The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-06 00:00:00

LE VIEUX FAUTEUIL.

Co vieux fauteuil, je l'aime, oh I oui je l'aime I
Qui pourrait me blamer d'airner ce vieux fauteuil?
Il pose devant moi comme un divin enbleme
Embaume de soupirs, mouille de pleura de deuil;
Mille lien- forment la chain.,
Qui le rive a mon cceur, a mon amo Penchaine.
Ma mere, dans son temps, lui faisait bon accueil,
Voila pourquoi mon culte eat a ce vieux fauteuil,

Je me tenais dans lea jours de l'enfance
Pres de Co vieux fauteuil toujours l'oreille au guet,
Et cette bonne mere en sa douce eloquence
A vivre, a bien mourir m'enPeignait tout d'un jet;
"Jamais to n'auras en partage
La honte," disait-elle, "avec DiE u pour otage
Et moi d'humilier alors mon jeune orgueil,
De prier a genoux pres de ce vieux fauteuil.

Combien de foil je la veillai ma mere,
Quand son coil se ternit sous sea beaux cheveux gris;
Oh I que je l'adorsis quand apes sa priere
Elle me beni sait moi son enfant soumis
Le temps passa vite et bien vite
Emportant mon bonheur, et ma mere a sa suite ;
Ce fut lore quo j'appris les souffrances d'un deuil
Quand je la vis mourir las ! dons ce vieux fauteuil I
C'est paste I rnai4 je le regarde encore

Le ceeur gros de soupirs, et le front pleiu d'4moi:
Elle me soignait la, je me le renemore,
C'est ia qu'elle mourut, me laissant seule moi.
Nommcz cela de la faiblesse,

Lorsque des pleurs biflants nfinondent de tristesse;

Mais je je I'aime, G doux objet de deuil
Lui qua ma mere aimait, lui mon bon vieux fauteuil I
Hardly so felicitous in its way, as a translation of
the music of the original, as the preceding extract is
of the Hebrew melody of Byron—the version last
given will at least be acceptable as a yet sufficiently
accurate echo in French of a Home Song of the
Affection dear to the hearts, and ever welcome to
the tearful eyes of the English People, who know
it and love it. Often as the Chevalier de Chatelain
has afforded the English and French public before
now evidence of his facile capacity as a national
translator from English into French, he
has never before now given such un
mistakeable proof of its scope as in this
singularly varied collection. Chaucer be ilgfi turned

nto French, Longielow he has done the like goc
service to, tail?, lie has even tried his bold but rev+
rent hand in the same way upon one of the gre6
tragic masterpieces (Macbeth) of Shakspere—hs
here, in these "Beaut6s de la Pcelie Anglaise," h
has, so to speak, cried " Have at you all !" Any
has daringly, and in many instances very success
fully, " gone in" at the Poets of England if not fra
A to Z, at any rate, as one may express it, by a 50r
of echoing parody upon a familiar line—
From Gray to Gay, from Lovelace to Shakspere I
Or, putting it alphabetically, from Addison ti
Wordsworth.

