The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

TEE SUE, LONIJON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1860

the exigencies of his official opposition than to his
own individual convictions. No man is more likely
to estimate education at its right value, as no man is
better qualified to give an opinion on any educational
question. The Leader of the House, however, is
not entirely free to accept to follow his own inclina-
tions. The Cabinet have accepted the Reform Bill
as it now stands, and any attempt to add so con-
siderable an improvement would find plenty of op-
position among the members of the Government
itself. Mr. GLADSTONE'S arguments were laboured
and inconclusive, and although the task of
opposing the bill fell almost entirely upon him,
he failed to show his usual animation and
energy. The fact is he was arguing in a bad
cause, and one manifestly inconsistent with the
principles which he has recently upheld. Re-
formers will, perhaps, be astonished to find the
member for Birmingham, after all his diatribes,
resolutely opposing a measure so well calculated to
elevate the people, so readily adapted to admit to
the franchise intelligent men of all classes, and
offering safeguards against ignorance and intole-
rance which no other system can supply. Mr.
BRIGHT'S objections to an educational franchise are
quite inconsistent with his theories about the
rights of the people. Every one knows the differ-
ence between a person who has acquired even the
rudiments of education and a totally illiterate man.
The teachers of adult schools are continually sur-
prised at the contrast offered by even their most in-
telligent scholars to children of mediocre ability
who have been taught the elements of knowledge.
In every sphere of life in business, in domes-
tic service, among artisans and agricultural la-
bourers, we can at once see the difference
betwee3 the man who can read and write and
the -than' who is absolutely illiterate. Education
is the great leveller and the great barrier. Two
well-educated persons can meet on equal
ground, whatever the difference of rank or
fortune. An ignorant or uncultivated man,
whatever his means or position, is inferior to
all. No one 'expects the working classes to
attain great proficiency in elaborate studies, but it
is rot too much to demand that they shall be able to
read, write, and cipher before they take part in influ-
encing the affairs of the country. If a man cannot
read his newspaper, how is he to form an opinion on
foreign affairs ? How is he to weigh the relative
merits of the candidates for election, to examine
the speeches, the votes, the policy of his member.
If it is urged that a labouring man has no need
to study politics before he gives a vote, we can only
reply that if politics are a matter of indifference
to him the possession of a vote is worse than useless.
It lays him open to influence and intimidation. He
is at the mercy of every demagogue ; he is able,
even if interested in public affairs, to hear only one
side of a Question. " Fair play" is always the Eng-
lish watchword, but how can a man give a fair con-
sideration to a question if he only hears one-half
of it ? Let us encourage the working classes to
educate themselves, and then they will be able to
think for themselves, to judge fairly and calmly, not
carried away by declamation, not blinded by preju-
dice, not misled by interested partisans. Intolerance
and prejudice are two unfailing accompaniments of
ignorance, and it is these that we wish to exclude
from a voice in our representation. Weshould like
to know to what the gentlemen who oppose this bill
attribute tllc marvellous alteration in the condition of
the working classes in the last 30 or 10 years? If
our masses are to be trusted to uphold the laws, to
maintain order, to submit themselves to civil autho-
rity as no other people in Europe can be trusted, to
what is it owing ? It is to education and to civil
freedom. We do not hear now of machinery broken,
of bread riots, and public disturbances, such as half
a century ago attended any time of public distress
and trial ; and it is because men have learned to
think and to reason, to understand cause and
effect, not to attribute the blame of any tem-
porary trouble to the person nearest at hand.
No one pretends to deny the wonderful pro-
gress made by our working classes, and
it is the men who have made this progress that we
are anxious to admit to the franchise. Mr. GLAD-
STONE says that if a labouring man at one-and-
twenty can pass an examination in the rudiments
of learning, he will forget all he has learned in a life
of labour, and at 40 or 50 will retain the privilege
without the qualification. But does Mr. GLAD-
STONE pretend to say that such a man will be on a
level with the totally ignorant ?

