The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1864

there is no help in them." He has been made a
tool of, and now that he has served his turn
he is put aside as a worn-out garment.
All the details concerning the matter of the renun-
ciation of the DUKE'S father were quite as patent to
the world two years ago as now, and why should
any encouragement be given to the DUK.E if his
claims were null and void ? It is, however, all alike,
friends or foes must make up their minds to be
hoodwinked and deceived by the unscrupulous and
overbearing Government of Berlin. It is now as-
serted that Herr von BISMARK is well pleased with
the result of his visit to France. If so, it bodes
ill to the cause of progress, and the chances
are further off than ever of rights being re-
spected and principle prevailing in the councils of
Europe. As in the Eastern fable of the ravens who
rejoiced at the reign of a king who made devas-
tating war, so the lovers of misrule and oppression
can consider their star in the ascendant when the
great Minister of Berlin thinks his plans are
flourishing. It is quite impossible to overrate the
importance of the course pursued by our Govern-
ment in dealing with this German-Danish question.
The absurd partiality that was shown to Prussia
throughout virtually decided the matter, and
all the Conferences that took place, and the
despatches that 'Were written, became but as
sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal in
settling the matter or influencing the chief actors.
It is too much the fashion to dwell only upon the
immediate point of discussion before us, and to
overlook the long train of events that have led to
an important issue. Deep-set in, imperishable
records is placed, however, the history of this.
'Schleswig-Holstein transaction, and the fraud and
cunning that have distinguished its chief actors are
blots on their reputation that can never be effaced,
but will remain fixed in the memories of men, while
coming generations shall read the history of the
past. The eternal principles of honour and justice, ,
which are above and beyond all political considera-
Cons, have also been grossly violated by these un-
scrupulous tacticians of the German Powers.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(RELIT R'S TELEGRAMS.)
S P A I N.
THE CHOLERA LN SPAIN.
MADRID, OCT. 17.
The number of cases of cholera yesterday was
174, of which 53 proved fatal.
The Correspondencia of to-day says that at a
meeting of the leading members of the Constitu-
tional Progressist party, held yesterday, it was
decided that they should abandon the policy of
abstention, and should take part in the approach-
ing elections.

THE CHOLERA. LN PORTUGAL.
LISBON, OCT. 17.
Cases of cholera continue to occur in Elvas.
The cattle plague is reported to have broken out
in Portugal.

LITERATURE.

Rornola. By George Eliot. Illustrated Edition.
Smith, Elder, and Co.

An exquisite edition, in a single volume, very
cleverly illustrated, has here been published by the
Messrs.. Smith, Elder, and Co.—of " Romola," by
many considered George Eliot's masterpiece. That
it was designed by her to be her masterpiece, seems
to us to be indicated plainly enough by the mere
tone of the eloquent, almost rythmical, and through-
out eminently poetical Proem, constituting the
introduction to this mediaeval Romance. Yet
highly elaborated though the narrative is, as
a work of art, we cannot but still give the
palm of pre-eminence as well as of precedence
to the gifted writer's earlier tale of " Adam Bede."
Portions, too, of " The Mill on the Floss," as, for
example, all the passages relating to the Tullivers,
to the discrimination of character among those
stupid old provincial dowdified sisters, the quarrel
even between Tom and Maggy about the apricot
jam tart—have a value for us far beyond these loftier
day-dreamings of George Eliot's genius in the three
books of " Romola." But " Adam Bede " and all
that makes up the excellence of that delightful
work—the two brothers Seth and Adam—the Dis-
senting Preacheress, Dinah the Methodee !—the
lovely, coquetish, blooming, frail, fallen Dairymaid,
who is the victim of Squire Donnythorne's passion
—above all, beyond all, the immortal Mrs. Poyser !
No—it is just absolutely impossible that we can ever
come to recognise in all the unquestionable power
manifested by George Eliot in her great Prose-POem
of " Romola," anything beyond those rarer excel-
lencies lavished by her upon the homelier theme of
" Adam Bede." Claiming for " Adam Bede," how-
ever, the right of being still regarded as George Eliot's
masterpiece, there still remains an ample amount of
admiration to be accorded by her readers to the
merits of "Roznola." And for the issue of a work
so remarkable, as " Romola" in a form so popular, so
compact, so accessible and, in its pictorial adorn—
ments, so radiantly attractive as the present edition,
the publishers are certain of winning to them-
selves the acknowledgments of all true lovers of
what _is best among the more remarkable contri-
butions, of late years, to the imaginative literature
of Europe.

