The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 11.

The 2loniteUr de l'Armde of to-day says :—" A
report of Marshal Niel, dated 4th April last, pointed
out that the return of the foreign legion from
Mexico would inareas3 the number of officers with-
out employment, and thus prevent promotion in the
infantry corps.
_ _

In order to remedy this evil Marshal Niel pro-
posed that in every infantry regiment the two com-
panies suppressed in 1865 should be restored. This
proposal has now received the approval of the Em-
peror."
BOURSE, July 10, Two o'clock.—The same dul-
ness continues, and there are hardly any transa-
tions, although securities are firmly held at even, in
some cases, higher quotations. Threes are at 68f.
80c., or 21 c. higher. Italian Fives have advanced
10c., to 40f. 40c. Credit Mobilier firm at 360 f.,
without variation. No change in Credit Foncier,
which remain at 1,400 f. There are some demands
for Immobiliere shares, which have advanced 2f.
50c., to 180 f. The same may be said of the rail-
way market., the principal shares obtaining an ad-
vance of about 2f. 50c.
Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :

4-} per Cents
Do. owl month

3 per Cent 5..........
Do. end m0nth...... 68 '77i
Credit Mobilier ...
Do. end month ... 363 75

Credit Foncier
Do. end month 1402 50

Bank Shares —
Italian Loan —
Do. end month 49 471
Mexican Loan l6
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Throes
Home Debt —
Deferred
rAits.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1165
Lyons and Moditorranean....
Southern 553 75
Western 558 75
Eastern

. .
Bardnuan
75
Austrian
Lombard 383 75
North of Spain lOO
a ragosE a
Roman. —

MARKE T 3.--T his day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

There was about an average supply of beasts on sale
berg to-day, in good condition. For all breeds the demand
is in a sluggish state, at prices about equal to Monday.
The number of sheep was moderately good, yet sales pro-
gressed steadily, at previous rates. The best Downs and
half-brads realised 5s to 5s 2d per 81bs. Lambs were in
good supply and steady request, at full prices, viz., from
5s 8d to Gs 8d per 81bs. Wo were fairly supplied with
calves, which moved off freely, at Monday's quotations.
Pigs were unaltered in value. Mulch cows were a dull
inquiry.

Per ins. to sink the offal.
s ds d s ds d
Crse & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 6 PmeCrs-wool sheep 4 6 4 8
Second quality do ..3 8 4 0 Prime S'thdown a 0.4 10 5 2
Prime large oxen ..4 2 4 10 Large coarse calvcs.4 0 4
if
Prime Scots, ac.... 5 0 5 2 Prime small d0......4 10 5
Crse. and inf. sheep. 3 5 3 8 Large hogs .3 4 3 10
Second quality do ..3 10 4 4 Small porkers 4 0 4 6
Lamb.... 58 8d to 6 84.

Suckling calves, 21$ to 24s ; and quarter•old store pigs, 22s
,o 25$ each.

Head of stock on sale.

Total supply.

Beasts
712
Cows.
Sheep and Limbs 9,850
Calves 3O
Pigs 260

Foreign supply.
Beasts ...... . sl2
COWS
Sheep and 1 .mbs 1 2OG
Ca ves 252
Pigs —

NEWGATI AND LEADENIIALL.
The supplies of meat, both town and country-killed,
continue moderately extensive, and the demand for 07
kinds is active, as follows :
Per 81bs by the Caroms.
sd s d
Inferior beef 323 8 \
Middling do. 3 8 4 0
Prime large do 4 2 4 4
Prime small do 4 4 4 6
Veal 4 0 5 0
Lamb. 58

edsd
Inferior mutton 3 0 4 2
Middling mutton 4 8 4 $0
Prime do 4 8 4 10
Large pork 3 4 3 8
1 Small pork. 3 10 4 8
Od to te 81

HAY.

SMITHFIELD—Meadow hay, £3 Os t 9 £4 7s 6d ; clover,
£4 03 to .C 5 17s ; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load.
A. short supply.
CQMBERLAND--Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 1013 ad ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 1.7 s 6d ; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load,
Trade slow.

