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London, England, 1863-11-10 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, T[JESPAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1863,

the desperate deed was done deliberately, and was '
evidently the result of predetermination. In con-
sequence of the deceased having given some opinion
in a gambling transaction, which offended certain
parties, they swore revenge, and were unfortunately
enabled to carry out their cruel desire. It is cer-
tainly a very lamentable state of things when law-
less and ungovernable characters are to have it
in their power to plan and execute these revolting
crimes. It seems reprehensible not to have taken
down the deposition of the dying man, for he died
on the fifth of the month, and the blow was
inflicted on the seventh of the last one, so that
ample time must have elapsed for the necessary
formulas to be gone through. The daughter of the
deceased stated that she did not remember the name
of the party her father mentioned as having sworn
to take away his life. This is a most unwise pro-
ceeding, for, doubtless owing to the laxity of one
side and the confusion of the other, the chief
delinquent will escape the detection he so richly
deserves, and hence future offenders will be induced
to proceed on their course with more recklessness,
from previous non convictions establishing a pre-
cedent as it were. It would appear from all these
fearful incidents, either that there are not sufficient
police about these lonely environs, or else that they
are not vigilant enough. It comes to this that the
lives of her MAJESTY'S subjects are not efficiently
protected under the present system, and hence it is
worth while, at the risk of offending any pre-
judices, or militating against any special arrange-
ments, to protest against a mode of procedure which
aims at so much, but whose results are so unsatis-
factory. The Coroner in the case of the man named
HOMERTON, most emphatically declared that
"outrages in the streets were becoming dreadfully
prevalent." This is surely a reply to those framers
and executors of the law who plume themselves on
their skill and sagacity. There can be no valid
reason why, just at this time, theae outrages
should be so frequent in their occurrence and
fatal in their results. At all events, since un-
happily the fact is patent to all that the wrong is
so prevalent, let some means be adopted at once
to check the further spread of the ruffianly conduct
and cruel outrages that must now be considered as
a part of our daily records of street proceedings.
Only the other day there was a considerable trouble
experienced in prosecuting some reckless individuals
who employed their time in persecuting and insult-
ing female passers-by. The difficulty that arose
on these cases being tried, doubtless induced others
to make similar attempts, and thus in many parts
of London it was almost impossible for respoctable
persons to walk in the evening for fear of an
unpleasant interruption. The laws that regulate
the conviction of these criminals aro not as they
should be, or we should not find so many perti-
naciously following the bad example, and hear of
such numerous cases of oppressive cruelty and bar-
barous insults. The garotters, too, are by no
means an extinct race, and already they have tried
their hands in the early part of this autumn on
unwary foot passengers. There could be no harm
done in making the experiment of a new system
of espionage, and adopting some more decisive
measures when the culprits are captured. The
very faulty arrangements of the prisons are against
any terrorism of confinement being held up as a
warning to the reckless and the daring. If men
are not mortified by a prison life, it does more harm
than good to themselves and others. There is no
doubt that to the mistaken mildness and absurd
indulgencies of prisons, a great part of our garot-
ting bands of last year were to be attributed. Let
not the short days and dark nights of the ensuing
winter offer more opportunities for the perpetration
of these villainies,, and let no efforts be relaxed
until their gangs are broken up and their occupa-
tion gone. Extensive vigilance will, no doubt, be
required, and, perhaps, the means adopted may be
very expensive, but how can the public money be
better spent, or the time and strength of the
officials be more worthily employed, than
in pro-
tecting life, and bringing malefactors to justice.
It is always meet to look our dangers in the
face at times, to discover the remedy, and not
to shirk the responailoility or the difficulty of its
application. Taken in time, many things are kept
under which else might assume a hydra-like form,
and, perhaps, circumvent the efforts and beffie the
zeal of those tuo late roused to the contemplation
of the danger, and too little prepared to act with
decision and promptness.

THE PROPOSED EUROPEAN CONGRESS,

(From the Times.)
Tier Majesty the Queen received yesterday morn-
ing an autograph letter from the Emperor of the
French, in which his Imperial Majesty requested
the Queen to send representatives to a Congress of
the chief Eurvean States, whose duty it shall be
to take note of and recognise the points in which
the Treaty of Vienna had been infringed, and to
adopt such measures with respect to present com-
plications as may best secure the general peace.
We believe that her Majesty's Ministers will meet
in Cabinet to•day, to consider of the answer to be
returned by her Majesty to the Emperor of the
French,

LATEST rNTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]

AMERICA.
(Per the City of New York.)

