The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEER

REVIEW.

Nearly 10,000 volunteers (exclusive of our citT
corps) have already intimated to the Lord Provost's
Committee their intention to be present at the Re-
view next month. On Saturday a letter was re-
ceived from Mr. Kidston, Secretary of the Review
Committee in Glasgow, intimating that accommo-
dation would be required for 7,000 volunteers from
the city and neighbouring districts. An answer
was immediately despatched stating that the com-
mittee had placed the High School and Edinburgh
Academy at the disposal of the Glasgow volunteers,
and a suggestion was at same time made to Mr.
Kidston that two competent parties should be sent
to make arrangements for the appropriation of the
premises by the different companies. Applications
have also been received from the Fifeshire Artil-
lery requesting accommodation for 100 volunteers;
Elgin, 100 ; Jirackla, 50 ; and Kirkcudbright, 120
—making a grand total, along with the applica-
tions before published, of !nearly 10,000 volunteers
from districts beyond Edinburgh.—
Caledonian
Me re inl/

GARIBALDI AND THE PEOPLE OF SHEFFIELD.-
Garibaldi has forwarded the following address to the people
of Sheffield :—" llumane and free-minded men have the
pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of the Address' you
have unanimously adopted in your meeting, hold on the
11th of June, in your Town-hall, Free Italy, that is now-
struggling with such self-denial as to strike with astonish-
ment and terror her enemies for the redemption of her
children still groaning under the scourge of thraldom, re-
quests me to express the feeling of her deepest ;gratitude to
the brave sons of England. No people in Europe better
than British people can watch with greater 'interest the
progress of Italian exertions and Italian welfare. England,
the land of true liberty, cannot but sympal thise with a.
people so long oppressed under the most fermi. ma tyranny,s.
"
and now vindicating their right amongst free /
n
Sicily has given the noble eiamplo of legal iyAsurrec
tion.
She had a right to the assistance of her free ali,afnree,
and
coun-
trymen. The assistance did not fail. She is
EL
v 01,
I am proud to have contributed to the result ( ,fw thise shall n noble
bgl
go
cause. Screened by God's help and protection
forward. Do not let diplomacy
Italy will to the Italians. Italyinwteiriflorbee Auttihteciu,s,and
beinde-
pendent, free, and deserving
sister to Old. E) agland.
to the noble and generotm
Re-
member me and my countrymen .
British people, and believe me, bill,' Sours, 0 .OA,BABALia.
Palermo, July 13.

diting the Parliament of his country, and displaying
a total want of the feeling of manly dignity.
On the question itself of the amalgamation of the
two armies, the local and the imperial army in
India, every candid man is willing to own that
there are strong arguments and weighty authorities
for the conflicting views. The objection of most
weight is undoubtedly the difficulty of adjusting
the patronage. No confidence is felt in the Horse
Guards. Promotion by favour and by wealth
will undoubtedly die hard. Hundreds of
HAVELOCKS may not have HAVELOCK'S op-
portunity of proving by their last acts the
injustice of the system which depresses merit,
and elevates connection and money. But the
remedy for this is to improve the system of pat-
ronage, not to sacrifice Imperial claims to the
existence of a real, but a certainly curable defect.
Let Mr. HORSMAN and his fellow-obstructors but
devote the same zeal to exposing and reforming the
administration of our naval and military patronage
which they do to the hindrance of the public busi-
ness, and they will deserve well of their country.
The obvious advantages of the whole force of an
Empire being entirely at its disposal, are so great,
that it must be a strong case, indeed, which can
override them. To us, seeing, too, all the difficul-
ties ably stated by Lord STANLEY, and which have
been said or sung, over and over again since, by
Mr. HORSMAN and the old Indians, it still seems
that the Government is right in its proposal, and
that the simplicity of the Bill leaving scope to
carry out the measure as circumstances may require
is, in truth, one of its merits.

