The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-01 00:00:00

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Bode—and a long file besides of titled names distinguished
in all the pursuits of life. The war, of course, came in for
the lion's share, in sweeping among those already illustrious;
or, had fate permitted, those who would have been so : the
gantle-hearted, courteous Raglan, the mirror of modern
chivalry—the intrepid Torrens—the amiable Eslcourt—
the untiring Markham—the bravo Adams—the gallant
Campbell—the honest Boxer, and the unfortunate Christie,
are amongst the most prominent of the heroes whom the
bullet or the Crimean fever have forcibly taken from us
Death, too, has been busy with great people, in the ranks
of our allies, in the field, on the wave, in the Cabinet, in
the private home : Hari spe —Bruat —Mackau—Della Mar-
more, who fought so well ; the painter Isabey—the states-
man Mole—the poste Micziewitz—the widow of Lavaletto
--the wife of Ensile de Girardin— the brother of Victor
Hugo—Count Bruhl, the antagonist of Philidor, the King
of Chess—Rhosrew Pasha, that true type of the old Os-
manli—the chivalrous Duke of Genoa--and Adelaide of
Sardinia, the early-lost wife of our noble Piedmoutese
ally."
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Fogarty," a tale of 4,;he Fighting Onety Oneth„ how
the hero of the scrim mage thus closes his narrative
—" Away I went ucith an army of a hundred and
seventy-three thousand eight hundred men at my
heels," followed by a string of most irritating
asterisks ! Then in the exordium of " Barbazure"
by G. P. R. Jeames—don't we all of us vividly call
to mind that " It was (of course) upon one of those
balmy evenings of November, which are only
known in the valley of Languedoc, and among the
mountains of Alsace, that two cavaliers might have
been perceived"—and the rest and the rest ! So,
too, with the remainder, were, they not each and
all of them eminently delectable—those amazingly
ridiculous imitations ? Such are the " nuts to
crack" poured into the ample lap of the reading
publicas from an inexhaustible cornucopia through
the medium of this second volumwof Mr. Thacke-
ray's satirical and exhilarating Miscellanies.

and accompanied by a rumbling. It was felt at
Geelong 40 miles off in a straight line. Its direc-
tion appeared to be S.S.W. to N.N.E., but
others think it was the other way. Those who
have experienced earthquakes in New Zealand
treated it very lightly; considering it very slight
and quite incapable of doing any damage.
Lola Montes is here ; she came last from San
Francisco, and has appeared several times at the
New Theatre Royal. She commenced with a
drama, in five sections, rather than acts, contain-
ing the principal' bases in her own life. We had
her as the danseuse—the countess—the exile—the
politician—the traveller. The piece was not very
attractive, and it dropped. It was not more suc-
cessful in Sydney. Afterwards she produced the
tarantella dance, called, in order to enlighten the
natives, the "spider's dance." The Argus pro-
nounced it "indecent," and the "respectables"
wouldn't go. It is not unlikely that Lola may have
overacted her part, but, without that, an ordinary
ballet exhibition would take the uninitiated a little
by surprise. There is a good deal of stage talent of
various kinds in Melbourne just now. G. V.
Brooke's over-forcible delineations of Shakospere
satisfy our public. Miss Fanny Cathcart was his
heroine, but she has been shut up by an in-
junction, in imitation of " Lumley v. Wagner"
—probably to be followed by an action in imitation
of " Lumley v.
_Gye." In the opera line we are
gaining great strength. We have Catherine
Hayes and a native of Tasmania—Madame Caren-
dini, a lady with an exquisite voice, a fine
ear, and good style and taste, and Coulon as basso,
whose voice wants tone and volume, but who is an
excellent musician and a good actor. There is also
a tolerable tenor and another basso, a Mr. Gregg,
with a better natural voice than Coulon, but infe-
rior in all respects. Numerous German street
bands, some of them excellent, are also tending to
improve our musical taste.
Some six months singe some of your readers will
recollect that a man named Garratt was captured
in England, and sent out to the colony, charged as
one of the men who "stuck up the Bank of Vic-
toria" as the phrase is here. There seems a proba-
bility that he will get off at last for want of evi-
dence. Two of his companions have been already
convicted, chiefly on the evidence of an approver,
one Quinn. This fellow has since gone to New
Zealand, and the police have sent for him ; but he
is not likely to come unless forced, inasmuch as
before his departure lie did a little murder on
his own account. If he comes back ib will most

