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THE SUN, LOISDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 18b5.

which may before this have " carried the war into
the enemy's camp," even though that camp be on
the high seas. The Chili= question bids fair to
add considerably to the perplexities of 1866. In
the meantime M. ROSALES, the Chilian Minister in
Paris, has published his reply to the Circular of the
Spanish Foreign Minister. M. ROSALES enters
very fully into the various statements made by M.
DE CASTRO, as might be expected, putting a very
different construction on the matter. M. DE COSTA,
after disavowing M. TAVIRA because he had not
kept to his instructions, refers to a Circular which
the Chilian Foreign Minister addressed to his
diplomatic agents at the various courts, ask-
ing them to use their influence to obtain the
approval of the arrangement with M. TAVIRA.
Such a Circular, says M. ROSALES never existed.
He himself was the only one who received a de-
spatch of the character described by M. de CASTRO,
and it was dictated by the anxiety of the Chilian
Government to remove every possible cause of
misunderstanding between their own country and
Spain. It was no secret at Valparaiso that there
was no difference between Admiral PAREJA and
N. TAVIRA, and the Chilian Government fear that
" mischievous rumours might prevent the QUEEN'S
Government from accepting the arrangement"
which had been in fact concluded. 111. ROSALES
points out that the Madrid Official Gazette
of the 23d November publishes the instruc-
tions given to M. TAVIRA on the 24th of
February, in which there was no mention of
a salute to the Spanish flag. Fresh instructions
were, however, sent on the 25t of March—a month
after the first ones—in which M. TAVIRA was de-
sired to demand the salute. " What, then," asks
M. ROSALES, " had occurred between the 24th of
February and the 25th of March, that could occa-
sion this fresh demand ? Nothing, for no com-
plaint had been made against Chili." It appears
that the recall of M. TAVIRA was principally due to
his having continued the negotiations, according to
his first instructions, without introducing the ques-
tion of the salute. Such, at least, is the apparent
reason, the real motive being more truly expressed
in the decree appointing the Admiral, " finding in
you the qualities which the mission requires," a ques-
tionable compliment, judging from subsequent events
M. ROSALES finds occasion to criticise the Admi-
ral's observance of his instructions. It seems he
was told to confer with " the Plenipotentiary ap-
pointed by the President of Chili," which he did not
do. He was desired to hold a conference with the
Diplomatic Body, but M. ROSALES remarks that in
this case he should have proceeded to Santiago, since
it could scarcely be presumed that the Diplomatic
Body would perform a journey of 30 leagues, and
then proceed in a body on board the City of Mad-
rid to confer with the Admiral. M. ROSALES
adds with a quiet satire directed against M. de
CASTRO'S attack upon the diplomatists. " Had
the honourable members of the Diplomatic Body
acted thus they -would undoubtedly have
been blamed by their respective Governments."
They corresponded with the Admiral, however,
and the paragraph which M. ROSALES quotes from
their second letter is sufficiently significant. They
believe that the Chilian Government would not
have refused explanation had they been asked in a
friendly manner; but it was impossible for it to
grant demands made in the absolute terms and in
the menacing tone by means of a peremptory ulti-
matum. The Spanish Minister asserts that the in-
vidious :selection of the anniversary of Chilian
independence for the reception of the ultimatum
was not premeditated, but adds, " Even if it were
true, it is not worth the trouble of being discussed."
N. ROSALESis probably not mistaken in regarding
it as an international affront to the Republic, and
it was certainly not calculated to conciliate either
rulers or people, while, happily, it has not suc-
ceeded in frightening them into a humiliating sub-

mission.

Professor Anderson.—St• James's Sall.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(NEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 4.

The Moniteur Beige of to-day says :
" The new phase upon which the illness of the
King has entered had not altered up to yesterday
evening. But the improvement in his Majesty's
health has not made progress."

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 3.

It is asserted that a new loan of six millions, bearing
6 per cent. interest, to be issued at 60, has been con-
cluded by the Porte with the Credit Mobilier of
Paris.

LITERATURE.

Chronicles of Carlingford.

The Perpetual Curate. New Edition. One vol.,
pp. 430. Wm. Blackwood. and Sons.