Mr. GLADSTONE may turn for an example to that
I University of which he is one of the chief boasts.
How many men who attain a creditable degree at
Oxford or Cambridge keep up their proficiency in
the dead languages or abstruse mathematics in after
life? Yet would he have us believe that early study
does not leave its traces all through life ? that the
enlargement of the mind, the ripening of the facul-
ties, the strengthening of the judgment, the cultiva-
tion of the taste, do not remain when 2EscHnus
and Hor,AcE are left unread, and the problems of
EUCLID are forgotten in the practical cares of life?
There is no need for the working man to do a
sum which Mr. GLADSTONE does not believe thirty
members of the House could do ? He must be hard
up for an argument when he resorts to such logic.
Does he mean to say that members who could not
read would be equally fit representatives ? His
inference would imply it, though he can scarcely
wish to carry his theories so far. It is, moreover,
very much to be doubted whether a man of twenty -
one, who takes the trouble to secure a vote by
passing an examination, would forget all he
had learned. He would naturally read the
papers, and thus keep up his reading, and the sense
that he had acquired the franchise by individual
effort would stimulate him to further exertion. As
for the objection that young men may vote when
their fathers may not that has no weight. If the
sons are qualified, and the father is not, it is right
they should have the privilege. How many sons of
ability or good fortune attain a position which their
fathers never reached ? The Constitution does not
recognise such theoretical obstacles; but, in fact,
the objections to Mr. CLAY'S measure are more cor-
rectly "fancy" objections than the bill is a "fancy"
measure.

Certain Cure for Hydrophobia.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

London and provincial Turkish Bath Cc. (Limited),

76, Jermyn-street,
London, May 30, 1866.
SIR,—As the time of the year is now approaching
when cases of hydrophobia are most prevalent, it is
desirable it should be known that there is within
reach the means of relief and cure, there being a
radiating chamber provided gratis for this purpose
at the above establishment.

It is a well-known fact that heat raised to a cer-
tain point eliminates all poisons that are not sudden
in their effects ; also that hospitals admit such cases,
but avowedly no medical treatment avails.

£rusting you will insert this in your next issue,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

HAMAN SMITH, Superintendent.

THE GOVERNMENT LOAN TO RAILWAYS.—The
assistance to Irish railways, which we announced exclu-
sively on Saturday, is to be, as we stated, a loan at 4 per
cent., not 3i per cent., as has been stated by a contem-
porary. It is a temporary measure to relieve companies
whose bonds fall due in the present year from the pres-
Sumo incident to the financial Evening
Mail.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Wednesday Evening.

The Moniteur says :—" The Plenipotentiaries of
France and Spain, for arranging the limits of the
frontiers of the Pyrenees, signed on the 26th of
May, at Bayonne, the third treaty, and an addi-
tional act of the Treaty of 1862, by which the
secular difficulties which existed on the subject of
the limits between France and Spain are definitively
regulated."
It is stated semi-officially that accounts have been
received from Vienna, Berlin, and Florence, .an-
nouncing that the quasi-belligerent Powers have
adopted spontaneously and without previous ar-
rangement the military statu quo. Consequently,
strategical movements are suspended in the three
countries. lam informed that the answers to the
" identical Note" proposing a Conference have been
received by the French Government.
The Jockey Club, at all events, did not exhibit
any jealousy because the great prize was won by an
English horse. An immediate invitation was given
after the races to the Duke of Beaufort to attend
a splendid banquet at the club on Sunday evening.
Sixty persons of high distinction were present.
Count Paul Daru presided. At dessert the presi-
dent proposed as a toast the union of England and
France, in homage of which union the fete was
given. The toast was responded to very enthusi-
astically. The Duke of Beaufort acknowledged
the compliment with much good taste, energy, and
eloquence. He said he most cordially joined in the
union, and trusted that the only struggle between
the two countries would be in emulation and to
advance in the cause of progress.
One of the Paris papers has stated that Lord
Cowley had been sent for to London, and that he
had left Paris. This is not the case. His lordship
had a dinner party on the day he was supposed to
have gone to London, and among his guests was
Lord Brougham, who was on his way to his seat at
Cannes.

