The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-04 00:00:00

greater skill to save his army in a hazardous and man in a humble sphere, is continued with interest.
dispiriting retreat. That is the test of an officer's There are several papers in this number that well
ability; the Crimean War proved too sadly the de- deserve:careful reading, such as "The Royal Town,"
ficiency of the British commanders for an active by Canon Miller ; " The Colporteur in Scotland,"
campaign, and will be memorable for bravery and " The Life and Times of Elijah," " The Family
incompetency. " Scenes of Franco-Arab Life" are Life in Health and Disease," and a very instructive
full of incident and adventure. " How Wellington and well-written essay by Dean Ramsay, "On our
won his Peerage" the British soldier can best Duty to the Lower Animals," in which the Chris-
testify. " Our Mercantile Navy" deserves the tian virtues of mercy and kindness are strongly
best consideration of our merchant princes, inculcated on points with which many persons seem
for .if seamen are not properly provided for, to think they have no connection.

how can they expect them to be attentive to their
duty, careful of both ship and cargo. Master
Mariner Captain Henry Toynbee has written a
good pamphlet on the wants of our sailors, which
we commend to the study of those who go down to
the sea in ships of adventure.

The United Service.

" The Breakwater and Fortifications of Portland I
Isle" is the first article, and it gives a full descrip-
tion of this remarkable locality, which now figures
as one of our great naval and military defences.
The break water was built as a harbour of refuge,
for which it is admirably adapted. But it might
have been made much more extensive by taking a
mile more to the south, out of the bay. "It is the
misfortune of all our public works that they are
constructed on a cheese-paring principle. We seem
to think that future times will never require any
works of more capacity than suits our present paltry
necessity. They manage these things better over'
the water ; but John Bull only takes a shopkeeping
view of public requirements, and hence he is always
patching and mending, and at last he becomes
ashamed of his own paltry doings. There is too
much deference paid to the opinion of civil engi-
neers, who take a narrow view of matters beyond
their comprehension." " Dockyard expenditure and
Superintendents" deals with a sore subject, and
" Tactical Studies for Camps of Instruction" is a
clever article for the benefit of the young officer.
" Oswald Hastings " continues his gallant career,
and now rejoices in the twenty-eighth chapter.
" Conquering armies and the secret of their suc-
cess" we recommend to the consideration of all who
wish to become famous generals. " The late Ad-
miral Fitzroy" is a melancholy subject, very cre-
ditably handled. We trust the Government will do
justice to his great merits by providing for his
family. The " Mackay Gun" is ably discussed—
indeed its merits seem now to be duly appreciated
by all impartial judges, and promises to put the
question of the best gun yet known completely at
rest. To have full justice done to him, Mr. Mackay
ought to have been now at the War-office, and
nursed by the Horse Guards. His gun would then
never miss fire. But patronage is too often cold
and blind to national interests. This is, on the
whole, a good number.

The Cornhill Magazine.

The Day of Rest.

This little serial presents its usual table of con-
tents diversified in style, and calculated to attract
the general reader. Some of the stories previously
commenced are continued, and there are many
articles on general subjects that impart a variety to
its perusal. " Autobiography of an Italian Police-
officer" furnishes us with some curious revelations
that are romantic and mysterious in the extreme.

" Wives and Daughters" is continued at great
length, and the various schemes are progressing.
Mrs. Gibson goes for a visit to London, and the
sense of freedom which Molly thereby experiences
is very ably described. The absurd gentilities and
awkward refinements that Mrs. Gibson introduced
into the family rendered life very irksome to the
lonely, old-fashioned doctor and his wife. Cynthia's
mysterious acquaintance with Mr. Preston is still
kept up. Molly is a very well-drawn character, and
more natural than that of her affected, half-sister.
" Armadale" is more developed in its present instal-
ment, and Miss Gwilt seems very likely to be dis-
covered in her " dodge" by the artful mauceuvres
of Mrs. Milroy, aided and abetted by her dangerous
serving-woman. Allan is as absurd as ever in his
ways of going on, and Midwinter as myste-
rious. Neither showed their discernment to
be very great, nor his taste very refined
in admiring " Miss Gwilt." "To Hamburg
and Back fora Shilling" is a sketch that affords an
entertaining account of life in that locality. It is
well observed at the conclusion of the article that
" Hamburg then possesses interesting features of its
own, it offers the spectacle of the mine of weakness
being sagaciously worked by avarice," and so we
may dismiss the subject with the brief verdict,
" Players deserve to lose, but the bank does not
deserve to -win." " Recollections of Crime and
Criminals in China " will attract many by its
curious relations and quaint anecdotes. A fearful
tale is told of the murder of the Governor of
Macao. Some of the schemes resorted to by the
rebels were very ingenious ; they once caught a
banker, and compelled him to sign cheques which
his cashiers were induced to pay for fear of the con-
sequences of a refusal. " Dante" is the subject of
an interesting sketch, which records his wrongs and
sufferings. " Old Election Days in Ireland "is the
title of 3, paper appropriate at this juncture.
" Andrea Ferara" gives some details of the career
of that individual, concerning whose antecedents
there is some mystery. The opinion arrived at by
the compiler of this sketch is that he was born in
the year 1555, andbelongedto a family of armourers
which had existed in Italy for two generations pre-
viously, and that the first took his name from the
place of his nativity, the ducal city of Ferara.
" Etna in Eruption" presents the reader with an in-
teresting sketch of that remarkable occurrence, which
will be interesting to many.

Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences
Has a paper on " The Atlantic Telegraph Cable,"
besides an article on " The Patent Law," and the
usual list of patents and scientific notices.

Miscellaneous Publications.—The Englishwoman's
Domestic Magazine is replete with information about
Fashion, Dress, and Needlework. The tales, " The
Heart's Errant" and " Petronilla's Fears," increase
in interest. The Young Englishman is one of the
cheapest and best publications issued to the public.
Like the above it presents to its patrons a variety
novelties in useful and ornamental needlework.
The Boys' Magazine contains an excellent selection
of articles of fact, fiction, and history; and The
Boys' Monthly Magazine, although less in price, is a
very good publication. The Gardener's Magazine
will be found highly useful to every person who
desires to grow even apot of mignonette. Chambers's
Journal contains the first monthly instalment of the
new tale, " The Clyffards of Clyff," which pro-
mises well. The publications of the firm of Cassell,
Fetter, and Galpin maintain their acknowledged
superiority. The 9th part of the library edition of
Don Quixote, illustrated by Gustave Dore, is of more
than ordinary excellence. The illustrated Shak-
spere, the Illustrated Gulliver, and the Popular
Natural History, progress very satisfactorily.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Aug. 3.
Her Majesty, attended by the Countess of Gains-
borough, drove out yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce,
the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge, Lord A. Paget, and Major
Teesdale, went on board the royal yacht Alberta
yesterday afternoon, and were present at the Cowes
Town Regatta in Cowes Roads.

HER MAJESTY'S DEPARTURE FOR GERMANY.-
The authorities of Woolwich Arsenal have issued orders
that the public shall be admitted to witness the Queen's
embarkation from the Royal Arsenal pier on Tuesday
next, on being provided with tickets to be granted for
that purpose. The royal train will arrive at the foot of
the T pier in the arsenal, from Windsor, as at present ar-
ranged, at half-past five o'clock, when her Majesty will
proceed down the river in the Alberta, and embark in the
Victoria and Albert for Antwerp.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
will leave town in the course of next week On a tour in
Germany. His royal highness, in the first instance, will
pay a visit to the Ducheis of Cambridge and Princess Mary
at the duchess's chateau at Rumpenheim.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has
left Maurigy's Hotel for the Hague.

His Royal Highness Prince Raspigliosi and two
sons have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Paris.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left town
yesterday afternoon for Trentham, Staffordshire, to pass a
few weeks before going to Scotland for the autumn.

The Marquis of Abercorn, accompanied by the
Ladies Alberta and Maud Hamilton, leave Chesterfield
House to-day for Baron's Court, Ireland.

The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith and family
will leave their residence in Hamilton-place on Saturday
next, for Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh.
The Earl and Countess of Howth have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel, from Howth Castle, Ireland.
The Earl of Wicklow has left his seat in Ireland
for The Hyde, Essex, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Disney.
Viscount and Viscount Palmerston left town on
Wednesday afternoon for Broadlands, Hants.
The Dowager Lady Wenlock will leave town to-
day for Hawarden Castle, on a visit to Sir Stephen Glynne
and the Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone.

Lord and Lady Conyers have arrived at their
seat in Yorkshise.

Major-General Sir Andrew. Scott Waugh and
Lady Waugh have arrived, at the Queen's Hotel, Upper
Norwood.

Sir William and Lady Brown have left the South
Kensington Hotel, Queen's-gate-terrace, for Liverpool.
• Yesterday the marriage of Lord Edward Caven-
dish, M.P., youngest son of the Duke of Devonshire, with
the llon. Emma Lascelles, maid of honour to the Queen,
daughter of the Lady Caroline Lascelles and the late Hon.
William S. Lascelles, took place at St. Michael's Church,
Chester-square.

The Victoria Magazine.

