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Tinsley Brothers. " Another and another still succeeds"—might be said with a full double significance in reference to this long-continued and rapid issue of edition after edition of Miss Braddon's masterpiece. As such we cannot but still regard the earlier of her two popular romances. This, be it said, in spite 01 the pre-eminence of popularity enjoyed by the later of the two, that is by "Aurora Floyd," at least in its dramatic form. Opening again this really en thralling narrative of the life and fortunes of Lucy, Lady Audley, of Audley Court, in the county of Essex—reading yet again the preliminary pages of the work, those charming descriptive pages consti tuting the first chapter of the story—we don't wonder in the least that already a ninth edition should have made its appearance ! We don't wonder, even, when we find slipped into this ninth edition the following significant little flyleaf tag of a " Notice.-0 wing to the great de mand for 'Lady Audley's Secret,' the publishers have been compelled to omit the photograph of the Lime Tree Walk,' as it has been found impossible to print it in numbers sufficient to keep pace with the sale of the book." And we will add at once that the simple reason for our not wocdering, as we say, in the least at these unmistakeable evidences of a signally sustained and a really quite exceptional popularity enjoyed by Lady Audley's Secret is this —that the mere style in which Miss Braddon has written it, has about it a charm, for ourselves at least, of scarcely resistible fascination. It is so easy and yet so finished. It is so vividly picturesque—we are talking here, remember, of the mere style of the writing, of the mere manner, colour, and grace of the composition. As to the other capacities of the authoress they are many of them very remarkable. She has a peculiar felicity and power in the delineation of character. Her ingenuity in the construction of the plot and in the weaving together of the inci dents, none of those who have read her—no matter how carelessly or supeificially —but must have un conciously noted at the time: as they will acknow tedge now that they come to look back at the story they have skimmed through—we care not whether the story may chance to have been "Aurora Floya" or " Lady Audiey's Secret." What we would espe cially here take note of in explanation of the rapidity and, so far, at least, we will say also, the continuance of the rise and extension of Miss Braddon's popularity as a novelist, is the exceeding charm resulting from the easy vigour and sparkle of her style—a style bearing about it, we will repeat, a truly delightful fascination. Perfectly well do we remember our first succumbing to this fascination. It was when reading for the first time the two earliest chapters—chapters I. and II.—" Lucy," and " O❑ Board the Argus," in the first number of the beautifully got up but entirely unsuccessful periodical, started only two or three years ago b) Dr. Charles Mackay, under the name (the periodi cal and not the Doctor) of Robin Goodfellow. There it was, in that first and only number of Robin Goodfellow, that Lady Audley's Secret first made its appearance, or rather first began to make its ap pearance, for with the issue of the initial number of the intended weekly serial the speculation com menced and ended. Its first number was its last. We read then with delight chapter I. and chapter 11. of Lady Audley's Secret, and were left longing for more. For a long time those who, like ourselves, had read it, were left longing in vain. At last the story made its appearance, otherwise than through the egency of that still-born sprite Robin Good fellow. And when it did so appear—we know well enough what was the consequence. Miss Braddon's fame as a novelist sprang up as rapidly and brightly, to use a very hackneyed metaphor, as a skyrocket. It has not yet come down, as some have threatened that it would, like a stick. It merely fluctuates, as oue might say, in the hue of its sparkles—break ing, rocket-wise, into fresh corruscations. These fresh corruscations shining in the empyrean of the lighter periodical literature of the day as " Aurora Floyd or "Eleanor's Venge ance,"—or what not ! Other offshoots (to carry on the fantastic imagery) of this still soaring reputation being every now and then (as in the instance before us)some new aspect assumed by the earliest evidence of its apparition at all—Lady Audley's Secret ! Here in effect is the ninth. And a very beautiful edition it is, in its getting up, altogether—this one volumed issue of a work originally published in its complete form in 3 vols. Bvo. A beautiful edition in spite of its cheapness, If the moral tone of the story (which it unhappily, but notoriously is not) were only equal in excellence to the charm of the style in which the story is written, we could rejoice over these reiterated evidences of its wider and wider popularisation. Such unfor tunate; y being very far, indeed, from the fact, we can only regret that a young lady so gifted with the graces of authorcraft, as Miss Braddon unquestionably is, should so very often, as she does no less unquestion ably, write like a very gay, very knowing, exceed ingly wide-awake, horse-racing, billiard-playing, cigar smoking, heater-skelter, last young gentle man ! Skirmishing. By the Author of " Cousin Stella." One vol. pp. 313. Smith and Elder. " Never repent of a kind action, however it turns out for yourself," says dear good Mrs. Lescrimiere, one of the characters of the story, and this saying of hers is selected as a motto for the title-page. Mrs. Lescrimiere is the good grandmother in the rectory house at Eden, the home of the Greatorexes —a very delightful family, Mr. Greatorex himself is the most genial and benevolent of men, over flowing with the milk of human kindness, but, nevertheless, capable, when necessary, of adminis tering " admonition due," and maintaining that "discipline" so strongly recommended by Mr. Bog nel. When the rector addresses his wife as "my dear," and when he calls his son Charlie " Charles," both wife and sonjknow that the husband and father must sot otht aras be h t n obeyed. Mrs. Greatorex is the daughter of Mrs. Lescrimiere, and