the 921 already referred to. The Coast Guard effected this great result by means of the rocket apparatus pro vided by the Board of Trade. For the perfection to which this apparatus is brought the Lifeboat Institution may claim the credit, and a striking instance of its efficiency was given in December last, when 123 lives were saved by its means at one time from the wreck of a Swedish vessel. The number of lives saved has rapidly increased during the last few years, partly from the incrase of our trade and shipping, and partly from the greater number of boats now possessed by the institution and the increased efficiency of all the departments. Too much praise cannot be given to the managers and officers of the institution, who have from its first establishment laboured:earnestlyland indefatig ably in promoting its interests. They are re warded for their endeavours by the list of no less than 15,901 lives saved by their means during the 43 years which the association has been in existence. The first year, 1824, showed a return of 124 lives saved, but since the number has gone on increasing, though with variations, according to the changes of the weather. The highest number reached was in 1852, when 773 persons were saved, after which the average, up to 1863, was about 450. In 1863, however, the number rose again to 714, precisely the same, strangely enough, as in 1865. In the intervening year the number saved was 698 ; so that 1866, as we have seen, has the highest re turn of all. The year has been exceptionably stormy and disastrous, and it is sad to remember, notwithstanding all the heroic efforts which have been made, and the " glorious harvest" which the committee may well rejoice over, how many valu able lives have been lost during the past twelve months. The year was ushered in by storms of terrific severity. The loss of the steamship London on the 11th of January created a widespread feeling of regret, and it was quickly succeeded by terrible disasters on our own coasts. In connection with the loss of the London, we may mention that the Wesleyan Methodists have chosen the most worthy and suit able memorial of their lamented minister, the Rev. D. T. DRAPER, who perished in that ill-fated vessel, after having distinguished himself by his noble and Christian exertions to cheer and support the suf ferers. Mr. DRAPER was a native of Cornwall, and the Wesleyans having presented the institution with the cost of a lifeboat in his honour, the committee have decided upon establishing a station at Mullion Cove, about six miles from the Lizard station. A fearful wreck occurred last month at Mullion Cove, and the whole of the crew perished, owing to the inevitable delay in bringing the lifeboat to the scene of action. Thirty-three new lifeboats have been built during the year ; thirteen having been provided for new stations, and the remainder to replace old or inferior boats. These 33 boats have been built at a cost of £17,000 ; all of them being special gifts. The general expenses of the Institution are, however, necessarily very heavy ; the total outlay of the present year being upwards of £40,000. To keep in efficient working order a fleet of 174 boats, continually exposed to the roughest weather, is of itself no light under taking ; and the Committee express their sense of the heavy responsibility, which in creases with the extent of their operations. The 426 lives which have been saved by their life boats were most of them rescued under circum stances when no other description of boat could with safety have been employed. There is room for even further exertion on the part of the Associa tion, for the Wreck Register of the Board of Trade tells us that in the past year there have been no less than 1,787 shipwrecks, with a loss of 602 lives. Had it not been for the ample and efficient organi sation., of the National Lifeboat Institution what a terrible list of casualties we should have to record ! No doubt the weather during the past twelvemonth has been very tempestuous, but we must remember that this is a matter over which we have no control, and that we shall always be liable to stormy seasons of exceptional severity. The immense increase of our shipping, too, tends to increase the number of lives risked, and we are glad to find that the institution, not content with exert ing themselves in their own particular department, are doing all in their power to diminish the risks incurred by our sailors and fishermen. They are now preparing some improved fishing boats, with safety fittings, hoping gradu ally to introduce such improvements into the smaller class of fishing-boat on our coasts, whose bnity construction leads to so much loss of life. There are several other