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London, England, 1862-04-09 00:00:00

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AS THE FACULTIES OF THE BODY, in
harmony with those of THE MIND, approach deve-
loped maturity, the rising human being, surrounded by
factitious circumstances—some salutary, some pernicious_
becomes susceptible of impressions which, according to the
degree of PRUDENCE and KNOWLEDGE with which he is en-
dowed, may be the sources of happiness or of unspeakable
misery.

Some of the most deadly and terrible of the influences last
referred to originate at that period when parents fondly hope
that the objects of their love are being prepared to fight
honourably the great battle of life—namely, the scholastic
and collegiate period. Habits are then contracted, in
unsuspecting ignorance of their effects, which, if not ar-
rested, tend to sink the VICTIMS or ERROR to the deepest
depths of degradation and woe. The evil is aggravated by
the apathy too generally evinced by the medical profession,
not only as to the nature but the very existence of the
diseases arising from the cause indicated, and to which the
general and inadequate designation of "Nervous Disorders
and Debility" has been given. One of the consequences of
this neglect is, that the treatment of the most delicate
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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological
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LITERATURE.

the Whzte Bose of Chayleigh: a Novel. 3 vols.

Hurst and-Bla-ckett.

In these volumes we meet with a very complicated
story, which will afford the reader ample scope for
the exercise of his memory with its intricate

labyrinths and its perplexing ramifications. There
is great skill exhibited in the description of some
of the leading characters, and the various discus-
sions and dissertations that take place show more
knowledge, reflection, and analysis than are often
displayed in the pages of novels. Mildred, the
heroine, is not at all an attractive personage. She
possesses good principle, kind feelings, and often a
lofty purpose ; but she marred the effect of these
advantages by her peculiar ideas and her extraor-
dinary temper. The love of contradition seemed
inherent in her nature, and hence she would deny
well-known truths, disagree with her own motives
if expressed by another, and • perform all kinds of
strange and disconcerting actions. One does not
feel at last that her untimely death strikes one with
the horror that ordinarily arises in parallel casual-
ties befalling the chief actors in the drama of
romance. Mildred had so confused and complicated
herself with her dogmas and doctrines, that her
future life did not promise to be a very happy or
successful one • at the same time her zeal had
not been without profit. For many had cause
to rejoice at the benefits and blessings she had been
the instrumental means of obtaining for them. The
last chapters are entitled " Rest from Labour," and
" Works Abiding," which are cheering and peace-
ful associations to dwell upon, when the tale is con-
cluded. Fitful and stormy as had been the life of
Mildred at eveningtime there was calm and serenity
made perfect. All angry and vexatious things
were put off or passed away, and the world she
had found so troublesome in its pathway at last
showed its brightest auspices as if in foretaste and
harbinger of the better world to come. " She lay
on her white-draped bed, clothed in white robes,
strewed with white roses. Her spirit had left its
earthly home, and gone to its other home in heaven,
to the glorious mansion prepared for her by her
loving Saviour and friend, and illuminated by that
perfect, all trascendent light, the faintest reflection
of which on earth she had so sought after and
loved." " Works Abiding" is a very grateful re-
miniscence for friends to gaze upon, and of our
heroine it is thus made mention "Mildred is dead,
but her work still lives, the prints of her footsteps
in the sands of time are not yet effaced, her spirit
lingers still near those she loved, inciting them to
noble faithful lives—pointing to a lofty goal,—a
certain blessed hereafter." Further on in alluding to
her career it is said, "Yes, Mildred, your task is
well done ; your labour is not in vain ' • your work
abides crowned with a golden harvest of success,
whose first fruits only it was granted you to taste.
Yes, Mildred, your work is done, not till then were
you called to your rest. Your influence touched
those who came within its orbit : it lives still, and
surely will grow and spread as does all influence,
good or bad, bearing fruit to eternal life, or apples
of the dark sea of death, to be cut down and burnt
with consuming fire in the day when the angel of
God shall thrust his sickle into the earth to gather
in the harvest of the ages." There was great truth
in the remarks made by Mildred to her brother
Ernest. This latter individual is very ably de-
picted as one of those erratic characters who are ever
intent on grand actions and yet perform none, who
are to astonish mankind by their achievements, and
end in surprising the few who know of them by
doing so little. In the clearer light that dawned
upon her, Mildred spoke strongly to her brother,
" I have learnt that the glorious dream-land which
used to seem to us so very far off and unattainable
lies all about us. The heroic is possible to
all, and does not wait on rare opportunities
only. Common every-day life is the field where each
man may prove himself a hero." Emmeline, the
sister of Mildred, is a very great contrast to her;
but one really likes pier better, as she is more
natural. She, however, shared the fatal perversity
which seemed indigenous to the family. This story
has many points of merit, and contains much to
attract attention. It certainly labours under the
disadvantage of too many abstruse Conversations,
which are well to illustrate a purpose, but may
weary out the patience of the general reader. The
arguments of Mildred with Aubrey and Ernest are
of considerable length, and if both these characters
are necessary for the tale the colloquies should hate
been shortened. This is most likely a first pro-
duction,
nfu
but,csa te
niroovofntich,
souse,ac sr ifotcbentae ahlsyierosstneo7
defectssa
show
Toe shw eo
tf
work
3waoatranktnhtei
esaows
calculated
alibuld ael
nartdee condensation,mauentdocieberde.
fain modes of action are not likely to result in per-
manent advantage to anybody; but that the real
benefactors of their kind are those who do what
comes before them to the best of their power, and
leave the results in the hands of Him who has chosen
the foolish ones of the earth to confound the wise.
This idea was never better illustrated or expressed
than in the grand words of the poet—.
" His state is kingly.
Thousands at His bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest
They also servo who only stand and wait.,,