In originality if not in power, the " Chronicles of
Carlingford" may take rank with the " Chronicles
of the Canongate." In vivacity, if not in eloquence,
they may be placed side by side with the " Chro-
nicles of Clovernook." And this without imply-
ing thereby that her admirers can seriously claim
for Mrs. Oliphant any such extravagant elevation
in the literary Walhalla, as might be supposed, to
rank her powers in their capacity as upon a
level with the creative genius of Scott, or even
upon an equal footing with the caustic wit of Jer-
rold. Whatever vitality there is in these pages, it
is the vitality of a woman's vivacious, volatile, ver-
satile, and refined animation. If there is an appreci-
able lack of any quality in the whole run of this series,
it is in that strength or force of purpose which tends
so recognisably in the grander schools of imagi-
native literature, to realise to the world's recogni-
tion, as though they had been realities instead of
dreams, here the poet's, there the novelist's ima-
ginings. In " Salem Chapel," it is true, there is ono
exceptional character, standing out as vividly drawn,
as substantially real, as humorously true to nature
and to life, as almost any creation that could be
named in the whole range of fiction. A com-
mon-place, vulgar, homely personage, enough, in
his way, but inimitable in his intense individuality.
Who that has ever read " Salem Chapel"—and those
who have not, as yet, would do well to set about
reading it immediately—will not fail to recog-
nise, upon the instant, that allusion is here
made to no other than Tozer the dissenting
butterman ! A character somewhat of the same
kind, but not nearly as good in its way,
appears here, in the pages of this last completed
work of the series—namely, Elsworthy, the book-
seller. But, in a still more striking proportion
than that in which we may suppose a bookseller to
be above a butterman, is the Elsworthy of " The
Perpetual Curate" below the Tozer of " Salem
Chapel." Vulgar, pig-headed, crass in their ortho-
dox self-sufficiency, they both are. But the vul-
garity, the pigheadedness, the crass self-sufficiency
of Tozer has about it an unctuousness to which
Elsworthy can lay no claim whatever, an unctuous-
ness beyond the reach of any librarian, even a
librarian such as Elsworthy, a sublimated unctuous-
ness, as we may say, only possible in and worthy of
—a butterman. There is one peculiarity in regard
to these novels of our authoress, in which she
appears to us to be almost unrivalled, to be entirely
unapproachable. We mean that by which she con-
trives to crowd within one family picture a throng
of brothers and sisters so numerous as nearly to
bewilder the reader, but of whom, throughout, the
characters are, by the author's hand, from first to
last, to a very nicety, most dexterously and deli-
cately discriminated. Something of this kind was
accomplished some time since, with a good deal of
success, by Miss Yonge, in her domestic story of
" The Daisy Chain." And Mrs. Oliphant her-
self, long before " The Chronicles of Carlingford"
had been commenced, evidenced her skill in
the performance of this literary feat with signal
ability in the opening of the story about the little
brown " Zaidee." There, too, was a whole, large,
rambling housefull of members of one family—
brothers and sisters galore ! But, it is as nothing
beside the feat accomplished in this way by the
Carlingford Chronicler in the delineation and
discrimination of the family to which the
Perpetual Curate belongs, the family of old
Squire Wentworth. There is the Squire's
family—rather, perhaps, we should say there are
Squire's families, seeing that he has married more
than once, having a numerous offspring in each in-
stance--there is the Squire's family, and there are
the collateral branches of it ! A very world in little
of itself—so far as relates to diversity of character
or of idiosyncracies ! There is old Squire Went-
worth himself. There is the Reverend Frank Went-
worth, Perpetual Curate of St. Roque's. There is
his brother the Reverend —or, to be plain, ex-
Reverend—Gerald Wentworth, formerly a member
of the English Church, now a convert to Catholic-
ism. There is Jack Wentworth, the eldest of the
brothers, the old squire's handsome scapegrace heir
—the best drawn character of them all to our mind
—the very beau-ideal of the perfection to which
cool effrontery can be carried in the person of a
comely and accomplished but utterly worthless
vaurien. There are all the other brothers and sis-
ters, step by step, through the various stages of
childhood, down to all-but infancy. And
then there are the three old maiden
aunts—Miss Wentworth, the confirmed invalid
Miss Leonora Wentworth, and, best of all three,
poor, dear, tearful, timerous, all but hysterical, Miss
Dora Wentworth. Besides whom, have we not, here,
among the many amusing characters introduced to
us for our entertainment in "The Perpetual Curate,"
the Rev. Mr. Morgan, the Rector—and, we were
going to say, the Reverend Mrs. Morgan, the
Rectoress—of Carlingford To say nothing of our
old friends the Wodehouses—including among them
that wretched ne'er-do-weel Tom Wodehouse—the
brute ! Altogether it is a delightful picture of life
in a country town, this third division in the unrolling
before us of " The Chronicles of Carlingford." A
fourth is still in progress from month to month in
the beloved double-columned pages of Blackwood,
where they have each of them in turn made their
first appearance—these pleasant" Chronicles of Car-
lingford." We should be very loth, however, to
believe that the last of the series is th same current
serial tale about " Miss Marchmont." For we would
not willingly have pass away from amongst us, in her
distinctive character as such (even though it be to
produce works of art as exquisite in their symmetri-
cal proportions, as her last sad tale entitled
" Agnes") the historian of " The Rector," the deli-
neator of " The Doctor's Family," the celebrant of
" Salem Chapel," the authoress of the story here
immediately under notice, this story of " The Per-
petual Curate," the serio-comic annalist of the career
of " Miss Marchmont," in a word, the already
world-famous Carlingford Chronicler.

