The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-08 00:00:00

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the full eonception of what a representative ought
to be." They had allowed him and his colleague
" to pursue their course, unpestered by the sugges-
tions or observations of constituents." Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S theory is, that a member should be elected
for what he is known to be. That he should then
be left to the best of his own judgment, and if he
does wrong that he should be called to account at
the proper time. Well, there is something manly,
and what we all like, in this. " You have allowed
us to be," he says, " what we call ourselves, the
independent representatives of the people of Shef-
field." But too many boroughs know full well
that they have not such sturdy Englishmen for
their members as Mr. ROEBUCK and Mr. HAD-
FIELD—men, very different, indeed, yet whose
temperament would equally make them resent the
solicitations of the Government Whips as much as
the dictation of a clique of constituents. If there be
real independence in the men, most constituencies
are quite prepared to respect it.
Mr. ROEBUCK'S paradox this time was—that

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though Parliament was twitted with doing nothing,
the very best thing that could result from their
hard labours was to do nothing ! His reason is,
that it is a peculiarity of the people of England
that they can attend to but one thing at a time.
Now, during the last six months it is notorious that
foreign politics have absorbed the chief attention of
the country. Parliament faithfully represented the
general feeling of the people in the time and at-
tention it directed to foreign subjects, and hence it
was " impossible to produce any effect on the in-
ternal matters of the community." To carry a Re-
form Bill, general and great excitement is absolutely
necessary, in order to overcome the opposition
in both Houses ; it must be something like that of
1830, 1831, and 1832, which be so well remembered.
But, all the excitement of England now was in
regard to Foreign politics, and the necessity of
military security. _ _

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1880.

On this point Mr. ROEBUCK could point with
some pride to the fact that the country had now
come to his view, though years ago he was abused
prettly handsomely for mentioning the name of a
certain potentate as indicating possibility of inva-
sion. He could now refer not only to the general
feeling, but to the general action. The thousands
of volunteers who had come forward did not leave
their counters and desks for nothing. They
thought they might be wanted. He might
also have referred to the last man to
break with Louls NAPOLEON -to Lord
PALMERSTON himself, who dismissed the
house with a speech on foreign affairs of which
the sum was —" Such have bean the deeds of
the French Government—and the way of doing
them so much worse than the deeds themselves, so
full of falsehood and deceit, that we cannot trust
it. We know not what it will do next. We only
know that if we and all Europe keep ourselves
strong enough, it can do us no harm."
The other most interesting speech was that of
Mr. FORBES WATSON in regard to our trade with
India, from which country he has been sent to
inform our manufacturers of the wants and capa-
bilities of the country. We are soon, however, to
have fuller communications from him, and need not
therefore comment on his brief though interesting
communications.

After the splendid long week we have had of
harvest weather, the barometer is now falling again
—whether to indicate the approach of several weeks
of wet or showers, of course no mortal can tell.
This suggests to us one evil which the Sabbatarians
have inflicted on the country, which, if our views
are correct, and we are confident they are so, is
of no slight magnitude. If we advocate entire
freedom in regard to Sunday amusements, of
course we are denounced with the awful text
—that "we are lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of GOD," An application of the inno-
cent text which we should respectfully tell the
divines is purely their own. However, if we
plead for the duty of saving the food which our
Maker has created for us, on the first day of the
week, as all men now do, on the Sabbath, or seventh
day, we cannot be taunted with our ungodly love of
pleasure.

The Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield was celebrated
with no little eclat. Besides the regular attend-
ance of the borough members, a Duke, an Earl,
with Lords, Honourables, and Worshipful Mayors,
honoured the corporation with their presence, or
" felt themselves honoured" by being permitted to
be there. Our own Lord Mayor himself was one of
the honoured and honouring. Behitherto seemed to
have had no idea what Sheffield is. He had thought
Sheffield an " insignificant spot in the great county
of Yorkshire ;" but he assured the Cutlers he
"should feel so no longer." We should think not.
The only wonder is how a successor of WHITTING-
TON could ever have "felt" so. One privilege en-
joyed by the Master Cutler and his corporation he
even thought would be a worthy addition to the
privileges of the Lord Mayor of London himself.
The " power to inflict severe fines and penalties
upon any ono who dare presume to forge the
peculiar trade mark of any other• manufacturer
in the town." By all means let his Lord-
ship have the power, and let it throughout
England be conferred on the proper authorities,
so that punishment shall be severe and prompt for
a fraud which all consumers are interested in pre-
venting. Nothing, for consumers, like the respon-
sibility of being able to identify the producer of an
article of commerce.
A good addition was made to one toast this
year. After the usual loyal toasts, the Master
Cutler gave, "The Army, Navy, and _Rifle Volun-
teer Forces." Let not the regular services be
jealous. We ought tot, indeed, to suggest•such an
idea; they would be amongst the first to toast the
volunteers themselves. Amongst no class of Eng-
lishmen will the Regular Services stand so high as
among those who desire to rival their training and
efficiency, Volunteers are sympathisers with
" the Line." May the day never arise
p
when they will have to place themselves under
the orders of its commanders as a part of
the actual defence of the country. Their
very existence, however, is almost the guarantee
that they will not be wanted. They have, as Major
OVEREND, in acknowledging the toast, observed,
" exercised a great moral influence, not only upon
this country, but upon all the countries in Europe."
They have, indeed, on the one country whose ever-
lasting prate is of glory, and who, whatever some
may fancy, thought there would be no little glory
in the nation of soldiers flogging well the
nation of shopkeepers, and " annexing," perhaps,
some day as a trophy, the Channel Islands, by force
of arms, and by subsequent universal suffrage. If
Englishmen prefer something more solid than the
bubble, glory, as the object of their practical inte-
rest, our vain-glorious neighbours know now, if
they did not before, that Englishmen are as ready
to fight for their solid acquisitions, as bravely as
Monsieur would for his phantom. We believe, as
we have said before, that nothing that we have
done as a nation will prove, not merely so great a
security to ourselves, but so conservative of the
peace of Europe, as the volunteer movement. Euro-
pean nations France more especially, needed some
glaring proof that business men could be soldiers.
And, they have now irrefutable proof of two things ;
first, that if the occasion required we could have
volunteers by the million,as well as by the hundred
thousand. ,('econdl
Y, that our young men possess
a peculiar aptitucle for military drill. All autho-
rities, forei,
gn as well as native, who have wit-
nessed the reviews, have been alike surprised at
the rapidity with which the drill has been ac-
quired.

Now, we are not divines—but if there be a sin
not distinctly enumerated in the Decalogue, we
should say, that of wasting the food of man and
beast is one. Here we are, a nation living under a
climate proverbial for its fickleness; our harvest
weather the very opposite of that in eastern coun-
tries, in which a thunder storm in harvest time was
a miracle ; and in which they could reap, gather,
thresh, and cleanse their corn in the open air with-
out fear of even a cloudy day—and yet we, on whom
the Bible enjoins no day of abstinence from work—
we are to be prevented, by a baseless superstition,
from placing our crops, if ready, out of danger—
because it is the first day of the week.

Why, our LoaD himself has rebuked such
superstition in regard to the abrogated Sabbath
i self. He appealed to it as a practice of even the
Sabbatarians of His day, that they would draw any
of their animals out of a pit into which it had
fallen. Why ? Of course to preserve the ox, human
food, or the ass, one of the workers with man in
producing that food. Now, we ask, what
earthly difference in principle can there be
between corn food exposed to destruction, by being
left abroad in a fickle season, when it is fit be
housed, and the ox which might perish in the pit
if left till the Sabbath (Saturday) was over.
How can we doubt that it is the duly of every
farmer, in a season like this, should his sheaves be
ready to-morrow for the stack or the barn, no
longer to leave them in the field ? Sabbatarians
have succeeded in
producing a contrary impres-
sion, but certainly a most erroneous one. Wo re-
member, in our early youth, a worthy farmer
having a field of corn ready to carry on
the Sunday, It was a fickle season. But
his religion taught him that it would be
wrong to harvest the corn on the sacred day. He
forgot that the food was as sacred as the day. The
rain set in on the Monday, and the result was, the
whole field was carried into the yards as decayed
straw, the cattle scarcely caring to pick out an ear
here and there. We have not seen the subject
adverted to, and we are unwilling to shock even
the superstitions of others. We respect sincerely
and cordially every man's conscientious convictions,
however erroneous. But When we see not merely
pleasures and amusements, but. that most
sacred of God's gifts, human food, endangered
by a mere superstition of Man, we think it time to
speak. The season is one which demands it, II
our view be eight, not only may a farmer with a
clear conscience place in safety his corn which is
ready for carriage on the Sunday—hut his cot._
science ought to accuse him of wasting his Maker's
most valuable gifts if he does not do it.

