The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-30 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, AUG. 27.
In the morning the Queen went out, attended by Lady
Churchill.

In the afternoon the Queen drove round by Gairnside,
accompanied by the Princess of Wales and Princess
Louise.

Prince Arthur, attended by Colonel Maude, joined
the Prince of Wales's shooting party.
Prince Leopold drove out in the morning and after-
noon.

Viscount Halifax had the honour of dining with her
Majesty yesterday.

SERIOUS FAILURES.

There was a meeting at the Liverpool Counts Court, on
Friday, of the creditors on the estate of Henry Moore
and Co., when a statement was presented shewing the
liabilities to amount to £22,120195. 9d., and the assets to
£10,717 17s. 3d. Debts were proved to the amount of
£19,612, Mr. Harmood Banner was chosen trustee, and
Messrs. George Arkle and Patrick Keith were appointed
the committee of inspection. The Bth of October next
was fixed f r the public examination of the bankrupts.
The creditors of Messrs. Kynock and Co., percussion
cap and cartridge manufacturers, of Aston and Birming-
ham, met on Friday at the latter place. A composition
of 10s. in the pound was offered, payable in three, six,
and nine months, and was unanimously accepted. The
cause assigned for the failure was the falling away of
Russian consignments. The liabilities were sttted at
£61,351145. 7d., and the assets at £41,363 2s. 9d.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—(One Shilling- Day, Monday,
August 29.)—Admission by Season Tickets, 1,484 ; ditto
on payment, 3,408 ; total, 4,892.

WORRAIEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGIU.
CULTURAL HALL- ISLINGTGN.—The number of visitors,
exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others
on the 29th instant, was 9,847.

A TALKING MACHINE.—On Saturday an exhibi-
tion of quite a novel character was opened at the new
building called the Palais Royal, Argyle-street, Oxford-
circus. It is an exhibition of a talking machine, which
by mechanical appliances is made to give forth utterances
z esembling those of a human being. It is the invention
of Professor Faber, of Vienna, and has been constructed
and patented by him, and is certainly a wonderful speci-
men of human ingenuity. It is true, the question may
arise, where is the utility of it, seeing that every man,
woman, and child possesses a talking machine, more or
less perfect, of his ( r her own. But the machine has its
utility nevertheless, for it illustrated a much neglected
science of acoustics. Moreover, it is highly interesting as
showing how far ingenuity may go. The machine has a
mouth, with tongue and lips, which are set in motion by
a mechanical apparatus which sets free a portion of air
from a large bellows, and so controls it as to produce the
sound required. It pronounced, with great clearness
every letter of the alphabet, many words, and a few sen-
tences perfectly ' • not merely set words, but any words the
audience chose to name. It also laughed, and uttered
other cries expressive of human passions, to the astonish-
ment, apparently, of every one who heard it.

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Strand, W.O.

