The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

BRESLAU, Nov. 6.

Advices received here from Warsaw announce
that the National Government has published a pro-
clamation encouraging the Poles to persevere, and
confirming the order fer ladies to discontinue wear-
ing mourning.

A sanguinary engagement has taken place at
Czchanow. The insurgents were commanded by
Baron Petz, Night separated the combatants.

R 0 M E.

ROME, Nov. 5.

The Prince Latour d'Auvergne presented his
letters of recall to the Pope this morning, and will
leave Rome on Saturday next.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 5.
The Levant Herald says :—" All the arrears of
the army prior to March last have been settled by
individual serghis, payable to the soldier at the ex-
piration of his term of service. Since March all
have been paid in cash. -
"The new taxes are about to applied to Constan-
tinople; which eity has hitherto been exempt."

• FRANCE.
PARIS,. Novas.
The bulletin of this morning's Moniteur publishes
an account of the opening of the French Chambers,
concluding as follows :
" The Emperor's speech was interrupted ,by the
Most vehement acclamations, and-terminates Midst
repeated shouts of " ViverEmpereu'r." 'HiasgeeCh
will not fail to re-echo loudly throughoitt France,
and the whole of Europe."
The Senate and Corps Legislatif will meet to-day,
to receive a communication from the Government
to the Corps Legislatif.
It is asserted that the tax upon carriages will be
abolished, and will not be inserted in the Budget for
1865.

The Presse of this evening, in an article, signed
by M. de Girardin, wishes that' the appeal of the
Emperor may be understood in Europe to open at
last a new era of peace and liberty.
The Gazette de France thinks that the speech of
the Emperor tends to the alternative of a Congress,
reorganising ancient Europe, or to war.

The Pays applauds the Emperor's speech, and

says --

" If the Emperor has spoken of war it is not as
a threat, but to impress upon Sovereigns and
nations the necessity of anticipating war by recom•
mending peace."
The Constitutionnel, in an article signed by M.
Limayrac, says:—" The whole of France will join
in the magnificent and patriotic language of the
Emperor. tEurope will understand that this appeal
was made by a clear-sighted and sagacious policy,
proud without wishing to impose itself upon others,
national without the spirit of conquest, the friend
of order and of progress."
The Nation of this evening considers the Em-
peror's speech to show that the common action of
the Three Powers is at an end, and also does not
believe that Europe will accept a Congress.
La France of this evening says :—" The Emperor
has condemned with equal firmness the rashness
which endeavoured to carry him away, and the
system of egotism and decay which has overthrown
other regimes and which his name rejects."
BOURSE, Nov. s.—Business opened at an advance
on yesterday's closing rates, but the improvement
was 'not long maintained, and quotations receded,
Threes having been done at 67f. 15e. After the
Emperor's speech had been posted up a little" rally
took place, and prices again 'recovered to about the
quotations of yesterday, Threes, for the Account,
being now at 67f. 25c. Mobilier remain slightly
lower. Railway Market quiet, and prices in
general well maintained. The market closed as
follows

It per Cents .. 95 10
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67
Credit Mobilier 1078 75
Do. end month 1180
Bank Shares 3360
Credit / oncier 1295
Roman —

Italian Loan 72 80
Do. end month 72 80
New ditto
Do. end month....
Russian
Austrian .. —
Spanish
Rome Debt .. —
Deferred
BA IL WAYS.

Orleans ....
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Geneva
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cosh.' ' Account.
978 75 .. 976 25
985 -- .. 980 --

950 - .. 952 50
910 - .. - -

497 50 ..
685 - .. 690 -
515 - -
505 - 607 50
410 - .. 405 --
410 - 411 60
550 - 551 25
640 - 537 60
627 60 .. 630 -

The Case of Starvation.

LITERATURE,

A Page from the Peerage. By the aithor of " The
Colonel." Two Vols. Newby.

