The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVRNING, MAY 21, 1861

DENNAII:S AND POLAND,

The
stCopenhagen hale issued the following
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dtehnet sr oo f l sh "
Poles I—The struggle of your people fir independence
address tou people- -
and liberty has excited a lively sympathy in our country,
and, while our fellow-citizenc chiefly display it by collecting
money to further your cause, we, the youth of Denmark,
students of the learned professions, wish to give you a
marked expression of our sympathy.
"If even at earlier periods internal disagreements and
errors of her sons hays contributed to accelerate the melan-
choly fate of Poland, still, on the other hand, history teaches
us that the treacherous fraud and open violence of neigh-
bours superior in power have completed her ruin. In spite
of the law of r ations, the country and people of Poland
have been divided and scattered under the dominion
of strangers; despite of the treaties entered into for the
protection of Polish nationality, she has been oppressed and
11-treated, the religion of the people violated, her language
abolished, or nearly so, and many of the noblest sons of the
country are confined in distant prisons, or driven into
exile. No country, and no people, in an age calling itself
that of enlightenment and humanity, has suffered what
Poland and her people have suffered. What is regarded as
merit i.nd honour in every other land—love of its past
glory and prosperity, fidelity to its nationality and its
language, devotion to the common country, and belief
in its future prosperity—are, as concerns the Poles,
looked upon, and punished as the greatest crimes. There-
fore, every attempt at the emancit &don and regeneration
of Poland is fully justified, and perfectly wcrthy of
the participation and active support of the whole civilised
world. The tyrannical Government of Russia should not
have attempted, like night burglars, to carry off all her in-
telligent youth to the barracks of St. Petersburg, or to the
forts of the Caucasus; and Prussia. the first originator of the
par tition of Poland, should not, by lending assistance to such
infamous measures, have betrayed her evil conscience,
though by so doing she has only kindled again the sympa-
thies of all noble and generous hearts in ,Europe for your
good cause.

" Poles J Our sympathy for you ought to be doubly strong;
for it arises from a double source, both from the acknow-
ledgment of the wrongs you have suffered and from the as-
surance that the emancipation and restoration of Poland will
contribute to secure the safety of our own country, and the
future welfare of the Scandinavian north. The same Go-
vernment that has oppressed your people and caused your
calamities has also, wherever it had the opportunity, endea-
voured to extinguish and annihilate Slavonian nationality
and language, pretending merely to promote the march of
intellect ; it has acted the very same part in South Jutland
(Schleswig) that it is now acting in Posen; it is con-
stantly menacing our frontiers, our nationality, and our
language; it would, if it could, prepare for us the fate of
Poland. A regenerated Poland is our natural ally against
the policy of usurpation and ambitious conquest. And, as
the Slavonian tribe can only find liberty and safety by at-
taching themselves to a regenerated Poland. the northern
tribes seek alliance and union trom the same motive.
"Poland for ever I God protect and promote her just
cause.

" (This address was unanimously adopted at a meeting
of the students of Copenhagen on the 13th May, 1863.)
(Signed on behalf of the meeting)
" CHR. FRIDERICHSEN.
" EUGEN IBSEN.
" SOPHUS NELLEMAN.
" CHR. REICHARDT.
" H. G. ZENTREN."

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 46s
barley, 34s 5d ; oats, 21s Ild ; rye, 33s 7d ; beans, 38s 3d ;
and peas, 35s Bd.

THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 45s lid
barley, 34s Ild ; oats, 21s 8d ; rye, 318 2d ; beans, 37s Id
peas, 358 3d,

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 85,684;
barley, 6,425; oats, 2,293; rye, 38; beans, 3,729; peas,
319 qrs.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

Our market to-day was rather scantily supplied with
beasts, in for the most part fair average condition. All
breeds were in steady request, and in some instances the
quotations had an upward tendency, a few very superior
Scots having realised 5s 2d per Ms. The general top
figure, however, was 5s per Sibs. The show of sheep was
moderately good, and the mutton trade ruled inactive, at
Monday's currency. The best Downs changed hands at
4,3 10d per 81bs. Lambs moved oft slowly, yet no change
took place in prices. Calves, though in increased supply,
were steady, at late rates. The top figure was 5s per Blbs.
Pigs were very dull; but milch cows ruled steady, on
former terms

Per Sib, to s
s, d. s. d, s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 81Prinaecrs-wool d 0.4 4 4 6
Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Pme. S'thdown d 0.4 8 4 li
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Large arse. calves 4 0 4 6
Prime Scots, oi:c. 4 10 5 0 Prime small do 4 8 5 0
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large bogs 3 4 4 0
Second quality do. 4 0 4 2 Small porkers ... , 4 2 4 6
Lambs, 6s Od to 78 Od.
Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs,
20s to 295.
TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts 850 1 Beasts
Cows 132 f Sheep and lambs 280
....
Sheep and lambs
Calves
^—
Pigs 3201

ink the offal.

