The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-14 00:00:00

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
FRAUDS.

APPREHENSION OF RED

This morning Leopold Redpath,
the frauds on the Great Northern
apprehended and 'placed before the
the Clerkenwell Police-court.

Sufficient evidence having been
prisoner was remanded till Tuesday

adduced the
next.

ROYAL MARRIAGES.

The German pa?ers have been lately informing us of
marriages, either solemnised or in preparation, between
princes and princesses of the sovereign houses
of Europe.
Lately, at Madrid, the Infanta Amelia was wedded to
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria ; sbmewhat later, the Prin-
cess Louisa of Prussia • the day before yesterday the
Archduke Chas, Lewis of Austria espoused, at Dresden,
the Princess Margaret of Saxony. A few days ago the
King of Sweden, o,c tr 1., communicated to the repre-
sentatives of the nation the approaching union of the
Duke of Ostrogothland with a princess of Nassau. We
have further announced to us the contemplated marriage
of the Prince Frederick of Prussia with the Princess
Victoria of England ; of the Prince Frederick of Tus-
cany with the Princess Anne of Saxony; and of the
Grand Duke Michael of Russia with the Princess Cecilia
of Baden. Thus within the space'of two months we have
a total of seven marriages solemnised, or on the eve of
soleinaisation, and officially announced, between per:
aonages, ten of whom appertain to German dynasties,
one to the Royal house of England, one to the imperial
family of Russia, one to the new Royal family of Swe-
den, lastly ; one to a Spanish branch of the house t.f
Bourbon. There has never perhaps been seen so, large a
number of alliances contracted in so short an interval of
time among the families of princes.
The marriage of Prince Alalberl of
-Bavaria with the
Infanta Amelia of Spain took place on the 26th August.
This prince is the third brother °I King Maximilian 11.
The king is married, and has two sons ; it is not likely,
therefore, that Prince A,dalbert will ever be called upon
to wear the crown of Bavaria, but it is possible that he
may one day become the King of Greece, the throne df
which is occupied at present by Kiag Otho, a prince of.
Bavaria, yonnger brother of the King Maximilian, and
the eldest of this King's three. broth&s. King Otho of
Greece, now 41 3e-ars of age, has been married for 20 years
to a princess of Oldenburg, by whom he has had nJ chil-
dren. This con ingekcy was provided for in the c inven-
tion of May 7,1832, which regulates the succession l o the
throne of Greece, and which provides that, in the event
of the king dying without issue, the crown of Greece
should pass to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, the younger
brother of King Otho, awl t r Prince kialbert himself,
were Prince Luitpold to die without offspring. Prince
Luitpald is married and bas three sons. It is not then
the want of posterity on the part of this prince that could
open the eventual rights of Prince Adalbert. But
Greece is a constantionai monarchy, and the constitution
requires the successor of King Othe to profess the creek
faith. Now, the princes of the house of Bavaria belong to
the Roman Cathelio faith, and it does not appear that
Prince Luitpold is disposed to submit, on this point, to
what is prescribed by the constitution of Gree,e. Prince
Adalbert, born in 1828, is 28 years old. The Infanta
Amelia, born in 1834, has just entered her 23d year. She
is the youngest daughter of the Infant Don Francisco di
Pahl% the second brother of the late King Ferdinand VII.
Tte eldest son of the Irfarat Don Francisco di Pablo
married, in 1846, his cousin, Queen Isabella. By his mar-
riage with the Infanta Amelia, Prince Adalbert has be-
come brother-in-law to the King and Q wen of Spain.
It was on the 9th September that the Grand Duke
Frederick of Baden married the Princess Louisa of
Prussia. This princess, 18 years old, is the daughter of
Prince William, the Prince R•tyal of Prussia, brother of
the reigning King and heir presumptive to the crown,
since the King has no children. It is a great alliance
for tt e Grand Duke Frederick.

TTJ'i.,E.

Kathie Brande; A Fire-side History of a Quiet
PATH. ; Life. By Holme Lee, author of "Thorn.*
charged with g.,11," "Gilbert Massenger.," &c, 2 vole.
Railway, •c•as Smith and Eider.

