The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-09 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Lady Audley's Secret. By M. E. Braddon. Ninth

Eclition. One vol., pp. 476. Tinsley Brothers.
" Another and another still succeeds"—might be
said with a fall double significance in reference
to this long-continued and rapid issue of edition
after edition of Miss Braddon's masterpiece. As
such we cannot but still regard the earlier of her
two popular romances. This, be it said, in spite of
the pre-eminence of popularity enjoyed by the
later of the two, that is by "Aurora Floyd," at least
in its dramatic form. Opening again this really en-
thralling narrative of the life and fortunes of Lucy,
Lady Audley, of Audley Court, in the county of
Essex—reading yet again the preliminary pages of
the work, those charming descriptive pages consti-
tuting the first chapter of the story—we don't
wonder in the least that already a ninth edition
should have made its appearance ! We don't
wonder, even, when we find slipped into
this ninth edition the following significant little
flyleaf tag of a " Notice.-0 wing to the great de-
mand for 'Lady Audley's Secret,' the publishers
have been compelled to omit the photograph of the
Lime Tree Walk,' as it has been found impossible
to print it in numbers sufficient to keep pace with
the sale of the book." And we will add at once that
:he simple reason for our not wondering, as we say,
in the least at these unmistakeable evidences of a
signally sustained and a really quite exceptional
popularity enjoyed by Lady Audley's Secret is this
—that the mere style in which Miss Braddon has
written it, has about it a charm, for ourselves at least,
of scarcely resistible fascination. It is so easy and
yet so finished. It is so ♦ividly picturesque—we
are talking here, remember, of the mere style of the
writing, of the mere manner, colour, and grace of
the composition. As to the other capacities of the
authoress they are many of them very remarkable.
She has a peculiar felicity and power in the delineation
of character. Her ingenuity in the construction of
the plot and in the weaving together of the inci-
dents, none of those who have read her—no matter
how carelessly or supezficially —but must have un-
conciously noted at the time : as they will acknow-
ledge now that they come to look back at the story
they have skimmed through—we care not whether
the story may chance to have been "Aurora Floyu"
or " Lady Audiey's Secret." What we would espe-
cially here take note of in explanation of the
rapidity and, so far, at least, we will say also, the
continuance of the rise and extension of Miss
Braddon's popularity as a novelist, is the exceeding
charm resulting from the easy vigour and sparkle of
tier style—a style bearing about it, we will repeat, a
truly delightful fascination. Perfectly well do we
remember our first succumbing to this fascination.
It was when reading for the first time the two earliest
chapters—chapters I. and II.—" Lucy," and " On
Board the Argus," in the first number
of the beautifully got up but entirely unsuccessful
periodical, started only two or three years ago by
Dr. Charles Mackay, under the name (the periodi-
cal and not the Doctor) of Robin Goodfellow.
There it was, in that first and only number of Robin
Goodfellow, that Lacy Audley's Secret first made
its appearance, or rather first began to make its ap-
pearance, for with the issue of the initial number of
the intended weekly serial the speculation com-
menced and ended. Its first number was its last.
We read then with delight chapter I. and chapter
11. of Lady Audley's Secret, and were left longing
for more. For a long time those who, like ourselves,
had read it, were left longing in vain. At last the
story made its appearance, otherwise than through
the agency of that still-born sprite Robin Good-
fellow. And when it did so appear—we know well
enough what was the consequence. Miss Braddon's
fame as a novelist sprang up as rapidly and
brightly, to use a very hackneyed metaphor,
as a skyrocket. It has not yet come
down, as some have threatened that it would, like a
stick. It merely fluctuates, as oue might say, in the
hue of its sparkles—break ing, rocket-wise, into fresh
corruscations. These fresh corruscations shining in
the empyrean of the lighter periodical literature of
the day as " Aurora Floyd or "Eleanor's Venge-
ance,"—or what not ! Other offshoots (to carry on
the fantastic imagery) of this still soaring reputation
being every now and then (as in the instance before
us)some new aspect assumed by the earliest evidence
of its apparition at all—Lady Audley's Secret !
Here in effect is the ninth. And a very beautiful
edition it is, in its getting up, altogether—this one
volumed issue of a work originally published in its
complete form in 3 vols. Bvo. A beautiful edition in
spite of its cheapness. If the moral tone of
the story (which it unhappily, but notoriously
is not) were only equal in excellence to the charm of
the style in which the story is written, we could
rejoice over these reiterated evidences of its wider
and wider popularisation. Such unfortunately being
very far, indeed, from the fact, we can only regret
that a young lady so gifted with the graces of
authorcraft, as Miss Braddon unquestionably is,
should so very often, as she does no less unquestion-
ably, write like a very gay, very knowing, exceed-
ingly wide-awake, horse-racing, billiard-playing,
cigar smoking, heater-skelter, last young gentle-
man!

