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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1864.

N°. 22,392.

VURNI TUBE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and
FLGORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in
the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First. cberallass
goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly l to
Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select
rom, displayed in Showrooms occupying an sore of ground.
Every article warranted
EGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR-
N 1511 are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and
. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un-
equalled MOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo
.drn ^able engravings of every description of Furniture and
-ectsteais, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and
post. free on application. This costly work also contains
complete estimates for furnishing Pn the following revised

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1864.

No. I.—Au Abstract of the Gross Produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, in the undermentioned Periods, ended March 31, 1861, compared
with the Corresponding Periods of the Preceding Year.

QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
1 ..
QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
-&--- ended 1 i
„________ _ ended
'
June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, March 31, ; June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, March 31,
•
1863 1863 1863 1861 1861 ; 186 Z. 1862 1862 1863 1863
' -
X X X X £ X X X X £
CUSTOMS 5,857,00D 5,872,000 5,970,000 5,533,000 23,232,000 5,791,0n0 6,201,000 6,320,000 5,722,000 24,031,000 CUSTOMS.
EXCISE
STAMPS 2.394,000 2,191,000 2,293,000 2,439,( 00 9,317,000 2,253,000 2,180,000 2,187,000 2,374,000 8,994,000 STAMPS.
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX 2,918,000 866,000 2,132,000 3,,68,000 9,081,04,0 2,772,000 974,000 2,931,000 3,899,000 10,567,000 PROPERTY TAX.
POST OFFICE
CROWN LANDS 68,500 68,000 87,000 8',900 305,000 68,000 67,000 86,000 79,00) 300, 00 CROWN LANDS.
MISCELLANEOUS
---
TOTALS 18,490,204 14,411,504 18,318,166 18,959,080 I 70,208,963 18,409,904 14,603,983 18,37?,928 19,213,746 70,603,561 TOTALS.

tale :
A Six-roomed Parsonage
An Eight-roomed ditto
A Ten-ro,uned ditto ........
• A Twelve-roomed ditto
together with a Prim?, List of purified Bending, and a MuIR
of valnable informationto all requirinp• hoUseh
31d frniture,
~srpet s, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy-
men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern. Southampton,
Chichester. Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouerth,
Wells. Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidd-
minster, Wellington Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking,
St. Alban's. Woroester, Ipswich, Peterborou. gh, St. David's,
Wrexham, and above 500 otter places in at, Parts Great
t eptf ord-
COB KETT and CO., General Holum Furnishers,
bridge, London, S.E,

No. ll.—lncrease and Decrease in the Periods ended March 31, 1864, as compared with the Corresponding Periods of
the Preceding Year.

ro THE BOvDTIOLDERS OF THE ATLANTIC AND
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS.
PAYABLE IN LONDON.
801,0r0 dollars (£lBO,OOO New York Division—Due in 1881.
1,000,000 dollars 4225,000) Pennsylvania Division—Due in
1882.
Secured by a Registered Mortgage, e,onstituting a lien on
the income and all corporate rights. privileges, lands, fran-
chises, plant and proierty of the Pennsylvania and New York
divisions of the Railway.
The Bonds are redeemable in New York or in London at
4s. 6d. per dollar, and are transferable U Phout stamp or en-
dorsement; 4 per cent. of the gross amount will he drawn
yearly in July, commencing in 1865, to be pa d off at par in
London ; Interest Coupons are attached to the Bonds, pay-
able semi-annnally, at the Consolidated L ank in London, at
the fixed vile of 4s. to the dollar.
The Bonds will be issued at 70. viz.:—
Bonds of 100 dola. at • a 155., with interest from April, 1,1864.
500 „ £78155., „ 11
I,oko „ £157 10s. 1/ 1/
The Coupons represent £l4' /1
per annum on each bond of
1,000 doll .rs ( C 225), or nearly 9 per cent.
The privile,,e of subserbing will remain open until the 6'h
of A 9ri 1 forthe'present bondholders, either directly or through
their brokers.
The terms of issue are • s follows :-
5 per cent. on application, being Xll 5 0 per Bond of I,o' 0 dol.
10 al °trent „ 22 0 0
11 11 11
5„ '2d May ~ :13 15 0
20 16th May „ 45 0 0
11 11
20 „ Ist June „ 45 0 0

