The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-27 00:00:00

rim SUN, LONDON, FEMAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1861

against tke progress of freedom, and also as being a
connecting link between ourselves and some power
with which we have little or nothing in common.
This is not of course the object which is of pri-
mary importance to us, but still it might interest
many and influence more to take up the cause with
more heartiness. The Chairman explained the
feeling which animated the League in their con-
sideration of this affair. They knew that the
Poles were fighting against 1° fearful odds," but
then they made the " fewest errors," and they
trusted that victory would finally crown the side
of those who made the least mistakes. This
sanguine notion may not be so quixotic
as some may deem it expedient to call it,
and long after the prophecy has been uttered
amid denials and disclaimers, we may see its
happy fulfilment, and rejoice in the splendour of
its successful acccmplishment. It is a significant
study to trace the gradual working of events which
are here chronicled in the order of their occurrence,
until we come to the one fatal record, which was
like a torch applied to a train that had long tempted
fate, and coveted destruction. That recruitment
with which all Europe has rung, and condemned as
a gigantic error, has been the keynote of rebellion,
and the signal for resistance to the heart of Poland
ever since. It has lived on in the spirit of the land,
and the dying have bequeathed its memory to their
survivors to perpetuate, with the tenacity which
animated the brave in days of old—,
" And still his name sounds stirring unto the men of Rome,
As the trumpet blast which calla to them to charge the
Volscians home."

So deep in the feelings of the country will exist
the recollection of that gross outrage on the rights
and liberties of a nation. Therefore Lord CAMP-
BELL expressed a sincere hope that so many errors
of judgment would be sure to bring their perpetra-
tors to ruin, and from those failures might spring up
a bright and better future for Poland. Mr. HEN-
NESSY exhibited his usual animation and zeal in
this cause, and very effectively addressed the meet-
ing. He moved the resolution that the heroism of
the Poles had entitled them to the admiration and
support of Great Britain. The hon. member went
over the features of the case as regarded the parti-
tion of Poland by the three great robber Powers—
Russia, Austria, and Prussia. He also made a
strong point of the error committed by Lord
PALMERSTON in the former insurrection of the Poles.
It had been concealed for thirty years, but now
has come to light. It certainly was a lamentable
mistake of the noble lord's, because had matters
been properly adjusted then, the present grievous
state of things might never have come to pass.
The plan that was proposed by Louis PHILIPPE
was in every respect one which was likely to prove
beneficial to the interests of Poland; and it is greatly
to b© deplored that from misguided motives the
good opportunity was lost, and that generation and
the next allowed to sustain the calamities that
thence ensued. Earl RUSSELL did not escape the
searching scrutiny of the speaker, and he de-
❑ounced with natural indignation the course he
had pursued in writing a despatch which expressed
delight at the friendly intentions of the CZAR to
the Poles. It is to bo feared there is too much
truth in the opinion of Mr. HENNESSY that our
Government in this crisis would do nothing but
keep themselves in office. This a very difficult
matter to settle in a satisfactory manner, but there
is every reason to approve its discussion and exa-
mination. It may suit the creeds of diplomatists
and the doctrines of peacemocgers that a brave
people should be immolated on the shrine
of tyranny and cupidity, that the tenets of an
absurd theory may be carried out; but such argu-
ments will not suit the general feeling of the people
of this country. They will expect that justice
should be heard and the claims of right attended
to, although mighty potentates be discomfited, and
mar coavring politicians be out in their reckonings
as to the crushing of all national feeling through
the limits of a patriotic land.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 26 (Evening).
The Seaate has passed the Address in reply to
the Queen's speech.
The Congress was declared definitively consti•
tuted yesterday. Senor Rios Rases was elected
President.

THE PAPAL STATES,
ROME, NGV. 26.
THE TRIAL OF THE CHEVALIER FAUST'.
The official Giornale di Ponta thclares the reve-
lations relative to the Fausti trial, published by the
National Committee, to be forged, adding that the
real depositions of Madame Diattalevi are preserved
in the archives of the Court.

The Giornale further states that the names of
functionaries in the published depositions have been
interpolated, and concludes by saying :—" The
National Committee has not attained its object,
which was to embarrass the Government, and
create a belief in the innocence of men who have
been overtaken by justice."

MADAGASCAR.
(By Telegraph from Suez.)
MAURITIUS, Nuy. 6.

