The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-25 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

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OSBORNE, April 23.

The Queen and princess Helena, attended by
Viscountess Jocelyn and lor-General Seymour,
drove out yesterday afternoon.

Princess Louise rode on horseback, attended by
the Hon. Emily Cathcart.

APRIL 24.

Hii Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Major Cnvell and Lieut. Haig, arrived at 03borne,
on Friday evening, from Sandringham Hall.
The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of
the Queen yesterday.

The Earl of Clarendon arrived from London, and
had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the
royal family.

The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, and
Princess Louise, attended Divine service at Osborne

this morning.

The Rev. George Prothero performed the service,

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, April 24.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Lieut.-Gen. Kaollys and Capt. Grey, arrived at
Sandringham about 9 o'clock on Friday evening, on
his return from London.

Her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales,
attended by CA the Hon. Henry and Mrs. Byng,
Mr. Wood, Mr. Fisher, and the Hon. Mrs. W, Grey,
drove out.

On Friday evening Dr. Wilberforce, the Bishop
of Oxford, arrived at Sandringham.
On Saturday morning Col. the Hon. Henry and
Mrs. Bvvg left Sandringham for town.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Lieut.-Gen. Knollys and Capt. Grey, drove out
on Saturday.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Colonel Clifton, arrived at Sandring-
ham on a visit to the Prince of Wales on Saturday
afternoon, and was met at the Wolverton station
by the Prince of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
he Duke of Cambridge afterwards rode out.

Their Royal Highnesses are greatly enjoying the
comparative retirement of Sandringham, and are in
excellent health.

LITERATURE,

DoJor Jacob. Hurst aml. 13lackett, Marlborough-

street.

"Doctor Jacob" is a novel written with a good
intention, and in a style well calculated to com-
mand popularity. The story commences with the

arrival of Doctor Jacob at Frankfort-on-the-Maine,
where he presents letters of introduction from the
British Consul to Doctor Paulus, a brother clergy.
man, and through his influence is allowed to preach
in the church of Mr. Brill, the British chaplain, in
order to raise funds to enable him to proceed to
Jerusalem on a mission to convert the Jews. His
eloquence produces a great sensation, liberal sub-
scriptions flow in, and he becomes an universal
favourite with the denizens of Frankfort. At the
school of Franlin Fink, we find Elizabeth, an
English governess, highly esteemed by her employer,
who, on the arrival of Doctor Jacob, declares her
intentit n of immediately departing ; and the reader
is led to be ieve that she must be the ruined victim
or the injured wife of the rev, gentleman. She is,
however, persuaded by Dr. Paulus to remain, least
her sudden departure should cause her honour to be
questioned. Meantime a certain Baroness Laden-
berg appears on the scene, apprises Jacob of
Elizabeth's presence, and volunteers to bring about
a reconciliation between them ; but for her own pur-
poses she, in her interview with the governess, defeats
the object she undertook to attain. All this time the
nature of the connection of Elizabeth with the Doc-
tor is a mystery which the reader cannot fathom.
Baron Ladeeberg is killed in a thunder-storm, and
the Baroness, now free and rich, proposes to marry
Jacob, who, from his expensive habits and reckless

generosity, is overwhelmed with debt; but, strange
to say, although he loves the lady, he declines the
proposition. At the house of Mr. Brill he meets
Kitchen Eggers, a rich and charming girl, who, at
eighteen years of age, falls in love with the Doctor,
who, although turned of sixty, appears to be irre-
sistible to the ladies, and notwithstanding his un-
willingness, actually forces him into a matrimonial
engagement with her. Meantime the rev. gentle-
man's creditors become pressing ; he pays some
with the mission money, and decamps in company
with Elizabeth, to whom he has been reconciled,
and who turns out to be his daughter. Kitchen
elopes and follows him; sees him walking with
Elizabeth, whom she takes to be hie wife; as a
matter of course faints, and is carried senseless into

,he apartment of Baroness Ladenberg, who has

for some time past been persuading her to marry
Baron Joseph, her son. After some days of duress
she is relieved by Doctor Jacob, who, declaring
himself unworthy of her affections, bids her fare-
well, and proceeds to lead a better life
at Vienna with his daughter, where both
receive pupils, and enPport themselves in
respectability. The book, although some of the
scenes between Doctor Jacob and his admirers are
very highly coloured, inculcates morality in so far
as it pourtrays most forcibly the misery and degra-
dation entailed by incurring debt—but the leading
characters are not natural. Jacob, an unprincipled
Sybarite, refuses to marry the
by doing so he might not baroness, although
only save himself from
-
; and Kiitchen, repre•
dishonour, but obtain ample means of indulging his
expensive tastes for the future
sented as a pure-minded and innocent girl, acts in
a manner totally inconsistent with such a character,
and ultimately marries one of the professors at
Franlin Finks Academy, to
whom, it appeared, she
had been long attached. Elizabeth broke off a prior
conoeation between her father and the baroness,
who, in revenge, prevented by means of an anony-
mous letter, her marriage with an English gentle
man; and on this account she
quitted the paternal
home, and concealed herself
as a governess for seven
years. The story is written With spirit, the style
is epigrammatic and brilliant, the descriptions of
landscape and ruins are charming, and there are
power the following scene in the Cathedral of St.
few passages in any book which
Stephen : _ . eh exceed in dramatic

Having contemplated the stupendous tower, with its de-
licate propartions of arch and buttress, standing clear and
defiant against the upper sky, as a grand thought should,
eagle, in red and green
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by imperial
age, he entered, bestowing
kreutzers hero and there to the wretched old creatures who
begged and counted their beads in the slanting sun.
Inside, the gloom, and loftines', and perfume of incense
weighed upon his spirits like heavy retributive sorrow. He
seemed to in a gigaatio pine-forest at twilight, after the
glow of sun and before the light of stars. By-and-bye,
when his eye had become familiar with the darkness, he
could trace rich sculpture, abundant and most fanciful wood
carving, altars and tombs of gleaming marble, with delicate
rose windows, lighting up the darkness like stars. He
could not make his way fur the throngs of worshippers, but
stood bareheaded le.neath the stone pulpit of St. John
Capistran. Silence prevailed—.`or the Host was being ele-
vated, and most present were on their knees; acolytes in
white and red surpliocs wore swinging the censers back-
wards and forwards ; the atmosphere was thick and oppres •
sive with incense. By-and-bye, the six gorgeously relied
priests retired to their station beside the altar, and the
darkness and stillness and gloom wore pierced by a woman's
thrilling pathetic voice. It was the Ave Maria. Rising
from notes of soft bu! steady pssion, the voice ascended to
its poise in the upper air, swift arid straight like a skylark ;
then, wL ea all the cloggings of earls and humanity were
loft far below, it swayed gently to and fro, in sweet pulsa-
tions of tenderness and entreaty, a messenger between earth
and heaven— Gud and man.

Dr, Jacob leaned upon a carved coping of the pulpit
stair and prayed. He wee not aubjeet to impulsive emotion
of any kind, much less to religious emotion ; but hs had
been living for months past with one aim and intent—
namely, to turn back the current of self-reproach that had
set in from his past life, and had f4iled tniaerahly. He felt
now, ac he had once ;aid, that there is no fleeing from the
silent reproach of Gil

His Excellency Baron de Beust, tb,e repreaenta-
tive of the Germanic confaderailon, arrived in town on
Friday Light from tit:many in order to attend the Con-
ference,