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This could hardly have occasioned surprise in conse quence of the accounts that have been received of the state of his health. Lord STANLEY informed the House of Commons, with " feelings of deep regret,': that the noble _Earl had tendered his resig nation, and that her MAJESTY had been pleased to accept it. The noble lord had further declared that own "THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1868 NM - the Chancellor of the Exchequer had received her MAJESTY'S commands to form a Ministry, and was at present engaged in that task. Fol lowing the usual order of things on such occasions, Lord STANLEY proposed the adjournment of the House until such time as the necessary ar rangements could be completed. He expressed his regret that the debate on Ireland should have to be put off, as the subject was one of so much import ance ; perhaps, indeed, the most important that could take place just now. Friday next is the day fixed upon for the re-assembling of the House, which is not a lengthened period under the circumstances of the case. Mr. GLADSTONE, in his usual happy style, signified his approval of the arrangements, and expressed his regret, which he felt sure would be universally shared, that a career "so long, so active, and, in many respects, so distinguished as that of _Lord DERBY, should have been brought to a close by the failure of his bodily health and strength." The right hon. gentleman also added that, by a " singular destiny" the noble lord had been called• upon to make this statement to the House ; and co it was indeed. It is quite an event in the annals of Ministerial changes and Parliamentary history for a son to announce to the House the resignation of his father, and that for himself to hold high office, and to be in the opinion of many well qualified to succeed to the vacant place. Lord MALMESBURY, who was, of course, able to speak with more freedom upon the event of the Premier's resignation, expressed his deep regret, and that of his colleagues, at the loss of the noble earl. We hope, however, in com mon with Lord MALMESBURY, that the rest which Lord DERBY is now to have will recruit his strength, and enable him to enjoy better health and more freedom from his painful malady than the cares of State and the leadership of the party have enabled him to do. Lord RUSSELL, with that right feeling which always distinguishes our politica leaders, intimated his regret at the announcement which Lord MALMESBURY had just made ,to the house, and declared that no difference of opinion on political matters could ever alter the sentiments of regard and esteem which they entertained for the noble earl. "In the eloquence with which he defended his opinions the records of Parliament will bear immortal testimony, and of course history must , deal with his relation to public ques tions." Lord RUSSELL only gave utterance to the wishes of both Houses and the public at large when he trusted that before long Lord DERBY might be enabled to appear again among them, and freed from the trammels of official life, and the burden of grave responsibility, again delight them with that clear and eloquent language of which he is so great a master. We learn that Lord DERBY has often declared that he did not himself care for office, and no doubt he did not de ceive himself when he made that declaration ; but were it otherwise he would have ample cause to forget any disappointment he might feel when he reflects upon the high regard in which he is held. Some wit has exclaimed— " HI were a statesman rd rather instead Have the epitaph living, the epigram dead." And the noble earl who has just resigned the Pre miership has in some respects realised this wish, for he has been able to hear what a high place his intrinsic qualities of worth and excellence have gained him in the esteem of all, to find the zeal of political animosity become extinct, the strife of Parliamentary rivalry be put aside, and all that a universal ktestimony might be afforded of his merit. We may reply, affirm, and feel convinced that the verdict of popular opinion will sanction it now, and the judgment of posterity ratify it hereafter, that no public man in this country ever tendered his resignation of the high office of Premier who ranked higher than Lord DERBY in the esteem of his Sovereign, the sympathy of his contemporaries, and the general regard and respect of the community. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is certainly to-day the right man in the right place. But how many would have said otherwise a few years ago ? Mr. DISRAELI s career is alike an honour to himself and to his country, for he is a shining in stance of what a man may accomplish by by ability and perseverance, and an illustration of the possibility of self-made men rising to eminence and distinction. We feel convinced that Mr. DIS RAELI will meet with all possible sympathy and congratulation, and that those of all shades of opinion will acknowledge that he has won for himself a well-deserved position, and we can with the more appropriateness express our satisfaction at the consequences of this change of Ministry, while we regret the cause, because we have always been among those who appreciated the bril liant talents and recognised the high capacities of the right hon. gentleman. Those who by their own unaided exertions can master difficulties, overcome prejudices, and finally gain the goal, deserve well of their fellow-countrymen, be their politics what they may. They are among the leading spirits of their generation, and they will occupy a high place in their country's history hereafter. Mr. DISRAELI was always felt by those initiated into affairs to be the chief man in the Ministry, and during Lord DERBY'S last tenure of office he has been especially distinguished for those qualities which go far to create admiration and inspire confidence. He is the pilot who weathered the storm of the Reform question, and brought the vessel safe into port; he is, besides, the leader of his party, which wanders in as dreary a desert of Opposition as any set of public men in the records of Parlia ment. It is no rash venture or moonshine undertak ing then that is now undertaken, and the new