The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-04 00:00:00

LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr. H. K. Browne (Phiz) is about to publish twelve
Hunting Bits, in oblong folio, coloured.
The Duties of Man, a book by Joseph Mazzini, is an•
flounced.

Mr. Charles Reade, it is said, will follow Mr. Wilkie
Collins as storyteller in All the Year Round.
We hear rumours of the likelihood of the Temple Bar
Magazine changing both its ownership and editorship.
Mr. G. J. Whyte Melville, the novelist, has come into a
fortune of £120400.
Miss Kavanagh some time ago published two volumes on
_French Women of Letters, and has now nearly ready two
companion volumes on English Women of Letters.
Mr. T. A. Trollope will have ready this month a volume
descriptive of a Lenten Journey in Umbria and the Marches
of Ancona.

We hear that a volume on Scottish history, based on 1,300
unpublished letters of John Knox, is in preparation by Mr.
David Laing.
Mr. Thomas Macknight's Life of Bolingbroke, Secretary
of State in the reign of Queen Anne, is promised next
month.

The Royal Irish Academy has received a gift of £1,500
to be spent in the purchase of the late Professor O'Curry's
papers.

Dr. Littledale has in preparation Offices from the Service
Books of the Holy Eastern Church, with translations, notes
and glossary.
A book by the late Professor George Wilson, of Edin-
burgh, is printing, composed of letters on religious subjects,
entitled Council of an Invalid.

A History of Federal Government, by Mr. E. A. Free-
man, commencing with the federations of Greece, and clos-
ing with those of America, is in preparation.
The Rev. Henry A. Stern's Wanderings among the
Falashas in Abyssinia will be published next week, in a
handsome volume, illustrated with a map, and engravings
of Abyssinian scenes and persons.

Dean Trench delivered what is reported to have been a
most interesting lecture on Gustavus Adolphus, King of
Sweden, the Champion of Protestantism in Germany in the
Seventeenth, Century, at Llandudno, last week.

MR. H. VEZIN, THE AMERICAN 7RA
GE.DIAiv.

On Monday this gentleman, late of the Princess's, Sad-
lers' Wells, and Lyceum Theatres, commenced a starring
engagement at the Theatre Royal, Southampton, and met
with very great success. The part chosen for his first
appearance was "Macbeth," of which the provincial papers
speak in the most flattering and laudatory terms: On
Tuesday the play was " The Lady of Lyons," with Mr.
Vezin as Claude ; on Wednesday he was compelled, owing
to the success of its first representation, to repeat "Mac-
beth," and Thursday he appeared as " Othello." The
favour with which his embodiment of the Moor was received
seems even to have eclipsed his first Shakeperian perform-
ance, as during the whole of the play he elicited the most
enthusiastic applause. The correspondent of the leading
theatrical journal, the Erse, is also amongst those who mete
out unstinted and unmeasured praise to Mr. Vezin. The
engagement of this London favourite appears to have been
a decided hit for the enterprising manager and lessee of the
theatre, Mr. W. E. Mills ; and that success, it is to be re-
gretted, must be brief, as Mr. Vezin returns to the metro-
polis next week, to lead the business at the Princess's
Theatre under the new management, which commences on
the 20th instant.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The present season at
this theatre terminates on Saturday, the 18th inst. On
the Monday following (20th inst.) a new and enterprising
lessee will commence his campaign with the following com-
pany :—Report speaks well of the leading lady, Miss C.
Aylmer, and in the present dearth of female talent now on
the London stage, no one will feel more pleasure to chro-
nicle her success than ourselves. Mr. Robert Roxby, late
of Drury-lane, is stage manager; Mr. C. Hall, late of the
Adelphi, is musical director ; and Mr. Milano will be the
ballet master. The general company include Messrs. H.
Vezin, George Vining, R. Roxby, Fitzjames, Stephens
(St. James's), Cockerell (St. James's), W. Chamberlin,
C. Seyton (Sadler's Wells), R. Cathcart, Moreland, Col-
lett, Hastings, &c. &c. ; Miss C. Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver,
Mrs. B. White, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Marston, Mrs.
Simpson, Miss Louisa Graham (Surrey), Miss Marian
Jones (Sadler's Wells), Miss Gilbert, &c.—Era.

A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take
place, between the Earl of Longford and the lion. Selina
Rice Trevor, third daughter of Lord Dynevor.

A marriage is also arranged between Mr. Villiers
Lister, son of Lady Thersea Lewis, and stepson of the
Right lion. Sir G. C. Lewis, and Miss Coryton, daughter
of the Countess of Morley.
Advices from Berlin announce that Count de
Bernstorff will leave on the 10th inst. for London, to re-
sume his functions as ambassador at the Court of St.
James's.

REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW.—We under-
that a vacancy is likely to occur immediately in the repre•
sentation of Glasgow, and that Mr. Laing, lately returned
from India, will, in all probability, be the new member.
Colonel Cattabeni and his fellow prisoners, who
were long in durance at Genoa, under suspicion of being
connected with the great robbery at the Parodi Bank in
that city, have at last been released, no proof existing of
their participating in that offence.
MM. Mason and Slidell have communicated to
the French press that they have no official knowledge what-
ever of their recal to Richmond, which has been rumoured.
ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
WORKS, READING.—At an early hour on Thursday morn-
ing an accident occurred at the station of the Great Western
Railway at Reading, and though it did considerable damage
to property, it was very fortunately unattended with serious
or fatal consequences. Just before the break of day an en-
gine was employed in shunting ten trucks heavily laden
with coal to what is called the "transfer" siding, and the
switchman unfortunately turned the wrong points, so that
the trucks were put on to a line of rails leading to the works
of the company many feet from the level of the ordinary
railroad. The declivity of the rails and the great weight in
the trunks caused this short train, which had been detached
from the engine, to start off at a fearful pace, and as it pro-
ceeded it increased in velocity, completely demolishing the
wooden buffers erected at the end of the rails. It continued
its course along the yard, knocked down the office of the
time-keeper, and also about 20 feet of a baick wall, the boun-
dary of the works, and did not stop until it reached the Ca-
versham-road, leaving only space sufficient for one vehicle
to pass along. A number of men from the engineer's depart-
ment were collected as soon as possible, and the trucks re-
moved from the road into the company's premises. Some
of the trucks were smashed, and altogether a considerable
amount of mischief was dond'. llad the accident happened
in the daytime there is every probability that some one
would have been killed, as there are always persons in the
office which was partially destroyed. With so many cross
lines of rails as at the Reading station, it is a matter of
wonder that the switchmen have not been more perplexed,
and accidents of more frequent occurrence.
LOSS OF THE STEAMER lONA.—This fine vessel
was run down and sunk on Thursday night, between rix
seven o'clock, near Gourock, by the screw steamer Chan-
ticleer, but happily no lives were lost. The lona, as re-
cently announced in our columns, was sold to the Confede-
rate Government about three weeks ago, and since then she
has been totally overhauled and strengthened for her voyage
across the Atlantic, She had got fully laden with coal and
' general stores, and would have sailed on that day but for
the stormy weather. On her return trial trip the Chanti-
cleer met the lona near to Gourock Bay, when, from some
cause at present unexplained, a collision ensued, in conse-
quence of which the Chanticleer ran right into her, cutting
her nearly in two. The lona sank immediately afterwards.
We are happy to say that no lives were lost, nor any one
injured, the Chanticleer having speedily lowered her boats
and taken the lona's crew on board, A large quantity of
wreck has been strewed on the shore between Kilcreggan
and Cove. The lola was insured,—North British.igid,