The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

THERMOMETER.

This day at Two o'clock 33

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 1864.

The news from South America relates one of the
most appalling accidents ever recorded in the annals
of calamity. The Church de la Campania, the
large church of Santiago, the capital of Chili, was on
the evening of the Bth of December almost entirely
consumed by fire, during a religious ceremonial,
when the edifice filled in every part. So dense was
the crowd, and so difficult were the means of egress
that only two-thirds of the large concourse were
en.lblud to escape. Out of 3,000 persons assembled
nearly 2,000 are said to have fallen victims to the
flames. Tie scene, as described by an eye-witness,
is heart-r ending to contemplate even in imagination.
though there were three large doors to the
eh arch, only one sr.,,ems to have been available, and
fat) small side entrances were apparently forgotten
iu tiia awful eagerness of the excited crowd. As

olwAys happens in such calamities, as happens
every time a theatre or any public building is ever
suppos ed to be on fire, alt rushed to one
outlet, whin was soon hopelessly blocked up by
dead ;bodies. The spectators outside stood wring-
ing their hands in helpless condition, unable
to azrest the work of destruction going on
before their eyes. The United States minister and
several other strangers made gallant and perse,iering
efforts to rescue same of the struggling victims. An
Englishman or American, it is not clearly known
which, ventured into the furnace,and while attempt-
ing to carry out a lady fell hack and perished in the
flames. A young lady named ARELLA was more
fortunate : after having, in vain, implored the by-
standers outside to rescue her mother who was
within the church, she rushed in herself and, won-

derful to relate, herself succeeded in bearing out
her precious load. While such incidents excite our
warmest sympathies with the happy few who were
enabled to escape or to rescue those most dear to
them, what words can paint the anguish of the
thousand bereaved hearts who, on that sad night
bewailed the loss of so many loved ones I A few
years back a comparatively trifling but to all
concerned an appalling accident occurred, it
will be remembered at the Surrey Gardens
when a large concourse of people were assembled to
hear Mr. SPURGEON. At that time great excite-
ment prevailed, and many means were suggeste dfor
ensuring the safety of assembled crowds, wPiother
in places of public worship or of amusement. 'Ye
are not aware that since that occurrence any available
precautionary measures have been adopted. When
Covent Garden Theatre was burnt down on the
night of the 4th of March,lBs6, every one rejoiced
in the providential hour at which the calamity
occurred—after the dispersion of the audience. Had
the accident happened a few hours earlier, a 'catas-
trophe similar to that at Chili might have been the
result. We are as powerless as were the sad spec-
tators of that conflagration to afford any help or
alleviation to the sad sufferers and survivors of the
calamity. While, however, we deplore their loss,
the lesson should not be lost upon ourselves. Any
similar casualty would find our cmwded assemblies
equally embarassed in striving to effect a rapid
egress ; and great as are out mechanical skill
and our power of constructive invention,
the channels of egress fr.= the majority of our
public buildings would on emergency be found to be
as fatally inaccessible to an excited crowd as were
the closcd doors of the. doomed Church of Santiago.

