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

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, .NoVEMBER 27, 1863,

against the 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 obk-ct 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 " fearful odds," but
then they made the " fewest errors," and they
trusted
that
whom
victory
ade h
wouldte least mistakes.
finally crown
the side
of those 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 accomplishment. 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 bravo in days of old—.

"And still his name sounds stirring unto the men of Rome,
As the trumpet blast which calls to them to charge the
Volsciana 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 be 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-
nounced 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 be 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 peacemongers 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
mance:wring politicians be out in their reckonings
as to the crushing of all national feeling through
the limits of a patriotic land.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(RETIThR'S TELEQRAWs.)

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

THE PAPAL STATES,
ROME, Ncv. 2G.
THE TRIAL OF THE CHEVALIER FAUST'.
The official Giornale di Ponta declares 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, Nov, G.

Advices received here from Madagascar mention
a rumour that King Radama 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 limes,
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
that country, but Germany has also a right to our
sympathies 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-
catea p
understanding regretted. If an under-
roblemis,
ttohebne on-existence of a cordial
under-
standing of the Seven Powers does not 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. 30c., and are now at 67f. 20c. Mobilier has
been done at 1,090 f. Share Market firm. The
market exhibited a downward tendency towards

the close, and closed as fo
41 per Cents 95 10
Do. end month —
3 per Cents -
Do. end month 67 05
Credit Mobilier 1082 50
Do. end month 1082 50
Bank Shares, 3380
Credit Foncier 1272 50
Roman —

lows :

I Italian Loan 72 15
Do. end month 72 10
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian .. 79
Spanivh Threes.
home Debt
Deferred
rAlrB.
Cash. Account.

BAIL'

Orleans
Northern
New ditto _
Lyons and Meditvrrauean 950 .. 951 25
New ditto • • •
Geneva — • •
SJuthern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Loirbard
North of Spain
Saragossa 628 75 .. 630
Ditto to Barcelona

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

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 Wheatsheaf, 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. Davis became the tenant, and entered into a
contract with Mr. WM. Chapman, 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 hoarding 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. Tae 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 were dead, and the other seven so severely •
injured that they were taken in cabs to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital. Tha names of the unfortu-
nate men who lost their lives was John Peake, car-
penter, a young man; and Joseph Pearce, carpen-
ter, a married man, with seven children. Of the
cafes taken to the hospital three are considered to
be dangerous, amputations 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 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 theseven
there, though they were all in a most precarious
condition.
poor fellows lying
there,ng

"STONEWALL" JACKSON'S GRAVE.—" Bury me
at Lexington, 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 •
cated in the south-western suburbs of this delightful village.
Nothing marks the spot where his mortal remains lie to
distinguish his grave from that of others, save a diminutive
Confederate flag, not larger than a lady's handkerchief. This
tiny 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 side a smell grave is
to be seen, which contains the remains of his child, who
died a few years ago, and not far distant is the grave of hie
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.—. New York Express.
NEW RULES AND ORDERS FOR COUNTY COURTS.
—The Lord Chancellor has sanctioned 20 new rules and
orders, with a number of forms, for regulating the practice
of County Courts. They will take eft:et on the Ist of
January next.
HECTOR BERLIOZ'S OPERA " Beatrice and
Benedict" has been recently represented with great success
at Weimar,

LITERATURE.

