The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Spanish Senate on the 24th was again occu-
pied with the report of the committee on the affair
of General Narvaez. The only points of interest
which presented themselves in the course of the de-
bate were—first, a declaration made by the Minister

of Marine that there was nothing derogatory to the
general in the order given by the Government to
go to Vienna to study the organisation of the Aus-
trian army ; and next, a statement by the Presi-
dent of the Council, to the effect that the ministers
had purposely kept back for twenty days the
address of the general to the Queen, because they
had proposed to give him some additional mission,
but that the publication of the address had pre-
vented this. The Senate then, by 106 votes to
64, rejected the resolutions proposed by the
majority of the committee, and which were favour-
able to General Narvaez. " Amongst the minority,
says a letter, " were a certain number of public
functionaries, army inspectors, membizs of the
Royal Council, &c. Some of the Ministers at first
thought of dismissing these gentlemen, but this
idea led to a very animated discussion in the Cabi-
net. The Minister of Justice, it is said, made no
objection to the dismissal of all except the judges,
who, by law, cannot be deprived of their places ;
and he said that if their removal were insisted on he
would resign. No decision has yet been come to on
the subject, but it is supposed that it will be satis-
factorily settled." The Stock Exchange was not
open on the 24th, owing to the religious solemnity
of the day, but the 3 per Cents. were done at 42.

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100 324 Canada —
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MARKET NEWS--(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

To-day's market was veiy scantily supplied with al
kinds of English wheat. Selected samples moved off
readily at the extreme rates paid on Monday, whilst the
value of all other qualities were well supported. For for-
ward delivery there was rather more inquiry-
The imports of foreign wheat have exeeeded. 18,0C3
quarters ; all descriptions moved off slowly. In. prices,
however, no change took place.
Floating cargoes sold readily, at very full prices..
Fine barley moved off freely, other kinds slowly, at last
week's currency.
There was a moderate sale for malt, at previous rates.
There was a slight improvement in the sale for oats ; but
beans, peas, and flour were much neglected.

English ..
Irish •• • •
Foreign ..

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
690 310 1,640

Oats.
1,360
6,150

Flour.
620

18,510

500 sks
COOO brls

E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1853.

LITERATURE.

The Indian Archipelago: By Horace St. John.
2 vols. Longman.
This work is a description of a comparatively un-
known region, its history, and present state. It
contains lively and varied accounts of the inhabi-
tants and their customs, and is likely to entertain
and instruct the reader. The following is a sketch
of one of the principal islands of the Asiatic
Archipelago : . _

"Celebes occupies the centre of the tropical zone, and
lies in the Molucca sea. Its length and breadth it is
difficult to estimate, being composed of four peninsulas,
with an area of about 3,578 miles. Its coast presents a
great number of bays, gulfs, and capes of eccentric
outline. Three deep arms of the sea penetrate it from
east to west, and the four gigantic tongues of land, united
at the centre by an inconsiderable mass, give the island
its peculiar shape. The southern peninsula was once
supposed to be a separate island, abounding in riches,
whose woods at night were illumed by swarms of the
firefly, imparting to them a magical beauty. The west-
ern and northern coasts are bold with few reefs ; but
along the other shores shoals and formations are spread,
some hidden, some appearing above water. The surface
is lofty, with considerable hills, and towards the north
several volcanoes remain active to this day. Some of the
mountains rise 7,000 feet above the level of the sea—usu-
ally with round tor flat tops, the perfection of woodland
scenery ; no broken, rugged peaks appearing to harden
the outlines of the landscape. The physical constitution
of the island is basalt in decomposition, covered with a
bed of soil, largely formed of volcanic detritus, from ten
to twenty feet in depth. In the north continual tremb-
lings of .the earth have rent it into many chasms, and
large quantities of sulphur have been thrown up. In
each of the peninsulas distinct features would appear in
a minute description ; but where a sketch only can be
afforded, the whole may in general' terms be remarked
upon, for the peculiar details are not visible in a super-
ficial survey.
" Though a mountainous island, Celebes presents
along the borders of the sea wide plains covered with
verdure, and beautiful valleys, some of which enclose
lakes more or less extensive. Nothing enhances the
grace of a landscape more than a lake, and those of
Celebes are distinguished by their beauty. Magnificent
basins of limpid water, raised on a smooth plateau, en-
circled by a rim of low hills, tufted with palm groves or
overlaid with soft sward, glitter under the sun of the
East, and glow like vast sheets of silver. They are
often spangled with the pearl-white flowers and the green
leaves of the water lily, with other aquatic plants of
splendid bloom. Water fowl of many species, some with
crimson and purple crests, inhabit the lakes, and birds
construct their nests on the floating fields of vegetation.
The scenery of the island becomes wilder as you leave the
sea. Shallow, but beautiful, streams intersect the long
sloping plains, springs of sweet water trickle between
the rocks, which are scattered, confused with green
knolls or thickets of flowering shrubs. Thick forests
cover the hills, and large tracts of the level country.
Oaks, maples, sycamores, cedars, teaktrees, the upas,
and numerous others, inhabit them. The woods, how-
ever, have in many parts of the interior been cleared
away, and the bright tints of the cultivated ground, the
cool refreshing rice fields contrast strongly with the dark
old drapery of nature still thrown over extensive tracts,
unvisited by industry, and enlivened only by rivers,
breaking into magnificent cascades."

