The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-27 00:00:00

PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY.

By and-bye, as he strode along, he found his annoyance
lessening. There is nothing like sharp walking for driving
little worries away, and it is these after all which make up
the greater part of the sum-total of human misery. Those
peripatetic philosophers were wise men in their way. They
knew—the cunning rogues—that it was vastly easier to make
Stoics of their disciples while they kept them constantly en-
gaged in a sort of mild pedestrian tour in the groves of
Academus than if they had been trying to prove that the
ills of life were mere chimeras to hearers who were en-
gaged in kicking their heels on the benches of a crowded
lecture-hall.

Equally truthful is the very happy description of
the beneficial influences of nature :

THE GATE BEAUTIFUL.

It was pleasant getting out of the dusty road into the
green pasture-land, and ho strode along over the springy
turf, on which the sunshine lay poured out like molten
gold, lilting his head into the blytho, free air, and half-
wondering at the sense of bounding life which just now
made him feel as if every pulse was beating in unison with
those mysterious forces that once again were thrilling the
green heart of nature.
For all around was the sweet riot of spring. On every
tree the fresh foliage was dancing in the breeze ; the birch
and sycamore were hanging out their green tassels among
the scarce unfolded leaves. Here a laburnum shook out
its buittuU to fL Sttili
its twisted arms aloft. Aud all the scented air was filled
with the song of birds, and soft with the blended perfume
of myriads of opening flowers, and quivering with that
strange vitality that was working like a thought from God
in all around, weaving from the dead elements for the
wakening earth its living, myriad-tinted robe.
Everything so glorious, so beautiful, and so busy too,
and without knowing it, he quickened his pace as he went
lightly on. Nature was winning him to sympathy with
this glad toil of hers, rousing in him already a feeling of
vague impatience to be at his own work also. Only that
morning ho had left London, worried, anxious, half afraid
of what he was about to undertake, and already, bathing
his spirit in this tide of spring, he felt the life leaping up
with a strange new force within him. Come what might,
it seemed as if now he could go and conquer all. Those
long empty days of waiting are over now. He had left
behind him the petty worries, the small economics, the
chafing sense of forced inaction, They had slipped from
him like a withered sheath from the bursting bud. Ho was
free at last, and his life lay before him, to make the best
thing he could out of it, which justnow was what Dunstan
Dayne meant to do.
For more than two miles the path led him over the
breezy uplands. Then it sloped down into a sort of wooded
glen, and wound along beside a broad and shallow stream,
that babbled on musically over its pebbly bed, beneath the
shadow of the alders and grey willows that bent over it
from the opposite bank.
The trees hero grow thickly overhead, twining their
branches together into a roof of matted verdure, through
which fell a toucher light of sunshine filtering through
green loaves. Oaly here and there, where the foliage was
thinner, it streamed brightly down, filling with a mellow
radiance the cups of the pale primulas and anemones, that
covered with their pearly blossoms the slopes below.
And all around him, as Dunstan went on, was that hush
of sanctity and repose that breathes through the woods at
eventide. Ile felt it like an unseen hand laid gently on
his heart, changing its gladness into reverence. For just
now, alone with himself, the young man's spirit was open
to receive those pure and living influences that were
streaming in upon him. It seemed to him as if, entering
those green solitudes, he had passed through a true Gate
Beautiful into a temple wherein now he walked with
bowed head, awed by the sweet glory around. Far down
in the depths of his soul he heard a voice calling him ;
one to which, in those dreary London lodgings, deafened
as he had been by the din of the great Babel around, he
had never listened before, even the voice of God, walking,
as of old, in the cool of the evening among the trees.
For God is not in these days silent, as some would tell
us, to his creature man. When the last apostle, in the
lonely isle, laid down his pen and closed the record of his
vision, the Great Father did not cry to his children,
"Henceforth attend no longer, the oracles are dumb." Nay,
this very longing which most men have in the spring-time,
when the year is young, to escape, if but for a single day,
from their dusty offices, their shops and work-rooms, into
the fields and woods, is but one of those innumerable ways
in which he summons us through this Gate Beautiful, this
porch which men call Nature, to worship in the temple of
His presence.

This felicitous allusion to the Gate Beautiful re-
minds us of a similar comparison in a recent clever
but very extravagant work, from a young hand,
" Lionel Alerval." We have said enough to com-
mend " Rachel's Secret" to the favourable atten-
tion of the novel reader, who will find a visit to
Brook Farm a pleasant and healthful recreation.

