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pONOT FORGET YOUR APPOINT AGENT. —We Sup at ESANS', Covent -garden, after Jullien'R Concert. ESSRS. JAY and CO. have POW on show the most unique and perfect assortment of BONNETS, which their Manager has selected in Paris, and brought back with her to e ths Est-iblishment. 17 i , 249, 251, Regent-street. BONNET'S SILKS a LYON.—Every Article of commerce takes Its title either from the inventor or manufacturer, and . the more perfect the production the g rater is the credit which attaches to the originator. _BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion i n England ; but the fallacy of such an a ssertion is ex pos d by the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end of each piece :—":llanufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon et a I urieux." Wear guaranteed. , 41 - 4 11iN" ADIANACK, 1864. One Penny. ju on Thursday. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA , COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, for the 3d time, Balfe's new Opera, BLANCHE DE NEVE : Miss Louisa eyne, Miss Anna Hiles, Miss Emma Heywood ; Messrs. VT. H. Weiss, H. Corri, A. Cook, A. bt. Aibyn, C. Lyall, J. Rouse, and W. Harrison. To conclude with THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE. Miss Thirlwall and Mr . H. Corti. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven. TIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE.. - Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THUS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform the Farce of BEAUTY Ott THE NBEAST. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Addison , G . F. ev ille, Barret, Spemcer, and G. Weston ; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss a nd Mrs. E. li. Leclerq . reson After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFR.SDSpencer . Messrs. t helps, Ryder , Ra y ner, 31,ag,, Ward, 311:48 Eburne, Miss E. Atkinson, 111iss Leclercq, Miss Cicely F a lconer. Vocalists — Mis s Poole, Miss ititter, Nott, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with an Original Farce, by CV Firongh and A Halliday, entitled MY II it;A.ItT'S IN THE 'TWILL AN DS characters by Mr. J. Neville, Mr..G. Weston, Mr. Warde Mr. ,J. Marris ; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Ilarfleur. THEATRE ROYAL HA.Y NI ARKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Backstone. THIS EVENING, SILW. KE N arrell, FET Howe, &c TERS : Measrs.Mesdames Chas. M thews, Chippendale, F ; C.aMathews and M. Harris. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton,Weathersby,&c.; Mesdames C. lilithews, 1.. Keeley. Griffith, &c. Followed by COOL AS A CI.ICIIMBEIt. Mr. C. Mathews, An d LIT rLE DA ISY. Commence at 7. 1 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. RUnder the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. DP NIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening until further notice. TATS EVENING, the Coniedietta, by W. Gilb er t , en titl e d UNCLE BABY Mess's. Widdicombe, J.G. Shore, Charles ; Mi ss P. Le;lercq, and Carlotta Leclercq. After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DE3fONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tablefiux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle by Mr. John Rrouvam. Principal charac ter by Mr. F_.chter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Bronettim, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, Airs. Lee, and .vliss Elsworthy. Doors open at half-past 6—commence at 7. LEAH. -EVERY NIGHT, 3,TISS BATEMAN.-LEAH.-THIS EVENING, 1 the 48th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BA rENEAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso 2 nation of the principal character in the new. Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attended, Mr Vircbste, begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. ATEW THE ATRE-RO irAL, ADELP II: Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN : Mrs. At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Bth wee of Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling. R. Phillips, Bil lington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Sillingten. To conclude with THE IRISH TIGER : Miss K. Kelly and Mr. t‘tephenson. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. Geo. Honey, Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Manders. After which, MT NEW PLACE. Mr. A. Wood. To conclude with FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray, Miss Button, Commence at 7. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnts Diy.—Morning, lh. 2m.—Aftemoon, lh. 27m. Yo-btonnow.-Morning, lh. 50m.—Afternoon, 212. 10m. The Weather--Sun Office, Nov. 21, 1863. THEUMOMETER. This day:at Two o'clock 5l Barometer-29.81. Wind—South'; moderate, with rain. gtrt bpoP" . ..t Sint LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 24, 1863. Yesterday we gave from the Spectator, and also from the Morning Herald, certain flying rumours of the clubs as to Earl RUSSELL'S abrupt resignation (again! for he has before now resigned in that way quite suddenly) —the flying rumours, we repeat, of the clubs as to Earl RUSSELL'S resignation. To-day we transfer to our columns the formal contradiction given to those rumours by our official contemporary, the Morning Post, the recognisei organ, not of the Government, but of the noble lord the Chief of the Government. The breakers ahead, we are to under stand, therefore, though undoubtedly very serious, are not quite so serious, are not so absolutely unavoid aitsl: i ,that the Man at the Wheel of Foreign Affairs de n by the instinct of self-preservation (as he has, t ime and again, been driven before) to drop suddenly his grasp upon the spokes of that wheel, to unlash the dingy, slip into it, and drift astern into a position e of comparative safety, at any rate of relief f rom responsibility —th ence t o o b ser v e , as '- phlegmatic his dootnedi and l abas andoned be, the direr fates awaiting put too fint a co ll eague s. " Not to to the rumour upon it," the official con tradiction of Lord RUSSELL'S resignation—oneereere leaving his colleagues in the Jarch—means s imply iz th e v ery plain words this— Not Yet. Things, asha e look quiet b ad enou g h for thatslaidThe coach may be going down hill it is true_an_d the pac e o f it s descent down romantic Ashburolay have been latterly rather accelerated by circumstances, spite of the stu bborn skid slipped to it in in the shape of t he do-nothing policy of Government. But , while running clown. the very heavy incline at r ather an alarmi ng vice a things, we repeat, don't look so entirely hopele ss, that JOHNNY is tempted to upset the coach, again es if out of a pure love of mischief. But f c , its course being, latterly, very much like the uncom. fortable title of one of Captain WIIYTE MELviLLVE, latest novels, "All Down Hill "—the wheels of the State coach, the ribbons of which are handled from his box-seat with such a jaunty air by the veteran uhip perched up there, in that place of honour and responsibility would hardly, We should suppose, have been doing better than crawl, even if they had not come—as they have r_ at inter vals occasionally—to a dead standstill. Non intervention, that is the order of the dav—excePt in ,Tapa-.1, or, in another out of the way place, like :Icy, Zealand. But in any matter of importance -- thoughugh blood is flowing abundantly, blood that r. i ght