During the discussion in the Legislative Body
respecting telegraphic communication some very
interesting statements were made upon the subject.
M. Jules Brame expressed his regret that France
was much behind hand in regard to this important
mode of communication. In the first place, the
telegraph was a State monopoly, and every mono-
poly, sooner or later, became a public calamity.
The instruments employed in France were all of
foreign invention. Those of Morse and Hughes
were American. That of Casselli was Italian, and
the improvements upon the apparatus of Morse was
made by a Piedmontese. Another, used principally
for transatlantic communication, was Prussian.
There was not one French instrument ! This did
not arise from the want of national genius, but it
was want of initiation in France when application
was wanted. In 1820 the illustrious Ampere sug-
gested a mode of telegraphic correspondence, but
he was alarmed at the sacrifices necessary for the
realisation of his invention, and thirty years after-
wards, in 1851, we made use of the invention, copied
for England. It was the same thing with rail-
ways. In 1830 the celebrated M. Perdonnet spoke
of travelling by railway, but he was treated as a
fool. Ten years afterwards railways were estab-
lished in various States which haci preceded France
in their use. The inventor who works his discovery
proceeds rapidly enough, but when the invention is
an affair of State the progress is made with aca-
demic slowness. (A laugh.) If the illustrious
Daguerre had wanted a State subvention to carry
his discovery into effect photography would have
been delayed for several centuries. In fact, when
Daguerre presented himself before the Academy of
Science he was treated as a quack ; . he was searched
and made to turn up his sleeves. He only con-
vinced the academicians after he bad taken
all their portraits. (Much laughter.) The orator
proceeded to say that an important discovery for
the country had arisen out of the battles of Ma-
genta and Solferino. B.:;fore that time it was sup-
posed that the superiority of English coals over
those of France was established beyond doubt.
The war in Italy broke out. Austria declared that
coal was a contraband of war. France and Pied-
mont made a contrary declaration, and the ques-
tion was submitted to the arbitration of England.
England, with that good faith and those good sen-
timents which we all ascribe to her, said that Aus-
tria was right. (A laugh.) The Emperor, how-
ever, ordered further investigation into the subject,
and the result was that the French engineers are
now of opinion that French coals are superior to
those of England. The speaker, in conclusion,
enumerated the names of several great inventors
who found in foreign countries the encouragement
and success which they could not obtain in France.
Among them were Philippe de Gerard, the inventor
of the flax loom ; Captain Delille, the.inventor of
the screw principle for steamers ; and Brunel, who
completed the Thames Tunnel, but who, in France,
could not find employment as engineer in an
humble position in the department of bridges and
highways.

The Baron de Veaue, on the part of the Govern-
ment, said that the delays complained of by the
orator arose from the circumstance that it was diffi-
cult, in Fiance, to form associations with capital.
That explained, for instance, the reason of the more
rapid establishment of railways in foreign countries
than in France. It was true that the instruments
of foreign inventors were used for telegraphic com-
munication, but important improvements had been
made in them by French inventors.
The Journal de Roanne mentions the existence in
that town of a race of fanatics, a sort of ramifica-
tion of the sect of Beguinnes, who believed that the
world would come to an end on 'Whitsuntide. In
preparation for the event they let their beards
grow, became teetotallers, and bathed frequently in
the river Loire. Saturday night beforeWhit-Sunday
was passed in prayer. When they found that the
world was not destroyed some repaired to have their
beards shaved, others to the wino-shops to indulge
in the bottle, from which they had so longabstained.
The rest believe that the end of the world is only
postponed till next Whit-Sunday.
A letter from Nice contradicts the report of the
death of Garibaldi's brother at that town, but says
he is in a dangerous, if not hopeless, state.
The Siecle says :—" Should the Cabinet of Vienna
consent to the Conference, it will have given a sig-
nificant proof of its conciliatory disposition. Its
usual organs, however, persisting in an attitude of
menace and defiance, it must be believed that the
Austrian newspapers are more Imperialists than the
Emperor,, and that the Government of Francis
Joseph is disposed to entertain the question of
Venetia. The diplomatic expression, ' Italian
differences,' was, it is said, invented by M. Drouyn
de l'Huys, and cannot lead Austria into error."
The apparatus used for telegraphs in France
before the application of electricity was invented by
the brothers Chappe, assisted by the eminent watch-
maker, Breguet. By means of this application news
could be received in Paris from Strasburg by 44
telegraphs,
in 6 minutes. From Toulon, in 30
minutes, by 100 telegraphs. From Brest, in 8
minutes, by 54 telegraphs. This old telegraph was
first replaced in France by the electric telegraph
from Paris to Rouen, in 184. When the price of a
telegram was reduced, and one uniform rate of 2f.
for any part of France was established, the number
5
of despatches was greatly increased. Before that
change—that is to say in 1861, the number of de-
spatches sent was 734,000. In 1862 the number
increased to *91,000. In 1865 the number of
despatches transmitted was 1,943,000 —that is to
say, it was tripled in three years. The apparatus of
Caselli seems to be preferred in France, because it
transmits not the despatch, but the exact copy of the
autograph,