LA VIE DE CESAR.—A portion of the second
volume of the Emperor Napoleon's " Life of Caesar" is
now in the hands of the printers and publishers, Messrs,
Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.

THE " GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE" now entering on
its 136th year, and once edited by Dr. Johnson, will be
published by Messrs. Bradbury and Evans from and after
the Ist of January.
THE LAST TOWN RESIDENCE Of LORD PALMER-
STON is about, it is said, to disappear from Picca-
dilly, to be replaced by a Roman Catholic chapel. The
site was once occupied by an inn ; next by the present
mansion, which has been known by the names of Egre-
mont, Cholmondeley, and Cambridge House, from the
names of its various tenants, previous to its occupancy by
Lord Palmerston. One of its early noble tenants used to take
his chop and spend his evening at "the Glo'ster Coffee
House," when his lady had a rout. "He didn't care for
such things," he said, "and liked to be quiet." The third
Earl Cholmondeley acquired Houghton by marrying Sir
Robert Walpole's only legitimate daughter. The son of
the first Marquis Cholmondeley (Lord Malpas) embraced
the Roman Catholic faith, was converted from his conver-
sion, by the mother of the lady whom he afterwards mar-
ried, and susequently left the Established Church for the
Wesleyan connexion. During the Cambridge occupation,
her Majesty was leaving the house, when she was assaulted
by the last of the imbeciles who hoped to become celebrated
by such a guilty proceeding.
MISS BATEMAN.—But one week remains (says the
Manchester Guardian) of this talented lady's en-
gagement at the Theatre Royal. Those who have not
yet seen her Leah will have the opportunity of doing so on
the first three evenings of next week. On Thursday Miss
Bateman will take her benefit, and appear as Bianca, in
Dean Milman's tragedy of "Fazio." On Friday she will
play in the " Lady of Lyons," and on Saturday in all pro-
bability " Fazio" will be repeated. From Manchester
Miss Bateman proceeds to Bristol, and thence to London,
where she will give a farewell performance as Juliet, on
the 22d December, in Her Majesty's Theatre. A rumour
has been in circulation to the effect that Miss Bateman is
married. Such is not the case, but we believe that at the
close of her three months' engagement, which commences
in New York on January 15, she will retire from the stage,
and bo married to a gentleman who, like herself, is a native
of one of the Southern States of America.

TRADE BETWEEN SWITZERLAND AND THE UNITED
STATES.—The exports of Swiss goods to the United States,
from the district of the United States Consulate Df
Zurich, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1865, amounted to
18,810,458 fr.

NEW RAILWAY BILLS.