Advices received here from Madagascar mention
a rumour that King Itadama is still living. He was
left for dead by the assassins, but is said to have
been found by his partisans and concealed,

FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 27.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes a letter
from Frankfort, showing the excitement which pre-
vails in Germany with regard to the Schleswig-
Holstein question..
The Constitutionnel of this morning contains an
article, signed by M. Boniface, explaining the
Schleswig-Holstein question, and stating that much
excitement exists in Germany.

M. Boniface expresses his astonishment that
several newspapers, and especially the Times,
should counsel not only England, but also the other
Powers, to make war in favour of Denmark.

"No doubt," he continues, "old sympathies
attach France to Denmark, and to an alliance with
tLat country, but Germany has also a right to our
sympathie3 and respect. The will of a people and
the rights of nationalities must likewise weigh in
the balance of our resolutions. In view of so deli-
cate a problem, the non-existence of a cordial
understanding is to be regretted. If an under-
standing of the Seven Powers dces nat suffice to
ensure a solution of the Danish difficulty, it would
be logical to address all Europe."

BOURSE, Nov. 26.—The market has been rather
firmer to-day. Threes opened at 67f. 15c., rose to
67f. 30e., and are now at 67f. 20c. Mobilier has
been done at 1,C90f. Share Market firm. The
market exhibited a downward tendency towards
the dos; and closed as follows :

4. per Cent.. 3. 95 10
end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 05
Credit Mobilier 1082 50
Do. end month 1082 50
Bank 3haree 3380
Credit 1. oncier 1272 50
Roman

Italian Loan 72 15
Do. end month 72 10
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanieh Threes —
Rome Debt ..
Deferred
vaYs.
Cash. Account.

RAIL'

Orloang
Northern . ...
New ditto

977 50 .. - -
977 50 .. 977 50

layout' lulu Meditvrlanean 950 .. 951 25
New ditto —
•
S mithern .. 692 50 .. 693 75
IVestern
Eastern .. -
Sardinian -
Austrian

LorPb.trd

North of Spain
Saragossa 628 75 .. 630
Ditto to Barcelona 300 300

Fall of a House at Islington ---Two Men
Killed and Several Injured.

A few minutes before 12 o'clock yesterday morning
an accident occurred in Upper-street, Islington,
which placed the whole neighbourhood in a state of
great excitement, and was unfortunately attended
by loss of life. Nearly opposite Islington-green there
has existed for many years- a well known hostelry,
under the sign of the Wheatsheisf, and for the last few
years it has been occupied by a Mr. Dallor. The lease,
however, being nearly expired, the ground landlord,
as a condition of renewal, insisted upon the occupier
expending £2,000 in the rebuilding of:the premises
in a style suitable to that of the entrance of the
Agricultural-hall, immediately adjoining. These
conditions were not accepted by Mr. Dallor, and a
Mr. I/Avis became the tenant, and entered into a
contract with Mr. Wm. Cnapman, builder, Hope-
wharf, Limehouse, for the erection of the new build-
ing. It appears that on the 10th of last month the
builder obtained permission from the vestry of St.
Mary, Islington, to erect a hoarding in front of the
old building, which boarding was to remain for
six weeks from the granting of the order. He at
once pulled down the old building, and about a
month since commenced the erection of the new
one, the work of which has been carried on both
night and day since that time, in order to get the
premises ready for occupation by next Christmas,
and to open their, if possible, by the time of the
opening of the Cattle Show at the Agricultural-hall.
At the hour above stated a number of workmen
were busily engaged on the building when sud-
denly the building split completely in two, the
front of the house falling out into the street, carry-
ing with it the scaffolding and the men engaged
thereon, while those at work in the body of the
house were buried in the fallen ruins. Tne catas-
trophe caused a crowd of people to assemble imme-
diately, and assistance was at once brought to bear
to rescue the unfortunate men thus buried in the
fallen masses of brick, wood, and mortar. On search
being made, as soon as the cloud of dust had cleared
away, nine men were literally dug out ; two of
whom well dead, and the other seven so severely
injured that they were taken in cabs to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital. 'As' names of the unfortu-
nate men who lost their lives was John Peake, car-
penter, a young
man; and Joseph Pearce, carper.-.
ter, a married man, with seven children. Of the
cases taken to the hospital three are considered to
be den gerotis,
atilPtitations of the limbs being neces-
sary, The wife of the deceased Pearce arrived at the
spot just as the body of her husband was discovered,
and the scene that ensued was of a most distressing
character. There are many reports as to the cause
of the accident, the most dwelt upon being the
extreme haste with which the building has been
erected ; but this will no doubt be fully inquired
into at the inquest. Upon inquiry at the hospital
late last night we were informed that no deaths had
as yet occurred amongst the seven poor fellows lying
there, though they were all in a most precarious
condition.

