The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

THE SETY, LONDON, SATLIIMAY EVENING, JLTNE 17, 1865.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELECiRADIS.)

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AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, JUNE 17.

In yesterday's sitting of the Lower House of the
Reichsrath, Herr von Schmerling gave some re-
assuring explanations relative to Art. 13 of the
Constitution, which empowers the Ministry, at the
time the Reichsrath may not be sitting, to take
certain urgent measures, for which they are, how-
ever, bound to render an account to the House
upon its reassembling. The Government, said the
Minister, will pursue the same course as hitherto,
by not abusing the power conferred by this article
for legislative purposes. The guarantee for this lies
in the repeated promises of the Emperor to uphold
the Constitution. Neither does the Government
contemplate impairing, on the ground of this
article, the legislative powers of Hungary and
Transylvania.
The Lower House of the Reichsrath agreed to-
day, by a very large majority, to the proposals for
the modification of Article 13 of the Constitution,
in such a manner as to secure Parliamentary rights
during the recess.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, JUNE 6.

Mexican advices received here state that the
intelligence of Dr. Gwin having been appointed
director of the mines in Sonora is authentic.
American emigrants will be invited to that pro-
vince, upon the understanding that those coming
with peaceful intentions will be protected, and those
presenting themselves in arms will meet a hostile
reception. The Emperor'Maximilian is understood
to have granted France the right of working, but
not of possession. It is reported that the French
will not leave Mexico until the development of the
riches of Sonora will pay the expenses they have
incurred in the war. The constitution given to the
province will be of the most liberal kind, and based
upon that of California.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, JUNE 17.
The municipality of Naples has been dissolved
by Royal decree.
In consequence of information received by the
Ministry that cholera is prevalent in Egypt, pre-
cautionary measures have been ordered to be taken
with regard to all vessels arriving from Egyptian
ports.

L LTERATU RE.

Impressions of Life at Home and Abroad. By Lieut. -
Colonel Lord Eustace Cecil. One vol., pp. 277.

Hurst and Blackett.

These Impressions of Life, in various aspects and
in very different scenes, first appeared in a periodical,
and are well worthy of being now reprinted in a
collected form. Lord Eustace Cecil has been no
inattentive observer of men and manners wherever
fortune may have directed his steps. His op-
portunities for observation, moreover, have
been singularly extensive, witness the sub-
jects of some of these "Impressions." Beginning
with " a:Fortnight in Hayti, " in which we obtain
a vivid glimpse of the dark republic on the very
morrow of the revolution, we are conducted in " a
ride in Barbary," on a brief visit to Tangiers, where
we are told " Victoria-street, Rue Louis Napoleon,
and Calle de la Reina Isabella, reciprocate in close

proximity the entente cordiale of their respective
sovereigns." We next investigate " Prison Life in
Paris," and then, in company with an experienced
police detective of either nation, explore the mys-
teries of " After Dark in New York," and the
secret horrors of the " Dens of London." Some of
the chapters of this book, in which education and
the treatment of criminals and the different systems
of Convict Discipline in England and France are
earnestly considered, are well worthy of the atten-
tive perusal of the political moralist and the phil-
anthropist. The last article, "On the Future
Prospects of Younger Sons," is remarkable as being
written by one of themselves, and the levelling views
which it advocates will startle not a few of those
who cling to privileges and penalties of high birth.

The Autographic Mirror. Vol. 11. Lithographed
by Vincent Brooks. Office, 13, Burleigh-street,
Strand.
Almost—to apply Cassio's panegyric—" a more
excellent vol. than t'other !" Not meaning it, by
any means, invidiously, we had all but dubbed it
—Second Best! It is, unquestionably, from begin-
ning to end, very readable, very curious—full of
interest and full of character. But, for that matter,
how possibly could it have been otherwise, looking
at its contents ? Among which we observe—A note
from Mazzini, the champion of the moral dagger.
One from W. M. Thackeray to W. 8., not, of
course, the "W. B." One from Tom Campbell,
the Poet, asking (his apothecary, evidently) for
" some laxative pills." One—a back -hander in the
style of its caligraphy (like Thackeray's, for that
matter)—from Douglas Jerrold. A neat little
scrawl from Wm. Etty, the flesh-painter ; and
another from Fanny Kemble, the actress, and
daughter, and niece, and sister of actors and
actresses greater than herself. A fac-simile is here,
again, of Thackeray's comic song of " The Three
Sailors"—really the drollest extravagance in the
shape of a comic song that ever was penned—and
yet reputed to, have been originally sung extempo-
raneously ! A billet-doux from Samuel Rogers—a
copy of verses from Thomas Moore -- a jeu
d'esprit from Thomas Carlyle—a capital, comi-
cal, hilarious, greeting addressed to Compton,
the comedian, by Sotheru, otherwise Lord Dun-
dreary. On the same page, a letter from John Bright,
and another from Richard Cobden. An epistle
from Listz, the most marvellous of pianists, and
from Bellini, the most pathetic of composers.
Shelley, the " Poet of Poets," as the Penny Encyclo-
pwdia rather extravagantly dubs him—Palmerston,
the Octogenarian Prime Minister—Denon, the
Philosopher—Cruikshank, the Caricaturist—George
Colman, the Dramatist—R. W. Elliston, the light
Comedianthese and a multitude of others are
among the contributors. Conspicuous among the
delightful contents of the volume is a capital comical
pen-and-ink sketch, and a still more capital and
a still more comical letter introducing it by Hablot
Knight Browne, better known (by how many
millions ?) as Phiz, the illustrator of Charles
Dickens and Charles Lever, and ever so many other
less celebrated contemporaries in the world of light
literature. The most portentous scrawl in the whole
volume is a foolscap page of the manuscript of
Wilkie Collins's still uncompleted serial tale of
" Armadale." Blotted—erased—and interlined
almost to distraction ; certainly, we should imagine,
to the compositors' bewilderment. Side by side,
on page 214, we have the sprawling auto-
graph of Augustus Wilby Pugin, and the
exquisite copper-plate handwriting of the late Car-
dinal Wiseman. A letter signed by Napoleon the
Great is followed by fac-similes of the autographs of
his princes, marshals, and generals. Talma and
Sarah Siddons, Nelson and Dundonald, are appro-
priately placed in juxtaposition. Here on one side
of a leaf is Victor Hugo—here, upon the other,
Edmund Kean. L.E.L., Richard Doyle, Brinsley
Sheridan, Harrison Ainsworth—poet, artist, orator,
novelist—jostle one another the while in not un-
welcome confusion. And so the whole of this delect-
able volume, " ever fresh and ever new," runs out
to its close—a volume, if possible, an improvement
upon its predecessor ; certainly quite up to it in
excellence. It confirms us in the impression already
formed by us, and for that matter, too, already ex-
pressed by us, to the effect that The Autographic
'Mirror is, without question, one of the most delight-
ul table-books ever published.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Miles Opened. Receipts,