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 10.

The Inman steamer, City of New York, from
New Yorit on the 31st ult., arrived here at 4.10 a.m.
to-day. She brings 199 passengers, 278,440 doll.
in specie, and the United States mail.

NEW YORK, OCT. 30 (Evening).
The Federal squadron off Charleston has been
Increased.

The Richmond Examiner regards the seizure of
the Confederate rams as the most unfriendly act
yet committed by England towards the South. The
Richmond IVhig denounces it as an act of hostility,
not neutrality.

President Davis has reviewed the troops at
Mobile on the 24th inst.

Immense numbers of furloughed soldiers have
arrived in New York to vote.

It is reported that extensive frauds were com-
mitted at the Ohio election to defeat Mr. Vallan-
digham. One counter is stated to have polled 500
more Republican votes than there are inhabitants.
The appointment of an investigating committee
is spoken of.

Democratic and Republican election meetings are
held at New York nightly, each party passing
antagonistic resolutions and making bitter speeches
against their opponents.
Grand preparations are making for the Rassian
ball.

President Lincoln welcomed Senor Romero as the
Juarez Minister in a warm address.

Havana advices to the 24th inst. report that the
insurrection in St. Domingo continues.

NEW YORK, OCT. 31:

Federal advices from Charleston to the 27th inst.
state that General Gilmore had commenced firing
upon Charleston from three heavy guns on Cum-
ming's point. Each gun had thrown one shell into
the heart of the city. The other guns were to open
soon. Four howitzers were in position off Sulli-
van's Island, prepared for an engagement. The
Ironsides does not participate in th© attack. The
fire on Forts Johnson, Sumter, and "Moultrie was
kept up, the Confederates replying reservedly.
The situation in Virginia is unchanged. The
repairs on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad are
progressing. The Baltimore correspondent of the
New J orb; herald asserts that between the 15th
and 18th ult. Lee had sent 30,000 men to Abing.
don, in Virginia, where they were joined by 15,000
men under General Jones. This whole force was
prepared, on the 20th, to march against Burnside's
outposts at Bristol.

The Richmond Whig of the 27th ult. asserts that
Bragg's
plan to compel Thomas to evacuate Chat-
tanooga would speedily be executed. 'lwo divi-
sions under Sherman have joined Thomas.

General Banks's advance in Louisiana is between
Vermillionville and Opelouses. The Confederates
have 10,000 under Dick Taylor at Opelousas, and
10,000 under Kirby Smith at Shreveport, on the
Red River:

NEW YORK, OCT. 31 (Morning).

The Southern papers assert that the Federal
Government refuses to make any further exchange
of prisoners.
An independent Democratic party has been
started in opposition to the Tammany and Mozart
Hall Democracy. Their platform embraces the
vigorous prosecution of the war, and vindication of
the Monroe doctrine.

The Governor of New York has made a speech,
declaring that the Democrats agreed with the Re-
publicans in putting forth all the material power
of the country to secure success in the war, but that
the Democracy would add to the power of force
the influence of wise statesmanship and the con-
ciliation of Christian charity. He denounced Vice-
President Hamblin's statement that the Union as
it was and the Constitution as it is could not be re-
stored, as treasonable, cowardly, and base. He
would support the Administration in constitutional
measures, but would not gratify the theories of
fanatics and bigots.

The New York Herald asserts that President
Lincoln will not officially notice the French inva-
sion of Mexico until American troubles are settled.

NEW YORK, Ocr. 31 (Evening).
(Per the Hibernian.)

The .Richmond Despatch thinks that the South
has felt the full extent of President Lincoln's power,
and that he can never do as much harm as ho has
previously done. If, it says, he has failed hitherto
he can never succeed with the assistance of England,
which under Earl Russell's auspices seems to have
come forth as an enemy of the South.
Eight steamers have arrived at Nassau from Wil-
mington during the present month.

Money tight. Gold 46 per cent. premium.
Exchange on London—Bankers' Bills 159. New
York Centrals, 1371. Illinois, 1251. Erie, 1091.
6 dole. United States Bonds, 1081, Cotton quiet.
Middling Upland, 87c. Flour dull. Wheat heavy.
Corn declining. Provisions heavy. Coffee very firm.
Sugar very dull. Molasses inactive. Petroleum
heavy. Crude, 29 c. Refined, 45 c.
The Hammonia and City of New York which
sailed to-day took out 335,000 doll. in specie.