The author of this story, in a very spirited pre-
face, deprecates the " sensation" sentiment of the
present day, especially inasmuch as it involves a
pleasant familiarity with the records of iniquity.
" If," asks the writer of the preface, " authors can
by the magic of their style blunt our sense of the
crimes they narrate, why not by the power of their
genius attempt to crush the growing evils of the
age, instead of fostering them ?" The writer forgets
that this noble task, so well worthy of employing
the highest powers, has been, in many instances,
already undertaken by some of our first authors.
This " Page from the Peerage.' now before us—this
chapter from what Mr. Thackeray has called " The
British Bible"—although disclaiming all "sensation,"
abounds with vicissitudes. We cannot but regard
the history of Katinka Campbell as most improba-
ble, although we are aware that there are not a few
histories in the records of the House of Peers which
are striking examples of that truth which is stranger
than fiction. Katinka, or Kattie, as she is more
frequently styled, is not a very pleasing character.
When we are first introduced to her, she is the
somewhat haughty and ambitious daughter of a
widow lady of moderate circumstances. Shortly
afterwards the death of Katinka's godfather, the
old and almost imbecile Duke of Merioncourt, ren-
ders the unnoticed daughter of Mrs. Campbell the
heiress of eleven thousand a year and seventy
thousand pounds besides. The ambitious damsel,
for a brief time,—

" Basks her in the noonday sun,
Disporting there like auy other fly"—
when a law-suit deprives her of her unexpected in-
heritance, leaving her many thousands of pounds in
debt. She then becomes engaged to the steward of
a nob:e friend, and prepares herself for a humble
life at the park lodge, when, lo and behold, the
steward turns out to be the rightful Duke of
Merioncourt! Assuredly this is a sufficiently sur-
prising climax to an anti-sensational romance !

Living in Earnest: with Incidents front the Lives of
the Great and Good. One vol., pp. 265. By
Joseph Johnson. Nelson.

Those beautiful lines of Professor Longfellow—
" Lite is real—life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal"

are appropriately taken as the motto of this hook—
a little book well worthy the earnest attention of
those for whom it is intended; namely, the young,
and one well calculated also to prove interesting to
the general reader, being filled, as it is, with anec-
dotes and examples from the lives of the Great and
the Good of former times, These records are more
than interesting—they are most encouraging. They
are those footsteps on " the sands of time"—;
".Footsteps which perchance another

Sailing o'er life's stormy main-
- Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother
Seeing, may take heart again."
The great lesson inculcated by these pages is the
,necessity of individual exertion in order to attain
success. Those who have achieved greatness have
not done so with folded hands. In the" sweat of his
brow" man is doomed to earn his bread, and not his
bread only, but every other good gift. Even " the
kingdom of heaven sufferath violence," and the
" earnest" ma❑ alone will prosper in this world and
in the next. As an encouraging exhortation to such
noble work, this little book is well worthy of com-
mendation and success.

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Illustrated,

Part 1. Price 6d. Lea.

We are glad to see " Robinson Crusob" appearing
in a cheap form in monthly parts. This edition is
beautifully printed in large type, and is bountifully
adorned with very spirited and excellent illustra-
tions. By placing works of such genuine merit and
of such a wholesome and at the same time en-
thralling interest within reach of all classes of
readers, publishers confer a very great boon upo❑
the public in a moral as well as in a literary point
of view.