The protracted investigation which recently took
place before Mr. HENRY at Bow-street Police-office
into the murder of the captain and mate and others
on hoard the Flowery Land in the South Atlantic
Ocean, and the piratical seizure of the vessel by
the crew, which resulted in the committal of eight
of the number for trial, must be still fresh in the
recollection of our readers. In former times piracy
was rife on almost every sea, but at present, we
are happy to say, piracy, in the old acceptance of
the term, is extinct, except in the China seas, and
amongst the savages in the remote islands of the
Indian Archipelago. What is termed piracy now-
a-days is rather the seizure of a vessel by her own
crew, or a portion of them, than the capture being
effected by another ship sailing under the black
ensign. We have rarely met with a case in which
such cold-blooded murder was perpetrated as by the
seamen of the Flowery Land ; and the perpetrators
of the outrage will doutless meet with a deserved
punishment. Beyond this, however, it is our duty,
so far as possible, to prevent the recurrence of such
a disaster. The Flowery Land left London, bound
for Singapore, in July last, under the command of
JOHN SMITH. The crew, with the exception of
the first and second mate, and the carpenter, who
was a Dane, and a French seaman, were composed
of a mixed company of vagabonds, collected from
an parts of the globe—Greeks, Turks, Sclavonians,
INlalays, and Chinamen. With such an incongru-
ous colleetion, the captain had much difficulty in
getting the ship properly navigated, and after
two or three quarrels a portion of the crew sur-
prised the ship, and having murdered the captain,
first mate, and the captain's brother, who was a
passenger, they compelled the second mate, whose
life they spared for that purpose, to navigate the
ship to the South American Coast. Here they
landed, after scuttling the ship and disposing of
the steward, and one or two others whom they
disliked. Yet, strange to say, they spared the lives
of the second mate, the carpenter, and the French-
man, upon whose evidence they have been brought
to justice. It is evident that the captain and his
officers were at the mercy of the ruffians who
composed the crew, when at any time they might
determine to attack them. Including the captain's
brother, the carpenter, and the Frenchman, there
were but six Europeans on board. It is true that
had treachery been expected those men, aided by
the steward, who was a Malay, and the cook and
lamp trimmer, who were Chinamen, might have
defended themselves, and carried the vessel into
some port, where they could have got rid of the
riffraff Brew; but amongst an assemblage, where
the conspirators can converse together in an un •
known tongue, and mature their plans in secret,
detection is very difficult. The captain was cer-
tainly remiss in not taking more precautions than
he seems to have done, knowing the class of men he
had to deal with. For this oversight he has paid a
heavy penalty, but we consider it a disgrace to this
country that a British ship should sail from an
English port with such a disreputable ship's com-
pany. Before the repeal of the Navigation Laws,
some sixteen or seventeen years ago, it
was compulsory upon all ship-owners to
have a eertain number of British seamen and
apprentices employed in their vessels, in proportion
to their tonnage, but when the Free-trade mania
was all powerful, complaints were made by those
interested in the cheap carriage of merchandise.
They said that the law which virtually excluded
foreigners from competing with our shipowners,
and likewise compelled the said shipowners to em-
ploy a certain class of men, who on that account
required higher wages than foreign seamen would
work for, was unjust, and that shipowners, manu.
facturers, and the world at large, were the victims
of a monopoly. The agitation was successful, the
Navigation Laws were not amended, as they very
properly might have been, but they were repealed,
and we are now reaping the benefit of our over-
liberality to those who do not care to meet us half
way with concessions. Shipowners, like other men,
naturally desire to have their work done as cheaply
as possible, and, with the exception of a few large
firms, apprentices are considered an unprofitable
trouble ; and when no longer compeiled to employ
British seamen, they are now too glad to obtain
the services of Germans and Spaniards, who will
work for less wages, and not be so exigent in their
requ;rements as Englishmen. The natural conse-
quence of this has been that a considerable pro-
portion of our mercantile navy is manned by
foreigners, while Englishmen are compelled either
to work for indifferent wages or to seek
foreign service, where their natural ability and
general rectitude of conduct avail them more than
they can do in their own country. America is thus
supplied with seamen for her merchant service in
the middle of the nineteenth century, as her frigates
were manned at its commencement by the short-
sighted policy
of England, although the ever in-
creasing extent of our commerce and the nautical
predilections of our population to a certain degree
neutralise the eff.!ets of this syeitem, it cannot be
denied that our merchant service, the nursery of
our navy, has not been benefited by the repeal of
the Navigation Laws. We do not wish that the
old exclusive laws should be re-enacted, but we
t'aink that certain restrictions might be placed upon
shipowners, end that they should be again obliged.
to carry a certain proportion of British seamen, or
at all events not jeopardise the lives of the offireera
by shipping desperadoes from Spanish Ane,„:,ca,
and other resorts of bravos and cat-throats. Tag_
land has derived much benefit from the dee,,toptaent
but we may h ave too much
of her free trade palmy,
of a good thing. What is good for th d goose ought
not to be poison for the gander, i4nd while en-

deavouring to assist the seafairing population of
foreign lands, we have no right to endanger the
lives and property of our own countrymen.

