The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-16 00:00:00

what your conditions may be, it would be folly to oppose
them. If they are proper I will be one of the most zealous
in observing. them, and iu having them accepted. You told
my people that they might go with all security, no matter
where. This is well said. They must listen to you. They
will listen to you.' Such a discourse requires no corn •
mentary, dignity and resignation breathe in each sentence.
In reproducing it we wished to give a just idea of Indian
eloquence, and we believe that in the civilised world few
orators have attained such elevation of thought as the
sachems, whose noble sentiments, expressed in terms so
energetic, so simple, and so grand, are worthy of sincere
admiration."

We cannot follow the author through all his
descriptions of the manners and customs of this
peculiar race, but the distaste which all Indians
entertain for menial work is well exemplified by
the fact that, to avoid the necessity of having in
after life to perform such repulsive offices, the
young men voluntarily become slaves for two years :
" There are slaves among the Indians ; but slavery is
here voluntary, and of short duration. It hae already been
observed that the Indians do no work ,• when Li their vil-
lages they leave to the women not only all the household
cares but even the hardest labours ; when on expeditions of
either war or hunting they are obliged to do everything for
themselves, to light their fires, cook their victuals, meal
their clothes, and pack up their furs, all of which obliga-
tions are intolerable to their laziness. The consequence is
that, in some tribes, the young men of the richest families
contract to be slaves for two years, so as at the
expiration of this term to be free for life from
performing any servile or humiliating offi3e. During
these two years of Voluntary slavery their task-mas-
ters often try their feelings severely; but they never
complain, for at the cost of this sacrifice they buy a whole
life of unlimited liberty, and with this consolation before
them they support all in silence and with the most perfect
resignation. The only enjoyment allowed them during the
term of their probation, and of which they do not fail to
avail themselves, is once in the year a grand entertainment,
instituted to keep alive their instincts of nobility. There
the slave draws himself up, remembering that the great
spirit has created him one of the kings of creation. They
then perform, with all tho spirit of youth, the
dance called the ' Slave Dance. Those who are
bound for another year here gather courage to bear
up to the end in the task they have undertaken.
Those whose time of two years (the legal term that it is
forbidden to go beyond) is up, here turn from the past to
forget it, and no one ever dreams of avenging the pains
and insults inflicted on the slave. In this solemnity
are combined so many sentiments that it makes an event in
the young men's lives, as in that of their families and even '
of their tribes."

The work is illustrated with 58 woodcuts, and a
map showing the actual situation of the Indian
tribes, and the country described by the author,
all of which are got up in first-rate style. Great
pains has been taken in the compilation of facts,
and the Abbe's owii experiences are given in a
straightforward manner which, while they impart
an increased interest to the work do the author
great credits We cannot conclude our notice of
these delightful volumes more appropriately than
by quoting the final remarks of the Abbe em
Domenech:—
" The white man is come; farewell hunt, play, dance,
song, and roaring joy. The Indian has drunk of the bitter
Cap of humiliation and injustice; tracked like a wild beast,
his life and liberty have become amusements for white men.
Hunted from river to river, from forest to forest, leaving
some wreck of himself at every edge of the harassing road,
he arrives, at the close of two centuries of struggles,
fatigues, and misery, poor, lean, and bereaved of all, at the
end of his career. He strives now in profound deserts to
sustain the remnant of a miserable life ready to escape him.
Th. approaching extinction of the Indian race has long
been prophesied. But all these prophecies, so tedious in
fulfilment, prove that the Indians are more numerous than
was generally supp, sed, and that the great deserts offer
more resources than was imagined ; and thus, after all, a
great people are not as easily extinguished as a man—
t requires ages to crush and annihilate it completely. Once
snore be it said, Indian nationality will no doubt soon be
done away, but the Indian race is yet far from its end.
Yet it must be owned the sun has ceased to gild the wig-
wam of these proud children of nature ; he goes down
rapidly towards the horizon, and tints for the last time with
his red fires those pious homes where he was venerated as
the abode of the Great Spirit. But when the orb of day
has disappeared in the immensity of the ocean, he will
leave behind him a long twilight filled with the charms of
reverie, and will spread over the Indian cabin a sad, vague,
and poetic light, to reveal to the thinking man, the ph.lo-
sopher, and the Christian, an existencs worthy of sym-
pathy, a misfortune worthy of compassion, and a death
worthy of regret. Lastly, this doubtful light will continue
to shine for a long time as the victim of material civilisa-
tion and human cupidity, and many years may yet pass
away before the last Indian has killed the last buffalo."

