The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-28 00:00:00

!YCEUM THEATRE.—Under the Dole manage- Guy DevereU. By J. S. Ls Warm In three volume*. TSB GALS&
.1.4 meet of Mr. micavira.—Thte Theatre vrM OtIN for the London : Richard Bentley. 18f15.
wean on MONDAY, Nov. ft —Ths performance wth commencis Th. eof biz sheridaw Le Faww eirewily PORTSMOUTH. FRIDAY.
ANDclock with a Drama, in Ons Act, entitled THE VISTERAN I
HIS PROGENY. eternise tweets, wr. wadieessla familiar to the public ea that of a most promising no- dales have prevailed in this neighbourhood
linhatticitt iftVieckgrNvqlDArrneentlittrilejnsl WATCH
- het ; sad we do not hesitate to redact that it will ; due* the prat few days from the sontb-west, and •
tar. A.
Ray by Messrs. M. Middloombe. 8. User,. C. HOMO- become better known stilL " Guy Deverell," is ; summows drat of merelmat wink have feted she
eta
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was, A. Raymond. 8. Vitmeteck, end Wm Elawortliaeox I thoroughly modern novel, but free from the faults Wide We Isle at Wield. Ammo mak at anchor os
miss open Saiky tier II IM L—Aeting Manager, MLR. of which modern fiction so commonly is guilty. The Reilaselmak, lie the Maaborstegh. Ceftlila Portions. frau
rrag OXFORD.—A NEW CANTATA by ! most striking characteristic of our best present Leaden to Oskatta ; the Eamosass. Captain Buster, free
MIYIOOIIIIM rend time of performance ht ! novels, compared with the masterpieces of former Shields to Alexandria • the Omar Praha, Captain Ander-
erad lIIETYAGI, by J. oweeees. by the whole ot the days, is the more careful elaboration of the plot. son, from Shields to Ainzandria ; the Ditto, Captain Disney,
mucosa of the establishment ; cannoned by lir.
The nunsanan brothers and enter, RivulfY. • MU1.7 *
ebe hollow There are published every year numbers of stories from Leedom to Bahia ; the Pols% Captain Millard. from
of introducing their nattorrat entertainment, the *Wad &say, I oonstructed with considerable cleverness, but which , Leaden to Jamaica. A lip D• rib East Indium' has
in which else Mime, Tray and Pars Gunnies will aPPsat ; I can never attain any high rank, through the want of she Weight up macabre!, as well as ea Austrian and as
other/ novelties. THIB NNW LNG.
And as the greatest novelists of the day are also
the most careful in working out the plot, their
swoons is put down to this alone, and their fol-
lowers foe the most pert devote themselves solely to
the teak of elaborating the mechanism of their
stories. The natural consequence, of course, is that
the critics, missing the exhibition of human cha-
racter for which they justly look in • novel, are
disposed to undervalue that artistic treatment of
the plot which surely ought to be considered
an sweetiel ingredient in a good work of fiction.
