The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY' EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1863;

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ANNOYING A TRADE6MAN.—Martha Ann Rose, a
shabbily-dressed woman, and John Berry, a rough-looking
fellow, were charged before Mr. Knox with disorderly con-
duct, and annoying Mr. W. Rose, naval and military tailor,
of 2, Norris-street, Haymarket, the husband of the first-
named defendant.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the complainant, and from the learned gentle-
man's statement, borne out by his client, it appeared that
the complainant was married to bis wife when he was an
apprentice boy. After being married about two years the
complainant found that his wife consorted with other men.
He then left her, and had been separated from her about 30
years, but about six years ago she was taken into custody
for annoying her husband, and bound over at the Clerken-
well Police-court to keep the peace towards him. Yester-
day, accompasied by the man Berry, she went to the com-
plainant's house. swore she would tear his "- liver out,"
and got a crowd round the door of nearly 100 persons. The
man also swore that he would have " the - house down"
it Mr. Rose did not let his wife have some money.
The wife said she wanted to ask the magistrate whether
her husband could nut be compelled to keep her ?
Mr. Knox said that if a husband deserted his wife the
proper way was to make herself char
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The wife said her husband had been living with a female,
and had been guilty of adultery.

Mr. Lewis said that, in fairness to Mr. Rose, he wished
to state that there was no truth in the wife's statement.

MR. LINCOLN'S BUTTERFLY ADDRESS

Broken on the Wheel of Manhattan's
Criticism.

William S., of England, never wrote grander
than A. L. in what follows. Job was grand, when
he showed himself in his most majestic parts, but
he never was so sublime as our President, A. L.:—
"The signs look better. The Father of Waters again
goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West
for it. Nor yet wholly to them : 300 miles up they met
New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their
way right and left. The Sunny South, too, in more colours
than one, also lent a hand. On the spot their part of the
history was jotted down in black and white:,

Hide your head, Idyll Tennyson. "The signs look
better." When, how, and where ? Gold is going
up and greenbacks are coming down. Charleston
cannot be taken. Soldiers cannot be had : 40,000
are rt quired to keep New York quiet. " Tne Father
of Waters goes unvexed to the sea." He might
have added " for which give glorious thanks to me."
It would have been potent but false. He means
thet " the Mississippi river runs into the Gulf of
Mexico, and steamboats come as far as New Orleans
without being fired into by the rebels. He might
have added, that Jeff Davis has given positive
orders that not a steamboat shall be molested upon
the Mississippi for six months, and it is religi-
ously obeyed. Tell me, that unless such orders
had been given that every boat would not have
been fired at fifty times upon every passage up or
down ! Pah ! Jeff needs supplies, and he will
wait until 500 boats are running, loaded with mil-
lions of dollars of cargo, and then he will change
his orders, and nab every boat, and secure millions
of property. " Thanks to the great North-West"—
meaning Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, lowa,
Michigan, Minnesota. " They met New England"
(the short for the six New England States, viz.,
Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts,Rhode
Island, New Hampshire.) "Empire" (New York),
" KEystone" (Pennsylvania), "and Jersey" (New
Jersey), hewing their way"—one of his old similes
of his rail-splitting days. " The Sunny South—
more colours than one" (meaning the white and
black troops raised in South Carolina, Lonisana,
Tennessee, and so forth), " jotted down in black
and white on the spot" (a sportive way of saying
that the whites and niggers were killed promis-
cuously.
" The job was a great national one, and let none be
banned who bore a honourable part in it. And while those
who have cleared the great river may well be proud, even
that is not all."

Job is good. Though a job is generally a contract
one. " Let none be banned" means, " give the
negroes as much credit for it as to the white folks."
" It is hard to say that anything has been more bravely
and better done than at Antietam, Murfreesborough, Get-
tysburg, and on many fields of less note."

I nevor gave credit to M'Clellan for doing anything.
How Uncle Abe got Antietam shoved in his poetry
passes my comprehension. I always thought An-
times a defeat, although it was claimed by both sides
as a great victory, only we got whipped the worst.
The following is juicy :

" Nor must Uncle Sam's web-feet be forgotten. At all
the waters' margins they have been present, not only on
the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up
the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a
little damp, they have been and made their tracks."