plans of this kind which might be gradually introduced, and might be the means of greatly diminishing the inevitable risks of a seafaring life. The dangers incurred by the brave men who form our lifeboat crews has just received a melancholy illustration in the loss of five men belonging to the Padstow lifeboat, on the coast of Cornwall. The boat was upset, and though she immediately right.d herself, the violence of the surf prevented five of the crew regaining her. Surely if so many men can be found thus willingly to incur such risks, those who live in safety may well con tribute liberally towards the necessary expenses. The meeting yesterday was honoured by the pre sence of the Prince of WALES, who has always taken a warm interest in the operations of the institution. His Royal Highness presided over the meeting, and forcibly urged the claims of the association upon the sympathies of his hearers. He observed with great truth that in a great maritime country like ours an institution of this kind was almost a necessity, and that it was wholly different to other charitable or benevolent undertakings, inasmuch as its operations could only be carried on at the personal risk of those engaged. His Royal Highness remarked that the Institution was doing its work so efficiently that any decay through loss of friends would be the more to be regretted. The meeting had also the support of the First Lord of the Admiralty, who made an interesting address, and dwelt especially on the exertions of the men engaged. All the efforts of the promoters, and the generosity of the pu,blic, would, he said, be vain, without the happy combination of bravery and humanity, which had ever been the charac teristics of the true British sailor. Sir Jonx PAKINGTON expressed his satisfaction at the increasing interest on the part of the public in the institution, particularly from in land towns in all parts of the country. That very morning he had answered a letter from Worcester, which was about to lend its aid, and give a lifeboat to the society, though few places were more remote from the sea. Lord HARDWICKE, Sir STAFFORD NORTH COTE, and several other speakers addressed the meet ing ; and the Prince of WALES, in acknowledging the gift of a model of the Albert Victor lifeboat, expressed a hope that his little boy might look at it years hence with the pleasant recollection that his nautical namesaae had, before he was three years old, rescued 30 lives. During the meeting, which was in every respect most successful, the gratify ing fact was announced of a gift of £6OO from an anonymous lady, besides other handsome subscrip tions. We hope the example and encouragement thus afforded will be the means of still further ex tending the operations of this valuable institution. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) WEST INDIAN, MEXICAN, PACIFIC, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, March 1. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasma nian, with the above mails, has arrived here with 81 passeners, V 3,364,275 in specie, 2,905 pack ages of cargo, chiefly of cigars, tobacco, cocoa, and cochineal. She left. St. Thomas on the 15th inst., and expe rienced head winds and heavy sea for the first seven days, since favourable weather. On the 27th she passed the Hamburg brig Eliza beth Nicholson, homeward bound. Her Majesty's ship Simoom was to leave Jamaica for England on the 10th January. The French troop ship Gironde went ashore at Bare Buck Key, 20 miles from Port Royal, on the 29th February, and it was expected she would be come a total wreck. The mail steamer Matura, from New Zealand, arrived at Panama on the sth ult., with 23 passen gers and gold dust value £38,761 sterling for Eng land. The passengers and crew of the Tasmanian are all healthy, and the ship has been admitted to pratique. The weather at Jamaica was favourable for sugar making, and most of the estates had commenced operations. In some districts the prospects were good and the weather dry. The coffee crop is smaller than was anticipated. A few cases of yellow fever had occurred amongst the shipping ; otherwise, the island was healthy. Coffee, 425. to 56s ; sugar, 11s. to 20s. Exchange on London, 1k per cent. Sir Peter Grant had returned from Honduras to Jamaica. His visit to Belize appears to have had no effect upon the question in dispute between the colonists and the Indians. On the day his Excel lency left, Colonel Harley with 400 men was to march against the marauders. The colony remained in a very unsettled state. The weather at Demerara was fine and dry. The sugar crop was an average one. Freights were im proving, being quoted 21 to 24. At Barbadoes sugar making was progressing with prospects