The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1863,

purposes of cotton cultivation, but recent events
are likely to hasten forward the development of its
resources. The new Viceroy, ISMAIL PASHA, is
known to be a man of energy and character.
Beginning his reign under serious difficulties, he
has shown that he is not unfit to deal with the
crisis, but intends to act more after the European
pattern than that of the effete and extravagant
Porte. Among other changes and improvements,
the attention of the new Viceroy has been turned to
a rich but hitherto neglected distriet lying along
the banks of the Blue and White Niles, and known
as the Soudan. This fertile territory, which has as
yet brought little prcfit to its rulers, is said to be
Icapable of producing a revenue equal to all the
rest of Egypt. Such calculations will very soon
be put to the test, for the Viceroy has deter-
mined upon developing it capacities to the utmost.
He proposes establishing communications with it
by means of rail, steamers, and telegraph, and mere
especially to put its powers to the proof in the
cultivation of cotton, for which it is said to be
especially fitted. When this large and fertile
country is, under efficient management, converted
into cotton fields, we shall possess an additional
source of supply of our great staple, and one,
too, which is likely to furnish us with an article
of first-rate quality. Should the project succeed,
as, considering the fertility of the soil and its
latitude, it can scarcely fail to do, it will result in
substantial and lasting benefit alike to producer
and consumer.

It is moat unsatisfactory to note the course which
he Prussian Chamber of Deputies is pursuing.
After having commenced their debates with so
much energy, and shown so much zeal in the right
direction, it is most disheartening now to perceive
that they are throwing away a chance, and vir-
tually defeating their objects. It is a great triumph
for Herr BISMARK thus to have the game in his
own hands again, as it were, through the instru-
mentality of these thoughtless politicians. In their
mistaken zeal for the aggrandisement of Prussia
abroad they are forgetting to look after the main
chance at home, and abandoning the cause which
they had taken up with so much fervour and en-
thusiasm. The notion of maintaining inviolate the
supremacy of the nations of Germany has effaced or
partially extinguished the desire lately so para-
mount of guarding against worst evils at home, and
putting down the attempts to curtail all the privi-
leges of the people, and interfere with their special
privileges. This retrogade movement is a most
lamentable one, and doubtless the BISMARK faction
are most jubilant at this change of tactics, since
what appeared so lately to be a desponding party
may now exult as again a foremost and flourishing
one. It is a strange study to peruse the descrip-
tion of the debates that have taken place upon these
important topics. Whatever discord prevails upon
minor points of arrangement, or division of opinion
exists as to the manner in which the plans should
be carried out, there seems to be a sort of unanimity
regarding the one absorbing topic of interest,
namely, the upholding of the claims of Germany as
opposed to those of Denmark. It is melancholy to
witness such a decadence in the spirit of a nation ;
the worst representations of popular pride, preju-
dice, and passion are thus displayed, and it seems
difficult to believe that these recalcitrants were so
totally engaged in a great and glorious cause, who
are now so ignobly and basely deserting their post,
and abandoning their colours. The storm that agitates
Denmark, and the contention that is rife among the
German Confederation, is fraught with sad effects
for Prussia, if it is to be means of frustrating the
attempts so worthily devised and so strenuously
advocated by her true-hearted sons. In one way
she may be the greatest sufferer of the lot, for de-
spite the disputes which are agitating the rival
territories, their private relations are not called in
question ; but it is otherwise with Prussia, and in an
evil hour the underminers of her rights and robbers
of her freedom may be making political capital out
of these angry and irritating discussions as to the
inalienable possession and sovereign sway of the
Confederation. At any rate, many backward steps
have been taken lately, and it is high time that the
mistaken and misguided deputies should awake
from their delusive trance and mark the dangers
which surround their course. Too late they will
discover that in grasping at the shadow they have
lost the substance. In endeavouring to resuscitate
the departing vigour of freedom they will have cast
away the chance of re-establishing their own land
in the blessing of Constitutional Government ; and
in clinging to a fragmentary relic of the past they
will have lost the opportunity of uniting themselves
with these improvements of the present which lead
on mankind to the light of a glorious future, and
herald the advent of political regeneration.