How often before now have we not had occasion
to comment upon the Civil _List Pensions in terms
of mingled scorn and indignation Yet year after
year the same melancholy record forces itself under
our notice, echoed and re-echoed back with " damn-
able iteration." Each annual catalogue is as like
•
as can well be to its immediate predecessor. The
customary total of £1,200 annually placed at the
disposal of the Prime Minister, nominally for the
encouragement of Art, Science, and Literature, is
actually year after year, in the old accustomed man-
ner, frittered away in wretched little driblets—
distributed among individuals for the most part
" unknown to fame "—in doles capable of doing
little else than afford them the most poignant sense
of personal degradation. Repeatedly before now
we have insisted upon the cruelty and fatuity of
these most perverse proceedings. Time after time
we have proved both their cruelty and fatuity to
absolute demonstration. To do this, it has only
been necessary upon each yearly occasion to reca-
pitulate, and, in recapitulating, to analyse the
melancholy list of the alms and their re-
cipients. Again and again we have indicated,
moreover, that several among the questionably for-
tunate recipients have had no claim whatever to
the bounty (?), being in no way at all connected,
either directly or indirectly, with art, with science,
or with literature. Sometimes a portion of the
£1,200 has been awarded to the relict or the
children of a naval or military officer; sometimes to
the widow or orphans of a church dignitary. And
in each of these instances (almost invariably) the
pension bestowed has been of the largest class of
amounts ventured upon with as air, as we must
call it, of beggarly ostentation and parsimoni-
ous munificence. There is a case directly in
point in the present mournful catalogue of the
" Civil List Pensions" granted, to the tune of
£1,200, between the 20th of June, 1859, and the
20th of June, 1860—pursuant to Act the Ist Vict.
c. 2. There the largest sum awarded to any one is
the annual sum of £lso—a pension bestowed
neither isi the interests of art or of science, nor yet
indeed, for that matter, of literature. It is a pension
of £l5O per annum granted to Mrs. LUCY RIGAUD,
" in consideration of the labours of her late hus-
band, Bishop of Antigua, and of her distressing
position, left with a family of seven children, quite
unprovided for" by' that deceased dignitary.
And, as if in mockery of the despised
interests of science, the very next item
on the list announces the magnificent award
of £5O annually (not 20s. a week!) to Mrs. CATHE-
RINE LIDDON (daughter of the late HENRY CORT),
and another magnificent sum of £5O per annum to
Miss CAROLINE CORT, another daughter of the
aforesaid scientific discoverer, in consideration of
the great benefits which have accrued to this
country from their late father's inventions in the
manufacture of iron, and of the large fortune which
he expended in carrying them into execution—
the said HENRY CORT having, by those wonderful
and world-famous inventions of his, enhanced the
wealth of this country to an almost incalculable
extent—already it is estimated in round numbers
at the stupendous amount of some £200,000,000
In consideration of which, and as a mark of the
national gratitude, we give £5O a-year to his
two daughters, CATHERINE and CAROLINE. It
is to a wretched dole like this that we
point as to an insult rather than (what
it insolently affects to be) a tribute or a testi-
monial !

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Entire Change.—Powerful Attraction.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena.
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Aug. 4, commencing at Two o'clock.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolti.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOITNOD
UST. 'S OPERA.
FA
First Time in this Country.

- Faust —
Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite — Miss Russell.
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, is, Hall. 6d.
Combo Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
In and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, *lnsisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment). for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

TILE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 31, 1860.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
65—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.12.
WlND—West-South-Westerly; light, with dull weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1860.