" Uncle Sam's web-feet." This is dark. To fully
comprehend it you must know that our greatest
shipbuilders in the city are named Webb. They
built the frigates for the Russian Government, and
they have built some of the best gun boats that
went up the Mississippi. If the President spoke
ornithologically about Web feet, he stuck fast ;
for on the deep sea our Web feet have made a ter-
rible fiasco. It is estimated that over 200 of our
best war steamers have first and last been chased
by or have sought to chase the rebel steamers
Alabama and Florida without success,

" Wherever the ground was a little damp they
have been and made their tracks" is decidedly
running the thing into the ground. There is no
explaining that poetically or prosily, except by sup-
posing the writer had wetted his subject by more
lager beer or " bonbon" than is his usual custom.
It would seem so by what follows:
'• Thanks to all. For the great Republic—for the prin-
ciples by which it lives and keeps alive—for man's vast
future—thanks to all."

" lhanks to all," reminds one of a drunken man's
last efforts as he is taken cut from the public
dinner table. The closing up, and "lAA us be
quite sober" is significant .
" Still, let us not be over sanguine of a a speedy final
triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply
the means, never doubting that a just God, is His own
good time, will give us the rightful result."
Earl Russell thinks that he is some 'pumpkins in
letter writing, but he sinks into insignificance
alongside of our chief cook.

MR. CHARLES MATHEWS IN PARIS.

LITERATURE.

A Guide to the Western Alps. By John Ball,
M.R.1.A., F.L.S., &c., late President of the

Alpine Club. One vol., pp. 377. Longman.
" Il n'y a plus de Pyrinies," exclaimed Louis
XIV. when a member of his own family was placed
on the throne of Spain. " The Pyrenees are no
more." In a kindred spirit it may be said that the
enterprise and determination of modem' travellers,
mare particularly among the number the late Albert
Smith, have abolished, not the Alps, but the difficul-
ties and obstacles which to a certain extent rendered
them heretofore inaccessible. The autumn tour among
the Alps has become now-a-days almost as much a
matter-of-course as a gallop in Rotten Raw during
the season. Even Mont.lßlanc has lost his terrors.
The daring motto of the Alpine traveller is " Ex-
celsior." No difficulties daunt him—" If it is pos-
sible, it is done; if it is impossible, we will do it !"
So general and so earnest has become the passion
for "mountaineering" among our adventurous coun-
trymen that a number of gentlemen have enrolled
themselves as members of the Alpine Club. Their
avowed object is "to explore those districts of the
Alps which are little known, to scale the higher
-summits, and to discover passes that should connect
valleys that are separated by lofty ranges." The
late President of the Alpine Club, Mr. Ball, one
eminently well qualified for the task, has just
brought out a guide book for the Western Alps
which will henceforth rank as the Alpine Guide for
that locality. About the size of Bradshaw,
but with this difference that where Brad-
shaw too often tends to bewilder, Mr. Ball
serves to enlighten, this little volume is pro-
fusely illustrated with most excellent and elaborate
maps, drawn expressly for the work, with the
various routes laid down, and the various stations
marked out. These maps should have been backed
with linen, for they are designed for frequent use
and consultation, and we doubt not will be turned
over again and again during many an Alpine ram.
ble. The volume is divided into two parts. The
Alpine Guide (the second part) contains full and
elaborate descriptions of a variety of different routes,
all numbered or mused with different letters of the
alphabet, corresponding with the routes drawn out
in the maps. From these descriptions the traveller
learns all necessary particulars not only con-
cerning the various places to be visited,
but respecting the manner of travelling and
the time likely to be required in the transit from
one spot to another. Every item of necessary in-
formation as regards the route, the scenery, the
guides, or the resting-places will be here found
duly chronicled with praiseworthy fidelity. The
first part of the book consists of some very interest-
ing introductory descriptions, from which we ex-
tract the following remarks on
THE DANGERS OF ALPINE TRAVELLING.

" The dangers of Alpine expeditions may be divided into

two classes—the real and the imaginary. 'Where a ridge
or slope of rock or ice is such that it could be traversed
without difficulty if it lay but a few feet above the level of
a garden, the substitution on either side of a precipice
some thousands of feet in depth, or of a glacier crevasse,
makes no real difference in the work to be done, though it
may have a formidable effect on the traveller's imagina-
tion. Those who cannot remove this source of danger
by accustoming themselves to look unmoved down verti-
cal precipices, and, in cases of real difficulty, to fix their
attention exclusively en the ledge or jutting crag to which
they must cling with foot or hand, should avoid expeditions
where a moment's nervousness may endanger their own
lives or those of others.