The editor's story of "The Spendthrift" continues
with its usual liveliness of style. It chronicles the
important event of the masquerade, and the ad-
ventures that befel the hero among masks and
dominoes. An article which follows this is entitled
" Falsehoods and Realities of the War," and gives
some very interesting extracts from the work of
an English lady, an officer's wife, who accompanied
her husband to the Crimea. One of the chief features
in the present numberis the commencement of an ela-
borate tale by Dudley Costello, entitled "The Dock
Warrants." " The Man in the White Hat" is an
instance of thief detection, which may be useful to
railway travellers. A. notice of Browning's recant
work, " Men and Women," gives it a careful cri-
ticism, and quite as much praise as it deserves.
" The Old Year's Death" by Mary Monck, and
" The Old and New Year" from the Danish, by
Mrs. Bushby, are neither of them very striking.
Indeed it would appear difficult for writers to pro-
duce anything original on such a time-worn sub-
ject. Benjamin Bobbin, though only a Bagman,
must apparently have had more adventures than
Baron Munchausen himself, to judge from the time
it takes hiss to relate them. " Mow I grew into
an Old Maid" is a very pleasing though melancholy
domestic story, told with simplicity and feeling.
Monkshood contributes a paper on " Lewes's
Life and Works of Go3the," written with his usual
talent. Among the remaining articles, we may
mention one on " Damascus," that wonderful
city which has successively formed part of the five
great empires of ancient times, and which has out-
lived them all.

Eastern Experiences. By Ada,m Steinmetz Kinnaird.
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
A readable volume, narrating the experiences of
a well-informed and enterprising traveller during
a winter's tour in Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy
Land. Setting out for the East in November, Mr.
Kinnaird contrived to escape the infliction of an
English winter, and for some two months to luxu-
riate to a certain extent' in the pleasures of boat-
ing up the Nile, and scouring the adjacent country
in quest of the romantic and the antique, with
.which it abounds, meeting occasionally on the way
with amusing and stirring adventures, and obtain-
ing a tolerable insight into the habits and manners
of the population. We say luxuriating to a certain
extent, for Mr. Kinnaird's characteristic as a tra-
veller is a modified pugnacity, and what with
vexatious and unmanageable dragomans, and more
than a fair share of other disagreeables, his com-
bativeness appears to have been kept in almost
constant play throughout the tour, to the dissipa-
tion of much romance and the prevention of not a
little enjoyment. The pleasing, however, predo-
minates in the narrative, and we willingly follow,
under the charm of an eastern clime, with its pic-
turesque scenes and primitive manners and cus-
toms, from Egypt to the Cataracts and back, after-
wardi to the Holy Land, with some curiosity to
see what he will make of it. Of the result we can-
not speak vory favourably, what merit the de-
scriptions possess being to a large extent counter-
balanced by a hardness and levity which savour a
good deal of affectation, ocusional glimpses of
commendable feeling and good taste contributing
to the impression. On the whole, however, the
•book is a useful contribution to our stores of
Eastern travel, and May judiciously be recom-
mended to intending tourists, as calculated to dull
the edge of over-wrought expectation, without de-
terring them from the prosecution of their design.
To those whose time for reading is limited, it is
likely to prove acceptable, because of its fidelity
and succinctness, while the pictures of life in the
city, the village, the hareni, the bazaar, and the
desert, lend it an attraction which few will be dis-
poed to resist. The descriptions of life in Cairo,
and a startling adventure with a tribe of Bedouin
Arabs, may be specially pointed out as likely to
amuse and interest the reader.