be stanched by interposition of some kind, diplomatic or otherwise—Non-intervention ! Non- intervetitiogoisso insisted upon, in fact, that we should begin to upon it as some newly pin to l discovered as old as only for this, that it is, for one thing , ~ a s the hills, and for another that it is no psua c at all. Th e b e lli geren t s i n Americi are slaughter;nc, one another by wholesale —months roll on andthey are still a t it. I n Heaven's name , says the F ncEMPEROR, let us at least try to p ut a sto p to thi s ihideous de s t ruc ti on i of human life, which besides being useless threaten s also to be i nterminable. Non..nterv..e pntion—non-io tervent ion—non -ic terven tion— is th our wiseand enl i g htened Government! It is 'Ply of of ours they argue : when, on the contrary, affair it- - _ intinately and notoriously. Russia and Russian- Poland are at daggers, scythes, swords, pistols, re volvers drawn with each other—old and young men and:women, young girls and little children, 'Are, there, the victims of Autocratic brutality. The sound of the scourge, or knout, rings in our ears from the other side of Europe, through all the 4 ,limult of growing Insurrection. And yet—the p A trot cry of diplomacy is, still, Non-intervention. So, now, in a more generalised way, in refe':ence to the French EMPEROR'S proposition of ~ t. Congress, it is intimated at last, after a good deal of bewildered hesitation as to what reply ought to be sent in— Well, yes, if it could be done, it would be very de lightful, very admirable, and. , so forth—but it can't —and, therefore, with many thanks, No 1 In other words, we must stick to it —that is, to our delibe rately chosen policy of Nan-intervention. Certainly, Lord 3LIELBOURNE'S whimsical remonstrance with his over-zealous colleague—" Why can't you leave it alone I" is being acted upon by our Administra tors—with a vengeance. The work of metropolitan communication is cer tainly going on as rapidly as the most enterprising spirit could wish. In every direction the lines are beginning to traverse our streets, and plans for the enlargement, extension, and junction meet us on every side. Within a very few years the whole face of the metropolis will have been changed, and the engines go puffing and screaming over busy high-roads and quiet sqaares, where the inhabitants once certainly deemed themselves perfectly secure from any such intrusion. Great as are the dangers, however, those to come promise to be still greater, for it is said that no less than 36 schemes for metro politan alterations are included in the notices for the forthcoming session. As may be expected, these include a very wide range and affect most of our metropolitan lines. The Underground Railway, as it is generally termed, is, it seems, to be consider ably enlarged, if the necessary powers can be ob tained by the directors, who have given notice of an application to Parliament for additional powers for compulsory purchase of lands, for raising addi tional capital, and extending the time for complet ing the works of the Finsbury-circus extension. A good many other plans regarding the Metropolitan Railway aro also under consideration, one of the foremost of which is its connection with the Victoria Station, by which means it would be in communi cation with the Brighton and Dover Railways. Other lines are no less active ; the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction, the Great Northern, Midland, and North Western lines are busily mapping out the northern districts of London, and propose to bring the northern suburbs within easy reach of the further ends of the city. One of the most striking of all the various schemes, however, is that of the East London, which proposes to avail itself of the long neglected and unused Thames Tunnel! thus at length bringing BRUNEL'S great achieve ment to a directly practical use. It is certain that when that gifted, though occasionally erratic, man matured his bold design, and watched it carried gradually into effect in the face of tremendous diffi culties, he did not anticipate that the great work would be put to so little purpose during the years that followed its opening, or that it would remain nothing but au empty show, a profitless marvel. Still less did he con template the possibility of such a scheme as we have referred to being gravely propounded, by whose means the wonderful submerged tunnel will really become, as he intended it to be, one of the great highways of London. Theory and prac• tice will have met at last, and both will prove to have existed in a greater degree than was supposed in the design of the first BRUNEL. It is to be hoped that the bills for these different extensions will re ceive careful consideration, and that the comfort and convenience of the public may be duly con sidered. It will not do for the interests of com panies, and the schemes and jealousies of rival ex perimentalists, to weigh too heavily in the scale. It will be necessary to keep a jealous eye upon some of their movements, and to consult, despite all other influences, the general good alone. Another point worthy of notice is the expense and difficulty which now attend the efforts of the companies to get the land they require in the vicinity of the metropolis. This is in a great measure owing to the obstinate opposition which any attempts to bring the lines into the streets occasioned some years ago, when the ground, every rood of which is now so precious, might have been had at an almost nominal rent . The angry and determined opposition which was sure to meet such plans, kept the railways to the suburbs, but the precaution was in vain. Little towns sprang up around the much dreaded stations, and directors and shareholders are left to deplore that the public shortsightedness should have en tailed so much unnecessary expense and labour in the carrying out of their adventurous schemes. We trust, as we have before said, that the interests of the public will be the primary object, and that all other considerations and influences will be made subservient to that one great end. The meeting at Stroud last week was distin guished for - its hilarity at all events. There was no gloomy foreboding nor lugubrious retrospection in dulged in ; but all was replete with hearty goodwill and earnest endeavours to make the best of things. The remarks made at the evening entertainment were conspicuous for their originality. Earl DUCIE and Mr. HORSMAN vied with each other in humor ous remarks, that were yet not without their signi ficance in a higher point of view. When Lord DUCIE said that he would willingly go back to his old position as member for Stroud, he doubtless might have felt what he said, In one sense, a mem• ber of the Commons holds a higher position than one in the Upper House, for he more directly represents the feelings of the people. Also, there was some solid grounds for the assertion of the noble lord, that the best way to prepare the members of the higher branch of the Legislature for the right fulfilment °o",f their ar d uous d ut i es was to g i ve th e m the 'tnnity of practising in the trying ordeal of the Pepular assembly. Certainly they would there see for themselves what they might not believe if it was told t o then) and hear solemn truths expressed and stirrin g pi i ' eiples enunciated that may years after come b ack to the mind with irresistible force, and speak as with t h e sound of a trumpet to carry c onviction to