"STONEWALL" JACKSON'S GRAVE.—" Bury me
at teXihgton, in the Valley of Virginia," These
words are said to have been uttered by that great, good, and
lamented man, Gen. T. J. Jackson, just before his death ;
and in accordance with his sacred command, all that is mor-
tal of the most renowned and successful military genius that
the war or probably modern ages have produced, now lies
interred within the walls of the Presbyterian cemetery lo•
crated in the south-western suburbs of this delightful village.
Nothing marks the spot •chore his mortal remains lie to
disiinguish his grave from that of others, save a diminutive
Confederate flag, not larger than a lady's handkerchief. This
tiby emblem is fastened to a staff not. more than two feet
long, and placed at the head of the graves, and there waves
as if to illustrate the modest pretensions of the great hero of
the Valley of Virginia. Close by his silo a small grave is
to be seen, which contains the remains of hie child, who
died a few years ago, and not far distant is the grave of his
first wife, " Ellinor, the daughter. of George and Julia
Junkin," with a plain marble slab at the head. His late
residence is situated near the end of the town, and, like
everything else planned by him, is modest and unpretend-
ing.—./Vezv York Express.
NEW RULES AND ORDERS FOR COUNTY COURTS.
—The Lord Chancellor has sanctioned 20 now rules and
orders, with a number of forms, for regulating the practice
of County Courts. They will take affect on the Ist of
•
January next.
HECTOR BERLIOZ'S OPERA " Beatrice and
Benedict" has been recently represented with great success
at Weimar.

LITERATURE.

Hamlet : Tragedie en 5 Acts de TV. Shakespeare.
Traduite en vers Francais. Par lo Chevalier

de Chatelain. Bvo., pr. 142. Rolandi.
Our hopes in regard to the Chevalier de Chate-
lain as a translator of Shakspere into the French
language are being realised. His first daring ven-
ture in that direction, it may be remembered, was
Macbeth. His next, the present one—a venture
still more daring of its kind—has been. Hamlet.
Has been—for the work is here before us accom-
plished! Upon its accomplishment we would at
once offer to the Chevalier our cordial felicitations.
And they are, indeed, deserved. For we take the
production of a successful version of a wondrous
masterpiece such as Hamlet into French, to be
equivalent, as an intellectual achievement, to
the preduczion of an original work of very con-
siderable importance. Among all the fifty odd
dramas of Shakspere we should be disposed at
once, and unhesitatingly, to regard the transla-
tion of " Hamlet" as about the tnost difficult of
accomplishment. In many respects, the language
in it, is the most idiomatic in all the Shaksperian
literature. The marvellously mixed characters of
three of the principal personages in this
great drama Hamlet himself, old Polo-
nious, and his fair young daughter Ophelia—
impart to the strangely alternating wisdom,
pathos, humour, tendernesi, sublimity of the
poetry, an almost bewildering incoherency. And
this for very sufficient reasons. In the instance
of Ophelia, by the exquisitely affecting incident of
her love-distraught brain becoming crazed by her
many and most bitter misfortunes. In the instance
of Polonius, by senility clouding over an intellect
originally keen and luminous : hence the blending
in his words of the profoundest worldly wisdom
with the shallowest silliness, almost amounting at
times to mere drivel and buffionery. The sanity
or insanity of the Danish Prince himself is still (as
Dr. Connolly's recently published medico-literary
treatise very pointedly indicates) a matter for con-
tinued discussion—to some even a matter in dispute
distractingly problematical. Yet it is this same
mystically confused and all but bewildering tragedy
of "Hamlet" that the Chevalier de Chatelain has
hero " done' into French with admirable exacti-
tude. Better than any words of comment from our-
selves as to the skill with which he has performed
his task—a task to him manifestly (in spite of its
difficulties) a labour of very love—better than any
words of ours will be one or two exemplars, by way
of extract, of the manner of his translation. In
selecting our quotations, moreover, from the five
acts of the Tragedy, we shall purposely cite pas-
sages with which the readers of " Hamlet" are the
most intimately acquainted. Selecting in this
way, therefore, a few specimen-fragments from
the Chevalier de Chatelain's version of Hamlet in
French, we will give here the famous apostrophe to
the Ghost :

