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

YES OR NO.

I've loved you these fifteen years. There's fifteen
fresh rs of my life gone. I recollect you as you looked
tomeytehaen,'?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 hilarous 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 mo 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
Day Queen ; the House of Rude, ; the House of

Hanover, together with some interesgng remit'
cences of the Princess Victoria, are among the
contents of the volume—the historical partici.'
comprised within it being cleverly interwoven into
pleasant story about Aunt May and her little puPill4

Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife. By the Author
of " Paul Ferroll." One Vol., pp. 333. Fol'

Edition. Saunders, Otley, and Co.
Reading this story—which by the way is, as
he
Irish American might say, like a Sequel at the;
wrong end—reading this story is really for all the
world like analysing the dregs of a cup of pols°Th
One almost looks for the name of Dr. Taylor 110.11
the title-page. Nay, it is worse than the analysis
of the dregs of a cup of poison—it 15'
otherwise to hint at the impression produced 1113°-
,
one's mind after an examination of it--like a veil
minute account of a rather fearful study in ulor;
bid anatomy ! It is a clinical lecture delivered, 00
by a sick bed, but by a death bed—after death has
visited it. Nay, even going beyond this, °l3
might describe it as, very much indeed, like a 131°r,
bidly detailed description of apost mortem exarainatl°l/'
and that, too, a post mortem examination adven"
tured upon after a rather tardy exhumanilj'
Nevertheless, every one who has read "Fa
Ferroll " will be curious to understand at last

" Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife." The
versal opinion arrived at after this enthralling roc ht
has been read of the Reason Why, being, we d°lllll
not with the majority, exactly in accordance 111',,:e
our own, namely. (to express it according to lu
moral drawn from one of the Ingoldsby LegencloY
" Sarved her right !" Paul Ferroll, at least, will be
found—when his crimes come to be looked into'i.n
f
have had fearful provocation. The general effeoti°ol
the story here recounted, however, is depressing and
unwholesome.

The Dead Heart. By Charlei Gibbon. One 17'
pp. 310.
00
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 cleverly
contrived upon the plot of two dramas receot4;
filling rival London playhouses from floor to ceil"jj
" The Orange Girl" and " The Dead Heart" lv
be welcome to those lovers of fiction, now so 'gel
numerous—readers who can nowadays, not O. °,
old, run and read, but actually rush and read all;
the iron track of our railways. The adapter of t
" Tale of the Bastille " is Mr. Charles GO%;
already (strange though it may sound to sal sft,
favourably known by his " Dangerous Conllevg
tions !" The adapter of the " Orange Girl" beillf
a Barrister of the Middle Temple and autil°4
among other works, of " Gaspar Trenchard."

54.
Hits. By Lewis Hough, M.A. One Vol., pp. -

F. Pitman.
A preposterous illustration, in the form of an
drawn and worse executed woodcut frontisPie,,,ce'e
nearly spoils the effect of this little volume on TP
first opening of it. It is a decided Miss before the
Hits—introduced possibly by way of bringing tbA5
latter out more vividly to our recognition !
to the Hits themselves—meaning the letterPre,,
contents of the volume, they are, one a paper fr(),aw
Household Words, one from Temple Bar, one frl3'i
Once a Week, the rest from Chambers's Jour°
And, of them as a collection, the writer says f3ce;
tiously in the first sentence of his Preface--
private in the Light Literature Brigade, who 11.
been for some years keeping up a desultory fire in
:a
hopes of hitting John Bull's eye, has gather
together in the present volume some of his 1)e
shots." Scanning them, one can cry out, eves
io
5
now and then, as one might at the duel scene t
" Hamlet"—" A hit, a palpable hit !"—adding;
those times, Well-aimed, Private Hough, of
L. L. B . !

t"
Campion Court; a Tale of the Days of the EJec a
ment, Two Hundred Years Ago. By Ellll3l

Jane Worboise. One Vol. Virtue Brothers.
The authoress of " Lottie Lonsdale," has not, hell
we regret to say, selected a very attractive subje
for her new work. Yet, the story itself is ffi,r
ciently interesting, as the readers of her forllll
writings will readily believe.