is so unlike her gOOO mdheaur!hift,eratie,. ntd expects , cau ,, se H t o h w at o g d o d od y l o a u dy sh to oul e d xcl b s e im, m i y n Mrs. G rea t orex i s goo d an d pro pe r every one else to be the same; she on make no au olvituce for human inferiority, P 47 4 : 0 - ) L qiit , LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1863. Again Mr. GLADSTONE has thought better of it. He is unconvinced, of course—he always is—that he can in any way be guilty of error. The prin ciple of taxing Clubs he still maintains to be the right principle—just exactly as he says precisely the very same thing in regard to the principle of taxing Charities. Yet, again, in regard to Clubs, he does (last night) precisely what he did (a night or two previous) in regard to Charities. The House, in each instance, will have notice of it— that is of Mr. GLADSTONE'S new fiscal crotehet. And so—very wisely, very discreetly, very judi ciously, but still to the last, we repeat, obstinately unconvinced that lie CAN, by any possibility, be in error—Mr. GLADSTONE drops it. He and the rest of his colleagues have such an extremely wholesome fear of the division lists—they are getting sick and tired of eternally seeing it handed over to the tellers of the Opposition. The thing with them is becoming at length quite tedious, quite mono tonous. Bence it is that we are witnessing even Mr. GL&DwroNr s growing cap , city— coolly, under the observation of the whole House— for swallowing—his own proposition !It is not that he chews his leek slowly and deliberately from the white root to the green stalk—he just simply, as one might say, bolts it whole! With a wry look askance—when nobody happens to be watch ing him—at that pitiless, remorseless FLUELLEN sitting opposite ! The effect becomes all the mare ludicrous in each instance precisely because the Chancellor of the Exchequer still continues to hold so obdurately by his own opinions —the very opinions he is abandoning or acknowledging, at least, to be powerless. Altogether the present Ministry is surely the most exhilirating Ministry the country has had the amusement of being governed by, for a long while. Say since the later months of the last MEL BOURNE Administration ! Then, as now, the Prime Minis'er was the rleasantest, the liveliest, the most beloved and admired of careless joke-masterp. Then, as now, his colleagues were perpetually doing nothing except making ineffectual attempts to guide and influence the Legislature : getting again and again defeated, carrying no reforms whatever, and yet still pertinaciously clinging to office. Nevertheless we have, in regard to the pre 3nt Cabinet, at least the satisfaction of being ex hilarated not only by the speeches of the LAughil3g Philosopher who is at its head, but even by his and his colleagues' failures. Time after time there was proof of this—only as recently as last evening. Mr. HENLEY, in bringing up the report of the Committee as to the proposed extinction of the City Police Force, virtually pronounces the extinctio❑ of Sir GEORGE GREY'S pet project. Whereat there is " laughter" and " cheers" in the House of Commons. Sir ROBERT PEEL another while announces that the intention of the Govern ment as to the Registration of Assurances (Ireland) Bill cannot ba declared then by him as Secretary for Ireland, but will be de cided upon and duly announced a little later on. Again '• Laughter" from the House of Commocs ! While Mr. GLADSTONE'S earlier announcement last evening that his proposal for the taxing of Clubs will (as had been done previously with regard to the proposal of the taxing of Charities) be with drawn was greeted —as Lord PALMERSTON'S speeches are greeted—with "laughter" mingled with cheering ! It is now, in fact, a perpe tually recurring alternative of Ministers—either to avoid a division and be laughed at, cr to risk a division and be defeated. Latterly their choice has been for the former. They seem to prefer, just now at least—leaning upon that one of " the two horns of the dilemma" in which they have contrived for some time past to place themselves. Last night the subject of Poland was discussed in the House of Lords. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from the merchants of the City of London. The noble lord spoke at considerable length, and with great eloquence on the question. He commented on the apparently inscrutable mystery that attended the connection be tween Russia and Prussia. Judging from all that was known, however, he feared that the working of it wee as dark and atrocious as such schemes generally were. Even in the case of the Poles who were arrested in Prussia and handed over to the Russian Government, Lord SHAFTES BURY truly said that, if not already put to death, he feared they were undergoing a worse fate than death itself. Further on the noble lord referred to the despatches recently received, and forcibly declared that in them there was no hope for Poland, and then cited this striking instance :—" In October, 1862, the Emperor ALEXANDER said to a gentleman of high station, whom he had summoned to St. Peters burg for the purpose of communicating to him the information he desired to give, and then sentenced him to perpetual exile, I see now that the only way of governing Poland is by terror.' The neat day the same gentleman having been referred by the EMPEROR to Prince GORTSCHAKOFF, heard from him the same words, with this addition—' I tell you that, if the Poles force us to it, we will make Poland a heap of ashes and of corpses.' " No wonder after such an exemplification that the noble lord exclaimed that such men were not fit to govern the destinies of so many millions of the human race. It was said that ALEX ANDER IL was humane and kind, but if so his language truly concealed his thoughts. The true rule by which to judge of men's actions was this— "By their fruits shall ye know them." The noble lord concluded his admirable speech by declaring that her MAJzsTY's Government might remind the Emperor of RUSSIA of the state in which his empire was at the present moment, and of the disorderly state of the army and many other signs of internal decay. Also he reminded them of the cold calculating manner In which this country had treated the