Quo to sois un Esprit frail produit de l'ether,
Ou bien damne lutin echappe de I'enfer,
Que tes intentions soient bonnes on mechantes,
Tu revets a mes yeux des formes si vivantes
Que jo veux to parler: Je t'appellerai Roi
Pere, Royal Danois, Hamlet—oh! reponels-moi ;
Et no me laisse pas croupir dans l'ignorance ;
Mais, oh I di's-moi pourquoi tes oesements par chance

Deposes dans la tombo ont brise leurs liens,
Pour to jeter ici comma uno languo aux chiens.
Que veut dire, que toi, fait et parfait cadavre,
Tout revetu d'acier, to viennes a co havre
Pour effrayer Is nuit, faire trembler nos emirs,

Et puis nous injccter de sublimes horreurs !
Par to venue ici, dis ! que pr6tends-tu fake I
Quel en est le pourquoi ? quel en est le mystere ?

Where the Chevalier appears to have failed in the
mere manner of his translation, the failure we can-
not but look upon as attributable in the main to the
genius of the French language,as contradistinguished
in many ways from our own far bolder, more
rugged, vigorous, and, even, in its capabilities of ex-
pressing the loftier emotions, we would venture to
,ay, sublimer Saxon Speech. Quel en est le pour -
quois ? seems illustrative in this way of the mean-
ing of our contrast, a contrast in no respect to be
regarded as invidious : any more than it could be
deemed invidious to remark upon the simple fact
that in all French literature there is no paral-
lel to the sublimitics either of the Shak-
sperian tragedies themselves, or of the divine epic
of Milton. Here, however, is a still more notable
illustration of the Chevalier de Chatelain's powers
as a translator of Shakspere, to wit, that discernable
in his version of Hamlet's immortal soliloquy—

Telle est la question : E tre on bien no pas etre
A savoir, si, l'esprit do lui-meme est plus maitre,
En supportant les coups, les fleehes du destin,
Ptutot qu'en se cabrant sur des soucis sans fin,
S'anemtir? Mourir—lornair—pas davantage ;
Dire qu'en s'endormant soudain on met l'ancrage
Sur les peines du ccour, sur les maux, les ennuis
Dont l'humaine nature est l'insondable putts.
C'est la la fin des fins, oui da I la fin derniere,
Quo I'on doit desirer de facon singuliere.
Mourir—Jormir—dormir—pent-etre pour sever,
Oui voila to her; it le faut observer:
Dans ce sommoil de mort panel d'hunaeur misanthrope
Nous aurons rejete noire frele enveloppe,
Queles selves, surgiront ? . Cola donne a penser,
Et le pour et to contra il nous le faut peser.
Car quel est celui-la qui serait assez bete
Pour supporter du sort l'incessante tern pece,
Les torts de I'oppresscur, de I'orgueilleux le " Moi I ~
Les peines do Famous, les delais de la loi,
Des employee hargaeux le detain, l'insolenes
Qu'endure to merite aux mains de l'ignorance,
Quand avoc un poignard i 1 pourrait rnordicus
S'oxempter de l'irnpOt, et gagner son quitus ?
Quel est-il la qui sans fin et sans cesse
Pot temit des fardeaux jusques a la vieillesse,
Pour grogner et suer, maugremt sur son sort,
Si n'etait la terreur de ce qui suit la mort :
La mort, psya lomtain, qui se perd dans les brumes
De la pensea humane, et dans ses amertumes
Pays inexplore dont jai:neje voyageur,
Nest encor revenu, jette le fruid au emus,
Et nous fait supporter nos mans of nos miseres
De l'iuconnu plutbt qu'aller sunder les spheres.
La conscience ainsi hit de nous des poltrons ;
La resolution chez les plus fanfarons
Forte en couleur d'abord, et blemit et se fans,
Au pensor do la mort, a son sublime arcane ;
Et des projets ainsi grands de dimensions,
A l'etat de projets meurent—sans actions.
With one other excerpt (a very brief one)—also in
the origiaal sufficiently familiar to render its cita-
tion here of especial value—we shall content our.
selves. It is that of Hamlet's epigrammatic couplets
on the mutability of dead Caesar's clay
L'implrial Cesar heros d'un attentat
A fait pendant un temps le monde Man et mat,
ft meurt : quo devient-il ? .Un gacheux le befoue,
it recrepit un mur en tripotant sa boue,
Si quo co mort fameux l'cipouvante d'hier,
Nous sort do bouche•trou pour la bise d'hiver.
Enough, however, in the way of mere illustra-
tive quotation—Always, even when the most
happily selected, unsatisfactory, because by neces-
sity fragmentary. Upon his title-page we observe
that the translator entitles himsolt not the Author
of Leg _Moines da licare, of Les Contes de Cantorbery,
of Les Fables de Gay, and of so many other pro-
ductions of varied merit, but simply yet proudly
Ilfembre du "National Shakspere Committee!" His
dedication of this French version of " Hamlet,"
moreover, is given thus—" Aux Manes do Shake-
speare, 23 Avril, 1864. Hommage du Traducteur."
It is a noble garland thrown in anticipation
at the base of the pedestal of what we
trust devoutly may prove a fitting monument to
the glory of Shakspere, and a worthy attestation
of the love, gratitude, and admiration of posterity
towards him whom Theodore de Banville, as the
Chevalier reminds us upon a flyleaf, has apostro-
phized as—
" Shakespeare ! . . ce penseur I Onabre! Ocean ! Eclair
Ablate comic Goethe ! awe corium: Schiller 1
-Lyre dont cheque note a des manteaux de flammel
ouvert gravement Fur la nature et nate
Phare que, pour guider see [Ales matelots,
L'Art a fait rayonner our ses nips de flute !"

