The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-19 00:00:00

YES OR NO.

" I've loved you these fifteen years. There's fifteen
fresh years of my life gone. I recollect you as you looked
to me then," said the captain, with altogether a very scat-
tered address. " You're the picture of what you used to
be this moment. As sure as there's a blue sky above us,

you love me."
The words were bold; but they were said with such a
large simplicity, with such an' hilamus clear-eyed good
faith, that they were not a bit presumptuous.
" What right have you to say that ?" said Mary, looking
up at him with a sort of earnest inquisitiveness.
" The right of my great love to you, Birdie. I've a love
for your bonny face this moment would draw you after
me round the world."

" Oh, then, it's not necessary for me to speak," she
said.

" Give's the little word of three letters, Birdie, that's all
I ask."

" No," she whispered, with a smile which annulled the
word.

Poor old Mosie, the weather-beaten " old salt," is
another of Mr. Wills's powerful sketches of charac-
ters. When next we meet with the author of the
" Three Watches" we trust he will have selected a
more agreeable theme for his powerful pen.

Wines and other Fermented Liquors. By James
Richmond Sheen. One Vol., pp. 288. Hard-

wicke.

Wine-sippers as well as wine-bibbers may be cer-
tain of thoroughly.enjoying Mr. Sheen's book, if they
will but take it up in the right mood—if they will,
that is, but begin its perusal prepared to find within
it a pleasant gossip about wines and other fermented
liquors, and not a mere dry and learned treatise
upon the subject. Nevertheless, while we say this,
there is a pleasant flavour of scholarship running
through Mr. Richmond Sheen's conversational talk
with us about the wines of France, Spain,
Portugal, Madeira, Hungary, Italy, Greece,
Germany, &c. About Burgundy, Hermitage,
Tokay, Champagne, Moselle, Hock, Claret, Port,
Madeira, Sherry, or Sack, or Canary ! About vine-
yards and brewhouses, about malt and hops, about
distillation and rectification, equally even about Fa-
lernian poured from the amphora into the rhyton or
the patera, and about beer quaffed, as Bob Sawyer
facetiously expresses it, out of " its native pewter."
Byron and Horace, Longfellow and Ovid, Roger's
" Italy" and Virgil's " Georgics" are among divers
other flavorous writers and writings laid under con-
tribution by Mr. Sheen for apt and always welcome
quotations. The little book is pleasant reading, and
it is one that, at the same time, is well stocked with
useful as well as interesting information.

The Childhood and Schoolroom Hours of Royal Chil-
dren. By Julia Luard. One Vol. Pp. 493.

Groombridge and Sons.
At a time when the nation's hopes are centred in
a Royal Baby—just one year old—the authoress of
this volume has very appropriately selected for the
theme of an interesting children's history book the
children of Royal parentage. " The Little Queen,
or Richard the Second's Child-wife ;" " The House
of Lancaster, or Family Life in the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries ;" " King Baby, or the
Baby King ;" " The House of York, or the Infant
Marriage" a pretty picture, this, forming the
frontispiece—the house of Tudor ; the Twelfth
pay Queen; the House of Stuart; the Home of

Hanover, together with some interesting reminis.
cences of the Princess Victoria, are among the
contents of the volume—the historical particulars
comprised within it being cleverly interwoven into a
pleasant story about Aunt May and her little pupils.

Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife. By the Author
of " Paul Ferroll." One Vol., pp. 333. Fourth
Edition. Saunders, Otley, and Co.
Reading this story—which by the way is, as 311
Irish American might say, like a Sequel at tne
wrong end—reading this story is really for all the
world like analysing the dregs of a cup of poison-
One almost looks for the name of Dr. Taylor upo,n-
the title-page. Nay, it is worse than the analysis
of the dregs of a cup of poison—it Ist
otherwise to hint at the impression produied UP°
one's mind after an examination of it—like a very
minute account of a rather fearful study in moot
bid anatomy ! It is a clinical lecture delivered, n
by a sick bed, but by a death bed—after death ha:
visited it. Nay, even going .beyond this, one
might describe it as, very much indeed, like a Ill*.
bidly detailed description of apost mortem examinatgeli
and that, too, a post mortem examination adver
tured upon - after a rather tardy exhumatoii.
tii
Nevertheless, every one who has read "Pa t
Ferroll " will be curious to understand at la.
tt why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife." The 0:4
versal opinion arrived at after this enthralling rec°';
has been read of the Reason Why, being, we doubh
not with the majority, exactly in accordance Note
our own, namely (to express it according to 01
moral drawn from one of the Ingoldsby Legends);
" Sarved her right !" Paul Ferroll, at least, will b,„
found.—when his crimes come to be looked into—'t°
have had fearful provocation. The general effect.ea
the story here recounted, however, is depressing and
unwholesome.

The Dead Heart. By Charles Gibbon. One V°l"'
pp. 310.
Ono
The Orange Girl. By Bracebridge Hemyng• -
Vol., pp. 314. John Maxwell and Co.
A couple of stories—" Never before Printed'
says the title-page of each of them—stories cleveT
contrived upon the plot of two dramas recently
filling rival London playhouses from floor to ceill
" The Orange Girl" and " The Dead Heart" 'veri
be welcome to those lovers of fiction, now so
numerous—readers who can nowadays, not as o.
old, rim and read, but actually rush and read ale
the iron track of our railways. The adapter of t;
" Tale of the Bastille " is Mr. Charles Gibli°
already (strange though it may sound to saY5O)
favourably known by his " Dangerous Conne g
tions !" The adapter of the " Orange Girl" beillt
a Barrister of the Middle Temple and with"
among other works, of " Gaspar Trenchard."