Mr. HOUSMAN and his Indian backers, we are
sorry to say, forget the difference between inde-
pendence and factiousness. Let them look back
and see what they have gained by it. The Eu-
ropean Forces (India) Bill has been committed
and reported, precisely as if they had held their
tongues. They have not even gained time for
discussion, for their speeches have been but the
stalest repetition of what had been better said on
the first opportunity. Lord STANLEY took a very
different course—the manly one. He stated, as he
had the ungrudged right to do, his reasons in full
against the bill. He saw that the vast majority
of the House was not convinced by them ; he, in
all probability, retains his convictions as strongly
as ever; but he does not wantonly delay the pro-
gress of business, by interposing obstructions
purely for obstruction's sake. Mr. Ifor.smais
might well take a lesson from the son of Lord
DFRBY. Most ludicrous of all is it to listen to
Mr. lloasmAN complaining about the mode in
which the business of the House is conducted. If
there be one criminal more guilty than another of
the offence of obstructing business, it is surely
Mr. HonsaraN. At first, for a philippic or two, it
was a little amusing ; but his tirades have long lost
all of that quality—few read them now, though
the Speaker and the members must perforce hear
them—they are voted a bore, and Mr. HOUSMAN
a nuisance simply for overdoing what wants occa-
sionally to be done. •
Lord PALMERSTON was surely quite right in
denouncing the course taken by the minority on the
Amalgamation of Armies Bill as unconstitutional,
and as striking at the roots of all Constitutional
Government. If Mr. HOUSMAN will point us out
any way by which, under such a Government,
business can proceed, except that of the minority
either convincing the majority or honourably yield-
ing to it, we should be glad to see it. The minority
has its right to a full statement and fair hearing of
its views. Time may prove that they were right
and the majority wrong. But that is no justifica-
tion whatever for minorities making a mock
Thermopylae of the forms of the house, and
fighting as if they were defending the very
liberties of the country. They are doing, in fact,
the very reverse. Countries in the exercise of their
freedom may go wrong, as well as individuals in the
exercise of their freewill. But in both cases there
is a self-adjusting regulator, which must be relied
on. Experience of consequences must teach those
ho will not learn from argument. Civil freedom,
lLke individual freewill, must not be destroyed, but
left to the discipline of rewards and punishments.
HOUSMAN desires to effect by coercion what
he cannot effect by argument ; and, because the
o
I"whelming majority of the house will not be con-
linced,he •
serzes hold of a form, like a crow-bar, and
bullw c break or bend the majority. There is a great
NV ant of mauls,
ess in this. We hold it one of the
TV .ost valuable characteristics of Englishmen that
ey can, with composure and self respect, take
t h eir place in a minority. A true Englishman can
be in a minority Of one and not
blush. If assured of
hi s cause, lie knows that his day will come ; he
folds his arms, and says to himself, they will think
mi a right one day. Most of our continental neigh-
bours, on the contrary, are either maddened or
co wed at being in a small minority. They do not
sh rink even from vi *nee and blood. Mr. Hons.
Af. AN does the nearest „thing to that which English
Labits permit; but he'•does it at the cost of discre-

Several of the little awards this year we gladly
recognise as well-selected so far as the chosen re-
cipients are concerned themselves. But even in
these instances the sums doled out are wretchedly
inadequate, and the pleas specified often ludicrously
blundered upon. For example—Xloo a-year being
set apart for Miss (obviously it should be Mrs.)
HELEN GALLWEY, the pension is said to have been
bestowed, forsooth, in consideration of the ion?
services of her husband as British Consul at
Naples—when the claim should obviously have
been by rights, that the lady in ques-
tion is the daughter of HOPPNER the
painter! Another annual sum of £lOO, we are
gratified to observe, set apart for Miss JULIA
PARDOE, in consideration of thirty years' toil in the
field of literature, by which she has contributed
both to cultivate the public taste and to support a
number of helpless relations ! There is a yearly
sum of £lOO likewise well awarded to the Rev.
HENRY LOGAN, in consideration of his contribu-
tions to mathematical and scientific literature, and
his present state of destitution, in consequence of
the loss of his eye-sight ! A like sum of £lOO per
annum being deservedly bestowed on 1)r. ROBERT
BLAKEY, in consideration of his exertions to aid and
promote the study of philosophy, and of his
straightened circumstances. Another £lOO being
set aside annually for Dr. ROBERT BIGSBY, for some
nameless "great services and contributions to the
literature of his country "—with the extent or even
nature of which services we must shamefacedly
acknowledge ourselves to be wholly unacquainted.
Contrasted painfully with some of which par-
ticulars there is the annual pension of
£125 set down upon this list as the
aggregate award vouchsafed to the six sis-

ters of the late celebrated and indefatigable
labourer (for the public good) in the fields of phi-
losophy, Dr. DIoNYsIUS LARDNEU—in considera-
tion, the official award acknowledges, of his great
labours and their scanty means. Remembering
what were the toils of the departed philosopher
and encyclopedist—it certainly does appear to us
painfully inadepate, the dribbling out of this
miserable total of £125, to be divided yearly u
equal proportions among those six sisters—Mi.,:s;