The Country Gentleman. By " Scrutator," Author
of " The Master of the Hounds," One vol., pp.
358. Chaprrialrand Hall.
This hook is a combination of sentiment and
sports. It contains a romantic love-story, in which
the heroine deserts the hero and marries the
wrong man. Shortly afterwards her death is an-
nounced, but the sequel of the tale bears some
resemblance to the " Glenara" of Campbell—
" Empty that shroud and that nada did seem,
Glenara, Glenara now read rae ray dream,'
Mingled with this romantic narrative are some

spirited sketches of country sporW, from which
we extract the tol:owing account of hoW

BARON STEENREDI TAKES RIVER.

to this manner the hou'rzds had traversed four larT:e
pasture field!, although with little improvement as to pace,
when Will Lane titlid, "Perhaps, sir, we had better hold os
at c;ttr,3 to Moor Copse ; that's his point, sir—and get out of
the crowd df e.ralemen who MeV pressing forward."
"Not yet, Will=sn old cunning fag, when not found by
hounds, will lie in a hedge-tow sometimes. Give them a
few minutes more; and look I the young ones are 4etting
on now. Work cf this kind will do them good."
" Dis vara slow," the Baron remarked; mine horsey he
pull so to get on."

" It will be fast enough presently," the captain replied ;
"this is what we call walking up to our fox."
"Ah I vara good I we walk truly ; dis no grand sox

chasse."

The words had scarcely passed his lips when, on the other
side of a thick sedgy hedge-row, a sudden chorus burst forth
from the whole pack, which sent every man's heart bound-
ing to his throat. The fox had sprung out just before the
hounds reached it.

" Come on I" screamed the Captain, as he sent his horse
a t the double fence, getting in and out of the opposing
quickset very cleverly, on the other side, over a drop leap
into a dark peaty meadow. " Now, gentlemen," he said,
looking back, " take your places," as men and horses came
floundering down, many of the former showing the way,
headforemost, to their astonished steeds. Firebrand would
have it now all his own way, and the Baron, remembering
his owner's advice, and thinking it most prudent not to
dispute the point with him, gave him his head.
"Mine what a leap," he muttered, as he was
thrown forward upon the pommel of his saddle, by Fire-
brand's coming down upon his knees ; " dis horse, he jump
terrible; but where do dogs—me no see them—how me
follow r'

"Go along, sir roared a first-flight man, dashing past
him ; and along he was carried, amidst a shower of peat
mud dotting him all over like a catneleopard. The fox had
skirted the corner of Moor Copse, through which the
hounds dashed like lightning, and were now streaming
away across the second meadow at a terrific pace, with
Edmund, Will Lane, and Charley only in their wake.
" Come along, sir," shouted the leader, whom Firebrand
seemed determined to follow, "come along l" as he sprang
over the fence into the thicket ;'' we shall see them the
other side."

" Oh 1 mine head I mine hat," cried the luckless Baron,
being turn through the stiff blackthorns at the mercy of
Firebrand, held only by one hand, the other being raised to
defend his face from the sharp prickles, " Dis place
terrible."

"Never mind, sir ; come along 1" again reached his ear,
and the Baron showed on the other side a figure to behold ;
without his hat, his long hair hanging in wild disorder over
his scratched and bleeding forehead.
Some dozen pink jackets were now added to his company,
who all boldly encountered the stiff fences and deep ditches
of some hall score rough pasture fields. Firebrand carry-
ing his rider cleverly over all without a stumble.
" The river, by Jove 1" exclaimed the leader, "and not a
bridge in sight ; have it we must."