PBOFESSOR ANDERSON IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT.
—Yesterday, Mr. Herbert Wright, acting as the
solicitor of Mr. John H. Anderson, better known as " The
Wizard of the North," filed a petition in the Bankruptcy
Court, in which the professor prays to be relieved of his
debts. Mr. Anderson ascribes his failures to differences
with the St. James's Hall Company, and the unsuccessful
engagements of a ventriloquist and a giant. No statement
of the liabilities have yet been filed.—Birminghant Daily
Post.

MALTON STEEPLECHASES.—Since the enclosure of
Langton Weld there have been no race meetings at Mahon.
In the early part of this year a steeplechase committee was
formed to establish a cross-country ;neeting, there being
now no racecourse. The Earl Fitz william has granted a
capital steeplechase course between the old and new towns,
and an influential list of stewards and subscribers now
exists. A meeting was hold on Tuesday, when it was re-
solved to hold the steeplechases in the first week of March,
1867, and that at the first meeting Mr. Johnson, of York,
bo judge, and Mr. Elliott starter and clerk of the scales. It
was resolved to announce four stakes for the open meeting,
viz., the Mahon Borough Grand Handicap Steeplechase,
open to all England, at £lO each, 5 ft, with £lOO added;
the North and East Riding Steeplechase, for horses of Lord
Middleton's, the Sinnington, or Mr, Johnston's hunts, value
£5O, £2 entrance, weight for ige, thoroughbreds 71b extra;
the Farmers' Steeplechase, limited to 30 miles round Mil-
ton, value £3O, weight for age; and the Selling Open
Steeplechase, with £25 added, entrance £2 each. It is
quite anticipated that a first-rate meeting will be estab-
lished at Mallon.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

RUSSIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCESS DAGMAR.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 26.

ller Royal Highness the Princess Dagmar, of
Denmark, the betrothed bride of the Cesarewitch,
arrived here at 12.30 p.m. to-day.
Her Royal Highness met with an enthusiastic
reception at Cronstadt and Peterhoff.
The Princess proceeds to Szarskoe Selo.

THE PAPAL STATES.
R,omE, Sept. 26.
The Empress of Mexico has arrived here.
The Roman Legion left yesterday for Viterbo.

ITALY.

PADUA, Sept. 26.

A commission, under the presidency of General
Revel, has left for Venice to take possession of the
war material belonging to the fortresses of the
Quadrilateral.

AMERICA,
(By the Atlantic Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Borussia has arrived out,
. Mr. Seward continues seriously ill.

FRANCE.
BIARRITZ, Sept. 27.
The ironclad squadron arrived here yesterday.
The Emperor passed the squadron in review.

There has been no decrease in the waters of the
Loire, which, on the contrary, do not appear to have
reached their greatest height.

BOURSE, Sept. 26.—Two o'clock.—The improve-
ment which took place yesterday has made further
progress, and all securities are dealt in at higher
quotations. It is true the amount of business is not
very great, but that enables the speculators inte-
rested in a rise to influence the market with more
facility. Italian Fives have again made the largest
advance, having been done at 57f. 80c., or 65c.
higher ; French Threes at 69f. 60c., or a rise of
20c. ; Mobilier, at 678 f. 75c., an improvement of
6f. 25c. ; Credit Foncier and Comptoir d'Escompte
at 1,380 f. and 910 f., or an advance of sf. Rail-
way shares are also higher.
Three o'clock.—The upward movement has con-
tinued, the closing prices being as follows:

4i per Cents 97
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. G9 60
Do. end month 69 60
Credit Mobilier 678 75
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1380

Bank Shares 3605
Italian Loan 57 70
Do. end month 57 95
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
'6YB.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern llBO
Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50
Southern 5BO
Western 575
Eastern
Sardinian
377
Austrian
Lombard 420
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

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The Simla Court-Martial.

(By Direct Overland Telegraph.)
SIMLA, Saturday.

The finding of the court-martial in the case of
Captain Jervis declares him innocent on the first
and second counts, and guilty on all the others. lie
was sentenced to dismissal from the service, but re-
commended to mercy. Sir W. Mansfield.has refused
the recommendation to mercy, and confirmed the
.sentence.

