The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-01 00:00:00

rHE SUiNI LONLON, FRIDAY EVEAING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1865.

was, in the present case at least, worthily fulfilled.
All ranks and classes joined heartily in the festi-
vities of the occasion, and we must hope that this
interesting provincial exhibition may be ranked
among the most prosperous of its kind.

LITERATURE.

God's Providence House. By Mrs. G. Linnmus
Banks. Three Vols. Bentley.

Mrs. Linnaeus Banks has given us not only a very
interesting tale, but a very graphic picture of coun-
try life in England in the days of our great-grand-
fathers. Some of the characters are powerfully
drawn, and display considerable originality. We
imagine, from a chance allusion in the preface, that
Mr. Peover, the anxious, timid, well-meaning
owner of God's Providence Houk, is the favourite
with the authoress, and the admirable delineation
of his peculiar temperament assuredly does her
credit, but we are inclined to give the preference
to the impetuous and irrascible Michael, who, in
right of his wife, inherits the Haunted Grange,
and boldly resolves to exorcise the evil spirits
that hold dominion there. The legend upon
which the ghostly rumour is founded is one
very well calculated to give rise to such
reports. The story is thus made known to the
reader by means of a dream, which troubles Michael
on his first visit to the deserted mansion.

THE GREY LADY.
Asleep !—The night was gone ; the sunlight streamed
through the window on a melancholy woman with a pale
face and flaxen hair, bending over her embroidery frame
with a preoccupied look. Her husband and another man
sat at the table drinking, dicing, and quarrelling; her hus-
band was losing; his companion had a strange gleam in his
malignant eye, which ever and anon cast a repulsive glance
at the fair embroideress. The stakes ran high ; he lost for-
tune, home ; and, at the suggestion of the archfiend with
whom he played, with a gambler's increasing infatuation,
staked—what !—not his wife ? Yes, his wife, his startled
wife, and lost ! The winner rose with an exultant laugh
to claim his prize ; but 'the frenzied woman dashed past
him, rushed along the corridor, pursued by the ruffian to
her own chamber ; there was a brief struggle ; a knife lay
within her reach; in an instant she had seized and plunged
the glittering blade-in her long-troubled heart, and the
crimson tide welled out at the feet of her destroyer. There
was a hurried rush through the house of a madman towards
the river, a tramp of feet, a cry—Michael was awake !
awake, and conscious of a dark figure standing by the
doorway.

The vivid glimpse conveyed in the above ex-
tract, in which a whole, history of sin and sorrow is
revealed, gives a happy specimen of Mrs. Banks's
artistic skill. The ghost- story in itself is perfect,
but it is a mistake to have placed it, in point of
tune, so near the period of which we read; one of
the characters of the ghastly drama taking part in
the later history. The Grange, thanks to the
energy of Michael and Mr. Peover, is restored and
inhabited, and becomes, in its stately chambers and
subterranean passages, the theatre of the principal
events of the story, but the dwelling of Mr. Peover
gives its name to the work. This is the origin of
that name—an incident, we are told, founded on
fact.

LATEST INTEL LICENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

DIPLOMATIC RECEPTIONS AT THE TUILERIES.
PARIS, Sept. 1.
_

The Emperor yesterday received in private
audience Cavaliere di Nigra, who expressed the
desire of Prince Armedeus, who is now travelling to
present his respects to his Majesty. Viscount de
Paiva, the Portuguese Minister, also had an
audience of the Emperor, and remitted to his
Majesty the Grand Cross of the Order of Christ for
the Prince Imperial.

The Emperor, subsequently, received in public
audiences M. Mon, the late Spanish Ambassador,
and his newly appointed successor, the Marquis de
Leina. Replying to the address of the latter on
presenting his credentials, the Emperor said :
" I attach great value to seeing Spain and France
march with the same steps towards progress. The
two nations have none but common interests, and
are separated by no rival ambition. You will
always find my Government ready to strengthen
the bonds which unite the two countries."

Count Walewski has tendered his resignation as
a senator, which has been accepted.
A fête took place at Fontainebleau three days
back, on the occasion of the St. Louis. The band
of the Zouaves played in the parterre of the palace
gardens, and twice the Emperor and Prince Impe-
rial came and mingled with the company assembled.
A display of fireworks took place in the evening,
and was witnessed by his Majesty with the Court
from the Avenue de Maintenon.

The Russian Gazette of St. Petersburg announces
that a malady called the Siberian cattle plague is at
present ravaging the town of Kortcheva and its
environs (in the government of Iver). In some
places not a horse or cow is to be found. The same
disease is also reported to have appeared in the go-
vernment of Podolia.

BOURSE, Aug. 31.—Two o'clock.—The Bourse
is well attedded to-day, being the reponse des primes
(option). Threes, for the Account, have improved
12ic., being quoted at 68fr. 75c. Italian Fives are
doing at 661 r. 5c., being an improvement of 15c.
Credit Mobiliers have advanced 6fr. 25c., viz., to
820 fr. Spanish Mobilier are 517 fr. 50c. These
prices are all higher than those at which the reponse
has been fixed. Three o'clock.—The market has
kept buoyant to the end. The last quotations are
as follows :

4 per Cents 9B
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 80
Do. end month 6B 90
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3590
Credit Foncier 1340
Italian Loan 66
Do. end month 66 05

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 49
Do. Bonds —
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
Roman —

RAILV

'AYR.
Cash

Amt.
Orleans — -- ... 855
Northern — ... 1090 --
Lyons and Mediterranean — ... 872 50
Southern — ... 570
Western — ... 548 75
Eastern — ... 532 50
Sardinian . — ... 255
Austrian — . 412 50
Lombard — ... 475
North of Spain — . 220
Saragossa — ... 328 75
Ditto to Barcelona — - ...
Roman — ... 225

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, AITG. 31.

The new Ministry has not yet been formed.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has officially
stated in Cortes that Prince Aronadens did not come
to represent King Victor Emmanuel at the baptism
of the infant Prince.

The Cortes have granted leave to the King to
travel abroad. It is stated that his Majesty and
the Queen will visit Italy, Don Fernando acting as
Regent during their absence. Such an event being
unprecedented, excites public surprise.
Sanitary precautions are being taken against the
expected visit of cholera.
Five Prussian corvettes have arrived here from
Portsmouth.