The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

Voss's Gazette of Berlin denies the rum=
which has been in circulation that Austria has made
representations to the Western Powers relative to
the evacuation of Greece; the cabinet of Vienna, that
journal declares, has not sent any note of the kind.
The exchange of notes on the subject ceased, it says,
about the middle of June, the Western Powers
having then declared, in a joint note to the Cabinet
of Vienna, that the troops should evacaate Greece
as soon as the Government of that country should
give sufficient guarantees that tranquillity should
not, in any respect, be troubled:
A letter from Berlin of the 11th, in the Presse
of Brussels, says : _ _ _

" Considerable sensation has been caused here during
the last few days by the flight of three officers of the
Royal Guard, on account of being heavily in debt. The
officers in question are Prince William of Mecklenberg.
Schwerin, Major of Cuirassiers ; Lieut. de Hagen, of the
Fusiliers of the Guard, son of the general commanding
at Stettin ; and Lieutenant Stosch, of the same regi-
ment, son of a lieutenant-general on the retired list.
His Majesty was so annoyed at these shameful deser-
tions, that he is said to have warmly reproached the
Minister of War, as well as General de Wrangle, with
not having kept the officers under stricter discipline
General de Wrangel, on this, wrote to Prince William,
who had stopped at Tauroggen, on the Russian
frontier, telling him that if he did not send in
his resignation in 24 hours he would be cashiered.
The prince chose the former alternative. The
Police Gazette of Berlin had given some mys-
terious hints of the above affair, and the President
of Police thought at first of stopping the jour-
nal, as the prince is the nephew of the King, but before
doing so, it appears, he thought it best to take the opi-
nion of his Majesty on the subject. The King ordered
bim not to interfere with the journal, as the affair could
not remain a secret, and as in his eyes all his subjects
were alike. The prince's mother, the Dowager Grand
Duchess of Mecklenberg Schwerin, sister of the King,
refused positively to pay her son's debts, but the King
has taken the payment on himself, saying that he
could not allow his subjects to suffer from the
thoughtless conduct of his nephew. He has given
orders for the payment of the money borrowed, wiLb
legal interest, but states that nothing like usurious
demands shall be satisfied. The amount of the
prince's debts known up to this time is 140,000 thalers.
What bas caused much pain to his Majesty is, that the
prince had contracted many of them on his word of
honour, which he has broken by taking to flight. The
debts of the two lieutenants amount together to 40,000
thalers. A great cause of this affair is said to have been
that each of the parties has been keeping an expensive
mistress attached to the theatre. Prince William also
spent a good deal in bacchanalian enjoyments, a propen-
sity which has acquired for him the name of Prince
Schnaps, on account of his red nose. M. de Hagen is
said to Co in England, and M. de Stosch at Altona."

LITER,ATORg.