Premier has a powerful support in Lord STANLEY, the noble lord at the head of the Foreign-office, being in himself a host to any Administration. In many respects quite dissimilar to his father, Lord STANLEY has won for himself, by his more solid than brilliant attainments, a high place in the regard of Parliament, and inspired great confidence in the country. In fact, as we said before, many have assigned to him the place of Prime Minister upon the resignation of his father, and, no doubt, he is quite fitted for the arduous responsibility of such a position. At the present time, however, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer is the fitting one for such a post; and con• sidering his services in last session, and his high place in Parliament, and with the party he leads, we do not see how he could have held office under any other than Lord DERBY himself with anything like appropriateness. It is not improbable that Lord • STANLEY may occupy a place of great importance and lead the party in the House of Lords, for some change is required there since Lord DERBY cannot hold his wonted place. But all these are supposi tions that must be left to time and experience to ...tfirm or contradict. Amid the mingled feelings ~ -i th which we regard the intelligene3 last night imparted to Parliament, we cannot but rejoice that Lord DEI:Br has so fitting a successor in one who, for long years, has acted in concert with him ; and we feel convinced that the noble earl could not have fixed upon one to whom he would more willingly and confidently have resigned the trust reposed in him. Let us Ihope that Lord DERBY will long be spared to his family and his friends, and that he may occasionally take part in the affairs of that House as " prefect of debates,•" for we can ill afford to lose him ; and his high spit it of independence and chivalric sense will be now, as ever, of importance to influence the character of ,ur public life, and impart the convic tion that they e ii something to ask for beyond and above all conmiderations of place and party, and all thoughts of si 31f-interest. The long-t/nreatened crisis in the United States has at length been brought about by the dispute concerning, the Secretary of War. We learn by the Atlar.tic Telegraph that yesterday the house of Reyresentatives appointed a committee of two formally to impeach the PRESIDENT at the bar of the Senate, and a committee of seven to prepare the articles of Impeachment. Later news from Washington announces that THADDEUS STEVENS and Mr. BINGIIAM, the two members appointed by the House of Representatives for the purpose, for mally impeached President JOHNSON yesterday at the bar of the Senate, being evidently determined to lose no time in pressing the matter forward. The Senate ordered the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the subject, and the matter waits their report. The long-pending quarrel be tween PRESIDENT and Congress has now assumed an exciting and momentous aspect. It is a trial of strength, and the whole country will watch the issue with the deepest interest. We see the imme diate effect of the crisis in the price of gold, which yesterday was 1421 ; and the general disturbance aLd agitation which mast result from such an event as the impeachment of the PRESIDENT will probably send it up even higher. The Radicals adopt an original method of restoring tranquillity and confidence. Every one in the States is complaining of the disorganisation of the country, the depression of trade, and the lack a public confidence ; and they attempt to remedy these evils by stirring up fiercer animosities, by endeavouring to overthrow the Government, and by bringing forward a political motion of such moment that even in tranquil and confident times it would be a firebrand in the nation. The re moval of STANTON is, of course, the ostensible reason for this desperate move. Mr. JOHNSON, as we heard a few days ago, took matters into his own hands, and dismissed the Secretary of War from his office, appointing in his place Mr. TetoMAS EwING. With characteristic determination, the PRESIDENT, in the midst of the excitement respecting the impeach ment, sent the nomination to the Senate, and with it a message intimating that the removal of Mr. STANTON was no violation of the Tenure of Office Act, and expressing a wish that the constitu tionality of that act should be tried before the Supreme Court. The Tenure of Office Bill, in right of which STANTON still holds to his disputed office, is an act of Radical creation, and very re cently new. It forms no part of those old consti tutional enactments which Americans have always cherished and obeyed, but belongs rather to that deliberate scheme for the limi tation of the Presidential influence and authority, and for the complete ascendancy of the Legislature over the Executive, which the Ra dicals have been steadily pursuing during the last two years. This bill itself, like most of the recent Radical enactments, is open to serious criticism ; and it is more than probable that the Supreme Court may pronounce it unconstitutional. The Recon struction Act upon which the Republican party plume themselves has already been declared by com petent authorities to be decidedly illegal ; and if a perfectly unbiassed tribunal could, in these days of faction and party feeling, be found in the States, there is little question but that they would revoke most of the recent legislation. For the PRESIDENT of the States to be deprived of the power of ap pointing and removing the members of his own Cabinet is a preposterous doctrine, and one which in calmer times would have met with the ridicule it deserved. If the Radical enactments are really in themselves unconstitutional, the PRESIDENT can hardly be impeached for breaking his oath in dis regarding them. On the other hand, the Radicals, who having committed themselves to this desperate act, will doubtless strain every nerve to secure the victory they crave for before the legal question is tried. The PRESIDENT stands firm, and so does the obnoxious Secretary. Both are immovable except by actual force, and the issue rests with the Senate. By the Constitution of the States it is necessary for two-thirds of the Senate to concur in the