ACCIDENT TO THE ANGLIA.
GALWAY, Nov. 10.

The Atlantic Royal Mail steamer Anglia, from
Liverpool to Boston, went on the Black Rock, in
Galway Bay, at 5 a.m. today.
It is expected, however, she will be got off safely
at high water.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, OCT. 31, Morning.

Advices received here from Mexico, via San
Francisco, states that a conspiracy had been dis-
covered against the French. It was reported that
a large number of persons had been imprisoned,
shot, and exiled. 20,000 Juarez troops were re-
ported to be between Queretara and San Luis.

...........''.......

VERA CRUZ, OCT. 15.

Marshal Forey is expected to return to France
on the 28th inst, after having visited the United
States.

News of the first measures of General Bazaine
is awaited with much interest.

The bridge over the Chiquihuito has been re.
paired. Two convoys arrived here on the 14th inst

MADRID, Nov. 9 (Evening),
The Iberia hints as a possibility of certain Crown
lands, valued at three milliard reals, being sold.

The following telegram has been received at Mr,
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company
ALEXANDRIA, Nov, 9.
The railway communication with Cairo is re-
stored.

The passengers by the Ceylon (which left South.

ampton on the 27th of Cctober) just arrived, go
through by rail.
The Mooltan and Norna left Suez with the above
mails on the 6th inst., the former for Calcutta, and
the latter for Mauritius.

OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN DIET.

BERLIN, Nov. 9.

The Prussian Chambers were open to-day by
the King in person. The speech from the throne
expressed his Majesty's earnest wish for a termina-
tion to the rise of differences between the Govern-
ment and Chamber. It announced a bill which
would regulate the rights of the Government in case
of the budget not being legally settled, and declared
that, without endangering the most important in-
terests, the King could only assent to such a budget
as should ensure the maintenance of the new orga-
nisation of the army.

The bill regulating the period of military service
had been modified.

The revenue of 1862 had produced a surplus, as
would probably be the case with the revenue of
1863. The budgets for 1863 and 1864 should be
laid before the Chambers. The apparent &flea in
the latter would be removed by the ground and
buildings tax in 1865.
The balance-sheets for 1859, 1860, and 1861
would be submitted to the Chambers, as well as a
bill establishing the expenditure and receipts of
1862. Bills would also be brought forward for the
construction of new railways, with regard to the
logal position of associations, additional regulations
to the press laws of the Ist June last, and to a new
criminal code.

The Government was still endeavouring to secure
the continuation of the Zollverein, while maintain-
ing the commercial treaty with France, and in
especial to regulate its relations to Austria. Should
Federal execution in Holstein require the applica-
tion of extraordinary means from Prussia, estimates
would be laid before the Chamber.

The speech announced that the negotiations with
respect to the German reform question would be
submitted to the Diet, and concluded:—" We live
in an agitated time, perhaps stand upon the brink
of a more agitated future. I ask you therefore the
more urgently to bring about an understanding
upon the solution of home questions with earnest
will."

The late Speech of the Emperor of the

French,

The Vienna papers of the 6th inst. speak favour-
ably of the speech of the Emperor of the French.
The Botcshafter says :
The speech from the throne will always be regarded as
one of the most important documents of modern history.
. . . A manifesto of peace or war, according as Europe
will take it, it sraks out with an openness concerning the
state of the world which entirely and completely corre-
sponds to the high position which the Emperor of Franco
claims for himself and for France—the position, namely,
iu the centre of the European community.
In reference to the declaration that the moment
has come for reconstructing on new bases the edifice
destroyed piecemeal by revolutions, the Botschafter
continues:—

Who will venture to deny that the edifice is in the
situation described ? Who will venture to gainsay the as-
sertion that a reconstruction on new bases would be a bene-
faction ? We acknowledge that it would be so, We grant
to Napoleon 111., for his frank speech, the same merit which
another•lmperial Sovereign acquired by a similar explicit-
ness in regard. to the unsatisfactory condition of the German
Confederation. If actual circumstances can no longer be
concealed, then it is right openly to speak of them as they
are. The two first princes of Europe resemble each other
in this noble candour. Could they understand each other,
and carry along with them the rest of Europe, then indeed
a new era would be founded. We cannot, however, shut
our eyes to the fact that such a new era of order and con-
tentment seems almost too beautiful to enable us entirely to
vanquish our sceptical Pessimism. How many high hopes
have already tumbled to the ground? On high hopes, lofty
thoughts, and plans, noble minds find nourishment; but it
is a very unsubstantial nourishment. Only a short time
back we cherished the hope that a great idea would carry
Germany along with it. It. did not do so. The petty fault-
findings of a petty world have robbed it of its feathers. A
great idea endeavours now to impose itself upon Europe ;
will it meet with a better fate ?