Winter Weavings. Poems. By leabella Law. One
Vol, pp. 179. Smith, Elder, and Co.
A charming little volume of fugitive pieces has,
in these " Winter Weavings," been penned by a
loving friend, and may we not call her also dis-
ciple of Barry Cornwall's gifted daughter. The
book is, upon its very title-page, "Dedicated in
all affection to Adelaide A. Procter ; " and one of
the sweetest morsels of verse in it is the dedi-
catory sonnet given upon the next page, as fol-
lows :
In tender love I dedicate to-day,
In hope and trust, and all that in me sings
(While thought of thee around my spirit clings),
These songs I wove through all the winter grey :
My first poor songs which at thy feet I lay,
The first-fruits of my soul's imaginings :
Becau'e thy gentle hand first moved the strings,
First woke my harp with trembling notes to play.
And now I send my little songs abroad,
With prayer that God may here and there turn such
To drops of rain upon some thirsty ways—
But from thy lips one kind approving word,
From thy dear hand one tender answering touch,
. Were worth to me a world of human praise.
Without ever rising beyond the tenderly graceful
and pathetic, the Muse of Isabella Law, flutters
her wings very prettily. Not, it is true, with that
strength of pinion, or that radiant variation of
colouring noticeable at the every turn and upon
the every plume of the more aerial muse of Adelaide
Procter—reminding one of how it is the new sculp-
tor poet, Thotnas Woollier, sings, one while, of " My
Beautiful Lady"—
Fresh beauties, howso'er she moves, are stirred :
As tha sunned bosogi of a humming-bird
At each pant lifts some fiery hue,
Fierce gold, bewildering green or blue,
The same, yet ever new.
The majority of these little poems by Miss Law
are just the rythmical thoughts and emotions, felt
and mused over, we doubt not, by many another
gentle and accomplished maiden, but very seldom,
indeed, even by the gentlest and most accomplished
amongst them, so tenderly and so gracefully ex-
pressed.

Shakespere. A Critical Biography. By Samuel
Neil. Pp. 122. Houlston and Wright.

A foretaste, this little book is, of the floods of illus-
trative, prose, and verse that will be pouring i❑
upon us within these next few months in anticipa-
tion of the tercentenary anniversary of the birthday
of William Shakspere on that 23d of April, which
was strangely also his death-day, and more strangely
even than that (remembering that the poet is the
chief glory for England as a "heaven-born" genius)
—St. George's Day ! As a critical biography, Mr.
Neil's volumette shows a good deal of research. Yet
is the performance to our mind very far indeed from
being entirely satisfactory. It is written in a prag-
matic strain. The biographer has his preconceived
notions about Shakspere, and rigidly to those precon-
ceived notions he conforms everything. He has his
bed of Procrustes, and upon it he pitilessly stretches
the hero of his biography. What he wishes
Shakspere to have been in family, in friends, in
fortune, in religion—that he describes him as having
been ! His arguments, moreover—notwithstanding
his theme—are not always readable. At any rate,
we have not found them to be so. We have examined
them with a sense of weariness, and have iaid them
aside afterwards with the one feeling of satisfaction
at our having done so.

Davidson's Musical Almanack for 1864.
A threepenny musical melange (oddly entitled an
Almanack) consisting of Jullien's `.Kin of Hearts
Quadrilles," Charles Mackay's liarkling song
"Dewdrop of the Morning," Reyloff's odd little
ditty, pertly entitled" Wouldn't you like to know ?"
116 liner's haunting " Home, Sweet Home Waltz,"
Wilson's inspiriting " Pantomime Galop," Plump.
ton's aerial "Zephyr Polka," and Jolly's ditto
Scottish Ballad "Auld Diya"—too much of an echo,
this last, of the world-famed "Auld Lang Syne."

THE MANUAL OF FASHION.—The Messrs. Jay,
of Regent-street, have just issued their Illustrated
Manual of Fashion, which, as regards taste, elegance, or
variety, is without a rival. In ordinary failionable publi-
cations two or three plates are usually given to their readers,
but the Messrs. Jay present their patrons with a whole
volume of the latest and most attractive Parisian modes.
The plates illustrate every description of ladies' costume,
and if there is any truth iu the saying "variety is pleasing,"
then the Manual is without doubt a very marvel of inven-
tive taste. It cannot but increase the eminence already
attained by the Messrs, Jay,

,
‘finnmat—

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 5,
The Queen drove ont this morning, attended by
the Hon. Mrs. Bruce.

Colonel H. F. Ponsonby attended her Majesty on
horseback.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary visited her Majesty.

Lord Brougham had the honour of an interview
with her Majesty.
Viscount Palmerston arrived at the Castle yester-
day evening and had an audience of the Queen, and
returned to London this morning.

THE BIRTHDAY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—
It is understood that the natal day (the 9ch instant) of
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will be kept this year at
Sandringham, and not at Windsor as was first announced.
Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of:
Prussia were expected at Windsor last Tuesday, and pre-
parations were made at the Castle for their reception, but
the orders were at the last moment countermanded. The
Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia will now, it
is believed, remain at Sandringham until atter the Prince
of Wales's birthday.