WHITECHAPEL—Meadow hay, £3 to £4 7s 6d; clover
£4 Os Od to £5 178 6d ; and straw, .£2 to £2 Gs per load
Trade dull.

New hay is quoted at £2loe to 4310 s per load.

Miss Braddon's New Novel.

Rupert Godwin. By M. E. Braddon. Three Vols.
Ward, Lock, and Tyler.

The authoress of " Lady Audley's Secret," it
would almost seem, has, hid away somewhere, an
inexhaustible store of original romances from her
own hand, written before her name was famous
—romances already completed, and only requiring
a touch, here and there, from her practised pen,
to freshen them up, thereby making each in turn,
appear " a-maist as weel 's the new"—a store into
which she has but to dip for one new success
after another, as Suett dipped into his lucky bag
for wigs, or as Munden, according to Charles
Lamb, used to dip into his lucky bag for
faces. Here, in effect, is another of them—
not of Munden's faces, not of Suett's wigs, but of
Miss Braddon's after-date successes, as we might
call them—and with reason. " Rupert Godwin,"
penned by a 'prentice-hand, touched into new life
by a master-hand—although issued several years
ago (if we understand rightly, in a serial form, in
one of the illustrated penny weeklies)—virtually
comes now before the general public as an entirely
new work by the now famous author of " Lady
Audley's Secret" and "Aurora Floyd," cum czteris
paribus. Aud this, too, very strange indeed
to tell, after the story has had its run
elsewhere in two very different directions
in France and in the United States ! Trans-
lated into French, soon after its original ap-
pearance (we presume anonymously) in the cheap
weekly periodical already alluded to as the medium
for its first publication—the tale so translated into
French was for a long while, in instalments, the de-
light of the readers of the feuilleton of one among
the Paris newspapers. Thence it was translated
back again into English, and into very bad Eng-
lish, too, by the way, through one of those odd
freaks of piracy in literature with which European
authors are sometimes startled almost into bewil-
derment here in the old world by certain
new-world publishers irresponsible victims, we
are left to presume, of a sort of chronic
literary kleptomania. To all intents and purposes,
therefore, " Rupert Godwin" is a new work, here
. _

in England. It comes to us—literally—redivivus.
And, here again, so to speak, upon the very
threshold of the story, we are held spellbound
by a tale-teller as enthralling as the Ancient
Mariner himself—by a romancist who holds us
with her glittering eye at each fresh ' rencontre,'
and who retains the mastery of our attention until
the tale once begun is told out to the very end.
As in the instance of " Henry Dunbar," we had a
novel, the title of which was the name of a London
Banker—so also in the instance of " Rupert God-
win," we have a romance the title of which is the
name of another London Banker. Here, however,
all comparison between the two fictions ceases.
Whereas, in " Henry Dunbar," the banker was
the victim —in " Rupert Godwin," the banker
(who is really himself and not another—and the
readers of "Henry Dunbar" will at once understand
this parenthetic allusion) in " Rupert Godwin," we
say, the Banker who is the hero of the fiction is
not by any means the victim, but, on the contrary,
the victimizer. Until—mais cela va sans dire—the
conclusion of the book, when, as a matter of course,
justice is duly meted out to the arch-delinquent.
There is one peculiarity, by-the-way,
about the con-
struction of the talehere under notice that we cannot
of course but perforce direct attention to, as, to
say the least of it, very remarkable—namely that,
in the construction of the plot there is noticeable
a marvellous similarity to the scheme of the foun-
dation upon which was built up by Mr. Charles
Reade the elaborate super-structure, entitled by him
" Hard Cash," or, as he first called it yet more em-
phatically,
" Very Hard Cash." A sea captain, in
each story,
goes off on a long voyage, leaving a
lump of money (his whole fortune in fact) which
he inadvertently deposits in the hands of a fraudu-
lent banker. In both instances the sea captain also
leaves behind him at home a charming wife, a
still more charming daughter, and an only son.
Alike in " Hard Cash," and in " Rupert God-
win," the victim is carried away at the evil
instance of the villain of a b ranker, and
buried alive in a private madhouse. The
similarity between all these incidents is cer-
tainly, as we have said, remarkable. And—if purely
the result of a coincidence—must as certainly be
allowed, on all hands, to be something really mar-
vellous. In any case, Miss Braddon's old-new book,
entitled " Rupert Godwin " without making any
pretensions whatever to be regarded as a highly
elaborated work of art, like that—as we are almost
tempted to regard it—opus magnum or capo d'opera
of Charles Reade's " Very Hard Cash,"—" Rupert
Godwin," we say, as a tale full of interest, holds us
in rapt attention all through, from the opening of
its very first down to the close of its very last
chapter. A little later on, we shall hope that we
may have occasion to welcome its yet further re-
publication—namely, as another enthralling story
added to the charming one-volumed Library Edition
of Miss Braddon's Romances.

