The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 9.—But little change has taken
place i❑ the tone of the market, and prices remain
about the same. Threes, for the Account, are now
at 69fr. 371 c. Italian Loan has slightly improved.
Railway Shares have not been much dealt in, and
the market is on the whole rather weak. Closing
prices as follow :
it per Cents . . 97 25
Do end month....
3 per Cents .. 69 20
Do. end month.... 69 30
Credit Mobilier.... 1265
Do. end m0nth....1215
Bank Shares
Credit k oncier

Italian Loan 73 05
Do. end month 73 10
New ditto 74
Do. end month 74 10
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 53 50
Florae Debt .. 5l 75

RAILIVAYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 1032 50 .. 1035
New ditto — -- ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1047 50
Geneva.. 443 75 .. 445
Southern
Western.
Eastern ... .... 3 498 75 .. 501 25
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 712 50 .. 717 50
Ditto to Barcelona

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
MARSEILLES, June 10th.
The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived here
at 4 a.m. this day.
Tne mails leave for London at 11 a.m.

THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.

The steamer Armenian arrived here this even-
ing with the above mail, one box of diamonds, 307
ounces of golddust, 800 sovereigns, and 2,500 dole.
in specie, and 29 passengers.
Her dates are—Benin, April 23 ; Fernando Po,
28th; Cameroons, 30th; Old Calabar, May 2; Brass
River, 4th ; New Calabar, 7th; Bonny, 7th; Lagos,
11th ; Accra, 12th; Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Sierra
Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th; Teneriffe, June 1 ;
Madeira, 2d.
Fernando Po was healthy, and trade had much
improved. No reduction had taken place in the
prices cf oil. Trade was stopped at Accra owing to
the expEcted attack upon Cape Coast Castle by the
Ashantees. Five soldiers from her Mjesty's ships
Dart and Dove were drowned at Accra on May 13
while attempting to land in canoes.

Private despatches state that the coast generally
was fearfully unhealthy, but this is not confirmed
by the Armenian's despatch.

A SPECIMEN OF MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.—
A Protestant clergyman, one Rev. William
Dampier is thus described by Miss Thackeray in her " Story
of Elizabeth :"—" He was a big, commonplace young man,
straight-minded and tender-hearted. with immense energy
and great go, d spirits. He believed in himself; indeed, he
tried so heartily and conscientiously to do what was right,
that he could not help knowing, more or less, that he was a
good fellow. And then he had a happy knack of seeing
one side of a question, and having once determined that so
and so was the thing to be done, he could do so and so
without one doubt or compunction. He belonged to the
school of athletic Christianity. I heard some one once say
that there are some of that sort who would almost
make out cockfighting to be a religious ceremony. William
Dampier did not go so far as this, but he heartily believed
that nothing was wrong which was done with a Christian
and manly spirit, He rode across country, he smoked
pipes, he went out shooting, he played billiards and cricket,
he rowed up and down the river in his boat, and he was
charming with all the grumbling old men and women in
his parish ; he preached capital sermons, short, brisk, well-
considered. He enjoyed life and all its good things with a
grateful temper, and made most people happy about him."
A MARK FOR GENERAL CONTEMPT.—Bisinark !
—Fun.

A VERITABLE JIM CROW!—" Oh, my dear
E--! I have seen Jim Crow—the veritable James;
all the contortions, and springs, and flings, and kicks, and
capers you have been beguiled into accepting as indicative
of him are spurious, faint, feeble, impotent—in a word, pale
northern productions of that ineffable black conception. It
is impossible for words to describe the things these people
did with their bodies, and, above all, with their faces, the
whites of their eyes, and the whites of their teeth, and cer-
tain outlines which either naturally and by the grace of
heaven, or by the practice of some peculiar artistic dex-
terity, they bring into prominent and most ludicrous dis-
play. The languishing elegance of some, the painstaking
laboriousness of others; above all, the feats of a certain
enthusiastic banjo-player, who seemed to me to thump his
instrument with every part of his body at once, at last so
utterly overcame any attempt at decorous gravity on my
part that I was obliged to secede; and, considering what
the atmosphere was that we inhaled during the exhibition,
it is only wonderful to me that we were not made ill by the
double effort not to laugh, and, if possible, not to breathe."