conviction of the PRESIDENT, and it is more than doubtful whether the Radicals, eager and active, and un scrupulous as they are, will be able to secure it. In the House of Representatives there would be no difficulty, and if the condemnation and disgrace of the PRESIDENT depended on the Lower House it would be merely a question of days or hours. The Senate, however, is differently constituted. Its members are on the whole less vehement, less revo lutionary, and belong less to the class of professional agitators. Their social position an - I surroundings make them less amenable to the in fluences which carry away the Representatives, and if it includes among its members, like most American assemblies, some turbulent and reckless legislators, who look only to the promulgation of extreme theories or the temporary triumph of some party manoeuvre, it has a larger element of moderate and middle-course men. These men, though professedly belonging to the ranks of the Radicals, will be pro- I bably slow to countenance such a desperate move. The PRESIDENT'S tenure of office is draw ing to a close. A few months more, however much they dislike bim and his policy, can be easily borne ; whereas the impeach ment of the chief man in the States, on the autho rity of a bill whose own nature is doubtful, will, in the present situation of affairs, produce the most serious and perhaps dangerous effects. It may even be the first step to wards a newer and more fatal civil war—it may lead to the overthrow of that cherished form of Government which Americans have fought for more than once—it may tend to the ultimate subversion of the liberties of one of the great free nations of the earth, and to the destruc tion and dismemberment of the nation itself. The PRESIDENT'S position is strengthened by the recent publication of the GRANT correspondence. His own version of the story is supported by all the members of his Cabinet who were present at the interview between himself and the General ; and the defence which GRANT makes against the charge of double-dealing is not very substantial. IVith the Radicals, however, he has no need for defence. He is a hero and a patriot, and his chances for the Presidency are loudly discussed by the Radicals. Circumstances have been too strong for the reticent politician, and he now finds himself committed to Republicanism. Ilis chances with the general pub -1 c, however, are not improved by the recent trans action. He is the subject for jests and squibs of all kinds of laughter-loving critics. One of these has gained great circulation. It runs as follows : " You lie," says Johnson— U-ly-sses Grant." If' this . is a specimen of the American estimate of their military statesman, General GRANT'S chances of the White House are but slender. In our account of the fire at Covent-garden yes terday it was a lodger named Lob;oit who lost his life, and not a lady. nORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.' (FROM our. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) TUESDAY, Feb. 25. The "conspiracy of silence" has, I have reason to believe, become almost intolerable to the Imperial Govern meat. The Ministers have utterly failed to shew how the papers can discuss the speeches of the Legislative Body without incurring the risk of being again mulcted in DIO fines, and yet they are galled because the papers —several of them, at least—refuse the perilous attempt. In a word, the Government is in a dilemma, and there is no way out except by confessing that the last prosecutions:of the press were a lamentable blunder. But this conspiracy of silence has invaded the Chambers. Emile 011ivier, the only prominent member of the Opposition who ever shewed a desire to conciliate the Government, has con- spired in this way against the leader of the Arcadians. Having quoted the invectives against the arocats deputcs in the Pays, of which M. Cassagnac is the editor, he descended from the tribune without replying co it. This is the offence. He has been called upon to explain his dis dainful silence. He has refused, and the probability is that he will be " calle•d out." A leader in the Pays tells him that "he should have the courage to give satisfac tion " for his " insolence." Perhaps, like Saint-Beuve, the honourable advocate-deputy does not accept the " suppression of an individual" as the settlement at a question. The "24th felvrier " has passed peaceably. Private ban quets have celebrated the anniversary of the Revolution of 1848, but nothing has transpired to create uneasiness. It is said that in some quarters the police were reinforced. As I anticipated a few days ago, the jury of honour in the Kery efguen affair have decided that there was no ground whatever for the imputation made by M. Kervdguen against the Sik:e and the Opinion Nationale. It happened, however, that when M. Ravin rose in the Chamber to pr flounce the verdict of the jury, the deputies on the Right rose to leave the room as if by arrangement. The President thereupon declared the sitting at an end, in spite of the vigorous protests of the Left. Why, if the accusation were made publicly, should the acquittal not be public ? Surely, it was not because it was Opposition j urnals that were charged with taking Prussian gold. A son of Prince Gortschakoff is said to be in Paris. He is about to marry the daughter of the Hospodar Couza, late of Roumania. The bride is reputed to have a dowry of £2,200,000 sterling, from which it may perhaps be sui posed that Prince Couza did not serve the It oumanians for naught. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine at Paris has been called open to decide a question relating to the sepulture of G ral Delva, the former Primo Minister of President Se: ' .uque, who has just died at Paris. The General's ‘w wishes him to be buried at Paris, but his eldest son desires that his father' body shall be entombed in the fan. .ly sepulchre at Hayti. The decision has not yet been given. General Delva has left 3,000,000 francs. M. Stephan, the director of the Observatoire at Mar seilles, has just announced the discovery of new planetoid. It is a star of the eleventh magnitude, and is found at present in the constellation Leo, a little to the west of Regulus. This is the ninety-sixth of the smaller planets. Four of the students vh I were arrested for manifesta tions after the representation of "Kean," at the Od6on, have been sentenced to periods of imprisonment of six, eight, and fifteen days, and two months respectively. Good news for oyster-eaters. A correspondent at Ostend writes to the Organe de Namur that a marvellous bed of oysters has just been discovered on that coast. The English fishermen have exhausted the beds from Dunkirk to Calais. During one of the late storms a fisherman was driven by stress of weather as far north as Ostend. He was trailing his nets to prevent drifting too rapidly, and when they were drawn up he was de lighted to find that he had a magnificent take of oysters. He delivered his cargo to a courricr to carry to London, and returned in the night to the same ground. He met the same success. Now for several weeks an abundant harvest of oysters has been drawn from these beds. After the secret was discovered, other boats flocked to the spot, and now some 180 to 200 are fishing off Ostend. Latterly, the strong north winds have prevented the courriers reach 'ng the Thames, and the people of Ostend have been regaling themselves with des huitres a bon marclte. Fresh beds continue to be discovered daily. The beds extend for the space of , four leagues, and the number of )ysters upon them seems to be incalculable. The French I,nd Belgian fishermen are preparing to share the good luck )f the Englishmen. As experiments in ii-iipophagy have been made in London, it may be interesting to state that the acquired taste for horseflesh is extending in Paris. There are now seven boucheries whence it is regularly dispensed. Dr., Leblanc, member of the Academy of Medicine, has been consoling the Parisians with the assurance that, unlike the flesh of the ox, the older the animal the better the meat. An account lying before me says : " Boiled le choral is rather dry; but dressed d in mode, like beef, it is exquisite, especially if you give it time to cook before a slow fire." The famine in Morocco, Tunis, and Algeria is said to nave passed its worst phase. Rains have fallen at last, grass has reappeared, and the flocks and herds will, it is to be hoped, not only be saved from extermination, but by their milk, one of the main resources of the population, greatly assist in ameliorating the two or three months which must elapse before the next harvest. According to official reports, the prospects for the next year are now favourable The Paris correspondent of the Times states tnat the hinperor is wearied beyond measure by the long and tedious debates on the Press Bill. He is reported to have declared, in a fit of impatience, that he would appeal to the country by a plebiscite to sanction his next liberal measure, and not to a Chamber which seems bent on thwarting him. The Pope has made a sensible demand of the Russian Government. Before receiving its representative, he has exacted the withdrawal of the ukase against the Roman Catholics in Poland and the recall of the exiled bishops. Recent letters from Spain announced a frightful increase in banditism. Assassinations have been reported during the last few days from several points of the Peninsula. A rich landed proprietor in Valencia was murdered and hor ribly mutilated in his own house, whence the bandits removed all the valuables. A priest in Santa Anna, Badajoz, was assassinated in his parsonage. The cure of Guils, Barcelona, was actually thrown into the fire and threatened with being burnt alive if he did not give up his money. In this way the wretches obtained his whole fortune—sixty-four ounces of gold, valued at 5,370 f. According to the Telegraph a Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into the system of courts-mar tial, their powers and practice, and into the nature of military punishments generally ; the commissioners being Instructed to suggest such improvements as they may think desirable. The Daily News anticipates with certainty that the estimates of the English Government for 1868-9 will set a good example to Europe in the diminution of public expenditure under the head of armaments. The navy estimates will, it is stated, while providing for an addition to our ironclad naval squadron in the next financial year. shew a large pecuniary reduction. Until the House of Commons reassembles on Friday afternoon, when the Ministerial interregnum is expected fo terminate, the public must be content to remain satis fied with speculation as to the personnel of the new Cabinet. Generally speaking, the morning papers, of whatever shade of opinion, appear gratified that Mr. Disraeli has been sent for by the Queen to become Prime Minister of England. The Liberal papers, without en dorsing his past policy, and still declining to express approval .f his political principles, seem glad the Premiership has for once got out of the hands of the great governing fami lies, whether Whig or Tory, and transferred to a member of the lic t use of Commons who has made his way in the world with unremitting energy and by the power of his intellect. There is a desire to give Mr. Disraeli the utmost fair play in his new and trying position. Since Sir Robert Peel resigned office, in 18.1 G, the distinguished post of First Lord of the Treasury has not been held out of the ranks of the nobikty. In twenty years it has passed successively from Lord Russell to Lord Derby, from Lord Derby to Lord Aberdeen, from Lord Aberdeen to Lord Palmerston, from Lord Palmerston to Lord Derby, from Lord Derby back again to Lord Palmerston, from Lord Palmerston to Lord Russell, from Lord Russell once more to Lord Derby. Ilere, for a while, the long succession of nobles is at an end, and for the first time since August 1827, when Canning died, a plain " Mr." is the First Minister of State in Great Britain. There are many conjectures as to whether Mr. Disraeli will follow the precedent set by Sir Robert Walpole, by William Pitt, and by Sir Robert Peel when he formed his first Administration in 1835, and unite the office of Prime Minister with that of Chancellor of the Exchequer. To this it is objected that either of these high posts is quite sufficient for one man to undertake, and that more espe cially the Chancellorship of