of a good return. The weather was fine and dry, and the island healthy. The weather at Antigua was still unfavourable, and the sugar crop has fallen far short of last year. At Grenada the weather was improving, and the prospects of the crops were moderately good. The island was . healthy. The cholera has disappeared at St. Thomas. The quarantine regulations were enforced at all the islands on vessels arriving at St Thomas. At Chile the secret policy of the Government was still maintained, but it was generally believed that the conclusion of peace had been resolved upon. Business was good. Large shipments of copper and wheat had affected freights, which had advanced. For copper produce to Liverpool and Swansea they were quoted 575. to 60s. Exchange on London, 45d. to 46d. ; on Paris, 740. The news from Bolivia was unsatisfactory, many respectable citizens having been imprisoned for poli tical offences. In Peru the Government were affording every facility for the encouragement of immigration. A decree has been issued for establishing an agency in Liverpool, the chief object of which is the charter ing of vessels with guano on Government account. , The Government expedition for exploring the Amazon found it navigable for 1,300 miles. The bank of La Providence was expected to re sume operations. The contraet for a railroad from Ica to Jisia had been annulled, the contractor forfeiting $lO,OOO. The Chinchas Islands were healthy. Eighty vessels of large tonnage were loading. THE EGYPTIAN ARMY. CAIRO, Feb. 28. The Viceroy has decreed the diminution of his army by one-half. CORRESPONDENCE FRO.AI PARIS. :' PARIS, Thursday Evening. There is no news in the llioniteur to-day, and the other papers are in the same position. A letter from Florence states that the Could de Launay has left that city for St. Petersburg to de liver to the Emperor Alexander the letters an nouncing the conclusion of his mission. On quitting St. Petersburg the Count will repair to Berlin, at which city he is accredited as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Italy. Count de Barral, Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Italy to the Austrian Court, has arrived at Vienna. The funeral ceremony over the remains of the Archduke Stephen of Austria took place at Menton ou Sunday last. The prefect of the department of the Alpes Maritimes was present at the ceremony, accompanied by the General Commandant of the Sub-division, and Mass was performed by the curate of,the town. Prince Metternich, who had arrived on the previous evening in order to be present at the ceremony, thanked the authorities for assem bling. In pursuance of the orders of the Minister of War military honours were rendered io the illus trious deceased by a detachment of the 28th Regi ment of the Line and the Gendarmerie. The Prin cess of Waldeck and the Princess of Anhalt were present at the ceremony. The remains of the Archduke, which are to be conveyed to Austria from the port of Genoa, were transported from Menton on the same evening under the superinten dence of the Chamberlain of his Imperial Highness. Notice is given by the Imperial Commission of the Exhibition that exhibitors should with out delay send their articles to the places assigned to them. Free passes are granted to exhibitors or to their accredited agents. Another Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Tuileries, at which the Empress was present. The Opposition cuts but a bad figure at the commencement of the session. Its " occupation's gone" at the very beginning. The Journal des Debats says :—" The 25 votes against 211 iu favour of the Government are those of the Opposition, properly so called. The tiers party did not sepa rate itself from the Opposition upon this occasion. It agreed to the appeal for union and concord made by M. Rouher in a speech as remarkable for elo quence as for moderation." In short, even according to the admission of the most advanced Opposition journals, the Government is quite triumphant in regard to its policy as to the management of the post-office. The inviolability of the secret of letters is admitted by the post office, but, as is the case in England, the post-office does not undertake to be the medium of circulating the effusions of the disaffected, which may be dan gerous to the State or to individuals. With a view to provide for any emergency which may arise at the Exhibition, a medical staff has been organised to attend, if necessary, either at the Champ de Mars or at Billancourt. The heads, of the establishment have been chosen from the most eminent medical men of Paris. The Government will provide for the expenses of the medical establishment. As I told you would be the case, 11 , Idlle. Fargeuil, to