" The real dangers of the high Alps may, under ordinary
circumstances, be reduced to three. First, the yielding of
the snow bridges that cover glacier crevasses; second, the
risk of slipping upon steep slopes of hard ice; third, the
fall of ice or rocks from above.
" From the first and most frequent source of danger ab-
solute security is obtained by a precaution generally known,
but often neglected. In the higher region of the glaciers,
crevasses, even of considerable width, are often completely
bridged over by a covering of snow or n6ve, so that no in-
dication of their existence is seen on the surface of the
glacier. The bridges, especially when formed of fresh snow,
often yield under the weight of a man's footsteps; in such
a case an active man whose attention is on the alert may
sometimes extricate himself at once, but it more commonly
happens that he falls into the chasm beneath, in which case
his chance of life is faint indeed. But if several travellers
are tied together with a stout rope, as it is in the highest
degree improbable that a majority of them should fall at the
same momept into the same crevasse, no appreciable danger
from this cause need be incurred. Even two travellers tied
together may with a proper attention avoid this risk, but
greater seem ity is obtained when there are three or more in
number. It is mainly because he cannot be protected from
this danger that a man who goes alone over the higher
regions of the great glaciers incurs a risk that must be called
unjustifiable.
" As it is hard to persuade a landsman that a well-found
yacht has more danger to fear in a fog, with a smooth sea
around, than when a stiff breeze is blowing, so few moun-
taineers are willing to admit that there is more real chance
of accident in traversing some wide expanse of nev e, un-
broken by a single ruffle, than in crossing a broken glacier
with wide crevasses opening on every side. A very mode-
rate amount of practice enables a man to make sure of his
footing and to avoid seen dangers, but unseen perils call
forth no caution, and though the rope offers complete se-
curity, few travellers yet understand that it should form a
part of their regular equipment. At the risk of being
thought overcautious, the writer will not cease to urge upon
his fellow-travellers in the Alps the enactment, as a fixed
rule in mountaineering, that on reaching the limit of the
neve the members of a party should all be roped together.
He is perfectly aware that tbere are many places where the
risk is very slight ; a practised mountaineer might cross the
Theodule Pass 500 times without accident, but the 501st

time he might be lost in a crevasse, as has happened twice
on or near the pass since the writer first knew it. With a
sufficient inducement, and if it were impossible to find a
companion, he would not hesitate to cross that or some other
high pass alone, but if he were in company he would insist
on the use of the rope.

" It would seem scarcely necessary to add that the rope
should be sound and strong, if it did not often happen that
untrustworthy articles are taken by guides ; and it is not
less important to note that it should be fastened round the
body of each member of the party, guides included. leav •
ing both hands free to use the alpenstock in case of a slip.
A neglect of this obvious rule led, in 1860, to the loss of
three English travellers, and one of their guides, in the
desoent from the Col du Giant to Courmayeur."
A very interesting account of the geology of
the Alps has been translated by Mr. Ball for
the benefit of his readers from an article by M.
Desor, the celebrated Swiss geologist. In short,
Mr. Ball has omitted nothing likely to enhance
the value and attractiveness of his Guide. He
modestly tells us that he has himself no claim to " a
brilliant share in the adventurous performances of
his friends and fellow-members of the Alpine Club."
His qualifications for the task he has undertaken
are, however, by no means insignificant. He can
vary justly boast of prolonged and extensive
acquaintance with the regions which he bas under-
taken to describe, having crossed the main chain of
the Alps no less than forty-eight times by thirty-
two dtfferent passes, besides traversing nearly one
hundred of the lateral passes. The advice given in
this volume consequently comes from one duly
qualified by personal experience to instruct the
novice and to advise the less experienced traveller
Messrs. Longmans have conferred a benefit upon all
lovers of Alpine scenes, whose name now is legion,
by placing within thei► reach this very excellent
and admirable Guide-book.