the Exchequer is very different now from what it was thirty years ago. Sir Stafford North cote is named by general consent as Mr. Disraeli's sue cesscm as Finance Minister, if he can be spared from the India Office under the pressure of the Abyssinian expedi tion, of which he has had the arrangement from the beginning. Failing Sir Stafford, there is Mr. Ward Hunt, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who does his work well, and is a favourite with the House. In times like the present, when there are no startling budgets to construct, no surpluses to dispose of, and no reductions of taxation to make, Mr. ,Hunt, with a little guidance from his chief, might make such a Chancellor of the Exchequer as to give satisfaction in "the City," whore a safe man is preferred to a brilliant innovator, LATEST INTELL MENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TILE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Sir Stafford Northcote has received the following telegram from Sir Robert Napier, dated the 6th of February : " Major Grant, whom I had deputed to Prince Kassai, has been well received by the Prince. My letter and presents were suitably received in au open Durbar, attended by 2,000 chiefs and people. Owing to the Prince being engaged in certain cere monies, a private interview had not taken place. The people around the Prince seem to be well dis posed towards us, and the women of Adwa received the mission on its entry to the town with a hearty neer in honour of its arrival. No complications are to be apprehended." AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The liguse of Representatives appointed to-day a committee of two formally to impeach President Johnson at the bar of the Senate, and a committee of seven to prepare the articles of impeachment. President Johnson has sent to the Senate the nomination of Mr. Thomas Ewing as Secretary of War, and also a message in which he maintains that the removal of Mr. Stanton was no violation of the Tenure of Office Act, and expresses the wish that the constitutionality of the Act should be tested before the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Evening). Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and Mr. Bingham, the two members appointed by the [louse of Repre sentatives for the purpose, formally impeached President Johnson to-day at the Bar of the Senate. The Senate ordered the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the subject. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Five hundred thousand dollars in specie were shipped on board the steamers that left for Europe to day. _ _ Gold, 1421. Sterling exchange on London, 110 k. Five-Twenty United States' Bonds, 1882, 111 k ; ditto, 1885, 109 ; Ten-Forty Bonds, 104 Illinois, 138 ; Erie, 69. Cotton —middling upland, 22kc. Petroleum--standard white, 261 c. Corn—old mixed, $1 26c. Flour—extra State, $lO 30c. TURKEY. VIENNA, Feb. 26. The Debatte of to-day publishes the following telegram from Constantinople, dated 24th instant, asserting that Omar Pasha, having been expressly ordered by the Sultan to hasten his journey to take the supreme command of the Danube, has left Con stantinople for Rutschuk. Aali Pasha returns to Constantinople on Friday. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 25. The Nyanza, from Southampton 20th inst., ar rived to-day at 1 p.m., and leaves at 4 p.m. for Alexandria. She experienced heavy weather in the Channel. MALTA, Feb. 25. The Ripon leaves at 10 p.m. to-day for South ampton, - where she may be expected about the sth of March. She was detained 47 hours off Alexan dria (on the outward voyage) by boisterous weather. FRA' BOURSE, Feb. 25.—T, closed as follows : NCE. tree o'clock..—The market Bank Shares 3020 Its Pan Loan End of mouth 43 40 Mexican Loan 16 50 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred ~ 33 75 s. Account. Orleans ... 888 N orthern llBO Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 656 Western Eastern .. Sardinian Austrian Lombard B2 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 47 41 per Cent. End of month -- 3 per Cent End of month 6B 65 Credit Mobilier End of month 226 25 Credit Foncier 1172 50 End of month 1383 75 BAILWA' .... 5561 „.••• 382 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. BIARLBOROUGH-STREET. HUNGER AND TEMPTATION. —Frederick Johnson, a young man described as a labourer, no home, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing the pockethandkerchief of ➢lr. Philip Freeman, livery stable keeper, of Blenheim-yard, New Bond street. Mr. Freeman said—About half-past ten this morning I stepped out of my brougham in Jermyn street, when the prisoner came up and was about to close the door, but I closed it myself, and directly I did so the prisoner took my handker chief out of my pocket and ran off. He was pursued and caught, and then given into the custody of a police-constable (Fields, 152). The prisoner —I was very hungry and thought by closing the carriage door I might get a halfpenny, but I did not, and seeing the gentleman's handker chief 1 was tempted to take it. Mr. Tyrwhitt—lt is an impudent robbery though it might have been suggested perhaps by hunger. The prisoner will be committed for a month, and will get food at all events. WESTMINSTER. A llusß AND AND NO HUSBAND.—A middle-aged, buxom-looking woman, addressing Mr. Arnold, said—l want your worship to help me. lam very much ill-used by a woman who is my husband's wife, and a man who is another woman's husband. Mr. Arnold—A woman who is your husband's wife, and a man who is another woman's husband! Applicant--Yes, that's it. Mr. Arnold—l don't very clearly understand it. Applicant--Don't you. Well, I'm my husband's wife, and he's got another wife, and I want to take proceedings against my husband and his wife. They lead me a rare life, particularly my husband's other wife. Mr. Arnold—He can't have another wife ? Applicant—But he has got her, and I paid for it. _ _ Mr. Arnold—You mean to say that your husband has committed bigamy ? Applicant—That I do, and I paid for it. Mr. Arnold— .You paid for it ? Applicant—l've got it here (producing a certifi cate). I paid 2s. 7d. for it to the parson's wife at Hammersmith. Mr. Arnold, examining the