What should he the aim of a novelist is to oombine
• well-oonneoted story with a truthful picture of
human nature; and the difficulty which he has
to encounter is to show event producing event, and
effort arising out of awes, without representing his
characters as mere puppets in • chain of destiny. It
is because Mr. Le Yalu makes this his aim, and
shows himself conscious of this difficulty, that we
can so warmly commend his book, and foresee
further success in store for him, still• mote than
because his execution is skilful and ar-
tistic. A great cause of the conventionality
of the characters in so much modern
fiction is probably to be looked for in the fact that
there is now but a astral field from which they can
be drawn. It will, we think, be long before his-
torical novels again become popular. And the
reason of this dose not lie in the want of met
qualified to write them with accuracy and vivid-
ness, but in the circumstance that the mine has
been worked out. There is a certain amount of
mannerism inseparable from the representation of
each age, which very speedily palls upon the ordinary
novel reader. As might have been expected, the
days of chivalry have supplied the favourite e
of poch
histoeical fiction, and here it is that this fault
is moat offensive. We are tired out with reading
of gallant knights, who were constantly saying,"
" Gramercy f" who called a dependent " Sir knave,
and who talked about "shrewd knocks." Theodore
remark applies, though in • lam degree, to moat
other periods of history. We are disposed, then,
to think the present tendency to take the scene
and characters of • novel from our own days is a
good one, and are ready to make allowances for
the want oftrariety naturally arising from mate-
rials thus limited. One of the results of this
tendency is the freer ass &ad greater promi-
nenoe of legal proceedings in modern novels. It is
obvious that the law now plays a much greeter part
in human life than in former ages, and is employed
where once the appeal4weuld have been to actual
violence. Accordingly its existence cannot always
be ignored by a tale of modern times, and the art of
the author most then be exerted to make its pre-
sence add to the effect of the story. Soott was, we
think, the first who employed this machinery in his
romances ; but all novel readers will be familiar with
numerous instances of late in which the tale owes
its chief interest to this scores. Mr. Le Fenn has
resorted to it with skill, and has taken advantage
of this substitution of finesse for fora to present us
with one of those analyses of character and of the
action of conflicting motives, in which, more than
in anything elm, it novelist shows his real
The character of Varbarriere is snob a stn yd
though it appears:to us somewhat forced, it is cer-
tainly vigorous and consistent. That a man who had
cherished all his fifes thirst for vengeance should half
relent when it was in his power, and finally execute
it, merely owing to his vanity being accidentally
piqued, is perfectly true to nature, and is told by
Mr.
_Le Fenn in a very animated style. The effect
of Varbarriares determination in the discovery by
General Lennox of the guilt. of his wife gives rise
to the most vivid chapter in the book ; which its
readers, we think, will agree with us in pronounc-
ing one of the most powerful descriptions ever writ-
ten. Lady Jane Lennox is an interesting character,
and the women generally have life and individuality,
with the exception of the heroine, who is as pretty
and tame as usual, and wisely enough is rarely
brought prominently forward. In the gentlemen
of the story Mr. Le Farm is unequal. Besides
Varberriere, General Lennox is well drawn, and
the author has succeeded in shedding sentiment,
where it is often most touching, on a man naturally
unromantic and almost oommon-place. There is a
ghastly sort of grotesqueness in the old man's agony
of feeling that, lends it an additional pathos.
But in the character of Sir Jekyl Marlowe we do
not recognise the same hand. BeMdes his other
bad qualities there is a vulgwity about the man
which makes it difficult to believe that he could
have excited much passion in Lady Jane. Certainly
his death, which aroatfrom his own endurance to
avoid an exposure, gives him a certain dignity of
which be was quite destitute during his life. But
for this his mind is too trivial to be interesting.
Without entering into further detail we may eddy
pronounce "Guy Deverell " to be an excellent
noveL The plot is good, and the characters are
well brought out, but in our opinion Mr. Le Fenn
has especially snooesded in the vividness of his
scenes.

Descriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to the
History of Great Britain and Ireland, to the end
of the Be le of Hewn VII. By Tnoitso DUFFUS
SAUD; Deputy Keeper of the Public Records.
Published by the authority of the Lords Com-
missioners of her Majesty's TressurT, under the
direction of the Master of the Rolla. VoL IL
from A.D. 1066 to A.D. 1200. Lovgmana, 1865.
"In this volume," says Mr. Hardy, " I have
brought down my description of the manuscripts re-
lating to the early -history of Great Britain
from the date of the Norman invasion to the
elcoe of the twelfth century ;" and the period
thus embraced by his valuable and laborious
researches is one of the mast important,
though perhaps one of the least understood,
in all English history. We axe, therefore, the more
thankful for the wealth and variety of materials for
its exposition which this volume has thus in greater
part exhumed for us. As Mr. Hardy reminds
us, though we have indeed " bibliographical dio-
tionaries like Tanner's of inestimable value," and
" short and imperfect lists of English authors,
aiming at no more than a popular and not always a
very accurate summary of the subject," certainly
"no attempt has been made before to place in
the hands of the reader a descriptive catalogue of
the materials of English history in which' they
" should nos only be arranged from the earliest
period in chronological order, but the manuscript
authorities for them in all countries in the world
be accurately described, their place and age mom,
tallied, and their authenticity and different degrees
of credibility determined."
