The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-25 00:00:00

damages.

FRANCE.

BoußsE, March 24.—The market still remains
in the same undecided state, speculators being averse
to enter on any material operations with the end of
the month so closely approaching. A reduction of
the rate of discount by the Bank of France has
produced no effect on the market. Threes, for the
Account, are unvaried at 66f. 10e. Mobilier have
receded to 1,050 f. Railway Market quiet, but firm,
The market closed as follows :-
41 per Cents .. 93 10
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month C6 05
Credit Mobilier 1057 50
Do. end month 1053 75
Bank Shares 3300
Credit Fonder I2SO
Roman
RAIL

Italian Loan 67 85
Do. end month 67 85
New ditto
Do. end month,...
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes.. 51 75
Rome Pebt
Deferred
IrAYES.

OrleanB
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 940 938 75
New ditto BB7 50 .. 890

Cash. Account.
1003 75 .. 1003 75
960

Southern
Western
Eastern

Sardinian . 372 50
Austrian
LOU' bard
North of Spain
Saragossa ..
Ditto to Barcelona 280

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW ON EASTER MON.
DlN.—The Messrs. D.ry have just published a st etch map,
which very clearly points out rho respective positions the
Volunteers •ill occupy at the forthcoming review near
Guildford.

Mr. Sothern will shortly attempt an impErsona-
lion of Mr. David Garrick, in a three-act piece, which has
been written expressly for him.

CARRYING GERMAN CIVILISATION INTO DEN-
MARK.—A firm in this city has received the follow-
ing communication from friends in Jutland :—Until Mon-
day the 14th inst. the Germans ordered quarters in Aarhuus
for 4,000 men. They have made requisition for 5,000 oxen
and 2,500 horses, and behave all over in the most reckless
and brutal manner. The little town of Veile, where else
peace and happiness has reigned, has suffered dreadfully in
the short time the enemy has occupied it, and looks as if it

had been given to plunder and spoil. The most scandalous
part of all is the shameful manner in which the clergymen,
physicians, and other professional gentlemen are dragged
away from their studies, patients, and families, in common
with others of the labouring classes, as prisoners, then sent
on foot to work like galley slaves on the fortifications and
batteries against Fredericia and Dybbol. Men who have
not been brought up to manual labour aro forced to execute
certain amount of work in the trenches—those who are
either weak or unable to get through the allotted task
during the day are compelled to work through the night.

If the German army had to contend against superior num-
bers there might be some excuse in such a manner of carry-
ing but as everybody knows that the contrary is the case,
these measures sound very badly as the side of the charge
made by Austria and Prussia against the Danish Govern•
ment of the want of conciliatory spirit in which it acts in
the war. It is also a curious illustration of that high de-
gree of civilisation which the Germans pride themselves on
having attained,