Poles on a for mer occasion of trial, and thus wound up his remarks—" The Poles, happen what may, will always have all our hearts and all our sympathies. I do hope, and it is the prayer of every man within these realms, that we may yet live to see the time when this down-trodden and long-oppressed people shall enter again on their ancient rights, and, after so much experience and bitter sorrow and ingratitude, inaugurate a noble career of civil and religious liberty, of humanity, and of justice.', It has been truly said that— " His blessing is sure Who fights the good fight of the feeble and poor ;" and no man living has a better claim to that benefit than Lord SHAFTESBURY. For many years he has devoted himself to the sacred cause of defending the oppressed, aiding the distressed, and fighting for the persecutEd. The real appreciation of such conduct is from above, but his fellow-men should be mindful of his zeal and labours on their be half. Lord RUSSELL made an impressive harangue, and expressed himself warmly concerning the wrongs of that afflicted country they were then discussing. He deprecated, however, any proposal of dismemberment, as it would lead to confusion, and create worse evils if granted. He said that, as in the battle-field the birds of prey surround the carrion, so i❑ any political disturbance the moral vultures of Europe flock together to take their part. Finally, Lord RUSSELL earnestly de clared his conviction that now there could not be the same wrongs perpetrated as heretofore. " First, he asked them to rely on her MAJESTY'S Government for doing their utmost, and, in the next place, upon that public opinion of Europe, which you may depend upon it the Emperor of RUSSIA, autocrat as he is, will not neglect. I ask you to rely, finally, on the general sense of justice which pervades the people of this and other coun tries. Above all, I ask you to rely upon that Heaven which will not allow oppression to pass unpunished, and which will not allow these sufferings much longer to endure." This is a plausible argument enough, but whether this plea or that project fails, it is a gratify ing fact that the House of Lords, the first assembly in the world, has eagerly entered into the discus sion, and welcomed with loud cheers the eloquent speeches of the two noble lords, which are creditable to themselves and honourable to their country. The events of the present day certainly tend to reverse all our ancient opinions and dispel the illusions of our credulous youth. From time imme morial the Turkish SULTAN has always been consi dered the:representative of a gloomy and despotic state, of crouching slaves, whose lives were not worth a moment's purchase if they infringed in the slightest degree on the commands of their imperi ous lord. Oar poets have helped to foster this no tion; and the dark stories hidden by the waters of the Bosphorus have lost none of their terrors in verse or fiction. But when we outlived the age of romance, our opinions of the Sultanship did not im prove. Professing a faith which of itself offers almost insuperable barriers to real progress, living under a system of government which affords every facility for all kinds of peculation and favouritism ; intole rant, until lately, to a degree that would have been dangerous but for his weakness, the Turk is cer tainly out of place in modern Europe. That favourite dogma of modern statesmen—balanc e of power— forbids hia expulsion ; but the incongruity of his position is self-evident, and the jealous distrust with which the Turk looks on the outer world is fully repaid by the dislike, if not contempt, of the European. But suddenly all i% changed. The Turk has woke to life. The SULTAN, who is supposed to alternate between stately inaction and f. , rocious despotism, has come frankly forward, visited his dominions, mixed with his people, ankencouraged modern improvements. A Turkish ruler anxiously encouraging the con. struction of railroads, courteously receiving foreigners in their private capacity, stimulating the growth of cotton, and visiting an English horse race, is certainly a startling subversion of our ancient ideas, Yet ail these wonder ful events have been witnessed during ABDUL Aziz's recent visit to the pleasant city of Smyrna. That city is, as we all know, thronged with Christian residents. No fewer than 5,000 English and French are computed to reside by the shores of the bay, while the total number of Chris tians is said to be 100,000—a number exceeding that of the Turks by ose-fifth. The fact of the SULTAN visiting such a city is in itself worthy of note. It is the scene of modern thought, enterprise, and action, and as such must impress the mini of the Royal guest with a sense of the vast difference between Oriental and Western life. That ABDUL Aziz capable of appreciating the aspect of the political horizon is shown by his ready encouragement of the cotton cultivation, and his evident iesiro to maintain friendly relations with England. He lodged in the villa of an Englishman, he visited their races, and showed marked attention to the chief residents of the British community. His first railway, too, was taken under English auspices, and his satisfaction augurs well for the future of British engineering science in the East. We trust that the dawn of a better day may now be breaking foi the Turks under the guidance of a wise and en lightened Sovereign, who has the ability to appre- ciate the progressive movement of the times, and the character to resolve that his people shall take part in it. and believes there is always a "fault" in every "misfortune.'' Mrs. Lescrimiere, on the other hand, is all heart and sympathy. To her the child and the stranger, the doubting and the disappointed, alike turn to intrude their sorrows, and find comfort and counsel. Su universal is her partisanship for ail who require it, that ehe says she inclines to the the Irishman's way of thinking, who exclaimed, • 3 What's the use of standing up for a man when he's in the right—it's when he's wrong he needs you !" Maud, the rector's pretty daughter, just ❑ineteen, is a charming sketch, true to nature. She is engaged to Walter Escott, the curate, a man of exquisite sensibility but reserved exterior, who hates " a scene" and shrinks from all d€monstra tions of feeling. The chapter entitled " a word before is worth two after," is admirable, because it is so simple and so natural. Escott tells his betrothed how he has just refused the gift of a living that wnuld have enabled them to marry at once, because he did not consider it to be good enough for them ; and Maud, at first listening with bashful plea , ure to the good news of the offer, suddenly finds her bright vision dispelled, and dis appointment and doubt of her lover's affection dis• turb the serenity of her heart. Her hopes, and fears, and hesitations, and the wounded pride and demeanour which those unjust suspicions produce in the sensitive Escott, are most naturally and forcibly pourtrayed. "If I only kno v how to make him love me very, very much," says poor Maud, in a heart-broken appeal to her good grandmother. " Child ! child !" remonstrates that wise lady, "make him happy by always showing him a placid, loving face ; comfort him with cheerfulness and serenity, and he would not be able to live without you, though he does not fall at your feet to tell you so every day." There is so much practical sense and homely truth conveyed in the pages of this story, as to make it a profitable, as well as a pleasant book to place in the bands of the young. The sen timental novel reader and the lovers of sensation may be attracted by the episode of Mrs. Brown and "Dodge"—an episode we should have rather dis pensed with, but " Skirmishing" has higher claims to the approbation of its readers, and for such we very heartily commend it. A Dark Night's Work. By Mrs. Gaskell. 1 vo. pp. 299. Smith, Elder, and Co. Between Wilkie Collins' No Name and Charles Reade's Very Hard Cash—there appeared for a few weeks a strangely imagined, and at times a quite horribly attractive little story, by Mrs. Gaskell, called " A Dark Night's Work," Upon the reason for its having that weird title, the whole of he interest of the narrative hangs. The "Dark Night's Work," being the perpetration by he father of the heroine of the tale, of that half-accidental or partially-intended kind of murder, that the jury empanne led to try the person accused of it, so often softens down into " Manslaughter." The Dark Night's Work is more than the commission of that crime by Mr. Wilkins, the attorney. It is still more if possible its after concealment—by a faithful old attendant of the murderer, or at any rate manslayer, by his groom, that is, poor old honest Dixon. But still more is the Dark Night's Work, the partici pation with these two, with Dixon and Mr Wilkins in its concealment—of Mr. Wilkins's daughter, the gentle and beautiful Ellinor ! Then actually betrothed to, but afterwards (in conse quence of the gloomy mystery of a something gone wrong surrounding her) estranged from Mr. Corbet, a pupil of the parish clergyman, Mr. Ness. One Minster, the chief clerk, and afterwards the jnnior partner of Mr. Wilkins—is the victim, the man murdered or at any rate slain. his body, after many ineffectual attempts to discover in it some signs of returning animation, is hid away, buried, in fact, under cover of a very dark, starless, moon less night, in the shrubbery attached to the dwell ing-house of the murderer. Ellinor and Dixon, out of pity for the wretched father of the one and master of the other, helping him ( - Wilkins) to put the corpse of Punster effectually— as they do, in fact—out of sight. Hence, all the misery slowly growing up and ac cumulating throughout the rest of the narra tive. Mrs. Gaskell appears to be partial to the writing of homely or domestic romances, the principal interest of which should hang upon the perpetration and the concealment of a murder by one of the prominent characters appearing upon the scene of the story. It was thus precisely, it will be remembered, in regard to her earliest fiction—in some respects still perhaps to regarded as her best —" Mary Barton." It is so, as we have shown, in this the latest of her works of ima gination. The Sixteen Chapters of "A Dark Night's Work" will be perused by all who open the first and read on for a page or two—it will be perused down to the end with unflagging interest, for the tale is written by one who has lived to become a mistress of her art. Yet, for all that, it will add but very slightly, if at all, to Mrs. Gaskell's reputation. After breath ing the morbid, un wholesome atmosphere that hangs, with a sense of gloom and oppression, over one dur ing the perusal of "A Dark Night's Work"—one turns with a feeling of positive relief to the mere remembrance of the same writer's sparkling, humorous, vivacious sketches of" Cranford." LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.—Monday — Geographical, at 81, "Arrival of Expedition at Khartum, from Zanzibar," " Landbo:ough's Traverse of Australia," and "Madagas car," Lieut. Oliver. Tuesday—Actuaries, at 7--Syro- Egyptian, at 71, "Coffin L'd of Men-ka-ra, Mycerinus of the Greeks," Mr. I%larsden—Royal Institution, at 3, " Sound," Professor Tyndall—Engineers, at 8, "American Iron Brikr,es,' Mr.Colburn, and "Communication between London and Dublin," Mr. - Watson—Zoological, at 9, " Derbyan Eland, Western Africa," and " Equatorial Elephant and Gorilla," Mr. &Ade, and " Mammals and Birds, Madagascar," Dr. Sclatcr. Wednesday—Archno logical Association, at 4, annual general— Graphic, at 8— Society of Arts, at 8, " Excrementitious Matter," Dr. Thudichum, and " System of Earth Sewage," Rev, H. Moule—Microscopical, at 8. Thursday—Antiquaries, at B—Royal Institution, at 3, "Geology," Professor Austad Friday— Philological, at 8, Anniversary, " Umbrian Words," Professor - Newman—Royal Institution, at 8, " Molecule of Water," Dr. 'Dolling. Saturday—Horticul- taral, at 4, Promenade —Royal Institution, at 3, " Lan guage," Professor Max Muller.