Sandford and Merton. By Thomas Day. Square
18mo. Pp. 203, Longman and Co.
Oh, the dear little book—Sandford and Merton.
Welcome to us always, in whatever shape it COn°
to us—it is thrice welcome in its present shapes
as it is just now issued from the press by the
the
leviathan house of the Messrs. Longman ! 0
leviathan among publishing houses, t,bo
capacity of which is seemingly as various le of
range as that either of the elephant's trunk or
°
the steam engine. As the one is capable of rendll
an oak or picking up a pin, as the other can
a giant pile under the ponderous beat of the steam
hammer, or crack a nut without disturbing the
glossy completeness of the kernel—so the Great
ilt
House of the Row, that has in its time given to the
world (of letters) giant works, in their sever ad
ways, like Macaulay's History of England alio
Rem s (nearly fifty volumed) Encyclopedia, is n°
bringing out in quarterly volumes, or rather
voiumettes, a shilling edition of darling little beat'
most of which we know already by heart pretty
well ! And yet as they come forth now in this allot"
ing guise, we read them greedily all over agalli.llo
though we were once more a schoolboy ! A series
of darling little books, world-famous most of tbers;
and here called, with the strictest truth
their new form, " The Entertaining lib/,
rary." Sandford and Merton is the latest
dof the series yet publistie I. It has been preeeut3o:
just to begin with, in a lump, or all three tog
ther, by a choice gathering together of Chtsst°ai
Tales, by Gulliver's Travels (of course an "Pll(
gated edition of that wonderful Cynical Stitio
upon Men and Things), and by Robinson eau be
The mere enumeration of these titles to three of
four volumes—Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Trare
Sandford and Merton—will explain better °RI
any words of a prospectus or of a criticism eOll,
possibly do the nature of this " Sniffing Enter.° oor
ing Library," the character of the whole sense
to
collection. " There be pippins and cheese as
come," we may say, moreover--as truly no
Slender was told this by Sir Hugh silfs
at Master Page's hospitable porch. We are to Po'
next, and next, the Pilgrims Progress—. Evenits
Home—The History of the Plague—Den Quino
the Vicar of Wakefield—and we know net:4ot-
on. Among the rest, let us hope, The Old o'i,
House—The Old English. Baron—and other °is-
old tales that are well worth the reprinting.
of
Pocket editions of what are really Pet Works °l:d
Nation, this" Shilling Entertaining Library," ed 1.1.0,
by Mr. J. S. Laurie, and published by the Mess'
Longman, are (as nearly as anything of the kind
be) just perfection. They are beautifully Prift-
wonderfully cheap, and charmingly illustrated'

ea. Bessy'a Money. By the author of .uncv
Mary
Pp. 72. Arthur Hall and Co. ft
Among the stories—many of them very Cleve
frof
some among them singularly graceful as Tor'. :e.
imagination—penned by this authoress, there 114
few written in the narrowest spirit of sectarial
This paltry little tale about " Bessy's M°61.10
just a specimen. It is one of those intollerableasos
examplars in this literary form of what is
when we speak thus of mere sectarianisino
" goody" book as we may call it, All the Pe°,;ho
(that is good people, or in other words peePl° "lief
think exactly according to the religious be
er
of the writer) are next door to cherubinul-'Ol
cept only that they have not wings, ancittas
they have legs! Here they are a little nest Of he
:te
all but fledged for heaven. So horribly 'r
right, and making everybody else out to be 13° abs-
tbe
lutely in the wrong, that one gets nauseated bIA
mere excessive sweetness of the draught offete;to
our lips. " Goody" books are fully as intolersb;le
us, are as utterly obnoxious as the licentious o°oo
of the Palais Royale—only that the former te,
(what the latter are not) dull as ditch v7'o
Besides, a sectarian tale like this about "13e°eIto
Money" is as intrinsically untrue as it is tbr°ol
out intolerable. It is a travesty of Christionll,
through the attempted apotheosis of a sect.

The House of Scindia. A Sketch. By So" 1192 es
Pp. 138. Longman and Co. Oft/
As a chapter from the History of itAi,h- of 11
sketch is very remarkable. The read 4 -de/
will find it complete in itself as an ePiso,iiet
and the episode itself singularly enthriihig. tO
Everyone whose recollection goes back vivid'bos
Sir Charles Napier's Conquest of Scinde-ltd
time when Indian news came to us not fird'd
telegraph or brought helter-skelter Overlap
intelligence from the far East is brought hither-40
a-days habitually, but simply with what oPee ptlr
-
then in any way practicable by 'peso ?f
rit.
packet service, stimulated (as it was then) bY
11 to
Waghorn's enterprise! Everyone who can rec ope
mind the thri:l caused, as, by a sudden simultalloor
appreciation of wit and heroism, when the
queror of Meanee was reported to have
0)
nounced his triumph in one word, Peccavi—i "
the
have Scinde!"--.will, if only for inasmuch aeof
book here under notice relates to the Dynoligte
House of Scinde, turn to the examination 01 't9'Hope's historic sketch with interest and curi,9°iti
Enough if we say that, if thus trained, the cutT,
and the anticipation of interest will (if the btfr
thus turned to) neither of them be disappointew