" Not in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward let us

range;
Let the great world spin for ever, down the ringing
grooves of change,"

has sung the poet with the discrimination of a
philosopher and the recognition of a patriot ; amd
the sooner these Prussian argumentators become
converted to the nation the better will it be for their
individual interests, their political status, and their
national honour.

At the Greenwich police-court last week a case
of extraordinary barbarity was brought before Mr.
TRAILL, the sitting magistrate, by Mr. LOVE, the
energetic officer of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. What renders this case
particularly monstrous is that the perpetrators of it
were three children all under the age of twelve.
It would seem from the statement of Mr. LOVE that
the society had not brought forward this particular
case as an incidental ene, but as one of a class which
has for some. time been carried on in those parts of
Greenwich which are inhabited by the worst classes.
The facts are these, the three children in question,
having obtained possession of an unfortunate cat,
tied a scarf round its body, and, having dragged
it to a piece of waste ground, the eldest boy stabbed
it several times with a knife, while his younger
companions in iniquity held it, and then proceeded
to cut off its tail, which operation having been per-
formed, the three miscreants jumped upon the
wretched creature. Being disturbed, however, by
the approach of somebody they ran away, leaving
their unfortunate victim to crawl into a shed, where
it was afterwards put out of its misery by one of
the officers of the society. The delinquents were
pursued and eapturcd, the knife and tail being found
in their possession. They were of course given in
charge to the police. Mr. LOVE observed that this
was no isolated case, and that it was from the fre-
quency
of its occurrence that the attention of the
society had been called to the matter. Mr. TRAILL,
after commenting on the barbarity of the act, re-
marked that he was very unwilling to send young
children to prison, he therefore fined the eldest £l,
and the second 10s. and costs, and handed over the
Youngest to his father on his becoming security for
his future good behaviour. We heartily concur
with Mr,
TRAIL', in his objection to sending
children to
prison .to mix with criminals of
all dyes, and in the instance of these little
wretches they would
have proved but too
apt pupils ; but surely something is wanting
ilua;lg juvenile whichcan be pureued between
offenders with bar-
Prisons, when there is no
in the management of our
forcibly
aaso pc

dened criminals, and practically letting them off
altogether, although no doubt the parents of the
bays would have chastised them, not for their
cruelty to the cat, but because they themselves have
lost their money. The truth of the adage that pre-
vention is better than cure is admitted by all, yet
we do not follow it out effectually. Had separate
wards, or, better still, a separate prison for the recep-
tion of youths and children, been in existence,
where they would be carefully looked after and
judiciously classified, the magistrate would doubt-
less have committed at least the eldest of these
children for a short period; and if a sound whipping
had been superadded it would have been all the
better. As it is, the child must either be let loose
unpunished, or thrown into the society of those
who will speedily bring to maturity the germ of
crime already generated in his mind. Men do
not become felons and murderers all of a sudden—
it is by easy gradations that the pickpocket be-
comes housebreaker or garotter. A few years ago
a man was arrested in the dark arches of the
Adelplai, who was tearing off the skins of live cats.
The affair created considerable excitement and
while
passing
indignation,
and the magistrate of Bow-
the heaviest sentence which
stphturebe el
lit:, w
allowed upon him, expressed his regret
that he had not the power of dealing more
severely with him. IS there mach to choose be-
tween the man and the child in this matter P
The crime of the adult was increased by his know-
ledge of the barbarity of his act, but that of the
child is also aggravated by the exhibition of such
an act of barbarity in one so young. Were we
able to trace back the antecedents of the man, we
should most likely find that in his youth he had been
given to amusements similar to those of the children
above referred to. Many children are naturally
cruel, and their parents are in a great measure to
blame for in too many instances encouraging rather
than checking them. It is, however, the duty of the
Government generally, and of local authorities in
particular, to use their best endeavours to mitigate
as far as possible these glaring evils. The excellent
Society by whose instrumentality this abominable
case has been brought forward, are distributing
tracts among the national and ragged schools, in-
culcating the duties of humanity, and we doubt not
that the teachers will exert themselves to impress
their principles upon their pupils; but there is a
power in the hands of every one individual, of the
community, nay, a moral duty—which is to check
every instance of wanton cruelty which comes
under his or her observation. People are too prone
to say to themselves, even in matters where the
safety of life and property is in danger---., It is no
concern of mine ; let the police look to it !" How
much more will many decline to interfere in cases
where a boy is ill-using a horse, donkey, or dog.
There are those, however, who feel that it is their
duty to mankind to check a vice which may here
often be developed into a crime. If all people acted
upon this principle, our gaols, reformatories, and
workhouses would be less crowded.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, DEC. 8 (Evening).
The Diet was closed to-day with a speech from