Position for
-garden.
This is one of those pretty publications which
IhAe .Pprila.
rTishoEmleaYsa, nifr;d2uglcs j-s°turerenta,lCoolvent
ladies appreciate so highly, but which men are so
little able to criticise. There are three engravings
of fashions, and we must admit that the ladies de-
poubtl icted appear most charming and attractive, owing
d ess, in a great measure, to the elegance of the
costumes. There are ball-room toilets, visiting
toilets, violet taffeta flounces, tulle under-sleeves,
solferino ornaments;girdles en cordeliere," and other
pretty mysteries which we cannot pretend to under-
stand. We judge b results while
utterly
to comprehend details. We, know ti- tit i
-; unable
dressed ladics are most attractir ' e.eguntly
e s while lett
ing to their tasteful judgment the' wand r f v-
to that deshable end, We mustb hf lmt eank,
clever artists whose combined
talents e thong t
placed,u otbe
such publications as the One br are . in
e ore us, at the ser.
vice of the fairer half of the human race.

"It is of the highest importance to the Government that
the elections for the new Chamber of Deputies should have
a favourable result, so that it may be able to count upon a
majority of the Assembly. With this object it will endea-
vour to keep away from the Chamber all elements hostile
to the Government according to the recent experience of the
past. It will not have escaped your Excellency's observa-
tion that two objects especially—the increase of the army
estimates and the project to continue to levy the 25 per cent.
last elections by the self-styled
class, meal and slaughter taxes—
eans of agitation against the
country, so as to gain over public
Go-
vernmentpwa dre do,.
were
rt imoensasadi lsettoh:.soteuh party
goe
hf income,oasauttatthhmes
opinion, and to cause the choice of the electors to fall upon
members of their party. The composition of the Chamber
recently dissolved has proved how successful they were.
At the present moment those questions are still turned to
account ; and there is reason to
tiareonBnet taken the result will
be the same; the organs of the Aelf-styled Liberal party de-
Clare measures
Eci
dare that the latter party can only give its assent to the
army estimates under certain conditions, and that it must
fear that if
pronounce against increased taxation.
,4 Thu novornmont *wino* ally. these facts to remain 1111-
noticed ; it must seriously, and at an opportune moment,
,
examine if it can hope, by maintaining the army y estimates
without modification, to have a Chamber where it can
command a majority, and where it will be able to carry the
budget for the army and the additional taxes. In my opi-
nion no such hope can be entertained, because those two
questions, from the very fact of their material importance, are
better suited than any others to procure to their adversaries
the influence in the elections. A reduction of taxes, even
when they are not oppressive ones, is always hailed with
welcome by all classes of the population, especially when,
as in the present case, it is, an extraordinary tax, which is
not even willingly paid under special circumstances, and
much fess so in ordinary times, and especially when the
necessity of the institutions for which this tax is claimed is
not unanimously admitted by public opinion.
" These considerations convince me that to push the elec-