Colburn's United Service.—" The War in the
East" is the subject of sundry well considered re-
marks. " Doubtless," says the writer, "we are
about to pass through another period of peace agi-
tation, of negotiations of protocols, four or more
points, and what not • but if France and Britain
remain true to each other and themselves it will not
be the wiles of Russia, the timidity and indecision
of Austria, the inimical neutrality of Prussia, nor
the perverse views of certain statesmen at home
that can shake them in their determination to
humble the pride of the enemy, and restore a due
balance of power between the great States of
Europe," The fall of Kars, it is subsequently re-
marked, " will doubtless stimulate the Allied Go-
vernments to combat the enemy in the Transcau-
casian regions, where indeed he is most vulnerable,
and where British interests are so deeply con-
cerned. The propriety of the English and French
armies having distinct fields of operation is again
urged, and Asia is pointed out as the appropriate
sphere for the former, and that to be occupied
without any interference whatever with the
plans of Omer Pasha. The question of " Ships
v. Batteries" is again brought forward in a notice
of a recent work, in which the author, a civilian,
deals hard knocks on the prudence manifested by
the English Admirals in the Baltic in keeping their
ships from the assault of the enemy's batteries.
The reviewer defends the policy pursued both by
Napier and Dundas, and does his best to convict
the author of ignorance of the subject. " Society
at Pera since the Western Invasion" is graphically
described in an entertaining paper, and the claims
of the " Life-Boat" institution in this country are
powerfully advocated in another. " Notes of Mi-
litary Science" are continued, and a brief but
spirited account is given of " Courland, Livonia,
and Esthonia," the Russo-Baltic provinces likely
to become the scene of warlike operations during
the spring. " The Battle of the Pyramids" is again
described—this time from oral memoirs, oral tra-
ditions, and researches on the spot ; and the ques-
tion of " Military Savings Banks" is subsequently
adverted to in a favourable notice. " Sketches of
Mercenaries" are continued, and in the "Editor's
Port folio" we find some strong but well-warranted
remarks on the fall of Kars, together with a scrap
of writing in defence of the proceedings of Prince
Albert and the Duke of Cambridge in relation to
the Guards' petition. They did quite right, we
are told, and it would have been ungrateful iu
them to do otherwise. Bosh !

likely be under an accusation and a warrant
that will put his own life or liberty in peril, unless,
indeed, the messengers find him hanged off already
for a new crime committed in New Zealand.
This course of crime and punishment is by no
means uncommon among the men recommended as
" eligible for private service," or for a ticket of
leave, or a conditional pardon, by the Controller of
convicts of Van Diemen's Laud. _ _

vv
You will find an account iu some of the papers of
" rumoured disturbances at Ballarat." It was a
very trifling affair indeed, and was nothing more
than the local police was able to Buppress, and that
by persuasion rather than force. An attempt was
made by some diggers to invade private property,
reported to be auriferous, under an impression that
they may go anywhere. The Government was pre-
pared to reinforce the police by a draught from
Melbourne, but before they could move the first
accounts were found to be exaggerated.
In last night's Gazette the Legislative Council is
again prorogued until the 6th of November, but
not for the despatch of business. A further proro-
gation will, therefore, take place, but not for very
long. We expect the new ,constitution by the
August mail. Its chief use is that it gives the new
Assembly power to carry out further reforms. It
is very defective in many respects. It was passed
by a Council, the representatives of which were
elected when the population was about 70,000. As
to the present population of 300,000, the old mem-
bers are mere nominees. The. fresh intelligence
of our 230,000 " now chums" is not represented.
It is only a few of the recently elected members
who can be said to represent the new order of
things.
The following is the comparative quarterly state-
ment of gold produced in 1854.5 :--