the throne.

His Majesty said: "Our interests are not yet
immediately threatened, but they are connected
with the maintenance of peace and the rights of
nations in Europe. The Swedish nations feel deep
sympathy and sorrow for the dangers which im-
pend over the King and people of Denmark.

FRANCE.

PARIS, DEC. 9

The replies of the Sovereigns of Belgium, Italy,
and Holland to the Emperor's invitation to the
Congress have been published to-day.
The Moniteur of this morning says :—" A regret-
table discussion has been entered into relative to
the works on the Isthmus of Suez. Not content
with opposing an enterprise in which French inte-
rests are engaged, certain journals have committed
the great mistake of seeking to make the public be-
lieve that they expressed the ideas of the Govern-
ment. The Government meets this pretension with
the most complete disavowal."

The Constitutionnel of to-day, in an article signed
by M. Boniface, says :—" We are authorised to con-
tradict the rumours respecting the superseding of
the Prefect of Police."

The debate on the address will commence in the
Senate on Monday newt.

BOURSE, Dec. B.—The arrival of the English
funds with a rise of has for the present put an
end to reports of an intended further rise in the rate
of discount by the Bank of England, and given a
little stimulus to this market. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now at 67fr. 25c. Mobilier have im-
proved to 1,050 fr. Railway market firm. A slight
decline took piace towards the close, and left off
am follows:

41 per Cents. :95 10 Italian Loan 7l 50
Do. end month.... Do. end month 72 15
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 67 15 Do. end month —
Credit M0bi1ier....1047 50 Russian
Do. end month.... Austrian
Bank Shares 3335 Spanish Threes.... 52
Credit Fonder 1270 Home Debt

Roman
7,3 25

Deferred

BAIL

Cash. Account.
970 .. 972 60
967 60 .. 972 60

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

937 50 .. 937 50
890 - -
497 50 ..
677 50 ..
505 -
480 -
402 50 ..
397 50 1..
522 50
622 60
625 -
305 -

678 60

470 -
403 75
397 50
525 -
525 -
630 --
310 -

The Late Gales—Lifeboat Services.

LITERATURE:

Le Correspondant. 25 Novembre. No. 98. Ch

Doutaiol : Paris.