The Lloyd concludes a eulogistic article with the
following words
Napoleon has thrown down the glove to many dynasties
and empires. and it almost seems as though an epigram of
Napoleon I. at St. Helena was about to be accomplished,
concerning the fate of Europe at tho end of 50 years from
that time. The crisis comes not unexpectedly. For more
than 10 years it has been indicated, daily indicated, by the
organs of public opinion, and those who will go down in it
have only themselves to blame for their downfall.
The Wanderer says, in relation to the reply of
Austria to the French proposition :
Austria must ask herself the question, what she might
have to lose by such a Congress. To abide by her old aver-
sion to such assemblages would be to lay herself open to the
reproach of the speech which touches upon " the obstinacy
in maintaining a past which is rolling away." The Congress
may lead to the definitive recognition of a new order of
things in Italy by no means in harmony with the
views hitherto preponderating in our Foreign-office. But
Austria is no longer the champion of all Legitimacies who
have come to grief, she has only to look after her own inte-
rests, and protect what is hers. If war comes out of this
Congress, which in spite of the assurances of Napoleon re-
mains a possibility, Austria's situation can be no worse than
it would be if the war breaks out before the Congress. On
the other hand, a refusal on our part to assent to the idea of
the Emperor would be much more likely to expose us to the
peril of isolation, which has already once proved the path
to our undoing.
The Ost Deutsche Post says :

It is at all events no declaration of war, but it is the
harbinger of groat complications. For that, in the face of
such declarations as are here made, especially in relation to
the overthrow of the treaties of 1815, none of the three
above-named Powers (Russia, Prussia, and Austria) can
take part in the Congress, is clear. But England, also, is
above all the most deter.nined opponent of such a Congress.
Herein alone lies a sort of guarantee to conjure a European
coalition France can hardly feel herself powerful enough to
venture upon doing. The political parole for the winter
months is given ; what will be the issue thereof, who can
foresee to-day ?
The Presse says :

The impression which this speech is calculated to make
in Europe is immense. We do not venture, on a first im-
pression, even to hint at the consequences of this important
event. It has, thanks to well •kept official confidences,
broken in upon Europe in a wholly unexpected manner,
and it is yet too early to perceive how far it will operate
healthily or fatally upon the shaken relations of the Powers.
Only one:point would we raise—an officious Viennese organ,
relying on most trustworthy Parisian communicatians, had
proclaimed that the declarations of the speech ou the Polish
question 11 ould be drawn up in a kindly (wohlwollenden)
spirit towards Austria. Apart from the want of tact dis-
played in the choice of such an expression, we must confess,
now that the speech lies before as, that of a sentiment of
benevolence towards Austria we have been able to discover
nothing after the most rigid scrutiny thereof.

THE O'CONNELL STATUE COMMITTEE have held
a meeting, and, after considerable discussion, decided that
the memorial to the " Great Tribune" shall be erected in
Sackville-street, near Carlisle-bridge.
" SILKEN FETTERS " is " Una Chaine " turned
inside out and into English by Mr. Leicester Buckingham.
Charles Mathews will have a fine chance of displaying his
juvenile powers as the " young" composer, and Mrs. C.
Mathews has a very important role, which was played by
Mdllo. Victoria Geront in France.

MR. POOLE, R.A., and Mr. Topham, the water-
colour painter. are pursuing their studies in the South of
Italy. Mr. Calderon and Mr. Marks have left London for
the South of France.