Speaking of the period over which his present
volume extends, Mr. Hardy says that
It ie separated horn that which pre odes and from that
which follows it by very clear and distioet landmarks. It
is, in many of in aspects, as far opposed to the erhelealle
no whisk suoscedsd it Es it is to the pure hoglo-Sanea
period by which it cram preceded. The literature of this
country, commencing with the date of the Boman Ora-
quiet sod audio( with the reign of Richard L, may be
justly considered as purely historical, in aompuwon whit
sty oitssrocriod included in the middle iglu Sainte'
lives, and unmake, of which I spoke is the praises
to my fist volume, sew beams* comparatively rue ; sad
if they do not disappear altogether before the ]sawing
histories] okra of the see, they cease to be the exclusive
amass at informative for the historical inquirer. Lad as
the obscure mists of the legendar7 picks/ disslinstu sad She
steady light of hots dawns upos MB grata rewer, so is
the artlms, sosystematis, sad sometimes ill-imaged end
mutatedg narrative, sad dirosicles of the eleveuth aad
following century, we seem to trace an era of intellestual
when the mind of Europe had sot yet bees trained
the scols, and the great quinces which agitated
mankind hod sot yet bees submitted to need sealysis
sad sereagaccost. faculty of wonder ad its attend-
ant bane a ineggeoadea, metinal te safety sage la the
mama HIM and Its wavering from tartest= to Ohria
nanny gave way Mime the steadier obeervame fags
forced 'lmes men by their shared position, by their sew
relatioes to the °consent, by the active duties and out-
door life imposed upoa them by the exigencies and descends
of fel
udalism. But obasevatios row fee the premet to se
higher grade than le isaarelul mileotios of hien:lanai fade
and documents, and was itself to give place, in its turn, to
the new habits of generstiestion end deduction which
inivatiou itself Whelped to endue. The era, therefor%
embraced is this volume is complete and dirtied in itself,
and well worthy to be studied as such.
It would be foreign to the purpose
of this brief
notice to attempt to follow 111 r. Hardy into his
elaborate discussion of the cams which imparted
so marked characteristic to the literature of this
period. Suffice it to say, that it will amply repay the
reader's perusal. Much of what Mr. Hardy says,
to us at least is almost new, and all that be ad-
vanoes is suggestive in a very high degree. Were it
merely for theprefaosalone, we should welcome this
volume as a very valuable addition to the historical
literature of our country.
We deep]) regret to find there is reason to appre-
hend that Mr. Hardy's labours in this hitherto
almost untrodden field of inquiry will now termi-
nate. He says :
By experiment has been • solitary one, and I reillitittcl
say as laboeious ea it is solitary.l have had to
not only spinet my own mistakes and &Mendes, hut
against the mistakes and misrepresentettoos of Awe. An
error in • figure, • hasty asseetioe, an impede* sad erro-
neous description, have sent me MOM than ogee
ousted
&WILY. Shakes wellomartained oonoludom, ead
samples and heastiens which have occupied me home sad
days to clear sp. lam not aware that I ham in any %-
stance consciously shrunk from the toil required for user
veiling such ewe% or deoliged the labiaassumes, fee
verifyies feels and referewes, Wrigley Dever when I had
reason to think that error existed. Bat my time is limited ;
the task is surrounded with difficulties demandhig yams
and more energetic though certainly sot more hands
than mine; sad fader the lippiehension that it is better
for me to submit to my feeders so much of my work as I
have bees side to finish, rather thee defer it Mdetinitely cam
welt foe the sompletion of what remains, I have resolved
to briag down my labours to • manageable and definite ps-
tied sad scram% them to the press. I bum sketched the
; others Malaria admatawa and more leisure them I
IMO will doubtlessly contribute to all it up.