Skirmishing. By the Author of " Cousin Stella."

Ono vol. pp. 313. Smith and Elder.

" Never repent of a kind action, however it turns
out for yourself," si.iya dear good Mrs. Lescrimiere,
one of the characters of the story, and this saying
of hers is selected as a motto for the title-page.
Mrs. Lescrimiere is the good grandmother in the
rectory house at Eden, the home of the Greatorexes
—a very delightful family. Mr. Greatorex himself
is the most genial and benevolent of men, over-
flowing with the milk of human kindness, but,
nevertheless, capable, when necessary, of adminis-
tering "admonition due," and maintaining that
"discipline" so strongly rec',ma mended by Mr. Bog-
nel. When the rector addresses his wife as " my
dear," and when he calls his son Cnarlie " Charles,"
both wife and sonEkoow that the husband and father
must be obeyed. Mrs. Greatorex is the daughter
of Mrs. Lescrimiere, and is so unlike her good
astonishment,
motheras to
cause
~How odd y
tha t goo d lady
should
d y t o e
be exclaim, m,miyn
daughter !" Mrs. Greatorex is good and proper
herself, and expects every one else to be the same ;
she can make no allowance for human inferiority,

„2 believes there is always a "fault” in every
“mi,fo.:tune.' Mrs. Lescrimiere, on the other
hand, is
heart and sympathy. To her the child
and the atrial:l6-er, the doubting and the disappointed,
alike turn to intainde their sorrows, and find comfort
and counsel. So Universal is her partisanship for
ail who require it, that she says she inclines to the
the Irishman's way of thinking, who exclaimed,
3 What's the use of standing up for a man when
he's in the right—it's when he's wrong he needs
you !" Maud, the rector's pretty daughter, just
nineteen, is a charming sketch, true to nature.
She is engaged to Walter Escott, the curate, a man
of exquisite sensibility but reserved exterior, who
hates " a scene" and shrinks from all demonstra
tions of feeling. The chapter entitled "a word
before is worth two after," is admirable, because it
is so simple and so natural. Escott tells his
betrothed how he has just refused the gift of a
living that would have enabled them to marry at
once, because he did not consider it to be good
enough for them ; and Maud, at first listening with
bashful pleaNure to the good news of the offer,
suddenly finds her bright vision dispelled, and dis-
appointment and doubt of her lover's affection die-
turb the serenity of her heart. Her hopes, and
fears, and hesitations, and the wounded pride and
demeanour which those unjust suspicions produce
in the sensitive Escott, are most naturally and
forcibly pourtrayed. "If I only knea; how to make
him love me very, very much," says poor Maud, in
a heart-broken appeal to her good grandmother.
" Child ! child !" remonstrates that wise lady,
"make him happy by always showing him a placid,
loving face ; comfort him with cheerfulness and
serenity, and he would not be able to live without
you, though he does not fall at your feet to tell you
so every day." There is so much practical sense and
homely truth conveyed in the pages of this story,
as to make it a profitable, as well as a pleasant
book to place in the hands of the young. The sen-
timental novel reader and the lovers of sensation
may be attracted by the episode of Mrs. Brown and
" Dodge"—an episode we should have rather dis •
pensed with, but " Skirmishing" has higher claims
to the approbation of its readers, and for such we
very heartily commend it.

A Dark Night's Work. By Mrs. Gaskell. 1 vol
pp. 299. Smith, Elder, and Co.