certificate—lt cer tainly is a most extraordinary document, as it alto gether omits the year in which the marriage it speaks of took place, and it omits to certify - that it is a correct copy of the register. Applicant—The parson's wife took 2s. 7d. of the for it, and it ought to be right. Mr. Arnold—Do you wish to prosecute your hus band for bigamy ? Applicant—Yes, if you like. He married me first. Mr. Arnold—l have no wish in the matter. Applicant—l don't mind what Ido to him or to her. I should like to get rid of them both. First, he .is with me, and then ho is with her, and then they're both at me together. I want to prosecute• him for marrying the two of us. Mr. Arnold—Before you proceed you must get the date of your husband's other marriage put into that certificate. LITERATURE. MISS BRADDON'S NEW WORK. Birds of Prey. By M. E. Braddon, Three Vol,. Charlotte's inheritance. By M. E. Braddon. Three Vols. Ward, Lock, and Tyler. A story and its sequel were never more intensely One Work than " Birds of Prey" and " Charlotte's Inheritance." Regarded separately, they are faulty and, to a certain extent, unsatisfactory. Regarded together, they are, on the contrary, far more to our mind than merely satisfactory. So regarded, indeed, they take their place among Miss Braddon's most remarkable productions. Not but what there are still passages that we would gladly see eliminated from the earlier moiety of this rather lengthy fiction, as derogating considerably, to our mind at least, from its general excellence. Had we commented, as we cannot now but conceive that it would have been prematurely, upon the three volumes of " Birds of Prey" at the time of their original pub lication, we could not but have expressed, and that, too, in rather strong terms, our disap pointment—we could not but have pronounced an opinion in the fullest degree condemnatory. Re cognising as we nevertheless• did at the time, th e simple but sufficiently obvious fact that in publish ing "Birds of Prey" without its promised sequel of " Charlotte's Inheritance," the authoress was thereby doing herself a very grievous injustice, we shrank from following up her own error of judgment, we shrank from adding one in justice to another—an injustice of our own to the one she had as we still conceive ss perversely inflicted upon herself by a mere act of precipitancy. While hesitating thus to condemn what, in our estimate of " Birds of Prey," admitted alone of condemnation, Miss Braddon was all the while with more than her wonted rapidity, currente colony), repairing the damage done to her reputation as a raconteur of wonderful skill and power, by completing the de sign she had herself held in view from the commence ment, in regard to this particular novel; namely, by industriously penning the sequel, here, happily for herself and for her readers, produced in its ripened completeness in the form of these three con cluding volumes of the one work, as we can not but regard the Six Volumes now under our consideration—an elaborate fiction of which volumes one, two, three are called " Birds of Prey," and of which volumes four, five, six are called " Charlotte's Inheritance." The justification of the delay of our notice of those three earlier volumes, entitled " Birds of Prey"— if justification for that delay is really required at our hands—we adduce in the first place from the concluding sentence of " Birds of Prey" itself, vide Vol. iii., p. 318, to wit—" The His tory of Charlotte Halliday has grown upon the Writer ; and the completion of that history, with the fate of John Haygarth's fortune, will be told under the title of Charlotte's Inheri tance." That is our first justification in refrain ing from pronouncing judgment adversely upon " Birds of Prey" until—by delaying oar judgment —time had enabled Miss Braddon to complete her merely half-executed design as a work of art by the composition and publication of the sequel so promised under the title of " Charlotte's Inheri tance." A justification of our duty, however far beyond that—a justification, indeed, which appears now to be conclusive and triumphant, is here adduceable in these three volumes them selves of " Charlotte's Inheritance." Having re considered this One Work, now, as a whole, we do certainly conceive that we have done more justice , to Miss Braddon by the postponement of our opinion than she had done to herself by publishing " Birds of Prey" so long before the production of its sequel of " Charlotte's Inheritance." Cut in twain thus —her production remained during all that in terval singularly incomplete, curiously and almost ludicrously inartistic. The effect pro duced, indeed, by an examination of " Birds of Prey" apart from its sequel was as unsatisfactory and as disappointing as would have been that of any other work of art when yet but half accomplished. A piece of tapestry, let us say, but partially woven —with the raw tags of silk and gold thread hanging across the skeleton web-work of the canvass yet remaining to be covered by the rest of the embroidery. Or a fresco painting, again let us say, with the raw plaister on half the wall intended to be adorned by the artist's design, whenever that design should be eventually completed. Aristotle's thought as to sculpture is, as it may be remembered, ingeniously enough to the effect that iu the block of marble the statue is latent—the superfluous particles, or husk, so to speak, alone requiring to be hewn and chipped away by mallet and chisel. Aad here it was as if we had been invited, perversely enough, because so very prematurely by the sculptor, to examine her half accomplished work of art, while yet one side of it was the formless block untouched by the edge of the chisel. At length, hdwever, this work of art, for such as it is, has been completed. " Birds of Prey" is companioned by " Charlotte's Inheri tance." It is a statue and not a torso that we are asked to take into our consideration. The pro duction we are here called upon to examine is a whole and not merely a portion—it is a work in its entirety and not alone a moiety of it. As such we can at length regard it with something like equanimity, nay, more than that, with some thing like complacency. Reconsidering it thus in its Miss Braddon's new work mey