the rni nd, and brin 0. truth before their (vs Mr. HolismAN, as " ' urti was most entertain ing, an d m ade a good bit is tal e n th e inuendo that he hoped Lord DuclE would change places in reality if he did so a t all, and give himhis estate. - ' at the more bu siness offairagraverione Of course, d the proceedings. Sir J. PAKING To m _ ' waeonded th e re solution, which must have given hi m very great satisfaction, for it contained the cheering announce. meat that the cause he has so much at h eart was progressing in the right direction. p romin ent as the right hon. baronet has been in instituting reforms in our navy . , conspicuous as he took the lead in some of those improvements which stand out as landmarks of the age and beacons of the nation's progress, he has also attained an honourable, if a lessor, glory in the more sequestered but less stormy walks of peaceful life. His efforts have not been small ner few, neither have his successes been cir cumscribed. In lending the weight of his position I and the force of his abilities to this important , undertaking, he has at the same time gained de served popularity and rendered special services to a noble cause. Well does it portend for the country where learning flourishes, not in secluded halls of study, but through the limits of the land in its length and breadth; the more widely diffused is education, and the greater its influence is paramount, the higher will be the position of the state, and the more rAK p nsG r T o o ll: ,s and prosperous emarks its were throughout very ap e i a p t o op r n of i a t e h , s a n s d u they hie evinced etand that that earnestnessthorough p a of per ex pression, pression, which in themselves are such thrilling accompaniments to a discourse, and without which the most glowing eloquence, and the most astute erudition becomes as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. He took a bold course, and advocated the adoption of straightforward measures for the success of the undertaking. He urged in impressive language the most enticing prospects and the most special inducements which brought forward the cause in which they were then engaged, and most unquestionably pleaded for its prompt attention by all who had the time or power to do so. He forcibly pointed out the moral of his address, by declaring that all who assisted in the undertaking, or associated in its cause, were engaged in a work " to which, through life, they must always look back with satisfactien." This is strictly true, and when the mazes of public affairs have confused their minds, and the ascerbi ties of political feeling engendered bitterness among opponents, and, perchance, alienated friends, there will be a rallying point for divers interests, and a neutral ground found on which all differing parties can assemble frankly and fearlessly in the discus sion of the prospects and the essays for the pro gress of education. Apart from theories and plans, there is the convincing evidence of facts by which to test the validity of any new or great endeavour, and Sir J, PAKINGTON brought forward an un answerable argument of the efficacy, and a striking instance of the success of the undertaking, to do honour to which they were then and there assem bled. In 1859 there were only three candidates for the examination ; in the next year, 44 ; but in this one the number was no less 473. Surely this is a proof before which cavillers must be silenced, and at which demurrers can find no ground to stand upon. Yet the speaker did not confine his state ments to the flattering side of the picture only, but wisely and kindly brought before his hearers the re verse side of the picture. Thus he evidenced the fact that in many of our colonies and in the various countries of Europe, men were ahead of us in point of education and information. Tnis, however irri tating it may be to dwell upon, is a topic that should stimulate all who hear it. They should disparage no efforts of those who were superior in their actual attainments, but be resolved to emulate, if possible excel, all other competitors in the noble race of self improvement. The more these subjects are dwelt upon the greater good will be effected, and the more widely diffused will be the elevating influence. " Knowledge is power," is a well known saying, but how few really act upon what they profess to practise, and seek with might and main to enrich themselves and their neighbours with that solid and lasting possession which the chance and changes of this fluctuating state cannot affect, and which remain after houses and land are gone and spent, a most excellent treasure, and a most enduring heritage. Sir J. PAKINGTON exactly specified the object of such institutions as that which he then advocated with so much eloquence and earnestness, to enable the working man to make the most of the intellect which GOD had given him. There can be no higher end for human efforts than to ennoble the species, and by thus cultivating their facu'ties, and raising their aspirations, to fit them for further and better duties in this world, and to train them for the en joyment of a greater and holier existence hereafter. Altogether it may ba considered that this meeting at Stroud was a most successful one, and, as it eminently deserved to be so, it is the more gratify. ing to notice its happy issue, and to expect from it an augury of future promise to this and similar admirable institutions. Another of those painful cases of starvation which of late have become distressingly frequent among us was brought before the notice of the coroner in the east end of London last week. The case pre• sented some peculiarly painful features, and an im portant caution may be taught by it. There was no question in this instance of the negligence of relieving officers or the harshness of workhouse regulations ; the fault lay rather at the door of Et body who usually discharge their arduous duties with tact, discretion, and efficiency. It seems that a policeman, about ten o'clock at night, found the deceased lying insensible in the street, Supposing him to be intoxicated, he got a stretcher and re. moved him to the station, where he was locked up all night without food under the same impression. The next morning the mistake was discovered, for he was taken to the workhouse, where all he could do was to tell his name and ask for a drink of water before he again relapsed into unconsciousness, from which he passed to death. In all probability nothing could have been done for this poor man had his wants been attended to earlier. He was most likely too far gone for any care or kindness to have rescued him, but the fact is, nevertheless, the same, that a man dying of exhaustion was locked up all night without any assistance, and, if the case had admitted of a favourable termination the negligence or ignorance of the police would have destroyed the chance. It is not by any means the first time that such an accident has occurred, nor will it be the last unless more care is exercised. A very melancholy case occurred some time ago, when a respectable middle-aged woman, being suddenly taken ill at some distance from her home, was locked up in a similar fashion, to be found dead from apoplexy some time after. Such instances are, no doubt, rare, but they are not sufficiently so to justify the custom of locking up persons found insensible in the streets without first having the opinion of a surgeon on the matter. It is difficult, no doubt, for an unprofessional eye to detect the difference, and the police are naturally influenced by the much greater frequency of the one case than of the other, but the sooner a change is made in this respect the better, and we regret that the jury did not think it necessary to append a hint on this matter to their verdict. As any person may be liable to a sudden attack of illness, it is a matter of general importance that proper pre cautions should be taken by the police in cases of insensibility, and it is to be hoped that the recent unfortunate occurrence may have the effect of inducing greater care. EARL RUSSELL, - There is no truth whatever in the statement Which has been circulated that Earl Russell is about to resigu the Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs.-- Post. Ahoy TuE ENGLISH OF IT —To impugn our right t o cr i ticise Mr. Chase's threat 66 t o g iv e Old Mother En g l and a shaking," by quoting expressions from the Edinburgh, Review (say s th at j ourna l) , i s lik e sa yi ng ! that a La" Wilt) braokes a ci gar i u his own stud' ' right to full 4 . l'"eou who b r i ngs a clay pion room t+ 01 ~ ', " b lA, 4,0 W low to I''' mi-' LITERATURE, The Wife's Evidence. By W. G. Wills, author of "Notice to Quit," &c. Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. The two great orators of ancient times elicited from their hearers a widely different species of approbation. The Romans listened with rapt attention to the eloquence of Tully, and at the close of the discourse were be lost in admiration) at the genius of the orator—" What an orator is Cicero !" Far otherwise was it with the listeners of Demos thenes. At the close of his impassioned " Philippics," no word of praise was bestowed upon the speaker; but, carried away by the power of his discourse, with one voice his hearers would exclaim, " Let us march against Philip !" Wo are not going to compare Mr. Wills with these giants of old, but the comparison is suggested to us by the conviction that he has framed the arguments and incidents of his story so happily, that his readers, before they stop to admire the eloquence of the author, will all be willing converts to his theory. Mr. Wills' own convictions upon the subject he has chosen, are evidently very strong, and there is nothing so powerful as conviction for convincing others. The preface to the book consists of a few lines from two totally different legal enactments. The first is the Act 12 and 13 Vic., c. 106, in which permission is given for the wife of a bankrupt to give evidence before the Court of Bankruptcy ! The :11to, that with no great other is the well - known formula of our common law which forbids a wife t o g i ve ev id ence f or or aga i ns t h y criminal proceeding. Upon these Wills has very ingeniously coenrs ht improbability tworuusbc tafactsend in a ‘.lr. ry, da bring s both laws to bear at different periods upon the same wife and husband. If the construction of the story is inge nious, the manner in which it is worked out is sin gularly effective, in the simple truthfulness and deep natural pathos with which the domestic tragedy is imbued. There is here no striving after sensa tional effect, but again and again the hearts of many readers will thrill and their eyes brim at the touch of that mighty power that " makes the whole world openin g g i ves a h a ppy speci ten of f k i n h natural manner of this nar rative : He sought to tell her these many days. Only yesterday, when he returned from his office in Fleet -street to his house in Hornsey-road, he laid a plot to tell her; but as he came languidly upstacrs, his throat admit with the heat of a Lon don midsummer, and saw her bright welcome awaiting him on the landing, he lost heart, and bethought him it was a pity to lose that garnishing of smiles to his dinner and their light to the restful evening. Last night he was on the brink of a disclosure, as they lay waking and talking, but the announcement still faltered on his lips, He was a man on the verge of bankruptcy, and his wife must be made aware of his position somehow—he was obviously the pro per one to tell her, but still he held back the blow with a half-selfish mercy. And so, day by day, be defers the explanation until " at last, she told him," for not in vain had the devoted wife watched her husband's growing abstraction—" She had taken him by surprise. She had turned his flank with her ambushed sunshine, and whilst he wavered and doubted how to comfort her under the intelligence, her heart had read his secret, and she had applied herself to comfort him.'; A very charming, loveable character is Eleanor or Nellie, the loving, devoted wife of the bankrupt, and afterwards of the supposed murderer. At her husband's trial before the Court her evi dence turns the scale in his favour. Later on the husband is arrested, and under most suspicious circumstances, for murder. At first poor Eleanor, knowing his innocence, is unalarmed. She declares she can explain matters in a moment, she was with him all the time ! Among all with whom she comes in contact no one ventures to undeceive her. Pious frauds are adopted, various excuses are made. As the time passes by, she grows suspicious and un easy. At last she forces the painful truth from her husband, who thus gently and tenderly tries to break it to her. " Answer me now—you promised to answer me—are you going to reject me as a witness ?" " I will answer you; I have no power, love, to call you or reject you." "Are you going to shake my statement to the court ? Deal fairly with me before you commit me, for with God's help I shall appear." " I am not going to shake my statement, Nell ; I shall not even speak. Come, you are under delusion ; we have a good case, thank God, and your evidence will not be needed." " Not needed ?'' she cried. " Why—why, you have no other evidence than mine ?" " It is happily needless," said he, " so slight ie the case against me; and I shall not have the pain of seeing you come into a large public court, Nell. . Thank God, my girl, we'll both be spared from such shame." " Shame I" she repeated, clinging to him. " I tell you, Will, when it is your lot I share I'd rather have it than half a throne." He caught her nestling figure into him with a moment's ecstasy of pride and gratitude. " I'd face the world with you, love," he said tenderly. " And so they never told you —they never told my poor girl ?" " Told me what ?" she cried, breaking from him in a terror. " Any bad news ?" "No bad news. There, be tranquil ; it is old, old news, old as the laws. Don't be uneasy, Nell ; wo shall have a quiet talk, as you wished, about this same evidence of yours; we don't mind who hoar us. There, don't look so wild ; there is nothing I have to tell you worth that wild fowl look. Now, Nellie, I suppose you, who have quite a business experience, remember that in business matters a wife is not recognisable as an agent in law. She is sup posed to be under her husband's influence and control. If you had debts, Nellie, which you never had—debts for bonnets and shawls and trinkets, which you are reasonably fond of, on reckoning day against whose names would these debts be entered ?" " You are trifling with me. But to-day I will not be set aside : you must meet my questions," she said, again re called by his light manner to her resolve and mettle. " I am meeting your questions, Nell, but I may choose my own way. Who is liable for those debts, you or