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LADY.—At the
Brighton Borough Police-cpurt on Wednesday,
Margaret Grant, a fashionably-dressed middle-aged person,
the widow of the late Major Grant, who was killed during
the Indian mutiny, was charged with setting fire to the
house, occupied by her, at 12, Chesham-place, Kemptown,
Brighton. It appeared that the prisoner hired the house
in question of a Mr. Field, on a lease of two years, and had
occupied it about eight months. A short time ago she
insured her furniture in the Atlas Fire Insurance Office for
£5OO, and Mr. Field insured the house for £250. On
Friday Mrs. Grant left the house to go into apartments in
another part of the town, in company with her servant, and
when a considerable distance from the house she said she
had left her purse behind, and went back to fetch it.
Shortly after she left the house the second time the premises
were discovered to be on fire. With considerable difficulty
the Brighton Fire Brigade succeeded in extinguishing the
flames, and on searching the premises a quantity of half
burnt matches were found mixed up with paper in a chest
of drawers where linen was kept. In another room a bed
and bedstead were found to be on fire, with a lighted
candle beneath ; and in a third place a fire had been
kindled with lamp spirit in a cupboard. Altogether the
house had been fired in no less than eight distinct places.
The servant deposed that all was perfectly safe when she
left the house, and that to her knowledge there were only
two or three matches on the premises.
The prisoner, who
protested tha; she was innocent, was remands , bail being
accepted, herself in £5OO and two sureties in £5O each.
A HINT TO GARIBALDI._There is one other word
of warning needful. We have said that we do not
know what his object in visiting England at the present
moment may be. Very likely it may be harmless enough.
There is no reason why Garibaldi should not make a tour
of pleasure in England as well as any other personage,
distinguished or obscure. But, when men like him travel,
they are usually supposed to have an object beyond that of
mere pleasure or personal gratification, and it is possible
that he hopes, by his presence and influence in England,
to obtain sympathy and assistance for some new military
campaign, Such a project is, we believe, attributed to
him by the more extreme class of foreign refugees
who find a shelter here. if he do entertain any
project of that nature it would be true kindness
to disabuse him of it at once, In such a mission
he will utterly fail. No doubt his plans, whatever they
may be, will elicit abundance of enthusiasm. Shouting
there will be in plenty ; sympathy and prophecies of suc-
cess he may have to any amount; but if it is to come to
bona fide subscriptions he will find nothing but disappointed
hopes and an empty treasury. We would counsel him to
take warning by the fate of a distinguished predecessor of
his, who came here on the same errand. Enthusiastic as we
are sure his reception will be, he can hardly hope that it
will surpass in depth and -universality the welcome that
was accorded to Kossuth. Arriving a stranger upon our
shores, the distinguished leader of the Hungarian insur •
rection was soon surrounded and monopolised by the
chiefs of the extreme factiens then existing in the coun-
try, was mad© to participate in all their opinions, and to
forward by his eloquence their plans. For a time his popu-
larity was unbounded; and it might well appear to him,
stranger as he was to our factions and the habits of our
countrymen, that so much shouting and huzzaing, must
necessarily issue in some solid or substantial benefit to his
country. How miserably these hopes were disappointed we
all know. We perceive that the same parties are again at
work, and if they are allowed to have their way Garibaldi
will go the same round of hollow delusion that was the fate
of Kossuth. The friends of the Italian ought to warn him
of the rock on which the Hungarian was shipwucked.—
Aloritfm ,LGrakl.

