The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-21 00:00:00

been appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the living of St.
Just, in the far western extremity of Cornwall. The
article condemning the Contagious Diseases Act
is by Mr. Bunting, son of the late Dr. Bunting,
President of the Wesleyan Conference. The first article
in the Edinburgh Review, on Pope Sixtus V., is by Mr.
William Stigand who has lately returned to Eng-
land after several years residence in Paris, and
who was the author of the long letter of five columns
about the French nation and the war, which appeared
in the supplement of Tuesday's Times. I may
mention also that the author of that most clever social
and political satire " Ginx's Baby," which every one who
has not read should read, is Mr. Edward Jenkins, a
barrister, who was an unsuccessful parliamentary candi-
date at the general election, and who is now in the West
Indies. The author of the letters from Paris in the
Athenceum signed "Y " is Mr. Yapp, a well-known
Anglo-Parisian litterateur.
The list of forthcoming works is tolerably large, but I
believe that I have already forestalled , the official an-
nouncements. Mr. Murray still advertises the " Speaker's
Commentary on the Bible," as about to appear, though
the first part of it was promised some months ago. Mr.
Darwin is busy on his new book " The Descent
of Man, and on Selection in Relation to Sex."
Messrs. Straban are publishing a volume of Lec-
tures and Tracts by Keshub Chunder Sen. The
work on London, which Mr. Blanchard Jerrold has
written and. Gustave Dore has illustrated, will be out
shortly, and Londoners may expect to see the walls
covered with a fantastic poster designed by the artist of
the work. A Life of Daniel Manin is about to be pub-
lished in Italian.
Among the new books now before me is "The Genial
Showman." It is a biography of Artemus Ward,
by Mr. E. P. Hingston. and is as amusing as the subject
of it was. It is one of the best books which Mr. Hotten
has published, both as to letter-press and general
get-up.

M. Esquires has suppressed the Gazette du Midi iii

defiance of M. Gambetta's prohibition. Rather a bad
beginning for a returned Liberal exile and journalist. His
old friends at Woolwich will regret to hear of it.

The Winter Exhibition of the Old Bond-street Gallery
is now opened. At the private view on Saturday I found
a goodly attendance crowding the, it must be confessed,
very awkward building. The Exhibition Committee has

for its chairman Mr. Solly, F.R.S., and on the com-
mittee is one R.A., Mr. Ansdell, and two or three West
country artists and connoisseurs, such as Mr. Sidney
Whiteford, and Sir Paul Molesworth. Next to Mr.
Ansdell, Mr. Frost and Mr. Smallfield, are the best
known contributors. Others there are like Mr. W. H.
Millais and Mr. G. C. Stanfield, known by their relation-
ship to the famous artists of those names. By what is, I
suppose an undesigned coincidence Roman Catholics are
remarkably numerous on the committee. The pictures chew
no signs of this for landscape largely preponderates
Mr. Shoubridge's powerful night scene of " Ancient
Rome "is one of the best works in the exhibition. The
original of Mr. Lidderdale's " A Roman Girl " will be
recognised by every Londoner as the handsome woman in

Roman costume who is to be seen almost every day
trudging from the region about Leicester square to St.
John's Wood, on her way to sit as a model both of face-
and costume to the brotherhood of the art-celebrated dis-
trict last named.

Amongst those who have arrived in London from the
besieged city is M. Adolphe Yvon, the well-known French
artist, who has been awarded several tributes to his
ability, including the Legion of Honour. Amongst his
many works are the battle pictures of the last fifteen years,
which embrace " The Retreat from Russia," " Solferino,'
"Magenta," " The Taking of the Malakoff," &c. These
were exhibited in the last French Exhibition. Since M.
Yvon has been in town, Mr. E, Rimmell has provided
him with a temporary studio, which has been visited by
several well-known English artists. Amongst the callers
was Mr. Hall, of the Art Journal, who was
so pleased with two works by M. Yvon which
represented peasant life in Russia that he at once ordered
them.

Another new theatre will very shortly be opened in
the Strand, under the name of the Opera Comique. It is
the fifth new theatre which has been opened in the same
region in the course of about two years. It is a groat
pity that, with houses like the Lyceum shut up, the the-
atrical managers and lessees do not try what a reduction of
admission would do. There is to be a short opera season
at the Royal Italian, beginning on the 31st, when the
" Magic Flute " will be performed. The chief singers will
be Titiens, Ilma di Murska, and Trebelli-Bettini.

