The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-23 00:00:00

TALLOW.

The tallow trade is very quiet to-day, and prices have a
drooping tendency. The quotation for P.Y.C. on the spot
is 47s to 47s 3d per cwt. Town tallow is quoted at 45s net
cash. Rough fat is selling at 2s 4d por Blbs.

Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Stock this day 42,294 50,382 35,656 30,590
Price of Y.C.
t —s 0(1 —s Od —s Od 47s 3d
Delivery last week 1,173 1211 1,349 978
Ditto from June 1 73863 69,581 87,497 97,157
Arrival last week
Ditto fr( in June 1 77878 83.116 78,132 95,264
Price of Town

hITERAIrfriFE--

Z Ise :hay. i;ells: A boin'estic Story. By. the Vi.s-
countess Enfield. One Vol. Frederick Warne

and Co.

Very charmingly written and very pleasantly told
in a graceful style and a natural manner is this
domestic story of the " Dayrells." The " Dayrells,"
we are informed, at the outset, " were no re-
lations whatever to Guy Darrell, the famous hero
of " What will He Do .with It ?." They are, never-
theless, as their authoress truly describes them, " a
gentle and kindly race—not faultless, but loveable,
even in their errors, and interesting from their
sorrows." These sorrows, as the readers of their
histories will be inclined to think, are somewhat
excessive, but the dark cloud has its silver lining.
We will not betray the interest of the little mystery ;
we will content ourselves with enumerating only
some members of this very delightful family. Two
cousins are the heroines, Gertrude Dayrell, a type of
all that is gentle and good in womankind, and
Ainabel-surnamed Amy, Ainie, Amoretta, The
Beloved One—a specimen of all that is charming
and capricious. There is Charles Dayrell, the
heir presumptive to the head of the
house, who, acting upon a rash impulse,
endangers life and happiness ; there is also William
Dayrell, the half-jealous second heir, and Sebastien,
" the best of sons," and Arthur Dayrell, the best of
fathers, and ' young Reginald Dayrell, whose
jealousy of his younger brother nearly provokes
tragic consequerices. Then there is " Uncle John,'
Earl of Kendal, and head of the house ; and Mrs.
Charles Dayrell, the young widow ; and Mrs.
Arthur, the wife and mother. A few strangers
intermingle with this family group, and their vari-
ous peculiarities are described with a telling pen.
As for example a Mr. Smith, who we are told " was
very fond of doing the honours of everybody's
.house, and when he dined out pressed his host's
victuals on his neighbours with the most affectionate
consideration ;" and Mrs. Smith, who, when you
talked to her, " always listened to what somebody
else was saying to a third person, which was very
pleasant and satisfactory !" We have been so much
pleased with the matter and the manner of this
graceful little tale that we could wish the winding
up of the plot had been more satisfactory.

The Quarterly Review.
The current number of the Quarterly Review con-
tains an unusual variety of interesting papers. The
"Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds" furnishes a charming
biographical subject. " The Judges of England"
gives occasion for an historic, biographic survey of
English law and lawgivers since the Conquest.
" The Science of Language" and " Coal and
Smoke," in their several ways, concern matters
of theoretic interest and practical utility. " The
Government Reform Bill," of course, is the Quar-
terly's political manifesto ; while two very excellent
social articles discuss the important subjects of the
" Children's Employment Commission" and " Fe-
male Education." On religious themes we have a
very interesting article on St. Patrick and the early
Irish Church, and a spirited and well-deserved

condemnation of a recent work, entitled " Ecce
Homo." In regard to this publication the writer
in the Quarterly justly reminds us that " while
error is perpetually changing its form and is
only_ born to die, the grand truths of Chris-
tianity are passed on with accelerated impulse from
generation to generation. They were never more
in the ascendant than now ; and there is this good,

at least, in the assaults of adversaries, that they
promote inquiry, and help to establish the revela-
tion they were designed to overthrow." The article
on " The Children's Employment Commission" is
one of most painful interest. The poor shirtmaker
exclaims, in the touching words of the poet—

