The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1863. MANHATTAN speaks pretty confidently, under date the ninth of this present month of October, about the all but certainty of a war between the French and the Federals. " I will bet two thousand dollars," he says, " that war is declared against France before the first day of January." It would almost seem that the Northerners were " beside themselves," by reason of the very agonies of the frightful civil war in which they are engaged. Like that tuft-hunting old lady at Mr. Spenlow's dinner-party in " David Copperfield," the old lady who was such a stickler for long pedigrees wherever they cculd be found or affected—all they want (apparently) is blood ! As if the hideously de structive struggle, which they have now for the last two or three years been engaged in, with their own brethren of the South, were not nearly enough to satisfy their greed of ruin and lust for slaughter— the Federals have been howling all this while alter nately for an additional or supplementary war, now with England, now with France. France and England all the while, on their part, having re peatedly to exercise an extraordinary amount of self-control and forbearance, if only out of sheer pity for the straights to which the North has been and is still being put—by the Confederates. If France and England had not exercised pertinaciously an extraordinary amount of forbearance and of self-control, in one word of " magnanimity," there must inevitably have been war already with one, or the other, or with both. In spite of all kinds of revilings, insults, and out !sages, unprovokedly directed against the two great opean Powers, from the opposite side of the Atlantic, England and France have all through the war maintained an attitude towards the bellige rents in North America of the very strictest neutra lity. To maintain otherwise would not only be a violation of all truth, but would be one so extravagantly flag rant of its kind as to be simply ridiculous. Once,u ' it is true, when the British flag and th e Q uniform had been insolently outraged upon trsleigh seas by a Fede ral Swashbuckler, wildly bentin somehow, o r ra th er anyhow, upon distinguishing himself even England then by any w began to arm, The attitude assumed this country, was not one iny equivalent to that of an athlete shaking his fiat , to that of a knight of old flinging down his gauntlet s i m ply as the buckling on of the armour. —it was But, it wa s sufficient. Tard il y , grumbling, reluct ant l y the North m ade the amende honorable . How ev , :rit made it—it made it. That for England was enough. The armour was unbuckled again. The storm-cloud blew over. And --cordially or not it matters little —the Northern Government and their rep re .. sentatives, naval, military and diplomatic, have since then, in regard to England, been tolerably on their good behaviour. Not so, however, has it been with them, in their bearing towards France, that is towards the French Go vernment. More particularly since the successful occupation of Mexico by the French troops under Marshal FOREY. From that date the malignity of f eeling against France, against the ruler of France, ( m th e part of the Federal Power (or Weakness, !whichever we may like to call it) has been the p holly undisguised. The North hates France , hates Fr ench EMPEROR, with both a lively and a deadly h atred. MANHATTAN, as the most uncom promisingly outspoken amon g his countrymen, utter s the wish o f his heart, as well the thought of his brain, when writing, as we have shown that he has just now written, He predicts plainly enough, but it is with the flourish a Yankee Bombastes Fur:usu. He not only sofa quite confidently, " I will het 2,000 dollars that N eer i i declared against France before the I st day of Jantiary„ but he add s " and I will wager that Calfornie before that time will be ready io place 100,000 se ed ier . 'withrifles and bowie knives, iv the very heart ofNle o, without asking the aid of one of her sister states, and I will wager that force will whip 200,000 Fren c h men, t LOUIS NAPOLEON can get up that quantity of i to go into Mexico to assist in inaugurating the Austrian Montezuma-" It is the very crow of chanticleer! But of chanticleer at a moment of the highest ex citement, perched on the extreme top of his own daog,Lill, with his comb troken and b:eeding, and with his spurs dreadially sore. Of one thing, in regard to France, the Federals may be absolutely certain—namely, that the ruler of France is one in no way to be sneered, or even for that matter to be reviled, into a war. We know that ourselves here in England—from experience. NAPOLEON 111. is one who can bide his time (the time of his own choosing) with extra ordinary equanimity, we will even say with extra ordinary magnanimity.. The comparison between the relative conditions of the agricultural labourer and the felon has very often been made, and recent discussions have tended to bring it once more to the surface. The degree of comfort, and even luxury to which a man may attain as a reward for breaking the lews of his country and injuring his fellows, con trasts more effectively than edifyingly with his miserable condition as an honest labourer. The hours of rest, the amount of labour, the food, the clothing, the habitation, are all startlingly diffe rent in the prison and the cottage. The convict enjoys his ten hours of undisturbed repose in a comfortable hammock all to himself; the tasks re quired of him are light, and the regulations as to the quantity of work to be exacted from him are by no means rigidly enforced. We are speaking of the county gaols as being those most nearly connected with the agricultural labourer. The convict enjoys a liberal supply of good and wholesome food, pleasantly varied, and above all he lives in a dwelling well warmed, drained, and ventilated. The home, if home it can be called, of the rural labourer is the very reverse of all this. His food is of the coarsest and scantiest description, his hours of labour long and laborious, while the place he lives in has been described as considerably lower in the scale of civilisation than the dwellings of some savage races. Drainage is incomplete and ineffective, heaps of decaying vegetable matter is suffered to poison the air with hurtful gases. The roofs and walls of his cottage suffer the winds and rains of winter to find ready admittance, while his family, huddled together, are suffered to grow up in utter disregard of the commonest laws of health and decency. Such being the facts, we need not feel surprised at their producing the natural conse quences. The agricultural labourers, as a class, have sunk into a state of degradation from which it is difficult to raise them, while the general low order of morality which pre vails among them is only too clearly traceable to the miserable condition of their homes. It is per fectly useless, perhaps even worse than useless, to send a child to school to learn lessons of morality, order, and cleanliness, and then to send it back to a room in which five or six men and women, of all ages, are compelled to sleep. Precept and practice when directly at variance are always dangerous opponents, but in this case they are perfectly irre concileable, and we can conceive no greater mortifi cation to the ccnscientious teacher than being obliged to dismiss a hopeful pupil from the class in which he has been learning:the plain duties of every day life, to the hovel which renders it simply im possible to put them into practice. The consequence of this state of things is a degree of moral