Between Wilkie Collins' No Name and Charles
Reade's Very Hard Cash—there appeared for a few
weeks a strangely imagined, and at times a quite
horribly attractive little story, by Mrs. Gaskell,
called " A Dark Night's Work." Upon the reason
for its having that weird title, the whole of
'he interest of the narrative hangs. The "Dark
Night's Work," being the perpetration by
the father of the heroine of the tale, of that
half-accidental or partially-intended kind of
murder, that the jury empanne led to try the
person accused of it, so often softens down into
" Manslaughter." The Dark Night's Work is
more thin the commission of that crime by
Mr. Wilkins, the attorney. It is still more
if possib!e its after concealment—by a faithful old
attendant of the murderer, or at any rate manslayer,
by his groom, that is, popr old honest Dixon. But
still more is the Dark Night's Work, the partici-
pation with these two, with Dixon and Mr
Wilkins in its concealment—of Mr. Wilkins's
laughter, the gentle and beautiful Ettinor 1 he❑
actually betrothed to, but afterwards (in conse
quence of the gloomy mystery of a something gone
wrong surrounding her) estranged from Mr. Corbet,
a pupil of the parish clergyman, Mr. Ness. One
Danster, the chief clerk, and afterwards the junior
partner of Mr. Wilkins—is the victim, the man
murdered or at any rate slain. His body, after
many ineffectual attempts to discover in it some
signs of returning animation, is hid away, buried,
in fact, under cover of a very dark, starless, moon-
less night, in the shrubbery attached to the dwell-
ing-house of the murderer. Ellinor and Dixon,

out of pity for the wretched father of the
one and master of the other, helping him (Wilkins)
to put the corpse of Punster effectually—
as they do, in fact—out of sight. Hence,
all the misery slowly growing up and ac-
cumulating throughout the rest of the narra-
tive. Mrs. Gaskell appears to be partial to
the writing of homely or domestic romances, the
principal interest of which should hang upon the
perpetration and the concealment of a mut der by
one of the prominent characters appearing upon the
scene of the story. It was thus precisely, it will be
remembered, in regard to her earliest fiction—in
some respects still perhaps to regarded as her best
—" Mary Barton." It is so, as we have
shown, in this the latest of her works of ima-
gination. The Sixteen Chapters of "A Dark Night's
Work" will be perused by all who open the first and
read on for a page or two—it will be perused down
to the end with unflagging interest, for the tale is
written by one who has lived to become a mistress of
her art. Yet, for all t hat, it will add but very slightly,
if at all, to Mrs. Gaskell's reputation. After breath-
ing the morbid, un wholesome atmosphere that hangs,
with a" sense of gloom and oppression, over one dur-
ing the perusal of " A Dark Night's Work"—one
turns with a feeling of positive relief to the mere
remembrance of the same writer's sparkling,
humorous, vivacious sketches of" Cranford."