whom the Emperor presented a valuable bracelet, had it restored by the cabman in whose vehicle it was left, a few hours after the loss was discovered. The cabman took it to the office of the company, who sent it without delay to the lady, who requested the honest cabman to call upon her, no doubt with the intention of rewarding him. The remains of Baron de Belcastel, late Minister Plenipotentiary of France at Weimar, have been interred with appropriate ceremony in the family vault at Toulouse, his native city. The weather to-day has been bright and dry, but very cold, and according to the indications studied at the Paris Observatory, more storms and unsettled weather may be expected. It was frosty this morn ing in the vicinity of Paris. The Constitutionnel thus appreciates the position of the Derby Ministry :—" It is possible that the withdrawal of the Resolutions by Mr. Disraeli, in order to introduce a bill, may prolong the existence of the Tory Ministry, which is rather seriously threatened. Such, at least, is the inference to be drawn from the result of the meeting of Liberal members at Mr. Gladstone's. Mr. Gladstone, for his part, declared that he did not wish to return to power, but, according to correspondence from Lon don, even if the Derby Ministry should obtain a majority, that will only postpone the crisis." It is announced that the King and Queen of Portugal will come to Paris to see the. Exhibition. Lemaire, the nice young man convicted of the murder of Madame Blainville, seems determined, like Mark Tapley, to be " jolly" even to the last. He was clothed with a strait jacket when take❑ from the court to the prison. He said he was very hungry, and asked for a double allowance, which was not refused, and he amused himself by singing the greater part of the night. He says that he does not want any chance of having his life saved, and therefore he does not mean to appeal against the sentence of death. COLLISION AT SEA. —The fishing sloop General Lee, belonging to Lowestoft, No. 203, was found yester day morning, twelve miles off the Start, abandoned by her crew, and damaged by having been in collision with some other vessel. A small figure-head and part of the bead gear of the other vessel were found on board the General Lee, from which it was supposed to have been a small schooner; on board of which, it is hoped, the crew of the General Lee, about ten in number, have escaped. The sloop has been brought into Plymouth by the fishing-sloop Swan, of Hastings. ARSON.—SEVERE SENTENCE.—At the assizes at Newcastle, on Wednesday, Thorborg Ireland, 38, a woman who had kept a beer-house in Hill-street, New castle, was charged with setting fire to her house to de fraud two insurance companies, in each of which she had insured for £lOO. Last September tho prisoner offered one of her servants £8 if she would set fire to the house, and when that was done to cut the gas-pipe. The servant refused, and left the house. On the 31 October the pri soner got a quantity of tarred sticks and placed them in drawers and about the house, and then was seen to set fire to them with a candle. The police found one drawer con taining a quantity of papers and letters, and in another there was smoke, but no fire. The house was set on fire in five different places. The prisoner had given her ser vant a box, in which wore the insurance policies, to take to a neighbour's house. The prisoner denied the charge, but the jury found her guilty, and she was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 27. Exchange on London, 50/ ; wet salted hides, 32 for 60 ; wool, 47 to 87 ; tallow, 14 ; sugar, 19. LITERATURE. Lady Lisle. By M. E. Braddon. One Vol. Pp. 358. Ward, Lock, and Tyler. Another—the tenth—volume has, here, been added to the handsome Library Edition of Miss Braddon's Romances. Already that one-volumed issue of her popular fictions makes a goodly row upon our book shelves. Yet, even now, the series is still incom plete. We don't imply, of course, when saying this, any reference merely to the fair prospect Miss Braddon's admirers (and Mudie, for one, could tell how numerous they are) have before them, in the remembrance that she is still in the early summer of her life, and to all appearance, judging from her current serial tale in Belgravia, " Birth of Prey," in the fullness of her powers and just in mid career as a delightful raconteur. Our allusion in saying, as we have just now done, that even yet this uniform Aeries of her works in a Library Edition, voluminous though it has already become, remains incomplete, has reference solely to those novels or romances which she has already, with her facile hand, currente calamo, produced and actually completed. It is worth