and social depravity that is really startling. The old pleasant tradition of the purity and innocence of rural life is completely exploded. A Suffolk vicar, writing to a morning contemporary on this subject, gives some highly suggestive statistics of the degree of guilt in town and country. It seems that whereas in 15 towns in Suffolk, with an average population of 5,000, the annual proportion of criminals is 1 to every 593; in 15 villages, averaging 820 inhabitants, the number of criminals reach the ratio of 1 to every 317, Among the culprits actually in gaol the proportion is equally striking. In every crime in the list the country far outstrips the towns, and the darker the offences, the heavier the preponderance. In burglary it actually amounts to 16 town against 41 country, and in arson, to 4 town against 72 country: The burning of hay-ricks is, of course, a very different thing from firing houses, but the degree of vice and immorality existing among our rural population is a startling evil. The want of decent houses is so great an impediment to all benevolent efforts to bring about a better state of things, that it has lately been said that " There are none who believe that, with the existing social condition of the working class, they can be raised much above the standard they have now reached." This re mark, too, is made, not by an interested declaimer against existing institutions, or an angry censurer of the upper classes, but by an established publica tion, belonging to the Church of England, which would scarcely, therefore, he unduly eager to over throw the social fabric. It is high time that this matter were looked into, and this disgrace removed from English rural life. No attempt is made to contradict the terrible assertions so positively and perseveringly made by gentlemen, whose position gives them every opportunity for accurate observa tion. On the contrary, the accounts from one part of the country only too painfully confirm the revelations made in the other districts, until special blame can be attached to no particular quarter or county, but a general state of things is brought to light which calls loudly for examination and reform. We cannot afford to lose the qualities which have made our sturdy Englishmen what they are. It is directly ridiculous, as well as unjust and cruel, to look for a strict observance of the laws of morality and order from a population brought up under such fearful disadvantages, while even the pure air of the country will not serve as a preservative against bad drainage, leaking roofs, and stagnant water. Our social reformers will find enough to do, if they will turn their attention in this quarter, for al though much rests in the hands of the landowners, the i n fl uence o f pu b l i c op i n i on i s all power f u l. All attempts at intellectual training, and endeavours to r aise and educate the masses, should be preceded by Procuring them clean, healthy, and decent habi tations if they are t o effect any wide-spread or lastin g good. Our population is rapidly on the increase, Bo that the e v il, if unc h ec k e d, w ill, lik e most other evils, increase instead of diminish. test of the ci v ili e The positio n of women one has oft en b een c it e d as a sati e. of crime above referred tosh State, and the statistics toweraonblyy to t o he pl m ai i n se ly ra t b h le e fatal effect produced upon them condition of the hov e l s in which th ey l i ve. The rase himself a eent i dc v e ; the te la b o u rer e o r f en gaged l classes e a s n cannot c tatchcealnp themselves build cottage; the tack and the duty li e at the those above them, and heavy will be their respon sibility if they continue to neglect them. King WILLIAM has certainly great cause to be disappointed at the result of the olcetions. -.. i t Wou l d have been almost impossible for the result to have been more adverse to the wishes of those who seek to establish absolutism in the land, and, by fair means or foul, to put down the struggling attempts at liberty with a strong hand. All lovers of pro. gress will rejoice at the failure of these manwavres, and exult at the prospect that seems to open before us of Prussian liberty making again a decisive etand against the inroads of oppressi on, and this ti me with renewed vigour, and refreshed spir it. It is not always fair to make hasty conelusions respect ing t h e Conduct of a people under trying circum stances. What bears evidence of Ihe wrath and con tempt of one n ationmay not do FO of another; ROYA_L ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under tl le Management of Miss Louisa Pyae and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EV- ENING, Wallace's Romantic Opera, THE DES '.ItT F' LOWER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne • M es srs. W. H. We iss, H. Corn. A. Cook, and W. Harrison'. C on ductor, Mr. A. Mellon. —Doors o p en at half-past Seven. commence at Eight. frEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE. - Tnanagers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. TFII EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy and Mess Murray. After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. Messrse.. r helps, Ryder, Rayner, Meagreson, Ward, Spencer ; Miss Iteath, Miss F. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss titter, Miss Cicely Nott, "Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. nERRMANN.-PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Immense Succ , ss.--" The Tricks and Feats of Herr II errntann are nearly all of the most astonishin , and ine un prc hea,lible kind. His sleight-of-hand feats are really mar vellous, and the ease, fini'h, and accuracy of his tricks are such as have never before been witnessed in this country."— Stand .rd, Sept. 29. Herrmann in his MONEY TRICK, EVE RN EVINING. "A New System of Making Plenty of Money." Commencing at Eight. ELEATRE ROYAL II AY M ARKETC._:_ Sole Lessee and Manaf. , ,er, Mr, Ruckstone. THIS EVENING, TllE RIVALS : Mr. Chippendale. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Rogers, Mr.W. Farren. Mr.Cl&rg, Mr. Braid; Mesda mes Snowdon, L. Angel, E. Fitzwilllam, Terry, ktc. After which, THE 13E GAL TIGER: Mr. Alfred Wigan Mrs Alfred Wigan, and Mr Compton. And .MY HUSBAND'S G&IOST. Commence at 7. NinV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII.- t Soli, Pronrietor and Manan - er. M?. 11. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TR AGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. ihrling. - Miss Batem an, su pp orted At rz, the New Drama of LEATI Phillips. B i llington, A Stuart, At,ssrs.Arthur Stirl, It. P Wood, Eburne, Miss ing H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. ------- EA 1 - I.—The celebrated 31.ISySouni3, AAraeri'claAn'A rctresis, Hiss BATEMAN. having on her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH O tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has been wi.nessed for many years, and the profound impression impersonation of the character ot LEAH upon careted by her owded audience havinff been completely ratified by the unanimous verdict and critical approval ot the entire Dail Press, the wianag,er ot the NEW ADELPIII THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss BAT EMAN will appe in the. New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till furth a e r r notice. lit oyAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, TURN HIM OUP. Mr. C. Fenton. After which, MIRIAM' CRI3IE. Messrs. G. Honey, rarselle, Beltord, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Manders. Followed by THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, C. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jennv White. Commence at 7. :FIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, :an be had Every Evening of G. R. GLIGNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. — Morning, 11h. 12m.—Afternoon, 11h. 40m. To-tionnow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 10m. The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 23, 1863. THERMOMETER.. This day at Two o'clock 5B Barometer-30.25. Wind—North-West; light, and fine. pit, • ,., f l t 4 " $ g sli"'"A l ~...0.011A.L4*- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1803, and the apparent quiescence that has reigned among the Prussians does not testify their ignorance nor yet their indifference to the momentous events that have been taking place around them. There are two ways of offering resistance to an inimical pro. ceeding, which are equally valuable in their ulti mate consequences, and produce about as much effect the one as the other, according to the adapta bilitrof the occasion on which they are severally employed. The active mode of opposition is the most congenial generally, and most frequently su persedes all others; but experience has shown that a tacit line of defence has often proved the most efficacious. Much may be done by those who bide their time, and maintain their purpose unflinch iegly, without making any unnecessary confession in so doing. Thus it has happened that those whom many have called indifferent, and some even denounced as faithless to the interests of their coun try, have, at the opportune moment, come forward and vindicated themselves from reproach, while they have effectually served their cause. The accounts given of the results of the different elec tions are most significant, and augur a period of vast moment as approaching. The present peace and future welfare of Prussia may depend on the issue of the struggle now impending. In Berlin, which is, of course, the centre of power, and the most trying test of strength for either side, the majority of liberals has been increased. This speaks volumes for the fact that independence is cherished in the heart of the kingdom. It may be for a time stifled in its utterance and stultified in its course, but its source springs eternal and incon trovertible in the heart of the nation, and the stead fast spirit that can move mountains and combat un numbered difficulties seems to be vital and vigorous, notwithstanding all assaults and in spite of all rumours to the contrary that some have propagated so lavishly around them. So far as discernible at present the provinces are following the good example. Without going 8 ° tar as to quote the old adage in regard to Prussia that has been circulated relative to France, Paris c'est l'empire, it may be confidently expected and fearlessly reckoned upon, that the capital will in augurate the idea, and lead the van in the march of improvement. The question that now occupies men's rcinds is the inquiry regarding the course likely to be adopted by the KING and his Ministers. Will they accept defeat as a conclusive answer to their late proposals of remodelling the Constitution , or will they be goaded on by the mortification to continued resistance, and even incited to fresh acts of retrogression, and new attempts at absolutism. Unhappily there is but too much reason to dread the more litigious course will be the one that is chosen, and that this success for the time being will have to be followed up with zeal and activity, or the time will be lost that is precious and unredeem able. King WILLIAM cannot be persuaded by his advisers that there is no cause for fear regarding the tone and temper of the people. They have manifested their displeasure with dignity and de corum, and the result is as effectual as if they had signified their discontent with all the fierce de fiance and loud vociferations with which some nations testify their love of liberty, and their hatred of oppression. A change has come over the spirit of the dream as regards the satisfactory state of public political existence in Prussia, dark clones are lowering in the horizon, and wise men shake their heads at the prospect that may b e before them. It is surely a significant fact when a calm and cautious people are so wound ap by the recollection of their wrongs, and so fearful for the maintenance of their rights, that they can not be induced to exhibit any tokens of respect for their Sovereign ; and that King, who was once so popular, has to keep aloof from any occasion that may bring him into immediate contact with that people he has assumed to govern by Divine Right. Well would it be if, at this eleventh hour, the voice of reason, the claims of justice, and the welfare of his kingdom; could form pleas that might be urged upon the KING to pause before it is t)o late. It is lamentable to reflect into what fatal errors many distinguished individuals have fallen i n their rash resolves to ma i n t a i n a t a ll h azar ds the line of poli c y they have marked out for themselves, it may be in pride, in ob s ti nac y, or se lf- aaser tion. Dark are the annals in which history has traced the se q uel of such courses. Thus far shalt thou go, but no further, might be the motto of such lives, and it is sad to find a prince in this enlightened age clinging so pertinaceouely to the vanishing customs that im• provement and intelligence have banished from the foremost nations of the world. The new Chamber is not likely to abrogate its rights, end it cannot be wished that it should do so; but before the trial of strength is begun in good earnest, it is to be trusted that timely concessions may be made to prevent the conflict assuming that dangerous and disastrous character which future generations will regret to chronicle as a disgrace to the advance of civilisa tion, and a slur on the memory of their KING that no time can efface, nor circumstances extenuate. LATEST INTELLIGENCE [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] RUSSIA AND TURKEY. ST. PE FERSBURG, OCT. 23. The Journal de St. Petersburg of to-day declares as completely false the rumours circulated by the Austrian press relative to an interviewof a threaten ing character between the Russian ambassador and Aali Pasha on Polish affairs, and says :—"Neither the attitude of the Porte nor the present relations of Russia and Turkey justify such a report." TURKEY, CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 22. The publication of the Budget has again been postponed. It is said that the Sultan now proposes a reduc tion in the direct tales equal to the amount of the surplus. 1.........