Fanny Iremble's Journal.
QUEEN'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH.—Mr. Hermann
Vezin, late of the Princess's and Lyceum Theatres,
and Mrs, Charles Young (now Mrs, Vezin), late of the
Raymarhet and Sadler's Wells Theatres, after having ful-
filled a successful engagement in Glasgow, performed before
a crowded and fashionable audience in Edinburgh
on Mosday night. The Scotsman of yesterday says :
—The dramatic version of Miss Braddon's novel,

" Lady Audley's Secret," which has been so popular
in London, was produced at the Queen's Theatre. It was
preceded by the well-worn farce of "Box and Cox," in which
Mr. Andrews (whose abilities as a burlesque actor were well
tested during a lengthened engagement at the Operetta-
House last season, and gained for him a large measure of
popularity) amused the audience, and worked them up into
good humour, by his clever by-play in the part of Cox, the
hatter. " Lady Audley's Secret" introduced two actors of
considerable merit to the Edinburgh public in Mr. Hermann
Vain and Mrs. Charles Young. The story has been some-
what altered to suit the exigencies of the stage, but its main
outlines are preserved, and its leading incidents effectively
grouped together in the play. In the first act, we have
George Talboys (Mr. E. D. Lyons) landing in England
after his toilsome career of three years at the Australian
diggings, on his way to share his wealth with the wife
whom he deserted in anger, He is suddenly plunged into
despair by reading, in the chambers of his friend Robert
Audley, the announcement of his wife's death—she having
in the interval married Robert's uncle, and sent the an-
nouncement to the papers to prevent his searching for her.
Thcn comes the visit of the two friends to Audley
Court, the recognition of Lady Audley (Mrs, Young) by
Talboys, and their interview, in which she upbraids him
with his desertion of her, and angrily repudiates his charge
of unfaithfulness. Mrs. Young's acting in this scene was
full of womanly pathos, so much so as to exclude for the
time being the idea of Lady Audley's own error, and to
kindle a thorough sympathy for her, and implicit belief in
the justice of her cause. In the second act, however—be-
tween which and the first twelve months are assumed to
have elapsed—we have Lady Audley goaded to desperation
by the hostility of Robert, and endeavouring to remove the
traces of one error by a series of crimes. In this altered
mood--no longer the injured and defiant, but the resolute
and guilty
woman—L icly Audley, though commanding,
sympathy less, still exercises a fascination over the specta-
tor, and Mrs. Young, in this the most difficult phase of the
character, was not less successful, She possesses a stately
figure and expressive countenance, admirably suited to such
a part, and its pathos and its passion were alike represented
with remarkable skill and fidelity. Mr. Vezin personated
the cool and unswerving Robert Audley in a careful and
jud cious manner, with almost none of that stage manner i,m
by which, in the closing scenes especially, such a charac-
ter might have been deprived of its identity in less able
hands,

AMERICA.
(ItEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

(Per City of Baltimore.)
NEW YORK, May 30 (Morning).
A prisoner at the Old Capitol Prison, Washing-
ton, has been shot dead whilelooking out of window
by the guard on duty. The prisoner was charged
with having furnished military appliances to the
Confederates at Richmond. He is said to have been
a British subject.
It is officially stated that the length of coast
blockaded by the Federal squadron, from Alexan-
dria, Virginia, to the Rio Grande, is 3,500 miles.
There are 189 openings in this line of coast.
General Grant's army attacking Vicksburg is said
to number 60,000 men.
Great dissatisfaction is expressed by the Southern
generals with Pemberton's military operations
against Grant, end the _Richmond Whig says it is
rumoured that General Johnston has taken his
sword from Pemberton, and placed him under