Net Decrease .....£224,657 Net Decrease

Net Decrea;e....X391,598

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
ended Dec. 31, 1863, viz.:—

Amu. t applied out of the Income for the Quarter ended March 31, 1861, in
redemption of Exchequer Deficiency Bins, for Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863
Total Deficiency
Deduct—Redeemed by
2C7,2FG
Sinking Fund

Great Britain
9
Ireland
978,219

£157 10 0
subscribe,s have the 0,t,0n of paying the 'nsta ments in
advan e, and will be allowed a discount of 6 per cent. per an-
num o" such pre-payments.
After allotment Scrip Certifi ates will be issu'd to "bearer."
These Cert'fic At. a wi I be exchanged for Bond to " bearer"
on payment of the final instalment,
The early completion of the works this great Railway
justifies the Company in making this additional ssue of
Bonds, fallowing the financial policy a !opted at the outset,
of issuing, securities to the t übli, only aft, th«e actual pro-
gress of the Railway ha secured the necessary income for
providing the interest. There will remain only the Second
Mortgage of the Ohio division, to be disposed of hereafter,
when the total of the Bouded Debt will be only £6,000 per
mile.
D6r-ns of apprcation may be obtained of the Bankers ; or
at the Offices of the Company.
Offices of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company,
2, Old Broad-street, London, B.C.
March 23, 1861.

Income received in the Quarter ended March 31, 1864, as shown in Account I 18,9 9, 83

Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended March 31,1864, viz.:—
Interest of the Permanent Debt £5,635,562
Terminable Debt 872,594
Principal of Exchequer Bills
Interest of Exchequer Bills
Interest of Deficiency Bills
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consolidated Fund
Advances for Public Works, &O.
Sinking Fund

Amount raised per Act 25-26 Viet., cap. 78, oa account of Fortifications, &0..... 200,000

Amount received in the Quarter ended March 31, 1864, in repayment of Advances
for Public Works, &c 323,680

£2 ,490,988

101,223
570,760
928,151
655,653

Balance, being the Deficiency on March 31, 18M, ninon the charge of the Consoli
dated • Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends, and other charges,
payable in the Quarter to June 30, 1861, and for which Exchequer Bills
(Deficiency) will be issued in that quarter 722,330

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
ended March 31, 1861, viz.:—
Great Britain
Ireland

£21,213,318

NEW WORK BY THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER.
SECOND EDITION, Revised, now ready, in 2 vols., Svo.,
w.th fine Portraits, 305.,
COURT AND SOCIETY,
From ELIZABETH to ANNE.
Edited, from the Papers at Kimbolton,
By the DUKE of MANCHESTER.
From 'the Times.—" These volumes are sure to excite
curiosity A great deal of interesting matter is here collected
from sow ces which are not within everybody's reach. The
light now throw. on the story of Queen Catherine will
fasJa ate every reader."
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

STEAM from LONDON to NEW YORK.
The British and American Steam Navigation Company
(Limited) will DESPATCH cne of the undermentioned
Splendid Fast Screw Steamers TWICE EACH MONTH for
New York :

MAGAZINE-DAY,

pap, WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING
DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Made Dish,
Joint, Sweet, &c.. is served daily from 3 to 9 p.m , and on
Sundays from 5 to 8.30 p.m.
Private Rooms for large or small parties.
By order,
JOHN CATES, Manager.
The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, 180, Piccadilly.