The Nazione publishes the following from Gari-
baldi to the students of Florence, who expressed a wish
to enrol themselves as volunteers under his banners :-
1° Caprdra, May 26, 1866.—Dear Friends,—l thank you for
your affection. The oath of the grandchildren of Fer-
ruccio and Capponi will havo a fatal echo for the oppress-
ing foreigner.—Ever yours, G. GARIBALDI."
THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS.—The health
of Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, has consider-
ably improved, but he was unable to conduct his own ordi-
nation on Sunday last. It was taken for him by Dr
Anderson, vicar of (Tifton, for►uerly Bishop of Eupertle
Land.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

MILAN, MAY 30 (Evening).

Letters received here from Venice state that the
Jesuit priests are leaving their houses in Venice and
are proceeding north.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAY 30 (Evening).

It is believed in well-informed circles in this city
that no new Minister of Finance will be appointed
until the Chamber of Deputies have voted upon the
proposal of Government requesting extraordi-
nary powers.

THE DUTCH MINISTRY

THE HAGUE, MAy 31.

M. Fels Rycken having accepted the Ministry of
Marine in place of M. Andreal, and M. Vanden-
bosch that for War, hitherto left vacant, the forma-
tion of the new Cabinet is now completed.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MAY 31.

An Imperial decree dated yesterday has been
issued to-day fixing the tariff for the importation of
tea as follows :

40 francs per 100 kilos if brought from tea grow-
ing countries in French bottoms, 100 francs per
100 kilos if imported from other countries and in

foreign vessels.
The port decimes are included in this tariff.
BOURSE, May 30, Two o'clock.—Purchases ren-
dered requisite by the reponse des primes (option),
which takes place to-morrow, have caused a con-
siderable advance in quotations. Threes, for the
Account, after reaching 65f. 40c., are now at CM.
20c., with a rise of 65c. Italian Fives, after having
been been done at 42f. 10c., are quoted at 41f. 95c.,
with an advance of 85c. Credit Mobilier Shares
have improved 10f., being quoted 542 f. 50c.
Spanish Mobilier have a similar rise—to 280 f.
Credit Foncier have advanced no less than 22f. 50c.
—viz., to I,lBof. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte 15f.—
to 740 f. A forward movement is also noticeable
in the Railway Department, Orleans Shares having
improved sf.—to 810 f. ; Lyons, 10f.—to 807 f. 50c.
Northern, 15f.—to 1,085 f. ; and Lombard, sf.—to
307 f. 50f. English Consols have lost at the second
despatch the * advance telegraphed by the first.
The charge for carrying over is very cheap ; there
is a deport of 15c. on the Three per Cents., 4f. on
Credit Mobilier Shares, and sf. on Comptoir d'Es-
compte Slr res. Italian Fives are demanded to be
carried over at par.
Three o'clock.—The market has closed on the
following quotations :

41. per Cents 94 10
Do. end month —
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 65 55
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 545
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1182 50
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3420
Italian Loan 42 50
Do. end month 42 05
Mexican Loan 32
Do. Bonds 240
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

For Account.
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean BlO
Southern 532 50
Western 530
Eastern
Sardinian

Austrian
Lombard 3OB 75
North of Spain l2O
Saragossa l5O
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman —

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE GERMANIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 31.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Germania, from New York on the 19th inst.,
has arrived here. She brings $780,000 for Eng-
land, $150,000 for France, and $140,000 for
Hamburg.