Hits. By Lewis Hough, M.A. One Vol., pp. 2

F. Pitman.
A preposterous illustration, in the form of an
ce
drawn and worse executed woodcut frontispie,;
nearly spoils the effect of this little volume on re
first opening of it. It is a decided Miss before e
Hits—introduced possibly by way of bringing Afr,
latter out more vividly to our recognition !
to the Hits themselves—meaning the letterPre;
contents of the volume, they are, one a paper frcio
Household. Words, one from Temple Bar, one fr°
Once a Week fi
, the rest from Chambers's Joill',,a‘
And, of them as a collection, the writer says fds
tiously in the first sentence of his Preface
private in the Light Literature Brigade, wh°
been for some years keeping up a desultory fire tit
hopes of hitting John Bull's eye, has gathejeo
together in the present volume some of his Peri
shots." Scanning them, one can cry out, elr
now and then, as one might at the duel senile itt
" Hamlet"—" A hit, a palpable hit !"—addingibe
those times, Well-aimed, Private Hough, of
L.L. B . !

•ect'.l
Campion Court ; a Tale of the Days of the Pl_d
meat, Two Hundred Years Ago. By
Jane Worboise. One Vol. Virtue Brothera'„
The authoress of " Lottie Lonsdale," has not,llrct
we regret to say, selected a very attractive sAfii,
for her new work. Yet, the story itself is t"ilzt
ciently interesting, as the readers of her for''
writings will readily believe.

The Recent Gales.-- Loss of Two Liver?

Ships and 37 Lives•

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday 0.
Details have been received of two other sadrq,
asters to Liverpool ships. The Behera (s.),
Child (arrived at Falmouth for shelter on her
from Alexandria to Liverpool), left Malta 0111,iii
3d, and Gibraltar on the 10th January. She f'°,ol3ol
part of the crew, seven in number, of the 511'1' 315
Nevis, which foundered off Sacraliff a fog -4143
before the Behera reached Gibraltar. Mode
weather was experienced until the 13th, but wheu "11,
Cape Finisterre a severe gale was experienced fr(/)r,
W.S.W. On the 13th, in lat. 46.12 N., long. 8 10;
the Behera observed a bark, with ensign up, t°ol3,
windward. They hauled up to her, and soon aftel,,,,r
served a vessel under jurymasts. The wind wasb;l,
ing in great squalls. The Behera passed within P. 414
and offered to tow one of the vessels (the Sarifej •
Gem) to Falmouth. The offer was not aeeePil'o6l
The Sarnian Gem was from Guernsey, I),(frfot
to Barbadoes. The Behera then proceedecl, 00
Liverpool, the gale shifting with terrific force Irio
W. to N.W. On the 14th the gale increased, 11
10
a very heavy sea, which broke on board, ielf
damaged four boats, and the storm maintopsall bed
away. The coals were washed from the 10100
into the engine-room, the pumps choked, allcl4o
engines rendered almost unmanageable. The !"0116
lee bulwarks were driven under water, all'„ys'
shipped large quantities of water down the sl;y3
hole: Capt. Child then threw overboard 222 bit)
of cotton from the deck, and the vessel lay t°
small sail in the main rigging during the 11°0
portion of the gale. The captain and chief lla
were severely injured. At 1 p.m. the Behera
in sight of the Lizard ; but in consequence of6lll
gale increasing, and the sea running life dept
" mountains high," Capt. Child deemed it pitl jell
to bear up to Falmouth, where the vessel was
anchored at 3.30 in the afternoon.
CA
The ship Powerful, Captain Nixon, froma oP
cutta for London, is supposed to have founder trod
Guernsey during the gale. The Powerful sailecl'o4l
Calcutta on the 22d Sept., and, although Of
S
due in England, nothing transpired to excite
for her safety until the receipt of intelligence irtliji
quantity of wreck, evidently of a large ship/115;1i°
been picked up near Guernsey. Subsequently
ship's figure-head—a Highlander—and part °a to
cutwater were found, and the figure was statetey
have belonged to the Powerful. On Sunday
gram was received by the owners announcing too
the ship was reported to be totally lost, and th 3 4120
the least tidings had been heard of the crew, 0,4
are supposed to be all drowned. The Power-f eO6l
a Quebec-built ship of 1,230 tons, launched in ,ll
and owned by Messrs. R. Cuthbert and C°4;kt
Liverpool. In Lloyd's register she was classed,oro
for seven years. The ship and cargo, whitil Greif
very valuable, were largely insured, and her
numbered about 30. crel
We believe that the Ben Nevis had 14 of °'
he
on board, and that four of those on board the 13eoffiS
are severely injured. A boat, with the /80,
" Powerful, Liverpool," has been washed ashore
Guernsey, together with large quantities °f
India produce.

A DUEL.—." A duel," says the Gazette des ty
bunaux, "has just taken place between the C°lll3,oocP
Talleyrand-Perigord, recently made Duke de Moutni°;o tea
and Count de Larochefoucauld, ono of the plaintiff° °
suit now pending before the Civil Tribunal fe`
Seine. These gentlemen happening to meet %tic:
evenings since at their club, a verbal prov°,c,
was addressed by Count de Larochefoucauld Joe,
former. The latter having angrily ret oted,
became inevitable. Arrangements were acc°ol,l;l4
made by their seconds, and the parties met a 0-",
near Bagatellle, in the Bois de Boulogne. SlOrctilt f';o'
the weapons used, and after the antagonfsts had f°ua
15 minutes, Count de Larochefoucauld was wol.l"eetitl.o°
the arm. The seconds then interfered, aud put
Counto ,',,
tho combat. The wound of Count de Laroch6fo
not likely to have any serious consequences. clO
Tallyrand-Perigord also received two slight Ti°
the arm and on the chest.