Tons. Horse Power.
LONDON 2 5OO ..... 500 ..... Capt. GLOVER.
WESTMINSTER 2,500 500 ..... Capt. COUCH.
DUBLIN 2 5OO ..... 500 ..... Capt. FROUD.
NEW YORK 2,500 ..... 500 ..... Capt. HARRIS.
These magnificent vessels are unsurpassed by'any ocean-
going steamer, and have accommodation for passengers re-
plete witn every comfort. The Line will commence at an
early date ; the exact day to be fixed in a latter announce-
ment. To load in the Victoria Docks.

MIL W. S. WOODIN'S
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY,
and
BACHELOR'S BOX,

For freight or passage apply to the Company's Agents,
Alfred Laming and Co., 70, Cornhill.

Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
D R . J A C
0 B.
By the Author of "John and I."
" There is much freshness and originality of conception
about this book. Fraulein Fink, with her school and her
literary tattle, the chaplain and his family, the professors,
and the thousand and one little touches which make up the
picture of every-day, easy, genial life in Germany, have
much of the picturesque force and vivid reality of ' Villette.' "
—Saturday Review.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall,
King William-street, C •aring-cross, EVERY EVENINO,
at eieht (Pscept Saturday) ; Saturday Mornings at three.—
Stalls, and box eta Is, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, is. A
Plan of the Stalls may be seen, and Seats secured at the Hall
from eleven to five.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat Office,
Aldershot, 30th March, 18 4,
TENDERS will be received at this office until
12 o'Clook (noon) on TUESDAY, the 28th April,
from Persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts
to supply
FLOUR (RATION AND HOSPITAL) AND MEAT,

Next Morning Performance, Saturday, April 2, at three.

T H 0 X F OR D,
A, OXFORD STREET, W.

In su3h quantities as may be required from the ,st June to
30th November, 1861, for the u.e of her Majesty's Forces sta-
tioned at Aldershot Camp and within the command.
The above being three distinct contracts, seoarate Tenders
are required for each description of Flour, and for Meat.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on appli ation at this office, by letter addressed to the
Senior Commissariat Officer, or in person between the hours
of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up, signed, and deli-
vered at this office (under eleiel envelope marked on the out-
side " lender for Army Supplies,"l and no Tender will be
noticed unless made on Forms obtained from this Office, and
delivered by the hour ap ointed.

THIS EVENING. will be performed the new and success-
ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAU' I', embracing the entire
company of this establishment, with augmented baud and
chorus ; and. other Llusical Entertainments, supported by the
followinsr talented artistes:—Misses Russell. Fitz-Henry,
Tyrrell, W almsley ; Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green, &e.
Director, Mr. F. Jonzhmans.

Now ready, crown Bvo., with Two I i iustrations, 65.,
NED LOCKSLE Y, THE ETONIAN.
Also uniform,
THE LAST OF THE CAVALIERS. 6s.
The INITIALS. By Author of "Quits" and "At Mo." 6a.
EAST LYNNE. By Mrs. WO.:,1). Gs.
The CHANNINGS. By Mrs. WOOD. eg.
DIRS. lIALIBURTON'S TROUBLES. 6s.

UNSWORTH and EUGENE will make their re-appear-
ance Thii; Evening.
Comedy, by Mr. T. Maclvan, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson,
G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Power (the juvenile comedienne),
&c.. ko.
Will shortly be produces , THE. MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR, by Otto Nicola': an THE TWO GENTLE-
MEN OF VERONA, by Sir Henry Bishop.
Admission—Area, 6d, ; stalls and balmy, Is. ; private
b ;xes, 10s. 6d.

S ORTH AND.—PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d.

SiIORTHAND.-PITNIAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHI,: MANUAL. Free by post, is. 6(1.

