The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-01 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY.

TEMPLE BAR.—" Lady Adelaide's Oath" is con-
tinued here at some length, and becomes very event-
ful in this instalment. First we find a picture of
extreme misery and destitution presented to us in
the home life of Wilfred and Edith, and next a
most exciting scene is sketched of a shipwreck ; the
storm casts the ship on the shores of Danesheld,
where it is dashed to pieces on a rock. Young
Wilfred ventures out in the life-boat, and, with the
aid of some hardy adventurers, rescues a few of the
passengers and crew. One among the former is no
stranger, although he keeps concealed. Iu the next
number or so we shall doubtles3 meet with some strik-
ing eclaircissement. Lady Adelaide will also get
into trouble in consequence of her false oath. The
chapter relating to the shipwreck is a very effective
one, and ably described. "Archie Lovell" is also
very exciting in the portion here met, and the un-
fortunate young girl finds herself in a complete
mess through her foolish freak of bygone days. The
manner in which this part of the story is worked
out is very ingenious, and will form the point of the
story in all probability. As for Gerald Kirans, he
does not interest one at all, for he is selfish and
calculating. After trifling with Archie he turns
round and pays court to the rich Lillian, with whom
he has no sympathies in common. He appears to
advantage, however, beside a finished villain
like Denison, and a scheming fellow like Waters.
" Buying Experience" is an amusing account of
some adventures that two ladies met with who were
rash enough to trust themselves at a " sale" in the
character of unprotected females. The climax of
their discomfiture was reached when they were told
to pay ten pounds for a worthless daub. " Rents and
Darns" is a well written sketch that contains some
truth. The rents that appear in daily life, in social
matters, and inbusiness affairs, are enumerated, and
it is truly said that worse than rents and darns is the
idle life of the selfish, who are " mere machines
wound up on golden springs, and set agoing in
jewelled cases." " A Week with the Fenians" is an
appropriate sketch just now, and the " Story of the
Invasion of Canada" will interest many readers.
" Our War Paint" reveals some strange details of
the army clothing. " Quite Beneath Notice" is a
paper that does not merit to be treated as its title
indicates, for it presents much worthy of -notice.
" Rad's First Love" is a sketch of adventures in
Germany, and " False" is the title of some effec
tive verses.

DUBLIN.—There are some very interesting stories
n this number. " Cometh up as a Flower" is con-
tinued, and the adventures of the heroine are nar-
rated in a lively manner, and some of the reflections
are well worth noticing. It is an impressive pas-
sage where Nelly soliloquises as to whether it can be
possible thdt one is the same individual being
through the whole course of one's life. " Does it
not rather seem as if each man or woman is in him-
self or herself a succession of individual beings, pos-
sessing one after another several successive souls."
" Never—for Ever" is a pleasing description of sea-
side life, coupled with romantic incidents. " Nu,n-
ber Five Brook-street" is a more elaborated tale,
and the doings of Mrs. Lepell are ingeniously told.
The account of the dinner party at which Lord John
was the hero, and gave himself most unconscionable
airs, is ludicrous indeed. " The Session of 1866"
reviews the recent changes that have taken place,
and seems to entertain a favourable opinion of the
new Ministry. " It is the desire of the public, which,
in certain circumstances may be said to have the
force of an edict, that the Ministry of Lord Derby
should have a full and fair trial." " Glastonbury
Abbey" is continued, and presents us, as usual,
with most interesting chronicles of the past : the
subject more particularly referred to in this divi-
sion is " Monasticism in its Vigour." A sketch of
Thomas King, the original Lord Ogleby, and Sir
Peter Teagie, is well worthy of notice. He en-
joyed a high reputation for a long period, and re-
tired deservedly regretted from the stage he
adorned. " Voltaire, and his Valet" is a curious
sketch, that will please some readers, and contains
some striking representations of French life at tha
period.