THE CRYPT OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, when
completed, will be one of the finest in Rome, or the world.
Egyptian alabaster, rosso and verde antico, lapis lazuli, and
the richest marbles and metals are employed in the com-
pletion. _ _ _

SUICIDE.—On Sunday afternoon the body of a
man unknown was found hanging in a wood belonging to
the Archbishop of Canterbury at Boughton. It had ap-
parently been hanging about ten days or a fortnight.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Mon-
day, Nov. 9.—Admissions on payment, 1,150; ditto by
season tickets, 882; total visitors, 2,032.
THE COURT•MARTIAL ON COLONEL CRAWLEY.
—Although on Saturday it Was arranged officially
that the court-martial on Colonel Crawley should com-
mence on Thursday next, doubts have since arisen whether
it will be possible for the tribunal to begin its sittings on
that day, The military authorities are quite ready, and
have been for some time anxious to proceed; and Colonel
Crawley personally was understood to be an assenting party
to the arrangement. Yesterday morning. however, Col.
Cravvlsy's legal advisers preferred a request that the court-
martial should be further postponed to the 17th inst., on
the ground that they had not yet succeeded in perfecting
the evidence for the defence. This application has been
referred by the Horse Guards to the Judge -Advocate-
°moral, and awaits I* dooisioP,

LITERATURE,

The Apostle of Temperance.

