The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-19 00:00:00

ROUTLEDGE'S PUBLICATIONS.

The widely-spread reputation of this firm as
caterers for the intellectual amusement of the young
will be well sustained by the books before us, which
are characterised not only by the tasteful manner
in which they are got up, but by their variety of
subject and agreeable handling. The first in the
list is every Boy's Annual, the frontispiece of
which consists of a photograph of the Prince of
Wales elegantly framed in gold and colour, whilst
the illuminated title page is of extremely pretty
design. The work is adorned, moreover, with
nearly one hundred illustrations, and its contents
comprise tales of adventure by sea and land;
articles on " Our Domestic Pets," by the Rev. J. G.
Wood, M.A. ; " Rambles through the International
Exhibition," by Edmund Routledge ; whilst vari-
ous sports and pastimes, such as football, hockey,
cricket, chess, &c., are described, and the more
difficult points in them made clear by means of
woodcuts.—Next comes The Wad Man of the West,
by R. M. Ballantyne. This, as may be guessed by
the title, is an exciting tale of Indian adventure,
containing a number of spirited illustrations, and is
a capital book for boys.—ln Clarissa ; or, the
Lifervyn Inheritance, by Anne Bowman, which is
also plentifully illustrated, we find a tale written
for the special delectation of young ladies. It nar-
rates in an easy, pleasant style the trials of a young
girl named Clarissa, wbo, after being brought up in
luxury by an indulgent godmother, is left desti-
tute by her sudden death, and sent to the work-
house by the supposed heir to the Mervyn property.
Taken thence by an attached servant she becomes
governess, meets with various adventures, and at
last discovers her father and mother, succeeds to
the " Mervyn Inheritance," and becomes the
happy wife of Joseph Goodwin, who had
Laved her long and well. Of a different
stamp is the volume called Dick, Rodney,
or the Adventures of an Eton Boy, by James Grant;
inasmuch as it treats of hairbreadth 'swipes on the
stormy ocean, as well as from the hands of evil-
disposed Spanish desperadoes. Leaving Eton, and
undecided as to a profession, Dick Rodney spends
some time at his father's rectory, near the sea.
Making there the acquaintance of a Dutch captain,
whose schooner was being repaired, he goes on
board of her evening and remains there by himself,
whilst the captain leaves the vessel for a short
time to secure her by some additional warps in con-
sequence of an unusually high tide. The vessel
breaks loose, however, Rodney is carried off to sea,
and is picked up by a brig bound for the West
Indies. But a " Cubano," whom they unluckily
save in a drifted boat, murders the captain and
several of the crew, and although he is eventually
thrown overboard he escapes to au uninhabited
island, whither the crew of the brig, which has been
destroyed by lightning, follow. They are rescued,
however, by a Spanish merchantman, on board
which the " Cubano" attempts to excite a mutiny.
It is suppressed ; and Dick Rodney, after seeing
the miscreant garotted at Vera Cruz, and discover-
ing, with a shipmate, a famous diamond, which,
shining by night and becoming invisible when stp•
preached, had long baffled the search of the natives,
he returns to England and prepares to enter the
University,—T/e Story of Cervantes, by Amelia
B. Edwards, is the strange eventful history, re-
garded, of course, from a somewhat imaginative
point of view, of that great Spaniard, who was " a
scholar, a poet, a soldier, a slave among the Moors,
and the author of " Don Quixote." And in 2he
Story of a Penny, by Mrs. Perring, we find a well-
written little tale, adapted to children of a smaller
growth, holding up good examples, and ending,_ us
SLIGII tales should do, pleasantly and cheerfully, ,

A7LAN7IC AND GREA7 WESTERN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

A private subscription is in course of completion
for £562,500 first mortgage bonds of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Company—an Ameri-
can undertaking which, through the support of
Spanish capital, has been uninterruptedly carried
forward without disturbance from the war or any
other circumstance. This line is to complete a link
which will establish direct communication between
New York and the West without break of gauge,
but its chief peculiarity which has attracted notice
in Europe is that it communicates by a short branch
with the centre of the Pennsylvania oil districts, and
promises to command the whole of that traffic, and
greatly to facilitate and cheapen the transit of the
oil for shipment. The entire length of th© work will
be 378 miles, and the whole is expected to be com-
pleted next year, but the construction takes place
in sections, as it passes through the States of New
York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The New York sec-
tion-48 miles, commencing at a point of the Erie
Railway at a station termed Salamanca—has been
for some time in operation, and an issue of deben-
tures for £225,000, secured on that portion, has
already taken place. The present issue is to be
secured by the Pennsylvania section of 88 miles,
which opens up the oil region, and the third and
last issue of £900,000 on the 242 miles which are
to constitute the Ohio portion is not to be made
until after two years from this date. The entire
share capital is £1,750,000. There seems to be no
doubt as to the extent and importance of the
traffic which the line mnst control, and the net

receipts even on the portions already opened are
stated far to exceed the amount required for the
interest on the debentures, while in addition
the company are to have a bonus from the
Erie line of about 10 per cent. on all the
traffic they may bring to it. Under the cir-
cumstances, the value of the investment
must apparently depend on faithful management,
and on the probabilities in that respect each person
must inquire and judge for himself. The present
state or atuvaloon ollrr.noY and politics has not ne-
cessarily any very serious influence either on the
actual condition or future prospects of such of the

railway lines in that country as are distant from
the seat of war, since the depreciation of the cur-