remembering, too—so industriously employed has Miss Braddon been since first she began to evi dence her capabilities as a novelist or romancist that already she has penned with her own hand, swiftly and apparently without an effort, thirteen of these more or less elaborate works of fiction. Numbering them up—as three volume novels— here are a set of works representing as many as thirty-nine octavo volumes altogether And this cannot but appear all the more remark able when, on turning to Routledge's Biographical Dictionary, descriptive of eminent living characters of both sexes, we find among the few facts therein recorded at page 99, in regard to Miss Mary Eliza beth Braddon, that she was born in Soho-square, in 1837. So that—authoress though she is already of as many as thirteen elaborately constructed works of fiction, representing as a mere set of books as many as nine-and-thirty volumes octavo—our novelist, after all, is only now in her thirtieth year. Seven years ago she brought out (this was at the Strand Theatre, by the way, in the March of 1860) a comedietta, entitled "Love in Arcadia." The year after that, in the January of 1861, she brought out " Garibaldi and other Poems"—just as two or three years before that she had taken sundry flights in the Poet's Corner of one or two of the provincial news papers. Otherwise, her literary energies have been exclusively devoted to the cultivation of her un questionably great and sometimes brilliant powers as a prose story-teller. How energetically she has been cultivating those powers —as has been evidenced by the mere amount of work actually accomplished within an interval of eight or ten years, at the most—we have but just now indicated. If we remember rightly, it was in a charming little serial, edited by Dr. Charles Mackay, a little twopenny weekly entitled Robin Goodfellow, that Miss Braddon made her first hit, that she first attained anything at all like popu larity or reputation. Tho success thus achieved was won for her by the issuing there and then from the press of " Lady Audley's Secret." Prior to that the authoress of " Lady Audley," and of Lady Audley's now numerous successors, had written, unnoticed by the public at large, novels that, now that her name has become famous, her publishers have induced her to revise with her own hand—whenever her better judgment tells her that such revision would be advisable—the precursors of her popularity, the a vant couriers of her reputation. Such was thereprint in a collected form, revised, and partly re-written, of the last volume added to this Library Edition of Miss Braddon's Novels, a reprint already commented upon in these columns, namely, that of an early story of her's, if not indeed the earliest of all her stories, entitled " The Trail of the Serpent." Such, again, is the new volume here submitted to our consideration—her romance of " Lady Lisle." Two others of these reprints have still to follow— " Ralph the Bailiff," and " The Captain of the Vulture." And then—with the reissue in this popular form of one of her very latest fictions, " The Lady's Mile," not yet added to the Library Edition—we presume that the whole of the already very ample series of fictions produced by Miss Braddon at so early an age and with such astonishing rapidity, will have been fairly completed. When it has been remarked that the earlier works of Miss Braddon which are being thus reprinted in volumes uniform with her more well known romances have been revised by her, and even here and there in parts re-written, it must not in any way be imagined that the dis tinctive character of each as an earlier production from an artist hand that has since then won great cunning to itself by practice, or in other words by experience, is in any way obliterated. It is not so. The work of art, such as it is, is there in its integrity. More crude in its colouring. F aulty in drawing it may be distorted in foreshortening—in error in perspec tive. But none the less interesting—to our notion far more interesting—on that very account, are these earlier sketches ; sometimes, as it were, mere sketches in sepia, or neutral tints, though often bril liantly coloured here and there, in Epite of the obvious immaturity of the artist's powers at the period of their original production. Always devoting her very first attention as a novelist to the con struction of an interesting plot, Miss Braddon has here, in "Lady Lisle," given precocious evidence of her extraordinary skill in that direction. The reader's curiosity is awakened at the very outset. Incident follows incident with rapid succession. There is a mystery hinted at almost at starting, and that mystery, bewildering enough from the very commencement, becomes