Off Sandy Hook she spoke the ship Thornton
and the Norwegian barque Ovilgie ; on the 24th a
steamer, and another on the 29th, both bound for
New York.

CANADA.

TORONTO, May 17.

On Monday a military exhibition was opened at
Montreal by Gen. Sir John Michel, commander of
the forces. An address was read to his excellency
by Gen. Lindsay, in which industrial pursuits for
soldiers were strenuously advocated. To encourage
this object the exhibition was originated. Her
Majesty the Queen has desired her name to be added
as patron of the movement.

The bust of the Prince of Wales, presented by his
Royal Highness to the Corporation of Toronto, has
arrived out here, and has been placed in the Council
Chamber.

In Montreal the drivers and conductors on the
street railway are on strike. The scarcity of
labourers is so great that the works of the Corpora-
tion cannot be done. The same scarcity of labourers
prevails in Upper Canada.
It is thought by some that in the event of the
New Brunswick elections being favourable to a
Confederation of the Provinces, that the forthcom-
ing session of Parliament will be prolonged so as to
admit of the introduction and passing of the schemes
for the local Government of the Province.

Dr. Lawler of the 25th Regiment died suddenly
at Montreal on Sunday last. He was interred with
military honours on the afternoon of the Wednes-
day, General Lindsay and his staff being present.
The coffin was carried to the grave on an Armstrong
gun drawn by six horses. Dr. Lawler was uni-
versally respected. He had the character of great
bravery, and possessed medals and clasps for dis-
tinguished services from the Turkish and British
Governments.

The military have replaced the Volunteers at
Ottawa, the new seat of Government.

OUR AMERICAN BENEFACTOR AND AMERICAN
GRATITUDE.--Mr. George Peabody is still living in
retirement at South Danvers, Massachusetts. It is stated
that ho had scarcely set foot in that town before the in-
ternal revenue collector served him with a notice to pay
his income tax since the beginning of 1863. This will
amount to a largo sum, being 8 per cent. on the income of
1863, 10 per cent, on the income of 1864, and 10 per cent.
on the income of 1865. Such treatment of an honoured
visitor would scarcely have occurred outside the State of
Massachusetts. Mr. Peabody claims still to be a citizen of
the United States, and is therefore liable to income tax.

One of the Paris journals, in reporting the Epsom
Meeting, represents Achievement as having won the
Wood-Cok Shakes ! We have sometimes a crow to pluck
with English compositors, but this beats them all to
shivers.—Sporting Life.
THE INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXIIIBI-
TION.—The specimen plants exhibited at the International
Horticultural Exhibition from the well-known nurseries of
Messrs. Bull, Lee, Standish, Turner, Lane, IV, Paul, Ivery
and Sou, Jackman and Son, Watson, Brown, Stark, Fraser,
Bleu, Osborn, J. Versehaffelt, and others, will be sold by
auction, by Mr. J. C. Stevens, to-morrow and Saturday,
in the large tent where the show was held, at South
Kensington.

ETIIARDO IN DUBLIN, On Saturday Ethardo
made his first ascent- in the Exhibition Palace, in
the presence of a large assemblage. It was viewed with
great interest ; and for the benefit of all who would not
like to miss seeing his very wonderful performance, we
may mention that Ethardo will make his ascents daily at
the Exhibition Palace during the week. The apparatus
used by the ascensionist was placed in the centre of the
glass building-, opposite the apse. It consists of a massive
pole, some 60 or 70 feet in height, round which a pathway
of planking is constructed in a spiral or conical form, from
an extended circular base to a point at the top, where there
is a resting place. Shortly before five o'clobk- Ethardo
made his appearance. He is small in stature, but well made
and muscular. Ho wore a brilliant tight-fitting dress, of
the style usually assumed by public athletes. He did not
commence his wonderful ascent until five o'clock. At in-
tervals, during his progress up the spiral, he stopped and
bowed to the audience. On reaching the top he was warmly
applauded. The display does not last much more than a
quarter of an hour. This and the other engagements,
already filled or announced, will be accepted by the public
as an earnest that the directors of the Exhibition Palace
intend to do everything in their power to provide varied
and interesting displays at their unrivalled place of amuse-
raent.—Saunclers's News Letter.

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LITERATURE.

