The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

No. lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended March 1862 ; the Application of the same ; and the Charge
of the Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Deficiency upon such Charge.

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of' the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
ended Dec. 31, 1861, viz.: .
Great Britain
Ireland
—,—.-- 982,404

Income received in the Quarter ended March 21,1862, as shown in Account I 19,606,614
Amount raised by Exchequer Bills issued to replace, in part, the amount of Bills
paid off ont of the Ways and Means Money Grants for the year 1861-62
Amount raised per Act 23-24 Vict., cap. 109, on account of Fortifications, 220,00°
Amount received in the Quarter ended March 31, 1862, in repayment of Advances -
for Public Works, &e.
Saving on former charges for the Civil List

022,040,22

Balance, being the Deficiency, on 31st March, 1862,1up0n the charge of the Conso-
lidated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends, and other charges, pay-
able in the Quarter to June 30, 1862, and for which Exchequer Bills
(Deficiency) will be issued is that Quarter.. 1,938,281

£23,977,103

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THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood's Magazine.
This is, upon the whole, an excellent number ;
especially good is the continuation of "The Chro-
nicles of Carlingford ;" we remember no serial story
Not only are the
ethhaatrachteasrsinitnedrievsitdeudalusanmdorree.al
real, but they are con-
trasted with a skill which shows artistic power of a
very high order. In this part the young minister,
disgusted with his cool reception in fashionable
society, devotes all his energies to the pulpit. He
delivers a course of lectures—the chapel is too small
for the auditors, the Music-hall is engaged, even
Lady Weston honours him with her presence. And
the susceptible Vincent is once more fascinated by
her advances. We extract the following descrip-
tion of eloquence at
SALEM CHAPEL TEA MEETING.
And even when at last the social meal was over, when
the urns were cleared away, and with a rustle and flutter
the assembly composed itself to the intellectual regale about
to follow, Mr. Vincent did not change his position. Mr.
Raffles made quite one of his best speeches;
he kept his
audience in a perpetual flutter of laughter and applause; he
set forth all the excellencies of the now minister with such
detail and fulness as only the vainest would have swal-
lowed. But the pleased congregation still applauded. He
praised Mr. Tufton, the venerable father of the community;
he praised the admirable deacons ; he praised the arrange-
ments. In short, Mr. Raffles applauded everybody, and
everybody applauded Mr. Raffles.. .A.fter-thentrairmfm had -
concluded his speech, the hero of the evening gatheredhim-
self up dreamily, and rose from Phoebe Tozer's side. He
told them he had been gazing at them this hour past,study-
ing the scene before him ; how strangely they appeared to
him, standing.on this little bright gaslighted perch amid
the dark sea of life that surged round them • that now ho
and they were face to face with each other, dwas not their
social pleasure he was thinking of, but that dark unknown
existence that throbbed and echoed around : he bade them
reinember the dark night which enclosed thtit town of Car-
lingford, without betraying the secret of its existence even
to the nearest village ; of those dark streets and houses
which hid so many lives and hearts and tragic histories ;
he enlarged upon Mrs. Hillyard's idea of the sentiment of
" such a night," till timid people threw .glances behind
them, and some sensitive mothers paused to wonder whe-
ther the minister could have heard that Tommy had fallen
'into the fire, or Mary scalded herself, and took this way to
break the news. The speech was the strangest that ever
was listened to at a tea party. It was the wayward capri-
cious pouring forth of a fanciful young mind under an un-
quiet influence, having no connection whatever with the
" object," the place, or the listeners. The consequence
was, that it was listened to with breathless interest—that
the faces grew pale and the eyes bright, and shivers of re-
strained emotion ran through the astonished audience. Mr.
Vincent perceived the effect of his eloquence, as a nursery
story-teller perceives the rising sob of her little hearers.
When hp saw it, he awoke, as the same nursery minstrel
does sometimes, to feel how unreal was the sentiment in
his own breast which had produced this genuine feeling in
others, and with a sudden amusemezt proceeded to deepen
his colours and,make bolder strokes of effect. His success
waslperfect ; before he concluded, he had in imagination
dismissed the harmless Salem people out of their very in-
nocent recreation to the dark streets which thrilled round
them—to the world of unknown life, of which each man
for himself had some knowledge—to the tragedies that
might be going on side by side with them, for aught they
knew. His hearers drew a long breath when it was over.
They were startled, frightened, enchanted. If they had
been witnessing a melodrama, they scarcely could have
been more excited. He had put the most dreadful sugges-
tions in their mind of all sorts of possible trouble ; ho sat
down with the consciousness of having done his duty by
Salem for this night at least.
•