Father Mathew: a Bio:graphy. By John Francis
Maguire, M.P. One Vol., pp. 557. Longman
and Company.
Seven years ago, good, noble-hearted Father
Mathew breathed his last—the close of his career
occurring in the year 1856, on the Bth of December.
The history of this simpleminded Irish Priest is
familiar to the great mass of both the educated and
uneducated population of the three kingdoms. His
memory is still treasured up in the hearts of all
those—it matters nothing of what sect, or class, or
country—who can appreciate the loveliness of true
and practical benevolence. It is no exaggeration to
say of Theobald Mathew, that, as he was the most
active and energetic, his fair fame is still cherished
in the tender recollections of the grateful millions
of this vast empire, as the most revered and the
most beloved of modern Philanthropists. His pane-
gyric has been pronounced by illustrious men of
all ranks, and classes, and conditions of modern
society—alike by the Asiatic and the European—
equally in the Old World and the New. His
career in Ireland was contemporaneous with that
of the Liberator Daniel O'Connell. And it appeared
then, in the life time of the two men, as it appears
even now in the retrospect, in no degree dwarfed by
the comparison. Theobald Mathew, by the sheer
force of his Goodness and Benevolence, secured the
love and homage of the whole Celtic race as com-
pletely as Daniel O'Connell did by his Genius and
his Patriotism. The current of their respective
courses ran, in that sense at least, parallel to each
other, were equally wide, profound, and irresistible.
The one vindicated the religious freedom and inde-
pendence of his fellow-countrymen by the power
of his magnificent oratory. The other swept out of
view and all but exterminated, the long-prevailing
vice of drunkenness—not only amongst his fellow-
countrymen, but equally on both sides of the
British Channel—nay, more than that, equally, it
may even be said, upon both sides of the broad
Atlantic. What the " unadorned eloquence" of
Richard Cobden did in the furtherance of Free Trade
principles—the equally inartificial, the less coolly
logical, the more tenderly impassioned eloquence
of Theobald Mathew accomplished in securing the
triumph of the principles of Temperance. Insomuch,
that while by an emphatic phrase, long familiar to
us, Mr. Cobden has been frequently spoken of as
the Apostle of Free Trade—a strangely material, for
inasmuch as it is a strictly mercantile Apostleship!—
Father Mathew has had consecrated to himself,
by the spontaneous canonisation of his benign and
beautiful popularity, the sacred title of " The
Apostle of Temperance." The recognition of the
radiant virtues of this illustrious man, was complete
and universal during his own lifetime. It was
simply impossible, indeed, that it could be other-
wise. Never had any benefactor of the human
race more distinctly his mission, than this humble
priest, the mere announcement of whose coming
awoke as profound an enthusiasm, here, in this Pro-
testant England, as ever it did in Ireland among
the devoted adherents of the Papacy. Wherever
Father Mathew went, during the working portion
of his career as a promoter of temperance, as the
arch-promoter of temperance, his welcome was an
ovation. On his arrival at Washington he was
invited to attend in the house of the American Le
gislature : and, as the Commons of England bad
done in the instance of Warren Hastings, the Con-
gress of the United States rose to receive Theobald
Mathew immediately he made his appearance
amongst them. In the fashionale!e and intellectual
society of London, he was welcomed with an un-
affected reverence and admiration. Earl Russell,
then Lord John Russell, pronounced his eulogium
in almost we might say unmeasured terms of
homage—the eulogium of this Catholic Priest from
Ireland—from (of all places in the wide world for
the encomium of a Catholic Priest, and that Priest
an Irishman I) the platform of Exeter Hall ! One
of the most beautiful tributes ever offered to the
name and fame of Father Mathew, moreover, was
pronounced, in 1840, by the lips of the manly, gentle;
noble-minded Bishop of Norwich. The grim
Iron Duke bent for once in suavest courtesy in
his bearing towards the Irish Priest, when they
met in the London drawing-rooms. The ex-Chan-
cellor, Lord Brougham, enjoyed there, also, a playful
parley of badinage with the Apostle of Temperance.
warkanauth Tagore, the great oriental merchant,
was among the most amiable and reverent of the
good Father's motley crowd of correspondents.
Born at Thomastown, in the county of Tipperary,
Ireland, in 179 u, one of the sons of a tolerably pros-
perous farmer Theobald Mathew won his renown
among the world's benefactors, under the blessing of
God, by the simple but irresistible agency of his pure
life, his heart-born eloquence as a preacher, and
his profound and earnest philanthropy. Educated
first of all, at a school in Kilkenny, afterwards at
the College of Maynooth, and eventually by a pri-
vate tutor in Dublin, he had become, in 1814, a
priest and a Capuchin Friar. Forty-two years he
laboured—how zealously the world knows—at his
vocation. What the core and heart of that voca-
tion was, is indicated by the title awarded to him
by common consent, the title prefixed to these re-
marks of ours, a title that has in a measure, eclipsed
or superseded his patronymic. Already several
little memoirs have, at intervals, appeared recounting
very briefly and fragmentarily, and, therefore, it
need hardly be said, very unsatisfactorily, the life
and labours of the Apostle of Temperance. It has
remained, however, until this time, for the
author of the remarkable work—" Rome : its
Rulers, and its Institutions "—it has re-
mained for the gifted member for Dungarvan,
for John Francis Maguire, to become, as he has
now happily become, the Biographer of Father
Mathew. With some few judicious illisions and
abbreviations, with a moderate revision of the work
in its next edition—the book here submitted to
our consideration will take its place perma-
nently among those biographies in which the
annals of our National Worthies are ranged in a
select row upon our bookshelves. Foremost among
them the masterpiece of all biographies, Boswell's
Life of Dr. Johnson ; but, ranged there in the same
cluster, works as various as Dr. Southey's Life of
Nelson, as Sir James Mackintosh's Life of Sir
Thomas More, as Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir
Welter Scott, as Charles Phillipps' Life
of Curran. As the biography of a man so
Good that, without a particle of what is called
genius, he attained the height of the truest Great-
ness, Mr. Maguire's biography of Father Mathew
is not unworthy, even before revision and abbrevia-
tion, of taking its place among that selected and
treasured cluster of biographies. It realises to us
the man, the priest, the orator, the philanthropist,
the moral hero, the worker of all but social
miracles. It familiarises us with everything
appertaining to him. Hia little serving man John,
that crabbed old retainer who seems to combine
somewhat of the characteristics ofChyca
Charles Lever's
Ba
Lsyeris.
" Cross Corney," and of Walter Scott's"
derstone"—we know now, as well as we know Dr.
Johnson's black servant, Mr. Barber. Thanks
to Mr. Maguire, don't we also know Father
Mathew's cat Madame Pinky, as intimately as we
have long known., thanks to Mr. Boswell, Dr.
Johnson's cat Hodge P The rgood father's pet
dog Sober and his dearly cherished little Lesbian
favourite, the sparrow, Peter, are not they
also introduced through these delightful pages not
so much to our acquaintance as to our intimacy
Seldom if ever have we read any book written from
hardly
ityo
neededlas
tin
tahmatorwe
we should
t saonev,
, in a it
and thmernerfeowrei
n-
Bing manner. Throughout, the writer is unflag-
ingly "in the vein." The kindly
influence of the
mere thought of Father Mathew has evidently had
something to do with this, no doubtof it. But apart
from his theme, Mr. Maguire has manifestly had
no stint of appropriate qualifications for his task
—a task that has
manifestly been for him, through-
out, a labour of love, It is time, howeTer, that we 1