" 0 men, with sisters dear-
-0 men, with mothers and wives—
It is not linen you're wearing ont,

But human creatures' lives!"
In like manner may the fathers and mothers who
peruse these heart-breaking revelations shudder
at the sight of every item of domestic use
around them. The cups and saucers on our
breakfast table (until recent legislative inter-
ference) were carried to and fro into the ovens by
little " mould runners," children from five to ten
years of age, who from morning to night ran back-
wards and forwards, carrying from 30 to 50 dozen
moulds into the stoves, and remaining in them (at a
temperature of 140) long enough to take the dried
earthenware. " The number of children so employed
at the time of the last census was no less than
1,850, of these 593 being not over five years
of age." Would nectar itself be sweet out of a
cup manufactured by such means ! But in this,
as in so many instances, " Ignorance is bliss."—
Bliss to the one side and death and destruction to
the other. Passing over the horrors of the lucifer
dipping and the agonies of the jaw disease, as
matters thathave been ameliorated, an awful amount
of evil still exists and still cries aloud for remedy. The
lace which adorns the gay children of the rich has
been too often woven by little fingers. .Children
are sent to the lace school at six, or sometimes at
five or even four, years of age ; here they sit closely
packed, " like herrings," and work from early in the
morning till late at night, sometimes even into the
night, and the cane is brought out to excite diligence
when weariness and exhaustion set in. Straw plait-
ing again, being easy work, employs children even
at three years old, and here again it is not the hard-
ship of the work that is complained of, but the close
confinement, and the long weary hours. At
glove making again, " little creatures, four or five

years of age, are kept up shamefully late.
Mothers have been known to pin them to
their knees to keep them from falling down
and then slap them to keep them awake."
We have said enough to explain the powerful inte-
rest of these revelations. The article on " St. Pat-
rick and the Early Irish Church" is also full of
interest. " Notwithstanding the busy, material
spirit of the age," says the writer, "we must be
sadly deficient in the higher feelings of humanity if
our curiosity is not aroused to know something of
the secret of St. Patrick's success. Why cannot we,
with all the resources of modern learning and civi-
lisation at our command, produce as deep an im-
pression upon the heathen nations of the East ? How
did the Church founded by St. Patrick not only oc-
cupy Ireland, but show vitality sufficient to revive the
Christianity which had been extinguished elsewhere ?
We cannot help asking whether any answer has been
given to these questions by recent investigators."
In his extracts from Dr. Todd's histery the writer
quotes the following interesting passage, taken
from the Confessions of St. Patrick, and describing
his escape from slavery :
Although he had never been to the place, and knew
nothing of the inhabitants, he fled from his master, with,
whom he had been in slavery for six years ; "and I went,'
he adds, " in the power of the Lord, who directed my way
for good, and I feared nothing till I arrived at that ship."
The captain of the ship, however, roughly refused him a
passage, and Patrick was about to return to the hut where
he dwelt, first offering up a prayer, as was his wont. His
prayer was not finished, when one of the sailors called to
him, saying, "Come back quickly, for these men call thee.''
He returned, and they said to him; "Come, for we receive
thee in faith, make friends with us how thou wilt."
They were three days at sea, and afterward 28 days wan-
dering in a desert till their provisions ran short. No doubt
Patrick had been speaking to them of the power of God, of
the efficacy of prayer, and of trust in God's Providence.
The leader of the party therefore said to him, " What say-
est thou, Christian ? Thy God is great and all-powerful.
Why, then, canst thou not pray to him for us ? for we perish
with hunger, and we find hero no inhabitants." Patrick
answered, " Turn you in faith to my Lord God, to whom
nothing is impossible, and He will send you food, and ye
shall be satisfied, for He has abundance everywhere." And
so it was : for a herd of swine soon after appeared, many
of which they killed. Patrick and his companions were
relieved from their hunger, and remained in the place for
two nights. After this, he says, "they gave great thanks
•
to God, and I was honoured in their eyes."
Without entering into the particular merits of the
other subjects enumerated, we have said enough to
evidence the miscellaneous and interesting character
of the articles in the present Quarterly.