DEATH OF PROFESSOR VANGEROW.
While French journalists have been circulating fictitious
stories about the mysterious death of an illustrious
German officer, one of the most noteworthy among
German professors has suddenly passed away. By the
death, in his sixty-secand y ear, of Professor Vangerow, at
Heidelberg, Germany loses one of her greatest jurists, and
the students of Roman law one of their most accomplished
teachers. Since Savigny died Professor Vangerow
has had no superior in the world as an authority upon
Roman law. For the last twenty years his lectures have
attracted students to Heidelberg from all parts of the
globe. 111 his class-room students from every State
in Germany, from England, Scotland, and Ame- •
rica, attentively listened to the exposition of
the principles of Roman law, and to an ex-
planation of the points which had been the
subjects of controversy and doubt. There was not a pam-
phlet relating to the law which the professor had not read,
and to which, in his work entitled " Pandecen," he did
not make some reference. He had the gift, possessed
by few of his countrymen, of being exhaustive
without being exhausting. His lucidity of exposition
was as great as his learning. This contributed to
make him renowned as a tea lher. Indeed, his fame
as a writer is out of proportion to his capacity.
Had he devoted himself, like Savigny, to the production
of some comprehensive work on Roman law, he would
doubtless have made a greater mark in the voluminous
literature of which Roman jurisprudence is the theme.
He might have done this, however, without rendering a
more important service to the students of jurisprudence.
Those who profited by his teaching will be able to accom-
plish that which he had not the time to undertake.—
Daily News.

THE FATAL SHIP.

Down the deep sea ! full fourscore fathoms down !
An iron vault hath clutched five hundred men !
They died not, like the nations, one by one :
A thrill ! a bounding pulse ! a shout ! and then
Five hundred hearts stood still, at once, nor beat again !

That night the Angel of the Lord beheld
A vast battalion of the gliding dead :
Souls that came up where seething surges quell'd
Their stately ship—their throne—and now the bed
Where they shall wait, in shrouded sleep, the Morn of Dread !

Fast slept the sailor-boy ! A silent dream
Softened his brow with smiles—his mother's face
Droops over him—and her soft kisses seem
Warm on his cheek—what severs that embrace?
Death! strangling death !—alive —a conscious burial-place !

And he, the kingly mind, whose skill had plann'd
That lorldly bastion of the world of waves ?
But yesterday he stood, in proud command,
And now a thing of nought, where ocean raves
Above his shuddering sepulchre in the weedy caves !

The monsters of the sea will glide and glare :
Baffled Leviathan shall roar in vain :
The Sea Kings of the Isles are castled there :
They man that silent fortress of the main :
Yea ! in the realms of death their dust shall rule and reign !

Lord Yahvah* of the Waters ! Thou wert there !
Thy presence shone throughout that dark abode :
Thy mighty touch assuaged the last despair :
Their pulses paused in the calm midst of God ;
Their souls, amid surrounding angels, went abroad !
1870. R. S. HA WKER.

* " Yahvah," the Hebrew name of God the Trinity wrongly
spelt, and pronounced "Jehovah.";

Signor Gavazzi, now in this country, returns o
Rome next week. He declined to act as chaplain in the
irregular forces under Garibaldi.

A. private company is about to establish an Iron-
shipbuilding Yard and Docks at the Low Lights, Tyne-
mouth, the River Tyne Commissioners having been
unable to make the docks contemplated there, the
foundation stone of which was laid about seven years
ago.

EMIGRATION TO THE STATES. —A Convention, an
American correspondent writes, is to be called this autumn
at Milwaukee, to be composed of delegates from the
Western and North-Western States, for the purpose of
considering questions pertaining to immigration, and to
secure such action by Congress as will give the immigrant
full protection under United States' laws while in transit
on the sea and land. The Governors of all the States
interested will have charge of the arrangements for the
Convention. The Western and North-Western States
are anxious for emigrants, and desire to do everything
possible to encourage their coming, and protect them from
the many snares and hardships that now befall them ou
the journey to the New World.