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The notices of intended application to Parliament
for railway purposes in the Session of 1866 are very
numerous, exceeding in number those of any pre-
ceding session since 1846. The number of notices
issued is about 450 for 1866, as against 415 for
1865, 360 for 1864, and 280 for 1863. Plans and
sections for new railways and works have just been
deposited with the Board of Trade f0r•340 bills.
The powers sought in many of the notices for ex-
tensions of time to purchase land and complete
works, for deviations from authorised lines, increase
of capital, and entire abandonment of certain lines
authorised in the two preceding sessions, testify to
the hasty mode in which many of them were de-
signed, and the unsatisfactory nature of the inquiry
adopted by Parliamentary committees. The enor-
mous costs incurred by those annual inquiries, and
the uncertainty of their results, instead of tending
to diminish the number of those applications, it is
feared that they form the great inducement to law-
yers, engineers, and others to endeavour to swell
the number every session. Bills for extensions of
railways not yet commenced, and for others in
course of construction, are comparatively very
numerous, and ought to attract attention in the new
Parliament. The Metropolitan Railway Company
seek for additional powers to substitute an open
cutting for a tunnel on the Notting-hill and Bromp-
ton extension of their line ; to purchase lands and
houses at Paddington, Marylebone-road, in St.
Pancras, in the Euston-road, near King's-cross, in
Ely-place, Holborn, in Bishopsgate-street, in Ald-
gate, and the Minories. They also propose to con-
struct on the Pneumatic Despatch system " collect-
ing lines" from Baker-street station to Oxford-
street, from the Portland-road station to Marlbo-
rough-mews, from Gower-station to New Oxford-
street, from Aldgate to Mile-end-old-town ; and a
line from Kensington to Westminster. It is also
proposed, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Dis-
trict Company, to construct a Pneumatic Despatch
branch from Brompton to Cheyne-walk, Chelsea.
The Mid-London Company propose to make a rail-
way from the West London at Shepherd's-bush to
the London, Chatham, and Dover and Metropolitan
Railways, near Smithfield, and to make new streets
from New Bond-street to Hanover-square; from
Tottenham-court-road to Lincoln's-inn-fields, and
from thence to Holborn. The Metropolitan Tram-
ways Company propose to lay down rails upon the
streets for the conveyance of passengers from Upper
Holloway to Shoreditch, and from Seven Sisters-
road to Tottenham-court-road. The Waterloo and
Whitehall Company propose to extend their railway
from Waterloo Station to Newington-butts. The
Clapham and London-bridge Company prOpose to
form junctions with the latter line at Newington-
butts, and to make a railway from Clapham-com-
mon to the Elephant and Castle, and thence to
London-bridge. The City and London-bridge Com-
pany propose to make a railway from the corner of
St. Thomas's Hospital, passing under the Thames to
Leadenhall-market, and from thence to the East
Indian Railway-house, Alderman's-walk, and in its
course to appropriate the under surface of streets
and squares. The London, Chatham, and Dover
Company intend to make new streets in St. Ann's,
Blackfriars, the main one being from Earl-street to
Ludgate-hill opposite the Old Bailey ; and railway
curves at Peckham, Denmark-hill, and Knight's-
hill. The Thames Subway Company propose to
make subways from Deptford under the Thames to
the Isle of Dogs, with approaches. The Bricklayers'
Arms and Elephant and Castle Junction Company
propose to construct a railway between those sta-

tions. The East London Extension Company pro-
pose to make a railway from the authorised main
line of the East London at Whitechapel to West
Ham, and to Galleons Reach, near the Victoria Dock,
and a branch to Mile-end-old-town. The East Lon-
don Company propose to make a railway from
Deptford to Vauxhall station of the South Western
Railway, and junctions with it at South Lambeth-
road; and with the Chatham and Dover at Camber-
well. They also propose to make au up-junction
with the Great Eastern Railway at Bethnal-green ;
and also a junction at the Brick-lane goods station.
The London, Chatham, and Dover and the South
Eastern Companies jointly propose to make. new
railways from Blackfriars-road station to Clapham,
Kennington, and Brixton. The Regent's Canal
Company propose to make a railway from the King's-
cross station of the Metropolitan Railway, to Isling-
ton and Limehouse, with branches. The Pneumatic
Despatch Company propose to purchase vaults and
cellars under the streets, without purchasing the
houses to which they are attached. The Metropolitan
District Company propose to purchase lands and
houses at Kensington, Westminster, Holy Trinity
the Less (City), Garlick-hill, Queen-street, King
William-street, Love-lane, St. Mary-at-Hill, St.
Dunstan's-hill (near Great Tower-street), Redcross-
square, Seething-lane, Trinity-square, and Bark-
ing-churchyard, with power to underpin buildings
in its route.