possiblerece i
tions in a Government sense we must renounce, from the
Ist July,
on the sub
thelevYojecfat beforeddition hatlte matxiese, and
make positive
promises fired for the elec-
tions. It is true that it is giving up a n
fi3,n7doot,boeoOnatehaanlee rtso.
coverA l t Although up go
portion
iIO
nh
oo hope
thate it
lessmay be et
by an increase
of the other resources of the State, it will always be very
small as compared to that sum. The greater part of the
latter can only be economised by a diminution of expenses
in the War Department, for which, hitherto, the additional
taxes have been levied. Your Excellency is well aware that in
all the other departments every possible reduction has been
made for years to procure some means of reducing the
deficit arising from the excess of expenses of the military
administration, and at least to save appearances by showing
that the Government has endeavoured to fulfil its promises.
The result has been that the wants which have been always
neglected for lack of means have been yearly increasing,
and that it is no longer possible, without detriment to the
prosperity of the country', to neglect them any longer, and
to put aside, under the pretext of a want of resources, the
numerous propositions tending to increase the funds
destined for the expenses, propositions made to the Diet on
the occasion of the discussion of the Budget,

"If your Excellency considers that the deficit produced
by the new organization of the army amounts, according to
the budget for the current year, and not counting the addi-
tional taxes, to about 7,000,000 dollars, I think I may hope
for your approval in fixing 2,500,000 as the minimum to
which the budget of the army must be reduced, dating from
the current year, and until the financial situation has been
improved. While awaiting that the new organization of
the tax on landed property shall produce the excess of re-
ceipts which is expects l from it, considerable sums must
still be drawn from the public treasury to cover the current
expenses. .

"As regards the mode of realizing these economies in the
War Department, I must leave that entirely to the appre-
ciation of your Excellency.
" I do not deny that this problem offers great difficulties
to be solved, but I flatter myself with the hope that, in con-
sideration of the serious position in which we are placed,
your Excellency will admit the importance of the motives
which plead for my proposal, especially in view of the result
of the forthcoming elections; And-that you will be inclined
to second me in my difficult post of Minister Of Finances by
a willing acquiescence in the measures which the force of
circumstances imperiously demands.
"It is scarcely necessary to add, that should particular
events render an increase of the resources for the army
necessary, I should not hesitate willingly to lend a hand to
the creation of those resources.

" In conclusion, I beg of your Excellency to reply to me
as soon as possible by your assent ; and I take the liberty
of observing that, unless you should prefer asking yourself
alone the permission of the King for a reduction of the
expenses of the military administration proposed by me, I
shall not refuse to take part in a direct report on that

object.
"Berlin, March 21, 1862."

" Von der HEYDT.

A MODERN CASTLE OF UDOLPHO.