It is not surprising on the eve of the reopening
of the Parliamentary campaign to find some mem-
bers of the• Liberal party assembling to consider the
pres',nt condition and future prospects of the cause
which they represent. The hour of success is not
u.nfrequently the severest test which can be applied
either to individuals or to parties. How often do
we see a man who has conducted himself with cre-
dit in a humble station of life, who has borne
poverty cheerfully, and faced trouble without flinch-
ing, suddenly transformed into a totally different
character by an unexpected change in his fortunes.
Still more frequently do we find the staunch sup-
porters of a failing cause show equal eagerness to
maintain their principles, when they might do so
without risk, peril, or inconvenience. The fact of
opposition stimulated their energies and sharpened
their powers, while their cause in the hour of diffi-
culty and neglect has few charms for the waverer
and time-server. Even so the Liberal party in the
last generation could boast of many a noble name
and many a gifted leader, could count its fervent
partisans and its devoted adherents by the thousand
in the days when the Test Act was still in force,
Catholic Emancipation the ruin of successive
Cabinets, and the idea of a Reformed Parliament
still a vision of the future. But the scene is changed;
the great questions that agitated men's minds in
the days of our last three Kings have all
been settled, with the happiest results on
the side of enlightened Liberalism. Others
springing up since their day have been in
turn disposed of, while the continual spread of edu-
cation, and the improved moral and mental tone of
the lower classes, have removed half those dangers
which the terrorists of thirty or forty years since
perceived in investing the masses with political
power. But the experience which tells us of the
perils of success, the supineness and insincerity
which accompany a mere verbal adhesion to a cause
which demands no evidence of membership, which
imposes no sacrifice to conviction, has been painfully
verified in the history of the English Liberals.
With the great body of the press and the people on
their side, with their views popularly accepted in a
self-governing country, with every opportunity in
their reach, and their own party in office for many
consecutive years, what use have they made of the
opportunity ? What great measures of reform have
they organised and introduced, what pledges have
they redeemed, what have they done towards the
political advancement of the people ? These ques-
tions are beginning to be asked by the Liberal con-
stituencies throughout the kingdom, and we appre-
hend that their representatives will at the next
election find it somewhat difficult to answer them,
A movement has just begun in Yorkshire, a Liberal
county, which may probably extend itself to other
places. The committee of the Liberal Registration
Society convened a meeting to consider the present
position of the Liberal party with respect to the re-
form question and the approaching general election.
It was largely attended, and all were unanimous in
moving the first resolution, which denounced in
strong but just and appropriate terms the con-
duct of the so-called leaders of the party. It
was as follows :—" That this meeting, consider-
ing that the unsatisfactory character of the Reform
Bill proposed by Lord DERBY was the immediate
cause which led to the dissolution of the last Par-
liament, that the present Government came into
power, and that the ,Liberal members of thA present
Parliament were returned on the express condition
• that they would carry a substantial and honest

measure of Parliamentary reform, hereby expresses
its disappointment and indignation at the indif-
ference and bad faith which have betrayed the just
hopes of the people and frustrated the expectations
which inspired the Liberal party- at the last elec-
tions." This is not quite in accordance with Earl
RUSSELL'S theory that " Rest and be thankful"
is the prevailing feeling of the country. Doubtless
he spoke his wishes ; doubtless he deprecates too
active interest either in reform at home or affairs
abroad. He would prefer that matters should be
left entirely to his efficient guidance—that our
political representation should remain jest where it
is, and himself left free to listen to the suggestions
of his German friends. The fatal influence exer-
cised over Earl RUSSELL'S mind by the air of
foreign courts has been proved on two memorable
occasions. It is only to be regretted that, instead
of paying his autumnal visit to Balmoral, he did not
take a trip to Copenhagen, when a counter influence
might have bean set to work. "Rest and Regret,"
would be a more fitting motto for the veteran Re-
former, who has so lamentably failed to keep the
promise of former years. The device by which the
present Government ousted the Conservatives owed
much of its success to the prestige of JOHN Rus-
SELL'S name as a Reformer. How far such assis-
tance would avail on at.other occasion may be ques-
tioned. The country has long since awoke to the
trick that has been played on it. It has asked in
vain for the promised Reform Bill; it has complained
of the corruption at elections; of the unfair and
partial representation of the people, and has not
failed to remember that Lord DERBY'S Government
did bring in a Bill, which, whatever its failings,
had in it the foundation of a substantial and com-
prehensive measure of reform. These recollections
should be reckoned among the opposing agencies by
Lord PALMERSIiON'S Cabinet, for they will assuredly
find cause to discover too late that the English
people, however ready to give credence to the
positive promises of eminent and experienced
statesmen, are not in the habit of being " taken
in" a second time by the same professions.

LATEST MTELLIGENCE.

LEEITTEE'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
(Per the Africa, via Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 19 (Evening).
Southern journals announce that the Federals
are landing at Morehead City, North Carolina.
General Grant reports from Tennessee that the
Confederate General Vance had made a raid towards
Termille, capturing 23 waggons. Vance was, how-
ever, pursued, the waggons recaptured, and himself
taken prisoner. The reported raid, by Stuart, on
Leosburg, was unfounded.

Advices from Charleston to the 15th inst. state
that the shelling of the city had been continued,
causing some slight damage, but no casualties.
The Federal fleet were preparing to resist the an-
ticipated attack by the Confederate rams. The
Confederates had erected defences inside Fort
Sumter. General Gilmore had temporarily sus-
pended siege operations, end removed his head
quarters to Hilton Head, where an extensive expe-
dition, including several negro regiments, was fit-
ting out for embarkation fo! some point not made
public. Various rumours attributed the destina-
tion of the expedition to be the Savannah River, or
to attack the railroad between Charleston aid
Savannah, with the view of afterwards operating
in the rear of Charleston. The Confederates anti-
cipated an attack on Wilmington.
The "Washington correspondent of the New York
Times asserts that a campaign against Richmond
will be opened in the spring by two large armies,
each equal to cope with Lee's army. One of these
armies will advance by the Rappahannock, and the
other by way of the Peninsula.
A large body of Confederates are reported to have
cmcentrated at Point Pelee, Canada, to attack
Johnstone's Island, Lake Erie, where the Confe-
derate prisoners are confined.