" Caxtoniana" -this month is clever and amusing.
The writer even condescends to pun. He tells us
in the essay " On Shyness "—" It was shyness, and
nothing else, that made the bashful conquerors in
the Great Rebellion so delicately silent about them-
selves in the welcome they gave; to the courteous
and elegant exile. In fact, they have no other ex-
cuse; they were shy, and they shied away their
liberties." In "The Lives of Two Ladies" we
have a comparison of two last century celebrities,
Mrs. Delany and Mrs. Thrale. "Political Trage-
dies in Japan" gives a curious account of the Go-
vernment of that country and of the discord
engendered there by the foreign treaty. "A Box
of Books" is a chatty article upon some of the litera-
ture of the day. It thus speaks of
THE AGE OF CHTVALE.Y.
Men beating their wives, and even women not their
wives, with whom they quarrel, is a common incident in
these sle and romances. The chevalier Do la Tour Lan-
dry tells his daughters the story of a woman who was in
the habit of contradicting her husband in public, and re-
plying to him ungracionsly—a habit, it must be confessed,
trying to the sweetest of marital tempers, and one not yet
departed from the civilised world. What did this husband ?
After expostulating with her in vain, ho one day raised his
fist and knocked her down. Unhappily for the credit of
chivalry, ho went even further, for he kicked her in the
face when she was down, and broke her nose. 4( And so,"
adds the knight, improving the story with a moral for his
daughters, " she was disfigured for life, and thus, through
her ill-behaviour and bad temper, she had her nose spoiled,
which was a great misfortune to her."
The "-Works of Charles Lever" are reviewed and
praised. " The Purpose and. Prospects of the Inter-
national Exhibition" are discussed, and the number
ends with a review of Spence's work on " The
American Union."

Dublin University Magazine.
One of the most interesting articles in the present
number is that on " Leinster Folk-Lore.' No
country, perhaps, is richer in legends of saints,
trolls, banshees, and other beings of the marvellous
and supernatural order than Ireland. Though, of
course, this kind of traditionary lore is gradually
dying out. The writer gives specimens of those he
has met with which may, he says, " be safely ac-
cslpted as genuine reports of the oral legends and
stories in the districts lying near the White Mann-
tal'ns, Blackstairs, and Mount Deinster, faithfully
set down in the idiom of that part of the country."
Th a best are too long for quotation, so we must
ref hr the admirer a that kind of literature to the
ars uncle itself. Of a similar nature is the ,paper on
" ; Romance and Superstition in Poland," whilst
" ie Geistertodenglocke ,• The Ghost Dead-Bell,"
rum ►in the same vein. Under the head of " A
Batt. h of Last Year's Novels," some of the more
pros tinent recent works of fiction come in for
mit W. We extract from it :
A PLEA FOR NOVELS.