c re o g nile a p rde t d e , ne w ss e do not hesitate to assert, as among her happiest productions—her three principal works being still considered by us to be " Aurora Floyd,' "Lady Audley's Secret," and " The Doctor's \Vac.' Side by side with those we now place these six volumes of " Birds of Prey" and " Charlotte's Inheritance" Henry Dunbar" and the rest of her en— thralling romances following thereupon in long, and brilliant array. Before commenting, how ever, more particularly upon the distinct merits and peculiarities of this most recent and most highly-elaborated among all Miss Braddon's fictions, that is to say, upon " Birds of Prey" and its sequel of "Charlotte's Inheritance," it is only common justice to Miss Braddon, in her capacity as a popular novelist, that some reference, however cursory, should bo here made to the extra ordinary attacks which have for some considerable time past been directed against her widely extended and certainly well earned reputa tion. There iss one thing which her depre ciatory have never been able to forgive her, and that is her popularity. Rail against them as they may, her books sell. Whatever their estimate of of her has been all along, she has somehow con trived to catch, and, what is more, to retain the ear of the public. Not a book of hers has been a failure. One of the most industrious writers of her time, she has nevertheless not yet written herself out. Her writings are already very voluminous. And whatever—as yet—she has written, has been eagerly read, has passed through elition after edition, has been assailed with unmannerly abuse by those whom her very success seems to have transformed into her enemies, and has, nevertheless, prospered as a literary venture, all that same un mannerly abuse to the contrary notwithstanding. Allusion would hardly have been made by us to these unseemly onslaughts upon Miss Braddon's reputation as a writer of fiction, successful amongst the most successful in this age of Popular Novelists, only that in the midst of all these scurrilous assailants of her popularity [for that we take to be all the while her most heinous offence], the most cruelly unjustifiable among them all was one whose attack was directed against her through the long-honoured medium of the best and ablest of all our monthly maga- zine3—" Maga," as it is called par excellence, otherwise " Ebony," otherwise Blackwood. The ar- Licle we are here referring to appeared some mouths since, namely, during theaututnn of 1867, somewhere about the very time when " Birds of Prey" having run its course as a serial story in the pages of Bel- graria, made its first appearance in three volumes as a seperate publication. Had we been tempted to descant upon the demerits as they then appeared to us of " Birds of Prey," by writiug of it as a work of art then obviously incomplete, we should have taken occasion at the time to comment in the strongest terms of reprobation, upon the shameful injustice with which Miss Brad don's name was coupled with those of other female novelists, her unworthy contempora ries, and with whose reputations (such as they are) her own ought never for one instant to have been associated. For, whatever else may be said of Miss Braddon, as a writer of fiction, it is simply mon strous to denounce her as one whose fictions have a tendency to demoralize. The impurities sullying the pages of those other female novelists—to whom allusion has but just now been made and with whom the reviewer in Blackwood's Magazine (whoever he may be) did not hesitate to couple the name of Miss Braddon—the impurities sullying the pages of those other female novelists, if looked for at all in the pages of Miss Braddon, will certainly be looked for there in vain. As having ourselves read every thing of any importance whatever that she has yet written, we speak here literally by the book, or in other words advisedly. And, so speaking, we. distinctly challenge the assailants of Miss Braddon's reputation, those enemies created for her apparently by her popularity alone, and conspicuous amongst their number this unfair reviewer in the eminent pages of Blackwood's Maga zine, to make pls.i.n those monstrous charges of an impure and demoralising tendency, as character ising the writings of Miss Braddon in common with those of other authoresses, of whose repute or noto riety it might be said in each instance that it cometh up—ouida !—less as a flower than as some noxious weed. Facts are stubborn things. At any rate they are far better than mere idle or wan ton assertions. And facts in any way justifying the gross and scurrilous accusations directed against Miss Braddon we would here content ourselves, with simply challenging the reviewer in Naga, in common with Miss Braddon's other indecorous and unmannerly traducers, to adduce. Instead of doing anything whatever of the kind, these psuedo-critics who have been pursuing our authoress for some time past with such peculiar animosity, have contented themselves for the most part with the most gross and unwarrantable insinuations. Once, indeed, they disdained not to descend, in the columns of a youthful and brilliant evening contemporary, to the meanness of a forgery in the shape of a letter purporting to come from Miss Braddou herself, but with which that lady announced at once through an indignant disclaimer that she had nothing whatever to do. Seeing the paltry devices to which her unknown foes were thus driven in their efforts to depreciate her ability, and still worse to mis present the tendency of its application, the authoress herself might well treat with the scorn of . silence this certainly irritating, but, in reality, con temptible tribute to her success, and to her still sus tained and extending popularity ! Particularly constituting, as it did in point of fact, only another (the latest) illustration of the familiar couplet— " Envy doth merit as its shade pursue, And like the shadow proves the substance true." Regretting still, as we do, that " Birds of Prey," a story otherwise full of interest, is rendered, in one portion of it, really wearisome (a marvel in any book of ➢Liss Braddon's !) by reason of the illiterate correspondence of the old dead and gone Haygarth Family —we have rea son, otherwise