General Grant has arrived at Louisville from
Knoxville, having* made the journey by way of
Cumberland Gap and Lexington, for the purpose of
judging of the capabilities of this route for supply-
ing Knoxville. He was enthusiastically received
in Lexington, but refused to make a speech.
Numerous regiments of the Federal army con-
tinue to re-enlist.

General Butler's rule ill Norfolk is represented
to be extremely extringent. The city is guarded
by negro troops.

The Richmond Enquirer urges negotiations with
General Butler for an exchange of prisoners, as this
would not relieve General Butler from the decree of
outlawry, and he would still, if captured, be hung.
A system of retaliation has commenced along the
North Carolina frontier. Several soldiers have been
hung in retaliation by the commanders of the op-
posing forces.

The Richmond Enquirer complains of the action
of the Confederate Congress, and says there is
danger that Congress in its desire to restore the
currency and fill up the army, will bankrupt the
eountry and overthrow the framework of society
and production.
A resolution has been offered in the House of
Representatives, that whenever any insurrectionary
State shall submit to the Federal authority, hostili
ties against such State shall cease, and the people
be guaranteed conventional. The resolution was
defeated by a vote of 79 to 56.
A proposition to raise 100,000 men for 100 days
to drive the Confederates out of Virginia, and
rescue the Federal prisoners at Richmond, was also
defeated.

A resolution has been introduced to reduce the
duty on paper.
The Confederate Congress have resolved that per-
sons who furnished substitutes will not be exempt

Irom military service.
It also passed a resolution, pledging the Con-
federates to perpetual resistance.

The Raleigh (North Carolina) journals continue
to urge a peaceful settlement with Vae North. The
Rielanzond Sentinel remarks that too much impor-
tance has been given to this fact, as the whole
North Carolina press, excepting the Raleigh jour-
nals, are patriotic and loyal.

It is generally conceded that Mr. Lincoln will be
the regular Republican nominee for the presidency.
The New York Herald asserts that there is a move-
ment among the Republicans to secure Secretary
Stanton's removal from the Cabinet.

The New York Tribune asserts that Mr. Adams's
diplomatic correspondence sent to Congress will
furnish abundant proof of the responsibility of the
British Government in the matter of the Confede-

rate privateers.
The Secretary of the Navy has sent orders to the
Provost Marshal of New York that the British
blockade violators will, when captured, not be re-
leased, but detained.

A military commission has been appointed to
try all persons confined in Forts Lafayette and
Warren.

The British ship
Sylvanus has been captured off
Doboy Sound, Georgia,
The Columbia has arrived at St. John's.

(By telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, JAN 21 (Morning).
The Federala have occupied Madisonville on
Lake Pontchartrain.

General Banks has ordered a State election in
Lousiana. He is confident that more than a tenth
of the population desire restoration to the Union.
He declares void the State laws regarding slavery,
and appoints a convention for the revision of the
constitution. Arrangements are being made to
elect members to Congress.
Two companies of Canadian rifles have been sent
to Windsor, Canada, it is said, in consequence of
the Confederate movements against Johnston Island•

The health of Bi&hop Gillis has gradually im-
proved during the last few days. There has been more
ground for anxiety than alarm, and now there are the moss
favourable hopes of his recovery.—,Scotsman.

13Isrtor COLENSO'S TRlAL.—People are interested
more immediately in the legal question raised by
the proceedings at Cape Town which led to the condemna-
tion of Bishop Colenso and his solemn deposition from the
office of bishop by the sentence of his metropolitan, Bishop
Gray, on the 16th December. Are the proceedings and the
sentence valid, or are they, as was protested on the spot by
Bishop Colenso's representative, "a nullity, void of all
force and effect ?" This is an important question as regards
the constitution of the Church of England in the colonies,
and no less important as regards the constitution of the
Church of England generally. The prevailing opinion, we
believe, is, or at least was some time ago, that no power in
the Church can touch Bishop Colenso. By the terms of his
appointment to the Bishopric of Natal, it is .aid, he became
subject to his metropolitan to the same extent and in the
same manner as bishops at home are subject to their metro-
politans; but then, by the present law of the Church, it is
said the power of metropolitans at home over their nomi-
nally subject bishops is entirely in nubibus—so that each
English bishop at the present moment is really independent.
—The Roder.