CAROLINE LARDNER, Miss LOUISA LARDNER, Miss'
An ELIA LARDNER, Miss ADELINE LARDNER,
Mi ss CLARINDA LARDNER, and Miss JANE
LA RDNER ! The mere enumeration of these
six names justifies everything we have
he re said as to these cruel insults offered
ye arly to the triple interests of Art, Science, and
L'iterature. Honour to the Premier who shall first
?apply this annual sum of £1,200 properly to those
hitherto much neglected interests—subdividing
the "small sum total into pensions ranging from
£3OO to £l5O, or at the very lowest computation
to £lOO--distributing these pensions, moreover,
judiciously, and with a wise discrimination among
the worn out labourers or the destitute survivors
of persons eminent in those three contiguous
fields and pastures ever fresh and new—of Art,
Science, and Literature.

LATES

-- --s-

.1N E S.

The following telegrams
.have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

SUICIDE OF THE MANAGER OF THE
ROYAL BANK, LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
Mr. Chaff. rs, Manager of the Royal Bank,
Liverpool, hanged himself this morning.

THE EAST.

PARIS, JULY 30.

Now that we know more of the massacres in
Syria, we know, unhappily, only more of the in-
tolerable conduct of the Turkish authorities. Take
Damascus, for instance—the largest city of Asiatic
Turkey, with a population of 150,000 inhabitants
at least, about 15,000 of whom are Christians and
the remainder Jews—the real capital of Syria—a
Holy City in the estimation of Mussulmans them-
selves—and the residence of a Governor-General
and Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish forces of
the country—here, if anywhere, we might expect
that order would be preserved, and that the Hatti
Hurmayoun, which Cadis and distant officials might
be expected to contravene, would be sustained in full
force. If the SULTAN cannot secure the lives and
properties of his Christian subjects in such a city
as Damascus, under the eye, too, of a staff of Euro-
pean Consuls, and with ample military means
for enforcing order, where can we expect him to
be competent to do it ?

Yet what is the fact ? We learn from a corre-
spondent of the Daily News, to whom we have been
previously indebted for some of the best informa-
tion, that all the previous accounts are substantially
true ; the details which he gives from numerous au-
thentic sources quite prove that the Turks are
themselves the abettors of these outrages, and that
Mussulmans were the chief perpetrators of
them. After the ' murder of the Christians
at various places by the Druses, and
tha acquiescence or the aid of the Turkish soldiery
in those atrocities, the low Mussulman population
became very insulting at Damascus. The Chris-
tians were, of course, correspondingly depressed by
the conduct of the men who should have been their
protectors. The origin of the outbreak was worthy
of Turks. Some boys insulted the Christians on the
Sunday (the Bth of June) by drawing crosses on the
ground, and spitting on them. On the Monday
these boys were in chains, sweeping the Christian
quarter of the city—of course to vindicate the rights
of the Christians. Nothing of the kind.
It was intended merely to irritate the
low Mahommedan mob, and the scheme was
but too successful. The Christians immediately
expected a riot. At 2 p.m. some three hundred of
the lowest Moslems of Damascus rushed armed
into the Christian quarter, crying out, " Slay the
dogs of Christians !" and immediately the work of
plunder, burning, and murder commenced. But
what of the authorities ? Our informant writes
that " ACHMET PACHA, Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief of the place—a field-marshal
in the SULTAN'S army—was at once informed of
what had taken place. But although he had at his
disposal some eight hundred regular troops and
several field pieces, not a man nor a gun did he
move. He never showed himself in the streets,
nor took any steps whatever to stop the massacre."
The mob at once attacked the Russian Consulate,