rapidly more and more inscrutable. Yet, tangled though the thread of the narrative is with surprising in genuity, the skill with which it is eventually un ravelled is yet more remarkable by far. The scene opens—as it closes—at Lislewood Park, in Sussex. Claribel is the heroine. Major Granville Varney is the evil genius of the book—the low villain or ruffian, half accomplice, half tool of the Major, being one Gilbert Arnold, first of all a poacher, afterwards the low-browed ranter at a little Bethel. As to Captain Arthur Walsingham, who marries the widow of Sir Rupert, he contrives somehow be fore the tale is quite told out to win upon the reader's sympathies in spite of all his many and wholly undeniable shortcomings. Lightly pencilled though the entire sketch is, it is not unworthy of taking its place among the more vigorously wrought out productions from the hand of the same rapid and industrious artist—the hand that has since then revealed to us the lime walk at Audley Court, the daring designs of Henry Dunbar, the favourite haunts of Aurora Floyd, and all those other varied scenes and people she has, during these last ten years, been rapidly conjuring into seeming life by the force of her creative imagination. IMPORTANT DECISION.—LIABILITY OF RAIL ROADS FOR LOST LUGGAGE. - Dorothea Raw son, a married woman, brought suit in a New York court against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company recently for her luggage, wearing apparel, and jewel lery for ordinary wear, valued at over $3,000, lost on the train of the defendants, on which she was a pas senger, through a collision. The jury gave her a verdict for the full amount claimed, and the de fendants appealed. The opinion of the general term, delivered by Mr. Justice Clarke, decides that a wife's wearing apparel, the gift of her husband, is hers in law so far as to enable her to maintain suit for it, and that a railroad company is liable for a passenger's luggage as a common carrier, unless there is a positive waiver by contract of his right by the passenger, and that this contract cannot arise by any notice printed on the ticket or other wise. It further decides that what is reasonable baggage is a question dependent on the circum stances of each case, to be decided by the jury on the evidence. The following items will give Queen Emma an idea of what her visit cost Uncle Sam :—The bill of Willard's Hotel for Queen Emma and her suite of ton or twelve persons, from the 13th to the 22d of last August, was $1,867. The department paid this and a livery bill of $255, and other hills to the amount of $233 on account of her visit. 4 ,10 l ‘tiffn Cal/Tat HER MAJESTY, &c• WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 28. • The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Prin cess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Christian, arrived at Windsor Castle at a quarter before 7 o'clock last evening from Bucking ham Palace. The Duchess of Roxburghe, Lord Charles Fitz roy, and Colonel the lion. D. de Ros were in at tendance. Her Majesty and her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice walked and rode on ponies in the grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian went out walking. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise also walked out. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold took a drive, attended by Mr. Legg. Lord Bagot has succeeded Viscount Hawarden as Lord in Waiting to the Queen, not Viscount Hamilton, as erroneously stated in the Court Cir cular of the 27th. The Prince and Princess of Wales. MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, Feb. 28. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has recovered from all ordinary events of confinement. The general disturbance from the acute rheumatism has ceased, and the local affection, limited to the right knee, is less severe. The infant Princess continues well. No bulletin will be issued for some days. (Signed) ARTHUR FARRE, M.D. JAMES PAGET. WILLIAM JENNER, M.D. E. H. SIEVEKING, M.D. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Viscount Hamilton, General Knollys, and Major Teesdale, presided yesterday at a meeting held at the Mansion House in aid of the funds of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. His Royal Highness was afterwards entertained at luncheon by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 28.—Two o'clock.—Yesterday's upward movement in stocks and shares is continued to-day on a buoyant market. The principal occupa tion is the reponse des primes (option), which has taken place as follows : —Three per Cents., 70f. 22ic ; Italian Fives 54f. 25c. ; Credit Mobilier 515 f. ; Credit Foncier, 1,520 f. ; Orleans, 930 f. ; Lyons, 940 ; Northern, 1,227 f. 50c. Since the reponse was fixed quotations have again advanced. Threes are now at 70f. 32kc., an improvement of 35c. Italian Fives have advanced 20c., the price being 54f. 35c. ; Credit Mobilier 3f. 75c.