//o mit-I, : reaye.die Pa 5 it (t,' '''': II - ;;14l,•-•speare.,
Traduite en tiers h'ranen!s. Par le Chevalier .
de Chatelain. Bvo., pr. 142. itolandi.
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 production 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 most 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, tenderness, 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 buffoonery. 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
here " done" into French with admirable exacti-
tude. Better thin 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 reader?, 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 tu sois un Eiprit frais produit do l'ether,
Ou Won damns lutin eehappe do l'enfer,
Quo tea intentions soient bonnes ou melehantes,
Tu revets a mils yeux des formes si vivantes
Que jo veux to parlor. Jo t'appellerai Roi
Pere, Royal Danois, Hamlet—oh! reponds-moi ;
Et ne me laisse pas croupir dans l'ignoranee ;
Mais, oh! dis-moi pourquoi tes ossements par chance
DC:poses dans la tombs out brisC: lours liens,
Pour to joter ici comma une languo aux chiens.
Quo vent dire, quo toi, fait et parfait cadavre,
Tout revetu d'acier, tu viennes a ce havre
Pour effrayer la nuit, faire trembler nos cceurs,
Et puis nous injector do sublimes horreurs I
Par to venue ici, dis I quo pretends-tu faire I
Quel on est lo pourquoi ? quol 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
say, 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 sublimities 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 do Chatelain's powers
as a translator of Shakspere, to wit, that discernable
in his version of Hamlet's immortal soliloquy—

Tells est la question : E tre ou bien ne pas 'etre :
A savoir, si, l'esprit de lui-meme est plus maitre,
En supportaat les coups, les fnohes du destin,
Plut et qu'en se cabrant sur des soucis sans fin,
S'aneantir ? Mourir—lormir--pas davantage ;
Dire qu'en s'endormant soudain on met I'ancrage
Sur les pein©s du cceur, sur les maux, les ennuis
Dont l'humaine nature est l'insondable puits.
C'est la la fin des fins, oui (la ! la fin derniere,
Que I'on doit desirer do facon singuliere.
Mourir—dormir—dormir—pent-titre pour raver,
Oui da, voila le htc; it le faut observer:
Dans ce sommeil de mort quand d'humeur misanthrope
Nous aurons rejete notre enveloppo,
Queles raves, surgiront ? . . Cola donne a penser,
Et le pour et le centre it nous le faut peser.
Car quel est celui-la qui serait assez bate
Pour supporter du sort Pincessante tem pe te,
Les torts de l'oppresseur, de I'orgueilleux le " Moi I
Lea peines de l'amour, les dalais de la loi,
Des employes hargneux le dedain, l'insolence
Qu'endure le merite aux mains de l'ignorance,
Quand avec un poignard it pourrait mordicus I
S'exempter de l'impOt, et gagner son quitus ?
Quel est-il celui• la qui sans fin et sans ceases
Potterait des fardeauxjusques a la vieillesae,
Pour grogner et suer, maugreant sur son sort,
Si n'etait la terreur de ce qui suit la mort :
La mort, pays lomtain, qui se perd dans les brumes
De la pensee humaine, et dans sea amertumes
Pays inexplore dont jamais voyageur,
N'est encor revenu, jette le fruid au ceeur,
Et nous fait supporter nos maux of nos miseres
De l'itaconnu pluiGt qu'aller sonder lea spheres.
La conscience ainsi Mit de nous des poltrons ;
La resolution chez les plus fanfarons
Forte en couleur d'abord, et blemit et se fans,
Au penser de la mort, a son sublime arcane ;
Et des projets ainsi grands de dimensions,
A Patat de projets meurent—sans actions.
With one other excerpt (a very brief one)—also in
tile original 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'imperial Cesar heros d'un attentat
A fait pendant un temps to mondo echec et mat,
11 meurt : quo devient-il ? . . Un gacheux le befoue,
11 recrepit un mur en tripotant sa boue,
Si que ce mort fameux l'epouvanto d'hier,
Nous sort de 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 himself not the Author
of Lea //foines de Kilkre, of Les Conies de Cantorbery,
of Les Fables de Gay, and of so many other pro-
ductions of varied merit, but simply yet proudly—
Illembre du "National Shakspere Committee !" His
dedication of this French version of " Hamlet,"
moreover, is given thus—" Aux Manes de Shake-
speare, 23 Avril, 1864. Hommage du Traducteur."
It is a noble garland thrown in anticipation
at the baee 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
,The)dore de Banville, as the
Chevalier reminds us upon a flyleaf, has apostro-
phized as—
" Shakespeare ! . . ce penseur Ombre I Ocean I Eclair !
Abium comma Goethe ! Imo comma Schiller I
Lyre dont cheque note a des manteaux de flume I
lEil ouvert gravemont sur la nature et l'ame
Phare que, pour guider sea pales matelots,
L'Art a fait rayonner sur see alpes de fists I"

