The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. 20 (Evening).
All the Ministers placed their resignation in the
hands of the Emperor yesterday.

M. Rouher retains hip functions as Minister of
State, and is, moreover, appointed Minister of
Finance, in place of M. Fould, whose resignation is
accepted.

Marshal Niel is appointed Minister of War.
Admiral Rigauld de Genouilly is named Minister
of Marine, and M. de Forcade la Roquette Minister
of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works. M.
Bettie, who held the latter post, has been made
Senator and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
The Emperor has not accepted the resignation
of the Ministers of State, Justice, the Imperial
Household, Public Instruction, Interior, or Foreign
Affairs, nor that of the Minister President of the
Council of State ; and these Ministers, therefore,
retain their respective portfolioes•

LITERATURE.

Scott's Poetical Works. Complete, in One Volume.

Pp. 559. Macmillan and Co.
As a companion to the one-volumed " Globe
Edition," as it is called, of Shakspere, published not
long since by Macmillan of London and Cambridge,
we have here the whole of the Poetical Works of Sir
Walter Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford—the Shaks-
pere, the Moore, the Boccaccio of Scotland. A more
comprehensive collection of the metrical productions
of the true Wizard of the North, of the Great Un-
known, of the Author of Waverley, of the Minstrel
of the Scottish Borders, of the Illustrator of Scot-
tish humour, of Scottish heroism, of Scottish His-
tory, and of Scottish Life and Manners, alike ancient,
modern, and mediaeval, has never yet been pub-
lished in a form so compact and beautiful. Every-
thing worthy of taking rank as among the Poetical
Works of Walter Scott, the reader will here find.
From his lengthier masterpieces " The Lady of the
Lake," and " Martnion," and the " The Lay of
the Last Minstrel"—from " The Vision of
Don Roderick," and " Rokeby," and " The
Lord of the Isles"—from " The Bridal of
Triermain," and " Harold the Dauntless," and
" The Field of Waterloo"—through all the seven
Ballads translated or imitated by Sir Walter from
the German, including among them Gothe's " Erl
King" and Burger's •' Leonora"—down to the brief es t
of his own original Ballads, his Songs from the No-
vels, and his Songs from the Plays and Minor Poems
—definable these latter only under thevague heading
of Poems of aMiscellaneous Character. Among these
last however—such world-famous pieces as Helvellyn,
and Wandering Willie, and Macgregor's Gathering,
and Jock of Hazeldean ! There are poems here in
this volume—yet who-needs be told this ?—that are
just peerless, priceless, matchless in their way !
Young Lochinvar, for example—that daintiest of
love ballads, moving, in the elastic rhythm of it,
to the step of the gay galliard, and ending with a
bound into the saddle preparatory to the well-re-
membe:ed gallop into an elopement Or, there is
Bonny Dundee, again, that most inspiriting of war-
songs, at the clanging chorus of which who is there
but is ready to draw sword, and shake bridle, and snap
pistol at the beck of Claverhouse? A worthier com-
panion volume to the Glc.be Shakspere the Messrs.
Macmillan could not well have devised than this
charming gathering together of the Poems, Songs,
and Ballads of the great Sir Walter of Abbotsford.

A NEW YEAR'S STORY.—Under the title of " A
Girl at a Railway Junction's Reply" [every one will
know to what!] has within these last few days
made its appearance as from the hand of " Lyulph."
As a good-humoured literary skit--occasionally
verging, as Mr. Brass might express it, upon the
confines of impertinence—the tale is prettily told,
here and there, too, with a sense of the humorous
that in its way is really delightful. Lamps reappears
as Grease. His immortal " rounder" (of lubrica-
tion to head and face)—comes back to us (with the
gloss off it as a phrase) as a " header." Barbox
Brothers reappears (absurdly) as Bandbox Bother.
Lamp's invalid daughter gets transformed here into
Grease's gouty-legged mother. And Polly?—well,
Polly becomes transmogrified into a fearful sharp
little "gal," by name Duddy—a creature with red hair
and a dirty pinafore—who thus:evidences her pre-
cocity after dinner when playing cards with Band-
box Bother and the landlord, and Duddy's own
particular partner " Dummy :"
"How much do we play for, landlord ?" inquired Band-
box.

Whatever you please, sir—twopenny points, if you
like."

"Don't be shabby," interposed Duddy, passing the cards
from one hand to the other in a shower, like a conjuror.
"Let's have sixpenny points and short whist."
The landlord and Bandbox could hardly help laughing
at this innocent precocity of the child.
"I'll trouble you to lond mo four shillings to mark with,
Bandbox," exclaimed Duddy, getting quito familiar, " and
to pay my shot if I lose, you know."
The landlord frowned, but Bandbox laughed heartily, at
the simplicity, and gave her four shillings, and an odd one
for luck, as he facetiously said, which Duddy at once spat
upon, and jerked into the air, a mystic proceeding, to
Bandbox at least.

The cards were cut, and it fell to Duddy to deal. This
she did in a scientific shower not less able than the one
which preceded the dealing. It was done like a master,
and the landlord rubbed his nose now harder than ever,
and ventured an exclamation, which was, "My eye,
you're a rum 'un !"

Buddy turned up an ace, and hold eight trumps beside
in her own hand.

The game was hers, and she sipped her brandy and took
her money with composure.
The landlord dealt, and turned up a three. Duddy
played as skilfully as a veteran. Duddy knew every card
out, and held good ones herself. She won every game,
and she or her dummy always had a court card for her
trump card, and a good show of trumps besides.
"You shuffles the cards in a rum way, my little gal,"
said Boniface, after he had lost one pound Ave and his
temper. " Are you all on the square ? Uow old are
you ?"

AS a farcical bit of comicality the "take off," on
the whole, is capital ; though, it needs hardly be
said that, on the whole, " The Girl at the Railway
Junction " is by no manner e means up to " The
Boy at Mugby."

THE LATE OCEAN YACIII RACE.—On Thursday
evening a dinner was given at the Grand Hotel Paris, by
a number of American gentlemen, permanent residents and
temporary sojourners there, to Mr. Jas. Gordon Bennett,
juu., the owner of the Henrietta, and the winner of the
recent ocean yacht race