The civil and political status of the female sex is
discussed in this magazine at some length, and since
it goes back to the position of women under the
Romans its readers ought to be duly impressed.
It is from a work by an eminent French jurist, a man
of letters an I politician, Professor Laboulaye, and
therefore deserves notice as the expression of intel-
ligent continental opinion. A notice ofellr. Trol-
lope's History of the Commonwealth of Florence is
favourable, and the Accidental Assurance Company
is very warmly recommended. The two stories
which have been going on for some months reappear
as usual, but one of them, " The Warden of St.
Briavel's," comes to an unregretted conclusion.
The other, " Trouble at Thornhill," is as confused
and entangled in its plot as ever, and shows no
signs of coming to an end. " Written for my
Daughter" is a new tale of very peculiar and not
very attractive character.

The Englishman's Magazine.

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVEN-
TION OF CATTLE DISEASE has received information
of various fresh outbreaks of the Russian cattle plague.
The disease is raging in Warwickshire, and has been carried
into Roxburghshire by foreign cattle purchased in the
Metropolitan Cattle Market. The association is to convene
a second public meeting for Monday evening next.
• ACCIDENT ON MONTE ROSA.—A letter from Zer-
matt, dated Aug. 1, has been received, describing
a fatal accident that occurred on Monte Rosa on Thursday,
the 27th of July. Two young Englishmen, whose names
are not given, two guides, and three porters were ascend-
ing the mountain, when, on what is called the Saddle, the
whole party were swept away by an avalanche. The two
gentlemen were rescued by the guides. One of the porters,
when extricated from the snow, was insensible, and re-
covered with difficulty ; but the body of another of the
porters was not found till the next day, buried six feet
deep in the snow. The weather was very unfavourable to
the ascent, but, fortunately, the party were not roped
together.
EXTRAORDINARY LETTER TO A JUDGE.—A short
time since the judge of the Shoreditch County
Court had to decide a case in which the plaintiff sought to
recover the sum of 2d., the price of some stout, which he
alleged was not fit for consumption. After a long investi-
gation the judge found for the defendant, the costs amount-
ing to XI. Two or three days ago the plaintiff wrote a
most entertaining letter to the judge, inveighing in some-
what bitter terms against gin palaces and public-houses.
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hate
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in-
side a gin palace, put on an old coat and a battered hat, go
and have three-halfpenny worth of gin, and then you will
be able to judge of tho magnificence of these places, which
are quite equal to Her Majesty's or the Italian Opera
Houses." It is needless to say that his Honour has not
availed himself of this suggestion.

This magazine continues steadily, though it has
not much to attract the readers of light literature.
There are, however, solid articles, which are worth
reading, such as " Plantains and Bananas," by
Mr. Jackson, of the Kew Gardens, and " The
Slavery of Civilisation," by H. Jones,M.A. " The
Old Pagoda Tree" is the commencement of a story
of Anglo-Indian life, and the second chapter of
Byrlandesthorpe," the conclusion of an English
tale. " The Akhoon of Swant," is a curious but in-
teresting page.

The Diamond Steam Navigation Company's
Cape screw steamer, Uitenhage, Captain B. B. Starks, so
long overdue, arrived at Falmouth on Thursday morning•
She left Cape Town June 9, St. Helena June 17, and has
been delayed by losing her screw on June 23, in 0.46 N.,
and 15.27 W. ; from thence she has returned home under
canvas. Her news is of course long forestalled. She brings
37 passengers, mails, one box of specie, 1,761 bales wool,
12 cases ostrich feathers, 109 tusks ivory, 1 case do., 3
cases coffee.

THE CHOLERA.—TRIESTE, July 28.—News re-
ceived here from Symrna states that 168 persons, of
whom 124 were Jews, died of cholera between the 13th And
20th of July. On the island of Cyprus the cholera proved
fatal in from 40 to 50 cases daily. In Delos three persons
had been attacked with cholera, and they were taken over
to the island of Ortygia. Odessa advices state that the heat
in that city is insufferable, but owing to the strict enforce-
ment of the quarantine no case of cholera had occurred.—
Reuter's Express.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT MISS BURDETT COUTTS'S
MODEL LODGING-HOUSE.—Yesterday morning Mr.
John Humphrey; the Middlesex coroner, received infor-
mation relative to the death of William Morrison, aged 41
years, who lost his life under the following shocking cir-
cumstances :—lt appears that the deceased, who was a
bricklayer, was a few days since employed on a scaffold
erected in front of Miss Burdett Coutts's model lodging-
house, Crabtree-row, Bethnal-green, when he by some
means lost his equilibrium and fell a distance of 25 feet
on
to the basement, falling upon his head. Dr. Evans, of the
Hackney-road, was called and promptly attended, but the
deceased expired shortly afterwards from fracture of tile,
skull, and other injuries. The deceased has left a wife and
five children to lament his death.