MEAT MARKETS.
NEWGATE AND LEADENEALL.—The supplies of meat
are moderate, and the demand rules steady, as fol-
lows .—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d , mutton, 38 6d to 4s 8d ;
lamb, 5,5 8d to 6s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 48 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d
to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, May 20.—The supplies of stock are mo-
derate, and the trade rules inactive, as follows :
Beef, from 3s 6d to 48 10d; mutton, 48 00 to 5s Od ;
68 Od to 7s Od; veal, 4s 4cl to 5s 4d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s
8d per 811 m, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, May 20.—Beasts advanced 2d per 81b, other-
wise the trade w.s in a sluggish state. Beef, from 38 8d to
5s Od ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od ; lamb, Os Oct to 7s Od , veal,
4s 4d to 58 4d ; pork, 3s 6d to 48 6d per 81bs ; suckling
calves, 12s to 18s; quarter-old store pigs, 208 to 275; and
milch cows, £l4 Os to £lB 5s each.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The official trial of Messrs. Westwood, Baillie,
and Co.'s new 23-inch hydraulic press, erected in
Woolwich dockyard, for bending and preparing
armour-plates, took place on Tuesday. The officials
present at the test were Sir F. Nicholson, Commo-
dore ; Mr. Turner, master shipwright ; Mr. Fric-
kett, chief engineer ; Mr. Thornton, assistant-
master shipwright ; and Mr. Tucker, foreman of the
yard ; Mr. Westwood represented the firm. The
first test consisted of trial of two 4-lin. armour-
plates, made hot, forming a thicknness of 9in. of
solid iron, which were placed in the press and bent
to a curve of 7.Bths in the dreadth of the plates in
less than five minutes, at a pressure of 1,000 tons on
the whole surface of the piston, the pump making
about 130 revolutions per minute. In the second
trial the plates were adjusted so as to bring the
pressure near the centre of the plate. The pump
was then worked up to 1,539 tons by indicator,
bending the two slabs of iron to a curve of one-half
in their breadths. The third and last trial consisted
of a simple test of the working of the pump and the
strength of the press. The pump worked up to about
1,600 tons and exhibited no visible signs of weak-
ness. The press is fitted with an improved appara-
tus not enumerated in the former notice—namely, a
table or guide at the top of the cylinder to keep it
from rising or canting, which will enable it to be
worked up to the enormous pressure of 2,000 tons.
The Russian Government have desired Messrs.
g
Westwood and Co. to supply three of these presses
with the utmost possible despatch, after having in-
vestigated the capabilities of the press by a careful
inspection during its erection in Woolwich dock-
yard. Mr. Tucker, foreman of Woolwich dock-
yard, yesterday proceeded to Glasgow, by order of
the Admiralty board, to survey the three iron fri-
gates building by Messrs. Napier for the Turkish
Government. The Thames Iron Company have like-
wise entered into an engagement to build a fourth
for the same Government. They are to be of 6,000
tons each, and of the Warrior class.
A large number of hands are employed in
scraping the bottom of the iron screw frigate
Defence, and afterwards paying it over with a
coating of red lead in No. 10 dock at Portsmouth,
to be followed by a coating of Messrs. Peacock
end Buchan's preservative composition. It is said
that Messrs. Peacock and Buchan only advocate the
removal of the softened outer crust of the composi-
tion with a climb scraper, and that they are entirely
opposed to the method now being pursued—that
of scraping off the entire composition with sharp
steel scrapers, and laying bare the surface of the
iron, which then receives the coating of red lead.
ctt'ally careless in rather
The compositions on the bottom ofthe
thanDefenceby
scraping,have be
and, a
been rem removed
sailors
edbly ppna
e arehi naturally
the use of tools, they no sooner find that the com-
position in the vicinity of the rivets or under the
lands of the plates cannot be reached effectually by
the flat edge of the scraper than they bring one of
its " points" into play, pickaxe fashion, and open
up still further the fibre of the iron and render it
tehtreeemtivoere.ctimress
o whichionab l e i
tby any chemically de-
may afterwards be ex-
posed. With regard to the application of red lead
to the scraped and bare iron plates of a ship's bot-
iot
tom, it is maintained by many men of large expe-
rience in the working of iron, and more especially
by those connected with the manufacture of marine
engines, that red lead is the best preservative that
can be applied to iron which has afterwards to be
submerged in salt water. If this is a generally
received opinion among iron workers, a very diffe-
rent opinion is held by eminent chemists and other
scientific men. These gentlemen contend that an
iron ship's bottom which has had the bare iron of
its cuter surface payed over with red lead " sweats"
when afloat in salt water, the result being a blister-
ing of t'ae red lead and the deposit of the lead in a
metallic crystolane form on the surface of the iron,
each blister thus becoming a miniature galvanic
battery, and that a corrosion of the iron fol-
lows. The Defence's case, then, appears to be
just one of those cases which can only be decided
by competent and scientific authorities, so far as
relates to the application of red lead to the scraped
and bare surface of her bottom plates. No doubt
whatever can attend the use of the sharp steel
scraper to those plates. When used simply in the
ordinary manner, the fiat edge only being brought
into play, the skin of the rolled plates is torn up and
the fibre of the metal exposed to any future deterio-
rating influences, whether it be from red lead or from
anti-fouling copper compositions. Of these latter, so
many are now before the public that it will require
some little care on the part of the Admiralty to pre.
vent the bottoms of our expensively constructed iron
ships being destroyed in the endektvour to discover
which physician holds the best receipt. Meantime
the Admiralty have been doing their best for some
months past to find some covering for the submerged
parts of our iron ships, and as the result of long and
patiently conducted experiments at Portsmouth have
arrived at a means of electro-coating iron with zinc
in a very superior manner. A still more importan

experiment in the same direction is, however, now
beicg carried out, the results obtained from which are
expected to have a most important bearing upon the

covering and preservation of the b Atoms and armour
of our iron ships. Some three or four years back a
French invention was patented for coating iron ex-
posed to the action of sea water with an electro de-

Posit of copper or brass, with the use of an alkaline

solution. The project failed in some of its greatest re-
quirements. The metal was deposited,.but unevenly,
with a dull surface, and was soft and porous. The

defects were, however, overcome some time prior to
the date of the French method by a well-known in-
ventor, who can deposit metals on iron as hard, as

, .
bright, or as thick in substance as may be desired
The inventor has placed his services at the dispose]

of the Admiralty, and is now officially engaged at
Portsmouth in the construction of the batteries and

other apparatus necessary for carrying out his plans.
The screw steam gunvessel Snake, Commander
John Moresby, November 30, 1861, from China,

arrived in the Sound yesterday
evening.
The Esk, 21, screw corvette, of 1,169 tons, and
250 horse power, has been commissioned at Ports-
mouth, for service on the Australian station. No
captain joined her yesterday on the hoisting of her
pennant of commission, but several names were
current as those of officers likely to receive the
command, and among the most prominent were

Capts. Boyce and Curtis. The Lk was originally
constructed for the Admiralty by Mr. Scott Russell.