CANTERBURY HALL.
The Fairy Entertainment, entitled
PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS!
Is written expressly for this establishment by W. F. Vander-
veil, author of the celebrated " Enchanted Ha.h," and en-
ables Mr. Morton, with th. Wel of Processor Pepper's Optical
Illusion (kn ,wn as the Ghost), to produce effects never before
contemplated, and which have all peen duly re,istered by
him and Mr. J: El. Weston under the title of .` The Ghost in
the Magic Fountains." By this nrw arrangement, that
which I. in reality nerhinn• but a shadow, becomes to all ap-
pearance endowed with life, and when "Fame" takes her
flight through the burning Cataracts, and the Naiads seek
their beds in the Cry.tal Waters, terra a coup d'ccil ot beauty
unparalleled even in fairy romance.
Princ • Blossom (with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley.
The Varvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at
half-past Nine o'c ook.
All the wonderful eitertainment of the establishment, as
usual, in a dition to the above.
Admission—Area, Gd.; Stalls and Balcony, ls.
Open every Evening.

H 0 R, T H A ND.-"PITMAN'S PHONO-
GRAPHY forms an ex,eedintzly ern3lent -probably
the MOST efficient -ay6tem of Shorthand that exiats."—Sir
Rowland ffill.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.-
TRIUMPH ANr SUCCW,S of the 'SEW CIRQUE,
ackno•.V ede-ed to be the best produced in England. Grand
MORNING PERFORMANCii: THIS DAY, and Every
Wednesday and Saturday, at Two. Evening at Half-past
Seven n'Cloolt.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.-
The stregteßt FEMALE RIDRIt of the Age, Mdlle.
LOUISE LOISSETT.

ROYAL ALH AMBR A.-
Brilliant Equegtean Scene, by Three Young Ladies,
`THE RIDE FOR THE RIBBON."

O YAL ALHAMBRA.
M. FRANCOIS 1.01-IETT will exhibit his wonderful
steed, LA SALAMANDER, performing in a brilliant Die•
ply of Fireworks.

AD A.ME TUSS AU D'S HISTORICAL
YR. GALL ERY ; established 28 years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street.
RECENT ADDlTlONS.—President Lincoln and Presi-
dent Davis; Ancient Effigies of Henry IV. and his Queen
Joan. in magnificent costumes of the period (1399); and in
the Chamber of Physiognomy is a full-length model of Geo.
Victor Townley.
Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night.
Admittance, ts. ; extra rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
During- the evening an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open ct Halt-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission la.

Manager, M. GRENET.

44A, MADDOX-STREET. REGENT-STREET, W.
THE LONDON NNATOMICAL MUSEUM
Open daily from 10 till 10. Where may be seen the
Asters; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant;
Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,000
Models, Natural Preparations, tte. Egyptian Mummies,
unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One bhilling (tor
Gentlemen only).

IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any
one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or
Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS.
Thcir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit.
Of all medicine vendors at is. lid..nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by
post for H or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist
Linnoln.

TIVIESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO.
execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the
year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and
Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber-
well-park
Address—Borr and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine
tores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London.

TEETH—Mr. ESKFLL'S INVENTION in
the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the
following arivantages :—A set or' teeth, of excellent work-
manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the
most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without
pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes
of mastication and articulation. 'They are fitted without
wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the
gums, that they a-e quite immoveable, except at the option
of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad-
just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the
aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always
useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea-
tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &e., tree for 7 stamps.
Inspection of specimens and consultations iree.-B,Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir•
mingham.

DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVE R
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
Pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
-mit, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and tiver complaints, indigestion, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, tire. For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appeite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Re sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green "Otago. with "William Lambert," engraved on the
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Quarter ended March 31,1861. Year ended March 31, 1864. 1
Increase. Decrease, Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
so £ • - £ £ X X X
CUSTOMS ..
9,00(
• • 802,000 CUSTOMS. t
..
EXCISE 462,000 1,0;2,000 EXCISE.
• •
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STAMPS 65,000 • • 32.3,000 STAMPS.
TAXES
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POST OFFICE
[
CROWN LANDS
______ POST OFFICE.
MISCELLANEOUS 130,843 • •
.. .•
• . .. 5,000 -- :: ---- - CROWN LANDS:— ----. —--
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TOTALS 686,313 911,000
.1 • . 1,890,402 2,285,000 TOTALS. t..
•

No. lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended 111%,ch 31, 1864; the Application of the same; and the Charge
of the Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Sufplus or Deficiency upon such Charge.