Had we, at once, the leisure and the space for it,
there is hardly anything that would afford us a
purer, a sweeter, or a more elevating sense of gra-
tification, than the translating in copious frag-
ments, if not even in its entirety, the noble
and beautiful treatise addressed to one of his
Diocesans by the rarely gifted and illustrious
Bishop of Orleans, upon The Studies, that is,
upon What Ought to Constitute the Studies of a
Man of the World, Les etudes d'un homme du
monde. A mere synopsis of it would be worse
than useless. All we can do, therefore, is to urge
those who may have the opportunity of examining
the last number of this brilliant periodical—one of
the most brilliant, as it is also beyond all doubt one
of the most elevating and wholesome, among the
serial publications of the European Continent, Le
Correspondant—to "read,mark, learn, and inwardly
digest" every page, every sentence of the remark-
able paper we have just now particularized. It is
the middle portion merely of a highly elaborated
Letter, or rather as we have called it, Treatise,
divided into three instalments; the first of these
published in the October number; the second here
presented to us in the November number; the third
and concluding portion to be given in the December
number of this same eloquent and able periodical, Le
Correspondant. Several other remarkable contri-
butions to Le Correspondant are here in this current
number of the review, dated the 25th of November.
Augustin Cochin supplies two of these—namely, a
charming criticism upon a work descriptive of Vil-
lage Life, a sort of Miss Mitford view, done into
French—and a brief but sufficient memorial of the
Marquis de Brignole. H. Moreau descants upon
the French policy in America, and H. de la Ville-
marque upon the Poetry of the Celtic Cloisters.
As usual, M. Leopold de Gaillard epitomises very
cleverly and very readably the Events of the Month
preceding the date of publication. But the charm
and glory of the whole number is the opening paper
before eulogised, that penned by Monsignore Felix,
the Bishop of Orleans, sur "Les etudes d'un homme
du monde." Reading it—it is sitting at the feet of
Gamaliel.

The Useful Knowledge Society's Family Atlas.

Parts I. and U. Edward Stanford.

Having ourselves, several months back,commented
at considerable length upon the extraordinary merits
noticeable in the " Family Atlas," published by Mr.
Stanford, for the Society tor the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, it remains for us here only to commend
to public attention the fact that that Atlas is now in
course of republication iu a periodical form—namely
in half-crown monthly parts. The two first in-
stalments are here issued in sequence by way of
commencement. Eighteen others will follow in due
course—it being definitively arranged that twenty
parts shall comprise the whole work, including in
it what is of the very last importance, namely, that
Thumb or Ledger Index, which, it will be remem-
bered by all those who have already examined the
Family Atlas in its integrity, when originally pub-
lished in a complete form as a superb folio, facili-

:aced in so very remarkable a manner reference on

the part of any one desirous of c)nsulting it iu a
hurry. Although issued from the press at so very
moderate a coat monthly to the subscribers,
at a cost restricted to " the ridiculously small
amount" of two-and-bizcpence for each monthly
part—it is particularly to be observed that there is
no evidence whatever of deterioration in this
Family Atlas, in any single particular, now that it is
being thus serially republished. The whole of the
eighty maps are to be included within the compass
of the Twenty Half-crown numbers or parts. Each
of those eighty maps being printed still upon "fine
paper and beautifully co!oured," according to the
fair promise given in the prospectus. We can hardly
doubt that a publication of such unquestionable
value and indisputable beauty can fail to win for
itself at once a very wide circulation. Let it but
win the circulation that it really and truly deserves,
and another important and considerable step will
have been taken in the furtherance of the gretit
cause of the self-education of the masses.

The Gallery of Geography. Part 11. W. and

B. Chambers.

Another instalment of this beautiful serial con-
firms the favourable impression produced upon our
minds by the initial number. Two carefully en-
graved maps are prefixed to it—viz., sheets 1 and 2 of
the World as Known to the Ancients. And, again,
scattered plentifully among the letterpress penned
by the Rev. Thomas Milner, well-known already as
the author of the " Gallery of Nature," and other
valuable works, also, like the present one, abound.
ing with information—there will be found here
various illustrative and explanatory engravings.
Before the close of the monthly number, or
part, here issued from the press with the maga-
zines for December, the subscriber to the
" Gallery of Geography, Pictorial Descriptive," will
find himself carried far into tke ninth chapter of
this ♦ery comprehensive work, a work recounting
step by step with admirable minuteness, a minuteness
never wearisome, a Tour of the World. Central
Asia, Africa, and Australia form the theme of this
ninth chapter. The previous chapter, that is the
eighth, relating to the Arctic and Antarctic Expe-
ditions. In the chapter before that, the seventh,
Mr. Milner epitomises very agreeably all that is in
any way worth knowing in regard to the Russian
Discoveries, recounting in particular the Circum-
navigation accomplished during the last century—
the Eigthteenth of the Christian epoch.