Since her last commission, however, her hull has

been almost entirely rebuilt, and her engines have
also undergone considerable repairs. Her armament
consists of 15 8-inch guns, muzzle loaders, and four
40-pounder breech-loading Armstrongs—all broad-
side guns—and one 110-pounder, breech-loading
Armstrong as a pivot forecastle gun.
HBr Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen.
will sail from Portsmouth early this morning for
Gravesend, aad will, according to present arrange-
ments, embark their Royal Highnesses the Prince
Louis and Princess Alice of Hesse at the last-men-
tioned place. She will sail for the Continent oa Sa-
turday morning.
The Black Prince, 40, iron frigate, Capt. Wain-
wright, will go out of Portsmouth harbour to Spit-
head at noon to-day, and make an official trial of
her speed at the measured mile in Stokes-bay, to-
morrow. _

The following appointments were made on Mon-
day at theAdmiralty:—CJmmander Arthur Barrow,
duties ; Wm.
to the Cumberland; Henry J.
Wm. H. Bell,
Stanley, master, to
Wm. H. Steil, acting
; Edmund J. Murphy,
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hogtcenoi
Cossack;
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ta.c.etningginseeecro'nd-class assist.-
engineer, ; Thos.
to the Cossack;
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to
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The s
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The following appointments were made on Ties-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Bouverie F. Clark,
to the Esk ; Lieut. Armand T. Fowlett, to the Co-
lumbus ; Lieut. John C. Best, to the Orontes; Lieut.
R. B Foster, to the Marlborough; Lieut. Edmund
C. Drummond, to the Revenge Lieut.; John Nortt,
to the Sheldrake ; Lieut. John D. V. Butler, to the

Alert ; E. W. Creak► matter, to the Bak; Sub-

Lieut. G. F. Hammick, to the Curacoa ; and James
A. Cooke, acting sccond class assist.-engineer, to
the Fire Queen.

THE ARMY.

The 4th battalion Military Train, under Lieut.-
Col. O'Brien, is under orders to remove from
Aldershott to Woolwich early in June, when its
place will be supplied by the sth battalion from
Woolwich, under Major de Salis.

The Middlesex, East Indiaman, Capt. Cammell,
R N.R., which arrived at Spithead on Sunday
evening from Calcutta with the head-quarters of
the 92d Regiment (Gordon Highlanders) on board,
was towed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday.
Tho troops were landed by Government steamer on
the Gosport side of the harbour, taking up their
quarters in the new barracks just vacated by the
6th Foot. The disembarkation of the troops on the
day previous was 'prevented by the strong N.E.
gale.