X6D1,768

..mount applied out of the Income to Supply Services, in the Quarter ended
March 3;, 18G4

0,254,490

637,995

£21,`,13,318

BLACKWOOD.—" Cornelius O'Dowd upon Men
and Women, and Other Things in General," is now

in its third part, and presents some very entertain-
ing sketches. There is plenty of diversity in these
details, and the leader turns from the freaks of a
Garibaidian envoy to discuss the subject of the
" Organ Nuisance." For this a most original remedy is
suggested. The paper on the "Chevalier d'lndustrie
of Our Day " is a very smart sketch, and no
one who reads of his impudent career but will con-

cnr in the remark here made, that the fact of such a man
flourishing for twenty years is a disgrace to the police of
Europe. These social swindlers are a deplorable set, and
the mischief they effect is incalculable. The manner in

which this adroit shuffier was once entrapped is a very

telling anecdote, and really roads like the denouement of
some skilful plot, There is much truth in the explanation
given rf the successes of such men that no one is willing
to confess to having been their dupes, and thus the im-
punity with which they often get out of scrapes and avoid
the consequences of [their exploits. "Mr. Knight's Re-

miniscsnces" is the subject of an article that may prove 01

interest to some. It refers to the manners and customs o,

bygone days, and there is sufficient originality introduced

into tho criticism to save it from t)ceotning a dull or tame
reflection i,f the book discussed. The description of the
modern omnibus is most ludicrous, and the minor miseries
attending its transit are familiar to all who have been among
the luckless passengers in such vehicles. There is much
to attract notice in this epitome of a remarkable work, and

whether it recalls old times or presents now pictures of their
predecessors to the reader, it will alike prove agreeable and
entertaining. "Tony Butler" is continued, and some
rather striking incidents are narrated. Mrs. Trafford does

not act wisely in her haste to mend matters, and altogether
the sparring that takes place about Maitland is not very
creditable. Yet it may not be lees true in its delineation, for
many may have noticed how often the chance arrival of an
important individual disturbs the peace of a little commu-

nity and frightens them out of all propriety. Tony does not
improve as a hero, ho is captious and uncertain, and shows
how much he needs the refining influence of the world to
tone d,,wn his abruptness and temper his hot
haste and vehement demeanour. " Our Neutrality"
is the political article of the number, and
sketches in a masterly manner the chief events and most
notable incidents attending the momentous, but discreditable
epoch in onr annals that records the doings of our Govern-
ment with the belligerent states of America. Things im-

press one more forcibly when they are put down in order
some little time after their occurrence, and certainly the
resunad of events here chronicled must disenchant all but