Of course the speaker of the evsning was our
old Radical friend, Mr. ROEBUCK. He is still in
feeble health—but it was " Mr. ROEBUCK at
home." When the Liberals of Sheffield took him
for their member they well knew that it
was only in the most general possible sense
that 12e would be their representative. JOHN
ARTHUR ROEBUCK represents JOHN ARTHUR
ROEBUCK. And for this he specially praised
the good citizens of Sheffield, that " they had

It is much to be regretted that touch lamentable
carelessness prevails in cases where caution is so
necessary, and where a moment's dereliction of
duty may occasion such fearful and fatal results.
After the dreadful accidents that have occurred on
the railways, the attention is again painfully
awakened by the news of the catastrophies in the
coal pits. The one that took place at Kilburn on
Monday was evidently owing to the bad construc-
tion of the conductors of the cages. In cases where

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cages pass each other in a shaft the travelling ways
should be constructed so as to render collision im-
possible. Paltry economy or culpable neglect has
probably been the chief cause of this accident. It has
been stated at the inquest that certain Government
regulations bad not been attended to. This, however,
had nothing to do with the accident, the cages
having ascended and descended the shaft in safety
five or sin-. times. Probably the inattention of the
hanger-on at the bottom of the shaft, in neglect-
ing part of his duty was the origin of the accident,
but it is incumbent on the owners of mines to take

every precaution which science can suggest to pre-
vent such casualties. The conductors or travelling-
ways should have been so arranged as to prevent
the possibility of the cages getting out of gear and
coming into collision. The railway accident which
took place on the same day was attributable to a
certain extent to the same cause, namely, want of
precaution on the part of the company in
using effective material. They have not, in this
instance, the excuse that the accident is unprece-
dented—as a precisely similar occurrence took place
at Wolverhampton only two years ago. The
coupling chains in both cases broke on the starting of
the train from a station on an incline. Part of the
carriages running back down the incline, came into
collision with the following train, and caused the
death of ten persons, upwards of fifty being seri-
ously wounded. It is a remarkable fact that on
several lines within a very short period a novel
kind of accident has occurred—the breaking of
axles. In the present instance the coupling chain
in question was defective, and the responsibility of
the action will rest on the company, who are bound
to provide first-class material in all their appli-
ances. In a time when science is overcoming the
difficulties opposed by nature, and locomotives are
constructed of sufficient power to draw trains up
very steep inclines, it is incumbent on the companies

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The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office
PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Moniteur, in a telegram, dated Avignon,
Friday evening, announces the arrival and enthu-
siastic reception of their Majesties.
The Moniteur also publishes the addresses pre-
sented by the civil and religious authorities of
Valence and Avignon, and states that their
Majesties will leave this (Saturday) morning for
Marseilles.

The Constitutionnel declares, as absurd, the
report that 240,000 soldiers of the effective of the
French Army were to be mobilised.
The Constitutionnel also says :—" There are no
French officers in the army of General Lamoriciere.
It is, therefore, not true that the Government had
again authorised French officers to remain in it."

LEGHORN, SFPT. 7.
News received from Naples state that the brigade
Caldarelli had passed over to Garibaldi,
General Bosco was said to have asked permission
to quit the camp on account of ill-health.

The Ministry had presented a memorandum to
the King against the intended sending away of
the Neapolitan fleet to Trieste.
A report was current that on leaving Naples the
King would release the troops from their oath of
allegiance.

FLORENCE, SEPT. 7.

