The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1865.

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SPAIN.
MADRID, JUNE 20.

The district inspector's faults next came under
notice, for he should have inquired into the details
of the duties performed. He shows, by his own
evidence, that he failed in these particulars : he had
to test the men under him every three months to
see if they were acquainted with the rules ; but he
did not inquire if fog-signals were used, and he did
not ask BENGE, the foreman, if he wore a watch or
not. Some may consider it incredible, but this man,
upon whose regularity so much depended, did not
wear a watch. Carelessness and indifference, utter
and entire, pervaded the details of the management
by these responsible agents of the company. During
the last two months repairs have been proceeded
with on this line, and it may well be asked how it
was that the district inspector did not detect the
want of attention to. the rules that existed. He
stated that he went over the line of which he was
in charge once, if not twice, a-day, and yet no
results followed from these repeated observances.
It would seem as if these railway officials set rules
at defiance, and trusted entirely to the doctrine of
chances. At all events, such a system seems to
have been in vogue at Staplehurst to an amazing
extent. The sooner less is left in the hands
of those immediately concerned, the better ;
and it would be well if the railway com-
panies took up the matter in a determined
, manner, and appoint some one in whose conscien-
tiousness and ability they can place implicit reliance
to inspect periodically the condition of the lines,
and the manner in which the rules are carried out.
The result of this inquiry has shown most unmis-
takeably that a change must be made in a system
which allows of the existence of such evils, and that
it is important that ingenuity should be brought to
bear upon the subject to prevent the possibility of
similar disasters taking place. Meanwhile, the
servants of other Companies may well take heed to
their ways, and let these deplorable events serve as
a memento. These men, who have come under
notice in such an unpleasant manner, are doubtless
guilty of great neglect of their duties ; but how
many more are in a similar degree culpable if the
truth were only known. The safety of the public
imperatively demands that the management of the
repairs on railway lines be conducted it another
and a better mode than that now in vogue.

The amount of the subscription to the hypothe-
cated notes, at the rate of 88 33, is officially an-
nounced at 264,994,992 reals.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 21.

The Inman steamer City of Limerick, which left
New York for Liverpool on the Bth inst., took
$250,000 in specie.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JUNE 21.

Intelligence has been received here announcing
that the submarine telegraph cable between Marsala
and La Calle, on the Algerian coast, has been suc-
cessfully laid. Direct telegraphic communication
is now opened between the continent and Algeria
and Tunis.

PARIS, June 20, Two o'clock.—But few trans-
actions have taken place since the opening to-day,
and the flatness prevailing in the various markets is
becoming perfectly monotonous. That the appa-
rent doubt and misapprehension which have so
materially affected dealings in Stocks and Shares
during the past eight or nine days should have been
dispelled at the commencement of the week, when
speculators are generally absent from business, was
not to be expected ; but it was anticipated that to-
day these misgivings would give way to an improved
feeling in all departments. This anticipation,
however, has not been realised, and the
markets still continue in the same morbid state into
which they would almost appear to have perma-
nently settled. Threes, for the Account, which
opened at 66fr. 27ic., ex div., are now quoted at
66fr. 321 c., and Italian Fives at 661 r. 60e. Mobilier
Shares have experienced a further reduction of 7fr.
50c., and are now at 717 fr. 50c. The stock of the
New Mexican Loan has also receded, the present
rate being 322 fr. 50c., that of the Old remains
without change at 46k. The market closed as
follows :

4 per Cents 95 20 Ditto Threes —
Do. end month — New Mexican
3 per Cents. 66 45 Do. Bonds 328 75
Do. end m0nth...... 66 45 Russian —
Credit 31obilier ... 731 25 Austrian
Do. end month ... 733 75 Spanish Threes
Bank Shares 3640 —Home Debt
40

Credit Foncier 1250
Italian Loan 66 75
Do. end month 66 75

Deferred
Roman

'AYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1063 75 ... 1068 75
Lyons and Mediterranean B4O ... 838 75
Southern 576 25 ... 576 25
Western 522 50 ... 525
Eastern 502 50 ... 505
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 485 ... 495
North of Spain lBO ... 180
Saragossa 322 50 ... 317 50
Ditto to Barcelona 155

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THE BOMBAY MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, June 21.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delhi, Capt. Kellock, with the heavy Bombay mails,
has arrived. Amongst her passengers are 19
Japanese gentlemen ; also Cols. Curzon, Bull,
Drummond, and Burrows, Major Burton, Capt.
Millett, and Dr. Hume.
The Delhi brings on freight 19 packages specie,
value £3,586, and a small cargo.
During her passage she spoke the following ves-
sels :—On the 9th, the Cassock, bound to Alexan-
dria ; 13th, the Ellora, bound for Malta ; 16th, off
Tarifa, the Ceylon, for Gibraltar; 17th, off St.
Vincent, the bark Caducius and Bremen ship
Sarah—off Lisbon, a Portuguese corvette and bark
Ostrich ; and on the 18th, off Finistore, the French
schooner Eloise and English brig Rachel.
GIBRALTAR, June 16.