"Me Grand Tour," and "Tinabuctoo,"

arc among the remaining articles in this interesting
number. " Ophelia's Stream" is the title of some
verses that are written in an appropriate strain, and
please one by their subdued and refined
melancholy.

CORNHILL.—" The Claveriugs" proceeds, and
many untoward events occur. A quarrel springs
up between Sir Hugh and Haig, who conducts him-
self rather imprudently about Lady Argate. A
really ludicrous sketch is that in which Madame
Guaddoup confronts the wretched Archie, and all
his fine projects of getting the better of the "Rus-
_ _

sian Spy" dwindle into nothing. "The Education
of the Working Classes," by a working man, con-
tains much to attract much notice in its pages. It
is said that much has been done, but that more
might be done by proper management. "i'rhere are
means in plenty.; what is wanted is, that those who
are interested in promoting the welfare of the
working classes should try to bring about the sub-
stitution of another and a better plan of using
them." " Granny Leatham's Revenge" is a sketch
that is cleverly drawn, though by no means pleas-
ing to peruse. It records the baneful effects of

jealousy and wrath. The story relates to the cattle
plague, which has desolated so many stocks lately,
and is ingeniously worked out. " The Village and
the Cliff " is continued, and poor Miss George is
banished and sent off to France. The scenes in this
story are well selected, and form a pleasing study
to peruse. " Good Looks" is an artiile that will
attract many ; and we meet with some amusing de-
scriptions in it. Referring to the difference of
opinion that prevails, an anecdote is told of an
African chief who visited Dr. Watts, and was asked
how it was that he and his descendants were black,

when, in common with the rest of mankind, they
were descended from Adam, a white man. To
which he replied, " Adam white ! how know you

Adam white? Me fink Adam black, how came
you white ?" "Breech-loaders" is sure to meet

with attention at this juncture, and an elaborate

account is given of its mechanism, but the .writer

is of opinion that the Prussian system is unsuited

'or our service.

MACMILLAN.—Henry Kingsley's singular story of
" Sileote of Silcotes" is continued, and the compli-
cations of the plot and the eccentricities of the cha-

ratters increase rather than diminish with the pro-
gress. The style, too, exhibits all the writer's

peculiarities in strong relief, and the tale is better
calculated to surprise than to please the reader.
Mrs. Norton's " Old Sir Douglas" is resumed, and

presents a decided contrast to its rival, though the
interest of the story is painful too. Mischief is

evidently brewing under the agency of the humble
and smooth-spoken Alice, and Gertrude's happy
married life bids fair to be soon overshadowed by
doubts and suspicions. Mrs. Norton is fond of
drawing human nature in extremes, and Alice is a
most repulsive creature, even as Kenneth Ross, Old

Sir Douglas's graceless nephew, is altogether a
,mauvais sujet without a single redeeming point to

account for the infatuation of his uncle. The more
solid contents are varied and well written. " Social

Responsibilities" is an essay which boldly throws a

share of the blame of pauper mismanagement on
every man's shoulders. The guardians, contends
the writer, do not deserve all the abuse they have

received. They are not generally men who, by
_ _ _ _ _

position or education, are likely to feel for the
sufferings of the poor and helpless ; but those who
could feel for such distress are greatly to be cen-
sured for the indifference or inaction which made

what was really everybody's business nobody's
business. There are some very just remarks on
the duty incumbent on every intelligent member of

society to form a clear and definite opinion on all
these social problems. " Thzee Centuries of the
Portraits of a Family" is an entertaining paper,
full of scraps of forgotten family history, and show-

Lng the interior of an English worthy's household

n the troubled times of the first Charles.