SEARCH FOR THE FENIAN LEADER AT AYR.-OD.
Thursday a telegram was received in Troon from
the police authorities in Belfast, ordering a search of the
steamer Black Diamond, which trades between Troon and
the Irish ports, and was on her voyage from Belfast. The
object of search was Stephens, the leader of the Fenian
movement, who it was supposed might be on board of the
steamer. The police authorities in Ayr were immediately
communicated with, and a posse of constables were de-
spatched to Troon to institute a thorough search for the
missing Head Centre. The Black Diamond, however, had
arrived in Troon about two hours before the telegram was
received, and ample time had thus been given for the escape
of Stephens. The steamer was minutely searched, and the
captain and crew were examined on the matter, all to no
purpose. Various vessels lying in the port, and about to
sail for America, were also searched, but in vain.
SECRETARY M'CULLOCH ON THE NEGRO AND THE
PUBLic DEBT.—The Mobile Times publishes an account of
an interview between Judge John L-- of New Orleans
and Secretary M'Culloch, the two being old school-mates,
and the interview frank and cordial, in which the Secre-
tary, it is alleged, expressed himself on two interesting
topics as follows :—Secretary M'Culloch, knowing well the
influence which our friend possessed in Louisiana, told
him in substance that so far as the pretended equality of
races was concerned there could be but one opinion among
all good men, North and South, and this was that wher-
ever the Anglo-Saxon race had come in cbntact with an
inferior one, the history of fifteen centuries had proven that
the Anglo-Saxon race must dominate or exterminate. That
the Indian race, far superior to the black, had been utterly
annihilated before the advance of the whites, and this, al-
though the Indian race was morally and intellectually
vastly superior to the black race. That no sane man, no
American, could dream for a moment of making this
country, where God had showered so many blessings on
the race made after his own image, the inheritance of any
but those he had endowed with an intelligence all but
divine. The question of labor sinks into insignificance
before that of races, and the march of human progress is
not to be suspended by the idle theories of dreamers. The
next question which that intelligent and sagacious states-
man touched was that of our public debt. Large as it may
be, it has nothing calculated to strike terror or create dis-
couragement in our people. England, however great her
credit abroad, could never have stood the brunt of her
public debt, small as is its interest, had not nearly the
whole of the evidences of that debt boon held at home in-
stead of abroad. By a judicious exercise of the supreme
powers of Congress, combined with the patriotism of our
people, Secretary 31`Culloch expects, and very justly too,
to be able not only to keep the debt at home, but to re-
duce the interest most materially. The rash, crude, and
undigested measures of Secretary Chase have overflown
the country with evidences of debt at a rate of interest and
short maturities as never before were witnessed in the
world ; but his successor very truly expects to convince
the people that the longer the term and the lower the in-
terest the safer becomes the investment. By such intelli-
gent process as a man of high financial capacities can de-
vise, the interest of the debt, which now exceeds six and
a half per cent., must be easily reduced to five, and even
lower, as even that rate would give it a preference over
any European investment. Then patriotism and self-in-
terest combined would induce the people to monopolise
the whole of the public securities, and thus, in case of
need, leave open to us the market of the world."
POLITICS OF THE NEXT CONGRESS. —The Congress
of the United States at its next session will stand politi-
cally divided as follows, without the Senators and members
elected from the States lately in rebellion the Senate
there are thirty-eight Union or Republican Senators and
eleven Democrats. Eleven Southern States are at present
unrepresented in the Senate, and these will be entitled to
twenty-two Senators, who will, in all probability, vote
with the Democrats. In the house (exclusive of the newly-
elected Southern members) there are one hundred and
forty-three Union or Republic members, and forty-one
Democrats. The Southern States now unrepresented aro
entitled to fifty-eight members, most of whom will pro-
bably vote with the Democratic side.