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ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LES MISERABLES.
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LES MISERABLES. By VICTOR HUGO.
Authorised Copyright English Translation.
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man. It is his great and favourite work. The story is ad-
mirable, and is put together with nnsurpassable art, care,
life, and simplicity."—Daily News.
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THE MAROON. By Capt. MAYNE REID.
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Second Edition, Revised, now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with
Portrait,

THE LIFE OF EDWARD IRVING, Minister
of the National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by
his JOURNAL and CORRESPONDENCE. By Mrs. OLIPHANT.

From the Times, Oct. 14:—"Mrs. Oliphant has produ ed a
biography of considerable merit. The author fully under-
stands her hero, and sets forth he incidents of his career
with the skill of a practised hand. The boos. is a good book
on a most interesting theme.''

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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CCXXXVI.
Was published on THURSDAY LAST.

CONTENTS.

I. Solar Chemistry.
11. The Hercu mean Papyri.
111. The Mussulmans in Sicily.
IV. The Supernatural.
V. The English in the Far East.
VI. The Legend of St. 44withun.
VII. Mrs. Oliphant's Life of E 'ward Irving.
VIII. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
IX. Hops at Home and Abroad.
X. Prince Eugene of Savoy.
XI. The American Revolution.
London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black.

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MR. GLADS 7 ONE ON THE AMERICAN

STRUGGLE.

The following correspondence has taken place
between Mr. Mosley. of Manchester, and Mr. Glad-
stone, relative to the speech of the right hon. gen •
tieman at Newcastle : _

" Manchester, Oct. 13.

" Sir,—A great deal of misapprehension exists in this dis-
trict regarding what you are reported in the Times news-
paper of Thursday last to have said in the Town-hall, New-
castle, on Tuesday evening, when speaking on American
affairs.
" People here have interpreted your words to mean that
our Government intend to recognize the Southern States of
America, and as a consequence the whole trade in cotton
and cotton goods is thrown into a state of doubt and uncer-
tainty that has had the effect of completely paralyzing it.
" This is not all; your speech has induced the counter-
manding of orders already sent abroad for cotton, and the
suspending of others on the eve of being sent, thus stopping
supplies of that which our population stand so much in
need of.
" It would be most desirable to know if what you said
had not the meaning put upon it, and that it was not your
intention to say or infer her Majesty's Government contem.
plated recognizing the Southern States of America, and I
trust you will not consider me intrusive in asking an expla-
nation, as the subject is one of national importance, which
should not be left in doubt and uncertainty, as at present.
" I beg, therefore, you will grant me a reply, as your
silence may bear the interpretation already put on your
words.
" I have the honour to remain, &c.,
"THOMAS MOSLEY.
"To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P."

" 11, Downing-street, Whitehall, Oct. 16, 1862.

" Sir,—l am directed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
to acknowledge the favour of your letter of the 13th inst.,
and I am to state that his words at Newcastle were no more
than the expression in rather more pointed terms of an
opinion which Mr. Gladstone has long ago stated in public
—that the effort of the Northern States to subjugate the
Southern ones is hopeless, by reason of the resist.nee Of
the latter.

"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" CHARLES L. RYAN.

" Thomas Mosley, Esq,"

*RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

BAHIA AND SAN FRANCISCO.

The report of the directors of this company states that
the fourth section of the railway was opened, after official
inspection, on the 4th August last. Application for the
capitalisation has been forwarded to the Imperial Govern-
ment at RiD in the usual manner, and in the meantime his
Excellency the Brazilian Minister in London agreed to a
provisional capitalisation for £231,896 10s. 6d., being ac-
cording to the mileage rate, with the view to payment of
interest from the day of opening. Payment has been punc-
tually made of the guaranteed interest, due 30th June last,
upon the amounts previously capitalised as the expenditure
on the first, second, and third sections--viz., £954,865 18s.;
the half-year's interest amounting to £33,420 Gs. 2d. The
progress made on the unfinished works, now confined to the
fifth and sixth sections, though somewhat retarded during
the rainy reason, has been very satisfactory. The report
of the engineer-in-chief enters into all the necessary details
coming within his department ; the result of that report is
his conviction than the railway will be opened throughout
during the month of January next, and that the total expen-
diture will be within the amount of guaranteed capital. In
this conviction the directors participate. The call of 30s.
per share has been duly met by the shareholders. The dates
of the two remaining calls, each of £1 per share, will most
probably be, as stated in the last report, in January and in
April of next year. The maintenance and working of the
railway by Mr. Watson, the contractor, have been ccnti-
nued and will be so continued, under the conditions of the
new agreement made in June, 1861, until the end of Decem-
ber, 1863. The traffic has not yet materially increased, the
opening of the fourth section having been too recent to
afford returns indicative of its effects. The directors, how-
ever, have every expectation that by the time the working
of the whole line falls into the hands of the company, after
the year of maintenance, the traffic will have conside-
rably developed itself. in the meantime the attention of
the provincial government is being directed to the construc-
tion of roads in the interior trending towards the stations
and terminus of the line.
Mr. C. Vignoles, the engineer-in-chief, states in his report
that the whole of the rolling-stock has now been sent out,
and has before this reached Bahia. He hopes that some of
the surplus capital may be applicable to increasing the
rolling-stock. His convictions are that the railway will be
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efforts
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near Alagoinhas, in the beginning of the coming year. He
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HULL AND DONCASTER.
The three companies contendiag for the possession of the
country between the Hull and Selby line and the Great
Northern, in order to connect the two and materially shorten
the journey from Hull to London and the west, are said to
be agreed upon the following plan :—The North-Eastern
Company are to apply for powers to construct a line from
Thorne, on the South Yorkshire line, to Staddlethorpe, on
the Hull and Selby the shortest distance of any scheme
yet proposed, and one least likely to interfere with navigable
rivers. The South Yorkshire will thus obtain direct access
to Hull, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire will also have a
junction with the Goole line. The scheme will effect quite
as much saving of distance as the Askerne project of last
year, the only difference being that the proposed route is a
few miles eastward near its southern terminus, and will
enter Doncaster over a less crowded line of railway.