Advices from Naples to the evening of the 6th
inst. state that the King embarked at eight p.m.
for Gaeta. Before leaving he reduced the penalties
of the condemned.
Garibaldi dined to-day at Casa.

to have far stronger coupling chains. It is strange
when so much progress has been made in nearly
every mechanical department that the break-appli-
ances of railways aro so little advanced in improve-
ment. Many plans from time to time, each purporting
to be complete, have been brought before the public ;
but as yet, it would seem, none of them have met
with the approbation of the railway proprietors.
Why should not the Government offer a premium
for an efficient system of break appliances, open to
general competition ; and when a suitable one has
been determined on, to enforce its adoption by al
the lines in the United Kingdom. It is a pity that
directors, in their over-anxiety to present the share-
holders with a handsome dividend, or a philan-
thropic desire to benefit the public by cheap excur-
sions, should so often neglect proper precautions
for the safety of the passengers.
It is to be trusted that now, after such serious
warnings, more care will be taken ; that the
owners of mines will look well to the arrange-
ment of their materials, and that railway com-
panies will not undertake more than they can
perform with safety. There are, generally, irre-
gularity and delay with excursion trains. More
trains and fewer carriages in each would rectify
the evil ; and too much attention cannot be given
to a subject which is intimately connected with the
welfare of the community. The train, in the case
of this accident, was clearly overburdened, and
that, too, to go up a steep ascent.

MADRID, SEPT. 7.
The departure of their Majesties has been fixed
for the 9th inst.

It is stated that orders have been given for the
immediate construction of ten war steamers, des-
tined to suppress the slave-trade and defend the
coasts of Cuba.

.LITERI.TURE,

particular claim to priority ; what he deprecates is,
what he considers the ungrateful neglect he has
experienced at the hands of Mr. Hargraves, who,
he states, has taken credit to himself for the infor-
m_ o.tion and discoveries communicated to him by
Mr. Davison ; and the present work is published
with a view to clear himself with the public, and
to lay claim to his just share of glory.• If this pro-
ceeding gives satisfaction to the author—we are con-
tent; only,when we look for in formation from a trust-
worthy source, we had much rather be excused from
reading the prosy correspondence of Brown, Jones,
and Robinson. In the appendix we find a short
sketch of the gold-fields in California, at which the
author resided for some time, as also those of Russia
and India. Many matters connected with mining
incidents are very fairly related; the licence riots,
for instance, at the Turon and the revolt at Ballarat
are described with great truth and attention to
the cause of the outbreak, and it is stated that " The
threatened outbreak on the Turon was fortunately
averted by the temporising conduct of the Local
Gold Commissioners." This is quite true, but the
author might also state that the outbreak at Ballarat
was fomented and brought to a sanguinary con-
clusion by the incapacity and arrogance of the
Victorian Commissioners, aided by a ruffianly and
brutal police force; the prime agents in the affair
however, contrived to avoid the final catastrophe
which befell the drunken miners in the stockade,
whom it is said their leaders deserted• in order
to bring the affair to a conclusion, their object
being gained, and not- wishing the revolt to go
too far. The Government we hope acted from a
prudent motive when they charged certain of the
brawlers when brought up for trial with HIGH