A Mining Journey Across the Great Andes. By
Major F. Iguana Ricard. Pp. 314. Smith and

Elder.
Major Ricard having been appointed by the
Argentine Republic Inspector-General of Mines,
has given us an interesting record of his wan-
derings—
" Where Andes, giant of the western star,
Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world."
Much information may be acquired from a perusal
of this little volume, which is written by one well
qualified for the task. In de6cribing the Republic
of La Plata, Major Ricard strongly recommends it
as a fit place for immigration :
"The very, name of the Republic is in itself indicative of
its mineral wealth. La Plata, or the silver country, the
name given by the early Spaniards on its discovery, no
doubt emanated from the fact of their having found large
quantities of silver there. Its extent is enormous, reaching
as it does, from the river Plate in the 34° of south lat. to
Cape Horn in the 55°, and stretching across almost the
entire continent to the Great Andes, which form a semi-
impenetrable barrier on the Chilian frontier ; then away to
the north it joins Bolivia in about the 22°, and on the east
the territory of Brazil ; presenting on the whole such a
diversity of climate as is not equalled by any other country
in the world. It is larger than all Europe ; yet epidemic
or sickness is almost unknown : but alas! there is that
great want of population ; which in such an extensive terri-
tory is severely felt. Thousands of square miles of the
richest and most productive soil remains in its primitive
at , and comparatively valueless, though watered by some

of the finest rivers in the world. But the day, I trust, is
not far distant when the tide of emigration, so long mis-
directed to the United States, must turn in this direction ;
where a warm sympathy for foreigners already exists, and
a hearty welcome awaits them !"

The picture is certainly tempting enough, and we
commend it to the attention of intending emi-
grants.

A Country Visit, and its Consequences. By

Charlotte Hardcastle. Three vols. Newby.
This is a very pleasant, gracefully written story.
It does not pretend to any very high merits as a work
of art. Its chief attraction, indeed, is in its want of
pretension. ,It is a simple story, simply told, and,
as such, is very refreshing after the spasmodic
attempts at" sensation" in which (in a rash emnla-
lation of their betters) so many of our inferior
novelists now indulge. The heroine of this story
is a very charming and loveable girl, who is weary
with the hollow fashionable career to which she is
destined by her worldly and vulgar mamma, and
from which she escapes by the happy accident of
this well-timed " country visit." The ridiculous
manner in which the disappointed would-be
"fashionable" lady accommodates herself to her
altered circumstances is most amusingly described.
Some other tales by the authoress of a " Country
Visit" are contained in the volumes, some of which
possess considerable interest.

Guide to the Unprotected in matters relating to
Property and Income. By a Banker's Daughter.

Pp. 119. Macmillan.
This is a most useful and excellent little volume
for those inexperienced in matters of business. The
authoress, the daughter of a banker, being from
her position necessarily familiar with various mat-
ters of form, has been, she tells us, frequently,
consulted by ladies, who, having property to dis-
pose of and to manage, have been totally ignorant
how to proceed in such arrangements. For the
benefit of these and such like " Unprotected
Females" she has considerately prepared this little
volume of useful information and practical advice.
Among other things to be found here are full
directions for all tanking transactions, writing
chcques, &c., for the disposal of stock, &c. The
laws respecting house property are defined. Tech-
nical terms of various kinds are fully explained,
and the path of the novice made smooth before
her.

A Lady's Visit to Manilla and Japan. By Anna

D'A. Pp. 296. Hurst and Blackett.

The account of a lady's experiences of these un-
familiar climes may naturally be regarded with
interest. The fair authoress nas narrated her ad-
ventures and given her descriptions cf the strange
scenes among which she found herself, in a very
attractive manner. The book is adorned with a
very characteristic coloured sketch of Nagasaki.

Three Weeks in Majorca. By William Dodd,
A.M. Pp. 169. Chapman and Hall.
This is one of those modest little books which
have small pretension in their title or appearance,
but which, on a closer examination, commend
themselves to the reader's attention. We have been
much interested in Mr. Dodd's description of
Majorca, end the other islands of the Mediterranean
Sea. His manner is lively and pleasant, and his
remarks on the various localities which he describes
often display great good sense and good feeling.

Behind the Veil ; and other Poems. By the Hon.
Roden Noel. One vol., pp. 161. Macmillan.
As is generally the case in such collections, the
smaller poems in this volume are greatly superior
to the more ambitious and elaborate introduction,
the very subject of which is alarming in its im-
mensity. It is dedicated "to Ecila" (evidently
Alice), end the author tells us that it has cost him—
" Long anxious care, at times thought agonised ;"
and we fear that many of his readers will endure
similar sufferings before the whole drift of the
poem is clear to their comprehension. Among the
smaller pieces one of the happiest is upon an old
man revisiting the scenes of his youth. The senti-
ments which animate 11r. Roden are fu.l of charity
and reverence. His heart is evidently in " the
right piece," but it is a pity that his imagination
should bewilder itself with the subtleties of meta-
physics.