Her Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
will return to town to-morrow .from visiting General Hall
at his seat in Cambridgeshire.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary visited her Majesty yester-
day at Windsor Castle. After a short stay their royal
highnesses returned to Cambridge Cottage, Kew.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, attended by Lady C. Barrington, Colonel
Ponsonby, &c., honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their
presence last evening, to witness Miss Batsman's perform-
ances of" Leah.''

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
de Chartres have returned to their residence at Ham.,
Surrey, after a lengthened tour.
The Duke of Somerset will arrive at his official
residence at the Admiralty to-morrow, from Stover Park,
near Tctness.

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have
issued invitations for an evening party, on a grand scale, at
Blenheim Palace, on Wednesday, the 25th inst. The party
will be in honour of Frederick Prince of Denmark, who is
now at Oxford, and a general gathering of the nobility and
gentry of the county and leading members of the university
is expected.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who, on
leaving town, visited the Earl of Sandwich at Hinchin-
broke, have arrived at Kimbolton Castle, where they will
shortly receive a succession of visitors.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have
been entertaining a succession of visitors at Beaudesert
Park, near Lichfield.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, and
Lady Blantyre and Hon. Ellen Stewart, are staying with
the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland at Stafford House,
St. James's.

Viscount Palmerston returned to town yesterday
morning from Windsor Castle, and left in the afternoon
for his seat, Broadlands, Hants.

Lord Chesham, we are informed, is rather better,
and is gradually regaining strength.
Lady Herbert of Lea, with the Earl of Pembroke
and family, will leave Wilton for Egypt in the course of the
ensuing week.

Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham have been
among the Jatest visitors to the Duke and Duchess of Rich-
mond at Gordon Castle, N.B.

We have to record the demise of Dowager Lady
Stanley of Alderley, who died on Monday last at an ad-
vanced age. Several families of rank are placed in mourn-
ing by the melancholy event.

A SINGULAR DISCOVERY LATELY ANNOUNCED IN

FRANCE.—The discovery is that of a Dutchman,
M. Hooibrenk, and the results of his researches haver
been so well marked and valuable that he has been
awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour by the Emperor,
who has directed that a scientific commission be appointed
to investigate and report upon the matter. M. Hooibrenk
supposes that the number of grains in an ear of corn can be
increased by bringing a larger quantity of pollen into con-
tact with the stigmata than they usually receive. He con-
ducts his experiments as follows :—He takes a cord of front
25 to 30 yards long, and fastens it to a stiff woollen fringe
of about 10 inches long; he steeps it for a short time in.
honey, and drags it over the fields of corn two or three times
after flowering. It catches the pollen from the anthers and
applies it to the stigmata (it is, in fact, Mr. Darwin's bee-
process on a gigantic scale), and the result is a greatly in-
creased crop. This method has been tried in conjunction
with the old one, on a farm near Epernay, in Champagne,
the property of the celebrated wine dealers, Messrs. Jaques,-
son. The results beneath show the relative advantages of
both systems :—Hooibrenk's system—wheat 31 kilos, rye'
25.5 kilos, barley 24 kilos, oats 17 kilos. Old system—
wheat 21 kilos, rye 16 kilos, barley 16 kilos, oats 12 kilos.
It has been =lectured that the results would have been
still more striking had not this season been such a favour-
able one. Fruit and garden vegetables have been similarly
treated, and with a like success. It has been found also
that an inclination of 112 deg of the branches of the vine
produces some effect upon the flow of the sap, and increases
the fruit crop. M. Hooibrenk maintains that by his pro-
cess, and without any material additional outlay, crops of
fruit, vegetables, and corn can be increased in value 50 per
cent.

