The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-01 00:00:00

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seeding, having in this number reached its forty-fourth
chapter. It in well written, but unsatisractcry ; the
wretched position of ire hero being iu a great measure
bought about by his own fault in succumbing to advert o
circumstances. The young marquis and marchioness who
appeared in tU last number occupy a prominent place in
this one, and the conclusion comes to the enfeebled life of
the old Signor Arvocato. A singular paper, entitled,
Sonic Account of the Closing of a Correspondence be-
tween Dear Sir' and Yours Faithfully,' " comments upon
the increasing brevity of our epistolary communications,
which have shrunk from pages into lines. Matthew Arnold
gives us an account of a French Eton in the Toulouse
Lyceum, which it is interesting to compare with our
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addition
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serial literature. Still, it bears a
fair 'a to
our
variety on title page, and the number before us is not an
favourable specimen. The story of " Aubrey AZits
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ston" is continued at some length, and the troubles
of the unhappy hero thicken.- He has become involved in
the vortex of speculation, and is obliged to recur far advice
and assistance to the friend who was the original cause of
all his troubles, and whose sincerity he is more than in-
clined to suspect. "Mountain Climbing,,, and ~D3w3a
izi
Yachtland," are two papers appropriate to the season, the
one taking the reader up the " Jungfrau," the other bid-
ding him loiter by the pleasant towns of the Isle of 'Wight.
The eighth part of the series of papers on "Royal Favou-
rites" tells us the story of the career of the Duke de Luynes
—a career which, like so many similar ones, ended in esore
tification and disgrace, " Straws in the Stream" float this
month by Mr. Mechi's farm, of which the writer gives an
animated descriptirn. Same five and twenty years ago,
when Mr. Mechi purchased the estate, it was, he obeeives,
little better than a waste. "It was difficult of approach by
foot, and almost impassable by means of any ordinary
vehicle, for where it was not sand and gravel to the very
surface it was bog; and altogether it presented as uninvit-
ing a spot as could well be conceived, even by a denizen of
the Essex marshes. That spot is now a rich landscape,
variegated by crops of agricultural produce, richer and
heavier than those in the delta of the Nile ; and in the
centres rises an attractive residential hall, in front of which
is a velvety lawn,which is approached by a carriage way as
smooth as Regent-street, and lined on either side with
rows of laurels and evergreens." All that remains of the
bog is an ornamental piece of water in the midst
of the pleasure grounds. Mr. 11Techi may well be proud of
the transformation effected by his means. " Must be Sold"
is the title of an interesting sketch, telling how a middle-
aged Englishman and his family were entrapped byYankeo
sharp practitioners. The unwary newcomer was induced
to invest all his savings in a piece of land said to contain
valuaele mines, whose rich ore it need hardly be said eras
all at the surface. Fortunately for the disconsolate immi-
grant, an engineering friend discovers a well of rock oil,
which makes ample compensation for the collapse of the
mining speculation. A paper on " Art in America" gives
an account of the best Transatlantic painters.
LONDON SOCIETY.—AIways animated and en-
tertaining, this magazine appears with its usual
attractive face, and though some readers may
quarrel with the plentiful supply of fashionable
sketches and professedly humorous pages, no one can
deny that there is often matter that is worth read-
ing for other purposes than amusement. The principal
contribution in the present number is the opening paper on
"London Editors and Reporters," with portraits, both with
pen and pencil, of two celebrities of the last generation,
"Memory Woodfall" and James Perry, The former is styled
the father of modern reporting, though few of our shorthand
writers of the present day would care to undertake his duties
or bo competent to fill his post. If the denizens of the
Reporters' Gallery were suddenly deprived of pencil and
paper, and bidden to remember what they heard and write
it out at their leisure, we suspect they would find the change
anything but agreeable. The singular powers of 111 r.
Woodfall defied the individual competition of his contem-
poraries. " Some of them might be equal to him in one
part of the work, others in another, one man might remem-
ber as much, another might express it as elegantly, and a
third reproduce it with as much despatch, but Woodfall
had the union of all three to an extent which none of there
could match." The latter part of this interesting article is
devoted to the career of James Perry, well known in con-
nection with the Horning Chronicle, and to the group of
talented writers who assisted the early days of the Morning
Post. A pleasant sketch of "The Actors' Fete" describes
that animated scene, and a paper on "English Dining-
rooms in Paris" will amuse the reader. The papers on
"Cricket" are continued, giving in this part an account of
the matches between Eton and Harrow. The story of
" The First Time I Saw Her" is brought to a satisfactory
termination, the spirited heroine being delivered at the last
moment from the toils which encompassed her. "Curiosities
of Fashion" is a paper that is very well worth reading,
being full of quaint and recondite information respecting
the vagaries of
the whimsical goddess Fashion in the
matter of dress.