Railways. ~..___...,..___„. -....._...-........- -
1865. 1864. 1865 1864.
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties...... 100 100 2,005 1.751
Belfast and County Down.... 49 49 889 789
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 2,015 1,969
Bristol and Exeter l2ll
1214 7,553 7,14
Caledonian
Cambrian ... 01 81 1,832 1,528
Cockermouth K & Peurlth - - -
Cockermouth and Workin
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 474 40)
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 61
306 199
Cornwall 65 651 2,119 2.1 ,6
Deeside .. 17 17 544 370
Dublin & 13elf ast Junction.... 63 63 1,41 1.365
Dublin and Drogheda 75 ' 75 3,989 1.765
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 9ll 91i 3,605 3,26
Furness, &c 3O 5 3,434 3.236
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union 6BBl 66 37,545
32,903
Great Northern 404 8653 81,023 32,293
Great North of Scotland 99 99 3,348 3,107
(it..Nortlin. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 559 606
lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3871 881 8,837 8.176
Great Western 1276 1230 76,424 7 ,414
Hull & Hornsea - 170 -
Inverness & Aberdeen June ll7l 1171 1,591 1,36.5
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 1191 1,801 1,617
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,701 1,689
Kent Toast 27 27 2,220 1,500
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 56,540 38,525
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 196 187
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 121 113
Llanelly 461 461 778 716
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall . 5l 5/ 2,4 5 ),995
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 2671 24,549 19.40)
London, Chatham, & Dover : 724 724 7,174 6.090
Do. Metropolitan Extension 111 104 3,25) 1,775
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
llan.,Sheflield, & Lincolnsh
Stanch. S.J un.& A ltrincham 9l 94 2,928 1,382
31aryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6631 641 50,787 43,598
Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind 262 262 4,706 6,2,7
Honkland 7ll 714 1,634 1,685
Slonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal l4 44 2,571 2,912
, North British, Edin., Perth
' and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl lllO 1095
North London 9 9
North Staffordshire 254 251
Rhymney .
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138
Somerset and Dorset 66 65
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB 303
raff Vale 57 67
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31
Waterfbrd and I,imerick 77 77
West Cornwall 274 274
W. LlaAlepool 11 arbr.& ltai I 521 521
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrinnt lO 10
Whitehaven .1 unction l3 13
,V hitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35
FJREIGN AND COLO2II.A.L.
staitrian B2B 823 35,377 31,468
Bahia and San Francirco
Belgian Eastern J unction.- 265
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 300
Detroit and Miiwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
Eastsrn of France
Eastern Eengal ... ..... 110
9ast Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1.17
Great Central of Belgium 295
Great Indian Peninsula 5554
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant (8)
Northern of Canaaa . . 91
Northern of France 728
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman . 4Bl
Paris, Lyons, & Mcditerrn 1967
Paris and Orleans 1616
Recife and San Francisco. &c 774
Sc.nde lO5
Do. Punjab, ,tc 32
South Austrian, &c . 1651
Southern of France 823
Victoria
Welland
West & N-I'4 n. of France

22,609 20,950
65,77( 61,042
3,930. 3,522
9,1.23 8. 53
997 1,022
5,527 5,967
5,513 6.258
1,011 7,4
4.744 4,617
29,762 23.307
4,975 6,395
2,667 t 4.2
253 209
312 371
1,3 9 1,242
1,0( 8 1,127
5.63 4 630
073 883
9 0 1, 00
BS7 1,04

44' 315
4, :65 2,188
6,193 • 40,08
6,7,'9 4,612
67,459 6:1,434
2,571 1,6 H
32,981 23,35.)
21,116 2!,453
6, 79

10,87 a 15,3;0
5,167 4,404

623 531,
11,734 10,322
6,130 5 343
19,58 21,315

51,760 56,440
793 955

481 828 452
1781 123,333 130,200
1011 71,240 67,990
774 1,357 1, 'B9
105 1,502 2,489
32 611 257
1527 57,492 61,410
770 28,571 27,687
196 10,422 9,750
25 337 191
901 50,440 48)388