Geography Classified, By Edwin Adams. "
357. Chapman and Hall. Del'
.The junior master of the Lower School at re
wich College has, in this marvellously co
Id
he nsive and yet compact compilation, eeliPsedoele
his former achievements as a fabricator of
sitor,
tional works. His" Geographical Word al:1°I)1;
and Dictionary," his " Etymological Geogr4rilt4
and other very useful evidences of his indtlY
collector and acollator of knowledge, werere.trolf
nothing to this book, which is in its wag
extraordinary repertory of well-authenticated'
valuable, and admirably arranged or sorted 4101
mation. Geography Classffied is nothing I°9-01
in the fulle.t and strictest meaning of 1...111,8 00r'
"A Systematic Manual of Mathematicall'i:tblir
and Political Geography." It is more that-pote;
being, furthermore, illustrated by abundarli
historical, geographical, and etymolegic9l,fitle
completeness of arrangement is such that, peeds °re
standing the multiplicity of facts here Wasce
gether, every one of those facts can at f°ocilqi
turned to, even by a tyro, with the utmeot refer '
The book is one that will be welcomed Wile "
goes because of its usefulness.

TOrl
THE MORMONS AND THE FEDERAL - G Cis pee;
MEN T.—The Desaret _News, of Marco 18, 1,3ig10011
received here. It contains a sermon, delivered by Pert
in the Tabernacle, March 8, upon the wrongs tinti ye 9"-,i
cutisns, both present and past, of the Wrill OglifiClo
and the conduct, both present and past, ot. tow), ;
000
peopio4
Government and the several Sta e Governol
them. Be proclaims the Mormons a loythatval ltiot6a°dederlief
psi
for
rfertshe to the Mormon
nd
whichbattalion a
Col. P. St George Cook; and this, he sa7e, ti2oou, frY i°,3l#
after they had been driven in the dett, d of
voo, and "their every religious and poli,ical rfoft to op
pled under toot by mobocrats. There were 013ebt freetri
tend our rights. 'We were driven. from every sae -s'
ought to possess." Re says t, The Alormort. rto of
filled. with patience and long 'suffering, cli"itigao
solutions bequeathed to us by our fathero
potorr,
andb as tenaciously as ever babe clung £O.
able des
reast." Ile winds up with rather a question
the 'Olt::
01. Ulu t tvi
tion of loyalty :—But, if the Government "it p
States should now ask for a battalion of men °is a ffarts
whiis thereto bre
ere, oil
present bat.le fields of the nation,
Corpor is 0 ollt
soldiers from abn,ad located within the
this city, I would see them in -- first." leyet "
Indian expeditions by the Govervment,
comparatively speaking, take one plug et snobs 1010 •`4cef
and three cents. worth of paint, and eaveca, bY !al
.1-
hinder more Indian depredations than they
Aght
ing millions of dollars vested in an army
to
the Indians."

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK,

Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
69f. 82c.

The English Stock Market closed yesterday
afterno:m with rather a flatter appearance, sales in
realisation of profits having caused a decline of t
per cent, There has been no variation to-day, Con-
sols still being 932- for money and to-morrow, and
931 g for the June account. Business is rattier
quiet, owing to extensive dealings in the foreign
departments. The Now Threes and Reduced An •
nuities have receded I per cent., viz,, to 92f 92 ;
Exchequer Bills are less, at 4s. to 78. prem.;
Bank Stock is better at 233 4/ ; Indian
descriptions are generally well maintained, the
Stock being quoted 230; the 5 per Cent. Loan 109;
110 ; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1071 e ; the
4 per Cent. Debentures, 100 k Q ; and the BJnds,
21a.