Magistrate of This forms an addition to those tales by the
Isame author • which have attracted admiration,
alike from the interest that dwells in their details
, as from the superior style that characterises their
I pages. They turn aside from the glitter .of gaiety,
and the common-place careers, of the work-day
world, to the contemplation of the inner life, the
world within. Kathie Brande, in her qtiiet exist-
ence, possessed the germs of the great and good
in her character, which develope themselves as
circumstances of importance occurred. It is not
probable that all will coincide with the reason
which induced her to sacrifice her plans and yield
up her hopes of happiness ; bat the cause which
made her act is not so much to be considered as
the spirit that prompted the resolve, and the
courage that animated her to the completion of the
task. The motto of her life is thus described—" Say
to all manner of happiness I can do without thee;
with self-renunciation life begins." It was this
feeling that inspired Kathie, anti she was satisfied
in the relief her mother experienced in having her
to fall back upon in the dreary hour of trial. As
for the object attained, it is to be questioned if her
brother at all deserved such treatment ' • and, in-
deed, if it was not an unwise thing to allow him to
rely on 'home assistance, instead of being made
to bear the consequences of his own ill-doings. He
expressed no gratitude for the great sacrifice, and
aft.r a time actually deserted, his home. The
childhood of Kathie Brande was a gloomy
one ; she was delicate, and, being the eldest,
cares and duties naturally devolved upon-
her. She lived another life in the dream-
land of her own young, fancies, wherein .slie saw
pictured, as many an enthusiast before, the bright
and beautiful of the ideal. These golden. visions
did not, as is too often the case, unfit her for the
stern realities of later years. She carried with her'
their light and lustre engraven on her mind, ands:
impressed on herb eart, theybeautified the common'
way of daily life, they brightened the, dark' gloom''
of human suffering, with a ray of more than earthly
glory, while faint and shadowy in the distance at
first, bUt growing more defined as the darkness be-
came visible, the bow of promise overspread her
path. The murmurs of the far-off years of fancy
died away, but in the stead of hope came faith,
and she cherished the thought that she laid down
the lesser for thegreater. While the young around
her revelled in their spring of love, and shone in the
bloom of their beauty, she was pining away in soli-
tude and suffering Yet the reaping promised to
those who sow in tears must surely be for such as
dedicate their spirits in theirfreshuess to the shrine
of duty, and Kathie Braude was of these. The
fireside history of a quiet life was not sheltered
from storms ; only it was hidden from public gaze.
With her overtasked mother, who sinks early
under the burdens imposed, hel volatile sister
Isabel who ruined her own happiness, her un-
worthy brother Stephen, the heroine had ehongh to
bear. She gave up her peculiar plans, but she
could not iu her own immediate domestic circle
find an equivalent. in realised hopes. It required
the prospect of a brighter day than had ever
dawned even in the splendour of early imaginings
to soothe her mind, when her dearly cherished
parent had departed, one loved sister—gone: away
to trouble of the most .painful kind, and the other
also far from her. Then the care she had
taken while they wore with her, 'to shield
them from suffering was all that was left to
light the waste and solitude of memory. Felix
Mayne is hardly, with all his merits, suited.
for one so gentle and unselfish as Kathie.
He was too vehement and fierce, too self-reliant
and positive. He could not appreciate the depth
of her nature. If mistaken in the working-out of
some of her problems of exislenA, she was always
faithful, sincere, and upright. If Felix Mayne
had been as humble-minded, there would not have
been so many trials for them to endure. It is not
easy for the reader to forgive his supplanting' by a
stranger a being like Kathie ; and his tardy 'recog-
nition of her merits at last is not the devoted and
life-long attachment that she deserved. It is sad
to dwell on many of the passages of the lonely life
here recorded. We must die alone, is a,common.
fate ; but it was the doom of Kathie Braude to
live alone. In childhood, youth, and middle life,
it seemed the same ; none would enter into the
cares and trials, the joys and sorrows, of the me-
lancholy being. If she was not of them in the stir
of life, however, she felt herself of service ' - and a
peace beyond happiness, which the smiles ..and.
frowns of a transitory world neither bestows nor
removes, set its seal on the work of the mourner..
There are varieties of character to be met with in
the course of this narrative," and for the most part
they are well delineated. Reginald Pompe is a
likely instance of what a selfish and cruel disposi-
tion may become, when indulged to the uttermost.
Isabel affords an example of wayward and wilful