Consumption. Its Causes, Prevention, and Cure.
By Thomas Bartlett, M.I. Hippelyte Bailliere,
Regent-street.
apology' N o pysic
physician," says the author, " need offer
an to the
haepublic for printing his thoughts
on a disease which is the most fatal of any in the
climate in which be is a resident, provided they
embody his sincere convictions after patient and
earnest study." We quite agree with him, as also
in what follows: " Further, when he has reason to
know that relief would be afforded by the adoption
of a course, with the benefits of which he is ac-
quainted, and especially when it is opposed to the
prevailing practice, the option of silence is no
longer left him, as in such case it is his duty to
make his opinions known, that the sufferings of
humanity may be alleviated." And least of all,
we would add, is an apology necessary, or could
silence have been warranted when his work affords
undeniable proof, as this does, of his competency
to form opinions worth having. The book
before us, in brief, is a sterling work on a
most important subject, and we can confidently,
recommend it to heads of families and others inte-
rested in the prevention or cure of consumption.
Dr. Bartlett, it would appear, is no "raw" prac-
titioner, but ono who, under very favourable cir-
cumstances, has for many years directed a vigorous
intellect to the observation and studyof this terrible
disorder which has slain so many thousands of our
best and fairest. To the question, "Is consump-
tion curable I" he returns a well-warranted an-
swer in the affirmative—provided the disease is
not suffered to reach the later stages, or the ulce-
ration of the lungs is not, as is often the case, of
an extensive nature. Many cases of failure he at-
tributes to non-persistence in the remedies pre-
scribed—diet, avoiding exposure to cold, &c., even
more than physic. The causes and means of pre-
vention of consumption are forcibly pointed
out, and many useful remarks and suggestions
with regard to respiration, change of air,
and desiderata in places of residence are
given. Without, however, pledging ourselves
to the accuracy of every opinion, we advise the
reader to purchase the work, which, while likely
to be of general service, the consumptively disposed
will find a safe and exceedingly valuable guide.
There is, so far as we can judge, no quackery in it.
One thing we should remark—the author has found
that the southern portion of New Holland or
Australia affords the beat climate of all for recovery.

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1854. 1855.
Ounces. °emcee.
July ' 183,246 166,193
August
September ... 176,310 253,113

.501,704 596,053
501,704

Increase on the quarter... 94,349

Increase on the year
Number of persons arrived 2,108
Number that have lest 5OO

Addition this week 1,606 and year 43,015
The escorts have brought from— a
Mount Alexander and Bendigo 17,434 ounces.
Thllarat, including Geelong 15,983
The Ovens

Colburn's New Monthly.—The New Monthly
opens with a geographical article descriptive of the
Peninsula of Taman—the name which modern
geographers have given to the group of islands be-
tween the Black Sea, the Straits of Kertch, the
mouth of the Kuban, and the Sea of Azoff. This
name was first bestowed upon it by the Turks. To
those desirous of extending their kno xledge of these
localities this article offers considerable information,
though general readers may find it rather dry. It
is followed by a tale, translated from the German,
by Mrs. Bushby. It bears evident trace of being a
translation, the German origin being very evident
both in plot and style. as it does not come to a de-
cided conclusion, we presume the sequel will be
given in the next. The next paper is on a more
interesting subject. Founded on the recent edition
of Samuel Butler's works, published in Mr. Bell'e
series, it gives a brief sketch of the life and writings
of the author of Hudibras. A paper on " Amateur
Lectures" sets forth the advantages of lecturing, not
only to the educated classes, but to the mechanics
and labourers of manufacturing towns. It is
rightly observed, that to such an audience reading
is a task, and that a poor man will listen to a lec-
ture for the best part of an hour who would not
read a boDk for half that time. An entertaining
article is given on " The Fisheries on the West
Coast of Ireland." Few readers are, perhaps, aware
of the great supply of fish to be found along this
coast. " Fourteen Kiilyheg herrings, in season,
weigh one stone." Mr. Wade also observes that
he has often known one canoe bring in three or four
tons of ling in one season. The writer remarks,
" It would make an alderman weep to hear that the
turbot on the west coast of Ireland are so plenti-
ful that the fishermen often cut them up for bait for
their long lines." The result of all these statistics
is, that the supply is not equal to the demand,
owing to the want of capital and the inadequate
means employed. Surely there is an opening here
for some adventurous individual with money and
energy sufficient to carry out the requisite improve-
ments. The not very attractive or brilliant history
of " Stoke Dotterell" is continued. The thirty-
fourth number of " Literary Leaflets" takes for its
subject the memoirs of "James Montgomery;
" All Soul's Eve" is the title of a pleasing domes-
tic story. G. W. Thornbury contributed some
touching verses on the death of a little drum-
mer. The illustrations of the manners and cus-
toms of our forefathers is continued, and describes
to us the coffee-houses and clubs of the days of
Addison, Pope, Johnson, and Goldsmith.