T IT.ERATURE,

Ancient Classics for English Readers. Ctesar and Virol.
Wm. Blackwood and Sons.
Five volumes of this charming series have now aP-
peared. Three of these five volumes we have already
noticed—namely, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" of
Homer, and the " History," by the father of that science,
Heredotus. As the four h and fifth instalments of the
classical library thus in course of being issued for the
amusement and instruction of English readers, we have
now before us the " Caesar " of Anthony Trollope
and the " Virgil "of the Rev. Lucas Collins. In the
latter—the last of these ancient classics done into
English for non, classical readers, each classic
in turn being very lucidly and succinctlY
epitomised. We have described to us in sue";
cession the poet himself, his pastorals. his Georgics, owl'
the master-work of his genius, the iEneid—that, in olio
sense, Iliad and,Odysseyrolled into one, an epic poem sug-
gested by Augustus, not perfected when Virgilius Maro
died. The original scrolls on which the golden verses of
it were inscribed in its author's caligraphy being only just
saved from destruction by his own unsatisfied scorn for
its merits, through the intercession or the poet's more,
appreciative friends. As for the Caesar of Anthony
Trollope, it possesses for the general run of English*
readers of course a double attraction. Coming from the
hand of one of the masters of the popular literature of our
own day, it is, if regarded only in that point of view,
eminently attractive. That, however, we may be quite
certain at once, is not the point of view from which Mr.
Trollope himself would have any one regard it. In
another sense than ordinary he would say, with dverY
different application of the words—Aut Caesar, aut nullus.
Save only on the title page, he would here drop
his own individuality out of view altogether. It
is of Caesar, more than of what he has to say
of Cxsar, that he is thinking throughout. TWO
thousand years have elapsed since the days of Caesar, and
yet that wonderful story of his life and actions, of his
victories and his oratorical triumphs, of his Dictatorship,
and his assassination, preserves as dominantly as ever its
old, but perennial fascination. Nearly 100 years before
the Christian Epoch, Caius Julius Caesar was born. Ire
was the descendant of an old patrician family of Rome--
but he was also the nephew by marriage of Marius, wino
sprang from a race of plebeians. Sylla, regarding him
as a trifler, spared his life when the rest of the kith and'
kin of his dead rival were remorselessly swept
out of existence. Already when a stripling of 17 Caesar'
was a Priest of Jupiter. Already, before then, he had
been married. He subsequently became Quzestor, 'and.
after that YEdile. At 37 he was -nominated Pontifex
Maximus. At 38 he was Praetor ; at 39 Pro-Prwtor in
Spain. At 40 he was decreed a triumph, but abstained
from taking it, ambitioning a rise from which he would
have been thereby precluded. Afterwards, at 41, lie
attained the object he was aiming at—to wit, the dig-
nity of the Consulship. Compared with this the rise of
Napoleon to power was far more wonderful in its rapidity.
At 27 he was commander-in-chief of an army and Con-
queror of Italy. At 30 he had taken possession of
Egypt. In his 31st year he was supreme in authority
over France under the title of First Consul. At 34 be
was enthroned as Emperor of the French, and crowned as
King of Italy in the Cathedral, at Milan, with the iron
crown of Charlemagne. During the 15 years of his reign
the last 11 as Emperor, he overran Europe with his in-
vincible troops, he conquered one after another the leading
powers of the Continent, he entered in triumph one after
another its principal capitals. Emperor and King him-
self, he made one brother, Joseph, King of Spain, another
Louis, King of Holland, another, Jerome, King of West-
phalia, his brother-in-law, Murat, King of Naples,
his infant son he created King of Rome. Ifn
was one of the greatest of the world's
law-givers—instance. the Code Napo'eon. He was 3
master of oratory, as his speeches attest, and as Lord
Brougham has signally notified. Regarding him as a poet
in action, BEranger has said of him "il etait la plus grand°
pobte du monde." An Englishman who knew him per-
sonally an Englishman no less famous than Charles
James Fox—declared of him emphatically " I believe him
to be One of the best as I am certain he is the greatest of
men." As a soldier there is only one other to be brought
into comparison with him, and that is Hannibal—it
remaining still, with the greatest military writers, a ques-
tion whether he was not greater even as a soldier than
Hannibal. Sir William Napier spoke of Napoleon as--
what ?—" the greatest of all soldiers." Lord Byron dubbed
him "the greatest nor the worst of men." His public
career was over before he was 47. After six years of
cruel exile, he was in his fifty-second year when he ex-
pired at St. Helena. He was greater than Caesar. He
was in action what Shakspere was in thought—unrivalled,
inimitable, incomparable, unapproachable. Mr. Trol-
lope has marred this little disquisition of his upon the
next greatest conqueror and leader of men' by coupling
the name of Caesar and the name of Napoleon, with such
preposterously incongruous names as those of Knox and
Luther. He has marred it still more by such absurd
puerilities as an incidental allusion to Billy Taylor in the
comic song. Otherwise the book he has written about Caesar
is in parts really charming. The editor of the series has paid
the penalty for entrusting a theme like this, one requiring
the ripest scholarship, to about the oddest person he could
have selected—one who is known wholly and solely as a
popular novelist. The Rev. Lucas Collins, however, has
immediately afterwards compensated for this same rash-
ness, by himself writing the next volume of,the series, a
sketch of Virgil; as clearly and delicately defined as the
outlines of a cameo.

C URIO-US CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—The
Glasgow Daily Herald has the following :—" With refe-
rence to a paragraph in a contemporary, which states
that his Grace the Duke of Hamilton has, during the
last few days, enjoyed excellent sport at Arran, we have
it on the best authority that his Grace has not yet reached
Scotland, and is not expected sooner than on Monday
or Tuesday next. It is possible that the mistake
has arisen from a case of mistaken identity, several
gentlemen who were visiting the island having been under
a lively impression that they were saluting his Grace,
while they were only paying that honour to his Grace's
chief gamekeeper, who, we are informed, returned the
salutation in a manner which tended even to increase the
pleasing illusion."
VISIT OF THE QUE.aq AND PRINCESSES TO it
HIGHLAND FARM.—Since the arrival of her Majesty at
Balmoral Castle, it appears that she has conferred unex-
pected honours upon a few of the residents upon the
north side of the Dee, fronting the palaile, by making
personal visits to their homes, and conversing familiarly
with the owners by the " cosy ingle side." Such in
particular was the case in a visit the Queen and
the Princesses paid to Mr. Donald Clark and his
wife and family at Aberarder, on the afternoon of Mon-
day last. It may be mentioned that a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clark occupies a position of some trust
in the Royal household, and one of the daughters
is likewise in service at the castle. Her Majesty and the
Princesses drove on to the north side of the Dee, along
the Aberarder road, to a point opposite the farm of Bel-
liemore, where Mr. Clark resides. Ponies, with a staff of
gillies, were here in readiness from the palace, and her
Majesty and party proceeded on horseback along the
rugged, sinuous hill road to the farm-house, where the
royal visitors were cordially received and welcomed by the
patriarch and his venerable wife. After making a short
stay in the house, the royal visitors were escorted on their
return by Mr. and Mrs. Clork a great part of the way
back to where the royal carriage was in waiting.—Dundee
Courier.

THE DISESTABLISHED IRISH °HUH CH.—A sort
of middle party (a Dublin correspondent writes) is
springing up among Irish Churchmen, who deprecate any
immediate attempt of the Convention, at its October
meeting, to engage in a revision of the Prayer-book. Un-
like what is called here the High Church party, how-
ever, they do not oppose revision as unnecessary.
They are merely afraid of its being carried out under
the influence of popular dictation, and in a manner to
meet the views of one party in the Church only. They
propose, consequently, that when the Convention
assembles a special committee should be named to take
the subject into consideration, with the understanding
that changes in certain points are necesary, and that this
committee shall define what these should be, to assist a
future Synod in finally determining the matter.

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