Stokes on Memory. London : Houlston and Wright.
Seventh edition, enlarged and illustrated.
Whether in the senate, or the pulpit, at the bar,
or on the platform, in our school days, or our
academical career, the possession of a correct and
tenacious memory is an unfailing handmaiden to suc-
cess. That every legitimate effort to acquire one is

rifewortil we:4 , nne rdrstrtftliialungt-to-
ral,e'Ve Orin Wyedo
,iliac 0 t•Ce las ire inc6tinect to
Ispegt o ark or science, d
11.. lir, 11l
SUS ,o. nature. In
this respect. The author• of the little work before
us has done much, however, towards upsetting all
our preconceived theories on this head, both by his
book and by the interesting and instructive lectures
he is now daily giving at the Royal Polytechnic In-
stitution, by which, in the easiest possible manner,
all sorts of difficult calculations—chronological and
other events—philological researches and astronomi-
cal calculations, as well as every kind of scientific
and literary data, can be mastered and retained in
the memory, in a manner at once so simple and
easy that few, we feel certain, will credit it, unless
upon a perusal of Mr. Stokes's book or of a visit to
the institution we have just now mentioned.

Ti it'll) EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

TATTERSALLS'—This Evening.

CHESTER CC P.
7 to 4 agst Redcap (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst Delight (taken and offered)
15 to 2 agst Dalby (taken)
11 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
11 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken)
100 to 8 agst Sandal (taken and offered)
.20 to 1 agst Mr. Pitt (taken
2:. to 1 a get llonesty (taken)
40 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken)

23 ttoo a 1
aggsst
t RusticLord(y: (offered—take .n.Y. e
(takend _ taka:ds
otffoo2rord)
100 to 6 agst Delight (offered)
20 to 1 agst Redan (taken)
25 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken)
33 to 1 agst Vespasian (taken)
50 to 1 agst Hawthorn (taken)

VICTORIA. CLUB BETTING—Tins DAY.

CHESTER CUP.
7to 4 agst Redcap (taken)
3to 1 agst Delight (taken)
7 to 1 agst Dalby (taken)
10 to 1 agst Treasure Trovo (taken)
12 to 1 agst Sandal (taken)
13 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
25 to 1 agst Honesty (taken)
33 to 1 agst Clown (taken)
40 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken)
50 to 1 ngst Plutus (taken)
100 to 1 agst Helen (offered)

ARRIVALS AT CHESTER.

Distraction, Knightsbridge, Blue Cap, Jetty Trettz,
Alberta, Gaytone, Locket Lucy, Contract, Miss Haworth,
Caithness, Manulta, Rococo, Mesimate, Czar, Lady Vane,
Honesty, Exceller, Aldcroft, Skylark, Treasure Trove,
Murillo, Dusty Miller, Gentian; Thermometer, Holstein,
Begoletta, Mirilla, Hopvine, Wild Bee, Marco Spada,
Thove Cern, and Lion.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.—This EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.

The Marquis of WESTMEA.TII presented petitions
against this bill.
The Earl of DERBY also presented petitions to the

same effect.

CATTLE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL.

The Earl of DERBY, who was very imperfectly heard,
was understood to say that he considered the order in
Council relating to the removal of cattle to have gone
further than was originally intended, and referred to the
case of a farmer who had suffered severely from the opera-
tion of the order, and he considered that greater power
should be given to the local authorities in carrying out the
order.

Earl GRANVILLE said in the case in question no
doubt their had been hardship, but the magistrates were
compelled to act stringently in carrying out the Order in
Council.

bill 6...,.