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jected line. The bill authorising its formation was obtained
middle of the pro-
last session by a local company of promoters, supported
the North British. The line will be 201 milesby
long, and
will, with the Dunse branch, connect the east coast and the
inland trunk lines of the North British. IncludingtheDunse
branch of 8/ miles, the connecting line, which cuts across
a country hitherto unopened by railway communication,
will be 291 miles in length. The Dunse branch leavee
east coast line at Reston, and the junction with the inland
the
east
Waverley) route will be effected at Newatead, a little to
the south of Melrose. The works on the Berwickshire Rail-
way will for the greater part of the route be easy, but at the
west end, after crossing the Leader, they will be of a very
heavy character, the Tweed being crossed by a viaduct of
130 feet in height. The ceremony on Tuesday attracted a
large assemblage, After au address by Sir IL IL Camp-

bell, chairman of the comdany, the turf was cut by Lady
('ampbell. At the luncheon which followed congratulatory
speeches were made by Mr. Campbell Swinton, the Earl of
Haddington, Sir H. Campbell, Mr. Hodg,sori (chairman of
the North British Railway), and others.

IHE CIVIL WAR la AMERICA.

(From the Times' Correspondent)
NEW YORK, OCT. 7.
As it is never safe to believe in a " victory" when
announced by telegraphic despatches that have fil-
tered through the War office : t Washington, and

still more unsafe to believe in it when described to

be "glorious and overwhelming" by the New York
press, there have been considerable doubts as to the
true character of the engagement that took place

on Saturday last between the Confederate forces
under Generals Price, Van Dorn, and Lovell, and a

portion of the Federal army under General Rose:

trans, on the old battle-ground of Corinth. General
Ulysses Grant, dating from his head-quarters at

Jackson, in Tennessee, 70 miles and upwards from
Corinth, telegraphs to General Halleck, on the
authority of General Itosecrans, that the Confede-

rates were the attacking party, that they were re-

pulsed with great loss, and that Rosecrans captured
between 700 and 1,000 prisoners, besides the
wounded that were left on the field. He adds

the information which as invariably forms a por-

tion of a Fed4ml despatch as the date or the signa-

ture of the writer," that, although the loss is serious
on the Federal side, it bears no. comparison with
that of the enemy." A second despatch from the
same officer would lead to the inference that the
Confederates were still unsubdued, although re•
pulsed. "At this distance," he says, " everything
looks most favourable, and I cannot see how the

enemy are to escape without losing everything but
.their small arms._ _I have strained everything to
take into the fight an adequate force, and to get
them to the right place." Thus, according to
General Grant, the place, the force, and the result
are still unknown. In the meantime it is idle to
speculate on either, or to exult, as the New York
journals do, over a victory which may not have
been won ; or which, if won, may prove to be un-

decisive.
Mr. Lincoln, who has a high sense of his own
responsibility for the doings of his Generals, if not
for those 3f his Ministers, has made an unusually
long visit to General M'Clellan to satisfy himself
that all is right on the Upper Potomac. The tele-
graph has informed him daily, for the last fort-
night, that all is quiet on that stream ; but as the
army might be too quiet for efficiency, he appears to
have resolved to see with his own eyes whether it
were in working order, and whether M'Clellan were
as much to be trusted as he himself believed, con.