The ,Femi-Attoched Couple. By the Author of
"The Semi-Detached House?' 2 vols. Bentley.
The announcement of another work by the
author of that delightful little story that charmed
and fascinated the novel-readers of last season must
have been welcome intelligence, and the readers of
these volumes will not be disappointed, If this
new book has not exactly the vivid and vigorous
style that rendered " The Semi-Detached House"
so unique in its character, and so almost unparal-
leled in its attractions, it has much to recommend
it in its way. There is something very natural in
all that this author undertakes to describe, and this
is not at all a common attribute in writers. We
meet with fine language, beautiful descriptions,
and well-defined characters in the various works
that abound in the present day, but rarely do we
find such ease of expression and such life-like deli•
neations as are apparent in this work. As may be
supposed from the title, the hero and heroine are
differently disposed towards each other. Lord
Teviot was ardently attached to Helen, and, being
of a jealous disposition, he was ever on the
alert to find some cause for a grievance.
I She, on the contrary, was almost indifferent in her
feelings at the time of her marriage ; but she
thought that• her parents and friends would be
astonished and disappointed if she rejected so bril-
liant an offer, and hence the union took place.
Had Lord and Lady Teviot been left to themselves,
it is most probable that their mutual good qualities
would have triumphed over minor obstacles, and
thua what commenced under unfavourable auspices
would have terminated happily. There, however,
was an evil genius at work, in the person of Lady
Portmore, who was indignant at the marriage of
Lord Teviot, as it interfered with her project of
keeping him in the ranks of her admirers. There-
fore, like the fairies of famous memory, who were
not invited to the christening, and in revenge
devised all sorts of misfortunes to wait on
the infant prince, or princess, did this offended
lady seek, by every means in her power, to
mar the marriage that had been made without
her consent. Lord Teviot soon discovered that
Helen thought a great deal of her home, and this
made him very indignant. In order to counteract
this influence he resolved to accept the proposed
visit of Lady Portmore, and the confusion that re-
sulted from her appearance may be imagined.
Helen was too gentle to create any violent out-
break, but she was roused at last by the insolent
bearing and outrageous assumption of her rival.
The life of a party in a country house is admirably
described, and the many centre temps that arose
gave Helen enough to do in the way of explana-
tion. Such, it is said, is the daily toil of the mis-
tress of a large country house. "No laundress
ironing away at an obstinate row of plaits ; no
carpenter planing the roughest plank of wood; no
gardener raking the stoniest soil, has half the
trouble she has to maintain a smooth surface in
the aspect of her mixed society. Nothing more is
asked ; they may all hate, all envy, all rival each
other ; they may say everything that is ill-natured
and do everything that is mischievous, but the
general effect,' as painters would call it, mast be
harmony, and this must be maintained by the
tact of the hostess." Lady Portmore is a clever
sketch of a fine lady, who is a complete woman of
the world, and who is possessed of inordinate vanity
and consummate assurance. With all this she
failed completely in many instances, and in none
more signally than in trying to outshine Helen in
her own legitimate spire. It was enough to
rouse the most supine, and fire the most indifferent,
to see this audacious woman trying to cast into the
background a beautiful young bride for the first
time receiving her husband's guests. Finding that
she did not make any impression outwardly, this
dexterous machinator resorted to stratagem, and
took advantage of Lord Teviot's unhappy temper
in order to work out her schemes. It was madness
on his part to persist in making Lady Portmore
his confidante, after her strange conduct; and, had
it not been for his rumoured loss of position, the
consequences might have been most serious. For-
tunately for the imprudent semi-attached couple,
real troubles came to take the place of imaginary
ones; and in the hour of danger, when the angel of
death hovered over them, they recognised the false
principles, and deplored the angry passions, that
had actuated their conduct and influenced their
words. After a gay and brilliant sketch of a butter-
fly existence of fashion, we meet with most affecting
accounts of domestic traubles. The real good that
was inherent in Helen's nature, was manifested in
the trying epoch of Lord Teviot's illness, while the
threatened loss of his position by a claimant to the
title afforded an opportunity of displaying her in-
difference to rank in itself. Some minor individuals
are very adroitly pourtrayed. Mary Forester and
Lord Beaufort are very amusing in their perpetual
warfare. Mrs. Douglas is a finished specimen of a
grumbler. She could see nothing but flaws, in
every plan, and find nothing but faults in every one
she met with. Her comments on her neighbours
were of the most edifying description,' " As she had
no hope of. raising herself to the rank of a beauty
her only chance was bringing others down to her
own level." How old she is looking ! How she
is altered ! were the expressions that invariably,
csncluded Mrs. Douglas's comments on her ac-
quaintances, and the prolonged absence of a friend
was almost a pleasure to her, as it gave her the op-
portunity of saying, after a first meeting, " How
changed Mrs. So-and-So is, I should hardly have
known her, but then to be sure I have not seen her
for a year, or two years." People may go on talking
for ever of the jealousies of pretty women ; but in
real genuine hard-working envy, there is nothing
like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
Her mortified vanity curdles into malevolence; and
she calumniates where bhe cannot rival." There are
many amusing scenes of domestic life recorded in
these pages, the passage which relates the conversa-
tion that took place between the Misses Douglass on
there return from a grand dinner at Eskdale Castle
is very interesting. These young ladies had not a
very great great idea of fashion, but followed out
the plans they thought becoming, and the result
was not so successful as might have been hoped for.
Sarah, the eldest sister, informed Eliza that some-
thing dreadful had been said of them. " Good gra-
cious what, what can they find to say of us. 'Some-
thing quite shocking,' and Sarah actually coloured
at the mere thought of repeating it. Well, tell it at
all events; I should like to know the worst.' It
was just when you were sitting by the pianoforte,
and I was behind the sofa, and Mr. Trevor came up
to Lady Eskdale, and said, looking at the flowers
and the silver comb in your hair, Don't you think
those silver epergnes full of flowers would look
better on a dining table than walking about a
draasing.raom. I know nothing of dress, but is
not that a little in the May-day line, rather ehim-
ney-sweepish." "Oh ! did he really say that,"
and Eliza looked aghast. What a horrid man ;'
' Yes, but that is not the worst, Lady Eskdale said
Don't laugh at those poor girls, Alfred, they are
dear good creatures, though they are vulgarly
dressed.' There, Eliza, now is not that dreadful,
and so bad, too, when we took such pains about
our dress, and thought it was so nice, and Sarah's
voice quivered with vexation." It is impossible to
to be disappointed with this story as regards in-
terest or amusement, for both are abundantly
afforded in its sparkling pages. There is great variety
in the different characters who figure prominently
on the scene, and the 'chief charm consists in the
fresh and unstudied style that pervades throughout.
It is simple without being plain, and lively while
not affected. The Semi-Attached Couple will doubt-
less very soon become a great favourite with novel
readers, and long remain an acquisition to the
libraries, where it is sure to be in constant
demand.