interference is solicited have expressed contrition for
their crimes, or manifested any sense of gratitude or
loyalty to the gracious Sovereign whom they have so
grievously °Tended, and to whose clemency some of them
are indebted for their lives,'

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH
29.

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., the Coin .
mauder-in-Chief at this port, visited the Highflyer, 21
screw-frigate, Captain Heathcote, yesterday afternoon,
after the departure of Rear-Admirals Berkeley and Fan-
shawe, and Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, the Surveyor of
the Navy. The Highflyer seems quite an object of interest
in the harbour. Her gallant captain will be superseded
on Friday by Captain Moore, son of the late Admiral
Sir Graham Moore, and nephew of the late Lieutenant-
General Sir John Moore. Captain Heathcote is super-
seded merely because he has not studied steam, whereas
Captain Moore took deep interest in the fitting of the
Highflyer for commission, so much so that it was ex-
pected he would have been appointed to her. His last
command was the Harlequin, 12, in the Mediterranean.
Captain Heatl.eote intends to qualify for the command
of another steam-ship by studying steam at Woolwich
dockyard.

"To you. my lords and gentlemen, I have no hesita-
tion in admitting that the effort which I made in 1848
to excite an insurrection in Ireland was rash and inexpe-
dient. Events prove that I had miscalculated the
chances of success. I regret that effort, not so much on
acccount of the consequences which it has entailed upon
myself, as because I believe it to have been disastrous to
my country ; but, until my sentiments of patriotic duty
shall undergo such a change as I do not now contem-
plate, I never can be brought to express of it contrition
as for a crime. lam contented to rest the vindication
of my design upon the revelations of the census of 18M.
I have read in history of desolation occasioned by con-
quest, pestilence, famine, and civil war, but I can find
to case in which 2,000,000 of human beings have been
swept from their native soil, or consigned to a premature
grave, within a period of five years through the conduct
of their rulers. I conscientiously believe that this ap-
palling sacrifice of one-fourth cf the Irish nation, as well
as the general suffering with which it has been accom-
panied, might have been altogether prevented by wise
and benificent government Under these circumstances
I may acknowledge that I committed a mistake
in supposing that I should be supported by the
Irish people in the attempt to resist unconstitu-
tional legislation, and to avert national ruin by
an appeal to arms ; but I cannot express contrition
for such an attempt as if it were a crime. If it be a
crime to have loved the land of my fathers with fana-
tic affection—then lam a criminal. If it be a crime to
have devoted to the welfare of that land a life of unre-
mitting toil —than lam a criminal. If it be a crime to
have foregone for its sake every object of personal am-
bition, and, what I prize still more, the endearments ,of
domestic association in the happiest of homes—then I
am a criminal. If it be a crime to have encountered for
its sake every sort of obloquy and danger—then I am a
criminal. If it be a crime to have humbled myselffor its
sake to political adversaries, beseeching theta to unite
with me in a common effort to save our common coun-
try—then lam a criminal. If it be a crime to have
stooped for its sake to solicitations from the British
Parliament, galling alike to personal and national pride
—then lam a criminal. If it he a crime, when I found
peaceful remonstrance unavailing, to have incited my
countrymen to appeal to that final arbitrament which
even England can honour in Hungarian failure and in
American success—then I am a criminal. If it be a
crime to have desired to win the freedom and indepen-
dence of my country with the least possible amount of
bloodshed, and with total abstinence from revolutionary
excesses—then I am a criminal. Were lin the pre-
sence of my Maker, I could not acknowledge as a crime
this devotion to Ireland. How, then, can I express
contrition for it to that Government which has been,
both direetly and indirectly, both in times far remote
and in the days of its recent calamity, the agent to
which it owes its oppression and desolation? Compared
with the calamities of my beloved country, my own
own personal suffering is a matter of insignificance even
to myself. Yet I cannot find in the treatment which I
have experienced any grounds for that gratitude which
the Irish exiles are reproached for withholding. When
convicted at Clonmel, by a species of trial upon which I
am not now disposed to animadvert, I prepared myself
to expect that the sentence of death recorded against
me would be executed. I will not say that there might
have been some hazard in attempting to carry into effect
that sentence ; but it will not be forgotten that even the
British public was shocked at the idea that we should be
put to death by the same men who had invited Sir Wm.
Napier to take command of a rebel force for the purpose of
coercing an adverse party to pass the Reform Bill, and who,
at the very moment when we wore convicted, were relying
upon the support of the Canadian rebels for the mainte-
nance of their influence in North America. Yet I was
prepared for this result. As the law then stood, the alter-
native penalty which I incurred was death or imprison-
ment in Ireland during the pleasure of the Queen.
Neither of these alternatives was applied in my case ; but,
by ex post facto legislation, I was consigned, as a tran-
sported convict, to perpetual separation from my coun-
try and my family—a punishment which I then consi-
dered, and still consider, worse than death. I refused,
in 1849, to accept such an ex post facto enactment as a
mitigation of my sentence, and my experience during
the last three years still forbids me to consider this com-
mutation as an act of clemency. How, then, can I tes-
tify gratitude for what I deem to be wrong ? Neither