The New Review. No. VIII.

This serial shows no flagging of its energies.
It partakes more of the character of a quarterly
review than of the more ephemeral of the monthly
magazines. Its subjects, it is true, are drawn from
the topics of the day, bat they are discussed with a
care, an elaboration, and a thoughtfulness that con-
vert the passing article into the nature of a literary
or political essay. The Literature in the current
number predominates over the Politics, and promi-
nent among the subjects is a lengthened criticism
of M. Renan's " Vie de Jesus," which gives a careful
analysis of the false logic, the inaccurate reasoning,
the extravagant absurdities of that work. Another
French author of wider fame is also the origin of
an essay, and the account of Victor Hugo's life and
works will be read with considerable interest.
Another literary character, though one of a very
different stamp from the author of "Notre
Dame," is analysed by the critics of the "New
Review." The works of Miss Braddon, who
has risen into somewhat sudden celebrity, are
discussed with some judgment, and while the critic
allows her the possession of considerable talent he
is not slow to point out the vices and imperfections
of her style. "Literary Lunatics" is the title of
an interesting paper, giving an account of some
psychological curiosities. "The Gypsies" is a paper
which does not altogether coincide with Mr. Bor-
row's views of the blessings of life " under the
greenwood tree ;" and there are also papers on
"Paris in 1863," and the writings of Dr. Trench.

The Eclectic Review.
This journal, which is in future to appear under
the head of 77te Eclectic and Congregational Review,
is more varied, and cousequently more attractive
than usual in the present number. It opens with a
lengthened essay on the great bard of Florence,
followed by a notice of Mr. Allingham's new poem
on the duties of an Irish landlord ; afterwards we
meet with essays on the various interpretations of
the 13th chapter of St. Matthew, and on Dr.
Vaughan's Revolutions of England. The notices
in "Our Book Club" include a review of Long-
fellow's latest volume.

MEMOIRS OF JANE CAMERON, FEMALE CONVICT.
By a Prison Matron. Two vols.—Once or twice a year
one rises from reading a book with a sense of real gratitude
to the author, and this book is one of these. There are
many ways in which it has a rare value. We do not know
any previous work, for instance, which has thrown such
light on the life of the professional thief class. As a work
of art the book has also high claims. Not only is Jennie
Cameron a living person, but, we may almost say, there is
not a mere lay figure in the book. Few living writers
could have brought out so sharply such characters as
Jennie's lover, " Cannie Jock" and " Black Barney." The
artistic touelv.,t3 in the book are worthy of Do Foe.—The
Reader.

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' ITS 111711:

NER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 8.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Nigh.
nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and her Serene Highness the Princess
Hohenlone, and attended by the Hon. Caroline
Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Macdonald, drove to
the New Lodge, and honoured the Belgian Minister
and Madame Van de Weyer with a visit.
Colonel the Hon. de Ros attended on horseback.
Her Majesty held a Council to-day. In attendaue:
were the Earl Granville, the Duke of Someoe:
Earl Russell, Earl de Grey and Ripun, and Viscount
Palmerston.
The Prince of Wales, by command of the aueetii
was introduced into the Privy Council. H/$lllll
Highness tcok his place at the Board.
Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bart., Lord
Registrar and Keeper of the Signet in Scotland, ,s
command of the Queen, was sworn of her Majes°'
Most Honourable Privy Council.
Mr. Helps, the clerk of the Council, attended*,„
Earl Granville, the Duke of Somerset, and I'.
count Palmerston had audiences of her Majesty'.
and
Mutu Coomara Swamp, a native of Cey'hin' Ilved
member of the Legislative Council, was preseutto
to the Queen, at an audience, by Earl Russell' to
deliver a book which he had received permissi°
dedicate to her Majesty.
to IV
The Duke of Brabant arrived on a visit
Queen.
Lord de
Lord Talbot de Malahide has succeeded 1
TaMrebly as Lord in Waiting.
Ferdinand Richardt. has had the honour of
submitting to the Queen his collection of 800 Pailitti.
inga and sketches taken in Denmark,
Sweden, ov
America.