" Me no swim, care," cried the Baron in consternation at
the wide, rapid stream, within one field of them.
" Your horse can—so come along 1" and splash went
horse and rider into the bed of the foaming torrent.
"Oh 1 mine got," exclaimed the now terrified Baron, as
Firebrand sprang high in the air, to clear it in a bound.
Oh I dis is ternble work; dis gentleman vox, ho der Freis-
cuhtz, de red diable." Further words were stopped, by the
spouting and splashing of water about his ears, from which,
when emerging, the only visible sign of Firebrand was his
head above the eddying current.

" Give him his head to to follow me, and don't pull the
reins," was again shouted forth from the bit of pink cloth,
now sailing rapidly down the stream, which in a few
minutes was seen to elongate up the bank, at a place where
cattle came down to drink. "All right again--here we are
on terra firma once more --now for it, to catch them 1"
and away sped the first-flight man like an arrow from a
bow, renovated by his shower-bath for fresh exertions,
" Hark ! I hear them ; hark I—they have reached Haste-
wood. Oh 1 for two turns there in my favour and we shall
be up with you, my young master. AI! how they rattle
him round the covert—every hound seems to have him in
view. Ay 1 there's Charley's holloa ; hark back! he has
been headed 1"

A moment's pause—the pack have swung a few yards
outside the wood hedge.
" Hark back 1" again cried Charley, with a rate and crack
of his whip. They turn like lightning to the well known
tongue of Old Solomon, who has met the fox, and in a se
court the wood re-echoes with the full chorus of the pack,
crashing and dashing through the stuff, which bends before
them like reeds to a flood of outbursting waters. " Twang
—twang—twang" goes the horn " Forward, away 1"
screams the master ; "yonder he flies, up the side of the
hedge row to the right." _ _ _

"-Ay, ay ! a hit of luck for me now," exclaims the leader
of the Baron ; " they are turning our way ; but, hang it
all, that double post and rails, with a blown horse I Must
du it steady, in and out—come %long 1"
Our leader on his made hunter bounds in and over
cleverly the opposing bars; but hearing a crash behind him
turns his head, and there lies the Baron on his back, and
Firebrand disentangling himself from the splintered
timbers.

" Hurt, sir ?" asks one of the dozea, now pressing on.
" Oh I mine vriend—mine arm,"

" Ah ! nasty fall, very," replied the other, passing on ;
" can't stop ; doctor behind,"

. ,
" Come along, sir ?" roared another voice, your horse is
caught for you, and they are at check." _ _ .

The Baron, however, recovers his courage and his
seat, and is, after all, " in at the death," and receives
the crowning honour of "the brash."

Theodore Parker's jVorks. Vol. V.—Discourses
on Slavery. Vol, I. Tiiibner.

The fifth volume of the new edition of the works
of Theodore Parker contains the first series of his
eloquent discourse on slavery. The editor very
truly observes that "few will read them and see
how deeply their author's heart was engaged in the
cause of negro emancipation, without being touched
by the thought that in the great struggle now pass.
ing in America the voice which would have spoken
loudest for right and justice has been silent, and the
bravo soul which would have exulted in the triumph
of freedom has passed away from earth!' Among
the discourses contained in this volume the most
eloquent is entitled " The Function of Conscience."
In it the author, after relating the escape of a run-
away slave who took refuge in his house, declares
that no law could justify his surrender of that man
to his pursuers. He charges all to remember " that
nothing in the world without is so sacred as the
eternal law of God ; of the world within nothing is
more venerable than our conscience, the permanent,
everlasting oracle of God. If," he goes on to say, "I
am consciously and continually false to this, it is of
no avail that 1 seem loyal to all besides; 1 make
the light that is in me darkness, and how great is
that darkness! The centre of my manhood is gone
and lam rotten at my heart. Men may respect
me, honour me, but I am not respectable, I am a
base, dishonourable man, and like a tree, broad-
branched, and leafed with green, but all its heart
gnawed out with secret worms; at some slight
touch one day my rotten trunk will fall with
horrid squelch (!) bringing my leafy honours to
dishonoured dust, and men will wonder that
bark could hide such rottenness and ruin."
Among the other discourses are some on " The
Nebraska Qeestion," `‘ The Boston Kidnapping,"
" The Abolition of Slavery by the French Republic,"
&c. We need not say that we do not fully coincide
in all Mr. Parker's opinions, but they have the merit
of being straightforward and thoroughly in earnest.