—to 516 f. 25c. ; and Credit Foncier Bf. 75c,—to 1,521 f. 25c. The improvement on Railway shares varies from 2f. 50c. to sf. Three o'clock.—The close has taken place on the following quotations : 4 per Cents lOO Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 7O 25 Do. end month 7O 27-} Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1525 Bank Shares 3575 Italian Loan 54 25 Do. end month 54 30 Dieximn Loan 2O 75 Do. Bonds l4O Spanish Threes Rome Debt — Deferred iwLYB. For Account. . 932 50 Orleans Northern 1230 Lyons and Mediterranean , . 940 Southern , 586 25 Western 595 Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard 4lB 75 North of Spain lll 25 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona — Roman. — MARIE ANTOINETTE put aside all regal authority at Trianon. Here she was no longer queen, but merely mistress of the establishment, which was like an ordinary country house, with its small retinue of servants, and all its unrestrained habits. When the queen entered the salon the ladies neither quitted the piano nor their embroi dery frames, nor the men their game at billairds or back gammon. The king would come to Trianon on foot and unattended. The queen's guests arrived at two o'clock to dinner, and returned to Versailles at midnight. Marie Autoinette's occupations were exclusively those of a country life. Attired in a white muslin dress, in a lace shawl, and a straw hat, she would run about the garden, or visit her farm, where she would take her guests to drink her milk and eat her new-laid eggs. Or she would conduct the king to a summer-house where he could read his book un disturbed until she summoned him to a lunch on the grass; after which she would amuse herself by watching the milk ing of her cows, or with fishing on the lake ; or, seated on a rustic seat, would occupy herself by winding up the dis taff of some young villager.—Once a Week. A MAN GORED TO DEATH BY A . COW.—On Tuesday, a man named Edward Plummer went to a vil lage a short distance fro►n Bitchfield, to see a cow which had lately calved. He passed into a field, and a dog that had followed him ran at the cow. Being infuriated, the animal attacked the man with groat violence, pushing its horns into his side near his heart. He was conveyed to Bitchfield, and died on Wednesday. THE CIGAR SHIP.--The Ross N. Winans, double screw yacht, arrived and anchored on the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, on Wednesday evening, from the east ward. Yesterday, at noon, she weighed her anchor, and took a couple of hours' steaming outside the nab lightship, afterwards returning to and again anchoring on the Mother bank. During the time the Ross N. Winans was under steam off the Nab the wind was rather fresh from E.S.E , and theca was a slight tumble of a sea on. She appeared to move with great speed through the water. Meeting of Middlesex Magistrates. A general meeting of the magistrates of the county of Middlesex wAs held yesterday at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, for the trans action of the usual county business ; Henry Pow nall, Esq., in the chair. The court was very numerously attended by magistrates. The Chairman drew the attention of the Court to a letter that had been received by the com missioners of lunacy in reference to the treatment of lunatics in Colney-hatch Asylum. The letter stated that a patient, of the name of Harrison, had been put to bed without any bedding, only the bare boards and bricks, and entirely naked, s i n ce the 18th of this month ; and that a patient, named Hobbs, had received the like treatment for 140 nights in succession during the winter of 1864-651 and these were not the only cases of a similar kind. The commissioners thereupon communicated with the committee of visitors of the asylum, ask ing if such allegations were well founded, express ing great surprise at such a state of things, and with a view to afford Dr. Sheppard the earliest op portunity of refuting them, they invited his attend ance at a meeting of the board on the 18th inst. Dr. Sheppard having seen the letter spoken of, ad mitted that the facts were in the main correct, and that a similar mode of treatment was adopted where patients destroyed their bedding and clothes habituallY of which character Harrison and Hobbs were, and they were told if they destroyed their clothing or bedding they would not be allowed any more, and that pa tients were frequently confined thus in the day in a state of nudity, and