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Rimp4p, tIVI•WIR de§3g-IVAN'AaqoolllC4cilliPligginAltdeWllß
and. ,he - should -show that —the ..amendme# .was
brought forward simply to destroy the bill. He con-
sidered that the house ought to be the represen-
tative of all , conditions of her Majesty's subjects,
and the bill now brought forward by the Government
would only do that. The great offence of the Government
seemed to be that they had not brought forward a measure
for the redistribution of seats, yet, although the Chancellor
l billheirs
of the Exchequer had declared it to be the intention of the
Cabinet to •do so, hon. gentlemen on the Opposition Fide
ienmool, noble eoann considered
withwealthymany
,any
it
peerbi
to oppose ls disinclined
for
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of
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two
others
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perilous seemedri
thought a moderate and just bill. (Hear, Hear.) He
I looked upon it as if the Opposition to the bill was solely
for the purpose of driving Earl Russell from office, but
he could tell those noblemen that where their class was at
war with the other, whatever might be their virtues, the
popular party would win, and the nobles would go down.
(Cheers.) It had been said that he had been in frequent
communication with Earl Russell with respect to the
framing of the Reform Bill. Now he could only say that
he had had only one interview with the noble earl, which
could be called a political interview, and then the first
time that ho heard to the contrary was at the meet-
ing of the Liberal party, which was held some
days ago. He looked upon the question of
an enlargement of the scope of the elective
franchise far more pressing, he would not say far more
righteous, but far more urgent, than a bill for the re-ar-
rangement of seats. (Hear, hear.) When the Government
had discussed and settled the franchise, their hands would
be quite ready to deal with the question of a redistribution
of seats, and if they thought that by giving increase to the
number of voters with the one hand and juggling them ou t
of a re-distribution of seats with the other. the go-
vernment would not be doing anything to reform
the representation, but would ba making that which
was bad at present worse in times to come. (Hear, hear.)
The proposition of the noble earl, the member for Ches-
ter, would get rid of the Government and their
bill at one swoop, but he could not approve of
such a proceeding, . because he considered the
Government had adopted a wise and judicious course
and one that would redound to their credit, because they
had made an honest, open, and straightforward attempt to
amend the representation of the people. (Hear.) It might
be said why are we involved in the question of reform.
(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) He would tell;honour-
able gentlemen opposite the reason why. (Laughter.) The
reason was because thero was a widespread feeling through-
out the length and breadth of the country that the number
of elections was too small to afford a true representation of
the people ; and that large class which makes the nation
was excluded from representation. (Hear, hear.) The
feeling of the necessity
of reform had long been acknow-
ledged, for the right hen. member for Buckingham-
s_hire (Mr. Disraeli) had brought in a bill which
proposed to create a variety of new qualifications,
and in the whole would give an increase to the borough
constituencies to 300,000, which was 50 per cent. more then
the bill now under discussion, but then perhaps the class he
proposed to elevate tq the franchise were not exactly of the
class which the Government proposed to admit to that
privilege. (Hear, hear.) He knew that the Governinent
of Lord Derby had distributed fifteen seats amongst
the great manufacturing districts of the country, but he
could not lock upon the arrangement, good as it was,
as a settlement of the question. (Hear, hear.) He could
not imagine how when the right hon. gentleman
opposite was discussing
and digesting his reform bil
he could have passed over such little boroughs
as Caine. (Hear, bear, and laughter.) Yet not-
withstanding all the troubles, toils, and labours,
numbers of those convenient little boroughs still remained
to weigh in importance with places counting thousands to
their hundreds. He thought, however, that the members
from Buckingham and King's Lynn were not exactly the
sort of councillors to follow on the matter of Reform,
and the outcry made about the present bill by the other
side must be taken as nothing, because there was no con-
sistency in it—because by their bill they proposed to admit
500,000 to the elective franchise, while the bill now sub-
mitted only proposed to admit 400,000.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

ELECTION COMMITTEES --This Day.