can 1 find any cause for gratitude in the treatment which
the Irish State prisoners have experienced in Van Die-
men's Land. It has been exceptional ; but it would
not be difficult to show that it has been exceptional
against us rather than in our favour. The efforts which
have been made by the local Government to annoy and
humililiate us evinca a spirit which I can characterise
only as dastard spite ;# and, the proceedings of Sir Wm.
Denison having been sanctioned by the home Govern-
ment, it deserves to share the praise which be may claim.
Rulers may brand and punish patriotism as a crime, but
it is not in their power to induce mankind to "shrink
with abhorrence" from those who have been condemned,
because unsuccessful, for the exercise of this virtue.
Had we been treated as ordinary felons, such treatment
would, even in this country, have irritated public feel-
ing without withdrawing from us the sympathy of one
generous mind. I shall not waste your time nor my
own by recapitulating the various circumstances which
justify me in holding this language. It is sufficient
that I should say, at this moment, after we have em
dured four years of imprisonment, no convictwho holds
a "ticket of leave" is- subject to the restrictions which,
notwithstanding the exaction from us of a parole, have
been imposed upon all the State prisoners except Mr.
Mitchel. The case of Mr. Mitchel is also exceptionnl,
and affords a striking illustration of the vindicative spirit
by which the British Government has been animated
towards the Irish exiles. In consideration of the
hardships which the convicts brought from Ber-
muda along with Mr. Mitchel, underwent while de-
tained on board the Neptune at the Cape of Good Hope
and on the voyage ,a conditional pardon was granted to
all on board, whatever might be their crimes, with the
single exception of the Irish patriot. In proceedings
such as these I can find no cause for gratitude. Lord
Eglinton proceeds to reproach us with having made no
professions of loyalty to the Queen. Had we expressed
respect for her Majesty we should probably have been
rewarded with banter and contempt. In my case, such
professions are as needless as they are unavailing. I
cannot remember that I ever in my life uttered a word
disrespectful to Queen Victoria. I never conspired
against her person ; nor, except inferentially, can it be
said that I conspired against her crown. Yet one of the
most prominent of modern British statesmen condes-
cended, for the pi/pose of raising a prejudice against me,
to allege, upon no better authority than a story invented
by a hostile journalist, that I aspired to revive in my
own person that native royalty which was, during many
centuries, hereditary in my family. While I regarded
the inteference of the British Parliament in the affairs of
Ireland as a usurpation, I was willing to acknowledge
the Queen of Great Britain as both de jure and de facto
Sovereign of Ireland. Until the hour at which I insti-
gated the people of Ireland to take up arms in resistance
to an unconstitutional enactment of the British Parlia-
ment, I was prepared to adopt the ancient constitution
of my country, impersonated in The Queen, Lords, and
Commons of Ireland,' as the legitimate authority to
which I owed subjection. Had the abortive insurrection
which was occasioned by the misgovernment of the Bri-
tish Parliament been successful, a republic would pro-
bably have been established in Ireland ; but with me at
least such a result would have been a matter of necessity
rather than of choice. I admire the republican institu-
tions of America, but I am by no means convinced that
a republic is the only form of government under which
nations can be free, prosperous, and happy. I have now
no new professions of loyalty to offer. I conceive that
allegiance is an obligation reciprocal with, and condi-
tional upon, good government. I conceive that re-
gard for the rights and welfare of our country is a
duty paramount to the respect which we owe to its chief
magistarate. Such are the principles to the maintenance
of which the family of Brunswick owes its seat upon the
throne of England, and by the due observance of- which
the crown may be best preserved for its present possessor
and her descendants. In concluding this address, I will
not conceal from you that I have been disappointed in
the result of your intervention in our favour. Though I
expected little from the magnanimity of English politi-
cians, I yet thought that motives of expediency would
probably lead to compliance with your request. Be-
lieving that a general and unconditional amnesty in re-
gard to the insurrectionary proceedings of 1848 is dic-
tated not less by policy than by generous feeling, I
thought it probable that Lord Derby's Administration
would have made a graceful concession to the wishes of
the most high-minded portion of the Irish nation and to
the universal voice of North America. I was the more
inclined to indulge this belief when I found that three of
the most eminent of my counsel—Mr. Whiteside, Mr.
Napier, and Sir F. Kelly—have become law advisers of
the Crown under the new Ministerial arrangements. As
these functionaries, not only in their professional capa-
city, but also as private gentlemen (and in the case of
Sir F. Kelly by an extra-forensic proceeding which is, I
believe, without precedent), protested that I was not
tried according to law, I thought that, unless they
be the most contemptible of mercenaries, they would, as
Government officials, maintain the same opinion which
they had delivered in the proceedings connected with my
defence. tThese expectations:have been disappointed. If
I were disposed to cherish resentment against England,
I should console myself with an assurance that the day
will arrive, though perhaps I may not see it, when the
British Government will regret that they refused your
repuest. But I find a purer source of consolation in the
consciousness that the penalties which have been in-
flicted upor me by British legislation have been merited
only by my devotion and fidelity to the. land of my
birth.