SUPERSTITION ABOUT GREEN PEAS.—The use of
peas in divination concerning love matters is ad:-
counted for by the fact that they are sacred to the patron of
marriage, In the Leitmeritzer district of Bohemia the gir is
go into a field of peas, and make there a garland of five or
seven kinds of flowers, all of different hues. This garland
they use as a pillow, lying down with their right ear upon
it, and then they hear a voice from underground, which
tells them what manner of man they are to have for a hus-
band. In England, when the kitchen maid shells green
peas, if she chance to find a pod with nine peas 'she hangs
it over the kitchen door, and the first rustic who comes in
is infallibly to be her husband, or at least her sweetheart.
The village girls in Hertfordshire lay the pod with nine pea 6
under a gate, and they believe they will have for husband
the first man that passes through, or one whose Chris-
tian name and surname have the same initials as his,.
A. Cumbrian girl, when her lover proves unfaith-
ful, is, by . way of consolation, rubbed with pea-
straw by the neighbouring lads; and, when a Cambrian
youth loses his sweetheart by marriage with a rival, the
same sort of comfort is administered to him by the lasses of
the village. " Winter time for shoeing, peascod time for
wooing," is an old proverb found by Sir Henry Ellis in a
MS. Devon glossary. A peascod wooing was performed,
according to Brand, by selecting one growing on the' ater°P
snatching it away quickly, and, if the good omen of the
peas remaining in the husk were preserved, then presenling
it to the lady of their choice. An example of this practice
is tenderly recounted by Touchstone :—" I remember whey.
I was in love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and bade hill'
take that for coming a night to Jane Smile; and I remafty
'oer the kissing of her batler, and the cow's dugs that ler
pretty chapped hands had milked; and I remember the
wooing or a peascod instead of her, from whom I took two
cods, and giving her them again said, with weeping
tears,
`Wear these fur my sake.' "—Kelly's Folk Lore-
Trig STORM.—On Wednesday the fishing BM% ck
Edwin, of Hull, Capt. Pounds, arrived at that pi at
from the North Sea, having on board Capt. W. Gibbons. ;and
4 seamen belonging to the schooner Alark Breed, of W b it_
stable. The schooner was on a voyage from Seaham to
Rochester with a cargo of coal, when on Saturday moral ag
she was overtaken off Spurn Point by the fearful gale which
swept the North Sea on that day, On Saturday mot n ing
a leak, and from that time until Me [AO'morning,
cg lock, the pumps were kept at workii zees"
sandy. Finding that the water was gaining rapidly, ( 7.3Pt*
mthoernveinssge,lastpr7uon,
Gibbons ordered signals of distress to be hoisted, A ;bort
time afterwards the Edwin hove in sight, and soon Lore
schooner,i de Capt. Pa
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oloweredthe
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nwbaosar;
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down upon the sinking vessel. As soon as the smack: got
ov
taoralo
tanhegeks. There was a very heavy sea on at the time, an dit
was at great risk to his own life and those of his crew t bat
the shipwrecked seamen were saved. The vessel was fast
settling down when the Edwin bore up for Hull. Oa
Tuesday the fishing smack Superior, Captain Heritage., °f
Hull, lauded seven of the crew of the schooner Alp
Captain English, at that port. The Superior fell in vi ith
the Alpha on the Dogger Bank during the fearful gal') of
Sunday, and at much riak succeeded in saving the lives 0i
the whole of the crew. On Wednesday the fishing smack
Signal, of Hull, Captain Jones, landed the crew, five
in
number, of the Annie, of Whitby, at Hull. The Annie
foundered on the Dogger Bank on Monday morning,and in
the evening they were picked up in their boat about
60
miles from land by the Signal. They were in a very ex"
hausted condition when taken on board the fishing smack"
The crews of all these vessels have been forwarded to tlit'r,
homes by the Hull Shipwrecked Fishermen's and Marines
Association.
FATAL OCCURRENCE IN THE STRAND.—yester-
day Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, held an
inquest in King's College Hospital, on the body of J %
oßbeP."_
Henry Strong, aged 35, who met with his death by
run over by one of Chaplin and Horne's vans, on the nl:II:,
of Saturday last. Much evidence was heard, but it we. ht
a very confused nature, after which the learned taroave
summed up, and the jury, after consulting, returned r
diet--'That the deceased met his death by accidentallyfall-
ing under the van. The coroner said that he quit cou e
eurred in the verdict.