Maryborough
Daisy Hill
Avoca

s:ass
1,420
616

AVlvor

Amount this week 49,103, and year 1,528,732
Gold shipped in 1855
Per Promolga to Macao
105,000
Per Donald hi 'Ks,y to Liverpool

Shipped to end of third quarter in 1855 *1,925,942
Ditto ditto ditto 1851 1,653,999

Increase over 1854
* Or 80 tons 4cwt 3qrs 201 b 2oz, at 805...27,713,768.
Exchange on London—Draughts against gold
taken at par.
Freight of gold, 41d. per ounce, delivered at the
Bullion-office, Bank of England, London. Insu-
rance 21 per cent. The price during the week has
been 765. 3d. to 765. 6d:
There is one feature in all these returns which
is very satisfactory, namely, that the earliest
worked gold-fields, Bendigo and Ballarat, continue
to yield undiminished quantities.

AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, Sept. 20.—The Champion of the
Seas,
Wednesday oneof
afternoon
eernßoloak Ball line of ships, with the
nc
(the 26th), after a passage of
83 days.
The
has ea nof
tof etia cneeswtshe death of Lord Raglan and the
brought by the Champion of the
Seasewu n
the allies with considerable loss. This
over our society which it
will take some little time to obviate. But though
it excites our sorrow and sympathy, it does not im-
rnepaslcsl its
t a gloom
im-
pair our confidenCe in the final result. It is a slight
abundantly repaired by the
stire
arising from repeated vic-
tcohreycl:
brave fellows who are fighting for their respective
countries we cannot doubt.
The Garrison amateurs--who, but
totnh
a the t
it p
willre
by the way, per-
form admirably—give a performance this evening
at the Theatre Royal for the benefit of the French
widows and orphans. The theatre will be crowded
to overflowing. The
the newest gold field diggers of Mount Blackwood,
9 rich in auriferous quartz, are
1 now making a collection of specimens for the pur-
pose of transmitting it to the Emperor of the
French.
I wrote by the Rent on the 12th, but having
written not long before, and the Donald M'Kay
being then advertised to sail on the 30th, I did
little more than transmit an account of the mar-
kets. I did, however, briefly touch on the differ-
ence which had arisen between the Legislative
Council of Tasmania and Sir Henry Young's Go-
vernment, that is Sir
Henry Young himself—for
" L'Etat e'est Mot" is a maxim net yet exploded in
these parts—on a Point of privilege, but involving
the very existence of the Legislature as an indepen-
dent body.
The officers of the Convict Department have
- been publicly charged with gross peculations and
Miscellanies : Prose and Terse. By W. M. various corrupt practices. A newspaper called the
Tliackeray. Vol. 11. Bradbury and Evans. Daily News made itself conspicuous by the constant
It will be remembered that in the first volume' reiteration of these charges for months. They
of Mr. Thackeray's collected " Miscellanies" we were not merely general and sweeping charges of
enjoyed the privilege of renewing our acquaintance , corruption, but specific cases were given with facts
with "The Snob Papers" and " Cox's Diary," with; and dates. If false, they wore libels of the gross-
the hero of the tt Fatal Boots" and " Major Gaha- i est kind. But they passed for a time unnoticed—
gan," the fire-eater—to say nothing of our being ' no attempt being made by the accused to vindicate
also enabled thereby to troll over anew the famous their characters by the verdict of a jury. At length
" Ballads" of M. A. Titmarsh, of Policeman X, Sir Fl enry Young found himself compelled to insti-
and of the great Molony of Kilballymolony I Well, tute an inquiry. What passed no one knows, but