arrest.
The Petersburg Express of the 23d considers the
situation at Vicksburg extremely critical, and says
the destruction of the bridge across the Big Black
River not only isolates Vicksburg from communica-
tion with all other parts of the Confederacy, but
opens to the enemy the rich and much desired
Yazoo country. The Express fears that Pemberton,
with scarcely any field artillery and his army greatly
reduced, cannot long hold out unless Johnston
speedily concentrates his forces and relieves the be-
leaguered city.
The Richmond Examiner says that an attack on
Vicksburg can nowhere be made with a force equal
to the garrison. On no side can more than 8,000
men be deployed in line for an assault. The cha-
racter of the ground renders approaches difficult,
while heat and the country malaria during six
months of the year would make its siege at present
one of the most murderous on record. Only trea-
chery or cowardice could explain the capture of
Vicksburg by sudden assault, and its fall by any
other means seems daily less probable.
The Richmond Sentinel says that Johnston, who
is outside Vicksburg, is preparing to fall on Grant's
flank or rear, and thus raise the siege by a battle.
For this grand struggle both sides seem reinforcing.
The Sentinel looks hopefully on the situation.
Colonel Jones, with the Bth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment, has made an expedition from Newbern and
attacked the Confederates in their entrenchments at
Gum Swamp, capturing their artillery, 200 pri-
soners, and destroying their works. The Confede-
rates, however, rallied, and following up the Fede-
ral rear harrassed the Union troops considerably
until they gained their own lines. The Confederate
fire then became very severe, and. Colonel Jones was
killed behind his breastworks.
The schooner Sea Bird, of Philadelphia, whilst
aground at the mouth of Neuse River, North Caro-
lina, was captured and burnt by the Confederates.
They put off in small boats from the shore, and took
prisoners the captain and crew of the schooner.
It has been ascertained at Beaufort that nearly
a mi'lion dollars' worth of supplies have reached
the Confederates through the sutlers of the Federal
army, who opened wholesale houses at points where
the Federals had no military jurisdiction, and to
which the Confederates obtained free access.
The Federals have made an expedition from West
Point, Virginia, into the neighbouring counties,
sacking the grain warehouses and burning the mills,
and capturing horses, cattle, and sheep. They took
from the farmers everything that could be of use to
the Federal army, and destroyed their agricultural
implements.
The Richmond Examiner thinks the present mo-
ment most propitious for the Southern army to gain
a victory, which shall signify something more than
repulsing the enemy, for defensive operations will
never secure the acknowledgment of their indepen-
dence or end the war. The Northerners will fight
40 years so long as war means dispatching men and
money to a distance, and as long as they fail to see
the columns of an invading army blackening their
fields, lit by the flames of their houses and towns.
From the first the only reasonable hope of the Con-
federacy has been the transfer of hostilities to the
enemy's country. If that cannot be done the pro-
gress of invasion, however slow, must after a time
overwhelm the South. No treaty of peace is pos-
sible unless signed on Northern soil; and if the
Southern armies can ever go there at all the time
is now at hand.
The New York Herald thinks the treatment of
Generals Siegel and Francis Meagher, by the War
Department, in refusing to give them active com-
mands is shameful, and attributes Know-nothing
proclivities to the Secretary for War. It is stated
that General Meagher is about to visit Europe.
The Free South, a Northern journal, printed at
Port Royal, says that Gen. Paxton has ordered ra-
tions for negroes to be altogether discontinued, ex-
cept in cases where to do so would be inhuman.
The distribution of rations fostered the idea enter-
tained by the negroes that the Government was
bound to support them. The transition from slavery
to freedom appeared to them only a change of mas-
ters, the difference being that the new master was
more easily imposed upon than the old one. The
Free South hopes that when the negroes have had
an opportunity of raising their own subsistence,
and run short through laziness or neglect, they
will be taught by the pangs of hunger a lesson
that will not be lost. Their former condition as
slaves gives them no claim on the United States.
On the contrary, they owe the Northern Govern-
ment a debt of gratitude for favours conferred, and
the sooner the idea of philanthropists that it is the
duty of the Government to give them free support
is abandoned the better it will be for both whites
and blacks in the Southern depa►tment.
The Commercial Advertiser says :—" All the
prisoners taken in the battles on the Rappahannock
have been exchanged, and it appears that the num-
ber captured by us is just half that captured by the
enemy. The South claims to present e list in excess
of 8,000, while ours is little more than 4,000. This
is understood to be the condition of the exchange
arranged between the Northern and Southern com-
missioners. The rebel papers boast of the fact, And
the rebel authorities intimate that they should now
dictate some terms regarding the exchange of pri-
soners in future, which would lead to bloody re-
taliation if not complied with."
The New York limes says that Governor Sey-
mour's letter to the Veilandigham meeting is posted
in all parts of New York. After violently de-
nouncing the letter, the Times says :
" There are thousands ignorant or base enough
to be influenced by it, but if the patriotic feeling of
millions in New York State is raised, the New York
rebels will be swept like chaff before the wind. The
governor may do much mischief, but he must stop
very far short of the revolutionary violence he has
intimated in his letter, or he will confront a public
spirit it will be hardly safe to grapple with. The
human soul never bad a more inflexible purpose
than that now held by the people of New York
State, to sustain the war until the rebellion is
crushed. Any man attempting to divert that de-
termination by pretext or device will be ground to
powder."
The Commercial Advertiser, noting the changes
of population caused by the invasion of the
Northern armies throughout the South, says that
similar changes are taking place in the Northern
States. Strangers are arriving in unprecedented
numbers. So many emigrants never landed at New
York in one day as on Monday last (the 25th), the
aggregate being over 3,500. During the season
probably 50,000 emigrant have sought the Ameri-
can shores, four-fifths of them having landed at
New York.