TREASON, by which preposterous charge they in-
sured their acquittal. The work is illustrated with
a chromo-tinted map, which is, however, but a
rough affair, and by no means accurate.

Facts and Figures relating to Vancouver Island
and British Columbia ; with illustrative maps.
By T. Despard Pemberton, Surveyor-General,
V. I. Longman.
This is a work conveying in a condensed form
much information of a plain and practical character
concerning our new colony of British Columbia.
The writer tells us that, in his official capacity, he
is continually receiving communications from
residents in Great Britain or the Canadas, who,
as intending emigrants, merchants, or capitalists,
require authentic and detailed information about
the localities in question. He has found it impos-
sible to refer these querists to any existing work,
since the information he finds to be generally
scanty, and more suited, in its general style, to
the historian or antiquarian than to the seeker for
practical knowledge. To remedy this deficiency
he has written, or rather compiled, the volume
before us, since he has aimed rather at collecting
all reliable intelligence, than at producing an en-
tirely original work. The same reason has induced
him to make his volume as concise as possible.
" No advantage," he says in his introduction, " can
be gained by diluting the little reliable information
we possess." As the work of a man of business,
who has had good opportunity of knowing the sort
of information most needed, it goes at once to the
point, and discusses the proportion of open and
waste lands ; the profits of cultivation, the terms of
sale of lands, the timber, coal, iron, &c., as well as
the gold which has become so prominent a feature
in the colony. A chapter of advice to intending
emigrants is also likely to be serviceable. All who
are thinking of establishing relations with the
colony will do well to consult this plain and prac-
tical manual.

The Ypanish Campaign in Morocco. By Frede•
rick Hardman, Special Correspondent of the
Times, author of "Peninsular Scenes," &c. black-

wood.

This volume contains the letters to the lines,
written during during the late war. in Morocco.
They have been condensed and revised by the
author—a necessary process for letters dated from
the head-quarters of an invading army, and
penned amid the disturbance and excitement natu-
rally belonging to such a scene. They now form
a very readable volume, and though the interest of
the campaign referred to has died away, still a
faithful and unprejudiced sketch of its operations
will be useful as a work of reference, while a correct
account of the state of the Spanish forces, given by
an eye-witness, and a description of Morocco and its
inhabitants at the present time, are not without
value.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.
THE HARTEST.

