The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-19 00:00:00

is a masterpiece of tearful eloquence.

Help" it is called.

The place, the hour, the

sounds, the sights, as they are here depicted in
the opening sentences of this chapter realise

:o us with an astonishing vividness a lovely

summer landscape as seen from the river-side when
the evening deepens into night. Every minutest
touch, even there, at the outset, having its powerful

significance, as it appears to us, in the way of affect-
ing preparation. Nevertheless, even here—by no

means incongruously, if onlyby reason of the whim-

sicality of Eugene's temperament, we have, as it
were par parentNse, the following wonderfully
humorous little vignette group of the village

,ogs

It was a Saturday evening, and at such a time the village
dogs, always much more interested in the doings of hu-
manity than in the affairs of their own species, were parti_
cularl) active. At the general shop, at the butcher's, and
at the public-house, they evinced an inquiring spirit never
to be satiated. Their especial interest in the public-house
would seem to imply some latent rakishness in the canine
character ; for little was eaten there, and they, having no
taste for beer or tobacco (Mrs. Hubbard's dog is said to have
smoked, but proof is wanting), could only have been
attracted by sympathy with loose convivial habits. More-
over, a most wretched fiddle played within ; a fiddle so
unutterably vile, that one lean long-bodied cur, with a
better ear than the rest, found himself under compulsion
at intervals to go round the corner and howl. Yet even he
returned to the public-house on each occasion with the
tenacity of a confirmed drunkard.

The passion, the tears, the power, the pathos of

the terrible incident thus strangely preluded come
later on, lending a breathless interest to the closing
pages of this remarkable chapter headed " A Cry
for Help." Charming though the previous chapter,
about Bella and John, is in itself, whether it
reveals them to us in their own cottage home,
or in the midst of the eccentric Wilfer house-
hold charming though it all is, now in
humour, now in tenderness—we have no thought
or care, it almost seems to us, save in what re-
lates to the shattered loves and lives of Lizzie Hexam
and Eugene Wrayburn. Some passing reference
is at least due, nevertheless, to the manner of the
revelation by Bella—with an exquisite shyness—to
John—that there is a baby coming ! One consolation
we have, now, in thinking of Bradley Headstone,
namely, that the wretch has an avenging Nemesis
upon his track, in the coarse, and clownish, and
very unclassic shape of that oddest specimen of
what Pope terms " the noblest work of God," the
" Honest Man"—Rogue Riderhood.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 16.
The Queen went out driving with Prince and
Princess Louis of Hesse in the evening.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, with the Princess Victoria and
Elizabeth, arrived at the castle at five o'clock.
Baroness von Schenck and Baron de Rabenau
were in attendance on their royal highnesses.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
On Saturday morning their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the
young Prince, and Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse, their children and suites, arrived at Perth,
on the way to Balmoral, by the limited London
mail train, to which were attached three saloon
carriages. On alighting from the train their royal
highnesses entered the first-class refreshment rooms,
where they breakfasted. The journey was renewed
by the 9.20 train, per Scottish North-Eastern Rail-
way. The royal party arrived at the Guild-street
Station, Aberdeen, on Saturday, at ten minutes
past one o'clock—the train being late. A lirge
concourse of spectators had assembled on the plat-
form, numbering probably more than 1,000, chiefly
ladies, and as the train stopped the royal party met
with a hearty reception, which the Prince of Wales
rose and acknowledged. Among those on the plat-
form were the civic and railway authorities, Sir
David Brewster, and other gentlemen. Meanwhile
auother engine was attached to the train, which,
after a delay of some five minutes, left for Deeside,
and reached Aboyne in an hour. The Prince and
Princess of Wales arrived at Abergeldie about four
o'clock, and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse
arrived at Balmoral half an hour afterwards.