LITERATURE,

Gleig's Life of the Duke of Wellington. The
People's Edition. One vol. Pp. 496. Long-
man and Co.
In the Popular Edition here given to the world
of this celebrated Biography, the author's master-
piece not only appears at its very best, but thereby
folly justifies its claim to be regarded as a master-
piece. It assumes its place at once and for ever in
the People's Library—among the very pick of the
choicest biographies of those greatnational worthies
whose names are especially honoured by reflective
and patriotic Englishmen. It occupies a position
henceforth upon the same shelf already adorned
with " Southey's Life of Nelson," with " Carlyle's
Life of Cromwell," with " Alison's Life of Marl-
borough." It represents and pourtrays, for us and
for our posterity, as nearly as possible, as he was, the
greatest soldier England has ever had to lead her
armies to victory ! As conspicuously, Ess undeniably
her greatest Land Captain asNelson was her greatest
Sea Captain. Every biographer, we take it, must
more or less be infected by what Lord Macanlay
significantly termed the lues Boswelliana. It is,
in truth only in the nature of things that it
should be so. The selection of the hero of any
biography by his biographer implies upon
the very face of it, to begin with, a distinct
sympathy for that hero on the part of the writer,
who, out of his own free will, has gone out
of his way thus to commemorate that hero's
career and character, It indicates the very
fact of this selection a preconceived admira-
tion. The admiration, in effect, is frankly
avowed by the biographer in the very an-
nouncement of the chosen hero's name upon his
titleapage. The reader is therefore, in the matter,
in no way whatever deceived or hoodwinked. He
knows full well and for an absolute certainty that in
the rolling towards its appointed goal—(" the paths
of glory" leading, as Gray sings, "but to the grave")
—of the "golden bowl," that in each instance has
in the end to be " broken" and tossed into the tomb
—the reader we say, knows fall well,from the outset
that in the rolling of it towards its appointed goal a
bias is necessarily, is inevitably imparted to it by
the hand of the biographer. The which bias, con-
sequently, while reading any given biography, we
take just simply for granted. We accept the food
that is given us, thankfully, for such as it is—tak-
ing it of course cum grano sails. We reasonably
make allowances for that partiality to which parti-
ality alone indeed we are, for that matter, indebted
for so much toil being undertaken by the biographer
in the accumulation and symmetriccal ordering and
painstaking collation and analysis of his facts. But
for the partiality colouring it throughout, we should
not have the biography at all. Thanks to that
partiality, we are provided with the biography. But
for the partiality we should be without the bio-
graphy. The intending biographer having already
in his heart an admiration for some dead and gone
fellow-mortal, feels that same admiration glowing
so intensely within him that he conceives
to himself the notion of celebrating the life
of the man he thus ardently admires and
honours. He undertakes the project. He enters
deliberately spa its accomplishment. L'appetit
vient en mangeant. Contemplation, research, in-
vestigation, reveal other hitherto unperceived ex-
cellences in the Life thus undertaken to be recounted.
The admiration grows, expanls, deepens in fer-
vour, or (shall we not rather be fain to believe
this in regard to our fellow - mortals)
becomes justified upon maturer consideration—
certainly becomes more thoroughly thought-out
and more undeniably conscientious. As the old
Pagans were wont to say—we take the gifts the
gods have given us : knowing well, while we do so,
that there is inevitably an all-pervading sweetness
in the very nature of ambrosia. Biographers,
we repeat it, then, needs must have—
some more, some less—the touch of the lues
Boswelliana. Lord Macaulay bad it himself
whenever he undertook the office of a biographer.
He evidences it even in his History—the staple of
which might more reasonably be called not a His-
tory of England, but a " History of William III."
And his hero therein—is he not a Hero to Lord
Macaulay ? A Hero P A hook-nosed Demigod !
The which whimsical designation comes to us, now,
however, as a sudden reminder of this very beauti-
ful popular edition of the admirable biography here
immediately before us. For is not this hero, in truth,
another hookednose demigod ? There was a quaint,
odd, fantastic saying, once uttered by the
Emperor Napoleon the Great—who was often,
it will be remembered, both wise and witty
in his many terse and homely Sayings—instance,
for that matter, his "Wash your dirty linen
at home," or, again, " There is but one step from the
sublime to the ridiculous :"—the Emperor Napoleon
the Great, speaking as a physiognomist, once strik-
ingly observed, "Give me a man with plenty of
nose !" Even so —" Give me a man with
plenty of nose !" quoth Napoleon the Great, speak-
ing as a sagacious physiognomist. And, certainly,
it will be admitted that at the climax of his own
career he had his wish perfectly realised—he had
a man confronting him with plenty of nose !
Only—unfortunately for Napoleon—this man
with plenty of nose (that he had been longing
for) had just, shall we say, a little too much of it !
Lord Byron—although not aware at the time of
Napoleon's eccentric saying—Lord Byron, shortly
after Waterloo, seems instinctively to have recoga
nised the importance of the conspicaous feature in
the countenance of the conqueror (we are almost
tempted to italicise the word as conqueror), where
(it is in his " Age of Bronze") he speaks of Wel-
lington as one with—
" Nasal beak whence he suspends the world."
Among all our great public men, our historical
characters, our national worthies in short, to use
again the good old saxon word—among all our
English Worthies, perhaps there is not one who is
so completely individualised, who is so com-
pletely realised in his personality as is the Duke
of Wellington. the Iron Duke, emphatically the
Doke. And among all the biographies of him that
have been published, this life of him by the Army
Chaplain helps us, more than any other memoir,
thoroughly, and completely, and most distinctly to
realise him, to appreciate the man just as nearly as
possible as ho exactly was. We are perfectly
conscious while saying this that any elaborate
criticism upon Mr. Gleig's biography of the Duke of
Wellington, as such (that is as a carefully and
elaborately built up literary performance), would
by this time be so much after date, as to run the
hazard of being regarded, if not as an anachronism,
certainly as a matter of supererogation. It has
assumed its position long since among the classics
of our national literature. And, here, in its revised
and completed form as a " People's Edition," we
repeat it, it is visibly at its very best. All such
minute details of political and military opera-
tions as might have been tedious, or at any rate
unattractive, to the general reader, have been care-
fully eliminated from the text of the work. Excel-
lently printed upon toned paper in a volume
numbering as nearly as possible 500 pages, the
work is, in its way, at once externally and internally,
the very beau ideal of what a People's Edition
ought to be.