DISPAMI OF THE BRAZIL AND RIFER PLATE
MAlLS.—Southampton, Tuesday.--The Royal Mail
Company's steamship Magdalena, Capt. Woolward, sailed
hence to-day, at three p.m., with the mails for Lisbon,
Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio do Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos
Ayres, &c. She took out 73 passengers and on freight for
Rio £209,900, of which amount £200,000 in sovereigns is
for the Bank of Brazil, and £7,400 in Lar silver for the
Minister of Finance ; for Bahia, £4,000 in sovereigns ; for
Monte Video, gold coin £226 ; for Buenos Ayres, gold coin
£1,600; hod for Lisbon £9,893 in sovereigns, of which
amount £6,000 is consigned Co the Union Bank. The
Magdalena also took out a very full cargo of French and
English merchandise.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 9.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess
Beatrice, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely,
Lady A. Bruce, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lieut.-
General the Hon. C. Grey, and Major-General the
Hon. A. Hood, went to London to-day by special
train on the Great Western Railway. Her Majesty
was met at the station by his Royal Highness
Prince Alfred, attended by Major Co yell, and pro-
ceeded thence to the Horticultural Gardens, the
Equerries attending on horseback.
Her Majesty was received at the entrance in
Exhibition-road by the Duke of Buccleuch, Presi-
dent; Sir W. Dilke, Vice-President; and the coun-
cil and secretaries of the Society, who had the
honour of being presented to her Majesty.
Her Majesty proceeded up the centre walk of
the gardens to the spot where the Great Exhibition
Memorial is erected, surmounted by the statue of
the Prince Consort, which is to be formally inaugu-
rated to-morrow by his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, accompanied by the Princess of Wales and
other members of the Royal family.
Her Majesty was met here by Mr. Durham, the
sculptor, by whom the statue was executed, Alder-
mean Challis, the chairman, and Mr. God win, the
secretary of the Memorial Committee, who had also
the honour of being presented to her Majesty.
Her Majesty made a lengthened inspection of the
Memorial, visiting every spot whence a fresh view
might be obtained, and frequently expressed how
much she was pleased with it, and the gratification
it had afforded her to see its success. Her Majesty
also marked her interest in the progress of the gar-
dens by afterwards spending a consijerable time in
the conservatory and adjoining terraces, with
which she declared herself much satisfied.