FATAL RESULTS OF FRIGHT.—An WAS
held in Edward•street, Hoxton, Thursday,
touching the death of Jane Howard. 15 years of age, who
died suddenly on Friday week ;rom the effects of fright.
On the evening of that deceased went into the backyard of
her father's house to get some water, and while doing so
perceived two men on the roof of the house, She screamed
or,,t in terror, and her brother came to her assistance, and
was able to see the head of one of the men above the para-
pet. A body of police was speedily collected, and the roofs
of the entire block of houses searched, without the thieves
being discovered. In the meantime dm effects of the fright
had rendered the girl seriously ill, and in spite of medical
assistance she gradually sank, and died on Monday morn •
ing. The jury returned the following verdict :—" That the
deceased expired from the mortal effects of apoplexy, caused
by extreme fright, and her said death arose by misadven-
ture," The proceeding 3 then terminated.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1864.

SANTO DOMINGO.

troops for Schleswig, through this town, is ex-
pected to take place on Sunday.

CADIZ, JAN 29.

News received here from Santo Domingo an-
nounces that the steamer Puerto Rio, had landed
on the Island 2,500 Spanish soldiers, who had oc-
cupied Barahona, Nantas, and Neiva.

THE DANO-GERMAN DIFFICULTY,
MOVEMENT OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS.

BRESLAU, JAN. 30.

It is stated upon good authority that the direc-
tors of the Siiesian Railway have received notice
to make arrangements for the farther transport
of 20,000 Austrian troops.

LITERATURE.

Court and Society, from Elizabeth, to Anne. Edited
from the papers at Kimbolton, by the Duke of

Manchester. Two Vols. Hurst and Blackett.

It has been of late years not uncommon to bring
before the public some of those quaint and ancient
records which lie buried in the recesses of our old
ancestral houses ; to throw the light cast by some
forgotten document, some secret or undeciphered
epistle, upon the smooth professions of diplomacy,
or the counter intrigues of rival plotters. Such
papers are not only interesting in themselves, but
they are highly valuable as supplements to the his-
tory of the time, and commentaries on its leading
events and characters, The family documents at
Kimbolton extend over a wide range, and
include scme of the most stirring and
remarkable epochs of our national life. Commen-
cing with the closing years of the reign of
Henry the Seventh, they pass to the busy days of
Elizabeth, and thence the various lives which they
illustrate bring us in quick succession to the Court,
of Charles the First, to the Cabinet of Cromwell, to
William 111., to Versailles and St. Germains in the
days of the Grand Monarque, and to that group of
statesmen, warriors, and men of letters, who distin-
guished the reign of the insignificant Queen Anne.
The greater part of the first volume is occupied by
an account of the life and misfortunes of Catharine
of Arragon, respecting whom many curious and
original documents have been discovered. Kimbol-
ton was the last dwelling-place of this noble and un-
fortunate lady, and many traces of her life and death
yet linger about its walls. " The room in which she
passed away still bears her name. The boudoir
which she occupied, on the walls of which she hung
her pictures and tapestries, adjoins it. A travelling
chest, in which she kept her clothes and jewels, and
which has her cypher on the lid, remains at the foot
of the grand staircase. A secret passage leading from
the White drawing room into the Chapel is said to
have been the means by which she escaped from
the presence and eluded the observation of her
husband's spies." The wing which Catherine
occupied is stilt substantially the same, although
many subsequent improvers and decorators have
defaced the ancient pile. The family seat of the
Montagus was originally built by the Mandevilles

many readers.

in a broad hollow at the crossing of two great roads
under the grey shadow of Stonely Priory. It is a
retired and primitive place, where even now the
Castle is eight miles from a post town, nine from
e‘ railway line, while Peterborough, 30 miles off, is

the nearest station at which an express train stops.
"New corners into such a place are rare. The son
succeeds to his father's farm, rides after the pack
which his father followed, sends his corn to be
ground at the old mill, votes on the same side at a
shire election, sits in the same pew at church in
which his father and grandfather sat before him.
In such a spot, among such a people, a poeti-
cal legend like that of Queen Catherine's
ghost holds a very long lease of life." The
spirit of the lonely and discrowned queen is
said still to haunt the chapel and passages
of her last habitation, but such a tradition is more
consonant with the royal lady whom Shakspere
has shown to us than with the queen, as she is de-
scribed in the volumes before us. Of the reign
of her daughter Mary, nothing is told us ; but the
old story of Elizabeth's lovers is recited at length.
A curious fact is mentioned respecting the first
State pageant in which that royal lady took a part.
We all know the gorgeous ceremonial which closes
Shakspere's play of Henry VIII., but few are per-
haps aware that most of the high personages who
assisted at the christening of the little princess
came to as violent an end as the baby's mother.
Essex and Exeter, Dorset, Rochford, Hussey, all

