The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-26 00:00:00

" Oh! didn't you know you were done, sir!"

became general at the winding up of the tune. Boys with
their elders frisked as they chimed it, casting an emphasis
of infinite relish on the declaration " done ;" as if they de-
lighted in applying it to Mr. Polo, though at their own
expense.

Soon a verse grew up :
" We march'd and call'd on Mister Pole,
Who hadn't a penny, upon his soul,
For Ipley came and took the whole,
And didn't you know you were done, sir I"

I need not point cut to the sagacious that Hill ord and
not Mr. Pole had been "done ;" but this was the genius of
the men who transferred the opprobrium to him, Never-
theless, th;,ugh their manner of welcoming misfortune was
such, I, knowing that ;there is not a deadlier animal than
a "done" Briton, have shudders for Ipley,

Apart from the delightful atmosphere breathed
through the whole story—its pervading atmo-
spere, ilia is of the racily, refreshingly,
hilariously, genially, irresistibly humorous—the
tale has many subtle beauties of its own that
will cause " Emilia in England" to live long in
its reader's recollection. Emilia's one rare and
priceless gift, her Voice, is therein for one thing
most exquisitely celebrated. And so for that mat-
ter, in the third volume, is her ripened beauty,
more especially where she is described as perfecting
that loveliness of hers by donning the purple
velvet dress in which the natural glory of her
beauty became yet further glorified by art ! We
commend the portraiture of her in that dress to
some one among our !luster Painters, to some one
amongst them, that is, who has a subtler sense than
the rust of consummate Bedury whether of Colour,
Form, or Expression. It, is suggestive of a com-
panion picture to the late Augustus Egg's glowing
deiineltion of Eimond girded with the scarf by
the Beatrix of Thackeray. As we close '° Emilia in
England—the last volume of which appears to us,
by the way, wonderfully inferior in every respect
(among other things, for example, in the constructioo
of the plot and in the very style of the writing) to
both the first or the second—as we close the book
we count upon a sequel to it. By the whole con-
struction of the story, indeed, we cannot but think
that a sequel to it is, we might even go so far as
to say, just absolutely necessitated. And we cer-
tainly shall look for that sequel at the hands of Mr.
Meredith.

During the last few days there has not been much
animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. Sugar, however, has fully supporeed
previous prices ; coffee, on the other hand, has been
at rather lower rates, owing to the large arrivals.
In rice, fruit, and spices, there has been an average
amount of business reported, without any material
change in prices, while in tallow business has been
inactive, and quotations for both present and for-
ward delivery show a downward tendency.
The demand for monetary accommodation has
been slightly increased today by the arrangements
in preparation for the approaching settlement at
the Stock Exchange. The supply of floating capital
in the open market is, however, well maintained,
and the rates therefore continue at 65- per cent. for
the negotiation of the best slatort dated securities.

About 60,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday for transmission to Alexandria.

TOM BROWN FOR FINSBURY.—We understand
that a number of the electors of Finsbury, a borough
which via be vacated by Sir Morton Peto's retire-
ment, have requested Mr. Hughes to stand on the
Liberal side. if the statement is true it will be the
most creditable thing the borough has done for
years, for Mr. Hughes will neither job for the
electors, latter them, nor swallow their pledges.
He is a strong Liberal, or rather Radical—one o
those who think that our next business is to fight
pauperism, and a man with a real care for the
working classes, if Finsbury has the intelligence
to accept such a nomination, and send " Tom
Brown" to Parliament, it will have done at least
something to wards making educated men believe
that big boroughs know how to choose represen-
tatives.—Spectator.
On the morning of the deport are of the Emperor
and Empress of Mexico from Rome, the Pope con-
ferred on the latter the Grand Cross of the Order
of Pius IX. The Emperor gave the Mexican Order
of Notre-Dame do Guadelupo to General de Monte-
bello.

The Emperor has received a letter from the Queen
of Spain, notifying the death of her nephew, the
Infante Don Felipe Ramon-Marie, son of the Duke
and Duchess de Montpensier.

TRIALS ON CHARGES OF MURDER AT GLASGOW.—
On Saturday, at the Glasgow Circuit Court, Lord
Dees presiding, an Irishman named John Riley was charged
with murder. It appeared that on the night of Monday, the
17th December last, on the Biggar-road, in the parish of
Bothwell, the prisoner assaulted Nancy Stevens, or Laffy
wife of Thomas Laffy, collier, residing at Legbrannock, in
the parish of Bothwell, and with a wooden stake or atone,
struck her a number of severe blows on the head, face,
neck, cheat, hands, and arms. and threw her on the ground
and kicked her with his feet. He then thrust a piece of
wood several times into her person. She died in conse-
quence of her injuries. The prisoner, in a firm voice,
pleaded not guilty, and a jury being ernpanuelled the
case wont to trial. The prisoner was defended by Mr.
C. T. Couper and Mr. Crawford, After a trial which
lasted from 10 in the forenoon till about 10 minutes
past one on Sunday morning, the jury returned
with a verdict finding by a majority tha prisoner guilty as
charged. Sentence was delayed. At the same court, on
Saturday, Lord Neaves presiding, a joiner named Peter
Blair was accused of murder. On Tuesday, Feb. 23 last, in
Maitland-street, Cowcaddens, he assaulted Jessie Noble, or
Gordon, or Blair, then residing with him in Debbie's Loan,
and with a knife stabbed her on the left side of her neck
and right shoulder ; she was mortally wounded, and imme-
diately, or soon thereafter, died. The prisoner, who pleaded
Not Guilty, was defended by Thos. Watson, sen., and Mr.
Wm. Inglis, jun. After a lengthened trial the jury re-
turned a verdict unanimously finding the prisoner guilty of
culpable homicide, and he was sentenced to 15 years' penal
servitude,