Her Majesty then returned by the Eastern Ar-
cade to her carriage in Exhibition-road, and drove
to Marlborough-horse to visit the Prince and Prin-
cess of NV ales.

There were also present in the gardens, to meet
her Majesty, the Earl Granville, K.G., Viscount
Sydney, G.C.8., the members of the Works Com-
mittee, Mr. Kelk, the contractor for the Exhibition
Building, Mr. Foley, Mr. Westmacott, and others.

The Prince of Orange paid a visit to her Majesty
at Marlborough-house.
The Queen returned to Windsor at two o'clock.

Lord Methuen and Captain Sir W. Hoste have
succeeded Lord Talbot de Malahide and Colonel the
Hon. A. Liddell as Lord and Groom in Waicing.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Prince Alfred, the Prince of Leiningen, the Duke of.
Cambridge, and Count Gleichen, honoured the
performance of Her Majesty's Theatre last evening
with their presence. They were attended by the
the Earl of Mount•Edgecumbe, Lieut.-Gen. Knollys,
Lieut.-Col. Keppel, Major Cowell, and Col.
Tyrwhitt.
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince
Alfred, and attended by his Equerry in Waiting,
rode out on horseback yesterday.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales received
addresses of congratulation to his Royal Highness
at d the Princess of Wales yesterday afternoon, at
Marlborough-house, from the clergy of the Province
of Canterbury in Convocation, and from the clergy
of the cities of London and Westminster.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops, and
the clergy of the Province arrived in their Convo-
cation robes at half-past two o'clock. Present :
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lon-
don, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Bishop of
Winchester, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop
of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of
Salisbury; Dr. Travers Twiss, Vicar-General ; Mr.
Francis Hart Dyke, Registrar of the Province of
Canterbury ; and Mr. Felix Knyvett, Apparitor-
General. The officers and members of the Lower
House of Convocation present were :—The Prolo
tutor, the Dean of Bristol; the Actuary. Mr. Francis
Cobb; the Deans of Canterbury and Norwich, the
Archdeacons of Buckingham and London ; proctors
for chapters—the Rev. Canon Harvey, Dr. Jelf, Dr.
Jeremie, and the Rev. Canon Argles ; proctors for
the clergy—the Warden of All Sous, the Revs. A.
M. Hopper, T. Mills (chaplain to her Majesty), M.
W. Mayow, J. C. B. Riddell, J. H. Randolph, J.
Bramston, F. Vincent, Dr. M'Caul, Ashton Oxen-
den, and G. B. Blomfield.
His Grace and the clergy were ushered to the
saloon, where their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales received them, attended by
the Lady and Gentlemen in Waiting.
The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered the fol-
lowing Address :
"TO THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE AND
PRINCESS OF WALES.

"We, the Archbishop, Bishops, and clergy of the Pro-
vince of Canterbury in Convocation assembled, approach
your Royal Highness with the expression of our cordial
congratulations on your happy marriage.
" We pray God, for Christ's sake, long to continue to in•
crease your happiness here, and to grant you, above all, His
choicest earthly blessings of mutual affection ; that so your
Royal Highnesses in your exalted position may, through
His grace and mercy, long live before this people as bright
examples of godly unity and Christian love.
" And we will ever pray, &c."
The Prince of Wales returned the following an-
swer :

"My Lord Archbishop, Bishops, and clergy of the Pro-
vince of Canterbury,—The Princess and myself thank you
heartily for your congratulations on our marriage, and for
your prayers for our happiness, which we desire to assure
you we appreciate most deeply.
" We trust that our humble efforts may never be wanting
to justify the affectionate interest which you have taken in
our union."