The floodgates seem at length to be fairly closed,
and for the last three days there is every appear-
ance of a run of summer weather. Since Tuesday
the mercury has been rapidly rising, and there is
at present every prospect of at least an average,
though an unusually late, harvest. This morning
opened with a dense fog—a pretty certain forerun-
ner at this season of a hot day, and by 6 o'clock it
cleared away, and the sun shone out for the first
time this week. There are good accounts to-day
from the country, and it is probable that they will
have their effect in checking further speculation in
the corn trade. A decline is looked for at the
market to be held this. afternoon. A letter from
Roscommon says :
" Undoubtedly :this has been, until within the
last few days, a most untoward season. Since May
there have not been four successive dry days up to
last Friday. Since that there has been a most pro-
pitious change. The heat and sunshine which we
are now favoured with have dissipated our fears,
and we expect to see not only the cereals soon fit
for the sickle, but the turf dry enough to make a
comfortable fire in winter. The wheat is good in
most localities, and will be all cut by the end of
next week.. The oats in poor soils are the sorriest
crop I ever saw ; but in general the crop looks well,
and should September be dry and sunny the yield
'will be remunerative. There is a great breadth of
oats, and this will make up for any deficiency in
the potatoes. As to these, they are small, owing
to want of sun, but the blight is only partial in
these districts. On the whole, I think people, with
care and watchfulness, combined with thankfulness,
will have, if not an abundance, at least a sufficiency
for another twelvemonths. The hay, though par-
tially injured in some low and shaded localities, is
abundant, and nearly saved."
A report from Cavan is even more favourable
than the foregoing, and, turning to the south, one
of the reports remarks :
"In Tipperary and the adjoining counties the
providential change in the weather which set in
last week has proved permanent up to the present.
The heavy, dark, and wet days have given way to
bright and genial ones. The effect of this improved
state of things on the crops has been extraordinary,
and whole fields of wheat and oats, which a few
weeks since were looked upon as beyond all hope,
have recovered, and exhibit the process of ripening.
With regard to wheat, I think, taking all circum-
stances into account, and remembering the heavy
bulk Of the present crop, that it will yield an aver-
age return. Much of it thad necessarily to be cut
green and intrusted to the stock for ripening. But
this year's crop is extremely heavy, and will prove
after all, generally remunerative. Oats are worse
off, I acs afraid, but farmers have begun to speak
hopefully of those fields which were totally levelled
a few weeks ago ; and they say that, in the event of
the present weather continuing for three weeks
move there is every prospect of their giv-
ing a fair return. Green crops are splendid.
Hay will be scarce this year, and every
effort should be made to economize its
consumption against the approaching spring. The
reports of the condition of the potato crop are very
disheartening. The tuber is universally attacked,
and there is no doubt that it is rapidly degenera-
ting as an article of human food. Bacon is going
up, and there is a brisk demand in all our markets
for prime beef, at 60s. per cwt."

The Discovery and Geognosy of Gold Deposits in
Australia. By Simpson Davison. Longmans.
When we consider the high standing which Mr.
Davison justly holds regarding gold mining, we
confess ourselves disappointrl in the present work.
It contains valuable information regarding the his-
tory of the early gold discoverers; and the views
held by the author on many points at present in
dispute as to certain amalgamations of gold are
sound, but this information, like the precious metal
of which the author treats when first procured by
the miner, forms but an integral part of the wash
dirt, it being necessary to separate the gold from
the dross by a tedious process--so with the work
before uq. The reader is compelled to wade through
tedious details and an uninteresting narrative of
how the author sold his cattle and sheep, how the
purchaser, was drowned, how he got paid, and
matter of a like dry and uninteresting na-
ture. Again, the greater part of the volume is
devoted to the extrsction of correspoQdence on
various subjects, and articles in Australian and Eu-
ropeanjournals, which, although all very well in
their ay, had far better have been omitted from a
work like the present. It is a curious fact that,
although gold has been practically discovered but
a comparatively short time in Australia, so many
sl;ould lay claim to the credit of the discovery, and
almost all declaring for the earliest date. There is
no doubt that the existence of gold deposits was
known, or suspected, by many, and that small por-
tions of gold were privately sold before Mr. Har-
graves proclaimed it to the world; but so it has
been in all discoveries and inventions. If a man
contrive some clever improvement in machinery,
and neglect to take out a patent, and in
after times a more go-a-head individual make
the same discovery and makes it public,
he deservedly claims the merit, and so let it
be in the instance of the gold discoveries. Mr.
Hargraves has mot with his reward, and Palmam
qui meruat ferat. Mr. Davison does not lay any