trary to the opinion of some, if not most, of his
Ministers, and of other prominent persons who take
him by the button-hole. At his return, at 10 o'clock
on Saturday night, from a visit of two days and two
nights to the camp, he immediately summoned his
War Secretary ; and on Sunday morning he con-
vened a Council of Ministers that remained in close
deliberation for five hours. It seems to he the im-

pression that he has again been " putting his fool
down " upon IVl'Clellan and keeping it down, as i;

he were very much in earnest, and not at all knead•

able by the extraneous agencies that desire to mould
him to purposes not his own. He is reported to be
entirely satisfied with what he saw and heard,
though he was by no means satisfied with the re-
ported state of matters when he left Washington.
Certainly the cordial good feeling that subsists be-
tween the General and the army—so different from
the bickerings, animosities, and personal jealousies
with which he himself has to do battle even y day,
must have come upon his jaded senses so pleasantly
as a breath of fresh air in the face of a convalescent.
It is no secret that General M'Clellan has more
enemies and possibly more friends than any man in
America, and that the most vigorous and open, as
well as the most insidious and secret means are
daiiy employed to deprive him of command. The Abo-
litionist secretaries of the President, and the Aboli-

tionist party in general, distrust or hate him ; and
all the Generals who think they could fill his place
if they had the chance shrug their shrouiders at the
mention of his name ; speak of him as a " mole," or
an "engineer," magnify his reverses, deny or qualify
his victories, and predict that no great blow will or can
be struck at the rebellion until he be superseded.
The President, however, though apparently shaken
at times, remains true to M'Ciellan as the needle to
the pole. He oscillates a little to the right or the
left, as the influence of an Abolitionist supporter
or a rival General may cause him to deflect ; but
ultimately he settles in the old place, and his last
visit to the camp appears to have fixed him more
firmly than ever. Gen, 111‘Clellan has one great
merit which cannot fail to have recommended him
to the favourable consideration of a man so bad-
gered as the President...
.:14'He never complains, and
never attempts to throw upon others the blame of
his own misfortunes, errors, or shortcomings. He
has been compared by his admirers to the first Na-
poleon, but he has somewhat more resemblance to
the third, whose favourite maxim it is that " Le
monde vient a cslui qui sait se faire.'' M'Clellan not
only holds his tongue, but knows how to hold it,
which is the great point in such difficulties as those

by which he is surrounded, and which he hopes to

overmaster, perhaps in a mode more conducive to
the satisfaction of a people who value empire more
than liberty than to those of such a people as the

Americans were in the days of that old and no
longer regarded patriot George Washington.
During the President's visit, he accompanied
Gen. M'Clellan and his staff to the city of Frederick,
in Maryland, recently occupied by the Confederate
General Lee in his abortive invasion of that State.
Mr. Lincoln was received with the enthusiasm
which the people of all countries exhibit towards
the master of strong battalions, and which the
people of this particular city were not lukewarm
in displaying to the Confederate leader when they
believed him to be the strongest. Having entered a
house where General Hartsuff, who was wounded
at the battle of Antietam, lay on a bed of suffering,
to make inquiries after the health of the invalid,
the crowd on his return cheered him lustily and
called for a speech. He complied after a slight
exhibition of reluctance, and spoke as follows
according to the telegraphic despatch published on
the following day (Sunday, the sth) :
" In my present position it is hardly proper for
me to make speeches. Every word is so closely
noted that it will not do to make foolish ones, and
I cannot b 3 expected to be prepared to make a
sensible one. If I were as 1 have been most of my
life, I might perhaps talk nonsense to you for half
an hour and it wouldn't hurt anybody. As it is,
I can only return thanks for the compliment paid
our cause. Please accept my sincere thanks for the
compliment of our common country."
Two words and one sentence in the above are
italicised for the purpose of pointing attention to the
fact that the reporter must either have maliciously
misreported the speech, or that the President must
have friends in the press who are careful of his fame,
and do not wish him to be made responsible for
unwise utterances, even if he made them. In all
the papers of Monday three alterations were made.
For the word "foolish" was substituted " trivial ;
for " sensible?) matured;" and in the phrase "If I
were as I have been most of my life, I might per-
haps talk nonsense to you for half an hour,a,r,idsvaist
wouldn't hurt anybody," the word "nonsense
The last
omitted, and " amusing" put in its place. The
the gram-
change was effected with some damagerovement in an-
mar, though, doubtless, with
other respect; Those who
"dent believe
quainted with the Pres'
people, however,
The
report was the correct one•
the
speech,
whichever
are most inttihmeaoterilyginaca-1
were not so satisfied with the
not to desire a longer
utpheonr.aillronada
version of it be authentic,
r. Lincoln was
stationa nd more
m matured"
and
called eadt
happier effort of oratory he thanked the army for
people. for their support, and
htehesame time the hope that the
oration ic,aaga
expressed at
eatn dt
" Union might last for a thousand generations !" If
any one
•
wil l take the trouble to turn to the first
chapter of the " Gospel according to St. Matthew,"