murdered all the Christians who could not reach
the house of ABD-EL-KADER, who has behaved
most nobly throughout. At evening 300 soldiers
were sent out, but they joined the mob in the
plunder and massacre. As might be expected,
" the whole Christian quarter—which includes
some of the finest palaces to be found in the empire
—was soon one mass of flames ; and (for this there
is the positive authority of a European eye-witness,
who was hiding in the neighbourhood all that
fearful night), as the Christians tried to escape
from the flames they were thrust back on the
burning piles by the bayonets of the Turkish
regular troops troops. However, when we
recollect that one of the military chiefs
who commanded in Damascus was OSMAN
BEG, the miscreant who but three weeks pre-
viously had delivered up at Hasbeyia upwards
of fifteen hundred Christians to be massacred by
the Druses, all wonder at the conduct of the mili-
tary ceases at once. The burning, slaughter, and
pillage went on till the whole Christian quarter
was burnt down, and we read that " What
the Turkish authorities did may be summed up in
one word—" Nothing." No less than six times did
that gallant old man, Mr. Brant, the English con-
sul, and the Rev. Mr. Robson, Irish Presby-
terian missionary, at the utmost risk of their
lives, go together to the Pacha Achmet, and
urge him to do something to save the lives
of the Christians. No: he said he could,
and showed that he would, do nothing,
but remained " consulting" in the castle.
Can we wonder that the prevalent opinion should
be that the vdaole is a gigantic scheme of the
Turkish Government to crush Christianity out of
Syria ? So uniform has been the conduct of the
Turkish authorities, so evident their complicity in
the murders, so barbarous their indifference to the
urgent wants of those who are deprived of food
even, that the inhabitants of all classes can hardly
avoid the conclusion that they act on secret orders
from the Government, That such orders can have
come from Constantinople we may well disbelieve.
The SULTAN must know but too well, even
were he the savage to do such things,
which he is not, that prompt and summary inter•
ference from Powers but too glad of the pretext,
would be the, immediate result. But, that his
bigoted representatives in these remoter provinces
are of one mind—and that the most Satanic which
can be imagined, there is little doubt. It is but too
evident that something decisive must be done.
That the Turkish Government must be made re-
sponsible for peace and security in Syria, or that
the Christian. Powers must take the business into
their own h4ds. .

The Earl and Countess Delawarr left town
yesterday for their seat, Buckhurst••park, Sussex, for a few
days.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned
to London yesterday from Osborne.

Lady de Dunstanville left town yesterday for
Audley-end, on a visit to Lord and Lady Braybrooke.

The Conference on the affairs of Syria assembled
to-day at 2 p.m., for the second time, at the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs.
In this sitting the French proposal for interven-
tion, which, subject to the acquiescence of the Porte,
has been accepted by the Great Powers, was dis-
cussed for the first time.

It is asserted that the Turkish Ambassador, fol-
lowing instructions received from Constantinople,
claimed essential modifications of the project of Con-
vention. It is also stated that England, Austria,
and Russia declared themselves ready to send troops

to Syria.
Another sitting of the Conference must, it is said,
take place, as the representatives of the Great
Powers have to obtain authority from their Govern-
ments to sign the Convention.

Lord Clyde has returned to -Wallace's Hotel, St.
George's-place, Hyde-park-corner, from Osborne.
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.—Mr. Elwin, after
six years' superintendence, retires from the editorship of
this periodical. It is understood that the new managenvnt
will adopt a ;more genial :and :less morose tone towards
men and things.

TILE COMMISSION TO SYRIA.—We are glad to
learn from our Parliamentary report that Lord J. Russell
has appointed Lord Dufferin to the responsible post of Bri-
tish Commissioner to Syria. No better choice could have
been made in so difficult and delicate an appointment, for
to much acquaintance with the country and with the habits
of the people Lord Dufferin unites great tact and ability.
Lord Dufferin only returned from a prolonged tour in Syria
and Egypt last autumn.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1860.

FORTIFICATIONS ATM'? SEA OF
AZoFF.