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I I the noyelibt too often panders to the popular taste, he
has commonly too much respect for human weakness to
out rage the popular instincts in all broad questions of moral
IA and wrong. Barring religious novels,
which are
uttt trly hateful, and, for the most part, stupidly misleading,
the re is no class of popular fiction which fails altogether to
we ,rk directly or indirectly for the soul's good of those who
fir gl a rational enjoyment therein. Even frana such. mere
t znyato* as nhe Woman in White" may some

Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter ended March 31, 1862, in
redemption of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency), for the Quarter ekied Ikc. 31, •
1861 • 3,261,250

. •
Amount applied.in redemption of Ways and. Means Bills bail issued in the Quart or
, ended Dee. 31, 1861. . . ..
^ - . 1,000,000
Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Services;in the Quarter ended March
31, 186•4 ~ -

,e, • 1
Char ge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended March 31, 1862, viz. ,--
Interest of 'the Pernianent Debt • £5,724,419
Terminable Debt - •
Interest, of Deficiency and 'Ways and Means - 5,189
'The Civil List 1 ,100,896
Other Charges on Consolidated Fund = , ' - • 770,898
Advances for Public Works, &c.
_

SurPlus Balance in Ireland beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund in Ire-
land; for the Quarter ended March 31, 1862,

17,697,861

485,174

£23,977,103

folks reap that kind of mental nourishment which consists
in guessing at the different steps by which the mystery is
to be made clear. To many minds, a novel by Sir E.
Bulwer Lytton comes like the unfolding of a new world.
How many Muscular Christians have not Messrs. Hughes
and Kingsley helped on their conquering way P A really
great novel will move the heart as strongly, and to as noble
ends, as a great picture or poem. To read one or two such
withcare, is in itself an education. Who has not felt his
whole being raised and purified as he ,witcnsd by the sick
bed of poor little dying Nell, or followed the failing fortunes
of brave old Colonel Newcome ? Each thrill of honest
scorn for the prosperous Pecksniff and the cool, self-satis-
fied Barnes Newcome ; of heartfelt tenderness for quiet
Tom Pinch and self-forgetful Dobbin; of fierce dislike for
the scheming Mrs. Mackenzie; of reluctant awe at the
cleverness of Becky Sharpe; of joy at the downfall of
Squeers and the forced departure of Sampson Brass; of
pity for Ethel's half-deserved misfortunes, and poor, peni-
tent Nancy's cruel end, brings us, for the moment, nearer
heaven by one or the other of those two great avenues, the
brain and the heart, along which our life's daily pulses keep
always gliding to and fro. If the spells thus wrought are
too often momentary; if the blossom but now so fair be too
seldom followed by an answering measure of fruit, we are,
after all, but poor, weak; wavering creatures, whose pro-
gress upward is marked by a close succession of falls, whose
highest hopes in the future must be grounded mainly on
tho remembrance of a few such real, but short-lived tri-
umphs in the past.

The tales of " The House by the Churchyard," and
" Mildrington, the Barrister," are still in progress,
and the remaining articles treat of "The Yang-tze-
Kiang," " Calderon,". " Literary Art Life-in Lon-
don," " The Opera," and " Our Army and Navy
Estimates."

Yraser's 'Magazine.

VarietY seems to be the characteristic of the tale
called " Thalatta! Thalatta 1" Intensity that of
" Barren Honour," and neither diminish in interest.
" The Income Tax and the plans for its Reform,"
are discussed in an able paper. Sir George Lewis,
in an article on " The Roman Book Trade under the
Empire," gives the result of his researches into that
branch of business in ancient times ; and " Notes
from Numidia," narrate a traveller's experience on
the voyage from Marseilles to Africa, and on his
arrival there. The article on "Mental Epidemics"
treats of the different phases of popular mania from
" The Brotherhood of the Flagellents, which aston-
ished Europe in the fourteenth century, and down
to the present fashionable one on Spiritualism. We
quote these cases showing the influence of

MORBID SYMPATHY.