the second volume, if that be possible, gives us fare the result was, that the officers were severely can-
yet more acceptable, delectable, and appetising ? It , sured, but not further molested. This did not
introduces us again to the laughter-moving " some-1 satisfy the Legislature, and a select committee was
time Footman in many genteel Families"—Charles ; appointed to inquire into the charge against the
James Harrington Fitzroy yellowplash I It re- Convict Department. Dr. Hampton, the control-
lives our intercourse with "Jeames of Buckley- ler, and a Mr. Benson, a surgeon, were summoned
square," under the more refined cognomen of C. ,to give evidence. They refused to attend, and the
Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., late in the employ of Speaker issued his warrant fer their apprehension.
Sir George Flimsey, of the house of Flimsey, Did- , Hampton barricaded his house, and filled it with
dler, and Flash. It places before us again, as convict constables, hut, finding that an overpower-
subject for grins and contemplation, " Character ing force could be commanded by the Council with-
Sketches," such as those of the renowned Captain out any aid from the Government, he gave himself
Rook and the celebrated Mr. Pigeon. It puts up, but still declined to attend. The Speaker was
anew into our bands " Sketches in London," as served with a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the
enthralling as those having reference to Love, to body of Dr. Hampton before the Supreme Court ;
niendxhip, to Balls, to Dinners, to Tailoring, or , he applied for instructions, to the House, but, be-
r as those again descriptive of " The Benefits of fore any further Proceedings could be taken, the
being a Fogy," and of "The Pleasures" of ditto, Governor went down to the House and prorogued
ditto ! Besides which, are we not incalculably it until the 30th of October.
indebted to Volume Two of Mr. Thackeiay's de- The question now is as to the power of the Conn-
lightful " Miscellanies," 'for those wonderful oil to enforce their own process by commitment for
" Novels by Eminent Hands," which some eight ' contempt. The Council asserts its power ; the
or ten seasons back astonished and delighted all Executive denies that they possess it, and seems
Laudon, through the pages of its amusing chari- ' disposed to use force. On Monday morning, the
vari Punch, presenting to us, as in masquerade, 17th of September, at 2.45 a.m., a shock of an
such old favourites as "Sir E. L. B. L., Bart.," earthquake was felt in Melbourne of greater force
and " Harry Rollicker," and G. P. R. Jeames, and duration than others which have been felt
Esq.," &-c., and the immortal author of " Dukes here. There was one felt in 1846 strong enough
and Dejeuners "as well as of " Marchionesses and to alarm people. Two were felt in one day some
Milliners." How gloriously the George De Berne- , months since. Some say they felt a slight shock
well" of Sir E. L. B. L., Bart., begun with—" In on the 10th inst., but it was only felt by a very
the Morning of Life the Truthful wooed the Beau- few. This last, though in the night, roused every
tiful, and their offspring was Love"—Morning, one ; doors and windows shook, in the case of
Life, Truthful, Beautiful, and Love, all beginning loose wooden houses the knockers took to knock-
with capitals by way of significant personifi- ing au& sponte, the whole vibration lasted 35
cation I Again, who has forgotten in " Phil seconds, and was preceded by a rushing sound

LITERATURE.