Sir W. Codrington and family proceeded to
Algesiras on the sth, on a visit to his Excellency
Youch, and returned the same evening in her

-ajesty's ship Procris.

The Austrian screw ram Kaiser Max, of 31 guns,
arrived on the 13th. She saluted the garrison with
21 guns, which compliment was returned from the
saluting battery.
A court martial assembled at the Canaca on the
2d to try Captain Enrique Croquer J. Pavia for the
loss of the frigate Triunfo, at the Chincha Islands.
Capt. Pavia has been honourably acquitted.
The following British vessels have arrived here
since the last mail :—Schooner Ann and Jane
Prichard, 30 days from Newport ; schooner John
Henry, 26 days from Newport; steamer Luscor, 5
days from Cardiff ; steamer Syrian, 5 days from
Liverpool ; steamer Europa six and a half days
from London ; steamer Sydney Hall, 8 days from
London ; steamer Charente 10/ days from London ;
steamer Parthenon 6 days from Cardiff ; schooner
Excel 19 days from Cardiff ; schooner Cadiz 6/
days from London ; and schooner Phoebe 20 days
from Liverpool.
Exchanges, London, 90 days date 49/ to ;
Paris, sf. 26c. to 27c. ; Marseilles, 5 19 to 20c. ;
Genoa, sf. 28c. ; Madrid, 8 days, 11 to 2 dis. ; and
Cadiz, 31 to 4 dis. ; Saville, Ito 1 dis. ; Malaga,
4,- dis.

HEALTH OF LONDON,

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(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)
In the week that ended on Saturday, June 17, the births
in London and ten other large towns of the United King-
dom were 4,149, the deaths 2,477. The annual rate of mor-
tality in the week in those 11 towns was 23 per 1,000 per-
sons living.
In London the births of 1,028 boys and 985 girls, in all

LITERATURE.

Hard Cash : a Matter of Fact Romance. By Charles
Reade. New Edition. One Vol. pp. 480.
Sampson Low, Son, and Co.
Published originally in Charles Dickens's popular
weekly miscellany of All the Year Round, and re-
printed now in this New, Cheap and Compact Edi-
tion, as a single volume accessible to the general

multitude, "Hard Cash," a matter-of-fact romance,
originally entitled " Very Hard Cash," but, on its
completion, thus judiciously abbreviated in the
name of it, has certainly been afforded every oppor-
tunity of extending its author's reputation. And
it should be here added at once that the oppor-
tunities thus afforded it have quite as certainly in
no one:instance been thrown away. " Hard Cash"
more.thau any other work from the same hand has
widened, and extended, and diffused its author's re-
putation. It has done so more appreciably to our belief
than even Mr. Reade'S other wonderfully elaborated
Romance of Convict Life, " Never Too Late to
Mend." In this extraordinary elaboration, the two
stories are in a manner companion pictures of real
life. They evidence in a remarkable degree the fact
that the novelist from whose imagination they
emanate, when he entered upon, the contsruction
of the plot of each, upon the delineation of their
respective characters, and upon the working out
of the narrative, gave his heart and soul
completely to the task to which he had set
himself, delivering himself to it con amore, or, in
other words, as to a labour% of love. In the in-
tricacy of the labyrinth of his plots, Charles
Reade bears a certain resemblance to Wilkie
Collins, as evidenced principally by the latter
novelist in his " Woman in White," afterwards
in his "No Name," and now more immediately
in his current serial story in the Cornhill, the
history of young " Arrnadale." But, while the
plots of Charles Reade are almost as curiously
involved as aro the plots of Wilkie Collins, the
former are by no means so essential to the itnterest
of the works of which they form, as it were, the
skeleton, or, otherwise to express it, at once the
sectional and ground-plan together. Take away
from " The Woman in White" the secret of the
plot, the heart of the mystery, the clue to the
centre of the maze, and the interest of the work
ceases. So conscious was the author of the
book of this fact, that he easnestly deprecated, in
his Preface to it, the premature exposure of his
plans by Messieurs the Reviewers. Not
thus all-essential to his plans are the plots of Charles
Reade. They are of importance to them. but they
are not of supreme or overweening importance.
They enhance the attractions of his books as ficti-
tious narratives. But they in no way constitute the
whole, or even the bulk of their attractions. His
delineations of character are sometimes very won-
derful—instance, in the present novel, that marvel-
lous fellow Dr. Sampson ! Then there are scattered
through the pages of the novelist of " Hard Cash"
and " Never Too Late Mend," descriptions of
scenes, incidents, or what not—sports, catastrophes,
natural phenomena—that are all but matchless in
the vividness of their realistic eloquence—almost
matchless, we venture tosay, in the whole range
of imaginative literature. For example, in this
one book, " Hard Cash," there is a delineation of a
boat race that is just perfect as a piece of writing—
surpassing anything that we remember ever to have
read by the greatest sporting writer of all, the
" Nimrod," of the last generation, otherwise Charles
Apperley. Then there are those pirate conflicts in
the eastern seas, and the terrific storms that
follow them, and Captain Dodd's Shipwreck, and
all the rest of it—Why, finer pieces of nautical de-
scription cannot be fonnd anywhere else, saving and
excepting always in Michael Scott's " Tom Cringle's
Log," and in the sea stories of Fenimore Cooper—
" The Pilot," for example, or " The Red Rover !"
The description of the fire at the madhouse, too, is
something astonishing—as a description of an ima-
ginary scene, reading throughout in all its minute
detail, like the faithful record of some actual catas-
trophe ! Altogether, this story of " Hard Cash" is
a very exceptional story indeed. It is, in many
ways, a wonderful book. Terrible, horrible, de-
pressing to the spirits in many parts of it—in all the
madhouse scenes, for example, and there are a good
many of them—but, in spite of this—in spite, even,
of that sanctimonious old swindler, Hardie, Senior,
the Banker--in spite, actually, of that salacious
matroness of the lunatic asylum, Mrs. (Archbold—
the tale, as it is here told, is wonderful in its power,
is full of fascination, is little less than enthralling
,hroughout.