••••••• PLYMOUTH, OCT. 23. The screw steamer Golden Fleece passed off this port yesterday afternoon, with over 100 passengers, for the Cape and India. Among the former are Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Douglas, the newly a ppointed Commander-in-Chief and suite. FRANCE. TOULON, OCT. 22. The squadron which has been recalled from Ajaccio will arrive here this evening, and be present at the departure of the Ring of the Greeks. PARIS, OCT. 23. The Moniteur of this morning states that the Emperor has received the Mexican deputation charged to express the sentiments of gratitude felt by Mexico and the new Government of that country. Preparations are making for taking down the statue of Napoleon I. from the column of the Place Vendome. Or. the same site stood formerly a colossal equestrian statue of Louis XIV. in bronze, which was erected in 1669, and demolished in 1792. The statue of Napoleon which surmounted the co lumn, made out of the cannon taken by the French during the German campaign in 1805, was torn from its pedestal in 1814, to the shouts of the Parie mob. It was melted down the same year, to form part of the horse of Henri IV. in the Pont Neuf ; and during the Restoration, a flagstaff and a fieur delis occupied its place. The statue, as it now stands, was replaced by Louis Philippe on the 28th of July, 1833, and the King, the Princes and Princesses of his family, his Ministers, and the city functionaries attended on the occasion. The pro ject of removing it is not recent; it was contem plated by the present Emperor soon after the estab lishment of the Empire, and he has not abandoned it. The statue represznted Napoleon I. in the mili tary costume—the cocked hat and the redingote so familiar to every one ; but his nephew would rather see him in Imperial robes, with the crown on his head and sceptre in his hand, not so much as the general as the founder of the dynasty. It is in this new form he will reappear—net, however, on the column of the Place Vendome, but at the Rond Point of the avenue of Conrbevoie, where his re snit's, brought from St. Helena by the Prince de Joinville, were landed in 1840. BOURSE, Oct. 22.—There has been little or no change in the market. A slight dt e:ine took place at the opening, but it was soon recovered, and Threes, for the Account, are now, as yesterday. at 67t. sc. Mobilier is also about the same. Rail way Shares quiet, but firm. The market became more buoyant towards the close, and left off as follows : td o p . Cents. 95 month -- 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 20 Credit Mobilier 1122 50 Do. end ninntn 1125 -- Bank Shams - Credit k oneier l3OO Italian Loan 73 25 - Do. end month 73 2b • New ditto i Do. end month — Russian Austrian • Spanish Threes — • Rome Debt • Deferred Roman .WAYS. RAIL' Cash. Account. Orleans 973 75 .. 975 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 1008 75 .. -- New ditto . 912 50 .. Gen Ava 497 50 .. Southern 683 7.5 .. 685 Western Eastern .. .. Sardinian .. 415 .. 415 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 637 50 .. 635 Ditto to Barcelona HOLBORN VALLEY. LITERATURE. Kilsorrel Castle ; An Irish Story. By the Hon. Albert Canning. Two vols. Chapman and Hall. This is an interesting tale,. but the interest is of a serious and even painful nature. Mr. Canning tells us in the preface—" In this story, a few cha racters are drawn, to a certain extent at least, from actual life," and he adds, " the account given of the general sympathy shown towards the fugi tive murderer Lynch will not be considered, I believe, exaggerated by those well acquainted with the social state and feelings of the lower classes in many parts of Ireland." The effect of this feeling is, indeed, exhibited to the uttermost, for Daniel Lynch, or Devil Dan, as he is very appropriately surnamed, is a most repulsive character, little likely to excite any individual sympathy in his own be half. One of the principal actors in the story is Milly Ryan, a domestic amazon, whose character is depicted with the blackest shadows by a pencil borrowed from Rembrandt or Salvator Rosa. In her very first introduction she presents us with the following very unattractive specimen of Death of Mr. Weld, of Lulworth Castle. The death is announced of the head of one of the most distinguished Catholic families in England, Mr. Joseph Weld, of Lulworth Castle, Dorset/tire, the fine old English gentleman who received Charles the Tenth at his noble ancestral seat, the popular yachtsman who continued to compete in aquatic contests even to the last years of his great old age. Mr. Joseph Weld was born on January 27, 1777, and was the third son of Mr. Thomas Weld, of Lulworth (the founder of Stonyhurst College), by Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Stanley Massey Stanley, of Hooton. He was the third child out of 16. His eldest brother, Thomas, on the death of his wife in 1815 took orders in the Church of Rome, and bec ame a bi s h op i n partibus in England f or some time, till th e ill health of his only child, the wife of Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, induced him to go to Italy. In 1829 Pope Pius VIII. made him a cardinal the first English cardinal since the pon tificate of Clement IX. Cardinal Weld transferred his estates to his brother (though he himself did not die till April, 1837), and so it came to pass that Mr. Joseph Weld received the royal family of France in August, 1830. Lulworth Castle had previ ously been visited by royalty—James 1., Charles 11., James 11., George 111., and George IV. (when Prince of Wales), and in the middle of that month of A ugust it opened its gates to the royal exiles, after the " glorious days of July." The king and his family remained the guests of Mr. Weld for some days, till their removal to Holyrood Palace. Mr. Joseph Weld virtually succeeded his brother in 1837. He had married, Nov. 23, 1802, the Hon., Etizabeth Charlotte, daughter of Charles Philip, 16th Lord Stourton, by whom he had issue three , eons and two daughters. He is succeeded in his estates by his eldest son, Edward Joseph, born in 1806, and married in 1838 to Ellen Caroline, daugh ter or Sir Bourehier Wray. his second son is Mr. Thomas Weld-Blundell, who succeeded to the Blun dell prope r ty i n L ancas hi re . M r . W e ld was a Catholic, as his family had been for centuries, but washe,averse any ofe l a liberal an d a to l erant gent l eman, an d noto riouslyl erse to lately b e f ore proselytising intrigues which hav e been at tenantry i t D ersetshire never felt the pressure of the public. His the religious screw;' and it was known through out the estate that th e " Weld of Lulworth" vier word and the honour of 1 w e ld,leiged to abstinence from religious bigotry. Mr. who has been largely known for his pro wess it ya c hting always very fortunate in the eonstruetionand , was sail ing of his vessels, and his success in the many eon teats in which his yachts have been engaged was proverbial. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I n the Builder of Saturday last ap pears a letter from Mr. C. H. Smith, which has been largely quoted in the London papers, advo cating the formation of a new line of street leading directly from Newgate-street to Holborn, at the corner of Fetter-lane. This line of street seems, so far as by Mr. Smith's description, and in the absence of any plan I am able to judge, to be identical with a street which I have proposed, and, as I have been laboriously engaged since the date of the advertisement of the Improvement Committee, calling for designs, in the preparation of one of which this is a leading feature, it will, I think, be evident that I am entitled to claim the merit (if any there be) of the conception of this scheme. Mr. Smith, whilst recognising the large and in creasing traffic from the Metropolitan Railway Company's station in Farringdon-road, which will shortly be swelled by the erection of the markets in Smithfield, and the formation of a new street from thence to Farringdon-road, makes no provi sion for this traffic in his proposal, but seems to rely upon its passing up and down the present dange rous line of Holborn-hill and Skinner -street as a compensation to the inhabitants of that locality for the loss of traffic caused by the formation of the new high level street. I do not think, however, such an arrangement can be considered satisfactory, and I have proposed in my design short streets run ning directly from the Metropolitan. Station; one in continuation of the intended n ew street from Smithfield, entering High Holborn at Hatton garden ; the other, from the same station, entering I consider that, so propertys iondividing Holborn hill Skinner-street at the upper end of Snow-hill ; th us providing for all the chief traffic, t a f a s r t f o r p m r e a v n e y n t d e c p o r n e f c u i s a i t o i n o .n of A n d and from the Skinner-street connection with general adjacent new streets, be greatly ra i se d i n value by th e execution of these improvement of the district a w n o d u d ts , itnuahcp:ruing, that property improvements.