trod the scaffold in turn. Cranmer, the godfather,
died at the stake; the Earl of Wiltshire was
destined to see his son perish by the executioner's
axe ; while the Bari of Darby, whom our chronicler
styles the luckiest man in this awfully splendid
group, "came off with no worse fortune than having
a daughter married to the Lord Stourton, who ward
hanged!" Coming to later days we have many
such interesting particulars the voluMes be-
longing, indeed, rather to the curiosities of
history than to its graver and more solid parts, The
career of Honry Montagu, first Earl of Manchester,
is one of the most readable parts of the book. Dur-

ins; his studies for that profession, of which he wr.s
afterwards a distinguished member, Henry Mon-
tagu was entered at the Middle Temple. "There
are few Inns of Court," says the writer, "the regis-
ters of which are inscribed by greater names than
those to be found on the books of the Middle Temple.
The name of Plowden was perhaps the most cele-
brated of the predecessors of Montagu, for it be-
longed to the renowned jurist who is one of the
Temple glories. Overbury, against whose mur-
derers he was to conduct the case which sent some
to death, and shrouded others with infamy, and
Raleigh, to whose sentence of death he was to award
execution, were also members of the Middle Temple,
whence the latter dated his poem to Gascoigne."
In the great hall the feasts were sometimes en-
livened by the acting of plays, and on one of these
occasions we find mention made of an early per-
formance of " a play called Twelfth Night.' " The
work is evidently the result of a good deal of dili-
gent labour, although it is almost overcrowded with
names and persons not directly connected with the
subject in hand. The editor expresses his literary
obligations to Mr. Hepworth Dixon and Dr. Doran,
and it is easy to trace the smart and occasionally
flippant style of the latter in many places. The
volumes are illustrated with two or three handsome
portraits, and will form a most useful addition to the
shelves of the historical student.

Plays, By Frances Anne Kemble. One Vol.,

pp. 582. Longman and Co.

In this volume are contained three five act
dramas, from the hand of the gifted actress Fanny
Kemble. The first is an original work, simply
entitled "An English Tragedy," the second is a
translation of Schiller's "'Mary Stuart," while the
third " Mademoiselle de Belle Isle," is translated
from the French of Alexandre Dumas. In the dedi-
cation of the original drama to the Rev. William
Harness, the authoress speaks of it as written be-
tween twenty and thirty years ago, and says "it
then challenged the indulgence of my friends, in
spite of its many defects, as the possible promise of
better things when I should have attained matnrer
powers. I, too," she simply adds, " hoped what
my friends were kind enough to expect something
better ; but, alas ! this is the only piece of work I
have ever finished since the first essays of my
school-girl days ; and, therefore, most imperfect as
it is, I have nothing better to offer you." We do not
wonder that the friends of the young authoress of
"the English Tragedy" entertained high expectations
of her future abilities as a dramatic writer, for in
the conception of the characters, and in the pour-
tray al of the various emotions called forth by the
diversified incidents of the drama, there is manifested
a very considerable degree of power. There is
a subdued tenderness of feeling in the character of
the old Judge, and a charming purity and simpli-
city in his gentle sister Mary, that contrast vividly
with the other characters, some of them the most
weak and despicable personages of the drama. The
theme of the plot is singularly revolting, especially
when detailed by a lady's pen. The principal scene
in the third act, which the authoress tell uss is
founded on fact, giving her, in effect, the first ides of
the whole story, is most repulsive. When we say
that the scene in question takes place between the
guilty wife of the good Judge and her paramour,
Lord Alford, in which the latter counsels his victim
to yet further guilt to purchase the good offices of a
wealthy rival, we have said enough to show that
whatever dramatic power there may
in " The
English Tragedy," it is wholly unattractive in its
theme and revolting in its incidents.

Autobiography of an English Detective• By
_ _

" Watere." Two Vole. - Maxwell and Co.
The title of this work is a sufficient evidence of
its interesting character. It recounts the experiences
of another Mr. Bucket. We caunot say that the
incidents recorded are quite on a par with the ad-
ventures of that prince of detectives, but they are
sufficiently varied, and,
until the right clue be re-
vealed at the right moment, sufficiently bewilder-
'ng. In the first volume one of the most tantalising

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is the history of Sir AViiilatic, and Lady
case of mistaken identity : bethg one of the ow'
horribly enthralling in its theme is entitled the
murder of Anthony Louvel. By a curious slip °E,
the tongue on the part of the speaker, and of th
pen on the part of the writer, the detective, in
conversation with a friend, who makes some agame
rently incomprehensible remark, exclaims, 1 bt'lci.s
no skill for the interpretation of riddles"---wheil 'lll
whole bus;.ness in life is a constant exercise of
relatessun
Devereus,,at
.
a skill! In the second volume one episcal°
to " Murder under the Microscope,"
" Lost upon Dartmoor," and a third "One Night in
a Gaming-house." Besides which, there aro a S:a:
riety of miscellaneous experiences, all wort) or 1-5'
animated with a " detective" interest. another
.is