. The Prince and Princess of Wala:..tel
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Waleeto
Windsor Castle on Monday and dined 10
Majesty in the evening.
His Royal Highness the Prince of " ' 6•
attended by Colonel Keppel, went out huntingloe e
terday morning with the harriers and enjoyed f 3"
excellent sport. ill
It is expected that their Royal High ncpg 2no
leave Frogmore for Osborne on or about the
or 22d inst.

~fo
The Duke d'Aumale has left his seat is 40
cestershire on a visit to the Earl of Abingdon at 599th
Abbey. the
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset leav-p
Admiralty on Friday or Saturday next for Stover "L'l.

Devon, to pass the Christmas recess. A the
The Marquis of Bate and Major-General all-t
Hon. Mrs. Stuart have arrived at the St. George's itett.t°
The Earl of Westmoreland is going on fe". tO
ably, and hopes are entertained of his early restoratia'
health.
„nteEs
The Earl of Powis, accompanied by the t'°"
violet
" rdo
of Powis and Ladies Herbert, is expected in town t°
the close of the week to attend the wedding of Lady
Graham and Mr. Greville. dap
According to letters received in town yes as
from Lambton Castle, Durham, the Countess of 911- 5
and her infant son are progressing favourably. ceP
Lord and Lady Wodehouse arrived in d
terday from Kimberley Park, Norfolk.
Lord and Lady Belper arrived in town yesfer
from their seat in Derby: hire. st'
Lord do Lisle and Dudley has left the
George's Hotel.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left '-
yesterday for Hawarden Castle, Chester.

" Me Shakespeare Gazette ; a Weekly Reco-
61r$
Proceedings Relative to the Tercentenary Celee
50
tion," is just now forthcoming. It is intended by its ele
to supply a record of all proceedings connected WO oio
movement for commemorating the three hundredth 99.4,
versary of the birthday of Shakespeare. It will 11161:d
information respecting the transactions of the nuaiej-4
committees at home and abroad, and will also considerio
discuss various projects and suggestions as they are
and will open its pages to correspondents interested ill