—l am, d e ar Sir, your obedient servant, FREDERICK WALLEN. 68, Old Broad-street, E.Co Oct. 22. THE NEW STREET AT PARIS shortly to be opened will commence at the corner of the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue Saint llonore, and join the Boule vard des Capucinea, at the eastern angle of the Rue de la Pula. It will cut the Ruo Jannisson and the Rue Fon taine-Moliere, and after having passed the angle formed by the Rues St. Anne and Anglado it will traverse the Rues des Orties and Moulins, cut the Rue des Petits Champs at its junction with the Rues Saint Roch and Gaillon, cross the Rue Neuve St, Augustin at its point of intersection with the Rue d'Antin, and continuo across the Rue Louis le Grand to the Rue de la Pais. The rising ground called Butte St. Roch, of which the levelling was commenced two centuries ago, will be removed by the opening of the new street. The Butte St. Hoch, which many writers on Paris have described as an artificial mound, created as a defence against a sudden attack, after the defeat at Pavia, was a natural hill, at the foot of which the pig-market was esta blished by a decree in the year 1360. M. Gauthier, th e architect, proposed in the year 1835 to erect a statue in honour of the Maid of Orleans on the spot. It is p oss ibl e that the design may now be carried into execution, as the opening of the new street will afford a convenient space. THE NEW JUDGES.--Mr. Baron Pigott will take his seat in the Court of ExcbEquer on the 2d of November, being the first day of term, and Sir Jas. Plaisted Wilde,the new Judge of the Probate Court at Westminster, it is understood, on the followi n g da y , w hen the Lord Chan cellor will hold his court in 14i110103-inn, GENTLE WOMAN. With these combined advantages of example and educa tion, Milly Ryan was seldom mentioned except in terms of dislike, if not suspicion. Stern, inflexible, and vindictive, she soon acquired, even among a stubborn and vindictive population, the name of possessing those qualities in an un usual degree. Her appearance was remarkably tall and corn manaing, her expression suspicious and watchful, and few saw her for the first time without having their attention rwore or less arrested. Some might have been reminded, to a certain extent, of Scott's Meg Merrilies, but would soon have changed their opinion, for, instead of the wild dignity and touches of noble feeling evinced by the latter, even in physical expression, there was in this woman a total want of anything so interesting or so redeeming, Her extraordi nary height and personal strength would soon have been discovered as the only real points of resemblance presented to Scott's immortal character. Her features had been, in deed, rather handsome as a girl, but now, though not more than fifty, she looked worn and much older, owing chiefly to the indulgence of naturally strong and violent passions. Her only daughter, Mattie, was, in every respect, a con trast to her mother. Weak, silly, and delicate, it would have been difficult to see any one more exactly the reverse, both in character and appearance. Milly Ryan possesses a little independent tenement on the demesne of Lord Kilsorrel. Although her self descended from the former possessors of the soil, her feudal veneration for the actual lord of the land is intense. So much so that (strange to say) Milly Ryan regards with pride and reference, rather than with shame, her little grandson, Albert Lindsay, the illegitimate son of the Earl of Kilsorrel. When later on, the earl having left Kilsorrel, his tenants hear of his marriage, and then of the birth of an heir to the title and estates, the angry indignation of Milly is without bounds, as is evidenced by the following painful scene : A GATHERING STORM. Long before this, intelligence of the baby's birth had reached Ireland, and it affected both Milly and Mattie Ryan even wore than the marriage, which they had never quite believed till the birth of this child. But the news, as might have been foreseen, operated in entirely different ways upon these two women. Mattie gave herself up to despair, kissed and embraced her own child with frantic exclamations and tears, declaring she had been p3sitively assured her child should succeed to the disentailed Kilsorrel property, though of course without the title. In fact, she had some grounds for this belief. Lord Kilsorrel at one time almost intended it, until his visit to England, when he met with Miss Shel burne. As to Milly Ryan, not a tear nor a sigh escaped her when the news of the young heir's birth arrived. On the following evening there was a general expression of rejoicing on the part of the tenantry and inhabitants of Kil sorrel. Bonfires blazed, and the cheering rang through all the village, and was heard for miles round. Most of the people knowing nothing of Mattie's story, had always naturally concluded that at his lordship's death they would pass at once under the authority of some distant relative they had never seen or known, and groat and sincere was the general rejoicing and exultation. On that same evening, poor Mattie, having cried and sobbed herself to sleep, Milly Ryan, taking little Lindsay in her arms, sallied forth to the top of a heathy hill near their house, which commanded an entire view both of the town and estate of Kilsorrel. She sat down on the heath, and pointing to where the flames of the bonfires rose and the shouts were heard, held him up in her arms, exclaim ing, "Look, darlin' I D'ye see the fire and hear the noise ? s , lind this another day, will ye now, and never forget it while yer in life." The child turned its large, attentive eyes in the direction indicated, and, trembling violently, his hot tears rolled down, some over the grandmother's hand. Milly Ryan wiped his eyes carefully, more carefully than fondly, with something almost deferential manifested in her manner even to the chid, and again clasping him in her arms, re turned home. The evening became wet and stormy, and the wind howled in gusts round the house; Milly Ryan, lead ing the child by the hand, opened the door of a poor small bedroom, and there on a low coarse bed lay Mattie, half asleep, but sobbing convulsively, and with frequent gasps for breath. " There, darlin' child 1" said the grandmother, looking down on the child's eyes, that met her sullen frown in their upward gaze. " There, pride of my heart, that ye are I Mind, this wild, stormy night, the flames of fire, the cheering of the people, and yer mother lying in the grief she is this minute; mind this day, ye darlin', ye, for as long as yet in life I" Under such auspices the young Lindsay grows up of a melancholy, morbid, revengeful temperament. His mother marries and dies, leaving a second orphan grandson to the unpropitious guardianship af the austere Milly. This grandson Jarmy and Daniel Lynch, the serving man, with Milly Ryan and her beloved Lindsay, constitute the under-men tioned model specimen of A HAPPY FAMILY. This habit of always styling Lindsay " yer Honour," was one of Milly Ryan's many peculiarities. As before