THE VOLUNTEERS,
Under the sanction of the War-office and the Lords of
the Admiralty arrangements have been made for a com-
bined naval and Volunteer demonstration at Southend on
Monday. The gunboats and a detachment of Marines eta-
ticned at Sheerness will, under the orders of the Comman-
der-in-Chief at the station, Vice-Admiral Sir W. J. H.
Johnstone, co-operate with the Volunteer force assembled
on the occasion. The guns of the West Essex Yeomanry
Cavalry, under the command of Col. Palmer, will also be in
position. The various Essex corps of Volunteers and one
or two battalions from the metropolis are expected to take
part in the manoeuvres, the programme of which has been
arranged as follows : the guns of the West Essex Yeomanry
Cavalry will be in position on the right of the Coastguard
station. The force of Marines will be landed at 4 p.m. at
the foot of the cliffs in front of the "new town," and will
immediately throw out flank companies of skirmishers, who
will at once ascend the heights. The signal for the ad-
vance off skirmishers on both sides will be the first gun fired
from the gunboats, which will be at once replied to from
the position guns. The Volunteer skirmishers will fall
back on the appearance of the main body of the attacking
party, and the positions will also be temporarily abandoned.
Upon the advance of the main body of Volunteers the at-
tacking party will retire to the edge of the cliffs, where they
will maintain their position, the firing from the position
guns being resumed at the same time. After a short time
the first line of Volunteers, being presumed to have suffered
severely from the fire of Marines under the cliff, will be re-
lieved by the reserve. Atter the firing has ceased the en-
tire combined forces will be formed into quarter-distance
column, and will march past the Vice-Admiral.
It is intended to celebrate her Majesty's birthday at
Norwich on Wednesday, the 27th inst. It is proposed that
the 6th Lancers, the West Norfolk Militia, the local en-
rolled pensioners, and the Norwich battalion of Volunteer
Rifles should muster on the occasion, and, weather permit-
ting, have a field-day on Mousehold-heath, when colours
will be presented to the Volunteer battalion, at the request
of the donor, by the Hon. Mr. Walpole. A public dinner
will afterwards take place at the Royal Hotel, at Norwich,
the Mayor (M. H, S. Patteson) in the chair.
A great review is to take place at Cambridge on Whit-
Monday. The battalions to be reviewed will be the Bed-
fordshire, the 2d Hertfordshire, the Cambridge, the Isle of
Ely, and the Cambridge University, altogether upwards of
1,300 men. The various corps will assemble on Talker's
Piece, and will proceed thence to Stourbridge-fair common,
where they will execute various evolutions under the com-
mand of Col. Baker,

On Tuesday the Melton, Helmsley, Castle Howard, and
Hovingbam companies of North York Volunteers were in-
spected in Castle Howard Park by Lieut. •Cal. Harman,
attended by Captain-Commandant Worsley, and the new
adjutant of the battalion, Capt. Hedley. The number of
spectators was very large. The Volunteers went through
tke various manoeuvres in a soldier-like manner. The in-
specting officer highly complimented theMalton menfor their
proficiency in drill, and for the excellent condition of their
arms, and the Helmsley men, who have had no paid in-
instructor, were similarly honoured. The after part of the
day was devoted to dancing on the lawn to the music of the
band of the 2d battalion. On Thursday the Pontefiact
Volunteers were inspected by Lieut.-Col. Stanhope, accom-
panied by the new adjutant, Major Cooke. Prizes have
been given to the Whitby Artillery Volunteers for compe-
tition on Whit Monday.
Lord Aveland, lord-lieutenant of Lincolnshire, has offered
a series of prizes to be competed for by members of the re-
spective battalions of Lincolnshire Rifle and Artillery Vo-
lunteers on July 30. The Kesteven and Holland battalion
will shoot for corresponding prizes at Stamford. The bat-
teries of Volunteer A. tillery formed at Boston, Grimsby,
and Louth will compete at the Boston battery with heavy
guns for various prizes. The Challenge Cup, of the value
of 50 guineas, now held by Private Grummitt, of the 15th
Lincolnshire R fie Volunteers, will be shot for at Lincoln
on Monday and Tuesday, the 3d and 4th August, by mem-
bers of the respective battalions of Lincolnshire Rifle and
Artillery Volunteers.

The 3d West York (Bradford) Rifle Corps, with the Bing-
ley and Keighley Corps (two companies) attached, was offi-
cially inspected on Saturday afternoon last in Feel Park,
Bradford. The inspecting officer was Lieut.-Col. Harman,
who, at the close of the review, said he had been highly
gratified by all the corps had shown him. He found them
in a highly efficient state, and, with one exception, he had
not inspected any battalion that had done better. The
ground was well kept by the Bradford Artillery Volunteers.