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographical, at 81,
"Arrival of Expedition at Khartum, from Zanzibar,"
" Landborough's Traverse of Australia," and "Madagas-
car," Lieut. Oli,er. Tuesday--Actuaries, at 7—Syro-
Egyptian, at 74, "Coffin Lid of Men-ka-ra, Mycerinus of
loyal Institution, at 3,
the Greeks," Mr. Marsden—
Engineers, at 8, "American
Iron" S o "Sound," Professorr.c 01; Tyndall-Engineers, no
rdna,l la•—n d
" Communication between
London and Dublin." Mr. Watson—Zoological, at 9,
"Derbyan Eland, "Western Africa," and " Equatorial
Elephant and Gorilla," Mr. Reade, and "Mammals and
Birds, Madagascar," Dr. Sclater. Wednesday—Arcbooo-
- Association, at 4, annual general—Graphic, at 8—
Society of Arts, at 8, "Excrementitious Matter," Dr.
Thudichurn, and "System of Earth Sewage," Rev. H.
Moule—Microscopical, at 8. Thursday—Antiquaries, at
B—Royal Institution, at 3, "Geology," Professor nsted
Friday— Philological, at 8, Anniversary, "Umbrian
Words," Professor Newman—Royal Institution, at 8,
" Molecule of Water," Dr. Odling. Saturday—Horticul-
tural, at 4, Promenade—Royal Institution, at 3, " Lan-
guage," Professor Max Muller.—Atheneum.
THE LAST MADNESS OF COMTE (the author of
Positivism)—is thus recounted in the Reader
" The French philosopher, Auguste Comte, was led,
towards the end of his life, into an extraordinary modifica •
tion or development of his so-called system of " Positive
Philosophy," consisting of nothing less than the proclama-
tion to the world of a new form of religion, with a priest-
hood, rites of wee ship, &c. The veteran philosopher, hav-
ing fallen in love with a certain young lady named Clotilde
—as he himself relates with the most astounding naviele—
found, in the access of fervour and of new light on all sub•
jecta which this love-experience brought him, that his pre-
vious philosophy, as expounded on his great six.
volume work on Positivism, erred by defect in the
emotional or sentimental element, and required to be
supplemented by a vast addition that should do justice
to that element. Man, in short, must have a religion ;
and the positive philosophy would not to the all-in-all it
professed to be unless it could carry a religion, and even a
ritual, in its forefront. It was not, however, necessary to
go back upcn the positive philosophy, and upset any of its
prior conclusions. It was all right so far; and a perfectly
consistent religion might be stuck on to it, or developed
logically out of it. This religion, as Comte at last pro-
claimed it, was to consist in the Culte systematique de
liumanitd ; and much of his time in his last years was
spent in organizing this g‘ Systematic Worship of
Humanity," and arranging, as its first high-priest, some
of its ceremonies. We believe he used to officiate at the
marriages and funerals of some of the small gather-
ing of followers he nad in Paris. At all events,
he published a calendar of the year adapted to the
new worship—each of the 365 days being consecrated
to the worship of some particular great man of the past,
while each week was apportioned to some very great man,
and each of the twelve months was associated with the name
and memory of some colossally great man. There were also
four days in the year set apart for the execration of the
memory of the four men whom Comte regarded as the
greatest ruffians, or worst retrograde men of the universal
past— Julian the apostate being one, and the first Napoleon
another. But poor Comte died, complaining grievousl),
that this religion of his was very little taken up even by
those who had taken most eagerly to his positive philosophy.
In Britain, whet° his ideas and his reputation were spread,
even in his lifetime, far more widely than in Frsnce, he
saw no one likely to hold up, after his death, the banner of
his religion of positivism,

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA
MENT.—Yesterday the Duke of Devonshire's committee,
after hearing evidence on behalf of Lord Lonsdale and the
Sisters of Charity occupying the convent at Hammersmith,
the bill for the construction of the proposed Barnes, Ham.-
meramith,
Kensington Railway WAS thrown out.

LATESTINTELLIGENCE. the French were several times repti;sed in skirmishes
before Puebla between the 24th and 29th March,
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) but on the latter date they captured Fort San
Jarvier.
The Havannah papers contain news from Vera
Cruz to the sth April, confirming the statement
that Comonfort, whilst en route to reinforce Gene-
ral Ortega, was defeated by General Berthier, and
that General Forey had refused the offer of Ortega
to capitulate at Puebla.

WRECK OF THE ANGLO-SAXON, WITH

FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

NEW YORK, APRIL 30 (Evening).

The steamer Anglo-Saxon, for Quebec, was
wrecked four miles east of Cape Race, at noon of the
27th, during a dense fog. The deck broke up one
hour after the vessel struck. The crew and passen-
gers numbered 444 persons, of whom 187 are known
to have been saved. Two of the steamer's boats
and a raft which left the vessel have not been heard
of, but search is being made for them. The Captain
is supposed to be drowned.
The following are the names of the cabin pas-
sengers saved :
Tee Hon. John Young and family.
Females—Hope, Betram, Inglis, Keerwood, Stod-
dard, Chretien, Wright, James, Jackson and child.
Males—Caldwell, Raton, Kirkwood, Chretien,
Towers, Kirkness, Fraser, Martin, Sealy, Whites,
Captain heed, Hiles, Cassidy, Lieut. Simpson.
33 cabin, 103 steerage passengers, and 21 of the
crew were saved. The captain, part of the crew,
and a great many passengers were on deck when
the vessel sunk in deep water, and were all lost.

AMERICA.
(Per Arabia.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning).

A dvices from New Orleans to the 19th inst.
state that General Banks's expedition up the
River Teche proved very unsuccessful. He had
three engagements with the Confederates—one at
Vermillion Bayou, another near Franklin, and a
third at Bethel Place—in each of which he is
reported to have repulsed the enemy, and captured
1,500 prisoners along the route, and compelled the
Confederates to destroy several transports in order

to escape capture.
General Banks has arrived within a short distt,nce
of Opelousas.