—iithenceum. THE LAST MADNESS OF COMTE (the author of Positivism)—is thus recounted in the .Reader : " The French philosopher, Auguste Comte, was led, towards the end of his life, into an extraordinary modifies tion or development of his so-called system of " Positive Philosophy," consisting of nothing less than the proclama tion to the world of a new form of religion, with a priest hood, rites of worship, &c. The veteran philosopher, hav ing fallen in love with a certain young lady named Clotilde —as he himself relates with the most astounding navietd— found, in the access of fervour and of new light on all sub jects which this love-experience brought him, that his pre vious philosophy, as expounded on his great six• volume work on Positivism, erred by defect in the emotional or sentimental element, and required to be supplemented by a vast addition that should do justice to that element. Man, in short, must have a religion ; and the positive philosophy would not be the all-in-all it professed to be unless it could carry a religion, and even a ritual, in its forefront. It was not, however, necessary to go back upcn the positive philosophy, and upset any of its prior conclusions. It we , all right so far; and a perfectly consistent religion might be stuck on to it, or developed logically out of it. This religion, as Comte at last pro claimed it, was to consist in the Culte systematique de Humanitd ; and much of his time in his last years was spent in organizing this " Systematic Worship of Humanity," and arranging, as its first high-priest, some of its ceremonies. We believe he used to officiate at the marriages and funerals of some of the small gather ing of followers he had in Paris. At all events, he published a calendar of the year adapted to the new worship—each of the 365 days being consecrated to the worship of some particular great mau of the past, while each week was apportioned to some very great man, and each of the twelve months was associattd with the name and memory of some colossally great man. There were also four days in the year set apart for the execration of the memory of the four men whom Comte regarded as the greatest ruffians, or worst retrograde men of the universal past— Julian the apostate being one, and the first Napoleon another. But poor Comte died, complaining grievously that this religion of his was very little taken up even by those who had taken most eagerl y to his positive philosophy. In Britain, where his ideas and his reputation were spread, even in his lifetime, far more widely than in Frsnce, he saw no one likely to hold up, after his death, the banner of the religion of positivism. RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA XENT.—Yesterday the Duke of Devonshire's committee, atter hearing evid ence on behalf of L or d Lonsdale and th e Sisters of Charity occupying the conven t at Hammersmith, the bill for the con s t ruct i on of the meranaith, and Xawiipatim, gam was tlarowlz pro posed Barnes, Ham. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.) WRECK OF THE ANGLO-.S►AXON, WITH FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. NEW YORK, APRIL 30 (Evening). The steamer Anglo-Saxon, for Quebec, was wrecked four miles east of Cape Rice, at noon of the 27th, during a dense fog. The deck broke up one hour after the vessel struck. The crew and passen gers numbered 444 persons, of whom 187 are known to have been saved. Two of the steamer's boats and a raft which left the vessel have not been heard of, but search is being made for them. The Captain is supposed to be drowned. The following are the names of the cabin pas- sengers saved : The Hon. John Young and family. Females—Hope, Betram, Inglis,Keerwood, Stod. dard, Chretien, Wright, James, Jackson and child Males—Caldwell, Raton, Kirkwood, Chretien Towers, Kirkness, Fraser, Martin, Sealy, Whites, Captain heed, Hiles, Cassidy, Lieut. Simpson. 33 cabin, 103 steerage passengers, and 21 of the crew were saved. The captain, part of the crew, and a great many passengers were on deck when the vessel sunk in deep water, and were all lost. AMERICA. (Per Arabia.) NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning). A dvices from New Orleans to the 19th inst. state that General Banks's expedition up the River Teche proved very unsuccessful. He had three engagements with the Confederates—one at Vermillion Bayou, another near Franklin, and a third at Bethel Place—in each of which he is reported to have repulsed the enemy, and captured 1,500 prisoners along the route, and compelled the Confederates to destroy several transports in order to escape capture. General Banks has arrived within a short distunce of Opelousas. Reports from Memphis represent that General Banks had reached Point Coupe, on the west bank (If the Mississippi, eleven miles higher up than Port Hudson. If this report were true, General Banks would be in a position to co-operate with the Federal fleet in an attask on Port Hudson from above, but the news requires confirmation. General Grant continues to make numerous com• piicated strategical movements below Vicksburg, with a view to flanking and capturing that posi• tion. Twelve more transports are reported to have passed the Confederate batteries, and to have joined General Grant below Vicksburg. The second Federal expedition to Yazoo Pass is reported to have returned unsuccessful. There is continued fighting on the Coldwater River, the result of which do not appear very clear. The Confederate forces invading Missouri are under General Price. Their strength is supposed not to exceed 10,000 men. A portion of them, sup posed to be 3,000 strong, with six pieces of artil lery, under General Marmaduke, attacked the Fe derals at Cape Girardean, on the Mississippi, on the 26th inst., but are reported to have been repulsed. The Federal commander hod started in pursuit of them. During their retreat the Confederates are reported to have been attacked, and repulsed by another Federal force, which was sent to cut them off. In St. Louis 20 armed Confederates seized during the night the fastest steamer at the Levee, and escaped with her. The steamers between St. Louis and Cairo are convoyed by gunboats. The gun shops in St. Louis are placed under guard, and all Confederate prisoners have been removed to Alton, The Confederate investment of Washington, North Carolina, is said to have been a feint, which enabled the Confederates during the siege to carry off immense quanties of grain from Hyde County, with which they escaped. No material change in the situation in Tennessee bas taken place. The Federals have c aptured the Confederate camp and 100 prisoners near