The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-31 00:00:00

and the late Prime Minister, make great gaps in
the places they once filled ; but, as Mr. BASS ob-
served, the people of England were much the same
as the Sovereign of England. The King is dead ;
long live the King ; and so it is with the Parliament
of England. " Parliament died, and Parliament
lived again,' and when great men died others suc-
ceeded to them, so that the success and safety of
our commonwealth is secured. Mr. BASS highly
approved of Earl RUSSELL being selected as
Minister, and in energetic terms endeavoured to
show that an able body of men would support the
Premier. As for the talent of the Opposition, he
said he had sat' for eighteen years in the House
but had not seen it, with the exception of its
leader. Indeed, he seemed to think that
the gentlemen referred to were too sensible to think
they were superior to those on the Ministerial
benches. The hon. member did not make out his
case very successfully, however, for he bestowed
the chief praise upon Sir CIIARLES WOOD, which
was, indeed, extraordinary. If the right hon. gen-
tleman is the best of the set, it must be on the prin-
ciple of the adage, Parini les aveugles les bonzes sont
rois. Another mistake by Mr. BASS was, that he
went on to sly that he regretted Lord RUSSELL had
not more of his colleagues in the Lower House, but,
upon reflection, he did not know where the mate-
rials "for any other Cabinet were to be found in the
Liberal ranks of thathouse." Itis scarcely consistent
with the foregoing declaration of the excellence and
strength of the Liberal phalanx.
Mr. OTWAY was enthusiastically received, and
spoke at some length on the public questions, of the
day. He paid a tribute to the memory of Lord
PAL3IERSTON, whose loss England now mourns.
Although he did not at all times concur with that
eminent statesman, Mr. OTWAY declared himself
anxious to express his admiration and appreciation
of his high qualities and the great services he had
rendered to his country. "As a Minister he was
truly patriotic, setting before himself only the
power and the honour of England ; as a man he
was kind, generous, sympathetic, incapable of
rancour, possessed of marvellous tact ; he combined
the geniality of the Irish, with the solidity of the
English character ; during fifty years he was en-
gaged in the conduct of public affairs, and he was
the foremost actor in the political drama of our day;
yet it can with truth be said that, during all that
time, he never deserted a friend or quailed before a
foe." Mr. OTWAY mentioned an anecdote which
had been told him of the late PREMIER, which
was characteristic of his high sense of rectitude.
He had expressed a desire to be buried at Romsey
Abbey, by the side of his parents, but he was told
that the recent Act prohibited any inter-
ment in churches, yet it was suggested that
in his case an alteration might be made.
The noble lord, however, decidedly declined
to accept of the privilege, and said that the Act re-
ferred to was passed during his Ministry, and that
be ought to be the last man who should seek to in-
fringe its statutes.

Passing on to the more immediate subject of the
day, Mr. OTwAr inquired what was to be-
come of Liberal principles, and what their
majority was to do. He did not think that some
of the criticisms on Lord RUSSELL were very fair.
The hon. member indignantly demanded if Lord
RUSSELL was not " the Minister of her MAJESTY'S
Government that carried the Reform Bill?" He
seemed to forget, however, that those services were
rendered to what may be called a past generation,
whereas the present one cannot admire or applaud the
shuffling schemes and tortuous policy to which the
man who was erst the champion of Reform has
resorted, and to which he owed his last succession
to power. Mr. OTWAY endeavoured also to defend
the foreign policy of tlio noble lord, but ho
tended against too powerful odds to'be successful,
when he said that the country was not disposed
to go to war either for Denmark or Poland.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

GREECE.

ATHENS, OCT. 31.

The Ministry has resigned. M. Bulgaris, having
been summoned by the King to form a new Ministry,
declared that he would only accept the task on
condition that Count Sponneck should quit Greece.
The King has refused this condition, stating that
Count Sponneck does not occupy any official posi-
tion. M. Bulgaria thereupon declined to form a
new Ministry.

POItITGAL.
LISBON, OCT. 31.
Four cases of cholera, two of which were fatal,
have occurred at Oporto.
The sanitary state of Elvas is improving.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 30.
The Nyanza and Mongolia left here with the
above mails at noon yesterday.
The former may be expected at Marseilles about
the 4th, and the latter at Southampton about the
11th November.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL OF 12-18 OCT.
The Jeddo left Suez at 10 p.m. on the 27th inst.

FRANCE.
THE CHOLERA IN PARIS.

PARIS, OCT. 31.