An;.-Colenso : an Essay towards Biblical Interpre
tation. A Handbook for Thinkers. By Johannes
Laicus. One Vol. Pp. 358. Hamilton, Adams,

and Co.

Although the title c,nd object of this work would
ensure our sympathy, we must confess that we have
been somewhat dismayed by the grandiloquent
style of the introduction. The author tells us that
his book is " the creative effort of a layman," and
gives, as matters of supreme importance, the dates of
its first conception and final accomplishment. Many
pasages in the work evidence a good deal of thought
and a rational spirit of inquiry, and will prove in-
teresting and perhaps useful to those "thinkers for
whose benefit it has been prepared—it such can
really require a negation to the preposterous
subtleties of Colenso.

BY THEIR LIGHT NAMES.
DoN'T CALL THING
made Robson, and Redpath
transactions as those •
lieshStilßeasitit to write about such
eit,hat they were gross frauds. It
—lf a gentleman
he must not call it childish
baL,rsons disposed to read it that to
nonsense, and warn r-- _ • do
non-
Id be a sinful waste of lime. In short, a gentleman
notorious,h e
revow shae
very
ruys t notnwsoa::
81:uwstou never call a spade a spade, He must always describe
agricultural mp.cinent.-6'aturday Review.
NORFOLK
ames Nayler,
it
who
an E
o'Hw aLsATEI.‘ ltl
awaitingU K i
EIN
his
trial for the murder of his
wife at E:sing, Norfolk, two months since, has died in Nor-
wich Castle this week after two three days' illness. Tht
murder was attended with circumstances of great barbarity.
but as Naylor did bet appear to have, been in a thoroughly
sound etate of mind, it is doubtful whether, even assuming
that he had been convicted, the extreme sentence of thelaw
would ever have been carried out,

Fr.:l
t
' 4.11'
till II Tirmlar.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 26.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Beatrice end her Serene Highness Princess
Hoheniohe, drove out yesterday afternoon in a
carriage and four, attended by 313j0r-General Hon.
A. Hood on horseback.

Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena and her Serene Highness
Princess Hohenlelie, visited his Royal Highness
Prince Arthur at Greenwich-park ibis morning,
attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Major-General
Hon. A. Hood, and Col. F. Ponsooby.

Their Royal Highness:B the Crown Prince and
Princess of Prussia, Prince William, and Princess
Charlotte, attended by Countess Hohenthal and
Count Furstenstein, went to Claremont to visit
Queen Marie Amelie.

Earl de Grey and Ripon arrived at the Castle last
night, and had an audience of the Queen.

Visit of Her Majesty to Blackheath,

Her 111ajesty, accompanied by the Princess
Helena, the Princess Hohenlohe, and attended by
tho Hon. Mrs. Bruce, General A. N. Hood, and
Colonel Ponsonby, left the 'Windsor Station of the
South-Western Railway yesterday at half-past 12,
on a visit to his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, at
the Ranger's Lodge, Greenwich-park.
The royal train proceeded via Clapham Junction
and the Crystal Palace lines of the Brighton and
Chatham and Dover Companies, to Beckenham
Station, and thence per South-Eastern line to
Le wisham, reaching that place at ten minutes to two
o'clock.

After alighting from the train, her Majesty, with
he Princess Helena and suite, proceeded to the
Changer's Lodge in royal carriages sent from Buck-
Ingham Palace. On the arrival of the Queen and
:,he princess they were received by Prince Arthur,
attended by Major Elphinstone. The jourley from
Lewisham Station to the Ranger's Lodge occupied
less than five minutes.

The roads were at different places occupied by
great numbers of people, who cheered her Majesty
as the royal carriages passed.

Her Majesty returned to the Lewisham Station
At about half-past three o'clock, when the royal
(rain immediately started for Windsor, pursuing
the same route as on the journey up, and reached
titi indson at 5 o'clock.

The royal train was in charge of Mr. Godson,
Mr. Hawkins, and Mr. Bishop, of the South
Western and Brighton Companies, as far as Beckon-
ham, and for the remainder of the journey of Mr.
Eborall, the general manager, and Mr. Knight, the
superintendent, of the South Eastern Railway.
Mr. Gilpin, M.P., and Mr. Teulon, directors, with
Mr. Smiles, the secretary of the South Eastern,
received her Majesty and suite at the Lewisham
Station.