Eveleen. By E. L. A. Berwick. Author of " The
Dwarf,' &o. 3 vols. Smith and Elder.
This is a most interesting story, containing
power of expression with vividness iu detail, great
feeling and skilful delineation of character. The
form of the book is an autobiographical one, and
the narrator is the heroine, who, although a young
girl, unprotected, and far from the busy scenes o f
the world, in which its votaries are supposed to
derive foresight and experience, contrived to play
a most important part in the drama of social ex-
istence. Eveleen possessed intrinsic strength of
mind. Without this it would have been impossible
for her to have effected anything, but she improved
her talent to the utmost—it was natural as well as
acquired power that propelled her onward in her
course, and nerved her to the endurance of hard
struggles. In solitude and secret she had to wage
war with perils, and encounter obstacles that might
have daunted the boldest spirit, and before which
the stoutest heart might have quailed. She lived
m her uncle's house with his two children, all was
happy and peaceful, but in an evil hour he married
again, and the step-mother quickly overthew the
ortner things. " Old times were changed, old
manners gone," when she made her ill-omened
descent on the estate of Brabazon Hall. She was
lot evil natured, but had imbibed the principles of
worldliness, and adopted the maxims of selfishness
till the good became warped, and the evil reigned
predominant in her nature. All yielded to her,
except the orphan niece, but for Eveleen's noble
courage dark and sad would have been the days of
Brent and Mary. The only good action of Mr.
Barrington's, which appears amid a host-of weak
acts, if not wicked, was that of adopting this child
of his sister's, and he was in the position of those who
entertain angels unawares. From childhood to
youth Eveleen remained the firm friend to the in-
terests of the family in whose home she had been
sheltered, and greatly did they need her services.
It was not to be supposed that one so young and
inexperienced, however vigorous might be her
purposes, or pure her desires of rendering them
efficient aid, should always be infallible in her re-
solves. It chanced that on one occasion she and
her gentle cousin had escaped the thraldom of
their home, and departed to visit a retired part of
the coast. Unguardedly wandering on the shore,
while the tide was coming in, they were in peril of
their lives, when two strangers passing by hastened
to their rescue. Acquaintance thus made is not of
the common, or ordinary. At the first meeting
an advaucemnt is made that years of usual social
intercourse does not arrive it. It is natural that
the young cousins shrank from dispelling the dream
„hat wove around them such charmed spells, and
wore so bright a halo to their imaginings, by re-
turning to the dreary home over which Maria
Barrington presided. Such a catastrophe they
anew would be the result of Eveleen's informing
her uncle of their meeting with the strangers. As
far as she herself was concerned there was no dan-
ger ; her ideas were too lofty to be easily influenced
by another, and her general impressions too fixed
for her to go far in a short time. Yet with Mary
it was different ; and when Eveleen discovered
that, while she had not noticed the danger, her
cousin was almost engaged to George Bouverie, she
roused herself to exertion. This was the first evidence
she gave of that unflinching resolve to do her duty that
afterwards displayed itself so brightly in her life.
This shining light in her disposition was especially
brilliant by the side of Julia Hetherington, the
heiress of untold wealth, the admired beauty of
courtly circles, the accomplished belle of brilliant
saloons. In the maze of life Eveleen and this
paragon of worldly advantages came in close con-
tact with each other, and it chanced that Julia
Hetherington had wit enough to perceive the
power that was undeveloped but surely innate in
her rival's nature. The young philosopher had
soon an opportunity of testing her opinions of right
and wrong, for amid the changes of events, and
the striking occurrences that are in ordinary life,
it happened that one of the wanderers by the sea-
shore on that memorable evening before referred to
came as a guest to Brabazon Hall. On his arrival
Eveleen desired him not to mention their for-
mer acquaintance, as unpleasant consequences
might ensue. When they first met she had known
her preserver as Alfred Montgomerie only, but she
now discovered that he was also the Earl of Lan-
dore. Julia Hetherington endeavoured to attract
this gifted but eccentric individual, but to no pur-
pose. The few energetic sentences that Eveleen
had uttered by the sea-shore, in their morning
strolls or their sunset wanderings, had more effect
on his mind than the honied phrases of flattery
that the wily woman of the world could lavish so
profusely on her destined victim. Calm as she was
Eveleen was too closely watched not to be sus-
pected, and in the midst of the toils and snares that
her enemies were devising for her came the words
of entreaty from the young earl that she would
enable him to put her beyond the reach of their
importunities by declaring his attachment, and
thus rising far above the level of even the proud
Julia, who then looked down on her with scorn
from her exalted pinnacle in the social sphere,
secure her own safety from past annoyances, while
she would become a bright example to his future
life to urgo him on in the path which she always
told him was the one his steps should tread in.
Again was Eveleen Redgrave tried, and again she
triumphed. It was not that she had not implicit
confidence in the character of him who stood be-
fore her, but she felt that he did not know
himself as yet. If the natural sensitiveness to in-
suit that is inherent in every nature prompted her
to become what would put down all the malice of
her oppressors, and while gratifying her own tastes
bring her forth resplendent in exterior advantage,
the coronet of England's countesses on her brow,
at the very moment when they were bidding her
hide her diminished head, as a poor dependent on
their bounty, a higher pride rose to her aid. She
feared lest he who sought her in youth might
afterwards tire of his enthusiasm and repent of his
choice when too late. She stood firm to her idea
that they should part, to meet hereafter if at the
expiration of time, Lord Landoro still preserved
amid the cares of life the dream of his early days,
and still desired to fulfil his then ardent wish.
They parted as she had willed it. New troubles
and difficulties of all sorts arose to darken the path
of the self-constituted champion of the family.
The concluding passages are exceedingly well
written, the exciting interest which the story at-
tains to at the last is ably sustained, and the cou-
rage which the heroine so nobly evinces is in con-
formity with her previous actions and thoughts
throughout the record herein transcribed of her
career. Mary is one of those gentle natures that
are only fitted to smile in the sunshine and cannot
brave the storm. She is pleasing, although one
cannot respect and admire such a disposition as all
must when contemplating the character of Eveleen.
The object of her life was to carry " principle
into practice," and if unaided by any friendly he, e,
or favourable circumstance, she did not always gain
her immediate and desired end, she was walking
in a way of which nothing ceuld make her ashamed
nor afraid, and vindicating a cause in which failure
was more glorious than are many successes.