" The

Expression of the Eye" is a curious paper, well

worth reading by the artist and the miniature

painter. " The Campaign in Germany," and
"From the lip of Loch Etine," are among the best

of the remaining papers.
THE VICTORIA.—The opening article in the
Victoria is on a very appropriate subject, for it

Ito
of the brilliant career of Madame de Stasi
to whose genius it renders full homage. It is re-
marked that " French by birth and early training
and association, Swiss by lineage, Swedish by
,mar-
riage, English, German, Italian, and SPaLde
by the adaptive power of sympathy and
knowledge, Madame de Stael belonged rather
to Europe than to France." The fifth book
of Professor Labuulaye's elaborate treatise on The
Civil and Political Status of the Female Sex" bas
commenced, and brings down the subject to a point
nearer our own day than those feudal ages in which
it has so lingered. Two stories are included in the
table of contents, and the miscellanea and corre-
spondence contain some interesting reading. Anwng
the literary notices is a review of the prize essays °a
Vivisection, which revolting practice is now becom-
ing generally condemned. There is one aspect
which well deserves the consideration of those WII°

consider the infliction of torture on living beings

justifiable in the pursuit of scientific knowledge--
whether the inevitable brutalising of the operator's
own feelings may not in reality interfere with his pro-
fessional skill, since the art of healing is not to
exercised on machines, but on sentient creatures, W
deal with whose ailments successfully more than were'
facts are required. The man of wide sympathies
and keen perceptions will achieve a greater repo'
tation than he who is dead to all beyond the dogmas
of his profession, and it must bo owned that the
progress lately made in physiological and psy6holo;
gical knowledge has accompanied the development
of increased humanity, refinement of feeling, and
extended sympathy, none of which really enlighten'
ing qualities are likely to be cultivated by the prac-
tice of vivisection.

THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE.-Th 3 "Annals of a
Quiet. Neighbourhood" are brought to a temporal
conclusion, that is to say that the Vicar's own Per-
sonal history is done, but that he promises to eve
us from time to time papers about his parish and
his parishioners. " The English Hymns of 03. e
Elizabethan Era" are brought to a conclusion'
" Christian Finance—St. Paul's Exchequer" Is a
well written and suggestive paper. There are wall
other papers, all of them written with some excel-
lent object, and several of them possessing
strong
claims on the interest of the reader.

GOOD WORDS.—Mrs. Oliphant's carefully-written
story of " Madonna Mary" proceeds with interest,
and exhibits the signals of a terrible forthcoming
domestic storm. Professor Ansted contributes 3
valuable paper on the late eruptions and present state,
of Vesuvius. "Arkite Ceremonies in the Himalars'
and " A Glimpse of Shepherd Life in New Zealand,:
are also interesting articles. Henry Rogers vind'
cater Christianity from the charge of its religious,
intolerance, showing that whatever the actions °,l
its followers, persecution is diametrically opPosel
to its recognised character and tenets. " Dust
Ho !" gives an account of our dustmen and dow
women, pariahs of civilisation who have been some-
what neglected by philanthropists.. ,t Maria°
Harris " is a most interesting sketch of a charitable
f
Jewish lady who has devoted herself to the care ed
the children of the Jewish poor. " The Lady and
the Rooks " is a story in verse, not without itS
moral.
ONCE A WEEK.—This is a very pleasant and
readable miscellany, adorned with numerous illus-
trations of somewhat unequal merits. Stories'
sketches, novels, poems, articles, and essays abound'
and the reader who cannot while away an hour el'
two over its varied and animated pages must be
very hard to please.

I_,_• DI etrati'k

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Aug. 30'
The Qeeen, accompanied by Princess Louise;
drove out in a pony carriage yesterday morning•
In the afternoon her Majesty and Princess Louis°
rode on ponies in the neighbourhood of the Castle'
The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Hon. 3111'
Hardinge, and Gen. Peel dined with her Majesty.'