A communication from Taganrog, in the Levant
Herald, says :—" Some time back I called your
attention to the very extensive works which had
been commenced by the Russians at the entrance
of the sea of Azoff. The fortifications now in course
of construction are on a scale surpassing anything
that existed at Sebastopol, both as regards strength
and extent. Our local commercial community
are in a state of alarm ; for they view this heavy
armament. of the point of Kertch as something
more than merely supplying the former fortifi-
cation of Yeni-Kale. Upwards of 8,000 men are
at present employed on the works, R hich have
been completed so far that almost all the embra-
sures are finished and the carriages placed. The
guns, which are of the very largest calibre, have
already arrived at Kertch. To those who have
not visited the locality it may be difficult to convey
an exact idea of the position or nature of the fortifi-
cations. I may briefly say that the high land known
by the name of the Point of Kertch has been tun-
nelled into galleries, after the Gibraltar plan, and
that the guns will be so placed that it will be
impossible to pass into the Azoff. In this way the
Russians will have secured for themselves a har-
bour where they may under adverse cir-
cumstances find a safe retreat. The proposed
erection of an additional custom house at Kertch
is not at all popular, as it is calculated only
to serve as an impediment to trade ; the es-
tablishment at Taganrog was deemed amply
sufficient for all purposes. The Russians, after
having compelled the unfortunate Nogais of the
Caucasus to emigrate, are now also forcing the
whole Tartar population of the Crimea to quit
their homes; the pretext of the Government being
that the Tartars did not take arms against the
enemies of Russia during th© late war, and that
being disaffected they must be got rid of. In
this way the whole population from the coast on
to Simpheropol is being cleared out and obliged
to abandon their property without any compen-
sation, the Government transferring it gratuitously
to the Cossacks of the Black Sea as a reward for
their superior loyalty. Our commerce at the pre-
sent moment is uncommonly brisk ; we have daily,
arrivals of between 4,000 to 5,000 waggons of
grain from the interior. The harvest has been
abundant beyond anything known in the memory
of man, and probably would have been even larger
had it not been for the late and heavy rain which,
of course, in some districts was injurious. Messrs.
Ralli and Scaramanga have already chartered to
load no less than 70 vessels."

THE LATE MR. BROUGH.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.

Sin,—May I request that you will give publicity
to the following facts respecting a story entitled
" Marston Lynch," by my late brother, Mr. Robert
B. Brough, which some unknown hand has abruptly
finished in three or four unmeaning lines. " Mar-
ston Lynch" was commenced in the Train, a
magazine with which my brother was connected,
but it was never completed in that publication.
In justice to his literary fame I trust you will
allow me to make this protest against the publica-
tion of a half-finished story, in a form calculated to
mislead the reader who would, of course, suppose
the work complete, there being no word of explana-
tion to the contrary. From notes in my possession
I am enabled positively to affirm that the climax—
if climax it can be called—of the story as now
issued, is utterly unlike that which its author had
imagined. Had he lived to complete his work, it
would, of course, have been open to criticism upon
its own merits ; but, I think you will agree with
me that it would be hardly fair for any one to judge
of the work as a whole, from a perusal of its open-
ing chapters now published without the slightest
communication having been previously made with
any of its deceased author's representatives.
The announcement of a tale as a " personal bio-
graphy," too, would obviously lead the public to
imagine that it contained a history of its author's
life. Such an idea would be utterly and cruelly
false. It was never intended for an autobiography
—the character of the hero has nothing in common
with that of my late brother (except that he, like
Marston Lynch, was a struggling man of letters),
nor was the story ever put forth as a "personal
biography," either by its author or by any one
until he who could best have spoken as to its in-
tention could speak no more.
I have to apologise for troubling you at this
length, but having been requested by my poor
brother to compile and publish such of his works as
he deemed worthy of preservation, I considered it
my duty thus to vindicate his memory, and to de-
precate any hostile criticism upon a tale which,
without this explanation, must appear so imper-
fect, not to say inartistic as a whole.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN CARGILL BROUGH.