the inveterate partisans of the Government. The case is
very forcibly put, when it is asked if "our dignity is main-
tained by the spectacle of the Government dragging the
Alexandra oaee from tribunal to tribunal, with Mr. Adams
clamouring at their heels, and Mr. Seward threatening
war." It is quite refreshing, amid the infatuated'remarks
made by prejudiced people, to meet with eo outspoken an
advocate of the rights of nations as the writer of this article,
and one so impressed with the importance of maintaining
inviolate the honour and interests of England. " Annie
and her Master" is a peculiar sketch that will be sure to
find its admirers. The quaint simplicity of the heroine is a
pleasing contrast to the hackneyed class of portraitures one
is constantly meeting with, and the whole of the tale is
given to us with an animation of manner and a pathos of
description that impart a reality and interest to the narra-
tive. " A Letter from Sohleswig-Holstein" concludes the
number, furnishing a graphic account of the proceedings
that have taken place there, and, almost as a matter of
course, winding up with a diatribe against the policy of
England. This is the neverfailing conclusion at which
all arrive, in fact, who speculate upon the future, or review
the position of the present, or take_a retrospective glance
at the incidents of the past.
DUBLIN.—There is the second part of " Unfortua
nate Doctor Dodd" in this number. It sketches the
closing incidents of his sad career with much ear-
nestness and expression, and the reader will be able
to form a more correct estimate of the motives which
led to the commission of the fatal deed of forgery
than doubtless he has ever done before. Certainly, the
account of this man's fall is a warning to those who indulge
in reckless extravagance, and still more to those who con-
vert means to an end, and attempt to justify to themselves
the perpetiation of acts which ought to be known on the in-
stant to offend the laws of justice. The account of the great
excitement which this affair awakened in London is describ-
ed in a very impressive manner, and it is not likely that
the "tragic story of Doctor Dodd" will find many parallels
in the annals of crime. " Yaxley and its Neighbourhood"
is continued at some length. In this instalment the story
reaches a crisis of considerable importancegood old
lady dies suddenly, the will is lost, and the hapless little
Lizette is an outcast and a wanderer on the face of the
world. Various other complications arise, which promise
to make the tale very momentous as it proceeds on its
course. This is a carefully-defined and well-illustrated
story, so far as it goes. "Felon Biography" is the title of I
an article that is interesting. It refers to the memoirs of
Jane Cameron (reviewed several months since in The
Sun), and this suggestive subject is suitably treated
in the exposition here met with. Nothing is stronger
and sadder in the whole course of life studies than to
dwell on the careers of these Children of Night. The
account of the girl committing her first robbery to get a
penny to go to a dance meeting is most peculiar, but the
stamp of truth is impressed upon all that is here recorded,
and we e feel that we have before us no theatrical represen-
tation of bravoes or drawing-room similitude of manners,
but real characters, who are naturally drawn, as the sad
outline of their blighted lives is related. "Wicked Cap-
tain Walshawe, of Waulin is a stran g,O sketch that will
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suit the lovers of the horrible, and is certainly told with
spirit and ingenuity. "Earlier Type of the Sensational
Novel" is a carefully written paper that presents us with
some strange views of past literature. " Phases of Life in
Federal America" is an article that will attract at the
present time, when everything of a transatlantic character
has become so important. It brings before us many notice-
able traits of society in the States referred to.
FRASER.—A lengthened article on "Russia and
her Dependencies" opens this number, but the
reader, who is not inclined to linger over a some-
what dry subject, will quickly turn the pages to a
careful and readable essay on the writings of the
popular loyalist wipra Engliela literature line lately lost,

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The critic enters very fully into the distinctive features of
Mr Thackeray's style, and the merits of his various works.
He is far from bestowing unqualified approval or admiration
on all, and his article is, indeed, one cf the most judicious
which has appeared since Thackeray's death. Nevertheless
he accords, as all must do, high:praise to him as one who will
always retain a foremost place among our literary chieftains.
Mr. Gardiner's " History of James I." is discussed, and
the historian appears to have formed no favourable opinion
of our Scottish king. "His body, his mind, and
hie heart appear alike to have been wanting in that central
force by which the human frame and the human intellect
are at the same time invigorated and controlled." " French
Life" is the title of a very pleasant and lively paper, which
introduces us into the privacy cf a Parisian appartement,
and tells us little secrets about the domestic arrangements
which invest a gay French establillireent with an air of do:
mestic Comfort. " Our Private is the narrative of
thy. 'wonders worked by some private -theatricals. The
special virtues and qualifications of our matter-of-fact
nineteenth century aro treated of, • and a comparison insti-
tuted with its predecessors—no very original subject. " A
Campaigner at Home" is worth reading, and " The Story
of Two Wives" tells a not impossible social tragedy. The
last cuticle discusses a question which comes very forcibly
home to most of us—" How may a Peace Income Tax be
Supplanted ?"