Baton's Book of Jests. F. Warne and Co.

Better than the famous " Shilling's worth of
Nonsense" is this merry little Shilling's Worth of
Sense, of wit and wisdom, of innocent fun and
extravagant comicality. It is the very skim-
ming of the creme de la creme of that good humour
that might very well take to itself the name of the
milk of human kindness ! An outpouring of the
milk of human kindness, it is, by the way, that gets
curdled acridly no w and then by the rennet, let us say,
of a cynicism like that of the late Douglas Jerrold 1
But upon the whole, as a comprehensive collection of
" good things said and sung," the Jest Book under
noticeis sweet and wholesome, leaving no bitter taste
upon the palate after we have devoured its contents.
Its value as a collection of good things, it should be
added, is considerably enhanced by the addition to
it of a couple of very useful indices—one giving
a clue to the subjects, the other to the authorities
or persons mentioned. •

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Tuesday.

A correspondent of the Irish Times reports that
"'on Saturday night last, between 10 and 11 o'clock,
a party of constabulary, under command of our
active Sub-inspector, G. F. M'Clintock, Esq., visited
the Midland Great Western Railway Junction,
Mullingar, and, acting on previously obtained infor-
mation from the government, arrested one of the
attendants in Mr. Jude's refreshment saloon, on
whose person it was expected some treasonable do-
cuments connected with the Fenian Brotherhood
would have been found, but after the most minute
search nothing was discovered. At the same time a
second party of constabulary proceeded to the house
in which the suspected party resides, and searched
that portion of it in his occupation, but equally
without result, so that to the present it remains
doubtful whether the conspiracy has found suppor-
ters in that locality. The peaceably-disposed inha-
bitants are, however, much tranquillised by the pre-
sence of a respectable military force, consisting of
five depots—viz., 3d Buffs, 9th, two depots, 17th
depot, and 146th depots, forming the 12th depot
battalion, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Good-
enough, which arrived here from Limerick a few
days since."

It appears that a man named Wm. Kenny, who
had been confined in Naas Gaol since the 24th ult.
on a charge of Fenianism, was yesterday conveyed
to town by Acting-inspector Smollen, and lodged in
the College-street station. The prisoner, who had
been employed as a factory operative in Manchester,
will be brought before Mr. Stronge to-day.
The Mail of last evening announces that within
the past few days a sum of £l,OOO in gold reached
Dublin by hand for the purposes of the defence of
the Fenian prisoners.
At the Manorhamilton quarter sessions, the other
day, says the Freeman, the chairman of the county,
Mr. James Charles Coffey, Q.C., addressing the
grand jury, said—" He was aware that one gentle-
man, who used to shoulder his pike in the fields,
wrote in the morning to several parts of the country,
and then deliberately walked to the police-office and
had these letters copied, and also exposed every
single letter coming from the Fenian Brotherhood
in America. Every one of the leaders in Ireland
were in custody but two, and the Government
had cnly to select from, not five or six, but twenty
informers."

The second edition of the Belfast News Letter of
yesterday announces that, in the . morning about
three o'clock, a boiler of a pumping-engine at New
Docks, on the county Antrim side, exploded. The
cause it is believed was the improper feeding of the
boiler. The engineer and an attendant were killed
by the accident, the latter instantaneously.
About the most important works which have of
late been started in Ireland are those of the Dublin
Trunk Railway, intended to connect the various
railway, stations round Dublin. A reporter of
the Irish Times has visited the works, and gives
the following account of their progress. He tells
us that " they have now been commenced in
right earnest, and as the vigour with which such
undertakings are begun generally measures
pretty accurately the amount of credence to
be attached to the promises which they held out, it
cannot be premature to describe very briefly what
has been done, and the manner in which the con-
tract is to be carried out. Long ago the expediency
of a railway which should connect the great lines
that reach the city was proved to the satisfaction
of the public, and waiving all allusion to the discus-
sion before Parliamentary committees of the merits
of the different schemes proposed it may safely be
alleged that the plan which was ultimately sanc-
tioned seems fully calculated to carry out the object
in view. In the hands of the Messrs. Rigby, of
Westminster, the contract seems to be in a fair way
of a successful and speedy fulfilment. Already a
large space at the North Lotts has been surrounded
by a wooden barricade, and here the operation of
sinking the shaft which is to form the descent to the
tunnel has been commenced. The shaft is now sunk
to the depth of about 20 feet, but its total depth
will be between 80 and 90 feet. Those who have
seen the plans are aware that the tunnel is to pass
under the bed of the Liffey, from a point about 100
yards distant from the North Wall Lighthouse to
one situated near Ringsend, on the Pigeonhouse-
road. From this the railway will take the curve
round the city in the direction of the Great Southern
and Western Railway. At present only a very
vague idea can be formed of the plan which the
company propose to carry out. The shaft which is
being sunk is 20 feet in diameter. Its sides are
formed of brick, and hugh piles of materials of all
kinds are accumulated near it. The difficulties at-
tendant upon these works are twofold. In the first
place, it is necessary that the earth which has to be
removed should be taken up quickly, and at a small
expediture of manual labour. This is accomplished
by means of an engine which moves along a tram-
way upon a strong wooden platform about 25 feet
overhead. Whatever clay is dug by the labourers
is easily brought to the surface and accupattlatp iu