The House of Elmore.By;he Author of " Grsfid;
mother's Money," &c,, &c. One Vol. FP'
"•—•
Chapman and Hall. A 1-131111
The new volume of Messrs. Chapman an- ,b 0
very excellent re-issue of popular novels contains'
~,
exceedingly enthralling,but eingularly painfulnar'r
tive of the doomed House of Elmore, by the cleceis
author of " Grandmother's Money." 5
This st°rnia-
a compound of the domestic novel and the
0-14
tional, and as such is likely to find fac°llr WI

, f Otle

Ir g and lry Again. By " Old JonataaL“
Vol. Pp. 262, Macintoah.
little
career volumea and
d b
erceacmo recounts the
clergymen
in This
sir
youths, who, by patient perseverance, Prci6P_ercli
of the Cl2l'tiie
apd
of England. It is profusely illustrated,
earlier chapters are full of instruction•
henistories of tsrfedo

Rev. Mr. Bellew not the Author of For Ecer'

------,---
To THEefou yEDnorn OF TILE Si7N-. c
16 10
SlR,—Aopy e
paper of Thursvad ry,
just been sent to me, in which I find a . i
,‘ For 9'er,.ii
lengthy review of a novel entitled re
Story of English Country Life." Your irie"
headed " The Rev. J. M. Bellew's Novel.° boob
It is only doing justice to the author of
ate, the
I col
ar
in question for me to assure you that
author, and that I have no idea who "The (11;1;r1-z'oo
man" may be. I shall feel obliged to you -,; it
iswill give prominence to this note, both 19e5ti'iocl
due to the writer of the work in questiov, to
because the public ought not to be Misled lath
error into which your Reviewer has fallen'
Sir, your s very obediently,
J. ll'.
m. 13"1A5

Bristol, Friday, Jan. 29, 1864.
[We have the sincerest pleasure in at oricee°-th-ei,,
ing with our Rev. Correspondent's request9l3%ds
that we should have this letter inserted ia °urea' oi
without one moment's unnecessary &111,. iO°
we do so none the less readily because the w)iltiA
he alludes to, a mistake arising oat Of 5° vets
is'
lucky, but, at the same time, so very Ottirs;:iu:
adveztence on the part of the reviesver,
stantly rectified by ourselves in the verY Ilbat
impression of our journal, that is to 031 while
recently as yesterday. The reviewer, 110wel‘eirt' •Vel°
Jew's powers
the remarkable versatility' °f 00'
tate"vt
powers as preacher, journalist,
lea
o. r, author, and elocutionist, added o
°ric
title, at
tle, we believe quite unnecessarily' oft
alist, namely, when speaking of 31ler.°1- 40' ia
if()
as a Theatrical Critic. The Rev. Gen toc
are given to understand, never to this cit/laDer
ever once handled the pen of the critic,
ED:eresnlice. to art or in reference to lit
eri"