I?" " You would be," she said, impatiently. " And if you were to be sued for non-payment in a court of law, whose name would head the action, yours or mine ?" " Yours." " And so poor Nellie seems to have no existence in law," he said, looking in her face with a nervous calculation and forced smile. " I see your drift, but you are not putting it fairly. I have read cases in the newspapers too often to be deceived. If a wife commits a felony, her husband is not answerable—she will be tried by herself; as she has existence in law." " I am talking of a wife's evidence, Nellie," ho said, solemnly watching her. "You are supposed to be under my complete influence, and your statement is assumed in law to be under my undue direction, The law exists chiefly in mercy that a wile may not be forced to appear against her husband, but if she would appear for him, it is naturally supposed she is in collusion with him, don't you under stand : she is ix fact flesh of his flesh, and must be pardoned should she perjure herself for his sake." "You cannot deceive me," she said indignantly. " You know well I was called as a witness in your examinations in the court of bankruptcy, and gave evidence perfectly g oo d in law as to the surrender of all your property." " That was a civil case," replied her husband, "and the law with respect to civil cases is altered; but in criminal cases—" " In matters of life and death, you would tell me," said she vehemently, " a wife is silenced, when a word from her would save her husband's life. It is not true—l do not believe you; if I believed that, it would kill me," cried the poor emphatic Eleanor. The best argument poor Eleanor brings forward in favour of her cause is when, a little later, she is ap pealing to the counsel : TILE BENEFIT OF A DOUBT. "I do not know the law, sir. It seems tome like a prison, shutting out life and truth. But I have heard that you give the prisoner the benefit of a doubt. You even receive the prisoner's own statement, and give it weight," " It is not given on oath," interposed the counsel. Let us say that the evidence of a Christian woman, given on her oath in favour of her husband, may be liable to suspicion —the utmost suspicion and doubt—and be only the weight of a feather in the scale. Still, why should he Lt not have the benefit of a doubt? Why must Isis wife sit . silent till her heart bursts, whilst servants and enemi es swear his life away? The lawyer replies to this with equal truth :-- "It is a law, besides, that really has a humane and merciful intention. Now, supitos.e you wore possessed of es evidence against your husband—just the missing li n k th at might be necessary to co nv i c t hi m, an d you loved him as you you c d o o tt l u d o b w o —w dragged oulci n it v t " o ° t t the w sell is ha a i t n painful s-bo xstateby a of s t u h b i p n u g .t s n a i f , 'oreign and forced to give 'evidence which must convict him ? But here is the law you complain of, w /-'1 ,ich has been framed to shelter him and you from such r^Li unnatural po sitio " These two consid er ati o r ,s—the wife's plea that she ?ugn our may speak for Le- - ) give Old and the I- nusband as he speaks for himself, ;scions from wyer's threat that such a permission like saying ant compel her to speak against him--these two stud , - ' - considerations taken together seem to afford a solu , LIAR no into a drawing tion to all the difficulties of the case. A person --If!,ve himself. under accusation is not compelled to et - fininate luin THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVENIBER 24, 1863. self, but he is allowed to make any statement he pleases, his statements of course being regarded with suspicion. Why should not the same liberty be accorded to the wife of the accused ? Without being compelled to criminate her husband, why may not her evidence as to facts be listened to—as the evidence of the culprit is listened to, with sus picion and incredulity perhaps, but still with the possibility that it may serve to elucidate the truth ? The readers of Mr. Wills' powerful pages, who sympathise with the cruel heart-throes of poor Eleanor, will be solicitous, one and all, for some amelioration of the law which may render such a case as her's an impossibility. To strengthen the force of his appeal, and exhibit the unnatural anomaly of the law, Mr. Wills has introduced an episode of peculiar painfulness. Eleanor has a child, a little son of seven years old, who, by a sad fatality, had slept in the room in which the murder had been committed. The boy had been aroused after the murderer had left the room, and had beheld his father with the instrument of death that he had wrenched from the murderer's hand. This boy, unknown to his mother, is cross-questioned by the servants, and placed in the witness-box. His guileless, inconsiderate evidence seals his father's doom, Here is a glimpse of this powerfully written and most heart-rending scene : A CRUEL CASE. Amidst the hush of the whole court-house a poor little wistful child stands there, neatly combed and cared for, and in a pretty gay walking dress—God forgive them ! worked by the poor mother's hand. The shrinking child stood there, altogether fascinated by the scarlet robes of the judge and his terrible wig. His lordship looked at it with studied indulgence—so pretty, so bright, and inno cent it was—a baby terror is each round eye. There was a murmur of sympathy throughout the crowd, and all held their breath as one man. There were fathers there who felt an uncomfortable thrill, and unwittingly shook their heads as they looked at that pretty yellow-haired infant, and bethought them of the loved little folk at home. What if one of them stood yonder in the dock 2—if young May or bright-eyed Mat were there in the witness box against them ? There was a universal vigil on all the crowd for one im minent moment. When will the eyes of the mother and child meet? Rumour has got about that she has not seen it for more than a month, and never dreamt she should meet it thus. Will she scream or faint, or struggle over towards it? At present she is sitting there with a petrified gaze of surprise and incredulity. Who brought her child here ? Who dared to bring it here ? Have they trained the little fawn to snare its father to death? the being he gave life to brought here to swear his life away ? What evidence can his child bring against innocence and truth? " What is your name, dear ?" said the counsel quietly. The child's eyes were fixed on the scarlet robes of the judge, who repeated the question soothingly. After some preliminary questions, he is asked who he saw in the room, when he awoke, besides the murdered man. "I saw papa." "There ran a shocked murmur through the crowd, po pularly called a sensation, and then a freezing silence again. " Had your papa anything in his hand ?" came the velvet question—the judge cooed it out, entrapping the child on as it faltered and sobbed. It hangs on a hair if the child will speak. Should its gaze once catch the mother's starting eye, not four yards from it, it will be struck dumb. _ "Speak the truth, Johnnie," came a low voice from the dock—a low voice—a home voice, The child's eyes fell upon its father's face.. " Speak the truth, Johnnie ; don't be afraid." " Ho had a hatchet," said the child, and in another second his eyes, by some strange attraction, were dropped upon the mother's face. The child quivered as if it had been suddenly stung, and wailed