A correspondent sends the following remarkable
story to the Dublin Evening Mail :—" This is the
age of discoveries,and one of such a startling nature
has been made in an English county that it seems
out of place in the region of sober fact, and to
belong purely to the atmosphere of the three-
volume novel. Here are the circumstances; the
names for the moment I am not at liberty to indi-
cate :—The Earl of married not long ago, and
brought his bride home to one of the old family
mansions which members of the English aristocracy
regard with an affection amounting to veneration,
The lady, however, being more continental in her
tastes, after a short residence in the apartments
appropriated to her use, expressed a wish to have a
boudoir in the vicinity of her bedroom. The noble
earl would gladly have complied with the request,
but, upon examination, it was found that the rooms,
as sometimes happens in antique buildings, were so
awkwardly distributed that by no conceivable plan
of rearrangement could the desired boudoir be fitted
in. Thereupon it became necessary to invoke
professional assistance, and an eminent architect
was summoned from London. He examined the
house narrowly, and said there seemed to be no-
thing for it but to build one, though at the same
time he could not resist the impression that there
must be another undiscovered room somewhere
in that wing of the mansion. The noble earl
laughed at the idea ; the oldest servants and re-
tainers of the family were questioned, and declared
that they had never heard even a rumour of its
existence. The ordinary methods of tapping, &c.,
wteecrte
retainedresortedto, but
econviction,
twviiteht
leount, eaffnede tdeelared himself
ready to stake his professional reputation on the. Still the archi-
tect
result. The earl at last consented to let the walls
be bored, and when an opening had been made, not
only *as the room found, bdt a Bight presented
itself which almost defeats attempts at description.
The apartment WaS fitted nP in the richest and
most luxurious style of 150 years ago. A quantity
of lady's apparel lay etput
the
room,
„jewels were
scattered .
the dressing- b
a
and, but let the
faded aspect which everything 'were, the chamber
might have been tenanted half an hour previously.
On approaching the bed the most curious sight of
all was seen, and this it is which affords the only
clue to the mystery. The couch held the skeleton
of a woman, and on the floor underneath the bed,
half in and half out, lay etiether skeleton, that of a
man, presenting evident traees. *iolenee, and
proving that, before he expired that position, he
must have received some dreadful injury. The secret
connected with this tale of blood has been well
kept, for not merely had all tradition of the scene
faded away, but even the existence of the room
itself was forgotten. The survivors probably
walled up the apartment at the time, and its con-
tents remained hermetically sealed up till the pre-
sent day, when, according to the beat calculations,
after the lapse of a century and a half daylight has
accidentally penetrated into this chamber of
horrors."

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" Turin, April 27, 1861.
" Whilst, therefore, on the one hand, we see that
the counter-revolution is organised at home,
whence arms, money, and agents are despatched to
the Southern provinces in order to create revolt,
we have, on the other hand, an example of the
sound sense of the Neapolitan people in the verdict
recently given by a jury in the case of a Govern-
ment against the editor of the Pietra Infernale
newspaper. The jury, and it was the first trial by
jury that ever took place at Naples, condemned the
editor in twice the costs proposed by the Crown
prosecutor, and added three months' imprisonment
besides."

No. 2.
SIR J; HUDSON TO EARL RUSSELL.
(Received March 18.)
" Turin, March 10, 1862.

"My Lord, —With reference to your lordship's
inquiry upon the subject of prosecutions of the
press by the State in this country, and why 1 have
not reported upon them, I have the honour to ex-
plain that under the constitutional law of Italy it
is perfectly well lamp* t wiatersi and printers
what they may and what they may not Print.
" Consequently, it is one of the duties of King's
Procurator, in case that law is violated, to lay an
indictment on the party so violating it.
" The Italian judges are, as your lordship is
aware, irremovable, and completely and entirely
independent of Government. In the case in point,
a prosecution of a newspaper or pamphlet, for in-
stance, would be tried by a Court of First Instance.
" If the defendant is cast, he can appeal to a
higher Court, which would correct any merely
legal error. From this, again, the defendant, if a
second time cast, can carry his case to the Court of
Cessation, which corrects the Court of Appeal.
Daring the period of my residence at this Court
I have heard of many prosecutions of newspapers
by the properly constituted legal authority, but I
never heard of any undue pressure or influence being
exercised by Government upon the judges. Had
anything of the kind occurred, it would undoubtedly
have i been brought before Parliament, and the
Minister who had ventured upon the experiment
impeached; because there are in Parliament here
representatives of every section of public opinion,
and the Opposition of one shade or another in
politics would only be too glad of such a handle
against the Government.
" Under these circumstances, as no case of oppres-
sion or of tampering with the law or with the law
courts, on the part of the Government, has ever
been brought under my notice, I really did not con-
ceive that it was necessary to take up your lord-
ship's very valuable time with reports upon the
administration of the law and the judgments of the
law courts, which in no way whatever affected a
British subject or a British interest, and had no
such bearing upon the political condition of the
country as rendered it necessary for me to call your
lordship's attention to it.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) " JAMES HUDSON."

THE BARQUE SULTAN.-OFFICIAZ
REPOR27.