THE MAIL STEAM-PACKET SERVICE,

There are now 130 Channel and ocean mail steamers
subsidised by the British Government. The mail steam-
packet service has been in existence 20 years, and during
that period about 30 packets have been wrecked, in which
upwards of 2,000 persons lost their lives, and through
which £3,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. Our
channel and ocean mail steamers traverse nearly three mil-
lion miles and carry a couple of millions of passengers in
the course of a year. Since the Atlantic has been crossed by
steam 20 steamers (mail packets and others) have been lost
in that ocean, viz., the President, Columbia, Humboldt,
City of Glasgow, City of Philadelphia, Franklin, Arctic,
Pacific, Lyonnais, Tempest, Austria, Indian, Arago, Hun •
garian, Connaght, United States, North Briton, Anglo-
Saxon, and two named Canadian. In the Atlantic two
steamers have been burnt, the Amazon and Austria, and
two foundered, the President and Pacific, It is worthy of
notice that there is no record of any great inhumanity pae-
tised at any of the wrecks of the great ocean steamers on the
part of crews over passengers, or of men over women and
children, but there are records of deeds of heroism and huma-
nity by men in supreme peril. There is scarcely any record of
cowardice on the part of the officers of ocean steamers, but
numerous instances of skill, daring, self-command, and self-
denial. There is scarcely an instance of crews or the lower
order of passengers in mail steamers breaking open spirit
stores and getting drunk in time of shipwreck, such as we
read in old chronicles. There has hardly ever been an in-
stance of a commander leaving any one behind in a wrecked
steamer, but many commanders have lost their lives by re
maining to the last and trying to save those under their
charge. The horrors, therefore, of many shipwrecks have
been less than they used to be, showing an improved spirit
and humanity from the spread of education amongst sea-
faring men, and the great power of public opinion. Even
common sail)rs now prefer to risk their lives in acts of
humanity for the sake of the good opinion of the world,
rather than have the finger of scorn pointed to them for
saving their lives by acts of cowardice or inhumanity. The
wreck of an ocean steamer, with sometimes 600 or 700
souls on board, is sufficiently horrible, without disgracful
accompaniments. The most dreadful loss of an Atlantic
steamer was that of the Austria by fire, in the
middle of tha ocean, with the greater part of

1,000 persons on board. Whole families first em-
braced each other and then, joined hand and
hand, jumped overboard, and perished. The most
melancholy losses on the Atlantic were, perhaps, the foun-
dering of the President and Pacific, no one knows precisely
when or where, or whether those on board were unconsci-
ously engulphed or endured the agony of seeing the ap-
proach of death. Two of the most singular wrecks in con-
nexion with mail packets were that of the Tay in the West
Indies, which was abandoned by the captain: as a certain
wreck, while an engiaeer and one or two of the crew
insisted upon remaining behind and succeeded in saving
the steamer, and her owners £500,000; and that
of the Tyne, which had made a fine passage of 4,000 miles
from tho South Atlantic, and when in sight of its haven, and
the passengers had voted an address of congratulation to the
commander for their safe arrivel, the ship was wrecked on the
iron-bound coast of Dorset. Almost all the wrecked mail pac-
kets were lost in fogs or in the darkness of night, through
steaming on to keep time with the mails. The fol-
lowing are the names of the ships lost by the
owners of the Anglo-Saxon, viz.:—The Canadian
(No. 1) in 1857, the Indian in 1869, the Hunga-
rian in 1860, the North Britain and Canadian (No. 2) in
1861, and the Anglo-Saxon in 1863. Owing to the loss
At
the latter, we shall rarely receive news from Capeßam.an immense expense the telegraph has been extended to
that point from New York, and a staff is kept at It the
ceanpe
.
for the reception and transmission of news. is in c
templation, however, to keep a fast steamer there to run
out to sea, and communicate with the European and Ame-
rican packets.