The Quadroon; or, a Lover's Adventures in
ouisiana. By Captain Mayne Reid. 3 vols.
George Hyde.

The talented author of " The Scalp-hunters"
has furnished us with a vivid and romantic history
of an adventurer's exploits in North America. He
informs us very decidedly in a very brief preface
that the author is not the hero, and that the book
is 'nothing more than a romance. Nevertheless,
there is very little doubt that it presents a faithful
sketch of life in Louisiana. Some of the scenes
and characters are real, we are told, and the book
is founded on actual experience. It was written
many years ago and would have been published
previously,
.but " a well-known work!" which
treated of similar scenes and subjects interfered
with this intention, and it has since been revised
and corrected. The story is most romantic. The
hero, an English traveller, falls in love with a
beautiful Quadroon girl, with whom he becomes
acquainted, and who has received an unusual edu-
cation. Great are the obstacles, perils, and diffi-
culties which oppose themselves to their marriage,
but after hair-breadth stapes and snares they are
at length surmounted or removed, and all termi-
nates happily. Not, however, before the hero has
had a very narrow escape of his life in consequence
of having stolen a slave. The incidents ale most
exciting, and attractive to all the lovers of a truly
romantic history. The story opens with a race
between two steamers (a very common occurrence
in America), which ends iu the explosion of a
boiler. A cheating guardian, a stolen will, a fugi-
tive slave, the bite of a rattlesnake, losses at a
gambling-house, are among the sources of interest.
The author's opinions, a, most of his readers know,
are most decidedly republican. Not a few con-
, temptuous expressions are met with regarding
European existence, and not a few rhapsodies on
the dignity, the freedom, and the delight of life
untrammelled by the conventionalities of our social
existence. The " white slaves," however, may
support this contempt with philosophy, without
being particularly envious of the blessings of steam-
, boat races, slavery, and Lynch law. For a vivid
and stirring romance, full of panoramic descrip-
tions of scenery, and possessing considerable no-
velty, both from its subject and its incidents,
this
work may be commended to the novel reader, being
likely to furnish entertainment and interest, from

the fervour of its style and the originality of its

€)urrence3.