THE KING OF NAPLES.
The Union contains the following
"-----.----- 1 ..' (
artie'e 'ivg 0'
" It:will be remembered that at the begitilitiffeet;
last year,King Francis the Second received A of 01'
ing proof of the fidelity which the pol)°15tf:(151°
the provinces of his kingdom maintain tocctlutatio6s
in the midst of their cruel sufferings. etliaddre°tell
charged to present to his Majesty 10.„.-teclilcr-,1
covered with thousands of signatures eoll6' rived 1,.
and south of the pharos of Messina, srtooolitit:
Rome, to protest in the name of right, 13:;131e 05i,13,
the hopes and
o f
,t,he
Again,N eap
thisoli
and liberty ; anti to express to ' the 500 °' the
Aspirations of an inin3eo3 -
tanyseaarn,dthSiiscipliaatnriso.tie
ra_
ra
,o
al
0,0
. neetnell,,rtole°
about to be renewed, and the delegates fr°,heir 1°1„lo
and Palermo were about to set forth on ' joy
pilgrimage, determined to brave t.o° itaP his
hatred of the Piedrnontese. rthi °f II
" The king, actuated by a sentiment vv°- tie. 0
race, has wished to prevent this me.oifest%ss beierf
is notorious that the yoke of cooVes,t le crtletoo
pressed upon the people with more susP°etoecat to
than ever, during the last few monts. F ad Ito
has been redoubled with the state of 51e,,e; 0° ,p;
law of the Manutengoli. In proportl"
'eocoP'o
Cabinet of Turin feels that the people aroit.i fet,te;
it, in spite of their sufferings, it tighte,°!erLlaltil'i is
and its anger augments the rigour of its
done ice. 0,
" Francis the Second has, therefore, 0500611 jg
forbidding his most devoted subjects to los or"
selves to inevitable evils. None theho addr coif'
magnanimous consideration have fi:, 000°,1. 0°
reached his royal hands, and his repaid icilie' eve
cated by one of our correspondents' a 04)1'3 oo
subjoin, is at once a just reward, "0 0 oleo°
couragement for the brave Neapolits.o4o
looking, like the king himself, for 0° 1 coy'
and the emancipation of their counll of ea'
" The foilowing is the communicate 10'0
respondent : 00$1C!, the oti
33
" ' Rome, 6th AO 110110
"'Two deputations had been noll'illeeed t° jic);
at Naples, the other at Palermo, to person to 00
for the purpose of conveying in Pelle SsaPccol
Francis 11, the loyal addresses of t f the fe`',ljoi
and Sicilian people, en the occasio c;.00 of It' ot 0'
of the New Year, and at the ea r° 150011° oce
before his Majesty the heartreedinges of 1115 0011
the sufferings to which both provilic,,,iiies or°
flourishing~ kingdom of the Two Asti b 9
V
oite 0
condemn .eel putatisoved to
10
'oast il bfa (1
" ' The m embers of these de
sincere feelil Igs of patriotism, had re t000tl°11„,i' orti'
the persecuii ons of the Piedroontese
olt
olito t'o. f 0
the anger of the revolutionary' 513381'0f bear; Pl:
that they might have the haPP°e,eowege °OO tl'
their sovereigz.'• in hie exile the :
_lda ft
..o ea;
devotion and fid, elity, bat an expre_o
,_°o
rgero:oor
King arrested Weir departure. I°,olo fa I, ors'
actments which ist, ,ua day alter day %liar allt,oll'
on the increase,
sternation through the fair lands
tl `)_. 0f tri! vgo
anti are spread/Dog:Loather° op.;
They would have reu dered the re tuff
aaa (if)
difficul
occ
Gus, if not impossible. d 01° cla°l
Cations to their native country
addresss, an ocs
" ' Nevertheless, these, ,the
be
panying exposition of the
bands f the 01
have reached his Majesty' o _0.1;601 °,,,01,0
.0
" ' The former contain all "7
_.,,d tho 'l,taio' 0
nefits once enjoyed, but no \N" los2 "'letter elo:'
totiv,
a people in the time to como. 'lllareseot evi
..., 01 P
plain statement of actual Lod- P ,inn let,
of the
''' -te6
foreboding of the utter ruin -
nee- 001' De
he. condition oi
must be their inevitable conseque, h 00 i
._tit t
" The sing has replied, thro4 esiie, P tie
that at
eO°P 0;
that, 'he does not deplore hi
.. the pr 0 tail to
servitude of his country ; that ,iviege_itifoo,
meat, when the world is occupi.eociiii°o7 the 10 610;
peace to Europe, the found
ri,,hts of 5
tiheheid,
aspirations of peoples,
art 11 to Preserve 00 . ;')
it is more than ever essevtiaof
the 0,3103. 01,10,
0;•
confidence in the triumPja,
__ atid the I, of 1,,
That cane© is the indepenheecceot.itioteen4oo",
of the country, ancl for the a
a7_,l'ved for
desire the moment has now,
~ I',
fi°
--b,- to'
tongof
--- ----- terivg t .0 yid •(0
PALL MALL, JUNIOR, saun _ a
cigar i
oula 00.00,
actively, even as be is doing_.
Ii
with its hands in its pocket, and
couut saysecs+l'ily' 4'
would U© the most compendious asc,_icti,,, ,
~, l'f'iof
Mr. Winwood Reade'S " Savage Ail
;t3 t' aer .0
critic in the Spectator. A writer ' t yO.'„ 11.
MILITARY ENDIJRANCE• h'
the grclitesoolcliefil"o. ,1;
ington Chronicle says that
belongs to men over 35 y.eari,.,:
wit6o.o thosoolvo
0iti0.,,,
30 are ten times on tha sickl,ll3opitalsOvtis e, tile coptlYre
endurance of such hardihips a:.. 130,_10°°; gtht; via:o:o.-irloo° 1)00:0
once ; that the records ot. th%.ol,3sargicato.cc,ooooloo ,
develop" the fact that, aside!
cer tiot Age, v 0
to, of
there under 35 aro as 40 to 1 v t
03 erat© "bid At ill
a sound man of 40 and
20.—Nissotiri Pesnocrat. •
more hard treatment thanofoutee cPtlually 0110

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