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)

The will of the Most Excellent Count de Ferreira.;
Joaquin Ferriera dos Santo; late of the city ei
Oporto, where he died in March, 1466, was prova'
in London under £50,000 personalty in England.
The executors appointed are his nephew, Antonio
Ferreira dos Santo; Jose Gaspar da Graea,
Manoel Gualberto Soares. The will is translated
from the Portuguese. It was his excellency's die
that, on his quitting this life, his body should be
clothed as a Knight of the Order of Christ, and:
general three days' mass be observed. He has mad
ea
bequests to charitable institutions and bee;
pitals. He leaves a suit of clothes to each inmate ef
the infirmary of Santa Casa de Misericordia e 5
Oporto, there being not less than twenty pale°
under the homoeopathic system. He leaves a 611,
,11
to build 120 houses for preparatory schools for both
sexes, with masters' residences. Bequests are made
for the Consultorio Homceopathico Portuense, eil
condition of opening the same to poor people
Sundays and holidays. He bequeaths eighty d°1:1;
ries of 500 milreis each as marriage portions le
eighty honest and virtuous girls ; and alms to thil
honest widows of 100 milreis each ; likewise alw
of 50 milreis each to the heads of 50 families wile
have insufficient means to support themselves b./0
labour. Bequests are made to the members of 131 a
family, to each of his godchildren, to friends, alio
also to each of his servants; and he appoiats,„,
universal heir his nephew, Antonio Ferreira ev.""

Santos.
The will of Lieut.-Colonel Christopher Hamilldeiti
Nicholson (Grenadier Guards), of. Grosvenor-stree'
Hanover-square, was proved in the London Co
i 8
under £35,000 personalty ; the executors being 1;1
brother, Gilbert Nicholson, Esq., and his nePline i;
William Newcombe Nicholson, Esq. The wilhoe
dated January 15, 1863, with four codicils, and
gallant colonel died February 21, 1866. He -h..
devised his landed estates at Newrath, Currlig
town, and Howrath, in Meath, Ireland, W „b.
nephew and executor, William N. Nicholson,
jest to the annuities under the will, also leaves
all his books, in whatever language they rual
and appoints him residuary legatee. There
liberal annuities ; also numerous legacies tO ag,
nephews, nieces, and other relatives and frielinia
and likewise to his servants ; and legacies to be l'lso
free of duty. There are also many specific becilleo
of valuable articles and relics. His salver-cl
dagger from Grenada and his Damascus owor
Jo
mounted in silver-gilt he has bequeathed t°

brother, Gilbert Nicholson.
for'
The will of Kenyoti Stevens Parker, 1"/.9 ter
merly of Lincoln's-inn, and late of 49, Lanc3,l3"
gate, Hyde-park, was administered to in the Iliffe
don Court by his son, Kenyon Charles Spec pf
Parker, Esq., one of the residuary legateest.og
reason of the executors therein appointed dia
predeceased the testator. The will was executcoo
1843, and he died June 2, 1866, aged 76',„ted
personalty was sworn under £B,OOO. Ile had du
the
that, in the event of his surviving his Wife' allf
whole of his property should be divided ecln
amongst their children.

EXCITING SCENE AT A FIRE.—(TINS MCI(.IIAcr
This (Saturday) morning, shortly after miduigbt, a :it-0
exciting scene took place on the premises belouginc,
Mr. Scott, a chandler, carrying on business at 31, Cg
made
place, Hertford-road, Kinsland. The discovery wa9hrn:-°
by a police-constable, 439 of the N diViSiOLL It
apprehended that several persons were in the
and the fire extending, so rapidly, it was feared that
.0,
great loss of life would take place. Conductor 111:0
promptly attended with the Royal Society's escal)° from
promptly attended with the Royal SocietY' escsP°
Kin eland-ate station, and he searched the back ro°;
Conductor Thain next attended with another escape
°f of
thetl
society from the Balls Pond station. The engines
brigad arrived and were et to 101 p
but the flammetropolitan es could not beequickly extinguished until the BPci
and the whole of the stock in trade were destroy°
ti
and the upper part of the house seriously d°'''gell.
by fire and water. The origin of the fire is link°
The sufferer was insured inthe Atlas Fire-offica•
duty in
The number of men enrolled for militia
New York city is about 95,000.