mentioned, her affection for him had been always mineled with a degree of deference and humility which, under the circumstances, was extraordinary. She attended him sedu lously, like a servant, and often against his will, though he soon became so used to it that he made no remark upon the matter. In this she insisted upon Lynch and Jarmy fol lowing her example, which the former always did willingly enough, the latter with sulky and jealous reluctance, which increased from natural perverseness the more he observed the deference of Lynch towards his illegitimate brother. Dan Lynch availed himself of this to foster and encourage ill feeling between them, which was no difficult task, Lind say having always viewed his brother with an indifference which easily led to dislike. As for Jarmy Kavanagh, strong young giant as he was, he regarded both his grandmother and Lindsay in nearly the same way, with mingled suspicion, awe, and doubt ; while Dan Lynch he hated and despised from his innermost soul. In Rafferty's house alone he found comfort and con solation for the many slights, some real and others fancied, that he received in his grandmother's house. He had often thought and intended to leave it altogether, and labour for his own support through the country, where he had many friends; but, just as he had made up his mind to do so, and endure a fearful anathema from Milly Ryan, which he fore saw would inevitably attend any such declaration of inde pendence, both Lindsay and Lynch went over to London, where the former was said to be pursuing some law studies, under the tutelage of Mr. Bristowe. When they were gone, Jarmy, who at all times was very useful to his grandmother, now found their absence the greatest possible relief; his life became happy all at once, he laboured and worked with right good will, and earnestly, devoutly wishing he might never again behold either of the absent faces. In this he was doomed to disappointment, for both returned after a few months, to the joy of Milly Ryan, who declared with truth that she had hardly enjoyed one night's " real sleep" till she again beheld her favourite. The old disputes, heart burning:, and jealousies again woke up, however, and blazed fierce as ever. Lynch had lost no opportunity in setting his young master against Jarmy Kavanagh, whose fiery temper continually threatened most desperate strife, in which probably one life at least would have been lost, but for the steady influence which the energy of Milly Ryan's character maintained over spirits wild and intractable, in deed, yet not more so than her own. Lindsay himself had always the appearance and manner of a man of mild and gentle temper, and so he generally was ; but, as Milly often repeated to Lynch, and to him alone, " There's none knows his Honour and the real high spirit he has in him but my self—no one in all this world but myself." With such elements, the stormy nature of the plot may be imagined. Hardly a single character invites our sympathy, and not a single chapter pre sents us with any redeeming incident. The episode of Lady Annora adds nothing to the interest of the work. Her character and her story are singularly unattractive. The tale itself, as we have already said, is of a peculiarly interesting nature, but the interest is not pleasing, and the incidents are most painful, Ralph ; or, St. Sepulchre's and St. Stephen's. By Arthur Arnold. Two vols. Tinsley. From St. Sepulchre's to St. Stephen's the con trast is sufficiently startling, but such a re indeed the opposite points of Ralph's history. His connec tion with St. Sepulchre's is, however, only acciden tal. The supposed son of an honest charwoman, Mrs. Dixon, and her very dishonest husband, little Ralph is taken by them to witness the execution of a murderer, Tommy Cooper. Seated on Dixon's shoulder, his attention is directed to the unhappy culprit, and then, while his young heart is with terrified emotions,Dixon cruelly tells him that Tommy Cooper is his father. This supposed revela tion is full of horror to the sensitive child, and its recollection casts a shadow over his future life. Of course he is not the son of Cooper, nor of Dixon. His real parentage is discovered, after a proper amount of mystery. By a most improbable acci dent Ralph, wishing to take another name, takes unconsciously his father's name, his own actual patronymic ! Improbable though it is in many points, the story is sufficiently interesting. Mr. Baxter and Mr. Ireton are two very delightful in dividuals, - whom one is gratified to meet with, al though only in a book ; and Julia Baxter, and Mrs. Evelyn, and Lady Edith are very charming heroines. The fatal accident that befalls Major Evelyn at the moment of his attempted crime is very skilfully ar ranged, As a happy specimen of the author's style, we may quote the following : WOMAN'S MISSION. Are there women who seek a higher mission than this upon earth? It holds none higher. If they will, they may be the guardian spirits, the ministering angels of man kind, standing between the base things of earth and the shrouded glories of heaven. Their mission is to keep alive upon earth that which proclaims it to be God's earth— Eivine charity—human love. It is for them to correct the teaching of the head by the instincts of the heart ; to per petuate the noble, the good, and the beautiful upon earth, lest these should sink into the dreary swamp of utilitari anism, The ideality of human love is the key-stone of human happiness. There is no natural subjection of the woman to the man ; there is a perfect adaptation designed by a merci ful and all-wise Creator. For so has he, throughout all His work, made harmony. " Like perfect music set to noble words," man and woman are seen to best advantage in com • pany, and best fulfil their duty to their Maker by sharing it with each other. Such are the women whos3 graceful figures flit across these pages. Blest with one of these for his companion, we leave Ralph, after his very mo mentous career from the purlieus of Newgate to the porch of St. Stephen's. Throughout his history, thanks to the good education instilled by his faith ful early friends, he has steered clear of evil com panions and dangerous temptations ; aud, maintain ing his own self-respect, has earned at last the re spect of all around him. The Fine Arts Quarterly. No. 11. October. Chapman and Hall. In spite of the delays which have taken place in the publication of this very elegant and elaborate Quarterly Review of the Fine Arts, it may be con fidently stated that, as the Fine Arts Quarterly, it has already established its position securely, con spicuously and with remarkable ability amongst the very foremost of its contemporaries. The second number—at last issued from the press, to be wel comed probably, all the more cordially, by reason of the very delays above alluded to, among the im patient subscribers to this new periodical—fully sustains the fair promise of the first. The initial Volume is now, moreover, by the issue of this second number, completed. We may judge, therefore, of the work, already, as a substantive publication. We may look to it, apart from the prospectus. We may see how far the auguries put forth in that prospectus are, at this moment, fulfilled, or, at any rate, in process of fulfilment. A noble volume of 450 pages, e volume admirably well edited throughout, by Mr. Woodward, the Qaeen's Librarian, superbly pub. lished upon delicately tinted paper, by the Messrs. Chapman and Hall, with touches of the antique about its typography, such casual touches as the long s, the flourished et, and an occasional ampisand—a volume of 450 imperial octavo pages, comprising within it contributions from writers upon art as able and of as much authority as Pro fessor Kingsley and Mr. Tom Taylor, as Dr. Panizzi and Mr. Rosetti—a First Volume like this already lies upon the table of the subscribers to the Fine Arts Quarterly as a fall and complete justifi cation of at any rate the bulk of the prospectus. Not so very many years ago the explanatory excuse now put forth in this second number of the Fine Arts Quarterly, with a view to account reasonably for some portion at least of the delays that have occurred in its publication, would have been held (and then it is true reasonably enough) to be about the most whimsical that could by possibility have been advanced to that end, whether by editor or by publisher. The excuse being simply.