subject.
SPIRIT MEDIUMS OUT-DONE !—Mr. J, Mann}.og
an ingenious optician, who exhibits his cuonid
work at 24, Regent-street, has constructed an instraitto
by means of which the spirits which are now hauntln
tot
several theatres and singing-rooms may be seen and )30,efill
to yet greater advantage. All sorts of writing on the isdo
and rapping under tables can be dons by Mr. IlisiLeiVe
spirits, with an appearance of reality which raigh
the quickest eye and ear. A hand appears on the ca",'rator
it writes a word and rubs it out again, but the spec /or
feels for it in vain, for neither the hand which writes, 00
the written words can be found by actual touch. ()ellti rinse'
phantom can obliterate what the phantom has bore
sexperimentcience mius
stvebryeatstrange n
jaunrdorss.tar.vvtline gu,
nu;
0100
that Mr. Manning and his fellow-opticians
Homes and Fosters quite out of the field.
Oa the
A NEW VARIABLE STAR T
night of the 28th of July last," writes gr. ""3"-- $l5
dell, "I observed that the star No. 4078 of Zone plooog,
deg. of the ' Bonner Sternveraeichniss' was about one 4019 r
nitude and a quarter less than its neighbour No' otei
although on the night of the 25th of June I 110,00,
down these two stars as being nearly equal in brigh-00
Afterwards, on referring to my notes or reviews °f rfs'
part of the heavens, made at Mr. Worthington's 01)5eot
will drive
tory on August 19, 1859, and June 18, 1860, I found 00
at the former date both these stars were seen, and wet°,o7l,
nearly equal in mngnitude, but that a third star, N°' that
was invisible, while under the latter date it is stater'. illtjt
No. 4077 was then visible, and estimated to be of the °so.
magnitude ; but no mention is made of the two stars t.aa
4078 and 4079. I have since made a careful es.scliPl' re,
of the positions of these and some of the neighbotri:if
tars'
ieStpt
and have satisfied myself that the star seen onen sup"
1860, was No. 4079, and not No. 4077, e°,77 tO7B-.,vere at
posed, and that therefore both 4077 an elevenlh
that time invisible, or at all events, hel°vr "-en). 407°
magnitude. After the 28th of July
and attained a maximum about the 25th
It has since inc
August, when it passed a minimum.
gradually diminished in brightness until aboutlast the 2rletil.he°l
the
magnitude at a minimum was 11.3, and at maximulll tao
range of variation being therefore 2.4 magnitudes.. :as 0
ratio of light employed in determining the magnit. A.O 0
2.512, it follows that the brightness of the new varis-woo
nine times greater at maximum than at minimuni•
observations made since the 28th of July last, col I,
of Octobesr..6,,
with those of August 19th, 1859, and June 18th, 1-B°,:coe
dicate a period of about four months. As two tell; peg
variables had been previously discovered in Aquila, t
004
variable will, according to Professor Argelander's sYs
nomenclature, be denoted by the letter T. The nie,ef ad'
Aquila:, brought up to 1855 is 20h, sm. 25'45. plus
13.4 m." Deft'
THE COURT NEWSMAN is likely to suffer -
ous blow, says the London -Review, in the a Etri for
tion of the lonian Islands to the Crown of Greect'. r 110
many reasons he has taken the lonian Islands una.c jelf
especial protection. The Isles of Greece, where
Sappho burned and sang, are quite worthy in theta°oeir
of the distinction. Their history, their climate, and- 00'
figs, all render them illustrious. Nobody, therefore, 00(
plains of their figuring in the most fashionable coluc 1,034
Every one who reads his 0° are
every daily paper.
journal carefully knows, by long experience, that theno9
three great political events which are always hag' ese
and which seem to occupy the attention of the Court it oer
man in proportion to their undoubted importance' pg.
Majesty has always been walking on the slopes. The volf,
Beatrice Byng is always accompanying somebody in
carriage. Lastly, despatches are always arriving f_,,,tl/1 tll.
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. .74;j be
arrival of the lonian letter-bag is usually thus Pere74lll:
fore Europe, as if it were a fresh birth in the Royal `-flif?"
is not known. All that can be said is that the Iwrci
land, whose
Commissioner it, a highly favoured person, No °tbestslieA
roy or Lord-Lieutenant, excepting the Governor ofd 117" ,
missives are as punctually acknowledge.re'oely.
half his chances in fashionable life. His letters olltya the
ing England invariably divide public attention ;13 deed!
most notable celebrities. On some fitful occasionet OP
occasional flashes of intelligence as to the conduct
dieritP
business of the State come to us on the came high f
At these times, we learn in general that the Duke,,,i,°ca
yep
castle has transacted business at the Foreign:;lPis
announcement which, in the opinion of the tto 6°4
head of a Government department. After such es% quicaxosi,
torian, is not to be made lightly or with resPecotbrri,
of communicativeness, the official historian reisf.beso,
r;
into his observation of the chaplains, the game ,istolste,a
the pony carriages, coupled always with tne.
performances of the Lord High Cornmisaiomer etb
to Woa.,
be the reason, the lonian Islands seem thoroughly
Here are these sestet
at breakfast, we say to ourselves,ce.
__A r
upon his mind. Every morning,
of the Blest again :”—" Despatches were re
__l,:rcoo,
as we take 112ialeocr,
day at the Colonial Office from the Lord fierie
sioncr of the lonian Islands. Despatches w ',
o•tr,",,
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands'l3lllo
official chronicler's occupation seems likely to . fro
torate,
shortened by the English resignation of lonian