Franklin. Rumours were current at Nashville that General Bragg was shot by General Breckenridge during an altercation. The Federal pickets have been driven in, and skir mishing has recommenced upon the Nanse Mond river. Fifteen adventurers from Mobile have proceeded to the mouth of the Mississippi, and captured a Federal tug-boat, which they ran through the blockading fleet into Mobile. Thirty-seven Federal regiments will be mustered out of service between May and June, their enlist . meat time having expired. By order of the Prize Court, the cargo of the Peterhoff is being landed and examined, to ascer tain if there is contraband of war on board. Mr. Seward, accompanied by the Prussian and Swedish Ministers, have visited the army of the Potomac. It is reported that munitions of war were found concealed on board the steamer Tubal Cain, which cleared from New York for Matamoras, but was seized by the New York revenue officers when about to leave. The steamers Flora and Pet arrived at Wilming :on on the 16th inst. NEW YORK, APRIL 29 (Evening), Considerable excitement prevails in Western Virginia and Maryland, in consequence of the appearance of a large Confederate force in those States. They captured Morgantown, Virginia, near the Pennsylvanian States line, and attempted to break up the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, but only destroyed one bridge, which has since been re paired. Fear was entertained for the safety of 'Wheeling and Pittsburg, but large Federal forces have been moved to all the points threatened, and the excitement has subsided. General Hooker commenced a forward movement on the 27th inst. Heavy masses of artillery and other troops crossed the Rappahannock at sunset. It is supposed that General Hooker's design is to make a flank movement upon Fredericksburg, which will probably bring on a general engagement. It is reported that the Federal Monitor fleet is again in,ide Charleston Bar prepared for another attack on that place. The Confederate steamer St. John, bound from Nassau for a Southern port, has been captured off Cape Roman. The crew escaped. The Arabia takes out 74 passengers, and 16,500 dole. in specie. NEW YORK, APRIL 29 (Evening). Money, abundant. Gold, 501. Exchange, 165 per cent. premium. Stocks, buoyant. New York Central, 1161. Illinois, 941. Erie, 84. Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 1051. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 66 to 664. Flour dull, Wheat quiet. Corn declining. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar steady. Molasses very dull. Petro leum, 24. MEXICO. NEW YORK, APRIL 29. Official Mexican reports receiTecl here state that the French we re several times repu:sed in skirmishes before Puebla between the 24th and 29th March, but on the Ritter date they captured Fort San Jarvier. ThA Havannah papers contain news from Vera Cruz to the 5',,h April, confirming the statement that Comonfor t, whilst en route to reinforce Gene ral Ortega, was defeated by General Berthier, and that General. Forey had refused the offer of Ortega to capitulate at Puebla. CHINA. (By Telegraph from Suez). SHANGHAI, MARCH 25. The new organization of the Ward force has -caused dissatisfaction among the troops compoB ing it. The bandit ti who menaced Tientsin have been repulsed by the Chinese troops. The rebels have evacuated Shaeu-S'ning. No news has been received here from Admiral Kuper's fleet. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CANTON, APRIL 1, Tea firm; total export to date, 106,125,000,135, Exchange on London, 6s. 4d. Freights, 755. COCHIN CHINA. POINT DI GALLE, APRIL 13. News from Saigon states that maters in the in terior of Cochin China appear to be in eo far satis factory, as no complaints are made by Chinese traders in the rice districts. After April 5 all paments of the Treasury and Commissariat, for either contract or freight were to be made in francs at the rate of sf. 37c. per Mexi can dollar, is not otherwise stipulated. THE POLISH INSURRECTION, WARSAW, MAY 7. Six hundred insurgents, who had come from Gallicia, have been defeated near Slawko ; 31 of their number being taken prisoners, among whom were 14 Frenchmen and Italians. On the sth inst. the insurgent chief Bonitza, with 800 men, attacked the Russian infantry near Milzyrzecz, but was defeated and taken prisoner. CRACOW, MAY 8. On the 6th inst. Minieweki suffered a defeat, with considerable loss, at Krzejkawka. General Nulle was killed. Yesterday the insurgents were defeated and dispersed near Soyce and Wilko winne. A portion of them fought their way into the interior, and 141 others have been conveyed to this city. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 9 In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Justice, on the demand of the Pro curator-General ofiPosen, asked the house to be authorised to commence legal proceedings against Count John Dzialynski for high treason. The motion was referred to the Committee of Justice. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 9, Count de Persigny has addressed a circular to the Prefects dated May 8, explaining the principles which should guide the Protects in the approaching elections. The Minister says : "The Prefects will not forget that the Empire is the expression of the wants, feelings, and interests of the masses, as it has united all the forces and wishes of the nation. It was in the cottages of the people that the Empire was brought forth." M. de Persigny then recalls the degree of wealth and prosperity which the nation has acquired since the origin of the Empire, and continues ;-- "The Emperor therefore confidently asks of the country a Legislative Assembly as devoted to him as preceding Assemblies, and having no other care than tne welfare of the Empire. If in France, as in England, parties differed upon the conduct of public affairs, but were all attached to the funda mental institutions of the country, the Government might cot,fine itself to watching the struggle. But in France this manoeuvring of parties would be of a nature to prolong the revolution by compromising liberty; because in our country there are parties who yet remain political fractions, seek ing to attack the very heart of our institutions in order to vitiate their principle, and who invoke liberty in order to turn it against the State. " The duties of the Prefects are, therefore, plainly marked out. Penetrated with the democratic and liberal spirit of our institutions, they will allow all candidates to present themselves freely, and to publish and distribute their political programmes and voting tickets according to the prescriptions of the law." In conclusion, M. de Persigny urges the Prefects to proclaim as publicly as possible the candidates po3sessing the confidence of the Government. BOURSE, May B.