♦- -

Travelling in Spain in the Present Day. By Henry
Blackburn. One Vol., pp. 248. Illustrated.

Sampson Low, Son, and Aiarston.

This pleasant volume, dedicated to the Right
Hon. E. Horsman, M.P., by his late private Secre-
tary, admirably fulfils its author's design, which
was " to record simply and easily the observations
of ordinary English travellers visiting the principal
cities of Spain." The travellers whose adventures
are here recorded were, however, something more
than ordinary observers. Some artists, being of the
party, have given graceful evidence of their observa-
tions in some spirited sketches of Spanish scenes and
Spanish characters. There are no less than nineteen
of these illustrations, some by John Phillip, R.A., and
the ornaments at the beginning and close of the
chapters are fac-similes of embroidery brought from
Granada. The whole volume, in its getting up and
appearance, is most attractive, and the descriptions
of Spanish men and women are singularly interest-
ing, because so evidently faithful and natural. Very
amusing is the account of the travellers' visit to a
workshop in Burgos, where little business was ap-
parently carried on. " Here," says the narrator,
" and elsewhere on the Plaza the people were very
quiet and civil, and if we gave no trouble, and lifted
anything down ourselves that we wanted to see, we
were free to look about us as long as we pleased ;
for your Castilian, true aristocrat that he is, will
lay his hands to nothing menial." With regard to
the national costume, we are reminded that
" Spaniards seem to suffer in appearance more
than any other European nations by adopting the
modern costume. A swarthy, stout senor in a scanty
paletot, badly-made trousers, and chimney-pot hat,
loses what he most prizes and depends upon—
his dignity of bearing ; and there is no question that
las senoras, who look grand in their dark dresses
and black lace mantillas (which are still de riqueur
in the churches), do not appear to advantage in
Parisian bonnets and bright colours." The descrip-
tion of Burgos Cathedral is very interesting, with
the groups of peasants that seemed to have stepped
out of the canvas of Murillo or Velasquez. At the
close of this volume is an appendix, corrected to
April, 1866, which will be invaluable to all intend-
ing travellers in Spain. It gives very accurate and
intelligible information respecting distances, times
and fares of railway trains, dil:gences, and steam-
boats throughout the entire excursion with other
useful information.

The Toilet and cosmetic Arts. By Arnold J. Cooley.
One Vol. 804 pages. Robert Hardwicke.

Imagine a goodly ponderous tome of eight hun-
dred and four pages devoted to the arts and myste-
ries of the toilet ! Napoleon, by a happy soldier's
metaphor, is said to have described the toilet of the
fascinating Josephine as " a perfect arsenal with
which she withstood the attacks of Time." Such a
magazine is now offered to the ladies of England
by the painstaking author and compiler of " The
Clyclopadia of receipts, processes, data, and col-
lateral information in the arts, manufactures, pro-
fessions, and trades ;" of the " Dictionary of the
English Language," of " The Latin Grammar for
Technical Students and Self-tuition," and of " Two
Months in a London Hospital." Mr. Arnold J.
Cosley is one who delights in a very thorough per-
formance of any given task. The works above
enumerated bear evidence of this praiseworthy pro-
pensity, and a mere epitome of the present work as
given on the title page will be sufficient to attest the
amazing comprehensiveness of this undertaking.
This very elaborate work affords us complete in-
struction respecting " The Toilet and Cosmetic Arts
in Ancient and Modern Times : with a review of
the different Theories of Beauty, and copious other
information Social, Hygienic, and Medical, in-
cluding instructions and cautions respect-
ing the selection and use of Perfumes,
Cosmetics, and other Toilet Articles, and a com-
prehensive collection of formula and directions for
their preparation." ll faut souffrir pour etre belle,
says a homely French adage, and, assuredly, a
glance at this very formidable-looking work (which
would be alarming even for a moral homily or a
scientific treatise) would threaten pains and penal-
ties enough to the gay young aspirant for the pri-
vileges of beauty.
" The fair maid of the vale, when with flowers she dresses
Her dark flowing locks for some festival day,"
might with reason, indeed, " mournfully turn
from her mirror away" at the prospect
of a preliminary study of these eight hundred
pages! We cannot but think that the author has
made a mistake in the arrangement of his work.
The historical descriptions of the Toilet from the
earliest ages, interesting as they may be in them-
selves, should appear in a separate form, addressed
to a different class of readers, while the chapters on
the management of the hair, and other mat-
ters of practical utility, might have been
published in a smaller and more attactive
form as a handy-book of practical instruction
for the dressing-room. The curiosities of historical
research might interest one large class of readers
who would hardly care to be instructed in the
mysteries. of curling tongs and kalydor. Speaking
of this last attraction, we are surprised to find a
writer who acknowledges the solo efficacy of
health in promoting beauty devote nearly three
hundred pages to a list of cosmetic receipts ! Skin-
cosmetics, forty-eight pages ! Hair-cosmetics,
sixty-three pages ! Tooth-cosmetics, forty-two
pages ! We reme.nber, in some pantomime,
when Dame Nature, personified as a vener-
able old lady, being about to undertake soine
distant journey was offered the facility of some
artificial express. 'I he, old lady indignantly pro-
testing to the aerial Art, " Your best invention
can't beat legs for walking!" Fresh air, fresh
water, and plenty of both, are truer cosmetics than
any contained in these three hundred pages of re-
ceipts. With all its manifest ability and research,
Mr. Cooley's book is too ponderous for general in-
vestigation, nevertheless we do not quite despair
as regards the good look of our fair country-
women.