aloud. " Oh, mamma I mamma I" "My lord," said the counsel, amid the buzzing court, " it is very painful, but really if we arrive at the truth th e mother must be removed." Yes, they may remove her now—the worst has been done, and all is over with her. She was passed along through them to the door without opposition, and she tottered out alone. Her shoulders are heaving with hysteric sobs, as she leans against the pillar, encircled with a greasy sym pathy, the villainous pity of the mob, which is shared by the pickpocket and the felon. The same dirty crowd which stare at her, and tell her story with rancid pathos, will not the less throng before the scaffold on which her darling stands. A strong pair of shoulders worked through the crowd towards her. Here comes old Michael, to shield and sup port her as well as he can. He gave her his arm and led her hastily away. " Bedad," he muttered to himrelf, as he hurried her on, " bilin' a kid in its mother's milk is nothing at all to this. Come home, my poor darlint." _. This Michael Bryan, who attends on poor Eleanor in her anxieties, although himself convinced of her husband's guilt, is a capital character, very happily described. We have been reluctant, by our extracts to spoil the interest of the story, and yet without quoting some of these passages, we could hardly do justice to the very forcible and pathetic elo quence so conspicuously displayed in these volumes. We have given but the merest outline, the faintest sketch of the exquisite tender delineation of the heroine—" a simple woman"—" a perfect wife." We cammend her story to the lovers of sensation, and to the lovers of truth, for although a manifest fiction in its plot, this very powerful novel is true to nature in its characters and in its emotions. My Beautiful Lady. By Thomas Woolner. One Vol., pp. 159. Macmillan. The author of this most charming production bids fair to assume the character of a very Crichton of Art. His reputation is already securely estab lished as one of the most gifted sculptors of his age. By his present venture he has made good his claim to be regarded not as a versifier, but as a poet—non fit, sect nascitur. And, having an eye to the exceeding richness of the colouring, and to the exceeding music of the sounds in which he has here celebrated his Beautiful Lady in most sensuous and melodious song—we might augur well for his future as a Painter and as a Musician ! That is, if he were disposed now to throw asid ) e pen and iak,as he has here abandoned for a while,w hen writing these pages, the chisel and mallet, hitherto familiar to his grasp— and,'in lieu of any of those artistic implements, were disposed to assume either the brush and mahl stick, or the score-paper and pencil. We know of hardly any one who more signally illustrates in oar day the truth of a very subtle distinction often before now insisted upon by Sir Bulwer Lytton, but never more happily than in the pages of his newly published and remarkable collection of essays called " Caxtoniana." The distinction we allude to, thus, as having been so often before now enforced by the powerful arguments of that great writer— (once even it was by him dilated upon by word of mouth, when he officiated several years back as chairman at the Farewell Banquet given to Mr. Macready the " Eminent Tragedian," upon the occasion of his retirment from the stage)—the sin gularly nice distinction between the comprehensive ness and what is called the " versatility" of genius ! Illustrating as we may say finally or conclusively this very admirable and just dis tinction in the tenth Essay (vol. 1., p. 160) of " Caxtoniana."—Sir Bulwer Lytton has just now remarked in the course of his " Hints on Mental Culture"—" The wider your range of thought the greater your chance and claoice of original combina tions." The philosophic Essayist adding—(he who is himself Novelist, Poet, Orator, Dramatist, States man, Critic, Man of the World, Man of Fashion, and we know not how many other characters be sides)—" The writer who adopts that counsel is vulgarly called versatile. That is a misno mer. It is not that genius is versatile because the objects within its scope ale various. If you have twenty thousand a year instead of one thousand, you are not versatile be cause you do a great many things which a man of thousand cannot do." And so is it precisely with Mr. Woolner, we may here very confidently assert. In his genius—for genius is his unmistakeably, and not merely talent even of a high order—in his genius,ThomasWoolner has so essentially the happy instincts of a true artist, that, we take it, success might almost with equal readiness have been his, whether the whim or the accident prompted him to the choice of the vehicle for the expression of his thoughts and emotions as an artist, from among the materials plastic in the hands of the Sculptor, of the b Poet, of the Painter, of the Musician, meaning ory the last-mentioned either the musical .composerone the musical performer. A Sculptor he is, and —as endowed with very rare gifts block of fan breathing many an all but living a and cayacities b e f o re us de marble attests. A Poe t this vevery a t o m as unmis olutne monstrates at once that he isf— eryfew poets of the day, takably. Among the v and we might number them p, unhappily, almost f on e hand, he takes his place— upon. the fiogere not, observe! among the poetasters merely, who are, unhappily, nowadays, if anything, more than ever 1 numerous. "My Beautiful Lady" is itself a complete justification for what we are here asserting in re gard to its author. He sings in it so very tenderly, so very melodiously, at times so bewitchingly, always so gracefully, that he confirms and ex tends and advances our reliance upon his intellec tual powers. For ourselves Thomas Woolner is a mere name. We know not what manner of man he may be. We have no conjecture even as to his age. We know of him solely through his productions. We speak of him therefore quite dispassionately—uninfluenced by any personal predilection whatever, by any sympathy of friendship, by any kindliness born of mere acquaintanceship. But already the name of Thomas Woolner—though as yet no more than a name to us —is becoming for us the symbol of an unmistake able individuality. The intellectual powers, the moral sympathies peculiar to this true Poet, to this true Sculptor, to this genuine Artist, are thrusting themselves more and more familiarly upon our recognition—are forcing themse:ves more and more upon our earnest and cordial appreciation. The thought out of which the poem before us has grown is identically the same thought that captivated the imagination of Edgar Poe when he was in quest of a theme for a short poem, that should at once ad dress itself to the hearts and feelings of the general multitude of readers—the premature death of some fair beloved : for Poe the .Lenore of " The Raven," for Woolner—" Nly Beautiful Lady !" As the Poet Laureate sings of his dead friend throughout " In Memoriam"—so the poet here, who is laureated already by the garland he has woven for himself with the leaves of this charming volume, sings of his dead love. He sings of her loveli ness, of her purity, her grace, her gentle• ness, her virginal soul, her luminous intellect, of her little way ward freaks and fancies, all of them bewitching. He celebrates her in a curious variety of measures. He depicts her under a singular diversity of moods, and aspects, and acci dental