Commander Joseph Bickford, recently promoted from
First-Lieutenant of the Cumberland, 72, flag-ship on the
West India station, and lately appointed Commander to
the Albion, 90, in the Mediterranean, is appointed to
supersede Commander ICynaston in the Cumberland, the
latter officer returning to England. •
The London, 90, Captain Mundy, was inspected at
Spithead yesterday by Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Coch-
rane.

The Cruiser, 14, screw-sloop, Commander the Hon.
G. H. Douglas, is refitting alongside the Blonde hulk.
She seems to have met with rough weather in her late
cruise.

No information has been received here yet regarding
the fate of the leaking and insufficiently-manned barque
Duncan Ritchie. Captain Haan, of the galliot Agneta
Juliana, parted from her when she was about 40 miles
south-south-east of Scilly, and, as the wind blew in that
direction, he considered she would go there. A cutter
was in company with her when last seen. The barque
registered 508 tons, and was launched at Aberdeen in
1843.

A court-martial, consisting of Rear-Admiral Arthur
Fanshawe, C. 8., President ; Captains Sir T. Maitland,
C. 8., of the Agamemnon; E. H. Scott, of the Neptune;
W. H. Henderson, C. 8., of the Blenheim ; J. Shepherd,
of the Victory ; G. W. D. O'Callaghan, of the Encoun-
ter ; Francis Scott, of the Odin ; W. Crispin, of
the Victoria and Albert ; E. Heathcote, of the
Highflyer .; and Mr. G. L. Greetham, Deputy
Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, assembled this morn-
ing at nine o'clock, on board the flag-ship Victory,
in this harbour, to try a seaman gunner of the Excel-
lent, named Robert King, for desertion. Captain
H. D. Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent, prosecutedfor the Ad-
miralty. The prisoner entered the Excellent on the 13th
of September, 1851, and, having acquired the gunnery
science, deserted on the 23d of December following.
He was apprehended in London on the I6th inst., by
William Cutler, a quartermaster of H.M.S. Crocodile, a
vessel stationed in the Thames for the reception of
volunteers for the navy, under the command of Lieu-
tenant Greet. Cutler finding the prisoner not provided
with a man-of-war certificate, or a mercantile regis-
tration ticket, took him before Lieutenant Greet,
before whom he admitted he was a deserter from the
Excellent at the time named in the charge. Lieu-
tenant Greet sent him down to this port, where Cap-
tain Chads and the master-at-arms of the Excellent
recognised him. The evidence established the charge.
The prisoner offered no defence, and threw himself on
the mercy of the Court, but called upon Captain Shep-
herd, one of the members, to speak as to his character,
he having served with that strict officer in H. M. S.
Inconstant. Captain Shepherd at once testified as to
his character having been " very good" during the time
he was in his ship ; and the prisoner must have been a
deserving, good man to have merited that testimonial at
his (Captain Shepherd's) hands. In consequence of this
testimony the Court only awarded the prisoner twelve
months' imprisonment in the County Gaol at Win-
click ter.

SHEERNESS, MARCH 29.
The Conquestador, 50-gun frigate (razeed from a 74,
and one of the advanced ships), has this day been
brought down from her moorings and taken into the
fitting-basin to be prepared for immediate commission.
The African and the Myrtle, steam towing:vessels left
here to-day for Chatham, for the purpose of towing the
screw steam-frigate Imperieuse, 60, Captain Rundle B.
Watson, down alongside the cool depot Fortitude, where
she is to take in 500 tons of Welch coals preparatory to
her departure.

WOOLWICH, M.utcH 29.
APPOINTMENT.
Second Master John W. Read to the Prince Regent,
90, at Plymouth.

IMPROVEMENTS IN EXTRACTING GOLD AND
SILVER PROM THEIR ORES (BAGGS' PATENT).

These improvements, but recently introduced, and
already adopted by some of the leading gold companies,
are not based upon any untried or theoretical notions
with regard to the extraction of the precious metals, but
are founded upon the well-known results of extensive
practical experience. Mercury is used in these arrange-
ments as before, but under circumstances eminently cal-
culated to extract the gold or silver with great rapidity
and completeness. In the ordinary process of amal-
gamation the two objects aimed at are-Ist, the sepa-
ration of the mercury into innumerable small globules,
so as to present an extended surface for the exercise
of chemical attraction ; and, 2dly, to aggregate these