The Lord Bishop of London and the clergy of
London and Westminster arrived at Marlborough-
house. Present—the Lord Bishop of London, the
Dean of St. Paul's (Dr. Milman), the Dean of West-
minster (Dr. Trench), the Archdeacon of London
(Yen. William Hale Hale), the Archdeacon of Mid-
dlesex (Yen. John Sinclair), the President of Sion
College (Rev. J. Jackson), Rev. Canon Dale, Rev.
Canon Champneys, Rev. Canon Melvill, Ven. Arch
deacon Bentinck, Lord J. Thynne, Rev. C,,,non
Jennings, Rev. Canon Wordsworth, Rev. Canon
Cureton, Rev. Canon Nepean, Rev. T. Randolph,
Rev. Dr. Wean!, Rev. Ernest Hawkins, Rev.Thos.
G. Hall, Rev. Chas. B. Dalton, Rev. It G. Baker,
Rev. Henry Venn, Rev. Derwent Coleridge, Rev.
W. A. Soames, the Chaplain-General (Rev. G. R.
Gleig), Rev. J. Jackson, Rev. R. Burgess, Rev. C.
Mackenzie, Rev. W. G. Humphry, Rev. Dr. Kynas-
ton, Rev. F. C. Cook, Rev. C Marshall, Rev. M.
Gibbs, Rev. Dr. Goulburn, Rev. J. H. Hamilton,
Rev. T. T. Ainger, Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Rev. Dr.
Hessey, Rev. Dr. Irons, Rev. J. E. Kempe, Rev.
Thos. Griffith, Rev. W. Rogers, Rev. H. Howarth,
and the Rev. W. H. Fremantle (Bishops Resident
Chaplain).

His Lordship and his clergy were ushered to the
saloon, where the Bishop presented Addresses from
the Lord Bishop of London and the clergy of the
cities of London and Westminster on the recent
marriage.

The Prince of Wales was attended at the recep-
tion of the addresses by the Earl of Mount Edge-
cumbe, Lord in Waiting, Lieut.-General Knollys,
Controller and Treasurer; Hon. Robert H. Meade,
Groom in Waiting ; and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel,
Equerry in Waiting.
The Princess of Wales was attended by Countess
de Grey, Lady in Wasting; and Lord Harris,
Chamberlain.

A deputation from the Grocers' Company had an
interview with the Prince of Wales, to confer the
freedom of the Grocers' Company upon his Royal
Highness. The deputation was composed of Mr.
Henry Grace, Master ; Mr. Jas. Cottam, Mr. Mark
Cattley, and Mr. Vesey Weston Holt, Wardens;
and Messrs. Henry Warner, William Pott, Henry
Brownirg, Robt. Garrard, and W. J. Thompson ; a
deputation from the Court of Assistants; and Mr.
W:n. Ruck, clerk.
The Freedom of the Company was presented to
the Prince of Wales by the Master, Mr. Grace, the
certificate being enclosed in a handsome gold box.
The oath on admission was admirtistered to his
Royal Highness by the clerk, Mr. Ruck.

LITERATURE.

Respectable Sinners. By Mrs. Brotherton. 3 vole

Hurst and Blackett.

Notwithstanding its not very attractive title,
:qrs. Brotherton has here given us a ery attrac-
tive novel, in which some of the Tartuffes and
Pharisees of modern days are both skilfully and se-
verely depicted. The discrimination of character
is singularly happy, and the story is very naturally
and pleasantly told. The two heroines, Louisa
Danhaye and her daughter, Helen Ashton, are
beautiful portraits, beautifully portrayed. Both of
them full of faults of very different kinds, and both
of them so richly endowed with natural goodness,
that the discipline of life, which comes to all,
leaves them chastened by sorrow and ennobled by
suffering. At the opening of the tale Louisa is a
widow of one-and-twenty, and Helen an orphan of
three years old. The wit ow, it appears, had married
without her father's consent, and she is now left
almost penniless. But, fortunately for her youth
and inexperience, her husband's brother arrives from
abroad, and for the time provides for her. An
amusing chapter " On Daily Breal and Daily
Cake," deserves to be studied by the sentimental
young ladies who sigh for love in a cottage. Louisa
Danhaye, the only chileof a wealthy father, had,
it should be remembered, up to the time of her
marriage, existed in blissful ignorance of worldly
affairs.

