The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

LITE R A T UR E.

The Young Husband. By Mrs. Grey, Author of
"Mary Seaham," "The Gambler's Wife," Sc.
3 voli. Hurst and Blackett.
The characteristic feature of Mrs. Grey's writings
is melancholy. Her heroes and heroines are gene-
rally those whose lot is overcast in some manner.
In the present instance she does not depart from
her rule ; for a more unfortunate heroine than
Blanche Pierrepont is difficult to be imagined.
She was of a very affectionate and confiding dis-
position, and would use any exertion or make any
sacrifice for those she loved. She met with no
adequate return for all her devotion and kindness,
but was throughout all her life misunderstood and
ill-treated. All the members of her family and her
friends seemed to have better and more engrossing
ties of interest and affection, and the lonely and
neglected Blanche wandered in solitary misery.
She found one friend at last in a rich old gentle.
man, Mr. Fordyce ; but he did more harm even-
tually to her cause than any one. In the excess of
his regard for the kind-hearted girl, and of his in-
dignation at her unjust treatment, he, on his death-
bed, left her his fortune. This would have been a
wise and kind measure if he had not attempted
more, and endeavoured to take fate into his own
hands by controlling the passions and influencing
the feelings of others. Claud Lorraine, the hero,
had been from childhood the object of Blanche's
fervent regard and attachment ; but on the part of
the wayward and self-sufficient youth the very re-
verse of such sentiments was entertained. Mr.
Fordyce loft so much a-year to Claud on condition
of his marrying Blanche within a given time. As
might have been expected from Claud's selfish
nature, the temptation of riches and power proved
too strong for him. Without giving up any of his
previous habits, or improving his inconsiderate
demeanour, he married the unfortunate young
heiress. The faults were not wholly on his side,
as Blanche herself ought to have exhibited more
self-respect and dignity. The chief object was to
advance his welfare, and she foolishly supposed
that a large fortune would make him happy. She
was aware that he did not care for her. Mrs. Lo-
raine, the mother of Claud, was also very blame-
able in the transaction, and in the representation
of her character and Conduct the author is very
successful. She shows how her motherly feelings
are allowed to influence not only her judgment
but her conscience, for she was acquainted with an
affair that proved an insuperable barrier to their
happiness—this was the devotion of Claud to a
young English singer ho liad seen abroad, who
returned his affection. Stella Fitzhenry was the
only daughter of a talented and ambitious mother,
whose great object of life was to see her daughter
attain a high place on the stage. Her great musi-
cal talents especially fitted her for an opera singer.
On travelling in Italy she met Claud Lorraine,
and, after some opposition on the part of her mo-
ther, they wero engaged. To Claud's consternation
he received a letter from his mother, ureng his
immediate return. Ho parted from Stella with
great sorrow, promising.a speedy meeting. They
did meet after many months at the Opera in Lon-
don, on the night of Stella's first appearance, when
she learned that Claud was the husband of Blanche.
A long series of sorrow and discontent on all sides
followed, Stella weakly refusing to banish Claud
from her thoughts, till at length the miseries of
the unfortunate young heiress reached a climax in
the elopement of her husband with Stella on the
eve of her marriage. This, however, is not the
conclusion of the story, though it may be considered
its moral. It teaches that we shbuld not take the
destinies of others into our own hands, like Mr.
Fordyce—that we should not, like Mrs. Lorraine,
suffer our affections to allow us to act the part of
tempter ; and that we should not, like Blanche,
forgot that there is a point beyond which self-
sacrifice becomes worse than folly, and that we
should never " do evil that good may conic." For
though it is true she was not acquainted with
Gland's love for Stella, she showed herself utterly
wanting in all self-respect and feminine dignity,
by marrying ono who treated her with such mani-
fest disregard and contempt. For Claud himself
little Can be said ; thoroughly selfish and exacting,
he fails to arouse our interest or awaken our sym-
pathy. Tho reader's only feeling is ono of wonder
that two young women, both beautiful, gentle,
and accomplished, with many opportunities of form-
ing other acquaintances, should have been so com-
pletely wanting in sense and judgment as to suffer
him to blight both their lives, and destroy every
prospect of happiness. The narrative displays
much feeling, and paints the sorrows and disap-
pointments of the unfortunate heroine with much
skill. Tho effect of the style is, however, some-
what marred by the injudicious arrangement of the
narrative. This work
.will be most attractive to
all romance readers who admire characters which
inspire a mournful interest, and consider those_ in-
cidents most effective which are seen through a
veil of melancholy.