globules into one mass, and so separate the metal from
the quartzose debris which has been stripped of its auri-
ferous treasure. These two operations, as at present con-
ducted, consume a very great amount of time in the first
place ; and they are always attended with a considerable
loss of gold, as well as of mercury, from the difficulty of
fulfilling the conditions upon which the success of
the process depends. In California, where the sys-
tem of gold mining is extensively practised, shaking-
tables are employed, which require to be made with the
greatest exactitude, to produce anything like a profitable
result. But in every instance the operation is tedious, and
the result imperfect, and attended with loss. If gold,
like iron, could only be endowed with the property of
attracting and being attracted by some subtle force
operating at sensible distances, like that of a magnet,
the process of extraction would be comparatively easy ;
or if, without destroying the liquidity of mercury, we
could only cause it to assume the form of a sieve (which
appears at first sight to be a physical impossibility), and
then cause the material upon which we are operating to
pass over and over again through the meshes of that
sieve, it is obvious that we should realise the de-
sideratum of an enormous surface of action, and
multiply the points of contact between the com-
bining substances to an extent hitherto deemed un-
attainable. Now, every chemist knows that when a
fluid body acts upon a solid, the action is limited to the
points of actual contact ; so that if a globe of mercury
were made to act upon gold quartz, the surface would be
exercising its power of affinity, while the interior of the
sphere would be practically inactive ; and though we
are aware that the globules of mercury, in the ordinary
process of amalgamation, are mechanically small, yet,
chemically considered, they are very large, and hence
there results a great waste of power, time, and material.
The idea of a mercurial sieve, to which we have
just adverted, forms the leading feature of the
present invention. Taking into account the num-
ber, length, and diameter of the cylindrical wires
which compose each of the sieves, the total service pre-
sented to action is upwards of 160 superficial feet ; and
if we only, suppose the barrel to make 100 revolutions to
begin with, in the short time so occupied the materials
which it contains will be brought into close and intimate
contact with no less than 16,000 square feet of mercuri-
alised surface a surface incessantly renewed by the
percolation of falling mercury, and as continually
presenting its powerful attraction to the fine parti-
cles of gold which are made to pass through its
meshes. Considering the nature of these arrangements,
we are not surprised at the statement of the inventor,
that the process of amalgamation may thus be accom-
plished in one-tenth of the time usually occupied in effect-
ing it, and that 90 per cent. of the mercury ordinarily
required is saved. Not that a smaller per centage of this
metal is added to each charge, but that ten consecutive
operations may be performed in the time now occupied
in the reduction of a single charge ; so that a given
weight of mercury does ten times the work it has done
hitherto. Iu a cheaper form of amalgamation, under
this patent, the sieves are dispensed with, and replaced
FY amalgamated balls of copper, thrown loosely into the
cask with the quartz ore, and a proper quantity of
metallic mercury.
When the necessary combination has been effected
by either of the above means, it becomes necessary to
separate the auriferous amalgam from the refuse mate-
rial with which it is now associated. This is a pro-
• cess which commonly occupies time, and to take silver
as an illustration, it is the practice in the European
method of producing an nanalgurn
of this metal from the
rock, to cause the barrels in which the chemical union
has been effected to be reduced in speed to about 8 re-
volutions per minute, instead of making, as previously
from 20 to 25. By this means the minute globules of
mercury are aggregated into one mass ; but the opera-
tion is not effected under two hours, and even then a
portion of the metal is lost.
In-addition to the Alliance Company
ments have been already adopted these irciprove-
by the Anglo-Califor-
nian and Anglo-Australian Gold Companies ; and great
results are looked forward to from their application in
California and the antipedes.—Afining Journal of Sa-
turday.