circumstances. When he is lamenting, to himself, the inexpressible loss of her, it is thus, for example, that his emotions articulate tUmselves n words : "No more she hears, where vines adorn Her windows, on the boughs Birds chirrup an arouse. Flies, buzzing, strengthening with the morn, She will not hear again At random strike the pane. No more on grassplat newly shorn With her gown's glancing hem Bend down the daisy's stem, In walking forth to view what flowers are born. Ah, dearest, shall I never see thy fitce Again ; not ever ; never any more ? I know that fancy was but naught, and one Born of past hope. I know thy earthly form Is mouldering in its tomb; but yet, 0 love I Thy spirit must dwell somewhere in this waste Of worlds, that fill the overwhelming heavens With light and motion ; that could never die I And wilt thou not vouchsafe one beaming look To ease a lonely heart that beats in pain For loss of thee, and only thee, 0 love ? Or host thou found in that pure life Thou liv'st My soul was an unworthy choice for thine, And therefore tak'st no count of its despair ? " While he is brooding over the birth of his exceeding love for her, he relates with a wonderful and beau tiful minuteness, how that love, so to speak, per vades and interpenetrates his whole existence. At the outset he is content simply to ease his heart of the delicious pang of his love by the mere asser tion of it ; as thus— " I love my lady; she very is fair ; Her brow is wan, and bound by simple hair; Her spirit sits aloof and high, But glances from her tender eye, In sweetness droopingly." He lingers over the memory of her looks as she bewitched him— " Her beauty walks in happier grace Than lightly moving fawns O'er old elm-shadowed lawns. tenderness shows through her face, And like the morning's glow Hints a full day below." Here, again, as evidence of the truth of our remark as to the richness of the colouring thrown into this poetic picture of the poet's dead and gone beloved— " Fresh beauties, howsoe'er she moves, are stirred : As the sunned bosom of a humming-bird At each pant lifts some fiery hue, Fierce gold, bewildering green or blue; The same, yet ever new." Couplets there are in the poem that come to ns like echoes from the choicest of the old poets—the great poets of the Elizabethan age. Instance— " My lady walks as I have watched a swan Swim when a glory on the waters shone." And what, in its way, could well be sweeter than this—how like again to the manner of the old poets, and again, we would say, how rich a colouring in it Her mention of a thing, august or poor, Makes it far nobler than it was before ; As, where the sun strikes, life will gush, And what is pale receive a flush, Rich hues a richer blush." The moral inculcated by this poem of " My Beautiful Lady," is as elevated and as pure and true as that which dictated to Alfred Tennyson the exquisite thought— "'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." For as the closing words at p. 149, "Years After," Mr. Woolner sings, in his turn— " A ray has pierced me from the highest heaven — I have believed in worth ; and do believe." Three Parts, the Poem is divided into. The last of the three being simply and significantly devoted to the commemoration of "Years After" and of " Work." The intermediate part, part two, that is, being subdivided thus, also simply, also signifi cantly, " My Lady in Death"—"Day Dream"— "My Lady's Voice from Heaven." It is upon the first part that the poet has lavished all his epithets of admiration upon his Beautiful Lady—singing of Herself, of her Glory, of Her Shadow, of Her Garden, of Love, Dawn, Noon, Night, of Wild Rose, and Tolling Bell, of Will o' the Wisp, of Given Over, and of Storm. The book as a first out-breathing of the poetical faculty is very remarkable. It abounds in beauties of thought, of feeling, of expression. It indicates a power in the author that assures us he may readily, if he lists, produce even more enduring evidences of his genius with his pen as a Poet than (rarely gifted though he is in that strangely contrasting art) be could ever carve out of marble with his chisel as a Sculptor. Punch's Pocket Book for 1864. Illustrated by John Leech and John Tenniel, Pp. 192. Brad bury and Evans. Whatever merit there is this year in the Pocket Book of our little old friend, " with the slight dorsal irregularity," as Mr. Thackeray, out of a charming delicacy in regard to the feelings of Mr. Punch, once circuitously expressed it when referring to the gentleman's rather prononce huMp---Whatever merit there is in Punch's Pocket Book for 1864, be longs of right to Mr Tenniel. Not but what Mr. Leech's coloured frontispiece representing " A Rather Fast Steeple-chase," is in every way worthy of that most graceful of all our caricaturista. cttiyc a dozen more of his already very large fam il y of prh girls, have in that one print been added by hisgra ß P ut, pencil to our most pleasant remembrance.c steeplee. when that is said, all is said —for the fast a m h er ry horsefleshh e . lter chase st e i te i r s a , c a r f o t s e s r tahl foldingnothing e psmorege o t f than u and pretty girls, mou nted j to the enlkvebYe-rweajase: in parti coloured riding-habits. Mr. la'nenaniel—froforo arehow twittering pencil gn much o w hi ms ical hand has condescended to illustrate with suc h prepostero us extravagance of humour, we have w e not bere i e n ki d eibnteoefd! fu O n the letterpress hi s f absolutely nothing to say beyond this—that it seems to us, in plain terms, just simply comicality in a state of delirium! It is a perpetual violation to the reader's common sense. [t is one of the most deliberate outrages ever perpetrated in cold blood upon all the s ir e n o b s e a o b f i l r i e t e i e s f . f r o Hv m a th in e g p r s o a o d u w n d h i d c e b, w je eti e e e turn with a t whicho we have been plunged, by a rash glance at this astounding exhibition of senile tomfoolery, called " Britishlion the Bagdificent," to compensate our selves with a hearty laugh over the wonderful little woodcuts, pencilled by John Tenniel, at the head of the several sections of the Almanack proper ! Vide , with a grave face, if you can—the grinnin g "buttons' in the Royal Household—the awkward squad, Turk, Russian, Spaniard, Prussian, Greek, tramping past as " The Ambassadors"—Derby and Dizzy, as spindle-shanked conspirators, about to plunder of its baubles the Table of "The House of Commons" —the Yokels reviewed by Clown, red-hot-poker in hand, at the head of Army and Navy—with other most ludicrous conteits. Yet, for the miscellaneou s "Part II." of the Almanack—(usually made up apparently of the mere scrapings and leavings dropped about the floor of Mr. Punch's study, from the overflowings of his plethoric waste-paper bas ket) —Mr. Tenniel this year seems really to have reserved himself, and has certainly, in one or two instances, jotted down, there, his senbe of the ridicu lous in the happiest vein of humour. His illustration to The Fast Bride," representing a couple of pretty girls boxing, is after the gracefully comic fashion of John Leech himself, the happiest of all the illus trators des demoiselles. But, for the exquisite corni cality of every touch of the pencil in it, commend us to the representation, opposite page 162, of the boob-ball-room incident, celebrated in certain " Stanzas to Samuel" or Sydenharn Seventeen The whole of this laughter-moving sketch is con ceived and realised