The Marquis de Lavalette, Minister of the In-
terior, accompanied by M. Haussmann, Prefect of
the department of the Seine, and M. Boitelle, Pre-
fect of Police, visited yesterday the Hotel Dieu
and the Hospital Beaujon. The Minister of the In-
terior announced that the Emperor, sensiblytouched
by the indefatigable zeal of the house surgeons and
students in the cholera hospital, and desiring to re-
compense their entire body in the persons of two
who had particularly distinguished themselves, had
named M. Legros, surgeon at the Hotel Die; and
M. Lelion, of the Hospital Beaujon, Chevaliers of
the Legion of Honour.
The Minister of the Interior presented the Cross
of the Legion of Honour to M. Legros and M.
Lelion in the cholera wards.

BOURSE, Oct. 30.—Two o'Clock.—The buoy-
ancy exhibited on Satu:day continues in the market
to-day, and the improvement in quotations is
general. Three o'Clock.—The following are the
last quotations :

4i per Cents 96 TO
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 6B 171
Do. end month 6B 20
Credit Mobilier

Ditto Threes —
Roman 74 50
Mexican Loan 4Bl
Do. Bonds 317 50
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

Do. (lid month B9O
Batik Bhares 3675

Credit Foncier 1325
Italian Loan 65 40

Do. end month 65 45

Acct.
816 25
- ... 1092 50
845 -
- 560 -
- ... 530 -
- ... 533 75
- ... 222 50
- 400 -
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201 25
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260

... 177 50

Mr. GLADSTONE'S name, the hon. member for
Chatham considers to be a tower of strength, and
a true earnest of the new Premier's success. In
this he is very sanguine, because many sapient
judges have prophesied that this eminent man will
not agree with Lord RUSSELL, and may find the
task of leading the House of Commons too difficult.
Such men as now possess the confidence of the
SOVEREIGN must succeed, as Mr. OmAv believes,
against all opponents. It is as well to be candid,
however, and when the hon. member declared
that the Conservatives were found wanting, he
should remember that those who declared them to be
so did nothing themselves to show that they were
more proficient. As for India, the present Govern-
ment has nothing to plume itself upon.
Mr. OTWAY mentioned that the Opposition,
when in office, brought in two great measures only,
the one on India was " laughed out of the House,'
the other he did not dwell upon. Perhaps it was not
convenient to refer to a passage in Lord RUSSELL'S
career which was so very inconvenient. The noble
lord will soon reap very unpleasant consequences
from his insincere career in 1859, because upon him
will rest the onus of bringing in a Reform Bill; and,
with the unsettled state of his party, it will be
very difficult for him to steer his course successfully,
and to keep in office while he conciliates so many
adverse opinions. The people of this country do
not wish to see any great question of the
day made a tool of merely to suit party purposes,
as the question of Reform has certainly been. Lord
RUSSELL has not shown himself of late years so
zealous in the cause of Reform as he has been
anxious to secure office, and he must turn over a
new leaf if he expects to succeed in gaining the con-
fidence of his countrymen, or in being at the head of
a strong Government. His " rest and be thankful"
policy must be superseded by a vigorous course,
worthy of the reputation of a new Parliament and
of the credit of a Liberal Government. Mr. OTWAY
deems it advisable for the electors of Chatham to
" sleep with their armour on ;" and perhaps he had
better extend his caution to the gentlemen who
still occupy high places in Downing-street.

THE SUN, LONDON, TEMESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1865.

LITERATURE.

Agnes. By Mrs. Oliphant, author of the " Life
of Edward Irving." Three Vols. Hurst and
Blackett.

" The story of a sad woman's life ;" so the au-
thoress, in her dedication, designates the history of
Agnes ; and it is with subdued and sorrowful emo-
tions that the reader closes the third volume of the
tale. It is no sensational story ; it is rather a truth-
ful history of a human heart disciplined by circum-
stances of peculiar painfulness. We are inclined to
regard "Agnes" as Mrs. Oliphant's most successful
literary achievement. It takes a higher rank as a
work of art than any of her other productions, ex-
cellent and interesting as they are. We could only
wish that its tone had a little more of cheerfulness,
and that the dark clouds which overshadow the
heroine displayed a little more of the silver lining.
The anguish of a mother's bereavement is indeed
portrayed with heart-breaking truthfulness ; but we
could have wished that the same faith which schools
the mother to endure had also afforded her some
gleam of consolation. There is a sweet but tearful
poem of Longfellow's, " The Reaper and the
Flowers," which breathes throughout the tender
consolation of Christian philosophy. Not such are
the religious sentiments of Agnes. The picture of
her anguish, so eloquently and powerfully portrayed,
is painful to read, and because we cannot but regard
it as a truthful description, it is sad; unutterably
sad to remember. The character of Agues is very
beautifully portrayed, but before we speak of her
we must introduce her father, from whom she
inherits the finest points of her character. William
Stanfield is an original creation, and throughout the
whole narrative his character remains true to its
primitive simplicity and single-heartedness. Here
Is the author's description of him :