There is continued animation in the Foreign
Stock Market, and the variations in values have
been numerous. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858. are
705 2 ; do., 1862, 711 s ; do., Consolides, 541 t;
Spanish Passive, 358 d ; do., Certificates, 111 ;
Greek, 329 ; do., Coupons, 151; L alien, 7)i ;
Portuguese, 491 ;• and Egyptian, 99. The C
federate Loan is 1 prem.; and Mexic4n Stock, 371
The operations in the Railway Share Market has
been less active, and a slight decline has taken
place in price. Caledonians, Great Westerns, Lan-
cashire and Yorkshires, and Midlands have declined
55.; and Great Northerns and South-Easterns 10s.
London and Brightons, and South-Easterns have
improved ss.

In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
have been no material variatim in prices.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares re
main inactive at about previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 233 41
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent lO9l 10
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 104
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66. 1001
Dirt,' Bonds El,ooo
Ditto under £l,000
Console for Account, May 7
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2} per Cent 4 7 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1869
Egyptian 7 pet Cent 99
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coup.ms

_
Ditto Account.. 32i I i I 3k
Ditto Coupons l5l / 15 1
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 78 7/
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account.. 371 i t 7 t
Moorish Imperial 6 per Cent
New Granada l6l I 1
Ditto Deferred 9a a
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 1862 ......
Ditto Scrip, £3O paid 6l Pm
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 95/
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 sBt
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
.. 93/ 1 3
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
.....
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 11
1
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account. 704 1
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account....
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
.oitto Account ... 7l/ 21
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

CHESTER RACES-THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
MEMBERS' PLATE.

The Lawyer
Eidolon
2
Stockman
3
Eight ran.
LATEST BETTING.
CHESTER CUP.
6 to 4 aget Stradelli
4to 1 agst Caller On
7to 1 agst Asteroid
Bto 1 aget Haddington
10 to 1 agst Plover
25 to 1 agst Gardener
All offered.

CHESTER CIIP.—SCRATCHINGS.
The Knave and Buckstone, at 11 p.m.
yesterd .y. Avalanche, Catch-'em-Alive, Victor, Bernice,
Dalearnan, Liston, Port Royal, Emily de Lona, Double X,
G:llie, Gr,ance c, Dualla, L.dy Superior, Contralto, King
of Italy. Serf, Chaff, Venison, Voluptas, and Canzonette.
Sybil,
£7O
and HANDICAP PLATH--MiSS Livingstone, Creole,

DEE STAKES.—Avondale, at 3 15 p.m. yesterday.
All Mr. Whittaker's horses, out of their Chester engage-
ments, at 3 15 p.m. yesterday.

Course of the Exchange--Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 11 171 11 171
Antwerp
• • 25 40 25 47/
Brussels
- 25 40 25 471
PHarnburgh
aris
Ditto ............ 3 Months 25 421 25 47/
Marseilles ..
Maine., 25 421 25 471
Frankfort on - 119 1191
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid
Leghorn
49 1
25 60 264965
M
Genoa — 25 60 25 65
Naples
,
25 55 25 60
Palermo ..
NI essina
/
Lisbon _ 52 53
Oporto — 63 631
9
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz S3 17
0
Mexican Dollars 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 5 1
South American Doub!oons

There is stil rather an active demand for dis-
count accommodation in the general money market,
where 2-1 per cent. is the average charge for first-
class bills, Bad the inquiries at the Bank of Eng-
land have also slight') increased.

A withdrawal of 100,000 sovereigns from the
Bank of England was effected yesterday, and their
destination is Constantinople, probably on account
of the Turkish Loan recently negotiated in this
country.

The Magdalena has arrived from the Brazils
with £6,856; the Hibernia with £1,400; and the
City of Baltimore from New York with £96,367.
The preliminary prospectus has appeared of the
Imperial Royal Privileged Uuion Bank of Austria,
requiring a capital of £2,000,000. It appears that
a concession has been granted by the Viennese
Government to his Excellency Baron Thierry, for
the establishment of this new monetary institution,
and that pending the publication of the full pro-
spectus, a subscription list has been opened by the
brokers, Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill.

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