Our Social Bees. Second Series. By Andrew

Wynter, M.D. One vol. Hardwicke.

This second series of Dr. Wynter's republished
essays will be generally welcome. The articles
having already appeared in the first-class quar-
terlies hardly require recommendation. The con-
tents of the present velume are principally of
practically useful interest. " The Water Sup-
ply of London," " The Thames Embankment,"
" How to buy your own house or laud ;" " Our
great Ironworkers ;" " The birth of the Steam-
engine ;" " A word about Winds ;" " Old Clo' ;"
" The Foundling Hospital ;" " False hair ; where
it comes from," &c., &c. ; " Sweets for the Million,"
recommends " boiled goods," such as acidulated
drops and barley-sugar, as being necessarily free
from adulteration, whereas peppermint drops may
contain any amount of plaster of Paris. " Imagine,"
says the doctor, " a schoolboy filling his inside with
gypsum, under the fond delusion that he is enjoying
a great treat,'

Sport and Sportsmen. A book of recollections. By
Charles Stretton. 1 Vol. Hurst and Blackett.

Some half dozen amusing tales filled with sport-
ing anecdotes and adventure. "My First Trip to
the Highlands," with some curious facts regarding
salmon fishing; " The Welsh Parson," "Two Days
with a Native Chief," "A Day's Otter Hunting,"
&c. We should like the recollections better if they
were avowedly fictitious. Lord L—, Captain H—,
Mr. W----, occurring at every page, give a doubtful
appearance of truth to narratives which have little
interest or value beyond that connected with the
sporting scenes which they record.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT TO A WOSIAN.—A shocking
accident occurred at a flour mill about 10 miles from Bide-
ford, North Devon, on Monday, under the following cir-
cumstances :—The wife of Mr. Johns, the miller, had charge
of the mill during the absence of her husband, and was
about to put the " smut" machine in motion, when, as she
was adjusting the band round the drum for that purpose,
her dress was caught by the machinery, and the poor
woman was carried around the wheel with fearful velocity
until she became a mangled corpse. The body was broken,
and the, head clashed to pieces, the brains being scattered
on the machinery. The husband f 911114 wife's remains
crushed beyond ideutidcation. •

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Court (Titular.

HER MAJESTY•

Her Majesty, since her arrival at Cliefdeli house,
has daily taken rides in the grounds to enjoy the
beautiful scenery, accompanied by the members of
the royal family who are staying at the Duchess of
Sutherland's celebrated seat. It is anticipated that
the Court will return to Windsor Castle at the enu
of the week.

SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.—The puke
and Duchess of Sax,,poburg and their infant, w:ho arrived
last night from the Brazils in the steamship Rhone,
left
for London by special train at 10.15 a.m., a‘companiecl
the Duke do Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, and a dil"
tinguished party.