— " the unfavourable state of the weather ! " But how unfavourable ? Unfavourable—" for printing the photographs of Poussin's Drawing !' A folded drawing, which will be found between page 272 and page 273, illustrative of Part I. of the editor's able catalogue raisonnee of " The Drawings of Nicholas Poussin in the Royal Collection." One of the most attractive papers in this number for October is Mr. Stephens' biographical and critical notice of the late William Mulready, one of the most illustrious of our Royal Academicians. In this paper the superiority of Mulready over Wilkie is unhesitatingly insisted upon. The great Scotch man is declared to have been wholly surpassed, as an artist of the first genius, by the greater Irishman. Mulready's whole career is here very charmingly epitomised—from the date of his birth, on the Ist of April, 1786, in Ennis, County Clare (his father and mother being both of them Catholics), down to the date of his death, more than seventy seven years afterwards, on the Ist of July, 1863, at the artist's house in Bayswater. The son of the obscure Irish leather breeches maker, dying then illustrious among the illustrious, at the very top of his profession, first and foremost among our Royal Academicians. At pp. 387 328 will be found a wonderfully complete, and, therefore, a pc culiarly interesting list of the most important pit tures by this great artist: with the year men tioned in which each was first exhibited, and the initial of the exhibition of which they formed re spectively so important a part, often, beyond any doubt of it, the most important ! From a glance down this catalogue, the art student is reminded that it was as far back as 1808 that Malread3 exhibited his first figure picture " The Rattle,' and that it was se exhibited in 1808 at the British Institution. In 1812 appeared " The Mall." In 1813, " Punch." In 1815, " The Fight Interrupted." In 1820, " The Wolf and the Lamb." In 1822, " The Convalescent." In 1824, "The Widow." In 1827, " The Cannon." In 1829, "Returning from the Hastings." In 1835, "The Last In." In 1839, "Bob cherry." And—crowning all—in 1846, the finest of all the wonderful pictures painted by William Mulready, that marvellous "Choosing the Wedding Gown," from Oliver Gold smith's " Vicar of Wakefield." It is mentioned by , the writer as characteristic of Mulready's industry and aptitude for all sorts of ingenious art drawings, however humble of their kind, that not only was all the furniture of his house in Bayswater made after his own designs, but that nearly every stick of it was manufactured by his own hands. There is a lovely tribute in this second number of the Fine Arts Quarterly to that exquisite picture of "The Sisters of Charity" nursing and tending the sick child in the Hotel Dieu by Madame Henrietta Browne—a picture that was the admiration of so many thousands as the " Cynosure of neighbouring e y es," in the picture galleries at the last Great Exhibition down at South Kensington. Th e tribute coming bet© from the pen of one no less g ifted as a writer upon, and Charles an appreciator of, A rt than the Rev. g lve th s e u p rv r e e y sed o t f ose in on the Art Kingsley.i rßtt '8 c Exhibitions seaso n, would have been all the more agree ronPr d eh u;i n n s agree able reading to us , but for his intense predilection for his own pet school of the pre- Rafaellites leading him here actually in hi s reference to the B. )yal Academy Exhibition to single out as the " bright particular star" of that moderately notab le dis p lay the one picture that to every one but the most infatuated admirers of the oddest freaks of the undoubtedly groat artistic genius of Mr. Millais, was the especial hobgoblin of the Exhibition —that " ghostly grin and ancient raven" of a " Madeline" (from Keats's Eve of St. Agnes) the ghost-like demoiselle sans rnerci (certainly without mercy or pity upon any of her beholders) who was shredding off her garments so very awk wardly in her moonlit bedchamber. There ie, in an earlier portent of the num b er, an ela b ora te criticism or analysis, by Mr. T om T aylor, o f the Report of the Commission oa th e R oya l Academy—a paper of itself sufficient, by its merits, to s ustain the charac ter of the new publication as an art organ, rather, we would say at once, us the art organ. For as such, without doubt, the Pine Arts Quarterly may nose, without further hesitation, be regarded. - Cr' tiffurt GN lEN Ortubt THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND. BALMORAL, OCt. 21. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise, went yester day by the Forest to Alt-na-Guithasaeh, and drove hack in the evening. Foreign Courts• PARIS, Oct. 21. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at St. Cloud, the Emperor presiding. The Kiug of the Greeks was present at the Opera Comique last night, to witness the representation of the "Domino Noir." M. Drouyn de Lhuys, Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave a grand dinner yesterday to the King of the Greeks. The Ministers, several members of the Diplomatic Body, of the Senate, of the Legislative Body, and of the Council of State were present. " We are assured," says the Nation, " that the Emperor has offered to Marshal the Duke do Mala koff the place of Governor of the Invalides, but that the marshal has declined the honour, preferring to retain his present position," BERLIN, Oct. 20. The King will leave Berlin on the 26th inst. to open the Pomeranian Railway. His Majesty will be present at a banquet at Stralsund on the occa sion, and afterwards will proceed by sea to the Island of Rugen, where he will pay a short visit to the Prince of Putbus. THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR. —Her Majesty the Queen and Royal family, accom panied by the members of the Court, are expected to arrive at Windsor Castle from Balmoral next Wednesday. Yes terday the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, the Controller, visited the Castle, where everything is being prepared in readiness for the arrival of the Queen and Royal family. The Duchess of Hamilton (nee Princess Marie of Baden) and Lady Mary Hamilton arrived last night at Elamilton House, Arlington-street, from Paris. __ _ The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P. and Lady Emily Peel, left Whitehall-gardens on Tuesday morning for Dublin, where they intend passing several weeks. The Earl of Chesterfield is expected to leave town to-day or to-morrow for his residence at Newmarket. The Marchioness of Ormonde arrived at Kil kenny Castle, Ireland, a few days ago to pass the winter. The Marquis of Exeter left his residence in Grosvenor-square, yesterday afternoon, to join the Mar chioness and Lady Victoria Cecil at Worthing. The Earl of Harrowby and Viscount and Vis countess Sandon arrived at the family mansion in Gros venor-square yesterday, from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire. SUDDEN DEATH OF GEN. MACN EIL.