The Country Gentleman. By " Scrutator," Author
of " The Master of the Hounds," One vol., pp.
358. Chapman and Hall.
This book 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 coffin did seem,,
Glenara, Glonara now read me my dream.
Mingled With this romantic narrative fire some

spirited sketches of country sports, from which
we extract the following account of how

ItON STERNIIEIM ES THE P.l vEI

In this manner the hounds had traversed four large
pasture li4ds,.altliongli with little improvement as to -Luce,
when "Will Lane said, "Perhaps, sir, we had Letter hold on

at once to Moor Copse ; that's his point, sir—and get out of
the crowd of gentlemen who keep pressing forward,"
"Not yet, Will—an old cunning fox, when not found by
hounds, will lie in.a hedge-row sometimes. Give them a
few minutes more; and look I the young ones are getting
on now. Work of this kind will do them good."
" Dis vara slow," the Baron remarked ; mine horse, he
pall 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 vox
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
at 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.
44 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 de dogs—me no sea them—how me
follow ?"

"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 cameleopard. 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!" as he sprang
over the fence into the thicket ;" we shall see them the
other side."

"Oh I mine head I mine hat," cried the luckless Baron,
being torn 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, "Die place
terrible."

"Never mind, sir ; come along I" again reached his ear,
and the Baron showed on the other side a figure to beheld ;
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 half 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, sere," cried the Baron in consternation at
the wide, rapid stream, within one field of them.
"Your horse can—so come along I" 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 dis is terrible work ; dis gentleman vox, ho der Freis-
cuhtz, do red (liable." 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 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 Hazle-
wood. Oh ! for two turns there in my favour and we shall
be up with you, my young master. Ah 1 how they rattle
him round the covert—every hound seems to have him in
view. Ay 1 there's Charley's holloa ; hark back! ho has
been headed I"

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
cond 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 I a bit of luck for me now," exclaims the leader
of the Baron ; " they are fuming our way ; but, hang it
all, that double post and rails, with a blown horse 1 Must
do it steady, in and out—come along 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 dozes, now pressing on.
" Oh 1 mine vriend—mine arm,"
"Ah 1 natty 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 brush."

Theodore Parker's Works. 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
brave 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 I 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 Question," `i 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. Pat ken's opinions, but they have the merit
of being straightforward and thoroughly in earnest.

AWi•Colenso : an Essay towards Biblical Inlerpre
tation. A Handbook for Thinkers. By Johanneb
Laicus. One Vol. Pp. 358. Hamilton, Adams,

and Co.

Although the title and 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 as 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
passages in the work evidence a good deal of thought
and a rational spirit of inquiry, and will
prove,teresting and perhaps useful to those "thinkersfor in-
whose benefit it has been prepared—if such can
really rcquire a negation to the preposterous
subtleties of Colenso.

DON'T CALL THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES.
—lt a gentleman has occasion to write about such
transactions as those which made Robson and Redpath
notorious, he must not say that they were gross frauds It
ho reviews a very bad novel, ho must not call it childish
nonsense, and warn persons disposed to
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so would be a sinful waste of time. In short,l a gentleman
must never calla spade a spade, He m
it as an agricultural implement.—Saturday Review.
THE LATE MURDER IN NORFOLK JamesewN.
. ayler,
who was awaiting his trial for the murder of bir
wife at Easing, Norfolk, two months since, has died in Nor-
wich Castle this week after two or three days' illness. The
murder was attended with circumstances of great barbarity
but as Nayler did not appear
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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 2G.

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 -Major -General Hon.
A. Hocd on horseback.

Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena and her Serene Highness
Princess Hohenlohe, visited his Royal Highness
Priuce Arthur at Greenwich-park this morning,
attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Major-General
Hon. A. Hood, and Col. F. Ponsonby.
Their Royal Highnesses 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 Amalie.

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 Majesty, accompanied by the Princess
Helena, the Princess Hohenlohe, and attended by
tha Hon. Mrs. Bruce, General A. N. Hood, and
Colon©l 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
Lewisham, reaching that place at ten minutes to two
o'clock.

After alighting from the train, her Majesty, with
the Princess Helena and suite, proceeded to the
Ranger's Lodge in royal carriages sent from Buck-
ingham Palace. On the arrival of the Queen and
the princess they were received by Prince Arthur,
attended by Major Elphinstone. The journey 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
train immediately started for Windsor, pursuing
the same route as on the journey up, and reached
Nl,' 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 Becken-
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. Her Majesty
appeared to be in good health.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
party, including Colonel the Hon. R. Charteris, Captaill
the Hon. James R. Drummond, (LB., Colonel the Hon•
IL F. Keane, and Colonel the Hon. G. A. Liddell, had al,
day's shooting on Wednesday, at Coombe Wood, Surrey-
To the five guns 400 and odd head of game fell
The Duke 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 Stovor House, Devon. The noble duke
has been obliged by public business to remain in London
during the last three weeks.

The 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 Ailesbary is among
the guests of the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley
Hall.

The Earl and Countess of Leicester are enter-
taining 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 , privato
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 questl°ll
of the return for the district of Lea deux Sevres'
M. Glais-Bizoin led the Opposition, and loud were
the denunciations of the Government interference'
M. de Morny sat there impassable.
M. Ulais-Bizoin—This election is most seriously
opposed. The majority obtained by M. Lasmonnier
(the Government candidate) was only 170, I ael
here loudly to assert. (Loud cries of "No one can
hear you.")

M. le President—M. Glas-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—Aa M. Glais Bizoin appears dis-
posed to speak frequently, and that we are doom"'
to listen to him, I have the honour to inform 1U
that the reporters only report what they bear'
Now, the reporters have sent to inform me that they
have not heard one word that M. Glais Bizoin hat 4
said. (Br uyante hilarite.)
Poor M. Glais Bizoin, he was not satisfied, and
returned to the charge next day, but M. de Moraei
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 the Pre'
sident, and impartially should preside at oar dell'
bust ions.

(Cries of " We don't bear you.")
M. le President—Yesterday I informed the hon,
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 observation,
that no one can hear him.

M. Glais-Bizoin—lt is not my fault, if wo are now*
compelled to speak from our places.
M. le President—Then do what others do; dingo
your place and come nearer me.
M. Glaio-Bizoin—descends with solemn steps, and
places himself exactly in front of the President.
M. Glais-
Bizoin—G en tlemen, if impartialitl
should preside at our discussions, it is not carried out
in our reports. The speeches of the partisans of
the Government are reported with frequent marks
of approbation. Those of the Opposition are, on
the contrary, followed by sarcastic comment*
such as " loud exclamations '",
, great noise''
&e. I am willing to admit
that duriog
the second part of my speech yesterday 0°
noise drowned my voice ; but for me there i°
something much
more serious than such inter-
ruptions. The President,
in very courteous and
kind terms, advised me to speak louder, and assure'
me the reporters could not hear me. Ido not stop
to consider whether the excellence of the repel
really does depend on the ears of tile reporters; but
what I protest against are the sarcastic rerutal's
inserted by the President ; for instance, after
observations the other day I read ' laughter,' 00
then ' prolonged laughter.' Now, as I Will ve,t
.
submit to be laughed at, either in the house or out
of it, I hope that the President will for the futuro4
reserve his comments."
M. le President—l will answer the observations
of the Hon. M. Glais-Bizoin. The observations.;
made yesterday were well intended. He certainhl
did excite hilarity, and when this is inserted ill
Ilioniteur it is a mere question of degree; and
will call the whole Chamber to bear witness to
ray
impartiality.