Hand book to the Calculator and Letter Box. By
J. S. Laurie. 12m0., pp. 16. Longman.
Upwards of three-and-twenty years ago, while
visiting one of the three recently established
National Schools in Ireland, we remember witness-
ing for the first time the employment of the Abacus
or Ball-Frame, as a means of inducting (with the
utmost ease) a number of very young children into
the elementary mysteries of Arithmetic. The Little
Handbook here supplied to the calculator (and
Letter Box) by the Editor of the Graduated Series of
Reading Books, already noticed in The Sun in terms
of well merited commendation, will tend directly to
impress the mind of every English Teacher with a
conviction of the many advantages comprised within
that very admirable system of tuition—the impart-
ing of knowledge by the actual sight and touch of
visible and tangible objects. A cedar box, with a
sliding lid—the lid partitioned into exactly a dozen
divisions—the box containing five-and-twenty
round counters, as well as eight-and-seventy
pieces of wood : behold the very simple ap-
paratus for the calculator The twelve divi-
sions on the lid being available for imparting
a knowledge of notation and of fractions. The
five-and-twenty counters, for teaching counting and
notation. The seventy-eight pieces of wood, for
giving accurate information in the matter of frac-
tions. Supplied Niith this very simple and very
compact apparatus, the child and the teacher have,
in the form of that little cedar box and its contents,
calculator and the letter box in one. The duplication,
in this way, is here very readily effected by the
seventy-eight pieces of wood already mentioned be-
ing marked on one side with fractions, from a whole
to one-twelfth, and so on—and upon the other side
marked, as distinctly, for reading. The very lid of
the box having fastened down upon the back of it
a printed sheet, containing the alphabet in clear,
bold type ; that type representing both letterpress
and handwriting. This wonderful little magic
box may certainly be defined as somewhat better
than poor fabled Pandora's—seeing that no ills
whatever come from this one, and that yet good
hopes and prospects are nevertheless stored up there,
tuo, perpetually—good hopes and prospects that
the child-student, out of these little counters and
partitions within it, may win his way in good time
through arithmetic up, up, up to geometry and maw
thematics. The little box here referred to, and its
contents may be scanned any day by those who list
at the South Kensington Museum; or it may be
seen, as a footnote tells us at page 3, at the great
publishing house at the Row whence issues this
ingenious Handbook, as a sort of pocket-key to that
same small literary and arithmetical Cabinet, at once
Letter-box and Calculator.

A SAGACIOUS GAMEKEEPER'S DOG,—Yesterday,
at the Wakefield Court-house, Joseph Bullock and
James Armitage were charted with night poaching on land
at Rothwell, in the occupation of Mr. Richard Sykes, and
belonging to Mr. Calverley. It seemed that at half-past one
o'clock in the morning Isaac Jellings, a watcher in the em-
ploy of Mr. Calverley, and other assistants, were out. In a
field occupied by Mr. Sykes they saw four men, who had
nets spread, and, with the assistance of a dog, were ranging
after game. They went to them, and a struggle commenced.
One man, named James Ellis, was apprehended, and left in
the custody of James Booth, while the fight was continued
to secure the rest. The result of the struggle, however, was
that the men escaped, and Jellings placed a dog he had
with him upon the track of the two prisoners, and he fol-
lowed after. He came up to his dog while it was standing
on the brink of a pond, and said to it, " Where is he 2" The
dog immediately sprang into the water, but he could not
think that any one was there, and took no steps. The dog
came out of the pond, and he repeated the question, where-
upon it ran along a hedge side until it came to a place where
Bullock was concealed, who was apprehended and secured.
I Jellings and his dog then returned to the side of the pond,
anc Jellings repeated the question, " Where is her' The
dog again jumped into the water, and this time he followed
it, and in going through the water he trod upon Armitage,
who was up to the neck in the pond, his head being con-
cealed under a tree root. He seized him and pulled him out
of the water, and he also was secured. Bullock, a known
poacher, was sent to prison for two months, and Armitage
was committed for six months to prison, each of them to
find surety to keep the peace for 12 months after his rcleaee
from gaol.

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