fully. The description of Felix Mayne is a truth-
ful one ; -and many minor persons are life-like.
The interest does not depend on the characters or
eve its so much as on the tons of the composition.
Without being dreary, it is islictive ; not sombre,
it is thoughtful ; while dwelling on the refined
and elevated, it acknowledges the power of the
simple and the meek ; and even when pervaded
by the lofty spirit of heroism, it does
not treat of such as pertain only to a few,
but erings down its blessed influence to bear on
life. It is not reserved only for the far off
and unfamiliar, who shine in bright but unattain-
able splendour, to illumme history, nr adorn
biography, but shown forth as less known, but
more worth knowing when it seeks the approval of
Heaven through the blaze of no earthly triumph,
and counts its glory and its crown to be " Unseen
by man, but marked of God," the angel visitant at
the fireside of home. Iu no part of the book is
faintheartedness, repining, or despair excused, far
less encouraged or glossed over. The stern laws
of rectitude, the uncompromising rules of justice,
are clearly defined, and carried out, in the working
of their sublime and immutable decree. In pic-
turiug the mind tortured with doubts, it is thus
expressed, "Oar Work is eternal, what we do,
and how we do it, we must carry whither we shall
go, to our shame and confusion, or to our honour.
We may be impatient for results, but if we can-lay
it to our conscience that we have striven our best,
there need be no harassing fear that we have sown
our ground with salt instead of grain ; if we do
not harvest it God's angels will, and we shall find
it safely garnered up against our day of account.
Do thou thy work ; leave its results to Time."
Kathie Brande, the fireside history of a quiet life,
has a claim on the regard of all who appreciate the
excellent, and acknowledge the superior in the
Pages of fiction. The reader is presented,with the -
result of fine taste and extenied knowledge, con-
veyed through the medium of records, that, though
humble, sometimes approach the sublime in the
majesty of truth, and are adorned by the beauty of
the lowly and the meek. The pure in heart, the
exalted in spirit, are chronicled in the annals be-
fore us, and a source ofinterest, independent of an.
exciting narrative, or a wonderful hero, or heroine,
exists vital and for ever in the work impressed by
such an influence. Its merit rests on no baseless
fabric, its attraction dwells in no evanescent charm,
but the strongholds of right are its mighty secu-
rity, and the superscription of virtue its unfading
ornament.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY• —LPIERPO OL,
Thursday. —T.,e er, • neer of the Magnetic Telegraph
gt
Company, C. T. Bright, E,q., received this afternoon
a telegraphic communication, from the Secretary of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, announcing
that the Eng.
lish Government had stated their intention of guaran-
gper ion,
teeing to the latter company an equivalent of abtooutth4e
per cent. per annum on their capital when the line is
completed.
Mr. R. W. Crawford and Mr. Edmund Round have
made a proposal to the General Screw Company for the
formation of a European and Arne:icon steam-ship com-
pany;Geraeeto l
Screw take thepro
pe
ri fehts
rlya ragte3v7e3so
os e2l3s
1.1: eol or n2giun
ito be paid fer in shares. The capital of the company is
to be 400,000'1. in 251. shares, thus leaving. 26,9771. for
working expenses. The lines to be occupied are between
Bremen and New York, between Havre and New York,
and bet veen Hamburg, Brazil, arid the- River Plate,
. with Southampton as the port of call. Messrs. Croaky
have offered to undertake the entire agency on.conditio
rhich ibt...v. rid.
nt receiving nothing fer,.their services u
elders individually
LAU. the sha ell
diliviivithiddeort:o)
etgi re
opt
of ufbm:plpleeta';:fi ?se ;pp°
approval
oTevl 1:3:11-f plan.t
ht i:enr .
General-na t d i- have
oinnet
,c-el, di.,
;i'sjiii3bgiP.Ateurli., resumed to day, t
npEeN:loATlOTtintlC:h.7ll.l.is,l;el::' the inundation of
rectors. and the deciiion of the shareh
is now called for. ..x",,.......,. .
~. .
mx. n Tbeiwall, coronernfor.rphick
~..r-oIINE —WM
HAN, Nov. 12 —The adjourned ilirtne-t • -
at
ethle s'7424:Tavern, before
Vrethain division of
tie county of Daibigh.
one of the proprietors,
th., Government inspector, insOni of Manchester,
, and
liery, were aetin present t, the manager of the col-
watch . the proceedirgs. A
p:an of.the Old Ford works and then
sir riTan
Cfirlast produced,
gave evidence,
stating that up t.) the time *when `thyetoanc,cident occurred,
tie had nave! reci-red directly .or iodirectly'any infer-
, =Mon which led him to think that the least clanger _
exihted of an ii,flu the riainV.• Another
witness- examined Xof water . into, . .
was Mr:Samuel Jones, mining agent
who had resided in the district
of the Brymbo Company,
more thau 50 years He said be should have thought
the 14 yards' "fault" which existed in the win of coal
no
on the rth side sufficient to keep back die water from
ending into the workinge, The inquiry was prcer.edieg
!4t path hour.