Louisa held the precious metals in sublime contempt,
and always called them " dross." So do a vast number of
romantic young women, whose parents happen to be well off.
And oh I ye younger brothers, it is always some
dainty creature brought up on cake, that is so innocently
eager to share your crust I Louisa, for instance, had an
excellent appetite for her Gaily cake, liked it as •rich as it
could be made, and munched it gracefully— sighing senti
mentally the while for dry bread.

"[his brief passage gives a glimpse of Mrs. Brother-
ton's lively, pleasant style. Her manner of narrat-
ing her story is very charming ; and the story itself
is sufficiently interesting to make us reluctant to
spoil its interest by any premature disclosure of its
plot. Widow Louisa selects a second husband--
" a respectable sinner"—and little Helen, an affec-
tionate, impulsive child, skrinks from him instinc-
tively, as little David Copperfield shrank from
Murdstone. But widow Louisa is not meek and
malleable like poor Clara, and Mr. Hartley, of
Hartley Hall, finds his match. Another " respect-
able sinner" is Mrs. NPttlefold, Louisa's aunt, who,
from avaricious motives, keeps up and augments the
estrangement between Louisa and her father. The
character of this irreproachable lady, with her
rustling silks and her benignant smile, is very
effectively described. Edward Hartley, the hypocri-
tical son of a tyrannical father, is another character
drawn,with skilful discrimination. The fatal effects
upon a weak nature of such early training as fell to
his lot at the hands of those " respectable sinners,"
his worldly father and his austere grandmother, are
most effectively shown. The happy influence ulti-
mately obtained by the loving but too impetuous
Helen will be a matter of satisfaction to all who take
an interest in her story. The character of the mother
is, however, the happiest in the book. The one
strong feeling of her life, her devotion to her
daughter, while it subjects her for a time to much
anxiety and distress, ultimately proves, like every
unselfish emotion, the source of benefit and blessing,
at once to giver and recipient. Other "sinners" ap-
pear in these volumes, lees " respectable," but more to
be respected. Mrs. Brotherton will find favour with
many readers, who, it is to be hoped, may derive
from her teaching as much profit as pleasure.

An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862.
By the Rev. W. Wyndham M let. One vol. pp.

312. Bentley.

A pleasant, gossipping book enough—but one
that unhappily comes before us according to the over-
frank first page of a most ingenuous Preface as
literally published at the "request of friends." The
acknowledgment is evidently made, of course, by the
author, with a view to propitiate the reader's
leniency, and to attract attention to the narrative
which follows thereupon. Mr. Malet not having the
faintest notion in the world, apparently, that if the
fact is as he states (and we cannot in courtesy but
credit his statement) that same fact is dead against
him, to begin with. Nay, in addition to the gaucherie
of this announcement of his, that his lucubrations do
now actually make their appearance before us in
deference to that melancholy circumstance
request of friends" before mentioned—the Writer
e
positively goes on at once to Inak
matters still worse by " humbly apologising
tor "presuming to offer such desultory" jottings.bYt,
the way—by " throwing himself upon the generosity
of those who may "honour his reminiscences with
perusal"—and by trusting that the many imperfec-
tions, repetitions, and so forth, that will be found
in his pages will meet with leniency, leading to
forgiveness." Nobody, we undertake to say, cares
one snap of the fingers for any book that comes under
consideration prefaced by such meekly propitiatory
sentences as these. Bad as impertinently self-suffi.-
cient prefaces are, beyond a doubt, they are far more
likely to be tolerated than a pensive, little, stam-
mering, blushing, introductory page or two like the
couple here only too modestly penned by the bearer
(and writer) of the "Errand to the South." And
the volume, when it comes to be looked into, turns
out to be precisely what might have been pretty
confidently predicated it would prove to be, from the
tone and manner of this most mistaken avant courier.
As a specimen of the author's style of writing
throughout, we subjoin his sketch (if it really can be
so called) of the Southern President :