Nt The cab drivers of Glasgow have memorialised the
Lord Provost and magistrates, craving them to remove
the Snnday nab stands. They have also addressed
notice to the various clergymen, soliciting them'to
nounce from their respective pulpits that the cab drivers
have determined to make a united effort to aecuro
cessation from all work on Sundays.—Glasgote Paper.
THE NEW ItarIIESENTATIVI: SEWERS COMMISSION
The followinh; letter from the Hotne-othee ha, I.
warded to Sir B. Hall : mesa for

receipt of your letter of the 26th instant,
" Whitehall, Oct. 30,1854.
. /am directed by Viscount Paltnerston to sc•
"Sir,-1
knowledge the
nclosing a copy of a letter addressed to you by the vestry
clerk of tit. Marylebone respecting the New Sewers Coin-
mission, and I am to inform you that the commission will
M.P., Stc., Great Stanhope•street."
be appointed in a fow days
your obedient servant, .—I have the honour to be, Sir,
your obedient servant,
" 11. WADDINGTON.
.nnoa MUM:IM Since the verdict re-,
coroner's inquest on the body of Mrs.
turT":
ISe
Bai r Bali
L Hall,te
'Tones, who was killed by her husband, as already
briefly reported in The Sun, the magistrates of the
county have instituted an inquiry at the county gaol,
and the following additional facts have been collected:—
The children of the prisoner were examined as to
the treatment of the deceased by her husband, Daniel
Jones. James Jones, the prisoner's son, aged 13 yesires,
deposed that his father awoke him by the noise
whthhe
he made in boating his mother. He beat inherr
her
face with kis fist, pushed her on the fire, kickedandeu
g r's house
in an awful manner. He went to
y " Oh, dear,
for assistance to prevent his father
and, on returning, heard Lis mother
"Hie fetched his
Daniel 1" evidently in great ac,,oiit.
on the floor ap-
uncle, and they found his mother lying
eevered with blood,
aknileliiighhhis mother,
parently dead, and with her face
still i''
Prisoner said, " Halloo,
hen washed her
and carried her to bed.
no
t had beaten the de-
went to bed himself.
Insfather
Thursday, and out
ceased with a stick on the previous
Thii statement was corroho-
her head open till it bled. This
girl, you are afire
face
and
deceased by the prisoner
utter exhaustion of the poor YIC•
with a whip, and the
nutted the hu4banl for "W 11.
am The InagiAtrates cow
Sul IllUrds?.4
.... _--
rwaitleodspbyokaentootltiehre sboonatoitngthoefptrhiesoner nod by a daughter,

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FARIS UNI VERSAL EXHIBITION OF 1855.

BOARD OF TRADE (DEPARTMENT Or SCIENCE AND ART).
Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, Oct. 31, 1854.
Sir,—I have been directed-by the lords of the com-
mittee of her Majesty's Privy Council of Trade to for-
ward to you the translation of a circular which has been
addressed by the Imperial commission for the Paris
Exhibition of 1855, to the various departmental com-
mittees in France, urging upon them the necessity of
only admitting to the Exhibition such articles as will
reflect credit upon French industry.
Although my lords are not altogether prepared to say
that the considerations which are put forward by the
Imperial commission as suitable to France, are those
which should entirely influence the selection of the local
committees acting for the manufacturers of the United
Kingdom, yet my lords consider it their duty to call the
attention of the committees to the issue of this circular.
The imperial commission recommend that only those
articles should be admitted which show one of the fol-
lowing characteristics :—First, a reduction of price
through a more intelligent application of labour ; se-
condly, some great utility ; thirdly, a novelty in the
application of some raw material or industrial process ;
fourthly, superiority in taste and execution, ; fifthly, the
importance of the manufacture or production. In gene-
ral some progress of science or industry is indicated as
the condition of selection.
In making selections for the British section of the
E xhibition, it will be necessary to Lear in mind that the
Exhibition is to take place in France, a country in which
until now, British manufactures are to a great degree
unknown to the mass of the population. It is nOt there-
fore necessary that progress alone should be the distinc-
tive feature of the British department of the Exhibition,
but rather completeness in all its details, even the very
humblest ; and in the consideration of many branches of
industry local committees can scarcely do wrong in.fol-
lowing the verdict already pronounced by the public,
in the shape cf a large and long-continued demand ;
while they would of course assure themselves that the
goods sent were relatively excellent and the best of
their kind.
It is not only for the information of the few distin-
guished and well-informed foreigners who will take Rost
in the labours of the international jury, and who are,
perhaps, as well acquainted with our industry as their
own, that the British exhibition must be prepared, but
for the French public, for whom it will be the first op-
portunity of seeing a systematic display of the produc-
tions of this country.
My lords would. beg your committee to take measures
to submit these considerations to the exhibitors, who
are, more than any others, interested in the general re-
sult of the exhibition being a creditable one to the
country.
My lords perfectly agree with the imperial commission
in recommending collective exhibitions of any particular
branch of industry • the plan is one to which they have
frequently made allusion in their correspondence with
your committee, and its advantages are forcibly stated in
the circular of the imperial commission.
I am further directed to enclose for the use of your
committee a copy of the report presented by Mr. Ward,
her Majesty's Consul-General at Leipsic, to the Earl of
Clarendon, upon the Industrial Exhibition which has
taken place at Munich. Your committee will find it
well worthy of their attention, and the considerations
put forward may afford additional reasons to committees
for insuring a complete and creditable display of the in-
dustry of their locality.—l have the honour to be, sir,
your obedient servant,
H. C. OWEN, Capt. R.E., Secretary.
The Secretary to the Local Committee for the
Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855, at