Onr rt at this more thin possible termination
of Mr. &rdy's labours is none the less because we
are retested on more then ate page of this volume
to further information promised, by that gentlemen
himself, m fathoming in • future one. At page
629, •g of one MS. of the " Anaaleispe
I Oa& lissoisim, 'Daimons et NW-
manserum" whit is in the Cothonian Collection
at the British Museum, Mr. Hardy promises to
notice another, ulna is also in the same adhesion,
"under the year 1308." So also, p. 537, when
giving an account of Oervase's Chronicle, which is
alry printed in Twysden's "Deem Saiptores,"
be concludes the article by saying, "See further
under the year 1316." And again, p. 541, speaking
of • MB. of the Chronicle of Ralph of Coggeshall,
which is in the Imperial Library at Paris,
and which was printed a Paris in 1729, having ob-
served of ft, "This is the first portion of Ralph of
all's work, and is a duplicate of the Cotton
Ur!! which, by the way, we have no notice what-
ever hi this volume), he adds, "A description of
the whole will be found under s year 1214." We
are encouraged, however, by these references to
hope that at least a portion of another volume is
already prepared, and that we shall not, therefore,
finally part with Mr. Hardy just yet. Surely, if be
should feel himself compelled to relinquish the
labour which he has so happily commenced, some
one will be immediately selected to complete it at
the earliest possible date. We regard Mr.
Hardy and Mr. Brewer's volumes as in some, if
not in all, respects the most valuable that her Ma-
jesty's commissioners have vet issued, and venture
to express an earnest hope that what these two pin-
tlemen have so ably accomplished for the periods
which they have respectively undertaken, may,
without delay, be undertaken by others also for the
interval. A chief obstacle in the way of the inde-
pendent historical student hitherto has been, his
almost ignorance of what his accessible materials
were, and where they were to be consulted. Such
volumes as this supply that great 'deficiency. ; and
their value to anyone that is resolved opal inquir-
ing for himself into the facts of our history is hardly
to be ova-estimated.

ANOTIiEB ACCIDENT
CHANN TO A MAIL PACKET IN
TILE EL.
That immunity from accidents which has hitherto
distinguished the wall appointed steamboats plying between
Weyrowei and lie Cbaaoel Wends was braise yesterday
LeyL isiorsieg. The sail packpelvagna.us isgartaia
to the heavy weather WaY.
O-soa at s.us. yesterday =genie( with pawesgers ead
mails for Jamey aid Gummy. AU ntooesd•ff
well until the deamer arrived about 35 miles
off Porttind, when a see bore downaad
,
streak her ea the s thowd qaarter' smashing is sa
Icossiderable portion of beg bulwarks, and throwing ou
her poop duet toes of water, sweeping down the
lobes' seats mod daturas, in Ebert, making • dean breach.
The skylights were forced Is, and volumes of water de-
srended We Ms principal edema, tinjaring the recherchi
fitesp of test apsrtment The quarter boat was alas
damaged. said the shlp's esspeater was struck doers with the
' force of the see, sad in Ilia fall rewired a cut OM 0110 of his
1 eyes. The caplets deemed ft widest to return to Wry.
sass* which be raided at 11 Aka. The weethes
\ demannslottaladst bort.=
sandaled
dbeenittb • ter
rb rilisitbracin
i pot la far shelter. So Wong isdeed IPSO the idea oe Tate-
, day, the it took • flat roof ooesisting of a toe sad a half al
, , sliest lied off • hoar in course of erection it Portland.

Tess Soma Courrs.—On Wednesday a violent
from northward visited the east coast of Sootland—
ospeelally felt in thii Firth, sad about Dauber
eel end • somber et to @hippies inse
consequesee to tie deplored. • deep beloogiag to in
was deerlid in Wes Bay, Sad, in spite of earnest
=atsoreem ler avow ware drowsed Sy the eposeties
boot. almost within ma ad Abe disbursed
lON. At liesdaff, a wheat -laden brig, bound for Lehr
totally lost, the mew, however, emaphor to the shore : at
Estater • deep same an the reeks OM tie harbour, end is
expected to be • total weak ; and from Froewbersh sad
Eyemouth we have reports of danger and damage to the
1 fishing testa weed in the etena.-Bcorsoma.