Reports from Memphis represent that General
Banks had reached Point Coupe, on the west bank
of the Mississippi, eleven miles higher up than
Port Hudson. If this report were true, General
Banks would be in a position to co-operate with the
Federal fleet in an attack on Port Hudson from
above, but the news requires confirmation.
General Grant continues to make numerous com-
plicated strategical movements below Vicksburg,
with a view to flanking and capturing that posi-
tion.

Twelve more transports are reported to have
passed the Coat derate batteries, and to have joined
General Grant below Vicksburg.
The second Federal expedition to Yazoo Pass is
reported to have returned unsuccessful.

There is continued fighting on the Coldwater
River, the result of which do not appear very clear.
The Confederate forces invading Missouri are
under General Price. Their strength is supposed
not to exceed 10,000 men. A portion of them, sup-
posed to be 3,000 strong, with six pieces of artil
lery, under General Marmaduke, attacked the Fe-
derals at Cape Girardean, on the Mississippi, on the
26th inst., but are reported to have been repulsed.
The Federal commander hed started in pursuit of
them. During their retreat the Confederates are
reported to have been attacked, and repulsed by
another Federal force, which was sent to cut them
off.

In St. Louis 20 armed Confederates seized during
the night the fastest steamer at the Levee, and
escaped with her. The steamers between St. Louis
and Cairo are convoyed by gunboats. The gun
shops in St. Louis are placed under guard, and all
Confederate prisoners have been removed to Alton,
Illinois.

CHINA.
(By Telegraph from Suez).

The Confederate investment of Washington,
North Carolina, is said to have been a feint, which
enabLd the Confederates during the siege to carry
off immense quanties of grain from Hyde County,
with which they escaped.
No material change in the situation in Tennessee

SHANGHAI, MARCH 25.

The new organization of the Ward force has
caused dissatisfaction among the troops compoo-

ing it.

The banditti who menaced Tientsin have been
repulsed by the Chinese troops. The rebels have
evacuated Shaeu Shing.
No news has been received here from Admiral
Kuper's fleet.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CANTON, APRIL 1.
Tea firm; total export to date, 106,125,000,1a5.
Exchange on London, 6s. 4d.
Freights, 755.

COCHIN CHINA.
POINT DE GALLE, APRIL 13.
News from Saigon states that maters in the in-
terior of Cochin China appear to be in PO far satis-
factory, as no complaints are made by Chinese
traders in the rice districts.
After April 5 all paments of the Treasury and
Commissariat, for either contract or freight were to
be made in francs at the rate of 51. 37c. per Alexi-
can dollar, is not otherwise stipulated.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
WARSAW, MAY 7.

has taken pl.ce.
The Federals have captured the Confederate camp
and 100 prisoners near Franklin.
Rumours were current at Nashville that General
Bragg was shot by General Breckenridge during an
altercation.

Six hundred insurgents, who had come from
Gallicia, have been defeated near Slawko ; 31 of
their number being taken prisoners, among whom
were 14 Frenchmen and Italians. On the sth
inst. the insurgent chief Bonitza, with 800 men,
attacked the Russian infantry tear Milzyrz€cz,
but was defeated and taken prisoner.

CRACOW, MAY 8.

The Federal pickets have been driven in, and skir-
mishing has recommenced upon the Nanse Mond

On the 6th inst. Miniewski suffered a defeat,
with considerable loss, at Krzejkawka. General
Nulle was killed. Yesterday the insurgents were
defeated and dispersed near Scyce and Wilko-
winne. A portion of them fought their way into
the interior, and 141 others have been conveyed
to this city.

river.

PRUSSIA.

Fifteen adventurers from Mobile have proceeded
to the mouth of the Mississippi, and captured a
Federal tug-boat, which they ran through the
blockading fleet into Mobile.
Thirty-seven Federal regiments will be mustered
out of service between May and June, their enlist-
ment time having expired.
By order of the Prize Court, the cargo of the
Peterhoff is being landed and examined, to ascer-
tain if there is contraband of war on board.

BERLIN, MAY 9.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,
the Minister of Justice, on the demand of the Pro-
curator-General of :Posen, asked the house to be
authorised to commence legal proceedings against
Count John Dzialynski for high treasov. The
motion Was referred to the Committee of Justice.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 9.