IMPORTANT TO VOLUNTEERS.—At the Birken-
head police court on Thursday Wm. Tunstall, an omnibus
driver, was summoned by the keeper of the Bidstone toll-
bar for refusing to pay toll, and forcing open the gate. It
appears that on the evening of the 23d ult. a party of the
Ist Cheshire Volunteers were being conveyed in the defen-
dant's omnibus to Leasowo for the purpose of rifle practice.
On reaching the Bidstone toll-bar the usual toll was de-
manded, which the defendant refused to pay, on the ground
that volunteers proceeding to drill were exempt by Act of
Parliamant from all tolls. The plaintiff would not recognise
the principle, and shut the gate, which was afterwards
forced open by the defendant and some of the volunteers.
The defendant claimed exemption under 3d George IV e.
126, which stated that "any carriage or other conveyance
conveying volunteer infantry, or any horses furnished by
or for any person belonging to any corps of yeomanry or
volunteer artillery or infantry, Scc., going to or returning
from any place of exercise, inspection, or review, shall be
free front toll." The bench, however, put a different con-
struction on the meaning of the act, and inflicted a fine of
41s. and costs. Notice of appeal was given.
SEPTEMBER TIM FIRST.—Now for sport in ear-
nest. I know where we are, and so do the dogs. I wonder
whether it is true that the son of the great Earl of North•
umberland, in Queen Elizabeth's time, wa the first person
who made a dog set for partridges. If so, he was the in-
ventor of a very pretty spectacle. If it is also true that no
birds were ever shot flying till the last century,
s'portsmen
must have had a poor chance, unless partridges abounded
as we now see them in the Holy Land. There they run
out from the artichokes or the corn under your horse's feet,
till you grudge their numbers. We Play
be very well satis-
fiad to-day, howovar. We become silent, and watch our
dogs, and in a minute or two are deep in the bwincss of the
day.—Once a Week.

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DEATH OF TILE GRAND nUKE OF
MECKLENBURG-ST.RELITZ.

We understand that her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge received a telegraphic de-
spatch from Germany, conveying the mournful
news of the death of the Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burg-Streiitz, who died at ten o'clock on Thursday
night, after a lingering illness. Fortunately the
Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, with
the Prince Adolphus Frederick, Rad reached home
from visiting their illustrious relatives in this
country some days before the melancholy event
took place. Although their departure was has-
tened by intelligence of the Grand Duke's serious
indisposition, on reaching home the Grand Duke
was thought much better.
The late George Frederick Charles Joseph; Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was born August
12, 1779, and married August 12, 1817, Marie,
daughter of the late Landgrave of Hesse Cassel.
He succeeded to the principality on the death of his
father, the Grand Duke Charles, the Gth :Novem-
ber, 1810.

By his union with the estimable Duchess-, who
survives him, the late Grand Duke leaves the Here-
ditary Grand Duke (who now succeeds his eteceased
father) Frederick William, born 17th October,
1819, a Lieutenant-General in the PruF,sian army,
married, 28th June, 1843, her Royal Highness
the Princess Augusta, eldest daughte r of the late
and sister of the present Duke of Cambridge, who
have issue an only son, Prince Adolphus Frederick,
now in his 13th year; the Duchess Caroline, barn
10th January, 1821, married in 1841 to the Crown
Prince of Denmark, and separated in 1846 ; and
the Duke George, born 11th January, 1824, and
married to her Imperial Highness the Grand
Duchess Catherine Michellowna, daughter of the
late Grand Duke Michael of Russia. The last-
mentioned Prince is a General in the service of
Russia, and chef of the 23d Regiment of II se
Artillery, and a member of the scientific committee
of artillery attached to the Guard.