Should let our author speak for himself by a few
illustrative quotations. Does any one marvel as to
what may have been, in truth, the predominant cha-
racteristic of Father Mathew's nature, and even,
be it said, of his oratorical powers as well ? Let
the following extract satisfy them, for once and.
for all, as to—
THE MAGIC OF FATHER MATHEW'S ELOQUENCE.
Those who for the most part thronged to hoar him, and
crowded his little church with that object, were not either
inclined to be critical, or very capable of criticism. They
came, in an humble spirit, to hear the Gospel expounded—
to be told ofthe mercy and goodness of God—of the beauty
and holiness of charity—by one whose life was the living
example of the precepts he taught. What was it to them,
if a simile was false, or a metaphor out of place, or an image
occasionally tawdry, or a sentence wanting in polish, or a
chain of reasoning loose and inconclusive ?—they crushed
into that little temple to listen to the word of God preached
by a man of God ; and in that expectation they were never
disappointed. Once within that church, they yielded them-
selves, implicitly and unhesitatingly, to his spiritual and
moral guidance, and they went with him whither he led
them. Ay, and even those few who ordinarily could sit
coldly in judgment upon the excellencies or the defects, the
style or manner of a preacher, and who, perhaps, came
just to see something of the young priest of whom the
" common people" and the " old women" talked so much—
even they, cool critics and lofty judges, as they held them-
selves to be, found themselves suddenly surprised by a.
strange dimness of vision and a choking sensation in.
the throat, at the unpretending pathos of the
preacher. What was the charm that held spell-bound the
close-packed hundreds beneath the pulpit, that riveted the
attention of the crowded galleries, and moved the inmost
hearts even of those who had come to criticise ? The
earnestness of the preacher. Not the earnestness of the
actor, who simulates, with cunning declamation and by
impassioned gesture, the ardour of nature. No; it was
the earnestness of truth, of sincerity, of belief. Father
Mathew practised what he preached, and believed what he
so persuasively and urgently enforced. Then, the emotion,
which his voice made manifest to the ear, and which his
agitated features made visible to the eye, was real, genuine,
springing from the heart, thrilling his nerves, warming
his blood, quickening his pulse—felt in every fibre of his
frame. There was established between the preacher and
the autFence the most complete and perfect identity of feel-
ing, the result of the sympathy which they mutually felt.
As a most amusing specimen of Mr. Maguire's
genuinely Irish sense of the humorous, take his
account of the following grotesque incident in re—
gard to—

A MAUDLIN TEETOTALLER.
It was in Waterford, on an occasion subsequent to Father
Mathew's first visit, that the foliowing whimsical occur-
rence took place. The hall of the Court House was too con•
fined in its space to accommodate the vast numbers that
pressed on continually to take the pledge, and the weather
being then peculiarly severe, the meetings were necessarily
held in the Catholic Cathedral, a very fine and spacious-
building. In ono of the enormous batches, of which there,
were several during the day, was a poor fellow who was de-
cidedly " the worse of liquor"—in fact, unmistakably tipsy.
He nevertheless managed to repeat the words of the pledge
with due gravity and decorum ; but no sooner had Father
Mathew approached him to mark his forehead with the
sign of the Cross, as was his custom, than the new member
of the Temperance Society clutched his leader by the skirts
of his coat with a grasp such as a drunken man can take, and,
in a voice much broken by hiccups, cried out—" Father Ma -
ma-chee, darlin', you m-m-ust k-k-iss me 1" "My dear,
do let one go. God bless you, my dear child ; be a good
boy for the future. There—Jo let me go," said Father
Mathew: "No, Father Ma-thee, darlin', I won't 1-1-ave,
go my hoult till I get wan k-k -iss I" " Oh, my dear, do let.
me go 1" "No ; wan is all I ax, an I m-m-ust have it.
Don't r-r-efuse a poor fellow-craychure wan kiss—only
wan I" persisted the tender soul. Several gentlemen,
including the clergymen in attendance, approached,
and tried to pacify Jim, and induce him to quit
his hold of Father Mathew's coat ; but all to
no purpose. Jim was determined to have his
"wan lc-k-iss." " Jim, avick, arn't you ashamed of
yourself—the holy priest I—an' in the chapel, too I" re-
monstrated an old women near him. " Jim, you bosthoon.
you I quit yer hould of his reverence this moment I" in-
sisted a sturdy friend at the other side, " No, not till
get war, k-k-iss ; no, of I died for it, [ won't lave go."
Father Mathew, seeing that unpleasant consequences were
likely to ensue if Jim's rather inconvenient request were
not at once complied with, resolved to make him happy,
and accordingly kissed Jim on both cheeks, saying, " Now,
James, my dear, go home and remain quiet, and be a
sensible boy for the future." The " boy," we may remark,
was not much short of 40 years of age. Jim relinquished,
his grasp of the skirt of the coat, and retired, proud of his
achievement.
Another droll anecdote, related, as with a twinkling
eye of appreciative fun, by Father Mathelied
Biographer, is this one about—