Count de Persigny has addressed a circular to the
Prefects dated May 8, explaining the principles
which should guide the Prefects in the approaching
elections.

The Minister says :
" The Prefects will not forget that the Empire is
the expression of the wants, feelings, and interests
of the masses, as it has united all the forces and
wishes of the nation. It was in the cottages of the
people that the Empire was brought forth."
M. de Persigny then recalls the degree of wealth
and prosperity which the nation has acquired since
the origin of the Empire, and continues ;

"The Emperor therefore confidently asks of the
country a Legislative Assembly as devoted to him
as preceding Assemblies, and having no other care
than the welfare of the Empire. If in France, as
in England, parties differed upon the conduct of
public affairs, but were all attached to the funda-
mental institutions of the country, the Government
might confine itself to watching the struggle.
Bat in France this manoeuvring of patties
would be of a nature to prolong the revolution by
compromising liberty; because in our country there
are parties who yet remain political fractions, seek-
ing to attack the very heart of our institutions in
order to vitiate their principle, and who invoke
liberty in order to turn it against the State.

" The duties of the Prefects are, therefore, plainly
marked out. Penetrated with the democratic and
liberal spirit of our institutions, they will allow all
candidates to present themselves freely, and to
publish and distribute their political programmes
and voting tickets according to the prescriptions of
the law."

Mr. Seward, accompanied by the Prussian and
Swedish Ministers, have visited the army of the
Potomac.

In conclusion, M. de Persigny urges the Prefects
to proclaim as publicly as possible the candidates
po3sessing the confidence of the Government.
BOURSE, May B.—The market continues heavy,
but without any further decline in prices. Threes,
for Account, are now at 69f. 6.5 c. Railway Shares
quiet, and but little change in quotations. The
market closed as follows:

It is reported that munitions of war were found
concealed on board the steamer Tubal Cain, which
cleared from New York for Matamoras, but was
seized by the New York revenue officers when
about to leave.

The steamers Flora and Pet arrived at Wilming
ton on the 16th inst.

it per Cents 96 80 Italian Loan 72 25
Do. end month.... Do. end month 72 30
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 69 55 Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier.... 1427 50 Russian
no. end m0nth....1426 25 Austrian
Bank Shares 3380 Spanish Threes....
Credit k onmer — Home Debt

NEW YORK, APRIL 29 (Evening),

Considerable excitement prevails in Western
Virginia and Maryland, in consequence of the
appearance of a large Confederate force in those
States. They captured Morgantown, Virginia,
near the Pennsylvanian States line, and attempted
to break up the Baltimore and Onio railroad, but
only destroyed one bridge, which has since been re-
piired. Fear was entertained for the safety of
Wheeling and Pittsburg, but large Federal forma
have been moved to all the points threatened, and
the excitement has subsided.

General Hooker commenced a forward movement
on the 27th inst. Heavy masses of artillery and
other troops crossed the Rappahannock at sunset.
It is supposed that General Hooker's design is to
make a flank movement upon Fredericksburg, which
will probably bring on a general engagement.

It is reported that the Federal Monitor fleet is
again inside Charleston Bar prepared for another
attack on that place.
The Confederate steamer St. John, bound from
Nassau for a Southern port, has been captured off
Cape Roman. The crew escaped.
The Arabia takes out 74 passengers, and 16,500
dols. in specie.

NEW YORK, APRIL 29 (Evening).

Money, abundant. Gold, NI. Exchange, 165
per cent. premium. Stocks, buoyant. New York
Central, 116 i. Illinois, 94k. Erie, 84. Six per
Cent. United States Bonds, 1052-,. Cotton quiet.
Middling Upland, 66 to 661. Flour dull. Wheat
quiet. Corn declining. Provisions dull. Coffee
quiet. Sugar steady. Molasses very dull. Petro-
leum, 24.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, APRIL 29.
Official Mexican reports received here state that

Tart IGN UIEfV Circular.

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, May 8•

The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and
Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday morning.
Lady A. Bruce and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat
were in attendance.

Prince and Princess Leiningen visited her MajestY•
The Hon. H.S. Elliot arrived at Osborne yester-
&,y evening and left this morning.