SHIP-BUILDING ON C LYDE.—There are at present
100 vessels in course of construction on the Clyde, and
of these only six are timber-built—all the rest being
built of iron. It is also notable that these iron vessels
consist both of steam and sailing vessels, though the
former class preponderates. The aggregate tonnage
of the ships now in course of construction on the Clyde,
amounts to upwards of 60,000 tons. The engines of
the steam part of this great fleet have an aggregate of
more than 14,000 horse power. The probable value of
the whole, though the estimate is necessarily inexact,
cannot be much short of two millions sterling Yet in a
few mouths, this enormous amount of shipping will be
off the stocks, and its place supplied by a new produc-
tion, equally valuable. The number of workmen em-
ployed in building the vessels and making the machinery
is about 15,000. The number of hands employed in
raising the raw materials from the basin of the Clyde,
within a circle of 20 or 30 miles, for these and similar
great works, is still more immense. Another most gra•
tifying feature of the ship-building trade of the Cl yde is,
that the employers in nearly all the establishments were
working men themselves within the last 30 years. Most
of them had attained the period of middle life before they
turned their attention to iron boat-building at all. The
men are not only the architects of their own fortunes,
but the creators of a new branch of industry.—North
British Mail.

---‘‘l have the honour to remain, your obliged and
faithful servant,

" WILLIAM S. O'BRIEN.
"New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land, Sept. 14, 1852

THE LONGWOODS OF THE GRANGE—A Novel, by the
Author of " Adelaide Lindsay."—The Longwoods are a
family group in the story of whose life, as told by the
successful delineator of "Adelaide Lindsay," even blaze
romance readers will find a charm and an interest simi-
lar to that which attends the annals of the "Vicar of
Wakefield"—arising from the homeliness of the scenes,
the reality of the type of character, and the clear possi-
ble plot. In the very simplicity of the story, and the
characters contriving to sustain eager reading to the
end—and, at the end, to live as familiar acquainta.ll be
acquaintances.
The test of the novel writer's creative capacity, will
perceived proof that the writer is au artist--and artistic
conception and consistent finish are the traits of the
sketch. Our readers will find in "The Longwoods" a
novel worth reading and worth remembering.—Daily
News.