ST. JAMES'S.—" The Man in Chains" continues
to be the most prominent feature in this magazine,
and chiefly devotes itself in this instalment to the
fortunes of Silvester Langdale. S. Scotian con
tributes a paper on " Vompyres," reminding us of
some of the horrible weird anpustitions that us,:
to-b—renreerir tfib' aubjetf.
account of the " Silver Mines of Freiberg in Saxony," and
the first part of anew version of the old romance, whos
hero and heroine are the dreaming poet and the beautiful
Scottish Queen, a narrative in this instance penned more in
accordance with the views of Miss Strickland than of Mr.
Freud°. " Bertie Bray" is continued in the regular
novelist fashion, and neither brother nor sister are con-
ducting themselves in the most honourable fashion. It is a
story of London fashionable life, heartless beauties and their
devoted admirers, old husbands and young wives, charming
toilettes and sour elderly maidens, and consequently will find
plenty of readers and admirers. " Lascelles Wraxall"
initiates us into the mysteries that lie hidden beneath the
cork of a champagne bottle, and Lieut. Wameford draws a
vivid picture of the horrors of being " Abandoned at Sea."
There is a very amusing little sketch entitled "Our Mys-
terious Subscriber," which narrates how the writer, a
young; litterateur, was raised to the seventh heaven of
delight by an appointment to the editorial ateff
of the Puddleton Gazette. On arriving at the scene
of his labours he made the acquaintance of the
owner and projector of the paper—a new journal that
was to take the world by storm. Oa the eve of its first ap-
pearance, however, the printers made an inopportune de-
mand for candles, the grocer refused an extension of credit,
the new-comer had 31d. in his pocket, and the proprietor of
the Puddleton Gazette not a sou. From this dilemma they
were happily rescued by the advent of their first subscriber,
who paid his quarter's subscription in advance. Such good
luck does not, we fear, often fall to the lot of mortals.
LE CORRESPONDANT, Mars 1864. Ch. Douniol.
—A more than ordinarily attractive number of Le
Correspondent has here made its appearance. Upon
the opening paper we took occasion yesterday to
comment in our leading columns—meaning the
remarkable paper by the Cte. de Falloux (de
l'Acad. Fr.) entitled " Introduction aux lettres de P. Lacer-
daire," these letters representing one half of the
correspondence between Madame Swetchin and the great
Dominican. Besides this—Rio descants here (upon the eve of
the tercentenary) upon" La Religion de Shakspere"—Leon
Lagrange has a most appropriate criticism upon the works
and the career of the French Rubens Eugene Delacroix—
and, at the tail of several other excellent contributions, per-
haps the most remarkable of these being the one by the
Abb6 Meignan, upon another phase of La Crise Religieuse
—Leon Lavedan rapidly, with a pencil of caustic, sketches
down the principal events of the month, burning perhaps
the most fiercely of all into his tablets the now notorious
incident about the member for Halifax.