large heaps upon the side of the pit. But the second
and more serious difficulty is the removal of the
water, which forms the chief obstacle to the works.
As yet the quantity of water which has been pumped
up is very inconsiderable, but the farther the shaft is
sank the greater need will exist for rapid pumping.
Underneath the bed of the river the presence of water
must considerably impede the progress of the under-
taking, and accordingly the first object is to tho-
roughly drain the ground through which the shaft is
being sunk. With this object a second engine has
been placed on the ground level, working a pump
which clears the way for the labourers, and lessens
the danger of an interruption. On the sou-
thern side of the Liffey, near Ringsend, a shaft
is to be sunk similar to this. The mechanical ar-
rangements are of the most perfect kind, and there
is good reason to hope that the tunnel will be com-
plete before the appointed time. Not far from the
scene of these operations is the place in which the
Ballast Office is rebuilding the quay wall. A huge
windlass, a gigantic steam pump, and immense piles
of granite, indicate the progress which has been
made. Altogether the northern bank of the Liffey,
near the lighthouse, now presents a very animated
aspect, and there is good reason to believe that the
work to be done will be accomplished as speedily as
possible."

City of London Working Men's Industrial

Exhibition:

Last evening a public meeting of the members
and friends of this movement, resident in the
western district of the metropolis, was held at the
Fetter-lane Chapel, Fetter-lane—W. Lawley, Esq.,
C.C., in the chair.

The meeting was attended by a number of the
working classes, and on th 4 platform were several
gentlemen of high standing in the city of London,
whose names are identified with this important
movement.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, ex-
plained that the proceedings were adopted by the
committee who had taken the initiative in this move-
ment from a conviction that the object would prove
most beneficial to the interests of the working
classes, and indeed the whole community. (Hear,
hear.) From the progress that had been already
made in this movement, there was every reason to
belieire hilts final success. The social effect pro-
duced would be of the greatest advantage to both
the upper and the working classes, by combining
them both in one common object, for without that
combination practical effect' could not be given to
any such movement as the present. There were
already 163 guarantors connected with the move-
ment, and over £l,BOO had been collected to pro-
mote it. Considering the movement that had taken
place on this subject in other parts of the metro-
polis, he thought the city Of London could not be
behind hand without discredit to themselves. He
expressed a hope that the projected exhibition
would be worthy of the city of London.
Mr. WHORRALL, secretary of the association, read
a report, from which it appeared that the present
movement originated in a desire to afford the work-
ing men of the City an opportunity of exhibiting
specimens of their handicraft. The result was that
a memorial was signed by no less than 2,000 work-
ing men and presented to the Lord Moyor on the
subject, which had received the greatest support
from the wealthy class in the City. Two meetings
were held subsequently, one of them at the Sussex
Hall, presided over by the Lord Mayor, in further-
ance of the object of the movement. He considered
that the result would be most satisfactory.
Mr. PEDLER, C.C., moved the first resolution, to
the effect that the movement was entitled to the
support of all classes, and that the meeting should
give it that support most cordially. In speak-
ing of the great. exhibitions that had taken place
in this country, he said they had been the means
of educating the public taste and improving the
artistic skill of the working men. He impressed on
working men that excellence of workmanship, and
not cheapness in production, should be aimed at.
He said that the old system of apprenticeship was
becoming obselete, and had been superseded by a
new order of things. He reminded the meeting,
however, that in order to attain excellence in any
department great attention and industry were re-
quisite.
Mr. JARMON (a working man) seconded the reso-
lution, which was unanimously adopted.

Another supplementary resolution was agreed to,
and the meeting was addressed by several gentle-
men, some of whom expressed a hope that the
Guildhall would be granted for the exhibition.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks
to the chairman, and to the Rev. Mr. Harper for
the use of the chapel.