The following are the charges upon which Captain
Jervis has been found guilty, and sentenced to dis-
missal from her Majesty's service :
Third Charge.—With having at Simla, on the
22d May, 1866, neglected to obey the orders of his
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, communicated
to him by the Military Secretary, to attend a com-
mittee of audit, which had been assembled by order
of his Excellency for the purpose of testing the ac-
counts kept by Captain Jervis on behalf of the
Commander-in-Chief, the said committee having
been ordered for the purpose of affording Captain
Jervis an opportunity of relieving himself from the
imputations on his character as an officer and a
gentleman, contained in the first and fourth instances
of the first charge, with which he, Captain Jervis,
had been made acquainted at a court of inquiry
held on the 14th May, 1866, by order of his Excel-
lency the Commander-in-Chief.
Fourth Charge.—With having at Simla, on the
9th of June, 1866, he being at the time in mili-
tary arrest, imposed by order of his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief, disobeyed the lawful com-
mand of his superior officer, Colonel D. M.
Stewart, Deputy Adjutant-General, to deliver to
him his (Captain Jervis's) sword.
Fifth Charge.—With conduct unbecoming the
character of an officer, and to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline, in having at Simla, on
the 22d June, 1866, in a letter of that date writ-
ten and sent by him to the address of Colonel
Longden, C. 8., Adjutant-General, mada use of the
following highly insubordinate expressions in re-
gard to the orders of his Excellency the Comman-
der-in-Chief for his (Captain Jervis's) appearance
before a General Court-martial :

" In reply, I have the honour most solemnly and
emphatically to protest against this proceeding, as
unwarranted by law, principle, or justice ; and to
state, with every respect to his Excellency, that
nothing short of physical force will induce me to be
present at the Court, and that if dragged there as a
prisoner by violent means, I shall take no part in the
proceedings, save to reiterate before the Court my
protest against the illegality and injustice to which
I have been subject, and warn every member of the
grave responsibility he incurs by consenting to take
part in the proceedings."

The Anglo-American Telegraph.

LONDON, Sept. 27.

A telegram has been received this morning from
Newfoundland, informing the Anglo-American
Telegraph Company that the land lines have been
restored, and that messages arc being transmitte d.
The Atlantic cables continue in the most perfect
condition, JOHN C. DEANE, Secretary.

EXTRAORDINARY LIBERALITY.—The other day a
" gentleman" left a first-class carriage at Newcastle rail-
way station, and also left behind him a purse containing
notes to the value of £l,OOO. Ile ran about in a state of
considerable excitement, when he was met by an honest
porter who had found the property and now restored it.
The owner rewarded the porter with the smallest silver
coin of the realm, threepence, and it is extremely probable
that he anathematised the Government for not issuing
twopenny pieces. The porter respectfully declined the
handsome offer.
A SOLAR HALO.—A lunar halo, which there never
is any difficulty in perceiving is formed by rays of light
falling on condensed aqueous vesicles, or on thin clouds. It
is not perhaps generally known that similar haloes are also
observable round the suu ; bat as they can only be seen
through a blackened glass, they usually pass unperceived.
It is, therefore, not uninteresting to learn that Professor
Decharme, of Angers, observed one a fow days ago at 5 p.m.
Ho remarked that the halo, insteadof presenting the appear-
ance of a flat circle, seemed to be concave, like the torsos of
a column inwardly scooped out.
THE GREAT OCEAN RACE.—Mr. Rodger, of
Glasgow, the owner of the celebrated clipper Taeping, has,
we aro informed, presented her commander with the muni-
cent gift of £5OO to mark his appreciation of that officer's
nautical skill, which did so much towards winning the
great ocean race from China. We may add that, so keen
was the interest felt in the match by some of the crews
engaged, that the men of the Fiery Cross wagered a
month's pay of all on board on the success of their own
vessel against the Serica; the bands of the latter entering
into a similar engagement, which the earlier arrival of their
vessel enabled thew to Will,—Glasgow Evening ci(igen,

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Tuesday.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out in the morning, and again in the after-
noon.

Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Farquharson of
Invercauld had the honour of dining with the Queen
and the Royal family last night.
Colonel 11. Ponsonby has relieved Major-General
the Hen. A. Hood as Equerry in Waiting.
The Hon. Mrs. 11. Ponsouby has arrived on- a
visit to her Majesty.