The Practical English Grammer. By Roscoe
Mongol]. Pp. 292. Longman and Co.
•

It is by no means an extravagance to say that
in very many respects Roscoe Mongan is a decided
improvement upon Lindley Murray. The former
we are conscious, while we are intimating as much,
will regard this same intimation as little better, in
its way, than a left-handled compliment. Not so,
however, he may be quite certain of, will it be
with the general public. At any rate, not thus
will it be with them at the first blush. For the
name of Lindley Murray has become, in regard to
English Grammar, as much of a classical authority
in its way as the name of Adam Smith in regard to
Political Economy, or the name of Bernard
Burke in regard to Heraldry, of Mr. Haydon
in Chronology, of M. Soyer in Gastrono-
my, of Dr. Johnson in Lexicography. Mr.
Mongan, however, lets all those who consult him
know full well, at the outset, that he has a very poor
opinion indeed of the efficiency of Lindley Murray
as a scientific teacher ofgrammar nowadays. Ho says
as much, quite frankly, in the second sentence of

his Preface. And of his depreciatory estimate of his
famous predecessor, his own excellent and, as it is
quite accurately called, Practical Grammar, is the
fullest and the completest justification, He has taken
sound advice from all directions, combining this
sound advice into a system very admirably : among
those to whom he avows his acknowledgments being
Priestley, Hazlitt, Trench, Latham, Hunter, and
Richardson. Perhaps some day the public will
have learnt to substitute in their everyday talk the
name of Roscoe Mongan for the name of Lindley
Murray. The former deserves it.

The Practical Spelling Book. By Roscoe 'Mangan.
Third Edition, pp. 192. Longman and Co.

A worthy companion to, or rather precursor of,
the Practical Grammar just noticed, is the same
Teacher's Practical Spelling-book, now i❑ its third
edition, and therefore already winning its way to
pretty general appreciation. One of Mr. Mongan's
notions he confesses to have borrowed from Manson's
nearly-forgotten spelling-book of sixty years ago.
As adapted to or fitted into Mongan's ingenious
system of tuition, the notion here referred to (that of
classifying words by their vowel sounds, ex. gr.,
brain, skein, frail, snail, blaze, graze) comes to us,
indeed, redivivus. As a spelling-book (pronouncing,
explanatory, and derivative), the little' volume is
about as complete as complete can be.

Lawless Standard Writing Exercise Books.
Adapted to Standards 1., IL, and 111. of the
Revised Code. Thomas Alurby.
For a very few pence, here are the model exer-
cise books for the child-beginner. They come to
the teacher's as well as to the pupil's hands under
high authority—emanating as they do from Mr.
J. S. Laurie's system, and adapted as they are to
the advancing Standards of the Revised Code.

All at Sea ; or, Recollections of a Half-pay Officer.
By Lieut,-Col. H. R. Addison. Pp. 312. Ward

and Lock.

Colonel Addison's hand is n o 'prentice-hand as that
of a fictionist. He has a touch of Lsver's vivacity

—and a facility (not fatal) like that of Anthony
Trollope. Here is another tale rattled off with a
flying pen by the Diarist of a Judge and the Re-
naembrancer of an Irish Police Magistrate. It ap-
pears under the modest guise of a two-shilling rail-
way book with a gaudy cover—the officers (depicted
on which cover) who are being pledged by the
vivandiere, are all of them military, not, as it
might have been conjectured they would be, from
the title, maritime. And we may add, in regard to
these officers, that if they are not literally " All at
Sea," they are apparently in a fair way, at the
dessert-table, to be half-seas-over.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty ;—Lieut. J. F. Prowse to the
Hawke; Lieut. M. A. Hare to the St. George;
Lieut. R. P. W. Powney, Lieut. H. S. Bailie, Lieut.
F. W. B. Jones, Lieut. T. S. Jackson, and Lieut. C.
W. Beaumont, to the Marlborough; Edward R.
Connor, master's-assistant, to the Fisgard, for the
Bann; Edwin A. Lang and John B. Sams, assist..
clerks, additional, to the Bombay; Frank E,
Croome,ThomasW. Hall, and Henry Stubbs, assist.-
clerks to the Fisgard, for Somerset-house.