wearing locked leather gloves. The commissioners said that they never yet knew of such treatment being applied to patients nor would such a case admit of • any justification. Dr. Shep pard replied that Harrison, although having clothes, would not wear them, preferring a nude state ; and that Hobbs, who was now dead, was of the like dis position. They were both of that class of patients called general paralytics, whose physical sensations were impaired or annihilated. After some further remarks in justification of his treatment, he con cluded by saying that during the time he had been medical superintendent of the male department he had always striven to promote the happiness and wellbeing of patients, and that he was open to any suggestions that may tend to advance such a desir able end. In reply, the commissioners stated that there was nothing in Dr. Sheppard's letter in vin dication of the system in question, and that in their , opinion the statements were most unsatisfactory a nd untenable. The commissioners believing the com mittee to be of the same opinion infer from p r. Sheppard's letter that no recurrence of the practice will be permitted in the Colney-hatch Asyluro• The CHAIRMAN asked the Court, and those in particular who were acquainted with their county asylums, whether that was the way that the poor . patients ought to be treated who were commi tte d to their care ; and he expressed his surprise that 12: 1 the report of the committee no observation was in_e cle upon the subject, nor had they reprimanded Pr. Sheppard for his conduct. This ought, too, to hav e been recorded by Dr. Sheppard in his journal ; an d had he required any assistance, or a night watch man for such patients, he (the chairman) was sure the magistrates would not have withheld any as sistance for that purpose. Instead of that be said he knew of no other means , a n d left these poor patients perfectly naked for days together on o .e floor of their room. I f that was the way thel.! asylums were to be conducted, the sooner thevia medical officers were changed the better. He kne Hanwell 25 years ago, where similar scenes had occurred ; but what Dr.Conolly, that humane raa n : did, was to put on these poor creatures a stout canvas dress lined with flannel, sewn up at the bo tom, and fastened from behind, so that thf s : 3 could not open them, and they never found t ,'„, disgusting things that had been set forth in tu ts l' report. Dr. Sheppard had said that when pati el3 _ A who formerly had lain upon straw could lie nak7 ; on the floor it gave them infinite amusement ; ellocLLl,s no doubt it did, but humanity shuddered at _. th suffering as was endured by these poor creature ess. Dr. Sheppard had never once recorded , circumstances, and it was his (the chairman eas) opinion that he ought to be told if they occur' t again he co thatcount nty . h e would a s b e due to dismissedthe themselves, r s o e m l e t s h , the asrag s ervice ari g . trates of the county, to keep up the chara;:te these institutions, and he hoped that he (Drc.aSselisePm pard) would be required to enter all such his book, for they did not know how many al_ I; conic cases that had not to the knowledge o f t reat l Y visiting justices; but he must say tha t he was gme to o surprised when all these circumstan ces had their their knowledge that the visiting justices 111 report should not have made a single observaw upon hem. it Mr. t WYATT, chairman of the committee, saidf ;Lidgineu was their opinion that Dr. Sheppa rd had committed' a great error, but as it was an error of j the committee did not feel that t he y could sp eak to in the strong terms that the chairman had used, eiPe nder a gentleman of intelligence an d sensibility craliy so as the asylum had risen in disci p line u h th i s was patients of the worst class , and, althou g to eff ec- Sheppard's management. He had to deal w ith 900 an error of judgment, they had taken steps aip• tually prevent any similar t hin g oc urring ag c The other business was disp osed of, and was report was then put , and agreed tdottitic:/c• was adjourned. sti t iC e body ,Do. of a r T n o n nie I 4 : h ' on the w _, air dered by her mother, Jane Wearth MURDE R a a r e t ty,lvt was e A co N hp D iel naeAtd:oyTe3ErselltarePrsdTglidt so. hi o,ans own throat. Sbd crime the mother endeavoured to cut herndoition. Evidence is not yet dead, but lies in a hopeless co public was pro haP- confirmatory of the facts already maded street, Shoreditch, on Tuesday last. Aftera committing tills duced, and the inquiry was adjourn° • DAT, Thurs- CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE Sill LUNG season tickets, 1,250; tetal day,—Admission on payraent, 684 i ditto 3 ! 'i ~# ~-~ ___