The Recent Gales.— Loss of Two LiverP°lo

Ships and 37 Lives•

LIVERPOOL, Weclnesdai,..s.
Details have been received of two other sad
asters to Liverpool ships. The Behera (s.), C3ray
Child (arrived at Falmouth for shelter on her the
from Alexandria to Liverpool), left Malta ea
3d, and Gibraltar on the 10th January. She t°°l3:o
part of the crew, seven in number, of the sl"' s$
Nevis, which foundered off Sacraliff a fe/r
before the Behera reached Gibraltar. 3,locle'-
weather was experienced until the 13th, but when °0
Cape Finisterre a severe gale was experienced flit°
W.S.W. On the 13th, in lat. 46.12 N., long. 8 71;
the Behera observed a bark, with ensign up, t°
windward. They hauled up to her, and soon after °;„
served a vessel under jurymasts. The wind was blo
ing in great squalls. The Behera passed within
ha
and offered to tow one of the vessels (the SarO
Gem) to Falmouth. The offer was not aceepte d
The Sarnian Gem was from Guernsey, b° for
to Barbadoes. The Behera then proceeded f°l
Liverpool, the gale shifting with terrific force frerii,
W. to N.W. On the 14th the gale increased, vita
a very heavy sea, which broke on board, al/18v
unke-
damaged four boats, and the storm maintoPaail
b b'efs
away. The coals were washed from the - _he
into the engine-room, the pumps choked, all" • ,
engines rendered almost unmanageable. Tile
slle
lee bulwarks were driven under water, al'
e.
shipped large quantities of water down the at°aeg
hole. Capt. Child then threw overboard 222 /3 ail
of cotton from the deck, and the vessel lay t° *W."
small sail in the main rigging during the head
portion of the gale. The captain and chief 0150
were severely injured. At 1 p.m. the Behera
in sight of the Lizard ; but in consequence of
gale increasing, and the sea running liteT4i
" mountains high," Capt. Child deemed it prtini
to bear up to Falmouth, where the vessel was s3'e

anchored at 3.30 in the afternoon. col
The ship Powerful, Captain Nixon, from ,
cutta for London, is. supposed to have foundered
Guernsey during the gale. The Powerful sailed frcio
Calcutta on the 22d Sept., and, although 'she
due in England, nothing transpired to excite fei
for her safety until the receipt of intelligence °il,g
quantity of wreck, evidently of a large ship, ll°, ti
been picked up near Guernsey. SubsequeoW; A
ship's figure-head—a Highlander—and part c), to
cutwater were found, and the figure was state(' le,
have belonged to the Powerful. On Sunday a teat
gram was received by the owners announcing tm ot
the ship was reported to be totally lost, and that of
the least tidings had been heard of the crew, Is
are supposed to be all drowned. The Powerful 0,
a Quebec-built ship of 1,230 tons, launched in 15 of
and owned by Messrs: R. Cuthbert and CO'', t
Liverpool. In Lloyd's register she was classed 'ag
for seven years. The ship and cargo, which Ivevi
very valuable, were largely insured, and her er

numbered about 30.
ref
We believe that the Ben Nevis had 14 of a
ein
on board, and that four of those on board the De' .3,4
are severely injured. A boat, with the 387°1eat
" Powerful, Liverpool," has been washed ashore East
Guernsey, together with large quantities of
India produce.

„,
A DUEL.—” A duel," says the Gazette des "da
bunaux,all "has just taken place between the Colo
eyrand-Perigord, recently made Duke de Montm°l"elic Talleyrand-Perigord, tio
and Count de Larochefoucauld, one of the plaintiffs i° 1118
suit now pending before the Civil Tribunal c 4
Seine.
These gentlemen happening to meet 8' t,Oll
evenings since at their club, a verbal pro'Nea-I t
eltO
was addressed by Count de Larochefoucauld a
former. The latter having angrily retarted,
became inevitable. Arrangements were accord
made by their seconds, and the parties met at ten
near Bagatellle, in the Bois de Boulogne. Swords not
the weapons used, and after the antagonists had fougl3:l 111
15 minutes, Count de Larochefoucauld was wounded to
the arm. The seconds then interfered, and put an
the combat. The wound of Count de Larochefouef'u'; de
not likely to have any serious consequences. C°01:1;
Tallyrand-Perigord also received two slight Wolin
the arm and on the chest.