The Girls' Birthday Book. A collection of Tales,
Essays, and Narratives, especially designed for
girls. Numerous illustrations. llotalston and
Wright, Paternoster-row.
This is a charming book for the class for whom
it is designed, and many a little maid can pass a
pleasant hour in reading the delightful contents of
this smart volume. It is always most desirable to
have a large stock of suitable works for children,
and this one will be found to suit all requirements
in its varied and vivacious pages. As might be
presumed from a book of this sort, besides adorning
a tale the writer seeks to point a moral, and thus
pleasure and profit go hand in hand. " White
Lies" is one of the most useful little lessons here
imparted. There is no fault to which giddy girls
are more prone than that of exaggeration, and it is
necessary to show in a startling manner the dread-
ful evils that result from this pernicious practice.
People are always more ready to believe evil than
good of their neighbours, as was proved by Mrs.
Biston, and therefore it is to be hoped that many a
child and young girl who reads this record of the
light words hastily spoken by Sophia will, while
they read, mark, learn, and profit by the
narrative. " The two Brave Little Cousins"
is another good story. There are several short
sketches which exemplify character and display
the ruling passions of children, such as "The Cup
of Chocolate" and " The Little Glutton." The
story called " Brother and Sister" is a very
interesting one, and it is gratifying to find that
Mark had courage at last to tell the tale of his
errors ; for though Henrietta proved herself a kind
sister, she should have used her influence to direct
her brother in the right road, and not to conceal
his faults. " The Schoolfellows" is a fair instance
of some of the important results that may follow
rom the actions of the young. Many other in-
structive and entertaining little sketches may be
met with among the contents. It is impossible to
over-estimate the importance of early implanting
the seeds of virtue in the young mind, and early
impressing the young heart with sympathy for
suffering and sorrow, and admiration for the pure
and true ; and small and trivial as such things
seem to some persons the effect may appear far in
the future, when, looking back on the long day of
life, from its sunset, the aged man recalls the
first lessons of right he learned in its bright and
happy morning. This little volume must be favour-
ably regarded by all who attentively peruse its
pages, and many an improvement in youthful con-
duct may be the happy result of listening to its
warnings and abiding by its teachings.

Farquhar Frankheart ; or, Incidents in the Intro-i
duction of Alethodism into Yorkshire. A Tale.
By the author of "The Heirs of the Farmstead."
London : Ward and Co.
This is unlike many modern novels, a novel with
a character. The author has not written his tale
from tale•telling motives merely, but because he
has something to say which he can say better in
this form than in any other, and because ho wishes
to illustrate a life, original, peculiar, with many
features of deep interest. The tale is a tale of
Yorkshire life. The author, being himself evi-
dently a Yorkshireman, is conversant with all the
peculiarities of thought, of speech, of manner, which
have made Yorkshiremen famous throughout the
world. How much fresh ness of thought there is under
that rough speech of theirs—what warm hearts beat
under their uncouth dress of manner and habit—
this the author knows, and brings out in his story.
As to the period the author has chosen, that is the
time of the first introduction of Methodism. He
describes with an able hand the character of the
men who were the leaders in the Methodist move-
ment ; he tells with thrilling power of the sort of
conflicts—literally conflicts—that they had to en•
dnre; and he shows how much gocd, real and abid-
lug, Was wrought by these men, who were " weak,"
111de,e(I, as things "of this world," but who were
"utY in their- earnest purpose and in their un-
well story, the book
is lesti'lling belief of God. As a
con-
tains many
sustained and deeply interesting ; it can-
exquisite
more read as some-
thinghupassages of deep pathos, and many of
iueur : but it should be
the book thanthe will no,
find their time a story; and those who will read
!mthor meant it to be read,
11t-spent.
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Ith -ROWING CROPS ---
change in the weather too
Wednesday, and had cent place in the eastern district on
fr—A most favourable
Saturday evening. The "armed without intermission up to
are, upon the whole, morerfaPv°vta regarding the wheat crop
defle
jeonurable in Norfolk, but barleys
are likely to prove very
mosttoofn most of the strong lands.
r the good mixed soils they
On many of the light and
are, however, looking very
ne weather, during
A Stowmarket
letter says:—" We have had awern4Bi".
\cured in excellent
which a large breadth of hay has bee°f firsoe
6;11 in appearance.
order, and the corn crops have much irnup
, ~ JULY
The temperature has been low, but not
the wheat plant, which is now blooming.. cient to injure
THE HOP TRADE.--MAIDSTONF
the market to-day complaints were general of serious'
12 —At
done to the hop plantation by the late excessive randraaage
all low and level lauds, where the wet does not .la or 4
very quickly, the extreme moisture appears to have
injured the root, for now that the rains have ceased, andv
the plant might be expected to "go ahead," the leaves
turn yellow, the bine droops, and in a little time it is evident
that the plant has been killed. Added to this there is a great
deficiency of bine in the best gardens; and fly is more or
less perceptible everywhere. These reports naturally pro-
duced an effect upon the market, and all kinds of hops are
fully Ll per cwt. higher than they were a week ago. The
nsult has bnen considerable briskness in the hop market,
and some sales have been effected with those planters who
yet hold their growths of last yeer.--11fairlstone Journal.
IMMENSE CYLINDERS.—The diameter of the
cylinders of the new steamer Ulster, just launched by
Messrs. Samuelson and Co., of Hull, is 98i inches. This
is half an inch in excess of the diameter of the cylinders of
the Seine, the last addition to the fleet of the West India
Ntaii Company.