MACMILLAN.—The story of " The Hillyars and
the Burtons" proceeds with undiminished interest,
and troubles seem to be thio.kaning round most of
the actors in it.__Geore Hillyar and Gerty arrive
in London, and make their appearance at hie
father's country seat, but although Gerty's firat introduc-
tion to the sturdy old baronet is a great suleess, the bloom
has begun to fade off the poor silly little beauty's simple
life, and her influence over her gloomy, passionate husband
is already waning. Tho Burtons are becoming more and
more mixed up with the Mayers, and the mysterious
trouble hanging over Reuben grows darker and nearer.
" Our Sleep and Dreams" is a pleasantly written essay on
a very old subject of debate and discussion. The writer
cites some instances in which the world of dreams has exer-
cised a beneficial influence in the world of realities. " Tor-
tini is said to have composed his Devii'e Sonata from the
inspiration of a dream in which the devil appeared to him
and challenged him to a trial of skill on his own fiddle.
Coleridge declares that he composed his splendid poetical
fragment of Kubla Khan when asleep. Condorcet relates
that more than once having retired to bed, jaded with
intricate calculations which he had left unfinished,
he completed them in his dreams. Franklin states
that he sometimes saw the bearing of political
events more clearly during sleep than he had done when
awake. Dr. Gregory mentions that thoughts sometimes
occurred to him in dreams which were so good that he used
them in his college lectures. Sir Benjamin Brodie tells us
of a friend who had more than once invented an apparatus
for an experiment he wished to make in a dream, and of
another who had solved mathematical problems when asleep
which had baffled him when awake." The usual " Letter
from Competition Wallah" deals this month with a very
difficult and momentous topic—Christianity in India. The
writer faces the question boldly, and after confessing the
unsatisfactory state of the religion of the Hindoos, he pro-
ceeds to inquire why it is that, " with all the advantages of
civilisation and domination, we have hitherto succeeded in
converting to our creed only one in 10,000 of the subject
I people." The reasons he gives are so numerous and so
formidable that the most sanguine missionary might well
droop discouraged ; but there are good influences at work
as well as bad, and we may trust that the acknowledged
declension of the old Hindoo worship before the light of
knowledge and civilisation may be only the forerunner of
the substitution of a purer faith. " Two Months in Rome,"
and " A Gossip Over My Portfolio," are both worth read-
ing; but many readers will turn with more interest to the
reprint of some correspondence between Coleridge and
William Godwin, in which the poet gives full vent to his
metaphysical speculations in addressing a friend of such
congenial tastes and abilities.
TEMPLE BAR.—" The Doctor's Wife" is con-
tinued at some length, and in this instalment mat-
ters progress most unfavourably as regards the
future welfare and peace of the young couple. The
story is most naturally told, and this constitutes its
chief attraction, for the hero and heroine are alike provok-
ing in their opposite extremes—lsabel with her absurd
notions of romance, and George with his very hum-drum
ideas, Such characters do, however, constantly consort
and attempt to fight the battle of life together. The result
is one of those disastrous failures which furnish the stage
with themes for tragedy, and bestow endless opportunities
for the novelist to expatiate upon. "The Streets of the
World" this time describes Berlin, Unter-den-linden. The
sketch is not a very flattering one. " Rest and be Thank-
ful" are spirited verses. "Maid v. Mistress" is an article
that is well worthy of perusal. It traces the origin of the
fault which militates against the well-doing of so many
servant maids to their faulty bringing up at home, where
their hard working, half-starved mothers sacrifice every-
thing to turn out their daughters " smart." Much may be
gathered from this sketch of the troubles that beset domes-
tic life in the shape of saucy and incompetent assistants.
"Broken to Harness" is continued in the same animated
manner as before.- " The Ball-season in Paris" is an -
tertaining little sketch of the doings in that gay capitaen l.
The number of balls that take place, the numerous visitors
who throng to the festivities, and the amount which all this
quietly coats, are set down for those who seek such infor-
mation to con by rote, and they will doubtless be greatly
edified by the astonishing calculations and astounding re-
velations that are made.
LONDON SOCIETY.--The illustrations to this nick_
gszine still form a considerable part of its. att
ofrae•
tins. They are numerous and effective, and often
display both taste and talent. A new
aeries
papers commences in this number, and with promise of
interest. It is called "The London Opera Directors,"
and proposes to give us anecdotic memoirs of the most re-
markable men who have been connected with operatic
management, together with recollections of the chief singers
and composers who flourished during their reigns. This
first part chronicles the management, fortunes, and misfire
tunes of no less a personage than Handel, the results of
whose operatio career are thus summed up :—" During his
unfortunate struggle against Porpora and the world of
fashion he had lost his health, he had lost all the money he
had made during 20 years of labour, and he had to start
anew, at the age of 56, having nothing left bat his glorious
reputation," "The Merchant Princes of England" are
continued in due course, and we have the story of the
famous Sir Richard Whittington. Lovers of the antique
will be gratified to learn that the biographer is clearly
of opinion that a cat was in some way connected with the