Women living in seclusion are of course especially ob-
noxious to the influence of this morbid sympathy ; partly
owing to the nervous irritability which is the usual effect
of such a life, partly to the excessive importance acquired
by the most trifling incidents in the absence of active occu-
pation and of external objects of interest to engage the at-
tention and divert the mind from unhealthy introspection.
But positions less favourable to its operation are far from
being wholly exempt from it. A singular story is related
of an occurrence in a cotton-mill in Lancashire in 1787. A
girl put a mouse into the bosom of another girl who had a
great dread of mice. She was instantly thrown into vio-
lent convulsions, which lasted 24 hours. The next day
three more girls were thrown into similar convulsions, and
the day following six more. A physician was sent for, but
before he arrived 23 girls had been seized in the same way,
and one man, who had been employed in holding them
during the fits. The work in the factory was stopped, and
the idea prevailed that some disease had been introduced
by a bag of cotton which had been recently opened. This
conviction spread through the country, and thre3 more fac-
tories, four or five miles distant, were infected, although
the workers in them had never seen any of the original
patients, but, like them, were impressed with the belief
that the plague had been caught from the cotton.. The
convulsions were so violent as to require four or five per-
sons to prevent the sufferers from dashing their heads
against the wall. The doctor bethought him of trying the
effect of electric shocks, and the application was uniformly
successful. As soon as a few had been relieved, and the
disorder was thus shown to be a nervous affection easily
cured, and not introduced by the cotton, no fresh ease oc-
curred. A somewhat similar circumstance occurred in
1801 in a hospital at Berlin. A young woman, who had
previously been an inmate, came to visit a patient, and on
entering fell down in convulsions. Six female patients
were immediately seized in the same way, and shortly after
eight others, including two nurses. All were ultimately
cured, and the disorder spread no further, but their treat-
ment lasted for four months. In these cases there was no
enthusiasm, nor, in the former at least, any exciting cause
predisposing them to convulsions : in the latter, the pa-
tients had all, it appears, been suffering previously more or
less from nervous complaints.
There are reviews of the autobiography of " Mrs.
Delany," of Mr. Gould's magnificent work on
" Humming Birds," and the lives of "'The Engi-
neers," by Mr. Smiles, whilst in " My Highland
Home," the experience of a " Southron" turned
laird are dilated on.

United Service Magazine.
A very able article on " Our New Bengal Native
Army" opens this number, in which the rational
mode of treating the native chiefs is pointed out,
and the example of Russia in the Crimea quoted as
worthy of imitation. The writer on " The Arm-
strong Gun" defends that weapon against recent
attacks; and in "Portsmouth in Danger" we have
strong arguments used for the immediate construc-
tion of docks sufficiently large to take such iron
steamships as we are at present building ; and the
superiority of the dock accommodation at Cher-
bourg is clearly shown. "At the present time,"
says the writer, " France could refit, renew, and
sand to sea a second fleet of ironsides quicker than
England, and until we were prepared to meet her
again the English Channel, with its rich freighted
ships, would be at the mercy of our great, in fact,
our only, maritime rival." The account of " The
Medals of the British Army" is readable. " The
first medal," it seems, " was given by Charles I. in
1643, for soldiers engaged in forlorn hopes," but the
Parliament was not slow to follow the example, and
it employed the celebrated engraver Simon, who
consulted with Cromwell as to the design. Various
episodes in the Peninsular and other wars are
touched on, and in the retreat of Sir John Moore
occurred

A SCRAMBLE.
The advanced guard, of the French were again repulsed
two days afterwards. j3ut they were coming on with such
force that our troops could not make a moment's delay, and
at this critical time they road became blocked by two wag-
gons containing the military treasure. It was a decided
fix ; for the teams of bullocks were exhausted, and could
go no further. There w as, indeed, only one modo of extri-
cation, and that was, to abandon the money, which was
done by rolling the casks of dollars down the mountain, and
so avoiding a scramble by the soldiers, which would have
endangered the whole army. Only the rear regiments of
the reserve were present at the time, and Lieutenant Ben-
not, of the 28th, was directed by Sir John Moore to shoot
any soldier who left the ranks; but happily, not a man
stirred. The cash brake as they struck against the rocks,