81711.01 CAL MD SoCIITY.--The annual m •:•rf
this society, which supplies spinal appliances,
shade stockings, tram aad ever, Gabor deossi;
mechanical support, gratcdtooely to the afflistalpear,
wr
bald yeaterdoy anal= at doe Maosiouhea. TIM Lord
presidod, and la under tke, precede, add be
had gas the use order Massicuthere to the misty at
the recast of Aidersa Abbba, bet at the sane time be
• bad ails ao pertioulor throodry se te the nature of da;
carious.carious.He lad siaos, however, bused what sees
b
ane bp tie 5511517. awl it afforded Man mach plane
prude as that cousiee. He bets, doubt that the pubHe
would appreciate the charity and give it the support to
which it was entitled. The sectrary them reed the third
am=which slated that the supwasivethe ehanatts of
appliances *direly promoted poor boon
• them, and, se a courqunee. numbers were
y dependent on dais binds sod the
supplgoa
,d
sad oars wen totally theapacilatei from par-
rain their y labour, who, by the yof the
amble instrucentdail might he reamed copabk
T:s
Of
cm their thentoos for the necommise of life. el=
a
the society afforded the requisite saistanos, and there
being so other isstitation through which the appliances
could be obtonsed,. the applications far relief from the
fret had been fare.s sass of the buds at the &pal
, of the caromitte The cues Whored bed banded
Baleen I. moat of the coranthe d Inglead, very
from the &Aliens& andadwabothitab al lair-
which, as they did not give asbestos' apphanose,
I Uieoommended their patient' to the misty for
Daring the put yeas the moiety bed misted war id-
fang from the followw Gauss vis. :—Beigaik ; mixt
119 ; prolepeas, 11 ; emisal weeklies& /7 ; Mesas or
arm, 2 ; dhows and ourvalute of gib" 1a744.
gle:.!
dielso a lee.
4 ; weak knees, 13 ; week ;
7 ; other dean. 11. Of the told number ware men.
ISt women and 36 ebildres. Daring the sbort pad of
the society'se ilea., 263 met, NO noose, end 91 al.
dies had been relieved by the pisky do• following
eppli :—Elestie stockings, as
ockings, bike ape, ter, 264;
tram sad bandages, 344 ; legs, leg
Jarman* 14; spinal inoneasols, 26 ; inikat
arms, be. 3 ; respirator; and sundry appliances.
29 ; total, 702. Many of the snide is the list, such me
the goal iuvizamente, meld set have boss purdneed.un.
der 41. or 61., while thho •1111114 of the artilkial lap given
was not lees thin SOL in each CAM. Aldermen Abbies mond
the adoptios the report and ensorial ea semen which
was coo dad by Alderman Stone and nalimout/ WWI
to. A rots of shanks was passed to Mr. On , the essuter,
to isdektigable mania is the intones of the so-.
att. Kr. Oray, sa returning thanks, acknowledged the
receipt of donations Lmouoting in the aggregate to 1604 odd,
including ten guineas from the Lord Mayor. Adarmaa
Abbess, Alderman etas, sod other atlases promised
al
annual subscriptions of two gneas each. A cordial vote
Mak to the Led Mayor ~uilode& tho

A var.:Brox CAM IN IMMIX LUZ
The lest cue tried et the Dublin Commission
Coat es Thursday was a promedien for bigamy, in which
Thome Feensa yes thei trith Wang, is April bet.
contracted media with Cetherbe Olirtes, although be
bed bac, was years ereviostly, manful to another
mass, who is min aim. Met O'lltise is • Reuse
etthot? and the manias between her end the primmer
was mined in Wettliod-row Resew esthelic eauch.
ia db. The Meese art up was thet the pd.
soots wee • protabot. sed therekee the swasie.
babe only bees solemskod by BAUM Whelks
ft.m. Isaac* we that the prboserPrisht
‘erlsrmsers hem • peeteasst. but Ada wore that he had
frequeelly told bar he was • Roam Whelks. and that he
Mod with la to chapel ths eight beton the corernoey.