GREAT FIRE IN MANCHESTER.--About 12 o'clock
on Tuesday night a fire broke out in the timber
yard of Mr. Alderman Neill, in Sherbone-street, Strange.
ways, Manchester. Before the fire brigade could be brought
up the flames had got well hold of the timber, and the re-
sult was that the greatest amount of water that could be
thrown upon the fire failed to extinguish it. The whole
contents of the timber yard were destroyed, and some cottage
property in the neighbourhood suffered severely. The fire
was so hot that, despite a wind in the teeth of the flames,
the Britannia Works of Messrs. Muir, machinists, on the
,pposite side of the street, caught fire, and were also par-
tially destroyed. Mr. Neill was insured to the amount of
£7,000, but the loss le estimated fit nearly £14,000,

The Eon. Mrs. Norton's New Sta

Lose and S ved. By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. 3 vole,
Hurst and Blackett.

The accomplished and gifted granddaughters of
Sheridan are at this moment dividing the interest
of the lit, I ary world—a new novel from the pen of
the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and a new comedy by Lady
Gifford (better known as Lady Dufferin), having
within the last few days appeared almost simulta-
neously. Of the brilliant comedy at the Haymarket
we have already spoken. The novel of Mrs. Norton
now lies before us—a novel, like all the productions
of its author, endued with a twofold character—
remarkable for its brilliant descriptions, vivacious
sketches, and graceful polished tone ; but remark-
able also, like all the outpourings of that tender
poetic nature, for the intense feeling, the tender
pathos, and the under-current of subdued emotion
that imperceptibly, bat most sensibly, pervade the
entire composition. Mrs. Norton is no haoknied
novel writer, no conjurer pulling the strings of a
puppet show. Her hand, with the rare facility of
genius, can touch the chords of the heart so skilfully
as to elicit at pleasure every varying emotion.
Her writings not only excite our admiration, they
extort our sympathy ; and in saying this of and
work of art we are according the highest praise.
This praise is to a certain extent due to her new
story of " Lost and Saved." Tne characters are
delineated with wonderful skill, the scenes described
are in many instances almost dramatic in their in-
tense effect, and the story itself—a story of tender
trustfulness, her rtless treachery, and cruel suffering
—is beautifully told. Yet,as a story, there are many
points on which we can accord it but very quali-
fied approbation. Beatrice Brooke, the heroine,
over whose very name the authoress lingers lov-
ingly, is the child of an Italian mother, and is
endowed with that " fatal gift," an ardent and im-
passioned temperament, so frequently productive of
unhappiness. Beatrice, young, inexperienced, and
enthusiastic, loves and is beloved by Montagu
Treherne, the heir to the earldom of Caerlaverock.
It is ordained by the will of an unreasonable
grandfather that Montagu Treherne shall espouse
one of his cousins or forfeit his share of the family
estates. The old Earl, his uncle, is at Venice, and
there, in the hope of gaining his consent to
their marriage, Treherne persuades Beatrice to
proceed, in company with some strangers—the
acquaintances of a day. Beatrice goes, although
her father, the innocent victim of some unhappy
speculation, has just been arrested and is in prison.
This first fatal step, neglect of her duty as a
daughter, leads by a series of somewhat improbable
catastrophes to the elopement of Beatrice and Mon-
tagu from Venice with the intention of being mar-
ried at Trieste. They embark by mistake on board
the wrong steamboat and are taken to Alexandria.
The British Consulate there is, for the time, inacces-
sible to them in consequence of the arrival of " the
Marchioness," a most portentous personage, of
whom we shall speak later on. Compelled to pro-
ceed on a journey through the Desert, the unhappy
Beatrice is taken seriously ill, and overcome with
exhaustion and anxiety is reduced to the verge of
the grave. One grief haunts her—her father will
hear of ber death without hearing of her marriage.
A travelling doctor in the suite of " the Mar-
chioness" happens to arrive at the station where
the invalid is lying. Commis_rating her condition,
he declares her death is imminent unless ber mind
can be set at rest. We must transcribe the scene
that follows. The chapter is entitled