2,013 children, were registered in the week. In the corre-
sponding
week of ten years, 1855-64, the average number,
corrected for increase of population, was 1,870.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,204. The average number for, the twenty-fourth week ,
of the year—viz., the corresponding week in ten
years,
1855-64, is with a correction for increase of population,
1,196. There is a very close agreement, therefore, between
tho actual retu►n and the estimated number.
The deaths from diarrhoea rose to 93, which is more than
double the number returned in the preceding.week. Those
from'typhus were also more numerous ; they were 55, the
deaths from that disease in the two previous weeks having
been 44 and 38. Four deaths frcim typhus occurred in the
Whitechapel Workhouse, Mile-end New Tpwn. Twenty-
two out of the 55 deaths were in the east districts.
Six fatal carriage accidents were registered in the week,
as follows Islington, a woman, aged 65 years, a coffee-
stall keeper, was run over. A Greenwich pensioner, aged
80 years, was run over (blind). In Hackney-rcad the son
of a hawker, aged 7 years, was run over. A cellarman, aged
20 years, by a van in Newington Causeway ; he died in
Guy's Hospital. In Islington a woman, aged 42 years, by
a van. A weaver, aged 66 years, was run over by a fire-
engine in the Hackney-road ; died in the Landon Hospital
The rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in Lon-
don, 24 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin ; 29 in Liverpool,
25 in Manchester, 29 in Salford, 20 in Birmingham, 27 in
Leeds, 20 in Bristol, 21 in Hull, and 27 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 37 per 1,000 during the week endiug the
3d inst., when the temperature was IFI deg. Fahrenheit
higher than in the same week in London, where the rate
was 21 per 1,000.
In Liverpool the births were 402, the deaths 267 ; in
Manchester the births 286, the deaths 173 ; in Salford the
births 129, the deaths 62 ; in Birmingham the births 229, the
deaths 126 ; in Leeds the births 187, the deaths 116 ; in
Bristol the births 111, the deaths 63 ; in Hull the births
105, the deaths 42 ; in Edinburgh the births 143, the deaths
79 ; in Glasgow the births 361, the deaths 222 ; and in
Dublin the births 183, the deaths 123. There were 396
deaths in Vienna during the week ending the 3d inst.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the meanleight
of the barometer in the week was 30-220in.' The mean
daily reading was above 30in. throughout the week. The
mean daily reading has been above 30in. since the 3d inst.,
except on Saturday; the 10th. The reading was 29-9lin.
on Sunday, and rose to 30-29 in. on the following day. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 57.8 deg.,
which is 1 deg. below the average of the same week in 50
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The mean degree
of humidity of the air was 70, complete saturation being
represented by 100. The general direction of the wind
was north or north-north-east. There was no rain.

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SHOOTING PROSPECTS.—The broods of grouse
never came out better, and already on all the lower
ranges of moors they are on wing, trying short flights. The
average number in the broods is generally said to be ten.
Although deer suffered a good deal from the severe storm
in winter, the unusually flue spring brought out early grass,
so that they aro now in good condition, and tliere are many
fine-formed heads to be aeon already.