THE VILLAGE BAND.
"Plaza your reverence, the gintlemen of the bend would
like to know what chune your reverence would prefer."
" Oh, my dear, anything; let the gentlemen please there-
selves." " Your reverence, they'd like to lave it to Y°11"
self." "Well, my dear," God Save the Queen' is avert'
fine air, and so is 'Patrick's Day,'" " I'm afeared, sir, we're
only learning them chunes ; but would your reverence like
the • Conquering Haro ?' " " Had n't we that before, InY
dear ?" Well, you had, your reverence. Perhaps your
reverence would be after liking Love not ?'—that's a
mighty sweet thing." "It is, indeed, my dear, a very nice
air ; but had n't we that also ?" " Well, you had, your
reverence; but the gintlemen of the band thought you'd
like to plaza yourself." Father Mathew, of course, un-
derstood the limited nature of the band's repertoire,
and so he gravely called for the " Conquering Hero," and
expressed a hope that it might be followed, in the course of
the evening, by that delightful air, " Love not." The
band felt the more proud at having paid this graceful com-
pliment, and they executed the doomed pieces of music
several times that night with unabated vigour and un-
diminished discord.
As examples of the more serious and elevated
powers of Mr. Maguire, as the writer of a book
worthy of preservation among our biographical
annals, several passages have been marked by
us as extracts, that we are, nevertheless, precluded
from giving, here, at once, by way of additional
quotation. It happens, of course, purely as a
coincidence, but still even as a mere coincidence, it is
not unworthy of being here remarked, that in this
late autumn, or early winter season of 1863, within
seven years from the date of the death, in the
6Gth year of his age, of The Apostle of Tem-
perance, Father Mathew's memory is being
simultaneously commemorated—by the author's
pen and by the sculptor's chisel through the statue
raised in the city of Cork by the gifted hand
of J. H. Foley, R,A., and through the biography
here completed by the no less gifted hand of J. F.
Maguire, M.P.—a noble statue—a beautiful and
most impressive biography.

A Day's Ride ; a Life's Romance. By Charles
Lever, Author of " Cuarles O'Malley," &o. Two
Vols. Second Edition. Chapman and Hall.

That pen of magic which before now in the hands
of Charles O'Malley, Harry Lorrequer, and other
dashing favourites "of Ours," has conjured up such
scenes of fun and frolic, of daring and desparation •
has, alas, fallen into the degenerate hands of Alger-
non Sydney Potts, who, with praiseworthy perse-
verance, employs it, after the fashion of the immor-
tal Dogberry, in " writing himself down an ass."
Mr. Potts is assuredly related to the Rev. Alfred
Hoblush whom we have recently encountered. Both
are singularly ungainly, uninteresting individuals.
who go about singing their own imaginary praises,
offending against all the proprieties and ignoring
the customary civilities of life with most unblushing
effrontery. Such a character may excite a laugh
during a half hour's acquaintance, but proves a very
dull and disagreeable companion for two long weary
volumes. His mishaps and misdemeanours, which
are many and multiform, are tame and spiritless,
compared with the dashing exploits of the gallant
O'Malley and the reckless Lorrequer. We are ill'
dined to regard Mr. Lever's last work—and we sal
so in full recollection and appreciation of his bril-
liant style and vivid powers—as a mistake. It origi-
nally appeared, as our readers are aware, in the page;
of " All the Year Round ;" and it now comes forth
in two volumes, as a second edition, from the hands
of another publisher. Mr. Lever's great reputation
and wide-spread popularity may do much even Of
this work, but the work itself will do nothing to in-
crease that popularity or to enhance that reputation.
Dismissing Algernon Sydney to his congenial gni'
lipots, we will hope before long to receive at the
hands of Mr. Lever some more worthy successor t°
his former masterpieces.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR NOTTINGHAM.—On
Sunday evening an accident of a rather serious
nature occurred on the Midland Railway, near Notting'
ham. About 520 p.m. the passenger train for Buxton log
the Nottingham station, and upon reaching the Lenton
Gate (two miles from the town), the engine struck
horse which had strayed on the line. The shock was very
severe and turned the last carriage but:one off the lice, but,
fortunately, without upsetting it. This was the only car-
riage that left the rails, and the train was almost imme-
diately stopped. None of the passengers sustained any in-
jury. The horse was killed on the spot, its body being cla
to pieces%