Mrs. Schmitt and the Polar Bear.

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satisfaction to Mrs. Schmitt's friends, commences
the report of a suit that has just been heard before
the Tribunal of Commerce of the Seine, and which
is headed with the words—" The Ferocious Animals
iof the Hippodrome.—The White Bear and Mrs.
Schmitt." It appears from the proceedings that the
success of Crockett the lion-tamer had fired Arnault,
the director of the Paris Hippodrome, with a noble
emulation, and he resolved to serve up live wild
beasts to his intelligent audiences. He had heard of
a menagerie at Ghent, kept by Mr. Schmitt, and
comprising four lions, two black bears, two hyenas,
and a white bear, all warranted ferocious. Ho
succeeded in bringing this savage collection to
Paris, together with one Hermann, the daunter of
beasts, whom all Paris has seen since then paying
friendly visits to the animals in their dens, nod
taking the white bear's supper into the cage whew
he lived in solitude. People began to get used to,
this, and it occurred to the enterprising Arnault
that it would be a seductive novelty if a woman
could be got to venture upon the same familiarities
with the captive monsters. An agreement eras
signed with Mrs. Schmitt, who, not less
valiant than graceful, accepted a sum of 4,1000
francs to appear at the Hippodrome for a fort-
night and to enter the cage of the combined
animals---that is to say, of the lions, hyenas, and
black bears, who all lived together. Mrs. Schmit'4
stoutly performed her part of the agreement, bat
the manager wished her also to visit the Polar
bear, which she refused on the grounds that he was
not set down in the bond. Hence a double lawsuit,
in which the lady came off with flying colours. In
the course of the trial some indiscreet revelations,
were made by the manager's advocate, calculated
much to discourage that eccentric John Bull who,
according to a current tradition in France, con-
tinually attends exhibitions of this class in hopes
of seeing some exasperated lion or irritable bear
make a meal of the tamer. The white bear, it was
declared, is gentle as a lamb, and only formidable
in the bills of the performance, consequently Arnault
did not seek to expose Mrs. Schmitt to the least
danger. It was known to all the people employed
at the Hippodrome that when Mr. Hermann went
into the cage with the supper, grooms, with rods
which were concealed from the public, pushed the
pieces of meat away from the bear, so as to excite
the animal to signs of impatience and pretended
anger. Mr. Hermann, in the absence of the public,
was iu the habit of smoking his cigar in the cage,
without paying the least attention to the bear, and
his keeper, Jacob, used to let the gentle inhabitant
of the Polar regions take sugar from between his
teeth like a dog—a degree of gentleness on the pelt
of a bear which certainly did not justify Mrs.
Schmitt's pretended terrors, and the real cells° of
her refusal, it was alleged, was a with to keep up
Martin the bear's usurped reputatien of ferocity.
The Court, however, considered the lady's case to
be made out, and sentenced Arnault to pay the
4,000 f. with costs.

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brave and fearless spirit with w • '164 P-s'
their own against the besiegers. In tine' n,
the writer observes, in words whose truth has been
testified by the experience of all ages—" The real strength
of a besieged place consists not in. the scientific construction
of its defences, nor in the multitude of the garrison, nor in
abundant stores of provision and ordnance, but in the spiri t
which is prepared to dare all, anti endure all, sooner than
allow the assailants to set foot within the wall." Such a
spirit might well animate our countrymen after the expo -
rience of Cawnpore ; and happily, in more than one in—
stance, it brought the reward due to heroic valour and en-
durance. The lengthened story of " Vincenzo" is still pro-