[Translation from the Moniteur of the 19th Oct., 1854.]
The following circular has been addressed by the im-
perial commission to the presidents of the departmental
committees :

" Paris, October 15, 1854.
" Monsieur le President,—As the time is at hand
when the most important duty of the departmental com-
mittees will commence, namely, the examination which
must precede the admission or rejection of the articles
proposed to be exhibited, I think it useful again to call
your attention to the most important of the arrange-
ments made on this point by the imperial commission,
and to the general principles which should guide the
committees in the exercise of their functions.
" In the first place, it will be well not to lose sight
of the fact, that if the industry of France met with a

brilliant snceess in the Exhibition of All Nations o:

1851, it was, first, because the most eminent manufac

turers came forward to illustrate their respective branches
of industry ; secondly, because the central jury of selec-
tion had acted according to stringent rules, and had

only admitted those objects which were able to vio with
similar contributions from foreign countries; and lastly,
because the limited space which France occupied had
rendered it necessary to make a second and still more
careful selection.

England, on the contrary, having at her disposal an
almost unlimited amount of space, had left the local
committees at liberty freely to admit the products offered
for exhibition, the result of which was a general average
inferior to the actual excellence of British industry.
" At the Exhibition of 1855, these relative positions
might well be reversed, should the committees make too
lenient an examination. They will, however, be com-
pelled to be resolute, by the fact that the imperial com-
mission has only at its disposal about one-third of the
space 'demanded.
" For several months the industry of England has be
grouping and organising itself, in order that it may be
effectively represented in 1355.
"Austria, whose products wore so much admired in
London, is inakirrz active preparations to. respond to
the invitation of France.
"Prussia and the other States of the Zoilvercia, Sw

zerland, Belgium, Holland, the United States, in a word
every country with which France is at peace, is calling
upon and encouraging its most eminent manufacturers
to come forward and worthily represent it in this compe-
tition of all nations.
" With a knowledge of all these efforts, the industry
of France should take heed not to weaken itself by ad.
milting to the contest too many competitors, or those
who are bold rather than skilful.
"The departmental committees have under their care
the interests of the nation, which they must protect by
firmly exercising their right of rejection and selection.
"The space reserved for the French exhibitors will
be ample, if the committees will thfew out all that is
not worthy of a place therein, that is to say, that does
not possess some distinguishing quality, such as
" Low price, not obtained by reducing the wages of
the artisan ;
"Manifest usefulness ;
"Novelty of invention, or of application of a raw ma-
terial or principle already known.
" Superiority of taste and execution.
"Importance of the manufacture, or, in a word,
some progress in a scientific or industrial point of view.
" The committees will also bear in mind that they are
only to admit the contributions of manufactures, pro-
ducers, and inventors.
" After having selected the exhibitors, the committees
• will proceed to examine their productions.
"They are to refuse admission to anything bearing
the character of an assortment. Thus, in order to judge
of a textile fabric, or of a design, two or three colours
will suffice.
" The only assortments, or rather the only collections,
which may have space allotted to them in the Universal
Exhibition, are collections of models, instruments, tools,
processes, samples of raw or manufactured produce, or
such as serve to illustrate any branch of industry or
commerce in a complete and instructive manner.
"The collection of specimens of the products and
merchandise received into the magnificent docks of
Liverpool from all parts of the world, may be cited as a
remarkable example of this kind. All bore witness to
the advantage obtained in London, in 1.31, by the col-
lective arrangement of several branches of French and
foreign industry, such as those of Lyons and Mulhau-
• sen, of the armourers of Paris, the ribbons of Basle, the
• silks of Zurich, &e. I would urge you to recommend
this plan to those manufacturers who exercise similar
trades in your locality, as the most suitable in every
respect ; it is more attractive to visitors, more conve-
nient for the examination and awards of the jurors, pre-
vents a useless repetition of the same article, economises
space, and whiles it leaves to each exhibitor his indivi-
duality,
improves the effect of the whole, and thus in-
creases the chances of success.
"At the same time, do not neglect to collect the in-
formation necessary or the report which the imperial
commission have commissioned you to prepare, in order
that they may have pointed out to them the services
rendered to agriculture and industry by managers of
works and factories, foremen, artizans, or labourers, who
are not exhibitors.
" Receive, Monsieur le Prdeident, the assurance of
my most distinguished consideration.
A
(Signed) " RLES-DUFOUR."

THE CHOLERA.--There have been five new cases and
Iwo deaths in the city 'mashes of Edinburgh since our
last.i No cases have occurred in the St. Cuthbert's or
noyng,ate parishes. Scotsman,
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