rency can be met by an increase of charges, and the
check to the growth of population is compensated
by the check also imparted to the introduction of
rival schemes. Thus far the Spanish capitalists
and others interested profess themselves entirely
satisfied with the spirit and manner in which every
part of the undertaking has been carried out ;
and, in order to insure regularity of provision for
the interest and sinking fund on the bonds issued
in the London market, it is stipulated that the first
earnings of each half-year, as well as the whole of
the Erie bonus, are to be paid, until they reach
the requisite amount, to Messrs. Brown Brothers
and Co., of New York, to the credit of Messrs.
Samuel Gurney, I. P. Kennard, and Charles Moz-
ley, as trustees in England. The interest, which is
to be at the rate of £l4 for each bond of £225, is to
be paid in sterling in London, and the sinking fund
is to be of an amount that will cancel 4 per cent. of
the bonds in London annually at par. The issuing
price is to be 70, and the legal contracts in connec-
tion with the arrangements have been superintended
by Messrs. Freshfields.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 18.

If disaffection and disorder in a community are
the results of misgovernment, the South Dublin
Workhouse must be one of the worst governed in-
stitutions in the British dominions, The officers
and inmates are continually troubling the police
magistrates with their complaints of assaults and
riots on the one hand, and of oppressive treatment
on the other. At the late commission a number of
young girls were sentenced to penal servitude for
setting fire to their beds in the dormitory of the
workhouse. They seemed delighted with their sen-
tence, as it would remove them from the place
where they had been supported for a number of
years. The Judge on that occasion made some
severe remarks on the management of the institu-
tion which produced such unhappy relations be-
tween the paupers and the officers. It was expected
that his remarks would have the effect of IR oducing
some change in the spirit of the government, while
the exemplary punishment of the refractory girls
would deter others from imitating their disorderly
conduct. But no such effect has been produced. On
the contrary, four of the men were brought before
the police magistrate yesterday, charged with mcli-
ciously setting fire to the beds and bedding in the
male dormitory ; they were also charged along with
eight others with assaulting a Lumber of the officers
by throwing stones at them. It was proved that
they struck matches and deliberately set fire to the
building, thereby endangering the lives of the in-
mates. Mr. Bell, wardmaster, deposed that ho locked
up all the prisoners in the yard for the purpose of
pumping water for the use of the house. In an hour
afterwards he saw a man named Moriarty in the
act of taking off the lock of the door, assisted by
others. They put holdfasts in the wall to make the
door fast, and placed large stones against the door
for the purpose of preventing them getting in.
Witness went for some of th 3 officers to force open
the door, when they threw stones at them. _ _

It appeals that the inmates feel aggrieved at being
treated as prisoners and locked up as a punishment.
At any r ate, they so hate this workhouse that they
were rejoiced at the prospect of exchanging it for a
prison. At the request of the master the case was
remanded, as one of the oftioers, a wardmaster named
Francis, was so seriously injured as to be unable to
attend. .

The Waterford Nail reports a daring attempt to
burn the workhouse of that city on Wednesday
evening last by three women who had been refused
admission. Fortunately, Air. Ryan, the master,
discovered the smoke issuing from the wards where
women of ill-fame were placed, and on searching it
found a quantity of the bedding on fire. The women
attacked him with stones, and it was not until he
had obtained further assistance that he could suc-
ceed in extinguishing the flames, which were com-
mencing to spread to the bedding material in the
room. The women were given into. custody. In
the same oonnty, on Thursday night, the house of
Mr. Edmund Power, of Springfield, was attacked
by some persons, who threw heavy stones at it from
the road, and smashed all the front windows. Mr.
Power lately acted as solieitor for a Mr. Higgins in
prosecuting some persons for trespass, and it is be-
lieved that this outrage is a manifestation of their
revengeful feelings.
Probate of the will of Sir Thomas Wyse was yes-
terday granted in the Prerogative Court here, the
evidence taken in Greece having clearly established
its legal execution.

TIIEPRINCE CF WALES—A HAPPY COINCIDENCE.
—The Rev. Richard Tyacke, vicar of Padston, Cornwall,
relates the following happy and singular coincidence rela-
tive to the Prince of Wales's majority. On Sunday the 9th
inst., the Padston lifeboat belonging to the National Life-
boat Institution, was the means of saving, under very peril-
ous circumstances, the crew of four men of the sloop Loftus,
of Padsten, which had in a heavy surf parted from her
anchors and gone ashore. By the written permission of the
late Prince Consort, the Padston lifeboat was called the
" Albert Edward," after the Duke of Cornwall. It is
therefore rather a singular and happy coincidence that this
lifeboat, which is the only one in the kingdom called after
his Royal highness, should on the very day on which the
Prince of Wales attained his majority, have rescued f'ou
i r
poor fellows from an inevitable death. This
boat had on several previous occasions beenhis the moans fsoe;
saving several shipwrecked crews on the Dopmed Bar
Sands, under the most perilous circumstances.
ATTEMPTED MllRDER.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween two and three o'clock, Captain John Peter Sweden,
a Norwegian, and Peter LaWSOII, mato of a vessel in the
London Docks, and also a Norwegian, who had been to
Deptford on business, were returning home, and when near
a low beer-shop by the Commercial Docks, stopped to listen
to what three Dutchmen were quarrelling about. The latter
suddenly pulled out their long knives and attacked the two
unfortunate men. A police constable and a sailor, hearing
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