The Queen's visit was conducted throughout in as
private a manner as possible, and unattended with
Any crowding or confusion either at the Lewisham
railway approaches or elsewhere. liar Majesty
Appeared to be in good health.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
party, including Colonel the Hon. R. Charteris, Captain
the Hon. James R. Drummond, C. 8., Colonel the Hon.
EL F. Keane, and Colonel the Hon. G. A. Liddell, had a
day's shooting on Wednesday, at Coombe Wood, Surrey.
To the five guns 400 and odd head of game fell.
The Doke of Newcastle is so unwell as to be
unable to attend to his official duties at the Colonial-office.

The Duchess of Somerset is expected to arrive in
town to-day from Stover House, Devon. The noble duke
has been obliged by public business to remain in London
during the last three weeks.

T :Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have been
staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby at
Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, since Monday last.

The Marchioness (Maria) of Ailesbury is among
the guests of the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley
Hall.
The Earl and Countess of Leicester are enter-
,aining company at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. The gentle-
men have had capital shooting.

The Earl of Sefton has a large circle staying at
Croxteth Park, near Liverpool. A series of private
theatricals was to be given during the week.
Lord and Lady Rivers are entertaining a select
circle at Rushmore Lodge. Lord Edward St. Maur has
joined the party from Stover Park, the Duke of Somerset's
seat in Devon.

A Scene in the French Corps Legislatif.

A discussion arose a few days ago on the question
of the return for the district of Les deux Sevres.
M. Glais-Bizoin led the Opposition, and loud were
the denunciations of the Government interference.
M. de Morny sat there impassable.
M. Glais-Bizoin—This election is post 'seriously
opposed. The majority obtained by M. Lasmonnier
(the Government candidate) was only 170, I am
here loudly to assert. (Loud cries of "No one can
hear you.")
M. le President—M. Glus-Bizoin, we cannot hear
a word you say.
M. Glais-Bizoin—ln order to hear, President,
you must first listen.
M. le President—True; but,in order to be heard,
you must speak up.
M. Glais-Bizoin—l will. Gentlemen, this prin-
ciple has been maintained, that the Government
has a right to interfere in the elections. This prin-
ciple I deny. Let us say no more about it.
(Loud cries of " Yes, do not say anything more
about it," great laughter, and " divide, divide.")
M. le President—As M. Glais Bizoin appears dis-
posed to speak frequently, and that we are doomed
to listen to him, I have the honour to inform him
that the reporters only report what they hear.
Now, the reporters have sent to inform me that they
have not heard one word that M. Glais Bizoin has
said. (Bruyante hilarite.)
Poor M. Ulais Bizoin, he was not satisfied, and
returned to the charge next day, but M. de Morney
was ready for him.
The proces verbal of the yesterday's proceedings
was read.

M. Glais Bizoin—Gentlemen, the report of our
discussions are placed under the control of tho Pre-
sident, and impartially should preside at oar deli,
berat ions.

(Cries of " We don't hear you.")
M. le President—Yesterday I informed the ho n.
gentleman that we could not hear him, and I in
vited him to take a place more in the centre of
.the
chamber. To-day I have to repeat my observatlont
that no one can hear him.
M. Glais-Bizoin—lt is not my fault, if we•arc now
compelled to speak from our places.
M. le President—Then do what others do; change
your place and come nearer me.
M. lais-Bizoin—descends with solemn steps, and.
ofththePresident.
R 7.
partisans
of
aThere reportedspeeches
e with
Oppositionfrequent
places himself exactly in front of
M. Glais-Gentlemen,—Gentlemen, if
should preside at our discussions, it is not carried out
n.
the contrary, followed by sarcastic comments,
oitnhiconl our
Governmentoe pb t:
tr
os
Those
the
noise seconddro e
d part
my of
in:
ey;
such as " loud
.exclamations," "great noise,"
&c. I am willing to admit that during
inter-
ruptions. The President,
something much more seriousbat thani'or
speech yesterday the
kind terms, advised me to speak louder, and assured
me the reporters could not hear me. Ido not WV
to consider whether the excellence of the report
i Li
very
co
um:
uteecohtuhser there
really does depend on the ears of the reporters; but
what I protest against are the sarcastic remarks
inserted by the President ; for instance, after 1119
'observations the other day I read • laughter,' Cod
then prolonged laughter.' Now, as I will
nGt
submit to be laughed at, either in the house or our.
of it, I hope that the President will for the Wm()
reserve his comments."
M. le President—l will answer the observations
of the Hon. M. Glais-Bizoin. The observations I
made yesterday were well intended. He certainly
did excite hilarity, and when this is inserted in the
Monittur it is a mere question of degree; and I
will call the whole Chogkber to bear witness to v 39
impartiality.