Owned for the eresesoties quoted • resat authority to
show timid. gad Less held in aegrw that the set referred
to was no &deem teasel a iedletesset for bigamy if the
way ehergied bad, on tea. d the by the
Boma adobe eime devistet hinted a Hessen
bead*
'pot?Keogh, In dellvsebg lb charge, mid he had er-
asure weld he a esd a eases of that kind in this
oesznmead that the law weld art have bee left in she
state In +Whites& It Met; equation in which
Beat alp sloes west istmbat the Nato the
t wife, sad the swag at begs wore Oterested
ritilslty, the whole waft el society we involved is
it ; for whet social stags mall east wldiet the laws had
rib!
Thissar:rrost to parties he teb
was.
that rtiithea meet inotileedi
lime to bs • protested thin twelve mouths ere nor-
doge with • Rabe esthalle, If that OHM/0 vas perform&
!lit sad inv
1.11 fife itil usdereitilriaet
any osier eo wiry Zorn. wr a
t. I bad rrtme
weed. a:oept r.
legited. be believed these who betel Ida woad to dis-
posed to doubt there we seek an sot of parliament he
-oddness. 1% was van to may to the people of this
swentey that Gado& and preledieds ought te bit sated
while that law rushed is the satubbook. It wet
to the vary root of teddy. livery away was
Asteesead in the mambo aresseny beteg held in tee
'-ipriireopseS:=l 2111
trolveda °girt% that ad
• It baba mhee
:rat tbre4o,nehisete. and Atot
,azial the bard sod eats math west
between all deem made is that mostrs.
judge, after sunneteg
_up the widow fa be
awe. sod dating Isis *dubs that if • OM MOM heis end
• protestant. it weld amdze stew edema deli-
silos lis pod te te•selendes himself, asked
tirmisry'esbethar they Wirral the allow bad debts,-
tame °Lass soothe beim the sewed memiers,
seta to he • 12
the 12
t.
•Thisteteromesswered, by their foreman, that they believed
do was • peoftening protestant atlas
Kb kaship then asked them it they believed the pti.
sear had held himself ant to the elsegymea to be a Rome.
Wends et the dm of the marriage.
Tie re Ito this (medico in the ellonstia.
Bit thee, ea the authority of the use is 9 Car.
degas and yet. dieered to by Ms. Webb, told the
lesy they ought to led the prisoner guilty at bigamy.
M-- Mr. Curren bedew! an Ereeptios SO the direction of the
ledge, end it was resceded.
-Thie foram of the Jury then sigma the issue toper, fin
be the primmer guilty.
. -Asko Kiosk, is babe
_sesteites, said Its believed the
paws' bad wilfully 'sanded le bake mieseams of the Ad
el redemsest to escape the pensides of 'gamy on the os
asfte the mooed mama" bade( sal al the invalidity
of era amities. The memo) if the wart was that be
be kept la penal servitude foe live yeas.

-Ai I

Tan Car= PLsorra zn OArrastaanamut —Ws
regret to ante that the cattle plague Ina broken oat ea the
fans of Mc Osadabild, at ',adhere, neer Norma* It
yarn that some weeks mina Mr. Gadebild •arokaned
sone Wham abieh had come fain Bar, Edemas.
and Wit* taken to his farm at Perdham, Cambs.,
and enhaqamtly name of rhea oenternel M the tern
of a relative at Free:anima, an adioiales vltlsgv.
Suffolk. Both lota have bon athiceed hl lisepaittoe
and saws' bare died or beat destroad, • Poetess
of oacnisoal were wad down to reeetesrket, ay.?, dor
1-eing idled, given to some'doge c. lir. BA, nat.% tv.waa,
as of which, s !Orkney, dial si t-r. a very shoot ?Item Is
ithis saw it does Not appear that then was in, anon: ice ;
, and yet to tanstrap beads sa to a fain cohost qua-
rib*" *peen to be shoat sa seta[ readviar. At
j intha We of Sly, the dhows etUl roses ; .sted.it,bea
brain oat st Whitt!esey, among tho stook
it lido"'
Groueds. Is Bedfordshire *still exists at • • : \
then lava .sots ores at lAdllagtos— • •-•
indepstidat .
w, tj.-:
. .
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