with the most delightful sense of the ludicrous. It is worth just double or treble the cost of the entire Pocket-Booir, being, in effect; one of the funniest sketches ever drawn by the great comic Cartoonist,; whose pictorial drol leries are so often, as especially in this in stance, not only done by, but done to a T. The Dictionary of Medical and Surgical linote• ledge. Ato I. By the Editor of " The Die' tionary of Useful Knowledge." Houlston and Wright. This very useful and compendious medical dic tionary aspires to be a practical guide in health and disease for families, emigrants, and colonists. T o the latter, frequelitly debarred as they are from the advantages of medical advice, such a practical hand-book is likely to prove of great value ; whil e the advice it contains upon the diet and domestic management, and other means for preserving health, will ensure it a welcome with the fathers and mothers of families. In his preface the editor expresses a hope that his medical status will inspire confidence in the advice and prescriptions contained in this dictionary, but as his name is not affixed to the work, this claim upon our attention goes for nothing. --- The Theory of Foreign Exchanges. By George 3- * Goechen, M.P. Second edition. One vol., PP' 140. Effingham Wilson. A second edition of this work, carefully revise d by the author, has been rendered necessary by th e great fluctuations which have occurred in the rate of foreign exchanges since the publication of the firs t edition. " The history of the foreign exchang es for the last two years," says Mr. Gosehen, is s history of revolutions. The movements which have occurred in many quarters have been almost illicit' ampled in rapidity and extent." To such an exten t has this been the case,.that he remarks in continua' tion that, "the excnanges of those countries whi ch two years ago were selected as exemplifying the results of a depreciated currency or excessive lti c i debtedness might have, on the contrary, been c ited as instances of rapid recovery. The Austrian e% : change has recovered fully 30 per cent. The Rue' sian rouble has approached the par value of g e % In America, on the other hand, the - very opp os l c, has occurred." The principal alterations in t. 1114 edition refer to the American exchanges, virive have received Mr. Goschen's most careful and sae° tive consideration. DEATH BY ACONITE. In an essay written by Dr. Headland, and pu p ' fished in the Lancet, of March 26, 1856, short l l after the accidental poisoning at Dingwall from tb root of monkshood eaten by mistake for horseradish' a number of such cases of poisoning were passed itt review, and the symptoms produced by acoeita summed up as follows ;—" First, tingling of tb tongue; then, tingling followed by numbness of 0 18 face, and of the arms about the same time. Then ft feeling as if the face were large, and sensation 01 tightness in the throat (both, probably, caused 19 1 paralysis of the sensory with more or less affection of the motor nerves). Next comes vomiting ; ne se loss of power in the lower extremities. The p ul es is feeble; the breathing laborious. Death eneoeB oy syncope or stoppage of the heart. There 03°9 , t. be brain symptom ; but they are not con stat ; The pupils, according to Dr. Headland, are daa'fee It is interesting and instructive to notice hO he a the account given us of the sufferings Jf the wrote re man Hunt answers to this description. We Li only partially informed of his sensations, and WP-0 the police were first admitted to his house it NVillp his object to conceal them as much as pesaitl'ia' lest the administration of an antidote $ Oll " be insisted upon. It seems that he retained Pla senses to the last, and was able to use his ha t/ c/ in writing just before his death. He wa s vomiting, and continued to vomit. He was either: unable or unwilling to swallow the emetics thOf ° were given to him. (A characteristic symptom t aconite poisoning is the palsy of the throat). was able to dress himself when the police insist & upon it. Dr. Puckle then found him sitting in chair, retching violently. The countenance O s pale, and " the eyes had a remarkable ex peessi° ° ' the pupils being very much dilated," This bear° out the statement made by Dr. Headland, wb icti t has been much questioned, as being opposed to tta l i , of Dr. Perira, and others, whose dictum that 1100 pupils are contracted under the int:loc, of aconite has been generally accepted 17J5 toxicologists. Dr. Puckle tells us that big pulse was scarcely perceptible , the action of t' e. heart extremely feeble, and the breathing q uit After the second emetic had been forced down , atl d, all the contents of the stomach see m in g l y e j ecte et Hunt exclaimed, " Oh, my hear t !" He could 11,e walk straight, but fell against the wall , apparel3Wr without the use of his arms. lie was , howee,l able with some difficulty to write a s.bort note to )1, employer within a quarter of an hour of his death s He had admitted to his medical attenchent that ' of might have taken aconite." The inflame d state 0 the stomach observed after death may hove been due to the sulphate of zinc emetic. The lie' : side of 'the heart was distended, the left e1231 ) , t J; There was no other notable morbid sy m p tom. Puckle conjectured the presenc omitconit in contents of the stomach and the v by the appl a l t a bottle produced O . ° , cation of the only known test —the physiologic.; one. Two drops found in characteristic tingling, followed by numbness, of this tongue. As it is easy to conceive of a case of 1 3 ° 1 , well to consider how far a ro ed „ 1 0 soning in which this test may be inapplicable, oe accouut of the small dose taken, or other circtit°,: es t e taa a l n ti we m eis e : : ) ie e ts B e i s f w s ao u sti c l h d symptoms pt justifiedom s a s a those relying recorded Pof. H nut. Prussic acid, digitalis, belladoil°' the man (or tobacco), all produce death by eeti c°Pef a wl . The rapkiity of its action, with a tendeemy to vomiting, and great prc °lr lf t he patient long enough, di s tinguish the 11.13t iiir Tobacco cont ra ct s these agents. and convals ic° ' the pupil. P e : donna, like aconit e , dil ates t h e pu pil a nd ca u° ,o4 difficulty of deglutition; but belladonna e outti be the mind and causes Jeliriuni. Foxglove ° IL/Y oe more easily mistaken for aconite, if we supP°') be numbing action of the hater to be concealed b withi patient. It may cause Beath by eyncopef„,:irig dilated pupils, without brain :s ymptoms. Jil l' u43- eve of the case o f H un t by his symptoms only , o jiet could positively affirm that be die d of ac°,oet though it wouid seem very probable ; for, ed distinguishes aconite from all other peis°iit;''' alone stamps it with a complete inclivioue is the production of anaesthesia withoaEcialt' consciousness. There is tingling, followed bYf e i this net's, first of the tongue, next of the lace, lies: too arms, and lastly of ttae rest of the surface tenu.: e ed lower extremities. Hunt may h a ve felt all expected before - hand to feel it ; but he said Vin.: about it, for until he felt himse lf dyieg a Loa recall he did not wish it to be known that taken poison. Dr. Headland recorumende.ta is charcoal (to be mixed with w ater, and gi s large quantities, followed by a zinc emetic) tic rae only known antidote to the poison of' acouiie:, a nd has found that " aconitina by qthiuickly tak 1: e , o V anc e! , most obstinately retained e agen