than in regard to this one flaw in the narrative, to congratulate the author of so many tales of enthralling interest upon her hav ing added one other novel of singular attraction to the already long list of her popular works of fiction. Regarding the work as a whole, that is to say, these six volumes of " Birds of Prey" and " Charlotte's Inheritance," we can commend its perusal to the attention of those who care for a story of deep and powerful interest, and one—pace Ebony—without any demoralizing influence that we can anywhere in all the thirteen books recognise ! Charlotte, as a matter of course, is the heroine, and she is as pretty a girlish heroine as novel reader could reasonably wish to follow the fortunes of. The hero of the tale, setting forth as ono of the Birds of Prey, turns out very soon, on the contrary, to be a noble-hearted young fellow, by name Valentine Hawkehurst. Than the record of his reclamation, never was there a more charming instance given of the redeeming and chastening of a character sur rounded by evil influences, through the effects of a true and honest love for a young girl like Charlotte Halliday. A second heroine there is in tho narrative—first of " Birds of Prey" and after wards of its sequel " C larlotte's Inheritance." This second heroine being Diana Paget, daughter of the vagabond aristocrat—aristocrat by birth, vagabond by sheer force of circ nnstauces —Captain Horatio Paget, a character admirably well describ3d. He is another of the Birds of Prey—the two hungriest and most ravening vultures among which brood are the Sheldon Brothers : George Sheldon, the attorney, and immeasurably worse than him—for George has several redeeming traits, and, iu fact, for him (George) we have all through both tales a sort of sneaking liking—im measurably worse than the worst of the other characters introduced into the whole narrative— Philip Sheldon, the surgeon dentist, afterwards the stockbroker, and in both characters the cruel, piti less, infernal poisoner. Philip Sheldon is the evil genius of the whole six volumes. In " Birds of Prey" he succeeds in poisoning poor guileless rem Halliday. In " Charlotte's Inheritance" he ►ll but succeeds in poisoning Tom Halliday's laughter, pretty, innocent, childlike Charlotte, then the betrothed of Valentine Hawkehurst. In the battle for life between these two, between Philip Sheldon and Valentine Hawkehurst, the interest of ,he whole enthralling narrative reaches its cli max. At this supreme point of the interest of the story we cannot resist the inclination to give the following passage, descriptive of ono of the most charming incidents in the tale : " Di has been reading the "Bride of Lammermoor" to me,' Charlotte says faintly, 'all this morning; but the pain and weariness I feel seemed to bo entangled with Lucy and Elgar, somehow, and the dear book gave me no pleasure.' "' My darling,' replies Valentine, ' you—you are _to 0 weak - to listen to Diana's reading.' _ _ " }Li had placed himself before her chair, and was bend ing over the pillows to speak to her. Just now ho felt himself unequal to the command of his countenance: Ho bent his head until his lips touched the soft brown hair, and kissed those loose tresses passionately. The thought occurred to him that a time might come when he should tgain kiss that soft brown hair with a deeper passion and 1, sharper pain, and when Charlotte would not know of his kisses or pity his pain. "' 0 Valentine,' cried Charlotte, you are crying—l can see your face in the glass.' " He had forgotten the glass—the little rococo mirror, with an eagle hovering over the top of the frame—which hung above the old-fashioned chiffonier. " 'I am not so very ill, dear—l am not, indeed,' con tinued the girl, taming in her chair, with an effort, and clasping her lover's hands. ' You mast distress yourself like this, valentine—dear Valentine ! I shall be bettor by and by. I cannot think that 1 shall be taken from you. " He had broken down altogether by this time." Particularly enthralling is the story immediately afterwards when Valentine hurries up to London from the neighbourhood of St. Leonard's, where he has left his beloved apparently fading rapidly out of existence, and contrives to summon to her aid, and to his own by consequence, the young surgeon Burkham and the famous physician Dr. Jedd• Then it is that one after another there follows a series of surprises, beginning with the sudden return of the poisoner with his family, and chief among the group, of course, his intended victim, to the su burban villa of The Lawn at Bayswater—and end ing with the greatest surprise of all in the whole six volumes, namely, that caused by Old NancY Woolper's almost distinct announcement of Char lotte's death to Philip Sheldon, the murderous Poi soner. At the heart of the whole plot lies the endeavour to secure to the rightful heir, w hoever he or she may be, the heritage of the llitygarth Pro perty, consisting of a hundred thousand pounds. Charlotte is supposed by the Sheldons, and also hi Valentine Hawkehurst, to be the rightful claima nt to that property—the result proving, however, that the true heir is the betrothed, and eventually the husband, of Diana Paget—namely, that fine speci men of a chivalrous French gentleman, Gustave Lenoble of COtenoir and Beaubocage. All this portion of the story relating to the Lenobles--- 31 3 ? , L t begins only with the commencemen t of " Ch 0 _ lotte's Inheritance"—is charming. Several other characters not yet mentioned arc intro due ; into the narrative with considerable effect— ucli example Hallida3 poor To Sheldon wretch Namely her to I] to some gessed forcep s 1 assumed ill-gotte When th that he we hav diabolict daug,hte mother'E has con pounds. gether i the s ill Which We lei dernonst tem p t gradual disentat direct t new fict band to sorbing Ilim Ur Audi e f Doctor', to whit] " Birds itto rtl. e by Prir Her dr ove c Th e Keppel bake ai BARER This recover Wester husba n resultir sequen, guard Violent came j The Plea tb copt c °rlapai t ceased sure at r e i ativ , Mr. appea r I3allan counse The tioned Thee itnputf racter chief e corres] Part. On on the to t ent be en I)ania, (tefor Thil Pldici ; tiv e e, tio ne , show ! altho l prese, , 41/ , ' -_ testi,