—The market continues heavy, but without any further decline in prices. Threes, for Account, are now at 69f. 65c. Railway Shares quiet, and but little change in quotations. The market closed as follows: it per Cents 96 80 Do. end month — --- Italian Loan 72 25 Do. end month 72 30 New ditto Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt i per Cents Do. end month 69 55 Credit Mobilier 1427 50 no, en's month.... 1426 25 Bank Shares 3380 Credit oncier .... RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. 1013 75 .. 820 1030 .. 1037 50 1000 820 1056 25 .. 1065 465 .. 465 765 .. 772 50 .. 532 50 513 75 .. 516 25 455 .. 462 50 500 696 25 567 53 .. 575 575 576 75 760 .. 757 50 387 50 .. 387 50 Orleans .......... Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva .. Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian .. Lon.hard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona THE GENEROUS MISER !—Elwes, who auded to his own fortune another inherited from his uncle, both amounting to half a million sterling, would dine off a hard-boiled egg, or a piece of pancake which he had kept for two months in his pocket. But he would lose thou sands at play to men of fashion, pay his debts and never ask for his winnings, which he thought would be ungen tlemanly. He would not lay out a penny on the education of his two sons. He thought that "putting things into their heads was taking money out of their pockets." But when Lord Abingdon had made a match for seven th usand pounds, Elwes, who knew he had not the money, offered to lend it to him. He would walk from one end of London to another in the rain to avoid paying a shilling for a coach—would cat his meat putrid rather than order a fresh joint; and sit in wet clothes rather than light a fire to dry them. He wore a cast-off wig which he had picked out of a ditch ; and having torn his only coat, took one from the family chest which had belonged to an ancestor, with slash sleeves made of green velvet. But to a merchant who conciliated him with a present of wine he lent seven hundred pounds—and a trifling present, or work done for nothing, was tolerably sure to be followed by a lean of money. Ho would let a poor man starve before he would aid him; yet, in bonds to peers and others, and on some American property, he is said to have lost one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. There were occasional touches of humour in him. At a shooting party, a bad shot firing carelessly wounded him in the cheek, " I give you j oy, , , he said, "of your improvement—l knew you would by and-by hit something." At another time, having cut both his legs deeply, he was with difficulty persuaded to employ a surgeon. But he would only incur this expense in favour of one leg. He would manage the other himself, and Qffereil to bet that it wettld get well Ant ; and it did. „ la, • final %Tamar HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, May 8• The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday morning. Lau A. Bruce and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat ser.. in attendance. Prince and Princess Leiningen visited her Majesty The Hon. H. J. Elliot arrived at Osborne yester d Ay evening and left this morning. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke de Nemours and the Princess Mar guerite and the Count de Paris visited the Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday at Marlborough House, and partook of a dejeuner with their royal highnesses. The Prince and Princess de Joinville also paid a visit to their royal highnesses. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, rode on horseback. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, took a carriage drive. The Sheriff's of London and Middlesex waited on the Prince of Wales yesterday at Marlborough House, and invited his royal highness and the Princess of Wales to an entertainment at Guildhall. The Prince of Wales was present in the House of Peers last night during the speech of the Ear l of Shaftesbury on the Polish question. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, dined with his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambrid g e l as t even i ng, at hi s resi. dente, Gloucester House, Park-lane. GRAND BALL TO THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS Or WALES AT GUILDHALL.—The Prince and Princess having expressed a desire that the entertainment to be given upon the occasion of their visit next month to the City of London should be a ball, the Sheriffs of L o ndon, accompanied by the Town Clerk, had the honour of being received by his Royal Highness yesterday (Friday), a t Marlborough House, to convey the invilation of the cor poration to their Royal Highnesses, when it was graciously accepted. His Royal Highness fixed Monda), the Bth Jun es next, for the ball, and also signified his intention of ee' cepting the, freedom of the City. The ceremony of the pre sentation will take place immediately upon the arrival of the Royal party at Guildhall. The committee, under the pre' sidency of Mr. F. Wyatt Truscott, to whom the arrange' ments for carrying out the resolutions of the Court of Coln' mon Council have been entrusted, meet daily at Guildhall' The Duke of Beautort will receive a party 0 f friends at Badminton on Monday next. His grace's guests will leave on Thursday, The Earl Annesley is expected to arrive its London to-morrow, after a lengthened sojourn at Nice. Toe Earl and Countess Fortescue and family are expected to arrive in town the week after next froin, Malta. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln have left the St . George's Hotel. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have issued invitations to a select circle to meet the Prince and Princes ° .f Wales at a grand banquet on Thursday, the 21st instant' Interdependence of Plants and Animals' As plants and animals are alike dependent on a' ternal conditions, so both are, to a certain extent' dependent on one another. Both, for example, el l dependent on the atmosphere, yet the oxygen which the plant exhales is inhaled by the animal, and 0 1 carbonic acid exhaled by the animal is absorbed ste h assimilated by the plant. The plant, rooted ie the soil and casting abroad its lea ves an d b ranc h es in the atmosphere, though seemingly deriving the el el , ll elements of its growth from inorganic sources, iS nevertheless stimulated into life and exuberance by the presence of organic decay, and many of the lower fungus-growths are f oun d on ly w h e re sel l decomposing matter is present. Herbiverous 911°. mals, as is well known, subsist directly upon p l an t* while the carniverous prey upon the plant-feeders, and are thus also ultimately dependent on the veg e. table world for their subsistence. Wherever veg. e g : table life is varied and luxu r i a nt, th er e animal life is marked by a co r r es p on di ng v ar i e ty ; hence t he specific exuberance of the tropic s compare d W it n Lt that of the colder latitudes. By the extirpet l° ; of certain plants, cert a i n mamma l s, bi r d s , se" t insects may be rem ove d f rom a distrier while, on the introducti on o f some ne w exotic, at i ; ands hither unknown in that lo ca lity usually their appearance. The law of circulation and inter dependence is complete, and no p or tion of the ei rele could be removed without a corresponding al e " in the characters of the vegetable and animal k ivg ; doms. Again, though most plants have the illhe. r f e n a power of dispersing their own seeds, an d are elu, in this by winds and wa t er - currents , y e t marl de pend upon birds and mammals for their wider e it ; persion and i ncrease , j ust as many d epen d ert b i o sects for the fertilisation of their flowers. . I _ oo wider dispersion creates a new source of subsis te %o for the animals that feed upon them, and thee I to increased area of the one supplies a wider rang e the other. Further, as some animals are fitt ed D e their organisation for an arboreal existence , o ° o for life on the grassy plain, and others for the shrubby thicket, the destruction of the trees planting of the plain, or the cl ear i ng o f the thicht eh eo e would necessarily involv e t h e d es t ruc tion of tP eo , special organisati ons . Still f ur th er , as some e r 00 tures ate specially fitted to live on fruits, B etne bes o leaves, and others on roots, the disappearance of specific supplies would necessarily be follow ed t o the annihilation of the consumers. It is in en . manner that plants and animals become ce - d e P ea . dent portions of one great vital plan, and that. g o ? graphers, aware of these relations, can m ore tigibly depict the aspects of nature by assee iB t i f e every fauna with its own appropriate and disti ec i t al flora. P age' s " Introductory Text-Book to PhY s Geography." -IP°ll THE ST. GILES'S MIIRDER.—The inquest Oro the supposed St. Giles's murderer was adjoiltttio, this morning mull a late hour this afternoon, for the P pose of allowing some medical gentlemen to earl"' pot r of experiment for the purpose o f restorin.• the natural 0 10 00 i the body from its pres e nt b: ac k ene d ° appearance, Prtore by decomposition, in order that the features may b° easily recognised. or TRIAL TRIP OF A SCREW STEAMER.—T-- hp raid, 35, screw, Capt. A. Cumming, made an e g o s rimental trial with a four-bladed screw yesterday af te r;dl at Spithead. The trial was conducted by capt..Broeujog of the steam reserve. She made six runs, the result be der mean speed of about 12 knots. This trial was t rade nett the same conditions as former trials of a like ob i ' r fola only on former trials the screws have been si v.blade" `wo-bladed. 1011. MURDER IN LlYERPOOL.—Yteterday aftern`~ i 4 shocking murder was perpetrated in LiverP°a" too 1 which a woman was again the victi m . A tall, 8 ; 4 04 athletic young man, a sailor, who lodged in Broolws; attacked the landlady of the boarding-house Wbi ,t - 011, 11 lodg,d, strikingly her savagely with a billet of vi °a- i ' for 7 repeating his blows until the object of his br ilts ac itig a ceased to live. He also attacked and seriously iti:lur" The other women who attempted to aid the laalladP il jot ° ruffian was secured by the police, and on being t 41 ‘, 63- 00 0° . custody it is said he was sober; but, whether that " a OP or not, he appears to have been very savage, at atin ' his intention was to have killed all the three. re th e APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The follow-vg Li re names of the gentlemen who passed their Oaeceieel tion in the science and practice of medicine, at' d r sata lia ' certificates to practice, on Thursday, May Ga t ' Woodman, Finchley-road, St. John's-wood; CS I " ba gory, Btruoiegharn; George Wyatt Sharp, Gre et 1120 0° land-street ; Wm. Allin Thompson, Oxford; S pen'' Pilkington, Enfield, Accrington, Luncashire; i°llj3reWerl cer Ferris, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts; Thomas Halifax. 01 0 ` al THE LISBURN ELECTION PETITION. -- rrh on 17 „ 8 : 1 , election committee have reported that this 17 dot 14 ' c/ - improperly withdrawn, and have recomm end' d a llow s petitioners be remitted to their original rights an 1/ 4S. to prosecute the petition. GV 1313 • SUICIDE OF MR. MARTIN RICHARD d at yea —Yesterday evening an inquest was bal.,bbies,l4l,o naington on the body of Mr. Martin Richard Gl` to gi l 7 , committed suicide early the same morning• bi d that '1,4 himself in a closet in his bed-room. It aPP ea " t . -r* bu o e ceased had been a judge of the Suprem e Court 057417000 was compelled to retire in December la st, in c°ll,.act to 13.5. ; severe ill-health. Since then he has been. Bt!3_o, treme mental depression, so much so t hat, at trra o rd he ic a considered of unsound mind. The j ur y retut v ° , a 0 0 0 that the deceased destroyed himself whilst ot mind, THE SUN, LONDON, SAPURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1863.