The fraternal of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England. Vol. XVII. Part. I. John Murray.
This is a work of standard value in its peculiar
class, and merits the attention of all engaged in
the direction or study of agricultural pursuits.
Whether the'reader is engaged in them as a busi-
ness, or whether he is merely a scientific amateur,
he will find subjects suited for his consideration,
and affording him a great variety of information,
b ,th practical and theoretical. Thus, an article
ou " The Management of Dairy Cattle " gives a•
minute account of the manner in which the writer
treated his cows for two years, and which resulted
very successfully. For the benefit of those who
are studying the higher principles of agriculture
there is an article by Justus von Liebig. In the
opening sentences he tells us that as his work on
agricultural chemistry contains only a small part of
the experience and the facts on which his opinions
are founded, he undertakes in these pages a more
detailed explanation of them. Many of his readers
will, doubtless, recollect that in the third edition
of the work referred to the author surrendered the
opinion he had previously expressed on the import-
ant principle of nitrogen as affecting the soil. The
reasons for this alteration of opinion are here given
at some length, and the talented writer enters fully
into the subject. The botanist will be attracted by
a " History of British Grasses," by J. Buckman,
F.G.S., Professor of Geology and Botany in tha
Royal Agricultural College. A paper, immediately
following this, on the " Roots of the Wheat Plant"
is a prize essay, by the same author. They are both
illustrated by explanatory diagrams. In an interest--
in "Report of the Agricultural Department of the
Paris Exhibition," by Mr. Denison, M.P., it is re-
marked that it was objected to the English machines,
that they were too heavy and too costly, but the
trials showed that a light plough does not always
make light work, nor is an implement cheap at first
cost always cheapest in the end. The position of
English exhibitors he considers to have been dis-
couraging, for the duty on machinery was so high
that it amounted to a prohibition. Nevertheless,
when notice was given of the intended ex-
periments at Trappes, several makers them-
selves went over, taking with them their
workmen at a few days' warning. The Pre-
sident, at the close of the day, addressed.
them in the following words :—" Your countrymen
have set an example to all. They have brought
good implements, men to manage them, an inter-
preter to speak for them, an engineer to advise
with. This is the
.way in which business should be
done." The enterprise of these manufacturers was
productive of lasting advantage to themselves and
others, for, in consequence of a coincidence of
opinion between the English and French concerned,
a representation was made to the Imperial Govern-
ment which resulted in a considerable reduction of
duty on many articles of machinery. Much mis-
cellaneous information may be obtained from this
ample volume, which only appears twice in the
year. There can be no doubt that it greatly facili-
tates the diffusion of a general knowledge of scien-
tific agriculture, as well as presenting to those
already advanced in its study the means of com-
paring their own opinions and experiments with
those of others, and of becoming acquainted with
the principles and theories of the first agricultural
chemists of the day.

The North British Review. Hamilton, Adams,

and Co.

There are several interesting topics to be found
in the present number of this quarterly. Some of
these have also the attraction of novelty—that is to
say, of being subjects not under constant discus-
sion and dispute. The first paper can scarcely be
said to lay claim to this title, for it is the terribly
familiar one of the Ottoman Empire. Now, how-
ever, it is doubtless as just and necessary to discuss
the probable fortunes of the Turk and his domi-
nions as it was at the commencement of the war.
However, most general readers are weary
of the constant repetition of such subjects,
and gladly turn to a less hackneyed topic.
Ono of these is an outline of the Dutch Reforma-
tion and the memorable war between Philip the
Second of Spain and his sturdy subjects in Hol-
land. It is taken from Mr. Motley's " History of
the Rise of the Dutch Republic," which gives,
among other points of interest, a graphic descrip-
tion of the sieges of Haarlem and Leyden. Another
interesting article is on the tendencies of French
literature in the present day. It takes as its hero
M. Cousin, and it renders an earnest tribute to the
good service he has done the cause of right and
truth by his steadfast adherence and eloquent ad-
vocacy. A paper devoted to the description of the
several kinds of microscopes possesses much useful
information on the varieties of that wonderful in-
strument. The claims to its invention are exa-
mined ; and though there are four claimants (one
of whom is Galileo himself), the author inclines to
the opinion that no single individual can be con-
sidered as the inventor, but that as soon as two
lenses were combined to magnify distant objects it
was impossible to overlook their influence in the
examination of those that were near, and that each
of these individuals may consequently have partly
discovered it. This idea would favour the suppo-
sition of Galileo's having been the discoverer, as
one would suppo'ie, from his devoidon to the per-
fecting of the telescope, that he would be the first
to seize such an idea. A paper on the memoirs of
the late Samuel Rogers gives a number of enter-
taining anecdotes, classified, thus giving us in turn
a view of the anecdotes of the statesmen, the poets,
the literati, &c. The general review of his times
affords the opportunity ','or an interesting sketch.
A paper on the annexation of Oude holds it im-
possible that any right-thinking and unprejudiced
inquirer into its previous history can regret its
subjection to a civilised country.