—We regret to announce the sudden death of General Roderick Macneil, Colonel of the 78th Regiment of Foot, who ex pired shortly after eleven yesterday forenoon, at his house in Hyde-park-gardens. The deceased general was a Penin sular and Waterloo officer. He was at the battle of Corunna, and subsequently served in the Walcheren Expedition in 1809. After seeiag active service in Swedish Pomerania and Holland in the years 1813 and 1814, he took part in the campaign of 1815, including the battle of Waterloo. For some years he held the command of the 78th Highlanders, with which regiment he proceeded to India. In recognition of his long and meritorious services, the deceased general was in 1855 appointed colonel of the Bth (Bing's) Regi ment of Foot, and, on a vacancy occurriog in the 78th, he was transferred to that regiment. He entered the army as ensign in March, 1808, and obtained the rank of general in December last year. THE ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN is fully resolved to go to Mexico, if the majority of the inhabitants of that country will consent to accept him as their Sovereign, and matters have been so skilfully managed by Marshal Forey that they are likely to do so. The relations between the Emperor Napoleon and the Archduke are extremely intimate, and it is said that the former has promised his enterprising protege to leave 5,000 French troops for a cer tain number of years at Acapulco and some other place on the west coast of Mexico. The Archduke Ferdinand Maxi milian is a goodnatured man and clever withal, but he is so ambitious and vain that he is not a favourite in Vienna. For some years his Imperial Highness has had very little per sonal communication with his brother, the Emperor, and the public attribute his Imperial Highness's rare appearance at this Court to family dissensions. MR. W. PERRY, of North Audley-street, has just carved out of a piece of an old oak beam of Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon a bust of the poet, with con siderable success. THE THACKERAYAN PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.—We all know what that philosophy is. It might be summed up in the brief formula—" Man is a humbug, There is nothing but insincerity and disappointment in the world. Life is a sad dog, and therefore let us make fun of it." The said " fun," one need hardly remark, is no fun at all, but rather a despairing defiance of the death's-head which we are con stantly bidden to contemplate. The merriment of an ancient Egyptian in presence of the same memento mori set on the festive table, or of roysterers in a city stricken by the plague, must have had very much of this character. We are at a loss to see the benefit or the pleasure of such " philosophising." It is neither true nor fascinating. THE BLUE BOAR AT ITS LAST GASP.—A relic of Old London is now fast disappearing—the Blue Boar Inn—or the George and Blue Boar, as it came to be called later, in Holborn. For more than two hundred years this was one of the famous coaching houses, whence stages went to, and whore they arrived from, the North and Mid land Counties. It is more famous still as being the scene — if Lord Orrery's chaplain, Morrice, may be credited—where Cromwell and Ireton, disguised as troopers, cut from the saddle-flap of a messenger a letter which they knew to be there, from Charles the First to Henrietta Maria. They bad previously intercepted a letter from the Queen to her husband, in which she reproached him for entering into a compact of reconciliation with Cromwell and his party. This letter was sent on, and now they intercepted the reply, in which Charles spoke of them as rogues whom he would, by-and-by, hang instead of reward. According to Mor rice, this sealed the King's fate. Such is the legend con nected with the Blue Boar, Holborn, which is described, in Queen Anne's reign, as "situate opposite Southamp,ton. Square.' "—Atheneum. HUNG BEEF.—A bullock came by its death a short time since in the fields hereabouts in a very remark-. able manner. It appears that the animal was grazing by the side of a ditch, over whicl. were growing some withey trees, and while nibbling the leaves off a tree, with its head between two branches, the bank on which its fore feet were resting gave way, and the beast's head became fixed in the fork of the tree, When discovered it was quite dead, having accidentally hung itself.— West Sussex Gazette. MR. BRIGHT AND THE WAR IN AMERICA. — The following extract from a letter of John Bright, E;=q., M.P., to a gentleman in New York, dated Rochdale, Sept. 26, is published in the .Aeto York _Herald :—" I need not tell you how much I rejoice in the prospect of a ter mination of your grievous War, and how much I hope% that your independence of the slave power is now secured. There is much angry feeling on your side against the country, and there is cause for it. Nevertheless, our Go vernment has stood firm against the propositions for media tion or recognition from France, and its conduct in some respects contrasts favourably with that of the Emperor of the French, and this I hope your people will not forget. The iron-clad ships are not allowed to go out on their piratical career, and Mason, the Southern envoy, has left London in disgust. I hope this will show you that every.. thing is not bad in England." OUR MODERN PLAYGOERS, according to the Saturday Review, love po e t ry a f ter t h e f as hi on o f a l a dy described i n one of those humorous papers with which, in their day, the brothers Smith enlivened the magazines. In the days of courtship, the la d y h as professed to be an adorer of poetry, and on the faith of this profession her husband, a few weeks after marriage, reads Milton's " Lytidas." She finds the effusion tedious, but when re proached with inconsistency she bravely defends herself by asserting a predilection for something "funny," and asking her husband to read "Peter Pinder " or the " Tour of Doctor Syntax." MRS. TROLLOPE'S NOVELS.--The following ig list of them :—" The Refugee," " Jonathan Jeffer— son Whitlow," "The Romance of Vienna," " The Vicar of Wrexhill," "The Widow Barnaby," " 2,1icha ,, 1 Arm strong," " The Factory Boy," " One Fault." " The Widow Married," a continuation of "The Widow Bar paby," and "The Barnabys in America," "Chesterfield ; or, the Youth of Genius," " Hargrave," " Jessie Phillips," " Lauriston," " Tremordyn Cliff," " The Robertses on their . Travels," "Th e Bl ue B e lles of England," " The Ward 0 1 Thorpe Coombe," " The Attractive Man," " Petticoat Government," " Father Eustace," "Uncle Walter," " The Clever Woman," "The Three Cousins," " Mrs. Mathewes, , " Gertrude, ' and "Fashionable Life in London and Paris. QUEEN MAR. By JULIA KAVANAGH, Author of "Nathalie," " Adele," &c. Three Vols.—lt is some little time since we have had to welcome a novel frog' Miss Kavanagh, and it is gratifying to find from " Quell Mab" that her pen has lost none of its power to ctiarro; Queen Mab is likely to prove one of . her most popular work .; The story is at once inter eating, original, and touching. !. 1 ' 3 ,, u 4 ', Miss Kavanagh's well-known skill is the portraya l _u r : character has never been more vividly exemplified. Qu e , e il i Mab herself, the heroine, is an exquisite creation, 5 0 ,d bent l'c' ther charm all readers, while Mr. O'Lally and John and Ford are hardly less successful sketches among the well-drawn personages of this remarkable tale, Wi of ell Pt) fal ne