Boswell's Life of Johnson. One vol., pp. 526

New edition. Geo. Routledge and' SOns.

This enticing volume is at once the cheapest and
,he compactest, while, at the same time, it

s also about the most beautiful edition
that has ever been published here in Eng-
land of that greatest of all biographies—Boswell's

" Life of Johnson." It is the latest addition to,
while it is also one of the noblest integral portions
of, that happily fast extending series of three-and-
sixpenny volumes, now becoming known far and
wide (among all those who not only " run
and read," but actually race and read along
our railways at the rate of forty or fifty miles
an hour) as Routledge's Standard Library.
Among those standard books have already been in-
cluded Le Sage's " Gil Bias" and Cervantes' " Don
Quixote," " The Arabian Night's Entertainments "
and Disraeli's " Curiosities of Literature," " The
Blackfriars Shakspere," Cruden's " Concordance
to the Old and New Testament," and Charles
Mackay's " Thousand and One Gems of Eng-
lish Poetry." Boswell's " Johnson" takes its
place by right in the same category. As
one of the world's masterpieces, it is welcome to us
in a volume so easily carried, so exquisitely printed,
so strongly and serviceably " got up " in all the
essentials of paper, binding, and typography—a vol-
ume adorned with a sprinkling of graceful wood-
cut illustrations, and, last but not least, furnished
at its close with an index sufficiently comprehensive
to be really of use for purposes of reference.

6Vords from the Poets. Selected by C. M.
Vaughan. One Vol. pp. 316. Macmillan
and Co.

Another of those delightful little Shilling Editions
recently issued from the press at uncertain intervals,
by Vie Messrs. Macmillan of London and Cambridge,
little green limp volumes in 18mo., already includ-
ing among their number such wonderful shilling's-
worth as Barnard's "Arithmetic" and " Golden
Deeds," recounted by the author of the " Heir of
Redcliffe." Here among these thrice welcome
' Words from the Poets," we have lyrics from a
throng of poets of all ages, from young William
Allingham to old William Wordsworth. Words
they are, for the most part, that are hardly so much
written for us by authors as talked or sung to us
by dearly cherished friends.

Mrs. Brown's Visit to the Paris Exhibition. By
Arthur Sketchley. Routledge.
An apropos bundle of whimsicalities, this is—anl
altogether a capital piece of pleasantry by one of the
raciest of our Entertainers, " as the sayin' is" —to
quote Airs. Brown herself—who, as all the world
knows, is the creation of Arthur Sketchley.

Uncle Tom's Cabin. New Edition. Routledge.
" Uncle Tom's Cabin"—for sixpence 1 When
that is said, all is said that need be, in regard to
this new edition of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Negro
Novel--for those five words in the preceding sen-
tence are of themselves a very flourish of trumpets.

MISSING Sllirs.—The Johanna Emilie, which
sailed from Batavia for the United Kingdom on the 18th
of November, and the Violet, which slii_ped from St.
Michael's during a heavy gale ou the 14th of January, have
not since been heard of,